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2. Soundbites: “Holy $hit! A Ke$ha Sighting at the Bean” by Dan Bolles. After stinking up the Fairgrounds stage, Ke$ha redeemed herself by hanging with local music luminaries. 3. Movie Review: “Blue Jasmine” by Rick Kisonak. Seven Days was not impressed with the latest from Woody Allen.

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First the feds spared Michael Jacques the death penalty; now they won’t release his updated booking photo. Lucky him.

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t was a rough weekend in Burlington’s Old North End. Early Sunday morning, Burlington police received 911 calls reporting gunshots at the intersection of Murray, Peru and Johnson streets. One man was arrested for the shooting; he and the victim were both treated for gunshot wounds. Later Sunday, a New York man was stabbed in an apartment on North Willard Street. Police say the victim fled the scene and, when he was located, attempted to “deflect the investigation.” Drugs were later found inside the apartment. These incidents came on the heels of Intersection of Manhattan and Spring streets in the Old North End another last week, in which a man was seen waving a gun on Spring Street across from the Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler. The elementary school went into IAA Principal Bobby Riley says, “The Old North End “modified lockdown,” and the man was has a skewed reputation,” and noted that none of charged with disorderly conduct. His weapon turned the incidents put students in danger. But BPD chief out to be a BB gun. Michael Schirling suggests stronger laws are needed Wheeler has been touted for its transformation from to protect schoolchildren from potential gun violence. a failing school to a thriving institution that attracts He suggests the Burlington City Council consider allowstudents from every neighborhood in the city. But the ing cops to seize unconcealed guns from people who surrounding area remains a work-in-progress; police appear headed for a school. have responded to the block across from Wheeler 29 Read more in Kevin J. Kelley’s blog post on the Seven times in the past year, including for a drug raid and Days news and politics blog, Off Message. multiple gun incidents.

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I write to clarify my comments in last week’s story about Bruce Lisman [Fair Game, August 28]. I meant no disrespect to Bruce in my comments, which were accurately portrayed by Seven Days political reporter Paul Heintz. My comments were meant to describe a group of people in politics, not restricted to Bruce Lisman, who underestimate how hard it is to win statewide or national public office. And to demonstrate how skilled are the politicians who now hold those offices. Barack Obamas — who win the corner office on the first try — come around once in a generation. Bruce Lisman plays an important and powerfully positive role in the life of Vermont, through his philanthropy, Campaign for Vermont and many other activities I know little about. Just because he can’t beat Peter Shumlin doesn’t mean his work is not valuable and important to the state.

END SHARIA LAW IN BURLINGTON!

[“Beck on BT? Burlington Telecom May Add a Conservative Channel,” August 14]: Oh, no! There’s been Sharia law in Burlington for six years?! And now someone tells me?! I remember when I first came to Burlington. There were laws for women to walk around topless. Topless. Now women have to walk on the opposite side of the street, covered head to toe in black dresses. All because Al Jazeera came to the television of 4500 customers and caused Sharia law to infiltrate all aspects of society. Thank God ... whoops, I mean Allah … (I don’t want to get murdered) that Jeffrey Kaufman is here to save the day for Burlington and BT. Clearly Fox News, which is offered with BT, isn’t enough of a “balancing” voice! Email Sanders, Shumlin and Weinberger and tell them to end Sharia law! Chicky Winkleman

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I just want to say bad judgment on using the Black River meat-processing photo [“Fresh Cuts,” August 14]. The knife and meat hook along with the bloody outfits seemed a bit harsh, gross and just plain wrong. Sonya Cueto

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[“Beck on BT? Burlington Telecom May Add a Conservative Channel,” August 14]: I love Beck; he provides cutting social commentary that is truthful and insightful with a beat you can dance to. Oh, did you mean Glenn Beck? He’s a gasbag that says inflammatory things that have no useful place in constructive discourse. He doesn’t even believe the things he says; he just wants ratings. He is the professional wrestling of

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news. Al Jazeera and Glenn Beck are not comparable. I believe in free speech, but that doesn’t mean putting anyone who wants to talk on the air. Damon clark

Asian. So race does enter into a particular situation. While you can’t judge a book by its cover, or any individuals by how they look or dress, reading the book for a short time often reveals the story inside.

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[Re “Bears, Dogs and Hogs — Oh, My! Animal-Themed Laws Enacted in 2013,” June 26]: Who doesn’t agree with state animal protection laws? Steve King (R-IA), that’s who. He included a provision in the U.S. House farm bill that would repeal a variety of state laws designed to protect dogs in puppy mills, pigs and hens in factory farms, sharks, horses, and the list goes on. Fortunately, the House farm bill failed to pass, and I strongly encourage all of us who care about animal protection to encourage our federal legislators to exclude King’s provisions from the final bill. Americans deserve to have their voices heard — not overridden — when it comes to nonpartisan issues such as animal protection. katie Thomas

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In his August 21 Fair Game column, Paul Heintz referenced the “Veterans Administration.” That Cabinet-level entity should have been identified as the “Department of Veterans Affairs.”

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In his August 28 “What’s in a Name?” Kevin J. Kelley repeats an oft-stated fallacy about the two Heroes: North and South Hero. In fact, the islands are not named after Ethan and Ira Allen, but rather the entire membership of the Green Mountain Boys — the popular name of the Vermonter units who fought for the colonial cause in the Revolution. These are the real 375 or so “heroes” referenced in the islands’ names. I suspect many of the “Boys” would have had a hearty belly laugh at the idea that Ira was any kind of a “hero” in a way that they were not. After his rumfueled escapades at Ticonderoga, which were actually co-commanded by Benedict Arnold, Ethan spent most of the rest of the war languishing in British prisons after his ill-considered attack on Montréal. An interesting aside: History records Allen’s story that he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” Some brothers-in-arms remembered what he actually bellowed that night at the fort’s commander as “Come out of there, you damned old rat!” — for my money, a much better line than the one remembered by history!

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I thought that Kevin J. Kelley’s reference to the Moran Plant as “abandoned” was somewhat extreme in his article regarding the delay to the Burlington Skate Park [“Burlington Skate Park Construction Delayed — Again,” August 28]. Abandoned buildings are usually easily accessible — quite unlike the former Moran Plant. As a longtime supporter of this building, I look forward to its new life sometime soon. In fact, the Moran Plant recently hosted a temporary art installation in conjunction with an artist at the BCA Center on Church Street. I do agree with Kelley that there isn’t a Burlington project that gets completed on schedule. Many times it’s because neighbors and/or some of the usual local cast of characters will object. The most infamous not-in-my-backyard example is the Southern Connector.

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Stuck in Vermont: Multimedia producer Eva Sollberger takes to the air this week with pilot and photographer Shirley Chevalier of FliRite Aviation. The two fly from Burlington International Airport to Vergennes’ Basin Harbor Club in Chevalier’s two-seat, single-prop plane.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO CITIZENS OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE Dear Vermonters: By now, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure most of you have heard of our decision to shut down Vermont Yankee in the fourth quarter of next year. I can tell you that this was an agonizing and extremely difficult conclusion for us to reach. We recognize that this was not the outcome desired by our employees, our supporters, the local community or anyone who believes in the benefits of nuclear power. Our VY employees are among the best in the nuclear industry. They have achieved an outstanding 92.4 percent capacity factor over the 10-year span of operation since Entergy purchased the station. During the previous operating cycle, the plant ran breaker-to-breaker, 493 consecutive days from refueling outage to refueling outage. And the plant is on track to repeat that again this cycle. Our VY employees are an exemplary group of professionals who have done everything we have asked, including running this plant safely and reliably and establishing VY as one of the best places to work in the state of Vermont. So the obvious question: why would we shut down an operationally exceptional facility run by such quality people? The answer is painfully simple: the plant is no longer financially viable. There is a high cost structure for this single unit plant. Since 2002, the company has invested more than $400 million in the safe and reliable operation of the plant. Meanwhile, low natural gas prices have dramatically reduced power prices in the region and, consequently, expected revenues at VY. Additionally, wholesale electricity market design flaws are resulting in downward pressure on energy and capacity prices in the region, and do not provide adequate compensation to merchant nuclear plants for the fuel diversity benefits they provide.

As we move forward, I can say unequivocally that safety will remain a top priority through the remaining months of operation and throughout the entire decommissioning process. We are committed to decommissioning the plant in a safe, orderly and environmentally responsible manner, and the plant will remain under the oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission throughout the entire process. It is our desire to work constructively with our communities, the state and others as we move through this process. You can visit www.Entergy.com for more information on decommissioning. We wish circumstances were different and we had better news to share. Although this is a difficult time for our employees, they are a resilient, dedicated group of professionals who will remain focused and will finish the job. On behalf of them, I ask for your support as the plant winds down its operations. Over the next several months, we will engage in a constructive dialog with elected officials, community leaders, and business groups about the next steps for us, for them, and for Vermont as we all transition to a future without Vermont Yankee. You will be hearing more from us as this process moves forward. Sincerely,

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This decision is also painful to our thousands of supporters who have been on the front lines advocating for VY and who have stood by the plant and its employees for many years. Our supporters have written countless letters, emails and blogs passionately and eloquently stating the benefits and importance of Vermont Yankee. They have stood in support at rallies, legal proceedings, meetings and public hearings to give a voice to those citizens who believe in the benefits of nuclear energy. They have offered kind words to our employees as they see them in the community. Their support has been immensely important to us, and we sincerely thank them for standing side-by-side with our employees.

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Internationally recognized Burlington-based artist Abby Manock has a thing for smiley faces. They are a repeating theme in her work — including the 18-foot-high Noodle Family Traveling Circus. These eye-catching inflatables, often used by car dealerships as roadside attractions, transform into whimsical yet thought-provoking art via bold colors, chevrons and yes, big smiles, at the Art Hop. SEE EYEWITNESS ON PAGE 78

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Back to the Roots When the Sky Blue Boys and Bob Amos and the Catamount Crossing hit the stage at Banjo Dan’s Bluegrass Revue, fans of the genre bear witness to the region’s top musicians. An evening of traditional and original tunes pays tribute to the mountain music that brought banjo picking and soulful singing to the forefront of Americana. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 54

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What better way to check out work from top New England artists than to do so while sipping locally produced vino? At the Woodstock Art & Wine Festival, the village green hosts musicians, Vermont wineries and a show of artisan wares, including hand-blown glass, photography, paintings and more.

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or months, Rep. PETER WELCH (DVt.) appealed in vain for Congress to take an up-or-down vote on whether to further entangle the U.S. in Syria’s long-festering civil war. Last weekend, for better or for worse, he got his wish. Abandoned by the Brits and losing support at home, President BARACK OBAMA reversed course Saturday and said he’d seek congressional approval before meeting Syrian nerve gas with American Tomahawk missiles. By forcing Congress to actually cast the vote Welch and his colleagues had demanded, Obama’s advisers explained, the president was calling their bluff and forcing them to own the strikes he’s pushing. That is, if Congress doesn’t call Obama’s bluff and reject his plan altogether. Either way, Welch and his two Vermont colleagues — Sens. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) and BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) — will be faced with a pair of unpalatable options when w w w . e s s e x o u t l e t s . c o m Congress reconvenes next week. 21 ESSEX WAY, ESSEX JUNCTION, VT | 802.878.2851 Should the three liberals, who all opposed invading Iraq in 2003, support 8v-essexshoppes082813.indd 1 8/15/13 1:59 PManother potentially endless, nearly goit-alone incursion into a Middle Eastern country? Or should they abandon their president, ignore the televised images of Syrian children gassed by their own government and send a message to the world that the U.S. doesn’t stand behind its own “red line”? In an interview with Seven Days Monday, Leahy sounded genuinely torn between — and pained by — the choices at hand. A human-rights warrior who’s fought to ban landmines and defund rogue military units, Leahy bemoaned “the pictures of these children and innocent people, dead from [chemical weapons].” But he also raised the specter of America’s seemingly inescapable engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, questioning whether “the law of unintended consequences” would inevitably expand what’s now being billed as a limited series of air We promise you strikes. friendly service & personalized “I have no problem with the idea of care every time you visit. stopping chemical weapons, but before I could vote for anything, I need a far better idea of where it stops,” he said. Leahy’s short-term, tactical approach to this very real political dilemma has been to criticize as “too open-ended” the Celebrating 30 Years White House’s draft resolution authorizFamily Owned & Operated ing force in Syria. But how will he vote if, 1219 North Avenue, Burlington as expected, the White House assents to a narrower resolution limiting the scope of a 658-9664 U.S. attack?

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“I don’t know the answer to that — and I’m trying to be as honest as I can,” Leahy said. If history is any guide, Leahy may be inclined to support a strike carried out by a president of his own party — one with whom the senior senator has closely allied himself. Leahy voted against GEORGE H.W. BUSH’s Gulf War in 1991 and against GEORGE W. BUSH’s 2003 reinvasion of Iraq. But he backed BILL CLINTON’s ill-fated humanitarian mission to Somalia in 1993 and Clinton’s NATO-led air strikes against SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC’s troops in Kosovo in 1999.

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Though the Senate never voted to authorize Obama’s NATO-led air strikes against Libya’s MOAMMAR GADHAFI starting in March 2011, Leahy told Vermont Public Radio that month the U.S. “had no choice but to respond, especially after Gadhafi claimed he was going to have a cease fire and then set forward to actually slaughter his people.” The one time Leahy sided with a president of the opposite party on a major war powers question? Three days after September 11, 2001, when the Senate voted 98-0 to declare a war on terror. Sanders’ wartime voting record isn’t much different from Leahy’s, though he sounded a more skeptical note on Libya two years ago. Roughly a week after that bombing campaign began, Sanders told Fox News that while Gadhafi was “a thug and a murderer,” Sanders was “not quite sure we need a third war” and hoped that “our military action in Libya will be ending very, very shortly.” Two months later, Sanders reiterated to CNN his “reservations about our involvement in Libya” and said the U.S. was better off addressing its domestic problems than “getting involved in all kinds of wars abroad.” Sanders was on vacation and unavailable for comment as Seven Days went to press. But in a written statement his staff

released last weekend, the junior senator hinted that he’s leaning against supporting Obama’s plan to punish Syrian President BASHAR AL-ASSAD. “The use of chemical weapons by the Assad dictatorship is inhumane and a violation of international law,” Sanders said in the statement. “However, at this point in time, I need to hear more from the president as to why he believes it is in the best interests of the United States to intervene in Syria’s bloody and complicated civil war.” There’s some wiggle room in there, but not a lot. As a relatively junior Democrat in the Republican-controlled House, Welch would seem to enjoy less influence over a matter of war than his two Vermont colleagues. But since visiting a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border last May, the Norwich Dem has been, by far, the most vocal member of the trio on the Syrian question. Welch’s trip to the region came at a volatile time. Shortly before he arrived, Syrian rebels reported the small-scale use of chemical weapons in several cities. Days after he left, Israel launched limited air strikes against a military research center near Damascus. Meanwhile, the U.S. was preparing — or, perhaps, had already begun — to covertly arm and train the rebels. But fearing that Obama could “Americanize what is a Syrian civil war,” Welch told Seven Days at the time that he was “skeptical” of “armchair general politicians here in D.C.” who sought further intervention. “There’s no good option,” he said. What if the U.S. confirmed that Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people? Would that, Seven Days asked, cross a “red line,” as Obama had put it the summer before? “The president is in a bit of a political corner because of the words he used, but the ‘red line’ should be what’s in the national interest of the country,” Welch said at the time — and the politics of the president’s rhetoric were of far less consequence. But if it turned out Assad really had deployed chemical weapons — would that change Welch’s mind? “You’re getting too into the weeds, Paul, you really are. I mean, look, the reality is it’s appalling to use chemical weapons,” Welch continued. “It actually creates a whole new reality if there’s a wholesale use of chemical weapons. OK? It does. What that would mean in terms of what we had to do or what we’d be forced to do, we’d have to figure

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that out. But the absolutist journalist pushing me to be John Mccain-like — I just don’t think it lends itself to that. This whole battle right now is much more political at this point than it is directed toward the national security question.” It might’ve been then. But is it now — after the slaughter of as many as 1400 Syrians by sarin and possibly other nerve agents? Since last spring, Welch’s advocacy on the question has focused mostly on a procedural matter, albeit an important one: Who should determine America’s role in Syria — Congress or the president? At a June press conference at the Capitol, standing beside libertarian Republicans such as Sen. Rand Paul (RKy.), Welch proposed legislation that would block any military assistance or intervention in Syria without congressional approval. The next month, after failing to insert the measure into a defense spending bill, Welch upbraided his colleagues on the House floor for declining to even debate the nation’s ongoing involvement in Syria. “Are we going to be congressmen and women or are we going to be cowards?” he asked. “It is the coward’s path to avoid taking responsibility for a momentous decision that we know at this moment is upon us.” His colleagues didn’t listen, but Obama eventually did. Now faced with the momentous decision he called for, what path will Welch take? He, too, was on vacation when Seven Days went to press, and a statement his office released over the weekend was even more vague than Sanders’. In it, Welch said he was “pleased” that Obama was finally seeking congressional approval. Beyond that, he committed only to being “an active participant in the forthcoming debate.” Given his rhetoric in recent months about the pitfalls of “Americanizing” Syria’s civil war, you’d think his would be a lay-up “nay” vote. But Welch has only once been asked to authorize the use of force since he was elected in 2006 on an anti-Iraq War platform. That was in June 2011 when, unlike the Senate, the House staged an up-or-down vote on whether to retroactively authorize the Libyan bombardment. Along with 122 others — nearly all fellow Dems — Welch voted in favor of his president’s war, while 295 Republicans and Democrats voted against it. Welch’s reasons for intervening in another Arab conflict? For one thing, he argued in a floor speech, retroactively endorsing the Libyan strikes reasserted Congress’ power over the executive branch. Somehow. What’s more, he said, the NATO

campaign was designed to be “saving lives in Libya.” “That mission is necessary to avert a humanitarian disaster,” Welch told his colleagues. “Two, the mission has broad international support — including from the Arab League. Three, the U.S. role is limited in scope. No boots on the ground.” What happens when you apply those metrics to Syria? Let’s take them in reverse order. Obama promised Tuesday that his plan “does not involve boots on the ground.” As for international support? Clearly there’s less of it for a Syrian operation than there was for Libya. And what about that humanitarian disaster? It’s simply impossible to argue that the humanitarian crisis in Syria, where the United Nations has estimated more than 100,000 people have perished, is any less severe than it was in Libya, where as many as 25,000 were killed — especially given Assad’s possession of and clear willingness to use chemical weapons to murder his own people. If preventing a “slaughter” was a reason for Leahy to support intervention in Libya, and averting a “humanitarian disaster” was a reason for Welch to do the same, will the two feel boxed in by their own arguments come next week’s vote? Maybe. But maybe not. Perhaps they’ll summon their inner Emersons and rightly note, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Not to mention self-righteous political columnists, as Ralph Waldo surely meant to add. Perhaps they’ll argue that Syria is simply not Libya — that it’s a far greater mess with a far less certain conclusion. About that they’d surely be right. Whichever way the wind blows Vermont’s congressional trio, the stakes couldn’t be any higher. If they vote yes and drag the nation into the next Vietnam, they’ll pay the price. And if they vote no only to join their hapless president in watching more innocents lose their lives, they’ll surely regret that, too. Pick your poison, gentlemen. m

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his weekend the annual South End Art Hop will bring thousands of people to Burlington’s artsy-craftsy Pine Street corridor, where they’ll stroll from gallery to studio, to an iron pour, to food trucks and a fashion show. It’s an end-of-summer celebration of local creativity. But there’s another way to look at the city’s biggest “street” festival of the year, during which partiers have to share that street with cars. “It’s an accident waiting to happen,” warns Adam Brooks, director of the South End Arts and Business Association, which puts on the Hop. At last year’s event, Brooks says, the unsafe conditions for pedestrians “pretty much scared me to death.” For safety reasons, Art Hop organizers have asked the city in each of the past few years to close off parts of Pine Street to vehicular traffic on the Friday and Saturday nights of the festival. And for other safety reasons, every year the city has refused. Mayor Miro Weinberger talked up the Art Hop during his campaign for Burlington’s top job. Last summer, his chief of staff, Mike Kanarick, said his boss was “working on” the problem of closing the street for a few hours during the event. But it didn’t happen in 2012 and won’t for this year’s Art Hop, either. Weinberger appears to be on the Art Hop’s side: On August 30 he emailed, “I sympathize with the event organizers’ desire to expand onto Pine Street.” And in a memo presented to the Board of Finance four days later, he noted the Pine Street corridor is dangerous for walkers and cyclists in ordinary circumstances, citing “recent incidents on Pine Street in which pedestrians and bikers narrowly have avoided serious collisions with moving cars.” The mayor also said in that message that the city has been pursuing “with considerable urgency” state funding for the installation of several “pedestrian-activated, rapid-flashing beacons on Pine Street.” When the beacons are

installed in mid-October — six weeks after the Art Hop ends — they “will make an immediate impact on safety,” Weinberger informed the board. It appears the pedestrian-unfriendly decision welcoming cars to the Hop was made not by the mayor but by the city’s police and fire chiefs. “I respect the effort and process the chiefs applied to the decision, and I support them,” Weinberger declared in his August 30 statement. A day earlier, police chief Michael Schirling emailed that he and fire chief Seth Lasker “have looked at all known alternatives and do not believe that it is safe or prudent to close traffic on a major north-south thoroughfare in the city.” Pine Street “provides the primary means of access to all emergency vehicles and responders to large neighborhoods.” The Queen City’s top cop goes on to offer a couple of scenarios involving potentially life-threatening incidents. “Imagine,” Schirling urged, “we agreed to close a street such as this and there was a fire, a medical call, a person choking, a law enforcement emergency, or any one of a host of other things that occur daily across the more than 45,000 responses our departments make annually.” Imagine further, Schirling suggests, that the response to such an emergency was delayed “even by one minute as a result of the inability to access neighborhoods located off Pine Street without taking an alternate route.” That could produce “a tragic outcome,” he warns, “and would undoubtedly generate a different series of far more serious questions.” Here are a couple of hypothetical ones: On Monday, parts of Burlington’s Main, St. Paul and College streets were closed for the Criterium bicycle race. What if there was a fire at the Flynn? A holdup at Hempest? How could public safety vehicles possibly get there? No pedestrians or cyclists are known to have been injured by cars during the 20 previous Art Hops, but that doesn’t make it safe or prudent

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covered Lauzon’s efforts. Some of the television footage juxtaposed images of the suspect massage parlors in Chittenden County with those of Barre’s new Chinese massage business. One showed Bai hiding behind a door to avoid the TV camera. None of the stories accused Bai or Millard of any criminal wrongdoing and all three media outlets returned later to hear Millard’s side of the story.

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ai Xiu Zhen speaks almost no English. But the language barrier doesn’t stop her from expressing how she feels about negative portrayals of her Barre massage business. “Stop, stop, stop!” the Chinese-born Bai yells. Bai’s American husband, Brian Millard, had no trouble translating the anonymous text message his wife received two weeks ago on her cellphone: “I’m horny and want u to rub it.” The 59-year-old Vermont native suggests a Seven Days exposé about unscrupulous Asian massage parlors in Chittenden County inadvertently launched a witch hunt in Barre that has burned his wife — who is a Chinese nurse, not a Korean sex worker — and their fledgling operation. On July 1, the 46-year-old Bai and Millard opened Chinese Massage at 103 South Main Street. The couple advertised their business with a simple, handlettered sandwich board on the sidewalk outside the storefront they share with a two-way-radio equipment dealership. The place stays open late seven days a week, but displays none of the security measures — cameras, electronic doors and obscured windows — typical of illegal massage operations. Just three weeks later, Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon asked the city council to consider an ordinance regulating professional massage therapists in the Granite City. Lauzon said the measure was prompted by the Seven Days story

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t wouldn’t surprise Gavin McCormick if the teenagers snooping under his porch two weeks ago were the same ones who stole his gray $1000 Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike last spring. On neither occasion did McCormick actually see the perpetrators. But thanks to a 24/7 security camera he rigged up after the initial theft, he now has grainy video of what appear to be two young, white men with flat-brimmed caps scoping out the bottom side of his porch on North Avenue — exactly where his bike had been resting before it was stolen several months earlier. “It seems like what’s happening, at least from the pictures I have of the guys, is they were probably just going up and down the street and seeing what was unlocked,” McCormick says. “Probably bikes are the main things that aren’t locked up.” McCormick works as an electrical engineer, a job he got after graduating from the University of Vermont in 2009. Ordinarily, he says, his bike would have been locked. But he was too tired to make the effort that evening. Once he realized his ride had been stolen, he filed a report with the Burlington Police Department and posted a message on his Front Porch Forum asking neighbors to keep an eye out for it. But neither effort brought his bike back, and after a friend had some sunglasses stolen from his car while visiting several days later, McCormick decided to set up surveillance. He has since sent the image to Burlington High School for identification — the “thieves” looked like teenagers — and improved the resolution on his camera. The goal, he says, is to get a better image of the two that he can pass along to the police — “or, to just bring them to the police myself.” McCormick may sound like a mildmannered vigilante, but these days, he’s not the only one with stolen-wheel woes. In the same week those guys stumbled into the crosshairs of his camera, seven people posted to the same Front Porch Forum about pilfered bicycles: five had recently had a bike stolen, while others were posting tips about preventing bike theft. Burlington police also weighed in, issuing a recommendation to residents to lock their bikes or store them inside. This summer, 127 bike thefts have been reported to the city police

department, up from 92 during the same time period last year. Lt. Scott Davidson suggests at least part of the reason for the increase in theft reports may be a new online reporting system. Even so, the perennial migration of students to area colleges this month may portend an imminent bump in the thieving. During this month in 2012, the University of Vermont police department received 30 reports of stolen bikes, almost triple the numbers reported in August or October. In September 2011, UVM police reported a similar, if less dramatic, spike. Every bike shop interviewed for this story instructs customers on the importance of properly locking bikes. But after one week in which North Star Sports — a retailer of new and used bikes on Main Street — had to turn away eight people trying to sell them cycles that appeared stolen, the owners of the store made a bid for official help. Appearing before the Burlington Police Commission last Tuesday, August 27, Pat and Jay Miller asked the department to

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reinstate a resource that used to be available to new bike owners: a citywide bike registry. A return to that system, they argued, might help prevent thefts. For several decades, the city required new bike owners to register their names in an index maintained by the police department. In turn, the owners received a sticker — at one point, even a license plate — for their bikes. About four years ago, though, the city decided the system was not an effective way to track bike thefts because few bike owners registered their rides. Looking at other cities that had abandoned similar systems, Burlington decided to do the same, passing a municipal ordinance to eliminate the requirement. North Star Sports now electronically

stores the names of their customers and serial numbers of the bikes they purchase. But citing a time when their computers crashed last year, Pat Miller now believes that an old-fashioned paper trail may be the way to go. “We really felt it cut down on the number of bikes being stolen,” says Miller. This year, she adds, the store has seen an “extraordinary” number of used bikes of questionable provenance. Miller says a retailer’s role is not just to sell bikes but to “make things better for individuals that have spent their hardearned money to purchase a bicycle.” These days, she told the commission, that should include keeping those bikes off the streets, where they are “often traded for drugs. We know that. We see that every day being done downtown.” If Burlington police had access to a record of bike ownership, the Millers reason, it might streamline the process of getting a recovered bike back to its original owner. Responding to the Millers’ request, police chief Michael Schirling said that his department used to tap an online database of stolen bikes created by UVM with Local Motion, a nonprofit organization formed in 1999 to promote biking and other nonmotorized modes of transportation. Police officers filed information to the database about bikes reported stolen and instructed residents on how to use the reporting mechanism themselves. Local Motion then made the information available to bike shops in the greater Burlington area, so they could be on the lookout for stolen wheels. But about a year ago, says Jason Van Driesche, Local Motion’s director of advocacy and education, the nonprofit group and the city police department concluded that the online registry was not really working. “We hadn’t seen people here registering bikes, really, for years,” Schirling explained at the commission meeting, adding that thieves make a habit of scratching out serial numbers. Because of that, he said, the department instructed its officers to stop using the system. Nonetheless, Schirling did not dismiss the Millers’ request. “We’re certainly not opposed to having a partnership with the bike shops to come up with an online registry,” he said. “The key is that it has to be low maintenance.”

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That may be easier said than done. “Low maintenance” are not words Van Driesche associates with his experience of running the online registry over the last few years. “When it works, it’s great, but it crashes a lot,” Van Driesche says of the bare-bones online resource, which is basically a Google spreadsheet on a password-protected page. “One of the lessons we’ve learned in the process is that it’s relatively tough to create something that is cheap and simple for a wide range of people.” The university police still use the resource as a way to keep records of stolen bikes, complementing their own online crime-reporting system. Stores in Burlington use it, too, but he acknowledges that they sometimes face technical issues when trying to do so. Van Driesche says a registry can’t replace the common sense that dictates where and how to store bikes securely. Using the term “low-hanging fruit” to describe poorly protected wheels, he notes, “Really, the most important thing to reducing the chances of a bike getting stolen is to lock it up really well — not with a weeny little cable lock — to something solid.” Van Driesche warns against the belief that police aren’t doing enough to stop bike theft, adding that he has been conducting trainings for officers all summer in bike-lock safety, and they’ve been conducting public safety trainings. “We have done a better job at encouraging people to report in more detail their bikes, serial numbers, etc.,” Davidson says, explaining that defining your bike as a “blue Trek” doesn’t give officers much to work with. He recommends sending photos and mentioning details such as “the Magic Hat sticker on back.” Although the department has stopped using the Local Motion registry, it does maintain an internal database

of stolen bikes that allows civilians to report thefts online. Glen Eames, owner of Old Spokes Home on North Winooski Avenue, recommends a different approach to bike preservation: “Think like a thief.” Running one of the biggest usedand-refurbished bike shops in the area, Eames says there are red flags when a person tries to sell him a stolen bike: a frame that doesn’t match the seller’s height or that supposedly came from a store he knows doesn’t carry the model. “It’s a big problem, and it’s really not getting the attention it deserves,” Eames says of the response to the bike thefts in the area, imagining the backlash that would accompany comparable rates of car theft. He recalls a time when his shop recovered a bike that had been stolen from one of the employees of Skirack, another shop that sells bikes on Main Street. Eames called the Skirack worker and a police officer to the store to meet the man who was trying to sell the bike he said he had bought five weeks before. “We had recovered the bike. We had the owner, the seller and the police,” Eames says. But after talking for a while, the officer let the seller go. “We’ve had guns, drugs and other problems,” Eames acknowledges of the problems police must contend with regularly — explaining that he isn’t pointing fingers. “But it was odd to see him go.” Eames recognizes that bike theft, generally speaking, is “a disorganized crime, a crime of opportunity and probably drug related” and not part of some large, dangerous, criminal syndicate. What he’d like to see is the addition of more bike racks and some kind of an orientation for new students in the area about the proper way to lock a bike. Maybe, he suggests, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer could fill that role. Schirling compares his department’s approach to bike theft to that of any other crime but concedes that it doesn’t always rank at the top of the list. “Things are certainly prioritized in terms of severity day to day, but all crimes in which there are solvability factors, evidence or leads, are fully followed up on,” he says. According to Megan O’Neil, a detective in UVM’s police department who has helped implement the registry with Local Motion, finding thieves isn’t simple. “I would say that bike thefts are one of the hardest things to catch,” she says. “People will sell parts just on the street for 10 bucks or stuff, and that’s hard to track.” m

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1975-2013, HINESBURG, VT Leigh Wren Butler, 38, died on August 5, 2013, in Burlington, Vt. She is survived and terribly missed by her parents, James and Merry Butler of Aiken, S.C.; her maternal grandparents, Ivey and Marjorie Drewry of Huntsville, Ala.; many relatives, dear friends; fellow Phunky Bitches; and her cat, Mr. Pants. She was also formerly known as Lee Butler and Lee Butler Findholt. Leigh was born on August 1, 1975, in Huntsville, Ala., moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1978, and then to Aiken, S.C., in 1986. She graduated from South Aiken High School in 1993, where she played flute and piccolo in the school band. She was known for her fabulous taste in music

and enjoyed being a DJ at an alternative radio station in college. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1997 with a degree in journalistic photography and journalism. After a summer internship at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., she moved to Burlington in 1997, due in part to her love of the band Phish. Her résumé was as diverse as her artistic ability and included stints at Abrams Camera, customer service for the Perfect Pancake maker and, most recently, work as an insurance agent for

Hickok and Boardman. She married Erik Findholt on July 17, 2004; together they started and ran Wicked Good Farm, until their divorce early in 2013. Leigh was also known for her love of animals, and they raised llamas, angora goats and chickens, among other creatures. At local farmers markets and in her online store, she would sell what she had made by hand, including soaps, handspun specialty yarns, jewelry and clothing. She always maintained her love of art and photography, her mediums and explorations knew no bounds and ranged from silversmithing, papier mâché, stonework, stained glass and metalwork. Her artwork was shown in several nearby galleries, including most recently at the SPACE gallery in Burlington. A celebration of Leigh’s life will be held September 15 at 1 p.m. at Button Bay State Park; friends are invited to bring memories and a vegetarian dish to share. Donations in Leigh’s memory may be made to the Art House in Craftsbury.

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No matter how hard I tried on Saturday, it seemed I couldn’t go fast enough, driving to Kennedy (left BTV at 7:15 and was at the gate by 1:30 despite stopping and traffic) and finally flying to Fort Meyers. When I arrived at Hospice, my Mom was resting comfortably. She could hear me and responded but her eyes remained closed. I kissed her forehead, told her I loved her and played some Jimmy Roselli off my phone. She passed the next morning, peacefully, without pain. Antoinette Monte was born November 2, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her parents, John and

Olympia Gentile, were from Trapani, a seacoast town in northwestern Sicily. She was one of 10 brothers and sisters: she was predeceased by Morris, Jack, Joseph, Rosie, and Mary, and she is survived by Eleanor, Mathilda, Gloria and Arthur. Family gatherings of the Gentiles, annual summer picnics at Belmont Lake State Park, were very large affairs: 20 aunts and uncles and 34 cousins engaged in antics-filled round robin softball games, played cards and ate some great food, beginning with eggs and bacon for breakfast over an open fire and ending with a great dinner. Ann met and fell in love with Michael S. Monte at an early age. Mike Monte was the son of Salvatore and Pauline Monte, who were from

Calatafimi, a mountain town also in northwestern Sicily. Their four children (Barney, Joseph, Michael and Marie) lived close to the Gentiles in what could be described as a more rural part of Brooklyn: dirt roads, open fields, gardens, streams and wetlands were dominant when both families started out. Everyone was a stone mason. Together, Mike and Ann raised four children: Paula, Salvatore, Olympia and Michael, the only boomer. There are 19 grandchildren and their spouses, and 12 great-grandchildren. And the family, once principally Sicilian, is now populated with Calabrese, Napoleaton, Germans, Brits, Taiwanese, Irish, West Indians, French American Indian, a Colombian and even a couple of Vikings. My Mom and Dad were working people who loved life and family most of all, who laughed and ate and sang and danced as often as they could. My Dad taught me to work hard and carry on despite the adversity, and to suffer no fools. My Mom taught me how to love and live and laugh and have fun, no matter what other people say. And to enjoy life’s malapropisms. I will now miss them both. I love you, Mom. — Michael Monte

STATEof THEarts Returning Native Son Participates in Painting Project to Benefit DJ A-Dog B Y PA MEL A PO LSTON

and such kindredspirit artists as Campbell and CLARK DERBES. Born and raised here until age 13, Giroux, now 34, lived in Tampa, Fla., before heading to the University of Houston for an MFA in painting. He describes the program as an eye-opening experience. From “going in circles, not sure what I was doing,” Giroux ventured into a tony art world shaped and fueled by serious money — as he puts it, “rich oil guys whose wives started teaming up and creating an art infrastructure,” including galleries, museums and collectors. And Houston has been good to him. In addition to having earned his degree, in 2011, and developed Jay Giroux his own street-sophisticate style, Giroux just had his first solo show, titled “Ideas Are Free,” at the from the bowels of American pop city’s Devin Borden Gallery. In typical culture.” A review of the show in the artspeak, the gallery thus explains the Houston Press breaks that down to work in part: “Giroux’s work adheres “Highbrow meets lowbrow.” to a clustering of formalist, arbitrary Neither of those descriptions, of gestures that reference high modernism course, gives a clue to how Giroux along with hedonistic imagery culled constructs his surprisingly complex

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n a recent Saturday afternoon at the Burlington Farmers Market, 7-year-old Henry Adrian is tending to a display of artful harmonica cases. “Do you want to know anything about them?” he asks a passerby. The cases are intriguing, but they’re not Henry’s — they belong to BOB HOFFMAN, or “Hoff,” as he’s more commonly called. The eccentric, beaniewearing 67-year-old is owner of the world’s largest collection of handmade harmonica cases — which, in case you were wondering, aren’t for sale. This is the fourth summer Hoff has exhibited at the market. And he has help from Henry, a big Hoff fan whose parents let him hang with the collection while they roam the stalls. The cases, says the little helper, who’s clad in a monster-truck T-shirt and neon-green

Crocs, “are really awesome, and they’re inspiring to people, too.” Hoff starts a lightning-fast tour of his collection (only about 100 of his more than 450 cases are here today). Here’s one made from an antique gunpowder flask — half harmonica case, half drinking flask. Here are three “strange dolls” by Burlington artist BETH ROBINSON, including a New Orleans-style voodoo doll whose harmonica case opening is discreetly located under her skirt. Henry follows Hoff breathlessly as he shows off various creations. “What about the Brother John one?” he suggests eagerly. Hoff obliges and reaches for a self-portrait of a Jamaican artist carved out of wood. Hoff, who works for AARP and spends winters in Washington, D.C., and summers in Burlington, has been commissioning harmonica cases since

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works — think taping, stripping, scraping, painting and sometimes collaging. The artist is happy to talk about both the mechanics of and concepts behind his art. Case in point: one of the works now hanging in his temporary Burlington quarters, a 39-by-49inch acrylic-on-canvas painting titled “Mostly Ts, Ns, and Ss.” Dramatically rendered in austere black and gray, the work was produced in multiple layers, giving

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it fathomless depth. One of the layers is a scattering of patterned discs Giroux created with a lino block he found at ReSource. The decorative, rubber-stamp look of the disc makes it less likely a viewer will pick up on Giroux’s own reading of its

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undreds of friends and fans in the club scene have rallied to raise funds for DJ A-DOG, aka ANDY WILLIAMS, since he was diagnosed with leukemia late last year. This Friday at the SOUTH END ART HOP, a pair of artists steps up. And if all goes well, so will one or more patrons, at an auction for a set of six acrylic works on 3-by-3-foot panels created over the past few weeks by SCOTT CAMPBELL and Brooklyn-based Jay Giroux. Actually, the final three layers — of eight that make up the paintings — will be applied live before the auction outside BLACK HORSE FINE ART SUPPLY on Pine Street. The brightly colored panels melding urban and floral motifs were inspired, Giroux says, by the personalities of A-Dog and his girlfriend, JOSIE SOURDIFFE. “I’d love to get $5000 for the whole thing,” says Giroux in an interview at his second-floor studio above Black Horse. The artist, who arrived this summer to assist his mother following an operation, has been working on the mixed-media pieces for the benefit and a number of other drawings and paintings. He’s been getting caught up on the Burlington scene, too, meeting Black Horse owner

AT THE LITTLE FARMERS MARKET STAND. 2005. It began innocently: After learning to play the harmonica 10 years ago, he discovered a dearth of cases available. Then, at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, he met an artist willing to make one for him. Hoff knows exactly where this first case is located in his Burlington market display — it’s beaded and simple, quaint compared with the extravagant cases he’s commissioned since. Hoff has harmonica cases from around the world, as well as by Vermont

artists such as JAKE RIFKIN, AARON STEIN, CATHY HARTLEY, TERRY ZIGMUND and JOHN BRICKELS. SUSI RYAN, a Winooski felter, has made two cases in the shape of fuzzy Hoff dolls, complete with miniature felt harmonica cases around their wooly necks. Some cases serve multiple purposes, such as the functioning glass pipes from BERN GALLERY; a kaleidoscope case; a helicopter case with spinning blades, made from orange Fanta bottle caps in

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Art Hop. highbrow and lowbrow. On his website, the artist suggests an operative motto for his work: “More Mystery, Less Hype.” While his time in Burlington this summer has been artistically productive, Giroux has had a deeply personal experience as well. “This trip to Vermont has put things in perspective,” he says, referring to his mother and his childhood friend A-Dog, as well as to the new friends he’s made. “It’s been emotionally overwhelming. It’s a reaffirmation.” If the previous turnout for A-Dog fundraisers is any indication, Giroux and Campbell should find an affirmation from the visual-arts community, too. Giroux notes that the six untitled panels will be auctioned off separately, but “if anyone steps up and wants to buy the whole thing, we’ll do that.” m

Kenya; a pinball-machine case; and a steampunk wind-up-toy case. “It’s designed to have no chestal interference, so it even works when you’re wearing it,” Hoff enthuses. Hoff inspires a lot of love at the little farmers market stand. “He’s a very special man,” says Kassia Bosby, a frequent visitor to the harmonica man, who has stopped by to say hello. And he’s essentially branded himself. As part of his guidelines for commissions, Hoff requires that artists incorporate his nickname into the back of each case. At the market, he’s dressed in Hoff swag — a blue T-shirt with a Hoff harmonica hovering over the state of Vermont, a red-and-black knitted skullcap, Superman socks, Converse All Star high-tops painted with an image of his face, and a holster made for beer cans

(he uses it for more harmonicas) around his hips. On his wrist, Hoff wears a bracelet filled with photos of his new grandson, Ethan. A few young women stop by the collection, and Hoff hands them his bracelet. “Find the harmonicas inspired by my grandson,” he says. Then he shows off a grittier case. This one is covered in sand from the San Juan Islands. On the back, Hoff’s name is written in ashes. “My dog Chance died a year ago, after 15 years of glorious companionship,” says the harmonica man. “Now Chance travels with me wherever I go.” m

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pattern as occult. “For whatever reason, I’ve tapped into that magical, occult, hedonistic gypsy culture,” he says. But a viewer might look at this painting for a long time without getting that impression, or grasping that the curvy typographic overlay of the titular “Ts, Ns, and Ss” draws its letters from the word Satan. Giroux is quick to note that he knows “absolutely nothing about satanism” — even if he did grow up listening to heavy metal. Rather, he’s attracted to iconography itself. “All these are meant to convey these powerful symbols, but they’re twisted,” he says. “It allows me to be subversive.” If Giroux’s imagery is subtly confrontational, he insists, “There’s a beauty to those subversive things that people don’t want to talk about.” Indeed, many viewers might look at these works and register simply the mysterious allure of abstraction, or perhaps the primal resonance of symbols. Giroux’s works incorporate both semiotics and a more playful aesthetic — one that scavenges found materials and archly mines the observable environment. Yeah,

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er red hair was one of the mysteries of history that led Breanna Willard to the Vermont Genealogy Library in Colchester. “No one else in my family has red hair,” she says. “I wanted to find out where it came from.” Two years ago, Willard used the opportunity of a senior project at Champlain Valley Union High School to delve deep into her ancestry, consulting the copious resources available through the library housed in Fort Ethan Allen’s DuPont Building. The 70 hours she spent conducting research there were actually a capstone to her longstanding curiosity about her family’s past. Willard was especially keen to trace the forebears of her father, who had died when she was 8 years old. “I’ve always been interested in learning how I got where I am and how that interacted with history,” says Willard, now a 19-year-old sophomore at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. “I had googled my name, but I couldn’t tell if all the information I found was real or not.” Ed McGuire, president of the genealogical library, became Willard’s mentor. He helped her determine which of the library’s 4000 books might be useful, and he guided her to online sources that enabled Willard to trace her roots from New Jersey to Arizona and then to Ireland, Germany and France — all the way back to a French Huguenot born in 1635. Willard’s red hair was apparently inherited from an Irish ancestor, she deduced along the way. McGuire and other volunteers offer similar assistance to anyone who shows up at the library during its public hours of 3 to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. The librarians will conduct the research for a fee, but “most people who come here want to do it on their own,” McGuire notes. “We help them figure out how.” It isn’t as daunting as it might seem to a newbie, McGuire assures. “You can walk in knowing nothing, and in one afternoon you can go back eight generations.” Visitors are able to search 250 years’ worth of Vermont’s vital records on microfilm. They can also consult more than 60 volumes of church records of baptisms, marriages and burials. The library offers Saturday classes on a range of genealogical topics. And a $30 annual

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membership buys access to a variety for the same reason Willard did: curiosity of electronic sites, including ancestry. about his past. “Chemistry and physics com, a particularly valued database that was my thing in school,” the retired IBM charges individuals $35 a month for engineer says, “but I really loved history, too.” Although he now unlimited searches. devotes much of his time “It’s not like we’re living in the Stone to the library, McGuire describes genealogical Age,” McGuire says in regard to the library’s research as “one of my hobbies,” along with extensive online woodworking and reference material. windsurfing. But, pointing to the The library’s own books and binders that fill shelves purchased roots reach into the basement of the when Borders went out St. John’s Club in of business, he adds, “A Burlington’s South End. lot of people still do love It was situated there for handling books.” E d M c Guir e 11 years after its founding The library in 1995 as the Vermont publishes some of its own, McGuire notes. To preserve fading French-Canadian Genealogical Society. birth, wedding and death records — The library has expanded its resources some of them handwritten in Latin — the to include data on Scottish, English, library has printed about 50 copies from Irish and German family trees, with 44 Vermont churches. The published efforts under way to assemble records volumes are sold to individuals and on Italian and Polish ancestry, as well. institutions, including the Vermont But, like many genealogical repositories in the United States, it houses scant Historical Society, the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library and the information on African ancestry, and, as far as McGuire knows, a black Vermonter New York Public Library. McGuire got interested in genealogy has never visited the library.

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The Vermont Genealogy Library should not be confused with the Genealogical Society of Vermont, which was established in 1971 but does not have a physical locale. That society is also a membership organization, explains its president, Jonathan Stevens. It charges members $25 a year to receive Vermont Genealogy, a semiannual journal, as well as the society’s quarterly newsletter. “You start off with your own family,” Stevens says in response to a question about how he became the society’s president. “And you expand from there, until you’re into the whole field of genealogy.” McGuire tells of a similar immersion that began when he dipped into his own family’s past in Connecticut. “It can’t be cured once you get going,” he warns with a smile. “You spend hours and hours researching dead people, and then you die and somebody researches you.” m The Vermont Genealogy Library open house, at the DuPont Building in Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Saturday, September 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. vtgenlib.org

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Ogden is built to last … outdoors. (By the way, he is unrelated to the rhino bursting through the clapboard above Conant’s front door.) Vendituoli, 26, is originally from Maine but moved to Burke, Vt., at age 12. At the University of Vermont, he double-majored in fine arts — with a concentration in metals and sculpture — and geology. After school, Vendituoli worked with Shelburne artisan jeweler MATTHEW TAYLOR for a while, before concluding such delicate work was not for him. “I wanted to be more active,” he says, “so I went the metal route. I bugged STEVE [CONANT] for six months before he gave me a job.” At first Vendituoli was just stripping furniture, but three and a half years later, he says, “I do all custom work and repurposing.” The artist admits he’s got a gift for seeing how old, discarded items can be given new purpose. Ogden is one gigantic example. Somehow, the form of a scrap-metal rhino seems a perfect reincarnation for derelict farm machinery. But Ogden won’t be a commanding presence on Pine Street forever. “After showing this at Art Hop, I’m hopefully selling it,” says Vendituoli, who reveals the cost to be $10,000. “I’ve had a lot of interest already,” he adds. It’s a reasonable price for your very own, life-size, odd-toed ungulate, the envy of neighbors and guaranteed not to charge.

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ntrepreneurial farmers are not the only ones who find Burlington’s Intervale to be fertile ground. Artist TYLER VENDITUOLI harvested a rhino from the place. That is, he gathered enough scrap metal — broken down from abandoned farming equipment — to create a formidable-looking beast that weighs 3000 pounds. Standing at the ready for this weekend’s SOUTH END ART HOP, just north of CONANT METAL & LIGHT, “Ogden” is hard to miss. “I was thinking about a name for the rhino and decided on Ogden because of the poem by Ogden Nash, ‘The Rhinoceros,’” Vendituoli explains. Nash might have liked to look at “something less prepoceros,” but passersby on Pine Street stop in their tracks at the sight of Vendituoli’s massive creation. In his job at Conant, he deconstructs and repurposes vintage metal furnishings, and those skills are evident in the rhino, which Vendituoli says he built on his own time. Breaking down the junked agricultural equipment into “manageable-size pieces” alone took 60 hours, he says, never mind another 90 hours spent turning metal discs, hydraulic jacks, springs, gears, tractor seats and other scarcely recognizable components into his heavy-metal monster. Why choose a rhinocerous? “I had all these plates [from a disc harrow] and thought about things with armor,” Vendituoli reasons. “The rhino won out over the armadillo.” Scale-wise, it’s certainly more awesome. And, sprayed with black “rust converter” paint,

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n the second floor of Middlebury’s sheldOn MuseuM, Belle Starr lounges by a window, her arm draped over the back of an antique chair, an elegant fan in her black-gloved hands. She’s wearing a long, lace-trimmed housecoat over a caramel corset with hoop and bloomers. Oh, and she is a deer — her doe head is made of papier-mâché. Belle is just one of Vermont artist Wendy COpp’s creations in “Fashion and Fantasy at the Edge of the Forest,” the museum’s latest exhibit. Copp didn’t just create the works on display; she curated the exhibit, digging deep into the museum’s collection of 19th-century garments to assemble outfits that are beautiful, funny and a little bit magical. Copp unearthed corsets, beaver-skin top hats, a sealskin coat, parasols, tea dresses, even an 1895 full-length gown made from a purple, swastika-print material. She paired those items with

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beAutiful, funny And A little bit mAgicAl. McIntosh, Red Delicious, Cortland, iPod, Empire…

She made a dress from carefully stitched-together dried maple leaves over a black tulle petticoat; a pair of boots constructed from tall, papery phragmites reeds; an elegant cape lined with dry pine needles. Copp, who collects her materials in the woods near her home, told the museum:

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papier-mâché animal heads and exquisite garments she painstakingly constructed from leaves, grasses, bark and other organic materials.

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“Both my work and the museum’s dresses address time as metaphor — the ephemeral nature of existence, the fact that materials, ideas, styles and humans are in flux, are impermanent and will someday cease to exist.” The museum’s executive director, Bill BrOOks, asked Copp to do the show after he saw her work at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne last winter. “I was really taken with it,” he says. Since Brooks took the Sheldon job a year ago, he’s been working hard to create vibrant exhibits that will attract the public. “We don’t get a lot of repeat visitors,” he says. “We’re trying to get more people in here.” He’s off to a great start. The current exhibit is beautiful, awe inspiring and so much fun. m “Fashion and Fantasy at the Edge of the Forest” runs through november 2 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. henrysheldonmuseum.org

Win one of 20 Apple iPods while picking apples in a Vermont orchard. Beginning Sunday, September 8, special wooden apples are ripe for the picking at participating Vermont pick-your-own orchards. If you find one of these unique “iPod apples,” keep it and call 1-800-VERMONT because you’re a winner of an Apple iPod.

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f you think basing your diet on your blood type is out there, you haven’t heard anything yet. In Japan, where this daft business started, some people organize company work teams, segregate school classrooms and even choose their dream date by blood type. And if you get lucky on that date, not to worry — in Japan, vending machines sell condoms by blood type, too. The most vocal American booster of blood-type theory is Peter D’Adamo, who has written or cowritten dozens of works on the subject, his magnum opus being the one you reference. His major contentions: • The three most common blood types — A, B and O — developed at different points in human evolution. (D’Adamo’s theory is relatively quiet about type AB blood.) Type O showed up first, allegedly when we were hominids with a high-meat diet. Type A

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blood initially appeared among Neolithic farmers, supposedly because it increased their ability to tolerate a high-grain diet. Finally, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, type B blood emerged — the result, somehow, of climate change and increased availability of dairy products. • The logic of why this matters is a little intricate, but here goes: (a) Red blood cells of each different blood type have a characteristic mix of antigens on their surfaces; (b) antigens provoke immune responses from corresponding antibodies in the blood; (c) among these antibodies are food proteins called lectins; (d) different foods contain different types of lectins; (e) if you eat the wrong foods and thus take

in the wrong lectins, said lectins will stick to your blood cells and cause them to clump together; and (f) this is bad. • Therefore, you should eat more of certain foods and shun others based on your blood type. According to D’Adamo, O types do best eating lots of meat but few grains; type A individuals should emphasize grains and vegetables; and type B should avoid grains but can load up on meat, greens and dairy. • D’Adamo downplays the blood type = personality school of thought. Nonetheless, he claims type O individuals are prone to bipolar disorder, whereas type A people are more likely to be obsessive-compulsive.

Holes might be picked in D’Adamo’s theory, the main one being that it doesn’t square with pretty much anything we know about evolutionary physiology. Geneticists think the blood types diverged millions, not thousands, of years ago. Type O is the most recent evolutionary mutation, not the oldest. Lectins having an affinity for a specific blood group exist but are rare in food. Type B blood supposedly evolved due to the influence of dairy in the diet, yet dairy intolerance is common in regions where type B is prevalent. And crucially, D’Adamo’s evidence that his diet works consists of random anonymous anecdotes. Which brings us to the core question: Will D’Adamo’s dietary recommendations do you any good? The bulk of Eat Right for Your Type is a massive collection of every ailment you ever heard of and a recommended dietary treatment for each based on blood type. In fairness, researchers have found links between certain diseases and blood types. For example: • People with type B blood may have a lower incidence of Type 2 diabetes than the A, O and AB groups. Type B folks, in fact, may have less than half the risk of type O. • One study found a weak connection between

gallstone formation and blood type, with type O folks being slightly less susceptible. • A and B types are much less likely to develop peptic ulcers than O types, who are also more prone to norovirus infections. A recent study of a million Scandinavian blood donors found type AB folks were 26 percent more likely, and type B folks 8 percent less likely, to develop gastric cancers than O types. Compared to O, AB folks had 23 percent lower risk of gastric ulcers, and B people had 25 percent higher risk of duodenal ulcers. Still, concluding from the above that a diet based on blood type will improve your health is a long leap. A 2012 review of 1415 articles about blood-type diets found exactly one that met all the criteria for sound research, and that one didn’t examine the ABO blood typing D’Adamo focuses on, but rather a different system of blood classification known as MNS. For what it’s worth, the study found some MNS blood types responded better to a lowfat diet than others. So it’s not out of the question that you may someday get legitimate diet advice based on some form of blood typing. But avoiding poultry to cure AIDS, as D’Adamo claims? I’m sorry, that’s nuts.

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(echoing the librarian’s whisper), ‘I’ll have a large fries and a Coke.’” The women cracked up. “That,” Donna said, “is hilarious.” The man said, “I don’t get it.” “Our brother’s slightly hammered,” Donna said. “No way,” the brother protested. “Explain it to me. I wanna know.” It never, ever helps to explain a joke, but I gave it a shot. “Well, you see, the blond thinks the problem is her loud talking, not the fact that she’s ordering fast food in a library.” “I still don’t get it. Gimme another one.” “OK, how about … at an office, how do you tell which work station belongs to the blonde?” “I dunno.” “Hers is the one with the Wite-Out on the computer screen.” Again, the women laughed while the guy sat stone-faced. “I don’t get that one, either. D’ya have a non-blonde joke, maybe?” “Sure,” I said, and quickly dredged up the simplest, shortest joke I could remember. We were approaching Georgetown at this point, and I needed to wrap up this dubious comedy festival. “So,” I asked, “did you see the new pirate movie?” “No,” the man replied — and I would say “playing along,” except there was not much play involved. “Yeah,” I said, “it’s rated ‘arrrr.’” The third time was not the charm. Women: yuk city; man: nothing. “How about I tell you a joke,” he said, and I thought I could detect suppressed groans from his sisters.

“Sure, lay one on me.” In the rearview mirror, I could see the guy straighten in his seat. He was suddenly looking animated and eager. “All right, all right,” he began. “OK … Did you hear about the scarecrow who won the Nobel Prize?” I said, “I have not.” “Yup, for service outstanding in his field.” “Oh, that’s very funny,” I said, which is the thing you say in lieu of laughing when something is not very funny. Anyway, the truth is, most everyone thinks they’re funny, that their own sense of humor is the bomb. I have a regular customer, Tracie Spencer, who is a successful standup comedian. She actually gets up on stages and makes people laugh. So she is certifiably, inarguably funny. Short of that, who’s to say? In the pirate-versus-the-scarecrow showdown, it’s a standoff. The man looked pleased as Punch. “You liked that one?” he said as we pulled into the condo development. “I got another one for you.” Donna said, “Let’s save it for next time, brother. The man’s got to make a living,” She then winked at me, and I mouthed, “Thanks.” m

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Q magazine may have named Burlington one of the worstdressed cities in America, but we know better. Sure, many Vermonters prefer muck boots and yoga pants for everyday apparel, but they know how to bring it stylishly when the occasion calls. This weekend is one of those occasions. The South End Art Hop is descending upon Burlington and, with it, the annual STRUT! fashion show. This year more than 20 area designers will take to the runway to showcase their creations, while DJ Robbie J spins and Hannah Kirkpatrick — aka Mrs. Vermont — and Craig Mitchell host. If you’ve never seen a dress made entirely of condoms, now’s your chance — Sasha Ross-Becker has designed a pair of “rubber” outfits on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. And teen designers Megan Mahoney and Jenna Baginski will show off their dresses constructed of tissue paper and duct tape. With the help of STRUT! coordinator Anne-Marie Keppel, Seven Days chose

a few exciting and, according to Keppel, “exceptionally talented” professional designers to profile in advance of the show. We peeked inside their studios, visited their soon-to-open storefronts, and met the sheep and roosters that provide wool and feathers for their creations. This is Vermont, after all, and fashion is best when it’s local and farm fresh.

SWAN&STONE MILLINERY, NORA SWAN AND SAM STONE Hatmakers Nora Swan and Sam Stone have two things going for them: a renewed public interest in hats, thanks to Will and Kate’s fascinator-filled royal wedding in 2011, and a locavore culture that extends beyond food into the world of fashion. Actually, make that three things — Swan&Stone’s handcrafted, one-of-a-kind hats are gorgeous. To enter their studio in Brandon’s Granary building is to step into another era, part steampunk, part “Downton Abbey.” Felted and straw hats of all colors and shapes adorn the shelves and work

tables. There are wide-brimmed portrait hats; tiny, elaborately adorned cocktail hats; and dignified men’s hats. Stone raises the sheep (for the wool) and does the felting; Swan shapes the hats on vintage wooden blocks, trims and finishes them. The pair began collaborating several years ago under the name Little Hill Woolworks. Their focus at the time was on making booties and hats for their children. They did everything at Stone’s farm, including dying the wool in the kitchen sink, and often spent an entire week on one hat. About two years ago, the pair decided to make a real business of it. They moved their operation into the Granary, began bringing their wool to the nearby Vermont Fiber Mill to be dyed and roved, and renamed themselves Swan&Stone Millinery. Stone never thought she’d end up in the fashion world. A California native, she studied cultural anthropology in college and worked for many years for the New York City Parks Department. “I always knitted, but we lived in Harlem — it’s not like we had a craft room,” she recalls.

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In 2006, after her second child was born, Stone and her family decided to “go to the other extreme,” she says. They moved to Brandon and bought a couple of sheep. What began as a homesteading hobby snowballed into a farm that now counts ducks, bees, turkeys, chickens and more sheep among its inhabitants. “I was a workaholic, and then I was a stay-at-home mom — so what do you do?” says Stone. “This is what New Yorkers do when they move to Vermont; we’re like homesteaders on speed.” A felting workshop with local artist Althea Bilodeau and countless how-to YouTube videos later, Stone teamed up with Swan. Swan, who grew up in Iran and Afghanistan but spent childhood summers in Goshen with her grandmother, the poet Ruth Stone (no relation to Sam), has long worked in millinery. After studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and starting her own line of hats, she worked for well-known Broadway millinery Lynne Mackey Studio, making headgear for shows such as The Lion King.

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Looking for a more conventional hat? Swan and Stone are starting a new line of needle-felted hats they can reproduce in different colors. But for some people, it takes guts to rock any hat. “The secret is,” Swan says, “if you wear a hat, it gives you confidence. It does take confidence to stick it on your head and walk out the door, but once you’re out the door and people are accepting you — ‘Look, there’s the tall, gorgeous woman with the hat!’ — then it starts feeding the other way. Then you become the tall, gorgeous woman with the hat.”

your local bar, especially in rural Vermont. But that’s just what Lemak did, at tiny Rochester’s the Village Porch. “I walked in with the jacket all wrapped around me, and then I took it off and I was fine,” she says. “After a martini, I was fine.” The corset was a hit. A year ago, Lemak never would have imagined she’d be designing a line of corsets and opening a lingerie store, called Quiver Corset Company, in downtown Middlebury. The Ohio native graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a major in metals and jewelry design in 1995.

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The first time Anjanette Lemak went out in public wearing one of the corsets she designed, she dressed it down with blue jeans and muck boots. She was nervous about debuting the sexy, bluish-gray garment with yellow fern embroidery and elegant boning. Besides, it was early spring, so she covered it up with a jacket. It takes confidence to wear a corset to

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Since then she has designed and fabricated high-end jewelry, knitwear and Danforth Pewter. Lemak moved with her family to Vermont in 2001; last fall, after 18 years of marriage, she got divorced. “At the time, I had a job lined up,” she says. “I thought I knew where I was moving, and I thought I knew what I’d be doing for money.” But the job fell through, and so did the offer she’d put on a house. To add insult to injury, after she’d decided to return to jewelry making, Lemak broke her wrist. “I pretty much fell apart,” she recalls. After some serious regrouping with family and friends, Lemak resolved to start her own design business. “I’ve always been really good at following trends,” she says. “I had slowly been catching glimmers of the corset on the rise again.” She dived right into designing her first corset — the fern one she wore that spring night to the bar. Lemak took her design to Middlebury seamstress Elizabeth Blodgett, and the two worked together to refine the perfect look. Quiver Corset Company was born. Staying local is important to Lemak. “I wanted to be able to go to [my seamtress’] house,” she says. Plus, Blodgett, who had never made corsets before Lemak approached her, does fantastic work. “She can do anything,” Lemak says. “I have walked in there with sketches on a napkin before. She’s amazing.” A simple corset takes Blodgett about 10 to 12 hours to complete on her 1950 Singer sewing machine. That doesn’t count the time spent determining how to engineer

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Swan and Stone sell their hats online as well as at craft fairs in Boston, New York and Vermont, where people seem to respond well to the farm-fresh-hat idea. After all, these lids aren’t cheap — the least expensive is $125, and broad-brimmed hats that require multiple blocks can cost up to $350. “We’ve made a commitment in my family, and in our business, to not give in to fast fashion, or throwaway fashion,” Stone says. The duo’s locavore ethos even extends to higher-concept hats. For example, for their “rural industry” series — which is the focus of their STRUT! presentation — Swan decorates hat bands with bits of rusted metal she found on nearby river banks after Tropical Storm Irene. Hats in this series are adorned with bits of barbed wire, nails, rusted old keys and other metal scraps so weathered that, from a distance, they look like curled autumn leaves. Swan also rust-dyes some of the bands, using a colorless spray to keep the metal from continuing to rust. “It’s hardwarestore chic,” she says.

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arm bands, a bow, arrows and a quiver); and a tuxedo-style corset jacket made of slate- and taupe-colored silk, with a gold iridescent lining and exquisite silk buttons running down the front and up each sleeve. There’s nothing quite like wearing a corset to make you feel sexy. “Our bodies are not unlike beautiful flowers,” Lemak writes on her website. “The corset, merely the means by which the body is presented, invit[es] interest and notice, drawing the eye from every angle in a seductive dance across every detail. Each curve and shadow asking for greater reflection.”

S’AMUSE, Sam Talbot-Kelly All of Sam Talbot-Kelly’s favorite artists — David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Michael Jackson — have a gender-bending style. “I think we’re all both male and female; male energies doing one thing, female doing another, and hopefully they’re integrated,” she says.

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The headwear Talbot-Kelly designs under her label, S’AMUSE (French for “has fun”), is equally androgynous. Her leather bomber caps, for example, were inspired by Amelia Earhart. “She transformed female form,” says the designer. “She was androgynous. And yet she had her own style that was both male and female.” Similarly, Talbot-Kelly’s “scoodies” — a kind of half scarf, half hat — can go both ways. They simultaneously evoke hooded monks and images of the Madonna, with her long cape cascading over her shoulders.

Talbot-Kelly, an artist, designer and art professor at Norwich University, launched her headwear line in 2011. Born in England and raised in Toronto, she studied art in Montréal and Texas — always with an interest in fashion, clothing, identity and materials. “I had a pretty unconventional upbringing,” Talbot-Kelly says. “I was raised as an artist, as an independent thinker, which is what I want my brand to be about. I want to be on the edge. I don’t want to join the masses.”

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experience was her mother’s heart — it was the very last thing to shut down. “She was gradually disappearing, but you could feel her heart beating,” she recalls. Talbot-Kelly began researching the human heart. Her notebook for the heartdress project is filled with images that inspire her: a John Chamberlain sculpture with heart-like textures; a detail of the 1912 “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp; and “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins, from 1875. Talbot-Kelly is still working on the heart dress. Preliminary versions include calico fabric that has been intricately folded to resemble crinkly innards, and spilling red tulle suggesting oozing entrails. She plans to exhibit the finished work at the Florence Biennale in Italy this November. For STRUT!, Talbot-Kelly has enlisted Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio dancers en pointe to don her bomber caps and scoodies and give a runway-style narrative performance about fitting in. “This idea of being independent while also belonging is a really important philosophical thing that I keep coming back to,” she says. And then she’ll get going on her next practical clothing endeavor. “I want to make jackets for my friends,” Talbot-Kelly says. “Really well-tailored jackets.” m

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Her headwear is certainly nonconformist. On her blog, Talbot-Kelly posted a video of a ballet dancer donning one of her bomber caps — which are manufactured at Queen City Dry Goods in Burlington — and dancing en pointe in the Montpelier streets. “Fashion isn’t about fashion; fashion is about everything else,” Talbot-Kelly asserts. She doesn’t follow Vogue; she loves designers such as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen — “the ones who are really trying to share a dream,” she says. Fashion, she believes, is about research. Talbot-Kelly’s Montpelier home is filled with evidence of her extensive art and design research. She has made largerthan-life corsets out of found wood, and female forms from bark and ash. Recently Talbot-Kelly began working on a sculptural, and wearable, dress inspired by the human heart. Actually, it was inspired by her mother’s death. Talbot-Kelly’s mother always had a poor heart. After surviving tuberculosis at the age of 16, she went to fashion school and raised seven children — Talbot-Kelly is the youngest. By the time she was 82, Talbot-Kelly’s mother had two calcified lungs, which were wearing on her heart. “Almost two years ago, she was, like, OK, it’s time to go,” recalls Talbot-Kelly, who was at her mother’s bedside with the rest of her siblings when her mom died. “She did it beautifully, and I have to say, if anyone witnessed my mom passing, they would have no problem with death. There was nothing scary about it. It was a gift.” What struck Talbot-Kelly about the

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solutions, the city managed to secure funding for a camp from the national Campaign to End Childhood Hunger. Now run through the city’s community services department, the Summer Youth Enrichment Program provides children with breakfast and lunch, as well as intellectually engaging activities. Sister Pat wasn’t just instrumental within the Winooski Coalition, DiMasi says. When his son once fell seriously ill, she and several other “nun cronies,” as he calls them, arrived at the DiMasis’ home with pizza and sodas for the family. “She would just kind of do that stuff out of the blue, and that’s the way she is,” DiMasi says, noting the seven-hour drives McKittrick often makes to see her family members in New Jersey. “She’s like the Energizer Bunny. She just keeps going.” In a way, her family is the reason McKittrick just keeps going. Sitting in the O’Brien Community Center several days after our Tour de Winooski — drinking coffee that Starbucks donates every Friday morning — McKittrick compares her family to “the League of Nations.” The oldest of 12 children, she grew up in New Jersey during the 1960s, when race riots were erupting in and around New York City. At a time when just talking to a person of color was considered radical, McKittrick describes her family as unusually open-minded. Her dad’s best friend was a black man, while several of her younger siblings married individuals from Puerto Rico, France, Bosnia and Poland. Because of that diversity, McKittrick says, she learned from an early age to appreciate difference. While studying to be a nurse in New Jersey, McKittrick volunteered in a hospital with several nuns from the Sisters of Providence community. She realized, she recalls, that joining the sisterhood would allow her to keep serving alongside likeminded people.

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McKittrick leveraged Fletcher Allen’s resources to implement the same approach in Winooski, assembling a group of movers and shakers that was initially called the Winooski Network. What started in 1997 as an informal committee, however, snowballed into a group of more than 180 individuals and 50-some organizations known collectively as the Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community. It was 13 years ago that Bob DiMasi, then the newly appointed director of Winooski’s parks and recreation department, decided to check out this network people were talking about. “Sister Pat was big on hearing what the needs of the community were,” DiMasi relates over the phone. “With her getting people [to the coalition meetings], people started getting hooked up with grants and programs.” One issue, DiMasi remembers, was that children weren’t eating well during summer break. After McKittrick and other members of the coalition brainstormed

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and succinctly” that they returned with pledges of more than $100,000. Eventually, the bulk of funding for the community center came from Richard Tarrant, the philanthropist and former politician who named it after longtime Winooski residents Robert and Shirley O’Brien. The O’Brien Center on Malletts Bay Avenue opened in 2008. Today, its walls boast artwork by the area’s refugees, while its rooms host nonprofit organizations including Winooski Family Health, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program and the Greater Burlington YMCA. The Winooski Memorial Library recently moved into the building, as well. In 2011, the Y awarded McKittrick its first annual Social Responsibility Award. Walking through the community Sister McKittrick with community members center, the sister asks just about everyone how she or he is doing. Drug dealers used to mingle behind this building, she says. But after the demolition of a wall separating the basketball court behind the center from Hickock Street, and the addition of a community garden and motion-sensitive lights, the area remains clean. City Manager Katherine “Deac” Decarreau says McKittrick’s contributions to Winooski have been greater than the sum of the programs she helped create. “She’s a constant presence. She’s got her finger on the pulse of the needy and most disenfranchised,” Decarreau says over the phone. She cites human trafficking in Vermont as one issue McKittrick S i S t Er PAt mcKi t t r icK began raising more than a year before anyone else did. Winooski Coalition began looking for To encourage refugee residents to a community center where every local contribute to the community, McKittrick would feel welcome. has organized the Winooski Culture Hop, Beginning around 2002, the coalition a celebration where everyone displays his pressed the Winooski City Council to ap- or her country’s traditional clothing. prove funding for an employee to spearhead At one hop, Decarreau recalls, the project. J. Ladd, former director of the “[McKittrick] and all the other nuns are city’s community development department, dressed in colorful African garb. I went ended up filling the role. He now credits to Catholic school, so I remember the old McKittrick with recognizing the need for a habit. To see them in those clothes was community center in the first place. just so welcoming, and a statement of such “That came from years of being in utter equality.” the community and foreseeing what the McKittrick’s spritely personality whole population of Winooski would almost makes a life of service look easy. need, whether they were fifth-generation It certainly seems to help her put things Winooski residents or first-generation in perspective. By interacting with Americans,” Ladd says. “She brought the Winooski’s refugee populations, the nun idea to the city council very persuasively.” says, she has learned how to truly enjoy City councilors weren’t the only ones the present moment. persuaded by McKittrick and the coali“A lot of them have suffered,” tion; Ladd went to Montréal with the nun McKittrick says. “When they’ve been to seek donations from various religious through all these hurdles and can be joyful organizations. While there, Ladd says, about it, our own problems can seem small McKittrick presented their case so “neatly in comparison.” m

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truck-stop counter for “Kings of the Counter: After the Fire, Bacon, and Eggs,” and her piece takes a suspenseful turn from breakfast conversation to sexual and generational tension. Eva Xiao tried speed dating in White River Junction, while Miriam Kilimo reflected on her religious upbringing in Kenya as she got to know an elderly Jehovah’s Witnesses minister living in a Lebanon housing project. “This is essentially the publication that I wanted when I moved here and wanted

their subjects to let their guards down. Details about violent marriages, addictions and bitter disappointments pour out of the stories’ protagonists, and the writers deftly weave these together with subtle, sensuous details — such as when Kilimo notes the minister’s “greenish veins that run like tiny rivulets along the length of her arm.” Sharlet quips that when students first land in his class, “they never know who I am” — which is fine with him. “I never tell them,” he adds. Courtesy of Eli Burakian

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hen Danny Valdes stepped off a bus near a White River Junction motel one afternoon last February, he wasn’t sure how he’d approach the task at hand. In front of the Shady Lawn Motel, the petite Valdes — who was nearing graduation at Dartmouth College — saw a place “where passing trucks hurl waves of dirt over the sidewalk.” In the lobby, Valdes told the couple behind the glass, “I’m an English student just looking for stories to write.” Then he sat on a couch and waited. A tableau gradually emerged: A few transient residents surfaced to smoke cigarettes outside their rooms or cart trash to the Dumpster. A child, whom Valdes found “playing on a mound of ice and filth,” oriented the young writer. As Valdes prepared to leave for the day, a 19-year-old pregnant woman named Maddy appeared, clad in flip-flops in the middle of winter. And the story deepened. “Jeff told me about it [the motel], and then told me not to go,” Valdes says, referring to Jeff Sharlet, the Dartmouth English professor who sent him on assignment. “He didn’t want to be responsible if anything happened.” What did happen was that a few months later, Valdes’ 3700-word piece “The Shady Lady: Children of the Transient Motel” became one of the most mesmerizing stories in 40 Towns, an online journal of literary nonfiction created by Sharlet and his students. 40 Towns, which debuted in June, is named for the 40 or so towns that compose the Upper Valley. Its aim is to collect the region’s stories and “myths of small places” into “artifacts of real life along a northern stretch of a cold river,” according to its website. The 14 inaugural stories — all of them written by students from Sharlet’s creative writing and nonfiction classes — plumb the murky, quirky depths of the Upper Valley, puncturing its Rockwellesque façade of friendly neighbors with unlocked doors. While a few pieces are tinged with new-writer self-consciousness, many are gripping reads. In “Brace Yourself: Two Women Leave Prison,” Kendall Madden describes hearing two friends, recently released inmates, casually narrate the sometimes-horrifying details of their lives over lunch. Lindsay Ellis spent successive mornings at a Lebanon, N.H.,

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to know about [the Upper Valley],” says Sharlet, who came to Dartmouth from New York University three years ago as the Mellon assistant professor of English. “Newspapers sometimes aren’t really getting to the texture of experience. One of the things these kids do is make these prosaic stories new again.” As a creative nonfiction professor, Sharlet had a second motivation to found 40 Towns. “You see these pieces that are so great and then never get read,” he says. “Every single term, someone writes something really great. These stories are so fleeting, and then they’re gone.” Sharlet’s students clearly have great instruction, natural talent, stellar editing or all three. They also seem gifted at getting

But Sharlet is no slouch when it comes to literary journalism. He’s a contributing editor at both Harper’s and Rolling Stone magazines and has written four books, mostly about faith, religion and spirituality. His latest, Sweet Heaven When I Die, is part personal memoir. Sharlet has been what he calls “obsessive” about literary journalism since he took a class with writer Michael Lesy as an undergrad at Hampshire College. After a stint as an intern and fact-checker at the Nation, Sharlet began his reporting career at the alt-weekly San Diego Reader. There, he recalls, his experience as the only reporter at a Navy court martial of an African American sailor — accused of stabbing a white counterpart — impressed

upon Sharlet the importance of telling untold stories. “I thought, I’m the only reporter here. There are real lives at stake,” he says. “And you realize, what I write about this person is going to be the only record of what happened.” Sharlet’s career veered into academia in 2003; he began as a research scholar at NYU and has been in the classroom on and off ever since. In a conversation over lunch, he’s brimming with ideas, eager to discuss writing, academia, the lack of a strong literary culture in Hanover and his students’ tendency to eschew the liberal arts to “get an MD ‘just in case’” — so eager that he apologizes for seeming overcaffeinated. More than anything else, though, Sharlet seems to be infected with a fever for well-crafted, considered writing, which some of his students appear to have caught. Valdes admits that the first story he handed in to Sharlet was “really, really, really bad. He read it out loud to me, and I thought, I need to do better.” When Valdes showed up at the Shady Lawn, he recalls, he soon learned one of the golden rules of immersion journalism: “You just wait for things to happen, and they start to happen.” Valdes took the bus to the “Shady Lady” three times a week for the entire month of February, getting to know Maddy and her boyfriend, Eddie, as they waited for their first baby. He writes: Her name is Maddy. Her mother left her dad three months after Maddy was born. Since then she has had a number of bad stepfathers. “I saw my mom being beat up since I was five. I was a depressed kid.” “Damn. I actually just started anti-depressants a few weeks ago,” I tell her. The clash of cultures between Dartmouth students and the people they’re reporting on can be stark. In “T-EC-U-M-S-E-H,” Nate Kania describes getting to know an enigmatic panhandler along Route 12A in West Lebanon, N.H. As he tracks her to her campsite on the Connecticut River and, later, to the Mad River Valley, he becomes aware of his “rich douchebag that likes to party” sunglasses — and pushes them to the back of his head. Later, a party near Warren with Tecumseh

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blog itself is full of praise from respected writers and editors. Their reactions suggest that Sharlet has used his cachet in the world of literary journalism to get the word out about the site, which has received 27,000 unique visitors since it went live. “I want these writers to get noticed. Especially at a place like Dartmouth, which is known for economics and government and so on,” Sharlet notes, referencing the easy path into finance for many Dartmouth grads. “There’s no such channel [for writers]. I want a pipeline for students who want to do creative writing.” After a beat, he adds dryly, “You will probably be poor at least at first, if not always.” This fall, 40 Towns will publish a profile of “an ordinary White River Junction comics artist,” says Sharlet, as well as a story about roller derby and two audio pieces, including one on mushroom hunting “with the radical town lister of Norwich.” Though Valdes has graduated, he’ll return to the Upper Valley in September for a sequel that he calls “Shady Lady 2” — also to appear in the fall issue. “Most of the people who read mysteries are like, ‘What happens to Maddy and Eddie afterward?’” explains Valdes, who is also 40 Towns’ assistant editor. “There is really no closure and so much more to write.” m

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and her friends speeds to an alcoholsoaked climax. Kania writes, “It’s getting cold, so I go up to my car to grab a fleece. The car’s been sitting in the sun all day, and when I climb in, the air is warm. So warm. It would be so easy to just turn the key, put in the clutch, back out onto the road…” The implications of presumably privileged Dartmouth students converging on the Upper Valley’s lessthans were not lost on Valdes. “I thought about exploitation all of the time, and Jeff and I talked about it a lot,” he says. “Part of me thinks there is an inherent exploitation [in] the relationship between me and people at the Shady Lawn Motel. Yeah, even though I’m not making money, I got to write a piece and get it published, and everyone in my story is still low income and still having housing problems, these really big problems.” Yet Valdes thinks it’s invaluable for him and his peers to fan out into the region they call home for four years. “One of the things about Dartmouth students is that we don’t step outside of campus nearly as often as we should,” he notes. “It was one of the best things about this class. All classes should emphasize stepping outside of your comfort zone and leaving the ‘Dartmouth bubble.’” Valdes’ piece was chosen as a college pick of the week by Longreads, a website devoted to long-form nonfiction. Kilimo’s piece was spotlighted in the Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion & Media, and other pieces have received attention from fellow writers and blogs. The 40 Towns

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Of Muggles and Media A University of Vermont prof finds a “Harry Potter factor” in politics B y Ma r got H arr i s o n

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f you spend a lot of time online, Himself an avowed “big consumer of a you may have seen a Vermonter lot of entertainment media” — including mentioned recently in a slew science fiction, “South Park” and, yes, the of click-bait headlines. Harry Potter books — Gierzynski “Harry Potter cast a spell on says scholars should study how the U.S. to propel Barack those fictions shape us. He does Obama to Presidency just that with UVM juniors twice, professor claims,” and seniors in a seminar trumpeted the Daily Mail called “Film, TV and Public on August 15. “Harry Potter Opinion,” where his Potter is why young people voted project began. for Obama, professor says,” The author of three previous claimed msn Now. books on legislative committees, For some reason, the rightcampaign financing and election politics, leaning media seem to be taking to this Gierzynski has been in the spotlight before. Obama-Potter connection. One of the Ralph Nader liked the scholar’s 1999 earliest accounts book Money Rules appeared in the enough to feature College Fix, which it on his website, bills itself as “Your Gierzynski notes. Daily Dose of RightBut when it comes Minded Campus to some of the recent News.” “Dark arts headlines, he goes master Harry Potter on, “I didn’t really to blame for Obama, care for that sort claims professor,” of spin … It really was the none-tootakes people away subtle headline in from the core of the the Daily Caller. book to say, ‘[Harry And commenters Potter] made people on the Daily Mail vote for Obama.’ piece reacted, as … It’s misusing they are wont to the findings of the do, by working book.” What are themselves into a those findings? righteous lather: Gierzynski’s 118“Finally someone/ A n t h o ny G i e r z yns k i page study, written something to blame with local journalist for the FIASCO,” one reader wrote. Another: “And now you Kathryn Eddy, lays them out in succinct know why he’s in Vermont ... God forsaken and readable form. In 2009, the professor and his students place...” “He” is presumably the study’s author, and colleagues surveyed 1141 students at University of Vermont political science seven colleges and universities around the professor Anthony Gierzynski. And country using a questionnaire Gierzynski Gierzynski says he’s bemused by some designed with students in his seminar. of the attention his book — called Harry Half the students surveyed called Potter and the Millennials: Research themselves big or moderately big fans of Methods and the Politics of the Muggle J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. FiftyGeneration — has garnered since it was eight percent of those who had read all the Harry Potter books reported that published last May. A conversation with the 51-year-old they’d voted for Obama in 2008, versus 45 Montpelier resident reveals no sinister percent of those who’d read some or no agenda to yoke Obama and Potter books in the series. Eighty-three percent of together in the public mind. Gierzynski students in the first group believed history does want to promote awareness that would view the Bush administration popular entertainment has political unfavorably, versus 74 percent of the less effects, though, and not just on Potter fans. ardent Potter readers.

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of politics, you can’t just look at the news media anymore.” Plenty has been written about the politics of entertainment in English and cultural-studies departments. But, says Gierzynski, “Nobody’s actually tried to test the relationship between the two.” So he and his students in “Film, TV and Public Opinion” got to work testing possible correlations between politics and exposure to pop culture. They didn’t find overwhelming evidence of any connections — until the year they focused on Harry Potter. “The first round of the survey — wow!” Gierzynski recalls. “We found real differences between Harry Potter fans and non-Harry Potter fans. So we ran it again in the fall semester, and it strengthened the results.” Gierzynski and Eddy suggest that in the Millennials’ formative years, the values of Harry Potter clashed with those of the Bush administration in a way readers couldn’t help but register. While politicians presented “enhanced interrogation” as a necessary evil, Potter fans absorbed the books’ unambiguous lesson about

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seminar by telling them stories about his own childhood. Gierzynski grew up in the Chicago area, “where politics is a sport,” he notes. As a kid, he didn’t like reading about anything but baseball. (Today, he’s captain of the Montpelier Monties in the Vermont Senior Baseball League.) It was Tolkien’s The Hobbit that turned the young Gierzynski into a voracious reader — “the exact same phenomenon,” he says, that many of his students experienced with Harry Potter. “Where did the irreverence come from in my background, when I grew up in a Catholic family and a conservative suburb?” Gierzynski wonders. The question can’t be answered, he suggests, without looking at the media that attracted him in his adolescence — such as “Saturday Night Live,” which his parents had expressly forbidden. Gierzynski got his PhD at the University of Kentucky, came to UVM in 1992, and promptly developed a “Politics and the Media” course. His research for Saving American Elections (2011) taught him, he says, that “when you’re looking at how the media affects the public’s perception

torturing and killing curses: “Good people don’t use these tactics, bad people do.” Just how significant are Rowling’s best sellers among the “multitude” of factors that shaped the Millennial generation? Some scholars see entertainment as having “a powerful propaganda effect,” Gierzynski notes, while others believe that “self-selection” tends to negate any such influence — i.e., people who already agree with Michael Moore are the ones who buy tickets to Michael Moore movies. But, Gierzynski notes, that simply isn’t true of “blockbusters like Avatar,” an adventure with a green subtext. “Are people really self-selecting themselves out of that because of their views on the environment?” he asks. “No.” And such compelling fictions can have a “reinforcing effect”: “Having your views and values reinforced empowers them in terms of motivating you to act based on them.” Now Gierzynski is busy testing his hypotheses with fresh media examples. He’s written a paper demonstrating that audiences of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” are more likely to be “skeptical” than “cynical” on the issues. With his seminar, Gierzynski has run an experiment to gauge the effects of portrayals of science fiction and fantasy villains on people’s views of violence, the death penalty and antiterrorism policy. Showing subjects images of a “pure evil” versus a “gray” villain affects their answers, he says, regardless of their preexisting beliefs. Is it a bad thing for citizens in a democracy to conflate fact and fiction? Ask the wags who emblazoned their cars with “Cheney-Voldemort ’08” stickers, or to the Daily Mail commenters arguing that Harry Potter is actually not a Democrat but a Libertarian. “It could help us tremendously in terms of our politics if we were more aware of the origins of our political views, and if we were more humble,” Gierzynski suggests. When it comes to values such as those of the Harry Potter series, he encourages his students to move from grasping the origins of their own beliefs to understanding and tolerating “those who see the world differently from you in political terms.” From that humility, Gierzynski says, comes a focus on “facts and reason” instead of on polarizing ideology: “What is the nature of the situation, and what sorts of policies would help remedy it?” That’s a pragmatism of which Professor Dumbledore would surely approve.

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A skeptic may ask: What if the parents who encouraged their kids to read about the boy wizard were more likely to be liberals? Using survey questions to control for these and other variables, Gierzynski found a “Harry Potter effect” operating even on respondents whose environments weren’t conducive to forming such views. Across the board, Potter fans were more tolerant of diversity, less supportive of tactics such as torture, more skeptical about ruling powers, more eager to participate in the political process — and more responsive to the message of “Hope and Change” in ’08. Gierzynski and Eddy acknowledge their research can’t prove a definitive causal connection between reading Rowling and voting for Obama. Nonetheless, they’re “confident that the story of the struggles of the wizarding world against Voldemort did indeed play an important role in the political development of many Millennials.” That’s a long way from the notion that Potter (or his creator) “cast a spell” to steer vulnerable youths leftward. Gierzynski defines Millennials as those born between 1980 and 1992, vast numbers of whom read the Rowling books in their formative years. He rejects any notion that the author meant to push a political agenda, focusing instead on the series’ promotion of nonpartisan values. “It’s really about core values and attitudes, and it just so happens that Democrats are lined up on that side at this point in time,” Gierzynski explains. “Especially at the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration — [on the issues of ] torture, tolerance, things like that.” Could the young Potter fans who voted Democratic in ’08 — part of an astounding two-thirds of 18-to-29-year-olds — change their minds in a future election? “The Democrats don’t have a monopoly on tolerance,” Gierzynski points out, and notes that issues such as government secrecy and drones could alienate Millennials. But he contends that, if the Republican Party wants to win back this demographic, it will need to change its stances on issues such as same-sex marriage and immigration — stances that young voters seem to perceive as more Slytherin than Gryffindor. Why have the conservative media leapt on this research? “Probably because they want to say, ‘Look at those silly liberals; they got their values from a fantasy book,’” Gierzynski says. “Everybody likes to think they’re rational, and they develop their values and perspectives from rational processes, and that people who disagree with them in this polarized environment today are idiots … But the truth is, we learn these values from our culture.” Even poli-sci undergrads are reluctant to admit that “the culture” has shaped them, Gierzynski says. So he starts off his

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accomplishment, and the “but” that’s coming isn’t intended to diminish it but to observe that theater has other objectives, too. You can spend this show as a dazzled spectator, but it’s harder to invest yourself in the characters. For that, you need a stake in their struggles. Roberts has a tendency to let the objective significance of an event stand in for its subjective experience. Imagine getting no closer to the three women held hostage in that house in Cleveland than seeing the TV news footage. The feeling is horror, not empathy. But when he’s not tossing problems at his characters, Roberts shows outstanding dramatic intelligence. The play begins with a thoroughly realized scene of domestic misery at a low boil. The lights come up as Gene and his wife Joellen, are stirring the dregs of a fight. The scene begins as the conflict has ended, but husband and wife are secretly looking for a way to prolong it and claim victory, while ostensibly patching things up. The playwright’s skill in getting to the heart of how these two battle, and the actors’ quiet work in showing how the characters make do with the distance between them, are stunning. In this scene, we don’t yet know or need to know the particular unfortunate events

of their lives. We participate in a human experience that doesn’t take AIDs, rape or a terrible childhood to detonate. It just takes two people and the baseline friction of a marriage. Adam Cunningham plays Gene with all the inflexibility the character demands, and without letting the premise collapse into parody. Cunningham is able to make Gene sympathetic, and he doles out the little mysteries of his heart with admirable restraint. But sometimes he works the role like a mountain climber, hitting a plateau and staying right there, then ascending to the next peak. This tendency to stake out a territorial claim on an emotion leaves Cunningham waving the same flag for too long. As Joellen, Ginger Pierce (real-life wife of director George) finds so many nuances that she completes a character the playwright has left somewhat undeveloped. Pierce is a true in-themoment actor, letting her reactions flow from what’s occurring on stage. She’s good at choosing her beats, including the comedy to be mined from them, and she’ll risk taking time to let a moment fully unfold. Because Pierce lets Joellen’s tragic détente with Gene crush her, it feels sadder than the more sensational troubles in the story.

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n Parasite Drag, a powerful night of theater awaits audiences. The oneword review is “intense.” George Pierce’s direction gives the actors the confidence to reveal the raw fury of their characters, and Mark Roberts’ script tries to up the ante on the long theater tradition of stories about dysfunctional families. Set in rural Illinois, the play brings together two brothers who have endured a long, bitter estrangement. Gene is rigid and respectable, steers his life by the Bible and has settled into a loveless marriage. Ronnie is content as a janitor, happily married to an even freer spirit, and he’s willing to break the long silence by visiting his brother as their sister lies dying in the final stages of AIDs. This is enough of a situation to trigger an exploration of the two brothers and their wives, but Roberts is more concerned with accumulating woes than exploring their effects. The plot doesn’t have time to dwell on any of them, but we rocket through several sexual taboos, drug addiction, selfmutilation, infidelity, suicide, mercy killing and religious conviction. These elements serve as justifications for the play’s volcanic passions, but because they generally occur in the past and often to offstage characters, they feel more like grim headlines than experiences that engage our compassion. Dark humor leavens the mix. In an ideal theater production, we feel compassion for the characters, catharsis from participating in their emotional lives and connoisseurship for admiring — from a distance — bravura performances. But sometimes a show aims at only one of the three. Roberts and Pierce drive our attention to the performances. Roberts has loaded plenty of powder (in the form of traumatic backstory) into Parasite Drag to shoot all four human cannonballs high in the sky. Pierce gives his actors the courage and conditions to express their needs with scorching intensity. The result is four impressive, no-holds-barred performances. The audience leaves drained, yet marveling that these actors have the strength and psychological daring to propel themselves through the artistic ordeal. On this count, the production is a success. See it to admire actors working bravely together to portray the effects of harrowing external events. This is an

Sarah Mell is a fierce, fresh face onstage, investing herself fully in her role. She uses her height and dancer’s poise to walk with a strut as Ronnie’s wife, Susie, the one character who has an instinct for love and trust. Mell does a lovely job of hanging back as the peaceful visitor and then springing out to assume the catalyst’s job of stirring things up. Her work is based on surprising us, and she’s wildly good at it. As Ronnie, David Dilego combines a rough-and-tumble appearance with a flagrant chip on his shoulder. The effect puts too much emphasis on the character as untrustworthy lout, while the playwright has written a softer, contemplative side to round him out. Dilego gets close to this duality occasionally, but whenever the script calls for anger, he lets fury rule his performance. The ember of pain that sparks these fires is far less visible than the conflagration. But Dilego’s conviction onstage is thrilling to watch. Roberts has chosen a play title that begs for explication, and reviewers must oblige. “Parasite drag” is an aerodynamics term referring to the drag forces from an airplane’s nonlifting surfaces, such as the fuselage. Roberts fastens onto the flying image as a metaphor for growing up, but he can’t quite stuff this obscure term into any character’s mouth. Instead, he twice tries to call attention to it by having a character wonder what the name is for such a thing. That’s not how metaphors work. Roberts creates some remarkable moments in this play, but one can’t help feeling that he’s so busy completing a collection of miseries that he can’t take time to let his characters reflect on them. He never lets up, and a play that starts with a tornado siren has to end with the ultimate deus ex machina, a genuine act of God. In between the warning and the twister, Parasite Drag is a furious ride. m

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onald Pal isn’t a trophy hunter. The New York City native said that in the 42 years he’s lived in Sutton, he’s piled up enough deer antlers to crowd his house — and made good use of the venison. “I’d just as soon shoot a year-old deer when the meat is tender,” he reasoned. Now Pal is about to start hunting and eating a different beast. “A young bear, 2 years old, would be just ideal. I look for good cuisine,” he said, planning his next quarry. He’s not alone. Pal was one of more than 50 hunters who attended “Getting Started in Bear Hunting,” a free seminar organized by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department in St. Johnsbury last month. Students drove to the class from as far as Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley to learn bear-hunting basics and enjoy an ursine-focused barbecue lunch. “It’ll be a man’s lunch, ’cause it’ll be meat!” growled John Pellegrini, as the last camo-clad students wedged themselves into the kind of desk-chairs many of us hadn’t sat in since elementary school. The seminar took place in the taxidermy-filled garage of Linwood Smith Archery. Gray-haired owner Smith stood near the door dressed in an outfit that accommodated seriouslooking knives, as if he were ready to defend the class of hunters singlehandedly from threatening intruders. Pellegrini organized the event in his role as Fish & Wildlife’s hunter-training coordinator. The 20-person turnout for a similar class held last year in southern Vermont didn’t prepare him for the popularity of this one, he said. Bear hunting is on the rise, partly owing to Fish & Wildlife’s push to control a population that stands at about 6000 statewide. That’s in the uppermost reaches of the population goals outlined in the Vermont Big Game Management Plan, which covers the years 2010 to 2020.

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of capturing a trophy that can dominate a living room, but others, like Pal, are in it for the gustatory delights. Pellegrini was lucky enough to have samples to offer. Two nuisance bears had been killed in the Ascutney area in the week before the class. One furnished the barbecue lunch, while the other was the star attraction in a presentation on trophy preparation by Northfield taxidermists Theresa and Rodney Elmer.

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In the first slideshow presentation of the morning, bear biologist Forrest Hammond demonstrated the dangers of treating nuisance bears like pets. One image showed an older man who made a lifelong habit of feeding the creatures. Claw marks covered his back, and his right arm was still slightly askew from reattachment. A bear had attacked him after he ran out of marshmallows to pop in its mouth. The last recorded Vermont instance of a bear killing a human happened in West Townshend in 1943. The victim was known for shooting deer to incapacitate them before finishing them off with a knife; he was found in the bloody snow with his ribs crushed. “We don’t have bears intentionally hunting down people,” Hammond concluded. Hammond is more scientist than hunter, and after showing multiple photos of bear poop, he joked that his title should actually be state “bear scatologist.” But in his line of work, and for hunters, poo is important. Droppings let hunters know not only that a bear has been in the area but what it’s been eating, potentially leading them to the food source — and to some meat of their own. Cutesy Adirondack wood carvings are accurate: Black bears love berries. Beechnuts, apples and corn are also among their favorite treats in season. In the second presentation, hunter and Colchester police sergeant James Roy said he’s planted clover — bear chocolate — all over his Northeast Kingdom camp to attract the critters. Proximity to other food sources can dictate the location of a good hunt. For hunters, cornfields present an ideal situation, Roy said. Bears are crazy for the milky corn still available as the hunting season starts on September 1, and farmers want to save their crops. Roy showed slides of the damage bears can do to cornfields — overhead shots recalling crop circles — and suggested hunters offer their services to corn or apple farmers. Roy has plenty of his own experience. In a secret Northeast Kingdom location, he said, “within seven years, we’ve URSINE CUISINE

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killed seven bears in a 150-yard circle. As Roy finished his presentation, Excellent cover, excellent terrain.” smells of caramelizing fat wafted And excellent technology. Roy into the garage. Pellegrini’s crew had tracks his targets for weeks before bear prepared a feast for lunch. And it was season begins, using trail cameras to meaty, indeed. The only offerings watch bear behavior from resembling vegetables home. He showed a video were potato chips, relish of a baby bear holding and ketchup. itself up on two legs, and But nutrition wasn’t the classroom erupted the point. Though six as if it were watching ounces of bear meat “American’s Funniest has only 276 calories Home Videos.” (compared to 318 in the There are no laws same quantity of London against targeting the little broil), hunters prize it ones, but most hunters mainly for its flavor. said they’d be ethically “I think there’s a lot opposed to shooting a of misconceptions about very young bear or firing bear meat. You hear the into a den. Accordingly, same thing: ‘Oh, it’s really Roy helped educate the greasy,’” Pellegrini later class on what a bear looks told me. “If you trim the like at different stages of fat off, you don’t have to life. A head like a German deal with the tallow or shepherd and gangly greasy taste. We cooked legs? Keep moving. Ears some steaks over an open like Oreos and no visible fire the other day. It was legs beneath a hefty body? delicious.” Dinner. I became a fan of Roy said a skinned bear bear meat at local game JA m ES R oY doesn’t look too different suppers. When braised, from human corpses he’s the ultra-creamy flesh seen in the autopsy room in his cop job, melts like wagyu brisket. The barbecue but that doesn’t stop him from enjoying menu included bear burgers and sweet the well-marbled meat. “I’m a meat and hot Italian sausages prepared by eater. I love bear meat,” he said. “You Pellegrini’s favorite butcher in Orange. take care of them the right way — get Unless someone starts farming black ’em in the freezer and cook ’em the right bear, don’t plan on having a rare steak. way — and it’s some of the tastiest meat Because of the likelihood of parasites, you’ll ever have in your life.” the meat must be cooked through. But

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haddock with smoked onion and tomato ragù; a flat-iron steak frites; and buttermilkfried chicken with blistered beans. Creamed corn-on-thecob — a creation of Merrill’s — is sweet corn slathered with a spice-and-cilantrospiked mayo. Snacks include FabLE FarM squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta and doughnuts cooked in lard. As at Worthy Burger, customers order their food and drinks from the counter, which has six more taps than its sister restaurant. “While there will be some overlap,” Merrill says, the two restaurants’ taps will never have the exact same offerings. This is probably the first time Woodstock has seen beers from ZEro gravIty craFt brEwEry, FoLEy brotHErs, Lost natIon, Allagash, traPP LagEr and Founders in the same place. Worthy Kitchen (442 Woodstock Road, 457-7281) opens seven nights a week for drinks at 3 p.m. and serves dinner from 4 to 10 p.m. — c. H.

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Pal has his own plans. He has a butcher on call to deal with the bear’s musculature, but said his wife is especially fond of cooking the offal. The couple already imagines pairing the bear’s liver — which Pal has never tasted — with vegetables they’re preserving from their harvest, perhaps a side of Hungarian-style creamed zucchini with dill. Rodney Elmer hopes such tasty prospects will encourage Vermonters to eat more wild game. “It is the greenest meat there is,” he said of eating to reduce the bear population. “Small people can make big changes.” Locavore chefs, take note. m

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stuff it. Hanging it for aging purposes is ideal for tender meat, but the skin could degrade in that time, making taxidermy impossible. Rodney Elmer pointed out the meat along the muscular cheeks of the bear’s ever-growing skull as his favorite. “I just don’t like picking hair out of my food — that’s my thing,” Theresa Elmer joked. “Any meat — especially slice it thin, slice it cross-grain, and put it in a pan with butter and onions and beer with a little Montréal seasoning — is beautiful,” added her husband. Every hunter seems to have a recipe to share, and Hammond has compiled a list that he handed out to attendees.

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good marbling ensures that even when the meat is charred on the outside, the inside is far from dry. The flavor is startlingly similar to that of beef. After lunch, the hunters gathered around an outdoor table as the Elmers set to skinning their young female nuisance bear. First, they extracted the first premolar tooth from her upper jaw. For data-gathering purposes, Fish & Wildlife will soon require that all successful bear hunters send in these teeth. Using a relatively dull knife, Rodney Elmer was done in seconds. As the couple removed the bear’s skin, they recommended quickly freezing an animal if the hunter plans both to eat and

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ou haven’t been to the Lunchbox? You have to go!” I heard many variations on this refrain in June while reporting a story in Newport in June. Apparently, this colorful food truck that serves delicious (and free) tacos to kids throughout the summer was a must-try for adults, too. Our paths did not cross that June day, but last week I resolved to track down the Lunchbox before summer ended. I raced from Burlington to North Troy for the truck’s weekly Wednesday session on Railroad Street. All I found was a dusty, sunbaked lot. “I saw it earlier today,” said a woman outside the post office. “Perhaps it left already?” Turns out, the phantom Lunchbox was not running on the first day of school. Yet all through the summer, the truck — and Meghan Stotko, the woman who cooks and delivers its food — served thousands of fresh-off-the-farm tacos, from Newport’s Main Street to the Grace United Methodist Church in Canaan to the Orleans County Fair. The Lunchbox is the brainchild of Green Mountain Farm-to-School, an umbrella organization in the Northeast Kingdom that aims to connect kids to fresh, local food in imaginative ways. If scarcity is the mother of invention, then the challenges of poverty and

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a short growing season have blessed the Kingdom with one of the most innovative farm-to-school programs in the state. Its food truck not only serves lunches but vends local carrots, greens, tomatoes, eggs and other staples as a mobile market, plus holds an occasional workshop such as “Breaking Down a Whole Chicken.” Such folksy earthiness might seem to go hand in hand with the agrarian landscape of the Kingdom, but despite its agricultural wealth, the NEK can be a tundra when it comes to healthy eating. Two years ago, when the USDA mapped the country for food deserts — that is, places where residents have limited access to fresh food — two Vermont locales landed on the list: Winooski, and an entire swath of the Kingdom. Here the poverty level (18 percent) is twice the state average, nearly a third of children are considered obese and more than 50 percent of all kids qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. These are a few of the reasons why Katherine Sims founded GMFTS five years ago, and why she was beaming last week as she walked around a garden in front of the Lowell Graded School. In this verdant plot along Route 100, corncobs poked from spindly stalks, the wispy green heads of carrots spread along the ground and sunflowers swayed in the

wind. Nearby, a pumpkin patch was full of tiny orange orbs. Rather than the work of a master gardener, this plot is planted and tended by the school’s students as part of their own farm-to-school program. “It still amazes me. They planted the seeds, they tended them and they’ll harvest all of this,” Sims said as she plucked a few golden cherry tomatoes from the plants. This garden is one of 28 scattered around the Kingdom. “It’s so powerful,” she added. Sims, 31, first came to the Kingdom during a semester she took off from college to work as an intern with Jack and Anne Lazor at Butterworks Farm in Westfield. “I fell in love,” said Sims, with both the lifestyle and the landscape. Back at Yale University, she was majoring in art history and sustainable architecture, but the pull of food production was strong — she helped found a sustainable farm at the school. Sims also worked at Berry Creek Farm and Lazy Lady Farm that same semester, and ended up settling in the NEK. “I wanted to learn more about food,” said Sims. “Like everyone, I was surprised this was considered a food desert.” Anyone who has spent time in the Northeast Kingdom knows its hills are dotted with small farms. Yet nary a school garden was to be found, at least until the Jay/Westfield Joint Elementary School in

Jay built a small one in 2005 to educate students about agriculture and nutrition. The next year, one garden grew to five — including the one in Lowell. In 2008, what was considered a pilot program morphed into GMFTS, created via grants and donations to support school gardens, nutrition education and field trips to acquaint students with farms. Farm-to-school programs weren’t exactly new in the state; they’d been around at least since the late ’90s, points out the Vermont director of the National Farm to School Network, Anne Bijur. “Vermont is seen as one of the leaders in the farm-to-school movement,” she notes, adding that her network’s leadership hopes to have some form of farm-toschool program at every Vermont school by 2020. Yet GMFTS differs from a district-wide program in both structure and scope. It now has a board and an all-female staff of 11, some of them AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers for school outreach. An afterschool program called Sprouts teaches students to grow and cook their own food; “Grow a Row” encourages local gardeners to grow an extra row of fruit or veggies for their local school; and, of course, the Lunchbox doles out free tacos to hungry kids. continued after the classifieds

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As she stood under the sunflowers in the Lowell garden, Sims seemed most animated about GMFTS’ new Harvest of the Month program, which spotlights a different vegetable, grain or fruit every month — tomatoes in September, for instance. Its recipes, posters and flyers aim to encourage both cooks and students to get cozy with the seasonal vegetable of the moment. (“There are over 1000 varieties of tomatoes,” reads the colorful tomato flyer, which lists a few varieties including Copia beefsteak and Amish Paste.) “Schools are hungry for this type of information,” Sims unintentionally punned. She’d like to see

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they’re changing their lives and making decisions,” he noted. Twice a week, Locarno tries to bring local produce into the classroom to let students taste veggies — raw one day, cooked the next. “They need to be seeing fresh Swiss chard,” he said, “so they’re able to go to the farmers market or to the grocery store and know what chard tastes like.” This year, Sims said, Farm Direct has connected 70 institutions, including nursing homes and prisons, with $230,000 worth of food from local farms. The reach of GMFTS has grown so broad that it’s hit a plateau in terms of being able to add new schools. Hence programs such as Harvest of the Month, where information serves in lieu of food deliveries and volunteer visits. Looking forward, Sims said she hopes to secure funding to expand the Lunchbox’s reach to more communities, as well as to build more classes into its schedule. And Vermonters outside the Kingdom may eventually get a taste of her policy approach. Last year, Sims ran against incumbent Mark Higley to be a state representative from OrleansLamoille. “I lost by 36 votes,” she said with a spark in her eye. Will she run again? “Maybe,” Sims said coyly. One thing I know for sure: Lunchbox tacos are in my future. I’ll just have to wait a few more seasons, until next summer when it rolls again. m

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Harvest of the Month grow to encompass the entire state. Though the Lowell garden was full of tomatoes, kale and corn, school gardens can’t possibly supply every meal at the schools, Sims noted. But growing and picking the food themselves gives students a huge motivator to eat it. “If they [the lunch-room personnel] mention it’s from the garden, they all want to try it,” Sims said with a laugh — whether the food in question be blueberries or collard greens. To fill in the food gaps, four years ago GMFTS began coordinating the sale of produce from local farms to schools via Farm Direct, picking up produce and delivering it to cafeterias. Jana Lovejoy, who raises cows, pigs and chickens on Newport’s Apple Ledge Farm, started selling some of her eggs via Farm Direct this spring. Lovejoy, who moved from Colorado to the Kingdom with her family, said she’s excited to raise awareness of local food in a place where she still sees so much need. “We’re always very surprised that in the Northeast Kingdom, being an agricultural place, kids don’t know where carrots come from. It’s a huge shocker,” Lovejoy said. “And not even just the children. The community around us sometimes seems to be confused as to what good food means.” At the Lyndon Institute in Lyndon Center, 38 raised beds and a greenhouse provide the students with hundreds of

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R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. YOGA FOR HUNGER: An outdoor class introduces beginners to basic poses and breathing exercises. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps' Health Care Share vegetable program. West Monitor Barn, Richmond, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10; additional donations appreciated. Info, 734-8490.

JUSTIN MORRILL HOMESTEAD TOUR: Expansive grounds feature a Gothic Revival historic house, formal gardens, interpretive exhibits and walking trails. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Info, 765-4484. TECH HELP: Folks get user-friendly tips for their computers and mobile devices. Bradford Public Library, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: Giddy up! Visitors tour the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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KILLINGTON HAY FESTIVAL: Giant hay sculptures dot the landscape at this five-week harvest celebration marked with family-friendly activities, a scavenger hunt, Killington Restaurant week, the Spartan Beast Race and more. Various locations, Killington, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 422-2105.

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CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. COLCHESTER FARMERS MARKET: Locavores convene for an array of fresh produce, prepared foods, artisan wares, health and wellness products, and live entertainment. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in foodies' totes. North side parking lot. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-6012. SOUTH END FARMERS MARKET: Food producers offer one-stop shopping with seasonal produce, grass-fed meats, freshly baked bread and tasty fare. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 345-7847. WILLISTON FARMERS MARKET: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at an open-air affair. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790, info@willistonfarmersmarket.com.

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BURLINGTON GO CLUB: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9

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BABYTIME PLAYGROUP: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. FALL STORY TIME: Kiddos convene for readaloud tales and wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS STUDIO OPEN HOUSE: Youngsters and their parents tour the faculty, watch performances and learn about current classes. Green Mountain Performing Arts, Waterbury, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8600. 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. RICHFORD PAJAMA STORY TIME: Little ones up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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'THE BIG SING: A COMMUNITY EVENING OF SONG AND HARMONY': Acclaimed singer, musician and voice teacher Chris James leads this unique vocal experience. No experience needed. Holley Hall, Bristol, 7-8:30 p.m. $20. Info, 453-4260. WED.04

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Growing up in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Emmy Awardwinning actor Gordon Clapp idolized Robert Frost. Widely regarded as the great American poet, the bucolic bard won four Pulitzer Prizes for works reflective of his New England sensibility. Under the direction of Gus Kaikkonen, Clapp channels the iconic writer in a Lost Nation Theater production of A.M. Dolan’s one-man play, Robert Frost: This Verse Business. With wit, humor and authenticity, the drama explores the public and private lives of the critically acclaimed artist who brought the struggles, beauty and colloquialisms of rural life to the page.

‘ROBERT FROST: THIS VERSE BUSINESS’ Friday, September 6, 8 p.m.; Saturday, September 7, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, September 8, 7 p.m.; see website for future dates; at Montpelier City Hall Auditorium. $10-60. Info, 229-0492. lostnationtheater.org

Stories Through Song The daughter of missionaries, South Dakota native Rachel Ries spent time in Zaire as a child. There, she was regularly exposed to Congolese spirituals, Mennonite hymns and her mother’s nightly serenades. Classical voice and instrumental training further developed the singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist’s musical chops. This versatility informed her 2007 sophomore album, Without a Bird, and put her on the map as a masterful lyricist. In 2012, Ries retreated to rural Tennessee, where she penned the introspective EP Laurel Lake and honed her signature mix of folk and altcountry. A magnetic performer, she brings an intimacy and accessibility to the stage.

‘OUTERBRIDGE: CLOCKWORK MYSTERIES’ Saturday, September 7, 7:30 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. $32-38. Info, 760-4634. sprucepeakarts.org

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Monarch Butterfly tagging: Nature lovers don nets to catch, tag and release the migrating winged wonders. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.

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'course of Miracles' inforMational Workshop: Through readings and discussions, folks learn the basic components of the course and how it can impact their lives. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. financial literacy Workshop: Business consultant Sarah Kearns presents "Making Sense of Your Dollars and Cents: A Guide to Basic Business Money Matters." TD Bank, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 343-3233.

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r.a. harold: The local author discusses her historical novel Heron Island, set on a Lake Champlain island, featuring notable characters of the Gilded Age. Milton Historical Society, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598.

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king arthur flour Baking education conference: Foodies improve their kitchen skills with two days of hands-on classes and seminars from King Arthur Flour experts and guest instructors — including former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier. King Arthur Flour Bakery & Café, School and Store, Norwich, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $325; preregister. Info, 800-652-3334. Milton farMers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton High School, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009. neW north end farMers Market: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@ hotmail.com. storing the harvest With a food dehydrator: Master gardener Peter Burke demonstrates recipes for soup mixes, herb teas, fruit leather and more. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 2238000, ext. 202. WaterBury farMers Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com. WilloughBy lake farMers & artisan Market: Performances by local musicians join veggies, eggs, gemstone jewelry, wind chimes and more to lure buyers throughout the warm months. 1975 Route 5A, Westmore, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 525-8842.

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open Bridge gaMe: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use in this popular card game. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

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adult yoga class: YogaFit instructor Jessica Frost leads a session of traditional fitness moves, stretching and breathing exercises. Gymnasium, Highgate Elementary School, 7 p.m. $7; preregister. Info, 868-3970, highgatepublic@comcast.net. forza: the saMurai sWord Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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fall farMyard fun: Families listen to themed stories, then interact with barn animals featured in the tales. Shelburne Farms, 10:15-11 a.m. Free with $5-8 general admission; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. 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 derek: 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. Music With Mr. chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. 'teen Jazz' audition: Intermediate-to-advanced dancers in grades 9 through 12 vie for spots in the intensive program led by Hanna Satterlee. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, registration, 4:30 p.m.; audition, 5-7 p.m. $18. Info, 229-4676.

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Motion & EMotion ConCErt SEriES: 'MuSiC of LovE and LoSS': Clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt, pianist Ellen Hwangbo and horn player Ann Ellsworth interpret works by Brahms, Schubert and others. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., pre-performance talk, 6:15 p.m.; concert: 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2469. MuSiC in thE Loft ConCErt SEriES: Miriam Bernardo and Seth Eames deliver spirited mountain blues. Partial proceeds benefit Partners in Adventure. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; wine, beer and wood-fired pizza available. Info, 985-8222. riCk & thE raMbLErS: The local western-swing band gives an outdoor concert as part of the Stowe Thursday Night Concert Series. City Hall Block Stage, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1648 or 864-6674. SuMMit SChooL fEaturing grEgory dougLaSS: The acclaimed vocalist joins a performance of traditional music to close out the Montpelier Alive Brown Bag Concert Series. Christ Church, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 595-0441. twiddLE: Moving effortlessly between a wide variety of genres, the Vermont-based jam band gets concertgoers to their feet. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free to JSC students with valid ID; $10 for limited general admission tickets. Info, 635-1308.

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'grEat dECiSionS' diSCuSSion: An excerpt from the annual foreign-policy publication inspires a conversation about U.S.-Iranian relations moderated by Thandi Bergfalk, Roger Bourassa and Patrick Buffet. South Burlington Community Library, 6:308:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 652-7076.

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Laugh LoCaL CoMEdy oPEn MiC night: Jokesters take advantage of a lighthearted atmosphere and perform brief material before a live audience. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, 8-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 793-3884. PoP-uP CoMEdy CLub: A mix of improv and polished routines elicits big laughs during Art Hop festivities. Jazzercise Studio, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 373-4703.

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baLLrooM & Latin danCing: Samir Elabd leads an evening of choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. CattLE baron'S baLL: Folks don cowboy hats and kick up their heels to tunes by the Starline Rhythm Boys at this benefit for the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge featuring a pig roast and more. The Barn at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, 6-10 p.m. $90; $175 per couple. Info, 872-6316. frEEdoM friday danCE JaM: This alternative to the club scene involves a conscious movement practice led by curiosity, creativity and inspired music. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8-10:30 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713. 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, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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'QuartEt': Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut stars Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly as residents of a home for retired musicians, whose annual concert gets disrupted by a face from the past. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 8 p.m. $6-8. Info, 875-1018.

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bakErS harvESt taSting SuPPEr: Tiny Top Hats provide live music at this feast of local food and drink prepared by area chefs. Proceeds benefit Hunger Free Vermont. King Arthur Flour Bakery & Café, School and Store, Norwich, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $60; preregister; cash bar. Info, 865-0255.

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Bellows Falls Farmers Market: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and ever-changing weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. Blue Star Mothers Nacho Night: Diners fill up on plates of tortilla chips loaded with melted cheese and all the fixings. Live music by the Workin' Man Band follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 878-0700. Chelsea Farmers Market: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com. Fair Haven Farmers Market: Grass-fed meats, homemade canned goods, breads, eggs and cheese delight culinary connoisseurs. Town Green, Fair Haven, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 747-4442. Five Corners Farmers Market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail. com. Foodways Fridays: Heirloom herbs and vegetables transform into seasonal dishes via historic recipes prepared by visitors in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. Hardwick Farmers Market: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with garden-fresh fare and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com. King Arthur Flour Baking Education Conference: See THU.05, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Westford Farmers Market: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-7317, info@westfordfarmersmarketvt.org.

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Aikido Demonstration: A discussion of the Japanese martial art's philosophy informs a presentation of weapons defense and throwing and pinning techniques. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 7-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900. 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. Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: See THU.05, 9-10 a.m.

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Drop-In Story Time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Early Bird Math: Little ones and their caregivers explore mathematic concepts with books, songs, games and activities. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Youngsters show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 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. Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Spanish Musical Kids: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with native Argentinian Constancia Gómez. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Teen Advisory Board: Teens gather to plan library programs. Yes, there will be snacks. Brownell

Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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Banjo Dan's Bluegrass Revue: An evening of stellar picking and singing brings the talents of the Sky Blue Boys and Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing to the stage. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $18. Info, 748-2600. Hopapalooza Concert & Beer Garden: Local bands such as Serotheft, Funkwagon, Blowtorch and others enliven the South End Art Hop at an outdoor show featuring Magic Hat brews. Maltex Building, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free to attend; $10 suggested donation. Info, 865-1140. Motion & Emotion Concert Series: 'New Music & Dance': An exploration of artistic expression blends choreographed movement by Lacina Coulibaly with musical works by Perry Goldstein, Elliott Carter and others. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., pre-performance talk, 6:15 p.m.; concert: 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2469. Open Studio: Folk Music Lessons: John Mowad and Sarah Hotchkiss offer music lovers of all ages the chance to demo the fiddle, banjo, guitar, ukulele or mandolin at their private teaching studio. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Woodbury Strings Studio, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8945, woodburystrings@gmail.com. Rachel Ries: The singer-songwriter who dubs her music "prairie-swing and city-folk" gives an intimate show. Laura Cortese opens. See calendar spotlight. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 8 p.m. $12-17. Info, 322-1685. The Hip Replacements: Listeners lend their ears to raucous folk tunes from the five friends and accomplished multi-instrumentalists. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; wine and food available. Info, 388-7368. Tommy Bergeron: The eighth grader performs a program for the piano ranging from works by Chopin to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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Archaeological Dig Tour: The Northeast Archaeology Research Center presents two sites reflective of the Missisquoi Delta Region's rich cultural and natural heritage. Contact trip leader for meeting location. Missisquoi River, Swanton, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 207-860-4032, nearc@ nearchaeology.com. Fall Migration Bird Walks: Avian enthusiasts explore hot spots for songbird species including warblers, vireos, tanagers, thrushes and others. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. $10; free for members and kids; preregister. Info, 229-6206. Warren Falls Archaeological Site Open House Tour: Access to a dig site gives history buffs firsthand exposure to Vermont's past. Meet at Route 100 halfway between Stetson Hollow and Lincoln Gap. Warren Falls, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 747-6719.

seminars

Introduction to Biodiesel: Designed for those seriously interested in biodiesel fuel, this two-day course provides an in-depth introduction to engine systems, technology and more. Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 728-1680.

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'ART': In conjunction with SculptureFest, BarnArts Center for the Arts stages Yasmina Reza's awardwinning comedy about the purchase of a painting that threatens a friendship between three men. King Barn Farm, Woodstock, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 332-6020. 'Not What Happened': Accompanied by Forrest Holzapfel's photographs of 19th-century artifacts and rural landscapes, Obie Award-winner Ain Gordon premieres a work about a historical tour guide and the woman she represents. See calendar

spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966. 'Parasite Drag': See WED.04, 7:30 p.m. 'Robert Frost: This Verse Business': Emmy Award-winning actor Gordon Clapp plays the iconic American poet in this touching examination of the bard's public and private lives. See calendar spotlight. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $1030; $60 opening night gala tickets. Info, 229-0492.

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One Love Vermont: A morning of yoga, meditation and Kirtan chanting supports the Off the Mat, Into the World Seva Challenge for the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. See onelovevermont.org for schedule and teacher updates. Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 302-229-0902.

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South End Art Hop: See FRI.06, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

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Norwich Antiques Show: Regional dealers offer a wide variety of attic treasures and collectibles. Live music, tasty fare and personal appraisals round out the event. Proceeds benefit historical society restoration. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5; free for kids 12 and under; $5 per appraised item. Info, 649-0124.

comedy

Pop-Up Comedy Club: See FRI.06, 7-10 p.m.

community

Plainfield Fire & Rescue 100th Anniversary Celebration: Coinciding with Plainfield's Old Home Day, locals commemorate a century of public service with a parade, live music, carnival games, a chicken barbecue, fireworks and much more. Various locations, Plainfield, 10 a.m. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, plainfieldfire@gmail. com. Walk to End Alzheimer's: Folks take important steps to raise funds and increase awareness about the disease. Main Street Park, Rutland, registration, 9 a.m.; walk, 10 a.m. Donations. Info, 316-3839.

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Traditional Craft Saturdays: Visitors step back in time and learn about the process and purpose of historic handiwork from experienced crafters. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for children under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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Art is Food is Art is Food is Art is Food is Art: Foodies and art lovers chow down on Big Easy eats including po'boys and red beans and rice during an evening of screen printing and poetry. Meet in Maglianero parking lot. 216 Battery Street, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $3. Info, tara2323@gmail. com. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont Healthy Spirit Open House: Folks tour the center and get the latest updates on changes in Vermont's health care system. Biometric screenings and a "Lunch and Learn" with film director Jay Craven follow. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont Information and Wellness Center, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister for 'Lunch and Learn'; limited space. Info, 764-2848. Connecting the Drops Rain Barrel Auction: Live music entertains eco-minded folks, who sample hors d'oeuvres and bid on eye-catching barrels from the outdoor exhibit. Proceeds benefit the Let it Rain Stormwater Program. ArtsRiot Gallery, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 656-2514. Healthy Ewe Grand Opening Celebration: Community members relax with chair massages and nosh on food samples at this health-conscious gathering featuring face painting, door prizes and

more. Healthy Ewe, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-3647. Historic Tour of UVM: Professor emeritus William Averyt leads a walk through campus, referencing architectural gems and notable personalities along the way. Meet at Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at uvm.edu. Info, 578-8830. Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: See WED.04, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Pine Street Walking Tour: Preservation Burlington highlights the history and architecture of Burlington's former industrial neighborhood on an educational stroll during the Art Hop. SEABA Center, Burlington, 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. Free. Info, 522-8259. Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls Tour: See FRI.06, 8 p.m. Seven Days' STRUT! Fashion Show: Clad in trendy threads from 20 local clothing designers, models hit the runway to fashion-forward beats by DJ Robbie J. Maltex Building, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $12. Info, 859-9222. Soldiers Atop the Mount: Historical reenactments transport visitors back to the late 1700s, where they witness everyday military and civilian life during the Revolutionary War. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 9:30 a.m.5 p.m. $6; free for kids under 15. Info, 948-2000. Sports card Show: Sports fans mingle with dealers from Vermont, New Hampshire and New York and bid on modern and vintage cards at live and silent auctions. University Mall, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 238-3879. Vermont Genealogy Library Open House: Family tree enthusiasts peruse the library's vast collection of books, microfilm and periodicals, and learn to navigate online ancestry databases. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 310-9285.

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Bakers Harvest Festival: Interactive, hands-on educational activities teach attendees tricks of trade, while the live baking competition, BakeRace: Apple Challenge delights their palates. King Arthur Flour Bakery & Café, School and Store, Norwich, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 299-2240. Killington Hay Festival: See WED.04, 8 a.m. Woodstock Art & Wine Festival: More than 40 juried artists display handmade wares at this two-day fête featuring live music and tastings from Vermont wineries. Woodstock Village Green, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555.

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Sunset & A Movie: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin star in the comedy Admission, about a college admissions officer whose life gets turned upside down upon meeting a teenage prodigy. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. North Lawn, Burlington College, 8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 923-2314.

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Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. Burlington Food Tour: Locavores take a bite out of the Queen City's finest cuisine with a scrumptious stroll that includes samples from the Burlington Farmers Market and a dish from an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 277-0180. Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.04. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the SAT.07

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Fall FarMYard Fun: butter Making: How does heavy cream transform into a tasty toast topper? Little ones learn the process of creating this kitchen staple. Shelburne Farms, 11:30 a.m. Free with $5-8 general admission; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. kid's hop at the south end art hop: Davis Studio instructors at five family-friendly venues provide hands-on creative activities, music and more for children ages 3 through 12. Various locations, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 859-9222. kids aikido deMonstration: Current students present the dynamic and graceful Japanese martial art based on peaceful conflict resolution. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 1-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900. Meet pete the Cat: Little ones get acquainted with the loveable character from James Dean and Eric Litwi's popular children's book series, Pete the Cat. Themed activities and story times round out the fun. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. saturdaY storY tiMe: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. 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. storY walk: Bookworms read a children's book while strolling along the Lone Tree Hill Trail. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $5-8; free for kids under 3, members and Shelburne residents. Info, 985-8686.

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introduCtion to biodiesel: See FRI.06, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. vCaM aCCess orientation: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

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distress the dress 5k: Guys and gals don thrift store gems and prom relics for a muddy obstacle course and party at the finish line. Partial proceeds benefit Children’s HopeChest. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8 a.m. $90. Info, 619-819-5122. kellY brush CenturY ride: Handcyclists and bikers spin their wheels on scenic 25-, 50- or 100-mile loops to raise funds for the Kelly Brush Foundation. A post-race raffle and barbecue follow. Middlebury College, registration, 7-9 a.m.; rolling start, 7:30-9:30 a.m. $150; free for handcyclists. Info, 497-4909. upper valleY roller derbY: The hard-hitting Upper Valley Vixens take on New Hampshire's Elm City Derby Damez in a fast-paced showdown featuring games, prizes and an after party. Union Arena, SAT.07

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Centuries," featuring five pieces dating from the 1500s to the 1900s. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966 or 999-8881. CaMbridge MusiC Festival: A 12-hour barn party showcases New England musicians including Josh Panda & the Hot Damned, Funkwagon, Wolfman Conspiracy and many others, who give hourly concerts to benefit Cambridge 360. The Porter Farm, Cambridge, noon-midnight. $5-20; free for kids 6 and under. Info, 730-2383. eliza Moore: The Montréal-based folk-pop violinist celebrates the forthcoming release of her EP Everything to Me. Old Meeting House, Montpelier, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 212-777-6727, ext. 204. gillian grassie: The award-winning harpist/ singer-songwriter delivers a lyrically driven blend of jazz-inflected folk-pop. Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071. Motion & eMotion ConCert series: 'art begets art: the Cross-pollination oF genres': Pianist Susan Farrin and horn player Ann Ellsworth provide live tunes for a performance featuring dancer/choreographer Lacina Coulibaly and sculptor Marie Ellsworth. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2469. ripton CoMMunitY CoFFeehouse: Local performers warm up the microphone for Americana singer-songwriter Louise Mosrie. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-10; call ahead to register for open mic. Info, 388-9782. verMont virtuosi: In "Full Circle," flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, clarinetist Karen Luttik and pianist Claire Black perform selected works by David Gunn, Gwyneth Walker, Michael Webster and others. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free to attend; suggested $5-10 donation accepted. Info, 881-9153.

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talks

Dan KittreDge: Bionutrient Food Association’s executive director introduces ways to grow nutrient-dense food with improved yield potential and other desirable qualities. Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6020. HeartH Moon rising: The author of Invoking Animal Magic discusses nonhuman species' ability to facilitate positive change in "Healing With Animal Spirits." North Country Food Co-op, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-5904. robert CoMpton & CHarlie paquin: As part of Vermont Archaeology Month, the local potter joins the experimental archaeologist in "People and Pottery: An Ancient and Intimate Relationship." Vermont History Center, Barre, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3050.

theater

'art': See FRI.06, 7 p.m. 'not WHat HappeneD': See FRI.06, 8 p.m. 'outerbriDge: CloCKWorK Mysteries': With choreography, lighting and technology, the Montréal-based husband-and-wife illusionists dazzle audience members with mind-bending feats. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $3238. Info, 760-4634. 'parasite Drag': See WED.04, 7:30 p.m. 'robert Frost: tHis Verse business': See FRI.06, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

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robert J. resniK: The longtime Queen City resident signs and discusses his pictorial history book Legendary Locals of Burlington. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. 'tHe MotH Mainstage': Local and national storytellers captivate audience members with true tales delivered live from memory. Proceeds benefit Vermont Public Television. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $46.50-86.50. Info, 863-5966. tHe poetry experienCe: Creative prompts inspire wordsmiths to put pen to paper, after which they share stanzas in a supportive environment. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5546.

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soutH enD art Hop: See FRI.06, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

community

baKersFielD HoMelanD Day: A parade down Main Street kicks off this daylong celebration featuring a chicken barbecue, live tunes by the Missisquoi River Bluegrass Band, the annual cow plop contest and more. Various locations, Bakersfield, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 827-6145. Huntington 250tH anniVersary Celebration: A town photo sets the tone for this family-friendly fête featuring the annual chicken barbecue, an ice cream social, live music and a contra dance. Various locations, Huntington, 10:30 a.m. $6-10 for barbecue; $5-12 for contra dance. Info, 434-2032. step into aCtion: 5K reCoVery WalK: Participants hit the pavement to celebrate National Recovery Month and raise funds for Burlington's Turning Point Center. A picnic, music and raffle follow. Pavilion, Oakledge Park, Burlington, registration, 10 a.m.; walk and festivities, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $25; free for spectators. Info, 451-9543, turningpointcenter.org. suMMer sizzle party: A day of music, art, tasty fare, lawn games and more benefits the nonprofit Haiti Circle of Friends. St. John's Club, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, 825-8155.

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Justin Morrill HoMesteaD tour: See WED.04, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. sHelburne MuseuM goes to tHe Dogs!: Break out the boom box! This crazy canine party channels the 1980s with live music, fluorescent fashion, a parade, agility demonstrations by DockDogs and more. Shelburne Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 985-3346, ext. 3331. solDiers atop tHe Mount: See SAT.07, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. sports CarD sHoW: See SAT.07, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Killington Hay FestiVal: See WED.04, 8 a.m. WooDstoCK art & Wine FestiVal: See SAT.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

film

global roots FilM series: Kivu Ruhorahoza's Grey Matter explores three different, yet interconnected scenarios about individuals dealing with the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. North End Studios, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 310-6423.

food & drink

CoMMunity breaKFast: The Ladies Auxiliary hosts a hearty start to the day for members and nonmembers alike. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-6. Info, 878-0700. preserVing tHe HarVest: DeHyDrating Class: See THU.05. City Market, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. soutH burlington FarMers MarKet: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. Kids ages 5 through 12 join the fun with the "Power of Produce" Club. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sbfm.manager@gmail.com. stoWe FarMers MarKet: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com. WinoosKi FarMers MarKet: Area growers and bakers offer live music, ethnic eats and a large variety of produce and agricultural products on the green. Good eaters ages 5 through 12 celebrate veggies with the "Power of Produce" Club. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 413-446-4684, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

health & fitness

sunDay yoga: Chelsea Varin teaches various styles, including Vinyasa and Hatha. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free. Info, 518-314-9872.

kids

basKetball sKills CliniC: Drive to the hoop! Members of the St. Michael's College women's basketball program help girls in grades 6 through 12 improve their game. St. Michael's College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $25; preregister. Info, 654-2503. russian play tiMe WitH natasHa: Rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show help little ones up to age 8 learn new words. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. story WalK: See SAT.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. sunDays For FleDglings: A combination of environmental science and outdoor play helps junior birders ages 5 through 12 develop research and observation skills. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with admission, $3-6; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

language

FrenCH ConVersation group: DiManCHes: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431. SUN.08

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HigH Heel Race: In a flash of speed and style, stiletto-wearing sprinters pound the pavement in this hilarious bout of friendly competition. Proceeds benefit Pride Vermont. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 865-9677, highheelrace@pridevermont.com.

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HaywiRe: Bluegrass standards, covers and original tunes from the local band make for an evening of dancing and revelry. Old Town Hall, Brookfield, 8 p.m. Free to attend; donations benefit Old Town Hall restoration; BYOB. Info, 276-3535. NoRtHeast FiddleRs associatioN MeetiNg: Lovers of this spirited art form gather to catch up and jam. American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, noon-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 728-5188. tHe QueeN extRavagaNza: Created by two of the legendary rock band's members, this touring concert show entertains generations of fans with more than 20 classic hits, including "Bohemian Rhapsody." Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-45. Info, 603-448-0400. veRMoNt viRtuosi: See SAT.07. Bethany Church, 9/2/13 2:27 PMMontpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free to attend; suggested $510 donation accepted. Info, 881-9153.

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aRcHaeological dig touR: See FRI.06, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. suNday MoRNiNg Bike Rides: Cyclists pedal a casual 25- to 30-mile road ride that begins at Eastern Mountain Sports and heads south toward Charlotte and Hinesburg. Eastern Mountain Sports, South Burlington, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0473, e0008st@ems.com.

sport

woMeN's PickuP socceR: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Rain location: Miller Community and Recreation Center. Starr Farm Athletic Field, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

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veRMoNteRs FoR a Just Peace iN PalestiNe/ isRael MeetiNg: Like-minded locals discuss education, advocacy and action strategies to help victims of the cross-country conflict. Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 8632345, ext. 2 .

comedy

gad elMaleH: The 2006 recipient of "The Funniest Person in France" honors brings his comedic gifts to the stage. Majority of performance will be in French. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $40.75 . Info, 863-5966.

community

BRadFoRd 250tH PlaNNiNg coMMittee MeetiNg: Locals share ideas and opinions about the town's sestercentennial celebration. Bradford Academy, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4423.

dance

adaPtive iNteRNatioNal Folk daNciNg: Creative movers of all ages, abilities and mobility learn international routines. Walkers and wheelchairs are accommodated. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $5; free for assistants. Info, 863-6713.

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iNtRoduciNg tHe koHa liBRaRy catalog: Bookworms learn about the library's new opensource catalog, which includes collaborating with 50 other Vermont libraries for greater resource sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

fairs & festivals

killiNgtoN Hay Festival: See WED.04, 8 a.m.

health & fitness

avoid Falls witH iMPRoved staBility: See FRI.06, 10 a.m. FoRza: tHe saMuRai swoRd woRkout: See THU.05, 6-7 p.m. HeRBal coNsultatioNs: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@vtherbcenter.org. Info, 861-9757. R.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.04, 7-8 p.m.

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. dot week: Kiddos tap into their imaginations with themed craft activities inspired by Peter Reynolds' award-winning international best seller, The Dot. Children's Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Free. Music witH PeteR: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:45 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. stoRy walk: See SAT.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Ru12? oPeN House: Locals nosh on fare from Catering by Dale and mingle with staff, board members, interns and volunteers, who show off their new community space. RU12? Community Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregistration encouraged. Info, 860-7812.

music

Mad RiveR cHoRale oPeN ReHeaRsal: Singers of all abilities and experience levels are welcomed to this community chorus led by Piero Bonamico. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2048 or 496-4781. 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.

seminars

Basic coMPuteR skills: Those looking to enter the high-tech age gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403.

sport

5k RuNNiNg seRies: Athletes break a sweat in a weekly bout of friendly competition. Arrowhead Golf Course, Milton, 6 p.m. $5. Info, 893-0234.

talks

al BoudReau: Star light, star bright! The Vermont Astronomical Society member gives a narrated slide show recounting his recent visit to the famed Paris Observatory. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. BRitta toNN: The architectural historian presents "Downtown Burlington: Uncovering the History and Architecture of Vermont's Queen City." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Joe coMeau: In an informative presentation, the local astronomy buff introduces fellow enthusiasts to high-tech gadgetry for sky gazing. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

theater

'aNNa's JouRNal' auditioNs: See SUN.08. North End Studios, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister at theatrekavanah.org. Info, 482-5282.

words

Book discussioN: Linda Bland facilitates conversation about human values and ethics, as related to Ronald M. Green's The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. BuRliNgtoN wRiteRs woRksHoP MeetiNg: Members read and respond to the work of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed. Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. sHaRed MoMeNts oPeN Mic: Recille Hamrell hosts an evening of spontaneously told true tales about pivotal life events. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-1754.

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community

coMMuNity dRuM ciRcle: Percussionists of all abilities keep the beat in a supportive atmosphere that welcomes newcomers. Blanchard Beach, Burlington, 5-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 922-7149, shea. robert007@gmail.com. coMMuNity FoRuM: David Reynolds details Vermont Health Connect initiatives and helps attendees navigate upcoming changes in the healthinsurance marketplace. Auditorium, Town Hall, Ludlow, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 343-8218. exit 17 study PuBlic MeetiNg: Locals voice opinions about how to best improve conditions at

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dance

Swing Dance Practice Session: Quick-footed participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

fairs & festivals

Killington Hay Festival: See WED.04, 8 a.m. Milton Activities Fair: Folks mingle with representatives from area nonprofits and organizations, who offer opportunities such as sports, recreation, clubs and services. Milton Elementary School, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

food & drink

A Mosaic of Flavor: Middle Eastern Makloba With Goat Meat: Nagham Nasser prepares the traditional dish, which uses yogurt and spices to season eggplant, tomato, potato, onion and rice. City Market, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. Cocktail Walk: Distillers, producers and bartenders make Vermont-inspired libations with local spirits and bitters, then discuss their creations. See vermontfarmtours.com for specific locations. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 922-7346. Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See SAT.07, 3-6:30 p.m. Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.07, 3-6 p.m.

games

Magic: The Gathering: See FRI.06. Pickering Room. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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Making Sense of Supplements: Chiropractor Gregory Giasson provides tips for making informed decisions about natural supplements — including when to use whole foods as dietary alternatives. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

kids

Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Dot Week: See MON.09, 10 a.m.-7:45 p.m. Fall Story Time: See WED.04, 10 a.m. 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. Story Walk: See SAT.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Storytime in the Nestlings Nook: Little ones gather for stories about birds and more. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free with admission; $3-6. 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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Conversational Spanish: David Forman facilitates chats en español with folks whose skills allow them to converse comfortably. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2118. French Conversation Group: Beginner-tointermediate speakers brush up on their linguistics. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

Pause-Café: French students of varying levels converse en français. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

lgbtq

Pride Parade Banner Making & Potluck: See WED.04. Basement, North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 4:30-7 p.m. Free; bring a dish or snack to share. Info, 860-7812.

seminars

Realistic Freestyle Self Defense: See THU.05, 5:30 p.m.

sport

Catamount Trail Running Series: Runners of all ages and abilities break a sweat in this weekly 5K race. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6-8 p.m. $3-8; free for children 8 and under. Info, 879-6001.

talks

Community Medical School Series: A panel discussion featuring doctors and UVM professors Robert Macauley, Ursula McVeigh, Renee Stapleton and Benjamin Suratt explores "Patient Choices: Navigating End of Life." A Q&A follows. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 847-2886. Vermont Archaeology Month Brown Bag Lunch Series: See THU.05, noon-4 p.m. Veronika Scott: The founder of The Empowerment Plan discusses the Detroit-based nonprofit that hires previously homeless women to sew sleeping-bag coats for distribution on the streets. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1308.

words

Cady/Potter Writers Circle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through assignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970.

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Diana Doll: The owner of StrayCat Flower Farm covers topics ranging from insect management to bouquets in an educational, narrated slide show. UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 864-3073.

business

Vermont Health Connect Small Business Forum: Dain Herring educates attendees about forthcoming health care reforms related to coverage eligibility, private and public plans, and more. Sugarbush Inn, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-8218.

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Community Forum: Devon Green details Vermont Health Connect initiatives and helps attendees navigate upcoming changes in the health-insurance marketplace. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 343-8218. Day of Remembrance: Those who wish to do so contemplate or honor past heroes. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 273-2282. Flag Retirement Ceremony: Locals commemorate the military service of others and the symbolism of the American flag. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0700. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Team Meeting: An information session preps participants for the October walk benefiting breast-cancer survivors and their families and friends. American Cancer Society, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-6776. Open ROTA Meeting: See WED.04, 6 p.m.

crafts

Green Mountain Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America: Needle-andthread enthusiasts convene to work on current projects and practice crazy quilting and Quaker Ball embroidery. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

education

Graduate & Professional School Fair: Representatives from more than 65 colleges and universities offer valuable information to potential students. Warren Ballrooms, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-4725.

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Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: See WED.04, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tech Help: See WED.04, 5-8 p.m. Wagon Ride Wednesdays: See WED.04, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Killington Hay Festival: See WED.04, 8 a.m.

film

'Dirty Wars': Rick Rowley's award-winning documentary follows the international journey of investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he uncovers a series of covert U.S. operations. Merrill's Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 805-863-2345.

food & drink

Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.04, 3-6 p.m. Colchester Farmers Market: See WED.04, 4-7 p.m. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.04, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. South End Farmers Market: See WED.04, 3:306:30 p.m. Sun to Cheese Tours: Fromage lovers go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmhouse cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 2-4 p.m. $15; preregister; includes a block of cheese. Info, 985-8686. Williston Farmers Market: See WED.04, 4-7 p.m.

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Burlington Go Club: See WED.04, 7-9 p.m.

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Posture Fitness Class: Certified Rolfer Robert Rex leads stretching and bodywork modified for strengthening and stabilizing the core. Loose, comfortable clothing and yoga mat recommended. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.04, 6-7 p.m. Yoga for Hunger: See WED.04, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

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After-School Craft: Tissue Paper Leaves: Local artist Nicole Vance leads youngsters in a hands-on project that channels the bright colors of fall. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; for kids 6 and up; limited space. Info, 849-2420, fairfaxlibrarian@gmail.com. Babytime Playgroup: See WED.04, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Dot Week: See MON.09, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Fall Story Time: See WED.04, 11:15 a.m. History for Homeschoolers: In "Spotlight on Vermonters," kiddos ages 6 through 12 learn about the state's influential figures past and present. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. $45; preregister; limited space. Info, 828-1413. Moving & Grooving With Christine: See WED.04, 11-11:30 a.m. Story Walk: See SAT.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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English-Language Class for New Americans: See WED.04, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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LGBTQA Family Playgroup: Like-minded folks bring infants and children up to age 4 together for crafts and physical activities. Leaps and Bounds Child Development Center, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org.

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Monarch Butterfly Tagging: See WED.04, 3:30-5 p.m. Wild Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk: Herbalist Annie McCleary leads a stroll through diverse landscape, identifying late-summer wildflowers and other vegetation along the way. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 5-6:30 p.m. $1-10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 456-8122.

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Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: See WED.04, 7-10 p.m.

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Mansour Farhang: The former Iranian Ambassador to the UN considers volatile relationships in "Islam and Democracy in the Middle East." Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Nancy Elwess: The professor of molecular genetics at Plattsburgh State University discusses what DNA from Mayan skeletons reveals about their connections to present-day humans. Ellsworth Rooms, Willey Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327. 'Rebuilding the Foodshed: Remapping Our Expectations for the Food We Share: An Evening With Philip Ackerman-Leist': Following a dinner of organic salads and flatbreads from NOFA Vermont, the renowned farmer, educator and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed gives an in-depth presentation on community-based food systems. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, dinner 5:30 p.m.; presentation, 7 p.m. Free presentation; $20 for dinner; preregister. Info, 295-6300.

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'A Christmas Story' Auditions: The Valley Players hold tryouts for their December production of the famed story about a boy growing up in the 1940s whose holiday hopes repeatedly fall short. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free; see valleyplayers.com for details. Info, 839-9037. 'Parasite Drag': See WED.04, 7:30 p.m. 'Savvy Seniors': Lyric Theatre and the Vermont Community of Elders present a witty, yet educational performance on various aspects of health care — including fraud, error and abuse. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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Burlington Writers Workshop Meeting: See MON.09, 6:30-8 p.m. Fall Book Sale: Bibliophiles get their literary fix with thousands of affordably priced titles. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7212. Ginger Johnson: The local author explores a tumultuous father-daughter relationship in her compelling memoir, Good Dad, Bad Dad, My Dad. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Kathryn Guare: In a multimedia presentation, the Vermont-based writer details how the language, music and spirit of Ireland and India inspired her mystery Deceptive Cadence: The Virtuosic Spy. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. m

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art ACCESS ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Watercolor with Ginny Joyner, Drawing, Zentangle, Colored Pencil, Block Print, Miniature Fruits & more, Polymer Clay, Calligraphy. Culinary arts: one-night, hands-on classes where you eat well! Dim Sum, Indian Vegetarian, Vietnamese, Szechuan, Thai, Turkish, Greek Coastal, Middle Eastern, Hot Tamale, Chocolate, Argentinian, Tea, Vegetarian, Mile High Apple Pie, Pasta Bene, Italian Cookies, Halloween Cookies. Yum! Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

TINY-HOUSE WORKSHOP: A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a 16- by 20-ft. tiny house in Glover, Sep. 21-22. Plenty of hands-on experience for absolute beginners. Tools provided; safety glasses required. Onsite camping avail. Cost: $250/workshop. Location: Glover, Vermont. Info: 933-6103.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. CLAY SCULPTING: Learn the art of hand building sculptures with clay using different carving and modeling techniques, practice proportions that make figures look accurate, and discover secrets to make your figures come to life. No previous experience needed! Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice, a 20-pound bag of clay, and all glazing and firing costs. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Jerry

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, beginning to intermediate trimming, and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Must be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice, a 20-pound bag of clay, and all glazing and firing costs. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 30-Nov. 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $270/person; $243/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Learn individualized tips and techniques for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, and decorative and glazing methods. Must be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice, a 20-pound bag of clay, and all glazing and firing costs. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 3-Nov. 21, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $300/person; $270/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DIY NIGHT: LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds Tessa Valyou at this one-night class making one-of-a-kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts. Make snap bracelets, cuffs and fun earrings. All supplies included. There will be plenty of

DROP-IN: ARTIST MARKET: Drop by the BCA Artist Market during the Burlington Farmers Market and have a blast making your own farmers-market bag. Blank canvas bags will be available for decorating with veggie stamps, markers and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. Weather dependent. All ages. Weekly on Sat., Sep. 14-Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $5/participant; $4/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel-working. Through demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs and bowls. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No class on November 29. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Fri., Sep. 20-Dec. 13, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $12/participant; $11/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP-IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Learn wheel and hand building techniques at BCA’s clay studio while hanging out with the family. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand-building demonstrations throughout the evening. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. All ages. Weekly on Fri., Sep. 20-Dec. 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $6/ participant; $5/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: Burlington City Arts, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING: This drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes. Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No class November 25. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 16-Dec. 16., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit free. Location: Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. DROP-IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: This popular dropin program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Participants will work with homemade play dough, paint, yarn, ribbon, paper and more! Parents must accompany their children. No class November

ILLUSTRATION: Learn a variety of illustration techniques! Children’s books, news stories, comics, sci-fi or political blogs, there’s a technique for you. Use traditional materials such as pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolors to draw the human figure, likenesses, animals, landscapes, interiors and more. Easels and painting trays provided. See materials list online. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Marc Nadel. Weekly on Wed., Oct. 2-Nov. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person; $180/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Intermediate and advanced painters, revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Turn the page on traditional representation, using fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal expression. Work from live models each week. Figure drawing experience helpful. Glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks provided. See materials list online. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Gail Salzman. Weekly on Wed., Oct. 2-Nov. 20, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Cost: $325/ person; $293/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PAINTING: OIL: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. Create still life and landscapes. Discover techniques applying composition, linear aspects, form and color theory. This supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique. Glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks provided. See student materials list online. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Tue., Oct. 1-Nov. 19. Cost: $255/ person; $230/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

KIDS: CLAY CREATURES: Take your imagination to the wild side! Come create some fun and whimsical creatures out of clay and crafty materials. Go wild making an elephant soap dish, leopard piggybank, clay gargoyle and more. Ages 6-8. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Nov. 2, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. KIDS: DUCT TAPE DESIGN: Explore the wonderful, creative world of duct tape design, and learn how to create one-of-kind bracelets, flower pens, wallets and more! Ages 9-12. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Oct. 5, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. KIDS: FREE WHEELIN’: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make bowls, cups and/or amazing sculptures. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. Ages: 9-12. Instructors: Kim O’Brien and Alexandra Turner. Nov. 2, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person, $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. KIDS: FREE WHEELIN’: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make bowls, cups and/or amazing sculptures. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. Ages 6-8. Instructors: Kim O’Brien and Alexandra Turner. Oct. 5, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person, $22.50/BCA

PHOTO: FILM/DIGITAL SLR: Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and film types/sensitivity. Ages 16 and up. No experience necessary. Pair this class with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12-week experience learning the ins and outs of photo editing and printing! Weekly on Wed., Sep. 18-Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $160/ person; $144/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film processing techniques. Discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost BURLINGTON CITY ARTS

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BARBARA MARCINIAK CHANNELING: Barbara Marciniak channels multidimensional entities from the Pleiadian star cluster. She also has vast astrological knowledge, which informs her worldview. During the evening ($40) and full-day ($90) presentations, Barbara will speak from her perspective, and the Pleiadians will channel information through Barbara, as well as answer questions. 7-11 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun., Sep. 7 & 8. Cost: $130 Location: Shaman’s

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Spend your afternoon in our clay studio with an introduction to clay, pottery and ceramics. Learn basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No experience needed! Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice, a 20-pound bag of clay, and all glazing and firing costs. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 3-Nov. 21, 12:30-3 p.m. Cost: $270/person; $243/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6: Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a creative computer program used to create interesting graphics, clip art and more! Learn how to lay out and design posters and other single-page documents. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. No experience necessary. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 17-Oct. 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $205/ person; $184.50/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Core Strength with Caroline Perkins: Tue. & Thu., Weight Training, Weight Bearing and Resistance Training, Ski & Snowboard Fitness, Zumba, Zumba Gold, Yoga: 4 choices, Tai Chi, Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius, Jazzercise, Voice-Overs, Guitar: 2 levels, Ukulele, Mindful Meditation, Soap Making and Juggling. Low cost, excellent instructors guaranteed. Materials included. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

28. Ages 6 months to 5 years. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 19-Dec. 19, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $6/child; $5/ BCA members. Purchase a dropin card & get the 6th visit free. Location: Burlington City Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: An introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No experience needed! Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice, a 20-pound bag of clay, and all glazing and firing costs. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 26-Oct. 31, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $203/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

time, materials and inspiration to make multiple items. No experience needed. Ages 16 and up. Sep. 26, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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Flame facility, 78A Cady Hill Rd., Stowe. Info: Sarah Finlay/ Peter Clark, 253-7846, peterclark13@ gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

Geier. Weekly on Tue., Oct. 1-Nov. 5, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $160/person; $144/`BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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includes a darkroom membership for outside of class printing and processing. Instructor: Karen Guth. Prerequisite: Intro to B&W Film or equivalent. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 10-Dec. 19, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $275/person; $247.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Print: Etching: This type of printmaking is wonderful for artists who love to draw and want to make highly detailed prints. Learn the basics of etching through drypoint and acid bath and to transfer images onto paper with a printing press. No experience needed. Materials provided, except paper. Over 25 hours per week of open studio time is included. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 23-Oct. 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person; $180/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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Print: Intro to Printmaking: This introductory class will show you a whole platter of printing techniques: block printing with linoleum, silkscreening and drypoint. This is a great way to start creating your own art, and no experience is necessary! Includes over 25 hours per week of open studio hours, all basic supplies. See Heather’s work at heatherkasvinsky.com. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 24-Oct. 29. Cost: $215/person; $194/BCA members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 250 Main St., Burlington. Printing: Hand-Printed Fabric: Learn do-it-yourself fabric-decorating techniques with fashion designer and owner of Where Clothing line Amy Wild. Dye, batik and block print on fabric to create one-of-a- kind clothing or home decor. Turn handmade fabric into pillows, placemats, skirts, basic shirts, tote bags and more. Basic materials included; bring your own fabric or clothing. Ages 16 and up. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 26Oct. 24, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $145/ person; $131/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Silkscreening: Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Apply photo emulsion, use a silkscreen exposure unit, and mix and print images using water-based inks. Includes over 25 hours per week of open studio time, use of studio chemicals, class ink and equipment. No experience necessary! Materials list online. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Torrey Valyou. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 26-Oct. 24, 6-8:30 p.m. Studio visit on Oct. 30. Cost: $200/person; $180/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Teens: Silkscreen: Take your favorite drawing, photo or design and learn how to print it onto a T-shirt, bag or poster in BCA’s professional print studio. Bring

a favorite fitted tee (optional)! Ages 12-14. Instructor: Torrey Valyou. Nov. 2, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

computers ACCESS COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Computer & Internet Basics, iWant iPods & iPhones, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File & Control Panels, Cloud Control, Twitter Essentials, Google Sketchup, MS Word Basics & More, Smart Phone Use, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Web Site Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, Personalized Lessons. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

cooking Brewing 101: An in-depth look into brewing with homegrown fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs. We will cover basic home brewing techniques and tips for growing hops in Vermont. Participants will be given an overview of beer style history to better understand traditional flavors that will complement their homegrown ingredients. Preregistration strongly suggested; seminars do sell out. Instructor: Joe Lemnah. Sep. 14, 10-noon. Cost: $15/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington Garden Center, 128 Intervale Ave., Burlington. Info: 660-3505-4, gardenerssupplystore.com. Make Your Own Cider: Nothing says fall in Vermont like fresh apple cider. In this workshop we will discuss cidermaking traditions in a modern context, including fruit varieties best suited for cider; press construction and operation; cleanliness and food safety; and a bit on fermenting your own hard cider. Preregistration strongly suggested; seminars do sell out.

Instructor: Terry Bradshaw. Sep. 7, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $15/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington Garden Center, 128 Intervale Ave., Burlington. Info: 660-3505-4, gardenerssupplystore.com.

craft ACCESS CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Pottery: 7 choices, Bowl Turning, Woodworking, Basic Machining, Basket Weaving, Rug Hooking, Wool Dyeing, 3 Bag Sewing, Pillows, Needle Felting, Crochet, Quilting, Cake Decorating, Knitting: 5 choices, Cross Stitch, Origami, Crewel. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

dance Afro/Caribbean Dance Workout: Learn authentic Afro/Caribbean movement while getting a great workout! This Saturday morning class is designed to get you dancing to rhythms from Cuba, Haiti and Brazil and to work your abs, hips, thighs and upper torso at the same time. Be prepared to dance to great music and have fun. All levels are welcome. Every Sat., 11:15 p.m. Cost: $13/1hr. class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044, sabrina@southendstudiovt.com, southendstudiovt.com. B-Tru Dance w/ Danielle Vardakas Duszko: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles (poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher training this fall/winter. $50/ mo. Ask about family discounts. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Beginner Swing Dance Classes: Beginner Swing Dance lessons (East Coast 6-count style). No partner necessary. Taught by Terry Bouricius, a much sought-after instructor. Terry has taught all styles of swing dancing to thousands of students using a fun but methodical approach since 1983. Preregister. 5 Tue., Sep. 17-Oct. 15, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $50/person for 5-wk. series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 864-8382, terrybour@gmail.com, http://vermontswings.com. Dance Studio Salsalina: 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! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Dsantos VT Salsa: 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! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com.

drumming Taiko, Djembe & Congas!: Taiko in Burlington! Tuesday Taiko Adult Classes begin Sep. 10, Oct. 22, Dec. 3 & Jan. 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $72/6-weeks. Kids Classes begin on the same dates 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6-weeks. Djembe classes start Friday Sep. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13 & Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $60/4 weeks, $18/class. Montpelier Djembe classes start Sep. 11, Oct. 3, Oct. 24, Nov. 21, Jan. 2, 7-8:30 p.m. $54/3 weeks! Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Lose Weight; Feel Great, Beekeeping, Maple Sugaring, Creative Writing, Memoir Writing, 10 Amazing Journeys with Chris O’Donnell, Solar Energy 101, Bridge: 2 levels, Cribbage, Mah Jongg, EFT, Suburban Homesteading 101, Motorcycle Awareness, Shoulder Massage, Cat Behavior, Reiki, Aromatherapy, Body Lotions. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. Transitions: Seasonal Approach: 8 week series. In keeping with shamanic/mystical traditions we journey through our transitions using expressive arts techniques, dreams, art making, movement, written and spoken word.What wisdom can be distilled and transformed in this fertile middle ground of the impending dark months where we must release the seed for next year’s growth? Thu. evenings 6:15-8:45. Begins Sept. 26-Dec 12. (no class Oct. 10, 17, 31, Nov. 28). Cost: $160/registration

+ $35.00 materials fee. Location: Topaz’ Studio, 266 So. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 862-5302, topazweis@gmx.net.

healing arts Healing Touch for Animals: Give your animals the gift of health. Using easy-to-use techniques, learn how to improve your pet’s health and well-being through the simple touch of your hands. This is the first level of a four-level program leading to certification. Learn how to assist with injury, trauma, stress-related issues and general wellness. Sep. 27-29. Cost: $580/20 hrs. of class time. Location: Healing Touch for Animals, 24 South St., South Hero. Info: Healing Touch for Animals-Burlington, Karen McCloud, 372-4822, karenmccloud.btvhta@gmail.com, healingtouchforanimals.com. Illness: A Journey of Change: Serious and chronic illnesses are journeys that place great demands on our resources. Yet sometimes illness also offers us opportunities to change our lives. In this workshop we will explore the transformational potential of serious and chronic illness and some of the road maps others have created for making the journey. Sep. 29, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $35/3-hr class. Location: JourneyWorks, 11 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, Michael Watson, 860-6203, mwatsonlcmhc@ hotmail.com, journeyworksvt. wordpress.com. Women’s Full Moon Gathering: Our Full Moon gatherings are a way for us to connect to body, mind and spirit and to unlock the immense vitality which is our birthright as women. In our monthly gatherings we explore what the moon time means for each of us and celebrate our strengths, passions and visions. Monthly beginning Sep. 19, 7-9 p.m. Location: JourneyWorks, 11 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, Jennie Kristel, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail. com, journeyworksvt.wordpress. com. YOU CAN HAVE A HEALING TOUCH: Barbara Clearbridge is accepting new students for energy work training. Individualized, part-time, one-, two- and three-year programs in South Burlington and Middlebury. Study what you need for home or professional use. Love offering (you determine what you can pay.) Register now, sessions begin September 21. Yes, you can! TBA. Love offering (you determine your payment). Location: S. Burlington & Middlebury venues , S. Burlington & Middlebury. Info: Barbara Clearbridge, 324-9149, clearbridge@feeling muchbetter.org, feelingmuch better.org.

helen day art center Drawing Fundamentals: For the budding artist or anyone just looking to sharpen their skills. The class will focus on line, depth, composition, proportion and exploration of each student’s artistic aspirations. Evan will introduce exercises using a variety of drawing materials to build confidence and progression. Instructor: Evan Chismark. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 26-Oct. 24, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $125/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, helenday.com. Fall Foliage Photography: Make sure you’re ready to photograph Vermont’s most spectacular season. Friday, discuss camera equipment, digital technology, and the photographic opportunities of autumn. Saturday, Paul leads you to favorite local spots offering both broad landscape views and details for close-up photography. This workshop involves light hiking. Instructor: Paul Rogers. Sep. 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sep. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $95. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com.

herbs Ayurvedic Intensive: With Kevin Spelman, PhD. In this comprehensive training session, discover the basic principles of Ayurveda and explore key medicinal plants from the Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia, along with Western herbs viewed through the Ayurvedic model. Online option available. Meet Kevin at the free Thursday-night lecture! Details at vtherbcenter.org. Sat., Sep. 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $100/ nonmembers; $85 for members; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Wisdom of the Herbs School: Late Summer Wild Plant Walk, Sep. 11, 5-6:30 p.m. Sliding scale $10 to $0, preregistration requested, please give us your phone number. Open house, Sep. 28 & Oct. 26, 1-3 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Now accepting applications for Wisdom of the Herbs

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2014 Eight Month Certification Program, local wild plants for food and medicine, sustainable living skills, and profound connection with Nature, Apr. 26-27, May 24-25, Jun. 28-29, Jul. 2627, Aug. 23-24, Sep. 27-28, Oct. 25-26 & Nov. 8-9, 2014, tuition $1750, payment plan $187.50/ mo. VSAC nondegree grants available, apply early. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool. com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com.

jewelry Jewelry classes: Learn how to make your own jewelery with German-trained goldsmith (at Alchemy Jewelry Arts) in a fully equipped studio in town. You will learn basic and advanced techniques but also be able to focus on individual projects. Every Tue., 4x/mo. Cost: $140/2.5 hrs. 4x/mo. excl. silver ($3/gramm). Location: Alchemy, 2 Howard St., A1, Burlington. Info: jane frank jewellery design, jane frank, 999-3242, info@janefrank.de, janefrank.de.

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Alliance Francaise Open House: Want to start learning French? Or continue where you left off one, two, 10 or 40 years ago? Stop by to get acquainted with our instructors and our program. $20 tuition discount if you register at the event; personal placement consultation; your questions answered; refreshments. Sep. 8, 2-4 p.m. Location: AF Center, 123 Ethan Allen Ave. (off Route 15), Colchester. Info: Micheline, 881-8826.

martial arts Aikido: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12. Classes are taught by Benjamin

meditation Bringing Mindfulness to Difficult Emotions: During this series, we’ll create a safe space to discuss our particular relationships to our difficult emotions and learn meditation, mindfulness and yogic breathing practices to shed new light on them. Weekly on Tue., Oct. 8-Oct. 29, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $100. Location:

Plein-Air Painting Workshop: Capture the beauty of the season during this full day Plein-Air Workshop! Led by award winning artist and experienced landscape painter Maggie Standley of wingspan Studio. Meet at and enjoy painting all day at a beautiful lakeside cottage in Charlotte. Demos, group crits, private instruction time and more! Sat., Sep. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $125/full-day workshop; 1-hr. lunch break. Location: wingspan Studio; workshop held in Charlotte, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com.

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massage Trauma Resolution, 16 CEUs: Shock and trauma have a variety of ways to lock up the tissues of our body, creating unconscious holding patterns. Some of these holding patterns come from the “fight or flight” reaction to trauma and stress. We will explore the different ways of using Ortho-Bionomy to address the various patterns created by our life experiences. Releasing the tension patterns from scars, broken bones and surgery are some of the topics that will be covered. Sat. & Sun., Oct. 5-6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $285/16 CEUs ($260 when paid in full by Sep. 13). Location: TBA, Burlington/Essex area. Info: Dianne Swafford, 7341121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/ DianneSwafford.

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Zen Renovation: Spring cleaning for your mind! Become environ/mentally sound-inside & out. Get Zen! Weekly Meditation Classes, Wed., 7 p.m. $10/person. Free Sunday brunch, 11:30 a.m. Location: New North End, Burlington. Info: Barry, 343-7265, barry@zenrenovation.com.

music Bill Reed Voice Studio: Now auditioning students for the fall semester! To schedule an audition time please contact Managing Director Sally Olson, admin@theatricalsinger.com. For more info. please visit the studio page on our website, billreedvoicestudio.com/the-studio/ private-studio.html. Location: Bill Reed Voice Studio, 1967 Spear St., S. Burlington.

paddling Kayaking and Paddleboarding: Interested in learning how to kayak or paddleboard? Perhaps you’d like to improve your paddling technique or prepare for a kayaking trip? Canoe Imports offers the following classes: Introduction to Kayaking, Sea

ACCESS CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, DSLR Foundations, Digital Action Photography, Picasa Workshop, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters. Full descriptions at online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. Autumn in Vt. Photo Workshop: There’s no question that autumn in Vermont is a magical time to be an outdoor photographer. Join us for an intensive, five-day outdoor photography workshop in central Vermont. The emphasis of our time together, sunrise to sunset, will be on creating stunning images of the Vermont landscape. Sep. 30, 1:30 p.m., through Oct. 4, 11:30 a.m. Cost: $995/person. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Montpelier. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops , Kurt Budliger, 223-4022, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

psychic Basic Psychic Development: Basic Psychic Development Class with Bernice Kelman. All children are naturally psychic. We were psychic when we were children. You can learn simple and easy ways to tap into your own hidden abilities to make

your life healthier, happier, more loving and more fun. 10 Thu. starting Sep. 5, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $175 Location: Private home, Underhill. Info: Bernice Kelman, 899-3542, kelman.b@juno.com, loving-now.com.

reiki Reiki I and II w/ Anne Martin: Reiki healing is a hands-on energy healing art. As a harmonic flow of energy is strengthened healing occurs through the return of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance. We will learn the basics of Reiki in this course. Sep. 28, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $350/ seat. No insurance accepted for this series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, anne.m@vtcyt.com, vtcit.com.

spirit Become the Master of Your Life: No one knows better than you how to become the master of your life. And there is no better way to access that wisdom than the alchemical practice of integral qi gong and tai chi. This is a practice based on freedom and will turn your struggles into empowerment. Mon. starting Sep. 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Cost: $99/6 classes. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Burlington Bodymind Wellness, Anandi Anderson, 518528-9958, info@burlingtonbodymindwellness.com, burlingtonbodymindwellness.com.

spirituality Girlosophy w/ Anne Martin: A spiritual and self-care group for girls ages 14 yrs. or older. Weekly on Sat., Sep. 28-Oct. 19. Cost: $95/series. No insurance accepted for this series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, anne.m@vtcyt.com, vtcit.com. Living in Love: A Master Energy Class: An experiential class using techniques to transcend the ego. We will attempt to maintain that higher state while experiencing dimensions of the body and the matrix. Led by Reenie Sargent, Reiki master, teacher and intuitive. Sep. 21, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $40/person. Location: Duxbury, Vermont. Info: Reenie, 792-3350. The Quest for Inner Peace: Principles and Practices: What unlocks the door to Inner Peace? Every person holds the key to peace within themselves. Although the practice of maintaining inner peace is different for each person, our awareness of its principles makes peace available to us forever. Led by Susan Ackerman, writer, teacher, counselor. Sep. 21, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $35/person. Location: 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. tai chi

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ACCESS LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. French: 4 levels, Beginning Spanish: 2 levels, Intermediate Spanish: 3 levels, Immersion Spanish, Italian for Travelers: 3 levels, Beginning Mandarin: 2 levels, German 1, Latin Alive! Low

Alliance Francaise French Classes for Adults: Your fun-loving alter ego speaks French! Questions about your level? We’ll guide you in selecting from among Beginning French A, B, Intermediate French A, B, and Spoken French 1 and 2. Evenings except for 2 new offerings: Beginning French B/Mornings meets Tuesdays 8:30-10 a.m. And a special 6-week Ultimate Grammar Review meets Saturdays 9:30-11 a.m. See full descriptions at aflcr.org/classes/ shtml. 11 wks. starting Sep. 23, 6:30 p.m. Location: Alliance Francaise Center, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Micheline, 881-8826.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teach- ing in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: 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. 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 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs 3rd Fri. 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.

Kayaking Essentials, Kayak Rescue Techniques, Kayak Rolling, and Introduction to Stand Up Paddleboarding. At your convenience. Call to schedule a class. Cost: $59/person for all classes but sea kayaking, which is $99/person. Minimum enrollment of 2 people. Location: North Beach/TBD based on weather, Burlington. Info: Canoe Imports, Brian Jessiman, 6518760, brianjessiman@gmail.com, canoeimports.com.

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Absolument! French For All!: Oh la la! Join in encouraging, invigorating French classes for preschoolers, youth, adults at beautiful working atelier w/ Madame Maggie, experienced French instructor who has lived in West Africa and Paris, France! Small group classes offer support and fun; private lessons available too. Have no fear, Madame Maggie is here! See website for details. Cost: $100/ person; varies by class. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@ yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com.

Aikido Classes: 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. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org.

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Very Merry Theatre this Fall!: Sessions and workshops begin in September. Ages 6-18. Sign up online. Fall 2013 offerings: 333 Troupe, “Wind in the Willows” Musical, Cabaret with Ashley!, Stage Goes Pop!, “Circo Tempesta” Homeschool Special, Playing with Shakespeare, Teen Musical, Thanksgiving Break Camp, Saturday Drama Club. Location: 333 Stage @ Very Merry Theatre, 333 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Very Merry Theatre, Jordan LaCount, 522-3743, jordan@ verymerrytheatre.org, verymerrytheatre.org.

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this fall. Our seventh 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. Beginning wk. of Sep. 16 for 10 wks. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org.

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After-School Classes for Kids: We offer awesome classes for kids: Ballet (ages 4-12), HipHop (ages 4-teen), Lyrical Dance (ages 9-12), Nia/Yoga (ages 8-11) and Kung Fu (5 and older). Excellent instruction in a relaxed, welcoming environment allows kids to be themselves and experience the joy of movement for fitness and fun. Various times. Cost varies with class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 5400044, southendstudiovt.com.

cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. Ten minutes from Exit 12. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

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tai chi Hwa Yu Tai Chi/Montpelier: Hwa Yu is a rare style of tai chi in the liuhebafa (six harmonies, eight principles) lineage. It features exercises to ground and circulate the chi; dynamic interplay of postural sinking, rising and rounding; and beautiful, fluid movements with poetic names such as Green Dragon Stretches Its Claws. Every Mon. starting Sep. 9. 12 weeks. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellen Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@ comcast.net. Personal Tai Chi/ Qi Gong training: Private training in the Asian arts of movement and energy cultivation, emphasizing flexibility and building core strength. Bob Boyd, 45-year martial artist and 30-year tai chi/qi gong practitioner and teacher. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 363-6890, taichibodywork.com.

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Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: 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. 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, ipfamilytaichi.org. Tai Chi Easy for Hypertension: Learn to control hypertension naturally with a practice you’ll actually enjoy! Tai Chi is a body-mind practice scientifically proven to decrease hypertension and stress while increasing vitality and quality of life. Men and women of all ages are welcome. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 16-Nov. 4, 10-11 a.m. Cost: $140/series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com. Yang-Style Tai Chi: The slow movements of Tai Chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465.

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theater Very Merry Theatre this Fall!: Sessions & workshops begin in September. Ages 6-18. Sign up online. Fall 2013 offerings: 333 Troupe, “Wind in the Willows” Musical, Cabaret with Ashley!, Stage Goes Pop!, “Circo

Tempesta” Homeschool Special, Playing with Shakespeare, Teen Musical, Thanksgiving Break Camp, Saturday Drama Club. Location: 333 Stage @ Very Merry Theatre, 333 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Very Merry Theatre, Jordan LaCount, 522-3743, jordan@ verymerrytheatre.org, verymerrytheatre.org.

again and learn about fitting developed characters, narrative arcs, conflict and wonderful language into a very small space. Thu., Sep.12-Oct.17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $150/6 2-hr. sessions. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091, lin@windridgeboooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Children’s Book Illustration: Sarah Dillard has illustrated more than 20 children’s picture books, including her own, “Perfectly Arugula.” Join her in creating your own 32-page storyboard and explore how illustration helps to build character and works in concert with text to add layers and meaning. 3 Thu., Oct. 24 & Nov. 7 & 14, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $75/3 1.5-hr. classes. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

voice Discover Your Natural Voice: Join acclaimed professional voice teacher, singer and musician Chris James. Develop skills in vocal confidence, communication, self-empowering speaking, singing & listening as you rediscover the power of your natural voice. Practice inner stillness, release stress & express yourself with ease. Revitalizing, profound and fun. No experience needed. Sep. 7-8, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $300/2day workshop. Reduced pricing avail. upon inquiry. Location: Holley Hall, 1 South St., Bristol. Info: Julie or Michael Goodhart, 453-4260, juliegoodhart5@ gmail.com.

women Finding Joy at Mid-life: This 8-week series is designed specifically for women 40 and older who are dealing with issues related to esteem, bodyimage and emotional eating. In this series, we will be using three modes of addressing the physical and emotional implications of arriving at this time in life: group therapy, NIA and nutritional counseling. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 23-Nov. 11, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $635/person; insurance may cover cost of this group. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com.

writing Children’s Picture Books: Join award-winning children’s picture book author Elizabeth Bluemle for a six-week session exploring the FUNdamentals and refinements of creating a lively and engaging picture book. See the world like a kid

Delights and Shadows Poetry: New and experienced poets at all stages of development are invited to join Pablo Neruda Award-winning poet Daniel Lusk in this guided practice workshop. Participants will share their original drafts in a supportive environment, discover new avenues for inspiration, and discuss what makes effective and successful poetry. Tue. evenings, Sep. 10-Oct. 8. Cost: $150/2-hr. weekly class. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Exploding the Moment/ Writing: This half-day class explores the small but seminal places in our work. It is often the places in our writing where not much is “happening” that the most resonance is created. For writers of all genres, levels, and experience. Sun., Sep. 15, 2 -5 p.m. Cost: $40/3-hr. class. Location: Renegade Writers’ Collective, 47 Maple St., suite 220, Burlington. Info: Renegade Writers’ Collective, Jessica Nelson, 267-467-2812, renegadewritersvt@gmail.com, renegadewritersvt.com. Finish Your Novel!: How many times have you dreamed of starting your novel? How many times has the novel flagged or died out on you? Join Eric Rickstad, editor, story doctor and author of “Reap,” a New York Times Noteworthy Novel, in this yearlong program to realize your literary dream, beginning to end. Yearlong: 10 classes: Oct. 5, Nov. 9, Jan. 11, Feb. 15, Mar. 22, Apr. 19, May 17, Jun. 21, Jul. 19, Aug. 23. Cost: $950/3 hrs. every 5 wks. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091,

lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Five Rules for Writing Short: No matter whether you’re blogging online, a radio commentator, a newspaper columnist or writing content for websites, you’re writing for an audience pressed for time. Learn five effective rules for writing short and connect with your audience before their attention wanders. Sat., Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $100/5-hr. workshop. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Priming the Pump for NanoWriMo: This class is for anyone who is planning to participate in NaNoWriMo or wants to start a novel from scratch. Participants utilize prompts and exercises designed to prime the creative pump, inspire, and encourage. Focus will be on “storystorming” and allowing the creative mind to throw off the internal editor. Sun., Sep. 15, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40/3hr. class. Location: Renegade Writers’ Collective, 47 Maple St., suite 220, Burlington. Info: Renegade Writers’ Collective, Jessica Nelson, 267-467-2812, renegadewritersvt@gmail.com, renegadewritersvt.com.

yoga B Who U R: A Yoga and Skillz Group for Girls: This is a skills group for teenage girls ages 14 years and older that will combine yoga to integrate mind body and spirit. Girls will work on increasing self-esteem and confidence while building healthy body awareness. Instructed by Benjamin Houchen and Lakshmi. Prescreening required if you would like to use insurance. Please call for more info. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 11-Oct. 30, 4:15-6:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ series. Only Medicaid is accepted for a portion of this group. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com. Evolution Yoga: 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. $14/class, $130/ class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include 2 specialty classes per week for 4

weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow & Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes and workshops. $25/ new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/class for student or senior or $100/10 class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Hot Yoga Burlington: A Dedicated Hot Flow Studio: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! Go to our website for the new fall schedule. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. 1-hr. classes on Mon. at 5:30 p.m.; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave., Old North End, Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Laughing River Yoga: Highly trained and dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops, retreats and teacher training in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. Class types include Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Vajra, Yin, Restorative and Gentle. Advance your practice! Study Bandhas, Chakras and Nadis with master teacher Will Duprey Sep. 13-15. classes 7 days a wk. $14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/ monthly unlimited; sliding-fee classes also avail. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com. Pratyaagati Journey Home: With Bree Greenberg and Benjamin and Gillian Boudreau with special guest Rebecca Weisman. This group combines the mirror of yoga with experiential exercises, mindfulness techniques and relational elements. Participants are invited to encounter and experience themselves more fully in body, mind and spirit, individually and in relationship to others. Weekly on Tue., Oct. 15-Feb. 18. Cost: $995/series. There are 3 payment options avail. Please call for more info. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite

204, S. Burlington. Info: Bree, 658-9440-100, vtcit.com. Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Series: Life experiences of loss or trauma can result in feelings of anxiety, sadness and symptoms of PTSD. Yoga and mindfulness practices can gently shift these patterns and begin to introduce an experience of calm and relaxation. Instructed by Deb Sherrer. Prescreening required. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 19-Dec. 5. Cost: $155/series. Insurance may cover cost of group. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: Deb Sherrer, 999-2703, vtcit.com. Yoga Roots: Flexible, inflexible, an athlete, expecting a baby, stressed, recovering from an injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! Our aim is to welcome, nurture and inspire. A peaceful studio offering: Prenatal, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Therapeutic Restorative, Gentle, Kundalini, Anusara, Tai Chi, Qigong & Meditation! 6-wk. series beginning in Sep.: Meditation w/ Charlie Nardozzi, Absolute Beginners w/ Andrea Trombley & Oneness Meditation Workshop in Oct. Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Business Park, Shelburne. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com. Yoga for Anxiety and Addiction: Within anxiety, addictions can be born and feelings of claustrophobia within one’s skin arise and grow. 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. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 18-Nov. 6, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $160/series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com. Yoga for Fertility Drop-In Class: In this 75-minute class, we will work to restore the health of both body and mind, going from “fight or flight” mode to “rest and digest” mode. We’ll activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for reproductive functions in the body. Weekly on Tue. starting Oct. 1, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Cost: $15/seat. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 75 San Remo Dr., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 6589440, vtcit.com.

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Eruption Process On their new album, Volcano Choir repave the way BY D AN BO L L E S

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ustin Vernon was recording vocal tracks for Repave, the new album by Volcano Choir, in his April Base Studios in Wisconsin last winter. Though his bandmates had been working on material for the album for more than two years, they had never before heard Vernon’s melodies or lyrics. “The first time that we heard vocals for these songs was the first time we heard vocals for these songs,” recalls guitarist Chris Rosenau. It was also the first time they learned Vernon might be channeling Charles Bukowski. After singing the final verse on “Alaskans,” he held a laptop to the microphone. On it played a YouTube clip from the documentary Bukowski: Born Into This, of Bukowski reading a poem on French television and ruminating on death and dying before breaking down in a tearful, drunken mess. “It started playing through the microphone, and we’re all just, like, ‘What the fuck?’” says Rosenau. “I remember getting super choked up,” he continues. “Then we realized, ‘Oh, shit. We have a Charles Bukowski sample on our record.’” “We had to go to Bukowski’s [widow] and ask to use the poem,” says keyboardist Tom Wincek. In recent interviews, Vernon has said that song “sets the tone” for the album, which, given his often dark and frank lyrics, is true thematically. But given the recording’s rich, multilayered compositional depth, it’s also true in a more functional sense. As with their 2009 debut, Unmap, Volcano Choir — which includes members of Collections of Colonies of Bees, All Tiny Creatures and Vernon’s own group, Bon Iver — began collaborating on material for the album remotely, exchanging song ideas digitally. Unlike that first album, when it was time to track Repave, VC were able to come together and record in the same room, rather than in pieces. According to Rosenau and Wincek, that led to a gleefully unrestrained process of experimentation, of construction and deconstruction — and, one imagines, repaving — and to stunning little moments such as Vernon unexpectedly borrowing Bukowski. “We’re his best friends,” says Rosenau of Vernon. “But we’re also fans, so to hear him do that was insane.”

Volcano Choir are currently touring behind their new record, including a stop at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington this Monday, September 9. In advance of that show, Seven Days spoke with Rosenau and Wincek in a conference call from Wisconsin.

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SEVEN DAYS: In your minds, what are some of the key differences between Unmap and Repave? CHRIS ROSENAU: The DNA of the two records, I think, is similar. The whole process was … Tom, you answer this fucking question. I’ll pop in when I get this figured out. TOM WINCEK: [Laughs] The first record, Chris had this idea of doing a record with multiple vocalists. Chris doesn’t work with vocalists very often in his other bands. And it just so happened that Justin was the only person who would send stuff back. And he would send stuff instantly, because he was excited. Then, over a four-year span, we realized we had all these sketches of songs and that it should just be a band instead of a split collaboration sort of thing. Then, really, the writing process for Repave started almost immediately after that Japanese tour and some U.S. dates [in 2009]. Chris started writing stuff right away and sending out sketches. I started working on stuff. Then, again over four years, we assembled enough to do it again.

But this time, I think, was more of an idea of a band, where there wasn’t one before. That informed what we were doing. That was a big difference. We knew what we could do live and what we could do in the studio. And that informed the writing process.

SD: You had never played those songs in the same room together until you went on tour in Japan, right? TW: No. We had played in each other’s bands and been on tour. But we didn’t really even think of those songs as songs until we started learning them to play them live. CR: I’m gonna concur with Tom. Good answer, Tom! SD: [Laughs] How did being in the studio together this time affect how Repave turned out and sounds so different from Unmap? CR: Well, like Tom was saying, the start for both records was similar. Writing these purposefully noncommittal sketches of things, because the idea was for people to alter them and change them. But for Unmap it was a more singular effort. Us individually reacting and writing by ourselves. But one of the reasons Repave sounds so different is that while most of the songs started the same way, the next step wasn’t to do a file exchange. The next step was subgroups of people getting together and having shit tons of fun and hammering

the shit out of these arrangements. And that’s what you’re hearing. You’re hearing friends having fun for a long time. SD: It must also have been liberating not to work with any real deadline. CR: The albums are similar to me in a lot of ways. There was never any pressure with this record in terms of deadlines or expectations, just like the first record, which is miraculous. I don’t even know how that happened. But I’m super thankful that it did, because the outcome is that we kept reworking these songs and adding pieces. If you looked at the tracks to these songs, you would get a headache. It’s ridiculous. There’s stuff in [the tracks] that haven’t been in the songs for two years. Stuff we’ve taken out or reworked. So that’s the difference. Instead of friends working creatively,but disconnected, it’s friends sitting in the same room laughing and going crazy over the ideas everyone has. SD: There must have been moments when it all went off the rails. TW: Mostly in the mixing process, which was actually really hard. It was hard to not lose it and go down all these different rabbit holes and look at one sound for 20 minutes. But we were always able to rein it back in and not listen to one snare forever. CR: To frame it another way, yes, mixing was the most challenging aspect of this record. But getting together and writing this way was total bliss. Because no one gave a shit about anything. It was just, like, “Add it! It’s cool! We’ll edit all this shit later, let’s just get all of these insane ideas down.” So what you end up with is songs full of way too many great ideas. TW: And who could ask for something better than that? CR: Exactly! It’s the best problem to have. That’s why writing this record was so fun. Because we didn’t have to be, like, “Wait this has gotta be a song,” or something. We didn’t care. We were just having a blast.

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some signs of life from the band. As they’re still searching for a full-time drummer, DB are not back on a regular gig schedule yet. But you can catch them playing an early set at Alley Cats — formerly the Green Door Studio, at the back of the Howard Space — with Mike laBita filling in on drums. (As an aside, does anyone else remember the bar Alley Cats? It was a truly remarkable dive on the corner of King and South Champlain streets in Burlington, and the just the sort of place you’d find a band like Dino Bravo, whether they were playing it or not. Ah, memories … or lack thereof.) Moving on, the annual Art Hop bash at Speaking Volumes is always a marquee event. This year it was supposed to double as a going-away party for shop owner norBert ender, who had announced the sale of his business earlier this summer. But the sale fell through, and Ender is still holding down the fort at SV for the time being. However, the uncertainty surrounding the future of the shop means that Ender is scrambling to assemble his lineup. In a recent phone call, he assures 7D that the show will go on. He’s just not sure with whom. But given SV’s reputation for throwing great parties, I’m not worried. A few doors down at Black Horse Fine Art Supply, EDM promoter Nexus Artist Management is throwing a benefit for dJ a-dog, who is still fighting the good fight in his battle against leukemia. There will be a silent auction (see State of the Arts about that on page 22), as well as a slew of music from the DJs/crews BonJour-hi!, dakota, Mashtodon, 2k deeP and NA’s Justin reM and chris Pattison, as well as Mc t-noonZ and rockers vedora. Right next door, dJ craig Mitchell will be spinning for Seven Days’ own party under a tent in the Curtis Lumber parking lot. Finally, the most buzzed-about event will likely be the grand opening of the new ArtsRiot studio and café in the old Fresh Market space. The lineup begins with “cosmic Americana” stalwarts red

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I say it every year, but the South End Art Hop, specifically the opening Friday, is on my short list of favorite annual local happenings. Although, given the recent success of newer events such as the Precipice and Waking Windows, said list isn’t quite as short as it once was. And that’s not even considering another newish entrant, Grand Point North, which we’ll delve into in full detail next week. But Art Hop holds a special place in my heart. While I can appreciate visual arts, I don’t consider myself to be particularly savvy about them. But there’s something about the collision of mediums and the atmosphere that artistic commingling creates that makes going to see music in galleries, shops and parking lots along Pine Street something close to magical. And I suspect this year will be no different. Frankly, there’s too much going on in Burlington’s South End this Friday, September 6, to fit in one li’l column. Pretty much anywhere you are, you’ll be within spitting distance of some cool band or DJ. And, really, half of the fun of Art Hop is, well, hopping around and discovering things as you go. But I feel compelled to draw your attention to a few performances that night. Starting at the south end of the South End, we begin at Angioplasty Studio, the physical home of Angioplasty Media, located behind the Switchback brewery off Flynn Avenue. nick Mavadones and crew have been hosting occasional

under-the-radar shows at the cozy space for exactly one year — their debut party was last year’s Art Hop. So they’re celebrating that anniversary in style by hosting the release party for tooth ache.’s re-recorded full-length debut Flash & Yearn, released on vinyl last Tuesday, September 3, via Feeding Tube Records. Interestingly, the local synthstress originally self-released that album in 2011. But tooth ache. — aka alexandria hall — re-recorded the record with ryan Power for its re-release on FTR. Why? The guess here is that she wasn’t happy with the lo-fi sound quality. That, or because it’s now illegal for any indie artist in Burlington to make a record without Ryan Power. (I’m joking … I think.) Anyway, we’re really looking forward to re-hearing the record. And, in addition to Hall, the Angioplasty party will also feature sets by ParMaga, dJ disco PhantoM, devil in the woods, lolo and lykeMusik Mit andre, among others. Speaking of new records, the boys from dino Bravo were kind enough to send along a rough cut of a track called “Chuck Berry” from their forthcoming debut EP. And it rawks. It’s been a quiet summer for DB for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was parting ways with drummer Mike cattie — they recorded the EP with Blue Button’s

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HalFlOungE: scott mangan (experimental), 9 p.m., free. Wanted Wednesday with DJ craig mitchell, Thelonious X & Guests (house), 10 p.m., free.

DOBrá tEa: robert resnik (folk), 7 p.m., free. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

HigHEr grOunD BallrOOm: mayer Hawthorne, superhmanoids (soul), 7:30 p.m., $20/23. AA.

HalFlOungE: Half & Half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

JP's PuB: pub Quiz with Dave (trivia), 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free.

HigHEr grOunD BallrOOm: Lettuce, Alan Evans Trio (funk), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA.

manHattan Pizza & PuB: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

JP's PuB: Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free. manHattan Pizza & PuB: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

mOnkEy HOusE: cameo Harlot (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

mOnkEy HOusE: something With strings (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

nEctar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., free. The Edd, Groovestick (live EDm), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

nEctar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. Lynguistic civilians Album release party (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

On taP Bar & grill: chad Hollister (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. raDiO BEan: sophia Donforth (folk), 7 p.m., free. irish sessions, 8 p.m., free. Near North (rock), 11 p.m., free.

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rED squarE: Dave solazzo Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. skinny PancakE: Josh panda's Acoustic soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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rí rá irisH PuB: Dan parks (acoustic rock), 9 p.m., free.

tuPElO music Hall: Open mic with the Jonee Earthquake Band, 7 p.m., free. WHammy Bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., free.

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tHE HuB PizzEria & PuB: Dinner Jazz with fabian rainville, 6:30 p.m., free. Open mic, 9 p.m., free.

city limits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. On tHE risE BakEry: songwriters in the round

mOOg's PlacE: Open mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

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mOnOPOlE: The snacks (rock), 10 p.m., free. mOnOPOlE DOWnstairs: Gary peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., free. tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

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Don Mitchell is reading from those passages at a launch party for Flying Blind at the Intervale Center in Burlington this Sunday, September 8. He’ll be joined by his daughter, who will be performing those songs in tandem with each passage. The event is free, but space is limited, so if you’d like to attend, register at flyingblind.eventbrite. com.

5K Walk to Benefit Turning Point Center of Chittenden County Sunday, 9/8 at Oakledge Park $25 Registration starts at 10am walking at 11am BBQ, Music, Raffles & Family Fun for all!

Local metal chaps AMADIS will be on Contact stepintoactionvt hiatus soon, as guitarist CHAIM ROCHESTER @gmail.com for more info. is set to move to California. The band plays its last show with the original lineup for the foreseeable future this 8/30/13 1:11 PM Sunday, September 8, at Radio Bean — it12v-turningpoint090413.indd 1 & CLUB METRONOME will also be their first in street clothes, Wednesday Night Residency Ft. as opposed to the afore-hinted leather WED chaps. THE EDD 4 w/ Groovestick In a recent email, guitarist FRANKY ANDREAS writes that Amadis are not LYNGUISTIC CIVILIANS THU ALBUM RELEASE PARTY breaking up, but “doing the long5 TRIVIA MANIA! EVERY THURSDAY 7-9PM @NECTARS distance thing for a while.” He adds that Electrode Entertainment Presents the band will be focusing on recording MITIS in the short term and hopes to get back w/ Special Guests Kicks N' Licks, Mahi, Jiffins, T-Hath, to playing more all-ages shows, as Jakels and Ordan @CLUB METRONOME opposed to the “NC-17” version of the FRI THE MOTET band, since, “Honestly, playing heavy w/ Cats Under The Stars (A Tribute to Jerry Garcia Band) 6 metal is all about reaching out to kids NO DIGGITY 90’S NIGHT and young adults.” And also assless EVERY FRIDAY @CLUB METRONOME chaps. SAT

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sets sandwiching a set by ambient rock duo ERRANDS before local sons of DEATH, ROUGH FRANCIS — who, full disclosure, feature 7D designer BOBBY HACKNEY on lead vocals — christen the painstakingly remodeled space by blowing its friggin’ doors off. For more on this year’s Art Hop, visit seaba.com. Or just show up and poke around.

Local music fans know that ANAÏS MITCHELL is a gifted storyteller. It’s safe to say she comes by it honestly, as her father, DON MITCHELL, is a writing prof at Middlebury College and has a new book out via Chelsea Green Publishing called Flying Blind: One Man’s Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace With Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats. In a recent email to 7D, Anaïs writes that the book is partially about her father’s experiences creating a habitat for bats on the Mitchell family farm, but is also a memoir of sorts. She adds that dear ol’ dad quotes from some of her songs in the book that touch on similar themes. Care to guess where this is going?

Last but not least, the LYNGUISTIC CIVILIANS are set to release their new album this Thursday, September 5, at Nectar’s. I haven’t heard it yet, so I can’t offer any insight. But given that the LCs have been one of the most dependably excellent local acts around for the last few years, I’m betting it’s a good one. The album will be available at the show on keychain flash drives, and online thereafter.

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sIgnal kItcHen: cass mccombs (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $10/12. 18+. skInny Pancake: skyler (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Monkey House: s'iva, Writhe, cloudeyes (metal), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nectaR's: happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. The motet, cats under the stars (funk), 9 p.m., $7/10. on taP BaR & gRIll: Loose Association (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RadIo Bean: Kid's music with Linda "tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., Free. matt Francis & chris page (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free. Fiona Luray (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Billy 'n' Gabi (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., Free. titanica (new wave), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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RadIo Bean: Eric George (olde thyme blues), 12:30 p.m., Free. Less Digital, more manual: Record club, 3 p.m., Free. Zani and Gabo Lewis, the Joyful Bastards (classical), 5:30 p.m., Free. Dan Glenn (folk), 7 p.m., Free. carmel mikol & Kim Wempe (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Jason Lee (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Graph Rabbit (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Quiet Lion (basement soul), 11:30 p.m., Free. mickeyWestern & the Rodeo clowns (rock), 1 a.m., Free.

RuBen JaMes: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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PIzza BaRRIo : colin & Gordon (singer-songwriters), 6:30 p.m., Free.

Red squaRe Blue RooM: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. DJ stavros (EDm), 11 p.m., $5.

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on taP BaR & gRIll: The conniption Fits (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Red squaRe: Ellen powell trio (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. The Fat peace (rock), 8 p.m., $5. mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5.

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Red squaRe: charlie hilbert (blues), 5 p.m., Free. Jay D clark (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Red squaRe Blue RooM: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. RuBen JaMes: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá IRIsH PuB: supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

central

BagItos: Keith Williams (blues), 6 p.m., Donations. gReen MountaIn taveRn: DJ Jonny p (top 40), 9 p.m., $2. PosItIve PIe 2: Barika (West African groove), 10:30 p.m., $5. sweet MelIssa's: honky tonk happy hour with mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., Free. stovepipe mountain Band (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., Free. tuPelo MusIc Hall: Antje Duvekot (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $15. wHaMMy BaR: tennessee Jed (Americana), 7 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 MaIn: Eight 02 (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. cIty lIMIts: city Limits Dance party with top hat Entertainment (top 40), 9 p.m., Free. on tHe RIse BakeRy: Dan Glenn (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Donations. Red MIll RestauRant at BasIn HaRBoR cluB: hot neon magic (’80s new Wave), 9 p.m., Free. two BRotHeRs taveRn: Labor of Giants (rock), 6 p.m., Free. mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's knees: malicious Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's Place: Dave Keller Band (blues), 9 p.m., Free. RIMRocks MountaIn taveRn: Friday night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

regional

MonoPole: shameless strangers (rock), 10 p.m., Free. tHeRaPy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

central

BagItos: irish sessions, 2 p.m., Free. PosItIve PIe 2: cats under the stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 10:30 p.m., $10. tHe ReseRvoIR RestauRant & taP RooM: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 10 p.m., Free. sweet MelIssa's: Jason Jack Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. tuPelo MusIc Hall: Bastinado (EDm), 9 p.m., $18.

champlain valley

51 MaIn: Kasata sound (world music, EDm), 8:30 p.m., Free.

sat.07

cIty lIMIts: Dance party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Backstage PuB: mitch & Friends (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free. Wolf pack (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

cHuRcH & MaIn RestauRant: night Vision (EDm), 9 p.m., Free. cluB MetRonoMe: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRanny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HIgHeR gRound BallRooM: spirit Family Reunion, Quiet Lion (Americana), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. HIgHeR gRound sHowcase lounge: start making sense (talking heads cover band), 9 p.m., $12/15. AA. JP's PuB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., Free.

two BRotHeRs taveRn: DJ Jam man (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Bee's knees: Deja nous (French), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHe HuB PIzzeRIa & PuB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. Moog's Place: Willie Edwards Blues Band, 9 p.m., Free. PIecasso: hot neon magic (’80s new Wave), 9 p.m., Free.

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MonoPole: timbre coup (rock), 10 p.m., Free. olIve RIdley's: Gang of Thieves (rock), 9 p.m., nA.

MaRRIott HaRBoR lounge: Anthony santor trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Monkey House: insurrection: Dark Al;ternative Dance nacht (EDm), 10 p.m., $5. 18+. nectaR's: michael chorney & hollar

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In his 2005 review of Deja-Nous’ debut album, The Romance of Paris, then-Seven Days music editor Casey Rea openly committed a critic’s taboo: admitting he had no knowledge of the band’s genre, in this case traditional French music. I’m sorry to say the breadth of knowledge on that score has hardly expanded in the paper’s music department since. Like Rea, I’m not well versed in the nuance or history of French music. And I recall little from middle school French classes — je suis désolé, Madame Day! However, also like my predecessor, I’ve found my Francophilistinism is not at all a barrier to enjoying the latest from the Vermontbased musette quartet, Songs From France & Vermont. As its title — and cover image of the Eiffel Tower superimposed on Burlington — implies, the album is composed of a mix of songs penned by

French transplant and lead vocalist/ guitarist Jean-Jacques Psaute and choice covers by the likes of famed French singers such as Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour, among others. Psaute’s bright originals coexist seamlessly with the likes of Aznavour’s “For Me Formidable” and Piaf’s culture-crossing classic “La Vie en Rose” — the latter of which many American audiences recognize thanks to versions by Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin or Bette Midler. That’s a result of Psaute’s sly, devilish charm and his band’s polished and energetic performance. The album opens on “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg,” Michel Legrand’s theme song from the Jacques Demy musical of the same name starring Catherine Deneuve. While few would confuse Psaute’s gruff rasp with Deneuve’s girlish croon, it’s a pleasant and effective opener. And it segues nicely into the gentle lift of the first Psaute original, “Elle Tourne.” Psaute liberally sprinkles his own works throughout the record, and they are often standouts. “Les Conges Payes”

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That sensibility continues on “If I Had a Hammer,” which, lyrically, is a great ode to feminism. Bassist and vocalist Kelly Riel hits the intensity of Amy Miret of Nausea in her guttural delivery, minus the tight thrash style. Although hard to digest, it’s a fun song and a great piece of poetry. Riel’s bass tone, here and throughout Queen City Riot Grrrl, is as dirty and midrange-y as one would expect from any decent punk-rock album. “I Fight Back” features guitarist Christine Mathias on lead vocals. She is clearly fed up with societal norms, howling, “I got your message loud and clear / You’re the one in power here / I got my taste of freedom / I don’t give up so easily / Is this all you got?” Mathias isn’t afraid of the microphone and attacks it with heat. It may not be innovative, but she fearlessly crosses

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Although Burlington has its fair share of punk and hardcore bands advocating activism, the Queen City doesn’t see much rioting. Fear not, idle anarchists. On Queen City Riot Grrrl, Burlington’s fem-punks Doll Fight! deploy enough sonic weaponry — not to mention classically styled punk rock — to make you want to handcraft a Molotov cocktail. Queen City Riot Grrrl is Doll Fight!’s first full-length album and, since they recently broke up, it is their last. It is also lo-fi, in your face, pissed off and to the point. It is at times unbearable. But, especially given the irascible nature of their earlier EPs, that may have been the band’s intention. DF! encapsulate many styles, often borrowing song structures from Black Flag and occasionally even channeling the delicate vocal nature of the Breeders. Fittingly, the album starts out with a 1980s-styled punk anthem, “All I Wanted.” Growling bass, heavily distorted guitar and carefully delivered vocals create an old-school feel.

is a rambunctious ditty highlighted by a nifty solo from drummer Dave Whittle. “Tracy” is built around a playful bass and piano progression courtesy of Peter K. K. Williams and Rob Guerinna, respectively. But as capable as his bandmates are, the focus is rightly on Psaute. While he’s not an exceptionally gifted singer, his roguish delivery is irresistibly likable, tinged in equal measures with cheer and sadness. Nowhere is that more evident than on the acoustic album closer, “Jeremy,” a song that is sweet and moving no matter what language you speak. Deja-Nous release Songs From France & Vermont with a special performance at the FlynnSpace in Burlington on Saturday, September 14. For more info, visit theromanceofparis. com.

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radio beaN: stephen callahan trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Dale cavanaugh (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-tonk sessions, 10 p.m., $3.

FraNNy o'S: Vermont's Got talent Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. HalFloUNge: B-sides (deep house), 7 p.m., Free.

red SqUare: small change (tom Waits tribute), 7 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

MoNkey HoUSe: spark arts Open improv Jam, 7 p.m., $5. NeCtar'S: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

central

oN tap bar & grill: Zack Dupont (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free.

red SqUare: DJ Robbie J (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. SigNal kitCHeN: Xenia Rubinos, man man (experimental), 9 p.m., $13/15. aa. SkiNNy paNCake: skyler (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

northern

bee'S kNeeS: Rebecca padula (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Donations. Vt comedy club showcase (standup), 8 p.m., Donations.

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MatterHorN: chris tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.

MoN.09

burlington area

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

olde NortHeNder: abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. oN tap bar & grill: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

ClUb MetroNoMe: sunday Night mass: Dusky (EDm), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

radio beaN: Gypsy Jazz Brunch, 11 a.m., Free. saloon sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., Free. amadis (metal), 4 p.m., Free. Thomas cadrin & max Garcia conover (folk), 7 p.m., Free. calen perkins (folk), 9 p.m., Free. The Dogs From Hell (rock), 10:30 p.m., Free.

NeCtar'S: Gubbuldis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free. Viva La Hop (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

CHarlie o'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. Sweet MeliSSa'S: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

champlain valley two brotHerS taverN: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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Suunshine On their recently released sophomore album, Images Du Futur,

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bee'S kNeeS: children's sing along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations.

frenzied, fuzzed-out anthems that owe as much to shoegaze and Krautrock as Detroit

Moog'S plaCe: Jason Wedlock (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

house music and are in equal turns unsettling and exhilarating. This Tuesday, September

parker pie Co.: acoustic Fusion Jam, 7:30 p.m., Free.

10, Suuns play the Monkey House in Winooski with Helado Negro. HalFloUNge: Family Night Live Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free.

radio beaN: Open mic, 9 p.m., Free.

HigHer groUNd ballrooM: Volcano choir, sylvan Esso, sam amidon (indie), 7:30 p.m., $22/25. aa.

red SqUare: The Fizz (rock), 7 p.m., Free. mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free.

Jp'S pUb: Dance Video Request Night with melody (dance), 10 p.m., Free. MaNHattaN pizza & pUb: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. NeCtar'S: metal monday: the casualties, Led to the Grave, the Worst Five minutes of Your Life, trapper Keeper (punk), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+. oN tap bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

rUbeN JaMeS: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

CHarlie o'S: trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

northern

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

tUe.10

burlington area

ClUb MetroNoMe: Dead set with cats under the stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. FraNNy o'S: Watch Your Head (rock), 9 p.m., Free. HalFloUNge: Funkwagon's tequila project (funk), 10 p.m., Free. MoNkey HoUSe: am & msR presents: suuns, Helado Negro (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10. MoNty'S old briCk taverN: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

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gUSto'S: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. SkiNNy paNCake: Jay Ekis & Friends (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. Sweet MeliSSa'S: Dale cavanaugh (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. wHaMMy bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

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City liMitS: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. oN tHe riSe bakery: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Free. two brotHerS taverN: trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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tHe HUb pizzeria & pUb: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

HalFloUNge: scott mangan (experimental), 9 p.m., Free. Wanted Wednesday with DJ craig mitchell, Thelonious X & Guests (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Moog'S plaCe: seth Eames & miriam Bernardo (singersongwriters), 8:30 p.m., Free.

HigHer groUNd SHowCaSe loUNge: Vanna, Great american Ghost, Half past Human (hardcore), 7:30 p.m., $12/14. aa.

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Her studio, in the new Satellite space behind Feldman’s Bagels on Pine Street, hints at the diversity of Manock’s art making. A large stack of painted blocks stands along one wall (they’re actually Magic Hat Brewing Company boxes, and will star in an upcoming video), and an oddly striped fake-fur “hide” is tacked on the opposite wall. Two big, hand-painted plaid squares take up space on the back wall, while an oversize jellyfish with bulbous eyes ogles the room from a perch on a shelf. A tiny cupcake sits on Manock’s workbench, surrounded by neatly labeled studio supplies. There’s a touch of whimsy even here — paint colors and boxes are labeled, but so are more obvious objects, such as the unopened package of straws, or the Mason jar tagged “FEAR.” Closer inspection reveals a crumpled spider inside. And then there are the faces. Nearly every flat surface has a smile drawn on it with a Sharpie pen, a practice Manock started 10 years ago when she lived in Boston. She says she was “maybe kinda lonely” when she began adding smiles to old coffee cups, but the practice quickly turned into a habit. “It’s my army of assistants,” she says, pointing at a bevy of grinning 10-gallon buckets in the corner. “If that was just a bunch of buckets, you wouldn’t even notice them. But when it has a face on it, it’s like its own entity … all of a sudden it’s just kind of friendly.” “Kind of friendly” applies to one of Manock’s best-known projects, too: a family of 18-foot inflated “noodles” modeled after the popular air-powered, inflatable roadside attractions often used by car washes and dealers to get drivers’ attention. But Manock’s noodle family, which will be showcased at Seven Days’ tent this Friday at the South End Art Hop, is a different beast altogether. “I think of them as actors or performers,” Manock says. “The form is just a stock shape — they’re regular car-wash noodles — but now they’re wearing my costumes.” Manock created the Noodle Family Traveling Circus for the notoriously colorful Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival in Indio, Calif. She landed

MATTHEW THORSEN

erendipity has favored Burlington artist Abby Manock. That’s partly because her colorful, elemental style lends itself to cool collaborations, and partly because of her adventurous spirit. If a proposed project holds a glimmer of interest, Manock is in.

draped over a high rod, waiting for their next deployment. They’re “kinda like my children,” she says, while brainstorming aloud about expanding the family for her next Coachella proposal. “I thought I was done with music festivals when I was, like, 18, but I still love being behind the fence and seeing people look at your work,” Manock says. “People really get into it in a way that they don’t at galleries or museums. It feels good to just make people smile when they look at my work.” Manock’s next local project, a series of large-scale jellyfish that will float on cables in City Hall Park, promises similar levity, although the artist is giving it a science-y spin by wearing a white lab coat for the installation.

IT FEELS GOOD TO JUST MAKE PEOPLE SMILE WHEN THEY LOOK AT MY WORK.

ABBY MANOCK

Abby Manock in her studio

the commission while painting 12-foot plywood murals at the Bonaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., where she crossed paths with the visual-design organizer for Coachella. Manock’s first proposal — a scaled-back version of the noodle family — was rejected, but the Coachella design team invited her to revisit the idea the following year. “I was, like, really? OK, now how am I going to make it say something about my work? If that many people are going to see your work, you want to really love it!” Manock says. “I wanted it to look like my

work, not just something you’d see at a car wash. So I started to research how I was going to do it.” As in many of her projects, color was the answer. Wild stripes and chevrons in Manock’s five signature colors — red, pink, yellow, teal and green — cover the tubular balloons, which are inflated by a plaidcovered blower and topped by, of course, a smile. The colors are heat-printed on a soft, silky material that snaps briskly in the breeze, giving each noodle its characteristic wave. In Manock’s studio, the noodles are

“I’m going to weight them so they hang and swish around like real jellyfish,” she says. “And if they get damaged by people in the park, it’s going to be, like, ‘Why are you destroying this species?’” She stops to think for a minute. “Even if it gets tampered with, I can get out there and make signs like ‘Save the Jellyfish!’” Manock exclaims. “I’m excited to see what might happen!” In the past, waiting to “see what might happen” has landed Manock gigs creating art for Phish shows, hand-stenciling entire barns with Cabot Cheese plaid and covering local walls with murals. She also runs a design business called abbyabby, for which she creates custom fabric, bags and pillows. Many feature a nebulous-looking, four-legged creature. “Really, though, I love to draw and to create,” Manock says. “I don’t want to be a corporation. I’m primarily supporting myself through my art and always looking for projects. If I’m approached by someone who wants me to make something weird, hell, yeah! Don’t you go looking any farther. I’m interested.”

The South End Art Hop is this Friday through Sunday, September 6 to 8, in Burlington. seaba.com, abbyabby.com

Art ShowS

reCeptionS JordAn doUgLAS: A collection of photographs by the Vermont artist. Through september 30 at burlington natural health Center. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-7 p.m. info, 238-8603. 'onCe Upon A time': howard nelson Riley's folk art is presented alongside the work of local artists. Through october 30 at Artists' Mediums in williston. Reception: Thursday, september 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. info, 879-1236. KAren gUtH & emiLy LAnCtot: "Detroit: Current Reflections," video installation and photography reflecting on firsthand experiences with Motor City. Through september 14 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Reception: Thursday, september 5, 3-5 p.m. info, 635-1469. CAroL mACdonALd: "Two Threads," a series of hand-pulled monoprints through which the Vermont artist explores issues of community, life, process and communication. september 5 through october 28 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Reception: Thursday, september 5, 5-7 p.m. info, 888-1261. StACey StAnHope & doLoreS fUrnAri: "Renditions of Folk Art," pottery with a wood-cut look by stanhope; paintings in the style of 19th century itinerant artists by Furnari. september 6 through november 5 at brandon Artists guild. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-7 p.m. info, 247-4956.

'eArtH AS mUSe: BeAUty, degrAdAtion, Hope, regenerAtion, AwAKening': Artwork that celebrates the earth's beauty while reflecting on tensions between mankind and the environment by Fran bull, pat Musick, harry A. Rich, Jenny swanson and Richard weis. september 6 through April 4 at the

'wAter ABove, SKy BeLow': large-scale artwork inspired by the relationship between water and sky by homer wells, Rory Jackson, Ross sheehan and Duker bower. september 6 through october 26 at Flynndog in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-10 p.m. info, 415-680-4966. HArLAn mACK: paintings on tarpaper that depict the artist's mythical narrative about the "Rage Tank," a vessel that absorbs unwanted emotions. september 1 though 30 at Red square in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-9 p.m. 'pointS of view: Seven portrAit ArtiStS': An exhibit that chronicles the development of a group of central Vermont artists — Agathe McQueston, lark upson, sande French-stockwell, Judith beckett, liesi hebert, Marcia hammond and Joan Feierabend — who work each week from the same model. september 7 through november 10 at Chandler gallery in Randolph. Reception: saturday, september 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 728-9878. vermont wAterCoLor SoCiety: Figurative work by member artists Annelein beukenkamp, Karen Casper, linda Disante, Marni McKitrick, Charles norris-brown and Jean Cannon. september 6 through october 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-9 p.m. info, 864-2088. SoUtH end Art Hop originAL JUried SHow: The 21st annual show features 45 works selected by juror pavel Zoubok, owner of new York City's pavel Zoubok gallery, and founder and director of the nonprofit arts organization the international Collage Center. september 6 through 30 at seAbA Center in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-9 p.m. info, 859-9222.

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Art Hop SHow: A collaborative group show featuring more than 25 artists. Through november 30 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 651-9692.

'CUBA: Street LeveL': work by 11 student photographers who visited Cuba last year for peter Curtis' street-photography class. Through october 1 at the gallery at burlington College. info, 862-9616.

KAtHArine montStreAm: "Moran plant interiors," paintings of the inside of burlington's long-abandoned electrical plant. september 5 through 30 at Montstream studio in burlington. Reception: Thursday, september 5, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 862-8752. CHe SCHreiner: work influenced by the artist's extensive travels around the world studying indigenous healing from different cultures. september 6 through 30 at salaam and the Men's store in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-8822. eriKSSon fine Art fALL exHiBit: oil paintings by Dennis hartley; paintings and sculptures by warren Kimble; and photography by Don Ross. september 7 through october 15 at Comfort Farm in stowe. Reception: saturday, september 7, 6-9 p.m. info, erikssonfineart.com. rAy ferrer: street art-inspired stencil and spray-painted works on canvas; 'SHAred Horizon': landscape works by west branch artists hung playfully as a group to share one continuous horizon line. Through september 29 at upstairs at west branch in stowe. Reception: saturday, september 7, 4-6 p.m. info, 253-8943. LeonArd rAgoUzeoS: "About Face," portraits of faces and everyday objects in india ink on paper. Through october 4 at Christine price gallery, Castleton state College. Reception: Tuesday, september 10, 12:30-2:30 p.m. info, 468-1266.

CArL rUBino: "Faces in the Crowd," multipleexposure photographs taken in Times square in which a single pair of eyes stares directly into the camera from a crowd of passersby avoiding eye contact. september 5 through october 27 at healthy living Market and Café in south burlington. info, 863-2569. CArL rUBino: “Contemplating our horizons — The lake Champlain series,” color and black-andwhite images, literal and abstract, shot on lake Champlain or its shores. Curated by seAbA. september 5 through november 30 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, facebook.com/carlrubinophotography. 'CoLor, pAttern, wHimSy, SCALe: tHe BeSt of SHeLBUrne mUSeUm': nearly 100 works from

art listings and spotlights are written by mEgAN jAmES. listings are restricted to art shows in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor.

'repreSent': An annual show coinciding with Art hop that highlights the unique talents of artists near and dear to the gallery. september 6 through 28 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5 p.m.-midnight. info, spacegalleryvt. com. '5 And dime': work affordably priced between $5 and $100. september 6 through 28 at backspace gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5 p.m.-midnight. info, spacegalleryvt. com.

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StUdio 266 groUp exHiBit: work by the studio tenants. september 6 through 28 at studio 266 in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-10 p.m. info, 8v-towncobbler090413.indd 1 266studios@gmail.com. 'foUr ArtiStS; foUr deCAdeS': work by the art center's cofounder lili Mayor and AVA-affiliated artists Jon Keenan, Colleen Randall and Clifford b. west. september 7 through october 4 at AVA gallery and Art Center in lebanon, n.h. Reception: saturday, september 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 603-448-3117. Annie tiBerio CAmeron: photographs of the natural world paired with the poetry of Robert Frost to coincide with lost nation Theater's production of Robert Frost: This Verse Business. september 6 through 22 at Montpelier City hall Auditorium. Reception: Friday, september 6, 6:45-8 p.m. info, 229-0492.

the permanent collection including paintings, folk art, furniture, wallpaper, decorative arts, textiles, costumes and more, exhibited in conjunction with the grand opening of the pizzagalli Center for Art and education. Through December 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346. 'CoLor-BLind': photographers from around the world exhibit their timeless black-and-white shots. Through september 15 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. dierdrA miCHeLLe: "invited guests," portraits by the Vermont artist. september 6 through 8 at black horse Fine Art supply in burlington. info, 860-4972.

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rACHeL KAHn-fogeL: “incongruities,” paintings that depict common objects in incongruous combinations, expressing the contrasts of life. september 6 through 30 at at Vintage inspired in burlington. Reception: live jazz, Friday, september 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m. info, 355-5418.

SeCond AnniverSAry SHow: Framed artwork the Dosties have acquired during their two years in business, including work by Adrian Tans, steve hogan, Matthew Douglas, stephanie holman Thwaites, grace weaver, benjamin peberdy, sage TuckerKetcham, brooke Monte and more. september 6 through 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5-9 p.m. info, 660-9005.

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Bonnie BAird: oil landscape paintings of Vermont and scotland. Through october 29 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001.

forreSt HoLzApfeL: "The labors of silence," photographs that explore the contours of 19th-century domestic surfaces and everyday artifacts. september 6 through november 2 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 6, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 652-4505.

doLoreS pArK: "on eagle's wings," artwork made in response to a visit to the nazi concentration camp Dachau, plus Vermont landscapes. Through october 4 at Calvin Coolidge library, Castleton state College. Reception: wednesday, september 11, 4-6 p.m. info, 468-1266.

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KAtHArine montStreAm: "After hours — The Queen City; Dusk to Dawn," original watercolors by the burlington artist who is celebrating her 25th year "coloring for a living." september 6 through 30 at Frog hollow in burlington. Reception:

Friday, september 6, 5-8 p.m. info, 863-6458.

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SeptemBer ArtiStS: paintings by Jim Foote and Melissa haberman, and paper sculptures by becky wright. september 8 through 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery in enosburg Falls. Reception: sunday, september 8, 1-4 p.m. info, 933-6403.

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ElizabEth llEwEllyn: "sunlight and shadow," equine art in graphite and colored pencil. Through october 31 at Charlotte library. info, 951-9076. 'FacEbook 1st 50': The 3rd annual exhibit of work by the first 50 local artists to respond to a call on Facebook. Through september 29 at Art's Alive gallery in burlington. info, 660-9005. 'Finding community in thE archivE: thE vErmont QuEEr archivEs': Zines, photographs, dance posters and more from Ru12? Community Center's archives. Through september 28 at pickering Room, Fletcher Free library, in burlington. info, 865-7211. 'glass arE us': graal glasswork and sculpture, all hand blown and sculpted in the pine street workshop. Through september 27 at Ao! glass in burlington. info, 488-4455.

on a 60-pound backpack — filled with taboret and easel, among more conventional hiking gear — and hiked into the Adirondack Park. His goal? To sketch the landscape

of the Cascade Lake region and to bring a bit of that wildness back to his studio. At 25, Cunningham seems to be preternaturally talented, producing rich and poetic oil paintings. The lush landscapes that resulted from his hike are on display in a show Pictured: “Birch.”

stEvEn p. goodman & camEron schmitz: "Double Vision," landscape paintings. Through september 24 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848. susan tEarE: "The Art of place," architectural photography. september 6 through october 22 at burlington Furniture Company. info, 383-1808.

hal mayForth: "My sketchbook Made Me Do it!" paintings by the Vermont illustrator. Through september 30 at brownell library in essex Junction. info, 878-6955. halEy bishop: Colorful, layered mixed-media images of familiar spaces by the winner of 2012’s "labels for libations" competition for seAbA/Magic hat’s Art hop Ale. Through november 30 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614.

'visions oF vErmont': photography by lisa Dimondstein, patricia lyon-surrey, Julie parker and sandra shenk, and pottery by gail Yanowitch. Through november 29 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222.

Jan rEynolds: work by the photojournalist whose world-record-breaking skiing adventures have taken her to every continent. Through september 30 at ArtsRiot in burlington. info, 203-788-0909.

'wyEth vErtigo': works by three generations of one of the most influential families in modern American art — n.C., Andrew and Jamie wyeth. Through october 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346.

'largEr than liFE: Quilts by vElda nEwman': Contemporary fiber art; 'trailblazErs: horsEpowErEd vEhiclEs': An exhibit that explores connections between 19th-century carriages and today’s automotive culture; 'ogdEn plEissnEr, landscapE paintEr': watercolor sketches and finished paintings. Through october 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346. sam Falls & sarah o donnEll: sculpture and painting inspired by photography, and a light-based installation based on burlington's Moran plant, respectively, in the second Floor gallery. Through september 21 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7165.

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27th annual Quilt Exhibition: More than 50 colorful quilts made in windsor County. Through september 22 at billings Farm & Museum in woodstock. info, billingsfarm.org. '40 yEars oF dancing': A photographic retrospective of Contemporary Dance and Fitness studio. september 11 through october 26 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness studio in Montpelier. info, 229-4676. alEJandro angio: "Awakening of the ink Dragon," sumi-e ink drawings on rice and mulberry paper by the Argentina-born artist. Through september 30 at Montpelier City hall. info, 249-9563. alExis savino: "Cinema of surveillance," a series of semiabstract, post-cubist drawings created behind the scenes of a film project. Through october 5 at the green bean Art gallery at Capitol grounds in Montpelier. info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

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called “Adirondack Lake” at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury through September 30.

shaun boycE & Emily hEath: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artists. Through september 30 at Magic hat brewing Company in south burlington. info, 658-2739.

'this was mE: sElF-taught art From thE g.r.a.c.E. gallEry collEction': Thirty works by nearly a dozen artists affiliated with hardwick's community-art organization, including gayleen Aiken and larry bissonnette. Through september 26 at new City galerie in burlington. info, 735-2542.

karEn day-vath: paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at speeder & earl's (pine street) in burlington. info, 658-6016.

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sEptEmbEr Exhibit: work by Carl Rubino, erika lawlor schmidt, gaal shepherd, Marie lapre grabon, nissa Kauppila, sam Krotinger and scott einsig/Red birch studios. Curated by seAbA. Through september 30 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222.

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talks & events First Friday art Walk: Galleries, shops and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, September 6, 5-8 p.m., Various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 264-4839. essex art league Meeting: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, September 5, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church, Essex Junction. Info, essexartleague.com. liFe-draWing session: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. Wednesday, September 4, 6-9 p.m.; Sunday, September 8, 2-5 p.m.; Wednesday, September 11, 6-9 p.m., Black Horse Fine Art Supply, Burlington. Info, 860-4972. Woodstock art and Wine Festival: More than 40 area artists display their work alongside Vermont wines. Saturday through Sunday, September 7-8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. Info, 457-3555. Book arts guild oF verMont Meeting: Amy L. Burns gives a hands-on mini-workshop on making books from recycled cake-mix boxes. Wednesday, September 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Unitarian Church, Burlington. Info, bookartsvt@gmail.com.

‘Fashion & Fantasy at the edge oF the Forest’: Selections from the museum’s vintage clothing collection paired with Vermont artist Wendy Copp’s imaginative couture creations made from natural materials such as ferns, birch bark and hydrangea. Through November 3 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Talk: Wednesday, September 4, noon-1 p.m.; Wednesday, September 11, noon-1 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

BishoP street artists art shoW & sale: Artwork and books for sale by Jane Bower, Pat Burton, Mary Ellen Bushey, Joy Choquette, Louise Bellows Counos, Clair Dunn, Don Grenier, Ann Levy, Beth Maginn, Sarah Rosedahl, Meta Strick and Ann Volatile. Friday, September 6, 5-8 p.m.; Saturday, September 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, September 8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans. Info, 524-6212.

‘PeoPle and Pottery: an ancient and intiMate relationshiP’: Vermont potter Robert Compton and archaeologist Charlie Paquin give demonstrations and discuss ancient and contemporary pottery. Saturday, September 7, 1-4 p.m., Vermont History Center, Barre. Info, 828-3050.

south end art hoP: More than 500 Vermont artists show their work in artist studios, galleries, exhibition sites and local businesses throughout the Pine Street corridor. Friday, September 6, 5-10:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 7, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, September 8, noon-4 p.m., Various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

roBert coMPton & christine hoMer: “Fire and Fiber,” an exhibit of work by the husband-and-wife artists — pottery by Compton; scarves and shawls by Homer. Through September 26 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Talk: Compton discusses his techniques. Friday, September 6, 5-7 p.m. Info, 748-0158. hal MayForth: Mayforth discusses the creative process and how 30-plus years of keeping sketchbooks has shaped his career. Wednesday, September 11, 7 p.m., Brownell Library, Essex Junction.

carol Macdonald: "Regeneration," work by the Vermont printmaker. Through October 25 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, cvmc.org/art-gallery.

'Folk vision: Folk art FroM neW england and Beyond': Works by Gayleen Aiken, Merrill Densmore, Howard Finster, HJ Laurent, Theodore Ludwiczak, Violetta Raditz, Nek Chand Saini, Russell Snow and Burleigh Woodard, plus 19thcentury sandpapers, bottle whimseys and more. Through October 5 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

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art hoP silent auction: Work by Vermont artists. Proceeds support the Art Therapy Association of Vermont’s community-service projects. Saturday, September 7, 5-8 p.m., Maltex Building, Burlington. Info, 434-4834. Wood-Fire kiln deMonstration & studio sale: BCA Clay Studio technician Chris Vaughn and Clay Construction’s Josh Quinlan operate a 20-foot-high kiln to fire dozens of clay forms and pots. Friday, September 6, 5-10 p.m., ReSOURCE, Burlington. Info, 865-5355.

'Journey into Process': Ink brushwork, etchings, acrylics, oils and works on paper by Carol Cannon, Jane Davies, Tom Merwin, Helen O'Donnell and Carolyn Shattuck. Through September 8 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018.

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kevin Fahey: "Meditations on Color and Light," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 24 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, outreach@chandler-arts.org. Michael Boylen & Mark dannenhauer: "Bread and Puppet, an Emerging Mosaic," a multi-year, multimedia portrait created from the memories, stories and images of the Bread and Puppet community; color prints from re-photographed slides of 1974 and 1977 shows by Boylen. Through September 29 at Plainfield Community Center. Info, 371-7239. Pat Musick: "The Instant of It All," drawings and sculptures exploring the theme of aging inspired by the words of Russian poet Boris Pasternak. Photo ID required for admission. Through September 27 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. 'Playing With tiMe': An exhibit that incorporates high-speed photography, time-lapse videos and animation to explore science and the ever-changing world. Through September 8 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

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'harvest: a gathering oF gMc aluMni artists': Work by Susan Barrows Wood, Jennifer Gioe Peper, Carrie Pill, Alexander Churchill and Patrick Girard. September 10 through October 4 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Info, 287-8398.

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riCHarD aMBElaNG: "Landscape into Abstraction," a series of 35mm, digital and medium-format color transparency images of abstracted portions of the New England and Pacific Northwest landscapes. Through October 31 at Goddard Art Gallery, Pratt Center, Goddard College, in Plainfield. Info, 800-322-1608. 'roUND': Circular objects ranging from uniform buttons to oddities such as a foot-powered dentist’s drill; 'tHEsE HoNorED DEaD: PriVatE aND NatioNal CoMMEMoratioN': An exhibit that tells the stories of Norwich alumni from both sides of the Civil War, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals. Through December 20 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. 'sErViCE aND saCriFiCE: VErMoNt’s CiVil War GENEratioN': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the Civil War dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout Vermont. Through November 30 at Vermont History Center in Barre. Info, 479-8500. traCEY HaMBlEtoN: "Within Reach," landscape oil paintings by the owner and operator of the historic Marshfield Inn and Motel. September 5 through October 27 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, info@blinkinglightgallery.com. 'UNBoUND, Vol. iii': An annual juried show that explores the idea of "the book" and all the ways artists use that format as a stepping-off point. Through September 7 at ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in Woodstock. Info, 457-3500. 'VisioNs oF a HoMEtoWN': The Milton Artists' Guild's traveling exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the town's founding and the 25th anniversary of the guild. Through September 30 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, milton artistsguild.org.

Call to artists FEast: FooD PHotoraPHY: Calling for submissions. Deadline: October 16, midnight. Juror: Matt Armendariz. From farm to table: the harvesting, preparing and plating of culinary masterpieces. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex49. sHarE stUDio/GallErY sPaCE: The Storefront Studio Gallery in Montpelier seeks artists to split rent. Members would enjoy shared studio and gallery space open to the public. Info, 839-5349, glen@ gchfineart.com. riVEr arts 4tH aNNUal oPEN stUDio WEEKEND: October 5 and 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Visual, craft and design artists in all media are invited to exhibit and sell their work, with the goal of bringing an anticipated 10 artists under one roof! Interested artists should email at least five samples of their work — or a link to their website — to info@riverartsvt. org, or mail to River Arts, P.O. Box 829, Morrisville, VT 05661. Name, address, media and a short bio for jury purposes should be included. Spaces

arCHitECtUral stUDiEs sENior tHEsis DEsiGN ExHiBitioN: Models, drawings and architectural renderings by students who graduated last spring. September 9 through October 13 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168. CHEPE CUaDra: "Back Portraits / In Search of an Identity," paintings of figures as seen from behind by the Nicaraguan-born artist. Through October 25 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. EMilY K. roBErtsoN: "Words of Wisdom," hooked and sewn wool rugs with a message. Through November 1 at Rae Harrell Gallery in Hinesburg. Info, 734-7363. JENN CUllEN: "Illustrations," pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the animal kingdom, old-time vaudeville and "razzle-dazzle camouflage." Through September 14 at Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2878. Klara Calitri: "Allegories," a visual memoir told through monoprints. September 10 through October 30 at ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 989-9992. '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. September 10 through 18 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. '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 September 8 at Vermont State Fairgrounds in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. ross sHEEHaN: "Cinders and Cones," a new body of "neo-expressionistic pop" paintings and sculptures by the co-owner of Vergennes' Outerlands Gallery. Through September 13 at Otter Creek Framing in Middlebury. Info, 870-7228.

are limited, exhibitor fee of $45. Deadline: September 20. Call 888-1261 for more details. Call For DarK art: The S.P.A.C.E. and Backspace Galleries are looking for artwork for our Halloween show that best defines the “art of horror.” The work we are looking for will represent the beautiful side of decay, the finer points of bloodletting and that special something inside a depraved mind. We will accept 2-D, 3-D and photography. Deadline for entries: September 16. Info, spacegalleryvt.com/call-toartists/#horror; or email/ call Beth at spacegalleryvt@ gmail.com, 578-2512. Call to artisaNs: Chandler is accepting submissions of arts, fine crafts and high-quality specialty food items for its 12th annual Holiday Bazaar, November 16 through December 23. An entry form can be downloaded at chandler-arts.org (click on Gallery tab). Info, Emily, 431-0204 or outreach@ chandler-arts.org. WrittEN iN stoNE: VoiCEs oF tHE GlBtQ CoMMUNitY: The Main Street Museum, in collaboration with Molly E. O’Hara, would like to hold a juried art exhibition for GLBTQ artists of

Vermont and the Upper Valley. All media accepted. Consider these questions: Who are you? How do you express yourself within your community? Who is your community? Where is your voice heard? Spoken word and performance pieces welcome! Deadline: September 30. Submit pieces to Main Street Museum, 58 Bridge St., Studio 6, White River Junction, VT 05001, or send photographs to ohara.molly.e@gmail.com. Info, 291-3950. ‘MaKE BEliEVE’ PHoto sHoW: Calling for submissions. Roleplay, tell tall tales, wear your brightest costume and submit your photos! Deadline: September 18, midnight. Juror: Andy Bloxham. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex48/. oPEN GroUP sHoW at “CrEatiVE CoMP” First Friday of every month. $8 entry fee; limit one 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, 6-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for the month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 5403081 or email publicartschool@ gmail.com.

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TJ Cuningham: "Adirondack Lake," paintings of the Vermont artist's recent hike through the Cascade Lake area in New York. Through September 30 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. 'The Breeding Bird Atlas: Science and Art': A special exhibit in collaboration with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies features work by 14 artists and photographers and more than 300 citizen scientists; and Peter Padua: Carved-wood birds by the 90-year-old artist. Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 434-2167. 'The Power of Water: Reflections on Rivers and Lessons from Irene': An exhibit that explores Vermonters’ relationships with rivers, based on interviews conducted over the last year with more than 140 Vermonters in 14 communities. Through September 7 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'Through the Lens': The many seasons and moods of Lake Champlain are reflected in this juried exhibit of work by professional and amateur photographers. Through October 13 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, 475-2022.

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'Vito Acconci: Thinking Space': An exhibition that marks the inauguration on campus of a replica of Acconci’s "Way Station I," which was constructed in 1983 near what is now McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

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energy and my source of constant fascination,” writes Kathleen Berry Bergeron in her nostalgic New England scenes. She’s also known throughout the state as a teacher of watercolor workshops. In a new exhibit at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, Bergeron shows her work side by side with that of her students. September 5 through October 6. Pictured: “Waterfront Sunset.”

'Best of the Northeast Masters of Fine Arts 2013 Exhibition': The second biennial exhibition offering an introduction to the strongest emerging artists in MFA degree programs in New England, Québec and New York. Through September 8 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. Bonnie Acker: "Vermont Outlook: Works on Paper," impressionistic paintings by the Vermont artist. Through October 1 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. Chip Troiano: Photographs of the landscape of New Zealand's south island. Through October 20 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

'Family Ties: Art Across the Generations': Works by two generations of artists from three families including Vanessa Compton, Kay Brown, Eric and Eliza Tobin, and Amanda and Anna Weisenfeld. Through September 23 at Miller's Thumb Gallery in Greensboro. Info, 533-2045.

with Bread and Puppet Theater and Blue Man Group. He currently lives in New

York City, where he acts, writes, directs and paints. A collection of Savino’s ink-andwatercolor drawings, called “Cinema of Surveillance,” are at the Green Bean Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier through October 5. In these semi-abstract images, Savino offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into a film project he worked on in Hollywood in

Meg Gibson: "Terrible Beauty; Invasive Species," paintings. Through September 30 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366. RT Simon: "Several Little Books With Big Prints," photographic images of the Bread and Puppet landscape presented as tiny books and larger prints. Through September 10 at Bread and Puppet

Trine Wilson: Floral photographs by the Vermont artist. Through September 30 at Jeff's Maine Seafood in St. Albans. Info, 355-4834. 'Unspoken Wisdoms': Giovanna Cecchetti's abstract works investigate space-time patterns, quantum physics and nonlocal information theory; Janis Pozzi Johnson's oil paintings offer a meditation on landscape; and Louis Sclafani's glass and copper busts contain many profiles within a single portrait. Through October 31 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

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‘Duets’: Oil paintings, drawings, pastels, photographs, prints and sculptures by member artists, as well as solo exhibits by John Richards, Alexandra Eckhardt and Ron Vallario. Through September 29 at Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. Kate Gridley: “Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults,” larger-than-life paintings of 17 young Vermonters, accompanied by audio excerpts from interviews. Through October 13 at Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. Lodiza LePore: “Circus on Broken Boulevard,” photographs of porcelain figurines assembled in tableaux that confront themes such as child abuse, innocence, power and greed. Through September 18 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571. ‘Red Grooms: What’s the Ruckus’: An exhibit spanning the artist’s six-decade career and featuring several of his signature, large-scale, interactive sculptures, including a near life-size replica of a New York City bus, replete with a driver and passengers. Through October 20 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

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'Between Tradition and Modernity: The Art of Fan Tchunpi': Oil paintings, works on paper and ceramics by one of the most important and prolific Chinese artists of the modern era. September 7 through December 8 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095. Dale Chihuly: "Mille Fiori," an exhibition of glass sculptures specifically designed for the museum’s interior architecture. Through October 20 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000. 'It Would Make a Heart of Stone Melt: Sickness, Injury and Medicine at Fort Ticonderoga': An overview of 18th-century medical practices, diseases and the treatment of wounds for the armies that fought in America during the French and Indian War and American Revolution. Through October 31 at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. Info, 518-585-2821. 'Picasso: The Vollard Suite': A series of the artist's 100 etchings created between 1930 and '37. Through December 20 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095. Winkie Kelsey: "Chisel, Brush and Pen," stone sculptures, paintings and ink drawings by the New Hampshire artist. Proceeds benefit the art center. Through September 29 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. m

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Liz Le Serviget: "A Dog's World," a celebration of dogs depicted in oil paintings, furniture, stone assemblage, ceramics and fabric. Through November 15 at Inky Dinky Oinkink Gallery in Moscow. Info, 253-3046.

Sophie Bettmann-Kerson: "Stone Works," seven pieces carved from marble, alabaster and granite and inspired by elemental forms, the work of Isamu Noguchi and Greco-Roman classics. Through September 19 at Black Box Gallery, Visual Arts Center, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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Kathleen Berry Bergeron: Work by the Vermont watercolorist and her students. September 5 through October 6 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

Selina Cote: "In Foraging," a series of black-andwhite photographs that explore the artist's role as forager. Through September 30 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 888-7889.

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Sabrina Fadial & Phillip Robertson: "Marginal Sanctuaries," sculptures, prints and collaborative work. September 5 through 28 at Mason Green Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson. Info, 635-2727.

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'Draw the Line and Make Your Point: The Pencil and the 21st Century': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world. Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409.

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riends thought I was joking when I said I wanted to see this film. I am not a Directioner. I’m a middle-aged man. For all practical purposes, those are opposites. I wanted to see it, though, for the same reason I want to see any documentary: to learn something. Nobody expressed concern for my mental health when I saw No End in Sight (2007), Charles Ferguson’s account of Bush’s bungling of the Iraq war; or The Cove, Louie Psihoyos’ 2009 exposé about animal abuse in Japan. I’m particularly fond of documentaries about creative or artistic types. If curiosity led me to movies such as Sydney Pollack’s Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006), or the granddaddy of the rock doc, D.A. Pennebaker’s Dylan chronicle Don’t Look Back (1967), would it be less likely to lead me to One Direction: This Is Us? Hell, yeah. For the obvious reason that 1D aren’t artists or creative types. Of the band’s members (Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan), only Horan can even play an instrument. They claim no genius for studio experimentation and admit they can’t dance to save their lives. None has ever written a song, though Styles dated Taylor Swift, and

SITTING PRETTY The Prefab Five are closing in on the billiondollar mark thanks to an opening weekend take that was music to their ears.

we know what that means: Yup, she wrote one about him (“I Knew You Were Trouble”). What makes One Direction’s story significant is the mind-boggling fact that, despite minimal musical gifts and the brief period they’ve been in the funky hunk business (their first album was released in 2011), they’re on track to be worth a billion dollars by the end of the year. What I learned watching this film is that what it means to be the biggest band in the world has changed completely in my lifetime. First, it was all a fluke. As we see in the movie’s opening, the guys each entered

and were eliminated individually from the British version of “The X Factor.” That’s when pop puppetmaster Simon Cowell got the idea of combining the cute cast-offs into a group whose sole purpose was to rock the world of social-media-savvy girls. The boys’ fans literally tweeted them to the top. One day they were singing for music halls of swooning tweens. The next, they were singing in stadiums. Around the world. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) might seem like an odd match for a project as unabashedly promotional as This Is Us. He’s been mostly about promoting himself. As the

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whom Rose once had an affair. (It’s implied that their dalliance broke up his marriage.) Both lawyers should report their past entanglement to the judge and step down, but they choose instead to perjure themselves and forge ahead. They make this decision — which puts them under surveillance and, eventually, in mortal danger — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. And therein lies the main problem with Closed Circuit: Its central characters feel like pawns and placeholders, waiting for the writer (Steven Knight, who scripted Eastern Promises) to inject them with personality. We need to feel their ambition, their fierce sense of ethics and their romantic chemistry;

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he UK drama Closed Circuit aims to be a thinking person’s thriller, a tale of government conspiracy that hits scarily close to home. In reality, it never gets more thrilling or chilling than its first scene, in which we observe a bustling London outdoor market through a half dozen closed-circuit TV cameras posted at different angles. It’s like the opening of The Conversation on steroids. The overload of stimuli makes us feel confused, voyeuristic, paranoid and certain that something nasty could happen at any minute. Sure enough, it does. When the smoke from a terrorist’s bomb clears, the city is left with 120 corpses and a single living suspect, a Turkish emigré named Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). Because certain evidence against him is classified — we’re informed via a snippet of faux news program — part of Erdogan’s trial will take place out of the public eye, with a specially appointed attorney forbidden to communicate with his regular advocate. Clearly, this closed court session is the perfect opportunity for the powers that be to do something shady. It all seems intriguing enough — until the lengthy exposition ends, and we finally meet our protagonists. When Erdogan’s lawyer commits suicide, Martin Rose (Eric Bana), tapped to take his place, learns that the defendant’s “special advocate” is Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall), a bright young thing with

movie alternates between concert sequences and backstage scenes in which the lads cavort, however, one realizes what attracted him. “It’s the closest to Beatlemania I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Spurlock has said. “If this can be a documentary Hard Day’s Night, we’ll accomplish something pretty great. And I think we did...” So the boys are the Beatles, and Spurlock’s the new Richard Lester. Somebody’s ego has been super sized. Don’t get me wrong. The Prefab Five seem like charming, sincerely grateful guys. They get that good looks and passable voices have taken them absurdly far. For his part, Spurlock makes inventive use of 3-D technology. The picture is trippy in places, making it more pleasant to sit through the forgettable songs than it otherwise would be. But Beatles comparisons? Please. One Direction is less a band than a business plan. Albeit an incredibly successful one. How incredible? Guinness lists Paul McCartney as the most successful musician in history. He’s been at it for half a century, and Forbes estimates his worth at $650 million. Two years, one billion. Granted, these guys work their butts off, but I think we can agree this is one tour that’s a pretty magical mystery.

we don’t. Bana and Hall aren’t bad actors, just ones with nothing to play. Occasionally, someone makes a remark suggesting that Rose is an arrogant jerk, but we don’t see him act like one. The closest he has to an individual trait is his fondness for sculling on the Thames, which gives director John Crowley (Boy A, Intermission) an occasion for elegant visuals. There are plenty more of those. The film has a consistent look, a cold, bluish sheen that reinforces the characters’ sense of having nowhere to hide. But Crowley’s focus on surfaces mutes those characters into nonentities or stereotypes, and the script doesn’t help. The film hits a low point when

a bad guy pauses in the middle of garrotting somebody to explain why he’s right and his victim is wrong. The only actors who make an imprint are Jim Broadbent as the attorney general — a sinister-teddy-bear performance, reminiscent of the elder Laurence Olivier — and Anne-Marie Duff as a government functionary with a massive chip on her shoulder. Her self-righteous anger at anyone who dares question her less-than-legal agenda gives the movie so much energy that I found myself wishing it were all about her. At this point, there’s just nothing fresh about a story of well-meaning lawyers with an unresolved attraction to each other fighting a massive government cover-up. Far more thought provoking would be a film that entered the perspective of those who coldly engineer such deceptions with the sincere conviction that they’re acting in the public interest. If you don’t already find closed court sessions and the prevalence of CCTV cameras creepy, Closed Circuit could convince you. But for those who share its world view, the movie offers little beyond a hollow affirmation. One wishes the filmmakers had chosen a different camera feed to zoom in on. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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now playing BlUe JAsmiNeH: cate blanchett, alec baldwin and Sally hawkins star in woody allen’s latest drama, in which a fallen socialite heads to her estranged sister’s San francisco apartment to put her life back together. (98 min, Pg-13)

closeD ciRcUitHH1/2: Eric bana and Rebecca hall play lawyers in love — well, formerly in love — who run into government roadblocks as they defend an alleged international terrorist in this uK conspiracy drama. with ciáran hinds and Jim broadbent. John (Boy A) crowley directed. (95 min, R) DespicABle me 2HHH: Steve carell returns as the voice of gru, a reformed would-be supervillain who teams up with the antivillain league to fight crime in this family animated adventure. yes, his minions are also back. Pierre coffin and chris Renaud directed. with the voices of Kristen wiig, Miranda cosgrove and Ken Jeong. (98 min, Pg)

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kick-Ass 2HH: a teen who attempts to fight crime in a superhero costume (aaron taylorJohnson) forms an alliance with like-minded citizens and confronts his nemesis in this sequel to the comic-based 2010 action comedy. with chloë grace Moretz, christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jim carrey. Jeff (Never Back Down) wadlow directed. (99 min, R) lee DANiels’ tHe BUtleRHHH: The director of Precious — and, sadly, The Paperboy — brings us this drama about a white house butler (forest whitaker) who serves seven different presidents and witnesses the rise of the civil rights movement. with Oprah winfrey and david Oyelowo. (132 min, Pg-13)

oNe DiRectioN: tHis is UsHHH: director Morgan (Super Size Me) Spurlock took a break from the whole “sociological exposé” thing to craft this 3-d documentary chronicling the brit boy band’s origins and life on tour. (92 min, Pg) peRcY JAcksoN: seA oF moNsteRsHH: The son of Poseidon (logan lerman) and his friends try to track down the mythical golden fleece to quell an ancient evil in the second film installment of Rick Riordan’s popular fantasy series. Thor freudenthal directed. (106 min, Pg)

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wednesday 4 — thursday 5 elysium 9. lee daniels’ The Butler 6:20, 9:10. one direction: This is us in 3d 9. planes 6:20. we’re the millers 6:30, 9:10. The world’s end 6:30, 9. friday 6 — thursday 12 lee daniels’ The Butler Fri: 6:20, 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9:10 one direction: This is us Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9. planes Fri: 6:20. Sat and Sun in 3D: 1, 3:40. Mon to Thu: 6:20. we’re the millers Fri: 6:30, 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:45, 6:30, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9:10. The world’s end Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:40, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9.

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wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Blue Jasmine 7. lee daniels’ The Butler 7. The mortal instruments: city of Bones 7. friday 6 — thursday 12 Full schedule not available at press time.

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Instead of pulling over when a police officer caught him running a stop sign in Palm Beach County, Fla., Alexander Webster, 29, led the officer on a high-speed chase. He lost control and crashed into a hedgerow, then fled on foot until the officer drew his pistol and ordered him to stop. Webster’s 6-year-old son was found unhurt in the backseat of the crashed car. Webster said he fled because he didn’t want to be charged with driving with a suspended license. Police checked and found his license was valid. (Palm Beach Post) Police arrested Ashton Powers, 24, in Tempe, Ariz., for slashing a tire on a police car with the officer in it. “I don’t know what this guy was thinking,” police Sgt. Michael Pooley said. “It’s a fully marked car, the car was running, the officer was inside with the air conditioning on and you could hear the car running. It still didn’t stop him.” Powers admitted slashing the tire but said he didn’t notice anyone inside. (Phoenix’s KNXV-TV)

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Florida’s beaches are running out of sand. Even worse, communities that have replenished storm-eroded beaches by dredging up offshore sand are

Hitting Below Rock Bottom

New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner reportedly hired a California firm to provide actors to pose as supporters at an August Dominican Day Parade. The actors, recruited by Crowds on Demand, were paid $15 an hour to seem “like either supporters or the people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter.” After the Weiner campaign denied using actors, it released a commercial using unpaid interns, including Joel Acevedo, 18, to pose as regular New Yorkers supporting the long-shot candidate. (New York Post)

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Country in Need of a First Amendment

Indonesian authorities detained Broderick Chin, a manager at a vegetable oil company in Riau province, after workers who couldn’t find a red-and-white Indonesian flag to fly on Independence Day complained that he told them, “Just use my underpants. I have red underpants, and my wife has white ones.” National police official Agus Rianto said Chin was charged with insulting a state symbol and faces five years in prison. (Malaysia Chronicle)

VIP Follies

Within months of offering visitors to the Denver Zoo exclusive access to pet and feed a rhinoceros for an extra $60, zoo officials had to suspend the program because the rhino bit the finger of a woman who fed it. After the woman was taken to the hospital, Brian Aucone, the zoo’s vice president

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Authorities in Hooksett, N.H., charged Jeanie Dufresne with misuse of 911 after she made 10 non-emergency calls in one month, including one asking for a pen. Earlier this year, Hooksett resident Elizabeth Niemi was arrested for calling 911 to ask for help ordering Chinese food. Police chief Peter Bartlett said he hoped that holding Dufresne and Niemi accountable would send a warning that the emergency system is “not for something frivolous.” (Boston’s WBZ-TV)

Second-Amendment Follies

While demonstrating handgun safety at a class in Lancaster, Ohio, instructor Terry J. Dunlap Sr. fired a .38-caliber bullet that ricocheted off a desk and hit student Michael Piemonte, 26, in the arm. Noting that many students in the class were nurses, who helped stabilize him before he was taken to a Columbus hospital, Piemonte said Dunlap didn’t know the gun was loaded. (Columbus Dispatch)

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tute to develop self-powering robots to destroy weeds and harmful pests, rendering herbicides and pesticides obsolete. “The robot’s artificial intelligence will make them able to tell crops from weeds and good bugs from the bad,” the company’s Dean Cook explained, adding that the first step is to raise $65,000 to begin research. (NewEarthRobotics.com)

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discovering that there’s little sand left offshore. As a result, beach communities are competing to find more sand. “You have counties starting wars with each other over sand,” Broward County mayor Kristin Jacobs said. “Everybody feels like these other counties are going to steal their sand.” Broward officials are considering a proposal to grind down recycled glass into substitute beach sand. Another option is trucking sand to beaches from sand mines in central Florida. (New York Times)

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derived, of course, from the word “orgasm.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are in an excellent position to have a number of orgasmic-like breakthroughs in the coming week. orgasnoms are certainly among them, but also orgasaurals, orgasights and orgasversations — in other words, deep thrills resulting from blissful sounds, rapturous visions and exciting conversations. I won’t be surprised if you also experience several other kinds of beautiful delirium.

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In his “Song of the Open Road,” Walt Whitman wrote some lyrics that I hope will provide you with just the right spark. Even if you’re not embarking on a literal journey along a big wide highway, my guess is that you are at least going to do the metaphorical equivalent. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune,” said Uncle Walt. “Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road.”

taURUs (April 20-May 20): urbandictionary.

com says that the newly coined word “orgasnom” is what you call the ecstatic feelings you have as you eat especially delectable food. It’s

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(June 21-July 22): The Constitution of the united states is the supreme law of the land. It’s the foundation of the most politically powerful nation on the planet. And yet when it originally went into effect in 1789, it was only 4543 words long — about three times the length of this horoscope column. The bill of rights, enacted in 1791, added a mere 462 words. by contrast, India’s Constitution is 117,000 words, more than 20 times longer. If you create a new master plan for yourself in the coming months, Cancerian — as I hope you will — a compact version like America’s will be exactly right. you need diamond-like lucidity, not sprawling guesswork.

leo (July 23-Aug. 22): There are two scien-

tific terms for tickling. “Knismesis” refers to a soft, feathery touch that may be mildly pleasurable. It can be used to display adoring tenderness. The heavier, deeper kind of tickling is called “gargalesis.” If playfully applied to sensitive parts of the anatomy, it can provoke fun and laughter. Given the current planetary

libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Mystical poet st. John of the Cross (1542-1591) was one of spain’s greatest writers. but not all of his work came easily. When he was 35, a rival religious group imprisoned him for his mildly heretical ideas. He spent the next nine months in a 10-by-6-foot jail cell, where he was starved, beaten and tortured. It was there that he composed his most renowned poem, “spiritual Canticle.” Does that provide you with any inspiration, Libra? I’ll make a wild guess and speculate that maybe you’re in a tough situation yourself right now. It’s not even 1 percent as tough as st. John’s, though. If he could squeeze some brilliance out of his predicament, you can, too. scoRpio (oct. 23-nov. 21): The American

naturalist John burroughs (1837-1921) traveled widely and wrote 23 books. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,” he testified, “all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” Let’s make that longing for abundance serve as your rallying cry during the next two weeks, scorpio. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate to push to the limits — and sometimes beyond — as you satisfy your quest to be, see and do everything you love to be, see and do.

sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): Punk icon Henry rollins did an interview with Marilyn Manson, rock and roll’s master of the grotesque. It’s on youtube. The comments section beneath the video are rife with spite and bile directed toward Manson, driving one fan to defend her hero. “I love Marilyn Manson so much that I could puke rainbows,” she testified. I think you will need to tap into that kind of love in the coming days, sagittarius: fierce, intense and devotional, and yet also playful, funny and exhilarating. you don’t necessarily have to puke rainbows, however. Maybe you could merely spit them.

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you want to know a secret, I talk less crazy to you Capricorns than I do to the other signs. I tone down my wild-eyed, goddess-drunk shape-shifting a bit. I rarely exhort you to don an animal costume and dance with the fairy folk in the woods, and I think the last time I suggested that you fall in love with an alien, angel or deity was … never. so what’s my problem? Don’t you feel taboo urges and illicit impulses now and then? Isn’t it true that like everyone else, you periodically need to slip away from your habitual grooves and tamper with the conventional wisdom? of course you do. Which is why I hereby repeal my excessive caution. Get out there, Capricorn, and be as uninhibited as you dare.

aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): Germany’s ostwall Museum displayed a conceptual installation by the artist Martin Kippenberger. Valued at $1.1 million, it was called “When It starts Dripping from the Ceiling.” Part of it was composed of a rubber tub that was painted to appear as if it had once held dirty rainwater. one night while the museum was closed, a new janitor came in to tidy up the premises. While performing her tasks, she scrubbed the rubber tub until it was “clean,” thereby damaging the art. Let this be a cautionary tale, Aquarius. It’s important for you to appreciate and learn from the messy stuff in your life — even admire its artistry — and not just assume it all needs to be scoured and disinfected. pisces

(feb. 19-March 20): In her novel White Oleander, Janet fitch suggests that beauty is something to be used, “like a hammer or a key.” That’s your assignment, Pisces. find practical ways to make your beauty work for you. for example, invoke it to help you win friends and influence people. Put it into action to drum up new opportunities and hunt down provocative invitations. And don’t tell me you possess insufficient beauty to accomplish these things. I guarantee you that you have more than enough. to understand why I’m so sure, you may have to shed some ugly definitions of beauty you’ve unconsciously absorbed from our warped culture.

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aRies (March 21-April 19): “no regrets? really?” asks author richard Power. “I have regrets. They are sacred to me. They inform my character. They bear witness to my evolution. Glimpses of lost love and treasure are held inside of them; like small beautiful creatures suspended in amber.” I think you can see where this horoscope is going, Aries. I’m going to suggest you do what Powers advises: “Do not avoid your regrets. embrace them. Listen to their stories. Hold them to your heart when you want to remember the price you paid to become who you truly are.” (find more by richard Power here: tinyurl. com/richardPower.)

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): If you were about to run in a long-distance race, you wouldn’t eat a dozen doughnuts. right? If you were planning to leave your native land and spend a year living in ethiopia, you wouldn’t immerse yourself in learning how to speak Chinese in the month before you departed. right? In that spirit, I hope you’ll be smart about the preparations you make in the coming weeks. This will be a time to prime yourself for the adventures in self-expression that will bloom in late september and the month of october. What is it you want to create at that time? What would you like to show the world about yourself?

alignments, Leo, I conclude that both of these will be rich metaphors for you in the coming days. I suggest that you be extra alert for opportunities to symbolically tickle and be tickled. (P.s. Here’s a useful allegory: If you do the knismesis thing beneath the snout of a great white shark, you can hypnotize it.)

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Dear Mistress,

This woman I fooled around with before I moved to Vermont last year is coming to town in October. She texted me recently saying she was looking forward to seeing me. We were friends before we started hooking up, and I don’t want to be rude, but I’m in a committed relationship now. I’m not sure it would be a good idea for us to hang out. I’m concerned that she will be expecting a hookup, and I would prefer to avoid that awkward situation. What should I do?

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Old Tricks

The answer to your quandary is a simple one — so simple that it can often be overlooked, making matters far more complicated than necessary. Be honest. It’s that easy. Be up front with your old hookup and let her know that you’re happy to see her, but that your reunion will be platonic. If you truly want to avoid awkward drama, do not — I repeat, do not — send mixed signals. Have you responded to her text yet? The more texts you bat back and forth before letting her know you’re off the market, the higher her hopes of sleeping with you will get. If texting her about your new relationship seems callous, pick up the phone or send her an email — both options are more formal than texting. Lastly, I have to wonder if there’s more to this story. You say you’re simply trying to avoid awkwardness with the ex, but are you sure you’re not more worried about slipping up and cheating on your partner? If you find yourself fantasizing about one last roll in the hay with your ex, it might be time to examine your current relationship. If the lure of an old flame is enough to set your current bed on fire, you might be in the wrong relationship.

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Radio Bean SatuRday Late night I was sitting with friends and you and your friends sat in the round booth across from us. You and I sat directly across from each other but I was too nervous to make eye contact with you — I’m kinda shy! Anyway, you have a nice smile. I hope I see you around town again! When: Saturday, august 31, 2013. Where: Radio Bean. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911577

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MuMfoRd & SonS, SLoW fRiday Came in with a friend toward the end of the night, assured you we wouldn’t be the assholes who ruined everything. Later you said good night and disappeared before I thought to invite you to join us. I’ve been kicking myself ever since. Would you have taken me up on it? I’ll have to come back and ask you sometime. When: friday, august 30, 2013. Where: Bluebird tavern. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911576

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We Both have kneeS! Coffee? You: woman, two eyes, couldn’t tell if you were looking at me or near me. Me: man, standing, wearing clothes. Coffee? When: Saturday, august 31, 2013. Where: vermont. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911575 StaRBuCkS, WiLLiSton Road To the gentleman in the corner with your headphones and laptop: Hi. You look interesting. You can say hi to me too. I’m very friendly and I don’t bite. When: friday, august 30, 2013. Where: Starbucks, Williston Road. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911574

SuMMeR uvM pooL LifeguaRd You: the preppy lifeguard with good taste in music – even better taste in puppies. Me: a lap swimmer who felt safe under your watchful eye. Take a break from the semester and join me for some EggsErcise? When: Thursday, august 8, 2013. Where: uvM natatorium. you: Man. Me: Man. #911572

Mavon Matt Did I miss my opportunity? We are rated 100% “equivalent.” That warrants at least one short walk on the waterfront. You have my email. Hope to hear from you. Otherwise, I wish you all the best, sincerely. K When: Sunday, august 11, 2013. Where: social site. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911567

BeautifuL BLond CaShieR at MCdonaLd’S I’ve seen you several times and I think you are absolutely gorgeous. Today I complimented you on your earrings. You’ve probably got a boyfriend or girlfriend or are married and I’m probably far older than you’d ever date but I am seriously attracted to you and would love to get to know you better. When: Thursday, august 29, 2013. Where: working at the Mcdonalds drive-through on South park drive. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911571 unexpeCted aWeSoMeneSS Stop trying to play the drums. Play a cup. It was lovely meeting you and I hope to cross paths again. When: Thursday, august 29, 2013. Where: Burlington. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911570

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out of Mind expeRienCe paRty Handsome man dancing to Out of Mind Experience at their private party. You: tall, blond, nice build, long-sleeved blue buttoned shirt and black slacks. I was the cute brunette who spilled some of my drink on you accidentally while dancing next to you, sorry. Meet for a tea, dinner or their gig at the Flynn, my treat. S. When: Saturday, august 24, 2013. Where: out of Mind experience party. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911566

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an inSuLt in paSSing To the man who asked to “piss on my beard,” you know as well as I do that your “joke” was anything but funny. However, rather than dismiss you as merely hostile and inconsiderate, I’d much prefer to try to understand your point of view. To that end, won’t you join me for dinner and conversation - mano a mano? When: Saturday, august 17, 2013. Where: north Winooski ave. you: Man. Me: Man. #911555 hoRSe Meat? Horse-meat burgers, 10 minutes old no less! I like the way you wield that spatula. When: Wednesday, august 21, 2013. Where: essex. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911553 Cute CyCLiSt heading to RiveRSide I was heading to school and you were heading toward Riverside Ave. We exchanged a few looks and a smile. If I had not been running late already, I would have turned around. Want to go for a ride sometime? Sunsets from the bike path are pretty spectacular. Or grab some coffee or a beer? When: Thursday, august 22, 2013. Where: hyde and Willard streets. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911552 i See youR Beauty eveRyday Today you had a beautiful blue sundress on, OMG! Your curly hair, the sunglasses and those legs makes this man’s heart race. You never walk on my side of the street; so wish you did :). Coffee? Dinner? When: tuesday, august 20, 2013. Where: near kerry’s on St. paul. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911551 hoLLyWood, did you SMiLe today? Hollywood Long you are my final destiny! To infinity and beyond, I am your Facebook and I love it. When: Saturday, July 6, 2013. Where: at Spear Street. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911550 good SaMaRitan at BLaCk CRoWeS, 8/17 You: unseen angel who found a ticket on the ground and did the right thing by turning it over to a police officer. Me: grateful and amazed, thankful for the karmic opportunity to pay it forward. I’ll be smiling about this for a very long time. Thank you! When: Saturday, august 17, 2013. Where: Btv waterfront. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911549 BeautifuL BLonde on heR Bike I saw you this evening at 11 p.m. on your bike. Beautiful dress. I moved so you could ride by. Your voice sent shivers up my spine. Coffee? When: Monday, august 19, 2013. Where: St. paul Street, 11p.m. you: Woman. Me: Man. #911548 CitizenS Bank You work at Citizens Bank on College Street. Thanks for the water you got me. We talked about Bloody Marys. Care to get one sometime? When: Saturday, august 17, 2013. Where: Citizens Bank. you: Man. Me: Woman. #911547

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