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Many cartoonists have reacted to the killings by putting pen to paper, Seven Days coeditor Pamela Polston noted in a post on our Live Culture blog. Koren’s work is a reference to a lithograph by 19th-century satirist Honoré Daumier, and alludes to a government repression that resulted in troops killing a working-class family.

In a statement, Koren said, “The work of our French colleagues, who were regarded as public intellectuals contributing to the civic discourse, drew on a long tradition of graphic provocateurs and observers, holding the feet of authority and dogma to the fire of high standards and reason.”

Charlie Hebdo is known for irreverent, abrasive humor, and has published images of the Prophet Muhammed that some have considered to be offensive. That’s allegedly what motivated two brothers to massacre 12 people, including editors and cartoonists, during a weekly planning meeting in the publication’s office. Another militant killed four people in a kosher supermarket in Paris.

Journalists, satirists, public officials and ordinary citizens have decried the killings and the attack on free speech. Today, other cartoonists whose work appears in Seven Days weigh in, as well. In “This Modern World” on page 86, Tom Tomorrow writes, “Satire is not a capital offense,

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[Re Live Culture: “Cartoonist Ed Koren Responds to the Charlie Hebdo Masacre,” January 9]: For the courage and conscience of your stories, your responsible coverage of problematic and controversial issues, I write to thank you for your commitment to preserve and perpetuate the freedom of the press. Whether practiced here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, which can and often does feel remote from the larger world, or in the legendary city of Paris, France, or in Vermont’s principal cities, we readers are safe in our democracy only as long as freedom of the press thrives.

With respect to certain state organizations and communities whose memberships respond to controversy from within their ranks with warnings to silence ourselves, I suggest such censoring objections are the precise precursors of the potential for curtailment of freedom of speech. Whoever has lived through generations of war and the deceit of trusted leaders, as well as the celebrations of all who have ever honored our country with the courage to give life to our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press, whoever reads your newspaper — especially the young on whom we depend to carry on — I hope we will all give thought and teach our children what is at stake.

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[Re “2014 Updates: Jailed Winooski Heroin Dealer Struggling With Health Problems,” December 24]: Reading the travails of Deirdre Hey, whose quality of health care may be diminished by becoming the convicted felony heroin dealer she readily admits to being, I can’t help but recall the theme song to that old TV show, “Baretta.” “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time … Don’t do it.” Given the abundance of private-, nonprofit- and taxpayersupported resources, including free medical care, available in Vermont, I’m having trouble empathizing.

We must treat the victims of heroin and opiate addiction (yes, Deirdre, your victims) with compassion and without judgment, in a noncriminal approach. However once an individual crosses the line and perpetuates this evil unto others, or abets this plague in any manner whatsoever, they forfeit their status as worthy of sympathy.

Addiction burns more than the addict.

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I read the latest Fair Game [“Round Two,” January 7] with great interest.

It seems to me that either Senator Pollina’s or Senator Doyle’s proposal to change our method of choosing a governor would be preferable to the status quo. As Paul Heintz indicates, the indecisive November election yielded great uncertainty, as well as an unseemly “second gubernatorial campaign” by both leading candidates to influence the legislature’s decision.

Far better to set the threshold at 40 percent rather than 50 percent, as both senators suggest. This would acknowledge the perennial inclusion of third-party candidates in Vermont’s election for its chief executive, and how such dedicated individuals can prevent either of the two major-party candidates from receiving a majority of votes cast in any close race.

Heintz deserves the most credit, though, for mentioning the option of instant runoff voting, which to my mind is far and away the best fix of all. You wouldn’t need any costly second elections, nor would you ever have to resort to legislative intervention. Other IRV benefits include the elimination of spoilers, a more positive, “issue-oriented” approach to campaigning and a more accurate indication of the appeal of the ideas espoused by those third-party candidates. In short, IRV enables citizens to vote their hopes rather than their fears, maximizes choice, increases turnout, decreases costs and yields a truer indication of the electorate’s wishes. That’s why it’s got my vote.

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The Education of Shap Smith

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One Year Later: Was Opiate Addiction Addressed?

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Excerpts From Off Message For Psychiatric Help, Vermont’s Children Must Wait

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“I realize the solution I came up with [two years ago] I was alone on — literally,” Baruth says. “I’m not alone on this.”

Even then, he says, between 10 and 20 percent of the “shit-ton” of mail he received To participate in a “calling me every name in the book” was Research Study and from those who said they’d support tightenHelp Prevent Dengue Fever ing background checks.

Baruth’s bill would do three things: force all gun buyers to undergo a federal background check; require the state to report to the feds the names of those involuntarily committed to a hospital or declared mentally ill by a judge; and empower state and local cops to enforce federal firearm possession laws.

“This is about creating an effective system to keep guns out of the wrong hands,” says Gun Sense Vermont cofounder ANN BRADEN. Her group plans to show up at the • Healthy adults, Statehouse in force Wednesday with 1,000 ages 18 – 50 personal letters to senators and a petition with 12,000 signatures.

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Leave your name, number, According to Cutler, the bill’s sponsors and a good time to call back. have “been bought by Gun Sense.” The organization spent more than $25,000 on the Email UVMVTC@UVM.EDU last election and another $39,000 lobbying or visit UVMVTC.ORG the legislature last year. The group does not disclose the source of much of its funding.

No matter how much Gun Sense spends, its odds of success are long. Last year, House Speaker SHAP SMITH (D-Morristown) wouldn’t even grant a hearing on a trio of gun control ballot initiatives passed by Burlington voters. And Gov. PETER SHUMLIN

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has opposed virtually every gun measure proposed.

“While we’ll listen to the debate, the governor has been clear that he believes the gun laws we have in Vermont are currently serving us well,” says spokesman SCOTT CORIELL. Even in the Senate, Baruth and company have a problem: Sen. DICK SEARS (D-Bennington), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. While Sears has supported forcing the state to report the names of the mentally ill to the feds, he “generally opposes” mandatory background checks.

“I don’t think it’s necessary for Vermonters,” he says. “I haven’t seen that it’s going to solve some problem.”

So do the senators even have a shot?

“I have no idea,” Campbell says.

provided 57 mostly innocuous emails between the gov and his staff from the past year. But, believe it or not, the governor invoked executive privilege to withhold an unspecified number of other such communications. Improbably, London claimed that Shumlin and the 21 members of his business advisory council, who include many of his top donors and allies, engaged in no health-care-related correspondence during those months.

Why did Shummy flip-flop on disclosing emails related to his flip-flop?

According to London, “the governor was asked about waiving executive privilege on documents related to the specific question of Medicaid reimbursement rates.” She appears to be referring to an unrelated question posed by VTDigger.org’s MORGAN TRUE just before Midura asked his.

But Midura says his question had nothing to do with Medicaid.

“I was asking to see the communications regarding single-payer health care and the conversations the administration was having surrounding the topic,” he says.

Since Shumlin himself said, “there is nothing to hide,” surely he’ll honor his own commitment. Then again, he hasn’t been doing much of that lately.

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Shumlin’s unexpected decision last month to ditch his quest for single-payer health care prompted many a Vermonter — and reporter — to question what, exactly, prompted him to reverse course.

So when he announced his flip-flop at a crowded Statehouse press conference, WCAX-TV reporter KYLE MIDURA asked a pretty bold question.

“Will you waive executive privilege for all backdated documents at this point related to this question so we can see what you knew when?” Midura said.

It was bold because pretty much any time a reporter files a public records request with Shumlin’s office, his staff invokes executive privilege to withhold correspondence between the governor and his advisers.

But with dozens of watchful eyes witnessing last month’s exchange, Shumlin promised to do just what Midura asked.

“There is nothing to hide on what we knew when, so we’d be happy to show you any documents you wish to look at,” the governor responded.

Seven Days took him up on his offer and requested all health-care-related correspondence between the governor and his top staff — and between him and his Governor’s Business Advisory Council on Health Care Financing — over the previous four months.

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Barely a week after they were sworn in, Democratic legislators are already collecting cash for the next campaign. Yes, the one in 2016.

The Vermont Democratic House Campaign, a political action committee run

by House leadership, is hosting a “Speaker’s Soiree” Wednesday night at Montpelier’s Capitol Plaza — on the eve of the governor’s budget address.

Campaign director KATHERINE LEVASSEUR has been hitting up registered lobbyists to take part in the fundraiser, which costs $100 to attend and $1,000 to sponsor.

State law prohibits individual lawmakers from taking money from lobbyists until the second year of the legislative biennium concludes, but both parties have long exploited a loophole allowing their PACs to do so. While Baruth has put a stop to that practice among Senate Democrats while the legislature is in session, Speaker Smith defends it.

“You know, we actually have a full-time staff person, unlike the Senate,” Smith says, referring to Levasseur, who works with Democratic lawmakers on their campaigns.

Noting that the national Republican State Leadership Committee dropped $370,000 into Vermont legislative races last fall, Smith says, “I think it is incumbent upon us to make sure we have the infrastructure in place to run effective campaigns in 2016.”

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He adds: “This is within the rules, and it’s historical practice that has been going on for a really long time.”

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The Florida native and Boston University grad says she’ll be covering higher education, with a focus on investigations, starting next month.

“I’m excited for the new job but sad to leave Digger, especially with what looks to be an exciting session just getting underway,” Krantz says.

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Speaking of Hartnett, the four-year city councilor suffered a surprising defeat Sunday when liberal activist carMen george beat him at the Burlington Democratic Party caucus.

Hartnett, who manages the Jolley Mobil station on North Avenue, was seeking to represent a newly created council district encompassing the New North End’s wards 4 and 7. But George, a marketing director at TruexCullins and vice chair of the city party, took him to task for managing Republican Wright’s 2012 mayoral campaign ag ainst Weinberger and endorsing Republican state rep candidate MichaeL Ly last fall.

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“I come from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” George told caucusgoers, paraphrasing fellow Queen City Dem ILLADELPH, GOLDSTEIN, EVO, DELTA 9, hoWard dean.

AND LOCAL ARTISTS Three years ago, George said, “I stood at the polls at Ward 7 holding your signs, Miro, while Dave Hartnett held your opponent’s $200 Monthly raffle with no purchase necessary signs. And thank God we won.”

In the end, George defeated Hartnett 72 to 53.

While it’s true that he’s sided with council Republicans as often as with his fellow Dems, Hartnett and Weinberger have sp i n al cor d mi n i tu b e b y jack steel e grown close over the past three years. The mayor says he’s “come to admire his leadership” on parks, education and mental health issues.

“I did make it clear to active Democrats out there that I supported Dave, despite my respect and admiration for Carmen CARRYING VAPORIZERS George,” Weinberger says.

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“We as a city party will be supporting Carmen, since she was elected in our caucus as our Democratic nominee,” says city party chair fauna hurLey. But Weinberger says he may buck the party and stick with Hartnett.

“If he does decide to run as an independent and he commits to caucusing with the Democrats if he does win, I will continue to support him,” the mayor says.

Says Wright, who currently shares a district with Hartnett, “Shame on the Democrats if they don’t have room for Dave Hartnett in their party.”

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Smith isn’t the only one bringing in the bucks.

When Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger travels to Washington, D.C., next week for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he’ll be fêted at a fundraiser featuring Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Congressman Peter WeLch (D-Vt.).

The shindig will take place at the home of Luke aLbee, who spent more than 20 years working for Leahy — a dozen as chief of staff. He recently stepped down as Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-Va.) top aide. The event is cohosted by America’s Promise president and CEO John goMPerts.

Hizzoner first met Albee in 1991, when he interned in Leahy’s office, and met Gomperts the next year when they worked together on former Pennsylvania senator harris Wofford’s campaign.

A similar event hosted by Albee three years ago raised $8,000 for Weinberger when the Burlington Democrat first ran for office, and it prompted some controversy at the time. dave hartnett, who managed Weinberger opponent kurt Wright’s campaign, told Seven Days back then that the fundraiser showed the Democratic candidate was an “elitist” who embraced “Washington, D.C., politics.”

This time around, Weinberger’s Progressive opponent, steve goodkind, says he doesn’t care where his opponent gets his money, but thinks he should raise less.

“I don’t think that money’s healthy whether it comes from Washington or Timbuktu,” Goodkind says. “If you think you need money to sell yourself, then maybe you should think again about what you’re doing.”

Weinberger says he “respectfully disagrees” with Goodkind’s statement, saying, “I think the way our system works is to run a successful campaign, you need to play by the rules and you need broad support to be a successful candidate.”

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Either way, “The power has shifted,” says Rep. Chris Pearson (P-Burlington), the Progressive Party caucus leader, adding his voice to others suggesting that Smith and his fellow legislators will likely be in charge of Vermont’s policy agenda for the next two years. “The legislature can have much more ownership.”

No one in the Vermont General Assembly holds more power than Smith — including his Senate counterpart,

votes, to represent the community in which he grew up. Smith attended Peoples Academy in Morrisville, where his 13-year-old son, Eli, is now a student.

His 9-year-old Mia goes to another alma mater: Morristown Elementary School.

Even in his debut campaign, the driving issue for newcomer Smith was the same as it is today: school spending and education financing. Then-state senator Susan Bartlett told him he should run

for the speaker who moonlights as a director and shareholder at the Burlington law firm Dinse Knapp McAndrew.

It’s not surprising that while Shumlin was running the numbers on a singlepayer health care plan last year, Smith was quietly putting together a secret study committee to look at education financing.

As the 2015 legislative session neared — even before Shumlin pulled the plug

for the school board first, but he disregarded the advice to set his sights on the place where he could tackle broader policy changes.

“I have always been interested in education,” says Smith, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 1987. “I would not be where I am today if I hadn’t had incredible public school teachers and the opportunity public schools gave me.”

Money is a crucial part of that equation. “If you do not have a sustainable finance system, people then start attacking the education itself,” Smith explains.

Early in his legislative career, Smith landed on the Ways and Means Committee, and he’s been a tax geek ever since. No issue is too complicated

on single-payer health care — Smith made it clear that he was far more interested in tackling school spending.

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hap Smith, the mild-mannered Speaker of the Vermont House, turned heads on the opening day of the legislative session last Wednesday, when he delivered an unusually passionate, 30-minute address to lawmakers who had just reelected him to be their leader.

Tracing his family’s journey from suburban Connecticut to rural Wolcott, the 49-year-old attorney weaved together the personal and political, articulating a vision for Vermont in which all its residents would have the opportunities he has enjoyed.

To more than one person in the crowd, the Morristown Democrat’s speech sounded more like a gubernatorial inaugural address than standard opening-session remarks from a fourterm speaker.

“Afterward, I did say to him, ‘OK, when can I start working on your campaign?’’’ says Rep. Donna Sweaney (D-Windsor), who’s known Smith since the day he took office 12 years ago and was assigned the seat next to hers.

The day after Smith’s speech, the barely reelected Gov. Peter Shumlin saw his own inaugural address marred by protesters livid over his decision to pull the plug on his universal health care pledge.

“We don’t have much hope in the governor,” says James Haslam, executive director of the Vermont Workers’ Center, which organized the protest.

Critics on the right weren’t much more flattering, saying Shumlin’s inaugural speech offered little evidence he’d learned much from his near miss of a reelection.

Rep. Oliver Olsen (I-Jamaica) voted for Shumlin when the legislature affirmed the governor’s election Thursday, but he suggests the dealmaker has lost his magic. “There’s no question that his influence and his credibility have taken a hit as a result of the election and all the circumstances around single-payer,” Olsen says.

It was hard to miss the contrast last week between the once-invincible Shumlin, reeling like a sucker-punched boxer, and the cautious but confident Smith striding through the Statehouse halls.

Although it’s unlikely that Smith would challenge Shumlin in a Democratic primary if the latter runs for a fourth, two-year term in 2016, the former would be the top-ranked contender if the incumbent governor were to call it quits.

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President Pro Tem John Campbell (D-Windsor), who struggles to lead his fractious caucus. But some say Smith’s so disciplined and discreet that his goals — and even who he turns to for advice — remain something of a mystery. Last year, when he came “very close” to not running for reelection, even his allies were in the dark until he announced his decision.

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Smith was a 37-year-old lawyer, married to a doctor and the father of one young preschooler when he made his first run for the legislature in 2002.

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Smith’s play is well timed and has the potential to pay off. Last year Vermonters appeared to grow weary of Shumlin’s health care plans as the state’s federally mandated health insurance exchange ran into snag after snag. Meanwhile, Smith and others running for office last fall got an earful from voters discontent with rising property taxes.

Friends say the scenario speaks to Smith’s strength: He listens not just to politicians and activists in Montpelier, but to neighbors, friends and family in his blue-collar hometown.

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“He keeps his ear extremely close to the ground outside Montpelier,� says Andrew Savage, former deputy chief of staff to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and a friend of Smith’s. “He’s in many ways extremely grounded in his connections to outside-of-Montpelier voices.�

Colleagues say Smith relies on a wide circle of people inside and outside the Statehouse to advise him. He will call people into his Statehouse office, sit back with a football in his hands — despite his small frame, he played a little in college — and chat candidly and bluntly.

But when it comes to decision time, he’ll throw a pass that’s all his.

Smith has also shown a willingness to disappoint his Democratic caucus.

He stalled action on decriminalizing marijuana three years ago before yielding to its passage in 2013. Last year, he put the kibosh on mandatory paid sick leave legislation.

This year, he appears to have scuttled talk of a carbon tax. Each decision carried a dose of political reality: If an issue isn’t likely to gain sufficient support, Smith won’t waste time on it.

So it was with health care, too.

The issue matters to him, he says. He certainly hears about it from his wife, Melissa Volansky, who is a primary care physician. “I do get some insight from being married to a doctor, but more from some of her colleagues,� he says. “I also get it from the fact that I can’t figure out my own freaking health care plan.�

But asked in mid-December, before Shumlin pulled the plug on singlepayer, whether universal health coverage was a priority for him in the coming session, Smith gave a characteristically measured response. Read between the lines and it’s clear that without dismissing the issue, he makes evident that a single-payer plan won’t be at the top of his to-do list. “If they put a financing plan on the table, we’re going to take a look at it,� he said at the time, referring to the Shumlin administration. “Part of the issue for people who are feeling the pinch is health care costs them a lot of money.

If we can pass something that reduces the growth of that cost over time, then I think that’s worth taking a look at.�

Those dismayed with Shumlin over

his single-payer about-face might not let Smith off so easily, however.

Last week, the protesters who interrupted Shumlin’s inauguration set their sights on Smith to revive the governor’s discarded plan. They said they would not leave the House chamber until the speaker scheduled a public hearing on the matter.

Smith appears disinclined to meet their demand. “I don’t see how the legislature has the resources to take on single-payer financing on its own,� he says. “There are so many unresolved issues, and the staffing that we have to try to address those is not sufficient.�

Haslam, the Vermont Workers’ Center chief, isn’t backing down. “My hope is he’s open-minded and listening,� he says of Smith.

Smith says lawmakers are more likely to look for ways to curb health care costs, such as boosting Medicaid payments to providers as a way to ease the cost-shift to private insurance.

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With single-payer off the table, the legislature is likely to have time and space to tackle Smith’s priority of education financing. In his sessionopening remarks to the House last week, Smith acknowledged its political perils. “I’ll tell you right now that a lot of people who are thinking only politically have suggested to me, ‘What are you doing, Shap? Why are you getting involved in this?’� Smith said.

While most homeowners would like lower property taxes, any plan to address the issue is bound to upset an interest group or two — be it parents, teachers or school board members.

And far from agreeing on a solution, many don’t even agree on the problem: Is Vermont spending too much money on too many small schools? Or is the tax system too complicated and inequitable?

Smith says it’s all of the above.

The speaker’s biggest political problem may be raising expectations too high.

Shumlin himself has studiously avoided overpromising on the issue.

Instead, the governor has dispatched

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he owner of Burlington’s Old Spokes Home was worried when Bike Recycle Vermont moved into a basement across the street. How could two bike shops, just 160 yards apart, survive? Glenn Eames and Bike Recycle founder Ron Manganiello made a deal: Bike Recycle, which refurbishes and sells old bikes, would only cater to very low-income Burlingtonians who qualify for public assistance, while Old Spokes would continue to peddle and repair used bikes for everybody else.

Ten years later, that gentlemen’s agreement has turned into a merger.

On Monday, Bike Recycle Vermont — a shoestring outfit with one paid staffer and a $67,000 budget — bought Eames’ for-profit bike shop on the other side of North Winooski Avenue. Revenue and personnel from the Old Spokes retail operation will allow Bike Recycle Vermont to better serve its clientele with longer hours, more mechanics and regular repair classes.

Eames, a sprightly guy with sideburns and a silver-flecked beard, started

Old Spokes Home 15 years ago in what used to be a cold storage building in Burlington’s Old North End. He has kept his operation simple, selling basic and vintage accessories and bikes both used and new. The shop offers bike clinics — on topics like commuting in the winter and repair 101 for women and trans people — that work toward Eames’ larger goal of creating a “cultural center” for cycling. Eames’ collection of antique bicycles is on display in a museum above the shop.

Old Spokes Home cultivated a loyal following of “adventure cyclists and commuters,” according to Eames, who is both. That morning, the 62-year-old biked to work in below-zero weather.

Sitting in his cramped office inside the bike shop, Eames chose a car analogy to explain his decision to “downshift.” “You only have one tank of gas.

You burn a third of it figuring out what you’re going to be when you’re grown.

The second third is trying to make that happen, and the final third is figuring out what you’re going to be is — dead.”

Eames made it clear he is not retiring,

but said he wants to try new challenges while he’s still spry. Among his goals: a bike trip around South America.

He hired local broker Lynne Silva to quietly contact potential buyers and list the business without revealing its identity. That can be tricky, Silva noted, in a small market like Vermont. Plenty of potential buyers lined up, according to Eames, and he also received a “lucrative” offer to establish a multistate bike-store chain. But Eames held out for an opportunity that better matched his philosophy. “It has never been my mission to accumulate more wealth,” he explained.

The same can be said of the venture across the street. Bike Recycle Vermont was born when Manganiello stumbled across an online posting — before Front Porch Forum or craigslist existed — from Lauren Berrizbeitia, a local psychotherapist seeking a bike for a Somali refugee.

Manganiello offered up a recently deceased neighbor’s three-speed that he salvaged from a dumpster.

With help from friends, Manganiello and Berrizbeitia started amassing

abandoned bikes in his kitchen-size backyard and giving them away to refugee families, many of whom hail from places where bikes are the most common mode of transportation. Manganiello recalled one of Bike Recycle’s early customers, an East African refugee who worked as a translator and walked to his appointments. “His business doubled when he got a bike,” Manganiello recalled. “That was the first time I saw the clear economic impact.”

The operation later merged with the bike nonprofit Local Motion and moved into the basement of Good News Garage, near the corner of Riverside and North Winooski avenues.

Bike Recycle has never wanted for wheels. The shop, which smells strongly of rubber, is crammed with bikes on hooks and milk crates full of spare pedals, brakes and spindles. Donations range in value from fixable old clunkers to $3,000 models — the pricier ones are sold to the highest bidder on craigslist as part of a non-compete deal with Eames.

But the organization is more than a cutrate bike shop. In the warmer months a

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steady stream of people show up — to buy a bike or to learn how to repair one — including at-risk high school students and former prisoners.

“It can get pretty wild in there,” Manganiello said. “People start piling up.”

“This place is a living room for the Old North End,” said Yiota Ahladas, who started tinkering on bikes there after a disability forced her to retire early from a job at Burlington’s Community & Economic Development Office in 2010.

Though she proved to be a “really bad mechanic,” Ahladas said, working there gave her renewed purpose. Now she helps the organization raise money on a “low-bono” basis.

Dan Hock, 28, and Christine Hill, 25, began volunteering at Bike Recycle while attending Saint Michael’s College and the University of Vermont, respectively. Now they run the operation, with help from Manganiello and what they describe as a melting pot of volunteers.

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Hock, who previously worked for five years as an Old Spokes Home mechanic, played matchmaker between the neighboring bike shops. Softspoken and clean-cut aside from his grease-stained white pants, he recalled his pitch to Eames late last summer: When people donated expensive rides to Bike Recycle, they could sell them at Old Spokes. During the winter, when work is slow for Old Spokes mechanics, they could cross the street and help teach classes or chip away at the rows of bicycles awaiting repair. In other words, the for-profit shop could provide money and manpower to bankroll Bike Recycle’s social mission.

Eames, who had toyed with the idea in the past, was on board. Manganiello was sold, too. “It’s been the best thing I’ve ever done in my life to get this thing rolling and to just stay on the ride,” he said.

The group settled on a price and devised a plan: Bike Recycle would part ways with Local Motion and become an independent nonprofit, run by Hill and Hock. Manganiello would serve on the board. Eames would stick around for a year to advise them, and likely even longer as an employee.

For Bike Recycle, it felt like a coup.

“He could sell to anybody he wants, and he’s sticking his neck out to sell his legacy to a very funky, volunteerdriven nonprofit run out of a basement,” Ahladas said.

Meanwhile, the very funky, volunteer-driven nonprofit had to find roughly half a million dollars to seal the deal. Bike Recycle cranks out up to 500 bikes a year, selling them for $15 to $150 to people at or below the poverty line.

With the help of grants, it barely breaks even, according to Local Motion executive director Emily Boedecker.

A public fundraising campaign was out of the question for fear that premature rumors of a sale might hurt business at Old Spokes Home.

Despite being intimidated by the prospect of asking people for money, Manganiello picked up the phone. With help from Ahladas, Hock and others, the group raised $200,000 — mainly from people who volunteer at the shop.

“A lot of our volunteers who are tooling on bikes here once a week are the same people who are stepping up to the plate and donating large amounts of money to make this happen,” said Ahladas. Lowinterest bridge loans from individuals are also part of the financing arrangement that led to Monday’s closing. The two businesses will remain in their current locations.

The Old North End has become a biking mecca. More than 8 percent of its residents commute by bicycle, compared to 5.5 percent citywide, according to a recent American Community Survey. Boedecker credits Old Spokes Home and Bike Recycle with providing affordable transportation solutions for its diverse and financially challenged population. The survey found that ONE neighborhoods have among the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in Vermont.

When Rob Connor was released from his three-year jail sentence, his parole officer suggested he volunteer at Bike Recycle. Connor followed the advice and ended up working there for up to 30 hours a week, according to Hock.

Connor credits the place with helping him readjust to life on the outside and cope with severe depression and anxiety. In August, the 47-year-old flew to the Virgin Islands with one checked item — the SCOTT Sub 20 bike he purchased from Bike Recycle. He’s been following the merger effort from afar.

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ne year ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to what he called Vermont’s “opiate epidemic.” He described a “crisis” that had ensnared thousands and overwhelmed the system designed to help addicts get clean. The speech received national media attention and included many proposals — to increase treatment options for drug addicts, reduce backlogs at medical facilities and boost awareness.

Shumlin’s 2015 State of the State address last week didn’t even mention Vermont’s opiate problem, which left many questions about the so-called crisis: How much progress has been made on Shumlin’s proposals? Has Vermont beaten back the “epidemic”?

Experts say the state has made great strides in getting more addicts off the streets and into treatment. But while the waiting list for treatment is shorter, they lament that it hasn’t been eliminated.

“We have been able to take 400 patients from our community to a place where they are moving substantially forward in their recovery,” said Jeff McKee, who oversees Rutland’s West Ridge Center for Addiction Recovery.

“If you take 400 people from our little community out of the drug-use-anddistribution chain, that’s enormous.”

Vermont treats drug addicts through the so-called hub-and-spoke system. The state funds five regional hubs — West Ridge is one — that provide intensive treatment and dispense the maintenance drugs methadone and buprenorphine, which wean addicts off more potent opiates. Once patients are stabilized in hubs, their treatment is taken over by the “spokes” — local doctors and therapists certified to treat them.

Last year, Shumlin noted that hundreds of people were waiting for help.

The state has since spent $6.7 million on additional hub staffing to boost their capacity. It is here that the state can claim its greatest success, though not total victory.

At the time of Shumlin’s speech, 994 people were waiting to be admitted for treatment at a state hub. That number has been reduced to 523. Meanwhile, the number of hub patients has increased from 1,482 a year ago to 2,517 today, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

Officials say the governor’s speech itself, and related media attention, informed addicts that help was available, therefore increasing patient numbers.

Gov. Peter Shumlin giving his State of the State address in 2014

“We made a lot of progress in terms of access to treatment, and that was our first goal,” said Barbara Cimaglio, deputy commissioner at the Vermont Department of Health. “We had an avalanche of people all wanting to come in for treatment at once. We gave that message that there’s help for you,” Cimaglio said. “A lot of people responded to that.”

Some progress was in motion long before Shumlin delivered his speech. West Ridge Center opened in November 2013 and quickly reached capacity at 400 patients.

Still, a big Bar bara reason why more patients are receiving treatment is the state’s decision to hire more drug counselors and support staffers in the existing hub facilities, officials said. Some 15 new hires went to the Howard Center, a hub in South Burlington that currently serves 950 clients — up from under 600 last year. The waiting list at the Howard Center has dropped from 900 to 220 people.

“There is no way we would be in a position to take more clients if we didn’t have more staff,” Howard Center executive director Bob Bick said. “I think the state and treatment providers can feel good. It’s not like we solved the problem, but we’ve had a significant impact.”

Other initiatives worked to bring addicts back to life. Weeks after Shumlin’s speech, his administration announced that every Vermont State Police trooper and ambulance crew in the state would carry the fast-acting drug naloxone, which revives patients who overdose on opiates. More than 100 people in Vermont were saved in 2014 using naloxone, Cimaglio said, including a 20 year-old man revived by Vermont State Police in St. Johnsbury last November.

Shumlin also pledged $760,000 to help state’s attorneys launch C ima g lio programs to funnel nonviolent drug addicts out of the court and prison systems and into treatment. As a model, he cited Chittenden County’s Rapid Intervention Community Court, where prosecutors drop criminal charges against drug addicts in exchange for the successful completion of drug-treatment programs.

Since the speech, similar programs have launched in Lamoille, Addison, Rutland and Franklin counties. Cimaglio said it was too early to determine how much of an impact the programs were having.

Another of Shumlin’s proposals aimed to raise opiate awareness. Thanks

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to a $20,000 allocation, students at 25 schools across the state saw the documentary The Hungry Heart, which chronicles a St. Albans pediatrician and his drug-addicted patients. Film director Bess O’Brien and cast members engaged in post-screening Q&As. Every Vermont middle and high school received a copy of the movie and accompanying informational packets.

“People really started to talk about this issue at a grassroots level,” O’Brien said. “Awareness has really taken off in the past year. It put a human face on it.

Vermont is ahead of the game.”

Vermont is not alone in its alarm about opiate abuse. All along the East Coast, mayors and governors have voiced concern about the surge in heroin use.

O’Brien has screened her film in Maine and New Hampshire, and heard stories similar to the ones she documented in Vermont.

Locally, officials say that more must be done to eliminate the treatment waiting list: Both the Howard Center and West Ridge are at full capacity. To ease the burden in 2015, more primary care doctors — the “spokes” in the system — are needed.

“There is a shortage of primary care physicians in Chittenden County who are willing,” Bick said. To dispense buprenorphine, doctors must complete an eight-hour online course given by the federal government. Fewer than one in five primary care physicians in Vermont have taken that step, according to the health department.

“Our challenge in the next year is developing those spoke resources in the community in order to keep our front door open,” McKee said. “The model we would like to see is much more integrated … all primary care doctors need to do it.”

State health officials caution that they don’t know how many more addicts need treatment — though Cimaglio noted that demand appears to have peaked and is starting to wane. “We’re hoping that we’re starting to turn the corner.”

But the waiting lists only measure those who come forward. Last year Burlington closed public bathrooms along the waterfront and in the Fletcher Free Library because maintenance workers found hypodermic needles clogging the toilets — glaring evidence that there is still work to be done.

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After more than a decade in politics, Smith is used to speculation about who’s going to run for what in the next election. In the past, such questions have generated eye rolling.

These days, he is more willing to engage, even as he remains circumspect.

“I’m in the office I’m in, not the next one,” Smith says when asked if he’s interested in running for governor.

“Any way my life leads, I’m going to be in a pretty good place.”

He brings the conversation back to political reality.

“I don’t think Peter’s going to want to leave electoral politics with 2014 being his last election,” he says of Shumlin. “I would be surprised if he didn’t run in 2016.”

Others are less sure. Even some hardcore Democrats say they can’t imagine Shumlin pulling together enough support to win again.

“There’s all kinds of conversations going on around this building about what will happen in 2016,” says Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) the Senate Republican leader. “I do sense there’s going to be a shift because people are going to set themselves up for 2016.” m

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Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe around the state to demonstrate the benefits of school consolidation.

Smith agrees with Holcombe’s effort, but says he and Shumlin don’t entirely agree on the scope of the issue. Shumlin has resisted talk of rejiggering the state’s complicated property tax system and has balked at mandated school consolidations or student-teacher ratios.

“I think I’m more willing to look at financing changes and am probably willing to be a little more forceful on governance change,” Smith said.

To start with, Smith has given the often-ineffectual House Education Committee a wider purview to consider tax policy, rather than just education policy. The panel will sort through recommendations from the tax study committee and from 70 ideas the public submitted after Smith put out a request last month. He cautions the effort could take two years to pull together.

Smith insists he’s open to all ideas, but, characteristically, hasn’t committed to a single approach.

“He’s not come out and said this is the path we want to take. I think he’s done a good job of creating an environment to allow a diverse set of ideas to go forward,” says Olsen, who served on the study committee.

“He’s looking for people to poke holes in all the ideas.”

Smith admits there may be no solution.

“We’ve got to remember we have a good education system,” he says. “It’s appropriate for us to ask, ‘Could we do it better and could we do it more cost-effectively?’ The answer might be no. It might be no because Vermonters say they are unwilling to make the choices that will allow us to be more cost-effective.”

In other words, his signature issue might go the way of single-payer health care.

If that sounds passive, colleagues say it’s not. When Smith settles on a solution, he makes it happen — usually, by firmly coaching his players behind the scenes.

That’s how it was in 2009 when lawmakers were about to legalize same-sex marriage. While Shumlin, who was then Senate leader, gets most of the credit for the law, it was Smith who came in as the closer, marshaling enough votes from his members to barely override a veto by Republican governor Jim Douglas.

“He lets people know what he expects. When he’s disappointed, he lets you know,” says Floyd Nease, who served as Smith’s majority leader for four years, including during the same-sex marriage debate. He now works for Shumlin.

Nease supported former representative Mark Larson for speaker over Smith in 2009. After Larson pulled out, Nease says Smith held no grudge against him.

He recalls that the speaker told him: “The only thing you need to know is I won.’ By the time a year had gone by, I would have walked on coals for him.”

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restore order and introduced Rev. Robert Potter of the Peacham Congregational Church, who would deliver the closing benediction.

“When I think of what other countries do to silence the differences, aren’t you glad you’re in America?” Potter asked the crowd, prompting an extended, standing ovation. “As long as they’re quiet when I pray.”

As Potter spoke, Ki Walker of Royalton burst onto the balcony, drowning out the benediction as he sang along with the crowd outside.

“Strange things have happened here, no stranger would it be,” Walker and his fellow protesters sang to the tune of “The Hanging Tree,” a song featured in The Hunger Games trilogy. “Health care Sergeant-at-Arms Francis Brooks pulls down is a human right, a right for you a banner held by single-payer protesters at Gov. Peter Shumlin’s inauguration. and me.”

“Don’t worry. I’ve got the mic. I can out-shout them,” Potter joked to the crowd. of office, two activists unfurled a large As the disruption continued, Public banner under the House balcony that read, “Put People First,” in English and Spanish. Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn Another entered the chamber from the approached the protesters seated in the right of the dais, loudly declaring her aisle, but they declined to move. So instead of processing through the front of the support for single-payer.

Shumlin stood passively, his hands House when the ceremony concluded, Shumlin and fellow dignitaries ducked out folded in front of him.

After he delivered his inaugural remarks, of the chamber through a rear exit.

Vermont Workers’ Center executive protesters hoisted a second banner that read, “The Time is NOW,” featuring a director James Haslam said he was pleased Vermont Workers’ Center logo. Others with the way most of the protest unfolded.

Some legislators, however, took issue streamed into the chamber and sat down in the center aisle, blocking Shumlin’s path with the tactics. Sen. Jeanette White (D-Windham) said she thought Walker and that of his fellow lawmakers.

In a round of call-and-response, they crossed a line.

“It was disruptive,” she said. “To show chanted that they would not move until Smith scheduled a public hearing by that kind of disrespect, I think, was not January 29 on how to finance single-payer right.” health care.

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The troopers appeared to pull Linton’s arms further behind her back, prompting her to shriek. They then lifted her to her feet and escorted her from the chamber.

According to protest organizers, Linton was subsequently taken to the hospital.

An hour before Shumlin’s inauguration, at least 250 activists lined the halls of the Statehouse and assembled near the entrances to the House chamber. They sang and held up yellow pieces of paper that read, “The time is now,” as Shumlin and his fellow dignitaries walked to the House floor.

Even after the formal ceremony began, their voices could be heard from the gallery, occasionally interrupting the proceedings.

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Hundreds came to Montpelier to protest Gov. Peter Shumlin’s third inauguration last Thursday, demanding a public debate over his recently discarded single-payer health care plan.

The protest, which began with singing and chanting in the halls of the Statehouse, escalated over the course of the two-hour ceremony.

After one activist burst onto the balcony of the House chamber, Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon grabbed and attempted to forcibly remove him.

The mass disruption culminated in a sit-in staged in the well of the House. Roughly three dozen people affiliated with the Vermont Workers’ Center refused to leave the chamber for more than five hours, demanding that House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown) schedule public hearings to debate Shumlin’s single-payer plan.

Between 8 and 9 p.m., the Vermont State Police removed the protesters one by one, arresting 29 and charging them with unlawful trespass. Of those, 10 were also charged with resisting arrest, according to VSP Captain Paul White. State troopers lifted up several protesters who refused to comply with their instructions to leave the Statehouse, dragging them down the center aisle of the House and out of the chamber. One of them, Sheila Linton of Brattleboro, cried out in apparent pain as two troopers pulled her arms behind her back.

“Ma’am, please stand up,” one of the troopers said. “Ma’am, please stand up. I’m not strong enough to pick you up, so please stand up. Ma’am, please stand up.”

“You’re hurting me,” Linton said, refusing to move. “You are hurting me. You are hurting me.”

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said. “We don’t want more than three or four weeks.” Adults can also have trouble scheduling timely psychiatric appointments, a state official acknowledged.

Long wait times, especially with psychiatric illnesses, can have detrimental effects. Treatment begins with an assessment, which can be a lengthy process with children. Often the assessment looks at family members, too. Treatment may include psychotropic drugs that affect the brain and talk therapies that help change behavior.

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Dr. Rose Ehret, founder of Family Psychiatric Associates in Berlin, said her practice is able to see children faster than the child psychiatric clinics at the UVM and Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical centers. But faster doesn’t necessarily mean fast: Her current wait time is three months.

“I try to have crisis slots,” Ehret said, which allow her to see some children within a couple of weeks.

Officials have worked to trim wait times for psychiatric services in the state’s mental health network, said Dr. Bill McMains, medical director for children’s services with the Vermont Department of Mental Health.

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For decades, the number of medical students who choose to become child psychiatrists has remained flat, Rettew said, and the shortage of pediatric psychiatrists isn’t new or unique to Vermont. But “demand has gone up,” he added. One reason is that people are more likely to seek treatment for behavior they used to ignore, Rettew said.

Another is that the threshold for making a diagnosis is lower than it once was.

The most common reason children are referred to psychiatrists is “aggressive, defiant behavior” that primary care doctors have treated without success, Rettew said.

“We see a lot of kids with anxiety, obsessive compulsive behavior, bipolar and autism.”

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The toys help transform a potentially scary examination room into a welcoming space for his patients — young Vermonters with psychiatric needs.

Rettew is a tall, bear-like man, but his friendly demeanor makes it easy to envision him interacting with young patients.

He is one of some 30 child psychiatrists in Vermont — specialists in short supply to meet increasing demand.

“Our waiting list is getting close to a year,” said Rettew, who heads the pediatric psychiatry clinic at the University of Vermont Medical Center. “We have the longest waitlist in the entire medical

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back as fast as doctors in specialties that perform “procedures,” Rettew said. “Time psychiatrists on staff, it’s the only hospital versus procedure, the reimbursement is in Vermont that provides in-patient care less,” he said. for children with psychiatric illnesses.

And though reimbursement rates are Ehret agreed, noting that mental illness the same for psychiatrists seeing adults in children can impact their social interac- and children, Ehret said, “There is so tions, academics and emotional growth, much more time involved in treating a and delays in treatment may result in a child. I would say three times more time child developing new symptoms, such as and energy. I can see why that may not be depression, anxiety and anger. “Then they appealing.” come in with all these issues,” she said, in Mental health officials in Vermont addition to the underlying illness. are working to attract more people to “One of the hardest times to wait is the field. The College of Medicine at when your child is leaving the hospital and UVM has funding from the Klingenstein there is a long time to see a psychiatrist,” Third Generation Foundation “to foster said Kathy Holsopple, interest in child mental director of the Vermont health issues and careers Federation of Families for in child psychiatry,” Children’s Mental Health, Rettew said. “The proa nonprofit organization gram here is like a club of families trained to help that any medical student other families. “Often may join for free. It is the family needs suptotally voluntary,” he export, as well as the child,” plained. Students attend Holsopple explained. “You lunch presentations on can feel very much alone.” various child psychiatry D R . D Avi D R E T TE w, C h i LD p S y Ch i AT Ri S T “We generally help topics, shadow child families get connected,” psychiatrists and attend a Holsopple said, noting that her organiza- national conference on the topic. tion serves several hundred families a year.

Third-year medical student Anja Families also rely on primary care Jokela has attended the program. “So doctors, psychologists and other mental much of our classroom work is not fohealth providers to help fill the gap while cused on mental health. You have to seek children wait for appointments with psy- it out,” Jokela said. “I have a strong interchiatrists. Primary care physicians can est in pediatrics and mental health.” But prescribe psychotropic drugs, but many she expects to combine those interests only feel comfortable recommending by pursuing family medicine rather than some of the basic medications, not com- child psychiatry. plicated combinations or medicines with Rettew noted another initiative to atsignificant side effects. tract child psychiatrists to Vermont. In Local child psychiatrists describe 2009, UVM launched a child and adolesthe specialty as one that struggles to at- cent psychiatry fellowship that provides tract medical students. Some believe “it two years of specialized training to docis not as cool as other medical special- tors. Two fellows are admitted each year. ties,” Ostrander said. Ehret explained “At least half our graduates stick around,” that “there are a whole bunch of people Rettew said. who see it as soft science.” And Ehret Mental health officials have also and Rettew agree that many doctors-in- worked to increase the psychiatric expertraining receive little exposure to child tise of primary care physicians statewide. psychiatry. As a result, students never get “We can be consultants to any primary the chance to fully investigate it as a pos- care physician in the state,” Rettew said. sible field of study.

“We can help them a lot by hearing a case Ehret also argued that the push to over the phone.” grow the number of primary care doctors Technology can also play a part in has come at the expense of fields such as treating patients remotely. Telemedicine child psychiatry. For some future doctors, involves a doctor — often one of the psymoney may be the problem. The path to chiatric fellows — seeing a patient via inbecome a child psychiatrist is lengthy teractive television. “We try to extend our and expensive: It involves two additional reach that way,” Rettew said. years of training beyond the standard four But Ehret in Berlin isn’t sold on it. “I’ve years of medical school and a three-year gotten some negative feedback,” she said. residency; for primary care doctors, just “There is so much to learn from seeing a three-year residency is required after someone in person.” medical school.

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Inez Bessie Bird 1917-2015, HARDWICK

Christmas 2014, saying she looked forward to her 98th birthday cake. She suffered a stroke on December 26 and recovered enough for a few days to have many visits and conversations with her loved ones that they will always appreciate.

Her last four and a half years were spent as a resident of the Craftsbury Community Care Center. She loved the years spent there and her sunny corner room, the residents and the attentive staff who treated her like family.

She was affiliated with the United Church of Hardwick and a member of Circle No. 1 of that church; a member of the Coral Chapter 16 of the Order of the Eastern Star in Morrisville and the American Legion Auxiliary Post 7 in Hardwick. She enjoyed socializing, knitting, crocheting and playing cards.

Survivors include two children, William L. “Bill” Bird, of Hardwick and Florida, and Lenore Renaud and her husband, Wayne, of Hardwick; seven grandchildren; several great- and great-great-grandchildren; sonin-law John Kapusta; and many nieces and nephews.

Inez was predeceased by her husband, William H. “Bill” Bird, in 1969; two daughters, Connie Kapusta in 2010 and Cathleen Potvin in 2008; and two sisters, Dorothy Bird and Lucy Goodell.

Visiting hours were held on Monday, January 12, at the Northern Vermont Funeral Home, 60 Elm Street, Hardwick.

A memorial service was held on Tuesday, January 13, at the United Church of Hardwick with the Rev. Evelyn Lavelli officiating. Spring burial will be in the family lot in the Fairview Cemetery in Hardwick.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to the Craftsbury Community Care Center, 1784 E. Craftsbury Rd., Craftsbury, VT 05826.

Arrangements are under the direction of Dian R. Holcomb of Northern Vermont Funeral Service, 60 Elm Street, Hardwick.

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Gertrude Granger Picher, a lifelong resident of Winooski, Vt., died peacefully on January 11, 2015, at Our Lady of Providence Residence in Winooski shortly after celebrating her 101st birthday on January 8. Her life was dedicated to her family, faith and music.

Principal organist at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Winooski for 65 years (1930-1995), she served her parish and the larger community with integrity, generosity and humility. She was also an avid gardener and later in life took up painting and ceramics as an avocation.

Mrs. Picher was an accomplished pianist and music teacher and, in the 1930s and 1940s, she played in various popular music and jazz bands, on WCAX radio and at other venues, such as the S.S. Ticonderoga. She was also the musical arranger and accompanist for the popular Art Dorey Minstrel Show.

She continued accompanying numerous classical singers in concert through the 1970s.

A respected organist, Mrs. Picher was an active member of the American Guild of

Organists for many years and was instrumental in persuading the St. Francis Xavier parish to purchase the prestigious Casavant pipe organ that currently graces the choir loft. In 1995, that organ was officially dedicated to her.

In 1941, she married the love of her life, Paul J. Picher, also of Winooski. He too was an active member of the parish who sang in, and later directed, the choir for many years.

Mrs. Picher was predeceased by her parents, French Canadian immigrants Malvina Poulin and Oliva Granger; six siblings: Oliva Granger, Adelard Granger, Leo Granger, Marie-Louise Berube, Irene Bissonnette and Bertha Devino; and, in 1988, her spouse. She is survived by her two daughters and their spouses: Marie-Claire Picher (Bill Koehnlein) and Annette Picher (Ed Blechner); her grandson Daniel Fisher; her brother-in-law and his spouse, Robert L. and Jeannine Picher; two sisters-in-law: Sister Claire Picher (Présentation de Marie) and Theresa Picher Muldoon; and numerous nieces and nephews. The family wishes to thank Carole Lanphere, Leta Powers and Rebecca Sanville for their compassionate homecare, and both Our Lady of Providence Residence and the VNA Hospice Program for their generous and impeccable care.

A wake will be held at the Lavigne Funeral Home on Wednesday, January 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Saint Francis Xavier Church on Thursday, January 15, at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation be made to either Our Lady of Providence Vermont, Inc., the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties Hospice Program, or Saint Francis Xavier Parish. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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Inez Bessie Bird, 97, died peacefully on Thursday, January 8, 2015, at the Greensboro Nursing Home with her loving family by her side.

She was born December 22, 1917, in West Woodbury, Vt., the daughter of the late Agnes Mae Fisher and Carl B. Burnham. She attended Woodbury public schools.

In 1947 she married William Henry Bird.

They lived most of their married life in Hardwick, Vt. Inez was employed for many years at the Hardwick Ware Knitters and as a waitress at several Hardwick- and Stowe-area restaurants. She spent several happy years in her retirement as a senior companion for the Area Agency on Aging, visiting with her “ladies.”

She was, above all, Mom and Gram.

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trumps risk. So last year, in her first season as artistic director, she launched the showcase of plays still unknown to the American theater with fully rehearsed staged readings.

On Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17, Northern Stage will present three staged readings for Wayne Lawson “New Works Now”: Here Today by Bob Stevens; The Land Where the King Is a Child by Henry de Montherlant, adapted

by Wayne Lawson and Julian Sancton; and The Last Queen of Canaan, book

by Harrison Rivers, music by Jacob Yandura and lyrics by Rebekah Melocik.

If none of those plays sounds familiar, that’s the point. Take Stevens’ Here Today, which took home top honors at the Beatles-based Ticket to Write Festival in Liverpool, England. Not many Americans had a chance to see it across the pond. Stevens, a Peabody-winning writer-producer of hit TV shows including “Malcolm in the Middle” and Photos Courtesy of Northern Stage

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or 17 years, Northern Stage has been presenting plays at the 245seat Briggs Opera House in White River Junction. With more than 100 productions under its belt and an annual attendance of some 24,000, the theater company is in no danger of resting on its laurels. Northern Stage continues to innovate, not just as a regional theater, but as a pivotal resource for playwrights and theater artists. (It’s also currently building a new playhouse, but that’s another story.)

This week, for a second consecutive season, Northern Stage will present “New Works Now,” a showcase and celebration of new plays. For artistic director Carol Dunne, offering new dramatic work is a vital part of the process of running a theater. “In the arts, I often feel that you have to keep moving forward or you die,” she says. “I’ve heard that a shark always has to keep moving. Presenting new plays is like that. It’s about never resting, always trying to reinvent.”

Introducing audiences to new plays and playwrights is crucial to the future of theater, though such plays rarely turn a profit. Dunne sees presenting these works as an opportunity in which reward

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“Murphy Brown,” now lives in Norwich and is working with Northern Stage to expand his play into two acts.

Here Today portrays an imagined night long ago, before John Lennon and Paul McCartney became two of the Fab Four. Stuck together in a hotel room on Key West during a hurricane, they drink too much, bond over their lost mothers and find inspiration for the Beatles songs “Julia” and “Let It Be.” Dunne says Northern Stage aims to fully produce a work from the newworks showcase every few years. To that end, Joe Sutton’s Orwell in America,

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he term “movie theater” gets a new meaning in the latest work from Argentine writer-director Mariano Pensotti. Cineastas, which has earned enthusiastic reviews from Santiago to Toronto, makes its New England debut at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts this weekend and is certain to dazzle audiences with its audacious hybridization of stage and screen.

Part play, part motion picture and completely original, the production combines conventions of both art forms to tell the stories of four Buenos Aires filmmakers while simultaneously staging scenes from the movies on which they’re working. To make this possible,

designer Mariana Tirantte came up with the idea of a two-level set designed to function as a real-life split screen.

Just five performers handle all the action. On the lower level, the artists live their day-to-day lives and do their work.

Overhead, we see that work played out as it’s created — sort of like instantaneous flesh-and-blood dailies.

Contributing to the “movie-ness” of Pensotti’s stage creation are devices such as voice-over narration, an ultracatchy soundtrack, flashbacks, a lighting palette beside which Technicolor pales and — believe it or not — subtitles (the play is in Spanish).

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from last year’s readings, will be realized in March. Sutton, who teaches playwriting at Dartmouth College, has had a play, Voir Dire, nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and the American Theatre Critics Association’s Best Play award. His play Complicit was directed by Kevin Spacey at London’s Old Vic in 2009, and rumors say a film version starring Spacey is in the works.

“Sutton’s work is produced internationally, but he’s never been produced regionally,” Dunne notes. Until now.

The artistic director says she taps into playwriting talent close to home when

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she finds it. “It’s my job to seek out and present works that my particular audience will find interesting,” she says. “I try to follow my gut.”

Saturday afternoon will offer a new adaptation of The Land Where the King Is a Child by French writer Henry de Montherlant. Vanity Fair magazine’s illustrious former literary editor, Wayne Lawson, collaborated with frequent VF contributing writer Julian Sancton on the adaptation.

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Hop program director Margaret Lawrence in a phone interview. “And the text is projected onto that space.” All that’s missing are the endless previews and ads. Which, of course, nobody misses at all.

The four director characters vary in age, area of interest and degree of success.

Mariela specializes in documentaries about Soviet musicals. When she observes, “Ultimately, film is about people being able to make time stand still,” she touches on the central theme of Cineastas: the human desire to freeze life in a frame.

This is very much the motivation of the group’s most commercially accomplished member, an artist named Gabriel whose battle with a terminal illness is nearing its end. His film starts out as a “time capsule” of his life for his young daughter to watch after he’s gone.

As time runs out, however, he finds himself reduced to compulsively recording objects of personal significance and marveling at “how different a represented life and a real one are.”

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young boys in a Catholic school and how the teachers and priests entrusted with their education and well-being manipulate their relationship. Chad Larabee, the head of performance at the theater program of the University at Albany, SUNY, recently directed Clybourne Park for Northern Stage and will direct Land.

The third play, The Last Queen of Canaan, is a musical about the descendants of slavery living in Depression-era Virginia. Protagonist Cora still lives on the land where she was once a slave. “We meet a lot of ghosts from Cora’s past,” says LiLLian King, Northern Stage’s assistant artistic director, who will direct.

Cora’s granddaughter hopes to escape her rural past, but fears hold her back.

King says the jumping-off point for this project was the real-life story of a woman sent by the Work Projects Administration to record slave narratives. In Last Queen, that woman arrives to record Cora’s stories, and the past emerges to stake its claim. “It’s dark and haunting, and the music is gorgeous,” King reveals.

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ermont composers of new chamber music have cherished a singular resource for the past 27 years: the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Led by clarinetist Steve Klimowski, an affiliate artist at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, the ensemble specializes, according to its website, in performing “rarely heard 20th- and 21st-century chamber music and works by living composers” — most of them Vermonters.

Particularly rarely heard are works whose premieres are steadily receding into the past. As many a composer will attest, everyone wants to premiere a work; it’s that second performance that is so hard to secure. The VCME, which has already commissioned 92 works and premiered 114, intends to rectify that situation at its concerts in Montpelier and Burlington this weekend.

“Bring in the New! A Concert of VCME Premieres and Commissions,” performed by various combinations of five instrumentalists and one singer, will give repeat airings to four recent works by Vermonters. They include “Noctiluca Scintillans” by Peter Hamlin, a Middlebury College music professor; “Bridge of Sighs” by Laura Koplewitz, who grew up in St. Albans and Burlington; “Bagatelles” by David Feurzeig, who teaches music at UVM; and “Songs About Cheese” by Michael Close, the music teacher at Moretown and Worcester elementary schools.

VCME commissioned the first three of those works, premiering Hamlin’s in 2007 and Koplewitz’s in 2005. Feurzeig’s will premiere this weekend.

The program will finish with a piece

by David Lefkowitz, a California composer whose work VCME has performed before. “Surfer’s Guide for the Perplexed (or, Jonah on the Raging Sea)” was commissioned by a different group but given its Vermont premiere by VCME. Klimowski, a Fairfax resident, explains by phone — in a few spare moments before a rehearsal — his reasoning for including Lefkowitz. “He represents the fact that we don’t only do Vermonters, but we primarily do — because if we don’t, who will? I’m a bit of a locavore guy in that way.”

(As of last summer, one other performance possibility is open to Vermont composers: the contemporary music

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ensemble TURNmusic, founded by frequent VCME conductor Anne Decker.)

“One of the great things about this group is that they have a lot of long-term relationships with Vermont composers all over the place,” comments Feurzeig, a pianist whose composition interests include jazz and ragtime. “When they started [in 1987], new ‘classical’ music was not popular with audiences,” he adds, making the group’s longevity even more remarkable.

That may have been due to a perception that new music was “forbiddingly difficult,” says the 49-yearold. Feurzeig, however, opines that this “alleged hegemony of dissonant music” was merely a function of the cultural weight given to difficult music at mid-century.

Today, he says, there’s a great variety of new music. Feurzeig himself is increasingly interested in writing “funny music — which is hard. It’s not always obvious, because there’s no text.”

In “Bagatelles,” a work for flute and clarinet, he says, “There’s a real gameplaying aspect, both in the composition … and in the drama between the players.

[Musicians] are not sound-producing machines; they’re characters in a drama,” he says.

In one movement, for instance, the

clarinet and flute leap between registers, creating the effect of four instruments.

Klimowski and flutist Anne Janson will perform the piece.

About the program as a whole, Feurzeig enthuses, “I would encourage people to check it out, and not assume this is stodgy or narrowly old-fashioned.”

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water, they’re all around you. It’s like swimming in the stars,” Hamlin recalls.

Having named his piece after the Latin for those organisms — Noctiluca scintillans — Hamlin says he meant for its harmonic language and structural properties to “capture the mood, [which was] awe-inspiring and pointillistic.”

The work is for flute, clarinet, violin and cello; violinist Letitia Quante and Klimowski’s wife, cellist Bonnie Thurber Klimowski, will perform with Janson and Klimowski.

Hamlin dedicated “Noctiluca Scintillans” to the VCME — a group he considers an enormous resource for local composers seeking a chance to have their new works heard.

“Steve’s a hero to all of us,” says Hamlin warmly. “It’s such a tough thing to get things done like this” — i.e., program new chamber music regularly — “and he does it consistently and well.” m

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Validating the picture of new music as extremely varied, Hamlin, a 63-yearold composer whose interests range from electronic music to choral works, describes his own piece as “neo-impressionistic” with a solid origin in visual imagery.

Hamlin had VCME’s commission in mind when he came across a New Yorker article that mentioned microscopic phosphorescent sea organisms.

It reminded him of swimming among them as a teenager on Cape Cod. “When you walk in the sand, they light up your footprints, and when you jump in the

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INFO “Bring in the New! A Concert of VCME Premieres and Commissions,” Friday, January 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier; and Saturday, January 17, 7:30 p.m., at the First Baptist Church in Burlington. $12-25. vcme.org

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Take That: A Rendezvous in Stowe With Insult Diva Bianca Del Rio

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Comedy fun. I don’t get to see much of the places I go. I wish I had a little more time.

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Bianca Del Rio, Thursday, January 22, 9 p.m., at Stowe High School Auditorium. Tickets are included in the Winter Rendezvous package or may be purchased individually for $45. mjwadventures.com

Cineastas, by Mariano Pensotti, Thursday, January 15, 7 p.m., with preshow talk at 6 p.m.; and Friday, January 16, 8 p.m., with panel discussion at 5 p.m.

Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Talks are free; show $13-35. Tickets, 603-6462010 or hop.dartmouth.edu.

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SD: How do you toe the line between making someone laugh and upsetting them?

BDR: If you’re coming to see a drag queen in an enclosed space, that’s already half the battle. You’re not going to please everyone, and that’s just the way of the world. People are much more sensitive on social media, but nine times out of 10, people will go out and type up things on Facebook they would never say in person.

SD: Most of your professional life has been in theater. Any hopes to return to the “legitimate” stage?

BDR: I’ve never stopped. I’ve always been involved in theater in some way, acting and designing, and both in New Orleans and New York. I always did drag at night. It wasn’t until “Drag Race” that I took a leave from work. It’s definitely my passion. I never rule anything out. m

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SD: Filmmaker John Waters likes your act. Do you have any other unexpected fans?

BDR: That happened many years ago when I was in my twenties in [my native] New Orleans. I love him and love his work. After “Drag Race,” I haven’t had a tweet from Sarah Palin yet, but I heard from Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming, Cheyenne Jackson and Margaret Cho. It was great to hear their response. I never experienced that before — people are watching this television show, and they get to know you.

SD: Most “Drag Race” alums immediately record a dance track. Where’s yours?

BDR: I’m not doing that shit. I’m doing a comedy album. That’s definitely not my cup of tea. There are people who do that well and people who don’t, and I’m one that ‘don’t.’ I like to break the rules.

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SEVEN DAYS: Have you been to Vermont before?

BIANCA DEL RIO: No, but what I’ve learned is that, after three drinks, no matter where you are, it’s all the same.

I don’t have much time to prep myself about where I’m going. I’m in a city one night and out the next. It is work, but it is

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ageant queens, old-school club queens, goth queens and fishy queens all have their own performance styles. Drag artistes are a diverse lot, but only Bianca Del Rio would sum up her style, as she did for the New York Times, as “erotic clown.”

The razor-witted insult comic, 39, could pass for a filthier Don Rickles if it weren’t for her exaggerated eye makeup and nipped-in waist. Born Roy Haylock, the former costume designer from Louisiana is a staple in New York and New Orleans nightclubs, and last season won the top-rated reality competition “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Logo TV. Del Rio emerged as the supreme queen thanks to her fierce Judge Judy impression and facility for whipping up campy cocktail dresses.

The winner’s world is not all tantrums and tiaras. Del Rio is currently riding a wave of popularity that’s taking her from sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles to humbler venues such as bingo halls and college campuses. Like one of her role models, Joan Rivers, Del Rio is loath to turn down any gig. “I’ve been fortunate enough to have everything come my way that has,” she says demurely by phone from Los Angeles. Next week, that dedication to performing will bring her to Stowe High School’s auditorium.

Del Rio’s Rolodex of Hate Tour stop in the Green Mountains is part of Winter Rendezvous Gay Ski Week, a five-day event now in its 31st year. Other entertainment acts include returning drag comedian Dixie Longate, DJs and Burlington drag gals the House of LeMay. Will Del Rio’s fellow performers be the butt of her insult humor? “Most of it is flying off the cuff,” she explains of her act. “Most of the time, I don’t even know what will come out.”

Straight from a Logo shoot whose nature she can’t reveal, Del Rio chats with Seven Days about her upcoming performance.

The play has a quirky and lighthearted side, as well. Third director Nadia’s way of dealing with the block she experiences after an early success is to put filmmaking aside for a while and immerse herself in the music of Michael Jackson.

Lucas is a young artist who makes ends meet by working at McDonald’s. He channels his frustration into the story of a kidnapping victim whose masked captors’ idea of torture is forcing him to eat cold hamburgers and making him dress up like Ronald McDonald.

When Lucas’ protagonist is released, he pigs out at Burger King and delivers a monologue that echoes Warhol: “There are things that are fleeting,” he pronounces.

“Lives, relationships, families. And other things that last forever, like some cities and leading brands.”

That might just be the most profound thing ever said by a character in clown shoes.

The play is never more movielike than when it reaches its ending.

It’s a pip, and you won’t see it coming. Before he became Latin America’s foremost experimental auteur, Pensotti made his living as a screenwriter, and Cineastas reflects the bemusement of someone who’s seen the industry from the inside and gotten out.

If it were a movie instead of a play, this would be something very like a Charlie Kaufman film.

There’s a subplot, in fact, concerning a director who finds himself replaced in his life by the actor who’s playing the lead in his film.

The prize-winning playwright will take part in a preshow talk titled “Argentina on Stage” on Thursday, January 15; and a panel discussion titled “Real Fictions” on Friday, January 16, moderated by Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson.

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What’s wrong with Cambridge’s ‘Wrong-Way Bridge’?

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ours before the end of 2014, a fatal highway accident refocused attention on a notorious section of Vermont Route 15 in Cambridge. The December 30 accident, in which a car plunged into the icy Lamoille River, occurred just a few hundred yards from the “Wrong-Way Bridge,” a nickname used even by local journalists and police officers.

So WTF, exactly, is wrong with the Wrong-Way Bridge?

It’s not that traffic on the bridge is rerouted to the British side of the road, or that, on an eastbound crossing, drivers are magically redirected to the west.

The bridge has no such powers.

Rather, at the bridge, Route 15 bends so as to seem to steer drivers “the wrong way” — toward Fletcher — rather than along the more direct east-west route the road seems to “want” to go. That apparent bit of misdirection has caused no end of consternation to local drivers — and invited several theories on the reasons for this orientation.

One persistent rumor is that the bridge was assembled incorrectly.

Joseph C. Nelson’s 1997 book Spanning Time: Vermont’s Covered Bridges refutes this legend, which holds that the road was reoriented to accommodate improperly manufactured bridge girders. The book also refers to an equally unlikely theory: The road bends oddly because the supervisor of highways at the time lived in the northwestern city of St. Albans.

On a map, nothing about the bridge looks out of the ordinary. Route 15 runs from Winooski to Danville, so it had to

cross the Lamoille River somewhere.

Take a look at the bridge on Google Maps (44°38’52”N and 72°52’21”W), and you’ll likely conclude that a site about a third of a mile east, just over the Jeffersonville town line, looks like a more suitable bridge location. Had a span been constructed there instead, Route 15 would not have had to bend once to the north and again to the south to continue on its east-west path. Or so it appears. But maps don’t tell the whole story.

From the 19th century until the middle of the 20th, this particular confluence of rivers sported two covered bridges.

The Gates Farm Covered Bridge, also known as the Little Bridge, was built in 1897 to span the narrow Seymour River.

The Cambridge Village Bridge (aka the Big Bridge), a relatively rare two-laner built in 1845, once stretched across the wider Lamoille. By 1950, both were relocated in preparation for the highway bridge that would supplant them. The

Gates was trucked to a nearby field; the larger Village Bridge was installed at the Shelburne Museum. The course of the Seymour River was also altered so that it would empty into the Lamoille upstream of the new bridge.

The site for the new 400-foot steeland-concrete bridge had proved itself a good location for crossing a river or two, but that wasn’t the only reason it was chosen. In an email, J.B. McCarthy of Vermont’s Agency of Transportation relates his recent conversation with Warren Tripp, a VTrans bridge engineer in the early 1960s. Tripp recollected that the bridge’s intended purpose was to shunt drivers onto Pumpkin Harbor Road, which leads to the town of Fletcher, about five miles to the northwest. A planned extension of Route 15 would have connected Cambridge and Jeffersonville along the south side of the Lamoille River.

Here lies the source of the nickname.

The bridge bends to connect with a spur that was ultimately never built.

The Wrong-Way Bridge presents a number of driving hazards, most obviously the nearly right-angle turn required to cross it. The bend limits visibility, and requires a sudden and often unexpected decrease in speed. The only warning for drivers comes from a somewhat ambiguous blinking yellow light.

Justin Marsh, 25, is a Cambridge resident and a member of the board of directors of the Cambridge Historical Society.

He’s also the grandson of Roberta Marsh, author of the book Cambridge, Vermont: Special Places, Special People. When the phrase “Wrong-Way Bridge” showed up in recent headlines, Justin Marsh was inspired to do some digging.

This never-named bridge underwent extensive repairs about five years ago, says Marsh. “You would think that if they were going to do a massive overhaul on that bridge … that they would have done it the way it had been intended, but they didn’t,” he says. “It would have been the opportune time to put in either a light or a turning lane, but that never happened.”

A 1981 Burlington Free Press article refers to another danger, a side effect of the bridge’s design. The driver in a near-fatal motorcycle accident placed the blame for his spill on the buildup of oil on the bridge’s surface. According to the article, the bridge’s surface is often slicked with oil, a condition that arises from “trucks leaning into the curve” and discharging slippery effluents in largerthan-normal quantities.

In fact, though, the most serious hazard represented by the bridge has nothing to do with its design. Situated as it is at the base of Bartlett Hill and astride the Lamoille River, the bridge is often on the receiving end of floodwaters rushing downhill. Marsh says that the river floods “several times a year” near the bridge, as a result of springtime snowmelt or summer’s heavy rains.

When high waters render the bridge impassable, traffic must be rerouted, and media reports often refer to a road closure “at the Wrong-Way Bridge.” Marsh speculates that it’s precisely this usage that has guaranteed the persistence of the nickname.

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el Rossiter proves that a person can make work out of play. He helps people ascend mountains, ice covered or not. He transports clients to Smugglers’ Notch, the Adirondacks and the White Mountains and teaches them how to place stable screws and prevent “whippers,” aka swings off the rock face.

Even off duty, Rossiter looks the part of a recreational professional. A knit cap covers shoulder-length blond hair. Over his lean frame, NAME he wears double-layered Kel Rossiter T-shirts and socks inside Birkenstocks.

TOWN While he loves the Burlington serenity of an isolated, icy rock face away from JOB civilization and highway Rock- and noise, Rossiter says he likes to return to the ice-climbing culture and bustle of the guide, Adventure city when he leaves the Spirit job. In 2009, he and his wife, Alysse Anton, moved to Burlington’s Old North End and bought a house that they share with their dog, Moka, and a housemate.

The house supplied him with an essential element of his business: a large storage closet off the bedroom that Rossiter has turned into a “gear room.” It’s neatly packed with climbing boots in every size on one wall, loops of heavy rope on another, rows of ice tools hanging high and shelves of mountaineering books.

Rossiter, 41, is a doctor of outdoor activity, with a PhD in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont. He’s philosophical about climbing, but doesn’t subscribe to some climbers’ conviction that the sport puts them “totally in this Zen moment of being at one with the wall,” he says in a Jeff Spicoli-like stoner tone.

“Maybe they are, and that’s great. But I think, particularly if you’re guiding, you’d better not be just totally at one with the wall,” he says. “You’d better be climbing and thinking about, Where’s my

SD: What do you teach the first day?

KR: The first day would mostly likely be a toproping day. The focus would be on movement skills and technique. With an ice tool, you’re really not hammering, you’re doing a whip-like motion.

So we talk about swing technique, a kick technique. We talk about body positioning, in terms of heels low. We’re talking about how to transition between planting the tools and bringing the feet up.

SD: What’s the downside of this job?

KR: You earn a living with your body, and if your body’s broken, there goes your income. As opposed to, say, a software engineer or even, in my former life as a faculty member, I did once break my arm climbing, but I could still continue my work and I could still earn an income.

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SD: What do you say to people who are scared to do this?

KR: You should try climbing. I often say to people, and I truly do believe this, “If you don’t have a fear of heights, then I would be afraid to climb with you.”

A fear of heights is a healthy thing. I have a fear of heights, too. That’s why I climb with a rope.

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KR: It’s a father and a daughter who went out to try rock climbing and seemed to have an enjoyable day together. This was their first time outside of a gym, and they saw some of the beautiful Vermont landscape. Or it could be a climber who last year did a little bit of top rope, and I led them up a few multipitch, meaning longer, climbs. Finally we’re going to go out, and they’re going to lead me up a climb. Maybe I’ll critique them on their screw placement, but they get the opportunity to do the leading.

client? Are they out of the way of icefall? How’s their belay technique right now?”

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KEL ROSSITER: One of the things with guiding in the Northeast: There’s a lot more demand for ice-climbing guiding than there is for rock-climbing guiding.

Ice climbing has a lot of entry barriers in terms of the cost of equipment, as opposed to rock climbing. If you have a friend who rock climbs — I’m not saying this is always the best way to do it — but if you have a helmet and a harness and shoes, you can go. As part of my guide package, I supply equipment. And the equipment you need to ice climb can easily be $1,000.

People are more aware that in ice climbing there are many dangerous things going on in terms of ice falling, sharp points on your feet and into your hands. For ice climbing, you put screws into the ice. Rock is rock. Ice breaks easier. You don’t know if your screw’s going to hold. And you’re falling with a lot of sharp points.

If those points hit the ice on your way down — you can imagine if you have a point on your toe and it hits, you can snap an ankle pretty quickly.

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et ready for a deluge of I-told-you-so email from vindicated mothers everywhere — in Bangladesh, for instance, where a 2006 study found that about one in 11 paper banknotes tested were contaminated with E. coli or similar bacteria. This isn’t to say that Bangladeshis are literally wiping their butts with money (practically speaking, that’s more likely to happen on Wall Street), but rather that bacteria are everywhere, including on currency.

And unlike public toilets, twenties don’t get hosed down every so often.

Lest you think Bangladesh particularly unhygienic, 103 different fungal colonies were found on 60 randomly selected Egyptian banknotes — some of which were producing toxins. Some Philippine currency notes carried the cysts and ova of intestinal parasites, and were subsequently eliminated from use. Topping the list of diseased and potentially hazardous currency is Nigeria, where 90 percent of paper money is a home for bacteria. (Nigerian bills that were retired after heavy circulation proved to be so contaminated they were deemed a risk to treasury workers’ lung function.)

American money might be slightly cleaner. A 2002 study in Ohio that collected and cultured 68 one-dollar bills produced a total of 93 bacterial samples; while 88 of these could pose a threat to people with compromised immune systems, five would be considered dangerous even to the healthy. For context, a similar experiment in Kentucky in 1972 turned up 26 of the scarier bacteria after swabbing 50 low-denomination bills, a rate more than seven times higher — evidence

bathroom before she saw the light. That said, worrying about Purell resistance suggests some possible apples/oranges confusion on your part.

Antibiotics work by disabling certain specific functions of a bacterial cell. For example, penicillin weakens cell walls.

Occasionally some rogue bacillus will have some genetic variant rendering its walls penicillin-proof. Usually, your immune system can handle one or two of these guys. But when you take antibiotics needlessly, or incompletely, or off schedule, you may wind up wiping out the nonresistant bacteria and thus selectively breeding the resistant ones, which can then become the main source of infection. A recent example is every college student’s nightmare: a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea.

Alcoholic hand sanitizers, on the other hand, kill germs by first dissolving their lipid-based outer membranes and then dehydrating the proteins inside. Since nearly all bacteria have lipid membranes, 10-second submersion in alcohol can destroy all sorts of deadly and otherwise unpleasant bugs, from E. coli to staph.

(The exceptions are bacterial spores like anthrax, which are basically the cockroaches of the bacterial world: They’ve got extremely thick outer coats and can survive extreme temperatures, chemical damage and probably nuclear warfare if it came down to it.) For most bacteria, alcohol does such sweeping damage that becoming resistant to it would require a monumental structural leap — it would be like humans developing the ability to breathe without oxygen. It’s not evolutionarily impossible, I guess, but so far the survival rate is zero.

So why don’t we cure tuberculosis with alcohol?

You try soaking your lungs in 190-proof ethanol — not only would you die, but they might burst into flame.

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that in some limited ways American life may have become less disgusting over the last 40 years.

And yes, roughly four out of five American bills bear cocaine residue — but only because the powder is so fine that one patient-zero bill in an ATM can easily and quickly spread it to thousands. Don’t get too excited, though: These amounts are so small that no one’s getting high off the U.S. Mint’s supply.

While I’m no more a fan of parasitic cysts than the next guy, let’s reiterate: Pretty much everything has germs on it, and most of them won’t kill you. Gas-pump handles, kitchen sinks, your date’s mouth — you name it, it’s probably coated with invisible bugs. Furthermore, we couldn’t find any specific studies that tied illness incidence to handling money. If you’re really paranoid, I suppose you could stick to coins, whose copper content seems to suppress their bacteria load. On the other hand, this will limit your cash purchases to gumballs, and may lead to even more awkwardness than usual when visiting strip clubs. Your mom probably warned you against those, too, but we’ll keep our noses out it.

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helburne’s Dave Connery is a fitness freak. He’s won multiple triathlons throughout the state. He placed sixth in the 2014 Vermont 50 Mountain Bike race, scorching the course in four hours and 16 minutes, and finished the Ironman Lake Placid in less than 11 hours, among other accomplishments.

But for the activity he really geeks out about, Connery swaps swimsuits, cycling shorts and running shoes for some of the oldest gear in the winter-sports world: a pair of cross-country skis.

“Nothing requires more aerobic capacity,” says Connery, a 46-year-old multisport coach, engineer and father of two school-age kids. “The ability to work what feels like every muscle in your body really helps me in the offseason as a triathlete.”

Long gone are the hickory sticks, leather straps and woolen hats of traditional kicking and gliding in the Green Mountain State. Today’s cross-country population is a hybrid mix of elite athletes looking to torch more than 1,200 calories per hour, families finding new ways to frolic in the snow and neophyte northerners who’ve had it with hibernation.

“Nordic skiing has a long history in New England, and people are very passionate about the sport,” says Abby Weissman of the New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA). She adds that, without an easy way to get outside during the winter, many Vermonters would go bonkers. “Nordic skiing is accessible; you can ski at a local center or in your backyard. It’s a sport that the whole family can do together, and it’s a great workout that uses your whole body.”

What if that body has been dormant since the dog days of August? Most newbies can get away with stepping into a pair of rental skis and simply striding across the snow, says Christian Manley, 36, of Colchester.

In short, Nordic skiing has a forgiving learning curve. “I don’t have the best technique myself,” admits Manley, who raced in high school and recently picked

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Liz’s Whiz Let others have the Tour de France. The Tour de Ski is a much cooler affair, sending the world’s top Nordic athletes through a seven-stage, three-country course in central Europe that covers distances of short sprints to 25-kilometer endurance efforts. In the past eight years that the prestigious event has taken place, no American has ever shined — until this winter. Vermont’s own Liz Stephen, who grew up learning to cross-country ski around Montpelier, finished fifth overall, behind four Norwegian women, when the event ended on January 11. Stephen calls it her favorite race of the year, and shrugged off the lung-busting final effort up a steep climb in Val di Fiemme, Italy, saying, “What a fun day it was.”

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up the sport again after he found himself missing both the challenge and the camaraderie. “Find other friends to ski and learn with — don’t worry so much about technique,” he advises. “Keep your head up, focus ahead and find a rhythm. Relax and shift your body weight from one ski to the other, so that the weight is on one ski at a time.”

Intermediate and advanced skiers, by contrast, work on refining their strides for faster speeds across the snow. That’s where technique and an investment in instruction come into play. “There’s always so much to work on, techniquewise, so it’s never boring,” says Robyn Anderson, one of the state’s top racers and a coach for the Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center’s school. “Even four-tofive-hour skis go by quickly when you’re focused on improving your efficiency.”

Those improvements pay off a second time when athletes return to warm-weather sports, Anderson adds.

“Strength, endurance, speed, agility — you need it all, so training for cross-country skiing creates very wellrounded athletes.”

While beginners can simply get out and start cross-country skiing, they’ll find it even more enjoyable if they add indoor training, says Jim Fredericks. A skier for Johnson State College in the 1970s, he landed on the U.S. Ski Team’s development squad and has been racing and working in the sport ever since.

Fredericks, 64, recommends core and aerobic workouts — which help with that weight transfer from ski to ski. “For a person who just wants to shuffle around on skis and enjoy all the spectacular beauty of the outdoors, the main things they should think about are flexibility and balance,” he says. Fredericks himself follows a much more rigorous training program that helps him continually reap the benefits of cross-country skiing. “It uses more muscle groups than any other sport, and has very little impact consequences on the joints, as compared to running,” he says. “I made a big advancement in my fitness once I took up skiing.”

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ost people have heard of the physical benefits of yoga.

The word means “union” in Sanskrit, and the ancient practice of combining breathing and physical postures builds core strength, flexibility and alignment. As a fitness activity, yoga is comfortably in the mainstream now, with more than 25,000 yoga (and Pilates) studios in the United States as of 2014, according to an IBISWorld report.

With studios in every corner of the state, Vermonters are clearly on the bandwagon. In Burlington alone, nearly a dozen venues offer hundreds of classes per week in manifold yogic lineages. The sight of a person strolling down Church Street with a rolled-up mat is as unremarkable as that of a snowboarder headed for the mountain.

Our full understanding of yoga’s benefits is still evolving. But recent scientific studies confirm what yogis have been saying for more than 2,000 years: The practice can calm and soothe the mind as well as strengthen the body. Those therapeutic properties have led to a new emphasis on yoga for mental health — and some practitioners are taking the principle further, offering yoga as a prescription for trauma.

“It’s a stealth thing,” jokes Bob Luce, a longtime yoga teacher at Burlington’s Tapna Studio and an attorney at Downs Rachlin Martin. Tapna specializes in Bikram, a style of yoga in which students progress through a set series of 26 postures in sweat-inducing heated rooms. “We get them in the door with this promise of fitness, but what they really get delivered is so much more,” Luce says.

While some students may use downward dogs to lift the spirits, others come with graver issues. Some local yoga practitioners have begun offering workshops and private sessions to mitigate the mental, emotional and physical effects of trauma.

They address potentially crippling symptoms — depression, anxiety, substance abuse, insomnia — that are generally relegated to psychiatry and other mental health treatments.

“This is yoga in service of healing,” says Deb Sherrer, a yoga instructor at Laughing River Yoga in Burlington and a psychotherapist at the Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy in South Burlington, where she also teaches trauma-sensitive yoga to clients. “It’s very gentle. It’s very slow. And it’s yoga in the broadest sense, in that this is all about self-care,” she says.

“This is about tuning in to your body, reconnecting and listening to what it needs.”

Sherrer works with individual clients and leads groups for women who have been victims of trauma.

Trauma-sensitive yoga differs from regular classes, she explains.

While students in the latter are generally encouraged to keep pace with the instructor, “one of the basic tenets of trauma-sensitive yoga is that you’re given complete permission to do what you need to do,” Sherrer notes. “The whole situation is set up based on safety.”

Simple flow sequences, such as undulating the spine between cat and cow poses, are favored over more active and stimulating sequences. The goal is to use yoga to help people regain a degree of ownership and control over parts of their bodies where they have experienced trauma — whether caused by an assault, an accident or life in a war zone.

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to the range of treatments the Veterans Health Administration provides.

For the past few years, the Burlington Lakeside clinic has offered trauma-sensitive yoga classes (free for veterans) with Suzanne Boyd. The Huntington-based yoga practitioner is a military wife whose husband was twice deployed to Afghanistan. Boyd says she was compelled to get her yoga-teacher certification after her own practice helped her cope with her husband’s second stint in a war zone.

“I knew from my own experience, with how yoga helped me manage depression, that it could be a valuable resource for people,” Boyd says. “As I was going through the stress of having my husband deployed, I was seeing other families I know, spouses and children, going through the same stress.

I knew it was something I could offer and tell other family members about that wasn’t expensive.”

One veteran, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells Seven Days that he suffered from depression following his retirement from the Navy, with which he had

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numerous deployments. The veteran, who also has bipolar disorder, says of Boyd’s class, “Once a week, I get to do something positive for myself. They do a lot of prerelaxation, and then you concentrate on breathing and stretching … It helps me to get centered again.” In that centered place, he explains, “your mind is clear, and you’re more in control of your emotions.”

Gibson says Boyd’s classes have been popular; for some students, she adds, the experience is transformative. “I’ve seen people who, when I first mentioned yoga, looked at me like I had six heads — like yoga was the last thing on Earth they’d ever try,” she says.

“But with some persistence and a sense of humor, they went and, once they tried it out, they were hooked.”

As a lab technician in the Air Force, Heather Satterwhite never saw combat.

Nevertheless, she says that some of her military training involved “anxietyinducing techniques,” and that doing yoga at the Lakeside clinic has “been great for deprogramming and slowing down.”

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Sherrer concurs with that assessment.

“Trauma is something that affects our whole being — it’s not just in our minds,” she says.

“Trauma, by its nature, is an extraordinary experience that overwhelms someone’s regular coping mechanisms, and then, when it gets stuck in their system, ends up resulting in this host of symptoms that we think of as PTSD.” How those symptoms look depends on the individual, therapists caution. Laura Gibson, director of behavioral health at the Burlington Lakeside Community Based Outpatient Clinic, works with military veterans who suffer from PTSD. The disorder tends to manifest differently in each patient, she notes, though some patterns do appear.

“What I see a lot in the veteran population is hypervigilance,” Gibson says. “They are very much on guard; they feel like they can’t get a grasp or feel in control. They’re constantly scanning for danger, looking at the rooftops or down alleyways.”

Gibson, who joined the clinic in 2009, believes yoga is an important lifestyle and wellness tool, and a good complement

Satterwhite adds, “I’ve noticed a significant reduction in stress and anxiety and a better ability to act in the moment.”

It’s not just veterans who suffer from PTSD. As Tapna Studio’s Luce notes, just about everyone has experienced some kind of trauma: negative experiences during childhood, unhealthy relationships, car accidents, sports injuries. Many of us walk through life spending more time than we should in states of stress or fight-or-flight mode, even if those states aren’t severe enough to result in a diagnosis.

As a Bikram teacher, Luce says he has noted that students struggling with depression or anxiety are attracted to the rigor, discipline and community that the activity offers. With high temperatures and challenging postures performed in front of a mirror, his classes leave little room for the mind to wander.

As a litigator, Luce specializes in civil lawsuits involving brain and spinal cord injuries. He’s also president of the board of the nonprofit Brain Injury Association of Vermont. Both positions require him to be up on the latest brain science, and he’s something of a local expert on traumatic brain injury (TBI).

That brain science, Luce says, shows yoga creating a positive feedback loop that contributes to recovery. Though yoga and mindfulness aren’t for everyone, he acknowledges, some of his TBI clients have benefited from such practices designed to bring people into the present moment, tailored to their post-injury body and level of ability.

“I find that the single greatest impediment to recovery, whether from a brain injury or another kind of injury, is depression,” Luce says. “It’s being unable to give up focusing on what you’ve lost, on what you can’t do, and to be in the present and redefine yourself in the present.”

The aim of therapy is to help those who’ve suffered trauma interact with the world based on their current situation rather than a memory. To that end, “practices like yoga,” Luce says, “happen to be an effective tool.” m

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That’s where clinical psychologist Bessel van der Kolk, an internationally recognized expert in psychological trauma, conducted groundbreaking studies with trauma victims.

Though post-traumatic stress disorder has generally been considered a mental health issue, a growing body of research indicates that trauma also has profoundly physical effects. In a 2014 study of yoga as an “adjunctive” treatment for women with PTSD, researchers found that sufferers experience a “loss of body awareness” that makes it difficult for them to control emotional reactions to external stimuli.

Symptoms such as panic attacks trigger the sympathetic nervous system, which stimulates the fight-or-flight response, Sherrer notes.

Some scientists suggest those findings point to the value of somatic, or body-centric, treatments for PTSD sufferers, along with appropriate medication and talk therapy. (Insurance nonetheless doesn’t cover therapeutic yoga.)

“Psychiatrists just don’t pay much attention to sensate experience at all,” JRI’s van der Kolk told journalist Krista Tippett in a 2013 appearance on her public-radio show “On Being.” A well-rounded treatment, he argued, ought to acknowledge the physical nature of trauma and its symptoms.

“If people are in a constant state of heartbreak and gut wrench, they do everything to shut down those feelings to their body,” van der Kolk told Tippett. “One way of doing it is taking drugs and alcohol, and the other thing is that you can just shut down your emotional awareness of your body.”

That’s where yoga — and other mindbody activities such as tai chi and qigong — comes in. Preliminary studies at the Trauma Center and elsewhere indicate that yoga’s physical effect on the body is almost diametrically opposed to that of trauma.

Yoga promotes mindfulness and calmer states, which counteract the fight-or-flight impulse and make it easier for one to control one’s reaction to triggers. Overall, as van der Kolk and his colleagues concluded in the 2014 study, yoga can help “improve the functioning of traumatized individuals by helping them to tolerate physical and sensory experiences associated with fear and helplessness, and to increase emotional awareness and affect tolerance.”

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cardiovascular remedy with antibiotic properties. Ginger is anti-inflammatory and great for any and all digestive complaints. Thyme has long been a respiratory remedy of choice. Added to steaming hot water, it can clear your nasal passages.

“Once you get a handle on that,” Masé says, “you’ll realize that herbalism is as much a part of our culture as food is.”

Ann Armbrecht, a writer, anthropologist and herbalist who lives in central Vermont, describes Masé as “incredibly knowledgeable” about a wide variety of herbs. Unlike many in their field who specialize in a single approach to herbalism, she says, Masé has a deep understanding of the underlying chemistry and physiology of plants’ interactions with the human body.

Masé’s herbalist roots were planted early in life. He grew up in Ferrara, Italy, a town dating to the Renaissance that he describes as roughly the size of Burlington. His father is from the Dolomite region, where Masé spent

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Instead, he says, herbalists relish their organic, nonhierarchical and “dirty, in the best sense of the word,” relationship to the world. Masé believes that herbalism needs to defend its roots as a body of knowledge that for thousands of years was available to and practiced and understood by everyone.

In Masé’s view, modern society’s disconnect from the natural world has contributed greatly to the prevalence of chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and various digestive and immune disorders.

His aim, through his teaching and clinical practice, is to help people reconnect with their ecology and discover the seeds of their own healing in their kitchens and gardens.

“If you want to start learning about herbal medicine, just go to the produce department [and get] garlic, thyme and ginger,” he suggests. “If you have those three, you can do so much.”

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the modern medical system,” Masé says, “relieving the burden on primary care and empowering people to take care of themselves with things that are very accessible and low cost.”

But as herbalism gains wider acceptance by the public and the medical establishment, legitimate herbalists wrestle with protecting their industry from less-scrupulous players — while keeping their methods open and accessible to everyone.

Is some form of state licensure or national certification the answer?

Not in Masé’s view. He calls himself a “professional herbalist,” but he readily acknowledges that the designation is one he’s bestowed on himself. In 2006, the American Herbalists Guild peer-reviewed his education and experience — but, he admits, “that’s as good as it gets” for professional certification in his field.

Other healing professions that emerged from age-old folk traditions, such as midwifery and osteopathy, have standardized their training and sought licensure to legitimize their professions in the eyes of mainstream medicine. But

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hen Guido Masé was a teenager, he had what he remembers as a life-changing revelation. One day it struck him that the two seemingly opposed forces pulling on his life — his fascination with mystical spiritual traditions and his interest in chemistry, biology and other hard sciences — weren’t diametrically opposed at all. Instead, he realized, those interests could work together to inform a discipline of healing: herbalism.

“I was sitting in a tree when I figured this out,” Masé admits a bit sheepishly.

“Herbalists feel like they talk to plants sometimes.”

Now 39, Masé has been engaged in a dialogue with the botanical world ever since. He’s a member of the American Herbalists Guild and founder and codirector of the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, a nonprofit school and clinic in Montpelier. Masé also serves as the chief herbalist at Urban Moonshine, a producer of organic bitters and herbal tonics in Burlington. The company’s mission is to “bring herbal medicine ‘out of the cupboard and onto the counter’ in everyday life,” according to its website.

That’s Masé’s goal, too. He sees herbal remedies not necessarily as alternatives to or replacements for modern “tech medicine,” as he puts it, but as a “whole cultural system that re-wilds, renews and strengthens our species and our ecology.” The herbalist, he says, acts as the bridge between those two worlds.

To that end, Masé often works in conjunction with mainstream health care providers, including family physicians in Montpelier, cardiologists in Burlington and oncologists in Boston. Masé’s wife, Anne Dougherty, is a gynecological surgeon who specializes in global women’s health at the University of Vermont Medical Center. For a time, the couple worked together at a clinic in Tanzania using their respective specialties to treat the local population.

Masé stocks 300 herbal species in his Montpelier apothecary and has worked with more than 1,000 varieties. He’s tried them all on himself to explore their medicinal effects on the human body, a luxury unavailable to physicians, nurses and pharmacists.

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“If we eat the plants that endure the stress we endure, then basically we can tap into these cross-kingdom signals,” Masé explains. “Essentially, the ecology is a being, and the [chemicals] these plants make are ‘hormones’ for the different organs to stay in communication with one another. We’re an organ in the ecology, just like the plant is.”

pharmaceuticals. In recent years, as new To participate in a herbal-supplement companies have Research Study and emerged to capitalize on the exploding Help Prevent Dengue Fever popularity of herbal remedies, some unscrupulous, and at times criminal, practitioners have taken advantage of the boom.

Masé points to reports from China and elsewhere about herbal supplements contaminated with radiation, amphetamines, Viagra and other dangerous additives. As he puts it, “It’s kind of the Wild West out there — and sometimes people do it here in this country, too.”

Such findings have inevitably attracted the attention of federal regulators, who are beginning • Healthy adults, to crack down on the herbalages 18 – 50 supplement industry. Recently, Masé and Urban Moonshine • One-year vaccine study made headlines when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration • Earn up to $2030 demanded laboratory docuin compensation mentation of the ingredients the company’s products contain.

“I wholly get where the FDA Call 802-656-0013 for more info is coming from,” Masé says. “I and to schedule a screening. feel like we were doing a really good job, and I felt super-confident in our Leave your name, number, products. I wish I could have caught that and a good time to call back. and been a bit more proactive in comEmail UVMVTC@UVM.EDU municating with them sooner.” Urban Moonshine and Masé are now providing or visit UVMVTC.ORG the FDA with monthly updates on their regulatory compliance.

With unscrupulous and potentially dangerous activities threatening the legitimacy of their industry, why do Masé and others still oppose standardization?

If herbalists went that route for legitimacy, Masé suggests, “in 50 years, we’ll be talking about isolated curcuminoids 6V-uvm-deptofmed102214.indd 1 6v-uvmdeptmed(vaccine)121014.indd 1 10/16/14 12:19 12/5/14 9:21 PM AM [anti-inflammatory molecules] instead of cooking with turmeric root.” In short, herbalists would lose their organic connection to the world of cooks, gardeners and folks pulling up plants in the backyard. Ultimately, he says, modern herbalists should not be gatekeepers, but guides on that journey.

While technical standardization might bolster herbal medicine, Masé adds, it would lose the heart of the discipline and obscure the “great gift” it has to offer: roots that predate recorded human history.

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much of his youth. On a typical summer day, his father would wake him at 4 a.m. to drive an hour or more to reach a specific valley before other foragers arrived.

Some days his father brought along a troop of Masé’s cousins, who spent hours harvesting wild mushrooms, elderberries and bilberries. Back at home, his father would set up “an assembly line of kids” slicing and drying the mushrooms and turning the berries into jams.

Most such outings were taken to supplement the family diet, Masé recalls. But his family also gathered certain plants for tisane, a medicinal infusion or strong tea used to treat colds and flu, and harvested arnica to make anti-inflammatory liniments for treating sprains and bruises.

“It was very much home first-aid stuff,” Masé recalls.

“My father wasn’t especially plant-y or tending to the community. It was just part of the culture.”

At age 14, Masé and his family relocated to his mother’s native city of Kansas City, Kan. Young Guido soon discovered that none of the plants he was accustomed to harvesting in the Italian Alps was available there — and that most people in Kansas didn’t do that sort of thing.

It wasn’t until Masé began attending Wesleyan University in Connecticut that he realized he missed being outdoors, harvesting wild plants and making herbal concoctions. Recognizing that he couldn’t learn those skills in college, Masé traveled the United States and talked to as many “plant people” as he could find to expand his body of knowledge. He later returned to Connecticut, where he’d met Dougherty, who would become his wife.

In 1996, the couple moved to Montpelier. They bought land in central Vermont where Masé could grow medicinal plants, make herbal extracts and sell them at farmers markets. In 2003, he held his first apprentice herbalism class, which included two students with whom he now works at Urban Moonshine.

Masé’s classes later evolved into the three-year program of the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, which was founded in 2007 and annually draws 50 to 60 students from all walks of life.

This year, the program will add a fourth year, reflecting students’ burgeoning interest in the field.

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The study of such illnesses in northern climes is not as unusual as it might seem. For one thing, UVM Medical Center is a comprehensive medical research facility, by far the largest and most advanced in the state. For another, cases of dengue fever and West Nile virus have actually been recorded in Vermont, though in small numbers. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports four cases

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of dengue in Vermont in 2014; West Nile virus infected no humans in the state last year, but two Vermonters tested positive for it in 2013.

Those are tiny figures compared with those of California or Texas (780 and 345 cases of West Nile, respectively, in 2014), but diseases know few boundaries. As several doctors and clinicians point out, many of the participants in these trials are thinking globally and acting locally.

Volunteers may sign up for any number of reasons, including monetary compensation.

Participants in the dengue fever study, for instance, can receive up to $2,030. That decent chunk of change may seem less chunky ON when applicants learn that RT NO N the study lasts a full year and A S SU requires regular medical exams.

Other, shorter-term trials require fewer visits and offer smaller recompense.

Participating in clinical trials, then, is no shortcut to financial independence. No one Seven Days interviewed at UVM recalls encountering “professional lab rats” — people who enlist in multiple clinical trials to earn a paycheck. More common are everyday citizens who want to “give back” or contribute in some small, anonymous way to the greater good of medical research.

One such participant is UVM administrator Barbara Drapelick, who signed up for the West Nile virus study in May 2014. Though she was previously unfamiliar with the phrase “citizen science,” Drapelick says her reasons for participating in the study align perfectly with those of that burgeoning grassroots movement.

“I know how important [clinical trials] are for drug and treatment development for disease,” she says. “I wanted to be able to contribute to that. Not being a

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he very phrase “dengue fever” conjures up grim visions of sweat-soaked safari suits and merciless mosquitoes.

Though rarely fatal, dengue fever is a major issue in global health, infecting as many as half a billion people every year. This incurable viral disease, also called “breakbone fever” for the severe aches it causes in sufferers, typically strikes in equatorial climates.

But the war against it is being waged on many fronts — including chilly Vermont.

The Office of Clinical Trials Research at the University of Vermont Medical Center carries out studies on cancer treatment, smoking cessation methods, low-birth-weight infants and a variety of medical devices, among many others. Currently, the office is engaged in 1,350 clinical trials in the name of medical research.

Kim Luebbers has been at UVM Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care) for more than 25 years, and holds multiple supervisory positions in the Office of Clinical Trials, including that of assistant dean for clinical research. In a phone conversation, she explains that medical research companies and government agencies sponsor some trials; UVM researchers initiate others. Luebbers notes that the office’s mission is explicitly educational, and its researchers can effectively be “hired” by any part of the hospital or medical school.

Like all clinical studies, those at UVM must abide by medical and ethical guidelines established by the federal government. The university’s Institutional Review Board administer such matters of protocol.

Numerous interviewees for this article stress the importance of receiving “informed consent” from every single volunteer.

Within the realm of infectious-disease research, the office is currently conducting a trial designed to develop a vaccine for dengue fever, and another on the immunologically similar West Nile virus. Both ailments are classified within the genus Flavivirus, which also includes pathogens linked to tropical diseases such as yellow fever and encephalitis.

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Until recently, such a procedure would have required openheart surgery, but a TAVR device can be implanted arterially, via a small incision in either the chest or groin.

Patients who undergo the procedure may be able to leave the hospital in as few as three days.

In the argot of clinical trials, the “end point” of a study like UVM’s TAVR trials, says Dauerman, is nothing less than life or death. The most important metric in the first phase of that trial was whether TAVR patients were still alive one year after the procedure. In this way, device

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Over the course of the yearlong trial, Drapelick and other participants must submit to frequent medical tests.

For the two weeks immediately after her immunization, Drapelick received “mini physical exams” three times a week; as time goes on, the frequency of required visits drops. After her February checkup, she won’t report to the lab again until May. If and when she fulfills all of the study’s requirements, Drapelick will earn $2,300. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat,” she says. Then, dropping her voice to a faux-conspiratorial tone, she adds, “I would probably do it even if they didn’t pay me.”

Whatever their reasons, willing and responsible participants are essential to any successful clinical trial — so much so that Kristen Pierce refers to the trials as “partnerships” between clinicians and participants. Pierce, a professor of medicine and director of UVM’s Infectious Disease Fellowship program, is a lead investigator on the dengue fever and West Nile virus clinical trials. She’s clearly passionate about her research, but she’s equally pleased to collaborate with citizen scientists.

Pierce repeatedly refers to the network of volunteers and clinicians as “a community.”

DR. HA R O L D D AUE R MAN “I’m not the scientist who made the vaccine,” Pierce says, “but I am helping trials differ strongly to get volunteers from studies that inand gather investigate vaccines or formation about other drugs, which immune response. typically require And I feel like I am and recruit healthy making a difference. volunteers.

The But I don’t see my TAVR study, by role as any more imcontrast, was conportant than that of the ducted on patients volunteer. And I do get a whose lives were at sense from volunteers that stake. they are very invested in being The TAVR device in the study.” and procedure received SUSAN NORTON UVM doctors and researchapproval from the federal ers supervise the hundreds of trials and Food and Drug Administration the data they yield, but the volunteers in July 2014, a greenlighting granted are the heart of the program — some- only on the basis of successful clinitimes literally. Harold Dauerman is a cal trials. Researchers like Dauerman cardiologist who’s served as professor of and his colleagues Ed Terrien, Frank medicine at UVM Medical Center since Ittleman and Joseph Schmoker ini2001. For more than 20 years, he’s been tially tested TAVR on elderly patients involved in clinical trials for cardiac whose heart-valve blockages put them devices, and he was instrumental in the at high or extreme risk of disease. Now local trial of a potential game changer. that the procedure has received federal The transcatheter aortic valve re- approval and achieved a high success placement, or TAVR, is a minimally rate, the trial has moved on to its next

phase: testing on lower-risk patients.

“It’s become routine,” Dauerman says, and notes that his 15-person team now performs TAVR procedures two or three times a week.

Though Dauerman is quick to point out that his team was one of many around the country that conducted TAVR research, the UVM trials had the immediate, local benefit of improving the quality of the lives of about 150 Vermonters. Local clinical trials meant that patients could receive cutting-edge treatment near their own homes, rather than traveling to regional medical hubs such as Boston or Albany. “Without some of these trials,” Dauerman says, “patients in our region would have had to wait years for access to this new technology.”

Not all clinical trials are success stories, but Dauerman points out that, from a scientific standpoint, failed efforts are just as worthy. A few years ago, he participated on a surgical team that burned certain nerves within patients’ kidneys, on the grounds that “renal enervation” might lower high blood pressure. The procedure was unsuccessful. Six months later, patients’ blood pressures were unaffected.

“Even though [the results] were negative,” Dauerman says, “I think it was very important, because there were many people who have trouble controlling their blood pressure who were seeking that therapy. We now know that it’s going to be challenging to fix that.”

A trial’s success, in other words, may be measured not by the ailments that it cures but by the data it generates. Anyone who has the time and interest — and who meets a trial’s particular health prerequisites — can, in the name of science, contribute to that ever-growing data set. While trial participants won’t get vaccines named after them, as researchers sometimes do, they’ll have the satisfaction of knowing they assisted in the slaughter of pernicious microbes — perhaps even in the eventual eradication of a global scourge.

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Cleanse Ingredients: orange, grapefruit, lemon ALICE LEVITT, SENIOR FOOD WRITER: The tartness is a surprise but not unpleasant. A whole glass would be overwhelming. By the end, I’d feel like the grapefruit was strangling me.

HANNAH PALMER EGAN, FOOD WRITER: Really bright, lots of citrusy tang. Drinking this makes me feel zippy, light and a little floaty.

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ealth-conscious Queen City residents have been juicing for years. Now, downtown is home to at least three bars offering cold-pressed raw juice, and several others can be found in the city’s South End as well as South Burlington, two of which opened last fall.

Then there’s the Juice Bar, which pops up at farmers markets and other spots year-round and grows its own veggies in the Intervale.

Though a single juice from any of these places can rival a topshelf cocktail in price, drinking it is arguably the most efficient way to get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables.

But — honestly now — what about the taste? Is imbibing a glass of concentrated flora any fun in real life?

Last week, five foolhardy Seven Days staffers bellied up to a variety of local liquids in hopes of uncovering a bit of juicy truth. Their reactions — which ran the gamut from pleasant, civilized sipping to full-on gagging — were as visceral and diverse as the juices themselves.

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HANNAH: Very, very beety, but layered.

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Tucked into a semisubterranean space about a block off of Church Street, this small juice counter (and the adjacent, affiliated spin studio) celebrated its first anniversary last October.

Juicebox co-owner and nutritionist Kara Bouchett — who runs both businesses with her husband, Ian Bouchett, and partner Sara Larkin — formulates each raw, madeto-order juice to strike a healthy balance.

In addition, Juicebox offers smoothies — these can be enhanced with boosters such as goji berries, chaga, chia seeds,

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Food offerings will include Scout & Company ice cream and healthy, breakfast-y snacks such as chia porridge, Burke says.

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Fans of Ethiopian food have gotten to know ALGANESH micHAEL over the past year as one of the two chefs behind Authentic Ethiopian Nights at ArtSriot in Burlington.

Now Michael is joining forces with another Pine Street business to share her native culinary skills.

On Saturday, January 31, she’ll debut a series of classes at SoutH END kitcHEN, each focused on a different facet of Ethiopian cuisine. The first two-hour class, starting at 4 p.m., encompasses the traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. “It’s an elaborate ceremony. It can take anywhere between one to two hours,” Michael explains. Ethiopia, she points out, “is known as the birthplace of coffee.”

Michael will roast beans brought from her homeland, then grind them and brew them in a long-necked clay pot called a jebena for an intense drink that she compares to espresso. Even non-coffee drinkers may be enticed by the accompanying dishes. Michael will prepare ambasha, a puffy, chewy bread aromatic with coriander, cloves and cinnamon; and a caramelized popcorn similar to kettle corn, also a common part of the ceremony.

The South End Kitchen series consists of three or four classes, says Michael; the next, scheduled for early March, will cover making injera and stews. Michael hopes to return to the teaching kitchen for a second cycle of classes and show off all the secrets her cuisine has to offer.

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“Actually, it’s everything,” Curtis admits. “I can’t keep the case filled. We’re doing much more than we ever did before.”

The “before” is a reference to her bakery in Waitsfield, which shares space with Scout’S HoNor ice cream as the SwEEt Spot. Curtis still wholesales her baked goods there but now prepares everything at her bigger bakery in Richmond. (She has the same address in both towns: 40 Bridge Street.)

The 20-seat Sweet Simone’s serves a roster of coffee drinks, including lattes, cappuccinos and a maple mocha, all using beans roasted by Starksboro’s AwAkE. Besides the aforementioned pastries, Curtis’ wares include homemade Oreos, granola bars and 4-inch pies in flavors including lemon meringue, chocolate cream and honey-goat-cheese-and-fig.

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Cheryl: Green and frothy … I like it. It’s complex, and I like that each flavor comes in waves and they’re complementary.

ethan: I would lick my lawn mower blades if I desired this flavor. Collards should not be juiced.

means does it just slip down your throat.

They need to sweeten this shit up!

hannah: Tastes a bit like gingerbread or plum pudding — a nice, calming, wintry flavor.

Cheryl: Gross. I don’t like anything about it, except perhaps that it better be good for me.

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Diane: The name made me nervous. I think it would taste good if I could actually taste it. The flavor seems hidden in a watery fog.

hannah: Savory? Tastes like a freshly cut lawn smells. A tough swallow — by no

Diane: Tastes like a crazy summer explosion with a little fizziness. This juice is a fun time, but it feels like it could hurt my tummy if I drank a lot of it.

Ingredients: figs, cashews, almonds, holiday spices, vanilla, maple syrup ethan: This smells like chai and reminds me of cookies from my youth.

Cheryl: Sweet and nutmeg, but meh.

Tastes like a clearly healthy version of eggnog that isn’t really worth your time.

hannah: Tangy celery and citrus; abundant, foamy head. Drinking this feels like getting blindsided by a trainload of salad. It’s making my face feel funny.

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Ingredients: beet, blueberry, grape, apple, lime, mint, cucumber, celery hannah: Sweet, with some citrus and a celery scent. It tastes springy! ethan: Not too sweet; it has a Life Saverslike aftertaste. This is dangerous for whiteshirted people.

Diane: General note: The bottles kinda bum me out.

Cheryl: This starts off good, but there’s something weird about it. I’m conflicted — I think it’s the celery. alice: With its deep-red color, it looks like the celery I’m tasting died a bloody death.

Greens to the Extreme Ingredients: kale, collards, chard, spinach, lettuce, cucumber, celery, lemon Diane: Tastes like lawn clippings and hose water. Not necessarily a bad thing. alice: This smells like a pool. The front of my tongue doesn’t taste this, but once it hits the back of my throat, it’s like I’ve fallen off my bike face-first into someone’s lawn.

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Opened in early November by former marine biologist Hannah George, Vermont Juice Company offers raw juices — much of the produce comes from local farms — and nut milks. George packages her wares in plastic bottles ($9 for 16 ounces), which makes them easy to grab and go — no leaky cups or bent straws here. In addition to juice, which can be bought in packages for multiday cleanses, the company offers chia and acai bowls for a quick meal packed with nutrients.

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alice: Things were tight this year and Mom had to water down the eggnog so she could buy you presents. This smells like Christmas, but doesn’t taste like much.

‘Holy Juice Farts, Batman!’

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful” is witty movie siren Mae West’s most enduring nugget of wisdom. But she died in 1980, before juicing had gained much of a foothold with anyone but hippies and Jack LaLanne. If she had quaffed 18 different juices in the space of about an hour, she probably would have felt less than wonderful.

Our team of intrepid juice drinkers certainly did. We thought a megadose of beets, ginger and lemon juice would leave us beautiful, smart and ready to attack the rest of the day.

Where was that detox high we’d heard about?

About halfway through packing our stomachs with liquid sustenance, we started to feel a little queasy. By the time we were done, our hands and foreheads were clammy with what Diane called “the juice sweats.”

When we returned to our desks, it was difficult to work. “I feel like I gained 50 liquid pounds sloshing around my gut,” said Ethan.

My brain fog was so severe that I couldn’t focus on my computer screen. I wanted to drive home but was afraid to operate heavy machinery. Hannah reported, “I just want to go sit on a toilet for an hour with one of those palm-frond women fanning me.”

That night, our gastric distress ranged from a slow trickle to something like the toilet scene in Dumb and Dumber. A member of the team texted Diane with the simple missive, “Holy juice farts, Batman!” The only one relatively unscathed was Hannah, who said she began to recover on her walk home from work, feeling better than ever.

How could mainlining healthy food make us feel so bad? University of Vermont nutritionists didn’t return our calls before press time, perhaps thinking this was a prank.

The one who did email us in response said there wasn’t enough information for her to go on record, though she suspected mild contamination of one of the juices.

I was left to do some online research of my own. My conclusion was simple. Besides our symptoms related to simply packing our bodies too full of liquid, many of the ingredients we ingested can have a laxative effect. Citrus, apples and ginger are all known culprits, and were the most common ingredients in many of the juices we sampled.

One thing is certain: Next time any of us hits a juice bar, it will be for one drink at a time.

We’ve all learned that too much of this good thing can be rumble-ful.

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Inspired by the juices she encountered while living abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, Gabrielle Kammerer spent five years pressing organic juice and nut milks (sourced from local farms as often as possible) for delivery. Last fall, she opened a storefront at the intersection of St. Paul and Howard streets in Burlington’s South End. Even on a cloudy day, sun seems to stream through the shop’s ample windows.

Perhaps that’s just the glow emanating from Kammerer and her juice ladies, who stand behind long tables piled high with greens, fruits and vegetables ready to be pressed into liquid love. Tomgirl hasn’t stopped delivering (cleanses or otherwise), but now passersby can pop in and grab a returnable mason jar of juice ($10 to $11 for 16 ounces) without having to call ahead.

Tomgirl Greens Ingredients: kale, rainbow chard, collard greens, Ambrosia apple, lime, romaine, celery, parsley, spinach, Hawaiian ginger hannah: Celery and kale up front, ginger and citrus on the back of the tongue. I had this when I was horribly hung over once and felt like I’d been punched in the gut.

Then, an hour or so later, I felt really good.

It’s intense. ethan: This looks like face-mask liquid, but I sort of like the spice. alice: This is too bitter for me, with a burn that reminds me of alcohol. On the plus side, water tastes really good after sipping this.

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2014 was a fairly slow year for pop-up dining in Vermont, but in 2015, courtNEY coNtoS will revive evanescent eating with a series of one-night dinners at her cHEf coNtoS KitcHEN & StorE in Shelburne. The monthly dinners seat a maximum of 10 guests.

The chef mostly cooks in a teaching capacity these days, leading workshops and classes that consistently sell out well in advance.

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Rather than rest on his laurels, the zealous chef is already changing things up. “The menu changed [three] times during the [past] week,” Sargent wrote on Phantom’s Facebook page on Sunday. Now, he continued, “I’m going down the Latin path of lunacy ... I just figure,

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As reported before the holidays, iStANbul KEbAb HouSE has completed its move from Essex to Burlington. The restaurant made its Church Street debut on January 7, serving kebabs with a variety of meats, as well as traditional Turkish fare.

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behind the burners in a service capacity. “It’s a different energy for me to cook as a chef than as a teacher,” she says. “It just seemed like a fun idea to go back to the old days of working in a kitchen and cooking food for people.”

Contos plans to use the monthly dinners as an opportunity to cook dishes that don’t lend themselves to teaching.

The inaugural menu — $65 per person for three to four courses, and BYOB — offers a wintry mix of dishes, including Scotch eggs, deviled brussels sprouts, roast lamb shoulder and dark-chocolate cakes.

For February, Contos says she’s been talking with another local chef about collaborating on a meal, probably with a Latin American focus.

She says she’s excited to team up with her colleagues in the restaurant business and put on dinners at her place or theirs.

Contos says the events are as much about having a culinary conversation as they are about eating.

Some dishes — such as a bread board with virgin cultured butter and pinot noir sea salt — will be passed around, family-style. “It’s a great space for that,” Contos says, “and it’ll be a fun vibe. I just feel like, It’s January: Let’s cook some food and have some people over.”

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ALICE: Smells like cake batter and My Little Ponies. A big sip and my mouth filled with scratchy sediment. But it’s cold and tastes like vanilla, so it’s refreshing.

ALICE: This smells like a garden. I like the basil and the spice, but it’s an assault of citrus. I feel like it’s going to erode the enamel on my teeth.

ETHAN: This is like drinking a watery, dusty McDonald’s vanilla milkshake.

CHERYL: Whoa. Like, whoa … too much everything. I could not do shots of this.

HANNAH: Heavy almond flavor, chalky texture. Very nutty. It’s subtle and milky, except for the grit, which makes it a little scratchy going down.

DIANE: Dear God! Someone punched me in the mouth with basil-stuffed boxing gloves.

DIANE: Smells very vanilla-y, but it tastes a little like medicine of some kind. Mylanta?

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Pineapple Lemon Ingredients: pineapple, lemon ETHAN: This makes me happy. I heart pineapple.

ALICE: Smells like pineapple and butter, with a buttery texture to go with it.

Puckery but not unpleasant.

HANNAH: Thick, viscous, with a bright lemon yellow. Very, very juicy — maybe the most succulent juice so far. Feels a little heavy in my belly, though.

CHERYL: It’s good, but I’d have to drink it in moderation. It might be sickeningly sweet.

DIANE: First thought: Pineapple Life Saver melted onto the sole of a sneaker. I wish I had a blender, ice and some rum. Seems like it would hurt my tummy after a bigger dose.

Ingredients: blueberry, cashew, avocado, hempseed oil, kangen water, spirulina, chlorella, marine phytoplankton, raw honey CHERYL: Yummy. It has a balance of weird healthy stuff and tasty stuff.

ALICE: It sounds terrifying, but this is thoroughly agreeable, with the combined taste of avocado and honey equaling something like super banana.

DIANE: Mmmm … delightful. Very banana-y. Nice temperature. Like meltedbut-still-cold ice cream.

HANNAH: Despite the strange ingredients, the flavor is very innocuous. Drinking this feels happy and nice! Also, like something I would have drunk in college.

ETHAN: This tastes like liquid Flintstones Vitamins.

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ALICE: I have to be the Mint Chip apologist here. I am a devotee of this particular drink and, I have to say, this is the least minty it’s ever tasted. Usually it’s like a healthy, natural take on my favorite ice cream flavor. This just tastes like sweet almond milk with chewy cacao flakes.

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150 Cherry Street, Burlington, 383-1505, newmoonvt.com This expansive space is best known for its opulent chandelier and comfy couches that encourage camping out with a computer. A full vegan menu, as well as a meaty, dairy-filled one, draws in all kinds of eaters for salads, panini and an eclectic range of cupcakes, with flavors that run the gamut from watermelon-cucumber to salted caramel.

But it’s not all indulgence at New Moon.

The organic juice bar ($6.30 for 16 ounces) uses organic veggies, many grown at the café’s own greenhouses throughout the year.

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ETHAN: This is neither minty nor chocolaty, but it is gritty. It’s getting stuck in my gums.

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Since 2012, this ultra-modern café has been serving 100-percent organic juices ($9.50 for 16 ounces), smoothies ($6.30 for 16 ounces) and coffee. Healthy eaters can stop in for panini, soup and salads made from local ingredients. But with super-powered mix-ins such as wheatgrass, chaga and milk thistle, a smoothie alone is enough to sustain most people.

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CHERYL: Bright and sweet, very tasty.

ETHAN: The most drinkable by far, this tastes like a sunny April morning.

ALICE: A soft waft of ginger reminds me of Vietnamese ginger candy. I would actually drink this. I like that it doesn’t taste like it’s trying to hurt you.

HANNAH: Pleasant!

DIANE: Delicious! I could drink this all day.

It tastes like it’s healthy without grabbing you by the neck.

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ETHAN: Heat it up and call it borscht.

DIANE: These would all be good if you broke your jaw and couldn’t eat.

CHERYL: Smells beety and tastes like celery. I’d drink it if someone handed me a cup, but I’m not sure I’d order it.

ALICE: I like the full mouthfeel of this one — it’s more like a soup than a juice. The sugar of the beets helps to calm the celery.

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ALICE: Despite the initial odor of cat litter box, this tastes like spring, with cucumber and explosive ginger. As the burn grows, I like it more and more.

Ingredients: carrot, beet, kale ETHAN: This looks like oxblood. Bloody dirt juice.

ETHAN: Gingertown Express, now boarding.

It seems almost too deliberately healthful.

ALICE: The roots are earthy with a hint of dirt, but sweet and silky in texture.

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ALICE: This smells like Play-Doh, which is a strong endorsement from me. The overall experience is more eating than drinking.

HANNAH: I feel like I’m suffocating … it’s clogging my mouth. It tastes like something I might feed my puppy when she’s sick.

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HOMESHARE VERMONT INFORMATION SESSION: Locals interested in homesharing programs meet with staff to learn more.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE: A confidential, welcoming space allows participants to converse freely without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

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'THE WIZARD OF OZ': There's no place like home! Judy Garland takes viewers on a journey down the yellow brick road in this time-tested classic. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.

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COFFEE TASTING: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee varieties inspire side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-3311276, corey@maglianero.com.

WEDNESDAY WINE DOWN: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump with four different varietals and samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and other local food producers. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@ vtdrink.com.

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KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Colchester Meeting House, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

MASTER CLASS WITH MAREE REMALIA: Students hone their skills under the tutelage of the internationally recognized dancer and choreographer. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

VALLEY NIGHT FEATURING ROB & ERICA: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.

BRIDGE CLUB: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700.

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EATING WELL ON A BUDGET: A weekly workshop with Frances Fleming of UVM Extension highlights ways to save and get healthy.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with high intensity interval training. Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@sover.net.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: A supportive environment allows for a deeper understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

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Put Brooklyn-based composers Charly and Margaux together and you get Chargaux, a classically trained duo expanding the reach of the violin and viola. After meeting at the Berklee College of Music, the pair honed a style that melds classical training with an indie sensibility. From humble beginnings as subway performers to collaborations with top hip-hop artists and a 2013 gig at South by Southwest, Chargaux remains dedicated to DIY music making. This creative control is reflected in the 2014 EP Broke & Baroque, an ambitious effort that features folk, vocals, electronic drums and classical melodies.

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Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:151:15 & 5-6 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

Quit toBacco: A nonjudgemental support session welcomes folks looking to kick the habit. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. 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. tangoFlow!: Creator Cathy Salmons leads students in a customized blend of Argentine tango, ballet, modern dance and body awareness. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 345-6687.

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Martin luther King Jr. BirthDaY PartY: Vermonters fête the celebrated civilrights activist on what would be his 86th year. Davis Center, UVM, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-3131. uvm.edu/~hrdma/mlk Martin luther King Jr. celeBration: ‘the Butler’: Lee Daniels’ historical drama stars Forest Whittaker as White House butler Cecil Gaines, who began his service in the 1950s and remained through eight presidencies. Davis Center, UVM, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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DorothY canFielD FiScher BooK DiScuSSion: Lit lovers ages 8 through 11 voice opinions about Todd Hasak-Lowy's 33 Minutes…Until Morgan Sturtz Kicks My Butt.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5664. highgate StorY hour: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

MaY’S MuSic & MoveMent: Energetic children engage in educational social learning with May Poduschnick. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Meet rocKin' ron the FrienDlY Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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.

StorY tiMe & PlaYgrouP: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

StorY tiMe For 3- to 5-Year-olDS: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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engliSh aS a SeconD language claSS: Beginners better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. interMeDiate/aDvanceD engliSh aS a SeconD language claSS: Students sharpen grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. italian converSation grouP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

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chaMBer MuSic SocietY oF lincoln center: The renowned ensemble brings new and established talents together for a performance of works by Kodaly, Brahms and Dvořák. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $17-50. Info, 603-646-2422.

FarMerS night concert SerieS: The 40th Army Band pairs traditional patriotic tunes with contemporary favorites in "Vermont in the Civil War: Connecting to the Legacy of Vermont's Military." House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480.

FiDDle JaM: Acoustic musicians gather for a bow-and-string session. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations.

Info, 775-1182.

MiDDleBurY college orcheStra: Andrew Massey conducts student musicians in an interpretation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Song circle: coMMunitY Sing-along: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. veSPer chiMeS, aBSolute ParaDiSe & Karl: Artists from Lungbasket Recordings present a evening of vocal and ambient music inspired by hymns and traditional American folk music. New City Galerie, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. $7 suggested donation. Info, 735-2542.

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SnowShoe naturaliSt PrograM: A woodland trek identifies plants and animals that thrive in Vermont's challenging winter climate. A fireside lunch in the lodge completes the day. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 10 a.m.-noon. $15 includes lunch and snowshoe rental. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115.

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night riDer SerieS: Skiers and riders compete for prizes in illuminated terrain parks.

Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 5:30-8 p.m. $15; lift ticket required. Info, 434-6804.

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Premier Floor Hockey league: Experienced players take shots in a competitive game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 355-4588.

Women's PickuP BasketBall: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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

armcHair travel: costa rica: Sally DeCicco presents a narrated slide show of her volunteer trip to Cartago, Costa Rica.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. salman rusHdie: SOLD OUT. The celebrated author muses on the importance of storytelling in "What's the Use of Stories That Aren't Even True?" Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free; no-show seats available at the door. Info, 262-1355.

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summit scHool Winter Folk music Festival: "Spice on Snow" inspires a four-day fest of music, food and dancing featuring performances by Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, the Revelers and others. See summit-school.org for details. Various Montpelier locations, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 917-1186.

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active senior Boot camP: A modified workout emphasizes strength, agility, balance and cardiovascular fitness. Cornwall Town Hall, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

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, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

HoW to do a kitcHari cleanse: Holistic health coach Krissy Ruddy guides participants through the steps of a simple five-day cleanse based on ancient Ayurvedic principles. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. jazzercise lite: Adults ages 50 and up break a sweat in a supportive environment.

Essex Junction Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. $3-3.50. Info, 876-5087.

Postnatal core: Babies are welcome at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening glutes, abdominals and the pelvic floor.

Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:3011:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

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Franklin county regional cHamBer oF commerce mixer: Friends and colleagues catch up in a relaxed environment featuring special guests from Franklin County Animal Rescue. People's Trust Company, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister; cash bar. Info, 524-2444. legalizing marijuana in vermont: The Vermont Coalition to Regulate Marijuana welcomes Matt Simon of the Marijuana Policy Project and Mason Tvert, leader of Colorado's legalization campaign. Club Metronome, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 612-237-1340. vermont council For giFted education meeting: Parents, professionals and educators with ties to the gifted community share resources, information and support. New Moon Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 922-4873, vcgesec@gmail.com.

'tHe anonymous PeoPle': Greg Williams' acclaimed documentary seeks to shift the focus of addiction recovery from problems to solutions.

Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4249.

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master class WitH kate sPeer: Students take steps with the award-winning dancer and choreographer. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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Contemplate a better future and explore how art and technology could change the world.

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Lego CLub: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire budding builders. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

LittLebits CLub: Tinkerers in grades 3 through 5 learn about circuitry using electronics modules and recycled materials.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 878-4918.

MiddLebury PresChooL story tiMe: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 388-4095.

MusiC With derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PresChooL story tiMe: Tales, crafts and activities arrest the attention of kiddos ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 264-5660. yoga With danieLLe: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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northern bronze handbeLL enseMbLe: Sleigh bells ring! Classic holiday tunes meet contemporary selections in "Bells in Wintertime." First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 425-2177. sound bath: earth gong, didgeridoo & singing boWLs: Participants tap into the healing properties of soundscapes. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, stevescuderi@gmail.com.

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'a taLe of tWo ProjeCts' WorkshoP: From budgeting to contractors, homeowners get tips for renovations and other endeavors. Hinge, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 923-3088.

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'Cineastas': A split-screen set allows actors to move between portrayals of Buenos Aires filmmakers and their films in Mariano Pensotti's innovative work. In Spanish with English supertitles. Contains adult language.

Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $13-35. Info, 603-646-2422. 'tiMe fLies': With inspirations ranging from classic Greek theater to medieval mummers plays, Champlain College Theatre's Cinderella tale combines music, comedy, satire and drama. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-10; free for Champlain College students with ID. Info, 863-5966.

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Lisa Chase: The coauthor of Foods, Farms and Community: Exploring Food Systems considers economic, environmental and cultural relationships. Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 505-9840. sheLagh shaPiro & MaLisa garLieb: The novelist and poet, respectively, excerpt Shape of the Sky and Handing Out Apples.

Phoenix Books, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-3350. story sLaM: A workshop with storyteller Geoff Gevalt preps wordsmiths for a friendly competition in which they present up to five minutes of fiction and nonfiction. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, workshop and pizza, 5 p.m.; registration, slam, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 324-9538.

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aMeriCan red Cross bLood driVe: Healthy donors give the gift of life. See redcrossblood.org for details. Various locations statewide, Vermont. Free. Info, 800-733-2767. snoW farM Wine doWn: Live music and local beer and wine served up in a pastoral setting make for an ideal end to the workweek. See snowfarm. com for details. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6 p.m.

Cost of drinks. Info, 372-9463.

LunCh & Learn: Sue Schein recounts her work with the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem, an archaeological dig that yielded remarkable finds. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, 863-4214. one WorLd Library ProjeCt: Ed Blechner fairs & festivals recounts 40 years of glidstoWe Winter CarniVaL: The ing across the snow in 41st annual frozen fête features CO UR "Dogsledding in Labrador: Mushing ER T ES a varied lineup of wintry wondery O F ED BL EC H N in the Menihek Hills." Lawrence ment, including snow golf, ice carving Memorial Library, Bristol, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. and live music. See stowewintercarnival.com Info, 453-2366. for details. Various Stowe locations. Prices third thursday: VerMont in the War vary. Info, huntly@pwshift.com. of 1812: Just back from sailing the schooner suMMit sChooL Winter foLk festiVaL: Lois McClure, Art Cohn regales a lunchtime See THU.15, 6-9:30 p.m. crowd with 19th-century tales. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. film Free. Info, 828-2180. ashbury fiLMs: 'the short fiLM

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Info, 518-523-2512.

MountaintoP fiLM festiVaL: Seven days of human-rights films, Q&A sessions, panel discussions and live music honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. See mountaintopfilmfestival.com for details. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield. $7-10; free for students with ID. Info, 496-8994.

food & drink

feast together or feast to go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288. sheLburne Vineyard CeLLar tasting: Oenophiles preview new vintages. Light fare, live jazz and a discussion with winemakers round out the affair. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 & 7 p.m. $30; limited space. Info, 985-8222.

Wing night: A smorgasbord of this favorite finger food features flavor variations that please every palate. Essex Junction VFW Post, 5:30-7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 878-0700.

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health & fitness

aVoid faLLs With iMProVed stabiLity: A personal trainer demonstrates daily exercises for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.

CentraL VerMont CounCiL on aging Chats: Senior citizens with questions about health insurance and other services get answers from CVCOA's Sarah Willhoit.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 9 a.m.noon. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 223-2518.

Laughter yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 999-7373. seVen eLeMents of heaLth and the fiVe bodies: Samuel Hendrick explores wellbeing in relation to an ideal life path and the law of attraction. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. yoga ConsuLt: yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

kids

earLy bird Math: One plus one equals fun! youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036.

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igLoofest: Electronic music from top DJs draws thousands of revelers to an igloo village at this popular outdoor festival. See calendar spotlight. Jacques-Cartier Quay, Old Port, Montréal, $20-25; $45 weekend pass.

Info, 514-904-1247.

music

'CLassiC aLbuMs LiVe: 'dark side of the Moon'': Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece comes alive in a larger-than-life multimedia show featuring all-star musicians and dazzling lighting. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $29.75-35.75. Info, 775-0903.

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Pride of New York: Award-winning musicians from both sides of the Atlantic join forces for an evening of Irish-American tunes. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 863-5966.

VermoNt CoNtemPorarY musiC eNsemble: A varied program features a new work by David Feurzeig and the Vermont premiere of Michael Close's Songs About Cheese, among other compositions.

Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $1225. Info, 849-6900.

theater

'CiNeastas': See THU.15, 8 p.m. 'faster better soCial': Technology's influence on the social landscape drives Mike Daisey's hard-hitting solo show. For mature audiences only. See calendar spotlight. Wright Memorial Theater, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-6433.

NortherN stage New works Now: 'here todaY' staged readiNg: Set in a Key West hotel room, Bob Steven's drama features a young John Lennon and Paul McCartney before the singer-songwriters' rise to fame. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 296-7000. 'time flies': See THU.15.

words

browN bag book Club: Bibliophiles voice opinions about Louise Penny's Still Life.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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make a hat from a reCYCled sweater: Carol Collins of Singing Spindle Spinnery helps folks transform old threads into eyecatching winter gear. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:307:30 p.m. $6-7; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Camille a. browN & daNCers: The awardwinning choreographer and her company explores challenging social themes in Mr. TOL E. RAncE and Black Girl. See calendar spotlight. For ages 13 and up. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-36. Info, 863-5966.

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mouNtaiNtoP film festiVal: See FRI.16. 'uNder the skiN': Scarlett Johansson stars in Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi thriller about a mysterious seductress in Scotland. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. woodstoCk film series: Kalyanee Mam's award-winning documentary A River Changes Course follows three families struggling to maintain tradition in contemporary Cambodia. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11; preregister; limited space. Info, 457-2355.

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ameriCaN meltiNg Pot familY buffet & fireworks: Street performers and live tunes by Green Corduroy entertain diners at a family-friendly feast that serves up a brilliant light show for dessert. Gate House Base Lodge, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 6 p.m. $10-35. Info, 583-6300, mbolles@ sugarbush.com. aNNual game suPPer: A feast featuring moose, deer and more benefits the Knights of Columbus charity fund. Essex Junction St. Pius X Parish, 5:30 & 6:30 p.m. $6-18. Info, 878-8314. burliNgtoN wiNter farmers market: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts, and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 310-5172.

CaPital CitY wiNter farmers market: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Montpelier City Hall, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

ChoColate tastiNg: Sweets lovers sample treats while learning about how cocoa is grown and produced. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. rutlaNd wiNter farmers market: More than 50 vendors offer produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue.

Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269. wiNe tastiNg: Sips of French chablis capture the characteristics of Burgundy's mineral-rich soil. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

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ameriCaN red Cross blood driVe: See FRI.16. bike Jam: Gearheads help low-income Vermonters with repairs, while others craft jewelry out of old bicycle parts or help out around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, dan@ bikerecycle.localmotion.org.

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kiNg street CeNter moViNg daY: Volunteers ages 18 and up help out with the moving process into the organization's new building. King Street Center, Burlington, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736.

'PlaYiNg together: games' exhibit oPeNiNg: A multitude of games, including a giant chessboard, inspire players of all ages. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. sleigh ride weekeNd: Horses offer scenic rides across frosty farm fields, followed by screenings of A Time for Justice in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-14; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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Wine TasTing: Oenophiles nosh on bread and cheese while sipping recently released reds from Spain's famed Rioja region. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

health & fitness

PrenaTal Yoga & Barre: See WED.14, 10:30-11:30 a.m. r.i.P.P.e.D.: See WED.14, 9-10 a.m.

kids

DroP-in sTorY Time: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. saTurDaY sTorY Time: Captivating narratives entertain little ones. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. sock monkeYs!: Kiddos and their parents repurpose old socks, then display their handiwork in a community art show. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $20 per family; free for members. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. sTorY exPlorers: ice: Little ones tap into the properties of frozen water with themed tales and crafts. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

ToDDler TaP along: Tykes up to age 5 join with musician Aaron Waldman for singing, dancing and storytelling. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 9-10:15 a.m. $8-10; $3 per additional child. Info, oneartscollective@gmail. com.

WinTer WilDlife DeTecTives: Youngsters ages 5 and up learn about local critters, then explore the farm for signs in nature. McClure Center for School Programs, Farm Barn, Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-noon. $6-12 per adult/child pair; $5 per additional child. Info, registration@shelburnefarms.org.

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familY sTorYTelling & Book making: Kiddos and their parents discuss sperm donors, surrogates, adoption and blended families over snacks, stories and art projects.

Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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‘musical reflecTions on henri maTisse's Jazz series’: Violinist Stanley Chepaitis joins pianist and composer Chris Bakriges in a performance inspired by the visual artist. WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room, Bristol, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 4533188, ext. 2. russian Duo: Balalaika virtuoso Oleg Kruglyakov and pianist Terry Boyarsky present an intimate show of traditional tunes.

Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner package; preregister. Info, 465-4071. 'a song for You: The music of The carPenTers': Backed by an all-star band, vocalist Sally Olson lends her powerful pipes to "We’ve Only Just Begun" and other hits from the famed musical duo. Spotlight Vermont, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20.

Info, 862-7326. vermonT conTemPorarY music ensemBle: See FRI.16, 7:30 p.m.

igloofesT: See FRI.16.

outdoors

naTure Walk: An outing with naturalist Annette Hansen music seeks out birds and animal chaD hollisTer BanD: tracks. Fairfax Community Heartfelt lyrics and a stelLibrary, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, lar horn section power the 849-2420. single "Breathe" and other CO R uR E sleigh riDes: Giddy up! Horses ID T ES catchy tunes from the nine-piece Y O F W O OD Y W E trot folks over snow-covered open ensemble. Singer-songwriter Jamie fields. Rides leave every half hour; seats Kent opens. Spruce Peak Performing Arts are first come, first served. Call to confirm.

Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m.

Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free $20-35. Info, 760-4634. for kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8442.

Tour De moon: A moonlit ski or snowshoe up Mount Ellen gives way to a gourmet feast.

Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 4:30 p.m. $60.

Info, 583-6300.

WinTer WilDlife celeBraTion: Indoor crafts and games complement a wide range of outdoor activities that culminate around the campfire. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $11-13; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5001, ext. 229.

seminars

vcam orienTaTion: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

WinTer asTrologY WorkshoP: Horoscope lovers find connections between celestial activity and daily life. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

Working WooDlanDs WorkshoP: A snowshoe trek led by forester Jon Bouton teaches attendees how to identify trees and shrubs during the winter. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 281-5262.

sports

BolTon afTer Dark: When the sun sets, skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain, then unwind with ski and snowboard films. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 4 p.m. $19 lift tickets; cash bar.

Info, 434-3444.

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A bonfire and after-party follow. See legrandfattour.com for details. Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook, Québec, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $25. Info, veloneigecoaticook@legrandfattour.com.

theater

'FaSteR BetteR SoCiaL': See FRI.16. gReeN MouNtaiN CaBaRet: Aloha! The Sugar Shakers heat things up luau-style in "Bash at Burlesque Beach." For ages 18 and up. Club Metronome, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 865-4563. the Met LiVe iN hd SeRieS: Renée Fleming stars as the femme fatale in a broadcast production of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512; Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 3829222; Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903; Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $22-24. Info, 660-9300; Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-24. Info, 748-2600.

NoRtheRN Stage New woRkS Now: 'the LaNd wheRe the kiNg iS a ChiLd' Staged ReadiNg: A friendship between two young boys in a Catholic school is ultimately destroyed by teachers and priests in Wayne Lawson and Julian Sancton's drama. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 3 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 296-7000.

NoRtheRN Stage New woRkS Now: 'the LaSt QueeN oF CaNaaN' Staged ReadiNg: Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik's haunting musical follows the descendants of slaves living in depression-era Virginia.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 296-7000. 'tiMe FLieS': See THu.15.

dance

BaLkaN SiNgiNg & FoLk daNCiNg: Folks find harmony, then join Louise Brill and friends, who organize them into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2:30-6 p.m. $6 suggested donation. Info, 540-1020.

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FeNiaN hiStoRiCaL SoCiety MeetiNg: Those dedicated to the study of the 19-century militant Irish nationalist movement gather to learn more. A performance of Irish tunes rounds out the afternoon. Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 3-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 644-2433.

MeMoRiaL tRee LightiNg & ReMeMBRaNCe CeReMoNy: Folks honor the memory of Vermont Respite House residents who passed away in 2014. Williston Federated Church, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1900. ok aBC PRaCtiCe: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world?

An open meeting explores these inquiries.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 989-9684.

aMeRiCaN Red CRoSS BLood dRiVe: See FRI.16.

'Let it gLow' LaSeR Light & FiRewoRkS Show: A dazzling display of state-of the-art digital graphics sets the stage for a pyrotechnics extravaganza. Live music by singersongwriter Stephen Kellogg follows. Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 228-1600.

SLeigh Ride weekeNd: See SAT.17.

fairs & festivals

Stowe wiNteR CaRNiVaL: See FRI.16.

SuMMit SChooL wiNteR FoLk FeStiVaL: See THu.15, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

film

ChaNdLeR FiLM SoCiety: Alec Guinness plays an eccentric painter searching for the perfect muse in the 1958 comedy The Horse's Mouth. A Q&A and discussion follow.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph, reception, 5:15 p.m.; film, 6 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204.

daRtMouth FiLM SoCiety: 'tRaCkS': Mia Wasikowska stars as Robyn Davidson in John Curran's account of the latter's 1,700-mile solo trek across the Australian outback. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

FiLM SeMiNaR: Cinephiles explore the role of musical scores in movies by Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini and others.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 2-4:30 p.m. $2550. Info, 431-0204.

MouNtaiNtoP FiLM FeStiVaL: See FRI.16.

MouNtaiNtoP FiLM FeStiVaL: JoSh RueBNeR: The author and political analyst discusses the united States' role in Israel's occupation of Palestine. A screening of the documentary My Neighborhood follows. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-8994. waRReN MiLLeR'S 'No tuRNiNg BaCk': The biggest names in skiing tackle daunting peaks in this adrenaline-pumping tribute to 65 years of mountain culture and extreme filmmaking. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12.

Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

PuB BeeR diNNeR: Hops lovers feast on a four-course meal of seasonal fare and local brews featuring the masterminds behind Switchback. Castlerock Pub at Sugarbush, Warren, 6-9 p.m. $60. Info, 800-537-8427.

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Nia with Suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

Sunday Sangha: Community Ashtanga Yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses.

Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183.

Thai Bodywork Demo: A yoga workout with practitioner Kristin Borquist rejuvenates students through stretching and relaxation. Yoga Roots, Shelburne, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 985-0090.

kids

Kids Torchlight Parade & Pizza and Movie Night: Youngsters ages 4 through 12 have fun with crafts, kid-friendly flicks and an awe-inspiring procession of lights.

Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 4:30 p.m. $30; preregister. Info, 888-651-4827.

Kids Yoga: Yogis ages 3 through 7 gain strength and balance while learning how to focus and relax. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183.

Russian Play Time With Natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

language

Dimanches French Conversation: 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.

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The Dissipated Eight: Middlebury College's award-winning a cappella ensemble presents blues, folk and barbershop harmonies alongside selections from the Grateful Dead and others. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 4 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 4438028, zweiss@middlebury.edu.

The Dustbowl Revival: The Californiabased collective melds blues, bluegrass, gospel and New Orleans swing in a rollicking show. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $7-10.

Info, 540-0406.

The Johannes String Quartet: The celebrated foursome gives a bow-and-string clinic in "Beethoven and Bartók." FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $36-40. Info, 863-5966.

Soaked Oats: Amity Baker, Jeff Fellinger and Don Jamison enliven the Westford Music Series with three-part harmonies and a repertoire that travels from cowboy songs to gospel tunes. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4028.

Sunday Night Folk Series: Pete's Posse perform a spirited mix of foot-stomping traditional tunes. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 735-2542.

outdoors

Dewey Mountain Hike: Nature lovers challenge themselves on a difficult trek that maintains a strong pace for seven miles. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 343-8175.

Sleigh Rides: See SAT.17.

talks

Jerry Mullen: The gun collector and enthusiast shares his knowledge of Revolutionary War weapons and tactics in "Muskets, Maneuvers and Misconceptions."

Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-4556.

words

Pints & Prose: Wordsmiths loosen up with libations, then put pen to paper to interpret writing prompts. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $15-20. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.

MON.19 activism

'Black Lives Matter' Demonstration: Peaceful demonstrators celebrate the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and show support for Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others. Burlington City Hall, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

community

King Street Center Moving Day: See SAT.17, 8 a.m.-noon.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive: See FRI.16.

Sleigh Ride Weekend: See SAT.17.

fairs & festivals

Stowe Winter Carnival: See FRI.16.

film

Mountaintop Film Festival: See FRI.16.

games

Bridge Club: See WED.14, 7 p.m.

Trivia Night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 651-5012.

health & fitness

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.16.

Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.14.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.14.

holidays

Charles Slack: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the author presents "Liberty's First Crisis," a meditation on free speech as related to Vermonter Matthew Lyon's 1798 imprisonment. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon; Vermont History Center, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2180.

Martin Luther King Day Blood Drive: Healthy donors part with life-sustaining pints. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 734-3540, chris. miller2@redcross.org.

Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation: Guest poet Rajnii Eddins joins acclaimed author and activist Kevin Powell in "Violence and the Call for Accountability and Justice in 21st-Century America." Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2663.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Familyfriendly, community-oriented programming honors the legacy of the civil rights leader.

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; $4 for additional programming. Info, 877-324-6386.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service: AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps VISTA members lead a day of service projects, celebration, and reflection honoring the late activist's community service. Various Montpelier locations, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 828-1731.

'MLK Legacy: A Celebration in Song, Speech and Dance': A tribute to the civil rights activist features pianist and vocalist Keith McCutchen, a community choir and the college's Oratory Society. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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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.

Crafternoon With Nicole: Tykes ages 6 through 10 get creative with local artist Nicole Vance. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420.

Kids Yoga: A fun-filled class for students ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183.

Toddler Time: See WED.14.

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Tuesday Volunteer Nights: Folks pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects.

Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

dance

Beginner West Coast Swing: Newcomers need only a clean pair of shoes when learning the partner dance rooted in the lindy hop. North End Studios, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $6.50-10. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

Intro to Tribal Belly Dance: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@ gmail.com.

Swing Dance Practice Session: Twinkletoed dancers get familiar with the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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American Red Cross Blood Drive: See FRI.16.

fairs & festivals

Stowe Winter Carnival: See FRI.16.

film

Architecture & Design Series: 'FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: I.M. PEI': Peter Rosen's celebrated documentary chronicles the life and work of modernist architect I.M. Pei. BCA Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 8657166, adfilmseries@gmail.com.

Mountaintop Film Festival: See FRI.16.

'A Path Appears': See WED.14, Stearns Student Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1200.

Chargaux: Brooklyn-based indie composers Charly and Margaux channel the best of the blues, baroque and beyond in contemporary pieces and classical improvisations. See calendar spotlight. Stearns Student Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

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Fitness Boot Camp: See WED.14, Vergennes Opera House, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10.

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Gentle Drop-In Yoga: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

Gentle Yoga With Jill Lang: Students get their stretch on in a supportive environment. Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

Intro to Yoga: Newcomers discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

Speaking Your Truth: Participants explore setting boundaries, conscious communication and other relevant topics. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 999-2253.

sports

Coed Floor Hockey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided; preregister; limited space. Info, gbfloorhockey@gmail.com.

Feast Together or Feast to Go: See FRI.16.

games

Gaming for Teens & Adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels.

Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Jazzercise Lite: See THu.15, 8-9 a.m.

Kitchen Medicine: Winter WeLLness: Lisa Masé of Harmonized Cookery discusses the role of digestion in overall health, and how to get adequate vitamins and minerals from food. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. $3-5; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. nia With suzy: See SuN.18, North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $13. Info, 522-3691.

Pee-Wee PiLates: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

PrenataL yoga & Barre: See WED.14, 12:15-1:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

holidays

Martin Luther King Jr. ceLeBration: WiL haygood: The acclaimed journalist, cultural historian and best-selling author of The Butler: A Witness to History keynotes the annual event. A book signing follows. Ira Allen Chapel, uVM, 4-5:30 p.m., Free; preregister; limited space. Info 656-3131. uvm. edu/~hrdma/mlk BaBy & toddLe story tiMe: A Mother Goose-based morning features rhymes, songs and stories. Ilsley public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. creative tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216. highgate sKater tots: Tykes up to preschool age lace up their skates and glide across the rink. Highgate Sports Arena, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. highgate story hour: See WED.14.

Music With Mr. chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

PreschooL Music: Kids ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the afternoon away.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. reading With theraPy dogs: Youngsters share a story with lovable pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918. stories With Megan: Captivating tales entertain good listeners ages 2 through 5.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. story exPLorers: tracKs in snoW: Kiddos learn about the clues animals leave behind on their wintery travels. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.

Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. tech tuesdays: Youngsters tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming after school gets out. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. toddLer story tiMe: Tykes up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial

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south BurLington coMMunity chorus rehearsaL: New members are welcome at this open practice for the vocal ensemble's annual performance. South Burlington High School, 7-9:15 p.m. $50 dues plus cost of music. Info, 846-4108. the tragicaLLy hiP: SOLD OuT. The charttopping rockers behind 14 Juno awards delight fans young and old. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $42.50-81.75. Info, 863-5966.

talks

deaLing With your eMotions: Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi draws on decades of Buddhist studies when presenting ways to deal with tension and stress. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m.-midnight. Free. Info, 223-3338. naturaL MarshfieLd: Naturalist Roger Hill imparts his knowledge of local ecosystems and climate change. Jaquith public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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drinK & draW BurLesQue: A live burlesque model puts a creative twist on a traditional sketching session. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $20-24 includes one drink. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. nicK neddo: Inspired by Vermont's diverse landscapes, the artist and author leads a hands-on exploration of natural pigments.

Bradford public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

business

KeLLey MarKeting Meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.

community

non-citizen voting rights discussion: Attorney Mark Kaplan facilitates a conversation with City Councilor Rachel Siegel and candidate Michael Ly about the proposed issue on the upcoming Burlington ballot.

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

Peer suPPort circLe: See WED.14. save oPen sPace BurLington: Locals discuss the future of municipal open space and the protection of the Burlington College/ Roman Catholic Diocese land. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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Knitters & needleworKers: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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AmericAn red cross Blood drive: See FRI.16. tech tutor ProgrAm: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918. vAlley night: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music.

Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.

fairs & festivals

stowe winter cArnivAl: See FRI.16.

film

mArtin luther King Jr. weeK: 'FruitvAle stAtion': Michael B. Jordan stars in Ryan Coogler's award-winning 2013 drama based on the 2009 BART police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif.

McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2663. mountAintoP Film FestivAl: See FRI.16.

food & drink

coFFee tAsting: See WED.14. wednesdAy wine down: See WED.14. wine tAsting: Laura Thompson of Artisanal Cellars hosts a sipping session of newly released reds from Italy's Piedmont region. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

games

Bridge cluB: See WED.14. eAting well on A Budget: See WED.14.

Fitness Boot cAmP: See WED.14. insight meditAtion: See WED.14.

PrenAtAl yogA & BArre: See WED.14. r.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.14. tAngoFlow!: See WED.14. mArtin luther King Jr. celeBrAtion: college oF medicine heAlth equity lecture: UVM professor Rashad Shabazz presents “Geography, HIV/AIDS and the War on Drugs in Black Chicago.” Room 200, Larner Medical Education Center,UVM, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info 656-3131. uvm.edu/~hrdma/mlk

sports

Premier Floor hocKey leAgue: See WED.14. women's PicK-uP BAsKetBAll: See WED.14.

talks

Burlington deAth cAFé: Folks meet for tea, light fare and conversations about death aimed at accessing a fuller life. Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8984. cAmeron visiting Architect lecture: Design/build pioneer David Sellers discusses working with nature and custom craftsmanship. Room 304, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168. current events conversAtion: An informal open discussion delves into newsworthy subjects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 'the exPerience oF drone Pilots': Michaela Herrmann leads a presentation and discussion about post traumatic stress disorder among operators of unmanned aerial vehicles. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6. mArtin luther King Jr. weeK: PAnel discussion: Panelists interpret "Addressing Invisibility, Inequality and Exclusion Through Cultural Competence and Personal Understanding." Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2663.

theater

BAsic Burlesque: See WED.14.

Beginner/intermediAte Burlesque: See WED.14. the met live in hd series: See SAT.17, Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300.

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unFiltered: wine And Poetry: Lit lovers mingle over locally made vino, then settle in for an evening of verse read by area poets.

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ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Watercolor, Drawing, Zentangle, Colored Pencil, Acrylics, Hand Puppet, Nature Journals and Calligraphy. Culinary arts: 1-night hands-on classes where you eat well! Dim Sum, Chicken Tikka, Indian Veggie, Vietnamese Pho, Szechuan, Thai, Turkish, Malaysian Penang, Middle Eastern, Greek Coastal, Chocolate, Argentinian, Yogurt, Risotto, Fresh Berry Pie, Chocolate Sponge with Ganache, Easter Cookies. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

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JOURNEY TO THE SOUL: In this ongoing group, participants explore in an open expressive arts studio to combine uninhibited art, music and movement making with thoughtful writing and reflection. The studio at JourneyWorks is a safe space, free of criticism, providing you with a healthy environment to access your inner wisdom and explore and expand your intuition. No prior art or writing experience necessary. Jan. 7, 14, 21 & 28 & Feb. 4 & 11, 6:30-9 p.m.

Cost: $40/session. Sliding scale avail. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 N. Ave., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: This class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio.

Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Students will learn various finishing techniques

using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience necessary. Option 1: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 12:30-3 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaugh. Pair with Mixed Level Wheel. Option 2: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaugh. Pair with Mixed Level Wheel. Option 3: Wed., Apr. 1-May 20, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay & 30 hours/week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately: $20/25-pound bag.

All glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

CLAY: HANDLES: The right handle can make or break a mug. Is it comfortable? Is it functional?

In this class, Jeremy will explore the intersection of function and form through handles using lecture and demonstration.

Students will learn how to make and attach handles using several methods. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Sun., Feb. 15, 1:30-3 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

CLAY: MIXED LEVEL WHEEL THROWING: Mixed Level Wheel supports students across a range of skill and experience levels. This eight-week course is rooted in fundamentals and encourages individual projects.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing, trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Option 1: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Option 2: Thu., Apr. 2-May 21, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Option 3: Thu., Apr. 2-May 21, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay & 30 hours/week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately: $20/25-pound bag.

All glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

CONTEMPORARY FIGURE PAINTING: Intermediate and advanced painters, revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Work from live models, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback.

Figure drawing experience is helpful. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Material list online.

Instructor: Gail Salzman. Weekly

on Wed., Jan. 28-Mar. 18, 1:304:30 p.m. Cost: $360/person; $324/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a creative computer program used to create interesting graphics, clip art and more!

Students will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. Class is aimed at furthering individual design software skills. Bring a Maccompatible flash drive to the first class. Instructor: Jeremy Smith. No experience necessary.

Weekly on Mon., Feb. 2-Mar. 16 (no class Feb. 16), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $205/person; $184.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DIY DESIGN: LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this onenight class where you’ll create your own leather earrings and bracelets. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts, like snap bracelets, cuffs and earrings. All materials provided. Registration is required.

Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25.20/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DROP IN: ADULT WHEEL: Learn the basics of wheel-working.

Through demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn 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 registration necessary; space is limited; first come first served.

Instructors: Julia Berberan and Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Jan. 23-May 22, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $14/ participant; $13/BCA members.

Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

DROP IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Learn wheel and hand building techniques at BCA’s clay studio in a relaxed, family-friendly environment. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand-building demonstrations throughout the evening. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary. All ages.

Instructors: Julia Berberan, Alex Costantino and Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Jan. 23-May 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/ BCA members. Purchase a dropin card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 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 registration necessary.

Instructor: Glynnis Fawkes.

Weekly on Mon., Jan. 26-May 18

(no class Feb. 17), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $10/participant; $9/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DROP IN: POLLYWOG ART: This popular drop-in program introduces young children and parents to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social.

Participants will create paintings, sculptures, prints and more, with a variety of changing projects to keep everyone engaged!

Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided.

No registration necessary. Ages 6 months-5 years. Instructor: Zoe Barracano. Weekly on Thu., Jan. 22-May 21, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members.

Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DRAWING: Learn a variety of drawing techniques, including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow. Students will work mostly from observation and use a variety of media including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, and charcoal. Comics and illustrations may be incorporated. No experience necessary. Material list online. Instructor: Marc Nadel. Weekly on Wed., Jan. 28-Mar. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $224/person; $201.60/BCA members. Location: BCA/Center, Burlington.

JEWELRY: INTRO TO JEWELRY: Learn the basics of creating metal jewelry. Techniques covered will include sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more, so that students can create at least two completed pieces. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 3-Mar. 17 (no class Mar. 3), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington.

JEWELRY: STONE SETTING: BEYOND THE BASIC BEZEL: Want to know how to make different kinds of settings for your gemstones? This class will cover a variety of stone setting techniques for your cabochons and faceted stones. Basic metalsmithing skills are strongly recommended. Basic tools and materials provided. Additional material fees will depend on individual projects. Limited supply of stones available for purchase.

Pair with Bangles or Chasing and Repousee. Prerequisite: Intro to Jewelry or relevant experience.

Instructor: Rebecca Macomber.

Weekly on Thu., Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington.

PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and

exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Bring your camera and owner’s manual to class. Pair this class with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12-week experience, and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing. Instructor: Dan Lovell. No experience necessary. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Mar. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170/ person; $153/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Improve your printing and film processing techniques and discuss the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-ofclass printing and processing.

Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Apr. 1 (no class Mar. 11), 6-9 p.m. Cost: $295/person; $265.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPHING THE WINTER LANDSCAPE: Learn how to create stunning winter landscape images in this threesession workshop. Techniques for properly exposing snow and ice, using available light and composing creatively using shadows and texture will be covered. Prerequisite: Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Thu., Feb. 19 & 26, 6-9 p.m. & Sat., Feb. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $180/ person; $162/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PRINT: WOODBLOCK PRINTING WITH COLOR: This class will explore a variety of techniques for woodblock printing with color.

The class will start with basic two-color prints and progress to multiple woodblocks and colors.

The class is designed to explore a range of printing possibilities.

Akua, nontoxic, soy/water based inks will be used. All materials included. Instructor: Gregg Blasdel. Weekly on Mon., Feb. 2-Mar. 16, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

PRINT: PRINTMAKING: This introductory class will teach techniques such as block printing with linoleum, collograph (a low-relief intaglio technique) and drypoint etching. Students will also be encouraged to explore these techniques and have fun experimenting. Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio hours for practicing, and all basic supplies and equipment for each printmaking technique.

Instructor: Katie Loesel. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Mar. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/ BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SELLING YOUR WORK WITH ETSY: Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing

items and filling sold orders, as well as looking at various marketing tricks. You can bring your laptop, use our computers, or come tech-free and watch Laura lead you step by step. Tue., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; 22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and co-owner of New Duds, will introduce you to silkscreening and show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio time for practicing, use of studio chemicals, class ink and equipment. Students must provide their own screens and design materials; please see student materials list online. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FOR ARTISTS: Do you fear Facebook?

Does Twitter make you cringe?

Do you keep wondering what the heck people are talking about when they mention Pinterest or Instagram? Don’t worry! We’ll discuss the major social media avenues and how to best use them in regard to content, strategy, advertising and telling the story of your work. Instructor: Laura Hale. Tue., Feb. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

YOUTH: PAINTING: Spend an afternoon painting at BCA! Learn many techniques including splatter painting, watercolor, bubble painting, collage and more. All materials provided.

Registration required. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 6-12. Sat., Feb. 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with nontoxic watersoluble oils. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. This supportive class will balance studio time, gentle group discussion and critique.

BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Material list online.

Instructor: Linda Jones. Weekly on Tue., Jan. 27-Mar. 24 (no class Mar. 3), 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

business PERSONAL FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT: Find hope and clarity in your personal financial life! Fun, supportive, safe class.

We’ll cover everything from your personal spending habits to your retirement account, without deprivation. Gain a support network, technical knowledge/ resources, detailed money management plan. Tailored to the specific needs of women at any point in their lives.

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major life circumstances. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 3- Mar. 17, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $250/7-week course, incl. all materials & guest speakers.

Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., suite 8, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 8467338, gpokalo@ mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

WOMEN’S SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM: Ready to start or expand your business? In the famous 15-week Start Up: Comprehensive Business Planning course, you’ll learn the language of business while developing your business plan.

Learn marketing, finance and management from an instructor team of seasoned entrepreneurs and a host of guest experts in a fun, interactive classroom with your peers. Join the 1500-member alum network. Find support, make informed decisions about business in your life. Every Thu., 5:30-9 p.m.; every other Sun., noon-6 p.m. Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., suite 8, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

computers COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Computer & Internet Basics, Cloud Control, Improve your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, Picassa and iCloud, Web Album, iSync: iPads/iPods/iPhones, Twitter Essentials, Google Sketchup, MS Word Basics and More, Smart Phone Use, Google Smarts, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, personalized lessons. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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Class sizes are limited; therefore, payment in full is required to secure your space. Sat., Jan. 17, 11 a.m., & Fri., Jan. 30, 10 a.m. Cost: $55/class. Location: Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, 180 Flynn Ave., suite 2, Burlington. Info: 488-5766, info@ vintageinspired.net, vintageinspired.net.

CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Pottery, Bowl Turning, Woodworking, Welding, Carving a Spoon, Hems, Sewing for Teens, Rug Hooking, Punch Needle, Wool Dyeing, 3-Bag Sewing, Pillows, Needle Felting, Weaving, Embroidering, Quilting, Cake Decorating and Knitting. Full descriptions online.

Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

BYOP (BRING YOUR OWN PIECE) WORKSHOP: Bring in a small piece of furniture that you can carry with one hand. We will demonstrate how to paint with different techniques and wax with Chalk Paint decorative paint

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ABSTRACT PAINTING: Instructor: Sage TuckerKetcham. This class is about exploring different ways of abstracting form, meaning and composition. Using acrylics and oils or water base oils, you will explore layering, color and surface techniques. Each class will focus on a different demonstration and technique. This class is geared toward people who have some painting experience.

6 Wed., 1-3 p.m., Feb. 4-Mar. 11. Cost: $175/nonmembers; $157.50/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

BASICS AND BEYOND IN JEWELRY: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art. Each student

will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver. Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming and soldering techniques. 8 Wed., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Jan. 28-Mar. 18.

Cost: $335/nonmembers; $306/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

BEGINNING STILL LIFE: Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane.

Simple forms and colors of basic still life setups will inspire this beginners’ course. We will start with basic drawing techniques, discuss materials, practice with mixing accurate colors and learn how to apply paint in a stepby-step format. We will paint a series of small canvases, taking a painting from the drawing stage to a finished rendering. 8 Mon., Jan. 26-Mar. 16. Cost: $235/ nonmembers; $211.50/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

HAND BUILDING: Instructor: Alex Costantino. This handbuilding class will focus on creating sculptural and functional pieces using slabs, extrusions, solid building and coils. Students explore texture and surface using multiple techniques. If

you already have an idea or some inspirational images (sculptural or functional), bring them to the first class. 8 Fri., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Jan. 16-Mar. 6.

Cost: $335/nonmembers; $316/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

WAX PENDANT ADV. JEWELRY: Instructor: Matthew Taylor.

Come make a beautiful finished piece of jewelry by carving a wax pendant! In this wax-carving class you will spend three weeks designing and carving the wax.

The piece will then be cast in sterling silver. After the piece has been cast, you will spend two weeks cleaning, finishing and polishing your work. *Cost of casting separate. 5 Tue., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 27-Feb. 24. Cost: $345/ nonmembers; $316/members; incl. $55 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

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Senior discount. Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person.

Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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ARGENTINE TANGO FOR BEGINNERS: Tango is fancy walking, danced conversation, 3-D improvised art. Learn or review the basics in a warm, friendly environment. Class size limited to ensure plenty of individual attention. For adults with little or no tango experience. No partner required. Wear socks or clean shoes. Call/email to register by January 23. 3 Sat., Jan. 24 & 31 & Feb 7, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $15/ person or $26/2 people (friends or couple) per day. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Elizabeth Seyler, 399-8934, elizabethmseyler@ gmail.com, tangowise.com/ burlington-classes.

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: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month,

but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

TANGOFLOW! WEEKLY CLASS SERIES: TangoFlow! now weekly at North End Studio A! Taught

by TangoFlow! creator Cathy Salmons, MA, MSW. TangoFlow! is a unique dance-conditioning workout that combines Argentine tango technique with elements of ballet, modern dance and body awareness.

Best core-body workout ever!

Shown through research to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression! Every Wed., starting Jan. 14, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Cost: $15/ drop-in fee for 1-hour class; $40 monthly rate, prepaid. Location: North End Studio A, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: TangoFlow!, Cathy Salmons, 8636713, vttangopoet@yahoo.com, tangoflowworkout.com.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. $22/drop-in (no class Nov. 27). New session starts in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Taiko Space & Capitol City Grange, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, & 6612 Route 12, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko!

Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. New sessions start in Jan. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN MONTPELIER: Learn Taiko in Montpelier! Weekly on Thu.: Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:30-6:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. New sessions start in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Beekeeping, Birding, Pollinators, SAT Bootcamp, Memoir Writing, Children’s Nature Books, Conscious Walking. Talks on: Lake Ice, Famous Dogs, Donner Party, Wildlife Rehab, Lake Champlain, Amazing Survival. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge, Mah Jongg, Flower Arranging, Growing Mushrooms, Suburban Homesteading 101, Birding, Home Exchange, Motorcycle Awareness, Shoulder Massage, Cat Behavior, Reiki, Herbals, Body Butters, Herbal Facial.

Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

MAKING YOUR KITBAG WORKSHOP: In Aion, Jung warned his students that anyone who is destined to descend into a deep pit had better set about it with all the necessary precautions rather than risk falling into the hole backward. Identify what can support you in times of crisis. An invaluable adjunct to the spiritual journey and useful for anyone who works with his or her dreams. Led by Sue Mehrtens.

Jan. 24, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $35/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Feldenkrais FELDENKRAIS METHOD: Improve your movement in 2015! The Feldenkrais-Method, a form of somatic education, will help you to overcome aches and pains, reduce muscle tension, and increase your self-knowledge, flexibility and awareness of your body. Anyone, young or old, physically challenged or physically fit, can benefit from the Feldenkrais-Method.

For more information about Feldenkrais (including testimonials) and complete class series and workshops schedule, please visit vermontfeldenkrais.com.

Upper back, neck & shoulder Feldenkrais 6-week series. Cost: $90/1-hour class. Location: Otter Creek Yoga, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: Uwe Mester,

735-3770, info@ vermontfeldenkrais.com, vermontfeldenkrais.com.

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DANCE CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Join ballet, tap, modern, hip-hop, jazz (world jazz, cabaret, burlesque), breakdancing and dance composition lab. Children’s classes in ballet, creative dance or musical theater dance are also enrolling students. Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

MUSIC CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Jazz combos for grades 5-12 and adults, voice lessons, show choirs, beginning ukulele and parent/child music-making for ages 0-5! Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

FIND YOUR VOICE! SOLO VOCAL TECHNIQUE: Do you dream of the solo spotlight on stage? Want to sing with more confidence?

Learn how to harness different colors of your voice with various techniques and tackle those pesky high notes that you want to sing fearlessly. Even more, learn to choose songs that showcase your unique voice in the right key, build your audition book, and get comfortable using your face and body to express the heart of your song. Instructor: Carol Spradling. Adults & teens: Sat., Jan. 24-Apr. 18, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. (no class Feb. 21 or 28, Mar. 21 or Apr. 11). Cost: $225/9-week session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

TECHNIQUE AND IMPROVISATION: This class expands participants’ abilities using time-tested approaches informing modern theater, from Stanislavsky to Uta Hagen. A variety of tailor-made exercises help individuals develop skills for vocal and physical expression, believability, and theatricality. Improvisational exercises encourage spontaneity, quick thinking and free play with others. Learn to trust yourself and think on your feet as you propel your confidence onstage and in life to a new level. Instructor: Susan Palmer. Adults & teens: Thu., Jan. 22-Mar. 5, 5:40-7:10 p.m. Cost: $125/6-week session.

Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

THEATER CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Acting for all ages (kids, teens, adults) including standup comedy, physical acting, technique and improvisation, and devising theater. Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

gardening STONE WALL WORKSHOP: Introductory stone wall workshop for homeowners and tradespeople promotes the beauty and integrity of stone.

The one-day, hands-on workshop focuses on basic techniques for creating dry-laid walls with an emphasis on stone native to Vermont. Workshops are held inside warm greenhouses in Hinesburg. Sat., Feb. 14, or Mar. 7 or 21, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $100/1-day workshop. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: Queen City Soil & Stone, Charley MacMartin, 318-2411, macmartin@igc.org, queencitysoilandstone.com.

healing arts REIKI TUMMO WORKSHOPS: Become a certified Reiki Tummo practitioner with safe Kundalini awakening and spiritual heart opening. Level 1: Opens crown, heart, and palm chakras; Kundalini activated; connects you to your spiritual heart; instant ability to channel Divine energy. Level 2: Improved connection to divine energy; instant and safe Kundalini awakening.

Jan. 17 & 18 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Cost: $300/Level 1 & 2 practitioner certification; Level 1 alone is $100. Location: TBA, Winooski.

Info: Jackie Berkowitz, 617-5928087, jaclyndb6@gmail.com, reikitummo.com.

RELEASING GRIEF: Sharing our grief in a group can help us to feel connected and supported.

Grief is about acknowledging transition. Using the expressive arts offers us new ways to communicate, tell our stories and express our grief. In this group we will use the arts to gently explore self expression and to gain insight, growth and healing.

Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, & Mar. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $300/ person, incl. materials. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 N. Ave., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail. com, journeyworksvt.com.

health TLC HOMECARE PCA TRAINING CLASS WITH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES!: TLC Homecare is offering a PCA training class. Director of nursing Alan Sousie, RN, will teach skills required to become a top caregiver. TLC connects you with a PCA mentor to guide you through your first weeks. Jan. 20-23, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $55/ person: cost of book. Location: 1550 Williston Rd., S. Burlington.

Info: Pamela Issenman, 735-1123.

herbs VERMONT SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES: Foundations of Herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited.

Gift certificates available. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825/person.

Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015.

Tuition $1,750. VSAC non-degree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

language LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: French: 4 levels, Beginning Spanish: 2 levels, Intermediate Spanish: 2 levels, Italian for Travelers: 2 levels, Beginning Mandarin: 2 levels, German 1 & 2, Ancient Greek! Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

SPANISH CLASSES BEGINNING SOON: Join us for adult Spanish classes this winter. Our ninth 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 week of Jan.

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12 for 10 weeks, w/ Feb. break.

Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

Spanish weekend classes: Express Fluency courses draw upon brain and language acquisition research to get students understanding and speaking Spanish in the fastest way possible. Weekend is perfect for anyone who wants to jumpstart or refresh their Spanish in preparation to travel, for work or just for fun! Jan. 24-25. Cost: $199/ person; discounts avail.: see website. Location: Chef’s Corner, 209 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Express Fluency, Elissa McLean, 275-2694, elissa@ expressfluency.com, expressfluency.com.

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Camera Classes in Hinesburg at CVU High School: 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, InDesign. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.

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Out of the Blue Shamanism: Learn how to journey into the spirit realms, where you will meet powerfully compassionate and intelligent spirit guides, teachers and healers. The session will include an introduction to the practice of shamanic divination and an overview of shamanic healing. Meet your power animal in a core shamanic introduction. Sat., Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $100/8.5hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Woodbury Healing Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury.

Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

Smuggs Ice Bash: Ice Clinics: We love ice climbing, and we want to share it with you! Clinics for all abilities, beginner to advanced. Best time (and price) for world-class education with our local and guest guides. Intro to Ice, Intro to Mixed, Steep Ice, Thin Ice, Classic Climbs and much more in Smuggler’s Notch!

Jan. 23-25. Cost: $130/full-day ice climbing clinic. Location: Smuggler’s Notch, Jeffersonville.

Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petracliffs.com, smuggsicebash.com.

spirituality A Course in Spiritual Insight: Embark on a nineweek journey to rediscover the profound spiritual potential you carry within. This free course will walk participants through theory and application of practical spiritual techniques which open radical possibilities for a more fulfilling, spiritually focused life.

A mixture of theory and guided meditations. All are welcome.

Weekly on Tue., 7:30-8:45 p.m., Jan. 13-Mar. 10 (open enrollment through Jan. 27). Location: Burlington Friends Meeting, 173 North Prospect St., Burlington.

Info: Andrew Sepic, 730-0112, vermont@esotericteachings.org, esotericteachings.org.

Grandmothers’ Council: Come to the sacred space of the Lightheart Sanctuary, in the forest of New Haven, for a retreat with the spiritual (non-physical) Grandmothers of the Sacred 8 Directions. We journey to a drumbeat for healing, inquiry, prayer, guidance and wisdom.

This energy is Native American and all women are welcome.

Sun., Jan. 25, 1-5 p.m. By donation. Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Rd., New Haven. Info: Maureen Short, 453-4433, maureen@gmavt.net, lightheart.net.

Journey to Wholeness: Discover the depth of Jewish and Christian spirituality,

tai chi 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.

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: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, janet@mindfulbreathtaichi.com, mindfulbreathtaichi.com.

well-being Body and Mind Classes in Hinesburg at CVU High School: Core Strength, Weight Training, Weight Bearing and Resistance Training, Ski & Snowboard Fitness, Tai Chi, Yoga, Making Peace with Food, Swing

writing Social Media 101 for Writers: Author and editor Angela Palm will teach participants will learn how to create dynamic profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr.

Develop engagement strategies and timelines to launch online platforms. See your audience and connections skyrocket!

Participants should bring their own laptops to class. Weekly on Wed., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 14-Feb. 4.

Cost: $120/4 2-hour sessions.

Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-4202, lin@ windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com/ writing-workshops.

Writer’s Boot Camp: Is your writing stuck in neutral?

Beginning in January, Michelle Demers will hold a Writer’s Boot Camp to exercise the writing muscles and help participants lift their writing back into shape.

Demers welcomes writers of all interests and experience to give their writing practice the kickstart it needs. Weekly on Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 15-Feb. 19.

Cost: $175/6 2-hour sessions.

Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-4202, lin@ windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com/ writing-workshops.

yoga Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15.

Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 999-9963.

Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part

of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/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 two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & 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.

Laughing River Yoga: Highly trained and dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops and retreats in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. Class types include Kripalu, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative and more. 300hour teacher training begins in January. Join us in Costa Rica February 28-March 7. All bodies and abilities welcome. Classes 7 days a week. $5-14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/ monthly unlimited. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com.

Yoga Roots: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities.

We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Anusura-inspired all levels, Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! New on our winter schedule: Sacred Space w/ Pam, Sun., 7:45-9 a.m., and Therapeutic Restorative yoga w/ Heidi, Mon., 10:30-11:45 a.m. Winter series: Kundalini, Men’s Yoga, Yoga for Teens, Aging Smart with Yoga and more. Upcoming workshops: Astrology Circle w/ Kelley Hunter, PhD, Sat., Jan. 17, 1-4 p.m.; Living, Loving and Lighting Up w/ Dr. Maria Sirois, Feb. 6 & 7; Chakra Workshop, Feb. 14, noon-5 p.m. w/ Heidi Bock & Laura Lomas.

Preregistration recommended.

Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s.

Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt. com.

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Prenatal Method Studio: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and fitness classes blending Yoga, Barre and Pilates.

Childbirth Education class series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Book groups, new mom playgroups, pregnancy circle teas.

Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends.

Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@ prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

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or Ballroom, Jazzercise, VoiceOvers, Guitar, Banjo, String Band, Ukelele, Songwriting, Musical Improv., Mindful Meditation, Soap Making & Juggling. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included.

Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access.

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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

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Touch Drawing: A Window to Our Soul: In this workshop, we will learn the art of touch drawing. Touch drawing was developed by Deborah Koff-Chapin.

It is a form of printmaking that involves rolling ink on a plate, placing paper over on the ink, and using the hands to draw and paint. The deep connection of fingers to the paper offers us a unique and direct relationship to the soul. Jan. 29 & Feb. 7 & 14, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/session or $145 for all 3. Location: SEABA, 404 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

contemplation and experiential practices that can open your heart and mind while guiding you toward deep spiritual transformation with Spiritual Directors Carol A. Fournier, LCMHC, NCC, Director of the Silver Dove Institute and Rabbi Jan Salzman, Assistant Rabbi at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. 2 Sun., Jan. 25 & Feb. 22, 2-5 p.m., & 4 Wed., Jan. 28-Feb. 22, 7-9 p.m.

Cost: $225/entire 14-hour series: 3 hours cost $40; scholarships avail. Location: Silver Dove Institute, Lakewood Commons, East O’Lake House, 1233 Shelburne Rd., South Burlington.

Info: Carol Fournier, 865-2600-2, info@silverdoveinstitute.org, silverdoveinstitute.org.

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Introduction to Zen: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher.

It focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; please arrive at 8:45 a.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price.

Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org.

Make 2015 More Mindful!: Aspiring to be more peaceful, less stressed and more present in 2015? Come to Exquisite Mind!

Start this year right. Learn a new mindfulness technique or get support maintaining your current practice. Enlightenment is a team sport! Join our friendly community at an upcoming class, retreat, or group sitting.

Instruction: Thu., 7-8:15 p.m.

Lunchtime group sits: Tue. & Fri. 12:15-1 p.m. Daylong retreats & open studio: see calendar.

By donation. See website for details. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., suite 101, Burlington. Info: Nina La Rosa, 735-2265, nina@ninalarosa.com, ninalarosa.com/schedule.

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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., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

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magine all the work it takes for a small nonprofit to launch a successful music festival. Coordinating acts and venues. Dealing with marketing and PR. Putting up money and taking on risk.

Now imagine launching a music festival in Vermont in the dead of winter. To get people to the shows, you have to overcome not only low-riding thermometers and sketchy road conditions but competition from couches everywhere.

But the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture’s Spice on Snow Winter Music Festival is not only surviving, it’s thriving. Kicking off this Thursday, January 15, and running through Sunday, January 18, it’s bigger than ever, as evidenced by the festival’s marquee headliners, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. That acclaimed duo knows a thing or two about fostering interest in traditional music and culture.

Now in its fifth year, Spice on Snow has focused from the start on traditional music. Last year, Bruce Molsky and Cajun band the Revelers headlined, and with help of Louisiana chef Toby Rodriguez and students at the New England Culinary Institute, the festival added a heapin’ helpin’ of traditional Cajun food. That combo of cultural and culinary curiosities brought record-setting crowds to Spice on Snow and helped raise awareness across the Montpelier community.

This year, local chef Bill Koucky and NECI students will cook up the gumbo, and the Revelers will once again throw a big Cajun dance party. But Ungar and Mason will anchor the festival. The pair cuts a swath through Americana from traditional folk of the 1800s to 1940s jazz and swing. They’ll play the festival’s centerpiece concert at Bethany Church on Saturday, January 17.

Other festival highlights include nearly a dozen local favorites throughout the weekend, from the Ollabelles and the Starline Rhythm Boys to Brett Hughes, Kat

Wright, the Green Mountain Playboys, and Jeremiah McLane and Ariel Friedman.

A number of those performers, including Ungar and Mason, will host music and dance workshops on Saturday and Sunday, also at Bethany Church.

Both musical and life partners, Ungar and Mason began to play together in the late 1970s, then briefly worked apart while Mason played in the house band for Garrison Keillor’s radio program, “A Prairie Home Companion.” Mason eventually came back east to play bass and record two records with Fiddle Fever, a band formed

by Ungar, fiddlers Evan Stover and Matt Glaser, and guitarist Russ Barenberg. Since then, Ungar and Mason have recorded half a dozen albums, together and with artists ranging from flutist Sir James Galway to the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.

And then there’s that song: Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell,” the haunting lament made famous as the theme for Ken Burns’ 1990 PBS series, The Civil War, and since covered by everyone from Mark O’Connor to the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines. Ungar composed the tune in 1982, after the close of the first summer of the Ashokan Music and Dance Camps, a series of traditional music workshops, camps and concerts that he founded and now runs with Mason in Olivebridge, N.Y. Although Ungar has undoubtedly told the story of “Ashokan Farewell” countless times, he still does so with evident emotion in a phone interview. “[That summer] was such a deeply moving experience,” Ungar says. “Being with like-minded people for weeks. Being away from the terrors of the world and immersed in music and nature. When I went home, I was floating on a euphoric cloud of Utopian idealism. Maybe a couple of weeks later, I started to come back to Earth, and I felt a great sense of loss.”

As he worked to channel that emotion into music, Ungar drew on another experience of that summer. He had traveled to

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Scotland, where he’d heard traditional laments and airs played by native Scots, and played them on his own fiddle, as well. He conjured “Ashokan Farewell” as a Scottish lament, and instantly realized he’d created something special.

“It brought me to tears whenever I started to play it,” Ungar says. “At first I was scared by that, but after a while I saw that it affected others the same way.”

When Ken Burns heard a recording of the tune, he immediately asked to use it in his documentary, Huey, about notorious Louisiana governor Huey Long. Then came the Civil War series, and the song’s rise to fame.

To Ungar, the tune’s status as an iconic piece of American music is a bit ironic.

“To me, it was purely Scottish,” he says.

“But being as it was played by a Jewish guy from the Bronx, others interpreted it differently, and it became very American, as far as they were concerned.”

Since the 1990s, the public’s taste for the kind of music played by Ungar and Mason has only grown.

“The connection with the past is a big draw,” Mason explains. “It’s exciting to think, Here’s a tune that a guy wrote in his living room or at work 200 years ago, and to play it and sing it.”

In addition to the historical novelty of playing centuries-old songs, Mason sees the social aspect of performance as key to the continued interest in traditional music.

“In a world of emails and texting and being so connected with your iPhone and

computer, people miss that human contact with others,” she says.

Festival director Katie Trautz is excited about the debut of Mason and Ungar at Spice on Snow, not only because of what they bring musically. As acting director of the Summit School, Trautz feels a kinship to the Ashokan Music and Dance Camps.

“The Summit School has been inspired by other programs of its kind, including Ashokan,” says Trautz. “We hope to develop a synergy between our program and their program, and we are excited to show Jay and Molly what we are doing here.”

Trautz is also thrilled by the continued growth of Spice on Snow. For the first time, the festival is hosting free daytime shows at nearly every venue in Montpelier. She is equally delighted by how the community has embraced the festival. In addition to a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $5,000 for this year’s event, more than 20 local businesses signed on as sponsors — double last year’s number.

“The response [from the community] reflects a deeper sense of what it means to bring people together,” says Trautz. “We can connect over food. We can connect over music and dance. I think people realize that this is a really good thing.”

INFO The Spice on Snow Winter Music Festival, Thursday, January 15, through Sunday, January 18, at various locations in downtown Montpelier. summitschool.wix.com

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Here’s a dirty little media secret. You probably see certain bands’ pictures in 7D more often than others. That’s mostly because those bands do cool things and make cool music that I think you should know about, so they get more ink. But there’s another factor in play. Are you sitting down?

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that.) If it’s for a new record or a cool video, lead with that. In other words, don’t bury the lead.

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1. Keep it short. I don’t need to know your whole backstory. No one really cares how you met unless it’s a truly unique story, and most aren’t. I also don’t need to read 50 hyperbolic quotes from every blog that’s ever mentioned you. Tell me who you are and what you do. Include two or three press clippings, tops. These should be flattering, obviously, but also reasonably accurate and from established sources. (The only person who is impressed by that ridiculously glowing review comparing you to ARCADE FIRE on your friend’s blog is your mom, and even she is secretly suspicious.)

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So, with that, here are seven dos and don’ts for writing better press releases, based on my years of experience sifting through this crap, er … reading them.

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Every few weeks or so, I’m approached by some local musician or another looking to crack the mysteries of band promotion. While the specific questions vary and touch on myriad aspects of bandpress relations, the bottom line is always roughly the same: How do I get the media to notice me?

It’s a valid and important question. Love it or hate it, music media — newspapers, blogs, TV, radio stations — play an important role in disseminating news and opinions. While it’s true that you can now access almost any music you’d ever want to with the click of a mouse and make up your own mind on it, you still need to find that music amid an overwhelming flood of options. In that sense, you could argue that the role of curators and tastemakers has never been more critical.

There’s an overabundance of music out there. Finding people whose tastes you trust to parse it is huge. And if you’re a musician, knowing how to deal with those gatekeepers — DJs, critics, bloggers, etc. — can go a long way toward getting your music to the people you want to hear it. In most cases, that process starts with a press release.

Recently, I was asked by a wellknown local artist looking to break out beyond the Burlington bubble for some tips about writing effective press releases. This person’s band has pretty much reached the apex of local popularity. Taking the next step means pitching regional and national media for attention. That’s a daunting task, and requires a bit more savvy than simply emailing your friendly neighborhood music scribe at the local rag about your gig at the Monkey House.

What follows is a modified version of what I sent that artist. If you’re not a musician, I apologize that this week’s edition of Soundbites might not do much for you. I admit it’s a little inside baseball. But given how often I’m asked about this stuff, I sense there’s an

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CITIZEN CIDER: The cider House Boys (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife Wednesday (trap, house), 9:30 p.m.

JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ray Vega Quintet (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: cody Sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: open mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Dinner with Zack DuPont (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. About time (funk, jazz), 8 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county THE MONKEY HOUSE: Alit (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $3-5.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Walt Jones (folk rock), 6 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Small change (Tom Waits tribute), 8:30 p.m., $3-5 donation.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Left Eye Jump (blues), 7 p.m., free.

THE PARKER PIE CO.: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: open mic, 6 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Ryan osswald (altcountry), 6 p.m., donation.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Spice on Snow: The Rear Defrosters (rockabilly), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: open mic, 10 p.m., free.

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NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursday: Andric Severance (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): chas Justice, Kat Wright & Brett Hughes (cajun), 6 p.m., NA.

CLUB METRONOME: territorial Pissings: A tribute to Nirvana with members of twiddle (grunge), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+.

SWEET MELISSA'S: two cents in the till (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

BENTO: classics Vinyl clash (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN'S PUB: craig mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

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

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

folk rock. An advance single, “Things I Know,” recently caused a stir in the musical blogosphere, including from scribes at and Americana.” Touring in support of that EP, the band plays the Monkey House in Winooski this Sunday, January 18.

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THE BEE'S KNEES: Papa GreyBeard (blues), 7:30 p.m., donation.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: open mic, 8 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $5.

CITY LIMITS: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Dirt House (rock), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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WHAMMY BAR: clint Boyd (blues), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: trivia mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Woody Pines, 9:30 p.m., $2/5.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): o'Hanleigh (irish), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

JAMES MOORE TAVERN: Wylie Shipman (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Eight 02 (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: 3rd Thursday comedy Night: Ryan Kenyon, 7 p.m., free. DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., free.

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NECTAR'S: Vt comedy club Presents: What a Joke! comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Abbie morin, Downfall country, carbon mirage (indie soul), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

MOOG'S PLACE: Allen church and Friends (folk), 8 p.m., free.

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BENTO: open Improvisation Jam, 10 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Back to the Future Friday (’90s/2000s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

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It’s the most wildly overused line in the PR playbook. And, oddly enough, it usually comes after a whole bunch of hyperbolic comparisons to iconic artists. Here’s a fictional example: “[Band X] melds the ferocity of SLIPKNOT with the melodic pop sensibility of TAYLOR SWIFT, the songwriting ingenuity of ELLIOTT SMITH and the swagger of KANYE WEST… but with a sound all their own!”

7. Proofread. Proofread. Proofread. And then proofread again. Better yet, have a friend whose grammatical prowess you trust look over your press release before you send it out to 300 journalists with your name misspelled or an unintended sexual euphemism in your opening sentence. (You’d be amazed.) Even great writers benefit from good editing.

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Think about how many emails media outlets in major markets get. Anything that helps you stand out is a good thing.

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It’s because they have high-quality images that are easily accessible to the press. Shocking, right?

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According to your online bio, your research focuses “on the challenges of late modern cultural production and reproduction, with an emphasis on the ways in which these challenges are visualized in Andy Warhol’s appropriations of mass culture.”

What do you mean by “the challenges”?

Warhol was so in love with mass culture — he was a huge fan and had a great appetite for it. Yet there was a constant acknowledgment that it’s impossible to actually get a place at the table. I think he held on to the idea that mass culture is a one-way street. He was always on the lookout for ways an individual could make a contribution.

Is this what your dissertation addressed?

I started to develop it at Berkeley and have worked on it ever since. I have a book under contract, Working Class Warhol (University of Chicago Press). Another research project and book is called Animal Warhol. I’ve spent a lot of time reading Warhol’s diaries and noticed an emphasis on animals. His family had a dog in the basement that his brothers would beat up — it was traumatic for him.

In the ’50s and ’60s, he also had a talking parrot.

When he moved to New York with his mom, they had 28 Persian cats. Late in life, he had two dachshunds, and had to split custody of them with an ex-boyfriend.

This was interesting to me because I was simultaneously looking into philosophical animal studies, which look at the relationships between humans and animals.

Warhol was considering these questions in the ’70s and ’80s and foreshadowed this area of critical thinking.

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n a January 4 article in the New York Times, writer Ted Loos noted that some 40 Andy Warhol exhibits “will be flooding university art museums and institutions” this year. One of them is the Middlebury College Museum of Art, which has on view 10 silk-screen prints recently donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. That foundation will give an additional nearly $14 million this year — including the $100,000 grant that Burlington City Arts recently received. Concurrently, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts is hosting “Warhol Mania,” an exhibit of the artist’s early magazine and advertising work.

Warhol, who died in 1987, still appears to be ubiquitous. Even in Vermont, his posthumous largesse continues to fulfill his foundation’s mission: the advancement of the visual arts.

That’s why we chose to interview Anthony Grudin, an assistant professor of art history at the University of Vermont since 2009. From Eugene, Ore., the 38-yearold has been researching Warhol since grad school at the University of California, Berkeley. He had some surprising things to say about the artist we thought we knew well.

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f ‘Amore’: More than 20 local artists interpret themes of love and passion with paintings, sculptures, prints and assemblages. Main Floor Gallery.

January 20-February 21. f Ann Young: “Autumn Pond Abstract,” paintings. January 20-February 21. f Cecelia Kane: “How Am I Feeling Today?” portraits of vintage hankies. Second Floor Gallery.

Receptions: Saturday, January 24, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

January 20-February 21. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

Why is Andy Warhol so popular?

This is a fascinating question. This question of mass culture participation has relevance for us today. Even though people may not consciously recognize this in Warhol’s work, they sense that aspect of his interest. Also: animals, nonnormative lifestyles, gender — he was among the earliest really prominent artists to delve into these things in his work. And Warhol’s interest in everyday, ephemeral material culture obviously gives curators a lot to work with. He’s as good as anyone of his time in helping us understand the 20th century.

Warhol documented everything in his life so incessantly, he would have been a fiend on social media. Were he still alive, how many Facebook friends would he have by now?

f ‘Art of Place’: A group exhibit of works inspired by the artists’ interactions with the spaces they inhabit. Artist talks: Sunday, January 18, 11 a.m. January 17-March 8. John Snell: “This Is Why I Live Here,” photographs of central Vermont by the Montpelier artist. Lower Gallery. January 17-March 7. Info, 728-6464. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

He’d be competing for the most friends.

Same on Twitter. He would have loved these technologies.

Warhol was an early adopter.

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Warhol was shy, soft-spoken; he didn’t interact easily.

Some say he used technology as a baffle.

f Susan Alancraig: “Unexpected Journeys: Life, Illness, and Loss,” photographic portraits, accompanied by audio and written excerpts of interviews given by women with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers. Reception: Saturday, January 24, 3-5 p.m. January 16-May 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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I wish Warhol had lived to see _____ .

f Winter Art Mart: Winter-inspired art in many mediums by local artists including Gayl M. Braisted, Andrew David Christie, Lyn DuMoulin, Stu Hall, Maurie Harrington, Tom Merwin, Jim Samler and Judith Reilly. Reception: Friday, January 16, 5-7 p.m. January 16-March 29. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

Facebook and Twitter are the easy answers. But on a deeper level, I wish he’d lived to see the gains made by the queer movement. He suffered so much, even as a famous person.

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I wish Warhol had made a portrait of ______ .

f Liz Guth & Gisèle McHarg: Hooked rugs by the local artists. Reception: Sunday, January 18, 2-4 p.m. January 18-March 15. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library.

Ana Mendieta.*

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*Mendieta (1948-85) was a Cuban American artist known for her “earthbody” artwork. She died by falling 34 floors from the window of her New York apartment.

f Elizabeth Nagle: “Other Worlds,” new abstract paintings and mixed-media works by the Dorset artist. Reception: Thursday, January 15, 5:30 p.m. January 15-February 16. Info, 362-4061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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‘Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult and Daily Life’: Art and artifacts that illustrate how ancient societies in the Mediterranean world worshipped the powerful Greek god. January 17-March 15. Info, 603-646-2095. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

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In connection with the exhibit “Recent Gifts From the Andy Warhol Foundation,” Anthony Grudin will give a talk titled “I Like to Keep Modern: Andy Warhol’s Portraiture” on Friday, January 23, 12:30 p.m., at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. $5 donation for lunch; students free. middlebury.edu

Three of Middlebury College Museum of Art’s newly aquired Warhol screenprints (from top): “Queen Ntombi,” “Sitting Bull,” “Mao”

‘Wild Nature: Masterworks from the Adirondack Museum’: Sixty-two paintings, photographs and prints from the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum, dating from 1821 to 2001, including work by Hudson River School masters. January 18-April 19. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. art events

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I’m so glad you asked. He did have a quote that specified 15 minutes of fame, but he had an earlier quote: “There’s going to be a day when no one will be famous for more than a week. Then everyone will have a chance to be famous.” It focuses on egalitarianism, which I think is a thread throughout Warhol’s work.

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Warhol’s comment “Everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” has been overused and misquoted. What do you think he actually meant by it?

I wish he’d been a little nicer to people. People often felt let down by his interpersonal relationships.

When you admire someone, you want to see them be better.

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I’ve seen dozens — enough to get a taste for them. There are interesting angles — one goes back to cultural reproduction.

Warhol tests his own ability to make a movie, but also the subject’s ability to be a star. They’re also interesting as a form of social interaction. Warhol was shy, soft-spoken; he didn’t interact easily. Some say he used technology as a baffle.

f ‘Play’: National and regional artists display work in various mediums inspired by “play.” Also, an ongoing collaborative art project by hundreds of local elementary school students. Reception: Friday, January 16, 6 p.m. January 16-April 12. W. David Powell & Peter Thomashow: Mixed-media collages and sculptures by the Vermont artists.

January 16-February 22. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

Please fill in the blank: Never mind the fact that Warhol produced a staggering amount of work. I wish he had done more ____ .

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Warhol made 500 fourminute films called “Screen Tests,” mainly of his friends and visitors to the Factory [his studio].

How many have you seen, and what do you think Warhol was trying to do or say with them?

f Marieluise Hutchinson: New landscape paintings by the regional artist. Reception: Saturday, January 17, 5-7 p.m. January 17-March 31.

Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

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Cameron visiting arChiteCt: DaviD sellers: A talk by the pioneer of Vermont’s design/build movement and one of the founders of the famed Prickly Mountain community in the Mad River Valley.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Wednesday, January 21, 7-8 p.m. Info, 443-3168.

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‘Draw & sip’: Novice and seasoned artists are invited to discover and develop their drawing potential in this relaxed drawing workshop with illustrator Evan Chismark. Supplies and a complimentary drink are included. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Wednesday, January 21, 6:30-9 p.m. $35-40. Info, 253-8358.

Our feet often carry us miles a day, and every step can hurt if you suffer from an ingrown or excessively curved toenail.

There is relief that doesn’t include an invasive trip to the podiatrist for removal of the problem nail.

Drink & Draw: Burlesque: This figure-drawing session with an edge features a live burlesque model and a complimentary drink. All experience levels welcome. Bring drawing pad and tools of your choice. ArtsRiot, Burlington, Wednesday, January 21, 6-8 p.m. $20-24; $18 for ONE Arts members.

Info, 540-0406.

It’s called the B/S-Brace, a thin strip of plastic and fiberglass which when adhered to the nail gently and continuously lifts the ingrown area from the nail bed. The effect is instant relief! The tension of the brace lasts several weeks, so as the nail grow out it is flatter and straighter, resulting in gradual and permanent correction of the nail curvature.

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Application is quick and the brace is clear and inconspicuous. It is available for men and women, and clients can have polish applied over the brace if desired. A thorough pedicure prior to application is usually required and the total number of brace applications over time depends upon the severity of the nail curvature.

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‘animal power’: Paintings of horse-powered transportation and agriculture in Vermont by multiple artists. Through February 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. ann Clayton Barlow: “Alternative Landscapes,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through February 14. Info, 923-3088. Hinge in Burlington.

f ann young: “And They Shall Inherit,” two groups of paintings, subtitled “In a Dangerous Time” and “Microcosm,” express the artist’s views of the “mess” left by previous generations, and the joys in the natural world that still exist, respectively.

Reception: Thursday, January 15, 5:30 p.m. Through February 6. Info, 656-7787. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington.

BCa loCal sale 2014: Affordable artwork in a variety of mediums by Vermont artists. Through January 24. Info, 865-5355. peter heller: Fantastical abstract paintings by the noteworthy Morrisville painter, who passed away in 2002. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington.

Charles lysogorski: Paintings, prints and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through January 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

‘Civil war oBjeCts From the uvm ColleCtions’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art, and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington.

Dj Barry: “Project Stencil,” graffiti-inspired paintings by the local artist. Through January 31. Info, 660-9346. Radio Bean Coffeehouse in Burlington. innovation Center group show: Works by Ashley Veselis, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Kathryn Jarvis, Longina Smolinski, Lori Arner, Robert Green, and Scott Nelson on the first floor; Jean Cherouny, Jeanne Amato, Laurel Waters, Lyna Lou Nordstrom, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin on the second floor; and Camilla Roberts, Chance McNiff, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy James on the third floor. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28.

Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

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knitting meeting: Beginners and experienced knitters are welcome at this inaugural meeting of a knitting club. Le Studio de Georgeville, Québec, Wednesday, January 21, 4-6 p.m. Info, 819-868-1967.

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August Burns One of the area’s most accomplished portraitists, August

Burns aims to capture “that tiny nuance that makes each person unique,” she writes. The Middlesex artist travels the world, delivering babies and caring for women from Vermont to Bolivia to Tanzania. “With such broad exposure to humanity, the artist in Burns has always wanted to find each person through the creation of a portrait, sharing their varied stories with each individual gaze,” writes state curator David Schutz in a statement for her show at the Vermont Supreme Court Lobby. No surprise, then, that Burns’ artistic process is driven by life drawing and interviews with her subjects. The results are startlingly intimate portraits that zero in on “that slight line or shadow that creates the recognizable image, that allows the individual to shine through,” as Burns puts it. An exhibit titled “The Eyes Have It: Portraits and Figures” is on view through March 31, with a reception on Thursday, January 15, 5-7 p.m. Pictured: “Who Does She Think She Is, Anyway?” inty muenala: “Mishky Way, Vía Dulce, Sweet Path,” an exhibit of new contemporary paintings that reflect traditional values of the Kichwa (Quechua) people of the Ecuadorian Andes, which the artist also finds in Vermont culture. Through January 31. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. james vogler & Carolyn Crotty: Abstract paintings by Vogler and mixed-media by Crotty.

Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington. leah van rees: Paintings inspired by the natural world. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through February 28. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor. linDa smith: Storybook-style paintings by the former elementary-school teacher. Curated by

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Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.

f lyna lou norDstrom: Painterly monoprints by the Vermont artist. Reception: Wednesday, January 14, 4-6 p.m. Through January 31. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington. lynne reeD: “EdgeWalker Paintings,” an exhibit of Japanese Enso-inspired paintings by the Burlington artist. Through March 6. Info, 233-6811.

Revolution Kitchen in Burlington. maltex group show: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

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NANCY TOMCZAK: Watercolor paintings of birds and watercolor collages in the dining room.

Through February 28. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

‘OUR FAVORITE THINGS’: Plein-air watercolor paintings by friends Sally Hughes and Carol Shallow. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m.

Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

‘PREOCCUPIED’: Ornate, detailed artwork in various mediums by Adrienne Ginter, Wylie Garcia, Xavier Donnelly and Dianne Shullenberger. Through January 24. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

‘SEABA FOLIO 2003 PROJECT’: Original prints by 22 of Vermont’s finest artists. Through February 28.

Info, 859-9222. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington.

SUSAN NORTON: “We Are Love, Eternal,” works in paper and fabric. Through February 6. Info, 860-9463. Drink in Burlington.

UVM MEDICAL CENTER GROUP SHOW: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington.

VERMONT ARTISANS: Frame shop owners Alex and Jeremy Dostie have been collecting artwork since opening in 2011. A selection of those pieces is on view, featuring some 20 Vermont artists.

Through March 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros.

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‘WE ARE THE SOUTH END’: A group exhibit by local artists and business owners, celebrating the creative vitality of the neighborhood. Through January 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

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MICHELLE ENNIS JACKSON: Watercolor paintings of nature and the changing seasons by the Essex Junction artist. Through February 28. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

‘NATURAL BEAUTIES: JEWELRY FROM ART NOUVEAU TO NOW’: Nearly 300 works from the likes of Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston, Cartier and others illustrate the fascination with nature, and our evolving relationship to it, in jewelry design.

Through March 8. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

‘NINE ARTISTS: MARY REED & STUDENTS’: A collection of oil paintings by Milton Artists Guild instructor Mary Reed and her students. Through January 31. Info, 862-5724. LCATV in Colchester.

‘REVERENCE AND RISK: SURVEYING THE PAST AND MAPPING A FUTURE’: Paintings of the gritty side of Vermont by the late Northeast Kingdom artist Robert Klein, plus works by 18 other artists.

Through January 31. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘VISIONS OF THE SEASONS’: New paintings by Carolyn Walton; pastels by Athenia Schinto; jewelry by Tineke Russell; landscapes by Betty Ball, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette. Through January 31. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

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Vermont Pride Theater at Chandler presents “M or F?”, a staged reading based on the book by Chris Tebbetts and Lisa Papademetriou and adapted by Gene Heinrich.

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MARTIN BOCK: “Healing Art,” sculptures and paintings of shamanic objects by the Burlington author and artist. Through January 31. Info, 865-7211.

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Daniel Barlow & Scott Baer: “Green Mountain Graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in Vermont. Through April 1. Info, 479-8519.

Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

f Nick Neddo: Drawings by the Montpelier

artist, who creates his own mediums with foraged berries, mud and sticks. Reception: Friday, January 23, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

Shamus McCaffrey Langlois: “Liminality: Totems and Lovers, Clowns and Villains,” recent sculptures, paintings and drawings by the gallery cofounder that interpret and explore the transitional spaces or boundaries between experience, desire and transformation. Through January 23.

Info, 552-8620. Gallery SIX in Montpelier.

Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas: Hand-painted scrolls. Through January 30. Info, 223-1431. Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier.

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Judith Wrend & Paul Gruhler: “Harmonics,” painted-aluminum sculptures and minimalist paintings, respectively. Through February 14. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

‘Through Our Lens’: Photographs by young adults participating in the Big Picture Project.

Maria Anghelache: “Tropical Abstract/ Abstractions,” colorful paintings by the Romanianborn Vermont artist. Through March 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

f ‘Menagerie: Animals in Art’: Paintings and

sculptures by 11 artists depict an array of domestic and wild creatures. Reception: Saturday, February 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 253-8943.

West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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Ben Frank Moss & Varujan Boghosian: “Collage, Drawing, Painting,” works by the abstract and collage artists. Through February 14. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Bonnie Barnes: “Blanc et Noir,” new photography inspired by rural life and frontiers by the Waitsfield artist. Through February 28. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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Caleb Kenna: “Elemental Vermont,” photographs in the natural world by the Brandon artist. Through April 1. Info, 388-3300. American Flatbread (Middlebury Hearth).

Fall-Term Studio Art Exhibition: Students exhibit work produced during the fall semester, including drawings, photography, paintings and sculptures. Through January 20. Info, 443-3168.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

Joe Bolger: Plein-air impressionist landscapes by the Shoreham artist. Through February 28. Info, 388-1436. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘Recent Gifts From the Andy Warhol Foundation’: Ten vivid prints by the late pop artist including portraits of Chairman Mao, Goethe, Sitting Bull, Ingrid Bergman and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland. Through April 19. Info, 443-3168.

Middlebury College Museum of Art.

Bonnie Barnes Bonnie Barnes’ love of photography has inspired her travels to far-flung locales such as Yellowstone

National Park, the Galápagos Islands, Jordan and Africa. “Rural places, remote places and big skies speak to her,” writes Whitney Aldrich, owner of Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, where a new collection of Barnes’ photographs is currently displayed. “Frontiers call her to attention. In her extensive travels with her camera, Bonnie’s wish is to find these places, memorize them and remember them.”

Closer to home, the Waitsfield artist — whose former career was in psychology — is fond of photographing Vermont horses at play; her portraiture, too, is evocative. The exhibit, titled “Blanc et Noir,” is on view through February 28. Pictured: “Friends: Vermont.”

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Bill Ramage: An 11.5-by-43-foot photo illustration of downtown Rutland by the local artist and Castleton professor is on view by appointment.

Through February 28. Info, 468-6052. 104 Merchants Row in Rutland.

f Richard Weis: “Artifact: Fifty Years in Art,”

a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. Castleton Downtown Gallery and Chaffee Downtown Gallery in Rutland, January 14-February 14, and Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, January 12-February 13. Reception: Friday, January 16, 5-7 p.m., at the two Rutland venues.

f Richard Weis: Christine Price Gallery: “ArtIfact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. This exhibit is also on display at the Castleton Downtown and Chaffee Downtown galleries.

Reception: Thursday, January 22, 12:30-2 p.m.

Through February 13. Info, 468-6052. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College.

‘Frederick Douglass’: Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass escaped to New York City in 1838 and became a champion of civil rights. This exhibit explores his early life through images, broadsides and letters.

Saturdays and Sundays through January 31. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

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Jo Levasseur: Landscapes in chalk pastel, colored pencil, acrylic and pencil by the local artist. Through January 31. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

Jan Brosky, Elizabeth Martin & Rebecca Wright: The month’s featured artists exhibit fiber works, pottery and mixed media, respectively.

Through January 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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‘Fibrations!’: Fiber creations by more than a dozen renowned New England artists. Through March 30. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.

Jeanette Fournier: Artwork inspired by wildlife and nature. Through March 31. Info, 359-5001. VINS Nature Center in Hartford.

‘Kunstkamera: The Tricentennial Anniversary of the Peter the Great Museum’: Artworks and artifacts in a variety of media that celebrate the great Russian institution.

Through January 31. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

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call to artists 2nd annual art’s alive open photography exhibit: Vermont photographers may present one to three photographs, ready to hang, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, for exhibition until March 29. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station, Burlington. Info, 660-9005. call to artists for new gallery at burlington beer: Looking for interesting perspectives and funny, thoughtful, unusual takes on the theme of love for our February show, which will introduce the new Steel Frame Gallery at Burlington Beer!

Send three to five images of work, along with info for each piece (title, medium, price, year made), and artist bio to oneartscollective@ gmail.com by January 20 for consideration. $25 hanging fee per artist. Burlington Beer Company, Williston. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. ‘colchester rides!’ art bicycle racks: The Colchester Parks & Recreation Advisory Board seeks designs for permanent, artist-designed outdoor bicycle racks to be located throughout Colchester.

Submissions open to Vermont residents only and will be displayed and voted upon at the Winter Carnival, February 6 and 7. Winners announced March 6; rack installation by July 1. Info, colchestervt.gov or 264-5640.

Deadline: January 16. Various Colchester locations.

compass artists’ show: Sell unwanted art materials or older, unsold work at the Artists’ Sale on Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This is not a sale for full-priced, gallery-ready pieces. $25 per space ($30 if renting a table).

No commission is taken.

Registration forms and more info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: March 5. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295. compass crafters’ show: Compass is holding a Crafters’ Sale on Saturday, January 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This is not a sale for full-priced, gallery-ready pieces, but a chance to offer older, unsold work. Supplies such as used equipment, unopened kits, leftover/ surplus yarns or fabrics can also be sold. $25 per space ($30 if renting a table).

Registration forms and more info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: January 29. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295. the daily planet seeks artwork: We are looking for local Vermont artists to hang work in our dining rooms for our March/April show. We are open to all mediums and look forward to seeing your submissions! Please email us at art@dailyplanet15.com with samples of your work. The Daily Planet, Burlington. Info, 862-9647. ‘lines: a photo exhibition’: Lines can be found in all photographs, formed by natural or artificial elements.

The effect they have on an image varies depending upon the orientation and

direction. We’re calling for images that utilize lines in innovative and dynamic ways. $24 for four images, $5 per each additional. More info at darkroomgallery.com/index. php/ex66. Deadline: January 21. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. marble house project residency program: The Quarry at Marble House Project, which runs May through September, reserves five residencies each year for Vermont artists. Open to visual artists, writers, musicians/composers, dancers/choreographers and other performers. $25 entry.

Details for application process at marblehouseproject. org. Deadline: February 1.

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vermont artists week: Spend Vermont Arts Week, April 27 to May 4, in a special weeklong intensive residency program that includes private room and studio space, and three meals a day. Info, vsc. slideroom.com. Deadline: January 31. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. $200. Info, 635-2727.

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harry bernard, gail smuda & sumner winebaum: Paintings and sculptures by the local artists. Through February 6. Info, 603-448-3117.

AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

trps members’ show: A selection of prints in several techniques and styles by resident artists.

Through January 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

larry poole, peter shrope & denise duprey: Intaglio prints by Poole and ceramic works by Shrope in the Main Gallery; photography by Duprey in the Community Gallery. Through February 6. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

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f james frase-white: “Flights of Fancy,” stained glass and paper art inspired by nature and fantasy. Reception: Saturday, February 7, 3-5 p.m.

Through February 28. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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allan houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3D work from 1986-1992. Through May 11. Info, 603-635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

‘stone palette’: Thirty-one lithograph prints from 19th-century France. Through March 15. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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‘van gogh to kandinsky: impressionism to expressionism, 1900-1914’: More than 100 paintings and an equal number of drawings and prints, augmented with photograph and media of the time, reveal the crosscurrents of modern art at the turn of the 20th century in France and Germany. Through January 25. ‘warhol mania’: Fifty posters and a selection of magazine illustrations by Andy Warhol offer a brand-new look at his commercial-art background. Through March 15. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m

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kent shaw: Photographs of the northern Vermont landscape. Through February 23. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

le studio georgeville christmas sale & show: A wide array of arts and crafts by more than two dozen area artists. Through February 1. Info, 819-868-1967. Le Studio de Georgeville, Québec.

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Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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is the season for critics to pick apart award contenders “based on a true story” and point out places where their creators bent the truth or left it out altogether. You’ve read the rumblings, for example, about how The Imitation Game gave short shrift to Alan Turing’s tragic last years, and witnessed the huffing and puffing in high places about whether LBJ was portrayed with historical accuracy in Selma.

Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper — the 34th film he’s directed — is going into wide release just this weekend, so you probably haven’t read rumblings of that sort about it.

But you will. It’s based on the 2012 memoir

by Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who served four tours in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, racked up 160 confirmed kills, and earned the title of most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

Bradley Cooper grew a beard and packed on 30 pounds to play the Texan. All but unrecognizable, the actor extends his streak as the Last Member of the Wedding Crashers Cast Anyone Would’ve Expected to Achieve Awesomeness But Did and Then Some. He

gives a quietly powerful performance that I’m shocked to see hasn’t registered on the award-season radar.

Except for Kyle’s mostly brief, fidgety stateside interludes in the company of his increasingly concerned bride (Sienna Miller), the story unfolds in Fallujah and Ramadi.

There Kyle becomes known as "the Legend" for his ability to give fellow soldiers cover from a rooftop.

To say the movie works as a companion piece to 2008’s The Hurt Locker is an understatement. American Sniper bristles with the same electricity and is set in similar locations. Both films are told from the vantage point of a specialist who finds himself in a place where he doesn’t belong — yet feels, more than at any other time in his life, that he’s precisely where he belongs.

Eastwood stages the scenes of confrontation masterfully. War movies told from the viewpoint of a sniper are rare, and the director, now 84, takes full advantage of the unique perspective. On one level — as in the opening scene, in which a mother and child are tracked by Kyle’s crosshairs — this is a

BULLET PROOF Anyone doubting the Hangover star’s dramatic chops is certain to be convinced by his powerful portrayal of real-life SEAL sharp-shooter Chris Kyle.

white-knuckle, edge-of-your-seat action film. On a second, more contemplative level, it’s an exceptionally perceptive character study.

Unlike The Hurt Locker’s Sgt. William James, Kyle doesn’t keep coming back because of an addiction to the rush of war. His problem is that he goes into withdrawal the minute his rifle and scope are taken away, because he feels the power to keep his brothers safe has disappeared with them. When he was a boy, his father told him that there are three kinds of people — sheep, wolves and sheep dogs — and that he was born to be the third.

That obligation haunts Kyle from his return home until the day fate does him a favor by leading him to a veterans’ hospital. When he realizes that such places are filled with

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AMERICAN DREAM DuVernay’s drama puts MLK in the context of the ordinary heroes who helped realize his vision.

King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his cohorts in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Selma captures those befores, with an emphasis on the human element. When DuVernay and screenwriter Paul Webb stage the notorious 1963 Birmingham church bombing, they show us the young victims engaged in lively girl talk seconds before their deaths, emphasizing both their vitality and the utter unexpectedness of a terrorist attack.

Martyrdom, Selma reminds us, is rarely a choice. Not even for King, who knew all too well that his activism could have tragic personal consequences. The film depicts King and his wife (Carmen Ejogo) struggling with that awareness in several powerfully

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At their best, though, historical dramas preserve the ragged volatility of life lived moment by moment, finding ways to fool us — even briefly — into forgetting we know what we know. Spielberg’s Lincoln reminded us that the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment was anything but a foregone conclusion to those who made it happen.

Now director Ava DuVernay (Sundancehonored Middle of Nowhere) brings to life a more recent pivotal moment in American civil-rights history — the 1965 campaign for voting rights in Selma, Ala. And she demonstrates that she, too, knows how to make us forget the conclusion and focus on the conflict.

We’ve all seen footage of the Selma marches presented in elegiac or reverential ways. But before the state troopers started beating unarmed marchers on Bloody Sunday, before cameras shot the footage that would be seen around the world, there were moments of fraught waiting, of terror, of uncertainty. And before that, there were tense months of strategizing by Martin Luther

broken brothers who also need his help, he finds a new mission.

So, about the rumblings coming soon: You’ll be hearing that Kyle’s insurgent counterpart, a Syrian-born sharpshooter called Mustafa (Sammy Sheik), was invented by screenwriter Jason Hall. That Kyle didn’t really enlist after watching the Towers fall on 9/11, as the film suggests. And that his book contains batshit fabrications about being hired by Blackwater to snipe at looters after Katrina, getting into a bar fight with Jesse Ventura and other nonsense.

The important thing is what you won’t hear — namely, a single word suggesting that Chris Kyle was anything less than an American hero.

acted scenes. It acknowledges that “drama” is a powerful activist weapon, and drama can entail the provocation of violence. (We see King explaining to younger activists that the efficacy of the Selma campaign will depend on the brutality of the town’s sheriff.) Even nonviolent resistance, then, is no complacent enterprise. Oyelowo captures King’s preacherly cadences, but also the moments of doubt in which he wonders if certain successes are too dearly bought.

Most importantly, though, Selma reminds us where the violence started — with the insidious, everyday practice of denying African Americans their legal right to vote. Historians may debate whether Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) gets enough credit in the

film, but only a fool would take him for its villain. While LBJ comes across as a political animal juggling ideals and practicalities, and George Wallace (Tim Roth) as a whiny bigot, the real bad guy is the court clerk who blandly ensures that Annie Lee Cooper (Oprah Winfrey) can’t participate in her nation’s democracy. In other words, it’s not a person, but a system made of people who shrug and don’t challenge policies that favor them.

At a key moment toward the film’s end, DuVernay switches from her re-creation of the third march to actual historical footage.

In too many Oscar-season movies, such a shift underlines the phoniness of the dramatization we’ve been watching. In Selma, showing the real marchers has a different effect: It reminds us where we stand in relation to them, in the “future.” It reminds us of the systematic assumptions that underlie our own lives, and the systematic injustices we may have fought, suffered or helped perpetrate.

Even before the final credits roll, scored to a song (John Legend and Common’s “Glory”) that references the Ferguson protests, the movie doesn’t allow us to dismiss the past as past. It reminds us that we all live with the legacy of King’s choices — and LBJ’s, and Wallace’s, and the anonymous marchers’ and countermarchers’ — right now.

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FoXcAtcHeR: Eccentric multimillionaire John E. du Pont (Steve carell) hires two wrestler brothers (channing tatum and Mark Ruffalo) to coach a winning Olympic team in his mansion in this fact-based drama from director bennett Miller (Capote). (129 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

tHe imitAtioN gAmeHHH1/2 This biopic chronicles the world war II decoding efforts of british mathematician alan turing (benedict cumberbatch) and his struggles with social norms. with Keira Knightley and Matthew goode. Morten tyldum (Headhunters) directed. (114 min, Pg-13)

pADDiNgtoN: Michael bond’s classic children’s books come to the screen in this family flick about an anglophile Peruvian bear who seeks a new home in london. with the voices of ben whishaw, hugh bonneville and Sally hawkins. Paul King directed. (95 min, Pg. bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, welden)

iNHeReNt viceHHHH Paul Thomas anderson (The Master) directed this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel about a dope-addled private eye (Joaquin Phoenix) trying to find his ex-girlfriend in 1970 la. with Josh brolin, Owen wilson and Joanna newsom. (148 min, R)

tHe WeDDiNg RiNgeR: Shy Josh gad hires not-so-shy Kevin hart to be the best man at his upcoming wedding in this comedy from first-time feature director Jeremy garelick. with Kaley cuoco-Sweeting. (101 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount)

now playing ANNieH1/2 Quvenzhané wallis plays the irrepressible foster child who holds out for “tomorrow” in this new take on the family musical, set in the present, from director will gluck (Easy A). cameron diaz, Jamie foxx and Rose byrne also star. (118 min, Pg)

BiRDmAN oR (tHe uNeXpecteD viRtue oF igNoRANce)HHHHH Michael Keaton plays an actor who once headlined blockbusters and is now struggling to make a theatrical comeback, in this art-mirrors-life drama from director alejandro gonzález Iñárritu (Babel). with Zach galifianakis, Edward norton and Emma Stone. (119 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/12)

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tAkeN 3H1/2 liam neeson returns once again as the guy with the “particular set of skills.” This time around, he has to use them to beat an unjust murder rap. and we’re guessing his daughter (Maggie grace) hasn’t figured out how to save herself yet. Olivier Megaton (Taken 2) directed.

(109 min, Pg-13) tHe tAle oF tHe pRiNcess kAguYAHHHH1/2 The latest animation from Japan’s Studio ghibli is based on a folktale about a girl found inside a bamboo reed who finds herself celebrated as a princess. with the voices of chloë grace Moretz, James caan and Mary Steenburgen. Isao takahata directed. (137 min, Pg) tHe tHeoRY oF eveRYtHiNgHHHH1/2 Eddie Redmayne and felicity Jones play physicist Stephen hawking and his wife, Jane, in this adaptation of the latter’s memoir of their marriage.

James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. (123 min, Pg-13) uNBRokeNHHH angelina Jolie directed this adaptation of laura hillenbrand’s bestseller about Olympian louis Zamperini (Jack O’connell) and his hellish travails in a Japanese prison camp during world war II. with domhnall gleeson and Jai courtney. (137 min, Pg-13)

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selmAHHHH1/2 david Oyelowo plays Martin luther King Jr. in this account of the groundbreaking 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, ala. with Oprah winfrey, tom wilkinson, tim Roth and carmen Ejogo. ava duVernay (Middle of Nowhere) directed. (127 min, Pg-13)

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NigHt At tHe museum: secRet oF tHe tomBHH1/2 ben Stiller explores the nighttime shenanigans of the british Museum in the third installment of the family fantasy-comedy franchise, featuring Robin williams’ final screen performance. Shawn levy (This Is Where I Leave You) directed. (97 min, Pg)

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tHe gAmBleRHHH In this remake of the 1974 drama, Mark wahlberg plays an English professor who racks up dangerous debts by indulging a second passion in his off-hours. with brie larson and Jessica lange. Rupert wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) directed. (111 min, R)

iNto tHe WooDsHHH1/2 Rob Marshall (Chicago) directed this film version of Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical take on the fairy tales of the brothers grimm. with anna Kendrick as cinderella, Meryl Streep as the witch, chris Pine, Johnny depp, Emily blunt and many more. (124 min, Pg)

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Big eYesHH iN tim BuRtoN’s Biopic, christoph waltz plays walter Keane, who built a midcentury art empire on images of creepy-eyed waifs, and amy adams plays his wife, Margaret, who actually painted them. (106 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 1/7)

tHe iNteRvieWHHH Seth Rogen and James franco play tabloid tV personalities who find themselves recruited for an assassination attempt on north Korea’s Kim Jong-un in this comedy directed by Rogen and Evan goldberg. (112 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 1/7)

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BlAckHAt: a jailed hacker (chris hemsworth) is recruited by an international task force to take down a cyberterrorist in this thriller from action auteur Michael Mann (Public Enemies). with Viola davis and wei tang. (135 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

tHe HuNgeR gAmes: mockiNgJAY, pARt 1HHH1/2 Rebellion against the regime breaks out into the open, with Katniss (Jennifer lawrence) as its symbol, in the first half of the last installment of the film adaptation of Suzanne collins’ ya saga. francis lawrence returns as director. (123 min, Pg-13)

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AmeRicAN sNipeRHHHH bradley cooper plays renowned navy SEal sniper chris Kyle, during and after his tours in Iraq, in this drama from director clint Eastwood. with Sienna Miller and Kyle gallner. (132 min, R. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, welden; reviewed by R.K. 1/14)

tHe HoBBit: tHe BAttle oF tHe Five ARmiesHHH bilbo and his companions go to war to stop the dragon Smaug from destroying Middle-earth in (we think) the last installment in this tolkien-based series. with Martin freeman, Ian McKellen and benedict cumberbatch. Peter Jackson directed. (144 min, Pg-13)

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Annie Big Hero 6 The Gambler The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in 3D The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 The Imitation Game Into the Woods Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Penguins of Madagascar Selma Taken 3 Unbroken

Big Eyes Birdman The Imitation Game Inherent Vice Selma The Theory of Everything Wild friday 16 — thursday 22 *American Sniper Big Eyes Birdman *Foxcatcher The Imitation Game Inherent Vice Selma Wild

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WilDHH Reese Witherspoon plays a young woman who embarks on a 1,100-mile solo trek to exorcise the demons of her past in this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir. With Laura Dern and Gaby Hoffmann. Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) directed. (115 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 12/17) tHe WomAN iN BlAcK 2: ANGel oF DeAtHHH This sequel to the 2012 chiller about a Victorian town in England haunted by a dark specter brings the action into World War II. With Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine and Phoebe Fox. Tom Harper directed. (98 min, PG-13)

new on video GoNe GiRlHHHH David Fincher (The Social Network) directed this psychological thriller about a golden boy (Ben Affleck) who becomes a suspect after his wife vanishes. (149 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/8)

love is stRANGeHHHH A long-time couple (Alfred Molina and John Lithgow) finally tie the knot, only to experience repercussions that lead to losing their New York apartment, in this indie drama from Ira Sachs. (98 min, R) meN, WomeN & cHilDReNH1/2 Jason Reitman (Labor Day) directed this ensemble drama about a group of high school kids and their parents whose lives are all touched, for better or worse, by the internet. (119 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/22) tHe tWo FAces oF JANUARYHHH1/2 A con artist preys on tourists in Athens in this period thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac.

(97 min, PG-13) A WAlK AmoNG tHe tomBstoNesHHH Liam Neeson plays an ex-cop-turned-PI who agrees to find a drug dealer’s kidnapped wife in this adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel. With Dan Stevens and Boyd Holbrook. (113 min, R)

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Did you miss: beyond the hills Remember 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, less formally known as “That Movie About the Horrors of Trying to Obtain an Abortion in Communist Romania”? The tense drama from director Cristian Mungiu played at the Palace 9 in 2008 and earned a rave from Seven Days critic Rick Kisonak.

I recently caught up with Beyond the Hills on Netflix. Normally I don’t notice (or give) Netflix star ratings, because I hate star ratings with a passion…

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Fugitive Jacob Moore, 25, tried to divert police attention from his home, where officers were preparing to execute a warrant, by calling in a bomb threat to an elementary school in Hayden, Idaho.

Moore forgot to turn off his caller ID, however, allowing authorities to trace the call to his phone and confirm that he was at home. They arrested him and added making a false bomb threat to the original felony charge against him. (SpokaneCouer d’Alene’s KXLY-TV) Sheriff’s deputies who placed burglary suspects Daniel Gargiulo, 39, and Michael Rochefort, 38, in the back seat of a patrol car in West Boynton, Fla., confirmed their guilt when a camera pointed at them in plain view recorded their conversation about the stolen goods and concocting an alibi. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Slightest Provocation

Cornelius Jefferson, 33, moved from Georgia to Kentucky to be with a woman he met online but wound up assaulting her, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office reported, because he “didn’t think she was like she was on the internet.” Deputy Gilbert Acciardo Jr. didn’t say how the woman failed to match her online persona, only that Jefferson choked her, threw food on her and then left with his suitcases. (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Clarifications of the Week

After Gail McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, repeatedly declared that 91 cents of every $1 donated goes toward disaster relief efforts, the organization abruptly removed the claim from its website. “The language used has not been as clear as it could have been,” the Red Cross announced, “and we are clarifying the language.” The subsequent official clarification was that 91 cents of every $1 the Red Cross spends goes for disaster relief. (NPR)

New and Improved

New York officials selected a consortium of advertising, technology and telecom companies to install thousands of pay phones throughout the city. The new versions will offer 24-hour free Wi-Fi connections; touchscreen displays with direct access to city services, maps and directions; and charging stations for cellphones and other mobile devices. Sophisticated digital advertising is expected to fund the system, to the tune of $500 million over the next 12 years, providers said. The city expects additional revenue to come from auctioning off some of the 6,500 old-style pay phones that the 10,000 new machines will replace. (Washington Post)

Marcos Ortega struck a pedestrian in Ocean County, N.J.,

and then drove about a mile with the victim stuck in his windshield.

A witness in the London trial of African preacher Gilbert Deya testified for more than an hour before anyone realized the Sierra Leone native wasn’t speaking English. During the 38-yearold woman’s testimony, lawyers blamed the courtroom’s poor acoustics for their inability to understand her, and repeatedly told her to speak more slowly and stand back from the microphone. Finally, court clerk Christiana Kyemenu-Caiquo, also from Sierra Leone, informed Judge Nicholas Madge that the witness was speaking a native Creole dialect. Kyemenu-Caiquo was sworn in to translate the testimony, which consisted of “I can’t remember” to every question. (London Evening Standard)

Drinking-Class Heroes

Police arrested Richard Curzon, 57,

in Omaha, Neb., after observing him straddling the centerline while driving with four flat tires and a deployed airbag.

An officer tried to stop Curzon, but he refused to pull over and led the officer on a brief, low-speed chase. Blood-alcohol level: .253. (Omaha World-Herald) Vermont State Police said Dwayne Fenlason, 48, was drunk when he drove his pickup off the road in Pomfret and

when he went home and got a second truck to pull out the first truck but drove the second truck off the road. He went home again and got his all-terrain vehicle to pull out both trucks but this time was arrested for drunk driving. Blood-alcohol level: .30 (Burlington’s WCAX-TV) Authorities arrested a 39-year-old woman for drunken driving in Paw Paw (“located in the heart of Michigan’s wine country,” the village website proclaims) after she pulled into the parking lot of the Van Buren County Jail and told the sheriff’s deputy who confronted her that she believed it was a bar. Blood-alcohol level: .17 (Kalamazoo Gazette) Responding to a complaint that a man was shooting a gun at a can in the street in Blair Township, Mich., while he was “wearing camo pants and a clown mask and at one point was playing a trombone,” sheriff’s deputies found the 54-year-old man aiming at surrounding houses, determined he was drunk and arrested him. (Michigan’s MLive.com)

When Windshield Wipers Aren’t Enough

Authorities said Marcos Ortega, 33, struck a 66-year-old pedestrian in Ocean County, N.J., and then drove about a mile with the victim stuck in his windshield until an officer pulled him over. (Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV)

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Most plants move upward as they grow. Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind or are carried away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant’s approach to fertility might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use. It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you’re incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don’t expose them to scrutiny or criticism.

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(April 20-May 20): What does your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain drink or drug?

gemini (May 21-June 20): In 1987, California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the u.s. fish and Wildlife service launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now, Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different resource that is becoming scarce in your world. Act with urgency, but also be prepared to practice patience. canceR (June 21-July 22): Daniel Webster

(1782-1852) was an American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be president of the united states, but his political party never nominated him to run for that office. Here’s the twist in his fate: two different candidates who were ultimately elected president asked him to be their vice president, but he declined, dismissing the job as unimportant. both those presidents, Harrison and taylor, died after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their vice president, he would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster’s.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): In one of his poems, rumi writes about being alone with a wise elder. “Please,” he says to the sage, “do not hold back from telling me any secrets about this universe.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just those you regard as wise. you’re in a phase

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Libran engineer robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist. His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the foundations for space flight. Decades before the soviet union launched sputnik, he and his American team began shooting rockets aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with his unusual ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, the New York Times sneered that he was deficient in “the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools.” forty-nine years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. sometime soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized. scoRPio

(oct. 23-nov. 21): In the plot of the tV science-fiction show “Ascension,” the u.s. government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment for 50 years.

An outside investigator named samantha Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the truth to the public. “We’re going full snowden,” she tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. she’s invoking the name of edward snowden, the renegade computer administrator who, in the real world, leaked classified information that the u.s. government wanted to keep hidden. It might be time for you to go at least mini-snowden yourself, scorpio — not by spilling state secrets, but

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1939, author ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter “e” didn’t appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and self-control, sagittarius. but devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting task, please. for example, you could excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts. aQuaRius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): In his poem

“The Garden,” Jack Gilbert says, “We are like Marco Polo who came back/ with jewels hidden in the seams of his ragged clothes.”

Isn’t that true about you right now, Aquarius?

If I were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I’d highlight the contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches.

I’d also borrow another fragment from Gilbert’s poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: “a sweet sadness, a tough happiness.” so what comes next for you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. take a break to integrate the intensity you’ve weathered. And retrieve the jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.

Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): “All the colors I

am inside have not been invented yet,” wrote shel silverstein, in his children’s book Where the Sidewalk Ends. It’s especially important for you to focus on that truth in the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. first, it’s imperative that you identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no one else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don’t start making it more conscious, it may start to wither away. second, you need to learn how to express that unique aspect with such clarity and steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore it.

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stimulating social interaction with people you like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The english poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed more than anything else was inspiration — the “sweet fire,” he called it, “the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame.” so the experience his soul craved didn’t come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, taurus? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual of its special nourishment.

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