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LOOKING FORWARD
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NEWS 14
Queen of the City? Jane Knodell Poised to Become Burlington City Council Prez
BY ALICIA FREESE
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Lucrative Lesson: Vermont Schools Look to Recruit More International Students BY MOLLY WALSH
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VIDEO SERIES
FEATURES 32
ARTS NEWS 26
A Singer’s Series Brings Rarely Heard Songs to Town
BY MARK DAVIS
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BY AMY LILLY
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Vermont’s Cartoonist Laureate Ed Koren Has a Suitably ‘New Yorker’ Exhibit Poet Daniel Lusk Recollects His Past Through Girls BY RICK KISONAK
Capital Cinema
Film: The 18th Green Mountain Film Festival boasts a new director and an international slate BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Room at the Inn … for Art
Design: Burlington’s new Hilton Garden Inn puts local creativity on display
BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Threats, Lawsuits and Dead Animals
Vermont: An ongoing feud in Victory illustrates the dark side of small-town life
BY MOLLY WALSH
State of the Unions: Shumlin Strikes Out With Organized Labor BY TERRI HALLENBECK
Timely Mail, Sunday Packages: Can Burlington’s Acting Postmaster Deliver?
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BY PAMELA POLSTON
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Trouble in Paradise
Theater: Slowgirl, Vermont Stage Company
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FUN STUFF
Fair Game POLITICS Drawn & Paneled ART Hackie CULTURE Side Dishes FOOD Soundbites MUSIC Album Reviews Art Review Movie Reviews Ask Athena SEX
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CLASSIFIEDS
The Magnificent 7 Life Lines Calendar Classes Music Art Movies
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Imagining Orwell
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Theater: Orwell in America, Northern Stage BY MEG BRAZIL
INSIDE!
Roughly Rustic
a quarterly supplement on home + design + real estate
Food: Taste Test: Junior’s Rustico, Burlington BY HANNAH PALMER EGAN
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Stuck in Vermont: Five thousand
BY ALICE LEVITT
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Let’s Dance
Music: The transformation of Madaila’s Mark Daly BY DAN BOLLES
THREATS, LAWSUITS AND DEAD ANIMALS An ongoing feud in Victory illustrates the dark side of small-town life
COVER IMAGE MARK DAVIS COVER DESIGN AARON SHREWSBURY
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P.O. PROBLEMS
PAGE 20 You don’t have mail? Here’s why
WORLD VIEWS
PAGE 36 18th Green Mountain Film Fest
DANCE EVOLUTION
PAGE 64 Madaila’s Mark Daly on the record
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students from across Vermont memorized poems for the annual Poetry Out Loud competition; Eva Sollberger filmed the state semi-finals at the Barre Opera House. The winners advance to the finals on March 19.
Blind Ambition
Food: Lunch is on at Burlington’s Courthouse Café
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