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During Vermont Restaurant Week 81 participating locations (see opposite page) offer inventive 3-course, prix-fixe menus for only $15, $25 or $35 per person. Also, check out special lunch deals at select locations.

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an you say timpano? Stanley Tucci’s cult foodie flick Big Night (1996) returns to the big screen for a special Vermont Restaurant Week presentation at Palace 9 Cinemas in South Burlington. This comedy is a bittersweet story of two brothers in search of the American dream. Primo (Tony Shaloub) and Secondo Pilaggi (Stanley Tucci) are Italian immigrants who settle on the New Jersey shore and open a restaurant, the Paradise, hoping to strike it rich. Teetering on the brink of failure, the brothers learn that the famed ItalSUNDAY ian American musician Louis Prima EVENT is performing in the area and they contrive to host a dinner in his honor. Watch as the two hilarious, bickering brothers gamble on one special night to save the business. Also starring: Marc Anthony, Minnie Driver, Allison Janney and Isabella Rossellini, with a swinging soundtrack featuring Louis Prima, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. Arrive early to enjoy samples from Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery and a free taste of “timpano” — the infamous pasta pie from the movie — prepared by Shawn Lipenski of Velvet Catering and Events. The cash bar features Root: 1 wines and Long Trail Ale. And, yes, you can bring your drinks into the theater! All guests to this event will be entered into a drawing for a huge, timpano-inspired prize package from Kiss the Cook including: an Atlas SS pasta maker (lasagna, fettuccine, taglionini), an Emile Henry two-piece lasagna dish, a pasta drying rack and much more!

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Sunday, May 1, at Palace 9 Cinemas, 10 Fayette Road, South Burlington. Cocktail hour 4:30 p.m., showtime 5:30 p.m. Other showtimes: Friday, April 29, 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 30, 5 p.m. Matinees $7, evenings $9. Info, 864-5610.

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The Pride, May 6-8 at the Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $10/$5 students. plattsburgharts.org

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bout five years ago, when Burlington playwright JAmes LAntz was staging his first play, The Bus, Elysabeth Kleinhans had just built a theater in New York City. Her creation, called 59E59 Theaters, is an off-Broadway nonprofit dedicated to bringing innovative plays from around the country to a state-ofthe-art, three-story complex at 59 East 59th Street. 59E59 has its own resident theater company, Primary Stages, whose mission since 1984 has been to produce new works and nurture emerging playwrights. What’s this got to do with Lantz? “59E59, was interested in The Bus,” he says. “But we weren’t ready.” That was then; now, Lantz is getting another shot. The Bus has been accepted at 59E59 and will make its Big Apple debut on October 3 and run for a month. New Yorker Marc Tumminelli, who has acted in several productions at st. michAeL’s PLAyhouse, will direct. Lantz, who is producing, hopes some Vermont actors will be cast, but he notes the difficulty of anyone with a day job taking the requisite time off, not to mention the expense of housing and transporting nonlocal actors. The venue subsidizes space and publicity — “With 59E59, you really are taken care of,” Lantz says — but he will need to cover the other expenses involved in producing a play. Lantz says he’ll begin fundraising soon. At least a few roles will definitely go to New Yorkers: “I’ve rewritten the play to accommodate some younger actors — two 16-year-old boys and a 12-year-old girl,” Lantz says. He notes that he hired Tumminelli because the latter teaches kids “how to be Broadway actors” at the performing-arts organization he founded, the Broadway Workshop. In the original script, the teens were slightly older. The girl — a sister to one of the boys — did not exist. “I rewrote it primarily to extricate two other

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The article about the new localvore restaurant in Rutland [“Deep Roots, April 13] speaks of their “all local” burger, made with buns made from King Arthur flour. There’s a common misconception about this product. All King Arthur Flour is grown and milled out of state — in the Midwest or Canada — and packaged at their mills. King Arthur has offices and a bakery in Vermont, but that’s it. If King Arthur Flour is not grown, processed, packaged or stored here, then it simply is not a Vermont product or a local product. If it is, then factory-raised pork chops from Price Chopper can be called local, as well. Vermont farmers like Ben Gleason of Gleason Grains and bakers like Randy George at Red Hen Baking are working so very hard to produce a truly local, Vermont-grown and -milled flour. It’s a disservice to their passion, effort and, ultimately, livelihood (as King Arthur Flour costs significantly less than a true Vermont flour) to allow this false impression about the provenance of King Arthur Flour to continue. I hope restaurateurs and food writers will work together to fact-check and clear up this misconception about the provenance of foods that are being marketed as local. It will benefit everyone who is passionate about the local-foods movement in the end. Jodi Whalen

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Neptune. Initially called 2003 UB313 (the 2003 part identifies the year the crucial photos were taken), it bore several distinctive traits: First, it was the most distant object known to orbit the sun other than a few comets. Second, it was pretty big, with a diameter roughly a fifth of Earth’s, although it was only a quarter of 1 percent as massive. Third — and here we get to the interesting part — it takes 557 years to circle the sun, and its orbit is at a steep angle to those of the other planets, much as Joseph Brady in 1972 had predicted for Planet X. Again, however, it was just

section of the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit known as the Kuiper Belt. (Eris is in an even more distant zone called the scattered disk.) For a long time astronomers thought there wasn’t much in the Kuiper Belt other than Pluto and its moons, dust and the occasional comet. Then, starting in 1992, they discovered the first of what are now more than 1000 known Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs. Some think the KBO count could eventually reach 70,000. The Kuiper Belt, in other words, was like the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — that is, a region of crud, little if any of it worthy of planetary designation. But there was no way to define planet so that Pluto stayed in the club while the largest of the crud was kept out. One attempt to preserve Pluto’s planethood wound up elevating several other miscellaneous objects to planetary status as well, including the asteroid Ceres and Pluto’s moon Charon. This will never do, the International Astronomical Union decided. In 2006 it demoted Pluto to dwarf planet. You’d think that would mean the end of the Planet X saga, too. Not so. “Planet X” has now become the default term for any large orbiting item of interest on the solar system’s fringe. To learn more about what’s out there, NASA has launched the New Horizons space probe, which will fly past Pluto in 2014 and later, it’s hoped, past some KBOs. The space agency doesn’t expect to spot any new mystery objects, project scientist Harold Weaver told my assistant Una. But at least speculation about future Planet Xs (in the Kuiper Belt, anyway) won’t be so wildly off the mark. m

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coincidence. Eris was nowhere near as massive as Brady’s hypothetical giant. Nonetheless, 2003 UB313’s discoverers had Planet X on their minds and nicknamed their find Xena, after TV’s warrior princess. Wiser heads prevailed, and ultimately the thing was named Eris. The discovery of Eris proved to be the downfall of Pluto. The two objects were about the same size; if Pluto was a planet, so was Eris. Astronomers were now faced with the prospect of a planetary roster consisting of eight large to really large planets plus two relatively dinky ones. Pluto’s status as a planet had always struck some people as dubious, not only because of its size but also its funky orbit, which is itself sharply angled and at times brings Pluto closer to the sun than to Neptune. The arrival of Eris on the scene revived the argument. The problem wasn’t just Eris. Pluto is located in a remote sLug signorino

Dear cecil, Your 1996 column on the mysterious giant Planet X that some astronomers thought might lurk beyond Pluto is in need of an update. In particular, you should tell the story of the dwarf planet Eris, whose discovery was directly responsible for the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. VoronX hanks for reminding us of our sacred mission, Voron. Ordinary bloggers and journalists are fine for staying current on nuclear meltdowns, Middle East upheavals and other passing phenomena. But it’s up to the Straight Dope to keep the planets straight. Here’s where things stood as of 1996. Planet X was the name astronomer Percival Lowell gave in the early 20th century to the hypothetical celestial body that would account for apparent irregularities in the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet then known. In 1930, what we now call Pluto was discovered in the approximate location Lowell had predicted for Planet X. But this discovery was coincidence, made possible by sheer doggedness on the part of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who found the new planet — Pluto, it turned out, was far too small to budge Neptune. The search for Planet X continued. In 1972 astronomer Joseph Brady predicted it’d be a massive body with an orbit at a

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reparing this year’s Passover Haggadah, I’ve been reading a lot about spring. Passover is a feast of liberation. But, like Easter, it’s also a paschal rite — a celebration of rebirth and regeneration. Jews have our version of Easter eggs (we eat them hard boiled, with salt water) and of the sacrificial Lamb of God: a charred shank on the ritual plate. At our secular, half-vegetarian seder, we roast a PETAapproved beet. Still, there’s the spring portion of the ritual here and the main story there: Moses in the rushes, blood on the doorpost, the Red Sea and the rest. I’ve always considered the parts to be related, but not that much. This Passover, however — as skiers eke out their last runs after filing their tax returns, and many sugar makers wake up after down-parka nights hoping in vain for shirtsleeves days — I’ve been struck by how like a New England spring the quest for liberation is. “You know how it is with an April day,” wrote Robert Frost, whom Donald Hall called the laureate of climatic mutability. It may feel as warm as May, but “if you so much as dare to speak,” you invite a sort of arctic backlash and find yourself “back in the middle of March.” Yes, we Vermonters know how it is with an April day. And so do others who endure eternal winters and split-second summers. The Japanese, for instance: “Tomorrow I was / Going to the Spring meadows / To pick the young greens. / It snowed all day yesterday / And snowed all day today.” Those lines, from the eighth-century poet Akahito, are among millions penned about the fickleness of spring. So it is with liberation: tentative, tantalizing, thrilling and unreliable. The Middle East’s climate is warmhot-hotter, not a warm-hot-cool-cold one like ours, but the Arab Spring is well named. It started, in fact, in Tunisia’s springtime — the rainy, tepid month of December — when a fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself afire after a municipal inspector humiliated him and confiscated his wares. Bouazizi, Tunisia’s Rosa Parks, had had enough of oppression. And so had millions of others. Almost overnight, liberation began to bloom like a peach tree in Georgia. Tyrants dropped in Tunisia and Egypt. Algiers was forced

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how like a New England spring the quest for liberation is. to raise wages for public workers. Syrian soldiers refused to fire on protesters. At the Guardian’s interactive time line, you can reel forward and back, as with a video cam, through this amazingly eventful period. But you don’t just advance in time toward freedom or reverse toward repression. Instead, democracy buds and blossoms in one place and blossoms and perishes in another; elsewhere buds are ripped from the tree. In Egypt’s elections, the Muslim Brotherhood outpolls the young secularists of Tahrir Square by a long shot, raising fears that theocrats will throw a burqa over the seedling of their revolution. Syria’s soldiers defy authority, and then security forces fire on the soldiers. Qaddafi shoots mortars into civilian neighborhoods. Iran arms

children to put down demonstrations. Snow falls on the meadows. Liberation does not follow revolt as summer follows spring — as George W. Bush seemed to believe when he invaded Iraq and Saddam’s statue toppled, and as Barack Obama seemed to believe when he joined NATO’s incursion into Libya. Democracy does not arrive at a port in the same container as start-up capital and blue jeans, as neoliberals insist. In fact, prodemocratic military interventions can exacerbate civil conflicts in which no side favors democracy; and neoliberalism has nourished a doubly poisonous hybrid, free-market totalitarianism. Freedom takes more than persistence; it takes luck. As any Vermont gardener knows, no combination of soil and

compost, sun and rain, cultivation and patience prevents a killing frost from whacking a tomato on the edge of perfect ripeness. But gardening also exploits difficulty. When you grow seedlings, you set them outside in the cold overnight, to toughen them up. Ecce democracy. In the Passover story, God hardens the Pharaoh’s heart over and over; plague after plague fails to move him to let the Jews go. When I wondered about this strategy — why keep raising the slaves’ hopes, only to dash them? — a friend reminded me that many Jews had become comfortable, or at least resigned, in Egypt. They needed some extra pharaonic wickedness to get them off their butts. Once roused, the Jews had a long time and a long way to go. And though they finally arrived at the Promised Land, it has turned out, unfortunately, to be some other people’s promised lands, as well. The journey is not over; the world is not healed: The Messiah has not yet come. Passover celebrates the liberation from slavery, but it’s also about organizing the movement for liberation. Seder gatherers sing songs of victorious battles, like Joshua’s at Jericho, but also commemorate futile ones, like the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Is this to say that the struggle for freedom is as important as freedom itself? Or is the Messiah’s disinclination to arrive and gather all the Jews into the Promised Land God’s way of hinting that lolling around drinking milk and honey is not the definition of liberation, anyway? I am sure that the myriad volumes of Torah commentary have much to say on this question (I’ve heard there are more books about Jews than there are Jews). But this recalcitrant spring I turn instead to Vermont’s own Akahito, David Budbill, a Taoist-Buddhist-Methodist who suspects he descends from North African Jews: Damn all you false masters of serenity gurus of the happy. Struggle Is what it means To be alive and free. m

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Some of Levinson’s music photography is showcased in _ of 1500, a book produced in 2009 for Higher Ground’s 10th anniversary that documents club posters created by designers at JDK. He has also photographed merchandise and an album cover for Phish. Levinson has cut back on some of his nightclubbing life since he and wife Tina had two daughters — Sadie, 4, and Ruby, 2. But don’t think he won’t be shooting at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival — which Crothers produces — in North Adams, Mass., this summer. Levinson notes he’s “shot a lot of Wilco over the years.” Though he formerly worked with fellow Burlington photographer Michael Sipe, Levinson says he’s been operating as RL Photo for 13 years. When he and Sipe parted company in January, Levinson found the Sears Lane space and set to work renovating it. The building’s owner, Marty Fitzpatrick, put in bathrooms and the HVAC system. A friend added the vinyl frosting to the windows, Levinson says, and not just to keep out prying eyes; inside, the windows admit a pearly, glare-free light. Levinson is still psyched about having a wide garage door — “You could drive a car in here,” he points out, and you get the impression he’d like to, just because. With Burton’s headquarters right down the road in South Burlington, the convenience works both ways, says Burton brand marketing director Danielle Hambleton. She notes that Levinson has been with the company since well before she came three years ago, and for good reason. “He’s a super-passionate snowboarder, one, and he puts the same energy into his work,” Hambleton says. Levinson’s photos are used “for the catalog, the web, point-of-purchase displays, packaging — everything,” she explains, “and the quality is always right on.”

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Evidence is contained in the pages of dealer books — hard-copy product catalogs made for buyers — that are neatly stacked on the coffee table in Levinson’s lobbyslash-gallery. “Everybody needs a dealer catalog,” he says, picking up one for Burton and flipping through pages of immaculately shot sportswear and gear. Clearly, this is a bread-and-butter gig. Today, though, Levinson is eager to talk about the images on the walls here — none of them commercial photographs. Dubbed the Root, this space is curated by Burlington artist Clark Derbes, whose own geometry-inspired paintings and sculptures — as well as an evolving mural — join the works of eight other local artists. The two friends have ambitious, if still embryonic, plans for the nascent gallery. Levinson wants to establish a foundation, funded by a small percentage of art sales, that would give grants to young, aspiring artists — in elementary through high school — each year. He, Derbes and the exhibiting artists would make these selections together, he envisions. “We want kids to understand that art can be a profession,” Levinson says. “Or, if not that, that it’s OK to devote a lot of time to creating art.” Derbes met Levinson eight years ago when Derbes was painting utility boxes around town — Levinson documented all of them, and is now the primary photographer for his friend’s prodigious output of art. When the new studio came together, “Rick said he wanted me to treat [the lobby] as my personal gallery space,” says Derbes. “I immediately filled the whole thing with my work. But after sitting with that for a few days,” he continues, “I thought it was too selfish to keep this to myself.” Instead, Derbes began to invite other artists he particularly admires. “My goal is to create a stable of artists whose works really stand out,” he says. “People really dedicated to making work that challenges themselves despite the lack of commercial possibilities.” Philosophically, Derbes loves the art-education element of the Root, but admits that he — like Levinson — is wary of becoming a full-fledged gallerist. “The tricky part is making it happen without gobbling up a lot of time and money,” Derbes says. After all, he and Levinson are managing their own careers, too. And that is exactly why visitors of any age need only look around RL Photo Studio to see artists in action, making a living.m

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kids under 5 and adults over 50. At its peak in the mid-’90s, the station had 30,000 member households; now it has 23,000. That’s good compared with PBS affiliates around the country, many of which have seen double-digit decreases in membership over the past few years. “We were jumping up and down with glee to only be down 4 percent,” says Ann Curran, community relations director for VPT. While the network exceeded its quarterly fundraising goal during its most recent on-air drive, it fell short of its overall annual goal — about $3 million — by roughly $200,000. Producing quality television is expensive. VPT, which is in the final stretch of a 12-year, federally mandated, $11 million digital conversion, went high definition in January. For the first time in about 20 years, its Colchester studio boasts the finest equipment, including slick character generators the staff is still learning to use, and a digital master control suite. This summer, VPT will install a brand new lighting grid, replacing the heavy, antique system it has used since 1967. The station also created a new position for someone to direct programming across media platforms. The goal is to make more content available on VPT’s website, which is currently difficult to navigate and lacks basic information, including who works there and how to contact them. VPT also plans to develop mobile broadcasting so viewers can stream its programs on their cell phones. But some local critics say embracing technology isn’t enough to keep the station vital to Vermont viewers. As the media landscape changes, content, as they say, MARC NADEL

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any Vermonters breathed a sigh of relief earlier this spring when Congress spared the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which funds both Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio — from the chopping block. But, when it comes to PBS, those Vermonters may have to keep holding their breath. Even with continued federal funding, public TV is struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly crowded field. The challenges facing PBS are massive — some say insurmountable. Once the only television network with thought-provoking documentaries and cheeky British comedies, PBS now faces competition not just from commercial television, but from Netflix, Hulu and the rest of the wildly accessible Internet. The network doesn’t have the money to put up much of a fight — and it doesn’t have NPR’s fiercely loyal following or innovative brand, either. Still, if there’s one state where people respect local public institutions, it’s Vermont, home of the town meeting. So, how is our home-grown public TV doing? In terms of member support and technology, not so badly. In terms of innovative content and staying power, not so well, say many observers. They charge that our PBS affiliate, Vermont Public Television, lacks vision, doesn’t follow through with area producers and has spent the last several years clinging to its national content rather than cultivating local productions. VPT operates on a roughly $6 million budget — about $1 million less than Vermont Public Radio across the street. VPT has an average of 121,000 viewers each week, but most of them are

“Emerging Science” (currently off air; VPT promises a fourth season later this year) Ecologist Amy Seidl, a research scholar at Middlebury College, hosts this science magazine funded by Vermont EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). Each episode investigates a topic — infectious diseases, food pathogens, astronomy — from the perspective of local scientists. The episode on food-borne illnesses, for instance, featured the state epidemiologist; a University of Vermont professor who tracks the movements of bacteria; and the owner of QuantaSpec, a Burlington company working to develop an infrared food-safety scanner. Sound boring? It’s not. Last February, VPT won an award for “Emerging Science” from the National Educational Telecommunications Association. It’s not hard to see why NETA took note, starting with the telegenic Seidl. Produced by Victor Guadagno, who has an Emmy under his belt, “Emerging Science” is briskly paced and uses attention-grabbing visuals — interviews, location footage and computer graphics — to illustrate the sometimes-complex concepts it explores. Rather than presenting the researchers in isolation, it connects them, showing how they come at common problems from different angles. “Emerging Science” may not be “Nova,” but it showcases the efforts of Vermont scientists in ways that print and radio journalism simply can’t do. That’s the mark of good television.

“Vermont This Week” (Fridays, 7:30 p.m.)

“Profile”

Stewart Ledbetter hosts a weekly news roundup with commentary from a panel of three journalists. Last week, the guests were John Dillon of Vermont Public Radio, Shay Totten of Seven Days and Terri Hallenbeck of the Burlington Free Press. Topics included Entergy, the state budget, the cigarette tax, health care reform and housing costs. None of the news or the accompanying footage was new, but the journalists offered some fairly meaty, after-the-fact analysis.

(Mondays, 7:30 p.m.) Like Vermont’s own Charlie Rose, journalist Fran Stoddard interviews people in an intimate, black-box setting. Most of the guests are notable locals, such as Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg; Wanda Hines, director of Burlington’s Social Equity Investment Project; and Alec Webb and Megan Camp of Shelburne Farms. Others, such as Samir Sumaida’ie, Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S., are just passing through. Stoddard clearly does her homework on the interviewees and asks substantial questions. But, given that it seldom cuts away to introduce other visual elements, the show would play almost as well on the radio.

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This public-affairs call-in show has two formats, “Ask the Governor” and “Report From Montpelier,” with the latter putting guest legislators in the hot seat. Kristin Carlson, the senior political reporter at WCAX, hosts the proceedings. Like “Vermont This Week,” this show tends to be a little, well, wonkish, with the guests drifting into detailed policy discussions. Carlson contributes some energy: When a caller asks a potentially explosive question — like one about the salaries of Gov. Shumlin’s cabinet — she pressures the officials for straight answers.

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Host Lawrence Pyne, a Burlington Free Press columnist, goes outdoors and does stuff. Funded by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, and scored with soothing harp and piano ditties, this show feels like a lowpressure advertisement for the state’s many outdoor sporting venues, with conservation messages tossed in. The footage of burbling streams, struggling trout and tern nesting grounds is gorgeous, but the pace is, shall we say, languid. If you want to see someone netting a catfish in real time, this is the show for you.

Vermonters like to complain to their elected officials about property taxes and teachers’ unions. A lot. (“Report From Montpelier”) “Coopetition” is a word. John Abele, retired cofounder of Boston Scientific, coined the term to describe competitive cooperation, which he considers the best path to innovation. (“Profile”) Far from competing with the newscasts on commercial networks WCAX and WPTZ, VPT collaborates with them, using their footage and their faces (Kristin Carlson of WCAX, WPTZ bureau chief Stewart Ledbetter). Vermont trout can be daisy yellow. (“Outdoor Journal”) Some Statehouse insiders think Gov. Shumlin is still acting like the Vermont senate’s president pro tempore. (“Vermont This Week”) Human bodies contain 10 times more bacteria than they do human cells, making us “metabeings,” says UVM professor Jane Hill. (“Emerging Science”) Shay Totten has a spiffy pink tie. (“Vermont This Week”)

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If you watch TV by channel surfing, you’ll miss most of the local programming on Vermont Public Television. Just three shows — “Vermont This Week,” “Outdoor Journal” and “Profile” — aired weekly in March and April 2011, with occasional reruns. Of the six other shows listed on the “VPT Productions” page of VPT’s website, only one, “Ask the Governor on Public Square,” could be seen this month. In March, according to the downloadable schedule, you could view one episode of “VPT Cooks” (“Sugarhouse Favorites”) and one episode of “Report From Montpelier.” One of the other shows, a magazine about recessionsurvival strategies called “Making Sense New England,” appears in the pull-down menu under “Past Productions,” suggesting it’s been canceled. (A recession casualty?) So, to sample the programming, we turned to the web, which offers a wealth of full episodes. Here’s what we found:

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is king. “If VPT is going to justify its infrastructure investment and bring back any kind of relevance, it’s going to have to move from national programming — with the exception of their signature productions,” says Bill Schubart, an author, regular commentator on VPR and chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust. “It’s going to have to move to local programming.” About 5 percent of VPT’s content is locally produced. That includes three weekly series: “Profile,” in which Fran Stoddard sits down for meaty conversations with noteworthy Vermonters; “Outdoor Journal,” which features outdoorsy people doing Vermont-y things; and “Vermont This Week,” in which local journalists offer analysis primarily on political news from around the state. There’s also a monthly program, “Public Square,” hosted by WCAX senior political reporter Kristin Carlson, in which legislators take questions from VPT viewers; and periodic series such as “Emerging Science” and “Making Sense New England.” The rest of the programming comes from PBS affiliates and other distributors. The most popular of these shows are “PBS NewsHour,” “Masterpiece,” “Nature,” “Antiques Roadshow,” “Nova” and “American Experience.” VPT prides itself on the 53 hours of children’s programs it airs every week. VPT president and CEO John King believes the network is on the right track. He says he likes to carry around the daily television grid so he can point out that the History Channel doesn’t actually air many history programs — it’s all “Ice Road Truckers” and “American Pickers” these days. His point is that commercial channels tried to turn a profit on PBS-style niche television, but it didn’t work, so they turned to reality shows. “That’s why public television does what it does,” says King. “We do things in communities that no one else will do, because the commercial model doesn’t work.” But is the alternative as good as it could — and should — be? For several years, VPT’s programming manager, Kelly Luoma, has worked remotely from California. Vermont filmmaker John O’Brien describes VPT’s programming as “in-house and risk averse.” Says Schubart, “When I look at VPT, I find about eight hours a week I want to watch, and that’s it.”

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t’s tempting to compare VPT with VPR, its radio counterpart. The two receive funding from the same sources — the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and contributing members — and they boast roughly the same number of contributing members. But there’s no question VPR has a stronger identity. You see it all over Vermonters’ Subarus: the ubiquitous VPR Euro-style decal. People still talk about what they heard on VPR around the proverbial water cooler. Radio’s big advantage? You can listen to it in the car and while you cook. Before his phone interview, Schubart says, he was out in the yard raking and chain-sawing while he listened to Gov. Shumlin on VPR. Television simply doesn’t have that flexibility.

steadily gotten more adventurous, more popular, better.” He continues: “Today, if you want to do creative television, chances are you would take a job at HBO, AMC or Showtime; it is unclear why, given the greater freedom — and money — those cable stations offer, you would work for PBS.” “Public television is not a hotbed of innovation,” confirms Jason Mittell, associate professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College. “It once was, in some areas: documentary, educational programming.” But aspiring TV documentary filmmakers, he says, aren’t clamoring these days for gigs with PBS. It was different in 1985. When Harvey landed a full-time production technician job at VPT fresh out of college that year, he beat out more than 100 applicants for

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Another hindrance? TV production is often cost prohibitive. Dan Harvey, who worked at VPT for 20 years until 2004, used to joke about this with his colleagues. “We’d show up at the Statehouse with 10 crew members, a remote truck and two vans full of gear. VPR would show up with Bob Kinzel, a microphone and a phone line,” he writes in an email. “That’s not quite fair, I know, but it’s not far from the truth.” In many ways the VPR-VPT contrast is simply a microcosm of what’s happening at the national level. While PBS sputters amid competition from the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and HGTV, NPR’s competition has fallen away. “During precisely the years that FM radio has lost the diversity and the free-form progressivism of its 1970s heyday,” Mark Oppenheimer wrote recently on Slate, “NPR, which debuted in 1971 with live coverage of Senate hearings on Vietnam, has

the position. “I felt very lucky to have gotten that job,” writes Harvey, now the University of Vermont’s assistant dean of the Graduate College and chief of staff for the Office of the Vice President for Research, in an email. Public television was thriving. Then, federal and state funding was strong and consistent, and the network had a healthy percentage of Canadian members in addition to its U.S. contributors. Over the next 20 years, Harvey moved up the ranks — from studio director to production manager to vice president of production to general manager. His long-term goal? To produce as much local programming as possible. It helped that in the early ’90s, VPT scored funding from USDA Rural Development, as well as from foundations and private donors. The network bought some new equipment, built its own multicamera remote truck and traveled the state. VPT taped UVM basketball and hockey

Bernasconi Construction, Inc. games, performances at Burlington’s jazz festival and goings-on at the Statehouse. It started “Vermont This Week” and “Outdoor Journal,” which remain two of VPT’s most popular local shows. And it began reaching out to more local talent — performers and filmmakers such as Rusty DeWees, Jay Craven and John O’Brien. “At one point, we had at least one local program running every weekday night,” writes Harvey. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, government funding began to shrivel as competition from “lookalike” channels grew. Harvey left for UVM in 2005, but he says VPT continues to do the best it can. “I know that some of the funding streams that I was able to take advantage of have dried up, but they are still doing outstanding local production,” he writes. “Probably not as

in local. That’s the bottom line for me. We need to continue cultivating a local media ecology.” During Campitelli’s tenure at VPT, the station was making $100,000 a year by licensing instructional materials to schools. VPT has since discontinued its licensing operation. These days, many schools and libraries get such materials through Discovery Channel’s parent company, Discovery Communications, says Campitelli, simply because it markets its product more aggressively. “People are going straight to whoever markets most to them,” he says. The kicker? Discovery Communications licenses older educational material from PBS. VPT was no more motivated to market the state’s iconic images, says filmmaker O’Brien. He recalls working

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much as when I was there, but we did a lot and we always knew it would be hard to sustain that level.” This year’s annual budget for “Vermont This Week,” taped in the studio, is $42,000. For “Emerging Science,” which is taped on site, VPT budgeted $166,000, though $130,000 of that came from a Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant. The station’s nonlocal content is much cheaper: An annual fee of $710,000 pays for all the external PBS-originated programming. Scott Campitelli ran VPT’s education department from 1992 to 1997. He left because he saw a better opportunity to produce local educational content in public access television. Now the executive director of South Burlington’s Regional Education Technology Network (RETN), he says, “I believe

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hen PBS started in 1970, it filled a huge gap. Most cities had only three broadcast channels: ABC, CBS and NBC. The station found its niche immediately, offering unprecedented children’s programming, such as “Sesame Street,” imported English television like “Masterpiece Theater” and long-form, talking-head evening news shows. The long-running “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” is now “PBS NewsHour.” Viewers could learn to cook with Julia Child and gawk at renovations on “This Old House.” Now, of course, there’s hardly a gap to fill — except, says John King, for the 15 percent of the state’s population who can’t connect to cable or satellite TV, either because their location doesn’t allow it or because they can’t afford the service. He says those people were delighted after the digital conversion in 2009, when VPT began broadcasting additional national content on two standard-definition channels: VPT Create (travel and lifestyle) and VPT World (news and documentaries). Even the network’s critics seem cautiously optimistic about VPT’s new hire, chief content officer Kathryn Scott. She came to VPT last June from Los Angeles, where she did nonprofit work, but has a long history in both public and commercial media. Scott produced the PBS science program “Newton’s Apple” and documentaries for the Discovery Channel, and was later part of the startup team for the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Public television’s future, Scott writes in an email, “will come down to whether citizens value the unique mission to which we public broadcasters adhere” — that is, providing free and unbiased programming that offers education opportunities and exposure to the complex world — “and whether for-profit broadcasters can or will ever provide the same.” Of PBS content, she says, “It’s a proven performer.” But Scott also feels strongly about VPT’s commitment to local coverage, especially politics. She notes that VPT was the only local broadcaster to host debates among all the candidates on the ballot last election season, rather than just the two front-runners. Just last week, the network hosted a live, call-in

question-and-answer session with Gov. Peter Shumlin as part of its occasional “Public Square” series. “We also have a very rich cultural community in Vermont,” Scott says. “There are a lot of filmmakers, a lot of people who are passionate, who do documentary or have interviewed interesting people. So we often take advantage of those productions, as well.” But not all of Vermont’s filmmakers have positive things to say about those experiences. Jay Craven produced a series with VPT in 2004 called “Windy

“We were sort of left high and dry,” says Craven. In the end, after much haranguing, according to Craven, VPT scrounged up about $10,000 for the project, and Craven borrowed another $50,000 against his house to make up the difference — and finish the series, which won two New England Emmy Awards and was sold to 10 other PBS affiliates. “I’m still paying it off,” says Craven. Of the funding debacle, VPT president John King says, “That’s a myth that we’ve heard repeatedly, that we

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didn’t bring our part to the table. That’s absolutely false and that’s as far as I’ll go with that.” A few years later, Craven returned to VPT with another pitch — a series based on Vermont author Archer Mayor’s mystery novel Bellows Falls — except this time, he says, he wasn’t asking the network for money, only to cosponsor some grant applications and give him the opportunity to find and credit sponsors. After a meeting in which Craven says the VPT producers seemed oddly distracted, he waited for a promised follow-up phone call, and heard nothing. Scott says she’s been experiencing the same futile pursuit from the other side: She meets with local filmmakers on VPT’s behalf, asks them to follow up with more information and then never

hears from them again. “I think there’s a rumor out there that we are unfriendly,” she says. “But we have a solid track record that disputes that, and we continue to talk with folks.” Indeed, VPT has aired several Vermont films recently, including Camilla Rockwell’s Mother Nature’s Child and Victor Guadagno’s Bloom: The Plight of Lake Champlain.

ittell says the biggest problem with public television is the manner in which it’s funded. “As long as public broadcasting funding is dependent on congressional budgets, it will never be vibrant,” he says. “It’s a political hot potato.” A better system, he suggests, would be to impose a licensing fee on households with televisions, the way they do in England. The result is the world’s biggest, oldest and most revered public broadcasting station, the BBC. The fee — roughly $240 per home each year — brings in about 80 percent of the network’s total income. Not everyone likes it: People complain that the BBC is too powerful. A recent New York Times article reports that every week “more than 97 percent of the British population watches, reads or listens to something produced by the BBC, which operates 10 TV channels and 16 radio stations domestically.” It would never fly in the U.S., Mittell predicts, where “anything that is public is being challenged these days as not American.” He says he doesn’t see a future for public television as we know it today. Campitelli holds out hope for VPT. “I know they’re in a tough position; it’s one of the reasons I didn’t want to be in broadcasting,” he says of the station. “But I don’t think it’s a lost cause. It’s going to require all of us to really look at TV differently.” Gone are the days when “you’d get three channels, and if you were watching TV, you were watching the same things your neighbors were,” says VPT’s Ann Curran. Then there’s the fact that television is rapidly moving online, where viewers don’t feel constrained by schedules — or local loyalties. You don’t have to own a TV to know that television, as we once knew it, is over. “Ten years from now, we’re not likely to recognize it,” Campitelli adds. Try programming for that. m

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Walter recorded this other, better version in the 1960s. We have to answer for everything we do.” Parker agrees that, “even in rural areas, people are very knowledgeable about music,” but he also hears from plenty of “casual” music lovers. “There was a fella the other day who was just getting into Mahler and wanted suggestions for recordings,” he recalls. Parker is a huge fan; he’ll ride his Harley Davidson to Tanglewood for a Mahler symphony. “I gave him some, but I also said, ‘Once you start getting into it, you’ll develop your own taste for certain conductors, and so on.’” VPR Classical listeners may well be the most impassioned segment of Vermont’s public radio audience. On a “Conversation with Robin Turnau” that aired on the main station on April

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alter Parker leans into a padded microphone and intones the credits of the Edward Elgar symphony recording he’s been airing during his daily program on Vermont Public Radio Classical. The 61-year-old’s voice is sonorous and slightly singsong, as calming as the peach-and-beige palette of Studio B, home of VPR Classical. The room sits at the silent center of VPR’s headquarters in a remote corner of Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester. The whole scene, in fact, seems optimized for delivering lengthy, emotionally intense works of classical music — except for the small diorama of Simpsons figurines arranged on top of a subwoofer. “That’s a different generation,” Parker explains off-air, in a voice that’s missing only the lilt. Hiding a smile under his mustache, he dismisses the toys with a wave and adds, “Ask Joe Goetz.” At 26 years old, Goetz is the youngest of the local foursome who program and host the classical music Vermonters hear on VPR’s 24-hour classical music station. Cheryl Willoughby, 43, airs her selections weekdays from 8 to 10 a.m.; Parker’s program runs from 10 until 2; Goetz’s is 3 to 7 p.m.; and Peter Fox Smith has long hosted “Saturday Afternoon at the Opera” during the New York Metropolitan Opera’s off-season. (All other night and weekend programming is purchased from Classical 24 in Minnesota and Minnesota Public Radio.) The three weekday hosts — Parker, Willoughby and Goetz — represent a large span of VPR’s history with classical music. Parker came on board in 1984, when classical programming was still sandwiched between news and talk radio on a single, mixed-format station. Goetz was hired right after college, and Willoughby from Los Angeles public radio in 2007 — the year VPR launched its all-classical station and eliminated classical music from its main station. The shift was part of a nationwide trend: Public-radio stations in the U.S. added nine classical-only stations in 2009 alone, according to a report by Arbitron, radio’s equivalent of television’s Nielsen ratings. And listenership increased, in part because the number of commercial classical radio stations in the country shrank to 20 that year. Now there is just a handful left, including one in Vermont: WCVT in Stowe. “It’s not the most lucrative format,” Parker concedes. At first, the change was a mixed blessing for Vermonters. Virtually everyone could get VPR, but VPR Classical was

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series in Northfield, attests its appreciative cofounder, Mary Bonhag, 25. She notes being “in talks” with VPR about coming in to play live on the air. VPR’s acknowledgment of local concerts definitely “translates into higher ticket sales,” says piano tuner Allan Day, 64, of Williston. Day, who recently restrung VPR Classical’s 1971 Yamaha, can see the difference at the concerts he attends. He tunes pianos at the University of Vermont, the Elley-Long Music Center and the like for specific performers, and he always listens to the results at subsequent concerts. Parker, who plans his four-hour program no more than two days ahead to accommodate such events, recently interviewed Robert de Cormier, founder of the choral group Counterpoint, just before de Cormier’s Legacy Concerts — his three last performances conducting the group. The station then recorded the Burlington concert, which took place on April 3 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, for later airing. Parker says VPR is increasingly allocating funds for such broadcasts. Shelburne pianist Paul Orgel appreciates VPR Classical’s commitment to the local classical music scene. “As a performer, I’m extremely grateful for their live-performance opportunities, both to perform myself and listen to others,” he says. Orgel, who goes on the air once or twice a year to give a live preview of his solo concerts, deems the station’s extensive local-scene coverage “unique around the country.” The 56-year-old pianist admits he would appreciate more “adventurous” programming on VPR Classical, especially during the hours of nonlocal programming. Orgel wishes the station weren’t so geared toward a “mainstream audience” whose tastes are “more conservative” than his own. But, he adds, any criticism has to be taken in the context of the station’s existence at all. “VPR being all classical is basically a wonderful thing,” he declares. m

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id I tell you guys that last night I had a dream the WuTang Clan hired me to fight crime in New York City?” Tristan Baribeau is seated at the end of a table in his rented Burlington house regaling his Villanelles bandmates, who are scattered in various states of repose around a large, rustic kitchen. Behind Baribeau is an old electric church organ. Against the wall opposite him is a battered piano, covered in a stack of books, topped by a precariously balanced house plant. “I was, like, this is real,” he says, nudging framed glasses up the bridge of his nose with his forefinger. He grins, crinkling a thin, unkempt mustache. “This is serious.” Battling the forces of evil in Gotham with Cappadonna and RZA certainly would be serious business. For a few minutes, Baribeau and the other three

Villanelles carry on as if he could be called away at any moment to do just that. Soon the conceit unravels in a din of laughter and increasingly corny one-liners. “Sorry,” says Baribeau, addressing an amused reporter/interloper. “Where were we?” Until we were derailed, we had been circuitously discussing the indie-rock band’s newly released EP, Kiss My Grits, a follow-up to last summer’s self-titled fulllength debut. Asked about the differences between the two recordings, each member of the band points to a certain irreverence in the new album that stands in contrast to the relative rigidity of their debut. The repeated non sequiturs of the current conversation, such as the Wu-Tang detour, highlight that new mood about as well as the band members manage to

do when they try. Though bassist Evan Borden does offer a succinct — and accurate — assessment of the new material. “It’s just got more balls,” he says. That newfound testicular fortitude is apparent from the first searing notes of the raucously goofy opener, “Cereal Killer Whale” — written during a latenight session fueled by absinthe, claims Baribeau. “The lyrics are just ridiculous,” says keyboardist Zane Gundersen. He and Baribeau say the song grew from contemplating what would make for the “worst morning ever” — one imagines it might involve absinthe the night before — and then filtering their musings through a playful pop aesthetic. “Plus, that was when that killer whale at Sea World kept killing people,” adds drummer Seth Gundersen.

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t’s easy to understand why animal Sylvia can’t really respond to the deep owners anthropomorphize their philosophizing. Rather than listen to pooches and pussycats. Attributing him yap, she’s more interested in donhuman characteristics ning her dominatrix heels to animal behavior makes and hightailing it to the dog sense if you value hardpark to bare her assets for to-find qualities such as hot golden retriever Bowser. loyalty and unconditional Kate seeks advice from a love. Pets make better people than many friend and a therapist. Will the marriage people do. survive, or will it go, ahem, to the dogs? Playwright A.R. Gurney unleashes Not to mix animal metaphors, but this pro-pet premise in Sylvia (1995), directing Sylvia marks Nash’s swan song which features a talking dog (played by after a decade at VSC’s helm. The retira woman) in the title role. Can Man’s ing artistic director shows no signs of Best Friend become a more amiable lame-duckness, however. His ensemble companion than a wife of 20-plus years? executes the story’s silliest elements In Vermont Stage Company’s current with sincerity and commitment, which production, director Mark Nash and a incite side-splitting laughter. Nash frisky foursome of actors enthusiastinever gives you time to cally embrace the tale’s delicious question the play’s waggishness. Gurney’s tasty script abounds with kibbles of wit, and the well-trained cast pounces deftly on ’em all. Middle-aged Manhattanite Greg (Stephen Bradbury) brings home a stray mutt one afternoon from the park, where he is taking refuge from a job he has begun to hate. Dog Sylvia (Kathryn Blume) and new owner bond instantly. “I think you’re God!” the perky pooch professes. Wife Kate (Melissa Lourie) is not amused. She’s too busy with the “daunting task” of teaching Shakespeare to Harlem middle schoolers, as Kathryn Blume as Sylvia well as her active social life of concerts and dinner parties with old Vassar chums. She wants to veto the adoption, but Greg begs for a reprieve from sending Sylvia to the animal shelter. He and the otherwise poundbound hound need each other. Sylvia stays, and a human-versus-canine battle for Greg’s affection ensues. Greg spends less time with his work and wife as he devotes more energy to Sylvia. Midlife anxiety prompts him to reexamine everything in his life, but

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improbability because you’re having too much damn fun. The show was a VSC audience fave eight years ago. Both John D. Alexander — who plays three parts, two of them in drag — and Blume reprise roles from the 2003 production. And both performers are the comedic cat’s meow. Blume, as Sylvia, makes a perfect bitch: a frolicsome Lab/poodle mix who graduates from grateful to sassy. She bounds around her master eagerly on her paws, er, feet, shaking her tousled mane, wagging her hindquarters and making mooning eye contact that gets Greg to do exactly what she wants. Blume accomplishes this all in entirely human costume; the only canine elements of her wardrobe are a red collar and heart-shaped dog tag. As Sylvia’s confidence mounts, Blume’s peppy pup morphs into a vampy vixen. You may never look at a dog park the same way after seeing her dash there in 6-inch heels for a canine quickie. In a trio of roles, Alexander makes you wonder if you’re disturbing fellow audience members with out-of-control guffawing. Each characterization features highly detailed mannerisms and quirks. Nervous über-geek Tom, Bowser’s owner, fidgets, squints and licks his lips. Androgynous therapist Leslie peers knowingly over her half-glasses. Prudish Phyllis clutches her capacious, pearl-bedecked bosom. Her puritanical horror and vocal pitch soar to give-me-a-Scotch-and-put-meback-on-the-Mayflower levels when Sylvia starts sniffing her crotch. Bradbury and Lourie conjure convincing chemistry as a long-married couple. Bradbury captures how Sylvia reenergizes Greg. His smile brightens, his step lightens, and his eyes dance. As Kate, Lourie tackles the play’s most

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On April 18, 2011, McDonald’s Corporation and Mountaha Handy, filed application #4C0676R-4C for a Project generally described as: the construction of interior and exterior renovations, construction of a 23 sf addition for a relocated drive-thru window and construction of ADA compliant parking/access to the existing building in the Colchester Business Park. The Project is located on South Park Drive in the Town of Colchester, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and

proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before May 24, 2011, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to

Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by May 24, 2011. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (5). Dated in Essex Junction,

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The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Hinesburg Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the case number above.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A., SECTIONS 6001 - 6092 On April 12, 2011, CD Cairns Irrevocable Trusts filed application # 4C0363-10 for a project generally described as The reconstruction and expansion of the previously-existing Ballard Store into a ±4,800 s.f. Jiffy Mart convenience store along with gasoline and diesel fuel sales. The project includes a 1,100 s.f. “Subway” fast food restaurant and 10 fueling positions, and will be served by a new gravity sewer main and municipal water main extension. The project is located at the intersection of Ballards Corner Road and Shelburne

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PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING RE: VERMONT GAS SYSTEMS, INC.’S PROPOSED SYSTEM EXPANSION AND RELIABILITY FUND The Public Service Board (“Board”) will hold a public hearing regarding the establishment of a System Expansion and Reliability Fund (the “Fund” – Docket 7712) requested by Vermont Gas on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 7:00 P.M., in Cafeteria No. 2 at the South Burlington High School, located at 550 Dorset Street, South Burlington, Vermont. Customers and members of the public are invited to offer comment on the proposal. The hearing location is handicapped accessible. Any person with a disability who requires special accommodation should contact the Public Service Board at 802-8282358 by no later than May 4, 2011, if they will need that accommodation. Effective April 22, 2011, Vermont Gas customers were eligible to receive a rate reduction of approximately 5.4% under the Company’s Alternative Regulation Plan, as a result of the continuing decline in wholesale gas costs. This would be the tenth rate reduction in two and a half years. Vermont Gas has proposed establishing the Fund, which will generate approximately $4.4 million each year – which represents what would have been a rate reduction of about $5.40 per month for the average residential heating customer. The Board has authorized the Fund to be established on an interim basis and is now considering whether to approve the Fund on an on-going basis. At this time, the Board is not considering expenditures from the Fund or specific projects for which Vermont Gas may seek to use the Fund in the future. If approved, Vermont Gas states that the Fund could be used to support future pipeline projects that: (1) Reduce overall energy costs in Vermont; (2) Increase capacity of the existing pipeline system;

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vehicle at the following locations unless engaged in loading or unloading the vehicle:

2. 11-0734CA/CU: 668 PINE STREET (ELM, Ward 5) STERN PROPERTIES, LLC New addition at side, install rooftop solar panel system and storm water collection system.

(43) [On the south side of Pearl Street beginning 25 feet west of Church Street and extending west for 40 feet, for a maximum time limit of thirty (30) minutes.] Reserved.

3. 11-0547PD: 196 NORTH CHAMPLAIN STREET (RM, Ward 3) ANTHONY TRAN Major Planned Unit Development for removal of garage and construction of a new detached house on lot with existing house.

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Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by Monday, May 9, 2011.

4. 11-0719VR: 36 LUCK STREET (RM, Ward 2) ROBERT THIBAULT Variance for side yard setback.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 15th day of April, 2011.

(4) Improve reliability of the existing distribution system. Vermont Gas will not expend any monies from the Fund without Vermont Public Service Board approval. If the Fund is not required for system expansion and reliability projects, the monies from the fund will be refunded to customers, with interest. Members of the public may file written comments with the Board by regular mail or by e-mail at: psb.clerk@state.vt.us. More information is also available at Vermont Gas’ website: www.vermontgas.com . The Board’s website is: www.psb.vermont.gov. Contacts: Eileen Simollardes, Vice-President Supply and Regulatory Affairs Vermont Gas Systems, P.O. Box 467 Burlington, VT 05402-0467 Or via e-mail to: Esimollardes@vermontgas.com.

By /s/Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5662 E/ stephanie. monaghan@state.vt.us BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Tuesday May 17, 2011 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday May 17, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications:

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criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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Adopted this 16th day of March 2011 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest: Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant DirectorTechnical Services Adopted 3/16/2011; Published 4/27/2011; Effective 5/18/2011 Material in [Brackets] delete. Material underlined add. City of Montpelier REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) REACH Care Bank Program Partner Responses Due: May 31, 2011, 3:00 PM The City of Montpelier (the City) seeks a program partner to assist the city with the implementation of an innovative program funded by the Administration on Aging to build a supportive network of people who meet community needs and provide for our aging population through the exchange of services. The full RFP can be found on the city web site: http:// www.montpelier-vt.org/ notice/464/REQUESTFOR-PROPOSAL-RFPREACH-Care-BankProgram-Partner.html EQUIPMENT SALE TOWN OF ST ALBANS VT The Town of St Albans VT has the following equipment for sale: Fire Department Rescue Vehicle: 1994 Chevrolet K3500 w/ dual rear wheels with rescue style 12 ft. body. Vehicle has 26,000 original miles, 7.4 liter 454 c.i., with 165 amp leese-neville alternator. Also included: 4000 watt RV generator and two 1000W Extendalite scene lights. Vehicle can be seen at J & L Service Center, 216 South Main Street, St Albans. Questions? Call Chief

Cross at (802) 782-1655 or Ass’t. Chief Swann at (802) 782-1149. Please submit bids in a sealed envelope marked “FD Truck Bid” addressed to Christine Murphy, Town Manager, P.O. Box 37 St Albans Bay VT 05481. All bids must be received by Friday, June 11, 2011. Bids will be opened by the Selectboard at their public meeting on Monday, June 14, 2011. Boat Motor: The Fire Department is selling a 1999 Yamaha 200 Saltwater Series outboard motor w/ associated controls. For more information contact Jay Sweeney at 752-7269 or Randy Swann at 782-1149. Please send a sealed bid marked “FD Boat Motor” on the outside and addressed to Christine Murphy, Town Manager PO Box 37, St Albans Bay, VT 05481. Bids will be accepted until May 15, 2011. Department of Public Works: For questions about any of the following equipment that is for sale, please contact Steve Beauregard, Director of Public Works at 782-0934. All items can be viewed at the St Albans Town Public Works Garage on Georgia Shore Road. Please send a sealed bid that clearly indicates on the outside of the envelop which piece of equipment you are bidding on and address it to Christine Murphy, Town Manager PO Box 37, St Albans Bay, VT 05481. Bids will be accepted until May 15, 2011. - 1985 Chevy Blazer 4x4 diesel in poor condition runs, needs battery $300 - 1978 International Street Sweeper in poor condition, $500 - Stainless steel 9” Auger tailgate sander for dump body truck, very good condition $1,750. INVITATION TO BID The Town of St Albans, VT is accepting bids for a replacement motor for the Fire Department’s 21’ Sea Hawk rescue boat. Specifications: 200 hp 2-stroke engine with associated controls and gauges to include steering assist. To respond to this Invitation to Bid please submit a sealed bid with “FD Replacement Motor” marked on the outside to Christine Murphy, Town Manager, PO Box 37, St Albans Bay, VT 05481. If you have questions, please contact Jay Sweeney at 752-7269.

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prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. If you cannot attend the hearing but would still like to exercise your right to be heard, comments may be made in writing prior to the hearing and mailed to: Zoning Administrator, P.O. Box 32 Underhill Center, VT 05490 or to underhillzoning@comcast.net. NOTICE OF SALE According to the terms and conditions of a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale in the matter of Vermont Housing Finance Agency v. James R. Sheeran, et al., Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division, Docket No. S1056-10 Cnc, foreclosing a mortgage given by James R. Sheeran and Rebecca Sheeran to North Country Federal Credit Union dated November 22, 2004 and recorded in Volume 896, Page 603 of the Burlington land records (the Mortgage) presently held Plaintiff Vermont Housing Finance Agency, for the purpose of foreclosing the Mortgage for breach of the conditions of the Mortgage, the real estate with an E-911 address of 180 Woodbury Road, Burlington, Vermont (the

Property) will be sold at public auction at 8:30 a.m. on May 20, 2011 at the location of the Property. The Property to be sold is all and the same land and premises described in the Mortgage, and further described as follows: All and the same lands and premises conveyed to James R. Sheeran and Rebecca Sheeran by warranty deed of Alberta K. Sarabia dated November 22, 2004 and of record in Volume 896, Page 601 of the Burlington land records. The Property may be subject to easements, rights-of-way of record and other interests of record Terms of Sale: The Property will be sold to the highest bidder, who will pay $10,000.00 at sale in cash, certified, treasurer’s or cashier’s check made payable to Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP Client Trustee Account (or by wire transfer, if arrangements for wire transfer are made in advance, confirmation of wire transfer is available before commencement of sale and bidder pays additional fees required

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Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP 802-482-2905. Dated: March 11, 2011 David Rath, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE According to the terms and conditions of a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale in the matter of Vermont Housing Finance Agency v. Warren R. Costello, et al., Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division, Docket No. S1040-10 Cnc, foreclosing a mortgage given by Warren R. Costello and Lesleigh J. Costello to Chittenden Trust Co. d/b/a Mortgage Service Center dated July 9, 2004 and recorded in Volume 299, Page 492 of the Milton Land Records (the Mortgage) presently held Plaintiff Vermont Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of foreclosing the Mortgage for breach of the conditions of the Mortgage, the real estate with an E-911 address of 6 Harvest Lane, Milton, Vermont

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NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Wendover Financial Services Corporation to Marion T. Blair dated April 14, 1993 and recorded in Volume 46, Page 465 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:45 A.M. on May 10, 2011, at H.C.R. Box 323, Huntington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being two contiguous parcels of land more particularly described as follows: Parcel One Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Roy C. Blair (now deceased) and Marion T. Blair by Warranty Deed of Robert A. Lavallee and Gail P. Lavallee dated June 6, 1978 and recorded in Volume 28 at Page 440 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington. Parcel Two Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Roy C. Blair (now deceased) and Marion T. Blair by Warranty Deed of James J. Rozon and Laura L. Rozon dated May 26, 1983 and recorded in Volume 31 at Page 161 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Huntington.

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for Commissioner of the Federal Housing Development dated June 12, 1985 and recorded in Volume 102, Page 216 of the Town of Colchester Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of April, 2011. PHH Mortgage Corporation By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S0653-10 Cnc Central Mortgage Company, Plaintiff v. Bradley S. Miller, Hillary Boucher, Applied Bankand Occupants residing at 1185 Porters Point Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Central Mortgage Company to Bradley S. Miller dated March 11, 2008 and recorded in Volume 608, Page 7 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 A.M. on May 10, 2011, at 1185 Porters Point Road, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Bradley S. Miller and Hillary Boucher dated March 14, 2008, and recorded in

Volume 608, Page 5 of the Town of Colchester Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester.

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SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Black River Produce, Inc., Krzystof Plociennik, Law Offices of Gary W. Lange, Ltd., Danaher Attig and Plante, PLC, Murdoch Hughes & Twarog, Attorneys at Law, P.C., Citibank (South Dakota) N.A., Greg Yandow d/b/a Silvery Moon Landscape & Lighting, and Occupants residing at 509 Highlands Drive, Williston, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by EverHome Mortgage Company to Wioletta Plociennik Individually and as Trustee of the Wioletta Plociennik Trust dated October 9, 2002 and recorded in Volume 336, Page 884 of the Land Records of the Town of Williston, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:00 A.M. on May 24, 2011, at 509 Highlands Drive, Williston, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Williston.

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NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by EverHome Mortgage Company to Gerald A. Bruno, Jr. dated July 9, 2003 and recorded in Volume 25, Page 387 of the Land Records of the Town of St. George, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:00 A.M. on May 10, 2011, at 76 Leeway Circle, St. George, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premise conveyed to Gerald A. Bruno, Jr., by Warranty Deed of Anne M. Felber and Michael A. Felber dated February 29, 2003 and of record at Book 24, page 440 of the Town of St. George Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of St. George. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of April, 2011.

Offers the following vehicle for sale to the highest bidder: 2008 Dodge Charger White, 4 door sedan Mileage – 93,393 This vehicle can be viewed at the Public Works Office. The vehicle is being sold in “as is condition”. The minimum bid accepted for this vehicle is $5,500.00. Sealed bids will be accepted until 2:00pm, May 6, 2011 in the Public Works Office, 7878 Williston Road, Williston, VT 05495.

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YOUR TRUSTED LOCAL SOURCE. SEVENDAYSVT.COM/JOBS Digital MeDia CoorDinator Digital Media Coordinators at Kelliher Samets Volk are responsible for the day-to-day support of all digital media channels. He/she acts as the primary coordinator of media information between the Director of Digital Strategy and Media Planners. Must be an analytical thinker with a passion for marketing. Must thrive in fast-paced, high demand environments with great attention to detail.

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Program Officer – Climate & Environment The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) in Montpelier, VT, is seeking a program ofﬁcer to support our environmental programming. Excellent research and information management skills, experience in promoting community-scale action in energy efﬁciency and climate mitigation, and strong interpersonal and communication skills required. Technical expertise in climate-related issues preferred. Visit www.iscvt.org/who_we_are/jobs/ for full description and application instructions. ISC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 3h-InstituteSustainable-042711.indd 1

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Assistant Project Manager New England Air Systems, a leading mechanical contractor in Vermont, is currently seeking an Assistant Project Manager. Position requires previous construction industry and financial experience with focus on accuracy and attention to detail. Candidate must possess initiative and strong organization skills, and have the ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines. Must possess knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel, and have the ability to learn company financial software. The ability to deal with people by communicating effectively verbally and in writing. Candidate must work closely with Project Managers and Foremen and have the ability to function as a team player. Benefits include an excellent compensation package including an industry leading wage of $20 - $25/hr., paid vacation, 401(k) savings plan, and exceptional medical, dental, disability and life insurance plans. To obtain an application, call 802-864-3800 or send resume to Human Resources, P.O. Box 525, Williston, VT 05495, fax to 802-864-3904, or email to cabenenati@neair.com.

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position is primarily a program supervisory and leadership position with some administrative responsibilities, including assisting with the supervision, training, and development of paid and volunteer staff, and with the planning and organization of a diverse recreational program offering. Individual must possess a working knowledge of the philosophy, principles, and objectives of community recreation, and a bachelor’s degree in recreation or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The position is full-time and requires flexible hours to conduct and/or supervise programs during the day, evening, and weekend hours. Tentative start date is early June. Submit resume and cover letter by May 4, to City of South Burlington, Attn: Human Resources, 575 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT 05403 or email to jladd@sburl.com. 5h-CitySouthBurl-Asst-042711.indd 1

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Center for Technology, Essex Seeking a dynamic, dedicated, and motivated professional to provide academic and hands-on technical instruction to students in our fast-paced Natural Resources-Mechanical/Agricultural Sciences career and technical program. Primary program units include heavy equipment operation, welding, small engines and electricity. Qualified candidates must hold a valid VT Educator license with a Career and Technical endorsement in Agriculture/Natural Resources or be willing and able to obtain a VT Apprenticeship license through the mentorship program. Associate’s degree required. For additional qualifications and application requirements, please visit our website at www.ccsuvt.org (click on Job Opportunities). Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com. Job ID#45467. EOE. 5h-ChitCentralSU-042711.indd 1

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Our Packaging Team is responsible for handpackaging our specialty chocolates, assembling gift baskets, boxing/bagging chocolate confections, wrapping bars and labeling products to delight our customers with the uncompromising quality that they can count on.

PT for CARQUEST of South Burlington. Drive store vehicle. Knowledge of area helpful. Drug test, good driving record required. Apply at 1725 Williston Road, South Burlington, or call Taylor at 802-658-3292.

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animal lover Busy boarding kennel looking for a P/T reliable animal lover. Good people and pet skills a must! Must be willing to work weekends and holidays. Serious inquiries only. Immediate employment. Call 802-893-3451 for an interview.

Live Outdoors Landscaping is hiring for seasonal employees. Please contact 802-922-1055 if interested. References required. Shelburne, VT.

As Packaging Team Lead, you are responsible for effectively leading a team of four to eight people to meet daily goals and assignments. 1-LiveOutdoors-042711.indd 1 1-CarQuest-042011.indd 1 4/18/11 2:44:05 1-PineHillKennel-042711.indd PM 1 4/25/11 12:16:07 PM Qualified candidates will have strong interpersonal, math and computer skills, and be detail oriented. Candidates who have knowledge of packaging functions, procedures, Quality Control Standards, and previous experience leading teams are preferred. Must is a designated provider of developmental and mental health services, now celebrating 40+ years of services to be well organized and have the ability to motivate and support the the Lamoille County community. We currently have the following opportunities available: team(s). Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs., stand for long periods of time and follow established procedures. Full time, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mon. through Fri. If interested, send a cover letter, resume and list of three references to employment@lakechamplainchocolates.com. EOE

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Lamoille Community Connections ASAP

Shared Living Provider oPPortunity

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CCS is looking for two individuals to share 24-hour home supports for an especially warm charming and fun man in his downtown Burlington home. Shifts/overnights can be worked every other week, or on a rotating three- and four-day work week (other work schedules are possible upon agreement of all parties). The ideal candidates will have experience working with individuals with developmental and physical disabilities and be energetic and team oriented. VNA and accessible van support provided along with all needed trainings. This is a rare opportunity to do important work with a flexible schedule. Contact Elizabeth Sightler at 802-655-0511 ext. 120 or esightler@ccs-vt.org for more information.

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WEB DEVELOPER/ PROGRAMMER New Full-Time Temporary Position <could become permanent>

We’re looking for an experienced Web Developer/Programmer with strong knowledge of major web programming applications, web development language, content management systems, as well as information architecture, web ads and SEO. Ability to integrate backend coding with front end UI design and to address cross-browser/cross-platform issues. Knowledge of popular social media APIs such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Foursquare and Facebook. Flash a definite +. Team player. Fast-paced, creative environment. Must work on-premise. Email resumé, cover letter and worksample links to: nelson@lisaius.com 337 College St. | Burlington, VT 05401 | www.lisaius.com

Are you looking for a rewarding career? Lamoille Community Connections is seeking local residents to join our team as members of our new and exciting program, the Public Inebriate Program of Lamoille County, known as ASAP (Alcohol Substance Abuse Program). There are a variety of immediate openings available. We will train qualified candidates for these positions. LCC will be collaborating with community partners to provide substance abuse/mental health services for individuals and their families. The positions available are Recovery Care Coordinator and Public Inebriate Screeners. Recovery Care Coordinator is a part-time position (25 hours per week) that will refer program participants to the appropriate community providers to ensure continuity of care. The Recovery Care Coordinator will contact participants following release to coordinate services to ensure positive outcomes. The Public Inebriate Screeners are on-call stipend positions, and in addition to the stipend will receive an hourly rate for actual hours worked. These positions require flexibility in scheduling. The program will provide screenings, assessments and referrals for public inebriates. A minimum of three years of related experience such as law enforcement, corrections, military or substance abuse counseling is preferred. Send your resume to Director of Human Resources, LCC, 72 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, or email to janem@lamoille.org.

Case Management Position

Immediate opening for a case management position in our residential program. The job duties will include assistance with transitioning adult consumers into the community. The ideal candidate will have the ability to provide counseling and support services, which include case management, outreach and supported employment. Working as a team member with residential staff, as well as flexibility in scheduling, is required. A bachelor’s degree in psychology or a related field is required. Send your resume to Director of Human Resources, LCC, 72 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, or email to janem@lamoille.org.

Behavior Interventionists

Several openings for the position of Behavior Interventionist. These positions are full time, year round, and offer an excellent benefit package. The Behavior Interventionist is responsible for 1:1 therapeutic intervention with schoolage children who have developmental disabilities and/or emotional/behavioral disorders in school and community settings. A bachelor’s degree is required with a minimum of two years’ related experience. Send your resume to Director of Human Resources, LCC, 72 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, or email to janem@lamoille.org.

Substitute Residential Position

Immediate opening for an on-call substitute position in our group home, which is located in Johnson, Vt. The person in this position works as part of our team to maintain a caring and therapeutic environment for our residents. Responsibilities include implementation of treatment plans and documentation to meet standards for licensing and funding. Flexibility in scheduling is required. Send your resume to Director of Human Resources, LCC, 72 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, or email to janem@lamoille.org.

Copley House Care Worker

Lamoille Community Connections’ residential home Copley House, located in Morrisville, has an opening for a full-time 40-hour-per-week position. This person will work as a member of the Copley House Team to ensure safety for all residents. Responsibilities include establishing/maintaining a caring, respectful therapeutic atmosphere, implementing treatment plans, and maintaining books/charts and building to meet standards for licensing and funding. This position requires the ability to work a flexible schedule that includes overnights and weekends. Send your resume to Director of Human Resources, LCC, 72 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, or email to janem@lamoille.org. An Equal Opportunity Employer 10v-LamoilleComm-042711.indd 1

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Office Of AdvAncement OppOrtunities Champlain College welcomes applicants for two positions in the Office of Advancement:

Foundation and Corporate Relations Director and

Advancement Services Assistant For more information about these positions, please visit www.champlain.edu/hr. The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment. Champlain College values, supports, and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives of students, faculty, and staff. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Web Application Developer (LAMP) Internet publisher seeks web application developer (LAMP). Williston-based company is hiring a second web app developer for coding, testing, app maintenance and prototyping. Experience with PHP5, HTML5/ CSS required. Competitive salary plus benefits. Learn more at www.bfpublishing.com/careers Send cover letter and resume to jobs@bfpublishing.com

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Established insurance agency in Chittenden County looking for an insurance service representative to work in a busy office. Provide superior customer service to new and existing clients. Handle and process new business and renewals to ensure customer retention. Work as a team with other staff members to achieve production and agency goals. Working knowledge of the full suite of MS applications. Past experience in banking and insurance a plus. Outstanding references and a solid work history demonstrating a commitment to previous positions held required. Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a cover letter and resume to erica@reachthemarktraining.com. No phone calls.

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Adult Mental Health Clinician Outpatient psychotherapist needed to provide clinical services including diagnosis, assessment, and psychotherapy to adults in individual, couples and group format. A master's degree, license eligible, and one-year experience providing psychotherapy required for this full-time, salaried position.

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CCS is seeking dynamic and energetic people to provide oneon-one inclusion supports to a variety of individuals with developmental disabilities. Work with a team of professionals assisting individuals to reach goals and realize dreams. We are currently offering a 20.75-hours-per-week, Monday-throughFriday, fully benefited position. If you are interested in joining our diverse team, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz at staff@ccs-vt.org. Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Ave. Colchester, VT 05446 (802) 655-0511

The Vermont Oxford Network (VON) has an opening on its IT team for a versatile team player. As QA Analyst, you will assure the WCMHS provides an exceptional benefit package for quality of all client-server and web salaried positions, a stimulating and supportive working applications developed at VON. You environment, and many opportunities for professional growth. will develop, maintain and document test plans and manual and automated Please send resumes to: test scripts. You must be familiar with Personnel Department validation, functional, regression, Washington County Mental Health Services concurrency and installer test cases. You will execute tests as required, P.O. Box 647 and provide accurate, timely feedback Montpelier, VT 05601. EOE to the development team and Champlain Community Services management. As a Technical Support Specialist you will assist VON clients with software 4t-WCMH-042711.indd 1 4/25/11 12:14:56 PMsupport issues, develop knowledge- 4t-ChampCommServ2-042711.indd 1 4/25/11 4:18:10 PM base articles and analyze root causes of new issues identified by end users. Candidates must have a degree AwAke Overnight COunselOr – in computer science or associated discipline, or the equivalent hOspitAl DiversiOn prOgrAm COunselOr Full-time Visiting instructor applied experience; be well Hospital Diversion Program Biology Department versed in best practices relating to software development QA, process The Hospital Diversion program of NFI Vermont is seeking an Awake Nontenure track, full-time (with benefits) instructor position for the 2011methodologies and toolsets; have Overnight Counselor. As a community alternative to psychiatric 2012 academic year, with half of teaching responsibilities in laboratory meticulous attention to detail and hospitalization, Hospital Diversion provides crisis stabilization, sections of introductory courses in the biology major. Have teaching superior problem-solving skills. comprehensive clinical assessment, individual and family treatment and experience with undergraduates, and be comfortable teaching fielddischarge planning in a small, safe residential setting. The Awake Overnight VON offers a competitive salary and Counselor provides supervision and support to the youth during the oriented laboratory sections of our introductory course in the fall and benefits package. To apply, please sleeping hours. If you are interested in gaining some practical experience lab-based introductory laboratory sections in the spring. Minimum of a email a cover letter and resume to in the human services field, this is a fantastic opportunity. Bachelor’s degree master’s degree in biology (or a subspecialty) required. Laboratory teaching careers@vtoxford.org with subject preferred. Superior interpersonal skills and ability to function in a team experience; background in ecology/field biology; some background in cell “QA Analyst.” atmosphere a must. Position is 30 hours a week with a comprehensive biology and genetics preferred. Review of applications will begin May 9 and The Vermont Oxford Network is benefits package. continue until position is filled. All offers of employment are contingent on dedicated to improving the quality and successful completion of background check and driving record check. Please submit a cover letter and resume to: ChristineCiavola@nafi.com or safety of medical care for newborn mail to: Christine Kubacz, 100 Allen Road, South Burlington, VT 05403. For full job description and to apply online go to infants and their families. For more http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com. information, visit www.vtoxford.org. WWW.NAFI.COM

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Residential Housekeeping Looking for a dependable person with good housekeeping skills to work 30 hours, Monday-Friday. Dependable vehicle a must. $10/hr. Please call

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Are you a hard-working, dedicated person who can tackle any event with ease — from muddy summer music festivals to swanky black-tie affairs to grocery stores and everything in between to spread the word of our distinctive brand and world class beer? If so, you could be one of Magic Hat’s traveling events staff starting in May. Long hours and extensive travel are not only part of the job, they are the job.

Named one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont in 2011, Fuse is a leading youth marketing agency that connects brands with teens and young adults through sports, music, fashion, gaming and other interests. We are seeking a highly organized Operations Assistant to provide administrative support to the Operations group with finance, human resources and building operations responsibilities. Ideal candidate will have exceptional organization, timemanagement and communication skills along with expertlevel MS Office skills. Business degree, prior administrative experience and a sense of humor are required.

Please explain how you’re quick to solve problems, creative and the right person for the job. To view a full listing of our current openings and learn more about the Magic Hat experience, visit www.magichat.net.

For complete job description and to apply, please visit www.fusemarketing.com/jobs.

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Excellent Employment Opportunities P/T Production at Temporary, Temp-to-Hire Ben and Jerry’s and Permanent Positions in St. Albans Immediate temp. openings A leading recruiting 1st, nationwide 2nd & 3rd shifts and vary, staffing firm seeks Days 8-40 hour/wk. experienced, enthusiastic, $10-$11/hr. organized and detail-oriented Super attitude, lift 50 lbs, professionals for required. various background check businesses in Chittenden Please apply online at County. Temporary, temp-towww.spherion.com/jobs hire, and Ref#permanent 1001131781positions or in administration, accounting, call 1-800-639-6560 customer service. MS Office skills. Competitive pay and benefits! Apply online at www.spherion.com/jobs. Use reference ID: 1001447604

he Lodge at Shelburne Bay and The Lodge at Otter Creek are premier adult living communities located in Vermont. We are now hiring for a variety of positions at all levels. Both communities are owned and operated by Bullrock Corporation, an equal opportunity employer. We offer a range of benefits, opportunity for advancement and full and part time positions. Join our team today. Current positions available now:

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HallKeen Management Inc. (AMO) is seeking a well-qualiﬁed Maintenance Director to oversee the Winooski Falls development in downtown Winooski, Vt. This position reports to the Senior Property Manager, and has overall responsibility for the physical maintenance and operations of each component of the property including commercial, mixed-income and student rental housing, as well as luxury condominiums. This is a hands-on, working director position. The candidate must have experience with all building systems including HVAC, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, and be able to effectively manage vendors to make repairs and perform maintenance on these systems. In addition, the position directly supervises a team of maintenance technicians to perform routine work order and preventative maintenance, apartment turnover, and janitorial and trash porter services.

Health Services Director & LPN positions available. Full & Part Time Care Staff & Dining Services positions available evenings, days and nights.

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This position also participates in the rotating on-call schedule. The well-qualified candidate will have demonstrated outstanding supervisory skills, financial understanding, time management and organizational ability through prior employment, and will ideally have licensure in one or more trades. A strong customer service and team approach is a must. Please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to Diane Finnigan, c/o Keen’s Crossing, 65 Winooski Falls Way, Suite 100, Winooski VT 05404, or dfinnigan@keenscrossing.com. HallKeen Management Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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District transportation Mechanic Qualified candidate must have two to five years’ experience in mechanical work. Candidate must have a license for certified mechanic, driver’s and CDL license. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Candidate must have the ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Must be able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community. Demonstrate ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effective organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

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HowardCenter improves the well-being of children, adults, families and communities.

This position will remain open until filled. Candidates may forward their resume and three current references to: Diane Kinnon, Human Resource Department, S. Burlington School District, 550 Dorset St., S. Burlington, VT 05403 or apply at www.sbschools.net. E O E

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Child, Youth and Family Services AssistAnt Director, comprehensive cAre Seeking a dynamic individual to provide major operational and administrative leadership within our program. This position carries a unique opportunity for upward mobility as a leader in the program. Comprehensive Care provides high-quality treatment for children and youth in out-of-home care that is family centered and trauma informed with attention to permanency planning for all children. The Assistant Director provides supervision for staff and therapeutic foster parents, carries budget responsibility, may assist in clinical program development, is familiar with standardized measures for assessment and outcomes, provides clinical pager backup, and represents our program on county- and statewide forums. Candidates will have five years of clinical experience with children and families, particularly within higher levels of care; three years as a supervisor; experience with wraparound philosophy and ARC framework for trauma treatment desirable.

Developmental Services intensive community support Worker 23-year-old dedicated equestrian woman needs 25 hours of support in northern Chittenden County. Ideal candidate must have experience supporting individuals with PDD & MH co-occurring issues. Near-peer-age or young-at-heart female needed to be integral part of a multidisciplinary team providing innovate self-care and independent living skills. Benefits eligible. intensive community support Worker This dedicated fisherman is looking for up to 32 hours of support in the S. Burlington area. This 53-year-old man enjoys grabbing a cup of coffee, attending sporting events and visiting a local horse farm. Ideal candidate has considerable experience supporting individuals with challenging behaviors and is able to set and maintain solid boundaries... and loves fishing! Clear communication and consistent motivational skills required. Hours can be between 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and/or 4 to 7 p.m., weekdays. speciAlizeD community support Worker 50-year-old man passionate about fishing, hiking and photography, and who is planning a Caribbean vacation, needs 25 flexible hours of weekday support. This guy does best with someone who has clear communication and boundaries and is creative, lighthearted, and willing to drop a line in or hike up Camels Hump. Providing transportation required. Benefits eligible.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse supervisory cliniciAn substAnce Abuse – chittenDen clinic Full-time position to provide clinical services to clients with a substance abuse diagnosis, as well as to clients with co-occurring disorders. Individual will provide clinical evaluations and make referrals for clients to appropriate services; develop and review individualized treatment plans; provide clinical supervision to one or more colleagues; and perform clinical and/or administrative tasks, including completion of clinical records and follow-up on authorization of treatment services from managed care companies. Afternoon or evening coverage may be required. Master’s degree required. LADC required, LCMHC preferred.

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employment counselor Full-time position, working in an evidence-based supported employment program assisting individuals recovering from mental illness with their employment and educational goals. Responsibilities include community-based assessment, skill and comfort level developing a wide range of jobs in the community and a desire to work on a multidisciplinary team. Bachelor’s in human services, two years’ human service work experience, valid Vermont driver’s license, registered vehicle and knowledge of community resources required. Knowledge of the Burlington business community preferred For more information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at www.howardcentercareers.org. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper applications are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees. 10v-howard-fullagency042711.indd 1

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Child Care Resource

Early Childhood Outreach Co-Coordinator Child Care Resource is seeking a personable, curious, creative and organized early childhood professional to develop relationships and implement projects that will improve the lives of young children in the South Burlington community. This individual will have primary responsibility for staffing the South Burlington bookmobile in collaboration with the South Burlington Library, will coordinate mentor support for early care and education programs serving South Burlington children, and will participate in a range of additional outreach activities. Our ideal candidate will be an experienced teacher/mentor, hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or a related field, have comprehensive knowledge of early care and education, and will have the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people. Thirty hours per week, flexible schedule, generous vacation. Friendly, casual yet fast-paced environment. Email cover letter, resume by May 2 to emeyer@childcareresource.org. For more information, visit our website at www.childcareresource.org.

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Art Director

Responsibilities include: • Digital and integrated experience is a must • Strong client-facing communication, presentation and interpersonal skills • A portfolio packed with great thinking and amazing execution • 3-5 years of professional conceptual and design experience working for an agency To learn more about this position, visit our website at http://www.ksvc.com/pages/careers/. Please send your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to jobs@ksvc.com.

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looking for motivated, flexible team players to join our growing

childcare team

in Essex, Williston, Milton and soon-to-be South Burlington locations. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor! Pay based on education and experience. Contact Krista at krista@leapsvt.com.

Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. This opening and others are updated daily. Student Services Specialist, in the Office of Student Services, College of Nursing and Health Sciences - Enable the College to meet demands of multiple, varied, and sophisticated constituent groups with whom timely and appropriate communication and guidance are essential. Run the College's first-year student advising program, which offers all first-year students proactive advising and support through a portfolio of academic and co-curricular activities. Help the CNHS to build relationships with prospective, external, and internal constituent groups via recruiting and retention initiatives, and provide enhanced academic advising. Qualifications: Modern-day communicator who is comfortable developing and implementing methods to connect with and engage a diverse audience including our current and future CNHS community. Desire to advance diversity and diverse perspectives; able to work well with, and give direction and advice to, students and faculty; an understanding of healthrelated curricula. A review of applications will begin immediately. For further information on this position or to apply with electronic application, resume, cover letter, and a list of references with contact information, visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Lean Coordinator

Hiring for all positions, including directors.

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Art Directors at Kelliher Samets Volk are responsible for the conception, design, and execution of innovative visual materials for integrated, cross channel initiatives including: websites, online/traditional advertising and digital marketing. Individuals should possess strong conceptual and design skills.

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Engaging minds that change the world

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College Counselor Part-time (24 hours per week, 32 weeks per year) Non-bargaining unit position, Vermont State Colleges Grade 11 Johnson State College invites applications for the position of College Counselor. The successful candidate will have a master’s degree in counseling or related field, doctorate desirable, with appropriate license or certification or licensable within six months, plus two years of relevant counseling and administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. Specific training in alcohol and drug education and experience with student development and counseling necessary. Broad base of technical knowledge related to counseling theories and techniques. Excellent counseling skills, including crisis, intervention and assessment, with experience in counseling issues of young adults (drug and alcohol use/abuse, sexual issues, eating disorders, family relationships, etc.). Good understanding of relevant diagnostic and testing methods. Ability to deal effectively with a wide range of individuals and groups, including public speaking and presentation skills in response to campus crisis events. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Send a completed JSC job application (at www.jsc.edu/employment), resume and cover letter to: Susan.Rothschild@jsc.edu OR mail to Human Resources Office, College Counselor, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656-9898. Final offer of employment is subject to a fingerprintsupported criminal background check. JSC strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. JSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of the Vermont State Colleges system. In compliance with ADA requirements, we will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

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Since Taste closed at 112 Lake Street in Burlington in 2009, the prime restaurant real estate has remained vacant. Until now. On May 5, a Japanese restaurant called SAN SAI will open its doors. According to co-owner CHRIS RUSSO, in modern Japanese san sai refers to produce grown in the mountains. In an older version of the language, he says, it means “foraged edible.” Both meanings seem appropriate for the restaurant’s business model. Though Russo remains tightlipped on the identity of his business partner, the Vermont Secretary of State’s office confirms that it is KAZUTOSHI MAEDA, a Japanese native who has been chef and owner at New York City restaurants for the past 35 years. In 2001, he opened Tsuki, a beloved midtown sushi spot, but he will come to Vermont to open San Sai. Says Russo, “My business partner, he’s the head, I’m the arm.” The “head” will train the “arm” to take over the role of head chef eventually, he adds. Maeda’s experience aside, don’t expect sushi to be one of the major attractions at San Sai. “Up until recent times in Japan, sushi was a treat, not everyday food,” Russo explains. Instead, the focus will be on handmade dishes crafted from local products. “It’s big for this area, but that’s how most people eat in Japan,” says Russo of the localvore trend. “Their cuisine is based on local, seasonal ingredients.” Russo has partnered with TAMARACK HOLLOW FARM, where AMANDA ANDREWS is growing a laundry list of Japanese fruits and vegetables specifically for San Sai. Burdock and bitter melon are in the ground, as are shiso and Japanese varieties of turnips, gourds and cucumbers.

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Tamarack Hollow will also supply chickens, which Russo will use for yakitori. “We will be using about every part,” he says of the traditional skewered fowl. “Chicken heart, cartilage, tendons … and not just chicken; there’ll be pork, beef and vegetables, too.” At San Sai, Russo says, vegetarian fare will be far from an afterthought. Tofu will be made in-house and used in cold dishes this summer and hot pots in the cold months, when Japanese curries are also likely to grace the menu.

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The dinner-anda-movie trend has hit Williston. Next month, OSCAR’S, a full-service restaurant and bar, will open at the MAJESTIC 10. The open space near the ticket counter that was once filled with chairs will house a bar and room for about 50 diners, says HAROLD BLANK who co-owns the Majestic with the MERRILL JARVIS family. If all goes well, the eatery will open on May 13, and no later than May 20, promises Blank. Last week, Blank hired TODD HOUSTON as chef. The NEW ENGLAND CULINARY INSTITUTE grad will be fresh from the line at FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL. Blank says to expect local ingredients in Oscar’s American cuisine, but he’s quick to clarify, “We’re not going to be the Farmhouse, though I wouldn’t mind being the Farmhouse.” The bar will offer beer and wine, and Blank says to expect a late-night menu. To fill the wee-hours entertainment gap in Williston, after the last picture show, Blank plans to schedule live comedy, jazz and possibly trivia nights at Oscar’s on weekend nights. Food and drink won’t be served in the theaters, but Blank says he and Houston are working on creating desserts that can be enjoyed in front of the big screen. He also hopes portable bento-style boxes with items such as chicken skewers and fries will make it onto the menu. Blank’s future goals include redesigning some of

the screening rooms to allow for balcony dining. Before that, he says, some late shows in one of the smaller cinemas may be designated 21-and-over so folks can imbibe alcohol with the flick. One thing is for sure, says Blank: Rather than rushing from dessert to the theater, diners at Oscar’s will be able to reserve seats, so they’ll be guaranteed both a full stomach and a good view.

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chickEN NADiA I prepared this light and flavorful chicken dish almost entirely from ingredients bought at Nadia International Halal Market. In less than an hour, you’ll be eating this chicken roulade wrapped around gooey akhawi cheese. 2 chicken breasts Salt and pepper to taste Garam masala to taste Cumin to taste 2 thick slices of akhawi cheese olive oil 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 cup chicken stock 1/2 cup pomegranate juice 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses Cover chicken breasts in plastic wrap and pound thin. Season one side with salt and pepper, then dust with garam masala. Add cumin for an earthier flavor. Cut slices of akhawi into chunks and distribute evenly across breast. Roll meat around cheese, gathering in the ends. With toothpicks, skewer roulade from both sides to hold steady. Lightly coat a skillet with olive oil and heat until just smoking. Brown chicken on all sides. Transfer meat to an oven-safe pan and heat in oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, or until cooked through. Meanwhile, add flour to skillet and lightly toast. Throw in chicken stock and cook until thick. Add pomegranate juice and reduce until sauce coats spoon. Turn off heat and mix in pomegranate molasses. plate chicken and spoon with pomegranate sauce. Serve with cracked wheat salad, fava beans or your favorite Middle Eastern sides.

of the Bantu minority, Dhere was accustomed to ethnic violence, but he finally left Somalia for a Kenyan refugee camp after he was shot twice in the leg. In 2004, he was accepted for residence first in Chicago, then in Vermont, where he had some family. Shortly after he arrived here, Dhere had a stroke that paralyzed his right side. He was 38. Friends and family asked Dhere “why [I] don’t apply for Social Security,” he recounts. “I said, ‘Leave it. I need to work.’” He believes his faith and his desire to raise money to bring his six children to America pushed him to recover. He worked as a translator for the Refugee Resettlement Program, then started his own taxi company, which entailed working 15-hour days, seven days a week. Dhere still works every day, but, as he listens to music behind the counter of his store, he says he’s pleased with

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overlooks New York Harbor and Manhattan. While the chef can’t reveal if his team moved forward on the first day, he has this to say about barbecue cooking in the dog days of summerin New York: “It was definitely challenging. If you’re not getting heat stroke, you’re getting rained on. But it was awesome.” How do you combine local food-sourcing ideals with a concern about botanical intruders on Vermont’s terroir? By becoming an “invasivore.”

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his accomplishments. “Now I can say I’m not lower class, I’m middle class,” he says. “Maybe someday I’ll be first class. If not, my children will be, because they have my blood and will work hard.” Once his six Somali children join him in Winooski with his 3-year-old, American-born son, Dhere has another business plan: He wants to open a restaurant. “We are very, very, very sorry we don’t have a restaurant,” he says of the local Somali community. “No

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Melaza is far from the typical, brightly lit urban Caribbean restaurant, as well as a total change from the eateries that previously inhabited the space. Fine woodwork and modern tables fill the bar and main dining rooms, and long benches covered with cushions and pillows line both rooms. “Melaza” means molasses in Spanish, and those warm tones are in evidence; vintage shutters and vivid murals decorate the walls. Upon entering, visitors are enveloped in color and aroma, not to mention hearty greetings from Van Kirk, the maitre d’. Wading through the menu is almost like wandering along a beach: Plantains, shellfish, rumguava glaze, tamarind, cassava Chef David Diaz and yucca all make appearances. Diaz obtains many of these items from Black River Produce, and fresh fish from Boston’s MF Foley Fish. Americans have come a long way in their taste for cross-cultural ingredients since he arrived in the U.S. in the 1980s, Diaz says. “When I first came here, fusion food was mango salsa, mango this, mango that. We don’t do that on the island. We eat the mango right from the tree.” Mangos do make at least one appearance at Melaza, on a creative cocktail menu based on Puerto Rican rum. I order one; the bartender takes to intense there in 1995. He stayed for 15 years, tap- muddling and eventually pours a notping European culinary techniques and too-sweet version over a tangle of fresh rolling out the dishes from his native mint. My companion’s coral-colored Melaza Mango & Pineapple Punch disPuerto Rico as occasional specials. Along the way, Diaz befriended appears in a few sips, in the dangerous Quechee resident James Van Kirk, who way some tropical drinks do when you had grown up in Puerto Rico, as well. can’t taste the rum. Van Kirk suggests the Caribbean Occasionally the pair would kick around tapas as a smooth ingress to the rest of ideas for a Caribbean eatery. Diaz appears to recall his years at the the menu. They’re served on an evenly Quechee Club with deep affection. But quartered white, square plate with a last summer, when he and Van Kirk saw morsel in each corner: grilled churrasco that Sevi’s Pub & Grill on Central Street chipotle steak on a skewer; an empanada in Woodstock had closed, Melaza began filled with lobster; an arepa, or corn cake, stuffed with a pale-red chicken to take shape. First came a dramatic renovation. sofrito; and a cornmeal fritter filled with “What we wanted was to do it classic, Monterey jack cheese and sun-dried to do it clean, to do it comfortable. The tomato. If you’re as hungry as we are, atmosphere had to be just right,” says it takes about three minutes to polish Diaz, who had a clear vision of the place. off all four. Nothing is overly spicy or as JUSTIN CASH

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pungent as we expected — the lobster is be remiss not to order it. When the dish understated, the grilled beef subtly sea- arrives, it almost looks like it belongs soned. The chicken sofrito arepa stands at a medieval feast: a double-fist-sized out the most, slightly saline and tasting piece of flesh slathered in a glaze that of creamy tomato and onions. has turned brick red under fire, bits of Diaz’s take on ceviche tostones — char clinging to its sides. We expect it cubes of citrus-marinated ahi tuna will taste both red hot and sticky sweet blended with diced pepper and herbs, on the tongue, but it is neither: The and then loaded on fried plantain chips succulent meat itself is the main star, — is drizzled with bright-green avocado with only a faint sweetness and a hint of crema. The dots of verde and fire- pepper. engine red are like a visual acid, making The massive scallops must have my mouth water before a single bite; the ruled their pocket of the sea — they’re ceviche turns out to be velvety but with- lined up like sentries on islands of out sharpness, its delicate flavor slightly creamy risotto, which itself is suroverpowered by the plaintain. rounded by a sea of brown curry sauce. After many years in Vermont, Diaz As in other Melaza dishes, no single says his cooking style has developed note leaps from the plate; rather, a New England inflection. When there’s a symphony of brininess from American-style warm dinner rolls the scallops, unctuous cream from the arrive on the table, for instance, they’re risotto, and faint coconut and earth in served alongside cilantro-specked oil. the sauce. He’ll grill queso fresco on skewers, We have few problems choosing descall it “farmer’s sert from among cheese lollipops” Caribbean and serve it with chocolate guava-rum sauce. volcano cake, Yet small plates mojito cake or such as camarones Key lime pie. al ajillo (grilled The caramel garlic shrimp) flan we finally and a traditional order is chilled Cubano (a pressed to extreme sandwich of firmness, which roasted pork, ham, slightly blunts pickles, Swiss its flavors. cheese and musAppearing tard) don’t stray again toward far from tradition. the end of the Diaz’s platos meal, Van Kirk grandes (big confides that plates) read like a he and Diaz are glossary of unfaconsidering a miliar but enticlocation near Scallops in coconut-curry-lime sauce ing seasonings Burlington. and preparations, “What do you so choosing can think?” he asks, be difficult. My companion spends a though we can’t tell if he’s being congelong while vacillating between costil- nial or serious. las de res — beef short ribs braised “Yes, why not?” we tell him. Glancing in a Creole sauce with onions and around at the older Saturday-night peppers — and lechon asado vástago, crowd here, we understand why Diaz a slow-roasted pork shank in a rum- might be restrained from dishing up guava glaze. I kick around the idea powerhouse flavors. of ordering a lobster tail grilled and “I want to see how far I can go, what basted with adobo garlic butter, but the people around here like,” he says instead go for a house favorite: scallops when I catch up with him a few days in a curry-coconut-lime sauce served later. Up north, I think, Diaz might on risotto and topped with pineapple be able to let loose a bit. For now, the chutney and tamarind glaze. Caribbean authenticity he’s gently serv“People go crazy for the shank and ing in Woodstock is a welcome addition the scallops,” says Diaz, almost lament- to Vermont’s foodscape. m ing as he plans to change to a summer menu soon. But these mainstays may need to stay. Melaza Caribbean Bistro, 71 Central Street, Woodstock, 457-7110. Our waiter makes such a passionate melaza.com case for the pork shank that we feel we’d

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Lunch & Learn: Flora fans prepare for planting season as speaker Denyse Butler-Ayres unearths “What’s New for 2011 in Annuals, Perennials, Trees and Shrubs.” Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

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Networking Get-Together: Chef Donald Billings discusses the local, affordable and environmental ethics of Rutland’s newest eatery at a Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility function. Jim Sabataso of Sustainable Rutland also discusses the town’s ongoing community revitalization. Roots the Restaurant, Rutland, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 862-8347, ritab@vbsr.org.

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Brian Regan: This funnyman, known for his specials on Comedy Central and appearances on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” cracks top-notch jokes. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $39.5059.50. Info, 775-0903.

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Skate park Designs Unveiled: The Burlington Skatepark Coalition displays blueprints for the new waterfront skate park in a short presentation with light refreshments. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7284.

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Raptor Encounter: Visitors get a glimpse into the fascinating lives of flying hunters in this intimate meet-up. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.5010.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000. Talk to the Trainer: Wild-bird handlers share tricks of the trade. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 2 p.m. Regular admission, $8.5010.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000. Traveling Road show: Sitting on a gold mine? The Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery evaluates and buys home treasures. Comfort Suites, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 217-726-7590.

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‘The Billionaires’ Tea Party’: Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham’s documentary looks into the American Tea Party. Held in conjunction with LACE’s Open Table Dinner; bring dinner to the movie if desired. LACE, Barre, 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4276. ‘The Company Men’: A ladder-climbing sales exec finds himself a victim of corporate downsizing in John Wells’ 2010 drama starring Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones. Catamount Arts

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food & drink

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery experience the tempering and dipping process. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591. Community Night: Diners down gastropub fare, with 10 percent of proceeds benefiting the Women’s Rape Crisis Center. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 864-0555, ext. 13. Community Potluck: People who like to eat hear from community entrepreneurs who are growing food-related businesses. Speakers include Scott Baughman, Lisa Ransom, Bob and Cindy Maynard, and Perrin Williams. Cafeteria, Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 2239506 or 244-5636.

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Armchair Aerobics: Seniors boost their circulation, stamina and muscle strength without leaving their chairs. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 658-3585. Autism Awareness Month Video Presentation: Parents and professionals tune in as Maple Leaf Clinic’s Dean Mooney hosts a screening of Dr. Tony Attwood Presents Asperger’s Syndrome, Volume 2: Anger Management, Teaching Teachers and Teenage Issues. Wallingford Elementary School, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 446-3577. Body Care Series: Facial Care: Do-it-yourselfers work with pronounceable, local ingredients to keep their visage vibrant. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. Chair Massage: Kneading addresses key tension areas in the upper body. Call to sign up. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9 a.m. $5. Info, 658-3585. Energy Tapping: Eliminate anxiety and depression through acupressure techniques. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 658-3585. Yoga Class: Gentle stretches improve core strength and flexibility. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9 a.m. $5 donation. Info, 658-3585.

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ome Vermonters are about to score a “one” in the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Proving that it is, indeed, a small world after all, the Footloose star himself arrives in Stowe this weekend with his big brother, composer Michael Bacon, in tow. They’ve been jamming out since childhood, and officially formed their band the Bacon Brothers in ’95, but as Kevin admits in his website bio, “There’s The Bacon Brothers nothing more risky about Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m., at Spruce being a well-known actor Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe and playing in a rock Mountain Resort. $65. Info, 760-4634. sprucepeakarts.org band.” Good thing he likes a challenge. The pair “shakes off the burden of fame,” as the New Yorker puts it, with catchy “forosoco” songs that blend folk, rock, soul and country. Witness the brotherly love at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.

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MAY 1 | THEATER The Lovely Bones What fuels evolution? In the case of Darwin the Dinosaur, the answer is 250 batteries, 2000 feet of electroluminescent wire and a scientist with a magical touch. The familyfriendly Corbian Visual Arts and Dance piece fuses puppetry, technology and movement in a story about a lab-created dino who ventures out to see the world. Dancers draped in black manipulate a quirky cast of critters — including an ostrich, a fish and a terrifying T. rex — formed from glow-in-the-dark, crayon-like squiggles. The brainchild of Corbian founders Ian Carney and Corbin Popp (who met while performing in Broadway’s Movin’ Out) plays out like a tamer Jurassic Park and proves, once again, that what’s extinct is not forgotten.

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‘Darwin the Dinosaur’ Sunday, May 1, 3 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $10-20. Info, 603-6462422. hop.dartmouth.edu

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Kali Quinn is an ace at multitasking. The theater artist’s solo show Overture to a Thursday Morning calls on her to enact three generations of women to her own live soundtrack, all in the span of an hour. In the imaginative work, called “deeply affecting” by the Berkshire Review, wannabe violin rock star Lila discovers the ‘Overture to a hidden truth about her birth while sifting through her deceased Thursday Morning’ mother’s belongings. Created in Vermont last fall — until recently, Thursday, April 28, through Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m., Quinn resided in Saxtons River — the performance seamlessly and Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m., at melds 1950s nostalgia, storytelling, music and physical tragicomedy. Sandglass Theater in Putney. Each of these, Quinn hopes, offers audience members “different $15. Info, 838-3006. avenues into the piece.”

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Lost Nation Theater’s latest play is an exercise in imagination — as it should be, since it celebrates literature. Tied in with the Vermont Reads 2011 pick, the stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird falls on the 50th anniversary of the book’s Pulitzer Prize award, and opening weekend coincides with author Harper Lee’s 85th birthday. As a metaphor for the ways a reader fleshes out the world introduced in a novel, the set design is composed of “fragments of architectural detail,” notes producing director Kathleen Keenan, and “the rest of it is sort of ‘fuzzed’ away.” The goal ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ of the performance — LNT’s third Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m.; Friday, April 29, rendition of the timeless classic — is to 8 p.m., with preshow dialogue and “Happy 85th Birthday, Harper Lee” party in the lobby; inspire people to read the novel, which Saturday, April 30, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Keenan says “addresses a lot of issues Sunday, May 1, 7 p.m., at Montpelier City Hall that are still with us” and is “a great Auditorium. Visit website for future dates catalyst for conversation.” Onward, to through May 15. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. lostnationtheater.org Maycomb, Ala.

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Babytime: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-3659. Children’s Story Time: Budding bookworms pore over pages. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Enosburg Playgroup: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Fairfax Playgroup: Multicultural stories and activities accent child’s play. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. High School Book Group: Bookworms crack open all manner of tomes, from plays to graphic novels to short stories. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Highgate Story Hour: Good listeners soak up classic fairy tales. Highgate Public Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Kids Dance for Spring: Young ones cut the rug to swingin’ sounds by DJ Christine. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Middle School Book Group: Young people dish about their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Montgomery Story Hour: Little lit lovers flip pages before snacking. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Puzzles & Board Games: Youngsters put the pieces together in entertaining undertakings. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Call for cancellations in inclement weather. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

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Jazz Vocal Ensemble & Combo Concert: Smooth tunes fill an end-of-semester program. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. Johnson State College Ensembles: Jazz, funk, Afro-Cuban and percussion groups jam out in this popular end-of-semester performance. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. ‘Peace Together’: Amnesty International and Operation Groundswell organize music by Potbelly, Fridge and the Spin$ to help promote human rights. Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation includes food. Info, 203-843-6688. Valley Night: The Upper Valley’s Don & Jenn grace the lounge with jazz- and folk-inspired originals, and cover songs with an indie twist. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

seminars

Howard Coffin: As part of a series about Louisa May Alcott, this Vermont historian discusses the state’s Civil War hospitals, and how they relate to the author’s Hospital Sketches and other writings. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Science on Tap: Montshire After Hours: Dartmouth Medical School researcher Dr. Meghan Longacre sparks a casual conversation about contemporary topics in science in “From Happy Meals to Urban Sprawl: Gaining Insight Into the Nation’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic.” Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 5:30-8 p.m. $10 includes one drink for ages 21 and up; cash bar. Info, 649-2200, montshire@montshire.org. ‘The Monetary System and You!’: Spenders and savers get acquainted with currency basics by screening and discussing Paul Grignon’s Money as Debt in order to understand the current financial crisis. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail. com. ‘The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Coup Honduras’: Human-rights activist, lawyer and Rights Action codirector Grahame Russell catches listeners up on the fight for freedom. Burlingtonbased Toward Freedom editor Ben Dangl also discusses related political developments in U.S.-Latin American relations under the Obama administration. Chittenden Room, Burlington College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-2516.

theater

Auditions for ‘Hairspray’: In anticipation of the fall show, Lyric Theatre Company seeks cast members who aren’t afraid of a little aerosol. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 5:45-10 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1484. Commedia dell’Arte Performance: Commedia VT draws on a unique form of 16th- and 17th-century Italian theater in a short, original and humorous work. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Regular admission, $3-5; $10 per family; free for children 6 and under. Info, 656-2090. ‘Evita’: Northern Stage revisits Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera about the life and times of Eva Perón. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $30-63. Info, 291-9009, ext. 10. ‘Sylvia’: Actress Kathryn Blume takes a turn on all fours in A.R. Gurney’s play about a man in the throes of a midlife crisis who takes home a stray dog — much to the dismay of his wife. Presented by Vermont Stage Company. See review, this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966.

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Book Discussion Series: ‘A Mysterious Lens on American Culture’: A thought-provoking cultural backdrop makes Barbara Neely’s Blanche Cleans Up more than a simple whodunit. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209. Book Discussion Series: ‘Farms and Gardens’: Readers rehash their impressions of Jane Brox’s Here and Nowhere Else as part of a series exploring tending and growing. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 848-3313. Book Discussion Series: ‘Retellings’: Jon Clinch twists a Twain classic by reimagining the tale of young Huckleberry from the view of his mysterious father in Finn. Pope Memorial Library, Danville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 684-2256.

Vermont Green Hospitality Seminar: Restaurants and lodging properties take tips from experts in workshops related to boosting energy efficiency, safer cleaning products, solid-waste reduction and more. Preregister. The Norwich Inn, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $20. Info, 728-1423.

Group Sestina Workshop: Experienced wordsmiths explore complex forms of poetry with Roger Weingarten, forming six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet. Space is limited; preregister. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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Hartford Book Discussion: School teacher Denise Warren guides a group gab about Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Cornerstone Community Center, Hartford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 296-2568.

‘Aquarius and the Development of the New Consciousness’: A PowerPoint presentation illuminates the Gnostic point of view on the renewing and purifying forces at work in a dawning Aquarian era. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosycross.org.

Poetry Alive! 2011 Poetry Display: Montpelier celebrates National Poetry Month with a text exhibit through downtown that lovers of lit can wander for a taste of contemporary Vermont poetry. Various downtown locations, Montpelier, all day. Free. Info, 223-3338, rysenechal@kellogghubbard.org. Wolfgang Mieder: A professor of German and folklore at UVM presents his new book on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Making a Way Out of No Way. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Mt. 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. Raptor Encounter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. Talk to the Trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Traveling Road show: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

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‘Ask Us Who We Are’: Bess O’Brien’s documentary puts a face to the foster care system, focusing on those young Vermonters’ search for family and a sense of belonging. St. Albans City Hall, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 592-3190.

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Vermont Venture Network: Networkers dig into a continental breakfast over remarks from Eric Fitch, CEO and founder of Purpose Energy. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 8 a.m. $15 for nonmembers. Info, 658-7830.

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ECHO Expansion Breakfast: A casual meal accompanies a guided tour, short video and discussion about the science center’s expansion plans. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 864-1848. Town Meeting: Sen. Bernie Sanders hosts an open discussion about the impact of proposed federal-budget cuts. Cafeteria, Middlebury Union Middle School, dinner, 6 p.m.; meeting, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-339-9834.

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AARP Safe Driver Course: Motor-vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a how-to refresher. Preregister. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. $12-14. Info, 863-3982. Burlington Bombers Roller Derby Open Recruitment: Men and women ages 18 and up rock roller skates at open tryouts for Vermont’s only coed roller-derby league. Bring a mouth guard and any gear you already have. Sports & Fitness Edge, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 735-0624, email@burlingtonbombers.com. Essex Bike Night: Motorcyclists convene to talk about spinning their wheels over contests, obstacle courses and food. On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778. Fundraising Event: At the 13th annual gathering and fundraiser for the Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund for Women in Need, Vermont state Rep. Johannah Leddy Donovan speaks. St. John’s Club, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Contributions accepted. Info, 862-2001. Humane Society of Chittenden County Annual Meeting: Live music, food, a cash bar and an exhibit of local art accompany an introduction by HSCC’s newly appointed — and first-ever — president and CEO. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0135. Mastermind Group Meeting: Big dreamers build a supportive network as they try to realize personal and professional goals in an encouraging environment. Best Western Waterbury-Stowe, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7822.

‘Memphis’: Broadway’s current Tony Award-winning musical, a tale of rock and roll and forbidden love set in the segregated 1950s, hits the big screen. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 660-9300. Northern Forest Paddlers Film Festival: Some big-screen motivation gets rowers ready to dive into the paddling season. Proceeds support the efforts of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7-9:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘Race to Nowhere’: Vicki Abeles and Jessica Congdon’s 2009 documentary examines our achievement-obsessed society and the pressures put on young people. Majestic 10, Williston, 6:308:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-4839. ‘The Company Men’: See WED.27, 7 p.m. ‘The Last Lions’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

food & drink

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Gluten-Free Series: Spring/Summer Edition: Who needs wheat, barley or rye? Individuals engage in diet discussion during a tour of the store and food-sampling session. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Product Release Party: Aqua Vitea and Stone Leaf Teahouse launch a new line of probiotic icedtea beverages, Cultured Tea, at this sampling event, complete with roots music from Spider Roulette. American Flatbread, Middlebury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-5811.

games

Chess Club: Checkmate! Board-game players try to attack the king with sly strategies. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $2-3. Info, 363-5803.

health & fitness

Strong Living Exercise: Fitness enthusiasts undergo strength training for good health. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 443-1654. Women’s Zumba Class: Fast-paced rhythms fuel a Latin-inspired dance-fitness party led by Casey Clark. Chabad of Vermont, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 658-5770. Yoga Class: Instructor Deb Malgeri leads yogis in pranayama breathing techniques and a variety of postures. Essex Teen Center, 9-10:15 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 878-6982, debmalgeri@aol.com.

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After School Programs: Craft, film, puzzle and gaming activities keep youngsters on the go. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Alburgh Family Center, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT muSic in the loFt: Lila Mae and Jeff Hahn perform country and blues tunes to support the Greenhorns. Listeners order wine by the glass, meet winemakers and taste straight from the barrel. Shelburne Vineyard, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

Fletcher PlaygrouP: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin Story hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. georgia PlaygrouP: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Georgia Youth Center, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. kidS Story time: Snacks and activities chase an hour of tales. LACE, Barre, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4276. muSic With raPhael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. oPen comPuter time: Teens play games and surf the web on library laptops. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. PuzzleS & Board gameS: See WED.27, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

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angélique kidjo: In songs that blend Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa and more, “Africa’s premier diva” — according to Time magazine — draws inspiration from childhood idols such as Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-37. Info, 603-646-2422. johnSon State college concert Band: In “2001: A Space Adventure,” members of the brass ensemble and woodwind choir join the band in space-themed song selections that are truly out of this world. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3498.

oPuS 22 concert: The Vermont MIDI Project celebrates Vermont’s young composers with a live performance of original student compositions by professional musicians. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 879-0065. Piano recital: Students of affiliate artist Diana Fanning nail notes and chords. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Small jazz comBoS: UVM jazz ensembles perform cool tunes. Ballroom, Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

ccV lecture SerieS: Faculty member Jill Mudgett explores our relationship to the local landscape in “Vermonters and the Green Mountains: Human Communities and the Natural Environment in 19th-Century Vermont.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. holocauSt memorial/yom haShoah lecture: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor of sociology Ronald J. Berger shares his father and uncle’s experiences in “Surviving the Holocaust: One Family’s Story.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

seminars

Vermont green hoSPitality Seminar: See WED.27, Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington.

lunch & learn: Burlington police chief Mike Schirling considers how police operations have changed over the last 20 years, with regard to safety and trends. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@ burlingtontelecom.net.

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archer mayor: The author of a Vermont-based mystery series starring detective Joe Gunther identifies the connection between his writing and his career in criminal justice. Herrick Auditorium, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6049. Bill hoSley: In an illustrated program, the preservationist and photographer gives a rundown of nearly 200 years of

lynnette comBS: The organist presents a program of Scandinavian music. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1151.

American-library history in “More Than Books: Reflections on Libraries, Community and Historic Preservation.” Springfield Town Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 885-3108.

auditionS For ‘hairSPray’: See WED.27, 5:45-10 p.m. ‘charlotte’S WeB’: Employing actors, puppets and live music, the Saints and Poets Production Company retells E.B. White’s enduring tale about a girl, a pig and a spider. For ages 4 and up. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-5966.

‘the king and i’: Cultures clash when a British governess is brought to Siam to tutor the king’s many children in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical presented by the Middlebury Community Players. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $1520. Info, 382-9222. ‘to kill a mockingBird’: Marking Harper Lee’s 85th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize awarded her book, Lost Nation Theater transports audiences to a tumultuous time in Maycomb, Ala. See calendar listing. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. ‘Victory: choiceS in reaction’: With nontraditional costumes and lots of adult language, Middlebury College’s theater program takes on Howard Barker’s biting analysis of the politics and history of 16th-century Britain. For mature audiences only. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-10. Info, 443-6433. ‘Willy Wonka’: Central Vermont Community Players bring audience members into the Candy Man’s world of pure imagination in this sweet musical. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 476-8188, lmw2452@gmail.com.

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Book diScuSSion SerieS: ‘From Page to Screen’: Is the book always better? Folks turn to Stephen King’s tome Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption as a point of comparison. Cobleigh Public Library, Lyndonville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 626-5475.

‘eVita’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. ‘oVerture to a thurSday morning’: Kali Quinn’s solo show focuses on a wannabe violin rock star who comes face to face with the unwanted truth about her own birth. See calendar spotlight. Sandglass Theater, Putney, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 838-3006. ‘SylVia’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. THU.28

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Poetry Alive! 2011 Poetry Display: See WED.27, all day. Poetry Reading: Greg Delanty, David Cavanagh, Major Jackson, Jay Parini, Liz Powell and Kerry Shea excerpt passages from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Story Time: Lit lovers of all ages take in fanciful tales. Bud & Bella’s Bookshop, Randolph, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 728-5509. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Book Discussion: Southern-style refreshments augment a group gab about the Harper Lee classic. Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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Museum Open House Weekend: Art lovers take a look at exhibits for free. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2090.

comedy

‘The Chris and Matt Show’: An improvisational duo puts on a comedy production complete with a surprise guest and homemade treats by the Cupcake Kids. Atmis, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5-8. Info, 735-3286.

conferences

Historic Preservation & Downtown Conference: Vermonters consider Poultney’s streets, churches, destinations and branding through workshops and speeches. Green Mountain College, Poultney, registration begins at 8 a.m., conference 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $25-50. Info, 828-3220.

dance

Argentinean Tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.

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Ballroom Lesson & Dance Social: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. ‘Music, Dance, Light: Performance Improvisation’: After spending the semester investigating the aesthetics of improv, students of the Performance Improvisation course create a dance-theater show on the spot. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-10. Info, 443-6433.

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Raptor Encounter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. Talk to the Trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

food & drink

An Evening of Fine Wine Tasting: Connoisseurs sample different varietals to benefit the local rotary in its efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, and support global student exchanges and community projects. Country Club of Vermont, Waterbury Center, 7-10 p.m. $50; $90 per couple; includes wine and food. Info, 249-8419. Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Vermont Restaurant Week: Hungry? Seven full days packed with prix-fixe menus, tasting events, a culinary pub quiz and more will sate that appetite. Various locations statewide, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Various prices; visit vermontrestaurantweek. com for details. Info, 864-5684, restaurantweek@ sevendaysvt.com. Vermont Restaurant Week: Parents’ Night Out: Adults get a chance to chow down and enjoy a night on the town, dropping kids off for a fun, supervised evening including food and beverages. Greater Burlington YMCA, 5:30-8 p.m. $10-14 per child, ages 2-12; space is limited; preregistration required. Info, 862-9622.

games

Casino Event: Blackjack, roulette, the Wheel of Fortune and craps support the Vermont chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 5-9:30 p.m. $3; for ages 18 and up. Info, 863-1066.

health & fitness

Exercise for Balance: Participants focus on balance and flexibility through gentle cardiovascular movement to music, strength training and stretching. Senior Community Center, the Pines, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477, sheskies@gmail.com . ‘Gentle, But Not Too Gentle’ Hatha Yoga: Fitness professional and motivator Nancy Somers instructs yogis in slow-paced stretches and simple breathing exercises. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

kids

After School Book Discussion: Middle school page turners chat about favorite comics, short stories, books and graphic novels. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free.

Traveling Road show: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

After School Programs: See THU.28, 3:30 p.m.

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‘Draw Comics!’: Teens sketch and share illustrated narratives. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

‘Bhutto’: Filmgoers screen Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara’s documentary about the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘The Grace Card’: The death of his son causes cop Mac McDonald to lose his faith in God, making his new partnership with a part-time pastor most interesting in David G. Evans’ 2010 drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. Vermont Restaurant Week: ‘Big Night’: Foodies screen Stanley Tucci’s 1996 cult flick about a failing Italian restaurant and the owners’ plan to save the biz. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m. $7-9. Info, 660-9300.

Children’s Story Time: See WED.27, 10:30 a.m.

East Montpelier Story Time: Lively narratives, rhymes, finger plays, crafts and games transfix tots. Four Corners Schoolhouse, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Fairfax Playgroup: See WED.27, 9-10:30 a.m. Fairfield Playgroup: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 9:3011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘Guys and Dolls’: Vermont Commons School students, in collaboration with Very Merry Theatre, revisit popular ditties such as “A Bushel and a Peck.” Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 865-8084. Puzzles & Board Games: See WED.27, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Teresa Storch & Friends: The singer-songwriter spreads her funky, soulful folk with the help of local musicians. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 238-9383 or 876-7696.

language

The Glebe Land Coffeehouse: Open-mic participants present acoustic tunes with a “How Time Flies” theme. Preregister to play. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Donations accepted for the Joint Urban Ministry Project. Info, 658-4747, bhaas@viscc.com.

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Vermont Youth Orchestra: Talented young musicians highlight works by Copeland, Dvořák and Elgar in a spring community concert directed by Jeff Domoto and featuring Joshua Morris on cello. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8-10 p.m. $5-10; free for JSC students. Info, 635-1476.

Tertulia Latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

Angélique Kidjo: See THU.28, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $24-38. Info, 863-5966. Atria Ensemble: The first-prize winners of the 2008 Plowman National Chamber Music Competition perform Martinů’s Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano; Ravel’s Tzigane for Violin and Piano; Milhaud’s Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano; and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. Artist discussion, 6:30 p.m. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. Bella Hristova: The award-winning Bulgarian violinist shows off her string skills. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 775-0903. CCV Community Choir & Queen City Larks: A 40-person choir and a 13-member auditioned ensemble take flight with vocal selections. Community College of Vermont, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-0730. Eleva Chamber Players: Central Vermont’s professional string chamber ensemble presents “Cello Chowder: Comfort Music With Four Cellos,” featuring Linda Galvan, Nancy Hair, Rebecca Haynes and Najette Abouelhadi. Congregational Church, Norwich, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 244-8354. ‘For the Record: An Album Support Party for Myra Flynn’: The Vermont neo-soul songstress performs, with all ticket proceeds benefiting her upcoming second album. Gregory Douglass opens. Seating is limited. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $25; cash bar; food included. Info, 728-6464, tickets@chandlerarts.org. Green Mountain College Community Concert Band: In a spring concert, Jared Shapiro conducts musicians in Handel’s Water Music, de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, Bach’s Sleepers Awake and more. Ackley Theatre, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926. Matt Dusk: The Juno Award nominee reanimates numbers from the Great American Songbook and throws in his own pop creations. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. Call for price. Info, 760-4634. Miles Donahue Jazz Band: The Boston Globe called the saxophone- and trumpet-playing frontman of this five-member ensemble “one of the best-kept secrets” of jazz. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Night of Italian Opera: Soaring arias and familiar Neapolitan songs entrance opera enthusiasts in a benefit for the CSJ scholarship fund. Featured performers include Marnie Breckenridge, Rosalie Sullivan, Alex Mansoori, Dmitri Ribero and pianist William Hicks. Tuttle Hall Theater, College of St. Joseph, Rutland, silent auction, 7 p.m.; concert, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 776-5264. Rutland Curbstone Chorus: Thirty-two local singers blend vocals in a benefit for the Parish Hall residing project. Union Church, Proctor, 7 p.m. $410 suggested donation. Info, 459-3624.

seminars

Vermont Green Hospitality Seminar: See WED.27, Holiday Inn, Rutland.

sport

Mad Dash: Bikers put the pedal to the metal in a roller-racing series. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, registration starts at 6:30 p.m.; qualifying races, 7 p.m.; finals, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

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Antonio Satta: As a kickoff to a weekend retreat, the speaker gives an introductory talk on “The Common Foundation of Vipassana and Mahamudra.” Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

theater

‘Charlotte’s Web’: See THU.28, 7 p.m. ‘Evita’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. ‘Overture to a Thursday Morning’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Sylvia’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. ‘The King and I’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘The Vagina Monologues’: Women perform Eve Ensler’s vignettes related to sex, love, rape, menstruation and more. Proceeds benefit the Clarina Howard Nichols Center and V-Day. Stearns Stage, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 888-2584. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Victory: Choices in Reaction’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Willy Wonka’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m.

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agriculture

Nonnative Plant Pulling & Dinner: “Invasivores” pull garlic mustard from the river shore between 2 and 4 p.m. At 4:30 p.m., chef Cathy Aikman demonstrates how to harvest the nonindigenous plant into a tasty garlic-mustard pesto at the Richmond Congregational Church. A dinner featuring the concoction follows. Meet to pull at the lower parking lot at Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond. Free; preregistration appreciated. Info, 434-7775, cathyaikman@hotmail.com. Planting Party: Volunteers celebrate spring while transplanting seedlings and helping in the fields. Snacks provided. Rain date: May 1. Located near Adam’s Berry Farm. Samara CSA Farm, Intervale, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 388-8462.

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MuseuM Open HOuse Weekend: See FRI.29, 1-5 p.m. saturday art saMpler: Instructor Diana Cilenti helps artists craft beautifully layered works with tissue paper and acrylic gel on canvas. Preregister. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24. Info, 425-2700.

comedy

VerMOnt COMedy diVas: Josie Leavitt, MaryAnne Gatos and Tracie Spencer take over the red theater with a steady supply of wit and wisecracking. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 496-8994.

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rutland railrOad HistOriCal sOCiety COnVentiOn: Choo-choo! A two-day gathering includes presentations on Rutland freight-car modeling, the last days of steam at Bellows Falls, an update on current Vermont rail news and more. Middlebury Inn, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. $25 includes lunch; $42 for Saturday’s banquet. Info, 978-388-0448. stand against raCisM yOutH COnferenCe: Vermonters ages 13 and up explore racial-justice issues through activities and workshops. Lunch and dinner included; a dance follows. Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7520.

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BallrOOM lessOn & danCe sOCial: See FRI.29, 7-10 p.m. MOntpelier COntra danCe: Adina Gordon calls the steps as folks in soft-soled shoes move to live airs by Crowfoot. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163. ‘MusiC, danCe, ligHt: perfOrManCe iMprOVisatiOn’: See FRI.29, 8 p.m. red Cedar sCHOOl rOCk and rOll Ball: Panton Flats lay down dance tunes rooted in Motown, funk, blues, country, and rock and roll. A silent auction, desserts and cash bar round out the affair, benefiting Red Cedar School’s scholarship fund. Vergennes Opera House, 7-11 p.m. $15; $25 per couple. Info, 877-6737.

education

‘disCOVer WaldOrf early eduCatiOn’: Parents and would-be students get a taste of the atmosphere and imaginative play of a typical classroom. Preregister. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 456-7400.

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Bike sWap: Clean rides in working condition attract new owners in this annual affair held under a tent. Free barbecue lunch. Bike donations accepted through Friday, April 29. Alpine Shop, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2714.

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‘BiOCHar BOnanaza!’: Marshall Webb and Jock Gill introduce folks to the ancient substance that’s causing a modern gardening revolution in this hands-on workshop. Shelburne Farms, 9 a.m.noon. $20-25. Info, 985-8686. CalCutta: A bidding battle with a top prize of a grand raises money for our military and their families. St. John’s Club, Burlington, viewing and bidding on a silent auction, 5-6 p.m.; barbecue dinner, 6-7:30 p.m.; prize drawing, 7:30-9 p.m. $50. Info, 288-9644, vtsoldiersangels@aol.com.

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‘dispOsaBle landsCapes’ & ‘tHe JOlly Banker’: After the art opening for “Disposable Landscapes: An Exhibition of Cheap Art,” Modern Times Theater performs an elaborately staged puppet piece about the American Dream. Plainfield Community Center Gallery, gallery opens at 6 p.m.; puppet show, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8987, moderntimestheater@riseup.net. eVerytHing equine: Families and riders rally at a two-day expo of mane-and-tail experts. Robert E. Miller Centre, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 878-5545. ‘priMO MaggiO’: Filmmaker Gianfranco Norelli introduces his documentary Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) before a Saturday screening. On Sunday, the Barre Historical Society hosts an anniversary banquet, at which Mary Anne Trasciatti speaks on “Primo Maggio/May Day and Civil Liberties in the U.S.” Old Labor Hall, Barre, 7 p.m. Film screening is free; $25 for dinner tickets (advance purchase required). Info, 456-7456. raBies CliniC & dOg WasH: Pet owners dole out the puppy love as the Humane Society of Chittenden County, Susan McMillian of Vet to Pet Mobile Veterinary Service and the Old North End Veterinary Clinic, and the Alpha Zeta Honorary Society team up for vaccinations, dog baths and free Ben & Jerry’s while you wait. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 1-4 p.m. $10 vaccinations; $5 donation for dog wash. Info, 862-0135, ext. 15. raptOr enCOunter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. spring auCtiOn: Auctioneer Kirby Parker keeps track of bids on everything from a collection of Pez dispensers to stained-glass windows. Proceeds benefit the church. Fellowship Hall, Bethany Church, Montpelier, registration and viewing, 8:3010 a.m.; auction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2424. talk tO tHe trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m. traVeling rOad sHOW: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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‘a CeleBratiOn Of sustainaBility: innOVatiVe ideas in aCtiOn’: In celebration of a new Eco-Lodge, folks have some good, green fun with family-friendly activities, educational booths, a speech by Bill McKibben, a dance party with Jeh Kulu and facility tours. Common Ground Center, Starksboro, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 800-430-2667.

annual Bike sWap: Cyclists trade or upgrade old rides, with accessories, equipment, skates and more up for grabs. Donations accepted from April 25-29. Skirack, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

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‘self-addressed’: In a dance/theater event directed by Paul Besaw, four separate but related works investigate the search for, creation of and loss of “home.” Ballroom, Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 656-2295, paul. besaw@uvm.edu.

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VCaM aCCess OrientatiOn: Video-production hounds get an overview of facilities, policies and procedures. Preregister. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692. VerMOnt Cares annual liVe & silent auCtiOn: High-end items draw bidders looking to support the HIV/AIDS prevention and care network. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 863-2437 .

‘WOOd BiOMass frOM fOrest tO furnaCe’: A field trip through Addison County illuminates how wood is harvested, processed and used for energy. Space is limited; preregister. Burlington residents leave from the Sheraton; others can join the tour in Bristol. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $20 includes transportation, refreshments and a boxed lunch. Info, 717‐576‐6590, dckuhn@uvm.edu.

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Open HOuse & infO sessiOn: Homeowners and downtown building owners learn about the financing available for energy improvements, as well as energy projects sprouting up around the city. Memorial Room, Montpelier City Hall, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9506, tnewton@montpelier-vt.org.

‘ask us WHO We are’: See THU.28, Unitarian Church, Montpelier. ‘BHuttO’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

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Burlington College Film Festival: Cinema shooters show works and photography at a screening of undergrad-made material. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 923-2530. ‘Memphis’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Grace Card’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

food & drink

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Cooking With Lisa: Lisa Mase of Harmonized Cookery offers fresh ideas for breakfast in a hands-on food-shopping and -sampling workshop. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 12:30-2 p.m. $8-10. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202. English High Tea: Pinkies out! Following a talk about royal weddings at 2 p.m., folks settle in for a most proper tea. Brandon Music, 3:30-5 p.m. $10; reservations required. Info, 465-4071. Introduction to Italian Wines: A family-style luncheon and wine tasting with chef/owner Kevin Cleary educates diners on wine labels, pairing methods and more. L’Amante, Burlington, 11 a.m.1:30 p.m. $75; seating is limited; call for reservations. Info, 863-5200. Vermont Restaurant Week: See FRI.29, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. soup & chocolate supper: Diners dig in to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Proceeds support the preservation of the United Church of Westford. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 5-7 p.m. $5-8; $25 maximum per family. Info, 879-4028. Vermont Restaurant Week: Healthy Living Supper Club: Food education coordinator Nina Lesser-Goldsmith and wine-and-beer buyer Brian Maloney whip up a three-course meal, complete with wine pairings, at this evening of culinary education and, of course, eating. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $55 per person; $90 per pair; space is very limited; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. Vermont Restaurant Week: Parents’ Night Out: See FRI.29, 5:30-8 p.m.

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Vermont Restaurant Week: ¡Sangria Smackdown!: Drink connoisseurs taste different versions of this wine punch at a predinner fiesta and vote for their favorite finalist. Red Square, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5684.

health & fitness

Fifth Annual Free Screening Day: The Hicks Foundation offers PAP tests, cervical-cancer screenings, breast exams and HPV vaccines. Reservations are recommended but not required. Childcare and snacks provided. Affiliates in OB/ GYN, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0505 or 877-275-8929. Holistic Health & Wellness Expo: Attendees work their way to improved health by participating in dance, yoga and Zumba exercises on the hour; checking their blood pressure; watching a healthycooking demo; getting a facial; and more. Alburgh Community Education Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $2; $5 per family; seniors by donation. Info, 796-4656. Relay for Life Zumbathon: Folks decked out in purple join a Latin-dance fitness party benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Mallets Bay School, Colchester, 3-5 p.m. $20. Info, 238-8184.

kids

Animal Buddies Night at the Museum: Kids drop off stuffed-animal friends for an overnight adventure by Friday at 6 p.m., then hear about their sleepover fun and learn about hibernation over breakfast the next day. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 748-2372, tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org. Children’s Story Time: Young ones hop over to the story stage for bunny tails ... er, tales. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘Guys and Dolls’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m.

Jessie Haas & Michael Daley: The Vermont authors of Horse Crazy! Fun Facts, Ideas, Activities, Projects, Games, and Know-How for Horse-Loving Kids and Space Station Rat, respectively, read aloud and sign copies. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189. Kids’ Night Out/Parents’ Night Out: Adults go out on the town while kiddos ages 4 and up immerse themselves in art, dance and storytelling activities. Proceeds support a teen jazz dance tour to New York City. Preregister. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 5-9 p.m. $5 per child per hour. Info, 229-4676. North Hero Tumble Time: Free-play stations around the gym keep youngsters — and their adult companions — on the go. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Read to a Dog: Stories form a bond between young readers and Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. Tom Angleberger: Eight- to 12-year-olds tune in as the author of Horton Halfpott; or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset reads aloud. RSVP requested. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 985-3999.

music

CCV Community Choir & Queen City Larks: See FRI.29, First Congregational Church, Burlington. Chiara String Quartet: The ensemble performs the Vermont premiere of Diacritical Marks by young Randolph-born composer Nico Muhly, as well as Nebraska Quartet by Icelandic musician Valgeir Sigurdsson and more. Preconcert talk, 6:45 p.m.; reception follows the performance. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 728-6464. Eleva Chamber Players: See FRI.29, Congregational Church, Waterbury., 3 p.m. Green Mountain College Music Department: The Concert Choir performs songs with themes of tolerance and responsibility, and the College Cantorian belt out vocal jazz. Ackley Theatre, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926. Jeanne & the Hi-Tops: A high-energy fusion of reggae, Memphis soul, R&B, Tex-Mex and blues keeps dancers on their toes. Proceeds benefit the school. Wellspring Waldorf School, Chelsea, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 685-3183. Karen McFeeters: A St. Albans native unleashes original folk-pop music. Sarah Allerton, Craig Anderson, Patrick Fitzsimmons, John Gibbons, Gregg Jordan and Melissa Morrison also perform. Proceeds support Puppets in Education. Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 860-3349, concert@kidsontheblockvermont.org. Middlebury College Community Chorus: A Champlain Valley ensemble with more than 150 years of history assembles to welcome the month of May with madrigals, folk songs, and contemporary and classical works. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble: Students with big sound get the community hopping around with contemporary compositions and arrangements, along with a dose of classic swing. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Spring Sing 2011: Dartmouth’s all-female Rockapellas sing to raise funds for their first international tour and cultural exchange in Nepal in December 2011. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $3-10. Info, 603-646-2422. The Bacon Brothers: The celebrated siblings perform songs off their numerous albums. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $65. Info, 760-4634.

Tim Cummings, Caleb Elder, Dominique Dodge & Peter Sutherland: Four musicians interweave the bagpipes, whistle, fiddle, viola, harp, banjo and guitar. WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room, Bristol, 8 p.m. $15-18. Info, 435-3188, walkover@mac. com. Vermont Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series: World-class cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins the ensemble in Poulenc’s Sinfonietta and Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. Jaime Laredo conducts. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1175; tickets now sold out. Info, 863-5966.

seminars

Final Cut Pro Open Lab: Apprentice film editors complete three tracks of exercises as a VCAM staff member lends a hand. Preregister. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

sport

‘Mayhem 5’ Fight Night: A live performance by Uranium Belt breaks up an evening of combat sports and Thai boxing, with a ringside beer garden to boot. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 7 p.m. $27.25-38.15. Info, 863-5966. Spring Fling Dodgeball Tourney: Teams throw and duck, vying for awards for first place, runners-up, and best spirit or costume. Proceeds support the Field House’s camp/clinic scholarship fund. Preregister. Field House Athletic Club, Shelburne, 12:30-5 p.m. $25 per player; $150 per team; cash bar for ages 21 and up. Info, 598-8539.

talks

Joy Demarse: The speaker offers background information on the Davidson family in a talk about Julian O. Davidson’s “Battle of Lake Champlain” 1884 oil on canvas, now an icon of the attack. Battle of Plattsburgh Association, N.Y., 1 p.m. Free. Info, 518-566-1814.

The Met: Live in HD: Palace 9: See above listing. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 1 p.m. $20-24. Info, 660-9300. ‘The Vagina Monologues’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘Victory: Choices in Reaction’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Willy Wonka’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

words

League of Vermont Writers’ Annual Meeting: Members of the state’s oldest writers’ organization put pen to paper — or fingertips to keyboard — after hearing lectures by authors Sarah Aronson and Joni Cole, and Champlain College writing prof Warren Baker. Summit Lodge & Resort, Killington, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $48-52. Info, 349-7475, lvw@leaguevtwriters. org. Linda Taylor Charkin: The retired teacher and Vermont resident signs copies of her book, Education: Myths, Realities and Parents’ Rights, before a workshop and discussion of issues in grades K through 12. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. Poetry Alive! 2011 Poetry Display: See WED.27, all day. Saloma Miller Furlong: The author of Why I Left the Amish reflects on the two separate lives she has lived. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Story Time: See THU.28, 11 a.m. ‘The Big Read’ Summit: Performances, graphic-art displays, writing workshops and a panel discussion delve into Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Norwich University, Northfield, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 291-9009, ext. 26.

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Stephen & Edna Sutton: Just after Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton, the speakers host an informal talk about 20th- and 21st-century English royal weddings and their music. Visitors are invited to bring special wedding mementos to share. Brandon Music, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 465-4071.

COTS Walk: Follow the path a homeless person in our community might take, visiting various programs and shelters run by the Committee on Temporary Shelter. Music and free ice cream included. Battery Park, Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-3084, ext. 204.

theater

Health Care Is a Human Right May Day Rally: Vermonters aim for one of the largest pow-wows in state history at this fight for equal health-care quality. Montpelier City Hall, march to Vermont Statehouse leaves at 11 a.m.; rally at the Statehouse, noon. Free. Info, 861-4892.

‘Charlotte’s Web’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘Evita’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. Highbrow to Hoedown Variety Show: Miss Vermont Caroline Bright highlights a talent show benefiting Rural Partnerships and other local organizations. Enosburg Opera House, 7-10 p.m. $10. Info, 933-6171. ‘Overture to a Thursday Morning’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Sylvia’: See WED.27, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘The King and I’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. The Met: Live in HD: Catamount Arts Center: Patricia Racette, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Željko Lucic star in a broadcast of Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600. The Met: Live in HD: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: See above listing. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512. The Met: Live in HD: Loew Auditorium: See above listing. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-27.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

agriculture

Dairy Day: Got milk? Visitors hang out with brown Swiss cows as they parade from the pasture to the milking parlor. Shelburne Farms, 1-4 p.m. $5 per car. Info, 985-8686. Lawn-to-Garden Conversion Using the Square-Foot Method: Spare patch of grass? Turn it into a veggie garden! Peter Burke explains how. City Market, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $10. Info, 861-9700. ‘Planting a Wildlife Garden: A TogetherGreen Volunteer Day’: Vermonters work alongside certified horticulturalist Heidi Glesmann to turn soil, sow seeds, and plant perennial flowers and shrubs. Preregister. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.

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art

Art Center Open HOuse: Artistes of all kinds meet teachers and work on visual expressions. Seminary Art Center, Waterbury Center, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8790, seminaryart@gmail.com. MuseuM Open HOuse Weekend: See FRI.29, 1-5 p.m.

‘HOrsin’ ArOund’: A family-friendly equine variety show features horse and rider drill teams, “Electric Horseman” David Davis, musical freestyle riding, and more. Partial proceeds benefit the Vermont Farm Bureau. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $12. Info, 878-5545, ext. 26.

conferences

leMAy dAy puB strut: Members of the House of LeMay and equally fabulous fans work their way down the marketplace, and beyond. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 2-7 p.m. Free.

dance

MuseuM seAsOn Opening: Fans of feathered fliers spy new carvings and learn about the museum’s 500th bird. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-6; free for members. Info, 4342167, museum@birdsofvermont.org.

rutlAnd rAilrOAd HistOriCAl sOCiety COnventiOn: See SAT.30, 9 a.m.-noon.

‘self-Addressed’: See SAT.30, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

education

‘priMO MAggiO’: See SAT.30, 5 p.m.

sCHOOl Open HOuse: Families tour the school and chow down some fire-cooked food. Roots School, East Calais, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 4561253, info@rootsvt.com.

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AnnuAl Bike sWAp: See SAT.30, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. everytHing equine: See SAT.30, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. friends Of tHe Art MuseuM AnnuAl supper & presentAtiOn Of AWArds fOr distinCtiOn in tHe visuAl Arts: This members-only affair brings together local artists, art students and benefactors. Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, 5:30 p.m. Reservations required. Info, 4432034, asolomon@middlebury.edu. HOlOCAust reMeMBrAnCe dAy: Folks screen part of Two Who Dared, a documentary about Martha and Waitstill Sharp, two Americans honored for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Dr. Alex Strasser, one child they rescued, shares his experiences at this interfaith remembrance event for ages 12 and up. Community Church, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 734-2892.

rAptOr enCOunter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. super sWAp Meet: Folks score deals and steals on motorcycle gear, as well as parts and accessories for street bikes, dirt bikes and ATVs. Bring a table to sell your own stuff; excludes commercial businesses. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778. tAlk tO tHe trAiner: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

film

‘Ask us WHO We Are’: See THU.28, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph. ‘BHuttO’: See FRI.29, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘MeMpHis’: See THU.28, 12:30 p.m. ‘reAgAn’: This 2011 documentary looks at the mixed legacy of the late president. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, reception, 6 p.m.; film, 7 p.m.; Q&A with director/writer Eugene Jarecki follows. $8. Info, 496-8994. ‘tHe grACe CArd’: See FRI.29, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. verMOnt restAurAnt Week: ‘Big nigHt’: See FRI.29, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. Special cocktail hour

including timpano, cheese samples, a cash bar, prizes and more, 4:30 p.m.

food & drink

CHOCOlAte-dipping deMO: See WED.27, 2 p.m. sundAy dinner: Members of Food Salvage, a University of Vermont-sponsored club, prepare and serve a hot meal for the community. Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, foodsalvage@gmail.com.

uvM neW MusiC fACtOry: Student composers present brand-new works in concert. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. verMOnt yOutH OrCHestrA: See FRI.29, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $6-15. Info, 863-5966.

outdoors

verMOnt restAurAnt Week: See FRI.29, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

‘trAvel tHe Old turnpike rOAd’: Wildlife wanderers visit historical sights and wetlands with guide Justin Lindholm. Town Office, Mendon, 12:303:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4854.

kids

sport

rAni ArBO & dAisy MAyHeM: The foursome produce family-friendly tunes from their latest children’s album, Ranky Tanky. Proceeds benefit Spring Hill School. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $10; $30 per family of five. Info, 496-8994. reAd tO A dOg: See SAT.30, 1-2 p.m.

language

frenCH-englisH COnversAtiOn grOup: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

music

MiddleBury COllege COMMunity CHOrus: See SAT.30, Mead Chapel, Middlebury College. nOrtHeAst fiddlers AssOCiAtiOn: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam to brush up on their skills. Canadian Club, Barre Town, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188. pAul leWis: Through works by Schubert, the internationally recognized pianist interprets the classical repertoire. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. $6-24. Info, 443-6433.

Bike tune-up & rOund-up: Bike Recycle Vermont helps cyclists get their wheels spinning for summer. Bring unused or outgrown bikes to donate. RSVP required. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, noon. Free. Info, 985-3999. MiddleBury MAple run: ‘tHe sWeetest HAlf’: A half-marathon draws runners through downtown and winding rural pastures that offer scenic views of the Green Mountains and Adirondacks. Start and finish at the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association, behind Porter Medical Center, Middlebury, 9 a.m. $30-70; $6-10 for postrace party (free for runners). Info, 388-7951, ext. 2. WOMen’s drOp-in sOCCer: Ladies — and sometimes gents — break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron at this coed-friendly gathering. Beginners are welcome. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 862-5091.

talks

lAuren HOWArd: This wildflower enthusiast and Norwich University professor of biology and botany opens up on “Spring Wildflowers of New England.” Refreshments and a garden-themed raffle follow. Proceeds benefit the church’s steeple-restoration SUN.01

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project. United Church, Northfield, 3 p.m. $5 per raffle ticket, or five for $20. Info, 485-8347, debra. maloneyevans@gmail.com. Stephen & Edna Sutton: See SAT.30, 2-3 p.m.

theater

‘Charlotte’s Web’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. ‘Darwin the Dinosaur’: Black-light technology meets a soundtrack of orchestral, world and pop music in this dance/theater work about a story of creation. For ages 7 and up. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Evita’: See WED.27, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Overture to a Thursday Morning’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. ‘Sylvia’: See WED.27, 2 p.m. ‘The King and I’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: See THU.28, 7 p.m. ‘Willy Wonka’: See THU.28, 2 p.m.

words

Poetry Alive! 2011 Poetry Display: See WED.27, all day. ‘Storymatters’: Raconteurs and listeners trade words on the theme of “beginnings.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Raptor Encounter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. Talk to the Trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

film

‘Bhutto’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m. ‘Playground’: Filmmaker Libby Spears screens her 2009 documentary about the child sex trade in America. Discussion follows. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. ‘The Grace Card’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m.

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Vermont Restaurant Week: ‘Big Night’: See FRI.29, 1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m.

food & drink

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Vermont Restaurant Week: See FRI.29, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

health & fitness

Aura Healing Clinic: People receive treatment for and feedback about their personal energy fields. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090. Exercise for Balance: See FRI.29, 10-11 a.m. Strong Living Exercise: See THU.28, 8 a.m. ‘Understanding Your Health Insurance’: Community College of Vermont faculty member Amy Bourgeois makes sense of HMOs, PPOs, billing codes, claims and more. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

kids

Infant Story Hour: Kiddos up to age 2 absorb spoken-word yarns. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-7550, aldrichlibrary@ charter.net.

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Music With Raphael: See THU.28, 10:45 a.m. Stories With Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music

Chamber Ensembles Concert: UVM instrumentalists form trios and quartets to perform works by famous composers. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. Mad River Chorale Rehearsals: No auditions are necessary to join this community choir, which meets weekly to give voice to song selections from America’s greatest composers. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781. Piano Recital: Affiliate artist Cynthia Huard’s music scholars dip into their repertoire. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5000. Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6580030, info@prestomusic.net.

seminars

‘Creating a Financial Future’: Folks with basic money management under control learn about long-term savings and investing. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 104.

talks

Howard Coffin: In “Vermont and the Civil War,” the historian and author offers a very local history. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

words

Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast. net.

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Roundtable Discussion Series: A local expert helps small-biz owners improve efficiency and personal productivity. Office Squared, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 951-6762.

dance

Ballroom & Latin Dance: Dance-floor disciplines — including swing and rumba — keep feet on the move. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12-14. Info, 225-8699, elabd@ comcast.net.

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Champlain Valley Quilters’ Guild: Stitchers welcome new members and guests at a sew-andtell meeting. In a presentation, teacher Nancy Prince addresses “So, What Is Thread Painting All About?’ Essex Alliance Church, 7 p.m. Free for members; $5 for guests. Info, 846-7392. Co-op Tour: Food as Medicine health coach Marie Frohlich introduces shoppers to the grains and beans in the bulk-food section, the various veggies in the produce area, and more. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain. com. Raptor Encounter: See WED.27, 11 a.m. Talk to the Trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

film

‘Bhutto’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m. ‘Memphis’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Grace Card’: See FRI.29, 7 p.m.

food & drink

Breakfast With Champions: The Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains honor Jan Blittersdorf, Kristin Carlson and Shirley Collado for their work, philanthropy or community service related to girls and women. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 7:30-8:45 a.m. $25. Info, 888-474-9686. Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. Vermont Restaurant Week: See FRI.29, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Vermont Restaurant Week: Culinary Pub Quiz: Play seven rounds of delicious trivia, brimming with questions about food in music and movies, while noshing on gravy fries. Arrive early; tables go fast. Teams are encouraged. Nectar’s, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5684.

games

Foundation for Alcoholism Research Card Party: Card players sit down to bridge and other games at this leisurely afternoon benefit. Reservations required. Swift House Inn, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m. $30 includes lunch, beverage, dessert and snack. Info, 758-2243, info@alcoholismresearch.org.

health & fitness

Community Medical School: Allergist and clinical associate professor of pediatrics Elizabeth Jaffe presents “Nothing to Sniff At: Managing Nasal Allergies.” A Q&A session follows the lecture. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2886. Laughter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

kids

Children’s Story Hour: Two- to 5-year-olds tune in for audible prose. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-7550, aldrichlibrary@charter.net. Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Fairfax Story Hour: Songs, tales and crafts captivate kiddos. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Grand Isle Pajama Story Time: Listeners show up with blankets for bedtime tales. Grand Isle Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Kids Story Hour: Literature hounds show up for tall tales. East Barre Branch Library, kids under 3 meet at 10 a.m.; ages 3 to 5 meet at 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-5118. Music With Robert: The host of a weekly folkand world-music show on VPR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Open Computer Time: See THU.28, 3-4:30 p.m. Science & Stories: What secrets are inside an egg? Kids investigate. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Story Hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Story Time for Tots: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. CarpenterCarse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878. Toddler Story Time: Tots 3 and under discover the wonder of words. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2878. ‘Toying With Science’: Circus skills, miming and audience involvement simplify scientific principles such as gravity, leverage and fulcrums in this fun learning experience with Garry Krinsky. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

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Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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‘A Celebration of Music’: Dartmouth students, faculty and guests pay homage to Bach in the Department of Music’s 33rd annual performance, featuring the Voxare String Quartet. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. Green Mountain Chorus: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 505-9595. Latin Jazz & Jazz Combo Concert: Students get to work on smooth sounds in the ballroom. Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. Noontime Concert Series: Mezzo soprano Judy Rosenbaum, bassist Jose Schmidt and pianist Mary Jane Austin-Reynolds throw themselves into songs, arias and duets in “Friendships and Other Musical Relationships.” St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471. Piano Recital: Peter “Wren” Huston, ’11, proves his chops on the hammers and strings. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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Amy Miller: In “Cultivating True Happiness Through Establishing a Practice,” the director of the Milarepa Center offers a fun and relaxed approach to spiritual practice through meditation and discussion. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136. Vermont Foodbank Hunger Conference: This annual educational seminar about hunger in our communities focuses on a changing economy and charitable-food industry. Preregister. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $30-40. Info, 4774108, jstermer@vtfoodbank.org.

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An Evening With Garrison Keillor: The distinctive-voiced “A Prairie Home Companion” host dishes on Lake Wobegon, the American Midwest and late-life fatherhood. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24-54. Info, 863-5966. ‘Evita’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m.

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Everett Dance Theatre: Members of the Rhode Island company flesh out ideas for a new work-inprogress piece, Brainstorm, in an informal presentation. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

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‘Taking FlighT’: Up-and-coming choreographers from the Advanced Beginning Dance course introduce lightly produced dance experiments. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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audiTions For Jeh kulu: Participants learn and perform a sequence of steps in front of a small panel, and join a solo circle for dancing and drumming. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 371-9849, jehkulu@yahoo.com. ChiTTenden CounTy PhilaTeliC Club: Stamp collectors of all levels of interest and experience swap sticky squares, and stories about them. GE Healthcare Building, South Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817, laineyrapp@yahoo.com. Masquerade MayheM & Wine TasTing: Masked or costumed characters parade around the winery for trivia contests, live music by the X-Rays, a silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit students in the arts. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $2025. Info, 238-0923. ProToTyPe sysTeMs PresenTaTion: Teams of UVM senior engineering students display and discuss real-world projects, which range from improved brewing of cold drinks in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters K-Cups to a parts-tracking datamanagement system for IBM. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8748. raPTor enCounTer: See WED.27, 11 a.m. rural VerMonT annual MeeTing: Family farmers, neighbors and citizens convene for live music and a finger-food potluck after a little business, including legislative updates, board elections, an awards ceremony and a keynote address by farmer/activist Bob St. Peter. West Monitor Barn, Richmond, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7222. Talk To The Trainer: See WED.27, 2 p.m. ‘TeCh saVVy’: Experience the wonder of the web while learning about Google Voice and Google Talk. Bring a laptop or use a library computer. Bradford Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

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‘bhuTTo’: See FRI.29, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

‘The graCe Card’: See FRI.29, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. VerMonT resTauranT Week: ‘big nighT’: See FRI.29, 1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m.

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ChoColaTe-diPPing deMo: See WED.27, 2 p.m. VerMonT resTauranT Week: See FRI.29, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

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FairFax PlaygrouP: See WED.27, 10-11 a.m. high sChool book grouP: See WED.27, 5-6 p.m. highgaTe sTory hour: See WED.27, 10-11 a.m. ‘Junie b. Jones’: TheatreworksUSA brings Barbara Parks’ irrepressible first grader to life through classroom misadventures. For grades K through 3. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 10 a.m. $510. Info, 603-448-0400.

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syraCuse syMPhony orChesTra: Director Daniel Hege conducts 80 musicians in a performance featuring violinist Caitlin Tully, and the works of Vivaldi and Dvořák. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $8-15. Info, 518-523-2512.

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gregory sharroW: In “A Sense of Place: Vermont’s Farm Legacy,” this lecturer shares discoveries about our state’s cultural heritage and folklife. Milton Historical Society, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598. ilan sTaVans: In “Singer’s Typewriter ... and Mine,” this Amherst College professor puts a magnifying glass to the life and work of Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Info, 223-3338. irene kaCandes: A Dartmouth College professor studies war’s generational effect on families in “Daddy’s War.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. PeTer saCCio: The Dartmouth College professor employs film clips in “Going to War in Shakespeare: Olivier, Branagh and Henry V.” Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. reeVe lindbergh: The author sheds light on her mother’s marriage to Charles Lindbergh in “Journey Toward Insight: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1947–1986.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Tony MagisTrale: UVM’s Department of English chair considers “Why Stephen King Still Matters,” and puts him in the context of the American Gothic tradition. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

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‘eViTa’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. ‘sylVia’: See WED.27, 7:30 p.m. ‘The hoT Pink MelTdoWn’: Champlain grad Ali Wisch’s comedic play captures the conversations of a crew of twentysomething college buddies who can’t keep out of trouble. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7-8. Info, julia.grunewald@mymail.champlain.edu.

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bruCe leVine: The author of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated and Battling the Corporate Elite details the cultural and psychological forces that have created a passive and discouraged U.S. population — and how to fight back. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-4900, ext. 120. Jay Parini: The acclaimed Vermont author — whose most recent novel, The Voyages of H.M., delves into the adventurous life of Herman Melville — reflects on the Moby Dick writer. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

‘The big read’ book disCussion: As part of a nationwide reading program, Vietnam veteran Ed Cashman leads a chat about Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. m

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sTory CraFTers: Conflict coach Linda Beitz describes how storytelling is used in her work, as well as around the world to create dialogues across cultural divides. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Middle sChool book grouP: See WED.27, 4-5 p.m.

PerCussion enseMble ConCerT: Students create a beat in an end-of-semester performance. Ballroom, Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

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‘b.C.V.T. (belgiuM CoMes To VerMonT)’: Belgian brews — including Duvel, Chouffe, Liefmans, Maredsous and Ommegang — pair with tasty morsels, such as fresh mussels with aioli-drenched frites. The Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Burlington, 5 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 859-0888.

‘Plauderabend’: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over dinner. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-3100 or 863-5036.

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‘hiP-hoP: beyond beaTs and rhyMes’: Byron Hurt’s film, an official selection of Sundance Film Festival, examines representations of manhood within the hip-hop culture. Held in conjunction with LACE’s Open Table Dinner; bring dinner to the movie if desired. LACE, Barre, 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4276.

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ayurveda FUNDAMENTALS OF AYURVEDIC MEDICINE: Apr. 30 - May 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/incl. lunch & snacks. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Learn the basic principles of the healing science of ancient India, pulse diagnosis and how to treat some common conditions using the healing science of ancient India. Led by Dr. Paul Bacon, DC, director of the Advanced Spine Health and Wellness Center, Portsmouth, N.H. Suitable for CEUs.

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THE ART & SCIENCE OF SOAP MAKING: May 25, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person; senior discount 65+. Limit: 10. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 4827194, access@cvuhs.org, www. cvuhs.org/access. Join Kelley Robie, of Horsetail Herbs, using herbs, spices, essential oils, plant-based oils, and other natural and nourishing ingredients. Go home with soap to cut and age, plus detailed handout. Bring a quart paperboard milk or soy container as soap mold and old towel to wrap your fresh soap in. Materials included.

creativity MAKE YOUR OWN HULA-HOOP: May 3, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $25/2-hr. class. Location: Jazzericise Fitness Center, 948 Hercules Dr., Colchester. Info: Elizabeth’s Events, Elizabeth Lemieux, 9993784, elizabethsleap@gmail. com. Join us for the pure fun of it! In this one-night workshop you will make and take your own durable, high-quality, beautiful, Hula-Hoop. Customize it to your own inner child’s delight and quest for fun! All materials included in the fee.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-week class. Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington, St. Albans, Colchester. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@ firststepdance.com, www. FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Three locations to choose from! SHAPES OF MODERN DANCE: Techniques & Practices: Mon., 6:45-8:15 p.m. Cost: $15/$14 w/ class card. Location: Burlington Dances (Chace Mill, top floor), 1 Mill St., 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Taught by a series of guest movement artists, this class includes modern, improvisation and choreographic forms, ballet (barre and center adagio), emerging and synthesis forms,

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davisstudiovt.com 425-2700 davisstudiovt.com/ adult_springclasses2011 Art, Design, Theater, Fashion & Fun... Creative classes, workshops and camps for artists of all ages and levels of experience!

FASHION DESIGN INTENSIVE, LEVEL III: Jul. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Fashion Show: Fri., 3:30 p.m. Cost: $400/5-day option, Mon.-Fri. $350/4-day option, Tue.-Fri. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. We’ll start out with sketches and illustrations. Learn specialty hand stitches, advanced sewing techniques and characteristics of various fabrics. Whether you decide to create designer pants, shorts, skirts, shirts or dresses, you will have the stage to show off your work at the Friday fashion show! Ages 13-17. Limit: 8. STREET ART/GRAFFITI: Jun. 20-24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Reception: Fri., 3:30 p.m. Cost: $400/ course. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Try out various materials and techniques such as spray painting, stenciling, stickers, wood block printing, marker pens, fine brush detailing and more. Experiment with lettering styles. Work on both small- and large-scale pieces on plywood. Guest artists will guide us in unique art activities and exercises. Ages 12-17. Limit: 8.

WOMEN BEGINNER WALK/RUN CLASS: Apr. 27 - Jul. 13, 5:45-7 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $45/ series until Apr. 20; $50 Apr. 21-May 4. Location: Williston Central School recreation path, 195 Central School Dr., Williston. Info: Michele Morris, 598-5625, michele@firststridesvermont. com, www.firststridesvermont. com. First Strides is a proven, fun, 12-week program that uses encouragement and training to improve the fitness, selfesteem and support network of women of all ages and abilities. Walkers and beginning runners welcome. Registration forms available online, at Women’s Source for Sports and Fleet Feet. Registration closes May 4.

first aid WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER: May 25 - Jun. 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $800/ course. Location: The Flashbulb Institute, Burlington. Info: The Flashbulb Institute, 8810419, info@theflashbulb.org, www.theflashbulb.org. The Flashbulb Institute is hosting SOLO Wilderness Medical School to conduct this course. The Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course is the recognized industry standard for those who work as backcountry trip leaders, conservation team leaders, camp counselors and outdoor guides.

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AUDITION WORKSHOP W/ THEATRICAL DREAM TEAM: MARK NASH, KATHRYN BLUME & BILL REED: Ages 11-18; Aug. 8-12; noon-4 p.m. Cost: $265/limited scholarships avail. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Spend a week learning how to nail cold readings, monologues and songs (if you choose a musical theater track), and how to manage anxiety and rejection in the theatrical world. Good for seniors embarking on college auditions, and for anyone planning to audition for a school show.

gardening CONTAINER HERB GARDEN: May 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person; senior discount 65+. Limit: 12. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@cvuhs. org, www.cvuhs.org/access. Create your own beautiful and edible container herb garden starting from seed. Bring a favorite container, we will supply soil and seeds, expertise, and fun. Container size: window box size, although any shape, or even a handful of smaller containers to arrange in your garden. It will be filled with soil and watered when you get home.

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CREATE ULTIMATE RAW SMOOTHIE. May 1, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $20/2-hr. yummy workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 865-4372, info@ ADVANCED DRAWING 652-4548 purpleshutter.com, www. TECHNIQUES: Jul. 18, 19, 20, flynnarts@flynncenter.org purpleshutter.com. Join Kyle 21, 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Reception: a raw nutritionist, PM Fri., 3:30 p.m. Cost: $400/ 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 3:32:51 Burroughs, who will share the latest up-tocourse. Location: Davis Studio, SUMMER CAMPS ENROLLdate information, based on many 4 Howard St., Burlington. Focus ING NOW: Over 30 full-day medicinal traditions, on the benon perspective, composition performing arts camps with efits of superfoods, superherbs and shading techniques. Work after care until 5 p.m. for ages and natural healing. You’ll feel with a variety of subjects (still 4-18. Location: Flynn Center for inspired to make new lifestyle life, nature, cartoons, human the Performing Arts, Burlington. choices for superior health! Oh form, animals, architecture, etc.). Drama, moviemaking, radio, yeah, you’ll make a great raw Students will be encouraged comedy, hip-hop and jazz dance, cacao smoothie in class, too! to take risks and stretch their puppetry, slam poetry, musical abilities while developing their HERBAL MANICURE FOR theater, voice, and historic imown individual style and creative MOTHER!: May 3, 6:30-8:30 provisation. Themes for younger approach. Ages 12-17. Limit: 8. p.m. Cost: $20/2-hr. hands-on kids include spies, pirates, royalworkshop. Location: Purple ty, fairy tales, animals, Dr. Seuss, Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Mo Willems (Pigeon/Knuffle Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Bunny) books, sea monsters Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, I AM THE WORD: A WORKSHOP (Champ), ballet, world cultures, 865-4372, info@purpleshutIN DIVINE FREQUENCY: May 13, costumes and history. ter.com, www.purpleshutter. 7-9 p.m.; free; Best Western THEATRICAL SCENE TECHNIQUE com. Join Kelley for an herbal Motel, Blush Hill Rd., Waterbury. W/ BROADWAY SCENIC ARTmanicure designed to enhance May 14-15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; $75; IST DANA HEFFERN: Adults the health and appearance of 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: & older teens: Sun., May 1, 8, your hands and nails. Indulge in Sue, 244-7909. Learn techniques 15, & 22, 12-3 p.m. Cost: $175/ the five-step manicure: aromatic for developing and sustaining incl. materials. Location: Lyric higher levels of consciousness Warehouse, Burlington. Dana in this transformative workshop HERBS P.64

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ART CAMP: A: Jun. 27-Jul. 1, 9-2, ages 6-11; B: Jul. 11-15, 9-2, ages 8-13. Cost: $270/incl. all materials. Location: Art Camp, 614 Macrae Rd., Colchester. Info: Art Camp, Carol MacDonald, 8629037, carol@carolmacdonald. com, www.carolmacdonald.com.

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Heffern painted the scenery you saw on the Flynn stage this year in Spring Awakening and Spamalot, as well as countless other Broadway shows. Learn as she shares techniques and photos (process shots and finished products) from these shows and more. You’ll practice wood graining, stone, brick, tile, texture (crackle, gilding) and adding tone or age to make scenery look so bad that it’s good!

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INTRODUCTION TO RAW FOODS: May 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/ person; senior discount 65+. Limit: 16. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs. org/access. Learn basic principles and practices of a raw and living food diet, including nutritional foundations, basic tools and techniques, simple sprouting, and additional resources. A savory meal of spring spinach soup, zucchini pasta with marinara sauce, a Mediterranean kale salad, and a fabulous chocolate cake, which is likely the quickest cake you’ll ever make. All raw and delicious!

LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www.lindyvermont.com, 860-7501. Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl.

that works with palpable energies to support your moving to the next level of your spiritual evolution. Led by Paul Selig, author, channel, psychic and energy healer.

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PAINTING: PLEIN-AIR: May 11 - Jun. 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $90/nonmembers, $81/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Come paint outdoors and explore Vermont’s best lake and mountain views! Students will work with composition, color, shadow and lights, and rendering techniques at a new site each week. Some instruction in watercolor painting will be provided. Open to all levels. Please bring your paint/ medium of choice. Limit: 12.

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DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

the question of multimedia, site specifics, Pilates, somatic awareness, dance notation, and traditional Eastern martial arts. Get experience, come to class at Burlington Dances.

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BCA offers dozens of weeklong summer art camps for ages 3-14 in downtown Burlington from June to August – the largest selection of art camps in the region! Choose full- or halfday camps – scholarships are available. See all the camps and details at burlingtoncityarts.com.

Come work in Carol MacDonald’s print studio! Drawing, painting, linoleum block printing, monotype, collagraph, clay and handmade artist books. “I believe in supporting the creative voices of children by providing quality materials and an opportunity for them to experiment with their individual imagery and process in a small group setting.”

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HONORING HERBAL TRADITION 2011: Cost: $850/9 a.m.-5 p.m. 1 Sat./mo. for 8 mos. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, www. Horsetailherbs.org. Herbal apprenticeship program held on a horse farm. Covers herbal therapies; nutritional support; diet; detox; body systems; medicine making; plant identification; tea tasting; plant spirit medicine and animal communication; wild foods; field trips; iridology; women’s, children’s, men’s and animal health! Textbook and United Plant Saver membership included. VSAC grants available. VERMONTS SCHOOL OF HERBS: Monthly Sun. workshops MayNov. Mon. evening herb walks, 6-7 p.m. Wed. evening workshops, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Herbal boot camps one weekend per month May-Nov. Call to register for classes, early bird discounts. Location: Vermont School of Herbs, 5914 Lower Newton Rd., St. Albans. Info: Tajeanhus Herbal Shop, Tammy Hudson, 527-1212, info@vermontpureherbs.com, www.vermontpureherbs.com. We will be outside among the plants learning to identify and harvest wild edible plants for food and medicine. In the kitchen we will be cooking and brewing up wild edibles and making herbal remedies for health and wellness. Learn what’s in your backyard! Tammy Hudson is a Master Herbalist, Holistic Practitioner, Nutritional Consultant for over 15 years and owner of Tajeanhus Herbal Shop and Vermont Pure Herbs. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs Certification Program begins Apr. 23-24 & runs 1 weekend/ mo. through Nov. We are currently interviewing for this program. Wild Edibles spring/ summer term will be held May 8, Jun. 5 & Jul. 10, & summer/fall term will be held Aug. 21, Sep. 18 & Oct. 16. Plan ahead & apply now for VSAC nondegree grant for 2011 programs while funds are plentiful. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@

wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local, wild, edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., May 3, at 6:45 p.m. Join now & receive a 3-mo. membership (unlimited classes) & uniform for $175. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/staff arts and knife defense. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. AIKIDO: Tue.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Sat., 9-10 a.m.; & Sun., 1011:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, www.vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility with flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. LGBTQ Intro: Wednesday evenings April 20-May 11, 5:45-6:45 p.m. $65 fee includes practice uniform. For more info or to register: lgbtqclass@gmail.com. Beginners Intro: Tuesday evenings April 28-May 19, 6-7:30 pm. $65 fee includes practice uniform. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: 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, www.vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and 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.

massage FOCUS ON EXTREMETIES 14 CEUS: Jun. 11-12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs; $225 when deposit of $50 is received by May 27. Inquire about the Introductory Risk Free Fee. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com. We will learn specific techniques for facilitating release in the shoulder, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees, ankles and feet. By using comfortable positioning and movement, we access the innate, self-corrective reflexes, achieving pain relief and structural balance. Using ortho-bionomy we will explore a simple and natural means of working with neuromuscular tension patterns that is gentle, effective and transformative.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

movement ZUMBA & BELLY DANCE: Mon. & Fri., 5:45. Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 8633369, info@burlingtondances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Zumba Fitness Mondays and Belly Dance Fridays with Gail McKenzie Hall! Have some fun! Bring your water bottle for these energetic, rejuvenating dance moves and music from around the world. Let us know you are

coming, or simply drop in for a class. Call for details! Upstairs in Chace Mill!

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GOT FOOD SECURITY?: May 14-Sep. 18. Cost: $500/workshop. Location: Outdoors, Burlington & surrounding areas. Info: Eric Garza, 881-8675, DeepGreenResilience@gmail. com. Join local forager and hunter Eric Garza for two programs that will help participants develop relationships with wild foods. One workshop focuses on wild edible and medicinal plants, another focuses on hunting. The hunting workshop is not a substitute for a hunter safety course and will not harm any animals.

ALL WELLNESS: Location: 208 Flynn Ave., Studio 3A (across from the antique shops, before Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 863-9900, www.allwellnessvt. com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and nutrition. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. Join us for a free introduction to the reformer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.: Just call and reserve your spot!

ROOTS SCHOOL: May 7, 9 a.m.. Location: ROOTS School, 20 Blachly Rd., East Calais. Info: ROOTS School, Sarah Corrigan, 456-1253, Info@rootsvt.com, www.RootsVT.com. Open house May 7. We educate adults and youth in primitive technologies, tracking and nature awareness. Come check us out, see what we teach and meet who we are. Bow Building class May 7-10. Start with a rough stave and build your own long self bow to shoot.

organization PAPER MANAGEMENT MADE EASY: This is a 6-lesson online workshop. Starts Thu., May 12. A new lesson will be released each Thu. for 6 consecutive weeks, ending Jun. 16. Cost: $49/course. Location: Online, via email (lessons will be a mix of text and audio). Info: Perfect Order Organizing, Kelly McCann, 881-2456, KellyJayneMccann@ gmail.com, Perfect OrderOrganizing.com. Say goodbye to piles! This workshop will take you through the entire process of a paperwork management, step by step. You will learn how to manage, organize and house all the paper that makes its way into your space. End result: easily find what you need, when you need it.

painting OIL PAINTING W/ VAL HIRD: May 14-15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $250/course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com. Do you have nagging questions about oil painting? This workshop will address strategies for color application, color mixing, application techniques, including under-painting, painting in layers, glazing and using oil stick. This will be a practical workshop with lots of information for students at all levels. Demos along

NATURAL BODIES PILATES: For a whole new body. Daily classes & private sessions Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates. com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. For a whole new body: daily classes and private sessions. Bring a friend, join the group! Get that fantastic feeling of deep internal strength while feeling relaxed and flexible. Reform your body, move and dance

with confidence. Join classes at Natural Bodies Pilates and Burlington Dances, upstairs at Chace Mill.

pottery CLAY CLASSES: May 9 - Jun. 25, Weekly on Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Sat. Cost: $195/3-hr. adult class. Location: Montpelier Mud, 961 Route 2, Middlesex. Info: Montpelier Mud, 224-7000, info@montpeliermud.com, www. montpeliermud.com. April showers bring May flowerpots! All levels of experience are welcome with a variety of classes for adults, teens and kids. Try your hand at throwing clay on the wheel, or build by hand for a less speedy pace. Please note our new Saturday time slot!

printmaking SILKSCREEN PRINTING W/ NATASHA BOGAR: May 4-25, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $225/course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com. Students will construct their own silkscreens and design prints using pencil and paper or computers in the HDAC computer lab. Several methods of transferring your design onto the screens will be covered, as well as color mixing and heat setting.

Bereavement groups provide members the opportunity to share their feelings of grief while learning about the mourning process through hearing the experiences of others. This group will provide education, support, hope and healing for those who are working through feelings of loss and grief. Prescreening required.

tai chi snake-styLe tai chi chUan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, www. iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

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a minDfUL JoURney thRoUgh gRief W/ tisha shULL: Apr. 21 - May 12, 6-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $100/series, self-pay or Medicaid accepted. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: Tisha Shull, 6589440. “Grieving allows us to heal.”

sUmmeR camP seRies: Jun. 20-Jul. 25, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. & after care option. Cost: $300/ session, $50 off for 2nd child or session. Materials/healthy snack incl. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. University of Possibilities: Multiple themes: Creative Adventure week, Teen Art Exploration, Art & French, Art & Science, Art & Nature. Ages 6-13, except teen week 13-18. Small group size, individual attention, hands-on, brains-on adventures, beautiful working studio, outside nature walks and high-end Dumpster dives! Hone creative skills, uncover

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yoga evoLUtion yoga: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon.-Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@ evolutionvt.com, www.evolutionvt. com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusarainspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog. fReeDom yoga WoRkshoP seRies: May 7, 2-6 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $50/4-hr. class. Location: Warren Municipal Building, 42 Cemetary Rd., Warren Village. Info: Edgar Mesquita, 324-2974, omshivaomshakti@gmail.com, thefreedomyoga.com. Engage your self in this blossoming time, refreshing your yoga practice or discovering a millenarian philosophy of life. We will work in a safe, positive and fun environment, practicing and talking about all the exercises of yoga. Following the Freedom/Svatantrya Yoga tradition, you’’ll be ready to create a personal practice free of restrictions. oLD schooL ashtanga WoRkshoP!: Fri. 6-8 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $250/16-hr. workshop. Location: Yoga Vermont, Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, Burlington. Info: Yoga Vermont, Kathy McNames York, 238-0594, kathy@ yogavermont.com, www.yogavermont.com. David Swenson and Shelley Washington will be back in Burlington leading an ashtanga yoga extended weekend workshop. 16 hours over three days. CEUs available. Guaranteed to be fun and educational for all. No previous ashtanga experience necessary. Renew your practice, increase your understanding and maybe learn to jump through.

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intRo to shamanic JoURneying: May 15, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $60/4hr. class. Location: Shaman’s Flame, 78A Cady Hill Rd., Stowe. Info: Sarah Finlay & Peter Clark, 253-7846, peterclark13@gmail.com, www.shamansflame.com. Experiential workshop includes shamanic cosmology, shamanic journeying. Meet spirit guides, find your seat of power and begin to walk the path of self-empowerment. Learn about divination and basic forms of shamanic healing. Discover the great relevance of this ancient spiritual practice. Expand your consciousness, learn of integrative spiritual healing.

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Women, fooD & sPiRitUaLity: May 8 - Jun. 12, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Weekly on Sun. Cost: $120/incl. book. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 6589440, www.vtcyt.com. We will use the book by Geneen Roth, “Women, Food, and God,” along with yoga, journaling and group therapy to develop a deeper understanding of how the way we eat and think about food relates to all that we do. Learn to be more present and aware.

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WeatheR shamanism LeveL 1: Jun. 11-12, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $195/2-day weekend class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Woodbury facility, 644 Log Town Rd., E. Calais. Info: Shaman’s Flame, Peter CLARK, 253-7846, peterclark13@gmail.com, www.shamansflame.com. A form of spiritual ecology, a call to caring about the environment. Weather shamanism is not about controlling weather, but rather about healing our relationship with weather. Through shamanic journeying, we work to find a path of balance. Shamanic journey skills required and taught on May 15 in Stowe.

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UsUi Reiki: 1st DegRee: May 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class. Location: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 985-9580, cindy@energymedicinevt.com, www.energymedicinevt.com. Learn Reiki, a traditional Japanese healing art that facilitates health and transformation on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Reiki can be supportive of any life path or career. In this class, you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki for yourself, loved ones, plants and animals.

Rd., Worcester. Info: The Pachakuti Mesa Traditions, Thomas Mock, 828-817-5034, thomasmock@windstream.net, www.heartofthehealer. com. A rare opportunity to apprentice in the U.S. in the Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Plantetary Renewal. The Pachakuti Mesa Practice was founded by Oscar Miro-Quesada (see mesaworks. com). A two-year, five-weekend apprenticeship series begins with “A Call to Heal.” Recieve illuninating wisdom teachings in Peruvian shamanism. Also visit hearthofthehealer.com.

yang-styLe tai chi: Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. All levels classes on Sat., 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Cost: $16/class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immediately after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 318-6238. Tai Chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.

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Dancin’ Fools Catching up with Burlington expat David Satori of Beats Antique BY D AN BO L L E S

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SEVEN DAYS: When you were growing up in Burlington, did you ever imagine you’d be touring with an electroworld-roots-belly-dance band??

DAVID SATORI: I did not. I actually didn’t think I’d be part of any band that way. I always wanted to be part of a band, but certainly didn’t know it would take this form. SD: What sorts of music were you involved with here?

DS: I had a great teacher, a guitar player, Steve Blair. He had a big impact on me, taught me about jazz, how to produce music and write music. At the same time, I was into Phish and Jazz Mandolin Project. Aram Bedrosian [Gordon Stone Band] was a schoolmate of mine, and we used to play and jam together.

way than a synthetic, collage way. We want it to fit together and make sense rather than have two strange things just slapped together. SD: I imagine that could be a daunting task.

DS: That’s our challenge. And sometimes it does feel slapped together, so we have to work it until it feels more natural, you know? SD: Your live show is wild and seems centered on dance as much as music. Does one idiom influence your work more than the other?

DS: The band originated by making an album for dance. So our live show is really based around dance music and, specifically, in the beginning, belly-dance music. But it’s really morphed into a lot of different genres, from vaudeville to burlesque to ballet and more modern genres. We’re combining a lot of different stuff. So, that dance influence on our compositions and productions is really showcased live. COURTESY OF BEATS ANTIQUE

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avid Satori is coming home, at least for a night. The Burlington native has been traveling the globe with San Franciscobased trio Beats Antique, who meld unwieldy styles and influences into a rare and wondrous spectacle. Think performance art and hot-blooded, down-anddirty dance music. Oh, and belly dancing. Lots of belly dancing. The multi-instrumentalist and producer graduated Burlington High School in 1997, then headed west to study music in California, with a specific focus in world music. Satori’s curiosity eventually led him to Africa, where he delved deeper into West African rhythms, studying and playing with some of that region’s greats, including Fela Kuti’s son Femi Kuti. With Beats Antique, Satori fuses his passion for world music with an unlikely assortment of Western styles, including electronic dance music, hip-hop, jazz and rock. But what sets the band apart is Zöe Jakes. The classically trained dancer interprets her band’s music through a whirling blend of ballet, burlesque, urban dance and, yes, belly dancing. Her movement lends a sensual visual aesthetic to the live show, which is thus as compelling to watch as it is to hear. In advance of Beats Antique’s performance at the Higher Ground Ballroom on Wednesday, April 27, we spoke with Satori by phone from Baltimore.

Actually, he’s going to sit in at the [Higher Ground] show and play some bass. He’s a good friend. I also used to go to a lot of punk shows at 242 [Main]. SD: I bet we were at a lot of the same shows. After high school you went to California and studied world music. What is it about world music that attracted you?

DS: I think it’s the nature of the melodies. Those scales and harmonies I just gravitate toward a little more than straight Western music or pop music. I’m more intrigued by quirky and interesting music, and then just deep, beautiful, old traditional music that’s stood the test of time. I feel a connection to it. SD: What was it like to play with Femi Kuti?

DS: I was with a band in San Francisco

called Aphrodesia, and we had this crazy idea to go to West Africa and hang out with the musicians we were influenced by. And we had the chance to play with Femi in Nigeria for two nights. We were the first American band that had ever gone to Nigeria and played with him there. It was a really cool experience. It was wild. SD: Beats Antique take those world influences and meld them with some pretty aggressive Western styles. What are some of the challenges making those pieces fit?

DS: Well, it’s really easy for anyone to take a sample of some Indian vocal melody and slap it over a hip-hop beat. Anyone can do it. So, our way is to get in there and compose our own melodies, develop our own beats and make the parts melt together in a more organic

SD: When you’re writing, how much do you focus on the fact that you’re composing for dance?

DS: We’re really based on what music comes naturally to us. If it’s something that naturally makes you feel good or makes sense for a dance piece, then great. But we still have pieces that aren’t easy to dance to or weren’t made just for dance. There are definitely pieces that are made just for the sake of making music. But Zöe has a big influence on arranging the music and bringing in choreographers, and that perspective makes for a really unique way of creating music. SD: Last question. What’s your favorite thing to do in Burlington when you come home?

DS: Going to Ahli Baba’s and getting a falafel, then to Muddy Waters and gettin’ my coffee.

Beats Antique play the Higher Ground Ballroom on Wednesday, April 27, with Marley Carroll and the Orator, 8:30 p.m. $13/15. AA.

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parents, they turn to music, right? What do you suppose Eli Kochalka will turn to? Accounting? Insurance sales? The possibilities are terrifying.) dJ ellis and Montpelierbased electro-indie popsters chAMpAgne dynAsTy — a highlight from the recent comp, State & Main Records: Volume 1 — close out the night. Geek Week comes to its breathless conclusion, perhaps due to asthma,

aren’t playing together. The Fags’ eugene huTz is a busy, globetrotting gypsy-punk rock star at the moment.) It was just announced that the Queers are coming back to VT, which is amazing on two fronts. One, they’re still going strong some 15 years later, which is an impressive shelf life for most punk bands. And two … well, I guess just one front, really. Still, I’ll be psyched to catch up with one of my all-time

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Speaking of playing the punk rocks for the peoples, Burlington’s Manhattan Pizza & Pub has become an unlikely hub recently, largely due to the monthly punk nights curated by the boys from y69. This Friday, the downtown juke joint welcomes punk’s aggro cousins, hardcore and metal, for a night of rawkin, beer swillin’ and cheesesteak eatin’ — it’s “Philly Friday,” after all. The undercard features Burlington mathmetal mavens sWiFTshire, about whom I know very little beyond that they brew their own beer and are, according to lord silky’s rob blevins, “brutal.” Nice. Lord Silky are also on the bill,

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This bit goes out to anyone who was around during Burlington’s mid-1990s alt-rock heyday, or, in other words, my fellow aging hipsters. Remember the long-running rumor that New Hampshire punk band the Queers were going to play a double bill with Queen City punks the FAgs? To refresh your memory — and for readers under 30 — every few months, it seemed some version of that provocative pairing would resurface, usually involving a supposed gig at 242 Main or Club Toast. As a teenager, I recall it continually being among the most exciting — and ultimately disappointing — bits of gossip on the wind. And I fell for it every time. Well, guess what? (No, the Fags and the Queers

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by “classical über nerds” the chiArA sTring enseMble and Brooklyn’s genes And MAchines. Closing out the night are electro-acoustic turbo geeks duriAns, who play two of the geekiest instruments known to man: the Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheepeeeee, and the Lunchbox, the latter of which is like a theremin on steroids. Saturday is arguably the main event, with Vermont cartoonist laureate JAMes kochAlkA performing tunes from his most recent album, Digital Elf — he composed it entirely on an 8-bit Game Boy Advance. Also appearing: kAbooMbooM!, a band composed of Kochalka’s 7-year-old son eli kochAlkA and Eli’s friend Declan. (An aside: When most kids rebel against their

on Sunday afternoon with pArker shper’s JAzz TWeAkers. For more info and schedule updates, check out langdonstreetcafe.com.

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Local folks use plenty of snappy catchphrases to promote their various events — “You never know until you go” (Northeast Kingdom Music Festival); “Dude, I’m soooo wasted!” (Vermont Brewers Festival); etc. But the one for the Langdon Street Café’s annual Geek Week is probably my favorite: “The geek shall inherit the earth.” What can I say? I’m a sucker for biblical puns. By the time this paper hits newsstands, we will be smack in the middle of Geek Week 5.0, which began Tuesday, April 26, and runs through this Sunday, May 1. And, as per usual, it’s chock-full of nifty electronic music, mind-blowing feats of science, 12-sided dice, hobbits, mages, dudes in cloaks, video games and virgins. (I’m just guessing about that last one.) Wednesday, April 27, is Game Con. The evening’s events include a Dungeons & Dragons character-building seminar with game master and LSC honcho Ben T. Matchstick, a role-playing game called Fiasco, led by Green Mountain Gamers’ Tyler dion, as well as the chance to test your skills at all manner of conventionalish board games, including Dominion, Scrabble and Bananagrams. (Word to the wise, you’d better pray I don’t show up for Bananagrams. I’m that good.) On Thursday, following a “Geek Life” drawing class featuring real live sci-fi and superhero models — yes, really — AnAïs MiTchell’s all-star outfit spuTnik! take to the stage to blind you with science or killer ’80s

dance tunes. Get there early, because they’re only allowing 99 people through the door. And if there’s one thing geeks are good at, it’s keeping track of numbers. Friday features a Science Happy Hour with Miss WizArd, presumably the widow of the late, great

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1/2 LoungE: steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m.

on tHE risE bakEry: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: OH-J Fresh presents Homegrown Wednesdays with Pat maine and mc Pigpen, Aleck Woog cD release, covert Empire (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.

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Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: Beats Antique, marley carroll, the Orator (live electronica), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: Greensky Bluegrass (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. LEunig's bistro & CaFé: cody sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LiFt: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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MonkEy HousE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.

City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

bEE's knEEs: Faerie God Brothers (dream folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's: The Ramblers (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.

rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free.

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rí rá irisH Pub: Longford Row (irish), 8 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LoungE: The Leland shuffle (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Electroshock with selector (dancehall), 10 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: Toussaint the Liberator, Dis ’N Dat Band, satta sounds (reggae), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. tHE grEEn rooM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

on taP bar & griLL: Pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free.

LEunig's bistro & CaFé: mike martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

PariMa aCoustiC LoungE: The Newest secret with DJ Gunner & DJ siduktiv (eclectic DJs), 9 p.m., $5.

LiFt: Get LiFTed with DJs Nastee & Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

rED squarE: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. sHELburnE stEakHousE & saLoon: carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

central

kisMEt: comedy Night: Kathleen Kanz, umberto Garofano, carmen Lagala, Pat Lynch (standup), 7:30 p.m., $5. LangDon strEEt CaFé: Geek Week: Game con, 7 p.m., Free.

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rasPutin's: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. rED squarE: selector Dubee (reggae), 6 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

nECtar's: Funkwagon, Lynguistic civilians (funk), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

raDio bEan: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The unbearable Light cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.

MonkEy HousE: Ghost to Falco, Aan (indie), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. consider the source (jam), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

tHE skinny PanCakE: The move it move it (Afro-pop), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

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grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. LangDon strEEt CaFé: Geek Week: sputnik! (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $8/10. nutty stEPH's: Bacon Thursdays with Noble savage (electro), 10 p.m., Free. sLiDE brook LoDgE & tavErn: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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51 Main: 4'10", Brown, and Boobless Revolution (spoken word), 8 p.m., Free. on tHE risE bakEry: Open irish session, 8 p.m., Donations.

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

tWo brotHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

on taP bar & griLL: The House Rockers (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

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PariMa Main stagE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Bread & Bones, Phil Henry, mike Wheeler & Andrew stearns (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $3.

riMroCks Mountain tavErn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE: Live music, 10 p.m., Free. MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke with Benjamin Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free. tabu CaFé & nigHtCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LoungE: Half under House Arrest: Japan Benefit (house), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 242 Main: The crowley street Project, Gold Laces, sarah stickle (rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. baCkstagE Pub: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. banana WinDs CaFé & Pub: Red stellar & the Workin' man Band (country), 7:30 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. tHE grEEn rooM: DJ Big Kat (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: Rubblebucket, million Young (Afrofunk), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LiFt: salsa Friday with DJ Hector cobeo (salsa), 9 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Gentleman Thieves, Lord silky, swiftshire (hardcore), 9 p.m., Free.

bEE's knEEs: Lesley Grant & stepstone (country), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MonkEy HousE: Lord silky, Vaporizer, Let the Night Roar, Death Beds (punk, hardcore), 9 p.m., $5.

CLairE's rEstaurant & bar: Phil Yates & the Affiliates (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

nECtar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

Moog's: matt schrag (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free.

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UNDbites THUMB WAAAAAARRR!”) Anyway, they are worth the price of admission on their own. (And, yeah, Friday is a free show. But you get the idea.) And Lord Silky’s debut record, due out in July, is already among my most anticipated releases of the summer. We’re on a punk-rock roll, so let’s keep it moving with a ROUGH FRANCIS update. The sons of DEATH are trading gigs this weekend with a killer Boston band, the DARKER HUES. They’ll play Beantown on Friday, then zip back up I-89 to split a bill at Nectar’s on Saturday night. And just who are the Darker Hues? It turns out you probably know them. The band features a trio of B-Town expats including JOSEPH BOO (the VELVET OVUM BAND, THE MAGIC IS GONE), MORGAN YANDOW and SCOTT THERRIEN (SANDOZE). Welcome back, gents. Also on the bill that night are hard-charging locals SPIRIT ANIMALS and the omnipresent DJ DISCO PHANTOM. Band Name of the Week:

KABOOMBOOM! See above.

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including President BARACK

will host one of the biggest names in benefit-jazz, RICK DELLARATTA. And, yes, I just invented that genre. Discover Jazz Fest, you can have that one free of charge. DellaRatta is the force behind JAZZ FOR PEACE, an organization/ band that travels the globe promoting peace and goodwill and helping like-minded organizations raise money. Organizations such as Burlington’s the Root Center, which grows organic vegetables for the Chittenden County Food Shelf and is the beneficiary of Saturday’s jazzenanny. That’s like a hootenanny but, you know, jazzier. DellaRatta’s work — some 800 concerts and counting — has caught the eyes and ears of some relatively important people,

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publicly praised his efforts. But if you can’t take their word for it, perhaps this quote from the Salt Lake City Weekly will help: “DellaRatta is fast becoming the BONO of jazz!” I think that’s supposed to be a compliment. In all seriousness, it’s a great cause for a great organization and, of course, a great band. Besides, any excuse to hear music on Halvorson’s back patio is a good one. When the weather warms, it’s the most tragically underutilized stage in town.

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On their 2010 album, Vs. Sharktopus, local outfit Torpedo Rodeo served up a deliriously dorky, and roundly excellent, debut. The disc’s lone flaw — if it can even be called that — was that the selfproclaimed surf-punk trio offered few glimpses of either surf or punk. Instead, the band favored quirky Brit-pop jangle.

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Though ably executed and generously infused with cheeky charm, it left this critic feeling slightly misled and craving some reverb-drenched, Dick Daleesque shake and stomp. With their new EP, Nightmare, Torpedo Rodeo oblige the punk-loving wannabe beach bums among us, while retaining the strange irreverent streak that made their debut so tantalizing. Guitarist Max Krauss gleefully drops into the pipeline on “10 Speed Car,” unleashing a tumbling line worthy of the King of the Surf Guitar himself — that would be Dale, kiddos. His rapidfire strokes ride a fine balance between staccato attack and splashy tone, among the more daunting challenges of surf guitar. Here, and throughout the EP’s scant six cuts, Krauss proves a uniquely gifted and — more importantly — tasteful player. Even more than on Torpedo Rodeo’s debut, he’s the star of the show, displaying striking versatility and technical prowess. “The Rodeo” sounds like what might happen if Ennio Morricone scored a Quentin Tarantino grindhouse flick — perhaps with a lyrical assist from Jonathan Richman. Creaky guitar sustains rise like desert heat and shimmer over Jeremiah Johnson’s pulsing, tribal drums and a slithering bass line from Nick Sherman. Meanwhile, a ghastly chorus of male voices lends the song a sinister, ethereal glow. “Ghosts” finds Sherman taking over front-man duties from Krauss, and revisiting the lighter pop fare from Vs. Sharktopus. On the surface, it should feel like a stylistic departure from the lithe, guitar-fueled tunes preceding it. But it doesn’t. Rather, Torpedo Rodeo expertly infuse Sherman’s pop leanings with the band’s generally subversive aesthetic. Catchy as hell yet sonically arresting, it is the EP’s centerpiece. The following cut, “Vampires,” is scorching punk bombast that highlights the band’s sneering but playful charm while eviscerating the ongoing popculture fascination with vamps and werewolves — looking at you, Twilight franchise. It is funny and oddly poignant, and flat out rocks. It also may be the first local song to address the walking calamity that is Charlie Sheen. Though whether he’s a vampire,8v-Spielpalast042711.indd werewolf or some other monster is never made explicitly clear. Winning, indeed. For more info on the band, visit torpedorodeo.com.

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Rubblebucket’s lightning has dimmed a bit since its inaugural bottling at a 2007 Burlington Jazz Fest. In just four years, the now eight-piece “orchestra” has changed names, dropped players and split Vermont for Brooklyn. They’ve even shed their celebrated Afrobeat trappings, instead moving toward kaleidoscopic psych-pop that’s more Flaming Lips than Fela Kuti. Gone are the percussive, worldly compositions. What’s left is Omega La La; a studio detour both light and limitless, and almost entirely unexpected. Fresh off the mixing boards, La La owes as much to producer Eric Broucek (LCD Soundsystem, Cut Copy) as to cosongwriters Alex Toth (trumpet) and Kalmia Traver (vocals). Broucek cultivates quirkiness in the real-life couple, choosing peculiar indie pomp over steady jams. There’s a sly whimsy to “L’Homme” born of Traver’s florid phrasing and Darby Wolf’s Super Mario keyboard loops. What opens as sweet Parisian pop soon transforms into a swirling, psychedelic horn and exhalation. Wildly kinetic, it’s a disco confection, buffed with BjÖrk-ian rk-ian vocals. Elsewhere, Jordan Brooks lassos “Silly Fathers” with a bass line loose enough to skip rope, and the band bounces cheerfully along. But the chorus feels slightly vacant. Imagine She & Him without Zooey Deschanel’s irresistible charm. “We’re not safe, we’re not secure,” insists Traver. Alas, nothing could be further from the truth. Sailing under the full weight of their ensemble, Rubblebucket are a seasoned octet whose conductors have reached new shores and burned the ships. It’s a strange little trip, if you’re willing to take the ride.

“Came Out of a Lady” rollicks with Beck-like synth and enough Latin stick work to incite a conga line. Toth and trombonist Adam Dotson blast short mariachi runs before ducking under Traver’s capricious vocals. With such easy swing, it’s no surprise that Rubblebucket match well against tour mates as stylistically divergent as String Cheese Incident, Pretty Lights and Ozomatli. What’s less clear is where they’re headed. The band moves like a hummingbird tapping for sugar. Twee tracks such as “Triangular Daisies” are more geek than chic, with spacey keys and candied wordplay that wouldn’t be out of place on a Sponge Bob intro. “Raining” is an airy, melancholy morsel that’s just curious enough to please but too blithe to matter. Moody numbers such as the horn dirge “Weak Arms/Lifted” hint at sleepy STS9 atmospherics. Only the poppy jam “Worker” keeps Rubblebucket from disappearing into indulgence, as Traver’s sax recalls groovier times. Omega La La is a bold turn from Burlington’s acclaimed big-band export; a sort of musical Jenga whose sum is no more certain than are its kinky, constituent parts. Let’s hope they don’t tumble the tower. Rubblebucket play the Higher Ground Ballroom this Friday, April 29, with Million Young and Errands. Omega La La officailly comes out on June 7, but is available as a free download to fans through rubblebucket.com.

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On Tap Bar & Grill: Leno & Young (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. The Rhythm Rockets (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Parima Main Stage: Small Change (Tom Waits tribute), 7:30 p.m., $3. Adam & the Waxmen, Last October (r&b), 10 p.m., $3.

Rasputin's: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3.

central

Red Square: Nick B. (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5. Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

Langdon Street Café: Geek Week: Parker Shper's Jazz Tweakers (jazz), 12 p.m., Donations.

Red Square Blue Room: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5.

Tupelo Music Hall: Shawn Mullins, Callaghan (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $25.

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Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

Bee's Knees: Beltane (jazz), 11 a.m., Donations. Tall Grass Get Down (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

The Skinny Pancake: Spottiswoode and His Enemies (freak folk), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

Sweet Crunch Bake Shop: John Compagna (acoustic rock), 10:30 a.m., Free.

is a popular refrain among most bands. Not so, NYC’s

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

(presumed) mutual disdain for one another, the sextet has improbably made wildly compelling music together for

Langdon Street Café: Geek Week: Chiara String Quartet (classical), 6:30 p.m., Donations. Geek Week: Genes and Machines (geeky), 9 p.m., Donations. Geek Week: Durians (electro-acoustic), 10 p.m., Donations.

more than a decade. Drawing on influences as far-flung as rock, vaudeville, folk, psych and jazz, the band’s latest

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Charlie O's: The Pubcrawlers (Celtic punk), 10 p.m., Free.

Localfolk Smokehouse: Groundfood (funk), 9 p.m., Free.

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Shelburne Steakhouse & Saloon: The Fizz (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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Parima Acoustic Lounge: Zack duPont Band (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., $5.

Radio Bean: Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., Free. Grimis (world music), 9 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Flat Top Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. Patrick & Friends, the Move It Move It (Afro-pop), 10 p.m., Free.

Purple Moon Pub: Dan Liptak Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. Tupelo Music Hall: Susan Werner, Liz Longley (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., $25. AA.

champlain valley

51 Main: Ivan Kuraev (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. City Limits: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. On the Rise Bakery: Open Jazz Session with Dan Silverman (jazz), 7 p.m., Donations. Two Brothers Tavern: The Grift (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

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Bee's Knees: Sarah Blacker (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Chris Lyon & Fran (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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Nectar's: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

Parima Main Stage: Seventh Sundays with Midnight Jones (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

Park Place Tavern: Ambush (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: AM Presents: True Widow (indie), 9 p.m., $8. 18+.

Parker Pie Co.: The Writer’s Block (writing workshop), 7 p.m., Free

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record, Wild Goosechase Expedition, is a contentious collection of eclecticism that both challenges and, well, chastises. Make some new enemies this Friday, April 29, at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Dead Sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/10. AA.

Roadside Tavern: Hard Luck (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

regional

Monkey House: Suss, Antara (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., $5. 18+.

Monopole: Consider the Source (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Olive Ridley's: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free.

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1/2 Lounge: Dusty Jewels (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Mario Maric (house), 10 p.m., Free. Backstage Pub: Smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. The Green Room: Bonjour-Hi! presents Legotronix (electro), 10 p.m., Free. Halvorson's Upstreet Café: Jazz For Peace (jazz), 6 p.m., $35. Higher Ground Ballroom: Women Helping Battered Women's 3rd Annual Zumbathon, 10 a.m., $25. AA. Secondhand Serenade, Plug in Stereo (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., $15/17. AA.

Nectar's: Justin Levinson's Singer-Songwriter Circle with Elise Hayes and Kelly Ravin (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Rough Francis, the Darker Hues, Spirit Animal, DJ Disco Phantom (punk), 9 p.m., $5. On Tap Bar & Grill: Last Words (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Parima Main Stage: Kung Fu, the Move It Move It (funk), 10 p.m., $7/10. Radio Bean: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Michaela Ann & Thomas Bryan Eaton (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Rasputin's: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Red Square: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. Sangria Smackdown, 5 p.m., Free. Myra Flynn's Guest List (neo-soul), 6 p.m., Free. Dave Keller Band (blues), 9 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5. Venue: The Hillside Hooligans (country), 8 p.m., $3.

central

Langdon Street Café: Geek Week: James Kochalka Digital Elf (rock), 6 p.m., Donations. Geek Week: KaBoomBoom (rock), 6:45 p.m., Donations. Geek Week: Champagne Dynasty (pop), 9 p.m., Donations. Positive Pie 2: Woods Tea Company (folk), 1:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $8/12. Purple Moon Pub: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 8 p.m., Free. The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: Paydirt (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Tupelo Music Hall: Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson (blues), 8 p.m., $25.

champlain valley 51 Main: Prana (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Moog's: Canyonero (country), 8 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge: Half-FRO Beat Mondays with DJ Brian-eye (world music), 9 p.m., Free. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 9 p.m., Free.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Metal Mondays with Nefarious Frenzy (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Roadside Tavern: Working Man Band (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Comedy Open Mic, 5:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

regional

Monopole: High Peaks (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Tabu Café & Nightclub: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

SUN.01

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, Moonflower & Friends (house), 7 p.m., Free.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Reggae Night with Top Draw Sound, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Ballroom: Reverend Horton Heat, the Reverend Payton's Big Damn Band (psychobilly), 7:30 p.m., $18/20. AA.

Bee's Knees: Open Mic, 7:30 p.m., Donations.

burlington area

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Cunninglynguists, Homeboy Sandman (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA.

northern

Two Brothers Tavern: Snake Mountain Bluegrass (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., Free.

MON.02

Parker Pie Co.: Gold Town (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: VT Electronic Music Industry Mixer at Sunday Night Mass: Dooze Jackers, Justin REM, Sleezy D, DJ Disco Phantom, Helixx & Phatrix (electronica), 8 p.m., $8. Black to the Future (urban jamz), 10 p.m., Free.

City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Ye Olde England Inne: Corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. Red Square: Industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. Hype ’Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Rozzi's Lakeshore Tavern: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free. Ruben James: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Moog's: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

TUE.03

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Anecdote (storytelling), 7 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

venueS.411 courtesy Reverend Horton heat

sun.01 // Reverend Horton Heat [psychobilly]

It’s Crying Time

Reverend Horton Heat wish

you wouldn’t take them

so damned seriously. So they whipped up a record that highlights their wily Texas charms, Laughin’ & Cryin’. Introducing an irreverent mix of characters — dimwitted husbands, drunken lowlifes and other assorted losers — the new batch of country-heavy tunes truly puts the psycho back in the band’s trademark psychobilly. This Sunday, May 1, Reverend Horton Heat sermonize at the Higher Ground Ballroom with fellow honkytonk clergymen, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. Club Metronome: MSR Presents: Wintersleep, the Milkman's Union (indie), 8 p.m., $8. 18+. Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Monkey House: AM Presents: In Tall Buildings, Maryse Smith and the Rosesmiths (indie), 9 p.m., $8. 18+. Monty's Old Brick Tavern: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.

central

Charlie O's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Bee's Knees: Jeremy Sicily (old-time), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's: Open Mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

WED.04

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m. Dan Liptak (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: 2KDeep presents Shake the Lake 2 with Hot Pink Delorean, 2KDeep Crew, Austin Eterno, J. Kwest (electro), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Ballroom: The Infamous Stringdusters, Something With Strings (newgrass), 7:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Julia Nunes, Ian Axel (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Lift: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Nectar's: Kinetix, Indobox (rock), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+. Parima Main Stage: Gneiss (jam), 9:30 p.m., $3. Radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Red Square: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Shelburne Steakhouse & Saloon: Carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. On the Rise Bakery: Open Blues Session, 7:30 p.m., Donations. Two Brothers Tavern: Do-Jo (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's Knees: Thirsty Brothers (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's: The Ramblers (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

regional

Monopole: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. m

central

Arvad’s Grill & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-8973. Big Picture Theater & Café, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. The Center Bakery & Cafe, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. Cj’s at than wheelers, 6 S. Main St., White River Jct., 280-1810. Green mountain Tavern, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. Gusto’s, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. Hen of the wood at the Grist Mill, 92 Stowe St., Waterbury, 244-7300. Hostel Tevere, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kismet, 52 State St. 223-8646.

northern

Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. The Blue Acorn, 84 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-0699. The Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. Claire’s Restaurant & bar, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. The Hub Pizzeria & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. The Little Cabaret, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. Moog’s, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225. Music Box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. Overtime Saloon, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. parker piE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366. Phat Kats Tavern, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064. Piecasso, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. Rimrocks Mountain Tavern, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. roadside tavern, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274. Rusty Nail Bar & Grille, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. the shed restaurant & brewery, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4765. Shooters Saloon, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777. snow shoe lodge & pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456. Sweet Crunch Bakeshop, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394. Watershed Tavern, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. ye olde england inne, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.

regional

Gilligan’s Getaway, 7160 State Rt. 9, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8050. Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. Naked Turtle, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. Olive Ridley’s, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. Tabu Café & Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666.

MUSIC 73

Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern: Tattoo Tuesdays with Andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.

northern

Monkey House: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.

51 Main, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. Bar Antidote, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555. Brick Box, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. The Bristol Bakery, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. Clem’s CafÉ 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337. Dan’s Place, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. The farmers diner, 99 Maple St., Middlebury, 458-0455. Good Times Café, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. On the Rise Bakery, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787. South Station Resaurant, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730. Starry Night Café, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

SEVEN DAYS

Radio Bean: The Stephen Callahan Quartet (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Daniel Lefkowitz (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honkytonk), 10 p.m., $3.

Two Brothers Tavern: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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Nectar's: VT Restaurant Week Pub Quiz (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. Bass Culture with Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free.

51 Main: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012. 242 Main st., Burlington, 862-2244. American flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. August First, 149 S. Champlain St., Burlington, 540-0060. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. Banana Winds Café & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752. The block gallery, 1 E. Allen St., Winooski, 373-5150. BlueBird Tavern, 317 Riverside Ave., Burlington, 428-4696. Breakwater Café, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. Brennan’s pub & Bistro, UVM Davis Center, 590 Main St., Burlington, 656-1204. City Sports Grille, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. The Green Room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. Harbor Lounge at Courtyard Marriott, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 864-4700. Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. JP’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. Leunig’s bistro & café, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. The Living Room, 794 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. Marriott harbor lounge, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. Miguel’s on main, 30 Main St., Burlington, 658-9000. Monkey House, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. Monty’s Old Brick Tavern, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. New Moon Café, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 383-1505. o’brien’s irish pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. odd fellows hall, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209. On Tap Bar & Grill, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917. Park Place Tavern, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015. Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. regular Veterans Association, 84 Weaver St., Winooski, 655-9899. RÍ Rá Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. Rozzi’s lakeshore tavern, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. the scuffer steak & ale house, 148 Church St., Burlington, 864-9451. Shelburne Steakhouse & saloon, 2545 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-5009. The Skinny Pancake, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. Venue, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. the Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

L.A.C.E., 159 N. Main St., Barre, 476-4276. Langdon Street Café, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667. local folk smokehouse, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 4965623. Main Street Grill & Bar, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. mulligan's irish pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545. Nutty Steph’s, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090. Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. Positive Pie 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453. Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. the reservoir restaurant & tap room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202. South Station Restaurant, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. Tupelo Music Hall, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.

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Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Jukebox the Ghost, Wakey Wakey, Pretty & Nice (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

champlain valley

burlington area

art Left: “Sanctae Hildegardis: Circulus Sapientiae (Circle of Wisdom)” by Claire Van Vliet Below: ”House of Cods” by Linda Smith and Carol Schatt

Page Turners “Beyond the Text,” Bailey/Howe Library, UVM

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ith the advent of the Kindle and other e-readers and digital devices, books are undergoing a profound change. But a quieter, parallel and low-tech revolution has been happening for years in the realm of artists’ books. Influenced by avant-garde typography, printmaking and sculptural ideas, artists have transformed traditional books into their own genre of visual art. Nearly 60 examples of artists’ books make up “Beyond the Text: Artists’ Books From the Collection of Robert J. Ruben,” currently on display at the University of Vermont’s Bailey/Howe Library. The exhibit includes printed ephemera, books with accordion folds, pop-ups and scrolls, and finely bound and boxed book editions. The show’s selections reportedly represent about a tenth of Ruben’s collection; the New York otolaryngologist acquired artists’ books over six decades. “Remember!” by Frans Masereel and “Wij maken Geschiedenis” (“We Make History”) by Robert Ziller are the oldest pieces in the exhibition, both dating from 1946. The Ziller book pairs a quote from Adolf Hitler — “Everything I am, I am through you, and everything you are, you are through me” — with grotesque caricatures of Hitler and Nazi leaders Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess and Ernst Röhm on the facing page. “Remember!” is a book of dark illustrations recounting the

horrors of concentration camps and the deprivations of warfare, in the tradition of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and German artist Käthe Kollwitz. Both of these books seem to be attempts to exorcize the demons of 20th-century Europe.

writer, prioress and mystic whose work remains inspirational. Van Vliet quotes texts by von Bingen in a vibrantly colored accordion book. It incorporates brilliant pop-ups informed by the illuminated manuscripts that von Bingen oversaw, along with Latin originals and English translations of her hymns. Many ironic and witty works appear in the show. Stephanie Brooks’ “Tax Forms Enclosed 1040EZ 1040a 1040” are copies of the forms with their text changed. Line 1: “Total number of positive attributes (include values,

THE EXHIBIT INCLUDES PRINTED EPHEMERA, BOOKS WITH ACCORDION FOLDS, POP-UPS AND SCROLLS, AND FINELY BOUND AND BOXED BOOK EDITIONS. “A Literary Bestiary,” by Uruguayan-born American artist Antonio Frasconi, alludes to medieval bestiaries, or illustrated catalogs of creatures — including fanciful ones. Frasconi’s woodcuts of animals are intertwined with the first letters of their names on pages facing sophisticated literary quotes about the beasts from a range of sources. “Sanctae Hildegardis: Circulus Sapientiae” (“Circle of Wisdom”), by distinguished Vermont printmaker Claire Van Vliet, also has roots in the Middle Ages. Hildegard von Bingen was a multifaceted 12th-century composer,

characteristics, beliefs, self-improvements and positive outlooks).” Line 2: “Total number of negative attributes (include all character defects, inadequacies and negative outlooks).” Line 3: “Emotional compensation (see page 14).” “The Candy Button Book,” by Mindell Dubansky, at first glance seems just silly. It’s a bound book of colorful

paper strips from candy wrappers, with a mousetrap affixed to the cover. An accompanying text, however, reveals the piece was created in remembrance of a friend who died of AIDS, who had made a similar book that was consumed by rodents. Dubansky writes, “Mice destroyed Don’s original candy. Now the Victor mousetrap will prevent destruction — death.” “House of Cods” by Linda Smith, with poems by Carol Schatt, also seems lighthearted, but in fact informs viewers about the acute environmental issue of overfishing. In the exhibit, the book is opened to reveal a tall, pop-up house of cards capped by a commercial fishing trawler. It’s beautifully made, with a variety of exotic papers. Schatt’s poetry is often poignant — and sometimes presents the point of view of the decimated fish: “You found us all, / and then the haddock and then the halibut / and then the salmon.” Fisheries, these artists seem to suggest, are collectively a house of cards on the verge of collapse. In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press sounded the death knell of the illuminated manuscript, but contemporary artists’ books reintroduce to bibliophiles the notion of visual artistry. The Bailey/Howe exhibition is full of intriguing ideas that indeed go beyond the text.

REVIEW

M A R C AWO D EY “Beyond the Text: Artists’ Books From the Collection of Robert J. Ruben,” Bailey/ Howe Library, UVM, Burlington. Through May 31.

Art ShowS

ongoing burlington area

'A True STory': Documentary photography by local and international artists. Through April 29 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. 'A ViSuAl FeAST': Food-themed artworks by more than 20 local artists are presented in conjunction with Seven Days' Vermont Restaurant Week and curated by SEABA. April 30 through May 28 at Backspace Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. AliSon goodwin: "Returning Home," charcoal drawings and paintings. Through May 30 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Amy Cloud: Chicken-themed folk art by the Vermont artist. Through April 30 at August First in Burlington. Info, 442-9248. AShleigh lAroSe: "Four Days in Texas," photographs by the LeZot Camera and Designhaus intern. Through April 30 at Designhaus in Burlington. Info, 310-5019. AVA & Zoe BiShop: ".Scrap.," reassimilated fabric scraps from sewing projects past, by Ava; "The Silent Canoe," oil paintings by Zoe. Through April 28 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 363-4746. 'Beyond The TexT: ArTiSTS' BookS From The ColleCTion oF roBerT J. ruBen': A decadeslong collection of accordion, box, pop-up and tunnel books, as well as scrolls. They're made of paper, wood, plastic, and even lead and glass. Through May 31 at Bailey/Howe Library, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-1493. Bill mCdowell: "Ashes in the Night Sky," black-and-white images reminiscent of stars, which are actually photographs of the artist's father's cremated ashes. Through June 18 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. BruCe pendelTon: "Positive Images," photographs that demonstrate things that we may take for granted. Curated by SEABA. Through May 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 793-8482. 'digiTAl ConCepT/ digiTAl ConSTruCT': Digitally manipulated photographs that raise the question Do truth and lies exist in digital art photography? May 3 through 29 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

'eArTh ClAy: poTTerS' ode To Spring': A multigenerational pottery show. Through April 30 at Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 373-5150.

gAry hAll: Black-and-white photographs, Skyway; lorrAine mAnley: Acrylic paintings, Gates 1 & 2; STephen BeATTie: Color photography, Escalator. May 1 through 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

hArry SummerField: "The Birds of Spring," photographs of birds, from the exotic vermillion flycatcher to the familiar American turkey. Through May 6 at Village Wine & Coffee in Shelburne. Info, 985-8922.

BoSTon online BienniAl: Call for entries. Submission deadline: May 5. Info, biennialproject.com/biennial2. aspx. ChAmplAin VAlley phoToSlAm: If you live in the Lake Champlain Valley and love making photos, this is the event for you. Submission deadline: May 2. Info, darkroomgallery. com/ex15/?sid=4. CulTurehAll new ArTiSTS: Culturehall, a curated online resource for contemporary art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. Four artists will be selected. Info, culturehall. com. FeSTiVAl oF The ArTS: A fine-art festival that caters to Vermont artists! Jeffersonville, Saturday, August 13. Deadline: May 31. Info, artsfestvt.com. heriTAge Show: Bring us your artwork through May 7 to be included in our Heritage Show during the months of May, June and July. Info, info@artistsmediums.com. STudio plACe ArTS: Hit the road for two summer art exhibits at SPA: “Lost in Traffic” (Main Floor Gallery) and “Postcards & Memories” (upstairs). Exhibit dates: June 14 through July 30. Deadline for entries: May 6. Info, studioplacearts.com or 479-7069. TASTe oF STowe ArTS FeSTiVAl: Sell your artwork at our summer festival, the Taste of Stowe, July 29, 30 and 31. Get on board! You will contact fans, create new collectors and connections, and increase your artist links. Deadline: May 20. Info, helenday.com.

‘A TASTe oF ArT’: The Seminary Artists’ Cooperative hosts an open house and spring sale. Saturday and Sunday, April 30 to May 1, noon to 4 p.m. Reception: Saturday, April 30, 6-8 p.m. Seminary Art Center, Waterbury Center. Info, 253-8790. 'Two riVerS' prinTmAking STudio 10Th AnniVerSAry gAlA And ArT AuCTion': Celebrate with live music, drinks and tapas. Silent and live auctions include local and regional artwork, and items from Upper Valley businesses. Sunday, May 1, 5:30 p.m., Tip Top Café, White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

reCepTionS Judy dAleS: “Curves in Motion,” quilted wall hangings that feature layers of curves and subtle shifts in color. April 28 through June 10 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Reception: Thursday, April 28, 5-7 p.m. Info, 888-1261. Bonnie ACker: “Color Speaks,” oil paintings, pastels, woodcuts and paper collages that celebrate the Vermont landscape. April 29 through June 1 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 985-3848. CArol mACdonAld & erik rehmAn: "Transcendence: Mooring the Storm," artwork inspired by interviews with survivors of sexual violence created publicly in the front window of the gallery throughout the month. Through April 29 at Frog Hollow in Burlington.

JASon pAppAS: Recent work by the employee and member artist. Through April 30 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 861-9700. June CAmpBell: "Two Bodies of Work," one series of acrylic paintings that riffs on the tax maps used by local governments and another that is more unplanned. Curated by SEABA. Through May 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 793-8482. kAren dAwSon: Drawings and paintings, in the First Floor Gallery (through May 1); dAnA heFFernAn: "Unicorn Wars," paintings examining the U.S. involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in the Second

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

phil godenSChwAger: “Scattered Art,” cartoons, prints and stained glass works by the Randolph artist. April 29 through June 5 at Korongo Gallery in Randolph. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7 p.m. Info, 728-6788. ‘reFuge’: Sanctuary-themed work in a variety of media, in the Main Floor Gallery; SuSAn m. ruSSell: A retrospective of the late artist’s work, in the Second and Third Floor Galleries. Through June 4 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 479-7069.'

2010–2011 PERFORMANCE SEASON

LATE APRIL/ EARLY MAY

JourneyS & JournAlS': Travel-inspired artwork including photographs of Japan by Douglas and Catherine Brooks, who spent two years in the coastal villages recently obliterated by the tsunami. Through April 30 at Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. Reception: Cranes received throughout the month will be strung together and on display. Saturday, April 30, 1-5 p.m. Info, 877-3850. ‘SpiriTS in The mATeriAl world’: Work in a variety of media by area artists. April 30 through June 19 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Reception: Saturday, April 30, 4-7 p.m. Info, 674-9616. VermonT SpeCiAl ArTS CommuniTy gArden exhiBiT: A garden made of papier-mâché, cardboard armatures and found objects by HowardCenter artists. May 2 through 27 at Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Reception: Monday, May 2, 1-3 p.m. Info, 865-7211.

ATRIA ENSEMBLE

'SurViVing To ThriVing: reAliZATion oF ASpirATionS, hope And poTenTiAl': Work by clients of the Art Therapy Association of Vermont. May 1 through 31 at Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier. Reception: Wednesday, May 4, 3-5 p.m. Info, 434-4834.

FINEST KIND Atria Ensemble, chamber music . . . . . . . 4/29 Finest Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5/13

Floor Gallery (through April 29). At Community College of Vermont in Winooski. Info, 654-0513. kATe donnelly: "The Yardage Project: Material in the Making," newspaper, cereal boxes and plastic bags woven and sewn into material. Through May 22 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-3662. kei egAn: Magnetic and traditional paper-glue collages inspired by childhood, aviation, spirituality and time. May 1 through June 30 at Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington. Info, 683-8804. BURLINGTON-AREA ART SHOWS

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‘diSpoSABle lAndSCApeS: An exhiBiTion oF CheAp ArT’: Small, disposable, cardboard works depicting sunsets and hillsides are on display before a puppet show by Modern Times Theater. Saturday, April 30, 6 p.m., Plainfield Community Center Gallery. Info, 472-8987.

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grACe weAVer: "Thin-Skinned," paintings, drawings and objects examining the surfaces that separate the body from the external world, such as a straw, binoculars or a sock. Through April 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.

ABSTrACT phoTogrAphy: PHOTOSTOP Gallery is seeking abstract photographs for the exhibition “Light-Struck: Abstract Photography Today.” Juror: Ellen Carey. Info, photostopvt.com, 698-0320, photostopvt@gmail.com.

Reception: Friday, April 29, 6-8 p.m. Info, 865-6458

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'FACeBook FirST 50': Work by the first 50 artists to respond to the gallery's live call on the social networking site. Through April 30 at Art's Alive Gallery in Burlington. Info, 864-1557.

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eArly Spring Show: Hand-painted floorcloths by Alyson Chase; "om-inducing" paintings by Lauren Brownell; photographs by Heidi Pfau; and photographs from Tibet by Sharie Elrich. Through April 30 at Candles & Creations in Burlington. Info, 660-8021.

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“Drawn & Paneled” is a collaboration between Seven Days and the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, featuring works by past and present students. These pages are archived at sevendaysvt.com/center-for-cartoon-studies. For more info, visit CCS online at cartoonstudies.org.

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Kyle 'Fattie B.' thompson: "Salute the Masses," acrylics on canvas by the Burlington DJ. Through April 30 at the Green Room in Burlington. Info, 651-9669. lisa lilliBridge: Mixed-media work on wood. May 4 through June 30 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166. lois Foley: "Democracy Project," abstract oils on linen. Through April 30 at Burlington Furniture Company. Info, 860-4972. lois JacKson: Watercolors of spring ephemerals and other wildflowers. Through April 30 at Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 373-5150. lydia littwin: "Seasonal Palette," oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 30 at Davis Studio Gallery in Burlington. Info, 425-2700. marni mcKitricK & laurel Fulton: "Spring Impressions," flowers and landscapes in acrylic, oil and pastel. Through May 31 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222. may Featured artists: Work by Peter Weyrauch, Shayne Lynn, Karen Henderson, Katie Brines, Stephen Beattie, Amanda Vella, Tom Cullins, Lynn Rupe and Bill Wolff. May 1 through 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. michael lew-smith: Abstract photographs exploring the weathered paint on old cars, trucks and tractors. Curated by Kasini House. Through June 30 at Opportunities Credit Union in Burlington. Info, 264-4839. nicole Kircher: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 30 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 865-6227. patricK & marKus weise: "Road Trip," photographs from a three-month bicycle trip from the Maine coast to the Puget Sound. Through April 30 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. peter Fried: Oil and encaustic landscape paintings of pastoral subjects and manufactured forms, mostly in Chittenden County. Through May 2 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 355-1447. ron hernandez: Works on canvas from the Burlington artist's early years. Through April 30 at The Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 540-0188.

scott lenhardt: "Good House," drawings, paintings and illuminated, multilayered paint-on-glass light boxes by the artist well known for his Burton snowboard designs. Through May 28 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

spring exhiBition: Seasonal work by Essex Art League members (through May 30). Also, work by Poker Hill School students (through May 15). At Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 872-7111.

susan noel: Acrylic and watercolor paintings by the Essex Art League member. Through April 30 at Essex Town Offices. Info, 879-3942. 'the art oF youth': Work by emerging artists under the age of 25, curated by high school student Cole McDermott. May 1 through 7 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

w. daVid powell: "Everything Must Go 2.0," a retrospective of paintings, drawings, prints, collages and computer-generated work by the artist responsible for the iconic Allman Brothers logo "Eat a Peach." Curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 793-8482.

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annie tiBerio cameron: "In the Abstract," photographs that combine keen observation with a strong emotional connection to the natural world. Photo ID required for admission. Through May 31 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. 'april artists': Paintings and poems by Cora Brooks, and pastels by Cindy Griffith, Anne Unangst and Marcia Hill. Through April 30 at the Drawing Board in Montpelier. Info, 223-2902. arthur zorn: "Blooms Into Spring," acrylic representational abstract impressions. Through May 30 at the Skinny Pancake in Montpelier. Info, 229-4431. daisy rocKwell: "Political Animal," acrylic and tempera paintings by the granddaughter of Norman Rockwell. Through July 1 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 295-6370. emily Johansen: "Here and There," watercolor scenes of Vermont and Maine. May 1 through 31 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, 426-3411. eVe JacoBs-carnahan: Knitted sculpture by the Vermont fiber artist. Through May 7 at the Knitting Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-2444. george anderson: "Wings of Stone," photographs of Vermont granite monuments and historical architecture. Through April 28 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. glen hutcheson: "Other Hand Drawings, With Color," figure studies the artist did with his left hand. Through May 31 at the Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. Jeanne eVans: "Art and Soul," mixed-media work by the Montpelier artist. Through April 28 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. JenniFer perellie: Floral works made with watercolors, pastels and tissue paper. Through May 31 at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Info, 496-8994. CENTRAL VT ART SHOWS

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Vermont Youth Orchestra Spring Concert @ Flynn MainStage Vermont Stage Company: “Sylvia” (5/1-8) @ FlynnSpace Horsin’ Around @ Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction “Charlotte’s Web” (5/1 and 5/5-8) @ Off Center for the Dramatic Arts An Evening with Garrison Keillor @ Flynn MainStage Kintetix with Indobox @ Nectar’s Patti Casey Benefit Concert @ All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne Paul Zaloom’s “Beakman on the Brain!” @ Flynn MainStage Tommy Emmanuel @ Flynn MainStage Oriana Singers @ The Cathedral of St. Paul Spiritual Rez w/ Fridge and the Spin$ @ Club Metronome David Crosby and Graham Nash @ Flynn MainStage Broadway National Tour: “The 39 Steps” @ Flynn MainStage Lyena Stelkoff’s: “Caterpillar Soup” @ FlynnSpace The Finest Kind @ UVM Recital Hall Spielpalast Cabaret (5/13-15 and 5/20-21 and 5/26-28) @ Contois Auditorium, City Hall Burlington Chamber Orchestra @ UVM Recital Hall Bella Voce Spring Concert: “Bella Festa!” @ First Baptist Church Ping Chong & Company: “Inside/Out: Voices from the Disability Community” @ FlynnSpace Flynn Show Choir “Triple Threat” @ Main Street Landing Black Box Theater Bella Voce Spring Concert: “Bella Festa!” @ South Hero Congregational Church, South Hero Brian Johnson: “Maximum Minimalism” @ FlynnSpace The Transcontinental Duo @ The Cathedral Church of St. Paul TNA Wrestling Live @ Amsterdam High School, Amsterdam, NY Josie Leavitt: “Horrified but Laughing” @ FlynnSpace TNA Wrestling Live @ Crete Civic Center, Plattsburgh, NY TNA Wrestling Live @ Massena Arena, Massena, NY Strange Creek Campout Festival (5/27-29) @ Camp Kee-wanee, Greenfield, MA

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'the golden cage: mexican migrant worKers and Vermont dairy Farmers': Photographs, text and audio exploring the relationship between these two groups of workers

'under the Big top: the Fine art oF the circus in america': Work by modern and contemporary American artists fascinated by the circus and its performers' bohemian lives outside the ring (through May 22); pippo lionni: Animations and a print, in the New Media Niche and the European and American Gallery (through May 22); 'masKed spectacle: commedia dell'arte and Bread & puppet theater': Prints by Hungarian-American artist Giuseppe Pecsenke and masks and puppets from Vermont's radical theater troupe, in the Wilbur Room (through May 8); 'georges rouault: cirque de l'Étoile Filante': Color etchings and wood engravings of clowns, in the East Gallery; and 'shadows oF the samurai': Armor, swords, prints, masks and other artifacts representing Japanese warrior traditions, in the Wolcott Gallery (through May 11). At Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

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stewart mchenry: "Late Winter & Early Spring," photographic collages of the natural world. Through April 30 at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington. Info, 864-8001.

tom cullins: "Photophoto +," advertising photographs distorted by reflection or shadow. Through June 15 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.

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shelBurne art center memBer show: Work by Ira Flateman, Carol Hanley, Sage TuckerKetcham, Sarah Grillo and more. Through May 1 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648.

'the second to last supper exhiBition': Work by a variety of artists interpreting a paint-by-number version of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper." Through April 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 310-3211.

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scott einsig: Acrylic portraits, in the Bar; BarBara hauzinger: Color photographs of Panama, in the Dining Room; Jane ann Kantor: Acrylic paintings, in the Greenhouse. Through April 30 at the Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 862-9647.

at Addison County farms, by photographer Caleb Kenna and the Addison County Farm Worker Coalition's Cheryl Connor and Cheryl Mitchell. Through June 11 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4505.

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Jill Madden & Rebecca KinKead: Madden's landscape paintings are full of motion and light; Kinkead makes her figurative works by layering paint and wax. Through April 29 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. Kate eMlen & FRances Wells: "Maine Coast to Hudson River," landscape paintings. Through May 1 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. Keith Johnson: "The Photograph: Extended," sequences and assemblages, often arranged on a grid, by the acclaimed photographer. May 1 through 31 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Info, 698-0320. lienne bicK: "Colorful Reflections," paintings. Through April 30 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. MaRK GoodWin: "An Introduction," sculpture and drawing by the artist who recently moved to Vermont from New Mexico. May 4 through 29 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. PeteR huntoon & heatheR coRey: Watercolors by Huntoon and stained glass by Corey. Through June 30 at Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

Kinkead, Cynthia Kirkwood, Lisa Noonis and Cameron Schmitz. Through May 9 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. 'the liPPitt MoRGan': A photographic exhibit of early Vermont breeders and the old-fashioned Morgans so dear to them. Through July 31 at the National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. Info, 388-1639.

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anGela talbeRt & Justine WaGGett: The artists' BFA exhibit. Through April 30 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. 'biG ideas, sMall booKs': The Book Arts Guild of Vermont presents artists' books and bindings no bigger than 5-by-5 inches. Through May 22 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. FloRence daRlinG & david hudson: The art students present their BFA exhibits. May 2 through 7 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. 'MaGic caRPets: the RuGMaKeR's aRt': Hooked, braided and hand-felted pieces by some of Vermont's finest rug makers. Through June 15 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158.

Rachel laundon: Three-dimensional artwork made from wood, metal, paint and found objects. Through April 30 at the Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981. Robin lahue: "Oil and Water Do Mix," water-based oil paintings. May 2 through 31 at O'Maddi's Deli & Café in Northfield. Info, 485-7770. 'soMethinG's bReWinG': Students and members of the pottery studio present teapots, teacups, saucers, creamers, sugar bowls, serving platters and more. Through April 29 at Montpelier Mud in Middlesex. Info, 224-7000. 'tWinvieWs': Photography by kids and their mentors in the Twinfield Together student-community mentoring program. Through April 30 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141.

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'aRcadia noW: conteMPoRaRy aRt in countRy': Work by 15 artists exploring the pastoral ideal. Through May 15 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1394. caRolyn letvin: Paintings of the ancient, biblical breed of Jacob's sheep. Through April 30 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

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'celebRatinG aRt With Muhs': Paintings and drawings by Middlebury Union High School students. Through May 8 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.

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'FouRth annual coMMunity aRt shoW': Work by local artists of all ages. Through May 14 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032.

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'huMan = landscaPe: aesthetics oF a caRbon-constRained FutuRe': A selection from the 2009 exhibit created by Burlington City Arts, including Nancy Dwyer and Caroline Byrne’s furniture made from Styrofoam packing materials, and R. Elliot Katz's cast plaster oil industry portraits. Through June 18 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

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KatheRine GeoRGe: Work by the Vermont Pastel Society member. Through April 30 at Charlotte Senior Center. Info, 425-6345.

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loWell snoWdon KlocK: "Manipulations," Polaroid photographs that the artist has given a surreal look by tampering with the emulsion before it sets. Through April 30 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956.

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'textuRes oF us': Prints by Liz Gribin and paintings by Gloria Gaddis, Mary B. Harrington, Rebecca

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When it comes to flowers, this Montpelier photographer likes to get up close and personal — so close that her lens focuses on only a sliver of petal or a few blades of grass. The rest of the flower becomes an abstract composition of color. Cameron’s background in science and love of nature are evident in her photographs, which currently hang at the Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier in a show called “In the Abstract.” When a patron told her the forget-me-nots in her photograph seem “to be floating in a sea of primordial green ooze,” Cameron took it as a compliment. Through May 31. Pictured: “Morning Glory.”

Marc awodey: Paintings by the Vermont artist, in the Wings Gallery. Through August 8 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

Merrill densMore: Colorful paintings of Vermont homes, landscapes, moose and deer by the GRACE artist. Through May 2 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

susan wahlrab & Mariella bisson: "Outside: New Visions of Nature," watercolor landscapes by Wahlrab and oil paintings that incorporate collage techniques by Bisson. Through May 8 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. 'sweeten your Palette: a saPPy art show': Maple-themed artwork by New England artists. Through May 10 at Village Frame Shoppe & Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-3699.

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sPring Feature show: Paintings by Richard Heller, ink drawings by Leonard Ragouzeos and fiber wall hangings by Karen Kamenetzky (through May 1); woMen’s show: Portraits of women activists by Denise Beaudet; sculptures by Sara Pogue; ink on paper by Samantha Crawford; painted shadow pictures and portrait sculpture by Gwen Murphy; mixed-media work by Alicia Hunsicker; black-and-white paintings by Nayana Glazier; and paintings by Delia Robinson (through May 3). At Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro. Info, 257-4777.

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aMParo carvaJal-huFschMid & erick huFschMid: Recent work by the artist couple; aya itagaki & ann Mallory: "Brush & Clay: Innovative Translations"; Paulette werger: "Shadow and Line." Through May 7 at AVA Gallery and Arts Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

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esMé thoMPson: "The Alchemy of Design," paintings, collage, ceramics and installation by the Dartmouth College professor of studio art. Through May 29 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.. Info, 603-646-2808.

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'Fluxus and the essential Questions oF liFe': Work by the international network of artists, composers and designers, led by George Maciunas, who blurred the boundaries between art and life and became the 1960s cultural phenomenon known as Fluxus. Through August 7 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.

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student art show: Selected works by Stowe and Morrisville students, in the East Gallery; more student work displayed in various downtown Stowe locations and along the recreation path. May 4 through 29 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

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PhiliP inwood & heidi sPector: Inwood's abstract oils have broad, gestural brushstrokes; Spector uses geometric forms to convey space and color. Also, Julia bauM: "A Rare Breed," photographic portraits of redheads. Through April 30 at Green + Blue Gallery in Stowe. Info, 730-5331.

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May exhibit: Work by jeweler Holly Spier, pastel artist Genie Rybicki-Judkins, and painters Corliss Blakely and Rebecca Anne Bennett. May 1 through 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

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movies Of Gods and Men ★★★★

eenagers go through all kinds of phases. Some become obsessed with cars. Others are consumed by sports or music or the opposite sex — you name it. I went through a monk phase. Off and on for years, I lived in a monastery by the Charles River just outside Boston. It was great, like stepping into another century, or onto a different planet. Which is why I make it a point never to miss a good monk movie. Not like it’s, you know, tough to keep up. Of Gods and Men is a very good monk movie. Directed and cowritten by French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, the picture is loosely based on the true story of a group of Trappist monks who were kidnapped by Muslim terrorists in 1996 and later assassinated. Don’t worry: By telling you that, I’m doing nothing to diminish the experience of the movie. It’s not about what happened to these unusual men, but about why they allowed it to. The first half of the picture is devoted to a portrait of life in the tranquil Cistercian monastery. The filmmaker introduces us to eight men of God and gradually immerses us in the rituals of their daily life. The setting is

a mountainous region of Algeria where the population is overwhelmingly Islamic. The monks are French and Catholic but have succeeded in becoming a beloved part of the community. The members of the order spend time in silent prayer, till their garden, sing somewhat ominous hymns, tend to their bees and share spartan meals around an old wooden table. Their mission is not to convert but to serve the sick and the poor, which complicates matters later on. Brother Luc is played by the marvelous Michael Lonsdale. He operates a clinic in the village and tends to dozens, sometimes more than 100 neighbors a day, though he’s on his last legs himself. Played by Lambert Wilson, Brother Christian has been elected by the others to act as prior, or leader. When news of atrocities committed by fundamentalist rebels reaches the monastery, it falls to him, first, to gauge the threat to the immediate area; and then, when local blood begins to flow, to get consensus on the issue of staying or leaving and surviving to serve another day. The second half of the picture examines the group’s thought process and the perplexing decision to which it leads.

FRENCH CONNECTION Catholic monks put themselves in harm’s way to demonstrate solidarity with the Islamic villagers they serve in Xavier Beauvois’ haunting, fact-based film.

The monastery in the film in many ways resembles the one where I stayed — a chief difference being that mine had a huge organ in the chapel on which I once pounded out “Louie Louie” alone at midnight. The monks themselves were a whole different kettle of fish. Had danger approached, they wouldn’t have thought twice; seats would have been reserved on the first flight out of Logan. We shared spartan meals around an old wooden table, but we also went to movies in the city and enjoyed Brother George’s jazz collection on a state-of-the-art stereo in the basement. One by one, each of the men in Beauvois’ thoughtful, sublimely shot and ultimately haunting movie resolves to remain, come what may. They’ve given their lives to God, they reason, and God has guided them to this place to care for these people. They fear for

their own safety but consider it their sacred duty to transcend that fear as an act of solidarity with the Islamic villagers. One can argue with that logic — how many more people might the Trappists have helped had they lived? At the same time, there’s no denying the courage it required to follow through with the decision. The brothers share a last supper. Lonsdale fills glasses with wine and slips a cassette of Tchaikovsky in a tape player. The director pans from face to face as their expressions morph from earthly bliss to comradely smiles to mounting dread. By the end of the sequence, the full weight of martyrdom can be read in each man’s eyes. That look and Beauvois’ film are equally unforgettable. RICK KISONAK

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Water for Elephants ★★

hat’s cooler these days than the circus? Life under the big top inspired a trio of exhibits at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art this spring and a mega-show at the Shelburne Museum last fall. But it’s not the modern, cleaned-up, politically correct circus that fascinates hipsters and arty types: It’s the bad old circus of American lore, complete with caged animals, sideshow freaks, burlesque shows, offensive clowns and ugly accidents. Some might argue that those aspects of the traditional circus have moved to reality television. Still, everything’s more fun with elephants and sequins. Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants banked on the allure of a romance set in a struggling Depression-era circus — and became a best seller. Now it’s a star-studded film that offers a middling helping of spectacle but is far too clean and soft-focus to do justice to its subject. Think of it as “Hallmark Does the Circus.” Or Titanic without the ship sinking. Like James Cameron’s blockbuster, Elephants uses the framing device of an old person telling a long-buried story. Hal Holbrook wanders into a circus and stays to talk about his stint with the notorious traveling Benzini

Brothers, whereupon, in flashback, he implausibly becomes Robert Pattinson. Pattinson is Jacob Jankowski, a veterinary student who quits school after a family tragedy and runs away to join the circus — accidentally. “I don’t know if I picked that train,” he says in voice-over, of the Benzini Bros. transport he hopped on, “but something told me it picked me.” That line is typical of the screenplay, adapted from Gruen’s book by Richard LaGravenese, who seems to be working in his P.S. I Love You vein. The clichés keep coming when Jacob meets Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), a blond equestrian whose husband, August (Christoph Waltz), the head trainer, runs the circus with a charming smile and an iron hand. The two pretty people bond over Rosie, a mistreated elephant, while August glowers and meditates on the best comeuppance for the young almost-vet. Such is the power of acting that viewers may find themselves seeing August’s point of view. As our villain points out repeatedly, running a circus in the Depression isn’t all about striking poses and petting nice animals — it’s a dirty business, and someone has to wield the whip. Waltz is basically reprising the soft-shoe-sadist performance that won

FUNK IN THE TRUNK A magnificent pachyderm props up a rote romance in Lawrence’s literary adaptation.

him an Oscar for Inglourious Basterds, but at least his character seems, well, alive. Witherspoon embodies the era’s shabby glamour in costumes by Jacqueline West, and she drapes herself gorgeously over a white horse. But she doesn’t appear particularly at home in the languishing character, or with Pattinson — who, for his part, brings little beyond his signature pallor. In stills, these lovers look lovely, but when they move and speak, the passion vanishes.

Good chemistry between the leads can light a fire under a bland movie romance. But The Notebook this is not. Worse, director Francis Lawrence, who created memorable visuals in I Am Legend, gives us only a few scenes under the big top, where a circus movie belongs. Old-fashioned circuses and moral uplift just don’t mix well — and that’s the elephant in the screening room. MARGOT HARRISON

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 5. Source code 6. Sucker Punch 7. The Lincoln Lawyer 8.

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Arthur 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:40. Hanna 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10. Soul Surfer 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25. Hop 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Source code 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40. *Fast Five 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35. *Hoodwinked too! Hood vs. Evil (3-D) 12:20, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:20. *Prom 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:45. tyler Perry’s madea’s Big Happy Family 12:15, 2:35,

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movies friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 12:50, 2, 3:40, 4:50, 6:50, 8, 8:50 (Fri & Sat only), 9:40. *Hoodwinked too! Hood vs. Evil (3-D) Fri-Sun: 12:20, 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10. Mon-Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10. *Prom 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:25. African cats Fri-Sun: 12:10, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40. Mon-Thu: 1:15, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40. madea’s Big Happy Family 9:20. Water for Elephants Fri-Sun: 12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35. Mon-Thu: 12:55, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35. Rio (3-D) Fri-Sun: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. Mon-Thu: 1:25, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. Scream 4 6:55. Arthur 1, 6:20. Hanna 3:45, 9. Soul Surfer Fri-Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 6:10. Mon-Thu: 1:05, 3:30, 6:10. Hop Fri-Sun: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45. Mon-Thu: 1:20, 4. Source code 8:35.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Limitless 6:50. Rio 6:40. Scream 4 7. Hop 6:30. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 1:10 & 3:50 (Sat & Sun only), 6:50, 9 (Fri & Sat only). Soul Surfer 1:30 & 10/19/09 6:37:12 PM3:40 (Sat & Sun only), 6:40, 8:30 (Fri & Sat only). Rio 1:20 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:15 (Fri & Sat only). Arthur 7, 9 (Fri & Sat only). Hop 1 & 4 (Sat & Sun only).

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friday 29 — thursday 5 *Prom 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. Soul Surfer 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. Water for Elephants 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. Rio 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. Arthur 9. Hop 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 tyler Perry’s madea’s Big Happy Family 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40. Water for Elephants 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25. Jane Eyre 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30. Rio (3-D) 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:20. Scream 4 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 10.

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 of Gods and men 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. Water for Elephants 1:05, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15. Wretches and Jabberers 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:10, 9:20. Jane Eyre 1, 3:30, 6:50, 9:10. Hanna 1:20, 4, 7, 9:30. Your Highness 1:25, 8:10. cedar Rapids 4:10, 6:20.

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Scream 4 6:30, 8:45. Hop 6:30, 8:30.

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friday 29 — thursday 5 *Bill cunningham New York 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:10. *Fast Five 1, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20. of Gods and men 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. Water for Elephants 1:05, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15. Jane Eyre 1:15, 4:10, 6:20, 8:45. Hanna 1:20, 4, 7, 9:25.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Water for Elephants 6:30, 9. Rio 6:30, 9. Hanna 9. Your Highness 9. Arthur 6:30, 9. Rango 6:30. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 6:30.

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4:55, 7:20, 9:40. Water for Elephants 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25. Jane Eyre 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30. Rio (3-D) 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:20. Hanna 12:35, 9:50. Hop 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Source code 3:10, 5:15, 7:30.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 African cats 1:40, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40. madea’s Big Happy Family 1:05, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40. Water for Elephants 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30. Rio (3-D) 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9. Scream 4 1:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45. Arthur 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:25. Hanna 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:35. Your Highness 8:20. Soul Surfer 12:55, 3:30, 6:20, 8:50. Hop 1, 3:20, 6:10. Source code 1:30, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Rio (3-D) 6:30. Scream 4 6:30. Limitless 6:30. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 2:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9 (Fri & Sat only). Hanna 6:30, 9 (Fri & Sat only). Hop Sat & Sun: 2:30. Rio (3-D) 2:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9 (Fri & Sat only).

friday 29 — thursday 28 ***The Grateful Dead movie: Encore Thu: 7:30. ***The met: Live in HD: Il trovatore Sat: 1. ***memphis Sat: 7:30. Sun: 1. Tue: 7:30. *Alabama moon 1:20, 6:25. *Fast Five 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30. *Hoodwinked too! Hood vs. Evil 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:10. *Prom 1:35, 4, 6:30, 8:50. Big Night Fri: 7. Sat: 5. Sun: 5:30 (with cocktail reception at 4:30). Water for Elephants 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20. The conspirator 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15. Rio 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9:05. Win Win 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20. Hanna Fri: 1:25, 4:05, 9:25. Sun: 9:25. Mon & Wed: 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25. Tue & Thu: 1:25, 4:05. The Lincoln Lawyer 3:40, 8:45. ***See website for details.

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friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. *Hoodwinked too! Hood vs. Evil (3-D) 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:30.

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26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, www.savoytheater.com

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Jane Eyre 1 & 3:30 (Wed only), 6, 8:30. friday 29 — thursday 5 Upstairs: Jane Eyre 1 & 3:30 (Sat-Mon & Wed only), 6, 8:30. Downstairs: ***organic Birth Mon: 6. Bhutto 1:30 (Sat-Mon & Wed only), 5 & 7 (except Mon). ***See website for details.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 The Lincoln Lawyer 7. Your Highness 7. Source code 7. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 2:30 (Sat only), 4:30 (Sun only), 7, 9:15 (Fri & Sat only). cedar Rapids 2:30 (Sat only), 4:30 (Sun only), 7, 9 (Fri & Sat only). The Lincoln Lawyer 2:30 (Sat only), 4:30 (Sun only), 7, 9:10 (Fri & Sat only).

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155 Porters Point Road, just off Rte. 127, Colchester, 862-1800. www.sunsetdrivein.com

friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five at dusk, followed by Your Highness. Hop at dusk, followed by Arthur. Limitless at dusk, followed by Scream 4. Rio at dusk, followed by Rango.

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104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 5277888, www.weldentheatre.com

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 Rio 7, 9. Scream 4 7, 9. Arthur 9. Hop 7. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Fast Five 2 & 4:15 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9:15. Hanna 4 (Sat & Sun only), 9. Rio 2 & 4 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9. Hop 2 (Sat & Sun only), 7.

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