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Thirteen layoffs at the Burlington Free Press is another big blow to local journalism. What gives, Gannett?

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Defending Robert Stafford’s legacy, Vermont’s delegation isn’t on board with a Senate plan to kill the subsidized college loans.

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1. “How ‘802’ Went Viral and Became Vermont Shorthand for Cool” by Ken Picard. A brief history of Vermont’s hippest moniker.

4. “Artist Rod MacIver Fought a Bogus Shelburne Traffic Stop and Won. Now He Wants Damages” by Charles Eichacker. The artist is suing the town after the police’s own video proved the cop was wrong. 5. Side Dishes: “The Lazy Farmer Food Truck Pulls Up in Burlington” by Alice Levitt. Burlington’s newest food truck is a vintage aqua-and-white trailer serving tasty local fare.

Cops found a domesticated, “exotic” snake slithering in the Leddy Park parking lot Monday. Eeek!

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wo weekends ago, the Precipice local music festival took over a big meadow behind Burlington College, and 66 Vermont bands played on four stages over the course three days. More than 1000 people enjoyed an authentic music festival atmosphere in a secluded, camp-like setting — less than half a mile from Church Street. Not surprisingly, the event attracted more bikes than cars. In a city that loves outdoor events — and doesn’t have enough big open spaces to host them all — Burlington College’s hidden venue could be a great addition to the city’s cultural scene. Higher Ground co-owner Kevin Statesir said his club “would love to do some events there,” as Kevin J. Kelley reported last Thursday on the Live Culture arts blog. “I think it’s

a perfect spot for many reasons, and we could help Burlington College raise some revenue towards its future.” That’s music to the trustees’ ears. Burlington College paid the Roman Catholic Diocese $10 million for its new waterfront campus two years ago. To pay off the debt, the college intends to build 25 private homes on the land, as Kelley reported in a June 19 Seven Days story titled “Burlington College’s Future Depends on a Big, Bold Development Plan.” Burlington College President Christine Plunkett clarified that the school’s extensive development plans are limited to the area south of the old diocese headquarters; she has other things in mind for the meadow. Plunkett says the school’s summer movie festival will soon move to that spot, and the meadow could host other events, such as weddings and winter carnivals. An encore performance of the Precipice, which was co-organized by Radio Bean owner Lee Anderson, is also on Plunkett’s list. “We loved it. We would definitely host it again,” she told Kelley. Plunkett says she received three noise complaints about the festival, including one from near the Ethan Allen Shopping Center in the New North End, more than a mile away. Though the meadow directs most sound away from settled areas, Plunkett says they may change it up in the future — like, say, ending rock shows before 2 a.m.

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NOT-SO-LOCAL 802

The number 802 resonates on so many levels [“Dialed In,” July 31]. Savvy Vermont players will know that 802 is the local union branch of New York City musicians, AFM-Local 802; New York players with gigs up here raise a satisfied eyebrow when we see that number. We’re home and welcome. It’s common knowledge in NYC that there are badass jazz cats lurking up here in the beautiful Green Mountains. So 802 is yet another cool sign of the tribe. Jono Mainelli

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people with criminal histories. What is next — no-trespass on North Street? Here is the kicker: If you are given a no-trespass, and you want to appeal it, you cannot, because if you go on Church Street to meet with the Marketplace Commission, you will be arrested for trying to appeal. How stupid is that? Loyal Ploof

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Editor’s note: There were at least four public hearings on the no-trespass ordinance — one at a public safety committee meeting and three at ordinance committee meetings. Additionally, the public is allowed to comment on any subject at the start of every Burlington City Council meeting.

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I am appalled to see Councilor Dave Hartnett (D-Ward 4) support the notrespass ordinance on Church Street, which is unconstitutional [Off Message: “Burlington Council Set to Reverse Course on Secret Memo,” June 24; “‘Nothing to Hide’ in Previously Secret Marketplace Memo?” June 25]. What is disappointing to me is that there were no public forums, no public debate. The problem is that the ordinance targets certain groups such as the homeless, people with mental health issues and

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Kevin J. Kelley’s July 3 article “What’s in a Name? The Origins of ‘Burlington’” correctly summarized the contending theories on how Burlington got its name, but his source led him astray as to when Burlington came to be known as “the Queen City.” Kelley’s source stated that the appellation was “crowned” on Burlington in 1866 by Albert Catlin, Burlington’s first mayor. Well, “crowned” by Catlin it may have been, but he was not the first to use it. That honor might rightfully belong to Nathan Haswell, a prominent businessman, real-estate developer and

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hen IBM quietly initiated a round of layoffs in Vermont last month, the Burlington Free Press did exactly what it should: Its reporters beat the bushes to find out how many employees had been axed, while its editorial board beat the drum for more “transparency” from the company about the layoffs. IBM, argued Free Press executive editor MICHAEL TOWNSEND in a July 17 editorial, is “a major and important employer in the state.” It has “a significant impact on the • chocolate strawberry cake lives of Vermonters.” And it ought to quit • coconut cake • classic carrot cake dragging its heels and disclose the extent • chocolate-chocolate cake of the damage, he argued. • tiramisu But by last Thursday, when the Free • white chocolate birthday cake Press quietly initiated its own round of • flourless chocolate cake layoffs, Townsend’s attitude toward transparency seemed to change. Late that day, after reporters inquired 197 North about the rumored job cuts, the Freeps Winooski Avenue posted a terse, 143-word news brief on 863-8278 its website indicating that it “cut 13 jobs BarrioBakeryvt.com Thursday across departments in the opvisit us on Facebook eration.” In Friday’s paper, the story was buried on 9B. How many of those cuts were in the FOUR-TIME TONY NOMINEE 8v-barrio080713.indd 1 8/2/13 3:07 PMpaper’s newsroom? After years of layoffs and outsourcing, how many people does AllMusic raves: the Freeps still employ in Burlington? And One of Broadway’s why on earth did the paper hire five new reporters and editors a month ago only to leading lay off two of them last week? Townsend and Free Press publisher JIM ladies” FOGLER wouldn’t say. They wouldn’t even return our phone calls and emails. To be sure, the Freeps has no legal obligation to disclose anything — unlike IBM, which passed the state’s 25-layoff threshGala performance benefits the old, triggering mandatory reporting to the Flynn Center and Lyric Theatre and features the star of South Pacific, Department of Labor. The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama And in fairness to Townsend and Fogler, Game, Nice Work If You Can Get It, they were likely just toeing the company and currently Far From Heaven line. The Burlington cuts were part of a company-wide purge by the paper’s owner, Virginia-based Gannett Company, Inc., whose corporate flacks refused last week to tell the Associated Press and other Friday, August 9 at 8 pm, news outlets how many jobs it eliminated MainStage nationwide. Tickets start at $25 G Gold Circle applies That rubs JIM HOPKINS the wrong way. No member discounts apply; limited Gold Circle seating A former reporter at Gannett’s flagship includes post-show reception on stage with Ms. O’Hara: $100 paper, USA Today, Hopkins has covered the company since 2007 on his website, Sponsors Gannett Blog. By his informal count, which relies on tips from readers, the company Bill & Carole Hauke, Amy E. Tarrant, Allen & Bonnie Reid Martin has cut at least 280 jobs in the past week at with special 45 of its 82 papers. thanks to “The company’s news blackout is Media sharply at odds with its mission statement,” Hopkins wrote, quoting Gannett’s claim that it is “on a relentless quest to provide trusted news and information and to www.flynncenter.org

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actively support the people and businesses in the communities we serve.” In fact, Gannett is on a relentless quest to please its shareholders, which is reasonable for a publicly traded company. Viewed through that lens, last week’s layoffs make perfect sense. While Gannett’s secondquarter broadcasting and digital revenue was up 3 percent, a 5 percent drop in print advertising revenue kept the company’s overall revenue flat. “As they look at these different lines of businesses, they say, ‘Well, let’s put our bets on the ones that are growing. Let’s run the other ones more leanly,’” says RICK EDMONDS of the Poynter Institute. The one that’s growing fastest, believe it or not, is broadcast television, which explains why Gannett offered up $2.2 billion in June to buy Belo Corp. and its 20 local TV stations. With two-thirds of Gannett’s

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operating income set to come from its broadcast division, says media analyst KEN DOCTOR of Outsell, Inc., it’s hard to call it a newspaper company anymore. “It would not surprise me to see Gannett sell some or even all of its newspapers for the right price and get out of the business,” he said Monday afternoon, two days after the New York Times Company sold the Boston Globe to Boston Red Sox owner JOHN HENRY for $70 million — a fraction of its 1993 purchase price of $1.1 billion. An hour after I got off the phone with Doctor, the Washington Post Company announced it had sold its own flagship paper to Amazon founder JEFF BEZOS for $250 million. Here in Vermont — at least, in the state’s journalism circles — the Free Press layoffs have been met with resigned anguish. “It’s sad. What it shows you is how the landscape has changed for newspapers in such a short time,” says former Associated Press Montpelier bureau chief CHRIS GRAFF, now a spokesman for National Life Group. “[The Free Press] is, in all senses of the words, a shadow of its former self, and we are all losers because of that.” Says MATT CRAWFORD, a public relations

consultant who spent 13 years at the Free Press, “I can’t tell you how many people say it’s not what it used to be. And it’s not. Is it Gannett’s fault? Not entirely. It’s the entire industry. But Gannett has maybe sped up the demise.” While Townsend and Fogler won’t say how many newsroom employees lost their jobs last week, sources familiar with the situation pegged the number at five. That’s 20 percent of what was recently a 25member news team — at least, according to associate editor ADAM SILVERMAN’s LinkedIn profile. Among those laid off were two editors, two reporters and a photographer. One just graduated from Saint Michael’s College in May. Another, reporter MATT SUTKOSKI, joined the paper in 1992. “He was a total utility reporter,” one former Freeps journo says of Sutkoski. “If Matt gets the ax, nobody’s safe at this point.” The news was particularly shocking because, from the outside at least, it appeared as if things were looking up. Since its dramatic redesign last summer, advertising seemed to be rebounding a bit, and after several veteran reporters retired or moved on earlier this year, management hired five young, energetic reporters to replace them. But the paper’s sharp decline in circulation tells a different story. Back in 1991, nearly 55,000 copies were distributed every day. By March 2012 — just before the redesign and a simultaneous 31 percent subscription price increase — circulation was 29,890, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. A year later, it had dropped to 25,995. The Free Press isn’t alone. In the past five years, the state’s second biggest daily, the Rutland Herald, saw its weekday circulation decline from 16,308 to 11,533. Interestingly, Vermont’s smaller, regional dailies — such as the Caledonian Record, the Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner — have managed to hold circulation steady during the same period. Meanwhile, the state’s free media appear to be thriving. Just last weekend, WPTZ-TV launched four new hours of weekend morning news programming, while WCAX-TV plans to add two weekend hours in September. According to Arbitron ratings provided by Vermont Public Radio spokeswoman MICHELLE JEFFERY OWENS, the average number of people tuning into that station each week grew from 161,300 in 2007 to 195,000 in 2012. And VTDigger — the upstart, nonprofit, online news outlet — has watched its monthly unique readership more than double from 40,000 in July 2011

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to 88,000 in July 2013, according to publisher Anne GAllowAy. Two weeks ago, Seven Days upped its print circulation from 35,000 to 36,000, expanding into new corners of the Northeast Kingdom, according to publisher and coeditor PAulA Routly. The company’s year-to-date revenues are up almost 15 percent over last year’s, she says. “The prevailing narrative about newspapers is all negative, but we’re having the opposite experience,” says Routly, who, I should note, signs my paychecks. “Our greatest struggle is that people keep hearing over and over that print media are dying. Fighting that kind of buzz is really exhausting.” But Graff and Crawford both argue that despite those success stories, there are far fewer reporters in the state than there were three decades ago — and it’s showing. Graff wistfully recalls a time when the Free Press and the Herald each operated bureaus in the opposite paper’s terrain and fought “tooth and nail” for local scoops. “Those papers used to make an effort to be statewide and really cover Vermont,” he says. “But they don’t have the resources to do it.” So what’s next for the Free Press? If Gannett’s newspaper division keeps bleeding money, the company will surely extract that cash from something — somehow. But it’s hard to see how the Freeps can keep cutting costs. Its hardworking staff is already spread too thin. The paper has already outsourced its pagination and customer-service operations to Gannett’s regional “hubs.” It’s already put most of its College Street headquarters up for sale, and the paper’s broker says the property is under contract. Doctor says Gannett may still have some tricks up its sleeves. The chain has been trying to figure out “how to do a better job of getting ‘community-generated content,’ which is cheap or free, to replace the product of staff reporters.” It might even consider printing fewer days each week, he says, though “every publisher thinks that’s slow suicide, because you’re breaking the seven-day habit.” But by starving its newspapers of resources, Gannett’s print division has been committing “slow suicide” for years. Now that the patient’s almost dead, the company’s shareholders might simply pull the plug. Could a local John Henry or Jeff Bezos bring the Free Press back to life? And would they want to? It’s hard to say. But here’s hoping they’d at least return my calls.

Of the nearly $122,000 Congressman raised, 83 percent of it came from corporate and union political action committees. But of the more than $136,000 Sen. PAtRick leAhy raised, only 14 percent came from similar special interest groups. Huh, we thought. Perhaps Leahy’s seen the light and gone the way of Sen. BeRnie SAndeRS — the sole Vermont congressman to eschew corporate PAC donations. Not so much, it turns out. Last week, Leahy had to report six months’ worth of fundraising figures for Green Mountain PAC, a separate “leadership PAC” he runs to funnel cash from his own supporters to his Senate allies. Can you guess how much of the nearly $197,000 he raised came from special interest groups? More than 70 percent. A healthy amount of that came from aerospace companies and weapons manufacturers such as Boeing ($5000), General Dynamics ($5000), Raytheon ($2500) and United Technologies ($3500). Oh, and a little ol’ company called Lockheed Martin ($2500), which just happens to manufacture the F-35 fighter jet. Given Leahy’s support for basing the next-generation planes at the Vermont Air National Guard’s South Burlington headquarters, anti-F-35 crusader JAmeS leAS says Leahy should give the money back. “It’s a conflict of interest,” Leas says. “If he wants to advocate for destroying the health and well-being of Vermonters by basing the F-35 here, he should do it because that’s what he wants to do — not because he’s getting money.” Asked whether Leahy has any qualms about taking cash from the military industrial complex, political aide cARolyn dwyeR said in an email that her boss “is grateful to have the support of companies that have created jobs in Vermont and played a key role in keeping our nation safe.” And what about that Lockheed contribution? Is it appropriate for him to take money from the company while he’s working to bring those planes to Vermont? “Sen. Leahy does not have a role in the process of determining where the F-35s will be based,” she said. He doesn’t? We’ll be sure to remember that at ribbon-cutting time. m

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tuart Hill readily admits he’s his own worst enemy. He’s angry, foul tempered and pisses people off, including family, friends and government officials who’ve tried to help him. “I’m not a pretty man, I’m not a wealthy man, and I’m not the bestnatured man in the world. But I need water,” Hill explains. “I haven’t had water fit to drink for two years.” The 52-year-old Greensboro Bend resident has been hauling buckets and milk jugs of water to his house since July 2011. That’s when his neighbors, Andy and Mateo Kehler, ruptured an underground water line while expanding their award-winning cheese-making operation. Hill’s ramshackle home is surrounded by the Kehlers’ growing agribusiness, Jasper Hill Farm, which is on land that once belonged to Hill’s family. But he has retained rights to a spring on the property, and it is his sole water source. Ordinarily, such a dispute between neighbors would have been resolved amicably, or gone to a mediator or judge. But this fight in the heart of the Northeast Kingdom runs deeper than water: Contrary to popular perception, Jasper Hill isn’t a place but a person — specifically, Stuart Hill’s father. Hill has never forgiven the Kehlers for “stealing” his father’s name for the brand they launched in 2003. Hill claims that when Andy Kehler asked permission to use the name Jasper Hill, he told the cheese maker he wasn’t comfortable with that idea. Kehler allegedly told Hill they’d come up with a different one. “My father had a lot of people take advantage of him, and this is one of the things that pisses me off about the Kehlers,” Hill says. “I view them as grave robbers for that.” Neither of the Kehler brothers would comment for this story. But letters provided by Hill suggest that the Kehlers tried in earnest to make things right with their neighbor. It all began on July 8, 2011, while Jasper Hill Farm was building a stateof-the-art energy-recovery system to

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process its dairy and cheese-making waste. Ironically, one justification for building the “green machine,” as it’s called, was to minimize the impact of farm runoff on local groundwater. During its construction, a contractor punctured a shallow pipe that delivers water from the spring on the Kehlers’ property to Hill’s house. In a July 26, 2011, letter to Hill, the Kehlers apologized and got the line fixed. But Hill claims the repairs were insufficient to prevent the pipe from freezing that December. For months, then years, afterward, Hill told anyone who would listen that the Kehlers’ dairy farm and 22,000-square-foot cheese cellars were contaminating his water, rendering it undrinkable. Hill’s water went from being potable,

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according to a 2007 test conducted by the Vermont Department of Health, to containing elevated fecal coliform levels, as three subsequent tests revealed between July and November 2011. But investigators from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets later concluded that the contamination wasn’t caused by Jasper Hill’s dairy operation; the agency said it was symptomatic of shallow springs in Vermont such as Hill’s that are routinely exposed to surface water. Nevertheless, Hill kept his water fight simmering at a low boil for months, consuming the time and resources of staffers at numerous federal, state and local agencies, including the health and ag departments, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, the U.S. Department

of Agriculture, and the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker’s offices, as well as Vermont’s congressional delegation. None was able to resolve the matter to Hill’s satisfaction. Finally, in a June 7, 2012, email, Gary Kessler, director of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s compliance and enforcement division, notified Hill that its umbrella agency, the ANR, had concluded its investigation and determined that “Jasper Hill Farm had not committed any violation over which ANR has jurisdiction.” Kessler then offered Hill some suggestions for making his spring potable again. When Hill emailed back to complain, demanding a detailed final report on that investigation, Kessler made it clear he was washing his hands of the case — and Hill. “Just like my investigators, I am very busy,” Kessler wrote in a June 8 email to Hill. “While I have enjoyed our daily email exchanges, I want to let you know in advance that I will no longer be able to respond to your multiple daily email queries, as your complaint has now been closed.” By mid-2012, nearly everyone who had gotten involved in the Hill case had arrived at the same conclusion. Says Agency of Agriculture spokesperson Alison Kosakowski, “We took his concerns very seriously and investigated them to a very thorough degree ... This is probably a civil matter at this point. We’re not witnessing anything that would be a violation of the regulations.” Translation: Hill could hire an attorney. But Hill, who now works as a machine operator for a gun-parts manufacturer in Wolcott and until recently lived on less than $10,000 a year, says he can’t afford one. “Basically, I’ve been put in a situation where I’m on my own, fighting a federal agency, several state agencies and my neighbor,” says Hill. “I’ve had people laugh in my face that I was doing this alone.” Like Gov. Peter Shumlin and his impoverished neighbor, Jeremy Dodge, the Kehlers and Hill couldn’t be more different from each other in wealth and status. But unlike Shumlin and Dodge, who

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Ea Locat l recently worked out their differences over a controversial real estate deal, Hill seems to be in no mood to mend fences. The Kehlers are among the young and ambitious agropreneurs credited with breathing new life into the Northeast Kingdom. The Cellars at Jasper Hill website showcases its award-winning cheeses, including its Winnimere soft cheese, which just last week took Best of Show at the American Cheese Society’s annual award ceremony in Wisconsin. The site also offers info on Jasper Hill’s innovative farming practices and links to reviews and articles about its cheeses and the men behind them. However, the website makes no reference to Jasper Hill the man, a World War II veteran whose post-traumatic stress disorder — in those days it was called “shell shock” — likely ended his life. Finding that story requires a visit to Stuart Hill’s run-down house just across the road.

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he contrast between the Hill and Kehler properties perfectly illustrates the culture clash between old and new Vermont. Hill’s house, which is perched on a hill overlooking the new, freshly painted Jasper Hill barn, was built by his great-great-grandfather and looks as though it hasn’t been touched by a paintbrush since. The rusty, weatherbeaten metal roof sports a crumbling brick chimney and the twisted remains of an old TV antenna. In the center of Hill’s yard, overgrown with chest-high weeds, sits a pile of firewood topped by an old hibachi and a rusting 55-gallon drum. Just beyond it is a sagging front porch cluttered with various odds and ends: old shovels, seed starters, a dirty pane of glass, a dusty computer hard drive. A satellite dish mounted on the siding appears to be the only recent improvement to the house. From inside a torn screen door comes the barking of Raphael, Hill’s Shetland sheepdog. Hill has thinning, disheveled hair, wire-rimmed glasses, a scraggly beard and a wandering eye. He’s missing a front tooth and, when he talks, he often grips his forehead, seemingly in distress or annoyance. That’s understandable, given his life story. His father, Jasper Hill, acquired the house from his brother, Andrew, in the late 1940s after returning home from World War II. Jasper Hill served in the

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Pacific theater with a chemical pyrotechnics unit but barely made it home alive. It wasn’t until years after Jasper Hill’s death that his son learned how his father had survived the war. His unit had gotten pinned down on a small, remote island in the Pacific that was being shelled by Japanese warships. The GIs expected Japanese soldiers to storm the island the next morning and kill everyone on it. But when the sun rose the next day, the ships had miraculously disappeared and Jasper Hill was alive. Stuart says his father was never the same again. For a time, Jasper Hill farmed other people’s land in Greensboro but, according to his son, never worked the land that currently bears his name. In the mid-1950s, Jasper Hill was working in a timber mill when he sawed off the fingertips on both hands. The nurse who tended to him, Evelyn Flett, eventually became his wife. Hill has fond memories of his father, despite the fact that he had a “disposition similar to mine.” “The combat stress was too much for him,” Hill recalls. “He was a very good guy but very tortured by life.” Whatever Hill’s relationship might have been with his father, it was cut tragically short. On December 16, 1977, Stuart, then 16, came home to find his father had shot himself in the head. Hill’s mother, whom he describes as an “old-guard registered nurse” with a “military-like attitude,” worked as an administrator at the Greensboro Nursing Home. Evelyn Hill, who suffered from scleroderma, an autoimmune skin disease, began drinking heavily after her husband’s suicide. A year later, Stuart came home from school one day to find her dead, too. “She may or may not have killed herself. I was never quite sure,” Hill says matter-of-factly. “It is what it is. I don’t know anything different.” Stuart Hill’s life had some bright spots. On May 24, 1997, he married Camilla Jean Collier, of Chicago, Ill., at St. Michael church in Greensboro Bend, just down the road from his house. Both Camilla and Stuart shared a love of Shetland sheepdogs. “It was a marriage made in the American Kennel Club,” Hill jokes,

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must run like a good restaurant: It must be efficient and affordable, keep its health care customers healthy and satisfied, and pay its “servers” — hospitals and health care providers — well. If it can do all that, he says, the establishment will thrive. Otherwise, it’ll go belly up. And Gobeille knows what it takes for a business to succeed. His company, Gobeille Hospitality, owns four restaurants and catering businesses in Burlington: Shanty on the Shore, Burlington Bay Market and Café, Breakwater Café and Grill, and Northern Lights Cruises. With 230 employees, Gobeille has a unique perspective on skyrocketing health care costs. A few years ago, he says, a family insurance plan for a full-time employee cost $2000 year and had a modest deductible. Then it went to $11,000 a year with a $3500 deductible. By 2018, he notes, the same insurance coverage is expected to cost $25,000 with a $10,000 deductible. Such double-digit cost increases hit even closer to home when Gobeille’s son needed abdominal surgery a few years ago. Between deductibles, copays and prescription drugs, he paid $21,000 that year for his family’s health care — despite being “insured.” It dawned on him that if one of his employees faced the same dilemma, half of their gross salary could go to pay for a health care emergency. “I couldn’t live with that,” he says, adding what has become a mantra around his office: “That can’t be our plan.” What is Gobeille’s plan? First and foremost, he says, we must depoliticize the debate and focus on the problems themselves. Recently, he watched two talking heads on opposite sides

other what your politics are? No,” he says. “You start fixing the basement.” Friends and colleagues say that roll-up-our-sleeves approach to problem solving allows Gobeille to relate to everyone from the dishwashers in his kitchens to the CEOs of Vermont’s 14 hospitals. Not surprisingly, he earns praise on many levels. “One of the great things about Al is that he had a real compassion for our frontline workers,” Peterson adds. “He always thought about what the staff needed and made sure they were treated well, to try to have fair benefits and wages, but also good training and what motivates people.” Falko Schilling, consumer protection advocate for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, has a similar view. “A number of times you’ll see him looking at a very complex issue, and then he’ll stop the meeting and bring it back to, ‘OK, what does this mean to the people who are working in my restaurant?’” Schilling says. “That’s really refreshing when you’re doing this kind of work, which involves a lot of numbers and theories. Al does a really good job of keeping things focused on what this will mean to real people in Vermont.” Gobeille served as board chair of the Burlington Business Association until his four-year term ended in April. Whether he was attending a committee meeting or giving a speech at an annual dinner, BBA members couldn’t miss his deadpan sense of humor. At a recent Green Mountain Care board meeting, he segued, “Now, we’ll move on to something that’s actually interesting.” But Gobeille’s amiable style is paired with a serious work ethic, says BBA executive director Kelly Devine. She Matthew thorsen

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flashing a rare smile. “I had one sheltie, and she had two.” The couple’s happiness was short lived. On December 19, 2005, Collier-Hill died of heart failure at age 50. Although her obituary says she died unexpectedly, Hill wasn’t surprised, noting that she’d never taken good care of herself and “lived on coffee, cigarettes and junk food.” Since then, Hill has worked odd jobs, including as a grocery clerk and on a Christmas tree farm. For a time, he had his own computerrepair business but, according to one acquaintance, never made much money at it. The Hill family roots run deep and wide in Greensboro — a Hill was one of the town’s original 60 pioneering settlers — but in a town of only 425 people, few are comfortable speaking about Stuart Hill on the record. Jasper Hill in 1944 A rare exception is retired dairy farmer John Stone, who describes Hill as “a very bright guy” with whom he got along and “had no problems as neighbors.” The 82-year-old Stone owned the Hill farm from 1969 until 1999, when he sold about 330 acres to the Kehlers. Vince Illuzzi, the Essex County state’s attorney and former Republican lawmaker from the Essex-Orleans senate district, occasionally hired Hill to work on his computer. Because Illuzzi served in the Vermont Senate with the Kehlers’ mother, Carolyn Kehler of Pomfret, he tried, unsuccessfully, to mediate a settlement to the water dispute in 2011. “I thought the simple solution was just to drill Stuart a well,” Illuzzi remembers. “But you ever heard that expression, ‘The guy who tries to break up a fight ends up with two black eyes, not just one?’” Illuzzi hasn’t heard from Hill since. “I don’t know if Stuart is mad at me or not, but I tried.” Evidently, the Kehlers tried, too. In a three-page letter to Hill, dated July 26, 2011, the brothers apologized for damaging his water line and also pointed out the various gestures they’d made to minimize the impact their cheesemaking operation was having on him. They offered to pay Hill’s property taxes in 2003 and 2004; volunteered to dig

him a new well in 2006 after their cows drank his spring dry; made overtures about digging him a new water line with an excavator that same year; and said they’d plow his driveway free of charge. “Our business has grown and in ways that we could never have foreseen when we first started in on this cheesemaking adventure,” the Kehlers wrote in 2011 of the 10-year-old dairy operation that now employs 35. “We are no longer just milking 40 cows and making cheese, and I realize that as we have grown there has been an increase in traffic, noise, people and general activity in your backyard. “I hope we are not moving towards having an antagonistic relationship with you as our neighbor,” they wrote, presciently. “ We h av e n e v e r brought up the subject of purchasing your property because we haven’t wanted to make you feel like we wanted you to leave, and we have appreciated you as a neighbor. “However, if you’re interested in a quieter, more private location,” the Kehlers added, “we would be interested in discussing possible options, including purchasing your property.” In September 2011, the Kehlers offered, in a letter, to buy Hill’s house for $120,000. Hill, who long suspected the Kehlers of trying to force him out, took it as a threat and immediately rejected it. Then on November 15, 2011, the Kehlers offered to purchase Hill’s spring and water rights for $9480, the amount of one estimate for digging him a new well. Hill rebuffed that, too. Stone’s hypothesis: “My operation was quite benign, so as far as Stuart was concerned, when I took over, there was very little change,” he says. “So any change in his attitude would simply be because of the change in use.” What does Hill want from his neighbors? “Basically, they need to admit wrongdoing. And, I think I deserve to be paid for the misery they’ve put me through,” he says. “And as far as the state goes, there are some people who need to go bye-bye. The same with the USDA.” Hill insists he’ll never sell out to the Kehlers — even if it means carrying water by the gallon back and forth to his house until the day he dies. As he puts it, “You can get used to almost anything, including hauling water.” m COuRTESy Of STuART hiLL

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Vincent Illuzzi Sr., 93, who lived on the BarreMontpelier Road in Berlin for 54 years, died on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at the Berlin Health & Rehabilitation Center, where he had been staying for the past several weeks. He was born in Giovinazzo,

a port city on the Adriatic coast in southern Italy, on July 22, 1920. He attended school until eighth grade and then received training to be a granite sculptor. In 1937 he immigrated to the United States, where he learned how to speak English and eventually settled in Barre to work as a granite sculptor and carver. He sent part of his earnings

to his mother back in Italy to help support the family that remained there. On January 21, 1943, during WWII, still an Italian citizen, he volunteered to join the U.S. Army. A photograph at the Montpelier Historical Society shows him with a group of other enlistees in the front of the Washington County Court House, ready to depart for war. He was stationed in Iceland as a translator. During the war, Army officials realized he wasn’t a U.S. citizen and ordered him to become one because the U.S. was at war with Italy. He was honorably discharged January 5, 1946. In 1952 he married Angela Piscitelli, who was also born in Giovinazzo, at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City. She predeceased him in 1993. As a self-employed sculptor, he was commissioned to carve monuments that are located in parks and cemeteries across America. One commission was for a large granite sculpture to be located at P Street, between 22nd Street and 23rd Street,

N.W., Washington, D.C., near Dupont Circle. It was dedicated to the liberation, freedom and independence of all citizens of captive nations and stands alongside the bronze statue of Taras Shevchenko. Both are owned by the U.S. Park Service and cataloged by the Smithsonian Institution. The monument was authorized by the 86th Congress on August 31, 1960, and unveiled by former president Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 27, 1964, with Illuzzi in attendance. Another monument he created commemorates the role of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Located at the East Hills Kiwanis Memorial Park in Richland Township near Johnstown, Pa., the granite statue of a U.S. soldier holding a Vietnamese child was dedicated in June 1974. In May 2007, vandals broke off the statue’s head and stole it. Described as “priceless” by one community leader, it is also cataloged by the Smithsonian. Illuzzi offered advice on how to repair the damage, but by 2007 he

was personally too old to repair it. After retiring as a sculptor, he returned to his trade one last time when he volunteered to carve a book of learning for the lobby of the Barre City Elementary School. He was a member of the Barre Historical Society and an early supporter of the restoration of the Old Labor Hall in Barre, and he supported creation of the Barre Granite Museum at the Jones Brothers granite shed, where he carved many monuments, including the one in Washington. The shed needed roof and foundation work to preserve it for future generations. He was a member of the Montpelier Gun Club, American Legion Post 10,

VFW Post 790 and Moose Barre Lodge 1391, among other organizations. Although self-employed, he joined the Granite Cutters Association as an associate member to support the collective bargaining rights of granite workers. He is survived by three sons, Vincent of Derby and his wife, Eileen, and their son, Vincent; Frank of Brattleboro; and Joseph of Berlin, who lived with and took care of him for the past 10 years; and a sister, Giovanna of Bitonto, Italy, who survives him. He was predeceased by four brothers and one sister. A funeral mass was held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Monica’s Church in Barre. Burial was at Berlin Corner Cemetery.

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ellist Peter Sanders didn’t know what was in store for him when he arrived at his mother’s Randolph home in the summer of 1992. He had been playing the four previous summers in a friend’s chambermusic festival in Crested Butte, Colo., but had no plans for that season. He soon discovered that his mother and Laura Morris, then-director of Chandler Music Hall, had hatched a festival in Vermont for Sanders to run. “So it’s my mother’s fault,” Sanders, now 51, says with a laugh about the origins of the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, which is about to begin its 21st season. CVCMF is one of several August festivals that occur in rural spots around the state, including in Greensboro, Craftsbury and Adamant. As of last year there’s a new competitor in the category of impossibly small towns playing host to quality classical-music festivals: Jamaica. Flutist Susanna Loewy started the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival there last year. Out-of-state musicians apparently just like to come to Vermont. Sanders, who lives in New Jersey, typically draws CVCMF’s performers from among his fellow musicians in the New York Ballet Orchestra (of which he’s been a member since 1999) and the Stamford (Conn.) and Riverside symphonies. There can be no “wild cards,” he explains, because of the intense week of rehearsals preceding the festival. The two-week festival centers on two ticketed weekend programs at Chandler, with encore performances in Montpelier and Woodstock. Programming this year folds in several pieces Sanders calls “off the beaten path” between Brahms and Beethoven warhorses. Longtime festival violinists Arturo Delmoni and Basia Danilow, Sanders’ wife, will join pianist Jung Lin on Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano. Sanders and violist David Cerutti will play a 1949 duo by Walter Piston, an American composer and theorist who studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and taught Leonard Bernstein. And Sanders says he looks forward to playing the German Romantic composer

“a family operation”: Sanders acted as unpaid administrator until a couple of years ago, when he began giving himself nominal remuneration. This year, however, he is planning on a second annual fundraiser to pay for an administrator. Both his children, he explains, are lobbying for him to spend less time on the computer. The festival’s main fundraiser will continue to be the annually sold-out gala dinner for 60, organized by Randolph resident and Chandler board president Janet Watton. This year, the chef is pianist Lin, with Sanders as her sous-chef. Watton says she is cooking up 13 different desserts for the occasion.

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Max Bruch’s String Quartet no.1, Op. 9 in C minor. “It’s sort of Mendelssohn with a little Brahms flavor as well. It’s really lovely.” Sanders has collaborated with the Vermont Youth Orchestra in the last few years. This year, three VYO horn players — including Lee Cyphers, previously noted in Seven Days — will participate in a master class, led by Minnesota Orchestra horn player Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, that’s open to the public. And “Breakfast with Bach” — a Sunday-morning breakfast upstairs in Chandler, followed by a concert in the

CLASSICAL MUSIC church across the street — will feature VYO violinist Julia Deziel, Delmoni and a small VYO ensemble, led by the organization’s director-conductor Jeff Domoto, playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor. Sanders, who has an 8- and a 10-yearold, hopes to draw children of all ages to a kids’ concert featuring Trinidadian steel-pan music by Island Time Steel Band, followed by ice cream for all. Island Time will also give the free finale concert in the town gazebo. The cellist has kept his festival small and manageable in part because it’s been

Among the diners will be New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren, who lives in nearby Brookfield. He has donated several of his quirky creations to support CVCMF; Sanders will use Koren’s 20thanniversary homage, titled “All About Community,” again this year. It features an ensemble of hairy, string-playing woods animals seated on a log, while other animals pop in from the trees for a friendly listen. CVCMF audiences, of course, have the benefit of Chandler’s famous acoustics. (The hall was recently lauded in Yankee Magazine’s Best of New England 2013: Editors’ Choice.) But the spirit will likely be just as free. m Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, August 12-25, various times and locations. Info, 728-6464. centralvtchambermusicfest.org

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o far this series has examined how particular places in Vermont got their names — the Winooski River and Mount Mansfield, for example, as well as the cities of Burlington and Rutland. This installment considers why a couple of Burlington landmarks — City Hall Park and Waterfront Park — don’t have a “proper” name. These two prominent pieces of public real estate are named for their location rather than for some bigwig. Pretty prosaic, right? It’s not as though someone standing in the green space bordered by Main, St. Paul and College streets would have trouble figuring out the identity of that large building — city hall — in the park’s southeastern corner. Similarly, people walking or cycling in the manicured area along the lake south of the Moran Plant can probably tell they’re in a park on the waterfront. Perhaps we could be a bit more imaginative with the names of these sites — such as paying homage to the most historically significant figure Burlington has produced. Such was the reasoning behind an effort 10 years ago to name City Hall Park for John Dewey (1859-1952). A half dozen or so well-respected local educators petitioned the city to make that change, noting that Dewey is considered one of the most influential philosophers and educational theorists in American history. Dewey’s politics would also be entirely in sync with the progressive ethos of contemporary Burlington. He was a socialist who fought for civil rights, academic freedom and women’s suffrage. FRANK GONZALES , an octogenarian artist, helped organize the campaign to commemorate Dewey at this strategic downtown locale. Gonzales is something of a Dewey obsessive. As a volunteer in the kids’ art program at the Fletcher Free Library, he presided over the construction of a giant papier-mâché Dewey effigy that enlivens the children’s reading room. And Gonzales, an unusually energetic 89-year-old, becomes especially animated when he starts talking about Dewey.

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All this isn’t enough, however, for Gonzales and his fellow advocates. Having been spurned on the City Hall Park option, they switched their focus a few years ago to 20-year-old Waterfront Park, the name of which presumably doesn’t carry a heavy weight of tradition. Gonzales also offers a specific rationale for renaming this site. Noting that Dewey grew up in a house on George Street ( just west of the present-day post office), he says, “I can imagine him and his little brother as boys playing on the waterfront.” But this effort hasn’t gotten much traction, either. “It’s just incredibly difficult in Burlington to name something for someone,” observes longtime city councilor SHARON BUSHOR . She points to a failed attempt some years ago to name the Community Boathouse for PETER CLAVELLE, the mayor who was primarily responsible for the popular addition that spearheaded the lakefront renewal. Bushor’s lament notwithstanding, it’s clear that if you can supply the dough, you can manage to get your name affixed to something major in Burlington. Just look at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, the Leahy Center for Digital Investigation at Champlain College and Leahy Way — the alley off Church Street where Vermont Sen. PATRICK LEAHY is featured in a 124-foot-long mural. The connection between money and naming rights is long established, of course, but has lately become even more accentuated, with stadiums now routinely named for whatever corporation makes the highest bid. Middlebury College has embraced this practice. It named its arts center for mega-donor Kevin Mahaney in 2007, and three years later announced that its previously nameless library would henceforth be known as the Davis Family Library, in honor of a moneyed alumnus and his relatives. So if Burlington Telecom’s debts ever threaten to bankrupt the city, will we have to start referring to the Ben & Jerry’s Bike Path? And if shifting demographics destabilize UVM’s finances, will the university’s baseball diamond become known as Dealer.com Field?

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itcoin is a virtual currency, but that’s like saying computers add ones and zeros — you don’t get any sense of the complexity of the thing. I’ll give it a shot below. I should tell you, my initial reaction was that bitcoin was an impossible techno fantasy that was certain to ruin anyone foolish enough to put their trust in it. But now I’d say there’s a chance it’ll become the Krugerrand of our times. Virtual currencies are familiar to those who play massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or who maintain a cyberpresence in online communities like Second Life. For the most part these virtual currencies are divorced from the real world — you can become a virtual millionaire selling virtual real estate in Second Life and still be sleeping on your real-life mom’s real-life couch. Bitcoins are different. They’re virtual in the sense that they exist solely in cyberspace, but they’re expressly designed for the real world — specifically, any form of commerce where anonymity and untraceability are essential. Funds can be sent digitally across borders without physical transfer or anyone looking over your shoulder, and there are no fees

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online, with no intermediary. There’s no central authority and no recourse. If bitcoins get stolen (and it’s happened), they’re gone. • There’s nothing backing up bitcoins. Their value is dependent entirely on what people agree they’re worth. • The system doesn’t work on trust, though. Each bitcoin includes a log of all previous transactions in which it’s changed hands. When a bitcoin is transferred between two parties, its transaction log is broadcast to all bitcoin participants. A subset of this group, called bitcoin miners, competes to perform what amounts to a validation test on the transaction log. This task requires a special highpowered computer rig to do

the voluminous processing involved. Whichever miner is first to successfully validate the transaction log notifies the rest of the bitcoineurs, and the transaction is considered valid. This process takes between 10 minutes and an hour. • For their trouble, successful bitcoin miners earn new bitcoins. That’s how bitcoins are created, ensuring the number increases slowly. Crucially, the system is designed so total coinage will top out at about 21 million. Bitcoins are thus immune to inflation. The above omits considerable detail, for the obvious reason that if I got into the full cryptographic complexity, your head would explode. Instead let’s move on to a few meta-observations: • One of the strengths of bitcoins, namely that their quantity is limited, is also a weakness. The money supply has to grow more or less in proportion to the underlying economy lest we have deflation and depression. Regulating the money supply is why you need central bankers, feckless though they sometimes are. For that reason bitcoins as currently constituted will never replace government-backed money. • That’s not to say bitcoins can’t have a role as a supplementary currency. God knows we all engage

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basics of Daniel’s Vermont visit. He was heading to the Basin Harbor Club for a family vacation. No, it wasn’t his first time here and, yes, he loved being in Vermont. He also shared — after my nosy inquiry — what he did for a living: In Fort Worth, Texas, he serves as director of an art museum. The rain was falling in a steady thrum as we exited the terminal and walked to my waiting taxi. “For two months, in May and June, it rained, often heavily,” I said as we positioned his things in the trunk, “but this is the first real rain we’ve had in a couple weeks now.” “Well, aren’t I lucky?” Daniel joked. “Seriously, though — it’s kind of nice.” “Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, so long as it don’t get torrential.” As we made our way out of the airport and toward Route 7, I was weary but on task, still recovering from the past weekend, possibly the busiest on the calendar for us local cabbies. The annual Vermont Brewers Festival — locally known simply as the Brewfest — grows bigger and sudsier every year. The Saturday festivities featured two sessions, afternoon and evening, and I worked nonstop for 15 hours. One would think I’d have gotten too old for a shift of that magnitude, but apparently I haven’t — the switch goes on, and I’m good for the duration. Once the switch is turned off, I might collapse in a heap, but so long as I’m rolling, I’m as focused as the Buddha. “So, I’ve never met a museum director,” I said, picking up the thread. “What’s the size of your place? How many folks do you manage?”

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“I’d say it’s a midsize museum. Full-time staff — let me see … I think we’re at 82 at this point.” “Holy moly! You’re leading a small empire down there! Must be an amazing job. Are you a natural-born Texan?” “No, I grew up in Pittsburgh, and I went to college at Bowdoin, in Maine, so Texas has been this whole new thing for me — arid, flat fields as far as the eye can see.” “Not to mention that they’re executing somebody, like, daily.” “Well, let’s not get into that. But, yes, it is a vastly different environment.” As we motored south, the rain volume and intensity began to increase. By Ferrisburgh, “pelting” was the word that came to mind. “How do you drive in this weather?” Daniel asked, with just the slightest hint of alarm in his voice. “As long as I can see the yellow line down the middle, I figure we’re good. Plus, as you might have noticed, I’ve really slowed it down.” I babied my Buick LeSabre down the road — a powerful American sedan ignominiously transformed into a snail. We continued to talk about the world of museums, which, unexpectedly, I was finding fascinating. We touched on acquisitions, curating, fundraising and Daniel’s unique position at the center of the cultural milieu in a rapidly growing city. I asked questions, but mostly just listened, keeping my eye affixed to that sweet yellow line. The rain was just not giving me a break; it was actually starting to feel like some personal vendetta. The road went into a long descent, and I noticed we were passing through the old New Haven train junction. Oh, that’s nice, I thought, instantaneously followed by, Holy crap! We’re 10 miles past Vergennes and the turn-off to 22A and the Basin Harbor Club!

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Absorbed in the conversation amid the ongoing downpour, I had utterly lost track of our location. I immediately pulled onto the shoulder, saying, “I’m so sorry. I just realized I missed our turn.” Daniel was magnanimous. “Hey, don’t worry about it. This time of night, I’m really in no rush. Besides, I’m enjoying our conversation.” “Oh, jeez — thanks. I’m so embarrassed. I never make mistakes like this. I pride myself on my professionalism.” “Yeah, but this rain is totally crazy. I really don’t know how you’re seeing anything.” “Well, thanks for that. OK, then — we’ll blame it on the rain.” With that, I made a U-turn and headed back north. Having made its point, the bloody rain quickly petered out. Sure, now. When we finally made it to the lakeside resort, the night sky was clear over the Adirondacks, the stars and moon showing off for all to see. I understand the ludicrousness of anthropomorphizing the natural world, but it’s never stopped me. As we eased up to Daniel’s cabin, I put on my best folksy pilot’s voice and announced, “Well, the landing gear is down, and we anticipate a smooth touchdown.” Daniel chuckled, saying, “Oh, sure — I bet the Southwest pilot said the same thing yesterday coming into LaGuardia!” “Whoa, doggy!” I exclaimed, raising my eyebrows in mock shock. “Too soon?” Daniel backpedaled. “Ya think?” I said, and we both cracked up. m

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aniel March’s plane was due in at 11:20 p.m. but touched down well after midnight. Earlier in the day, the landing gear had failed on a Southwest Airlines jet coming into LaGuardia, resulting in a crash landing. (Thankfully, the passenger injuries were minor and few.) Even though my customer was flying in from Newark, any plane crash sends ripples throughout the system. So, all in all, I was relieved the delay was just an hour. At the gate I met Daniel, a middle-aged guy with a neatly trimmed, graying beard and an easy smile. I wouldn’t call him plump, but he clearly wasn’t hitting the gym daily, which — at least in the moment — made me feel better about my own physique/shoddy fitness regimen. “Did you check any luggage?” I asked, observing the two bags he carried, one over his shoulder. “Yeah, sorry, I had to check one other bag,” he replied. “Well, phooey to that,” I said, knowing this would entail some additional dead time — that is to say, nondriving time. (If my foot is not on the accelerator, I’m not making money, is how I see it.) As I intuited he would, Daniel chuckled at my quip, which established the tone of our conversation for the ride to come: I could allow the kidder in me to emerge freely because of a rapport we seemed naturally to share. The flight was full, so, as I expected, it took close to half an hour for the bags to make their appearance on the luggage belt. While we stood around waiting, I got the

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in the air (hot-air ballooning) or underground (caving); on water (kiteboarding, sailing) or under it (scuba diving); and on solid land (horseback riding, archery) that were entirely new, at least to them. But at the end of the day, all were back at the keyboard, so the rest of us can feel vicariously — and variously — claustrophobic, breathless, clumsy, strong, free and gloriously aloft. PAM EL A P O L S T O N

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It was a gorgeous summer afternoon, I was 20 feet underground and couldn’t move. I was trying to squeeze through a dark, dank burrow so narrow that I had to turn on my side, and my shoulders wouldn’t fit till I worked my bottom arm above my head. The slick mud floor offered no traction, and a few inches of movement made my helmet clunk against the rock overhang. Live burial was no longer an abstract concept. Ken Moore, president of the Vermont Cavers’ Association, saw my distress. From the next chamber, he counseled me to breathe deep and fit myself through the opening “like a puzzle piece.” We’d come to this small cave complex in Chittenden County to “play,” as Moore put it. He asked me not to disclose its location, because thrill seekers are a threat to the fragile ecosystem of caves — and to the delicate relationships between landowners and serious cavers. Moore said most of Vermont’s 150-odd known caves are tough to access, but not this one, as evidenced by the faded graffiti at its entrance and exit. From a blacktop road, we climbed a sandy bluff and followed a well-worn trail through the woods to a small gully full of mossy boulders. Tucked into the gully, the cave entrance is easy to miss: a keyhole between two moist rock faces, high enough to let us walk upright. Before we did, Moore gave me a little speech: “In caves,” he said, “there is no ego.” If I started panicking and wanted to turn around, I should trust my gut. Moore clearly loves to educate newbies about caves, and he doesn’t accept money for his trouble. Initial reactions to caving vary dramatically, he said. Some people can’t get past the first tight spot; others like the experience but never want to repeat it; still others get an adrenaline rush and are hooked. Moore, who’s been caving for 20 years, is firmly in the last category. When we were a few steps inside, the

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temperature plummeted. We wore bulky caving suits, helmets, headlamps, knee pads and clothes we didn’t mind getting dirty. Our headlamps revealed condensation glimmering on the walls. Moving deeper, I saw elevated encrustations of mud and dead leaves that attested to serious spring flooding. I tried not to imagine the passage filling with water as we took the first “tight spot” headfirst. In a chamber about 20 feet high, Moore offered a geology lesson: The cave’s reddish walls are dolomite marble, like so many Burlington houses. Vermont’s marble caves are far smaller than the porous limestone caves to the south. With Moore’s coaching, I made it through the second, really tight spot. “It’s like being born, coming out of the birth canal,” he said jovially. Maybe that explained the rush I felt as I reached a space just big enough for us both to sit up. We switched off our headlamps and stared into pitch darkness. “Can you see your hand in front of your face?” Moore asked. I almost saw a flash of white where my hand should be. “Your mind is telling you you do,” he explained.

In this primal blackness, everybody is equal — which is why, Moore said, cavers develop an intense camaraderie regardless of their social status. “I’ve been down with millionaires; I’ve been down with NASA jet-propulsion scientists,” he said, “and I’m just an electrician from Vermont.” We finally reached daylight through a hole that, from the outside, looked barely large enough to house a fox den. Was I ready to try another cave? Surprisingly, yes. The second one was a “wet cave” where we had to crawl six or seven feet through a creek — disturbing pale crayfish — and clamber up a roaring waterfall to the exit. The whole excursion took maybe an hour, but I felt like I’d been away for days. The next day I would have hideous hip-and-shoulder bruises from the tight squeeze but would know for certain that I’m not claustrophobic. And some strange part of me would be itching to return to the underworld. MARGOT HARRISON

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All of a sudden, we were flying. Beneath us, the shadow of our hot-air balloon flitted across the green and golden hayfields from which we’d launched. Our pilot’s three-man ground crew, scurrying around the van and trailer that had brought us here, assumed the size of insects. We were up and away — off on a 70-minute balloon ride that would take us 2600 feet high and 10 miles south from Colchester to South Burlington. It was the perfect evening to be aloft: cool, cloudless and clear. Our pilot, Jeff Snyder, pointed north to the Laurentian chain and to Montréal, both just barely visible in the distance. Closer to our soaring wicker basket, Colchester Pond passed beneath us to the east; the shimmering waters of Malletts Bay, dotted with small sailboats, passed to the west. With the pull of a lever, Snyder intermittently interrupted the stillness by firing up one of three propane burners, sending a flame into the balloon’s interior. A showman, to be sure, Snyder punctuated his one-liners with the blast of a burner, controlling the path of conversation and balloon alike. While enrolled at Penn State, Snyder told us, he had hatched a “hypothetical” ballooning business plan for a class project — only to return to his native Vermont in 2001 to start the business, calling it Above Reality. “I was a guy with a pickup and two balloons that were old and tired but flyable,” he says. On this July evening, Snyder’s payload included a couple from Florida and a family of five from Maryland. But a hot-air balloon ride through the heart of Chittenden County is wasted on the out-of-towner. For the local, it’s a fascinating look at terrain that, from above, is both familiar and strangely foreign. Such as the bend of the black, snaking Winooski River in Essex, where it turns so sharply it nearly collides with itself.

As we approached Burlington International Airport, Snyder radioed ahead to the control tower, which appeared to find nothing unusual about a balloon invading its airspace. Two planes — one commercial and one private — took off beneath us, oblivious to the floating passengers above. Three Black Hawk helicopters spun their blades on the tarmac beside the Air National Guard’s hangars. “In balloon piloting, you’re basically playing threedimensional Battleship,” Snyder said. We began our descent near South Burlington High School, passing low over a swamp and spooking a heron before crossing I-89 and eliciting a chorus of honks. Snyder hoped to land in the fields around Dynapower, but the wind wasn’t cooperating, so we carried on. Which was fine by me. Higher up, our average speed of 15 miles per hour was barely discernible. But down here, just feet above treetops and chimneys, it felt like we were moving. Off Hinesburg Road, we floated low above a housing development well stocked with swimming pools and smoking barbecues. A horde of children shrieked in approval and a bicyclist appeared to chase us. Snyder’s ground crew, too, were in hot pursuit, radioing to the boss for intel about his likely landing target. At last, our pilot found a field open enough to safely touch down upon and close enough to a driveway to allow Snyder’s crew to meet us. We passengers bent our knees and held on tight as the balloon gently bounced and bounced and came to an uneasy stop. We’d been set back down again, as the balloonist’s prayer goes, “into the loving arms of Mother Earth.”

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The Benjamins must be the most physically active grandparents on St. Albans Bay. Their antidote for aging: surfing Lake Champlain with kites. Jerri Benjamin, 60, who’s a personal trainer, and her husband, Curt, 63, a semiretired builder, now run Northshore Kite n’ Sail on the bay. Their year-round beachfront camp sits at the end of a long dirt road, just across the water from Burton Island. On a recent weekday morning, the bronzed and buff Benjamins offered me a fourhour kiteboarding lesson. I first discovered the sport several years ago while in Newport, R.I., where I watched stiff ocean winds launch kiteboarders 20 feet or more above the pounding surf. It looked utterly insane — and incredibly exhilarating. Since then, kiteboarding, also known as kitesurfing, has completely eclipsed windsurfing in Vermont. Its advantages are obvious, explained Jerri, who spent decades windsurfing before switching sports five years ago. Windsurfing requires a roof rack, truck or trailer to haul the long, heavy board, mast and other equipment, and 20 minutes or more of assembly time.

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In contrast, kiteboarding gear — including the inflatable kite, pump, board, harness, bar, life jacket and helmet — can be easily carried, even loaded in a backpack, and assembled in minutes. That’s advantageous in Vermont, where ideal conditions — a steady 12- to 25-mile-per-hour wind heading neither straight into nor away from shore — don’t happen every day. Plus, Curt added, kiteboarding is far less tiring than windsurfing, allowing people to stay on the water for hours. After I signed the requisite waiver, Jerri walked me through the fundamentals of kiteboarding and some safety basics, including how to avoid crashing into trees, docks, boats or land. Kiteboarding, which combines paragliding and wakeboarding, is more like two sports than one. Much of the lesson involves learning how to handle the kite itself, which rises and dips like a sine curve, by pulling the hand bar left or right. Pulling it with both hands drops the kite into its “power zone,” allowing it to catch more wind and boost your speed. Releasing it lets the kite rise overhead to a neutral, 12 o’clock position, slowing you down. After my indoor instruction, Jerri took me outside, where we practiced, on a dry-land simulator, how to attach to the kite and launch the board. Unlike wakeboarding, where you grip a tow rope, a kiteboarder is tethered to a 9- to 13-meter kite by a waist harness. The harness has such colorfully named parts as the “chicken loop” and “donkey dick.” Though I’d assumed the wind that morning was strong enough to try my skills on the water, Curt informed us that it was too weak and variable. Instead, we hopped on his wave runner and motored to nearby Woods Island, where he launched a small power kite so I could practice from the beach. Curt made the kite look easier to handle than it was. Once I took the controls, it promptly went into a nose dive and plummeted into the lake. This happened several more times before I got the hang of it. I felt secretly grateful I wasn’t simultaneously trying to stand up on a board, maintain my balance and avoid crashing into something. Still, after getting a taste of one half of the sport, I was eager to try the other. K E N P IC AR D Kiteboarding lessons from Northshore Kite n’ Sail in Colchester start at $70/hour, or $55/ hour for groups. Info, 922-4072. kitensail.com

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First try: I was startled by how close the water seemed; I couldn’t see more than an arm’s length in front of myself. I was completely surrounded. I panicked. I needed to breathe in. I willed myself to breathe but couldn’t. I stood up. The shore was a mere 15 yards away. All the rain this summer has filled the water with sediment off the shore of Oakledge Park in Burlington. That’s where I was on a recent Sunday morning, in a “Try Scuba” session with Waterfront Diving Center instructor A.J. Daubenschmidt. We were in the shallows because in order to go out deeper — to even buy scuba equipment — a 40-hour certification course is required. Under Daubenschmidt’s supervision, I had snapped together three sets of straps in order to don a buoyancy compensator (BC). This is a vest that can be filled with air — either through a mouthpiece or from the tank — to buoy a diver upwards. Attached to the back of the BC is a tank filled with pressurized air, and on top of the tank is the primary stage, which decreases the pressure of the air released from the tank. Hanging from this are two hoses — a primary and a backup — each of which leads to a secondary stage. These stages bring air to ambient pressure and modulate, through the diver’s mouthpiece, the release of air that the diver breathes. A third hose attaches to a gauge consul that includes a compass as well as an instrument that measures the air pressure in the tank and another that measures water depth. I had walked with all of this — plus a mask and flippers — from the parking lot to the lake, feeling like a kindergartener waddling under the weight of a too-big backpack. Second try: I took a big breath, bit down on the regulator and went under. This time, I could breathe. I swam down towards a patch of pebbles. I picked up a ragged piece of what I think was white agate, and then a stone that in profile looked like a tube of lipstick ringed with delicate white lines. I turned each stone over in my hands and swam on. I skirted past a white plastic sole that had lost the rest of its shoe before coming upon a pair of aviator sunglasses and then a pearl — or fake pearl — earring. The finds of a novice, certainly, but with their hidden histories these were intriguing enough to make me think about diving more deeply. Then I’d be able to see a number of centuries-old shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Champlain. The fresh, cold and relatively still water of the lake has preserved these ships, built primarily of wood, especially well. Nine wrecks — including a horse-powered ferry — have been marked and buoyed as underwater historic sites by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and are open to anyone with a scuba-diving certification. Visiting these sites, at least in the excitable imagination of a beginner, allows an opportunity to wonder at the mysteries of a submerged past. I was exhilarated, if exhausted, when I got out of the lake and took off my gear. That evening, when I watched the setting sun, its golden light refracted through the clouds and reflected off the water, I thought for the first time that Lake Champlain is more than a magnificent mirror. Beneath the glittering surface there’s an entire world that’s a little bit dangerous and holds so much. C Y P R ES S M A R R S “Try Scuba” sessions through Waterfront Diving Center in Burlington are $25; preregistration is required. Info, 865-2771. waterfrontdiving.com

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As my grandmother loved to tell it, my first experience with sailing ended with 4-year-old me screaming in the cabin of my grandfather’s Bristol 27. “I hate boats!” I howled as the L’Allegra was tossed around in an angry Narragansett Bay. Though I’ve come to enjoy other forms of boating, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve boarded a sailboat since that treacherous afternoon excursion in Rhode Island some 30 years ago. Since my first sailing lesson at Burlington’s Community Sailing Center, I’m thinking that number might increase in the years to come. I arrived at the CSC on a recent Thursday morning. A steady wind pushed past the dock, where a group of about 12 young student sailors were excitedly readying boats to hit the lake. I watched as the boats glided, one by one, from the dock into the harbor and then beyond the breakwater, calmly guided by pairs of skippers less than half my age. If they can do it…, I thought as I made my way into the CSC clubhouse to meet my instructor, Alec Donkin. “You picked a great day to go sailing,” said the lanky University of Vermont junior as he looked out at the rippling lake from behind his dark sunglasses. After going over the basics of wind direction and sail positioning — and some mildly confusing nautical lingo — Donkin seemed satisfied that I wouldn’t drown us. We hauled our vessel from the CSC boatyard: a two-person Club 420 dinghy.

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You probably know about the book and movie The Hunger Games, in which many arrows are shot with deadly precision. I’ve never seen (nor read) it, but plenty of people who schedule archery lessons at Manchester’s British School of Falconry have. When I arrived here last week for my first-ever encounter with a bow and arrow, I was simply hoping that I could hit the target and not harm any unsuspecting nearby wildlife or people. “Leftie or rightie?” asked my guide, Dawn Decrease, as we strode over to four neon-colored targets lined up in a field. I secretly wondered if she was a devotee of all things Renaissance; why else would someone move up to Vermont to teach falconry and archery? The truth was less exotic: Growing up in Massachusetts, Decrease was the daughter of a bowhunter and shot her first arrow at age 7. Decrease strapped an arm guard onto my right arm and a vaguely medieval leather finger guard onto my left, covering my index, middle and ring fingers. She then patiently outlined the anatomy of a swoopy, wooden recurve bow — the arrow rest, the tiny red sight, the bowstring. COURTESY OF DAWN DECREASE

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“This is a 20-pound bow, which means every time you pull the string back, you’re pulling the equivalent of 20 pounds,” she explained. That sounded like a lot. Decrease picked up a plastic arrow, popping one grooved end into the bowstring. There was no deadly spike on the business end of these arrows, but on its tail, three fletchings — two called hen feathers and an odd-colored one called a rooster feather — guide the loading process. Decrease then demonstrated how to pull the bowstring back until my left hand was in line with the corner of my mouth. The bow itself was just heavy enough that it was tricky to hold with an outstretched arm. I turned it sidewise, loaded an arrow — pop — took my stance and tried in vain to align the tiny red sight with the bull’s-eye, about 30 feet away. Swish-thwack. The arrow hit about 10 inches away from center. Decrease offered another tip: Hold my stance well after the arrow has left the bow, otherwise it might quaver upon release. I did as I was told, and the second arrow hit closer in. “Great! But don’t think,” she instructed. “You’re thinking too much.” For the third attempt, I simply pulled back, set my target and released in one swift, unthinking motion. My arrow hit dead center, just like that. “Excellent!” Decrease enthused. Damn, that was easy, I thought. Feeling cocky, I released three more quickly, thwackthwack-thwack, but all strayed further from the bull’s-eye. Soon, I was pulling my arrows from the Styrofoam target and trying to outdo myself. In the absence of prey — or even mortal enemies — this seemed the point. Sooner than I expected, my right shoulder began to throb and my shots grew wilder. “You’d be surprised at the muscles this uses, muscles you didn’t even know you had,” said Decrease as we put the quivers away.

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It’s difficult to describe the sensation of sitting astride a live, breathing animal with a mind of its own. For a control freak like me, it’s initially terrifying. What if the horse doesn’t like me? What if I send the wrong signal and she ejects me from her broad back? The day I visited Triple Combination Farm in North Ferrisburgh had been a long, stressful one. So I was relieved to discover that the creature I’d be riding, McKenna, was a relatively small, docile Morgan horse. As an unexpected bonus, my instructor that evening would be Andrea Monsarrat Waldo, a former psychotherapist with a great sense of humor and a calming presence. Waldo, who owns the farm with Chris Armstrong and Mary Brust, has, according to her bio on the farm’s website, “a hopeless weakness for Italian food, fantasy novels and great shoes.” My kind of lady. My coworker Cheryl Brownell, who rides five days a week at Triple Combination — “This is why I run out of the office every night,” she told me at the farm that evening — had outfitted me for my first-ever riding lesson. You want to avoid any pants with a seam, she advised, handing me a pair of stretchy pants called breeches with reinforced knees. For shoes, a boot with a slight heel works best, covered with a pair of half chaps, the leather zip-up calf protectors that save your legs from chafing against the saddle. I looked the part when I climbed up on McKenna for the first time. (My one regret? I didn’t wear a sports bra. Had I anticipated the incredible bouncing of riding a trotting horse — Waldo described it as sitting on a pogo stick — I would have packed my boobs in quite a bit tighter.) Training a new horse, Waldo said, can feel a bit like “leading a drunk friend home.” But once the animal is trained, the experience is more pilot/copilot. Right away, Waldo showed me how to tell McKenna what I wanted her to do — tugging on one side of the reins to steer her — and to my amazement, she followed through. “Her default answer is ‘yes,’ and that’s really what you look for in a horse,” Waldo said. “Horses are incredibly generous animals.” It’s not that they innately love carrying people around on their backs, she explained, but they seem to give freely of their strength. As a newbie rider, I was hesitant to kick or tug too hard — I didn’t want to hurt her. But when my signals were too timid, McKenna ignored me. You can’t be afraid to assert what you want, Waldo pointed out, sounding suddenly like a psychotherapist. And she was right. McKenna responded when I made my intentions clear. The coolest part, though, was how she reacted to the slightest movements of my body. As I walked McKenna around the course, Waldo reminded me to look in the direction I wanted to go. The horse could feel the subtle shift of my weight as I did this, and she moved along with it. It felt as simple and fluid as dancing.

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ritten in 1960, The Fantasticks has the distinction of being the longest-running musical in history. That was 1960 to 2002 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. And New Yorkers apparently missed it: Another production started up again in 2006 and is still running at the off-Broadway Snapple Theater Center. This summer, Waitsfield’s Skinner Barn offers The Fantasticks as its main production, having staged it last month at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, as well. Why The Fantasticks is so popular, though, is somewhat mystifying. Granted, it does have some good tunes — “Try to Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” in particular were destined to be classics. With music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones (no, not that Tom Jones), The Fantasticks soundtrack is likely a beloved member of many a fan’s record collection. But the show, based upon a French Romeo and Juliet spoof by Edmund Rostand, has a paper-thin plot with some rather bizarre — even disturbing — ways of delivering its allegorical message. The story is essentially this: Boy (Matt, 19) and Girl (Luisa, 16) are desperately in love; desperate because they are adolescents and also because their fathers, Hucklebee and Bellomy, respectively, keep them physically apart with a tall wall between their neighboring properties. We soon learn this is a ruse: The fathers, longtime pals, have pretended to be enemies on the reverse-psychology theory that forbidding their offspring to see each other will make them want to do just that. You know how kids are. What the dads really want is for Matt and Luisa to marry each other. (By the way, there is no explanation for the absence of mothers.) The inkling that Hucklebee and Bellomy are inept manipulators is confirmed when they devise a ridiculous scheme for traveling actors — a black-clad scoundrel named El Gallo and two other odd characters, Henry and Mortimer — to pretend to abduct Luisa. They also pretend to let Matt heroically foil this effort. The idea is this will allow the fathers to make up, tear down the wall and let the children unite. This joy wraps with the number “Happy Ending,” but it is only the end of Act One. What next? Unfortunately, in Act Two, the lovers have discovered the deception, stars fall from everyone’s eyes and they begin to find fault with each other. Matt takes off to see

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to his role as the eccentric “Old Actor” Henry, while Charlie Cerutti as Mortimer was hilariously melodramatic. All are vets of the Skinner stage. Liza Hill, a senior at Harwood Union, made her professional theater debut as the Mute — essentially a human prop and gofer on the set. Hill brought assurance and grace even to a nonspeaking role. As the play’s narrator, Boynton struck a balance between avuncular storyteller and a one-man Greek chorus. But as the dashing El Gallo, he simply had fun, particularly in the abduction scene; think rolling eyes, grimaces and swashbuckling gestures (yes,

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the world, which is not at all nice to him, while Luisa remains at home mooning about. Both supposedly get a little disillusioned, a little wiser, and … well, since The Fantasticks has been running for decades, it is probably not news to anyone that the couple comes to appreciate what they have at home, and finally reunite for a truly happier ending. Whether the story feels dated or timeless depends on the viewer, but either way, the crew at Skinner Barn give it their all. Director and theater owner Peter Boynton cast his players well, particularly Alexa Cepeda as Luisa and Matt Trollinger as

Matt. A sophomore at Ithaca College, Cepeda is winsome and charming, convincing as a lovestruck, drama-queen teen. She easily nailed her solos with a crystalline soprano, though she was a bit overpowered in ensemble songs. Trollinger, a 2010 graduate of the University of Vermont and in his fifth show for Skinner Barn, has a strong tenor and emotional depth. Both are naturals onstage. Joe Garofalo as Hucklebee and Karl Klein as Bellomy made a comical combo as faux-foes and best buds, especially when shuffling through dance routines. Jim Hogue brought addled roguishness

there were swords). Boynton is tall, dark and handsome and has a warm, strong singing voice, honed by three decades on and off Broadway and in film and television. He is a riveting performer even when he’s silly; yet despite his professional cred, Boynton is a team player. Jono Mainelli returned to Skinner once again as music director and pianist; his rollicking, spot-on accompaniment, along with Rebecca Kauffman on harp, energized the production throughout. Finally, Boynton deserves kudos again for pulling off an extremely spare but workable set. The stage was a low platform with a pipe frame that allowed backdrops and other props to be hung from it. The actors utilized this as well as the floorspace in front, bringing the action close to the audience. The real coup, though, was a nondescript trunk off to the side, from which Henry and Mortimer clambered for their entrance. It was, in a word, fantastick. m

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heesy? Creepy? Démodé? One of those is probably the first word that comes to your mind when you think of wax museums. Images of Vincent Price and Charles Bronson coating bodies in paraffin may well follow. Some of those adjectives no doubt applied to the Musée Grévin in its early days, when it featured scenes of conquistadors, Napoleon in Moscow and ballerinas of the day. That “day” was 1882, when Arthur Meyer opened the wax museum in Paris. Meyer was also the director of the daily newspaper Le Gaulois. In a time before newspapers had photographs, he charged cartoonist, sculptor and costume designer Alfred Grévin with bringing his front-page headlines to life as wax tableaux. The original Musée Grévin, in other words, was intended more as a newseum than as fluffy entertainment. Now that TV and the internet have superseded print media, such an idea seems

on the couch with Bombardier — who, it turns out, is a novelist and talk show host. This first room, crowded with six dummies, was my first taste of feeling surrounded. In my peripheral vision, I couldn’t tell who was a fellow living, breathing visitor and who’d recently been crafted in France for the museum’s April 17 opening. It’s disconcerting to examine a mound of wax, painstakingly implanted with 50,000 individual hairs, that still looks like it should be able to move and talk. I felt gauche observing the age spots on one female mannequin’s chest, let alone commenting on them in front of her. Many of the models at the Grévin suspend the viewer’s disbelief in exactly that way. Others don’t. Some models of nonwhite celebrities, such as Gandhi, Yoko Ono and President Obama, look not only less like the people they represent than the other figures do but also somehow less alive. alice levitt

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quaint. Still, the appeal of standing next to an approximation of a newsmaker remains. Given today’s cult of celebrity, perhaps that attraction has grown. With the opening of its second museum in Montréal, 131 years after the first, the Grévin Academy is betting on it. According to the Grévin’s director of communications in Montréal, Elodie Vincent, the company that owns the museum, Compagnie des Alpes, decided two years ago to begin a worldwide expansion. Montréal is just the first of what the owners hope will be numerous museums outside France. Visitors like me, who are already wary of the flashy-but-insubstantial Madame Tussaud’s chain, may be further taken aback by the new Grévin’s unlikely location. It’s on the top floor of the Centre Eaton, a 175-store mega mall in downtown Montréal. The central stomping ground may not be dignified, but it makes perfect sense, Vincent asserts, because it gives the new museum a captive audience. The French Musée Grévin boasts about 800,000 guests a year, but the Centre Eaton sees 28 million people pass through annually. Déclassé location aside, this wax museum doubter found the Grévin utterly delightful. The experience begins in a closed-off room called “Palace of the Seasons.” An ultra-realistic animated film of the seasons’ changing flora and fauna plays on one wall, while the other mirrored walls reflect it on every side. The result is an IMAX-like immersion effect, especially when the film sweeps across vast areas. If you’re disposed to motion sickness, you may need to close your eyes or look up at the cabbage-like chandeliers that unfold above. It’s an impressive multimedia environment created by Montréal-based new-media entertainment studio Moment Factory. Once summer has turned to fall, the doors open on a bright wonderland: the “Paris-Québec” section. I had no problem recognizing Marie Antoinette right at the entrance, but after that the section became a whole lot more Québec, devoted to local celebrities who aren’t so famous to Anglophones across the border. Who are Denise Bombardier and Jean-Pierre Ferland? Labels on the wall behind the figures offer some bare details, and QR codes promise more illumination. Too bad I didn’t have a smartphone. The other visitors were rapt, though. One man got out of his wheelchair to pose

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For this 5-foot-tall reporter, the Grévin quickly became an excuse to see whom I measured up to. Charles Aznavour and I could safely seesaw together, and Queen Elizabeth could be my stunt double. After passing a giant-like Charles de Gaulle and a towering (and perhaps excessively flattering) portrait of Steve Jobs, I was relieved to sandwich myself between Padre Pio and Frère André, 20th-century Catholic saints, who were both my height. The man in the wheelchair rose once again in the “Sports Palace,” made to look like a hockey rink, to get his photo snapped with 69-year-old rocker Robert Charlebois, kitted out in a sequined version of the Canadiens jersey. Otherwise, the arena was filled with youthful models of the likes of Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky. Just outside the rink, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci, poised with her eyes downcast in concentration, was particularly convincing. I couldn’t resist getting in bed with John and Yoko, posed for the second half of their honeymoon “bed-in,” which took place in 1969 at Montréal’s Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. But I began to wonder how good such interaction was for the wax figures. Visitors are encouraged to pose for pictures with them, but what if I slipped and snapped off one of John’s fingers? What if the twentysomething women posing with their hands on Ryan Gosling’s tush grabbed a little too hard? Vincent had an answer for that: “The only thing is that the visitor is not allowed to touch the hair and the face of the character because it is very fragile.” While the wax figures themselves are produced in Paris, she added, Grévin Montréal has its own workshop “responsible for the characters’ maintenance on a daily basis. We just opened three months ago, but up to there we had no mishaps!” she went on. “Great thing for us!” For any historically minded Vermonter, the “Nouvelle-France” wing is likely to prove one of the Grévin’s most interesting sections. First, meet Jacques Cartier, who claimed Canada (specifically the Gaspé Bay) for France in 1534. He makes Samuel de Champlain, in all his curly-mustached glory, seem like a Johnny-come-lately with his 17th-century expeditions. These historical waxes are an especially interesting feat. When it comes to modern figures, the Grévin’s artists often make their models from consenting celebrities with the help of photos, videos and minute measurements. Many of the subjects even

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A “sculpture consultation” program allows visitors to approximate the experience of having their own wax models built from a photo-booth portrait. They move from screen to screen, each time scanning their tickets, so each separate computer can perform the next step on the evolving image. Unfortunately, I was so busy listening to the photo instructions that I ended up with an unsuccessful image, more double chin than facial features. I felt pretty bad about myself as I walked past models Coco Rocha, Naomi Campbell and tattooed and pierced Montréal native Zombie Boy. I could feel them silently laughing at my inability to be photographed correctly. The final ballroom crams a dizzying array of wax people into one space. Al Pacino and Robert De Niro look blasé on leather couches, while Nicolas Cage looms eerily behind them. Céline Dion stands on a stage with husband-manager René Angélil keeping track of her. I never thought I’d see Scarlett Johansson’s trashy tattoos at such close range, or pretend to play trumpet on a platform with Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix. So is the Grévin Montréal cheesy? Sure, but only by turns. Creepy? Absolutely, but in the best possible way. Démodé? Nope. Unless you’ve got a problem with fun, the new museum is utterly à la mode. m

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donate their own clothes. Historical personages force the sculptors to work from scratch, extrapolating what they can from existing paintings. In the case of Cartier, no contemporary portraits of the explorer exist. The artists were forced to work loosely from potentially inaccurate paintings completed after his death, and the result is a far less angular, craggier and more human-looking version of Cartier than any painting portrays. The ships on which the nation’s founders appear in “NouvelleFrance” are believably crafted, but it’s the whipping wind of fans and subtly moving lights evoking early morning that are truly transporting. Champlain is posed over a pair of contemporary maps that portray the first gasps of European awareness of North America. The lighting and sets in general are among the Grévin’s greatest strengths. Alfred Hitchcock sits in a director’s chair in a fluorescent-lit bathroom, commode in view, as he faces the shower while directing Psycho. A group of comedians and founders of Montréal’s Juste Pour Rire festival pose at a bright green-and-yellow “mad tea party.” A table of snacks hovers on the ceiling, while the walls are covered with reproduced portraits by da Vinci and Modigliani, painted in gaudy makeup. Though the Grévin is at its heart a resolutely old-timey entertainment, the people behind the museum do their best to keep it up to date. A corridor where guests are invited to make themselves part of a Deus Ex video game draws lines of people waiting to animate themselves.

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job interview is, by nature, a stressful occasion. But when Harrison Littell flew to Vermont from WinstonSalem, N.C., at the end of May to interview for a job at Claire’s Restaurant and Bar, he had an extra layer of pressure. Owner Linda Ramsdell couldn’t meet her prospective new chef because she was stuck at an airport in Iceland. In her place, she sent a very qualified proxy: her close friend, famed food writer Marian Burros, who splits her time between Maryland and Vermont. “I was like, Oh, my gosh, this amazing food critic and writer is interviewing me for this,” Littell remembers. “Of course, I did my quick research [on Burros]. But it was a fun experience. Who has ever had that happen to them?” For her part, Burros was impressed to see that Littell had read up on her. “I knew that he was a smart cook,” she says. Littell prepared an impromptu lunch that further impressed Burros, as well as a number of other local luminaries on the guest list, including the owners of High Mowing Organic Seeds and Vermont Soy. Littell got the job. With that, the recent New England Culinary Institute grad began reviving the one-time destination restaurant. An early example of the communitysupported restaurant, Claire’s opened in 2008 thanks to donations from a community hungry for well-made food crafted from the wealth of ingredients grown nearby. Late last year, Ramsdell bought out original chef Steven Obranovich, citing differing financialmanagement styles. Michael Bosia, Obranovich’s husband and former Claire’s co-owner, admitted that while the restaurant consistently broke even, it had yet to make a profit. Ramsdell promoted sous-chef Tom Cote to chef,

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and it’s something different,” explains Freund. Sushi Yoshi already has locations in Killington and Lake George, N.Y., but Freund says that Zheng’s new menu will differ from the other two spots. The chef started his career in his native China before working under master sushi chefs in New York City; he joined Sushi Yoshi nearly two decades ago. Now, says Freund, he’s putting less emphasis on Chinese food in favor of healthier options such as bento boxes, lettuce wraps and sushi appetizers. Stowe’s aPPLE constructIon is currently remaking the dining room and kitchen, complete with a brand-new sushi bar. The walls will be covered in murals painted by Burlington artist maLgosIa urBanowIcz. The end result of the renovation, says Freund, will be “a rock-and-roll sushi bar with a comfortable design and feel.” — A. l.

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rotating daily cupcake. Another healthy option — from a different part of the world — will soon open in Stowe. Creative Japanese fusion is coming to 1128 Mountain Road in the form of susHI yosHI. natE FrEunD’s target opening date is August 26. In recent months, he and his co-owners, HowarD smItH and chef kEvIn zHEng, got locals talking by setting up a sign covered in question marks in front of the spacious restaurant. “I felt like this location had had some bad connotations from people who have tried to do restaurants here in the past. If I put up my Sushi Yoshi sign immediately, people would expect the same old mediocre food, and I wanted to make people realize something is happening here

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for your lunch break unless you wanted a reheated piece of pizza,” recalls Bender. “Otherwise, you’d go to Subway at the gas station.” Bender moved to Stowe in 2008 after being laid off from his job in Boston as a financial analyst. “I decided I didn’t want to stare at a computer screen for the rest of my life,” he says. Instead, he headed to the mountains, where he joined the local ski patrol for three years. He still volunteers his time, but we also wanted a full-time gig that would allow him to “pay the bills but also have fun.” Bender’s first foray into the realm of food and beverage seems to be hitting the spot. Each of his burritos is filled with rice, black beans, cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream and a choice of salsa. Diners can also add

It’s a tiny pest that swept into the country four years ago from its home in northern Japan. Not much larger than the tip of a pen, it uses its sharp, serrated ovipositor to slice a microscopic hole into a berry, where it lays eggs that grow into hungry larvae. Oh, and that hole is so microscopic, you wouldn’t really know it’s there until the ripe berry rots from the inside. Meet Drosophila suzukii, otherwise known as spottedwing drosophila, a tiny, invasive and cold-hardy fruit fly that has the potential to devastate late-season berry crops for both farmers and home gardeners if left unchecked. “Soft fall crops are at risk,” notes vErn gruBIngEr, a vegetable and berry specialist at unIvErsIty oF vErmont ExtEnsIon who has been tracking the fly’s spread across Vermont. Once the

female fly punctures the fruit, her eggs will hatch into larvae within 10 to 14 days and begin eating the fruit — what Grubinger drily calls “making jam.” Unlike the fruit fly most of us know and loathe from our kitchens (the vinegar fly, which prefers rotting fruit), the spotted-wing drosophila just needs a ripe berry to do its thing. The hole it makes is so tiny, says Grubinger, that an infestation won’t become apparent until late in the season, usually mid-August on. Yet rotting fruit is not the only tip-off. “When you’re really in the thick of it, you can go out at dusk and there are swarms of these things around,” he says. Spotted-wing drosophila swept into Vermont with Tropical Storm Irene, and southern Vermont berry growers first noticed it last year. Both farmers and researchers have been busy w w w . e s s e x o u t l e t s . c o m devising ways to fight the 21 ESSEX WAY, ESSEX JUNCTION, VT | 802.878.2851 pest, including with homemade traps and insecticides. 8/5/13 8:52 PM Grubinger has seen some 8v-essesshoppes080713.indd 1 success with netting trials, he says, but the nets that growers need to use must have holes smaller than 1 millimeter and be secured fully so that the fly can’t get in. In other words, it’s expensive. “For anyone with larger acreage, it will be challenging,” he says. An informal survey of a few northern Vermont berry growers indicated that the pest hasn’t showed its face much so far this year. But it’s late-season raspberries and blueberries — and Vermont’s limited crops of cherries, peaches and grapes — that will be most affected, warns Grubinger. aDam Hausmann of aDam’s BErry Farm in Burlington’s Intervale first saw signs of the pest last August, “at [and, yup, still free.] which point it was present for the rest of the season,” he reports in an email. Identifying the scourge wasn’t hard. “When you harvest, the inside of the berry is wet, somewhat liquified. The

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over a heaping bowl of cheddar grits and braised greens, visually suggests Chinese congee porridge dishes. But the flavors blend Littell’s native North Carolina and his adopted Vermont home. Citizen Cider is the basis of both braising liquid and reduction sauce, while a hint of good-ol’-boy heat keeps the dish from turning into a Vermont GET TERS stereotype. QUAR Littell’s Summer Poutine is a similarly unexpected take on a Vermontadopted Québécois staple. Chicken braised in herb oil tops a plate full of well-salted, crisp russet frites. The cheese curds aren’t weighed down with heavy brown gravy — instead, they’re buoyed by a light sauce of lemon and fines herbes. Usually the term “summer on a plate” describes a fresh salad. This poutine earns that description, combining the airy sauce with perhaps the most summery taste of all — that of snackbar fries. So Littell has a way with a braise, but what’s really attracting the culinary literati? Perhaps it’s that he’s a member of the new guard of Vermont chefs who believe that emphasizing their farm-totable approach is hackneyed. “I’m a big believer that we should be doing that whether it’s Claire’s or TGI Fridays,” Littell explains. “They should be doing everything they can to source locally for nutritional value.”

For his own part, Littell spreads the wealth among local farms, though he doesn’t list many specific partners on the menu. That’s because, to ensure he has enough to cover an entire menu cycle — a new one will start later this month — Littell might draw on different farms on different days for a single ingredient. Counting on his close relationships with farmers — many of whom have long sold to Claire’s — Littell wants to continue that mission. More importantly, he seeks to thrill both the agrarian, bluecollar Hardwick community and experts like Estabrook who see the restaurant as a destination. It’s a role for which Littell has been practicing his entire life. A “career kitchen rat,” he grew up doing odd jobs for his mother’s company, Five Loaves Catering. After college, he realized that he was more passionate about cooking than about his major, international politics, he recalls. Littell moved through the ranks of kitchen jobs under “a European, classically trained hard-ass,” starting out by washing dishes and potatoes. Looking to learn more about cooking and sustainable agriculture, Littell chose to begin his studies at NECI at age 29. Since he was already an experienced chef, he tested out of much of the program, studying in Montpelier

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good thing is that it makes it easy to detect, the bad is the fruit is unmarketable. For blueberries, they shrivel and drop to the ground, usually. When you pick them up and look inside, they have the same liquid appearance.” Hausmann, who’s moving his farm to Charlotte because of Intervale flooding, thinks organic berry growers face a trickier fight. Unable to use most sprays, the other preventative measures — netting, picking ripe fruit daily, and chilling the fruit before sale —are all cumbersome, pricey or not ideal. “It’s a real challenge for organic growers,” Hausmann says. “Without proper control, it will be devastating.” Still, Grubinger is confident that with proper vigilance and controls, those

who raise berries in Vermont can beat this pest, or at least reduce its numbers. “Home growers will be taken by surprise if they haven’t been paying attention,” he says. “The key thing is picking [fruit] promptly, and putting it in the fridge right away seems to work.” As for the possibility that we’re all chowing down on drosophila eggs when we have berries for breakfast? Don’t worry about it, says Grubinger. “We eat insect eggs all of the time without knowing it.” — C. H.

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is a sweet and savory café opening in fall 2013,” reads the ad on goodfoodjobs.com. “We are looking for passionate chocolate lovers and food enthusiasts to join the SEK team.” LCC is seeking someone with three to five years of experience who can turn out baked goods, pastries, desserts and ice cream. If we weren’t tied up as food writers, we might just apply. — A. L. & C .H .

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vodka, lavender syrup, lemon and soda water. Littell says one of the advantages of working in a small town is that not only does everyone know your name, they’re 112 Lake Street • Burlington willing to tell it like it is about your food. www.sansaivt.com Though Burros has no financial stake in Claire’s, she says she considers it in her personal interest to encourage Littell 12v-SanSai010913.indd 1 1/7/13 2:08 PM to make the best food he can. In return, the young chef says, “I absolutely love Marian. She tells you straight up. There’s no BS; it is what it is.” But Littell isn’t just beholden to an expert’s opinion. He wants to know what everyone in the community thinks, he says: “The more people let you know their opinions, the better it makes you in the end.” Hall’s Tasting Hall Littell has already brought buzz back will be open on 8/17 & 8/18 to the tiny “town that food saved” — as from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with special tastings/pairings journalist Ben Hewitt dubbed Hardwick for the VT Winery in his 2011 book of that name. If the Open House Weekend! chef keeps his ears open, Claire’s is sure to bring in more foodies, famous and regular folks alike. Come to the café 08.07.13-08.14.13

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and bean salad in pesto vinaigrette. The barbecue nights have drawn in crowds of music lovers already in town to see the Hardwick Chamber Ensemble, says Littell. Now they have another reason to make the trip. Littell doesn’t just serve Vermont ingredients with a southern accent. The smoker is also where he cooks his own long-cured house guanciale, house bacon and smoked Mountain Foot Farm trout. There’s a touch of elegance to many of Littell’s dishes. A recent special of cold curried-zucchini soup, dotted with redpepper coulis, was subtle and downright ladylike. Another special, which Littell expects will appear in some form on his new menu, was a sophisticated take on a Caprese salad. Over balsamic-dressed greens, cherry tomatoes and tiny grilled apricots, a blob of Maplebrook Fine Cheese burrata offered a sensuous burst of cream. Cocktails draw in a bustling bar crowd with local spirits and other Vermont ingredients, such as flavorings from Hardwick neighbor Sumptuous Syrups of Vermont. Current refreshing tipples include the lavender lemonade, with Green Mountain Distillers 0rganic

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for only six months before moving on to an internship at the then-newly-opened Crop Bistro & Brewery in Stowe. Littell describes Crop chef and former NECI executive chef Tom Bivins as a culinary equivalent of A Beautiful Mind’s John Nash, with an unparalleled knowledge of food. Littell left Bivins’ tutelage to return to Five Loaves as executive chef. But after a year, he was ready for the next challenge. A recommendation from mutual friends Annie Bakst and Robert Hunt of East Calais bakery Bohemian Bread spurred Ramsdell to call on Littell during her search for a permanent chef to replace Obranovich. Now he’s literally sending out smoke signals to tell the community there’s a new regime in place. Littell got approval from the town of Hardwick and the state health department to park his smoker across the street from Claire’s for Thursday night barbecue. Specials on those Thursdays have included classic pulled pork and barbecue chicken, but some dishes lean more toward the upscale. Last Thursday, for instance, the special was smoked brisket with balsamic-cherry barbecue sauce, horseradish whipped potatoes

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VILLAGE PIZZA will open where Vermont Pizza Company closed in February. While New York-style pies were the attraction at the last two restaurants, new co-owner KOSTA MAKRIS says his Greek heritage will define the style of pizza at his establishment. Makris, who previously owned Northfield Village Pizza and Rutland House of Pizza, says that his crust is thicker than most and prepared deep-dish style. Conventional toppings are joined by a few Hellenic options, including feta cheese. Makris and co-owner TIMOTHY LAPLANTE, who was wounded in military action before returning to Vermont, are currently assembling a menu that also includes pasta, subs and salads in anticipation of their September opening. And just like their predecessors, they’ll serve

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his is it, I thought. I am going to be blind for the rest of my life. And when people ask me how it happened, I’m going to have to tell them the sad, embarrassing truth: I was just trying to smell the hot sauces. It was the end of a day that had felt interminable. Early that morning I’d rolled out of my bed in Winooski and into my car, driven to Middlebury for an appointment, and then spent hours fielding calls and emails about the Daysies results. Late in the afternoon, I could feel a sore throat coming on, so I took a 20minute power nap in the backseat of my car before driving over the mountains to Plainfield. I reviewed Lark Upson’s portrait exhibit at Blinking Light Gallery, then dashed to Montpelier to catch Lost Nation Theater’s production of My Buddy Bill. My heart sank when my husband, who had joined me for the play, informed me that there was no time for dinner. The show, which I had thought started at 8, actually began at 7. I inhaled a cider doughnut in the City Hall Auditorium lobby and giggled woozily through the one-man show starring

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was smoky, another smelled oddly of bananas. Then I picked up a bottle labeled 778. I was attracted to its mustardyellow hue. It was called “char-benero” and rated 9 on the heat scale. I gave it a squeeze. And then I squeezed again, harder this time. The sauce shot out like a volcano. It must have hit my nose and upper-lip region first, but all I could feel were my burning eyes. I am not exaggerating when I say it felt like my eyeballs were roiling in molten lava. I couldn’t see, so I started to scream. This might be a good time to mention that there were more than a dozen other customers enjoying tacos and Heady Toppers that night — and Daniel was still in the bathroom. I didn’t want to cause a scene, but I was pretty sure that I was dying. Torn between my will to live and my sense of dignity, I forced myself to stop screaming and began a wounded warbling of the word “water,” while stumbling around blindly, my hands outstretched. An eternity of hellfire later, Daniel grabbed onto me, and the angel behind the counter (actually a Mad Taco employee) handed me a soaked kitchen towel and a tall plastic cup filled with milk. “Milk works better than water,” he told me. In the bathroom, Daniel held back my hair while I furiously rubbed milk into my eyes. “Am I going to go blind?” I asked him, snot and tears and milk

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running down my face. Each time I pressed the soaked towel into my eyes, the pain subsided ever so slightly. But as soon as I took it away, the burning returned. After about 10 minutes, the burning faded enough that I could open my eyes for longer than a few seconds. I could see! But what I saw in the mirror was not pretty. I looked like a “Got Milk?” ad gone terribly wrong — my eyes swollen and red, my face assaulted with a milk explosion. Now I was laugh-crying. “What is wrong with me?” I asked my patient (and by now totally laughing at me) husband. “What kind of weirdo has to smell the hot sauces?” When I finally emerged from the bathroom, the guy behind the counter smiled at me as if I’d just joined the club. It’s happened to him, too, he told me. Well, different circumstances, but he’s had habenero in his eyes. Said it felt just like getting maced in the face during training for the Marines. “At least you didn’t get the one with ghost chilis,” he told me. Yeah, thank goodness for that. Finally, I could sit down to eat my tacos — but something was missing. Even though I was embarrassed to be seen cruising the hot-sauce table again, I couldn’t help myself. This time I squirted the char-benero directly into a plastic cup, and poured it liberally over my colorado. And it was delicious.

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Open ROTA Meeting: Neighbors keep tabs on the gallery’s latest happenings. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-0494.

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Central Vermont High School Initiative Open House: Potential students and their parents learn about academic, artistic and outdoor programs, as well as service-learning opportunities. Stokes Building, Goddard College, Plainfield, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 322-4408, info.cvhsi@gmail.com.

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Justin Morrill Homestead Tour: Folks explore grounds featuring a Gothic Revival historic house, formal gardens, interpretive exhibits and walking trails. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Info, 765-4484.

Wagon Ride Wednesdays: Giddy up! Visitors tour the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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Vermont Festival of the Arts: Art lovers take advantage of this 120-event celebration featuring exhibits, performances and workshops ranging from pottery demos to world-class music — and everything in between. Various locations, Mad River Valley, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, 496-6682, vermontartfest.com. Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: Top New England equestrians compete in various categories. Harold Beebe Farm, East Dorset, 8 a.m.4 p.m. $3-7. Info, info@vt-summerfestival.com.

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‘Between Us’: Over the course of a few years, two meetings between a pair of married couples prove to be their potential undoing in Dan Mirvish’s acclaimed drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. ‘The Invisible War’: Kirby Dick’s documentary exposes the underreported epidemic of rape

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within the U.S. military. A panel discussion follows. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7222.

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

Sayon Camara & Landaya Ensemble Thursday, August 8, noon, at Woodstock Village Green. Free. Info, 457-3981. pentanglearts.org

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Burlington Go Club: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 8609587, dfelcan@yahoo.com.

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Crystal Meditation: Marna Ehrech leads a weekly experiential session. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11 suggested donation. Info, 238-7908. R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Understanding Cancer: Chinese Medicine & Western Herbs Workshop: Referencing his clinical case studies, Brendan Kelly of Jade Mountain Wellness discusses ways to understand, diagnose and treat disease. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. $15-17; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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In the West African nation of Mali, the word djembe means “everyone gather together in peace.” The djembe drum reflects this social sentiment. Commonly covered in goatskin and tuned with ropes, this versatile hand drum is an integral part of native percussion ensembles. Having picked up the instrument as a child, master player Sayon Camara performed for decades in his local village before leaving to study under the world’s foremost djembefola, Famoudou Konate. Eventually the student became a teacher and a soughtafter international performer — who now calls Woodstock home. Backed by the Landaya Ensemble, the charismatic talent hits the stage at the 2013 Pentangle Brown Bag Concert Series.

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Valley Night Featuring the Midnight Riders: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info.

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AUG.13 | MUSIC All the Right Notes The Washington Post describes a performance by the Borromeo String Quartet as “so rich in detail and variety one might have thought an entire orchestra was playing.” Using computers and onstage projections of famed composers’ handwritten manuscripts, the award-winning Boston-based foursome redefines how classical music reaches an audience. The group brings its multimedia repertoire to Vermont to close out the Summer Music from Greensboro concert series. A high-tech show includes selections from Beethoven and a quintet for flute and strings by Arab American composer Mohammed Fairouz, featuring acclaimed flutist Karen Kevra of Montpelier.

Borromeo String Quartet Tuesday, August 13, 8 p.m., at United Church of Christ in Greensboro. $20. Info, 533-2301. summermusicfromgreensboro.net

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ianist Vladimir Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra when he was just 11 years old. In the following years, his intensive studies with top teachers gave way to international touring and a promising career. Everything changed in 1979, however, when the musician was banned from public performing after applying for an exit visa out of the former Soviet Union. Upon arriving in the United States in 1987, the artist immediately made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and interesting performers of his time. His virtuosic abilities inform a recital of works by Haydn, Schubert, Franz Liszt and Alexander Scriabin.

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Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 865-7216. ChampFest: Families celebrate Lake Champlain’s beloved monster at this weeklong event featuring a “Believer or Skeptic” program, themed stories and more. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. Champlain islands Farmers market story Walk: Little ones take a literary stroll through the market amid an array of local foods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Chess? yes!: Quick thinkers ages 8 and up vie for their opponents’ king during this meeting of the minds. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295. CraFtsbury Chamber players miniConCerts: Accompanied by their adult caregivers, little listeners gain exposure to classical compositions. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

GeorGia summer playGroup: Youngsters burn off energy on the playground with creative play 6/21/13 10:44 AMand crafts. Georgia Beach, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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harry potter Club: Fans of the bespectacled wizard sew their own scarves and listen to a reading of The Tales of Beadle the Bard. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘JaCk and the beanstalk’: Folk and Fairytale Project: The Next Generation presents a comedic stage adaptation of the popular fairy tale. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. lake plaCid Center For the arts younG & Fun series: Physical comedian Stephen Gratto and his family delight little ones ages 5 and up with a variety show of classic vaudeville and circus skills. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 518-523-2512.

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mud spa For teens: Middle and high school students relax with all-natural face, hand and feet treatments. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. riChFord paJama story time: Little ones up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. tina loGan art For teens: layers oF truth, What lies beneath: Budding artists use various mediums to create self portraits reflective of the relationship between their inner and outer selves. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. WaCky Wednesday: hop into habitats: Youngsters ages 8 and up construct fun, functional homes for frogs. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30-1 p.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

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maker day: sCienCe With a tWist: Science stations facilitate an exploration of nature, after which kiddos craft their own inventions from provided raw materials. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 388-4097.

aFinque: Led by vocalist Miriam Bernardo, the 10-piece ensemble brings spirited Afro-Latin tunes to the Middlesex Bandstand Summer Concert Series. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic fare. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2237525 or 229-0881.

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ameriCan Flatbread summer sessions: An alleyway concert by Brian Chartrand gets folks over the midweek hump. American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth, 6-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-2999, emily@flatbreadhearth.com. bristol toWn band: Neighbors convene for this weekly concert series that celebrates a

community-band tradition of nearly 145 years. Bristol Green, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, mamvermont@ gmail.com. burlinGton ensemble summer serenades: ‘starry niGht’: Double bassist Rachel Calin performs works by Mendelssohn, Bernard Hermann and Giovanni Bottesini. A percentage of proceeds benefits Vermont FEED. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520. City hall park lunChtime perFormanCes: Local musicians enliven the lunch hour. Burlington City Hall Park, noon. Free. Info, 865-7166. CraFtsbury Chamber players: ConCert iV: World-renowned musicians interpret works by Debussy, Beethoven and Paul Hindemith. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. douG perkins: The Woodstock-based performer shares a mix of bluegrass, jazz and originals on the flat-top guitar. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. hinesburG ConCerts in the park: Locals move and groove to the Hinesburg Community Band at an outdoor show. Hinesburg Community School, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2281. JenniFer hoult & bill randolph: The critically acclaimed harp-organ duo gives a recital of virtuosic works including Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-4301. toWn oF shelburne summer ConCert series: The Caleb Elder Trio bring bluegrass and old-time tunes to an evening of pastoral picking and strumming. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-9551.

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Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031. iVy sChWeitzer & pamela a. pantos: The Dartmouth College professor of English joins Opera North’s executive director in “Little Women: From Page to Stage.” AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., noon. Free. Info, 603-448-4141. yestermorroW desiGn/build sChool summer leCture series: John Quale of the University of Virginia school of architecture discusses the school’s ecoMOD and ecoREMOD projects for sustainable affordable housing. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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‘abduCtion From the seralGio’: The Unadilla Theatre stages Mozart’s acclaimed opera about a Spanish nobleman’s quest to rescue his lost love amid the Ottoman Empire. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. ‘shout! the mod musiCal’: Keith Andrews directs this St. Michael’s Playhouse production of Phillip George and David Lowenstein’s musical about British revolutions in fashion, hair, music and dance during the iconic “swinging sixties.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $3645. Info, 654-2281. ‘the FantastiCks’: As part of the MiddSummer Nights Theater Festival, Peter Boynton directs and stars in this Skinner Barn production of Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones’ musical about two fathers’ efforts to spark a romance between their children. The Skinner Barn, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 496-4422. ‘the sChool For lies’: A cast of newcomers and Waterbury Festival Playhouse veterans brings David Ives’ modern spin on Moliere’s The Misanthrope to the stage under the direction of Ethan T. Bowen. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $25-27. Info, 498-3755.

makinG traCks, seeinG skins & skulls: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing animals and make plaster-of-Paris track casts to take home. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

younG artist matinee: ‘little Women’: A full community orchestra informs Opera North’s operatic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War-era literary classic about the adventures of the March sisters. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-25. Info, 603-448-0400.

the Good, the bad and the really, really itChy: Hikers learn how to identify poison ivy, medicinal jewelweed and other local plants. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

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intro to buddhism: Folks learn about different aspects of the Eastern religion, including the practice of chanting nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, info@lakechamplainbuddhism.com.

sport

Catamount mountain bike series: Riders of all ages and abilities spin their wheels on 2.5K to 20K races in the country’s oldest, largest and longestrunning training series. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $4-10; free for children under 6 in unscored races. Info, 879-6001. Green mountain table tennis Club: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

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dan Cole: In “Pills and Potions, Liquors and Laudanum: Medicine in the Civil War Era,” the local historian references letters from Vermont soldiers. Milton Historical Museum, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598. elliot Coleman & GreG Joly: The farmer and independent scholar, respectively, present “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Scott Nearing the Subsistence Organic Horticulturalist and the Cosmological Travelling Sociologist-Socialist.” Paper Mache

authors at the aldriCh: Editor of Northern Woodlands magazine Stephen Long blends art and science in More Than a Woodlot: Getting the Most From Your Family Forest. A concert in Currier Park follows. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. burlinGton Writers Workshop meetinG: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed. Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. douGlas skopp: The author of Shadows Walking reads and discusses the story of a doctor faced with unfathomable circumstances in Nazi Germany. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. stephen kiernan: The award-winning journalist discusses the science, ethics and ego as seen in his recently released thriller The Curiosity. Shelburne Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999, flyingpigbooks@gmail.com.

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art teChniques Group: Creative minds gather to share ideas and work on current projects in a supportive environment. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-324-6250.

bazaars

‘art on park’: Live music entertains attendees and more than 30 local artisans, who sell handcrafted wares, artwork, specialty foods and

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NoNprofit Digital Skill Share: Rob Fish facilitates an open discussion about utilizing technology’s full potential to publicize and fundraise. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091, rob@vtrural.org.

dance

eNgliSh CouNtry DaNCe ClaSS: Val Medve teaches teens and adults historic social dances. No partner necessary, but clean, flat-heeled shoes are required. Richmond Free Library, 7-9:30 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, 881-9732. polly Motley perforMaNCe: As part of the site-specific exhibit “Exposed,” the dancer performs in and directs “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain,” which explores repetition, music, restraint and relationships. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 253-8358.

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aeroSpaCe & aviatioN traDe Show: Dozens of exhibitors display emerging trends and technologies aimed at propelling Vermont’s economy forward. Burlington International Airport, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-0904. BaCoN thurSDay: Pianist Andric Severence brings a mix of ragtime, blues and jazz to this sweet-and-salty weekly gathering featuring bacon, creative dipping sauces and camaraderie. Nutty Steph’s, Middlesex, 6-midnight. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090. JuStiN Morrill hoMeSteaD tour: See WED.07, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. SuMMervale: Locavores celebrate farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free to attend; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. the BarNStaND ColleCtive: This creative twist on traditional farm stands showcases local produce and food products alongside upcycled, vintage furniture, handmade clothing and more from participating small businesses. The Barnstand Collective, Marshfield, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

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lake plaCiD CeNter for the artS filM SerieS: A prolific sperm donor’s past catches up with him when more than 100 of his children seek him out in Ken Scott’s award-winning comedy, Starbuck. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 518-523-2512.

waterBury farMerS Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com. willoughBy lake farMerS & artiSaN Market: Performances by local musicians join produce, eggs, gemstone jewelry, wind chimes and more to lure buyers throughout the warm months. 1975 Route 5A, Westmore, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 525-8842.

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opeN BriDge gaMe: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use in this popular card game. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373. wiCket aweSoMe Croquet Ball: Costumed players hit brightly colored balls with mallets to compete for various prizes and raise funds for the Chill Foundation. Burton Snowboards, 152 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. $20 per person; $60 per team of three; preregister. Info, 652-3577.

health & fitness

DigeStive SySteM & your overall health: Bloated and uncomfortable after meals? Nutritionist Akshata Nayak discusses diet plans that help eliminate these symptoms and restore well-being. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. forza: the SaMurai SworD workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. yoga with leo leaCh: Yogis ages 14 and up learn the fundamentals of movement and breath with a sequence of postures. Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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ChaMpfeSt: See WED.07, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. CraftSBury ChaMBer playerS MiNiCoNCertS: See WED.07. East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443. Dig iNto a Movie & iCe CreaM SuNDaeS: Sweet treats make for the ideal snack when viewing James and the Giant Peach outdoors. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. got BatS? verMoNt’S threateNeD & eNDaNgereD Cave BatS: Families with kids in grades 4 and up join wildlife technician Alyssa Bennett, who presents state wildlife technician Alyssa Bennett presents the natural history and current threats related to local species of the nocturnal flying mammals. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. itSy BitSy yoga: Toddler-friendly poses with Mikki Raveh meet stories, songs and games in this program for little ones 5 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. THU.08

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‘the worlD withiN wiNooSki’ preview & fuNDraiSer: A 15-minute screening of Philip Fass’ documentary details the Onion City’s history of immigration and refugee integration. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program project. Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 425-4000.

SuMMervale: DrieD apple riNgS oN a StriNg: City Market representatives at this weekly agricultural gathering put a fun, creative twist on healthy snacks. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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‘JuMaNJi’: Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst star in this family-friendly flick about the adventures of two children who stumble upon a magical board game. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Rain location: Holley Hall. Town Green, Bristol, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885.

New North eND farMerS Market: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@ hotmail.com.

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‘BreaStMilk’: Dana Ben-Ari’s documentary explores the intimate and sometimes challenging relationship between motherhood and breastfeeding. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10; $8 with Business of Being Born ticket stub. Info, 363-3297.

MiltoN farMerS Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton High School, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

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MontgoMery Infant/toddler PlaygrouP: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. MusIc WIth Mr. chrIs: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. tIna logan art for teens: layers of truth, What lIes Beneath: See WED.07, 9 a.m. noon. X-theater Presents: Participants from the Burlington Parks & Recreation Open Stage performance camp showcase original dramatic works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Wtf!: WoMen/trans/feMMe BIke rePaIr nIght: Non-male-identified folks convene to learn about bicycle mechanics in a supportive environment. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 264-9687, hannah@bikerecycle.localmotion.org.

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‘starry nIght’: See WED.07. A percentage of proceeds benefits Vermont Youth Conservation Corps. West Monitor Barn, Richmond, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520. chad hollIster & Jeff PoreMskI: The rock duo gets audience members to their feet at the West Rutland Summer Concert Series. Town Hall Green, West Rutland, 7 p.m. Free to attend; nonperishable donations accepted. Info, 438-2263. craftsBury chaMBer Players: concert IV: See WED.07. Hardwick Town House, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. edel foX & neIll Byrne WIth dylan foley: The New York-based Irish fiddler joins the duo from the Emerald Isle for traditional melodies and original compositions. Four Corners Schoolhouse, East Montpelier, 7 p.m. $15-18. Info, 603-294-6548.

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Manchester MusIc festIVal: In “English Landscape,” soprano Jennifer Bates animates vocal and chamber music selections by Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and others. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, 7:30 p.m. $35. Info, 362-1956.

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PatrIck fItzsIMMons: The local singer-songwriter performs folkrock anthems at the Montpelier Alive Brown Bag Concert Series. Christ Church, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 595-0441. sayon caMara & landaya enseMBle: The master djembe drummer brings traditional African rhythms to the 2013 Pentangle Brown Bag Concert Series. See calendar spotlight. Woodstock Village Green, noon-1 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 457-3981. snoW farM VIneyard concert serIes: Picnickers enjoy local libations, good eats and live music in a pastoral setting at this weekly gathering. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, grounds open, 5 p.m.; concert, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

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the MIchele fay Band: The foursome weaves folk, swing and bluegrass into originals and roots music. Gazebo, Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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beavers. Meet at the Contact Station at 6:30 p.m.; program begins at 7 p.m. at A-Side Swim Beach. Little River State Park, Waterbury, $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. VerMont arts festIVal: art In the garden tour: Kirsten Seibert and Megan Moffroid of Broadleaf Landscape Architecture host a tour of three private plots, at which plein-air painters capture the scenery. Meet at Bridge Street parking lot. Various locations, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-noon. $25 includes bus transportation; preregister; limited space. Info, 496-6682, karen@vermontartfest.com. We Walk the Woods: secrets of the stone Walls: A weekly excursion through areas of the lost Little River settlement reveals hidden relics and natural wonders. Appropriate footwear required. Meet at Dalley Loop Trail. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

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BIc suP one desIgn challenge: Stand-up paddleboarders hit the water in a bout of friendly competition as part of an international racing series. Equipment is provided. North Beach, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5 plus parking fee. Info, 651-8760. MIllstone MountaIn BIke race serIes: Riders spin their wheels on one- to four-lap courses, then swap stories and bragging rights over barbecued eats. Millstone Trails, Barre, registration, 5 p.m.; race, 6 p.m. $10; bring food to grill. Info, 229-9409, events@onionriver.com.

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Joshua landIs: The internationally recognized sociopolitical analyst considers Syria’s current situation and how the U.S. should respond. Maha Kachour of the United Nations follows with a discussion of her work with Syrian refugees. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 767-3927. VerMont farMers Panel dIscussIon: UVM’s Susie Walsh Daloz moderates a conversation in which Butterworks Farm’s Jack Lazor, Tamarack Hollow Farm’s Amanda Andrews and the Farm Between’s Nancy Hayden recount their career paths. Bailey/Howe Library, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 656-3294.

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‘dIe flederMaus’: Bettina Matthias and Stephan Boving direct students in Middlebury College’s German for Singers program in an all-German performance of Johann Strauss’ most famous operetta. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, preperformance talk in English, 7:30 p.m.; show, 8 p.m. $15; limited space. Info, 382-9222.

‘My Buddy BIll’: Standup comedy meets storytelling in this shaggy-dog tale inspired by a real-life friendship between a writer, B the leader of the free world ER L and their canine companions. MA RE ND Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 OF A Y S E T COUR p.m. $15-30. Info, 229-0492. A

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‘Present laughter’: Noël Coward’s comedy about a haphazard series of events faced by an actor as he prepares to tour Africa comes to the Unadilla Theatre. Festival Stage, Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. ‘shout! the Mod MusIcal’: See WED.07, 8 p.m. shakesPeare In the Park: ‘the WInter’s tale’: Vermont Shakespeare Company stages an open-air production of the Bard’s tale of tragedy, love, comedy and miracles birthed by a decision made in a fit of jealousy. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 6 p.m. $22-25; free for children under 12 with ticketed adult; parking fees. Info, 877-874-1911 or 863-5966.

‘south PacIfIc’: With full orchestral accompaniment, Opera North stages Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical about a pair of ill-fated love affairs amid the turmoil of World War II. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 2 p.m. $32-95. Info, 603-448-0400. ‘the BIrthday Party’: The Unadilla Theatre stages Harold Pinter’s acclaimed play about a pianist’s birthday celebration gone horribly wrong upon the arrival of two strangers. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. ‘the fantastIcks’: See WED.07, 8 p.m. ‘the school for lIes’: See WED.07, 7:30 p.m.

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JennIfer MIlItello & cynthIa huntIngton: The award-winning poets read selected works. A discussion moderated by writer and editor Jim Schley follows. Strafford Town House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 765-4037. ‘neW england reVIeW’ VerMont readIng serIes: Patridge Boswell, Michael Collier, Cleopatra Mathis and Angela Palm present works of poetry and fiction. Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, Middlebury, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5075.

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‘songs for hoPe’: Musician Eric George leads an evening of remembrance for victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. A traditional candle boat ceremony closes out the evening. Burlington waterfront, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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old round church BIcentennIal celeBratIon: Locals celebrate the iconic church’s 200th birthday with live music, tasty fare, craft vendors, children’s activities, guided tours and a keynote address by Middlebury College professor Glenn Andes. Various locations, Richmond, 3-9 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3654, oldroundchurch.com.

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‘anna lIceIca and classIcal MoVes: an eVenIng of dance WIth MeMBers of aMerIcan Ballet theatre & frIends’: The renowned company performs favorite pieces from Sleeping Beauty, Carmen, Into the Light and others. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $22-25. Info, 518-523-2512. BallrooM & latIn dancIng: Samir Elabd leads an evening of choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. dsantosVt salsa socIal: Cross-cultural rhythms — including salsa, reggaeton, kizomba and bachata — get feet moving and hips shaking. North End Studios, Burlington, free lessons, 8-9 p.m.; music, 9 p.m.-midnight. $5. Info, 227-2572. queen cIty contra dance: Cedar Stanistreet, Rebecca Bosworth-Clemens and Aaron Marcus dole out live tunes while Mary Wesley calls the steps. Shelburne Town Hall, beginners session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12. Info, 3719492 or 343-7165. queen cIty tango MIlonga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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process. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001, crm2776@bn.com. Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls tour: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Meet at the steps. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $14-18; meet 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966. stowe antiQue & ClassiC Car Meet: Sweet ride! Auto collectors and enthusiasts convene for a display of more than 700 vintage vehicles, a giant flea market and Saturday’s parade and evening street dance. Nichols Field, Stowe, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $8-10; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 223-3104. the BarnstanD ColleCtive: See THU.08, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Fair haven FarMers Market: Grass-fed meats, homemade canned goods, breads, eggs and cheese delight culinary connoisseurs. Town Green, Fair Haven, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 747-4442. Five Corners FarMers Market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com. FooDways FriDays: Heirloom herbs and vegetables transform into seasonal dishes via historic recipes prepared by visitors in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. FriDay niGht Cookout: Folks convene for grilled meats, seasonal salads, decadent desserts and lively conversation. Adamant Co-op, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 223-5760.

verMont suMMer Festival horse shows: See WED.07, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

westForD FarMers Market: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-7317, info@westfordfarmersmarketvt.org.

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‘MuseuM hours’: Acclaimed filmmaker Jem Cohen’s drama explores the relationship between two strangers who meet at Vienna’s grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘northern BorDers’: Based on Howard Frank Mosher’s eponymous novel, Jay Craven’s latest film tells the story of a young boy sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm during the mid-1950s. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 748-2600. outDoor Movie: ‘oz the Great anD PowerFul’: Sam Raimi’s 2013 version of the classic film replaces Dorothy with a small-time magician who finds himself caught between three feuding witches in a strange land. North Lawn, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

food & drink

Blue star Mothers naCho niGht: Diners fill up on plates of tortilla chips loaded with melted cheese and all the fixings. Live music by In Cahootz follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 878-0700.

‘a Course in MiraCles’ Meet-uP: Attendees learn principles that help foster an intuitive, holistic lifestyle. Bring a journal. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569. avoiD Falls with iMProveD staBility: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477. Forza: the saMurai sworD workout: See THU.08, 9-10 a.m.

kids

aCorn CluB story tiMe: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. ChaMPFest: See WED.07, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. enosBurG Falls story hour: Young ones show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘haMlet’: Part 2: Tom Blachly and Naomi Flanders direct this Shakespeare in the Hills teen camp production of the Bard’s famous tragedy about a vengeful prince’s plot against his uncle. Taplin Auditorium, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 454-7770. iMProv: Quick thinkers entering grades 4 through 6 get silly in spur-of-the-moment games. A session

MontGoMery tuMBle tiMe: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Recreation Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. MusiC with Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toetapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

vlaDiMir FeltsMan: Known for his versatility and flawless technique, the acclaimed pianist performs works by Haydn, Schubert, Franz Liszt and Alexander Scriabin. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-30. Info, 603646-2422 .

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arChaeoloGiCal DiG tour: The Northeast sonGs & stories with Archaeology Research Center Matthew: Musician Matthew OU presents two sites reflective of RT Witten helps children start the ES the Missisquoi Delta Region’s rich YO day with tunes and tales of advenFV L AD cultural and natural heritage. Contact I MIR ture. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, FELTSMAN trip leader for meeting location. Missisquoi 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. River, Swanton, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 207-860toM staMP: The storyteller entertains little ones 4032, nearc@nearchaeology.com. in grades K and up with a treasure trove of tales and MushrooMs DeMystiFieD: Fungi lovers learn tunes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. alike — found throughout the park. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-3; free lgbtq for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, ‘Deviant!’: Peep Show celebrates the ghoulish and 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. abnormal with a John Waters-style queer burlesque Plant walk: Clinical herbalist Iris Gage leads an and drag performance. Proceeds benefit the RU12? educational excursion focused on opening hearts Community Center. Monkey House, Winooski, and minds to the wonders of area vegetation. If 10-midnight. $10; for ages 18 and up. Info, 860-7812. carpooling, meet outside Hunger Mountain Co-op at 5:15 p.m. Two Rivers Center, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 music p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. BurlinGton enseMBle suMMer serenaDes: the GooD, the BaD anD the really, really ‘starry niGht’: See WED.07. Castleton State itChy: See WED.07, 4 p.m. College, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; indoor we walk the wooDs: seCrets oF the stone concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520. walls: See THU.08, 1:30 p.m. MarianFest: Blending New Orleans funk and soul with old-time jazz, the Mumbles warm up the sport stage for local blues band the Nobby Reed Project. viCtoria reeD’s CeleBration GolF Donations benefit the Westford Food Shelf. Town tournaMent: Players take a swing to benefit Common, Westford, 4-9 p.m. Free to attend; nonperVermont Children’s Hospital and honor youngsters ishable donations accepted. Info, 662-8039. treated at the facility. Alburg Golf Links, registration, Point CounterPoint: Randy Hiller leads instruc8 a.m.; tee time, 10 a.m. $300 per team of four. Info, tors of the music camp in Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge 796-4230 or 527-4336. and select Turkish music. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671. FRI.09

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Chelsea FarMers Market: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com.

health & fitness

MaGiC: the GatherinG: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or “planeswalkers,” fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up. Info, 878-6956.

suMMer Carillon series: The melodic sounds of giant bronze bells resonate through the air as Gordon Slater performs at this campus concert. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 433-3168.

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‘A Thing Done in A Seeing PlAce’: Bread and Puppet Theater presents an evening of sociopolitical theatrics. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 525-3031. ‘AbDucTion From The SerAlgio’: See WED.07, 7:30 p.m.

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Kelli o’hArA: Broadway’s rising star hits the stage with show-stopping tunes from Kiss Me Kate, West 6/3/13 1:06 PMSide Story and more at this gala benefit for the Flynn Center and Lyric Theatre. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-60; $100 VIP ticket includes post-performance reception. Info, 863-5966.

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‘my buDDy bill’: See THU.08, 8 p.m. ‘ShouT! The moD muSicAl’: See WED.07, 8 p.m. ShAKeSPeAre in The PArK: ‘The WinTer’S TAle’: See THU.08, 6 p.m.

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‘SouTh PAciFic’: See THU.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘The FAnTASTicKS’: See WED.07, 8 p.m.

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‘A moTh in The bArn’: “Stories of the Night” inspire an evening of themed tales hosted by Bobby Stoddard, at which 10 storytellers are chosen to share their work. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

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JAne AuSTen ‘in chArAcTer’ WeeKenD: Fans of the iconic English novelist embody their favorite characters for Regency-era activities, including carriage driving, lawn games, afternoon tea and more. Period dress optional. Governor’s House, Hyde Park, 8 p.m. $260-295 includes lodging, meals and most activities; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

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olD rounD church bicenTenniAl celebrATion: See FRI.09, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Peru memoriAl VFW FielD DAy: Live music and lawn games entertain folks, who feast on barbecue fare and test their luck with 50/50 drawings. Proceeds to benefit area veterans. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 1 p.m. Cost of food and games. Info, 518-643-2309.

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Welcome AbenAKi DAy: A celebration of native culture and traditions features a wild-meat barbecue, basket making, guest speakers and a circle of elders discussion. Lyman Point Park, White River Junction, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 295-2713.

dance

‘Poor SiSTer clAre’S TrAVeling DAncing monK ShoW’: Choreographer Clare Byrne and Burlington’s Dance Tramp explore the bodymind-spirit connection with ritualistic dance. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. SWing DAnce: Quick-footed participants get moving in different styles, including the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8:30-11 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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burlingTon WATerFronT WAlKing Tour: A stroll along Lake Champlain’s shoreline highlights the city’s industrial and maritime past. Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Meet at the visitor’s center on the bottom of College Street. Burlington waterfront, 1 p.m. $10; $5 for Preservation Burlington members and students. Info, 522-8259. chocolATe nighT: Folks gear up for a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with a trip to a chocolate fountain. Old Town Hall, Brookfield, 6:30 p.m. Free to attend; donations benefit Old Town Hall restoration. Info, 276-3535. DoWnToWn burlingTon WAlKing Tour: Participants step back in time amid the Queen City’s intriguing history and architecture. Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Meet on Church Street. Burlington City Hall, 11 a.m. $10; $5 for Preservation Burlington members and students. Info, 522-8259. FleA mArKeT: Deal seekers peruse an array of affordably priced crafts and garage sale items. Proceeds benefit area veterans and their families. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 518-605-3023. FrAnKlin-grAnD iSle co-hiSTory exPo: The past becomes the present with multiple exhibits and antiques appraisals. Enosburg Opera House, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to attend; cost of antique appraisal. Info, 933-6171. hiSToric Tour oF uVm: Professor emeritus William Averyt leads a walk through campus, referencing architectural highlights and notable personalities along the way. Meet at Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at uvm.edu. Info, 578-8830. JuSTin morrill homeSTeAD Tour: See WED.07, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Queen ciTy ghoSTWAlK: DArKneSS FAllS Tour: See FRI.09, 8 p.m. SToWe AnTiQue & clASSic cAr meeT: See FRI.09, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. & 7-10 p.m. TAg SAle: Furniture, cookware, household items, books, toys and attic treasures beckon bargain hunters. Congregational Church, Waterbury, 9 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6606. The bArnSTAnD collecTiVe: See THU.08, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

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FeSTiVAl oF The ArTS: Artists’ work lines the streets and fills galleries. Live music, children’s art activities and local fare round out the celebration of creativity. Main Street, Jeffersonville, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6438. Summer ArT in The PArK FeSTiVAl: Juried artisans from across the northeast display fine art and handicrafts at this annual gathering. Local fare, live music and children’s activities round out the weekend. Main Street Park, Rutland, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 775-0356. VermonT ArTS FeSTiVAl: oPen STuDio & gAllery WeeKenD: Mad River Valley artists open their work spaces to visitors, who view glass blowing, pottery, painting, sculpture and more up close. Gallery talks and demonstrations round out the event. Various locations, Waitsfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 496-6682, karen@vermontartfest.com. VermonT FeSTiVAl oF The ArTS: See WED.07, 10 a.m. VermonT Summer FeSTiVAl horSe ShoWS: See WED.07, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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‘lemAle eT hA’hAlAl (Fill The VoiD)’: Rama Burstein’s 2012 drama examines religious law and tradition through the eyes of an 18-year-old Israeli girl pressured to marry against her will. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘muSeum hourS’: See FRI.09, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘norThern borDerS’: See FRI.09, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘norThern borDerS’: FerriSburgh: See ‘Northern Borders’, FRI.09. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 7:30 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

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burlingTon FArmerS mArKeT: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. burlingTon FooD Tour: Locavores take a bite out of the Queen City’s finest cuisine with a scrumptious stroll that includes samples from the Burlington Farmers Market and a dish from an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 277-0180. cAPiTAl ciTy FArmerS mArKeT: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. chAmPlAin iSlAnDS FArmerS mArKeT: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. enoSburg FAllS FArmerS mArKeT: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503. hAm, bAKeD beAnS & SAlAD SuPPer: Neighbors rub elbows over spiral-cut ham, baked beans, broccoli salad, rolls and blueberry crisp, served buffetstyle. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; take-out orders available. Info, 877-3150. miDDlebury FArmerS mArKeT: See WED.07, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. norThWeST FArmerS mArKeT: Stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 370-6040. ruTlAnD counTy FArmerS mArKeT: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, freshcut flowers, sweet treats, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. The ADironDAcK coAST Summer Wine Tour: Oenophiles sip local vino and cider at seven locations along a 66-mile route. Live music and tasty fare round out the event. ELFS Farm Winery & Cider Mill, Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon-6 p.m. $12. Info, 518563-2750, adirondackcoastwinetrail.com. WAiTSFielD FArmerS mArKeT: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling, open-air market boasting extensive seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

health & fitness

FiT cAmP: Folks get a weekend workout with a run and circuit training. Meet at the skate park. Burlington waterfront, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 774-563-8273. r.i.P.P.e.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio B, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. SunDAy SPiriTuAl heAling meDiTATion: A supportive environment helps participants access intuition, empowerment and self-healing tools. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Suggested $15 donation. Info, 671-4569.

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chAmPFeST: See WED.07, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ‘hAmleT’: PArT 2: See FRI.09, 2 p.m. norThWeST FArmerS mArKeT STory WAlK: Little ones take a literary stroll through the market amid an array of local foods. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Saturday Story time: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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ru12? Family Project Picnic Potluck & Field day: LGBTQ families and allied family members connect over lawn games, face painting and a scavenger hunt, with the option to swim, kayak and canoe. Proceeds benefit future RU12? Family Program events. Wrightsville Reservoir, Middlesex, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Suggested $10-15 donation per family; bring a dish to share and personal nonalcoholic beverages. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org.

bands bring acoustic folk and rock-and-roll to the stage at this all-ages show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872, rotagallery@gmail.com. the alchemySticS: The Massachusetts-based band deliver contemporary reggae to the Cooler in the Mountains concert series. Lawn games, barbecue fare and beer tastings round out the afternoon. Roaring Brook Umbrella Bars, Killington Mountain, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 422-2185.

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the kingdom BlueS Project & jeremy Wando: The local guitarist showcases his skills during an evening of blues and spirituals. Donations benefit With Love From Vermont’s participation in the 2013 Feed My Starving Children YS MobilePack project. Community EM CH Alliance Church, Hinesburg, 6-8 p.m. L A music Free to attend; nonperishable donations C O U R T ES Y O F T H E accepted. Info, 777-8192. Burlington enSemBle Summer SerenadeS: ‘Starry night’: See WED.07. Coach the larry Stone Band: Music lovers gather for Barn at Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnickan evening of country-rock and blues. Bring blaning, 5:30 p.m.; indoor concert, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, kets and lawn chairs. Rain location: Amos and Julia 598-9520. Ward Theater. Town Green, Jay, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-946-7824. joe davidian trio: An evening of jazz standards delights fans of the genre. Bethany Church, the valley Stage muSic FeStival: Live perMontpelier, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 922-5255. formances by Joy Kills Sorrow, the Stray Birds, the DuPont Brothers and the Modern Grass Quintet SPaniSh harlem orcheStra: The Grammy complement tasty eats and green-energy themes. Award-winning, 13-piece ensemble brings spirited 246 Blackbird Swale Dr., Huntington, 12:30-9:30 Latin jazz to the stage. Lake Placid Center for the p.m. $10-35; $70-80 family pass. Info, 434-4563 or Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $16-18. Info, 518-523-2512. 863-5966. Surly dan SuttleS, Bridge under Fire & vermont Philharmonic orcheStra: Lou For the kid in the Back: The Syracuse-based Kosma conducts a spirited Summer Pops Concert of

popular and lighthearted classical favorites. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 476-8188.

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archaeological dig tour: See FRI.09, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Bird-monitoring Walk: Experienced birders take folks on a morning jaunt in search of various species in their natural habitats. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. duct taPe regatta: Boaters of all ages hit the water in vessels crafted from duct tape and cardboard at this fundraiser for the North Hero Community Hall. City Bay, North Hero, registration, 8:30 a.m.; race, 10 a.m. $25 per boat; free for spectators. Info, 372-8400, info@heroswelcome.com. ForeStry For the BirdS: A tour of a recent logging job and a presentation from forester Keith Thompson teach folks about forest harvesting to improve avian habitats. Meet at the Birds of Vermont Museum parking lot. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 9-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 338-2456. making trackS, Seeing SkinS & SkullS: See WED.07, 4 p.m. oWl ProWl & night ghoSt hike: Brave souls shine flashlights in search of nocturnal creatures on an excursion to 19th-century settlement ruins, where ghost stories are shared. Meet at History Hike Lot. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

seminars

introduction to digital video editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

sport

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theater

‘lucia di lammermoor’: Rising star Angela Mortellaro sings the title role in Opera North’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece about a woman who goes mad after being torn from her lover by her family. Italian with projected English translation. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $32-95. Info, 603-448-0400. ‘my Buddy Bill’: See THU.08, 8 p.m. ‘PreSent laughter’: See THU.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘Shout! the mod muSical’: See WED.07, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ShakeSPeare in the Park: ‘the Winter’S tale’: See THU.08, 6 p.m. ‘SunriSe’: a neW york theatre WorkShoP Work-in-ProgreSS: Israeli acting troupe TheaterCan examines classism in Israel with a love story between a budding artist and a man she initially dismissed. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-13. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘the Birthday Party’: See THU.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘the FantaStickS’: See WED.07, 8 p.m. ‘the School For lieS’: See WED.07, 7:30 p.m. ‘urBan reneWal’: a neW york theatre WorkShoP Work-in-ProgreSS: Kyle De Camp’s childhood experiences in 1960s Chicago inform his solo multimedia exploration of perception, public SAT.10

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chriStopher & dAnA reeVe FoundAtion FundrAiSer: Acoustic selections from the DuPont Brothers entertain attendees, who nosh on appetizers and place silent auction bids at this benefit for the spinal-cord injury foundation. Church & Main Restaurant, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $50; preregister; cash bar. Info, 540-3040.

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‘northern BorderS’: See FRI.09, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. ‘northern BorderS’: BriStol: See ‘Northern Borders’ FRI.09. Holley Hall, Bristol, 7:30 p.m. $612; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

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Antique trActor dAy: Gearheads feast their eyes on dozens of vintage farm vehicles from the 1930s to ‘60s. A CO StoWe FArMerS MArket: UR tractor parade, wagon rides TE Preserves, produce and other Sy OF and themed children’s activities provender attract fans of local STE FAN JA C O B S round out the fun. Billings Farm & food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498admission, $3-12; free for children under 3. Info, 4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com. 457-2355. the AdirondAck coASt SuMMer Wine tour: JuStin Morrill hoMeSteAd tour: See WED.07, See SAT.10, noon-6 p.m. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. WinooSki FArMerS MArket: Area growers and MuSic, Art & teA: Teen talents Natalie Pang and Kassie Kardos of Innovative Song Duo perform at an afternoon tea party featuring a display of Maurie Harrington’s watercolors and Jennifer Buckner’s stained glass, pottery and jewelry. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 928-3364, linda@ilmpt.org.

bakers offer live music, ethnic eats and a large variety of produce and agricultural products on the green. Good eaters ages 5 through 12 celebrate veggies with the “Power of Produce” Club. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 413-446-4684, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

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kids ChampFeSt: See WED.07, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ruSSian play time With nataSha: Rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show help little ones up to age 8 learn new words. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. SundayS For FledglingS: Junior birders ages 5 through 12 develop observation and research skills in this combination of environmental science and outdoor play. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with admission, $3-6; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

language FrenCh ConverSation group: dimanCheS: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

music Clone oF muSiC on the porCh: Slide guitarist William Lee Ellis gives an informal concert of the Memphis blues. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, 1-3 p.m. Free; nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 882-2700. iSraeli SCoutS FriendShip Caravan: Ten teenagers energize the crowd with songs, dances and stories from their culture. A kosher Israeli dinner follows. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 5:30 p.m. $5-15 includes dinner; preregister. Info, jcogs@jcogs.org. Side projeCt: Rock-and-roll tunes get concertgoers moving and grooving as part of the Westford Summer Concert Series. Westford Common, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 879-3749.

the jeremy mohney Quartet: The foursome informs Hot Jazz with a blend of ragtime, blues and brass-band marches. Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

sport BranBury ClaSSiC triathalon: Athletes compete in water and on land with a .9-mile swim, 28-mile bike and 6.2-mile run. Branbury State Park, Salisbury, registration, 6:30-7:30 a.m; race, 8 a.m. $88-103; $138-153 for team. Info, 388-6888. BreWSter ridge diSC golF league: Players take aim and throw discs at targets in this weekly bout of lighthearted competition. Brewster Ridge Disc Golf Course, Smuggler’s Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, 1 p.m. $5; free for members. Info, 644-1056. CliFFhanger uphill Sprint raCe SerieS: Runners and bikers rely on a burst of speed to power up the Cliff Street hill at this friendly competition hosted by Onion River Sports. Cliff Street, Montpelier, registration, 4 p.m.; race, 5 p.m. $10. Info, 229-9409. dan BonFigli Woody ClaSSiC: Sunday Funday BaSh: Tennis players swing wooden racquets in the semifinals and finals of this competitive tournament benefitting the King Street Center. DJ-fueled cheering, tasty fare, swimming and recreational tennis round out the fun. Burlington Tennis Club, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 862-6736. ‘SoCCer For SoleS’ 3 verSuS 3 FeStival: Players show off their fancy footwork at this fundraiser for Soccer Dreams Without Borders. Live music, guest speakers, pizza and a raffle follow. Browns River Middle School, Jericho, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $10; $40 per team of four. Info, 371-7870. vermont Sun triathalon: A 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run put athletes’ physical and mental strength to the test. Branbury State Park, Salisbury, registration, 6:45-7:45 a.m; race, 8 a.m. $65-80; $95-110 for team. Info, 388-6888. Women’S piCkup SoCCer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Rain location, Miller Community and Recreation Center. Starr Farm Athletic Field, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

talks ‘Cultivating CompaSSion & peaCe in a multiCultural World’ talk & WorkShop: Islam and Sufi scholar Imam Jamal Rahman joins Silver Bay Institute’s Carol A. Fornier in an exploration of interfaith communities. Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, talk, 3-4:30 p.m.; reception and book signing, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; workshop, 5:30-7 p.m. $25-45 for talk; $10-45 for workshop. Info, 793-7230.

theater ‘my Buddy Bill’: See THU.08, 2 p.m.

outdoors

‘the FantaStiCkS’: See WED.07, 8 p.m.

arChaeologiCal dig tour: See FRI.09, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sunday morning Bike rideS: Cyclists take a casual 25- to 30-mile road ride that begins at Eastern Mountain Sports and heads south toward Charlotte and Hinesburg. Eastern Mountain Sports, South Burlington, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0473, e0008st@ems.com.

young artiSt matinee: ‘little Women’: See WED.07, 2 p.m.

words Community Book Sale: See SAT.10, 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. jane auSten ‘in CharaCter’ Weekend: See FRI.09, 11:30 a.m.

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Trivia on the Terrace: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds hosted by comedian Adam Cook. Juniper Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-0080.

fairs & festivals

Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.07, 10 a.m.

film

‘Gypsy’: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden star in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1962 musical comedy about burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her meddling stage mother. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘Museum Hours’: See FRI.09, 5:30 p.m. ‘Northern Borders’: See FRI.09, 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

Peruvian Cooking Class: Foodies celebrate Peru’s traditional cuisine with papas rellenas (stuffed potatoes). Private home, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 658-5724, gsyaranga@ gmail.com. Top Chef of the Champlain Valley: Attendees sample gourmet appetizers and local libations as Amuse at the Essex Resort & Spa’s Shawn Calley, Prohibition Pig’s Michael Werneke and One Federal’s Marcus Hamblett go head-to-head in a culinary showdown. Proceeds benefit the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging’s Meals on Wheels and Case Management Programs. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $40. Info, 865-0360.

health & fitness

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.09, 10 a.m.

Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: See THU.08, 6-7 p.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.07, 7-8 p.m.

kids

Acorn Story Club: Creepy Crawly Critters With Stephen Amos: The naturalist draws on decades of experience when exposing little learners and their parents to hands-on activities and live animals. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

Kindergarten Kickoff!: Williston and St. George students and their families listen to stories, get library cards and meet new friends. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

music

Caspian Monday Music: Cellist Cynthia Forbes, violist Alex Vavilov, and violinists Lydia Forbes and Alexey Shabalin perform works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven. United Church, Hardwick, 8 p.m. $10-18; free for children under 18. Info, 617-282-8605. New England Chamber Music Festival Recital: Pianist Marina Radiushina and violinist Andrew Beer take the stage with classical selections. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation; free for students and senior citizens. Info, 215-498-7670. New England Chamber Music Festival: Masterclass: Violinist Andrew Beer shares his experience and expertise, with a focus on practice habits. Monteverdi Music School, Montpelier, 9 a.m. $10 suggested donation; free for students and senior citizens. Info, 215-498-7670. Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New musicians are invited to pitch in as Burlington’s samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes, experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

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Community Drum Circle: Percussionists of all abilities keep the beat in a supportive atmosphere that welcomes newcomers. Blanchard Beach, Burlington, 5-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 922-7149, shea. robert007@gmail.com. VNA of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties Family Room Community Celebration: Folks commemorate 25 years of the organization’s parent-child services. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-1900, irwin@vnacares.org.

dance

Movement Lab: ‘Movement Towards Center Stage’: Artist-in-residence Patrick Ferreri blends contemporary dance with improv in an exploration of motion, artistry and humanity. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m. $15. Info, 229-4676. Swing Dance Practice Session: Quick-footed participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

education

‘Assessment of Prior Learning’ Information Session: Attendees learn how to earn college credit for knowledge acquired through past employment and other experiences. Cafeteria, Rutland Regional Medical Center, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 828-4064, priorlearning@ccv.edu.

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

‘Assessment of Prior Learning’ Information Session: CCV Rutland Campus: See above listing. Community College of Vermont, Rutland, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 828-4064, priorlearning@ccv.edu.

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

theater

Concept Lab: ‘Watching the World Watching Us’: Taking text themes from Tennessee Williams’ plays, artist-in-residence Patrick Ferreri leads autobiographical and directing exercises. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $18. Info, 229-4676. Met Encore Series: A broadcast production of Rossini’s comedic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) stars Peter Mattei in the title role opposite Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $13-15. Info, 518-523-2512.

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Robert J. Resnik: The longtime Queen City resident signs and discusses his pictorial history book Legendary Locals of Burlington. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Shape & Share Life Stories: Recille Hamrell gives prompts to trigger recollections of specific experiences, which are crafted into engaging narratives and shared with the group. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Summer Book Sale: Bookworms get their literary fix with hundreds of tomes in various genres. Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

Time Travel Tuesdays: Willing workers of all ages step into the past with late-19th-century farm chores and pastimes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $312; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. Winter in August Celebration: A street party featuring local eats and live entertainment recognizes area ski resorts’ contributions to the local economy. 50 Merchants Row, Rutland, 5-8 p.m. $9-10. Info, 773-2747.

food & drink

Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See SAT.10, 3-6:30 p.m. Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.10, 3-6 p.m. Wine Dinner: Michael Burke of Vias Imports hosts a five-course meal that pairs wines from Italy’s coastal regions with gourmet cuisine. Nika, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $50; preregister; limited space. Info, 660-9533.

health & fitness

Alicia Feltus: In “Nutrition, Wellness and Longevity,” the clinical nutritionist discusses the relationship between a whole foods diet, hormonal balance and overall health. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 671-4569. Community Health Centers of Burlington Blood Drive: Healthy humans part with lifesustaining pints. Community Health Center of Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 264-8193. Moderate Kripalu Yoga: Students incorporate breath, posture, meditation and relaxation appropriate to their comfort and skill levels. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. ‘The Art and Science of Therapeutic Sound’: Attendees learn about the physiological and psychological effects of drums, song, chant, rattles and more. Inside Out Body Therapy, Williston, 7-9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 730-5446.

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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. ‘Dig Into Reading’: Weekly Garden Visit: Budding green thumbs in grades 1 and up tend the Summit Street School garden and listen to themed stories. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Fresh From the Garden, Good Food for Kids: Adventurous eaters in first grade and higher help prepare dishes made with freshly harvested veggies. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Harbor Fair: Dux the Balloon man and his assistant Mad Martha help kiddos celebrate summer with bouncy castles, face painting and games. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 578-2670. Lunch Time Read-Aloud: Stories and snacks sate little ones’ appetites for tantalizing tales and tasty treats. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 482-5189.

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Music With Robert: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Special Effects: Middlebury Community Television’s Kurt Broderson teaches a four-day workshop of post-production tricks to movie lovers entering grades 4 and up. For those who have attended Youth Media Lab or Lights, Camera, Action camp. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097, ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

‘Museum Hours’: See FRI.09, 5:30 p.m.

Story Time With Corey: Read-aloud tales and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey expand the imaginations of young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.07, 10 a.m.

‘Key Largo’: John Huston’s 1948 film noir stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall as old friends who encounter trouble at the latter’s Florida hotel as a hurricane approaches. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018. ‘Northern Borders’: See FRI.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘Telling Amy’s Story’: Joe Myers’ compelling documentary follows the timeline of a 2001 domestic violence homicide to increase awareness about the potentially fatal issue. A discussion follows. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 7:30-10 p.m. Info, 349-3059. ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’: Based on works by the late playwright Jean Anouilh, Alain Resnais’ cerebral drama reunites the deceased artist with his former colleagues for a final collaboration.

Storytime in the Nestlings Nook: Little ones gather for stories about birds and more. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free with admission; $3-6. Summer Reading Party: A performance of Jack and the Beanstalk by No Strings Marionette Company helps lit lovers celebrate completed tue.13

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Cloud Computing for Small Business Workshop: Pat Ripley leads an interactive training session focused on creating an online presence, protecting sensitive documents and increasing office efficiency. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 2236091, rob@vtrural.org.

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Women’s Intuition & Spiritual Healing Class: Cynthia Warwick Seiler leads a weekly seminar focused on energizing holistically and tapping into creativity. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 671-4569.

Dig Into Stories With Megan: Little ones expand their imaginations through themed tales, songs and rhymes that “rock.” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Herbal Consultations: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@vtherbcenter.org. Info, 861-9757.

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Fertility Awareness: Chelsea Hasting and Hannah Allen of Well Within Midwifery discuss ways to deepen knowledge of the body, so as to achieve or avoid pregnancy. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Crafternoon for Teens: T-shirt design, nesting dolls, jewelry making and more inspire creative thinkers in grades 6 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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books. Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Essex Junction, 2-3:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Tom Joyce: The magician and comedian entertains audience members with mysterious feats. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 842-2420.

French conversaTion Group: Beginner-to-intermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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Borromeo QuarTeT: The renowned foursome concludes the Summer Music from Greensboro concert series with a multimedia performance featuring works by Beethoven and rising talent Mohammed Fairouz. See calendar spotlight. United Church of Christ, Greensboro, 8 p.m. $20; free for children ages 18 and under. Info, 533-2301. casTleTon summer concerTs: Together since 1971, the five-piece horn band Satin and Steel brings decades of stage time to a repertoire of soul, Motown and R&B. Pavilion, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039.

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GuiDeD mushroom Foray: Fancy fungi? Take advantage of summer’s wild mushroom season and learn foraging techniques and sustainable harvesting methods for local species. Various Chittenden County locations, 3-5 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 413-687-2184.

GoinG solar WiThouT GoinG Broke: SunCommon’s Jessica Edgerly Walsh discusses financing options, as well as state and federal incentives, for harnessing the sun’s energy. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; 8/6/13 9:58 AM

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nonproFiT DiGiTal skill share: See THU.08. Old Plymouth Schoolhouse, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091, rob@vtrural.org.

BuG Walk: Insect lovers grab a net and take a stroll in search of interesting invertebrates. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $35. Info, 229-6206.

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Funk & soul niGhT WiTh sisTer sparroW & The DirTy BirDs: Led by vocalist Arleigh Kincheloean, the Brooklynbased band puts a modern spin on classic soul at the Songs at Mirror Lake Music Series. Mid’s Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-523-8925. norTheasT kinGDom shape noTe sinG: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la” tradition. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Info, 525-3031.

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

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‘assessmenT oF prior learninG’ inFormaTion session: See TUE.13. Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-4064, priorlearning@ccv.edu.

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Champlain islands Farmers market: See WED.07, 3-6 p.m. ColChester Farmers market: See WED.07, 4-7 p.m. middlebury Farmers market: See WED.07, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. south end Farmers market: See WED.07, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Williston Farmers market: See WED.07, 4-7 p.m.

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burlington go Club: See WED.07, 7-9 p.m. mediCare FaCts bingo: A creative twist on this popular pastime teaches players about various health care programs and how to prevent error, fraud and abuse. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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Crystal meditation: See WED.07, 5:30-7 p.m. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.07, 6-7 p.m.

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Chess? yes!: See WED.07, 3-4 p.m. CraFtsbury Chamber players miniConCerts: See WED.07, 4:30 p.m. Family tie dye: Cool threads! Folks learn how to transform T-shirts, socks and pillowcases into colorful garments via this user-friendly technique. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-4097. Fresh, Fun Food For teens: Budding chefs in grades 6 through 12 prepare delicious dishes with garden-fresh ingredients, then sample the finished product. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. georgia summer playgroup: See WED.07, 10 a.m.-noon. lake plaCid Center For the arts young & Fun series: A performance of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp by Pendragon Theatre introduces little ones ages 5 and up to the Arabian fairy tale. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 518-523-2512. speCial eFFeCts: See TUE.13, 9 a.m.-noon.

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

bristol toWn band: See WED.07, 7-8:30 p.m.

toWn oF shelburne summer ConCert series: Compelling harmonies complement the guitar and ukelele at an acoustic show by Lila Mae and the Cartwheels. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-9551.

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making traCks, seeing skins & skulls: See WED.07, 2 p.m. nature at night: Coneheads & katydids: A nocturnal excursion focused on “singing” insects teaches participants how to identify them by sound. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 728-9402. the good, the bad and the really, really itChy: See WED.07, 1:30 p.m.

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Catamount mountain bike series: See WED.07, 6 p.m. green mountain table tennis Club: See WED.07, 7-10 p.m. the vermont Challenge: Cyclists spin their wheels on one-, three- or four-day rides along scenic routes throughout southern and central Vermont. Various locations statewide, 9 a.m. $159399. Info, 914-420-8805, info@vtchallenge.com.

talks

living history presentation: Tales about mountain men who braved the Rocky Mountains in the heyday of the 19th-century fur trade entertain and educate listeners. B-Side Playground, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

‘the roaring ‘20s in Fox trot tempo’: Catamount Arts’ Martin Bryan considers how archival recordings memorialize the decade’s historical events — ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Morristown Centennial Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-7617. yestermorroW design/build sChool summer leCture series: Award-winning architect Ted Cerali considers the Duomo in Florence, Italy, as a design/build masterwork. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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open disCussion: have you had a spiritual experienCe?: Folks looking to foster a conscious and practical relationship with spirit share stories of strong intuition, déjà vu, dreams of flying, pastlife recall and out-of-body episodes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

Citizens ConCert band: Kevin Loomis directs this 40-member ensemble in a varied repertoire, including marches, show tunes, pop and rock. Grand Isle Lake House, grounds open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 372-8889 or 863-5966.

CraFtsbury Chamber players: ConCert v: World-renowned musicians interpret works by Beethoven, Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for children ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

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the Jubilee Jazz band: Dixieland jazz gets concertgoers to their feet. Bring a chair or blanket. Central Park, Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-6401.

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two-week intensive program perform works by Brahms and Zoltán Kodály. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation; free for students and senior citizens. Info, 215-498-7670.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. VINTAGE PHOTO PRINTING WITH DIGITAL NEGATIVES: Learn how to create large digital negatives from your film or digital files to print on highquality papers and cotton fabric. Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown will be the methods used to coat our media, to expose under sunlight or other UV sources. No experience necessary. Thu., Aug. 15, 6-9 p.m. & Sat., Aug. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $140/person; $126/BCA members. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

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building TINY-HOUSE WORKSHOP: A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a 16- x 16-ft. tiny house in Bakersfield, Aug. 24-25. Plenty of hands-on experience for absolute beginners. Tools provided; safety glasses required. Onsite camping avail. Aug. 24-25. Cost: $250/workshop. Bakersfield. Info: 933-6103.

craft ETSY 101: Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing and filling sold orders, and marketing tricks. Bring your laptop or tablet to open your own shop, or come tech-free and watch as Laura leads you step by step! Aug. 11, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $35/person. Location: Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, 180 Flynn Ave., suite 2, Burlington. Info: 488-5766, info@vintageinspired. net, on.fb.me/14QQILj.

dance B-TRU DANCE W/ DANIELLE VARDAKAS DUSZKO: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles

(poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher training this fall/winter. $50/ mo. Ask about family discounts. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com. FUNDAMENTALS OF JAZZ DANCE: Register online or by appt. Open registration begins Mon., Aug. 19. An introduction to jazz dance techniques, aesthetics and theory. Also includes hip-hop, Latin and African dance. Three-credit class. Instructor: Karen Amirault. Every Mon., Sep. 9-Dec. 16, 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Location: CCV Winooski, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski. Info: Community College of Vermont, Jody Albright, 654-0730, jody. albright@ccv.edu, ccv.edu.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Taiko in Burlington! Tue. Taiko adult classes begin Sep. 10, Oct. 22 and Dec. 3, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 wks. Kids

classes begin the same dates, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 wks. $15/ class. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

Instructor: Alyssa DeLaBruere. Aug. 20, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $80/ person, $72/HDAC members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

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AYURVEDIC INTENSIVE: Ayurveda, the Mother of All Healing, with Kevin Spelman, PhD. In this comprehensive training session, discover the basic principles of Ayurveda and explore key medicinal plants from the Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia, along with Western herbs viewed through the Ayurvedic model. Meet Kevin at the free Thursday-night lecture! Details at vtherbcenter.org. Sat., Sep. 28 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $100/ nonmembers; $85 for members; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.

INTRODUCTION TO FILMMAKING: Register online or by appt. Open registration begins Mon., Aug. 19. Hands-on intro to filmmaking focusing on technical and narrative structure. Students produce short individual and group projects. Three-credit class. Instructor: William Simmon. Every Wed., Sep. 4-Dec. 11, 6:15-9 p.m. Location: CCV Winooski, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski. Info: Community College of Vermont, Jody Albright, 654-0730, jody. albright@ccv.edu, ccv.edu.

helen day art center LECTURE: THE DARING LADIES AND MOMA: Learn about the women who founded MoMA and the remarkable shift that occurred when art was moved from the intimate salon setting typical of the 19th century, to the white cube architecture of the 20th. Lecture by Suzy Spence. Aug. 15, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $20/ person, $18/HDAC members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com. LECTURE: THE STEINS’ SALON: By inviting the public to see their collection in their modest apartment, Gertrude and Leo Stein helped disseminate a taste for modern art that would eventually become the standard for collectors and museums alike. Lecture by Amy Rahn. Aug. 13 10:30 a.m.-noon. $20/person, $18/HDAC members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday. com. PLEIN AIR PAINTING: Borrowing from the French tradition of plein air painting, this class will introduce participants to the use of acrylics outside of the studio to capture the essence of the landscape. The Stowe Recreation Path will set the scene for an invigorating open air work session.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Re-localizing the Food System: Wild Edibles and Tending the Wild, Aug. 13, 5:308:30 p.m. Sponsored by Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and held at Wisdom of the Herbs School. $30 for members of VCIH, $35 for nonmembers. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

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

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers lesson package. Our 6th year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online

instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts AIKIDO: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org. AIKIDO CLASSES: Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one

of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage FOCUS ON THE SPINE: In this class we will use Orthobionomy to explore a simple and natural means of working with neuromuscular tension (and pain) patterns that is gentle, effective and transformative. We access the innate, self-corrective reflexes, achieving pain relief and structural balance. We will focus on specific techniques for facilitating release in the neck, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and pelvis. Sat. & Sun., Aug. 24-25. Cost: $245/person; $225 if paid by Aug. 13; call about introductory risk-free fee offer. Location: TBA , Burlington/Essex area. Info: Dianne Swafford, 7341121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com.

meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration

required. Call for more info or register online. Sat. Aug. 17, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m (please arrive at 8:45 a.m.). Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext.net, vermontzen.org. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. ZEN RENOVATION: Spring cleaning for your mind! Become environ/mentally sound-inside & out. Get Zen! Weekly Meditation Classes, Wed., 7 p.m. $10/person. Free Sunday Bruch, 11:30 a.m. Location: New North End, Burlington. Info: Barry, 343-7265, barry@zenrenovation.com.

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Bill Reed Voice Studio: Now auditioning students for the fall semester! To schedule an audition time please contact Managing Director Sally Olson, admin@theatricalsinger.com. For more info. please visit the studio page on our website, billreedvoicestudio.com/the-studio/ private-studio.html. Location: Spotlight on Dance, 50 San Remo Drive, S. Burlington. Info:. MUSIC CLASSES AT CCV!: Starts week of Sep. 2. Register online or by appt. Open registration begins Aug. 19. Classes: Piano I, Guitar I, Intro to Technology in Music, Intro to Rock and Roll. Classes cover variety of styles: jazz, rock, pop, traditional, world music. Three-credit courses. Weekly classes. Location: CCV Winooski, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski. Info: Community College of Vermont, Jody Albright, 654-0730, jody. albright@ccv.edu, ccv.edu.

paddling KAYAKING AND PADDLEBOARDING : Interested in learning how to kayak or paddleboard? Perhaps you’d like to improve your paddling technique or prepare for a kayaking trip? Canoe Imports offers the following classes: Introduction

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

photography Autumn in Vt. Photo Workshop: There’s no question that autumn in Vermont is a magical time to be an outdoor photographer. Join us for an intensive, five-day outdoor photography workshop in central Vermont. The emphasis of our time together, sunrise to sunset, will be on creating stunning images of the Vermont landscape. Sep. 30, 1:30 p.m., through Oct. 4, 11:30 a.m. Cost: $995/person. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Montpelier. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops , Kurt Budliger, 223-4022, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

shamanism Introduction to Shamanism: Learn techniques of shamanic experiential investigation that expand past conventional levels of ordinary reality and explore the spirit realms that lie beyond typical perceptions. You will learn to engage nonphysical intelligent energies, helping you to elicit emotional, physical and spiritual healing, as well as providing insight into your life’s path. Sun., Aug. 18, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $95/7-1/2-hr. class. Location: Shaman’s Flame office, Stowe. Info: Shaman’s Flame, Sarah Finlay & Peter Clark, 253-7846, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

HWA YU TAI CHI/MONTPELIER: Hwa Yu is a rare style of tai chi in the liuhebafa (six harmonies, eight principles) lineage. It features exercises to ground and circulate the chi; dynamic interplay of postural sinking, rising and rounding; and beautiful, fluid movements with poetic names such as Green Dragon Stretches Its Claws. Every Mon. starting Sep. 9. 12 weeks. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellen Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@ comcast.net. Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org. Yang-Style Tai Chi: The slow movements of Tai Chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465.

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Creative Writing Class: This free seven-week class will explore elements of fiction and memoir. It will provide basics for beginners, as well as feedback and inspiration for those looking to strengthen their craft. Class will culminate in an optional public reading of your own work. Email to register. 7 wks., every Tue.: Sep. 3-Oct. 15, 6-8 p.m. Free. Location: Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St., Burlington. Info: Anne-Marie Lavalette, 922-3985, annemarie. lavalette@goddard.edu.

yoga Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Breast Cancer Survivor and Alignment classes. Certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. $14/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com. Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include 2 specialty classes per week for 4 weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow & Core Flow with alignment constancy. We

hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes and workshops. $25/new student first week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/class for student or senior or $100/10 class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Hot Yoga Burlington: Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! Go to our website for 10 reasons to practice hot yoga in the summer. Get hot: 2-for-1 ofer. $14. 1-hr. classes on Mon. at 5:30 p.m.; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m.. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave., Old North End, Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Yoga Roots: Flexible, inflexible, an athlete, expecting a baby, stressed, recovering from an injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! Our aim is to welcome, nurture and inspire. A peaceful studio offering: Prenatal, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Therapeutic Restorative, Gentle, Kundalini, Anusara, Tai Chi, Qigong & Meditation! Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Business Park, Shelburne. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.

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ACTING I: Register now online or by appt. Open registration begins Mon., Aug. 19. An introduction to the craft of acting. Includes work in improvisation, monologues and dramatic scenes. Three-credit class. Instructor: Kimberly Jordan. Every Thu., Sep. 5-Dec. 12, 3-5:45 p.m. Location: CCV Winooski, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski. Info: Community College of Vermont, Jody Albright, 654-0730, jody. albright@ccv.edu, ccv.edu.

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Stand-Up Paddleboarding: Get on board for a very fun and simple new way to explore the lake and work your body head to toe. Instruction on paddlehandling and balance skills to get you moving your first time out. Learn why people love this Hawaiian-rooted sport the first time they try it. Lessons offered Tue.-Sun. Cost: $30/hourlong private & semiprivates; $20 ea. for groups. Location: Oakledge Park & Beach, end of Flynn Ave., a mile south of downtown along the bike path, Burlington. Info: Paddlesurf Champlain, 881-4905, jason@paddlesurfchamplain. com, paddlesurfchamplain.com.

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Stand-Up Paddleboarding Lessons: This basic class teaches you fundamentals of stand-up paddleboarding. After one hour you will get on your board, stand up and stay up. We’ll give you tips on how to hold your paddle and get the most out of your stroke. No experience necessary. All equipment provided. Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31 & Sep. 7, 11 a.m.-noon. Cost: $50/person for group lesson, $70/person for private lesson (1-2 people). Location: Perkins Pier, Burlington. Info: WND&WVS, 540-2529, wndnwvs. com/lessons_tour.

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music, including spirituals, traditional and contemporary folk songs, classical and world music. No auditions required; beginners and shower singers welcome! Noncredit workshop. Semester dues $55. Directed by Amity Baker. Every Wed. from Sep. 4-Dec. 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $55. Location: CCV Winooski, 1 Abenaki Way, Winooski. Info: Community College of Vermont, Jody Albright, 654-0730, jody. albright@ccv.edu, ccv.edu.

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SEVEN DAYS: You have a great tattoo of George Jones. What inspired you to get it? EMMA BEATON: I’ve been a fan of George for a long time. It was the tattoo I wanted to get first, since I was in middle school. I got a few other tattoos first because I thought it would be pretty bold to get that one first. But eventually I made a bet with a friend about who would get a portrait of George Jones first. And that inspired me to just go and do it a couple of weeks later. By coincidence, I ended up getting it on his 80th birthday.

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hen we called Emma Beaton, vocalist for the indie-folk band Joy Kills Sorrow, we wanted to ask her all about the Boston-ish quintet’s recent developments. Those include an appearance on the famed radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” and the release of a new, selfproduced EP, Wide Awake. That record has sent Americana connoisseurs around the country into a gleeful tizzy, owing to its sly appropriation of rock and indie attitude, delivered in the guise of a trad string band. But what we really wanted to ask Beaton about was a tattoo. Specifically, the portrait of late country great George Jones that adorns her right bicep. So that’s we did, chatting her up about her ink and more “serious” music stuff in advance of the band’s appearance at the Valley Stage Music Festival in Huntington this Saturday, August 10.

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a little more manageable. I think we also felt that we’re at a place where we’ve had enough experience working together and learning from producers in the past that we’d be capable and comfortable doing it.

SD: No kidding? Do people ever misidentify whose portrait it is? EB: Yeah. Some people think it’s Hank Williams. Other people think it’s, like, a cowboy relative of mine. It’s sort of an uncommon photo of him. He’s so young, and he’s wearing a cowboy hat, which he didn’t usually do. If you weren’t familiar with him, I could understand why you might not know who he is.

SD: What did you learn by selfproducing? EB: We learned to work together, that’s for sure. I think it challenged us to stretch our ears a little bit and problem solve for ourselves. Instead of having a producer with their ears listening for what it should sound like and how to get it there, we had to start putting our ears in that position and start listening deeper. We had to use the knowledge we had about sound and our instruments to figure out how to make it sound the way we wanted, rather than relying on someone else.

SD: The new EP is the first the band has self-produced. Why do that now? EB: It was partly because we were doing just an EP. When were thinking about possibly doing a full-length, we had been planning on working with a producer again. But with an EP, we decided it would be a good opportunity to try our hand at self-production. It’s a smaller project and

SD: Did your relationship to those songs change during that process? EB: Probably. Part of the role of a producer is to take a look at everything, the way you’re recording, the performances, the mixing. But also to look at the arrangements from the outside and figure out if it’s the best arrangement. On our last couple of records, the producer hasn’t had to be as

hands-on because we usually come in with arrangements we’ve worked a long time on. So we had to look at them with an outside perspective, arrangements we’d been playing for a while, and decide if they were the best way to do those songs. SD: You recently appeared on “A Prairie Home Companion.” So how was it? EB: Uh, it was awesome. We had never done a show quite like that before, and it was one of the bigger audiences we’ve played for. It was really cool. I’m from Canada, so I didn’t really grow up listening to that show. But seeing it all come together was so nice. It was just a really good time. SD: You grew up playing cello before you started singing, or at least became a front person. Did your experience playing cello affect the way you approach singing? EB: I would say so. I grew up playing folk music, so I don’t read a lot of music. And [I] went to a lot of fiddle camps. Now there are a lot of fiddle camps that have cello teachers, but then it was less common. So I would just go to fiddle classes. And, no offense to cello players out there, but for the most part I don’t like how the cello sounds

when it’s played like a cello. I wanted to sound like a fiddle player playing the cello. I would listen to what fiddlers were doing and try to figure it out myself on cello. I think it’s the same with vocals. Technique is a huge part of having stamina and range and ability. But listening to how people sound and finding which aspects of other people’s singing I like and how to incorporate that into my own singing … for me what resonates is hearing that they’re emotionally invested in or moved by what they’re singing. That’s something I take really seriously, to find a way for lyrics to have some sort of resonance with me so that I’m not just going through the paces. Yeah, maybe I can sing it in tune, but if it doesn’t have some sort of connection, you could have all the technique in the world but it’s just going to sound bland.

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On one hand, they are still a good band and, for a while, were among the most widely respected acts in town. On the other hand, Artaud has burned some bridges in a city he once claimed was on the verge of an artistic revolution. On yet another hand, the band’s most recent single, “6 AM,” is a pretty cool example of modern, minimalist psych rock. But if we can count one more hand, Artaud has a reputation as a bit of a dick. That’s a lot of hands. And I don’t think I’ve felt this conflicted about someone’s return since Johnny Damon came back to Fenway Park in a Yankees uniform. So here’s hoping everyone involved can simply let bygones be bygones and enjoy some good music from a talented band in a town that is anything but disappointing. That, or everybody starts kung fu fighting. Either way, it’s gonna be entertaining.

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a bunch lately and have released a pair of singles, including one on the Reverberation Appreciation Society — a label offshoot of the Austin Psych Fest, which TVL played again this year — and another on Sonic Cathedral in the UK. He adds that TVL have just finished mixing and mastering the band’s “official” debut album, which should be released later this year. That’s pretty cool news. Though it does make me wonder why I bothered reviewing their first three albums, since they apparently weren’t official. Oh, well. Perhaps that will be explained in the documentary that Austin filmmaker Bret Zausmer is doing on the band. Anyway, TVL are playing their first Burlington show in two years at Signal Kitchen this Thursday, August 8, with Montréal’s eLephant stone, who are, in critical parlance, totally fucking awesome — see the spotlight on page 68. After TVL’s time away from the Burlington stage, it will certainly be interesting to see how they’re received.

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It’s been about two years since we’ve heard from psych-rock band the Vacant Lots. And the last we did, it wasn’t particularly pleasant, as front man Jared artaud was dissing Burlington in an interview with music website Rock Edition, saying he was “continually disappointed” by music in the Queen City. To which the scene collectively responded, “Thank you, Jared, for your honest assessment of our community. We appreciate your opinions and your right to express them. However, we respectfully disagree. Best of luck in your future endeavors!” Nah. The town’s response was far more succinct, consisting of roughly two words by my count. (I’ll let you guess which two.) My own response in these pages was a little more long-winded and, I’d like to think, diplomatic. But it had essentially the same gist. Since then, and perhaps unsurprisingly, TVL have played nary a show in the town where the band got its start. But that’s not to say they haven’t been busy. In a recent email to 7D, Artaud writes that he and original drummer

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Meanwhile, in Huntington… One of these years, I swear I’m going to make it to the Valley Stage Music Festival at Blackbird Swale. But it won’t be this year, which is a shame, since it’s arguably the best lineup in the folkcentric festival’s eight-year history. And that’s saying something, since previous fests have seen the likes of roBBie FuLks, daroL anger, Mike & ruthy and the deFiBuLators, among many others, grace the renewable-energy-powered stage. Perhaps you’ve already read the interview with Joy kiLLs sorrow front woman eMMa Beaton on page 62. JKS are actually co-headlining the festival alongside another up-and-coming acoustic band, the stray Birds. The latter band’s self-titled 2012 record was a gem that the good folks at NPR Music dubbed “one of the finest debuts of the year.” If there’s one thing NPR Music knows, it’s good folk music. But wait, there’s more! Rounding out the day’s lineup is a pair of excellent local acts, bluegrass supergroup the Modern grass Quintet and indie-folk darlings the dupont Brothers — one of my personal favorite

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THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Leroy Justice, Burlington Bread Boys (rootsrock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. O'BRIEN'S IRISH PUB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The House Rockers (rock), 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Dave Fugel & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio with Geza Carr & Rob Morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: The Mumbles (rock), 5 p.m., Free. The Gravel Project (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Something With Strings (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Elephant Stone, the Vacant Lots (psych-rock), 9 p.m., $8. AA. SKINNY PANCAKE: Phineas Gage Project (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BAGITOS: Dan Liptak (jazz), 6 p.m., Donations. SWEET MELISSA'S: Rudy Dauth (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. FRANNY O'S: The Holter Brothers (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Gwar, Amadis, Spit Jack, Vaporizer (metal), 8 p.m., $19/22. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Ellis Paul, Jamie Kent (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. JP'S PUB: Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LIFT: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Eight 02 (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Peep Show: Deviant (drag show), 10 p.m., $10. 18+. NECTAR'S: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Jerryfest with Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Cheney & Young (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. Smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARK PLACE TAVERN: Last Words (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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Local electro-pop auteur TOOTH ACHE. — aka ALEXANDRIA HALL — is preparing to release a rerecorded and reproduced version of her debut record, Flash & Yearn. The album, which will be released on vinyl by Feeding Tube Records, won’t hit out eager ears until September 3. However, in the meantime, Ms. ache. has been working on a trio of videos to release as singles. She’ll premiere the first, “Matador” — which, BTW, features strippers and bowling and livestock, oh my! — at a show at the BCA center in Burlington this Saturday, August 10, alongside MICHAEL COLLINS, DAVID GREENBERG and MAUI.

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local bands. Oh, and fiddle ace KATIE TRAUTZ (WOODEN DINOSAUR, MAYFLY) will both open and close the festival with Appalachian fiddle tunes, which is pretty nifty. For more info on the Valley Stage Music Festival, check out valleystage.net.

Local comedians WILL BETTS and CHICKY WINKELMAN recently debuted their new podcast, “The 14th State,” which is essentially just the two comics talking about whatever happens to be on their minds. And it’s pretty funny. For example, the first episode is an in-depth discussion of Ken Picard’s recent Asian massage parlor story in Seven Days. Suffice it to say, the comedians take a decidedly different angle on the story. Subsequent episodes have featured guests, including local comedian and actress NATALIE MILLER and film director DAVID METZGER, interviews that both contain slightly fewer references to hand jobs. Check it out at 14thstatepodcast.com or on iTunes.

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Radio Bean: Kid's music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., free. ryan fauber (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Liptak/Evans Duo (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free. ron shalom (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. Hee Hawk, 10 p.m., free. persian claws (garage rock), 11 p.m., free. ill Doots (hip-hop), 12:30 a.m., free. Red SquaRe: Bad Accent (world music), 5 p.m., free. The Alchemystics (funk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Red SquaRe Blue Room: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. RuBen JameS: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free. Rí Rá iRiSh PuB: supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., free. VeRmont PuB & BReweRy: A fly Allusion (funk), 10 p.m., free.

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BagitoS: collin craig (blues), 6 p.m., $5. ChaRlie o'S: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 10 p.m., free. gReen mountain taVeRn: DJ Jonny p (top 40), 9 p.m., $2. Sweet meliSSa'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. The Woedoggies (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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City limitS: city Limits Dance party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9 p.m., free.

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on the RiSe BakeRy: Halle and the Jilt (indie folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

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fri.09 // ANA PoPoVic [BLUES]

tuPelo muSiC hall: Ana popovic (blues), 8 p.m., $27.

two BRotheRS taVeRn: Arts Walk Happy Hour: michele fay Band (roots), 5 p.m., free. The Bumping Jones (jam), 10 p.m., $3.

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Bee'S kneeS: Joe spears and patrick murphy (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. matteRhoRn: funk collection, 9 p.m., $5. moog'S PlaCe: Tim Brick Band (country), 9 p.m., free. RimRoCkS mountain taVeRn: friday night frequencies with DJ rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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monoPole: High peaks (rock), 10 p.m., free. naked tuRtle: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., free. theRaPy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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Lady Sings the Blues Read up enough on blues singer and guitarist

PoPoViC and you’ll inevitably see her described as “one of the world’s best female guitarists.” That’s

great and all, but we’re not sure why the gender qualifier is necessary. As folks such as Taj Mahal, Robert Randolph and B.B. King — all of whom she’s performed with recently — would attest, Popovic is among the world’s great blues guitarists, period. This Friday, August 9, she plays the Tupelo Music Hall in White River Junction. JP'S PuB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. maRRiott haRBoR lounge: The Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free. neCtaR'S: Joshua Glass (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Grundlefunk, Elephant Wrecking Ball, Jive farmer (funk), 9 p.m., $5. on taP BaR & gRill: Tymes up (rock), 9 p.m., free. Radio Bean: renee & Joe (folk rock), 7 p.m., free. Twain Blue (Americana), 8 p.m., free. phil cohen (folk), 9 p.m., free. Alicia phelps (jazz), 10 p.m., free. Linear north (psychedelic, blues), 11 p.m., free. Live music, 12:30 a.m., free. Red SquaRe: Ellen powell Trio (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Barika (West African groove), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5. Red SquaRe Blue Room: DJ raul (salsa), 7 p.m., free. DJ stavros (EDm), 11 p.m., $5.

BaCkStage PuB: Little Bus (rock), 9 p.m., free.

RuBen JameS: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

BReakwateR Café: sideshow Bob (rock), 6 p.m., free.

Rí Rá iRiSh PuB: Lynguistic civilians (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

ChuRCh & main ReStauRant: night Vision (EDm), 9 p.m., free.

Skinny PanCake: caleb caudle (alt-country), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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

VeRmont PuB & BReweRy: squid parade (jam), 10 p.m., free.

fRanny o'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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BagitoS: irish sessions, 2 p.m., free. ChaRlie o'S: Husky Burnette (blues), 10 p.m., free. PoSitiVe Pie: michelle sarah (singersongwriter), 10:30 p.m., $5. the ReSeRVoiR ReStauRant & taP Room: The nEX (rock), 10 p.m., free. Sweet meliSSa'S: Dead sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free. tuPelo muSiC hall: new riders of the purple sage (jam), 7 p.m., $25. VeRmont thRuSh ReStauRant: Dan Zura (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., free.

champlain valley

51 main: cooper & Lavoie (blues), 8 p.m., free. City limitS: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., free. two BRotheRS taVeRn: Hot neon magic (’80s new Wave), 10 p.m., $3.

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monoPole: flabberghaster (jam), 10 p.m., free. naked tuRtle: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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BReakwateR Café: cooper & Lavoie (blues), 2 p.m., free. CluB metRonome: sundae soundclash Vi: rekkon, Building Blox, Deadly Viper Asassin squad (EDm), 9 p.m., free. fRanny o'S: Vermont's Got Talent Open mic, 8 p.m., free. halflounge: B-sides (deep house), 7 p.m., free. monkey houSe: Vermont comedy club: new comics showcase (standup), 8 p.m., free. Author & punisher, hexdump, Global Elite, the Goat, rEc (industrial), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Bee'S kneeS: Dan Liptak & Greg Evans (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.

neCtaR'S: mi Yard reggae night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., free.

the huB PizzeRia & PuB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

on taP BaR & gRill: Zack dupont (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., free.

moog'S PlaCe: TallGrass GetDown (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free.

Radio Bean: Queen city Hot club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., free. saloon sessions with Brett Hughes (country),

PaRkeR Pie Co.: Tritium Well & the Endorsements (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

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REVIEW this Various Artists, First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast (A Compilation)

(STICK SHIFT RECORDS, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

Earlier this year, Kelly Riel, bassist for local riot-grrrl punk band Doll Fight!, founded a new record label, Stick Shift Records. The imprint’s stated mission is to actively promote the presence of women in punk — traditionally a maledominated arena — both locally and regionally. To that end, SSR presents its debut offering, First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast (a compilation). The 13-song collection features bands from all six New England states, as well as New York. But inclusion on the comp is based on more than geographical requirements. Every group on First Gear not only shares SSR’s DIY and feminist ideals but has at least one woman or one queer member. In that sense, SSR’s debut comp represents kind of an exclusive club, one made

even more so given just how hard it rocks from start to finish. Following a brief intro track, the comp gets under way with a blistering cut by Connecticut’s Damn Broads called “In Their Hands.” A vitriolic, high-tensioned rant against, well, pretty much everything, it’s a worthy opener. NYC’s, self-described “queer grumpy transsexual punx” Penguin lighten the mood with a catchy, 1990s-tinged track called “Not Finished.” That tune sets up “Damage,” by Massachusetts-based pop-punks Potty Mouth, who are likely the best-known band on the comp. First Gear’s first Green Mountain State offering doesn’t come until southern Vermont’s Get a Grip check in with the grinding hardcore anthem “Words of Hate.” Even considering the

Wolcot, Coronado EP (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

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its ambitious poetry suggests some time well spent with Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel — a notion reinforced by the band’s reimagining of three NMH songs on its Bandcamp page. Wolcot stretch out a bit on “Juane Vieux,” a languid ballad that smolders like a dying campfire before reigniting at the finish. On “Buffalo Zoo” the band adds some psychedelia to the mix, combining angular hooks with an expansive, reverb-heavy guitar attack that recalls Explosions in the Sky. The EP closes on the title track, a dramatic, seven-minute opus that almost feels like five songs in one but never drags or seems incongruous. That’s a feat few bands could achieve, let alone a group barely out of high school. And it speaks to Wolcot’s combination of ambition and ability that they are not only willing to attempt it but can pull it off. Wolcot likely won’t play again locally until January 2014 — presumably while they’re home on winter break. In the meantime, Coronado EP is available at wolcot.bandcamp.com.

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Coronado EP, Wolcot have done exactly that. Though still saddled with a tendency toward hero worship — drummer and lead vocalist Thomas Keller is particularly enamored of the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas — Wolcot’s sophomore effort sparkles with style, energy and ingenuity that would be the envy of many far more seasoned bands. The EP opens on “Goslings,” which erupts in a burst of insistent guitar jangle over which Keller coos and croons with a detached cool. It’s the most overtly Strokes-influenced of the EP’s five songs. But it’s also undeniably catchy and gripping. “The Daughter’s King to Noroway” is next and offers the first hint that Wolcot have begun to dig deeper. More mellow and complex than the opener,

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Here’s hoping you caught Hinesburg youngsters Wolcot before the band went on indefinite hiatus earlier this summer. Because their recently released Coronado EP suggests these kids are bound for big things. With any luck, the recent high school grads won’t do anything rash while they’re gone, like go to college. Wolcot were formed in the hallowed halls of Champlain Valley Union High School — this reviewer’s alma mater, BTW — and emerged in 2011 with a promising self-titled debut. While they had yet to shed the telltale earmarks of their formative influences — most notably, the Strokes, Pavement and maybe a dour hint of Joy Division — the quartet delivered a mature and sophisticated distillation of those inspirations that inferred abilities and sensitivities well beyond their years. Given the time to grow into those influences and begin to expand upon them, the band appeared primed to make some remarkable music. On

blunt approach favored by most bands on the comp, it’s the most explicitly aggro cut of the bunch. Riel’s own band, Doll Fight!, drop in two tracks later on the previously unreleased scorcher “Swarm.” Snarling and bass driven, it’s a comp highlight. Burlington’s Poxy round out the Vermont delegation with the brisk, brief “Planning My Funeral.” While the trio of VT bands hold up well alongside their regional counterparts, the comp’s best moments generally do come from beyond our borders. Those include “Cool,” a Bikini Kill-lite cut by NYC trio Thundera, and “Antlers” from Connecticut’s 404ERROR, the latter perhaps the most polished song on the comp. Still, Vermont is well represented on First Gear, which is a roundly 12v-LakeMonsters080713.indd impressive collection of punk and hardcore music and a fine introduction to the state’s newest imprint, Stick Shift Records. First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast (A Compilation) on Stick Shift Records is available as a name-yourprice download at stickshiftrecords. bandcamp.com.

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1 p.m., Free. Eric Kehoe (folk), 7 p.m., Free. chris True (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. Dawna Hammers (folk), 9 p.m., Free. Elephant (jam), 10:30 p.m., Free. Red SquaRe: Zach ummer Band (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Robbie J (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Rí Rá IRISh Pub: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. VeRmont Pub & bReweRy: Jake Whitesell, Rob morse & Geza carr (jazz), 2 p.m., Free.

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bagItoS: Annalise Emmerick (folk), 11 a.m., Donations. SkInny Pancake: caleb caudle and Haley Dreis (Americana), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. VeRmont thRuSh ReStauRant: Gabriel (violin), 11 a.m., Free.

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bee'S kneeS: Andric severance (jazz), 10:30 a.m., Donations. Annalise Emmerick (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. matteRhoRn: chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free. Sweet cRunch bake ShoP: Don Tobey and mary collins (acoustic), 10:30 a.m., Free.

chaRlIe o'S: Trivia night, 8 p.m., Free.

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

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club metRonome: Dead set with cats under the stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. fRanny o'S: Twist of Fate (rock), 9 p.m., Free. halflounge: Funkwagon's Tequila project (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

RadIo bean: Open mic, 9 p.m., Free.

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Red SquaRe: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 7 p.m., Free. mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free.

elePhant Stone

filter elements of classical Indian

music through a prism of brightly melodic 1960s and ’70s pop rock and psychedelia with roots in the works of bands such as Big Star, the Byrds and the Animals. Touring behind a critically acclaimed, self-titled sophomore record,

nectaR'S: Gubbuldis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free. cockthropple, Bad Dog (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Elephant Stone play Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Thursday, August 8, with locals the Vacant lotS.

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

halflounge: Family night Live Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free.

on taP baR & gRIll: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

Big Sitar Led by renowned sitarist Rishi Dhir, Montréal’s

monty'S old bRIck taVeRn: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

RadIo bean: stephen callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. sarah stickle's 21st Birthday show (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions, 10 p.m., $3.

nectaR'S: metal monday: pallbearer, Ancient VVisdom, saint James society, Lord Earth, 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

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leunIg'S bIStRo & café: Dan Liptak Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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on taP baR & gRIll: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

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Red SquaRe: Ragged Glory (neil Young tribute), 6 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley two bRotheRS taVeRn: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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

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JP'S Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

bee'S kneeS: children's sing Along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations. Eric Kehoe (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. moog'S Place: Jason Wedlock (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

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

bReakwateR café: The Hitmen (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Sweet melISSa'S: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

club metRonome: Trapstyle Takeover: DJ Bay 6, ma1ach1, DJ RobDogg (trap), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. fRanny o'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

JunIPeR at hotel VeRmont: The Alex stewart Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. leunIg'S bIStRo & café: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. manhattan PIzza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free. monkey houSe: Al moore Blues Band, 8:30 p.m., Free. nectaR'S: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Twiddle, the mantras (jam), 9:30 p.m., $7. 18+. on taP baR & gRIll: pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. RadIo bean: Acoustics Anonymous (funk, country), 5 p.m., Free. cal Folger Day (folk),

6 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 8 p.m., Free. Red SquaRe: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Wild man Blues, 7 p.m., Free. SkInny Pancake: Josh panda's Acoustic soul night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Face Time Lark Upson at Blinking Light Gallery

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ermonters don’t have quite as many opportunities to people watch as, say, New Yorkers riding the subway. Still, who hasn’t found themselves making up stories about strangers occupying the benches at the bus stop or standing in line at the grocery store? In the little Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield this month, Lark Upson’s oil portraits offer an unexpected opportunity for just such flights of fancy about unknown people. The Marshfield artist’s richly colored paintings are small and unframed, but arresting — who are these people, and what are they thinking? There’s the shorthaired black woman with long, gold earrings and generous cleavage who appears to be watching some mischief unfolding to her left. A shadow cuts abruptly across her neck and shoulder as she stares askance. Is she at a cocktail party, eavesdropping on an ex-lover’s flirtation with someone new? Is she a busy mom, her eyes trained on a roughhousing kid? There’s the high-cheek-boned young man with searing, ice-blue eyes and impossibly plump lips who looks like he stepped out of Middle Earth. His cold, studied expression makes him look like he’s just committed a crime. There’s the pissed-off-looking, clean-cut man with caramel-colored skin, a dark widow’s peak and deep-set eyes. What did someone say to make him scowl so? And there’s the handsome, roguish young man whose scruffy brown beard hasn’t quite grown in all the way, staring directly and innocently at the viewer. “They come right off the canvas to me,” says Ricka McNaughton, who handles publicity for the cooperative gallery. It’s a diminutive exhibit, just 10 small paintings hanging from wire on a pale-yellow wall in a sunlit corner of the gallery. But the faces are worth lingering over. And it’s not just their intriguing expressions. Each painting holds its own with a kind of structural integrity — which, as it turns out, is the title of the show — perhaps due to Upson’s for-

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mer career as a designer and builder of homes and furniture. She began painting in 2007. Upson, now in her sixties, has always been artistic. Her mother, a painter and sculptor, encouraged her daughter to pursue painting from an early age. When the rest of the kids were learning Latin, Upson recalls, her mother called

cottage she and her husband, journalist Jack Hoffman, live in in Marshfield. The fairy-tale home, which is appointed with Upson’s furniture and handcrafted trim, was featured on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens in the late ’90s. About six years ago, she gave up her business, Lark Upson Design, for two reasons: the tanking economy and the

THEY COME RIGHT OFF THE CANVAS TO ME. the school and argued that it was a dead language and not worth learning; Lark should take art instead. Upson’s creativity was also influenced by her father, a custom house builder. “I was really tight with my dad, and we would go out and check on his various job sites,” she says. “I think I had this fascination with the carpenters.” In her thirties she studied residential construction at the North Bennett Street School in Boston. Soon thereafter she began redesigning and remodeling houses, including, eventually, the English-style

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arthritis in her hands. She turned to painting. These days Upson says she’s “hooked” on portraits. “I do it all day, every day,” she says. She began her practice when she was invited to join a group of painters who meet at artist Joan Feierabend’s studio in Tunbridge. The group of seven painters gathers regularly for live-model sessions. That’s where Upson’s people — the elvish man, the buxom, gold-earringed woman — sit and wait while she captures not just their likeness but something of their personalities. “You could say that

she doesn’t capture human presences so much as conjure them,” writes McNaughton about the portraits. To Upson, it’s all about the fundamentals. When she was building furniture and houses, she says, she followed her “love of design, love of pattern. Now I’m really heavily into light and color.” When it comes to those qualities, one portrait in her Blinking Light show stands out. It’s of a young white woman with a buoyant brown mane held back with a red sequined headband, which reflects the light from some unknown source. Her green eyes are wet and alive, her red lips tightly drawn together. She stares directly and intensely at the viewer, as if in a standoff. And it’s difficult to look away. Luckily, you don’t have to. This isn’t the bus stop, or the grocery-store line. No need to readjust your gaze when you’re caught staring.

“Structural Integrity” is at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield through September 1. blinkinglightgallery.com

Art ShowS

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AlexAndrA SAnchez: "la Vida nica," photography from Finca esperanza Verde, an experiment in ecotourism and local empowerment in nicaragua. Through August 31 at block gallery in winooski. info, 373-5150. 'AquArium': water-themed work by the Vermont glass guild. Through september 3 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458. 'ArtiStic inSightS': The inaugural exhibition of s.p.A.C.e.'s new artist membership program featuring work that highlights each artist's unique creative process and medium. Through August 17 at soda plant in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com. AuguSt Art Auction: The annual fundraiser benefits gallery exhibitions and improvements throughout the year. bidding is open in the gallery and online at augustartauction.com. Through August 30 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com. AuguSt Show: works by erika lawlor schmidt, gaal shepherd, Marie lapre grabon, sam Krotinger and scott einsig/Red birch studios. Curated by seAbA. Through August 31 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222. 'Blue': works and wares created by the studio's members, students and staff. Through August 31 at burlington City Arts print & Clay studio in burlington. info, 860-7474. Bonnie BAird: oil landscape paintings of Vermont and scotland. Through october 29 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. 'city': images of urban life by photographers from around the world. Through August 18 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. clArk ruSSell: "Mixed Media," high-relief collages and abstracts created from salvaged scrap metals. Through August 24 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4500. creAtive competition no. 22: Artworks submitted by local artists in a variety of media are up for viewers' choice award and for sale. Through August 31 at Rl photo in burlington. info, publicartschool@gmail.com. 'current work': work by member artists. Through August 31 at studio 266 in burlington. info, 578-2512.

'FAceBook 1St 50': The 3rd annual exhibit of work by the first 50 local artists to respond to a call on Facebook. Through september 29 at Art's Alive gallery in burlington. info, 660-9005.

'glASS Are uS': graal glasswork and sculpture, all hand blown and sculpted in the pine street workshop. Through september 27 at Ao! glass in burlington. info, 488-4455.

holly hAuSer: Mixed-media prints, gates 1-8; elizABeth nelSon: Acrylic, abstracted landscapes, skyway; JeSSA gilBert: "Ascend" and "entwine," acrylic paintings, escalator. Through August 31 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 865-7166.

Art on pArk: live music and local food make for a festival atmosphere at this weekly outdoor art and craft show. Thursday, August 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m., park street, stowe. info, facebook.com/artonpark. ruSSiAn celeBrAtion: This year's festival celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Avant garde with an art exhibit, film screenings, live music, readings and a potluck dinner of Russian cuisine. saturday, August 10, 6 p.m. Main street Museum, white River Junction. info, 356-2776. 'the chAmplAin glASSworkS': l. Diana Carlisle discusses the risky business of making glass in 19th-century Vermont. saturday, August 10, 2 p.m., Vermont heritage galleries, barre. info, 479-8500. Art in the pArk: The 52nd annual festival features fine art and crafts, specialty foods and live music. saturday and sunday, August 10-11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Main street park, Rutland. info, 775-0356. FeStivAl oF the ArtS: The fifth annual festival features work by regional artists, live music, a children’s art activity

open Studio SeSSion: Folks bring their own materials to create art. no registration required. sunday, August 11, 1-4 p.m., helen Day Art Center, stowe. info, 253-8358.

receptionS mAtthew thorSen: photos by the Vermont artist. Through August 31 at Red square in burlington. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-8 p.m. info, 318-2438. mAurie hArrington: watercolors by the founding member of the Killington Arts guild and art director of isle la Motte's Fisk Farm. Through August 31 at snow Farm Vineyard in south hero. Reception: wednesday, August 14, 4-6 p.m. info, 372-9463.

'Juried Show AwArd winnerS 1993-2013': new works by past winners of the gallery's annual juried summer exhibition. August 9 through 30 at AVA gallery and Art Center in lebanon, n.h. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m. info, 603-448-3117. 'Art AFFAir By SheArer': block prints by sue Adamson; blind-contour drawings by lydia littwin; and mixedmedia works by noelle Davis. Through August 30 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. Reception: Cucina Antica provides free appetizers and refreshments, Monday, August 12, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-1111.

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'chAnging FieldS': new and historical photographs documenting the changing face of farming in Vermont. August 8 through september12v-ThreeBros073113.indd 1 7/29/13 3:08 PM 1 at bailey/howe library, uVM, in burlington. Reception: A panel of Vermont farmers — including butterworks Farm's Jack lazor, Tamarack hollow Farm's Amanda Andrews, and the Farm between's nancy hayden — discuss their work. salad and refreshments provided. Thursday, August 8, noon-1 p.m. info, 656-2020. in Performance

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JAniS SAnderS: "new england: Fields & shores," plein-air paintings that capture the spirit of new england's coast and farm towns. Through August 30 at edgewater gallery in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m. info, 458-0098.

AlexiS kyriAk: "unfettered wings," still-life pastels, figurative oils and drawings and a retrospective video. August 9 through 31 at Kumon Math and Reading Center in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m. info, 388-0320. mAry o'mAlley: "exquisite beasts & Radiant Creatures," small paintings with intricate details such as mandalas and honeycomb-like repetitive patterns by the boston-based artist. August 9 through 31 at walker Contemporary in waitsfield. Reception: Friday,

roSS SheehAn: "Cinders and Cones," a new body of "neo-expressionistic pop" paintings and sculptures by the co-owner of Vergennes' outerlands gallery. August 9 through september 13 at otter Creek Framing in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m. info, 870-7228.

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Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT Mozart, David Ludwig, Satie, Judd Greenstein, Gesualdo, Ravel

East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) JordAn douglAS: A collection of photographs by the Vermont artist. Through september 30 at burlington natural health Center in burlington. info, 238-8603.

michAel StrAuSS: Acrylic paintings exhibited alongside books of poetry by Tony Magistrale. Through August 31 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222.

kAren dAwSon: "why Art?" acrylic and oil paintings by the burlington artist. Through August 31 at skinny pancake in burlington. info, 865-1208.

nAncy Stone & melindA white-BronSon: "Drawn to Music," translucent accordion books and layered watercolor paintings of musicians by stone; bronze work, a wood carving and a hand-stitched landscape quilt by white-bronson. Through August 31 at the Cathedral Church of st. paul in burlington. info, 860-7183.

'lArger thAn liFe: quiltS By veldA newmAn': Contemporary fiber art; 'trAilBlAzerS: horSepowered vehicleS': An exhibit that explores connections between 19th-century carriages and today’s automotive culture; 'ogden pleiSSner, lAndScApe pAinter': watercolor sketches and finished paintings. Through october 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346.

nicole chriStmAn: "psycho Therapy," paintings and other works depicting hybrid creatures. Through August 31 at the green Door studio in burlington. info, 318-0963.

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FlynnSpace, Main Street, 802.846-2175 or www.lccmf.org Burlington, VT Paolo Bellinati, Piazzolla, Pierre Jalbert, Paganini, José Louis Merlin

Jason Vieaux, guitar, and members of ECCO

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Fri, Aug 23, 7:30pm

Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT Liszt/Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Steven Stucky, Mozart

Hye-Jin Kim, Soovin Kim, and Philip Setzer, violin, Misha Amory and Julianne Lee, viola, Christopher Costanza, cello, Ricardo Morales, clarinet, Gilles Vonsattel and Shai Wosner, piano.

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Sun, Aug 25, 3:00pm

Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT Hindemith, Alyssa Weinberg, Bartók, Mendelssohn

Soovin Kim and Philip Setzer, violin, Misha Amory and Julianne Lee, viola, Christopher Costanza, cello, Ricardo Morales, clarinet, and Shai Wosner, piano.

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h. keith wAgner: "Tar paper series," a collection of paintings created on common roofing tar paper, exploring the power of texture and memory. Through August 25 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 355-5418.

liFe-drAwing SeSSion: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. wednesday, August 7, 6-9 p.m.; sunday, August 11, 2-5 p.m.; wednesday, August 14, 6-9 p.m., black horse Fine Art supply, burlington. info, 860-4972.

'the SteinS' SAlon: how A perSonAl collection inFluenced the courSe oF modern Art': Amy Rahn gives a lecture about gertrude and leo stein, patrons of modern art in paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. Tuesday, August 13, 10:30 a.m.-noon, helen Day Art Center, stowe. info, 253-8358.

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gAlen cheney: Mixed-media works influenced by the "contemporary archeology of today’s urban centers." Through August 31 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7166.

middleBury ArtS wAlk: Art exhibits and other events pop up for the night in shops, restaurants and other downtown venues. Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m., various downtown locations, Middlebury. info, facebook. com/middleburyartswalk.

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Lark Upson: "Structural Integrity," portraits in oil by the Vermont furniture-maker-turned-painter. Through September 1 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141.

'REJUVENATION': Painterly digital prints by Hudson Valley photographer Jeri Lynn Eisenberg exhibited with the work of 17 Vermont artists in the 22nd annual summer group show. Through August 13 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848.

Lori Hinrichsen: "Mapping," images of everyday life and the Vermont landscape captured through photography, printmaking and stitching. Through August 30 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

Sam Falls & Sarah O Donnell: Sculpture and painting inspired by photography, and a light-based installation based on Burlington's Moran Plant, respectively, in the Second Floor Gallery. Through September 21 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

Pat Musick: "The Instant of It All," drawings and sculptures exploring the theme of aging inspired by the words of Russian poet Boris Pasternak. Photo ID required for admission. Through September 27 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

Sarah Ryan: New paintings and guitar photographs. Through August 31 at Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Info, 651-8834.

'Playing With Time': An exhibit that incorporates high-speed photography, time-lapse videos and animation to explore science and the everchanging world. Through September 8 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

Sarah Vogelsang-Card & Beth Robinson: "Blood Ties," a collaboration in which photographer Vogelsang-Card captures Robinson's "Strange Dolls" in unusual environments. Through August 31 at Backspace Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

'Round': Circular objects ranging from uniform buttons to oddities such as a foot-powered dentist’s drill; 'These Honored Dead: Private and National Commemoration': An exhibit that tells the stories of Norwich alumni from both sides of the Civil War, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals. Through December 20 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183.

Shaun Boyce & Emily Heath: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artists. Through September 30 at Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington. Info, 658-2739. Summer Show: Paintings by Ed Epstein, Mike Strauss, Nancy Tomzcak, Chelsea Piazza and Lin Warren; photographs by Jim Moore; sumi-ink work by Aya Itagaki; and collage work by Arthur Penfield Tremblay. Curated by BCA. Through August 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

'Service and Sacrifice: Vermont’s Civil War Generation': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the Civil War dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout Vermont. Through November 30 at Vermont History Center in Barre. Info, 479-8500.

Susan Abbott: "Vermont Journal: Small Paintings from Four Seasons," plein-air work by the Vermont artist. Through August 31 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

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Suzanne Dollois: Photographic work by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614. Tessa Holmes: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016.

H. Keith Wagner harnesses the textural power of that construction material in his

'This Was Me: Self-Taught Art from the G.R.A.C.E. Gallery Collection': Thirty works by nearly a dozen artists affiliated with Hardwick's community-art organization, including Gayleen Aiken and Larry Bissonnette. Through September 26 at New City Galerie in Burlington. Info, 735-2542.

through August 25. Wagner’s subdued, almost nostalgic landscape paintings convey

'Traces': Mark Waskow and Jean Cherouny present an exhibit inspired by performance artists who create a "trace," something that is directly or indirectly related to the performance that will survive the performance. Curated by SEABA. Through August 30 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 651-9692.

of minimalism” becomes apparent in the simple yet evocative designs. Pictured:

'Wyeth Vertigo': Works by three generations of one of the most influential families in modern American art — N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Through October 31 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. Zelde Grimm: Pen-and-ink drawings in vintage frames. Through August 31 at Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Info, 660-9005.

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27th Annual Quilt Exhibition: More than 50 colorful quilts made in Windsor County. Through September 22 at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. Info, billingsfarm.org. Almuth Palinkas: A retrospective sampling of textile art and paintings in watercolor, oil and pastel. Through August 31 at Westview Meadows in Montpelier. Info, 479-0051. 'American Dream': In a group multimedia show, artists explore what the American dream means today, Main Floor Gallery; Beth Robinson: "The Aviary," in which the artist explores what happens to birds that become comfortable living outside their natural habitats, Second Floor Gallery; 'ART-Artifact': Stories told through

“Tar Paper Series,” on display at Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Market in Burlington the importance of texture, especially when it comes to memory. A Vermont resident since 1987, Wagner works as a landscape architect, which has provided him with a sense of dialog between buildings and the land. His self-described “lifelong love “Landscape 4.” "transformed shards and remnants." Through August 31 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. Annual Photo Show: Work by Vermont photographers is shown in this 24th annual exhibit. Through September 2 at the Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield. Info, 489-2276. Big Red Barn Art Show: Two- and threedimensional work by more than 30 Mad River Valley artists. Through September 2 at Lareau Farm Inn in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682. Casey Blanchard: "Key West Bound," work by the Vermont printmaker. Through August 31 at Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5422. Donna Ellery: Three-dimensional mixedmedia artwork made from salvaged and recycled materials. Through August 31 at the Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981. 'Folk Vision: Folk Art from New England and Beyond': Works by Gayleen Aiken, Merrill Densmore, Howard Finster, HJ Laurent, Theodore Ludwiczak, Violetta Raditz, Nek Chand Saini, Russell Snow and Burleigh Woodard, plus 19th-century sandpapers, bottle whimseys and more. Through October 5 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

Gloria King Merritt: "Changing Gears," large-scale digital paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 23 at the Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 258-3992. 'Images': Nicholas Gaffney's photographs of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science; Evan Clayton Horback's collages; and Mary Mead's wood-cut intaglio monoprints. Through August 24 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. Janet Van Fleet: "Disc Course," pieces from the artist’s "Circular Statements" series, in which she employs spray paint, buttons and other circular elements. Through August 30 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. 'Journey Into Process': Ink brushwork, etchings, acrylics, oils and works on paper by Carol Cannon, Jane Davies, Tom Merwin, Helen O'Donnell and Carolyn Shattuck. Through September 8 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. 'Land on Paper': Landscape prints by artist members. Through August 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

Seth Collins: "Series of Robot Portraits," drawings in pencil and pen-and-ink. Through August 31 at Capitol Grounds Café in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. Shawn Braley: "Vermonty: Humorous and Heartwarming Illustrated Prints," work by the Wilder, Vt., illustrator. Through August 9 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. Sue Osmond: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 26 at Jacquith Public Library in Marshfield. Info, 426-3581. Terry Allen: “Borderlines,” photographs of people and cultures — including Barre's granite quarries — on the edges of society and the cusp of change. Through August 23 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, cvmc.org/art-gallery. Tom Sears: Wildlife photographs by the local artist. Through August 31 at VINS Nature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5001. 'Top of the World': Ken Leslie's paintings and unique book structures created on or above the Arctic Circle; watercolor paintings by Bianca Perren; and Inuit prints on loan from Norwich University's Sullivan Museum. Through September 1 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878. 'Unbound, Vol. III': An annual juried show that explores the idea of "the book" and all the ways artists use that format as a stepping-off point. Through September 7 at ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in Woodstock. Info, 457-3500. Vermont Festival of the Arts: The valley hosts more than 100 arts-related events and activities. Through September 2 at various locations in Mad River Valley. Info, vermontartfest.com. 'Visions of a Hometown': The Milton Artists' Guild's traveling exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the town's founding and the 25th anniversary of the guild. Through August 31 at Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier. Info, miltonartistsguild.org.

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Althea Bilodeau & Douglas Biklen: Handdyed, felted wool and silk clothing and accessories by Bilodeau; abstract photographs by Biklen. Through September 3 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956.

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'Edward HoppEr in VErmont': The legendary painter's Vermont watercolors on loan from institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, as well as from private collections around the country, exhibited together for the first time; tad mErrick: Black-and-white photographs by the Middlebury photographer, who died last year. Through August 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. ErnEst Haas: "Vanished Vessels Made Visible," historical nautical paintings by the South Burlington artist. Through August 18 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, ernesthaas@comcast.net. 'HiddEn away: 20tH and 21st cEntury works from tHE pErmanEnt collEction': An Alexander Calder mobile; sculptures by William Zorach, William King and Harry Bertoia; glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Dale Chihuly; watercolors by George Grosz and Luigi Lucioni; and oil paintings by Arthur Davies, Edwin Dickinson, Ivan Albright, John Sloan, Grant Wood, Alice Neel and Rackstraw Downes. Through August 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

JEnn cullEn: "Illustrations," pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the animal kingdom, old-time vaudeville and "razzle-dazzle camouflage." Through September 14 at Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2878. JEnnifEr stEElE colE: "Champlain Valley Scenes and Places," paintings and drawings that capture Vermont's agrarian landscape. Through August 11 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. Joan curtis: "At One With Nature: New and Revisited," paintings that imagine humans coexisting with climate changes and increasingly dramatic weather events. Through September 2 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071. JuriEd art sHow: Work in a variety of media by member artists. Through August 11 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. maizE BauscH: A retrospective of the 88-year-old Charlotte painter's work. Through August 23 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. rogEr Book: "Breaking the Ice," abstractexpressionist paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 18 at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

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'six sidEs of tHE cuBE': Work by six young artists from around the world, including Vermonters Bianca Hildenbrand and Whitney Ramage, who each engage the cube in different ways. Through August 24 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 468-6052. stEpHaniE rocknak: "The King, the Queen and Others," wood sculptures inspired by Italian Renaissance carving. Through August 11 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097. 'tHE BrEEding Bird atlas: sciEncE and art': A special exhibit in collaboration with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies features work by 14 artists and photographers and more than 300 citizen scientists; and pEtEr padua: Carved-wood birds by the 90-year-old artist. Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 434-2167.

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with a shrink, but Burlington’s Green Door Studio does offer some antidotes for the psyche this month: Nicole Christman’s show “Psycho Therapy.” using acrylics, watercolors and woodburning techniques, recall something out of a Dia de los Muertos celebration, or a cave drawing, or graffiti. While you’re

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august artists: Work by cabinetmaker Hans Jaensch, jewelers Barbara Langevin and Larry Langlais, and watercolorist Beth McAdams. Through August 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. BEn BarnEs: New acrylic paintings. Through August 19 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

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'tHE powEr of watEr: rEflEctions on riVErs and lEssons from irEnE': An exhibit that explores Vermonters’ relationships with rivers, based on interviews conducted over the last year with more than 140 Vermonters in 14 communities. Through September 7 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

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'tHE farm and food sHow': The group exhibit includes paintings by Betsy Hubner and Amy Mosher, sculpture garden designed by Rick Marsan and Nick Santoro, photos by Green Mountain College students, and more. Through August 11 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

'BEst of tHE nortHEast mastErs of finE arts 2013 ExHiBition': The second biennial exhibition offering an introduction to the strongest emerging artists in MFA degree programs in New England, Québec and New York. Through September 8 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

there, flip through Matthew Greene’s new chapbook, Patients, which features Christman. Pictured: “Awkward Years.”

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'Draw the Line anD Make Your Point: the PenciL anD the 21st centurY': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world. Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409. 'exPoseD': An annual exhibit of sculptures from established and emerging artists displayed in the gallery, as well as throughout Stowe Village and the recreation path. Through October 15 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

Lois ebY & Janet FreDericks: Fredericks creates large works on paper while submerged in rivers and streams; Eby draws inspiration from Asian ink painting and African American improvised music in her works on panel. Through August 25 at Upstairs at West Branch in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. 'new voices, new visions': Work in a variety of media by Kathleen Kolb, Judith Unger, Leslie Koehler, Sharon Moffatt, Hugo Mesa, Brent McCoy, Mags Bonham, Maura Clancy, Kristine Deeler and Cathleen Glassford. Through August 23 at Miller's Thumb Gallery in Greensboro. Info, 533-2045. sanDra LaMbert: "Artist’s Dialogue With Nature," paintings that incorporate watercolors and natural dyes. Through August 30 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, 489-4023. seLina cote: "In Foraging," a series of black-andwhite photographs that explore the artist's role as forager. Through September 30 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 888-7889. 'stowe vistas: For Love oF the LanD': The Stowe Land Trust exhibit features paintings by Vermont artists Elisabeth Wooden, Hunter Eddy,

Dorset theater FestivaL art show: Watercolors by Gloria Palmer and pastels by Ellen Questel and Penny Viscusi. Through August 31 at Dorset Playhouse. Info, 867-2223.

artsriot’s 2013 DesiGn coMP: The competition theme is “Destroy Apathy.” Design an image that examines apathy — its existence, its causes, its effects and/or possible solutions. Info, artsriot.com or hillary@artsriot.

kate GriDLeY: "Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults," larger-than-life paintings of 17 young Vermonters, accompanied by audio excerpts from interviews. Through October 13 at Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. Info, 362-1405.

‘Make beLieve’ Photo show: Calling for submissions. Roleplay, tell tall tales, wear your brightest costume and submit your photos! Deadline: September 18, midnight. Juror: Andy Bloxham. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ ex48/.

LoDiza LePore: "Circus on Broken Boulevard," photographs of porcelain figurines assembled in tableaux that confront themes such as child abuse, innocence, power and greed. Through September 18 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

‘Lake chaMPLain throuGh the Lens’: Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit framed photographs that reflect life on and around Lake Champlain. Categories include scenic, boats, action, people and pets, still life, nature and wildlife. A panel of judges comments on the works and determines awards. Submit your photos by August 19. Opening reception September. On view through October 12. Info, lcmm.org.

Peter MiLLer: "A Lifetime of Vermont People," more than 60 years of imagery by the Vermont photographer, exhibited in anticipation of his forthcoming book of the same name. Through August 14 at Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. 'reD GrooMs: what's the ruckus': An exhibit spanning the artist's six-decade career

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aligns with her multifaceted background as a performing artist with a deep curiosity in Eastern philosophy and Indian mysticism. Her work simultaneously recalls the iconography of pop and religious cultures. “The work speaks to the understanding of the interrelatedness of all things,” writes Schmidt in her artist statement. SEABA pairs Schmidt’s collages with the works of Gaal Shepherd, Marie LaPre Grabon, Sam Krotinger and Scott Einsig/Red Birch Studios in a group show at the Innovation Center in Burlington through August 31. Pictured: “Jump.”

GabrieL teMPesta: "The Bumblebee Series," charcoal drawings inspired by the drastic population decline of bees in Vermont; aLYsa bennett: "Horse Drawn," large-scale charcoal drawings. Through September 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

'traveLs with aLDen': The gallery celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, Alden Bryan, with an exhibition of his plein-air works painted in 26 countries over 60 years. Through September 2 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

Jericho PLein air FestivaL exhibit: Paintings completed during the third annual festival by more than 80 area artists. Through August 11 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

trine wiLson: Floral photographs by the Vermont artist. Through September 30 at Jeff's Maine Seafood in St. Albans. Info, 355-4834.

Jessie PoLLock: "Sensitive Chaos Redux," mixedmedia encaustic works inspired by the Institute for Flow founder Theodore Schwenk and his theories about the repetitive patterns in nature caused by the flow of water. Through August 9 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

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'art oF the aniMaL kinGDoM xviii': More than 65 works of wildlife-based art featuring special guest artist Carel Brest van Kempen. Through August 25 at Bennington Center for the Arts. Info, 442-7158.

and featuring several of his signature, large-scale, interactive sculptures, including a near life-size replica of a New York City bus, replete with a driver and passengers. Through October 20 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

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DaLe chihuLY: “Mille Fiori,” an exhibition of glass sculptures specifically designed for the museum’s interior architecture. Through October 20 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000. ‘it wouLD Make a heart oF stone MeLt: sickness, inJurY anD MeDicine at Fort ticonDeroGa’: An overview of 18th-century medical practices, diseases and the treatment of wounds for the armies that fought in America during the French and Indian War and American Revolution. Through October 31 at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. Info, 518-585-2821. m

show at the soDa PLant For art hoP: The annual exhibition, “Represent,” is curated by the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery to showcase 1 to 3 pieces of artwork that highlight the talents of each participant. Opening for the South End Art Hop, this three-month show features all media. Options for membership are included in the form at spacegalleryvt.com. caLL to artists: Great Vermont Plein-Air Paint-Out, August 16 and 17, Waitsfield. Paint one or both days. Part of Vermont Festival of the Arts. Registration and info at vermontartfest.com. reaL LiFe: Docu-Photo show: Calling for submissions. Deadline: August 21, midnight. Juror: Saul Robbins. Images that document real life, that capture the truth. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex47. oPen GrouP show at “creative coMP” First Friday of every month. $8 entry fee; limit one per artist. No rules; any size/media/ subject. Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for the month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com.

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caLL to art coLLectors: Bryan Memorial Gallery is requesting the submission of privately owned fine art by deceased artists for exhibition and sales in its galleries. The “Hidden Treasures” exhibition will demonstrate the versatility and scope of artwork in private collections that individuals have owned, inherited, lived with and enjoyed, but, for whatever reason, from which they have decided to move on. A complete prospectus is available at bryangallery.org. Artwork must be original. Deadline: August 16. Info, info@ bryangallery.org, 644-5100.

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emember George W. Bush? Your memory might be hazy. He doesn’t come around much anymore. During the last election, the Republican National Committee kept him locked in a room. These days he likes painting childlike self-portraits in the tub. And Lord knows that brush on his Crawford ranch isn’t going to clear itself. Long before anyone ever heard of Edward Snowden, Dubya was using the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens in violation of federal law. Barack Obama ran on a platform of reversing Bush’s policies, and the country couldn’t vote him into office fast enough. The resulting delirium was felt beyond our borders. In Oslo, for example, members of the Nobel Committee entered Obama’s nomination for the 2009 Peace Prize before he’d held office for two weeks. His 12 days as humankind’s beacon of hope, in fact, included a day off, two weekends and a Super Bowl Sunday. People were really happy change was coming.

And things did change. To the shock and awe of supporters, Obama didn’t just continue many of his predecessor’s most reviled programs and policies, he expanded them. Hope evaporated as he increased domestic spying, waged drone warfare on an unprecedented scale, failed to close Guantanamo, raised the number of troops in Afghanistan, deported record numbers of immigrants and conducted a campaign of intimidation against journalists, causing “a chilling effect on news gathering,” according to the Associated Press. As filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Koch Brothers Exposed) makes clear in his shocking new documentary, the president took a special interest in making life hell for anybody who felt compelled to spill the beans on government wrongdoing. The film doesn’t so much unfold as detonate. It’s a swift kick in the pants at 66 minutes and utilizes a deft blend of archival footage, graphs, subject interviews and bites from knowledgeable talking heads such as David Carr, Seymour Hersh and the original whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. A fun fact:

TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES Once a top NSA official, Drake currently works in a D.C. Apple Store and believes that “speaking truth to power is now a criminal act.” Not to mention career kryptonite.

“The Obama administration has indicted more people for violating secrecy than all previous administrations put together.” That’s not some conspiracy crank talking. It’s Bill Keller, Pulitzer-winning former editor of the New York Times. Greenwald chronicles the sagas of four individuals — Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm — with one experience in common: They discovered malfeasance within the government, reported the information to their superiors, were ignored and ultimately went to the press. OK, two experiences in common: The ordeal left their lives in tatters. Imagine a movie with four Karen Silkwood (Silkwood) or Jeffrey Wigands (The Insider), and you have an idea of how inspiring yet dispiriting this picture proves to be. After all, the bad guy isn’t a corner-cutting plutonium plant or Big Tobacco; he’s the hoopshooting idealist we made the most powerful person on the planet. Oops.

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ast January, Stephen Rodrick of the New York Times Magazine published “Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie,” a must-read of entertainment journalism. The article drew clicks with its intimate account of Lohan’s erratic behavior on the set of micro-budgeted indie film The Canyons, but it wasn’t just another tabloidstyle attention grab. Set against the background of the rise of Kickstarter — a campaign partially funded the production — Rodrick’s story had a rich cast of characters: a once-revered filmmaker trying to revive his career by making a movie outside the system; a once-hip novelist trying to jumpstart his new career as a screenwriter; and a young porn star dipping his toes in the waters of “legitimate” cinema. Swept up in the cyclone of Lohan’s paparazzi-mobbed life, each struggled to stay true to his own objective. If only The Canyons had told that story. It might have been a worthy comeback for director Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Instead, The Canyons has a way-too-rote erotic-thriller narrative scripted by Bret Easton Ellis, who explored similar material with more edge in his breakout novels Less Than Zero and American Psycho. On top of a Cinemax-ready plot, Schrader and Ellis have draped an atmosphere of nihilism and ennui, with arty shots of boarded-up movie theaters

LESS THAN ZERO Lohan and Deen plumb the depths of privileged ennui in Schrader’s indie.

and characters who make zeitgeisty pronouncements such as “Nobody has a private life anymore.” The sum of these ingredients is, sadly, neither a camp fest nor a compelling drama. It’s stagy and inert. James Deen plays Christian, who lives on his trust fund in an exquisite modern house — a more charismatic presence than any person in the movie — and keeps former model Tara (Lohan) in luxury. His hobby is seeking out additional twentysomethings with whom he and Tara can enjoy carefully orchestrated threesomes and foursomes.

As if it weren’t obvious, Christian’s shrink (director Gus Van Sant) eventually spells out the character for us: What Christian really gets off on is control. That control is threatened when circumstances bring Tara back in contact with the hunky wannabe (Nolan Funk) whose company she abandoned for Christian’s comfortable lifestyle. Christian’s perfect porn prop starts showing vague, flailing signs of having a mind of her own. The Canyons is no train wreck. Schrader uses the same chilly restraint he showed in American Gigolo — albeit now on the cheap

It’s hard to believe things have gotten so Orwellian so fast, just when they were supposed to get better, but Greenwald has done his homework. His film has just been released on DVD, and I strongly recommend it. You’re not going to see a lot about Obama’s attack on whistleblowers or on the press anywhere else. Journalists are understandably hesitant to comment. The filmmaker will even send you a copy free if you promise to watch it with friends. Google it. This may be as close to a “free press” as we get for a while. And about that Nobel Prize: This spring a campaign was launched urging the committee to revoke it. As of Sunday, more than 23,000 people had signed the online petition. Want to bet we don’t see a lot about that on CNN anytime soon? RI C K KI S O N AK

REVIEWS — to keep the sex scenes out of the realm of softcore. (The notorious foursome is shot with an ethereal beauty and little flesh on display.) Lohan breaks down quite convincingly, and Deen mostly pulls off “sinister rich jerk” — though he suffers enormously by any comparison with Christian Bale, who defined the Ellis sociopath in American Psycho. The real problem is that these characters lack nuance and depth — humanity, in short. Christian is never more than a textbook control freak, Tara never more than a textbook emotional basket case. No one in the film has motivations that transcend the obvious. Like Sofia Coppola with The Bling Ring, Ellis and Schrader seem to think that placing vacuous people on screen and giving them dialogue about social media qualifies their work as “commentary.” It’s no such thing — or, at least, no more than Bravo reality shows are weekly incisive critiques of American affluence. With those shots of defunct movie palaces, Schrader introduces a second subtext: The rise of digital distribution methods — such as video on demand and iTunes, where you can currently see The Canyons — has Hollywood teetering on the edge of an abyss. Rodrick’s story explored that subtext in detail. But it’s a mere opportunistic aside in this movie, which sidesteps tawdriness only to succumb to torpor. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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tHE coNJURiNgH: Vera farmiga plays a paranormal investigator who encounters a disturbingly powerful presence in a farmhouse in this horror flick based on a real case account. It supposedly scored an R rating for scares alone. with Patrick wilson and lili taylor. James (Insidious) wan directed. (120 min, R)

ElYSiUm: Matt damon plays — who else? — the hero in writer-director neill blomkamp’s futuristic action drama, in which the rich live in a space station and the poor are confined to a disgusting slum known as Earth. with Jodie foster and Sharlto copley. (109 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy, Palace, Sunset.)

DESpicABlE mE 2HHH: Steve carell returns as the voice of gru, a reformed would-be supervillain who teams up with the antivillain league to fight crime in this family animated adventure. yes, his minions are also back. Pierre coffin and chris Renaud directed. with the voices of Kristen wiig, Miranda cosgrove and Ken Jeong. (98 min, Pg)

FRUitVAlE StAtioN: Michael b. Jordan portrays Oscar grant, a young Oakland man who was shot by a transit cop in 2009, in this film that retells the last day of his life. director Ryan coogler made his feature directorial debut with this Sundance award winner. with Melonie diaz and Octavia Spencer. (85 min, R. Roxy)

gRoWN UpS 2HHH: Once again, adam Sandler and his pals — Kevin James, chris Rock, david Spade — engage in not-so-grown-up antics while their fictional wives watch in bemusement. In this sequel to the comedy hit, Sandler’s character confronts the past when he moves back to his hometown. dennis dugan again directs. (120 min, Pg-13)

pERcY JAckSoN: SEA oF moNStERS: The son of Poseidon (logan lerman) and his friends try to track down the mythical golden fleece to quell an ancient evil in the second film installment of Rick Riordan’s popular fantasy series. Thor freudenthal directed. (106 min, Pg. bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, welden.) plANES: “from above the world of Cars” comes this disney spin-off franchise, starring an acrophobic plane who nevertheless dreams of being an aerial racer. with the voices of dane cook, teri hatcher, Julia louis-dreyfus and John cleese. (92 min, Pg. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe.) WE’RE tHE millERS: Jason Sudeikis plays a small-time pot dealer who hires a fake family to evade suspicion on a big border-crossing run. needless to say, it’s not your typical all-american road trip that follows in this comedy from Rawson Marshall Thurber. also starring Jennifer aniston, Emma Roberts and will Poulter. (112 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset.)

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RED 2HH1/2: audiences cottoned to the first action flick about retired secret agents kicking ass like folks half their age. So here comes the sequel, in which bruce willis gets the team together again to chase a rogue nuclear device. with John Malkovich, helen Mirren and anthony hopkins. dean (Galaxy Quest) Parisot directed. (116 min, Pg-13) R.i.p.D. H1/2: They tried to clone the Men in Black formula with dead people? Ryan Reynolds plays a cop who investigates his own murder as part of a special squad composed of the undead. Jeff bridges is his partner. Robert (Red) Schwentke directed. (96 min, Pg-13) tHE SmURFS 2HHH: Oh, no! gargamel has abducted Smurfette! and he’s building an army of naughties! Or something. The tiny, collectivist blue gnomes star in their second animated adventure for the family audience. with the voices of hank azaria, neil Patrick harris, Katy Perry and Jayma Mays. Raja gosnell directed. (104 min, Pg) tURBoHHH: The latest lovable underdog (so to speak) to star in a kids’ movie is a garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500, voiced by Ryan Reynolds. david Soren directed the dreamworks animation, with voice work from Paul giamatti, Michael Peña and Snoop dogg. (96 min, Pg)

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pAciFic RimHHHH: giant robots piloted by humans fight giant alien monsters in this big, loud, effects-heavy flick from … wait, Pan’s Labyrinth director guillermo del toro? we guess there’s a chance it’s not Transformers Redux. Idris Elba, charlie hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi star. (131 min, Pg-13)

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mUcH ADo ABoUt NotHiNgHHHH: do you love word play? are you kind of a geek? have you ever wanted to see capt. Malcolm Reynolds play Shakespeare’s dogberry? director Joss whedon obliges you with this version of the bard’s comedy set in modern la and starring amy acker, alexis denisof and nathan fillion. (109 min, Pg-13)

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BEFoRE miDNigHtHHHH: In Before Sunrise (1995), two young people played by Julie delpy and Ethan hawke met; in Before Sunset (2004), they got serious. In the final installment of writer-director Richard linklater’s trilogy about love and growing up, they’re committed — but that doesn’t mean the story’s over. with Seamus davey-fitzpatrick. (108 min, R)

i’m So EXcitEDHHH: an airplane crew tries desperately to distract passengers facing their likely deaths in a doomed jet in the latest sortof-comedy from writer-director Pedro almodóvar. with Javier cámara, lola dueñas, cecilia Roth and cameos from antonio banderas and Penelope cruz. (95 min, R)

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2 gUNSHHH: Mark wahlberg and denzel washington play a dEa agent and a naval intelligence officer who start out as adversaries but find themselves fighting a common enemy in this action flick from director baltasar (Contraband) Kormákur. with Paula Patton and bill Paxton. (109 min, R)

tHE HEAtHHHH: an uptight fbI agent is forced to partner with a free-wheeling boston cop in this buddy comedy starring Melissa Mccarthy and Sandra bullock. guess which one plays which? with demián bichir, Marlon wayans and Jane curtin. Paul (Bridesmaids) feig directed. (117 min, R)

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wednesday 7 — thursday 8 2 Guns 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. The conjuring 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10. Despicable me 2 3:10, 5:20. *Elysium Thu: 10. Grown Ups 2 12, 4:45, 9:30. The Heat 2:15, 7. Pacific Rim Wed: 9:20. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters 12:10, 9:30. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters 3D 2:30, 4:50, 7:10. *Planes 3D Thu: 7. Red 2 12:40, 7:30, 10. The Smurfs 2 in 3D 2:40, 5, 7:20. The Smurfs 2 12:20, 9:40. turbo 2:30. turbo 3D Wed: 12:20, 4:40, 6:50. Thu: 12:20, 4:40. *We're the millers 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. The Wolverine in 3D 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30. The Wolverine 12:30, 3:15, 6, 8:45. friday 9 — thursday 15 2 Guns 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. The conjuring 5:10, 9:55. Despicable me 2 3:10, 5:20. *Elysium 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50. Grown Ups 2 12, 4:45, 9:30. The Heat 2:15, 7. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters 12:10, 9:30. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters 3D 2:30, 4:50, 7:10. *Planes 12:50, 9:30. *Planes 3D 3, 5:10, 7:20. Red 2 12:40, 7:30, 10. The Smurfs 2 in 3D 2:40, 5, 7:20. The Smurfs 2

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mARQUIS tHEAtRE Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841

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mERRILL’S RoXY cINEmA 222 College St., Burlington, 8643456, merrilltheatres.net

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PALAcE 9 cINEmAS 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

friday 9 — thursday 15 A Band called Death Fri: 8:45. Blackfish Fri: 6, 8. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30, 6, 8. Mon to Thu: 6, 8. The Way, Way Back Fri: 6:30. Sat and Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 8:30.

wednesday 7 — thursday 8 2 Guns Wed: 1, 4:20, 7:10, 9:25. Thu: 1, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50. The conjuring Wed: 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9. Thu: 1:15, 4, 6:40. Despicable me 2 Wed: 12:50, 8:40. Thu: 12:50, 6:20. Despicable me 2 3D Wed: 3:10, 6:20. Thu: 3:10, 9. *Elysium Thu: 10. Grown Ups 2 Wed: 1:10, 3:50, 6, 8:20. The Heat Wed: 4:30, 6:55, 9:20. Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters 3:40, 6:50. *Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters in 3D 12:45, 6:35. *Planes Thu: 7, 9:15. The Smurfs 2 Wed: 12:55, 3:20, 6:10, 8:30. turbo Wed: 12:30, 2:30. Thu: 1:10, 3:50. *We're the millers Wed: 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15. Thu: 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40. The Wolverine 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10.

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wednesday 7 Pacific Rim 6:45, 9:15. R.I.P.D. 7, 9:10. The Wolverine 7, 9:15. thursday 8 — thursday 15 *Planes Thu to Fri: 7, 9. Sat and Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9. Mon to Thu: 7, 9. *We’re the millers Thu to Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat and Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 7, 9:15. The Wolverine Thu to Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat and Sun: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 7, 9:15.

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tHE WolVERiNEHH1/2: Not to be confused with X-Men Origins: Wolverine! No, now the beclawed mutant superhero (Hugh Jackman) is doing his fighty thing in present-day Japan, facing ninjas and the prospect of mortality. With Rila Fukushima, Will Yun Lee and Famke Janssen. James (Knight and Day) Mangold directed. (136 min, PG-13)

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Michigan’s Ingham County District Court ordered a 28-year-old man convicted of fraud to be fingerprinted at his own expense. He paid the $16 cost with a credit card that had been reported stolen, according to Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth, and was taken into custody. (Associated Press) Anthony J. Thomas, 33, walked into a gas station in Ocala, Fla., to apply for a job, but when the clerk turned away, Thomas stole $130 from the cash register. Sheriff’s deputies identified Thomas as their suspect by using information he had provided on his job application. (Orlando’s WESH-TV)

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Human urine can be used to charge cellphones, according to scientists at the University of West England. Their report in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics explains that as urine passes through microbial fuel cells, bacteria consume it and release electrons, which generate an electrical current. (ScienceNow)

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Authorities accused United Airlines employee Sean Crudup and his fiancée, Raychas Thomas, of stealing luggage in the confusion following the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport. Prosecutors said the couple helped themselves to unclaimed luggage piling up in the baggage area and then exchanged some of the contents for $5000 cash at a nearby Nordstrom department store. (CNN)

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Because homeowners who lease rooftop solar panels to reduce their monthly electricity bills are costing the Arizona Public Service Co. money, the utility has proposed charging customers who install the panels anywhere from $50 to more than $100 a month. APS said solar customers don’t pay enough for its services, which include providing electricity at night and during the day when power consumption exceeds the amount the panels supply. “What we are hearing from solar-leasing companies is that you are picking an alternative to your utility when you go solar,” Jeff Guldner, APS senior vice president of customers and regulation, said. “You actually need the grid 24 hours a day.” (Phoenix’s Arizona Republic)

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A New York City woman tried ridding her two-room apartment of insects by setting off 40 foggers, or bug bombs. According to Robert G. Byrnes, the city’s chief fire marshal, she failed to turn off her oven’s pilot light, and the resulting explosion blew out the back wall of the apartment and caused a partial collapse of the building. It also ignited a fire that injured 12 people, three of them critically. (New York Times) Authorities charged Oklahoma mother Shana Suggs, 25, with child abuse after she poured gasoline over her 5-yearold daughter’s head to treat head lice. According to an affidavit filed in Pittsburg County District Court, a space heater ignited the gasoline and burned the girl and Suggs, who faces a life sentence. (Oklahoma City’s KWTV-TV)

This Ain’t No Karaoke

American tourist Bobby Ray Carter Jr., 51, was killed at a bar in Thailand’s Krabi province after he insisted on singing with the band. “Witnesses said Carter got angry when the band played ‘Hotel California’ instead of the song he requested, and he refused to step down,” Krabi city police chief Col. Taksin Pochakorn said. The band then stopped playing and argued with Carter until at some point one of the musicians stabbed Carter in the chest. (Associated Press)

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Some wealthy visitors to Disney World are hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they don’t have to wait in lines. Social researcher Wednesday Martin, who said she uncovered this underground network while studying New York City’s Park Avenue elite, said the black-market Disney guides charge $130 an hour. Instead of having to wait hours in lines, Disney allows guests with wheelchairs or mobility scooters to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance” at the front of each attraction. “It’s insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully,” Martin said. (New York Post)

Lost and Loster

Amy Stiner, 37, and Melissa Moyer, 38, got lost while hiking in Maine’s Rogue Bluffs State Park and called for help. After a landowner found them, a park warden drove them to their vehicle. Instead of returning to town, the women headed in the other direction and followed a boat ramp into the ocean, where, Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith said, they drowned. (Associated Press)

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world in which everything fits,” writes taurus author Annie Dillard, “but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air.” I recommend you try on her perspective for size. for now, just forget about scrambling after perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you might have for smooth propriety. be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and breezy. feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty you’re embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all of its paradoxes and mysteries.

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Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities you’d actually like to cultivate in the future. I’m thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): studies show that when you’re driving a car, your safest speed is five miles per hour higher than the average rate of traffic. faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. traveling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, I’d like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through life’s challenges in the coming week. Don’t dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but don’t race along at a breakneck pace. caNceR (June 21-July 22): The key theme

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this week is relaxed intensification. your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to you — but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. to accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. you do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world.

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sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): you have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It’s best not to go too far, of course. you should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. but you’ve certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents.

jazz singer billie Holiday was the great-granddaughter of a slave. by the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American south were no longer “owned” by white “masters,” but their predicament was still extreme. racism was acute and debilitating. Here’s what billie wrote in her autobiography: “you can be up to your boobies in white satin, with

(oct. 23-nov. 21): Monmouth Park in new Jersey hosts regular horse races from May through november. During one such event in 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything finished first, just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow. I suspect that there’ll be a comparable outcome in your life sometime soon. revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and expresses the truth. I advise you to bet on the option that’s forthcoming and communicative, not the one that’s furtive and withholding.

caPRicoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When I was 19, a thug shot me in the butt with a shotgun at close range. to this day, my body contains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. They have caused some minor health problems, and I’m always queasy when I see a gun. but I don’t experience any routine suffering from the wound. Its original impact no longer plagues me. What’s your own personal equivalent of my trauma, Capricorn? A sickness that racked you when you were young? A difficult breakup with your first love? The death of someone you cared about? Whatever it was, I suspect you now have the power to reach a new level of freedom from that old pain. aQuaRius

(Jan. 20-feb. 18): Want to take full advantage of the sexy vibes that are swirling around in your vicinity? one thing you could do is whisper the following provocations in the ear of anyone who would respond well to a dose of boisterous magic: 1. “Corrupt me with your raw purity, baby; beguile me with your raucous honesty.” 2. “I finally figured out that one of the keys to eternal happiness is to be easily amused. Want me to show you how that works?” 3. “I dare you to quench my thirst for spiritual sensuality.” 4. “Let’s trade clothes and pretend we’re each other’s higher selves.”

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put their faith in religion or science or political ideologies. english novelist J.G. ballard placed his faith elsewhere: in the imagination. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,” he wrote, “to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” As you make your adjustments and reconfigure your plans, Pisces, I suggest you put your faith where ballard did. your imagination is far more potent and dynamic than you realize — especially right now.

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gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what billie experienced, Virgo. but I’m wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, now’s the time to push for more freedom.

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I’m in the best relationship of my life, and the sex is awesome and plentiful. The thing is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get off outside of masturbation. I have orgasmed with him, but not nearly as much as he thinks. I started faking it with guys a couple of lovers ago — I didn’t want them to feel slighted when I couldn’t come. I enjoy sex — love it, actually. I enjoy it with or without orgasms. However, I have had relationships in the past where I could come every time, and that just hasn’t been the case these last few years. I’m a woman in my late forties, and I’m wondering if that has something to do with it. Have I masturbated too much? I can’t tell my current lover. I’m afraid it would spawn a major trust issue (that I probably deserve).

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You didn’t want the guys to feel slighted, but who were you really slighting? In the end, faking orgasms hurts you the most, and now you’re stuck between an orgasm and a hard place. You didn’t break your vagina by masturbating too much, but you should talk to your doctor if you’re experiencing a sharp decline in sexual function. Getting older means a drop in hormone levels that can lead to decreased sex drive or vaginal dryness — not exactly a recipe for multiple orgasms. Talk it through with your lady-doc and see if you gain any insights. In the meantime, it’s time to get real with your man. I normally advocate for all-out honesty, but in this instance, I advise taking a more roundabout approach. Telling your boyfriend that you’ve been faking it could give him a serious case of performance anxiety and derail your sex life. Rather, pledge to be truthful from here on out. If you know you’re not going to orgasm, gently stop the action and let him know you’re not getting there. Sure, it might bruise his ego and cause some awkward moments, but being honest with him will increase intimacy — and that just might cause more orgasms. In these instances, consider lending a helping hand to propel you over the edge — stimulating yourself during sex can lead to explosive climaxing. Getting to an honest place with your boyfriend and doctor is the key here — being truthful might just be the sexiest thing you’ve ever done.

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On a Boat! Chris: You were looking for your friends; I was looking for mine. We both thought on a boat, they shouldn’t be hard to find. Instead, I met a guy from Hartford considering a move to VT, looking very cute in a white shirt with an AE. Would have liked to talk more but our friends appeared. Meet up again on purpose? When: Saturday, August 3, 2013. Where: Pleasuredome cruise on the lake. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911485 you brought bike back! Hey dude! Thanks for bringing my coworkers’ bike back! I am serious that we can help you find another bike. Check back with us! We know you really liked that bike and want to help you find one that you like as much because you were so honest in bringing it back. Thanks! When: Saturday, August 3, 2013. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911484 Manager at The Gap downtown I was window shopping, stalling time before an apt. I walked into the Gap (one of my fave stores) but you made me love it more. Yes, you. Love your height, your petiteness and those eyes. You had me at “Can I help you?” Yes, reply and be mine. When: Friday, August 2, 2013. Where: downtown square mall. You: Man. Me: Man. #911482 Hotel Yorba Civil Union Dancer I was watching with one eye on the other side. It might sound silly: let’s get married. I’ll be glad to see you later. When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: five years ago at the Intervale. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #911481 Beauty At The Credit Union I thought I saw you smile as I came in. I looked forward to straightening the brochures for you again, but the woman with sunglasses got there first. Maybe I can buy you coffee instead? When: Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Where: So. Burlington VFCU. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911480 After midnight Late night drink after work, I was venting at the bar. You told me I was pretty. I asked you your name as you got on your bike. Hope to see you around. When: Thursday, August 1, 2013. Where: the Monkey House. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911479

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McHottie To My SR McHottie: Happy anniversary my sweet darling. I am blessed to have you in my life. Love, Febreze When: Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Where: South Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911478 You gave me a fig We were both standing in line at the cash register. I asked you about the fresh figs you were purchasing, and you gave me one to try. Can I buy you coffee? When: Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Where: City Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911477 Wednesday tpt Kicking myself right now for not making a move. Just signed up for I spy. You had strawberry blond hair with hot pink tips. Think you may be my type. Hope you read tot Wednesday afternoon, me in bright green shirt! When: Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Where: Three Penny Taproom. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911476 North Beach with Cyrus Saw you with your dog at North Beach (Burlington beach) today, Cyrus was the name? I hope to see you again at the beach sometime. Coffee? When: Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Where: North Beach. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911475 “Wanna play a game?” Whether my hand is in 6’’ of warm toilet water or I’m licking uncleaned surfaces, a smile is ever present on my face because I’m with you. When: Sunday, November 11, 2012. Where: picking up her bike from underneath a bus. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911474

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Long hair with a Lawn Chair You may or may not have intentionally bumped into me while leaving Tuesday Night Live. I may or may not have awkwardly mentioned you had a cute dog as I left. You’re were beautiful. Try it again; I dare ya. When: Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Where: Johnson, Tuesday Night Live. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911472 Essex Mini Golfing on Tuesday Saw you at Mini Golf in Essex. You were golfing with a young boy. I was golfing with my rambunctious “little sister.” You let us play through. Your game was much more serous than ours. Would love to play a round with you sometime. When: Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Where: Essex Family Fun Center. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911471 Running through my mind:) Saw you running today in a blue tank top up the north end of Riverside then again up Willard. I was surprised to see you the second time. Would love to run with you sometime. When: Monday, July 29, 2013. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911470 Kit-Kat I know I’m not a lacrosse coach but I still wonder if you figured out how to pour it through the straw? May I have a little of that sugar? When: Sunday, July 28, 2013. Where: in a sundress. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911468 Nick at VTFCU ... at least I think that’s your name. I’ve never seen you there before but you helped me twice this week. I came in Saturday with black pants and a pink shirt. You have a confident air about you. I like it. I bet you’re good for a laugh. Beer and a chat sometime? When: Saturday, July 27, 2013. Where: South Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911467 Eden Bella Oakledge We met Saturday afternoon at Oakledge. You had your friend’s dog. We talked about North Carolina, Singapore and Burton. Thought I’d get a chance to ask for your number but your friend stayed pretty close. Didn’t want to be rude at the moment, but you’ve been on my mind since. Let’s get a drink. When: Saturday, July 27, 2013. Where: Oakledge. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911466 Honey Boo Boo You found me with a broken wing and helped pick me back up again. I’ll always cherish and adore you for this and am forever grateful. I think ‘Ole Blue Eyes said it best when he sang “there’s no nicer witch than you!” See you in the ferns sometime soon! When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Where: catching my fall. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911465 Bob’s Auto T-shirt runner You said you would need padding. I have padding for you if you want. Yes, we learn from more experienced people. I’m all ears. When: Sunday, July 28, 2013. Where: bike path near Leddy. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911464 Pearl Street Laundromat We talked for all of a few minutes while I did laundry. We were talking about tattoos and you agreed that it depends where on how much it hurts. I would have tried to get your name but my roommate was rushing me out so we wouldn’t be late. Talk for more than a minute without my roommate rushing me? When: Thursday, July 25, 2013. Where: Pearl St. laundromat, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #911462

Inside Scoop in Brandon, Vt I heard someone call you Julie. I looked into your eyes and got so flustered that I tried to order a nonexistent ice cream flavor. I would love to take you to dinner or just coffee but I’m too shy to ask you out face to face so I’m really hoping you read this post. When: Saturday, July 20, 2013. Where: Inside Scoop Brandon,Vt. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #911461 Steph If you’re out there somewhere reading this, just want you to know that I will never forget you, and I hope you still have my hoodie. When: Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Where: studio apt. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #911460 Kayaking pic on card You have a picture of yourself kayaking on your credit card. You come through my line a lot. Your name is Timothy. I would like to see you again, maybe coffee? You know where I work. When: Friday, July 26, 2013. Where: Staples. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911459 Sweet onion chicken teriyaki You were standing in line at Subway in the UMall wearing a BFA lanyard. We talked about kids on leashes. I introduced myself but didn’t catch your name. I was wearing a white top and glasses. Coffee or Subway sometime? When: Friday, July 26, 2013. Where: University Mall. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911458 John are you happy now? A passionate PCV to her love: Come live with me and be my love; and we will all the pleasures prove. That hills and valleys, dale and field, and all the craggy mountains yield. When: Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Where: the monkey. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911457 Huge White Dog, Battery Concert June 25th. You: green T-shirt, green chair, great smile. Your huge, white dog-beast was cute, too! Me: red dress, orange sweater, purple blanket. My hair is almost as long as your dog’s. I was about to stop my drooling and say hi, but you’d left early. Whimper! If you’re single and like treats, I’d love to buy you one. When: Thursday, July 25, 2013. Where: lawn of June 25th Battery Park concert. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911456 Babe in the Blue Prius I see you getting out of your car on Willard and I get excited. Watching you walk down the street toward the apartment is my favorite part of the day. You are smoking hot and the coolest person I have ever met. I could spend my life with you! When: Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Where: N. WIllard Street. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911455 Sexy Brunette at Leunig’s You sat a seat away from me at the bar having a glass of wine before heading to a meeting. Wished I had struck up a conversation as I sensed some chemistry between us. I’m downtown a lot; maybe I will see you again? When: Thursday, July 25, 2013. Where: Leunig’s Bistro. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911454

Feeling It Reflecting, I see the many ways your experience proves right, and in my youth, I was stumbling, immature, trying to integrate my own story as agent of the big story. But when the mystery of cool fall air comes through I can recall, distinguish, the difference, where the balance of love, light and mystery matter most. When: Thursday, July 25, 2013. Where: in the cool mystery. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911453 Military man at subway You were in uniform. Tall and very handsome. You arrived the same time I did in a black government focus. You were meeting a superior perhaps? I was in hospital scrubs. We exchanged glances more than once. I’d like to run into you again ... maybe another lunch date? When: Thursday, July 25, 2013. Where: Subway on Williston Road. You: Man. Me: Woman. #911452 Rutland County Girl To Be I am so excited to see what becomes of this. To be able to kiss your face more than once a month, and go on so many more adventures. I want to experience so much with you, and this just might be the opportunity we have been waiting for. It’s gonna be super fun to see what happens!!! :) When: Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Where: under the Blob. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911450 Sweet Sunday at da Puppet To the dark-haired beauty who greeted me with the best smile as I meandered up da hill to the next part of da show: thank you. Truly hoping to hear from you! PS: I was carrying a purple yoga mat and you were standing with some friends. Peace. When: Sunday, July 21, 2013. Where: Bread and Puppet, Glover. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911448 Melody at Three Penny Bathroom You appreciated my laugh as you exited the bathroom after forgetting to lock the door. You also appreciated my “Christmas colors.” I appreciated your smile and the fact that a toilet sparked conversation. You were leaving with someone (boyfriend?). If not, the parenthetical would love to meet for a drink. I’ll stand guard at the bathroom door this time. When: Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Where: Three Penny Taproom. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911447 Number 27 tattoo We met in Bagitos over the weekend. I asked you about the significance of the roman numeral number 27 tattoo on your right hand. You said it was your favorite number. I regret not talking to you more and maybe asking you out. When: Saturday, July 20, 2013. Where: Bagitos in Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #911446

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