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Tuesday, November 30, opposing the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts. In it, he railed against “the crooks on Wall Street” and described the U.S. as a “banana republic.”

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12/2: The competition is fierce in this year’s Vermont Folklife Center gingerbread contest.

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The article “Growing at the Intervale” [“Side Dishes,” November 17] stated that the Intervale Center’s new executive director, Travis Marcotte, will be taking charge of moving Intervale Compost Products to its new location in Williston.

To clarify this point, we are delighted to work with Travis as we turn the property, where ICP currently resides, back over to the Intervale Center.

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I called 911. Though I had received no notice, the city had towed my vehicle for just two allegedly unpaid $12 tickets that were less than six months old. One had been paid in time, but the city failed to process the payment. I received no notice of the other — no ticket, no letter, nothing. I can’t know whether it was valid, and had no chance to pay it on time.

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People should not be unjustly taxed [“Blurt,” November 19]. I agree with conservatives on this point, but a softdrink tax is clearly justified. Taxes like this may, on the surface, appear to be an effort by the government to tell people what to do. But the reason they are justified is to hold people and companies accountable for the costs they attempt to externalize. Who should pay for these costs other than those who benefit from them, or whose negligence creates them? Both the companies who sell sugar water and the consumers who buy it are responsible for the health epidemic of obesity, the energy wasted on its production and distribution, and the waste stream at the end of the products’ life cycle. I propose a tax system based exclusively on accountability to

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need to come up with another name for that word that is imprinted on Joe Smillie’s license plate: “organic.” As a small organic vegetable farmer in central Vermont, I think the idea of “mainstreaming” organics is impossible, at least what I know to be “organic.” When I go into my garden in the morning, I look around and I don’t see a business in front of my eyes, I see a lifestyle — a thriving, rich, rewarding lifestyle. I know and care about all of my plants, and my proudest achievement in my garden is my compost pile for the promise it holds of richer soil.

By mainstreaming organics, that connection to the Earth, the deep care for the soil and all of its colorful products, is lost. When Stonyfield looks into importing powdered milk from New Zealand to meet its demand, and massive vegetable farms have owners who have forgotten the feel of soil beneath their toes, the “organic” that I know has been lost. What Smillie is doing is massively important and far superior to conventional farming, but can we not call it “organic”? What about “sustainably raised”? Something else? Leave organic for those who live it, breathe it and love it — not for those simply looking for a profit.

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Free speech: Bible references are now AOK on VT plates. What else BLEWBY the DMV?

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Stuck in Vermont: 12/4/10. Chili Polar Ride & Cook-Off. Green Mountain HarleyDavidson’s Chili Polar Ride & Cook-Off, which benefited the Burlington Emergency Shelter, was canceled due to snow, but Mr. and Mrs. Biker Claus kept the mood jolly.

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First Fiddle Classic American carols morph into rousing reels and sprightly jigs when fiddling phenom Eileen Ivers gets her hands — or rather, her bow — on them.

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You know his voice: It has aired on “A Prairie Home Companion” since 1974. The man behind the variety show strays from the radio to deliver A Garrison Keillor Christmas in person at the Paramount Theatre.

His solo act promises a generous serving of witty and wise Lake Wobegon tales, and more.

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Heavier Things Got leather? There’s plenty of it in supply at the Monkey House this Friday, when local heavy-metal band Amadis release Hell Devil!, their latest CD. Dubbed “Burlington’s reigning cock-rocking metal maniacs” by music editor Dan Bolles in a recent album review, the crew delivers unhinged vocals amid keyed-up, orchestral soundscapes.

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SATURDAY 11 Sizzling bachatas, boleros and merengues melt the December chill at Saturday’s Cuban Dance Party. Featuring Santiago de Cuba’s Septeto Tipico Tivoli, a seven-member band that’s lately been touring the Northeast, dancers crowd the floor into the wee hours of the morning after a lesson in salsa. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Institute on the Caribbean.

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repeated. “This is a very, very bad agreement. I think we’ve got to hold tough on this, hold firm on this and not concede to Republicans,” he added.

This time, will he get in touch with his inner Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?

Sanders threatened to hold up the federal health care bill earlier this year unless there was a strong public option.

In the end, he caved.

While Sanders is leading Senate opposition against the proposed tax-cut deal, his successor in the House — Rep. PETER WELCH (D-VT) — is leading a similar effort there.

“We oppose acceding to Republican demands to extend the Bush tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires for two reasons,” Welch wrote in a letter to House Speaker NANCY PELOSI (D-CA). “First, it is fiscally irresponsible. Second, it is grossly unfair.”

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Must be something in the V8 they serve on those flights from Burlington to D.C. Obama’s “deal” is meant to have something for everyone. It includes extending unemployment benefits, cutting payroll taxes by 2 percent, and other measures to lessen the tax burden on middle-class and working-class people.

Price tag: $700 billion.

“Without a doubt, the very same people who support this addition to our debt will oppose raising the debt ceiling to pay for it,” Welch added. “We support extending tax cuts in full to 98 percent of American taxpayers, as the president initially proposed. He should not back down. Nor should we.”

Democrats not back down? There’s hope and change for ya.

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On Wednesday, Burlington Telecom will be on the hot seat — again — in front of the Vermont Public Service Board.

State regulators want to know how the muni telecom plans to stay in business now that it has canceled its lease with CitiCapital. The financier can now seize BT’s equipment at any time.

As for news that the FBI has joined the state criminal review: I wouldn’t sell tickets to a Church Street perp walk — yet.

“Fair Game” has yet to find a single city official, attorney or external auditor who has been approached by a federal agent. Or by a state investigator, for that matter. Remember, Orleans County State’s Attorney KEITH FLYNN began a criminal review of BT back in February.

In contrast, a federal investigation into the film-financing scheme of MALCOLM “MAC” PARKER has already yielded grand-jury testimony, the seizure of documents from Parker’s home and an interstate pursuit of Parker’s coproducer. The grand-jury testimony and seizure happened shortly after the feds took on the case.

If the fed review is contained to paperwork, it could still yield embarrassing, if not downright illegal, acts, such as misstatements to federal and state agencies as well as private financiers such as CitiCapital.

It’s happened before. Just five years ago, a top exec at Fletcher Allen Health Care wound up in a federal country club, er, Connecticut prison, for lying to state regulators about the true cost of the hospital’s $350 million renovation. Fletcher Allen attorneys, architects and general contractors paid hefty fines to avoid jail time.

More important than who gets blamed for the BT mess — that would be Chief Administrative Officer JONATHAN LEOPOLD and Mayor BOB KISS — is who pays to clean it up.

Look in the mirror, Burlington taxpayers.

Earlier this year, City Councilor KAREN PAUL (I-Ward 6) raised the specter of the city levying new taxes as part of a longterm plan to cover the $17 million. The Kiss administration balked, saying it was too early to give up hope on a deal with CitiCapital or some other financial white knight.

“I don’t know if the city will ever see the $17 million,” said Paul. “I think people are still holding out hope, and it’s not a realistic hope.”

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“Fair Game” recently noted Vermonter Will KinzEl is a top aide to Speaker-elect Rep. John BoEhnEr (R-OH). Kinzel is the son of Vermont Public Radio news guy BoB KinzEl. The latest, according to the National Journal: Boehner has made Will Kinzel his chief liaison to the nation’s GOP governors.

“Boehner wants to harness ideas and reformist passions to reduce spending, weed out earmarks, and pick apart [Obama’s] health care law, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of stimulus spending and find ways to block or return obligated stimulus funds that haven’t been spent,” the Journal noted. “GOP governors played a big role in the nEWt gingrich-led 1995 Congress, fashioning a welfare-reform compromise that President Clinton eventually signed.”

Sounds like déjà vu all over again.

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Gov.-elect pEtEr ShuMlin announced his “environmental team” Monday, naming dEB MArKoWitz secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. He also named Vermont Law School prof dAvid MEArS as commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Enviro groups are publicly praising Shumlin’s green picks, but sources say they really wanted Mears as ANR secretary. The director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at VLS, Mears also served in the environmental division at the U.S. Department of Justice. He’s held top environmentalenforcement posts in Washington state and Texas.

Sources tell “Fair Game” it took a major behind-the-scenes lobbying effort to get Mears an interview with Shumlin.

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Mayor Bob Kiss hasn’t said yet whether he’s running for reelection, but he won’t likely survive a Progressive primary because of the Burlington Telecom debacle.

Burlington Progs are a depressed lot right now as they watch 30 years of hard work go down the proverbial shitter.

It’s almost a guarantee that Republican Kurt Wright will run. Among Democrats, it’s pretty wide open. Andy Montroll may make a third bid, while councilors Ed AdriAn (Ward 1) and JoAn ShAnnon (Ward 5) can’t be counted out. Independent Karen Paul also seems interested.

Absent Kiss, would there be a Progressive in the race?

Ward 3 councilors and Progressives EMMA MulvAnEy-StAnAK and vincE BrEnnAn are relatively new to the council; they’re not ready for prime time.

Who, then? The name I hear most often is that of State Sen. tiM AShE (D/PChittenden), who served on the city council and is a rising star in the state Senate. He’s well liked by Democratic leaders such as Sen. dicK MAzzA (D-Grand Isle), and incoming Senate President Pro Tem John cAMpBEll (D-Windsor).

Ashe tells “Fair Game” he is focused solely on the upcoming legislative session.

“I am hoping to play a big role in my second term,” said Ashe. “I’d have to be a total jerk to be talking about another office or election. Particularly one that is so far away.”

Time flies, Senator. Time flies.

Voters. That group backed Shumlin’s Democratic gubernatorial rival doug rAcinE in the primary.

Whoops.

Markowitz marks the third “rival” to get a job in the new administration.

Shumlin picked Racine to serve as secretary of the Agency of Human Services, while fellow gube contender SuSAn BArtlEtt is working as a special assistant in his fifth-floor inner circle.

MAtt dunnE, the last of the four rivals, is keeping his job at Google.

Even GOP rival Lt. Gov. BriAn duBiE is getting into the action.

He’s agreed to act as an ambassador to Québec next year.

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en. John Campbell knows something about crowd control. As a young man, the Windsor County Democrat worked as a beat cop in Broward County, Fla. It was dangerous work. He landed in the emergency room so many times that his wife, a hospital nurse, advised him to turn in his badge before he turned up dead. His partner wasn’t so lucky.

Come January, Campbell, a 56-year-old lawyer from Quechee, will be engaged in a different sort of policing. Last Sunday, Campbell’s Democratic Senate colleagues unanimously elected him Senate president pro tem, the leader of the 30-member Vermont Senate. It is a powerful and taxing job that requires equal parts diplomacy and force — minus the firearm — to keep lawmakers in line and legislative business moving.

“The job of pro tem is like a traffic cop,” says Sen. Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle), a 27-year veteran of the Statehouse. “He has to keep law and order in the Senate. John’s going to do fine.”

Around the capitol, Campbell has earned a reputation as a smart and gregarious lawmaker who works and plays hard. Built like a quarterback and dressed like an attorney, he’s known for mixing it up after hours with Republicans and lobbyists. What he lacks in killer political instinct, Campbell makes up for in personality. Working a room of fellow sentators last Sunday at the Three Stallion Inn in Randolph, he came off as a mix of backslapping good ol’ boy and humble public servant.

Colleagues credit Campbell with marshaling the votes, largely behind the scenes, to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of same-sex marriage in 2009. When some GOP lawmakers wanted to revisit the civilunion debate in 2005, Campbell hosted informal peace talks at his Montpelier apartment and invited Republicans and Democrats over for burgers and beers. The party was such a smash, a neighbor called police to complain about the noise.

“There was an elderly lady next door who just did not think anyone playing music past eight o’clock at night was appropriate,” Campbell says with a shrug.

But what Campbell will do as Senate president is anybody’s guess. Despite his decade under the golden dome in Montpelier — including eight years as Senate majority leader, the no. 2 post — he remains a mystery to some of his peers. Even the karaoke-singing ex-cop concedes that.

“It’s like there’s a question mark as to what I am going to do, how I will lead,” Campbell says during a recent interview in the Senate president’s office, a spare yellow room with two desks and a couch.

“My style is not predictable…”

Unlike his two immediate predecessors, Campbell is taking over the Senate

president’s job alongside a governor from his own party. Campbell was a loyal lieutenant to Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin when Shumlin had the job Campbell is inheriting. Campbell helped Shumlin secure votes on closing Vermont Yankee, overriding the budget and a host of other legislation. Rarely did the two men butt heads publicly.

Campbell says he’s heard rumblings suggesting that Shumlin will be “running the Senate from the fifth floor,” meaning from the governor’s office. Are senators worried Campbell will be too close to Shumlin to stand up to him if need be?

“We’ve all been so attached to Peter, and we want to work with him and have him be successful. But on the other hand, we also want to distinguish ourselves as a body,” says Sen. Ginny Lyons (D-Chittenden), who briefly considered challenging Campbell for president pro tem. Although she won’t acknowledge any concerns about Campbell, Lyons says she’s worried about the Senate maintaining “independence.”

Colleagues credit Campbell with marshaling the votes to override Gov. Jim Douglas’

veto of same-sex marriage in 2009.

Campbell admits that he and Shumlin have overlapping agendas but insists he will be his own man. “Peter and I have had long conversations, and I think he respects this office,” Campbell says. “I’m sure there will be things we disagree on.”

As majority leader, Campbell has been a trusted right-hand man to two Senate presidents named Peter — Welch, from 2003 to 2006, and Shumlin from 2007 to the present. Of the two, Campbell identifies more with the “collaborative” style of Peter Welch.

“I have no intention of coming in and being like a dictator, because, frankly, I find that to be not persuasive, number one, but very ineffective,” says Campbell. “My role, as I see it, will be to focus the Senate on to the priorities that we set as a group.”

What are those priorities?

First is the budget. Faced with a $110 million deficit, Campbell says the legislature is looking at some painful — and politically unpopular — budget cuts. That said, Campbell hints that raising taxes could be an option.

While trying to avoid specifics, Campbell

does suggest one area the state might find more money: tax loopholes that exempt fraternities, sororities and other social clubs from paying property taxes.

“No one wants to raise revenues,” Campbell admits, using the more positive “revenues” as a euphemism for taxes. “But if it comes down to the possibility of having to raise some revenue, we have a duty and an obligation to do that rather than having some elderly couple go without medicine or without heat.”

Second is health care — also a key priority of Shumlin’s. Like the governor-elect, Campbell Sen. John Campbell hopes Vermont can secure a federal waiver to create a state-level universal health care system. But he wants to a routine assignment serving eviction move forward, regardless, and hopes the papers, when his partner was killed. The trailblazing will be facilitated by a study bullet was intended for Campbell. due in January from Harvard health care “I was the first one to the door, and expert William Hsiao. there was this guy who was in combat poCampbell’s third priority is jobs: growsition with a gun,” recalls Campbell. “[My ing Vermont’s small-business economy, in partner] saw it and pushed me away and he part by connecting everyone to highspeed took the round that the guy was shooting broadband. at me. The guy would have hit me right “I’m not going to have 6 million other square in the chest.” priorities,” Campbell says. “Those are my The experience haunted Campbell in three priorities.” the months that followed, motivating him Sounds like a breeze. But being the party to become a sworn police officer. He went in power does have a few disadvantages. through the police academy and worked as You can’t fault the opposing party when a patrolman for four years in “some pretty things don’t go well, cautions Mazza. rough areas” of Broward County.

“In some respects, it’s going to be harder, “If you ever saw ‘Cops,’ that was because now they have control,” Mazza says my area. The old ‘bad boys, bad boys,’” of the Democrats. “If you want to cut $110 Campbell says. million, you can’t blame someone else.”

At his wife’s urging, he left police ampbell comes from what he describes work, earned his law degree at Nova as a tight-knit, working-class Irish Southeastern University law school, and Catholic family. He was born on March 3, went into private practice. He ran for the 1954, in New Hyde Park, N.Y., to a bartender Florida House of Representatives in 1986 father and a mother who stayed home with and almost succeeded. Out of some 50,000 Campbell and his five siblings. Tragically, votes cast, he lost by 352.

Politics took a backseat while Campbell Campbell’s younger brother Edward and wife Kathy raised three children. A drowned in a New Jersey lake on the famvisit to a friend in Quechee convinced ily’s first vacation.

The Campbells moved south, to them to move the family north. The “flatFort Lauderdale, Fla. After high school, lander” label doesn’t exactly apply, though.

Campbell attended the University of Campbell’s Irish ancestors immigrated to Florida, graduating with a degree in jour- Vermont in the mid-1800s, settling in St. nalism in 1976. He paid his way through Albans and Underhill. His great-grandcollege working as a disc jockey at a radio father William Powers was mayor of St. station in Gainesville and, upon request, Albans from 1901 to 1904.

Still, moving from Florida to Vermont can still launch effortlessly into a smooth, called for some adjustments. Campbell’s baritone announcer voice. He still deejays first law client in Vermont was a farmer with the occasional party or charity event.

Campbell’s first job out of college was a property-line dispute. When the farmer with the civil division of the Broward couldn’t pay, he offered two sheep. Thinking

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Prior to this week, only three voterregistration centers — in Arizona, Nebraska and Virginia — had been authorized to process Sudanese votes in the weeklong referendum scheduled to begin January 9. It’s a two-step process: He or she must “register” to vote at one of the centers in December, then return to the same place to actually vote in January. Sudanese who signed up in Alexandria, Va., must therefore go back there next month to vote.

Only a small number of the estimated 150 Sudanese in Vermont have been able to make the 535-mile trip to the Washington, D.C., suburb.

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Peter Deng, for example, has no car and does not want to miss classes at Champlain College, where he is a senior business major. “I care a lot about what will happen” with the referendum, Deng says, adding he wishes there was a way he could register and vote.

It may soon become a bit easier for Deng and other local Sudanese to express their views on whether south Sudan, their place of origin, should become independent from the rest of Africa’s largest country. A Boston registration center is supposed to open this week.

Atem Deng, who is no relation to Peter, predicts the local Sudanese — many with dual citizenship — will find a way to make the trip.

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That may indeed be the case. The CCTA agitators are considering formally affiliating with a national insurgent faction, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, that plans to oppose the union’s leadership in elections next year. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is currently headed by James Hoffa, the 69-year-old son of convicted felon and former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. The elder Hoffa disappeared in 1975.

Pressure being applied by Fouts and other campaigners for “union democracy” is complicating the CCTA negotiation process, Cole complains. “We feel like we’re caught between two warring factions,” he says.

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Lobel’s intercession will mark the third time the antagonists have turned to mediation since negotiations began eight months ago. The union contract expired in July, but the buses have kept rolling as a result of two extensions accepted by your purchase of $20 or more management and workers. when you shop December 10-20 A tentative deal on a new contract was actuallyto reached lastmaking month. The drivers Time start your BEADS • Gemstones • Pendants voted resoundingly to reject it, however, Crystals • Glass Chimes in a move that McNeil and CCTA general Jewerly • Quartz manager Chris Cole both describe as W e have what you need! unexpected and unusual. “When you get a PLUS - Great stocking stuffers, tentative agreement, it’s understood that the sterling silver jewelry & whimsical gifts union reps will act as advocates for it with the rank andGemstones file,” Cole says. But given the 36-1 vote to scrap the proposed pact, “that Pendants • Findings ZOE’S KALEIDOSCOPE Dog Sledding, obviously didn’t happen,” Cr ystals Cole observes.

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“We’re concerned about the safety and well-being of the drivers and riders,” says Emily Rodriguez, a UVM senior active in the cause.

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Labor Duane Messier, president of Teamsters Local 597, declined to comment on the Sunday Breakfast Club’s allegations or activities.

Remarkably, money is not an issue in this particular labor battle. Drivers making an average hourly wage of about $19 are scheduled to receive annual cost-of-living increases of between 2 and 3.5 percent.

Messier and Fouts confirm there are two main barriers to a new contract: Workers want to smooth out the split shifts they typically work, and they seek greater protections against dismissal for violating company rules.

Cole says the public bus company’s overseers “don’t disagree that split shifts are a hard thing for employees.” He argues that hiring 13 part-time drivers will enable CCTA to accommodate more frequent bus runs during morning and evening rush hours while improving scheduling patterns for full-time drivers.

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“You have a lot of senior drivers who reliance on part-time workers, who do not remember ‘the good old days’ when CCTA receive benefits. The split-shift issue can be was essentially just a lot of local services,” resolved in other ways, the workers maintain. Cole says. “They don’t necessarily agree Fouts says both main points of disagree- that these have all been positive changes. ment amount to only about 15 sentences And we do need to change the look of our in a lengthy contract. workforce to reflect Fellow Breakfast Club the new situation.” member Chuck NorrisFurther changes Brown, a part-time will occur next July driver with a PhD in when CCTA, with 115 anthropology, suggests, employees, formally “It shouldn’t be hard to merges with the get this done.”

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Some “complex and sensitive.” members of GMTA’s roughly 80-member Underlying the negotiating process, workforce used to be represented by the Cole adds, is the expansion of CCTA’s Teamsters, but the rank and file voted to operations in the past decade. Ridership decertify the union in 2004. Now another has risen 63 percent during that period due battle looms: Messier says his local is mainly to the addition of commuter runs ready to have another go at organizing to Middlebury, Milton, Montpelier and St. GMTA. m

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Soon after the Campbells settled in Quechee, John went in for back surgery for a police-work-related injury. While recovering, he wrote two still-unpublished books — a Goonies-style children’s book titled The Treasure of Shamrock Key and an untitled adult novel.

Gov. Howard Dean personally recruited Campbell to run for state Senate in 2000. The two men had a mutual friend: Frank McDougall, who was Dean’s economic development czar and a personal friend of Campbell’s from Quechee.

“He called and kept on calling,” Campbell says of Dean. “Finally, I said, Jesus, well, if the governor thinks I can do it … At the time, I didn’t realize I was, like, the fifth person he probably called.” Not only did Campbell win that year, he was the top vote getter in Windsor County.

Pinning down Campbell’s politics isn’t easy — even for his colleagues, who describe him as moderate, or liberal, depending on whom you ask. Over the years, he’s been pro law enforcement but has also sponsored bills advancing civil rights, animal-welfare protections and last session’s human-trafficking bill.

You could say he sticks up for the victim, whether it’s a cop or an animal or anyone else denied his, her or its rights. Sen. Tim Ashe (P/D-Chittenden) calls Campbell the “unsung hero of the marriage-equality effort. People need to understand that many legislators, even

some who voted yes, preferred no action on this issue,” Ashe says.

Campbell’s fellow Windsor County senator, Democrat Dick McCormack, says he was baffled at why Campbell stuck his neck out on the same-sex-marriage debate.

Campbell sponsored the bill in the Senate.

“I kept wondering what he was up to.

What’s his angle on this?” McCormack recalls in a phone interview. “Only, finally, at the end of it, I realized he never had an angle.

He thought it was the right thing to do.”

Ashe confirms, “John’s moral compass helped make it happen.”

Four weeks before the legislature convenes, no one in the Senate is busier than Campbell. His no. 1 priority is to help fill what he calls the “leadership vacuum” caused by the departure of several veteran senators who moved on to higher office or jobs in the Shumlin administration. Read: horse trading.

Perhaps that’s why he never found the time to file his monthly campaign finance reports for 2010. Campbell says he was busy running other Senate campaigns, and admits he’s “not the most organized person.” He adds, “Candidly, I messed up and I forgot.”

Campbell does have plans to redecorate the Senate president’s office, though.

Shumlin removed his big painting of former Vermont Gov. George Aiken. In its place, Campbell wants to hang his Florida Gators memorabilia, acknowledging it likely won’t pass Statehouse muster.

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We keep getting letters about the american apparel ad that ran on the November 24 “backside” of Seven Days. Some are responding to our explanation in last week’s paper; others appear to be inspired by our original sin: permitting an advertisement for “flannel” that showed a bottomless woman photographed from the side. Readers have weighed in on the prop, too. We thought the model was holding a ski pole, but in fact it was a polo mallet.

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I enjoy Seven Days on a weekly basis and am a big fan of both the print version and the Seven Days website.

I would like to say that I have never taken any issue with any ad you have published in the weekly. The responses you received in reply to the publication of the full-page American Apparel ad that was run the week of Thanksgiving seem quite extreme. I can only think these people have too much time on their hands if they feel so emotionally charged as to feel “betrayed” by the running of an AA advertisement. I believe these readers are in great need of a chill pill.

I find it sad that people often find time to criticize instead of praise. Seven Days has always been an entertaining and intelligent publication for the many years I’ve been reading it, and I hope to continue to, irritable notes to the editor, American Apparel ads and all.

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I honestly had thought more of you than to disregard your readership with such a lame excuse. I am referring to your explanatory letter why you are still printing American Apparel ads, although it seems that the majority of your readers are deeply appalled by them, such as I am. Live up to your responsibilities as you yourself have proclaimed to represent the greater community of Vermont. Don’t use dumb excuses and think that the people will buy into them. Vermonters are not stupid!

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Seven Days was once a paper I admired and aspired to one day write for — a real community-based gathering of creative imagery, stories and social staples.

However, that admiration and desire vanished, much like the clothing on the American Apparel models.

What the ad is really selling is quite apparent. The model is completely bare from the waist down, lips parted, with an empty stare. All American Apparel ads depict their female models in this sexually vulnerable and highly derogatory way.

Sexual violence, low self-esteem, child pornography, gender inequality and hate crimes are all direct extensions of images and messages such as those projected by American Apparel. As a lifelong resident of the state of Vermont and a passionate community Burlingtonian, it disappoints and disgusts me to no end that Seven Days would support a company such as American Apparel in exchange for financial support. Does the American dollar hold more power than respect for the community and the readers affected by the messages you choose to display and therefore support?

Isn’t Seven Days also the same paper that advertises for and supports Mardi Gras, an event that generates thousands of dollars for the Women’s Rape Crisis Center? Put your pants back on, Seven Days, and show the community some real class.

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I was very pleased to read letters commenting on the American Apparel flannel ad. I was disappointed in your response. I am disappointed you felt you could not say no to this kind of preporn ad. Even if it is run across the country, so what?

It is hard to believe you think the Vermont store needs this ad.

If the company is unwilling to change it, I say, “Take a hike.” Why are you willing to back down? Why not take a stand? Why let this big company control you and what you print?

A bad apple can destroy a barrel of apples.

Yes, Vermont is unlike other states and you say that is why you live here, so how come you are willing to compromise our way of life?

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I wish to thank Paula Routly and Pamela Polston, the courageous Seven Days editors, for standing up to the puritan mob. With the immensity of suffering and cruelty in the world, it is remarkable that some people evidently reserve their outrage for photographs of non-enslaved, presumably well-paid, scantily clad adult women. I am not a shill for American Apparel, and don’t care about their ads or products, but I understand that their clothes are made in the U.S. Thanks to 200 years of organizing and struggle, American workers enjoy better working conditions and pay than those in the countries where most of our clothes are made. The majority of sweatshop workers in China, Indonesia, etc., are women and girls, working longer hours, in more dangerous factories, for far less pay than would be permitted here. Are the offended letter writers bothered by this real violence against women? Have they ever read the labels on their clothes and considered the lives of the people who made them, or is nudity the only thing that moves them to protest? These letters exemplify the hypocrisy and pseudo-morality of a society that condemns its leaders for having extramarital sex but not for committing mass murder.

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Editors’ note: “Too late” to teach us anything about sex? Are we that old?

I can understand why many of your readers did not like the American Apparel ad that ran on November 24. I was surprised, however, to read how many of the people who wrote to complain were specifically upset because they did not know how to explain the image to children. I would like to suggest that adults could use an image like this, or any image that passionately upsets them, as an opportunity to have a conversation with the children in their lives about their personal values. It is not realistic to shelter children from the junk values that pervade our culture and the media. Children benefit from these kinds of talks from a young age. Explaining to a child what bothers you can help clarify the core of your values for yourself as well. I, for one, am grateful to have such a quality local source for news and analysis, and a forum for discussions like Seven Days. A truly local paper is a dying breed. Thank you!

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This is not meant to sound sarcastic or mean spirited. It’s just another perspective that did occur to me when I read that “American Apparel isn’t willing to adjust [its] ads for more puritanical markets…” I was reminded of the 1800s when abolitionists must have been characterized as puritanical or purists who were out of touch with the economic realities of plantation owners in the South. These Southerners just needed to keep blacks subservient in order to support the market.

Today women are kept in their place by the exploitation of their bodies to support the more prurient markets. I regret that Paula Routly and Pamela Polston had to submit to American Apparel’s “Run it as is.”

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Kudos to Paula Routly and Pamela Polston for their public response to all the complaining letter writers about the recent American Apparel back-page ad. It was refreshing to see the coeditors of Seven Days present their thinking on the controversy in a mature, well-reasoned manner that made sense. Unfortunately, that is increasingly rare in most journalism-media

It’s too late to teach Paula Routly and Pamela Polston anything about sex, so now every young woman and mother of such must suffer from their lack of reverence for women. Isn’t it like boxing for young males? If you don’t see how the “sport” of boxing is filthy with irreverence, it’s hopeless to argue. In America, boxing and visual sexual abuse of women are legal, and we have to live with them.

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Let me join the chorus that broke out in response to the American Apparel ad. I, too, found it appalling, the opposite of “lively and truth telling,” and a complete throwback to the stunted mentality of Playboy centerfolds. The editors’ contorted efforts to pretend otherwise are oddly similar to Bob Kiss’ insistence that BT is a sound economic enterprise. Are you guys drinking the same water?

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Whenever you guys at Seven Days print a risqué American Apparel ad, I look forward to the hilarious letters that will arrive the following week. Last week’s letters did not disappoint. The main impression I got was (a) people really do see what they want to see, and (b) they are literally complaining about actually having to be a good parent.

Really? You’re annoyed that because you didn’t bother to check the contents of what you’re letting your kid look at, now you have to take a few minutes to explain to them what buttocks are? That’s just lazy parenting, plain and simple. It’s not even a hard lesson, like death, sex, masturbation, etc. You could end their confusion with one sentence: “It’s a butt, and we all have one.”

End of story.

What happens when you’re a tourist in New York City? Do you make your kids wear blinds over their eyes and plugs in their ears? There are gigantic asses plastered everywhere on huge billboards!

Nobody in NYC seems to mind. You know why? Because they’re not so politically correct that they can’t realize we all have asses. Even animals! Snakes have them, for God’s sake!

Another thing: That woman isn’t anorexic, bound or even anything negative.

She looks pretty happy and pleased with her fully formed body, and her cute butt that you can barely see. As a parent, I would look at this situation in a sort of chickenpox way: It has to happen (or else your kid gets it at an older age and dies from it), and you should be glad that you finally got the “We all have a butt” conversation out of the way. If your kids end up being adults afraid of vague nudity, you fucked up, Mommy.

P.S. I just found out how much it costs to advertise on that back page. Deal with the ass, shut the fuck up, and enjoy your free Seven Days.

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Summa’s documentary, which he hopes to release next June. Summa and L.A.-based director John Travers have already interviewed Pete Seeger and Near. Next up is Judy Collins, and Summa is “hoping” for Bono and Browne, he says. Actress Emma Thompson, another Jara admirer who once hoped to dramatize his life on film (with Antonio Banderas as the singer), has expressed interest in narrating the English-language version of Resurrection.

Summa would like to enlist Benicio Del Toro for the Spanish narration.

So far, patience has paid off for Summa: The interview with Guthrie took three years to obtain, he says. Getting the film into its present shape — and funded — took longer.

Summa, 53, is an economist by training; he’s published books on options trading and teaches at the University of Vermont.

But New Song is his passion. Since the early 1980s, when he first attended Nueva Canción festivals as a Solidarity activist in Nicaragua, he’s been fascinated by what he calls “just amazingly beautiful music.”

Visiting Uruguay in the mid-’90s, Summa found that the venerable New Song movement was “still really alive and transgenerational,” he says. He remembers thinking, “Wouldn’t it be great to make a documentary about some of these artists?”

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In 2004, Summa put together a proposal for a film called The Power of Their Song. But he gradually realized that documenting the whole movement would be “too unwieldy,” making it harder to attract investors. So he and Travers decided to “turn this thing inside out,” he says. “We pulled Victor Jara to the forefront and made him the focus.”

They conceived Resurrection as the first film in a projected series called The New Song Project, with each film centered on a different artist.

Focusing on a compelling individual makes the film an easier sell, says Summa, especially to North American distributors and viewers: “A common character in exceptional circumstances tends to draw an audience.” With their new concept, Summa and Travers received funding

Film from the Quitiplas Foundation to make Resurrection, which has a budget of “over $130,000,” Summa says. “We have complete creative control.”

The project is transcontinental: In July, Summa conducted interviews in Chile with “all sorts of people in the arts,” he says. (Jara also made his mark on the theater as a director.) A Chilean team is still conducting interviews, and Summa says he expects to talk with former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in January.

“Very little” film footage of Jara himself exists, says Summa. “But we’ve located a really interesting archive. We’re in negotiations to use it.”

Summa and Travers also have access to the archives of Joan Jara, who runs the Victor Jara Foundation. “She understood

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n a chilly day last month, Arlo Guthrie stopped in at the 1785 Inn & Restaurant in North Conway, N.H. The folk legend hadn’t come to ski the slopes or play a show, but to talk about another musician: Chile’s Victor Jara, the subject of a song on Guthrie’s 1976 album Amigo. Guthrie was giving an hourlong interview for a forthcoming documentary called The Resurrection of Victor Jara, written and produced by John Summa of Burlington.

A leader in Latin America’s revolutionary New Song movement, Jara was tortured and executed during Chile’s military coup of 1973. After his death, the new regime destroyed most of his master recordings, but his widow, Joan Jara, managed to smuggle some out of the country.

As his songs and story spread, Jara’s name became a touchstone for other activist musicians: He’s mentioned in songs by the Clash, U2, Holly Near, Jackson Browne and Calexico, to name a few. Guthrie’s “Victor Jara,” with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell, celebrates him as a fighter who listened to the common people’s “grief and joy/ And turned them into songs.”

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t used to be that show-tune choirs were for geeks. But ever since “Glee,” the wildly popular TV show that has turned a cast of hammy teens with big, belty voices into mainstream stars, singing show tunes has been socially acceptable again. Just consider Vermont’s “Gleeks.”

Andrea Bonamico and the 25 young performers she directs in the new Flynn Show Choir are proud to be Gleeks. They’ve unofficially dubbed themselves Triple Threat — for their simultaneous singing, dancing and acting — and are polishing up songs from Broadway shows Urinetown, Wicked, Hairspray and Footloose, plus a few nontraditional holiday songs, for their debut performance at the FlynnSpace next week.

The choir will hold auditions for kids in grades 7 through 12 on Saturday, January 8.

Flynn education director Christina Weakland acknowledges that the creation of the show choir was partially inspired by “Glee.” She was looking for a way to carry

some of the energy generated by the summer’s youth-theater program into the rest of the year.

Auditions were held at the end of the summer, and, by the fall, Bonamico, the choral director at U-32 High School in East Montpelier, began directing the group with her husband, Piero. Danielle Sertz handles the choreography, and the group performs with a live band of professional musicians.

Bonamico aims to introduce the young performers to a wide variety of musical styles, including classic and contemporary Broadway music, jazz and even classical.

“By the time these kids leave the program, a lot of them will be looking for or considering careers in musical theater,” Bonamico says. “The goal is to give them the tools to be educated in those styles.”

As a musical-theater educator, Bonamico says, “The whole ‘Glee’ thing has been really good for me. It’s ridiculous and outrageous and I love it anyway.” She

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hates that the TV show Auto-Tunes the kids’ voices, “because they’re extremely talented, and I want to hear their voices,” she grouses. But the quality of performance is so high, she adds, it gives her kids something to look up to.

“Kids who watch sports on TV are seeing professional-level sports all the time, so that’s what they model and that’s

Music what they mimic,” Bonamico says. “But unless kids are going to New York or they’re traveling, they’re not necessarily seeing high-quality [musical theater] work.”

The TV show also gets kids to broaden their musical horizons, exposing them to some performers they might not otherwise hear. Bonamico was delighted when her students came to school one day and

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what we were doing,” says Summa.

“Telling the story of the resurrection of Victor Jara, not his death.”

One aspect of that “resurrection” is the transmission of Jara’s name and legend by musicians with no direct connection to New Song. When they’re asked to comment on the New Song movement, North American artists can feel “insecure,” Summa notes. “But when you ask, ‘Why did you write this song?’ they’re much more comfortable.”

Jara’s legacy elicits strong emotions, Summa adds: “Almost everybody we’ve interviewed has broken down at some point. Arlo said [‘Victor Jara’] was the best song on his best album.”

Summa has a long list of interviewees, including younger icons such as Spain’s Manu Chao. But “when do we say, ‘Enough is enough?’” he says of the film. “We have to start cutting this thing.”

Summa and Travers plan to submit Resurrection to Sundance next year and “see what happens from there.” The recession has made it tougher than ever for indie filmmakers to get distribution deals, but Summa says he has a commitment from the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles to screen Resurrection, an engagement that would qualify it for Oscar consideration.

Summa also hopes to find a “readymade market” for the film in Latin America. Posters of Del Toro playing the title role in Steven Soderbergh’s film Che are fixtures in many Chilean cafés, Summa notes, suggesting that “the younger generations are hungry for this history.” Young artists are covering Jara’s songs, too, he says: “In Chile today, that’s the zeitgeist. It’s not the past and dead.”

What about here?

Summa hasn’t noticed his UVM students gravitating toward protest music, he says. But he hopes to make Jara’s Resurrection relevant to them by “avoiding that ‘preaching to the converted’ syndrome” that afflicts some documentaries.

With any luck, Resurrection will make American viewers understand the emotions that brought thousands of Chileans to the ceremonial reburial of Jara’s remains in December 2009. (He’d been exhumed for a better-late-thannever criminal investigation of his death.)

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and Northfield. As is typical in high school performing arts, the girls outnumber the boys. But Bonamico says boys are warming to the idea. “Finally, they feel like they have permission to participate,” she says.

“And a lot of them are realizing that Oh, girls like it when the boys sing.”

The group recently performed — a sort of dress rehearsal for its FlynnSpace debut — at Wake Robin in Shelburne. Bonamico says the concert really secured the ensemble’s dynamic. At one point, she asked the sizable audience of senior citizens how many of them had sung in a choir. Nearly every hand in the room shot up.

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Steel salvaged from pre-1945 warships was cheap.

Generally speaking, no reshaping of the metal was necessary. You just cut up the old armor plate into room-size chunks. For best results you wanted battleship armor, which might be a foot or more thick.

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Why the grand design? “I wanted to reproduce Pergamon,” says Smith, referring to the ancient altar built in Asia Minor. “It’s an attempt to showcase the [solar] panels, which can be so ugly.”

On the walk across the road to the boat, Wilker points out the gold dragon that marks their driveway, part of a Vermont Castings stove Smith designed.

The land on that side was a Christmastree farm before Smith and Wilker bought the house in 1984. The tall pines stand in tight, perfect rows. Before the couple cleared some of the trees, Wilker says, “The sun didn’t come up till 10 o’clock.”

The boat looks weathered, the dock rickety. One of the wooden seagulls perched on a post is missing its head. A lobster trap — a gift from a neighbor — lies open beside the boat. A pair of pink plastic flamingos hangs out by the pines, as if embarrassed to stand near such a formidable lawn ornament.

The boat was once named Caroline.

Wilker bought it in the mid-’80s with plans to fix it up and someday take it out on the water. But years passed, and it was still sitting in the garage. Then, a good friend of the couple’s died — “much too young” — of cancer. “It was one of those events when you get off your ass and live life,” Wilker says. He bought a 36-foot sailboat.

But what to do with old Caroline?

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What’s it doing there, hundreds of miles from the ocean?

Rumors abound. Kids in Randolph say the dock owner’s wife died in a boating accident, and this is his take on a memorial. Cartoonist Ed Koren, who lives down the road, dispels that tale. But he warns that land owner Al Wilker and his wife, Vance Smith, are private people; they may not want to share their story.

A sign hanging on the dock’s entrance echoes that sentiment: “Private. Closed for the season.”

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waiting for the call. And when he and his wife welcome a visitor to their home, directly across the road from the boat, they drop everything to give a full tour.

From the moment you step into their house, impeccably designed and decorated, you know they’re both artists.

Smith, 62, a California-born architect, came to Vermont in the ’70s to work with renowned architect David Sellers’ Prickly Mountain crew in Warren. She went on to design woodstoves for Vermont Castings, where she met Wilker, now 64, the engineer who brings her designs to life. Now they run a business together called Red House Design, designing and building woodstoves from their home.

Koren was right about one thing: Vance and Wilker are private. They don’t entertain and rarely leave the property.

Neither owns a cellphone. They have a flat-screen TV, but no cable — it’s just there for streaming Netflix on Friday nights.

The couple’s initial explanation of their boat is dismissive. It’s just a folly, Smith and Wilker insist, in the sense of the traditional English garden folly — an object placed whimsically among the plants. They have a bunch of such follies on their property.

Built into a wooden wall beside the garage is a hobbit house, complete with circular door and window. When asked if the door opens, Smith laughs. “No, it’s just totally BS.” You can’t put hinges on a round door, she explains: “Those hobbits had magicians for architects.”

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16t-dimodasalon120110.indd 1 11/29/10 11:29 AM Right out of the box, in 1959, there was the problem of her breasts — that she had them. Then came her exclusive whiteness, not appreciated by the civil-rights organizations. In 1992, the American Association of University Women was up in arms about her math anxiety. (Mattel quickly eliminated “Math is so hard!” from Teen Talk Barbie’s 270-phrase vocabulary.)

In 2009, Barbie got a tramp stamp reading “Ken” — no doubt without Mom’s permission. The same year, after multiple failures to produce a credible doll of color, Mattel introduced the marginally more authentic So In Style line. But why does So In Style Grace come with a child, Courtney? Is she a single mother?

Through it all, the perennial cry against Barbie has been against her freakish proportions, which, critics say, make girls hate their own bodies.

And now Barbie is an accessory to the crime of child pornography. She could right now be grooming little Courtney for sexual abuse.

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sexed-up, dumbed-down representations of girls and women in media, fashion and toys. “Sexualization” is the purported harm attached to these images.

“Sexualization” first gained wide attention in 2007, with a report from a task force of the American Psychological Association (APA). The report defined sexualization as occurring when a person feels her value comes only from her sexual appeal; when she believes she’s sexy only if she fits a narrow (white, thin, young) standard of beauty; when she is “objectified — that is, made into a thing for others’ sexual use,” rather than viewed as an autonomous person; and/or when “sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon [her].”

The report cited voluminous evidence of the harms sexualization inflicts on prepubescent and teenage girls, from anorexia to straitened career aspirations to a failure to develop “healthy sexuality.” It placed sexualization on a “continuum” with sexual abuse and child prostitution and pornography.

Since 2007, scores of books, blogs, committees and even a congressional bill targeting sexualization have appeared.

Feminist allies climbed aboard.

Yet some of the greatest enthusiasm for the cause hails from the Right. After all, for decades Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America and the Parents Television Council have been protesting the vulgar media’s corruption of children. Had the APA called its enemy “sexism” or “feminization” — that unbearable pinkness of being female — conservatives would have stayed a mile away. But America’s moral guardians could get behind the

idea of “sexualization,” which implies that children are not sexual until someone tells them to be.

In fact, they blame feminism for the problem. As conservative writer Joseph D’Agostino told the National Catholic Register: “Back in the bad ol’ prefeminist days, when women were so oppressed, teen girls were concerned with getting better grades and improving their social graces. Now they want to look hot.

Write Gloria Steinem today and thank her for what she’s done for America’s girls.”

If you were around in the 1980s, all this may sound familiar. Back then, feminists fed up with sexism took aim at images, too: pornography. At first, they said that pornography only instructed men in violence against women. Soon, they called pornography itself violence; they tried — unsuccessfully, thanks to opposition from other feminists — to outlaw it.

The Right loved the antiporn movement. In 1986, Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese convened a commission on pornography and invited antiporn leaders to testify. Although every “harm” described by witnesses was moral — and unproven — in the end, the commission put in place what would become a massive machine of surveillance of sexual imagery, especially pictures of naked children, including cartoons. A couple I know was charged with possession of child pornography: three pictures of a naked Ken doll taken by their 6-year-old son.

And now the FBI is after Barbie, a too-willing tool for pedophiles and teen sexters.

SPARK’s leaders oppose censorship; they just want more “positive” images.

What disturbs them, they say, is how sexualization robs girls of the chance to develop “healthy sexuality” — how it renders girls “sexy but not sexual.”

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But fine distinctions are hardly the problem with this movement or the social science on which its claims of harm are based. Which are the sexymaking media — the “inappropriate,” “objectifying” and “pornified” representations? Which is the “positive” sexual stuff? They don’t say. In the end, it may come down to taste: As Ellen Willis wryly summarized antiporn rhetoric: “If it turns you on, it’s pornography. If it turns me on, it’s erotica.”

SPARKers feel no affection for the moral Right. In fact, some of their leaders — psychology professors Deborah Tolman, of Hunter College, and Sharon Lamb, of Vermont’s St. Michael’s — are among the few scholars who have studied, and affirmed, girls’ sexual desires.

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Yet the roots of SPARK’s ideals grow closer to those of Joseph D’Agostino’s ideals — and indeed, of many Americans’ — than its activists might think.

One example: “healthy sexuality.”

Everybody’s for it, but what is it? The APA says it fosters “intimacy” and “bonding” — common code for committed monogamy. It “involves mutual respect,” perhaps an allusion to what it is not: casual or commercial sex, lust for a body as a body — the dread “objectification.” “Healthy,” in our medicalized era, means “normal”; it means moral.

The sexuality that girls would develop were they not brainwashed by Bratz dolls and Miley Cyrus videos is more than a moral ideal, though; it may also be the latest version of an old illusion. For, if the 18th century invented a child innocent of all adult knowledge, and the 19th figured that innocence as sexual, in the 21st century, no one but the Pope denies the reality of childhood

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sexuality. Still, we long to protect innocence. Healthy child sexuality, unsullied by commerce, kink or even gender — by culture — is 21st-century innocence.

Since the 19th century, the wish for innocence has expressed itself in successive adult hysterias over youth-corrupting media — penny novels, comic books, rock ’n’ roll, video games ... and now the various vehicles of sexualization.

Yet what is sexualization but the leakage of history into desire?

Kids live in history. Why wouldn’t their predominant sexual style be exhibitionism, given their 24-hour onscreen lives? Why wouldn’t they seek quick hookups, when communication is a tweet or a text? Why wouldn’t kids “grow up fast” sexually — as fast as they did in, say, the 17th century — when they know and do everything else adults do: fight wars, trade stocks, survive earthquakes and exile?

Barbie is the least of it.

Thankfully, history has also given us feminism, whose fruits include not only a fictional world of female surgeons and superheroes, but also tough, talented, sexy real women like tennis’ Amazonian Williams sisters and the polymorphically perverse Lady Gaga. Were these women sexualized? What does it mean when the proto-feminist hip-hopper Nicki Minaj calls herself a Barbie? The messages — and, surely, girls’ interpretations of them — are nothing if not ambiguous.

Needless to say, Barbie took her hits at the SPARK Summit. A professor reported on a study in which one group of girls played with Barbies for 10 minutes, and the other didn’t. Asked afterward what they wanted to be when they grew up, the players said it would be nice to be a nurse or a mommy. The nonplayers were aspiring astrophysicists and bank presidents.

I looked around at the audience — confident, professional women and accomplished teenagers, feminists all. I wondered, How many of us did not play with Barbies? In fact, the talk brought me back to a voluptuous childhood fantasy: that I’d awake one morning to find the complete Barbiana — gowns and swimsuits, tippy-toe shoes and roadster — arrayed on my bedroom floor.

Media images of beauty and sexiness are as limited as America’s erotic imagination. Instead of laboring to make our children’s desires more correct, let’s concentrate on nurturing their creativity in pleasure. m

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he gruesome discovery unnerved Old North End residents and marshaled the full investigative resources of the Burlington Police Department. On the morning of October 18, 2010, 50-yearold Kathleen Smith, a social worker with the HowardCenter, was found dead on the floor of her Park Street home.

Her hands were bound behind her back, a scarf was wrapped around her neck, and her throat was cut. A medical examiner later determined that she’d bled to death.

The crime scene, as described in the police affidavit, was rife with clues: Smith’s hands were tied with a brownish-green utility rope fashioned in a self-tightening Prusik knot. Bloody footprints, made by a hiking shoe, led from the kitchen to the bathroom. The victim’s fingers were wrapped in silver duct tape that left behind distinctive adhesive markings.

On October 15, a state trooper had recovered Smith’s car from where it had been abandoned in a field off a remote dirt road in Hancock, 65 miles from Burlington. On October 21, detectives learned that an attendant’s booth at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, five miles from where Smith’s car was found, had recently been broken into and used as a shelter.

During a search of the area on October 23, police found 45-year-old Jose Miguel Pazos, a homeless man from the Burlington area, asleep in a storage shed. According to court records, a search of Pazos’ belongings turned up, among other items, a HowardCenter first-aid kit, a laptop computer and a large hunting knife with dried blood under the handle.

A DNA analysis later matched the blood to Smith’s, court records allege.

With Pazos’ consent, a detective examined the soles of his shoes. The officer recognized the tread pattern as similar to the ones found at the homicide scene. Pazos was arrested, taken into custody and later charged with Smith’s murder.

A search of an outdoor encampment behind the Burlington U-Haul outlet on Riverside Avenue turned up more evidence believed to belong to Pazos.

There, police recovered a stun gun, a piece of rope that “appeared to be identical” to the kind used to bind the victim’s hands and silver duct tape whose pattern seemed to match that of the tape used on Smith’s fingers.

On November 9, Pazos pleaded “not guilty” to four charges, including

the website Anonymouse.org, which lets users conduct Internet searches without revealing their identities. Through it, someone searched the obituaries and “cops and courts” sections of the Burlington Free Press website.

Allegedly, the laptop was then used to Google “Kathleen Smith, Vermont” and “Kathleen Smith, Howard Center, Vermont.”

“I believe that it is important to note,” writes Burlington Detective Paul Petralia in his affidavit, “that Pazos was searching the Burlington Free Press for obituaries and conducting anonymous Google searches for Smith between October 15 and 17, 2010, which is prior to the discovery of Smith’s body on October 18, 2010.”

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first-degree murder and kidnapping. He hasn’t been tried yet and is considered innocent until proven guilty.

The speedy arrest of a suspect, by a homicide unit that gets less than one murder case each year, is a testament to the detectives’ old-fashioned police work. That said, when the case goes to trial next year, a major component will most likely be evidence recovered not at the crime scene itself but through a digital forensic examination of the laptop computer found in Pazos’ possession.

This isn’t the first homicide in which Vermont police have used digital clues to bolster their case, but it reflects a growing trend. Many of the high-profile criminal investigations Vermont has seen in recent years — including those of the murders of Brooke Bennett and Michelle Gardner-Quinn — turned on key evidence unearthed through digital forensic work done on home computers, laptops, cellphones and other

personal-computing devices. As the technology used to collect such evidence advances, some commentators worry that it comes at a price — our privacy.

What did digital forensic examiners find in the Smith case? According to court records, the recovered laptop contained a four-page PDF document created on October 7 and titled “A LongTerm Survival Guide — How to Make Rope Restraints.” It featured instructions, along with color photos, of how to make a modified Prusik knot.

Forensic examiners also discovered that on October 15, presumably one day after Smith was killed, the laptop was used to access an unsecured Wi-Fi network in Burlington and conduct Google searches on such phrases as “police blotter,” “Burlington Vermont crime rates,” “Smith” and “weather Vermont Middlebury.”

On October 17, the police affidavit indicates, the laptop was used to access

and murders. A relatively new — to Vermont, anyway — computer technology known as the automatic licenseplate reader, or LPR, is now assisting police around the state in searching thousands of license plates per hour on Vermont roads.

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Yet, despite these and other successes, the use of digital crime-fighting tools inevitably raises questions about citizens’ privacy and Fourth Amendment rights. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have expressed

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it will include space to house the Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation, a new digital forensics lab for conducting training and research of both students and police officers. The center is funded, in part, by a $500,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Rajewski, a civilian, is one of only about a dozen digital forensics experts assisting Vermont law-enforcement agencies.

He’s worked on several homicides in recent years, including that of GardnerQuinn, the 21-yearold University of JONAT HAN RAJEWSKI, Vermont student DIG ITAL F ORENSIC S, who was abducted, CHAMPL AIN COL L EG E sexually assaulted and murdered in October 2006.

A major break in that case came when police identified their suspect, onathan Rajewski Brian Rooney, through is a professor a call Gardner-Quinn at Champlain made from his cellphone College and a digital shortly before she was forensics examiner with abducted. In May 2008, the Vermont Internet Rooney was found guilty Crimes Against Children of aggravated murder.

Task Force, a statewide His case is now under investigative unit based appeal. at the Burlington Police More recently, Department. In the last Rajewski worked on the few years, Champlain murder investigation of College has been working Michael Jacques of East closely with law-enforceRandolph. Jacques, 44, ment agencies across is on trial for allegedly Vermont to assist in their kidnapping, drugging, digital crime solving. It raping and murdering his wasn’t until recently that 12-year-old niece, Brooke officers graduating from Bennett of Braintree, in Vermont’s police acadlate June 2008. emy received any training Jacques is being tried in investigating computer and Internet in federal court — and hence faces the crimes. death penalty if convicted — because Champlain College’s new adminis- of his alleged use of electronic comtrative facility, which is under construc- munications, specifically emails and tion on Lakeside Avenue in the South End, will help do just that. Eventually, DIGITAL APPREHENSIONS » P.36 growing concern that these and other technologies, such as GPS locators surreptitiously affixed to citizens’ vehicles, are moving us toward a total-surveillance society. In such a society, they warn, our every movement can be cataloged and stored indefinitely, often without a judge’s oversight or prior consent.

Moreover, most of these technologies are being developed and brought to market faster than state or federal laws can be adopted to govern their use.

As Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU of Vermont, puts it, “The Fourth Amendment is really a core right that cannot be pushed aside by technology. It has to be respected.”

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Digital Apprehensions « P.35 social-network postings on Bennett’s Myspace page, which are governed by interstate-communications laws.

Much of the case prosecutors have built against Jacques relies on digital forensic evidence recovered from his computer hard drive. That evidence includes emails concerning Jacques’ alleged sexual exploitation and assault of Bennett, details about her abduction, and his alleged planting of evidence to conceal his involvement in the crimes.

This week, a federal judge in Burlington will hold two days of hearings to consider a motion by Jacques’ defense team to suppress new email evidence showing that, prosecutors claim, he tried to make it appear as though he’d been framed by an out-of-state sexualpredator ring.

Rajewski is under a judicial gag order and cannot yet discuss the specifics of that case. Speaking generically about the role of digital forensics in Vermont investigations, he says it’s rare for a major homicide case to hinge entirely on computer evidence. Nevertheless, Rajewski says he’s seeing more and more crimes involving personal computers, as well as data stored on servers elsewhere.

“If you think about crime today, there’s almost always a digital component, whether it’s a cellphone, email account, a laptop,” Rajewski says. “There’s always some type of digital trail.”

And, like more traditional types of evidence, such as fingerprints, murder weapons and DNA samples, digital evidence must be collected in a “forensically verifiable manner” so it’s not damaged or tainted in the process. As Rajewski explains, examiners use socalled “write-blocker” technology that allows them to access the contents of hard drives without altering the original data, such as the last time a user logged on to a social-networking or instantmessaging account.

“It’s the same as finding a bloody knife on the ground,” he says. “Do you pick it up, wipe it off and put it in your pocket? Or do you properly collect it with gloves and put it in an evidence bag? It’s the same concept.”

Police and civilian investigators face huge technological challenges: Any device that can process, transmit or store digital data may contain potentially probative information. Yet new hardware and software are continually being released, often with proprietary technology inside.

For example, Rajewski points out that Apple’s new iPad has no USB port

for uploading or downloading data. This makes it more difficult for digital investigators to extract information without disrupting the forensic evidence.

“It’s a constant struggle to keep up with the technology, because the bad guys are using that technology,” Rajewski says. “It’s always a spy-versus-spy scenario.”

says that digital investigations sometimes can be “tedious and complex,” in part because there are so few standards governing how long data are stored or retained.

Consider, for example, the investigative challenge of determining whether a suspect logged on to a specific Wi-Fi network.

“Businesses will put up an open Wi-Fi, and they don’t maintain it, and it sits open for years,” Frisbie says.

“Sometimes they don’t even remember the

At a time when we can no longer afford to expand police departments, we have to use tools that make us more efficient and effective.

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Sgt. Andy Frisbie agrees.

A Burlington police officer who coordinates the investigative unit of the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Frisbie says similar challenges are presented by the hundreds of thousands of new smartphone applications, or “apps,” that hit the market each year. He points out that Vermont forensics experts simply don’t have the time or resources to stay on top of all those developments and must learn as they go.

“We’ve always been up against the complexities of digital investigations,” says Frisbie, an eight-year BPD veteran who entered police work from a career in information technology. “It’s not just cops that have learning curves, but prosecutors, judges and defense lawyers.

Collectively, we’re seeing an increase in knowledge and awareness, but we still have a very long way to go.”

Frisbie, who worked on both the Gardner-Quinn and Smith homicides,

password to log in to look at their logs.”

Likewise, each cellphone company in Vermont has its own policies regarding its retention of customers’ content, such as text messages. “One company, in particular, doesn’t retain anything longer than 180 days,” Frisbie says. He won’t specify which one.

What’s the significance of 180 days?

Michele Martinez Campbell is a visiting professor at the Vermont Law School, and an expert in wiretaps and electronic surveillance. She explains that, under the Stored Communications Act, electronic communications stored for 180 days or less, including emails and text messages, must be obtained with a search warrant. After 180 days, a simple subpoena or court order may suffice.

“Law enforcement needs to be able to enforce based on how crimes are being committed,” she says. “But, obviously, that also raises civil-liberties issues, in the same way that any search procedure would.”

It’s worth noting that the Stored Communications Act is part of a larger federal law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, that was passed by Congress in 1986, when virtually none of the technology in widespread public use today even existed.

“The courts,” Martinez Campbell adds, “haven’t come to terms yet with all the ways people are communicating.”

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One of the older investigative tools used by police — license-plate registrations — recently got a 21st-century upgrade, and it’s revolutionizing the way police do their jobs.

At least a half-dozen law-enforcement agencies — including the Vermont State Police and departments in Hartford, Newport, Rutland, St. Albans and Shelburne — now have cruisers equipped with mobile license-plate readers.

LPR technology, which has been used overseas for almost a decade, arrived in Vermont last year. A spokesperson with ELSAG North America, the company that manufactures the “Mobile Plate Hunter-900,” which Vermont police use exclusively, explains how it works: Two digital cameras, mounted on the light bar of a patrol car, constantly scan the road and photograph the plates of every vehicle, parked or moving at speeds of up to 120 mph, that passes in front of or behind the cruiser. Optical character-recognition software, which can read as many as 1800 plates per minute, searches a police database for vehicles that are wanted, stolen or otherwise of interest. When it gets a hit, it alerts the officer. LPR units, which have an accuracy rate of at least 95 percent, cost about $20,000 apiece.

St. Albans Police Chief Gary Taylor credits LPRs with helping his department apprehend a suspect in five bank robberies that occurred in Franklin County between September 27 and January 29, 2010, all of which are believed to have been committed by the same person.

Taylor cannot comment on the specifics of that pending criminal case.

However, a police affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington confirms that at least two LPRs — one mounted on a St. Albans police car and another on a state police cruiser — were used to apprehend the suspect, 24-year-old Chad Lussier of Richford.

Court records allege that when responding to a November 13, 2009, armed robbery at the TD Bank in Enosburg Falls, the St. Albans cruiser

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The database comparison turned up another hit for the same vehicle: a 1997 blue Saturn registered to Lussier. The description and license plate matched a visual identification made by a witness to the last robbery. This and other evidence has been used to charge Lussier in connection with all five robberies.

Taylor points out that police aren’t just using LPRs to apprehend felons.

His officers use them daily to scan the roads for invalid inspection stickers, expired plates, and wanted or stolen vehicles.

They’re also used for what Taylor calls “geo-fencing.” All schools and playgrounds are plotted into the LPR system using GPS, or global positioning system, coordinates. The LPRs hunt for registered sex offenders within 500 yards of a school or playground and alert officers if one shows up.

St. Albans has just two police cars equipped with LPRs, but they’re deployed on every shift with the most active patrol officers. Within the first six months of their use, arrests for DUS, or driving under suspension, jumped 47 percent, Taylor reports. Moreover, the officers using the LPRs are now responsible for 67 percent of all arrests made by the entire patrol division.

“I think they’ve proven their effectiveness,” Taylor asserts. “At a time when we can no longer afford to expand police departments, we have to use tools that make us more efficient and effective.”

Thus far, LPR technology is “still in its infancy” in Vermont, according to Michael Macarilla, who commands the Vermont State Police technologyservices office. Currently, the state cops have just two LPRs. Like those used by other law-enforcement agencies in the state, they were paid for through federal grants.

Macarilla explains that all LPRs used in Vermont work off the same database, which the VSP maintains. He says the data are retained for no more than four years, which is consistent with the time in-car police videos are saved. Some exceptions are made for data involving major felonies, such as child kidnappings, aggravated sexual assault and murder, which are kept for seven years or until the case is solved.

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For his part, Taylor says that an alert by the LPR doesn’t automatically constitute “probable cause” for an officer to stop a motorist. In many cases, the officer still has to have reasonable suspicion. Finally, he asserts that LPRs can’t do anything that a police officer can’t do already — they just do it much, much faster.

“Freedom of movement is one of our core rights,” Gilbert asserts. “I don’t think we all recognize how this technology is making changes in our attitudes about privacy and freedom of association.”

Gilbert emphasizes that the ACLU doesn’t object to the use of high-tech investigative tools to solve crimes when there’s a known suspect and oversight by a judge who issues a search warrant.

But he points out that there’s been no public debate in Vermont about how long LPR data are stored, who has access to the information or how it can be used. Other states have used LPRs for parking enforcement, collection of

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Vermont Law School’s Martinez Campbell, a former federal prosecutor, agrees. Though she’s not familiar with LPR technology per se, she says that, as with other aspects of the law, the dividing line between what police can and cannot do isn’t necessarily drawn by the technology itself but by the public’s recognition that they will have less privacy in public places.

“The police have very limited ability to go view you in your home or monitor your private conversations or emails without a warrant,” she says.

“But if you’re talking about what you do in the public domain, that’s simply not a problem from the constitutional perspective.”

But civil-liberties advocates, such as ACLU-VT’s Gilbert, disagree. He contends that a technology that gathers and indefinitely stores data allowing police to reconstruct citizens’ movements, regardless of whether they’ve committed an offense, represents a fundamental shift in our values.

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unpaid property taxes, monitoring of known or suspected gang members and drug houses, and even car repossession.

In fact, the October 2010 issue of Police magazine features an article on LPRs that suggests the technology can help police raise money by renting out their services to homeowner associations.

And, as Crain’s Chicago Business reported in April, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has proposed installing a system of 200 fixed LPR units along interstate highways between his city and Mexico, at a cost of nearly $10 million. Ostensibly, the units would hunt for drug traffickers, gun smugglers and money launderers. But they could also be used to look for other persons of interest to state and federal authorities.

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Byrne challenged the state’s decision in U.S. District Court, and lost. But in October, the U.S. Court of Appeals, in Byrne v. Rutledge, reversed the lower court’s decision and ruled in Byrne’s favor. It deemed that “Vermont’s ban on all religious messages in a forum it has otherwise broadly opened to a wide variety of subjects, including personal philosophy, affiliation and belief, serves not to restrict but instead to discriminate … and, as such, is impermissible.”

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Harry Conn and Jack Reeves are no different. When the clock strikes three, the two bolt from their respective middleschool classes. They move especially fast on Tuesdays — they can’t be late for their radio show.

At 3:30 p.m. every Tuesday, Harry and Jack hit the airwaves with their eponymous program, “The Harry and Jack Show,” on 105.9 FM WOMM-LP. It’s a jumble sale of a show, featuring weather reports, movie reviews, celebrity trivia, live interviews and the occasional song.

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to shore up the station’s electrical system and add air conditioning to the oftensweltering studio.

The Radiator received the $3800 grant in October and sent the boys to Montpelier to accept a check from the governor. Once the electrical system has been upgraded, the station will be able to install two standalone air-conditioning units bought with the funds Harry and Jack helped solicit.

“The Harry and Jack Show” debuted a year ago in the 3:30-to-4:30-p.m. Tuesday time slot. At that point, Harry, a seventh grader at Edmunds Middle School, had already been on the air for nearly two years.

His parents had a friend with a show on the Radiator who asked if Harry wanted to come and sit in. Eventually Harry’s radio presence evolved, and he landed his own program with another friend.

Owing to his preteen obstreperousness, Harry is unwilling to divulge his reasons for wanting to be on the air, or why wat ch

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or most kids, the bell signaling the end of school hours is the most pleasing sound they will hear all day. In Pavlovian fashion, when the schoolbell rings, students race to their lockers, stuff papers in their backpacks and rush out the door.

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At 12 and 11, respectively, Harry and Jack are the youngest deejays at the Burlington low-power station known as the Radiator. But don’t think they’re just kids screwing around with the mics and soundboard. They’re serious about their show and spend time planning it each week.

“The Harry and Jack Show” is a classic variety program. Despite the young deejays’ plans, there’s still a good amount of freewheeling, which is to be expected when two boys their age have unfettered access to public airwaves.

On a recent Tuesday, the show begins with a technical difficulty. The boys are down one microphone owing to a problem with one of the cables. They gamely brush it off and start the show huddled with one mic hanging between them.

“Hiiii!” they chime in unison.

“This is the…” Harry says. “…‘Harry and Jack Show,’” Jack finishes. “’Cause I’m Jack.”

“And I’m Harry,” Harry says.

“So, it’s ‘The Harry and Jack Show,’” Jack says.

While they may act pretty silly on the air, Harry and Jack are committed to the Radiator and its evolution as a community resource. In September, the duo petitioned the state’s Department of Buildings and General Services for a grant

he likes it. “Because radio is good, and it sounded fun” is all he will offer.

Jack, a sixth grader at Shelburne Community School, is a little more forthcoming. According to him, Harry needed a sub for the show when his first cohost couldn’t make it. He asked Jack to sit in for an afternoon, but Jack was incredulous.

He didn’t believe his friend had his own show.

After subbing for a show, Jack was hooked. But he doesn’t know exactly what appealed to him about the experience. “I just wanted to be on the radio,” he says.

The rest is history.

Each “Harry and Jack Show” is centered on a single artist or band. On this recent Tuesday, it’s U2 — the second or third time the boys have spotlighted the Irish band in the last year, they say.

Previous shows have been built on the music of Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead, Sum 41, Three Dog Night and Michael Jackson (the early years, the deejays assure). Because of the Radiator’s lowpower license, Harry and Jack are barred from playing Top 40 artists. Hence the glut of music written well before either of them was born.

In the studio, the boys continue to go back and forth, taking turns introducing their show, until Harry cues up the first U2 song — “I Will Follow,” the opening track from the band’s debut album 30 years ago.

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The pair troubleshoots with an adult Radiator volunteer. Clearly, they are used to hiccups in their show.

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But, even as it helps pad the Radiator’s programming with diverse talent, giving the kids the chance to run their own radio show builds their confidence, Lockridge posits.

“If you have a young person learning that what they say is worth hearing, that puts them in a good head space,” he says.

“You’re giving them the tools they need to be successful.”

Neither Lockridge nor any of the other adults at the station tell the boys what to put on their show. Aside from required public-service announcements and station IDs, the structure of “The Harry and Jack Show” is self-designed.

After playing U2’s spoken-word “Drunk Chicken/America” — which, both boys agree after the fact, is not the greatest song for radio — it’s time to sign off. But not before Harry and Jack have plugged their Facebook fan page, which to date boasts 23 fans. Then, true to their freeform style, the end arrives abruptly.

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relief when the Internet returns. The playlist advances to U2’s 1991 hit “Mysterious Ways.” When the song ends, it’s time for a mini-biography of U2, courtesy of Harry and Wikipedia.

Their show carries on this way for 30 minutes. Programming an hour of radio isn’t as easy as it looks, especially when you’re 12. There’s a lot of airtime to fill, and occasionally the boys get flummoxed, often repeating things they mentioned seconds before. But their wanderings are endearing.

They play a couple more classic U2 songs — “One” and “New Year’s Day” — before moving on to celebrity birthday announcements. Sometimes they tell jokes, but not today.

While one of the tracks plays, Harry and Jack get a call from a listener.

Apparently, the broadcast is staticky because their single mic is turned up all the way. Technical difficulty no. 3.

After the halfway point, it’s time for the weather. Jack offers his assessment of meteorological conditions beyond the studio walls.

“I see darkish skies, and it’s kind of gray and sad outside,” he says, peering out the window.

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As the authors paint her, Nichols was forever shaped by the ideal of womanly propriety that defined her comfortable middle-class upbringing.

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bad business decisions while the couple was living in New York, burned through Nichols’ considerable dowry and vented his frustrations on his wife in some form of “cruelty,” as Nichols described it later in an autobiography.

Vermont already had a relatively progressive divorce law that allowed women to split for reasons of “intolerable severity” (not just infidelity), but only if the abuse happened in the state.

Nichols, who had three children with Carpenter, endured the public humiliation of divorce procedures because her father had connections in the Vermont legislature. Her case resulted in an amended state divorce law allowing native Vermonters to claim “intolerable severity” no matter where it happened.

Divorce allowed her to remarry — this time to a nice man, George Nichols of Brattleboro, editor of the Windham County Democrat. Yet Nichols remained opposed to divorce rights until her death in 1885, even as she eventually supported her fellow women activists’ other progressive causes of antislavery and women’s suffrage.

After her second marriage, Nichols developed a public persona armored in bourgeois respectability — first as increasingly autonomous “editress” of her husband’s newspaper, and later as an admired speaker on temperance and women’s rights. When demure femininity and emotional appeals through stories of women victimized by their husbands’ excesses failed to sway, she developed a character columnist named Deborah Van Winkle, the lower-class but hardworking wife of the lazy Rip, to voice indignation at the decisions of men in power. To the common argument that men’s greater physical strength indicated their natural superiority, Mrs. Van Winkle retorted, “God and the angels and glorified sperits hain’t got no bodies.”

Blackwell and Oertel may not have had much to go on in writing Nichols’ early history, but they make up for it by providing richly detailed descriptions of life in southern Vermont during the

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t’s startling to recall that, before the Civil War, American women were powerless. They could not vote on their local school boards, let alone in national elections. Married women could not own property, control money they inherited, or even lay claim to the meager wages they earned as seamstresses and teachers. In most states, they couldn’t divorce except by proving their husbands’ infidelity. If successful, they lost custody of their children.

But women were angels of the home, exalted as superior moral influences on men and idealized as nurturing mothers.

This was thoroughly inadequate compensation in the eyes of radical “woman’s rights” activists such as Susan B. Anthony (b. 1820), Lucy Stone (b.

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1815). These women’s bold efforts came to define the antebellum women’s movement, later known as the first wave of American feminism.

But for the slightly older activist Clarina Howard Nichols, born in 1810 in West Townshend, Vt., women’s supposed virtue and prescribed roles were the very basis of an argument to expand women’s rights. Women need to be able to control their own destinies, Nichols contended, because as mothers they shape the next generation of civil society. This sounded, and still sounds, like a reasonable strategy. Why not try to change patriarchy by working within it?

Well, for one thing, you won’t seem radical enough to be remembered by history. As Marilyn Blackwell and Kristen Oertel reveal in Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood, Nichols was a wellregarded activist and public speaker in her day who knew Anthony, Stone and Stanton. But “her maternalist rhetoric failed to resonate with most secondwave feminists,” the authors write, and she was “considered by many historians to be a supportive but conservative — and therefore lesser — player in the antebellum movement.”

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1830s and ’40s. Glimpses of Brattleboro’s golden age as a site of natural-springsturned-profitable-healthful-retreat are riveting. The Nicholses took advantage of the tourist influx by taking in boarders, one of whom was the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

As an evangelical Baptist, Nichols became increasingly involved in the temperance movement — an entrée to public speaking for many a women’srights activist who argued that a married woman with a drunk husband needed legal recourse. The idea of a woman publicly addressing a mixed-gender audience angered the men and conservative clerics who headed the temperance movement, not to mention the public.

But, under cover of her soothing femininity, Nichols became increasingly fearless on the trigger issues of her day. She joined the antislavery Free-Soil Party, carefully weighed in on fellow activist Amelia Bloomer’s new, physically freeing garb for women (bloomers and a loose tunic) and even took up vegetarianism.

After speaking successfully at a major temperance convention in New York City along with Sojourner Truth, Nichols was invited to lecture for six weeks in Wisconsin. Her first taste of the West changed her life. When the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, allowing the new territory’s settlers to determine its destiny as slave or free state, she dropped her editing position at the Democrat and joined masses of antislavery Northerners on trains to Kansas to scope out a new home for her family. (George joined her a year later.) To proslavery Missourians who accused Northerners of being unequal to the challenges of frontier settlement, Nichols responded via letters to the press that Free-Staters needed only the civilizing presence of more wives to succeed in settling the territory.

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ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION AND HEARING #4C0116-21G 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On November 30, 2010, 41 Cherry Street, LLC and Burlington Community Development Corp. filed application #4C0116-21G for a project described as construction of a new 126 room 6-story 75,910 sf hotel and a 3,500 sf restaurant with a separate entrance. The project is located on Cherry Street in the City of Burlington. This project will be evaluated by the District 4 Environmental Commission in accordance with the 10 environmental criteria of 10 V.S.A. § 6086(a).

A public hearing is scheduled for December 20, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont.

The following people or organizations may participate in the hearing for this project: 1. Statutory parties: The municipality, the municipal planning commission, the regional planning commission, any adjacent municipality, municipal planning commission or regional planning commission if the project lands are located on a town boundary, and affected state agencies are entitled to party status.

2. Adjoining property owners and others: May participate as parties to the extent they have a particularized interest

3. Non-party participants: The district commission, on its own motion or by petition, may allow others to participate in the hearing without being accorded party status.

If you wish further information regarding participation in this hearing, please contact the District Coordinator at the address below before the date of the first hearing or prehearing. If you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify this office at least seven days prior to the above hearing date.

Copies of the application and plans for this project are available for inspection by members of the public during regular working hours at the Burlington Offices, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the District #4 Environmental Office.

The application can also be viewed at the Natural Resources Board web site: www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup by clicking on “District Commission Cases” and entering the case number above.

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 2nd day of December, 2010.

By: /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board

District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802.879.5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On December 3, 2010, John Larkin LP, filed application #4C0526-4H for a project generally described as: the installation of one 69 sf. sign mounted on the western face of Building #2 and replace the directional signs on Lots #10 & #11 of the Bartlett subdivision. The project is located on Shelburne Road in the City of South Burlington, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the South Burlington Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 30 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, and the office listed below.

The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

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No hearing will be held unless, on or before December 28, 2010, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 6th day of December 2010.

below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

No hearing will be held unless, on or before December 21, 2010, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address ACT 250 NOTICE below, shall state the MINOR APPLICATION criteria or subcriteria 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 at issue, why a hearing is required and what On November 22, 2010, additional evidence Terry and Mary Shepard, will be presented at the filed application #4C0481-8A for a Project hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining generally described as: property owner or other interested person must the creation of a 6.03 include a petition for acres lot (Lot #2) from party status. Prior to the 10.1 acre lot. The submitting a request for Project is located on Oak a hearing, please contact Hill Road in the Town of the district coordinator Williston, Vermont. at the telephone number Calcoku listed below for more The District 4 Using the enclosed mathinformation. operations as aPrior guide,to fill Environmental the grid using the numbers 1 - 6 only once in each convening a hearing, Commission will review row and column. the this application under 15x 22- District 1- Commission 6 must determine that Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor substantive issues Applications. Copies 43÷ requiring a hearing have of the application and been raised. Findings of proposed permit are Complete the following puzzle by using the available1-for review at 30x Fact 2- and4xConclusions of numbers 1-9 only onceLaw in will each column notrow, be prepared the Williston Municipal and 3 x 3 box. unless the Commission Office, Chittenden 516x holds a public hearing.

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Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by December 21, 2010.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria.

Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (5).

Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 23rd day of November 2010.

By /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us

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by Heather Cusson and Jacob Little to Vermont Federal Credit Union dated June 17, 2005 and recorded in Volume 714, Page 53, et seq. of the South Burlington Land Records (the Mortgage) presently held Plaintiff Vermont Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of foreclosing the Mortgage for breach of the conditions of the Mortgage, the real estate with an E-911 address of 100 Kennedy Drive, #72, South Burlington, Vermont (the Property) will be sold at public auction at 9:30 AM on January 4, 2011, at the location of the Property.

Unit Number 72 of the Manor Woods Condominium, including a 1.304% interest in the common area and facilities of the Manor Woods Condominium and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed by warranty deed of Lisa Hall and Gary R. Hall to Heather Cusson and Jacob Little, dated June 17, 2005 and of record in Volume 714, Page 51, et seq. of the City of South Burlington land records. Reference is made to a Declaration of Condominium, Bylaws and Administrative Rules and Regulations of record in Miscellaneous Volume 131, Page 314, et seq. of the City of South Burlington land records as they may have been amended of record from time to time and to Unit Data Information of record in Map Volume 105, Page 67, et seq. of the City of South Burlington land records.

The Property has an E-911 address and is known and designated as 100 Kennedy Drive, Unit #72, South Burlington, Vermont 05403.

The Property may be subject to easements, rights-of-way of record and other interests of record.

Terms of Sale: The Property will be sold to the highest bidder, who will pay $10,000.00 at sale in cash, certified, treasurer’s or cashier’s check made payable to Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP Client Trustee Account (or by wire transfer, if arrangements for wire transfer are made in advance, confirmation of wire transfer is available before commencement of sale and bidder pays additional fees required for wire transfer) and will pay the balance of the highest bid price within thirty (30) days of the issuance of an Order of Confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court.

The successful bidder will be required to sign a Purchase Agreement and attached Vermont Lead Law Real Estate Transaction Disclosures.

Copies of the Agreement and Disclosures are available by calling the telephone number below. If the successful bidder fails to complete the purchase of the Property as required

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by the Purchase Agreement, the $10,000.00 deposit will be forfeited to Plaintiff.

The Property is sold “AS IS” and the successful bidder is required to purchase the Property whether or not the Property is in compliance with local, state or federal land use laws, regulations or permits.

Title to the Property will be conveyed without warranties by Order of Confirmation. This sale is exempt from federal lead based hazards disclosure. 24 CFR Section 35.82.

Home Development Howard Hubbard & Associates, Developer, Williston, Vermont” dated April, 1966 and recorded in Map Book 1, Pages 5-6 of the Williston land records, and included is a 2003 Titan 712 Avenger double-wide mobile home, serial number 10-03-712-08957AB, permanently affixed to the land.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the Property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the Mortgage, including the costs and expenses of sale.

Terms of Sale: The Property will be sold to the highest bidder, who will pay $10,000.00 at sale in cash, certified, treasurer’s or cashier’s check made payable to Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP Client Trustee Account (or by wire transfer, if arrangements for wire transfer are made in advance, confirmation of wire transfer is available before commencement of sale and bidder pays additional fees required for wire transfer) and will pay the balance of the highest bid price within thirty (30) days of the issuance of an Order of Confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court.

The successful bidder will be required to sign a Purchase Agreement and attached Vermont Lead Law Real Estate Transaction Disclosures.

Copies of the Agreement and Disclosures are available by calling the telephone number below. If the successful bidder fails to complete the purchase of the Property as required by the Purchase Agreement, the $10,000.00 deposit will be forfeited to Plaintiff.

The Property is sold “AS IS” and the successful bidder is required to purchase the Property whether or not the Property is in compliance with local, state or federal land use laws, regulations or permits.

Title to the Property will be conveyed without warranties by Order of Confirmation. This sale is exempt from federal lead based hazards disclosure. 24 CFR Section 35.82.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP 802-482-2905.

Dated: November 1, 2010 David Rath, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE According to the terms and conditions of a Judgment Order, Decree of Foreclosure and Order of Public Sale in the matter of VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY V. BRETT D. LEBLANC, ET AL., Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division, Docket No. 1486-09 Cnc, foreclosing a mortgage given by Brett D. LeBlanc and Dorilee LeBlanc to Universal Mortgage Corporation dated October 29, 2004 and recorded in Volume 385, Page 248, et seq. of the Williston Land Records (the Mortgage) presently held Plaintiff Vermont Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of foreclosing the Mortgage for breach of the conditions of the Mortgage, the real estate with an E-911 address of 746 Porterwood Drive, Williston, Vermont (the Property) will be sold at public auction at 10:30 AM on January 4, 2011 at the location of the Property.

All and the same lands and premises conveyed to Brett LeBlanc by warranty deed of Tina M. Romprey dated October 29, 2004 and of record in Volume 385, Page 246, et seq., of the Williston land records.

The Property is identified as Lot No. 18 on a plan entitled “Oak Hill Mobile

The Property may be subject to easements, rights-of-way of record and other interests of record

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the Property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the Mortgage, including the costs and expenses of sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Kohn Rath

Blackwood & Danon, LLP 802-482-2905.

Dated: November 2, 2010 David Rath, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff Request for Engineering Consultant Qualification The City of Burlington Vermont Department of Public Works is seeking consultant services to perform planning and engineering tasks associated with capital projects through a rate schedule retainer contract that will extend from 2011 through 2013.

All submissions must be received by 10:00 am Friday, January 7th, 2010 at: Department of Public Works 645 Pine Street, Suite A Burlington, VT 05401 The request for quotations can be found on the DPW website along with a list of questions and answers from possible qualified consultants. (http:// www.dpw.ci.burlington. vt.us). This site will be maintained and updated twice a week. Questions regarding this RFQ should be directed in writing to Erin Parizo, EParizo@ci.burlington. vt.us. Questions will be accepted until 10:00 am on December 30, 2010 to ensure that all parties have adequate time to review the answers.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Cathedral Square Corporation, a non-profit housing organization, is issuing a Request for Proposals to construct a rooftop solar PV system in South Burlington.

Firms may obtain the Request for Proposals beginning Wednesday, December 8th by contacting Tim Ashe, CSC Project Manager, at ashe@cathedralsquare. org or 802-318-0903.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S26-10 Cnc HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2005-OPT1 Asset Backed

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John E. Manchester, Christie A. Manchester, Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation and Occupants residing at 248 River Road, Essex Junction, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2005-OPT1 Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-OPT1 to John E. Manchester dated July 15, 2005 and recorded in Volume 656, Page 387 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex Junction, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:00 A.M. on December 16, 2010, at 248 River Road, Essex Junction, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: A parcel of land with all buildings thereon situated on the southerly side of Route 117 and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point on the southerly side of Route 117, said point also being the place where the northwest corner of the land, now or formerly owned by Armand A. Belisle, meets the northeast corner of land now or formerly owned

by Mable, and proceeding easterly along the southerly side of Route 117, for a distance of 100 feet, to the northwest corner of land now or formerly owned by Case; thence proceeding southerly in and along the westerly line of said Case for a distance of 275 feet, more or less, to the Cove, so-called; thence proceeding westerly along the Cove, so-called, for a distance of 100 feet to the said Mable’s easterly boundary line; thence proceeding northerly in and along the said Mable’s easterly line for a distance of 275 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at

the time of sale, with the balance due at closing.

Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex Junction.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 16th day of November, 2010.

HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Addison Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. 206-7-10 Ancv

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Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Wesley H. Oosterman and Bonnie L. Oosterman

by Warranty Deed of Rodney G. Stearns, Jr. and Donna M. Stearns dated September 15,1997 and of record at Volume 86, Page 517 of the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records.

Said lands and premises are known and designated as 96 Weston Road, Ferrisburgh, Vermont.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing.

Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase, being a current commitment letter from a bank or mortgage company or other lender licensed to business in the State of Vermont to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Ferrisburgh. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at sale or inquire at Bergeron, NEW ENGLAND FEDERAL Paradis & Fitzpatrick, LLP, 34 Pearl Street, CREDIT UNION, Essex Junction, Vermont Plaintiff 05452, 802.879.6304. v.

New England Federal WESLEY OOSTERMAN Credit Union and BONNIE OOSTERMAN, NEW ENGLAND FEDERAL By: Edward D. Fitzpatrick, Esq. CREDIT UNION, and occupants residing The contents of storage at 96 Westin Road, unit(s) 01-02446 Ferrisburgh, Vermont located at 28 Adams Dr, Defendants Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 16th of NOTICE OF SALE the month of December, 2010 to satisfy the debt By virtue and in execuof Cathryn Blanchard. tion of the Power of Sale Any person claiming a contained in a certain right to the goods may mortgage granted to pay the amount claimed New England Federal due and reasonable Credit Union by Wesley expenses before the Oosterman and Bonnie sale, in which case the Oosterman dated on or sale may not occur. about August 17, 2009, and recorded at Volume 132, Pages 175-182 of the Land Records of the Town of Ferrisburgh, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 p.m. on December 16, 2010 at 96 Weston Road, Ferrisburgh, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

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YOUR TRUSTED LOCAL SOURCE. SEVENDAYSVT.COM/JOBS SHELBURNE MUSEUM Now hiring Protection Services Reserve Officers $12.40/hr part-time Please view job description and download application at www.shelburnemuseum.org Or call 802-985-3346 x3307

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSES 2 FULL-TIME POSITIONS Qualifications include prior experience in a medical-surgical environment and a current Vermont license.

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We are a new, comprehensive nonoperative musculoskeletal and spinecare practice based on principles of the medical specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. We will be opening in Middlebury in January 2011 and are now hiring for the following positions:

Qualifications include a current Vermont Physical Therapy license and a minimum of two years of experience preferably within a rehabilitation program.

All qualified candidates should send resumes to cpaquette@achhh.org, or by mail to ACHHH, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Medical Front Office Assistant Multitalented, multitasking individual sought to guide the front end operations of Vermont SpineWorks and Rehabilitation.

REqUIREd SkIllS and qUalIfIC aTIOnS : High school diploma

TV Master Control Operator WCAX-TV has a full-time opening on our team for an individual who can multitask and enjoys a detailed and technically oriented environment that is fast paced with tight deadlines. Video, audio and/or broadcast experience is a plus. This is an evening/night shift. Responsibilities include incoming and outgoing media, video servers, computer operation, quality control of Channel 3’s air product plus a few live News Production operations.

Send resumes to jobs@wcax.com, or Production, WCAX-TV, P.O. Box 4508, Burlington, VT 05406.

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Communities in Waitsfield, Vt., seeks a

Director of Development.

Please visit our website, www.wholecommunities.org, for a full posting and application instructions.

Childcare assistant position available.

Education and experience preferred but will train the "right" person.

Call Crystal at The PlayCare Center in Richmond, 802-434-3891, for more information.

Central Vermont Community Action Council seeks an energetic program manager to help lowincome consumers increase energy efficiency in their homes. You’ll be working with a statewide team to provide solar technology to qualifying households and to help promote energy-saving best practices. Experience in community education, especially working within the low-income community, is preferred.

Bring your skills to CVCAC Weatherization — change lives, every day. Learn more at cvcac.org.

Medical Office Nurse

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Please send letter of interest and resume to cvcachr@cvcac.org.

Electronic submissions are encouraged. CVCAC, 195 US Rte.302Berlin, Barre VT 05641.

dynamic, self-driven office nurse sought to provide excellent care and assist in the clinical growth of Vermont SpineWorks and 3v-CVCA-ProgramMgr-120810CMYK.indd Controller/CFO 12/6/10 1 Rehabilitation.

Work in a newly renovated holistic office setting delivering excellent evidence-based musculoskeletal care and meaningful patient education. assist physician in performing spinal injection procedures.

REqUIREd SkIllS and qUalIfIC aTIOnS : VT Rn license, strong computer skills and mastery of cutting-edge electronic medical records system following employer-provided training. Work experience in orthopedics, spine care, pain management or medical rehab is a definite plus.

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program manager

three or more years previous medical office experience, strong written and verbal communication skills, strong customer service skills, demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and work well under pressure, Strong computer skills and proficiency in MS Office applications, ICd-9 and CPT codes, mastery of cutting-edge electronic medical practice management system following training provided by practice.

Previous experience in front end of orthopedic, spine care or pain management practices a definite plus.

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Please send your resume and letter of interest to vermontspine works@gmail.com or mail to Vermont SpineWorks and Rehabilitation PO Box 421 Middlebury, VT 05753.

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Redstone, Vermont’s commercial real estate leader, is seeking a highly qualified Controller/CFO. If you have significant financial experience and like working in a fast paced entrepreneurial environment, please apply. This is a hands-on position responsible for all aspects of accounting, finance, and benefits.

The ideal candidate has experience with Quickbooks, Excel and Access, and basic IT capabililities.

Real estate and property management experience is a plus.

Please send cover letter & resume to: Redstone 210 College Street, Suite 201 Burlington, VT 05401 Attention: Larry Williams

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HEAD START

FAMILY SERVICES COORDINATOR (Burlington) Hiring for All Positions

Senior management team position. Responsibilities include Leaps & Bounds is development, management and tracking of: family partnership looking for motivated, flexible systems including family goal setting; and support and followteam players to join our growing up around community services and resources; partnerships with community and state agencies providing services relevant to Head Start or its program participants, including services for in Essex, Williston and soon-toEnglish Language Learners; child abuse and neglect prevention, be south Burlington locations. identification and reporting systems; volunteer and internship Must have experience, education systems; parent involvement in program, and community and a sense of humor! Pay based functions and services; and parent education and family literacy on education and experience. initiatives. Participation in regional and state-based committee Contact Krista at 802-879-2021 work. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in social work, human or kristalacroix@yahoo.com. services or related field, and 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience. 40 hrs/week, full year. Competitive salary, health plan and excellent benefits. Please send resume and cover letter 11/29/10 11:30:44 AM with three work references by email to: pbehrman@cvoeo.org. 2v-LeapsBounds-120110.indd 1

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PRESCHOOL TEACHER and EARLY CARE ADVOCATE POSITIONS Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and monthly home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children.

Teacher – Richford: 40 hours/week, 42 weeks/year.

Starting wage $15.61–16.94/hour.

ECA – Burlington: 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year.

Starting wage: $12.67–14.36/hour.

Marketing and Fundraising/ Grants Manager

Are you interested in being part of a group that includes a supportive team of therapists, coverage of your after-hours emergencies and efficient billing staff? We are currently seeking a full-time therapist who is a generalist and interested in working with children, adolescents, adults and families.

Specialization with children and/or veterans and their families also desirable. Experience with substance abuse, DBT and group treatment preferred.

The ideal candidate will be an MSW/LICSW. Willing to consider other licensure. This full-time position has an excellent benefits package.

Some evening hours required. Our clinic is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas. The ideal candidate may qualify for the National Health Services Federal loan forgiveness program, which is substantial.

NCSS, Inc., 107 Fisher Pond Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478 hr@ncssinc.org

Nonprofit seeks experienced person to manage marketing, fundraising and grants. Highly organized, team player, attention to detail, presentation skills, and good with technology/web/social5v-NCSSThera-120810.indd media. Demonstrated experience or skills in some or all areas – will train on “gaps” for right person. Serious candidates only. Full time with benefits. Near Stowe.

Email resume, salary requirements to tbarnes360@mac.com.

Both positions include health plan and excellent benefits, and require bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field, VT educator’s license, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Teacher position requires license with endorsement in2v-LamoilleHouseBLIND120810.indd early childhood education or early childhood special education.

Please specify position and location, and send resume and cover letter with three work references by email to pirish@cvoeo.org.

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For all positions: Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record keeping; proficiency in MS Word, email and Internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply.

EOE. No phone calls, please.

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OUTPATIENT THERAPIST

Teacher

Fun-loving childcare center seeks experienced and energetic full-time qualified infant teacher.

Good pay and benefits.

Call 802-652-9800.

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Visit www.vermont artscouncil.com for full job description.

Salary in 40s depending on experience; excellent fringe benefits.

Submit application letter, resume, three writing samples, links to online work and list of references to Vermont Arts Council 136 State St. Montpelier, VT 05633-6001, or email to mbernier@ vermontarts council.org by december 20.

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Marketing/new Media Manager Join a team passionate about the arts! the Vermont arts Council, a private nonprofit, is seeking someone fearless and acclimated to the virtual world of social networking and electronic communications, preferably in a nonprofit environment. responsible for overseeing development and implementation of integrated marketing, fundraising and communications plans, with a focus on the Council’s online presence and virtual support networks. requires relevant bachelor’s degree and two years experience in crafting and successfully implementing marketing, fundraising and communications programs that make effective use of new and traditional media.

Successful teamwork experience; evidence of strong writing, verbal, public speaking and interpersonal skills; and marketing knowledge are necessary. interest in and knowledge of the arts are vital.

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Full benefits, paid vacation time.

Company-supplied uniforms.

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Efficiency Coaches Central Vermont Community Action Council and CVOEO seek to hire two energetic, passionate community educators to help lowincome consumers increase energy efficiency in their homes.

You’ll be part of a statewide team working to help promote energy-saving best practices.

Experience in community education and outreach, especially working within the lowincome community, is preferred.

Bring your skills to Community Action: change lives, every day.

Learn more about the job at cvcac.org or cvoeo.org. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Equal opportunity employer.

Send your resume and cover letter by Dec. 20.

For work in Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle and Addison Counties: cvws@cvoeo.org. For work in Washington, Lamoille and Orange Counties: cvcachr@cvcac.org.

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A great opportunity for a journalist to have a guaranteed income while publishing a newsletter from home. We are selling an established monthly newsletter covering land use and the environmental regulatory process in VT. Ideal for a writer with access to Montpelier and familiar with legal and regulatory processes.

Possible owner financing for the right candidate. Please send resume and/or inquiries to: Ellen Roffman, PO Box 430, Newfane VT 05345 or publisher@putneypress.org.

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Marketing

Come Design Your Life’s Work!

Hubbardton Forge is looking for a seasoned, hands-on Mechanical Engineer who is experienced in new product design and testing as well as regulatory compliance. Experience If you thriveoron being empowered to influence and with Solidworks similar 3D drawing software, management skills initiate project change, award-winning lighting manufacturer and the ability to juggle multiple has a dynamic opportunity for you. Hubbardton Forge projects are all necessary. Sourcing seeks anwould innovative, Marketing Coordinator experience be an addedtalented plus for the right candidate. with 2+ years consumer-oriented, digital, brand, social

Unique Opportunity

Hand Forged Lighting and Accessories

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Part-Time Customer Service/Warranty Representative Julbo, a 120-year-old multisport sunglasses and eyewear company from France is seeking a part-time customer service and warranty representative to assist in its USA office located in Williston, Vt. Responsibilities include:

media /marketing experience. Unique opportunity If you are PR interested in joining an award-winning team in the creation of marketing team and sales to work collaboratively with distinctive, highexecuting/performing quality wrought-iron leadership communication lighting and accessories, forward your strategies market analysis and assisting with cover letter andand resume to: marketing programs. If you seek collaboration,

Hubbardton Forge innovation, continuous improvement and customer attn : Human resources P.o. box 827 satisfaction, this exciting opportunity is for you. castleton, Vt 05735 Fax: 802-671-1005 Hubbardton Forge is an award-winning company email: hrd@vtforge.com

recognized for environmental excellence, career environment and comprehensive compensation/benefit package with profit-sharing potential. Send resumes and salary information in confidence to HRD@vtforge.com.

Selected as one of the growth an energizing Best Placespotential, to Work in Vermont!

For more information, please visit our website at hubbardtonforge.com.

Hubbardton Forge is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Accounting Assistant

For more information or to apply for this job, please email cover letter and resume to Sue Scheer at sue@julbousa.com.

The12/6/10 Crate 1:25:34 Escape PM in Richmond is seeking reliable, hardworking, computer-literate persons for permanent employment! Attention to detail, multitasking abilities and the willingness to get dirty are a must. The work entails alternating among spending time caring for the dogs, monitoring groups of dogs, cleaning the facility inside and outside, and providing excellent customer service skills to our clients. All applicants MUST be willing to work occasional weekends and help to cover the holidays.

Must be able to work opening 6:15 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. or closing 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. weekdays, weekends from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., and be available to perform night checks of the facility at least two days per week 9 - 10 p.m. on Thursday through Sunday. Please send resume and cover letter with salary expectations to tschey@gmavt.net. No phone calls.

Facility Manager Our client seeks a first-rate manager for a Burlington commercial property to supervise employees engaged in cleaning and maintaining facilities & equipment. Inspect work to maintain owner’s standards.

Exp. a BIG PLUS. Criminal background check & drug test required.

Email to OTRjobs@gmail.com. EOE.

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Burlington office. Background in basic bookkeeping and financial reporting required. Responsibilities include managing the accounts payable, HR reporting, assistance with payroll, and assisting the staff accountant and CFO.

Demonstrated experience with accounting software, data entry and word processing required. Must be proficient with Excel and familiar with spreadsheet design and management. Four-year college degree or equivalent experience in the field necessary.

Excellent benefits, four weeks of vacation, starting salary $30,000-$35,000 DOE.

Send resume with letter of interest and references by Friday, December 10, 2010, to: Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Sandy Burns Vermont Legal Aid, P.O. Box 1367 Burlington, VT 05402 EEOC - People with disabilities, women and minorities encouraged to apply.

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Spirit Delivery is looking for

New World Tortilla is seeking a qualified candidate to become the new

GENERAL MANAGER at our location at the University of Vermont.

Strong work ethic, communication skills and management experience a must. Please send resume and cover letter to mike@ newworldtortilla.com. Serious applicants only.

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Emergency Department Registered Nurse

Drivers

with a clean driving record to drive nonCDL 26' straight trucks.

Pay ranges between $110$125 per day. Must be able to pass drug and background check. Call 802-338-9048.

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Seeking an experienced Registered Nurse for a part time position, working 72 hours bi-weekly on various shifts.

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Critical Care experience required.

• Generous compensation and exceptional benefits

RETAIL SALES POSITION selling ski and snowboard clothing and footwear to active outdoors customers and families. Retail experience in an outdoor shop is preferred. We have both full- and part-time positions for the winter season starting immediately.

December 9, 2010 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at

PACE VERMONT, INC.

786 College Parkway, Colchester, VT (next to Fanny Allen)

PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANTS Minimum requirement of one year caring for a frail elder; family experience counts!

Experienced PCAs looking to increase your hours?

Qualify to earn "paid time off" working min. 20 hours a week! $12.00 starting pay for home care.

Participate in our interactive Job Fair, meet the team and learn about the PACE mission!

Do you meet these basic qualifications? Then stop in and hear our story and let's talk about your future as a caregiver.

High school diploma/GED and one year experience providing care to elderly or frail individual(s) which can include experience gained by caring for family members 55+.

Must successfully complete a background check.

Must have a Vermont driver's license and reliable transportation.

• Competitive night and weekend shift differentials • Educational opportunities, including tuition reimbursement

Additional RN, LPN and LNA opportunities available in various departments.

Please apply online at www.cvmc.org or contact Sarah Harris, Recruiter at (802) 371-5910

Send resumes to: lmoore@ajssports.com.

A.J’s Ski and Sports 350 Mountain Rd., Stowe, Vt.

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Want to increase your competitive edge in the job market?

Be part of a free nationally recognized certificate program.

What: Career Readiness Certificate Orientation

Where: Vermont Department of Labor, 63 Pearl Street, Burlington When: Tuesday, December 7th at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m., Wednesday, December 15th at 9 a.m. or 2 p.m.

For more info please come to one of the orientation sessions or call VDOL Make more than a living.

Make a difference.

802-863-7676 .

The right job can open opportunities for you to grow, excel, and reach your full potential. Working for the State of Vermont allows you the freedom and creativity to use your skills and enthusiasm in an enormous array of disciplines to keep this one of the best states in the country to live and work.

All job seekers, employed and unemployed, are welcome.

The work is not only challenging and fulfilling, it’s rewarding on many levels — both professionally and socially. And with our outstanding benefits package, designed to meet your health and financial needs, you’ll have the flexibility to be able to manage your work/life balance, leaving you time to enjoy all that comes with living in Vermont. Bring us your drive, ambition, and initiative, and we’ll put them to work for you.

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

12/3/10 2:43:05 PM

Come build your future at Middlebury College!

Restaurant Manager position available!

General Manager - Full-time benefits eligible position Middlebury College seeks a seasoned restaurant manager to oversee daily operation of The Grille, a 225 seat restaurant in our student center, and to provide management and direction for our convenience store, Wilson Café, and snack bar operations at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Ralph Myhre Golf Course. The ideal candidate must have excellent people management skills, must understand retail food pricing, menu design, effective use of labor and be able to foster a culture of strong customer service. This position reports to the Business Service Group and is separate from our Board Plan Dining Program.

Why work for us? Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. As the tenth largest employer in Vermont and an institution with operations on five continents, Middlebury’s workforce is one of its most valuable assets. Thus the college is firmly committed to the success and development of its employees.

Interested applicants, please apply online via: http://apptrkr.com/168105 For assistance, please call Human Resources at 802-443-5465.

Middlebury College is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Director of Client Services.

The mission of Outright is to build safe, healthy, and supportive environments for LGBTQQ youth. HIV prevention experience and an MSW or equivalent combination of education and experience strongly preferred. Outright Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please email cover letter and resume to melissa@outrightvt.org or mail to Outright VT, PO Box 5235, Burlington, VT 05402.

Resumes will be accepted until 12/17/2010.

Young Adult Coordinator

for a statewide project building youth and young adult leadership and voice as they transition into adulthood.

The successful candidate will have: • Experience and passion for working with youth and young adults.

• Experience with community development, organizing and advocacy.

• Experience planning and delivering training and technical assistance.

• Personal experience (either as self or as family member) with mental health challenges.

• Strong speaking, writing, listening and facilitating skills.

• Competence working as a collaborative team member.

• Reliable transportation and ability to travel for work.

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To apply send a cover letter and resume with 3 references to:

Vermont Federation of Families ATTN: Cindy Marshall P.O. Box 507 Waterbury, VT 05676 cmarshall@vffcmh.org

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COTS’ MISSION is to provide emergency shelter, services and housing for those who are homeless or marginally housed.

COTS’ CORE BELIEFS We believe in the value and dignity of every human life.

We believe that housing is a fundamental human right.

We believe that emergency shelter is not the solution to homelessness.

Consider joining the dedicated team at COTS and helping to make a difference!

Residential ManageR at Canal stReet VeteRans Housing Canal St. Veterans Housing is a new residential facility offering transitional housing to homeless veterans. The residential manager at Canal St. is responsible for providing a reliable, on-site presence and helping to ensure the smooth running of the facility and delivery of services to residents. This is a live-in position. In exchange, the residential manager receives a rent-free apartment.

The ideal candidate must be a veteran who has some familiarity with the needs of the homeless population, good interpersonal ability, previous residential experience and a commitment to COTS mission.

Send cover letter and resume to Jobs@cotsonline.org, or Cots, Human Resources,

Po Box 1616, Burlington, Vt 05402-1616.

EOE, TTY relay 1-800-545-3323

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The Vermont Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health is seeking a full-time

is seeking a qualified candidate to work as a

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LARAWAY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES

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ANTICIPATED OPENINGS ADJUNCT FACULTY Experienced educators needed for undergraduate teaching assignments beginning January, 2011. We anticipate assignments in english composition and literature, mathematics, geology, physics, and nursing. Assignments are dependent on pending student enrollment. Minimum of a related master’s degree and teaching experience are required.

For consideration, send a cover letter and resume specifying field of interest to Adjunct Faculty Search, jobs@norwich.edu.

Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Behavior Interventionists

Farm Steward

The Backpack Program of Laraway Youth & Family Services is seeking skilled and motivated individuals to join our team. The interventionist will provide individualized support to a child or youth struggling to find success in public school due to socialemotional and behavioral challenges. The Interventionist will provide support in social, recreational and daily living skills in school, community and outdoor education settings. Successful candidates will have enthusiasm and talent in implementing and engaging students in behavioral programming. BA is required for this position. This is a full-time position offering competitive wages and a full benefits package.

This part-time position will involve leadership responsibility for the planning and coordination of the Laraway Youth & Family Services farmland. It will identify site opportunities and work in conjunction with the leadership of each Laraway program and our community partners to maximize the use of the property, including developing a land use management plan, researching costs, preparing and submitting proposals, and identifying potential funding sources. qualifications for this position include experience collaborating with community and government agencies, knowledge of natural sciences and land use planning, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and strong planning and organizational skills. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.

Submit letter of interest, resume and three references to Laraway Youth & Family Services, HR Department, PO Box 621, Johnson, VT 05656, fax 802-635-7273, or email rhondas@laraway.org.

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LECTURER The Department of Community Development and Applied Economics seeks qualified applicants for a Spring 2011 Lecturer to teach Finance for Community Entrepreneurship. This four-credit course covers the fundamentals of all aspects of finance related to micro and small business entrepreneurs. The course meets Mondays from 12:50 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Master's degree in a relevant area required.

Online applications only will be accepted for this position at: www.uvmjobs.com

Planet Fitness in So. Burlington is currently looking for a fitness trainer.

This person must currently be certified and have experience training. $10/hr. and 32 hrs./week.

If interested, please apply at: 30 Community Dr., Unit 7 So. Burlington, VT 05403, or at www.planetfitness.com.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Applications from women and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Vermont Association of Conservation Districts

Part-time Program Coordinator

Coordinate operational, administrative, program processes and activities, and promote programs and events in support of the TRC’s complex multicollege research program (UTC).

Vermont Works for Women has an anticipated January Bachelor’s degree in a related field and one to three 2011 opening for a part-time program coordinator for years’ related experience or combination of education our innovative and awardand experience. Effective writing and organizational skills winning job training program required. Experience with PeopleSoft and knowledge — a hands-on, construction about grant funding highly desirable. program for incarcerated women at the northwest Interested parties should apply through UVM’s job website, State correctional Facility in www.uvm.edu/trc/ under job requisition #033927.

St. Albans, Vt. Responsibilities include training in job readiness and life skills, program outreach, curriculum develop3v-UVM tranportation-120810.indd 1 12/6/10 10:19:10 AM ment, employment retention support and data tracking, documentation, and report writing. this position is for a dynamic, creative self-starter, an inspired teacher/trainer Outreach PrOfessiOnal who has strong organizational skills and is looking Position coordinates and implements workforce development for a supportive, stimulating initiatives of the Transportation Research Center including work environment. Buildingdeveloping and evaluating curriculum as required, planning trades experience a plus but and overseeing events and conference logistics, including not required. part-time plus generous benefits package budget elements and provides overall support for TRC outreach and competitive salary. efforts. Develops, coordinates and implements externally

focused community services, programs and educational projects in support of the center’s outreach mission.

Bachelor’s degree and four years’ related experience required.

Interested parties should apply through UVM’s job website.

Links to that site can be found on the TRC homepage, following the Job Opportunities link www.uvm.edu/trc/.

please send cover letter, resume and references via email to sgrove@ vtworksforwomen.org, or fax 802-655-8922.

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Independently coordinates communication for research and outreach programs, drafts and edits TRC internal and external communications and informational resources, and ensures an accurate, up-to-date and competitive web presence for the TRC. Familiarity with higher education communications and web coordination a plus. Knowledge of transportation research, policy or planning is strongly preferred. Bachelor’s degree and four years of related experience required.

Interested parties should apply through UVM’s job website.

Links to that site can be found on the TRC homepage, following the Job Opportunities link: www.uvm.edu/trc.

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Agricultural Resource Specialist/Conservation Planner VACD seeks a qualified candidate to fill a full-time position that will be 50% Agricultural Resource Specialist and 50% Conservation Planner, based in St. Albans. As Agricultural Resource Specialist, the successful candidate will provide technical assistance, education and outreach regarding Vermont’s Accepted Agricultural Practices and survey small farm operators with the goal of addressing nonpoint source water quality issues. As Conservation Planner, the successful candidate will work with the Natural Resource’s Conservation Service to provide planning assistance to farmers enrolled in USDA programs.

Excellent verbal, interpersonal, computer, written and communication skills required. Bachelor’s degree with a working knowledge of agricultural regulations, dairy farming and water quality issues preferred. Position requires travel and fieldwork.

Salary based upon experience. Training, health insurance benefit and mileage reimbursement provided.

Visit www.vacd.org for detailed job description.

Send resume, cover letter and three references

by December 13 to VACD c/o Jeff Farber Technical Programs Manager PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601 or jeff.farber@vacd.org.

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Sensory Lab Technician

PROGRAM MANAGER Join a growing professional team passionate about Vermont!

A statewide nonprofit has an immediate opening for an experienced professional to join its management team. Vermont Associates for Training & Development is an older worker job-training program serving nearly 400 individuals annually.

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Burlington, Vt.-based ratory Manager Immediate full-time, Coffee Analysts seeks salaried position career-oriented person in our testing facilwhocoffee is passionate about coffee interested ity.and Responsibilities in expanding his/her include managing lab coffee knowledge technicians, to scheduljoining the tests, sensorymaintaining team.

Responsibilities include lab equipment, data tasting, cupping, and entry, customer support maintenance of sensory participation in labsand and equipment. sensory Applicant musttests. be Previous oriented, experience in the detailed coffee industry exceptionally organized,not required, but qualified fluent in food and beverage language, candidates must be open minded,consumers and able regular of to discriminate coffee. and discern taste profiles.

Please send inquires Experience with coffee to and food education pdelima@coffee-ent. preferred. Full-time com or Paul deLima position with benefits. c/o Coffee Analysts,

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32 visit Lakeside Avenue, coffeeanalysts.com, Burlington, Vermont and send resume to 05401 chris@coffee-ent.com.

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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Responsibilities include recruitment and staffing, training and development, employee/trainee relations, policy procedures and staff management. Position based out of St. Albans office.

College degree required. Transferable skills and enthusiasm are highly desired.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) in Vergennes, Vt., is seeking a Director of Development.

This person will be part of a team responsible for the museum’s overall financial development including the design, implementation and evaluation of the Museum’s fundraising programs.

The Director of Development provides direction, leadership and support to the development staff and to Board and volunteer development efforts to increase sponsorships and all forms of gift support. The position is 75% FTE. However, well-qualified candidates requiring 100% FTE are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please email cover letter with salary requirements and resume to: hr@vermontassociates.org.

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Visit LCMM.org for the full job description and to learn more about the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Send cover letter, resume and references to Susan Jones, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd., Vergennes, VT, 05491, or email susanj@lcmm.org.

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Grow your c areer in a place you’ll love

assistant nurse Manager, orthopedics/urology at Fletcher allen, we’ve brought humanity hope and healing to our friends and neighbors for over a century. as nursing leaders, we’re called to give the best of ourselves to our patients and their families. we’re deeply committed to our community and the beauty of our natural surroundings.

Join us and live the life you want.

562-bed academic Medical center Affiliated with UVM college of Medicine Professional development

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WANTED: FRONT DESK/ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR DENTAL OFFICE

Full time. We are a general dental practice with a focus on prevention, quality dental service, caring relationships and patient comfort. You are confident, mature, energetic and organized.

Must truly enjoy people and have an empathic, helpful personality. Dental experience desirable; computer skills required.

Send cover letter and resume to Stephen Feldman DDS, 258 Pearl St., Burlington, VT 05401 or to stephenfeldmandds@ gmail.com.

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Bayada Nurses is committed to delivering the finest hospice services in the country.

Join our startup hospice program in Burlington, Vermont, as a Clinical Manager. Use your skills and experience to lead a hospice interdisciplinary team and ensure excellent clinical and social care. You will develop relationships within the community, recruit, train and mentor core hospice team members, manage cases and staff, write care plans and participate in fieldwork.

• Current VT RN license in good standing (BSN preferred) • Hospice case management experience required • Strong knowledge of compliance and hospice regulations • Passion for focusing on hospice care • Prior supervisory experience a plus Sign-on bonus available upon hire. Benefits include medical, dental and life insurance; paid time off; weekly pay and direct deposit; tuition reimbursement; 401(k) with company match; opportunities for career advancement.

To apply send resume to Heather Ratcliffe, Recruiter (973-656-0425), at hratcliffe@bayada.com, or visit www.bayada.com.

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Family Support Specialist Opportunity

As a member of the youth’s permanency team, the FSS collaborates with the Casey and DCF social workers and others on the team to assess strengths/needs, develop treatment plans, and monitor progress toward goals. Primary responsibilities include providing social, educational, and recreational activities; supervising family visits; teaching behavior management skills; doing crisis intervention work; and providing clinical direction and support.

The ideal FSS candidate will have a BSW or BA in a relevant field; minimum two years experience working with youth/families; familiarity with permanency planning; and behavior and crisis management skills. The FSS must have a valid driver’s license and a personal car for travel within the state.

Casey Family Services offers a creative and interesting workplace, excellent salary, highly competitive benefits, and opportunities for personal growth. EOE.

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Casey Family Services (Winooski office) has an immediate opening for a full-time family support specialist (FSS) to provide in-home and community-based clinical interventions for foster youth and their families. The FSS must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, serve as a role model for youth, and develop/maintain supportive relationships with youth and their families.

High School Completion Plan

Manager / Teacher Full-time position: Middlebury

Assists out-of-school youth ages 16-21 in the development of a personal high school graduation plan addressing the student’s needs while satisfying the requirements of the school, leading to diploma completion. Must be a flexible educator working with various learning styles.

Vermont Adult Learning is a nonprofit provider of adult education and literacy services. Position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible paid-time-off.

Visit our website, www.vtadultlearning.org, for more information.

Resume Deadline: December 15, 2010.

Please send resumes and cover letters to Judy Delage (jdelage@caseyfamilyservices.org) at

Casey Family Services, 46 Main Street, Suite 1-A, Winooski, VT 05404.

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Specialized community Support Worker (2 oSitionS) 30-year-old Burlington woman needs 12.5 weekday evening hours of support in her downtown apartment. Focus is on meal preparation/cooking and medicine administration.

Ideal candidate is organized and patient and has experience supporting individuals on the autism spectrum. 4:30 - 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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Family-oriented and patient individual sought to support a very special 25-year-old man in his Underhill home and community. Ideal match is creative and skilled at multitasking and has great attention to detail. Experience providing personal care and community inclusion desired. Schedule for this 24-hours- a-week, benefits-eligible position is six hours a weekday, with Monday and Friday required days. The day off is flexible.

Shared living provider

Dedicated dog lover is looking for a home in the Greater Burlington area. This 24-year-old woman enjoys music, baking, and socializing and is developing independent living skills so she can return to her own apartment. Ideal match is a single near-peer-age female or couple without children. She is adept using the bus system and does best with minimal consistent supervisor/coaching.

Exciting opportunity to earn generous tax-free annual stipend. Please contact Alyssa Lewis at (802)488-6545.

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Long-standing Internet consulting business in Shelburne is looking for a key support staffer who is comfortable with technology, finance and a fast pace. We are looking for someone who's detail oriented and committed to excellence for our customers, but also chill enough to enjoy working in a dynamic environment in close quarters.

Ideal candidate has bookkeeping experience and is comfortable with QuickBooks. Must be familiar with all major MS Office programs, especially Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. Some travel will be expected in support of events we host in New York City. Your phone skills and diplomacy must be top notch, as you’ll handle everything from scheduling to agreements to billing to collection.

Please email your resume and cover letter to tamara@upstreamgroup.com.

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employment counSelor

Part-time position (19 hours) working in an evidence-based supported employment program assisting individuals recovering from mental illness with their employment and educational goals. Responsibilities include community-based assessment, skill and comfort level developing a wide range of jobs in the community, and a desire to work on a multidisciplinary team. Two years’ human service work experience, valid Vermont driver’s license, registered vehicle and knowledge of community resources required.

Knowledge of the Burlington business community preferred.

nurSe, chittenden center

The Chittenden Center, a Burlington methadone clinic, seeks a full-time Registered Nurse or LPN to join our team. This position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone and suboxone via computer-based dispensing system to patients in a methadone treatment program and conducting patient education of safe methadone practice, harm reduction and general health issues relevant to individuals with opiate addiction and/or other substance abuse problems.

mental health/SubStance abuSe clinician — burlington

Responsibilities include assessment, treatment planning, individual and intensive outpatient program group therapy, and case management and referral for clients with mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. Exposure to trauma treatment and working with culturally diverse populations important. Experience with evidence-based treatment practices a must.

Writing skills necessary, as is ability to manage clinical documentation requirements. License preferred. Master’s in counseling, social work or psychology required. Must be computer literate. Full time.

Visit www.howardcenter.org for more details and a complete list of employment opportunities.

HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.

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TEACHER - St. Albans Vermont Adult Learning, a non-profit statewide provider of adult education and literacy services, seeks a flexible educator working with various learning styles, ages and backgrounds to provide instruction at the Learning Works Center located in St. Albans, Vt. Must be able to teach skills related to a number of subjects with interest and ability connecting education to employment.

This full-time position offers excellent benefits including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible paid time off.

Visit our website, www.vtadultlearning.org, for more information.

Resume Deadline: December 15, 2010.

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Consider joining the dedicated team at COTS and help to make a difference!

Come build your future at Middlebury College!

We are passionate about growing the community of women who are inspired to live an active life.

Online Marketing Manager ISIS is looking for energetic and tech-savvy online marketing manager to drive e-commerce growth and expand our online marketing efforts.

The online marketing manager is responsible for the development of the ISIS website and associated Internet activities where success is measured by increases in traffic to our website, email list size and e-commerce revenues.

The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of all aspects of website development and promotion as well as strong project-management, communication and customer service skills. Experience with Microsoft Office, Illustrator and Photoshop required. Must be detail oriented and able to problem solve and work independently. We seek a team player with a positive attitude, enthusiasm and ability to exhibit grace under pressure! Prior Internet marketing experience required.

Assistant Director of Donor Relations Full-time benefits eligible position Create compelling communications that support donor cultivation and demonstrate the impact of philanthropy as part of a comprehensive fund-raising strategy.

We seek an individual familiar with desktop applications (including common desktop publishing applications) that has outstanding written communication skills for print and online formats, plus exceptional editing skills and attention to detail. Experience with multimedia software is strongly preferred. The ideal candidate will have strong project management and organizational skills. He/she must be able to analyze and change systems in ways that better support institutional goals. The ability to work effectively with diverse groups as well as the ability to work as part of a team is important.

Required: Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in English, journalism, marketing, or related field, plus two or more years of experience in higher education or in a professional field in which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired. Flexibility with regard to work duties and changing nature of work. Some evening and weekend work may be required.

Why work for us? Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. As the tenth largest employer in Vermont and an institution with operations on five continents, Middlebury’s workforce is one of its most valuable assets. Thus the college is firmly committed to the success and development of its employees.

Interested applicants, please apply online via: http://apptrkr.com/168792 For assistance, please call Human Resources at 802-443-5465.

Middlebury College is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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(Parttime) Johnson State College invites applications for the position of parttime Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Coach. The successful candidate will be in charge of all aspects of the program including recruitment of quality student athletes, retention, fundraising, pre- and postseason conditioning programs, organizing and planning of practices and race strategies, and monitoring academic performance of members of the team. Bachelor’s degree and knowledge of NCAA Division III rules and regulations required; collegiate cross country/coaching experience preferred.

Send a completed JSC job application (at www.jsc.edu/ employment), resume and cover letter to: Susan.Rothschild@jsc. edu OR mail to Human Resources Office, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, Vermont 05656. Final offer of employment is subject to a fingerprint-supported criminal background check.

JSC strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. JSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of the Vermont State Colleges system. In compliance with ADA requirements, we will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

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HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER COORDINATOR

Send resume to ISIS, Attn: Jean, 1 Mill St., Suite 203, Burlington, VT 05401, or email jean.kissner@isisforwomen.com.

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Administrative Assistant to support the General Manager.

Administrative Assistant

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in program development and evaluation and program management, including budgetary development and oversight, and a minimum of three years of related social services or affordable housing experience. Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline is required.

CVE, a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization that has served the people of Vermont for nearly 90 years, annually presents more than 120 events in entertainment, agriculture, commerce and education.

Key elements include:  Daily support of the General Manager  Report generation and contract preparation with entertainers and suppliers  Schedule meetings and travel  Support Board of Directors’ Committees  General correspondence  Serving as administrative liaison with the Champlain Valley Fair superintendents  Insurance claim administration  Serve as Recording Secretary and supporting Corporate Secretary for CVE Board of Directors The position may include reception/front desk duties as needed. Position may manage other administrative personnel. Occasional weekend hours required.

The successful candidate should be familiar with the needs of the homeless population, have a working knowledge of housing issues and systems at local and state levels, and be familiar with community social services resources.

Five-ten years’ experience in an office setting. Knowledge of MS Office Suite and standard office equipment. General knowledge of human resource, workers’ compensation, and office supply management. Ability to handle multiple time demands simultaneously. Compensation negotiable depending on experience. Send cover letter, resume and three references to:

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General Manager Champlain Valley Exposition 105 Pearl Street P.O. Box 209 Essex Junction, VT 05453-0209 E-mail to: info@cvexpo.org.

No phone calls please The Champlain Valley Exposition is an equal opportunity employer

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Dr. Peter Casson, in collaboration with the Reproductive Medicine Network, is looking for volunteers for a research study comparing the effectiveness of two FDA-approved drugs for helping women become pregnant.

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Arok, hiding from the Arabs in the branches of a tree, two weeks surviving on leaves, legs numb, mouth dry.

When the mosquitoes swarmed and the bodies settled limp as petals under the trees, he shinnied down, scooping out a mud pit with his hands sliding into it like a snake, his whole body covered except his mouth.

Perhaps others were near him, lying in gloves of mud, sucking bits of air through the swamp holes, mosquitoes biting their lips, but he dared not look.

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What did he know of the rest of South Sudan, pockmarked with bombs, skull trees with their necklaces of bones, packs of bony Lost Boys roving like hyenas towards Ethiopia, tongues, big as toads, swelling in their mouths. the sky pouring its relentless bombs of fire. Of course they were tempted to lie down for a moment, under the lone tree, with its barely shade, to rest just a little while before moving on,

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until the blanched bones lay scattered in a ring around the tree, tiny ribs, skulls, hip bones — a tea set overturned, as the hot winds whistled through them as they would anything, really,

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n 2006, after a failed yet entertaining Pennsylvania congressional campaign, Raj Peter Bhakta hit the road. First stop: India. Bhakta was on the hunt for the next Steve Irwin — the famed Australian wildlife expert who had recently met an untimely demise at the end of a stingray’s barb.

Though Bhakta, then 31, had just lost his first political race, he still had the entrepreneurial zeal he’d shown on the second season of Donald Trump’s mogulmaking reality show “The Apprentice.” If he could find a tea-sipping, head-bobbling, tiger-taming Indian replacement for Irwin, he reasoned, he’d have a hit show on his hands. Who wouldn’t watch that show?

To find his star, Bhakta traveled to all of India’s national parks and interviewed gamekeepers and wardens. He held auditions in Bollywood. But he returned home empty-handed. His Bengali Steve was not to be found.

Back in the U.S., Bhakta floundered. The campaign had left him dispirited about the American political system. When a friend encouraged him to decamp to Vermont and plan his next step, he figured, Why not? That move was the unlikely setup for Bhakta’s next stage of life as a rural highend whiskey baron.

Like so many well-heeled urbanites, Bhakta bought an old farm and moved to the Champlain Valley seeking respite and inspiration. After he’d spent some time hanging out in Vermont, taking in the clear air and bucolic scenery, two things happened to him.

“One: I didn’t come to any great level of clarity. And two: The financial reality of Holy smokes, I’ve got a 500-acre farm I’m carrying here hit me,” he recalls. “Then I said, ‘I have an idea — let’s make this farm profitable.’”

In Vermont, as in most parts of the U.S., making money from a farm is an exercise fraught with hand wringing and number crunching. But Bhakta is nothing if not bright eyed and confident. His farm wouldn’t do dairy or conventional food crops, he decided.

No, Bhakta’s farm would do whiskey.

Or, more specifically, his farm, cradled in the hills between Shoreham and Cornwall, would grow the rye for the whiskey.

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He attended the prestigious Hill School, then studied history and economics at Boston College. After graduation, he took a job at a boutique mergers-and-acquisitions firm.

Two years later, Bhakta started his own

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company — a tech business that created online appraisal tools for the wholesale auto industry. After selling that company to DaimlerChrysler, Bhakta moved on to real estate, purchasing and redeveloping a hotel and condo complex in Vail, Colo.

His business savvy and sartorial flair — the bow-tied bon vivant could have penned the preppy handbook — caught the eye of the producers of “The Apprentice,” who invited him to compete on the show’s second season in 2005. During his turn on the show, Bhakta distinguished himself with his rapier wit and unabashed pursuit of beautiful women.

In 2006, Bhakta, a self-described libertarian Republican, took a shot at a House of Representatives seat in Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district.

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A new Shoreham distillery is helping bring back rye And Bhakta’s whiskey wouldn’t be just any well-grade tipple. In keeping with his blue-blooded bent toward all things posh, Bhakta wanted his whiskey — a 10-year-old, 100-proof rye — to be the most top-shelf domestic rye on the market.

So far, he seems to be making good on his resolutions.

WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey hit shelves this spring and has already garnered praise from spirits connoisseurs. New York City culinary hot spots such as Blue Hill, Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Café serve WhistlePig, as do upscale bars such as Death + Company and PDT. For Bhakta, this is only the beginning.

“We’re going to make the best whiskeys in America, full stop, all in,” he says.

That may sound like big talk from a guy who embarked on his new career with no experience in the spirits world beyond frequent imbibing. But Bhakta has a deadly combination of business acumen, entrepreneurial gusto and unflinching chutzpah to back up his claim.

Bhakta, 35, grew up in Philadelphia, the

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WHAT IS RYE WHISKEY? American rye whiskey is made from a mash of fermented rye grain, often mixed with barley, corn and other grains. In American rye whiskey, the mash, by law, must be at least 51 percent rye. Ryes are typically aged in charred, new oak barrels.

Rye tends to be spicier, more assertive and less sweet than bourbon, its cornbased cousin. Its distinctive flavor makes it the base of many classic drinks, including the Sazerac, the Manhattan and the stone fence, a New England standard.

Rye whiskey came into fashion during the American Revolution, when the halt in trade took rum, the colonials’ tipple of choice, out of circulation. Rye rose to prominence thanks in part to Scottish and Irish settlers in western Pennsylvania and Maryland, who had been distilling whiskey made from rye grain for years. George Washington, the young nation’s most famous distiller, produced unaged rye at Mount Vernon for years after his presidency.

Rye continued to be the nation’s most popular liquor until Prohibition shuttered distilleries in 1920. When the act was repealed in 1930, Americans had moved on from rye, and the drink fell out of favor.

In the mid-1990s, boutique distilleries revived the beverage. Rye is now enjoying a resurgence in the U.S., with more than 20 distilleries producing about 40 varieties.

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During Prohibition, smugglers rediscovered a mountain route that allowed them to transport booze from Canada to dry Vermont — over the “notch.” Thanks to state bill H.772, enacted in May, sMugglErs’ notch DIstIllEry can sell and offer samples of its vodka without resorting to bootlegging.

Being Vermont’s first private outlet to offer liquor tastings isn’t the only unique thing about the vodka maker. It’s also got a scientific pedigree.

Though chemist JErEMy turnEr EllIott didn’t open his store on Main Street in Jeffersonville until this past October, he started working on his vodka five years ago, when his New York City-based employer began outsourcing its research and development.

Elliott admits that he wasn’t passionate about vodka back then, but he thought developing one would be a great use of his skill set while he looked for work. “I knew that, with my chemistry background and understanding about proper process control, I could make a wonderful vodka,” says the 2000 University of Vermont grad. In the meantime, Elliott landed a position at Mylan Technologies in St. Albans — and fell in love with fermentation.

Elliott’s vodka is composed of sweet corn and winter wheat from Idaho, which give the booze the bite for which its maker strived. The powerful product is diluted with water from a Jeffersonville source that Elliott calls simply “Big Spring.”

Several Jeffersonville restaurants, including the faMIly taBlE, 158 MaIn and the VIllagE taVErn at thE sMugglErs’ notch Inn, already carry the vodka. But Elliott hopes its popularity will spread if he gives restaurateurs a signature drink in which to use it. For the next two weeks, the Smugglers’ Notch Distillery’s website and Facebook page are running a contest to concoct the cocktail. Elliott says that, since his site launched last Friday, he’s been inundated with recipes.

In the new year, Elliott plans to begin work on a gin.

Once he’s happy with that recipe, he’ll try his hand at white and dark rums. Before long, Elliott hopes, spirits aficionados will be able to taste a whole range of liquors at his Lamoille County storefront — no smuggling necessary.

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There’s a reason taralEIgh wEathErs thanks the city of Burlington in her new cookbook. The inspiration for the endeavor came to her while she was exploring the Burlington bike path last year.

“I was, like, ‘I’d really like to do something for the community,’” says Weathers, who’s also known as the hEalthy hIppIE for her bimonthly magazine of the same name.

“It can be a book about food and benefit people who can’t afford to feed themselves.”

Food isn’t Weathers’ only passion: She’s followed Phish on tour for years. Her twin obsessions come together this week with the release of her book PhanFood: From the Kitchen Pot to the Tour Lot. Weathers shares the title of editor with Pete Mason, author of PhanArt, a collection of Phish-inspired visuals.

Weathers collected recipes via pleas on Facebook and by asking fellow concertgoers at shows this summer. Also, she admits, “I had to harass some people.”

Those people included a half-dozen Vermonters, from avowed “phans” such as “Eat More Kale” guy Bo MullErMoorE — who contributed a kale-pesto recipe — to nIttI sachDEVa, the Burlington

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In Essex Junction, a location long associated with Asian food now houses a very different concept. Two weeks ago, a pair of retirees, tIM allarD and lorraInE latorrE, opened a pizza-focused restaurant called uppEr crust at 118 Pearl Street, the former site of Pho Phat Tai. Though neither had owned a restaurant before, Allard says a shared love of food drove them to give the business a try. “It all just seemed to be a good fit,” he says. “We thought it would be a nice addition to what we consider to be Fast Food Row.” While it may be served to customers quickly, the Upper Crust fare is far from fast food. Once the team had fully refurbished the building, says Latorre, they began conceiving

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With Christophe’s on the Green gone, Vergennes diners have had to rely on chef MIchEl MahE of the Black shEEp BIstro for Gallic flavor. Now Addison County residents can wake up the French way — by snacking on a petit déjeuner of croissants, pains au chocolat or canelés.

On December 3, JulIannE JonEs and her co-owner and fiancé DIDIEr Murat opened their bakery, café and cheese shop, VErgEnnEs launDry. The coffee is from Chicago-based Intelligentsia, but the tea comes from closer to home: Middlebury’s stonE lEaf tEahousE. The cut-to-order cheeses are a mix of local — think twIg farM of West Cornwall — and imported.

Murat, owner of VaDEBoncoEur artIsanal frEnch nougat, makes the sweets himself.

For now, the menu is limited to baked goods and simple dishes such as grapefruit with Greek yogurt. By Christmas, Jones says, she expects to offer full breakfast and lunch menus, which will be written on butcher paper and change daily.

recipes. Today, practically everything is original and made fresh. “The marinara sauce is so good, I took some home the other day and drank it like soup,” avows Latorre. Three other sauces are available: one white and two tomato based.

Pizza is the name of the game, but Latorre, Allard and his wife, EIlEEn, cook up everything from poutine to pulled pork to hot turkey sandwiches. Home-baked desserts, such as sticky buns and chocolate-chip cookies, cover the front counter — plenty of possible endings to a dinner of fresh marinara, with or without crust.

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“I’ve always been a whiskey drinker. Bhakta will join a small group of local I’ve conducted a decades-long and distillers — at present, Vermont has seven thorough due-diligence process, at the distilleries in operation and six whose hazard of my net worth and liver and good applications are pending. reputation, in pursuit of learning more At nearly $70 for a 750-milliliter bottle, about whiskey,” he says. “So, I should WhistlePig’s current offering is the most make a return on this.” expensive rye sold in Vermont. But it’s The first step was settling on a name. worth it, says George Bergin, co-owner of Bhakta had no trouble there, since the the Beverage Warehouse in Winooski. term “whistle pig” had lodged itself “I think it’s the best rye we sell. It’s memorably in his head years ago. As the really smooth, but you can still taste the story goes, he was hiking in Colorado complexity,” he says. when he ran into a helmetless mountain Chris Maloney, bartender at Bluebird biker with wild hair and a heavy French Tavern in Burlington, loves the whiskey 899-2223 accent. for its full-bodied flavor.

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On Saturday, December 11, from 7 to 9 p.m., Phish’s launching ground, Nectar’s, will host a party for the premiere of PhanFood.

Drinks from the book will be served, and recipe contributors will bring their featured dishes. (Look for Weathers’ “Touch My Meatless Balls.”)

Vermont sales of PhanFood benefit the CHITTENDEN EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF, and celebrants are encouraged to bring cans for a food drive.

The book will also be sold at Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas the following night at a

available online, at concerts and at a few local stores, including South Burlington’s Candles & Creations.

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A court settlement prevents MIKE BETIT of TAMARACK HOLLOW FARM in Burlington’s Intervale, and his former investor, MICHAEL LIEBIS, from revealing details, but documents related to their dispute speak for themselves.

According to a November 24 piece in the New York Times, the two were embroiled in a suit involving accusations of “fraud, embezzlement and purloined poultry taken in the dead of night.” special screening of the new Phish concert film. After this weekend, PhanFood will be

Court documents say that Liebis paid for 900 chickens and 300 turkeys that he would help sell at New York City markets. Betit claims that, once at the markets, Liebis spent his time bothering Tamarack’s employees and annoying customers. He also accuses Liebis of stealing from the farm’s booths in NYC. In return, Liebis accused Betit of taking parts of his investment for “personal use.”

One thing’s for sure: By his own admission, Betit violated laws that prevent him from selling birds that were slaughtered on his small Vermont farm, outside of Vermont.

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3/4 ounce Carpano Antica Formula sweet vermouth 2 1/4 ounce WhistlePig rye whiskey 3 dashes Angostura bitters Stir and strain into a chilled 5 1/2-ounce glass.

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Gently muddle lemons, mint and simple syrup so as not to tear the mint leaves or release too many of the essential oils of the lemons.

In other words, bruise, but don’t abuse. Add WhistlePig and shake with ice. Strain into a chilled double rocks glass over cracked ice.

Garnish with a lemon wedge and a mint sprig.

(Adapted from Bottoms Up, by Ted Saucier. This book is regarded by many as the “sexiest” of all cocktail guides. It contains more than 800 recipes culled from both accomplished barmen and accomplished barflies, and it is colorfully illustrated throughout in a distinctly suggestive yet tasteful style reminiscent of the popular Antonio Vargas drawings from the pages of classic Playboy magazines of the 1950s and ’60s.)

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Supposedly, J.P. Morgan had a Manhattan at the close of the stock market every day. The drink was most likely created at the Manhattan Club sometime around 1874. Its house Manhattan was equal parts sweet vermouth and rye whiskey with a dash of orange bitters.)

Bhakta may not have won his seat in Congress, but he’s still determined to serve his country, one pricey dram at a time.

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The restaurant is on its third bottle of WhistlePig since the bar staff discovered it a few months ago.

It’s not just local bartenders and whiskey aficionados who are talking about Bhakta’s whiskey. The Wall Street Journal recently named WhistlePig one of its top five new whiskeys of the year, while the Spirit Journal awarded it five out of five stars. Wine Enthusiast gave WhistlePig 96 points — its highest rating ever for a rye whiskey.

The accolades don’t surprise Bhakta.

“We said we were going to have the best rye out there. That was the mandate,” he says. “You can disagree as to whether we’re the best or the second best or the third best. But we’ll always be associated with the best.”

That might sound a little Trumpian, but Bhakta doesn’t mind the comparison.

Much of The Donald’s success as the most famous real-estate tycoon in the Western world can be attributed to his unapologetic showmanship and relentless marketing. Bhakta doesn’t see anything wrong with employing those tactics in the whiskey business.

“Your drink should have flavor. And WhistlePig is the most flavorful of all of America’s whiskeys,” Bhakta says, as if stumping for office. “There’s no need to contribute to the trade deficit any more

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Inside an unassuming house on Elm Street, an owners’ collective has assembled to create a holistic emporium.

Downstairs, the tearoom serves healthy food and drinks containing wares from the Green Mountain Medicinals herb shop in the next room. Upstairs, there are 11 different healing arts practitioners, from massage therapists to an astrologer and henna body artist.

Tulsi Tea Room began in the summer of ••• ••• 2009 as a way to combine the herbal interests of Green Mountain Medicinal owners Adrienne Allison and Ginna Bourisseau with the food-service skills of Solenne Thompson, of vegan confection business  a Amai Bijoux. Since then, its owners have fluctuated; all buy in with $1000 or sweat equity and share in the quarterly dividends. Currently, four women who work ••• ••• at Tulsi are owners. Thompson, who is primarily responsible for the tearoom, says she’d welcome more.

Not that she’s lonely. Both the tearoom and its adjacent herb shop seem to be constantly buzzing with a gaggle of Earth Mention this ad and mothers of all ages. Children are a constant receive 10% off gift presence. Thompson, who’s expecting in February, has a term for the three infants card purchase of who already appear with their mothers, any amount! her co-owners, at the shop: “tea babies.”

Yet, when Tulsi opened a year and a half Call or come in today. ago, she says, no one involved was thinking motherhood.

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Bourisseau joins me and asks how my day has been. Is any part of my body bothering me? Do any issues need addressing?

I tell her that in a couple of days I will be singing on an outdoor stage and my boyfriend has a cold that I need to avoid contracting. “Ah,” Bourisseau says with a smile. “I know exactly what you need.”

A few minutes later, Thompson returns with a steaming pot of Tulsi immune blend with licorice. “The licorice protects your throat, and its emollient properties stop bacteria from sticking ... It helps your system wash and keep cleaning itself,” explains Bourisseau of her concoction.

The tea has a uniquely powerful sugary taste, almost like saccharine. I ask Thompson what sweetens it. “Nothing,” she says — just licorice. “In a lot of tea blends, they’ll put in licorice because it blends everything together. With bitter herbs, it helps make it palatable.”

Bourisseau’s expertise in assigning the right herb to the right person comes from her background as an ayurvedic practitioner. When Tulsi Tea Room first opened, she was also the chef and prepared ayurvedic meals intended to balance and nourish guests’ prana, or life force.

Now Bourisseau has left the kitchen to practice and run the herb shop full time. But each Friday, Tulsi still serves an ayurvedic lunch composed of a grain (usually a blend of rice and quinoa or an amaranth blend), a lentil daal with masala spices, steamed

vegetables, homemade chutney, and raita with yogurt made on site.

According to Thompson, this balanced blend of flavors has healing properties. It’s also surprisingly filling, she says: “We have so many people who, with that little meal, say, ‘Oh, I’m so satisfied.’” Thompson radiates such reassuring energy that it’s hard not to believe her.

Since it’s not Friday, I order from the regular menu, which chef Jillian Lauren Lisitano creates weekly. I choose a curry dish and a tempeh burger, but Lisitano insists on also sending out a small fennel salad to optimize the balance of my meal.

The sweet, crunchy raw fennel, with its slight licorice flavor that matches my tea, is dressed with sour cider vinegar, sunflower oil and a hint of tangerine juice. It’s topped with dried currants and delicate fennel fronds, as well as a few tangerine segments.

The dish calls to mind the balance of Thai cuisine, which seeks, in theory, to feature equal proportions of spicy, sour, sweet, salty and bitter on every plate. Lisitano explains that ayurvedic meals have the same goal, but balance six flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent.

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The next dish, chana saag, performs the feat even better. The chickpea and spinach stew is gingery, with a heat that builds as I chew. The flavors are more reminiscent of Tibetan or Nepalese dishes than Indian ones — a nice surprise even to Lisitano, who says she has little knowledge of Himalayan food.

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This is the chef’s one misstep. The goal of a raita is astringency and sourness. But the bland tofu simply doesn’t have the bite of real yogurt, which Lisitano makes herself and uses in other dishes, including a refreshing bilberry lassi drink.

Pungent, earthy flavor is the star of the tempeh burger. Crisp on the outside, the patty is firm and meaty, and flavored with cumin and coriander. The tofu-curry cream, served on the side in a tiny glass bowl, is luscious. It’s surprisingly similar to the curry aioli at meat palace Duckfat

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Sauté patties in a well-oiled pan. Fry until golden brown. Serve with curry tofu cream.

in Portland, Maine. The smooth sauce sparkles with the spices of garam masala, making me forget that, instead of eggs and oil, it’s made with tofu and something called Vegenaise.

Lisitano, who trained as a macrobiotic chef at the Kushi Institute in Massachusetts, is a vegetarian — and a vegan when she’s not tasting her yogurt.

But not all of Tulsi’s owners avoid meat.

Thompson was vegan when she started Amai Bijoux, but after moving back to Vermont from Oregon, “I started eating dairy, then meat,” she admits.

Even vegetarian Bourisseau says meat can have plenty of life-giving prana. So why doesn’t her restaurant serve it?

“There are plenty of places to get meat,” she reasons. “But not a lot of places to get good vegetarian meals.”

There are even fewer places to get great vegan desserts, but Tulsi delivers those in spades. A case in the tearoom is packed with Thompson’s Amai Bijoux treats.

Blueberry- and black-sesame-filled chocolates called Blue Moon Cakes are dense and chewy, with an almost alarmingly deep flavor of cacao. Truffles called Maca Meltdowns feature a Peruvian root that’s considered a libido enhancer by many naturopaths. The honey-sweetened chocolate probably would be sexy enough on its own, with its creamy, crumbly texture and healthy dose of cinnamon.

Lisitano offers more substantial desserts, also free of animal products and processed sugars. Moist coconut-anddate scones taste more like delightful little cakey muffin tops. The dark-chocolate-almond torte is worth my drive from Burlington. Light, almond-filled layers of sponge cake taste like marzipan.

Somehow, the tofu chocolate mousse, layered inside the cake and used as frosting, works despite the absence of dairy.

The overall effect is strikingly similar to the Bosnian walnut cake available at Café Mediterano in Essex. Maybe Tulsi’s herbalists wouldn’t prescribe cake, but there’s little in it to hurt you.

Right now, Bourisseau and Allison of Green Mountain Medicinals are the only ones issuing tonic prescriptions at the tearoom. Lisitano hopes that will soon change: She wants to be more like the healers of Hong Kong.

“I think that’s a really wonderful way to work with your guests to give them what they need,” she says excitedly. “If you had several dishes that day that you were serving, you could talk to them a little bit about what they’re doing and what you might suggest for them.”

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Pretty in Blonde

Modern Times “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” penned William Shakespeare in Hamlet more than four centuries ago. Much like the Bard’s other plays, the dark tragedy still holds up today — possibly even more so since the National Theatre of London fast-forwarded the tale to the present day. If anyone has artistic license to do so, it’d have to be Shakespeare’s fellow countrymen.

Performing in contemporary clothing, the title character (played by Rory Kinnear) begins to look “a little like a gangster in a Guy Ritchie movie,” writes the Independent, and the motifs of revenge and moral corruption play out like a modern political thriller.

Vermont audiences get in on the overseas action at broadcast screenings of the production this week.

NATIONAL THEATRE OF LONDON: CATAMOUNT ARTS CENTER Thursday, December 9, 7 p.m., and Sunday, December 12, 2 p.m. (encore), at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. $10-23. Info, 748-2600. www.catamountarts.org

NATIONAL THEATRE OF LONDON: LOEW AUDITORIUM Thursday, December 9, 7 p.m., at Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu

NATIONAL THEATRE OF LONDON: TOWN HALL THEATER Friday, December 10, 7 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $10-17. Info, 3829222. townhalltheater.org

‘LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL’ Monday, December 13, 7:30 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $43-63. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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he latest Broadway national tour lighting up the Flynn stage is a vision of pink, but the real color scheme at the heart of this girly production is actually, well, blonde. Legally Blonde: The Musical — called a “nonstop sugar rush of a show” by the New York Times for its feminine flair — revives Delta-Nu-turned-HarvardLaw-student Elle Woods, who gained notoriety for her bubbly personality and signature “bend and snap” in the 2001 film.

She’s back in this 2009 touring Broadway award-winning spectacle, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Nineteen costume changes, 18 songs (including such numbers as “Omigod You Guys”), seven Tony Award nominations ... and a partridge in a pear tree? Indeed, fans may think Christmas came early.

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DEC.09 | ETC. Fashion Forward Baby needs a new pair of shoes? ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain’s Upcycled Fashion Show may give you pause. According to ECHO’s conservation education specialist Bridget Butler, producing a set of sneakers uses nearly 3500 liters of oil.

Gyllian Rae Svensson, owner of Burlington’s Bobbin Sew Bar + Craft Lounge, designed a runway fête to address the role of fashion in global issues such as climate change, sustainability and the peak-oil crisis. “In Vermont, we’ve come so far in understanding where our food comes from ... But most of the time, we don’t think about where our clothes come from at all,” she explains. Svensson, Flying Hen Studio’s Rebecca Mack and Mountain Ash Design’s Sarah O. Green unveil all-local, repurposed lines of attire. Watch duds incorporating leftover faux fur from Vermont Teddy Bear, and other inventive recycling methods, hit the catwalk before designer Q&As.

UPCYCLED FASHION SHOW Thursday, December 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. $10-15; cash bar; winterwear donations accepted for the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Info, 877-324-6386. www.echovermont.org

Blast From the Past

SEASONAL PAPER-FOLDING WORKSHOP: Donna Babic tutors crafters in the ways of English lantern ornaments. Preregister. Bradford Public Library, 6-8 p.m. $5 materials fee. Info, 222-4536, bradford publiclibrary@gmail.com.

business

NETWORKING LUNCHEON FOR VERMONT HEALERS: Area herbalists, health practitioners, educators and others receive advice from Mindful Business Development's Jason Pugliese on “Business Planning for the New Year.” KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 598-9206.

community

VILLAGE-BUILDING CONVERGENCE: Community members band together various skill sets for a changing world. Rhapsody Natural Foods Café, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-5844, twinpond@gmail.com.

WINOOSKI COALITION FOR A SAFE AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more.

O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

dance

FLYNNARTS DANCE SHOWCASE: Twelve weeks of studio-based dance and choreography culminate in an explosion of onstage ballet, hip-hop, modern, '80s jazz, cabaret and tap dance. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation for the FlynnArts scholarship fund. Info, 863-5966.

environment

RENEWABLE ENERGY WORKSHOP: Colin Sorenson from Local Energy details how homeowners can harness solar-electric, solar-thermal and wind power. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com.

‘WEATHERIZING YOUR HOME: FROM TOP TO BOTTOM’: Homeowners with heating bills breaking the budget take steps toward renewable energy in a two-part program. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 385-1911.

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BURLINGTON SKI & OUTING CLUB: SEASON KICKOFF PARTY: Skiers, snowshoers, hikers, bikers, paddlers and other open-air adventurers meet peers.

Zen Gardens, South Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free; $10 to join club. Info, 434-7647.

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano?

A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

KNIT NIGHT: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they give yarn a makeover. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 872-7111.

MRV PROJECTS: UVM students present community development outlines for the Mad River Valley, including interpretive installations and local food efforts. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.

WEATHERIZING YOUR HOME: Speaker Fred Lugano dives head first into reducing drafts from the attic.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 385-1911.

film

‘HIDEAWAY’: Director François Ozon delves into the ties that bind in his 2009 drama. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE FILM SERIES: A “meals on reels”-themed sequence screens Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 10 a.m. $5 donation. Info, 454-4675.

‘THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST’: Stieg Larsson’s unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander is back and no longer a victim in the thrilling followup to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7.

Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

ADELSHEIM VINEYARD WINE DINNER: David Adelsheim, cofounder of this Willamette Valley winery, discusses his vision and his wines over supper. Partial proceeds are donated to the Children’s Miracle Network. Hen of the Wood at the Grist MIll, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $130 includes tax and tip.

Info, 244-7300.

BENEFIT DINNER: Folks fill up on localvore fare at the gastropub to help raise funds for the Lund Family Center. Ten percent of sales support the organization. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 5-10 p.m.

Cost of food and drink; mention LFC when making reservations. Info, 864-7467, ext. 2023.

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Free. Info, 748-7121. discoverstjvt.com

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CANDLE MAKING: Sign up ahead to make and take home handmade beeswax gifts. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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The quaint Northeast Kingdom celebration, going on more than a decade, is the main event of the village’s ongoing holiday activities. Get a jump on the day with holiday card making at Catamount Arts Center from 9-11 a.m., or a Christmas bazaar at Good Shepherd Catholic School from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The man in the red suit rolls into town on a wagon at 10 a.m., just in time for a Victorian tea party at the welcome center. Take in a bell-ringing or choral concert before an iceskating finale at Four Seasons Park; don’t forget your top hat or frock coat.

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Bluebird Tavern Wine Dinner: Oregon vintners from Illahe Vineyards and Trisaetum Vineyard discuss their craftsmanship over a special menu.

Partial proceeds support the Children’s Miracle Network. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Call for price. Info, 428-4696.

Candy-Cane-Making Demo: Confectioners pull, roll and twist striped seasonal sweets. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 11 a.m. Free to watch; $6 to make your own (preregister). Info, 253-9591.

Chicken Pie Dinner: The Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District hosts an evening of hearty food, door prizes and presentations about upcoming initiatives. Waterbury Congregational Church, 6-8:30 p.m. $13. Info, 828-4493, ext. 113.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery experience the tempering and dipping process. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591.

Cooking Class: Foodies clock some time in the kitchen. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 658-3585.

Daily Planet Wine Dinner: The Burlington eatery hosts winemakers from Lenné Estate, Sokol Blosser and Soléna Estate at a pairing supper.

Partial proceeds support the Children’s Miracle Network. The Daily Planet, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Call for price. Info, 862-9647.

Domaine Serene Wine Dinner: An Oregon winery matches its drinks to Vermont cuisine. Partial proceeds support the Children’s Miracle Network.

The Pitcher Inn, Warren, 7 p.m. Call for price. Info, 496-6350.

Wine Dinner: Representatives from Oregon’s Witness Tree Vineyards and Dobbes Vineyards highlight a pairing menu. Partial proceeds support the Children’s Miracle Network. Starry Night Café, Ferrisburgh, 5:30 p.m. Call for price. Info, 877-6316.

health & fitness

Armchair Exercise: Gentle physical activity helps folks stay fit. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 658-3585.

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Jessica Stadtmauer: The naturopathic doctor discusses prevention and natural therapies in “Keeping Your Family Healthy This Winter.”

Preregister. Eastern View Integrative Medicine, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-3366.

Yoga Exercise: Gentle stretches improve core strength and flexibility. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

holidays

Festival of Lights: Homemade potato latkes, applesauce and holiday cookies spread seasonal cheer. Preregister. The Chubby Muffin, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

Holiday Book Sale: Looking to give the gift of literature? Take your pick from stacks of bestsellers, biographies, fiction and more. Bradford Public Library, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradford publiclibrary@gmail.com.

International Boutique: Tibetan and Persian carpets, silver jewelry, hand-painted pottery, silk scarves and other unusual stocking stuffers from all over the world fill up shoppers’ baskets.

Proceeds benefit AMURTEL. Masonic Lodge, Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5500.

kids

4-H Super Science: Third through fifth graders expand their knowledge of the natural world through hands-on activities about insects, roller coasters, rockets and more. Preregister. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5429 or 878-0313, rosemarie.garritano@uvm.edu.

Babytime: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 658-3659.

Enosburg Playgroup: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Fairfax Playgroup: Multicultural stories and activities accent child’s play. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Highgate Story Hour: Good listeners soak up classic fairy tales. Highgate Public Library, Highgate Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Homeschool Wednesdays: Out-of-classroom learners ages 6 to 12 explore museum exhibits while learning about the impact of farming on Vermont’s landscape and economy. Preregistration suggested. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. $3-5. Info, 828-2180.

Montgomery Story Hour: Little lit lovers flip pages before snacking. Montgomery Town Library, Montgomery Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Moving & Grooving With Christine: Young ones jam out to rock ‘n’ roll and world-beat tunes.

Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 865-7216.

Music for Preschoolers: Youngsters ages 3 to 5 fine-tune their motor skills during instrument playtime. Colchester Meeting House, 12:30-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-0313.

Story Time with Mrs. Claus: Cookies and milk enhance Christmas tales told by Santa’s jolly wife.

Meet at the Christmas tree. University Mall, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

The Global Village: Games, songs and stories expose children and their parents to different cultures and dialects. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 524-6393.

music

Amateur Musicians Orchestra: Director Daniel Bruce oversees a winter concert of Rossini, Smetana, Brahms and Tchaikovsky compositions.

Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 839-9067.

Jazz Vocal Ensemble & Combo: Smooth tunes fill an end-of-semester program. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

Johnson State College Music Ensembles: Student-operated funk/fusion, jazz, Afro-Caribbean and percussion ensembles bring down the house in a semester’s-end concert. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

SUNY Plattsburgh Guitar Studio & Ensemble Concert: Michael Angelo Fratino directs this student music group. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2243.

Valley Night: Phineas Gage perform “grassicana” ditties. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

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Linda Elliott & John Schmeltzer: Speakers from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources discuss the cleanup at the now-closed Vermont Asbestos Group Mine in Eden. Room 203, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, Johnson, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 635-1327.

Plainfield Historical Society Annual Meeting: Residents reminisce about the town in the 1940s and ‘50s following a business gathering.

Plainfield Community Center, Plainfield, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 454-1102.

‘The Rebirth of the Light’: A PowerPoint presentation illuminates the Gnostic perspective of Christmas. 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosy cross.org.

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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’: Five capable actors and a busy sound effects wiz bring Frank Capra’s classic holiday story to life as a radio broadcast performed in front of a live audience. Montpelier City Hall

Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-15; free for children under 12 with paying adult. Info, 229-0492.

Preregister. Network Chiropractic of Vermont, Shelburne, 5:45-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9850.

‘Ringing Down the Curtain’: Emerging performers showcase selected theater and dance works from the semester. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-564-2243.

Dr. Stephen Brandon: Touching on nutrition, stress and stretching, the speaker offers advice for “How to Improve Athletic Performance and Prevent Skiing Injuries.” Preregister. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

‘Winter Tales’: Audience members sip hot cider while Vermont Stage actors deliver stories, songs and poems celebrating the cold season.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-55. Info, 863-5966.

words

‘You Come, Too’: Spend fall considering the words of selected British poets through readings and discussion. Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626, ext. 304.

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Media Maven Luncheon: Savvy social-media users look ahead to trends for 2011 while also reviewing effective election 2010 strategies with a panel of political pundits and campaign coordinators. Preregister. Channel 17 Studios, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. $5-15; additional $5 for lunch. Info, 862-1645, ext. 19, kathleen@cctv.org.

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Branch Out Burlington! Annual Meeting: Pizza and soft drinks honor the winners of the 2010 Awesome Tree Contest. Bring a dessert to share.

Preregister. Burlington Municipal Building, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5440.

Bridge Session: Partners shuffle cards and chat. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 658-3585.

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

Info, 363-5803.

Homegrown Thursdays: Green thumbs “Learn the Basics of Beading to Create Gifts with a Personal Touch.” Workshop held simultaneously at Burlington and Williston locations. Gardener’s Supply Company, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; cost of supplies, if applicable. Info, 660-3505, ext. 4.

Upcycled Fashion Show: Repurposed threads created by the Bobbin Sew Bar + Craft Lounge owner Gyllian Rae Svensson and others hit the catwalk.

See calendar spotlight. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $10-15; cash bar; winterwear donations accepted for the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Info, 877-324-6386.

film

International Film Series: Paul Cotter’s 2009 film captures an impromptu — and hellish — family road trip to Germany. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘Rebuilding Hope’: Jen Marlowe’s documentary focuses on the “Lost Boys” of Sudan. Founder of SUDEF Abraham Awolich leads a postscreening discussion. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8131.

‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’: See WED.08, 7 p.m.

food & drink

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

health & fitness

‘Don’t Like Flu Shots? We Don’t Either!’: Health nuts learn about alternative and natural methods for thriving, even during flu season.

Strong Living Exercise: Fitness enthusiasts undergo strength training for good health. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 443-1654.

Women’s Heart Health Class: Blood-pressure screenings cap a program about heart disease and ways to prevent it, nutritional advice, and vitamins.

City Market, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

holidays

Holiday Artisans’ Bazaar: Vermont and New Hampshire crafters exhibit pottery, weaving, glasswork, jewelry, ornaments and other seasonal creations. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, noon-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 431-0204.

Holiday Book Sale: See WED.08, noon-8 p.m.

‘Illumination Night’: Trees are decked with twinkling lights at a community tradition filled with hot drinks, cookies, candles and music. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 828-8599.

International Boutique: See WED.08, 10 a.m.8 p.m.

kids

Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Alburgh Family Center, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Do-It-Yourself Holiday Crafts: Teens save cash while putting some heart into homemade cards and gifts. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

Fletcher Playgroup: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 527-5426.

Franklin Story Hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

Georgia Playgroup: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Georgia Youth Center, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Holiday Sing-Along: Robert Resnik and Gigi Weisman inspire Christmas caroling and more.

Meet in the Bon-Ton seating area, University Mall, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

LightBulb Lab: Bright thinkers ages 2 to 8 sharpen their skills with problem-solving and math activities. Preregister. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Music With Peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘Predator Prowl’: Little ones forage for food and hone their pouncing skills on an outdoor hike.

Preregister. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child. Info, 434-3068.

music

‘Christmas With Counterpoint’: Vermont’s professional classical vocal ensemble serves up a panoply of seasonal songs. Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5-20; free for kids under 5. Info, 540-1784.

Meg Hutchinson: This “master of introspective ballads,” according to Performing Songwriter, takes listeners on a musical journey. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 985-9139.

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Piano EntErtainmEnt: A musician charms the ivory keys. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 658-3585.

sport

Wax CliniC: Swix Sports representative Drew Gelinas helps Nordic skiiers learn to wax and race like the pros. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

talks

admiral thad allEn: The national incident commander of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill speaks on “Leading Through Crisis and Times of Change.”

Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886. david nEWhall: Photos dating from as far back as 1957 accompany this local historian’s presentation of research done for the book The I-89 Interstate System. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘haiti onE YEar latEr’: Tetra Tech ARD’s Peg Clement and Louis Siegel analyze the lingering challenges facing Haitians and aid workers in this presentation hosted by the Vermont Council on World Affairs. Pomerleau Alumni Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-2343.

PubliC PoliCY Forum & rECEPtion: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility hosts speeches by House Speaker Shap Smith, VSBR public policy manager Dan Barlow and possibly Governorelect Peter Shumlin. Forum, 3:30 p.m.; reception, 5 p.m. Preregister. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.

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‘a Christmas storY’: The Essex Community Players capture Ralphie Parker’s quest to score a BB gun in his holiday stocking. Memorial Hall, Essex, 7:30 p.m. $10-13. Info, 878-9109. ‘it’s a WondErFul liFE’: See WED.08, 7 p.m. national thEatrE oF london: Catamount arts CEntEr: Who better to capture Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy, Hamlet, than the British? Screen a broadcast from this prominent theater company. See calendar spotlight.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1023. Info, 748-2600. national thEatrE oF london: loEW auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘ringing doWn thE Curtain’: See WED.08, 7:30 p.m.

‘WintEr talEs’: See WED.08, 7:30 p.m.

words

andrEa ChEsman: The Ripton food writer dishes about her latest book, Recipes From the Root Cellar: 270 Fresh Ways to Enjoy Winter Vegetables.

Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 247-0050. storY timE: Lit lovers of all ages take in fanciful tales. Bud & Bella’s Bookshop, Randolph, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 728-5509.

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origami Class: Don Shall of Paperworks shows paper folders how to fashion colorful holiday ornaments. Lunch immediately follows. Champlain

Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Info, 658-3585.

dance

argEntinEan tango: Shoulders back, chin up!

With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077. holidaY ball: Elegant dancers in semiformal attire tap their toes to the foxtrot and waltz. UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $4-8. Info, 413-687-5813. intErnational Folk danCing: Ben Bergstein and Louise Brill organize people into choreographed patterns from around the world. North End Studio, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 540-1020 or 233-3144.

QuEEn CitY Contra danCE: Geordie Lynde, Brendan Taaffe and Garrett Sawyer serenade organized movers in soft-soled shoes. Adina Gordon calls the steps. Beginners’ session at 7:45 p.m.

Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8; free for children under 12. Info, 371-9492 or 343-7165.

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Christmas Extravaganza: Green Mountain Bingo puts on a festive display of random-number games. Bingo Palace, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Regular admission. Info, 879-8338. drum & danCE: Feel the rhythm and keep the beat at a percussion lesson for all skill levels. Drum practice from 6:30-7 p.m.; drum and dance from 7-9:30 p.m. Shelburne Town Hall, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 862-5017, jaswmbrown@gmail.com. knitting & sEWing Class: Folks spin a good yarn. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

tErtulia latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español.

Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

film

‘thE girl Who kiCkEd thE hornEt’s nEst’: See WED.08, 7 p.m.

food & drink

CandY-CanE-making dEmo: See WED.08, 11 a.m.

ChoColatE Walk: Downtown shops dole out sweet treats to visitors. Various locations, Bristol, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7378.

ChoColatE-diPPing dEmo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

health & fitness

armChair ExErCisE: See WED.08, 11:30 a.m.

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FEstival oF trEEs: Decorated trees and holiday baskets are auctioned off to support the completion of the Marble Fence Post project. Gingerbread houses are on display. American Legion Post 49, Fair Haven, 5-8 p.m. $1; free for young children; donations accepted. Info, 265-3545. holidaY artisans’ bazaar: See THU.09, noon6 p.m. holidaY book salE: See WED.08, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. holidaY PartY: Get toasty by the fire while partaking in seasonal music, food and drink, as well as a silent auction of gift items. Brick House.

Shelburne Museum, 6-8 p.m. $40. Info, 985-3346. intErnational boutiQuE: See WED.08, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Woodstock Wassail Weekend: Neighbors and visitors alike spread good cheer and tidings through three days of festive events, including an equestrian parade, craft fairs, storytelling, ice skating and music. Visit www.woodstockvt. com for full schedule. Various locations, Woodstock, 1-9 p.m.

Various prices; many events are free. Info, 457-3555.

kids

Fairfax Playgroup: See WED.08, 9-10:30 a.m.

Fairfield Playgroup: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time.

Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 9:3011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

‘Kids’ Knight Out’: Swimming, arts and crafts, movies, games and concession food keep 5- to 10-year-olds on the move. Proceeds benefit the Purple Knights’ basketball program. Preregister.

Ross Sports Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5:30-9 p.m. $10-15. Info, 654-2500.

Montgomery Playgroup: Little ones exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, Montgomery Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Signs & Stories: American Sign Language instructor Rachel Loftus shares tales and rhymes through signing. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Story Time With Mrs. Claus: Santa seekers listen to tales as they wait to share their wish lists with the man in the red suit. Burlington Town Center Mall, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545.

Success by Six Playgroup & Storytime: Stories, activities and snacks amuse youngsters.

Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 827-3945, bentnorthrop@ gmail.com.

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

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CCV Community Choir & Queen City Larks: Traditional tunes from South Africa and Georgia intertwine with American shape-note hymns, gospel music and contemporary Vermont compositions in an evening of music that’s off the beaten track.

Sadie White Room, Community College of Vermont, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-0505.

‘Christmas With Counterpoint’: See THU.09, St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 7:30 p.m. $5-20; free for kids under 5. Info, 540-1784.

Cody Michaels: Award-winning instrumentals grace the ivory keys as this pianist and composer plays from Winter Suite.

Snowshed Base Lodge, Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 7-8 p.m. $5 includes admission to Vermont Holiday Festival.

Info, 773-4181.

Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul: A virtuoso fiddler offers playful jigs and American carols in An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $38. Info, 457-3981.

Johnson State College Band & Choir Concert: Bethany Plissey and Steven Light conduct student musicians and signers in an endof-semester showcase. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

Justin Perdue Trio: Jazz guitar permeates original compositions. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Midwinter Madrigal Festival: Thirteen Vermont high school vocal ensembles band together for year-round and seasonal songs.

North Avenue Alliance Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $6-8; $20 for families. Info, 8577000, ext. 1581.

Mushpost Winter Massive with Kingdom, Maga Bo & Guttstar: A recording studio transforms into a concert space for “the ultimate winter bass extravaganza.” Signal Kitchen, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10-25; cash bar. Info, 610-220-0058.

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Christmas Céilí: Mary’s Lane and guest Karen Sutherland produce tunes for the McFadden Academy of Irish Dance. All dances are taught; audience members in soft-soled shoes welcome to participate. International Commons, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4-6:30 p.m. $10; $15 per family; free with St. Michael’s College ID. Info, 654-2276.

Music Night: Artist John Daly kicks off an evening of original acoustic guitar. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

Cuban Dance Party: A seven-piece salsa band from Santiago de Cuba, Septeto Tipico Tivoli, plays up salsas, merengues and boleros following a free Latin-dance session. Proceeds support Vermont Institute on the Caribbean programs.

Lake Lobby, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $10-25 donation. Info, 864-4334.

‘Rhythm Nights’: Middlebury percussionist Will Smith offers rhythms and drum songs; audience members can help keep the beat. The Art House, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 989-6810, percussionsketches@gmail.com.

Dance Party: Vermont nonprofit ECHO (Education, Culture and Health Opportunities) hosts a gala of Ghanaian dancing and food.

Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 6-10 p.m. $10 per person; $5 per plate; $25 per family; cash bar. Info, 453-5807.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Pops: An audience sing-along caps a joyous performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria, DeCormier’s O Come All Ye Faithful and more. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $26. Info, 476-8188.

December Dance Show: Burlington-based dance artists present their works, including Selene Colburn’s “The Taxidermist Speaks,” Joy Madden’s “Mother,” and “The Woods Are Deep” by Ellen Smith Ahern and Lida Winfield. Big Studio, Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 229-4676.

sport

‘SKI’ Magazine Super Demo & People’s Ski Test: Skiers carve, jump, flex and stomp the latest snow gear over two days of public testing. Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow, 4-9 p.m. Free with lift ticket or pass. Info, 800-786-5366.

talks

Arnold Gundersen: The chief engineer of Fairewinds Associates turns the topic to nuclear power. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 864-3516.

Ross Atwood: The great-grandson of modern-design pioneers Ray and Charles Eames offers insight into their contributions to furniture, architecture, photography and more at the shop’s relaunch celebration. The Lotus Shop, Burlington, 6-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 660-4889.

‘The Future of Vermont’s Working Landscape’ Summit: Attendees discuss the challenges facing agricultural and forest-based enterprises. Preregister. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $25. Info, 223-6091, info@vtrural.org.

theater

‘A Christmas Carol’: Hyde Park: The Lamoille County Players journey toward redemption and atonement in an adaptation of this Dickens tale.

Hyde Park Opera House, Hyde Park, 7 p.m. $12-18.

Info, 888-4507.

‘A Christmas Story’: See THU.09, 7:30 p.m.

National Theatre of London: Town Hall Theater: See THU.09, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222.

‘Open Me Last’: Carol Benson, Bob Carmody, Marianne DiMascio and others appear in three short plays

by Burlington writer Maura Campbell. With live music, the evening benefits the Committee on Temporary Shelter. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 578-4857.

‘Winter Tales’: See WED.08, 7:30 p.m.

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Neil Goodwin: The author of We Go As Captives offers riveting adventures set during the Royalton Raid. Book King Bookstore, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 282-4465.

Norwich Contra Dance: Caller David Millstone organizes feet in soft-soled shoes to live tunes by Northern Spy. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for under 16; donations accepted for seniors.

Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@ cs.dartmouth.edu.

‘The Nutcracker’: Tutu twirlers and dancers in rat masks abound in the North Country Ballet Ensemble’s yearly performance.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10-16. Info, 518-523-2512.

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‘A Celebration of Music and Art’: Folks listen to evocative guitar works from John Creech and take in Emily Bissell Laird’s latest art collection, “From This World and Beyond,” over food and drinks.

All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 425-2463.

Chittenden County Chapter of the American Society of Dowsers: A monthly meeting features a presentation by Adhi Moonien Two Owls and two workshops. Rooms 1 and 2, Shelburne Town Offices, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 for meeting for nonmembers; $25-65 for workshops.

Info, 272-5926.

Crafty Second Saturdays: History buffs celebrate the achievements of telescope maker Russell Williams Porter by drawing chalk pictures of the night sky. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Regular museum admission, $3-5; free for children under 5. Info, 828-2180.

French Roundtable: Speakers at various skill levels order café during an open practice session.

Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 247-0050.

Pike’s Cantonment Reenactment: History buffs relive the winter encampment on the Saranac River that took place from the fall of 1812 to the spring of 1813. Battle of Plattsburgh Association, N.Y., December 11, 10 a.m.-December 12, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 518-566-1814.

‘Scents of the Holiday Season’: Participants fashion fragrant decorations using essential oils with herbalist Anne Jameson. Hunger Mountain

Co-op, Montpelier, 3-4:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

‘Think Global, Shop Local’: The Bohemian Blues Quartet serenade shoppers as they indulge in local wine, cheese and cured-meat offerings. Ten percent of sales benefit the Institute for Sustainable Communities. Stowe Craft & Design, 5-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 253-2693.

fairs & festivals

December Vendor Blender: Last-minute shoppers take a gander at beauty products, home apparel and kitchen items. Church of the Nazarene, Williston, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Donations accepted for Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Info, 233-5122.

Solidarity Craft Fair: Local vendors put forth jewelry, photography, pottery, homemade food and more. Proceeds benefit Planting Hope’s projects in Nicaragua and Vermont. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 778-0344.

film

‘Bugged’: This 24-minute documentary chronicles the efforts of scientists, government officials and citizens with the eradication of the Asian longhorned beetle. Discussion on invasive insects follows. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 241-4091.

‘Happy Holidays’: Three childhood friends reunite in their thirties but have trouble finding common ground in James Ferguson’s 2008 comedy. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $8.

Info, 496-8994.

‘TeleVision: A Telemark Ski Film’: Described as part “Saturday Night Live” and part ski porn, PowderWhore Productions’ latest cinematography display is filled with humor and scenes from the slopes. Petra Cliffs, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 657-3872.

‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’: See WED.08, 7 p.m.

food & drink

Candy-Cane-Making Demo: See WED.08, 11 a.m.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

Middlebury Winter Farmers Market: Area growers, cheesemakers, bakers and craftspeople collaborate to offer year-round “eat local” options.

American Flatbread, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 388-0178.

Norwich Indoor Farmers Market: Localvores stock up on produce, baked goods, meats and cheeses from area vendors. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

Shelburne Winter Farmers Market: Vendors peddle fresh veggies, eggs, meat and maple products, along with baked goods and Vermont crafts.

Shelburne Town Gym, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472.

Williston Indoor Farmers Market: Shoppers peruse fresh local produce, specialty prepared foods and handcrafted gifts in an off-season mart.

Old Brick Church, Williston, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 735-3860.

health & fitness

Herbal Facials: Conquer seasonal stresses and dry skin in a hands-on workshop. City Market, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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Christmas Bake, Craft & food sale: Holiday goodies mix with Greek pastries, spinach pie, chicken souvlaki and a beef gyro dinner. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2155.

Christmas Craft fair & Cookie sale: Twinkling jewelry, festive holiday decor, knit items and homemade baked goods support the work of the church. Second Congregational Church, Jeffersonville, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-5357.

Christmas at the farm: Families celebrate like it’s 1899 with traditional candle dipping, ornament making, horse-drawn sleigh rides and holiday music. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $3-12. Info, 457-2355. festival of trees: See FRI.10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. holiday artisans’ Bazaar: See THU.09, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. holiday Bazaar: An indoor yard sale and bake sale features decorations, gifts, collectors’ items and edibles. Proceeds help pay legal fees incurred by efforts to preserve 198 East Avenue. Dining Room, East Village Cohousing, Burlington, 9 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 399-2475. holiday Book sale: See WED.08, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. holiday open house: Explore Calvin Coolidge’s historic birthplace, as well as the rest of the property, while taking in winter exhibits, old-time music, craft demos and sleigh rides. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $2-7.50; free for kids under 6. Info, 672-3773. international Boutique: See WED.08, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. moretown artisans’ sale: Gift givers discover high-quality, locally made tchotchkes, along with visits from Santa and a kids’ craft corner. Town Hall, Moretown, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free;

nonperishable-food-item donations accepted for the Vermont Foodbank. Info, 496-6466.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

tree lighting Ceremony: Neighbors gather to decorate an evergreen at an eve of hot cocoa, storytelling, ice sculpting and caroling. North Country Cultural Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604.

saturday stories: Picture books catch the attention of kids of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

viCtorian holiday: Strollers sample period holiday activities, ranging from wagon rides to cake walks to visits with Santa, as part of a townwide fair. See calendar spotlight. Various locations, St. Johnsbury, 9:45 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-7121.

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‘Broadway direCt’: Big-stage veteran Bill Carmichael headlines a night of “best of” tunes alongside Lucy Sorensen, Kelly Rypkema and Brian Golub. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Vergennes Opera House. Vergennes Opera House, 8-9:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 877-6737.

franklin playgroup: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and sing-alongs.

Franklin Central School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. franklin tumBle time: Athletic types stretch their legs in an empty gym. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

CCv Community Choir & queen City larks: See FRI.10, Sadie White Room, First Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5010.

kids’ night out: Five- to 13-year-olds let off steam through supervised activities.

Proceeds benefit the women’s basketball team.

SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 518-564-4147.

Christmas Caroling: Mulled cider warms voices and spirits for yuletide crooning. Decorate the tree and help yourself to a cookie while you’re at it. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-8994.

open tot gym & infant/parent playtime: Snacks fuel feats of athleticism. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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maiden vermont: Barbershop-style a cappella music encompasses Broadway, spirituals and rock ‘n’ roll in “Songs to Warm Your Heart.” Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $12-17. Info, 382-9222. miChael arnowitt & doug perkins: The jazz duo chases an optional community potluck.

Adamant Community Club, Potluck, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 456-7054. mike & tom Boise: Two musicians whip up acoustic airs. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. reCorder playing group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 6580030, info@prestomusic.net. tim Jennings & leanne ponder: The husbandand-wife duo celebrate the CD release of Jennings’ solo storytelling recording, Weatherbeard and Other Folk Stories. See “State of the Arts,” this issue. North End Studio, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $3.50-7; free with album purchase. Info, 863-6713.

‘Christmas with Counterpoint’: See THU.09, Chapel, North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $5-20; free for kids under 5. Info, 540-1784.

read to a dog: Stories form a bond between young readers and Therapy Dogs of Vermont.

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wassail weekend holiday house tour: Charming Woodstock homes deck their halls and open their doors to visitors on this quaint tour including horse-drawn wagon rides and live musicians. Various locations, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $30-35. Info, 457-3981.

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Vermont Choral Union: Gary Moreau directs a program of music for Christmas and Advent, with song selections spanning four centuries. Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $8-12; free with St. Michael’s College ID. Info, 878-1072.

Vermont Symphony orCheStra: holiday popS: See FRI.10, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $9-52. Info, 863-5966.

WaterbUry CommUnity band: An annual holiday concert includes wintertime favorites in addition to marches and big-band selections.

Waterbury Congregational Church, 3:30 p.m. Free; nonperishable food or cash donations accepted for the Waterbury food shelf. Info, 888-4977.

outdoors

bird-monitoring Walk: Beginning and novice birders fine-tune their eyes and ears to recognize winged residents. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068, vermont@audubon.org.

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‘a ChriStmaS Carol’: hyde park: See FRI.10, 7 p.m. ‘a ChriStmaS Story’: See THU.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘open me laSt’: See FRI.10, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. the met: liVe in hd: CatamoUnt artS Center: Roberto Alagna stars in a broadcast of Verdi’s quintessential opera, Don Carlo. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:30 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600.

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“it was a wonderful experience. everything happened so fast – within 21/2 hours of our arrival at CVMC we had beautiful twin daughters. everyone was so supportive. they really helped me through it. i can’t thank them enough.”

Hollie and Josef Raspe are the happy and proud parents of twin daughters Anneliese (5lbs/7oz) and Natalie (6lbs/9oz), born on November 22. Two year old Emma is a proud big sister. Our photo of Dad and all his beautiful girls is missing one important fellow however. The only other male in the family – four year old Cameron – was simply not in the posing mood.

Or maybe he wasn’t in the sister mood! It was one thing when there was just Emma to contend with.

Now he is really outnumbered. Our guess is that there will be lots of family photos including the much adored older brother. Dad will just have to move over! The big, happy Raspe family lives in Roxbury. We wish them all the best.

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the met: liVe in hd: palaCe 9: See above listing, Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 12:30 p.m. $2024. Info, 660-9300.

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‘the girl Who kiCked the hornet’S neSt’: See WED.08, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

food & drink

ChoColate trUffle making: Erle LaBounty of Farmhouse Truffles shares the process for satisfying that sweet tooth. Space is limited; preregister.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 1:30-2:30 p.m. $25 materials fee. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler -arts.org.

Vermont SpeCialty foodS day: Local producers such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Cabot Cheese and Westminster Crackers supply free samples. Base Lodge, Bolton Valley Resort, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 434-6804.

health & fitness

open meditation ClaSSeS: Harness your emotions and cultivate inner peace through the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Laughing River Yoga, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5-25 suggested donation.

Info, 684-0452, vermont@rsl-ne.com.

holidays

ChriStmaS eVent fUndraiSer: Community members support Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater at an evening of holiday-centric storytelling and music. Call for location. Private home, Weybridge, 4-6 p.m. $25. Info, 382-9222.

moretoWn artiSanS’ Sale: See SAT.11, 11 a.m.4 p.m.

WoodStoCk WaSSail Weekend: See FRI.10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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read to a dog: See SAT.11, 1-2 p.m.

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Willem lange: See SAT.11, Yankee Bookshop, Woodstock, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2411.

‘the nUtCraCker’: See SAT.11, 7:30 p.m.

annUal ‘meSSiah’ Sing: Audience members lend their voices in a sing-along of Handel’s great oratorio with professional soloists and musicians. Our Lady of the Snows, Woodstock, 4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 457-3981.

antiqUeS market: Treasure hunters find bargains among collections of old furniture, art, postcards and more. Elks Club, Montpelier, early buying, 7:30 a.m.; regular admission, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138. bUrlington area SCrabble ClUb: Triple-lettersquare seekers spell out winning words. New players welcome. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558.

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Woko indoor flea market: Feeling thrifty?

Bargain-hunters lose themselves in a sale of collectibles, antiques and household goods.

Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. $2-3. Info, 878-5545.

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pike’S Cantonment reenaCtment: See SAT.11.

ChriStmaS at the farm: See SAT.11, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m.

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frenCh ConVerSation groUp: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

‘Winter taleS’: See WED.08, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

book diSCUSSion: ‘memorable memoirS’: Readers hone in on a significant moment in author Eudora Welty’s life through One Writer’s Beginnings.

Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m.

Free. Info, 644-6632.

Carolyn LorenzGreenberg, MD, Pediatician

Chittenden CoUnty Chapter of the ameriCan SoCiety of doWSerS: See SAT.11, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

ChoColate-dipping demo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

Ski magazine SUper demo & people’S Ski teSt: See FRI.10, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

Sheila R. Glaess, MD, Ob/Gyn

CheSS ClUb: Tabletop warriors do battle at the behest of players of all ages and abilities. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

music

Caroling: The public gathers ‘round a piano for yuletide song. Friends Meeting House, Burlington, 9:30-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 540-1020.

‘ChriStmaS With CoUnterpoint’: See THU.09, Chapel, Shelburne United Methodist Church, 4 p.m. $5-20; free for kids under 5. Info, 540-1784.

CommUnity Carol Sing: A Unitarian Church holiday tradition moves to a new venue for its 40th year. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m.

Donations accepted for the food pantry. Info, 2232424, ext. 224, arthurzorn@hotmail.com.

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Green Mountain Youth SYMphonY Senior ConCert & repertorY orCheStra: Winter’s arrival brings a dose of seasonal works by Rossini, Liszt and Douglas Townsend. Barre Opera House, 2 p.m. $5 donation; free for students and seniors.

Info, 454-0188. hineSburG CoMMunitY ChriStMaS ConCert: The South County Chorus and Hinesburg Artist Series Orchestra spread seasonal cheer through song. St. Jude Catholic Church, Hinesburg, 4:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 482-3010. holidaY ConCert: A cappella harmonies emerge from the Barre-Tones Chorus and Green Mountain Chorus. Auditorium, Montpelier High School, 2-3:15 p.m. $10; free for kids. Info, 498-8545. ‘holidaY harMonY’: The Champlain Echoes and the Green Mountain Chorus celebrate four-part harmonies through a holiday repertoire. Special guests include BullsEye, the Central Vermont Quartet and High Voltage. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $10; free for children 8 and under. Info, 658-0806 or 433-1433.

JorGe Martín: The composer discusses the creation of his latest opera, Before Night Falls, and plays excepts from it. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Maiden VerMont: See SAT.11, 3 p.m.

‘MeSSiah’ SinG-alonG: Dr. Karen Becker directs Champlain Valley Voices and the SUNY Plattsburgh Choral Union in Handel’s masterwork. United Methodist Church, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-564-2243.

Milton CoMMunitY band holidaY ConCert: The Community Singers of St. Albans and eightpiece Second Wind Saxophone Ensemble join in on cheery carols and a narration of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Milton Middle/High School, 2-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398.

auditionS For ‘to Kill a MoCKinGbird’: Actors prepare two monologues for a shot at Lost Nation Theater’s spring production. Call ahead to schedule an audition slot. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0492. national theatre oF london: CataMount artS Center: See THU.09, 2 p.m.

‘Winter taleS’: See WED.08, 2 p.m. & 6 p.m.

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neil GoodWin: See FRI.10, Bud & Bella’s Bookshop, Randolph, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 728-5509. poetrY open MiC: Scribes speak in stanzas of their own creation. The Block Gallery, Winooski, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.

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‘a ChriStMaS Carol’: hYde parK: See FRI.10, 2 p.m. ‘a ChriStMaS StorY’: See THU.09, 2 p.m.

‘Spend SMart’: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money.

Preregister. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 104.

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‘the Girl Who KiCKed the hornet’S neSt’: See WED.08, 7 p.m.

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‘enhanCinG iMMunitY to preVent Winter illneSS’: Ward off cold-weather infections in this workshop with Guido Masé. Preregister.

City Market, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

StronG liVinG exerCiSe: See THU.09, 8 a.m.

kids

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

MuSiC With peter: See THU.09, 10:45 a.m. paJaMa niGht With Santa: Families put on their fuzzy flannels to visit Father Christmas for popcorn and a holiday movie. University Mall, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

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StorieS With MeGan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

SWanton plaYGroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music

FlYnnartS Jazz CoMboS perForManCe: Twelve weeks of workshops in blues, standards and jazz build to an improv-heavy showcase.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation to the FlynnArts scholarship fund. Info, 863-5966.

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auditionS For ‘4xCheKhoV’: Hopeful actors try out for a role in the Valley Players’ February production of four short Chekhov sketches that spell out the life cycle of love. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 498-7310, tlangston@madriver.com.

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‘a ChriStMaS Carol’: burlinGton: The Nebraska Theatre Caravan stages its musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic story, complete with a live orchestra and a 30-member cast in 19th-century costumes. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $23-40. Info, 863-5966.

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Join us for Vermont’s Nutcracker Tea Sat. Dec. 18, 4pm & Sun. Dec. 19, 11am Have tea with the Maple Sugar Fairy, Marie, The Nutcracker Prince & more!

MondaY Mixer: Curious community members get social discussing creative and commercial activities in SEABA’s new home. SEABA Gallery, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 859-9222.

ChoColate-dippinG deMo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

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Ticket: $10-22• Order: 802-476-8188 or www.barreoperahouse.org

herbal GiFt GiVinG: Community herbalist Dana L. Woodruff demos how to whip up affordable presents such as lip balm and bath salts. Preregister.

Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hunger mountain.com.

northeaSt FiddlerS aSSoCiation: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam to brush up on their skills. Canadian Club, Barre Town, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188.

VerMont SYMphonY orCheStra: SundaY Matinée SerieS: VSO Chorus members join this Holiday Pops concert for a festive celebration of the season including works by Vivaldi, Handel and DeCormier. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 3 p.m. $9-29. Info, 775-0903.

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‘WhirlWind-MMx’: Six screens pay homage to 20th-century cinema with films culled from the collection of Hanover’s Ted Conant. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 643-4120.

tiM JenninGS & leanne ponder: See SAT.11, Sandglass Theater, Putney, 4 p.m. $8. Info, 387-4051.

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Montpelier CoMMunitY GoSpel Choir Winter ConCert: Messages of joy and hope flow freely through soul, jazz, original and traditional gospel selections. Waterbury Congregational Church, 4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 778-0881.

noWell SinG We Clear: Audience members sing along in a Christmas pageant of traditional carols and customs featuring this four-member ensemble. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 4-6:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 388-4964.

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EmErgEnt mEdia SympoSium: Fourteen students reinterpret pecha Kucha in an evening of project sharing conveyed through 14 slides at 14 seconds each. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6404.

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‘lEgally BlondE: thE muSiCal’: Elle Woods defies hair stereotypes by taking Harvard Law School by storm in this saucy Broadway production. See calendar spotlight.

Flynn mainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $43-63.

Info, 863-5966.

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BooK diSCuSSion SEriES: ‘a myStEriouS lEnS on amEriCan CulturE’: A thought-provoking cultural backdrop makes p.L. Gaus’ Blood of the Prodigal more than a simple whodunit. Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 985-0659.

BooK diSCuSSion SEriES: ‘orChEStratEd StoriES’: Bookworms pore over Barbara Quick’s Vivaldi’s Virgins, which offers a fictional interpretation of the famous composer. Dailey memorial Library, Derby, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 766-5063. marjoriE Cady mEmorial WritErS group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley public Library, middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@ comcast.net.

ShapE & SharE lifE StoriES: prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling memorial Library, Williston, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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‘my tEhran for SalE’: Granaz moussavi’s 2009 drama details an actress’ life under Iran’s current regime. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955. ‘thE girl Who KiCKEd thE hornEt’S nESt’: See WED.08, 7 p.m.

food & drink

‘a garriSon KEillor ChriStmaS’: The distinctive-voiced “A prairie Home Companion” host dishes on the residents of Lake Wobegon and more. paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $45.50-85.50. Info, 775-0903.

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BaSiC introduCtion to nonlinEar Editing: Budding videographers learn about cut-and-paste techniques for media production. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10-11:40 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org. ‘gift or no gift’: There may not be a bevy of “suitcase girls,” but randomly chosen shoppers over 18 can compete for up to $1000. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m.; games at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

In front of IHop. University mall, South Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. pauSE Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Borders Books & music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. rEproduCtivE WEllnESS Support program fundraiSEr: A brief informational presentation gives way to DJ’d tunes, refreshments and a cash bar — all supporting programs offered to individuals with reproductive issues and trauma. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 598-2541, rwsp2010@gmail.com.

ChoColatE-dipping dEmo: See WED.08, 2 p.m.

health & fitness

dr. StEphEn Brandon: An expert suggests natural alternatives to address problems related to hormone imbalances and menopause. preregister. Hunger mountain Co-op, montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. laughtEr yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

kids

ChildrEn’S Story hour: Two- to 5-year-olds tune in for audible prose. Aldrich public Library, Barre, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-7550, aldrich library@charter.net.

CrEativE tuESdayS: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. drop-in holiday Story timE: Traditional and new fables focus on the snow season. Burnham memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 878-0313. fairfax Story hour: Songs, tales and crafts captivate kiddos. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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KEllEy marKEting mEEting: marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm help for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free.

Info, 865-6495.

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SCraBBlE CluB: Adults spell it out while raking in the points for clever combinations. Dorothy Alling memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

film

‘thE girl Who KiCKEd thE hornEt’S nESt’: See WED.08, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

food & drink

Candy-CanE-maKing dEmo: See WED.08, 11 a.m.

ChoColatE-dipping dEmo: See WED.08, 2 p.m. glutEn-frEE SEriES: Who needs wheat, barley or rye? Attendees whip up side-dish recipes over diet discussion. preregister. City market, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. handS fundraiSEr: Folks fill up on localvore fare at the gastropub to help raise funds for Helping and Nurturing Diverse Seniors’ sixth annual holiday dinner for seniors. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 864-7528.

kids

4-h SupEr SCiEnCE: See WED.08, 3:30-5 p.m.

BaBytimE: See WED.08, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

EnoSBurg playgroup: See WED.08, 9-11 a.m. fairfax playgroup: See WED.08, 10-11 a.m. highgatE Story hour: See WED.08, 10-11 a.m. montgomEry Story hour: See WED.08, 10-11 a.m. moving & grooving With ChriStinE: See WED.08, 11-11:30 a.m. muSiC for prESChoolErS: See WED.08, 12:301 p.m.

KidS’ Story hour: Literature hounds show up for tall tales. Kids under 3 meet at 10 a.m.; ages 3 to 5 meet at 10:30 a.m. East Barre Branch Library, Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 476-5118.

pajama Story timE: Comfy-clothed kiddos get a bedtime tale and snack. preregister. Dorothy Alling memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7147.

muSiC With roBErt: The host of a weekly folk and world-music show on VpR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Story timE With mrS. ClauS: See WED.08, 6:30 p.m.

prESChool Story timE: Three- to 5-yearolds savor stories, songs, crafts and companies.

Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 482-2878.

South hEro playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

St. alBanS playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Story hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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flynn ShoW Choir: A troupe of 25 young singers, actors and dancers makes its debut with Broadway, jazz, classical and holiday hits set to a live band.

See “State of the Arts,” this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-5966.

thE gloBal villagE: See WED.08, 10-11 a.m.

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lEahy family ChriStmaS: A Canadian octet of musical siblings demonstrates a triple threat of spirited fiddling, dancing and singing. Flynn mainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $27-45. Info, 863-5966. vallEy night: montpelier songstress Sara Grace performs original tunes. Big picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

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paul g. ZEllEr: The author contemplates the legacy of soldiers in a signing of his book Williamstown, Vermont, in the Civil War. Vermont History museum, montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8519. m

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classes burlington city arts DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING FOR ADULTS (16+): Mon., Jan. 10May 23 (no class Jan. 17, Feb. 21), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $8/ nonmembers, $7/BCA members.

Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. This drop-in class is open to all levels and facilitated by a BCA staff member and professional model. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary.

Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free!

DROP IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: Jan. 13-May. 26, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $6/parent/child pair, $5/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington.

This popular drop-in program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Participants will work with homemade play dough, paint, yarn, ribbon, paper and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Purchase a drop-in card and get the 6th visit for free! Ages 6 months through 5 years.

DROP-IN: FRI. NIGHT TEEN CLAY: Jan. 14-May. 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $6/ participant, $5/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Teens, bring your old clothes and some tunes and get creative at the BCA clay studio. Staff will help you use the wheels to make cups, mugs, bowls and more.

Clay for practice and fun is free.

You can glaze and fire for $3 per item. No registration necessary. Get a free visit! Purchase a $30 punch card for six drop-in classes, $25 for BCA members.

Ages 13+.

DROP-IN: TADPOLE PRESCHOOL: Tue. & Fri., Jan. 11-May 27 (no class Mar. 1), 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Cost: $6/parent/child pair, $3/per additional sibling, $5/ BCA members. Get a free visit!

Purchase a $30 punch card for 6 drop-in classes. $25/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

Introduce your child to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Through art projects designed for early learners, young artists will draw, work with clay, create collages, paint murals and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Ages 3-5.

PHOTO: DIGITAL BASICS: Jan. 18-Mar. 15, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $195/ nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of digital photography in this eightweek class. Camera functions and settings, white balance, composition, uploading and organizing images, making basic edits in Photoshop, printing, and much more will be covered.

Any digital camera is acceptable! Bring your charged camera with its memory card, cords and manual. No experience required.

Limit: 6.

PHOTO: PHOTOSHOP BASICS: Jan. 18-Feb. 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $195/$175.50 BCA members.

Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington.

Gain confidence working in Adobe Photoshop in this class.

Uploading images into Adobe Bridge, use of Camera Raw, image correction tools such as color and white balance correction, layers, retouching and more will be covered. Print on our Epson 3880 printer. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Limit 6.

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com.

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EXPLORATION IN MOVEMENT 14 CEU: Jan 8 & 9, 2011, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs ($225 if paid by Dec. 18; call about risk-free introductory fee. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 802-734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com.

Ortho-Bionomy: Participants will learn to recognize and palpate patterns of joint and muscle movement in order to facilitate increased range of motion and promote a general sense of well-being in the body.

Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle, deeply effective, noninvasive body therapy, which is effective with both acute and chronic conditions and is used to reduce tension and improve structural alignment.

BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, kevin@ firststepdance.com. www.

FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance!

craft CLAY POT DECORATING FOR GARDEN-INSPIRED GIFTS: Dec. 16, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply, All workshops will be held simultaneously at both Garden Centers, so choose the location most convenient for you, Burlington/ Williston. Info: 802-660-3505. www.gardenerssupplystore. com. Presenters: Barbara Hollingdale (Intervale) and Paige L. & Debby D. (Williston).

Registration is free. Additional costs apply for supplies based on the project. Seating is limited.

BURLINGTON DANCES MODERN CLASS: 7 p.m., Tue., Dec. 7, 14 & 21. Location: Burlington Dances (Chace Mill, top floor), 1 Mill St., 372 , Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com. BurlingtonDances.com.

Ellen Smith Ahern blends contemporary dance techniques that strengthen, center and challenge intermediate and advanced dancers to move with clarity. Experiment with basic choreographic structures in guided explorations that are imaginative, rigorous and playful. Join us for creative movement possibilities and be ready for dynamic weight-shifting, handstands and floor work!

BURLINGTON’S BEST SALSA: DAVID LARSON & SOUTH END STUDIO: Burlington’s newest (& nicest) place to dance. Ongoing classes continue Thu. nights, 7-8 p.m: Basic Salsa, a great way to meet new people & get started.

8-9 p.m.: Intermediate Level 1, incredible ladies styling & some cool turning combinations w/ Shannon. All classes run on a 4-week series. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., near

Lake Champlain Chocolates, just behind New World Tortilla, Burlington. Info: Sabrina, 802540-0044. www.southend studiovt.com. Grand opening of new salsa dance club The Copacabana Room, Downtown Marriott Hotel, Burlington Jan. 14th. Did you know that David Larson was the first salsa dance teacher to open a salsa school in Burlington (1999)? He has performed for Burlington’s Latino Festival since 2000 and was a finalist at the Extreme Salsa Dance Championships live on ESPN/Montreal Salsa Congress.

Several of Davids students have gone on to open their own studios!

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www.lindy vermont.com, 802-860-7501.

Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl.

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MASTER GARDENER 2011 COURSE: Feb. 1-Apr. 26, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $365/incl. Sustainable Gardening book. Noncredit course. Location: Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Center, Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, Waterbury, White River Junction & Williston, Burlington. Info: 802-656-9562, master.gardener@uvm.edu. www.uvm.edu/ matergardener. Learn how to create a healthy and sustainable home landscape. A wide variety of horticultural topics are covered: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany, soil fertility, plant pests, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plants, and more!

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DROP-IN: FRI. NIGHT FAMILY CLAY: Jan. 14-May. 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $6/ participant, $5/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn wheel and hand-building techniques while hanging out with the family. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand-building demonstrations. Clay for practice

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STONE WALL WORKSHOP: Cost: $100/1-day workshop. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: Queen City Soil & stone, Charley MacMartin, 802-3182411, macmartin@igc.org. www.queencitysoilandstone. com. Introductory stone wall workshop for homeowners and tradespeople promotes the beauty and integrity of stone.

One-day workshop focuses on the basic techniques for creating dry-laid walls with special emphasis on stone native to Vermont. Upcoming dates include January 8 with additional dates through March. Space limited; gift certificates available.

herbs WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs Certification Program begins April 23-24, 2011, & runs 1 weekend a mo. through Nov. We are currently interviewing for this program. Wild Edibles Spring Term will be held May 8, Jun. 5 & Jul. 10. Plan ahead & apply now for VSAC nondegree grant for 2011 programs while funds are plentiful. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury.

Info: 802-456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. www.wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local, wild, edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey.

Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

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ANNOUNCING NEW SPANISH CLASSES: Beginning week of Jan. 10 for 10 weeks. Cost: $160/10 1-hour classes.

Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-585-1025, spanishparavos@ gmail.com. www.spanish waterburycenter.com. Winter Spanish class offerings. Learn from a native speaker in a small, participatory class environment. Adult evening classes at five levels. Full-day Spanish for Travelers class Jan. 15. Also private instruction, tutoring, lessons for children. Convenient scheduling. See our website for complete information or contact us for details.

martial arts AIKIDO: Tue.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Sat., 9-10 a.m.; & Sun., 10-11:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 802-862-9785. www. vermontaikido.org. Practice the graceful martial art of Aikido in a safe, supportive environment.

Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Visitors are always welcome in the dojo!

AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes meet on Tue. & Thu. at 6:45 p.m. Classes for adults, children (ages 5-12) & teenagers meet 7 days/week. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington.

Info: 802-951-8900. burling tonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/ staff arts and knife defense. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17.

COMBAT FITNESS MMA: Location: Combat Fitness, 201 Main St., Winooski. Info: Combat Fitness, Vince Guy, 802-655-1035, vteguy25@gmail. com. Combatfitnessmma.com.

Offering Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Submission Wrestling, Judo, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Western boxing, Kettlebells and MMA training for athletes at the most reasonable prices in the area.

Home of Catamount BJJ. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Come check out a class or call 802-655-1035.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free.

Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston.

Info: 802-660-4072, Julio@ bjjusa.com. www.bjjusa.com.

Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and

positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795. www.burlington shambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

pilates ALL WELLNESS: Location: 208 Flynn Ave., Studio 3A (across from the antique shops, before Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-863-9900. www.allwell nessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and nutrition. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. Join us for a free introduction to the reformer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.: Just call and reserve your spot!

NATURAL BODIES PILATES: Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., 372 (Winooski River Falls, Chace Mill, top floor), Burlington. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates. com. NaturalBodiesPilates.com.

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reiki REIKI LEVEL 2 (UsUI): Cost: $195/Sat., Dec. 11, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., #7, Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@ risingsunhealing.com. www. risingsunhealing.com. Reiki 2 attunement. Three symbols. learn distant healing, beaming, empowering goals and how to begin a Reiki practice. Reiki 1, saturday.

January 8, 9:30-5:30, $175.

Receive attunement that allows you to give Reiki to yourself and others. advanced Reiki Training, sunday, December 19, 9:30 a.m.5:00 p.m., $225. another symbol, attunemet, Reiki grid.

shelburne art center MaKE YoUR own HoLIdaY GIft: Dec. 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $65/members, $80/nonmembers, $20/materials. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 802-9853648, info@shelburneartcenter. org. www.shelburneartcenter. org. Why buy a gift when you can make your own? In this one-day workshop, students will create handmade sterling jewelry to bring home as a holiday gift for yourself or others.

yoga EVoLUtIon YoGa: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates.

Mon.-Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt. com. www.evolutionvt.com. evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, anusarainspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog.

YoGa VERMont: Location: Yoga Vermont, 113 Church St., 4th floor, Burlington. Info: 802-2380594. www.yogavermont.com. church st. studio gift certificates are in! ashtanga, Vinyasa, gentle, yoga teacher training. m

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KRIpaLU YoGa at noon: Thu. at noon, upstairs at Chace Mill, by the Winooski River Falls bridge. Cost: $110/10-class card.

Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., #372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Burlington Dances, 802-863-3369, info@ BurlingtonDances.com.

BurlingtonDances.com. Kripalu yoga teacher Michelle lefkowitz guides students through this noontime class in the beautiful upstairs dance studio. enjoy the full afternoon light and resonant sound in this calm and centered studio. Discover dynamic flow and relaxation for a state of balance within. Get 20% off gift certificates through December 24.

VIGoRoUs YoGa & sHaMatHa: Join Annelies Smith Sat., Dec. 11, 3:30-6:00 p.m. Cost: $30/ class. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., suite 372 (top floor dance studio, Chace Mill), Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com. BurlingtonDances.com.

Yoga is said to be a practice that opens the body so that one can easily rest in shamatha, or calm abiding meditation. We will open with an extended vigorous and reflective yoga session, and proceed with meditation instruction and shamatha, followed by discussion and closure.

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snaKE stYLE taI CHI CHUan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802-8647902.www.iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength,

YanG-stYLE taI CHI: Beginning Jan. 5, Yang Style Tai Chi Part 1 Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:306:50 p.m. $150 for 10 classes.

All levels on Sat., 8:15-9:45 a.m. $16/class; monthly: $60/1 class per week, $115/2 classes per week. 3 calendar mos.: $160/1 class, $275/2 classes per week.

Beginning in Feb.: Yang Style Tai Chi Part 2. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., #5, Burlington. Info: 802-318-6238.

Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Brought to you by Vermont Tai chi academy and Healing center. Janet Makaris, instructor.

LaUGHInG RIVER YoGa: Daily yoga classes & monthly yoga workshops. $13 drop in; $110 for 10 classes. By-donation classes Mon.-Fri. at 9 a.m. & Tue./Thu. at 7:30 p.m. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: Laughing River Yoga, 802-3438119, emily@laughingriveryoga. com. www.laughingriveryoga. com. Yoga studio now open downstairs in the chace Mill. experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Restorative and DJ Yoga Flow. educate yourself with monthly workshops and class series. lots of light. Gorgeous floors. Parking. all levels welcome! come and deepen your understanding of who you are.

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uitarist Avi Salloway and vocalist Celia Woodsmith began playing music together upon meeting during the first week of their freshman year at the University of Vermont in 2003. And they haven’t stopped since — until now. But, apparently, all good things must come to an end. This Thursday, the two will play their final Vermont show together — with their Boston-based band Hey Mama — at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge.

Salloway and Woodsmith initially made waves in Burlington as the acoustic folk duo Avi & Celia. Bright, talented and fun, they won over audiences with a smart blend of rootsy, bluesy Americana — undoubtedly aided by liberal sprinkles of irresistible, borderline cutesy, wholesome charm. Upon graduation, the pair moved to Boston, plugged in and formed Hey Mama. The electric roots band has earned significant regional acclaim on the strength of a yeoman’s touring schedule and two well-received albums.

Hey Mama’s energetic self-titled 2009 debut represented a clear departure from the sweet, folksy aesthetic that had long endeared Avi & Celia to local fans — though not so much as to alienate them.

Their recently released final effort, The Dubl Handi Suite, fleshes out the sonic cues hinted at on the first album. This is a rousing, fiery romp. Artistically ambitious and roundly accessible, it highlights a group truly nearing the peak of its potential. Which makes it all the more frustrating to see them end now.

In advance of Hey Mama’s Vermont grand finale, Seven Days caught up with Salloway on the road by phone to find out what prompted the decision to walk away — and, of course, what lies ahead for Avi and Celia.

SD: Such as…

AS: Well, I’ll be heading to the Middle East after the New Year to start work on a peace project through music. And Celia will be exploring the health field, women’s health and empowerment.

SD: Wow. How did you come to be interested in the Middle East?

AS: It has to do with my heritage. I grew up in a Jewish household, listening to a lot of folk music from Israel and Persian music. I have had this feeling of really wanting to explore my roots. I had family who escaped the Holocaust and fled to Israel.

So, I feel a responsibility to go there and become involved in a positive movement for peace through music, to work with the younger generation and try and plant some seeds.

SD: That’s quite an admirable goal, especially in a part of the world that has been ravaged by violence and hatred for so long. Do you really feel music can be a vehicle for that drastic a change?

thread. I think that can be a vehicle for change, and it has been throughout my life.

Arabs and Israelis are cousins; they have a lot of shared history, especially musically.

There are very similar roots, and that can create a strong bond.

experience, and apply it to something way beyond myself.

SD: Does your mindset change, going from pursuing music as a career to using music for more altruistic pursuits?

AS: Absolutely. We’re on the road right now, and it’s been an emotional release. I can’t really even put it into words. These shows … it’s just been flowing out of us. It’s been an intense musical and emotional experience.

AS: Well, everything Celia and I have done, whether as a duo or with Hey Mama, has been very grassroots. It is all based in community, and being able to draw strength from and give back to that community.

We’ve always wanted to establish a connection with our audience, so we’ve always done things very DIY and focused on that kind of effort. We’ve grown with our fan base to the point that they’re like family. So, the idea is to take that energy, the things I’ve learned from this very special

SD: It’s always exciting to move on to new stages of life. But is it difficult to walk away from your musical partnership after so long?

SD: But this isn’t really The End, right?

AS: This is definitely the grand finale of our full-time career together. I think Celia and I will always be playing music together in different settings. And we are getting offers to play festivals this summer, and we’re looking forward to uniting for some bigger shows down the line. But, yes, this is the conclusion of our full-time endeavor.

AS: Music has been bringing people together for thousands of years. It’s a bond.

When you play music with people, it’s such an intimate experience, much like it is when you play music for people. It’s a unique way to have a conversation. It’s almost like making a meal together. So, the idea is to highlight musical passion as a common

SEVEN DAYS: OK. So, what the hell?

AVI SALLOWAY: Ha. We find ourselves in a bittersweet stage of transition. Obviously we’re wrapping up our career as a band together. It’s been a long relationship. We’ve been together for seven and a half years, and it’s been a very special experience, but also a very consuming experience. We’re just in a place [where] we want to explore some other opportunities and dreams that we’ve had to put on the back burner for a while.

Hey Mama play their final Vermont show this Thursday, December 9, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington, with the Eames Brothers Band and PossumHaw, 8 p.m. $8/10.

Celia Woodsmith and Avi Salloway

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of this filing, states, “Due to unforeseen scheduling issues, the date for the Lauryn Hill show originally announced for midDecember may be moved (again). We’re being told that the show will happen, however the exact date is still being worked out.”

So, there you go. Mystery solved!

On a serious note, the show was scheduled to celebrate HG’s 12th anniversary. It’s been an interesting, and in many ways challenging, year for the region’s marquee juke joint. But we’re lucky to have it. And the opportunity to see an artist of Lauryn Hill’s caliber — whenever that opportunity actually materializes — is a fine reason why.

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the grippo funk band badfish: a tribute to sublime scotty don’t, husbands aka FRI, 12/31 | $25 aDv / $30 DOS | DOORS 9, SHOW 9:30Pm

FRI, 1/7 | $15 TIL 1/2 / $18 aDv / $20 DOS | DOORS 7:30, SHOW 8Pm

first friday the smittens, dj’s precious & llu FRI, 1/7 | $5 aDv / $10 | DOORS 7:30, SHOW 8Pm | 18+ W/ID

toubab krewe SaT, 1/8 | $12 aDv / $14 DOS | DOORS 8, SHOW 8:30Pm

SUN 1/9: FRI 1/14: FRI 1/14: SaT 1/15: SaT 1/15: FRI 1/21: FRI 1/21: SaT 1/22: SaT 1/22: SUN 1/23: FRI 1/28:

SKYLER FEaT. jOHN mULLET PUNcH BROTHERS FEaT. cHRIS THILE NIGHTRaIN HIGHER GROUND cOmEDY BaTTLE FUSION jOSH THOmPSON BaND DEaD SESSIONS THE BREaKFaST jOHN BROWN’S BODY DaN ZaNES & FRIENDS (NOON & 3Pm) cOmEDY: jamIE KILSTEIN

TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE AT HG BOX OFFICE (M-F 11a-6p) or GROWING VERMONT (UVM DAVIS CENTER).

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SOUNDBITES

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SEVEN DAYS

This is the part of the job I hate the most. No, no, not compiling club listings, or reading angry letters from crazy/humorless people about something I’ve written, or even doling out a harsh review. My least favorite part of being “that guy from Seven Days/on the TV” is eulogizing great local bands that have decided to call it quits, or move away, or both quit and move away.

Please bow your heads.

Over the last few years, few local bands have hit with as much force as IN MEMORY OF PLUTO. The high-octane pop-punk quintet was among the most exciting live bands in town from the moment it plugged in. Over time, and through noticeable hard work, the band was even able to match the ferocity of those dynamic live shows on record — no small feat.

Both IMOP’s 2008 release, Cutting Open the Fiction, and 2009’s 1994 made this critic’s top 10 “Best Of” list in their respective years. They were the total package. But, alas, the band’s time has come.

This Saturday at the Monkey House, In Memory of Pluto will rock out one final time, with opening support from HUSBANDS AKA. Really, the “official” announcement regarding the group’s finale shouldn’t come as a shock. The band has been on an indefinite hiatus since at least the

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The news spread through the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook like e-wildfire last Wednesday morning. To paraphrase: “Omigodomigodomigod!

LAURYN HILL is coming! To Vermont! In, like, two weeks!

Omigodomigodomigod!”

Not surprisingly, word of the former Fugee’s impending Higher Ground date was widely met with excitement bordering on giddiness — dampened only slightly by the sticker shock of $60 tickets.

For one thing, Hill is flat-out amazing, even if her only significant solo release, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, came out 12 years ago. She also had an MTV Unplugged album in 2002.

For another thing — and this ties into the first point — Hill is kind of like the pop-music equivalent of a unicorn, or, to be more regionally specific, an albino moose. Sightings of Ms. Hill have been increasingly infrequent over the years.

As such, a certain mystique has developed around the talented but mercurial diva, to the point that it may have inflated her legacy. Think about it: How many other artists who have released only one great record and haven’t really done anything in more than a decade would you pay $60 to see and hardly bat an eye? I can’t think of any. But, like many of you, I would be in line, smiling and waiting to fork over the cash to see Hill.

Y’know, if I paid to see shows.

Or if I, er, knew when the show was going to happen.

Almost as soon as the show was announced, the press release vanished from the HG website. It reappeared the next day, but with news that the concert had been moved from Wednesday, December 15, to Friday, December 17. The following day that release was yet again modified, saying that GRATEFUL DEAD legacy band FURTHUR would no longer be playing the Shelburne Muse … oops, wrong scandal. Sorry.

The announcement, still on the HG website as

THU, 12/9 | $15 aDv / $18 DOS / $10 cOLLEGE ID | DOORS 8:30, SHOW 9Pm LaZERDISK PaRTY SEX aND I’m PaRTYING PRESENT

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CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES. NC: NO COVER.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Matt Colton (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

GOOD TIMES CAFÉ: Stephen Bennett (acoustic), 8 p.m., $20.

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ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Coming soon for the Holidays...

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Fred Brauer (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Hawaiian Kona & Yemen Mocca!

Walk ’n’ Roll

There are all-star bands. And then there

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are All-Star Bands. 7 WALKERS, featuring Grateful Dead drummer and cofounder Bill Kreutzmann, legendary guitarist Papa Mali, New Orleans funk icon George Porter Jr. and Willie Nelson side man Matt Hubbard, clearly fall in the latter category. This Saturday they bring their hard-charging brand of funkdafied rock

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TUE., DEC. 14, 6-8PM

CLUB METRONOME: Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., $3.

at the Skinny Pancake (89 Main St. , Montpelier)

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Every second Tuesday of the month, environmental fans and professionals meet up for a beer, networking and discussion at Green Drinks.

LIFT: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

This informal crowd is a lively mixture of folks from NGOs, academia, government and business. Find employment, friends and new ideas!

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell & Clyde Stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: UVM S.T.A.N.D. presents A Darfur Benefit Concert with Moses & the Electric Co., Durians, the Edd (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Paydirt (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Sirenix Songwriters Series (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m.

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: John Lennon Tribute Night with Aaron Flinn, Scott Mangan, Joshua Glass (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

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RED SQUARE: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 7 p.m., Free. Lendway (indie rock), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

SHELBURNE STEAKHOUSE & SALOON: Carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

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BIG PICTURE THEATER & CAFÉ: Valley Night with Phineas Gage (Americana), 7 p.m., Free.

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BLACK DOOR BAR AND BISTRO: The Bucktails (honky-tonk), 8:30 p.m., Donations.

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THE BREWSKI: Comedy Night with Andie Bryan (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Open Mic with Jess & Jeff, 8 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: 2KDeep presents SubZero 2 with the 2KDeep Crew & Rekkon (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.

FRANNY O'S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

THE GREEN ROOM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Black Light White Out Party with Lazer Disk Party Sex (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $10/15/18. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Hey Mama, Eames Brothers Band, PossumHaw (roots), 8 p.m., $8/10. AA. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Cash Is King, Matt Townsend Band (alt-country), 9 p.m., $5.

MUDDY WATERS: Squid City, Sai U Drom (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Bluegrass Thursdays with Do'Jo' (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.

O'BRIEN'S IRISH PUB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

ONE PEPPER GRILL: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Joe Moore Blues Band (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Phil Yates, Caroline O'Connor & Matt Hastings, Steph Pappas (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $3.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free.

Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., Free. The Unbearable Light Cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3.

RASPUTIN'S: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

RED SQUARE: Selector Dubee (reggae), 6 p.m., Free.

A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Longford Row (Irish), 8 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Jeremy Harple (rebel folk), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

central

CHARLIE O'S: DJ Yee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with the Bucktails, 6 p.m., Donations. Julia Josephine Sloan and her Fabulous Band (pop), 8:30 p.m., Donations.

NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursdays with Noble Savage (electro), 10 p.m., Free.

PURPLE MOON PUB: The Treehouse Gang (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 MAIN: David Bain (piano), 8 p.m., Free.

GOOD TIMES CAFÉ: Stephen Bennett (acoustic), 8 p.m., $20.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Slick Martha's Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE BREWSKI: The Noisy Neighbors (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Tim Brick (blues), 7:30 p.m., Free.

regional

MONOPOLE: Rev Tor Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke with Ben Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYCE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

TABU CAFÉ & NIGHTCLUB: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free.

BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Paul Douce (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

THE GREEN ROOM: DJ Big Kat (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Homegron Metal & Rock with Stone Bullet, Filthy Minutes of Fame, Musical Manslaughter, The Isleys (metal), 6:30 p.m., $10. AA. JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LIFT: Salsa Friday with DJ Hector Cobeo (salsa), 9 p.m., Free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Torpedo Rodeo (surf-punk), 10 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Amadis CD release, Lord Silky, Kairos (metal), 9 p.m., $5.

MUDDY WATERS: Villanelles (indie), 10 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno & Young (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Boomflowers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Guides for the Future, Healthy Option Dane (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: The Willoughbys (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

Her Fantastic Cats (indie folk), 8:15 p.m., Free. Marc Pinansky (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. Bill Mullins CD release (singer-songwriter), 11 p.m., Free.

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 8887889. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. oVErtimE SALooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357.

PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366.

PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064.

PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. ruStY NAiL bAr & griLLE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. thE ShED rEStAurANt & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4765.

ShootErS SALooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394.

WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100.

YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.

Southern

thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000.

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giLLigAN’S gEtAWAY, 7160 State Rt. 9, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8050. moNoPoLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222.

NAkED turtLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. oLiVE riDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. tAbu cAfé & NightcLub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666.

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ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-8973. bLAck Door bAr AND biStro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935.

51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555 thE briStoL bAkErY, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. cAroL’S huNgrY miND cAfé, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. citY LimitS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. cLEm’S cAfé 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337.

DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. thE fArmErS DiNEr, 99 Maple St., Middlebury, 458-0455. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.

StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

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1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 mAiN St., Burlington, 862-2244.

AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. Paul St.,Burlington, 861-2999.

AuguSt firSt, 149 S.Champlain St., Burlington, 540-0060. bAckStAgE Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. bANANA WiNDS cAfé & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752. biStro SAucE, 97 Falls Rd., Shelburne, 985-2830. thE bLock gALLErY, 1 E. Allen St., Winooski, 373-5150. bLuEbirD tAVErN, 317 Riverside Ave., Burlington, 428-4696. brEAkWAtEr cAfé, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. brENNAN’S Pub & biStro, UVM Davis Center, 590 Main St., Burlington, 656-1204. citY SPortS griLLE, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. cLub mEtroNomE, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. thE grEEN room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669. hALVorSoN’S uPStrEEt cAfé, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. hArbor LouNgE At courtYArD mArriott, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 864-4700. highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777.

JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389.

LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759.

Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. thE LiViNg room, 794 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester. mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. miguEL’S oN mAiN, 30 Main St., Burlington, 658-9000. thE moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466.

NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

NEW mooN cAfé, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 383-1505.

NightcrAWLErS, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. oNE PEPPEr griLL, 260 North St., Burlington, 658-8800. oN tAP bAr & griLL, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. oDD fELLoWS hALL, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209.

PArimA, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917.

PArk PLAcE tAVErN, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015. rADio bEAN, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. rASPutiN’S, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. rED SquArE, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. rEguLAr VEtErANS ASSociAtioN, 84 Weaver St., Winooski, 655-9899. rÍ rá iriSh Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. rozzi’S LAkEShorE tAVErN, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester 863-2342. rubEN JAmES, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. thE ScuffEr StEAk & ALE houSE, 148 Church St., Burlington, 864-9451. thE ShELburNE StEAkhouSE & SALooN, 2545 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-5009 thE SkiNNY PANcAkE, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. thE VErmoNt Pub & brEWErY, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hEN of thE WooD at the Grist Mill, 92 Stowe St., Waterbury, 244-7300. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222.

L.A.c.E., 159 N. Main St., Barre, 476-4276. thE LAmb AbbEY., 65 Pioneer Circle, Montpelier, 229-2200.

LANgDoN StrEEt cAfé, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188.

PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035.

PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

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

Red squaRe: me & You with Brett Hughes and marie claire (cosmo-rural), 6 p.m., Free. Barika (world music, funk), 9 p.m., $5. nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

c i n e m a

RimRocks mountain taVeRn: Friday night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

the skinny pancake: Tallahassee (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

Rusty nail: Last Kid picked (rock), 10 p.m., $5.

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Rí Rá iRish puB: DJ Johnny utah (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. shelBuRne steakhouse & saloon: mellow Yellow (rock), 9 p.m., Free. the skinny pancake: The move it move it (funk), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

aRVad's gRill & puB: prana (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Black dooR BaR and BistRo: madman 3 (reggae), 9:30 p.m., $5. chaRlie o's: Jp Harris & the Tough choices (country), 10 p.m., Free. gReen mountain taVeRn: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. gusto’s: native Tongue (rock), 9 p.m., Free. langdon stReet café: Dobbs Duo (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations. Tallahassee (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Donations. puRple moon puB: poor Howard stith (blues), 8 p.m., Free. the ReseRVoiR RestauRant & tap Room: Live DJ, 9:30 p.m., Free. DJ slim pknz All Request Dance party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. tupelo music hall: George Winston (piano), 8 p.m., $50/55.

champlain valley

on the Rise BakeRy: Duke 007 (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Donations. staRRy night café: starline Rhythm Boys (honky-tonk), 8:30 p.m., Free. two BRotheRs taVeRn: Happy Hour with Josh Brooks (country), 5 p.m., Free. The Blame (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

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shelBuRne steakhouse & saloon: The Real Deal (r&b), 9 p.m., Free.

RegulaR VeteRans association: Red stellar (rock), 7 p.m., $5.

RuBen James: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Bee's knees: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the BRewski: The mighty Loons (rock), 9 p.m., $2.

Rí Rá iRish puB: nathan Brady crain (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

matteRhoRn: Bearquarium (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

paRkeR pie co.: Acoustic Jam session, 6 p.m., Free.

11/29/10 10:37 AMcity limits: Johnny Devil Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

H OL I D AY S HOPPI NG FACTORY OUTLETS

the huB pizzeRia & puB: Dead sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., Free.

Red squaRe Blue Room: DJ stavros (house), 9 p.m., $3.

central

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monopole: Eat sleep Funk (funk), 10 p.m., Free. oliVe Ridley's: Benjamin Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Groove Junkies (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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242 main: Lemuria, Rio Bravo (hardcore), 7 p.m., $7. AA. Backstage puB: night Train (rock), 9 p.m., Free. cluB metRonome: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. fRanny o's: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. higheR gRound BallRoom: 7 Walkers (funkrock), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. Jp's puB: Dave Harrison's starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. the monkey house: in memory of pluto, Husbands AKA (rock, ska), 9 p.m., $5. nectaR's: philly D. (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.

Dopapod, Yo mama's Big Fat Booty Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

Black dooR BaR and BistRo: merrily James (soul), 9:30 p.m., $5. chaRlie o's: pushbutton (electro-punk), 10 p.m., Free. langdon stReet café: Aunt martha (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Rusty Belle (psychedelic folk), 9:30 p.m., Donations. positiVe pie 2: D'moja, Barika Ensemble (world music, funk), 10:30 p.m., $8. puRple moon puB: Kip de moll & Birchwood coupe (blues), 8 p.m., Free. slide BRook lodge & taVeRn: maganahan's Revival (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free. tupelo music hall: carbon Leaf, suzanna choffel (rock), 8 p.m., $25.

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51 main: island Time steel Drums (steel drum), 6 p.m., Free. Dayve Huckett & Hannah Rose Rommer (jazz), 9 p.m., Free. city limits: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. two BRotheRs taVeRn: DJ Duby (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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nightcRawleRs: Darkhorse (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Bee's knees: Laslo cameo (electric roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

on tap BaR & gRill: sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

the BRewski: The soul Giants (soul), 9 p.m., $2.

paRima acoustic lounge: salmagundi series presents "Banished no more" (theater), 8 p.m., $10 donation.

matteRhoRn: season pass party (rock), 7 p.m., $25.

paRima main stage: Blue Gardenias cD release (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. The move it move it (funk), 10:30 p.m., $3.

Radio Bean: Brett Hughes (cosmo-rural), 6 p.m., Free. Let's Whisper (indie pop), 7 p.m., Free. A Band named Ashes (folk rock), 8 p.m., Free. Brendan Hogan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Ghost Weapon (rock), 11:59 p.m., Free.

Rasputin's: nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Red squaRe: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. Andrew parker-Renga (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5. sara Grace & the suits (soul), 9 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

music Box: mark struhsacker (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $10.

RimRocks mountain taVeRn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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follow-up to 2007’s The Scared Document. Or, at least, they’ve started to.

Rather than release a traditional full-length, the trio is dropping its latest episodically, like a TV season. The first episode, The Aztext & E-Train: Who Cares If We’re Dope? Vol. 1 debuted Tuesday, December 7, on Elevated Press Records.

Future episodes will come out every two months. And, not to spoil the review of the season premiere that will appear in these pages next week: This thing was worth the wait.

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Last but not least, there’s a new alt venue in Burlington.

And unlike most of the other alt venues in the area, this one is actually legal, with, like, permits and a bar and permits for the bar an’ everything. (All of which means I get to write about it without fear of the BPD narc-ing ’em out!) It’s Signal Kitchen, the Main Street recording studio formerly

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once again bending the rules for this weekly column bit.

But, hey, it’s my column.

I can do that. This week’s BNOTW goes to the entire

band seems to have the word “funk” in its name.

Seriously, guys. What the funk? Anyway, I ran into FUNKWAGON’s AARON BURROUGHS shortly after that column ran and he actually seemed to share my bemusement. And then he emailed me to let me know his band is playing at Nectar’s this Tuesday with a band called — waaaaait for it — PORNFUNK. I give up.

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Speaking of bands winding down, local rockers GUIDES FOR THE FUTURE will play their last show for the foreseeable, er, future this Friday at Parima with jam kids HEALTHY OPTION DANE. Guitarist ROBB SPENSLEY writes that he has recently relocated to Rutland and is also the proud papa of a 6-month-old, making rocking and/or rolling more challenging on at least two fronts. Spensley adds that the

Speaking of new music, I’m excited to pass along that VT hip-hop heavyweights THE AZTEXT have finally released the long-awaited

occupied by Strangeways Recording. The studio did a live-show test run at this year’s Art Hop. Dudes dug the experience so much, they have a full slate of shows in the works for 2011, with plans to record and distribute shows à la Daytrotter — but with more crowd noise.

Color me intrigued. The first “official” show at Signal Kitchen is the “Mushpost Winter Massive” this Friday, featuring KINGDOM, MAGA BO and GUTTSTAR.

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band isn’t calling it quits, per se, but they will necessarily have to scale back. However, he does hint at a new CD on the horizon. Stay tuned…

Homegrown Metal & Rock throwdown at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Friday. Why? Because, as regular readers know, I love hardcore and metal band names. For example: STONE BULLET, FILTHY MINUTES OF FAME, MUSICAL MANSLAUGHTER and, um, THE ISLEYS. Hey, three out of four ain’t bad, right?

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spring, while members focused on other projects. I smell a segue…

What projects? So glad you asked! (Don’t try that at home, kids; I’m a professional.)

Lead vocalist SETH GALLANT will continue playing with MARYSE SMITH AND THE ROSESMITHS, as well as with hygiene-averse rockers THE DIRTY WATTS. Presumably, Gallant will also continue writing brilliant little solo records deep in the Maine woods.

Drummer RYAN MCGRATH will join Gallant in the Watts, as well as continuing to play with THE DEAD ELECTRIC, which also features MANEUVERS’ JEFF FORAN and ZACH JANDL. Guitarist JOHN FLANAGAN is putting aside music for the time being to focus on his education. Clearly, dude needs to straighten out his priorities.

Finally, the JANDL brothers, BILL and ZACH, will continue to turn heads with their new band, SPIRIT ANIMAL, which effin’ rocks and should make the transition to an IMOPless world a little easier for the band’s fans.

As for myself, well, I think I’ll have to retire the phrase “high octane” to describe exciting, energetic bands.

One, I use it too often. And two, it will never fit a band better than it did In Memory of Pluto. Thanks, guys. It’s been fun.

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

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Comedy Night hosted by Kathleen Kanz (standup), 7 p.m., $5.

MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: George Voland JAZZ: with Susan Squier and Lar Duggan (jazz), 4:30 p.m., Free.

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PURPLE MOON PUB: Old Dogs New Tricks (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

TALLAHASSEE. For one thing, as a former offensive lineman for the New England Patriots,

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: The Subdudes (rock), 7 p.m., $38.

BEE'S KNEES: Lokum (Turkish Balkan), 11 a.m., Donations. Ethan Waldman & Nate Marshall (pop), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE BREWSKI: Dale and Darcy (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

CHOW! BELLA: Starline Rhythm Boys (honky-tonk), 5 p.m., $8/15/25.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Isleys (indie rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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garnered numerous national accolades for its rowdy mix of rock and roots — think the Avett Brothers, only waaay larger. Catch them this Friday at Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café and Saturday at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.

MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., Free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Funkwagon, Pornfunk (funk), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

LIFT: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: The Stephen Callahan Quartet (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Black Holly (folk), 8:15 p.m., Free.

Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.

RED SQUARE: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.

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RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Close to Nowhere (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

SHELBURNE STEAKHOUSE & SALOON: Carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Tribe of Light, Prana (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Comedy Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

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MAIN STREET GRILL & BAR: Peter Mayhew (classical guitar), 7 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Tattoo Tuesdays with Andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Industry Night with Robbie J (hiphop), 8 p.m., Free. Hype 'Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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ROZZI'S LAKESHORE TAVERN: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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LIFT: Karaoke … with a Twist, 9 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Queer Night with DJ Gunner (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Dan Zura (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 8 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Wiley Dobbs (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

1/2 LOUNGE: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

CHARLIE O'S: Brett Hughes (country), 8 p.m., Free.

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

BEE'S KNEES: Nicole Carey & Handmade Blues (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Francis Furtak, Thomas Pearo (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations.

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OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Mambo Combo (mambo), 8 p.m., Free.

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Though folk, indie rock, hip-hop, jazz and any number of other “underground” genres typically pull more ink in arts rags, you could make a strong case that local media, including Seven Days, largely ignore the state’s most continuously vital and arguably populous music scene: bar bands. In at least one respect, there’s good reason.

Generally speaking, the groups that rock blue-collar watering holes on weekend nights pull from the same catalog of jukebox staples they have since “classic” rock was just rock. Sure, the occasional

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modern-rock or pop-country single might crack the rotation from time to time. Still, most bar bands are virtually indistinguishable from one another.

However, not all bar bands are created Now equal. Some, such as Native Tongue, serving whole wheat strive to transcend dive-y cover-band crust trappings by writing original material.

On their debut full-length, Frozen, DECEMBER SPECIAL the Barre-based rockers wear their 2 Large 1-Topping Pizzas formative influences on their denim sleeves. While often derivative and and a 2 Liter Coke Product predictable, the band does score points for aiming at least a little higher than the Bud-soaked juke-joint floors Plus tax. Delivery & take out only.

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The disc begins with “Déjà Vu,” a 973 Roosevelt Highway sturdy opener that lays bare the group’s Colchester • 655-5550 feisty blues-rock intentions. The band www.threebrotherspizzavt.com members share songwriting duties, but vocalist Bob Nelson generally takes the helm and proves a capable front man. 12v-ThreeBros-120110.indd 1 11/22/10 1:59 PM Native Tongue hardly reinvent the wheel here. But with a few cold ones and maybe a whiskey shot or four, you’d be hard pressed not to pump your fist and shake your head — along with more southerly body parts.

The title track is a lighter-worthy, midtempo ballad; the kind of song made for lying under a starry sky on a summer night with your best girl on the hood of a ’76 El Camino. Or something.

“Can’t Believe It’s You” provides still more elementary rock thrills — picture Hootie & the Blowfish in a bar fight with Candlebox.

“Big Poppa” is a rowdy blues-rock barnstormer highlighted by wailing guitars and a number of nifty rhythmic shifts courtesy of drummer Rob Boisvert.

The disc’s most illustrative track is “She Kicks My Ass.” The song is as straightforward as its blunt title suggests, which is exactly why it works.

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Frozen likely won’t inspire the snobbish hipster set to rock out at bars such as Franny O’s or Nightcrawlers — not even ironically. But the band’s target audience will gleefully do just that.

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Bill Mullins is a freak. And I mean that in the best possible way. I have personally been watching the lanky lead guitarist do his thing — which, for my money, he does better than almost anyone in Burlington — for roughly 15 years now, which is only about half of his Vermont career. Whether with the late, great Chrome Cowboys, surf-noir badasses Barbacoa, timeless art-punk band Blowtorch, Lowell Thompson & Crown Pilot, Persian Claws, or any number of other local projects to which he’s lent his incomparable chops, he’s always been a personal favorite.

But here’s the thing: In all that time, dude hasn’t aged a day. Mullins looks and sounds exactly the same as he did when I was a teenager sneaking into bars to see him play — which is to say, like a lost Ramone brother, or Lou Reed’s second cousin. He is an ageless wonder, ever looming in the background in a black T-shirt and jeans, standing with almost comic stoicism while effortlessly tearing through riff after finger-shredding riff, only the occasional head nod suggesting he’s even awake.

It is fitting then, that the unassuming Mullins would release one of the best records of 2010 with virtually no fanfare. Composed of a batch of songs he’s been working on “for a little while now,” his self-titled CD sounds as though it could have been made at any point in the last 30 or 40 years — kinda like Mullins himself.

“Idle” introduces the guitarist’s affinity for the British Invasioninspired rock and roll of American rock bands in the early to mid-’70s, with ringing electric guitars and a hooky but efficient melody. In particular, late songwriting great Alex Chilton seems to be a major

touchstone, a notion verified by the following cut, “Rewind,” among several others.

Mullins’ disc is the epitome of a solo project, as he wrote, performed and recorded the entire album by himself. The Elliott Smith-esque “Black Butterfly” is perhaps the most impressive example of Mullins’ multitasking, featuring a devastating guitar melody that intertwines with his youthful vocal lead and tasteful backing harmonies.

But that last description could be applied to almost any of the disc’s 12 tracks. Whether on the jauntily moody “Goodbye Candy Cane,” marching pop gem “Lovely Nails” or a scorching rocker such as “Let’s Not Fall in Love,” Mullins is, well, freakishly consistent.

That measured cool almost works to his disadvantage, as it’s all too easy to take each cut’s subtle brilliance for granted. Don’t. Whether from a lifetime love affair with rock, or simply spending the last three decades absorbing and amplifying the talents of the artists he’s backed up — or both — Mullins’ album is a clinic on American rock songwriting.

Bill Mullins releases his self-titled album at Radio Bean this Friday.

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he Kichwa, indigenous people of the Andes, have maintained deep connections to their ancient culture despite 500 years of Catholicism and Western dominance.

“Mushuk Pacha | Nuevos Tiempos | New Times” is a sprawling exhibition of paintings at Burlington’s Flynndog gallery

by Kichwa Ecuadorians Inty and Yauri Muenala Vega. The artists use traditional colors and symbols to depict their culture’s contemporary vibrancy. True to the “new times” referenced in the title, the brothers Muenala Vega are contemporary painters, and are masterful artists of international renown.

One of the most impressive works is “Kapak Nan (Camino de la Justicia)”

by Yauri. The roughly 84-by-46-inch, four-paneled piece is composed around a golden swirl representing Lake Titicaca. Dancers, like Incan gods, flank the symbolically rich scene.

Vermont writer Anahí Costa, originally from Ecuador, insightfully noted in Artseenvt.com, “Around the Lake Titicaca four danzantes (dancers) correspond to the four Raymis of the year: Pawkar Raymi, Inty Raymi, Sara Raymi and Kapac Raymi (dates coincide with solstices and equinoxes). Two of the dancers call special attention: The first one wears a belt decorated with corncobs representing ancestral beliefs. The second wears bells on his belt signifying individuality; the freedom to choose a different belief.”

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RECEPTIONS ‘MAKE ART, REPEAT’: The group show that began at S.P.A.C.E. and Backspace galleries has moved and picked up a few more artists. Alecia Geno, Ashley Roark, Christy Mitchell, Greg Mamczak, Adam DeMasi, Clark Derbes and Carleen Zimbalati explore the theme of repetition in silk-screen prints, paintings, mixed media and light-andshadow installations. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 26 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Reception: Thursday, December 9, 5-8 p.m. Info, 859-9222.

SHAUN BOYCE: Abstract line painting, Bar; Beth Netelkos: painting, Dining Room; Michael Mooney: mixed-media abstracts, Greenhouse.

Through December 31 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Reception: Thursday, December 9, 6-8 p.m. Info, 862-9647.

JOAN CURTIS: “At One With Nature’s Wiles: Recent Paintings and Sculptures,” acrylics and mixed-media constructions depicting human figures at ease amid upheavals of nature.

Through December 17 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Reception:

“Kapak Nan (Camino de la Justicia)” by Yauri Meunala Vega

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Another Yauri piece “Pachataway (Tejiendo el tiempo … Espacio … la vida)” is a pair of horizontally oriented, 10-by-29-inch panels. Bulls with lively patterning are depicted crossing through a shallow field of deep indigo.

Both of the Muenala Vegas employ heavily textured underpaintings scumbled over with orange, reds, yellows and other richly saturated hues.

The 12-by-12-inch “Katary (Levantares)” by Inty is a simple solar disk

Friday, December 10, 5-7 p.m. info, 287-8398.

WINTER MEMBERS’ EXHIBIT AND GINGERBREAD CONTEST: Small works by member artists.

Also, the annual Gingerbread Contest includes handmade creations. The public will vote on a winner through December 9. Through December 31 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Winners of the Gingerbread Contest will be announced and prizes awarded at the Art Hop reception: Friday, December 10, 5-8 p.m. Info, 775-0356.

MR. MASTERPIECE: “Elephant in the Room,” Ganesha studies and drawings. Through January 10 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Reception: Friday, December 10, 5-7 p.m. Info, 399-9511.

JON OLSEN & CASEY MCMAINS: “Glow,” photography of Vermont landscapes, flora and fauna by Olsen, and blown glass, including traditional globe holiday ornaments and other works incorporating knit fiber elements, by McMains. Through December 31 at Art on Main in Bristol. Reception: Friday, December 10, 5-7 p.m.

Info, 453-4032.

SANDRA LORY: “Theobroma Cacao: The Plant That Chocolate Comes From,” photographs

with a gold face and round turquoise mouth. His 20-by-47-inch “Kichwa Runa (Personas Kichwa)” includes other forms, such as the back of a woman with a long braid, in a grouping of three squares aligned vertically. Both are highly decorative pieces.

Among Inty’s other works are paintings of interlocking fish, more women with braids, and small groups of figures. His “Pachakamak (Tiempo)” is a more symbolic 39-by 52-inch canvas. Pictographic figures drawn with lines dance across the top of the image, and an open palm with a swirl icon appears at the center of the piece.

The monumental “Chusango Enamorado,” at 66 by 50 inches, is an abstraction with a hulking copper and red form in its center, surrounded by an atmo-

sphere of rough white layers of acrylic.

Arrows and hash marks populate the canvas with ambiguous meanings, like a secret narrative known only to the artist.

In addition to the paintings, the exhibit includes a large installation. “Cruz del sur (Chacana)” consists of a rough circle of dirt with a triangle marked by candles, and a suspended dream-catcher construction consisting of white strips of cloth. This reportedly represents the spiral of time. Curator Bren Alvarez notes in a written statement that “Cruz del sur (Chacana)” is “a sacred figure that represents the Kichwa world vision.” But it’s not wholly traditional. Due to importation restrictions, it was created with Vermont earth instead of Ecuadorian corn.

The run of “Mushuk Pacha | Nuevos Tiempos | New Times” has been extended through February, so there’s plenty of time to catch this unusual exhibition. The pieces are enjoyable even if you don’t try to decipher the mysterious images and translate all the titles.

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from Mexican cacao farms, tracing the process of making chocolate. Through December 10 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Reception: Friday, December 10, 5-7 p.m. Info, 479-1925.

KATHERINE WASHBURN: Pet- and natureinspired ceramics by the Stowe artisan. December 10 through 30 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

The artisan visits during Montpelier Art Walk.

Also, 10 percent of proceeds that evening benefit the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, which supports the careers of crafters around the country.

Reception: Friday, December 10, 4-8 p.m. Info, 223-1981.

TWO RIVERS PRINT EXHIBITION: Work by members and guests of the printmaking studio.

December 11 through January 8 at Spheris Gallery in Hanover, N.H. Reception: Saturday, December 11, 5-7 p.m. Info, 603-640-6155.

CAMERON SCHMITZ: Large-scale figurative oil paintings, silk-screen prints and intaglio etchings by the Vermont artist. Through January 7 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol.

Reception: Sunday, December 12, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Info, 453-3188.

M A R C AWO D EY “Mushuk Pacha | Nuevos Tiempos | New Times,” paintings reflecting the culture of the Kichwa people, by Inty & Yuari Meunala Vega, Flynndog, Burlington. Through February 28. Info, 734-5546.

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‘A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF VERMONT JEWS’: Photographs inviting the viewer to experience the people and neighborhoods of Burlington’s old Jewish Quarter. Through January 5 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

AMANDA FELLER: Colorful paintings from abstract doodles evocative of cellular creatures. Through January 20 at The Firebird Cafe in Essex Junction.

Info, 630-291-5360.

ANZI JACOBS: “Rainbow’s End: Irish Landscapes,” western Ireland’s moody light presented via photographic images on canvas. Through December 31 at Village Wine & Coffee in Shelburne. Info, 985-3930.

ART HOP GROUP SHOW: SUBARU-HYUNDAI: Paintings and photography on two levels. Through December 30 at Burlington Subaru. Info, 859-9222.

CATHY WARD & JON TURNER: “Help Our Baby Out,” functional and sculptural clay work, plus handmade paper, journals, books and poetry for sale. Proceeds help the couple afford a midwife so they can birth their baby at home. Through December 20 at Green Door Studio in Burlington. Info, 999-7788.

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‘Celebrate the SeaSon’: Landscapes and portraits

by Carolyn Walton, Gail Bessette, Athenia Schinto and Brenda Myrick. Also, jewelry by Tineke Russell.

Through December 30 at Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-8223.

ChriS GluCk: “Art from Nature,” paintings, leaf mandalas and reeds in shadow boxes by the Vermont artist. Plus, leaf collages by the artist’s students, ages 6-12. Greeting cards of the children’s work are on sale and benefit Mount Mansfield Union High School’s Project Graduation. Through January 30 at New Moon Café in Burlington. Info, 899-3659.

‘ChriSto and Jeanne-Claude’: "The Tom Golden Collection," a nationally touring exhibit featuring drawings, prints, photographs and collages that trace the careers of the husband-and-wife installation artists, and convey the monumentality of their process and their work. Through December 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

Clark derbeS: “Quilt Weave,” paintings exploring color and pattern by the Burlington artist. Through January 15 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648. deCember Group Show: Mixed-media paintings, photographic process prints, stained glass, monoprints, acrylic paintings, abstract oil paintings and wood sculptures by Steve Campbell, Isaac Wasuck, Greg Mamczak, Dave Davidson, Kevyn Cundiff, Diane Gabriel, Lorraine Manley, Perry Bartles and Gaal Shepherd. Through December 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

‘FiniSSaGe’: This first annual exhibition will feature works by all the artists who have shown at the SEABA office gallery throughout the year. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association.

Through January 31 at SEABA Gallery in Burlington.

Info, 859-9222. ‘holiday Sampler exhibit’: Paintings, pottery, sculpture and tile work by Joe Dinapoli, H. LaPine and D.L. Sonnett. Through December 24 at Cupola House Gallery in Essex. Info, 518-963-7494. inty & yuari muenala VeGa: “Mushuk Pacha | Nuevos Tiempos | New Times,” paintings reflecting the culture of the Kichwa people of the Ecuadorean Andes. Through February 28 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 734-5546.

John kenneth alexander: “Vermont as I See It,” landscape oil paintings. Through January 15 at Chop Shop in Burlington. Info, 540-0267.

Jon GreGG: Recent works on paper in oil stick with mixed media by the founder of the Vermont Studio Center. Open Saturdays, during MainStage shows and by appointment. Through December 31 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4505.

kei eGan: Traditional and magnetic collages with themes of spirituality, childhood, aviation, tranquility and time. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 28 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

kimberlee Forney: Original paintings and prints of romantic scenes, dragonflies and more. Through December 31 at Candles & Creations in Burlington.

Info, 660-8021. lynn rupe: Art Affair by Shearer presents paintings of sheep by the Vermont artist. Through

human artiFaCt: Calling for submissions to a juried photography exhibit at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery.

Deadline: January 18, 2011.

Juror: Dave Jordano. Info: www.vermontphotospace. com/ex11, info@vermontphoto space.com. ‘the arranGement’: Calling for submissions to a juried photography exhibit of arranged objects, also known as still life. Deadline: December 22. Info, www.vermontphoto space.com/ex10.

Studio plaCe artS: SPA is inviting work for “The Dark Side” and “When No One Is Looking,” two shows in January 2011. Deadline: December 10. Info, www. studioplacearts.com, go to “Calls to Artists.”

talkS & eVentS ‘new Jewelry workS & holiday Sale’: Work by Timothy Grannis, Connie Coleman, Jane Frank and Marie-Josee Lamarche at

ned CaStle: “In Their Own Words,” a one-night showing of the photographer’s exhibition of portraits and interview excerpts, capturing the experience of Vermont’s refugees, whose lives have been disrupted by warfare, political violence or discrimination. Friday, December 10, 4-7 p.m., Black Sheep Books, Montpelier. Info, 388-4964. artiSanS’ Sale: Work by local artisans, a kids’ craft corner, live music and crepes by the Skinny Pancake. The public is invited to bring nonperishable donations for the Vermont Food Bank. Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Town Hall, Moretown. Info, 496-6466.

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by Mark Goodwin, Arlene Grossman, Cristina Salusti, Nancy H. Taplin, Annie Witte, Jose Benitez Sanchez, Pat Dipaula Klein and Bhakti Ziek. Through February 13 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Talk: Open house and shopping extravaganza, featuring pianist Keith Bush at 4 p.m. Saturday, December 11, 2-8 p.m. Info, 767-9670. holiday art Sale: Paintings, sculpture, book arts, jewelry and more by

December 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111. matthew thorSen: Photographs by the Vermont artist. Through December 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. meGan lipke: “Faith and Error,” new abstract paintings inspired by the topography of the body and the environment. Through January 2 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-3662.

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winterCraFt FeStiVal: Local artisans demonstrate their crafts and the public is invited to decorate gingerbread cookies, listen to live music and celebrate the reemergence of the Community Art Gallery.

Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., LACE, Barre. Info, 476-4276.

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artiSanS’ Sale: Work by local artisans, a kids’ craft corner and crepes by the Skinny Pancake. Plus, Santa stops by from noon-2 p.m. The public is invited to bring nonperishable donations for the Vermont Food Bank. Sunday, December 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Town Hall, Moretown. Info, 496-6466.

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‘metalS/materialS/Culture’: Students in UVM’s seminar in museum anthropology curated this exhibit composed of tools, weapons, artwork and currency from different cultures, and crafted in brass, silver and copper. T,hrough December 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

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‘holiday Cheap art Sale’: Nearly 20 artists sell their work at low prices in the annual pop-up store. Friday, December 10, 4-7 p.m., and Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Christ Church, Montpelier. Info, 223-0352.

emily biSSell laird: “A Celebration of Music and Art,” oil paintings by the Vermont artist accompanied by a live performance by Burlington guitarist John Creech. Food and drink will be served.

Saturday, December 11, 4-7 p.m., All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne. Info, 425-2463.

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kimberlee Forney: Funky, whimsical paintings of musical scenes, cows and life. Through December 31 at Block Gallery & Coffeehouse in Winooski. Info, 373-5150.

CallinG all Snow SCulptorS: The Burlington Winter Festival is accepting applications for the 2011 Vermont Snow Sculpting Competition. The winning team will represent Vermont at the national competition in Lake Geneva, Wisc., in 2012. Starts February 3, with judging on February 5 during the Burlington Winter Festival. Deadline for applications and competitors’ sketches: January 10. Any interested sculptors should email leanne.galletly@uvm. edu for an application.

South end holiday hop: More than 20 galleries and other venues in the South End open their doors for the weekend to welcome holiday shoppers. Complete list of participants at www.seaba. com. Friday, December 10, 5-8 p.m., Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Various downtown locations and Sunday, December 12, noon-4 p.m., various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

Christine E. LaMar, Lori Hinrichsen, Dan Webster, Robyn Woodworth, Jennifer Reardon, Laurel Fulton, Kathy Stockman, Charles Norris-Brown, Sarah Kariko, Elizabeth Rideout, Jill Abilock, Dana Dale Lee and Stephanie Bush. Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Shelburne Pond Studios, Shelburne. Info, 999-4394.

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kathleen berry berGeron: Watercolor paintings of rural Vermont scenes by the Jericho artist.

Through February 28 at The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa in Essex. Info, 899-4628.

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discounted prices for the holiday. Tuesday, December 7, through Saturday, December 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Alchemy Jewelry Arts Collective, Burlington. Info, 660-2032.

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Jolene Garanzha: Surreal colored-pencil drawings and oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 30 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233.

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Reid CRosby: “Layers,” acrylic paintings by the Vermont artist. Through January 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men’s Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.

RogeR Coleman: Mixed-media abstract paintings, Skyway; Diane Gabriel: color photographs, Gates 1 & 2; Greg Mamczak: oil on canvas, Escalator. Through December 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. saReet Rosenstein: “Why Did You Just Take a Photo of That?” a personal perspective on what gets interpreted through the lens of her camera in everyday life. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 28 at Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. seth butleR: “Tattered: Investigation of an American Icon,” a documentary photography exhibit investigating usage and desecration of the American flag. Print sales benefit The Veterans’ Place in Northfield. Through January 10 at Reciprocity Studio in Burlington. Info, 318-8594. ‘shadows of the samuRai’: Armor, swords, prints, masks and other artifacts representing Japanese warrior traditions. Through May 11 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘simple gifts: a show foR all seasons’: Watercolor paintings of pears by Kate Hartley.

Also, work by Mary Alcantara, Elizabeth Allen, Anne Austin, Annelein Beukenkamp, Matt Brown, Tom Dunne, Jeri Lynn Eisenberg, Steven P. Goodman, Holly Hauser, Kathleen Kolb, Alice Murdoch, Lynn Rupe, Gail Salzman, David Smith, Adelaide Murphy Tyrol, Laura Von Rosk, Barbara Wagner, Dick Weis and Nancy Weis. Through January 29 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848. ‘small woRks’: Work by local artists that is no bigger than 12 inches. Through December 29 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. steve budington: “Homunculus,” paintings and three-dimensional work depicting bodies that unravel, fly apart and merge with prosthetic technology, from GORE-TEX to iPods. Through January 1 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

‘the spiCe of light’: Color photographs by local and international artists, juried by West Virginia photographer Bruce K Haley Jr. Through December 10 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

‘veRmont landsCapes in blaCk & white’: Photography by Ashley Arcury, Jeff Clarke, Natalie Stultz and Katelyn Ziegler. Through February 28 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222. veRmont photo gRoup show: Fifteen photographs, primarily landscapes, by 7 members of the group. Through January 2 at Mirabelles in Burlington. Info, 985-3930.

CaRolyn enz haCk: “More Shocking Art,” new paintings and mixed-media works by the Vermont artist. Through December 30 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

‘CelebRate!’: The annual holiday members’ show features fine art and functional crafts by 90 area artists. Through December 31 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

CheRyl daye diCk: Fall and winter Vermont landscapes by the Middlesex artist. Through December 31 at Red Hen Bakery & Café in Middlesex. Info, 223-0309. ‘good, good, good, good fibRations: the fibeR aRt show 2010’: Work by acclaimed artisans Elizabeth Billings, Anna Ferri, Judy B. Dales, Carol MacDonald, Viiu Niiler and Judith Reilly. Through December 19 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743. jennifeR palkowski & Robyn peiRCe: “Rock, Paper, Nature,” mixed-media nature studies and more by the Vermont artists. Through December 31 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.

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‘photogRapheRs’ showCase’: Work by Mark Council, Cynthia Crawford, Chris Esten, Medora Hebert, Carla Kimball, Rosamond Orford, David Putnam, Rob Strong, Ryan Vahey and David Westby. Through December 22 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Info, 698-0320.

Ray bRown: New paintings inspired by a recent trip to Italy. Through December 31 at The Drawing Board in Montpelier. Info, 223-2902. veRmont pastel soCiety gRoup show: A juried show of landscapes, portraiture and abstract images by members of the organization.

Through January 26 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5657. zoë baRRaCano: “NYC Rainy Day,” images of the city through a blur of motion as the Burlington photographer travels along Broadway from Times Square to Houston Street. Through December 31 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.

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CameRon sChmitz: “Moving Still,” photographs based on chance and place that appear to be painterly abstractions. Through January 1 at Inn at Baldwin Creek & Mary’s Restaurant in Bristol. Info, 870-7006. emily beth eRRion: Handcrafted silver jewelry and etched glassware by the Vermont artist.

Through February 28 at Gallery 160 in Richmond.

Info, 434-6434. ‘fRiends beaRing gifts’: An exhibit celebrating 40 years of acquisitions for the permanent collection purchased by Friends of the Art Museum, and featuring 40 diverse objects, from an ancient Chinese mirror to paintings by modern masters.

Through December 12 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007.

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‘we aRt women: of blue and light’: Mixedmedia work by members of the art co-op. Through January 1 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington.

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CaRa joy: “Joyful Hearts,” acrylic on canvas.

Through December 31 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454.

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Info, 862-5056.

aRt ResouRCe assoCiation membeRs’ exhibit: Work in a variety of media by central Vermont artists. Also at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.

Through January 3 at City Center in Montpelier.

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Mount Mansfield photography by Vermont’s favorite aerial photgrapher, Robert Lyons.

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taRRah kRajnak: “Inch of Dust,” a photographic installation utilizing appropriated images of Peruvians to explore and challenge how photography is used to characterize ethnicity and archive its meaning. Through December 11 at Second Floor Gallery, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

woRld waR ii photogRaphs: An exhibit of some 150 captioned photographs from the U.S. War Department. The photos belonged to congregant Ivan Pels’ father, who started and edited an employee magazine at the war plant where he worked. They sat in a drawer for more than 50 years. Through December 30 at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington. Info, 862-6052.

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GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMPETITION & EXHIBITION: Unconventional interpretations of the edible holiday structure built by professionals and amateurs alike. The public is invited to vote for the People’s Choice award. Through December 21 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

MEG MCDEVITT: “Steel Line Drawings,” sculptural installations, in which steel rods are welded and forged to create three-dimensional drawings.

Through December 21 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1266.

‘MOVING IMAGES’: Works of photography and video art from the permanent collection, including photographs by pioneering time-lapse photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Through December 12 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007.

‘PETITE’: Small works, featuring a watercolor by Mary Whyte, a South Carolina artist known for her depictions of the African American Gullah women of Johns Island. Through December 31 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

PHILIP KOCH: Romantic landscape paintings by the Maryland-based artist. Through December 12/6/10 11:56 AM 31 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

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SIMON PETERSON: “Exposed,” photographs of extreme skiing and winter mountain vistas, from Alaska to Switzerland, by the photo editor of Backcountry and Alpinist magazines. Through January 15 at Liza Myers Gallery in Brandon. Info, 247-5229.

‘THE HALE STREET GANG’: Large-scale blackand-white photographs of Randolph-area seniors

by Jack Rowell accompany an audio version of memoirs they’ve been writing during a two-year project led by Sara Tucker. Through December 18 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

‘THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON’: Artwork and handcrafted holiday ornaments, offered for $200 or less, by members of the Brandon Artists Guild.

Through December 31 at Brandon Artists’ Guild.

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‘TWO SHIRLEYS AND A JESSIE’: Photographs, pastels and oil paintings by Jessie Reid Bradley, Shirley Reid Thompson and Shirley Reid. Through January 2 at Charlotte Senior Center. Info, 425-3815.

VERMONT ARTISTS SHOW: Sculpture by Kathy Stockman, art quilts by Joanne Guillemette, wool quilts by Hope Johnson and more. Through December 31 at Rae Harrell Gallery in Hinesburg.

Info, 734-7363.

WARREN KIMBLE: Contemporary abstracted paintings from the artist’s “Let the Sun Shine” and “Widows of War” collections. Through December 31 at The Gallery at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

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ANN YOUNG: Oil paintings capturing a sense of mystery in people’s everyday activities. Through January 10 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

CAROLYN DROGE: “Portraits,” oil paintings of dairy cows. Through January 17 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

CHRIS ROMANO: “Transitions,” a visual journey from fall to winter in the Green Mountains by the Stowe photographer. Through December 31 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe.

Info, 279-4239.

DECEMBER GROUP SHOW: Work by Harald Aksdal, Kirsten Doolan, Nancy Hayden, Lorraine Pike and Kasia Szabo. Through December 25 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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ELIZABETH NELSON: Northeast Kingdom landscape paintings. Through January 10 at Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Info, 888-7889.

‘FESTIVAL OF TREES & LIGHT AND MEMBERS ART SHOW’: Ten Fraser firs decorated by community members, a menorah display by the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe and artwork in a variety of media by Vermont artists. Through January 2 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

‘FESTIVE FINE ART FOR THE HOLIDAYS’: One-of-a-kind works by multiple artists.

Through December 23 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

FORREST HOLZAPFEL: “A Deep Look at a Small Town,” black-and-white photographs of Marlboro residents accompanied by audio interviews with each family conducted by the Vermont artist.

Through December 31 at Municipal Building in Fairfield.

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robert gerHardt: “Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma,” black-and-white photographs that document people who have been fighting a civil war for independence from the Burmese military. Through December 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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catHerine Hall: “Les lapin magasinent,” an installation of mixed-media bunny “shoppers.” Through December 31 at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montréal.

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‘Frank Stella: irregular PolygonS’: An exhibit marking the museum’s 25th anniversary presents one of each of the artist’s 11 monumental compositions for his 1965-66 series, along with preparatory drawings and other works. Through March 31 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.

Holiday Sale and exHibition: More than 100 member artists contribute artwork and crafts, from the playful to the profound. Through December 29 at AVA Gallery and Arts Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

Jenny Qian: “Basic Space,” painting and installation by the Dartmouth College studio art intern.

Through February 7 at Barrows Exhibition Rotunda, Hopkins Center, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-3651. ‘marking time’: The Guild of Book Workers presents a traveling exhibition in the Baker-Berry Library, including traditional and contemporary bindings in codex format, complex folded structures, wooden constructions, handheld toys and sculptural objects. Through March 20 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-3998. ‘native american ledger drawingS From tHe Hood muSeum oF art’: The acquisition from the collection of Dartmouth grad Mark Lansburgh (1949) is one of the largest of its kind in the country, and reveals through meticulous artworks the lives of 19th-century Plains Indians. Through December 19 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808. m

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ehind every great man, they say, there’s a great woman. Behind the teenager who would grow up to achieve greatness as the leader of the biggest rock band in history, there were two. One was his mother. The other was the aunt who actually raised him. Nowhere Boy offers a portrait of the artist as an angry, mystified and profoundly wounded young man.

It is not exactly a spoiler to note that John Lennon was abandoned by his biological mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff ), at an early age and taken in by her sister, Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas), and Mimi’s husband, George (David Threlfall). This is a matter of lore and well known to much of humankind. It’s also the subject of several Lennon compositions — among them the tenderly yearning “Julia” and the primal scream “Mother” (“Mother, you had me but I never had you”).

Nonetheless, artist-turned-first-timefilmmaker Sam (as in Samantha) TaylorWood succeeds in breathing vivid life into these somewhat hoary footnotes (the exBeatle would have turned 70 this past October) with a little help from friends who were there. Matt Greenhalgh’s script is based on a memoir by Julia Baird, Lennon’s half-sister.

As Baird shared with the audience at last January’s Sundance premiere, the director answered her cell a number of times during

production to find Paul McCartney on the other end, calling to offer “some little tidbit, something he remembered about John or about Mimi.”

Aaron Johnson looks and sounds almost nothing like the subject of this biopic yet does a commendable job of nailing his essence. A born rebel who senses he possesses genius of an as-yet-unshaped sort, the young Lennon is something of a caged animal. Aunt Mimi is the definition of prim, a middle-class Liverpool homemaker preoccupied with maintaining an air of propriety.

Her husband, by contrast, is a kindred spirit for the boy, a playful and witty soul. He dies early in the film, his death Lennon’s second abandonment.

It is at his uncle’s funeral that the 17-yearold meets his real mother, a music-loving free spirit who, to his astonishment, lives just around the corner with her new husband and their two daughters. The film does a highly credible job of suggesting the conflicting emotions aroused by the discovery.

On the one hand, Lennon had to feel rejection and resentment. On the other, he found himself drawn passionately to his mother.

In the course of Nowhere Boy, Lennon also bumps into a couple of local lads named Paul (Thomas Brodie Sangster) and George (Sam Bell) — talk about planets aligning;

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marketing textbook could be written about the making of Disney’s 50th animated feature, which seems to have been calibrated for success down to its last pixel.

Fairy-tale princesses don’t sell anymore, Disney honchos proclaimed in a muchquoted Los Angeles Times article. Boys hate girlie stuff — hence the disappointing take of last year’s The Princess and the Frog. As for today’s girls, they leave their tiara fantasies behind with sippy cups and aspire to being “hot” and “cool” instead, a media professor told the Times. Kids won’t see anything unless it has effects to rival the latest liveaction/CGI spectacles, said another interviewee.

So Disney’s planned Rapunzel was rebooted as Tangled, which has a wise-cracking hero (boy appeal!), fast-paced action and slapstick (like Shrek!), things exploding (like Transformers!), and marketing that emphasizes those elements while doing its best to conceal that Tangled is actually a witty, candy-colored musical about a girl — yeah, a princess — coming of age. It’s a stealth chick flick, and a better one than many romantic comedies.

From the Grimm Brothers’ tale, writer Dan Fogelman takes only the conceit of a

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— but Taylor-Wood knows we know how those relationships turn out. So she wisely focuses on the women in his life.

Scott Thomas does some of the finest work of her career as the buttoned-up, no-nonsense Mimi. Duff is wonderful as her total opposite, and the film makes the persuasive argument that these two very different mother figures were, in fact, required to produce the complex, contradictory personality who would one day become the most famous artist in the world.

Consider the life Lennon lived. Each of its distinct chapters could no doubt serve as the basis for its own movie — the various Beatle phases, the love story of John and Yoko, the long-lost weekend with Harry Nilsson, his years as a house husband, the

SHE SAID, SHE SAID Taylor-Wood’s feature debut explores the influential roles played by two profoundly different women in the evolution of the future Beatle.

second coming in his final days. And, who knows, in the course of time they may very well be put on film. With Nowhere Boy, at any rate, Lennon’s tragedy-stricken adolescence and creative awakening receive screen treatment worthy of the man who would leave his mark everywhere.

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long-haired maiden locked in a tower by a witch who does her best to control the girl’s sexuality (c’mon, what did you think those free-flowing locks symbolized?) by telling her when and where she can let down her hair.

In this version, the evil mother-figure Gothel (voiced by Broadway vet Donna Murphy) actually keeps Rapunzel as a form of walking, talking Botox: Her uncut mane, combined with her singing, has the power to rejuvenate and heal. But Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) is getting to an age where it’s hard to keep a girl in a tower just by telling her the world is full of “men with sharp teeth.”

When fugitive thief Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi) happens by, she bops him on the head with a skillet (in case he bites) and coerces him into helping her take a little trip outside.

This is revisionist storytelling, all right.

Mommie Dearest manipulates Rapunzel with classic passive-aggressive tactics, and her hysterical warnings about the outside world could come from a modern parent who’s watched too much “Nancy Grace.”

After Rapunzel escapes, there’s a montage where her mood strobes deliriously between exhilaration and remorse, with nothing in between. Any adult who remembers his or her first college bender will relate.

LOCKED UP In which Rapunzel demonstrates how to catch a man by trussing him with her tresses.

As for the scoundrelly hero: Well, he’s basically Han Solo as a sideburned cartoon character, which is way better than a prince.

Since Rapunzel tends to be the aggressor in their relationship (literally, at first), there’s room in the story for her to take action and responsibility in ways unknown to Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

Tangled looks influenced by Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn Howl’s Moving Castle, another girl-centered story with which it shares a spun-sugar, Fragonard-inspired view of the world of folk tales. The songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, by contrast, are all Broadway, passable but unmemorable.

Among the movie’s supporting players are two mute but wonderfully expressive beasts — a haughty palace horse and a supercilious chameleon — that make the slapstick sequences bearable.

The movie has its cornball elements. But Rapunzel grows in more believable ways than does the heroine of Burlesque, to name another recent princess fantasy. The preteen dream of being “hot and cool” is just another variation on the Cinderella model. But a heroine who finds love and freedom after she loses acres of blond Barbie hair — these days, that’s a radical fable.

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This one involves an eventful sea trip to the end of the world. Do your kids a favor and read them the book first. With Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes and Will Poulter. Michael (49 Up) Apted directs. (115 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace, Paramount, Welden) KiNGS oF pAStRY: Foodie film alert! This documentary from D.A. Pennebacker (of Don’t Look Back fame) follows Chicago master pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer as he returns home to France to compete for a coveted culinary title. (84 min, NR. Savoy) tHE toURiSt: A glamorous person of mystery turns an ordinary shlub’s life upside down, and it feels like we saw this movie last summer when it was called Knight and Day. This one, however, has Angelina Jolie as the mystery and Johnny Depp as the shlub, and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark gave us The Lives of Others. With Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell. (103 min, PG-13.

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tHE GiRl WHo KicKED tHE HoRNEt’S NEStHHH Hacker sleuth Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) has her day in court in the third and final installment of the Swedish thriller series based on Stieg Larsson’s bestsellers. Final, that is, until the American remakes start coming. With Michael Nyqvist and Lena Endre. Daniel Alfredson directs.

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FAStERHH Ex-con Dwayne Johnson sets off on a deadly mission of vengeance, opposed only by “a veteran cop just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman with a flair for the art of killing.”

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Parole absconder Robert Lewis Crose, 47, managed to evade California authorities for 12 years but then led them right to him when he complained on his Facebook page about the cold weather in the northern Montana town of Cut Bank. A fugitive task force in California notified Glacier County, Mont., sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Siefert, who arrested him. “He said he’d worked cutting up here, harvesting, for the last 10 years,” Siefert said. (Montana’s Billings Gazette) Cincinnati police reported that when Rufus Bowman, 16, pulled a gun on a 6-foot-1, 290-pound prostitute “wearing a pink halter top and pumps,” the victim resisted.

The 5-foot-7, 230-pound Bowman shot the victim in the arm and chest but couldn’t stop the prostitute from taking away the gun, grabbing him by the hair and administering what Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor Ryan Nelson termed a “beat down.” Identifying victim Joshua Bumpus as “a transvestite prostitute,” Nelson noted that Bowman “picked the wrong prostitute to rob.”

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Smoking pot may slow or halt Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers at California’s Scripps Research Institute. Reporting in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics, they discovered that marijuana’s active ingredient — delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — helps preserve brain function. “Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, THC is a considerably superior inhibitor of Abeta aggregation,” the key pathological marker of Alzheimer’s, said the study, whose authors point out it “provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism through which cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease.” (MSNBC)

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When Las Vegas voters complained after they’d been awakened during the night by automated phone calls urging their support for a ballot measure to change how state judges are selected, the California company that campaign’s organizers hired to make the calls apologized — with another robocall.

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“human error and computer error” for mixing up a.m. and p.m. (KTNV-TV) The telecom company Ncell launched high-speed Internet service on Mount Everest by erecting a transmission tower at the 29,035-foot peak’s base camp. Ncell said the new service lets climbers surf the web faster, send video clips and emails, and make phone calls cheaply. (Reuters)

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Larry Franklin, 16, tried to rob a convenience store in DeLand, Fla., by pointing a bottle of salad dressing at the clerks. Police said one of the clerks responded by pulling a gun and calling police.

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Police arrested Adyan Sanchez, 30, in Bradenton, Fla., after she assaulted her boyfriend with a plate of tamales when he called her a “bitch” in front of their 1-year-old son. Officers said they found alleged victim Roberto Olvera with “tamale sauce all over his pants.” (The Smoking Gun) Authorities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, accused two Cleveland-area residents of robbing a convenience store by threatening the clerk with a bacterial infection. The official report explained that two of the robbers, Caroline Slusher, 32, and Austin Tenerove, 27, were taking candy off the shelf when the clerk confronted them.

Slusher pulled up her sleeve and showed the clerk her arm, stated that she was infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and warned the clerk to get away from her. She and Tenerove then fled in a waiting van, driven by Michael Slusher, 27. (Northern Ohio’s News-Herald) Police in Takoma Park, Md., charged Oritse Ayu, 29, with assault after he walked past a woman at a college library while masturbating and struck her arm with his semen. He fled, but investigators tracked him using his DNA. (Baltimore’s WJZ-TV)

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Witnesses told police investigating a bank robbery in Capitola, Calif., that the crook offered bystanders outside the bank $1000 for a ride to Santa Cruz. Besides hunting the robber, police announced they’re looking for whoever may have accepted the offer.

“That $1000 belongs to the bank,” Sgt. Mark Gonzalez said. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

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december 9-15 young man. But he abandoned it early on, deciding that he wanted to “carve his soul rather than marble.” Can I interest you in turning your attention to that noble, gritty task, Leo? It would be a fine time to do some intensive soul carving. Soul scouring, too, would be both fun and wise, as well as soul etching and soul emblazoning and soul accessorizing. I highly recommend that you enjoy a prolonged phase of renovating and replenishing your most precious work of art.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, life will beguile you with secrets and riddles, but probably not reveal as much as you’d like. I think this is an opportunity, not a problem. In my opinion, your task isn’t to press for shiny clarity, but rather to revel in the luxuriant mysteries. Let them confer their blessings on you through the magic of teasing and tantalizing. And what is the nature of those blessings? To enlighten your irrational mind, stimulate your imagination, teach you patience and nurture your connection with eternity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Butterflies recall at least some of what they’ve learned during their time as caterpillars. The metamorphosis they go through is dramatic, turning their bodies into a soupy goo before remaking them into winged gliders. And yet they retain the gist of the lessons they mastered while in their earlier form. I see something comparable ahead for you in 2011, Taurus. It’s as if you will undergo a kind of reincarnation without having to endure the inconvenience of actually dying. Like a butterfly, the wisdom you’ve earned in your old self will accompany you into your new life. Are you ready? The process begins soon.

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mind off your problems. I’m referring to the influences that make you stronger and the people who see you for who you really are and the situations that teach you lifelong lessons. I mean the beauty that replenishes your psyche and the symbols that consistently restore your balance and the memories that keep feeding your ability to rise to each new challenge. Take inventory of these precious assets. And then make a special point of nurturing them back.

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(June 21-July 22): Two-thirds of American elementary-school teachers spend their own money to buy food for their poor students. Meanwhile, there’s a 50 percent chance that an American kid will, at some point in his or her young life, resort to using government aid in the form of food stamps. Those facts make me angry and motivate me to volunteer to distribute free food at the local food bank. I encourage you, my fellow Cancerian, to summon your own good reasons to get riled up in behalf of people who have less luck and goodness than you do. It’s always therapeutic to stretch your generosity and spread your wealth, but doing so will especially redound to your advantage in the coming weeks.

Unselfish acts will bring profound selfish benefits.

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tune “One Blood,” Virgo singer Lila Downs confesses that “the deepest fear [is] my desire.” I personally know many Virgos who make a similar lament. How about you? Is there any way in which you are scared of the power of your longing? Do you ever find yourself reluctant to unleash the full force of your passion, worried that it could drive you out of control or lead you astray? If so, the coming weeks will be prime time to face down your misgivings. It’s time to liberate your desires, at least a little.

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your words of power: hybrid, amalgamation, composite, aggregate, medley, alloy, ensemble. Now here are your words of disempowerment: welter, mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, patchwork. Strive to accentuate the first category and avoid the second.

Your task is to create a pleasing, synergetic arrangement from a multiplicity of factors, even as you avoid throwing together a hash of diverse influences into an unholy mess.

Be calculating and strategic, not rash and random, as you do your blending.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On my Facebook page, I posted this excerpt from a Pablo Neruda love poem (translated by Stephen Tapscott): “Our love is like a well in the wilderness where time watches over the wandering lightning. Our sleep is a secret tunnel that leads to the scent of apples carried on the wind.” In response, a reader named John F. Gamboa said this: “I once found a well in the desert. There was a rope and a bucket. The bucket had a small hole in it. While pulling up the bucket of water, about half of it drained. But I suppose a decent bucket would have been stolen. So a bucket with a small hole was perfect; I got what I needed!” I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that like Gamboa, a bucket with a small hole is probably what you need right now.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For years I’ve had recurring dreams of finding treasure amidst trash. I interpret this to mean that I should always be alert, in my waking life, for the possibility that I might come across beautiful or valuable stuff that’s mixed in with what has been discarded or forgotten. Recently I heard about a literal embodiment of this theme. A sewage treatment plant in Japan announced that it has been culling huge amounts of gold from the scum and slop — so much so that their haul outstrips the yield at the country’s top gold mine. I urge you to make this your metaphor of the week, Capricorn. What riches might you be able to pluck out of the dirt and shadows?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Should you store up your energy, postpone your gratification and withhold your full intensity for a more opportune time? Hell, no! Should you await further data before making a definitive conclusion, fantasize dreamily about some more perfect future and retreat into a self-protective cocoon? Double hell, no!

And if thoughts like those have been poking up into your awareness, exorcise them immediately. It is high time for you to grab the best goodies, reveal the whole truth and employ your ultimate schemes. You are primed to make a big play, call on all the help you’ve been promised and transform the “what ifs” into “no doubts.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Taio Cruz’s megahit pop song “Dynamite,” he describes how excited he is to go dancing at his favorite nightclub. “I throw my hands up in the air,” he exults. “I wanna celebrate and live my life ... I’m wearin’ all my favorite brands.”

In advising you about the best ways to ride the current cosmic rhythms, Pisces, I’ll use Cruz as both a role model and an antirole model. You should be like him in the sense of being eager to throw your hands up in the air. Right now it’s your sacred duty to intensify your commitment to revelry and find every possible excuse to celebrate your life. On the other hand, it’s crucial that you don’t wear all your favorite brands. To get the full benefits from this time of festive release, you will need, as much as humanly possible, to declare your independence from corporate brainwashing and escape the intelligence-sapping mindset of consumerism.

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FROM HER ONLINE PROFILE: My favorite part about winter is snowshoeing.

Many interests including painting, traveling & piano. What I want & need is an uplifting person. Life is rich & complicated. I will be happy to meet someone interesting like me if fate will have it. stackhouse, 50, #119673 Are you ready to play?

Looking for someone who is not encumbered by poverty, children or other things to have some fun in life.

Love to travel, if only to Montreal, but Mexico is nice, too! Not looking for a heavy, full-time, every-day-”why didn’t you call me”-type relationship.

I’m in good shape, very spiritual, don’t drink, vegan & financially secure. ScottA, 51, #119681 simple minded Not a huge blog guy or well spoken over the Internet. In person is where it’s at. On the Internet is the best way to start, I suppose. What I filled out is what I’ve got. Like I said, it’s all about meeting & interacting in person. Vt227, 20, l, #119679 Maybe I’m Amazed Curly-haired, blue-eyed, bearded & slender gentleman. Two sides: one is laid back & relaxed; the other is spontaneous & intense. Fond of deep conversations. Looking for someone w/ contagious energy. I am socially liberal, charming & comfortable in any situation. Like parties, meeting new people, working w/ my hands & being outside. Always looking to laugh, learn & grow. wheniawoke, 28, l, #119669 Papa Kittie in the Woods I wonder what waking up would feel like. Can’t we be cats? Claws are just excited paws. I could use a good surprise. Can I watch you turn to dust?

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go for a walk, go for a drive, head west to hang w/ friends, head east to hang w/ family, go shopping, work at the house. vtboi4m, 38, l, #102625 Loverboy, Loverboy...

Hi, I’m me, it’s True! Just a kid in town you may know, or wish to. You may find me in a certain coffee shop, wearing some colorful scarves, maybe glitter. I hope to intimidate none & invite anyone w/ a little strength in their heart to know me better. Love dates! Be who you Are, Love what you Do! i_maginary, 22, l, #119604 work hard play hard Independent, fun guy, new to town, looking for friends & fun! Like all things outdoors, especially sun, swimming, boating, tennis, walking, skiing. Believe in making the most of the week & the weekend. Travel a lot, but like to return home to have friends over & cook, party & live! simpatico, 41, u, l, #118826 Hey All Hi, guys. Looking for NSA winter buddies to play with; friends cool, too. I’m 40, 5’10, 170, dark hair & eyes, not bad looking with nice package. Looking for guys 18-48 who are height/weight prop. 6”+. Discretion assured - hope to hear from ya! Buster, 41, u, #111080

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Fun, creative, humorous, exciting entrepreneur Much more youthful than my bio age. Love to cook, get together w/ friends, love animals & nature.

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Morning, Stars Rowdy, but not at the outset; kind, but not to a fault; polite & sometimes softspoken, but not naïve. Jewish sparkly femme writer pursuing fancy hard-won degree seeks boyish person of any sex/gender for dates, etc. I run in the morning while the stars are still out. At night, I’ll read to you, if you want, until you fall asleep. ABlytheAl, 34, #119627

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Always Interesting, Something Missing Well-orchestrated life w/ something missing. Successful business that asks a lot. Healthy through good diet & exercise. Always have a novel going.

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Evergreeneyes I’m intelligent, attractive, funny, educated, creative, passionate, independent, well traveled, a fabulous cook, avid gardener, sophisticated & a native Vermonter. Obviously, contrasts in one’s life are important. So is balance.

Honesty, the ability to communicate & a sense of humor are musts for me.

Sharing magnifies pleasure & divides difficulties, while genuine affection is essential. Life is short, let’s share joy. Evergreeneyes, 57, #109695

compassionate, impulsive, intuitive I am looking for someone who can be impulsive & quirky. I enjoy discussing politics & world events. I am likely to bring dinner to someone whom I have just met. I make terrible jokes & sometimes don’t get the jokes I’m told. I am impulsively affectionate, consciously kind. Relationships need differences to keep the “falling in love.” cailin_ban, 42, u, l, #119632

Dance like nobody is watching If there’s something you would like to know about me, just ask. I’d like to keep myself somewhat mysterious. yankeehotelfoxtrot, 33, #109180

Successful businessman seeks ski/dinner companion I live out of state but own a condo in Killington & would love to meet someone local who shares my interests of skiing, happy hours, live music & good fun. SWM, 6’1, 225 muscular/ avg. I like to ski, but I also like to party & have a good time. Age not as important as someone w/ a good personality. loveskiing, 44, l, #119692

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In Need, Can You Help Looking for like-minded women or couples who want to have great sex.

I’m not shy & love to enjoy a woman. No need for drinks. We meet, we XXXX, we leave. I am married. Can play alone but really want him involved. I love to watch him w/ another & he loves to watch!

Looking for a dominant, too. Hubby must watch. 3isbetter, 38, l, #104249 I like sex to excess I make whoopie all day; I love w33d & having intercourse while I smoke.

I love to make butter from herb & use that in bed, too. I’ll do anything once as long as there’s 420 involved. sexmaker6669420, 18, l, #119659

need some fun I’m a young mom who’s bursting for something fun. Seeking both.

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Love to dance & have fun. If you’re sweet, nice & kind & want to show a girl a good time, let me know. funbarregrl88, 22, l, #119229 Tired of dreaming Want to try the les route, discreetly.

Dreamed of it for ages & now it’s time to try. So many fantasies of what I can do to you & you to me. timetotry, 50, #119188 No BS, just real Just let me show you. mybe, 61, #118996 Let’s get curious together Looking for a woman or couple (if the fit is right) to play in a way I’ve never tried before but always wanted to.

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Love to kiss I’m looking for a friend w/ benefits. I would like to meet a special woman to connect w/ for friendship, fun & pleasure. I’m not into the bar scene.

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friend or something more 21, 5’4”, blonde. I’m loud, bubbly & just a little crazy. I love to laugh & make1:15:57 PM 1x1c-mediaimpact030310.indd 1 3/1/10 people laugh, and I am always up for something new. I’m looking for just about anything: friendship, fun, or, if I’m lucky, something more. I’ve got a lot of curve, so I’m looking for someone who doesn’t mind a girl w/ a little something extra :). ellegurl13, 21, l, #119600 I’s Have It Gimme a time, place, a hard man to work w/ ‘cause I have a lot of energy to expend. I’m D/D free & want the same from the other. This is NSA & NO mind games involvement. So, if you wanna get lucky, “Go ahead, I’ll make your day.”

Feeling lucky? Send email or flirt. Just “LUCKY” email. ash, 41, u, #119571 hot wheels amputee I’m looking for a man to play around w/ in the early afternoon. If you haven’t guessed, yes, I’m in a wheelchair & missing a piece. If you’ve ever wanted a strange piece of ass, now would be the time to try. I would like to someday meet

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BodyHeat I love going out on the town & dancing in clubs. I love to kiss & caress. I’m looking for some steamy fun. Contact me if you’re great & wanna have a kick-ass time. I’m in incredible shape & have the best kind of energy. Andrutakiss, 28, #119683 Aim to Please I am a perfect match for a woman who wants an occasional, NSA, no-drama sexual adventure. I want to please you the way you like it. Want2meet, 44, #112961 Need to try something new Looking for love in all the wrong places. It’s time to spice things up w/ a mature woman looking for the same.

Age isn’t important, but a great smile is. MrSweetness, 32, l, #119656 Like to please Hey, everyone. Single, outgoing, fun M here. I am looking to keep warm this winter the old-fashioned way: body heat. Anyone care to join? I like to please & always have a good time. I sometimes enjoy a good old ‘ye-haa’ from time to time. moorevt78, 32, #119642 here for couples’ fantasies Looking for a couple to fulfill your fantasies? Will play w/ either of you or just one of you depending on what you want; see your wife w/ another man or see your husband w/ another guy. I can do either or be a slave, toy to women, let me know. I will make you happy, fit, attractive, healthy. threescompany, 29, l, #119640 New22 New 5’10 and skinny looking for someone to show me the ropes, and if there are ropes involved that would be even better. NewAnd22, 22, #119616 Sexy playful wanna be submissive I have had all sorts of experience w/ domination & role playing. But I rarely find someone to allow me to be in the submissive role & play it well.

Looking for just that person, but am also willing to play a dom role for a very willing student. Just want an encounter that doesn’t fall into that gray area. sxyvtguy, 40, u, #119609 Back in the game WM, 27, looking for F, 18-35, for fun & maybe more to get me back into the

game. Been away for some time & need to get back into action. Will make time worthwhile. IcemanVT, 27, #119589

And if it becomes a regular thing, that would be awesome, but also looking for NSA & FWB. lookintogetin, 23, #119454

Nice guy looking to share M seeking woman to share & experience life’s little adventures. If your view is “it’s about the journey, not the destination,” then contact me. Looking for a woman who is adventurous & is willing to come up w/ new ideas, places to visit & experiences to share in. My life is about living life to the fullest. MtnAdventures, 47, #119584

No Romance Just Wanna Dance Looking for some fun w/ a woman who is not restrained by her inhibitions to express herself sexually. luv2lic, 42, #102054

Winter play Looking to play w/ a woman or couple this winter. Love to ski & ride, love to play after the lifts are closed. You should be in good shape, not looking for a Ken & Barbie, but easy on the eyes helps. I am bi & he should be, too. Looking to have some good adult fun. 1st_trax, 44, #119569 It’s not so taboo nowadays Older man who remembers unique

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Testing the waters Attractive, professional, mid-20s couple looking for first-time adventures.

Looking for women or couple to spend time w/ hiking or in front of the fireplace playing pool, enjoying good food & spirits. Heavy petting OK; not looking for sex. Her: bicurious. Him: hetero. kitteh, 28, l, #119629 two for one We’re an adventurous couple looking for a lovely woman to join us for some good, clean fun. mandk, 48, #117240

Kink of the w eek: Help raise our freak flag 45/50 y.o. professional couple want to fly their freak flag high. He’s a former pro athlete w/ an incredible sex drive; she’s a sexy brainiac w/ an equally high sex drive & kink factor. We’re looking for an open-minded woman to explore w/ us but above all have fun. Vtprofessionalcouple, 45, #119649 FROM THEIR ONLINE PROFILE: Describe your wildest fantasy. On the road to find out. It’s different with different people.

F encounters. I loved to fondle, stimulate captive damsels. I got my knot-tying merit badge w/ the boy scouts & had enough of the dom in me to activate the sub in my partners w/ hands; touch of an artist. A few did not involve sex at all, but both had very pleasurable experiences. realalchemy, 55, l, #119527 satisfaction guaranteed I’m looking for sex, not dinner & a movie. Was without for 10 years, until last Dec. Thought I would do it right. Now just want to make love. Tired of games. I meet you, or you come to me. Plain & simple. nazdawg1909, 55, u, l, #119518 Adult WILD CHILD Hi, I’m here to hook up or possibly find my life partner (yeah, right). I like women who have long hair, nice butts, are attractive & like to play wrestle. pitbull67, 43, l, #119482 Let’s do this I am looking for a lady to find intimate pleasure w/ & for her to come away from our experience smiling, happy, satisfied & wanting more. I can host & am discreet. Age is not an issue nor is your status. Justntime32, 50, l, #119480

she’s sexy i’m sexy r u sexy? couple for fun I’m 25, she’s 22, we’re both very attractive & looking for same: attractive couple who want to explore their sexuality. Must be under 35 & must be Caucasian. sexycoupleinessex234, 22, l, #119533 Southerngrl Attractive, outgoing, fit, funloving, late 20s couple seeking an attractive F in her 20s or early 30s for fun in & out of the bedroom ;-). southerngrl, 26, l, #119514 Just for fun Married, but not to each other... we’re looking tof add a woman for discreet daytime encounters.

If you want to come play with us email. 2njoy3, 45, #119469 nice trans woman I’ve been a trans woman now for 2 years & live full time looking for someone nice 7 caring who knows how to treat a tgirl. and love to be with one i will make you vear happy. candy1982, 41, l, #118855

Tall, tanned, horny Looking for some ladies for casual NSA. If something more develops, fine. jofreenie, 26, l, #119477 Young & Horny Basically I am looking for a local girl to meet up w/ & have some wild & crazy sex; maybe in public places or behind closed doors, or a little bit of both. ;)

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #908331

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I walked by you on the 2nd floor of the courthouse, our eyes locked & we both smiled. You have a great smile! After I had passed you, I turned to look at you again & I caught you looking at me. Let’s meet up somewhere more fun than court. You were looking amazing: white sweater, pink skirt, pink tights. When: Thursday, December 2, 2010. Where: Courthouse, 2nd floor.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #908347 Sb bus friday morning I couldn’t help notice you w/ your Daffy Duck hat & lip ring. I couldn’t muster the courage to talk to you then but would really like to redeem myself. When: Friday, December 3, 2010. Where: SB bus. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #908346 Grace The day brightens when you’re around. Let’s go for a walk & I can hold you in my gorilla arms.

When: Saturday, November 20, 2010. Where: S. Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908345

a blast getting to know each other. No profile but drop a line & I’ll share more.

In a nutshell: 5’8, blonde, blue, athletic, nature, craft, fix, build, dance, think, love, silliness & cookies. When: Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Where: Two2Tango.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #908336

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cute tattooed burrito boy You’re always working when I go into Boloco. I love your tattoos & stretched ears. On Black Friday our eyes met briefly & you smiled, but you probably smile at everyone. I can’t help but stare at your arms & hands; I can tell you really know how to use your fingers. Maybe you could use your magic on me sometime? When: Friday, November 26, 2010. Where: Boloco.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #908330 MetroTaurus Noticed you sitting on some gargoyles; luckily you picked the one that wouldn’t complain. Very cute. I really liked & can relate to what you are saying. You’ve taken the first leap & I’m happy to follow if you are up for it. Maybe we can find a wading pool shallow enough for us both to jump into. When: Monday, November 15, 2010. Where: Wednesday. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908329 Whidbey Island Missing nights of endless conversation & wishing on stars. Now that you are close, you seem so far. I thought I was fine without you; I’m not. Remember P.S. I love you? Why didn’t we ever watch that in the cabin by the lake? Wishing one last time for you to come back. I miss my best friend. When: Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Where: a year too long. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908328

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mistress maeve Dear Mistress Maeve,

Last week you responded to a woman who was concerned about her boyfriend’s relationship with his ex. Well, I’m in a similar situation, except I’m the guy in the scenario.

I’m dating this phenomenal woman, and I have nothing but the best of intentions with her. While I don’t run errands for my ex or help her with household finances, we do hang out a couple times a month (happy-hour drinks or lunch). My new girlfriend has recently expressed her dislike of my relationship with my ex and has asked me to stop hanging out with her. I told her I thought it was ridiculous for her to ask me to stop hanging out with a friend. She said that it was “obvious” my ex is still into me. I don’t see it.

I haven’t hung out with my ex since this talk with my girlfriend, but I don’t feel good about it.

Can’t exes be friends as long as certain lines are not crossed?

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Exed out,

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Relationships with exes are complicated. Some people can have pleasant, nonthreatening friendships with past lovers, while others can’t get near their exes for fear of being arrested or committed. Many of us fall somewhere in between with former flames, and what happens in this gray area can cause problems in our current relationships.

The bottom line: It’s not OK for your girlfriend to dictate whom you can and cannot hang out with.

That said, she has to be able to trust your decisionmaking fully when it comes to your ex.

Who broke up with whom? If you broke it off with your ex and she still wants to spend time with you, she may be pining for you. Be certain you’re navigating this friendship with your eyes wide open. It feels good to spend time with people who admire us (and want to sleep with us), but you must be careful not to take advantage of your ex’s vulnerabilities just to feed your ego.

But, hey, if you’re 100 percent certain your friendship is on the up and up, it’s time to reopen the conversation with your girlfriend. Let her know that, while you understand her concerns, you’re not willing to ditch a friend over unfounded jealousy.

Kindly remind her that a good relationship is built on trust, and you expect her to extend you some.

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thanks for bringing plaid back Your lipstick tattoo knocked me off my feet & I haven’t gotten my footing since.

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