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SNOW BOUND
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A roof avalanche buried a Newfane man for two hours — until a neighbor heard his cries for help. Cold comfort.
WINTER WONDERLAND
Enough complaining already; it’s gorgeous out. How come no one sings “Winter Wonderland” after Christmas? x Dostie Michael Nedell, Ale
Last weekend, while many Vermonters were shoveling or skiing on snow, four teams of local artists were sculpting it. The annual Vermont State Snow Sculpting Competition on Church Street was part of Burlington’s Winter Festival celebration. Contestants had three days to complete their entries. Snow-sculpting veterans Michael Nedell, Brooke Monte and Alex Dostie — aka Vermont Snows — once again took top honors with “Connection” (see photos); their team has won seven times in the past decade, most recently in 2009. The trio will represent Vermont at next year’s nationals in Wisconsin.
Seven Days multimedia producer Eva Sollberger filmed the competition for “Stuck in Vermont,” her weekly web video series. Watch the sculptors at work at sevendaysvt.com.
“Everyone’s done it, everyone’s made a snowman,” says Nedell. “This is just [an] advanced snowman.”
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COLD CALCULATION More than 1000 “penguins” plunged into the frigid lake on Saturday to raise money for the Special Olympics. Special indeed.
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Just finished your article on the crows [“WTF,” February 2] and with the exception of one quote attributed to me that I didn’t make, it was a fairly decent one. I would like to point out that the “eruption” you refer to is actually an “irruption.” It is common among the finches we often see here in the winter when food sources such as pinecones and seeds are in short supply. It typically is a term applied to species that do not normally winter in a certain area, so its use in reference to American crows is probably not accurate. Craig Newman JERICHO
Newman is director of the Shelburnebased Outreach for Earth Stewardship.
BAD BUDGET
Bravo to Judith Levine [“Poli Psy,” February 2]. It is ironic that the same governor who had the courage and foresight to fight for a single-payer medical system has presented such a shortsighted and harmful budget, one that delivers great hardship to the very population that a single-payer system would help. Politicians of both parties congratulate themselves for “making hard decisions” and “being grown-ups” when taking the ax to social-service programs,
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but, to me, real courage would consist of having at least some of the budget pain felt by their wealthy supporters. I long for the day when I hear on the news, “The burden of this year’s budget has fallen disproportionately on the state’s wealthiest, least vulnerable citizens.” Rick Winston
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The Benway transportation guy who is threatening to leave the city with their cab service is so full of it [“Burlington Cabbies Up in Arms About Proposed Meters,” February 2]; he’s just bluffing or shooting off his mouth. Tell him: When President Reagan warned the air-traffic controllers in the U.S. not to strike and they didn’t listen, he fired them all and replaced them. That’s how my cousin got hired and eventually had a 25-year career landing planes in Burlington! Barry Buswell MONTPELIER
CORRECTIONS:
Last week’s “WTF” incorrectly identified the town of Auburn, N.Y., as “Mount Auburn.”
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Why don’t they raise the deposit amount [“Is Vermont’s Bottle Bill Ready for Recycling?” January 26]? It will make nonessential (less healthy) beverages more expensive initially and it will increase incentive to return the bottles. This will increase pocket money for people who collect bottles, increase charity money for the bottle-drive fundraisers and keep our state cleaner. romni palmer
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Regarding Shay Totten’s “Bernie’s Backlash” [“Fair Game,” January 19], I, for one, was grateful to get the senator’s e-missive in the wake of the Tucson tragedy, as it provided context and pointed out that such a horrific event didn’t occur in a vacuum. Bernie’s never afraid to speak some dirty truths, in this case pointing out the culpability borne by certain extreme individuals from the Republican right, individuals who think the phrase “doing windows” means to shoot them out. Those from that faction who berate Bernie now should come clean themselves by admitting that, under our prior president, their party led us not only into a more violent society at home but also into wars abroad — not to mention the worst economic situation since the time of Hoover. Could Bernie have been more tactful in his timing and approach? Perhaps. However, that’s no reason for our intrepid senator to be so thoroughly hosed — that just plain sucks.
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Oh, how I love the lack of information in this article [“Side Dishes,” January 19]. Great writeup on the new Night Life Café, but, of course, no location info, except for some vague reference to an old Asian market in Winooski. As someone who is still a bit new to the area, details are important. Please, in the future, print an actual address.
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Airport Envy: Can PBG Compete With BTV?
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Politics: Corporate greenwashing or “swords into ploughshares”? Burlington debates Lockheed
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ARTS NEWS
Technology: Vermont’s e-newsletter community builder recruits new neighbors
20 Independently Published in the 802: Fiction BY MARGOT HARRISON
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PechaKucha Night Picks Up More Devotees in Vermont
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32 No Plane, No Gain?
Mental Health: An anxietyridden aerophobe seeks help
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Adam Reczek, The Fork in the Road; Kristina Stykos With Philip Aaberg, Raven
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Open season on Vermont politics BY SHAY TOT TEN
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A Vermont cabbie’s rear view BY JERNIGAN PONTIAC
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Leftover food news BY CORIN HIRSCH & ALICE LEVIT T
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The Cat’s Meow Spending Valentine’s Day with a bunch of furry felines hardly sounds romantic. But when those kitties are onstage, the stigma of being a “cat lady” — or man — vanishes. The one and only Cats comes to the Flynn, a whirlwind of whiskers, song and dance. If you’re already familiar with this Broadway staple, enjoy Andrew Lloyd Webber standards such as “Memory.” If not, find out what the heck a Jellicle Cat is, anyway.
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For its 33rd annual Winter Carnival Concert, Dartmouth College student group Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble supplies big-band arrangements, this time inspired by the work of Afro-Cuban pianist/ composer Omar Sosa. The world musician joins in, working the ivory keys throughout the evening with such a blending of styles that “hip-hop, rumba, jazz and Gnawa ritual music are just different expressions of the same culture,” writes DownBeat. DownBeat SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 51
No Vermont peak is as easily recognizable as Camel’s Hump — but its scenic trails are certainly no walk in the park. Hale and hearty long-distance Nordic skiers take the Camel’s Hump Challenge on Sunday, a 25-kilometer high-country traverse around the perimeter that can take anywhere from five to eight hours to complete. (Good thing it’s not a race.) Slide into gear to support the Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 52
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Sweet and Sour Chocolate isn’t always bittersweet; sometimes it’s just bitter. That’s what U. Roberto Romano and Miki Mistrati’s 2010 documentary ˜ e Dark Side of Chocolate argues. With hidden cameras, the film exposes illegal child labor on Ivory Coast cocoa plantations. Screen it, then learn about the cacao goods — from Fair Trade to medicinal benefits — with herbalist Sandra Lory, just in time to give that Valentine’s Day chocolate box another thought. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 48
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ONGOING
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Footwear falls in and out of fashion, but it doesn’t matter what’s on your feet at a Jeanne & the Hi-Tops concert — toes will tap. The central Vermont sextet celebrates its 20th anniversary at Chandler Music Hall’s Upper Gallery with two rollicking sets. “Hi-Tops Unlaced” features new ditties, while “Classic Hi-Tops” serves up a funky flow of Memphis soul, reggae, zydeco and more.
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Two artists provide a welcome interruption to these gray-scale winter days in West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park’s “Extravagant Color.” Val Rossman and Janis Pozzi-Johnson consider the human experience through painted abstractions. The former explores the fragmented quality of life through shocks of vivid blues, greens, pinks and oranges; the latter uses organic hues and textures to represent emotions of the heart. Color us intrigued.
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Philly-based indie-pop rockers Dr. Dog tip their hats to the 1960s at the Higher Ground Ballroom this Tuesday. First known for their do-it-yourself Lennon/McCartneyesque tunes, the quintet has grown into edgier, effervescent tracks — “Sunny melodies and rough harmonies that feel sung by a bunch of unkempt kids with sloppy grins and untied shoelaces,” writes Sputnikmusic.
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ov. PETER SHUMLIN’s ambitious health care reform bill came out on Tuesday, and the big Emerald Emerald document will likely keep lawRuby Ruby makers busy reading all week. Leading the reform effort is STEVE KIMBELL, one of the state’s most successful lobbyists. He’s now commissioner of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, which oversees some of PhotobybyCaitlin Caitlin Photo the same insurance companies Kimbell once represented. WatchRepairs Repairs ~~Watch Does Kimbell have a conflict of Appraisals ~~Appraisals interest, or is he the government guy JewelryRedesign Redesign&&Repair Repair ~~Jewelry best equipped to play hardball with his AcquisitionofofGold Gold ~~Acquisition former employers? FineEstate EstateJewelry Jewelry &&Fine “I ask people to judge me on my current actions,” said Kimbell. State ethics rules require Kimbell to have his name removed from any lobbying or law firm. On January 1, 2011, Kimbell’s former firm — Kimbell 185Bank BankStreet, Street,Downtown DowntownBurlington, Burlington,VT VT 185 Sherman and Ellis — renamed itself KSE 802.862.3042~~TickTockJewelers.com TickTockJewelers.com 802.862.3042 Partners, LLP. But a law firm connected to the lobbying firm — Kimbell Storrow Buckley 8v-ticktoc020911.indd 1 2/2/11 1:46 PM Hughes LLP — still sported Kimbell’s name on its masthead as of Monday. It was removed immediately after “Fair Game” inquired about it; by Tuesday, the firm had been rechristened Storrow Buckley Hughes LLP. Emails obtained by “Fair Game” show that Kimbell’s name — along with the name of his newly appointed general counsel CLIFF PETERSON — has shown up in communication between JACKIE HUGHES, a member of Kimbell’s former law firm, and BISHCA staff over the past two months. Probably just an oversight, but BISHCA staff felt uncomfortable getting emails from a firm with their new FACTORY OUTLETS boss’ name on it. Peterson had worked at e s s e x s h o p p e s & c i n e m a Kimbell’s law firm. Hughes herself used w w w. e s s e x s h o p p e s . c o m to work at BISHCA during Gov. HOWARD Inspirations ARTS & CRAFTS DEAN’s tenure as gov. Kimbell has no remaining stock in Inspirations either firm, said KSE Partners principal ARTS & CRAFTS The world’s most popular opera KEVIN ELLIS. in 3D for the first time ever. But there’s more. Back in 2010, when ARTS ARTS & & CRAFTS CRAFTS Shumlin hired Kimbell, the appointExclusively in Theaters ment precipitated the eventual firing of six — of 10 — BISHCA laywers. At least five of them happened to be state regulators who led the charge to fine Saturday Sunday and sanction some of Kimbell’s former 8PM March 5 2pm March 6 clients — including two out-of-state, Tickets $13/ea Blue Cross-related companies: Anthem Essex Cinemas: 802.878.7231 Blue Cross in New Hampshire and New www.essexcinemas.com York-based Excellus. The out-of-state Sapphire Sapphire
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Blues were fined for selling insurance in Vermont without a license and not providing some of Vermont’s statutorily mandated coverage, including mental health services. Anthem was fined $100,000; Excellus, $400,000. Kimbell’s firm tried to get Excellus’ fine reduced to $75,000. But BISHCA attorney ROBERT LAROSE wouldn’t negotiate. He’s now gone from BISHCA. PETER YOUNG, BISHCA’s former deputy general counsel, led regulatory action against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont in two cases: its rate hike request, and the $6.25 million retirement package handed over to former CEO WILLIAM MILNES JR. The retirement payout angered consumers and lawmakers, along with BISHCA regulators. Commissioner PAULETTE THABAULT ruled
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that BCBSVT overpaid Milnes by $1.4 million. As a result, the state ordered BCBSVT to return $3 million to subscribers in the form of lower, or lowerthan-expected, premiums. Thabault said Shumlin and Kimbell may have hindered their efforts to reform the state’s health care system by firing this select group of regulatory attorneys who have extensive knowledge of past reform efforts as well as the new federal health care law. “These are very strong people who had nothing but the best interests of Vermonters,” Thabault told “Fair Game.” “We always operated with very little, if any, interference from the governor’s office in protecting its citizens, and that’s the way it should be.” Kimbell dismisses the theory that firing these particular attorneys will hurt reform efforts or the ability of BISHCA to be a strong regulator. “This had nothing to do with individual competency,” said Kimbell. “This was all about looking forward.” Kimbell said Shumlin’s administration wanted a different team on board
to ensure they could carry out the governor’s ambitious health care agenda. He also said attorneys aren’t always retained during shifts in administration. “I think that is a false notion,” Kimbell said. “We are a government of laws, and lawyers are very much part of the political process. In many cases, a new team of lawyers is more important than bringing in new commissioners.”
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Former Gov. JIM DOUGLAS often said Vermonters should get used to a government doing “less with less.” Gov. Peter Shumlin’s motto seems to be closer to “Do more with more.” A report provided to “Fair Game” by the Department of Human Resources shows that Shumlin’s got his own stimulus program going for some top appointees. Ag Secretary CHUCK ROSS is earning $115,000, compared to predecessor ROGER ALLBEE’s salary of $109,000. Commerce Secretary LAWRENCE MILLER is taking home $115,000; previous secretary KEVIN DORN pulled down $104,000. Natural Resources Secretary DEB MARKOWITZ is earning $115,000 annually, up from the $104,000 earned by JONATHAN WOOD. Administration Secretary JEB SPAULDING and Transportation Secretary BRIAN SEARLES are earning $115,000, the same as their predecessors — NEALE LUNDERVILLE and DAVID DILL, respectively. Human Services Secretary DOUG RACINE is earning $115,000 — less than outgoing Secretary ROB HOFMANN, who was earning $121,000. Meanwhile, SUSAN WEHRY, the new commissioner of the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, is getting $115,000 a year; her predecessor JOAN SENECAL earned $80,000. A few other select commissioners are earning more than those before them: Fish and Wildlife Commissioner PATRICK BERRY and Forest, Parks and Recreation Commissioner MICHAEL SNYDER are both making $88,000, up from the $79,000 earned by WAYNE LAROCHE and SARAH Environmental Conservation CLARK. Commissioner DAVID MEARS is earning $92,000, up from JUSTIN JOHNSON’s $82,000. Johnson is staying on as Mears’ deputy at his old salary. The biggest jump? BISHCA Commissioner Steve Kimbell is bringing home $127,000. His predecessor, MIKE BERTRAND, earned $92,000. Paulette
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Thabault, who had the job before Bertrand, got about $96,000. In all, Shumlin is spending $400,000 more than Douglas on top execs, and he’s not done hiring yet. Meanwhile, he’s asking state employees to give up $12 million that once went to their retirement and health care plans. That’s on top of pay cuts that union employees accepted more than a year ago.
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Six years ago, Rolling Stone’s matt wrote a glowing profile of Sen. bernie sanDers (I-VT) entitled “Four Amendments and a Funeral.” It was glowing for Taibbi, anyway, who is hardly enamored with politicians. More recently, in late 2010, Taibbi blogged about Bernie’s eight-hour filibuster, of which he also apparently approved. In response to Taibbi’s January 20 story about House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), a reader asked in a letter to the editor if Taibbi could write about a D.C. pol who wasn’t a “total shit bird.” Taibbi responds in the February 17 issue: “I did just such a piece, about Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. But beyond that, you really want me writing about people I like?”
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A group of Abenaki that opposes the recognition of several Vermont-based tribes won’t be allowed to testify before a key Senate committee. The Abenaki First Nation initially got the OK to testify before the Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee, but that offer was partially rescinded by Sen. Vince illuzzi (R-Essex/Orleans), the committee’s chair and a proponent of Abenaki recognition. Illuzzi said the group’s in-state members can testify, but the out-of-state members can only provide written testimony. “We only meet for three hours a day and only have so much time to take direct testimony,” he said. “We’ve done the same for other out-of-state witnesses on bills.” That’s not good enough for Denise Watso of the Abenaki First Nation, which has tribal members in Vermont, New York and Québec. Watso questions the authenticity of at least two tribes seeking state recognition. “Why are lawmakers like Sen. Illuzzi afraid to hear what we have to say? Why are they scared to look us in the eye?” she asked. “These are not rhetorical questions. They are willing to take the time to hear testimony, they just refuse to hear from us. It’s just a lot easier to ignore emails and letters than it is to hear reallife Abenaki people speaking out for truth and justice in the halls of the Statehouse.” The House General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee has not established such restrictions this year, but it has yet to receive a request from out-of-state groups. To date, two tribes that claim Abenaki heritage are seeking recognition: the Nulhegan and the Elnu. A third, the Koasek, has been approved for recognition, but no formal bill has been introduced. It’s unclear if other tribes or family bands will follow suit this session under a new state recognition law passed last year. The Missisquoi Tribe was in the process of gathering up the necessary documents, but its leader — Chief april
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AVIATION list of alternate landing sites for NASA’s space shuttle. With a fireplace in its big-windowed atrium, PBG’s 33,000-square-foot terminal feels homey — and decidedly uncrowded at 8:30 a.m. on a recent weekday morning. The huge expanse of tarmac outside the terminal was devoid of airplanes. But with only one security checkpoint and a single Jetway, Long complains, it gets congested at certain times of day. “We’re going to be too crowded in here,” he predicts while leading a reporter on a tour of the terminal. “We’ve got to add space.” PBG is hoping to get some FAA money to double the size of the terminal, a project that could get underway next year. The FAA provided $40 million to finance conversion to civilian use of the U.S. Air Force base that closed in 1995. The feds also subsidize US Airways’ PBG-Boston service to the tune of $1.4 million a year through a program that enables small airports around the country to connect with hubs. In the eyes of BTV’s former aviation director, Brian Searles, all that money flowing from Washington to PBG amounts to a form of unfair competition. He said as much in an interview last year. But Plattsburgh isn’t apologizing. Instead, it’s ramping up its efforts to attract customers from metropolitan Montréal. Québec and Ottawa account for 90
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ast month, Spirit Airlines was charging 27 bucks to fly from here to Fort Lauderdale. But there was a catch: You had to join a club to qualify for the low fare. And “here” wasn’t BTV; it was PBG — code for Plattsburgh International Airport. Less than four years after its conversion from a U.S. Strategic Air Command base to a civil aviation facility, Plattsburgh is starting up its engines. The airport is planning improvements that could attract many more Canadian travelers as well as Vermonters. That would mean real competition for BTV. PBG is still dwarfed by its Vermont counterpart — 22 miles southeast as the plane flies. Only four airlines currently operate out of Plattsburgh, all of them on a charter basis, which means their schedules can change from day to day. The casual flyer has probably heard of only one of PBG’s carriers — US Airways Express — while BTV hosts five airlines whose names are writ large in American skies: Continental, Delta, JetBlue, United and US Airways. BTV also attracts seven times as many departing passengers as does PBG: 676,000 versus 95,000 in 2010. That said, BTV — the only major airport between Albany and Montréal — is not exactly flying high these days. The airport has lost carriers, such as AirTran, as well as routes to Boston’s Logan Airport. Its financial prospects have dimmed, too. In the last year alone, Moody’s Investors Service twice downgraded BTV’s credit rating, to the point where its bonds are now consigned to junk status. That dis was due in part to the airport’s 10 percent drop in passenger counts over the past two years. According to Moody’s, BTV’s creditworthiness has also been tarnished by its association with the city of Burlington, which in turn has had its bond rating whacked as a byproduct of the Burlington Telecom debacle. PBG, by contrast, is muscling up. Boardings more than doubled last year and are projected to grow 50 percent this year, to a total of 150,000. The number will reach a quarter-million 20 years hence, according to calculations endorsed by the Federal Aviation Administration, although PBG manager Tom Long says, “We actually expect to do a lot better than that.” The Plattsburgh airport has enormous potential for expansion. It sits on a former base that covers almost 3500 acres — nearly four times the size of the area encompassed by BTV. Built to handle heavy bombers, the Plattsburgh field includes a runway that’s more than two miles long and had been on a
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percent of the passengers departing from Plattsburgh, most of them en route to Florida on Allegiant Air, Direct Air or Spirit Airlines. They’re attracted by comparatively cheap fares to warmweather destinations. The March price for Spirit’s round-trip flight to Fort Lauderdale is now $275, tax included — still a big savings over the $438 it would cost to leave from Montréal. Canada heavily taxes air travel, which helps explain why Canadians make up 40 percent of BTV’s departing passengers; PBG is going after the same customer by billing itself as “Montréal’s U.S. Airport.”
The drive from Montréal to Plattsburgh’s airport is about 30 minutes shorter than the drive to BTV. Parking has also been free in PBG’s 1400-car outdoor lot, though drivers will soon be charged $5 a day for a space near the terminal and $3 for a spot further away. It costs $12 a day to park in BTV’s garage. In addition to its flights to balmy resort towns, PBG offers thrice-daily service to Boston. BTV’s service to Logan ended three years ago — a victim, says Burlington interim director of aviation Bob McEwing, of the heightened security introduced following the 2001 terror attacks. “It got to be so much
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Winston Thomas, a Plattsburgh physician, said he uses PBG as a gateway to his native Dominica in the Caribbean, as well as to destinations around the United States. “I wasn’t too happy with my last time flying from Burlington,” Thomas said. “It was crowded and the flight was delayed. Here, things are much easier.” Airport officials on both sides of the lake insist there’s no rivalry between them. Only in the “long, long term” would PBG pose a significant threat to BTV, predicts Gene Richards, a member of the Burlington airport commission. “We don’t have the same products. We serve different clientele,” he says. Plattsburgh, Richards adds, is “more destination driven, while we’re hub driven.” PBG mostly flies to resorts; BTV takes passengers to larger airports where they can connect to anywhere, he observes. Tom Long at PBG agrees there’s no poaching taking place. But he makes that point just minutes before leaving to visit to Heritage Aviation headquarters at BTV, with Plattsburgh development officials in tow. Heritage provides maintenance, repairs, charter flights and other aviation services. Long says the Plattsburgh team was going solely to look at Heritage’s
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of a hassle that a lot of people just started driving to Boston rather than flying,” he comments. Burlington-area residents bound for Boston still seem intent on driving rather than flying from Plattsburgh. PBG manager Long estimates that Vermonters account for only about .5 percent of passengers in Plattsburgh — which may not be surprising, given that it takes 75 minutes to drive to PBG from Burlington via the Grand Isle ferry, which costs $18 round-trip. New Yorkers seem to make up most of the passengers on the US Airways Express 34-seat turboprops bound for Boston. Many of them, however, are actually heading to more distant destinations. And all five of those interviewed as they waited last week for a PBG-Boston flight said they would probably have flown from BTV to LaGuardia, Newark, JFK or another hub had Plattsburgh not been an option. “I’ve flown many times from Burlington and always had a good experience,” said Drew Reither of Willsboro, N.Y., who nonetheless plans to fly from PBG to Myrtle Beach, S.C., in March. “It’s just more convenient to come here,” he explained. “There’s also the whole thing about keeping money in your local community.”
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When I read Corin Hirsch’s “Side Dishes” column, “More Bite Than Bark” [January 26], I was baffled by Corin referring — not once but twice — to Bistro Sauce restaurant as “defunct” before the recent change in ownership. I was also left wondering if Corin had just moved to the area a week ago or was perhaps on hallucinogenic drugs. As Shelburnites, my wife and I had been regular patrons of Bistro Sauce since they opened, and big fans of the food and previous ownership. From what we saw, Bistro Sauce was in full stride when it sold last fall. Judging from the quantity and loyalty of its customers, Sauce seemed to be doing as well as any other restaurant in the area. Either way, it’s an egregious lapse in journalistic accuracy to refer to Sauce as defunct at the time. My wife and I are still mourning the loss of one of our favorite haunts and have yet to try Barkeaters Restaurant. I can only hope the food is better than the name.
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Thank you, Alice Levitt and Seven Days, for focusing on the complexities of weight and food, which haunt and puzzle so many [“Live Free or Diet,” January 19]. Two corrections: One, the corporate food industry engineers food to be so stimulating to the brain’s reward centers and such an explosive party in the mouth, that these signals overwhelm the whisper, You’ll regret this. I don’t know if the process is as addicting as nicotine; I do know this engineering is aimed at getting us to consume more, and I myself have been really hooked. And as a counselor, I see
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square feet on the third and fourth floors of the Innovation Center. Since moving into its South Champlain quarters 13 years ago, VEIC has grown exponentially. In the three years Johnstone has been at the helm, it’s added 35 employees; Johnstone says the staff now numbers “about 200.” Publicly available tax records from 2008 show the company reported close to $38 million in total revenues, which come from a variety of fee-forservice energy programs. Thanks to geothermal cooling and state-of-the-art energy systems, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers the Innovation Center to be one of the most energyefficient structures in the country. That doesn’t mean VEIC won’t try to button up the place even more. “We’re working with an architect to see what else we can do before we move in there,” Johnstone says. “We expect that space will be highly energy efficient, hopefully surpassing where we are now.” VEIC is the largest tenant by far in the Independent Block, says Adams. He tried to accommodate the nonprofit — and even considered adding to the north end of the property — but determined it would take too long to meet the company’s needs. Numerous smaller tenants share the building, including Seven Days, WIZN-FM/The Buzz, QuantaSpec and Vermont Wine Merchants. “It’s gonna hurt us,” Adams says of the coming vacancy, “but with the kind of building it is and the location, I think we’ll have a good opportunity to get a bunch of smaller companies.” m
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ermont Energy Investment Corp. has outgrown its 30,000-squarefoot office on Burlington’s South Champlain Street. This spring, VEIC is moving into a far larger space in the former General Dynamics building on Lakeside Avenue — now dubbed the Innovation Center of Vermont. VEIC executive director Scott Johnstone confirms that a lease was signed in December, and that the energy nonprofit’s 200 employees will relocate sometime between April and June. The move is a major score for Pomerleau Real Estate and the Michigan-based owners of the South End building, which lost its namesake tenant last year when the defense contractor moved to the IBM campus in Williston. The departure left 167,000 square feet empty in the four-story, brick building. VEIC operates Efficiency Vermont, the nation’s first statewide energy-efficiency utility. Its headquarters are in Vermont, but VEIC has offices in Ohio, Boston and Washington, D.C., where it consults with area utilities on energy-saving strategies. The nonprofit also has done work abroad. Johnstone says the move will allow VEIC to consolidate operations under one roof — the company has a smaller office in the Cornerstone Building at Main and Battery streets — and minimize administrative costs. In its current office, the company has four different leases, each with a different rate, as a result of incremental expansions, according to landlord Jason Adams of Adams Real Properties. The new offices will occupy 50,000
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“You’re not going to call my boss, are you?” I asked plaintively.
“That’s exactly what I’m gonna do. Now give me a card.” Summoning my best method acting, I passed him one of my cards through the window, a study in grievous despair. “And what’s the number of this cab?” he asked, now firmly in control and pushing the interrogation. “It’s cab number 3,” I whimpered. I might have been close to actual tears. De Niro has nothing on me, baby. My prosecutor stared at me through slit eyes, nodding malevolently. He was sure he had me by the balls, and was loving every minute of it. I left the scene of the crime and continued one block along Archibald Street until I reached the traffic light at the North Winooski intersection. The call came in right on schedule. “Taxi service,” I answered my cellphone. “How can I help ya?” A word about my choice of vocal styling. I worked for taxi fleets back in the day, and the distinct timbre of the dispatchers is forever fixed in my memory: a growly combination of mountains of Marlboros and don’t-even-think-about-fucking-withme attitude. That belligerent stance never wavered, whether they were dealing with the customers or the drivers. Taxi dispatchers are notoriously underpaid and overworked; their sole job perk is the total freedom to be their sunny selves. “Who’s this?” the caller asked. Yup, it was the dude. “This is John the dispatcher,” I croaked. (Why John? you may ask. Perhaps I was thinking of John the Baptist.) “What can I do ya?” “Well, one of your drivers nearly wiped out my entire family. He was charging through a stop sign.” I let out a disgusted grunt (merely for
the atmospherics) and asked, “Where exactly did this happen?” “It was on the corner of Intervale and Archibald. He said he was in cab number 3.” “Cab number 3 — is that right? This isn’t the first problem we’ve had with this fuckin’ character. I’m firing him right now.” “R-really?” he asked. “You’re going to, like, fire him?” He actually sounded a bit guilty, which I admit I found delicious. John the dispatcher’s immediate and draconian response to his complaint was perhaps more than he bargained for. The man had underestimated just how seriously we take customer service in this company.
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I passed hIm one of my cards through the wIndow, a study In grIevous despaIr. “You bet we are. The guy is history. Dead meat, man. Thanks for calling.” Hanging up, I didn’t feel all that proud of myself. Yes, I had finessed a potentially messy situation, but deceit is not my preferred modus operandi. At least it’s all over, I thought. I could take comfort in that. Later that night, back at home, I took
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“No, no,” I said, suppressing my panic as I switched voices. “This is John the dispatcher.” “It is?” the man asked. “I thought you said it was Jernigan.” “No,” I replied, “it’s John the dispatcher. We’re not hiring. We did fire a guy today, though.” Now I was tap dancing and not even making a whole lot of sense. If we had just let somebody go, wouldn’t that create a job opening? “Oh, you fired somebody today? What was he fired for?” “Well, that’s not important.” Like a lousy actor misplacing his accent in the middle of a scene, I was losing track of John the dispatcher and had begun to channel some unholy and utterly unconvincing spawn of John-plus-Jernigan. “The thing is — we’re not hiring, OK?” “Sure, OK,” he replied, and we hung up. Had he smoked me out? Or was he really looking for a job? I was so freaked out I couldn’t think straight. Now, 24 hours later, I’m still jumping every time the phone rings, on hyper-alert for the next shoe to drop. If he does call again, I don’t know whether to triple-down as John the dispatcher or to simply come clean as Jernigan the imbecile.
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n December, we promised a roundup of independently published fiction and poetry by Vermonters that had found its way to the Seven Days office in 2010. In the month since then, yet more independently or self-published titles have arrived. So, for this edition, we’re sticking with just fiction. The usual disclaimers apply: These aren’t conventional “reviews,” because the books haven’t been read cover to cover. Given the volume we receive, some may have been lost in the shuffle.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Open the novel, and the author — a part-time Ferrisburgh resident who’s also a painter — sweeps you into a Lebensborn hospital in Munich during the last months of the Reich. Nurses are euthanizing sick and deformed children; the overcrowded corridors are full of
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Alther spent 25 years researching and writing the book, and it shows in his loving development of milieu and atmosphere — make-or-break elements for a historical novel. The characters discuss Big Themes, but they aren’t straw men. Whatever the two protagonists’ relationship may mean (or not mean) about the relationship between Christians and Jews, it feels surprisingly genuine.
death. Amid the chaos, no one notices when sturdy 8-year-old orphan Franz rescues a child who was tossed from a death-camp-bound train in a suitcase. The two boys — one a model Aryan, the other presumably Jewish — become an unlikely family unit. Their bond survives postwar poverty, emigration and even the 1960s.
PICTURING ‘DAVE’ Vermont author LABAN CARRICK HILL’s latest book for children, Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, is garnering some serious national attention. After a warm review appeared in the New York Times, Hill’s lyrical poem about an actual slave born 200 years ago spent a week on the top-10 best-seller list of children’s picture books. It has since become a 2011 Caldecott Honor book, and New Yorkbased artist Bryan Collier’s striking collaged pictures won the 2011 Coretta Scott King illustrators’ award. An interview with Hill in the School Library Journal generated further interest in the book. Hill says he wrote about Dave, who inscribed a handful of the 40,000-odd clay pots he made with two-line poems, because he is more interested in “how African Americans define the larger American culture” than in how they’ve been victimized. So Dave simply makes a pot — a “kinetic” approach targeted to 4-to-8-year-olds.
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art of what’s touching about Siegfried Follies is the author’s use of his characters to revise and resist ageold cycles of persecution — if only briefly and emblematically in fiction. That eagerness to reconcile cultural hostilities is something we see again in The Monkey Bible: A Modern Allegory by MARK LAXER of Johnson (Outer Rim Press [distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing], 304 pages, $25). Laxer, the founder of a conservation fund called Chimp-n-Sea, clearly cares a lot about our primate relatives. He’s crafted a novel of ideas in which the national wars between religion and science play out civilly — and sometimes humorously or erotically. A young Christian, shocked by the discovery that he may possess simian DNA, meets up with a bold, sexy evolutionist who doesn’t think science excludes spirituality. Lots of conversation results — and music, featured on the accompanying CD by Eric Maring.
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to write Arguing With the Wind: A Journey Into the Alaskan Wilderness (Wood Thrush Books, 150 pages, $13.95). After one too many arguments with literary agents who wanted it to be less about philosophy and more about bears, he published the slim memoir himself. Good thing he did, because McLaughlin can write. His descriptions bring vivid life to the dense, desolate woods of the Endicott River Wilderness — and to his own ambivalence about what he was doing there.
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radiotelegram: “IT’S HALAL,” I told them, “NOT HILLEL. PLS KEEP THESE DETAILS STRAIGHT.” But at last we got to the bottom of the matter, or close enough. 1. To the excitable pet lover, “never, and I mean NEVER” apparently means “not very often.” We went to the supermarket and found some pork-containing pet food in about five minutes. Granted, there wasn’t much. But when we surveyed the major pet food companies, four of eight respondents said they used pork in their products on occasion and four said they didn’t. So let’s not pretend a prohibition against
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Sharon, who not only continued to harp on the issue but construed my ongoing failure to grapple with it as proof that I couldn’t. I’ll confess this wounded my vanity. I roused my assistants Una and Fierra, who after the exhausting labors of recent weeks were looking forward to spending the rest of the winter whittling around the stove. Ladies, I said, I must send you once more into the breach, just to shut these malcontents up. They shuffled glumly out the door. We had a bit of discussion in the ensuing days via
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pork in pet food is some immutable fact of life. 2. One of the four swinophilic pet food makers, Royal Canin, spoke in such glowing terms of the pig meat in its products that it seemed to us the real question ought to be why all manufacturers didn’t use this food of the gods. “Pork is very digestible for dogs and cats,” the company told us, “and in some cases its digestibility exceeds that of chicken or fish.” 3. Iams stated pork fat was used only in certain products in its Veterinary Formula line, remarking that a dog was less likely to have an allergic reaction to it since the fat had gone through a special refining process to remove the more allergenic protein. We found this cryptic. Are dogs likely to have allergic reactions to unrefined pork fat? On the other side of the fence, Crown Pet Foods said (a) it excludes pork to help pet owners avoid products that might cause food intolerance issues, but (b) pork isn’t specifically problematic. Huh? 4. Natura said it had no specific reason for excluding pork slug signorino
Dear cecil, over many years of buying pet food for a variety of domestic co-inhabitants, I have noticed the “wet” varieties purport to be made from any number of meats and fishes. I can immediately recall cat and/or dog food made of beef, lamb, liver, tuna, salmon, chicken, turkey … the list seems almost endless. But it never, and I mean NEVER, includes pork. I discard as preposterous the notion that cats and dogs might keep kosher, or follow Islamic halal principles. Surely you can shed some light. mike Lucey When I go shopping for cat food, how come I never see any with pork in it? Wendy, Saint Paul I go to the cat food section in the store, and there are all kinds of tasty-sounding flavors: chicken, seafood, lamb and rice. So why do I never see pork on the shelf? Do cats consider the pig an unclean animal because it doesn’t have fur to lick? I asked you this a long time ago, but I guess you’re stumped. Sharon, feeder of cats
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other than uncertainty about whether it could get a consistent, high-quality supply. This was unpersuasive. The supply of caribou meat might be erratic, but pork? The vagueness of all these responses suggested: We’ve always done it this way and don’t really know why, so we’re going to make something up. 5. Hill’s said it uses pork lungs, spleens and livers in its products. This may be all the explanation we need for pork’s limited visibility. Try and imagine a TV ad ending with the tagline “Because your cat deserves lungs and spleens.” 6. Regal Pet Foods said it didn’t use pork due to increasing sales in Europe and Israel — the implication being that doing so would run afoul of religious dietary laws. The religion in question is Islam, not Judaism. Although Leviticus and Deuteronomy call pigs “unclean” and prohibit touching their carcasses, rabbinical interpretation holds that this doesn’t apply to everyday handling of pork, and Exodus explicitly says the thing to do with nonkosher meat is feed it to dogs. The Quran, on the other hand, has been interpreted to mean any contact with pork is haram, or forbidden. (Permitted things are halal.) In 2007 Muslims living near Rugby, UK, objected to plans for a new pet food factory out of fears it would contaminate the air with pork residue. So here’s my answer, Sharon et al. To the extent pet food makers exclude or at least downplay pork, they do so out of worries there’ll be trouble if they don’t. m
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he December 20, 2010, press release from the mayor’s office landed in Burlington’s progressive camp with the concussive force of a cluster bomb. Its title: “Burlington and Lockheed Martin Sign ‘Letter of Cooperation’ on Green Energy Initiatives.” To many in the local peace movement, the deal, inked by Mayor Bob Kiss and Lockheed Martin senior vice president Ray Johnson, sounded surreal, like a Hollywood pitch for the weirdest mismatched-buddies movie ever: One is a former Vietnam War resister and community organizer who raises doves in his spare time and now presides over the nation’s greenest and most livable city. The other is the chief technology officer for the world’s largest manufacturer of fighter jets, battleships and nuclear missiles. Together, this unlikely duo takes on the greatest threat yet to humanity’s future: global warming! If the storyline sounds like a satirical comedy, nobody is laughing — certainly not the protesters who came out in force to Monday night’s city council meeting. Nearly all were there to voice their anger, shock and dismay that the Queen City would partner with a corporation that only a week earlier was singled out by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders — a former Burlington mayor — as one of the worst perpetrators of criminal fraud against
U.S. taxpayers ever. None spoke in favor of the deal. Many in Monday night’s crowd of about 100 echoed the sentiments put forward in a resolution, sponsored by Ward 3 City Councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, which calls on the city to codify standards for companies that want to partner with Burlington. As Mulvaney-Stanak put it, “We need to have a common understanding of what our community values are, so it’s not just anybody we’re going into an agreement with.” But setting those standards is easier said than done. Burlington has a rich history of antiwar activism, and a long and often conflicted relationship with America’s military-industrial complex — think General Dynamics, which until last fall had called Burlington home for decades. To many who oppose the BurlingtonLockheed deal, this controversy is directly related to the July 2010 announcement by the U.S. Air Force that Burlington had been chosen as one of two “preferred locations” for the new
F-35 joint strike fighters, which are designed and built by Lockheed Martin. Though the jets wouldn’t arrive in Burlington for at least seven years, they’ve already sparked significant community opposition, especially among residents of Winooski, Burlington and South Burlington who would be most affected by the increased noise and air pollution. To many observers, Lockheed’s overture to Burlington is seen as a way of clearing the runway for the F-35s’ arrival.
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The F35s also have their share of local advocates. Their “bedding” in South Burlington would ensure the Air National Guard’s future at Burlington International Airport for decades to come, along with all the associated economic perks. Those benefits include the possibility that some of the F-35 engines could be built at the General Electric plant in Rutland. The GE facility, which employs 970 workers, is part of Vermont’s $2 billion aerospace industry, whose economic impact on Vermont, according to former Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, is roughly equivalent to that of the state’s dairy industry. Despite Sanders’ recent condemnation of the defense industry in general and Lockheed in particular, Vermont’s congressional delegation welcomed last summer’s F-35 announcement with great enthusiasm. In a joint press release, Sen. Patrick Leahy,
purely coincidental. Though Lockheed is its biggest benefactor, they argue, other companies are involved, too. They characterize the Carbon War Room as an unprecedented opportunity for the Queen City to join a powerful coalition of visionary and philanthropic companies that are committed to fight global warming. It would provide Burlington with not just the technical know-how to significantly reduce its carbon footprint, but also the financial means to do so. Ultimately, this debate touches on a bigger issue about Burlington’s identity and the corporations with which it chooses to associate: Given the dire predictions about imminent and catastrophic climate change, should the city accept Lockheed Martin’s technical help, and ample dollars, in the interest of achieving the greater good? Or, should Burlington refuse to lend its name and reputation to help burnish the image of the world’s largest maker of weapons of mass destruction? In short,
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to “test-drive” some of the company’s green-energy technologies, which might eventually be deployed in bigger cities. Later, when Burlington was chosen as one of the “first-wave” cities to participate in the Carbon War Room, Lockheed representatives made three separate visits to the Queen City, culminating in the December 20 letter of cooperation. That agreement sketches out, in vague terms, potential areas of cooperation, including “sustainable business models and funding concepts,” “sustainability analysis” and “energy and transportation technologies.” What are Burlington’s specific priorities in working with Lockheed, and how much money will the city reap from that relationship? Kiss says it’s premature to
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The outcome of those communications was the “Green Capital Global Challenge” convention, held in Vancouver last February, which both Kiss and Green attended. The “unfortunate” war-room moniker, Green admits, was chosen by Branson as a tribute to Britain’s experience fighting the Nazis in World War II. Winston Churchill adopted the war-room concept during the bombing of London. For many Britons, it still serves as an enduring reminder of British resolve in the face of adversity. “Sir Richard Branson is taking this theme and applying it to what he sees as the biggest challenge for the 21st century and beyond: global warming,” Green adds. “Lockheed’s getting all the press, but this team … is really a partnership of a
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t helps to understand what the Carbon War Room is all about. The aptly named Jennifer Green, who heads the mayor’s sustainability action team, was instrumental in bringing it to the city’s attention and brokering the Lockheed deal. Though Green says she “completely gets” why some people have had a strong negative reaction to Lockheed, she was stunned to hear people calling on the city to “just say no” to the Carbon War Room. Green is an environmental specialist with more than 20 years of experience in community development and environment management with such organizations as the Peace Corps, CARE International, World Resources Institute and World Bank. She says that, despite its bellicose-sounding name, the Carbon War Room actually involves many peace-loving and eco-friendly partners. In January 2010, Green was one of 70 sustainability coordinators working at major cities across North America who received an email from Sadhu Johnston, deputy city manager for the city of Vancouver, B.C. In it, Johnston explained that Sir Richard Branson, founder of the UK’s Virgin Group, was
launching a nonprofit called the Carbon War Room. Branson’s goal: to bring together cities that have visionary ideas for reducing their carbon footprint with major financiers who want to make some money while also doing good. “These financiers realize that there’s up to a 30 percent return on investments in renewable energy,” Green explains. “But they know that if they’re going to make that money, it’s not going to be on little projects, like replacing front-porch light bulbs.”
bunch of different players.” Those players include Jigar Shah, founder of SunEdison, a solar-energy firm; Travis Bradford, founder of Prometheus Institute, a public-policy group dedicated to increasing civic engagement by young people through technological innovation; and José María Figueres, former president of Costa Rica. Kiss points out that María Figueres was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who later went on to disband Costa Rica’s military. It was in Vancouver that the Burlington team first approached representatives from Lockheed’s energy division and offered Burlington as a place
put a dollar figure on it, as no projects have been formalized yet. Nevertheless, the mayor envisions working with Lockheed on a variety of issues related to energy efficiency, such as increasing the fuel efficiency of city-owned vehicles and capturing and reusing steam from the McNeil Generating Station. Perhaps such goals could be accomplished using less controversial, Vermont-based talent, such as the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation and the Gund Institute. But Kiss argues that the Lockheed deal doesn’t preclude forging those other relationships. “There’s enough urgency to this issue of climate change that we need to look for all the partners that are out there,” he says. “From my perspective, we’re doing this with our eyes wide open, and critical assessment [of Lockheed Martin] will not be withheld.” Kiss says he’s “reserving judgment” on the F-35 issue — until he’s seen the results of an environmental impact study — but he is dismissive of the widely held perception that Lockheed is simply trying to green up its image in order to head off community opposition to the military planes. He calls that theory specious and “too fantastic” to be credible. And, he insists he’s never once discussed the F-35s with anyone at Lockheed Martin. “The U.S. government is going to deploy this defense system, not Lockheed, and they’re going to deploy it whether it’s here or elsewhere,” Kiss says. “You can look at this cynically or you can look at this positively. If there’s influence, it goes both ways. We’re looking for Lockheed to be a good corporate citizen in terms of energy conservation.”
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In it, Hartung lays out his case for why Lockheed Martin isn’t just the world’s largest war profiteer but also the most corrupt. Remember the Reaganera news stories about the Pentagon buying $600 toilet seats and $7000 coffee makers? That was Lockheed Martin. According to Hartung, Lockheed Martin is highly influential in setting U.S. foreign policy and lobbied heavily for the war in Iraq, from which it profited greatly, and saw its stock price soar. The company also makes about $12 million in campaign contributions per election cycle and is currently the single biggest donor to Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), who now chairs the House Armed Services Committee. More relevant to Vermonters may be Lockheed’s troubled record on the F-35s. The $382 billion program, now the largest project in military aviation history, is already four years behind schedule and has been plagued by technical problems and
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discrimination case. In 2008, Lockheed paid $2.5 million in damages to an African American electrician who was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, including frequent use of the N-word and repeated threats of lynching. “The corporate greenwashing angle makes Burlington very attractive to Lockheed,” says Leavitt, who recently helped organize a local petition drive and leafleting campaign that knocked on hundreds of doors in the Burlington area. “When you have age and racial discrimination lawsuits that set the bar for the size of the settlements, then why not come home to Burlington and cozy up to its farmers markets and bike lanes?” Lockheed’s record of abuses could fill a book — and, in fact, it has. Last month, William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, released Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. 3v-Homeport020911.indd 1
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massive cost overruns. Just last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he’s putting the Marine Corps’ F-35s on a two-year “probation” in order to give Lockheed more time to work out the technical bugs and prove the fighter’s reliability. South Burlington attorney and antiwar activist James Marc Leas says he wasn’t surprised to learn that Lockheed was a major contributor to the Carbon War Room. Leas says he’s seen this kind of greenwashing before — by IBM, in the 1980s, when the company was doing business with apartheid South Africa. Leas, who worked at IBM at the time, recalls how the company launched a charitable project to donate up to $3 million a year in computer equipment — or about 1 percent of IBM’s annual sales in South Africa — to poor black communities in the United States. Leas claims IBM did so in an effort to deflect criticism from its unpopular dealings
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between UVM and Sandia is expected to occur as early as this summer. “I don’t think, in the long run, this effort is going to be limited to UVM. This is a statewide initiative,” adds Evans, who earlier this month spent two days meeting with Sandia scientists in New Mexico. “To hear them talking about climate change and energy usage, they’re really smart. If we can get them to help us in Vermont, we’ll be very lucky.” Sanders declined an interview request by Seven Days to talk about Sandia, the F-35s or the Lockheed Martin deal with Burlington. However, he’s made it clear in the past that none of the work Sandia does in Vermont will involve weapons research or development. Don Hancock works on nuclearwaste safety issues at the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog group based near Sandia in Albuquerque. As he explains, “Sandia wants to bill itself as the leading national-security entity in the country, if not the world, with ‘national security’ broadly defined.
“Smart grid is one of those things that Sandia has been trying to do more and more of in the last half-dozen or so years,” he adds. “So it doesn’t surprise me that they’re trying to do that in Vermont.” On the UVM campus, the Sandia deal has largely flown under the radar. Last week, the Student Government Association held a lengthy debate on Burlington’s agreement with Lockheed, calling for “full transparency.” No mention was made of Sandia, though that project has been in the news for months. SGA senator and UVM senior Will Bennington notes that in April 2010, INDIVIDUAL & SMALL GROUP TRAINING STATE OF THE ART FITNESS EQUIPMENT IN A SCENIC SETTING the UVM board of trustees adopted a 1050 Hinesburg Rd, So. Burlington • www.fitnessoptionsvt.com recommendation from the university’s Call for Appointments: 863-4848 • FREE Consultations socially responsible investing group to divest itself of any holdings in companies that are involved in the manufac12v-FitnessOptions011911.indd 1 1/14/11 2:08 PM ture or distribution of cluster bombs or munitions that contain depleted uranium. Lockheed Martin does both. Burlington, too has tried to legislate
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ince 1993, Lockheed Martin has been the private contractor that operates Sandia National Laboratories, which is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy. An outgrowth of World War II’s Manhattan Project, Sandia is one of three DOE labs that still works on nuclear-weapons development. Its sprawling facility is housed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., and employs about 7500 people. In November 2009, just one month after he lambasted Lockheed Martin on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted a delegation from Sandia in Vermont to discuss a partnership with the University of Vermont and local energy companies, with the possible goal of opening a Sandia satellite lab in New England. This wasn’t Sandia’s — or Lockheed’s — first foray into Vermont. For the past three years, Norwich University’s
Applied Research Institutes have been working with Sandia researchers on optical engineering and visual-augmentation devices, such as advanced nightvision goggles, for the U.S. military. However, that relationship is a small, “boutique” operation that is worth less than $100,000 per year. By comparison, this recent deal, announced by Sanders in January 2010, is a $900,000 arrangement with Sandia, UVM and Vermont’s energy companies, including Green Mountain Power, to work together on cybersecurity and smart-grid development. The deal is part of a larger, $69 million federal matching grant that Vermont received to modernize and secure its energy infrastructure. John Evans, senior advisor to UVM President Dan Fogel, characterizes the Sandia partnership as “a great opportunity” for Vermont to forge a “long-term relationship” with a major national energy lab. Vermont, he says, could be the first state in the nation with a truly smart energy grid. An exchange of students, faculty and staff
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with a racist regime. He wrote an op-ed about it for the Los Angeles Times. “We’re familiar with this kind of approach,” Leas says. “It’s blatant greenwashing, and now it’s happening to us.” Lockheed has been “diversifying” for some time. In addition to producing planes, submarines and weapon systems, it has also supplied interrogators to the prison at Guantánamo Bay, trained police in Haiti, run the Congo’s postal service and helped write the Afghan constitution. With 135,000 employees worldwide, the company has a business presence in 46 U.S. states. In recent years, Lockheed has also landed contracts to develop biometric ID devices for the FBI, process tax documents for the IRS, scan the mail for the U.S. Postal Service, and process census forms for the U.S. Census Bureau. And, it’s broadened its definition of “homeland security” to include the domestic infrastructure, including protection of the nation’s power grid. Through its work in that area, Lockheed Martin has already made inroads into Vermont.
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of e-Vermont towns was announced in December and includes Vergennes, Calais and Hardwick. Today, FPF boasts 23,000 subscribers in 60 Vermont towns who get frequent e-newsletters full of postings from neighbors looking for lost cats, wanting to borrow a lawnmower, or organizing potluck suppers. A waiting list of 1000 people have requested forums in their communities; Wood-Lewis says he’s even gotten queries from as far away as Ohio and Australia asking how they can get a similar forum. He’s not sure how the Aussies heard of him, but guesses it could be from his columns on Huffington Post, or from the recent profile of FPF in U.S. News & World Report. “When people outside Vermont hear about what’s happening with Front Porch Forum, they’re just blown away,” Wood-Lewis says during a recent interview at a Burlington café. But as FPF expands, it’s also attracted Vermont critics, who complain about its onesize-fits-all approach, and about Wood-Lewis’ moderation practices. And whether Vermont’s small towns will respond enthusiastically remains to be seen. To date, FPF has largely been confined to more densely populated Chittenden County, where a few tight-knit city blocks can be enough to constitute a forum. Some of the new host communities, such as Canaan and Norton on the Canadian border, are so unpopulated that it takes four or five towns to get enough people for one forum. Wood-Lewis admits the idea probably won’t work “uniformly well” everywhere, but believes it can be “helpful” just about anywhere. “In a community where no one is talking to each other, and Front Porch Forum comes in and gets 10 percent of people talking, that’s progress,” he says. “In a place where it’s a very tight, cohesive community, Front Porch Forum
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hen Michael WoodLewis and his wife, Valerie, moved to the Five Sisters neighborhood in Burlington, they wanted to meet the people who lived nearby. That’s why, in the spring of 2000, they founded Front Porch Forum, a free email newsletter written by, and for, their neighbors. Turns out, it was a hit. Today, more than 98 percent of their urban community subscribes to FPF. In 2006, they expanded the service to neighborhoods all over Chittenden County. But when it came time to push FPF into rural Vermont, Wood-Lewis was less certain the formula would work. He thought small towns might be too spread out and disconnected to make effective use of the forums. Since then, he’s changed his mind. Why? For an answer, Wood-Lewis points to the example of a multigenerational Zumba class in Huntington on a snowy night in December. With short notice, a local resident managed to pull together 67 participants at a school gymnasium for an impromptu workout. The next day, she gushed about the event on her neighborhood Front Porch Forum. “You could never do that kind of organizing that quickly and that successfully without the kind of networking tool provided by FPF,” wrote Enid Wonnacott. In the coming year, Wood-Lewis, who owns and moderates FPF, is hoping to replicate the Huntington experience all across Vermont. Front Porch Forum is expanding in a big way, to small towns in every corner of the state. Thanks to $100,000 from the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project, a federally funded program to help rural towns better use the Internet, a dozen new communities joined FPF last year, among them Island Pond, Cambridge and Pownal. A second batch
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“Michael’s got one idea as to what he wants to do, and that’s his privilege. He’s the guy who put it together,” Cross says. “It’s just, some of the rest of us have an idea that we could get more use out of it if it was set up a little differently for our situation.” Because Wood-Lewis and his staff of three employees screen every post for tone and content, running the site is incredibly labor intensive. The operation runs on a shoestring, with half the revenue coming from sponsors who advertise on the e-newsletters, and half coming from municipalities that pay a fee — from 10 cents to 30 cents per capita — for the ability to post messages citywide across numerous forums. The site is run for profit, but it doesn’t generate a lot of it. Wood-Lewis isn’t comfortable discussing financials, but he reveals, “We’re not losing money. We’re basically at break even.” Since the Forum’s debut nearly 11 years ago, Michael and Valerie WoodLewis have funded the company out of their own pockets. The first outside capital came from a string of grants: $20,000 from the Case Foundation, $3500 from the Rural Telecommunications Congress and $3000 from the Orton Family Foundation. Last fall, FPF scored its biggest and most prestigious award yet: a $220,000 Knight News Challenge loan that will pay to build a new software platform for the site, set for launch this fall. Users won’t notice much difference with the new platform, Wood-Lewis says, but the software will automate some functions and save staff loads of time. One condition of the zero-interest Knight loan, which must be paid back in five years, is that the code must be open source, meaning others could copy and roughly replicate Front Porch Forum. Wood-Lewis says he’s fine with that. He treats FPF more like a gospel to be spread than a trade secret to be protected.
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might have handled the situation better, but questions how much impact the pro-Larson posts actually had. “I highly doubt, in this one little neighborhood, people read this little posting on the way to the polls and that made a significant difference in the election,” Wood-Lewis says. Elections have proved increasingly tricky for FPF, he notes, as candidates and their supporters try to “milk the system for a little more spotlight.” Commenting that “we’re learning as we go,” Wood-Lewis says that incident and others like it are prompting FPF to revisit its policies on elections. He doesn’t apologize, though, for cracking down on nastiness in forums. Discussions are welcome on almost any topic, he says, as long as writers keep
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and therefore wouldn’t be posted on the forum. On Election Day, two supporters of incumbent state Rep. Mark Larson (D-Burlington) posted messages urging voters to re-elect him. The writers also accused his opponent, Republican Angela Chagnon, of running a campaign based on “smears” and on “narrow-minded opinions on a single topic.” Chagnon, a 26-year-old pro-life candidate, was angry the posts went out on Election Day, leaving her no opportunity to respond before polls closed. She wrote a response in which she defended her claims against Larson as “thoroughly researched” and called her critics’ characterization of her platform “laughable.” “I covered many topics in my ads and in my debates with Rep. Larson,” Chagnon wrote in her reply, which called out her critics by name. “The only ‘narrow-minded opinions on a single topic’ were my opposition’s attacks on my pro-life views. With that said, I congratulate Rep. Larson on his win and urge him to exercise some fiscal restraint in Montpelier.” Deeming the message a “personal attack” on the Larson supporters, WoodLewis refused to publish Chagnon’s reply. Asked about that today, he says he
it civil. “When people start attacking neighbors by name, we step in and say, ‘Please attack the issue, not the neighbor,’” Wood-Lewis says. “Our mission is not necessarily about protecting one individual’s perspective on something. It’s about preserving a platform through which neighbors communicate.” Censored comments are rare — maybe about one in 1000, he guesses. Only 10 users have been banned from the forums outright for continually violating terms of use. The personal touch has a lot to do with that: Wood-Lewis and his moderators review every submission personally and frequently send back ones that cross the line, asking writers to tone them down and resubmit. The moderators spend hours every day communicating with users, answering questions and tailoring the tone of the forums. As FPF expands, some wonder whether Wood-Lewis and his team can maintain that personal touch. Susan Clark, for one, will be paying attention. “I just can’t imagine he’s going to be able to do that,” Clark says. “Some of the stuff that they are doing now is going to become automated, and I’ll be interested to see if they can maintain what I consider to be an incredible success.”m
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some findings from web research and a conversation with a pilot friend. “Planes are designed to withstand a hundred times what they go through,” he reassured us. “A plane doesn’t drop because it’s meant to fly. It’s awkward for a plane to be on the ground. That’s not where it belongs.” The theory is that these simple, childlike explanations address the same part of the brain that generates the irrational fear. Actual science can leave the worried wanting. On one of the best flights of my life — from D.C. to Burlington — I sat beside a pilot who spent the duration of the trip explaining every sound and bump. But that lesson in aerodynamics — sketched on a cocktail napkin — didn’t calm me on a recent turbulent fight to Europe. Lurie crafted the script for the last guided visualization, which he had prerecorded on a disc for each of us, culling information from surveys we’d filled out before the workshop. The narrative covered the thoughts and movements of a traveler from home to the airport, and up, up and away. In it, Lurie addressed many of our specific anxieties with assurances such as “Waiting in line you feel patient; this is part of your journey” and “It’s a wonderful relief to be in the air, where the plane is happiest.” The stone was in the story, too — squeezing it on the trip was meant to provoke our previous positive visualization. Sound crazy? No crazier than Proust’s accidental triggering of childhood memories with a tea-dipped cookie. Lurie discovered he had a gift for coaching aerophobes on a small plane flying from Burlington to Boston in 2005. A fellow passenger was panicking, and there were no flight attendants on board. Lurie changed seats with another passenger so he could help the woman get through the flight: breathing, talking, visualizing. “After we landed,” Lurie said, “some of the other passengers came up to me and said, ‘You were really good at that.’” The experience worked for him, too. “This remarkable calm came over me,” Lurie said, acknowledging his
own struggles with anxiety. “We often can give to someone else what we can’t accept for ourselves.” Formal study in hypnotherapy was the logical next step. Lurie specializes in helping people ease that feeling of panic, whether it originates in work, a relationship, bad habits, illness or preparations for surgery. Like meditation, though, calming oneself takes practice, and this group session was just a taste of what Lurie does one on one in his Burlington-based practice, Transform & Grow Hypnosis. Nonetheless, by the end of the morning long “crash course,” everyone reported feeling less worried about flying. Deborah and Jeannette made appointments to do individual work with Lurie. Donna spoke for all of us when she observed, “I’m really surprised the tentacles this has in the rest of my life.” I took Lurie’s compact disc home and listened to it, twice, in the course of writing this story. But whatever DIY calm I got from the sermon disappeared when two planes within two days had to make emergency landings at BTV. One landing involved a wing-flap problem. The other had to do with an open door and steering. For whatever reason, headlines such as “Flight Makes Emergency Landing” make a bigger impression on my subconscious than do visions of myself bathed in sunlight. Another thing came up, too: an opportunity to spend five days in a warmer clime, with almost all expenses paid. I came up with lots of good reasons why I shouldn’t go — too much work, good snow here, five days is not enough — but the real reason for my hesitation was the air travel required. I didn’t want to have to fly all day, on three planes, to get there. Lurie’s workshop helped me realize that determination will only take me so far. I did book the trip eventually, and paid top dollar because I waited so long. Will I be listening to Lurie’s soothing track in preparation? Indeed, and on the plane, if they let me. I don’t know if I can live up to the word inscribed on my rock, though, without faking it a little. It helps that the comfortable place I’ll be imagining in my mind’s eye looks a lot like where I’m going. m
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a harrowing, white-knuckle drive along the twists of snow-caked Route 100B and up the impossibly steep Sugarbush Access Road during a near whiteout, I welcomed the soft glow of the lodge’s candlelit communal dining table. And I was ready to experience a meal like no other in Vermont — one where the journey to and from the table is half the excitement. When the lifts are running, Allyn’s is just like any other lodge, serving snacks and hot drinks to skiers and riders needing a break. But on weekend evenings during ski season, the lodge is transformed into an intimate, Europeanmountain-style bistro. For $175 a person, diners are treated to a wine and fondue spread, followed by a four-course meal of locally inspired dishes set in front of a snapping fire. The adventure lies in getting there. Dining at Allyn’s Lodge isn’t like heading out to just any restaurant. You can’t drive up to it and valet your car. There is no coat check for voluminous winter outerwear. And fancy togs are generally frowned on — ski boots are perfectly acceptable dinner attire. After lift hours, Allyn’s Lodge is
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— and with good reason. The cat ride up the mountain is thrilling. When Sugarbush purchased the Lincoln Limo three years ago, it was the only resort on the East Coast to run such a rig. Cats are typically used out West for carting skiers to off-piste areas of untracked powder. In the East, the vehicle is a novelty. Besides ferrying diners to Allyn’s Lodge, it allows Sugarbush to give skiers and
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ur trip up the mountain began with a lurch as the cat rumbled to life outside the Gate House Lodge. From there, we headed uphill, picking up speed as the vehicle’s tank-like tread dug in and churned up the snow. Our route
took us up Gondolier and Lower Jester to Downspout. We passed the Heaven’s Gate chairlift, watching our progress on the video screen at the front of the cabin. Heavy, sodden snow pelted the windshield as our driver expertly motored the cat up the increasingly precipitous trail. Within 15 minutes of leaving the base of the mountain, we arrived at Allyn’s Lodge, a brick-red, timber-frame
the resort’s famous Vermont cheese-andbeer fondue. The Gallipoli and Cantor children — 15-year-old Eli Gallipoli and his stepbrothers, 10-year-old Nathan and 7-year-old Elliott Cantor — tucked into the fondue immediately and would have been happy to nosh on it all night. Luckily for the adults in the room, there was more to eat than just bread and cheese. Chef Robert Kuiper started the meal with a smooth butternut bisque studded with toasted pumpkin seeds, and followed that with a mushroom-andcreamed-spinach tart garnished with a small spinach salad. For the main course, Kuiper prepared pork shoulder with herbed-butter asparagus and roastedred-pepper gnocchi. Christine Mastro has been coming to Sugarbush for years with her husband, Frank Gallipoli. For her, she said, the dinner was a different way to experience the mountain that she sees as a “home away from home.” The family had flown up the day before from New York City — Gallipoli has a private jet time-share — and hit the slopes less than two hours after takeoff. After spending much of Saturday earning turns, they were ready to eat.
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ur trip up the mountain began with a lurch as the cat rumbled to life outside the Gate House Lodge. From there, we headed uphill, picking up speed as the vehicle’s tank-like tread dug in and churned up the snow. Our route
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to avoid any awkwardness. Our table of nine had no trouble breaking the ice. The two rambunctious younger boys had free rein in the lodge and kept us entertained by — if not wary of — projectiles being hurled in our direction. When we finished our dinner, Kuiper announced that we would have dessert at Timbers Restaurant at the base of the mountain. That meant it was time to go back down. Diners have two options to get to Timbers — hitch a ride on the cat, or ski or snowboard. I chose the latter. We were on a ski hill, after all, and it would be a shame to waste the opportunity to carve the empty slopes under my own steam. Plus, I wanted to imagine Allyn Schechter schussing down these same trails after warming her digits in that long-gone little hut. After the dishes were cleared, I
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ne of my early jobs was as a live-in barmaid at an English country pub — tending bar, waitressing, washing dishes and tackling whatever else needed doing. The food was far from sexy, but one of the perks was the staff ’s 24/7 kitchen access. The cook or I would raid the walk-in fridge at odd hours and throw together our own pub food. The fryer got heavy use as we turned out chicken Kievs and handmade onion rings. We cooked “Sunday roasts” on Thursdays, or grilled rump steak with mushrooms and onions, washed down with elderberry squash or a pint of bitter ale. That freedom in a pub kitchen has had a lasting impact. When dining out early or late, I steal glances at justfinished staff meals or the dishes that servers huddle over before or after their shifts. I have learned about the “hidden” menu at Chinese restaurants — the one with dishes too hot or obscure to serve American diners. Think innards, exotic fish, unusual preparations or ungodly amounts of spice. As a newcomer to the Burlington culinary landscape, I thought it would be illuminating to ask a few local chefs: Do you have a favorite dish or ingredient too spicy, too complicated, too off-cuisine or simply too pedestrian to put on your menu? What do you personally love to eat that we’ll never see in your restaurant? Their answers follow.
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He says he’ll drive to Boston or Montréal for pork and crab soup dumplings, which he also makes for himself at home. Korean fried chicken is another favorite. But if he gets a craving for something, Delpha says he may just put it on the menu and run it as a special. For instance, during the restaurant’s first week of business, he created a smoked-pork tartine on Red Hen bread, with Cabot cheddar fondue poured over the top. “It was a total last-minute call that first week,” Delpha says, “and ended up as one of the most popular things on the menu.”
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quite [right],” she explains. “I also make beef stroganoff, and that’s something you don’t see often on a menu. I kind of change it every time I make it, depending on what I have.”
EMNAN “BARNEY” CRNALIC chef, Café Mediterano, Essex Junction
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into the eggs, then pours this mixture onto the grill. As he grills small slices of sausage and beef, the latter begin to curl and come to life. Crnalic sprinkles on the cheese and spice, scrapes it all together with a flourish, then dishes it all onto a warm pita with a dollop of sour cream on the side. Hearty to the point of overload, the dish could keep a body going all day. What else would Crnalic cook for customers, if he knew he could sell it? “Sweetbreads.”
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chef, The Belted Cow Bistro, Essex Junction Delpha is known for his award-winning barbecue, so it’s not surprising that Korean food tops his personal favorite food list.
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Ciosek says the staff meal at the end of each shift is usually something that’s not on the menu. “Staff meals at most restaurants consist of meat scraps and vegetable trimmings that most people at home would throw away,” he says. “But here at Tiny Thai, we frequently use these ingredients, along with fresh Thai herbs like basil and cilantro, and Thai chili peppers, to make something special for our staff.” Those meals are flavored with nam prik kapi and pla-raa, along with the chili peppers — and fish sauce, which Ciosek calls “the salt of Thailand.” Some of those Thai seasonings are alien to the local palate. “I think fermented shrimp and fish paste, which can smell very strong or even rotten, would be a hard sell to the average Vermonter,” Ciosek surmises. He notes, however, that the eatery is poised to introduce a supplementary menu offering “100 percent authentic Thai dishes, prepared and served as they would be in Thailand. No substitutions, additions or deletions.”
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chef-owner, Hen of the Wood, Waterbury Award-winning chef Warnstedt’s answer is brief and explicit: “I love chicken thighs, and they don’t seem special enough to be on the menu here. To cook them, I’ll brine them and grill them using an Asian marinade or barbecue sauce.” Happily, he gave us a recipe: PRIVATE DISHES
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As the Vermont food community continues to gather in support of Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury following a barn-destroying fire, another pair of barns has fallen. At 4:30 a.m. last Thursday, 10 calves were killed when their home at Stoneholm Farm in Putney collapsed under the weight of massive snowfall. The morning of February 6, the dairy barn at Taylor
Farm in Londonderry gave way under an avalanche of melting snow. According to Taylor Farm’s owner, Jon Wright, the deluge killed one cow. An employee, Randy Stannard, was buried in snow but was quickly rescued and hospitalized. He is in stable condition, with no broken bones. Wright says he’s grateful no one else was hurt, including the seven draft horses that pull winter farm visitors on sleigh rides.
The barn collapsed once before, on February 7, 2009. Following the first cave-in, says Wright, he was able to recover quickly. This time, he is less certain. “I’m a little daunted,” he says. For now, he hopes insurance and loans will cover enough to allow him to raise a small number of cows and continue to produce his farmstead Gouda. The farmer immediately sold 20 of his cows — about 20 percent of his total stock — to lighten his staff ’s workload. Beyond that, Wright says, “I haven’t even begun to figure out what we’re going to do. People are offering to do benefits and fundraising.” While no benefit plans have
solidified at press time, Wright expresses gratitude for the help of his local fire and rescue team, and for the quiches and breads that have streamed in from neighbors. Most importantly, Wright says he hopes his and the other recent farm tragedies will raise Vermonters’ awareness. “So many Vermont farmers are really in dire straits right now,” he says. “Vermont really has to rally around its farmers and not wait until a barn collapses. I can’t emphasize enough that I’m not the only one struggling.” — A .L.
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a splash of applejack and bitters. To make this drink truly local, you could substitute maple syrup for the sugar. This grog is a deep amber, and sweet, sharp and tart all at once. It’s next to impossible for most of us to know the deep pleasure of a hot drink after a long day of toiling or riding in the frozen landscape, as our colonial forebears did. The closest most of us come is a day spent clearing, skiing or otherwise romping in the snow. Grog is best taken after such a day, or sipped at the window while you watch someone else shovel. Either way, it’ll keep the scurvy at bay as a gentle haze envelops you.
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Navy Admiral Edward Vernon — nicknamed “Old Grog” — decreed that Navy sailors could only take their rum diluted with water. Twice a day, the crews would hear the call “Up spirits!” and know the rum rations were about to flow. Grog survived as a part of British sea life until 1970, when Parliament finally nixed the idea of tipsy tars. Closer to home, rum also marinated generations of New Englanders, albeit taken hot, hot, hot. As with many British things, Americans coopted rum drinks in creative ways. Flip, once common in colonial taverns, brought eggs, cream, sugar or molasses, rum and beer into a violent froth by plunging a hot iron in their midst. It would be careless to recommend a drink of rum dissolved in beer, and most of us don’t keep a glowing fireplace poker on hand. Much easier to concoct is grog — hot rum in its most basic form. Pondering the drink one morning over breakfast, I wondered if Rooibos (African red bush tea) might play well with rum. It does. Especially when dressed up with
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um has a sordid pedigree, as well as a local one: Much of the rum produced to fuel the slave trade was distilled in New England in the 1700s. Over the years, the liquor’s unholy roots have been obscured — we now think of mai tai and mojito instead — but rum can still carry a second-class stigma, or at least an association with frat parties and hot days. Offer rum to a friend on a snowy afternoon, and her face may crinkle. Rum and Coke for the cold? Not so much. There is one drink, however, that bridges the apparent gulf between rum and elegance, or between rum and winter: grog. The word is synonymous with liquor in some countries, but in its essence, grog is rum diluted with water, and tarted and sweetened with lime, sugar and spices. The drink was born in the British Navy in the 1700s, when sailors drank booze, typically ale or rum, instead of the stagnant, algae-laced water on the ship. Perhaps they imbibed a little too saucily. In 1740, British
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potAto, EGG & chorizo tAco From Joshua Bard, chef and co-owner at Frida’s Taqueria & Grill in Stowe 2 Yukon gold potatoes, in a 1/2 inch dice 1/2 pound crumbled chorizo sausage 4 small eggs 4 corn tortillas, heated just before serving put potatoes in cool water, bring them to a simmer, cook until just tender, then drain and cool. Sauté potatoes with crumbled chorizo until hot and lightly browned. In the meantime, fry or poach an egg, making sure to retain a runny yolk. Spoon potato/ chorizo mixture onto tortillas and garnish each with an egg, letting the yolk run over the entire thing. Top with salsa verde (below).
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ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION AND HEARING #4C0895-5 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On January 24, 2011, University of Vermont and Catamount Student Housing, LLC filed application #4C0895-5 for a project described as the construction of student housing in two connected wings of one building with one 5-story and the other a 4-story structure for a total of 403 new beds in 144 studios of either one, two, three or four bedroom apartments. The Project is located on South Prospect 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 February 22, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. A site visit will be held before the hearing at 8:00 a.m at the site. Directions to the site: Take South Prospect Street south from Route 2. Cars should enter the UVM
campus from South Prospect Street, travel down Davis Road past Redstone Apartments and Wing, Davis, Wilks and park in the Simpson Parking Lot. Cars are able to park in the Simpson Parking lot while touring the site. We will be meeting at the concrete “sheet-type” standing sculpture located behind Simpson and Southwick Halls. There will be no charge for parking, but cars are only able to stay in that lot for about an hour. 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 that may be affected by the proposed project under the ten criteria. 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 3rd day of February, 2011. 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 APPLICATION AND HEARING #4C1040R-4 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On December 29, 2010, The Miller Realty Group, LLP filed application #4C1040R-4 for a project described as the modification of the Landscaping plans as required by Conditions #26 - #31. The project is located on Marshall Avenue in the Town of Williston. 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 February 28, 2011 at 10:45 a.m. at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. A
site visit will be held before the hearing at 10:00 a.m at the site. Directions to the site: Due to safety issues associated with visiting the site we will meet at the Building off Marshall Avenue and then car pool to Interstate 89 to view the landscaping. From Taft Corners, go west on Route 2, make a left (south) onto South Brownell Drive, turn left (east) on Marshall Avenue and make a right (south) turn at the entrance at 685 Marshall Ave. (look for E-Commerce Park sign). 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 that may be affected by the proposed project under the ten criteria. 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 Williston 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 14th day of January, 2011. 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 February 2, 2011, 55 Community Drive LLC, filed application #4C0190-8F for a Project generally described as: construction of a concrete stairway and sidewalk, secure a 20 parking space area with a fence and add two new parking light poles. The Project is located on Community Drive 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
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The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders and mortgagees of lands in the City of Winooski, in the County of Chittenden are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by such town for the years 1992 through 2010 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described lands in such town, to wit: “A lot of land with dwelling house thereon located on the southerly side of Elm Street in the City of Winooski, said dwelling house being known and designated as No. 58 Elm Street. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Joseph P. and Cecile H. Bigue by Warranty Deed of Fredeline Niquette dated November 23, 1949 and recorded in Volume 11 at page 623 of the City of Winooski Land Records.” So much of such lands will be sold at public auction at 58 Elm Street (the property), a public place in such town, on the 31st day of March, 2011 at 10 o’clock in the a.m., as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes and costs and fees, unless previously paid.
Erik Heikel Collector of Delinquent Taxes City of Winooski, Vermont
Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff v. Lynne S. Berry, David T. Berry, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and Occupants residing at 8 Abare Avenue, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Wells Fargo Bank, NA to Lynne S. Berry dated February 28, 2005 and recorded in Volume 641, Page 427 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 A.M. on March 1, 2011, at 8 Abare Avenue, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to David J. Berry and Lynne S. Berry by Warranty Deed of Vermont Residential Services, LLC dated February 15, 2005 and recorded March 7, 2005 in Volume 641, Page 424 of the Town of Essex Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes
due and owing to the Town of Essex. 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 27th day of January, 2011. Wells Fargo Bank, NA By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMON T SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S1098-09 Cnc HSBC Bank, USA, National Association, as Trustee for NAAC 2007-2, Plaintiff v. Anthony J. Sineni, III, Michael J Di Vincenzo and Occupants residing at 882 East Lakeshore Drive, Colchester, 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 NAAC 2007-2 to Anthony J. Sineni, III dated February 2, 2007 and recorded in Volume 578, Page 434 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public
Auction at 8:00 A.M. on February 22, 2011, at 882 East Lakeshore Drive, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the same land and premises as conveyed to Anthony J. Sineni by Quitclaim Deed of Peter G. Kopchik, Jr. and Carol A. Kopchik dated October 2, 2003 and recorded October 9, 2003 in Book 467, Page 117-118 of the Colchester Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 24th day of January, 2011. 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 Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S0391-10 Cnc Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff v. Anthony Cottone, Marjorie Moore and Occupants residing at 139 Malletts Bay Avenue, Winooski, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Sovereign Bank to Anthony Cottone dated November 16, 2007 and recorded in Volume 126, Page 291 of the Land Records of the City of Winooski, 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 March 1, 2011, at 139 Malletts Bay Avenue, Winooski, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Marjorie Moore and Anthony Cottone by Warranty Deed of David H. Jarvis and July L. Jarvis dated November 16, 2007 and recorded November 20, 2007 in the City of Winooski Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the City of Winooski. 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 27th day of January, 2011. Sovereign Bank By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S0190-10 CnC Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, v Jennifer Hallee, and Any Other occupants of 305 Lime Kiln Road, So. Burlington, Vermont, Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated May 29, 2007 from Jennifer Hallee to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on May 30, 2007 in Volume 784, Pages 195-216 of the City of South Burlington Lane Records. The subject Mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company to Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company by Assignment dated February 11, 2010 and recorded on February
17, 2010 in Volume 920, Pages 128-129 of the City of South Burlington Land Records. The undersigned represents the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same which will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 o’clock PM, on the 22nd day of February, A.D. 2011, at the subject premises of 305 Lime Kiln Road, So. Burlington, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage will be sold as a whole. To wit: “Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Jennifer Hallee by Warranty Deed of Mika Fujiwara dated May 29, 2007 and recorded [May 30, 2007] in Volume [784], Page [192-194] of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington, and being more particularly described as follows: “Being Condominium Unit No. B230 (the “Unit”) of Cedar Bluff Condominium (the “Condominium”) as described and depicted in the Declaration of Condominium for Cedar Bluff Condominiums and all Exhibits thereto, dated October 4, 2001 in Volume 522 at Pages 317-363 of the City of South Burlington Land Records (the “Declaration”) and Amendment to Declaration of Condominium and all Exhibits thereto, dated February 19, 2002 and recorded on February 19, 2002 in Volume 540, Page 561 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, (the “Amendment to Declaration”), together with the Unit’s Allocated Interest in the Common Elements of the Condominium as depicted and described in Exhibit “D” of said Amendment to Declaration
(the Unit an dits Allocated Interest are collectively referred to herein as the “Property”). The post office address of the Unit is Unit B230, Cedar Bluff Condominiums, 305 Lime Kiln Road, South Burlington, Vermont 05403. “Reference is hereby made to the instruments aforementioned, and the records thereof, and the instruments therein referred to, and the records thereof, in further aid of this description.” Terms of Sale: Purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or certified funds, or produce a commitment letter from a bank or mortgage company or other lender licensed to do business in the State of Vermont at the time of the sale for the amount of the winning bid. In any case the winning bidder shall be required to produce $10,000.00 (ten-thousand dollars) cash or certified funds at the close of auction as the deposit against the sale. The sale will be subject to the Confirmation Order of the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid property taxes and town/city assessments, if any. In the event the auction terms are confirmed by the Superior Court aforesaid, and the winning bidder is unwilling or unable consummate the sale, the deposit shall be forfeit. In the event the sale is not confirmed the deposit will be returned without interest. 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.
SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Grant C. Rees, Attorney, PO Box 108, Milton, Vermont 05468, 802-893-7400. By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Dates: January 26, 2011 February 2, 2011 February 9, 2011 The contents of storage unit(s) 01-04402 located at 28 Adams Dr, Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 16th of the month of February, 2011 to satisfy the debt of Abdi Dhere. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. This is not a public sale. The contents of storage unit(s) 02-00237 Located at 28 Adams Dr, Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the
16th of the month of February, 2011 to satisfy the debt of Kathleen Bradley. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. This is not a public sale.
support groups DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (toll free) or from outside of Vermont, 802-6524636, 24/7. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do
you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. 802-881-8400. Visit www.slaafws.org or www.saa-recovery. org for meetings near you. CENTRAL VERMONT PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT February 16, 6-7:45 p.m., Central Vermont Medical Center, Conference Room #2. Open discussion may include subject of concern, updating personal prostate cancer histories and sharing experiences. Paul Irons, MTM Coordinator, 461-6222 (cell) or Jennifer Blacklock, American Cancer Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston, VT 05495, Toll free: 1-866-466-0626 (press 3 at greeting, ext. 6308). CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Tuesday, Feb. 15, 6-8 p.m. at FAHC, McClure Lobby Conference Room. Guest speaker Scott Perrapato, DO, FACOS. Discussion
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is no registration necessary. Please call the center if you have any questions. 802-658-9440. INFERTILITY PEER GROUP Feeling lonely & isolated as you confront infertility? Share feelings, stories & coping strategies at informal, peerled meetings w/ people facing similar challenges. $5. First Monday of the month, 7-9 PM, Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington. Presented by RESOLVE of New England. Info: admin@resolveofthebaystate.org.
EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP This is a therapistfacilitated, drop-in support group for women with eating disorders. Women over 18 only please. This group will be held every other Wednesday from 5:30 - 7:00 PM, our next meeting is February 9th. Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset Street Suite 204, South Burlington. This is free and there
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Post & browse ads at your convenience. Church, West St., Rutland, VT - for more information call Susan Mackey, 802 446-2278. Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) also serves bereaved parents with monthly peer support groups, with short-term educational consultations and referrals to local grief and loss counselors. HVS is located in the Marble Works district in Middlebury. Please call 802-388-4111 for more information about how to connect with appropriate support services. LGBTQ GRIEF AND LOSS GROUP Every Monday, noon, RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. A once-a-week group is forming at RU12? for those interested in giving voice to their experience(s) with loss and listening to other’s. Topics could include but are not limited to: grieving, letting go, resolution,
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LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please call Ann or Brenda at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more information. MALE GBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for maleidentified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet in Winooski at the RU12? Community Center and will be facilitated by Damian. Support groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. 802-863-0003. NAMI CONNECTION (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group for individuals living with mental illnesses. Call Tammy at 1-800-6396480 or email us at connections@namivt. orgBENNINGTON:
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GLAM CORE GROUP MEETING Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m., RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. We’re looking for young gay and bi guys who are interested in putting together great events, meeting new people, and reaching out to other guys! Core Group runs our program, and we want your input! If you’re a young gay or bisexual man who would like to get involved, email us at glam@ru12. org or check us out on Facebook (http:// www.facebook.com/
TRANS SUPPORT GROUP Every first and third Wednesday, RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Champlain Mill 1st Floor, Winooski, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people and to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful and confidential space for socializing, support, and discussion. Contact thecenter@ ru12.org for more information.
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loved ones with memory loss due to dementia. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at The Converse Home, 272 Church St, Burlington. For more info call: 802-862-0401. MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER
CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS Meets on Sundays from 12-1 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. This is a fellowship of men and women that meet and review the 12 steps of CODA, read stories from the CODA anonymous big book and share their experiences, strengths and hopes as we support each other. Open to everyone. Info: Larry, WLTRS@aol. com, 802-658-9994 or Jeff, JCDANIS@ Burlingtontelecom. net, 802-863-3674. For directions, call the Turning Point Center at 802-861-3150. QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle? Free 4-week Quit Smoking Groups are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Learn how to cope with grief, with the intention of receiving and offering support to each other. The group is informal and includes personal sharing of our grief experiences. Open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Meets every other week Mondays, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Barre. 802-223-1878, www. cvhhh.org. DIGESTIVE SUPPORT GROUP Join this open support group, hosted by Carrie Shamel, and gain information regarding digestive disorders. If you suffer from any kind of digestive disorder or discomfort this is the place for you! Open to all. Meets the first Monday of every month at 6 p.m. in the Healthy Living Learning Center. For more information contact Carrie Shamel at carrie. shamel@gmail.com. www.llleus.org/state/
vermont/html. AL-ALNON IN ST. JOHNSBURY Tues. & Thurs., 7 p.m., Kingdom Recovery Center (Dr. Bob’s birthplace), 297 Summer St., St. Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry St., St. Johnsbury. SEEKING ACTIVE RETIREES/50+ To form a social group. Snowshoeing, theater, biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. Please call 802-8640604. Lv. msg. if no answer. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA) Drug Problem? We Can Help. If you think you have a problem with drugs, including alcohol, give yourself a break. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for individuals who have a desire to recover from the disease of addiction. NA offers a practical and proven way to live and enjoy life without the use of drugs. To find an NA Meeting near you in Vermont or Northern New York, please go to www.cvana.org/ Meetinglist.pdf or call our 24-hour, toll free, confidential number, (866) 580-8718 or (802) 862-4516. For more information about NA, please go to http://www. na.org/?ID=ips-index and click on “>Is NA for Me? CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP
Age/Sex/Fixed: 7-year-old, neutered male Breed: Rat terrier Size/Weight: 18 lbs. energy level: Medium reASOn here: Owner could not take him. Kid Friendly: (8+), dog friendly SUMMAry: A shy but people-oriented dog, Triple is a gentle-natured and energetic canine
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VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want To Feel Supported On Your Vegetarian/Vegan Journey? Want more info. on Healthy Veggy Diets? Want to share and socialize at Veggy Potlucks, and more, in the greater Burlington Area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 802-658-4991.
program in your community. Free Nicotine Replacement products are available for program participants. For more information or to register, call 8476541 or wellness@ vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, contact the VT Quit Network at www. vtquitnetwork.org.
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AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at The Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington. Please call or visit website for location information, www.vtcfids. org or call 1-800-2961445 or 802-660-4817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport). ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m. & Wednesdays 5:30-6:30, 45 Clark St., Burlington. Contact Brenda at 338-1170. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community and educational group. We provide coffee, soda and snacks and are open to PALS, caregivers, family members and those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the second Thursday of each month from 1-3 p.m. at “Jim’s House”, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston, VT. Hosted by Pete and Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, Patient Care Coordinator for the ALS Association here in Vermont. 223-7638 for more information.
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sevendaysvt.com/classifieds SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wednesday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington, VT. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, call 802-479-9450, or ljlivendale@yahoo. com. BURDENS WEIGHTING YOU DOWN? Unemployed, homeless, in need of direction? We are people just like you and have found the answer to all of the above problems. We meet every Wednesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Imani Center 293 N Winooski Ave. Please call 802-343-2027.
BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Kathi at 802-985-8600.
AL-ANON Family group 12-step. Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital
of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations. Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830.
MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/ DYSAUTONOMIA Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153.
LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713. HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier. Wednesdays, 5:156:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345. BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749. EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or
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Post & browse ads at your convenience. bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Kim, 863-6384. FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996. WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW
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DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612.
VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM Info, contact MaryKay Hill, 802-373-0351. TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 655-3317, or Patricia, 658-6904.
PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information.
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LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery
GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided. The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.
in the ground floor boardroom from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.
Open 24/7/365.
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WOMEN’S RAPE CRISIS CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence. Please call 864-0555 ext. 20 for information.
SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-446-3577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month.
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SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS) Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) of Addison County and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will collaborate to sponsor a monthly ongoing support group for people who have lost someone by suicide. The group will meet the 1st Wed. of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. These free peer
A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues. Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. 191 Bank St., Burlington. 802-861-3150.
course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802-734-0695.
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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 6-7 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info: 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sunday 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info: Debbie Y., 888-5958. Meeting in Montpelier occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info: Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356 or Debbie Y., 888-5958.
support groups will be held at Hospice Volunteer Services at the Marbleworks in Middlebury, and co-facilitated by professional representatives from HVS and AFSP, both suicide survivors. For more information and to register call HVS at 388-4111.
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YOUR TRUSTED LOCAL SOURCE. SEVENDAYSVT.COM/JOBS Legal Assistant Wick & Maddocks Law Offices-Essex Experienced line cook position available at McCarthy's Restaurant in Stowe. Apply in person. 454 Mountain Road 802-253-8626.
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Looking for a flexible person who is good with people, can multitask, and is competent with a word processor. Send resume to: Donald Maddocks, 1 Grove St., Essex Jct., VT 05452 (802) 872-8200 dmaddocks@comcast.net www.wickmaddocks.com
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Line Cook Sophie’s American Bistro, located at 18 Severance Green in Colchester, is seeking an experienced line cook. Sunday brunch experience, please! Schedule will vary between day and evening shifts; the bistro is open TuesdaySunday.
Central Vermont Medical Center is seeking a Part time Employee Health Nurse to join our Human Resources team. This individual will be responsible for providing employee health services to all employees, volunteers and physicians and the development and implementation of wellness initiatives.
Please forward resume to alisondattilio@comcast.net.
Quality Improvement Project Manager The Quality Improvement Project Manager serves as liaison across department and division lines in driving meaningful HEDIS and CAHPS analysis, and developing both clinical and service quality improvement projects. The incumbent works with medical directors and clinical colleagues to identify opportunities for improvement, and serves as project lead in developing and implementing clinical quality improvement projects. The position requires excellent analytical skills, and the ability to analyze and digest complicated data for a variety of audiences. Master’s degree in public health, public administration, or equivalent is required. Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multifaceted projects is required. Knowledge of NCQA and URAC accreditation standards desired.
Employee Health Nurse
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Vermont licensed Registered Nurse from an approved school of nursing with 5-7 years of hospital-based nursing experience. We are seeking a candidate with experience in Employee Health Services, including immunization programs, support and promotion of health promotion/disease prevention Wellness Programs, and return to work for injured workers. This position requires excellent communication skills, organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, prioritize and function independently. This position qualifies for our 11:58:57 AM excellent flexible benefit program and generous Combined Time Off program. For more information or to electronically apply, please visit our website at:
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Clinical Quality Improvement Activity Coordinator
Web Designer
This position manages and implements a variety of clinical quality assurance and improvement activities including clinical quality improvement projects, medical record reviews, quality of care investigations and interventions, and accreditation/ regulation compliance activities. A 4-year degree in business or health field required, master’s degree in health services research, public health or public administration preferred.
Fuse, a marketing agency targeting teens and young adults, recently named one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont,” is seeking a Web Designer to concept & create digital work for web and other interactive media. Ideal candidates will have relevant youth-culture design experience. 3+ years of experience and strong proficiency in Adobe CS is required. Web development experience a plus.
Consider joining BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF VERMONT. We are Vermont's largest health insurer and offer competitive salaries, a complete benefits package and a challenging working environment with opportunity for advancement. EOE.
For a complete job description, and to apply, please visit: www.fusemarketing.com/jobs.
Apply online at www.bcbsvt.com.
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Technical Team Leader
Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families
DCF ContraCt Care CoorDinator Northeastern Family Institute St.Albans has an opening for a DCF Contract Care Coordinator working primarily with adolescents and their families. Responsibilities include child/parent contact support, support to parents and foster parents, community skills work with youth, and team-based coordination. We need an independent person with strong communication skills who is able to pay attention to details and understand how to work with diverse family systems.
CVOEO Mobile Home Project
an inpatient substance-abuse program, has the following positions open: 1:05:10 PM
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Mental Health Professional with a CADC/LADC.
- Be proficient using the Internet, Microsoft Office and learning new software
QUALIFICATIONS: Must be committed to social justice. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Relevant experience in areas such as housing counseling, low income advocacy OR: experience from which equivalent applicable knowledge and skills have been gained. A good driving record and access to a private vehicle is necessary. 20 hours/week. $13/hour; excellent benefits. Position end date 8/31/2013. No phone calls. Send letter of interest, resume and three work references by 2/17/2011 to MHP_job@cvoeo.org.
Full-time Licensed
Clinical Social Worker
Qualified candidates must: - Have at least 1 year of experience 3:20:51 PM interacting with customers either via phone or in a retail environment
The CVOEO Mobile Home Project is looking for a dedicated, compassionate individual to assume the role of a part-time resident counselor. Will work with an energetic and dedicated agency team on mobile home park issues in Vermont. Provide advocacy and housing counseling services including information and referrals about mobile home rehab, foreclosure/repossession, debt/credit issues and home financing options. Provide information, advice and referral on landlord/tenant issues. Expand and maintain updated list of available resources. Maintain a database of client information and fulfill grant reporting requirements. Work with various governmental and non-profit agencies on mobile home park issues. Some in-state travel involved.
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Maple Leaf Farm,
to join our call center team, starting this month.
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Vermont Commons School is looking for a full-time (12 mo.)
Vermont Panurgy, a 30-year leader in IT services and Learning Solutions, has an to oversee all aspects of daily finances, financial reporting, human immediate need for a resources, employment regulations, and records oversight. Please Technical Team Leader. visit SchoolSpring.com for more information and to apply. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and technical skills. The candidate is responsible for the coordination and administrative duties for the 2h-VtCommomsSchool020911.indd 1 2/7/11 3:51:01 PM Network department as well as providing technical support for customers. To learn more about the opportunity please visit www.panurgyvt.com/careers.
Bachelor’s degree in psychology or a related field required. Training in Family Time Coaching, Family Safety Planning, and Family Group Conferencing a plus. Come join a close-knit team of dedicated service providers who are committed to children and families. If you are interested in this position, call American Meadows of Williston, a 2v-Panurgy-020911.indd 1 2/7/11 leading online retailer of gardening Kate Silberfeld at (802) 524-1700, products, is seeking or submit cover letter and resume to Kate Silberfeld, NFI St. Albans Seasonal 12 Fairfield Hill Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478 Customer Service or katesilberfeld@nafi.com. WWW.NAFI.COM
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Duties include group and individual addictions counseling and case management as well as IOP group facilitation. Ideal candidate will have at least five years post-master’s experience providing substance abuse treatment to a diverse population of adults, excellent writing and group facilitation skills, and knowledge of short-term, cognitive behavioral treatment approaches with persons diagnosed with substance-use disorders and co-occurring mental-health disorders.
- Be patient and friendly on the phone - Have the ability to maintain attention to detail in a very fast-paced environment - Have excellent verbal and written communication skills -Be able to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a team.
3/5 part-time evening
Milieu Counselor, ideally with experience in the field of addictions treatment, to provide supervision to a population of adult males and females who are recovering from the effects of alcohol/drug dependency.
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Experience and interest in vegetable and flower gardening is a plus.
Counselors
American Meadows is hiring a number of both full-time and part-time positions that will cover hours 6-7 days a week, including night and weekend shifts, as well as daytime hours. These positions pay an hourly wage and do NOT include benefits. Please email resume and cover letter to customerservice@ americanmeadows.com. Due to the high number of applicants, we are not able to accommodate phone inquiries or walk-ins. American Meadows is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
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for evenings and weekends, ideally with experience in the field of addictions treatment. Responsibilities include group addictions psycho-education/counseling and milieu management. The ability to work cooperatively within a clinical team is a must. Individual and group supervision provided. For more information regarding our program and available employment opportunities please visit our website: www.mapleleaf.org. Email cover letter and resumes to MichaelZ@mapleleaf.org, or mail to: Michael A. Zacharias, Ph.D. — Clinical Director, Maple Leaf Farm, 10 Maple Leaf Rd., Underhill, VT 05489
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Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is seeking a full-time
TOW N OF DU X BU RY
ROAD FOREMAN
LEGAL SECRETARY
The Town of Duxbury seeks a full-time Road Foreman. Duties include personnel management, maintenance, repair and construction of town highways, bridges, facilities and equipment, snow and ice removal, purchasing supplies, developing and managing budgets, job safety, interacting with the public, and project planning and supervision. The Road Foreman supervises a two-member road crew and subcontractors as necessary. Requirements: CDL, high school diploma or GED, five years experience in highway maintenance or equivalent construction experience, and extensive knowledge of highway construction procedures and methods. Prior applicants do not need to resubmit an application.
Seeking individuals to work our front desk. Ideal candidates should have excellent customer service skills, should be reliable and must be able to work a combination of weekdays & weekends. Previous hotel experience preferred. Apply online at LarkinHospitality.com.
in our Burlington office to work in our Intellectual Property practice group. Qualified candidates must have a minimum of five years legal secretarial experience, 2h-Larkin-020911.indd be proficient in Word and Excel, and be highly organized. Must be willing to work as a team player in a challenging and very busy practice group. DRM provides generous benefits and competitive pay.
Submit application with salary history and references to: Duxbury Town Clerk, Attn: Road Foreman, 5421 VT Route 100, Duxbury, VT 05676.
Resumes to jcote@drm.com. 2/7/11 12:02:01 PM
CCS is seeking couples or individuals to provide home supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. The following positions include a generous tax-free stipend, ongoing supports, assistance with necessary home modifications, respite and a comprehensive 3v-DownsRachlinMartin-020911.indd training package. Support a charming man either in his apartment or your accessible home. He enjoys movies, being a part of the self-advocacy movement and his job at the airport. The ideal candidate will have good communication skills, patience, enjoy socializing and going out into the community. Support an active, Social and independent man in your home. He enjoys cooking, the arts, and socializing with others. The ideal roommate will have a sense of humor, be able to assist this man with accessing the community and support him in increasing and maintaining his independent living skills. Support a kind, humorouS gentleman who enjoys being involved in the community and in social settings. The ideal candidate will be patient, flexible, and have strong interpersonal and communication skills. contact al Frugoli at afrugoli@ccs-vt.org or 802-655-0511 x108 for more information. Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue, Suite 1 Colchester, VT 05446 www.ccs-vt.org
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Shoe Boutique
Successful, unique shoe shop in downtown Burlington seeks a special person to help manage a fun, popular retail business. Promotions, merchandising, buying, inventory, scheduling, daily store operations and driving the bottom line are some key qualifications desired from the right candidate. If you seek an opportunity to grow and are willing to show us your stuff, call (802) 658-6006. Request Mary Lou.
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Primary responsibilities include: providing pro-active and comprehensive customer care to the domestic representatives, sales managers and customers; managing customer leads, quotes, bids and orders process accurately, utilizing various software programs. Successful coordination with other departments with respect to delivery schedules, accounting issues and meeting customer requirements is essential. This individual will be required to attend trade shows and representative sales meetings when needed. Qualifications include five years of previous customer service experience preferably a in a manufacturing setting, professional oral communication, excellent telephone presentation, and demonstrated ability to handle difficult customer issues and work well with team members. Experience with data entry and word processing, exceptional organizational skills, and a willingness to work extra hours including weekends and evenings with some travel is also required. Associate’s degree preferred. BioTek attributes its success to our dedicated employees, and offers a casual yet professional and respectful work environment, as well as an excellent benefits package. To learn more, please visit our website at www.biotek.com. Please apply by submitting resumes to hrresumes@biotek.com or mail them to:
Human Resources BioTek Instruments, Inc. P.O. Box 998, Highland Park Winooski, VT 05404 No phone calls, please.
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BioTek is a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, microplate-based, life-science instrumentation and software used to accelerate drug discovery and aid in the advancement of life science research. Because of our continual growth, we are currently seeking an enthusiastic, energetic, customerfocused individual to join our Marketing Customer Care team.
Shared Living Provider
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Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom, a Vermont-based telecommunications solutions provider located in central Vermont, is seeking a qualified individual to join our team in our Hinesburg Branch Office:
CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE-LEVEL I Entry-level position for Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom’s Customer Service Department; responsibilities include providing high-quality telephone, broadband and cable service to customers via telephone, mail and office contacts, marketing new services, collecting of accounts, inbound and outbound calling, as well as processing service requests. Applicant must have strong interpersonal communications skills necessary to maintain productive relationships with customers in resolving service and billing-related questions, and marketing new services. Proficiency in Microsoft Office software applications preferred. Qualified applicants must possess a minimum of 1 year customer service and/or sales experience. Please submit letter of interest, resume and application to the address below. No telephone calls, please. Job applications can be found on our website at www.wcvt.com under “Employment.” Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom Attn: Human Resources PO Box 9, 3898 Main Street Waitsfield, VT 05673 Fax: 802-496-8342 Email: wcvtjobs@wcvt.com
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MOTIVATED TODDLER TEACHER
Hiring for all positions, including Directors
Leaps & Bounds is
needed. FT, ECE/experience a must. ED-U-CARE (802) 879-4427 or educarevt@gmail.com.
looking for motivated, flexible team players to join our growing
childcare team
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Burlington Route Supervisor
Major firm, local route, knowledge of DSD and grocery helpful. Full benefits. (35-40k).
Call Dutton 1-888-786-0791.
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in Essex, Williston, Milton and soon-to-be South Burlington locations. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor! Pay based on education and experience. Contact Krista at 802-879-2021 or krista@leapsvt.com.
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Must be Vermont Board Certified with several years of experience in a high-end environment, preferably spa or resort. Looking for professional & selfmotivated individuals to perform services in our relaxed and upscale setting.
GARDENER’S SUPPLY CALL CENTER: Customer Sales & Service 128 Intervale Road, Burlington, VT 05401 For more info, call 660-4611
We have SEASONAL positions through July 10
Weekend availability required. Great employee benefits/discounts and congenial workplace. Email resumes to: karenw@vtculinaryresort.com.
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Nursing Informatics (must be RN) SNF Administrator RN’s for ECC, Med/Surg, Float Pool, Occupational Therapist and Respiratory Therapist.
Spring Job Fair 3:00–5:30 PM Wednesdays, February 9 & 16
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Spirit Delivery is looking for
Drivers
The Grand Isle Supervisory Union is seeking a T wo -y e a r I n T er I m
Superintendent of Schools For a detailed description of the position, please visit www.gisu.org. Application deadline is February 25.
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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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Working collaboratively with state agencies and local employers, the Employment Specialist assists Reach Up clients in attaining job skills and employment. 30 hours per week
Position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible paid time off. Vermont Adult Learning is a nonprofit provider of adult education and literacy services.
Become a Part of Our Exceptional Team!
Visit www.vtadultlearning.org for more information. Resume Deadline: February 22, 2011
Adult Outpatient Division
Emergency Team Clinician- Weekdays: Seeking an energetic, flexible Master’s level mental health clinician to provide phone and face-to-face crisis intervention. Requires excellent assessment skills, sound clinical judgment, a strong team orientation, and commitment to community mental health. Excellent orientation, supervision and support provided. Prior experience providing mental health services in commu- 4t-VtAdultLearning-020911.indd nity settings is desirable. Licensure preferred. Part-time or full-time, some negotiation possible. Benefits available. Applicant must live within 30 minutes of Middlebury.
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Community Rehabilitation and Treatment Division Crisis Support Services Coordinator: Seeking Masters level mental health professional with strong familiarity in recovery approaches for coping with major mental health conditions, as well as excellent leadership, organizational, and teaming skills to coordinate an innovative new project designed to create new resources for adults coping with mental health crises in Addison County. Responsibilities will include coordinating a 1-2 bed crisis support program co-located at a group home site, as well as assisting with other crisis support services in collaboration with our Emergency Team. This is a full time benefit eligible position. Applicant must have a clean, valid driver’s license. Crisis Support Consultant: Seeking Masters level or well experienced mental health professional with excellent counseling skills and a strong familiarity with recovery approaches for coping with major mental health conditions to participate in an innovative new project offering residential support, supportive counseling, and service coordination for adults coping with mental health crises in Addison County. Responsibilities include assisting with staffing a residential crisis support program as well as some off site crisis service coordination. This is a full time benefit eligible position. Applicant must have a clean, valid driver’s license.
Direct Care Providers: Provide direct care to indivuduals with mental illness and share in the development of a living environment which challenges and encourages each individual to achieve their potential. Good working knowledge of the needs and abilities of the mentally ill is essential. Associates Degree in appropriate field plus two to four years of relevant experience in working with mentally ill; or combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. Part time hours and all shifts available, Youth & Family Division Intensive School Supports Program Interventionist(s): To provide direct intervention and training to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior, daily living and academic or pre-academic skills to children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Emotional Behavioral Disability. Bachelors degree, preferably in education or human services field. These are 37.5 hour per week benefit eligible positions.
Come join our expanding Marketing Team! We have a full-time opening for a Project Manager/Producer based in Montpelier, VT. There may be flexibility to work from a Burlington location. This position is responsible for the complete lifecycle of online and offline projects from development to delivery. This includes working with key stakeholders on projects, managing resources, budget tracking and analysis of projects. This PM/Producer will work closely with the Director of Integrated Services and other key stakeholders to understand scope of project and assure delivery based on business requirements. The successful candidate must have prior interactive/digital media & traditional agency experience. 3+ years of interactive project management experience. Comprehensive knowledge of interactive/ internet communications projects. Solid experience of successfully developing projects from start to finish. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to be a leader in high pressure situations. Basic understanding of various web languages. Ability to create basic wireframes and a strong web and technical knowledge & capacity to stay ahead of the technology curve. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Cabot offers a competitive starting salary and excellent benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to: Human Resources Department Cabot Creamery One Home Farm Way Montpelier, VT 05602 Phone: (802) 563-3892 Fax: (802) 563-2173 Email: jobs@cabotcheese.com EOE M/F/D/V
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Part-time RN Positions Available
Development Director Hunger Free Vermont seeks a full-time development director to develop, implement and lead the organizational fundraising plan in consultation and coordination with the executive director and development/communications team. The development director is the lead corporate/foundation grant writer, creates the organizational plan and strategies for major donor solicitations, oversees direct-response solicitation, and will lead the creation of the planned giving program.
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Position requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven ability to supervise employees, lead teams, manage complex projects, and build positive relationships with internal and external partners. Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years experience in development or a related field required. Cover letter and resume accepted through February 15. Interviews begin immediately. 2:44:16 PM Position will be filled as soon as a well-qualified candidate is identified.
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Please send application to ADuncan@hungerfreevt.org or Alida Duncan Hunger Free Vermont 38 Eastwood Drive - Suite 100 South Burlington, VT 05403 Opportunities a competitive salaries and shift A gracious workJob environment alonginwith supportive work environment: differentials make the Converse Home a wonderful place for nurses. • RN or LPN - Full and part-time, day and evening Our staff work together to create a quality of life for our residents that shifts available 5v-HungerFreeVT-020211.indd 1 Substitute LNA or RCAand - Part-time eveningtheir and night shifts respects •individuals supports care needs.
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offeracompetitive salaries, benefits, and shift differentials We We have part-time evening position available: For more information or to schedule an interview, please call Donna at 802.862.0401 or e-mail donna@conversehome.com
RN or LPN – 3 evenings a week (24 hours) 2:30 – 11 p.m. Every other weekend is required. Please send your resume to donna@conversehome.com. 272 Church Street, Burlington,Vermont 05401 email: info@conversehome.com www.conversehome.com
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The Sisters of Mercy, a community of Roman Catholic women, are dedicated to helping those in need though education, advocacy, health care, housing, pastoral and social 11:51:27 AM services.
From Addiction to Recovery
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or
Medical Assistant (MA) 20-32 hours/week, to assist in the primary care unit. Duties include phlebotomy, assisting nurses with patient admissions, clinic flow and clinic clerical duties. Ideal candidate will have an interest in working with a diverse patient population working on recovery. Candidate needs to be able to work some weekends and evenings. Mail or fax resumes to Maple Leaf Farm Associates, Inc., 10 Maple Leaf Rd., Underhill, VT 05489. Phone: 802-899-2911 Fax: 802-899-3617 Email: info@mapleleaf.org
The Northeast Community is currently seeking a part-time Personal Care Assistant to provide physical care and support services to the sisters at the Burlington location. Minimum of one year experience with geriatric care in a health care/ retirement setting. Must be available to accommodate weekend and holiday shifts when needed. Please contact Linda Chiasson, House Administrator, at 802-863-6835.
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Executive Director Search The Champlain Senior Center in Burlington, Vt., has an opening for an Executive Director. The Executive Director will be responsible for the overall administration and supervision of the CSC program. Responsibilities include fiscal management, staff supervision, board development, community outreach, fundraising, and program development. 32 hours a week. Salary negotiable. Knowledge of seniors and senior issues desirable. For a more detailed job description: http://www. champlainseniorcenter. org/ Email your resume and cover letter to holly@champsenior.org.
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Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time attorney for its Mental Health Law Project located in Waterbury. VLA represents all persons subject to involuntary mental health treatment in civil proceedings in Vermont, including all patients at Vermont State Hospital. Position involves a substantial trial practice, as well as advocacy for the rights of persons labeled mentally ill and for improvement of the mental health system in all forums. Applicants must have excellent written and oral skills and demonstrated experience in public interest law, civil rights law or legal services. Applicants must be admitted to the Vermont Bar or willing to sit for the next examination.
Fast-paced local web design firm is seeking a talented, energetic professional to provide exceptional customer service to our clients. In this role, you will work independently and as part of a team to ensure our clients are satisfied. Each day will be different and provide you with the opportunity to make decisions that ensure successful client experiences. You will take the initiative to identify and resolve client issues; schedule and coordinate work requests and troubleshoot minor technical issues. Attention to detail and a commitment to timely follow-through with our customers are required. We’re looking for someone who can perform these functions courteously and communicate with clarity to our customers via phone and email. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits. Come help Vermont Design Works continue its exceptional level of customer service. To request an interview, please submit a cover letter, resume, and three references to jobs@vtdesignworks.com.
Salary is $40,000+ D.O.E. and excellent fringe benefits. Send resume, references and writing sample by February 25 to: Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Sandy Burns Vermont Legal Aid P.O. Box 1367 Burlington, VT 05402
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Gallagher, Flynn & Company is assisting local companies with searches for the following positions:
Financial Analyst
help manage costing and inventory, prepare monthly financial packages, special projects. Position could grow to accounting Manager. bs plus five years of finance work in manufacturing required. burlington area.
Manufacturing Engineer
Provide support to shop floor, engineering, purchasing, quality and contract administration. Problem-solving to improve manufacturing capabilities, quality and efficiency. lean experience required; three to five years of manufacturing experience desired. burlington area.
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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS! Colchester FT deli clerk Day shift,
possibly some nights and weekends. Baking/cooking experienced preferred.
PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays. Contact Crystal at 156 Roosevelt Highway, Colchester.
Winooski FT Assistant Manager
Senior Design Engineer
Plan and direct projects through all stages of design, development, manufacture, test and commissioning. Provide client technical support. bsMe plus 6-10 years of manufacturing engineering design with industrial rotating machinery required, plus solidworks and asMe code knowledge. burlington area.
Prior experience preferred. Must be available all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays. Contact Judi at jwilson@champlainfarms.com.
Human Resource Generalist
benefits administration and renewal coordination, FMla, workers’ comp administration, maintaining employee files, updating hris/payroll system. Degree plus three years of hr administrative experience desired, preferably in manufacturing. st. albans area. Please submit resume and cover letter for any of the positions described above to: Frank Sadowski Gallagher, Flynn & Company fsadowski@gfc.com
PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays. Contact Amber at 280 East Allen St., Winooski.
Enosburg PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays Contact Dan at 127 Main St., Enosburg. No phone calls, please!
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Building & ProPerty Manager We are seeking an experienced and licensed Building & Property Manager to manage the day-to-day and long-term maintenance of our 8000 sq. ft. property and grounds. This individual will be responsible for building cleanliness, maintenance, and upkeep of the property including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, septic and control systems. Develop/manage outside vendor contracts as deemed necessary to maintain property/ equipment preservation. Coordinate procurement of equipment, supplies and material; ensure compliance with all applicable state and federal codes, laws, standards and regulations; hands-on experience and/or in-depth knowledge dealing with HVAC, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and control systems within the total framework of building maintenance. Projects/repairs to improve the work environment. Knowledge of OSHA, MSDS, safety and security issues are desirable. This is a “hands-on” position responsible for the supervision of our part-time custodial staff and one per-diem maintenance helper. We require that this individual be accessible 24/7 via pager to handle/ respond to emergency situations. The position requires specific vocational knowledge and technical expertise in a variety of areas. A license in HVAC, electrical, plumbing is desirable. A license to operate Transit Non-Community and NonTransit Non-Community water wells is preferred. In addition, the individual must have 7 years progressively responsible experience in building systems, project and grounds maintenance, as well as 3 years supervisory experience. This is a management position requiring a minimum of 32 hours per week reporting directly to the Executive Director. Interested parties should send their letter of interest with resume to cpaquette@achhh.org or directly to C. Paquette, director, Human resources, aCHHH, P.o. Box 754, Middlebury, Vt 05753.
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MUSIC – BAND DIRECTOR(S) Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt., invites applications for one or two adjunct instructors to direct the Concert Band and Big-Band Jazz Ensemble. The successful applicant(s) will be energetic and charismatic and have experience recruiting busy undergraduate musicians; selecting and preparing appropriate repertory; developing students’ musicianship and ensemble; and planning and leading concerts and short tours. A relevant degree in conducting or music education is preferred. Candidates should apply online at http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com, and will be required to electronically upload a letter of application and a performance/teaching resume. Reference letter required—see website for full ad. Deadline for application is March 1, 2011. 3h-StMikes-020911.indd 1
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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for a full-time position with benefits, in the Facilities Department of northern New England’s premier performing arts center.
CHIEF CUSTODIAN The Chief Custodian is responsible for coordinating, overseeing, and carrying out a full range of custodial and support services for the presentations, programs, and building and grounds operated by the Flynn Center. Responsibilities include: coordinating and carrying out day/nightof-show house and backstage custodial functions; managing school bus parking for student matinees; general custodial and maintenance duties, including snow removal; and the ability to function as back-up for the Director of Facilities. Requirements include: the physical ability to do heavy custodial work; positive/helpful demeanor; a vehicle and a driver’s license with a clean DMV record; the ability to work a flexible schedule; and good basic trades/mechanical skills. Residence in close proximity to the facility and experience with HVAC systems is a plus. High school diploma or GED and prior commercial experience. Visit us at www.flynncenter.org for a more detailed description. Send a cover letter and resume by February 18, 2011 to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Human Resources Department, 153 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401, or email tocmarshall@flynncenter.org. No PHoNE CAllS, PlEASE. EoE NWR-11-020 PT Chief Operating 10v-NMC020911.indd 1 Officer7D.indd 1 5v-FlynnCenter-020911.indd 1
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Licensed Psychotherapist & Full-Time Clinician
Full-/part-time
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The Adams Center for Mind and Body, LLC, is expanding its practice to accommodate its client growth. We have one immediate opening for a licensed psychotherapist and full-time clinician with at least three years of experience postlicensure. We would prefer individuals with some experience working with eating disorders and an interest in working on a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should be able to bill for Medicaid and commercial insurance. Interested candidates with one of the following skills: EMDR level two, hypnosis, expressive arts and other mind/body psychotherapies, please send resume to:
to rent space in my small, busy, nicely located salon in Williston. Must be licensed and have own insurance. Come and talk to me at 590 N. Brownell Rd., or call 802-864-0703.
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The Adams Center for Mind and Body is an outpatient psychotherapy practice specializing in traditional and alternative therapies.
www.theadamscenter.com Phone: 802-859-1577 • Fax: 802-859-1571
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Burlington, VT Navigant Consulting seeks an experienced consultant to join our energyefficiency consulting practice in Burlington, Vt. This individual will perform a wide range of activities including energy simulation modeling, research and spreadsheet analysis, market and technology assessments (including possible field work on residential and commercial buildings), and energy-efficiency program and policy planning and evaluation. Qualified candidates will have a strong interest in energy efficiency, ability to multitask, and a BS in engineering (preferably mechanical or electrical) with 4 years of relevant experience or master’s, with at least 2 years of relevant experience. Candidates with SAS and eQuest experience helpful. Please send resume, cover letter, and three references to eric.skoien@ navigantconsulting.com with “Vermont” in the subject title as well as applying at: www.navigantconsulting.com/careers/experienced_hires/
Send letter of application, resume and three references to (or apply in person):
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AdministrAtive AssistAnt Colchester: Full time—40 hours per week
Superintendent’s Office 60 Normand St. Winooski, VT 05404 (802) 655-0485 www.winooski.k12.vt.us
This full-time position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible, paid time off. Visit our web site, www.vtadultlearning.org for more information. Resume Deadline: February 11, 2011
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Vermont Adult Learning, a nonprofit statewide provider of adult education and literacy services, seeks an organized and outgoing individual to provide administrative assistance at the Learning Center located in Colchester, Vt. 2C-WinooskiSchoolDist-020911.indd Senior Vice
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The Institute for Sustainable Communities, an international nonprofit, is seeking a Senior Vice President for Operations E q u a l Op p Ort uni t y E mp l OyEr and Finance. This position provides the leadership and management necessary to ensure that proper financial and 4t-VtAdultLearning-020211.indd 1Designed for women. Built for the outdoors. 1/31/11 3:26:59 PM operational controls, reporting procedures and IT systems are in place. Successful candidate has the ability to create and manage a multi-year, multiWe need an energetic and creative Marketing Commillion dollar budget, manage munications Coordinator to develop and execute diverse international workforce, projects including sponsorships, dealer events, point-ofmanage information technology purchase materials, sales tools and trade shows. systems and strategically allocate resources for growth This person is responsible for setting up and managing two trade shows each year; producing engaging collateral materials for our sales reps and stability. International and dealers; and developing grassroots promotions and events for development experience consumers and dealers. and a minimum of ten years’ professional experience The successful candidate will have excellent project-management, required. See www.iscvt.org communication and customer-service skills. Experience with Microsoft for full details and application Office required, Illustrator and Photoshop experience a plus. Must be instructions. creative, detail-oriented, solution-focused and an efficient multitasker.
Marketing Communications Coordinator
Must thrive in a high-energy and fast-paced environment. We seek a team player with a positive attitude, enthusiasm and an ability to exhibit grace under pressure! Prior marketing experience required. Send resume to: ISIS, Attn: Jean, 1 Mill St., Suite 203, Burlington, VT 05401, or email to jean.kissner@isisforwomen.com.
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Energy Efficiency Engineer and Technology Consultant
Financial Manager
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Select Design is seeking a Financial Manager. We are a brand development company headquartered in Burlington, Vermont working with innovative brands to create and deliver visual solutions for every consumer engagement. Our clients include Pepsi, Moët Hennessy, Burton, Gatorade, Timberland and Dunkin' Donuts. We conceptualize appropriate, quality programs and products and deliver them in a timely manner. The Finance team works closely with all internal groups to ensure that our process is efficient, accurate and cost effective. This position will lead our finance and admin team in Burlington, as well as providing administrative oversight of our office in Taichung, Taiwan. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, management of A/R and A/P functions, margin review and analysis, oversight of credit policy for domestic and international vendors and clients, monthly and annual reconciliation and budgeting. AN APPROPRIATE CANDIDATE WILL: Appreciate our culture, and be committed to adding to it. Be a dynamic leader, able to work with senior management to define and refine our vision and then articulate that vision to the admin team. Embrace a fluid, creative environment and exhibit a curiosity as it relates to evolving and growing our administrative capabilities. The most important qualities for this position are a passion for doing great work, the ability to work collaboratively, a desire to learn, and infectious energy. Individual should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have experience working with confidential information. A working knowledge of Filemaker Pro database maintenance is preferred, but not required. Salary based on both experience and factors mentioned above. Benefits include 401k, profit sharing, health, dental, paid vacation, and an amazing workplace. Email resume & letter of interest to: careers2@selectdesign.com. Visit www.selectdesign.com for more info.
ISC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Developmental ServiceS Executive Director The Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC), a national nonprofit corporation based in Montpelier, Vermont, is seeking a skilled executive director to build on our exceptional work in establishing community-scale biomass applications for environmental benefit and community economic development. The ideal candidate will share BERC’s commitment to developing sustainable biomass energy projects. Reporting to the board of directors, he or she will provide leadership, manage the organization’s day-to-day affairs, and work with the board and staff to chart its future direction. The position does not require a technical background in biomass or renewable energy, but an understanding of renewable energy issues, policies, and opportunities, especially at the institutional and community levels, is highly desirable. For more information on BERC and a full job description, visit www.biomasscenter.org. To apply, email resume, cover letter and salary requirements to: kingsley@inrsllc.com, or BERC Search Committee c/o INRS llc 107 Elm Street, Suite 100-G Portland, ME 04101 Resume reviews will begin on February 15, 2011. BERC is an equal opportunity employer.
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IntensIve CommunIty support Worker Interesting 16-year-old man on the autism spectrum with a great sense of humor and an active lifestyle needs 20 afternoon hours of support in the Richmond/Burlington area. This guy thrives with structure and someone who is confident and comfortable, understated and sensitive to communication issues. Great opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge, learn/practice behavior management strategies and different communication techniques. Ideal candidate is a near-peer-age male who also enjoys reading, going to the gym and hiking. Benefits eligible. CrIsIs InterventIon speCIalIst Seeking a skilled and dynamic individual to provide crisis supports for people with developmental disabilities. Ideal candidate will have a combination of significant clinical and interpersonal skills. 30 hours/week, nights and potentially weekends. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Outstanding opportunity for graduate students. resIdentIal InstruCtor This busy South Burlington home offers the right conscientious, detail- and team-oriented individual the chance to work with an energetic team providing residential support and training to six developmentally disabled women. Focus of the work is in basic living, vocational skill development, and taking part in many social and community activities. Have fun every day while growing professionally and personally. Some personal care and household duties required. 40 awake overnight hours. traInIng speCIalIst 21-year-old woman is looking for 25 hours of weekday support. She enjoys taking classes at the Resource Center, visiting with friends, music, and attending social activities. Ideal candidate is a near-peer-age female with a gentle, easygoing approach. Schedule is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Benefits eligible.
mental HealtH anD SubStance abuSe admInIstratIve assIstant I Seeking a self-motivated individual to provide administrative support for The Chittenden Clinic (Burlington’s methadone clinic.) This is a part-time position. The candidate should possess excellent computer skills including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook. Excellent writing skills are a plus. The candidate should be able to demonstrate high-level skills in organization, multitasking, priority management, stress management and time management. Candidate must have the ability to independently manage assigned projects with minimal supervision. Candidate must be able to successfully pass a background check. Education: High school diploma required. Work experience: Minimum 2 years experience in the workplace, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge could be acquired. Afternoon, evening or weekend coverage may be required. admInIstratIve assIstant II Seeking a self-motivated individual to provide administrative support for The Chittenden Clinic (Burlington’s methadone clinic.) This is a part-time position with pro-rated benefits. The candidate should be proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook. The ideal candidate will be familiar with data entry, and creating and running reports. The candidate should be able to demonstrate high-level skills in organization, multitasking, priority management, stress management and time management. Candidate must have the ability to independently manage assigned projects with minimal supervision. Candidate must be able to successfully pass a background check. Education: High school diploma required. Work experience: Minimum 2 years experience in the workplace or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge could be acquired. Afternoon, evening or weekend coverage may be required. ClInICIan substanCe abuse - ChIttenden ClInIC The Chittenden Clinic, the methadone program in Chittenden County, is seeking 2 full-time substance abuse clinicians who will provide individual and group counseling to patients who are opioid dependent. Positions will require the candidate to establish and maintain clinic records, address treatment plans, progress in treatment, and coordination of care. Candidates must have a master’s in counseling or social work, and have or be working towards licensure in substance-abuse treatment. Afternoon, evening or weekend coverage may be required. employment Counselor Full-time position working in an evidence-based, supported employment program assisting individuals who are recovering from mental illness with their employment and educational goals. Responsibilities include community-based assessment, skill and comfort level developing a wide range of jobs in the community and a desire to work on a multidisciplinary team. Bachelor’s degree in human services, 2 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 ClInIC The Chittenden Clinic, a Burlington methadone clinic, seeks 2 full-time nurses (RN or LPN). These positions are responsible for safely dispensing methadone and conducting patient education regarding safe methadone practice, harm reduction and general health issues relevant to individuals with opiate addiction and/or other substance abuse problems. Afternoon, evening or weekend coverage may be required.
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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executive chef of the Fairfax Hotel chain, to keep him in mind for any openings. Just before Christmas, says Timms, Bruce phoned him with an offer — the executive chef position at the Jockey Club, the 50-year-old restaurant at the Fairfax at Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. “Every other day one of the embassies is eating here,” Timms marvels. “It’s really like a comeback to the big leagues.” Though Timms has left Vermont, he says he makes a point of feeding visiting politicos a taste of the Green Mountains. “I’m still doing Vermont,” he says. “I’m serving all Vermont cheeses down here.” Those who hope to try Timms’ fare without a trip to the capital are in luck: He says he’ll be at this summer’s sTowE FooD & wInE ClAssIC
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Shelburne eatery Kong Chow has closed its doors. Owner lInDA lung says she needs to spend more time in New York City with her mother, who has health issues. Though fairly new to Chittenden County, the Chinese restaurant was a Rutland institution for 70 years before its move north.
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Earlier this month, Hardwick’s Main Street gained a new face: ConnIE’s kITChEn, a bakery with rich family roots. The business’ first incarnation flourished for nearly two decades under local baker ConnIE kApusTA. It began humbly, with a plate of donuts that sold out at a 1991 yard sale. “My mom was always a very good cook. The [baked goods] kept selling, so she kept doing it,” says TErry CoolBETh, Kapusta’s daughter and proprietor of the new café. Kapusta turned out her signature pies, cookies, cakes and scones for three months
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Resort in Stowe. But Josinsky isn’t nesting. His official title is “seasonal chef,” and he’s working closely with chef de cuisine CorTnEy QuInn to prepare her for his departure later this spring. The resort’s menu under Josinsky has taken a turn toward the rustic meats that made him a James Beard Foundation award nominee at the Bluebird. The chef ’s recent specials have included sweetbreads and braised pig shanks. Housemade sausages and charcuterie are now a part of the regular menu. Josinsky replaces mArk TImms, who finished his twoyear tenure at Topnotch at the end of August 2010. Timms left Vermont following his recent divorce and put out a call to his friend Daniel Bruce,
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In her wake, Solstice’s sous-chef, BrEnT BlACk, has stepped up as one of two chefs at the top of the line. The other recently moved north from Austin’s Driskill Hotel (a sister locale to Stowe in the Destination Resorts group). “These two gentlemen are going to present the very best they have to offer [so we can] see if it is what we are looking for,” says DEAn ABEll, food and beverage director at the resort. “They’ll bounce back and forth off of each other.” Romantic Dining Casual Atmosphere Abell says the menu has undergone a face-lift in the last 27 Bridge St, Richmond few weeks, with the incluTues-Sun • 434-3148 sion of upscale comfort food items such as risotto cakes, New York strip steak, and a steelhead trout served with 12v-toscano020211.indd 1 1/31/11 fried artichokes and hazelnut romesco. “We’re still maintaining the farm-to-table concept as much as we can,” says Abell. He adds that, despite the new arrangement, the search for an executive chef is still officially on.
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every summer, baking them in her garage and selling them wholesale. In 2006, Coolbeth was working for the state of Vermont when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She took a leave of absence to help with the business during her mom’s treatment. When it appeared the cancer might win, Coolbeth quit her job and joined Connie’s permanently, learning her mother’s recipes. Last summer, Kapusta succumbed to her illness. After some soul-searching, Coolbeth realized she wanted to bring Connie’s Kitchen to the next level. “I was able to tell her before she died that I was doing this. She was so happy,” she says. The 10-seat, countrythemed Connie’s Kitchen opened on January 31. In addition to its tried-and-true range of pies, doughnuts and other baked goods, the café is offering breakfast and lunch sandwiches, homemade soups and spEEDEr & EArl’s coffee. Coolbeth is sourcing as many ingredients locally as she can, such as bagels from pATChwork FArm and syrup (for her maple baked beans) from
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ames and I have been together for more than seven years. Besides being hot, he’s the best friend I ever had. We share loves for everything from ethnogeography and Stephen Sondheim to professional wrestling and Street Fighter video games. Of course, eating is a big part of our relationship. We generally dine out three or om t c a four times a week, and . e l ! ro ful nlin ebist cials it’s still exciting for us r s o ou u spe ou every time. See men .ourh daily , w But when we’re ww Plus home, I do all the cooking. On occasions when I’ve traveled for work without him, James has survived entirely on Hungry Man dinners and muffins from Essex’s Bagel Market. His role, supposedly, is to do the dishes, but the stacks of silverware and Schlemmertopfs in Twisted Comfort Food our sink indicate the For full menu and prices visit... contrary. When I discovered www.ourhousebistro.com the couples’ cooking 36 Main Street, Winooski classes at the Healthy (802) 497-1884 Living Learning Center, I thought I might be able to shock him out of his rut. So, 6v-OurHouse020910.indd 1 2/4/11 4:44 PMlast month, we signed up for a class with the particularly jarring title “Vegetarian Feast.” Regular Seven Days readers are familiar with my inhuman blood lust. But consider that, when James tried spaetzle for the first time, he declared it “so good I can’t believe it’s not meat.” This was going to be interesting. As the Learning Center director at Healthy Living, Nina Lesser-Goldsmith has taught several cooking classes each month since the Learning Center’s bright and admirably organized educational kitchen opened at the end of 2009. Though she often works alone, the newlywed says she most enjoys cooking (thanks to our awesome advertisers.) with her husband, Zach Minot. “He’s 44 FOOD
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The rest of the class was just there to be à deux. One of the vegetarians in attendance, Erynne Ross, had brought her husband, Matt Byrne, who admitted he didn’t cook at home — “unless you consider frozen French fries.” After 15 years of marriage, Ross was used to being her family’s chef, she said, but when she saw the listing for the class on Healthy Living’s website, she thought the evening would be a fun, romantic date without the kids. The LesserGoldsmiths asked the class to assemble around the counter where Nina would demonstrate each of the dishes. First came a lesson in perfect pie pastry. As an experienced — dare I say adventurous — cook, I was not expecting to learn much in the class. However, LesserGoldsmith’s explanations of the science behind everything from flaky pastry crust to caramelization were illuminating. We would use both techniques to prepare a winter vegetable and goat cheese galette. Back at our workstation, carefully outfitted with everything we’d need to prepare three courses, I left the pastry making to James. I’m a savory cook, not a baker, and I hoped he might be spurred to take on that role in our household. It appeared this might not be in the cards when, after a valiant struggle on his part, I ended up tying his apron for him. Properly attired, James used a pastry cutter to mash two sticks of butter into two-and-half cups of pastry flour. That is, after a brief attempt at using his hands. Lesser-Goldsmith corrected him, saying he would overheat the dough. “Your hands are almost 100 degrees,” she explained. His fingernails thoroughly crusted with flour and butter, James continued sean metCaLF
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fun to cook with,” she says with a smile. The pair, both culinary school grads, collaborate on courses in fundamentals of professional cooking, but also make time every month to teach a couples’ cooking class. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see the lovebirds at work. Zach was hit hard with the flu the night of our class,
so Nina’s brother and Healthy Living’s general manager, Eli Lesser-Goldsmith, filled in. “You see, you don’t have to bring your significant other,” Nina told the eight assembled attendees. “Any relationship will do.” We started with a short wait for the final couple, who never showed up. Oh, well, more attention for the rest of us! Of the four pairs assembled, only two people (both women) were vegetarians.
food to mix the pastry to a loose consistency, as we’d been taught. If he did it right, he would leave pea-sized chunks of butter, which would melt while baking and make the crust flaky. Before he rolled it into a ball, I recommended he wash his hands. The sink was right behind the demonstration counter, but it eluded him. “That’s a sink? Where are the dishes?” James asked when I pointed it out, only half joking. With the crust balled up and ready to be refrigerated, Lesser-Goldsmith offered praise, “Very good pie crust for your first time,” she reassured him. James was proud. His father, an accomplished home baker, has always considered pie crust something of an Achilles’ heel. With scientific culinary instruction on his side, James thought perhaps he’d “beat” Dad. However, he feared that he’d used up his beginner’s luck.
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The class gathered around the counter for a demonstration of chopping the veggies for the galette. Jamie Oliver would have been saddened by James’ vegetable recognition. He couldn’t even identify a parsnip, though I love mashing them with butter and chicken stock every winter. We shared chopping duties, and then I pan-roasted the carrot, butternut squash, parsnip and celeriac to a deep, caramelized brown, which James described as “Do-Do Brown” — after both poop and the urban comic and star of the 2001 bargain-bin classic Hell 2 Tha Naw. While I finished with the veggies, James began rolling out the now-chilled crust. Lesser-Goldsmith explained to the class that a rustic tart like a galette could be imperfect, needing adjustments only “if you have Florida coming out of it.” Florida-free, James’ crust inspired the instructor to enthuse, “You’re a great roller.” As we both giggled at the nursery-school-level encouragement, Lesser-Goldsmith explained, “You
always have to tell your students when they’re doing well.” I crumbled a whole 6-ounce log of Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery goat cheese over the tart, then handed it off to Eli, who popped it in the oven. “Are we going to put it in the AGA for the beekeepers?” James asked in his best plummy “Two Fat Ladies” accent. But the work wasn’t over. During our next lesson, using a mandoline to slice zucchini for a baked terrine, James became concerned. “I don’t imagine I’ll want to eat this,” he whispered to me. We assembled the terrine in the porcelain dishes we’d been given to take home. Medallions of zucchini first, then caramelized onion and roasted red pepper. Another layer of zucchini and an ample helping of grated parmesan finished the dish. While the baked dishes cooked, we threw together a salad of farro, dried cherries and walnuts in pomegranatemolasses vinaigrette. I started eating it immediately and couldn’t stop. I love my chewy grains. James doesn’t eat fruit and found it too tart. He was much happier with the galette, of which he ate three pieces in quick succession. Even the terrine that had instilled such fear in him turned out to be at least somewhat to his liking. What about the other couples? Over Indian pudding Lesser-Goldsmith had prepared before class, I asked Ross if the evening had lived up to her romantic expectations. Her answer was an emphatic “Yes!” It was romantic for us, too, I guess. We always seem to be the bad kids who won’t shut up when we’re put in structured settings together, and this one was no different. Fun as it was, I was hoping for lasting results. So far, progress has been slow. In the weeks since class, we’ve consumed the remainder of the galette. The second ball of dough we made that night lives on in our freezer. James has expressed some interest in owning a mandoline in service of vague plans to make his dad’s pommes de terre au gratin recipe. “I’m looking forward to seeing what else I can ace on my first try,” he says, scarcely hiding his bravado. Of course, the porcelain vessels from class are still in the sink, crusted in parmesan. In the event of a Pompeii-like catastrophe, an archaeologist will find them somewhere in the second strata of our dinner wreckage. “Once I get those ramekins cleaned, I’ll see if I can make potatoes nearly as tasty without the teacher there,” James says. I think he’ll be all right. We’ll be doing it together. m
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“Stick on your pork-pie hat, grab a slug of moonshine and cut yourself a rug,” says Maverick magazine, for a ragtime hootenanny arrives this week courtesy of Woody Pines. The North Carolina band — composed of Mr. Woody Pines (pictured), Zack Pozebanchuk, Nathan Taylor and Darin Gentry — delivers a dose of country blues and string-band heritage with hobo tunes such as “Chew Tobacco Rug” and “Rich Gal, Poor Gal.” On a tour of the Northeast, they’ll take the stage at Pierce Hall — head gear, plaid shirts and all — as part of Rochester’s Cabin Fever Music Series. The monthlong lineup also includes a concert with blues outfit Melou, and intimate shows every Friday and Saturday through February at Sandy’s Books & Bakery.
One look at Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen in Twilight explains why vampires are so sexy these days. But the folkloric beings have been making ladies swoon — more from their bloodthirsty ways than from their pallid good looks — since well before “True Blood” and Interview With the Vampire. We have Bram Stoker to thank for that. Saranac Lake’s Pendragon Theatre pays homage to his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula with a touring production. There has been “so much vampire popular culture ... in the last few years,” says Pendragon managing director Bob Pettee, “and we wanted to return to ‘DRACULA’ the original.” Working from the first Thursday, February 10, 7:30 p.m., at Hartman script adaptations of the novel, Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY penned in the 1920s, Plattsburgh, N.Y. $2-10. 518-891-1854 or the play is teeming 518-564-2283. pendragontheatre.com with bats, blood and other spooky “theatrical magic.”
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Perfect Timing “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” Today’s teens might not phrase it so eloquently, but surely Shakespeare’s tender words capture the headiness of first love no matter the era. Still, younger audiences sometimes need convincing — so the Acting Company and Guthrie Theater switch it up in an interpretation of Romeo and Juliet set in the early 20th century. “Although it was a hundred years ago, there are photos and films of this period, which I think makes it more accessible,” ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ director Penny Metropulos explains in Wednesday, February 16, 10 a.m. and an email. As far as the plot goes, well, 7 p.m., at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury swordplay and star-crossed lovers never go Academy. $12-32. Info, 748-2600. catamountarts.org/kcpromeo.php out of style.
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SEABA SWEETHEARTS SOIREE: South Enders socialize at a Valentine-themed affair with sweet treats, live music by the Queen City Hot Club, tango demonstrations, art and raffle prizes. SEABA Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10 for members; $15 for nonmembers; cash bar. Info, 859-9222.
NETWORKING LUNCHEON FOR VERMONT HEALERS: Area herbalists, health practitioners, educators and others receive advice on “How to Create a Marketing and Promotional Plan for Your Business.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 225-5960, info@ver monthealers.org.
VERMONT NONPROFIT LEGISLATIVE DAY: Nonprofit colleagues meet legislators and gain usable advocacy skills in workshops. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Common Good Vermont annual meeting, 9:30-10 a.m. $10. Info, 862-1645, ext. 21.
MRV MINI-BUSINESS EXPO: Local businesses showcase their services, products and career opportunities. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 3-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.
WINTER BUSINESS FAIR: Established businesses and entrepreneurs network and share what makes their companies stand out. Burlington City Hall Auditorium and the Lorraine B. Good Room, BCA Center, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7144.
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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.
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SOLAR-POWER SEMINAR: Solar educator and system designer Doug Wells answers questions about making homes and businesses more efficient and earth-friendly. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918 or 223-7014.
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ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Call for cancellations in inclement weather. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
LUNCH & LEARN: Green thumbs learn how to “Breathe New Life Into Seasonally Blooming Plants” from speaker Judith Keyes. Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Break bread in Hebrew on Mondays, Italian on Tuesdays, Spanish on Wednesdays, French on Thursdays or German on
‘INSPECTOR BELLAMY’: A Parisian inspector gets roped into a case while on a family vacation in this wry 2009 crime thriller. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. LGBTQ MOVIE NIGHT: Popcorn accompanies a screening of Rose Troche’s 1994 film Go Fish, about a small group of lesbian friends in Chicago. R.U.1.2? Community Center, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812. ‘PENNIES FROM HEAVEN’: Look out for fancy footwork by Steve Martin and Christopher Walken in Herbert Ross’ 1981 film about a sheet-music salesman. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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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. FEELGOOD COMMUNITY DINNER: Ten percent of proceeds from drinks or dinner benefits this UVM student-led movement, working to empower people to end world hunger. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 203-417-7421. FIVE CORNERS FARMERS MARKET WINTER SUSTAINABILITY SERIES: Chef Courtney Contos whips up localvore dishes, such as Caribbean squash soup with herbed Vermont goat cheese, and chocolate lava cakes with cider-poached cranberries. Space is limited; preregister. Essex Junction Senior Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955 or 879-6701, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com
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‘ALL GOOD THINGS’: A real-life, high-profile murder investigation inspired this 2010 period mystery starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.
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EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD MEETING: Needleworkers check out the sewing projects of their peers and get a little stitching done. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.
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‘The Open Table’: Chefs Claudine Marlett and Michael Hays prepare a community meal for diners who contribute what they can, whether it be in money, labor, skills or simply their company. LACE, Barre, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 476-4276.
health & fitness
‘STay FiT While yOu SiT’: Stuck in a chair all day? Ward off neck, back and repetitive-motion problems by learning how to sit properly at a desk and take stretching breaks. Space is limited; preregister. Creative Habitat, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0646.
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herbal ValenTineS: Instructor Dana L. Woodruff helps folks dabble with sense-heightening ingredients such as chocolate, roses, damiana and cayenne. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
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babyTime: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-3659. Children’S STOry Time: Budding bookworms pore over pages. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. enOSburg playgrOup: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FairFax playgrOup: Multicultural stories and activities accent child’s play. Health Room. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. high SChOOl bOOk grOup: Bookworms crack open the tomes they like to read. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. highgaTe STOry hOur: Good listeners soak up classic fairy tales. Highgate Public Library, Highgate Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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iCe SkaTing FOr hOmeSChOOlerS: Independent learners hit the ice. Ice Barn, Milton, noon-2 p.m. $3 includes skating and rentals; $10 for skating lessons. Info, 893-4237. middle SChOOl bOOk grOup: Young people discuss their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. milTOn baby playgrOup: New moms, dads and babies socialize on a weekly basis. New Life Fellowship, Milton, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4922. mOnTgOmery STOry hOur: Little lit lovers flip pages before snacking. Montgomery Town Library, Montgomery Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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mOVing & grOOVing WiTh ChriSTine: Young ones jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome.
preSChOOl STOryTime: Tots ages 3 to 5 read picture books, play with puppets and do math activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
‘Why Fair Trade?’: Panelists Dr. Jeffrey Ayres, Dr. Robert Letovsky, Gaby Ochoa and Sandy Wynne converse about political, economic, ethical and practical issues. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
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huun huur Tu: The Tuvan throat-singing group preserves one of the oldest forms of music making. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 9:30 a.m. $6. Info, 728-6464.
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Valley nighT: The Phineas Gage Project produce folk and grassicana beats. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.
‘OliVer TWiST’: Charles Dickens’ original words thread through a new take on his novel, presented by Vermont Stage Company and featuring original music by David Symons. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966.
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nighT rider SerieS: Skiers and riders compete in the illuminated terrain parks for prizes. Bolton Valley Resort, 4:30 p.m. $18 includes lift ticket; $12 for season-pass holders. Info, 434-6804.
‘STreeT beaT’: Urban rhythms, dancing and drumming on found objects collide in this high-energy show. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. $4. Info, 748-2600.
TradiTiOnal JapaneSe ShOTOkan karaTe-dO Open hOuSe: Classes balance traditional karate training with physical and mental activities emphasizing character growth, personal safety, selfrespect and more. Sports & Fitness Edge, Williston, 7 p.m. Free for beginners. Info, 825-5489.
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Flynn CenTer/FleTCher Free bOOk diSCuSSiOn grOup: Author Marc Estrin leads bibliophiles in a gab about Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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‘aquariuS and The rebirTh OF gnOSTiC ChriSTianiTy’: A PowerPoint presentation illuminates the relevance of Gnosticism in our times. 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosycross.org. ‘bOrderS, bOundarieS and bullieS’ leCTure SerieS: A weekly series explores the mental and physical walls that divide us, as well as the ties that bind us together. Political scientist and economics instructor Kara Alnasrawi discusses free residence and restricted immigration. Burlington College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. geOrge ‘peSkunCk’ larabee: A member of the Abenaki Sokokiak Nation of Missisquoi covers the history, culture and language of this New England tribe. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. keiTh mOrriS: In “Intro to Permaculture Design: Human Beings as Keystone Species,” the ecological designer briefs listeners on how to create agriculturally productive human habitats. UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 864-3073. lamOille COunTy OSher leCTure SerieS: From transnational identity to regime change to oil politics, UVM professor F. Gregory Gause explores “American ‘En-Gulfed’: Why Every American President Gets Caught in the Persian Gulf.” Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9011.
Performance Inc. team. Continental breakfast provided. Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. Free, if it’s your first time; $15 for nonmembers. Info, 373-8379.
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ameriCan red CrOSS blOOd driVe: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints, and are rewarded with prize opportunities. Charlotte Senior Center, 2-7 p.m. Free. Info, 425-6345. 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. kniTTerS’ nighT: Stitchers keep their hands busy with yarn, glasses of wine and free chocolate desserts by the woodstove. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-9 p.m. Free; wine priced by the glass. Info, 388-7368. lunCh in a FOreign language: See WED.09, noon-1 p.m. peChakuCha nighT: Drawing its title from the Japanese word for “chit chat,” this worldwide phenomenon — a presentation of community projects, ideas, thoughts and designs — comes to Burlington. Marble Court, Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. $3-5. Info, 656-8582.
maJOr JaCkSOn: As part of JSC’s Spring Author Series, the award-winning Vermont poet reads work aloud. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1343.
Tax aSSiSTanCe: Tax counselors straighten up financial affairs for low- and middle-income taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and over. Call ahead for an appointment. Kolvoord Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
Spring healThSOurCe ClaSS: Nutrition educator and author Joan Dye Gussow looks to the future of food and sustainability in her new book Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life and Vegetables. Preregister. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2278.
‘The ShadOW eFFeCT: illuminaTing The hidden pOWer OF yOur True SelF’: In this fiveweek class and book-study group, students explore the parts of themselves they would rather not be. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo.com.
WriTerS’ grOup: Wordsmiths put pen to paper in response to prompts — and then share their results. Johnson Public Library, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-5541.
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‘yOu COme, TOO’: Spend winter considering the words of influential poets, including Mary Oliver and Emily Dickinson, through readings and discussion. Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626, ext. 304.
‘all gOOd ThingS’: See WED.09, 7 p.m. ‘blue VelVeT’: David Lynch wrote and directed this 1986 thriller about the corrupt underbelly of a peaceful suburban town. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘inSpeCTOr bellamy’: See WED.09, 7 p.m.
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‘run, FaTbOy, run’: Simon Pegg plays a pudgy slacker who tries to win his ex-fiancé back by running a marathon in David Schwimmer’s 2007 comedy. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com.
VermOnT COnSulTanTS neTWOrk meeTing: Biz kids take in a talk on “Kicking Consulting Sales Into High Gear” by John Burton and the Network
‘The dark Side OF ChOCOlaTe’: The title of this 2010 documentary doesn’t refer to semisweet or bittersweet varieties, but rather the child
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Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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trafficking and slave labor that help produce them. Herbalist Sandra Lory leads a postfilm talk about Fair Trade chocolate and more. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.
food & drink
ChoColate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m.
health & fitness
alexanDer teChnique Class: Learn to move with ease and freedom as instructors Sami Pincus and Stephanie Sohns address negative posture and movement habits that cause stress, tension, discomfort and pain. Touchstone Healing Arts School, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $25 to drop in. Info, 777-3370 or 310-4610. strong living exerCise: Fitness enthusiasts undergo strength training for good health. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 443-1654.
Ski Museum. Info, 253-9216, stowederby@team mmsc.org.
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Colman mCCarthy: The founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C., offers direction in building a more peaceful world. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free; tickets required. Info, 468-1119. Dr. elliott Fisher: The director of the Center for Population Health puts in his two cents about “Achieving a Sustainable Health Care System.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. milton Community youth Coalition’s broWn bag series: Tony Moulton of the Women’s Rape Crisis Center supplies parents with ways to “Empower Your Teen to Build Healthy Relationships.” New Life Fellowship, Milton, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.
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toDD leCture series: Lieutenant General John F. Kelley, United States Marine Corps, delivers a lecture. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2080, malbury@ norwich.edu.
‘Create!’: Third to eighth graders make personalized pet rocks. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
Walter kulash: In “Transportation and Community Character,” the traffic engineer addresses flow problems that are common in many Vermont towns. A Q&A follows. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
alburgh playgroup: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Alburgh Family Center, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
FletCher playgroup: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin story hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. georgia playgroup: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Georgia Youth Center, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. kiDs’ story time: Snacks and activities chase an hour of tales. LACE, Barre, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4276. musiC With raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
poetry-Writing group: Seventh- to 12th-grade scribes strengthen their stanzas. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
theater
‘4xChekhov’: The Valley Players present four short Chekhov sketches that spell out the life cycle of love. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 583-1674, valleyplayers@madriver.com. ‘a miDsummer night’s Dream’: The Bard’s fairydosed romantic comedy comes to the stage under the direction of Johnson State College adjunct professor Margo Whitcomb. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1476.
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book DisCussion series: ‘WorlD War ii: the loss oF the age oF innoCenCe’: Readers immerse themselves in the coming-of-age themes present in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. paul leFebvre: The author of Perimeter Check: Essays From Vermont’s Upper Kingdom reads from his new book to fiddle tunes by Susan Reid. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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‘ski inn’ & lunCh: Cross-country skiers explore the scenic lodge trails in a group excursion, returning in time for a soup and sandwich buffet. Please call ahead. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 9:45 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 533-2647.
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‘DraCula’: Pendragon Theatre presents the precursor to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “True Blood” and Twilight: Bram Stoker’s bloody horror tale. See calendar spotlight. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $2-10. Info, 518-8911854 or 518-564-2283.
story hour: A reader gives voice to pages of children’s prose. Block Gallery, Winooski, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.
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‘all Weather ballaDs: a love story’: As part of Lost Nation Theater’s Winterfest, Sandglass Theater explores the modern rural experience with two puppets. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 229-0492.
opera night: Theatergoers catch a rebroadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s La Rondine. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 496-8994.
noontime musiC: Aurora Ancient Music perform airs from an earlier time. Coffee and tea provided. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.
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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. Dance Social: Two half-hour lessons in the waltz and swing precede open dancing. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $10-15. Info, 598-6757. Limón Dance Company: Founded by a man responsible for shaping American modern dance, this troupe presents José Limón’s 1956 work There Is a Time and Anna Sokolow’s 1955 piece Rooms. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free preperformance lecture, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery. $25-45. Info, 863-5966. Queen City Contra Dance: Owen Marshall, and Ari and Mia Friedman serenade organized movers in soft-soled shoes. 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. Tango Fridays: Learn the footwork and adopt the attitude for this sensual dance through a TangoFlow workout and beginning technique class. The Art House, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $20 to drop in. Info, 458-0464.
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Lunch in a Foreign Language: See WED.09, noon-1 p.m. ‘Name That Movie!’: Cinemaddicts try to correctly title films by screening a barrage of short clips at happy hour. The CinéClub, Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. $2.50. Info, 229-0598. Nan O’Brien: Got a question for the great beyond? This medium and intuitive counselor offers insight into life situations. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $40-50. Info, 382-9222. ‘Share the Love’ Bash: Love is in the air at CarShare Vermont’s annual party and fundraiser, a love-themed soiree featuring a silent auction and music for dancing. Union Station, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $15-25; cash bar. Info, 861-2340, info@carsharevt.org.
schedule. Various locations, Grand Isle, 8 p.m. Various prices. Info, 372-8400 or 372-4161. Milton Community Winter Festival: Neighbors savor the season with moonlight snowshoeing, ice skating, a bonfire, fireworks, sled races and snow sculptures. Bombardier Recreation Park, Milton, 6:30-8 p.m. $2 per sleigh ride. Info, 893-6655.
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‘Lost Boys of Sudan’: Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk’s 2003 documentary charts the travels of two Sudanese refugees from Africa to America. Proceeds support youth leaders in a servicelearning project and help them attend the national PeaceJam conference. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10 donation. Info, 863-2345, ext. 3.
food & drink
Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m.
health & fitness
Beginner Yoga Class: Newbies practice the physical and mental aspects of this Indian discipline with instructor Don Randall. Randall Retreat, Monkton, 6:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 233-8403.
kids
Berlin Story Time: Through finger plays and lively narratives, tiny tots learn to like literature. First Congregational Church, Berlin, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Children’s Story Time: See WED.09, 10:30 a.m. Comics Club: Doodlers, writers and readers alike have fun with the funnies. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Drop-In Story Time: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers enjoy stories from picture books accompanied by finger plays and action rhymes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956, brownell_library@yahoo.com. Fairfax Playgroup: See WED.09, 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. 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. Science & Stories: Little ones have a hoot learning about what makes owls such stellar nighttime hunters. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.
Tertulia Latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.
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.
‘have heART’: Lovebirds make their own valentines, and artists are on hand to do custom work, at this benefit for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. The Drawing Board, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. & 5-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-2306.
Teen Movie: Emma Stone sets the rumor mill a-churning in Easy A, a modern take on The Scarlet Letter. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:25 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
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Great Ice in Grand Isle: Ice skating, dogsled rides, a roaring bonfire, the Chamber Chili Cook-Off, performances by the Logger, film screenings and an ice-fishing derby make the frozen landscape a little more fun. Visit champlainislands.com for
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Bluegrass Gospel Project: Six bluegrassAmericana acoustic-playing Northeasterners cook up some soulful tunes. Proceeds benefit the Peru Community Arts Council. Peru Community Church, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 518-569-7731.
Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde: The English folk duo play an acoustic show filled with hits, humor and storytelling. Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $25-30. Info, 877-6737, info@vergennesoperahouse.org. Jake Wildwood: The Rochester-based folk and swing artist threads in heartfelt lyrics. Sandy’s Books & Bakery, Rochester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 767-4258.
of alchemy in a digital context. The three-person group also releases a new album, Protocol Analysis Volume One. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5. Info, 578-3273.
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Graphic Novel Readers & Creators: Graphic designer and comic-book fan Rick Evans facilitates discussion and networking centered on illustrated narratives. Phoenix Books, Essex, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.
Jeanne & the HiTops: A high-energy fusion of reggae, Memphis soul, R&B, Tex-Mex and blues keeps dancers on their toes as the band celebrates its 20th anniversary. Upper Gallery, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $8-10; cash bar. Info, 728-6464, tickets@chandlerarts.org. Pete Sutherland & Friends: Colin McCaffrey, Tim Cummings, Karen Sutherland, and more than two dozen singers and fiddlers add their notes to this folk musician’s songs. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
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Skate Vermont: Workshops and races grace the longest maintained skate trail in the United States. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, February 11-13. Free. Info, 800-423-1211. Traditional Japanese Shotokan Karate-do Open House: See WED.09, 7 p.m.
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Elaine Parker: The Vermont author discusses “Harsh Continent: Living and Working in Antarctica for Three Years.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. ‘New Perspectives on Capital Punishment’: Scholars, litigators and educators open up about the death penalty at this symposium also honoring the work of the late Michael Mello, former VLS faculty member and human-rights champion. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 814-279-1402.
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‘4xChekhov’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See THU.10, 7 p.m. ‘All Weather Ballads: A Love Story’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. ‘Complete Hollywood: Abridged’: Pendragon Theatre condenses 186 of Tinseltown’s greatest films into a hilarious cinematic lineup. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $12-14. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘FDR’: Seven-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner emulates this iconic president in a one-man drama. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $25.50-36.50. Info, 775-0903. ‘Never Give Up: The Story of Lavinia Bell’: Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux reenacts the journey of a woman who traveled from Texas to Rouses Point, N.Y., to escape slavery in this world premiere. Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-0277. ‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘Vincent’: Jim Jarrett stars in Leonard Nimoy’s acclaimed one-man show about the brother of Vincent van Gogh. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $25-32. Info, 253-3000. ‘}hexdump{: transmutation’: Sound, light, video and interactive “rituals” meld in this experimental art performance exploring the meaning
Tom Slayton: The Vermont author of Searching for Thoreau speaks on “Tracking Our First and Greatest Naturalist Through the Wilds of New England.” Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-6206.
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Big Action Performance Ensemble Open Rehearsal: Members of the experimental dancetheater company based in Middlebury shape up for a future performance. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Contra Dance Benefit: Kick up those heels — in soft-soled shoes, of course — to melodies by Susan Reid, Aaron Marcus, George White and Franklin Heyburn. Proceeds go to NOFA Vermont’s Farmer Emergency Fund, and silent-auction items support Pete’s Greens. Gymnasium, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7:30-11 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 828-8555, feb12contradance@gmail.com. Guest Artist Workshop Series: Burlingtonbased dance/theater artist Paul Besaw helps participants find the music through concepts related to music theory, dynamics and intuitive response. Preregister. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $24. Info, 229-4676. Modern Dance Master Class: Limón Dance Company artistic director Carla Maxwell teaches the world-renowned “Limón Technique.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $20; space is limited; preregister. Info, 863-5966. Norwich Contra Dance: Hawaiian Night: Folks in soft-soled shoes take a turn on the dance floor to music by Northern Spy and Doug Creighton. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $8; free for under 16; donations accepted for seniors. Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu.
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‘Sustainable Scandinavian Systems’: Listeners embark on a tour of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland with speaker Erik Hansen, learning about sustainable practices and how we can improve North American ecological efforts. Montgomery Town Library, Montgomery Center, 7-9 p.m. $5-8; free for kids. Info, 326-4799.
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Annual Dinner & Silent Auction: Dining and bidding supports the Pico Ski Education Foundation. RSVP. Rutland Country Club, Rutland, 5:30 p.m. $50. Info, 773-3735, skiice2@hotmail. com. Book Sale: Bibliophiles pick up reading material, from how-tos to historical fiction and autobiographies to audiobooks. Richmond Free Library, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.
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Book-Binding Workshop: Hardcover books metamorphosize into journals, sketchbooks or scrapbooks at this “creative reuse” endeavor. ReSTORE, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 658-4143. ‘Comedy Lounge’: Vermont Comedy Club presents Nathan Hartswick, Ryan Kriger, Carmen Lagala and Colin Ryan. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994. Crafty Second Saturdays: History buffs celebrate the 156th birthday of Wilson A. Bentley, the Jericho man who was one of the first known photographers of snowflakes, with an art project. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Regular museum admission, $3-5; free for children under 5. Info, 828-2180. Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. Preregister. VCAM studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692. NOFA Vermont Winter Conference: Farmers, gardeners, localvores and other players in the state’s local food community gain momentum for the movement through keynote speeches and more than 70 workshops. Visit nofavt.org for schedule and locations. University of Vermont, Burlington, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. $5060 per day, or $95-115 for both days. Info, 434-4122.
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Burlington Winter Farmers Market: Vendors sell ethnic cuisine, pottery, artisan cheese and anything else they can produce in the cold. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. Cheese Samples: Cabot Cheese representatives decked out in plaid dole out dairy products on the slopes and in the Base Lodge. Bolton Valley Resort, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-6804. Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 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.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Recipe Demos: Get a taste — literally — of the dishes featured in the library’s brand-new Centennial Cookbook: 100 Years of Cooking and 100 Years of How-to. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. 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.
‘RealityFix’: Comedian Jason P. Lorber emcees a story slam, where participants spin true, 5-minute tales about “saying goodbye” to win favor with the judges: the audience. North End Studio, Burlington, 8-9:45 p.m. $5. Info, 863-6713. ‘Share the Love, Share the WARMTH’: Get into the Valentine’s Day mood at the vineyard, where wine tastings, chocolate samplings and chair massages await. Partial proceeds support WARMTH Emergency Heating Assistance for low-income Vermonters. Shelburne Vineyard, 1-5 p.m. $5-10; $10 per chair massage. Info, 985-8222.
Vermont Regional Brain Bee: High schoolers interested in neuroscience and the functions of the human mind participate in a written and oral competition. Lab tours, educational talks and more follow. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 388-2720, vermontbrainbee@ gmail.com.
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‘Inspector Bellamy’: See WED.09, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
Herbal Valentines Workshop: Instead of giving your sweetheart a bouquet of roses, why not lace a dessert with their petals? Herbal education coordinator Cristi Nunziata suggests treats to make for that special someone. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Valentine Card Workshop: Stickers, lace and doilies adorn modern-day love letters. Frog Hollow, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458. Valentine’s Day Celebration: Hearts warm over coffee, cider and cookies. Plus, kids up to age 16 who can recite the entire Gettysburgh Address win a free book — because it’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, too. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Valentine’s Day Dance: Sweethearts storm the dance floor to tunes by the Hitmen. Vergennes
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. ‘Horse Crazy’: Six- to 10-year-olds get a dose of equestrian entertainment through factoids and craft projects. Phoenix Books, Essex, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. Open Tot Gym & Infant/Parent Playtime: Snacks fuel feats of athleticism. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Phoebe Stone: The painter, illustrator and children’s book author celebrates the release of her novel for middle-grade readers, The Romeo and Juliet Code, at a Valentine-themed party. Vermont Bookshop, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. ‘Raptors Up Close’: Friends of feathered fliers learn about VINS’ bird rehabilitation efforts. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 2 p.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223. Read to a Dog: Stories form a bond between young readers and Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. ‘Signs in the Snow’: Visitors sharpen their senses while looking for signs of animals in the winter landscape. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223.
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‘An Evening of Sweets and Songs’: Desserts meet dulcet tones by the Essex High School Jazz Band, and soprano Lindsey Soboleski and friends. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 864-6515. Anything Goes: Mark Greenberg and Ben Koenig play a wide range of American folk. Optional potluck, 5:30 p.m. Adamant Community Club, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 456-7054.
Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble: Special guest Omar Sosa collaborates with the band on global jazz and Latin rhythms. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422.
‘Strings Attached’: Burlington Ensemble puts on an all-Mendelssohn concert to benefit KidSafe Collaborative. Valentine dessert reception to follow. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5 minimum suggested donation. Info, 863-9626. The Kind Buds: An acoustic duo raises guitar refrains. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern, Warren, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 583-2202. They Might Be Gypsies: A father-son duo puts forth swinging jazz manouche. Town Hall, Bethel, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 234-5064. Tierney Sutton Band: A three-time Grammy nominee and her cohorts get listeners jazzed about Valentine’s Day. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 656-4455.
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Nighttime Snowshoe Dinner Tour: Diners stretch their legs on a trail to a rustic cabin, where a blazing fireplace and candlelit meal await. Preregister. Round Barn Farm, Waitsfield, 6:15 p.m. $90 includes guides, snowshoe rentals and meal (BYOB). Info, 496-2276. Penguin Plunge: Stout-hearted swimmers take a dunk to raise funds for Special Olympics Vermont. Gateway Center, Newport, 1 p.m. $25 registration fee plus $75 fundraising minimum; free to watch. Info, 863-5222. Sleigh Rides: Weather permitting, jingling horses trot visitors over the snow on a wintry tour of rolling acres. Rides depart every half hour from the Welcome Center. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $6-8; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442. ‘Twigs, Buds and Bark’: Snowshoers explore the ecology of the hardwood and boreal forests of Stark Mountain with a naturalist guiding the way. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.
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Fight for Air: Bolton Valley Snowshoe Shuffle 5K/10K: Trample the snow in fun or competitive courses benefiting the American Lung Cancer Association. Bolton Valley Nordic Center, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $20-40 registration; $100 suggested fundraising goal. Info, 876-6861. Skate Vermont: See FRI.11. Vermont Paddlers Club Winter Pool Sessions: Rowers get their feet wet and learn to roll like pros. Boats available upon request. UVM Gutterson Fieldhouse, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10 plus $5 insurance. Info, 272-5275. Vintage Snowboard Demo: Never been on a Snurfer? Test out some of the earliest snowboards while warming up for the Antique Ski Race. Suicide Six, Woodstock, 2:30-4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 253-9911.
Chris Smither: The American artist draws inspiration from the blues, American folk music and modern poets. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $18-20. Info, 388-0216. Katherine Winterstein & Inessa Zaretsky: A violinist and pianist join forces in a presentation of recent collaborations and older favorites. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Linda Radtke: The musician gives a costumed rundown of major state benchmarks in “Vermont History Through Song.” Community Church, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-9112.
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Bryan Pfeiffer: The writer and naturalist celebrates the 202nd birthday of Charles Darwin with a talk about sex, nature and evolution, as well as revealing wildlife photography. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2372. sat.12
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Woodstock Film Festival: Winter Series: Movie buffs view The Gift of Pachamama, a 2008 docudrama about traveling “The Salt Trail,” on the “big screen” in the museum’s newly renovated theater. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $10, or $50 per six-film package. Info, 457-2355.
Elizabethan Valentine Feast: Goblets overflow as NECI chefs lay out a bounty of victuals, and classical guitarist David Kraus, the Morris Dancers and local Shakespearean actors entertain the court. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier Center, 5:30 p.m. $30. Info, 229-4191.
Children’s Story Time: Little ones sidle up to the story stage for Valentine’s Day fables at 11 a.m. Bunny tales follow at 1 p.m., along with a visit from Peter Rabbit. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
Scott Forrest: An acoustic-folk rocker takes the spotlight. Sandy’s Books & Bakery, Rochester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 767-4258.
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‘Two Lovers’: Joaquin Phoenix plays a heartbroken man who meets two women while recovering in this 2008 drama by James Gray. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
Block Printing: Valentine Cards: Instructor Erika White helps folks add a personal touch to love notes with a reusable block piece. Preregister. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24. Info, 425-2700.
Candy Land: How’s this for sweet? Kids ages 2 to 10 play a life-size version of the popular board game for prizes. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066.
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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.
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Taste of the Lake: For the second year, local restaurants — including the Hungry Bear Pub and Grill, Leda’s Pizza Restaurant, Stella’s Restaurant, Whistle Stop Café and more — join this culinary competition. Partial proceeds support the Upper Valley Trails Alliance. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $10; free for kids under 5. Info, 800-423-1211.
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Intro to Buddhism: Know what nam-myohorenge-kyo means? Find out at this primer on the Eastern religion. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 370-1738.
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‘4xChekhov’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See THU.10, 7 p.m. ‘A Pair of Parables’: The All Saints Players present a theatrical work featuring the “Desperate Housewife” and the “Ugly Samaritan.” All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9750. ‘All Weather Ballads: A Love Story’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. Auditions for ‘Company’: Stowe Theatre Guild seeks performers for its production of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Call to schedule an audition time. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 917-3793. ‘Complete Hollywood: Abridged’: See FRI.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘Flavors of Love’: Fairfax Community Theatre Company presents a packed evening of romantic songs, poetry and gourmet desserts. Just don’t expect to see Flavor Flav. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 849-6638. Late Night Catechism 3: ‘’Til Death Do Us Part!’: “Sister” Maripat Donovan counsels audiences on achieving wedded bliss through a wild interpretation of “The Newlywed Game.” Be ready to participate. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $26-42. Info, 863-5966. ‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.09, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. The Met: Live in HD: Catamount Arts Center: James Maddalena stars in a broadcast of John Adams’ most famous opera, Nixon in China. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600.
Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706, portico@stowevt.net.
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Antiques Market: Treasure hunters find bargains among collections of old furniture, art, postcards and more. Early buying, 7:30 a.m.; regular admission, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Elks Club, Montpelier, 7:30 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. ‘Challenge Corporate Authority: Assert the People’s Rights’: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom holds a five-week study group focusing on corporate personhood, global corporatization and democracy. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. French-English Conversation Group: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. ‘Jung and Yoga’: The C.G. Jung of Vermont Society discusses the influence of the Indian discipline on Jung’s understanding of higher states of consciousness and more. Be ready to participate in experiential activities. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-9775, ext. 2, junginvermont2@burlingtontelecom.net. NOFA Vermont Winter Conference: See SAT.12, 10:45 a.m.-5 p.m. One-Year Anniversary Celebration: A champagne toast kicks off a daylong party, including Valentine’s Day crafts, live music and more. Block Gallery, Winooski, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.
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Great Ice in Grand Isle: See FRI.11, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Milton Community Winter Festival: See FRI.11, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
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Book Discussion: ‘Memorable Memoirs’: Readers hone in on a significant moment in author Ruth Picardie’s life through Before I Say Goodbye. Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6632. Cabin Fever Stories: “Live biographical books” — aka real people — impart their knowledge in one-on-one conversations. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Heidi Durrow: The best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky holds court amid a warehouse of bulk items. Costco, Colchester, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4356. Laura Furman: Nine tales intertwine in the author’s The Mother Who Stayed, presented at a book talk and signing. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2200.
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Israeli Folk Dancing: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek
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Valentine’s Day Charity Brunch: Hopeless romantics do brunch to live jazz music by the Mr. Ed Family Band. Profits support People Helping People Global’s projects fighting poverty in Nicaragua. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, noon-2 p.m. $12-25; free for children under 3; RSVP or purchase tickets by February 11. Info, 8492259, alex@peoplehelping peopleglobal.org.
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Critter Craft Day: Creative types fashion simple snowflakes, pet-mouse rocks, pipe-cleaner puppets and more. Preregister. Education Barn, Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $12-14 per adult/child pair; $4-5 per additional child. Info, 434-3068. Lollipop Ski Race: Young skiers don racing bibs for a fun zip down the “Mighty Mite” hill. Olympian Barbara Ann Cochran works the stopwatch and offers encouragement. Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond, 1 p.m. Free with purchase of a $14 youth lift ticket. Info, 434-2479. ‘Raptors Up Close’: See SAT.12, 2 p.m. Read to a Dog: See SAT.12, 1-2 p.m. ‘Signs in the Snow’: See SAT.12, 11 a.m. YWCA Camp Hochelaga Bowling Party: Considering summer activities? “Strike” up some fun while learning about this South Hero camp for girls ages 6 to 17. Snacks and camp songs ensue. Spare Time Family Fun Center, Colchester, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7520.
‘Gotta Sing!’: Love, joy, ennui ... Affiliate artists Beth Thompson and Cynthia Huard express the full spectrum of human emotions in song collaborations. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
‘Vincent’: See FRI.11, 8 p.m.
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‘Praying With Lior’: Ilana Trachtman’s 2007 documentary poses spiritual questions as a boy with Down syndrome approaches his bar mitzvah. Nancy Wollum, mother of a young adult with Down syndrome, leads a postfilm discussion. Room 232. Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 382-1560. ‘The Fighter’: Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg star in David O. Russell’s 2010 sports biopic about a boxer’s unlikely road to fame. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m. Spring Healthsource Class: In “Alternative Carbohydrates: Beyond Potatoes, Pasta and White Rice!” NECI chef John Barton delves into the natural flavors of whole grains and beans. Preregister. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2278. Vegan & Vegetarian Tasting Event: Eat up — sans animal products — while absorbing nutritional facts and entering prizes. Brownell Mountain School, Williston, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 999-4960.
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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.
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The Met: Live in HD: Town Hall Theater: See abvove listing. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-22. Info, 382-9222.
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Woody Pines: As part of the Cabin Fever Music Series, this North Carolina band plays retro swing-country tunes. Jake Wildwood opens. See calendar spotlight. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 7-10 p.m. $57.50. Info, 558-6155.
Skate Vermont: See FRI.11. Sweetheart Skate: Link arms with your lover and let the day — and the ice — slide by. Ice Barn, Milton, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $6; additional $2 for rentals. Info, 893-4237.
Vermont Antique Ski Race: Bring on the wooden skis and Rossignol Stratos! Athletes in pre1975 boots, bindings and skis take on a two-run slalom. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Ski Museum. Registration, 8:30-10 a.m. in the Base Lodge. Suicide Six, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. $25-45. Info, 253-9911.
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Adam Boyce: In “Sprightly Steps: Vermont’s Contra and Square Dancing Tradition,” the speaker discusses the history of fiddle-driven dances in the Green Mountains. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. Bill McKibben: In a winter seminar, the environmentalist and author presents “Local and Global: Building a Movement to Fight for a Livable Planet.” Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 656-5440, mskinner@uvm.edu.
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‘4xChekhov’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. ‘A Pair of Parables’: See SAT.12, 5-7 p.m. ‘All Weather Ballads: A Love Story’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. Auditions for ‘Company’: See SAT.12, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. & 2-5 p.m. ‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.09, 2 p.m. The Met: Live in HD: Spaulding Auditorium: See SAT.12, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-27.50. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Laura Furman: See SAT.12, Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. Poetry Open Mic: Scribes speak in stanzas of their own creation. Block Gallery, Winooski, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.
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‘A New Look at Aging’: Interactive conversations thread through this five-week workshop about perceptions of old age, processing life experiences, changing roles and identities, and more. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $10 materials fee. Info, 985-3355 or 985-3819.
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Camel’s Hump Challenge: Cross-country skiers traverse the perimeter of the peak to support the Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Nordic Ski Area, Camel’s Hump, 7:30 a.m. $125 minimum in pledges or donations. Info, 316-3839. ‘Moose on the Loose’: Sharp eyes scan for antlers as folks learn about the mammal’s behavior, eating habits and seasonal cycles. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.
Lunch in a Foreign Language: See WED.09, noon-1 p.m. NOFA Vermont Winter Conference: See SAT.12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tax Assistance: See THU.10, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Sleigh Rides: See SAT.12, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
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legislative Breakfast: Michael Costa, director of the Vermont Blue Ribbon Tax Structure Commission, is the featured speaker at this Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce and Rutland Economic Development Corporation buffet. Franklin Conference Center, Rutland, 7:30 a.m. $8; RSVP required. Info, 773-2747, rrccvt@aol.com.
star-gazing sleigh riDes: Pat Palmer of Thornapple Farm and a team of Percheron draft horses lead a celestial ride under the winter sky. Weather permitting. Preregister, rides depart at 6, 6:45 and 7:30 p.m. Shelburne Farms. $7-15; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8686.
ChoColate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m.
raw ChoColate: Chocoholics make and eat bars with Linda Wooliever. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com.
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‘love, fertility anD reproDuCtive health’: Covering everything from aphrodisiacs to fertility-enhancing plants, herbalist Guido Masé rings in V-Day. Learn simple recipes involving chocolate. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. strong living exerCise: See THU.10, 8 a.m.
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‘a Day at the farm’: Eight- to 12-year-olds feed the Jersey herd, churn butter, bake cookies in the woodstove and take in fresh air on a horse-drawn sleigh ride. Space is limited; preregister. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $3035. Info, 457-2355. 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. learn to knit: All materials are supplied for this stitching circle with Joan Kahn. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
‘raptors up Close’: See SAT.12, 2 p.m. ‘signs in the snow’: See SAT.12, 11 a.m. stories with megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. swanton playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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maD river Chorale rehearsals: No auditions are necessary to join this community choir, which meets weekly to give voice to song selections from America’s greatest composers. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781.
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‘Cats’: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enduring musical, one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, brings audiences into the world of furry felines. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $44-64. Info, 863-5966.
Threatening suicide, writing about suicide, or looking for ways to kill oneself.
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marjorie CaDy memorial writers group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast.net.
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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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lamoille prevention Campaign meeting: The young adult advisory team previews a video project addressing drug and alcohol abuse. Dinner and a raffle accompany the presentation. RSVP requested. North Central Vermont Recovery Center, Morrisville, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-2239. lunCh in a foreign language: See WED.09, noon-1 p.m. pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
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‘me faCing life: Cyntoia’s story’: As part of the Community Cinema project, filmgoers preview this documentary about a 16-year-old convicted for murder. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.
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Baking with loCal sweeteners: Cooking enthusiasts switch up the sugar content, making substitutions with honey and maple syrup while creating delicious baked goods. Preregister. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. ChoColate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m. soup & BreaD night: Vermonters support the Enosburg Food Shelf by filling up on hearty homemade eats. Champions Sports Tavern at the Dairy Center, Enosburg Falls, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Food is free; donations accepted. Info, 933-2030.
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Dr. stephen BranDon: The speaker introduces “Five Natural Remedies to Help Reduce Depression” by eliminating stress, hormone imbalances and toxicity while improving nutrition. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. TUE.15
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$8-10. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermoun tain.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.
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Alburgh Playgroup: See THU.10, Alburgh Elementary School, 12:15-1 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 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. Children’s Story Time: See WED.09, 10:30 a.m. Craftacular Tuesdays: Creative kids get caught up in low-tech projects. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Fairfax Story Hour: Songs, tales and crafts captivate kiddos. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 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. Free. Info, 476-5118. Music With Raphael: See THU.10, 10:45 a.m. Music With Robert: The host of a weekly folkand world-music show on VPR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. North Hero Pajama Story Time: Listeners show up with blankets for bedtime tales. North Hero Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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‘Peter Pan’: Very Merry Theatre puts an original musical spin on J.M. Barrie’s story of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Very Merry Theatre, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6607 or 355-1461. Preschool Storytime: See WED.09, 10-10:45 a.m. ‘Raptors Up Close’: See SAT.12, 2 p.m. Science & Stories: An art project teaches kids why no two snowflakes are alike. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. ‘Signs in the Snow’: See SAT.12, 11 a.m. South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Story Hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Story Time for Tots: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. CarpenterCarse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878. Teen Video Project: Thirteen- to 18-year-olds develop a film clip promoting the national summer reading theme: “You are here.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Toddler Story Time: Tots 3 and under discover the wonder of words. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.
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Paul Lewis: Through works by Schubert, the internationally recognized pianist interprets the classical repertoire. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $624. Info, 443-6433.
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Charles A. Dana Category 1 2011 Lecture Series: Professor Rick Dunn illuminates the “Geoarchaeology of a Greek BronzeAge Harbor City.” Multipurpose Room, Kreitzberg Library. Norwich University, Northfield, 12:15-1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2794. Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation’s best-selling author looks ahead in “The Future of the Food Movement.” McCullough Social Space, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5795. Spring Healthsource Class: Award-winning writer Melinda Hemmelgarn defines “good” food in “Thinking Beyond Our Plates: Critical Questions to Find ‘Food Truth.’” Preregister. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2278.
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. ‘The Way of the Peaceful Warrior’: Aikido of Champlain Valley’s Benjamin Pincus demonstrates Japanese martial arts aikido and iaido. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Regular admission, $3-5; $10 per family; free for children 6 and under. Info, 656-0750.
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‘Race to Nowhere’: Vicki Abeles and Jessica Congdon’s 2009 documentary examines our achievement-obsessed society and the pressures put on young people. A panel discussion and audience questions follow. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5013, pdougher@middlebury. edu.
Todd Lecture Series: Cynthia Enloe, an author and the director of Clark University’s women’s studies program, delivers a lecture. Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2080, malbury@norwich.edu.
‘Travelers and Magicians’: As a young man leaves his peaceful village, a monk journeying with him spins mystical fables about desire and consequences in Khyentse Norbu’s 2003 drama. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Book Discussion: ‘When Cultures Meet’: Page turners focus on tomes, such as Colin Calloway’s New Worlds for All, that explore early contact between Europeans and Champlain Basin natives. Walden Community Library, West Danville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 563-2630.
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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 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6495. Small Agricultural Business Workshop: A series of six 90-minute seminars educates ag organizations about marketing strategies and computer technology. Computer lab, Hazen Union High School, Hardwick, 7:15 p.m. $15 per class. Info, 472-5840, ext. 3. VBSR Networking Get-Together: Businesses bump elbows and exchange advice. Way Out Wax, Morrisville, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.
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Village-Building Convergence Needs Forum: Community members bring forward project ideas for public spaces for the third annual Village-Building Convergence, held in June. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1167.
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‘How to Convert to Solar Hot Water’: As part of an energy-education series, Davis Terrell, project manager at Green Earth Energy, talks about the least expensive renewable-energy system to install. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 385-1911.
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Lunch & Learn: Sometimes, you’ve got to get your hands dirty. Speaker Mike Ather imparts “Soil Basics: What You Must Know to Start a Garden.” Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. Lunch in a Foreign Language: See WED.09, noon-1 p.m.
Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.09, 2 p.m. Gluten-Free Series: Who needs wheat, barley or rye? Attendees whip up dessert recipes over diet discussion. Preregister. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. ‘The Open Table’: A Valentine-themed community meal features sweets from Vermont Chocolate for Change. Diners contribute what they can, whether it be in money, labor, skills or simply their company. LACE, Barre, 5:30-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 476-4276.
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Zero Balancing Presentation: Dr. Michele Doucette explores the body-mind system of hands-on therapy through a talk and demonstration. Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, South Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 734-5001.
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Babytime: See WED.09, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Children’s Story Time: See WED.09, 10:30 a.m. Enosburg Playgroup: See WED.09, 9-11 a.m. Fairfax Playgroup: See WED.09, 10-11 a.m. High School Book Group: See WED.09, 5-6 p.m. Highgate Story Hour: See WED.09, 10-11 a.m. Ice Skating for Homeschoolers: See WED.09, noon-2 p.m. Middle School Book Group: See WED.09, 4-5 p.m.
‘Winter Warmth on the Farm’: Six- to 8-year-olds dip wax candles, bake cookies in the farmhouse woodstove, visit the livestock barns and listen to stories by the fire. Space is limited; preregister. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 457-2355.
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‘Farmers’ Night’: In the tradition of midweek entertainment begun by legislators in 1923, the St. Johnsbury Community Band and choral group Counterpoint pair up for a dramatic evening of music and letters from the Civil War era. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Info, 479-8505. Open Mic Night: Liquid courage fuels folks seeking 15 minutes of fame. Sign-up starts at 6 p.m. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.
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Night Rider Series: See WED.09, 4:30 p.m. Traditional Japanese Shotokan Karate-do Open House: See WED.09, 7 p.m.
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‘Borders, Boundaries and Bullies’ Lecture Series: A weekly series explores the mental and physical walls that divide us, as well as the ties that bind us together. Sandy Baird, director of Inter-American Studies and Civic Engagement, discusses “The Creation of Borders: The First World War.” Burlington College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. ‘Current Events in Egypt’: Chairperson of the department of political science F. Gregory Gause III, and assistant professors of history Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene discuss the ongoing protests. Burlington College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. Lamoille County Osher Lecture Series: Slides and music enhance a lecture on “The WPA: The Depression and Great Art” by St. Michael’s College professor emeritus Dr. William Tortolano. Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011. Michaelann Murphy: The speaker advises parents, caregivers, educators and others about “Healthy Sense Development in the Young Child.” Grades building, Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7400. Nancy Somers: The speaker offers a motivating and entertaining presentation on “Seventeenand-a-Half Ways to a Healthier, Happier and More Enjoyable Life.” Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘The Real Thing’: Tom Stoppard’s play, presented by Northern Stage, looks at the nature of love through the lens of art and the modern world. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $5-58. Info, 291-9009, ext. 10.
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‘Collected Stories’: Walt Levering directs Donald Margulies’ play about the emotional journey of two writers. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. ‘Presenting Alan Ball’: Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre offers four one-act comedies — “Made for a Woman,” “Bachelor Holiday,” “The M Word” and “Your Mother’s Butt” — by the screenwriter known for American Beauty. Brick Box, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903.
Milton Baby Playgroup: See WED.09, 10-11 a.m. Montgomery Story Hour: See WED.09, 10-11 a.m. Moving & Grooving With Christine: See WED.09, 1111:30 a.m. ‘Peter Pan’: See TUE.15, noon. Preschool Storytime: See WED.09, 10-10:45 a.m. ‘Raptors Up Close’: See SAT.12, 2 p.m. ‘Signs in the Snow’: See SAT.12, 11 a.m.
‘Romeo and Juliet’: The Acting Company and the Guthrie Theater produce Shakespeare’s tale of starcrossed lovers. See calendar spotlight. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. $12-32. Info, 748-2600.
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classes art ART AT STUDIO PLACE ARTS: Location: Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St., Barre. Info: Studio Place Arts, Sue Higby, 802-4797069, shigby@sover.net, www. studioplacearts.com. Learn the Art of Photography with Andrew Wellman, Figure Sculpture in Clay with Pat DeGogorza, Monoprints and Collagraphs with LynaLou Nordstrom, Book Arts with Elissa Campbell, Pastels with Carol Gargon, Portraiture with Marie LaPre Grabon, Clay with Georgia Landau. Full descriptions online.
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PASTA-MAKING CLASS W/ ADELE: Feb. 13, 4-6:30 p.m. Cost: $30/members, $40/nonmembers. Location: Healthy Living, 222 Dorset St., So. Burlington. Info: Audry, 802-922-5005. Call or email your friends! Space limited, so reserve early. Reservations and pre-payment necessary. Pay online at www.vermontitalian club.org or send check to VIC, P.O. Box 3155, Burlington, VT 05408. PIZZA-MAKING W/ CHEF ROBERT: Feb. 26, 10-11:30 a.m. Cost: $25/1.5-hour class. Location: Café Provence, Downtown Brandon. Info: 802247-9997, www.artinthesnow. com. For Art in the Snow, Chef Robert will teach you how to make and toss pizza dough, make toppings, etc., and finally you get to eat your very own pizza. This workshop has a maximum enrollment of 10 people, so you better hurry!
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davis center HAND-PAINTED WHIMSICAL CHAIRS: Mar. 16-30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $100/. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davisstu diovt.com. Turn a plain wooden chair into a whimsical piece of art. Using the chair as your canvas you will learn about materials and decorative painting techniques that can be used on any wooden piece of furniture. Bring in a sturdy wooden chair that you already have (or purchase one for $20 from our selection). Register online at www.davisstudio
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drawing FIGURE DRAWING W/ MARIE LAPRE’GRABON: Mar. 4-Apr. 8, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $145/. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. This class will focus on drawing the figure from nude models and is a great way to develop both drawing and observational skills. We will use a variety of drawing media including pencil, charcoal, and ink to investigate the use of line, value, texture, perspective, composition and space in the development of descriptive drawing. No previous drawing experience necessary. FIGURE DRAWING FOR MODEST INDIVIDUALS: Jan. 5-Feb. 23, 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $15/cash or check due upon arrival. No preregistration necessary. Location: Davis Studio Gallery, 404 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davisstudiovt.com. This weekly drop-in gives you the opportunity to practice drawing the human figure. The model will be fully clothed. Bring your own sketchbook and drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, etc.) or use what we provide. Learn tips to help you draw the human figure. Beginners are welcome. Register online at www.davisstudiovt. com. Adult class. Facilitator: Clark Derbes.
dreams INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK: Feb. 17-Mar. 10, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802244-7909. Learn how to work with your dreams, connect to your inner life and empower yourself in a safe, supportive setting. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.
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ARGENTINE TANGO FOR BEGINNERS: Feb. 26, 1:15-5 p.m. Cost: $14 for 1 hr, $25 for 2.25 hrs, $28 for 4.75 hrs. Location: North End Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Suite 116B, Burlington. Info: In collaboration with Queen City Tango, Elizabeth Seyler, 802862-2833, eseyler@temple.edu. Improvise, express yourself, play. If you can walk, you can tango. Learn the basics in Session 1, add complexity in Session 2, and integrate your learning in the Guided Practica. Elizabeth Seyler holds a PhD in dance and welcomes all ages. No partner necessary. Wear comfortable shoes with hard soles. 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! BURLINGTON DANCES MODERN CLASS: Weekly on Wed. starting Feb. 9, 4:10-5:25 p.m. Cost: $78/6-wk. session. Location: Burlington Dances (Chace Mill, top floor), 1 Mill St., 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com.
vt.com. Instructor: Kimberly Bombard. Adult Class. MOSAIC MIRROR: Mar. 16-30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $100/. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davis studiovt.com. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, your mirror will be the coolest one of all. Learn how to create beautiful mosaic patterns and how to grout and set your masterpiece. Choose from our collection of glass and ceramic tile, stained glass, pebbles and ephemera to create an unusual mosaic art piece made from recycled materials. Register online at www.davisstudiovt.com/ adult_springclasses2011.html. Instructed by Charlotte Albers.
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MAYA ABDOMINAL THERAPY: Mar. 25-27. Cost: $350/$330 by 3/15. Location: Kayla Becker, 153 State Street , Montpelier. Info: Kayla Becker, 802-2237481, erkl18@aol.com. The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy Self Care Course is for anyone interested in self-care and offers CEU credits for Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists and Midwives. This course, based on ancient traditional healing methods from Belize, addresses many abdominal and reproductive needs. WORKING W/ FIBROMYALGIA: Mar. 26-27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $275/($250 if paid by Mar. 5; $50 nonrefundable if you withdraw after Mar. 5); 16 CEUs. Location: Touchstone Healing
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Explore, define, observe and refine how you move your body. Learn techniques of the early Modern Dancers and develop your personal choreographic process. Designed for ages 14 to adult, this class will be fun, informative and creative, and will help to build confidence as a dancer and choreographer. BURLINGTON’S BEST SALSA: DAVID LARSON & SOUTH END STUDIO: Burlington’s newest (& nicest) place to dance. Yes! Now there are 2 salsa dance studios in Burlington. Our ongoing classes continue this Thursday night, 7-8 p.m. Beginning Salsa. A great way to get started and make some new friends. Then, 8-9 p.m. very cool “Ladies Styling” with Shannon and some amazing turning combinations. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., near Lake Champlain Chocolates, just behind New World Tortilla, Burlington. Info: Sabrina, 802-540-0044, www.southendstudiovt.com. Interested? Feel free to check us out this Thursday and become a part of our growing family of salsa-dancing friends. Why take lessons from us? It’s fun! Little known fact #4: David learned to Salsa Dance in Havana, Cuba 1999-2000. A few friends we made along the way: Taylor White, Tina Bouchard, Hunter H., Sarah Lamothe and Burlington’s #1 Salsa Dance Team. Thanks DJ Raul for all the fun. 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.lindyver mont.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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Arts, Burlington, VT. Info: Dianne Swafford, 802-734-1121, swaf fordperson@hotmail.com. The principles of Ortho-Bionomy can be applied in many different circumstances and situations, providing participants with more specialized approaches and applications. This class focuses on the characteristics of fibromyalgia and the stressors that may help create the physical imbalances that cause its discomfort. We will explore the ways in which Ortho-Bionomy can help those with fibromyalgia. Terri Lee, instructor.
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DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Mar. 14-Apr. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $185/ nonmembers, $166.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator: Layout and design posters and other singlepage documents. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. Limit: 6. FASHION DRAWING WORKSHOP: Mar. 12-13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $115/nonmembers, $103.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn the skills of fashion drawing in just a weekend! Figure drawing, garment rendering, design concepts and drawing from a live model. Join a low-pressure and fun environment while learning sketching tools you’ll use again and again. Recommended for the home sewer, art student, aspiring or accomplished designer, and more! Limit: 10. PHOTO: ALTERNATIVE DARKROOM: Mar. 17-Apr. 21, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $250/nonmembers, $225 BCA members. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Info: www.burlingtoncityarts.com. Explore unique opportunities for creative image-making in the darkroom! Get rich, brown tones and one-of-a-kind images with the lith printing process, learn how to print directly onto objects with liquid emulsion, experiment with colored toners and learn images montage techniques. Limit: 6. Prerequisite: Intro Darkroom or equivalent experience. PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Feb. 17-Mar. 24, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $250/nonmembers, $225/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Importing images, using RAW files, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on an Epson 3880 will all be covered. Limit: 6. PHOTO: INTRO FILM/DIGITAL: Mar. 16-Apr. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $145/members, $130.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm film or digital SLR to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and film types/sensitivity. Bring empty manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera and its owner’s manual to class. Limit: 15. No experience necessary. PHOTO: INTRO TO B&W FILM: Mar. 16-May. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $195/ nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. All paper, chemicals and film included. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Discover the mysteries of the darkroom! Learn to properly expose black & white film, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. At the end of this class, participants will be ready to use the darkroom. Class includes a free one-month membership for use when class ends. Limit: 6. No experience necessary. PHOTO: SCANNING NEGATIVES: Mar. 19, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $95/nonmembers, $85.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of film scanning for art and archival purposes on our Epson V700 scanner during this day-long workshop. Color and resolution settings, specifics for slides, color, and black-and-white negatives, as well as processing images in Photoshop will be covered. No experience required. Limit: 6. PHOTO: VACATION CAMP: Feb. 22-25, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Cost: $150/nonmembers, $135/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore digital photography in this four-day vacation camp! This camp will include guided photo shoots in downtown Burlington and will cover the basics of making edits in Photoshop. Students will also print their own 8x10 images on our photo printer. Bring a charged camera and cords on the first day. No experience necessary. Ages 9 to 12. Limit: 6. PRINT: DRYPOINT: Feb. 16-Mar. 23, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50 BCA/members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Discover the ancient printing technique of drypoint, which is etching onto materials such as plexiglass and copper. This method is wonderful for artists who love to draw and want
detailed prints with an almost painterly quality. No experience needed. Over 20 hours per week of open studio time! Limit: 10. PHOTO: HDR TECHNIQUES: Mar. 15-Apr. 5, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $195/nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to capture brilliant color images with incredible detail in both shadow and highlight areas using High Dynamic Range photography. Landscape, architectural and night photography applications will be covered. Participants can print archival prints on our Epson 3880 printer. Intro Film/Digital SLR/equivalent experience, basic Photoshop or Lightroom experience. Limit: 6. WATERCOLOR: Feb. 16-Mar. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $135/nonmembers, $121.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days! Limit: 12. JEWELRY: STACKING RINGS WORKSHOP: Mar. 5, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Cost: $75/nonmembers, $67.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Make a set of silver rings that you can stack up together on one finger to wear individually in this daylong workshop. This is a great intro into the world of jewelry making, while creating a finished, stylish product. Some basic supplies and equipment will be provided. Limit: 12.
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Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, flynnarts@flynncenter.org. This modern dance master class in the world-renowned Limón technique is taught by company artistic director Carla Maxwell. The work of Limón Dance Company illustrates the timelessness of José Limón’s work and vision, and is acclaimed for its dramatic expression, technical mastery and expansive, yet nuanced movement.
NAMI VT FAMILY EDUCATION CLASS: Class starts March 10. Location: Williston, Vermont. Info: NAMI-Vermont, 800-6396480, info@namivt.org. Free 12week Family-to-Family Education program for family members, partners and significant others of individuals affected by mental illness. This class is structured to help caregivers understand and support individuals while maintaining their own wellbeing. The challenges of living with someone with a mental illness can be overwhelming. Join others like you who have gained information, insight, understanding and empowerment by: learning about major mental illness, addictive disorders, and CHINESE HERB 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 3:32:51 150-HOUR PM post-traumatic stress disorder; PROGRAM: Sep. 24-Jun. 18, enhancing problem-solving skills AFRICAN VIOLETS, THE 2:15 p.m., Monthly on the 4th and improving communication; PERENNIAL FAVORITE: Mar. Mon. Cost: $1,750/150 hours. receiving emotional support 2, noon-12:45 p.m.. Location: Location: Elements of Healing, from trained instructors and Gardener’s Supply Williston 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex. other participants. Space is Store, 472 Marshall Ave., Info: Elements of Healing, Scott limited. Made possible in part by Williston. Info: 802-658-2433. Moylan, 802-288-8160, scott@ a grant from the Department of Lunch & Learn Educational elementsofhealing.net. This proMental Health. Series. Instructed by Anita gram will teach the fundamenNadeau. Registration not reTALK SO KIDS WILL LISTEN: Sat., tals of Chinese medicine theory quired. Free. 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Feb. 12 & 19 or Mar. as well as a detailed study of 19 & 26, Mon., 6:30-8:30 p.m., COMPOSTING 101: Feb. 26, assessment skills. We will cover March 7-28. Cost: $95/materi9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10. Location: well over 100 commonly used als incl. Scholarships avail. Gardener’s Supply Burlington herbs and formulas for health Location: Demeter Resolutions, Store, 128 Intervale Rd., and illness. This class is appropriLLC, Community Center of the Burlington. Info: 802-660-3505, ate for beginners as well as other Dormition Greek Orthodox www.gardenerssupplystore.com. health care practitioners. Church, Burlington. Info: 802Ideal for Soil 101 attendees. Learn HONORING HERBAL TRADITION 864-0624, www.demeterresolu how to make compost the right 2011: Cost: $850/9 a.m.-5 p.m. tions.com. Learn and practice way. Your plants will thank you 1 Sat./mo. for 8 mos. Location: the skills for communicating for it. Presenter: Mike Ather. PreHorsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., more productively and peacefully registration is required. Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, with your kids from toddler to GROW UP! VEGETABLE Kelley Robie, 802-893-0521, teen. Join a workshop or call to GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES: htherbs@comcast.net, www. find out how we can bring a workFeb. 12, 9:30-10 a.m. Cost: $10/. Horsetailherbs.org. Herbal shop to your group. Groups led by Location: Gardener’s Supply Apprenticeship program held Anthe Athas, educator, mediator Burlington Store, 128 Intervale on a horse farm. Covers herbal and facilitator. Preregistration Rd., Burlington. Info: 802-660therapies; nutritional support; required. 3505, www.gardenerssupply diet; detox; body systems; medistore.com. We’ll get creative cine making; plant identification; and learn about all the fun and tea tasting; plant spirit medicine easy ways to garden successand animal communication; CATS CHOREOGRAPHY fully in every space of every size. wild foods; field trips; iridology; MASTER CLASS: Adults & teens Presenter: Charlie Nardozzi. Prewomen’s, children’s, men’s and (intermed./adv.): Sat., Feb. 12, registration is required. animal health! Textbook and 2:15-4:15 p.m. Cost: $25/class. United Plant Saver membership GROWING HERBS INDOORS: Location: Flynn Center for the included. VSAC grants available. Feb. 23, 12-12:45 p.m. Location: Performing Arts, Burlington. Gardener’s Supply Williston WISDOM OF THE HERBS Info: 802-652-4548, flynnarts@ Store, 472 Marshall Ave., SCHOOL: Winter Ecology Nature flynncenter.org. FlynnArts dance Williston. Info: 802-658-2433. Walk w/George Lisi, naturalist, teacher Terrie Robinson, a former Lunch & Learn Educational Saturday, Feb. 19, 1:30-3 p.m. Broadway dancer, was the dance Series. Instructed by Denyse followed by herbal tea, $15. Open supervisor for the European Butler-Ayres. Registration not house, Sat., March 5, 1:30-3:30 production of CATS. Come learn required. Free. p.m. held at Rhapsody Café, the choreography to the Jellicle Main St., Montpelier. Wisdom of MASTER GARDENER 2011 Ball with her, before you see the the Herbs Certification Program COURSE: Feb. 1-Apr. 26, 6-9 p.m., touring production of CATS on begins April 23-24, 2011, & runs Weekly on Tue. Cost: $365/ the MainStage! Full of mystery 1 weekend a mo. through Nov. Sustainable Gardening incl. and anticipation, the Jellicle Ball We are currently interviewing book. Late fee: $20 after Jan. illustrates a spectacular feline for this program. Wild Edibles 25. Noncredit course. Location: gala, full of prowess, artistry and Spring Term will be held May 8, Various locations: Bennington, athletic challenges. Suggested Jun. 5 & Jul. 10. Plan ahead & Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, attire: tight-fitting dance wear to apply now for VSAC nondegree Montpelier, Middlebury, show your feline lines, jazz shoes grant for 2011 programs while Newport, Randolph Center, and knee pads. funds are plentiful. Location: Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, JOSE LIMON DANCE MASTER Wisdom of the Herbs School, Waterbury, White River Junction. CLASS: Adults & teens, Woodbury. Info: 802-456-8122, Info: 802-656-9562, master.ga intermed. & adv.: Sat., Feb. annie@wisdomoftheherbss rdener@uvm.edu, www.uvm. 12, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $20/ chool.com, www.wisdomofthe edu/mastergardener. 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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! UVM faculty experts focus on gardening in Vermont! SOIL 101: THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR EVERY GARDEN: Feb. 19, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington Store, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 802-660-3505, www.gardenerssupplystore. com. Healthy and vibrant plants start with healthy soil. This one’s a must for all gardeners from beginner and up. Presenter: Mike Ather. Pre-registration required. SOIL BASICS: WHAT YOU MUST KNOW TO START A GARDEN: Feb. 16, 12-12:45 p.m.. Location: Gardener’s Supply Williston Store, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 802-658-2433. Lunch & Learn Educational Series. Instructed by Mike Ather. Registration not required. Free.
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holistic health WOMEN’S WELLNESS: meets every other Wed. from 3/98/17/11, from 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $127/month. Location: Candles & Creations healing room, 132 Church Street, Burlington. Info: Tocc’a Te Health, Amy Venman, 802-999-5733, Amy@ ToccaTeHealth.net, www. ToccaTeHealth.net. How would your life be different if you and your body were best friends? Together, we’ll explore manageable changes to your nutrition and lifestyle that add up to noticeable improvements in your health, energy, and relationship with your body. It’s your health! Where do you want it to take you?
jewelry KRISTEN VARIAN EARRING MAKING: Feb. 26, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $25/2-hour class. Location: Park St. Gallery, 6 Park St, Brandon. Info: 802-247-3766, kristenvarian@gmail.com, www. artinthesnow.com. Kristen Varian makes beautiful earrings and will work with you to make your own pair. There will be a variety of stones in different shapes and sizes to choose from, and the ear wires and findings will all be handcrafted from sterling-silver wire. The design will be a simple wire wrap or spiral dangle. Leave the session with a brand-new piece of jewelry. There will also be a demo on making your own ear wires and head pins.
knitting HOW TO KNIT A THRUMMED MITTEN: Feb. 26, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $65/3-hour class. Location: Rosebelle’s Victorian Inn, 31 Franklin St., Rt. 7, Brandon. Info: 802-247-3124, debbie.kirby@ kirbyshappyhoofers.com, www. artinthesnow.com. Learn the process of thrumming and begin a mitten that can be finished at home. A thrum is a little wisp of unspun roving that is knit into the mitten every so often. Thrumming makes the insides soft and fuzzy and so warm. Included is: pattern, mohair pencil rovings, hand-spun yarn, needles, and stitch holders and markers.
language FRENCH CLASSES THIS SPRING!: Classes from March 7 to May 19. Cost: $225/per 10-week session. Location: Alliance-Française of the Lake Champlain Region, #304 Dupont Building, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 802-4970420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, http://www.aflcr.org/ classes.shtml. Study French at the Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region! Five 10-week classes: Beginning, Intermediate
A, Intermediate B, Spoken French I, Spoken French II. More info/registration, 802-497-0420 or www. aflcr.org/classes.shtml. JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Level 1: Tue., 7-8:30. Level 2: Thu., 7-8:30. Cost: $195/10 1.5-hr. classes. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Park, Colchester. Info: Japan-America Society of Vermont, Larry Solt, 802-865-3113, l.solt@burling tontelecom.net, www. jasv.org. The Japan-America Society of Vermont (JASV) is again offering Japanese language lessons. Beginning Japanese Language Classes, Levels 1 and 2, will be offered starting February 8 and 10. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-5851025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, www.spanishwaterbury center.com. Expand your opportunities and connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, teens and children. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS?: Location: At your home or scheduled meeting place, Burlington, Mad River Valley, Stowe, Montpelier. Info: 802-496-7859, yvescompere@yahoo.com. Communication and vocabulary enrichment, some grammar review. Fun and useful. Taught by Yves Compere, French native.
martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on the Tuesday, March 1 at 6:45 p.m. Join now and receive a 3-mo. membership (unlimited classes) and uniform for $175. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 802951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/staff arts and knife defense. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. AIKIDO: Tue.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Sat., 9-10 a.m.; & Sun., 1011:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 802-862-9785, www.vermontaikido.org. 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. Adult Beginners Class: Intro to Aikido Practice, four consecutive Tuesday evening classes beginning February 2. Class time 6 to 7:30 p.m. Intro Class fee of $60 includes beginner’s uniform. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location:
Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, www.vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. 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 JiuJitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, scott@ elementsofhealing.net, www. elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. Program starting September 2011. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB assigned school.
meditation INTEGRATED AWARENESS MEDITATION: A MEDITATION WORKSHOP: Feb. 12, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $75/workshop. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. We will practice meditation by focusing on optimal posture, breath and balance through the principles of the Alexander Technique. We will use creative visualizations and guided meditations to liberate the wisdom of our hearts. A wonderful introduction to meditation for beginners and an opportunity for experienced meditators to go deeper. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appointment. The Shambhala Café meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. 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.burlingtonshambhal actr.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
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in a serious dialogue with your work. This class will help arm painters with as much handson, instinctual knowledge as possible. Sound architecture in composition, and an understanding of light, shadow and color will be covered. Both a live model and still life will be used to work from. Warren Kimble Folk Art Painting Class: Feb. 26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $150/6-hour class. Location: Warren Kimble’s Studio, 10 Park St, Brandon. Info: Warren, 802-247-8880, www. artinthesnow.com. Create a painting on board of an image of your own home in the folk art theme with contemporary folk artist Warren Kimble. Bring a clear photo of the full front of your house and an apron or old shirt. Be prepared to have fun and create a wonderful keepsake with folk artist Warren Kimble. The class has a limit of 8 adults and will fill up fast.
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Burlington Dances: Zumba: Mondays 5:45pm with Gail McKenzie Hall. Cost: $40/5 weeks. Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill Street, suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, info@burlingtondances.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Have some fun! Zumba Fitness now at the Chace Mill with Gail McKenzie Hall. Bring your water bottle and towel for this energetic, rejuvenating blend of dance moves and music from around the world. Let us know you are coming, or simply drop in for a class. Call for details!
Winter Classes One-onOne: Private Classes of your choice: Cost: $69/half day, $120/full day. Location: Linda Rock Photography, Essex Jct. Info: 802-238-9540, lrphotography@comcast.net. Beginner Digital Photography, Intermediate Digital Photography, Digital Workflow, Lighting Techniques, Set Up Your Photo Business, People Posing, Basic Photoshop and more. See what we offer at www.lindarockphotography.com for more details. Sign up today! Your Photographic Voice: Feb. 26, 5-8 p.m. Cost: $65/3hour class, plus private portfolio review. Location: Dark Room Gallery/Vermont Photo Space Gallery, 12 Main St, Essex Jct. Info: Dark Room Gallery/ Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Polly Raine, 802-777-3686, polly@vermontphotospace. com, vermontphotospace.com/ events. Learn to recognize your vision (how and what you see with your camera) and establish your photographic voice/personal style in this three-hour workshop suitable for hobbyists and professionals alike. Through discussion and exercises you will take home the tools to help you to develop and refine your photography.
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Letterpress Printing Workshop: 3 workshops offered: 2/5, noon-5 p.m.; 2/12, noon-5 p.m.; and 2/19, noon-5 p.m. Limit of 3 students per workshop. Cost: $200/4-5/ hr. class. Location: Zoe Ink Studio, 266 Pine St., Suite 103, Burlington. Info: Zoe Ink, Zoe, 802-863-1468, zoe@zoeink.com, zoeink.com. Learn to print on a 1930 Platen Press at the Zoe Ink Studio. You will learn the basics including the general mechanics of the press, as well as preparing the press for printing. We will work with photopolymer plates to create the finished product. Take home 35 cards you print.
psychology Enneagram Study Group Series: Mar. 9-Apr. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Every 6 weeks on Wed. Cost: $115/6 weeks. Location: Montpelier residence. Info: Jeanne Haskell & Grace Holland, Jeanne Haskell, 802-454-1298, jeanneh@ramdesign.net, www. ninejourneys.com. Learn to understand yourself and others better. Led by two Enneagram teachers, we’ll spend 6 evenings studying international bestseller The Wisdom of the Enneagram. Fun, small-group format includes lecture, discussion, exercises, meditation and music. Mythology: Feb. 16-Apr. 6, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $75/ class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-2447909. Discover some of the myths you are living in this Jungoriented workshop. Led by Sue Mehrtens, author and teacher.
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REIKI (USUI) LEVEL 1: Cost: $175/Sat., Feb. 12, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@risingsun healing.com, www.risingsun healing.com. Learn this powerful hands-on healing art for healing and personal growth and be able to give Reiki energy to yourself an others by the end of the class. Plenty of in-class practice. Learn the history of Reiki, and ethics of a Reiki practitioner. Individual sessions and classes available. Member VRA. Usui Reiki: 1st Degree: Feb. 26, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class (NCBTMB approved provider). Location: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 802-9859580, cindy@energymedicinevt. com, www.energymedicinevt. com. Learn this ancient healing art that facilitates health on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Many find Reiki to be a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation. In this class you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki on your self, loved ones and animals.
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, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Yang-Style Tai Chi: Beginning Jan. 12, 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: 802-3186238. 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.
snowkiting Snowkiting Lessons: Daily lessons while ice is safe (generally Jan.-April). Cost: $120/3-hr. beginner class ($95 for 2-hr. advanced). Location: Lake Champlain, Sand Bar State Park, South Hero/Milton. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@storm boarding.com, www.stormboard ing.com. Snowkite in your first lesson! Use the same alpine, tele or snowboard as on the mountain. We provide experienced, professional, fun instruction and modern gear. Great for skiers/ riders ages 10 to no limit, cruise or go big. Makes an excellent gift. Gear discount after lesson. Lesson/gear gift certificates available.
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Writing Grants that Win: Feb. 18 & 25, 9:30 a.m. Cost: $149/per workshop (one on 18th; one on 25th). Location: Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College St., Montpelier. Info: Mad River Educational Services, William Ritke-Jones, 802-2793876, wjones@madriveredu. com, madriveredu.com. Do you need to learn how to write grant proposals or just improve your grant-writing skills? Register today for one or both of these grant-writing workshops: Writing Grants That Win, Parts I & II; or a 5-week grant-writing course. To register and for more information, go to http://madriveredu. com.
yoga Adaptive Yoga: Tue. noon1:15. Location: Burlington Dances (Chace Mill, Upstairs, Elevator Accessible), 1 Mill St., ste. 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Julie Peoples-Clark adapts traditional yoga postures to the needs of each individual. Ideal for students who have health or physical limitations, this class offers a balanced approach for strength and flexibility, breath work and deep relaxation for people who have multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s and other physical disabilities. Drop-in Yoga with Deb Sherrer: Every Fri. this winter, 12-1:30 p.m. Cost: $12/class. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info:
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Druidry Training in VT: 1 weekend/mo. for 9 mos. in the year. Cost: $1,700/9 weekend sessions throughout the year. Location: Dreamland, Worcester. Info: The Green Mountain Druid Order, Ivan McBeth, 802-5058010, ivanmcbeth@aol.com, www.greenmountaindruidorder. org. A three-year training of selftransformation in preparation to become a caretaker of the Earth: an empowered human being, capable of communicating with nature and other humans, radiating peace and healing. We provide the map and the method, you provide the enthusiasm and commitment. Come change the world with us! The New Dispensation: Feb. 11-Mar. 4, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Learn about the new form of religious expression that Carl Jung felt would be appropriate for the Age of Aquarius in this experiential course rooted in the Biblical teachings of Jesus.
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802-658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. Move. Breathe. Strengthen. Relax. A Vajra-inspired class, with Deb Sherrer, CYT, MA, that focuses on alignment, breathinformed movement, mindfulness and in-depth poses to enhance strength, flexibility and grounding. Leave class with a greater sense of well-being and relaxation. All levels welcome. 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. Laughing River Yoga: Daily yoga classes & monthly yoga workshops. $13 drop in; $110 for 10 classes. By-donation classes (pay what you can) Mon.-Fri. at 9 a.m. & Mon.-Thu. at 7:30 p.m. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: Laughing River Yoga, 802-343-8119, emily@ laughingriveryoga.com, www. laughingriveryoga.com. Yoga studio now open downstairs in the Chace Mill. Experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, Iyengar and Groove yoga. Educate yourself with monthly workshops and class series. Lots of light. River view. Parking. All levels welcome! Deepen your understanding of who you are. Reiki and Restorative Yoga for Clarity and Health: Feb. 20, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $30/. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www.vtcyt. com. Restorative Yoga & Reiki, bringing two ancient modalities together in a 2-hour workshop. Offer your body permission to relax and your mind spaciousness to follow suit. Feel the profound effects of these simple & rejuvenating practices, incorporating light and touch on the major chakras. No yoga experience necessary. Instructed by Anne Martin and Jane Jarecki Lanza. Yoga Vermont: Location: 113 Church St., 4th floor, Burlington. Info: 802-238-0594, www. yogavermont.com. Gift certificates are available. Daily drop-in classes. Ashtanga, Vinyasa, gentle and yoga teacher training. Experienced instructors-we would love to share our practices with you. www.yogavermont. com. m
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Color Theory w/ Natasha Bogar: Mar. 2-23, 10 a.m.- 12 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $115/. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www. helenday.com. Color is the base for many art forms, however the topic of color is far from basic. Learning about color theory and a touch of physics can help bring your designs to another level of interest and intention. This course will include interactive slide shows, a progression of hands-on painting exercises and written material covering the course content. Paint a Welcome Barrel Stave: Feb. 26, 10 a.m. Cost: $35/. Location: The Gazebo Inn, Brandon. Info: Dolores, 802247-3695, ctryowl@together. net, www.artinthesnow.com. Artist Dolores Furnari of the Country Owl Studio will provide all the materials you need to paint a “Welcome” plaque on a mini-barrel stave. The stave is 3-1/4”x14”. In addition, you will be treated to a delicious full breakfast by Donna Taylor, innkeeper at The Gazebo Inn. There is an enrollment limit of 10. Painting Alla Prima w/ Susie Amato: Feb. 25-27, 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Cost: $385. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802253-8358, www.helenday.com. In this intensive workshop with a master teacher you will engage
Mill St., Suite 372, Burlington. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. From beginning students to those seeking mastery of movement, this is a fantastic studio for experiencing how awareness practices such as Pilates, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, Delsarte, and other somatic awareness practices can support your body, mind and spirit in dance, industry, healing practices, social studies, communication, and relationships. Core Studio Pilates and MORE!: We are open 7 days a week, from as early as 7 a.m. to as late as 7:30 p.m. Costs vary, as low as $10-$25/per class depending on format. Location: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, 431 Pine Street, Suite 101, Burlington. Info: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, Kathy Brunette, 802-862-8686, kathy@corestudioburlington. com, corestudioburlington. com. Enjoy the amazing mind/ body benefits of Pilates, Yoga, Massage & the challenge of Personal Training with high quality, professionally led classes 7 days a week. Mat, reformer & boot camp classes (which include Spinning, TRX, strength, balance & EXO Chair options) are available in our warm & friendly studio.
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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. Lovingkindness Meditation: 6 Wed. evenings, Mar. 2-Mar. 30 & Apr. 13, 7-8 p.m. 1st class will go until 8:30 p.m. Cost: $100/6 1-hr. classes. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, ecross@ crosscontext.net, www.vermont zen.org. Mettabhavana is a Buddhist meditation leading to the development of unconditional lovingkindness and friendliness. Metta helps us rid ourselves of internal and external conflicts; overcome lacerating guilt; be open to loving acceptance of ourselves and others. Includes lectures, meditation instruction, practice periods and discussion.
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n the late 1990s, Roger Mapes was Burlington’s king of queens. As his glitzy alter ego, Yolanda, the burly singer was the city’s most prominent drag queen, the leader of seminal B-town band the Plastic Family and, with fellow drag queen Cherie Tartt, the cohost of a popular local cable-access program, “The Cherie and Yolanda Show.” The name Yolanda was virtually synonymous with Burlington’s burgeoning drag scene, until Mapes relocated to New York City in 2000. “It was the best time of my life, basically,” recalls Mapes in a recent phone interview. This Saturday, he returns to the Queen City to perform at this year’s Winter Is a Drag Ball at Higher Ground. Mapes helped birth the drag extravaganza in 1995 as a benefit for Vermont CARES, an organization he would later work with when he discovered he was HIV positive. But when he once again graces the Drag Ball stage, Mapes will do so not as Yolanda, or even a character at all. For the first time in Burlington, he will perform as a complete version of himself: Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes. The Yolanda persona was “born and raised” in Northfield, Vt. Mapes originally moved to Vermont in the early 1990s to live with the Radical Faeries, a
loosely associated global network of drag queens, whose original Vermont chapter was based in the small central Vermont town. The Faeries have since relocated to Faerie Camp Destiny in Chester. “Drag was very much a part of everyday life with the Radical Faeries,” Mapes says. “The kind of drag we’re all now accustomed to seeing. Gender-bending drag, guys with beards in dresses, things like that.” When Mapes began performing as Yolanda in Burlington, he displayed an over-the-top style similar to that which he’d developed with the Faeries. He then created new facets of her personality by exploring a variety of aesthetics. “I experimented with different looks, which I still do,” Mapes explains. “I moved into shaving my body and being really glamorous, and then moved in and out of that. “But at heart, Yolanda has always been a Radical Faerie,” he says. Mapes notes that while he discovered a lot about himself through drag, the effect his performances had on others was equally profound. “The drag-queen community has a sense of daring about it,” he says. “A sense of extraordinariness that a lot of people feel they can’t do in their lives, for whatever reason. Seeing guys all
music dressed up and acting in over-the-top ways is very liberating as a drag queen, but also for other people. It’s a way of projecting feelings onto someone else and living vicariously through them.” Mapes says that over the years a number of people have told him they think drag queens are courageous; some found inspiration for coming out of the closet themselves. Of course, “there are also other, notso-nice things people say, too,” says Mapes with a chuckle. “But, for the most part, everybody gets that it’s about having a sense of humor and taking a lighter view of life and living large. That’s appealing.” But Mapes discovered that living vicariously through alternate personalities can have unintended side effects — most notably, losing one’s true identity. Last year, he released his latest album, House of Joy, as Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes. The fusion of his given name with that of his more extravagant sobriquet represents a melding of his two personalities, born from a deeper understanding of the various facets that make up his larger whole. When he moved to New York City, Mapes reformed the Plastic Family with new members. The band drew wide acclaim in GLBT circles — Mapes was named OutMusic.com’s OutMusician of the Year in 2003, and says he was recently inducted into both the Bear Hall of Fame and the GLBT Hall of Fame. But in 2004, he disbanded the group amid a flurry of life-altering personal changes that he now refers to as a “spiritual journey.” “It led me to an understanding of what I call the ‘god-goddess within,’” Mapes says. That year he also met his current partner, and the pair secluded themselves from the world. Mapes stopped performing for three years. “I had never had this kind of relationship before, so it was a new discovery of love and self-realization,” he confides. And he became reacquainted with Roger Mapes. “My goal in drag was never to impersonate a woman,” he says. “In my mind it was always about discovering something unique about myself. I was now understanding the masculine side of myself in a new way, and the feminine side of myself in a new way.” It would be easy to mistake Mapes’ newfound identity as duality, or a recon-
ciling of seemingly disparate personalities. That’s not how he sees it. Mapes explains that he had become so outwardly identified as Yolanda that he lost sight of the reason he started doing drag in the first place. “I was so identified as … ‘she’ that it cut me out of an experience that I wanted to have, of being a gay man,” he says. “This is about fusing everything together as all of that which I am.” The record also represents another sort of rediscovery for Mapes. Inspired in equal measures by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Divine, House of Joy marks a return to his Southern roots: Mapes grew up in Muscle Shoals, Ala. “At the heart of what I wanted to do was this deep longing to express this love for Southern culture and Southern music,” he reveals. On his website, Mapes describes his new aesthetic as the “alien love child of Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Louise Hay and John Waters.” That’s just about right. “For many years I was ashamed of being Southern,” he admits. “As I’ve grown older I’ve come to embrace that part of myself, too, and what my life was about when I lived in the South. Really, it was about music.” Mapes’ father was a radio and television broadcaster in Muscle Shoals, which, in the 1960s, was an unlikely rock-and-roll hotbed. “It was the hit recording capital of the world in the ’60s and ’70s,” says Mapes, recalling the flood of artists who came through the small town: the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, to name a few. “It was quite an experience. And I wanted to reconnect with that,” Mapes says. “I am a whole person. I am both male and female. I am Southern and Northern. I am everything, because what I really am is spirit,” he says. “This whole progression has been about pulling everything together and fusing it into one entity: Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes.” But we can still call him Yolanda, right? “Oh, sure!” he exclaims. “It’s much easier that way.”
Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes performs at the Higher Ground Showcase as part of the Winter Is a Drag Ball this Saturday, February 12, at 8 p.m. $21/25. 18+.
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rotation of acts and people will start to lose interest. That’s not a problem with Smither, though. He always draws well. Still, it makes you wonder how anyone succeeds in this biz, doesn’t it? Being a small, independent promoter is a true labor of love. It’s largely thankless work. And, in most cases, it’s not especially lucrative. In fact, almost all the indie
promoters I’ve spoken with over the years say they feel lucky when their shows simply break even. For After Dark to make it this long is quite a feat. Congratulations, Carol. And thank you.
BiteTorrent I’m a big fan of August First Bakery & Café. It’s got tasty sandwiches, a friendly staff and, most important, strong coffee within stumbling distance of the 7D offices. In fact, August First has probably fueled more of my columns in the last year or so than anyone else — so, if you don’t like something I write, blame them. It’s hard to believe, but the café is about to jump up a notch in my personal regard, as this Thursday the owners unveil what we hope will be the first of many livemusic nights, “Winter Songs in August.” Spearheaded by local neo-soul siren myra flynn, the lineup also includes songwriters reBeCCa Padula, John fuzek, linda BassiCk and maryse smith.
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Who, or what, the hell is }hexdump?{ This is the second time I’ve posed the question in this column, and I’m still not entirely sure. I do know, however, that the local experimental trio sends out some of the strangest PR stuff I’ve ever seen. Take, for example, the packaging of their latest record, protocol analysis volume 1. The album arrived last week buried in — I’m not making this up — a large, pyramid-shaped diorama. The disc itself was ensconced in foreboding silver plastic vaguely resembling a hazardouswaste bag. Kinda creepy, but undoubtedly provocative — which is actually a pretty decent description of their music: creepy and provocative. Formed in Burlington in 1995 as an “experimental sonic research collaboration,” the group fuses a variety of organic and electronic influences into a cold, sludgy maelstrom of industrial noise. Picture the ChemiCal Brothers and daft Punk playing laser tag — to the death — in a steel mill, and you’re in the neighborhood. This Saturday, }hexdump{ present an art installation/ album-release party, entitled transmutation, at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington. The multimedia showcase will, and I quote, “be an experimental art performance installation that examines the meaning of alchemy in a digital context and the multiple impacts it has on the human species in today’s world.” So … yeah. Mystery solved.
February 12, as part of the After Dark Music Series. Though Smither is a nationally acclaimed tunesmith, his AD gig isn’t really news. Dude has played the series every year but one since its inception 16 years ago. What is news is that this appearance will be his last. After more than a decade and a half, After Dark is calling it quits at the conclusion of this season — with hot CluB of Cowtown — on Friday, April 1. No foolin’. In a recent email, series founder Carol Green writes that declining attendance was the prime motivator in the decision to pull the plug. She also hinted at a conundrum no doubt familiar to other local concert promoters: If you book a great artist whom no one has heard of, moving tickets can be a tough sell. On the other hand, lean too heavily on the same
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weaves references to his beloved Hawaiian lute throughout each of the album’s 14 tunes, including a waltzing ode to fictional heroine Kaylee Ukulele, and a countrified redesignation of Arkansas as “the Ukulele State.” Clever and quirky, Lee is gaining increasing renown as a singularly entertaining performer and for proving, once and for all, that’s it’s not the size of your instrument that matters, it’s how you use it. Aaron Lee drops by Radio Bean this Saturday, February 12.
nECtar's: Timbre coup (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP bar & griLL: Paydirt (rock), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. rED squarE: starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.
thE skinny PanCakE: Joshua Panda's Vermont Winter Waltz Residency (soul), 8 p.m., $5 donation.
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LangDon strEEt CaFé: comedy Open mic (standup), 9 p.m., Donations. MuLLigan's irish Pub: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PurPLE Moon Pub: 440hz: Fox, Hock and Jones (rock), 7 p.m., Free.
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MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. 2/7/11 5:03 PM
on taP bar & griLL: Bob stannard Blues Band (blues), 7 p.m., Free. PariMa Main stagE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Zack duPont, dEv jAna, Adam Reczek (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $3. raDio bEan: Jazz sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The unbearable Light cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3. soul session (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rasPutin's: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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august First: Winter songs with myra Flynn, Linda Bassick, “Rebecca Padula,” John Fuzek & maryse smith (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free.
rí rá irish Pub: Longford Row (irish), 8 p.m., Free.
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baCkstagE Pub: Open mic with Jess & Jeff, 8 p.m., Free. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. thE grEEn rooM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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highEr grounD shoWCasE LoungE: Tea Leaf Green, The Bridge (rock), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. LEunig's bistro & CaFé: Ellen Powell & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LiFt: Get LiFTed with DJs Nastee & Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: citizen Bare, shady Alley (rock), 9 p.m., $5. nECtar's: Bluegrass Thursdays with something With strings, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free. thE skinny PanCakE: Woody Pines (acoustic), 6:30 p.m., $5 donation. The move it move it (Afro-pop), 10 p.m., $5 donation.
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CharLiE o's: mark Lester (indie), 10 p.m., Free. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. LangDon strEEt CaFé: Danielle miraglia (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Donations. nutty stEPh's: Bacon Thursdays with Noble savage (electro), 10 p.m., Free.
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bEE's knEEs: After the Rodeo (Americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations. thE brEWski: Joshua Panda Band (soul), 8 p.m., Free. riMroCks Mountain tavErn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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MonoPoLE: Peacock Tunes & Trivia, 5 p.m., Free. Dear Havanah (rock), 10 p.m., Free. MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke with Benjamin Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free. tabu CaFé & nightCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.
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baCkstagE Pub: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. Franny o's: The Hitmen (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.
sLiDE brook LoDgE & tavErn: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
thE grEEn rooM: DJ Oh-Jay Fresh (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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highEr grounD baLLrooM: sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (soul), 9 p.m., $20/23. AA.
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BNOTW designee. Her latest band is yet another entrant into the local punk fold, riot grrrls DOLL FIGHT! The trio, which also includes guitarist CHRISTINE MATHIAS and bassist KELLY RIEL, makes its debut this Saturday at the annual Hot Pink Party at the Langdon Street Café in Montpelier. All-star Americana trio
AFTER THE RODEO is back in the
saddle after a brief hiatus. The band, which includes guitarist D DAVIS, mandolinist MATT SCHRAG and bassist PAT MELVIN, kicks off a short run of local shows this Thursday at the Bee’s Knees.
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release of FACE-ONE’s Dead Seas EP with a monster showcase at Manhattan Pizza & Pub in Burlington. Slated to appear: ALECK WOOG, BRUTALLY HONEST, MC STRANGER, ZACK NUMBERS, 2ND AGENDA, MC HUMBLE and, of course, Face-One. And look for a review the EP — postrelease, of course — in the coming weeks. This just in — your sporadic
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take note: MARCO BENEVENTO (the shy one) will deliver a special solo piano show at Parima on Thursday, February 17, as part of of JOE ADLER’s ongoing Burgundy Thursday series. Adler and local songstress AYA INOUE open. Tickets go on sale riiiight … now.
kinda-sorta nearing the finish line. It’s true. Just ask PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL. There is light at the end of the tunnel, a radiance fueled by our good friends at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. We’re still a couple of months away from knowing the full lineup. But bits and pieces of news have begun trickling out regarding this year’s jazz jamboree. Such as this choice nugget, quietly announced last week: BÉLA FLECK AND THE ORIGINAL FLECKTONES will appear as BDJF headline performers on the Flynn MainStage on Sunday, June 12. Think spring.
Given the recent double-barreled blast of wintry weather — holy thundersnow! — spring seems further away than ever, even though we’re
Last week, I left you with a riddle: “What is red and white — like, really, really white — has 16 arms and loves you?” I also promised to solve said riddle this
ANDERS PARKER update:
Parker’s rock trio with CRESTON LEA and STEVE HADEKA, CLOUD BADGE, returns to the stage this Friday at the Monkey House. BOB WAGNER and RYAN OBER open. That is all. BENEVENTO-RUSSO DUO fans,
week. But here’s the thing. Technically speaking, I can’t reveal the answer in these 12v-Nectars020911.indd pages, because doing so would violate the only rule my esteemed employers here at Seven Days have ever really given me. Namely, that I can’t write about projects with which I’m involved … in print. This, of course, is why God invented blogs, where pesky things like “ethics” and “journalistic integrity” are less strictly policed. So, if trying to crack my code has found you lying awake at night … um, get a life. Then, log onto Solid State (7d.blogs. com/solidstate) this Friday, where all will be revealed.
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If there is one mistake bands have been making since the dawn of time — or at least the dawn of bands — it’s scheduling an album-release party before you physically have said album in hand. True story: I was once in a band that had three release parties before our album was ready. How were we not huge? But I digress. The movers and shakers at local hip-hop collective RurallyUrban Records have a unique solution to that age-old problem: a prerelease party. Genius! This Friday, RUR celebrate the impending
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LIFT: Salsa Friday with DJ Hector Cobeo (salsa), 2/7/11 11:49 AM9 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Face-One Prerelease Party (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.
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MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Andrew Moroz (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Anders Parker Cloud Badge, Ryan Ober, Bob Wagner (rock), 9 p.m., $8. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Jatoba, Fevertrain (roots), 9 p.m., $5.
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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Growlers (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Justice (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Open Mic, 5 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: The Steph Pappas Experience (rock), 7 p.m., Free. L.Dora (rock), 8 p.m., Free. The Crack Up (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN'S: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3.
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RED SQUARE: Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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CHARLIE O'S: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 10 p.m., Free. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., Donations. PURPLE MOON PUB: Fresh Greens (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Pat Travers Band, Don Lawson (rock), 8 p.m., $32.
champlain valley
51 MAIN: Mark Lavoie (blues), 6 p.m., Free. DJ Unscripted (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio featuring Paul Cassarino, Tracie Cassarino & Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Aunt Martha, Last Good Tooth, Dirty Watts ($5), 9 p.m., $5.
CITY LIMITS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
NECTAR'S: Justin Levinson Songwriters Circle (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Kung Fu, Casio Bastard (funk), 9 p.m., $5.
STARRY NIGHT CAFÉ: Left Eye Jump (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free.
NIGHTCRAWLERS: Movin' On Band (country), 9 p.m., $3.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: 3 Sheets 2 the Wind (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Agent 99 (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: The Heckhounds (country-blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE BREWSKI: Steel Rail (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $2. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Prana (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.
PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: After the Rodeo (Americana), 8 p.m., $8. PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Jeh Kulu, DJ Jah Red (African drums), 10 p.m., $8. RADIO BEAN: Aaron Lee (ukulele), 8 p.m., Free. Squeeze Rock (accordion), 9 p.m., Free. Sai U Drom, Wave of the Future (folk-punk), 11:45 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN'S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
MATTERHORN: Gent Treadly (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.
RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.
RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The X-Rays (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
ROADSIDE TAVERN: Marc Brisson Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
SHELBURNE STEAKHOUSE & SALOON: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 7 p.m., Free. Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free.
regional
THE SKINNY PANCAKE: The Willoughbys, The Porters (folk), 7 p.m., $5 donation.
MONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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CHARLIE O'S: Beach Blanket Bingo Party, 10 p.m., Free.
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BACKSTAGE PUB: Jimmy T & the Cobras (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
PURPLE MOON PUB: Wiley Dobbs (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free.
CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.
THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: In Kahootz (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Donna the Buffalo, The Roy Jay Band (rock), 8 p.m., $20.
burlington area
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Winter Is a Drag Ball, 8 p.m., $21/25. 18+.
POSITIVE PIE 2: The Isleys, MusicSpeak, Lava Moss (rock), 10:30 p.m., $5.
JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Torpedo Rodeo (surf-punk), 9:30 p.m., Free.
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Adam Reczek,The Reczek, The Fork in the Road EP (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)
his efforts immediately outshine almost anything on his debut. Reczek is still frustratingly hesitant at moments, but most of the time his tone is pure and unwavering. On “October Song,” he comes close to bridging the gap between compositional and lyrical talents. The song features a sparkling progression and an expertly delivered instrumental bridge. Though Reczek’s poetry occasionally flirts with cliché, his writing is generally sharp and effective, expressing a charming, wide-eyed optimism. “Hold On to Hope” closes the EP, with mixed results. Again, Reczek’s arrangement is impressive. The man knows how to put a song together. But he stumbles lyrically, delivering predictable, overly earnest musings on love and hope. This is also his weakest vocal turn, bouncing around a scattershot melody as though he couldn’t decide which octave best suited him. Consistent with the EP’s title, Adam Reczek seems to be at an artistic crossroads: He still has a way to go before he can truly be considered among the area’s rising songwriters, but his improvement here suggests he’s willing to put in the work to get there. The Fork in the Road EP is available at iTunes. Adam Reczek appears as part of this week’s Burgundy Thursday series at Parima.
dangerous love songs such as “Turn Off the Noise” and “Soul of My Soul,” she croons with a heartfelt, emotional quaver. On “Abenaki Hills” — a current personal favorite — she chants lyrics that one could imagine rising like mist from a mountain lake at dawn. Throughout the record, Stykos uses her considerable skill as a poet like that of a painter: She draws the listener in and captivates with a canvas of vivid imagery. Her glorious, trance-like guitar riffs and Aaberg’s spacey synthesizer work underscore her words, like sunlight refracted through old glass of deep but vibrant colors. Raven showcases Stykos’ considerable talents as a musician and singer, but also as an engineer. Renown is growing for the sounds she crafts in her
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homegrown studio at the end of a long dirt road in Chelsea. Listening to this disc, it’s easy to understand why. Recording acoustic music is simultaneously simple and incredibly complicated. Stykos’ technical expertise here has resulted in an amazing listening experience. The record swirls with a depth and warmth that makes it stand out from the myriad acoustic releases in Vermont each year. It makes me want to duct-tape my old Dynaco A-25 speakers to my head so I can hear every snap and ring. In more ways than one, Raven is a treat for the ears. Kristina Stykos performs Wednesday, February 16, at Kismet in Montpelier with Bow Thayer and Holy Plow.
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On her third recording, Raven, Orange County musician and songwriter Kristina Stykos blends the wild and the gentle, with both rockin’ tunes and the smooth keyboard work and synth imaginings of Philip Aaberg. He’s a veteran of Windham Hill Records, the flagship label of new-age music, whose roster also included such artists as George Winston, Liz Story and label founder/guitarist Will Ackerman. Over the course of 14 original cuts, Stykos covers a wide variety of musical terrain. She rocks out on a big, cutaway acoustic guitar on “Thing for You.” On
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When last we left Adam Reczek, the local tunesmith had just released his 2009 debut album, The Window Seat, to less than enthusiastic acclaim. The disc revealed Reczek as very much a work in progress. Though he was a gifted and polished guitarist, his songwriting bore the marks of inexperience, failing to measure up to his ambition. In addition, his vocal performance was wildly inconsistent. Despite lofty melodic ideas, Reczek’s debut was, frankly, kind of a mess. The silver lining? Each of those deficiencies is correctable. Songwriting often improves with age and experience. Self-confidence can stem a reliance on musical influences. Increased attention to breath support and phrasing can cure failings in pitch. As a songwriter and singer, Reczek may not be a natural, but he’s hardly a lost cause. He has talent, and his sophomore attempt, The Fork in the Road EP, suggests he is beginning to realize his true potential. The EP opens on “Scotch & Cigars,” an impeccably played acoustic instrumental that reaffirms Reczek’s ace chops. Sparse and pretty, it proves the songwriter can conceive of and execute compelling musical ideas, at least on guitar. “September Song” features Reczek’s first vocal performance on the disc. With improved focus and confidence,
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CharLie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
Main street griLL & Bar: mark LeGrand (country), 7 p.m., Free.
51 Main: Dear Havanah (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
sLide BrooK Lodge & tavern: tattoo tuesdays with andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.
City LiMits: Dance party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9 p.m., Free. two Brothers tavern: Rehab Roadhouse (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
tupeLo MusiC haLL: Great Big sea (rock), 8 p.m., sold Out.
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champlain valley
Bee's Knees: Open acoustic Jam, 3 p.m., Free. steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
51 Main: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free.
the BrewsKi: The mighty Loons, Barenjager Girls (rock), 9 p.m., $2.
northern
two Brothers tavern: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
Bee's Knees: Flat top trio (americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
Matterhorn: spiritual Rez (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. MusiC Box: Howie cantor (folk), 7 p.m., $8. riMroCKs Mountain tavern: DJ two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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MonopoLe: Jatoba (rock), 10 p.m., Free. oLive ridLey's: party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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taBu Café & nightCLuB: all Night Dance party with DJ toxic (top 40), 5 p.m., Free.
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1/2 Lounge: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, moonflower & Friends (house), 7 p.m., Free. CLuB MetronoMe: Black to the Future with DJ Dakota (r&b), 10 p.m., Free. Monty's oLd BriCK tavern: George Voland JaZZ: with Ray Vega, colin mccaffrey and Dan skea (jazz), 4:30 p.m., Free.
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neCtar's: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. pariMa Main stage: mike sullivan (acoustic blues), 6:30 p.m., Free. radio Bean: Old time sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Ladies, Ladies, Ladies … please, 8 p.m., Free. Hurricanes of Love, 10:30 p.m., Free.
the BrewsKi: This Valley Home (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. fri.11 // Ben CarroLL [singer-songwriter]
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1/2 Lounge: DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m.
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CLuB MetronoMe: Jimkata, ultraviolet Hippopotamus (electro-rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
members of the Starland Vocal Band, best
franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.
known for their 1976 ode to daytime doin’
higher ground showCase Lounge: BioDiesel, Durians (electro-acoustic), 9 p.m., $8/10. aa.
it. Carroll was raised on the harmony-
Leunig's Bistro & Café: paul asbell & clyde stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
laden folk and soul sounds of the 1960s and ’70s. That upbringing is reflected in
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Lift: DJs p-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
his own forays into R&B-tinged acoustic
Manhattan pizza & puB: Open mic with andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.
pop. Soulful and sensuous, his tunes
MonKey house: Beat Vision with DJ Disco phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.
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neCtar's: timbre coup (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on tap Bar & griLL: Leno & Young (rock), 7 p.m., Free.
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radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free.
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red square: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.
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burlington area
sheLBurne steaKhouse & saLoon: carol ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.
central
Langdon street Café: cabin Fever music series (acoustic), 3 p.m., Donations.
CharLie o's: First crush, Wildcat (indie), 8 p.m., Free.
northern
ruBen JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
the BrewsKi: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 6:30 p.m., Free.
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Langdon street Café: Wintertown Blues session (blues), 8 p.m., Donations.
1/2 Lounge: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
purpLe Moon puB: phineas Gage (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.
CLuB MetronoMe: Bass culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
Bee's Knees: Jazz Brunch with marty powers and carrie cook (jazz), 11 a.m., Donations.
ye oLde engLand inne: corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.
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burlington area
1/2 Lounge: Heal-in sessions with Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. CLuB MetronoMe: Valentine's Day with the Ginger snaps, Kyle the Rider, the Human canvas (redhead rock), 9 p.m., $5.
burlington area
higher ground BaLLrooM: Dr. Dog, The Head and the Heart, Walri (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $18/20. aa. Leunig's Bistro & Café: cody sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MonKey house: Queer Night with DJ Gunner (house), 10 p.m., Free.
on tap Bar & griLL: comedy Open mic, 5:30 p.m., Free. Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.
Monty's oLd BriCK tavern: Open mic Night, 6 p.m., Free.
pariMa Main stage: marty power trio (jazz), 6:30 p.m., Free.
neCtar's: L.Dora, Zack dupont, pat melvin (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
radio Bean: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.
on tap Bar & griLL: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.
red square: industry Night with Robbie J (hiphop), 8 p.m., Free. Hype 'Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. rozzi's LaKeshore tavern: trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.
radio Bean: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. Honky-tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red square: upsetta international with super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.
KisMet: Kristina stykos with Bow Thayer and Holy plow (americana), 7 p.m., Donations.
MuLLigan's irish puB: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. two Brothers tavern: Open mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.
northern
Bee's Knees: Faerie God Brothers (dream folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the shed restaurant & Brewery: The Gabe Jarrett trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
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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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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 8887889. bLuE PADDLE biStro, 316 US Rt. 2, South Hero, 372-4814. 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. thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. 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. SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394. WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.
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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. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hEN of thE WooD At thE griSt miLL, 92 Stowe St., Waterbury, 244-7300. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kiSmEt, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646. LAcE, 159 N. Main St., Barre, 476-4276.
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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. 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. highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. thE LiViNg room, 794 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester. mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. miguEL’S oN mAiN, 30 Main St., Burlington, 658-9000. moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. NEW mooN cAfé, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 383-1505. NightcrAWLErS, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. 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. 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.
LANgDoN StrEEt cAfé, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667. LocALfoLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt.17, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN’S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545. NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090. PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453. PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827. SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202. South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.
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wo nonobjective abstractionists share the current exhibition aptly titled “Extravagant Color” at Stowe’s West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park. Philadelphia artist Val Rossman creates opulently hued paintings, including pastels on paper and dynamic acrylicon-aluminum pieces. She writes in her artist’s statement, “My recent body of work deals with the fragmented quality of our lives.” Indeed, her largest paintings present multiple, overlapping layers of hard-edged, geometric shapes in vivid colors. Painter Janis Pozzi-Johnson, from the Chicago area, creates oil-on-canvas works with mysterious surfaces and subdued yet saturated colors. Her ethereal, vaporous works reference landscape, but only obliquely. Pozzi-Johnson writes, “Through a language of undulating, nuanced surfaces and layer upon layer of color, my personal response to life’s mystery takes form.” Her 24-by20-inch “Playa Miramar II” may refer to a beach, but the hues are not a realist’s representation of such a place. Above the diffuse horizon is a broad swath of raw umber, while below appears a steely blue-gray expanse. The paint looks like it was poured and frozen rather than spread with a brush. Pozzi-Johnson’s fields resemble an ocean surface seen from a great height. “Low Tide” is a panoramic, 24-by46-inch vista of green below a horizon and pale blue above. Pozzi-Johnson’s surfaces have lilting, finely scalloped visual textures. “Passing Through” has the same proportions and size but is vertically oriented. Its horizon area is nearly black, sandwiched between
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ALISA DWORSKY: "Drawing Strength," rope and bamboo installations suggestive of topographical maps, in the First Floor Gallery. Through March 5 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. ASHLEY ROARK: "Light, Line and Shadow," mixed-media works that recreate fleeting moments to find beauty in the ordinary, unintended and mundane. Also, glass works by Terry Zigmund and Lawrence Ribbecke, in the window. Through March 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.
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are even more robust. That’s in part because of scale, but the compositions are also more tightly focused, enlivened by hard lines and geometric patterning. “Hot Tomato Career,” at 36 by 36 inches, echoes Matisse in its use of patterning — checkerboards, spots and lines. It seems at first to be collaged layers of cut tissue paper in a complex menagerie of resounding reds, but a closer look reveals the work is constructed from layers of masked lines. “If Tales Could Tell” has a similarly complex approach to harmonizing colors, this time a symphony of blues, purple and green. The complements of Rossman’s dominant hues are used sparingly, without watering down the harmonies. At only 12 inches square, the acrylic “Complex Prize” is closely related to “If Tales Could Tell”; however, Rossman incorporated calligraphic brushwork, such as that in the pastels, over the slices of masked blue and green. The brushwork swirls create a curvaceous counterpoint to the geometric matrix of hues. In art, “nonobjective” simply means a work is not about objects, but that doesn’t imply the paintings aren’t about anything. As Mark Rothko famously put it, “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.” Rossman’s and Pozzi-Johnson’s pieces are definitely good paintings about something, and that is vibrant, rhythmic and boundless color.
tracts of light brown above and dark brown below. The vertical diptych “Grace Notes,” at 48 by 36 inches, consists of monochromatic, golden-brown planes of color. Pozzi-Johnson’s metallic gold is reminiscent of gold leaf in a medieval altarpiece and lends the work a sacred quality. The bifurcated image looms dramatically over the viewer. Val Rossman’s vibrant acrylic pieces capture a viewer’s attention upon entering the gallery, but her rich pastel
abstractions should not be overlooked. “Life and a Few Regrets” is a 22-by-22inch piece with areas of mint green and a band of pale purple running vertically down the middle. Calligraphic lines dance across the image, independent of the patches of color. Rossman’s “Competition for Distance” is a deep indigo pastel accented by blue lines that shoot over the composition like lightning bolts. Rossman’s pastels demonstrate her strong sense of color, but her acrylics
BEN PATRICK: "Learning to See Again: Improvisations on Landscape," abstracted landscape paintings by the artist-in-residence of the Vermont Commons School. Through February 18 at Jager Di Paola Kemp Design in Burlington. Info, 864-5884.
DAVIN SOKUP: Recent work by the Burlington artist. Through February 28 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 865-6227.
photographs from Tibet by Sharie Elrich. Through April 30 at Candles & Creations in Burlington. Info, 660-8021.
BENJAMIN BARNES: "Gasoline," paintings reflecting the artist's connection to Vermont history and rural culture, and offering commentary on our culture's obsession with automobiles. Through February 28 at Art's Alive Gallery in Burlington. Info, 310-3211.
'DRESS ME UP!': Painter and digital artist Jme Wheeler has created a series of life-size paper dolls; mix-and-match outfits for them have been created by other local artists: Beth Robinson, Christy Mitchell, Justin Atherton, Wylie Sofia Garcia and Kristin Richland. Visitors can play dress-up with the dolls, too. Through February 26 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.
ERIKA WHITE & CARIN LILLY: Mixed-media work by the Vermont artists and mothers of small children, who find inspiration among the sippy cups and toys strewn throughout their lives. Through February 28 at Davis Studio in Burlington. Info, 425-2700.
DAVE MATTHEWS: Work by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Brownell Library in Essex Junction. Info, 878-6955.
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“Extravagant Color,” paintings by Val Rossman and Janis Pozzi-Johnson, West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, Stowe. Through February 20.
FEBRUARY GROUP EXHIBIT: Photographs of New Zealand by Cody Brgant; silver gelatin photographs of London by Samuel Liebert; and acrylic and mixed-media works by Arden Jones. Through February 28 at The Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 540-0188.
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February Group Show: Large-format combat paper pieces made from military uniforms by Jon Turner; silkscreen prints by Tyler VanLeau; woodcuts by Frances Cannon; and clay work by Catherine Ward. Through February 28 at Green Door Studio in Burlington. Info, 735-3729. 'GeorGeS rouault: Cirque de l'Étoile Filante': The French artist's print portfolio, published from 1926-38, includes color etchings and wood engravings of clowns, in the East Gallery. Through May 22 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. harry bliSS: "Genius," a retrospective of the world-renowned cartoonist and children's book illustrator includes original New Yorker covers, cartoons, student work, book jackets and children's books; also, original work from artists in Bliss' personal collection. Through March 26 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4500. 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. JeSSiCa niSSen: "Rorschach Drawings," painted-over inkblots exploring perception, the subconscious and the extremes of spontaneous creativity, based on the controversial psychological test of the same name, in the Second Floor Gallery. Through March 26 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. JeSSiCa reMMey: Photographs of beauty in ordinary Vermont settings, in the Greenhouse; Amanda Vella: landscape paintings, in the Dining Room; Jonathan Aaron: abstract mixed-media work, in the Bar. Through March 1 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 372-6680. John daVid o'ShauGhneSSy: Acrylic paintings on canvas and mixed-media works on paper. Through March 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. Jon blaCk: "On Learning Saturn Devoured Its Moons," a window installation revisiting Francisco de Goya's painting of a similar name, in light of recent research by astrophysicist Robin Canup. Through February 28 at Trinket in Burlington. Info, 862-5051.
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. lienne biCk: "Onari Art," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233.
liSa SChaMberG: "Self-Composed," photographs of fruit and vegetable trimmings destined for the compost pile. Through February 28 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 861-9700.
lynn rupe: "Rural Sheep and City Bears," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.
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red Square art ShowS: The popular downtown Burlington bar is seeking artists interested in monthlong exhibitions. Email creative geniuses@burlingtontelecom for info. reFleCtionS on baSin harbor: Each year Vermont artists are invited to find inspiration amid the natural beauty of the 700-acre resort on Lake Champlain. On display August 19-27. Deadline: March 4. Info, 475-2311 or basinharbor. com. the art oF CreatiVe aGinG: Exhibit of current work of older (70+) visual artists in central Vermont. Digital submissions due March 1. Contact mharmon@cvcoa. org or 476-2681 for more info. cvcoa.org. Gallery SeekS new artiStS: Art on Main in Bristol seeks new exhibitors in a variety of media; limited space for 2-D. Jury February 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Application at artonmain.net under Artists Forms. true Story: photo eXhibit: A picture tells a thousand words. For “A True Story,” we’re looking for the documented event, person or place. Submission deadline: March 14. Info,
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Shelley warren & CaMeron daViS: “108 Blessings,” sculptural video installations by Warren and paintings by Davis that meditate on the nature of being. February 11 through March 13 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 11, 5-8 p.m. Info, 863-3663.
‘FaShioninG photoGraphy’: Where do art and fashion meet? Are you a part of the next wave? Juried photography exhibit. Juror: Bobby Mozumder. Submission deadline: February 14. Info, vermontphotospace.com/ex12.
reCeptionS MiCkey MyerS: Incandescent works inspired by the interplay of color and light characteristic of the Vermont landscape. Through March 31 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Reception: Wednesday, February 9, 3-5 p.m. Info, 828-0749. ‘MinGei oF tottori’: Traditional and contemporary crafts of Tottori, Japan. Through February 27 at Davis Center, UVM in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, February 9, 6-8 p.m. Info, 656-2060. 'an eXhibit oF their own: SiX Featured woMen artiStS': Paintings by Tiffany Torre, Cameron Schmitz, Claudette Enman, Josephine Habeski, Georgina Forbes and Carrie Bagalio. Through February 13 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Reception: Friday, February 11, 5-8 p.m. Info, 775-0356. peter arthur weyrauCh: Art Affair by Shearer presents “RODZ,” black-and-white photographs of antique cars and hot rods. Through March 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 11, 6-8 p.m. Info, 373-2321. MarGot laSher: “Shiro in Manhattan,” photos of the Vermont artist’s dog in the big city. Through February 28 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Reception: Friday, February 11, 5-7 p.m. Info, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com. JeSS GrahaM: Illustrative, irreverent and textural work by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Reception: Friday, February 11, 4-6 p.m. Info, 223-1981. Mark Chaney: “Guiding Light,” digital art, giclée prints and tritography, in which two or more digital photographs are blended to make a single image. Through March 31 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Reception:
Jenna FoGle: Mixed-media paintings and drawings. Through February 28 at The Drawing Board in Montpelier. Reception: Friday, February 11, 4-6 p.m. Info, 223-2902.
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‘hello FroM VerMont’: Painting, sculpture, ceramics, fiber and installation from some of Vermont’s leading contemporary artists. Through March 5 at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montréal. Reception: Saturday, February 12, 3-5 p.m. Info, 514-448-4723. 'huMan artiFaCt': Work by various artists that explores the spaces and things that outfit our private lives, from backyard junk piles to attic hideaways. Through March 4 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Reception: Sunday, February 13, 3-5 p.m. Info, 777-3686. ki ho park: "Everything Must Go," photographs of recently vacated storefronts and office buildings around New England. February 14 through March 4 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Monday, February 14, 5:30-7 p.m. Info, 656-2014.
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Makasi siriwayo: Paintings and illustrations by the designer and graffiti artist. February 14 through March 4 at Living/Learning Center, UVM in Burlington. Info, 425-773-8574. '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. Info, 859-9222. Marc awodey: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at North End Studio in Burlington. Info, 863-6713. Marion c. Honors: "The Wild and the Sacred," mixed-media work by the New York-based nun, artist and organic gardener. Through February 28 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Burlington. Info, 864-0471. 'Masked spectacle: coMMedia dell'arte and Bread & puppet tHeater': Prints by Hungarian-American artist Giuseppe Pecsenke featuring characters and scenes from the historical theater form, as well as masks and puppets from Vermont's radical theater troupe, in the Wilbur Room. Through May 8 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. MatHew pardue: Oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648. Megan HuMpHrey: "Valentine Vestiges," paper artwork honoring the holiday of love by the owner of Sweet Basil Cards, in the Pickering Room. Through February 27 at Fletcher Free Library in
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anniVersary party: The gallery celebrates its first year with a champagne toast at 10 a.m., performances by Prana, Steph Pappas, Tim Berry, Megan Luttrell and others, a Valentinemaking contest, a snowboard raffle, an espresso demo and draught beer from Otter Creek Brewery. Sunday, February 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Block Gallery, Winooski. Info, 373-5150.
BHakti Ziek & Holly walker: “Continuum,” weavings that explore how language imposes artificial divides between continuous processes by Ziek; and “Haptikos,” hand-built earthenware pots by Walker. Through February 20 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Talk: Walker discusses her work. Sunday, February 13, 1-3 p.m. Info, 431-0204.
dr. sketcHy’s anti-art scHool: Artists age 18 and up bring sketchbooks and pencils to a boozy life-drawing session, featuring live models Dangeresque and Adora, live music and door prizes. Wednesday, February 16, 8-10:30 p.m., American Legion, White River Junction. Info, drsketchy. com/index.php?branch/ whiteriverjunction.
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dane Verret: “Combining Communities: Dance and Photography,” images of recent performances by Dance Company of Middlebury and the student artist’s home community of New Orleans. Through February 10 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Talk: Thursday, February 10, 12:301:30 p.m. Info, 443-6433.
‘tradition transforMed: tiBetan artists respond’: Contemporary Tibetan artists use traditional forms in innovative ways to explore themes of technology, travel, displacement and personal artistic freedom. Work in a variety of media by Dedron, Gonkar Gyatso, Losang Gyatso, Kesang Lamdark, Tenzin Norbu, Tenzing Rigdol, Tsherin Sherpa and Penba Wangdu. Through March 13 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Talk: Artist Tsherin Sherpa discusses his work in the museum’s Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Tuesday, February 15, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Info, 603-646-2808.
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Muffin ray: Mixed-media textile assemblages. Through February 28 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.
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'Mind sets': Andrew Carnie contributes prints; Terry Gipps, photography; and Meg Walker, sculpture, exploring the science of memory, mind-body connections, creativity and mortality. Through February 11 at Living/Learning Center, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-4200.
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contemporary American artists fascinated by the circus and its performers' bohemian lives outside the ring. Through May 22 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. '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. Wendy JameS: Digital photomontages in black and white by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Opportunities Credit Union in Burlington. Info, 865-3404 x130. 'WinteR feStiVal aRt ShoW': Vermont winter scenes by Martha Stevenson, Anna Vreman and Sean Dye. Through March 2 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.
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WinteR gRoup ShoW: Work in a variety of media by Steve Campbell, Isaac Wasuck, Greg Mamczak, Dave Davidson, Kevyn Cundiff, Diane Gabriel, Lorraine Manley, Perry Bartles and Gaal Shepherd. Through February 28 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
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amalia elena VeRalli: Photographs of flowers portraying "the otherworldly beauty of creation." Through March 11 at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Info, 496-8994. geoRge laWRenCe & JaCquelyn Jimoi: "Two Views," landscape paintings and pastels by the husband-and-wife artists. Through February 12 at Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. Info, 889-9404. 'highloW pRoJeCt': Large-scale photographs by Ned Castle depicting re-creations of decisive moments in the lives of young, at-risk Vermonters. Accompanying each photograph is an audio narration by its subject. Through February 25 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.
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Jenna kelly: "New and Used," abstract mixedmedia explorations of the human figure, Third Floor Gallery; "The Dark Side," work by Annemie Curlin, Dan Moran and Gerard W. Rinaldi, among others, Main Floor Gallery; "When No One Is Looking," work exploring private moments by Robin La Hue, Ken Signorello and Janet Van Fleet, and others, Second Floor Gallery. Through February 26 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.
Joan CuRtiS: "At One With Nature's Wiles: Recent Paintings and Sculptures," acrylics and mixedmedia constructions depicting human figures at ease amid upheavals of nature. Through February 11 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College in Poultney. Info, 287-8398. SandRa loRy: "Theobroma Cacao," photographs of the plant that gives us chocolate. Through February 28 at Nutty Steph's in Middlesex. Info, 229-2090. VeRmont paStel SoCiety exhibition: Work by member artists. February 15 through March 20 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743. Zoë baRRaCano: "Fidel, the End of an Era," intimate contemporary Cuban portraits and landscapes by the Vermont photographer. Through February 28 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.
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Clay Studio Student ShoW: The Bristol Recreation Department's third annual show features creations by school-age through adult students who have taken the studio class in recent months. Through February 28 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. emily beth eRRion: Handcrafted silver jewelry and etched glassware by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434. Jean CaRlSon maSSeau: Color photographs of local landscapes and horticultural subjects. Through March 18 at National Bank of Middlebury in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2407. kate muelleR: "Color and Curve," nudes, portraits and landscapes in pastel and oil. Through February 18 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119. SandRa elkin: "Women Town Clerks of Vermont: Reflections on Democracy," a multimedia exhibit combining photographic portraits and the recorded voices of 19 clerks from around the state. The women speak frankly of the obligations of citizenship, state government and their towns. Through March 31 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. SCott & kelly funk: "More Than Snow," winter photographs by the Richmond artists. Through February 28 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434. 'the aRtiStiC aRk': Animal-themed artwork by member and guest artists, including a tempera painting on canvas by Charley the four-year-old Walker tree hound. A portion of sales benefit the Addison County Humane Society. Through March 19 at Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. Info, 877-3850. 'the Student aRt ShoW': Work by students from area schools. Through February 28 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956.
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alex bottinelli: Mixed-media and encaustic paintings with a luminous, ethereal quality. Through March 6 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 586-8078. beth netelkoS: "Studio Sessions 2011," paintings of inner spaces inspired by natural surroundings. Through February 28 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239. CheRyl daye diCk: "Memories: North and South," portraits and landscapes exploring African American history. Through February 27 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. elinoR oSboRn: Wildlife photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 1 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053. febRuaRy gRoup ShoW: Paintings by Jean Cannon and Helen Kyle, photographs by Warren Tarr and fiber art by Nancy Adriance. Through February 28 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.
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VaL rossman & Janis pozzi-Johnson: "Extravagant Color," a joint show combining Rossman's paintings, which imagine life as a patchwork quilt and Pozzi-Johnson's processdriven, layered abstract oil paintings. Through February 20 at West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.
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he latest from Alejandro González Iñárritu is short on story and long on ... long. Working for the first time without screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, the director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel succeeds not only in making a short story long but in making it muddled and borderline meaningless. Iñárritu, of course, is known for the multicharacter, chronologically scrambled, interconnecting structure popularized by that trilogy. In making Biutiful, he’s left all that behind and gone linear. Certainly, that’s not the problem. In fact, it’s a relief. And the problem is certainly not that the film focuses almost entirely on a single character portrayed by Javier Bardem. He’s among a handful of actors who are watchable even when your time is being wasted. The problem is the approach the filmmaker and cowriters Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone employed in crafting the picture’s narrative. One gets the sense they came up with a random collection of depressing, unpleasant subjects, jammed them into a bummer blender and pressed the button labeled “script.”
Even in the impoverished underbelly of modern-day Barcelona, what are the odds a devoted father of two by the name of Uxbal would find himself the target of this many slings and arrows? His wife (Maricel Álvarez) has abandoned the family to spend more time as a drug-addled, alcoholic streetwalker. Also, she struggles with bipolar disorder. And beats her bed-wetting son. His sleazebag brother (Eduard Fernández) is secretly sleeping with Uxbal wife. The police have just cracked down on the Senegalese street peddlers for whom Uxbal acts as black-market point man, even though he’s paid the cops their regularly scheduled bribes. This puts pressure on the pair of evil Chinese sweatshop owners who make the fake designer purses the Senegalese peddled, and for whom Uxbal acts as middleman. They don’t make money, he doesn’t make money. His responsibilities include overseeing the squalid living conditions of the sweatshop’s illegal immigrants. When he buys a roomful of cut-rate space heaters to keep them from freezing to death, the result is as
JAVIER BOREDOM Iñárritu squanders the talented actor in this turgid, meandering exercise in miserablism
ironic as it is tragic. He sees dead people. I’m not kidding. While this thread is left undeveloped for some reason, Uxbal is cursed with the ability to communicate with the recently deceased. Oh, did I mention he has two months to live? He’s dying of prostate cancer and so, on top of everything else, must grapple with figuring out how to provide for his family after he’s gone. Outrageous fortune? More like outrageous screenwriting. For 148 minutes, we watch as Bardem’s character hustles to tie up the loose ends of his life, looks back on his choices with Oscar-caliber regret and pees blood. Not terribly much happens, story-
wise, so 148 minutes winds up feeling like an awfully long time to watch someone slouch through grimy streets and pee blood, even someone as colossally talented as Bardem. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got nothing against films that wallow in the unsavory, that stack miseries in front of their characters as high as flapjacks at an IHOP. But I do appreciate the existence of a point to all the pain and suffering if I’m expected to pay to sit through it. Iñárritu offers little in the way of theme or thesis, with this single exception: No one who shells out for a ticket to Biutiful will doubt that money can buy unhappiness. RICK KISONAK
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Somewhere ★★★
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omewhere, the latest acclaimed film from writer-director Sofia Coppola, would make a great double feature with I’m Still Here, the first and probably last, completely unacclaimed fake documentary from Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix. I’m Still Here is two movie stars’ attempt to make a movie about the private life of a movie star as they think nobodies in flyover country would imagine it. (The whole thing, Phoenix now claims, is a satire of “celebreality” TV.) Somewhere is a Hollywood-royalty director’s movie about the private life of a movie star that refuses to cater to any desires we hoi-polloi might have to see him engage in drug-fueled antics, make scenes on talk shows, confess his innermost fears, reminisce about his childhood ... or, really, do much of anything. In portraying the day-to-day life of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff ), Coppola goes so far in the direction of art-film austerity that her protagonist becomes a cipher. In one scene, Johnny goes to an F/X studio to have a cast of his head made for his latest film. As Dorff sits alone with his face completely covered in plaster, just breathing, Coppola keeps the camera on him and very, very, very
slowly pulls in till he fills the shot. Johnny’s erasure would be a powerful moment if we knew more about who he was under the Hollywood mask. But we don’t. Nor do we ever see him do the work that made him famous. Living at the Chateau Marmont, Johnny clearly regards the promotion of his latest film — which looks like generic action junk — as a chore. He spends his time lounging in bed, hooking up with star-struck women and occasionally dialing a pair of twin strippers — Kristina and Karissa Shannon, Hugh Hefner’s erstwhile girlfriends — to entertain him. Their performances are almost endearingly bad — but, hey, at least they’re trying. Another character who tries to draw some reaction besides a glassy stare from Johnny is his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning), who arrives for a visit. She comes off as sweet, genuine and mature enough to take her father’s moods in stride. Coppola focuses on the fleeting, low-key pleasures of Johnny and Cleo’s relationship — the gelato they share in bed in an Italian hotel, the funny faces they make underwater in the pool. The expression Dorff wears throughout the movie could best be described as a frozen wince; just opening his eyes seems to hurt him. (Could Johnny be in recovery? Who knows? The most we learn about his past is that his mom has written a book about him.) But his face sometimes softens when Fanning is around.
ENNUI R US Dorff shares a tender (or just tired) moment with his daughter in Coppola’s latest.
Unlike Affleck and Phoenix, Coppola clearly isn’t interested in what regular people want from movie stars. She’s interested in capturing moments in the life of a numb, disconnected individual who happens to be a movie star. Part of what makes it possible to sit through I’m Still Here is our memory of Phoenix’s brilliant past performances. Since we never see Johnny Marco perform — other characters perform for him — he might as well be the dour guy smoking on his porch next door to you. His status helps sell the movie, because the Chateau Marmont is a
more picturesque setting than, say, a trailer park, and a guy driving his Ferrari in circles (it’s a metaphor!) is more glamorous than a guy driving a souped-up junker. But all that is finally beside the point. That point being that, by paring her film down to bare essentials, Coppola finds some beauty. She also reveals just how unenlightening an unhappy, unexamined life can be. Is it more enlightening in Hollywood than in your kitchen? You be the judge. MARGOT HARRISON
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tHE FiGHtERHHHH Mark Wahlberg fights to win a boxing championship with the help of his dissolute half-brother (Christian Bale) in this sports/family drama from David O. (Three Kings) Russell. With Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and lots of Massachusetts vowels. (114 min, R. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe)
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tHE DilEmmAH1/2 Bachelor Vince Vaughn has to decide whether to tell his best friend and business partner (Kevin James) that he saw his wife out with another man in this star-studded comedy, the latest from Ron Howard. With Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly and Channing Tatum. (118 min, PG-13. Bijou, Majestic, Welden; ends 2/10)
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SomEWHEREHH1/2 You may never envy the life of a celebrity again after seeing the latest from director Sofia Coppola, in which a movie star (Stephen Dorff) drives his Ferrari and his life in circles. With Elle Fanning as his daughter, and brief appearances by Benicio del Toro and Michelle Monaghan. (97 min, R. Roxy)
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YoGi BEARHH Kids may not remember the HannaBarbera cartoon, but they can’t seem to get enough of talking animals. Hence this 3-D animation in which two picnic-loving bears attempt to save Jellystone Park
it’S KiND oF A FUNNY StoRYHHH A stressed-out teenager (Keir Gilchrist) commits himself to a mental institution and bonds with an older resident (Zach Galifianakis) in this comedy-drama from directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson). With Emma Roberts. (101 min, PG-13) liFE AS WE KNoW itHH Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel play a mismatched pair who find themselves raising someone else’s baby together in this comedydrama from Greg (“Everwood”) Berlanti. With Christina Hendricks. (102 min, PG-13)
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pARANoRmAl ActiVitY 2HHH1/2 The ending of last year’s surprise-hit mockumentary about a haunted tract house didn’t lend itself to a sequel, but here’s one anyway. Katie (Katie Featherston) is back, along with her inner demons. Tod Williams directs. (91 min, R)
tHE WAY BAcKHHH1/2 In 1941, a ragtag group escapes from a Siberian gulag and heads for freedom — even if it means walking across a continent — in this epic survival drama directed by Peter (The Truman Show) Weir. With Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan. (133 min, PG-13. Roxy; ends 2/10)
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Jenifer and Jeremiah Trombley are new and happy parents of the lovely Lauren Willow, born January 30. The only girl born in the weekend flutter of activity, she weighed 7lb/7oz and was 21” long. She’s really beautiful and it looks like she’s going to have her Daddy’s red hair. May that good luck follow her always. The family lives in Washington.
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Jennifer Buck and Bruce Madison have a son. Blake Edward Madison was born on Saturday, January 29 and weighed 6lb/14oz and was 19.5” long. He was all dressed and ready to roll when we arrived. Mom and dad were taking him home to Northfield to meet his big sister Kayeleen (6) and the rest of his big, extended family. Best wishes to all!
Jennifer and Greg Fassett are also new parents. Their son Ethan Gregory arrived on January 30 and weighed in at 7lb/9oz and is 21” long. Not very subtle, heyawned for the camera trying to get his parents to stop playing with him so he could nap. We bet they’ll catch on quickly at home in Randolph. Wishing you all lots of fun always!
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During a routine traffic stop in Dallas, Texas, Mario Miramontes, 22, hoped to conceal his arrest warrant by giving the officer the name of his cousin, Christopher Ayala, 25. He’d used the name before, but this time the officer’s search disclosed that the cousin also had a warrant, on charges of fondling an underage relative. “I thought the name was clean,” said Miramontes, who wound up spending 13 months in the Dallas County Jail without access to a lawyer. He was finally released after Ayala’s attorney, who said he told prosecutors many times that they had the wrong man in custody, finally convinced Judge Larry Mitchell of the mixup. (The Dallas Morning News)
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After police investigating the shooting death of a convenience-store clerk in Pasadena, Texas, identified Michael Ray Morris, 29, as one of their two suspects, Morris returned to the crime scene to complain to a television reporter that he’d merely been a customer. The reporter jotted down Morris’ license plate number and passed it along to police. Detectives contacted Morris, who’d also called the police station to object to being named a suspect. During questioning, Morris gave detectives information he thought was bolstering his alibi but that led police to Daniel J. Stiner, 22, who confessed to the shooting and implicated Morris as his accomplice. (Houston’s KRIVTV)
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Red-light cameras, which many motorists insist are aimed at enhancing revenue rather than safety, have reduced the number of tickets issued in Chicago suburbs so successfully that jurisdictions that counted on the fines in their budgets are experiencing significant shortfalls. Libertyville, Ill., for instance, projected net revenues from red-light violations at $462,000 this fiscal year, but after six months, only $32,000 had been taken in. Although municipal officials agree the decreased revenue is manageable if it promotes safer driving, Gary Biller, executive director of the National Motorists Association, which opposes red-light cameras, suggested, “It’s not that driver behavior is being modified. It’s just that people avoid those areas.” (Chicago Tribune)
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A 49-year-old Australian mother told police in Mackay that a man wearing a leather mask broke into her home and attacked her with a rubber dildo. Prosecutor Sgt. Sabine Scott said the
dildo “appeared to be wrapped in such a way with duct tape to make it a better bludgeoning weapon.” (Mackay’s Daily Mercury) Police said they arrested Carolee Bildsten, 57, after she raised a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” over her head and attacked an officer at her apartment in Gurnee, Ill. She claimed self-defense, explaining the officer had accompanied her while she got money to pay her meal check at a nearby restaurant. “I’m counting my cash to make sure I take out enough, and the officer walks into my bedroom and startles me,” Bildsten said. “I got scared, and the only thing in my sock drawer besides my socks and my cash was a dildo.” (Chicago Tribune)
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Competing potato-chip distributors Richard Stackiewicz, 69, and Raymond Auringer, 56, have sabotaged each other’s chips for the past decade at stores they service in Syracuse, N.Y., sometimes crushing each other’s chips, other times slicing open bags. Their rivalry turned physical when Auringer found Stackiewicz on his knees stocking a shelf, jumped on him and began punching. “I’d gone to four stores and spent over an hour just cleaning my racks from him smashing them around,” Auringer said. “Then I walk in the fifth store, and there he is. It’s like God gave me a gift. I just went crazy on him.” (Syracuse’s PostStandard)
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When U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained Jose Centeno after investigating his immigration status and visa because of a previous felony drug conviction, the agency prescribed sex hormones so he could maintain his appearance as a woman. ICE officials said that since 2006, they’re aware of 45 transgendered detainees who’ve been prescribed taxpayer-funded hormones. Although Centeno, now known as Krystal, hasn’t undergone genderaltering surgery, he insisted that if he’s denied the drugs to control his facial hair and breasts, “you start going back to the person you weren’t happy with — then it turns into depression mode.” “If he is depressed, then there are antidepressants he could be put on — certainly prison is a depressing place,” said U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. He added he doesn’t believe taxpayers should be footing the bill just because Centeno “doesn’t want to have facial hair in prison.” (Houston’s KHOU-TV) m
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aries (March 21-april 19): “before i loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “it all belonged to someone else — to no one.” Have you ever experienced a sense of being dispossessed like that, aries? a sense of there being nowhere and nothing in the world that you can call your own? and have you ever fantasized that your emptiness could be remedied by the intimate presence of a special companion? i wish for you to have that consoling experience in the coming week. in fact, i predict it. Happy Valentine Daze! taurus
(april 20-May 20): you’re very familiar with the inexhaustible longings that you harbor in your depths. your primal hungers for love and connection are never far from your awareness. but the sad thing is that you often regard this as a problem — as a vulnerability that disempowers you. This Valentine season i’m asking you to change all that. i’m urging you to see your enormous yearnings as strengths ... to celebrate them as essential fuel for your vitality ... to treat them as crucial ingredients in your lust for life. take it from someone who has seen too many people crippled by their lack of passion: you’re lucky to be so well-endowed with desire.
gemiNi (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, gemini! Here’s my prescription for making best use of the current cosmic currents: be enchanting, but in an understated way. be slyly charismatic and innocently flirtatious and serenely wild. show how sexy it is to be sublimely relaxed. Make judicious use of small acts of friendly mischief. be affectionately unpredictable, always in the service of showing how much you care. caNcer (June 21-July 22): your love story
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(July 23-aug. 22): “i think, therefore i am,” declared the philosopher Descartes. Couldn’t he have equally said, “i feel, therefore i am” or “i sense, therefore i am”? During this Valentine season, i suggest that you put the emphasis on those other proofs of identity, not Descartes’. From what i can tell, intimacy is most likely to thrive if you liberate it from excessive thinking and lubricate it with generous amounts of transrational contact. For love’s sake, empty your head of abstractions, opinions and theories. Make lots of room for the aroma of freshly washed hair, the shimmer of peaceful excitement, the shuddering solace of moist skin, the zing of poignant empathy, the wisdom of wandering hands and the telepathy of shared perceptions.
Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): Happy Valentine
Daze, Virgo! What’s the best way for you to celebrate the season of love? in accordance with the astrological omens, here’s a good suggestion: Write haiku-like poems on scraps of red paper and leave them around for a special someone to find. you can borrow the following samples, adopted from the work of raymond roseliep. 1. “mist on my mouth — air you touched.” 2. “i tried to bring you that one cloud in this cup of water.” 3. “black raspberries — your name breaking in the soft burst.” 4. “love song: i enter your mirror.” to get more inspiration, check out tinyurl.com/brisk88.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, libra. it’s my astrological opinion that you need more jokes, comedy and humor in your romantic adventures. if you’re too serious about seeking the pleasures of love, you can’t get what you want. to inspire your efforts, i present the winning entry from last year’s bulwer-lytton Fiction Contest. it was judged the worst possible opening line for a novel, but it’s perfect fodder for the project i’ve assigned you: “For the first month of ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
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When some Westerners hear the term “tantra,” they think it’s a New Age code word for lavish sex. But in its original form, tantra is a philosophy that advocates spiritual union with all of creation, not just erotic union with an attractive partner. Tantric practitioners might engage in metaphorical “love-making” with lizards, birch trees, clouds, toasters, rivers and quirky friends, among other wonders. I recommend that you experiment with this perspective, Aquarius. I bet you’ll find that cultivating lusty compassion for the entire world will enhance your personal intimacy with the people you care about. Happy Valentine Daze!
scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): This Valentine
season, you have considerable potential to bring more lyricism into your close relationships. to stimulate you in that noble effort, i’m borrowing from the poetry of andré breton. see if you can adopt this style of expressing yourself (or steal the actual words) as you reach out to a person you’d like to be closer to: “your neck is pearled barley. your hair is a wood fire. your mouth is a bouquet of stars. your eyelashes are a child’s first stroke of writing. your eyebrows are the edge of a swallow’s
caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! borrowing words from poet amy lowell, i’ve created the nucleus of a love note for you to use as your own. Feel free to give these words (and others you write yourself) to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more intimately together with yours. “your shadow is moonlight on a plate of silver; your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; the mystery of your voice, a chime of bells across the windless river air. The movement of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun. young horses are not more limber than your thoughts. your laughs are bees buzzing around a pear tree. i dare to reach to you. i dare to touch the rim of your brightness.” Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): in many of the
weddings i’ve been to as a guest, the lovebirds have sealed their vows with a chaste kiss — a formal gesture that wasn’t imbued with much spontaneous passion. but in a recent marriage ceremony i attended, the new husband and wife showed little inhibition at the climax. They French kissed in a prolonged embrace that also included ample groping. in the coming week, i urge you to put yourself as much as possible in situations where you can express that kind of freewheeling spirit. Happy Valentine Daze, Pisces! m
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sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best,” wrote poet gabriela Mistral. That’s an important theme to keep in mind during the season of amour. your job as a lover is not to be inflated with the perfect knowledge of how to proceed, not to stride forcefully into each romantic nuance with your confidence exploding ... but rather to stumble along humbly, waging experiment after experiment, striving to kindle the spark, unleash the deluge, conjure the whirlwind, burrow into the dirty, sacred depths — or whatever the idiosyncratic truth of the moment calls for. Happy Valentine Daze, sagittarius!
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New Swingers Looking For Fun I’m an older bicurious F (47) & he is a younger submissive bi-M (30). This is my first time out; he has more experience. Ultimately we’re looking for a M/F couple w/ similar interests, but would also consider a SF or SM. Together we are extremely hot w/ no inhibitions. I could also come solo. Pictures soon. Freak_In_The_Sheets, 47, l, #120152 Real Experienced Swingers No Games We are a younger couple & we have been swinging for 7 years. This does not make us “rock star” swingers. Looking for: F, attached, married or not, Bi or wanting to try; couples w/ BiF or both Bi. Must keep body in good order, clean, groomed, smell nice, trimmed or shaved. Manners, respect & honesty are required. sexyvtcpl, 33, l, #119971 Innocent New to all of this! Just want to explore w/ my roomie & another woman. innocentgirl, 34, l, #119961 Big gaping holes 18/19 y.o. couple. Fierce & sassy ginger and a hot & horny homo looking for a third (or fourth) playmate to spice up the bedroom w/ whips & chains. Sibling groups are also VERY welcome. Not afraid to get down & dirty in the mud ... or snow. kittycats_sm, 20, l, #119952 Shyly Ferocious Naughty Librarian Handsome BF (40, fit, sensual) & I seek a slender, attractive woman. I am bi, skinny, romantic. He has my heart & I have his; this is just for fun. Chittykitty, 30, l, #119934
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Nothing is for certain I’m a crazy person who feels sane when you are around me. You calm me down & make me realize that I don’t need to be anyone other than myself. Time is not linear & we don’t need a timeline in getting to know each other. When: Friday, January 21, 2011. Where: VT. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908546 You’ve been spied! If you’re reading this, it must be Friday, because that is your ritual. A wonderful evening of guacamole & Swedish tar revealed our mutual curiosity for I Spy. You’ve been spied ... is it awesome? When: Saturday, February 5, 2011. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908545 Beautiful Smile I saw a cute RT who just made Level III wearing dark framed glasses & a beautiful smile. You don’t know me yet, but someday hopefully you will. When: Friday, February 4, 2011. Where: FAHC. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908543 friendofthedevil I browsed through Two2Tango last night as a newb; your profile caught my attention & next thing I knew I had a profile. Share some sarcasm & laughs sometime? When: Friday, February 4, 2011. Where: Two2Tango. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908542
You wore a homemade dress Eilynn, I am sorry I cannot spell your name correctly. I am sorry we lost touch & I would love to reconnect w/ you. Have you returned to school as you had hoped? Perhaps we’ll run into each other on Church St. again sometime, or maybe at the next RU12? annual dinner. When: Saturday, May 22, 2010. Where: at work & the Sheraton in S. Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #908535
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up sometime. I’m always looking for people to get outside w/ if you can keep up. When: Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Where: match. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #908530 what color is no balls? We played some pool & I thought the signs were obvious. If too afraid to ask for my number (or my name), what rigidity you could offer would likely disappoint, as well. Good luck w/ the nose. When: Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Where: Nectar’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908529 Somewhere out there This bond between us / can’t be broken / I will be here / don’t you cry / ‘Cause you’ll be in my heart. / Yes, you’ll be in my heart. / From this day on/ now and forever more / no matter what, I will love you forever. When: Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Where: every time I close my eyes. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908527 U-Mall Bus Stop You were the one who came up to me & asked me for change for the bus. You: ginger beard, septum piercing & a Healthy Living shopping bag. I was the one who gave you a dollar bill. I wanted to ask your name, but I was too shy. When: Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Where: U-Mall. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908526 last kid picked stowe Me: in a cap, Carhartts & blue polypro, tall, standing at the back of the dance floor. You: in a black tank, long dark hair & w/ a few friends. We saw each other. I noticed your biceps & thought seductively of my woodstove. Please, could you help me split firewood? When: Saturday, January 29, 2011. Where: Last Kid Picked. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #908525
can come see you work your magic w/ a double frame. I can see the Big Picture, can you? :) When: Friday, February 4, 2011. Where: Big Picture Framing. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908540
KREID10 I love the lederhosen & fancy the facial expression. Would love to meet
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Dear Once Bitten,
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to not judge a book by its cover. You never know what’s lying beneath that sweet and passionate exterior — he could be a vampire fetishist just waiting for the invitation to sink his teeth into your flesh. Or perhaps he is inexperienced with rougher sex but happy to learn what makes you tick. We’re all more open to suggestion when we’re aroused, so let him in on your need to be nibbled while in the heat of the moment. The next time you fool around, wait for an appropriately passionate juncture and ask him to bite you. Keep it sexy, but be specific — if you want him to bite your neck, say so. If he’s nibbling too lightly, tell him bite you harder. If he doesn’t have a lot of experience using his canines, he’ll appreciate your directions. Assuming he obliges your request to gnaw on you, be sure to engage him in some pillow talk afterward. Tell him you really liked him biting you and ask him what he thought about your need to be nibbled. If he’s eager to please you, continue telling him about your desires. Be sure to compliment him on all the things you like about him, and let him know that you’re no shrinking violet. Invite him to ratchet up the roughness, and tell him he shouldn’t be afraid to go “caveman” on you from time to time.
Rough and tumble,
Milk Man You: the Hood milkman brightening my morning. Me: the cute redhead waiting for my beverage. When: Monday, January 31, 2011. Where: Starbucks Shelburne Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908521 Verizon 1/28 Thank you for the smile at Verizon; you have a great smile! You: brown shirt, green hat. Me: jeans & black coat. When: Friday, January 28, 2011. Where: Verizon Williston Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908519
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3 Matts & hot SALAMI Lunch? When: Thursday, February 3, 2011. Where: Colchester Price Chopper. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908536
late night pool at nectar’s You: white coat & beautiful smile, took over playing pool for my friend. Me: hoodie & not good at pool. I should have asked you for your number. When: Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Where: Nectar’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908531
Neko C at Higher Ground You: striped hoodie, dark blue jeans, wavy brown hair at front of stage, nice smile. Me: I smiled back after Tornado. Not sure if you were w/ a friend or...? When: Sunday, January 30, 2011. Where: Higher Ground. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #908522
I’ve been on two dates with this guy, and we’ve spent some quality time making out and dry humping like teenagers. Normally I don’t wait too long to do the deed, but I’ve been putting him off because I feel like he might be “too sweet” to get the job done. I like sex to be on the rougher side, and in particular, I’m a huge fan of biting. I love being bitten all over, from my neck to my shoulders to thighs. We have great kissing chemistry, and he’s very passionate; I’m just not sure how to communicate my need to be bitten and dominated. Should I tell him what I like? I’m worried that will create too much expectation and stress for him. At the same time, I don’t want to say nothing and risk getting deeper into a relationship with a man who can’t satisfy me. Help, I really like him!
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GENEROUS PLOW GUY You drove by me in your red truck on Park St. trying to shovel my mess of a driveway. You came back & plowed it for me for free. Can’t tell you how much time, energy & sore muscles you saved me. It’s so nice to know there are kind people out there. I can’t thank you enough. When: Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Where: Park St. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908537
To LocalNiceGuy in Two2Tango I was browsing the Two2Tango profiles & came across yours. I’m not really sure what I’m looking for, but you seem quite charming. Maybe you’ll read this & want to get in touch. Perhaps we could stargaze together sometime? When: Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Where: Two2Tango. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908532
way dont hold back cause Im a girl I will still kick youre butt at bowling. When: Saturday, January 29, 2011. Where: bowling alley. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908523
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the most incredible woman ever Five years ago a very special woman came into my life. So sorry it took me this long to realize it. I hope that I am not too late. When: Friday, February 3, 2006. Where: every day. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908539
p.s. I miss you more Even though you’re not here, you’re here in my heart & that is all that matters. When: Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908533
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Pearl St. Girl Deli Cutie Saw you running the cash register at City Market deli cutie. We met at VCAM, Pearl St. Beverage. Thought you looked Too Cute at Checkout then we spotted each other across the stunning w/ that sweet smile & striking Gavin, you have great a nice 2:39:13 PM 1x3-cbhb-personals-alt.indd 1 eyes &6/14/10 counter. You: Ohh, you’re that actor guy. blonde hair. Wanted badly to take you smile. I thought I sensed you might like Me: Uhh, kind of. Care to grab a coffee to the beach w/ me & perhaps snuggle mine, too. I had trouble w/ the credit & chat? I would! When: Wednesday, (hopefully one day when the snow & card machine, but managed to get out February 2, 2011. Where: City Market. cold let up). When: Tuesday, February the door w/ my toothpaste & chips. I You: Woman. Me: Man. #908541 1, 2011. Where: Pearl St. Beverage. don’t always dress like I rolled out of You: Woman. Me: Man. #908524 bed. If you’d like to see the “real” me, BeautifulEyes I’d like that, too. When: Wednesday, Bowling alley Berlin Your eyes captivated me, your smile February 2, 2011. Where: City Market. melted me & your enthusiasm in art Fate, chance , karma. everything You: Man. Me: Woman. u #908534 makes me want to paint every day so I happens for a reason. Oh by they
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