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2. “Bernie Bits: Sanders Fills Maine Arena, Clinton Camp ‘Worried’” by Paul Heintz. Hot on the heels of a trip to Iowa, Bernie Sanders supporters packed a Portland arena. 3. “Burlington Police Chief Appointee Faces Questions” by Terri Hallenbeck. Brandon del Pozo, tapped to be the city’s next police chief, is under scrutiny for a paper he wrote about racial profiling. 4. “Weinberger Taps NYC Cop as Burlington Police Chief” by Terri Hallenbeck. The 18-year veteran of the New York City Police Department has a philosophy degree from Dartmouth College and three master’s degrees. 5. “Rogue Café Opens in Morrisville” by Hannah Palmer Egan. Coffee, pastries, sandwiches and housemade sodas are on the menu at the new Morrisville eatery.

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1. “Bernie Bits: Media Declares Open Season on Sanders’ Love Life” by Paul Heintz. Despite Sanders’ repeated attempts to keep his campaign focused on the issues, several news outlets published stories on the presidential candidate’s early love life.

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Thank you so much for Ken Picard and Paul Laud’s cartoon about Flo Meiler, Barb Jordan and Bill Nedde [“Silver and Gold: Flo Meiler and Barbara Jordan,” July 8]. Bill was the assistant track coach under the legendary Archie Post my first two years at UVM. When my wife and I returned to Vermont in 1979, I kept in touch with Bill, who was helping as an interim swim coach. I also knew the Jordans because I was the math teacher for their youngest son, Garry. During my free period at school, I would often walk around the track at South Burlington and several years ago was pleased to see Bill and his “angels.” I enjoyed my many chats with Flo, Barb and the rest. My last contact with Bill was at the ceremony for the opening of the new track at UVM. He had been having trouble walking for several years, and I was proud that he asked me to help him to get up the stairs and to a seat. I was greatly saddened to find out about his death and hope that his “angels” have another inspirational performance for him. John Radimer

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[Re Off Message: “Weinberger Taps NYC Cop as Burlington Police Chief,” July 7]: Now retired in Maine, I lived in Burlington for over 18 years. I have a story about the Burlington police I have always wanted to share. In the late 1990s, a gay couple moved to Burlington from a southern state and joined the College Street Congregational Church. New in Vermont,

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Year-round, battered women need safe shelter [“Shelter Skelter: Domestic Abuse Survivors Wind Up in Seedy Motels,” June 3]. Year-round, the homeless battle the climate. Why are houses being demolished near the airport?

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In last week’s “In Two Vermont Cartoon Projects, the Medium Delivers the Message,” we omitted three cartoonists’ bios: • Marek Bennett makes and teaches comics and music in New Hampshire and the world beyond. • J.D. Lunt lives in Vermont with his wife and her hairdresser’s dog. • Kelly Swann attends the Center for Cartoon Studies. She enjoys telling people’s stories through comics. Besides drawing, she studies history, films, people and drumming.

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NEWS 14

Wild Heirs: Former Sanderistas Reveal What They Learned From Bernie Little Randolph Is Divided Over a Massive Development Proposal Burlington City Councilors Stand By Their Man: Del Pozo Is New Police Chief

BY TERRI HALLENBECK

Excerpts From Off Message BY SEVEN DAYS STAFF

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At the Drive-In With Jurassic World Director Colin Trevorrow

An International Dance Musical Gets a Little Dirty BY SADIE WILLIAMS

Hunt, Rescue and Restore: A New Book Documents Curtains Without Borders

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Comedy: “The Daily Show” host-in-waiting talks about his new gig BY DAN BOLLES

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Story Board Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle offer good old-fashioned fun with a Crankie Workshop. In case you’re not up on your 19th-century trivia, this handmade contraption, once popular in New England and the American South, consists of a length of fabric adorned with imagery from classic tales and handcranked through a backlit wooden frame, producing a manual movie. Break out the popcorn!

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Endangered Species Listen up, green thumbs! Abenaki rose corn and Algonquin squash, once plentiful in the Green Mountain State, are now few and far between. Fred Wiseman, Johnson State College professor emeritus of anthropology and ethnobotany, visits the Rokeby Museum to elucidate his efforts to curb crop extinction and reintroduce ancient plants and growing methods in his “Seeds of Renewal” project. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 62

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Leading Man Africa’s most successful comedian is expanding his empire. Slated to replace Jon Stewart as host of the Emmy Award-winning news-style broadcast “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah is destined to become a household name. The funnyman brings his Lost in Translation tour to Rutland with a hard-hitting act that theater critic Dominic Cavendish says “can unite a diverse audience in laughter.” SEE INTERVIEW ON PAGE 61

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The Wake Up to Dying Project is bringing its traveling exhibit to Burlington. Don’t let the name scare you — this endeavor is all about sharing and preparing. Through first-person stories, artwork and workshops, the program aims to familiarize folks with one of life’s shared experiences in a comfortable setting. As the group’s website proclaims, “The topic is ‘heavy,’ but the exhibit is not.”

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From the streets of New Orleans and subways of Brooklyn to stages around the world, Howard Fishman (pictured) has wooed audiences with his haunting and moody numbers. Drawing from the deep well of American sounds — jazz, blues and folk, to name a few — the singer-songwriter straps on his guitar and shares selections from his upcoming album, Uncollected Stories.

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ormer senator MATT DUNNE hasn’t declared his candidacy for governor yet, but he’s already raised more than $134,000 to support an almost-certain campaign. The Hartland Democrat says he started hitting up his Rolodex a week ago Monday and has already collected contributions from more than 100 donors. “Over the last 10 days, we’ve been reaching out to Vermonters across the state to gauge their interest in a campaign focused on bringing a fresh approach to Montpelier,” Dunne says. “The response has been very positive. People are ready for new ideas and new leadership, and the financial support is a great indication of the excitement that’s out there.” Dunne disclosed his early fundraising success to Seven Days on Tuesday, a day before candidates who’ve raised or spent $500 or more must file campaign finance disclosures with the secretary of state. No other potential gubernatorial candidates are expected to report significant activity. So why’s a guy who’s not yet in the running already dialing for dollars? “Having run a statewide race before, 2:49 PMwe know it’s important to have the right team and resources in place before making a final decision,” Dunne says, adding that he’ll wait to make a formal announcement until Vermonters are “ready to engage in that conversation.” Left unsaid: Dunne’s move is a shot across the bow at others pondering a race. While no major candidates have declared, several Democrats have been quietly jostling for support, including House Speaker SHAP SMITH (D-Morristown) and Secretary of Transportation SUE MINTER. Republicans appear to be waiting on a decision from Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT, the party’s sole statewide officeholder. Dunne’s disclosure is also likely to quiet skepticism about his fundraising abilities. When he last ran for governor in 2010, Dunne collected $349,000 — less than two of his four primary election opponents: PETER SHUMLIN and DEB MARKOWITZ. Now he can say he’s raised more than a third of that in less than a fortnight. Dunne’s donors include some prominent Vermont Democrats. Mega-fundraiser JANE WATSON STETSON and her husband, BILL STETSON, contributed $4,000; Hotel Vermont owner JAY CANNING and his wife, CAROLINE CANNING, ponied up $6,000 individually and through a business entity; and Dealer.com cofounder MIKE LANE gave $3,000. As he did in 2010, the Google exec also drew heavily from his contacts in Silicon Valley: LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist REID HOFFMAN and his wife,

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($8,000); Zynga cofounder and his wife, One King’s Lane cofounder ALISON PINCUS ($8,000); and angel investor ALI PARTOVI ($4,000). How much more does Dunne hope to raise? “Unfortunately, in this age of Citizens United, we are very wary of outside money, particularly in the general election,” he says. “So we are just going to make sure we’re as prepared as possible to run a strong race all the way through the general [election].” In other words: as much as possible. MICHELLE YEE MARK PINCUS

Spit ’Em Out For the past three years, the Franklin County Industrial Development Corporation has paid a part-time consultant to lure Canadian businesses over the border. So when the organization’s executive director, TIMOTHY SMITH, turned on the television on May 20, he was disappointed to see Gov. Shumlin at a Burlington press conference doling out $100,000 to the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce for a similar effort. Smith had no idea the money was available.

WHY’S A GUY WHO’S NOT YET IN THE RUNNING ALREADY DIALING FOR DOLLARS? “I was quite upset,” he says. “Not to even be part of the discussion was the most frustrating part.” Smith and his counterparts in Lamoille County and the Northeast Kingdom quickly registered their dissatisfaction with Secretary of Commerce PAT MOULTON, who tried to temper the tizzy by assuring them they’d be included in the so-called “Vermont-Québec Enterprise Initiative.” But word of the fracas eventually leaked to Vermont Watchdog reporter BRUCE PARKER, whose public records requests shined a different light on the matter. Turns out the money had materialized out of thin air less than a week earlier — the night before the legislature adjourned. As legislators hammered out the final details of a few remaining bills, Moulton emailed LCRCC president and CEO TOM TORTI, indicating the funding he’d requested would make it into the budget. The next day, the legislature signed off on the $100,000 and adjourned. Four days later, Shumlin announced at the press conference that the money was Torti’s.

But when Smith and co. complained — and Moulton sought to appease them — Torti appeared a touch possessive, according to the emails Vermont Watchdog obtained. “Pat; The 100k is for the LCRCC,” Torti wrote Moulton. “There is other money for additional efforts.” Later that afternoon, he made himself even clearer. “The fact that their efforts were unknown or that they didn’t ask for funding is not my problem or yours,” he wrote, referring to Smith and his counterparts. “The 100 k was for the LCRCC efforts. The Speaker, Governor and Pro Tem all agreed. I am happy to take their input and to collaborate.” Shumlin spokesman SCOTT CORIELL declined to discuss the matter — and the administration punted records requests from Seven Days — while Speaker Smith and Senate President JOHN CAMPBELL dispute Torti’s characterization. But to anyone who spends time in Montpelier, it sure looked like a backroom deal. A veteran of the Dean and Douglas administrations, Torti is widely viewed as one of the most influential power brokers in the state. “It’s the kind of thing that makes people believe that Vermont politics is an insider’s game full of deals benefiting the well-connected,” commentator JOHN WALTERS wrote on his Vermont Political Observer blog. Moulton concedes that the plan “came up fairly quickly and late in the legislative session” after Torti spoke with the governor, but she says bolstering the state’s outreach to Québec had long been a goal of the administration. “It wasn’t a backroom deal,” she says. “You know, there’s always, in the waning days of the legislature, that give-and-take about finances — and compromises that are made.” If it wasn’t a backroom deal, why didn’t the state let other organizations make a pitch for the funds? State law generally requires grants and contracts worth more than $15,000 to go out to bid. According to the emails Parker obtained, Moulton sought to “avoid” the request for proposals process by asking chairs of the House and Senate commerce and economic development committees to write a letter stating their intent for the money to go to LCRCC. Both complied. “I was trying to avoid that bureaucratic process of having to do a request for proposal process and get other people’s expectations up when the money was going to go to the Lake Chamber,” Moulton explains. But, um, isn’t that the point of an RFP? To guard against sweetheart deals?

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“Not if you know the funding is directed at a specific recipient,” Moulton says. Uh, OK. For his part, Torti is unapologetic. He says he’s spent decades arguing that Vermont should spend more time courting its neighbor to the north than Pacific Rim nations. And he’s been pushing this particular plan since last summer, when his counterparts in Montréal told him, “They love Vermont to shop, to boat and for vacations — but we don’t think of Vermont as a place to do business.” Torti bristles at the notion that “there’s a backroom deal” in which “cigar-chomping politicians [are] lining the pockets of the fat cats of Chittenden County.” Nothing could be further from the truth, he argues. “Everyone has this view that [Shumlin] and I are dear friends and we’ve known each other for years,” he says. “But the benefits have not accrued to me. No benefit has accrued to me. And that’s what I find absolutely annoying and distasteful.” Torti’s real beef is with those who keep complaining about missing out on the money — instead of keeping their eyes on the prize: jobs and economic development. “I’m really sorry other people’s noses are out of joint,” he says. “Sour grapes taste worse the longer you keep them in your mouth. Just spit them out.”

hosting the show but came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t pose a conflict. “I do think my reputation as a Vermonter, as someone who’s worked in the journalism field for 14 years — I think my integrity speaks for itself,” she says. According to Vermont PBS CEO holly GrosChner, Carlson will not tackle “energy-related subject matter” on the show. Instead, she’ll focus on “personalities, on people with a personal story to tell and on stories of cultural interest to Vermonters.” Groschner says the show “is not affiliated with or supported by any corporate interests, energy-related or otherwise” — and Green Mountain Power hasn’t contributed to the station since 2013. Vermont PBS will pay Carlson “a meager rate” for her work, according to the station chief. Annette Smith is hardly the only one to cry foul. After VTDigger.org quoted Groschner as saying, “It’s a shame that people are making an issue out of this,” former governor howard dean jumped into the fray in the website’s comments section. Calling Groschner’s words “particularly unfortunate,” he wrote, “It is not a shame this is being made into an issue because it is one!” In a subsequent interview, Dean told Seven Days he was “annoyed” by the way Groschner appeared to brush off legitimate questions. “Honestly, these are the kinds of issues that happen all the time in Vermont because everybody knows everybody, and it’s a small world,” he says. “The way you make sure it doesn’t cause a problem is you raise the issue.” Of course, Dean himself has his own conflicts. In interviews and op-eds, the 2004 presidential candidate often weighs in on policy matters affecting clients of his law and lobbying firm, McKenna Long & Aldridge, which recently merged with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. He says he typically includes a generic disclaimer at the end of his printed pieces, but his firm’s policy precludes him from specifically identifying its clients — and sometimes news outlets don’t even run the disclaimer. So it’s not always clear whose bidding Dean’s doing. “That is sticky. There’s no question that’s sticky,” he concedes. “I think it’s a legitimate inquiry.” Perhaps Dean and Carlson could have a stimulating conversation about the matter on the next “Connect…” The door swings both ways at Vermont PBS. Digital media director hilary hess, who produced the acclaimed “Makin’ Friends with ryan Miller,” is leaving the station to join Sen. Bernie sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign digital team. Now’s probably a good time to disclose that Vermont PBS also pays me a “meager rate” when I jabber away Friday nights on “Vermont This Week.” m

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A familiar face returned to the airwaves Friday night. A year and a half after leaving WCAX-TV, former reporter and anchor Kristin Carlson debuted a new half-hour interview show on Vermont PBS called, appropriately, “Connect… with Kristin Carlson.” The show has critics buzzing — but not about its inaugural episode, which featured Champlain Area NAACP founder Mary Brown-Guillory. Instead, they’re questioning whether Carlson’s day job — as a spokeswoman for Green Mountain Power — presents an irreconcilable conflict of interest for the station. “I think it’s totally inappropriate,” says Vermonters for a Clean Environment executive director annette sMith, who has frequently tangled with GMP over renewable power generation. “It doesn’t pass the smell test. It doesn’t pass the straight-face test.” Smith worries Carlson will bring her “corporate bias” to the show — potentially excluding critics such as herself — while bolstering the GMP brand on the public broadcasting dime. “It is a free promotional piece for Green Mountain Power to have their spokesperson there,” Smith says. Carlson says she discussed all the potential perception problems when Vermont PBS approached her about

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randon del Pozo’s remarkable résumé is what convinced a selection committee to choose him as Burlington’s next police chief. Outcry over the same CV is also what brought about 130 people to Monday’s Burlington City Council meeting to argue whether the panel should affirm the Dartmouth College-educated, New York City Police Department alum as the Queen City’s top cop. Some in the audience linked del Pozo to New York’s systematic profiling of Muslims after 9/11, its discredited stopquestion-and-frisk arrest tactics and shootings of unarmed minorities. They called on the council to delay voting to give the public more time to examine del Pozo’s background. “The vilification that you hear does not match the man,” former police chief Michael Schirling countered during the heated discussion about his replacement, which went on for more than three hours. The councilors agreed with Schirling, who retired last month. Even those who had expressed public concern about the new chief decided to back him. In the end, the council voted 11-0, with one abstention, to stand by “the man.” Del Pozo’s months-long vetting process was anything but standard issue. The team of interviewers that reviewed the police chief candidates included Mayor Miro Weinberger, cops, minorities and city councilors of all political stripes. Virtually everyone involved in the hiring process came away using the same word to describe del Pozo: “impressive.” The 1996 Dartmouth graduate, a doctoral candidate with three master’s degrees, had done his homework. He knew the city has five main entry points, that its officers had fired their weapons twice in the last 15 years. He’d read a 2010 study on the force’s traffic stops back when it came out. He engaged in lively philosophical discussions about how officers should be engaged in every city neighborhood. He offered ideas for mentoring recruits to attract a more diverse squad. Del Pozo was also personable. He didn’t just talk; he listened. He sold the committee on his fondness for Burlington, which took root while he trained at the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho as a member of the Army National Guard. If hired, he said, he planned to live in the heart of the

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city with his wife and two sons, ages 7 and 3. He’d hear the college students as they traipse downtown. He’d bike to work. But what really sold Weinberger and others involved in the search process was del Pozo’s street-cop experience. The 40-year-old spent 18 years with the NYPD, starting as a patrol officer and later commanding two New York precincts. He served overseas, reporting back to New York on terrorist attacks from Jordan, and more recently worked on special projects as a deputy inspector. “I don’t know many people in policing with his educational background and police command experience,” Weinberger said. Those who selected del Pozo never anticipated the wave of criticism that would follow. But in the digital era, anyone can do a Google search. Community members found

information online that left them wondering whether the search team had done a sufficiently thorough job. In particular, they questioned a grad school paper del Pozo published in 2001 that suggested racial profiling had a place in police work. His extensive NYPD résumé drove some to conclude that he was involved in the department’s Muslim surveillance tactics, for which the city is about to settle a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union. Abdullah Sall, a Burlington Muslim who used to live in New York, accused him of anti-Muslim prejudice, directly connecting him to NYPD’s post-9/11 profiling of Muslims. “We should not be looking to take expertise from the problematic culture of the NYPD,” Sall told city councilors Monday night. “The chief of police should always be an established community member.”

Del Pozo’s response: “I had absolutely no part in the surveillance of any individual.” In interviews before the council meeting, del Pozo denounced the racial profiling and Muslim community infiltration tactics the NYPD is accused of using. “The infiltration of mosques had the effect of destroying the trust of members of that community,” del Pozo told Seven Days. Of racial profiling in general, he said, “It’s bad police work. It alienates citizens. It’s ethically wrong and it’s illegal.” He called the practice known as stopquestion-and-frisk “overdone.” Current and former coworkers — reached through sources independent of del Pozo — along with a former professor and reporters who’ve covered the NYPD agreed that there’s no evidence to pair any of those policies with del Pozo. NYPD Lt. Jim Griffin, who has long worked with del Pozo, described the new chief as a well-rounded person whose blend of academics, military, police and outdoor experience really is as rich as it sounds. “He’s comfortable in every community,” Griffin said. “He’s very personable. He can talk to everyone from the most highly educated to the child going to grammar school.” The son of a Jewish mother and a Cuban immigrant father who grew up in Brooklyn, del Pozo majored in philosophy at Dartmouth, joined ROTC and the Army National Guard. His first full-time job after college was as a patrol officer back home in Brooklyn. He was never a typical rookie cop. He snared a master’s in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, then another in criminal justice at City University of New York-John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a third in philosophy at CUNY, where he is still working on a doctorate in philosophy. For a police ethics class, del Pozo wrote the 36-page academic paper on racial profiling that is now raising eyebrows. Search committee members, including Weinberger, said they were unaware of the paper until after del Pozo won the job. “At certain times, not using racial profiling might be to neglect certain moral duties,” del Pozo wrote. “It should remain in the police officer’s arsenal of weapons against crime, but be

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recognized as ungainly, and to be brandished only for compelling reasons.” John Kleinig, his professor at CUNY, said he recommended that del Pozo publish the paper in an Australian law journal. Kleinig defended it as a wellrounded academic endeavor. “Brandon has no racist tendencies, and it surprises me that people should have thought otherwise,” he said. “The paper itself is basically an exploration of whether race/ skin color might ever enter into a calculation for police investigative purposes and, if so, how and when.” Kleinig said del Pozo was a standout student. “I don’t think I’ve ever had another police ethics student as good as Brandon,” he said. “To be frank with you, Burlington is very lucky to have someone as competent as Brandon on their list.” Alongside his bookwork, del Pozo also BRAndOn worked as a beat cop. On September 11, 2001, he was on patrol in Flatbush when he was dispatched to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit. He arrived just after the second plane struck and the buildings were starting to collapse. He was assigned to help evacuate the New York Stock Exchange. He said he learned that day, “There’s certain things you can never anticipate.” In the years since, he has held 13 other positions within the NYPD, according to his résumé. Aside from precinct commander, del Pozo’s job titles are vague enough to make it hard for the average person to know exactly what he did: intelligence, internal affairs, special projects and, most recently, strategic initiatives. Some who have been scouring the internet for information on del Pozo concluded that those jobs involved some of NYPD’s worst policing tactics. They struggled to find solid evidence, however. Adam Goldman, a former Associated

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harlie Sjobeck lives at the thriving commercial end of a two-mile dirt road center in a state without in Randolph, a town that still a sales tax, and 20 miles doesn’t have a traffic light. southeast of Montpelier Though Interstate 89 runs alongside his and Barre. Jobs are property, the place feels cut off from the scarce. The town is deoutside world. Sjobeck likes it that way, pendent on small farms but he knows things might soon change. and a few local busiHis land is at the center of what could nesses in a downtown be the biggest and most argued-about with too many empty development in Vermont since Taft storefronts. Corners in Williston. “We need a shot Jesse “Sam” Sammis, a wealthy de- in the arm,” Town veloper from Greenwich, Conn., has big Manager Melvin Adams plans for 178 acres of open land around said. “We need someExit 4 in Randolph. On it he aims to build thing to encourage 274 homes, a 180-room hotel and confer- young people to stay ence center, more than 500,000 square in Randolph. There’s feet of office and light industrial space definitely a need, and and a 10,000-square-foot fitness center. I think the critics out To sweeten the deal, he’s offered to con- there think with their struct, staff and maintain an interstate blinders on.” rest stop with an attached retail outlet — In a letter to regulaso the State of Vermont doesn’t have to. tors, Gifford President The project, which Sammis has Joseph Woodin wrote: dubbed the Green Mountain Center, has “We envision the Green won support from Randolph’s select- Mountain Center will board, development review board and be a huge boost for all bigwigs from Gifford Medical Center, of Central Vermont and Vermont Technical College, GW Plastics particularly will be a and Lake Sunapee Bank. Local business positive benefit for the leaders are convinced it would bring two entire Randolph comthings the town of 4,800 covets — jobs munity, from farmers to restaurants to and visitors — and have inundated state retail stores to the Randolph Historical regulators with letters breathlessly Museum to the Chandler Center for the cheering on the development. Arts to the Vermont Technical College But, as state regulators begin their to the Gifford Medical Center and many review of the project, opposition is other businesses in the area that desbuilding among local perately need more foot farmers, conservationtraffic to survive.” ists and residents. A Sammis is something grassroots group, Exit 4 of a big fish in little Open Space, has gathRandolph. He rides in ered more than 700 the Fourth of July parade signatures on a petievery year and is curtion urging regulators rently the town’s largest B ri an Shup e , to reject the proposed property owner. He and Vermo nt Natural Resources Council project. his wife control approxiCritics say it’s far mately 1,400 acres of too big for Randolph and will siphon property valued at more than $12.6 milaway business from the already strug- lion, including the Three Stallion Inn and gling downtown while destroying neighboring Montague Golf Club, a few vital farmland around the interstate. downtown retail buildings, several homes Brian Shupe, executive director of the and huge swaths of undeveloped farmVermont Natural Resources Council, and forestland. The part-time Randolph said, “It’s a huge, out-of-scale project for resident maintains a large home tucked the location.” behind a brook in the woods off Lefebvre Randolph is in something of an eco- Road, not far from the proposed developnomic no-man’s-land — it’s 30 miles ment site. northwest of West Lebanon, N.H., a Real estate is his business. When

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he’s in Connecticut, seventy-something Sammis is focused on New England Land Company, which he founded in 1971 to focus on high-end projects in the New York area. The company has had leasing arrangements with Eastman Kodak and IBM, and developed the 750,000-square-foot “Center at Greenwich,” which includes a 400-room Hyatt Regency Hotel. His success has won him a mixture of admiration and wariness among Randolph locals. “Sammis has a lot of influence in town, and he throws his weight around. People do what he says,” said David Hurwitz, a Randolph woodworker and leader in the Exit 4 opposition group. But his proposed development, Hurwitz warned, “is disconnected from reality” and will likely hurt the downtown, which is three miles from the highway exit. “The pitch is, it will bring millions to downtown Randolph. There’s nothing to back that up. It’s PR hype. I don’t buy it. Nobody is going to go downtown. You get off, buy gas, take a bathroom break and get back on the highway.”

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Opponents liken the Green Mountain Center to one of Vermont’s most notorious development projects: Taft Corners off I-89 in Williston. After a decadeslong struggle with conservationists, developers eventually secured permission to transform tracts of farmland there into dozens of big box and chain stores in several strip malls just off Exit 12. Sammis said he admires Taft Corners, but bristled at the comparison between his proposal and the Williston development. “I like Taft’s Corners. I think they did a good job. They’ve got nice looking buildings, they’ve got nice landscaping. I don’t see anything wrong with that project,” he said in a brief telephone interview. But his would be different, he said. More than 60 percent of what you now see at the proposed site — mostly open land and woods against a Green Mountain backdrop — would remain unchanged, according to Sammis. Currently the site, which includes both sides of Route 66, is home to a driving range, a McDonald’s and a gas station. Referring to his opponents, Sammis

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said, “They ought to have their arm around me saying, ‘Holy smokes, what a good job you’ve done!’” Speaking about himself, he emphasized, “I’m a conservationist. I’ve saved the most valuable land as open space.” Instead, most of the local enthusiasm — and press attention — has been focused on the proposed welcome center and attached Vermont Products Showcase Center, where local businesses would be able to promote themselves and sell products. Sammis would pay for its construction and maintenance — an estimated $15 million to build and $300,000 annually to maintain. In a state that has closed interstate welcome centers in recent years to save money, it proved a persuasive pitch. “It will not cost Vermont taxpayers one single dime,” Gov. Peter Shumlin said at a January 2013 press conference announcing the project at the Three Stallion Inn. Sammis made $2,000 donations to Shumlin in August 2012 and September 2014 after a lifetime of donating to Republican politicians, including Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, the Valley News reported in May. His only other local campaign contribution was $1,000 to James Sault, a Republican

from Randolph who ran for state representative in 2010. ESSEX Sammis has made it clear that he will not build the welcome center unless his entire project wins approval. And like any major proposal or renovation, Green Mountain Center must win clearance from the local district environmental commission, which enforces Act 250, Vermont’s sweeping land-use law. The first battle in the lengthy Act 250 process will be over whether the development conforms to local and regional plans, which call for the preservation of valuable agriculture land. The project would later have to meet other criteria. Local regulators say the project seems to comply with existing plans. But Shupe and others say dozens of acres Sammis proposes to develop boast rich soils: Sammis has, over the years, leased his land to local dairy and vegetable farmers. “If this happens,” Shupe said, “no farmland is safe anywhere.” Sammis has been visiting Vermont since the 1940s. As he built his real estate business in Connecticut, he said he was determined to keep one foot in the Green Mountain State. “I love Vermont,” he said. “I saw Vermont as a place I wanted to bring my family. I’m back and forth. I’m not a newcomer on the block.” Indeed, almost everyone interviewed for this story was able to reference a personal encounter with the man they call “Sam.” But that doesn’t mean they understand his motives. Plenty are curious why seventy-something Sammis is pushing for the Green Mountain Center while he has kept the proposed site posted “for sale.” The Three Stallion Inn has also been on the market for a while. Sammis said he has no plans to pull up stakes — the signs have been there for years and could help him lure prospective tenants to his project. But ultimately, he said, everything is for sale, and his land would be far more lucrative if it came with permits allowing for a major development. “In real estate,” he said, “everybody has a price. I would sell it at the right price.” m

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Wild Heirs Former Sanderistas reveal what they learned from Bernie

Darren Springer Team Bernie: Legislative assistant, senior policy analyst, chief counsel in Sanders’ Senate office, 2009-2013 Post-Sanders: Deputy commissioner, Vermont Department of Public Service; now chief of staff for Gov. Peter Shumlin On the Boss: “Bernie is a clear and strategic thinker, and he has the ability to boil down complicated policy discussions into plain English. I learned how to be a more effective writer and speaker working with him.”

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s mayor of Burlington, congressman and U.S. senator, Bernie Sanders has attracted idealistic, ambitious employees for decades. Some, such as Dave Sirota and Danielle LeClair, went on to work for politicians in other places; former intern Alyssa Mastromonaco was President Barack Obama’s deputy chief of staff before she became chief operating officer at Vice Media. But a remarkable number of Sanders alums have stayed in Vermont — to work in fields that mattered most to Sanders: affordable housing and health care. Some went on to elected office themselves. Where are the Sanderistas now? What did they learn from the Bern? This sprawling family “tree” illustrates the human impact the presidential candidate has had on his adopted home state. m

Doug Hoffer Team Bernie: CEDO policy analyst, 1988 Post-Sanders: Held same job in the Clavelle administration. 1989-93; Vermont state auditor since 2013, first Democrat/Progressive elected statewide On the Boss: “All his policy ideas are fundamentally about power. With affordable housing he starts with the recognition that the system is failing people. That’s the basis for everything. But people always told me he was also very clear that we have to plow the streets.”

Clarence Davis Team Bernie: Front desk, outreach assistant, scheduler in Sanders’ congressional office, 1996-99 Post-Sanders: Burlington city councilor, 2006-10; state lobbyist for University of Vermont, 2008-15; now senior vice president for Social Sentinel, a Burlington technology company On the Boss: “The thing that has stayed with me consistently over the years is, ‘Demand excellence from yourself and those that work with and for you.’ The incredible attention to detail that he pays to everything was, in my experience, nothing short of astounding.”

Huck Gutman Team Bernie: Senior policy adviser in Sanders’ Senate office, 2006-2008; chief of staff, 2008-2012 Post-Sanders: Returned to work as English professor at the University of Vermont On the Boss: “In Washington, we often talked for an hour or more each evening … He is not only a good listener. Our conversations really were conversations.”

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Team Bernie: Burlington personnel director, 1982; director, Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO), 1983-89 Post-Sanders: Succeeded Sanders as Burlington mayor, 1989-93 and 1995-2006; now chief of party for local governance project in Albania with Burlington-based Tetra Tech On the Boss: “I learned of the importance of engaging citizens in the decision-making process, particularly historically disenfranchised citizens.”

Tim Ashe Team Bernie: Field representative, 1999-2001 Post-Sanders: Burlington city councilor, 2004-08; affordable housing developer; now Democratic/Progressive state senator representing Chittenden County since 2009 On the Boss: “I learned that if you are honest, consistent and work your butt off, you can change the world around you for the better.”

John Davis Team Bernie: Contracted with the City of Burlington to form Burlington Community Land Trust and plan for Northgate Apartments, 1984-86; Burlington housing director, 1986-96 Post-Sanders: National housing and land trust consultant with Burlington Associates in Community Development On the Boss: “Bernie was not interested in making people comfortable. He started from a calculation of what was needed in the way of affordable housing and equitable development and demanded that something be done about it. He did not compromise until he had to — down the road.”

sarah kenney Team Bernie: staff assistant in U.S. House office in Vermont, 1997-98 Post-Sanders: Development director at Women’s Rape Crisis Center, 1998-2001; associate director of public policy, Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2012-2015; now deputy director, Let’s Grow Kids On the Boss: “He really is exactly what he appears to be — a strongly driven person who believes everyone should be treated fairly and everyone deserves a fair shot. It was also completely exhausting to work for him.”

John Franco Team Bernie: Campaign worker, 1980-81; assistant Burlington city attorney, 1982-91; congressional legislative director, 1991 Post-Sanders: Private law practice; health care reform activist On the Boss: “He had policy directions like the Burlington waterfront or taxing the hospital and he’d say, ‘Go out and find a way to do that.’ He wasn’t intimately involved in all the details. We had a lot of leeway to be creative. It was just a heady time.”

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Team Bernie: Campaign manager, 2002

Team Bernie: Burlington housing director, 1982-86

Post-Sanders: Executive director, Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security On the Boss: “Bernie could have done zero events and still won easily. But for him, that was inconceivable. So as I work on bringing about a single-payer health care system, I really try and go out to talk to everyone: dairy farmers, college students, working parents, senior citizens, etc., all over Vermont. I really wish I had as much energy as Bernie. I honestly don’t know how he does it.”

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Post-Sanders: Chief executive officer, Champlain Housing Trust On the Boss: “Bernie was a big influence on and model to all of us. He faced so much negative reaction in the beginning, and he never wavered. People organized against our affordable housing developments, against the community land trust and the ordinances we proposed to protect tenants. He stood firm and stood with the people who usually lose in city hall, and made this a more equitable city in very material ways.”

Team Bernie: Community development specialist, Burlington planning department; then assistant director of community & economic development, 1982-1989 Post-Sanders: Burlington city councilor, 1994-96; CEDO director, 1999-2007: chief operations and financial officer of Champlain Housing Trust since 2007 On the Boss: “The biggest lesson for many of us was to be fearless. You can’t just sort of accept things as they are. You have to try to make things as they should be.”

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Team Bernie: Senior policy adviser during Sanders’ early years in Congress, 1991-96

Team Bernie: Burlington city housing specialist, 1984-88

Post-Sanders: Ran for governor, lieutenant governor; now Progressive/Democratic state senator representing Washington County since 2011 On the Boss: “What you learn is how important it is to be face-to-face with people.”

Chris Pearson Team Bernie: Campaign coordinator, press assistant in Sanders’ congressional office, 1998-99 Post-Sanders: Progressive state representative from Burlington, 2006-08 and 2011-present On the Boss: “He didn’t change my views much, but he gave me language to express them. I learned a lot about Vermont from Bernie. He likes to stop at swimming holes for a dip, and farm stands. Bernie loves fresh Vermont tomatoes. Just be real. I saw close up how powerful that can be.”

Post-Sanders: Development director, Cathedral Square Corp. 2001-12; now consultant with Vermont nonprofit affordable housing agencies On the Boss: “There was an idea a minute on how we could change the balance of power and give a little more equity to the little guy — renters and low- to moderate-income families and seniors. He was fearless in the face of obstacles and he expected us to be as well. I learned to speak out to the HUD secretary to get resources for Northgate [public housing project] because he made me believe that was possible. He made me bolder and smarter in my work.”

Steve Goodkind Team Bernie: Burlington public health and safety administrator, city engineer; then public works director, 1981-2013.

On the Boss: “I worked for the city for 34 years. Nothing was as good as when Bernie was mayor. There was more energy, more desire to move the city in a good direction. He gives a lot of leeway in how that gets done.”

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Post-Sanders: Progressive candidate for Burlington mayor, 2015

Team Bernie: City constable, 1986; assistant to mayor, 1986-1989

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On the Boss: “Bernie impressed me with his commitment to making city government work better and to deliver better services to the average citizen. He didn’t want to see people lose faith in local government, which he felt had to be very responsive to people’s needs. Delays were frowned upon.”

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Post-Sanders: Held same job in the Clavelle administration, 1989-92; worked for state auditors Elizabeth Ready, Randy Brock and Tom Salmon; now auditor for Department of Vermont Health Access

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Seize Them! Testing a New Weapon in Rutland’s Drug War B Y M A R K D AV I S

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rittany Piper stood on the front porch of her apartment on Park Avenue in Rutland, watching her two young sons play in the front yard. She pointed to a garden, where she recently found a syringe, and then to a house next door and two more across the street. Every once in a while, she said, her kids ask why police are always visiting those three homes. She doesn’t know what to tell them. “I don’t know what to do,” Piper said. “They need to get rid of the property managers.” Federal prosecutors are trying to do just that. In Rutland, where local officials have won acclaim for using innovative strategies to fight an opiate epidemic, law enforcement recently unveiled their latest 24 Cottage Street tactic: They are trying to take possession of four homes where drug users and dealers have allegedly set up operations with no objection from their apathetic, portrayed the homes as de facto drug repeatedly told the owners, Rudolph headquarters where dealers set up shop and Francesca Petruccelli, of the illegal absentee landlords. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed with impunity and some tenants pay their activities taking place in the property, civil forfeiture lawsuits against four deposits and rent in heroin and crack specifically informing them that illegal houses in the city’s troubled Northwest cocaine. When neighbors and police re- drug sales were being carried out by neighborhood. Each residence has peatedly complained to landlords, they their son,” prosecutors wrote in court filings. “The Petruccellis have not atbeen converted to apartment buildings: did nothing to help, prosecutors say. At 24 Cottage Street, prosecutors said tempted to put a stop to the trafficking the three that Piper pointed to on Park Avenue belong to a single landlord; and property owners Rudy and Francesca or to take control of the property.” The Petruccellis have challenged one notorious home on nearby Cottage Petruccelli of Valhalla, N.Y., allowed Street has become a symbol of Rutland’s their son and property manager, Michael the forfeiture. In a court filing, their atPetruccelli, to turn torney, Paul Kulig of Rutland, said the drug problem. the property into a Petruccellis repeatedly called police Officials said it drug den. to report problems with tenants and is the first time in Prosecutors turned over surveillance footage to law Rutland, and persaid drug dealing enforcement. haps in Vermont, has occurred at “They feel quite upset about the situthat federal prosSTACIA PET RUC C ELL I the property — ation,” Kulig said in an interview. “They ecutors have tried to seize property not from convicted divided into two homes with about five feel that they had cooperated with the drug dealers or users — as is standard in apartments each — since April 2013. authorities … and this is what payback forfeiture cases — but from distant land- Confidential informants conducted at they get.” In an interview at the property, lords who have not even been charged least seven drug buys on behalf of the with a crime. Lawyers for the landlords police in recent years at the property, Michael Petruccelli’s wife and current are fighting the claims, but no trials have according to court documents. Several of the informants bought yet been scheduled. “The impetus for this was the drug cocaine or heroin directly from epidemic in the state, the center of which Michael Petruccelli, who is also seems to be Rutland,” said Assistant U.S. accused of allowing dealers to Attorney James Gelber, who filed the stay at the property and of selling forfeiture lawsuits. “And there seem to to his tenants on their behalf. Several former tenants who be houses in Rutland where most of the drug trade was happening. It’s trying served as informants told police to make it more difficult for dealers to that they had paid Michael operate. One way to do that is to try to Petruccelli crack cocaine in lieu of affect the place where they do business.” rent. He is currently in jail await116 Park Avenue In court documents supporting the ing a trial on drug charges. “Law enforcement agents forfeiture claims, federal agents have

property manager Stacia Petruccelli railed against federal prosecutors. Michael, she said, was a drug addict who sometimes needed money to support his habit. But his parents had done nothing wrong, she said. “This is BS. It’s wrong,” she said. “They’re punishing the wrong people.” Reporters from around the state and beyond descended on Rutland last year after Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire state-of-the state address to discussing Vermont’s opiate problems. Several of the subsequent stories, including one in the New York Times, specifically mentioned the Cottage Street house. The stigma has made life difficult for people who live there, Stacia Petruccelli said. Taxicabs refuse to pick people up from the house, and police are a constant presence. Federal agents paint a similar picture of drug-related mayhem at homes owned by Long Island residents Bernard and Ruth Jeifa at 114, 116 and 117 Park Avenue, where prosecutors say the drug dealing has occurred since 2011. Neighbors began complaining to Bernard Jeifa of the drug dealing in 2012, prosecutors allege. But he did nothing. Police in recent years conducted two raids and at least eight undercover drug buys at the properties, finding hundreds of bags of heroin, roughly $50,000 in cash and a gun, according to police affidavits. Four former tenants are in federal custody awaiting trial, and two others, including the current property manager, are anticipating state drug charges. There is at least one direct link between the two sets of properties: Eric “Big E” Dixon, who prosecutors said sold heroin and crack, often stayed overnight at both 24 Cottage Street, with Michael Petruccelli’s permission, and at 114 Park Avenue to sell drugs to tenants and locals, according to court documents. Dixon told police that Bernard Jeifa approached him months after he moved into an apartment at 114 Park Avenue in November 2012, asking why he hadn’t paid a security deposit. Dixon, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence on drug charges, told Jeifa that he had given 100 bags of heroin to Jeifa’s previous property manager as a deposit. “Jeifa did not insist that Dixon pay a security deposit nor did Jeifa

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come on in and use my property for illegal activities and you pay me for it.’” He said his clients feel “stigmatized, singled out, picked on. There are many properties that are having problems with tenants who do various things, in Rutland and in the state of Vermont.” But officials say that Rutland’s persistent problems necessitated a more aggressive approach. “This is the first time for that. It is absolutely part of our overall strategy,” Rutland Mayor Chris Louras said of the forfeiture proceedings and the city’s overall “death by a thousand cuts” approach to eradicating drug dealers. “It is accountability for property owners who were put on notice by local law enforcement and state and federal partners that they know illegal activity is taking place and it’s creating chaos in our neighborhoods.” Property owners facing a forfeiture action essentially have two options. They can claim they didn’t know about the problems, or they can admit they knew and tried unsuccessfully to fix them. If prosecutors win, Gelber said, the homes could be turned over to the city or nonprofit housing groups in hopes of securing responsible, local owners. In that case, Louras said the city may urge federal prosecutors to try to take more property. If the landlord defendants win, it’s back to Whac-A-Mole for the Rutland police. “A lot of the problems are because the environment is being supported by irresponsible landlords,” Louras said. “It’s sending a message to property owners.” m

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take any steps to end Dixon’s tenancy based on the fact that he was an admitted drug dealer,” FBI agent Christopher Destito wrote in an affidavit. In June 2013, federal agents broke down the door to Dixon’s apartment to conduct a raid. Jeifa stopped by soon after, replaced the door and said nothing to Dixon, prosecutors allege. In court filings, the Jeifas’ attorney, Matthew Shagam of Burlington, has indicated he will soon file a response from his clients, who intend to fight the forfeiture claim. Shagam did not respond to a message seeking comment. Federal forfeiture law gives prosecutors and police wide latitude: The government is allowed to seek forfeiture of any property used to commit or facilitate felony drug crimes. But it is most commonly used to take property — usually money or cars — from people who have been directly involved in the drug trade. Border crossings, in particular, see many such seizures. In Rutland, not so much. Gelber, who handles most of the forfeiture work in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said he has never filed a forfeiture lawsuit there — and certainly not against an out-ofstate landlord. He could not recall a similar case in recent Vermont history. It is a controversial practice. Congress, citing abuses in which lawenforcement agencies have seized huge amounts of money and other goods from people who have never been convicted or even charged with a crime, is considering whether rules governing civil forfeiture need to be tightened. “There’s a feeling that it’s an unfair attack on people who own apartment buildings or motels where people have done bad things,” Kulig said. “This is not a case where the owners are saying, ‘Oh,

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Theresa Lefebvre, who’s lived in Farrington’s for three decades, is president of the new North Avenue Co-op. She announced that the group signed a purchase agreement with the Farringtons last week. It had help along the way from the city, nonprofits with experience financing cooperative purchases and strong state laws protecting mobile park tenants. Citing the complexity of the deal, she said they don’t expect to close on the sale for another four months and aren’t releasing further details about the transaction, including the final price, in the meantime. The co-op may need to sell a swath of green space at the southern end of the park to raise the necessary money, according to Lefebvre. But members are hoping instead to raise $800,000 through donations, which would allow them to preserve the land as a play area for children and to have a place to pile snow in the winter.

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James Stoops examined a big map of Burlington and stuck red dots where he thinks the city could improve safety for cyclists. The Winooski resident is hardcore: He commutes year-round on a bike to his job at CarShare Vermont in Burlington. He was one of about 40 people who attended a public workshop Thursday night to brainstorm ways to expand bike and pedestrian access. The recent fatalities of three cyclists outside the city and a serious accident that injured a cyclist on Pine Street are reminders of the need for change, Stoops said: “It’s very sad and tragic.” Burlington can lead, he added, by creating “real, protected bike lanes and slower speeds

Griffin said when he heard del Pozo was applying for the Burlington chief’s job, “I actually tried to talk him out of it. I think it’s a loss for the NYPD.” Del Pozo was among nearly 30 applicants for the chief’s job, Weinberger said. The field included two internal candidates: Lt. Matt Sullivan and Lt. Shawn Burke. Over the course of several months, the number was winnowed to 20, then to eight semi-finalists and finally to four finalists: Burke, del Pozo and two other out-of-staters. Del Pozo stood out from the start, search committee members said. “After the first interview, which was by Skype, we were like, ‘He seems really great. Can he possibly be that great?’ I was honestly nervous about the second interview,” said Sarah Kenney, city police

commission chair who has spent years advocating for domestic violence victims. The second interview, in person, was even better, Kenney said: “He struck me as a really good listener. He engaged the committee in a dialogue, which I value really highly.” Cpl. Dave Clements, the president of the Burlington Police Officers’ Association who was also on the search committee, said for him it was “a dead heat” between Burke and del Pozo. Clements said he has a lot of respect for Burke but del Pozo’s experience was hard to beat. “He has experience where he works that you couldn’t gain here,” Clements said. Kyle Dodson, an African American Burlington school commissioner who was on the search committee, confirmed everything del Pozo said during interviews

for cars and actually enforcing the speed limits.” The session, in a vacant restaurant space across from Burlington City Hall, was part of planBTV Walk Bike, a city-led effort to get people out of cars. The ultimate goal is to produce a bike and pedestrian plan for consideration by the city council. If approved, the plan would be one chapter in a larger municipal plan. The previous day, city officials and consultants conducted “handlebar” and “walkabout” tours of Burlington with anybody who wanted to point out things that are working — or not. People spoke up at the workshop, too. Some beefed about problems ranging from cracked sidewalks to crabby motorists. Others offered suggestions, including: The Burlington Bike Path is busy with cyclists and not always safe for pedestrians; the rotary where Shelburne Street meets South Willard Street is so inhospitable to cyclists that its nicknamed “the intersection of death”; and each shuttle bus heading up steep College Street should pull a big trailer to carry bikes. Numerous people said Burlington needs more bike lanes that are separated from traffic. They predicted that until that happens, it will be difficult to increase cycling among those who currently feel that riding is unsafe. The painted white lines now designating bike lanes at the side of many city streets are not adequate, they said. City of Burlington transportation planner Nicole Losch said the city is interested in separated lanes. “It’s definitely something we want to take a really close look at.” Molly Walsh

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Farrington’s Mobile Home Park in Burlington’s New North End

Residents of Burlington’s only mobile home park have signed a purchase agreement to buy the land on which their houses are parked. When the Farrington’s Mobile Home Park went on the market for $5 million last November, its inhabitants worried they’d be displaced by a developer looking to capitalize on the prime real estate. Located just off North Avenue, the 11-acre property with 120 lots offers what is widely considered to be the most affordable home-owning option in a city where the cost of housing has escalated. Residents voted to form a cooperative, with the goal of purchasing the property themselves. Robert Farrington, one of several family members who inherited the New North End park, told Seven Days at the time that he was “100 percent” in support of their effort. But the looming question for months was: Could the residents — many of whom are on fixed incomes — actually cobble together the money to make it happen?

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‘The Man’ « p.15 critics. One of those special projects, he said, was Twitter. He helped institute its widespread use in the NYPD, the goal of which was to “change the shape of the way we relate to communities.” Del Pozo acknowledged that putting the world’s largest police department on Twitter posed challenges and required modifications. Detractors hijacked hashtags. Users required training and guidelines for tweets. Del Pozo’s most recent role had him back working with Griffin on “strategic initiatives” in the deputy commissioner’s office. Their work involves analyzing New York police data on violent crimes to find connections, Griffin said. In just three months, they’ve been able find patterns more quickly than in the past, allowing police to prevent robberies and shootings, he said.

suggested he was sensitive to minorities. When Dodson later learned of del Pozo’s racial profiling paper, he called it “unfortunate,” but was impressed when del Pozo called him to talk about it. Monday night, as critics in the audience hissed their discontent, Dodson told the council his support for del Pozo was unwavering. “I think if we let him get away, we may regret it,” Dodson said. A few hours later, the council formally agreed. After the vote, del Pozo turned to critics in the audience. “It’s an honor to be your chief,” he said. Del Pozo starts work on September 1 for an annual salary of $114,363. m Contact: terri@sevendaysvt.com, 999-9994 or @terrivt

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Barbara Jennie (Bean) Belleville 1925-2015

Barbara Jennie (Bean) Belleville, 90, passed away on July 9 at the Green Mountain Nursing Home, with family at her side. She was born in Montpelier on March 3, 1925, the daughter of the late Francis and Inez (McManis) Bean. Barbara married Donald L. Belleville on October 25, 1947. She was predeceased by her husband

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in August of 1996 and a sister, Lois Wilkins of Stowe, in 1999. She graduated from Stowe High School in 1943 and the Training School for Nurses at St. Albans Hospital in 1947. She loved helping the elderly and focused the latter years of her nursing career on caring for them. Barbara is survived by two sons: Peter and his fiancée, Debbie Visi, of Winooski, and Donald and his wife, Jane, of Mendon, Mass.; and two daughters, Kathy and Marie, both of South Burlington; six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank the nurses and staff of the Green Mountain Nursing Home for their care of Barbara over the last seven years, as well as the support from hospice in her last days. Visiting hours were held on Sunday, July 12, at LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Winooski. Funeral services were held on Monday, July 13, at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Winooski. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Susan G. Komen Fund. Condolences can be left for the family online at lavigne wfuneralhome.com.

June 20th is near and dear to this “Mother-Daughter Team” . . .

You see, both were married (Marjorie Bonnette to Bruno Trahan Sr. and Cecile Trahan to Daniel Moran) at St. Joseph’s Church in Burlington, Vermont.

The Trahans celebrated their 65th at a surprise party while the Morans celebrated their 35th with a whirlwind vacation around Olympic National Forest, in the state of Washington.

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Cecile Claire (Hammond) Barnes of Mountain Top, Pa., died in her sleep on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, after a long illness. Cecile was born in Burlington on March 1, 1930, the daughter of John and Lena (Parizo) Hammond. She was a graduate of Cathedral High School. She married Charles Barnes of South Burlington in 1956. Cecile was a loving and devoted wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great-grandmother. In her life she worked at Singer Sewing Machines, labored for many years in the Cub Scouts, and raised three boys. She is survived by her three sons: Michael Barnes of Concord, N.C., David

Barnes of Mountain Top, Pa., and Brian Barnes of Norfolk, Va.; 11 grandchildren: Danny, Jenny, Samantha, Jonathan, Joshua, Julie, Justin, Jaime, Bradley, Charlie, and Scott; 13 great-grandchildren; her sister Rita Gilmore; her brother, Richard Hammond; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Barnes, and her sister Teresa Fitzpatrick. A visitation memorial will be held on Monday, July 13 at 7 p.m. at the LaVigne Funeral Home, 132 Main St., in Winooski. There will be a Catholic funeral service held at St. Francis Xavier Church in Winooski at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14. Interment will follow at St. Francis Cemetery. Cecile’s family would like to thank the dedicated service of the nurses and staff of the Mountain Top Senior Care facility who cared for her over the last four months.

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SEVEN DAYS: Did you know that they still show 35mm film prints here? COLIN TREVORROW: They’re showing a print? That’s incredible. I’ve never seen a print of my film. We made fewer than 50 prints. I love shooting on film, and I’ll always shoot on film. But, as far as projection, digital’s the only way to know that everybody’s going to be seeing the same product. SD: A project like Jurassic World is just so gigantic. How did you even begin to wrap your head around it? CT: I don’t know how I did it. I just did it because I had to. You know method acting? I was a method director. I completely assumed both the persona and the mind of someone who’d done it many times before. When I didn’t know the answer to something, I asked a question; and I never pretended I knew something I didn’t know. And I did surround myself with brilliant men and women who know how to do their jobs better than anyone in the entire world. But I also knew what I wanted at

major corporations at every turn. They’d be trying to take your money every single second, and I felt that was the way to present a reality that we all know. And I think that one of the reasons people are connecting with the movie so much is that it doesn’t shy away from addressing how that corporate thirst for profit can lead us to make terrible mistakes. There were a lot of other goals in the film, but ultimately we wanted to make a character film about somebody who was very much committed to the corporate culture who, when faced with the decision whether to embrace that side of her or to embrace her more animalistic, naturalistic, humanistic side, she chooses that other side.

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every moment, and that made it easier for them to help me achieve it. This film is not a corporate product, even when it comes down to the product

placement in the movie. That was my choice. I wanted that because that’s what is real. If you built a Jurassic World today, it would be owned and operated by

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hough the blockbuster film he directed is among the most successful of all time, COLIN TREVORROW still has a sufficiently low profile that his presence at a recent screening in Vermont didn’t cause much of a stir. With his untucked Oxford shirt and easygoing manner, Trevorrow isn’t the first guy in the room you’d peg to have directed Jurassic World, the heavyweight box-office champion of the summer. He last spoke with Seven Days just before the film was released; a month later, he’s had time to reflect on the cinematic tyrannosaurus that has gobbled up its competition. After arriving at Colchester’s Sunset Drive-In for a screening of his second film, Trevorrow paid his nine bucks at the ticket booth just like everybody else. Only a dozen or so patrons recognized him, and that was mostly because his young son, frolicking on the theater’s playground, spilled the beans about his suddenly famous father. In between swats at persistent mosquitoes, Trevorrow, a Burlington resident, spoke candidly about the movie that has, thanks to $1.46 billion (and counting) in global ticket sales, catapulted him into Hollywood’s elite.

SD: Is there a particular element of the film that makes you especially proud? CT: The movie really ended up being something very true to what I had set out to do. I grade myself based not on the overall quality of the movie but on how well I accomplished what I set out to accomplish. This was a B+ for me. I have very high standards for myself. I will always feel like I have room to grow and that I will always be learning. I learned a lot from this film. SD: Like what? CT: I think most of all I learned a lot about perception of the audience and the need to have the same amount of empathy in your life that you have in making yourself an audience member, and thinking about the ways that things are going to be perceived. There are very intelligent people who felt there was a certain amount of sexism in the way that [Bryce Dallas Howard’s] character was treated. I don’t discount that. I look at that, and I go back and say, “What is it that we did?” Because I know my intention was the polar opposite of that. My intention was to make a pretty badass action hero out of a woman who is transformed out of a completely corporately owned human being. Contact: ethan@sevendaysvt.com

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Good Dirt: An International Folk Musical, Thursday, July 16, 2 and 7 p.m., at the Bunker Farm in Dummerston; Friday, July 17, and Sunday, July 19, 6 p.m., at Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington; and Saturday, July 18, 8 p.m., at Phantom Theater in Warren. Phantom Theater performance is $15; for others, $10 suggested donation. To find out more, contact Paul Besaw at pbesaw@ uvm.edu or check agnes-table.org.

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Lambert’s spin on salpuri, a traditional Korean dance that draws on elements of shamanism. Per custom, he performed alone, with slow, flowing gestures. Perhaps less traditionally, he mimed the scattering of seed. Then there was Jeong’s athletic interpretation of “older Korean and American folk forms,” as Besaw described it. Jeong literally danced circles around the other players, who accompanied him on traditional Korean drums while seated on the floor. Among the various vocal numbers, Kim Min Jung’s performance of “Mother Teach Me,” by contributing artist CLARE BYRNE, was as arresting as the singer’s faded pink hair. With Kim’s compatriots backing her on guitar and ukulele, her clear, acrobatic voice gave lines such as “Mother, teach me how to knit” surprising weight. As the rehearsal wrapped, the performers danced back to the “good dirt” of the great outdoors with cacophonous, exuberant drumming. There was a lot to take in here, and in less capable hands the bilingual, fragmented collage of forms and ideas might have fallen apart. Audiences will have another chance to dissect the “dirt” following each show: over refreshments — in Korean and American.

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Nearings as they created their home in Winhall, Vt. (They later moved to Maine.) But it wasn’t homesteading that interested Kim and Besaw. Instead, it was the way people think about the natural environments they escape to — or from. “It’s just not all in one direction,” Besaw explained. “There are people in Vermont who can’t wait to get out, and there are people from other places who can’t wait to get here.” (Besaw himself is from rural New Hampshire.) Rather than condone either impulse, Good Dirt addresses elements of both — in New England and in South Korea. Kim sees Vermont’s mirror in South Korea’s Jeju Island. “There are so many things that you can do in Seoul and big cities, but, at the same time, there’s a lot of headache,” she said. “So there’s a lot of movement away from Seoul, and Jeju is one of the places [people go].” Kim pointed out that two of the performers, Jeong Hansol and Kim Min Jung, are from Jeju. (Jeong is a graduate student at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, but wants to move back to Jeju at some point after he graduates.) The escape to and from nature manifests in the structure of the performance, which begins and ends outside. In one of the opening scenes, Roxanne SchroederArce and Kim Min Jung flung themselves into a contemporary dance in a garden — making weeding look more interesting (and exhausting) than ever before. Soon after, the performers danced themselves indoors, and that journey was the most direct path Good Dirt took from that point. Audiences won’t find any semblance of a linear story line in the arrangement of scenes that follow. Standout segments included Jason

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ast week in the tiny town of Acworth, N.H., a cross-cultural group of dancers was finetuning its moves for an upcoming performance titled Good Dirt: An International Folk Musical. A collaboration of University of Vermont associate professor of dance PAUL BESAW and his wife, KIM CHONG HO, the piece features dancers from the U.S. and South Korea, and will travel to three pastoral venues in Vermont this week. Besaw had invited a reporter to witness the group’s process and get a feel for what Good Dirt is all about. While that wasn’t easy to pin down, in essence the piece addresses humans’ relationship to the natural world and how we communicate within and about it. Through the wide-open town hall windows, the sound of birds and the smell of fresh grass gave immediacy to that concept. That effect won’t be lost when the show hits the road: Besaw, Kim and their fellow dancers are working in rural performance sites, staging two of the three shows in barns. Besides nature, the production is about “the mythology of place,” said Besaw — and not just one place. The “international folk musical” draws on Korean and English dialogue and song, traditional Korean dance forms, and American folk music and storytelling. Kim came up with the original ideas for Good Dirt. On a visit to her native South Korea two years ago, she noticed that many Koreans had formed their ideas about Vermont from Helen and Scott Nearing’s Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World. The homesteading classic, published in 1970, documents the lives of the

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Hunt, Rescue and Restore: A New Book Documents Curtains Without Borders B y a my li lly

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n 1900, the O.L. Story Scenic Company, a Somerville, Mass., outfit that painted scenes on stage curtains, promised in an advertising pamphlet that its products would last “with good care from 12 to 15 years.” This seems about right for 10-by-18-foot spans of cotton muslin primed with handmade glue and painted with watersoluble paints. Depicting rural scenes, domestic interiors, city streets or fanciful European castles, these canvases were the all-purpose, roll-up stage sets of the day; it was assumed they’d get heavy use. Clearly, O. L. Story didn’t count on Christine Hadsel coming along 100 years later. The Burlington resident has spent the past 15 years ferreting out painted theater curtains from crawl spaces in town halls, grange halls, theaters and opera houses in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. She and teams of volunteers have catalogued 500 individual curtains made between 1890 and 1940 and restored about half of them. Because of Hadsel’s efforts, many curtains have been returned to use as backdrops to town meetings, community dinners and local concerts. And, she predicts, the restored ones will last another century. Now Hadsel has produced a book documenting these works of public art and detailing her unprecedented endeavor, which was largely supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As befits its subject, Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England is an art book, gorgeously and fastidiously published by David R. Godine. The book’s shape imitates the aspect ratio of the curtains, vividly shot by Burlington-based architectural photographer Carolyn Bates and laid out one per page. Its text playfully adopts the conventions of drama, with acts and scenes replacing chapters. Hadsel’s book is equally a cultural exploration of an era before movies, when community life and entertainment in small northern New England towns centered on the stage of the local town hall or grange. There, a painted curtain provided the backdrop to itinerant musicians and other acts, as well as to community gatherings. A 1940 flier for Londonderry’s (long-gone) Union Hall, reproduced in the book, advertises a game dinner of “venison, coon, bear, chicken pie. With the fixings.”

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In their day, these halls’ painted curtains were “the largest, most colorful pieces of art in most people’s lives,” Hadsel writes. While some are primitively executed, many are quite beautiful. Plainfield, N.H., has the only backdrop designed by Maxfield Parrish, the wildly successful American illustrator. Granted, the artist directed his studio to paint the autumnal woodland scene, but the 1916 work has the same fine details, luminous color and balanced composition as the illustrations that made Parrish famous. Suspended Worlds is organized by painter and state, but lacks a town name index, so it can be hard to look up curtains by specific location. Of the three states covered in the book, Vermont appears to have the most historic stage curtains, and the most pleasing ones. Most of them adorned town halls, which favored theater scenery, instead of grange halls (as in Maine), which tended to buy curtains covered with ads for local businesses — hence Vermont curtains’ greater appeal.

South Londonderry Town Hall has a shiver-inducing winter scene from 1890 featuring a path through the woods buried in deep snowdrifts. Townshend Town Hall offers a series of backdrops from 1922 in an art-deco style, depicting streamlined streetcars, trains and black Ford Model Ts and exuding machine-

Hadsel’s team had unearthed all 185 of the state’s extant curtains. Many came in sets of five: one front “grand drape,” showing a view revealed by pulled-aside trompe l’oeil painted drapes, and four stock scenes to hang behind it. Vergennes’ one remaining curtain was a grand drape. While the town sent that one to a professional conservator out of state, Hadsel developed a much cheaper conservation plan for her other discoveries: Locals helped sponge and vacuum away dust while a few trained conservators patched and in-painted damaged areas. She had the curtains rehung on padded metal downspouts, an inexpensive grange trick used a century ago. Conservators Richard Kerschner and Mary Jo Davis describe the process in detail in the book’s final chapter, “Act 4.” In 2003, the NEA’s national initiatives coordinator himself helped conserve a curtain. Reached at his D.C. office, where he is now the interim media arts director and coordinator for the multidisciplinary

Depicting rural scenes, domestic interiors, city streets or fanciful European castles,

these canvases were the all-purpose, roll-up stage sets of the day. age optimism. Those two towns’ curtains are attributed, respectively, to the Troy, N.Y., studio of Charles Huiest and the Brattleboro-based scenic artist William Stuart. Hadsel spotted her first painted curtain at the Vergennes Opera House in 1998. It was a wreck. “This great, big, dirty piece of scenery — I had no idea what it was,” she recalls by phone. By 2009,

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Curtain by William Stuart, Townshend Town Hall

theater curtains came to an end, as Vermont Humanities Council director Peter Gilbert writes in the prologue to Suspended Worlds, when people started choosing private entertainment over public gatherings. “Live, local entertainment couldn’t compete with the quick pace of movies, even silent movies, and friends and neighbors onstage were just not as dazzling as lofty movie stars,” he writes. Now the pendulum has readjusted, if not swung the other way. Suspended Worlds includes a final chapter documenting the gigs of today as they occur in front of the stage sets of a century ago — a spectacle that would never have been without the enormous and dedicated work of one woman. m

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curtains were most popular in northern New England. Perhaps they survived in greater numbers there because of the Yankee reluctance to throw things away, she speculates in the book, and the relative lack of sprawl. The South had little interest in curtains, Hadsel writes. When she authored the book, only a few examples had turned up in New York and the Midwest, even though large scenic studios in Buffalo, Chicago and Omaha produced many of northern New England’s curtains. Yet, as Hadsel’s conservation project has expanded in scope — from its start as the Vermont Theater Curtain Project in 2000 to Curtains Without Borders in 2009 — more curtains have turned up, most recently in Texas, Colorado and Tennessee. Hadsel received another National Trust grant to canvass Massachusetts, but she recently changed tactics and, in May, decided to pursue a new project: Curtains Nationwide. Its ambitious aim is to catalog every curtain in the country. Grants will fund trips to provide coaching to other states’ regional foundations and conservators. The 50-year heyday of painted

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funds from the Preservation Trust of The book includes a number of exterior building photos, which help the reader imagine the curtains in place. When a curtain can’t be reinstalled, Hadsel’s team instructs volunteers to roll it for storage in conservation-friendly materials. Occasionally she finds it a new home. When she learned that a grange hall in West Paris, Maine, could no longer maintain its set of five Charles Huiest curtains, Hadsel notified some Wardsboro, Vt., residents who she knew were interested in sprucing up their town hall. “She was the matchmaker,” recalls Karen Davis of Wardsboro. Davis and other volunteers drove to Maine to collect the curtains, and then rounded up 20 volunteers and a Vermont Arts Council grant to conserve them. It took the group four days to restore and hang three of the curtains; the other two were put in storage. On finishing, says Davis, “Everyone who volunteered [was] pinching themselves — these curtains were 120 years old.” Hadsel’s research for Suspended Worlds initially suggested that painted Vermont.

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arts division, Michael McLaughlin admits with a chuckle that it’s not often an NEA staff member visits a recipient of arts endowment money. While on a vacation in New England, however, McLaughlin got an invitation from Hadsel to accompany her to Concord, Vt., for a day. He soon found himself wielding a “pencil eraser and getting tiny smudges out” of a grand drape. “The coolest thing about the whole day,” McLaughlin recalls, was when Hadsel brought him to a picnic lunch at nearby Shadow Lake, where they ate overlooking the scene depicted on the drape he had just helped hang. All of Vermont’s curtains have been conserved, and many now hang again on the stages for which they were made. Those stages and their delightfully varied proscenium arches (shown in the book’s photos) are all scrubbed and dusted — a requirement of rehanging, according to Hadsel, who directed the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance for 10 years. Many of the town halls themselves have been restored in tandem with curtain conservation, with

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I found something online about a man in Canada who’s cured cancer using hemp or marijuana oil and says it’s able to cure even terminal cases. Is this for real? If so, what the heck — the cure for cancer has been here all along? Amy Spears

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goods: all marijuana used in American research is produced on the University of Mississippi campus and tightly controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an organization whose name may tell you something about its ideological bent vis-à-vis weed. Walk around any university medical or psych lab and you’ll find dozens of flyers looking for paid research subjects who are “already habitual marijuana users,” but you’ll rarely find any offering to pay you and provide your supply. As a result, a lot of the scientific research is based on rats, using synthetic cannabinoids to mimic the effects of weed. Because it’s not done on humans (except illegally), it’s difficult to extract too much from such research. Even still, there’s some pretty compelling

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cancer cell tested. Let’s be very clear: this doesn’t mean that smoking weed or eating it or rubbing yourself with it will get rid of a tumor. The endocannabinoid system is extremely delicate, and adjusting it incorrectly can actually stimulate tumor growth — Simpson may have been aggravating his skin cancer even as he was treating it. But there’s definitely something interesting going on here. Researchers are also looking into how fiddling with the endocannabinoid system can alleviate seizures. I won’t bother going into the mechanics here, epilepsy being arguably even more complicated than cancer, but it’s enough to know somebody’s working on it. Other studies are focusing on Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and multiple sclerosis, because of the way endocannabinoids affect movement. Will Rick Simpson be remembered someday as a visionary? We’ll see. For now, he’s apparently encouraging sick people to screw around with their neurological function without bothering too much about science. But serious investigations into endocannabinoids in general do look promising. A long-term study on the health of undergraduate “research assistants” at the Ole Miss weed farm might prove informative as well, but then again I’m no scientist.

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Simpson, he’s cured his own skin cancer and treated many hundreds of other “patients” besides. If seriously ill people feel they’ve gotten some relief this way, I’m not going to tell them they haven’t. Nonetheless, there’s still this thing called the scientific method. In fairness, Simpson’s not alone in supporting this theory. Rather a lot of research has purported to show the medical value of marijuana, but most of it was conducted between the 1840s and the 1920s. This was a period during which the medical community also thought cocaine could cure tuberculosis, so conclusions drawn in those days should probably be taken lightly. Anyway, this enlightened era ended in the early ’30s, when a wave of state and federal statutes made marijuana illegal throughout the U.S. Since then, studies investigating its theoretical benefits have been extremely scarce — only 6 percent of recent scientific articles on cannabis have dealt with possible therapeutic use as opposed to potential for harm. This may be because no one can get their hands on the

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hink about your question for three seconds, Amy, and riddle me this: if marijuana actually fought cancer, wouldn’t someone have noticed a massive drop in malignancies back when the teens of the ’60s hit late middle age? We’d have 20 million more baby boomers puttering around suburbia, and makers of adult diapers would now be enjoying record profits. Instead, cancer is projected to be the No. 1 cause of death in America by 2030, even as the nation’s love affair with weed rages on. None of which is to say that chemicals in marijuana won’t ever prove to be medically useful, but I personally wouldn’t opt for a Phish concert over chemotherapy just yet. The guy you’re talking about is, I’m guessing, Rick Simpson, a crusader for the health benefits of cannabis oil. Simpson, whose medical training apparently consists of 25 years maintaining the boilers at a Nova Scotia hospital, claims that ingesting the stuff and/or rubbing it on the skin can remedy anything from diabetic ulcers to cervical cancer (no words of advice for topical application in such cases, however). According to

stuff out there. Here’s how it works: Endocannabinoids are a group of compounds (lipids, to be precise) naturally produced in the brain during certain types of neural activity — mostly having to do with appetite, pain sensation, mood, and memory, but also relating to cardiovascular tone, immunity, movement and reproduction. When you introduce plant-based cannabinoids like THC into your system, they mimic these endocannabinoids and appear to thus affect the same areas. The beneficial effects of weed on pain and appetite are sufficiently well accepted that medical marijuana is legal in 23 states for cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, and the synthetic forms of THC known as dronabinol and nabilone are FDA-approved to fight the nausea that accompanies chemo. More excitingly, though, increasing cannabinoid levels have in fact been found to reduce tumor growth in mice in several different trials, by both inducing cancer-cell death and preventing proliferation, in almost all types of

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“Good question,” says James Ehlers, executive director of the nonprofit Lake Champlain International, which routinely tracks sewage discharges. “Why is it that way? Because that’s all the law requires.” Considering the potential health hazards such spills pose, one might expect the Vermont Department of Health to be the agency first or second in line to notify the public. But Ehlers contends that the VDH has essentially washed its hands of the matter. “The Department of Health, to this day, has borne no responsibility … in informing the public of the health threat associated with pathogens during a stormwater discharge,” he says. “They’ll talk on and on about Lyme disease and how to avoid contact with ticks. But where are the same

preventative methods about avoiding polluted water?” Indeed, state health officials offer a short answer to the question: not our job. “Recreational water is not regulated by the health department. Local communities, including beach managers and owners, are responsible for determining when recreational swim water is unsafe for the public,” writes state toxicologist Sarah Vose in an email. “When there is a stormwater or sewage water discharge event, the Department of Environmental Conservation notifies the health department via an automated electronic system,” she continues. “If [VDH] determines that an event could affect the water quality of a recreational area that we are aware of, we notify the

town health officer or relevant local contacts to advise them of bacterial sampling protocols.” From that point, it generally takes at least 24 hours to obtain the results of the bacterial tests — after which beaches can be closed and warning signs posted. Ehlers concedes that the DEC’s reporting system is better than it once was. It took a fight by the Conservation Law Foundation to force Vermont’s plant operators to disclose publicly when their wastewater systems soil the waters. Today, the law requires them to notify the DEC within 24 hours of such a discharge, or by the next business day. Once such a notification arrives, it is posted to the state website within four hours, says Ernest Kelley, program manager of the DEC’s wastewatermanagement program. That posting, in turn, automatically alerts the DEC commissioner, the secretary of natural resources and health department officials, among others. While the report is considered public information, even Kelley admits that the DEC’s website isn’t very user-friendly. This reporter spent about 20 minutes looking for “reported sewer overflow incidents” before finding them there — five links deep. But improvements are in the pipeline, Kelley insists. Two years ago, he says, someone floated the idea of developing a web-based system that automatically sends out notices, similar to VT-Alert. It would include links to Google Maps so citizens could geolocate affected waterways. Kelley can’t say when that new system will go live, though. Why not? “I’ve kind of given up on our technology group here getting that work done, and I’m in the process of bringing in my own web designer to design it basically outside the [Department of Information and Innovation] system,” he explains. “It’s been in the works for quite a while and has gone nowhere.” In the meantime, if you spot ripples on the water’s surface and suspect it’s Champ, consider that the mysterious object might instead be, um, something man-made. If so, grab the kids and head for higher ground. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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ile this under Eww! Gross! Each year, Vermont’s municipal wastewater treatment plants dump hundreds, sometimes thousands, of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage into public waterways. Some of those spills result from equipment failures, such as malfunctioning pumps or clogged sewer lines. Others routinely occur after heavy precipitation, when storm runoff overwhelms the system’s handling capacity. This July 1 saw two such discharges. In Burlington, an estimated 11,130 gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the Pine Street Barge Canal on Lake Champlain. That same day in Vergennes, 75,200 gallons of sewage and stormwater runoff were dumped into Potash Brook and Otter Creek. Operators of the Vergennes plant estimated that a fifth of the overflow — 15,040 gallons — was untreated sewage. Those spills were just two of 23 discharges reported to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation in the past month — including four earlier ones in Vergennes alone. Talk about a momentous kickoff to Gov. Peter Shumlin’s Lakes Appreciation Month. Obviously, there’s no accounting for bad weather. Accidents will happen, especially to the state’s more outdated wastewatertreatment systems, some of which are overdue for upgrades. But when shit happens, the public seems not to catch wind of it until days later, when the information is no longer of much value. By then we, our kids and our pets may have already fished, boated or (gulp!) swum in the equivalent of an unflushed toilet. WTF? It’s not like there aren’t preexisting notification systems that could answer the call of “doody!” The National Weather Service and other federal, state and local agencies routinely issue public alerts about severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, poor air quality, flash flooding, citywide parking bans, high UV-index days and hazardous winter-driving conditions. Indeed, thousands of Vermonters are already signed up with Vermont Emergency Management’s service VTAlert, which automatically sends emails and text messages to their smartphones about everything from earthquakes to radiological disasters — both of which are exponentially less common than sewagespewing manholes. Yet there’s no “Code Brown” alert when a 20,000-gallon shit storm is about to rain on your favorite swimming hole. Why not?

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wo weeks ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) became impossible to ignore. As 10,000 people cheered and chanted his name, the 73-yearold senator summited a stage in a Madison, Wis., arena and took his place behind a wooden podium. He raised his right arm to wave at a sea of supporters and embraced his wife, Jane, with his left. Then, peering up at the distant nosebleed seats, Sanders did something unusual: He grinned. “Whoa,” he said. Whoa, indeed. In the 43 years since Sanders first ran for office, skeptics have doubted him at every turn. They never believed he could serve as mayor of Burlington, defeat an incumbent congressman or chair a Senate committee. Well before he entered the presidential race in April, Beltway pundits had long since written him off as an also-ran — a latter-day Dennis Kucinich. But by the time Sanders arrived in Madison at the start of a three-state, four-day tour of the Midwest, CNN had declared it the “summer of Sanders.” By the time he departed, new polls and fundraising reports showed him gaining on Democratic front-runner Hillary

Clinton. And in perhaps the clearest sign of validation, reporters who’d been asking Sanders about Clinton in every last interview started asking Clinton about Sanders. At Wisconsin’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the senator let loose a few more “whoas” as he scanned the crowd of mostly white faces holding blue and white “Bernie” signs. “In case you haven’t noticed,” he said. “There are a lot of people here.” He grinned again. But Sanders’ smile quickly faded. As he launched into an hourlong stump speech, any hint of optimism was supplanted by his dour assessment of modern America. The economy, he said, was “rigged” by greedy billionaires more interested in tax breaks than in feeding hungry children. Republicans held a “warped view of family values” and had “gotten away with murder for too many years.” His opponents would exploit a corrupt political system to defeat him, while a shallow news media treated the democratic process like a popularity contest. “The greed of corporate America and the billionaire class has got to end, and we are going to end it for them!” he shouted, as if preparing to storm the Bastille.

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★★★★★ Sanders should’ve been pleased the next day when he reached Fort Dodge, Iowa — a 25,000-person town with an economy based on corn and gypsum. This was, after all, one of the most successful weeks of his three and a half decades in office. After filling the Madison arena the night before, he had lured 600 people to a breakfast speech that morning in Rochester, Minn. Hours earlier, Quinnipiac University had released a new poll showing that he’d more than doubled his support in Iowa in the previous month, from 15 to 33 percent. And his own campaign had announced he’d raised an impressive $15 million in his first two months in the race. Despite the good news, the senator sounded like he had an ax to grind. He repeatedly ripped into the news media that afternoon during an 80-minute town hall meeting in an auditorium at Iowa Central Community College. “The media regards politics as either a baseball game or a soap opera,” he began. “And the baseball game is who’s winning, what are the polls today, how much money did somebody raise? The soap opera is what happened in your life 87 years ago, this, that and the other thing.” It’s possible the senator was bent out Sanders and his wife, Jane, in Madison, Wis. of shape over a story the New York Times was about to publish on his writings in the Vermont Freeman newspaper in the early 1970s. In one essay from that era, according to the Times, he suggested that cancer might be caused by unresolved hostility toward one’s mother or having too few orgasms. Or perhaps he’d heard from friends and family members that several news outlets were digging into his early love life. A week later, VTDigger.org, the Daily Mail and Politico would all disclose on the same day the heretofore unreported fact that Sanders’ son, Levi, was born out of wedlock to a woman he never married. ‘SUMMER OF SANDERS’

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“Ber-nie! Ber-nie! Ber-nie!” the crowd chanted. No matter how Sanders fares in the nation’s neverending presidential tryouts, this was the moment his campaign became real. No candidate to date had attracted so many supporters under one roof, as the senator himself triumphantly observed. “It’s clear to us that there’s something going on out there,” said Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. In the nine months since Seven Days last traveled through Wisconsin and Iowa, the mood had changed entirely: Democratic activists were no longer pining for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and a surprising number said they were convinced Sanders could — and should — win. “God knows the nation needs him,” said Donna Butler, a retired church secretary from Madison, whose husband died in Vietnam. “The nation is going downhill real fast. We just need this man.” But with success comes scrutiny. A super PAC allied with third-place Democratic rival Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, had already trained its sights on Sanders, airing a negative television ad focused on the Vermonter’s mixed record on gun control. And now that Sanders has gotten Clinton’s attention, he’s sure to face incoming fire from perhaps the most formidable campaign apparatus ever assembled by a nonincumbent presidential candidate. “I think they’re going to recognize that the support for Bernie is real — that in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, he can succeed because he’s got a very powerful message,” Sanders senior strategist Tad Devine said of the Clintons. The real test for Sanders is whether he can withstand the scrutiny, scale up his fledgling organization and keep the energy alive. It’s a long road to the Iowa caucuses next winter and a longer road still to the Democratic National Convention next summer. But Sanders, a former long-distance runner, has been training for this race all his life. His sneakers are laced — and he’s ready to run.

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“My wife and I thought long and hard about whether we should [ join the race], and she was not all that crazy about it. Is that a fair statement, Jane?” Sanders told the crowd of 150 at ICCC, nodding toward his second wife at the back of the room. “For all of the reasons that you could understand: because we have media that is much more interested in gossip than in issues, and so on and so forth.” The press, he had frequently suggested before entering the race, would seek to destroy him and his family. “Will the media allow a serious discussion about the issues?” he asked his audience. “Maybe they will. Maybe they won’t. I’m not sure that they will.” Sanders’ hostility toward the media is nothing new. In a 1979 essay for the Vermont Vanguard Press, he argued that television “is the major vehicle by which the owners of this society propogate [sic] their political points of view (including lies and distortions) through the ‘news.’” Leaving aside the fact that Sanders now eagerly courts cable news networks and issues press releases about polls and fundraising, he is probably wise to treat the media warily. Most recent coverage of his ascendant campaign — stories about his family notwithstanding — has been fawning and uncritical. The national political media has appeared eager to replace the tired storyline of Clintonian dominance. But Sanders surely understands the cyclical nature of a long presidential nominating contest, and he knows that what goes up must come down. On his way out the door of the community college, Sanders tolerated a few questions from a handful of local and national political reporters before abruptly cutting them off. “All right, thank you very much,” he said, pushing past them toward a waiting car. Seven Days followed him and tried one last time to ask about that day’s fundraising announcement, but Sanders looked straight ahead, as if he hadn’t heard the question, and continued walking. “Guess we’ll go with the statement,” his spokesman, Michael Briggs, offered with a shrug as the candidate hopped in the car.

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★★★★★ As Sanders has drawn more and more fans to rallies in Minneapolis, Denver and Portland, Maine, skeptics have questioned whether such support exists outside the nation’s liberal metropolises. But in the three days Sanders spent crisscrossing the corn belt of rural, western Iowa, excitement was palpable even in the tiniest burgs. When he drove two hours due west from Fort Dodge to Sioux City — just shy of the Nebraskan and South

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Dakotan borders — the candidate found more than 400 people waiting to see him at Morningside College, a small, liberal arts institution affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Introducing him that evening was a graduate student named James Johansen, who praised Sanders for daring “to stand up for the LGBT community” decades earlier, when “it was neither safe nor required for him to do.” Johansen did not mention Clinton, who waited until 2013 to embrace gay marriage and whose husband signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law. But his point was clear. “As a gay man myself who was recently married, I do not take that kind of courage lightly,” he said. “I know that it is because of the courage of people like Bernie Sanders that my family today can be recognized and treated equally under the law.” Sanders’ Iowan supporters frequently describe him as consistent and authentic — particularly in comparison to Clinton, who they see as opportunistic and scripted. “He seems to be honest and believable,” Steve Harding, a South Dakotan retiree, said outside Morningside College. “He’s a breath of fresh air.”

Inside, Sanders picked up where Johansen left off on gay rights. “James well knows that that struggle has been going on for decades and decades and decades,” he said. “People had incredible courage standing up and saying, ‘I’m gay, and you’re going to know I’m gay. I’m not going to hide it anymore. And you’re not going to discriminate against me anymore.’” Early in Sanders’ standard stump speech, he delivers a harsh indictment of conservative social beliefs.

“Many of my Republican colleagues talk about family values,” he said in Sioux City, drawing the usual guffaws. “Well, I’ve got four kids. I’ve got seven grandchildren. I have been married to my wife, Jane, for 27 years. We believe in family values.” In contrast, Sanders said, “When the Republicans talk about family values, what they say is that a woman in America should not have the right to control her own body. I strongly disagree.” Republicans, he continued, “are saying that women are not mature enough to be able to go out and buy the contraceptives they need” and that “same-sex marriage should not be allowed to happen.” “That,” he said, “is their view of family values.” Sanders, on the other hand, said his idea of family values was to guarantee 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. In each of his appearances, that sizzling slice of red meat draws some of the loudest applause. But later in his stump speech,

Sanders routinely contradicts himself, arguing that Americans must not let social issues divide them at the expense of economic ones. “In a democracy, people are gonna have different points of view,” he said as he wrapped up his speech at Morningside College. “Yes, we may disagree on abortion. Yes, we may disagree on gay rights. Yes, we may disagree on guns. Yes, we may disagree on this issue or on that issue. But do not get deflected from the most important issues facing you, your kids and your parents.”

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In his four days of rallies, town meetings and parades, Sanders addressed foreign policy just twice — and only when audience members raised it themselves. “You haven’t mentioned the Middle East yet,” one woman observed near the end of the question-andanswer period in Sioux City. “That’s because you haven’t asked me yet!” Sanders exclaimed, drawing laughter from the crowd. Before the woman could pose her question, Sanders interjected. “Let me just deal with foreign policy and the Middle East in a brief statement,” he said. “Everybody knows that we live in a dangerous and very complicated world. And if I had a magic solution, I’d get on the phone with the president right now. I don’t. You don’t. Nobody does. And that’s the simple truth.” After highlighting his votes against the Gulf War and the Iraq War, Sanders jumped to the present day. “Now we are in a moment where we have this horrific, barbaric group called [the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria], and I don’t have to explain to you what they are,” he said. “ISIS must be defeated. My view is it cannot be the United States alone that defeats ISIS.” Sanders approaches foreign policy much the way he does economic policy. The wealthiest nations, he argues, must pay their fair share. Just swap out the Koch brothers and swap in Saudi Arabia, and you get the gist of it. In March, when the Saudis called on the U.S. to deploy combat troops to oppose ISIS, he issued a blistering statement calling the idea offensive and noting that Saudi Arabia “is controlled by a multi-billion-dollar family.” In Sioux City, he remarked, “You may or may not know, Saudi Arabia has the third largest military budget in the world.”

To destroy ISIS, he argued, “The Muslim nations themselves must lead that effort. They have got to get their hands dirty.” The next day, during a lunchtime visit to Storm Lake’s Better Day Café, Sanders faced a question on a very different global conflict but delivered much the same answer. A woman, who identified herself as a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Central Europe, asked, “If you were the president at this point, what would you do about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s imperialistic tendencies and his annexation of eastern Ukraine?” “Let me broaden that question,” Sanders said, meaning that he would answer a different one. “By the way, my family comes from Poland, as well.” The woman smiled and said she knew that. “Putin is a dangerous guy. ISIS in the Middle East is an extraordinarily barbaric organization, and both have got to be combated,” he said. “Nobody has any simple, easy solutions to a very complicated and dangerous world. Putin is one part of it. ISIS is another part. You’ve got Iran with concerns about a nuclear weapon there.” But the lesson from Iraq, he argued, was that “the United States cannot do it alone.” It must “put together broad coalitions” to counter Russia and “mobilize the Muslim countries in the Middle East” to counter ISIS. “OK,” he said. “We’ve gotta get moving on.” For a guy who’s served in Congress since George H.W. Bush was commander in chief, Sanders doesn’t display much depth on international affairs. Asked last fall about his interest in the subject, he told Seven Days, “It’s very easy for the Congress to get deflected away from the needs of tens and tens of millions of American people, and I don’t want to see that happen. But that’s not to say that foreign policy is not of huge consequence.” His general philosophy — the U.S. ought to avoid unilateral military engagement whenever possible — mirrors that of many Democratic primary voters. And he’s wise to contrast his opposition to the Iraq War with Clinton’s support for it. But when Sanders faces the former secretary of state on a debate stage this fall, he’ll likely face tougher questions than “Is ISIS bad?” — and he’ll have to answer them.

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in this country, and they deserve a path to citizenship, and I believe that very strongly.” Then he shifted to more comfortable territory: “When we look at economics in America, what we find is that Latinos and African Americans are often at the bottom of the line in terms of decent paying jobs and other aspects of our economy.” For that reason, he argued, providing free college tuition and raising the minimum wage would help Latinos more than most. After the candidate walked away, López said that her community was paying close attention to Sanders. “We had a meeting, and they asked me, ‘Is he going to talk about immigration? Do you think that he just wants our vote and he’s going to forget about us?’” she said. “People are just wondering.” López, who said she interviewed Obama four times as he campaigned in Iowa, sounded unimpressed by Sanders and his peers. “He and all the candidates need to focus on the pain of the people — the real pain, you know? People are suffering,” she said. “Hillary and Sen. Sanders are talking about immigration reform, but they are not offering something. They are just talking.” By the time the parade’s convoy of fire trucks, vintage tractors and a Mustang convertible-riding mayor began chugging down Broadway, only a smattering of residents lined the route. In his traditional parade garb of a button-down shirt, chinos and sneakers, Sanders worked the left side of the road, while Jane Sanders worked the right. Thirty supporters followed behind the pair, one carrying a sign reading, “He marched in Denison … He marched with the king. MLK.” Behind them walked nine dispirited Clinton supporters, followed by a maroon pickup truck towing a sign that

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After Sanders departed the Better Day Café, Lynn and Paula McCullen chatted with a friend while sandwich shop workers returned their focus to lunchtime stragglers. Retirees who moved from California to nearby Fonda, the McCullens said they were glad to see so many people from such a conservative area turn out to see Sanders. They noted that their own representative to Congress, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), is among the most conservative in the nation — and, according to Lynn McCullen, “a buffoon.” “It’s heartening to see there’s that many people who have their head straight,” he added. Other than the eponymous body of water just south of the city of Storm Lake, Buena Vista County consists almost entirely of corn fields, broken up only by spindly wind turbines jutting out of the landscape. As in much of western Iowa, the Latino population has grown significantly in recent years, as immigrants have found work on farms and in processing plants. In Denison, 50 miles south, more than twofifths of the population is Hispanic. But when Sanders arrived in Denison later that afternoon to march in its July 3 Independence Day parade, the preponderance of those participating in and observing the festivities were white. Sanders, who appears to abhor unscripted moments with rabid supporters, milled around awkwardly outside the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 440 union hall, gamely posing for selfies and hopping aboard a vintage John Deere tractor. He kept asking field director Phil Fiermonte for direction, but he didn’t receive any. “Will you sign the back of my shirt?” Peggy Galletley of Lake City asked. After assenting to the request, Sanders remarked, “When you’re running for president, you’re asked to do weird things.” As he waited for the parade to begin, the candidate briefly entertained questions from members of the local media. Lorena López, editor of the Spanish-language newspaper La Prensa, based in western Iowa, was one of them. “This town is 43.8 [percent] Latino, and it’s a small town,” she said. “Latinos trust in President Obama. Latinos talk a lot today about you. What do you have to offer Latinos?” Sanders, who has faced criticism from some Latino leaders for failing to focus on their issues, dove right in. “Well, we are going to fight as hard as we can to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” he said. “The bottom line is we have 11 million undocumented workers

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read, “Protect Life and the Unborn” and a Pizza Ranch delivery car. “Go get ’em, Bernie!” retired archaeologist Larry Abbott shouted as Sanders walked by a Hy-Vee grocery store. “Everything I’ve heard him say is just right,” he explained to a reporter. “I just sent in my donation this morning.” But Abbott’s support might not presage a landslide win. “Since the mid-1960s, Obama’s the only one I voted for that got elected,” he confessed.

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the campaign,” said Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “So it’s been a bit of a challenge, but it’s better than the opposite challenge.” To the untrained eye, Sanders’ Iowa operation, which includes 27 of the campaign’s now 50 staffers, appeared surprisingly organized. Volunteers and paid staffers swarmed every event, signing in audience members, handing out envelopes for donations and marching beside Sanders in parades. Even after he reached the end of the Denison route, many Sanderistas kept working the crowd. Clayton Christiansen, a Nebraska City property manager and newly minted volunteer, walked 16th Street, attempting to engage with residents. “Are you familiar with Bernie Sanders?” he asked an older couple and a younger woman sitting together on a porch.

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up to Sanders to ask for a selfie. The senator complied. “Ever since I’ve seen this gentleman on Bill Maher … I’ve started identifying with the things that he likes to do,” Peters said. “He has a vision for what this country needs at this point.” Later that day, the senator marched in one final parade — in the Des Moines suburb of Waukee. Thanks to its close proximity to the state capital, the Sanders campaign managed to turn out an astounding 130 people to walk with him. David Leonard was not one of them. The retired high school counselor, decked out in a purple Dallas County Democrats T-shirt, said that he “loves Bernie Sanders.” But he doesn’t plan to vote for him. “I agree with everything he stands for, but I’ll probably end up caucusing for Hillary Clinton, because it’s high time we had a woman president. For another thing, she’s highly qualified — perhaps the most qualified. And I think she will beat any Republican they put up against her,” Leonard said. “Whereas with Bernie, they’re going to throw the socialist label at him,” he said. “And there will be closet talk of his being a Jew. I don’t think he could be elected.” Sanders’ fired-up fan club clearly felt otherwise. As he marched past the town green and a skyscraper of a grain elevator, they hoisted signs reading “Iowa Bern Stormers” and “End the Corporate Oligarchy.” Several young men wore signs on their backs that said “Bern Unit.” A young boy in a purple shirt led the pack of Sanders supporters and every few minutes yelled, “When I say ‘president,’ you say ‘Bern!’” “President!” “Bern!” Sanders, who argues vociferously in his stump speech against the deification of politicians, mostly ignored the deranged mob at his heels. He focused instead on greeting and shaking hands with those who appeared receptive. “Hi. Hello,” he said. “Hi. Hello. Bernie Sanders. Hi. Hello.” This was a friendlier crowd than in Waukee. “That’s actually him,” one woman whispered. “Thanks for coming to Waukee,” another shouted. By the time he reached Waukee High School, a mile and a half later under a hot sun, the former runner was definitely feeling the burn. “Oh, my god!” a red-faced and sweaty Sanders exclaimed to his wife. Whether he was referring to the unending parade route or the number of supporters willing to follow him wasn’t quite clear. But for the first time since he addressed the crowd in Madison, he displayed visible signs of happiness. “That was fantastic,” he said.

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The older man looked annoyed by the intrusion but offered, “We hope he beats Hillary.” “We do, too!” Christiansen replied with a smile. That night, more than 80 Sanders volunteers stalked the entrances to Council Bluff ’s Mid-America Center, 65 miles southeast, as some 2,600 people streamed in. The volunteers would not let audience members pass without extracting their contact information. “Signing people in is the key,” explained Pete D’Allesandro, a veteran of the Iowa caucuses and Sanders’ state coordinator. “You’ve gotta grab the names, because 2,600 people in a venue is exciting and it’s energizing and it helps, but you need to grab the actual names of the people who are going to volunteer, who are going to caucus.” Clinton supporters have suggested that Sanders’ venue-busting hordes won’t necessarily translate to votes, noting that former Vermont governor Howard Dean, too, surged in the summer before the caucuses. “Bernie’s huge crowds recall Howard Dean’s in ’04 when he rallied ‘Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,’” former Obama consigliere David Axelrod wrote on Twitter the morning after the Madison rally. “Dean was impactful, but Kerry won.” Devine, Sanders’ consultant, disagrees. “Number one, by getting these people in-house, by having them attend your events, you can ID them, get contact info

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arlier this year, Jon Stewart, the longtime host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” announced his plans to leave. And fans around the world freaked out. Since taking over the show from original host Craig Kilborn in 1999, Stewart has carved out a role in pop culture and politics that few have occupied before him. He’s become one of America’s sharpest and funniest political satirists, as well as something of a moral compass. As the news of Stewart’s impending departure sank in, speculation about his successor mounted. Would it be “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee? Her husband and fellow correspondent Jason Jones? Both? Maybe Tina Fey or Amy Poehler? In March, Comedy Central named Stewart’s heir: comedian Trevor Noah. To which the show’s fans responded: “Who?” Noah, 31, is a native of South Africa who began performing at age 18. Though he joined “The Daily Show” as a recurring correspondent in December 2014, he was virtually unknown to American audiences. That changed T REV OR NOAH quickly. Within hours of the announcement, someone unearthed a series of offensive jokes on Noah’s Twitter feed, sparking controversy over his appointment. Both Stewart and Comedy Central stood behind him. In a statement, the network wrote, “Like many comedians, Trevor Noah pushes boundaries; he is provocative and spares no one, himself included. To judge him or his comedy based on a handful of jokes is unfair. Trevor is a talented comedian with a bright future at Comedy Central.” Added Stewart as he opened the April 6 episode, “Trevor Noah will earn your trust and respect. Or not.” Calling Noah “an incredibly thoughtful, considerate, funny and smart individual,” he continued, “I hope you give him an opportunity to earn that trust and respect.” Noah’s opportunity will come when he officially takes over as the host of “The Daily Show” on September 28. In the meantime, he’s been honing his act, performing standup around the country to largely positive reviews. Noah will appear at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland this Sunday, July 19. Seven Days caught up with the comedian and “Daily Show” host-to-be via email.

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SEVEN DAYS: When you found out you were taking over “The Daily Show” from Jon Stewart, what was your initial reaction? Jubilation? Shock? Pantswetting fear? TREVOR NOAH: Jubilation and disbelief. There are few times in my life I can remember being as stunned by news as I was with “The Daily Show.” I knew I was being considered as the host, but still…

SD: You were something of an unknown when you were named Stewart’s successor. But Stewart was hardly a household name when he took over from Craig Kilborn. Do you think that relative lack of celebrity might actually be an advantage for someone stepping into what is now such a high-profile and influential gig? TN: I think for me it’s a great advantage. I get to focus 100 percent on the show, and I’m not stressed about a certain image that I need to maintain. SD: Which celebrity or political figure are you most looking forward to interviewing, and why? (I’d personally be pretty pumped about Neil deGrasse Tyson, but that’s just me.) TN: I’m pumped for a variety of people. When watching TV, I’ve seen some wonderful interviews from the most famous people to relative unknowns. But if I had to pick one, I’d go with Kermit the Frog. He’s a legend. SD: What kinds of changes, if any, do you anticipate making to “The Daily Show”? TN: If I told you, I’d have to kill you. SD: Seven Days is a Vermont paper, so I gotta ask: Bernie Sanders. Does he have a shot? TN: I think everybody has a shot. That’s the great thing about democracy. Hillary was a sure win in the last race, until Obama beat her. So, you never know, Bernie Sanders might just do it. SD: With Bernie, Trump, Bush v. Clinton 2.0 and the cavalcade of other unusual candidates on both sides, are we looking at the most entertaining primary season ever? TN: This primary season is insane and overwhelming. I’m so excited to get into every candidate from both sides. At least there won’t be a shortage of material to work with. SD: You’re a native of South Africa. How does being foreign-born and -raised inform your perspective on American politics and culture? TN: Growing up, we were all exposed to a huge amount of American culture. From movies and music to watching the U.S.

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elections, this is a country I’ve always felt invested in. I mean, when Obama became president, we celebrated like we had voted for him! SD: Issues of race, racism and bigotry have dominated the news cycle and social media in the U.S. this year. Coming from South Africa, how do you view this, especially in the wake of the Charleston shootings, the Confederate flag debates, the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, etc.? TN: That’s a question that would take many episodes of “The Daily Show” to explain. Each issue has its own complexities and ramifications. Each means so much for the future, and so I spend a lot of time thinking and debating about all these topics, because often the answer isn’t in black and white.

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hen it comes to music, beauty is in the ear of the beholder. We all have different tastes and preferences, which is one reason why being a fan is so much fun. But most of us follow certain artists with shades drawn, as it were — perhaps because they’re not “cool,” or because they’re over the hill. Guilty pleasures? Maybe. But you can’t choose who you love. And you should never be ashamed of what gets your rocks off. To expand on that thesis, Seven Days recently sent three reporters to three very different regional concerts. Stephen Mease, a photographer, writer and public information director for Champlain College, traveled to Montréal to see pop superstar Taylor Swift, where he was older than most of the fans by a good three decades. Thirtysomething Seven Days music editor and confessed music snob Dan Bolles lived out a childhood dream by catching Def Leppard in Gilford, N.H. And Seven Days arts writer Ethan de Seife, a former academic and one of the brainiest folks we know, stayed a little closer to home to experience the satirical glory of “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Flynn. We don’t mind admitting that each proved to be a transcendent performance.

It’s a Taylor Thing

Last Tuesday afternoon I crossed into Canada on a mission to photograph Taylor Swift in concert in Montréal. Little did I know I was going to earn my wings as a Swiftie in the Taylor Nation. My journey really began back in 2007, when I saw Swift light up the stage at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction. She opened for Brad Paisley, but it was clear even then that the flirty young woman dressed in a blue sundress and cowboy boots was destined for top billing. Her first album, released in 2006, was titled simply Taylor Swift. Fast forward through Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012) to last October, when Swift left Nashville and headed to the Big Apple. No more teardrops on her guitar, no more high school crushes, no more wondering why people were so mean. It was time to have fun. With the release of her fifth album, 1989 (2014), Swift celebrated the year of her birth and her musical rebirth as a pop sensation. By now you may be wondering, Isn’t the typical Taylor Swift fan about 13 years old? Yes. And I am old enough to be her father. So is it creepy to be that middle-aged guy who sings along to Swift in his car, follows her tweets, has her photo on his iPhone

screen, and ordered the new CD deluxe edition for the bonus tracks? I don’t think so. Swift is the type of person we can aspire to be at any age: She’s (reportedly) kind to her friends and compassionate to those in need, knows the importance of thanking fans, and isn’t afraid to stand up to a bully. I work in public relations, so I admire Swift’s skills in that arena, too. I watch and learn as her team heightens the anticipation of her every move. Sure, she’s had a few run-ins with errant boyfriends, popstar catfights, photographers and onerous contracts. But show me someone else who has stared down Apple Music and made it blink, and then given a family $50,000 to help pay the medical bills for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia. But back to Montréal and Swift’s 1989 World Tour at the Bell Centre. Feeling a little apprehensive about my first arena concert in two decades, I circled the construction minefield that surrounds the home of the Montréal Canadiens a half dozen times before settling on a $25 parking lot. Several hours early, I scouted my way to the box office, where I found a long line of cute foxes, feathery pegacorns, starched ballerinas, TS cheerleaders, princesses and girls carrying handmade signs bearing a favorite

lyric. The crowd was sprinkled with chaperoning parents, especially for the youngest concertgoers wearing blinking tutus, fuzzy cat ears and bedazzled T-shirts. Their eyes were wide with the anticipation of their first Tay-Tay concert.

THE CITIZENS OF TAYLOR NATION WERE RUNNING IN TIGHT TEENAGE-GIRL PACKS, DANCING AND SINGING ALONG TO HER MUSIC.

The citizens of Taylor Nation were running in tight teenage-girl packs, dancing and singing along to her music blasting from the Virgin Radio 96 FM booth. It was a sea of Swifties. Tamara Pless of Jericho, who came with her 15-year-old daughter, Isabel, wore a T-shirt that summed up the scene: “It’s a Taylor thing, you wouldn’t understand.” Finally, the doors of the “Belle” Centre opened. Within an hour, all 14,000 seats were filled.

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My photo pass never materialized, but Swift’s publicist did upgrade my seat. Attached to it I found a white plastic LED bracelet. Gifts from Taylor, these were to be worn during the concert to create a synchronized starscape. Of course, the LED lights on costumes and signs already made the place twinkle like a Swiftmas tree. Going to a concert alone, you’re likely to meet people. The 20-year-old woman beside me turned and apologized for crying. “I’m still in a bit of shock,” she admitted. She’d just come from a backstage meet-and-greet with opener Vance Joy, for whose show she’d snagged tickets essentially by stalking him on Twitter and Tumblr. It seemed impolite to tell her I had no clue who Vance Joy was until he played his last song, “Riptide.” On my left, a 22-year-old and her dad plopped into their seats at the last minute, nachos and beers in hand. Giddy with excitement, the woman turned and asked if I was with my daughter. “No,” I admitted, “I came alone. It was just something I really wanted to do.” “Oh, that’s really cool,” she said, smiling. “Give me five, you are a Swiftie.” Finally, the house lights dimmed. It was time to travel back to 1989, when I was 34. I settled back in my seat as the curtain fell, a New York skyline replaced it and dancers rose from beneath the stage. Then there she was, a sparkly Taylor Swift wearing sunglasses, a glittery green jacket and a purple skirt. She was dancing and singing “Welcome to New York,” the song that earned her the title of NYC Global Welcome Ambassador. It was a kick-ass

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As I crossed the Champlain Bridge with a CD blasting the same songs I’d just experienced, I was surprised by my own reaction. Sure, the concert was amazing, I got some great photos of Taylor and I made it out of Montréal without getting lost. But what I liked most about the show were the quieter moments between songs when Swift talked to her people. And by people I mean her female fans — 99 percent of the audience. Her remarks combined pep talks, girl-power therapy sessions and a

Def Leppard onstage in Gilford, N.H.

big-sister arm around the shoulder. They might have been scripted, but they seemed sincere. I reached Highgate at about 1 a.m. The female border agent smiled when I told her where I’d been. “Did you go alone?” she asked. “Yup,” I answered. “Could you show me your bracelet from the concert, please?” she requested. I dug it out of my camera bag and gave it a shake to light it up, showing that, yes, I was a proud Swiftie with dual citizenship in the USA and Taylor Nation. With that, the agent handed me my passport and waved me on toward home. S.M.

Let’s Get Rocked

As the last notes of their 1983 hit and encore finale “Photograph” still lingered in the steamy night air, Joe Elliott and his Def Leppard bandmates strode hand-inhand down the center-stage catwalk for

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one final, triumphant bow. Beaming as though the sustained ovation were rocking a packed Wembley Stadium circa 1987, and not the comparatively tiny Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., Elliott addressed the crowd. “Don’t forget about us,” he said, punching his left arm in the air, “because we won’t forget about you!” Only two words can describe what happened next: fucking hysteria. The lights came up, the crowd went bonkers, and I felt as though I’d just witnessed one of the most satisfying concerts of my life. Cynical readers may assume Elliott’s mushy farewell was mere audience pandering: Aw, you say that to all the fans. Perhaps so. But you had to be there to appreciate the pure joy on the faces of Elliott, bassist Rick Savage, guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell and still-boyish drummer Rick Allen — the last clad in a sparkly tank top and Union Jack-festooned swim trunks, with another Union Jack covering the shoulder where his left arm used to be. You had to hear the sweet, earnest tinge of sentimentality in Elliott’s faint British lilt to know he meant it. Elliott sounded like a man who, as he wished a faithful crowd goodnight, knew there were only so many rapt audiences left to thank. Not to get all “Behind the Music” on you, but Def Leppard have endured more than their fair share of hardships since they formed in an abandoned spoon factory in Sheffield, England, in 1977. Troubled guitarist Steve Clark — who cowrote many of the band’s greatest songs, including my favorite, “Photograph” — succumbed to a fatal cocktail of booze and prescription meds in 1991, at the height of the band’s fame. Clark’s replacement, Campbell, has battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2013. His cancer is back after two periods of remission. And, famously, Allen lost his left arm in a car accident on New Year’s Eve 1984, at age 21. Def Leppard have paid their pound of flesh, and then some. Yet Def Leppard persevered. Allen trained himself to drum with three limbs instead of four. Campbell hasn’t stopped performing since his diagnosis. For most

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start to a mind-blowing two-hour concert that covered all the songs from her new album and reimagined three previous hits in pop-synth fashion. Over 18 songs, Swift and her all-male dancers changed outfits at least a dozen times, while video testimonials from her friends filled the gaps. All the tropes of stadium shows were there: steam-cloud blasts, pyrotechnics and giant video projections. The finale, featuring a great deal of booty shaking and the sick beats of “Shake It Off,” unleashed a blizzard of confetti. Suddenly, Swift, her backup singers and dancers were taking a final bow. And then they simply disappeared. Poof. There was no question of an encore as the words “THANK YOU” filled the video backdrop and the lights came up.

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Sugar on Me” — because of course it was the closer — was as hot and sticky-sweet as ever. By the time “Photograph” happened, I was delirious. Two days after the show, my girlfriend texted me, “I’m sad. I’m so, so sad.” I knew exactly what she meant. The days following the show were like that weirdly depressing time after a great vacation when beach world and real world just don’t jive. Because everything after Def Leppard simply isn’t Def Leppard. If you don’t love Def Leppard, you may not understand. But for two short, brilliant hours in New Hampshire, 10-year-old me and 37-year-old me were united in the enduring music of one of rock’s greatest bands. Joe, I won’t ever forget. (And, baby, those “Love Bites” panties we saw at the merch booth are on back order.) D . B.

his audience consists of nerds of all ages, not just 40-ish guys like me who own In 3-D on vinyl. At the Flynn show, newer songs, such as “Foil” and “Perform This Way” (Al’s Lady Gaga spoof ), received as much stage time as did mid-period songs such as “Amish Paradise” and “Bedrock Anthem.” There were oldies, too, including “Dare to Be Stupid,” and even a beatnik-coffeehouse version of “I Lost on Jeopardy.” I can’t imagine that any fan left unsatisfied. Even savvier were the video montages that played between many songs. Ostensibly there to entertain us while Al and his band members took time for their frequent, elaborate costume changes, the montages also served a more important function. Consisting of TV and film clips featuring or referring to Yankovic, they eloquently attested to his pop-culture staying power.

montage, a huge screen revealed Al in his customary Hawaiian shirt, apparently in a dressing room. As he began singing “Tacky,” his parody of Pharrell Williams’ smash hit “Happy,” the crowd quickly realized that this was live video. The audience freaked out as Yankovic strutted and sang his way outside, through an alley — our alley! in our town! — into the theater, down the aisle and onto the stage. Framed by the Steadicam operator against the screen where his own image was projected, one Al multiplied recursively into infinite Als. But even that infinity of Als might not have been enough for his hungry, revved-up fans. Those fans, while not the most racially or ethnically diverse, varied in age from 5 to about 75, a range that speaks to the universal appeal of Al’s brand of clean, clever musical comedy. The 6-year-old girl in front of me was grinning just as widely

Weird Al Yankovic projected onstage at the Flynn Center

Getting Weird

One of the running jokes of the local cultural scene is that every act that plays Burlington’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts receives a standing ovation. Once reserved as an accolade for extraordinary performances, the gesture has become meaningless. Not so with the ovation “Weird Al” Yankovic and his band received on Sunday evening. In 30-some years of concertgoing, I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed more sincere enthusiasm for a performer. Nor had I ever seen a more diverse crowd, every member of which was stomping, clapping and hooting in joyous admiration for the wildly entertaining show they’d just seen. Everyone at the Flynn knew Al’s secret: He’s no mere novelty act. He’s a hugely talented performer who knows and loves his audience and works hard to give them exactly what they want. Yankovic grabbed the audience right from the start and never let go; his entrance ranks as one of the best I’ve ever seen. After a crazy-quilt pop-culture video

as the AARP-age, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing couple to my left. Music-scene hipsters were about the only group not well represented. In their stead were 40-year-old dorks wearing Jedi robes. My people. Well, sort of. I may have been wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but I’m not enough of an Al superfan to have busted out — as many in the crowd did — Jedi robes, curlyhair-and-moustache getups or tinfoil hats (a reference to Yankovic’s song “Foil,” a parody of Lorde’s “Royals”). I suspect that my relationship to Yankovic resembles that of many others in that audience: I loved his music when I was a nerdy kid and have always admired him. But nowadays I don’t even know the songs he’s parodying. When I first heard Al’s “White & Nerdy,” I had to call my sister to ask about the source song (“Ridin’” by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone) — which I still have never heard. By the way, Yankovic is actually a very fine rapper. He’s also a savvy performer. Yankovic has been in the comedy-music business long enough — since 1976 — to know that

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of the 1980s and into the ’90s, they were the biggest arena-rock band on the planet. Their 1987 album Hysteria is one of the few records in history to chart seven singles in the Billboard Hot 100. They are one of five rock bands to have two albums — Hysteria and 1983’s Pyromania — sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. upon their original release. The others are Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Beatles. The rise of grunge music in the mid1990s was in many ways a direct response to the excess of the glam metal era, with which Def Leppard was somewhat erroneously identified. In fact, they were more pop metal infused with New Wave sensibilities than glam, and far more musically adventurous than, say, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister or Poison. Nonetheless, changing trends caused the band to lose much of its cultural relevancy. Def Leppard continued to tour and make records, albeit identified increasingly as a nostalgia act rather than as the hard-rock icons they rightfully should be. As they showed on a July evening in New Hampshire, Def Leppard still rock. Hard. I grew up on Def Leppard. Hysteria was the second CD I ever owned, purchased in a comically long cardboard sleeve with dutifully saved allowance money. (The first? Van Halen’s OU812, snagged from a drug-store record bin when I was 10.) I didn’t need Joe Elliott to remind me not to forget about them, because Def Leppard were one of my first and most passionate musical loves. They were fun. They were sexy. They had trebly vocal harmonies and guitar sounds that didn’t seem humanly possible. Just as importantly (at the time), they were a far cry from my parents’ Emmylou Harris records. How could I forget? What I needed was the rock. Def Leppard obliged. At their concert last week, the band tore through every single hit you could want to hear. Every. Fucking. One. Maybe it was the army of $7.50 Coors Lights we consumed. Maybe I just wanted the band to be as fist-pumpingly good as I had always imagined they would be. But even two decades past their prime, and even though 55-year-old Elliott had to detour around some of the screamiest vocal lines, Def Leppard were perfect. “Rocket,” well, rocked it. During “Hysteria,” I giddily hugged my girlfriend as we sang along like a couple of drunks at karaoke. “Armageddon It” was as muscular and sexually charged as it was in 1987 — though Elliott’s “C’mon, Steve!” before what would have been Clark’s signature solo was sadly, and understandably, absent. The ever-jacked Collen, who must get oiled up before shows, shredded all his solos — and many of Clark’s — with shirtless bravado, especially on “Rock of Ages.” “Love Bites” brought me to my knees like it has for 25 years, matched only in frustrated romantic rock potency by “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak.” Set closer “Pour Some

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As the clips reminded us, this is a man who had a guest spot on “The Simpsons” and a cameo in one of the Naked Gun movies; who serenaded Jon Hamm and a befuddled George R.R. Martin at the 2014 Emmy Awards. He even voiced a curly-maned equine version of himself on the rebooted “My Little Pony” show, fergodssake. None of this came across as boastfulness. The clips played more like good-natured inside jokes between Yankovic and his fans. As a run-up to his Star Wars-themed encore, Weird Al secured my fandom forever by reenacting James Brown’s famous “cape routine,” feigning exhaustion before storming back for more. (Hell, the exhaustion could have been real. It’s not often remarked on, but Al can dance.) Weird Al has been soaking up and gleefully reconfiguring American popular culture for nearly four decades. And, as this show proved, American popular culture is the better for it. E. d .S .

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et’s not forget. This happened, too: While defense-of-marriage acts were failing or falling in state after state — and fell, nationally and finally, on June 26 in the U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges — legislators were hammering together what the Guttmacher Institute called “a lattice work of abortion law, codifying, regulating and limiting whether, when and under what circumstances a woman may obtain an abortion.” From 2011 to 2014, state lawmakers collectively passed 231 abortion restrictions; by April 1 of this year, they had already introduced 332 more. U.S. House Republicans brought up five anti-abortion bills within three days of taking their seats this session. In May, they passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, banning abortions after 20 weeks — when fetuses, by the way, cannot feel pain. Contraception has been under attack, as well. For the fifth year in a row, the House this year proposed to eliminate the Title X Family Planning program, which subsidizes clinics and reproductive health care for people who earn less than about $25,000 a year; most of these patients are women in their twenties. Although the feds have long been banned from funding abortion, Title X’s antagonists call it a backdoor baby-killing boondoggle: Every penny saved on a Pap smear is one that can pay for an abortion. They haven’t managed to ax the appropriation altogether, but since 2010 they’ve shaved away $31 million — financing for about 700,000 patients, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. Twenty states have versions of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act on their books. That’s the law the Supreme Court used to justify its decision, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, to allow companies to refuse to pay for birth-control coverage if the owners have a religious objection to it. (RFRAs will likely be invoked to discriminate against married LGBT people.) LGBT civil rights activists, high on the Obergefell victory, are gearing up to fight housing and employment discrimination. Which is great. But we still have no Equal Rights Amendment for women. Why are LGBT people winning rights while women are losing them? Pondering this question, some, such as Jill Lepore in the New Yorker, have suggested that Roe v. Wade might have been less vulnerable to assault if it had been based on equality — the 14th Amendment — rather than the spindly foundation of privacy, a right not even explicitly named in the Constitution. In the Nation, Katha Pollitt challenged this notion. Neither principle holds off abortion’s foes: “Those who say privacy doesn’t cover the right to kill your

baby also say that if killing your baby is what you need to be equal, you’ll just have to lead the lesser life.” An equality-based Roe would be no more effective than the privacy-based one we’ve got, Pollitt contends, because people who oppose abortion do not want women to be equal. True. Many anti-abortion folks, particularly those on the far-right shores of religion, do not want women to be equal. Still, most Americans embrace women’s equality in the workplace, banking, housing and other material matters — even if they don’t always practice it, for instance, when writing the paychecks. Crusading lawyers on both the right and the left are so concerned about women’s sexual safety that, as Judith Shulevitz reported in the New York Times, they’re starting to define any nonconsensual touch — including holding someone’s hand — as a felony sexual assault. These over-the-top sexual-protection statutes (which, incidentally, apply to same-sex touch as well) indicate that women’s problem is not just a deficit of equality. Still in dispute is women’s sexual autonomy — the adult competence to negotiate one’s own sex life, and with it the freedom to do so. In fact, the right to abortion makes women more than equal: To exercise complete control over their own bodies, women may place their own interests above those of, say, fathers, who might care whether a baby is born, and fetuses, who have no opinion but are nonetheless much affected. It’s not so much women’s equality that’s under attack. It’s freedom — sexual freedom. Same-sex marriage advocates made the strategic call to break from gay liberation — which was in essence a struggle for sexual freedom — and shout instead about equality. They focused on taxes, health care and death benefits. They called sexual equality “marriage equality.” They called sex “love.” And while their political campaigns drew emotional sympathy by showcasing “families” — a zillion pictures of cute kids cooking dinner or riding bikes with their two dads or moms — a central legal precedent of Obergefell is Griswold v. Connecticut. That is the 1965 Supreme Court case affirming the right of married people to use contraception. Griswold established the Constitutional protection of privacy in intimate decisions. But it also acknowledged that marriage doesn’t have to be about procreation. Both of these tactics — the emotional, nonsexual one and the legal, covertly sexual one — worked spectacularly. The Supreme Court adopted the advocates’ chaste celebration of marriage with sanctimonious rapture. Marriage “embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,” wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the majority in Obergefell. Marital love “may endure even past death,” he added

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espite its evocative title, Some Slow Bees is not a book about colony collapse. Instead, Corinth resident Carol Potter’s fifth collection of poems explores jokes, katydids, lizards and, yep, bees — slow bees, Do Bees and Don’t Bees. And, as pollinators do in both literature and life, those busy creatures ultimately reveal clues about where we’re going and where we’ve been. Winner of the 2014 FIELD Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press, Potter fills her poetry with curious regard, affection, occasional annoyance and even exasperation at the bounty of life’s detritus. Divided into four sections, each with its own concerns, Some Slow Bees is more like a variety show performed by a lively mind than a sustained exploration of any one theme or idea. The 12 poems of the first section begin with childish things — the donkeys and bunnies of picture books, kids loafing on ponds in inner tubes, babies who “pick at loose flecks of paint” (“Baby Insomniac”). The opening poem, mysteriously titled “M,” introduces us to a world that has been flooded, perhaps by a Tropical Storm Irene-like disaster. In the classroom of a “watered” school, we witness not anguish but letters of the alphabet that remain on the chalkboard above the water mark: “The curious humps of n’s and m’s / […] / Mountains of m’s on their pages. / Water trickling under the door.” The poet imagines the imperiled children still at their desks wondering what the fuss is about: “That man in the red checked shirt / and blue hat jumping up and down / in his boat waving his arms. / Who knows what he wants?” By the poem’s end, the Ms of mountains have inverted to become the Ws of water — just as the morose feeling of danger has been upended into a childlike experience of wonder. Potter’s felicity with letters and language pervades many of the poems in this collection, but perhaps none so much as those of the second section. Each of these 26 poems begins with a successive letter of the alphabet and exploits the hell out of it (in a good way). Thus the first poem, “Are You Feeling It Yet,” employs the words “ajax,” “ajar,” “anybody,” “anything,” “all,” “amok,” “attentive,” “again,” “adopt,” “adapt” and “astrological” to paint a picture harking back to the ’60s era, when new adults experienced the effects of war and drugs. (The title is, of course, a wink and nod to the strength of dope.) The next poem is titled “Blockade”; the one after that, “Cretins.” Each poem is its own endeavor, although Potter’s humor, wisdom and candor lend them consistency, serving in lieu of a continuous story. “How the brain / avails itself of its own little blight, / erasing those fabulous balloons of back-story,” she writes in “Blockade.” Each letter offers fun and sinister wisdom, from “Jokes” to “Katydids” to “Lizards” to “Twinkies” to “Uranium” to “Voodoo.” The 26th poem, “Zippo,”

Selling the farm / means someone else died.” These poems plow straight into their material of circumstance, accident and mortality. But what about the bees? Do any of these poems speak of bees at any speed? The titular poem, which appears in the book’s first section, doesn’t seem strong enough to encapsulate the whole collection. Its three stanzas are full of bees eating gouges in autumn’s apple surfeit and a red bird singing and a spat over dinner that sends the speaker out to contemplate the bees and stars — but a reader may think, That’s it? Surely there’s something more? Indeed there is. The final section of the book, “The Miss Nancy Papers,” consists of a series of sonnets inspired by “Miss Nancy” (Nancy Claster), who hosted the children’s program “Romper Room” from 1953 to 1964. The show’s theme song exhorted viewers to be “Do Bees,” a message that Potter questions and rails against in these 15 linked sonnets. As this sequence progresses, the final line of each sonnet becoming the first line of the next, Potter both revisits some of the book’s seemingly disparate topics and draws them together. She measures the hippie years, life’s curious emergencies and its family tensions against the supposed high-water mark of being a “Romper Room” Do Bee, a title belonging to children who “never did anything wrong” (“2”). Even though this section comes 54 pages after the poem “Some Slow Bees,” it gives the book a through line, illuminating anew the beauty of those backyard bees nuzzling the fallen apples. Now the reader sees them as free bees, as opposed to the good little Do Bees — “No match touchers. No car stander uppers. / No street players” (“1”) — who are so praised by Miss Nancy, queen of mid-century’s ideal polite, well-mannered society. Filled with behaviors that would have mystified Miss Nancy, Potter’s crown of sonnets portrays a romp through life’s bigger rooms. Their subjects range from “A car load of Don’t Bees. / Kids standing on the back seat. Dad smoking at the wheel” (“4”) to activists who “threw rocks at cop cars. / Got gassed in public squares. Smashed some bank windows” (“6”). Perhaps this book is about colony collapse — or at least about the crumbling of our society’s sovereign conformist ideals — after all.

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hen Café Shelburne opened in 1969, high cuisine was synonymous with the fine French cookery heralded by Georges Auguste Escoffier — butter-soaked escargots in white wine, potatoes gratin, coq au vin — accompanied by wines from the grand chateaux that dot the French countryside. Here in Vermont, Café Shelburne paid faithful homage to that tradition until 2013, when new owners reworked the menu around modern French fare. Dishes pulled flavors from around the globe and relied less on butter and game than on fresh seasonal produce. That lasted little more than a year: After serving a final New Year’s Eve dinner in 2014, the beloved restaurant closed its doors. Soon after, chef Marc Provencher (who did a stint at Michael’s on the Hill in Waterbury in the mid-2000s) returned from Maine, where his two Greek/Italian restaurants garnered rave reviews. They remain open today — though he’s no longer involved — and helped put Brunswick on the culinary map. When Provencher took over the old café space, he swapped its country-home décor with more casual seating and painted the walls a penetrating royal blue. He planted the window boxes with herbs and, in early April, opened Taverna Khione, a modern, forward-thinking Greek restaurant. While the restaurant’s shingled white exterior could evoke a seaside cottage, the bill of fare is more countryside than beachfront. Sure, there’s seafood aplenty, but landroving sheep, goats, beef and other cloven-hooved critters trot through the menu, lending their muscles and organs to the Grecian table as they have since the great feasts of Homer’s Odyssey. Provencher presents contemporary takes on traditional Greek cooking, handmade in-house with local ingredients. The menu changes monthly, as dishes are built around the best available meat and produce. And while the chef has Greek roots in his maternal bloodline, his affinity for this particular cuisine seems to come more from a studied passion than from familial connection. Behind the bar, staffers pour house cocktails and canon quaffs. One night, an aviation was a loyal rendition of the classic: violet-gray with crème de violette, fruity with lemon and maraschino liqueur. Its boozy kick reminded me that I was, after all, drinking a gin martini. The Better Call Saul was more relaxed: a sunny vodka cooler with cucumber and citrus, St. Germain and mint. The bar offers a handful of draft beers, including stellar brews from Fiddlehead Brewing, Maine Beer Company, Queen City Brewery and Zero Gravity Craft Brewery. But a quick glance at the wine list reveals the restaurant’s vinous heart. “You are in a nice Greek restaurant,” the

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index seems to say. “Drink Greek wine.” Every option on the list hails from the Hellenic republic. The bar’s 50-odd bottles represent the first Greek wines to be imported to Vermont — before the restaurant opened, the wines weren’t sold anywhere in the state. Provencher said finding an importer willing to gamble on the unfamiliar vintages was a challenge. The several wines I tasted over two visits (all white or pink, since it’s summer) were bright and food-friendly. On a brisk June evening, a sparkling KirYianni Akakies rosé was dry and crisp with straw and strawberry on the palate. It was as pleasant as any Provençal pink I’ve sipped in recent history. Later, a mineral-y, citrus-soaked Gentilini Robola was cordial company for a sizzling pan of feta dip (bouyiourdi), stained savory red with tomato and red pepper. Spooned onto a baguette from O Bread Bakery, the salty cheese was like a crumbly spinach-artichoke dip: rustic but elegant. That description fits the homespun décor with its pretty, mismatched dishes and flaxen napkins. Service is similarly laid-back, but always kind and polished. Provencher’s

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capable staff tend to every need efficiently but without hurry, and dining under their care feels fluid and friendly. “How did you hear about us?” our waitress asked on my first visit, delivering a plate of grilled octopus (htapodi). Not wanting to reveal that I was there to review the place, I mumbled a little white lie. She noted that, located in a town where the median age is around 47 years old (compared to 27 in Burlington and 36 in Chittenden County), Taverna generally serves a retirement crowd. Indeed, the dining room was filled with graying couples. As she took her leave, we snapped into the springy cephalopod, its two tentacles curled around a dollop of pureed fava punctuated with caper

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carp flavor was intense, the htipiti — a smooth, spicy purée of feta and grilled hot pepper — exuded a Greekgrandmother quality. Both elegant and blunt, its peasant charm was repeated throughout the menu. Provencher’s cooking is pastoral, his presentations spare, and it’s impressive when he really nails it. A leg of rabbit, braised in red wine until it fell easily from the bone, was resplendent with stewed sour cherries from Shelburne Orchards, pearl onions and wilted greens — a refined but unpretentious dish with a country heart.

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berries nearly the size of figs. The briny creature was soft enough to cut with a butter knife, the fava robust with beany richness, and the capers pickle-y and pungent. The tentacles stiffened as they cooled, and chewing them revealed more than a few grains of sand, so the dish wasn’t perfectly executed. But despite its shortcomings (which weren’t horrible — I’d order it again), the plate was thoughtful, intense and uncompromising. What chef dares to serve mostly whole mollusks to the good people of Shelburne?

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Another night, a pair of grilled Maine lamb chops, dry-rubbed with just salt, pepper and oregano and served with lemony roasted potatoes, were magnificent in their fork-tender simplicity. Similarly unassuming was a tangle of Greek spaghetti (makaronia), flecked with bits of nutty myzithra — a fresh, firm goat cheese native to Crete — and aromatic, fresh-picked verbena. Revealing the knobby imperfections of handmade noodles, the pasta was cooked to an ideal al dente and sweetened with brown butter. Pasta also appeared on the specials list one night, tossed with braised goat shoulder in a comforting tomato sauce warmed with allspice and bits of goat liver. The goat was lovely, but the pasta clumped together. The dish seemed better suited to a cold winter’s night than a humid summer eve yet still suggested a Sunday family supper in some far-away village. And the thing about Sunday suppers, as any host can tell you, is that not everything is always perfect. As restaurant guests paying good money for a meal, we tend to expect flawless execution every time and thus are often disappointed. But the success of a dish falls along a spectrum, and most land somewhere between sublime and inedible. I admire a restaurant willing to gamble on a dish in order to serve something new and interesting, so I was more than willing to grant a pass when Taverna didn’t score a perfect 10. Even the least successful plates were solid sevens. On both visits, the desserts — a smooth, delightful custard one night, ice cream and sorbet the other — ensured that any missteps were long forgotten before we left. An opulent scoop of coffee ice cream packed the subtle texture of finely ground coffee beans; a bit of lemon-thyme sorbet, with its palatecleansing, citrus lightness, was its polar opposite. Though these were both made in-house, the menu doesn’t mention it. Provencher seems self-assured enough in his cooking that he doesn’t need to brag. The pasta, too, is handmade on-site (labeled simply “pasta,” in Greek), and the eggs probably came from some nearby roost. But rather than using his menu as a pulpit for his farmto-table mission, the chef seems to hope that excellence, when he achieves it, will speak for itself. m

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Meat eaters in the Mad River Valley will be pleased to know that, after a threemonth hiatus, Waitsfield’s Bridge Street Butchery reopened on July 15 in a new location, 100 Mad River Green, and with a pared-down name: thE ButchErY. Chef-owner JEff LYNN, a graduate of the NEw ENgLAND cuLiNArY iNStitutE, will continue to offer cut-toorder steaks, chops and housemade sausages — carved from local grassfed beef, pork, lamb and poultry — along with super-fresh seafood hand-picked by EthAN wooD at wooD mouNtAiN fiSh. But now Lynn is also brining, smoking and roasting his sandwich meats in-house. “We’re not doing the typical deli prepurchased meats [anymore],” Lynn tells Seven Days via phone. “We’re doing all that in-house. I’m standing in front of the smoker right now.” The pulled pork, brisket and other meats are available by the pound or layered into sandwiches, many on breads from Waitsfield’s grEEN rABBit bakery. So are house-brined, roasted turkey and smoked salmon, bluefish and other sea creatures. The fish — smoked or otherwise — also appear in ceviches and salads, the better to pair with your sandwich.

On Wednesdays and Saturdays, Lynn will cut Wood Mountain’s sushi-grade fish into nigiri, sashimi and a half-dozen nori rolls made to order. The chef dabbled in sushi when he opened the original shop at 40 Bridge Street in 2012, he says, but couldn’t keep up with the demand. The new location, with twice the square footage of the old, allowed Lynn to build that capacity into the space. Providing the cooking public with restaurant-quality ingredients is his main agenda, Lynn says. Still, the new shop has a few tables where in-house patrons can sit down for their sushi or sandwich — and sip one of two local beers on draft or a glass of wine. The Butchery is open Tuesday through Saturday. Menus will change every few weeks and be updated on social media. — h .P.E.

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as smoking and sexual relations with their spouses — waiting patiently for sundown. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam, basic acts that are the foundation of Muslim life. Because the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycle, Ramadan begins at a different time each year. In 2015, it started at sundown on June 17 and will end at sundown on Thursday, July 16. During this time, Muslims are also expected to avoid gossiping, backbiting and idle talk, while increasing acts of worship, including performing additional nightly prayers, reading the Koran and giving to charity — hence the samosa delivery. Fasting during Ramadan allows Muslims to attain piety and remember those who don’t have food or drink, said Islam Hassan, imam of the Colchester mosque. It also “dissolves social boundaries,” he said, because “everyone starts eating at the same time.” It’s common for Muslims to share the evening meal with families or friends at mosques, restaurants or in their homes. Hassan likened the iftar to Thanksgiving dinner. “Fortunately, we have that for 30 days,” he said.

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If it were up to him, the area’s Muslims would gather at the mosque every day for iftar. But Hassan’s congregation currently hosts the communal meals only on Saturdays and Sundays. About 200 people typically attend. As soon as the sun set on July 4, the congregants broke their fast by eating dates or drinking water, following the example of Muhammad. As is common in mosques, the men and women ate in different sections of the site. The Colchester group has its own contemporary tradition: Its various ethnic communities take turns preparing the evening meal. That night, the mosque’s Somali contingent, including Kassim’s family, had been busy cooking. By the time Ramadan concludes, the congregation will have sampled Indian, Bangladeshi, Bosnian, Somali, Turkish and Arab cuisines. “There’s some friendly competition,” said Youness Jamil, treasurer of the Islamic Society of Vermont, which founded the Colchester mosque in 1999. The communities bear the cost of preparing iftar because Muslims believe acts of charity get double the reward during Ramadan. Some of the dishes the Somalis cooked included samosas, yellow rice, beef stew, black pepper chicken and

mandazi — fluffy, triangular fried dough. But they also prepared food more familiar to Western palates such as pasta, pizza, egg salad and banana bread. The ethnic-themed dinner did not deter Senadina Camdzic and Asminka Karadza from contributing Bosnian desserts such as hurmasice, a cake soaked in syrup, and oblande, a walnut and chocolate wafer cake. “We want to help; a little goes a long way,” said Camdzic, who earlier had taken a photograph of her desserts among the array of food. After performing the dusk prayer, the women flanked the buffet, and the lines moved quickly. The seats soon filled up, but many did not mind tucking into their food while sitting on the carpeted floor. For many, iftar is also a time to catch up with friends and relatives. Faiza Abdullahi, whose family decided to bake Arabic and Turkish desserts for the Saturday meal instead of Somali ones, said those who come from Muslim households may take iftar for granted. “We have some converts here that live on their own,” Abdullahi noted. “What I love about it is just to be here. So people like that would feel more comfortable and come here. So they don’t have to spend iftar in their home, eating alone.”

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New convert Amina Raie is experiencing her first Ramadan and joins the iftars at the Colchester mosque on the weekend. During the week though, she breaks her fast either at home or gets invited to friends’ homes. “I live by myself, so it’s not like eating alone is particularly shocking or new,” she said. “Sure, it’s a bit later on. Me and my cat have a great iftar together.” Raie admitted she had coffee withdrawal on the first day but since then, “It hasn’t been bad at all,” she said. “It’s all a mental thing.” Raie, who grew up in Texas, was raised to eat extremely healthily and did not have to adjust her eating habits for Ramadan. Her diet consists of lots of water, watermelon, vegetables, lean meat, hard-boiled eggs, salads and protein-rich soup. “I sneaked myself a little chocolate one night, though,” she admitted. “And coffee is the best treat.” What has proved most challenging for Raie is sleep deprivation. She joins the congregation for taraweeh, or extra nightly prayers that Muslims perform during Ramadan. These typically end past midnight. But Raie stays up until 4 a.m., after she has eaten her predawn meal, or suhoor, and performed the dawn prayer. Her heart “sinks a little” when she sets the alarm clock and realizes she has to wake up for work in less than four hours. But she catches up on sleep over the weekend. Summer can be a challenging time for Muslims in the U.S. to fast; the days can last for up to 16 hours. Although fasting is obligatory for most adult Muslims, some are exempt — the elderly and infirm, as well as women who are menstruating, pregnant or breastfeeding, for example. In the run-up to Ramadan, Imam Hassan gave lectures about fasting and the circumstances that would exempt one from

it. He said there was no single fatwa, or religious edict, and he would give advice according to an individual’s circumstance. Soccer player Aiman Ginawi of South Burlington, who was named the 2014-15 Vermont Boys Soccer Player of the Year by USA Today, attends iftar at the mosque. He has had to play matches during Ramadan in the past few years. “The first week is hard for me because I’m not used to it,” he said. “No water, and it’s hot during the summer.” To compensate, he usually drinks more water on the eve of a game. His coaches have offered to take him off the field if he felt unwell, but Ginawi said he’s declined. He’s been determined to play despite fasting. He said he’s been in top form during Ramadan, citing a match three years ago in which he scored two goals and had one assist. “After the game, I feel lightheaded,” he said. At iftar, just drinking water is “like the best feeling ever.” But, after consulting the imam the 17-year-old did not fast when he had away games. Hassan said any type of travel involves hardship, and travelers are exempted from fasting. He also explained that one should abstain from fasting in situations where doing so would put one’s life in danger, as was the case during the recent heat wave in Pakistan that killed at least 1,000 people. Just as Ramadan is the time Muslims provide food for one another as a form of charity and strengthen their faith, it is also a time of overconsumption. After not eating or drinking for an entire day, it’s not uncommon for Muslims to overindulge and “violate the wisdom of fasting.” Hassan makes a point to remind his congregation to have a healthy understanding of the practice. “They eat with their eyes and not their bellies, and end up wasting food,” he said. Most times, though, the leftovers are packed into boxes, to be eaten during the predawn meal. Speaking through a translator, Luley Amir, Malyun Kassim’s mother and one of the organizers of the Somali iftar, said she was happy to have been able to cook for the other communities and hopes that God will reward her. Her other daughter, 18-year-old Habiba, said she is tired of making samosas. She usually doesn’t even eat them. But she likes going to the mosque for iftars because “seeing different people is awesome.” “They get to try what I make, and it makes me happy,” Habiba said. m

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'UNCLE BUZZY’S HOMETOWN THEATER SHOW': Vermont native Mike Sommers has the crowd in stitches with an irreverent sketch-comedy revue appropriate for adults and kids. Windham Elementary School, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 874-4159.

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PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE: Participants converse freely in a confidential space without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

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KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

AFROLATIN PARTY: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; party, 8-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572. BRATTLEBORO AFRICAN DANCE: Students at all levels practice movement and rhythm. The Stone Church, Brattleboro, drum, 6:15-7:15 p.m.; dance, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $10-15. Info, 258-6475.

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DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $13. Info, 540-8300. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant movement with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspires joy, transformation and divine connections. The Open Space, Hardwick Inn Building, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010. GUINEAN DANCE: Sidiki Sylla and Solo Sana lead mixed-level sessions in African steps. Burlington Memorial Auditorium Loft, 5:30-7 p.m. $13-15. Info, 859-1802.

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ELI GOULD: The Ironwood Brand originator lays the foundation for eco-conscious construction in "Top 10 Cold-Climate Building Trends That Need to Become Systems" as part of the Doorways to Design Lecture Series. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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MIDDLEBURY LANGUAGE SCHOOLS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: Panel discussions, concerts, film screenings, speeches and a dance round out festivities honoring a century of academic excellence. See middlebury.edu for details. Various Middlebury locations, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5510. TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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Standing Ovation In the wake of the state’s civil union and same-sex marriage debates, the Vermont Pride Theater was founded in summer 2011. The result was a festival focused on facilitating conversation between LGBTQ Vermonters and their families, friends and communities. This year, regional talent and visiting artists execute well-known and original plays that address crossgenerational issues, from coming out as a teen to contemplating parenthood as an adult. The series kicks off with Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing (pictured), directed by veteran thespian Cher Laston. Five years after its inception, this project is as relevant as ever, because peace, love and understanding never go out of style.

VALLEY NIGHT: Piano-based singer-songwriter Peter Burton plays as locals gather for a weekly bash with craft ales and movies. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994. WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: Giddyap! Visitors tour the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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'AMERICAN SNIPER': A Navy SEAL sniper returns home from the battlefield to face a new set of challenges in the 2014 drama starring Bradley Cooper. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 'SENSE AND SENSIBILITY': Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson embody Jane Austen's beloved characters in the 1995 adaptation of her novel. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

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BARRE FARMERS MARKET: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437.

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COFFEE TASTING: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee prompt side-by-side comparisons of different regional beans. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com.

Friday, July 17, through Sunday, July 19, 7:30 p.m. at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. See website for future dates. $12-60. Info, 7286464. chandler-arts.org

COMMUNITY NIGHT: Diners dig in for a cause at an evening benefiting the Peace & Justice Center. Partial proceeds are donated. Bluebird Barbecue, Burlington, 4:30-9:30 p.m. Price of food and drink; preregister. Info, 448-3070.

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MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 377-2980. NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the seasonal bounty. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.

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air a Nashville-based banjo player and a Beijing-born guzheng performer and you get Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei’s imaginative Chinese-Appalachian fusion. Washburn, a clawhammer-style picker and alumna of the Middlebury College Chinese language program, has strong connections to Eastern culture, regularly touring the world’s most populous country. Fei was classically trained before heading to the United States, where she has embraced Western styles, composing for choirs, string quartets and chamber ensembles. The duo, who sometimes collaborate in the “Kungfu-Appalachian” trio Wu-Force, head to Washburn’s old stomping grounds to bridge the Pacific as part of the Middlebury Language Schools centennial celebration. ABIGAIL WASHBURN & WU FEI Sunday, July 19, 8 p.m., at Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College. Free. Info, 443-5510. middlebury.edu

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Step right up for ringside revelry at Shelburne Museum’s Family Day: Circus-palooza. Parents and kids clown around at a big-top-themed bash brimming with spectacular stunts and ear-to-ear smiles. Jaws drop as daring aerialists, jugglers and stilt walkers dazzle with awe-inspiring feats. Fueled by sugary confections, mini merrymakers hit the carousel and carnival games before taking a break with a good book. In a new twist on the annual extravaganza, potential performers can preregister for the Circus Smirkus Workshop led by the troupe’s lead teacher, Joni White-Hansen, culminating in an entertaining exhibition for family and friends.

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R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Soulshine Dance: Mind, body and spirit meld as music guides students through a series of stages to achieve deep relaxation. River Arts, Morrisville, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 888-1261.

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'All in the Family' Film Series: Themed movies provide age-appropriate entertainment. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Bookmobile: The traveling library makes the rounds to loan summer reads. See williston.lib. vt.us for details. Various locations, Williston, 5-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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'The Patchwork Girl of Oz': Audience members ages 5 and up enjoy bagged lunches while watching Very Merry Theatre's musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's story. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Read to a Dog: Budding bookworms ages 5 and up pore over pages with a lovable pup. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Read to Hank the Therapy Dog: Tykes cozy up for a story session with a retriever. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Reading Buddies: Youngsters in grades K through 5 join teen mentors to stay sharp with stories and math activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Reading Champions: Teens and tweens drop in for crafts, scavenger hunts and fun with friends. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Recycled Owls: Eco-conscious kiddos ages 8 and up repurpose refuse to construct a critter with help from artist MC Baker. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Financial Capabilities Workshop: Renters and homeowners get money-management tips from a certified financial coach. NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, West Rutland, 5-9 p.m. $25 refundable deposit; preregister. Info, 438-2303, ext. 210. Reconnect with Your Deeper Self Through Nature: With guidance from life coach Robin Cornell, attendees experience a restorative process using personal inquiry, body-mind integration and outdoor activities. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $7-8; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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Burlington City Arts Lunchtime Concert Series: Listeners take in the Cajuninspired sounds of Yankee Chank at an al fresco performance. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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Pajama Story Time: Tots cuddle up in PJs for captivating tales, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5664.

Gayme Night with GLAM: Fueled by snacks, players engage in board and video contests. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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Drive-In Movie Night: Children bring cardboard boxes to transform into cars from which to view the 2014 animated film Big Hero 6. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

Young & Fun Performance Series: Stephen Gratto Variety Show: Audience members are in stitches during a fast-paced display of comedy and circus skills. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.

Owl Prowl & Night Ghost Hike: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19thcentury settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. Meet at the History Hike parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

Wednesday Wacktivity: Trivia & Bingo: Brainiacs put their memories to the test in a "Jeopardy!"-style game. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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Comics, Colors & Everyday Superpowers: Cartoonist Ericc Cram helps artists in grades 3 through 5 pen panels for a hero-themed comic book. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

Wacky Wednesdays: Bubble Activities: Small scientists ages 6 and up design wands to make bubbles big enough to encase the body. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. $10.5013.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

Insight Meditation: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

Summer Carillon Series: Giant bronze bells ring out as George Matthew Jr. performs an all-Beethoven carillon program to kick off the Middlebury Language School's Centennial Celebration. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5258.

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Superhero Training Camp: Incredible characters in grades 1 through 5 don costumes to take on powerful alter egos. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

Song Circle: Music lovers congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.

Sun to Cheese Tour: Fromage lovers go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmhouse cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $15 includes a block of cheese; preregister. Info, 985-8686.

Summer Preschool Story Time: Hero-themed stories, puppets and crafts foster a love of the written word in tiny tots. Siblings are welcome. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Singers and Players of Instruments: Musicians of all levels bring voices and gear to meet and mingle with fellow performers. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 753-7269.

Story & Activity Time: Captivating titles pave the way for themed activities for children up to age 7. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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U L LI N Catamount Mountain Bike Series: G A R’ | C O Capital City Band: The community enRiders tackle varied terrain on three different semble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on courses in a weekly training session. Catamount the green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7 Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $3-10. Info, p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054. 879-6001. Community Evenings at the Farm: Buckshot Summer Trail Series: Athletes take to wood and entertain picnickers with rock, blues and country field on a 5K run while kiddos stretch their legs on tunes. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, a one-half kilometer course. Trapp Family Lodge, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686. Stowe, 6-7 p.m. $3-6; free for bike club members Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class with season pass and kids 12 and under with parent musicians explore classical compositions by racing. Info, 253-5755. Schubert, Bach, Beethoven and others. See craftsWomen's Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! burychamberplayers.org for details. UVM Recital Ladies dribble up and down the court during an Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-125; free for kids 12 evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com and under. Info, 800-639-3443. for details. Leddy Park, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Introduction to Fiddle: Potential players pracInfo, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com. tice the stringed instrument with guidance from an instructor. Burlington Violin Shop, kids 6 and up, talks 10:30 a.m.; adults, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-8945. Burlington Death Café: Folks meet for a Jericho/Underhill Summer Concert Series: thought-provoking and respectful conversation Mt. Mansfield provides the perfect backdrop for about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life as part an outdoor picnic and performance by singerof the Wake Up to Dying Project. Pickering Room, songwriter Karen Krajacic and bassist Peter K.K. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; Williams. Weather permitting. Mills Riverside Park, limited space. Info, 863-3403. Jericho, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 899-2693. Colleen McLaughlin: The master gardener sows Josh Panda: The soulful singer delivers gospelseeds of knowledge with “Back to Our Roots — The inspired rock and roll at the Middlesex Summer Healing Nature of Plants." Shelburne Bay Senior Concert Series. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Living Community, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. 923-2513. Info, 272-4920. Current Events Conversation: An informal Justin Manalad: Pianist Annemieke McLane open discussion delves into newsworthy subjects. joins the New York-based opera singer for pieces by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Rossini, Puccini, Schubert and others to commence Free. Info, 878-4918. the Moose Meadow House Concert Series. Proceeds Matthew Moriarty: The archaeologist digs benefit the Eleva Chamber Players. Moose Meadow for ancient traditions in "Behind the Ball Court: Lodge, Duxbury, 6-9 p.m. $25-$250 includes dinner; Evidence for Ballgame-Related Feasting and Ritual preregister; limited space. Info, 244-8354. at the Ancient Maya Site of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Petén, Guatemala." Vermont Historical Society, Barre, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

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Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': Mystery and intrigue are in the cards as the beloved detective dons a disguise to crack the case in a play by Katie Forgette. Dorset Playhouse, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $849. Info, 867-2223. 'Living Together': A country home is the setting for a trio of interconnected comedies, each taking place in a different room of the house as part of the Vermont Theatre Festival. Festival Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. The Metropolitan Opera Live: Natalie Dessay stars as a feisty tomboy raised by French soldiers in a broadcast production of the madcap comedy La Fille du Regiment. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 603-646-2422. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600. 'Outside Mullingar': Two middle-aged Irish neighbors find love in an uplifting comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $34-43. Info, 654-2281.

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Authors at the Aldrich: Deanna Bailey promotes the power of love as she excerpts her book Crossing the Horizon. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. Book Discussion: 'Youth Looking at Life': Katherine Paterson's Lyddie inspires conversation among readers. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361. Creating Images in Poetry: Writer Tamra Higgins joins adult and teen wordsmiths for a session on communicating thoughts and feelings through verse. River Arts, Morrisville, 6-8 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 888-1261. Short Fiction Workshop: Readers give feedback on stories penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. Slam!: Spoken Word Poetry: MC Rajnii Eddins hosts an open mic and juried set at this word fest featuring Humble of Bless the Child. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: Bibliophiles go wild at this annual event featuring thousands of titles up for the choosing. Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145. Unfiltered: Wine & Poetry: Locally made vino pairs perfectly with verse from Vermont poets. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222. Women's Veterans Book Club: Ladies who have served their country meet to discuss poems, short stories and essays over a light dinner. VA Women's Comprehensive Care Center. White River Junction VA Medical Center, 5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-9363, ext. 5743.

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M.A.G.I.C.: Masculinity and Gender Identity Conversation: Folks of any and all gender identities convene for a casual discussion on topics ranging from inequality to language, media and food. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 370-5369.

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Base of the Pyramid Global Network Summit: Leading authorities tackle hard-hitting topics such as poverty and environmental challenges in a two-day forum with the theme “Sustainable Entrepreneurship From the Bottom Up.” Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 a.m. $299450. Info, 656-5665.

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The Wake Up To Dying projecT: A series of discussions, workshops, songs and exhibits are aimed at shifting the attitude on death from fear to familiarity. See wakeuptodyingproject.org for details. Various Burlington locations, 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

Dare To be SqUare Dance: Cheap beer, good fun and hot tunes from Kick ’Em Jenny propel a monthly hoedown where hoofers show off their moves. Jenny Monfore calls the steps. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $5. Info, 793-4650. SoUThern VermonT Dance FeSTiVal: Choreographers, dancers and musicians interpret the art form in classes, workshops, concerts and performances. See southernvermontdancefestival. com for details. Various Brattleboro locations, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, info@southernvermontdancefestival.com.

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FeaST & FielD markeT: Locally grown produce, homemade tacos and tunes from Jeanne & the Hi-Tops are on the menu at a pastoral party. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391. hop 2015-16 SeaSon Sneak preVieW & ToUrS: Upper Valley arts lovers get a look at the Hopkins Center's upcoming programming, which includes big names and rising talent. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. 'The liVe ShoW': DJ Fattie B spins as South End artists show their work at an evening complete with refreshments, a cash bar and a raffle. Proceeds benefit the SEABA Art & Coffee Lounge project. SEABA Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-9222. miDDlebUry langUage SchoolS cenTennial celebraTion: See WED.15, 10 a.m. moUnT manSFielD Scale moDelerS: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

SUmmerVale: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. Tea & Formal garDenS ToUr: Explorations of the inn and its grounds culminate in a traditional cup-and-saucer affair. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442.

Film DiScUSSion: 'FreeDom & UniTy: The VermonT moVie': A screening of Part 2 of the six-part documentary highlights the history and culture of the Green Mountain State. Warren Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3656.

food & drink

WaTerbUry FarmerS markeT: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-7679. Wine TaSTing: Robert Boehme of Vermont Wine Merchants leads oenophiles through a tasting of California red blends. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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commUniTy minDFUlneSS: A 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O'Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. Forza: The SamUrai SWorD WorkoUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

kids

'be a hero' projecT: Helping hands in grades 1 through 5 take on tasks to better the community. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955. 'bookeD For lUnch' SerieS: Lit lovers in grades K and up listen to hero-themed reads over a bag lunch. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. cool chemiSTS: Aspiring scientists ages 6 through 12 join Rebecca Rupp for exciting experiments. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. hero gameS: Imaginative youngsters ages 5 and up create costumes and take on powerful alter egos. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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learn To make jUnk inSTrUmenTS: Tin fiddle, anyone? Vermont Vaudeville's Justin Lander inspires kids 7 and up to create music makers with recycled household items. Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 472-5948. lego clUb: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. lego my library program: Children in grades K through 6 don their hard hats for themed building challenges with interlocking blocks. Highgate Public Library, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. lUnch aT The library: See WED.15. moVie nighT: Parents and kids watch as good battles evil in 2014's The Lego Movie. Snacks are provided. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. plainFielD preSchool STory Time: Little ones ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504. preSchool mUSic: Kiddos have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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eDible hiSTory ToUr: Gourmands sample ethnic eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to Burlington's culinary past. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $48; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

UVm meDical cenTer FarmerS markeT: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 847-5823.

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ThroWback ThUrSDay Film SerieS: A ragtag group of kids seek a hidden treasure, overcoming obstacles along the way in the 1985 adventurecomedy The Goonies. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. $2. Info, 518-523-2512.

SUmmerVale: Shake yoUr oWn bUTTer: City Market representatives teach foodies how to prepare the creamy spread at the weekly agricultural gathering. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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milTon FarmerS markeT: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

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qUeen ciTy ghoSTWalk: WickeD WaTerFronT: A spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain with Thea Lewis elicits thrills and chills. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

French ThUrSDay: baSTille Day parTy: Francophiles celebrate with themed cocktails and luxurious Lake Champlain views. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. $4; free for Alliance Française members. Info, 793-4361.

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language

Mandarin Chinese Class: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

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Piknic Electronik: DJ sets and beat-driven music fuel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik.com for details. JeanDrapeau Park, Montréal, 5 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 514-904-1247.

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Summer Concert Series: Audience members sway as the Dave Keller Band sings the blues. Rain location: Old Schoolhouse Common. Gazebo, Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Twangtown Paramours: The husband-and-wife duo belt out original Americana tunes as part of the Brown Bag Concert Series. Rain site: Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Woodstock Village Green, noon. Donations. Info, 457-3981.

outdoors

Birds By Ears & Eyes: Ornithologists embark on a woodland adventure bursting with birdsong. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. The Good, the Bad & the Really, Really Itchy: Hikers learn to identify poison ivy, medicinal jewelweed and other local flora. Nature Center. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See WED.15.

Hot Topics in Environmental Writing for Young Adults: Law Lecture Series: Janelle Orsi ON Lit lovers swap ideas and opinions ES OR RT expounds on the power of attorneys S& U about YA stories written by Burlington BO U | CO RBoN RENE WAL in “The Next Legal Profession: Lawyers Writers Workshop members. 22 Church Creating Sustainable Local Economies.” St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at Room 007, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1228. C

Front Porch Concert Series: Entrain bring their horn-infused rock and soul to a gig on the green. Lawn, Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400.

talks

Martha Oliver-Smith: Bibliophiles gather 'round as the author excerpts her memoir Martha's Mandala. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 748-8291.

Ellis Mills Brown Bag Summer Concert Series: Patti Casey doles out bluegrass and folk with a New England-twist at an al fresco performance. Courtyard. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604.

Pickup Rugby: Veteran players and newbies alike lace up for a two-hand-touch match. Personal cleats or running shoes and water required. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series: Deirdre Heekin and Ann Hood command attention, reading selected original works. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-523-9650.

Ellis Mills Brown Bag Concert Series: An open-air stage hosts big band jazz ensemble Green Mountain Swing. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604.

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Craftsbury Chamber Players: See WED.15, Hardwick Town House, 7:30 p.m. $10-125; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

'Woof! What is the Dog Saying?': A multi-media presentation teaches animal lovers to decode canine communication. For humans only. Barlow Street Community Center, St. Albans, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, deb@goldstardog.com.

'The Voysey Inheritance': Edward comes from a life of luxury, but when he discovers malfeasance in his family's finances, he must decide whether his conscience is worth its weight in gold. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

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Battery Park Free Concert Series: Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band serve up soul & R&B songs from an outdoor stage. Battery Park, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2396.

'Collective Consciousness Within Culture and Society, and Its Effects on Our Unconscious Inner World': Shamanic guide Anthony Pauly helps participants unlock the power of dreams. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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Annemieke McLane: Accompanied by accordionist Jeremiah McClane, the pianist makes the ivories dance as part of the "Summerkeys II" concert series. Richmond Free Library, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-3036.

seminars

'Shrek the Musical': The Stowe Theatre Guild presents an interpretation of the Academy Awardwinning animated movie about an unlikely hero on a quest to rescue a princess. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 8-10 p.m. $15-25. Info, 253-3961.

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Trapp Attack Kids Mountain Biking Night: Junior cyclists spin their wheels with an on-trail coaching session. Meet at the Outdoor Center, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-5 p.m. $25-100. Info, 253-5711.

Water Striders II: Don your water shoes for a long-format exploration of the creatures that reside along the Stevenson Brook. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

'Peter and the Starcatcher': A dozen actors portray more than 100 characters as this Tony Award-winning prequel to Peter Pan travels to a never-before-seen Neverland. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $39-52. Info, 824-5288.

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Superhero Parade: Parents and creatively clad kids meet at the top of Church Street for a march to City Hall Park. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

'Outside Mullingar': See WED.15.

Spanish Musical Kids: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Sunset Aquadventure: Stunning scenery welcomes paddlers of all abilities to explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of local wildlife. Meet at the Contact Station, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; limited space; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

National Theatre Live: A broadcast production shows Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role in Everyman, portraying a man confronting the consequences of his actions in the face of death. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-24. Info, 748-2600. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.

Raptors in Residence: Fans of feathered fliers stretch their wings and experience the birds of prey firsthand. Shelburne Farms, 1-1:30 p.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686.

'Rattlesnakes in Vermont': Biologist Doug Blodgett sheds light on the maligned-but-misunderstood reptile and its role in Vermont wildlife. Green Mountain National Forest Office, Rutland, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

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'Bat Boy, the Musical': Townsfolk are up in arms when three teens discover a being, part boy and part bat, living in a cave in this rock musical starring youth actors. Not recommended for kids under 12. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $14-16. Info, 863-5966. Dementia-Friendly Intergenerational Puppet Project: Through a series of classes, artists from No Strings Attached Marionette Company prepare young adults and folks 50 and up with memory disorders for a public performance. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 for series; preregister. Info, 262-6284. Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': See WED.15, 8 p.m. 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum': North Country Community Theatre presents a romp through Rome with Stephen Sondheim's play combining ancient comedy and classic vaudeville. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 603-448-0400. 'Living Together': See WED.15. The Metropolitan Opera Live Encore: Natalie Dessay stars as the famed heroine who struggles in love and health in a broadcast production of Verdi's timeless tragedy La Traviata. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $5-15. Info, 518-523-2512.

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Feast Together or Feast to Go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288. Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce Mixer: Friends and colleagues catch up in a relaxed environment while learning about current community projects. Union Bank, Fairfax, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

conferences

Base of the Pyramid Global Network Summit: See THU.16, 8 a.m. The Wake Up to Dying Project: See THU.16.

dance

Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Samba: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269. Dance Party: Let's boogie! Revelers cut a rug when DJ Toni Basanta spins songs by Santana, Lionel Ritchie, Bruno Mars and others. Richmond Free Library, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. Ecstatic Dance Vermont: See WED.15, Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010. Southern Vermont Dance Festival: See THU.16, 9 a.m.

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Bluebird Fairy Card Readings: Sessions with artist Emily Anderson offer folks insight into their lives. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. $5. Info, 238-4540. Friday Nights: Downtown Rutland: Sensory experiences abound as strollers enjoy shopping, outdoor dining, kids activities and live music by Lee Roy Parnell. See rutlanddowntown.com for details. Various Rutland locations, 6-10 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380. Middlebury Language Schools Centennial Celebration: See WED.15, 9 a.m. Night Circus: Black-tie attire is encouraged at an evening of mystery and marvel featuring circus performers, themed-cocktails and beats by DJ Disco Phantom. Shelburne Museum, 7 p.m. $55; $35 for members; preregister. Info, 985-0906. Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Meet at the steps 10 minutes before start time. Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966. TurnON Burlington: Communication games encourage participants to push past comfort zones and experience deep connections. OneTaste Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us.

fairs & festivals

Herbal Fair & Summer Celebration: Revelers enjoy live music, infused cocktails and local eats while browsing an herbal market for tinctures, oils, beauty products, plant-dyed textiles and more. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 5-8 p.m. $5 donation; cost of food & drink. Info, 224-7100.

film

'Pitch Perfect 2': A group of underdogs vie for the a cappella world championship title in the 2015 comedy. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422. 'Spy': Melissa McCarthy stars as an eager-beaver CIA agent who, after years of being desk-bound, finally gets to show her mettle in the 2015 comedy. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6-8. Info, 457-3981. 'Tangerines': Two farmers in the war-torn Georgia Republic are host to wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the conflict in the 2013 foreign-language drama. English subtitles. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink

Bellows Falls Farmers Market: Grass-fed beef meets bicycle-powered smoothies at a foodie fair overflowing with veggies, cheeses, prepared eats and live music. Canal Street, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, bellowsfallsmarket@gmail.com. Benefit Dinner: Diners eat for a cause at a familystyle meal supporting the Killington Music Festival. An ensemble of young artists sets the mood with live music. Red Clover Inn, Rutland, 6 p.m. $50 includes gratuity; preregister. Info, 775-2290. Edible History Tour: See THU.16. Five Corners Farmers Market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers and food producers share the fruits of their labor. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249. Foodways Fridays: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with farm and museum admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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Killington Wine Festival: Oenophiles sample from more than 400 vinos accompanied by mouthwatering hors d'oeuvres before experimenting with pairings at local restaurants. A swing-and-sip outing at Green Mountain National Golf Course tops off the weekend. See killingtonpico.org for details. Killington Resort, 6-10 p.m. $45-150. Info, 773-4181.

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Richmond FaRmeRs maRKet: An open-air marketplace connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778.

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tap taKeoveR: Suds lovers tip back pints from Hill Farmstead in conjunction with the Vermont Brewers Festival. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 651-0080. tRucK stop: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering fare and local libations. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406. veRmont BReWeRs Festival: Cheers! Workshops and an abundance of craft beer make for a sipping soirée to remember. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 12-4 & 5:30-9:30 p.m. $35; limited space; for ages 21 and up. Info, 877-725-8849.

health & fitness

community hatha yoga: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflective practice. South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. Fitness FoR eveRy Body: Timed intervals and stations help participants improve cardiovascular health while gaining strength, agility and balance. Charlotte Senior Center, 9-9:45 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

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BooKmoBile: See WED.15, 4-6:45 p.m. dRop-in stoRy time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. hoop academy: Teens 12 and up get a wild and wiggly workout with fitness instructor Christine. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. magic: the gatheRing: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planes walkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. For grades 6 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

sideKicK stoRy time: Tykes up to age 5 sit tight for engaging narratives. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

supeRheRoes stoRy time: Little lit lovers up to age 6 sit for engaging narratives with compelling characters. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

summeR caRillon seRies: Giant bronze bells ring out as John Widmann performs from the chapel tower. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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BiRds By eaRs & eyes: See THU.16, 7 p.m. hiKe: FaRms to FoRests: History buffs walk back in time to view the Little River Settlement ruins on a guided tour. Meet at History Hike parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. WateR stRideRs i: Don your water shoes for an exploration of water power and the creatures that reside along the Stevenson Brook. Meet at the Nature Trail, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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BoWl-a-thon: Teams topple pins to support Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. See takumta.org for details. Spare Time Family Fun Center, Colchester, 3-10 p.m. Various donation levels; preregister. Info, 655-2720.

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'agnes oF god': A psychiatrist is charged with assessing a young nun accused of murdering her newborn in a drama staged by the St. Johnsbury Players. St. Johnsbury School, 7 p.m. $7-10. Info, 751-1175. 'Bat Boy, the musical': See THU.16. 'the BiKinis': A fictional Jersey Shore girl group reunites for a musical walk down memory lane, featuring swinging songs like "It's in His Kiss" and "Heat Wave" in Ray Roderick and James Hindman's lighthearted production. Depot Theatre, Westport N.Y., 8 p.m. $29. Info, 518-962-4449. 'Blithe spiRit' auditions: Thespians throw their hats into the ring for parts in the Essex Community Players’ production of Noel Coward's classic farce. Essex United Methodist Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, josh-mcdonald@comcast.net. doRset theatRe Festival: 'sheRlocK holmes and the case oF the JeRsey lily': See WED.15, 8 p.m. 'a Funny thing happened on the Way to the FoRum': See THU.16.

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tot stoRy time: Songs, rhymes, finger plays and abbreviated tales entertain wee ones up to age 2. Fairfax Community Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

stacey Kent: The Grammy Award-nominated vocalist and Middlebury alumna returns to her alma mater for an evening of jazz as part of the Language Schools Centennial Celebration. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5510.

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supeRheRo pReschool stoRy time: Tales of caped crusaders delight listeners ages 3 through 6. A themed craft or activity follows. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

meRedith paRsons mccomB: The accomplished mezzo soprano performs "A Brief History of Meredith," a program including pieces by Schubert, Strauss and others along with personal anecdotes. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.

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supeR animals: Emerging zoologists learn about the special skills of nature's creatures through active storytelling, touchable artifacts and live animals presented by the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

gReen mountain chamBeR music Festival: 'sonic splendoR': Violin, cello, a piano trio and a string sextet anchor an evening of classical performances. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220.

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playgym: Kiddos stay active and healthy with guided aerobics, locomotion and yoga. Kids RehabGYM, Colchester, 1-1:45 p.m. $10-30; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-3600.

BuRlington city aRts lunchtime conceRt seRies: An al fresco stage hosts the Leatherbound Books for a set of Americana tunes. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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maRvelous music With RoBeRt: Robert Resnik hits all the right notes in a sing-along session for all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

veRmont pRide theateR summeR Festival: 'BeautiFul thing': Cher Laston directs the coming-out play that tells the story of a workingclass boy and his attraction to his neighbor. See calendar spotlight. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-60. Info, 728-6464.

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'Peter and the Starcatcher': See THU.16. 'Shrek the Musical': See THU.16. 'The Sound of Music': Audience members are treated to a few of their favorite things in QNEK's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $7-15; $2 discount for MAC and QDF members. Info, 748-2600. 'The Voysey Inheritance': See THU.16.

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Brown Bag Book Club: Readers voice opinions about Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat. Books are available at the front desk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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comedy

'Uncle Buzzy's Hometown Comedy Show': See WED.15, Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8-9:15 p.m. $10. Info, 583-1674.

community

Open House: Complimentary massages, nutritional wellness screenings and organic snacks give a glimpse of services offered by the health-conscious business. Cedar Wood Natural Health Center, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5828. Queen City Memory Café: People with memory loss accompany their caregivers for coffee, conversation and entertainment. Thayer House, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 1-800-272-3900. Veterans for Peace: Those who have served attend a morning meeting to discuss conflict resolution. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

conferences

The Wake Up to Dying Project: See THU.16, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

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Flock Fling: A potluck picnic gives way to a participatory dance in celebration of movement and community. Star Mountain Amphitheater, Sharon, potluck, 5 p.m., dance 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 765-4454.

Books by the Lake: Little Free Library Community Build: Helping hands construct structures to house literature for loan. Grand Isle Art Works, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 378-4591. Independent Community Meeting Place: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. Mad River Valley Homes Tour: A bus transports building buffs on a survey of five houses as an expert describes the design features that make them special. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. $75; includes lunch; preregister. Info, 496-5545. Middlebury Language Schools Centennial Celebration: See WED.15.

Art on the Green: Faculty and student artists sell their wares at a fundraiser for the Middlebury Studio School complete with a pottery wheel, kids activities and crafters from around the state. Middlebury Green, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 247-3702.

Bike Jam: Gearheads volunteer to help with repairs, refurbishing and other projects around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, dan@bikerecycle.localmotion.org.

Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172. Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor booths centered on local eats. Parking lot, Anthony's Diner, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. Chocolate Tasting: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

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Creative Writing Workshop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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'Outside Mullingar': See WED.15.

USA Dance VT Community Ballroom Dance Social: Twinkle-toed movers celebrate the art of dance from the foxtrot to the Argentine tango. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-11 p.m. $10-15. Info, usadancevt@ gmail.com.

'Gemma Bovery': A French Flaubert fanatic observes the daily doings of a couple whose lives mirror those of the writer's heroes in this 2014 romantic comedy. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

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'The Merry Wives of Windsor': Audience members sit and sip during the Adirondack Shakespeare Company's performance of the time-honored comedy. Amazing Grace Vineyard & Winery, Chazy N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $15; includes wine tasting. Info, 518-215-4044.

Tap Kids Showcase Spec-tap-ular 2015: Dancers ages 9 through 22 clickity-clack their way across the stage. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2:30-4 & 7:30-9 p.m. $25; limited space. Info, 914-374-0066.

'Living Together': See WED.15.

Swing Dance with LC Jazz: Hoofers step into action, propelled by two lively sets from the 17-piece big band. Brandon Town Hall, 8-10 p.m. $7-14. Info, 247-5420.

'Avengers: Age of Ultron': Heroes and villains from the famed Marvel comics battle in the Joss Whedon-directed 2015 adventuredrama. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

'Good Dirt: An International Folk Musical': American and Korean performance artists partner up for an amalgamation of movement, music and text meant for rural settings. Presented by the Agnes Table theater collective. Adam's Berry Farm, Charlotte, 7-8:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 578-9093.

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UVM Historic Tour: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 656-8673. Yestermorrow 35th Anniversary Celebration: The school for building and design marks a milestone with local food trucks, circus games and live music from the Eames Brothers Band. Camping is available for late-night revelers. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Donations accepted; preregister. Info, 496-5545.

fairs & festivals

DoGoodFest: An afternoon of food and family fun gives way to live jams from O.A.R., Alternate Routes, Panama Wedding and others. Gates, 2:30 p.m.; music, 4 p.m. National Life Building, Montpelier, 2:30-9 p.m. Free; $10-20 parking fee benefits Branches of Hope Cancer Patient Fund. Info, info@dogoodfest.com. Stars & Stripes Festival & Parade: More than 40 crafters and vendors display their wares at this family-friendly fête featuring a patriotic procession and live music by the Crunchy Western Boys. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 626-9696. Weirdo Fest: A community pig roast offers blindfolded face-painting, a random-information booth, swimming and other off-the wall activities. Onion River Campground, Marshfield, 3-10 p.m. Free; camping, $26-37. Info, 426-3233.

Killington Wine Festival: See FRI.17, 1-4 p.m.

Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.15.

Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070.

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Rover Hazardous Waste Pickup: The Chittenden Solid Waste District's mobile collection unit roams for household refuse. Westford Town Garage, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8111.

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Newport Farmers Market: See WED.15. Northwest Farmers Market: Locavores stock up on produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. Norwich Farmers Market: Farmers and artisans offer meats, maple syrup and produce alongside baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Rutland County Farmers Market: See WED.15, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279. Swanton Farmers Market: Shoppers get their share of farm-fresh produce, meats and breads. Village Green Park, Swanton, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 868-7200. Vermont Brewers Festival: See FRI.17, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. & 5:30-9:30 p.m. Waitsfield Farmers Market: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734.

health & fitness

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.15, 9-10 a.m.

kids

Colchester Baby & Toddler Social: Little ones up to age 3 and their siblings meet to make new friends over snacks and music with Ellie. Lawn, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

Drop-In Story Time: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Fairy House Festival: Kiddos dressed in whimsical garb visit a fairy village and create their own nature-inspired habitats for sprites. Author and illustrator Tracy Kane reads. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 1-3 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 765-4288. Hero Games: See THU.16, noon. Library Scavenger Hunt: Families scout around and use clues in a fun and challenging search. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Auditions: Budding thespians try their hands at acting in William Shakespeare's whimsical play to be performed Saturday, July 25. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Raptors in Residence: See THU.16. Saturday Story Time: Parents and kids gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Stowe Land Trust Summer Naturalist Program: Junior nature lovers head outdoors for guided walks and themed activities. Meet at the Mill Trail trailhead, Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7221.

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Sizzlin' Saturdays: Partygoers put on their dancing shoes for a night of revelry topped off with a midnight drag show. The Local Bar & Nightclub, Rutland, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 772-7345. Vermont Pride Theater Summer Festival: ‘Wild & Precious’: Steve Caldwell sorts out love, marginalization and identity through the lens of a married gay psychotherapist in this captivating performance. See calendar spotlight. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-60. Info, 728-6464.

music

Britt Conors & Bourbon Renewal: The pitchperfect vocalist and tight ensemble serve up tunes both rockin' and rootsy. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes preshow dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. Buskathon & Instrument Petting Zoo: Fiddle students and community musicians parlay their skills into money for the Woodbury Strings Scholarship Fund while the Burlington Violin Shop opens its doors for beginners to test merchandise. Burlington Violin Shop, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 223-8945. The Cheng Duo: The sister-brother pair makes keys and strings sing in the Pro-Series Concert Season. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, grounds open for picnicking, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $15-45; lawn seating free for kids with paying adults. Info, 238-7040. Cooler in the Mountains Concert Series: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band turn heads with funk- and bebop-infused New Orleans jazz. Lawn games, a barbecue and beer garden round out the day. Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 422-6201. Francesca Blanchard: The chanteuse of Charlotte blurs linguistic lines in French- and English-language songs. Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 425-2118. Norwich University Bell Concerts: John Widmann strikes the carillon as picnickers listen from the Upper Parade Ground. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-9873. SummerNight: They Might Be Gypsies, Frost & Fire, the Baby Yagas and others fill the air with notes as merrymakers nosh on take-out specials from local restaurants. Various Rochester locations, 4:30-10:15 p.m. $5-15. Info, 767-3954.

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT TwangTown Paramours: A hybrid of the Nashville and Austin music scenes, the duo belts out original Americana. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

outdoors

animal Tracks & HabiTaTs Hike: A presentation on spotting summer species gives way to a short hike where participants put their skills to the test. Sherburne Base Lodge. Burke Mountain Ski Resort, 5-6:30 p.m. $10; free for kids under 5; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 303. black river Paddle: New and experienced boaters cut through the water with naturalist Jayson Benoit. Burke Mountain Ski Resort, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $15; free for members; preregister. Info, 334-5819. Free Family Paddle day: Parents and kids learn the basics of safety on the water. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 535-5855. THe good, THe bad & THe really, really iTcHy: See THU.16, 10 a.m. THe magic oF bird migraTion: Nature lovers learn how songbirds, shorebirds and other species travel thousands of miles each year with astounding accuracy. B-Side Beach, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

dorseT THeaTre FesTival: 'sHerlock Holmes and THe case oF THe Jersey lily': See WED.15, 8 p.m. 'a Funny THing HaPPened on THe way To THe Forum': See THU.16.

'living TogeTHer': See WED.15. 'ouTside mullingar': See WED.15, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. 'PeTer and THe sTarcaTcHer': See THU.16, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'sHrek THe musical': See THU.16, 2-4 p.m. & 8-10 p.m. 'THe sound oF music': See FRI.17. 'underneaTH THe above sHow no. 1': Bread and Puppet Theater performs politically charged new works following a tour of the museum. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, tour, 6 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031.

inTo THe words: The League of Vermont Writers hosts a gathering where wordsmiths converge to share original pieces and hone their craft through creative and practical workshops. See leagueofvermontwriters.org for details. Private residence, Albany, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $28-35; preregister.

vcam orienTaTion: Video-production hounds master basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

sports

gosHen galloP: Rugged 5- and 10K courses take runners across varied terrain in a challenging race for all ability levels. A meal, awards and music follow. Blueberry Hill Inn, Brandon, 4-7 p.m. $45-50. Info, 247-6735.

Tour de bondville: Folks tackle 50-, 25- or 18mile bike rides or spend the day on the golf course to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. An after-party follows. Stratton Mountain Resort, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $60-140; $15-30 for after-party only. Info, 800-787-2886.

bud & Jim edgerTon: The former neighbors of Vermont native Norman Rockwell recount their memories of the artist and his family in conjunction with the exhibit "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell." Shelburne Museum, 2 p.m. Free with museum admission, $724; free for members. Info, 985-3346.

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'baT boy, THe musical': See THU.16, 2 & 7 p.m. 'THe bikinis': See FRI.17. 'bliTHe sPiriT' audiTions: See FRI.17.

PoeTs & THeir craFT lecTure series: Jay Parini imparts his gift for verse in the talk "Working With the Image: Inside to Out." A discussion with the audience follows. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 598-0340. sTowe Free library gianT book sale: See WED.15.

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books by THe lake: liTTle Free library communiTy build: See SAT.18. global burlingTon inTernaTional dinner: Attendees take in entertainment, crafts and food from around the world in exchange for supporting the Vermont International Festival. North End Studios, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $20; $10 for kids ages 3-10; free for kids 2 and under; preregister. Info, 863-6713.

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Pedal Power To THe PeoPle: Cyclists of all ages spin their wheels on a variety of routes ranging in distance and terrain at a benefit for Royalton Community Radio. Tunbridge World's Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. $10-45; preregister. Info, 431-3433.

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Burlington City Arts

Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. DIY ILLUMINATED CANVAS: Create a piece of art that lights up a room! Everything you need to make you illuminated canvas will be provided along with stencils and simple design ideas provided by the teacher. You’ll leave with an illuminated canvas ready to plug in and hang at home. Thu., Aug. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $28/person; $25.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Info: 865-7166. JEWELRY: RINGS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own rings. Open to all skill levels. Tue., Aug. 11, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $35/ person; 31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial

Auditorium Annex, Burlington. Info: 865-7166. PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY: Explore the instant gratification and magic of pinhole photography! Students will construct their own pinhole cameras from tins and will learn how various tins and shapes produce different effects on the captured image. Students will then spend the day shooting, processing and printing images. Sat., Aug. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $85/person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

craft

Cost: $100/5 3-hour classes. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite. 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

culinary ORGANIC COOKING CLASSES!: Faywood Gardens Kitchen offers all-organic cooking classes every Thursday evening in Grand Isle. Classes are all approximately three hours, three-course meals, hands-on preparation and BYOB. Menus include Paleo Pleasure, Taste of Spain, Italy — che buono!, Vermont Local. Every Thu., 6-9 p.m. Cost: $50/3-hour class; all-organic 3-course meal; BYOB. Location: Faywood Gardens, 31 Faywood Rd., Grand Isle. Info: Lisa Ruoff, 777-1266, info@faywoodgardens.com, faywoodgardens.org.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

HOME RECORDING FOR SINGERS & MUSICIANS: In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to

JAZZ IMPROVISATION WITH GEORGE VOLAND: MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU!: Musicians of all kinds improvise: jazz, of course, but also rock, blues, folk, and classical; even Bach improvised! This group focuses on the art of improvisation: creating original melodies on the spot, using jazz chords as our harmonic guide. Learn how to make improvisation effective and enjoyable for you, your fellow musicians, and your listeners. We recommend at least one year of experience on your instrument. Weekly on Thu., Jul. 23-Aug. 13, 5:45-7:15 p.m. Cost: $95/adults & teens 18+. Location: Flynn Center for

the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynncenter.org.

Helen Day Art Center

WATERCOLOR: LANDSCAPE AND PLEIN AIR WITH ROBERT O’BRIEN: Students will learn basic concepts and techniques of landscape painting in the classroom and in an outdoor setting. Emphasis will be on composition, color mixing, values and painting light and dark. Materials list provided. Sat. & Sun., Jul. 25 & 26, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person; $175/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com.

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DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON!: Learn drum technique and rhythms on West African drums! Wednesday Burlington Beginners Djembe Class starts Jun. 24, 5:30-6:20 p.m., $36/3 weeks. Djembes provided! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

Flynn Arts

make great-sounding recordings using Garageband or Audacity and minimal equipment. Learn how to get the best sound from live instruments and vocals, and pick up basic editing, looping and arranging techniques. All it takes is a laptop and a microphone to produce some fantastic-sounding music! Wed., Jul. 22 & 29, 8 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynncenter.org.

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TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Session starts Jun. 23. $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Session starts Jun. 22. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents Class on Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. 3-week session starts Jun. 22. $60/child or $90/ parent-child duo. A five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

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DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime weather permitting) North End Studios, 0 College St./294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

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language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor

under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: 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. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. Begins Sep. 2015. Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct.. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

music ACCORDION WORKSHOP: Aug. 6. Intensive, small group (max. 8 students), country setting in Jericho. Board/lodging included. Advanced beginner to advanced. Aug. 6, noon-Aug. 9. Cost: $625/ all sessions + accommodations, meals. Location: lg. private country home, Jericho Center. Info: Vjeverica, Shirley Johnson, 512680-0422, shirleyj@vjeverica. com, vjeverica.com.

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

yoga HONEST YOGA, THE ONLY DEDICATED HOT YOGA FLOW CENTER: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment

constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited; $15/class or $130/10-class card; $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/ class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/

community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. YOGA ROOTS: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Anusura-inspired yoga all levels, Therapeutic Restorative, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Gentle and Slow Yoga! Our summer schedule is off to a great start with Fri. and Sun. yoga at the beach, Vinyasa Flow Thu. 9 a.m. & noon yoga daily. Upcoming events: Therapeutic Restorative yoga w/ Sound Healing, Aug. 7, 5:30 p.m., Basics of Flow, Aug.11, 7:30 p.m., & Sacred Sound Sanctuary, Jul. 25 & Aug. 29, 5 p.m. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.

BURLINGTON HOT YOGA: TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!: Hot Yoga in the Summer?! Of course; here’s why. Our modern Far Infrared (FIR) heat is not as oppressive as traditional hot yoga, offering a gentler yet therapeutic yoga experience. Besides the many benefits of yoga, FIR helps heal muscle and joint injuries as well as arthritis and skin conditions. Yoga for everyone with creative Vinyasa style in our 93-degree newly remodeled studio. Come and enjoy Hot Yoga Burlington; classes daily. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963.

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SEVEN DAYS: You recently opened for Bad Religion and performed with Talib Kweli. Why does your style of comedy fit so well with music? JAMIE KILSTEIN: My answer is gonna be a little more dickish. I mean, now I’m literally playing guitar in my set. But when I opened for Bad Religion, I was just doing my rants, but those rants always had a musicality to them. And I always wanted to put music to them. But even before that, I would see the crowds at concerts and think, Oh, this is my audience. Because at concerts, you see people who are nerds about whatever artists they’re there to see. A lot of times they’re passionate outcasts, who are the kinds of people who listen to [“Citizen Radio”]. And a lot of bands are politically savvy. But you go into a comedy club and it’s a fucking conga line of white dudes telling rape jokes. And it’s black-and-white headshots of guys who died in the ’80s from coke overdoses, and a twodrink minimum. I don’t think what I do, whether it’s the rants or the music or experimenting with the structure of comedy, attracts the kind of people who would go to a brickwall comedy club. It’s kind of antiquated, and it’s not my scene. Whereas,the people who don’t know me but would like me are more likely to find me on Tumblr, or opening for a band, or at a pro-choice rally. And music was always my first love, anyway. SD: How did you decide to incorporate guitar into your act? JK: I’ve been playing guitar longer than I’ve been doing standup. I started doing standup when I was 17 and dropped out of high school to do it, but I was

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amie Kilstein is like a punk-rock standup comedian, and not solely because he recently opened for punk icons Bad Religion. He’s a comedic renegade whose brash, unflinching political rants have gotten him invited to perform on — and sometimes uninvited from, canceled and booed off — some of the grandest stages on the planet. Those include “Conan,” NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” “Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell” and “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” to name a few. Janeane Garofalo likened Kilstein to “a combination of George Carlin and Bill Hicks.” Glenn Beck called him a doofus. Kilstein, 33, is the cohost of the podcast “Citizen Radio,” which he hosts with his wife, writer Allison Kilkenny. Last year, the duo released an acclaimed book, #Newsfail, that takes aim at some of the most pressing issues of the day from a decidedly far-left vantage point. As he described it in his pitch to his publisher, “We are gonna write a weird, filthy political book. It’s gonna be antiwar, pro-vegan, feminist, proPalestine, and we are gonna take a big shit on all the news shows we need to get booked on to promote it.” That pretty much sums it up. It should also give you an idea of what you can expect when Kilstein appears at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Friday, July 17. In advance of that show, Seven Days spoke with the comedian by phone from New York City.

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playing guitar long before that. So it was a parent’s nightmare: What if music falls through? What’s your backup plan? Oh, I’m doing comedy! So last year, my partner, Allison Kilkenny, and I somehow got a big book deal, and we wrote a book, #Newsfail. Simon & Schuster approached us this year and asked us to throw nonfiction ideas at them for another one. But we didn’t. We thought that we’re

doing well enough right now to just use this year to — this sounds cheesy — try our dreams. I’ve always wanted to play music, and things are going well enough right now that I wanted to give it a shot. So I bought a guitar after not having one for five years, and I started writing songs and doing them. And RANT AND RAVE

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In other news, this weekend marks the 12th annual Manifestivus music festival at the Pransky Family Farm in Cabot, which runs from Friday, July 17, through Sunday, July 19. Long billed as a “local festival with a global vibe,” the fest was founded by TOUBAB KREWE bassist DAVID PRANSKY. That band, by the way, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, with a run of dates as the ORIGINAL GANGSTERS OF TOUBAB KREWE. That includes a headlining spot at the Manifestivus, naturally. The rest of lineup is pretty nifty as well, featuring a solid mix of local talent and national acts with global flair. Sharing marquee billing are jazz trumpeter CHARLES LAZARUS, reggae stalwart TOUSSAINT THE LIBERATOR and locals KAT WRIGHT & THE INDOMITABLE SOUL BAND. Speaking of locals, the homegrown slate this year is particularly robust and includes veteran house DJ JUSTIN R.E.M., funky bunch the MICHELLE SARAH BAND, border-jumping world-music act AFRI-VT, teen sensations the SNAZ, rocksteady faves STEADY BETTY and cumbia upstarts MAL MAIZ, to name a few. For more on the fest, including schedule and ticket info, check out manifestivus.com.

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expat currently based in the Big Easy who is gettin’ the band back together this month. DUKE AEROPLANE AND THE WRONG NUMBERS, led by GALEN PERIA, who has lately been running an artist collective, gallery and performance venue in the Crescent City along with fellow VT expat BEN ALESHIRE, are also doing the reunion thing. The group played a few gigs in late June and early July. They begin another run of Vermont dates this week. DA&TWN are essentially an offshoot of suspender fusionistas the VERMONT JOY PARADE. But they’re even more loose and ragged — and liquored up — than that beloved outfit. In a recent email to jog the memory of yours truly, Peria describes the band as “R&B&D (rhythm and blues and drunk) ne’er-do-wells and rapscallions” who specialize in “Music for baptisms, sideshows, card games, funerals, bank robberies, structure fires and train rides.” Yep. That pretty much nails it. Much like the VJP, the Wrong Numbers are best experienced live — and, ideally, inebriated. So do what you can to catch them either this Friday, July 17, at Nutty Steph’s in Middlesex or this Saturday, July 18, at Two Brothers Tavern and Stage in Middlebury. If you miss those dates, the band will also be at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington on Saturday, July 26, and will likely have some August dates to boot. Also, Peria informs us that, while he’s here, Duke Aeroplane will be recording a studio album with BRETT HUGHES. He adds that those jonesing for a VJP fix should keep late August open for “a very special show.” Stay tuned.

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It’s a particularly big week on the local music scene, highlighted by NEIL YOUNG AND PROMISE OF THE REAL at the Champlain Valley Exposition this Sunday, July 19. Of course, given the now-infamous furor over ticketing for that show, unless you stood in line for 14 hours at the Flynn Box Office back in April, you’re not going. Because it obviously sold out almost immediately. So that means… I’m sorry, what was that? The show didn’t sell out? I see. And there are still tickets available as of this filing? No kidding? Well, that kinda makes all of the accusations of price gouging and collusion with secondary-market ticket sellers when the FlynnTix site crashed in April seem pretty fucking stupid in hindsight, doesn’t it? I’m being told that yes, yes it does. Anyway, Neil Young — not to mention openers PUSS N BOOTS, featuring the future Mrs. Dan Bolles, NORAH JONES — certainly occupies the top of the marquee this week. And you probably don’t need me to tell you why. But there’s a bunch of other cool stuff happening this week, too. So let’s get down to it, shall we?

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SD: The last time we spoke in 2011, advocating for gay rights was a big part of your act. A lot has changed since then, most notably the Supreme court decision on gay marriage. How have you adapted your material? JK: I remember, after Obama was elected, a reporter asked me if as a comedian I was upset by it, because it meant having to retire certain jokes. And I was like, “No! I’m not a garbage monster.” I will happily write 15 new minutes of material, because it means something good has happened. And I feel the same way about same-sex marriage. I mean, it’s not like there is a shortage of things to talk about, even now. Homophobia is still an issue. And even among supposedly progressive people, transphobia is a big issue, even in the LGBT community. So, unfortunately, there’s always going to be bigotry, so there will always be assholes to go after. SD: Your bit on liberal racism on your new album made me both laugh out loud and wince. Living in Vermont, a bastion of smug progressivism, it hit close to home. JK: I remember the first time I went to San Francisco. I was so excited. Like, finally a liberal community that will embrace me. I talked about the war on drugs and everyone cheered. I talked about same-sex marriage and antiwar stuff and every one cheered. But then I started talking about class and they were like, “Whatever! We can still put a Whole Foods where that affordable housing used to be, right?”

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The group, led by songwriter SEAN HOOD (HELLO SHARK), recorded the album last year with Future Fields cofounder ERIC MAIER (MADAILA, the PRECEPTS, general awesomeness) but has been sitting on it for a while now. I won’t pry, but I’m sure they have their reasons. Anyhoo, it’s really good. Hood, who has done some freelance music criticizing for this very paper, has tastes that align pretty closely with my own — including an irrational love for all things RYAN ADAMS. No word on how he feels about DEF LEPPARD (see page 38 for how I feel about them. Spoiler: Fuck yeah!), but his affinity for mellow, twangy indie music is on full display. If you dig early Adams and/or WHISKEYTOWN, or offbeat, downcast indie folk like TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, I suspect you’ll enjoy the new record. Look for a full review in these pages in the coming weeks. In the meantime, catch the Eastern Mountain Time record-release show at alt-space Fort Sheen — if you don’t know where that is, as always, ask a hipster — this Friday, July 17, with MARYSE SMITH and PHIL YATES & THE AFFILIATES.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Paul Asbell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Mr. French (rock), 6 p.m., free.

Mountain Songs Quartz, the latest album from Nashville’s

Fly Golden Eagle,

was inspired by

Alejandro Jodorowski’s 1973 avant-garde film The Holy Mountain — which, by the way, was produced by Beatles manager Allen Klein and funded by John Lennon. In fact, the 23-track record, while a standout on its own, can be played as a companion to that film, which takes on a new feel given a soundtrack of FGE’s swirling blend of psych-rock, glam, gospel and blues. On Monday, July 20, catch Fly Golden Eagle at the Monkey House in Winooski.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Dog Catchers (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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THE DAILY PLANET: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 8 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Ray Vega and North (jazz), 8 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Film Night, 10 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Yamn, Canopy (rock, electronica), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lucas Brode (experimental solo guitar), 7:30 p.m., free. Irish Session, 8 p.m., free. R.C. Evan Alsop (indie rock), 9 p.m., free. Analog Heart (alt rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Inner Fire District (klezmer), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 3 p.m., free/$5.

18+. Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

middlebury area

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Kawehi (singersongwriter, electronic), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Talent Quest Karaoke Contest, 9 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Caravan (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

THE DAILY PLANET: Paul Asbell and Clyde Stats (jazz), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. The Harder They Come (house), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Castle Creek (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free. Arc Iris (indie folk), 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Open Blues Jam hosted by Jason Jack, 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Up on the Roof (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Allen Church (folk), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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burlington

BARRIO BAKERY & PIZZA BARRIO: EmaLou (acoustic), 6 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 6 p.m., free. CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Home Grown Hip-Hop Album Release Party: IMC, Fixhate, Joe Grizzly, DJ Bad Luck, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Session, 8 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jenni Johnson & the Junketeers (blues, jazz), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Matt Bolton (acoustic), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Brett Hughes & Friend (country), 8 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Take Two (tango), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (rock), 7 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Papa GreyBeard (blues), 6 p.m., donation. Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Live Music, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Otis Mountain Get Down Lineup release Party with Blind Owl Band, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. The Neue Avant-Garde Project with Kate Mohanty, 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Lowell Thompson Band (alt-country), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Midnight Spaghetti (funk), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Louie Brown (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Don't Cross the Streams, DJ Crucible (metal), 10 p.m., free. THE KNOTTY SHAMROCK: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: BYOV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free. Dan Zura (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Carnival with DJ Luis Calderin (dance), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Brett Hughes (Americana), 8 p.m., free. Bonjour Hi (house), 10 p.m., free. JUICE BOX: Sounds of Spirit: Music for the Inner Journey, 7 p.m., $35. JUNIPER: Thea Wren Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: John Abair & Collin Cope (blues), 9:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Tigerman Woah (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Dub is Dead: A Dub/Reggae Tribute to the Grateful Dead, 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. Ben Danaher (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Jake Klar (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. People Like You (psychedelic folk rock), 10 p.m., free. Abbie Morin (foxy folk), 11:30 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Robert Hannan & Sara Grace (rock, soul), 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: The Beerworth Sisters (folk), 4 p.m., free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

stowe/smuggs area

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Con Yay (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

THE BEE'S KNEES: Elle Carpenter (pop), 7:30 p.m., donation.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

PHANTOM: Dinner with Peter & Will Anderson (jazz), 7:30 p.m., $40.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Dan Blakeslee, Jonah Tolchin (folk), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. Joint Custody Release with Swale (rock), 10 p.m., $5-10 donation.

middlebury area

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: A&M Music (rock), 10 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 fri.17

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While some local acts gravitate toward the psychedelic end of funk, newcomers Questionable Company offer a more soulful, folk-influenced version. The Burlington trio is composed of bassist Max Guyton, drummer Andy Feltus and vocalist Emma Cook, who also plays keys and guitar. Cook’s vocals largely define Questionable Company’s lifting, expressive sound, but Feltus and Guyton hold up their end with rhythmic backing. The band’s recently released self-titled debut album lives up to their self-applied designation as a “small band with a curiously large sound.” Up first is “Devil’s Advocate.” Like a proper funk tune, it swirls to heady heights. Lest you think the rest of the album will be a typical jam, the three have more up their sleeves than just noodling around.

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“Lilacs” also features the best beat on the album, courtesy of Face-One again. Woogmaster himself produced the closing tracks and, unfortunately, it shows. Both “Happily Ever After” and “The Cycle” lack the punch, space and musicality of the first five songs, despite a withering guitar outro courtesy of Portland polymath Billy Mickelson. While the project could have been stronger without them, these tracks offer a more experimental side of the duo and make it clear they won’t be running out of ideas anytime soon. Sticks in the Mud showcases a very different incarnation from the Woogmaster that Vermont once knew. He’s just as blunt, just as proud of his scars, but the musical growth and newfound wisdom demonstrated here set this EP miles apart from his previous work. Sticks in the Mud by Aleck Woogmaster and Ivy Estelle is available at aleckwoog. bandcamp.com. The duo performs at Weirdo Fest in Plainfield this Saturday, July 18.

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from Estelle. As the song builds and beats and samples coalesce, Woogmaster proves he is still a man on fire, launching an impassioned indictment of school systems designed to medicate problems and marginalize original thinkers. This launches into a remarkably cohesive three-song set, all of which was produced by local hip-hop mystic Face-One. The second of these is the stoner funk of “Cold Soul,” an urgently sad song that dispatches postcards from a relationship strained past the breaking point. Woog’s new musical recipe works best on the third track, “Medicine,” an upbeat burner that traces a litany of workingclass stress before finding redemption: “There’s no better medicine than making music.” The chemistry between Woog and Estelle is most effective at moments such as this, when both performers are clearly having fun in the booth. When they try to add more gravity to the mix, results vary. “Missty Blue,” a third-person narrative about being changed by the big city, is a prime example. Despite solid composition and a great beat, the story is ultimately too rote, too predictable, to sustain the earnestness of the duo’s delivery. It’s a sharp contrast to “Lilacs,” Woog’s personal story about his mother and his tattoos, which manages to convey so much more impact with a single short verse.

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Back when Aleck Woogmaster was terrorizing open mics here in Vermont, he was capable of completely silencing a crowd. That is not necessarily a compliment. In the predominantly progressive Green Mountains, his gutlevel rants and brutal imagery would often leave the audience looking like someone had just announced a bomb threat. Shock rap has a very short shelf life, though, and, inevitably, Woogmaster has matured since moving to Portland, Ore., and meeting his current collaborator, singer-songwriter Ivy Estelle. The duo’s debut offering, Sticks in the Mud, is a seven-song EP with a lot of heart, vision and promise, embodied by an organic dynamic that was clearly honed at live shows — a lot of live shows. Woogmaster and Estelle don’t trade verses so much as weave around each other, counterpoint and commentary blending in with harmonies and responses. Even when it doesn’t work, it’s pretty charming stuff. The EP opens on the title cut, which begins with a mournful a cappella intro

The third track, “Dayglow,” is smooth and dreamlike. In perhaps her best vocal performance, Cook croons lyrics about changing seasons and feelings. Next up is “Makes No Matter.” Jazzy, emphatic and soaring, it’s the trio’s best collective effort. Feltus’ drumming is tender, while Guyton’s melodic bass lines keep things wistful. Midway through the album, “Troubles Away” brings the funk to a halt and introduces stripped-down folk. The instrumentation is less exciting but still solid. The trio soon returns to funkdamentals with “Middle of the Night” and “Gravity,” the latter of which has lively moments of scat jazz. “No Map” is an upbeat, relaxed tune about wanderlust. Cook sings, “We don’t need no map / it always seems to work out anyhow / May the wind, may the wind be always at our backs. / We don’t need no map / we never get where we heading anyway / Those were the days.”

“Singing Brakes” finds Cook cleverly reflecting on her own personality and tendencies. “It’s not you / it’s me / It’s my history / I’m a girl on the run / and I like singing brakes on that bus / on my bike / together in harmony / heading downhill so fast / who knows how long these brakes will last,” she sings. The album closes with the eerie, shadowy “Inland Me.” Cook’s vocals turn hushed and deep, and Guyton’s moody bass reverberates throughout. It’s a gorgeously dark tune, but it’s also startling in comparison to the other tracks. This listener wished the album ended on a more playful note, in keeping with the rest of the album. Questionable Company is both surprising and pleasing. It incorporates standard folk lyrical themes with touches of jazz and undulating funk grooves. With a sound that is soulful and distinct — but familiar enough to satisfy the Burlington funk crowd — this trio’s got a good thing going. Questionable Company’s selftitled debut album is available at questionablecompany.com

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p.m., $5. Salsa night, 9 p.m., $5. Caribbean night with a2VT and Jah Red (hip-hop, reggae), 10 p.m., $5. 18+. Feel Good Friday with D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Jamie Kilstein (standup comedy), 9 p.m., $17/20. 18+. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Small Change (Tom waits tribute), 8 p.m., free.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: about Time (jazz), 5:30 p.m., free. Villanelles, July 26 movement,

DJ Taka (indie rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: mitch & Friends (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. a House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Dana and Susan Robinson (folk), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Ghostlikkers, Hardcore Sallies (punk), 10 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: Duke aeroplane and the Wrong numbers, 6 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Stone Cold Roosters (western swing), 9 p.m., $5.

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WHAMMY BAR: Stovepipe mountain Band (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Sherman (folk), 6 p.m., free. Seth Yacovone Blues trio, 9 p.m., free. RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: RetroNail with DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

CIDER HOUSE BARBECUE AND PUB: tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Rick Redington and Becca Kodis (folk rock), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: city Limits 16th Anniversary Bash: twist of Fate, toast, Victim of metal (rock), 9 p.m., free. city Limits Dance Party with top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TOURTERELLE: Deb Brisson & the Hay Burners (roots), 7 p.m., $5. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: totally Submerged (rock), 6 p.m., free.

main Street Syndicate (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

free. DJ Phatrix & Val (house), 10 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free.

JASPER'S TAVERN: The Boozehoundz (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

JUNIPER: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Live music, 6 p.m., free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Green mountain chamber music Festival, 7:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: A2Vt (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: makia & tar Iguana (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Anthony Santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Grundlefunk (funk), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Revibe (rock), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: The Antara and Suzy Harris Project (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m.,

NECTAR'S: The Snaz (rock), 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Brunch with Bob Gagnon, Ellen Powell and tony Gagnon, noon, free. Business 2 consumer (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. Elle carpenter (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Shaded Gray (indie rock), 10 p.m., free. Binger (jam), 11:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Rev. Ben Donovan & the congregation (country), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign one (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Last Good tooth (Americana), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Thea Wren (jazz), 10 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Vermont Drag Idol, 6 p.m., $6/12/15. AA. old School Revival (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Atak & Guests (EDM, top 40), 10 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Boogy Beats, Quadra (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Vows, Sleeping In, Wren Kitz, Ports of Spain (indie), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 5 p.m., free. tymes Up (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Stuart Ross Johnson (folk), 6 p.m., donation. BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: July 26 movement, Pours, badweatherfriend, Rush Awesome (indie, experimental), 8 p.m., $5. AA. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Drunk and in the Woods (soul, R&B), 10 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: David Langevin (solo piano), 5 p.m., free. cookie's Hot club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Justin Panigutti (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Julia KateDavis (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Amozen (rock), 9 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Jeff Przech (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. Subject to change (rock), 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Sinecure Reunion Show (rock), 10 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Allman Neville Pitchell Band, Dwight & Nicole (rock, blues), 8 p.m., $20/25.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 3 p.m., free.

CIDER HOUSE BARBECUE AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Paul Asbell (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

burlington

FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont original music competition, 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Building Blox (EDM), 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Julian chobot (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Duke Aeroplane & the Wrong Numbers (hoodoo blues), 6 p.m., $3.

NECTAR'S: mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3.

northeast kingdom

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: clare Byrne (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & tim Stickle's old time Session, 1 p.m., free. mAHomBRU: Steven Scuderi & Robin Handbridge

JASPER'S TAVERN: DJ Speedo (dance party), 9 p.m., free. PARKER PIE CO.: The Atlantic Effect, Kali Stoddard-Imari (rock), 8 p.m., NA.

THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: open mic, 7 p.m., free.

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William Floyd (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Alicia Phelps (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Grasping Straws with Cannonball Statman (indie psychedelic), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Electric Sorcery (rock), 7 p.m. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 3 p.m., free/$5. 18+. Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: Talent Quest Karaoke Contest, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Kopecky, Maryse Smith (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Jerichovox (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

wed.22 // Kopecky [indie]

I Want a New Drug On their new album, Drug for the Modern Age, Nashville’s

Kopecky — formerly

the Kopecky Family Band — address the incursion of technology into our daily lives and the ways that being connected through devices and social media actually creates an interpersonal disconnect. Much like an addiction. Rendered through gorgeously crafted suites that have as much in common with electro-pop as chamber music, the album cuts

middlebury area

Burlington on Wednesday, July 22. Local songwriter Maryse Smith opens. sun.19

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(Kirtan tribal), 3 p.m., free. Rapid River Boys (folk, Americana), 7 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 8:30 p.m., free. Luddy Mussy (flowery grimy rock ’n' roll), 10 p.m., free.

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THE BEE'S KNEES: Girls Night Out (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Bob Levinson Trio (blues), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. The Advantagers (folk), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Andy Lugo (rebel folk), 2 p.m., free.

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PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Bleeker & MacDougal (folk ballads), 11 a.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Blue Fox (blues), 6:30 p.m., free.

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JASPER'S TAVERN: Luther Guitar Jr. and the Magic Rockers Blues Band (blues), 6 p.m., $20. THE STAGE: Open Mic, 5 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Metal Monday: Maharaja, Hessian, Chalice, 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Smarty McFly (downtempo DJ), 8:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Motown Mondays with DJs Craig Mitchell & Fattie B, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: James Harvey (jazz), 7 p.m., free. The Advantagers (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA'S: Kelly Ravin (country), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free. DJ Dan Freeman (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Tyler Mast & Paradise Divide (rock, funk), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lokum (music of the Near East), 6:30 p.m., free. Pulling Your Chain: A Standup Comedy Showcase, 8 p.m., free. Grup Anwar (classical Arabic), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: The Pizza Tapes (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dawes, Sam Outlaw (altcountry), 8:30 p.m., $20/22. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: CahachaBacha, Loserroove, Little Tybee (folk, Americana), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Brass Balagan, La Peche (brass band), 7:30 p.m., $5. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Starline Rhythm Boys (rock), 6 p.m., free. THE DAILY PLANET: Chris Peterman & Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife DJ Collective (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Lorenz/Morse/Carr Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night, 10 p.m., free.

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JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Old Time Music Session, 6 p.m., free.

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

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dan Liptak Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Jack Topht (political comedy, rap), 7:15 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Rebecca Frazier & Hit and Run, Iron Eyes Cody (bluegrass, Americana), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Gordon Goldsmith (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Live Music, 5 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Steven Skwarek (folk rock), 4 p.m., free. John Banrock (instrumental), 5:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. WingWalker (rock), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Up on the Roof (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: Jeremy Harple (rebel folk), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom JASPER'S TAVERN: Below Zero Blues Jam, 7:30 p.m., free. PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m

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“My Grandmother”

wanda has made a remarkable recovery from the 1994 genocide that ended an estimated 800,000 lives. The central African country, almost exactly the size of Vermont with almost 20 times the population, has been resurrected as a stable — and repressive — state with a dynamic economy. But, of course, survivors do not forget a holocaust. They bear psychic, if not physical, scars that will never heal. “My body remembers the smell,” Burlington photographer Jean Luc Dushime says of the decomposing corpses that lined the streets of Kigali,

Rwanda’s capital, as he fled the stricken country 21 years ago. Most of the victims were members of the minority Tutsi tribe. Psychopaths among the Hutu majority had carried out the world’s worst ethnic slaughter since Hitler’s. Using machetes, they also murdered thousands of fellow Hutu they identified as “moderates.” An invading Tutsi guerrilla army in turn killed an uncounted number of Hutu civilians. Dushime, who is unusual among Rwandans in having mixed Hutu-Tutsi parentage, gently evokes memories of the genocide in his current show of 18 photos at Burlington’s BCA Center. He

took the pictures during his return to Rwanda last year. A 13-year-old student at the time of the butchery, Dushime lived as a refugee in two African countries before settling in Vermont in 2004. As the sampling at BCA suggests, he works in a variety of genres: portraits, landscapes, street scenes, public spectacles. And, in the most striking shots in the exhibit, Dushime uses his camera to compose metaphors. “Broken,” for example, shows a handmade ladder leaning against a wall in a room lit through a window on the left,

à la Vermeer. A rung in the middle has been snapped in half. Shadows on the wall and the lack of a human presence in this unfurnished interior enhance the image’s quiet eloquence. A similar contrast of light and dark creates an even more powerful effect in “Escape, the Murambi Genocide Memorial,” which Dushime shot in another empty, shadow-enshrouded space. This time the light comes from a wide-open door through which we see a sun-soaked hillside in the distance and a green field in the foreground. The site is

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f Ashlee Rubinstein: “Fast and Furious Food,” representational paintings of “bad” food. Reception: Saturday, July 18, 6-8 p.m. July 18-August 29. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. ONE Arts Center in Burlington.

In the most striking shots in the exhibit, Dushime uses his camera to compose metaphors.

f ‘Running the Gamut: From Realism to Abstraction’: A group show featuring the paintings of Daniel Gottsegen and 15 other artists. Reception: Friday, July 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 17-September 1. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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f Elinor Osborn: Photographs of northern

owls by the Vermont nature photographer. Talk: Saturday, July 25, 5 p.m. July 17-August 30. Info, 454-0141. Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield.

f Studio Place Arts Summer 2015: “Strength,” a group show of traditional and nontraditional work that explores the meanings of strength, whether of force or spirit, Main Floor Gallery; “Spirit Images,” drawings and words by Eleanor Ott, Second Floor Gallery; and “Nature Scapes and Other Worlds,” paintings, installation and sculpture by Ruth Hamilton, Third Floor Gallery. Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6-8 p.m. July 21-August 29. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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f Trevor Corp: Paintings, prints and furniture, in the Red Mill Gallery. Reception: Friday, July 17, 7-9 p.m. July 17-August 1. Info, corptrevor@yahoo.com. Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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f James McGarrell & Mark Goodwin: A selection of imagistic paintings, 1984-2004, as well as drawings on tile and paper by McGarrell; and painting, drawing, collage and prints by Goodwin. Reception: Saturday, July 18, 5-7 p.m. July 15-September 6. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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f Denis Versweyveld and Judith Rey: “A Sense of Place,” paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed media on the theme of human interaction with the environment. Reception: Friday, July 24, 6 p.m. July 15-August 15. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. ‘Prehistoric Menagerie’: Six life-size prehistoric animals sculpted using natural materials by Bob Shannahan. Demonstration: Saturday, July 18, noon-4 p.m. July 18-September 7. Info 802-6492200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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f Steven R. Sampson: “The Power of Women,”

life-size figures in wood by local sculptor Steven R. Sampson. Also by appointment. Reception, Sunday, July 19, 4-7 p.m. Sundays. . Info, 536-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Vermont Artists Group Show: Fine art and handcrafted goods by 110 Vermont artists exhibited in a former grist mill. July 15-October 17. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

art events Artist Talk: Paty Sonville: The Belgian artist presents her methods and aesthetic as part of her residency at the center. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Wednesday, July 15, 7 p.m. Info, 438-2097. Huichol Art and Culture: A talk by curator Steve Aldrich describing the origins of yarn paintings and basic information on Huichol art and culture, in conjunction with a current exhibit. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, Wednesday, July 15, 7 p.m. Info, 498-8438. SEABA’s 29th Annual Meeting: A fundraising event with DJ Fattie B, snacks and a cash bar. Also featuring the opening of the SEABA Art & Coffee Lounge, a collaboration with Speeder & Earl’s and designed to create a caffeinated, art-oriented community space in the South End. SEABA Center, Burlington, Thursday, July 16, 5:30-8 p.m. Info, 859-9222. Sienna Craig: The Dartmouth College anthropologist discusses the philosophy and practice of Himalayan medicine in conjunction with the exhibit “Precious Guru: An Artistic Search for the Second Buddha,” at Karma Birdhouse Gallery. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, Thursday, July 16, 6-8 p.m. Info, 249-0397. 1st Annual Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour: A self-guided tour of 25 artist studios and galleries located in the area. Check the website for details. The Jay House / Norte Maar, N.Y., every other day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 646-361-8512. 2nd Annual Jay Invitational of Clay: A regional selection of works in clay. Weekend includes demonstrations of raku, pit and alternative firing techniques by the North Country Potters Guild. In conjunction with the first annual Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour. The Jay House / Norte Maar, N.Y., Saturday, July 18, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Info, 646-361-8512. BCA Summer Artist Market: A juried outdoor market featuring handmade original fine art and crafts by Vermont artists and artisans, in conjunction with the Burlington Farmers Market. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166. Festival des arts Georgeville: Artists exhibit at Le Studio de Georgeville and five other Québec sites with live demonstrations, art in action events and raffles. Le Studio de Georgeville, Québec, July 18-26. Info, 819-843-2928. Middlebury Craft Fair: The Middlebury Studio School fundraiser features works by local artists, teachers and students, and includes children’s activities, pottery-wheel demonstrations and a raffle for a free pottery class. Middlebury Green, Saturday, July 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 247-3702. ‘The Unknown Rockwell: A Portrait of Two American Families’: Friends, neighbors and models of Norman Rockwell, Jim and Bud Edgerton, reflect on their relationship with the Rockwell family and their experiences working with the artist. Their book is available at the talk. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, Saturday, July 18, 2:30 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

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“Jean Luc Dushime — A Global Connection,” photographs from Rwanda, through September 19 at BCA Center in Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.org

f 5th Annual Jericho Plein Air Festival Exhibition: Participants in the outdoor painting event display their finished works. Reception: Sunday, July 19, 2-4 p.m. July 19-August 9. Info, 899-2974. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

f Zigi Ben-Haim: “Made in the USA,” sculpture, mixed media and works on paper from more than four decades. Reception: Friday, July 17, 5-7 p.m. July 17-August 16. Info, 518-523-2512. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y.

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“Mille Collines” shows a few of the thousand hills that give Rwanda its nickname, just as the Green Mountains do for Vermont. Shot from a high vantage point, this photo presents a vista of what could be a tropical version of our state. No people appear atop the hills that roll into the distance beneath a clouddappled sky. Look closely, though, and you’ll see terraced farms carved into the hills closest to the camera. Dushime does load the deck by giving a simple image of a pine grove the title “Standing Witnesses.” Witnesses to what? we wonder, and then notice a swelling of the earth at the center of the shot. It looks like a shallow, unmarked grave. Except it’s not, as Dushime clarifies during an interview at the gallery. What we’re seeing is simply a rock covered with browned pine needles. Again, though, this is Rwanda, so certain assumptions come readily. The show’s portraiture — which includes a close-up of a beautiful young woman; a shot of Dushime’s aged grandmother, her chin cupped by his hand; a hip-hopstyle fisherman; and a smiling boy wearing a tattered shirt — testifies to the photographer’s versatility. “A Global Connection” would have been even stronger, however, if the curator had omitted the two images of jubilant native dancers performing in what has to be a kitschy tourist venue. Although Dushime says he likes living in Vermont, Africa tugs at his heart. He says he’s considering returning to his heavily policed homeland; meanwhile, he’s spent time in far more dangerous corners of the continent. Dushime recently concluded an 11-month gig training photojournalists in South Sudan, another country that’s giving the lie to the post-Holocaust slogan “Never again.” m

f Eli Adams: Nature photography by the Poultney high school student. Reception: Thursday, July 16, 5:30 p.m. July 16-August 17. Info, 362-4061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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a former technical school where several thousand Tutsi were hacked to death. Dushime sends viewers on a journey that he hopes today’s Rwandans share. From the darkness of a deathly past, we are transported toward light and life. A couple of the photos in “Jean Luc Dushime — A Global Connection” depict an urban alienation that can be experienced anywhere. In the Rwandan setting, however, these images of apartness are fraught with connotations. “Connected” has been given an ironic title — as has, perhaps, the entire show. In this piece, the heads and backs of two waiting pedestrians frame the image of a crowded city bus. None of the halflit passengers’ faces is clearly visible, and none of those passengers seem to interact. A sign on the side of the bus — “WiFi Onboard” — is partly obscured by the shoulder of one of the onlookers. In “God Among Us,” a nun in full religious regalia walks away from the camera, seemingly ignored by everyone around her. Dushime has cropped part of the figure of a man in the right corner of this composition, but left visible the cellphone on which he’s talking and his worried expression. Dushime is adept at subverting stereotypes. He shoots swimmers and idlers lounging beneath umbrellas at a pool framed through what may be a partly opened door. It’s a sunny scene with a clear view of a shantytown climbing a hillside in the distance. White tourists oblivious to poverty’s proximity? No, these are locals enjoying a day of cooling relaxation. But their skin color doesn’t make the juxtaposition of what’s surely a sweltering slum any less unsettling. Not every photo in the show is laden with metaphorical or metaphysical significance. Dushime’s pictures of Rwandan landscapes appear to be just that: Rwandan landscapes. But that may not prevent viewers from reading meanings into them.

f Peter Bartlett: Abstract paintings. Reception: Friday, July 17, 6:30-8 p.m. July 17-30. Info, 865-7211. Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

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‘Jose Benitez sanchez: Protean artistic Genius’: A talk by curator Steve Aldrich explores the late Huichol master artist. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, Wednesday, July 22, 7 p.m. Info, 498-8438. Warren KimBle, all-american artist: The artist gives a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Warren Kimble, All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, July 22, noon. Info, 388-2117.

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‘4th annual art educators unite!’: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by 17 self-described “artrageous” female art educators and artists. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington. ‘aBstract sPotliGht’: Paintings by Cameron Schmitz and Johanne Yordan, and photography by Douglas Biklen. Through September 19. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. BrooKe monte and alex dostie: Surreal abstractions and geometry-inspired paintings by the Burlington artists. Through August 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Bruce conKlin: “New Paintings,” Vermont landscapes by the local artist. Through August 15. Info, 862-2470. UVM Medical Center in Burlington. carl ruBino: “It’s Not What You Look At. It’s What You See,” photographs with themes including architectural, natural and urban landscapes, abstracts and multiple-exposure images. Through August 28. Info, 518-524-8450. Hinge in Burlington. ‘chanGe’: Artwork in a variety of media on 6-square-inch panels by more than 75 local artists interpreting the title theme. Through July 15. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

Jacques BurKe: Ink, watercolors, acrylic, spray paint and other mixed media on canvas. Through August 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington. Jean cherouny: “My Home,” two semiabstract series including “Unforceable” and “Truthless” presented as a 10-year retrospective. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. RETN in Burlington. Jean luc dushime: “A Global Connection,” photographs that investigate social and political structures that perpetuate war, violence, misunderstanding and miscommunication. milton rosa-ortiz: “An Ode to Time,” an exploration of the aging process using driftwood taken from Lake Champlain. ricK norcross: “The Faces of Rock & Roll: 1969 to 1974,” images by the longtime leader of western-swing band Rick & the All-Star Ramblers and former music critic-photographer. Through September 19. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. Kevin ruelle: Faux vintage Vermont travel posters. Through August 3. Info, 488-5766. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington. Kristen m. Watson: “{stratum},” mixed-media works that explore translucence and the act of artistic appropriation. Through August 28. Info, 578-0300. Designers’ Circle Jewelers in Burlington. leslie Fry: “Twist & Shout,” an exhibit of monoprints and sculpture by the Winooski artist. Through August 4. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington.

f ‘the live shoW’: A SEABA fundraiser featuring live painting through July and exhibited in August. Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

‘looKinG out: the selF-tauGht art oF larry Bissonnette’: Bold mixed-media paintings by the Vermont artist and international spokesman for autism, in his first solo show. Through August 29. Info, 863-5966. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. ‘maritime BurlinGton’: An interactive exhibit organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum under a tent at Perkins Pier; hands-on activities, historic photos, highlights from the museum’s nautical archaeology work and research, and lake tours. Through October 12. Info, 475-2022. Perkins Pier in Burlington.

f ‘on the WaterFront’: A waterfront-themed exhibition in conjunction with the 10th annual Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Reception: Sunday, July 19, 3-5 p.m. Through August 30. Info, 914-584-1215. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington. ‘Precious Guru’: Triptych Journey, a Burlington arts and storytelling organization, presents a multimedia artistic response to its eight-week trip across Asia tracking the legend of Padma Sambhava, or Guru Rinpoche. Through July 19. Info, 249-0397. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. rex Bradeen: Acrylic paintings and screenprints on paper focusing on contemporary fables featuring fortysomething moms interpreted through the clarifying lens of linoleum and insects, respectively. Through July 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. roBert Waldo Brunelle Jr.: “Playtime,” a solo exhibition featuring kinetic sculptures by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. victoria BleWer: “Cuba!,” photographs of people and urban settings from 2014. Through July 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

f ‘WorKs Both Ways’: 2D and 3D mixed-media

works by artists who are also poets and writers: Bren Alvarez, Merche Bautista, Sharon Webster, Tina Escala, Genese Grill, Marian Willmott, Roger Coleman and Jon Turner. Reception: Friday, July 31, 5-8 p.m. Through September 4. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington.

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‘american moderns, 1910-1960: From o’KeeFFe to rocKWell’: Almost 50 artworks in a variety of styles that explore the range of American modern painting and sculpture. Includes works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Rockwell Kent, Luigi Lucioni and Norman Rockwell. Through September 13. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘Birds oF a FiBer’: A community art show. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. emily mitchell: Whimsical and vibrant acrylic paintings by the Richmond artist and educator. Through August 31. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. essex art leaGue: Paintings, photographs, matted prints and ceramic art by members. Through July 31. Info, president@essexartleague.com. The Old Red Mill in Jericho. ‘travel With oGden Pleissner’: A selection of the artist’s lesser-known American and European landscapes, along with other American paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Judy B. dales: “Ahead of the Curve,” an exhibit of contemporary quilts from the last 18 years of the artist’s flowing, abstract style. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. ‘a midsummer’s niGht’: The brewery’s new gallery celebrates with works by local artists inside and out. Through August 25. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com. Burlington Beer Company in Williston. natural realm: Photographs that investigate the intrinsic magic in the natural world, including landscapes large and small. Through July 19. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. nicole christman: Artworks from the winner of the 3rd Annual Labels for Libations design contest. Bottles of Art Hop Ale featuring the artist’s label design available for purchase; $1 from every bottle sold benefits SEABA. Through July 31. Info, 6582739. Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington. rory JacKson: “Printed Light,” giclée prints on canvas depicting Vermont and Ghana. Through August 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

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‘GraPhic lives’: Sketches, paintings, books and sculptures that examine the act of writing and drawing a life by comic memoirists Glynnis Fawkes, Alex Costantino, Summer Pierre and Jennifer Hayden. Through July 28. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington.

the innovation center summer shoW: Group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First floor: Alana LaPoint, Ashley Veselis, Casey Blanchard, Elizabeth Bunsen, Liz Cleary, Meryl Lebowitz, Michael Buckley and Tom Merwin. Second floor: Elizabeth Nelson, James Vogler, Jeffrey Trubisz, Lyna Lou Nordstorm, Michael Pitts and Robert Green. Third floor: Haley Bishop, Jacques Burke, Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings and Meryl Lebowitz. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 863-6903. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

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‘1865, Out Of the Ashes: AssAssinAtiOn, RecOnstRuctiOn & heAling the nAtiOn’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. AlisA DwORsky: “Over and Under,” a mixed-media installation by the Montpelier artist, woven by dancers on the college green. Through July 21. Info, 249-7179. Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. BARBARA leBeR: “The Long and Short of It,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 225-6628. Plainfield Community Center.

f ‘cReAtive cOsmOs’: Paintings, prints, weaving, sculpture and digital images inspired by the cosmos and scientific discoveries by Sabra Field, Paul Calter, Cameron Davis, Janet Van Fleet, Bhakti Ziek, Marcus Greene and Jim Robinson. Reception: August 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Through September 7. mARie lAPRé gRABOn: Landscapes and collages by the Vermont artist. Through August 10. Info, 728-3726. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. eARly summeR memBeRs’ shOw: An exhibition of works by 13 members of the new venue. Through July 31. Info, 839-5349. The Front in Montpelier.

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styles from whimsical still life to evocative photorealism. Fourteen artists have been honored in the fourth year of this juried show, which is produced by Valley Arts Foundation, and their works — along with many other artists’ — are on view at the Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield through July 25. Executive director Karen Nevin says about the diversity of works, “Everyone finds a favorite that really resonates with them.” Top winners this year receiving the Gold Medal Award for Excellence are “Revolution” by Janet Laird-Lagassee and “Turtle Sitting” (pictured) by Kate Hartley. The award for Best Vermont Artist goes to Judith Selin of Shelburne, with “The Barn at Shelburne Farms.”

hAnnAh mORRis: “Things to Remember Camping,” multimedia gouache and paper collages that make “little picture books” about concepts large and small, and with self-referential humor. Through August 7. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. JOhn snell: “In My Backyard,” 30 color photographs that feature abstract and representational images from central Vermont that emphasize everyday beauty. Through July 31. Info, 223-3338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. ‘A legAcy Of cARing: kuRn hAttin hOmes fOR chilDRen’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. mitch smOlleR: “New England Artifacts,” photographs of New England artifacts, landscapes and architecture. Through August 1. Info, mitchsmoller@yahoo.com. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

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‘2015 legAcy cOllectiOn’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and Mary Bryan. Through December 30. ‘geneRAtiOns’: Works by 30 artists and the artists who taught them, showing influences and how techniques evolve over time. Through September 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

f ‘wAteR’: Paintings that explore the beauty of summer by Mariella Bisson, Rebecca Kinkead, Craig Mooney and Carol O’Malia. Through July 30. f Beth DOnAhue: “American Zen,” visceral abstract paintings influenced by literary works, natural patterns and teachings of Hindu and Zen masters. Through July 31. f JuliA Jensen: “Scenes Remembered,” oil and encaustic paintings that celebrate light and the natural landscape. Through August 11. f susAn wAhlRAB: “Seasons,” layered varnished watercolor paintings on archival clay board. Reception: Saturday, July 18, 6-8 p.m. Through July 30. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. ‘exPOseD’: The 24th annual outdoor exhibit features 18 sculptures and installations by regional artists, sited at the gallery, downtown and along the recreation path. Through October 14. ‘nOw yOu see me: the Best Of the nORtheAst mAsteRs Of fine ARts 2015’: The third biennial exhibition featuring emerging contemporary artists from Québec, New England and New York working in a variety of media. Through August 23. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. ‘RiveR wORks’: Photography, paintings and multimedia inspired by Vermont rivers and water meditation by Arista Alanis, Kevin Fahey, Janet Fredericks, John Miller, John Sargent, Rett Sturman and Kathryn Lipke. Through July 30. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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f tOm leythAm: “The Other Working Landscape,” watercolors of Vermont’s vanishing industrial architecture by the Montpelier artist and architect. Reception: Thursday, July 16, 3-5 p.m. Through September 30. Info, 229-0430. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

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teRRy Allen: New photographs, photo-collage works and prints. Through July 25. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.

tinA vAlentinetti: “Windows: Looking In, Looking Out,” photography of and about windows. Through August 28. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

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champlain islands/northwest

David Stromeyer Sculpture: The artist opens his private park to visitors for the summer and early fall. On view are about 50 large-scale sculptures that represent four decades of work inspired by the rhythms, forms and patterns of the Vermont landscape. Through October 12. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. Tod Gunter Aviation Art: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter, and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighter-bomber active in Vietnam. More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Gallery in Stowe.

‘History Influences’: Three artists’ works on the theme of history: wooden bowls by Toby Fulwiler, fiber creations by Pamela Krout-Voss and photographs and paintings by Jo Anne Wazny. Through July 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

Trevor Corp: Paintings and prints by the local artist and staff member at the Vermont Studio Center. Through August 17. Info, 635-7423. The Lovin’ Cup in Johnson.

‘View From the Top Floor’: The top floor of the gallery opens with works by many local artists and artisans. Through August 12. Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.

mad river valley/waterbury

4th Annual Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition: A juried exhibition of 70 paintings ranging from abstract to photorealism by 55 international artists. Another 70 paintings are included in the small works show. Through July 25. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm. in Waitsfield.

upper valley

Candy Barr: Paintings by the Mad River Valley artist. Through July 31. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield.

‘Birds Are Dinosaurs’: An exhibit tracing the evolution of birds from their ancestors includes skeletons and life-size replicas by paleo-artist Todd Marshall. Hands-on activities include a replica dig site. Through October 31. $11.50-13.50. Info, 359-5000. VINS Nature Center in Hartford.

‘Art on the Farm’: Sculpture and painting by six artists who live and work in Vermont: Chelsie Bush, Ian Campbell, Pamela Fraser, Amy Morel, Nicko Moussallem and Otto Pierce. Thursdays. Info, edythe.f.wright@gmail.com. Clark Farm in Barnard.

Kylie Wolgamott: “Fertile Ground,” paintings and mixed-media drawings on the theme of life and decay. Through August 1. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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‘Local Color’: Paintings, textiles, pottery, glass and other media by 45-plus member artists exploring Vermont’s natural and built environment. Sean Dye: Vermont landscapes in oil, acrylic and pastel. Through September 30. Info, 338-0136. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

Beth Donahue “In the studio, I am exhilarated with the physicality and

‘Alternative Process’: This juried exhibit features 40 works by 37 photographers, focusing on a variety of image-making methods. Through July 24. Info, 388-4500. PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

tactile properties of mixed media and the experimental techniques,” Donahue writes

‘The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850-1880’: Drawings from agricultural papers capturing 19th-century Vermont farm life and times by a member of the museum homestead’s family. Through October 25. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

viewers can find thickly applied oils, torn paper and canvas scraped, gouged, rubbed

James P. Blair: “Last Leaf,” black-and-white photographs that explore the complexity and fragility of nature and human impact upon it. Through July 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.

yet born. I use the gold leaf to humanize space and elevate the viewers’ experience.” A

‘Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African American Experience’: Some 100 photographs of African Americans, from 1840s daguerreotypes to the civil rights era of the 1960s, from the collection of George R. Rinhart. Language Schools at the Museum (The Oberbrook Gallery): Twenty works of art from the museum’s permanent collection represent many of the countries and cultures that the college’s summer language schools represent. Through August 9. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art. Patricia LeBon Herb: Paintings on multiple themes including starry nights, Paris, flowers, still life, birds and spring. Through July 31. Info, 877-6316. Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Peter Fried: “Addison: Land Meets Sky,” an exhibit of Addison County landscapes in the artist’s new gallery. Through October 8. Info, 355-1447. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes. Rachel Baird: “Celestial Verses,” a poem by the artist embedded within paint and ink on paper and fabric, forming a celestial canopy translated into all the languages taught at the Middlebury Language School. In conjunction with celebrations of the school’s 100th year. Through July 23. Info, 800-249-3562. ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury.

of her inspirations. Titled “American Zen,” her exhibit of energetic, visceral works is on view at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe through July 31. There, and dripped upon. West Branch gallerists describe the collection as “a contemplative whole.” Describing her process, Donahue writes, “I think of the stretchers as being the ‘bones,’ the canvas as the ‘skin’ and the colors as the ‘personality’ of an idea not reception for “American Zen” and other summer exhibits is Saturday, July 18, 6-8 p.m. Pictured: “#124-151.”

Steven Jupiter: “Hubbardton Creek,” a limited-edition series of 10 color 24-by-36-inch photographs of a Vermont waterway. Through July 26. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury. ‘Warren Kimble, All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective’: The internationally known Vermont artist exhibits a lifetime of work, including his “Sunshine” series, “Widows of War” paintings and sculpture, and more recent “House of Cards” and “Into the Box” series, which features open-faced boxes filled with found objects and architectural assemblages. Also on view is the Kimbles’ personal collection of folk art. Through October 18. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

rutland area

Althea Bilodeau and Kathy Domenicucci: “Colors of Summer,” contemporary feltwear and oil paintings, respectively. Through September 1. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

Castleton Alumni Art Exhibition: Artworks by 16 graduates from 1982 through 2014. Through August 28. Info, 468-6052. Rutland City Hall. ‘Images of LOVE and Community’: Photographs by students and community members in three parts: the “PhotoVoice” project, “(Un)covering Rutland” and the Chaffee’s 8th Annual Photography Contest, “Images of Love.” Through July 25. f ‘Metamorphosis: A Love of Change’: Sculpture by Paedra Bramhall and Patrick Farrow and ceramic work by Stephen Procter on the theme of individual changes over a lifetime. Reception: Friday, July 17, 5-7 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Sally Hughes: “Watercolor for the Senses,” paintings inspired by geology and the outdoors. Through August 9. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

‘Huichol: Art of a Threatened Shamanic Culture’: Intricate yarn paintings by four indigenous artists from west-central Mexico: José Benítez Sánchez, Guadalupe González Ríos, Juan Ríos Martínez and Pablo Taizán de la Cruz; presented with historical and contemporary photographs, music and cultural artifacts. Through September 6. Info, 498-8438. BALE Community Space in South Royalton. Jen Violette and Linda Rosenthal: Mixedmedia and still-life wall sculptures and handblown glass, and abstract photography, respectively. Through September 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Keith Sonnier: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. Peter Saul: In a retrospective exhibit that spans his career, 1959-2012, the American artist presents colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and occasionally politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading. Sharon Rug Hooking and Fiber Crafts: Eight members of the rug-making group show finished works. Through August 16. Info, 282-5814. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. Sheri Hancock-Tomek: Monoprints. Through July 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Tom Schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock. ‘Welcome to DNA LAND’: The third annual summer show of collages and prints by Ben Peberdy and W. David Powell. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

brattleboro area

“Art + Computer / Time”: Computer-generated artwork from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection from 1954 to the present. Through September 27. Debra Bermingham: “Threaded Dances,” surreal landscapes in oil. Jim Dine: “People, Places, Things,” a retrospective in multiple media. Ray Ruseckas: “Close to Home,” landscapes in pastels. Rodrigo Nava: “Expanded Forms,” steel sculptures on the museum grounds. Through October 25. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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call to artists 2016 UVM Medical center artists calendar: The Foundation Office and Arts Committee seeks submissions of two-dimensional media from Vermont artists for annual calendar. Seasonal artwork, abstract or representational, is encouraged. Selected artists will receive a stipend of $150. Submission should include: 50-60-word bio/artist statement, résumé, name, address, telephone number, website and email address. Mail to Attn: 2016 Artist Calendar, UVM Medical Center Development Office, 461OH4, 111 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT 05401. Deadline: July 17. UVM Medical Center, Burlington, Info, 847-2886. artists and crafters Wanted: New art gallery and gift shop the Hive opens in August in Middlesex (next to Red Hen and Nutty Steph’s). The collective venue will exhibit and sell high-quality, unique, local artists’ work, including traditional artwork, upcycled and recycled pieces, and art with a funky, creative twist. Interested artists, contact us at thebuzz@thehivevt. com. The Hive, Middlesex. Deadline: September 4. Info, 496-7895.

festiVal of the arts: The 7th annual Festival of the Arts is August 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., on Jeffersonville’s Main Street with fine art, food and music. Regional artists can register to show or sell art by registering on the CAC’s blog at cambridgeartsvt.org. Cambridge Arts Council, July 15-August 6. Info, 633-2388. ‘Painting fields of Plenty: Plein air Paint oUt’: Seeking artists for a Lake Champlain Islands plein air painting event August 15, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Art will be created live as the public watches. Sign-up deadline: August 8. Grand Isle Art Works. $20. Info, 378-4591, info@ grandisleartworks.com. ‘shades of red’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit 2D artwork in any medium for a September-December exhibit at the Jericho Town Hall. The work must include the color red. Info: blgreene@ myfairpoint.net. Deadline: August 15. Jericho Town Hall. Info, 899-2974. Wet Paint liVe: Seeking oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic artists to paint in “plein air” at “Wet Paint Live Vermont (WPL)” on Saturday, October 10, 2015 in Springfield, Vermont. Professional and emerging artists can find the registration form online. WPL will be held rain or shine, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Artists will paint scenes along an Art Walk that

winds alongside the Black River and into downtown Springfield. Visitors will view the art as it is created. At 3:30 p.m. there will be a reception with judging and prizes will be in three categories: “Best in Show, Professional,” “Best in Show, Emerging” and “People’s Choice.” Check the online guidelines to determine your category as professional or emerging. The juror for the event is Springfield resident, Robert Carsten, PSA-M. The Great Hall, Springfield. Deadline: September 30. $15 per submission. Info, 885-6156, nlanoue@comcast. net. ‘yoUr deniM. oUr Water.’: Patagonia Burlington and 1% for the Planet seek art that incorporates filthy denim and showcases what Vermont’s water means to you. Share your passion with the community by drawing or painting on denim or by photographing or sculpting a piece of denim. For the first 25 artworks, Patagonia will donate $10 to 1% for the Planet. On Thursday, August 27, 5:30-8 p.m., selected artwork will be displayed at the Karma Bird House Gallery. Submission deadline: August 19 through 25. Drop off location: 1% for the Planet, 47 Maple St., Burlington. Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington. Info, 923-2910.

manchester/bennington

donna Jean safford: A 25-year retrospective of 50 paintings. Through September 8. Info, 3341966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

outside vermont

MeMorial exhibition for ellen dorn leVitt: “A Visit With Ellen” features the artist’s many mediums including hand-painted linoleum-block prints, pastel drawings, colored pencil drawings, paper cutout designs, cards, baskets and jewelry. Through August 8. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘can yoU dig it?’: A community exhibit celebrating music-album cover art, in the Rotunda Gallery. Through October 11. ‘hoMer’s aMerica’: Selections from the museum’s permanent collection include five Civil War works as well as prints of children at play. On view in Hoopes Gallery. Through September 16. ‘the late draWings of andy Warhol: 1973-1987’: Fifty drawings, some of them on view for the first time, by the late pop artist; organized by the Andy Warhol Museum. Wood Gallery. Through September 12. Info, 518-7921761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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Virginia West retrosPectiVe: Eight of the ninetysomething artist’s sculptural works, along with a weaving and textile-art exhibition featuring Betsy Day, Judy Dales, Sandy Ducharme, Carolyn Enz Hack, Dennis and Candice Glassford and Carol MacDonald. Through August 7. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

ann PeMber and Mina angelos: “Watercolor,” paintings from the upstate New York members of the American Watercolor Society. Through September 13. Info, 518-564-2474. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y.

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‘aires libres’: This annual public art exhibition takes place all over downtown Montreal, with video and photographic installations, sculptures and a special exhibit titled “Politics of Empathy.” Through September 7. Info, 514-861-7870. Downtown Montréal, QC.

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‘grassroots art: inWard adorings of the Mind’: Folk, outsider and visionary artists’ works from the museum’s and Gregg Blasdel/Jennifer Koch collections include textiles, ceramics, weathervanes, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Through November 1. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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‘The Fearsome Foursome’: pen-and-ink drawings, watercolor paintings and sculpture by four osHeR and AvA instructors: Winkie Kelsey, stephanie Reininger, Ann semprebon and Jo Tate. Through July 24. info, 603-448-3117. AvA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, n.H. ‘From GainsborouGh To moore: 200 Years oF briTish DrawinGs’: An exhibit of 40 drawings and pastels, mid-18th to late 20th century, from the museum’s uK collection. Through August 16. ‘meTamorphoses: in roDin’s sTuDio’: nearly 300 works by the French sculptor, including masterpieces shown for the first time in north America, in collaboration with the musée Rodin in paris. Through october 18. marion waGschal: “portraits, memories, Fables,” the first solo museum exhibition of the montréal artist, featuring close to 30 paintings produced between 1971 and 2014. These include portraiture and allegorical representations painted when abstraction was in style. Through August 9. info, 515-285-2000. montréal museum of Fine Arts.

‘repeaT’: A group show with works in multiple media by deborah morris, so-il, Leslie Fry, penelope umbrico, sarah Lutz, Tiffany matula, Zachary Keeting and Andrew Forge. Through August 23. info, 603-646-1397. strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center, in Hanover, n.H. ‘ukara: riTual cloTh oF The ekpe secreT socieTY’: An exhibition examining the signature textile of the ekpe secret society and exploring the cultural practice the cloth represents, as well as the artistic process involved in its creation. Through August 2. ‘waTer waYs: Tension anD Flow’: Landscape and portraiture photography from the permanent collection that explores “water’s impact on human life and humanity’s impact on water.” Through August 23. VicTor ekpuk: “Auto-Graphics,” mixed-media works in graphite and pastel on paper, influenced by the artist’s nigerian roots. Through August 2. info, 603-646-2095. Hood museum, dartmouth College, in Hanover, n.H. m

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K, it’s official: Worst Movie of the Year. Sure, there are lots of months left on the 2015 calendar, but it’s simply inconceivable that a studio will release a more derivative, witless, ineptly crafted or cynically conceived piece of cinematic manure than The Gallows between now and the night the big ball drops. How to come up with 600 words about a movie so unspeakably bad? I guess we can start with the part about it being cynically conceived. Everything about this film is lazily dreadful, from its lame appropriation of the done-to-death found-footage gimmick to its reliance on cheap jump scares. And yet, as Warner Bros. knows all too well, The Gallows can’t lose. Money, that is. Never mind that twentysomething writer-directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing have never made a movie before. Or that the cast is made up of complete unknowns who are destined to remain that way. Or that there isn’t a second of originality in the picture’s 80 minutes. Or that 80 minutes have never felt more like three hours.

The bottom line is, crappy and imbecilic as it is, The Gallows is guaranteed to be immensely profitable. Which just encourages this sort of thing. That’s the way things work in today’s global marketplace. Churn out a pinheaded collection of horror clichés on a budget this minuscule (reportedly $100,000), open it on thousands of screens around the world, and you’ve made millions before word gets out that the thing’s pure motion-picture poo. Why go to the trouble of putting out something good when you can make just as much with something artistically worthless? I suppose I should share the splendor of Cluff and Lofing’s vision: In 1993, we learn, a kid named Charlie died from a prop malfunction in the course of a high school play. The film offers no explanation of how a student could have been accidentally hanged in the manner shown, but we all know he was because we watch the grainy footage of the tragedy again and again. Twenty years later, the school is inexplicably staging a production of the same play. Hey, what could go wrong? On the eve of the

BAD NOOSE Drivel doesn’t get more derivative than this horror-free feature debut.

opening, a group of students gets the bright idea to break into the school at night and trash the set. Rehearsals aren’t going well, and it’s decided the show shouldn’t go on, since one or two popular kids might embarrass themselves. “You’re a terrible actor,” one hunk informs another. No argument is offered. Thespians played by Ryan Shoos, Cassidy Gifford, Reese Mishler and Pfeifer Brown find themselves alone in an auditorium when — you guessed it — lights stop working, doors start locking, a shadowy figure holding a noose appears and somehow all the ho-hum horror is captured on grainy cellphone footage. Though the cameras on their phones work, the students are unable to use them to call for help as they’re picked off one by one. Oops — I mean, “Spoiler alert.”

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or those who don’t watch TV or frequent chain stores or Facebook, here’s the real backstory of the Minions. Five years ago, these pencil-eraser-esque, googly-eyed, gibberishspouting creatures were entertaining side characters in an above-average family flick called Despicable Me. Small children took so much pleasure in the Minions’ antics as they served (and often chaotically sabotaged) the film’s supervillain protagonist that a larger role in the 2013 sequel was inevitable. Judging by their popularity in socialmedia memes and advertising, the following two years saw the Minions ascend to cultural icon status — an army of nonverbal Bart Simpsons for a new generation. Now they have their own movie, and it’s almost exactly what you’d expect: a hilarious romp for very small viewers, a bit painful for large ones. Directed by Kyle Balda (The Lorax) and Pierre Coffin (both Despicable Mes), Minions offers a fictional version of the Minions’ backstory. A plummy-voiced narrator (Geoffrey Rush) guides us through the prehistory of the little dudes. (Or are they? Despite the use of male names and pronouns, the Minions’ lack of visible sex characteristics is a recurring gag.) From the beginning of time, we learn, Minions survived by glomming on to the biggest, baddest bullies in their environ-

If you’ve never seen a scary movie, I suppose you might be mildly rattled by the blam of doors slamming themselves or the sight of a spooky figure lurking behind an unsuspecting teen. Anyone else is likely to find that the scariest thing about The Gallows is that a major studio would have anything to do with it. Horror is experiencing something of a renaissance recently with the release of brilliant, innovative works such as The Babadook and It Follows. Viewers expecting The Gallows to continue the trend will be disappointed to find that Cluff and Lofing have, so to speak, left them hanging.

YELLOW FEVER The Minions embark on a cuteness crusade to take over the world in their first solo feature.

ment. The symbiosis invariably went south for both parties, however, so the Minions eventually renounced their toadying ways and sought safety in isolation. At this point, the action jumps to 1968, a date we’re asked to see as a turning point in Minion history, though it actually serves mainly as an excuse to put “far out” stereotypes on the screen and boomer favorites on the soundtrack. An unusually self-motivated Minion named Kevin (voiced, along with his brethren, by Coffin) thinks his people need a supervillain master once more. So he sets out, along with teenager-ish Stuart and cuddly, childish Bob, in search of evil. Eventually they find Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock), a wasp-waisted charmer who recruits them

to steal the Queen of England’s crown. It’s a funny central conceit that clearly plays on children’s ambivalence about their dependence on big, strong, often inscrutable adults. The problem is, no one in the movie seems remotely like an adult, and the wildly zigzagging storyline might itself have been scripted by Minions. Portrayed as a nonetoo-bright aspiring high school Mean Girl (without the delicious slyness that Steve Carell gave his parallel character in Despicable Me), Scarlett Overkill never poses a plausible threat to the Minions, let alone the world. That leaves the story without tension or stakes. And it’s hard to root for characters who barely have differentiated identities — they’re just foci for joyful anarchy.

At its best, Minions is random to the point of trippiness, as in a scene where our heroes hypnotize the Queen’s guard and lead them in a half-naked Minion-speak rendition of the chorus of “Hair.” Far too often, though, the movie relies on tired slapstick and weak sight gags (A Minion in a medieval torture dungeon! A Minion riding one of the queen’s corgis! A Minion wearing a thong!) instead of finding humor in the Minions’ genuine alienness. The script barely acknowledges the apparent contradiction between their adorable innocence and their vocation of evil sycophancy, much less milk it for satire. But satire takes life experience to appreciate — and this movie, more than many of its animated brethren, aims straight at the least seasoned viewers. While kids who crave more Minion havoc will probably leave satisfied, no one should come to Minions expecting the emotional arc of Frozen or Inside Out or even Despicable Me. WALL-E downplayed dialogue to tell a universal story through images; Minions downplays dialogue because its critters have nothing much to say. Their expressive jabber is fascinating until you start recognizing English, French and Spanish phrases — and realize they’re basically just speaking the new Esperanto of worldwide box-office domination. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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now playing tHe gAlloWs 1/2H high school theater kids make the mistake of putting on a deadly play — which apparently is not Macbeth — in this found-footage horror flick from writer-directors travis cluff and chris lofing, who got their start on youtube. (81 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/15) iNsiDe oUtHHHH1/2 The latest Pixar family animation takes us inside a young girl’s mind to witness her warring emotions — personified as independent beings, voiced by amy Poehler, bill hader, Mindy Kaling and others — as she confronts changes in her life. Pete docter (Up) and Ronaldo del carmen directed. (94 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 6/24)

love & meRcYHHHHH Paul dano and John cusack portray brian wilson at two different stages of life in director bill Pohlad’s biographical drama, which explores the beach boy’s mental breakdown and his search for a perfect studio sound. with Elizabeth banks and Paul giamatti. (119 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/17)

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selF/lessHH a dying architect (ben Kingsley) pays a sinister company to transfer his consciousness into the body of a young stud (Ryan Reynolds) in this sci-fi thriller that sounds like an unofficial remake of John frankenheimer’s Seconds. tarsem Singh (Immortals) directed. (116 min, Pg-13) spYHHH a mousy cIa analyst (Melissa Mccarthy) goes undercover as a field agent to prevent global diabolical doings in this spy spoof/action flick from writer-director Paul feig (Bridesmaids). with Jude law and Rose byrne. (120 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/10)

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teD 2H1/2 In the sequel to writer-director Seth Macfarlane’s comedy hit about a grown-up boy (Mark wahlberg) and his foul-mouthed giant teddy bear companion (voiced by Macfarlane), the bear must prove his personhood before he can become a dad, and we’re just confused now. with amanda Seyfried and Jessica barth. (115 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/1) teRmiNAtoR geNisYsHH future freedom fighter Kyle Reese (Jai courtney) goes back in time to protect his leader’s mom-to-be (Emilia clarke) and finds nothing as he expects, in a new chapter of the now-convoluted Sf franchise. arnold Schwarzenegger returns to terminating. alan taylor (Thor: The Dark World) directed. (125 min, Pg-13) testAmeNt oF YoUtHHHHH alicia Vikander plays british author Vera brittain in this bbc adaptation of her memoir of love and sacrifice during world war I. with Kit harington and taron Egerton. James Kent directed. (129 min, Pg-13) tHe WolFpAckHHH1/2 crystal Moselle’s Sundance-lauded documentary explores the private world of six brothers who were raised in a Manhattan apartment with little exposure to life outside — except through hollywood movies. (80 min, R)

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miNioNsHH young viewers of Despicable Me and its sequel liked the supervillain hero but loved his gibberish-spouting minions. So hollywood gave the kids what they craved — an animated tale entirely devoted to minion backstory. Sandra bullock, Jon hamm and Michael Keaton provide the human voices. Kyle balda and Pierre coffin directed. (91 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 7/15)

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mAgic mike XXlHHHH channing tatum is back as the titular male stripper, but Steven Soderbergh is not (at least in the director’s chair), for this sequel in which Mike returns to his bumping and grinding ways in Myrtle beach. with Elizabeth banks, Matt bomer and amber heard. gregory Jacobs directed. (115 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/8)

mAXHH1/2 This family film chronicles the adventures of a heroic canine who returns from service in afghanistan with PtSd and joins the family of a fallen Marine. Thomas haden church and lauren graham are among the human players. boaz yakin (Remember the Titans) directed. (111 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 7/1)

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it FolloWSHHHH1/2 The title succinctly describes the nature of the threat in this indie horror film from writer-director David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover). (100 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 4/1) tHE loNGESt RiDEH1/2 In yet another tissuegrabber from Nicholas Sparks, star-crossed love stories past and present unfold when a former rodeo champion and an art-history grad on their first date rescue an elderly man from a burning car. (139 min, PG-13)

tHE SAlt oF tHE EARtHHHHH Wim Wenders codirected this documentary about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose powerful images have chronicled global horrors, with the photographer’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. (110 min, PG-13) tHE SEcoND BESt EXotic mARiGolD HotElHH1/2 The sequel to the 2011 comedydrama hit follows the quirky inhabitants and managers of an Indian inn as they strive to expand into a second establishment. (122 min, PG)

pAUl BlARt: mAll cop 2 1/2H The would-be officer of the peace (Kevin James) heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter for a trip that might just involve hijinks in this sequel to the hit comedy. (94 min, PG)

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straight dope (p.28) crossword (p.c-5) Curses, Foiled Again calcoku & sudoku (p.c-7) British police recovered a stolen car in Middleton when the two suspects tried driving it into the police station parking garage. Surveillance footage shows the 25-yearold and 26-year-old men thwarted by the security gate but unable to back up because two police vans were waiting behind them. Thinking the vans were pursuing them, the men fled on foot, Detective Inspector Lee Hopwood said, but officers tracked them down. (Britain’s Manchester Evening News) When a television news interview with accident witness Courtney Barnes went viral, as much for his hilarious account of events as for his green hair and green fingernails, the owner of a store in Ridgeland, Miss., recognized Barnes as a shoplifting suspect from surveillance video and notified police. (Jackson’s WLBT-TV)

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A public safety message intended to shock people was removed because it shocked people. The billboard, promoting bicycle safety in Bakersfield, Calif., depicted a bicycle and a victim chalk outline, with the words, “See and be seen. Don’t be roadkill.” Rhonda Hiller complained of the wording and its location, near where her son died in a traffic crash. “My son’s not roadkill,” she declared. Kern Council of Governments official Susanne Campbell said the “roadkill” message would be changed on billboards and bus ads. (Bakersfield’s KBAK-TV)

At a Fourth of July celebration in Calais, Maine, Devon Staples, 22, decided to launch fireworks off the top of his head. He died instantly. “There was no rushing him to the hospital,” said his brother Cody Staples, 25, who was standing a few feet away when Devon placed a reloadable mortar tube on his head and ignited the fireworks. “There was no Devon left when I got there.” (Associated Press)

Milking the System

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Andrea Cammelleri had her pickup truck ticketed and towed from in front of her home in West Jefferson, Ohio, because she parked it on the street for more than the allowed 24 hours. She protested after her boyfriend pointed out that the ordinance about parking time limits applies to a “motor vehicle camper,” not a motor vehicle and a camper, because there’s no comma between them. An appeals judge agreed the ordinance should be read as it’s written and ordered the city to reimburse her for towing and legal fees. “I was told, ‘don’t fight city hall,’ I’d never win,” Cammelleri said. “I did.” (Columbus’s WTTE-TV)

Homeland Insecurity

White supremacists and antigovernment radicals have killed more people in the United States since September 11, 2001, than Muslim jihadists have, according to Washington research center New America. The score: 48 to 26. New America program associate David Sterman warned that white supremacy and antigovernment idealism constitute an “ignored threat” because the government has focused its surveillance and data collection efforts instead on domestic Islamic extremists. (Washington Times)

Decimal Politics

Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced his presidential candidacy by calling for the United States to switch to the metric system of weights and measure. “Believe me, it’s easy,” he promised. “It doesn’t take long before 34 degrees is hot.” (Washington Times)

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Turkish authorities accused two men of making counterfeit popsicle sticks, which could be used to claim free ice cream bars from vendors. The manufacturer making the legitimate offer complained to police that it received more free-popsicle sticks than it originally produced. Investigators who raided an office in Istanbul seized thousands of fake popsicle sticks marked “free” and arrested suspects Ahmet A., 35, and Cem S., 27. (Turkey’s Dogan News Agency)

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After Carl McCoid, 42, got divorced in 2010, he covered his body with 29 Miley Cyrus tattoos. But after the performer told an American interviewer, “There’s a dude that holds a record of the most pictures of my face, he has like 18 pictures of my face and they’re really ugly,” the disappointed father of four in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, decided to have the tattoos removed by laser. “Right now, I have 29 tattoos done and have spent 2,800 pounds (US $4,300),” McCoid said. “I never thought I would regret it.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)

the accused doctors, Noble U. Ezukanma, 56, submitted invoices claiming to have worked 205 hours in one day in 2012. Agents seized $344,900 from his Fort Worth, Texas, home. (Dallas Morning News)

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That’s why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul Dr. Seuss said, “I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.”

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(April 20-May 20): When you read a book that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add color to the text’s main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don’t recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that’s important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions and the asides.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Stop Making Sense was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): July is barely half over, but your recent scrapes with cosmic law have already earned you the title of “The Most Lyrically Tormented Struggler of the Month.” Another few days of this productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. I could see you being selected as “The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom” or “The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual Wounds.” But it’s my duty to let you know that you could also just walk away from it all. Even if you’re tempted to stick around and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can overcome, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done enough impossible work for now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People who have

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience,” wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I’m pleased to announce that you are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks. At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph. A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The poet Mary

Ruefle describes reading books as “a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan.” Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years’ experience in a few short weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she’s “highmaintenance in bed.” Every time she’s involved in a sexual encounter, she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead — not just during your erotic adventures, but everywhere else, too. Ask for what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain what you want. Here’s another critical element to keep in mind: To get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that “Strength is my biggest weakness.” Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dim-witted? Perhaps. But I’m not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you’re practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O’Hara: “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler’s. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That’s right: The mended version will be superior to the original.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): Australian actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette, and Pitch Perfect. But she didn’t start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be “a really good actress who also won an Oscar.” The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you’re feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility.

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“A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.” That’s an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be, “A smart person isn’t drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight.” A further alternative: “An imaginative soul isn’t predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations.” Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English word “quiddity” has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing — the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the essential nature of things.

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My husband is always interested in pleasing me. He enjoys giving oral and especially loves to play with me with his hands. I enjoy that — to an extent. I do have some problems with his enjoyment (or over-enjoyment) of these activities… When he uses his hands, he’s too rough and fast, and he wants to do that for way longer than I’d like. When he uses his mouth, he is kind of rough there as well, but mostly he doesn’t think about my comfort when it comes to positioning. I know that some of the reason he is so fast and rough is because he’s so caught up in the moment and loses control, which is good, in a way. But I’m suffering a little here. I’ve tried to talk to him about it. He says he’ll be careful. But it always happens again.

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Dear Having a Rough Time,

Let’s start by counting some blessings. Your husband loves to please you. He is enthusiastic and passionate. He is willing to show you his love in all sorts of physical ways. Whenever I’m faced with confronting a lover with a problem, I try my best to see the issue through a lens of gratitude and compassion. It softens my approach. And the more benevolent I am, the more likely I am to get what I want. Not a bad tip for any sort of confrontation, really. You’ve tried talking to him, but when did you have this conversation? Talking about it over coffee or dinner isn’t exactly the right time; it may be hard for him to grasp what he’s doing wrong. If you want to see results right away, you have to deal with him in the moment. How about a little hands-on lesson? Next time you’re getting busy and he starts his wrestling match with your clitoris, intervene right way. Take his hand and move it where you want it. Gently move away from his mouth and offer him some direction before letting him proceed. When he’s doing what you want, show your pleasure. Give him lots of positive feedback. If he gets carried away again, stop and show him again what to do. Think of it like training a new muscle: You’ll have to do it over and over again before he instinctively starts to move the way you want him to. If he really and truly cannot get it, take a little foreplay break. Slow things down and, when you’ve cooled off, tell him you’re not having fun. Reassure him that you love his enthusiasm and passion for pleasure, but let him know his approach is distracting and uncomfortable. Maybe even invite him to share some tips on how you could be pleasing him better. He might be more understanding if he sees your requests as a conversation rather than a list of demands. If he does open up, be mindful of how you respond to his needs. Be as open and willing to change as you’d like him to be. I hope you get to see the softer side of your partner soon. Chances are it just needs some gentle coaxing to help it emerge.

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