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<contents> march 04-11, 2009 vol.14 no.28

news 14A 14A 15A

14a Burlington School District Hires New Diversity Director At Allenbrook, the Resident Teens Are the Least of the Troubles Array of Hope: Vermont Companies Engage in Solar Power Play

arts news 14A

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18a Vermont Vocalist Wants to Teach the World to Sing Local Author Kindles Interest in His Work Online Iraq War Vets-Turned-Artists Transform Uniforms, and Lives

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Pitchforked … for the Whole World to See Music Online music mecca Pitchfork Media reviews lost Death recordings.

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Pamela Polston Don Eggert, Cathy Resmer, Colby Roberts Rick Woods Margot Harrison Ken Picard, Mike Ives Dan Bolles Meghan Dewald Suzanne Podhaizer Lilly Rickner Steve Hadeka Joanna May, Kate O’Neill Mariah Pittman Donald Eggert Krystal Woodward Ryan Hayes Andrew Sawtell Rev. Diane Sullivan Anna Syrell

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WHEN IT ’S TIME

maRCh 04-11, 2009 vol.14 no.28

art

letters

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columns 11A

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Fair Game

Open season on Vermont politics

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Getting By

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How Vermonters are surviving the recession: mortgage refinancing

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Art review

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“The Shape of Things: Johnny Swing and the Best of Vermont Design 2009” at Helen Day Art Center

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Movie reviews Waltz With Bashir; Fanboys

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< letters> EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL To ask that a school embrace children of all abilities is not selfish at all [“Old School, February 18]! If every member within the community had a child with a disability, they would see the importance of being able to enter through the front door. Talk about something that is taken for granted by most! If people would just take a moment and put themselves in someone else’s shoes, we would not have the issues we do.

As the parent of a blind child, I can relate to the requests, and I can remember the waiting and waiting and waiting we endured before getting any response! The squeaky wheel gets the grease, parents — you keep on asking and asking until your children get what they deserve: equality! I get the budget issues, I do, but these are children who deserve the very same as every other child! . . .

The answer is not to separate them from their friends, alienate them more than they already are and say it is about money! There is no price on a child’s psychological well-being; it is time we think about the whole person! In 2009, in the wealthiest country in the world, we continue to have the equality conversations. Maybe we are doing something wrong here.

Ann Atkins ESSEX

THE PRICE IS NOT RIGHT Between $10 million and $15 mil-

lion to retrofit Edmunds to make it handicap accessible [“Old School, February 18]?! Am I the only one who finds the trumpeting of such a figure by the school district to be shameless at best? That figure, without a doubt, is a pile-on wish list of upgrades for Edmunds, most of which have no direct relationship to making the school accessible, however justified or overdue these wish-list upgrades might be in their own right.

Let’s not use the worthy and overdue cause of accessibility to tack on every other wish-list project.

Case in point is the suggestion that the school’s entire electrical system will need to be upgraded to handle the elevator. Any electrician knows that one could simply run a separate panel and isolate the elevator from the rest of the building. But, heck, if we can get an upgraded electrical system out of it, let’s inflate the price tag, even if it is at the expense of physically disabled children.

Vermont and Vermonters have long been lauded for their ingenuity, industriousness and independence — not on waiting for the federal government to write a check, not on bureaucratic red tape and feasibility studies, and not on the mentality that breeds defeat. If we were only to put the strength of these disabled children to the task, the job would already be done. Let’s roll, Edmunds!

Daniel Foley

THE PROBLEM WITH PROGRESSIVES In “Fair Game” [February 18], Councilor Tim Ashe said, “The city council is on the verge of becoming a very cautious, conservative and, in some ways, regressive council.” Ashe is a nice guy, but I do not agree with his assessment of the city council.

The real problem lies with the Progressive Party and Mayor Kiss’ administration. Over the years, the Progressive Party has been regressive and lost touch with the people.

Here are some examples:

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Westlake Hotel built condos that people here cannot afford, then backed out of the affordable housing on that site.

• The Progs voted for Republican Kurt Wright for chair.

That is after they blamed the Dems in ’06 for voting for a Republican.

• The Moran Plant — again, there is nothing down there for the poor, disabled or seniors. I call it a tourist trap.

The Progs can get nasty, too.

CAO Jonathan Leopold attacks

Councilor Montroll’s integrity with two weeks left in the mayor’s race.

During the Moran Plant campaign, Councilor Davis gave misinformation at a council meeting stating that the cost of taking the Moran Plant down will cost $6 million when it was $2-3 million.

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» “best of the beasts” Photo Contest Entries have been pouring in for our “Best of the Beasts” pet photo contest, sponsored by Play Dog Play. We’re accepting submissions in six categories: • • • • • •

“Paws” for the Camera (cute pet portraits, costumes optional) Fat Cats (the bigger the better) Off the Chain (pets in action; sporty pets) Lady and the Tramp (pet pairs in love/best pals) Wild Card (exotic pets; dogs and cats need not apply) Caught on Video (send us a link to your funny pet video)

The deadline for entries is Thursday, March 5, at noon.

Once we’ve got all the submissions, the Seven Days staff will select a group of finalists and invite you, the readers, to vote for the winners. Voting will occur online only, starting Thursday, March 5, at 5 p.m. The polls close at noon on Monday, March 9.

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We’ll print some of the winners in our “Animal Issue” on Wednesday, March 11, and we’ll feature all suitable entries in a slideshow online.

Visit our website, www.seven daysvt.com, to submit photos and cast your vote. Thanks to everyone who has already submitted photos!

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Town Meeting Day in the Old North End I stopped by three polling places in Burlington’s Old North End this morning between 8 and 9:15 a.m. to see what was going on. Not much, it seems.

I kept feeling like I had just missed the first rush of the day — maybe people tend to vote in the afternoon and early evening on Town Meeting Day, or maybe it’s just that March turnout is normally so much lower than what we all experienced during the presidential election last November.

My first stop was Mater Christi, where I filled out my white and pink ballots for the mayoral race and the ballot initiatives. On my way out, I noticed State Representative Kesha Ram (Chittenden 3-04) — she was asking two poll workers whether she was allowed to come in and distribute legislative bulletins. At first there was some confusion, because the poll workers were saying, “But there are no legislative elections today…” They got it straightened out that she just wanted to distribute info to constituents, though, and she brought some into the hallway.

Also in the hall, Rep. Dave Zuckerman had placed a stack of his own legislative updates along with a pile of State Senator Bill Doyle’s official 2009 Town Meeting Day surveys. Doyle has been conducting the unscientific survey for 41 years — it’s pretty much a Town Meeting Day institution. It attempts to take the temperature of Vermonters on 10 different subjects; this year’s topics range from whether people support same-sex marriage to whether Vermont’s an affordable place to live. I took one,

but I plan to mail mine in — I know it’s optional to list personal info, but something about having my email and address sitting with my opinions in an open, unmonitored box kind of creeped me out.

Read more online...

Posted March 3 by Meghan Dewald

Town Meeting Day: Stowe-away I drove to Stowe this morning to observe a real live town meeting. The sky over I-89 was clear and cold.

Commentators from WDEV were talking town meeting on my car radio.

When I arrived at Stowe High School just after 9 a.m., the parking lot was full. Free muffins everywhere. More than 200 people in the auditorium. A moderator called the meeting to order. First on the town meeting agenda was a proposed $9,355,964 operational budget. Were there any questions?

“Did you say no increase in property taxes?” a guy in the front asked incredulously. “I don’t believe that.”

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Stowe selectboard member Heidi Scheuermann, who is also a Republican representative in the Vermont House, explained the particulars of the budget. I had a hard time following.

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These are some of the issues raised by staff, faculty and students that have tested University of Vermont presidents — and eventually brought down three of them.

Today’s question is: Can UVM Prez Dan Fogel avoid the mistakes that sank his predecessors, as calls increase for top university execs to take pay cuts to avoid layoffs?

Fogel is UVM’s sixth president since the late 1980s, when the popular Lattie Coor stepped down amidst tumult over diversity and divestiture after 16 years at the helm.

After Coor came George Davis, who lasted just one year — his demise was accelerated by a month-long takeover of his Waterman office by students pressing for more racial diversity and multicultural teachings. At one point, Davis climbed a ladder to his office window in an effort to negotiate with the student occupiers.

to streamline some top administrative functions.

Union members point out that since 2002 the number of administrators at UVM making more than $150,000 a year has jumped from four to 38, and their total collective compensation tops $7 million annually.

If that weren’t enough, UVM paid out nearly $900,000 in bonuses to many of these top administrators — including Fogel — since 2006, including $264,196 in the current fiscal year.

Yikes. First Wall Street, now College Street.

At a campus forum last week, Fogel addressed the crowd gathered at Ira Allen Chapel: “I understand very acutely, however, how in the wake of today’s news report on executive pay that anger is running very high, and I want to begin by addressing that, because I do not think it will be good for our students, our faculty, our staff or

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Vermont Governor Tom Salmon filled the gap until 1997, when Judith Ramaley, UVM’s first female president, was hired. She resigned in early 2001 after a hockey hazing scandal rocked the school and made national headlines.

After Ramaley, former airline exec and Burlingtonian Ed Colodny stepped in as an interim prez. He was eventually succeeded

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Fogel quickly embarked on a “build it and they will come” strategy to make UVM a premier, small-scale research and environmental school. And build they have.

But that growth hasn’t done enough to boost UVM’s bottom line.

Last month Fogel eliminated 16 vacant staff positions and laid off 16 others. He will also leave unfilled 18 tenure-track faculty slots and four new faculty positions.

At least 12 full-time lecturers will not be offered new contracts, along with a larger number of part-time lecturers who teach one or more courses each year. The baseball and softball teams are history. Fogel is also freezing salaries for non-union employees earning more than $75,000, along with other measures, to trim $10.8 million from the university’s $284 million general fund budget. More cuts are likely in April.

Some students and faculty are urging Fogel and his top administrators to take pay cuts, and for the school to dip into its endowment as a way to avoid eliminating people and sports programs.

Fogel has so far balked at those suggestions. But more recently, UVM Communications Director Enrique Corredera told “Fair Game” that the prez is considering whether it’s possible

the State of Vermont for us to begin to tear ourselves apart as a community.”

Fogel said there would be no bonuses this year, noting past pay bumps were performance based.

“He could have won a section of the room and instead he just reinforced a sense of a divide on campus,” said Nancy Welch, an English prof and active member of the faculty union. “His defense seemed out of touch with the anger over these bonuses.”

Faculty, students and staff aren’t the only ones fired up about the extra compensation.

“The new data on bonuses and salary adjustments, if true, further confirms indefensible systems of privilege, power, inequity and injustice, borne on the backs of some of our most vulnerable staff and faculty,” said Betty Rambur, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, who announced her resignation two weeks ago. She claimed to suffer from “increasing moral distress” over the cuts she was being asked to make.

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This student also said the dearth of information about Forcier’s ouster in the wake of budget cuts across the campus was giving students “reason to suspect that something larger is at play.”

They may be on to something.

The Empire Strikes Back! — There’s nothing like the power of incumbency. The photo ops, the bully pulpit, the free lunches, the political aides who attack critics — all on the public’s dime.

Take, for example, the multipronged assault on Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin (D-Windham) on Monday. Seven — count ’em, seven — high-paid political appointees of Governor Jim Douglas took time out of their busy days to criticize Shumlin for public comments about the guv’s proposed budget, the state’s roads and bridges, legislative pay cuts and more.

Administration Secretary Neale Lunderville, a longtime Douglas political aide and his

of Health and Human Services: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Who didn’t get the job is former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the outgoing chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean’s D.C. feud with Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, is believed to be the reason for the dis.

“I was pretty clear that I would have liked to have been Secretary of HHS, but it is the president’s choice and he decided to go in a different direction,” Dean told Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Dean will work with the National Democratic Institute, which consults with countries around the world on democracy and governance issues. He will also serve as a senior strategic advisor and independent consultant at the international lobbying firm McKenna Long & Aldridge.

And, he’ll give paid speeches.

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By mid-month, Dean will set up shop inside the South Burlington offices of Democracy

In 1993, they picked Clavelle, who lost to Republican Peter Brownell. They backed Brownell in 1995, and he was bested by Clavelle. They chose Democrat Hinda Miller in 2006, who gave it up to Progressive Bob Kiss. This year, Democrat Andy Montroll got the nod.

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Clavelle over Republican Kurt Wright in 1999.

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“He will be moving into his home base here at DFA, and we’re happy to have him come back on board as a senior advisor,” DFA’s executive director, Arshad Hasan, told “Fair Game.”

Hasan said DFA will provide him with support staff and will work with him on Dean’s signature issue — health-care reform. “He’ll be going out on the road in support of candidates and advocating on our issues,” said Hasan. “He is raring to go.”

Curtis, said McCaskill is a great choice for many reasons. She championed Obama’s stimulus bill and has been a big supporter of the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program.

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Swing and a Miss! — It’ll be interesting to see whether the Burlington Free Press maintains its tradition of being the news establishment least likely to pick a winner in the Burlington mayoral race.

We erroneously noted last week that the Freeps backed the GOP candidate in 1993 and 1995 — it was just 1995. Which begs the question: Do they ever pick a winner?

History suggests: not often.

Here’s a list of the losing candidates the editorial board members backed in contested races since 1981: Democrats Judy Stephany, Brian Burns and Paul Lafayette in 1983, 1985 and 1987, respectively, over Independent Bernie Sanders.

In 1989 they endorsed Democrat Nancy Cioffi Wood, who lost to Progressive Peter Clavelle.

Election Predictions — Since Seven Days goes to press hours before election results are tallied, you’ll have to check online for my take on the Burlington mayoral race and a new city council.

Who will win the mayor’s race? Will the Democrats have a governing, if not clear, majority on the city council for the first time since the mid-1980s? Will the council have a majority of women seated for the first time ever? What does this mean in terms of policy shift and agenda?

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2002 campaign manager, sent out a series of letters to members of the Vermont media detailing Shumlin’s misstatements.

Shumlin got the letters, too.

The allegations? That Shumlin claimed lawmakers would be reducing their pay by 14 percent thanks to a short session. Shumlin copped to the fact that it’s actually 11.5 percent, which he points out to “Fair Game” is more than the 5 percent token cut taken by some Douglas officials. Shumlin also said 75 percent of the state’s roads and bridges were in rough shape. The number of deficient bridges is actually 18.5 percent, and 56 percent of the roads are “poor” or “very poor,” argued Transportation Secretary David Dill. That adds up to only 74.5 percent — which is definitely not 75 percent. You get the picture.

The Douglas SWAT team of memo writers included Lunderville, Dill, Commerce Secretary Kevin Dorn, Tax Commissioner Tom Pelham, Economic Development Commissioner Betsy Bishop, Tourism Commissioner Bruce Hyde and Human Resources Commissioner David Herlihy.

If they have that much free time, maybe the guv doesn’t need that $400,000 taxpayer-funded PR machine after all.

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iversity and equity have been buzzwords in Burlington since the first high-school kids of color started attending Queen City schools. Since 2000, the number of “English Language Learners” in the school district has almost doubled, from 275 to 570.

Last summer, after a heated public dialogue on “socioeconomic integration,” school board reps voted to turn Lawrence Barnes and neighboring Old North End elementary H.O. Wheeler into “magnets” — theme schools designed to draw students from mixed socioeconomic backgrounds. This week, parents are signing their kids up for the new magnets, which are focused respectively on “integrated arts” and “sustainability.” The revamped schools are scheduled to open this fall.

Meanwhile, the teaching staff in Vermont’s most diverse public school district fails to reflect the varied ethnicities of its student body. District administrators have managed to hire only five minority teachers since 2000, despite attending minority recruitment fairs in New York City, tapping into informal networking lists, and placing advertisements in the magazine Teachers of Color.

Four years ago, the Burlington School District stepped up its commitment to the goal by creating a permanent position: director of diversity and equity. The second person to hold the job, replacing African American Leshawn Sells, is Daniello Balón, a mustachioed Filipino who takes pride in pushing the diversity envelope while respecting personal and institutional boundaries. In other words, he means business.

Can Balón overcome institutional inertia? Without criticizing Sells, Superintendent Jeanne Collins says 38-year-old Balón’s higher ed experience gives him a fresh perspective on Burlington: “He has a way of listening to the

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district conversation and filtering it through the eyes of ‘Are we being true to our own policy?’”

Marrisa Caldwell, who chairs the Burlington School Board’s Policy & Advocacy Committee, says Balón is doing a good job addressing the subtle racism and discrimination she thinks already exist in the Queen City.

“I’m a white person from rural Vermont who has done a lot to try to understand white privilege, institutional racism and bigotry, but I can’t ever understand what it’s like to be a person of color in Vermont,” says Caldwell, a Ward 3 city council candidate who isn’t seeking school board reelection.

“I’m thankful for his ability to talk about these really touchy things … in a way that doesn’t make people feel uncomfortable.”

Balón got his first look at Burlington in 1992, on a graduateschool tour. After earning a degree at the University of California at Davis, the Bay Area native thought he might like the University of Vermont. But on his mud-season visit, he found the place’s populace a bit homogeneous. He decided instead on the University of Maryland,

where he earned counseling and education degrees.

Balón had spoken out against discrimination on the UC Davis campus. He did the same thing at Maryland, using his activism to effect institutional change. For example, Balón helped create a culturally based leadership course at Maryland that he says is now a national model for other universities.

Balón gave up a “dream job,” teaching at Maryland’s Asian American Studies Program and directing the university’s Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy. His wife, a South Hero native, wanted to return to Vermont.

His new windowless office, in a brick building on Colchester Avenue, is decorated with a basket of decorative bamboo shoots, a poster of a Philippines landscape and a Barack Obama calendar. Works by progressive historian Howard Zinn and ethnic studies professor Ronald Takaki can be found on his bookshelves. On his desk is a book by developmental psychologist Beverly Tatum titled Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting in the Cafeteria? Balón wears polished brown loafers, a tie and a red fleece vest. His short hair has been gently spiked, as if to accentuate his exuberant personality.

Cracking a can of soda, Balón says he does 80 percent of his work out of the office via sessions with parents, teachers and school district staffers. He’d like to do more multimedia outreach and acquire a support staff that could promote diversity from “satellite offices.”

For now, though, he says, “I have to work really hard to let people know I’m here.”

“The diversity patterns here are going to continue,” Balón says of the whitest state in the union.

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The board of the state-funded Allenbrook Home for Youths recently decided to shut the facility on June 30 and sell it to a private developer. Proceeds from the sale of the Allen Road property, consisting of three houses and a barn, would be used to establish a fund to help young Vermonters pay for college, the board tentatively agreed.

“This is malarkey,” Martin Macgowan, a former Allenbrook staffer, wrote in a letter he’s circulating to rally support for the program. Vermont already offers a range of financial-aid options for its college-bound residents, and Allenbrook provides “irreplaceable” services, Macgowan said in an interview.

“These youth are being kicked out of their home,” he added. “It would be irresponsible to shut it down.”

Six minors currently live at Allenbrook, which has served hundreds of young Vermonters over the past 30 years. “It’s the most community-integrated program of its kind in Vermont,” said Joelle van Lent, a consulting psychologist for Allenbrook. The teens either attend public school or work at local jobs, she noted.

Allenbrook follows the “teachingfamily” model of caring for kids who no longer live with their parents and who are “struggling emotionally or behaviorally,” van Lent explained.

Under this approach, a trained couple lives in a group home and models positive family interactions.

Research conducted over the past 40 years shows the teachingfamily model to be highly effective, said Mike Boggs, a North Carolinabased consultant who trains couples and individuals to take on those roles. Boggs, who has worked with Allenbrook staffers for the past five years, said the proven success of the model does not hinge on any particular set of “charismatic” teachers.

At Allenbrook, Jerry McDougal and Betsy Yung served as the livein caregivers for the past 20 years and received a national award for their work in 2005. Yung died last July, and McDougal is nearing retirement.

Yung’s death “may have had a lot to do” with the board’s move to snuff the program, Macgowan suggested. But the specific reasons for the planned shutdown remain unclear, both Macgowan and van Lent said. “Our understanding from the board is that it has to do with financial factors, but they haven’t explained that at all,” van Lent continued. State funding for the program is not in jeopardy, she said.

The causes of the action are also a mystery to Steve Dale, commissioner of the Vermont Department for Children and Families, which is providing Allenbrook with up to $1.4 million this year. “Allenbrook has been operating a great program for a long time,” Dale said, calling McDougal and Yung’s work “absolutely exceptional.” The state would

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“Ours!” claims Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

“No, ours!” insists NRG Systems.

“Yeah, but ours has a hot feature,” adds National Life.

Each of these Vermont companies is touting its solar-power array — which goes to show that, to alternative-energy advocates, size does matter.

The competing corporate claims illuminate solar’s growing popularity in an often cold and cloudy state, one that might seem an un-

like the teaching-family model to remain available in Chittenden County — there’s only one other program of this kind in Vermont — but “we’re confident that with lots of lead time we can make sure there will be good transition plans in place for the youth involved,” Dale added.

Allenbrook’s overseers are mum on the reasons for their decision. Bob Walsh resigned last month as Allenbrook’s board president, and Sherman Miles stepped down from the vicepresident post at around the same time. Neither would comment on the move to close the facility.

“The board appears to be in turmoil,” Macgowan observed.

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likely growth area for this form of renewable energy.

Vermont actually has “tremendous sunshine,” says Leigh Seddon, vice president of engineering for Montpelier-based Solar Works.

“We have 30 percent more annual solar radiation here than in Germany, which is number one in the world for installed solar.”

Several additional sun-power projects of various sizes are in place or planned in Vermont. Most of them were spurred by state and private utility clean-energy grants funded through the sale of the Ver-

Vermont. As recently as four years ago, utilities in the state “weren’t very enthusiastic about solar,” he notes. What’s changed, Perchlik suggests, is the economics of solar power, which is becoming increasingly cost-effective as prices of materials drop.

So, who’s really got the most juice in Vermont?

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ claim to be building “the largest solar installation” in the state is based on the number of PV panels — 572 — that its $750,000 project will include. But

the competing corporate claims illuminate solar’s growing popularity in an often cold and cloudy state. mont Yankee nuclear plant in 2002.

Federal tax credits for installation of photovoltaic panels provide an added incentive to go solar.

Central Vermont Public Service, for example, plans to install a high-visibility, 50-kilowatt array outside its offices on Route 7 in Rutland. Green Mountain Power, the state’s other leading utility, has put a 58-kilowatt set of solar panels on its building in Westminster; it’s expected to provide 80 percent of on-site power needs.

And Sen. Bernie Sanders has just announced a $5 million Pentagon appropriation for clean-energy initiatives at the Vermont Air guard base in South Burlington.

Sanders says the package includes “the largest solar energy project in the state of Vermont.”

These and a number of smaller initiatives around the state mark a significant shift in attitudes toward solar power in Vermont, says Andy Perchlik, head of Renewable Energy

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National Life aims to meet 10 percent of its headquarters’ energy demands through its 418-panel solar array, which will generate up to 73 kilowatts. Plus, the Montpelierbased insurance company plans to add a solar thermal set-up that will heat half the hot water used in the building.

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hyla Nelson’s crystalline soprano has enthralled Vermont opera fans and made her an indemand guest soloist around the region; her upcoming performances this summer include roles at the Green Mountain Mahler and Mozart festivals. But the Charlotte-based singer, a single mom of two, is also known internationally — and not only for singing. This week she’s embarking on a trip to India to teach as well as perform.

Over the course of her own voice training, Nelson has learned, and further developed, a technique that she now passes to students. She describes it as “a powerful bridge between who we are as human beings and how we choose to express ourselves in the world.”

Grounded in exercises that focus on the core of the body, the procedure trains students to center themselves, physically and mentally. “In my experience,” Nelson says, “when people are engaged in the center of the body, it enables the voice to free up.” Singers can learn how “to tease out just the right amount of breath to produce the most healthy, efficient, resonant sound.”

On the surface there is nothing new in what Nelson is propounding; the idea of the body as an instrument, even a profound expression of the soul, appears in numerous ancient cultures.

And any dancer or Pilates practitioner could extol the virtues of developing a strong core. Yet Nelson isn’t talking about ripped abs; her thoughtful discourse on the human voice promotes selfempowerment and unabashedly crosses into the spiritual realm.

“As people take hold of this technique,” she avers, “it radiates out

SHylA NelSON into every aspect of their lives.”

The word-of-mouth on Nelson’s coaching savvy has attracted a diverse array of students — among the 40 or so in Vermont are Phish bassist Mike Gordon and Miss Vermont, Ashley Wheeler. Though Gordon, who’s worked with Nelson since last fall, embraces her method’s metaphysical implications, he also speaks eloquently about how it has helped him as a singer in a rock band.

“With Shyla I work on the same exercises over and over, each week bringing new awareness to what’s happening in my body. Even my December 30 Higher Ground show was helped by trusting that my body is developing in a way to support the voice,” Gordon says. “The core muscles jump in to provide the force, the throat and jaw are relaxed so as not to impede, the tongue is in control, and all I’m doing is picturing an image which is the scene of the song and feeling it strum my heart strings.”

Wheeler believes her work

with Nelson helped her cinch the “Talent” award at January’s Miss America pageant. Though she’d been singing all her life, Wheeler had not been formally trained. “My voice is more powerful because of the technique Shyla showed me,” she avows. “But also, when you get on stage, you can connect completely with what you’re doing.”

Wheeler, 22, says she was pleasantly surprised by the “spiritual” aspect of her vocal training. “I felt really grounded and centered when I left for Miss America,” she says.

“I totally credit Shyla.”

In addition to her local students, Nelson tutors approximately 200 more around the world through global teleseminars, “and soon, webinars,” she notes. “Thanks to technology, I can do that right from my home.”

Her students are not only singers; Nelson says her technique is beneficial “to any people who use their voice,” such as public speakers. “I can hear over the phone and diagnose immediately where there is tension in the voice,” she declares. In India, Nelson will present, and perform, for upwards of 3000 participants at an international wellness congress.

Before she gets there, though, she’s stopping in Australia for research on another project: a book about “the evolution of human consciousness as told through the history of the voice itself,” Nelson says. Aboriginal tribes, she explains, identify themselves “by a specific song rather than a geographical area.”

Can a self-help book for the rest of us be far behind? As a matter of fact, no. “I’m working on that,” Nelson says with a laugh, “as we speak.” m

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he old view of self-publishing is that it’s for writers who couldn’t get in print any other way.

That’s changing, say recent stories in Time magazine and the New York Times. Both cite examples of authors who put out their own work, found an audience, and landed publishing contracts. Pocket Books Publisher Louise Burke told the Times that self-publishing is “no longer a dirty word.”

None of that is news to Colchester writer jim defilippi, 65, who’s seen things from both sides. Back in the 1990s, Harper Collins put out his first novel, Blood Sugar, a mystery that drew raves from Newsday and Publisher’s Weekly. But DeFilippi’s “top-notch agent” moved on to bigger deals, and his second novel, Duck Alley, didn’t sell well. “A year ago,” recalls the retired Winooski High School English teacher, “I caught myself begging some young person at one of the New York agencies, ‘If you could just read the first 10 pages ... ’ — and then I realized, I’m too old for this.”

DeFilippi didn’t want to keep collecting rejections from agents and publishers, themselves scram-

jiM defiliPPi bling to survive in a recession economy. He didn’t expect to get rich off his novels, which he describes as evading simple genre definitions: “I call them crime novels, but some of them don’t have villains, or the villains don’t get caught.”

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mand companies (which produce physical books) were “too expensive.” So, though he’d never heard of Portable Document Format and “didn’t know anything at all about websites,” DeFilippi set out to get his novels online. With his son’s help, he set up a site — jimdefil ippi.com — and turned his manuscripts into PDF files.

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he “Combat Paper” show at Burlington’s Firehouse Gallery has a raw, ritualistic quality that makes the experience of it both unsettling and therapeutic — perhaps even more for its creators than for the viewers. The handmade paper artworks are, after all, crafted from shredded and pulverized U.S. military uniforms.

They were once worn in Iraq by the now-antiwar artist/vets who launched the Combat Paper Project on returning home.

That rawness was on display at the exhibit’s opening on February 20, when Jon Turner stomped and screamed his way through poetry expressive of the rage he and other veterans brought back from Iraq. Anguish is also evident in some of the 20 or so works hung on the walls. Es-

able for free download. They range from Blood Sugar (the rights have reverted to DeFilippi, but he had to scan the book into his computer), to Jive Palace (a riff on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood), to the recent Cop, Cop, Lawyer, which continues the story of Blood Sugar’s Long Islandbased detective.

DeFilippi has also made his books available to users of Kindle, the electronic reading device sold

by Amazon.com. (Last week, Jon Stewart played with version 2.0 on “The Daily Show.”) Like Stewart, DeFilippi is still skeptical about the Kindle, which bears a $359 price tag. “They don’t look or feel like a real book; they look like an old 1980s cellphone,” he says. “Book readers, young and old — they need something that looks like a book in their hands.”

Though DeFilippi says some folks from the publishing world have read his site, “I’m not going to make much money from this, if anything,” he acknowledges. He used to dream of fame, he says.

But now, “the real joy is, you just get this book together, and it feels right and good.” m

pecially fierce is Eli Wright’s “Open Wound,” in which streaks and splatters of red surround a jagged hole torn from blackened paper.

But a couple of cheerful, colorful compositions make this an emotionally and aesthetically unpredictable show. One of them is Turner’s “The Thin Line,” a sunburst of pink, yellow and aqua.

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past 70 years have stopped by the Firehouse out of curiosity about, or solidarity with, the project, Cameron says. A few active-duty soldiers from Fort Drum in upstate New York have dropped in as well. But no one currently stationed at Camp Johnson in Colchester has seen the show, as far as Cameron knows.

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DREW CAMERON, ARTIST the reception that “without Combat Paper, I probably wouldn’t be around today.”

Drew Cameron, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, explains that he cofounded the Combat Paper Project in 2004 with fellow vet Drew Matott as a way of promoting “dignity, reconciliation and healing.” The collaborators have toured the country, transforming war gear into art material and seeking to discourage high school students from enlisting in the military. “We’re reclaiming horrible experiences and turning them into something beautiful,” Cameron says.

But in the view of some vets — especially older ones — the Combat Paper Project is actually staging disrespectful spectacles similar to flag burnings.

Adrienne Kinne, a Vermonter who became an Arabic linguist during her 10-year tour of duty, says at first it felt “incredibly bizarre” to be ripping apart an Army uniform. She eventually concluded, however, that the 10 uniforms she’d been issued “were just collecting dust in my closet and could be put to good use” through the project. Pausing from dicing fabric strips with a box cutter at a recent papermaking workshop, Kinne says she’s confident that “if those who are critical were to have a conversation with any of us, they’d understand what we’re about.”

Vermonters who served in one or another of America’s wars over the

making studio set up in the gallery offers an opportunity to cut up camouflage fatigues that are then immersed in water and spun through a pulping machine. Confettied currency purchased from the United States Mint for $18 per pound is added to the beater, along with shards of cotton to give the pulp a green hue and thick texture.

Papermaking is an ancient process developed millennia ago in China, notes Cameron, who learned it from his father, a retired U.S. Air Force officer. The rending of garments taking place at the Firehouse associates this particular process with the biblical ritual of mourning.

Jolene Herzog is thinking of friends she lost to the Vietnam War when she and her 10-year-old son, Russ, take part in the papermaking as Mardi Gras revelers gather on Church Street. “They didn’t actually die in Vietnam,” Herzog explains. “They died here because of what happened to them there.

They didn’t go as heroin addicts, but that’s how they came back.

“Seeing all this is like watching an instant replay,” she adds.

“The sadness comes right back to you.” m “Combat Paper” is on view at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington through April 11. Info, 865-7165. www. burlingtoncityarts.com/ firehousegallery

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Curses, Foiled Again A German teenager caught shoplifting in Verden found himself in even more trouble because the address he gave police turned out to be the home of one of the investigating officers. “It was a complete coincidence,” a police official told Reuters after the 18-year-old boy admitted lying. “The thief gave that address because he’d once lived in the house. The policeman was the guy who moved in afterward.”

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Facing a potentially disastrous population decline, the government launched a publicity campaign urging people to have larger families. In a live television broadcast from the Kremlin, President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Order of Parental Glory to eight families he congratulated for “setting an example for all society.”

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Victimless Crimes David Kocmit, 27, told Cleveland police he was attacked outside a strip club by three black men who called him a racial slur and then beat him. He suffered a broken leg and was taken to the hospital. The Plain Dealer reported that detectives investigating the incident as a felonious assault and

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• A 17-year-old boy who lost his right hand and leg in an explosion told police in Latrobe, Pa., that the blast occurred in his backpack after unknown people threatened him. Investigators said the boy later admitted he had been playing with a large firecracker in his grandmother’s house and kept lighting and extinguishing the fuse. When the fuse wouldn’t go out, police said he put the firework between his thighs and covered it with his right hand to muffle the explosion.

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Nathan Perry, a Baptist preacher in Fordyce, presented legislators with a petition from 40 preachers who support the bill. “It’s not about gun rights,” he insisted. “It’s about church rights.”

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Some people find God in church, some in the great outdoors, but it takes truly transcendent geekiness to find divinity in the Large Hadron Collider.

Your question takes us to the strange world of quantum physics, where most folks find almost nothing makes intuitive sense, and which even I find is best grasped with the aid of some good cabernet.

For years physicists have sought a Theory of Everything that would explain how all the particles and forces in the universe interact to produce the workaday world. So far they’ve made some progress: The so-called Standard Model explains the relationship between three of the four fundamental forces, namely electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force (holds atomic nuclei together), and the weak nuclear force (has to do with radioactivity). However, the Standard Model leaves out that fourth force, gravity — a nontrifling omission — and hasn’t been significantly revised since the heyday of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The God particle and the Large Hadron Collider are an attempt to get things off the dime.

Specifically: One planet-sized hole in the Standard Model is that it doesn’t explain why things have mass. As a fix for this problem, scientists have proposed the Higgs particle, aka the Higgs boson, aka the God particle — the last a term popularized by the book of that title

by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman. He says the God particle was so named because (a) it’s short for “goddamn particle,” presumably owing to the difficulty of establishing its existence, and (b) finding proof of said existence would help us understand the “mind of God.” Skeptics would likely add that the term is also appropriate because (c) like its namesake, it may not really be there.

Now for the woolly part. If it exists, the Higgs particle is a part of the Higgs field, which fills the universe but is invisible to our eyes and, so far, to all scientific instruments.

Subatomic particles — everything that makes up matter — are thought to acquire mass by how they interact with the Higgs field. To explain how this works, I’ll paraphrase an explanation floated in 1993 by David Miller, then at the department of physics and astronomy, University College, London. Imagine a convention hall filled with political groupies, a scary thought all by itself. The hall represents the universe; the groupies

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Dear Cecil, I recently saw a special on the Large Hadron Collider, which, among other things, hopes to find evidence of the “God particle.” Since physics is not my strong suit, I’ve tried to understand this particle through the library and the Web, but everything I find makes my eyes glaze over. Cecil, please explain the God particle in layman’s terms.

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represent the Higgs field.

Now suppose Barack Obama enters the room. (In Miller’s telling the political heavyweight was Margaret Thatcher, but that was then.) Obama represents a subatomic particle. The political groupies cluster around the president, seeking to bask in his cool and possibly get a job at the State Department. As Obama tries to make his way through the room, he gathers new hangers-on, while others drop off due to embarrassing questions about unpaid taxes. The cluster of groupies hovering around Obama represents the mass the president gains while he’s in the Higgs field.

Now let’s take the same roomful of groupies and suppose a rumor passes through the room, such as that the government is going to speed up the economic stimulus program by heaving buckets of money out the window. As the rumor spreads, the groupies cluster together — some in stationary huddles, others in roving bands.

Just as the clustered groupies gave mass to Obama when he was on the scene, they also give mass to themselves. Each cluster constitutes a God particle, which can thus be said to arise, if you will, “whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name.”

Where does the Large Hadron Collider come into this? Located on the French-Swiss border, the LHC is the newest and largest particle accelerator in the world and will be used in several groundbreaking areas of research, one of which is finding evidence of the Higgs/God particle.

(That is, it will if they can keep it up and running; LHC setbacks have led scientists at Fermilab to predict that their smaller Tevatron accelerator may yet win the Higgs race.)

Most people wouldn’t even be aware of the LHC’s existence except for concerns that it could be the ultimate doomsday machine.

Opponents have sued to stop the collider, claiming it could create microscopic black holes that could eat the planet, so-called strange matter that would do, well, strange things, or vacuum bubbles that could wink out the universe.

Most scientists think the LHC has a decent chance of finding out if the Higgs particle exists and minimal chance of killing us all, and in any case will provide steady employment for physicists, who are feeling the pinch just like everyone else. I figure we’re hosed regardless and could use the entertainment.

Let ’er rip.

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The Vermont Energy Partnership One Vermont: Energy, Economic & Environmental Policy Vermont faces enormous economic problems in 2009. We also face challenges continuing to maintain our low carbon footprint while the rest of the country tries to emulate our success.

The first step in this direction is to secure the most affordable and clean base load source of power generation that has kept costs down and the air quality high for Vermonters for a generation: Vermont Yankee.

Brad Ferland President, VTEP

Vermont Yankee is seeking a license renewal to extend its operations beyond 2012. The costs to Vermont for not renewing this license are high. Here’s why.

A study by independent energy consultant Dr. Howard Axelrod shows that the only conceivable option to replace Vermont Yankee by 2012 is a combined-cycle natural gas plant, a fossil-fuel burning facility the likes of which does not exist in Vermont today.

While renewable energy projects are critical to Vermont’s energy future, Dr. Axelrod also found that a staggering number of new ones would be needed to replace Vermont Yankee, specifically 1,500 wind generators, 2,000 acres of dedicated space for solar collectors, or cultivating 200,000 acres of woodlands annually. Wind and solar could not replace Vermont Yankee.

Dr. Axelrod also estimates that statewide electricity prices would increase by 19 percent for the natural gas option, and by 39 percent for renewable alternatives.

It is important to note the other benefits that Vermont Yankee provides our state: • Vermont Yankee provides 650 well paying jobs, contributes $100 million to the state’s economy annually.

• It supports in-state efficiency efforts and renewable energy sources through a $25 million investment in Vermont’s Clean Energy Fund by 2012.

• A license renewal for Vermont Yankee will net Vermont ratepayers an estimated $938 million in revenue-sharing for 10 years beginning in 2012, but only if the plant’s license is renewed.

• Through the clean air quality benefits of Vermont Yankee, our state will receives millions of dollars in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative payments over the next decade. Without Vermont Yankee, Vermont carbon dioxide emissions would likely increase by two million tons annually, or a 10,000% increase. This will have severe economic consequences on Vermonters when the federal government begins to charge our utilities for every ton of CO2 they generate.

When you consider the connection between energy, economic, and environmental policy in Vermont, the facts should make Vermont Yankee an easy choice.

To find out more about the Vermont Energy Partnership and inquire about membership, visit www.vtep.org

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rresponsible,” spat President Obama of the banking executives awarding themselves humongous bonuses just after the Treasury FedExed a trillion dollars to Wall Street. “Shameful.”

When did we stop adulating the wealthy? Was it when Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain chose the moment his company received its $20 billion handout to dial his decorator and discuss that $1.22-million office renovation? Was it the $35,115 toilet, the $1405 trash can?

The total of those executive bonuses, $18 billion?

As a nation, we’d been indulgent.

We didn’t begrudge the recipients of Reagan’s and Bush’s greenback-stuffed tax policy billets doux. If we noticed the corporate suites getting spiffier while the streets outside grew shabbier, we defended the executives: They deserved it! They created wealth! We didn’t mind those $35,000 commodes flushing directly onto our faces.

Now, as we trace the line from the mahogany-paneled offices, through the warehouses of toxic paper, and out the other end to the cinderblock unemployment offices . . . well, let’s just say the word lynch takes on new associations.

It’s not the first time our ardor has cooled. In an elegant little book called Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace, historian Steve Fraser shows how popular affections for capitalism’s highend gamblers have waxed and waned.

In the years following the Civil War, the financiers who had been regarded a decade earlier as slimy “confidence men” came to be viewed as “Napoleonic.”

They remained heroes until the excesses of the Gilded Age — and the resultant crash of 1929 and Great Depression — again brought them condemnation as “immoralists.” Fraser credits early-20thcentury labor and socialist movements for turning widespread resentment into politicized resistance, and forcing policy change. He thinks it could happen again, and I hope he is right.

But how? Anger at outsized greed, Fraser notes, is “a righteous emotion,” which can “arouse people to do battle with institutions.” But focusing on individuals can also draw our gaze away from the “systematic reorganization” of capitalism that has concentrated power and wealth in a few hands.

In other words, we need class consciousness. We need to name greed, if not as a characteristic of owning-class people, then as a confederate of their interests. Is it too late?

To retrace the recent history of greed, I rented Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, released in 1987, the year the stock market crashed and the galloping second Gilded Age took a breather. I’d remembered the film delivering a deft

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We don’t want to reward failure, but we’re happy to reward overweening success. yet firm guilty verdict on the era’s values.

Instead, it quivers with our perennial ambivalence toward Wall Street — and our reluctance to acknowledge the crimes of a class, rather than condemning individual sin.

The movie tells the story of an ambitious young stock trader, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), who buys the attention of his idol, working-class Jew turned billionaire arbitrageur Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), with an inside tip about the airline where his father, Carl Fox, is the union rep. Gekko takes Bud under his wing; Bud gets rich. But when Gekko’s dirty dealings threaten to sink Carl’s company — and with it, the workers’ jobs — Bud must choose. Rejecting the wicked stepfather, he returns to the arms of his real, good father.

Stone drives the message home with the subtlety of a rivet gun to the skull.

“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life,” Carl admonishes Bud. “Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others!” Gekko, boasting of his power and wealth, delivers an equal and opposite rejoinder: “I create nothing. I own.” Gekko’s famous words, “Greed is good,” of course imply “greed is bad.”

But at 22 years’ remove, the message isn’t so clear. In the last scene, Bud is climbing the steps to the courthouse where he will be convicted of insider trading — nabbed on a tip-off from none other than his tutor in crime, Gekko. But while the apprentice goes to prison, the master goes back to the office to continue gleefully merging and acquiring, slashing and burning jobs and lives, and hauling in the dough.

Hardly an indictment of capitalist morality. Indeed, the prodigal son’s return is only incidentally, and not necessarily, an endorsement of his father’s blue-collar values.

Wall Street is a Rorschach of unresolved class loyalties. Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, a wealthy

stockbroker; one of its most sympathetic characters, Lou Mannheim, is based on Lou Stone. Mannheim is always taking Bud aside and advising him to watch the fundamentals; none of this go-go stuff — slow and steady wins the race.

The director imagines a kinder, gentler Wall Street — and a kinder, gentler Wall Street broker, suavely negotiating the border between dubious ethics and illegality. The intrusion of the brash arrivistes Gekko and Bud into these patrician precincts reads as an offense of style rather than of substance.

Like Bud, Stone can neither embrace nor renounce his family’s class. So he turns the story into a fable of fathers and sons. Stone loved his father, and if Dad was a successful capitalist, then capitalism can’t be that bad. Carl Fox, meanwhile, is an honest man but also a rigid one, a Marxist dinosaur. In the end, you sense Bud can’t go home again, because that home is an illusion. He can’t return to Wall Street, either, but not because Wall Street itself is corrupt; because he was.

Wall Street reflected a then-growing popular sentiment. Crime may not pay.

But greed does. Soon after the film’s release, magazine articles began musing on the question “Is greed good?” Most of the writers, bullish financial advisers and freemarket boosters, answered, You bet.

Is Mammon worship over? In 1931, British economist John Maynard Keynes (of all people) predicted it would someday be. “When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudomoral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues,” he wrote. “The love of money as a possession . . . will be recognized for what it is — a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities

which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.”

While polishing this prose, Keynes was also promoting consumer spending as the road to capitalism’s recovery. So he qualified his definition of that social pathology: “the love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life.”

It was a tough distinction to make then, and it still is. President Obama denounced the bankers’ gluttony, but he wasn’t ready to rule out overeating.

“This is America,” he said, announcing a $500,000 cap on the salaries of bailout-receiving bank executives.

“We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success, and we certainly believe that success should be rewarded. But what gets people upset, and rightfully so,” he went on, “are executives being rewarded for failure — especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, many of whom are having a tough time themselves.”

We don’t want to reward failure, but we’re happy to reward overweening success. We don’t want to reward exorbitant greed, but we’ll rekindle an appropriate amount of consumer desire. A $35,000 taxpayer-funded toilet demonstrates shamefully bad taste. But might we interest you, as a spur to increasing tax revenues, in this $3800 Philippe Starck X European toilet, which, as any shelter magazine will assure you, is in excellent taste?

Greed is a matter of degree, and degrees change with history. In Wall Street, the shareholders gasp when Gekko reveals the salaries of their company’s vice presidents — $200,000. The week Obama proposed that salary cap, the New York Times laid out the annual expenses of a typical Manhattan financier’s family — mortgage payments, $96,000; private school tuition, $32,000 — under the half-ironic headline “You Try to Live on 500K in This Town.” The article induced a kind of moral vertigo. On the one hand, you despised these people. On the other, you almost felt sorry for them — or for yourself, now that such a lifestyle had been declared illegal by executive order.

Yes, many of us, stockholders all, were waiting to become John Thain.

Like Joe the Plumber, we imagined passing on a death-tax-free million to our children. It wasn’t greed that motivated us. We just wanted the good life.

Keynes thought that once we achieved that life, greed would become an anachronism that we would “be free, at last, to discard.” But he struggled with the question of when good would feel good enough. How evil does evil have to get before we change the system to reward something else?

We’d better get our politics moving — and our policies changed — while greed is in the slammer. Because Gekko is still at the office, and once capitalism is back on the street, he will rise again. m

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Still, such ego boosters should be taken with a grain of salt. After all, is it really that impressive to be named the “third funkiest city in the world” by Highlife, the British Airways in-flight magazine?

The closest most of its readers get to Burlington are flyovers at 35,000 feet.

Likewise, in 2005 author Gregory Kompes named Burlington one of the “50 fabulous gay-friendly places to live.” Fabulous? Sounds like someone was suckered by our nickname. The Queen City had only one gay bar at the time; it closed the following year.

Bluntly put, Burlington can’t afford to rest on its laurels anymore. With the national economy circling the drain, and state and local tax revenues dropping like a sack of doorknobs, the next mayor — still undetermined at press time — will need to focus on attracting new businesses and jobs to town. Because, as Burlington goes, so goes Vermont.

Accordingly, Seven Days recently asked readers to weigh in on the questions: “What does the Queen City need? Are there goods and services you love but can’t find here? Are there businesses, amenities, physical improvements, social movements, projects and/or new infrastructure that would make Burlington a world-class city?”

Though we encouraged readers to dream big and not let their creativity be constrained by cost, some of the answers we received were familiar and, frankly, boring. For samplers: “Build the Southern Connector,” “provide more parking garages,” “add trash cans on the bike path” and “fix the damn potholes!”

People, people! Whatever happened to the visionaries of yesteryear, when Vermonters dreamed of moving sidewalks à la “The Jetsons,” a gondola from the University of Vermont to the waterfront, and a weatherproof dome over the entire city? (Oh, wait — that was Winooski.)

Several readers expressed their yen for hard-to-find eats, such as “authentic Mexican food,” “African cuisine,” “cheap seafood” and a “rooftop pub/steakhouse on Church Street.” Others pined for national chain stores, including Target, IKEA and Trader Joe’s.

A couple of readers requested a “24-hour diner,” an idea that’s already been tried but tanked, in part due to 3 a.m. food fights among drunken rowdies.

Other respondents suggested larger infrastructure improvements: a convention center, amphitheater, IMAX theater and indoor arena for concerts and sporting events. Still others urged speedier progress on the Moran Plant redevelopment. One peace-minded reader suggested erecting statues in city parks that commemorate great Vermont women instead of soldiers, guns and wars. “Let’s honor those who sacrifice to give LIFE for a change,” she wrote.

Actually, several readers offered ideas backed by a social mission: solar panels and windmills on every rooftop, edible gardens in city parks and greenbelts, more pick-up games for athletes, and better mentalhealth services for kids making the transition to adulthood. A few ideas were quaint (“free chocolate chip cookies for everyone!”), while others were quixotic (“Lock the students in their dorms”).

The most common theme by far, though, was transportation. Perhaps it’s just that time of year, but Burlingtonians yearn for easier — and greener — ways of getting around, whether by shared cars, communal bicycles, pleasure ferries, express trains to Montpelier/Boston/New York City, or a funicular to Lake Champlain. (The last idea has been studied and may even qualify for federal stimulus funds.)

Space precludes an exhaustive exploration of each idea. But what follows are seven proposals we think have merit. Granted, not all are “shovel-ready,” or even feasible in today’s economic climate. But, as in our seasonal cycle, sunnier days could be just around the corner. It doesn’t hurt to plan ahead. >> 28A

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Our Fare” [January 28] you make an erroneous comment regarding the theory of evolution. At the end of the article you remark, “Charles Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ really means survival of the most adaptable.” Actually, Mr. Darwin had it right. Evolution is adaptation across generations within a population, and it is populations of organisms that “evolve” and “adapt” — not individuals. Therefore to stick with your metaphor, evolution in the Burlington restaurant population would be that a subset of restaurants survive this economic downturn and then go on to “reproduce” restaurants that use similar cost-cutting techniques, but Darwin did not mean “survival of the most adaptable.” You may find this distinction pedantic, but as a scientist I believe that the public should have a clear understanding of what evolution is and that the misunderstanding of such an important theory should not be propagated.

Ted Hart BURLINGTON

ALL RISE Just want to respond vehemently in the affirmative to your article about Ben, Raechel and On the Rise bakery [“Loaves and Wishes,” February 4]. Richmond is very fortunate to have many wonderful eateries and businesses, but live music? Craft night? Giving space to a Planned Parenthood talk on talking to your kids about sex? After-school art? Ben, Rae and Judy are all about not only building community but being community. And while it’s true that they started by filling a gap left when the Daily Bread vacated town, they have taken this notion so much further and made it so much their own.

Soon, the bridge over the Winooski will close for repairs (though this should not in any way affect traffic from the interstate or points west and north), and we all need to make sure to frequent Richmond businesses to keep them afloat.

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EIGHT IS ENOUGH So Governor Jim Douglas thinks that it’s “perverse” for people to be paying so much attention to the 2010 gubernatorial race now [“Fair Game,” February 18]? And just why is that? Has Douglas forgotten that by the time the voters cast their ballots in the next statewide election, Douglas will have been in office for eight years — the equivalent of two four-year terms?

Douglas should learn from his predecessor, Howard Dean, and not seek a fifth term. Staying in office beyond eight years would not sit well with many Vermonters; when Dean ran for a fifth term in 2002, he carried only 52 percent of the vote — a far cry from his previous 60 percentand-greater landslides.

Dean was no dummy; he knew that had he run for a sixth

term in 2004, he would have lost. Governor Douglas would be wise after four terms to step down and let someone else run the show. Eight years in office is enough.

Skeeter Sanders HUNTINGTON

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While I haven’t kept up with the program since completing it (by tracking and charting all spending) and haven’t achieved financial independence, I have retained that little voice inside my head when it comes to spending. I do still have the original goal in mind, and haven’t given up on making that lifestyle a reality for my own household.

(One question still lingers for me: What do those who live this way do for health insurance?)

As with exercise programs, it helps to use the buddy system for this type of regimentation.

I would encourage anyone interested in refocusing his or her financial priorities to look into starting or joining a discussion group (see “programs” at www. vtearthinstitute.org). There are also excellent websites related to the program (www.yourmoney oryourlife.org; www.simpleliving. net; www.financialintegrity.org).

We all have different priorities when it comes to spending. Some choose to spend $20 per week on their specialty coffee; others might rather spend that on a CD. There’s no right or wrong, but the idea is to make a conscious choice and be sure your spending aligns with your life’s values and your priorities.

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A WORLD-CLASS MARINA ON THE WATERFRONT

During the mayoral debates, independent candidate Dan Smith noted that Burlington is one of the only waterfront cities of its size without a world-class boat marina. John Freeman, owner of the Shelburne-based marine shop Small Boat Exchange, thinks filling that gap is an excellent idea.

“We’re missing the boat, literally,” says Freeman, who’s also president of the Vermont Boat and Marine Association. As he points out, hundreds, if not thousands, of watercraft from up and down the East Coast traverse Lake Champlain between May and October. Most of those vessels don’t stop in Burlington for one simple reason: There aren’t enough docks or mooring spots to tie up, and even fewer marine services to accommodate their needs.

To boaters, Burlington is like a town along an Interstate without an exit ramp.

Sailors who want to stop and stock up on supplies have limited options. Those who can secure a mooring must walk a considerable distance to City Market, the nearest supermarket (though Burlington Bay carries some basics). As Freeman points out, for people who’ve been living on a boat for several months, that’s a long haul on a 90-degree July day.

“The Canadians [on boats] all go across the lake to New York because there are better services there,” he adds. “We have so much more to offer than New York does, but we don’t have the infrastructure, marina-wise, to attract boaters here.”

Even a modest marina, comparable to the one at the Naked Turtle in Plattsburgh, would offer an easy-access fuel dock to handle several craft simultaneously, a marine supply shop, a grocery store, more showers and bathrooms, boat slips for transient traffic and a water shuttle to move people to and from larger vessels.

Although Freeman isn’t knocking the job the city has done in managing its boathouse, he suggests inviting a “private concern” to explore the idea further, given the significant up-front investment required. While some Burlingtonians may bristle at the notion of another private interest operating on the waterfront, Freeman suggests a world-class marina wouldn’t necessarily limit public access, if it were done right.

Needless to say, the long-term payoff in tourist traffic and local tax revenues could be considerable. As local businessman Yves Bradley notes, “They’re coming uptown with just an American Express card and the clothes on their back.

It’s a no-brainer.”

— KEN PICARD

A GARDENERS’ SHUTTLE TO THE ETHAN ALLEN HOMESTEAD Burlington is more fortunate than most urban areas its size — it has the Intervale and the Ethan Allen Homestead right in its own backyard. This vast expanse of fertile floodplain is often cited as one reason Burlington is decades ahead of other cities when it comes to local food security. Small wonder that scores of community gardens have thrived in recent years.

Still, many city residents who could benefit the most from community gardening — at-risk youth, low- and moderate-income families and newly arrived immigrants — find it difficult to get to and from the community garden plots at the Ethan Allen Homestead.

Jim Flint is executive director of Friends of Burlington Gardens and the Vermont Community Gardening Network. Last year, during a meeting on the homestead’s future, Flint suggested a novel idea: What if the city offered tram service to and from the homestead, using small, battery-powered carts that ran up and down the bike path along the Burlington Beltline?

“For a lot of young families in the Old and New North End, pushing a stroller out to the homestead is a long haul,” Flint says.

“This could really open up a beautiful area for families for recreation and a connection to the land.”

Flint envisions an electric tram that could carry 10 to 15 people at a time between the Old North End and the homestead. Ideally, it would have storage spaces for stowing gardening supplies, freshly picked produce or picnic lunches.

Since Flint broached the idea a year ago, it’s captured the imagination of Jennifer Ely, director of the Winooski Valley Park District, which manages the homestead property. Just last week, Ely told Flint that a small grant may be available for exploring the idea further.

Ely admits

Several readers suggested Burlington should aim for citywide Wi-Fi — that is, it should offer the ability to connect wirelessly to the Internet anywhere within city limits, at any time. But is such ubiquitous online access feasible, or even desirable?

Greg Epler Wood is the owner of MediaVox, a local media consulting firm, and chair of the Burlington Telecom Advisory Committee. If Burlington were to make itself universally Wi-Fi capable, Burlington Telecom would be the most likely vendor to do it. But Epler Wood says he’s not convinced that’s where BT should be making its capital investments right now. Other cities have tried ubiquitous Wi-Fi, he says, but haven’t found a way to make it cost-effective.

“It’s not the cost,” Epler Wood explains.

“It’s how to recoup the cost.” General Manager Chris Burns notes that BT already offers three Wi-Fi hotspots — Leddy Park Arena, City Hall and the Miller Community and Recreation Center — for current BT customers who subscribe to at least two of the company’s “bundled” services: phone, cable TV

In the coming years, the cities that grow the fastest and attract the new clean-technology industries — and the hip, young, creative professionals that come with them — will be those that invest in their digital infrastructures.

she’s unsure whether the city would allow motorized traffic on the bike path, even a small electric tram.

Nevertheless, she’s intrigued by the recreational possibilities: Tourists downtown could ride out to the homestead for a small fee; canoeists and kayakers could put in along the banks of the Winooski and get picked up by another tram at the mouth of the river several hours later.

Neither Flint nor Ely has proposed a name for the shuttle. Here’s an idea: The Ethan Allen Tram, or “EAT” for short.

— KEN PICARD

CITYWIDE WI-FI SERVICE

Economic development experts say the Digital Age is all about connectivity. In the coming years, the cities that grow the fastest and attract the new clean-technology industries — and the hip, young, creative professionals that come with them — will be those that invest in their digital infrastructures.

and Internet.

And BT is currently soliciting suggestions for new hotspots.

Still, Burns says there are no plans to “put a canopy” of Wi-Fi services over the city. He believes it makes more sense for the publicly owned BT to finish building out its fiber-tothe-home network and become “cash positive,” thus enabling itself to expand into neighboring communities and increase its revenue stream.

Epler Wood says BT may want to consider offering Wi-Fi hotspots within several hundred feet of all municipally owned buildings. Since those buildings are likely to be already wired with BT fiber, adding a Wi-Fi transmitter wouldn’t require a major cash outlay.

Such a plan could turn many public sites — City Hall Park, upper Church Street, Oakledge Park, even North Beach — into outdoor Internet portals. Of course, gauging the public’s appetite for such services will probably have to wait several months, until the weather is more amenable to outdoor web surfing.

— KEN PICARD

ARTISTS’ CO-OP AND STUDIO ENCLAVE

Each fall, when several thousand people descend on the city’s South End for Art Hop, newcomers and longtime residents alike marvel at the complex warren of art studios and makeshift galleries that are normally hidden from public view. For many of the artists working there, the annual autumn ritual is the one time of year when their work gets extensive public exposure.

Terry Zigmund, owner of the Burlington Community Glass Studio off Pine Street, thinks Burlington could be doing far more to support its artists. She suggests tearing a page from the history of a highly successful artists’ enclave: The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia.

In the late 1960s, the City of Alexandria purchased a complex of vacant federal buildings that had served as a torpedo manufacturing facility during World Wars I and II. It took several years of planning and renovations, but by September 1974 the Torpedo Factory Art Center was open to the public.

Today the place is a major tourist attraction along the Potomac River, drawing approximately a half-million visitors annually. Home to 82 working artists’ studios, 165 visual artists, six galleries, two workshops and an anthropology museum, the Torpedo Factory is much more than just a shopping mall for handmade crafts. It’s an artists’ incubator of sorts, and a prototype for similar art enclaves worldwide.

Could a project like that one, albeit on a smaller scale, take root in Burlington? Doreen Kraft, executive director of Burlington City Arts, knows the Torpedo Factory well. A few years ago, thenMayor Peter Clavelle visited the center and tried to launch a similar, scale-appropriate project in the Queen City.

“Over the years, we tried to look at different facilities this way,” Kraft says. “But it was so expensive to make it work, and we kept coming up against too many walls.”

One problem, Kraft explains, is that Burlington doesn’t have many vacant buildings. For a time, the city considered buying the old bank building on the corner of St. Paul and College streets. But after “crunching the numbers,” officials couldn’t figure out how to make it economically feasible.

“I don’t see a lot of appetite for big capital campaigns right now,” Kraft adds. Nonetheless, she sees some future opportunities for artists when the Moran Plant is finally renovated. And an artists’ enclave could one day find a home in the so-called “superblock,” where the Burlington Fire Department’s Station 1 and Memorial Auditorium are now located. According to Kraft, both structures may eventually be moved. That said, she thinks “the next generation of thinkers” will have to tackle the issue. Perhaps some of our new city councilors coming aboard this week can take a crack at it.

— KEN PICARD

A MEDIUM-SIZED ROCK CLUB Burlington needs another rock club. As any self-respecting local rocker staring down middle age will tell you, the Queen City’s music scene was never healthier than during the largely self-proclaimed alt-rock heyday of the late 1990s. Ask why those were such halcyon days, and the response will come without hesitation: Club Toast.

Though it’s easy to view the Toast era through rose-colored glasses, there’s a degree of truth in that sentimental assessment.

When (then) midlevel bands toured in the Northeast — think Sublime, Fugazi and

SEVEN DAYS | march 04-11, 2009 | feature 29A Pavement, among many others who graced the lower Church Street dive, often with local openers — they were as likely to stop at Club Toast as at iconic regional venues such as The Middle East (Cambridge, Mass.) or The Bowery Ballroom (NYC).

For a glimpse of what we’re missing now that Toast is no more, consider that Asobi Seksu, Propagandhi, Clem Snide and The Black Lips are all touring the Northeast this month. All would draw in Burlington. None is coming closer than Boston.

That’s to take nothing away from Burlington’s existing venues. Particularly given the area’s diminutive population, we boast a vibrant scene with no shortage of great local, regional and national music options from week to week. But you can always have more. And can we be blamed for being just a little greedy?

The real problem is that the greater Burlington area simply lacks an adequate club for midlevel bands. The Monkey House, Nectar’s and Club Metronome are too small.

Both Higher Ground rooms are too big.

Sadly, there’s no easy fix for this Goldilocksian plight.

As great as Toast was, it wasn’t hugely profitable, although co-owner Dennis Wygmans says financial issues weren’t ultimately a factor in the club’s closing.

Given the current challenges of weathering a sour economy, finding a sizeable location in a city increasingly less tolerant of late-night shenanigans, and grappling with the liquor control board’s notorious reluctance to issue new licenses, a new nightclub in Burlington seems a long shot at best.

— DAN BOLLES

EXPAND CCTA BUS SERVICE

Light rail, downtown trolleys, a bullet train to Boston. When it comes to moving people around, Seven Days readers have plenty of ideas. But when you get down to brass tacks, the most common suggestion we heard is also what transportation planners like to hear: Expand regional bus service by adding more frequent runs, new routes and later hours of operation at night and on weekends.

A monorail may sound sexy, but buses offer taxpayers the biggest bang for the buck.

Chris Cole is general manager of the Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA). Not surprisingly, he says the biggest obstacle to expanding bus service is funding. This is especially true in Vermont, where bus routes are regional — that is, they cross numerous town, city and county lines — and are funded by a complex mix of federal, state and local dollars.

Getting all those municipalities to agree on levels of service and funding is like herding cats. For instance, CCTA’s new Essex line runs through Essex, Winooski, Colchester and Burlington. Though the first three municipalities collectively cover 24 percent of the cost of that route, Colchester pays zero. “Colchester should be paying $60,000 for the service they’re getting,” Cole says, especially since a quarter of the ridership comes from Fort Ethan Allen.

But Cole emphasizes that more services are indeed on the horizon. For instance, CCTA is planning a new route from Burlington to Williston to access the big-box stores. Cole is also working on improving and expanding service to the University Mall, which has been plagued with delays due to heavy traffic on Main Street. Another new route to serve Milton is in the works, and several popular city routes will see their hours extended at night and on weekends.

More bus routes are a real likelihood, especially if ridership numbers continue to climb, as they have over the past year. For instance, the 1-year-old Essex line, which runs every 15 minutes during morning and evening rush hours, has seen its ridership rise 40 percent.

The Montpelier Link Express boosted its numbers by 64 percent over the last year; the Middlebury Express, by 44 percent.

Finally, Cole says, when eight CCTA buses become eligible for retirement next year, he hopes to replace them with gas/ electric hybrid vehicles that run on battery power when they’re traveling under 30 miles per hour and shut off at traffic lights. Now, that’s visionary.

— KEN PICARD

AN ETHNIC BAZAAR FOR OLD NORTH END VENDORS

Burlington’s Old North End is the only Vermont neighborhood where you’ll find a half-dozen immigrant shopkeepers selling food and wares from Africa and Asia. Ongyel Sherpa, who just opened Himalayan Food Market on North Street (see story on p.06B), thinks the city could promote that cultural diversity better by sponsoring a weekly “Ethnic Bazaar.”

In Sherpa’s mind, the event would be staged on North Street every Saturday and include neighborhood artisans. “That’s what happens in Nepal,” he says of the bazaar concept. “It would be good because it gets people out of the house and helps them get to know each other.”

Waell Murray, who owns Global Markets on North Winooski Avenue, agrees that an ethnic bazaar would benefit the Old North End business community. But it should be staged downtown on a weekday, he opines, adding that a Saturday bazaar might conflict with the Burlington Farmers’ Market.

“It’s not a bad idea to have a bazaar, especially for minorities and refugees,” Murray adds. “They have some hidden treasures.

Putting the [treasures] out in the open would be a nice thing, and it’ll move some money around.”

As it turns out, officials at Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office have already tried to start a downtown bazaar. Two summers ago, CEDO sponsored and marketed the “ONE World Market” on two Wednesdays in City Hall Park and during the South End Art Hop in September.

Bruce Seifer, CEDO’s assistant director for economic development, suggests the ONE World Market is a logical extension of the city’s commitment to small business owners and a great way to empower immigrant entrepreneurs. However, he notes, it needs outside financial support to survive.

After the pilot ONE World Market in 2007, Seifer applied for federal and private grants, but his applications were denied.

Then he asked organizers of the Burlington Farmers’ Market if they would consider adding Old North End vendors. But the farmers, Seifer says, still haven’t warmed to his proposal. 

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Castle Freeman Jr. is scheduled to read from All That I Have on March 6 at the Tunbridge Library, 7 p.m.; on March 10 at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m.; on March 25 at the Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m.; and on April 2 at Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m.

sheriff’s office asking for protection from a man who clearly means to do her harm. His first suggestion: Leave town. His second, off the record: Put some frontier justice in motion. That novel may leave the reader wondering what, if anything, lawmen do in densely wooded, sparsely populated country where the rule of law seldom seems to apply. In All That I Have, we find out.

Throughout the novel, middle-aged Sheriff Wing puts the plot on pause to deliver disquisitions on what he calls “sheriffing.” Unlike a cop, who nabs criminals and figures his job is done, “The sheriff brings law to people who don’t need law … sheriffing is enforcing the rules for people who nine times out of ten obey the rules on their own. But,” Wing notes with his characteristic terse understatement, “sheriffing don’t necessarily go well on the tenth fellow. And it don’t necessarily go well with people who don’t know the rules, people from away.”

“People from away” turn out to be the problem (or part of it) in this story, which opens with a call from a state trooper about a naked, badly beaten fellow who’s trussed to a tree and screaming in Russian.

A week previously, Wing recalls, he was summoned by a tripped security alarm at a Gold Coast mansion, where he discovered a break-in and a stack of porno magazines in Cyrillic text.

Coincidence? He thinks not.

Soon enough, the well-heeled Russians turn up, eager to retrieve a safe stolen from their property. Wing is pretty sure he knows who did the smash-and-grab — a dim-witted local Adonis named Sean Duke, whom everyone calls “Superboy.” Wing’s ambitious deputy, Lyle Keen, prods him to arrest Sean, but that doesn’t fit Wing’s notion of sheriffing. Nor does letting the Russians, who are linked to international organized crime, introduce the local boy to their own crude version of justice.

Sheriffing turns out to be surprisingly Zen. (Wing remembers his mentor’s advice: “All you have to do is do your job. But Wingate never said what the job was.”) Where Archer Mayor’s fictional detective Joe Gunther would go out and leave no stone unturned in his investigation, Wing waits for events to develop, for motivations to ripen. Once they do,

FROM ALL THAT I HAVE Going up their million-dollar driveway, I thought, not for the first time, how differently rich and poor set on a piece of land. If there’s harm done, nine times out of ten it’s the rich who do it, not the poor. All my life, this mountainside up here had been the back of the backcountry. Out of the way, steep, heavily wooded, it had been perfectly good boondocks: good for logging, good for hunting, good for bears and porcupines. As the ass end of creation, it had done very well.

A poor man, if he had settled in here, would have bought a quarter-acre lot right on the road and moved in a trailer or put up a plain little house. He wouldn’t have been able to afford to do anything more. Then by and by, suppose his house burned or he moved his trailer, in two years, less, it would be as if he’d never been here at all.

A rich man is different. He can afford to do whatever he wants, so he does a lot. He does everything. He buys the whole mountain, he clears ten, twenty acres at the top, he gets in heavy equipment, builds a road a quarter-mile long to his house site, puts in ponds, walls, banks, berms. If there’s a hill where he don’t want a hill, he grades it; if there’s a dip where he don’t want a dip, he fills it. He changes the whole place, the whole land, so it’s to his liking — and he changes it forever. He turns the ass end of creation into real estate. Maybe the bears and the porcupines are still there, but now they’re his bears and his porcupines, in a way they never were the poor man’s.

It’s when the money moves in that the neighborhood goes to hell, it looks like to me. Have a rich man for your friend, if you can, but a poor man for your neighbor.

CASTLE FREEMAN JR.

he makes his move, and it’s usually the right one. Still, by the end of the novel, Wing’s own life — including his long marriage to the only woman he’s ever loved — has changed in ways he can’t undo.

As this synopsis suggests, All That I Have is a character study, not a whodunit. It offers very little mystery, but gives us the constant pleasure of Wing’s voice, a laconic speech so clipped and place-specific we can almost hear it in our heads. Take Wing’s account of his upbringing: “We had a deal with our mother. Her end was, we could have anything we wanted. Our end was, we wouldn’t want too much.” Or his explanation of Sean’s appeal to the ladies: “[H]e had that kind of bold grin that makes some women think, Well, this fellow’s pretty sure of himself. He’s pretty confident. He must have something.

He obviously don’t have it in his brains. Maybe he’s got it in his shorts.

Let’s find out.”

As its epigraph makes clear, the title of All That I Have alludes to the parable of the prodigal son. (When he asks why his straying brother was favored, the obedient son is told, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”) Grumbling, moralistic Deputy Keen plays the role of the Good Son in this version.

He wonders why Wing doesn’t bring the law down on prodigal Sean — is it because the childless sheriff yearns for a surrogate son? Or because Sean’s real father came home from the Gulf War in a coffin when the boy was too young to comprehend his loss?

But Wing has a deeper reason for

keeping Sean alive, one that goes to the core of his way of “sheriffing.”

“In working with your bad boys,” he explains, “you’re also in the conservation business, in a manner of speaking, you’re in the endangered species business; because bad boys are getting scarce … without the Seans of this world, it looks like the only young fellows we’d have in these parts would be bank clerks and sales representatives and fellows who want to work on computers …” In Wing’s personal lexicon, those white-collar workers are “big lookers,” self-promoters who think they can brag and buy their way into his confidence. They’re the antithesis of the traditional ways he wants to preserve.

Is that a simplistic distinction?

Sure. But there’s nothing simplistic or cliché-Vermont about the way Wing — and Freeman — see the local traditions and the community they bind. Remove one bad apple from the pie, and nothing tastes the same.

As Wing says about sheriffing, “You can’t do it with spare parts. It’s a whole thing you’re working on. It’s a whole thing you have to keep going.”

A novelist trying to capture a sense of place might describe his work just so. Freeman’s novels may not be global literary monuments, but they’re indelibly his and indelibly, uncompromisingly local. It’s tempting to wonder what the Coen brothers would do with them, in the quirky-Americana tradition of Fargo. For now, though, it’s enough to hear the whip-sharp dialogues and monologues come alive on the page as the sheriff shows us his world. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHANNING JOHNSON

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oward Frank Mosher has his Jay Craven. But will Newfane novelist Castle Freeman Jr. ever find a simpatico director to bring his slim, taut novels to the screen?

Freeman’s previous novel, last year’s Go With Me, certainly offered prime cinematic material. Set in rural Vermont and structured like a suspense thriller, Go With Me drew a slew of glowing reviews; The Wall Street Journal said it had “echoes of Deliverance and Cormac McCarthy.”

All That I Have is a quieter novel, a simmerer rather than a potboiler.

Narrated by Sheriff Lucian Wing — the successor of Sheriff Wingate in Go With Me — it suggests that Freeman intends to map every inch of his fictional southern Vermont county the way Faulkner did his Mississippi one. And when he’s done, he’ll have created a sort of rural anti-noir, a fictional universe where lawmen rumble down not-so-mean streets in their humble pickups and keep order without firing a shot. Freeman’s world isn’t particularly gentle, nor is it free of tragedy. But All That I Have is as far from the Manichean melodrama of crime fiction — and the literary fiction inspired by it — as you’re likely to get.

It’s also an excellent companion to Go With Me, which opens with a young woman showing up at the

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EXHIBIT “The Shape of Things: Johnny Swing and the Best of Vermont Design 2009,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through March 21.

ARTWORK A “Lightwing”

by Johnny Swing

PHOTO Courtesy of Helen Day Art Center

hat can you make with 7000 nickels, besides a bank deposit of $350? If you’re Johnny Swing, all that loose change adds up to the perfect material for building a divan.

The Brookline, Vt., artist fuses 5-cent coins together with 35,000 welds and shapes the metal fabric into the surface of a couch.

All that coinage is supported by a stainlesssteel truss system — 350 feet of what Swing refers to as “stiffing” rods. The elaborate substructure looks something like a suspension bridge, and the end result is a sort of heavy metal fainting couch. Maybe Swing wants to give customers a safe place to sit when they learn the price tag on this piece of his “Obsessive Furniture”: It tops $100,000.

(Earlier models have sold for less.)

Swing’s highly polished sofa, now on view at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, is the 22nd in a limited-edition issue of 25. Swing has made chairs, bowls and boxes from U.S. Treasury coinage, as well as sewn pillows from dollar bills.

For its exhibition “The Shape of Things: Johnny Swing and the Best of Vermont

Design 2009,” the Helen Day has turned the main gallery space into a Swing living room, complete with the coinage series, chairs made from “repurposed” baby-food jars, and his praying-mantis-like light fixtures crafted of satellite dishes and Eiffel Tower-style trusses standing 10 feet tall.

The other artists and architects represented in the gallery also blur the line between form and function. Gone is the emphasis on practicality that most ceramicists, jewelry makers, glassblowers, furniture makers and architects generally bring to their work. In “The Shape of Things,” the ordinary object is a form of sculpture.

Could you use the “Bad Beaver Vases”

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Brothers Kevin and Jon Racek, the SHOW US THE GREEN! As our ‘A Conversation About Hugh duo behind Stew Design Workshop, have earth makes its renewal in the Townley’: Cartoonist Ed Koren and dreamed up two utopian sites for communiseasonal change, let us celebrate Eugenia Robbins, director of the ties, presented here as models and computerthe growth bursting forth, whether Friends of the Vermont Statehouse, it’s environmental, economic, talk with curator Aimee Marcereau generated drawings. “Quarrytown USA” is agricultural or abstract. Yes, show DeGalan about the late sculptor a housing project that would be built over us the green! Open to all media. and his work in this lunchtime an abandoned mine site. “Harvester” is an Application deadline: March 6. lecture. Wednesday, March 4, 84-story mixed-use office and residential Show dates: April 28 - June 6. For 12:15-1:15 p.m., Fleming Museum, tower that would generate its own power and application requirements contact UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

Studio Place Arts, 479-7069, ‘Dharma and Liberation in the water. In plans for the structure, solar panels www.studioplacearts.com.

Iconographic Program of the sheath the exterior, turbines are embedded NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Lokeshvara Temple’: Dr. Cathleen inside, and a hole in the top forms part of a The Vermont Photography Workplace Cummings, assistant professor at the rainwater gathering system. solicits entries for its first juried University of Alabama at Birmingham These projects may seem outphotography exhibition, “Nature’s and a specialist in South Asian Whispers, Nature’s Shouts: art, talks about the iconography landish, but they don’t begin Photographing the Natural World.” of the 8th-century temple and to compare in that regard The exhibition will open at the explores issues of royal and female with David Sellers’ WalkOver Gallery in Bristol in patronage, and more. Wednesday, design for Gesundlate June. For further information March 4, 5-7 p.m., Colburn Gallery, heit Institute, the and entry instructions, see www.

Burlington. Info, 656-2014. vtphotoworkplace.com or email Vermont Arts Council Listening hospital-cum-clown inphotos@vtphotoworkplace.com.

Tour: Creative types share ideas stitute based on the vision of physician Patch Deadline for entries: April 20. to improve the “state of the arts” Adams. As depicted in the 1998 biopic with FOOLS’ GOLD ART AUCTION: Fools in the current funding climate.

Robin Williams, Adams has been bringing Launching Unusual Flights of Fancy Wednesday, March 4, 3:30-5:30 p.m., his unique brand of healing — which blends (F.L.U.F.F.) seeks donations of art for Welcome Center, St. Johnsbury, and the 10th Annual Fools’ Gold Art Auction Monday, March 9, 3:30-5:30 p.m., clowning and medicine — to prisons, war and Pink and Blue Ball. Please leave Vermont Interactive Television zones, refugee camps, orphanages and clinics donations, marked with name & contact Site, Montpelier. Info, 828-0152. all over the world for the past two decades. info, at Jamba’s Junktiques, 324 N. March First Friday Art Walk: The Gesundheit Institute is Adams’ yetWinooski Ave., Burlington, or call for More than 40 galleries and other to-be-fulfilled dream to create a free hospital pickup/info: 607-382-3441 or 863-4649. art venues around downtown stay ARTISTS, ARE YOU OUT THERE? open late to welcome pedestrian in the poorest state in America: West VirParticipant in the First Friday Artwalk, art viewers. Friday, March 6, 5-8 ginia. Silliness is the organizing principle a boutique on Church St., is looking p.m., Burlington. Info, 264-4839. for the establishment, which would be for emerging artists to show their ‘Combat Paper’: Vermont artists and located on a 310-acre donated site on work. Please send images/inquiries Iraq war vets transform the gallery a Hillsboro mountainside. That’s why to onelove1515@hotmail.com. into a paper-making studio and turn 25TH ANNIVERSARY FREE SPEECH out paper, then artworks, from former the hospital campus takes the shape ART AUCTION: As part of its 25th military uniforms. Through April 11 of a head, and the ear, anniversary celebration, CCTV is inviting at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. nose and throat local artists to create a piece of work Paper-making workshop: Saturday, clinic features that reflects the theme of “free speech” March 7, 1-4 p.m. Info, 865-7165. entry through a and “democratic communications.”

James Florschutz: Using byTwo- and three-dimensional art, as products of society and culture, the pair of nostrils. well as video pieces, are welcome. artist carves, stacks, welds, ties, The institute is currently trying to “funDeadline for submissions: March 31. bends and otherwise manipulates raise” $1 million to build a teaching center Please contact Megan Humphrey mixed media into sculptural and clinic. Though the Sellers & Company at 864-7528 or meganh@sover.net forms. March 10 through 27 at project has been in the works since 1984, if you would like to participate.

Christine Price Gallery, Castleton OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND IN State College. Talk: The artist so far only one structure has been built — a VERMONT: Seeking fine art and discusses his sculptures in Herrick curvaceous three-story “dacha” for volunteers. craft artisans for a group show May Auditorium. Tuesday, March 10, The Helen Day has devoted an entire room to 23 and 24. River Arts in Morrisville 12:30-1:30 p.m. Info, 468-1394. the project; illustrations, cartoons and archiwill provide the space and publicity. tectural plans cover it from floor to ceiling. $50 entry fee to cover costs. Limited space. Participants must be onsite for In general, Vermont’s designers are some duration during the weekend. renowned for their classical approach to Contact River Arts by March 31. craftsmanship. Think of Vermont Vernacular, www.riverartsvt.com, 888-1261.

Pompanoosuc Mills, Artisans Hand or Frog Hollow. Mod design isn’t typically part of the Green Mountain ethos, but that may be changing. Consider the Shelburne Museum, PLEASE NOTE: Exhibitions are written which has recently brought experimental

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‘In TheIr Own wOrds’: Anime art submissions from local middle and high school and university students. Through March 5 at UVM Living/Learning Center in Burlington. Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6-8 p.m.

GreTchen Beck: “Balepate,” mixedmedia imagery by the chair of the art department at Concordia University.

Beck lived in Niger for several years and in her art studies aspects of the landscape, culture and native art forms. Through April 10 at Feick Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Reception: Thursday, March 5, 4-6 p.m. Info, 287-8926. cArOle rOsAlynd drury: “Les Bois du Nord Est Royaume,” paintings about the woods in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.

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‘FreedOm In creATIOn’: An exhibition of drawings and paintings by children of northern Uganda. March 6 through 31 at Flynndog in Burlington.

The reception includes a film preview and discussion about this arts-based psychological, education and water-development program aimed at empowering war-affected children in Northern Uganda. Friday, March 6, 6-9 p.m. Info, 770-596-8134.

PeTe suTherlAnd: “Calendar Art,” collages. Through March 30 at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, March 6, 7-9 p.m. Info, 453-3795.

PhIllIP rOBerTsOn: “Moments in Meditation,” recent prints and paper constructions, displayed in Brown Library. March 6 through April 3 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common. A printmaking demonstration is followed by a reception for the artist. Friday, March 6, 4-6 p.m. Info, 586-7711. rOBerT G. JOnes & lIndA e.

JOnes: The father and daughter artists show representational oceanside landscapes and earthy abstract paintings, respectively March 6 through 29 at 215 College Artists’ Cooperative in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 863-3662.

TATIAnA ZelAZO: “Still Life,” a series of black-and-white photographs that look at “looking in;” and krIs JArreTT: Images by the St. Albans photographer.

Through March 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m. Info, 318-2438. crAIG mOOney & helen shulmAn: “Human Landscapes,” evocative figurative works and earth-toned abstract paintings, respectively. March 7 through April 26 at West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park in Stowe. Art critic Ric Kasini Kadour gives comments on the artists’ work; catalogues for both will be available. Saturday, March 7, 6-8 p.m. Info, 253-8943. ‘sPIrITs, dreAms And hAlFrememBered TAles’: Artists Kirsten Hoving, Emma Powell and Bridget Milligan manipulate the photographic medium, using recorded facts to craft imaginative fantasies. March 7 through May 2 at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

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ongoing :: burlington area Amy Bourgeois: Colorful acrylic Vermont landscapes, as well as prints, by the local artist. Through March 31 at Bistro Sauce in Shelburne. Info, 985-2830.

Annie TiBerio CAmeron: “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” photographs from cross-country solo camping trips, and from Vermont. Through March 28 at Firehouse Center Community Darkroom in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

Ben Alshire: Black-and-white photography, Gates 1 & 2; sAge TuCker keTChAm: “2010 Year,” abstract acrylic on canvas, Escalator; and helen shulmAn: Abstract paintings, Skyway. Through March 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

‘BrAsil’: A group exhibit by Jairo and Helen Dechtiar, Leonara Dechtiar, Andrea Farley and Bonnie Anderson includes batiks and paintings inspired

by Brazilian carnival, folklore, nature and prehistoric cave art.

Through March 31 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 540-0209.

‘BrighT And Bold’: Members of the Essex Art League show works in this colorful theme. Through March 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

CCV group show: “Rebirth,” a multimedia show highlighting the talents of faculty members and community artists exploring the title theme. March 6 through May 28 at CCV Burlington Cherry Pit Gallery. Info, 652-2081.

CiArAn BrennAn: “Photographic Suburbia,” color images of domestic interiors by the local artist. Through March 31 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 864-1557. dAn doyle: “Mr. Bones Loves Chili,” art photographs. Through March 8 at Avenue Bistro in Burlington. Info, 652-9999. dAVid keArns: Mixed-media drawings on paper. Through April 30 at CCV Burlington Pearl Gallery. Info, 652-2081.

Pete Sutherland. Most Vermonters know him as a consummate fiddler and songwriter, but over the past year or so Sutherland has found something else to do with his hands: make collages. A series of his colorful images for calendars is on display at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury through March 30. The show opens with a reception this Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m.

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FrAnk GonzAlez: “Transformations,” 3-D paper constructions by the local artist and his students. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

HuGH Townley: “Against the Grain,” a large-scale retrospective featuring more than 60 works of art by the late American wood sculptor who spent his final years in Bethel, Vermont; and ‘objecTs oF Power And IdenTITy’: An exhibition of objects, from weapons to jewelry, curated by UVM’s Museum Anthropology class.

Through May 5 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0570.

‘In THe HeArT oF wInTer’: New work by five female artists from either side of the Champlain Valley: Lynda Reeves McIntyre, Liz Wilson, Alice Wand, Rachel Finn and Beverly Burke Eichenlaub. Through March 7 at Premises Storefront Gallery in Essex. Info, 518-963-7150. jAy VoGler: In the center’s Chittenden Bank branch, the Vermont artist shows a series of recent abstract, mixed-media paintings on canvas that explore color field relationships.

Through April 30 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 425-2152. jess GrAHAm: Acrylic works on paper of flying damsels in winterscapes.

Through March 4 at CCV Burlington Cherry Pit Gallery. Info, 652-2081. jodI wHAlen: New abstract paintings. Through April 17 at Drink in Burlington. Info, 865-0108. kAren dAwson: Landscape paintings en plein air in the fourth-floor atrium.

Through March 31 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 865-1208. kenjI kATAkurA: “Phantoms,” abstract graphite portraits; jAson osTerHouT: Abstract expressionism; lIndA reynolds: “Impressions of Place,” watercolors; and jAmes TeuscHer: “Remnants of the Iron Age,” sculpture. Through April 23 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273. lynn Powers: The member of the Essex Art League display her works. Through April 30 at Essex Town Offices. Info, 862-3014. mIcHAel sAGer: “Gathering of the Minds: Vermont Roots, Pictures of the Universe and the Artwork of Michael Sager,” mixed-media paintings. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. muFFIn rAy: “Discarded and Salvage,” richly textural two-dimensional works that employ oils, beeswax, resins and other media, all salvaged from warehouses, dumpsters and basements. Through March 28 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4505.

THe cHAmPlAIn VAlley reGIonAl ArT sHow: Artworks by students at local elementary, middle and high schools. March 8 through 20 at University Mall in South Burlington. Info, 863-1066.

THe one womAn PHoToGrAPHy ProjecT: The college’s community photography project distributed disposable cameras to women around the Old North End, resulting in an exhibit of more than 200 images reflecting the area’s diversity.

Through March 13 at Burlington College. Info, 862-9616.

wIllIAm cordoVA & mAjor jAckson: “More Than Bilingual,” a collaborative project by the Peruvian-born artist and African American poet, respectively, featuring mixed-media drawings and installations and poetry exploring race and language. The works celebrate and critique how cultural territories are dispersed, redefined and transformed in urban settings.

Through May 10 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. women’s HIsTory monTH dIsPlAy: The Chittenden County Historical Society exhibits photographs of history-making local women. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

:: central ‘Four TodAy’: Paintings by Alexandra Bottinelli, Deborah Hillman, Beth Pearson and Tari Swenson, Main Gallery; and ‘THe wPA In VermonT’: Pieces from the gallery’s collection, South Gallery; and ‘PorTrAITure From THe PermAnenT collecTIon’: Paintings, Wood Room.

Through April 19 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743.

FrAnk woods: “Kimono,” an exhibit that captures the Japanese cultural icon in a variety of media, using the familiar T-shape as a template.

Through March 31 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3292.

GAyleen AIken: “When Cousin Gawleen Comes,” mixed-media works portraying the life of the Barre artist profiled in Jay Craven’s film Gayleen. Through April 1 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. jAck sAbon: “Clouds,” oil paintings.

Through March 31 at Restaurant Phoebe in Montpelier. Info, 253-8220. mIrAndA syP: “The Evolving Door,” new acrylics. Through March 31 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. ned kAHn: “Planetary Landscapes: Sculpting the Solar System,” an interactive, multimedia work that illustrates the dynamic forces that shape our solar system. Through March 15 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2220.

PATrIcIA lAurIn: “Images of Machu Picchu and Beyond,” photographs. Through March 31 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.

PeTer THomAsHow: “Wolfson Memorial Laboratory of Colour,” whimsical installations featuring toys “from a parallel universe” and examining play and fantasy. Through March 31 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 765-4274.

PHIl HerbIson: “Urban Wallscapes,” recent paintings and prints. Through March 6 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. rebeccA mAcIjeskI: Pairs of photographs portraying contrasts: large and small, natural and artificial, and plain and ornate. Through March 12 at Vermont Chocolatiers in Northfield. Info, 485-6088. rIA blAAs & lIsA kIPPen: Oil paintings and recent drawings, respectively. Through April 11 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.

James Florschutz. The Newfane-based artist has been making sculptural creations out of cultural and physical debris for three decades. A current exhibit of wall-hung works at Castleton State College’s Christine Price Gallery shows how he investigates “the ubiquity of sites, excavations and mapping.” Florschutz talks about his sculptures on Tuesday, March 10, at 12:30 p.m.

scoTT mAnnInG: Sand-blasted granite tiles. Through March 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 485-8747. ‘wHole new bAll GAme’: A group show of artworks in multiple media exploring the motion and emotion of athletic competition, Main Floor Gallery; Second Floor Gallery; sIlenT AucTIon: Sales to benefit SPA programs; begins March 10 and concludes at the Gala March 28; and cAmeron scHmITz’: Paintings and drawings, Third Floor Gallery. March 10 through April 18 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

:: champlain valley ‘ArT now: douG And mIke sTArn’: An installation features enlarged photomicrographs of snowflakes along with the museum’s recently acquired, many-layered photographic image of a tree, both by the famous identical-twin artists. Through April 19 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007. ‘conFronTInG HIsTory: conTemPorAry ArTIsTs enVIsIon THe PAsT’: A group show of printmakers who invoke historic sources to examine the current state of the world, using an array of contemporary techniques. Through April 19 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007. deAnnA sHAPIro: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings. Through March 31 at Charlotte Community Library. Info, 877-8332.

jAy erIcson: Photographs of the Town Forest; and ‘rememberInG roGer’: books, photos and other artifacts from the life of author and part-time Lincoln resident Roger Shattuck, compiled by Bob Bernstein and Nora Shattuck. Through March 31 at Lincoln Library. Info, 453-2665. lynA lou nordsTrom: “Hearts and Flowers,” monotypes and small paintings with heart, flower and abstract imagery in the Octagonal Room. Through March 31 at Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Info, 877-6316.

PATrIcIA lebon Herb: “Yesterday and Today,” paintings and collages.

Through March 29 at Walkover Gallery & Listening Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

PATT cAVAnAGH & mAry AlcAnTArA: Multimedia paintings exploring botanical and natural forms, and sculptures in marble or alabaster, respectively. March 6 through April 28 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956.

:: northern AlToon sulTAn: Egg tempera photo-realist paintings exploring New England light and space.

Through March 21 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. cArole robb: “Walking Towards Venice,” works on paper. Through March 14 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. judITH lerner: Paintings in gouache by the local artist. Through April 3 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 535-5008.

‘nVAA: PAsT And PresenT’: An exhibit features works by members of the Northern Vermont Artists Association from 1930 to 2000, Main Gallery; and nVAA AnnuAl jurIed exHIbITIon: Selected works by current members, East Gallery. Through March 15 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

‘THe sHAPe oF THInGs: joHnny swInG And THe besT oF VermonT desIGn 2009’: An exhibit featuring Vermont artists and artisans who repurpose materials and stretch meanings includes furniture by Johnny Swing; ceramics by Paige Russell; architecture and windenergy technology by Stew Design; architecture and sustainable design

by David Sellers; fine metals by Laurie Peters; glass works by John Chiles; and illuminated sculpture by Riki Moss and Robert Ostermeyer of Studio Glow.

Through March 21 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. ‘wInTer wonderlAnd’: Winterthemed paintings by 14 local artists.

Through March 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

:: regional ‘Andy wArHol: A PHoToGrAPHIc leGAcy’: A sampling of Polaroid photography by the 20th-century art icon. Through March 29 at Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum. Info, 518-564-2288. m

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Her first book, A Kid’s Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail, will be released in the spring of 2009. More of her work can be seen at www.katherineroy.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You never want a se-

rious crisis to go to waste,” said Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff. “It’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” While your crisis is nowhere near as pressing as those faced

by Obama’s team, Aries, I recommend that you adopt a similar attitude in the coming days. Just assume that any breakdowns you experience will allow you to make breakthroughs that were previously impossible.

Take advantage of a spiritual emergency to accomplish a spiritual emergence. As you deal with a scary trial, use it as an impetus to find a sacred trail.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your key theme for the week is “Healthy Obsessions.” Not “Melodramatic Compulsions” or “Exhausting Crazes” or “Manias That Make You Seem Interesting to Casual Bystanders,” but “Healthy Obsessions.” To carry out your assignment in the right way, you will have to take really good care of yourself as you concentrate extravagantly on tasks that fill you with zeal. This may require you to rebel against the influences of role models, both in your actual life and in the movies you’ve seen, who act as if getting sick and imbalanced is an integral part of being true to one’s genius.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The closest modern

relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex may be the chicken, says geneticist John Asara. He came to this conclusion after studying traces of tissue from a 68-millionyear-old bone of the king of dinosaurs. I invite you to draw inspiration from this theory, Gemini. Try the following thought experiment. Envision a couple of monstrous influences from your past — big bad meanies who hurt you or scared you. Imagine they were like Tyrannosaurus rexes back then. Close your eyes and see their faces glaring from the beast’s skull.

But then imagine that in the intervening months and years they have devolved and shrunk. Picture them now as clucking chickens pecking at seeds in the dirt.

Can you see their faces at the top of their bobbing, feathery bodies?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Scientists and fundamentalist Christians don’t share much common ground, but one thing most of them agree on devoutly: There’s no such thing as reincarnation. Now I’m pleased to be able to offer you the chance to rebel against their dogmatic delusion. You see, Cancerian, it’s an excellent time to try out the hypothesis that you have lived many times before and will live many times again. For one week, act as if it were true, and see how it changes the way you feel, think and act.

What if everything you do has repercussions forever?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This horoscope presents

three clues for you to work with. Here’s the first: I know a psychotherapist’s son who, while growing up, rarely received the benefits of his father’s psychological expertise. “The shoemaker’s child has no shoes,” my friend says. Here’s your second clue: In the Bible’s book of Mark, Jesus declares, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.” The third clue: A neurologist of my acquaintance suffers from migraine headaches that he has been unable to cure.

Now, Leo, I invite you to meditate on how these alienations may reflect situations that you’re experiencing.

If they sound familiar, take action. It’s prime time to heal them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One reason I’ve been

put on this earth is to expose you to a kind of astrology that doesn’t crush your free will, but instead clarifies your choices. In this horoscope, for instance, I’ll crisply delineate your options so that you may decide upon a bold course of action that’s most in tune with your highest values. Study the following multiple-choice query, then briskly flex your freedom of choice. Would you rather have love: 1. knock the wind out of one of your illusions, thereby exposing the truth about what you really want; 2. not exactly kick you in the butt, but more like pinch and spank you there, inspiring you to revise your ideas about what it means to be close to someone; 3. spin you

around in dizzying yet oddly pleasurable circles, shaking up your notions about how to keep intimacy both interestingly unpredictable and soothingly stable.

LIbRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Cartoonist Gary Larson

defines luposlipaphobia as the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. According to my reading of the astrological omens, there is a real danger you could fall victim to that deluded phobia.

And it is definitely a delusion. No timber wolves will be in your immediate future. If you hope to avoid this mistaken anxiety, as well as other equally irrelevant and unproductive superstitions, you should have a nice long talk with yourself as soon as you finish reading this. Be very clear and strict and rational as you explain how important it is to be very clear and strict and rational right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe you shouldn’t mend your supposedly “evil” ways if your “evil” ways are about to mutate into a fascinating new approach to goodness. Maybe the very quality that has threatened to cause your downfall has now become the key to your upgrade. And maybe the thing that has made you most nervous about yourself about yourself will soon start ripening into a beautiful asset that will activate reserves of life energy you didn’t know you could have at your disposal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Jakob Dylan has created a solid musical career for himself. He’s a bit defensive, however, about the possibility that the fame of his father, Bob Dylan, has played a role in his success. His contracts specify that he should never be called “Bob Dylan’s son.” I understand his longing to have his work be judged on its own merits, and I sympathize with his urge to be independent of his heritage. But in the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I advise just the opposite approach for you. You will place yourself in alignment with cosmic rhythms by expansively acknowledging all of the influences that have helped you become the person you want to be.

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DRAWING FIRE Folman’s autobiographical account employs a combination of techniques to tell a haunting tale of war and remembrance.

obody’s perfect. That might have made an apt tagline for Israeli director Ari Folman’s fourth feature. For years the world has questioned how people could stand by and do nothing as Nazis murdered Jews in the Holocaust. Now the filmmaker flips things with his haunting animated documentary about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In the course of that conflict, Jewish troops stood by and did nothing as Christian Phalangist militia murdered thousands of men, women and children over two days in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

Is animation an inappropriate choice for a movie about the massacre of innocent civilians? Not in the hands of an artist as sensitive and gifted as Folman.

I feel this way for several reasons. First, Waltz With Bashir is a documentary. A documentary about war in which individuals recount their personal nightmares from various perspectives. The moviegoing public has had its fill of talking heads ruminating on crises in the Middle East, as evidenced by the dismal box office performance this past year of pictures such as Standard Operating Procedure, Fighting for Life and Body of War. The director’s timing was perfect. Audiences have come to crave a different approach to this material, and Folman has provided it. His vision earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Unlike most documentaries on conflict in the Middle East, Folman’s isn’t about pointing the finger at a particular government, group or political figure.

To the contrary, it’s an exercise in personal accountability, a quest for self-knowledge. Folman himself was a soldier in the Israeli army at the time of the massacre. Twenty-plus years later, he found himself deeply troubled by his inability to recall anything related to

those events, even though he knew he’d been nearby when they took place.

Folman decided to visit old comrades who’d served with him, ask them questions about the event, and film them as they told their stories. When he was finished, he turned the edited tape over to animators who used a combination of techniques — computerenhanced 3-D modeling, traditional hand drawing and Flash animation — to create the picture’s distinctive look. Some reviewers have likened it to Richard (Waking Life) Linklater’s experiments in rotoscoping over live footage, but I didn’t see the similarity. Folman’s palette is darker and richer. For the most part, the film’s dialogue and narration are culled directly from the director’s interviews.

The result is a hypnotic, often surreal journey of self-discovery, illustrating the vastly mysterious nature of memory. Early on the filmmaker visits a close friend who is a psychiatrist. “Maybe I’ll discover things I don’t want to know about myself,” he worries.

“We don’t go places we really don’t want to,” Folman’s friend replies. “A human mechanism prevents us from entering dark places. Memory takes us where we need to go.”

And, in the course of the next hour or so, the viewer accompanies Folman to some unforgettable places.

Some are real. Others are dreams or hallucinations, but what each tells us about these permanently scarred men is no less profound or moving for having been imagined in the midst of war’s assault on the mind. One former soldier recounts the experience of being borne from his blown-up ship to safety by a beautiful nude giantess.

Another relates the dream that has awakened him every night for years, in which 26 rabid, snarling dogs stam-

pede through the streets of Tel Aviv, stopping in front of his apartment building — one dog for each one he was forced to shoot during the incursion.

An Israeli officer manically fast-forwarding German porn in a bombed-out palace. A Lebanese family’s car riddled with bullets simply because it turned down the wrong street at the wrong moment. Folman and fellow soldiers emerging naked from the sea carrying automatic weapons in the eerie glow of orange night flares.

The list of indelible images is long, and the filmmaker’s decision to animate enables him to bring the memories of interviewees to vivid life in a way merely watching them talk would never allow. Good call.

Piece by piece the puzzle of Folman’s past comes together, until the most horrific image of all is finally revealed: A young soldier stands by on a Lebanon street and does nothing as gunshots and screams fill the air. The middle-aged man has tracked down the young man, and, with him, we look into those frozen eyes for a sign of fear or humanity — anything — and see only a human being in the process of shutting down. It’s a remarkable moment in a remarkable film. Ari Folman would not remember that moment for more than 20 years. Anyone who sees Waltz With Bashir is unlikely ever to forget it.

RICK KISONAK

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MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU Newman’s dated comedy doesn’t perform the Jedi mind trick it would need to get big laughs.

n one of the funnier scenes of Kevin Smith’s Clerks, the titular protagonists debate the ethics of bombing the Death Star in the movie Return of the Jedi. It’s funny not just because the slackers apply real-world logic to the Star Wars universe (If the Death Star was under construction, it could have been full of innocent workers!), but because they don’t think twice about doing so. Fanboys, an entire comedy devoted to extreme Star Wars devotees, fails to hit such a high note even once.

As every science-fiction geek knows, “fanboy” (or fangirl) is a slur fans apply to other fans whom they see as expressing their fandom in particularly slavish or silly ways. The thing is, since the term was coined, fanboyism has gone pretty mainstream. Dressing up as one’s favorite fantasy character to attend a movie premiere or convention is not the outré activity it once was. Office workers proudly display their collections of vintage action figures on their desks. At a time when college students and soccer moms spend hours immersed in the virtual worlds of Second Life and World of WarCraft, the phrase “Get a life” no longer really stings.

Fanboys is set (and was first drafted) back in 1998, when the Internet was just starting to geekify America.

It focuses on a group of four twentysomething friends in Ohio, each embodying a stereotype. Hutch (Dan Fogler from Balls of Fury) is a hirsute, chubby Rush fan who lives in his parents’ basement and drives a van decorated with Star Wars-inspired art. Windows (Jay Baruchel, the rookie in Tropic Thunder) is a pencilnecked poindexter with big glasses. Eric (Sam Huntington), the most clean-cut member of the group, finds his friendship and fandom continually tested by

his regular-guy job at his dad’s car dealership. And Linus (Chris Marquette) . . . well, it’s hard to say what’s special about Linus, aside from the fact that he has terminal cancer.

This illness is needed to set the plot in motion, as the other guys want to make sure Linus doesn’t expire without the pleasure of seeing George Lucas’ longawaited Star Wars prequel, Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Since the film’s release date is six long months away, they make a sensible plan to drive cross country, sneak into Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in Marin County (known for its Death Star-level security), and get a peek at the print. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Well, sort of. According to media reports, studio head Harvey Weinstein found the cancer theme in director Kyle Newman’s first cut of Fanboys so tonally jarring that he arranged for edits and reshoots that turned the film into a straight spoof. After outcry from the fan community, various scenes involving Linus’ condition were reinstated — but it’s a classic hasty patch-up job. We never get to know the character enough to care about him, and he never seems to be particularly ailing, despite one ER visit where he’s

lectured by a doctor played by Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia herself ).

In short, the “serious” aspect of the film comes off as an afterthought, tacked on to a series of standard road-movie gags involving gay bikers, run-ins with the police, hookers who don’t announce themselves as such and pointless celebrity cameos. The boys’ Star Wars geekiness adds occasional novelty to the proceedings, as when Hutch proclaims, “We got Imperial bacon” and attempts to send his van into hyperdrive to evade the cops. But the cross-country shtick has been done before and better, as has the geek shtick, by everyone from Joss Whedon to the makers of Wayne’s World.

Seth Rogen shows up in amusing dual roles as a lisping Trekkie (the Star Wars fanboys’ arch-nemesis) and a pimp with Yoda tattooed on his arm. Kristen Bell has a promising role as a sarcastic fangirl whose attractiveness the boys are too blindered to see. But her tough-talking character never hits more than one note . . . not unlike Princess Leia, a replica of whose famous gold bikini Bell dons at the end of the film.

Star Wars movies were never known for great writing or characterization, but they had epic battles in space. Fanboys doesn’t. Ultimately, it wastes its potential and even its best joke: Many adult viewers, even long-time fans, found The Phantom Menace excruciating. Made with Lucas’ assistance and approval, the film can only hint at that ultimate irony. All this effort to get the first glimpse at … a big-budget toy commercial?

MARGOT HARRISON

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CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLICHH1/2 Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling series about a spunky young woman who dreams of working at a fashion magazine but somehow winds up writing for a financial periodical gets the big-screen treatment from My Best Friend’s Wedding director P.J. Hogan. Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack and John Goodman star. (112 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe, Welden) CORALINEHHH Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and Dawn French are among the voice cast in director Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s latest stop-motion feature, in which a young girl discovers a secret door in her home that leads to an alternate version of her life.

Based on the book by Neil Gaiman.

(100 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic [3D version, costs about $2 extra], Palace, Welden)

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WATCHMEN: What would superheroes be like in the real world? Saviors of humanity or fascist tyrants? And, after the X-Men films, Hancock and The Dark Knight, will audiences still line up for Zack (300) Snyder’s long-awaited adaptation of the landmark 1986 comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons?

In a world where “costumed adventurers” are supposed to work for the government or not at all, a couple of misfits try to figure out who’s killing them off. With Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Goode and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. (163 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden)

GRAN TORINOHHH: Clint Eastwood directs, scores and stars in this drama about a bigoted Korean War vet who befriends a Hmong teen and his multigenerational family.

With Bee Vang, Ahney Her and Christopher Carley. (116 min, R. Bijou, Majestic, Palace, Welden) HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOUHH Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Connelly appear in this fictional spin-off of the bestselling self-help book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, featuring an interconnected group of characters who spend way too much time analyzing their love lives. Directed

by Ken (License to Wed) Kwapis.

(129 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) HOTEL FOR DOGSHH1/2 The canine trend in American film comedy continues with this adaptation of the Lois Duncan novel in which a pair of orphaned siblings convert a closed hotel into a sanctuary for strays. Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin star. Thor Freudenthal make his directorial debut. (100 min, PG. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Welden) JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCEHH1/2 The Jonas Brothers, um, perform in concert.

Directed by Bruce (Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert) Hendricks. Where was this guy when Hanson needed him? (76 min, G. Majestic; tickets are $15) MAN ON WIREHHHHH James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary looks back at what some have called “the artistic crime of the century”: In 1974, an agile Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a tightrope he’d strung illegally between the towers of the World Trade Center. (90 min, PG-13. Roxy) MILKHHH1/2 Sean Penn stars in Gus Van Sant’s drama about the life and tragic death of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in this country. With Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch and James Franco. (128 min, R. Palace, Welden)

DOUBTHHH1/2 It’s a Battle of the Thespians: Meryl Streep squares off against Philip Seymour Hoffman in this tale of a nun in a 1964 Catholic school who won’t stop till she’s proved a popular priest guilty of wrongdoing. John Patrick Shanley directs, from a screenplay based on his acclaimed play. With Amy Adams. (104 min, PG-13. Capitol, Roxy, Savoy) FANBOYSHH In this comedy/drama set in 1998, five über-geeky Star Wars fans take a road trip to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in an effort to view The Phantom Menace before anyone else. With Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Kristen Bell and, yes, William Shatner. Kyle Newman directs. (90 min, R. Palace) FIRED UPH1/2 Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen star in this teen laugher about a pair of high school football hot shots who join the school’s hottest girls at cheer camp as a hoot — only to find they’re naturals. Sarah Roemer and Philip Baker Hall costar. Will Gluck makes his directorial debut. (94 min, PG-13. Essex, Palace, Paramount) FRIDAY THE 13THHH Good news for everyone who didn’t get enough of Mr. Hockey Mask in the original slasher franchise’s 11 films: Director Marcus Nispel, who recycled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, now goes back to Camp Crystal Lake to butcher those sex-crazed counselors all over again. With Aaron Yoo, Odette Yustman and Jared Padalecki. (95 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Welden) FROST/NIXONHHHHH: Frank Langella and Michael Sheen reprise their stage roles in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s award-winning play about events surrounding the historic series of television interviews David Frost conducted with Richard Nixon in 1977. Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell costar. (122 min, R. Big Picture, Capitol)

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PAUL BLART: MALL COPHH Kevin James plays a New Jersey shopping center security guard forced to save a group of hostages without the aid of a gun or actual police training.

Costarring Jayma Mays and Keir O’Donnell. Directed by Steve (Daddy Day Care) Carr. (91 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Palace) REVOLUTIONARY ROADHHHH Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio — together again. Of course, the couple they play in Sam Mendes’ big-screen version of Richard Yates’ scathing novel about 1950s suburban life doesn’t get along quite as swimmingly as the pair they played last time around. With Kathy Bates and Michael Shannon.

(119 min, R. Roxy) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREHHH1/2 In this fanciful drama from Danny (Trainspotting) Boyle, Dev Patel plays a kid from the slums of Mumbai whose painful life experiences help him win big on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”

With Anil Kapoor and Freida Pinto.

(120 min, R. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LIH The popular video game featuring ultraviolent Bangkok thugs behaving ultraviolently in various combinations gets the big-screen treatment from director Andrzej (Doom) Bartkowiak. Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein and Michael Clarke Duncan star. (97 min, PG-13.

Majestic) TAKENHHHH A former CIA agent takes matters into his own hands when his daughter travels to Paris and is abducted by Albanian sex traders. Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen star. Pierre Morel directs. (91 min, PG-13.

Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Welden) THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONHH1/2 Brad Pitt is a man born with the unique problem of aging backwards in this historically sweeping adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, directed by David (Fight Club) Fincher from a screenplay by Eric (Forrest Gump) Roth. With Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton. (167 min, PG-13. Palace) THE INTERNATIONALHH1/2 Clive Owen plays an Interpol agent who tries to bring to justice a powerful bank that’s financing terrorist activity. Costarring Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Directed

by Tom (Run Lola Run) Tykwer. (118 min, R. Capitol, Majestic) THE PINK PANTHER 2HH Norwegian filmmaker Harald Zwart has made some of the lamest movies in the annals of American cinema: Agent Cody Banks and One Night at McCool’s, for example. He promises to continue the tradition with this follow-up to the critically savaged 2006 remake. Steve Martin, Jean Reno and Alfred Molina are squand — I mean, star. (92 min, PG. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Palace) THE READERHHH In this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s novel, a postwar German teen has a passionate encounter with an older woman that forces him to ponder his relationship to the Nazi past.

With Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes. Stephen (The Hours) Daldry directs. (123 min, R. Essex, Roxy, Savoy, Stowe)

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THE UNINVITEDH1/2 Thomas and Charles Guard direct this remake of the 2003 Korean thriller Changhwa, Hongryon [A Tale of Two Sisters], about a young woman whose mother returns from the grave to warn her that the woman engaged to her father is not who she pretends to be. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning and David Strathairn. (87 min, PG-13.

Paramount) THE WRESTLERHHH1/2 Mickey Rourke makes a stunning comeback in this gritty saga chronicling the struggles of a past-his-prime pro wrestler. Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood costar. Darren Aronofsky directs. (109 min, R. Capitol, Palace) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA GOES TO JAILHH The prolific writer-director stars once again as an irascible seventysomething matriarch in this comedy in which Madea’s anger issues land her behind bars. With Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke and Viola Lewis. (103 min, PG-13.

Majestic) WALTZ WITH BASHIRHHHHH Proving to any remaining skeptics that cartoons are not always for kids, Israeli director Ari Folman presents his own and others’ troubled memories of serving in the first Lebanon War in animated form. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

With Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag and Folman. (87 min, R. Roxy)

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With David Wenham and Jack Thompson. (165 min, PG-13) BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUAHH Drew Barrymore heads the voice cast in this Disney comedy about a pampered pet forced to make her way home from Mexico. Also featuring Andy Garcia and George Lopez. (91 min, PG) I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONGHHHH Kristin Scott Thomas gives one of the finest performances of her career in the role of a woman struggling to find her place in the world after serving 15 years in prison. Elsa Zylberstein and Laurent Grevill costar. Writer-director Philippe Claudel makes his feature debut. (115 min, PG-13) m

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wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Slumdog Millionaire 5, 7. The Pink Panther 2 6, 8. Hotel for Dogs 4. friday 6 — monday 9 Frost/Nixon 5:30, 8. Slumdog Millionaire 2 (Sun), 5, 7:30. Hotel for Dogs 2 (except Mon), 4.

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BIJOU CINEPLEX 1-2-3-4 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293.

wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Slumdog Millionaire 6:40. He’s Just Not That Into You 7. Confessions of a Shopaholic 6:50. Gran Torino 6:30. friday 6 — thursday 12 Schedule not available at press time.

Times subject to change. See http:// users.adelphia.net/~silverscreen.

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE

93 State Street, Montpelier, 229-0343.

(in 3D) 1:30, 4:10, 7:20. Friday the 13th 4:15, 9:45. Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:45, 6:20, 8:50. He’s Just Not That Into You 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1:35, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail 1:40, 6:45, 9:25. Taken 4:20, 7:10, 9:35. The International 3:30, 8:40. The Pink Panther 2 1:10, 6:25. Gran Torino 3:20. Hotel for Dogs 1:20. friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 1, 2, 4:30, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience 12:45, 2:40, 4:40, 6:40, 8:35 [tickets $15]. Slumdog Millionaire 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:35.

Coraline (in 3D) 1:30, 4, 6:20. The Pink Panther 2 1:15, 3:45, 7:05. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20.

He’s Just Not That Into You 12:50, 3:40, 6:30. Gran Torino 3:30, 8:40.

Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:55, 6:15. Taken 4:20, 7:10, 9:40. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 9:25.

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail 8:45.

The International 9:15. Hotel for Dogs 1:20.

Times subject to change. See www. majestic10.com.

MARQUIS THEATER

friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 1:15 (Sat & Sun), 6:45.

The Wrestler 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Slumdog Millionaire 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Doubt 6:30, 9. Coraline 1:30 (Sat & Sun). Confessions of a Shopaholic 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9.

friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 5 & 8:30 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu). Slumdog Millionaire 3 (Sat & Sun), 6 & 8:45 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu).

See www.fgbtheaters.com.

College Street, Burlington, 864-3456.

Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45. Coraline 12:15, 2:45, 5:15. Fired Up 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20. Friday the 13th 7:20, 9:40.

He’s Just Not That Into You 1, 4, 6:50, 9:30. Hotel for Dogs 12:15. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2:40, 5, 7:10, 9:15. Slumdog Millionaire 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40.

Taken 7:25, 9:25. The Pink Panther 2 12:30, 2:40, 5. The Reader 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20. friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50.

Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45. Coraline 12:15, 2:45, 5:15. Fired Up 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20. He’s Just Not That Into You 4, 6:50, 9:30. Hotel for Dogs 12:15. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2:40, 7:10, 9:15. Slumdog Millionaire 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Taken 7:25, 9:25. The Pink Panther 2 12:30, 5. The Reader 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20.

Times subject to change. See www. essexcinemas.com.

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Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners, Williston, 878-2010. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 *Watchmen midnight (Thu). Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 [tickets $15]. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 1:15, 4, 7:15, 9:40. Slumdog Millionaire 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20. Coraline

Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Taken 7. Slumdog Millionaire 7.

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wednesday 4 — thursday 5 The Wrestler 6:30, 9. Coraline 6:30. Frost/Nixon 6:30, 9. Slumdog Millionaire 6:30, 9. Confessions of a Shopaholic 6:30. The International 9.

He’s Just Not That Into You 9.

ESSEX CINEMA

di Lammermoor 1 (Wed only). *Watchmen 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1, 2:40, 4:15, 6, 7:35, 9:15. Milk 12:50, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05. The Wrestler 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20. Confessions of a Shopaholic 3:30, 6:15. Coraline 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3:50, 7:15. Fanboys 1:35 (except Sat & Wed), 8:45. Gran Torino 1:10, 3:40 (except Sat & Wed), 6:25, 8:55. He’s Just Not That Into You 3:45, 6:25, 9:10. Hotel for Dogs 1:25. Taken 1:20, 4, 6:30, 8:50.

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Main Street, Montpelier, 229-0509. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Doubt 5, 7.

Child role (young boy) AUDITIONS Saturday, March 21st @ 10 am Town Hall Theater Main Street in Stowe

friday 6 — thursday 12 The Reader 1:30 (Sat-Mon), 4 (Fri-Sun), 5 & 7:30 (Mon-Thu), 6:30 & 9 (Fri-Sun).

For more info visit www.stowetheatre.com or contact Carole @ 985-8911

See www.savoytheater.com.

STOWE CINEMA 3 PLEX MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMA

wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Waltz With Bashir 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:30. Man on Wire 1:25, 3:30, 8:30.

Slumdog Millionaire 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20. The Reader 1:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:10. He’s Just Not That Into You 3:30, 6:35, 9:15. Revolutionary Road 1:20, 4, 7, 9:25. Doubt 1:15, 6:15. friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 1:25, 6:15, 9:15. Slumdog Millionaire 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20.

The Reader 1:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:10.

Waltz With Bashir 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:05.

Revolutionary Road 1:20, 7. Doubt 1:15, 6. Man on Wire 3:30, 8:15. He’s Just Not That Into You 4, 9:25.

Times subject to change. See www. merrilltheatres.net.

PALACE CINEMA 9

Fayette Road, South Burlington, 864-5610. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 A Powerful Noise Live 7:30 (Thu).

Fanboys 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 12:45, 2:45, 4:55, 7, 9:25. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3:50, 7:15. The Wrestler 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20. Milk 12:50, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05. Confessions of a Shopaholic 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:05, 3:40, 6:15 & 8:50 (Wed only). Coraline 1:25, 4. Fired Up 12:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:15. Gran Torino 6:25, 9:10. He’s Just Not That Into You 12:40, 3:25, 6:15, 9.

Hotel for Dogs 1:30. Taken 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 8:55. The Pink Panther 2 2:45.

Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678.

wednesday 4 — thursday 5 Confessions of a Shopaholic 7. The Reader 7. Slumdog Millionaire 7. friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 2:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30 & 9:15 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu). The Reader 2:30 & 4:40 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). Slumdog Millionaire 2:30 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week). Confessions of a Shopaholic 4:40 (Sat & Sun), 9:10 (Fri & Sat).

WELDEN THEATER

104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888. wednesday 4 — thursday 5 *Watchmen midnight (Thu). Slumdog Millionaire 7. Milk 7. Taken 7. friday 6 — thursday 12 *Watchmen 2 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week). Gran Torino 4 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week), 9 (Fri-Sun). Slumdog Millionaire 9 (Fri-Sun). Confessions of a Shopaholic 2 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week). Coraline 4 (Sat & Sun). Hotel for Dogs 2 (Sat & Sun).

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heir breakfasts range from ascetic oatmeal to shrimp ’n’ grits, but more than half of Americans have one ritual in common: getting buzzed on coffee. Whether they get it from a venti half-caf nonfat latte or a straight black shot, a whopping 152 million citizens partake daily.

Many of these addicts who favor fancy café probably share another trait, too. Even if they were invited behind the counter, few of them could whip up a potable version of their favorite drink without assistance. In fact, they probably can’t name the bits of equipment that change the roasted seeds of a tropical tree into a potent — and delicious — drug.

Until last week, I was similarly ignorant about how café staffers convert ground beans into the richly acidic and bitter brew we call espresso — the cornerstone of cappuccino and lots of other Italian-sounding drinks. I did know that it’s loud and involves tugging several times on a paddle, smashing the grounds with a weight and, when the requested drink requires steamed milk, making that scary-sounding pressure-cooker hiss. I just didn’t know how or why the impressive Sturm und Drang results in a perfect cup.

But I wanted to learn more. So I went to Elizabeth Manriquez, owner of Espresso Bueno in Barre. In addition to mixing up macchiatos and iced Americanos for her customers, she has twice competed in the Northeast Regional Barista Competition. She even grew up in Seattle. I figured if anybody in the area could take an espresso-making virgin and convert her into a moderately functional brewer in just eight hours, it would be this petite 33-year-old with green eyes and pixie-cut brunette hair.

Damp from the slushy parking lot and famished, I enter the spacious coffee shop, which envelops me with the comforting aromas of baked goods and freshly ground coffee. A chalkboard on the wall declares

single-origin Rwandan the coffee of the day, and a line of glass jars on the counter displays cookies, biscotti and scones. Patrons are chatting with friends or staring fixedly at their laptops. By 9:15, the steady stream of caffeineseeking workers has eased to a trickle.

Manriquez is hanging behind the counter with her staffers. All three sport black T-shirts. Why? It’s the best color for disguising both coffee and milk stains, Manriquez explains, offering me a freshly baked, savory scone. The pastry is buttery and delicious — full of cheesy bits and hunks of bacon.

Manriquez hooks me up with an apron, and I ask how she decided to move 3000 miles from her West Coast home. She was working a coffee-shop job in Charlottesville, Virginia, when she decided the Green Mountains were a better fit for her and her 3-year-old. “I liked Vermont politically, and there are no earthquakes here. That was really attractive to me,” she recalls. Her boyfriend and business partner, Patrick Clark, joined them later.

In Montpelier, Manriquez worked at both Capitol Grounds and the nowdefunct Gesine’s. Both jobs taught her things about running a business, such as “payroll, taxes and calculating how many cups you should have on hand.” But she always believed her barista skills were good enough to merit her own shop. In 2007, she and Clark opened the doors of Espresso Bueno, in a spot on North Main Street that had gone unused for years. “We had this feeling that Barre was going to revolutionize and we were going to be part of it,” she muses. The couple live in the city, just a mile from their shop.

But aside from wanting to participate in the town’s revitalization, Manriquez had another motivation for stepping out on her own: “I couldn’t find coffee I liked on the East Coast,” she remarks. Back in Seattle she’d patronized the same high-quality coffee

When manriquez trains a new employee, the first thing she does is introduce him or her to each piece of equipment using its proper name, kind of like a coffee lover’s version of sex ed. shop for nine years. “They did latte art; they definitely had good presentation.” Plus, the baristas really knew “the technicalities.”

Technicalities? This is coffee, not rocket science, right? Wrong.

When Manriquez trains a new employee, the first thing she does is introduce him or her to each piece of equipment using its proper name, kind of like a coffee lover’s version of sex ed. First in line is the burr grinder, named for its distinctive blade.

“It shaves the bean,” Manriquez explains.

“It creates an even surface for the water to penetrate.” The “whip-it” blades used in home coffee grinders, she continues, “leave little

balls. The outside gets overextracted and the inside is underextracted.” Translation: The resulting brew doesn’t taste right.

At Espresso Bueno, Manriquez fills the grinder’s hopper with an organic espresso blend from Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea Company, and not just because it’s local.

Manriquez dishes that VAC&T owner Mané Alves is a world-renowned coffee expert. Plus, the company date-stamps all of its beans. “Right after roasting, the beans are off-gassing,” she says. The sweet spot begins around day three, but “It starts to lose its oomph the closer you get to day 10.”

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While pulling their shots — competitors must serve four espressos, four cappuccinos and four specialty drinks of their own design — baristas are expected to entertain the judges with a stream of patter about the beans they use, the origins of their milk and how they invented their drink of choice. With two kids and her own shop to tend, Manriquez wasn’t able to compete this year, but the value she places on technical brewing excellence is clear from her thorough training regimen.

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right amount of pressure when I tamp, and, while my finger-sweep technique lacks a serious-sounding name, my shots are properly colored and flowing out of the machine at just the right speed.

By four o’clock, I’ve learned to foam milk for lattes and cappuccinos, and not to fear the hiss of the steam wand. Or, at least, to control the urge to run in the opposite direction. At one point, after burning my finger, I instinctively lean away from the machine, which makes the wand rise out of the milk. Manriquez reaches in and turns off the jet before the dangerously hot steam explodes in my face.

Properly treated milk, poured quickly into a tall glass holding a shot of espresso, should cause a glug of pure white foam to rise to the top, allowing a barista to make shapes. A Flickr search on the term “latte art” returned 17,203 variations — frogs, flowers, ferns and everything else imaginable. On the first try, I’m actually able to shape a heart atop a cup of cappuccino. Sweet.

Hardcore baristas make an art out of painting with foam.

At barista competitions such as the ones in which Manriquez has participated, it’s those little touches that count. The brewer must make drinks while a pair of “technical” judges records his or her every move. “You have to serve the four ‘sensory’ judges simultaneously,” Manriquez explains. “Points are taken off for how much coffee you waste when you’re actually dosing . . .

Whether or not your tablecloth is wrinkled . . . You don’t have

To demonstrate what a specialty drink should taste like, Manriquez makes me a “dirty Mexican” — a small cappuccino mixed with chocolate ganache, a dollop of whipped cream and cayenne pepper. The drink is rich and warm, and the spicy glow in my mouth lasts for nearly half an hour after I take the last sip.

The lessons of the day stay with me, too. Now, standing in line at coffee shops, I fight the urge to hop in and take over. I know it’s a bad idea to knock on the portafilter with the tamp after pressing down the grounds — it can result in fissures that will ruin the espresso — and that tamping the grounds more than twice does no good, especially if you don’t press hard enough.

On one occasion, I see a blond barista with a nose ring tamp her grounds four times as she prepares to coax a shot from a gleaming, industrial machine. I glance around to see if the other folks in line have noticed the transgression. The businessman a few steps back is staring vacantly into space.

The woman who has ordered the damaged drink is examining her fingernails. A crime against cappuccino has been committed right in front of us, and I am the only witness.

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Manriquez detaches one of three portafilters — devices that hold the grounds during the brewing process — from her La Marzocco GB/5, an Italianmade espresso machine. It costs $12,000 new. Adjusting the grind to account for the current humidity and temperature, she turns on the motor. As the grounds tumble into the “dosing chamber,” she pulls on a paddle to release small amounts until a mound of fragrant coffee rests atop the portafilter. A sharp tap on the counter settles the contents.

“Some people tap once, some twice. The important thing is that you’re consistent,” Manriquez says.

As with flour and measuring cups, it’s important to get approximately the same amount of coffee in the filter every time.

(Manriquez occasionally busts out a digital scale to make sure she’s on target.) But instead of leveling the scoop with a butter knife, baristas use their fingers. Manriquez has her own complicated-looking routine for getting the grounds even.

“Different people use different methods,” she says.

Sticking your fingers in coffee may be fun, but the techniques have names that sound like unpleasant medical procedures: “Schomer’s finger compression,” “Stockfleth’s move” and the “Chicago chop,” to name a few.

The next step is tamping.

Using a bathroom scale for demonstration, Manriquez flattens the grounds with 10 pounds of pressure. She applies 30 pounds to make a “puck” in the portafilter (tamping more than twice is bad form). The goal is to create a firm mass that forces the pressurized water to flow evenly through the grounds, extracting just the right amount of flavor compounds. A good double espresso shot should brew in 25 to 30 seconds, and the “crema,” or foam, on top should be tan, not pale white — a sign of overextraction.

Attaching the portafilter to one of three “group heads” on the machine, Manriquez pushes a button to send hot water coursing through the grounds into a demitasse cup below.

In 28 seconds, the one-anda-half-ounce double “ristretto” shot is ready. “We only brew ristretto, or restricted, shots,” she says. When you let the water flow long enough to pull a full two ounces, “excess bitter flavors come out. We just keep it down to the sweetest part of the shot.”

Sweet might not be the descriptor an espresso neophyte would use. At first sip, the thick liquid is powerfully sour. After a moment, the acidity gives way to complex bitterness.

Then it’s my turn. I make a mess on the counter by letting too

many grounds out of the dosing chamber, fumble the finger sweep, and tamp the grounds unevenly so they slope like a sledding hill.

Apparently I am not using 30 pounds of pressure, either. Only 20 seconds into the brew, the syrupy liquid nearly fills a shot glass. “Just throw that one away,” Manriquez suggests. Her trainees spend whole afternoons pulling shots before they’re allowed to serve customers.

Over the course of the next two hours, under Manriquez’s watchful eye, my technique improves significantly. By the end I can consistently apply the

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It’s been more than a year since Burlington’s Tortilla Flat said adios to its 37-year-old home, and the roomy building on Riverside Avenue has sat empty ever since. Now a new eatery is taking up residence there. The Bluebird Tavern, which will offer seasonal and local versions of American comfort foods, is scheduled for an early-summer opening.

The tavern is the brainchild of Sue Bette, a 29-year-old graduate of “a natural-foods culinary school in Berkeley.”

Bette got interested in running a restaurant while completing a master’s at the University of Vermont,, and moved to California to earn her culinary degree. She cooked on the West Coast for five years before winging back to the Green Mountains. Returning was “always the plan,” she explains. “I’ve got some roots here.”

And now she’s building a nest. Although Bette plans to retain the “farmhouse vibe” of the place, she’s planning an “extensive remodel.” “The building is on the river, and I think it has a lot of potential,” she avers.

What will the food be like? Bette — who is already making connections with farmers from the nearby Intervale — is excited about casual fare done right. In addition to familiar entrées such as “good fried chicken,” she says, “We’re definitely going to have a local burger ... and a wide variety of smaller plates: wings, fun dips, poutine.”

There will also be a “pretty extensive list of regional beers” and a “low-budget wine list.” Bette guesses she’ll have 12 to 15 wines by the glass as well as 50 different bottles of wine “under $50.”

Although the restaurant biz is tough, the hard decision for Bette wasn’t whether to open a restaurant; it was whether to locate her business downtown. “It took a while to examine that,” she admits. In the end, she opted for a place that’s “easy for people to get to” and boasts ample parking. “We’re hoping to be a destination place,” Bette dishes.

After, um, wrapping up renovations, brothers Chris and Mike Hathaway recently opened their new New World Tortilla location at 696 Pine Street.

They’ve shuttered the downtown Burlington and Essex locations.

Although much of their fare — such as Thai chicken burritos and handmade corn tortillas with beef and cheese — is familiar to regulars, the menu boasts a handful of nuevo treats.

“Soups and salads are really the things we haven’t offered before on a regular basis,” says Chris. “We have a mesclun-cranberry-blue-cheese salad which is pretty popular.” The mix is topped with spiced nuts and homemade citrus vinaigrette.

There are Caesar and Greek versions, too.

He’s also wild about NWT’s new soup offerings: “The general manager here is really making some fantastic soups,” he enthuses. “It’s what I’m eating every day for lunch.” Chris is pleased with the creamy winter squash version, as well as a Texas chili made with hearty hunks of chuck roast.

The cheese-steak wrap with provolone and sriracha mayo, formerly a special, is always available. Breakfast should be available “by the end of the month,” Chris guesses. The eatery is open until 8 p.m.

But NWT’s coolest addition might just be an inedible one: The brothers’ new tortilla machine, a stainless steel and glass contraption with a cooling conveyor belt, is up and running. “It has a Rube Goldberg aspect to it,” he says of the gadget. The machine has dramatically sped up production, allowing staffers to make lots of creative flavors. “Today I’m baking curry, and cayenne oregano,” says Chris.

After extensive renovations, and lots of cleaning, things are cooking again at Charlotte’s Old Brick Store. The landmark shop on Ferry Road reopened

last Sunday as a community-supported venture.

“We have 65 member families,” exclaims owner Carrie MacKillop. “Things are going splendidly.”

The space now features energy-efficient coolers, an espresso bar and a whole nook devoted to wine.

There’s a lot more retail space, too. Although the store stocks a number of conventional products, MacKillop says: “You can come in ... and buy everything you need to make an organic lasagna, organic salad, a nice bottle of wine and a loaf of bread.” There’s also an “evolving deli and ... an exceptional lineup of beers,” she continues. Dairy products come from both Monument Farms Organic. and Strafford Organic In the morning, commuters headed to or from the ferry can pick up the New York Times or Wall Street Journal along with a breakfast sandwich or a fresh-baked blueberry muffin made with fruit from MacKillop’s garden. “We have a great baker who shows up at the crack of dawn,” she relates.

(Disclaimer: He’s my husband. He makes a mean scone).

Aside from aesthetics, what’s the biggest difference between the old and new Old Brick Store? “It’s not as much as a convenience store as a full-service community grocery,” says MacKillop.

Burlingtonians can’t get enough Asian. A new noodle shop is headed into the spot formerly occupied by the Blue Plate Ceramic Café on College Street.

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any flatlanders will tell you the mountains lured them to Vermont. Tashi Sherpa says the same. However, the 34-year-old’s homeland is far from flat: He chose to settle in the Green Mountains because the area reminds him of his native Nepal. Tashi and his brother Ongyel are among an influx of Nepalese, Indian and Bhutanese immigrants to Vermont in recent years. That broad Himalayan community has created a demand for native comforts, one that Tashi and Ongyel are happy to oblige.

On January 2, the Sherpa brothers opened their store, Himalayan Food Market, in Burlington’s Old North End. They point out that much of the immigrant population has settled in the immediate vicinity, making their North Street location ideal for those who don’t own automobiles. The market also provides free delivery for large orders.

The Sherpas’ story begins with Ongyel, the youngest of the three siblings and the first to arrive in the U.S. The name Sherpa, he explains, “means ‘people from the east.’” The family originated in Tibet but has been in Nepal for generations. This ethnic group — one of 103 identified by the Nepalese census — shares its name with the common occupation of leading treks.

And that’s what the Sherpa family did when they lived at the foot of Mount Everest,

guiding adventurers into the Himalayas and up the big peak itself. One client was Dr. Geoff Tabin, codirector of the Himalayan Cataract Project and then a Burlington opthalmologist. In 1996, teenage Ongyel asked Tabin to help him get to America. As Ongyel puts it, “In Asia, coming here even for two or three weeks, you are a new person. A guy may never have

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International, a venture that sells Nepalese handcrafts such as prayer flags, knits and paper goods to stores across Vermont.

Any Nepalese goods you see at the Peace & Justice Store, Scribbles or Healthy Living probably arrived courtesy of Ongyel, now 30, who supplies more than 20 area businesses

Ongyel attributes the brothers’ entrepreneurial streak to their father, back in Nepal, who also led the way into the food biz. said anything to you, but you go to America and they might cross the street just to say, ‘Hello, how are you?’”

Ongyel moved in with the Tabin family and enrolled at Burlington High School. After a year, he transferred to Rice Memorial High School, where he met his now-wife, Jessica.

The two attended Champlain College, from which Sherpa received an associate’s degree in travel and tourism. His professors encouraged him to continue his education, so he earned a bachelor’s in business — a degree he quickly put to use.

In his final year at Champlain, Ongyel hatched the plan for an import business that eventually grew into U.S. Sherpa

and recently started distributing his wares nationally.

Tashi, the oldest Sherpa sibling, settled in New York in 2003. (The pair’s sister still lives there.) A successful folk-pop guitarist in his native land, Tashi nonetheless felt that he could find greater security for himself and his wife, Tenzin, in America. Playing guitar in hotels and taking care of his 22-month-old son, Urken, Tashi dreamed of starting his own business as his brother had. In December 2008, the small family joined Ongyel in Vermont.

Ongyel attributes the brothers’ entrepreneurial streak to their father, back in Nepal, who also led the way into the

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food biz. His parents “started as porters and slowly built up to dishwasher, then cook,” says Ongyel. “And now they run their own trekking business. My dad went to school for maybe one year. He really earned his place. I talk to him on the phone and sometimes I’m amazed at his intelligence and savvy in business. He started from scratch.”

The senior Sherpas’ cooking jobs weren’t confined to the mountains. For six years, they helped a Kiwi diplomat and his family in their Nepalese home.

Eventually the New Zealander took the couple aside and said, “‘You don’t have to do this kind of work all your life,’” says Ongyel. “They helped them finance a dry food business. My dad manufactured poori [bread],

granola, dried vegetables, packet soups.” Now, 26 years later, Ongyel hopes to sell his father’s products in Burlington.

Many of the items in Himalayan Food Market hail from India. One company, called Mo’pleez, offers cans of gul bahar (better known as gulab jamun), fried milk dumplings in stunningly sweet rosewater syrup, and snack packs of mini lentil and raisin samosas. Ongyel admits that Himalayan cuisines overlap, but he points out some Nepalese specialties. For starters, there’s a package containing what look like long, fluffy sheets of seaweed; it’s actually the dehydrated version of a dish called gundruk, or fermented leafy vegetables. These are mustard greens, but gundruk can also be

Himalayan How-to Though Chittenden County’s Nepalese population is growing, its food hasn’t yet achieved the familiar status of, say, Vietnamese cuisine. Diners may need a guide to navigate the aisles of foreign-looking delicacies. Perhaps a Sherpa? Tashi and Ongyel have provided a primer on the top five Nepalese items to try.

• MasooR daL: Tashi dubs these Advil-colored lentils “the easiest to cook and the tastiest.” His serving suggestion?

“You just boil it and add a little bit of salt. You can eat it with a soup or rice or curry. It’s great with potatoes.”

• Thick Poha: Imagine a single grain of puffed rice sliced a thousand times, and you’ve got this versatile compressedrice dish. “It’s crunchy like cereal,” says Ongyel. “You put black tea and butter and sugar [on] for a hot cereal. At picnics it’s a good substitute for rice instead of bringing a pot. You bring this with some aloo [potato] curry or channa.”

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• NaaN: This flat bread is a favorite all over India and central Asia as well as in the Himalayas. While it usually serves as a vessel for saucy stews and curries, Ongyel has a different take on its use: “It’s easy. Just throw it in a pan with some butter, then spread it with peanut butter or jam or honey.

A lot of Nepalese start their day this way, with a nice cup of tea.”

• MaNgo PickLes: “You can eat one and throw the seed over your shoulder, and another mango tree will suddenly grow,” jokes Ongyel, referring to the fruit’s omnipresence in his homeland. “They’re like apples in Nepal.” Just as American grandmothers make apple pies and can tomatoes, Nepalese matrons pickle mangoes. Ongyel calls them sour. Tashi says the fruit’s sweetness dominates. Taste for yourself.

• BasMaTi Rice: In a food culture where practically every dish is served over rice, the grain matters. Tashi is passionate about using only the best. “Basmati is the highest quality you can have anywhere,” he states authoritatively. He recommends Elephant Brand, which comes in a pachyderm-emblazoned sack, perfect for toting groceries on your next trip.

made from spinach, cauliflower or radish leaves.

Ongyel names dhedo as another Nepalese staple. “It’s kind of a dough made with millet or wheat,” he explains. “It’s almost like mashed potatoes. They eat it with sauce, a hot sauce, with their hands.” Dhal bat — which translates as “lentil rice” — is perhaps the essential food in his culture, Ongyel notes.

Further differentiating his native cuisine from that of India, he adds, “Nepalese tend to use less sweetening. It tends to be more simple. [With] Indians, there are lots of yogurts, just lots of ingredients.”

As Buddhists originating in Tibet, are the Sherpas vegetarian? In a word, no. Ongyel describes his culture’s approach to meat: “If you go and kill on your own, that’s not OK,” he says. “The killing itself is not acceptable. It’s like the difference between stealing something and being given something.”

Eating meat but choosing not to slaughter it oneself? Sounds like most of the Western world.

Then again, not all Buddhists eschew animal flesh. Consider the popularity of momos, the meat dumplings that Americans have come to know (and often love) over the past decade. The Sherpas’ store offers a special flour for preparing momo dough, but making the dumplings from scratch is a daunting project.

So it’s not hard to predict Ongyel’s next move for Himalayan Food Market: adding prepared food. This month, the store will begin serving homemade momos, along with pakoras (meat or vegetables fried in a chickpea meal called gram flour); channa (chickpea stew); dal bhat; and chai masala, a spicy, peppery tea. These dishes will debut at the store’s official grand opening celebration on Sunday, March 22. Tashi might just bust out his guitar, and the brothers will give out samples of tea and snacks.

To lure customers, they’ll also offer 10 percent off all purchases over $10.

Ongyel says a number of his regular customers are Americans, many of whom became acquainted with Nepalese food while traveling in the Himalayas. Others are experiencing the culture and its cuisine for the first time, with the brothers’ guidance.

However, Ongyel says, the best aspect of his business is helping immigrants find a piece of home. “Not having had a store here to accommodate the growing [Nepalese-descended] Bhutanese population, we want to help that community and sell familiar products here,” he remarks. “It’s great for people to come from so far away and come in here and say, ‘Oh, wow, that reminds me of home.’” m

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<music> THE SOUND AND THE FURY :: The subject of reams of near-hyperbolic praise from publications across the country, Canadian-born singer-songwriter

Garnet Rogers is that rare artist who truly lives up to the media hype. At close to 6-and-a-half-feet tall, he is an imposing figure onstage.

But his delicate, deeply impassioned music belies that first impression.

The true power of his performance stems not from physical might but the subtle grace hidden within his striking baritone and densely literate songwriting. This Saturday, March 7, he appears at Middlebury’s United Methodist Church as part of the After Dark Music Series.

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BY DAN BOLLES

GONE PHISHIN’

Merry Christmas, hippies! Let us gather ’round the bong, light the patchouli Advent candles and take a moment to consider the true meaning of the season, which is, of course, money. So, really, Hippie Christmas is just like regular Christmas, only, you know, with better drugs.

As I’m sure you’re all aware, this weekend Burlington’s own phavorite sons Phish will appear together in concert for the first time since their “final show” — wink, wink — at Coventry in 2004. Boy, how time flies. Of course, if you’re reading this, it means that you’re probably not in Hampton. Which means you’ll have to wait at least a couple of days for the first reports to trickle in: “Dude, they were so much better in (insert arbitrary year here).” And I bet your mellow is pretty well harshed by that fact. But take heart. There are plenty of music-y things to occupy your time this week, most of which cost roughly 400 fewer dollars than heading to Virginia — and that’s not even taking gas into consideration. We’ll get through this, I promise.

DISAPPEARING ACT First up, we have a remarkable collaboration between two of the area’s most innovative musicians — and no, I’m not talking about Trey Anastasio or Mike Gordon. Get over it already.

Independently of one another, Seth Eames and Michael Chorney are very highly regarded artists. The former as half of mountain-blues stalwarts The Eames Brothers. The latter for a seemingly endless list of projects, not the least of which includes work with Anaïs Mitchell and his own mind-bending jazz experiments with Magic City and viperHouse.

Last year, Eames released his second solo album, Two Moons Pullin’ Down on Me. Expertly conceived and executed, the hauntingly gritty album MICHAEL CHORNEY was easily among the year’s finest and rightly earned a spot on the Seven Days list of “Top 10 Vermont Recordings of 2008.” While Eames obviously deserves the lion’s share of credit, it was Chorney who produced the record and added subtle but key instrumental flourishes, rounding out the disc’s mysterious ethereal qualities.

According to a recent email from Chorney, those recording sessions led to a number of late-night collaborations in which the two reportedly “hit it off” musically. Those sessions led to a pair of “very late-night” sessions in January, during which the duo recorded a new album. Entitled It Disappears, the record is “casual but delightful,” according to Chorney.

Perhaps that’s a biased take. But I’m inclined to believe him.

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BITE TORRENT

Most of the tracks are first takes, and a few were quite literally the first time either had played the compositions. Editing was kept to a bare minimum, so the album comes with blemishes intentionally It’s a new month, so that means it’s time for a new band in the intact. But given the caliber of players, one has to imagine that’s ongoing Live Album Recording Residency at Nectar’s. This time around hardly a detriment. In fact, it’s sort of the point. As Eames puts it, it’s reggae outfit Pulse Prophets, every Thursday in March.

“People try all sorts of things in the studio to try and get that lateCongrats to The Center Bakery & Café in Waterbury, which celebrates night vibe. The only way to do it is to do it.” Indeed. its one-year anniversary this Saturday with an all-day jam featuring Chorney and Eames are embarking on a short tour around the state to play tunes from the new album. Though you can catch them later this month TORPEDO RODEO at Montpelier’s Black Door Bar & Bistro (March 20) or the Bristol Bakery & Café (March 27), I would suggest attending this Friday’s performance at Parima’s Acoustic Lounge. If you haven’t been, it is by far the area’s best listening room. Though to be fair, it gets bonus points for the opium-den feel — by the way, it is strictly BYOO.

HELLO, OLD BEAN Next, we check in with an old standby, Radio Bean — raise your hand if you thought I was going with The Monkey House there ... hell, I even thought I was.

Anyhoo...

As per usual, the Bean boasts a pretty nifty weekend of music, beginning Friday night with new-ish surf-ish rock ... ish local outfit Torpedo Rodeo. These guys are completely new to me, but I’m digging the tunes on their MySpace page. Especially “Don’t Give That Guy Whiskey,” which I really hope isn’t about me. Nasty blues guitarist Eric Sommer opens the evening, followed by altwhatever sweethearts The Rosesmiths and indie-rockers The Villanelles.

Sounds like fun, no?

Saturday night sees The Fatal Flaws’ next installment of their monthly Foofarawk series, which means it’s time for me to come up with my monthly excuse as to why I can’t go. Actually, I’ll be out of town — not seeing Phish. But that shouldn’t stop you from going.

I’d recommend sticking around afterwards, as a smorgasbord of noise invades the tiny hipster haunt. Of particular note is psychnoise outfit Heaven People, led by Danny Moore — Thurston Moore’s nephew. Yes, that Thurston Moore.

Also on the bill are Connecticutbased experimental synth duo Arabian Blade, experimental auteur Tucker Andrews and a slew of local acts, including electro-folk up-andcomer tooth. ache, Rats Cops — a hardcore band featuring members of Oak and A Snake in the Garden, whom I erroneously listed as “Ratz Cops” in a recent issue ... whoops — and extremely dirty pop outfit Lawrence Welks and Our Cross to Bear. A word of warning, though: This show is not for the faint of ears.

members of The Prodigal String Band, The Eames Brothers, Taryn Noelle, Colin McCaffrey and Billy Caldwell, among others.

On Wednesday, March 11, Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café bids farewell to experimental outfit kuFui, who will play their final show that night. And smack in the middle of “Geek Week,” no less. (As an aside, Geek Week is awesome. Trust me.)

Hinesburg’s Good Times Café also has an excellent show coming up on Wednesday, March 11, as Swing Noire’s David Gusakov and Dono Schabner will be joined by mandolin marvel Will Patton for a night of Gypsy jazz, choros and “cowboy waltzes.” Giddyup.

We haven’t heard from our old pal Ryan Ober in a while. The onetime member of legendary late 1990s B-town alt-rockers Invisible Jet is playing a rare solo show this Saturday at Nectar’s, armed only with a guitar and a kick drum. Color me intrigued.

I’ve made it almost an entire column without mentioning music at The Monkey House. Believe it or not, the streak will continue as I mention this: The Winooski hotspot unveils the first in a series of monthly standup-comedy nights this Sunday with local funny folks Kathleen Kanz, John Lyons, Roger Miller, Tracie Spencer and Martha Tormey.

Finally, perhaps you’ve heard through the grapevine that a certain Tony Bennett might be making a Vermont “quadrified” appearance this summer. Organizers can’t confirm just yet, so stay tuned... m

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LEUNIG’S: Mike Martin & Andy Miskavage (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Eagle Country Music Night, 7 p.m., Free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Spoken Word Night (poetry), 8 p.m., Free.

NECTAR’S: An Evening with W.E.S.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Dubnotix (electroreggae), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Myra Flynn & Spark (neo-soul), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

SECOND FLOOR: Superstar Karaoke with Robbie J, 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin soul), 7 p.m., Free. Gabby & Burette Douglass (indie), 10 p.m., Free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Antara Blues Band, 7 p.m., Free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: The Schriz (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Blues & Lasers (rock), 9 p.m., NA. FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dar Williams (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $25/27. AA. LEUNIG’S: Ellen Powell & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: WCLX Blues Night with Jim Branca, 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Showcase Night with L.Dora, Spoon Fed, The Bid (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

NECTAR’S: Live Album Recording Residency with Pulse Prophets (reggae), 7 p.m., Free.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Group (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 11 p.m., $3.

RASPUTIN’S: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: A-Dog Presents (hiphop), 10 p.m., Free.

SECOND FLOOR: Wildout! (DJ), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Zack DuPont & APR (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Nuda Veritas (electro-acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations.

Zombie Nationalists (indie-folk), 9 p.m., Donations.

STONECUTTERS BREWHOUSE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley ON THE RISE BAKERY: Patrick Fitzsimmons (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Jim Berkeley (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: regional MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Open Mic with Mike Pederson, 9 p.m., Free. Naked Thursdays with 95 TripleX (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

TABU CAFÉ AND NIGHTCLUB: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Sand Blizzard Unplugged (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Run for Cover (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: DJ Francise (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HALVORSON’S UPSTREET CAFÉ: The Christopher Peterman Quintet (jazz), 7 p.m., $10.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Eurorave with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 9 p.m., $15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday with Trina Hamlin, DJ Precious, DJ Llu (singer-songwriter, electro), 8 p.m., $5/10. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Mansfield Project (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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Latin Dance Party with DJ Hector (salsa), 10 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Gordon Stone Band, The Nate Wilson Group (rock, bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: The Melonheads (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Seth Eames & Michael Chorney (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations.

RADIO BEAN: The Rosesmiths (altcountry), 9 p.m., Free. The Villanelles (indie-rock), 10 p.m., Free. Torpedo Rodeo (rock), 11:15 p.m., Free.

RASPUTIN’S: Top Hat Danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE: That Toga Band (rock), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

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242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244.

38 Main Street Pub, 38 Main St., Winooski, 655-0072.

Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111.

All Fired Up, 9 Depot Sq., Barre, 479-9303.

The Alley Coffee House, 15 Haydenberry Dr., Milton, 893-1571.

American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

Ariel’s Riverside Café & Pub, 188 River St., Montpelier, 229-2295.

Avenue Bistro, 1127 North Ave., Burlington, 652-9999.

Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494.

Backstreet, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-2400.

Banana Winds Café & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752.

Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre, 476-8188.

Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Dr., Vergennes, 1-800-622-4000.

Battery Park, Burlington, 865-7166.

Bayside Pavilion, 13 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909.

The Bearded Frog, 5247 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-9877.

Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889.

Big Fatty’s BBQ, 55 Main St., Burlington, 864-5513.

Big Moose Pub at the Fire & Ice Restaurant, 28 Seymour St., Middlebury, 388-0361.

Big Picture Theater & Café, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994.

Black Bear Tavern & Grill, 205 Hastings Hill, St. Johnsbury, 748-1428.

Black Door Bar & Bistro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070.

The Blue Note Café, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309.

The Bobcat Café, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311.

Burnham Hall, 52 East River Rd., Lincoln, 453-3803.

Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton Valley, 434-3444.

Bonz Smokehouse & Grill, 97 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-6283.

Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711.

Breakwater Café, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276.

The Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366.

B.U. Emporium, 163 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 658-4292.

Bundy Center for the Arts, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-4781.

Buono’s Lounge, 3182 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2232.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 149 Church St., Burlington, 865-7166.

Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800.

Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101.

The Center Bakery & Café, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury, 244-7500.

Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, 2630 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2576.

Charlemont Restaurant, 116 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-4242.

Charlie B’s, 1746 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-7355.

Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820.

Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405.

Cider House BBQ & Pub, 1675 Rt. 2, Waterbury, 244-8400.

City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919.

City Sports Grille, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720.

Coffee Hound, 97 Blakey Rd., Colchester, 651-8963.

Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563.

Cuzzin’s Nightclub, 230 North Main St., Barre, 479-4344.

Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4636.

Dan’s Place, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774.

Dobrá Tea, 80 Church Street St., Burlington, 951-2424.

Drink, 133 St. Paul St., Burlington, 951-9463.

Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209.

Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966.

Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909.

Giovanni’s Trattoria, 15 Bridge St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-5856.

Good Times Café, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444.

Great Falls Club, Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury, 388-0239.

Green Door Studio, 18 Howard St., Burlington, 316-1124.

Green Room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669.

Ground Round Restaurant, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-1122.

Gusto’s, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919.

Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278.

Harbor Lounge at Courtyard Marriott, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 864-4700.

Hardwick Town House, 127 Church St., Hardwick, 456-8966.

Harper’s Restaurant at Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6363.

Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777.

Hooters, 1705 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 660-8658.

The Hub, Airport Dr., Bristol, 453-3678.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626.

Iron Lantern, Route 4A, Castleton, 468-5474.

JD’s Pub, 2879 Rt. 105, East Berkshire, 933-8924.

JP’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389.

Jeff’s Maine Seafood, 65 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-6135.

Koffee Kat, 104 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-566-8433.

Krazy Horse Saloon, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-570-8888.

La Brioche Bakery, 89 East Main St. Montpelier, 229-0443.

Langdon St. Café, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667.

Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759.

Lincoln Inn Tavern, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309.

Localfolk Smokehouse, Jct. Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-5623.

Mad River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910.

Maggie’s, 124 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-562-9317.

Main St. Grill & Bar, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188.

Main St. Museum, 58 Bridge St., White River Jct., 356-2776.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776.

Mary’s at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116, Bristol, 424-2432.

Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198.

McKee’s Pub, 19 East Allen St., Winooski, 655-0048.

Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington, 864-6044.

The Monkey House, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563.

Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222.

Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466.

Murray’s Tavern, 4 Lincoln Pl., Essex Jct., 878-4901.

Music Box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533.

Naked Turtle, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200.

Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

Nightcrawlers, 127 Porter’s Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067.

Odd Fellows Hall, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209.

Old Lantern, 3620 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte, 425-2120.

Olde Yankee Restaurant, Rt. 15, Jericho, 899-1116.

Olive Ridley’s, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, 518-324-2200.

On the Rise Bakery, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.

Orion Pub & Grill, Route 108, Jeffersonville, 644-8884.

Overtime Saloon, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357.

Paramount Theater, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570.

Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917.

Park Place Tavern, 38 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3015.

Peabody’s Pub, 11 Clinton St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-0158.

Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035.

Piecasso, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411.

Positive Pie 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

The Pour House, 1930 Williston Rd., South Burlington, 862-3653.

Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422.

Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346.

Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324.

Red Mill Restaurant at Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 475-2311.

Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909.

Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse at Living and Learning, UVM, Burlington, 656-4211.

Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782.

Rí Rá Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401.

River Run Restaurant, 65 Main St., Plainfield, 454-1246.

Roque’s Restaurante Mexicano & Cantina, 3 Main St., Burlington, 657-3377.

Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744.

Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245.

Second Floor, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088.

Shooters Saloon, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777.

Skinny Pancake, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188.

Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6607.

St. John’s Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, 864-9778.

Starry Night Café, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316.

Stowe Coffee House, 57B Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-2189.

Stowehof Inn, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722.

Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800.

Tabu Café & Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-566-0666.

Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7394.

T Bones Restaurant & Bar, 38 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 654-8008.

Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542.

Three Mountain Lodge Restaurant, Smugglers’ Notch Rd., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5736.

Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585.

Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910.

Vergenes Opera House, 120 Main St., Vergennes, 802-877-6737.

Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

Village Tavern at Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Jeffersonville, 644-6765.

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FRI.06 << 10B LANGDON STREET CAfé: Happy Hour with Katie Trautz & friends (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. The Electric Sorcery (rock), 9 p.m., Donations.

POSiTivE PiE 2: PMP (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

SLiDE BROOK LODGE & TAvERN: Jake Hill (folk), 9 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley 51 MAiN: Anthony Santor Quartet (jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

CiTy LiMiTS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RiSE BAKERy: Laslo Cameo (roots-rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAvERN: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 10 p.m., $3.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Mark Struhsacker (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

JD’S PuB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3.

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THE (WORLD)BEAT GOES ON :: Fela Kuti was arguably the most influential artist in the history of “world” music. An unparalleled composer and vocalist, he was also an impassioned political activist, pioneering not only the Afrobeat sound but the lofty ideals with which it is often now associated. Kuti’s indelible mark is felt the world over, including in Vermont. Led by noted local bandleader Brian Boyes,

Movement of the People is a 13-piece all-star tribute to the late Nigerian musical icon. In less than six months, and with just a handful of shows under their belts, the group has cemented itself as one of the region’s more exciting ensembles, proving that while Kuti may be gone, his spirit is alive and well. Catch them this Saturday, March 7, at Nectar’s.

MONOPOLE: School Bus yellow (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAiRS: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free.

OLivE RiDLEy’S: The Grift (jam), 10 p.m., Free.

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:: burlington area 1/2 LOuNGE: Kip Meaker (blues), 7 p.m., Free. Stereophonix with DJ Tricky Pat (jazzy downtempo), 10 p.m., Free.

242 MAiN: Birthdays, War Elephants, Speak of the Horse (rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BACKSTAGE PuB: Nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

BANANA WiNDS CAfé & PuB: Open Mic with Mike Pelkey, 8 p.m., Free.

CiTy SPORTS GRiLLE: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., Free.

CLuB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. fRANNy O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: Envy with DJs Jeff Gold & John Juster (house), 10 p.m., Free.

HiGHER GROuND BALLROOM: Boogie Wonderland: family Dance Party (’80s dance party), 2 p.m., $5/12.

AA. Louis CK: Hilarious (standup), 7 p.m., $25. 18+.

JP’S PuB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LiNCOLN iNN TAvERN: Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MARRiOTT HARBOR LOuNGE: The Trio featuring Paul Cassarino, Tracie Cassarino & Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEy HOuSE: The Lonestar Chain, Cannon fodder, Cody Lee (alt-whatever, alt-country), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTAR’S: Singer’s Workshop with Aaron Burroughs, 5 p.m., Free. Ryan Ober (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Movement of the People: A Tribute to fela Kuti (World), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NiGHTCRAWLERS: The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

RADiO BEAN: foofarawk with The fatal flaws (garage-rock), 7 p.m., Free. Heaven People, Toby Aronson, tooth. ache, A Snake in the Garden (experimental), 10 p.m., Free.

RASPuTiN’S: Massive (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQuARE: Hi8us (funk), 9 p.m., $3.

DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

Rí Rá iRiSH PuB: Station Eighty five (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

SECOND fLOOR: Déjà vu Ladies’ Night (DJ), 9 p.m., $3/10.

THE SKiNNy PANCAKE: Deep freyed (blues-rock), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BiSTRO: Justin Levinson (indie), 9:30 p.m., $5.

CHARLiE O’S: Strength in Numbers (hip-pop), 10 p.m., Free.

GuSTO’S: Big Boots Deville (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

LAMB ABBEy: Pisces Party with DJ Ta$temaker (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., Donations.

LANGDON STREET CAfé: The Hungry Rat Revue (eclectic), 7 p.m., Donations. Pariah Beat (alt-country), 9:30 p.m., Donations.

SLiDE BROOK LODGE & TAvERN: Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

THE CENTER BAKERy & CAfé: Billy Caldwell (acoustic), 9:30 a.m., Free. first Annual Bakery Jam with The Eames Brothers, The Progdigal String Band, Taryn Noelle et. al (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free.

:: champlain valley 51 MAiN: Run Mountain (Americana), 8:30 p.m., Free.

THE ART HOuSE: The Dirtminers (rock), 8:30 p.m., $8.

CiTy LiMiTS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

DAN’S PLACE: Amapola (Latin), 8 p.m., Free.

ON THE RiSE BAKERy: The Real Deal (r&b), 7:30 p.m., Donations. uNiTED METHODiST CHuRCH: Garnet Rogers (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., $18/20. AA.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Stolen Moments (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HuB PizzERiA & PuB: Gordon Stone Band (bluegrass), 9:30 p.m., Free.

PiECASSO: Karaoke Championship with John Wilson & Danger Dave, 9:30 p.m., Free.

:: regional MONOPOLE: Jesus vanacho (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

OLivE RiDLEy’S: Stand-By (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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TaBu Café anD niGhTCluB: all night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (DJ), 5 p.m., Free.

SUN.08 :: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: YouTube night, 10 p.m., Free.

BaCksTaGe PuB: karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free.

CluB MeTronoMe: family night open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+). frannY o’s: Balance DJ & karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. linColn inn Tavern: Pine street Jazz 2nd sunday instrumental night, 6 p.m., Free.The MonkeY house: Comedy night with kathleen kanz, roger Miller, John lyons, Tracie spencer, Martha Tormey (standup), 7 p.m., $5. neCTar’s: Mi Yard reggae night with Big Dog & Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. niGhTCrawlers: karaoke with steve leClair, 7 p.m., Free. raDio Bean: old Time sessions, 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. reD square: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. rí rá irish PuB: Trinity (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

:: central lanGDon sTreeT Café: Cabin fever series: Poor howard stith, Putnam smith (old-time), 4 p.m., Donations.

:: northern The huB PiZZeria & PuB: Jazz on Tap (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

MON.09 :: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: heal-in sessions with Briandeye & reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. neCTar’s: The feverbreakers (rock), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. raDio Bean: open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

:: central lanGDon sTreeT Café: open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

TUE.10 :: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: DJ Big Dog (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. leuniG’s: Mike Martin & Buck Maynard (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. linColn inn Tavern: The fiddleheads (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

The MonkeY house: hip-hop open Mic with Dakota, 10 p.m., Free.

PariMa aCousTiC lounGe: island night with DJ skinny T (DJ), 9 p.m., Free. raDio Bean: honky Tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. reD square: world Bashment with Demus & super k (reggae), 9 p.m., Free.

:: central Charlie o’s: karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. lanGDon sTreeT Café: Geek week: Trio subtonic (jazz-fusion), 8 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley Two BroThers Tavern: Monster hits karaoke, 9 p.m.

:: northern Bee’s knees: Teen open Mic hosted by People’s academy, 7:30 p.m., Free.

PieCasso: karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

WED.11

leuniG’s: Dan silverman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. linColn inn Tavern: eagle Country Music night with Phil ‘n’ the Blanks, 7 p.m., Free.

ManhaTTan PiZZa & PuB: open Mic with andy lugo, 10 p.m., Free. neCTar’s: an evening with w.e.s.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. raDio Bean: ensemble v (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. reD square: Grippo/sklar quintet (funk), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hiphop), 11 p.m., Free. seConD floor: superstar karaoke with robbie J, 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

:: central Charlie o’s: live Music, 10 p.m., Free. lanGDon sTreeT Café: Geek week: kufui (alt-experimental), 9 p.m., $5.

:: champlain valley CiTY liMiTs: karaoke with Balance entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on The rise BakerY: open Bluegrass session, 7:30 p.m., Free.

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THE VACANT LOTS, THE VACANT LOTS

SYD, UPSWING EP

(Ancient Hills Music, CD)

(The Co-Op, CD/digital download) Remember Joe Jackson?

Early on, particularly following what is likely his best-known single, “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” in 1979, the British pop singer was viewed as something of a poor man’s Elvis Costello. While the latter would go on to attain iconic rock ’n’ roll status, Jackson’s career arc veered from that of his countryman. Despite occasional flirtations with mainstream success, Jackson never quite reached the same level of widespread adoration. Still, pop-rock aficionados regard Jackson fondly, especially his early canon, which fused punk rock and New Wave in a manner more popularly, if not entirely accurately, attributed to Costello.

In a way, Vermont-born songwriter Syd parallels Jackson’s blessing and curse. Immensely talented in his own right, he is likewise somewhat overshadowed by the success of another local tunesmith, and longtime friend, Gregory Douglass. Syd frequently sits in with Douglass on drums, and he tweaked the knobs and faders on the pop prince’s last two albums, including his 2009 opus Battler. While Douglass will likely receive wider critical acclaim, Syd also has an excellent release in hand, the aptly named new EP Upswing. And local poprock fans would be wise not to ignore it.

The disc — can we still call a digital download a disc? a record? — picks up where his largely stellar 2007 full-length, The Way We Found It, left off: with unbridled, hook-heavy pop. “The Big Town” kicks in with bouncy guitar jangle amid swirling organ and deftly economic melodic bravado — Syd doesn’t waste a single note.

“Mallory” comes next and is arguably the EP’s centerpiece. Refreshingly lacking even a shred of hipsterchic irony, Syd delivers that most delicious of rock confections, a capital “P” Pop song. There’s a reason the verse-chorus-bridge template is a rock standard. And this tune is as apt an example as any. I defy you not to sing along — maybe even in falsetto — with the fist-pumping chorus. Joe Jackson would be proud.

I imagine Jackson would dig the next track, as well. Like most of the EP, “The Pattern” exhibits a distinct retro-pop sensibility. But again, Syd tears it up without a hint of indie pretense.

“Easier on You” closes this all-too-brief affair in fine fashion, though this time perhaps more in line with Rick Springfield — think “Jesse’s Girl” — than Jackson. But that’s hardly a bad thing.

Syd celebrates the release of Upswing — which you can download for free at co-opsounds.com — this Friday, March 6, at The Monkey House with Ill Intelleks and Second Agenda.

DAN BOLLES

On the back cover of The Vacant Lots’ self-titled debut, musician credits read simply: “Jared Artaud, Lightning; Brian MacFadyen, Thunder.” For the uninitiated, that information, though typically cryptic, offers a telling glimpse into the mysterious aural alchemy hidden within the album’s handmade packaging. Hailed by local patrons and pundits alike as something akin to rock ’n’ roll saviors, the duo trades in a timeless brand of minimalist garage rock. Taken out of context, this disc sounds as if it could have been recorded in a dingy New York City basement club some 30 years ago, as opposed to late 2008 in a small studio in Addison County.

Supposed lightning-eer Artaud harnesses electricity not by some otherworldly command of the elements, but rather by a hollow-bodied Gretsch guitar. Similarly, MacFadyen’s thunder echoes not from a Saruman-like ability to control the weather, but via an unconventional drum set of floor toms and cymbals. Still, there is dark wizardry afoot here. And it is no doubt rooted in a deep understanding of the elements.

The album begins with the narcotic drone of “Walk of God.” Artaud’s gritty guitar rambles over a hazy blues-rock riff. MacFadyen obliges with, well, thunderous toms, punctuated by rapid-fire snare hits in perfectly imperfect sync with Artaud’s lighting strikes. Like the churlish sonic soup beneath them, Artaud’s lyrical exhortations are almost sinisterly Delphian. As if some unholy trinity of Lou Reed, Jack Kerouac and Jim Jones, he delivers lines such as “In the endless night / Now you hear the Devil’s flight / It’s the walk of God.” “Do You Love More Than You’re Loved” follows. Slightly more straight ahead in scope and tone than the previous number, it is nonetheless darkly engaging.

“Babylon” is next and sounds almost cheery by comparison. At least until you examine the lyrical content. “Now trembling inside / Like a wounded horse / Awaiting for life / To climax from pain,” sings Artaud. The man certainly has a way with words. Though you might not invite him to your next dinner party. Case in point, the following tune, “Put Your Head on the Floor,” in which he offers this chilling nugget, “Put your head on the floor / And step on it now, now, now!” Um, would you pass the peas?

As the lightningthunder dynamic suggests, symbiotic contrast is a running theme, lyrically and musically. Artaud seems almost possessed by the subtle frailties of life and death, pain and pleasure, light and dark. With MacFadyen’s help, The Vacant Lots artfully, if sometimes brutally, illustrate those juxtapositions. Visceral and stark, it ain’t always pretty. But then again, it sort of is.

Catch The Vacant Lots this Friday, March 6, at Muddy Waters.

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Pitchforked ... for the Whole World to See Online music mecca Pitchfork Media reviews lost Death recordings.

Local music critic disagrees.

Story Dan BolleS

W

hen you’re at the top, you become the target. Because, as the New York Yankees, Microsoft or Republicans will tell you, success breeds contempt. Well, so does ineptitude, but that’s a separate issue. Or is it?

Currently, the king of the music rag hill is online monolith Pitchfork Media. Once almost exclusively the domain of snooty record-store clerks, the website has exploded in popularity in recent years.

These days even — gasp! — marginally hip music fans turn to Pitchfork for the latest reviews and news concerning their favorite bands, or to discover some hot upand-comer to add to their iPods.

Even more than Rolling Stone or Spin — aka your dad’s music mags — Pitchfork is the source du jour for discerning rock fans, indie and otherwise. And frankly, with good reason.

It’s easy, and occasionally even justified, to sneer at Pitchfork.

Perhaps it’s because when they first emerged as a viable resource, they sneered back. And that’s what we loved about them: music reviews equally heavy on insight and bite.

Hell, we even coined a term for when they really laid into a band: “Pitchforked.” And though folks like me — i.e., equally snarky music critics — are quick to take aim, Pitchfork is still as comprehensive a music news resource as you’ll find.

But, to borrow a line from

Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility. Sadly, as Pitchfork’s influence has grown, its quality has noticeably declined, particularly with regard to criticism. Sure, the snark is still there.

But that seems to be all there is.

The balance — always precarious to begin with — has shifted, to the point that one almost wonders if the site’s critical component has become a parody of itself.

by extension, that of Vermont’s Rough Francis, both the literal and musical progeny of that earlier band. But scorecard quibbles aside, he labors under an unfortunate misconception that no doubt colors his appreciation, or lack thereof, for the album. Namely, it isn’t a reissue.

On the surface, that might seem little more than a semantic debate. But to call ...For the Whole

Moerder’s words are the sort of thing one might write when reviewing a Detroit punk band from 2009, not 1974.

On February 18, veteran Pitchfork writer Adam Moerder reviewed the long-awaited (at least for Burlington-area folks) “reissue” of Death’s ...For the Whole World to See. Moerder scored the record a 7.1 out of 10, basically a “C.” Not bad. But not great, either. As a point of reference, Scarlett Johansson’s most recent affront to musical taste, her Tom Waits tribute Anywhere I Lay My Head, netted a 5.5, a mere 1.6 points lower.

It is perhaps understandable that Moerder wouldn’t greet the record with the same awestruck praise as would those more intimately familiar with Death’s story — and

World to See a reissue implies that this music had been widely available previously. It hadn’t. Though singles had been pressed to vinyl in very limited editions in 1974 — and then promptly disappeared — the release on Chicago’s Drag City Records marks the first time these seven songs have been heard together as originally intended. The music found within represents a legitimate missing link in the evolution of punk rock. And it’s that point that Pitchfork misses entirely.

Moerder writes that Death “comes off as extremely likeable, despite gleefully ripping off all of the obvious influences.” A back-

handed compliment if ever there was one. The problem, of course, is that Death largely predates, or were at least contemporaries of, those influences. Moerder’s words are the sort of thing one might write when reviewing a Detroit punk band from 2009, not 1974.

We can argue about the merits of Death’s music itself. Personally, this critic thinks it’s remarkable, regardless of when it was created — though it’s fair to charge that I might have some sentimental hometown bias on this one. On the other hand, Moerder states that the

The perfect match.

record “holds up well” alongside Blue Oyster Cult. Huh? Are you saying Death needs more cowbell?

At the beginning of his partingshot paragraph, the Pitchfork crit writes, “the album falls short of diamond-in-the-rough-caliber discovery.” Perhaps that depends on which rough you’re looking in. Because to truly appreciate the importance of Death’s ...For the Whole World to See, one needs to understand the context in which the music was made. It’s a shame Pitchfork obviously doesn’t. m

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WED.04 dance HIP-HOP WORKSHOP: Pop-’n’-lockers pick up moves at an uptempo street-dance session. Essex Junction Great Events, Essex Junction, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 578-8330.

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CHITTENDEN COUNTY PHILATELIC CLUB: Stamp collectors of all levels of interest and experience swap sticky squares, and stories about them. GE Healthcare Building, South Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817, laineyrapp@yahoo.com.

food & drink ‘THE ART OF TEA’: Would-be blenders of herbal beverages experiment with different brewing mixtures, methods and gadgets. Purple Shutter Herbs, Winooski, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15. Info, 865-4372.

health & fitness ZUMBA BURLINGTON: Exercise in disguise? People of all ages and abilities get a workout at what appears to be a Latin-dance party. North End Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $7. Info, 734-5621.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. ‘A FUNKIN’ FUN-DRAISER’: A 21-plus costume-contest dance party unfolds to bass-heavy beats by Funkwagon, Somewhere in the Solution, and DJs Doug and Matty C.; proceeds benefit the Common Ground Youth Center in St. Albans. Club Metronome, Burlington, 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. $5 suggested donation.

Info, 782-1811.

MARIZA: The Mozambique native turned Portuguese fado diva sings one of the oldest forms of urban folk. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24-39. Info, 863-5966.

OPEN MIC NIGHT: Musicians step up at a coffeehouse series showcasing local talent. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-7111.

sport ADULT COED FLOOR HOCKEY: Grown men and women push plastic pucks with slick sticks at this weekly showdown.

St. Anthony’s Parish Hall, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $4. Info, 651-7555.

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ROOMS OF BLOOMS Daffodils and tulips won’t start sprouting for another month or so, but winter-weary green thumbs can get excited about gardening again as soon as this weekend. The Vermont Flower Show forms a three-day extravaganza emphasizing playfulness and sustainable local produce. Amenities include a star-gazing tent, a treehouse, pro and amateur floral competitions, a “faerie forest” with wee houses, and more than 11,500 forced spring bulbs.

Backyard hobbyists from the Vermont Garden Railways Society exhibit moving trains in a green landscape, kids get their hands dirty in an activity room, educational seminars cover topics from composting to living seasonally, and local-food cooking demos showcase eight area chefs. Between 9 and 10 each morning, for an extra $5, early birds can catch pro landscaper and show designer Rebecca Lindenmeyr’s private tour of spring — indoors.

THE VERMONT FLOWER SHOW

Friday through Sunday, March 6-8, at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction; see calendar listings for various times. $3-15 daily; $30 for a three-day pass. Info, 888-518-6484. www.greenworksvermont.org

ART HISTORY TALK: Assistant professor Cathleen Cummings of the University of Alabama at Birmingham relates the key points of her research into Hindu temple iconography. Room 301, Williams Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014.

FADO SLIDE SHOW: Robert Resnik, host of Vermont Public Radio’s “All the Traditions,” sums up the history of Portuguese musical forms. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

‘IMAGING POWER’: Dartmouth professor and art historian Jane Carroll considers examples of how political clout has been conveyed on canvases.

Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 649-1184.

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‘JOHN MILTON, MARRIAGE & FRIENDSHIP’: Dartmouth English professor Tom Luxon traces how the poet who penned “Paradise Lost” inadvertently charted a path toward same-sex marriages. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘LAKE CHAMPLAIN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY’: Vermont State Archaeologist Giovanna Peebles describes a major dig that uncovered the history of Addison County’s 18th-century settlement. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

‘MR. AND MRS. PRINCE’: Dartmouth English Department Chair Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina tells the story of an accomplished pre-Civil War black family living in New England. Rutland Free Library, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 773-1860.

NOONTIME CAFÉ PROGRAM: Artist and cartoonist Ed Koren and Eugenia Robbins, director of the Friends of the Vermont Statehouse, consider the life and work of sculptor-printmaker Hugh Townley in a discussion moderated

by Fleming curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15-1 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0750.

‘RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR’: Jocelyn Kelly, a research coordinator with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, speaks about sexual violence against women in Eastern Congo.

Hoehl Welcome Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

‘THE HISTORY OF HERBAL MEDICINE IN AMERICA’: Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar relates which medicinal plants early American pioneers relied on for health and healing. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

‘THE TRUTH ABOUT HAPPINESS’: Psychologist and Jungian analyst Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath examines the historical, cultural, social and psychological aspects of humanity’s most prized emotional state. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

ACTING UP Times may be tough, but they’re not quite as stressful as those depicted in Neil Simon’s dramatic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor. In it, six witty writers prop up “Max Prince,” the host of a comedy-variety TV show. It’s 1953, and Prince’s problems multiply when the network’s red-baiting big cheeses call his act obsolete.

Faced with falling ratings, his staff desperately try to keep their jobs by wisecracking their way PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARLIE GLAZER FOR NORTHERN STAGE through the crisis. The semi-autobiographical action recalls Simon’s stint as a junior jokesmith on Sid Caesar’s “Show of Shows,” offering a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that produced a landmark of TV’s golden age. High-rise high jinks and humorous invective lighten the pop-historical load in a Northern Stage production that runs through March 15.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’

Wednesday through Sunday, March 4-8 and Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10 & 11, at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction; see calendar listings for various times. $25-58. Info, 296-7000. www.northernstage.org

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METAPHYSICAL THERAPY If there is a God who is both omniscient and benevolent, why does evil exist? All through recorded history, humanity has wrestled with the question of why bad things happen to good people. But is the conception of the devil merely a convenient cloven-hoofed scapegoat? What is evil, anyway? Lawyer and UVM philosophy professor Don Loeb surveys moral and ethical approaches to malevolence in the second of four lectures that coincide with Lent. The series continues on March 15 with UVM education professor Robert Nash’s summary of what secular humanists think about innate badness, and how various social, religious and political systems are set up to deal with it. Tune in March 22 to hear an evangelical Christian point of view from the pastor of Williston’s Christ Memorial Church.

‘THE NATURE OF EVIL’

Sunday, March 22, 4:30-6 p.m. at the College Street Congregational Church, Burlington. Free.

Info, 864-0788.

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Brooklyn-based choreographer and contemporary dance icon Ronald K. Brown founded the Evidence Dance Company in 1985. His goal? Timed exposure of the African diaspora through movement, music and spoken word. Since then, he has wowed the modern dance world with his spiritual, kinetic storytelling in pieces incorporating everything from Afro-Caribbean rhythms and Duke Ellington tunes to the ritual used in a Burkina Faso-based coming-of-age ceremony.

At Middlebury, Evidence performs “One Shot,” an exuberant homage to the life and art of AfricanAmerican photojournalist Charles “Teenie” Harris. A Pittsburgh newspaper employee from 1936 to 1975, Harris was nicknamed “One Shot” for his ability to get an image in a single take. Music by Phyllis Hyman, Billy Strayhorn and other jazz masters sets off lively vignettes that use Harris’ stunning photos as a backdrop.

EVIDENCE DANCE COMPANY

Friday and Saturday, March 6 & 7, 8 p.m. at the Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. $15-20. Info, 443-6433. www.evidencedance.com www.middlebury.edu/arts

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‘DEMOCRACY IN THE MOUNTAINS’: Farms, tourists, chocolate — and town meetings? Political historian Susan Clark draws parallels between Vermont and Switzerland. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

THE NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL: Kate Williamson, executive director of a 750-mile waterway through northern New England, New York and Québec, describes the reestablishment of its historic transportation route as a path for recreational paddlers. Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 586-7711, ext. 141.

‘WOMEN, WAR AND DISPLACEMENT’: A panel of local female refugees from various countries relate their experiences surviving hostile environments. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: McCarthyism and conservative station execs complicate the lives of a group of 1950s TV writers in Neil Simon’s 1993 comedy. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $25-58. Info, 296-7000.

words ‘LOVE & FORGIVENESS’ DISCUSSION: Readers of Sandor Marai’s novel Embers consider its moral examination of betrayal between two intimate friends.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

THU.05 art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. ETHAN BON-WATTS: ‘Emergence,’ glass sculpture. State Representative Kesha Ram introduces the hand-blown piece, which will hang above the atrium.

Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 5-7 p.m.

Info, 656-2010.

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BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: Area company heads and managers consider human-resource issues from family leave to proposed changes to Vermont state unemployment insurance, and members of the public can sit in.

Second floor, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 7:30-9 a.m. $10. Info, 863-1175.

‘MANAGING IN TOUGH TIMES’: Retired entrepreneurs guide business owners in how to cope with — and thrive despite — recessional challenges.

SCORE Office, Winston Prouty Federal Building, Essex Junction, 9 a.m. noon. $25 per person; $40 per couple.

Info, 951-6762.

SENIOR TAX ASSISTANCE: Those over 60 with an annual gross income of less than $60,000 can get help on their returns from a tax counselor in half-hour increments. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Free, call for appointment. Info, 878-6955.

food & drink LOCALVORE FOOD FILM & BOOK DISCUSSION: Addison County localvores watch the award-winning documentary Fast Food Nation, then discuss nutritionist Marion Nestle’s food-label explication tome What to Eat. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Free, bring a local-food potluck dish to share. Info, 462-3722.

kids PRESCHOOL STORIES: Future readers ages 2 to 5 take in tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. LENTEN CONCERT: Middlebury College artist-in-residence François Clemmons sings African American spirituals in a powerful tenor. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 12:15-12:45 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-1151.

sport THURSDAY SKI-INN: Cross-country skiers traverse the landscape en masse on a group outing, then entertain lunch options. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2647.

theater ‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See WED.04, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘MAX AND RUBY’: Bunny siblings try to perform a play for their grandma in this imaginative show intended for kids ages 4 to 7. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 12:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 728-9878.

‘MIDDLEBURY CONFESSIONAL’: Midd senior Sheyenne Brown explores stereotypes in her one-woman show based on campus reactions to an anonymous, non-college-affiliated online forum. 51 Main, Middlebury, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

‘TWELVE ANGRY JURORS’: The Essex Community Players stage this two-gender adaptation of Reginald Rose’s 1954 courtroom drama chronicling a young man’s murder trial. Memorial Hall, Essex, 8 p.m. $10-13. Info, 878-9109.

PEAK PITCH: Entrepreneurs and business owners outline their ideas to venture capitalists and angel investors during a chairlift ride up the mountainside. Bolton Valley Resort, Bolton Valley, 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free, but preregistration is required. Info, 923-1505, meagan@borealisventures. com.

THE VERMONT FLOWER SHOW: Amateur gardeners, farmers and horticulturists converge for a three-day preview of spring that features a “faerie forest.”

Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. $3-15 daily; $30 for a three-day pass. Info, 888-518-6484.

food & drink PORK ROAST TAKE-OUT DINNER: Diners opt for convenient boxes of savory meat, applesauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad and dessert. Waterbury Congregational Church, pickup 4-6 p.m. $8; please call for reservations. Info, 244-8089, bbtravelers@aol. com.

JUNGLE JACK HANNA: The TV host and naturalist responsible for “Into the Wild” and “Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures” blends multimedia storytelling with live appearances by small jungle cats, primates, reptiles and birds. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m. $18.50-23.50. Info, 775-0903.

STYLISH SENIORS: Those over age 60 put themselves in the hands of pro hairdressers to learn creative ways to spruce up their ’dos. Red Clover Salon, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 878-3499.

THE VERMONT FLOWER SHOW: See FRI.06, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. MUSIC NIGHT: Singer-songwriter Joe Cribari strums acoustic numbers. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 482-5189.

‘TURN UP THE HEAT FOR THE HOMELESS’ CONCERT: At this benefit for a Vergennes shelter, local musical-comedy stars ENCORE perform Broadway classics, and Middlebury College a cappella group The Dissipated Eight deliver energetic harmonies. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $10-25 includes postconcert dessert and coffee. Info, 382-9222.

‘AFGHANISTAN: NOTES FROM THE REMEMBERED WAR’: Former National Public Radio correspondent Sarah Chayes delineates her decision to stay in Afghanistan after covering the 2001 fall of the Taliban, and describes her current work there.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5858.

WOODSTOCK GARDEN CLUB: Daylily grower Charmaine Rich offers an overview of the multiple bloom colors and varieties of her favorite multipurpose plant. Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-2355.

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‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See WED.04, 7:30 p.m.

‘MIDDLEBURY CONFESSIONAL’: See THU.05, 8 p.m.

‘TWELVE ANGRY JURORS’: See THU.05, 8 p.m.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds in clean, soft-soled shoes after a brief walk-through. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5-7; bring sweet or savory snacks to share. Info, 899-2378.

EVIDENCE DANCE COMPANY: Brooklynbased choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his troupe step a jazz-accented tribute to the life and art of an African American photojournalist. Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 443-6433.

FAMILY CONTRA DANCE: Two members of maritime-folk band Atlantic Crossing pair with local musician John Dickason to launch live tunes, and caller Lausanne Allen guides dancers of all ages. Municipal Gym, Middlebury, 7-10 p.m. $5-10; $15 per couple; $25 per family. Info, 388-3910.

‘PETER AND THE WOLF’: The Upper Valley dance troupe City Center Ballet adds visuals to the beloved Prokofiev piece. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. $5. Info, 457-3981.

BRAZILIAN CARNIVALE BENEFIT: Masked dancers party down to live beats from a Big-Apple-based Brazilian band. Proceeds support Grounds For Health, a local nonprofit bringing medical services to women in coffeegrowing communities. Vermont Artisan Coffee and Tea, Waterbury, 7-11 p.m. $20 includes Brazilian-style snacks.

Info, 241-4146.

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Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘HUMMINGBIRDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD’: Travel buff and naturalist Ernest Franzgrote shares homemade footage from his quest to see 200 hummingbird species in the year 2000.

Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 229-6206.

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words MONTRÉAL ZEN POETRY FESTIVAL: “Forget the words!” Meditators empty their minds, then participate in writing workshops and readings that focus on Zen Buddhist arts from poetry to painting. Vermont-based poet-translator David Hinton joins seven other presenters from across North America. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. $4-60. Info, 514-842-3648, info@ montrealzenpoetryfestival.ca.

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THE VERMONT FLOWER SHOW (ETC)

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health & fitness ZUMBA BURLINGTON: See WED.04, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

BARN-RAISING DANCE & AUCTION: Hearty appetizers sustain hoofers dancing to Tammy Fletcher and the Disciples, and live and silent auctions raise funds for an ag-structure redux.

Jericho Community Center, Jericho, 6 p.m. $15, discounts for groups. BYOB. Info, 899-5219.

EVIDENCE DANCE COMPANY: See FRI.06, 8 p.m.

‘FEROCIOUS BEAUTY: GENOME’: The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange consulted 34 scientists about this piece, which combines movement, music, film and projected text to consider how genetic research affects modern life. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $31-37.

Info, 863-5966.

food & drink CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, apples, winter greens, cheeses and meats sustain shoppers in search of locally grown goods. Basement, South Hero Congregational Church, South Hero, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3420.

KOMBUCHA WORKSHOP: An expert explains how to homebrew a medicinal tea mixture with active live cultures.

St. Johnsbury Food Co-op, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 748-9498.

MONTPELIER WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Root veggies, honey, fresh mesclun and more change hands at a biweekly, off-season celebration of locally grown grub. Gymnasium, Vermont College, Montpelier, 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4360, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com.

RUTLAND WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Shoppers seeking locally raised edibles pick up root vegetables, cheeses, pickles and other lavish provender.

Rutland Natural Food Market, Rutland, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 438-9803.

SUGAR ON SNOW: Hardened-maple-syrup edibles usher in spring at an outdoor party. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, 12-4 p.m. $4; free to watch. Info, 985-5054.

health & fitness ZUMBA BURLINGTON: See WED.04, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘THE ORPHANAGE’: In this supernatural thriller produced by Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro, a woman must revisit her childhood memories to discover the whereabouts of her missing son. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. ‘DRIVE THE COLD WINTER AWAY’: Vocalist Elisabeth von Trapp and cellist Erich Kory perform heartwarming music from heroic ballads to original compositions. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 985-3819.

GARNET ROGERS: The Canadian singersongwriter brings his lightning-quick wit and passionate lyrics to the After Dark Music Series. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $18-20.

Info, 388-0216.

‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’: Opera aficionados absorb the Met’s high-def audiovisual broadcast of Puccini’s opus about a Japanese maiden wronged.

Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 1 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.

‘OPERA’S GREATEST MOMENTS’: Four pro vocalists and a pianist whet aural appetites for this season’s Green Mountain Opera Festival at a greatesthits repertoire concert featuring excerpts from Carmen, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Tosca and other genre opuses. Barre Opera House, Barre, 8 p.m. $10-28. Info, 476-8188.

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<calendar > Ripton Community Coffee House: An open mike precedes Gypsy jazz combo Lewis Franco and The Missing Cats. Ripton Community House, Ripton, 7:30 p.m. $3-8. Info, 388-9782.

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Family Contra Dance: Caller Libby Case guides steppers of all ages, and members of the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra play along. Middlesex Town Hall, Middlesex, 4-6 p.m. $1-5; free for infants & toddlers. Info, 877-343-3531.

International Folk Dance: The Balkan-style dance band Xopo turns out Eastern European tunes for circle dancers in clean, soft-soled shoes.

Tracy Hall, Norwich, 3-6 p.m. $6-15.

Info, 436-2151.

Pittsfield Peaks Snowshoe Marathon: Extreme-sports athletes opt for 6-mile, half- or full versions of this grueling trail trek on webbed footgear. Amee Farm, Pittsfield, 9 a.m. $75 to register, free to watch. Info, http://www.peakraces.com.

Relay for Life NordicStyle: Participating teams traverse circles overnight on skis, snowshoes or boots to raise funds for cancer research and patient support. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4 p.m. - 6 a.m. Donations, free to watch. Info, 872-6304, jessica. blais@cancer.org.

Snowshoe Nature Walk: A naturalist leads a drift-top New England safari on a family-friendly route. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $8; $5.50 for kids age 12 and younger.

Info, 533-2647.

talks History of Art & Architecture Symposium: Middlebury College faculty and students present art history papers for their peers and the public.

Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 9 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Free; $12 lunch tickets. Info, 443-5234.

‘Time is Not Money’: Members of the Onion River Exchange celebrate the time bank’s one-year anniversary with a video documenting some of the ways people have used the nearly 2500 service hours swapped to date. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free, bring a potluck dish to share. Info, 229-0782.

theater ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’: See WED.04, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Middlebury Confessional’: See THU.05, 8 p.m.

‘Mini Mud’ Variety Show: More than 60 teens and tots share their talents at a scaled-down stage event honoring youthful chutzpah. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. $5-12. Info, 728-6464.

‘OZ Applauds!’: Musicians, singers, comedians and storytellers collaborate in a community showcase. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-10 includes dessert. Info, 864-0218.

Statewide Auditions & Interviews: Professional actors and tech crew talk up theater and film companies from around the state. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. $20-30; call for a three-minute appointment time. Info, 862-2287, catalyst@gmavt.net.

Theater Town Meeting: Thespians and the general public take the pulse of Vermont’s drama scene at a community discussion about producing works by local playwrights. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3:154:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 862-2287, catalyst@gmavt.net.

‘Twelve Angry Jurors’: See THU.05, 8 p.m.

words Montréal Zen Poetry Festival: See FRI.06, 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.

‘Poetry Out Loud’ State Finals: Students from 16 Vermont high schools voice verse as part of a national poetry recitation contest. Montpelier City Hall, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3778.

dance

etc.

Antiques Market: Treasure-hunters find bargains amid antlers. Elks Club, Montpelier, preview 7:30 a.m., market 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

Pig Race, Pig Roast and Potluck: Skiers of all ages schuss cross-country on groomed trails, then tuck into succulent pork slices. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 12-4 p.m. $8-12 includes race registration; $4-6 meal only.

Please bring a side dish and beverages, to share. Info, 247-6735, info@ blueberryhillinn.com.

Scrabble Club: Triple-letter-square seekers wage word wars. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9912.

The Vermont Flower Show: See FRI.06, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

food & drink Sugar on Snow: See SAT.07, 12-4 p.m.

kids Lollipop Ski Race: Young skiers don racing bibs for a fun zip down the “Mighty Mite” hill, with encouragement from bystanders. Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond, 1 p.m. Free with purchase of a $14 youth day pass; includes postrace lollipop. Info, 434-2479.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Lunasa & Karan Casey Band: Ethereal-voiced folk singer Karan Casey, former frontwoman for the Celtic supergroup Solas, shares a stage with an Irish all-star quintet. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $30.

Info, 457-3981.

‘Madama Butterfly’: Opera aficionados absorb the Met’s high-def audiovisual broadcast of Puccini’s opus about a Japanese maiden wronged.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $22. Info, 382-9222.

Miles Donahue Quintet: Pianist Joey Calderazzo of Branford Marsalis’ band headlines a lineup that also includes bassist John Lockwood, drummer Marchello Pelitteri and trombone player Gary Valente. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

San Jose Taiko: This internationally renowned ensemble of Japanese-style drummers pairs visually spectacular percussion with high-energy choreography. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-20. Info, 603-6462422.

Simone Dinnerstein: The concert pianist whose playing The New Yorker praised as “elegant and assured” delivers American composer Philip Lasser’s “Twelve Variations on a Chorale

by J.S. Bach,” among other works.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, 728-6464.

The Irish Rovers: The trad-Celtic band formed in Toronto more than 40 decades ago by a pair of Irish immigrants preps for St. Paddy’s week with rousing tunes. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $23.50-$34.50. Info, 775-0903.

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‘The Magnificat’: One of the oldest and most beloved biblical texts receives musical settings by composers from five centuries at this concert combining chamber chorus Dolce Lingua, baroque instrumental ensemble Arc’Angelo and the Onion River Chorus. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 4 p.m. $8-12. Info, 241-4260.

talks ‘The Nature of Evil’: Lawyer and UVM philosophy professor Donald Loeb surveys moral and ethical approaches to malevolence. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0788.

theater Comedy Night: Kathleen Kanz inaugurates a monthly standup session, and the first gig features monkeying around from local jokesters John Lyons, Roger Miller, Tracie Spencer and Martha Tormey. The Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 225-5918.

‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’: See WED.04, 5 p.m.

‘Max and Ruby’: See THU.05. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 2 p.m. $13.5017.50. Info, 863-5966.

‘Twelve Angry Jurors’: See THU.05, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

words Montréal Zen Poetry Festival: See FRI.06, 7 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

MON.09 etc.

VBSR Open Studio: Members of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility host a public gathering to discuss the current economic crisis — and some of the corrective initiatives under consideration in Montpelier. Tours of the Westminster Cracker factory follow.

Franklin Conference Center, Rutland, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.

food & drink Senior Luncheon: Elders enjoy a hot meal of shepherd’s pie, black-eyed pea salad and chocolate cake along with live piano, sing-alongs and riddles.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne, noon. $5-10. Info, 862-7754.

kids Family Sing-Along: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

Monday Music: Local musician Mia Adams tells stories and sings kid-friendly faves. In the J.C. Penney seating area. University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

sport Full Moon Snowshoe Walk: Experience a lunar rove, then warm up with hot chocolate. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 8 p.m. Free; call for reservations. Info, 533-2647.

TUE.10 dance DanceTalk: Meadows, street corners and living rooms? Multidisciplinary performance artist Micaela Gardner shares ideas about creating work for alternative spaces in a talk that includes live demos and video footage.

Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

etc.

Geek Week 3.0: Six days of nerdy exploits pair vintage video games with hobby how-tos and music lineups.

Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, 6 p.m.

- midnight. Free. Info, 223-8667.

Info Session: Parents and kids exploring elementary school alternatives consider an area family-teacher cooperative. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-4164.

Legislative Breakfast: Elected officials and businesspeople mix at a meal focused on Governor Douglas’s state budget cuts. Capitol Plaza, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. $15-20. Info, 229-5711, cvchamber@aol.com.

Radio Amateurs of Northern Vermont: Radio hams tune into equipment maintenance, operation and building techniques at a monthly meeting. O’Brien Civic Center, South Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6589, w1sj@arrl.net.

kids Sing-along Fun: The host of Vermont Public Radio’s “All the Traditions” — also a reference librarian — leads a lighthearted folk session for all ages.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Dublin City Ramblers: Fans of Irish folk put on shamrocks a week early for a rollicking concert by a band first founded in 1969. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 603-448-0400.

Green Mountain Chorus: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5439, w1sj@arrl.net.

IAJE Student Jazz Festival: High school jazz ensembles rehearse and perform throughout the Flynn all day, and an evening concert features two of Vermont’s finest groups with guest artist David Clark. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 863-5966.

theater ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’: See WED.04, 7:30 p.m.

words Castle Freeman: The Newfane author and essayist for The Old Farmer’s Almanac reads excerpts from his new novel, All That I Have. See review, p.

31A. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

WED.11 dance Hip-Hop Workshop: See WED.04, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

etc.

Burlington Business Share & Learn: Managers of Queen City companies discuss ways to encourage and sustain efficient, earth-friendly commuting options for employees as part of Burlington’s Way to Go! Commuter Challenge. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 660-4071, ext. 14.

Embroiderers Guild: Multicolored floss forms stitch pictures at a Green Mountain Chapter meeting. Senior Community Center, The Pines, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.

Geek Week 3.0: See TUE.10, 6:30 p.m.

- midnight.

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

Knit and Crochet Night: Yarn marms share their talents and company.

Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 872-7111.

kids ‘Moving & Grooving’: Two- to 5-yearolds boogie down to rock ’n’ roll and world-beat music. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Stop Loss’: The Peace and Justice Center hosts a screening of this documentary about a Texas-based Iraq vet ordered back to another tour of duty after his original obligation to the U.S. Army was fulfilled. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free admission includes ice cream. Info, 922-7002.

sport Adult Coed Floor Hockey: See WED.04, 6:45-8:45 p.m.

talks ‘Welcome to the Adolescent Brain’: National expert Michael Nerney explains the brain science behind teens’ and preteens’ rebellious, often dangerous, behavior — and how parents and community members can help keep kids happy, healthy and safe.

U-32 High School, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4949.

theater ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’: See WED.04, 7:30 p.m.

‘Looking Over the President’s Shoulder’: A one-man show brings to life the diaries of Alonzo Fields, the first African American chief butler in the White House — a position he held from Hoover’s administration to Eisenhower’s. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-21. Info, 863-5966.

Variety Show Auditions: Talented folks ages 7 and older try out for the chance to demo their skills at a mudseason showcase. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 5 p.m. Free; call for audition time. Info, 728-9878, outreach@ chandler-arts.org.

words Book Discussion: Readers reflect on Jessica Queller’s cancer-prevention memoir Pretty Is What Changes.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. m

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #905407 GORGEOUS MAN W/ STRIKING EYES Sittin’ in Cashman’s class, I can’t help but turn my gaze to you. You make this hard girl soft, but I have been a naughty girl.

Chances are I have a concealed weapon. You may have to search me for your own safety.

Let’s get outta here & spend another day wrapped in my covers. Would that be lawful detainment? When: Monday, February 23, 2009. Where: Champlain College. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905404 SPINNING CLASS For weeks we have been playing this silent game of eye contact from across the room.

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You kick ass! Do you race? When: Friday, February 27, 2009. Where: Spinning Class.

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Contact me. When: Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Where: South Burlington gym.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #905388 SWEET SMILE “EYE CATCH” To the lovely lady who enjoys playing eye catch: If you would like to know my status, come & say hello & I will talk with you.

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Me: Man. #905387 THE SHANTY - BABY O BABY I spied you being a GOOD friend: to hear without judgement, to see while looking in the other direction, to accept what you don’t yet understand, to find the good when all seems bad, and to love without conditions... to be a friend. I am glad we are friends, too!

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Where: The Shanty Baby. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905384 STREET His age is, I think, 18-30. He is tall, has brown hair & he is very attractive. Saw him on the street when he has romantic physical & his eyes are very sexy. He crosses on the street & he gets on supermarket, then I also get on that supermarket. Finally he purchases his materials, he gets out of the market. When: Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Where: he is so attractive. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905383 TUESDAY BARTENDER AT THE PUB I owe you a beer. Didn’t forget you - I inadvertently deleted my emails and just got back to town. What’s your schedule look like? When: Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Where: The Pub. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905381 BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES AT SNEAKERS Saturday morning, 2/21 at 11 a.m. We sat next to one another at the bar, I was the girl with the glasses & scarf. The waitress thought our groups were together, you answered that we were strangers, & I agreed. I should have introduced myself but was suddenly shy. Would like to cross paths again... When: Saturday, February 21, 2009. Where: Sneakers. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905380 BOY AT RED SQUARE We danced at Red Square on Friday night... you were a great dancer & I had a really fun night. I couldn’t hear you that night, it was so loud, but I know you wanted something to happen & I just had to run. I don’t know anything, even your name, but I am curious about you now... When: Friday, February 20, 2009. Where: Red Square. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905379 BEAUTIFUL BOY AT THE GYM I saw you at the YMCA in the beginning of February; I have been looking for you ever since. You told me I had nice legs; I acted super awkward and shy. Sorry, I just wasn’t expecting you to talk to me. We should hang out - you have nice legs too... When: Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Where: Burlington YMCA. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905378 MY FAVORITE TURKEY! I spy the most beautiful lady on Hayward Street, who illuminates any room she walks into. I’m glad you were my valentine this year - I couldn’t have gotten through it without you! No more tears, just smiles for us. Here’s to our new lives! Gobble Gobble! When: Saturday, February 14, 2009. Where: Hayward St.., all around Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905377

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o the average American, cars are so much more than just a mode of transportation. Cars represent who you are, where you come from and where you’re going. Sure, we’d like to believe that we make wise decisions — based on common sense — when we purchase a vehicle, but there’s no denying that many choices are primarily based on our design preferences.

There are iconic vehicle designs that everyone recognizes, such as the Volkswagen Beetle, the Chevy Corvette and the Ford F-150. Each of these classic styles represents a different aesthetic and speaks to different facets of our character.

A sports car can make you feel young again; a pickup brands you as a hard-living rebel — or a hard worker.

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platform and boldly recreated it in a new image. It has a sporty, stylish, aerodynamic shape, and VW backs up those good looks with refined German engineering and attention to detail. Many people mistake the new CC for a Mercedes CLClass sedan, for good reason: The vehicles share an undeniable design aesthetic. By the way, CC stands for Comfort Coupe, which is an odd label for a four-door vehicle. I guess VW decided to take some artistic license here.

I picked up a CC Sport at Lewis Motors in South Burlington and took it for a drive. The 2-liter, turbo-charged, 4-cylinder engine offered plenty of power while still delivering an impressive 31 mpg on the highway. The interior was tastefully appointed and the stitchedleather, heated seats cradled my frame comfortably. Though the rear window appears large from the exterior, when I looked in the rearview mirror from the driver’s seat, I found the view to be quite

Volkswagen CC. If you know cars at all, you have probably noticed that most recent VW models have a signature look. Whether it’s a Jetta, a Passat or a Rabbit, you’ll likely recognize it as a Volkswagen. That’s not so with the new Volkswagen CC. VW has taken the Passat

constricted. One other questionable feature is the back seat. It’s quite comfortable, with seats that are sculpted similarly to those up front, but there’s only room for two passengers. Between the seats is a console with drink holders and storage space, covered by a sliding door. It

all looks and feels pretty sexy, but if you’re looking for a five-passenger family car, this isn’t it.

over the far back seats is larger than any sunroof I’ve seen. The model I picked up at Heritage Ford had all-wheel drive, which makes great

Ford Flex. Speaking of family vehicles, here’s one with ample style. The Ford Flex isn’t your mom’s minivan, though it seats seven comfortably. It reminded me instantly of the wagon version of the Mini Cooper — the Clubman — though larger. Confirming my suspicion that this car was inspired by the Mini, it even has a similar two-tone paint option — a white roof that contrasts nicely against a darker body color à la the Mini.

The interior, not unlike that of the VW CC, is very nicely done.

American-made vehicles sometimes fall short when it comes to interior styling, but this is not one of them.

Ford deserves kudos for marrying such bold style with family friendly function. If you’ve got multiple people to haul around but can’t see yourself going the minivan or SUV route, you should check out this auto.

The Ford Flex offers some pretty cool options. The Vista Roof puts four skylights over the three rows of seating, letting in lots of ambient light for all occupants. The window

sense in Vermont. You can even get a working refrigerator! It holds about a six-pack of cans, and can cool down to 23 degrees F.

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Dodge Challenger. The original Dodge Challenger launched at the height of the muscle-car era in 1970 and was a worthy opponent for the Mustangs and Camaros of the day. With an amazing retro look, the new Challenger is every bit the road warrior that its ancestor was. Of all of the cars featured

in this article, the Challenger — which I test-drove at Goss Dodge — speaks to me the loudest. Crank up the classic rock and you’re bound to feel like a badass behind the wheel. Aesthetics-wise, Dodge stayed close to the original theme, but the new version does a great job of incorporating up-to-date technology into a car that looks like it was created in the ’70s. This is a well-made vehicle and, for all but the most extreme performance models, Dodge backs it up with a lifetime drivetrain warranty.

Ford actually started the retro craze in 2005 with the fifth-generation Mustang and ended up selling a lot of them. This spring, the company will roll out an updated version of the Mustang. Chevy is finally catching the retro wave and issuing a new Camaro, also this spring. However, with a struggling economy and a focus on energy

efficiency, this may be poor timing for the latecomers. Only time will tell how sales will be affected, but these days that’s true for just about everything. All I can say is, if you like muscle cars, the Challenger is a real modern beauty. 

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NS. Pets neg. Avail. Mar. 1. $1000/ mo. Info: 802-453-3687.

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Pearl St. Victorian 1-BR, HDWD, high walls w/ lots of windows & nice woodwork, full BA. $785/mo. incl. heat & HW. NS/ pets. Avail. Apr. 1. Info: 802-3726153.

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S. Burlington Lg. 1-BR apt., ground floor, parking for 1, on busline. $675/mo. + utils. No pets. Info: 802-860-1642.

Walk to UVM and hospital Burlington 2-BR, clean, bright, cozy apartment w/ private entrance/porch area. Full BA, 1-yr. lease. NS, pets neg. Info: Brisson Properties, LLC, 802-897-5625, kbrb@shoreham.net.

Winooski 88 Malletts Bay Ave. Avail. now. Very lg. 1-BR, full BA, huge kitchen, HDWD, 2nd floor, low utils., gas heat/HW, W/D across street. No dogs. $700/mo.

Info: 802-862-7467.

For Sale Winooski Condo For Sale 1-BR w/ loft in old school. 12’ ceiling, lg. windows. New updates/paint.

Storage, indoor basketball, reserved parking, garden, security, cable, satellite, pets. Walk downtown. $155,900. Info: 802-6554167.

Housemates 2-BR avail. March 1 12x12 room, $450/mo;. 18x12 room, $500/mo. Small pets OK. Monthto-month lease. Deposit req. Info: 802-893-4643, pgillander_1@ netzero.net.

Winooski 2-BR, Hickok St. Avail. now. Encl. porch. Parking.

No dogs. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com.

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Great southern exposure with lake and mountain views in a small neighborhood setting. Just minutes away from Hinesburg Village Center. $229,000.

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Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5BA, W/D, parking, on bus line. No pets. $650/mo. + dep. Info: 802863-9612.

Country home to share On 30 acres in S. Starksboro. $500/mo. incl. major utils. + dep. Prefer long-term. NS/pets. Communityminded person. Avail. immed.

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Essex Share Large House We are looking for nonsmoking, petfree, substance-free, friendly responsible person. $400/mo. incl. all, the room is large & there is plenty of parking. Info: Laurel Clark, 802-324-4030, laurelbclark@yahoo.com.

House to share in Essex 1 responsible adult to share w/ 3 adults, NS, med. room. WiFi, near laundry/IBM. Parking. Easy commute to Burlington, St. Albans.

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Monkton FarmHouse Large rooms, W/D, master BA, cathedral ceilings. 20 acres. 19 miles to Kennedy Dr. Barn, garden space, etc. Amenities/utils. incl. Horses & pets OK. $450/mo. Info: 802453-3457.

Peaceful Rural Living Share quiet, soulful house. Lg. BR, private BA. Dead end road, mountain views, wooded area. Female preferred, dog lover a plus. Great place for active person who wants to help out with dog for low(er) rent. Info: Paul, 802-899-4087.

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Village View condo end unit. Two bedroom, one and a half bath w/ laundry room and attached garage located in the center of Richmond.

Tastefully updated with appliances, paint and flooring. Low association fees. Very affordable home. Come and take a look! Great location!

802-434-2626.

SOUTH BURLINGTON TOWNHOUSE

3-BR, 2-BA, quiet neighborhood, just about new everything - addition, deck, bathrooms, kitchen, roof, wiring, sound system & flat screen, furnace, hot water, plumbing, windows, 2nd floor washer & dryer, gas insert and landscaping. $449,900. 802-316-9749. www.73rivermount.com

2 bedroom, 1.5 bath in Cardinal Woods. Fresh paint, new carpet, updated kitchen cupboards. New ceiling fans in bedrooms. New stackable washer/dryer. Efficient heat, carport, low association fees.

802-578-9732.

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3/2/09 2:22:19 PM Two bedroom, one bathroom, 850FSBO-DRoby-022509.indd sq.ft. Private basement with secure outdoor storage, three season porch, new appliances, recently renovated.

Friendly neighbors, pets welcome.

Off-street parking. Asking $137,000.

Offering $1000 back at closing.

802-598-2382.

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2:23:56 PM 1469 Churchhill Road. 2-BR,2/23/09 2 full FSBO-NLowe-022509.indd BA, approx. 1500 sq.ft. on 1.25 acres.

Open floor plan, refinished kitchen, gas fireplace, pellet stove, HDWD floors, exposed beams. Lg. front & back porches. Windows all around. Many special details. 2 story detached barn.

Beautiful lot. Easy access to Route 7.

20 minutes to Burlington. No homes between you and a beautiful view! $336,500. Call 802-425-2357 or 802-233-2338 for information.

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8:57:19 AM 1 Creek, S. Burlington. Bright, sunny unit in fabulous location 3/3/09 10:15:57 AM 2-BR condo at Indian Bright, hip, modern home2/24/09 in newFSBO-LThurber030409.indd close to shopping, schools & recreation.

12 min. to downtown, 5 min. to Rte. 89. north end - minutes walk to beach, Unit is located at far end of complex w/ minimal traffic. Excellent condition w/ school, dog park, community recent paint, carpeting & tile. Unit incl. 1.5-BA, ample closet space, fireplace living gardens. New electrical, light room, solarium kitchen, deck, one car garage. Indian Creek is a park like complex w/ fixtures, wood stove, windows and mature vegetation, pool & tennis courts. See indiancreekcondos.org for more info. more! 3-BR, 1.5-BA. Lake side of & photos. $224,900.

North Ave.! $289,000. 802-881-2348, 802-484-7213. houseinvermont@gmail.com

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2/24/09 9:39:13 AM 3-BR, 2.5-BA spacious colonial onFSBO-PCharow-021809.indd quiet dead-end street near Landry Park. 1800 sq.ft. Living room, dining room, family room w/ fireplace.

Central vac. Large fenced yard.

Partially finished basement. New roof in August 2008. A must see! $274,900.

Info: www.

10pinegroveterracewinooskivt.com, 802-310-2684.

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INTUITIVE GUIDANCE Send 1 handwritten question, + a stamped, self-addressed, business-size envelope & $10 to Answers, Box 68, Craftsbury, VT 05826. Prompt reply.

LEXUS PSYCHIC READER, Medium. 20 years exp. Asks no questions. (AAN CAN) Info: 877-2722700-884.

Counseling « office/commercial DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON Gateway Square Office Space, 3 room professional office suite, 550 sq.ft., 2nd floor, corner of Main & Battery St. $1000/mo. incl. utils.

Parking avail. at extra cost. Info: 802-862-0500.

MAIN STREET LANDING On Burlington’s waterfront has affordable office & retail space. Dynamic environment with progressive and forward-thinking businesses.

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Vacation Rentals IRELAND BEAUTIFUL GALWAY Bay cottage. 3-BR, avail. weekly June-September. $1500/week.

Info: 802-476-6176.

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Biz Opps CASH FOR GOLD We buy gold, silver, plat. Get cash now! Highest payouts - satisfaction guaranteed. (AAN CAN) Info: 877-5481550.

EARN $75-$200 HOUR Media makeup artist training. Ads, TV, film, fashion. One week class.

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ALCOHOL & DRUG COUNSELING Court Diversion and DUI mandated clients accepted. Office on Church St. Info: Kimberly Ransom, LADC, 802-782-5195.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY Use Expressive therapies to reach deeper levels of self understanding, find new solutions, receive support for change and growth.

Specializing in women’s issues, postpartum issues, divorce and grief counseling. Individuals and groups. Sliding scale. Info: 130 Church St., Burlington, Jennie Kristel, M.A. CPT, 802-860-6203.

SUCK? WORK W AN INSTRUCTOR Right yourself to a place of understanding and growth. Info: 802660-0699, www.kaarla.com.

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Health/ Wellness

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2/16/09 New neighborhood coming to 11:54:59 AM Essex! Eco-friendly, custom designed homes. Great school district, close to shopping, movie theatre and busline.

Less than 45 minutes to Smugglers, Bolton or Stowe. Contact Brad at 802-310-4637 (leave msg.) or bspriorvt@myfairpoint.net.

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Acupuncture Classical 5-Element In practice since 1990 Dianne G. Mallik, L.Ac.

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sports & therapeutic massage. In & out call appts. avail. Visit our website www.miraclesoftouch. com for detailed description of services. To schedule an appt. or inquire about fees or services contact Jim, jhart1159@comcast. net, 802-310-8291.

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Price includes prescription! Over 200 meds. $25 coupon meition offer: #71A31. (AAN CAN) Info: 888-661-4957, tripharmace.net.

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30+ yrs. experience. Also energy healing, chakra balancing, Reiki, rebirthing, other lives, classes & more. Info: Bernice Kelman, 802899-3542, kelman.b@juno.com.

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mac book pro for sale 1 yr. old MacBook Pro, 160GB HD, 2.2GHz dual core processor, 1GB memory, 15” widescreen, DVD player/burner, aluminum case. $900/OBO. Info: 802-371-8745.

Home/Garden

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“Honey-Do” For all of those jobs your honey can’t get to. Small or large, home or office, 24 hr. service. Call Scott Sasso today!

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802-363-6480

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Duval Insulators

397 Patchen Road, South Burlington

Samadhi Cushions & Store Meditation cushions & benches handmade in Barnet, Vermont since 1976. Our store is open Mon.-Sat. Info: 800-331-7751, www.samadhicushions.com.

Valley Painting

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Entertainment/ Tickets Antiques/ Collectibles

Drivers w/ late-model vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows w/ exotic dancers. Info: 802-658-1464.

Star Wars Mace Windu Maquette. Info: 802-338-5919.

Solid gold, Dancers Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, Mardi Gras parties or any time good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802-658-1464.

Appliances/ Tools/Parts 1 Yr Old Washer & Dryer for sale! Kenmore 600 series, excellent condition, washer = 3.5 cu. ft. Dryer = 7 cu.ft. capacity. Paid over $1000, asking $650. Info: Anne MacPherson, 802-540-0470.

Breville Juicer Great shape, only moderately used. $60/OBO, cash only. Needs to be picked up in Middlebury. Info: 802-9896821.

Solar Deep Cycle Battery MK, 98 ah, 1.5 yrs. old, never used.

Paid $260, asking $150. Info: batt12V@yahoo.com.

Organic Beef Humanely, organically raised, grass-fed, grass-finished beef avail. Fall 2009, limited quantity. Come visit us in the Spring at Long Last Farm, Malone, NY, 1 hr. from VT/NY border. Info: 518-483-2312.

Free Stuff FREE BOWFLEX Moving & need to give away a perfectly working bowflex. Works great & gives a solid workout. Call 802-598-9602.

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Vegetable Oil Have used vegetable oil that can be used for diesel fuel. Come and take it. Have a lot of it! Info: Global Markets, 802-863-9460.

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ODD JOBS YOU BETCHA 30 yrs. in the trades. General carpentry, fascia & trim, windows, doors, interior & exterior painting, gutter cleaning, pressure washing, fences, decks & lots more. Info: 802-373-2444.

Vermont Master Plumber Are you warm enough? Leaks, clogs or frozen pipes? Licensed & insured master plumber available for new construction, renovations, service & repairs. 10 years experience. Reduced labor rate for seniors. Info: Donovan Plumbing and Heating, 802-318-7253.

GET A NEW COMPUTER Brandname laptops & desktops. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments available. It’s yours now. (AAN CAN) Info: 800803-8819.

GET A NEW COMPUTER! Brand name laptops & desktops, bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments avail. Call now.

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Carrying case upgraded to 1G memory. $420. Info: Mike Tardiff, 802-775-1696.

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Studio at 11 Maple Street, Essex 20” TV Philips/Magnavox Smart Jct. or by appt. Info: 802-288Series w/ 20-inch screen. Works 1100, deborah@altogetherintegreat, I just don’t use it. Must sell riors.com. this week. Asking $35/OBO. Pick in S. Burlington. Info: 802Valley Snow Removal up 233-0289.

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Prof. Deep Tissue Massage Therapist w/ over 800 hours of training. Avail. Mon./Tues./ Thurs. 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. Office located at 270 College St. in Burlington. Call or send email for more info. Info: David J. Marcati Jr., 802-999-5323.

Open 24/7/365.

Is Your House Haunted? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.”

Contact: vermontspirits@gmail. com. Info: Matthew Borden, 802881-1171, bigbigdeal3@aol.com.

QUEEN PILLOWTOP BED SET 100% brand new mattress & box set, modq-localloans-bw-121008.indd still in plastic, with mfg.

1 warranty! $250. Info: 802-7645803.

Sofa & Chair for Sale! Ashley Furniture “Boulevard” full sleeper sofa & chair. Leather, brown, good condition, paid $1800 for both, asking $550 for sofa & $275 for chair. Info: Anne MacPherson, 802-540-0470.

Garage/Estate Sales Moving/Garage Sale Sat. & Sun. March 7-8 & 14-15. 89 Timberlake Drive. Info: 802-863-1735.

Furniture

Pets

King Size Mattress Set Incl. box spring, brand new, sealed w/ a factory warranty! $299. Info: 802-764-5803.

Bunny Rabbit Male bunny free to good home. He is great w/ kids, lives inside, is littler-box trained. Cage, water bottle, litter box, books & grooming supplies incl. Info: 802-865-8373.

NASA MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS New! Like seen on TV w/ full replacement warranty! “The real thing,” in plastic. Full, $349, queen $399, king $499. Info: 802846-7622.

New Orthopedic Mattress Full-sized set, incl. box spring.

All new, in plastic, w/ factory warranty. Need to sell, only $189.

Info: 802-846-7622.

Sports Equipment Infrared Sauna 1 person, new, unusual, very effective for removing toxins & weight loss. $400.

Info: batt12v@yahoo.com.

k75 Needs little, minor cosmetics. Metzelers. $3900/OBO. Info: Mike Tardiff, 802-775-1696.

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splitboard complete Made w/ a voile kit. $589. fltasabrd@ yahoo.com. Info: 802-775-1696, wchillmo@hotmail.com.

Trade 1987 cressida 140K, auto., cruise, power, needs a bit of work, Toyota reliability trades, my interests incl. iTouch, bikes, lights, vehicles. Info: Mike Tardiff, 802775-1696.

Want to Buy Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver.

Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966.

BUYING USED VINYL RECORDS We pay cash for LP albums, 45 RPM records, used CDs, stereo equipment (incl. vintage), musical instruments, original concert posters, music memorabilia. Convenient Montpelier drop-off location. Info: Riverwalk Records, Jacob Grossi, 802-223-3334, saiddone@hotmail.com, www.RiverwalkRecords.com.

Bands/ Musicians Seeking Latin Jazz Bassist Timbales and congas seek bassist to complete our rhythm section playing Latin Jazz classics & originals, keys & horns will follow. For studio & live performance. All skill levels welcome.

Info: 802-922-0580. vocalist/musician wanted Contemporary country/classic rock & roll band seeks seasoned male or female singer/musician.

Excellent upper range lead/harmony vocal talents required. Guitar/bass or fiddle player preferred.

Info: Jeff Vos, 802-324-0809, homecheckinc@verizon.net.

Wanted: Wagon/Lawn Tractor Pull wagon for lawn tractor w/ rubber wheels. Call Burlington, 802-324-3113.

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Photo Intro to Film or Digital: Mar. 11 - Apr. 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/130.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Learn basics including: f-stops, shutter speeds, film exposure, composition, lens choices and film types/sensitivity.

Bring an empty manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to the first class. Limit: 15.

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For Sale Vintage 71 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst cherry w/ dark back.

Incl. original hard shell case w/ blue interior. Check out online posting for more info. $2400/ OBO. Info: 802-253-9839.

Instruction Andy’s Mountain Music Affordable, accessible instruction in guitar, mandolin, banjo & more. Refs., results, convenient scheduling 7 days/week! Info: Andy Greene, 802-658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail.com, www.andysmoutainmusic.com.

Drum Lessons Have fun while achieving your goals as a drummer! Experienced, professional & active drummer seeks students of all ages, styles & abilities for private instruction. Study at your convenience in my Burlington studio, or in your own practice space. I offer a custom curriculum, flexible scheduling & the best rates around. Info: steve@ stevehadeka.com.

Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory & ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach.

All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802-864-7195, rickbelf@verizon. net, www.rickbelford.com.

Guitar School of Vermont “Not your usual music instruction.” Attention from multiple teachers, fundamentals, theory, technique, composition. Teaching Guitarist’s Growing Musicians.

802-655-5800, www.guitarschoolofvermont.com.

Music Lessons Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, songwriting. All ages, levels, styles. 20 yrs. exp. Friendly, individualized lessons in S. Burlington. Info: 802-864-7740, eromail13@gmail.com.

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burlington city arts Clay: Ceramic Design: Mar. 25 - May. 6, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members (clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag). Limit: 12. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Students will learn creative ceramic techniques on and off the wheel and will learn how to make a variety of aesthetic and functional objects. Projects may include garden planters, lanterns and fountains, vegetable garden plaques/markers, birdbaths and more! Come with ideas and enthusiasm to move into springtime with creative fun. Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice!

Prerequisite: Basic wheel or handbuilding skills.

Clay: Wheel-Throwing I: Apr. 6 - May. 18, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members (clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This seven-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Students will be working primarily on the potter√¢??s wheel learning basic throwing and forming techniques.

Students will also be guided through the various finishing techniques. Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice! Limit: 12.

Design: Graphic Design Basics: Apr. 1 - May. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn the basics of graphic design and explore design and composition theory, typography, layout, color principles and concept development. Learn how to create professional quality designs with your own aesthetic, both by hand and with Adobe Creative Suite software. Projects may include altering photographs, creating selfportraits and more! Limit: 6.

Drawing: Figure Drawing Basics: Apr. 2 - May. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Draw from a nude model and experiment with a variety of media including charcoal, oil pastels and pencils. Incorporate human anatomy and structure into your drawings and express your own personal viewpoint. The last half-hour of the class will include a class critique. Limit: 10.

Painting: Watercolor: Mar. 30 - May. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $136/122.40 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

Learn how to paint with watercolor, focusing on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper stretched on board or watercolor blocks and will gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade.

Class may move outdoors to paint on nice days! Limit: 12.

Photo: Mixed Level Darkroom: Apr. 1 - May. 20, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $250/$225 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Community Darkroom, 135 Church St., Burlington. Take your work to the next level! Guided sessions will help you improve your printing and film processing techniques.

A discussion of the technical and aesthetic aspects will be included.

Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside of class printing and processing. Limit: 6.

Print: Silkscreen I: Mar. 11 - Apr. 22, 7-9 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $190/170 BCA members. Location: Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Design and silkscreen posters, t-shirts, fine art prints and more! You will be exposed to a variety of techniques for creating prints using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery.

Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silkscreen exposure unit, and print images with water-based inks. Some materials included. Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice! Limit: 8.

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com.

Teacher bios are also available online.

aromatherapy Aromatherapy: Heal & Anoint: March 6-8. Friday, 6-10 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 9 a.m.

- 6 p.m. Cost: $400/workshop.

For financial assistance, contact www.ISHAfoundation.net.

Location: Highland Bodyworks, Rt. 7, Georgia. Info: AnneMarie McGuiness, 802-849-2457, www. ishaaromatherapy.com.

Explore the healing traditions of essential oils from ancient cultures, Biblical experiences, medieval healers, and modern day. Learn the science of aromatic oils and the vibrational frequencies. Also learn energetic healing techniques.

are considering professional training, One-Day Workshops are a great way to sample the practice. Manual is included.

OrthoBionomy Bowstring Effect: Apr. 4-5, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Cost: $265/No prerequisites. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington.

Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info@touchstonehealingarts.com, www.touchstonehealingarts.com.

Nationally acclaimed instructor Terri Lee brings awareness to imbalances in the back of fascial strains known as the bowstring. The bowstring originates at the base of the skull & travels down the front of the body.

Students will learn simple & gentle methods of facilitating release in this fascial system.

Spa Treatments & Hot Stones: Mar. 28-29, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: $425/16 CE hours. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info @ touchstonehealingar t s. com, www.touchstonehealingarts. com. Spa: Learn to perform wraps, scrubs & foot treatments with or without the availability of a shower. Hands-on workshop covers five treatments, theory, concepts, products & supplies. Hot Stones: Learn specifics for performing a 90-minute hot stone treatment. Tailor to your style and clients’ needs. A detailed manual is provided.

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Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $12/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

Salsa classes, nightclub-style. Oneon-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Beginning classes Tuesdays - Kids, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $47/6 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m., $53/6 weeks. Session begins 10/28. Advanced Beginner/Ensemble class meets weekly on Mondays at 5:30-6:50 p.m., $48/6 weeks, beginning 10/27. Gift certificates are available! For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

Postpartum Doula Training: Mar. 27-29. Cost: $350/Weekend workshop. Location: Postpartum Doula Training Workshop, Burlington. Info: Birth Arts international, Genevieve Henry, 802-3733236, www.birtharts.com. Learn how you can help mothers and their families with the adjustments that having a new baby brings. Class topics: The Role of the Doula; Breastfeeding; Newborn Basics; Special Circumstances; Building Your Practice; & much more. Cost includes training manual, teacher support on the assignments, certification fee. Contact Helena Wu, helena@ birtharts.com, 802-235-1512.

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Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21 - Feb. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6-hour class. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Kristin Borquist, 802-985-5888, www. kbestudio.com. Bring the gift of massage to family, friends, community. A delightful way to spend time together, this clothed massage/movement art benefits both practitioner and receiver. Learn simple, effective techniques to expand ease and flexibility. Individuals and pairs welcome. No experience required. Enjoy a day that will be relaxing and rejuvenating.

Co-Ed I & II Climbing Clinics: Co-Ed I: 6-8 p.m.; Co-Ed II: 7-9 p.m. Cost: $175/2-hour class + 6-visit punch card. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, 802-657-3872, www. petracliffs.com. Develop balance, flexibility and strength through climbing! Co-Ed I begins with the basics: Our professional instructors teach belaying, footwork, balance and movement to get you to the top! Co-Ed II is a perfect follow-up to Co-Ed I or for those with some experience. Learn advanced techniques and lead climbing.

bodywork Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6 CE hours. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info @ touchstonehealingar t s. com, www.touchstonehealingarts. com. No prerequisites: Open to everyone. Participants learn a series of techniques to be practiced as a full, flowing complete Thai session.

The instruction is hands on, participatory & easy to follow. If you

diate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance!

dance Ballroom Dance Classes: Location: First Step Dance offers Ballroom Dance classes in Burlington, Shelburne and St. Albans on Monday, Tuesday and Sunday respectively. Also holds Ballroom practice sessions in Burlington on Thursday., Ballroom Dance Social on the 2nd Friday of each month.

Info: 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and interme-

FREE Family to Family Class: 12-week class starting in March.

Space is limited.. Location: Burlington, Brattleboro and Rutland.

Info: NAMI-Vermont, 800-6396480, namivt@myfairpoint. net. Do you know someone who struggles with mental illness? The challenges of living with someone with depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia can be overwhelming.

Learn the facts about major mental illnesses, enhance your problemsolving skills, improve communication and receive emotional support from trained instructors and other participants.

fitness Girls Get’n Fit Boot Camp: Cost: $255/4-week program. Location: Williston Community Park, 195 Central School Dr., Williston.

Info: Girls Get’n Fit, LLC, Melissa Milam, 802-310-5009, smmilam@ gmavt.net, www.girlsgetnfit.com.

A result-driven boot camp for women that provides a fun and challenging change to any exercise routine. Achieve optimal fitness and maintain it! Be prepared to get up early, work hard and feel great for the rest of the day! Starts May 4, 200. Limited space, register now!

SharkBite Fitness Boot Camp:

Cost: $180/5 weeks, 10 classes, Mon & Thurs 5:30 a.m. or 5:15 p.m. Location: SharkBite Fitness Boot Camps, 16B Morse Dr., Essex Junction. Info: SharkBite LLP, 802-233-3391, info@sharkbitevt. com, www.sharkbitevt.com. Feeling fat, tired and out of shape?

Vermont’s most innovative and challenging fitness boot camp now has morning and afternoon camps!

Afternoon camps are currently running. Morning camp starts March 16. Get in shape and have a blast doing it. Visit website for early sign-up and other discounts.

gardening 2009 VERMONT FLOWER SHOW: Mar. 6 - Feb. 8. Location: Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction. Info: 802-660-3505.

Visit the Gardener’s Supply booth during the show at the Champlain Valley Exposition to learn about our great deals on preseason buys.

Soil 101: The Building Block: Mar. 14, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/ workshop. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Road, off Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-660-3505, retailinfo@gardeners.com. Soil 101: The Building Block for Any Garden. Back by popular demand! Good soil is the foundation for any successful garden. This seminar will present the basics about testing, preparing, and maintaining healthy soil for flowers and vegetables, indoors and out. Presenter: Mike Ather.

healing arts Women’s Healing Arts Class: Mar. 24 - May. 5, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $200/3hour class. Location: North End Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Jennie Kristel, 802860-6203, jenkristel@hotmail. com. Using creative modalities, participants will connect with our creativity, listen and understand our deeper intuitive unconscious selves, and gain awareness of life transitions we are experiencing. We will use art more as a process than for technique itself. No previous art experience is necessary. Jen Kristel is an expressive therapist in private practice.

herbs Honoring Herbal Tradition 2009: Cost: $850/1 Sat./month for 8 months, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 802-893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, www.horsetailherbs.org. Eight-month herbal apprenticeship program, April-November, held on a horse farm! Will cover: herbal therapies, nutritional support, diet, detox, body systems, medicine making, plant identification, tea tasting, wild food cooking, field trips, iridology, women’s, children’s, men’s & animal health.

Textbook & United Plant Saver membership included! VSAC grants avail.

MENOPAUSE What You Don’t Know: Mar. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $15/2-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, www.purpleshutter.com. MENOPAUSE: What Your Doctor & Mother Never Told You! Join Cathy Dodge, certified herbalist, as she provides you with information about what’s real &

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Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security.

Class meets for two terms, three Sundays each term, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spring term: 5/24, 6/14 & 7/12, 2009. Summer Term: 8/9, 9/20 & 10/4, 2009. Tuition $480 both terms or $240 each term. $50 nonrefundable deposit each term. VSAC non-degree grants avail. Wisdom of the Herbs 2009, 8 weekends: May 16-17, June 6-7, June 27-28, July 18-19, Aug. 1516, Sept. 12-13, Oct. 10-11, Nov. 7-8. Tuition $1750. Nonrefundable deposit $250. Discounted tuition for early registration paid in full one month before class begins. VSAC non-degree grants available. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, South Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, director, 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.

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Unique experiential programs embracing wild plants, holistic health and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

jewelry Jewelery classes: Location: Jane Frank at Pine Street Studios, 339 Pine St., Burlington. Info: jane frank jewellerydesign, Jane Frank, 802-999-3242, info@janefrank.de, www.janefrank.de. Learn how to make your own jewelery with a German trained goldsmith in a fully equipped studio in town.

You will learn basic techniques but also be able to specialize for certain projects you choose. Capacity: 5 students. Monday nights: 6-8 p.m., $135/month. Weekend: Sat. + Sun., 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., $260 (incl. lunch), ask for specific dates.

language French Classes, Colchester: Cost: $180/8-week sessions, 4 levels, $180/session. Location: Alliance Francaise, Lake Champlain Region French School, #304 Dupont Building, Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise, Lake Champlain Region, Directrice Micheline Tremblay, 802497-0420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com. Alliance Francaise, Lake Champlain Region (Colchester) offers French courses. 8 week sessions - 6:30-8 pm. Mondays, March 9-May 4: Advanced French Conversation. Tuesdays, March 10-May: Intermediate French-B. Wednesdays, March 11-May 6: Beginning French. Thursdays, March 12-May 7: Intermediate French-A. SPANISH IN WATERBURY CENTER: Cost: $155/10 1-hour classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Watebury Center.

Info: 802-659-4181, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishparavos. googlepages.com. 10-week spring session begins week of March 23.

Learn from a native speaker in a small class environment. Beginning to advanced Spanish classes: 1 hour per week. Available class times: Monday-Thursday, 5:30-6:30 and 6:50-7:50 p.m. Also: lessons for children, customized classes, and private tutoring scheduled at your convenience.

martial arts AIKIDO: Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 5th Dan - Vermont’s only fully certified (shidoin) Aikido teacher.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CTR: Introductory class. Location: One minute off I-89 at Exit 17, Colchester. Info: 802-8938893. Day and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie.

Classes for men, women and children. First class is free.

Vermont Aikido: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-8629785, vermontaikido.org. Practice the graceful martial art of Aikido in a safe, supportive environment.

Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself.

Visitors are always welcome in the dojo! Class hours are at our homepage.

massage Active Isolated Stretching: May 28-31, 2009, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., but 9-3 on Sunday. Cost: $545/4day seminar (Cost is $495 if registered by March 15). Location: Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Rd., Burlington. Info: Neuromuscular Therapy of Vermont, Stephen O’Dwyer, 802-658-1005, AISvermont@gmail.com, www.

PainReliefVermont.com.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn directly from internationally renowned kinesiotherapist Aaron Mattes, originator of Active Isolated Stretching. This revolutionary stretching technique is used by health practitioners worldwide to relieve pain, greatly improve range of motion, and enhance overall health and well-being.

meditation Introduction to Zen: Sat., Mar. 21, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cost: $55/all-day workshop, lunch incl.

Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, vermontzen.org/workshops.html.

The workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism.

Preregistration required. Call for more info, or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

also offer a Basics of Bed class, which runs in 4 week cycles, to give first time participants an affordable and thorough introduction to the Pilates apparatus.

Private sessions and personal training also available. Please visit our website for current specials, a complete schedule and to check out our flexible pricing options, including student rates for Pilates mat classes.. Location: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, 431 Pine St. Suite 101 (Maltex Building), Burlington.

Info: Core Studio, 802-862-8686, kathy @ corestudioburlington. com, www.corestudioburlington. com. Stretch, strengthen and build stamina in your deepest core muscles. Classes are led by lively, experienced instructors and will benefit athletes of all levels in a fun and instructive setting. Your first mat class is always free! Reference this ad and receive your 2nd class free, with the purchase of any package!

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Natural Bodies Pilates: Enjoy Pilates Mat and Reformer, Ballet Barre, and Integrative Movement classes, or combine all three in our Studio class. Private sessions, class cards and per-class rates available. Free group introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment.. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (5 minutes from Burlington’s Battery Park), Colchester. Info: Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Now you can relieve stress while developing a strong, flexible and articulate body in a professionally equipped studio.

Benefit from Lucille Dyer’s 20 years’ teaching expertise combining Pilates, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, and adult ballet. Experience movement that’s enlivening, effective and enjoyable, all within a calm and supportive environment.

Beg. & Adv. Photoshop: Photoshop 101: 5 weeks, Tuesdays from 6-8:30 p.m. starting March 10.

Advanced Photoshop: 6 weeks, Tuesdays 6-8:30 p.m. starting April 14. Classes can be taken individually or as an 11 week course.

Cost: $270/Photoshop 101. $300/ Avanced Photoshop. $495/Courses combined. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-2538358, kiersten@helenday.com, www.helenday.com. Are you looking for adventure at the computer?

These classes are designed for everyone from the casual Photoshop user to the graphic designer who would like to use this program for preparing files for print and web, advanced color correction, making your own digital art, and more.

To see Tom√¢??s graphic and web design, visit www.north100.com.

Computers provided or bring your own!

pilates ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. Location: Espire, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite 1, South Burlington. Info: 802-3102614, www.absolutepilatesvt. com. Tone, stretch, and strengthen with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in fun group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive, welcoming locale. In the works: floor mat to standing movement to challenge stamina, coordination and balance. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials.

ALL Wellness, LLC: Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington.

Info: 802-863-9900, www.pilatesspace.net. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, Physical Therapy, Yoga and Health Counseling services. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. First mat class is free! Also, please join us for a free introduction to the reformer, the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 - just call to sign up.

Core Studio Pilates: Get motivated in one of our Mat, Bed or unique Spinning Hybrid classes, offered seven days a week. Special classes include a Pre/Post-natal Pilates class, Pilates for Runners and Pilates Boot Camp. We

reiki Reiki II Class: Cost: $150. Location: HeartSong Reiki, Wallingford. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 802-746-8834, kelly@heartsongreiki.com, www. heartsongreiki.com. March 7, 9:30-4:30. Reiki II class being held in Wallingford. Learn the first three symbols of Reiki and their Mantras. Meditation, attunements, and plenty of practice time. Manual and certificate included. Classes and workshops also available in Animal Reiki and Karuna Reiki. Evenings and weekdays available.

USUI REIKI DAYLONG CLASSES: Cost: $175/Usui Reiki Level 1 (offered twice): Sat., March 7, and Sat., March 28, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Usui Reiki Level 2: Sat., April 18, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, MSW, Reiki Master, 802-8811866, chris@risingsunhealing. com, www.risingsunhealing.com.

USUI REIKI LEVEL ONE: Receive attunement, which allows you to give Reiki healing energy to yourself and others, with plenty of in-class practice time. $175. USUI REIKI LEVEL TWO: Usui Reiki 1 graduates: Receive level 2 attunement, three Reiki symbols. Learn distant healing, empower goals. $195. Member: Vermont Reiki Association.

scuba SCUBA Certification Class: Mar. 15 - Apr. 12, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Every 5 weeks on Sunday. Cost: $275/5 Sundays. Location: Waterfront Diving Center, 214 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Waterfront

Diving Center, Jonathan Eddy, 802-865-2771, info@waterfrontdiving.com, www.waterfrontdiving.com. SCUBA Certification Course - March 15 to April 12. Five Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Only $275. Add a new dimension to your tropical vacation this winter. Explore the underwater world! Call Waterfront Diving Center at 865-2771 for more info or to register.

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$35/30-minute consult. Location: Spirit Dancer Book Store, 122 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: HandTales, Janet Savage, 802660-8060, janet@handtales.com, www.handtales.com. Join Janet, Master Hand Analyst, Mar. 7 or Mar. 10 to discover the power and magic of hands. Stuck in career, relationship, creative path? Your hands offer the most complete picture of your life. No predictions. Discover your highest purpose and what is getting in the way. Preregister, call 660-8060.

3-D Paper Sculpture: Mar. 7, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $110/$99 members. Supplies included!.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, kiersten@helenday.com, www. helenday.com. Studio-Glow artists Riki and Robert will show you how to create a high shrinkage pulp that dries into a material likened to leather, that can be formed over removable molds to make unique sculptures. Also explore hands-on forming methods. No experience is required. To see Riki’s and Robert’s work visit www.www.rikimoss.com or www.studio-glow.com.

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Snowkiting Lessons: Daily lessons while ice is safe (generally Jan.-April). Cost: $95/3-hour beginner class ($85 for 2-hour advanced). Location: Lake Champlain - Sand Bar State Park, South Hero/Milton. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-5786120, rachael@stormboarding. com, www.stormboarding.com.

Start snowkiting during your first lesson. Use the same alpine, tele or snowboard as on the mountain. We provide experienced, professional, fun instruction and modern gear.

Great for skiers/riders ages 10 to no-limit, cruise or go big. Makes an excellent gift. Get gear discount after lesson. Lesson/gear gift certificates available.

Vtrim Weight Management: Mar. 24 - Sep. 1, 5:15 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $31/week. Location: Vtrim on UVM Campus, 322 So. Prospect St., Burlington. Info: The University of Vermont, 866956-8258, www.uvm.edu/vtrim.

The University of Vermont Weight Management Research Program is offering Vtrim, its research-based weight loss program, to the community. Learn how to modify your eating and exercise behaviors and succeed at weight management.

Sign up today! You can register for Vtrim classes today at uvm.edu/ vtrim.

spirit Basic Psychic Development: With Bernice Kelman. 10 Thursdays starting March 19th. Cost: $175 Location: Underhill. Space is limited,, reserve your space now! Info: Bernice Kelman, 802899-3542, kelman.b@juno.com.

Everyone is born with natural psychic abilities. There is nothing “supernatural” about these abilities.

All children are naturally psychic.

We were psychic when we were children. However, our culture teaches us to shut off these abilities. You can learn simple and easy ways to tap into your own hidden abilities, to “become as little children” and play as naturally as you did then, to use your inborn talents to make your life healthier, happier, more loving and more fun.

spirituality ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY: Mar. 14 - Apr. 4, 2-4 p.m., Weekly on Saturday. Cost: $60 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Discover the “hidden wisdom in the Holy Gospel” in this workshop that uses exercises and hands-on experience to reveal the deeper layers of meaning in both the Old and New Testament.

Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE , 100 Church Street, Burlington. Info: 802864-7902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Weight Loss & Chinese Medicine: Mar. 11 - Apr. 29, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $300/for 8 week series. Location: Eastern View Integrative Medicine, 185 Tilley Drive, S. Burlington. Info: The Dhatri Foundation, 802-862-2333, ada@burlingtontelecom.net, www.dhatrifoundation.org. Achieve your ideal weight in a healthy and balanced manner without heavy exercise or fad diets.

Carrying extra weight is not the problem in itself rather it is a sign of imbalance. These imbalances, some people can be born with, are easily correctable through the principles of Chinese Medicine.

yoga COPPER CRANE YOGA: INTEGRATED YOGA FLOW with Janet Chill. 4-week series, $50/series.

Tuesdays 5:30-7 p.m., 2/17-3/10.

Preregister. Cost: $14/drop-in, $60/5-class card, $110/10-class card, $200/20-class card. Location: Copper Crane Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: 802877-3663, coppercraneyoga.com.

Individual, group and custom yoga classes. Copper Crane provides wise and compassionate teaching to strengthen the body, uplift the heart and calm the mind. Be yourself here. Copper Crane is directed

by Carolyn Conner, RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner. Thai Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing sessions by appointment.

Life Purpose Hand Readings: 12:30-5:30 p.m., Sat., March 7, & Tues., March 10. Cost:

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floor of the Leunig’s building), Burlington. Info: 802-660-9718, www.yogavermont.com. Six-week Skiier and Rider class, six-week Intro to Ashtanga, Monthly Restorative, Adaptive Yoga, Yoga Instructor Training Course and more listed on website. Gift certificates available. For the latest, check out our blog: http://yogavermont.typepad. com.

« classes EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels, conveniently located in Burlington. Cost: $14/10 class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon., Wed., Fri. 4:30 p.m. classes are sliding scale $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-864-9642, www.evolutionvt.com. Our staff of all certified teachers are skilled with beginners as well as students wanting to refine their practice.

Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu, Iyengar and babies/kids classes available. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/ post-natal yoga. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog.

Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6-hour class. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Kristin Borquist, 802-985-5888, kristin@ kbestudio.com, www.kbestudio. com. Learn simple, effective techniques to expand ease and flexibility. This clothed massage/movement art benefits both practitioner and receiver. Individuals and pairs welcome. No experience is required.

Begin your professional training, or bring the gift of massage to family and friends. Enjoy a day that will be relaxing and rejuvenating.

The Studio at The Field House: Daily yoga & Pilates classes for all levels. Drop-ins welcome; no membership required. Cost: $15/ drop-in, $60/month (6 classes).

Unlimited yoga, $70 (incl. club membership). Location: 166 Athletic Drive, Shelburne. Info: 802985-4406, www.shelburneathleticclub.com. Vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, Ashtanga & Kripalu classes as well as reformer, mat & senior Pilates.

YOGA VERMONT: Daily drop-in classes, plenty of choices, open to all levels, two locations. Cost: $14/drop-in, $115/10 class card, $130/month pass. Location: Chace Mill on Winooski River, downtown at 113 Church St. (top

Yoga for Men by Steve: Beginner Level I, Mon. & Wed., 6-7:15 p.m. Intermediate Level II, Tues. & Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Open Class Level I & II welcome, Sat. 1011:30 a.m. Restorative yoga, Sat. 12-1 p.m. Privte sessions available by appointment.. Location: 6393 Route 7, North Ferrisburgh.

Visit our website www.miraclesoftouch.com for detailed description of class offerings. To schedule a class or inquire about fees or services contact Jim, jhart1159@comcast.net, 802-310-8291. Class registration limited to 6/class.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092

On February 19, 2009, Telephone Operating Company of Vermont LLC and Stonewater 356 WTH Funding LLC, filed application #4C0757-18C for a project generally described as: The installation of six sector antennas, each measuring approximately 47”H x 8”W x 4”D on two non-penetrating roof mounting frames, with each holding three antennas. Each structure will extend no more than ten feet above the rooftop and an electronics cabinet will be placed in the building equipment room. The Project is located on the roof of an existing four-story office building located at 356 Mountain View Drive in the Town of Colchester, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 30 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

Charlotte Planning Commission Notice of Public Hearing

No hearing will be held unless, on or before Friday, March 20, 2009, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Application material can be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office. Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to appeal any decision related to these applications.

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

by Friday, March 20, 2009.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners, other interested persons granted party status pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c). Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5).

Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 25th day of February, 2009.

By/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5662 E/ stephanie.monaghan@state. vt.us

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Pursuant to Title 24 Chapter 117 V.S.A. and the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, the Charlotte Planning Commission will meet on Thursday March 19, 2009 at the Town Hall to hear the following applications: 7:45 PM Final Plat Hearing of Carl & Dorothy Partelow and John & Lisa Hauenstein for a subdivision amendment to adjust property lines at 1576 and 1578 Ferry Road.

HOUSING Minimum Housing Amendments related to Lead Paint That Chapter 18, Housing, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 18-2, 18-25, 18-72 and adding 18-112 thereof to read as follows:

the receipt of anything of value and may include exchanges of money, goods, or services or the payment of rent to landlords or property managers.

Rental target housing means target housing offered for lease or rental under a rental agreement as defined in 9 V.S.A. § 4451. “Rental target housing” does not include a rented single room located within a dwelling in which the owner of the dwelling resides unless a child six years of age or younger resides in or is expected to reside in that dwelling.

Target housing means any dwelling constructed prior to 1978, except any 0-bedroom dwelling or any dwelling located in multiple-unit buildings or projects reserved for the exclusive use of the elderly or persons with disabilities, unless a child six years of age or younger resides in or is expected to reside in that dwelling.

“Target housing” does not include units in a hotel, motel, or other lodging, including condominiums that are rented for transient occupancy for 30 days or less.

Sec. 18-2. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations, shall have the meanings given herein: ********** Certified lead inspector means a person who has been licensed by the Vermont Department of Health to conduct lead inspections.

EMP shall mean essential maintenance practices required by section 1759 of title 17 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated.

Pre-Renovation Rule means the EPA 406b Rule, or any subsequent superseding rule that is in effect and applicable, that relates to renovations performed in pre-1978 housing which are performed for compensation.

For purposes of this definition, “renovation” means any modification of all or part of any existing structure in the housing that disturbs painted surfaces. “Renovation” includes: removal or modification of painted surfaces, components, or structures, surface preparation activities (i.e. sanding/ scraping/other activities that may create paint dust) or window replacement. “Compensation” is

Balance of Section as written.

Sec. 18-25. Orders.

Where any inspection of the property by a duly authorized city code official, fire inspector, law enforcement officer or health officer indicates that a violation of [the chapters listed below] exists, the inspecting officer or his delegate shall issue a written order notifying the party responsible of the existence of the violation and the measure required to correct or eliminate it as soon as possible.

Table Insert. As written.

Where there is a violation which materially affects health and safety, the enforcement officer will also notify the affected occupants of the rental units of the existence of said violation. At the discretion of the agency, the order may require the violations to be corrected within thirty (30) sixty (60) days or less unless otherwise noted in this code or require that the premises be vacated and secured until the dwelling or dwelling unit meets the standards of EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings, advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Any home seeker who feels her or she has encountered discrimination should contact the:

HUD Office of Fair Housing, 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309.

OR Vermont Human Rights Commission, 135 State St., Drawer 33, Montpelier, VT 05633-6301. 800416-2010 Fax: 802-828-2480

this chapter. The latter requirement shall be based on a finding that the premises are a serious danger to the health, welfare and safety of the occupants of or the general public. Orders may further direct: (1) through (5) As written.

Sec. 18-72. Floors, interior walls and ceilings.

The interior of a structure and its equipment shall be maintained structurally sound and in a sanitary condition so as not to pose a threat to the health and safety of the occupants and to protect the occupants from the environment. (a) As written. (b) As written. (c) Lead-based paint with a lead content of more than five-tenths (0.5) per cent shall not be applied to any interior or exterior surface of a dwelling or dwelling unit, including fences and outbuildings at these locations. For the purposes of this ordinance, lead-based paint means the same as “lead-based paint” in Title 18, chapter 38 of the Vermont Statutes.

Sec. 18-112. Paint.

(a) Painted surfaces generally.

(1) In rental target housing, all windows, walls, floors, doors, or other surfaces, interior or exterior, of a dwelling shall be free from deteriorated painted surfaces equal to or greater than 1 square foot in the aggregate.

“Deteriorated painted surfaces” are those surfaces which are peeling, chipping, chalking, cracking, damaged or similarly deteriorated. “Deteriorated paint” means the same as the term is defined in Title 18, chapter 38 of the Vermont Statutes.

(2) Owner(s) of rental target housing shall conduct a visual assessment of each unit annually and at tenant turnover for the presence of deteriorated painted surfaces, and will promptly and safely repair and/or stabilize all deteriorated surfaces, within 30 days, if more 1 square foot of interior room or 1 square foot of exterior wall surface is found or reported damaged. If exterior deteriorated paint was found or reported after November 1, the owner shall have until the following May 31 to repair and/stabilize area(s), provided that access to surfaces and components with lead hazards and areas directly below the deteriorated surfaces is clearly restricted. A record of visual assessments and repair and/or stabilization shall be kept on the affidavit compliance statement of performance of essential maintenance practices (EMPs) required by subsection (h).

(3) Owners shall keep the outdoor areas of rental target housing free from visible paint chips. (b)Lead-based paint.

The presence of lead-based paint in and around dwellings is a substantial health hazard which necessitates that special safety activities be used when working in and around lead-based paint.

All paint shall be presumed to be lead-based paint (LBP) when present on all dwellings constructed prior to January 1, 1978 unless the paint was found to be not lead-based by a Vermont certified lead testing inspector who has issued a report to the owner of their findings. Property owner(s) wishing to be exempt from all LBP compliance activities under this ordinance must submit a copy of

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View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. the certified inspectors’ written report showing the dwelling to be free of LBP to the Code Enforcement Office. (c)Lead safe work practices (1) Interior lead safe work practices. All activities to all rental target housing that disturb more than 1 square foot of painted interior surface(s) shall be done using Lead Safe Work Practices (LSWP) which take all reasonable precautions against the generation and spreading of lead dust, paint chips and debris. Interior LSWP include, but are not limited to, the following: (A) limiting access of work area(s) to workers only; (B) protecting occupant belongings by covering them with 6 mil plastic sheeting or removing them from the work area(s); (C)segregating work area(s) from clean area(s) by hanging plastic sheeting in doorways and/or window areas; (D)covering the floor(s) of work area(s) with adequate amounts (extended at least 5 ft from work area) of 6 mil plastic sheeting to capture all dust, paint chips and debris; (E)using vacuums with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters attached to scrapers; wetting surfaces with water prior to disturbing the surface(s) (do not dry scrape); (F)misting dust and debris with water prior to sweeping and cleaning (do not dry sweep); (G)cleaning shoes and clothing when leaving work area(s); (H)using personal protective equipment as needed, such as a HEPA respirator, gloves and coveralls.

Certification that interior lead safe work practices were used must be made by the person doing the work on a form provided by the Code Enforcement Office and kept on file with the owner of the property for one year from the completion of the activity.

(2)Exterior lead safe work practices. All activities to rental target housing that disturb more than 1 square foot of painted exterior surface(s) shall be done using LSWP which take all reasonable precautions against the generation and spreading of lead dust, paint chips and debris. Exterior LSWP include, but are not limited to the following: (A)limiting access of work area(s) to workers only; (B)attaching 6 mil plastic sheeting to dwelling and extend at least 10’ (if possible) or as far as to be adequate to capture all dust, paint chips and debris (plastic sheeting to be misted with water, rolled up and thrown away each night); (C)cover gardens, sand boxes and play areas with adequate amounts of 6 mil plastic sheeting; (D) closing all windows and doors on the side being scraped; (E) closing all windows and doors on neighboring properties within 10’ of work area(s); (F) using vacuums with HEPA filters attached to scrapers; (G) wetting surfaces with water prior to disturbing the surface(s) (do not dry scrape); (H) cleaning shoes and clothing when leaving work area(s); (I) using personal protective equipment as needed, such as a HEPA respirator, gloves and coveralls.

(J) Ground cover surrounding rental target housing that

have undergone disturbances of more than 1 sf on any exterior painted surface must be free from all visible paint chips, dust, or debris.

Certification that exterior lead safe work practices were used must be made by the person doing the work on a form provided by the Code Enforcement Office and kept on file with the owner of the property for one year from the completion of the activity.

(3) In non-rental target housing, no person shall disturb more than one square foot of lead-based paint by failing to use one of more of the following lead-safe work practices, unless specifically authorized by a permit issued by the Vermont Department of Health: (A) Limiting access to interior and exterior work areas.

(B) Enclosing interior work areas with plastic sheathing or other effective lead dust barrier.

(C) Using protective clothing.

(D) Misting painted surfaces before disturbing paint.

(E) Wetting paint debris before sweeping to limit dust creation.

(F) Any other measure required by the Vermont Department of Health.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 18-31 (a) and (b) of this ordinance, if a violation of this subsection is found, the inspector shall issue an order to cease and desist the prohibited practice, remove all visible paint chips and clean the affected area using the safe cleaning methods approved by the Vermont Department of Health. A failure to comply with such an order is a violation the penalty for which shall be a fine of up to $500. (d) Prohibited work practices.

(1) The following practices are not allowed for use on rental target housing: (A)dry scraping;\ (B)open flame burning; (C)uncontained power washing; (D)heat guns operated above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit; (E)uncontained sandblasting; (F)power sanding (unless fitted with a HEPA filter);and (G)chemical stripping using products containing methylene chloride.

Certification that prohibited work practices were not used must be made by the person doing the work on a form provided by the Code Enforcement Office and kept on file with the owner of the property.

(2) The following practices are not allowed to be used to remove lead-based paint on non-rental target housing: (A) Open flame burning or torching.

(B) Use of heat guns operated above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

(C) Dry scraping.

(D) Machine sanding or grinding.

(E) Uncontained hydro-blasting or high-pressure washing.

(F) Abrasive blasting or sandblasting without containment and high-efficiency particulate exhaust controls.

(G) Chemical stripping using methylene chloride products.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 18-31 (a) and (b) of this ordinance, if a violation of this subsection is found, the inspector shall issue an order to cease and desist the prohibited practice, remove all visible paint chips and

clean the affected area using the safe cleaning methods approved by the Vermont Department of Health. A failure to comply with such an order is a violation the penalty for which shall be a fine of up to $500. (e) Enforcement of lead safe work practices. In addition to all the other enforcement powers authorized by this chapter, inspectors shall have the authority to issue a stop work order if unsafe or prohibited work practices are being performed on target housing. (f) Lead safe cleaning practices.

All activities to all rental target housing that disturb more than 1 square foot of painted interior surface(s) shall be followed by a specialized cleaning that employs techniques effective in collecting lead dust, paint chips and debris.

These techniques shall include, but are not limited to; wet sweeping; using vacuums with HEPA filters; wet scrubbing and wiping of surfaces numerous times with disposable towels; using a multibucket system when mopping; and using lead specific or other effective detergents. Certification that lead safe cleaning practices were used must be made by the person doing the work on a form provided by the Code Enforcement Office and kept on file with the owner of the property for one year from the completion of the activity. (g) Installation of vinyl or metal inserts. Owner(s) of rental target housing units shall install vinyl or metal inserts in all window wells in accordance with the requirements of 18 VSA § 1759.

A window well is the portion of the exterior window sill between the interior window sill (or stool) and the frame of the storm window. If there is no storm window, the window well is the area that receives both the upper and lower window sashes when they are both lowered. (h) Owner’s responsibilities.

(1) Posting.

(A) Owner(s) of rental target housing shall post in a prominent location, a poster that meets the requirements of 18 VSA § 1759 which states the importance of occupants reporting deteriorated paint and the information of whom to contact.

(B) Owner(s) of target housing shall post in a prominent location a notice that informs abutting neighbors that exterior work which is subject to the provisions of section 18-112 is being done on their dwelling. The form of such notice will be provided by the Code Enforcement Office and use appropriate universal symbols to make the notice easily understandable.

(2)Educational pamphlet.

Owner(s) or owner(s) representative, of rental target housing shall provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pamphlet ‘Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home’, or any subsequent or superseding pamphlet, to tenants upon occupying the rental unit and annually thereafter.

(3) Certifications. All work on rental target housing performed to comply with the requirements of this section must be certified on a form provided by the Code Enforcement Office that the required work was performed using lead safe work practices and lead safe cleaning practices and that the work was done or super-

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vised by a person who has been certified by the state department of health as having successfully completed the essential maintenance practices course. Owner(s) shall obtain and keep such certifications and provide a copy to the Code Enforcement Office upon request.

(4) Specialized cleaning at tenant turnover. Owner(s) of rental target housing shall perform a specialized cleaning of all horizontal interior surfaces, except ceilings, at tenant turnover as set forth in subsection (f). Certification that specialized cleaning was done must be made by the person doing the work and kept on file with the owner of the property.

(5) Annual cleaning of common areas. Owner(s) of rental target housing shall annually perform a specialize cleaning of all horizontal interior surfaces, except ceilings, in the common areas of the rental property accessible to tenants.

(6) Vermont compliance statements. Owner(s) of pre-1978 rental housing units rental target housing shall comply with the compliance statement requirements of 18 VSA § 1759 (b) and shall provide a copy of the current statement to the Code Enforcement Office as proof of compliance upon request.

(7) Disclosure of known lead based paint activities. Owner(s) of rental target housing shall disclose to tenants, records of all known lead based paint activities. A “lead based paint activity” means an inspection conducted by a lead inspector and/or risk assessment conducted by a lead risk assessor and/or lead paint hazard reduction activity, as “inspection” is defined in 17 V.S.A. § 1751 (b) (10), “lead inspector” is defined in 17 V.S.A. § 1751 (b) (17), and “risk assessment” is defined in 17 V.S.A. § 1751 (b) (24), and as “lead paint hazard” is a “lead hazard”, as defined in 17 V.S.A. § 1751 (b) (16), created by “lead based paint” as that is defined in “17 V.S.A. § 1751 (b) (12). Owner(s) of rental target housing shall disclose all known lead based paint activities to perspective buyers. Buyers of the property shall keep records of all such known lead based paint activities. Owner(s) of pre-1978 rental properties undergoing activities that disturb more than 1 sf of painted surface(s) shall provide to the occupant(s) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pamphlet ‘Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home’, or subsequent or superceding pamphlet, and a description of the type of work that will take place, expected work dates and who to contact with questions about the work, at least 7 days prior to the commencement of work. (i) Contractor’s obligations. In addition to complying with the Pre-Renovation Rule or any subsequent superseding rule, using lead safe work practices, lead safe cleaning practices and not using prohibited work practices, contractors that disturb more than 1 sf of painted surface(s) in pre-1978 dwellings shall provide to the owner(s) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pamphlet ‘Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home’, or subsequent or superceding pamphlet, and a description of the type of work that will take place, expected work dates and who to contact with questions about the work, at least 7 days prior to the commencement of work, except in

emergency circumstances, in accordance with the Pre-Renovation Rule.

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DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS) Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) of Addison County and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will collaborate to sponsor a monthly ongoing support group for people who have lost someone by suicide. The group will meet the 1st Wed. of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. These free peer support groups will be held at Hospice Volunteer Services at the Marbleworks in Middlebury, and co-facilitated by professional representatives from HVS and AFSP, both suicide survivors. For more information and to register call HVS at 388-4111.

THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit self-help bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child will hold its regular meeting this Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. at the Hospice Volunteer Services Office located at the Marble Works (first building on the left as you enter across from the Addison Independent) in Middlebury. Bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents are encouraged to attend to meet others who have gone through a similar experience and for support. For more information, contact chapter leaders, Nancy Merolle at 388-6837, or Claire Groleau at 388-9603.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS (CODA) Announcing a new 12step (non-AA, non-NA) meeting.

Do you have trouble with relationship issues? Avoidance of feelings?

People pleasing? Needing to be needed? Join us Thursday at 5 pm. at the Turning Poing Center, corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington. 802-861-3150. For more information about codependence, see www.coda.org and click on “Am I Codependent?”

A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues.

Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. Corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington.

802-861-3150.

LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Wednesday, Feb. 18, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Howard Center, 1138 Pine St., Burlington. Facilitator: Coleen Lillie. Call 802-488-6663 for more details.

BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause.

NEED A HUG? New support group starting. Would you like to explore personal intimacy in a safe environment? This is accomplished by using touch for expressing and receiving tenderness. This is platonic and personal boundaries are respected. Day, time and location TBA. Jeff 310-4903 email iiyog@ aol.com.

COED SINGLES GROUP Ages 5065, forming for friendship and fun.

Chittenden County area. Activities to include weeknight/weekend dinner, bowling, hikes, snow shoeing, movies, etc. If interested email Myra at csbnc27609@aol.com.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step group. Women only.

Do you have problems with your relationships? Are you unable to leave an unhealthy romantic relationship? We can help. Call Valerie, 802-825-4643.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802-9858600.

MENOPAUSE SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN Meets Sundays, 4-6 p.m. & Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Pathways to Well Being, 168 Battery St., Burlington. Share knowledge, experience, stories & get support. This is a FREE support group that meets every other Sunday and Thursday. Call 862-8806 x5 for more info.

BERLIN WASHINGTON COUNTY PARENTS OF CHALLENING CHILDREN: Support group for adoptive parents of children presenting serious emotional and behavioral challenges. First Wednesday of each month: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Easter Seals Vermont, 641 Comstock Road, Berlin, Vermont. Info: Kristi Lenart, 802-223-4744.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at the Burlington Police Station on Battery St. in the new Community Room. NOTE: This group will not meet again until March. Please call or visit website for location information, www.vtcfids.org or call 1-800-296-1445 or 802-660-4817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport).

WOMEN’S RAPE CRISES CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence.

Please call 864-555 ext. 19 for information.

LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802734-0695.

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-446-3577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month.

GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided.

The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.

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« support groups MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers.

Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support.

Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2 p.m. The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh.

For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com.

SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (parking in back of church/please use back entrance).

Meetings are FREE and anonymous.

For more info please call 802-8632655.

RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com.

AL-ANON Family group 12-step.

Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

“WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.

Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing.

Join us any time! Childcare reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children.

Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Burlington evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Comfort Inn and Suites, corner of Williston Rd. and Dorset St. from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772.

FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives.

Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food?

Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators.

Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830.

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CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6-7:30 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 825-4643.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094.

LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

CENTRAL VERMONT SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS COPING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES will meet at the Easter Seals office in Berlin the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New members welcome. Facilitated by Kristi Lenart, BA. For more information, call Kristi at 802-223-4744.

SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions.

Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com.

MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345.

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Open to anyone who has lost a loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker to suicide. The group provides a safe place where survivors can share their experiences and support each other. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. at the The Comfort Inn & Suites, 5 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group.

There is no fee. Please contact Linda Livendale, 802-479-9450, ljlivendale@yahoo.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier.

Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345.

BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749.

EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554.

OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114.

AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961, for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996.

DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285.

DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278.

WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present.

WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community.

Info, 658-1996.

VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www.

VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351.

MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mentalhealth professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting.

Info, call Fred or Bennye, 6553317, or Patricia, 658-6904.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 8624516, or visit www.cvana.org. Held in Burlington.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Call Sandy, 863-5708.

SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309.

DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information?

Write addpartner@yahoo.com.

WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds.

DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612.

PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information.

Age/Sex/Fixed: 2-yr.-old SF Terrier/Lab mix SIZE/WEIGHT: Medium/large — 50 lbs.

EnErGy LEvEL: High rEASOn HErE: Owner went to Iraq KIDS: 10+ (no history w/ young children, jumps a lot) DOGS: OK (great with dogs who are OK with her growly play style) CATS: OK (w. dog-savvy cats — will chase if they run)

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1-877-543-9498 for more info.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-434-4423 or email: dragonheartvermont@ gmavt.net or go to: www.dragonheartvermont.org.

NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, Yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE.) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I’m starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/ family/social life. Let’s share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology. Marlene, 999-8005.

SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel.com.

MENTAL ILLNESSES: The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill holds support meetings for the families and friends of the mentally ill at Howard Center, corner of Flynn and Pine. Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. Park in Pine St. lot and walk down ramp.

862-6683 for info.

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Transgender, Queer and Questioning: Support groups for survivors of partner violence, sexual violence and bias/hate crimes. Free and confidential. SafeSpace, 863-0003 or 866-869-7341 (toll-free).

“HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support.

DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 7-8 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m., King Street Youth Center, 87 King St., Burlington. Info, call Cameron, 363-3747.

BURLINGTON MEN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3742. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions and drumming.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 and join a group in your area.

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SUMMAry: Not good with all dogs due to a growly play style; Very intense in play—jumps up; Pulls hard on leash. visit me at HSCC, 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday, from 1 to 6 pm, or Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. 862-0135.

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Nurse PractitioNer or PhysiciaN’s assistaNt Porter Medical Center, a community hospital located in Middlebury, VT is seeking a part-time mid-level provider to work in our 14,000-visit-per-year Emergency Department in collaboration with 24/7 physician coverage.

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Seasonal FT position (mid-April to Nov.) that requires living onsite, housing provided.

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Weekend Outreach cOOrdinatOr Spectrum Youth and Family Services is a community-based social service agency committed to working with Vermont youth and families to improve their lives through advocacy, direct service and a continuum of support in order to work toward a more just and compassionate community.

Spectrum is seeking a dynamic, motivated and dependable individual as their Weekend Outreach Coordinator, to cosupervise the Drop-In Center and Street Outreach programs. The Weekend Outreach Coordinator will work closely with the Drop-In Coordinator and Street Outreach Coordinators to provide services to homeless, runaway and at-risk youth ages 14-24. The Weekend Outreach Coordinator will be part of a team that provides direct service to youth, coordinates activities for youth, and supervises the Peer Outreach Workers who staff the two programs. The Weekend Outreach Coordinator will maintain strong communication with other departments of Spectrum and other community resources. The Weekend Outreach Coordinator is a full-time position, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., Friday - Monday, with 8 other flexible hours each week. Bachelor’s degree required, minimum two years experience working with adolescents preferred.

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Spectrum Youth & Family Services attn: Patrick deLeon 177 Pearl Street Burlington, Vt 05401 pdeleon@spectrumvt.org EOE

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The Burlington Housing Authority Finance & Administration Department seeks a part-time Staff Accountant to join our fastpaced office. The primary responsibility of this position is the financial administration of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and associated grants owned and managed by BHA, including submission of annual budgets and revisions, year-end financial reporting to HUD, monthly VMS submissions to REAC, and processing Housing Assistance Payments. This position will also be responsible for accounting duties related to various properties, including budgeting and financial reporting.

The successful candidate must be detail oriented, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and completeness, and must be able to work within time-sensitive parameters both independently and as a team. Strong computer skills are necessary as most of the financial data are compiled using Excel workbooks and webbased interfaces. Experience with the HUD submission process is preferable, but we will train the appropriate person. BS degree in accounting or business administration and two years of relevant experience, or Associate’s degree or equivalent in accounting and three years of relevant experience.

BHA offers an excellent benefit package and the salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send resume and cover letter to: Sheila Berry, CPA Director of Finance & Administration Burlington Housing Authority 65 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 or by email to: sberry@burlingtonhousing.org

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Staff Aquarist Blue Planet Reef Farms imports and grows species for the marine aquarium industry using responsible and environmentally sustainable techniques.

We are seeking an individual for a full-time Staff Aquarist position. He/she will provide direct care to animals including feeding, husbandry, maintenance of water quality and life-support systems, observing for signs of disease, preparing saltwater, acclimating newly arrived animals, preparing and packaging animals for shipment, and maintaining a clean/safe working environment.

A qualified candidate will possess a high school diploma and have experience caring for animals, preferably fish or marine species. Math skills, a basic understanding of chemistry and biology, and good observation skills are also desirable.

Blue Planet offers a competitive salary, excellent benefit package and a friendly working environment.

Submit resume with salary history to: Blue Planet Reef Farms 450 Weaver St, Ste 5 Winooski, VT 05404 Fax: 802-277-3344 Email: jobs@blueplanetreefs.com

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The Charlotte Children’s Center Our center is seeking a flexible, professional, enthusiastic, part-time teacher (approx. 25+ hours/week).

Interested candidates must have a willingness to grow and learn within the ECE field as part of a committed team. Candidates should be strong communicators and possess a passion to work alongside children and families. Requirements: prior experience and/or degree in Early Childhood Education.

Send resume and cover letter to ccc@gmavt.net.

Topcoat Finishes is now accepting resumes for professional painting positions. Successful candidates will be responsible, reliable, have a positive attitude, good communication skills, ability to follow directions and work as part of a

team. Attention to detail, absence of drama and the ability to perform physical work day in and day out are required. We offer competitive pay, very desirable year-round interior and exterior work opportunities, and a professional team environment.

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Must be enthusiastic about working in a busy chiropractic office in Essex Junction. Must be a dedicated, organized, efficient and dependable individual capable of performing massage, taking patient histories and giving precise instructions.

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Please send cover letter and resume via email to chittendenchiro@yahoo.com.

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Operator: Hands-on Operator ready to take full responsibility for opening.

Energetic: Self-starter looking for the next challenge and be rewarded for the team’s success.

Sales Savvy: Marketing, Sales and Promotions ability to ensure maximum revenues and customer satisfaction.

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Experience managing a successful restaurant required.

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Online Producer - Ad Operations The Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus seek an Online Producer - Ad Operations. In this critical position you will help grow revenue for our network of websites by managing online advertising operations, including classified feeds and online display inventory management, producing online display creative and working with sales representatives to optimize client advertising campaigns.

A background in data analysis and development of online display advertising along with an eye for perfection and technical acumen are required in this position. The successful candidate will have: • Prior experience working with data feeds, preferably involving one or more of the following: AdPay, Monster.com, Adicio • Prior experience with campaign management and ad-serving software or applications, preferably Google AdManager • Prior experience creating online display advertising, preferably including animated and rich media units • Proficiency with HTML, PhotoShop and Excel • Prior experience working with metrics software, preferably Omniture • Strong analytical skills • A creative approach to problem solving • Experience with Flash, php or rich media a definitive plus.

Job location is in either Rutland or Barre, Vermont. Occasional travel between locations is required.

Send cover letter and resume to: Russell.glitman@rutlandherald.com The Times Argus, Rutland Herald and New England Business Journals offer an excellent benefits package, competitive pay, 401(k), great people to work with, and a commitment to serve our customers and the community.

Lund Family Center, a multiservice nonprofit agency, is seeking motivated, flexible and dynamic individuals with a passion for working with children and families for the following full-time position with competitive salary and benefits: Childcare Teacher: Energetic and playful individual needed to join our childcare staff team. Childcare center is a play-based, accredited center and a successful candidate will share our commitment to helping children and families thrive. Knowledge of child development and experience working with young children required.

Please send cover letter and resume to: Jamie Tourangeau HR Manager PO Box 4009 Burlington, VT 05406-4009

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Experienced Sous Chef Full-time Must be able to work in a small, fast-paced environment.

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Basin Harbor Club is now accepting applications for our 123rd summer season!

Revision Eyewear is a recognized world leader in eye protection performance within the military and markets worldwide.

Letter, resume & references to nathan@helenday.com Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT Visit www.helenday.com for details.

Blue Paddle Bistro Pheobe R. Bright, Chef/Owner PO Box 524 South Hero, VT 05486

Jobs start in May and June and run through September 7th or October 18th.

Marketing research analyst

Helen Day Art Center designs and curates some of Vermont’s most innovative and dynamic exhibits.

Join us and lead these projects with your vision and intelligence.

We are seeking a professional Marketing Research Analyst to design and analyze qualitative and quantitative research plans for our products.

Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years experience within the market research industry, preferably with experience in a military personal gear environment, or consumer products research. Experience with web-based marketing research techniques, exceptional analytical skills, multi-task, self-starter with strong communications and project management skills are must.

Please respond via email to Careers@revisioneyewear.com with resume and salary requirements.

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Grocery Department Manager Healthy Living Natural Foods Market is searching for an exceptional candidate to manage our GROCERY DEPARTMENT, which includes packaged foods, dairy, frozen and bulk. This position requires an individual to see the BIG picture while remaining detail and task oriented. Past experience in a management role within a related field is essential.

Assistant Field Manager

Armistead Caregiver Services, a leader in nonmedical home care, is seeking an enthusiastic, hardworking, and reliable Assistant Field Manager. This position requires hands-on work with our elderly clients, caregivers, and other team members. Strong knowledge and experience is required in eldercare and other direct care environments. The ideal candidate will also have supervisory and customer service skills. Computer skills are also very important.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter, along with your salary requirements, to sara@armisteadinc.com, or fax to 802-288-9974.

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needed at Middlebury brewery for full-time, permanent position working with our packaging team. Monday-Thurs 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Must be mechanically inclined, a team player, able to lift 50 lbs and to work overtime when necessary. to Competitive place an ad? wages and benefits including medical and disability insurance, 401(k),Brown paid vacation.

Michelle Call Email marie@ottercreekbrewing.com, call 388-0727 ext 28, or stop by the brewery at 793 Exchange St. to pick up an application or drop off your resume.

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shared living Provider: Charlotte/Hinesburg area couple with no children at home, with a large, first-floor bedroom and bath sought for an independent, middle-aged woman with mild developmental disabilities. Pets a plus! Generous tax-free stipend & monthly room and board payment make this a wonderful opportunity to work part time or not at all. Contact Jamie Banghart at 802-488-6595.

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nurse, Chittenden CliniC The Chittenden Clinic, an outpatient opiate addiction treatment center in Burlington, has an opening for a part-time nurse. We are seeking a highly motivated, meticulous individual with a passion for working with patients suffering from addiction disorders and/or psychiatric illnesses Cook – lakeview Community Care home Looking for a full-time cook to work in a community care home with adults who have major mental illness. Must have cooking knowledge and a desire to work with this population. Patience and compassion are needed in this setting. 4 days per week, all daytime hours.

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