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I laughed out loud in delighted appreciation of the Rich Tarrant cover art [“The Rich Pitch,” February 22]. It was a relief to know that I’m not the only one completely puzzled by Tarrant’s notably phony and uninformative P.R. campaign. This is what we learn about the candidate from his TV spots, website and glossy brochures: The whole basketball/not-adime-in-his-pocket thing. Gag me. He’s rich. How nice for him. He’s pro-job, pro-quality education, pro-affordable health care and pro-sensible spending of tax dollars. Wow! Those are some very controversial positions — very bold of him to make them public. Tall, well coiffed, great teeth. Three cheers for his dentist. Er, was there a reason to vote for him in there? If there was, I missed it — and I think a lot of my fellow Vermonters are “missing it,” too. It’s really heartening to know that there are still people in this country who recognize hollow propaganda when they see it. P.S. There’s another mystery to explore — from Tarrant’s website regarding the old Chickenbone Rooster: “The Rooster . . . was going to spend its final days in the town dump. Rich, unable to let the beautiful bird fade into obscurity, bid for 3x6-Timberlane030806R 3/7/06

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and won the Rooster in a charity auction.” So, wait. He saved it from being thrown away? But, how was it going to the dump if it was in a charity auction? Was the town dump bidding on it? Molly Hodgdon SOUTH BURLINGTON

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And here I thought you were going to keep us all in suspense until just before the election this fall before announcing your choice in the Senate race. But after reading the hatchet job you performed on Rich Tarrant in the February 22 issue [“The Rich Pitch”], I guess the cat’s out of the bag! It appears Mr. Sanders won’t be needing campaign brochures to enlighten us about his candidacy. What with drumbeaters Freyne and Margolis on board, Seven Days will obviously be providing that support. I try to keep an open mind when it comes to politics, having voted for both George McGovern and Ronald Reagan. Talk to me about issues. Where do the candidates stand and, more importantly, how do they plan to accomplish their objectives once in office? As an observer of the Vermont political scene over the recent past, it seems to me Congressman Sanders is quite adept at playing the “I’m for the little I realize 3:35 guy” PM role, Pagewhich 1

plays well with many in your readership. What I haven’t seen is much in the way of concrete results. And it’s not like he’s new at this. Do us all a favor. At least try to show some objectivity. If you can’t intelligently define the issues in your paper, please refrain from viciously attacking the candidate(s). Tom Rogan FAYSTON

QUIET TALK-BACK

Andrew Leith and David Rome’s vituperative harangues [“Letters,” February 15] have two fatal flaws. First, my child did not cry. The mother of the child that did cry got up and left the theater, as I would have, had it been my child. If one child cries, are all children then to be purged from the theater? My children intermittently whispered only, and yet we were asked to vacate our seats. This begs the question of an appropriate level of noise for performances at the Flynn. If the Flynn sells tickets for children to attend performances, some whispering and some fidgeting should be allowed. Moreover, it was a matinee, not an evening performance. Midori also performed in the evening and I did not even think about bringing my children to that performance. Second, the house manager at the Flynn made breastfeeding an

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issue. She pointedly told me that several patrons had complained about my breastfeeding. She also stated that the Flynn had a policy in place regarding breastfeeding — there is no breastfeeding in the theater seats. Andrea Rogers, Flynn Executive Director, also wrote that “It is still our feeling that if a breastfeeding mother . . . disturbs other patrons, it is appropriate to ask the party to relocate to the rear of the theater so that others may enjoy a performance without interruption.”

The Flynn should place a sign at the ticket window that clearly sets forth that whispering, fidgeting, and/or breastfeeding may be considered a disturbance and anyone engaging in such activities could be asked to leave their seat. Lori Lewis BURLINGTON

GAMER ON BOARD

I am glad David Thomas [“Game On,” February 22] is enjoying his new-found interest

in board games, but why even use a computer and pay monthly fees for playing them? Board games in their original form are perfect for spending quality time with family and friends. I especially enjoy the interaction with the other players around the table. While some may find this view as kind of “old school,” many people in Europe and an increasing number here are sharing it. There is a wave of modern board games coming over the ocean that are fresher, fun-

nier and more interesting than ever. European game designers are demonstrating that board games can be simple enough to be played with children while still being fun and challenging for adults. Most people just do not know that there is something beyond “Monopoly,” “Clue” and “Game of Life.” They will be surprised when they take a look at multiple awardwinning games like “Ticket to Ride” and “Carcassonne” or million-sellers like “Settlers of Catan.” They provide perfect entertainment even without any computer! Oliver Dienz BURLINGTON

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I’m very pleased that you guys ran an angry letter regarding the insulting Transamerica review

[March 1]. I was going to write one myself, but I didn’t get around to it. But I guess I’ll put another one on the stack. I’m pretty new to Seven Days, but I thought it was a hippie magazine. That’s the impression I got. Hippies are supposed to be “with it” on these things. I expected your review of Transamerica to be uber-PC and fair. But, alas, unlike every mainstream review I read, yours was totally insulting. I know it wasn’t purposeful. The writer was just naive. But now he knows better! He has seen the wrath of uppity trannies. Well, at least two of us. If you guys ever review a trans-themed work again, please tell the writer to use the proper pronouns. Otherwise we will barrage you with melodramatic complaints. Again. We’re very uppity. Abbie Treis SOUTH BURLINGTON

KISONAK REPLIES “Uncle!” Or should I say “aunt?” Whichever, I have seen the error of my ways. The last thing I meant to offer was an “insulting” review of Transamerica. As you’ll recall, I rated both the film and its central performance very highly. Finding no guidance for the proper use of pronouns in the studio’s press kit, I looked to the character Bree who, early in the movie, makes this statement: “After my operation . . . I will be a woman.” I took that to mean that, prior to that point, the character was still to be considered a man. I regret any hurt feelings my choice of pronouns unintentionally may have caused.

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MONTPELIER — Ace McArleton was born female, but the 28-yearold Plainfield resident says he never felt comfortable as a woman. In his early twenties, the Chicago native began cutting his hair short, wearing men’s clothes, and referring to himself as “he.” Since that time, he says he’s experienced discrimination based on his gender identity, even here in Vermont. That’s why McArleton — a jack-of-all-trades who works as a bartender, builder and community mentor at Twinfield Union High School, and is part owner of Montpelier’s Black Sheep Books — showed up at the Statehouse last Tuesday wearing a crisp white shirt, navy blue tie and wool vest. He was one of several openly transgender Vermonters and their allies who came to support H. 865. The bill would add “gender identity and expression” to protected categories such as race, creed and sexual orientation in the state’s anti-discrimation statutes. Vermont’s GLBT groups have been rallying their members to ask legislators to support it. Seven other states, and 76 city and county organizations, have already passed similar measures, as has IBM, Vermont’s largest employer. The bill was first introduced four years ago as H. 478, by Representative Bill Lippert (DHinesburg). Last spring the Judiciary Committee took testimony on it. All of it was favorable. The committee held a short second hearing on the bill on February 23. New language was added in the process, so the committee gave the bill a new number — H. 865 — before passing it to the full House with an 8 to 1 vote. Just one legislator, David Sunderland (R-Rutland Town), raised questions during the House floor debate; approved by a voice vote on Wednesday, March 1, the bill now moves on to the Senate — and, ultimately, a Republican governor. Supporters like McArleton say it’s about time Vermont addressed this issue. He reports being harassed both on the street and on the job. He recalls one incident a few years back — one of his former employers began requiring workers to wear gender-specific uniforms. McArleton refused to wear the feminine attire. He says his boss initially gave him a hard time, then dismissed him. “It was really embarrassing,” he recalls. “It was painful. At the time, I didn’t have other work.” McArleton says his current coworkers are all very supportive. “They all ‘he’ me,” he says. But he notes that other transgender Vermonters aren’t so lucky. He claims that gender identity-based discrimination is a common occurrence. The most famous case in Vermont involved Hardwick police officer Anthony Barreto-Neto, who was fired from his job after town officials learned that he had been born a woman. Barreto-Neto sued and the town settled out of court in 2003. This sort of discrimination often goes unreported, since many transgender people are afraid to come forward, either for fear of retaliation, or because they don’t

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Blier confirms this is true. “If he had any interest [in testifying] between last spring and last week, all he had to do was let me know or let the legislative staff person know,” Lippert notes. Lippert adds that many House Republicans voted for the bill. “The leadership of the Republican caucus was not organizing against it,” he observes. Lippert suggests that support might have had something to do with the testimony of Republican Vi Luginbuhl, a former representative, whose granddaughter is now a grandson. Luginbuhl and her daughter, a doctor, wrote letters supporting the legislation. “That was powerful,” says Lippert. “It made an impact on people.” As for Blier’s charge that transgender people are mentally ill, Lippert, a gay man and former psychotherapist, notes that the DSM once pathologized homosexuality, too. Lippert says Senate leaders have told him the bill will move in the Senate during this session, and might land on the governor’s desk. He says a representative from the Governor’s office has indicated that Douglas doesn’t think the bill is necessary. Jason Gibbs, the Governor’s press secretary, did not return a phone call for this story. Transgender people are certainly more visible than they once were. Five-hundred fifty recently attended a weekend conference at the University of Vermont. The movie Transamerica, starring parttime Vermonter Felicity Huffman, brought the issue to this year’s Academy Awards. Ace McArleton would like to see that growing empathy extend to the daily lives of Vermonters. But for now, he’ll settle for legal protections. He says, “I see this bill as a starting point.” m

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test of the longevity of Dean’s DNC chairmanship. “No,” he replied quickly. “Actually, it’s not.” The Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees are on the point as far as November 2006 goes, noted Ho-Ho. Both the DCCC and the DSCC, said Dean, are running to regain majorities, “and I think that’s great and we hope to help them do that with the ground game. The real test,” said Dean, “is 2008, the presidential race and what’s going on on the ground now.” What’s going on on the ground now, indicated Ho-Ho, is some pretty good stuff. “We’ve won four consecutive races in Mississippi, special elections to the House. We’ve won the mayor’s race in Mobile, Alabama, which is one of the most conservative parts of a very conservative state. So we’re starting to win in places that Democrats couldn’t win before.” Ho-Ho wants to win back the House and/or Senate, but, “They have to have a unified message and they have to be talking from the same playbook everywhere in the country. That’s how former GOP House leader Newt Gingrich did it in 1994,” Dean noted, “and that’s how we’ll do it.” At least he’s got a role model, eh? Tarrant Update — Vermont’s strangest political candidate of 2006 continues to amaze. Republican Richard Tarrant, the gazillionaire who wants to replace Jeezum Jim Jeffords in the United States Senate, continues his policy of avoiding press conferences as he hides behind his lavish, Hollywood-produced TV commercials and free spaghetti dinners. To date, Richie Rich, the man who wants to be your “voice” in Washington, has been voiceless. Tarrant has held just one press conference, an event that was called off after 16 minutes because the candidate was woefully unprepared for questions on the issues of the day, even simple ones. Will someone tell Tarrant America is at war? Instead, all Vermonters get is the amazing, self-funded, televised ego trip that features the cofounder of IDX strolling across the court in his black leather jacket, remembering his St. Mike’s basketball glory days of the 1960s. Weird. Letters to the editor in Vermont newspapers indicate Tarrant’s efforts to feed Vermonters free spaghetti and clothe them in his soft-focus jockstrap glory aren’t working. You’d think someone running for a U.S. Senate seat would be eager to discuss his positions on the issues, and why those positions are best for Vermont. Think again. It’s been all duck-and-cover so far. Very strange. A couple weeks ago, Richie Rich gave WGOP, er, sorry, WCAX-TV an exclusive. Playing the role of shocked and violated political virgin, Tarrant called on the frontrunner, Rep. Bernie Sanders, to join him in support-

ing a ban on partisan TV ads paid for by out-of-state organizations — the so-called “527s.” “You know, politics is nasty, and I’m learning firsthand how nasty it can be,” said Richie the Rookie. “That’s OK, I signed up for this. I’m a big boy. But it suddenly dawned on me that perhaps Vermont could send a message to the rest of the country that it doesn’t always have to be nasty. It can be issues-based, and I thought maybe it would be a good thing to do here.” Tarrant’s Ch. 3 “exclusive” was perfectly timed to hit the airwaves before Mr. Sanders could fully respond. Nice teamwork, eh? But when Sanders’ response came the next day, Tarrant quickly turned tail and ran for cover. That’s because Ol’ Bernardo not only agreed to ban ads from 527s, he also proposed a campaign spending cap so generous, it would allow the richest man in Vermont to outspend him by $400,000! And Bernie went even further. In the current state of American politics, a well-known front-runner would normally keep an unknown challenger at arm’slength and avoid making joint appearances until the required TV debates at the end of the campaign. It’s pretty much standard operating procedure. But Bernie proposed to Mr. Megabucks that they debate mano-a-mano before public audiences in every county in the state of Vermont. That’s 14 SandersTarrant debates. We imagine all the halls would be packed with curious Vermont voters! And there’s more. Ol’ Bernardo also proposed that he and Richie Rich agree now on how to deal with the potential “negative” TV ads to come. “To help keep this race positive and focused on issues,” wrote Sanders, “any criticism of an opponent or other negative presentation on television would be delivered solely by the candidate speaking directly to the camera. On radio, it would be limited to the voice of the candidate.” Tarrant, the gazillionaire with two Florida mansions, would simply have to look into the camera lens and talk. No hired standin. He could even hold a basketball. Doesn’t sound too much to ask of a man who wants to be our U.S. Senator, does it? Predictably, the response from Tarrant HQ was negative. It came from the lips of the newly hired Kate O’Connor, former longtime head nurse for Gov. Howard Dean. Kate called Ol’ Bernardo’s counteroffer a “fourpoint incumbency protection plan.” Yikes! Would someone please tell Kate there is no incumbent in the race? Sen. Jim Jeffords is retiring. It’s an open seat. Bottom line: Rich Tarrant, the richest man in Vermont, has no desire to cap campaign spending, stop out-of-state special-interest attack ads, debate Bernie Sanders face-to-face, look the camera right in the eye, or take unrehearsed questions from reporters who don’t work for WCAX. Then why the hell is he running?

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ook, Iâ€™m going to say it one more time . . . Weâ€™re a nation of law. We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and they might provide comfort for you. George W. Bush, 2004 Oh, they do, George, they do. You can just imagine the comfort I felt over the weekend, when I learned that former U.S. Rep. Randy â€œDukeâ€? Cunningham (R-California) had been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks while serving in the hallowed halls of Congress. Itâ€™s

Itâ€™s always nice to see a Republican in the slammer, even if thereâ€™s room for so many more. always nice to see a Republican in the slammer, even if thereâ€™s room for so many more. According to The New York Times, Cunninghamâ€™s sentence is â€œthe longest ever handed down for a member or former member of Congress in a federal corruption case.â€? My â€œcomfortâ€? on hearing this was so great that I almost forgot about the war in Iraq, the pending war with Iran, the Dubai ports deal, Hurricane Katrina, the mounting deficit, the shrinking dollar, global warming, the Medicare drug scam, the torture of prisoners, the march of nuclear nonproliferation with our new best friend India, and the urgent question of which gender-bending films or performances might sweep the Oscars this year. (By the time you read this, of course, weâ€™ll know the answer to that last conundrum. But just as an aside â€” God forgive me! â€” that was one long gay-cowboy movie.) Anyhow, ex-Rep. Cunningham, 64, is, or was, a Vietnam war hero, â€œa Naval pilot ace and â€˜Top Gunâ€™ instructor,â€? as the Times describes him, â€œwho parlayed those experiences into a powerful political careerâ€? in the suburbs of San Diego and won eight successive terms in Congress. Along with houses, yachts, cars, â€œgifts,â€? â€œa Tiffany statue,â€? â€œBijar rugs,â€? â€œrare antiques,â€? â€œcandelabrasâ€? and at least $2.4 million for favors he rendered to â€œdefense contractors.â€? None of these â€œcontractors,â€? as far as I know, is currently facing prison, but, then, most of them arenâ€™t as loud and, uh, emotional as Cunningham is. â€œIn 1992,â€? says a report in our own Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, Cunningham â€œsuggested that liberal leaders in the House should be â€˜lined up and shot.â€™â€? Later he attacked Bill Clinton as â€œa traitor to his countryâ€? and railed about the presence of â€œhomosâ€? in the military. Even so, Cunningham hasnâ€™t stopped crying, blubbering and pleading for mercy since federal prosecutors caught his hand in the till last summer. Now, while invariably described as â€œdisgraced,â€? Cunningham is also fully

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repentant â€” are you surprised? â€” and never-endingly â€œtearfulâ€? in his public appearances. Really, Cunninghamâ€™s just a tearful kind of guy. He wept when he resigned from Congress last November. He wept on the 2x5-Flynn030106 2/23/06 11:35 AM Page 1 floor of the House three years earlier, when ?2@612;A6.9 36;.;06;4 Â‘ 0.99 :2 A<1.F' % %!# !#!# Â‘ 86:;24?<; 0<: urging his fellow lawbreakers â€” excuse me, lawmakers â€” to authorize Bushâ€™s invasion of Iraq. He probably weeps when he thinks 2x4(kim)-negrongray011106.indd 1 1/9/06 10:44:20 AM about General Pattonâ€™s automobiles, but it ainâ€™t goinâ€™ down in court. Coincident with and his prison time, Cunningham has been ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in present back taxes, penalties and interest, and a couple million more in â€œforfeitureâ€? of his MainStage ill-gotten lucre. That would make any congressman weep, nâ€™est-ce pas? Especially if heâ€™s the only one required to do it. â€œCherish the Ladies has â€œI rationalized decisions I knew were been a leading group in wrong,â€? Cunningham confessed on the Irish traditional world Saturday, â€œin a halting, cracking voice,â€? as for more than a decade usual: â€œNo man has ever been more sorry.â€? . . . it is simply impossible to imagine an audience He must have been flabbergasted when the that wouldnâ€™t enjoy what judge didnâ€™t buy it, because an apology they do.â€? (Boston Globe) seems to work for every other sorry specimen at that level of jurisprudence â€” and with so much money involved! A Saint Patrickâ€™s Day Celebration Hell, most arms merchants donâ€™t even have to say theyâ€™re sorry to get what they want. Witness the Pentagonâ€™s recent decision to reimburse Kellogg Brown & Root, Friday, March 17 at 8 pm a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheneyâ€™s bombs-and-bullets emporium, Media Support from Sponsored by Halliburton, for almost every penny itâ€™s The Law Firm of Collins and and McMahon & Harris, PLLC bilked from the American taxpayer â€” specifically, $250 million in â€œexcessive,â€? â€œquestionableâ€? and â€œunjustifiedâ€? charges Tickets, information, and related FlynnArts activities: incurred in the â€œreconstructionâ€? of Iraq. 2x6-Smuggs020806 2/7/06 1:13 PM 86-FLYNN Page 1 www.flynncenter.org or call today! Quoting again from The New York Times: 153 Main St., Burlington, VT 802.863.5966 v/relay â€œThe Army said in response to questions on Friday that questionable business practices by the subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, had in some cases driven up the companyâ€™s costs. But in the haste and peril ÂŽ of war, it had largely done as well as could be expected . . . Under the type of [no-bid] contract awarded to the company, â€˜the contractor is not required to perform perfectly to be entitled to reimbursement.â€™â€? Well, why didnâ€™t Cunningham think of that, instead of bawling his head off when VERMONTER DAYS he lost his candelabras? Canâ€™t you just hear Every Friday! it? â€œIâ€™m sorry, Your Honor. You can quesVermont residents receive tion my questionable practices all you 50% OFF lift tickets, group want, but in the haste and peril of war Iâ€™m lessons & equipment rentals! not required to perform perfectly, and, god damn it, those Bijar rugs are mine!â€? Failing that, Cunningham could have gone back to Vietnam, where â€œglam rock starâ€? Gary Glitter has just received a penal slap on the wrist for sexually molesting two Expanded Glades underage girls in Ho Chi Minh City. 3 Big Mountains Glitter is expected to be out of jail by Offering terrain for all ability levels Christmas. How? By paying $2000 apiece to the girlsâ€™ families, along with court costs 78 Trails â€˘ 2,610â€™ Vertical and â€œa further 10 million dongâ€? â€” unforOver 60% snowmaking coverage tunate term, but it amounts to about $850 Multiple Terrain Parks â€” in punitive damages. Including â€œThe Zoneâ€? â€œVietnamese regulation stipulates comand Smuggs pensation can reduce psychological damSuperpipe age,â€? said the judge in the Glitter case, sounding like a fortune cookie. Now thereâ€™s No Bull Snow Report a country that understands justice, not to Discounted lift ticket locations mention the haste and peril of war. Better Gift Certificates & so much more luck next time, Duke. m

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Can’t Help Myself Police in Brisbane, Australia, reported that while shoplifting suspect Lucella Bridget Gorman, 38, was at the city police station being fingerprinted and photographed, she stole the digital camera being used to take her picture when an officer turned his back. He noticed the camera was missing, found it in

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct South Korea’s national fencing team suspended one of its top foil fencers, Nam Hyun-hee, for two years because she got cheek implants. While having surgery to fix a problem with her eyelashes because they were bothering her vision, Nam decided to have additional work done to increase the amplitude of her cheeks and missed several days of practice because of a swollen face. The Korean Fencing Federation, which said that neither it nor her coaches approved the additional cosmetic procedure, declared that Nam should not have put her personal appearance ahead of her commitment to the team. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby Swedish researchers announced that they have developed the first female crash-test dummy. All current dummies

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Slightest Provocations Australian prosecutors charged a 30-year-old woman in Northam with stabbing her 35-year-old boyfriend in his head, back and legs with a pair of scissors “during an argument over him playing the same Elvis Presley song again and again,” on what would have been Elvis’s 71st birthday. The song was “Burning Love.”

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Things That Go Kaboom Norman Frey, 46, filled a balloon with welding gas to take to a Super Bowl party in Sheridan, Colo., to add to the merriment. While he and an unidentified woman were en route, the balloon rolled around in the backseat area of Frey’s car, apparently developing static electricity until it exploded. According to Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies, the blast blew out the windows, bent the doors outward and pushed up the roof about a foot. Frey and the woman reportedly suffered shrapnel wounds and busted eardrums. • Edward Reiner, 52, an amateur rocket builder in Oceanside, Calif., suffered minor injuries while packing powder into the casing of a rocket motor he was holding when the motor exploded. The blast blew his garage door off the hinges, singed his hair and cut his hands. Marveling that Reiner wasn’t seriously injured, fire Chief Peter Lawrence said that the victim told him, “God has a plan for me, and apparently it was not supposed to end tonight.” • Brazilian authorities reported that police officer Thiago Ribeiro Trindade, 23, was killed when his backpack accidentally exploded in a car parts store in Belo Horizonte. “He put the bag on the counter where there were hot tools used for soldering,” a police official told

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Sex Is Its Own Punishment Britons cause $612 million in damage a year by having energetic sex. According to a survey commissioned by the adultstore chain Ann Summers, a third of couples broke something during sex, and one in 10 made insurance claims after trashing lamps, vases and beds, even pulling down curtains. Forty-one percent have suffered carpet burns, a third pulled their backs and 12 percent twisted ankles or wrists. Other leading injuries are bruised bottoms and legs, grazed elbows, scratched backs, bumped heads and broken bones. “It’s fantastic that people are adventurous,” Ann Summers head Jacqueline Gold said, “but they need to be more careful.”

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nternet, blogosphere, podcasting — what’s next? No one knows better than a longtime editor how much the publishing world has changed in recent years. Tom Slayton has been at the helm of Vermont Life for more than two decades; though his official title is editor-in-chief, he also writes, and is part of a team that runs the state’s print cheerleader. Now approaching 65, Slayton says he plans to retire next year and focus on a book he’s already begun — about Thoreau’s New England. Before making that transition, however, he’ll be helping

ing new ones. First came the Vermont Art Guide, which Kadour compiled with his partner Christopher Byrne and published this winter under his own Kasini House umbrella. The guide inventories art venues around the state, and not just the official ones; the paperback also lists locales as obscure as the Corridor Art Gallery — a hallway in the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington. Kadour, 31, is a former AIDS activist who until 2004 was based in Shoreham. Though he now lives in Montréal — he has

The magazine that still makes hay out of Vermont’s down-home character and leafy landscape is looking for a hardnosed CEO type who can help sell “quaint” in the 21st century. the 60-year-old magazine make a significant change of its own: hiring its first publisher. In other words, someone to mind the moneymaking. Yep, the magazine that still makes hay out of Vermont’s downhome character and leafy landscape is looking for a hardnosed CEO type who can help sell “quaint” in the 21st century. In an employment ad published last Sunday, one line reveals a direction the quarterly mag needs to take: “. . . seeking new business opportunities through brand extensions, the Internet, creative marketing and other opportunities.” Slayton takes all this in stride, suggesting that the new boss should be someone “more in tune with that [changing] world, maybe someone more plugged into the Internet . . . Vermont Life’s problems, if there are any, are financial, not editorial,” he says. “We need to focus on that.” Though it’s overseen by the Department of Tourism and Marketing, the magazine receives no funding from the state; its budget of just over $2 million is supported by advertising and merchandise sales and, of course, subscriptions and newsstand purchases. According to vtlife.com, the current nationwide circulation is around 75,000. Not surprisingly, Slayton generally reflects what is beloved about Vermont, past and present, in his editorial selections for the magazine — as well as in his elegiac commentaries on Vermont Public Radio. He’s a nostalgic but clear-eyed journalist, one who has witnessed considerable social, economic and technological shifts in the Green Mountain State over his lifetime. Slayton seems happy with the addition of a publisher at Vermont Life — in fact, he says, he recommended the move himself. “I can’t really take credit for it, but I brought it up more than a year ago,” Slayton says. He figures it could take months to find the right person for the new job. Meanwhile, the current issue of Vermont Life kicks off a 60th-anniversary series, featuring a couple of vintage covers and the stories behind them. Its yin-yang title sums up the challenges of publishing — in print — today: “Change and Stability.” Ric Kasini Kadour has not only put himself on the Vermont art map, he’s creat-

dual citizenship — Kadour explains, “Chris and I have an interest in promoting art in Vermont and making Vermont an arts destination.” After creating the Art Guide, they “decided there was a niche we could fill.” The implication — though Kadour won’t say it on the record — is that existing efforts by arts organizations are just not enough. Last week, Kadour upped the ante by facilitating three events in Burlington: an Art Town Meeting at Club Metronome, which 70-some people attended; an informational session about First Friday, the city’s monthly art walk; and “Buzz,” a marketing workshop for artists. Clearly, Kadour has designs on the Queen City. But while the Art Town Meeting attracted the most attention, it was the second event that hinted at an ambitious Kadour project to launch in April: Art Map Burlington. No, it’s not the kind you fold up and stick in your glove compartment. As Kadour explains, the Art Map will be a monthly publication describing every venue in Burlington that shows artwork — that is, every venue willing to pay the modest annual listing rate of $60 (or a lesser monthly rate for artists who want to post an open-studio event). The booklet will also include reviews, which should be good news to those artists who crave more critical voices in the community. The point is to promote the city’s First Friday Art Walk, but also to help visitors locate art exhibits and events all month long throughout the city. Kadour believes the current First Friday, organized by Burlington City Arts, should be more inclusive and should happen year round. He takes his inspiration from Brattleboro’s wildly successful art walk, which “hordes of people” attend every month, Kadour says. But is he stepping on BCA’s toes? There’s been “quite a bit of talking,” he says, with BCA Executive Director Doreen Kraft and Firehouse Gallery curator Ruth Erickson. Kraft is officially diplomatic. “It was very exciting for us to see someone so motivated to play a partnership role to promote the arts in Burlington,” she says. Kadour’s enterprise is “an enhancement of what we’re already doing,” Kraft adds. “We’ll try it for a year, and see how it goes.” m

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lenty of people die and leave their heirs stocks and bonds, family heirlooms or cluttered houses, but rare are those who leave pure possibilities. Francis W. Nielsen left his wife, Florence Nielsen of Northfield, an unpublished novel. Born in 1920, Nielsen had been many things in his life, says his son, non-pop composer Erik Nielsen of Brookfield. Francis Nielsen acted for 10 years; he designed sets at CBS and worked his way up to the job of production head at the New York studio that produced “The Ed Sullivan Show.” He counseled youth and prison inmates, and practiced a form of audio-therapy he had developed himself. He worked on a farm. But “the common thread was his writing,” says his son. During Nielsen’s lifetime, Columbia University Press published two “fictionalized composite portraits” that he had based on his work with inmates and drug abusers, using a pseudonym to protect confidentiality. But the work Nielsen considered his finest, a semi-autobiographical novel called The Witness of St. Ansgar’s, which he completed in 1985, was still unpublished when he died in 1990. Florence Nielsen explains in an afterword that she “decided to have the novel published locally at [her] own expense.” The Witness became a three-generation project. Erik Nielsen edited the manuscript with his college-bound daughter Christina. Given that commercial publishers hadn’t previously shown interest in the book, the Nielsens considered a form of self-publication through local author Stephen Morris’ Public Press. But Erik Nielsen decided to try one last publisher — Steerforth Press in Hanover, which is “local and has a great reputation.”

“I called them,” he recalls, “and they said, ‘We usually don’t take unsolicited manuscripts, but send us a summary of the plot. A week later, they asked for the manuscript.” After a few more weeks, publisher Chip Fleischer called, telling the family, “My final criterion [for publication] is whether I can maintain my enthusiasm when doing a standard stump speech. I certainly can with this book.” The Witness has since received a warm reception, including a review in the Boston Globe. Kirkus Reviews called it “arguably . . . a minor classic.” At first glance, The Witness seems like a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world. Much of it takes place in the eponymous fictional Franciscan church, located in the “Dutchie” [from Deutsche,

who want to survive cling tight to their own. This is a place where each ethnic group — Germans, Irish, Italians — has its own Catholic church, and “intermarriage” among them is viewed as a scandal. To depart from the norm, like the baker’s daughter who befriends an Indian exchange student and — gasp! — goes on a diet, is to invite ostracism. And the gift of critical thought that Benigno gives Mario is a gift indeed. “In a lot of ways, he was Mario,” Erik Nielsen says of his father. “He grew up in this ethnic enclave, Hell’s Kitchen. He did serve as altar boy and assistant to a priest who was his mentor. A lot of the characters came out of him so easily because it was a world he really knew.” Like

The work Nielsen considered his finest, a semi-autobiographical novel that he completed in 1985, was still unpublished when he died in 1990. German immigrant] Stanley Street neighborhood of Manhattan’s West Side. The time is the 1930s, and the book is a series of episodes, each chapter potentially a fully formed short story. The unifying thread is the relationship between Friar Benigno, the venerable, plainspoken sacristan, and Mario, the local boy who spends his youth as the friar’s admiring protégé. The recent scandals in the Catholic Church may tempt the modern reader to consider something suspect into this bond — wrongly. Nielsen doesn’t ignore the possibility of pedophilic priests; one chapter handles it with considerable tact. But he makes a case for the idea that a celibate friar in sandals can be an excellent mentor for a teenage boy. It helps that Friar Benigno is no pale, cloistered idealist but someone fully engaged in life. Born in Passau, Bavaria, he speaks in a roughhewn, vigorous English about his own vocation and about St. Francis, founder of his order, who “never deny, he never turn away. He not worry about what the law says.” Like St. Francis, Benigno lives and works among poor parishioners whose sins are often the talk of the neighborhood — drunks, wife beaters, cops on the take. Gruff and down to earth, he teaches Mario how to deal with all the “nuts” a church attracts: “the whirlers, the genuflectors, the holy water sprinklers, the statue strokers, the cross kissers, the communion rail clutchers.” With no illusions about human nature, and considerable “broad-mindedness” when it comes to its variance and foibles, the friar still manages to exemplify steadfast faith in a higher, “eternal” standard of conduct. He stands in stark contrast to the Dutchies of Stanley Street, whom Nielsen portrays as firmly convinced that “they were always right!” — especially when something appears to prove them wrong. As The Witness moves out of the church to give us a broader view of the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it becomes clear that Nielsen’s vision, nostalgic as it may be, is no Rockwellian “good old days.” St. Ansgar’s, with its rituals and rococco altar and elaborate Christmas crêche, means more when we view it in the context of a tenement neighborhood where an indoor toilet is a luxury, and a kid who finishes high school is hailed as an extraordinary scholar. Death “roamed Stanley Street like a landlord,” as Nielsen memorably puts it, and people

Mario, Nielsen came from a family that was “not very artistically aware,” so he “pretty much schooled himself in classical literature,” says Erik Nielsen. The book is reverent in its attitude toward Catholicism and the Franciscans. Yet it doesn’t shirk from describing conflicts within the faith, as when Friar Guardianus alienates the entire congregation by hanging up a grotesque medieval Christ figure that’s nailed through the wrists, rather than the palms. (Ironically, the erudite friar is trying to recreate the golden age of mass worship, the 12th century . . . and the 20th-century masses aren’t buying it.) Erik Nielsen emphasizes that one doesn’t need to be Catholic to enjoy the book. “The greatest thing it has to give is love of humanity, with all the flaws and the warts,” he says, pretty much describing Friar Benigno’s approach to the world. In fact, Nielsen says, though he knows Mario embodies his father’s youth, reading the book makes him remember the man at a later stage: “I think of Friar Benigno as my father.” It’s a good month for bibliophiles. The Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association’s 13th Annual Spring Book Fair will fill the South Burlington Sheraton’s exhibition hall with quirky finds, old-time postcards and rare editions on Sunday, March 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kingdom Books, formerly of St. Johnsbury, is now offering new, used and rare poetry and mysteries in a spacious new home at 283 East Village Road, Waterford. Co-owner Beth Kanell has an exciting roster of author readings and events planned for the summer. Meanwhile, folks with an interest in the burgeoning eco-field of sustainable design may want to check out Nancy Jack Todd reading from her co-written book, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design, on the 15th at Barnes & Noble. Since 1969, Todd and her husband, UVM professor John Todd, have been experimenting with the potential of greenhouse mini-ecosystems to perform such functions as cleaning water and growing winter produce. Some of their more recent “eco-machines” have been installed at Sugarbush Ski Resort and in South Burlington. m

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• Live musical performances Nothing grinds the fun to a halt as fast as an overblown song-and-dance production. Next on the counter-indicated list are live vocal numbers. Is there any reason Best Song nominees need to be performed during the broadcast? I don’t think so. Best Screenplays don’t get read. These have got to go. (Though Stewart did manage to squeeze a good one out of the irony afforded by Three 6 Mafia’s win for the Hustle & Flow tune, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” “For those of you keeping score at home,” Stewart deadpanned, “that’s Martin Scorsese 0, Three 6 Mafia 1.”) • Animated characters handing out awards OK, it was funny the first time. But Chicken Little fishing an envelope out of his underpants? There was a sketch we could have lived without.

Kodak Moments pparently no one informed Jon Stewart that the Oscars are a big deal and, once tapped to host the broadcast, you’re supposed to take yourself very, very seriously. In the days leading up to the 78th annual Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, the “Daily Show” host took an untraditional tack: self-deprecation and bemusement. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement, he responded, “As a performer, I’m truly honored to be hosting the show. Although, as an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can’t help but be a little disappointed with the choice. It appears to be another sad attempt to smoke out Billy Crystal.” Reportedly both Crystal and Steve Martin turned down invitations before Stewart got the call. But being the Academy’s third choice didn’t seem to bruise Stewart’s ego. “I don’t think there was anyone out there who felt like, ‘Hey, do you think the Oscars went to Stewart first?’” he told an interviewer for Premiere, “‘or do you think they might have gone with a guy who’s knocked it out of the park nine straight times?’ I just feel like, Man, they’re going to let you host the Oscars. Holy shit. This is fun. I just feel sort of tickled.” If Stewart’s pre-Oscar patter was any indication, Sunday was destined to be one of the funniest, unstuffiest nights in the history of the ceremony. The first thing Stewart did was debunk the myth that the Academy Awards broadcast is watched by a billion people worldwide. On one of his last shows before leaving for Los Angeles, he observed, scoffing, “They’re asleep in Spain. It’s the middle of the night.

Letterman chuckling, “Ah, no, thanks. I want to spend more time with . . . Steve Martin’s kids,” as he cozied up to two small, white-haired children. Stewart even managed to maintain momentum through a monologue that concluded with the announcement that, this year, the show’s producers were going to try something different: Presenters would appear in order of how talented they are. Then there was an amusing bit in which Tom Hanks was knocked out by a poison dart shot from a clarinet — a warning to winners who might go on too long in their acceptance speeches. Too bad it was only a joke. What became painfully obvious as the night dragged on was that the show’s producers really didn’t intend to try much of anything new or different at all. The problem? The Academy Awards presentation is about 5 percent host and 95 percent show, and the extravaganza is still being produced by the same overthe-hill Hollywood types who’ve been at it for decades — old timers like Gil Cates. Attempts to inject new life into the lumbering proceedings are doomed to failure so long as the lion’s share of the production remains in the creative control of walking fossils. Of the three and half or so hours, at least two were deadly dull. Lethal. You could sense viewers lapsing into comas from coast to coast. Even the movie stars looked bored. And they’ve got open bars. It’s obvious which elements of the program should have been retired years ago:

China? They don’t care. It’s more like 40 million people in America and maybe 42 million worldwide.” The second thing: He revealed his secret plan for the gig — “I’m just going to make stuff up and read out names.” Additional strategic details were leaked to Zap2it’s Jay Bobbin: “I think that for me the key is going to be lack of preparation.” On February 27, Stewart accomplished the seemingly impossible. He made “Larry King Live” worth watching. No matter how many dumb, predictable questions King lobbed at him, Stewart had quick-witted comebacks. “Are you worried about it not going well?” King queried. “What’s the downside — they stop honoring film?” Stewart quipped. King: “Do you worry about what happened to David Letterman? He had a hard time.” Stewart: “And yet he seems to have bounced back. He seems to be doing well.” “It could be incredibly fun and funny,” Stewart said to Bobbin in summation, “or it could spark international incidents that cause the world to tumble into a death spiral.” Of course, as we saw this past Sunday on ABC, there was a third option. The show could overshadow one of the most entertaining personalities ever to take center stage and wind up pretty much as self-indulgent and longwinded as the 77 before it. Things started out promisingly enough. The brilliant opening sketch featured previous Oscar hosts who passed on the job this year. Billy Crystal and Chris Rock were seen poking their heads out of a Brokebackreminiscent pup tent. My favorite was a shot of David

• Awards we don’t care about Awards for Live Action Short, Animated Short, Makeup, Documentary Short Subject, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, for example, should be given out at that second-tier ceremony where statuettes for scientific achievement are presented. The names of winners should scroll as the show goes to a commercial. Life’s too short. • Pointless tribute montages These were taken to new, head-scratching extremes of pointlessness this year: scenes from movies about reallife people, movies in the tradition of film noir, movies about social issues and movie epics. Stewart spoke for all of us when he exclaimed, “I can’t wait till later when we see Hollywood’s tribute to montages. We’re out of clips. Send us your clips!” • The academy president’s message Need I say more? • Too much thankfulness The Academy should use its building-security personnel to enforce strict new laws that outline who winners can and cannot thank in their speeches. Family: check. Mentors and idols: check. Jesus: check. Business partners, agents, financiers, assorted studio executives and marketing personnel: police escort. You couldn’t turn on a talk or news show Monday morning without hearing the question, “How do you think Jon Stewart did?” The consensus was that he did OK. And, of course, that the night’s biggest upset was Crash as Best Picture. Assessments of Stewart’s performance missed the point, however. When you’re allotted just a few minutes of airtime to infuse hipness into three or four hours of oldschool TV, the odds are stacked against you. It’s hard out there for a host. m

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A Seducer’s head rises from a moat of human excrement, his eyes empty holes.

Hot Damn UVM’s Dante-inspired exhibit is one hell of an art show

f we’re all going to hell in a handbasket, which circle of damnation do you belong in? More specifically, if you had to choose a canto from Dante’s Inferno to read aloud, which would it be? And STORY what would that say about you, given MARGOT that each canto describes the punishHARRISON ment meted out to a particular type of sinner in a very medieval hell? Would IMAGE you pick the canto that depicted a sin MATTHEW you were prone to personally, or one THORSEN that punished a sin you despised? It was hard to avoid such speculations while watching some of Vermont’s public figures read their favorite cantos from the Inferno during a recent “town meeting poetry reading” at the Fletcher Free Library. The hellraising story hour was organized by University of Vermont English professor Major Jackson with the help of the library’s Barbara Shatara. It called attention to an exhibition of prints by Michael Mazur, now on view at UVM’s Fleming Museum, that illustrate U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s 1994 translation of Dante. Dante Alighieri finished the Inferno in 1314, while he was living in political exile from his home city of Florence. It’s the first part of a triptych, The Divine Comedy, that begins with the narrator lost in the “dark wood” of

midlife and seeking spiritual renewal. In the Inferno, classical bard Virgil guides this nameless narrator — usually referred to as “Dante” or “the pilgrim” — through the underworld. In Purgatorio, the pilgrim tours Purgatory; in Paradiso, he’s reunited with his muse, Beatrice, in heaven. “Through me you enter into eternal pain,” intoned former State Auditor Elizabeth Ready. She was reading the inscription on Dante’s gate to hell, better known for its line “Abandon hope all you who enter here.” Ready chose to read Canto III, which depicts the punishment of the “indecisive.” Unable to choose a side in life, they’re rejected by both heaven and hell, and have to tarry forever on the verge of the River Acheron, tormented by flies and hornets. Could this be the punishment for chronic nonvoters? While Ready, a poet herself, was mournful and dulcet-voiced, Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz was dramatic and lively in her presentation of Canto V. This one’s all about Concupiscence, better known as Lust. It’s a popular canto for obvious reasons, lust being a slightly more common sin than simony or barratry or betrayal of kin. Markowitz acted out the fear and pity of the pilgrim as he encounters

these souls, who are swept round in a whirlwind with “never ease from pain or hope of rest.” Next up was no less a personage than Governor Jim Douglas. Wearing a dark suit and red tie, he read smoothly, with a politician’s aplomb. This was Canto X, in which Dante stumbles onto a plain paved with the tombs of the Heretics, who are doomed to burn for eternity. But the canto is less about heresy than politics — specifically, about the power of partisanship to survive even damnation. One of the heretics Dante encounters is Farinata, a

Florentine aristocrat whose proud bearing shows “great scorn for hell.” He taunts Dante, whose family belonged to a faction opposing Farinata’s, with a prophecy of their defeat in the city’s interminable internecine squabbles. It’s an odd moment that literary critic Erich Auerbach saw as a small triumph for humanism in the deeply religious poem. Be that as it may, Douglas did justice to Farinata’s regal diction. Despite being brisk and compressed, Pinsky’s translation is not exactly easy reading. Vermont Public Radio jazz DJ George Thomas ran into trouble in

INFERNAL EVENTS • “The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur,” exhibition ongoing at the Fleming Museum until May 14. Info, 656-0750. • “Dante Translated in Word and Image,” lecture by UVM Associate Professor Tom Simone, Fleming Museum, March 8, 12:15 p.m. $5. • Artists’ Talk: Michael Mazur and Robert Pinsky discuss their collaboration on the Inferno. Fleming Museum, March 9, 12:30 p.m. $5. • Poetry Reading: Robert Pinsky reads from his translation of the Inferno. Redstone Recital Hall, UVM campus, March 9, 5 pm. • Gallery Talk: “The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur,” with curator Evelyn C. Hankins, Fleming Museum, April 2, 3 pm.

SEVEN DAYS | march 08-15, 2006 | feature 25A Canto XXV. When he reached the end of a particularly complex passage, wherein the poet politely asks the reader to “Excuse my pen if it has tangled things,” he stopped and murmured, “Boy.” Chuckles erupted around the room. The Inferno is “where politics meets literature,” says Major Jackson, explaining the rationale behind the town meeting poetry reading. Noting that Dante was writing about Florence, then something of republic, he adds that it “raises questions about the boundaries of faith-based initiatives in a democracy.” The Dante events here arose from Jackson’s friendship with artist Michael Mazur, whom he knew at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Dining at the home of Mazur and his wife, Jackson met Pinsky. As Mazur and Pinsky talked about their Dante collaboration, Jackson decided to ask Mazur to bring his traveling exhibit of 41 monoprints to Burlington. “Then the fundraising started,” he says. The Kalkin Family Exhibitions Endowment Fund, the UVM Provost’s Office, and the Buckham Fund through UVM’s English Department all chipped in. Jackson says he came late to reading the Inferno, appreciating it primarily as an artwork. Although his own upbringing was religious, his favorite canto is IV, Limbo, where Dante encounters the shades of the “virtuous pagans” who are denied a chance at heaven. Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Ovid, Virgil himself, and the rest of Dante’s classical mentors are all in the same boat here, along with unbaptized babies. Jackson likes T.S. Eliot’s view that the canto presents art as a “tradition that you can enter into.” Jackson isn’t alone in emphasizing the aesthetic over the ideological appeal of the Inferno. In a Slate article from 2003, Adam Kirsch suggested that we live in the “golden age of Dante translation,” with five new editions of the poet’s works appearing in that year alone. Still, most people who read Dante today read only the Inferno, which makes up the bulk of those new translations. Is our society just a bit more interested in sin than in redemption? Maybe. But the Inferno also has an enduring artistic power that breaks barriers that might prevent us from enjoying a poem that’s basically an explication of way pre-Vatican II Catholic doctrine. Kirsch thinks that, religious affiliations aside, the Inferno caters to the same “appetite for fantastic violence” that makes us go out and see blockbusters starring CGI monsters that eat people. Indeed, Canto XXV features an extended human-to-beast-and-back transformation sequence that resembles nothing so much as a morph. If Dante were alive today, he might be working for Pixar. Michael Mazur honors that transformation passage — and the obvious challenge it presents to an artist — by devoting three of his prints to it. Although the first versions of these illustrations appeared in Pinsky’s translation, the black-and-white etchings on display at the Fleming were completed between 1996 and 2000.

Their vision is stark and solemn. Unlike earlier illustrators, who depicted the underworld from a “third-person” standpoint with Dante and Virgil as figures in the image, Mazur has chosen to present it from the pilgrim’s perspective. Sometimes he depicts things that Dante’s narrator does not actually see but vividly imagines, such as Ulysses’ ship being swept off the edge of the world into a whirlpool. (Damned for deception, Homer’s hero is telling the story of his last voyage.) Many of Mazur’s images are iconic and indelible, like the cantos from which they come: A Seducer’s head rises from a moat of human excrement, his eyes empty holes. Gleeful, cartoon-ish demons impale a Swindler on a pitchfork. A diseased Falsifier munches on his fellow sinner. And Lucifer, hunkered down at the bottom of hell, chows down on the three greatest sinners of all time: Judas, Brutus and Cassius. The students in Jackson’s upper-level creative writing seminar at UVM haven’t all seen the exhibit, but they already have powerful impressions of what they’ve been reading. Junior Frieda Arenos says that the Inferno “makes you really believe in hell, it’s so realistic.” She points to the especially visceral canto in which the Falsifiers are presented as plague-ridden, scratching itches that can never be soothed. Mike Labita, another junior, suggests that this vivid imagery of hell didn’t really exist in religious literature before Dante — “He created

the contemporary view of hell. The fire-pits and so on — it all came from this one poem.” Needless to say, the vision was influential, and we find its echoes everywhere. Fantasy lit has certainly borrowed from Dante, just as he borrowed from Greek myths. Junior Elizabeth Bull, one of the readers at the town meeting, cites the example of a monster in Dante’s hell that reminds her of a similarly terrifying moment in Tolkien. Several of the students see political resonance in the Inferno — in which, as Continuing Education student Martha Lang points out, the lowest section of hell is reserved for those who commit fraud. As civic-minded Dante saw it, the abuse of the public trust is worse than lust — worse even than manslaughter. Even popes are consigned to his hell for their peddling of church offices. Bull says that the Inferno is about “sin and corruption in people of power. As long as there’s been power, there’s been corruption. It’s definitely relevant to what’s going on now.” Nearly 700 years later, on a continent Dante didn’t know existed, his work is still food for thought. Jackson calls the Inferno an “excellent piece of art” that’s “not a press release for Catholicism.” Still, he says, we can’t help applying Dante’s ethics to ourselves: “We’re all sensitive to where we might be in those circles. It’s a vehicle for us to think about our journey.” m

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Being Josh Bridgman A Burlington icon examines old wounds in a new play

very city has characters that distinguish it from any other place. They’re not always wealthy or influential; they’re just people everybody knows, if not by name, then by sight. Even if you don’t STORY like them, you take a certain pride in CATHY recognizing these people, because that RESMER knowledge identifies you as a local. In Burlington, Josh Bridgman qualiIMAGES fies as such a fixture. The 35-year-old MATTHEW playwright — whose impressive new THORSEN play Silent Invasion began its two-week run at 135 Pearl last Thursday — is one Silent Invasion, of the city’s more identifiable residents. 135 Pearl, Bridgman’s short, thick, black hair through is flecked with gray, and is often unruly March 12, enough to qualify him as disheveled. 8 p.m. $12. His large, dark-rimmed round glasses are sometimes smudged or askew. Rain or shine, summer or winter, he’s cloaked in a worn, black trench coat. “I like film noir stuff,” he explains. “The heroes or anti-heroes in that always wear trench coats.” Though he’s worked for the past decade as a parking garage attendant — currently for the city of Burlington — he doesn’t own a car. He walks everywhere, and spends a lot of time downtown. If you run into him at his usual watering holes — Uncommon Grounds, the O.P., Radio Bean — you’ll notice his distinctive cackle. Over beers one afternoon at Radio Bean, cable TV producer Bill Simmon bluntly but affectionately describes his friend’s laugh as “fucking loud.” Bridgman, sitting across from him, flashes one of his crooked smiles. “Someone said to me once it was like an old villain laugh,” he says in his gravelly voice. “It’s not villainous, but it has that old 1930s serial kind of sound.” It’s not just Bridgman’s presence that’s led to his notoriety; he’s also caused a few local controversies. There was the time he disrupted the Burlington City Arts “Bessie” awards by storming the stage in a bunny suit. And it’s hard to forget the naked public access show featuring his accidental on-air erection — “It maybe got a little half-mast, as it were,” recalls Simmons, who hosted the all-nude episode of “Studio 8 Uncensored.” “Some blood got engorged, but not in a full-on, in-your-face way.” Besides stirring up trouble, Bridgman has also collaborated with a long list of Burlington artists and musicians. He was in the original cast of Stephen Goldberg’s Curb Divers of Redemption, and David Symons’ adaptation of Wallace Shawn’s play Marie and Bruce. He wrote a song, “Broken Hand,” for Burlington band Construction Joe, and acted in and helped produce filmmaker Keith Spiegel’s film Juvenile Defenders. He’s a regular guest on the “Matty and Stech Variety Hour” on public access cable, and he’s contributed work to Rael OneCloud’s ’zine, AlphaBitch Afterbirth. “If I ever write anything for The New Yorker,” Bridgman comments, “I want AlphaBitch Afterbirth in my bio.” Now Bridgman has moved from a supporting role to the spotlight. Green Candle Theater Company’s production of Silent Invasion drew near sell-out crowds during all three performances on its opening weekend. The tight, beautifully acted multimedia event reveals that

JOSH BRIDGMAN Bridgman is not just some local eccentric; he’s a talented writer, too. Silent Invasion’s promotional materials don’t come right out and say it, but Bridgman’s play is semi-autobiographical. The pitch on the website — http://www.silentinvasionplay.com — says, “You are invited to enter the fractured psyche of a man struggling with a story from his past that demands to be realized.” That man is Bridgman. The play opens with a projection of the final scene from the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The screen is surrounded by red velvet drapes, recalling the glamorous movie houses of the mid-20th century. The Body Snatchers story is familiar — residents of a small town begin to believe their loved ones have been replaced by imposters, when in fact they’ve been taken over by aliens. Dr. Miles Bennel escapes to warn the authorities, but the police chief thinks he’s crazy. When an

ambulance driver confirms the aliens’ existence, the chief grasps that Bennel has been telling the truth. The final shot shows the palpable relief on the doctor’s sweaty face — finally, someone believes him. It’s one of the only hopeful moments in the whole play. When the clip ends, the three actors — Aaron Masi, Seth Gillim and Nathan Jarvis — are seated in front of the screen, as if they had watched the movie. They portray three voices within the same man, ostensibly Bridgman. They wear matching suits and ties. Masi is a doctor who believes his wife has been taken over by aliens. Jarvis is a young boy who suspects something’s wrong with his mother. Gillim is “the Trickster,” a malicious presence that needles the other two, exacerbating their paranoia. At first, the play revolves around the doctor’s fear of the aliens. “People seemed different,” Masi insists. “But it wasn’t how they looked, because they

looked the same. They more or less acted the way you expected, but you could tell something was wrong. Missing.” Masi concludes that this is because “the world is being taken over by a silent invasion of the aliens. You think you are the only one who knows about it.” During the second half of the 75minute play, the focus shifts from the doctor to the boy and his mother. Jarvis, as the boy, darts furtively around the stage, carrying a composition notebook. His eyes are wide, full of fear. When Jarvis first speaks, he interrupts Masi’s musings on the aliens to pose seemingly random questions: “Do you eat your Captain Crunch cereal with a burnt spoon?” and “Does breakfast cereal taste better with a burnt spoon?” It soon becomes clear that the spoons in his house are burnt because his mother is a heroin addict. “I prefer to be cryptic,” the playwright says, when asked if the piece is about him. Pressed, he admits that his

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own mother was a heroin addict. Growing up exposed to that lifestyle had a huge impact on him. “I’ve always had a distrust of surfaces,” he explains. “I’m not ‘a paranoid,’ but I like using paranoia artistically. I can peel away at it.” He calls Silent Invasion “an exorcism.” Bridgman doesn’t offer many details about his early life, but says Silent Invasion pretty much sums it up. His parents divorced when he was young. He and his mother, stepfather and sister relocated a lot and struggled financially. As a teenager, Bridgman moved in with his grandparents in Charlotte, and attended Champlain Valley Union High School, graduating in 1987. He moved to Boston briefly after graduation and took some classes

ly, really funny. It was totally bizarre, but he had everybody engaged because he was totally committed to what he was doing.” Cleary, who teaches jazz piano at UVM, says Bridgman taught him a lot about music, movies and Beat poetry. The two formed a performance art-inspired band called Citizen V., and gigged at venues such as 242 Main. “Josh had absolutely the best record and tape collection of anybody I went to school with,” recalls Cleary. One band Bridgman has always hated is Phish, says filmmaker Keith Spiegel. He recalls one night in late 1996 or 1997 when he and Bridgman lived together and were casting for the film Juvenile Defenders. Phish drummer Jon Fishman came over, and after everyone had had a number of drinks, Bridgman went into a rant

Josh’s play? Yeah, I’m excited about it. I want to do that.’” Girdich, too, has a personal connection to Bridgman. The two have long been friends, though she can’t remember exactly how they met. “It was probably just a late-night conversation at the O.P.,” she says. Girdich likes Bridgman in part because he’s “fearless,” she says. “He has his own style, his own way of communicating. I just find Josh an incredibly inspiring person. There’s no one I know like him. His heart just glows.” Bridgman credits Girdich for inspiring him to write the play. She says she thought writing about his childhood would be good for him. “I just thought it was time,” she says. “I really felt it would be healing for him and other people to really face this.”

at a community college before returning to Burlington in 1989. He’s lived here ever since, working at movie theaters and parking garages — occupations that leave him time for reading and writing. On any given day, you might find him in his booth flipping through a paperback sci-fi novel or a dense tome on European history. “If Kafka were around today,” Bridgman quips, “he would be working in a parking garage.” Bridgman’s occupation adds to his colorful bio, but Tom Cleary, who befriended Bridgman at CVU, says he had his own style even as a teenager, down to his trademark laugh. “He was an original thinker,” Cleary remembers, “and creative in ways that weren’t always very highly regarded in the educational system.” Cleary recalls, for example, a high school talent show at which Bridgman rolled a television set on the stage, and then talked to it and played a snare drum. “He had a very intense conversation with this TV,” Cleary says. “It was real-

about Phish and Phish fans. “Fishman, instead of getting upset, I think he thought it was kind of refreshing,” says Speigel. “He started yelling back in a joking kind of way. By the end of the night, they were like buddies. I could see they both had a mutual respect.” One band Bridgman does admire is the Talking Heads. He says they helped him deal with the paranoia and alienation he felt growing up. That and watching old movies. So it’s fitting that both movies and music enhance Silent Invasion. Several local musicians provide live accompaniment for the play, and occasional video footage produced by Burlington filmmakers Keith Spiegel and Bill Simmon supplements the onstage action. Director and Producer Tracey Girdich says Spiegel and Simmon, like most of the cast and crew, were drawn to the play because of their affection for Bridgman. “His personality is what really brought ‘the A-Team’ to it,” explains Girdich. “They said, ‘Oh, it’s

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Bridgman has caused a few local controversies — like the time he disrupted the Burlington “Bessie” awards by storming the stage in a bunny suit.

Girdich spent five years helping Bridgman edit the play, and suggested he turn what was originally a one-man show into a piece for three voices. She also staged the play and added the music. But Girdich didn’t touch Bridgman’s text. The mundane and profoundly horrifying details of the life of an addict’s child, the paralyzing paranoia — that’s all him. l.a. eyeworks It’s material he wields well. The has been creating original, invigorating pairing of the invasion and the eyeglasses since 1979. addiction narratives is chilling. The frames are immediately Girdich says that, when she saw the recognizable for their modern script, she was immediately struck strokes and bold color innovations, by Bridgman’s vision. “I thought, infiltrating the popular culture landscape. ‘This is brilliant,’” she says. “It taps PRESCRIPTION EYEWEAR • SUNGLASSES • ACCESSORIES into this really primal fear that we 107 Church Street Burlington 864.7146 all share, that our loved ones can become unrecognizable to us.” Girdich is now building a trav- 2x5-optical022206.indd 1 2/21/06 9:44:32 AM eling set, and plans to take Silent Invasion to the Fringe Festivals in New York, Toronto and Montréal. Bridgman is excited by the prospect. He muses about quitting the parking garage, moving to New York and becoming famous. MPDBM Ò PSHBOJD Ò OBUVSBM He doesn’t seem to grasp that he’s already something of a celebrity. Csvodi!Cjuft!%21 Standing around just before Tjmwfs!Epmmbs!Qbodblf-!Njoj!Gsfodi!Upbtu-!Njtuz!Lopmm!Uvslfz!Tbvtbhf!Cjtdvju!boe!Nvgßo the play’s dress rehearsal, Nathan Nfzfs Mfnpo boe Dibnqmbjo! Jarvis dubs Bridgman “a town Wbmmfz Dsfbn Difftf Qbodblft %9 icon.” Yep, agrees Gillim, everyxjui!Nfzfs!Mfnpo!Dvse!boe!Pshbojd!Nbqmf!Tzsvq body knows Bridgman. Tnplfe!Njtuz!Lopmm!Gbsnt! “That’s not true,” Bridgman Uvslfz Csfbtu Tboexjdi!%: protests. po!Hsjmmfe!Sfe!Ifo!Csfbe!xjui!Opsui!Dpvousz!Tnplfe!Cbdpo!boe!Ubzmps!Gbsn!Hpveb “It is true,” Gillim insists. He says that when he went to drop KPJO VT GPS! off a play poster at Blue Star Café XFFLFOE CSVODI; in Winooski, he told the woman TBUVSEBZ 22;41.4 Ò TVOEBZ 21;41.4 behind the counter he was in the play. She asked who wrote it. Hsfbu Cmppez Nbszt! “Josh Bridgman,” he said. The ' Njnptbt" woman didn’t know who he was talking about until he described the playwright — glasses, trench coat, parking garage, laugh. “Oh, that guy,” she said. “I 267!Divsdi!Tusffu!Nbslfuqmbdf!913.769.222:! xxx/tnplfkbdlt/dpn know him.” m

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Apart and Together Theater reviews: The Syringa Tree and Ring Around the Moon

he Syringa Tree is a searing essay on South Africa’s recent history of racial loathing and near self-immolation, as seen through the eyes of a young white girl. In the world playwright STORY Pamela Gien so painfully evokes, ELISABETH tension, distrust and discrimination CREAN mark relationships not only between whites and blacks but also between The Syringa whites of English and Afrikaaner Tree, directed by Sara Lampert descent and among blacks from difHoover, produced ferent tribes. Despite apartheid’s vigby Vermont orous effort to separate the races, Stage Company. their lives and their fates are inextriFlynnSpace, cably intertwined — occasionally in Burlington, joy, but more often in pain. March 8-12, The author drew on childhood Wednesday through memories to create the two dozen Saturday at characters who tell the story. The 7:30 p.m., play’s trick is that one actress portrays Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. all the roles. This could be seen as a gimmick, or as an excuse for a virtu$23-27.50. osic display of thespian firepower. But Ring Around as Dee Pelletier demonstrated in her the Moon, stunning performance at Vermont directed by Sarah E. Carleton, Stage, this lone-actor choice actually emphasizes how apartheid divided produced by UVM Department individuals within their own souls. of Theatre. Every person was forced to internalize Royall Tyler habits that accorded with state-manTheatre, dated prejudice. Everyday behavior Burlington, became a kind of twisted, schizoMarch 8-12, 7:30 p.m. $17/5. phrenic performance. The wrong word or act in front of the wrong person could result in arrest, or worse. A white child of English ancestry, Elizabeth Grace narrates much of the story at ages 6 and 9, beginning in 1963. In suburban Johannesburg, her father is the local doctor and her mother has become neurasthenic under the strain of institutionalized racism’s irrationality. Elizabeth’s closest relationship is with her black nanny Salamina, who must hide her own newborn baby Moliseng — with the Graces’ help — because the child does not have a government pass to live in a white area. Salamina and other black characters, such as Zephyr, the neighbors’ gardener, connect Elizabeth to her African homeland with earthy lore, tales of trickster spirits and powerful native songs. In contrast, Elizabeth’s Afrikaaner neighbors try to fill her with bias and fear. Even as a child, she must become a practiced liar because her “friend” next door might turn baby Moliseng into the police. In apartheid’s darkest days, bureaucratic quicksand swallowed up innocents, random violence hit even whites who were sympathetic to the black cause, and children died in the cause of freedom. All of these strokes of history touch Elizabeth’s life over the course of the play. Pelletier carried the weighty story with aplomb. Her barefooted, energetic performance encompassed the breadth of the people she portrayed: Salamina, as grounded as the African soil; the child Elizabeth, as free-spirited as her homemade tree swing. Distinctive mannerisms and speech patterns made each character easily distinguishable, without being phony or overdrawn. For example, Salamina spoke with a deep, languorous sonority; her laugh was guttural and breathy. Characters aged with subtle changes in vocabu-

lary or voice intonation. The set was as simple and beautiful as the open African veldt: a mottled reddish-brown floor, painted to resemble the iron-rich soil, with a low line of distant hills and a blue backdrop for the sky. Aside from the swing, the only other furnishings were a rough-hewn wood table and stool. On this spare canvas, lighting and sound effects were integral to conjuring changes in scene and mood, such as creating the unseen bonfire around which Zephyr, Salamina and other black workers gather, or raising the threat of a police raid with flashing sirens and barking dogs. Scenic and lighting designer Steve TenEyck meshed his work well with that of sound designer Tim Reppert to add depth to Pelletier’s storytelling. Loss as deep as Elizabeth’s is not assuaged by the passage of time. Zephyr, the gardener, crystallizes the play’s most potent message: “We carry the sin of our brother.” South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission created a powerful new model of how a nation begins stitching together raw wounds. An insightful work of art such as The Syringa Tree is another thread in the healing process.

Imagine a swanky 1930s party at a countryside château, with music and dancing and guests dressed to the nines. Twins — one evil, one good — played slickly by the same actor, are at the center of constantly shifting romantic machinations. Eyebrows arch and remarks get archer as the plot twists towards its implausible yet enchanted happy ending. Frothy, French and fun, Jean Anouilh’s Ring Around the Moon is a delectable winter treat. But don’t mistake it for mere farce; beneath the witty bon mots and upper-crust bonhomie lies a barbed meditation on social status, money and the fickle nature of the fragile human heart. The play itself is an ambitious undertaking, with three acts that run nearly three hours, a tricky dual-lead role and mountains of sophisticated dialogue. The University of Vermont Theatre Department’s current production tackled the challenge fearlessly, though with mixed results. The all-student cast earned an “E” for effort, and many performances rose to the demanding material. The plot is haute soap opera. The action takes place at the country home of Madame Desmortes, a sage

and snappy, wheelchair-bound dowager. Her bad-boy nephew Hugo schemes to break up the engagement of his lovelorn twin brother Frederic to bitchy heiress Diana Messerschmann. Hugo’s plan? Enlist a Parisian ingenue, the sweet-faced ballerina Isabelle, to distract Frederic. By becoming the belle of that night’s ball, Isabelle will make Frederic — and perhaps a few other men — fall in love with her. Subplots of betrayal, jealousy and mistaken identity proliferate. And of course nobody falls in love according to the grand design. Madame Desmortes has the greatest insight into the amorous woes of her younger guests. “Luckily, there are certain old women who have begun to see more clearly, just at the time, alas, when they’re having to take spectacles.” She recognizes that starry-eyed lovers often create idealized versions of their intended. “We’re terrible tailors. We cut the cloth, take no measurements, and when it doesn’t fit we cry for help.” Miraculously, by dawn the jagged edges of broken hearts have matched up where they belonged in the first place, and a happy end is had by all. The greatest joy of Ring Around

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the Moon is Anouilh’s singing, and sometimes stinging, use of language. The play is strewn with sparkling turns of phrase that beg to be savored. (In fact, English verse playwright Christopher Fry gained more acclaim for his translations of Anouilh’s work than for his own plays.) The greatest frustration with the UVM production was that some of the dialogue got swallowed up, either through hurried speech patterns, unfortunate blocking or too-loud background noise — music and twittering birds. The women seemed to project better than the men, but overall the lost language seemed less a performance issue than a result of poor overall staging decisions. Director Sarah E. Carleton’s most egregious error was with the characterization of Isabelle’s mother; Lizzie Chazen was presumably led to interpret her role not as a comic foil but as an odious buffoon. Chazen’s performance was over-the-top and immensely out of proportion to everyone else on stage. That meant her character occasionally brought the action to a dead halt for the sake of some cheap Three Stooges laughs, which the audience readily gave. But Anouilh’s social satire deserves more; it is biting because it blends subtle and sophisticated elements with sillier ones. Chazen’s excellent work in last fall’s Beyond Therapy suggested that she is capable of a more nuanced performance. Carleton was spot-on with the rest of her cast, though. Adam Yeager Gould settled nicely into the dual role of Hugo/Frederic. As the action progressed, his performance grew more commanding and the differences between the devilmay-care Hugo and the diffident Frederic grew clearer. Christopher Cohen proved that understatement could be the soul of comedy in his role as the Addams Family-esque butler, Joshua. He loomed with corpselike dignity, showing the proper servant’s strain not to be shocked by the wacky affairs of his wealthy superiors. Alli Shapiro reveled in her plum part as the snuff-sniffing Madame Desmortes. Although her voice sometimes grew shrill, she captured a key aspect of the aged grande dame: her wistful affection, behind all the wisecracks, for the love-struck youths. Catherine Durickas embodied Isabelle’s moon-faced, pinkcheeked innocence. Stage positioning made her dialogue difficult to hear at times, but her expressive face clearly broadcast her character’s emotional shifts. Secondary characters simply glowed. Jessica Hodge played

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The greatest joy of Ring Around the Moon is Anouilh’s singing, and sometimes stinging, use of language. the two-timing mistress Lady India with a delightfully frisky hauteur. Tim Fairley portrayed the morally dubious Romainville with a delicious mix of exasperation and befuddlement. As rich girl Diana Messerschmann, Stephanie Pollock personified a spoiled brat par excellence. As her frustrated father, Will Todisco rode a seesaw between indulgence and indignance. Scenic designer Jeff Modereger, assisted by a 21-person crew, transformed the Royall Tyler into the expansive terrace of a French country estate with a majestic, opulent set. A series of towering, Moroccan-inspired arches separated a raised porch — where multiple French doors led to the wood-paneled interior of the house — from the space where most of the action took place, a large marble patio. Cascades of greenery ringed this brilliantly faux-painted floor: flowerboxes, vases and urns overflowing with petunias, gladiolas, tulips and peonies. Luxurious details abounded, such as elements made to resemble Tiffany stained-glass windows and intricate Art Deco tiles. The lighting, designed by John B. Forbes, was flawless, perfectly matching and enhancing the mood of the action. At the beginning of scenes, for example, he created a subtle effect of moonlight filtered through tree branches.

Considering the mammoth size of the set, Forbes did a remarkable job balancing delicate details with large-scale concerns. Just as a movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers does, Ring Around the Moon’s glamorous costumes made you long 2x5_Petfood030106.indd 1 2/24/06 to be a wealthy swell from the 1930s. Costume designer Martin A. Thaler pulled out all the stops. The men were dashing in their white tie and tails, and the women preened like peacocks in University Mall • Dorset Street • South Burlington full plumage: fur, feathers, sequins, tiaras, boas and elbowlength satin gloves. Especially stunning was Isabelle’s glittering pale amethyst satin gown, with a long ruffle fluttering down the back that made her look like a butterfly. Such elaborate production requirements make Anouilh’s work difficult to stage in an era where minimalism is a budgetary choice as well as an artistic one, so the opportunity to experience Ring Around the Moon is a rare one. The play’s escapism, whimsy and fantasy all delight. But Anouilh’s tale resonates in other ways, too. Happiness requires compromise, and a willingness to bend to the quirks of fortune. This was certainly something the audience understood at the play’s premiere in 1947, when France was emerging from the shadow of war. In affairs of the heart, its truth remains timeless. m

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Lifting Off Muscling in on budding body builders

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MATTHEW THORSEN Vermont Bench Press & Strict Curl Championships, Burlington YMCA, March 12, noon. $5. Info, 865-2747.

hen you meet a guy who can bench 400 pounds and wears a sleeveless black “Metal Militia” T-shirt, it’s best not to confuse his name with that of a character from “Sesame Street.” I learn this lesson the hard way on a recent Friday evening at Burlington’s YMCA, where several strongmen, and one strongwoman, are training for this weekend’s Bench Press & Strict Curl Championships.

Having seen a poster for the event, I wanted to know what might be going down — or up —with Vermont’s power-lifting scene, and what spectators might get for their $5 entrance fee. So I’d exchanged a couple of emails with meet director Bret Kernoff, who said he trains with a couple of potential record-breakers at the Y on Friday nights. “Um, hi, I’m looking for . . . Bert,” I say as I enter the basementlevel weight room. A fan is blowing hot, sweat-scented air on a bunch of men clustered around the bench-press machine. One of them turns, looks me up and down and says, “Bert is a four-fingered Muppet who’s friends with Ernie.” Everyone laughs — except me. I’m too busy looking for the closest exit. But then Kernoff smiles, shakes my hand with a damp paw, and gives me the lay of this testosterone-laced land. “We’re playing with different weights — 315, 335, 355,” he says. “I’m done for today, but Mark’s going to keep at it.” Mark McEntee slides into position, lying face up on the bench with his feet planted on either side, and raises his meaty arms to grip the bar.

Kernoff and lifter Justin Bonilla spot McEntee by standing close by the bench to make sure the tire-sized barbell doesn’t crush him. Suddenly, machine-gun commands overpower the steady, slapping sound of a runner on the nearby treadmill. “Press!” barks Kernoff as McEntee lowers the weight toward his chest, his face turning ketchup-red. Rorscharch blotches of sweat spread across his armpits. “Press! Hold it! Rack it!” With a loud clatter, McEntee drops the bar back into the rack and climbs off the bench, holding his pumped-up arms out like two frozen legs of lamb. “He is going to own state records,” declares Kernoff, predicting McEntee’s performance at the upcoming meet. Like any powerlifting event, the Vermont State Championships will have various categories, divided by entrants’ body weight — from 97 pounds to 310-plus — and ages, from 11- and 12-year-olds to those pushing 80. The strict curl competition will follow the bench press and is similar, except lifters will be standing, raising a weighted bar toward their chins. The primary rules are simple: Whoever lifts the most wins a trophy, and gloating rights until the next showdown. “I don’t want to sound arrogant,” says Kernoff, 45, as he pulls a blue polo shirt over his Metal Militia tank top. “But in my age group, I don’t lose.” Kernoff’s choice of workout wear doesn’t refer to the thrash-metal band but to the national association of power-lifters co-founded by the

sport’s guru, Sebastian Burns of Glens Falls, N.Y. His group is tied to a more complicated set of secondary rules that will be in place for the March 12 meet. “Open & Drug Tested” does not mean, as I’d thought when I saw the poster, that the event is open to the public and that everyone will be drug-tested. Rather, it means that super-jacked steroid users can compete in the open division, while anyone else who wants to prove that they powerlift “clean” might be subject to a urine analysis.

Metal Militia shirt doesn’t mean he supports its training techniques. “Everybody that’s with me is drugfree,” he says. “I’m dead-set against steroids to set an example to these kids.” Kernoff has given a shot in the arm to Vermont’s pumped-up population since becoming the state chair for the American Powerlifting Association a year ago. Having taught spinning at the Y for several years, he naturally gravitated back there to recruit a few contenders for the

I don’t want to sound arrogant, but in my age group, I don’t lose. BRET KERNOFF

The Y crew tells me that the Metal Militia is notorious for blatantly using steroids in order to become the fiercest competitors on the powerlifting circuit. “Here is some other shit I hear when I am working out with people,” Burns writes on the group’s website. “‘My head is not in it tonight.’ Well, your body is here so you might as well get your fucking head in it.” Kernoff, who works full-time as a special educator at the Baird School in Burlington, says that wearing a

upcoming championships. (Kernoff has also arranged for all event proceeds to be funneled into the Y’s children’s programs.) “We’re trying to bring more people into the sport,” he says. “There are so many people who lift but have never even known that there’s such a thing as competing.” Powerlifting has helped McEntee, 37, restore much of the strength, and self-esteem, he lost after a 1991 ski accident left him partially paralyzed. Doctors told him at the time he’d never lift more than 40 pounds. Now

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psychology at Johnson State. Along the way, Sloane discovered the Burlington Men’s Group, where he met other males like himself questioning the cultural expectations of manhood and masculinity. Among them, Sloane found a group of men and women who launched the Lake Champlain Men’s Resource Center (MRC), a Burlington-based nonprofit group dedicated to creating “a new masculine paradigm, free from oppression and violence.” Though the nascent group doesn’t have a physical home yet, it has an ambitious goal: to address what Sloane called “America’s crisis in masculine character and leadership.” Through community outreach and educational programs, the MRC hopes to offer boys and men healthy male role models that are pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, anti-racist and nonviolent. The group plans to work with other community groups in the socialjustice movement to redefine the popular notions of what it means to be a “real man.” The organization’s first public outreach is a screening of the film Tough Guise, a documentary that explores how pop-cultural images of manhood fuel a pathological and often deadly cycle of violence, both at the individual and global level. Seven Days sat down with Sloane last week to discuss how and why the group was formed.

SEVEN DAYS | march 08-15, 2006 | feature 33A SD: Why did you get involved in the Men’s Resource Center? CS: We can’t just stand idly by anymore. The group of men who created the Lake Champlain Men’s Resource Center have all been doing this work on themselves, and you reach a point where you have a pretty good life, but it’s still not enough. You can’t sit back and say, “I’ve got mine and fuck everybody else.” When you realize the power of these men’s circles, the transformation that can happen, you imagine how many other lives you can touch. Now, it’s about creating the infrastructure to put those ideas out there. It’s also important to work with men and women so that women understand that it’s not just men. We’re in this together. SD: What will the center do? CS: The piece I see as really important is working with adolescent boys, going into the schools to present this material to them over and over. Because think of how much saturation happens to these kids with the mainstream media. We have to try to overcome it. You can’t compete, but you can drop a seed in their heads. What happens to that seed is out of your hands. SD: You’ve talked about a connection between the epidemic of school shootings and the corruption scandals that plague corporate America. What is it? CS: The way I see it, it’s the same illness, different symptoms. It’s boys growing up not knowing where they fit into the fabric of society. On one hand, you see the boys who don’t fit in, the outcasts in school who can’t do nothing right, so they get angry and say, “Fuck it! I’m gonna get a gun and take some people out!” On the other hand, you’ve got the kids in school who know the right people, mom and dad are better off and higher up in society, they make all the right connections and go to all the right schools. They get the right degrees and meet the right people and they learn how to play the game. But just because they look good on the outside, they still don’t know what the hell they’re doing. There’s a severe epidemic of depression among CEOs of these companies because, inside, they’re really empty. SD: How are the schools addressing the problems of these adolescent males? CS: What I’ve noticed is the response to all these school shootings is [to say], ‘We need to have guards and metal detectors and cameras.’ That’s our response, which isn’t adequate. It’s not about keeping the guns out of school. It’s about getting to the point where kids don’t even think about bringing guns to school. Part of what we want to do is go into schools and put on educational seminars, taking a film like Tough Guise and show it to a bunch of adolescent boys and say, “OK. Now what? Let’s have a dialogue about this.’ We’re just being sold this stuff by the mainstream

media and we keep buying it. And nobody dares question it. SD: One institution in society that provides many of the values and structures you’re trying to promote — selfworth, honor, tradition, and respect for the wisdom of elders — is the military. Why is that problematic? CS: The military pretty much wants you to fall in line, do what you’re told, and not question authority. Because it’s been around for so long, there’s honor, tradition and structure. But unfortunately, they’re also going to send you to get your arms and legs blown off . . . If anything, I see the MRC as being a place where guys can go to when they get out of the military. Right now, there’s the highest percentage of GIs coming back from Iraq seeking counseling than at any other period in our history, because you get out of a situation like that and you’re not OK. SD: Will the MRC have a spiritual component? CS: Anytime you start talking about spirituality, you’re walking a fine line. What’s really more

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BLONDE AMBITION Fresh-faced quartet Sage Blonde could end up filling the void left by Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, who have moved on to a bigger league. Let’s face it —there aren’t a ton of female-fronted, bluesy rock acts on the local scene. But there’s at least one more.

SAGE BLONDE (PHOTO: IKE MESSMORE) The GP&N comparison is pretty much unavoidable. Still, it’s important to remember that nobody holds the copyright on soulful rootsrock. And it’s not the first time a Vermont act has stood in a tall shadow; just ask any jam-band that came after Phish. Sage Blonde employs organ, Rhodes piano, harmonica, electric guitar and drums as the building blocks of their resolutely old-school sound. Like Potter, vocalist Celia Woods-Smith has extraordinarily powerful pipes. But her band’s vibe is closer to the earthy grit of Big Brother & Holding Company’s than J.J. Cale’s good-natured shuffle. The few SB tunes I’ve heard split the difference between roadhouse raunch and rock primitivism; a simple, satisfying brew. The group is working on building a fan base; their current residency at Nectar’s should accelerate the process. You can catch ’em on the road to renown every Wednesday night in March.

THE LONELIEST NUMBER Last Friday, a couple of friends and I trekked to Johnson College’s Dibden Center for the Arts to catch a concert by Boston’s punk cabaret duo Dresden Dolls. The barely-publicized gig was part of a handful of warm-up dates before a major European tour. We were running late and the roads were iffy, but my companions and I were psyched to see them again. And we did, sort of. As expected, there wasn’t much of an audience. Although DD’s star is on the rise, they’ve yet to conquer sleepy Johnson, VT. Still, the kids who did show up looked like diehard fans. Opener Reverend Glasseye (also from Beantown) got the sparse crowd worked up, but I was unimpressed. The band aimed for the ecstatic, but their Nick Cave-goes-Gypsy sound was a little too contrived. In trying to appear authentically deranged, the group’s front man came across like a hyperactive bellhop.

The Dolls’ Amanda Palmer joined Glasseye at the close of their set. With a couple of young men from the audience serving as props, she delivered her Lolita-esque romp, “Missed Me” with customary verve. But something was up — why perform one of DD’s most popular tunes with another band? Were they not going to play it later? Turns out there was no “they” at all: Drummer Brian Viglione was “in a hotel room about 5 miles away with a terrible fever,” according to Palmer. The last time the two were in Vermont, at Higher Ground, it was Palmer who was under the weather. Maybe they’ve been passing the same bug back and forth for months. But Palmer made the best of the situation. Determined to entertain, she even invited audience members to curl up next to her keyboard. The result looked a bit like a high school piano recital gone Goth. In between tunes, Palmer regaled her subjects with off-the-cuff — and often off-color — anecdotes. Later on in the evening, she called Viglione via cellphone. He truly did not sound well, as Palmer held the phone up to the microphone. “Right now, I’m playing a little game in my mind,” he said. “I’m imagining my limbs are fruits and vegetables. This could be the end, folks.” I certainly hope not. While there’s no doubt that Palmer is a born performer, Dresden Dolls aren’t the same without their percussive engine. Better get some echinacea on that bus.

ANOTHER KIND OF PODCAST Local musician Jenn Karson has spent the last few years crafting electronic compositions that lean towards experimental collage. Lately, the ex-Bad Juju leader has employed a unique way for listeners to experience her work. A “traveling interactive installation,” her Salon Pod places listeners in a unique aesSALON POD thetic environment, namely a vintage seated hair dryer wired for sound. Don’t worry — it no longer does bouffant. The unit is driven by another “pod,” Apple’s ubiquitous MP3 player. According to Karson’s MySpace.com page, her creation “combines her desires to experiment with sounds, make people laugh and inspire whimsy.” You can strap yourself in on Saturday, March 11, at 3 p.m. at Burlington’s own whimsy-filled venue, Radio Bean.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE! After several years of contemplation, I’m ready to go on record with a few statements about Burlington’s exploratory rock heroes, RAQ. Consider the case closed. #1. They don’t actually sound like Phish. Sure, RAQ write cheeky, abstract lyrics and

have a penchant for long solos, but they frankly rock harder. It’s obvious that both bands owe a great deal to Frank Zappa, but, then again, so does Dweezil. #2. Guitarist Chris Michetti is really, really good. So good that it actually pisses me off! When the band first started, it rehearsed across the hall from a group I was in. That was years ago. I can’t believe it’s the same guy. #3. The band members are super-nice. While this doesn’t have a damn thing to do with their music, it’s certainly refreshing. RAQ tour relentlessly, and have developed a sizable national fan base. Great to see that it hasn’t gone to their heads. RAQ don’t play many local shows these days, but they’ll swing by Higher Ground Ballroom for a Saturday, March 11, performance. Attend with my blessings.

NEW SOUND GLORY DJ nights are certainly nothing new in Burlington, with dancehall, hip-hop and downtempo comprising the majority of the town’s turntable activity. Solid stuff, to be sure, but expect a bit more diversity on Tuesday nights at 135 Pearl. Electrodynamic Underground features styles such as space-pop, exotica, rocksteady, krautrock, psychedelia, experimental and more. “My friends and I decided to play sounds that you don’t hear much around here,” says DJ Brobot, a.k.a. Chris Brodie of The Cush. The lineup for March boasts sets by DJ Greg Davis, DJs Tanner & Wake Up Birds, and Jogging Unit. Sounds like a good time to me.

IN THE LOOP Not long ago, I told you about James Kochalka’s near-epic adventures in music licensing. His ode to simian winter sports, “Hockey Monkey,” was chosen as the theme song to an upcoming Fox sitcom. Unfortunately, this created several short-term hassles for the cartoonist/rocker. Now that the difficulties have all been sorted out, fans can look forward to the show’s Wednesday, March 15, premiere. Chances are you’ll already be watching, as it airs immediately after “American Idol.” Following the debut, the program moves to its regular slot on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. Now for the inevitable tie-in. An exclusive, iTunesonly Hockey Monkey EP will be released the day before the show’s maiden voyage. “It’s supposedly going to be on [the iTunes] front page!” Kochalka says of the multimedia campaign. In addition to the TV track, the mini-album features a couple of new tunes as well as “one from the vaults.” I’m already enjoying my advance CD-R copy, particularly “Britney’s Silver Can.” A hilariously dated ode to Britney Spears, the tune brings back fond memories of her preKevin Federline, and motherhood, days. Never thought I’d say that. So keep those iPods at the ready, and the TiVO set. m

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TRIVIA MANIA, LIGHTNING RIDGE, HER MAJESTY (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. A TRIBUTE TO NOTORIOUS B.I.G. WITH BROTHER ALI & DJ BK ONE, BURNT & NETWORK, THE AZTEXT, SCROLL, LEE & SIN WITH DJ CRE8 (hip-hop), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $12/15/17. 18+. TOP HAT ENTERTAINMENT DANCE PARTY (hip-hop, r&b DJs), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. NC. BANG BANG WITH DJS JAH RED & DEMUS (reggae, reggaeton), Second Floor, 10 p.m. $5/NC. 18+ before 11 p.m. C-LOW (hip-hop DJ), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. JIM SCOUTEN (acoustic covers), Upper Deck Pub, Windjammer, 7 p.m. NC. ANTHONY B., SOUL MAJESTIC, DJ BIG DOG & C. LOW (reggae, dancehall), Higher Ground Ballroom, 9 p.m. $20/22. 18+. UNDERDOG, MY REVENGE, FROM THE GROUND UP, PUNCHOUT, POWER (punk, hardcore), Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, 7:30 p.m. $12/14. AA. 17 EAST (blues), Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Geno’s Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC. WCLX BLUES NIGHT WITH THE NOBBY REED PROJECT, Lincoln Inn Tavern, 7 p.m. NC. KARAOKE WITH PETE, Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC.

:: central JAY EKIS (worldbeat, rock singer-songwriter), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE WITH SARA GRACE, Langdon St. Café, 7 p.m. NC. ROB WILLIAMS & FRIENDS (folk-rock), Purple Moon Pub, 8:30 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE WITH JIM MCHUGH, Middle Earth, 8 p.m. $3.

:: northern TOM LESHINSKI (solo guitar), Chow! Bella, 6 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE, Overtime Saloon, 9 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE, Monopole, 9 p.m. NC. FRED BRAUER (solo guitar), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC. ANTHONY B. (reggae), Pickle Barrel, 8 p.m. $15/17.

THU.09 :: burlington area

SHANE HARDIMAN TRIO (jazz), Radio Bean, 7 p.m. NC; ANTHONY SANTOR (jazz), 9 p.m. NC. “SILENT INVASION” (theater), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $12, followed by ’80S NIGHT WITH DJ CHIA, 10 p.m. NC. SIESTA BEATS, Miguel’s Stowe Away, 10 p.m. NC. FRIENDS OF JOE WITH DAVE GRIPPO (jazz, blues), Halvorson’s, 8 p.m. NC. ELLEN POWELL & PARKER SHPER (jazz), Leunig’s, 7 p.m. NC. LUCY VINCENT (groove-rock, funk), Rí Rá Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. A-DOG PRESENTS, Red Square, 10 p.m. NC. RED HOT JUBA (eclectic Americana), 1/2 Lounge, 9 p.m. NC. :: champlain valley ANTARA, AARON FLINN (rock singerREBECCA HALL & KEN3/6/06 ANDERSON11:20 AM songwriters), 2x6-KCP030806 Page 1 Firehouse Center, (folk), Carpenter-Carse Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

LORI JACOBS (singer-songwriter), Buono’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. REBECCA HALL & KEN ANDERSON (folk), Bobcat Café, 8 p.m. NC.

TOM & DAVE (singer-songwriters), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. DAVID GILLIGAN & HEIDI WILSON (singer-songwriters), Langdon St. Café, 8 p.m. Donations.

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:: northern KARAOKE WITH TIM RUSSELLE, Overtime Saloon, 7:30 p.m. NC. MARK ABAIR & THE METROS (classic rock), Sami’s Harmony Pub, 9 p.m. NC. LADIES’ NIGHT WITH DJS ROBBY ROB & SKIPPY (hip-hop, r&b), Tabu Café & Nightclub, 9 p.m. NC. EL DUCE (rock), Monopole, 9 p.m. NC. DON SCHABNER & WILL PATTON (jazz), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC. MIGHTY BLUES WORKSHOP, Rusty Nail, 10 p.m. NC.

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IN AND OUTRE :: When Montréal’s avant-pop heroes Unicorns broke up last year, indie cognoscenti were devastated. Although ex-bandleader

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TOP HAT ENTERTAINMENT DJ, City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. DJ CHARLIE (rock), Red Mill Restaurant, 10:15 p.m. NC.

:: central LEFT EYE JUMP (blues), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. MARK LEGRAND & THE LOVESICK BANDITS (honky-tonk), Langdon St. Café, 6 p.m. Donations; SWATI (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m. Donations; GORDON STONE BAND (newgrass), 9:30 p.m. $5 donation. MADDUB (dub, funk), Black Door Bar & Bistro, 9:30 p.m. $3-5. BIG HEAVY WORLD BENEFIT (indierock, hardcore), Positive Pie II, 10 p.m. $5.

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VIP LADIES’ NIGHT WITH DJ SKIPPY (top 40, r&b, reggae), Tabu Café & Nightclub, 9 p.m. NC. 18+. LIVE MUSIC, Overtime Saloon, 7:30 p.m. NC. THE PULSE (r&b), Rusty Nail, 10 p.m. $7. IMI (reggae), Monopole, 9 p.m. NC. CAL STANTON (solo guitar), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC. HALLMARK JAZZ QUARTET, Chow! Bella, 7:30 p.m. NC. VISCUS (jam), Bolton Valley Resort, 8 p.m. NC. THE DOUG FLUTIE BAND (rock), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. NC.

SAT.11 :: burlington area SALON POD (music, art installation) Radio Bean, 3 p.m. NC; LYLE KING (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m. NC; KEVIN GREENBLOTT (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m. NC; ARIELLE SILVER (singersongwriter), 8 p.m. NC; POSSUMHAW (old-time), 9 p.m. NC; CAVE BEES, MORTAL WOUND & THE BOBOS, FATAL FLAWS (rock), 10 p.m. NC. MADERA (nuevo Flamenco), Parima, 8 p.m. NC. “SILENT INVASION” (theater), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $12, followed by DJS JOE HENNESSY, WILL TAYLOR, PRECIOUS (dance, house), 10 p.m. $5. GORDON STONE (newgrass), Rí Rá Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. BLUE METHOD (soul, funk, fusion), Red Square, 8 p.m. NC, followed by DJ A-DOG (hip-hop), midnight. $3. KIP MEAKER (blues), 1/2 Lounge, 7 p.m. NC.

Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111. American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. Ashley’s, Merchant’s Row, Randolph, 728-9182. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. Backstreet, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-2400. Bad Girls Café, Main St., Johnson, 635-7025. Ball & Chain Café, 16 Park St., Brandon, 247-0050. Banana Winds Café & Pub 1 Towne Marketplace, Essex Jct., 879-0752. Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre, 476-8188. Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Drive, Vergennes, 1-800-622-4000. Bayside Pavilion, 13 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909. Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. Beyond Infinity Upstairs, 43 Center St., Brandon, 247-5100. Big Moose Pub at the Fire & Ice Restaurant, 28 Seymour St., Middlebury, 388-0361. Black Bear Tavern & Grill, 205 Hastings Hill, St. Johnsbury, 748-1428. Black Door Bar & Bistro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070. Blue Tooth, 1423 Sugarbush Access Rd., Warren, 583-2656. The Bobcat Café, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311. Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton Valley, 434-3444. 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. Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800. 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. City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 865-7166. Cuzzin’s Nightclub, 230 North Main St., Barre, 479-4344. Eclipse Theater, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8913. Euro Gourmet Market & Café, 61 Main St., Burlington, 859-3467. Finkerman’s Riverside Bar-B-Q, 188 River St., Montpelier, 229-2295. Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209. Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966. Foggy’s Notion, One Lawson Lane, Burlington, 862-4544. Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. Geno’s Karaoke Club, 127 Porters Point Road, Colchester, 658-2160. Giovanni’s Trattoria, 15 Bridge St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-5856. Global Markets Café, 325 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 863-3210. Good Times Café, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. Great Falls Club, Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury, 388-0239. 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. Hardwick Town House, 127 Church St., Hardwick, 456-8966. Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6361. Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 654-8888. The Hub, Airport Drive, Bristol, 453-3678. Inn at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116, Bristol, 424-2432. Jasper’s Tavern, 19 North Ave., Newport, 334-2224. 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. La Brioche Bakery, 89 East Main St. Montpelier, 229-0443. Lakeview Inn & Restaurant, 295 Breezy Ave., Greensboro, 533-2291. 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. Lion’s Den Pub, Mountain Road, Jeffersonville, 644-5567. Localfolk Smokehouse, Jct. Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-5623. Mad River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910. Main St. Grill, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. McKee’s Pub, 19 East Allen St., Winooski, 655-0048. Melting Pot Café, Rt 2, East Montpelier, 223-1303.

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Vermont’s Fatal Flaws came together last August, when members Jason Wimbiscus and Chris Beneke met via a Seven Days classified. More recently Beneke appeared in these pages with a letter lambasting our attempt at comic-strip democracy. In it he suggested, among other things, stripping me of my post. Not exactly ingratiating. But since I’m not one to hold a grudge, I gave his band’s debut, Your First Mistake, a spin. Surprise! The 18-song disc is loaded with trenchant, no-fi rock ’n’ roll that had me hooked from the start. Opener “Batgirl On!” is crude garage rock with a cartoon-noir twist. An elementary backbeat anchors the tempo, as scrappy guitars shore up Beneke’s deadpan vocals. Recorded live at rehearsal, its shoddy recording quality only enhances the tune’s troglodyte vibe. Fifties throwback “5 Minutes” sounds like a sock hop for the criminally insane. It’s part punk scorcher, part ballad; with a little more speed and distortion, it’d be a Misfits tune. “Room Temperature” is a sluggishly antagonistic number about the joys of warm beer. Somewhere, Homer Simpson smiles dumbly. The curiously catchy hook of “Crippled Man” sounds like The Yardbirds in a pub brawl, while the morbidly confessional “Cassie” is white-trash manna. “Nick Merill’s dead / Shot in the head by Cassie’s sister’s lover / who did discover / love at seventeen,” Beneke sweetly sings over downstrummed guitars and spare percussion. The song paints a bracing picture of romantic tragedy; it’s Romeo and Juliet for the Jerry Springer set. “Wanderin’” owes something to Beggar’s Banquet-era Stones. Its watery slide guitar and broke-down blues progression plays like Brian Jones on a champagne-and-Quaalude bender. “Eat the Rock” lurches along slowly, its swaggering central riff supported by Sasha Rodriguez’s charmingly inept drumming. The delirious “Grandma’s Gotta Popeye” is about an elderly woman with a badly damaged peeper. She apparently enjoys spitting in a can and taking long drives at midnight. The song’s narrator strongly suggests avoiding her. Album closer “I’m Your Jesus” is a brief little ditty that describes the pains of being the world’s Savior. “I’m your Jesus, yes I am / You don’t know the pain in Heaven / Amen,” Beneke detachedly sings. Other complaints from the weary protagonist include his ever-present stigmata. I’m planning to catch their Saturday, March 11, set at Radio Bean. Does this mean I can keep my job?

Veteran guitarist/vocalist and Springfield, Vermont, resident John Sullivan has been rocking audiences throughout New England for more than 30 years. Along the way, he’s recorded and performed with the likes of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Joe Cocker, Steppenwolf, Rick Derringer, The Ramones, Danny Klein of the J. Geils Band, Badfinger’s Joey Molland, James Montgomery and more. He puts his years of experience to work on Many Voices, a 10-track disc released by Ohio-based indie label Atom Records. Here, Sullivan is backed up by members of Green Mountain rock acts Motorplant and Roadkill, including guitarist Tommy Trybulski, bassist Eric Eaves and drummer Andy Hanscom. Album engineer Joe Pod also contributes some strong six-string work. Many Voices emits several musical vibes: Blaring garage rock, folksy melodies and bottleneck slide riffs run alongside swirling psychedelia and rugged hard rock. And the disc is appropriately titled; Sullivan expertly adapts his voice to each style with confidence and grace. It’s thrilling to hear him switch from straight-ahead rock and blues to subdued ballads without sacrificing an ounce of personality. Highlights include the acid-soaked riffs of “Patience and Faith” and “Day of Reckoning,” as well as the back-porch blues of “My Foolish Ways.” “’Cause I Said So” is an all-out rocker, while the sitar-like axework and haunting percussion on “India Cries (For George)” is a fine tribute to the late Beatle. The John Sullivan Band will be performing throughout New England this month; you can catch them at Gusto’s in Barre on March 31. For more info, or to purchase a disc, visit http://www.JohnSullivanSite.com, or http://www.AtomRecords.com.

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SUN.12 :: burlington area OLD-TIME SESSIONS (traditional), Radio Bean, from 1 p.m. NC; SHAY ROSELIP (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m. NC; SUNDAY FACE (rock), 8 p.m. NC; COLLETTE NOVAK (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m. NC. DJ PRECIOUS (dance, house), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. NC. OPEN BAND NIGHT, Nectarâ€™s, 9 p.m. NC. SUNDAY NIGHT MASS WITH SCOTTIE B, ADRIANO DUIM (electronic, techno), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. NC. DJS BIG DOG & DEMUS (reggae, dancehall), Ruben James, 10 p.m. $5. DILATED PEOPLES, LITTLE BROTHER, DEFARI (hip-hop), Higher Ground Ballroom, 9 p.m. $18/20. 18+. KARAOKE, Genoâ€™s Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC.

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CALL TO ARTISTS LOCAL ARTIST LOOKING for unusable or broken musical instruments for an art project. Info, call Kimberlee at 310-9159. APPRENTICE POSITION AVAILABLE for a small ceramics studio and gallery in Burlington. Work 10-15 hours/week in exchange for studio space and education. Call Tabbatha at 865-5210 for info. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CULTURAL CENTER invites artists to submit entries for the 16th annual juried Art in the Round Barn exhibit in the fall; 2D or 3D works, but no photography. Deadline: May 15. Applications or info, call 496-7722. THE ROSE STREET GALLERY is looking for 2D and 3D works of art that have words and/or letters in them for an exhibit in July. For an entry form or info, contact Heather at 872-1678 or HeatherMHill2003@ yahoo.com. PEACE FLAG PROJECT: The Mama Says Action! Circle, a central Vermont political/social action group, is calling on mamas and grandmamas across the state to create individual flag panels as vehicles for their voices. Flags must be made of fabric, one foot square, with maker's name, address and phone number affixed to back. These will not be returned, but will be strung together and displayed at events. Deadline: April 1. Send to Mama Says, PO Box 942, Montpelier, VT 05601. More info, contact mamasays942@hotmail.com or 279-2106.

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Art During Wartime

E EXHIBIT Danilo Gonzalez, recent acrylic paintings on canvas and paper. Shelburne Art Center. Through April 1.

ARTWORK An untitled painting from the “Exteriors Series” by Danilo Gonzalez

PHOTO Marc Awodey

nigmatic paintings and diminutive installations by Danilo Gonzalez fill the Shelburne Art Center this month, and it’s an excellent show rich with odd details. Originally from the Dominican Republic and now living in Vermont, Gonzalez is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited extensively in Europe and Latin America. Although he has created and shown works in a broad array of media, acrylic paintings are his main focus at the Shelburne venue. Among the works are surreal landscapes, strangely flat interiors, faces that seem angry and/or confused, and installations that allow Gonzalez’s vision to unfold before a military backdrop. The works in this exhibition are untitled but are grouped into four series: “War,” “Furious,” “Interiors” and “Exteriors.” The “War Series” consists of one 28-by-12-inch horizontal assemblage — a shadow-box frame on the wall — and several small installations that feature plastic soldiers. In the assemblage, three toy army men are segregated inside their own compartments; the entire image is painted white, and the admonishment “Love, not war” is scrawled beneath the compartments. This is the most literal work in the show. Gonzalez’s installations include a jumble of beige and green soldiers, battle casualties heaped into a foot-tall pyramid. Another installation group consists of small, latched boxes with Plexiglas

sides and plastic wild animals — a polar bear, gorilla, hippo, zebra and elephant — standing on their lids. Each of the little boxes contains more toy soldiers. Though Gonzalez’s ersatz combatants are neat and shiny, their guns and aggressive poses make them sinister. The significance of their physical proximity to wild animals is associative rather than specific.

inch painting rendered in red-orange and ruddy pale brown presents the botanical forms imprisoned by 19 rectangular chambers. Other “Interiors” pieces are smaller in scale but also tightly divided into odd rooms with sloping floors and slanted walls. Gonzalez’s “Furious” series includes 20 nonrepresentational paintings on paper; the 10-inch-square, framed

Gonzalez’s works defy easy categorization — perhaps we need a new term. Postmodern symbolism? The large paintings in the “Exteriors Series” are more playful, with details that seem influenced by Hieronymus Bosch. In one bright-red, 54-by-40-inch canvas, and a 54-by80-inch diptych, trompe l’oeil vines and rickety, Bosch-style ladders cast perfect shadows onto high, vermilioncolored walls. Leaves seem to rain down them. The space in each painting is very shallow. Other paintings in the “Exteriors Series” have blue skies and are somewhat more expansive. Beneath the cloud-strewn sky in one 24-by-48-inch work, a gray hill turns out to be a Bosch-like giant, pierced by small stakes and ladders. In the “Interiors” series, vines and sticks are painted in the same manner, but are enclosed into claustrophobic compartments. A vertical, 48-by-24-

works are organized into a five-by-four grid. The dominant colors of the paintings — yellows, black, reds and grays — are furiously brushed onto the paper. He’s also arranged six 16-by-20inch heads, loosely painted on paper, into a group, and five similarly sized heads painted on canvas are presented side by side. The faces of the latter group have the same quizzical look — uncomfortably perplexed. And no wonder: They are splattered with color and stuck by trompe l’oeil sticks. Gonzalez’s works defy easy categorization — perhaps we need a new term. Postmodern symbolism? Local art enthusiasts should visit the Shelburne Art Center and decide for themselves. But regardless of label, the adjective “superb” certainly applies. m

CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE ART FACULTY: Artworks by the teachers. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, second floor, Burlington, 865-7165. Reception March 8, 6:30 p.m. Through March. LEILA BANDAR, MISTY MAWN & JULIE RUTH: "Thirtysomething," sculptures, mixed-media collages and oil-and-wax paintings, respectively, by artists on the brink of 30. Julie Ruth Studio & Gallery, Waterbury, 730-2527. Reception March 9, 5-8 p.m. Through April 29. ‘SELECTIONS’: Prints by 16 artists from the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio representing the full range of printmaking techniques. Flynndog, Burlington, 863-2227. Reception March 10, 6-8 p.m. Through April. MIKE GORDON & MARJORIE MINKIN: "Another Side of In," a mother-and-son exhibit featuring abstract, Lexan pieces by Minkin that visually represent Gordon's ambient audio textures from the album Inside In. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 865-7165. Reception March 10, 5-8 p.m. Through April. DOSTIE, MR. MASTERPIECE, IRA CUMMINGS & ROOSTER ROBINSON: New paintings. Art's Alive Gallery at Union Station, Burlington, 864-1557. Reception March 10, 6-9 p.m. Through March. ‘WORKS IN PROGRESS’: Mixed-media pieces detailing various artists' pursuits in life. Pursuit Gallery, Wing Building, Burlington, 862-3883. Reception March 10, 6-10 p.m. Through May 1.

OPENINGS >> 46A PLEASE NOTE: Exhibitions are written by Pamela Polston; spotlights written by Marc Awodey. Listings are restricted to exhibits in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor. Submit art exhibitions at www.sevendaysvt.com/art or send via email by Thursday at 5 p.m., including info phone number, to galleries@sevendaysvt.com.

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DOUBLE THE PLEASURE Itâ€™s unusual for one artist to be simultaneously given the Pickering and Fletcher rooms at the Fletcher Free Library, but prolific Ferrisburgh artist Maxine â€œMickeyâ€? Davis has filled them well with about 80 paintings. Her playful, bright works on paper and canvas come in two flavors, figurative and abstract. Davisâ€™ impressive solo exhibition is on view through March. Pictured: â€œView from the Woodshed.â€?

OPENINGS << 45A RUTH KALDOR, CAROL L. NORTON, JASON OSTERHOUT & MARIAN WILLMOTT: Paintings and monoprints. Artpath Gallery, Wing Building, Burlington, 563-2273. Reception March 10, 6-8 p.m. Through April. MATTHEW MAZZOTTA: "Rectangles & Squares," new paintings on old canvasses, mixed-media works and prints. Langdon St. CafĂŠ, Montpelier, 223-8667. Reception March 11, 8 p.m. - midnight, with live music by Ryan Power, Aaron Hornblas and Nest Material. Through March. DAVID BINZEN: Carvings, photographs and paintings by the late local artist. Tunbridge Public Library, 765-9961. Reception March 12, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Through April 3. â€˜MONET MAMASâ€™: Oil, watercolor and acrylic paintings by former teachers turned fulltime artists Mary Lou Marcussen, Judy Kelly, Pete Tomasi, Roberta Whitmore and Ellie Morency. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, 22 Barber Farm Rd., Jericho, 899-3211. Reception March 12, 3-5 p.m. Through May 7. MARILYN GILLIS: "Fiber Visions," studio art quilts about ideas and issues. Dianne Shullenberger Gallery, 228 Nashville Rd., Jericho, 899-4993. Reception March 12, 3-5 p.m. Through April 16. â€˜WOMEN AND WORK 1800-1984â€™ & â€˜WOMEN HELPING WOMENâ€™: The Vermont Commission on Women's History Project celebrates Women's History Month with photographs from the collection of Vermont's American Association of University Women and contemporary photographer Mary Claire Carroll, respectively. Statehouse Cafeteria, Montpelier, 828-2841. Reception featuring author/historians Deborah Clifford and Marilyn Blackwell March 15, 4-6 p.m. Exhibit March 9-31.

TALKS/ EVENTS â€˜DANTE TRANSLATED IN WORD & IMAGEâ€™: Associate prof in the English department Tom Simone gives a talk in conjunction with a current exhibit. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. March 8, 12:15 p.m. â€˜THE NEXT 47 YEARS OF MY ART LIFEâ€™: Lucio Pozzi, artist and professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, gives a performance lecture. 301 Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 656-2014. March 8, 5 p.m. MICHAELANGELO BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: A dinner celebrating, and a presentation about, the 15th-century Italian sculptor and painter. Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, 3x6-musclecar-blk&wht 6/7/05 West Rutland, 438-2097. March 8, 6 p.m.

$25. Reservations required. ARTISTSâ€™ TALK: Artist Michael Mazur and poet Robert Pinsky talk about their collaboration on a current exhibit, the print suite "The Inferno of Dante." Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. March 9, 12:30 p.m. Also, Pinsky reads from his translation of the classic work at 4:30 p.m. at Marsh Lounge, Billings Student Center. â€˜SKIING EAST GREENLANDâ€™: Photographers Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson show photographs from a backcountry adventure. Climb High, Shelburne, 496-5434. March 9, 7 p.m. SLIDE LECTURE: Associate professor of history of art and architecture Pieter Broucke gives a presentation entitled "A New Acquisition in Attic Painted Pottery: the Black-Figure Kalpis by the Rycroft Painter." CFA Room 221, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-5007. March 9, 4:30 p.m. â€˜WHO WIELDED THE PAINTBRUSH?â€™: A colloquium on traditional approaches and new methods in the study of Renaissance art. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-6462808. Lecture with Professor Marcia Hall March 9, 5:30 p.m.; panel and public discussion March 10, 2:30-5 p.m. FAMILY DAY: A free basketmaking workshop led by Jesse Larocque is the highlight of this day for all ages. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. March 11, noon - 4 p.m. WOODBLOCK PRINTS TALK: Gallery owner Sally Pleet talks about the history, lore and process, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Gallery-in-the-Field, Brandon, 2470125. March 11, 2 p.m. â€˜PALETTESâ€™ PROJECT KICK-OFF: A statewide art project involving wooden artist palettes, created by the Vermont Arts Council and Warren Kimble gets a start in Woodstock. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 457-3981. Community Showcase, March 11, 2 & 7 p.m. Palettes available to take home and design two hours before each showcase. Those interested should call ahead. HOOD HIGHLIGHTS TOUR: Explore a selection of objects in the museum's collection with an experienced guide. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-6462808. March 11, 2 p.m. A KEYBANK EVENING OF SPANISH MUSIC, FOOD & ART: A multimedia cultural celebration of the current exhibit of Goya's "Los Caprichos." Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. March 14, 5:30-8 p.m., with live music by classical Spanish guitarist Samuel Guarnaccia. RSVP by March 9.

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ONGOING :: burlington area MELANIE PHELPS: "Small Works," acrylic paintings. Terra Linda Market, Shelburne, 985-1088. Through March. â€˜THE FLYNN, VERMONTâ€™S WONDER THEATREâ€™: A special exhibit commemorating the theater's 75 years shows its development from a movie palace to a premier performing-arts center. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 652-4500. Through April 15. GROUP SHOW: Artworks in multiple media by Janet Biehl, Kit Donnelly, Mary Johnson, Sara Katz, Lynda McIntyre, Ayn Baldwin Riehle and Lynn Rupe. Maltex Building, Burlington, 865-7166. Through March. DREW MATOTT: "Politics, Paper and Pulp," sculptural books using handmade paper and alternative bookbinding, Lower Level Gallery, through April 28; and MICHAEL STRAUSS: "Visual Expression & Expansion," rural and urban watercolor scenes, 3rd Floor Gallery, through March 17. Community College of Vermont, Burlington, 951-1252. CHARLIE HUNTER: "Where I Live Now," postpastoral, post-industrial portraits of Vermont; and H. KEITH WAGNER: "Collections: Pods, Seeds & Stones," handmade metal sculptures. Pine Street Artworks, Burlington, 863-8100. Through April 13. â€˜THE ONLY BUSH I TRUST IS MY OWNâ€™: Contemporary works by Ione Saizar, M.J. Tobal, Ainize Txopitea and Tina Escaja. L/L Gallery, Living/Learning Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4200. Through March 16. JASON RYAN OSTERHOUT: Acrylic paintings on canvas. Club Metronome, Burlington, 858-3090. Through March 15. â€˜FRANCISCO GOYA: LOS CAPRICHOSâ€™: Eighty celebrated black-and-white prints made by the Spanish artist satirizing the foibles of 18th-century Spain, through May 14; and MICHAEL MAZUR: "The Inferno of Dante," 41 black-and-white prints by the contemporary printmaker illustrating the most famous section of "The Divine Comedy," through May 14; and ARTISTS' BOOKS: Selections from UVM's Special Collections, through June 4. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. MARGARET LAMPE-KANNESTINE: Acrylic paintings, Skyway Corridor; and NAOMI BOSSOM: Woodcut prints, Gates 1 & 2. Burlington International Airport, 865-7166. Through May 1. KEVIN WILLSEY & GUS FINK: Illustrations and paintings of interpersonal expression by

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:: champlain valley DUKER BOWER: Contemporary paintings, sculpture and photography; also ROD PETERSON & EVA CINCOTTA: Paintings. Mt. Philo Gallery, Inn at Charlotte B&B, 4252934. Through March 20. ‘SCREENED AND SELECTED: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ACQUISITIONS 1999-2005’: Works by 20 contemporary artists chosen by college majors in art, architecture, film and media culture; and TONY OURSLER: "Time Stop," a video installation and sculpture in the series "Art Now." Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-2240. Through June 4.

white family photos — revising his familial past, perhaps. In a separate but equally interesting exhibition, Willsey’s illustrative, menschy figures enliven both skateboards and paper. Pictured: Willsey’s “Skateboard Arrow.” PHOTO: MARC AWODEY

JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS: Works from the 18th through the 20th century, curated by Sally Pleet. Gallery in-the-Field, Brandon, 247-0125. Through March. GILLIAN KLEIN: "Ephemeral Cityscapes," oil paintings. Starry Night Café, North Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. Through March. DAVID MARTIN: "Unearth," clay vessels and found-object assemblages. Brandon Artists' Guild, 247-4956. Through April 28. ‘EMERGING ARTISTS’: Student artists from Mt. Abraham Union HS show works in multiple media. Art on Main, Bristol, 453-4032. Through March. ‘CULTURAL CREATIONS & SYMBOLS FROM THE SOUL’: Artwork from the Aurora and North Branch schools examing diverse cultures and beliefs from folk and religious art and architecture. Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 388-2117. Through April 1. ROYCE DENDLER: Works in polyethylene created on a device invented by the artist. Walkover Gallery, Bristol, 453-3188. Through April 9.

:: central REBECCA ARMELL: "Have a Chair: Visits with Vermonters," photographs of elders from the Northeast Kingdom and central Vermont. Governor's Office, Pavilion Office Building, Montpelier, 828-0749. Through April 1. FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBITION: Artwork by Jeanne Arthur, Paul Chapman, Jen Bartholomew, Fred Michel and students in Rutland High School Advanced Placement. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 775-0356. Through April 2. HEIDI JEFFERSON: Carved furniture, pottery, soft sculpture, photography and paintings. Walker-Maclure Library, Pittsford, 483-2972. Through March 18. ABIGAIL RUBENSTEIN: Selected drawings. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, 468-1266. Through March. JAVIER CINTRON: Monoprints, linocuts and sketches. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, 295-5901. Through March 28. ‘ARTS-R-US’: Artwork influenced by advertis-

ing, commercialism and market forces, Main Floor Gallery; and STUDENT SHOW: Works from the Center for Cartoon Studies, Second Floor Gallery; and JANET VAN FLEET: "Circular Statements," mixed media. Studio Place Arts, Barre, 479-7069. March 14 - April 15. DOUG DESJARDINS: "Art From the Heart," playful paintings on recycled wood and canvas. The Cheshire Cat Art & Artwear, Montpelier, 223-1981. Through March. ‘OPENING THE VAULT’: Works from the permanent collection, Main Gallery and Wood Room; and ART SCHALLER: "Dissected Magic," collages and C-prints, South Gallery. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through March 12. INVITATIONAL PRINT SHOW: Northlight Digital photo imaging and printing center celebrates its third anniversary with an exhibit of artwork by its clients. Tip Top Media Arts Building, White River Junction, 280-1888. Through May 24. ARTHUR SCHALLER: "Discounted Magic," collage and C-prints. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through March 12. KARI MEYER: Acrylic landscape paintings. La Brioche Bakery, Montpelier, 272-4763. Through March. NEIL CALLAHAN: "Rock 'n' Roll Retrospective," 25 photographs of important musical performers including Bob Marley, Neil Young, Jerry Garcia and Lucinda Williams; also, LORELEH HARRIS: Fiber art. The Green Bean Art Gallery, Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. Through March. MICHAEL T. JERMYN: "Zen and the Art of Picture-Taking," photographs. The Shoe Horn, Montpelier, 223-5454. Through March. MELANIE PHELPS: "Cloud Series," acrylic paintings. Montpelier City Center, 426-3593. Through March.

:: northern ‘REALIST VISIONS’: Paintings by Gary Eckhart, Corliss Blakely, Robert Carsten, Alastair Dacey and Rick LaGue. Vermont Fine Art, Stowe, 253-9653. Through March.

WINTER SHOW: Local artists exhibit their works. Stowe Town Hall, stowestudioarts@ pshift.com. Through March. SEVEN VERMONT SCULPTORS: New works by Willard Boepple, Chris Curtis, Patricia de Gogorza, Nancy Diefenbach, Lynn Newcomb, Tari Swenson and Judith Wrend. Sculpture Garden, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, 828-5422. Through May 2007. DON HANSON, SUSAN HOFFMAN & CRAIG MOONEY: "Body Image," photographs, paintings and mixed media. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, Stowe, 253-8943. Through March 11. ‘MEETING THE DAWN: FIRST NATION ART FROM THE NORTHEASTERN WOODLANDS’: Art and artifacts, both contemporary and historical, by native peoples of the Northeast, as well as by activist-painter N. Scott Momaday, from the Kiowa Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through April 5. JANET FREDERICKS: "Language of Water," works on paper that bring together a love of water and drawing. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through April 5. ‘NATURE’S SPIRIT’: Paintings of horses by Esther Rogoway; collages with handmade paper by Guitta Corey; and landscapes made of thin slices of wood by T. Breeze Verdant. Stowe Craft & Design Center, 253-7677. Through March 15. FIVE GRACE ARTISTS: Paintings by T.J. Goodrich, Richard Lawrence and Joel Bertelson; works on paper by Barbara Worcester; and mixed-media works by Larry Bissonnette. GRACE Gallery, Old Firehouse, Hardwick, 472-6857. Through March 22. VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: "Twenty Years of Beauty," photographs. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, 635-1469. Through March 18. ‘THE PAINTED CARAVAN INAUGURAL SHOW’: Local artists Barbara Molloy, Bradley Fox, Leila Bandar, Mickey Myers, Isabeth Bakke Hardy, Erin Schmitt, Judy Bach and more show paintings, prints and sculptures. Painted Caravan, Johnson, 635-7913. Through April 15.

:: southern LYNN VANNATTA: The Brownsville artist shows landscapes, animal portraits and still lifes in oil. Windsor House Art Gallery, 484-7253. Through April.

:: regional ‘SENSE OF THE CITY’: A multimedia exhibition about urban phenomena and perceptions, through September; and "EMPIRE": A visual essay by photographer John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power, Octagonal Gallery, through March 12. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 514-939-7000. ‘PAST IN REVERSE: CONTEMPORARY ART OF EAST ASIA’: Contemporary works by more than 20 established and up-and-coming artists in multiple media, from the San Diego Museum of Art, through March 12. Also, "GLOBALIZATION IN ANCIENT COSTA RICAN ARTS," ceramic and stone vessels and figures, through October 1. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-2426. KERRY O. FURLANI: "The Artist Hand: Slate in Bas Relief," 19 hand carvings. Slate Valley Museum, Granville, N.Y., 518-642-1417. Through May. ‘CATHERINE THE GREAT: ART FOR THE EMPIRE’: Masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, 514-7901245. Through May 7. ‘THE BRITISH ARE COMING’: A collection of images by Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and more, curated by prof David Powell to show the expression of British cultural attitudes in the 1960s-í70s. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, SUNY Plattsburgh, 518-564-2474. Through April 9. DAVID DRIVER: "Finding Home," more than 20 paintings from the 1970s and beyond that depict a fascination with science and fantasy. Hassett Adult Day Services, Plattsburgh, 518-297-3793. Reception March 3, 5:30-7 p.m. Through March. m

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Dear Cecil, A fairly sophisticated colleague just completed a five-day water fast, something he does two-three times a year to “purge his body of toxins.” A Harvard-educated client of mine keeps going on fruit-juice-based fasts — again to purge the toxins. And an old friend from grad school is now engaged in a very expensive round of “chelation” to push the toxins out of her body. Me? I’ve always thought that this is what we have a liver and two kidneys for. So, here are my questions: (1) What the heck are these toxins, anyway? (2) Can they be measured? (3) Where do they come from? (4) How do we get rid of them? Thomas B. Siegman, New York, New York Oh, there are lots of toxins. Ethanol, now. Toss back a shooter or six at your brother’s bachelor party and chances are next morning you won’t be saying, Whoa, it’s great to be alive. Nicotine’s another. Ozone, carbon monoxide, and other compounds derived from auto exhaust. Fat in foods isn’t a toxin in the strict sense, but consume it in excess and from the standpoint of long-term health effects you’re slowly poisoning yourself. As soon as you begin to list toxins, however, it’s obvious the detox regimens you describe aren’t apt to be much good at getting rid of them. Better you should stop smoking, eat and drink less (and exercise more), and quit driving that SUV. But how much fun is that? It’s more entertaining to spend a few days and sometimes a pile of money on a water fast, an herbal diet, chelation or “ayurvedic” therapy, or some other form of new-agey hokum, after which you can resume your wicked ways. Some will object: It’s not the known toxins I’m worried about, it’s the ones that sneak up on you. You know the rap — thousands of chemicals have been introduced into the environment in the past century with little or no testing; it isn’t so much any one poison as the accumulation of poisons that will kill you; etc. Never mind that the question of low-level effects remains controversial, that we haven’t

seen any big die-offs locally (in contrast, Russia and many eastern European countries have seen marked declines in life expectancy due to environmental factors in a much broader sense, e.g., alcoholism), and that the experts, to the extent they’re willing to guess, generally attribute red-flag indicators of ill health such as cancer to obvious causes like smoking. The thing is, even if we concede for the sake of argument that obscure toxins are a threat, there’s no reason to think that detox therapies offer any protection. Examples: • Chelation. This therapy involves intravenous infusion of the chemical disodium EDTA, which binds to metallic ions in the body (including heavy metals) and allows them to be excreted. Early experiments suggested that chelation dissolved the calcium in arterial plaque and reduced hardening of the arteries and other circulatory problems. Subsequent research has largely failed to replicate these results, and the current consensus is that chelation is effectively snake oil. Not only is it expensive, it depletes your body of the metals you want to keep, too, including important micronutrients such as zinc. • Fasts and herbal diets. Lots of variation here, but the idea generally is to stop eating whatever you’ve been eating (or anyway cut back) and heavy up on water, juice, herbs or some other holistic Drano that will flush the bad stuff out of your system. Abrupt changes in diet are always a little dicey; I came across one account of a kid who gave himself serotonin syndrome (confusion, tremors, fever, etc.) after downing tryptophan and St. John’s wort to detox himself from ecstasy, a therapy he’d seen recommended online. I suspect this kind of thing is rare and that most diets and fasts won’t harm you if you keep them up for only a short time, and of course a balanced low-cal diet coupled with exercise and stuck to long-term can have major benefits. But the notion that you can somehow purge toxins for a few days and be done with it is for the birds. • Ayurvedic medicine. Popularized by Deepak Chopra, ayurvedic medicine grew out of transcendental meditation (remember the Maharishi?). There’s more to it than detoxification, but herbal diets, purification, and so on are part of the mix. No proven benefit, although I imagine positive cash flow has increased Chopra’s personal sense of wellbeing. • Colonic irrigation/colon cleansing. Trendy names for the good old enema. What next, bloodletting? In short, you’re quite right — the human body has its own highly evolved mechanisms for eliminating toxins that, under normal circumstances, you don’t need to enhance with anything more elaborate than indoor plumbing and a good magazine. By the same token, if you’re overtaxing your liver and kidneys, you don’t need a water diet, you need to rethink your life. CECIL ADAMS

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or email him at cecil@chireader.com.

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Caché HHHH

M EXTERIOR MOTIVES Mysterious videotapes turn a couple’s life upside down in the latest from Michael Haneke.

ichael Haneke is not the first writer-director to present us with a portrait of a couple whose comfortable existence is transformed into a paranoid nightmare by the discovery that videotapes are secretly being made of their lives. Ten years ago, David Lynch played with the concept briefly in Lost Highway before detouring into territory considerably more surreal and over-the-top. To my knowledge, Haneke is the first to build an entire film from this premise, however, and the unsettling effect of Caché (originally entitled Hidden) is the direct result of the fact that it is rooted in the everyday. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) Laurent and their teenaged son live in a book-lined townhouse on a Paris side street. This townhouse and ordinary street are the first things we see as the picture begins. The credits roll. People come and go. Cars pass by. Instinctively, we regard this as a traditional establishing shot. Any minute, we expect, the scene will change and we’ll find ourselves inside the home being introduced to the movie’s principal characters. But the scene doesn’t change. We continue to watch the house from a vantage point across the street. Suddenly, the scene rewinds and we realize that we are in fact already inside, watching what turns out to be a videotape of the home’s exterior along with its perplexed occupants. Who has made this strange tape, and what is the motive behind making it and then leaving it on the couple’s doorstep? These are questions that may never be fully answered in the course of the 120 minutes to come. What does become increasingly clear, on the other hand, is the impact this odd bit of domestic surveillance has on its subjects. At first the husband and wife are united in terror. They are freaked out, but they are freaked out as victims facing a common threat. Then another tape arrives. This time the structure recorded is Georges’ childhood home. No

comments are made in the videos. Nothing is edited. Someone, for some reason, simply wants the Laurents to know they are watching — and possess knowledge of their personal histories. The husband’s, at any rate. The next tape is different. It’s not a recording of a building but of a journey by car down suburban streets and, ultimately, into an apartment complex. Little by little, the viewer begins to suspect Auteuil’s character knows more about the tapes and who might be making them than he’s letting on. We’re given reason to believe Georges has concealed secrets from his childhood, and that these might have some connection to the mysterious videos. He hides it from his wife, for example, when he follows the path shown on the latest tape, a path that takes him to the apartment of someone he knew as a boy but who, it turns out, is unlikely to be the person responsible for the recordings. Imagine the wife’s surprise when the next video arrives and it documents the secret rendezvous between her husband and this figure from his past. Needless to say, the revelation does not bring the two closer; it only raises the levels of stress and suspicion that pervade the house. Things just get odder from there. If you like your mysteries all tied up with a bow, Haneke’s will likely leave you frustrated and looking for closure. The movie seems to move away from the possibility of resolution with every passing moment. The mystery deepens as leads turn into dead ends and the chasm between husband and wife grows wider. Caché is a masterfully crafted generator of all-purpose dread, a psychological thriller that’s all psychology and no thrills. Except, that is, for the thrill of watching a filmmaker and cast doing something new, and doing it exceedingly well. Haneke’s latest may be an exercise in cinematic minimalism, but it will creep you out to the max. m

BALLETS RUSSES: From filmmakers Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine comes this documentary about the lives and careers of several pioneering artists — now in their seventies, eighties and nineties — who gave birth to modern ballet. (118 min, NR) FAILURE TO LAUNCH: Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker star in director Tom Dey’s romantic comedy about a slacker who still lives with his parents until he meets a woman who turns his life around. Justin Bartha and Kathy Bates costar. (96 min, PG-13) THE HILLS HAVE EYES: And the cineplexes have another gratuitous remake. Alexander Aja helms this second take on Wes Craven’s 1977 horror classic about a road-tripping family which takes a wrong turn onto the highway to hell. With Aaron Stanford, Vinessa Shaw and Kathleen Quinlan. (105 min, R) THE LIBERTINE: Based on the life of the second Earl of Rochester, director Laurence Dunmore’s feature debut chronicles the adventures of an aristocratic rake with a love of women and wine and a flair for the well-turned phrase. Starring Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton and John Malkovich. (130 min, NR) THE SHAGGY DOG: Tim Allen stars in yet another family-friendly effects-fest, this time a remake of the Disney chestnut about a family man who is transformed into the family dog. Kristin Davis and Robert Downey costar. Brian Robbins directs. (99 min, PG) THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA: Tommy Lee Jones channels the spirit of Sam Peckinpah in his second film, a Western morality tale and meditation on the themes of friendship and revenge. Starring Barry Pepper and Dwight Yoakam. (121 min, R) TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY: Michael (24 Hour Party People) Winterbottom directs this conceptually adventurous adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s sprawling, 18th-century masterpiece featuring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Naomie Harris and Gillian Anderson, who plays herself. (94 min, R)

SHORTS 16 BLOCKSHHH Bruce Willis stars in Richard Donner’s action-adventure about the unlikely bond that develops between a petty criminal and the cop who’s supposed to escort him to his grand-jury testimony. With David Morse and Tig Fong. (102 min, PG-13) AQUAMARINEHH1/2 I wonder whether anyone told Ron Howard that Splash was being remade. Sounds like that’s what director Elizabeth Allen is up to with this fish-out-of-water tale of a mermaid who falls in love with a human. Emma Roberts, Sara Paxton and Jake McDorman star. (109 min, PG) BROKEBACK MOUNTAINHHHH1/2 Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal do some of the finest work of their careers in Ang Lee’s affecting adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story about a pair of ranch hands who fall in love. Also starring Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway. (134 min, R)

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RATINGS

H = refund, please HH = could’ve been worse, but not a lot HHH = has its moments; so-so HHHH = smarter than the average bear HHHHH = as good as it gets Ratings assigned to movies not reviewed by Rick Kisonak are courtesy of Metacritic.com, which averages scores given by the country’s most widely read reviewers (Rick included).

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flick chick

BY SUSAN GREEN

SHORT TAKES ON THE REEL WORLD

Think Globally, Screen Locally finement for the slightest infraction of rules, or for no reason at all. In the title role, Parviz Parastouie is a Persian Peter Sellers, with the comic gifts of deadpan delivery and perfect timing. After accidentally cutting his arm in a half-hearted suicide attempt, Reza is hospitalized. When he steals a turban, robes and sunglasses from another patient — a gentle mullah who reads The Little Prince rather than the Koran — escape is easy. Everyone defers to a holy man, of course. Unable to shed the disguise for fear of apprehension, Reza ends up in a remote town where the humble mosque awaits its new leader. Mistaken identity prevails. The congregants are thrilled by Reza’s down-to-earth sermons, delivered with an improvisational flourish only a streetwise crook could manage. But they’re not a bland bunch. Two young divinity students dog his every step, asking sincere questions about the appropriate way to pray at the North Pole or in outer space. Not even “the heaviest of dudes” could fail to enjoy this remarkable movie. Among the American productions unspooling at the fest are five from Vermont, such as a premiere of The Singers by Susan Bettmann of Middlesex. She has adapted an Ivan Turgenev story about a writer whose sad outlook is changed by the healing

power of music. Music — in particular, classical — and the movies will be the subject of a discussion with Lloyd Schwartz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist often heard in National Public Radio commentaries. Hollywood screenwriter Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha) will also be on tap for a question-andanswer session. And Matt Hays, a noted Canadian film critic, is slated to cross the border for a chat with festival programmer/Savoy owner Rick Winston. Asked how the event’s diverse motion pictures are chosen, Winston acknowledges, “It always depends on who returns our phone calls. So, for instance, this year we have one film from Asia and five or six from the Middle East.” One of the latter, Paradise Now, is an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner from Palestine about two young men assigned to become suicide bombers. From a more peaceful part of the world, Hawaii, Oslo is the kind of spiritually inclined film that owes a debt to Wings of Desire. The celestial

beings that walk among us in director Erik Poppe’s Norway are no cheerier than their German counterparts in the brooding 1988 Wim Wenders fantasy, but thankfully the Scandinavian variety don’t talk as much. These are action angels, especially the handsome Vidar (Trond Espen Seim), who works as a night nurse in a psychiatric clinic and can see glimpses of the future whenever he falls asleep. A patient named Leon (Jan Gunnar Roise) is panicked by the prospect of reuniting with a long-lost girlfriend. His problem, according to the pop psychology so prevalent in movies, is that he simply can’t bring himself to say, “I love you.” Meanwhile, several other interesting dramas unfold — and cross paths, much like those intricate storylines in the American-made Crash. The goal, apparently, is getting by with a little help from our featherless friends. For more information about the Green Mountain Film Festival, call 229-0598, visit http://www.focusonfilm.net or check out this column on March 22. m

“Flick Chick” is a weekly column that can also be read on www.sevendaysvt.com. To reach Susan Green, email flickchick@sevendaysvt.com.

fickle fannie BY DAVID DIEFENDORF

READ THIS FIRST:

This week, as always, the things Fannie likes (shown in CAPITAL letters) all follow a secret rule. Can you figure out what it is? NOTE: Fickle Fannie likes words. But each week she likes something different about them — how they’re spelled, how they sound, how they look, what they mean, or what’s inside them.

If the ANTEDILUVIAN types had nukes we’d all be dead. A wayward KEYSTROKE could sabotage your files. USURIOUS predators are better known as loan sharks. Citrusville police blotter: Clementine assaulted by NECTARINE. A monstrous meteorite could become the ultimate ERASER. Most things ALLEGORICAL are also apocryphal. A big glass of V-8 will put you in a VEGETATIVE state. Arnold’s odd decisions could TERMINATE his tenure. Saddam prided himself on being a latter-day STALINIST. Some consider a move to MIAMI as a foretaste of heaven. E me with your Qs or comments (dd44art@aol.com). Difficulty rating for this puzzle: SIMPLE AS TUTU. If you’re stuck, see the HINT on this page. If you cave, see the ANSWER on page 55A. So much for Fickle Fannie’s tastes this week. Next week she’ll have a whole new set of likes and dislikes.

FICKLE FANNIE HINT: They have déjà vu all over again.

o be banned in Iran is surely an accolade, given the narrow-minded Islamic fundamentalists in power there. The Lizard was plagued by censorship despite becoming a 2004 box-office hit. The public loved this irreverent satire, perhaps even more so after conservative clerics clamped down. Happily for Vermonters, it will screen at Montpelier’s ninth annual Green Mountain Film Festival. This year’s edition offers 32 features, documentaries and shorts from nine countries at the Savoy Theater and City Hall Arts Center from March 17 through 26. Lizard director Kamal Tabrizi, working from a screenplay by Peiyman Ghassemkhani, has created a truly humane comedy of errors that transcends any ayatollah smear campaign. And for those of us who don’t understand Farsi, the humor translates smoothly through English subtitles. Reza, the sly protagonist, refers to God as “the heaviest of dudes” and suggests there are many paths to enlightenment. While no volatile Danish cartoon of Allah, this release clearly could upset rigid religious thinkers. Dubbed The Lizard because of his agility in scaling walls to commit armed robbery, Reza is sentenced to life in prison as a repeat offender. He encounters a warden there who regularly punishes him with solitary con-

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decade with this philosophical thriller about a former tennis pro who winds up with everything a socially ambitious young Londoner could ever want â€” except a conscience. With Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Scarlett Johansson and Emily Mortimer. (124 min, R) MEMOIRS OF A GEISHAHH1/2 Rob (Chicago) Marshall adapts Arthur Goldenâ€™s bestseller about a poor Japanese girl who transforms herself into a figure of skill and refinement. Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe star. (145 min, PG-13) MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTSHHH Judi Dench stars in Stephen Frearsâ€™ fact-based period piece about a widowed English socialite who opens a burlesque theater during World War II. Bob Hoskins plays her feisty stage manager. Also featuring Christopher Guest. (103 min, R) MUNICHHHHHH Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush star in Steven Spielbergâ€™s historical thriller about the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. (R) NANNY MCPHEEHHH Emma Thompson stars in director Kirk Jonesâ€™ supernatural babysitter saga based on Christianna Brandâ€™s bestselling â€œNurse Matildaâ€? series and Thompsonâ€™s own screenplay. With Colin Firth and Kelly MacDonald. (98 min, PG) NIGHT WATCHHHH One of the most successful Russian movies in history, Timbor Bekmambetovâ€™s supernatural effects-fest concerns a conflict between forces of light and darkness in contemporary Moscow. Starring Vladmir Menshov and Valery Zolotukhin. (115 min, R) RUNNING SCAREDHHHH Paul Walker stars in this crime drama from director Wayne (The Cooler) Kramer, the story of a low-level mobster racing against the clock to recover a gun before his bosses or the cops can find it. Chazz Palminteri and Cameron Bright costar. (119 min, R) SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC HHH Silverman has one of the most interesting, inventive and provocative minds in contemporary comedy, as demonstrated in this film documenting her stand-up act. With Bob Odenkirk. Directed by Liam Lynch. (72 min, R) THE PINK PANTHERHH Steve Martin stars in this resurrection of the Inspector Clouseau franchise. This time around, the eponymous diamond is in a ring which has been stolen from a famous soccer coach whoâ€™s just been murdered. Beyonce Knowles and Kevin Kline costar. Shawn Levy directs. (92 min, PG) THE SQUID & THE WHALEHHHH Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney star in writerdirector Noah Baumbachâ€™s tragicomic portrait of a New York family dealing with its disintegration in the mid-1980s. Costarring Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Paquin and Owen Kline. (88 min, R) THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIANHHH1/2

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CACHEHHHH Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil are paired in writer-director Michael Hanekeâ€™s highly acclaimed psychological thriller about a Parisian couple whose lives spiral out of control when mysterious videotapes begin showing up on their doorstep. Lester Makedonsky costars. (121 min, R) CAPOTEHHHH1/2 Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the role of writer-socialite Truman Capote in this biopic, which focuses on the years when the author wrote In Cold Blood. Catherine Keener costars. Bennett Miller directs. (98 min, R) CURIOUS GEORGEHHH Director Matthew Oâ€™Callaghan brings the beloved childrenâ€™s series to the big screen with a little help from Will Ferrell, Joan Plowright, David Cross and Eugene Levy. (87 min, G) DATE MOVIEH From the writers of the horror-parody Scary Movie comes this parody of romantic comedies featuring Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard and Allyson Hannigan. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer direct. (80 min, PG-13) DAVE CHAPPELL'S BLOCK PARTYHHHH Michel (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) Gondry directs this documentary record of the once-in-a-lifetime free party the comedy superstar threw for a Brooklyn neighborhood. Also featuring Kanye West, Mos Def, Dead Prez and the Fugees. (R) DOOGALH1/2 Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Whoopi Goldberg are among the voice cast for this animated adventure about four doggy friends who team up to save the world from an evil sorcerer. Directed by Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick and Jean Duval. (79 min, G) EIGHT BELOWHHH1/2 In this actionadventure inspired by a true story, three scientists on an expedition to Antarctica must leave their team of sled dogs to survive alone for more than six months. With Paul Walker and Jason Briggs. (PG) FINAL DESTINATION 3HH Set six years after the original film, this sequel centers around a high school student who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident. Featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman and Harris Allan. Directed by James Wong. (92 min, R) FIREWALLHH1/2 Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen are paired in Richard Loncraineâ€™s thriller about a bank-security expert forced to bypass his own computer-security systems when kidnappers take his family hostage. Vince Vieluf and Paul Bettany costar. (105 min, PG-13) GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCKHHHH David Strathairn stars in George Clooneyâ€™s account of the mid-century clash between CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and professional witchhunter Joseph McCarthy. With Robert Downey, Jr. (90 min, PG) MATCH POINTHHHHH Woody Allen serves up his finest film in more than a

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wednesday 8 â€” thursday 9 Sarah Silvermanâ€™s Jesus is Magic 1, 2:50, 4:35, 6:20, 8, 9:40. Dave Chappellâ€™s Block Party 1:20, 4, 7:05, 9:35. The Squid & the Whale 2x2-CCTV022206 10:30 (Thu), 6:50, 9:20. Capote 4:40, 7, 9:30. Brokeback Mountain 10:30 (Thu), 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10. Aquamarine 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15. Eight Below 1:05, 3:45, 2x3-vtsoup030806.indd 1 6:35, 9:10. Good Night and Good Luck 12:30, 2:35. Munich 4:45, 8:10. The Pink Panther 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 6:55, 9. Curious George 12:40, 2:45. Doogal 12:45, 2:35, 4:30.

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ESSEX CINEMA Essex Outlet Fair, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex Junction, 879-6543 wednesday 8 â€” thursday 9 16 Blocks 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Aquamarine 1:15. 4, 6:45, 9:20. Curious George 12:40, 2:45, 4:50. Date Movie 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:20. Doogal 1, 3, 5, 7. Eight Below 1:15, 4:15, 7, 9:25. Firewall 7:20, 9:35. The Pink Panther 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:15, 9:20. Ultraviolet 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:30. When a Stranger Calls 9:35. friday 10 â€” thursday 16 *Failure to Launch 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25. *The Hills Have Eyes 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:35. *The Shaggy Dog 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:35. 16 Blocks 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Aquamarine 1:15. 4, 6:45, 9:20. Eight Below 1:15, 4:15, 7, 9:25. The Pink Panther 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:15, 9:20. Ultraviolet 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:30. Times subject to change.

friday 10 â€” thursday 16 *The Shaggy Dog 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:20. *The Hills Have Eyes 1:15, 4:15, 7, 9:35. *Failure to Launch 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:40. Eight Below 12:50, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15. Aquamarine 1, 3:40, 6:50, 9:25. 16 Blocks 1:05, 4, 6:45, 9:10. Ultraviolet 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:05. Date Movie 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45. The Pink Panther 1:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:30, 9. Curious George 12:30, 2:30. Capote 4:30, 7:05, 9:30.. Times subject to change. See http://www.majestic10.com.

Ethan Allen Shopping Center, North Ave., Burlington, 863-6040. wednesday 8 â€” thursday 9 Eight Below 7. The Pink Panther 7:20. Aquamarine 7:10. Capote 6:50. friday 10 â€” thursday 16 *The Shaggy Dog 1:10 & 3:20 (Sat & Sun), 7:10, 9:15 (Fri-Sun). *Failure to Launch 1:20 & 3:40 (Sat & Sun), 7:20, 9:25 (Fri-Sun). Eight Below 1 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun), 7, 9:20 (Fri-Sun). Aquamarine 1:05 & 4 (Sat & Sun), 7:15, 9:30 (FriSun). Times subject to change. See www.merrilltheatres.net.

friday 10 â€” thursday 16 *Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25. *The Libertine 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:30. *Ballets Russes 10:30 (Thu), 1, 3:35, 6:40. *Failure to Launch 10:30 (Thu), 1:35, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20. *The Shaggy Dog 12:55, 3:30, 6:30, 8:45. Dave Chappellâ€™s Block Party 1:20, 4, 7:05, 9:35. Eight Below 1:05, 3:45, 6:35, 9:05. Capote 9:10. Brokeback Mountain 12:50, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10. Aquamarine 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15. Times subject to change.

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Tom Barden fills you in on everything you need to know about planning and enjoying a golfing trip in Ireland. Location: Fletcher Free Library, Burlington Admission: Free

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Kevin O'Hara will talk about his book which describes his travels around the entire coastline of Ireland walking alongside a donkey and cart. Location: Farrell Room, 3rd floor, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester Admission: Free

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Enjoy Saint Patrick's Day with one of the most celebrated Irish-American groups in Celtic music history. Location: Flynn Theatre, Main Street, Burlington Admission: Festival web site for details.

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France has its mimes, and Italy its Harlequin shows, but China’s pedestrian art relies more on muscles than make-up. Its 2000-year-old streetperformance tradition is rooted in acrobatics, a genre woven throughout the country’s art and culture. This week, the Peking Acrobats return to the Flynn with a theatrical showcase of wire walking, trick cycling and precision gymnastics. Dressed in elaborate costumes, the elite co-ed touring troupe stretches the limits of physical possibility, with T’ai Chi-style control. See bodies balance in complicated symmetrical formations, perch perilously on a ceiling-high stack of chairs, flourish fans, or simultaneously spin ceramic plates on thin bamboo rods. A live orchestra featuring traditional Chinese instruments accompanies the jaw-dropping action.

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scene@PEAK PITCH BOLTON VALLEY RESORT, 9 A.M., FRIDAY, MARCH 3. The first things I noticed were the ski vests. “Green for those with dough,” explained Charlie Kireker of FreshTracks Capital, “and blue for those looking for dough.” For two hours, blue vests would ride up the chairlift making sales pitches to green vests. After a lunchtime speech by Senate-hopeful Rich Tarrant, the three best pitchers would “pitch-off” in front of the entire group, which would select a winner. “Anyone can make a pitch in an elevator, a Starbucks or a conference room,” said Phil Ferneau of Borealis Ventures, which co-hosted the event with Fresh Tracks Capital. “To make a pitch on a chairlift when the wind chill dips below zero, well, that’s a hardy company. So get out there and start pitching!” As the howling wind shook the lodge and sent snow swirling across the slopes, 30 entrepreneurs and start-up business-owners, and 30 venture capitalists and financial advisors, crammed their feet into cold ski boots and covered exposed skin with balaclavas. The networking began even before the chairlift rides. “Mark Baker,” said a man clad in head-to-toe flannel pajamas, handing me his business card. “The Vermont Flannel Clothing Company. Do you have a card?” He had to ask. I searched my pockets, then changed the subject. “Are you going to be warm enough?” I asked. He showed me his thick flannel top and launched into his company’s plan to promote Internet sales. “We’ll need funding and infrastructure to handle that,” Baker said. “Because when it happens, we have to be ready.” At the table next to me, Alex Wolff was having problems with his palm pilot. A sports writer pitching his plan to bring a professional basketball team to Vermont, Wolff told me he hadn’t skied “since the early ’70s.” But he was determined to make his pitch. So determined that he’d brought his own personal ski instructor. Wolff seemed in capable hands, so I headed for the chairlift, where I sat in on several chilly sales pitches — including one about Ipod accessories and one by the publisher of a fledgling ski magazine — before heading off on my own to ski some gladed woods, where it was less windy than on the open trails and nobody there asked for my card. MARK AIKEN

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WED.08 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. ST. ANDREWS PIPES & DRUMS: Got kilt? This Scottish-style marching band welcomes new members to play bagpipes or percussion. St. James Episcopal Church, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7335. TAJ MAHAL & MAVIS STAPLES: Two music icons and longtime friends let loose with American roots music par excellence. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-43. Info, 863-5966. MICHAEL ARNOWITT: The Montpelier-based pianist collaborates with author Marjorie Ryerson, sprinkling H2O-themed compositions between readings from her book, Water Music. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 635-1476. REBECCA HALL & KEN ANDERSON: Two balladeers sing songs from the British Isles in retro-folk style. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

dance ‘SALSALINA’ PRACTICE: Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $10. Info, 598-1077.

drama DROP-IN IMPROV: Actors create characters and hone storytelling skills in a fun stage workshop. Waterfront Theatre, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 862-0999. ‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: Vermont Stage Company offers playwright Pamela Gien’s semi-autobiographical, one-woman show about South Africa under apartheid. See review, this issue.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-27.50. Info, 863-5966. ‘OF MICE & MEN’: John Steinbeck’s compelling story about lonely and disenfranchised ranch workers takes center stage at the Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $16-41. Info, 296-7000 ‘SILENT INVASION’: Green Candle Theatre Company presents Burlington playwright Josh Bridgman’s semi-autobiographical, multimedia-enhanced foray into paranoia. See story, this issue. Shoebox Theater, 135 Pearl, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 660-7163. ‘WOMEN SAY NO TO WAR’: A political play and a speaker close International Women’s Day at the Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8667.

film ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’: Director Ang Lee’s poignant Oscar contender follows a forbidden love between two ranch hands in 1960s Wyoming. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600. Also at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:30 p.m. $7. Info, 603646-2422. ‘WOMEN IN LOVE’: This 1969 film based on the D.H. Lawrence novel explores the relationships of two men and two women in the early 1900s. A Q & A with screenwriter and gay rights activist Larry Kramer follows. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘SOMETIMES IN APRIL’: UVM students taking action against the violence in Darfur present this film chronicling the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Room 207, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 413-441-5597.

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historic vessels to postmodern art. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

words GOGOL GROUP: At a weekly get-together, creative types reincarnate theatrical projects inspired by the novel Dead Souls, by Russian lit luminary Nikolai Gogol. Cardboard Technical Institute, Montpelier, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0854. POETRY OPEN MIKE: Bards take turns so everyone can read at a Boho evening of free verse. Euro Gourmet Market & Café, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 859-3467. ‘MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS’ SERIES: Readers of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John talk about parental power. South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7076. ‘INFLUENTIAL FIRST LADIES’: Readers of Blanch Wiesen Cook’s biography, Eleanor Roosevelt, 19331938, discuss the feminist powerhouse’s legacy. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. BOOK LAUNCH: Activist Ahmed Shawki introduces his Black Liberation and Socialism in a talk analyzing historic movements against racism in the U.S. Room 108, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 718-431-3932.

talks MILITARY HISTORY TALK: Ordnance buff and author Howard Coffin thumbs through his historic battlefield guide, Guns Over the Champlain Valley. South Burlington Community Library, noon. Free, bring a bag lunch. Info, 652-7076. ‘DANTE TRANSLATED’: English prof Tom Simone discusses different language- and image-based interpretations of the Italian author’s oeuvre. See story, this issue. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0750. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: A panel of speakers questions the legality of the death penalty. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1217.

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‘MUMIA ABU JAMAL’: Free Mumia? Robert Bryan, lead counsel for the former Black Panther and civil rights journalist, offers his view of the case. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1217. ROBERT DE CORMIER: The noted choral conductor and arranger offers insight into the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the music it performs. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6432. ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH THE LAND’: David Brynn of Vermont Family Forests explores communitybased conservation. Mozart Room, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-8071. SPIRITUAL TALK: Philosophers discuss the esoteric meaning of Rosicrucian symbols. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5249706. TV PRODUCTION: UVM prof emeritus Lyn Jarvis describes working on “Across the Fence,” the longest-running locally produced show in the country. Village Lodge, Smugglers’ Notch, Jeffersonville, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 644-1293. ‘HISTORIC TICONDEROGA IN PICTURES’: Town historian Bill Dolback focuses on what the burg looked like from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century. Hancock House, Ticonderoga Historical Society, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-585-2821. ‘NATURE’S BEST PEST CONTROL’: Barry Genzlinger of the Chiroptera Cabin Company gives an illustrated talk about how bats keep airborne bugs in line. Blasberg Building, UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10. Info, 864-3073. PEACE CORPS PANEL: Returned volunteers living locally answer questions about serving overseas, and a recruiter discusses the application process. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8269. POLITICS AS UNUSUAL: Human resources consultant Paula Cope describes how to encourage grassroots leadership at a meeting hosted by the Champlain Valley League of Women Voters. Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 657-0242.

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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: Watch critters do dinner with help from the animal-care staff at the ECHO Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 & 3 p.m. $6-9. Info, 864-1848. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: Readings of family faves provide morning fun for toddlers at Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. BROWNELL LIBRARY STORYTIME: Picture books and puppets engage growing readers aged 3-5. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. WESTFORD PLAYGROUP: Children gather for games, songs and stories at the Westford Library, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME: Tots take in their favorite tales at the Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. HINESBURG PLAY GROUP: Youngsters let loose in a fun, friendly, toy-filled atmosphere. Hinesburg Town Hall, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 453-3038. WATERBURY STORYTIME: Little ones ages 2 and under get hooked on books at the Waterbury Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. â€˜MOVING & GROOVINGâ€™: Two- to 5-year-olds boogie down to rock â€™nâ€™ roll and world-beat music. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. â€˜DOG TALESâ€™: Canine-loving kids in grades K-4 gain confidence by reading stories to a certified therapy pooch. Waterbury Library, call for 20-minute afternoon session. Free. Registration and info, 244-7036.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-8293. â€˜VISIONS OF PEACEâ€™: Vermont State Poet Grace Paley leads an evening of antiwar womenâ€™s stories and music. Walk from Unitarian Church to Burlington City Hall Auditorium, peace vigil 5 p.m., reading 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-8293. DRINKING WATER TASK FORCE: Vermonters who support universal access to potable H2O hear about the dangers of the corporate bottled-water industry. Vermont Public Interest Research Group Montpelier, 7 p.m. Info, 229-5745.

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Start the day with meditations for peace and international treats. Waterman Manor, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30-9 a.m. $3. Info, 656-4637. TOASTMASTERS CLUB: Amateur orators sharpen their speaking skills before a supportive audience. Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-0135. PASSPORT DAY: Wannabe travelers apply for the ultimate U.S. government-issued ID. Waterville Elementary School cafeteria, 1-4 p.m. $82-97 includes all passport fees, photo services available for $15. Info, 644-5151. EMBROIDERERS GUILD: Colored-thread aficionados embellish loops of cloth at the Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0198. AUTISM FUNDRAISER: Diners who request a voucher before scarfing slices can donate 20 percent of their tab to local families of autistic kids. Pizzeria Uno, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - midnight. Cost varies according to order. Info, 864-6007.

â€˜RAPTOR RESCUEâ€™: Take a journey through the eyes of an injured bird, from rescue and rehab to eventual release. VINS Nature Center, Quechee, 11 a.m. $8. Info, 359-5000. â€˜RAPTORS UP CLOSEâ€™: Nature lovers get a look at live birds on tours of the VINS Nature Center, Quechee, 2:30 p.m. $8. Info, 359-5000. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery see how itâ€™s made at Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591. ESL GROUP: Non-native speakers learn English at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. CHESS GROUP: Beginner- and intermediate-level players strategize ways to put each otherâ€™s kings in check. South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. KNITTING POSSE: Needle-wielding crafters convene over good yarns. South Burlington Community Also, see clubdates in Section A. Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7076. MCLEAN MIX: Multimedia musicians Barton and VETERANS JOB NETWORKING: Ex-soldiers share Priscilla McLean combine nocturnal rainforest labor-market tips, training info and employment sights and sounds with electronica. Johnson leads. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 9:30-11 a.m. & Building, Middlebury College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, SENIOR EXERCISE: The 60-plus set benefits from American Legion Post, St. Albans, 1-2:30 p.m. 443-6433. stretches and strength training. Senior Free. Info, 652-0339. ANTARA & AARON FLINN: The indie-folk Community Center, The Pines, South Burlington, CHARITY BINGO: Players seek patterns on numsongstress and the prolific, multi-instrumentalist 2:30 p.m. $2. Info, 658-7477. bered cards, then say the magic word. Broadacres composer share the â€œstageâ€? at a coffeehouse conBingo Hall, Colchester, 7 p.m. $10 for 12 cards. cert of regional talent. Firehouse Center for the Info, 860-1510. Visual Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, CABLE-ACCESS LAB: Want to be on TV? Citizens 865-7166. BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: Activists stand togethperuse archives and learn how to produce their APRIL HOONHOUT: The JSC-based singer-songer in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. own shows. Channel 17, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. writer strums acoustic rock at the Base Lodge, Top of Church Street, Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16. Stearns Hall, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Free. Info, 863-2345. KNITTING & RUG HOOKING: Point-pushers create Info, 635-2356. INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS: Marx-minded scarves, hats and mats at the Briggs Carriage BOOKED FOR LUNCH: Marimbist NaoKo Takada activists strategize about the labor, feminist and Bookstore, Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, plays music and talks about her work prior to antiwar movements. Room 102, Lafayette Hall, 247-0050. tomorrowâ€™s Lane Series concert. UVM Recital Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Child care and info, SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH: Back-to-schoolers get tips Burlington, noon. Donations. Info, 865-7211. 318-3453. on finding funding. VSAC Resource Center, MERGER TASK FORCE: Residents and officials from Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, Essex and Essex Junction work on a plan to com800-642-3177. bine the two towns. Lincoln Hall, Essex Junction, â€˜MAGIC CARPETâ€™ LUNCHEON: World travelers preDANCE TRIBE: Boogie down to recorded tunes in a 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-1341. sent their stories over a repast of international safe, friendly environment. No shoes are required PEACE CALL: A pro-peace demonstration kicks off 11 a.m. $14. Hall, 7-9 4:30 p.m. $2. at Shelburne Town International Womenâ€™s2/28/06 Day, followed by music 1x5-burlpreservation030806 3/6/06 PMInfo, Page 1 2x4-mark030106 8:37 AM Page 1 treats. Montshire Museum, Norwich, Reservations and info, 603-643-4470. 476-6139. from over lunch fromTammy Fletcher and INTERNATIONAL WOMENâ€™S DAY BREAKFAST: CONTRA DANCE: The Revolutionary Hamiltonians play Susannah Blachly. March from Unitarian Church to

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words ROBERT PINSKY: The U.S. Poet Laureate reads from his translation of The Inferno, Dante Alighieriâ€™s contribution to underground literature. See story, this issue. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750. BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS: Novel readers evaluate The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. BOOK DISCUSSION: Mystery lovers ponder Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the No. 1 Ladiesâ€™ Detective Agency series. The Pines, South Burlington Senior Center, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

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THU.09 << 07B ENGINEERING TALK: Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton University’s school of Engineering and Applied Science, talks about how to build a better world. North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See March 8. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: Youngsters ages 3 to 5 get together for easy listening at the South Burlington Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. WESTFORD STORYTIME: Kids ponder picture books and create crafts at the Westford Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639. DADS’ PLAYGROUP: Fathers and their offspring bond through fun and games. Family Center, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8765. KIDS’ GARDEN TOUR: Young ones explore the world of plants on a walk around the Four Seasons Garden Center, Williston, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. ‘LITTLE ROOTS’ STORYTIME: Kids gather in the garden to hear tales about plants, flowers and bugs. Four Seasons Garden Center, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. BABY TIME: Little ones up to age 2 meet each other at the Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. TEEN ADVISORY COUNCIL: Patrons in grades 7 and up share ideas for the library’s teen web page. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

activism BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See March 8. RICHMOND PEACE VIGIL: Concerned citizens support U.S. troops while expressing hope for an end to Middle Eastern deployments. Bring a candle to the Congregational Church, Richmond, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2053. DRINKING LIBERALLY: Bottoms-up democracy fuels discussion at a meeting of political progressives. American Flatbread, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 267-237-7488. PEACE CORPS INFO SESSION: A recruiter explains what volunteers do, where they go, and the benefits of joining. Room 104, Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 5:30 p.m. Free. 656-8269. AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: State leaders review Vermont’s past progress and current proposals for universal coverage at a town-hall forum. Diamond Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 224-1103. COMMUNITY DINNER: Residents of Burlington’s Old North End choose from meat, veggie and vegan options, then sit in on a Neighborhood Planning Assembly Meeting. McClure MultiGenerational Center, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-4230.

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SPELLING BEE FOR LITERACY: Spectators watch teams from businesses and schools test their dictionary skills — letter by letter. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 9 a.m. 1 p.m. Info, 262-2626. EDUCATOR EVENING: Teachers hear environmental experts discuss the history of island-hopping and lighthouses in a talk about Lake Champlain’s cultural evolution. ECHO Center, Burlington, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1848. FOOD DEMOS: Richard Lechner of Sean & Nora’s Restaurant tapes a cooking show before a live studio audience. Video Vision, Barre, 6 p.m. $15. Info, 476-0267. HEALING WORKSHOP: Introspective types learn to love themselves, based on the philosophy of Louise Hay and Gay Hendricks. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 288-9265. ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION: A concert melds Burlington-based Celtic trio the Highland Weavers with student stepdancers and an Irish poetry reading. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

FRI.10 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. NAOKO TAKADA: Four mallets in hand, the Japanese marimba virtuoso performs solo, then joins student percussionists. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. OPERA INSIGHTS: Director Tim Tavcar emcees an evening of live selections from La Clemenza di Tito, La Traviata, and Turn of the Screw. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 223-8610. VSO OPEN REHEARSAL: Audience members take in a working-casual Vermont Symphony Orchestra at the Elley-Long Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6432. SENIOR VOCAL RECITAL: Soprano Laura Barrett and tenor Adam Beard pitch their pipes in a concert featuring various compositions. Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. SANDY MORSE & TIN PENNY: Rutland-area musician Morse teams up with a singer-songwriting duo for old and new folk on guitar, banjo and mandolin. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. RUTBUSTERS’ MUSIC NIGHT: Will, Sandhill and the Wood Coats rock out to benefit a group working to make Rutland more livable for youth. Knights of Columbus Hall, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $10. CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY COFFEE HOUSE: The Highland Weavers shuttle between contemporary Celtic ballads and traditional Scottish and Irish tunes. Charlotte Senior Center, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 425-2518. DISSIPATED-8: Middlebury’s mixed a cappella ensemble hums harmonies at Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 453-5995. THE JAZZ CAFE: Drummer Kenwood Dennard, who has recorded with Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Sting, bangs out beats with his band The Real Thing. The Carving Studio, West Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-5413.

‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See March 8. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See March 8. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See March 8. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8. VERMONT CHESS CLUB: Pawn pushers plan moves to better their game. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0198. QUEEN CITY BNI: Local members of Business Network International schmooze at a weekly lunch meeting to help promote one another’s companies. Windjammer Restaurant, South Burlington, 11:305x4-musclecarblk&wht 10/25/05 9:23 AM 1 p.m. First visit is free. Info, 655-3787.

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dance BALLROOM DANCE SOCIAL: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2207. ARGENTINEAN TANGO: Shoulders back, chin up! Partners or no, dancers at all levels strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077. QUEEN CITY CONTRA: Caller Chris Weiler orders dancers, and the band Bibelot offers up footloose fiddle licks. St. Anthony’s Church Hall, Burlington, beginners 7:45, dance 8 p.m. $7. Info, 434-2446. MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL: Western-style square dancing steps pace partners who do-si-do, then eat sugar-on-snow. South Burlington Middle School, 7-11 p.m. $3-58, free to watch. Info, 985-2012.

drama ‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See March 8. ‘OF MICE & MEN’: See March 8. ‘SILENT INVASION’: See March 8. ‘RING ROUND THE MOON’: See March 9. VARIETY SHOW AUDITIONS: Talented folks try out for the chance to demo their skills at a mud-season showcase. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, call for time slot. Free. Info, 728-9010. PEKING ACROBATS: Gymnasts, jugglers and tumblers mount mindbending stunts to traditional Chinese music. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-32. Info, 863-5966.

film WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: See March 9. ‘SYRIANA’: In this politically charged thriller, George Clooney portrays an expat trying to bring peace to tense dealings in the Middle East. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600. ‘BROKEN FLOWERS’: Bill Murray stars as a sixtysomething Don Juan who takes a cross-country road trip to find his long-lost son. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 518523-2512. ‘AFTER THE FOG’: Filmmaker Jay Craven interviews local vets about the emotional effects of war and reintegration into civilian life. Enosburg Falls High School, 7 p.m. $8. Info, 592-3190. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: More than 280 cinematic odes to creativity depict formats from architecture and literature to dance and painting. Various Montréal locations, times and prices. Info, 877-266-5687.

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talks ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT: See March 9, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1309. ‘INVENTING MODERN AMERICA’: Historian Willard Sterne Randall keynotes the opening of a touring exhibit about U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Reservations and info, 865-5400. ‘TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE LIVING’: A video-recorded presentation by the Global Justice Ecology

Project considers the potential of genetically engineered trees to render forests infertile. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 660-7192. ‘THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS’: UMass prof emeritus Donald Kroodsma turns up the scholarly volume on avians’ acoustic communication. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 229-6206.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See March 8. WATERBURY STORYTIME: See March 8, for children ages 3-5. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See March 9.

sport SENIOR EXERCISE: See March 8, 10 a.m. THE POINT SKI & RIDE: Button- and coupon-holders hit the slopes for half-price, then warm up at an après-ski party. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, all day. $32. Info, 223-2396.

activism BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See March 8. PUBLIC FORUM: U.S. Senator Barack Obama speaks at a stump session for U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders and Democratic congressional candidate Peter Welch. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, noon, Free, parking and shuttles at the Sheraton Hotel in South Burlington. Info, 656-3131.

etc ‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See March 8. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See March 8. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See March 8. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8. TERTULIA LATINA: Latinoamericanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español at Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440. SPAGHETTI SUPPER: Pasta lovers choose between meat and meatless sauce, then add salad, a beverage and dessert. First Congregational Church, Cornwall, 5:30-7 p.m. $7. Info, 462-3111. FISH FRY: French fries and coleslaw come with haddock fixed two different ways. St. Ambrose Parish Church, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $8.50. Info, 453-2488.

SAT.11 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. MCLEAN MIX: See March 9, with a concert titled “MILLing in the ENNIUM.” Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. CRAOBH RUA: The Belfast-based foursome mixes traditional Irish instruments with banjo and bouzouki. See calendar spotlight. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-23. Info, 863-5966. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: The VSO Chorus conveys both conflict and its peaceful resolution in Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Mass in Time of War” and Vaughan Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pachem.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, pre-concert talk 7 p.m., concert 8 p.m. $12-46. Info, 863-5966. WOOD’S TEA COMPANY: The Vermont-based band

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dance MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL: See March 10, 10 a.m. 11 p.m. VERMONT STATE DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS: High school teams of four to 20 compete with highpowered performances in hip-hop, “pom” or jazz dancing. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1-4 p.m. $6. Info, 635-1416. CONTRA DANCE: Northern Spy makes sweet and snappy music for caller David Millstone to direct dancers in soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $7. Info, 785-4607.

drama ‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See March 8, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘OF MICE & MEN’: See March 8. ‘SILENT INVASION’: See March 8, Info, 863-5966. ‘RING ROUND THE MOON’: See March 9. VARIETY SHOW AUDITIONS: See March 10. ‘THE WEIR’: Firefly Productions presents playwright Connor McPhearson’s drama set in a remote Irish pub, in which ghost stories spellbind a mysterious outsider. Smugglers’ Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 9:30 p.m. $12. Info, 644-2542. ‘GROUND HOG OPRY’: This old-time Vermont tribute show melds acoustic music with fast-paced political humor. Hardwick Town House, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 877-2262. ‘WORKING THE EDGE’: Vermont comedienne and jazz singer Laurel Casey belts out cuttingly honest lyrics in her show, You Can’t Fire Me — I’m Unemployed!. Great Falls Fine Art Center, Middlebury, 9 p.m. $12. Info, 382-9222. TWO ONE-WOMAN SHOWS: Melissa Converse and Abigail Nessen star in Fool’s Proof and Anthem, accompanied by guitarist Stephen Kiernan. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 388-0414. DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER PORTRAYAL: Helene Lang resurrects the writings and life story of this Vermont author. Rutland Free Library, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. 2x4-preclampsia011806

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MODEL RAILROAD SHOW Saturday, March 11, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $5. Info, 878-1135. http://www.nwvrailroad.org

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SAT.11 << 09B GENERAL AUDITIONS: Lost Nation Theater lines up actors, interns and apprentices for musical and non-musical summer shows. Memorial Room, Montpelier City Hall, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., call for appointment. Free. Info, 229-0492. AUDITIONS FOR ‘MORNINGS AT SEVEN’: The Stowe Theatre Guild seeks actors for this comedic play with many roles for men and women in their sixties and seventies. Town Hall Theatre, Stowe, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-9995. COMMUNITY SHOWCASE: Neighbors surprise one another with seldom-shown talents. Woodstock Town Hall, 2 & 7 p.m. $12. Info, 457-3981.

film WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: See March 9. ‘SYRIANA’: See March 10. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: See March 10. ‘MOOLAADE’: In this 2004 film, an African village takes sides against a woman who shields girls from ritual female circumcision. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. PENCIL DRAWING DEMO: Artist Jenny Steele Cole poises sharpened graphite over paper at Artists’ Mediums, Williston, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-1236. LIFE DRAWING: Artists sketch a live model in various poses using a medium of their choice. Studio STK, Burlington, noon - 2 p.m. $10. Info, 657-3333.

words ‘WRITING CHILDREN’S BOOKS’: Author Tory Taber and illustrator Norman Taber, the team behind the picture book Rufus at Work, talk about turning ideas into pages. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. BOOK DISCUSSION: Readers of Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis compare it to other Pulitzer Prize-winning books. Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6632.

talks PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Middlebury grad and classroom instructor Curtis Hier tackles education reform based on his hard-hitting book, A Teacher Talks Back. Book King, Rutland, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9232. WOODLAND GARDENING: Outdoor types hear how hard-stemmed and herbaceous plants can bring easy-care beauty. Gardener’s Supply, Burlington, 9:30-11 a.m. $10. Registration and info, 660-3505. GREEN MOUNTAIN OLDER WOMEN’S LEAGUE: Wendy Love, Director of the Vermont Commission on Women, gives an update on women’s issues in the state legislature. Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin, business meeting 10 a.m., talk 11 a.m. Free. Info, 496-9458. AARP MEETING: A lawyer offers tips to seniors about advanced directives and planning for incapacity. South Burlington City Hall, social hour 9 a.m., meeting 10 a.m. Free. Info, 879-2684.

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sport GROTON STATE SNOWSHOE: Cold-weather walkers take a turn around Kettle Pond. Call for Marshfield-area meeting location and time. Free. Info, 454-1234. WHITE MOUNTAINS HIKE: Crampons and snowshoes are a must to mount Mt. Moriah on a difficult, 9-mile trip. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 476-7987. MOONLIGHT TREK: Snowshoers admire the nearly full moon’s reflection in Colchester Pond on a hike around the perimeter. Bring a headlamp in case skies get cloudy. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 878-1711. JAY PEAK X-C SKI TOUR: Trail designer Bill Salmon leads a guided tour of a walking and hiking system that runs up and down the length of Jay Branch Brook. Call for meeting location and time. Donations. Info, 253-9911, ext. 202. SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT: A weekend of Olympic-style events highlights athletes’ abilities. Bolton Valley Resort, all day, with opening ceremonies in the morning. Free. Info, 655-4400.

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IRISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION: A “boiled dinner” of corned beef and cabbage precedes ballads by Sarah Blair and Colin McCaffrey. The band Trinity gets revelers rowdy with Irish tavern songs at the Old Labor Hall, Barre, 4:30 p.m. $12 includes dinner, $5 music only. Reservations and info, 479-5545. ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION WORKSHOP: Whatever happened to those home movies? Memory keepers get tips on saving documents, photos and audiovisual recordings for family and community collections. Vermont Folklife Center, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $75. Registration and info, 388-4964. BURLINGTON DOWSERS: Rod wielders hear about devices used to remove harmful frequencies from living spaces. Room 102, Wick Building, Champlain College, Burlington, practice 9:30 a.m., meeting 10 a.m. $5. Info, 310-5363. SAXON HILL SCHOOL ARTISAN AUCTION: Appetizers, coffee and dessert augment silent and live bids. Top prize? A wine collection assembled by attendees. The Inn at Essex, 6 p.m. $25 and a bottle of wine at least $15 in value. Info, 878-8803. FAMILY FUN DAY & AUCTION: Parents and kids go hand-in-hand for live music, face painting, African dance, storytelling and tasty treats. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8576. ‘SUGAR ON SNOW’ PARTY: Hardened-maple-syrup edibles usher in spring at Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, 1-4 p.m. $3. Info, 985-5054. CELTICA: Irish literature readings and music by the band O’hAnleigh make step-dance students click their heels at this family-friendly party and raffle. Vermont Celtic Arts Center, Essex Shoppes & Cinemas, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1848. BOOK SALE: Browsers get between the covers to decide which tomes to take at this Richmond Free Library fundraiser. Camel’s Hump Middle School, Richmond, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. SPORTSMEN’S BANQUET: Environmentally aware sharpshooters chow down at this fundraiser for the Ruffed Grouse Society, an international wildlife conservation outfit that supports hunting heritage. Hampton Inn, Colchester, cocktails 5:30 p.m., dinner 7 p.m. $65 includes dinner. Info, 482-2561. SHAM ROCK FASHION SWAP: The ClothingChange ReCreation Center lays out rocking men’s and women’s threads inspired by Irish folk costume and the color green. Restore, Montpelier, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1239.

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KIRTAN SINGING: Yoga students stretch their vocal cords with chants in Sanskrit. Yoga Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 598-7711.

dance IRISH DANCING CEILIDH: Fleet-footed step dancers invite onlookers to kick up their heels to live music. Mater Christi School, Burlington, 1 p.m. $5. Info, 878-3824. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE: Circle moves are the focus of this dance session. Leave your street shoes outside. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 3-6 p.m. $7. Info, 633-3226.

drama ‘THE SYRINGA TREE’: See March 8, 2 p.m. ‘OF MICE & MEN’: See March 8, 5 p.m. ‘SILENT INVASION’: See March 8. Info, 863-5966. ‘RING ROUND THE MOON’: See March 9. AUDITIONS FOR ‘MORNINGS AT SEVEN’: See March 11. ‘FORBIDDEN BROADWAY’: A spoof revue lampoons musical-theater megahits Wicked, The Lion King and other ongoing shows. Flynn Mainstage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $22-36. Info, 863-5966.

film WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: See March 9. ‘SYRIANA’: See March 10. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: See March 10.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. CREATIVE SOURCE PAINTING: Artists work through painter’s block and other obstacles at the Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. $95 includes materials. Info, 426-3717.

talks ISRAELI ELECTIONS: Political experts offer a crash course on the candidates, the issues and Israel’s electoral system. North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1145.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See March 8.

sport SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT: See March 11. BEAVER POND HIKE: A cross-country ski trail forms part of the path to explore water mammals’ habitat near Camel’s Hump. Call for meeting time and location. Free. Info, 863-1145. VERMONT BENCH PRESS & STRICT CURL CHAMPIONSHIPS: Open and drug-tested divisions ensure there’s a place for everyone who loves powerlifting. See story, this week. Burlington YMCA, noon. $5. Info, 865-2747.

‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See March 8. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See March 8. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8. Also, see clubdates in Section A. ‘NATURALIST’S CHOICE’: An on-site outdoor guide BELCEA QUARTET: The London-based chamber talks about the environmental impact of any one group strings up for two works by Mozart and one of these Vermont fauna: coyotes, bats, bears, by Shostakovich. Concert Hall, Middlebury College loons, turkeys and moose. VINS Nature Center, Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 443-6433. Quechee, 12:30 p.m. $8. Info, 359-5000. POTEEN: The Vermont-based Celtic band breaks out MODEL RAILROAD SHOW: Engineers steer minialively tunes for green season. South Burlington ture trains through more than 120 exhibits and Community Library, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. vendors’ booths at this all-ages event. See calen‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See March 8. UVM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Black-and-white dar spotlight. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See March 8. clad students and community members make Junction, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $5. Info, 878-1135. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8, 2 & 7 p.m. music together at the UVM Recital Hall, UKRAINIAN EGG DECORATING: Pysanky practition‘NATURALIST’S CHOICE’: See March 11. Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. ers of all ages adorn ovoids with wax patterns, ‘SUGAR ON SNOW’ PARTY: See March 11. then dye 10 a.m. - noon. 12/5/05 2:18 PM Page 1 6/2/05 3:27 PM Page2x4-CCTA120705 1 2:06 PM Page 1 them. Waterbury Library,1x4-keys Call for cost. Registration and info, 244-7036.

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BURLINGTON AREA SCRABBLE CLUB: Letter wranglers make every word count in a tournamentstyle competition. Bring your board to Allenwood, 90 Allen Road, South Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558. CLOTH DIAPER WORKSHOP: Moms and dads get down and dirty with the finer points of posterior fashion and ecology. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 223-8004, ext. 202.

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MON.13 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. MEG IRISH: The folk singer-songwriter brings a touch of ’tude to the Bad Girls Café, Johnson, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 635-7423. SAMBATUCADA! REHEARSAL: Percussive people pound out carnival rhythms at an open meeting of this Brazilian-style community drumming troupe. Switchback Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-0532. AMATEUR MUSICIANS ORCHESTRA: Community players of all abilities and levels of experience practice pieces and welcome new members. South Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 985-9750.

dance ‘MEET THE ARTIST’: Guest artist Anita Ratnam holds a lecture and demonstration in advance of her Indian dance performance. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘SEVEN GRACES’: Dancer and choreographer Anita Ratnam performs a 60-minute solo piece that incorporates Indian feminism, Chinese martial arts and Tibetan Buddhism. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

film ‘SYRIANA’: See March 10. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: See March 10. ‘TREASON, INC.’: Montpelier-based activist and researcher Craig Hill presents his film criticizing the official 9/11 scenario, as well as previously unreleased footage documenting FEMA’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina. Marsh Life Auditorium, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2296.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. COMMUNITY DARKROOM: See March 9. LIFE DRAWING SESSION: Creative types try a hand at sketching. Wolfe Kahn Building, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 6-8 p.m. $7. Info, 635-1769.

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Franklin Roosevelt was the architect of the New Deal and the only U.S. president to be elected more than twice. His wife Eleanor left her own legacy. A first-wave feminist, diplomat, author and human-rights activist, she helped to form the United Nations, and was one of the first U.S. delegates. Rumors of Roosevelt’s bisexual relationship with a White House reporter, among other affairs, have been treated differently by her many biographers. But what almost ended the Roosevelts’ marriage was well-documented hanky-panky between F.D.R. and Eleanor’s social secretary. In a humorous, adults-only presentation, actress Elena Dodd takes on the persona of the woman President Truman called “the first lady of the world.”

‘MEET ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’ Wednesday, March 15, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. http://www.gis.net/~mtf/er.htm

talks KEVIN O’HARA: The author of Last of the Donkey Pilgrims shares witty anecdotes from his trip circling Ireland’s coastline — on foot. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. 5x4-sendart

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MON.13 << 11B ‘KEY MOMENTS IN HELL’: UVM English professor emeritus Bill Stephany explores Satan’s treachery as described in Cantos 32-34 of Dante’s Inferno. See story, this issue. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 660-7192.

kids WATERBURY STORYTIME: See March 8, for children ages 3-5. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See March 9, for babies and toddlers up to age 3. FAMILY SING-ALONG: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Also at the Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. BUBBIES, BABIES & BAGELS: A Jewish-themed playgroup for families of all backgrounds features intergenerational schmoozing and noshing. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0218, ext. 26.

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film ‘SYRIANA’: See March 10. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: See March 10. ‘WAR PHOTOGRAPHER’: Documentary filmmaker Christian Frei follows a photojournalist into the combat zones of Kosovo, Indonesia and the West Bank. Middle Earth Music Hall, Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4748. ‘TOUGH GUISE’: This film examines the negative effects that media images of male dominance, sexism and violence have on American culture. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 343-6293. ‘EPOCH’: This adventure-sports documentary offers thrilling footage of backcountry skiing in the Northeast. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 652-0777. ‘STYLE WARS’: This 1983 documentary chronicles the rise of graffiti artists and hip-hop culture in New York City. Campus Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 401-391-1564.

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‘RAY COLLINS’ COLCHESTER’: Former Colchester Chronicle editor Guy Page offers a snapshot of the town’s history when 1920s baseball great Ray Collins called it home. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See March 8. BROWNELL LIBRARY STORYTIME: See March 8. Toddlers take their turns with tales first, 9:109:30 a.m. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See March 9, for babies and toddlers up to age 3. TODDLER-AND-UNDER STORYTIME: Wee ones up to age 3 open their ears to songs and stories. South Burlington Community Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. ECHO STORYTIME: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. $6-9. Info, 864-1848. ‘MUSIC WITH ROBERT AND GIGI’: Kids sing along with Robert Resnik and his fiddle-playing friend Gigi Weisman. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Registration and info, 865-7216.

Also, see clubdates in Section A. ST. ANDREWS PIPES & DRUMS: See March 8. QUENESKA STRING QUARTET: Members of the VSO form a foursome to play works by Haydn, Mozart and other 18th-century Viennese composers. Coffee and dessert follows at the Student Life Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6432. FRANCOIS CLEMMONS: The full-throated former postman of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” sings his annual St. Patrick’s Day concert. Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. CONGA WORKSHOP: Community members get rhythm, then see a demo of Cuban and Haitian music by the group Guayoyo. Burlington Taiko, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0658. FARMERS’ NIGHT CONCERT: The Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra tunes up at the Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228.

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COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: Beginner to intermediate stretchers get their spines aligned through Anusara-inspired instruction. Healing in Common Lobby, Network Chiropractic of Vermont, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-9036.

‘SALSALINA’ PRACTICE: See March 8.

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etc CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See March 8. SENIOR LUNCHEON: Elders socialize over a music-enhanced meal featuring early greens. Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne, noon. $4. Reservations and info, 862-7754.

TUE.14 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. IRISH FOLK: Celtic song collector Tom McCaffrey shares airs from his 40 years in the field. Assembly Room, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-4510. 40TH ARMY BAND: March music is just part of the drill for this concert also featuring compositions by John Williams and Irving Berlin. Essex High School Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480. WOMEN’S DRUM CIRCLE: Percussion-powered women share rhythms and movement at a world-beat bonanza. 242 Elm Street, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-6912. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS: Male music-makers rehearse barbershop singing and quartetting at St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-2949.

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BURLINGTON WRITERS’ GROUP: Bring pencil, paper and the will to be inspired to the Daily Planet, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 758-2287. ‘FINDING YOUR VOICE’: Former editor and prolific children’s author Tanya Lee Stone describes how writers can develop their word-based personality. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. INSTRUMENT CULTURE: Musician and Champlain prof Tim Brookes reads from Guitar: An American Life — his paean to custom-made, acoustic string sound. Afterward, master luthier Rick Davis demos his craft. Miller Information Commons, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6432. DENNIS JENSEN: The novelist reads from his Vermont-based book, Black Pond Diary. Book King, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9232. OPEN POETRY READING: In honor of Women’s History Month, verse fans stand to voice favorite lines by ladies. Third Floor, Memorial Building, Hardwick, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 472-3065.

talks ‘STAYING WELL’: Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher explains the individual’s role and responsibilities regarding long-term health care. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free, but tickets required. Reservations and info, 800-639-3210. ORTHOTICS TALK: Bunion bearers learn how sole supports can help with knee, hip or lower-back pain. 431 Pine Street, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 951-5700. ‘FINANCE BEYOND CAPITALISM’: Stonecarver and activist Ethan Mitchell describes how socially responsible funds and the rise of microcredit have challenged orthodox monetary systems. Black Sheep Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 225-8906.

activism BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See March 8. WILPF MEETING: Activists review world events at this gathering of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4929.

etc CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See March 8. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8. PAUSE CAFÉ: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Borders Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1346. ‘KNIT NIGHT’: Needle workers relax with fellow fiber artists at the Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962. PARENTING WORKSHOP: Caretakers of kids in special ed learn about changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Room 130, South Burlington High School, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 876-5315. WALDORF OPEN HOUSE: Parents of prospective students tour the grade school and kindergarten, then meet faculty members. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2827.

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drama DROP-IN IMPROV: See March 8. ‘OF MICE & MEN’: See March 8. ‘THE WEIR’: See March 11, Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 644-2542. ‘NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART’: Undergraduates star in a series of short, provocative and locally written horror-genre works. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 651-5962. ‘MEET ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’: Actress Elena Dodd portrays the former first lady in a candid performance for adult audiences. See calendar spotlight. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

film ‘SYRIANA’: See March 10. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART: See March 10. ‘STRICTLY BALLROOM’: Director Baz Luhrmann packs romantic spectacle into this film about Australian dance champs. South Burlington Community Library, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

art See exhibitions in Section A.

words GOGOL GROUP: See March 8. POETRY OPEN MIKE: See March 8. BOOK DISCUSSION: Readers tiptoe around A Death in the Family, James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about innocence and loss. Waterbury Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. ‘AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS’ SERIES: Readers reckon the past via Ernest Gaines’ novel, In My Father’s House. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

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EDUCATOR’S NIGHT: Vermont young adult authors Rita Murphy and Tanya Lee Stone discuss their work with teachers, librarians and homeschool groups. The Book Rack & Children’s Pages, Essex Junction, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-2627.

talks ‘TOWARD SELF-SUFFICIENCY’: Nancy Jack Todd, author of A Safe and Sustainable World, talks about healthy human environments. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. GOLFING IN IRELAND: Ladies and gents of different strokes talk turf at this vacation-planning presentation. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. TANZANIA SAFARI TRAVELOGUE: Local resident Bob Abell shares photos of birds, animals and people he encountered on a recent West African trip. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. ‘CONVERSATIONS WITH THE LAND’: Kathleen Fitzgerald of the Northeast Wilderness Trust talks about ways to preserve private acreage. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-8071. ‘RACISM SELLS WAR’: Socialists discuss whether Muslims are right to be angry about anti-Islamic editorial cartoons. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 318-3453. DECONSTRUCTING DYSLEXIA: Two experts share insights on how this learning disability is diagnosed — and the teaching methods necessary for its remediation. Pine Ridge School Dining Hall, Williston, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 434-6990. POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURE: Is Muslim the new black? Professor Erik Bleich discusses Europe’s ethno-racial outsiders. Robert A. Jones House, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5289. BURLINGTON’S EUGENICS SURVEY: Preservation Burlington digs into the myth of the Yankee town by examining the city’s racist environment of the 1920s and ’30s. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1377. VERMONT COUNTRY FAIRS: Author Charles Fish juxtaposes blue ribbons with burlesque shows at the state’s historic social hotspots. The Hildene, Manchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See March 8. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: See March 8. BROWNELL LIBRARY STORYTIME: See March 8. WESTFORD PLAYGROUP: See March 8. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME: See March 8. HINESBURG PLAY GROUP: See March 8. WATERBURY STORYTIME: See March 8. ‘MOVING & GROOVING’: See March 8. CARTOONING WORKSHOP: Doodlers in grades K-4 sketch out ideas after bag-lunch snacks. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 11:45 a.m. Free. Registration and info, 264-5015. PAJAMA STORYTIME: Little ones ages 3 and up get ready for bed with not-too-scary nighttime tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

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BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See March 8. INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS: See March 8. MERGER TASK FORCE: See March 8, Town Office Meeting Room, Essex. THE 10-YEAR PLAN: Burlington residents discuss the city’s new zoning ordinance. Community Room, Burlington College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

etc ‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See March 8. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See March 8. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See March 8. ESL GROUP: See March 8. CHESS GROUP: See March 8. KNITTING POSSE: See March 8. VETERANS JOB NETWORKING: See March 8. CHARITY BINGO: See March 8. CABLE-ACCESS LAB: See March 8. KNITTING & RUG HOOKING: See March 8. ‘HEALTH CAREERS’: Adult learners consider medical-industry jobs, and the training required to get them. Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 800-642-3177. WORLD FOOD WORKSHOP: Ramiz and Sabiha Mujkanovic show how to prepare traditional Bosnian food, including filo dough and winter salads. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $12. Registration and info, 223-8004, ext. 202. WALDORF OBSERVATION: Parents of prospective students see classes in session, then ask questions of teachers. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-2827. HOMEBUYER ORIENTATION: Before shopping, potential house hunters determine whether homeownership fits their needs. Central Vermont Community Land Trust, Barre, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4493, ext. 211. BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: Businesspeople socialize at a Chamber of Commerce mixer. Bolton Valley Resort, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-3489, ext. 211. WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK: Female execs learn simple strategies for being healthy despite a busy lifestyle. Bring gently used business attire to donate. Sheraton Hotel, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. $14-18 includes lunch. Reservations and info, 363-9266. m

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Positive events tend to go underreported, especially when they happen over several years. Journalist and researcher David Bornstein attempts to remedy this with his book, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, about individuals stepping in to fill needs not being met by their governments. Examples of the 10-plus nonprofiteers profiled include a man who brought electricity to rural Brazil, an American helping inner-city kids attend college, and a South African nurse whose home-hospice program inspired government policy on AIDS patient care. Bornstein provides food for thought about how to make the world a better place — one dime at a time.

DAVID BORNSTEIN Thursday, March 9, Round Barn, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2111. http://www.howtochangetheworld.org

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The ancient CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Egyptians considered dung beetles sacred and lucky. In fact, the seemingly lowly insect, also known as a scarab, was worshiped as a symbol of transformation and resurrection, in part because it derives its nourishment from the waste matter of other animals. Since it also pushes balls of dung to its nest, it was thought to resemble the god Ra rolling the sun through the heavens. During the coming week, Aries, the scarab will be your power animal. May it inspire you to turn crap into treasure as you’re reborn from the deadness of the past.

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(April 20-May 20): It took an English woman named Venida Crabtree 33 years to learn how to drive. She failed her first driving test at age 17, but never gave up trying. Last year she finally succeeded, getting her first license at the age of 50. She’s your role model, Taurus. There’s a good chance that like her, you will soon be able to master a task or reach a goal that you’ve been plugging away at forever.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): I’m here at San Francisco’s Samovar Tea Lounge to meditate on your horoscope. I’ve decided that the beverage most likely to put me in the right mood is “Monkey-Picked Iron Goddess of Mercy” tea. That’s because my analysis of your astrological omens reveals that there’ll be something both steely and soft about your immediate future, both willful and delicate. “Iron Goddess of Mercy” is an apt metaphor for the influences you should seek. Furthermore, I suspect you’ll need the intervention of an agile and vibrant animal energy, which is suggested by the “Monkey-Picked” aspect of the tea. Using the Samovar menu as a divinatory tool for generating even more oracular information, I’ve come up with three additional phrases to capture the quality of your life in the coming days: velvety nuances of roasted chestnuts and eucalyptus; tastes that are zealously smoky yet gossamer and satiny; and not for the sinless.

Cancerian, you’re sometimes prone to indulging in pathological levels of self-sufficiency. You can get into the bad habit of making it hard for people to give you emotional support, constructive feedback and plain old ordinary gifts. That’s why I hesitate to say anything that might encourage you to get into a woe-is-me, I-have-to-do-everything-myself mode of heroic martyrdom. Nevertheless, I’ve decided to take that risk. To achieve the breakthrough that’s now available, you may have to take what Ernest Hemingway described as the path to greatness: Push yourself “far out past where you can go, out to where no one can help you.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be an excellent time for you to create your own personal religion, complete with rituals, prayers, and divinities that fit your precise needs. Feel free to borrow extensively from various spiritual traditions, of course, but make sure you give each belief or practice your own unique twist. And please include a few idiosyncratic touches that have never before been a part of any organized faith, like a holy day commemorating your first sexual experience or a sacred object obtained from a toy store or pawn shop or a rousing hymn adopted from an old Nirvana song.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greeks had words for love that transcend our usual notions, writes Lindsay Swope in her review of Richard Idemon’s book Through the Looking Glass. Epithemia is the basic need to touch and be touched. Our closest approximation is “horniness,” though epithemia is not so much a sexual feeling as a sensual one. Philia is friendship. It includes the need to admire and respect your friends as a reflection of yourself — like in high school, where you want to hang out with the cool kids because that means you’re cool too. Eros isn’t sexual in the way we usually think, but is more about the emotional gratification that comes from merging souls. Agape is a mature, utterly free expression of love that has no possessiveness. It means wanting the best for another person even if it doesn’t advance one’s self-interest. The

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phase you’re currently in, Virgo, is providing you with opportunities to explore the frontiers of at least three of these kinds of love.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): America’s finest news source, the newspaper and website known as The Onion (www.TheOnion.com), reported recently that President George W. Bush has hidden the nation’s report card in his sock drawer. Having received a D in international relations, a D in economics, and an F in military history, the Commander in Chief was too embarrassed to share the evaluation with anyone. I implore you to not be like him in the coming week, Libra. It may be hard to imagine, but you will generate good luck and healthy relationships if you freely admit your mistakes and shortcomings. This is one time when power can come from revealing your vulnerabilities.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): At its best, a study of astrology illuminates your choices and leaves the choosing up to you. It helps you understand that your fate is never set in stone, but is always susceptible to the command of your free will. In that spirit, I’ve got a quiz for you to take. Here are four pairs of equally possible outcomes. Meditate on each pair, and decide which you’d prefer to induce in the coming week: (1) simmering happiness versus crazed longing; (2) love packed with chewy riddles versus infatuation that only temporarily frees you; (3) practical enthusiasm versus dizzying highs; (4) slow, epic bursts of subtle progress versus out-of-this-world fantasies.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On March 11 a Malaysian snake charmer will attempt to break the world record for kissing a poisonous serpent. Shahimi Abdul Hamid has in the past managed to survive while smooching a huge cobra 21 times, but this time he hopes to go further, exceeding the previous all-time high of 30. I don’t know his astrological sign, but if he’s a Sagittarius he has the best chance of succeeding. You Centaurs are at the peak of your ability to mix tenderness and intimacy with high adventure.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A reader named Christy McMunn wrote to tell me that she’ll be running for president of the U.S. in 2016. She promises that she will ruthlessly express the raw, naked facts, whatever the consequences may be. Her motto: “If you cannot handle the truth, be careful of what you ask.” I urge you to make that your modus operandi in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Be a greedy hunter in quest of the genuine story, the inside dope, and the piercing revelation. In preparation, strip yourself of any belief that might interfere with your receptivity to and enjoyment of the raw, naked facts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After taking inventory of the astrological factors coming to bear on you the past eight years, I’ve decided you’re ready to leap to the next octave of your evolution. Therefore, I’ll tell you a truth that was articulated by the powerful activist Mahatma Gandhi. It was instrumental in his success at leading millions of Indians to overthrow British oppression. I hope that his demanding, controversial advice will play a central role in shaping your destiny for the next eight years. But beware: It will only work if you’re a brave rebel who relentlessly resists the conventional wisdom. Gandhi: “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve been present during the births of two children, Jasmine and Zoe. Both experiences were daunting, explosive and ecstatic. Nothing else that has ever happened to me has rivaled the role they played in awakening my reverence for life. The gratitude and love that overflowed in me then will always remain a source of inspiration. If you choose to respond to the invitations the cosmos is now making available to you, Pisces, you will soon be visited by events that evoke comparable feelings.

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herbs FOUNDATIONS OF HERBALISM: Seven months, May - November. One weekend per month. Vermont School of Herbal Studies. $975. Info, call 802-249-3114, email info@vermontherbalschool.com or visit http:vermontherbalschool.com. Founded in 1991, accredited by the State of Vermont, we offer a simple, folkloric approach through hands-on medicine making. This apprenticeship gives a sensual understanding of herbs, encouraging instinct and intuition with a holistic approach. HONORING HERBAL TRADITIONS: Eight-month Herbal Apprenticeship program, held on a horse farm, Milton, one Saturday a month, beginning in April. $800 includes all materials, reference book and membership to United Plant Savers. Info, call 802-893-0521 or 802-563-3185. Preregistration required. We will be covering herbal therapies and nutritional support, with an emphasis on the body systems. Learn hands on instruction for home medicine making. Plant identification will take place in fields, forests, and wetlands. Eat wild foods and learn about plant sustainability. Taught by Kelley Robie and Sarah Zettelmeyer, certified herbalists and herbal educators. VSAC grants accepted.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs, An Experiential Journey Through the Seasons. Eight-month Herbal Certification Program. One weekend a month, April to November, 2006. Foundations of Herbalism: A three-month Herbal Program. May 6-7, June 3-4 and July 1-2, 2006. Taught by herbalist Annie McCleary with naturalist George Lisi. Lincoln, Vermont. Info, 802-453-6764, email anniemc@gmavt.net or visit www.WisdomOfTheHerbsSchool.com. VSAC grants available to qualifying participants, please apply early. Weave knowledge and wisdom in a transformational journey with wild plants. Plant identification, plant-spirit communication, wild edibles, herbal remedies, herb walks and nature adventures.

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<helpyourself> //classes acting ACTING FOR FILM: Presented by Jock MacDonald in conjunction with Cameron Thor Studios. Classes Mondays in Waterbury, Wednesdays in Montréal and Thursdays in Toronto. Boston class now forming. Info, 318-8555, http://www.thoreast.com or http:// www.cameron thor.com. Vermont native actor and acting coach Jock MacDonald has acted professionally for over 25 years and has taught professionally for over 10 years. Cameron Thor Studios is regarded as one of the best film acting studios in the world. It has helped start the careers of some of the industry’s biggest stars. Cameron Thor Studios clients include: Faye Dunaway, Sharon Stone, Hank Azaria, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Carey, Cameron Diaz and many more.

aromatherapy SPA AROMATHERAPY WITH KELLEY ROBIE: Wednesday, March 15, 6:308:30 p.m. $15. Info, 865-4372 (Herb). Do you want to luxuriate, indulge and be pampered? Here’s the perfect class for you! Treat your body to the soothe and smooth approach to life’s little pleasures. Learn how to create spa exotics such as silky body scrub, indulgent massage oils, aromatic bath salts and aroma mists. The basics of aromatherapy will be discussed while we are creating these amazing natural products.

art ART CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Basic Drawing with Christine Cole, 5 Mondays beginning March 13, 5:30-7 p.m. $65 includes all supplies. Drawing The Next Steps with Christine Cole, 5 Mondays beginning March 13, 7:05-8:35 p.m. $65 includes all supplies. Still Life Drawing with Christine Cole, 5 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 6:30-8 p.m. $65 includes all materials. Watercolor for Beginners, 8 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6:30-8 p.m. $105 includes all quality materials. Photographic Skills, 5 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6:30-8:15 p.m. $75. Pottery with Jen Labie, 8 Mondays or 8 Wednesdays beginning March 13 or 15, 3:30-5:30 p.m. or 5:45-7:45 p.m. $115 includes all supplies. B&W Darkroom Studio Use, Tuesdays or Thursdays beginning March 14 or 16, 6-8:30 p.m. $85. Fused Glass Sun Catcher, 2 Mondays beginning March 27, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $75 with all materials included. Cake Decorating I (Wilton), 4 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. and Cake Decorating II beginning April 20. $70 each, limit: 12. Culinary Arts: One-night classes including; Dim Sum, Dim Sum Fusion, PanAsian Bistro, Nuevo Latino Bistro, Greek Mediterranean, Italian Easter Desserts, $35 each. Go online to check menus and details. Info, call 802-482-7194 or www. cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Or find full descriptions for all 125 Spring/Summer and click on Access to CVU. Senior discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12. WINGSPAN PAINTING STUDIO: Saturdays, April 1 and April 8, Faux Finishing for Walls and Furnishings Workshop, 12-5 p.m. $180, includes supplies. Limited to 6 participants, learn all aspects of completing a project. Thursdays, six-weeks, beginning April 13, 5:30-7 p.m., Drawing and Seeing Class. $85. Develop drawing and seeing skills. Mondays, beginning April 17, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Painting, Drawing! and Mixed-Media Expression. $240 includes some supplies. Saturday, May 6, Yoga and Art Workshop, 12-5 p.m. $70 includes supplies, limited to 10. An invigorating workshop for all levels combining yoga and art. Info, call 802-2337676 or email maggiestandley@yahoo. com. Registration required for all classes.

astrology ASTROLOGY LESSONS: Dates and times to be arranged. $25 per lesson. Info, call John to arrange for individual lessons, 802-655-9113. Astrology can help you find the love and work you hope for. John Morden is an experienced and trained astrologer and teacher who has taught astrology for years.

bartending PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Day, evening and weekend courses. Various locations. Info, 888-4DRINKS or bartendingschool.com. Get certified to make a mean martini, margarita, Manhattan or mai tai.

body CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Four Pilates Classes, 9 Tuesdays or 9 Thursdays beginning March 7 or 9, 5:20 p.m. or 6:20 p.m. $90 each. Yoga (Kripalu), 8 Thursdays, March 16, 4-5:15 p.m. $70. Yoga, 8 Thursdays, beginning March 16, 6-7:15 p.m. $70. Yoga for Men with Laura Wisniewski, 8 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $70. All dance classes with Kym Reid Taylor: Rhumba/Cha-Cha for Beginners, 5 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $50. Salsa for Beginners, 3 Tuesdays beginning May 3, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $20. Big Band Bash, 5 Thursdays beginning March 16, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $55. Big Band Bash II, 3 more weeks beginning May 4. $35. HipHop Dance, 8 weeks beginning March 16, 4:30-5:15 p.m. $80, students $70. Juggling for 4 Thursdays beginning March 23, 6:30-7:45 p.m. $40. Living Tobacco Free, 4 Thursdays beginning March 23, 6- 7:15 p.m. Free. Info, call 802-482-7194 or find full descriptions for www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Senior discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12.

camps FLYNNARTS SUMMER CAMPS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS: Info, Email flynnarts@flynncenter.org or call 6524543, ext. 4 or check out the online brochure at www.flynncenter.org. Don’t let your children miss out on the incredible array of summer opportunities available at the Flynn and at our partner sites. Many camps fill up by early March, so register today before your child’s favorite is gone! Full- and half-day camps in dance, theater, film, and comedy combine with themes in history, science, children’s literature, art, world cultures, and fantasy. Children explore the performing arts while stretching their imaginations and learning more about the world around them. Aftercare available until 5 p.m. for many camps.

clay FIREHOUSE EDUCATION SUMMER CAMPS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS: Weekly camps start June 19-August 18. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts and Studio 250, the Clay and Craft Studio and Print Studio 250. Info, 802-865-7166 or visit www.BurlingtonCityArts.com. Firehouse Education Summer Camps aim to inspire and nurture the creativity within. Exciting full and half day camps available for kids ages 6-14, in the visual arts, photography, printmaking, clay, craft and writing.

climbing INTRO TO MOUNTAINEERING: March 11, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Petra Cliffs Mountaineering School. $119, all technical equipment included. Info, visit www.petracliffs. com or call 802-657-3872. Learn the fundamentals of safe winter travel over snow and ice! Components of instruction include use of crampons and ice axe, rope management skills, glissading and self-arrest techniques.

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COMPUTER WORKSHOPS DESIGNED FOR BEGINNING USERS: February 4 – April 1, Fletcher Free Library. Preregistration is required; $3 suggested donation per workshop. Info, visit the library, call the Reference Desk 802865-7217 or visit the Computer Center page on our website www.fletcherfree. org. Microsoft Word, Internet Exploration, Email Basics with Yahoo! Mail, and Protect Your Computer (Anti-Virus/Spyware Class). Free Wednesday Open Labs, too. HANDS-ON COMPUTER CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: MS Word Basics, 4 Tuesdays beginning April 11, 67:15 p.m. $45. MS Word: Cards and Letters, 2 Wednesdays, March 22 and 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $25. MS Excel Basics, 4 Tuesdays beginning May 8, 7:30-8:45 p.m. $45. Web Site Design, 4 Wednesdays beginning March 15 using MS Front Page, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $55. Computer Use Tutorial, 3-5 Tuesdays beginning Tuesday, March 14, 4-5:15 p.m. $15-$25. Organizing My Computer, 1 Monday or 1 Wednesday, April 3 at 5:30 p.m. or May 17, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $15 each. MS Publisher Applications, 2 Thursdays beginning April 13, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $25. Making My PC Work Better and Do More, 3 Tuesdays beginning May 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $45. Microsoft Office Sampler, 3 Wednesdays beginning April 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $40. Internet Skills, 3 Thursdays beginning March 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $35. Also available; Powerpoint, Blogging, Inspiration: Visual Organization Plans, and Kidspiration: A Visual Classroom Organizer. Check these out online. Info, call 802-482-7194 or access classes at www.cvuhs.org . Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Senior discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12.

craft CRAFT CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Rug Hooking for Beginners, 7 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6-8 p.m. $95. Knitting for Beginners, 6 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $65. Knitting for 3rd, 4th, 5th graders, 4 Mondays beginning March 20, 4-5 p.m. $45. Quilting for Beginners, 5 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $65. Sewing for Middle Schoolers, afternoon, 6 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 4-6 p.m. $65. Sewing for Beginners, evening, 8 Mondays beginning March 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $95. Rus tic Furniture-Adult Chair, 2 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6-8 p.m. $95. Rustic-Love Seat, 2 Wednesdays beginning May 3, 6-8 p.m. $125. Info, 802-482-7194 and access classes at www. cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Senior Discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12.

dance AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: TRADITIONAL DANCES FROM CUBA AND HAITI: Weekly classes: Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. - noon, Capitol City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays, 5:30-7 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. Info, 985-3665. Dance to the rhythms of Cuban and Haitian music. Dance class led by Carla Kevorkian. Live drumming led by Stuart Paton. Monthly master classes with visiting instructors. Beginners welcome! BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES WITH FIRST STEP DANCE: Tuesday evenings, Saint Albans, Thursday evenings, Burlington. $40. Info, 802-598-6757, email Kevin@FirstStepDance.com or visit www. FirstStepDance.com. Classes begin the first week of each month and run for four weeks. No partner required for classes, so come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance. We also offer beginning lessons before our monthly dances in both Burlington and St. Albans! DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: Nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Mondays, Wednesdays (walk-in on Wednesdays only at 6 p.m.) and Saturdays (children’s lessons, preregistration required). Argentine Tango every Friday, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. So-

cial dancing with DJ Raul, once a month, call for date. Monthly membership, $35 or $55, $10 for individual classes, $5 for socials. 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info, contact Victoria, 598-1077 or info@ salsalina.com. No dance experience or partner necessary, just the desire to have fun! You can drop in at any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! SPRING SWING DANCE CLASSES IN RICHMOND, POPSICLE TOES PRESENTS: Thursdays, six-weeks, March 23-April 17, 6:15-7:15 p.m., Lindy 1: “Introduction to Lindy” (right from the beginning), 7:30-8:30 p.m., Lindy 2A “The Swing Out” (Prereq. : Lindy 1). Richmond Free Library, second floor, 201 Bridge St., Richmond. Info, call Dan at 802-4345776 or email Chris, swivel@wildmail. com. $50. These classes will teach the rudiments of swing with a strong emphasis on technique: center, balance, connection, lead and follow, timing, and more. Please bring clean, soft soled shoes.

design/build DESIGN, CARPENTRY, WOODWORKING AND ARCHITECTURAL CRAFT WORKSHOPS AT YESTERMORROW DESIGN/ BUILD SCHOOL, WARREN: Home Design, March 12-18. $875. Learn how to design a home and communicate that design through floor plans, sections, elevations, and a scale model. Creating Curves, March 18-19. $275. This class will concentrate on modern techniques for creating elegant curves in furniture, including bending plywood, wood laminations, and veneer. Natural Building in Costa Rica, March 1931, $1275. This innovative course in the rainforest of Costa Rica provides a unique opportunity to explore the design/build process using earth, straw, cob, stone, bamboo, and recycled materials.Intro to the Woodshop, March 25-26, $275.This workshop introduces the interested but inexperienced woodworker to woodshop equipment and tools while building a hands-on project.Intermediate Furnituremaking, April 2-7, $725. Working with power and hand tools, students learn to cut tapers and bevels, make spline joints, and hand-cut dovetails as you build a piece of furniture. Basic Carpentry, April 9-14, $725. Learn the general terms, tools and techniques of house framing and layout. Info, call 802496-5545 or visit www.yestermorrow.org. Scholarships are available. All Yestermorrow courses are small, intensive, and hands-on. Celebrating our 25th year! Just 45 minutes from Burlington.

drawing FIREHOUSE EDUCATION LIFE DRAWING FROM THE MODEL: Mondays, ongoing, 6:30-9 p.m. $8/session. Info, visit www.BurlingtonCityArts.com or call 802-865-7166. This drop-in class is open to the public and facilitated by a BCA staff member and professional model. Come work independently in a beautiful drawing studio. Open to all levels. Please bring your own drawing materials and supplies.

drumming BURLINGTON TAIKO CLASSES: Kids’ Beginning Class, Tuesdays, 4:30-5:20 p.m. Six-week session beginning March 14. $46. Kids’ Advanced Beginners Class, Mondays, 3:15-4 p.m. Six-week session beginning March 6. $46. Adult Beginning Class, Tuesdays, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Six-week session beginning March 14. $52. Adult Advanced Beginners Class, Mondays, 5:30-7 p.m. Six-week session beginning March 6. $52. Adult Intermediate Class, Mondays, 7-8:20 p.m. Six-week session beginning March 6. $52. Info, 658-0658, email classes@burlingtontaiko.org or visit www.burlingtontaiko.org. Walk-ins are welcome. Gift certificates available. HAND DRUMMING: Beginners Conga Classes, Wednesdays, six-week session begins January 11, 7-8:50 p.m. $60. Beginners Djembe Classes, Wednesdays, six-week session begins January 11, 78:50 p.m. $60. Info, Stuart Paton, 6580658, email classes@burlingtontaiko.org. Walk-ins are welcome. Gift certificates are available..

RICHMOND TAIKO CLASSES: Thursdays, five-week session begins May 4, schedule to be announced. Info, 802-658-0658, email classes@burlingtontaiko.org or visit www.burlingtontaiko.org. Preregistration is required and there is a 10-person minimum for each class. Gift certificates are available.

empowerment CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Mah Jongg for Beginners, 4 Wednesdays beginning March 22, 5:30-7 p.m. $40. American Foreign Policy with Bill Mares, 5 Thursdays beginning March 16, 6:30-8 p.m. $50. Guitar for Beginners, 8 Thursdays, 3:45-5 p.m. $95. Baby Sitting Class by Red Cross instructor, Tuesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 30, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $50. Interior Design and Professional Organizing with Annette Besaw, 3 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $45. Under the Microscope, 3 Mondays beginning May 1, 4:30-6 p.m. $60. Applying Makeup 101 with Lori Barlow and Deb Clark, 2 Thursdays beginning May 4. $35. Backyard Astronomy, 2 Wednesdays, May 3 and 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15. Complete Financial Management Workshop, 4 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6-7:30 p.m. $50. Writers’ Workshop with Mark Aiken, 4 Mondays beginning March 27, 6-7:30 p.m. $40. Is Race Real? From Colorblindness to “Colortalk” with Denise Dunbar, 3 Wednesdays beginning March 22, 6-8:30 p.m. Donation requested. Info, call 802-482-7194 or visit www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Senior discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12. HAVING DIFFICULTY MAKING DECISIONS? Wednesday, March 15, 6 p.m. 231 Maple St., Burlington. Free. Info, 802985-5883. Introduction to new women’s group: “The Nature of Decisions”, Marian Feldman, psychotherapist and outdoors woman has developed a 6-week series that merges therapy, spirit and nature. The series focuses on decision making; creating the “ground” from which to make decisions, letting go of “second guessing” and building self-trust. Group begins March 25.

energy DEEKSHA ENERGY TRANSFER: March 7 and 14, 6:30-9 p.m. 35 King Street. $25. Info, 803-773-0148 or visit http://www. livinginjoy.com. Experience Deeksha, a powerful energy transmission which creates a biological shift in the brain and which begins the process of awakening to the experience of Oneness. Many report that after receiving Deeksha they experience healing on all levels, as well as powerful and ongoing spiritual awakening. LIVING AND INTEGRATING ONENESS WITH DEEKSHA ENERGY TRANSFERS: March 25, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Contois Auditorium, City Hall, Burlington. $100 suggested contribution. Info, 802-7730148 or visit http://www.livinginjoy.com. A unique opportunity to attend a day-long intensive workshop with 3-4 Deeksha energy transfers for spiritual awakening, facilitated by a Swedish couple who live in a permanent state of joy and who have the ability to transfer Deeksha to others in order to initiate this transformation in them as well. The Intensive will offer several Deeksha transfers and activities to remove blocks to joyful living, heal relationships, and connect with your higher Self. STEPPING INTO ONENESS WITH DEEKSHA: Friday, March 24, 7-9 p.m. Contois Auditorium, City Hall, Burlington. $25 suggested donation. Info, 802-7730148 or visit http://www.livinginjoy.com. A unique workshop with Deeksha energy transfer for spiritual awakening, facilitated by an amazing Swedish couple on tour in the US who live in a permanent state of joy and who have the ability to transfer Deeksha to others. Deeksha begins the neurobiological shift in the brain which is needed for spiritual awakening and to experience greater joy, peace, and harmony in our lives.

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family PEKING ACROBATS FAMILY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP: Friday, March 10, 6-7 p.m. Tracy Martin, Flynn Center Studio. $10 for one child with accompanying parent or caregiver. Info, call 802-6524548, email flynnarts@flynncenter.org or visit www.flynncenter.org. Ages 6-9. Enrich and enliven your childâ€™s experience of live family performances at the Flynn this spring! Parents and children join FlynnArts faculty to act and explore together, playing with the ideas and art forms you will see on stage. MainStage performance begins at 8 p.m.; workshop fee does not include show tickets, which are sold separately through the FlynnTix Regional Box Office by calling 802-863-5966 or visiting www. flynncenter.org. Limit: 10.

fine arts CHILDRENâ€™S CLASSES AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Family Art Breakâ€”drop-in Saturdays, March 11, 18 and 25, 2-6-yearolds, 10-11:30 a.m. and 7-12-year-olds, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. $12 per Saturday for parent and child, $10 for unaccompanied child. Young Rembrandts After-school Drawing Class, Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 p.m., Session II: March 14 - April 18. $60/session. Young Rembrandts Drawing Class for 4-6-year-olds, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15 p.m., Session II: March 15 - April 19. $60/session. Young Rembrandts Cartooning Class, Saturdays, 10-11 a.m., Session II: March 18 - April 22. $60/session. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburneartcenter.org. Find summer camp information online. FIREHOUSE EDUCATION - SPRING CLASSES ARE HERE!: Firehouse Education aims to inspire and nurture the creativity within and offers high quality arts opportunities for adults and kids in the visual arts, photography, printmaking, clay, craft and writing. Our dynamic classes, workshops and drop-in programs take place in professional, state-of-theart studio classrooms and are led by enthusiastic, nurturing teaching artists. Visit www.BurlingtonCityArts.com for our exciting spring offerings, online course catalog and registration. FLYNNARTS OPEN CLASSES WEEK: Monday, March 20 - Friday, March 24, attend a FlynnArts class for free! Open theater classes: Creative Drama (grades K-1),Play Makers (grades 2-3); Get Into the Act! (grades 4-6); Acting Up! (grades 6-8). Open music classes: Jazz Combo Workshops(grades 5-12) and Music Makers (ages 1-4). Open dance classes:Junior Hip-Hop (grades 6-8); Moving Pictures (ages 3-4); Creative Movement (grades K-1); Dance Makers I (grades 2-3) and II (grades 4-6); Jazz 1 (teen & adult), Lunchtime Dance & Fitness Fusion (adult), and Ballet I and II (teen & adult). Info, call 802-652-4548, email flynnarts@flynncenter.org or visit www.flynncenter.org.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs, An Experiential Journey Through the Seasons. Eightmonth Herbal Certification Program. One weekend a month, April to November, 2006. Foundations of Herbalism: A threemonth Herbal Program. May 6-7, June 3-4 and July 1-2, 2006. Taught by herbalist Annie McCleary with naturalist George Lisi. Lincoln, Vermont. Info, 802-453-6764, email anniemc@gmavt.net or visit www. WisdomOfTheHerbsSchool.com. VSAC grants available to qualifying participants, please apply early. Weave knowledge and wisdom in a transformational journey with wild plants. Plant identification, plant-spirit communication, wild edibles, herbal remedies, herb walks and nature adventures.

language BONJOUR! FRENCH LESSONS: Info, 233-7676 or maggiestandley@yahoo.com. Private lessons and tutoring for individuals and groups in the Burlington area. Experienced instructor Maggie Standley has lived and worked in France and francophone Africa. She understands the joys and frustrations of learning a foreign language. She can help you conquer verb tenses, work on your accent, prepare for world travel and grasp business, culinary and artistic lingo. LANGUAGE CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Italian for Travelers, 8 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6-7:30 p.m. $85. Spanish for Travelers, 8 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 5:30-7 p.m. $95. French de Quebec-Language and Culture, 6 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 6:30-8 p.m. $75. Intermediate Spanish, 7 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 7-8:15 p.m. $80. Spanish for 4-5 year olds, 7 Tuesdays beginning March 14, 3:30-4:20 p.m. $65. Portuguese for Travelers, 8 Mondays beginning March 13, 6-7:30 p.m. $75. Introduction to Slavic Languages and Culture with Yurij Bihun, 8 Thursdays beginning April 6. $95. A Taste of American Sign Language with David Krueger, 4 Tuesdays beginning March 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $45. Baby Sign Language Introduction, 4 nights to choose from: March 27 or April 7 or April 12 or April 20, 7-8:30 p.m. $30. Info, call 802-482-7194 or visit www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on. Senior Discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12.

martial arts AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: Adult introductory classes begin on Tuesday, March 7, 5:30 p.m. Adult classes seven days a week. Childrenâ€™s classes, ages 7-12, meet on Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, 4-5 p.m. Muso Shinden Ryu Iaido (the traditional art of sword drawing), Thursdays, 7:45-9 p.m. Zazen, Tuesdays, 8-8:45 p.m. Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info, 802-951-8900 or www. aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome to watch aikido classes. Gift certificates available. We now have a childrenâ€™s play space for training parents. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 5th degree black belt and Burlingtonâ€™s only fully certified (shidoin) aikido instructor. CAPOEIRA ANGOLA: Every Tuesday and Thursday, 6-8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium. Cost negotiable. Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art dance, is named for the country credited with its origin. Capoeira Angola weaves intricate movements, spirituality, mental and physical discipline, fight, play, strategy, and philosophy into a rhythmic game of real or ritual combat. It is played slowly and deliberately but with humor and joyfulness. It is spontaneous, unchoreographed, and is an attentive and cooperative physical â€œconversationâ€™ between players. Beginners and visitors welcome. KYOKUSHIN KARATE AND SELF-DEFENSE: Monday and Wednesday evenings. Kids 6-7 p.m., adults 7:15-9 p.m. Waterbury Grange, Howard Avenue. Reasonable rates, no contracts. Info, 802-253-2050 or visit http://www.greenmountaindojo.com.

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outdoors TWO-DAY BACK-COUNTRY EXPEDITION: Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26. $249, includes all technical equipment. Petra Cliffs Mountaineering School. Info, visit www. petracliffs.com or call 802-657-3872. Learn fundamentals of winter camping, back-country survival and construction of snow caves and get in some back-country turns! Must have at least Level 7 ski/board mastery.

parenting PASSIONATE PARENTING: Saturday, March 25, 9:30-11:30 a.m. or Tuesday, March 28, 6-8 p.m. Pathways to Well Being. $40 per person. Info, 802-862-0836 ext. 5 or visit www.essenzavt.com. Come join other parents as you deepen your understanding of how to live more fully in your strongest, most compassionate and mindful parenting. Nicole Williams, LCMHC and Tish Linstrom, MA.

photography ALT PROCESS: VAN DYKE BROWN PRINTING: Saturday, March 18, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135 Main Street. Call 802-865-7166 or visit www.BurlingtonCityArts.com. Create beautifully rich, brown images using the antique Van Dyke Brown contact printing process. Students should bring a selection of medium or large format negatives, or plan on using a large pinhole camera (provided) to create larger negatives during the workshop.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL SOFTWARE AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG: Digital Cameras for Non-Digital Folks, 3 Wednesdays beginning March 15, 5:30-7 p.m. $50. Use a Digital Camera, 2 Mondays Beginning April 17, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $40. Enhance Digital Photographs, 2 Wednesdays beginning May 3, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $40. Create Digital Compositions, 2 Mondays beginning March 13, 5:30-7 p.m. or 2 Thursdays beginning May 11 at 7:15-8:45 p.m. $40. Digital Presentation Series, 6 Thursdays beginning March 16, 5:30-7 p.m. $100. Adobe Photoshop Elements Basics, 4 Mondays beginning March 13 from 7:15-8:45 p.m. or 4 Wednesdays beginning April 12, 5:30-7:00 p.m. $75. Intermediate Elements, 5 Tuesdays beginning May 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $50. Check on line for Digital Slide Shows and Digital Scrapbook classes also. Info, call 802-482-7194 or visit at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Access classes start week of March 13. Limited class sizes and designed to be hands-on.Senior Discount 65+ and free gift to carpoolers. Ten minutes from Exit 12.

pilates CORE STUDIO: Come experience Burlington’s premiere by-appointment only Pilates and Personal Training studio! Located conveniently on the waterfront in downtown Burlington, we offer a variety of core strengthening and other well-being related programs. Our mat and Xercizer bed options include private sessions, small group privates, and drop-in rates for Passport Bed Classes. Small group Hybrid Spinning/Pilates and PowerSculpt classes are also available weekly. The Rolfing Studio offers you the opportunity to work one-on-one with a certified specialist who can restore and reshape your body back into its natural alignment. Our new onsite nutritionist and Reiki practitioner is also available by appointment as well as our new physical therapist. Your first consulation and mat classes are always free! Info, call 802-862-8686 or visit www.corestudioburlington.com. Familiarize yourself with our open, welcoming “green” studio and our professional certified instructors. PILATES SPACE, A SPACE FOR INTELLIGENT MOVEMENT: Come experience our beautiful, light-filled studio, expert teachers and welcoming atmosphere. We offer Pilates, Anusara-inspired Yoga, Physical Therapy and Gyrotonic® to people of all ages and levels of fitness who want to look good, feel good and experience the freedom of a healthy body. Conveniently located in Burlington at 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park). Want to learn more about Pilates? Call to sign up for a free introduction. We offer intro sessions Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. or we can arrange a time to fit

//wellness colonic hydrotherapy COLONIC HYDROTHERAPY: Digestive wellness. 20 years experience in holistic therapies. “Wellness begins from within.” Call for appt., 660-0779.

feng shui FENG SHUI VERMONT: Consultations for homes, businesses, schools. Space clearing, personal clearing, presentations, workshops. Certified Feng Shui Practitioner Carol C. Wheelock, M.Ed. 802-496-2306, cwheelock@fengshuivermont.com, www.fengshuivermont.com.

hypnotherapy NATHALIE KELLY, CHt. Change habits (lose weight/quit smoking), improve performance (sports/school/ work), surgery/childbirth preparation. Reduce anxiety, stress, phobia, pain and more. 802-233-8064, www. NathalieKelly.com.

massage A GIFT TO YOURSELF. Massage for men with Sergio Corrales CMT. Now taking appointments. 802-324-8235. A HEALING TOUCH: Massage by an experienced and caring professional. Wed. - Sun. Gift certificates available. $55/hour, $65/1.5 hours. Sierra-Maria Magdalena, 862-4677. CALMING THE BODY, mind and spirit with therapeutic Swedish/Deep Tissue massage. Discounts for first time customers and gift certificates. Renzo, 922-1276. MASSAGE: “We come to you.” Swedish, deep tissue, sports, Japanese nurturing massage healing hands. 1-866-802-2237. Masseuses wanted. The spa comes to you. MATURE WOMEN FEELING STRESSED? Gunther specializes in total relaxation. Strong hands. Therapeutic touch. Deep tissue acupressure massage. Call 802-399-8431. Email gfortwangler@yahoo.com.

your schedule. Info, 802-863-9900 or visit www.pilatesspace.net. Member of the Pilates Method Alliance, an organization dedicated to establishing certification requirements and continuing education standards for Pilates professionals. PILATES VERMONT AT THE SHELBURNE ATHLETIC CLUB: A wide variety of Pilates Mat and Reformer bed classes. Over 25 classes per week with 6 certified instructors. Free intros available. Info, call the Shelburne Athletic Club, 802-985-4425 or visit www.shelburneathleticclub.com. Using methods that are anatomically based at Pilates Vermont means benefits for the athlete, the amateur and the beginner. Experience the Pilates Promise: 10 classes – you’ll feel a difference; 20 classes – you’ll see a difference; 30 classes – you’ll have a whole new body. Pilates Vermont offers quality and variety. From classes for Seniors to our newest class “40/40 Spin/Pilates”-40 minutes of spinning and 40 minutes of Mat Pilates!

printmaking FIREHOUSE EDUCATION PRINT STUDIO 250 NONTOXIC PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP: Saturday, March 18, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Print Studio 250, 250 Main St. Info, call 802-865-7166 or visit www. BurlingtonCityArts.com. This workshop examines several methods for producing intaglio prints without toxic substances. Students will explore drypoint mark-making processes on copper and Plexiglas plates as well as stencil and masking techniques for color. Using exclusively water-based inks, this workshop is ideal for students seeking striking printing techniques without exposure to unpleasant chemicals. This workshop is especially for students who are chemically sensitive or who want to learn diverse methods for intaglio printmaking.

reiki SECOND DEGREE REIKI CLASS: Saturday, March 18, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Healing in Common in Shelburne. $200. Info, 802-482-7206. Discover the sacred Reiki symbols and their uses. Learn more advanced energy balancing techniques during this practical workshop with Reiki Master/Teacher, Cindy Fulton, M.A., NCTMB. Prerequisite: Reiki I, $200. Refresher: $50.

religion THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH: Thursdays, March 23 and 30, 7:30-9 p.m. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Where Everyone Is Welcome, 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington. Free. Info, 802-864-0218 or visit www. ohavizedek.com. In this free course, we will be studying the Passover Haggadah, the traditional ritual meal known as the Seder. We will also explore the many ways we can incorporate its messages into our own Passover seders.

psychotherapy SALLIE WEST, M.A., M.F.T. Individuals and couples counseling. Specializing in relationships and spiritual/ personal growth, depression, anxiety and life transitions. Burlington and Waitsfield. 496-7135.

women’s health THE BURLINGTON ADVENTURE BOOT CAMP is a four-week women’sonly program that offers fitness instruction, nutritional information, and motivational training packed with fun and energizing activities designed to help you reach your fitness goals. Lose weight, feel great! 802-338-2885, www.BurlingtonBoot Camp.com.

snowkiting LEARN TO SNOWKITE: Kitesurfing with your skis, tele or snowboard on the wide-open, frozen lake. Intro to snowkite lessons: 3 hours, $85, and On the Boards lessons, for people with some kite experience: 2 hours, $75. Info, 802-951-2586, www.stormboarding.com. We can also accommodate groups. Choose your level of adrenaline: cruise, hammer or jump. All kiting equipment provided. Experienced, certified and insured instruction.

spirituality A COURSE IN WICCA AND PERSONAL GROWTH: Mondays, March 20-May 22, 6:30-9 p.m. Wellspring Hypnotherapy Center, Essex. $160. Info, 802-879-2706, email gwen@lovingself.net or visit www. lovingself.net. This extended class focuses on the nature-based spiritual path of Wicca and its benefits in personal growth and healing. This course is for anyone who is interested in nature as a spiritual and healing path, curious about Wicca, or wishing to live more harmoniously with nature energy.

well-being MEN’S WELLNESS, AN HERBAL APPROACH WITH GUIDO MASÉ: Monday, March 13, 6:30 – 9 p.m. $10. Info, 865-4372 (herb). Take an in-depth look at male physiology from an herbal and holistic perspective and learn how some of the common health concerns men experience can be seen from an energetic point of view. After understanding how excess and deficiency of vital energies affect the whole, you can craft powerful herbal protocols to help restore balance and wellness.

women JUST DO IT...YOURSELF, CARPENTRY LEVEL 2 FOR WOMEN: March 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Center for Technology, Essex. $65. Info, 802-878-0004 or visit http://www.nnetw.org. Know how to use a hammer and drill but want to know more about windows and doors, baseboard, molding and patching hardwood floors and walls? Instructor Amy Judd will help take you to the next level with your home repair projects. A portion of the proceeds will support Northern New England Tradeswomen’s work with women and girls. WOMEN’S STORY CIRCLE: March 9 - April 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, Burlington. $150. Info, 802-655-6845 or email vantagepointcoaching@mac.com. In this workshop you will write and/or tell the stories of your life. Telling your stories and hearing the stories of other women is a powerful and empowering act; it connects you to your own uniqueness and reminds you that women have common stories. At the conclusion of the workshop you will have a record of your stories, and you will have the tools to continue the process. You can also use these tools to gather the stories of your mother, aunt, grandmother. Sharon Snow is a certified professional coach and a Story Circle Network facilitator.

wood THE COMMUNITY WOODWORKERS SHOP: Basic Woodworking Techniques, March 9, Advanced Woodworking Seminar, March 17, Lathe Class, March 11 and April 11. Basic Woodworking II Intermediate, May 1, Fundamentals of Sharpening Hand Tools, March 7, Couples Bowl Turning, call to schedule, Cutting Dovetails with Hand Tools, April 14, Intermediate Level Furniture Making, Woodcarving for Beginners, March 15, Finishing Techniques, March 14, April 7, April 18 and May 24. 382 Hercules Drive, Colchester. Info, 802-655-4201 or visit http//:mysite. verizon.net/stevensturgis/cws.

writing COPYEDITING SKILLS FOR BOOK PUBLISHING: Saturday, April 1, Saturday, April 8, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Best Western Windjammer Conference Center. $225. Info, 802-8992238 or visit http://www.wordcraftpubser

vices.com. A two-day intensive course on the essential points the freelance or in-house copyeditor needs to know to work in book publishing. We cover style, grammar, text edits, queries, and resources. Includes tips and shortcuts for onscreen editing. THE BUSINESS OF FREELANCE EDITING AND PROOFREADING: Wednesday, March 29, 7-8:30 p.m. Best Western Windjammer Conference Center. $20. Info, 802-8992238 or visit http://www.wordcraftpubservices.com. A seminar featuring book, magazine, and journal editors discussing the ins and outs of freelance editorial work. Learn from experienced publishing professionals what it takes to be a freelancer, how to get started, resources, and more. WRITING AND PUBLISHING INTENSIVES: Ongoing, various times. $125 per six-week session. Info, 802-951-2464. Vermont author and Life Coach, Annie Downey, assists writers’ in developing their craft and sending out their work for publication. Classes are held in the Main Street Landing/Wing Building on the Waterfront in Burlington. Writers of all levels and genres are welcome.

yoga BRISTOL YOGA: Daily Astanga Yoga classes for all levels. Special workshops and classes for beginners, intermediate, series and meditation. Private individual and group classes available by appointment. Old High School, Bristol. $12 dropin, $100 for ten classes, or $100 monthly pass. Info, 482-5547 or www.bristolyoga. com. This classical form of yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexibility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and free the soul. BURLINGTON YOGA: Ongoing daily classes in Anusara-inspired, Beginner, Kripalu, Beginner Men’s, Flow, Iyengar, Kundalini, Postnatal, Prenatal, Restorative. Burlington Yoga, 156 St. Paul St., Burlington. $12/hour, $14 for 90 minutes. $120 for 10-class card, $60 for a private lesson, $160 for unlimited monthly membership. Info, 658-9642 (yoga) or info@ burlingtonyoga.com. Burlington Yoga provides a focused, supportive atmosphere for students at all levels to develop and nourish their individual practice. Beginners welcome to all classes. Drop in any time. EMBODYOGA WITH ANNELIES SMITH: Wednesdays, 7:15-8:30 a.m. Fridays, 6:45-8 a.m. and 9-10:30 a.m. Living Yoga, 35 King Street. $12 drop in or discount for a series. Info, call 802-860-2814, ext. 3. A deep yoga practice that promotes clear intention and relaxed vitality so yoga truly becomes a path of transformation. Annelies is a trained somatic movement therapist and certified Embodyoga instructor. SPIRIT OF YOGA RETREAT WITH LORI FLAMMER: April 7-9, morning, afternoon and evening sessions, Sky Meadow Retreat Center. $250 for lodging, food and classes. Info, 802-324-1737 or visit http://www.sattvayoga.net. As Spring emerges, this is an excellent time to renew your vital energy with deep yoga practice in a beautiful country setting. Restorative Yoga, Meditation, Kirtan and Massage. YOGA VERMONT: Daily classes, open to all levels. Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Prenatal, Kids and Senior Classes. Register for our six-week Introdution to Ashtanga Yoga, Mondays 7:30 p.m., March 13 - April 17, or our six-week Intro to Kripalu Session, Mondays, 7:30 p.m., March 13 - April 17. Chace Mill, Burlington. $13 drop-in, 10 classes/$100. Month pass $120. Info, 660-9718 or visit www. yogavermont.com. Explore a variety of yoga styles with experienced and passionate instructors in three beautiful, spacious studios on the Winooski River. Classes seven days a week. YOGA/FITNESS CLASSES: February - March, Monday, Gentle Yoga 5:30-6:45 p.m., Tuesday, Morning Yoga 7-8 a.m., Thursday, Power Lunch Yoga 12-12:45 p.m., Monday and Friday, Senior Fitness 10-11 a.m. The Rehab Gym. Range between $5-11 per class. Info, 802-876-6100 or visit http://www.rehabgym.com. All classes taught by Physical Therapists, safe and fun. Classes held at Evergreen site, 2A to J.Brown Drive, Williston, to Evergreen Family Health, around back of building. m

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$1325 WEEKLY POSSIBLE!! Earn cash daily! Stay home! Mailing our brochures. Real opportunity. Free info! Call now! 1-800-649-3416, 24 hrs. (AAN CAN) $1750 WEEKLY INCOME! Nationwide company needs home mailers now! Easy work! $50 cash hiring bonus! Written guarantee! Free information call 1800-242-0363 ext. 4213 (24 HRS). (AAN CAN) $920 WEEKLY SALARY!! Mailing promotional letters from home. Genuine opportunity. Free info! Call now! 1-800-6935714, 24 hrs. (AAN CAN) COFFEE ROUTE # 1 business, highest profit margin, earn $100 K yearly. 1-800-642-4916, 24 hrs. COOL TRAVEL JOB!!! One month paid training! $500 signon bonus. Must be free to travel & start today. 1-800-596-0996. (AAN CAN) DANCERS: $2000-$3000 weekly, paycheck, tips and commission. Airfare, hotel incl. White sandy beaches, come make this tropical paradise your working vacation. 671-646-5653 or Guamclubs@ yahoo.com. www.clubusaguam. com (AAN CAN) DO YOU DRINK COFFEE? Ever hear of healthy coffee? World’s first Healthy Coffee company seeking affiliates and customers! Combine coffee - wellness. Details: www.DrinkGreat HealthyCoffee.com. EARN $3486 WEEKLY! Process rebates from home. Earn $15 per rebate. Extremely easy! Amazing business opportunity! No experience required. Register online today! www.ProcessRebates. com. (AAN CAN) EARN $3500 WEEKLY! Data entry workers needed online immediately! Work from home! Guaranteed income! No experience necessary. Register online today! www.DataEntryCash.com. (AAN CAN).

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4 buy this stuff

12 SILVER apostle teaspoons set, made by Gorham about 1890. Perfect condition, in original case. Asking $1800. Very valuable collectors silver, w/appraisal. 802-338-0319. 20 GB iPOD in fantastic condition. All-inclusive Best Buy service plan until 2/2008. 5000 songs. Original packaging w/all original accessories. $150/OBO. 802-598-9567. 2005 BURTON JUSSI, 159. Ridden twice. In excellent shape. Virtually brand new. Sold for $500 new, asking $300. 978857-6950. 4 HOT WATER radiators at $60, 4.5-ft porcelain bathtub, $150, or buy it all for $300. 802-6824470 after 9 a.m.

6-PIECE BEDROOM SET. Butternut, 9-drawer dresser w/twin mirrors, 4-drawer chest, two night stands. Queen or fullsize headboard option. $750. Excellent condition. 802899-2305. 8 1/2 SNOWBOARD boots DCShoe Co. USA. Worn 1 time, too small. Black. Can send picture if interested. $75/OBO. 802355-5488. 8’, 3-PIECE slate pool table, incl. balls and older cue sticks. Buyer must move. Burlington. $1000. 802-238-9534. AIR CONDITIONER, 5000 BTUs. Almost brand new, purchased for old dog that has since passed away. Only used a dozen times. Make me an offer. 802-658-4637. ANTIQUE FURNITURE. 3 orange/red scoop-back chairs from the late 60’ or early 70’s, and an antique dresser. Come on and get it! 802-318-1657. ANTIQUE, HANDMADE CHERRY HUTCH, natural finish. Dove tail drawer joints. Call 802864-0439. ARMOIRE: Shabby chic, offwhite gold trim. Distressed style. 39”wX27”dX71”h. $600/OBO. 802-224-9102. BABY BLUE UGG boots, size 11. Never worn! $40/OBO. 802-3108119. BARELY USED queen-size loft bed. Utilize your small space! Holds up to 1000 lbs. Has shelf, great for high ceilings. crystalclear_1@hotmail.com or call 802-999-0874. BEDROOM SET: Cherry wood, bed, dresser, mirror, chest, 2 night stands, all drawers dovetailed, lined, pillow top mattress set. Newer used. Will split up. 802-734-0788. $1800. 802734-0788. BEE POLLEN: High quality. Up to 10lbs. I bought for $8/lb. will sell for less. 660-4930. BLUNDSTONE BOOTS, women’s size 8.5. Brown leather, about ankle height, some scuffs, wonderfully broken-in! $65/best. Stephanie 802-922-1493. BRAKE BUDDY for use in towing a vehicle. Retails for $2400, asking $500. 802-372-3060. BURTON 2003 Canyon snowboard 156. Barely used, excellent shape. Asking $250/firm. 802862-1268. CANOE: Wenonah 16’6, Advantage solo canoe, Flexcore 44 lbs. Used minimally. Asking $400. Call 802-860-1393. COFFEE MAKER, makes 1 large cup, Brew ‘N ’Go, 2 thermal car cups, great for grabbing that cup as you leave in the AM. $15. 802-862-8758. COFFEE TABLE: Glass and brass, 42x45”. $200. 802-583-2724. COMIC BOOKS: Great condition, will sell for half of what they’re worth or less. Call 802-922-1728. COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE LIGHTING, pallet racking, dock levelers. Lots of other products. Buying and selling anything! Call 802-863-1406. DELTA 6” VARIABLE speed bench Jointer w/30” table w/owner’s manual. $200 new, asking $75. 802-372-9424.

DIAMOND BACK Della Cruz bicycle. Brand new, never ridden, make me an offer. Adult size frame, green w/fenders and stylish accessories. 802-658-4637. DINING ROOM SET: Cherry wood table, pedestals, chairs, hutch, buffet, server. Dovetailed and lined drawers. All still boxed. Cost $5400, selling for $2275. Call Beth 802-598-0316. DOUBLE BURLINGTON FUTON: Great condition, $400/OBO. Call Jason at 802-658-2282. EMINENCE MAGNUM 15” speaker in new cabinet. Awesome bass cabinet or PA subwoofer. 700 watt capacity. Mint. $275. 802-658-4111 or flipb@adelphia.net. FISCHER CROSS COUNTRY SKIS, bindings, boots and poles. Woman’s size 8. Used five times. Perfect shape. $500 new, asking $200. 802-229-9618 or 802223-1100. FREE CHAIR! You pick up. 802985-9274. FURNITURE: Pine farmhouse dining set $650; Cherry dining set $750; Floral needlepoint rug $400; Handmade barn wood bed (full) w/stained glass headboard $200. Call 802-863-0283. FUTON: Sofa, solid wood, 8” mattress, mission style arms. Cost $800. Must sell, $295. 802893-3666. G.E. ELECTRIC COOK TOP, almond-colored, $100. Stainless steel single-bowl sink and Moen single-lever faucet, w/all hardware, $80. All spotless, like new. 802-899-2305. GAZELLE FREESTYLE EXERCISE MACHINE: As made famous by Tony Little! Great condition. Low impact aerobic exercise. Costs $199, accept $85. 802864-2630. GRACO CARRIAGE: Great condition, asking $60. Graco Pedic infant car seat, only 6 months old. Can attach to the carriage. Alone $95, w/carriage $130. 802-863-4881. GREAT BEGINNER and icy condition (like we’ve been having!) downhill skis. Elan A02, 110-6895 Comprex wood core. Still shrink wrapped. Retails at $375, yours for $225. 802-229-6912. GREAT RETRO sleeper sofa. Orange/yellow stripes. Perfect for studio and very comfy. $25/OBO and you pick up. 802985-9274. HEARTH STONE Stirling direct vent propane fireplace stove w/Aztec green marble. $500/ OBO. Please call 802-434-4168. HOME WOODSHOP: Table saw, jointer, lathe, drum sander, drill press, band saw, etc. Plus scores of board feet of figured wood (esp. maple). No reasonable offer refused, should be in the region of $3500 - $4000. 802388-2467. HOT TUB SPA, 2006: 6 person, 43 hydrotherapy jets, blower, ozonator, pillows, cover, waterfall, full warranty. Never used. Cost $8400. Sell $4000. 802893-7296. INDOOR RECUMBENT exercise bike. Proform 975S. Cost $350 new, asking $50. 802-372-9424.

INFRARED SAUNA. Custom built, brand new. Detoxifying, healing, wonderful! $600. 802453-5475. IPOD 30 GB, 7500 songs, video feature, new. $290. Contact Beth, 802-999-1043. KENMORE REFRIGERATOR: 22 cubic ft., black, side by side. Ice maker/water dispenser. Purchased new in 11/05. Won’t fit in kitchen. Paid $1000. Price: best reasonable offer. 802-545-2823. KORG D16XD digital audio workstation. 2 years old, 40 GB hard drive, 16 tracks, 144 virtual tracks. Excellent condition. $1100. 802-318-1390. LADIES SCRUBS: Tafford, 6/8, gently worn, 5 pieces, (pink, hearts, aqua, tropical), Reg. $77, asking $25. White bottom, new, reg. $16, asking $10. 802363-0547. LOOM FOR SALE: Robin and Russ, 48”, 4-Harness, Jack-type, w/sectional beam. Beautiful cherry wood. Excellent condition. $1500/OBO. 802453-5664. LOOM: Leclerc, countermarch, 48”, 4 shaft, 6 pedal, great condition. $1300. 802-862-3581. LOVELY MATCHING SET: Dresser, mirror, desk. White w/gold trim. Great for girl’s room. $50/all. Dimensions and photos avail. paulugalde@veri zon.net or 802-864-6299. LP GAS hot water heater Rheem Guardian, 30 gallon, used only 15 months. $350. Call 802-2230410. MANNEQUIN: Seamstress style. Cast iron base w/wheels. Cream color form. $40. 802-224-9102. MON CHERIE wedding dress, size 8-10, long train, fully beaded bodice w/beading on skirt and on train. Sweetheart neckline. On or off shoulder short sleeves. $200. 802-899-3921. MOUNTAIN BIKE: 1 year old, great shape! Front suspension, hardly ridden. Trek mdl. 820. $250 new, $125/OBO. 860841-0757. MOUNTAIN BIKE: Specialized Rockhopper A1 Pro frame. Bought in 2000 for $800, asking $450. Just don’t use anymore and want a commuter bike. 802860-1393. MOVING SALE: Couch, TV, dresser, lamps, etc. Everything has to go, cheap. Call 215353-7438. MOVING SALE: M300 Cannondale Hardtale, hunter green, mint condition, hardly use. Original price $580, asking $450, original owner w/receipt. 802-879-4226, leave message for Pete. NEW GAZELLE glider exercise machine, $75. New hooked on phonics set, $95. New purple surefit couch slip cover, $55. New acoustic Esteban guitar, video and case, $115. 802-2448086. PHISH POLLOCK POSTER, Dec. 17 & 18, 1999, Hampton, Va. Bought at show still in tube, never unrolled. $700. 802-2728470. POOL TABLE, 8’, 3 piece, 1” slate, cue, rack, chalk, cover, cloth, balls. All in box. Must sell. $1500. 802-893-7315.

QUEEN SIZE WATERBED. Waveless mattress and frame only. Needs heater. Good condition. $75/OBO. 802-864-7740. ROB THOMAS TICKETS! I’ve got 2 8th row tickets that I bought for $59 each, will sell for $40 each. 802-847-4420. ROCKER: Maple, $60. Chest of drawers, $40. 32”x60” table w/12” leaf, $40. Carpet, 9’x15’ burgundy nylon, $75. Storage cabinet, $25. All clean, very good condition. 802-899-2305. SILVER CROSS mini lightweight stroller, made in England. Stylish and lightweight plus reclining seat. Paid $160, asking $95. 802-863-4881. SINGLE TICKET at Flynn Theater for “Peking Acrobats” on 3/10. 802-238-3252. SKIS: Kneissl Austrian crosscountry WD touring 200 cm, 3 pin bindings. Good shape. $20. Call 802-324-1470. SKIS: Tua Wilderness 200 cm. w/Voile cable bindings, need tune and wax, $25. Call 802324-1470. SNOWBOARD: ‘03 Burton Custom 162 cm snowboard w/hologram. New and never ridden, in OG sleeve. Call 802-4343444, ext. 1325 and leave message. $294. SNOWBOARD: ‘04 Atomic Hatchet, 159 cm. Award winning design. New and never ridden, in OG sleeve. Call 802-434-3444, ext. 1325 w/message. $214. SNOWBOARD: 162 O-Sin w/large Burton freestyle bindings. About 5 years old, but in good shape. Great for larger rider or 2nd board. $50. 802-2381160. SNOWBOARD BINDING: Burton custom step-in binding. Size M/L. Call 802-434-3444, ext. 1325 and leave message. $44. SNOWBOARD BOOT: Burton Driver step-in boot. Men’s size 10. Call 802-434-3444, ext. 1325 and leave message. $44. STROLLER, Bumble Ride Flyer, like new, blue. Full reclining seat and reversible handle so baby can face you or the world. $200, original approx. $300. 802-8934744. SUPER 8 CAMERAS in great working condition, and super 8 films. I’m selling this stuff cheap so buy this stuff now! 802-3181657. THREE KENMORE, 18,000 BTU, cooling capacity, remote, power saver settings for energy efficiency. 12-hour on/off timer setting. Quiet, efficient model. Still in the boxes. $250/each, neg. 646-241-1219. VANITY BASE CABINET, dark wood, 36”, $30. Kitchen wall cabinets, 24” single-door, $30. 30” double-door, $35. 48” sliding-door wall cabinet, $15. 802899-2305. VISIT www.redtagsports.com to purchase wellness DVDs at closeout pricing, including Power Yoga and Total Body Pilates. Mention ad for free shipping! WASHER AND gas dryer for free. Must sell, works well. John or Michelle, 802-899-2352. WASHER: Works well, we just upgraded! $75/OBO. 802-2336712.

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7D CLASSIFIEDSLISTING WEDDING DRESS, size 4, new beautiful, winter white, beaded, Victorian waist, long sleeve, exquisite matching tiara. $100. Evenings, 802-388-2467. WEIDER CROSSBOW MACHINE: Similar to Bowflex. Excellent condition. Work from the comfort of home! Cost $600, accept $200. 802-864-2630. WHITEFACE TICKETS! 2 â€œNo Restrictionsâ€? lift tickets for this year. Normally $63 each. Selling the pair for $50. Erik 802316-1521.

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4 financial

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COMPUTER MONITOR: Dell, 15â€?, 3 years old. Excellent condition. 802-583-2724. FREE: Two female guinea pigs to 1x2thecubby030806.indd 1 3/7/06 10:32:06 AMa good home. Very cute and lovHOUSE CLEANING When it able! Cage, food, toys and inforcomes to house cleaning, we mational book included! Come push up our sleeves and get and see them! 802-324-8215 or down to it. Call Diane and 802-238-8401. Monica at 658-7458.

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POWER BOOK G4, 500 megahertz, 256 Ram, 10 gig hard drive, DVD, 15â€?, OS 9.2-upgradeable to 10.4 w/warranties. $450. 802-279-8756.

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BLUE MOON ENTERTAINMENT, mobile DJ service. Weddings, birthdays, karaoke, bar mitzvahs. Massive music library. State-ofthe art sound system. Tuxedoattired DJs. Toll-free, 866-4192728, www.bluemoonentertain ment.info.

4 lost & found

FOUND: Awesome ring on South Union. St. on 3/03. Think itâ€™s yours? Call 802-865-2369. FOUND: Bag of textbooks, downtown. 607-592-7111. KEYS: Lost Saturday 2/25, UVM Given Building or parking lot, Jiffy Mart on Kennedy Dr. or Learning Express in Essex Jct. Vivian, 802-482-5900. LOST: Black Moui Jim sunglasses sometime late in February in downtown Burlington. Reward if found. Please call Tim at 802233-3905. Thanks! LOST: Compact 2/25, 9/23/05 9:38Flash AM Card, Page 1 Church Street Mardi Gras. 128mb w/photos of cat and pre-Mardi Gras festivities. Lost before parade. If found, please call 802-864-8014. LOST: Eye glasses. Black on the outside, red on the inside. Feeling blind without them. 518265-9533. LOST: On 2/05 at Monkey Bar. Olympus stylus 600 digital camera. If nothing else, would like to have memory card back. Please call 802-734-8122.

4 misc. services

USED BUSINESS EQUIPMENT. Buying or selling. Anything you need for warehouse, office, store, restaurant. lowellenterprises. com. 802-863-1406.

4 music for sale

1969 GIBSON SG electric guitar w/original hard-shell case. $600. 802-496-5315. ARIA PRO II 1983 Gibson replica electric guitar, also comes w/Crate practice amp. Great guitar for beginners. Great condition! 802-660-8783. BASS CABINET. David Eden D115XLT, 8 ohms, w/castors, mint condition. One owner. Used in studio only. See eden-electronics.com for specs. $375. Call 802-233-3453. FENDER DELUXE REVERB RI w/celestion. Perfect condition. $600. Frantone sweet pedal, $100. 802-310-6013. FENDER Ultra-Chorus Amplifier, 2-12, foot switch, wheels. Great condition. $325. 802-864-7740. FOSTEX B-16 tape recorder, w/calib. tape $500. MACKIE 1604 mixer $300. SONY DAT recorder $200. ALESIS sequencer $75. OBO all/any. 802-864-7740. GUITAR: Ibanez AW100, great shape, needs new strings. $75. 860-841-0757.

KADENCE 5-PIECE DRUM SET. Great shape w/20â€? scimitar bronze rock ride cymbal. 14â€? Sabian aax studio crash cymbal. Professional grade cymbal stands, padded stool. Asking $390. Must sell. 802-238-2045. KING BARITONE SAXOPHONE: Excellent condition. A stand, hard case and two mouth pieces. $1200. 802-893-4900. LP MATADOR bongos w/Gibraltar stand. Like new, very nice. $125. 802-355-4065. PEAVEY: XR700 powered mixer, $300. Peavey SP3 speakers, $200. Peavey 400BH Mark III Series bass head, $275. Take all for $600. EPRMusic@Hotmail.com. PIANO: Baldwin, dark oak, spinet, w/bench. Great condition. $550/OBO. 802-425-5556. TAYLOR 410, 1995 Mahogany (not ovangkol)/Spruce Dred. Easy player, amber tone. OHSC $750. 802-654-4355 days/4532251 evenings and weekends. THREE CONGA DRUMS and cymbals. Two Latin percussion congas, one Java conga, Pearl double stand, single stand, two Sabian hand cymbals w/stand. $650. 801-427-4400. VINTAGE 1960 HAMMOND organ RT3, B3â€™s big brother w/32 extra pedals and additional reverb. Leslie 900 100 w speaker incl. Phenomenal sound, vibe. $1200. 802-864-7740.

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CLAW HAMMER BANJO: Learn Appalachian-style pickinâ€™ and strumminâ€™. Emphasis on rhythm, musicality and technique. $25/hour. Call Mara, 862-3581. DRUM SET LESSONS FOR ALL AGES/STYLES/LEVELS. Focusing on technique, musical diversity, improvisation and fun. Caleb Bronz (Mighty Sam McClain, Gordon Stone, Voice, etc.) 802-238-1137 or visit www.calebbronz.com. GUITAR: Berklee graduate with classical background offers lessons in guitar, theory and ear training. Individualized, step-bystep approach. I enjoy teaching all ages/styles/levels. Call Rick Belford, 864-7195. GUITAR INSTRUCTION: All styles/levels. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, Sneakers Jazz Band, etc.), 8627696, www.paulasbell.com. GUITAR LESSONS with Bill Mullins. (Chrome Cowboys, Barbacoa). All levels welcome. 802-310-6013. SAXOPHONE LESSONS: All ages, with emphasis on beginner and intermediate. Tailored to the individual. Combination of discipline and fun. 864-3268, Emily Ryan from â€œMango Jam.â€? WANTED: Tutoring in Cubase LE (OEM version of SE/SX) on Mac PowerBook. 2-4 hours. Will pay. 802-658-4111 or flipb@adel phia.net.

4 music services

COSMIC HILL project recording studio. 30-years experience. $40/hour. Moretown. 496-3166. WHICH STUDIO? The one with huge rooms, Pro Tools HD3, Yamaha Grand Piano and tons more! The professional studio. Egan Media Studios. www.egan media.com.

4 musicians wanted BASS PLAYER w/vocal needed to lay down solid foundation for rock group. Mostly 60â€™s/70â€™s material. Positive attitude/commitment important. Call Bob at 802-863-1570. BASSIST STARTING NEW BAND. Acid-jazz, funk, trip-hop. Experienced musicians call for more info. Bob, 802-338-0110. HEY BASS PLAYERS! Want to play in a supportive, creative, no-pressure environment? All levels welcome. dcook@sover.net or 802-878-2313.

MULTITALENTED MUSICIAN looking for other musicians for creative get-togethers. Have place to play, equipment, etc. Call Chris, 527-0068, St. Albans. SINGER SEEKS MUSICIANS to form band. All original. Rock, tribal, industrial, alternative styles welcome. Dave, 802849-6585.

4 pets

COCKATIELS: Gray male and female, 1 year old, incl. cage and all accessories. $100 for everything. 802-316-9448. MINI REX/DWARF MIX BUNNY. 4 months old, chocolate color, very sweet. Incl. cage and all accessories $80. 802-316-9448.

4 photography

MODELS WANTED for artistic and fashion projects. Excellent opportunity for free portfolio and experience. Contact David Russell Photography, 373-1912, email rusldp@juno.com, website http://www.rusldp.com.

4 professional svcs. B-GONE REMOVAL SERVICES: Demolition service, tree/brush removal, clean out apartments, houses, storage, garages, yards, etc. Rates by full or 1/2 truck load. We load, so you donâ€™t have to! Dave, 324-0740. Insured. BOOKKEEPING SERVICES: Professional, experienced in all aspects, reasonable rates, no job too small. Call Karen at 802864-4161. BURLINGTON HANDY MAN for attending to home ailments and upkeep. Repairs, maintenance and light carpentry, indoors and out. Call Renard at 802-865-3002. BUSY BEE CLEANING SERVICE: Offices, businesses, clean outs and removal services. Custom cleaning services, give us a call and tell us your needs. Free estimates. Insured. Cindy, 355-1422. GENERAL CONTRACTOR, HANDYMAN SERVICE. 20 years experience. Fences, outbuildings, additions, remodeling, bathrooms, kitchens, carpentry, plumbing, masonry, wiring, renewable energy systems. Fully insured. Extensive references. 518-425-0094. STOPPED LISTENING TO your vinyl records and reel-to-reel tapes? Turn them into CDs (or DVDs) and unlock your collection! Call 603-966-4541 for info.

4 stuff wanted

WANTED: Massage chair, in good condition and possibly other massage accessories: face cradle, sheets, posters, stool, etc. 802-535-4300.

4 want to buy

ANTIQUES: Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates and silver. Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Call Dave at 802-859-8966.

4 legals

PUBLIC NOTICE VERMONT AGENCY OF NATURAL RESOURCES Department of Environmental Conservation Solid Waste Management Program SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY APPLICATION FOR POST CLOSURE CERTIFICATION 104 Landfill Road, South Burlington, Vermont 05403

The public is hereby notified that the City of South Burlington has submitted a complete application to the Agency of Natural Resources for a five year Post Closure Certification of a solid waste management facility in accordance with 10 V.S.A. Section 6601 et. seq. and the Vermont Solid Waste Management Rules. The Agency has issued a Draft Certification based on that application. The Draft Certification includes requirements to perform facility post-closure monitoring and maintenance of the non-operational unlined landfill. A copy of the application and Draft Certification are available for public inspection during normal working hours at the office of the Solid Waste Management Program, located at 103 South Main Street in Waterbury, Vermont and at the South Burlington Public Workâ€™s office at 104 Landfill Road (802-6587961). Comments on the Draft Certification will be accepted until 4:00 pm, March 28, 2006. Contact the address below: Dave DiDomenico Vermont Solid Waste Management Program 103 South Main Street Waterbury, Vermont 05671-0407 (802)241-3444

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DONâ€™T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Ways of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-6524636 (toll-free) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS: A group offering support if you have lost a child to adoption or are in reunion or have yet to begin your search. 802-849-2244. EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 79 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. Inaugural meeting 3/15, please join us. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554. HEPPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP: Wednesday, March 8, 67:30. Community Health Center, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington 802-355-8936. SAVINGS SUPPORT GROUP for all low to moderate-income Vermonters who wish to have support around saving, budgeting, managing or investing money. Call Diane at 802-8601417 x104 for information. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Big book text, Mondays, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Overeaters Anonymous, Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Suvivors of Incest Anonymous, Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. AlAnon Family Group, Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m. â€œI Love Meâ€?, an educational support group on self care for suvivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. Mondays, 5:30-7 p.m. Call AWARE, 802472-6463, 88 High Street, Hardwick. AUTISM SUPPORT DAILY: Free support group for parents of children with autism. 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston. 1st Monday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Call Lynn, 802-660-7240, or visit us at http://www.Autism SupportDaily.com for more info. ARE YOU A CLOSET SINGER? Do you have a good voice (havenâ€™t made the dogs howl) but are afraid of fainting in public while performing? Join a group to support, sing and perform in an intimate setting. 802-893-1819. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church â€œramp entranceâ€? from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Call helpline at 1-877-856-1772.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: 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. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: St. Albans evening support group meets the second Monday of each month at Northwestern Medical Center, 133 Fairfield Street from 6:308:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 1877-856-1772. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Bennington day support group meets the first Friday of the month at Second Congregational Church, Hillside Street from 1-2 p.m. Call helpline at 1-877-856-1772. SOCIAL SKILLS GROUP: Girls 912 years old needing help with social skills/friendship. Please call RiverValley Associates for more information, 802-651-7520. 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. NW VT GAY AND LESBIAN Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Group: 6-8 p.m. The third Thursday of each month, starting October 20 through May, 2006. Casey Family Services, 46 Main St., Winooski. 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 child care inquires. More info, www.aaware.org. SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE SURVIVED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: The Womenâ€™s Rape Crisis Center in conjunction with Family Connection Center offers a free, confidential, ten-week support group, beginning on October 25. Info, 802-864-0555. PARTNERS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS. Meet 4th Monday of month. R.U.1.2? Center, 34 Elmwood Ave., 6:30-8 p.m. Call Timberly, 310-3889 or email missmorpheus1@yahoo.com for more info. ALZHEIMERâ€™S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384. WEEKLY SMOKING CESSATION support group: Small groups. Caring atmosphere. Stop smoking in just 21 days using natural, proven, safe methods. No unhealthy drugs. Call 264-1924. WEEKLY WEIGHT-LOSS support group: Small groups. Caring atmosphere. Get great results using natural, proven, safe methods. No unhealthy dieting. Call 264-1924. 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. MALE SUPPORT GROUP: For men who have survived sexual violence. This group will provide a safe, encouraging space for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories with other men. Offered by the Womenâ€™s Rape Crisis Center. Info, 802864-0555 or the 24-hour hotline, 802-863-1236. PARENTING GROUP: 6-week group for people parenting children of all ages now forming. Please call RiverValley Associates for more information. 651-7520.

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7D LEGALS/SUPPORTGROUPS THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EAST CHAPTER 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, 482-5319. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. 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. CHADD is a support organization for children and adults with AD/HD. Every second Wednesday of the month. Champlain College, Global Technology Building, Maple St., Room 217, Burlington, VT. MOOD DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP: Every Monday, 4:30-6 p.m. Pastor United Church. Info, contact Lorraine, 485-4934. 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. Cofacilitated by supportive peers and mental-health 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? 60+ SUPPORT GROUP: Ongoing weekly support group for men and women over the age of 60. Share your strengths and struggles with this particular stage of life. We have fun! Facilitated by Barbara L. Kester, Ph.D. 657-3668.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Sundays, 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:307:30 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 655-3317 or Patricia, 658-6904. INTERESTED IN WRITING for children? Support and critique group meets monthly. Call Anne, 861-6000 or anne@booksbyme.us. 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.together.net/ ~cvana. Held in Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. For more information, call 8608388 or toll-free, 1-866972-5266. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: Support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Holiday Inn in South Burlington, (1068 Williston Rd.), from 6-7:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Cory Gould, 223-4111 or cgould1136@earthlink.net. Sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-VT. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 78:30 p.m. Men call Sandy, 8635708. Women call Valerie, 802233-3447. SUICIDE SURVIVORS GROUP: Survivors and their families meet monthly for mutual support in the Burlington area, 6-7 p.m. Call for location, 223-4111. 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 every other week 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.

DECLUTTERS 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 child care provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call Amy at 247-5460 for more information. WOMEN CHANGING: A continuous educational support group for women who are interested in changing patterns in their lives. Wednesdays-ongoing. 12:30-2 p.m. Call Angie at AWARE in Hardwick, 472-6463. 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 802-4344423 or email: dragonheartver mont@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 or atblythel@aol.com. OLDER WOMEN EXERCISING TOGETHER: For motivation to do what’s necessary. Call Anne, 861-6000. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim’s House, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-8628882 or vt@alsanne.org. AL-ANON: Thursdays, 12:301:30 p.m. at the AWARE office, 88 High St., Hardwick. Info, 472-6463. WOMEN IN TRANSITION: Join a support/social group for women who are separated or divorced. The goal is to form a circle of friends for support and social activities. If interested email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com.

SMART RECOVERY: Wellgrounded researched approaches to changing addictive behaviors. Alternative to 12 Step Groups. Fridays, 5:30 p.m., 82 Winooski Ave., Burlington (above the City Market). Info, contact Bob, 4254058 or email carmody@madriver.com. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION of Vermont: Daytime support group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester, from 12-2 p.m. For more info, contact Polly Erickson at 847-6941. METHADONE ANONYMOUS: A medication-assisted recovery support group. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. The Alano Club. Directions: Rt. 15 Fort Ethan Allen entrance, Barnes Ave., third right on to Hegeman Ave., # 74 on left. All are welcome. TRANS PARTNERS support group: Meet and talk w/other partners of transgendered/transsexual people. The second Friday of every month. R.U.1.2? Community Center, 6 p.m. 860RU12. 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.vermontaunatu rel.com. PARENTS TOGETHER support groups: Would you like to talk and share ideas with other parents about the joys and challenges of children? Support groups for all parents. Desireah, 796-3119. 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. NONCUSTODIAL SUPPORT group for parents. Contact Bill Bagdon, 434-6495. ARE YOU UNABLE TO get out of debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Is it a problem for you? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous. Mondays, 6-7:15 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie P. at 233-8808.

BRAIN INJURY: Open to people who sustained a brain injury, their caregivers and family. Expert speakers often scheduled. 1st Wed. of every month, 6-8 p.m. Fanny Allen Campus, Colchester. Call Barb Winters, 434-7244. 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 866869-7341 (toll-free). MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY group: support and education for people with psychiatric challenges. Joan, 865-6135. FAMILY/FRIENDS OF THOSE suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: second Monday of the month, 4-5 p.m. The Arbors. 985-8600. DIVORCED PEOPLE: If you are separated, thinking of separating, in the process of divorce, or just divorced, I’m thinking about starting a loose group where such people can talk, whine, have some fun, and maybe even get together. Perhaps there is life after him or her. If interested email Bob at bberman@ ttiglobal.com or call/lv msg. at 802-388-0779. “HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 3886107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support. DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 6-7:15 p.m. united Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Wednesdays 7-8 a.m. Turning Point Recovery, 61 Main St., Burlington. Info, call Brenda 893-7752. 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. PROSTATE CANCER: The second and fourth Tuesday of the month, 5 p.m. Board Room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. Info, 800-639-1888. This “manto-man” support group deals with disease. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 863-2655. Overeaters get support in addressing their problem. 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.

AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-8388. Do you have a friend or relative with an alcohol problem? Al-Anon can help. DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL violence: WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: A group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to be a member. The only requirement is a desire to stop using. For meeting info, call 802-862-4516 or visit www.together.net/cvana. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS Anonymous: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, VT 05402. Get help through this weekly 12-step program. HEROIN 101: Educational and informational support group. Free. First Wednesday of every month, 5:30-7:30 p.m. GMNC. 275 College St. Info, 860-3567. ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS: Burlington, meets at Birchwood Terrace, 2nd & 4th Wed., at 1:30 p.m. Colchester, meets at FAHC, Fanny Allen Campus, 1st Thurs. of month at 3 and 7 p.m. Shelburne, meets at The Arbors, 2nd Tues. of month at 10 a.m. DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S disease support group for the caregivers: Barre, meets at Rowan Ct., 4th Wed. of month at 3 p.m. Montpelier, 338 River St., 2nd Wed. of month at 7 p.m. PARKINSON’S DISEASE: meets 1st Tues. of each month at the Heineburg Sr. Ctr., Heineburg Ave., Burlington. Lunch is avail. by calling 863-3982 in advance. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT group: UHC campus, 1 South Prospect St., Arnold 2 Resource Rm. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 5-6:30 p.m. Info, 847-4848.

Melissa, PO Box 356, Hinesburg VT, 05461. ORGANIST/MUSIC DIRECTOR: 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist on Sundays, weekly choir practice. Music -Traditional and Contemporary. Resume, interview and audition required. Send resume to: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 1063 Prim Road, P.O. Box 78, Colchester VT 05446 Attn: The Rev. Lisette Baxter. More information call: 802 658-0533. PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT wanted to read related material to reading disabled person 2 hours/ week. $25 cash. Call Tom, 802864-4503. Smoker friendly preferred, not absolutely necessary. RECEPTIONIST/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Energetic, organized, ability to multitask, competent in MS office, to assist in secretarial and general office management duties for a leading architectural practice. Please fax resume to 802-864-9676 or email gbulette@lemay-youkel.com.

RESPITE WORKER/PCA WANTED for 15 YO w/special needs. After school, evenings and weekends. Must have reliable transportation. Call Muriel at 802-985-2538. ROBIN’S NEST CHILDREN’S CENTER: Full-time position with infants and toddlers. Requires early childhood training and a commitment to quality early care and education. Good salary and great benefits. Resumes to: 20 Allen Street, Burlington, VT 05401. Robin’s Nest is an equal opportunity employer. SKID STEER OPERATOR: 500 hours experience. Excavation and CDL license a plus. Willing to learn and take on other tasks. Partnership possible with 50 K minimum investment. Call 802864-6370. WEB DESIGNER: 2-5 days/week starting mid-April. Work at home OK. Email portfolio/contact info to jobs@digitalfrontier.com or call 802-253-8612.

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7D EMPLOYMENT LISTING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Montpelier psychotherapist seeks reliable, accurate, organized, self-motivated, experienced, computer-savvy assistant with medical billing experience. Will train right person. 4 hrs/wk in general, 10 hours/week quarterly. Resume/cover letter: ahunter@sover.net. AU PAIR WANTED to care for two girls at our farm/env. ed. center. Room and board, good pay. Beautiful place, fun community, good kids. 802-496-5685. CARPENTERS AND PAINTERS: Experienced with own tools, fulltime, able to work alone, subs possible. Call Steven at Polli Construction Group, 802865-9839. DANCERS: Full and part-time. M/F. Pure Gold, 802-865-3933. FAST-GROWING South Burlington Environmental Services Co. seeks Asbestos Abatement Workers, Supervisors and Environmental Field Techs for full-time employment. Will train the right candidates. Call 802-863-5300.

FULL/PART-TIME RETAIL. Vitamins, herbs, nutrition. Help others, help yourself. Call Kyle 802-878-0355 for appointment. I AM LOOKING for a responsible person or couple to help me a couple of mornings each week to deliver the Free Press, early-bird hours. Route takes approx. two hours, Spear St. vicinity in So. Burlington. Pay negotiable, need to provide quality service to all customers. Call Allan at 802318-1290. IMMEDIATE OPENINGS: Experienced Cabinetmakers and Finishers. Coates Walker, Inc. is a growing woodworking company specializing in cabinetry and furniture made from sustainably grown materials and nontoxic materials. We offer competitive wages, insurance, paid vacation and holidays and a progressive work environment. Successful applicants must have prior work experience in a production oriented woodworking company. Cabinetmakers must have experience with planer, jointer, band saw, shaper and wide belt sanding equipment; CNC panel saw,

edgebander and CNC router equipment experience strongly preferred. Finishers must have experience with Kremlin and Binks equipment and waterbased and catalyzed lacquer finishes. To apply, send your resume and salary history to HR@coateswalker.com or mail to Coates Walker, Inc. 93 Gonyeau Road, Milton, VT 05468. INFORMATION SPECIALIST. Champlain Valley Exposition is seeking a person with great people and customer service skills. Computer knowledge should include Microsoft Word, Excel. Competitive salary and benefits package. Full time. Interested candidates should submit resume and salary requirements to: Linda Piasecki, Essex Junction, Executive Assistant, Champlain Valley Exposition. P.O. Box 209, Essex Junction, VT 05453-0209. No phone calls. EOE.

INSULATOR/CARPENTER’S HELPER: Willing to train interested parties. You need transportation, phone and license. Looking for one-to-two-year commitment, minimum. Holidays, health plan and vacation with FTE. EOE. Email vze3j88p@burlingtontelecom. net or 802-660-8903. INTERVIEWING NOW for early spring hire; Construction Superintendents, Foreman, Equipment Operators, Truck Drivers, Mechanics and Laborers for large project in Warren, VT, Kingsbury Const. Co. Call 802-496-2205, fax 802496-2212 or email sherwin@ kingsburyconstruction.com. KENNEL HELP: Seeking a caring and responsible person to work full time as a kennel assistant. Jobs include taking care of boarding animalS, some heavy lifting, hospital upkeep, and some animal handling. Includes rotating weekends and holidays and competitive benefit package. Send resumes to: Animal Hospital of Hinesburg, Attn.:

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4 automotive ACURA MDX, 2001: Mint condition, 62 K, great MPG, 6 CD player, leather seats. All top options. Ext. warranty. $18,500/OBO. Motivated seller. 802-425-2697. BUICK LESABRE, 2003: 4-door, custom, auto, air, loaded, leather, sun roof, blue, V6, 5/3/05 excel1x2-Shearer042005 lent gas mileage. Only 20 K. $14,900. Must see to appreciate. 802-860-4756.

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7D ONTHEROADVEHICLES MAZADA MX6, 1994: Tan leather interior, green, V6, 2.5 L., 105 K, auto, runs well. Low books for $19,000, asking $6000. 802-578-3771. MITSUBISHI DEMONTE, 2002: 4-door, auto, sun roof, AM/FM/CD, leather interior, loaded, 55 K, great condition. $9500/OBO. 802-355-0773. 8:46 AM Page 1 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE, 2003: 4-door, silver, V6, 3/4 L, auto, AWD, 30,558 miles, AC, power windows/steering/locks, cruise, AM/FM/CD, power seat, alloy wheels. Best price $10,986. Shearer, 658-1212. PONTIAC GRAND AM SE SEDAN, 2005: 4-door, silver, auto, V6, 3.4 L, FWD, AC, CD/AM/FM, rear spoiler, 16,606 miles. Best price $12,497. Call Shearer, 658-1212. PONTIAC GRAND PRIX, 2005: 4 door, silver, V6, 3.8 L, auto, FWD, 13,078 miles, AC, power steering/windows/locks, cruise, AM/FM/CD, power seat, rear spoiler. Best price $15,985. Call Shearer, 658-1212. PONTIAC SUNFIRE COUPE, 2005: 2-door, white, auto, FWD, 12,530 miles, AC, power steering/windows/locks, cruise, AM/FM/CD, rear spoiler. Best price $10,924. Call Shearer, 658-1212. PONTIAC VIBE SPORT WAGON, 2003: 4-door, silver, 4 cy., auto, 1.8 L, AWD, 63,410 miles. AC, power everything, AM/FM/CD. Sliding sun roof, roof rack, alloy wheels. Best price $10,995. Call Shearer, 658-1212. PONTIAC VIBE SPORT WAGON, 2005: Red, 4 cy., 1.88 L., auto, FWD, 30,987 miles, AC, power everything, cruise, AM/FM/CD, dual front air bags, roof rack, alloy wheels. Best price, $12,997. Call Shearer, 658-1212. SAAB 9-3, 2003: Linear, manual, black, fully loaded, heated leather seats, OnStar, 6-CD changer, sun roof, excellent condition, 30 K. $17,995/OBO, call Tara 802-223-9784. SAAB 9-5, 2001: 53 K, gray/black leather, 4-door, loaded, moon roof, heated seats, CD, new snow tires. Excellent condition. $12,995/OBO. Call 802-316-2466, Burlington. Pictures on cars.com.

SAAB 900S, 1989: 158 K. 2door, auto, nice, CD w/remote. Everyday driver, me. Ins. till 8/06. $450, some $ and a bicycle, or best. 802-373-0742 anytime. SUBARU LEGACY, 1994: 5speed, new brakes, rotors, battery, timing belt and clutch replaced. Small amount of rust. 158 K. Runs great. $1200. 860-966-0166. SUBARU WAGON, 1997: White, AWD, no rust, 75 K, all-season radials. 802-985-3911. SUZUKI GRAND VITARA, 1999: 1-owner, meticulous maintenance and records. 83 K, 4X4, 4-door, V6, auto, PW, mirrors, sun roof, keyless entry, remote starter, cruise, CD, privacy glass, Thule roof rack, summer alloys, winter rims and tires. Recent inspection, brakes, belts, tune up. Mechanically perfect. Excellent condition inside/out. Must sell. $5500/OBO. 802-879-1809. VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE, 2000: 58 K, sun roof, red exterior/ black interior, 5-speed, PW/PL, AC, air bags, alarm, great condition, well maintained. Must sell! $8000/OBO. 802-318-3125. VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT, 2002: 64 K, all-leather interior, Infinity sound system, excellent condition. $16,000/OBO. 802-3108826 or 646-241-1219. VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT, 2002: GLX, premium package. $15,900. 802-734-3228. VOLVO V70, 1999: Seats 7, 30 MPG, heated leather, 2 year warranty, 8 wheels, incl. Hakkas. Books $10 K, $7795/OBO. Great car. Erik 802-899-1113 or 802316-1521. VOLVO WAGON, 1992: 184 K, CD, ABS, silver. Two VT winters, two owners. Well maintained w/all service records avail. Snow tires, passed inspection. 802899-3389. VW GOLF, 1989: Wolfsburg, 4door, 5-speed. Runs strong, fast, reliable, inspected, 2 sets of wheels, all new brakes, exhaust, bearings, sun roof. 275 K. $550/OBO. 802-793-3543. VW GOLF, 2001: 52 K, asking $10 K. All options, heated seats, cruse, tilt, cassette/CD, Mobil 1 every 3 K, K&N air filter. 802879-8348.

VW JETTA, 2003: GLS TDI turbo diesel, auto, moon roof, Monsoon, alloys, new Goodyear, assurance, fully serviced, 43+ mpg, 62 K. $14,700. Runs biodiesel. www.fruitlands. net/tdi, 802-426-3889. VW PASSAT, 2000: GLS, sedan, 60 K, 5-speed, turbo, moon roof, CD changer, PW/PL. $7900/OBO. 802-985-5799.

NISSAN PATHFINDER, 2002: 4WD, V6, leather, 63 K, summer and new winter tires, tow hitch. Make sure you listen to this Asking $16,000/OBO. Call 802FREE Consumer Help Line 524-7627. Before you purchase your next used car! NISSAN PATHFINDER SE, 2000: 4x4, 89 L, auto, Bose, Find out the questions you should Astro car starter, Nissan security ask every private owner or car dealer plus protection plan (good till 3/07 or 100 K). $10,000. 802before you go to look at the car! 233-4875. Call the Toll Free 24hr. Help Line at: PONTIAC AZTEK SPORT UTILITY, 2003: 4-door, silver, V6, 3.4 1-866-838-3345 L, auto, AWD, 31,356 miles, roof or go online: rack, CD/AM/FM, alloy wheels, VW WESTY CAMPER, 1985: www.usedcarexperts.net privacy glass. Best price 3rd-owner, 150 K, professionally $12,982. Call Shearer, 658-1212. maintained. Sink, LP stove, 2 TOYOTA PICKUP, 1994: 4WD, SERIES 1 LANDROVER, 1961: beds, pop top. Clean, straight 110 K. Rebuilt transmission. New 1 12/2/05 11:42:13 AMAntique, needs work to get in frame. Asking $3000, must sell. 1x2-autocraftsman.indd clutch. New timing chain. running order. $2500/OBO. 802802-496-2863, leave message. Matching canopy. Clean body. 388-2467. Well-maintained. Needs new tires and brake check. 802-999-6653.

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CHEVROLET 2500 SERIES, 2000: 2WD, ext. cab, 7,200# GVW rating, camper mirrors, 3.73 axle ratio, 6.0 L, original 43 K, 1x2-Shearer042005 5/3/05 clean title. Car-fax certified. $16,350 as seen, as driven. 802879-1340 ask for Tom.

BUICK LESABRE CUSTOM SEDAN, 2005: 4-door, gray, V6, 3/8L, auto, AWD, 18,199 miles, AC, power steering/windows/ locks, AM/FM/CD, OnStar, ABS, Pontiac u Cadillac alloy wheels, dual power seats. Hummer Best price $16,993. Shearer, 658-1212. www. shearerpontiac.com CADILLAC, 1992, black w/red Local: 802-658-1212 leather. Must be seen. $2400/OBO. Must sell. 973-476Toll-free: 800-545-8907 9502. South Burlington. CHEVROLET, 1995: 3500, 12’ 1030 Shelburne Rd. long, stake body, turbo diesel, So. Burlington auto, great tires. Call 802238-2045. CHEVY CHEYENNE, 1972: CHEVROLET 3500, 1987: With Pickup, 2 tone, 402 big block, 350 cubic inch engine, auto, w/8 fleetside longbed, 137 K. AC/CD ft. snow plow. 8 1/2 ft. dumping player, spray on liner, new tires. stake body. Must see. Perfect To good home only $12,000. shape. Well maintained. 47 K Appraised at $14,000. 802original. Call 802-238-2045. 951-2400. CHEVROLET TRACKER LT FORD E250, 1997: Excellent SPORT UTILITY, 2003: 4-door, condition. Clean, maintenance red, V6, 2.5 L, auto, 4WD, records, no rust, dark red, roof AC/CD/AM/FM, cruise, ABS, roof ladder rack, good tires. $4500. rack, privacy glass, towing pkg., 802-863-5513. alloy wheels. 34,370 miles. Best FORD F150, 1999: Extra cab, price, $11,988. Call Shearer, 802white, auto, air, V8, step side, 658-1212. sharp, dependable truck, good CHEVY CAVALIER, 1993: $500. condition, 17” alloy wheels, 133 Call 802-860-3987 after 5:00 p.m. K. $7500/OBO. Call 802FORD ESCORT, 2002: ZX2 great 355-3385. condition, low miles, even has FORD RANGER, 1994: 4.0 6 cruise control! $6000/OBO. 802Cyl. 4x4, 5-speed. Extended cab, 310-8119. Looking for a SAAB? tonneau cover, CD, runs well. FORD ESCORT LX WAGON, 162 K. $2300/OBO. Must sell! click on 1995: 5-speed, 154 K, runs Call Pat, 860-287-2960. great, inspected thru 2/06. GMC S15, 1985: High Sierra, $900/OBO. 802-878-5514, leave ext-cab, 4x4, auto, 12 K. on message. rebuilt 2.8L v6, bed cap and/or or visit us on Barre-Montpelier Rd • 800.639.4095 • 802.2239580 FORD TEMPO, 1993: 4-door, ladder rack avail. Runs excellent, white, in good condition, is a SAAB 900 SE, 1997: Auto, sun VW GTI, 1991: W/rebuilt 8great on gas. Needs e-brake. fixer-upper but runs well. Asking roof. Loaded, runs great, new valve motor, ported head, K&N, $1200/OBO. 802-558-4766. $500/OBO. 802-318-1878. 2x1-crossways110905.indd 1 11/7/05 1:31:13 PM brakes, 6 CD changer. 4 snows, 4 Tectonics Tuning, Neuspeed, TOYOTA 4 RUNNER, 1989: HONDA CIVIC, 2005: Gray. summer tires, 8 rims. 124 K. many new parts, many spares. Rebuilt engine, new starter, Great condition. $16,500. $3750. 802-734-3846. Summers and snows. 5-speed. alternator, brakes and lines, 15 K. 802-734-8290. SAAB 9000, 1992: 5-speed, $2000/OBO. 802-310-7786. tires. Body work done. Excellent LEXUS ES 300, 1999: Heated leather interior, 170 K, sun roof, VW JETTA, 1995: Auto, reliable mechanical shape, clean. leather seats, chrome rims, auto CD, power everything, alarm, car, inspected until 3/07. $1000/OBO. 802-453-5315, starter, CD changer, sun roof, good condition. Asking Sun/moon roof, CD player. Many Santo. fully loaded. $7900/OBO. 802$2000/OBO. Call 802-864-3819. new parts incl. engine. Asking 879-9172. $2600/OBO. 802-899-2973.

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Call 864-CCTA to respond to a listing or to be listed. Attention Individuals Living in Chittenden, Grand Isle, and Franklin County: The RideShare Department at CCTA is looking for new riders for Vanpools that run Monday-Friday to Montpelier and Waterbury. The Montpelier Vanpool originates at the Sheraton in Burlington. The Waterbury Vanpool originates in Essex Junction. Call the Rideshare Dept at CCTA 864-2282 if you would like to join.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY Jasper Mine Road, Colchester to Stowe, Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun 8:30am-6pm Ref # 4117 Niquette Bay Road, Colchester to IBM, (D2 Team). Ref # 41177 Burlington to Berlin, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Work Hours 8am-5pm, Mon-Fri, carpool, Ref # 41176 Essex Junction (Pearl Street) to IBM Work Hours 8am-4:30pm, Ride needed, Ref# 41197 Essex Junction, Wildwood Drive to FAHC Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm, Ref # 41075 Hinesburg to Waterbury, MondayFriday 7:30am-5:00pm. Ref # 41037 Jericho to Swift Street, South Burlington, Work Hours 8am-5pm, Mon-Fri Ref # 40154 Jericho to VNA, Colchester Work Hours Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm, Ref # 41124 Richmond to Burlington (Main St) Work Hours Mon-Fri 7:30am-4pm, Ref # 40516

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Albans Mon-Friday, 8am-4:30pm Ref # 90382 Enosburg/St. Albans to Williston Looking for riders to join a carpool will pick up in Enosburg or St. Albans Mon-Friday, 7am-3:30pm Ref # 90432

FRANKLIN COUNTY Highgate to UVM, Burlington, Carpool Work Hours 8am-4:30pm, Ref # 91394 Enosburg Falls to INS, St. Albans Work Hours 8am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri Ref # 90716 Fairfax to IBM, Essex Junction Work Hours 8am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri, Ref # 91559 Richford (Provence Street) to St. Albans (North Main St) Ride needed once or twice a week Mon-Fri between 11am&1pm to St. Albans and return ride needed to Richford after 4:30pm. Ref # 91563 St. Albans to INS, Williston Work Hours 8am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri Ref # 90382 St. Albans to Vergennes, Country Home Products Work Hours 8am4:30pm, M-F, Carpool, Ref # 91572 Swanton/St. Albans to Williston Looking for riders to join established carpool will pick up in Swanton or St.

GRAND ISLE COUNTY Alburg to Burlington, FAHC, Carpool Work Hours 8:00am-4:30pm, M-F. Ref # 91524 Alburg to Burlington, Burlington Health & Rehab Work Hours 8am4:30pm, M-F, Ref # 91574 Niquette Bay Road, Colchester to IBM, (D2 Team) Looking to Carpool. Ref # 41177 Plattsburg or Grand Isle/South Hero to Colchester, Systems & Software, Carpool Work Hours 8am-5pm, M-F, Carpool, Ref # 91527 Grand Isle to Waterbury State Complex, Carpool Work hours 7:00am to 4pm M-F. Ref # 91471 Grand Isle to UVM, Burlington, Carpool Work Hours 7:00am-3:30pm M-F Ref # 91537 Isle La Motte to Burlington, UVM, Carpool Work hours 7:30am to 4pm MF. Ref # 91465

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SAFARI VAN, 1998: 93 K, AWD, 8:46 AM pkg., Pagepower 1 full towing windows/locks, AC, new front brakes, newer battery/tires, seating for 8 removes for great cargo space! $4300/OBO. 802-5986812.

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HONDA 600 RR, 2004: 3 K, custom blue color, custom blue and black leather seats, custom signal lights, one owner, very clean. $6400/OBO. 802-8799172. YAMAHA FZR600, 1994: 12 K, R6 front brakes, Uni air filter, fresh oil, plugs. Excellent mechanical condition, some plastic damage. $2200/OBO. 802-862-4433.

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COOPER DISCOVERER M+S studded snow tires, 265/70/16. Bought new last year, Haven’t used this year. Excellent tread! $225. 802-233-6614. THULE ROOF RACKS. Custom for ‘93-’99 VW Jetta and Golf. Used 3 months. $75/OBO. Sean 802-338-0255. TWO SEMPERIT all weather tires, 195/60/15. $30/pair. 802244-8682, leave message.

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PONTIAC MONTANA EXTENDED, 2003: 4 door, blue, V6, 3/4 L, FWD, 25,973 miles, 7 passenger seating, AC, power steering/windows/locks. AM/FM/CD. Two-tone paint. Alloy wheels, roof rack. Best price $14,956. Call Shearer, 658-1212.

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BOSTON WHALER, 17 ft., 1988, mauntauk w/1988 Yamaha, $9900. 802-343-9100. CREST III, 2002: 25’ Pontoon boat. 90 HP Mercury motor. Docked at marina, no trailer. Books for $15,700. Selling for $14,900/firm. Email DHTHIBODEAU@verizon.net or call Dean, 802-655-5071.

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CHEVROLET BLAZER SPORT UTILITY, 2002: Pewter, 4-door, V6/4.3L, auto, 4WD. 39,556 miles. A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/cass./CD, air bags, ABS. Best price, $11,995. Shearer Pontiac, 658-1212. CHEVY BLAZER LS, 1996: Under 120 K, 4X4, 4-door, auto, green. Needs catalytic converter. Runs good, solid truck. Many new parts. $2500/OBO. Must sell! 802-338-0319. ISUZU RODEO, 1992: 4x4, 5speed, roof rack, studded snow tires, many new parts, great winter vehicle. Call 802-316-0603. LAND ROVER DISCOVERY, 1999: 2nd owner, dark blue, leather interior, low mileage, immaculate, dual sun roof, heated seats. 802-879-0815.

Isle La Motte to Burlington, UVM, Carpool Work hours 7:30am to 4pm MF. Ref # 91465 ADDISON COUNTY Bristol to South Burlington: Carpool needed M-F 8-5. Ref # 11144 Middlebury to Williston: M-F 8:30-5. Ref # 11146 Bristol to Berlin AOT M-F 7:15-4. Ref # 11157 Vergennes to IBM: M-F 8-4:30. Ref # 11149 Bristol to Waitsfield: M-F 8:30-5. Ref # 11160 Ferrisburgh to Burlington, M-F, 8:30am-3pm. Ref # 10617 Middlebury to Waterbury T-F 7:154:15 Ref # 11159 New Haven to UVM, M-F, 7am-3:30pm Ref # 10621 Starksboro to Burlington. M-F, 3-9. Ref # 10622 Middlebury to Burlington, M-F, 7-5. Ref # 10623 South Starksboro or Waitsfield to Berlin/Barre, M Th F, 8am-5pm. Ref # 10620

WASHINGTON COUNTY Barre to Burlington FAHC: Carpool wanted 7am-3:30pm shifts vary. Ref # 142876 Barre to Waterbury State Complex. M-F 8:30-5. Ref # 142899 Berlin to IBM: M-F 7:30-4. Ref # 142888 Berlin or Barre to Williston, M-F, 7:30am-4pm. Ref # 142800 Montpelier to IBM: N1 shift, 7AM7PM. Ref # 142886 E Montpelier or Woodbury to Waterbury: M-F 7:45-4:15. Ref # 142163 Plainfield to Burlington. Ride needed M-F, 7:30-5. Ref # 142850 Calais to Montpelier, M-F, 7:45am4:30pm. Ref # 142799 Duxbury to Williston: M-F 8-4:30. Ref # 142881 Montpelier to Milton: MWF, 8-4. Ref # 142925 Montpelier to Milton: M-F, 2pm12am. Ref # 142926.

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Sell Your House “AS IS” for a fair price on the date of your choice. WE BUY HOUSES! call 800-348-9470 SAINT GEORGE VILLA: 1990 Astro mobile home. 14 X 70, 3bedroom, 1-bath. Contact 603494-0268. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Spear St., unique property, lots of charm. 2-bedroom (possible 3) Cape w/2-car attached garage. Oak hdwd, 2-full bath, large living room w/fireplace, refinished w/original charm. New windows/wiring/plumbing. Central vacuum. Wired w/cate 5. Large yard, close to UVM/country club. Open house 3/05, 1-4 p.m. $379,000. 802-860-3923, 617242-9335.

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BURLINGTON: 1 nice roommate wanted. Avail. now. $338/mo. + utils. Walking distance to lake/ downtown. Off-street parking. Garden space. 802-578-6839. BURLINGTON: 1 roommate wanted for room avail. 3/20. Moving for job. Reduced rent to $300. Walking distance to lake/downtown. Private porch, W/D, big room, awesome roommates. Call 215-353-7438. BURLINGTON: Health-concious household w/single parent and 9-year-old child. Spacious, sunny, private bath. $500/mo. inclusive. Possible rent reduction for child care. Pets may be welcome. 802-951-9379. BURLINGTON: Housemate wanted. $350/mo. incl. utils. Seeking woman to share Riverwatch condo. W/D, close to UVM, on busline, parking, pool. Must have own phone. 802-660-9706. BURLINGTON: Need 1 roommate for bright 3-bedroom, 1st floor apt., w/hdwd. South side. NS/ pets. $550/mo. utils. + Internet incl. Call Christian, 802-363-8303. BURLINGTON: Roommate wanted, M/F, prof./grad, vegetarian, quiet, NS, to share 2-bedroom on upper College St., spacious room, basement apt., private. $388/mo. + utils. Avail. 5/01. 802-865-4840.

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JERICHO: Roommate wanted. 25 mins. to Burlington. Beautiful, quiet, wooded. Large bedroom. Mature, responsible adult wanted. Pets neg. $450/mo. + utils. 802-899-5559. S. BURLINGTON: 2 rooms for rent. $550/mo. each, includes all utils., parking and cable. No 11/8/05 8:11 AM 5 Page 1 to UVM. mins. to pets. 3 mins. downtown. Avail. now. 1st month and security deposit. Jess, 324-3160.

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SOUTH BURLINGTON: Prof. individual to share 4-bedroom, 2.5 bath home w/CU. Close to UVM, shopping. NS, no additional pets. Avail. now. $500/mo. + 1/3. 802-863-8295. WATERBURY: 15 mins. from town. Quiet, private 3-bedroom home, gardens, views, piano. One roommate. $450/mo. + utils. 802-244-1361.

4 housing for rent BOLTON VALLEY: Large 1-bedroom condo. Private, slopeside, end unit on dead end driveway. Gas fireplace, gas heat. 30 min. to Burlington/Montpelier. NS/ pets. $875/mo. 802-734-0960. BURLINGTON: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5bedroom apts. Avail. 6/01. Excellent locations. 4-bedroom located on 12 Hickok Place. Very large. $2150/mo. + utils. Parking, no pets. Call before 7 p.m. 802-862-8925. BURLINGTON: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5bedroom apts. avail. 6/01 Excellent location. 5-bedroom located at 43 North Willard. Very large, 2.5-bath. Parking. $2950/mo. incl. heat. No pets. Call before 7 p.m. 802-862-8925. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom and efficiencies avail. 6/01. Excellent location. Colchester Ave., Church St. $535-$750/mo. + No pets. Call before 7 p.m. 802-862-8925. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom apt. in a beautiful downtown Victorian house. Original woodwork, stained glass. Spacious, carpets throughout. Incl. appliances, heat, off-street parking, storage space and free access to W/D. Walk to UVM/Fletcher Allen/ Church St. Pets neg. Visit www.myburlap.com for pics, floor plan and contact info. $1180/mo.

BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom, avail. 5/06. 2 blocks to downtown, 3 blocks to waterfront/ bike path. Nice, clean, quiet, gas, well insulated, parking, coin-op. 802-879-2436. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom avail. 1x1-mortgage-022305 short or long-term rental. 9/12/05 now, Incl. heat, water, electricity, parking and storage. Walk to all. No pets. $900/mo. 802-951-2457.

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SPACEFINDER BURLINGTON: 183 1/2 North Willard St. Large 1-bedroom efficiency, new paint, new flooring. NS/pets. One-year lease. $725/ mo. + utils. Avail. 4/01. 802658-0621. BURLINGTON: 2 apt. at 236 S. Union. Great location, parking, yard, most pets OK. Avail. now. Studio, $750/mo. + utils. 2-bedroom, $1300/mo. + utils. Great place, hdwd, light. Call 802879-9440. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom, 1bath, 57 Intervale Ave. Yard, laundry onsite. One year lease, sec. dep. req. $1050/mo. + utils. Avail. 5/01. 802-233-2386. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom apt., South End, 1/2 mile from Lake, big yard, parking, no dogs. $900/mo. Avail. immed. 802453-3394. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom, central, spacious, clean and parking. Lease + dep. No pets. Avail. 4/01. $850/mo. 802-658-4231. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom, fullbath townhouse. NS/pets. Water/rubbish incl. 1-year lease + sec. dep. req. $775-$875/mo. Avail. immediately. Call 802355-3580. BURLINGTON: 20 Oak St., 2bedroom apt. No smoking, no pets. Hardwood, washer/dryer, off-street parking, yard. Under renovations. Avail. 4/01. $825/mo. + utils. 802-578-2941. BURLINGTON: 299 South Union, exceptional 1-bedroom apt. 3rd floor of beautiful Victorian. Spectacular lake views, huge porch, large closets, laundry, D/W, garage. $1150/mo. 802-863-2619. BURLINGTON: 3-bedroom, 1bath at 139 Shelburne Road. Renovated, elec., garage, porch, new appliances. $1375/mo. + elec. Avail. now. Pets OK. 917547-7500. BURLINGTON: 3-bedroom, 2bath, in new North End. Nice yard, pool, great neighborhood, near bike path. No dogs. $1500/mo. + utils. Avail. 5/01. One-year lease. 802-859-0711. BURLINGTON: 3-bedroom apts., 2 stories, 79 Chase St. Two units avail. 6/01. Hdwd, gas heat, porches, parking, large yard, W/D. Walking distance to UVM/FAHC. $1200-$1275/mo. 802-860-1443. BURLINGTON: 4-bedroom townhouse, 2-bath, laundry, D/W, offstreet parking, gas heat and hot water. Clean, full basement. $1900/mo. +. 802-734-8164. BURLINGTON: 5-bedroom Loomis St. apt. Close to campus, off-street parking. $2625/mo. heat incl. Avail. 6/01. Call Rob 802-355-5811. BURLINGTON: A furnished studio apt. in New North End. NS/pets. Lease. W/D use. $650/mo. incl. utils. 862-2551.

BURLINGTON: Absolutely beautiful 2-bedroom on Strong Street. Just totally renovated. Hdwd throughout, new cherry kitchen w/stainless appliances. See www.burlingtonaprtments. net. $1375/mo. Immed. 802864-6458.

BURLINGTON: Avail. now thru 7/01. 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apts. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Brick building, lower King St. Great location near both waterfront and Church St. Large 2-bedroom. $875/mo. +. Parking, lease. No pets. 802863-8200. BURLINGTON: Bright, 1-bedroom, 2nd floor, $650/mo., furnished or unfurnished w/sliding glass doors leading on to large deck. Quiet neighborhood near bike path and lake, New North End, off North Ave. 5 mi. from downtown Burlington. Elec. and cable TV incl. New carpet and paint. Low heating costs. No pets. Avail. immed.! Call 802864-0838, home, or 802-2336043, cell. Email Viking@ netscape.com, Paula or Bruce, or submit application at burling tonapartments.net. BURLINGTON: Bright 2-bedroom, 2nd floor, $725/mo., furnished or unfurnished w/sliding ?2@612;A6.9 36;.;06;4 glass doors leading on to large % %!# !#!# Â‘ 86:;24?<; 0<: deck. Quiet neighborhood near bike path and lake, New North BURLINGTON: All shapes, all End, off North Ave. 5 mi. from sizes. Great locations, parking. downtown Burlington. Elec. and Avail. 6/01. Please call Rick, cable TV incl. New carpet and 802-864-3430. paint. Low heating costs. No BURLINGTON: Attractive 3-bedpets. Avail. immed.! Call 802room close to downtown. All 864-0838, home, or 802-233hdwd, 2 porches, 2nd floor, gas 6043, cell. Email Viking@ heat/hot water, coin-op laundry netscape.com, Paula or Bruce, or in basement. $1050/mo. + utils. submit application at burling 802-658-0764 or goodkharma@ tonapartments.net. verizon.net. BURLINGTON: Bright, sunny, 2BURLINGTON: Avail. 6/01. 3bedroom apt. spacious, clean, bedroom, $1380/mo. + utils. 2 2/14/06 heat. Just private8:52 parking, 2x2-homeshare021506 AMgasPage 1 a 3/4-bedroom, $1100/mo. + walk to downtown and waterutils. Off-street parking. 203front. Avail. immed. $875/mo. + 494-0682. utils. NS/pets. 802-863-5397.

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BURLINGTON: Avail. now, huge 3-bedroom, full bath, laundry, basement, incl. heat/hot water. $1300/mo. Large 3-bedroom, basement, gas, parking, hookups, $1000/mo. Medium 2bedroom, hdwd, laundry. Avail. now. $900/mo. Avail. 6/01 2 and 3-bedrooms. No dogs. 802862-7467. BURLINGTON: Avail. now, School St., recently renovated, spacious, sunny and bright. 2bedroom w/office, balcony, screened-in porch, parking, pets OK. Lease. NS. $1175/mo. + utils. 802-658-4184.

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BURLINGTON: Buell St. Avail. 7/01. 2-bedroom, 1st floor. $895/mo. incl. heat and hot water. Laundry. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x 1021 www.nevilleco.com/resi dence. BURLINGTON: Catherine St. duplex, quiet South End neighborhood, 2-bedroom, 2-level, large yard, gas heat. $1100/mo., lease, ref., dep. No dogs. 802660-8957.

BURLINGTON: Chase St. Avail. 6/01. Two 2-bedroom apts. Possible summer sublet. Parking. Gas heat. No dogs. $875$925/mo. + utils. 802-862-4007. BURLINGTON: Church St. Marketplace. Studio apt. Clean, heated. Great location. 802-8622680. BURLINGTON: Colchester Ave. Avail. 5/01. 1-bedroom $725/mo. incl. elect. Across from hospital. Parking, laundry. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481, x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/res idence.

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BURLINGTON: Colchester Ave. Avail 6/01. 1-bedroom, 1st floor. $640/mo. Laundry. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc. 802660-3481 x 1021. www.neville co.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Colchester Ave. Avail 6/01. 4-bedroom, 1st and lower floor. $1200/mo. Laundry. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Cute 3-bedroom or large sunny 4-bedroom apt. w/deck, yard, off-street parking, W/D. Avail. 6/01. $1200-$1700/ mo. + utils. 802-324-3500. BURLINGTON: Ethan Allen Parkway, studio apt. w/full bath and kitchenette, off-street parking, NS/pets. Avail. 3/15 or 4/01. $495/mo. + utils. 802862-1109. BURLINGTON: Large 1-bedroom. North Ave. Enclosed porch, new carpeting, parking, lake view. Close to downtown/ waterfront. Second floor, building owner occupied. NS/dogs. $700/mo. + utils. + dep. 802863-6253. BURLINGTON: Mill St. Avail. 6/01, 3-bedroom house. $1275/mo. Dog OK w/ref, WD hookups. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481, ext. 1021. www.nevilleco.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Mill St. Avail. now and 6/01, 3-bedroom. $1050/mo. incl. hot water. Dog OK w/ref, WD hookups. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481, ext. 1021. www.nevilleco.com/ residence. BURLINGTON: New apt., 3-bedroom, 1-bath, 2-floors, walk to lake/downtown. Off-street parking, sunny porch, W/D. Friendly dogs OK. $1300/mo. 802-2369485. BURLINGTON: New North End ranch, quiet location, 3-bedrooms, 1-bath. Sun room, garage, nice yard. No pets/smoking. $1300/mo. + utils, dep. 1year lease. Avail. 4/1. 862-1571.

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SOUTH BURLINGTON: Spear St., unique property, lot's of charm. 2bedroom (possible 3) Cape w/2-car attached garage. Oak hdwd, 2-full bath, large living room w/fireplace, refinished w/original charm. New windows/wiring/plumbing. Central vacuum. Wired w/cate 5. Large yard, close to UVM/country club. Open house 3/05, 1-4 p.m. $379,000. 802-860-3923, 617-242-9335.

BURLINGTON: Nice 2-bedroom, off-street parking for two, eat-in kitchen, living room, office, garage for storage/workshop, W/D hookups, yard/garden. NS/dogs. One-year lease, sec. $950/mo. + utils. Avail. 4/01. 802-865-7621.

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BURLINGTON: North Ave. Avail 3/01. 2-bedroom house w/yard. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Riverwatch condo. 2-bedroom. Avail 5/06. W/D, underground parking, pool, deck, trash removal, heat incl. $1100/mo. Call 802-524-7627. BURLINGTON: Shelburne St. Avail. 6/01. 1-bedroom, 3rd floor. $730/mo. incl., heat and hot water. Parking. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc. 802660-3481 x 1021. www.neville co.com/residence.

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BURLINGTON: Shelburne St. Avail. 6/01. 3-bedroom, 2nd and 3rd floor. $1095/mo. Parking, no dogs. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481, x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Shelburne St. Avail 6/01. 3-bedroom, 2nd floor. $1290/mo. incl. heat and hot water. Parking. No Pets Neville Companies, Inc. 802660-3481 x 1021. www.neville co.com/residence. BURLINGTON: Shelburne St. Avail. now. 1-bedroom, 2nd floor. $720/mo. incl. heat. Parking. Pets OK w/ref. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021. www.nevilleco.com/resi dence. BURLINGTON: Small studio half block to downtown located at 21 No. Winooski. Avail. immed., parking for one car, coin-op laundry. NS. 1-year lease. $495/mo. +. 802-8936581, Ellen. BURLINGTON: Studio, 3 and 4 bedrooms avail. 6/01. Great locations, porches, yard. Pets neg. Reasonable rents. Call 802864-4838. BURLINGTON: Very large 4-bedroom apt. avail. immed., Old North End. Sunny, spacious, new carpet, large kitchen, 5-min. walk downtown, off-street parking, 4 cars. $1350/mo. + utils. 802-373-7435. BURLINGTON: Wonderful, downtown, 1-bedroom apt. Avail. 4/01. $750/mo. + utils. 802-860-5006. CAMBRIDGE: Farmhouse, private w/magnificent views. 4.5 acres, 4-bedroom, 1.5-bath, 2car garage. $1500/mo. + utils. 644-2941. CHARLOTTE: 3-bedroom ranch house. Terrific lake views! $1250/mo. w/one-year lease. Call 802-734-7115, leave message if no answer.

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BURLINGTON: 260 North St., + 1000 sq. ft. Call 802-343-5495. WATERFRONT: Burlington, office space, 1350 sq. ft. in renovated warehouse w/full-time receptionist. New cubicle fixturing avail. or you design. 802734-1185.

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BURLINGTON: 110 Main St. 1250 sq. ft. 3 office suite w/open work area, fronts courtyard, parking available. Call Dave, 802-316-6452 or brick boxco@aol.com. BURLINGTON: Looking for full or part-time therapist. Nice, prof., furnished office (small). Avail. 5/01. 1/2 block from waterfront/bike path. Chaired waiting room. 802-482-5130. BURLINGTON: Prof. office space, South Union St., 1800 sq. ft., 3-4 offices, off-street parking, 5 min. walk to Church St. Call 802-238-4885. BURLINGTON: Waterfront. Distinctive and unique office/retail space. Environmentally friendly and affordable. Main Street Landing, Melinda Moulton, 802-864-7999. www.mainstreetlanding.com. BURLINGTON: Waterfront office space avail. Adirondack views. Incls. parking. Call Ken at 8653450. RICHMOND: Office space at the four corners. 1000+ sq. ft. Sunny and hdwd floors, ample parking, full bath/kitchen. At John’s Shoe Shop North location. 802-434-5299.

CHARLOTTE: Beautiful, large 1bedroom apt. Post and beam, two-story, first fl. open and bright; 2nd floor large bedroom and bath w/sunset views of Adirondack Mtn. One mile to beach, 20 min. to Burl. Heat, elec., DSL/wireless incl. Shared laundry. NS/pets. $975/mo. Avail. 4/01. Call, 802-324-8306. CHARLOTTE: Furnished or unfurnished apts. at the Mt. Philo Inn. Spectacular views. Spacious, comfortable, unique 2-bedroom, 2-bath, laundry, pet friendly. Flexible lease. $1400$1800, incls. all. www.mtphilo inn.com or call 802-425-3335. COLCHESTER: House for rent, 2-3 bedroom, 2-bath, W/D, newly renovated, plenty of storage, quiet. 8 min. to downtown/hospital/waterfront. $1195/mo. Call 802-865-9693. COLCHESTER: Newly built duplex. Beautiful 2-bedroom, 2bath, gourmet kitchen, granite countertops, fireplace, garage, gas heat, patios. Quiet. NS/pets. 2 miles from Exit 17. $1500/mo. 373-9999, 238-8888.

WILLISTON: Office available on S. Brownell Rd. 152 sq. ft. Office incl. reception area, kitchen, deck, cable access and ample parking. Three other professional tenants in building. Great location. Call 860-2211 or 865-6233. WINOOSKI: Share spacious counseling office at Stillwater Counseling Center, Woolen Mill. Reasonable rent. Group room, waiting area. On bus line, accessible, parking. 802-654-7600 Kate, ext. #3.

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BURLINGTON: Downtown artist studio w/many windows. North light. 1-block from Church St. $300/mo. 802-535-9877. OFFICE/ARTIST STUDIO, or small retail. New spaces for rent. Choose from three units. As low as $300/mo. incl. all utils. Located on New Shelburne Road. 802-363-7557, Manny or 802-734-0289, Andy. STUDIO SPACE for rent at Great Falls Fine Arts Center, in Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury. Ample space and light. Coffee and tea on the house. $100/mo. 802388-0239.

ESSEX: Duplex, 2-bedroom, deck, 2 levels plus basement. Gas heat, quiet street, large back yard, NS/pets. $875/mo. + utils. + dep. 802-863-5887. ESSEX JUNCTION: 2-bedroom, 2nd floor flat, W/D, carport w/storage, pool and tennis courts, water/trash removal incl. NS/pets. $975/mo. + utils. Avail now! Call Hollie, 802-598-3750. ESSEX JUNCTION: 2-bedroom house, charming, beautiful, secluded area. All appliances incl. $1000/mo. 802-846-7823. ESSEX JUNCTION: 4 rooms, 2bedroom apt., heated, carpeted, repainted, on busline, parking, no pets. $850/mo. 802878-6618. ESSEX JUNCTION: Clean 1-bedroom, parking, nice yard, walk to bus, shopping, bike path. $650/mo. + utils., lease req. 802-878-0236. ESSEX JUNCTION: Exquisite townhouse. New flooring, appliances, W/D, gourmet kitchen. 2large bedrooms, 1.5 bath. Carport, storage. Newly remodeled. Pool and tennis court access. Avail. 4/01. $1160/mo. + utils. 802-879-1580.

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ESSEX JUNCTION: Large, quiet 1-2 bedroom apt. in private residence. Avail. 4/01. Situated on 1+ acres. Ground level private entrance, off-street parking. Large bedroom w/built in dresser; other room perfect for office or spare bedroom. Incl. W/D, microwave, D/W. $1100/mo. incl. all utils. Twelve-month lease. No pets. Call 802879-2635. FAIRFAX: Large, attractive, new, 1-room studio. Gorgeous country setting. Mins. to 89. NS/pets. $650/mo. incl. utils. 802-849-6874. FAIRFAX: Small country house. 1-2 bedroom cape on 20 acres. Views of Mansfield. Certified organic pasture for horses, livestock, vegetables. $1200/mo. + utils. Pets welcome. 802-6357476. GRAND ISLE: Lake front, 300 ft., exquisite, executive home. 2-bedroom, 3-bath, fireplace w/brick oven, office space. Small pet OK. $2000/mo. Lease. 802-372-5938 or 802-372-3275. HINESBURG: Route 116. Avail. now, large 2-bedroom. $810/mo. incl. heat and hot water. Parking, no dogs. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481, ext. 1021 or www.nevilleco. com/residence. HUNTINGTON: 2-bedroom house, bright, spacious, quiet country setting. $1100/mo. + utils. + dep. NS/pets. 802-4343463. HUNTINGTON: Large apt. in farmhouse duplex, 2-bedroom, 2-car garage, private entry, enclosed porch, remodeled bath, W/D, D/W, no dogs. $900/mo. 802-999-8192. NORTH FERRISBURGH: Beautiful, spacious 1-bedroom. Cathedral ceilings, D/W, W/D, radiant floor heat, satellite TV, garage. $1050/mo. incl. utils. No dogs, NS. Avail 4/1. Call 802-877-6339. RICHMOND VILLAGE: Small 1bedroom, furnished. NS/pets. Lease. Parking. Ref., credit check. 802-434-3238. Leave message. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Charles St. Avail. 6/01. 2-bedroom duplex w/yard, garage and basement. $1100/mo. Dogs OK w/ref. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021. www. nevilleco.com/residence. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Grandview end unit! Energy-efficient 2-bedroom townhouse, close to I-89 and I-189, w/newer kitchen appliances, carpet and paint. W/D hookups, patio and backs up to wooded area for added privacy. Avail. 4/15. $1000/mo. 802-846-9568. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Nice 2bedroom, hdwd floors, gas heat, W/D hookups, 10 min. to hospital/downtown. NS/pets. $975/ mo. + utils. 802-862-9575. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Spacious and new 2-bedroom, 2-bath, Lancaster Condo w/heat and hot water incl., W/D, D/W, patio, exercise room, underground parking and backs up to the woods for tranquil views and added privacy. Avail 3/15. $1500/mo. 802-846-9568.

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SOUTH BURLINGTON: Townhouse on Timberlane Drive, 2 floor w/carport, D/W, 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath, ext. eff. monitor heat, nice neighborhood w/pool. $1275/mo. + utils. Pets OK. 802-985-3046. UNDERHILL CENTER: Spacious 1-bedroom apt. in beautiful setting. Kitchen/living/dining, screened porch w/beautiful , the newest views. Trails, brook and peace off-campus housing for UVM students, on 12-acres. NS/no pets. Avail. 4/01. 802-899-4607. is now leasing for June 2006! UNDERHILL: Park St. Avail. 4/01. 2-bedroom and den. $840/mo. Laundry. Avail. 4/01 Apply individually, or with a group, for or 5/01 2-bedroom, $750/mo. a 2 - 4 bedroom apartment-style suite. Avail. 7/01 3-bedroom. $875/ mo. Incl. heat and HW. Parking. All apartments are fully furnished. No. dogs. Neville Companies, Rent includes all utilities, cable and Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1021 www.nevilleco.com/residence. wireless broadband connectivity. VERGENNES: 3-bedroom classic house w/great yard, W/D, porches, storage, etc. $900/ mo. + util. Avail immed. CALL 8 02. 655 .32 0 0 NS/dogs. To see and apply: OR VISIT 802-598-1918 or adamh miller@hotmail.com. S P INNER P LACE .CO M WESTFORD: 1-bedroom apt. 1x1-mortgage-022305 New windows, propane heat. 309/12/05 4:18 PM Page 1 mins. to Burlington. NS/pets. $525/mo. + dep. 802-878-3929 WINOOSKI: Dogs neg. w/ref. 2KIM NEGRON, your mortgage or 802-879-5726. bedroom, 2nd floor, very clean. professional. Call for a free preAll new paint, quiet duplex, new approval. CTX Mortgage, 802-864Free windows, natural gas heat, 2 4646 or www.KimNegron.com. Pre-Approval! porches, hdwd, claw-foot LIBERTYQUEST is Vermont’s tub/shower, brand-new applichoice for mortgage lending. Our Mark R. Chaffee ances. Off-street parking for 2, low rates will save you thou(802) 658-5599 x11 NS. Trash and water incl. Avail. sands. Let us put our experi3/01. $875/mo. 802-233-1556. ence to work for you. 802-764northernproperty@together.net. 6000, LibertyQuestmortgage.com. WINOOSKI: Main St. Avail WESTFORD: Large 3-4 bedroom 4/01. 2-bedroom, 1st floor. farmhouse apt. Hdwd, ten acre $775/mo. incl. hot water. country lot. NS. Avail. 4/01. Parking. No pets. Neville BURLINGTON: Buell St. Avail. $1250/mo. Lease, dep. 802Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 5/01. Private room w/common 849-6807. 1021 www.nevilleco.com/resi bath. $330/mo. Laundry. No WINOOSKI: 1-bedroom, 1-car dence. pets. Neville Companies, Inc. parking, free laundry, cat only, WINOOSKI: Maple St. Avail. 802-660-3481 x 1021. NS. Avail. 3/01. $600/mo. + 6/01. 1-bedroom, 1st floor. www.nevilleco.com/residence. utils. 802-899-2001. $715/mo. Large kitchen. BURLINGTON: College Street. WINOOSKI: 1-bedroom, W/D Parking. No pets. Neville Private room, common kitchen hookup. 1100 sq. ft., hdwd, Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x and bath. $485/mo. incl. utils. porch, large pantry, garage. 1021. www.nevilleco.com/resi No pets, references, lease. NS/dogs. $850/mo. + utils. 802dence. 863-4634. 9-5. 878-5784. WINOOSKI: Off I-89. SOUTH BURLINGTON: Clean, WINOOSKI: 2-bedroom, heat Completely furnished, private, quiet, sunny, single room avail. and hot water incl. Parking, full sunny, 2-bedroom apt. w/lovely now. NS. Utils., light kitchen tub and shower, onsite laundry, hdwd and quality furnishings. privileges. New box spring/matclean, NS/pets. $895/mo. 802Great location! Great setting! tress. Parking. Prof. pref. Great 233-1150. NS/pets. Ref. Please call 802location. $450/mo. 802-862WINOOSKI: 2-bedroom unit, 879-3226. 2622, 802-860-2863. near Saint Michael’s and I-89. WINOOSKI: Priced to rent! This WEEKLY AND NIGHTLY LODGEasy access to Burlington. Incl. 2-bedroom, 1-bath townhouse ING: European-style and heat. One cat allowed. style apt. has an open floor equipped. Kitchen use, cable TV, $900/mo. 802-846-7849. plan, new gas heater, large great ambiance, on bus route. WINOOSKI: 3-bedroom apt. backyard, and plenty of off$175-$225/weekly. Maggie’s avail. immed. Great condition street parking. Avail. 4/01. Inn, 324-7388, 324-3291, or and location, parking, cats OK. $900/mo. 802-846-9568. ivanland@aol.com. $1100/mo. Call Sarah at 802WINOOSKI: Sunny, large, 4233-2212. room apt. w/large yard. Fully WINOOSKI: Beautiful Victorian. renovated 1/06. Adjacent to 2nd and 3rd floor. Very clean park. Incl. off-street parking, BURLINGTON: 3/01-8/31, hdwd floors. 3-bedroom, 1-bath. trash, water/sewer, storage. w/opportunity to continue lease. Gorgeous 3-season sunporch. Garage optional. No pets. Avail. 1-bedroom, spacious w/high Yard, W/D, pets negotiable. 30 now. $1095/mo. + utils., dep. ceilings/hdwd. Edge of downMansion St. $1200/mo. 1-year 985-0770. town but close to campus. Great lease. Avail. 4/1. 655-0484. landlord. $600/mo. + utils. Call WINOOSKI: Convenient and Jason at 802-658-2282. cozy! This 2-bedroom, 1-bath

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WELL ROUNDED, SPF SEEKS SAME IN A man, 30-40 YO. Loves classical to classic rock, outdoor adventures and gardening. Artistic, genuine and spontaneous. Seeking a cool guy to fall in love with, be my best friend and favorite lover. 2229

THE TIMING IS RIGHT, THE TIMING IS now, where’s the man who will call me now? Mid 20’s and seeking same, are you that guy, hopefully not vain? Cute and perky, that’s me, you’re strong and stable as can be. 2064 SPF, 51 YO, SLIM, FIT, REDHEAD. NS, healthy lifestyle. Warm, vivacious, intelligent, sophisticated, fun, likes finer things in life especially what money can’t buy. Wanna be writer. Likes movies, dinners, traveling, conversation, dancing. Looking for like-minded friends, happy, positive, successful. 2040

23 YO SWW LOVES TO RUN, HIKE, SKI, mountain bike and is looking for someone to challenge, amuse, and join her in any outdoor activity. Stability necessary, needy ones need not apply! 2225 IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WILLING to invest in more than a cup of coffee and expecting less than sex on the first date? I am petite, very active, mountain woman, late 40’s, like younger men. 2222

GOT RESPECT? ADVENTUROUS 46 YO, 5’6.5, BR/BR, NS, social drinker, large frame, seeking LTR. Romantic, enjoys walks, cuddling, TV, movies, dining, cats, flea markets, reading. Flashy smile. Make you laugh till milk shoots out your nose! NS. 2036

ATTRACTIVE, ATHLETIC, 23 YO, SWF, ISO 23-30 YO SM. Must be able to keep up with me on runs and hikes. I’m looking for an outgoing, athletic, honest guy to share in the simple pleasures of life. 2207

SWF, 38 YO. I NEED LOVE TOO. WAITING for someone to give a little attention. Haven’t met the right man yet. Still hoping to find someone who can stand a girl for more than one date. 2030

LOVE, LIFE AND VERMONT IN ALL SEAsons? GenX country bumpkin seeks like soul for outdoor romps, indoor relaxation. Fun, attractive, 35 YO SPF likes to crosscountry ski, hike, snowshoe, garden, cook. Hopes for similar fellow: honest, fun, comfortable in his skin. I haven’t lost my wild side, have you? 2137

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DARK-HAIRED, SPIRITED, 40S. PRIZES laughter, the arts, the natural world. Charmed by woods, oceans, kayaks, loons. Imagining a lively, kindhearted man to share in the wonder. 1894 KIND, PLAYFUL, INTELLIGENT, HEALTHY, open-minded and attractive SW, VT woman, 28 YO. ISO SWM between 30-38 YO with similar characteristics for laughter, good conversation, adventure and possible LTR. Must enjoy the senses, nature, pets and simplicity. 1859 ISO THE RIGHT MAN TO JOIN IN MY adventure and making it ours. You: fun, gentle, loving, honest, sincere, and love pets. Me: spunky, adventurous, gentle, for simple times together. BLD, blue, 5’1, 56 YO, WI, NS, D/D free. LTR. 1834 SUPER-COOL GIRL. JUST TURNED 30, but baby-faced. Sweet, juicy, cynical, well-scrubbed dreadie seeks bad-boy looks with tender heart. I am veggie, NS, but do not try to convert. Looking for drinks, Roxy, PlayStation, etc., 24-45 YO. 1798 SWPF, 118 LBS. 5’3. PHYSICALLY AND emotionally fit. Appreciates good communication and conversation. Interests are biking, movies, plays, travel, dining out or relaxing at home. Hoping to share w/a 48-58 YO M w/the same interests. 1794

UPBEAT, ATTRACTIVE, FIT SF SEEKING SM with similar qualities. I’m 52 YO, unpretentious and very curious about the world around me. I would love my match to want to travel and discover new places along with me. Give me a call, I look forward to chatting with you. 1792 46 YO DWF, BURLINGTON AREA, HAPPY, creative, loving, petite, attractive, seeking SWM, 40-53 YO, NA/NS, employed, grateful, honest with healthy body/mind for fun, friendship, LTR. Let’s share gardens, hikes, boating, fishing, camping, skating, sunsets, art. 1790 SF 48 YO GRACEFULLY AGING, POLITIcally left, musically moved, mildly wild yet reasonably responsible, certainly sexy, actively dreaming of warmer venues. Seeking man of wit, wisdom, warmth and worldliness. 1789 DWF EARLY 50S, ATTRACTIVE, EDUCATED, fun-loving and somewhat sophisticated, enjoys gardening, travel, music, books and biking. Looking for a man with similar interests, a sense of humor and integrity who is emotionally and financially stable. 1788 55 YO DWF RETIRED SMOKER. WOULD like to meet some friends and companions to enjoy life with. Reader, sports fan. I don’t have a very exciting life, maybe I can meet someone to change that. 1771

SWF 27 YO ISO SM 25-30 YO HEALTHconscious, philosophical nature lover. Vegetarian, swing dance, workout, movies, No atheists, techno music, eclectic, likes dogs, family and children, travel and exploration, Chai tea, read the classics, Frida Kahlo, praise songs, organic, sunshine. 1966

51 YO F, PLATTSBURGH AREA, RED HAIR, blue eyes, smoker, seeking loving, funny, intelligent, passionate, sensitive man who likes gardening, laughing, cuddling and talking. Needs to have a strong work ethic, be caring, thoughtful, romantic and like cats. Is this you? 2069

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YOU: HIGH IQ, STABLE, ENTERTAINING, nice but not too nice. Me: 23 YO curlyhaired SWF, loves dogs, turned on by nerdy conversation, merry but responsible, a girl who’s always got her towel. Looking to get back into the dating scene. Help! 1767

LET’S ENJOY LIFE. SWM, YOUNG 42, smoker, 420-friendly, seeks a slender to average woman, 32-40 YO, who enjoys classic rock, NASCAR, good food and drink, the sun, water, camping and is as affectionate and caring as me. Much more. 2219

DWPM, 5’5, SLENDER. ISO DF, FIT, 4660 YO, spontaneous, active, emotionally stable and available. Likes water, mountains, rides, movies, dance, outdoor activities, weekend getaways in bikes, boats, cars. Friends with LT goals. Smoke free. Share the fun 2139

SWF 50 YO SEARCHING FOR FRIENDSHIP and/or relationship. Enjoy dancing, dining, beach and gardening. Male between the ages of 45 and 55 YO. 1758

LOOKING FOR MY DANCE PARTNER. Romantic SM looking for relationship. Enjoys cuddling, music, contra dancing, swing dancing. Looking for someone to sweep off their feet. Looking for someone, 19-26 YO, with similar interests. 2217

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I’M LOOKING FOR THE MAN OF MY dreams! I’m a 26 YO SWF who’s into live music, Volkswagens, movies, and NASCAR. I love animals and the outdoors. Let’s make this happen. 1755 THIS CULTURAL DUCK IS OUT OF WATER in Rutland County. Looking to swim northward where men might be more inclined towards the arts. If this might be you, contact this vivacious, 50 something, full-bodied, well-aged woman for exploration. 1754 26 YO SWF FROM BURLINGTON AREA, ISO outgoing, intelligent, humorous, passionate SWM. Must be 6’1 or taller and 27-37 YO, emotionally fit and financially secure. For casual dating, fun times, maybe more. Interested? 1753 CEREBRAL/PLAYFUL, MODERATELY unconventional, irreverent, progressive iconoclast, finely aged, NS. Would like to meet bluegrass to baroque muse-ical guy w/grassroots social conscience, shared values, and compatible pheromones, 50s, finely aged, NS. Green Earl Gray, hot? 1740 ARE YOU BETWEEN 45-52 YO, IN SHAPE and comfortable in jeans or a tux? Does an attractive, in-shape, politically liberal lady with shoulder-length hair and green eyes sound like your idea of bliss? I bet we have a lot more in common. NS,ND. 1738

men > women BLUE-EYED, BROWN-HAIRED, SWM, interested in campfires, swimming, boating, live music, sports, movies, ISO SWF 25-35 YO, attractive and has same like interests. Trying to find the right LTR. 420 OK. 2228 23 YO, ECTOMORPHIC, MISO NATTY, naughty, sublimely, operatic beaut who’ll join me in contiguous beatific union behaving in progressively non-continently fashion. Coquetries OK, no coquettes grisettes. Cordial pursuers join me for a cordial so we can jocularly peruse each other. 2224

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SPDM ISO ATTRACTIVE WOMAN FOR FUN and meaningful experiences. Lithe, emotionally, spiritually and physically fit for outdoorsy and imaginative adventures that are mutually uplifting and satisfying. Hopefully capable of discussing ideas, current events and emotional joy. 2213

59 YO WM SEEKING F FOR LTR. LOOKING for a roomie to share bedroom with. I’m 5’9, 200 lbs., D/D free, clean and discreet. If you’re looking for the same, let’s meet. 2134

EXTINCT OR JUST ENDANGERED? SWM ISO SF, 25-38 YO. No prison, kids, never been married. Independent, fit, intelligent with the ability to carry on a conversation. 2210

SWM, 47 YO, LIKES BASKETBALL, MOVIES, dining out, walks, quiet time at home and more. Looking for SWF, 35-48 YO, similar interests. Possible LTR. In Burlington area. 2133

SEEKING AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, 30-45 YO. WM, 50 YO, seeking sexy woman looking for romance in St. Albans area. 2204

LOOKING TO HAVE SOME FUN? HANDsome and financially secure SWM, 43 YO, looks, feels, acts younger. Looking for fit, attractive and classy lady to enjoy outside activities, weekend getaways and traveling. Life’s too short so let’s get going! 2125

HIP, CONSERVATIVE, REDNECK. INTELlectual aesthete, broad tastes, vast but spotty erudition, moderately outdoorsy. Have tickets for Swan Lake 3/18, seek date with kind, polite, intelligent, attractive, cultured lady 40-60 YO, in hopes of LTR. 2199 SWM 41 YO, 5’11, 160 LBS., SEEKS SF. If you don’t like what you see when you look at yourself, look through my eyes. If you like romance, cuddling, holding hands, looking into our eyes. Things will look better. 2197 1950’S MODEL, runs great, looks good, a few nicks and dents. Seeks same for friends, travel and possible LTR. NS/ND. 2152 SWM ISO FEMALE. I WORK THIRD SHIFT so am not into any night scene. Easy going, tall, blue eyes. If you like daytime love I am your find. 2150 LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO DON’T JUDGE a book by its cover. For those who have the time...to be a lover. I’m highly verbal and highly sensual. So whether you want a friend or a mate and your too tired of the usual ape; but think fondly of little kisses on the nape; let’s get together for a date. (I’m 49 and I smoke) Coffee? 2143

SEEKING A SWP, 30-42 YO. DO YOU LIKE to hike, bike, cross-country ski, and snowshoe, if so, would you like to join me? Looking for a theater, sports, movie, and summer concert lover. Must be independent. Looking for friendship first. 2120 SWM 35 YO, LOOKING FOR LOVE. NEVER found it and worried I may never find it! ISO the right person in same boat, goodlooking, who loves movies, bike riding, kids, NASCAR. To you money doesn’t matter. NS/ND/NA. 2116 SWM, 51 YO, BURLINGTON AREA, LOOKing for friends and fun. Just moved here. BBQ’s, fishing, walking trails. 5’6, 190 lbs., like pool, dancing, flea markets, rides in country, cuddling, watching movies. Drink and smoke OK. FF women a +. 2111 TO THE BEAUTIFUL AND SWEET GIRL WHO gave me the flavored toothpick at Nectar’s on Friday, 2/17. I’d love to hear from you. 2061 YOUNG 57 YO LOOKING FOR LIFE PARTner to share love of home, gardening, animals. I cook, sew, knit, keep a warm/clean home. Very passionate about all. Spiritual, Tibetan meditation/prayer, honest, sincere, compassionate and easy on the eyes. 2058

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DWM 55 YO FIT AND TRIM. I ENJOY hiking, snowshoeing, yoga. I play several instruments and write songs. Seeking W 35-58 YO, fit and trim who enjoys outdoors. Hoping for LTR with right person. 2048

WM, 29 YO, GOOD-LOOKING, RICH. Looking for a super-sexy girl who knows how to have a good time. I’m not into chicks who are stuck on themselves. Confidence is cool, but so is modesty. Give a holler. 1893

SEPARATED WM, 52 YO, IN SHAPE, WORKing, dreamer, doer, forever young. Love kids, nature, mom and God. Seeking WF for friendship, walks, talks. Please be honest, open, adventurous. 2034

23 YO SWEET, THOUGHTFUL SWM SEEKS quick-witted, self-assured foil to explore intellectual and emotional territory. I’m eclectic, offbeat, pragmatic, insightful, reverent. Like Tchaikovsky and Ween? Enjoy both ends of the spectrum in one individual! 1883

MIXED LUGE. SLIDE WITH ME. HOT, 53 YO, 5’10, 155 lbs, SWM, financially secure, humor, passionate, travel, sports, music, theater, beaches, kindness, parties. You: Very attractive, 38-53 YO, sexy, witty, ready to be pampered and loved. 2029 WOOF! MY DOG PLACED THIS AD. “MY owner: Late 30’s, great shape from taking me hiking, XC skiing, backpacking. Observes nature, especially birds and flowers. Gardens, reads, cooks, movies. Leaves me home for swing dancing, live music. He’s also cute!” 1971

SWM, 40 YO, BL/BR, DECENT SHAPE AND looks, kind, adventurous, attentive. ISO sensual and sultry SW/AF, 24-44 YO for clean and discreet excitement. Open? Explore? Partners in passion we could be! Discretion assured! Let’s try! 1882 SEEKING ATTRACTIVE OLDER WOMAN. Tall, handsome, WM, 48 YO, seeks sexy woman looking for romance. Slim or fullfigured not an issue as long as you are passionate. Discretion if needed. 1879

33 YO WEEKEND FATHER, 6’3, BROWN hair, blue eyes seeks woman who has self-confidence, good sense of humor and is an outdoorsy kind of lady. Must like kids. If this is you, call me. 1969

ALLITERATION, OH VALENTINE! FLEXIBLE, frolicsome, faithful, forthright fellow fancies fit, fetching, friendly, forties female for festive, fruitful forays. (Now can you say it out loud quickly three times in a row?) 1878

26 YO SWM “INJECT WITTY CATCH PHRASE here.” Intelligent, motivated, fit, honest, loving Vermonter seeks “the one.” Enjoys skiing, motorcycles, quads, camping, the outdoors in general. Looking for a girly girl, with a bitchy, I know what I want side! 1967

SWM, HANDSOME 5’9, 205 LBS., 45 YO, long, curly, brown hair, mustache. Carpenter, musician, painter, gardener, solar home, love nature, sports, cats, kids. Hate ignorance, intolerance, cruelty. ISO healthy, affectionate F to share. 1864

DWM, 47 YO, 5’10, 150 LBS., FIT, WITTY, romantic, liberal, gentle, devoted, naughty, outdoorsy, average-good looks. Wants to be in love again w/fit soulmate. Do you like garden dirt, blue jeans, painted nails, lingerie, laughing, cuddling, movies, Chinese food? 1959

SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE FOR LIFE, LOVE and outdoors. Mountaineer, skier, climber. SWPM seeks fit 25-35 YO F for friendship. LTR possible if wild, kinky, sharing, caring, active, sexy and sane enough for each other. Honesty, communication, trust important. How about you? 1856

SWM, 45 YO, WOW! DID I JUST WRITE that? Youthful spirit, attractive, educated leftist, out of the box doer. Have hair, jeans, teeth, dreams and tears. Love motorcycling, fishing and travel. Great sense of humor. You: attractive, real. 1949

IN THE WOODS IS PERPETUAL YOUTHEmerson. Mid-aged man, 5’9, 150 lbs., NS, beautiful spirit, beautiful man, great attitude, long-distance runner, artist, writer, hoping to find easygoing, kind, free spirit for wonderful, open, loving relationship. It can happen. 1855

SWM, 53 YO, 6’, 175 LBS. PROGRESSIVE politics, 420, NA. Spirituality (normal member), smoker but need to stop in Spring. Love outdoors, fishing, camping, reading, travel (no Cal., Montana), pleasantly haunted by music. Seeks SF for friendship leading to magic/LTR. 1945

RETIRED DWM, COUNTRY BOY ISO 50 something ( + or -) lady. Active, fit and adventurous. I am financially and emotionally stable. Love to dance, travel, Harley rider. Plattsburgh. 1842

ATTRACTIVE, PHYSICALLY FIT, SKI FREAK. DPNSM 35 YO, extreme thrill seeker enjoys ice climbing, motor/cycling, tree skiing to get my ya-ya’s out. Other outlets include hiking, golf, homebrewing, drummer, snowdecking, kayaking. ISO honesty, humor, passion for life. No TV. 1928

KIND, STEADY, 51 YO, WP LOOKING FOR companion to laugh myself silly with while we chase lobsters around the kitchen floor. Live outside the city, but I would certainly like a reason for coming here every weekend and then some. 1835 54 YO WM, LOOKING FOR ATTRACTIVE F for fun, romance. Smoker and light drinker here. Must like kids. 1833

men > women 30b >> Star: Baby, I want to be the brightest STAR in your universe! Hi. I am a beautiful 4-year-old female Lab/Rottweiler mix with a sweet disposition. I LOVE people and like to give them loving hugs! Before coming to HSCC I spent most of my life tied outside, and never learned to play with other dogs—I thought I needed to fight them off! Since coming here I have learned that playing is FUN and have made friends with many male dogs. I’m still not too friendly with females, but maybe I’ll find some I like soon. I would be fine as the “only dog,” but could possibly live with a male who would let me be the boss. I would love to be a member of a family with older children (10 and up), but I may be too much for younger, smaller kids. I need someone to teach me how to live in a house (including housetraining), and would enjoy reward-based training. I’ve learned “sit” and “down” while here and do well in my room. I’m a good jumper so it would be helpful if my new family has a high-fenced yard for me to play in. Interactions with other dogs will need to be carefully managed—maybe you could find me some new friends to play with! I am mellow and loveable, and would love to be part of a family with dog-experience. Can’t you just see me shining brightly in your life?! 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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