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n Monday, State Auditor Doug Hoffer released a report documenting problems in the way Vermont purchases and oversees cellphone services for state employees. The Auditor’s Office found that in 2012, the state spent $1.6 million for 3080 cellphones, but 9 percent of those stateissued phones were not employed, and 20 percent had only limited use. Moreover, nearly half the minutes the state purchased went to waste, Hoffer found. In all, the audit documented unnecessary telephonic expenditures of at least $272,000. Hoffer recommended the state come up with better procedures for cellphone management. “The extent of under-utilization of the services purchased represents lax oversight and a significant waste of taxpayer money,” said Hoffer, who took office in January. Ironically, one of Hoffer’s predecessors, Elizabeth Ready, got into hot water for using her official cellphone for personal calls that cost the state thousands of dollars; she later paid the money back. After Ready’s tenure, the office kept a low profile, generally issuing headline-grabbing reports only after long intervals of quiet research. Hoffer shows signs of being considerably more prolific. Only last week, he released a report criticizing the Department of Corrections for failing to contain spending on inmate health care, saying the DOC overspent a contract with a private health provider by $4.2 million and had inadequate mechanisms for controlling the outflow of cash. In an interview with Seven Days, Hoffer said the timing of the two reports was coincidental, and that his office would not — or rather, could not possibly — keep up such a frenetic pace in the future. “They take a long time,’ Hoffer said of the audits. Still, look for the Auditor’s Office to make more news in coming weeks. There are four audits currently in the works. The biggest one, as measured by price tag, is $300 million worth of contracts with so-called “designated agencies,” community mental health groups such as the HowardCenter in Burlington that are designated by the state to care for vulnerable Vermonters. “It’s a big deal,” Hoffer said, adding that his agency had no reason, at present, to believe anything was amiss. Also in Hoffer’s crosshairs: the Sex Offender Registry, the Department of Liquor Control and the state energy plan. The auditor said those reports would be forthcoming in the late winter or early spring.
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My photo of Burlington city councilors checking the Red Sox game in the middle of F-35 testimony inspired an Off Message blog post entitled “In Burlington City Hall, Eyes on the Ball” [October 29] and also a short writeup in last week’s Last 7. In both, Norm Blais told Seven Days reporter Charles Eichacker he just quickly checked the score. In fact, he was on his computer checking scores and email for most of the latter part of the meeting. Karen Paul was doing likewise. I made several rounds of the mezzanine, and, every time I came back, there they were, diligently surfing the web. ESPN, MLB, Facebook, Gmail, texting on the phone, checking stock markets, back to the game. It wasn’t just them. The mayor and city attorney were both online, and one over-the-edge shot caught while I was futzing with the flash shows Scott Schaffer’s computer displaying hockey. Was that why he was having so many “technical difficulties” with the timekeeping? While Councilor Sharon Bushor was introducing her amendment, was Norm paying attention or busy with Gmail? When Councilor Rachel Siegel introduced her amendment, was the reason that Councilor Paul voted no that she was distracted checking Facebook? When I asked Councilor Tom Ayres what the score was after the game, he
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laughed and asked if I could really see what they were doing. Maybe if he had been paying as much attention to the debate he would have at least voted for the nonbinding request. The whole thing had the foul stink of a dog-and-pony show, there to give the illusion of democracy while the council does whatever it intended from the start. President Joan Shannon made it clear that she didn’t want the testimony to affect anyone’s decision, threatening to censor opponents if people didn’t conform to her narrow definition of free speech and chastising Councilor Bushor for not telling her before the meeting that she was going to add an amendment. How can our government represent us when the people are systematically ignored? Don’t we deserve better? Ben Eastwood MONTPELIER
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I live in Essex Junction and love shopping at Namaste [“Bringing Home the Bok Choy,” October 23]. It frustrates me, however, that I have no idea what most of the stuff is and how to use it. I wish they labeled the produce in English and, better yet, offered recipes. Finally, I would love it if they offered cooking classes. I bet their sales would soar! Dawn McGinnis
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I read with great interest [“Is Vermont’s Front Porch Forum Moderating Civil Discussion — or Censoring Free Speech?” October 23]. The simple answer is: yes, they censor. A private citizen may unilaterally decide what to publish as well as to decide who can speak to whom. Key points to consider: • If you are not a customer, then you are the product. FPF makes money via advertising and sells based on numbers. • When I subscribed, I was not able to connect with neighbors I could see out my window — artificial boundaries. • The system is not open, nor transparent, yet taxpayers are footing the bill. If bidding on government projects, they need to be more transparent on pay and policies. • The FPF privacy policy contains the words: “A message from a member that is accepted for publication...” • Also: “FPF does not sell its members’ email addresses to others for use in spam or bulk-email solicitations.” OK, so what exactly do they do with the email addresses? What if there’s a change of control of the company? I consider Vermont to be my community, not just Williston, CVU district or Chittenden County. The current structure is actually creating micro-communities as well as the censorship issue. Don’t even get me started on the fact that it is using email as the delivery mechanism. WilliSTOn
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[Re “Demand for Urban Housing Brings Building Projects to Burlington’s Old North End,” October 16]: The mantras of housing developers that “city regulations make it hard for builders to make even a modest profit in Burlington”; that they are “not going to make money on the inclusionary zoning units” or on “retail space”; and that they are “making just enough on the rest of the project to justify doing it” are not just boring, they are neither credible nor useful. They should be put to rest. If developers want to be believed, and if they want — as they should — to be accepted as legitimate partners in the equitable growth of our city, they will have to move the housing costs discussion to a factual basis and work toward fair and rational solutions. If they continue to insist that costs are the problem, they should give us their data and show us their books. Louis mannie Lionni burlingTOn
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A blog post about last Monday’s Burlington City Council meeting that was excerpted in the paper’s Last 7 feature [October 30] gave the impression that F-35 opponent Doug Dunbebin used his two-minute speaking opportunity to play a recording of the noise generated by the next-generation fighter plane. In fact, he spoke for two minutes and then started the recording, in defiance of time limits announced in advance by Council President Joan Shannon.
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Stuck in Vermont: For 23 years, Dick and Ann Squires have been celebrating Halloween by decorating their Cilley Hill Road neighborhood in Jericho with hundreds of pumpkins. Last Thursday, onlookers arrived by car and by foot to see the 460 carved jack-o’-lanterns in this year’s Cilley Hill Pumpkin Glow.
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Mooving Forward Today, Vermont has fewer than a 1000 working farms. Faced with increasing adversity, those committed to preserving the working landscape are often required to get creative. The innovative folks in Allison Gillette’s documentary Cow Power: ˜ e Film are doing just that by creating electricity from bovine waste — and changing the future of farming.
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Powder Pursuit Snow in the mountains means the season of skiing and riding has arrived. Cold-weather athletes mark the occasion at the Backcountry Barn Bash, where they’ll screen Powderwhore Productions’ backcountry ski film Elevation, then groove to tunes by Brett Hughes & the Honky Tonk Allstars. A kids movie and a raffle round out this benefit for the Cambridge Area Rotary Winter Wellness Days. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 56
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Independent Streak With a name like Happy Jawbone Family Band, it’s no surprise that the Brattleboro-based, psych-pop collective is, well, quirky. The group’s undeniably catchy self-titled album features songs such as “Everybody Knows About Daddy” amid a lyrically and instrumentally diverse lineup. A show at ArtsRiot grants audience members access to these truly indie musicians. SEE INTERVIEW ON PAGE 66
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ear the end of last year’s snoozer of a reelection campaign, Gov. PETER SHUMLIN finally appeared in his first TV ad of the race. “When you elected me governor, I said we’d get tough things done,” he said with a smile, alluding to the slogan he first deployed two years earlier. It’s a message that has served Shumlin well as he’s navigated the state through the troubled waters of Tropical Storm Irene and the lingering effects of the 2008 financial crisis. A politician who earned a reputation as a slick legislative dealmaker, Shumlin successfully re-branded himself as a competent administrator who gets the job done. But last Thursday, the accuracy of that message was called into question. After six weeks of downplaying the severity of technical problems facing the state’s new health insurance web portal, Shumlin admitted at a Montpelier press conference that Vermont Health Connect wasn’t ready for primetime. What he’d dismissively referred to as a “nothingburger” quite clearly had cooked into a “something-burger.” A week after resisting calls to disclose his contingency plans, the governor said he would add three months to the deadline by which many individuals and small businesses must purchase health insurance policies through the exchange. In the interim, he said, those Vermonters could extend their existing coverage through March 31. Further, small businesses struggling with the new web portal could instead purchase plans directly from Blue Cross Blue Shield Vermont and MVP, though doing so would limit their employees’ choice of plans. Left unsaid, and undecided, was how yearly out-of-pocket caps would translate to a three-month extension. “You might ask the question, ‘Why now, governor?’” Shumlin said at the press conference. “The answer is simple: As governor, my job is at times to push — and at times I’ve got to be the one to take responsibility for where we are and chart a predictable course that doesn’t disrupt business and doesn’t disrupt individual Vermonters who desperately need health insurance. I apologize for the challenges that we’ve been having. I take full responsibility for them. I will continue to fix them.” Asked exactly when the website’s problems would be solved, the governor demurred and revisited his campaign slogan. “I’m gonna tell you something that I’ve learned — and even I can learn, believe it or not,” he said. “If I’ve learned one lesson as governor, with my enthusiasm to make
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change and get tough things done, it is this: Never give a date again.” To be sure, Shumlin isn’t alone in his struggle to conform to the rigorous mandates of the federal Affordable Care Act. Throughout the country, governors and federal agencies alike are battling information technology contractors as they attempt to enroll millions of Americans in new health insurance plans on a tight schedule. And in deciding to postpone Vermont’s enrollment deadline from December to March, Shumlin earned praise from nearly every quarter. Standing behind him at last Thursday’s press conference were legislative leaders, insurance company executives and, significantly, Republican Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT.
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“I was skeptical about whether we could complete it on time to sign people up,” Scott says. “When the governor decided to let people delay, I thought it was the right decision at the right time for the right reasons.” Vermont Chamber of Commerce president BETSY BISHOP agrees. Though her group opposed forcing small businesses to switch over to the new system, it has since been enlisted as a state-sponsored “navigator” organization, charged with helping businesses sign up. “He made the right call,” Bishop says. “We needed to delay this mandate because, to date, we haven’t been able to get a single employee through the system — and when I say through the system, I mean to a point where you select a plan.” But don’t let the momentary, collective sigh of relief fool you. Shumlin’s ongoing struggle with Vermont Health Connect represents the biggest political crisis he’s faced since taking office nearly three years ago. Unlike his very public dustup with an aggrieved neighbor last spring, the governor’s inability to remedy Vermont Health Connect’s problems carries with it real-world implications for some 100,000 Vermonters.
This is way dodgier than JERRY DODGE. Not only could it diminish his reputation as a competent administrator, it could threaten his credibility with the legislators, business leaders and voters he has spent weeks assuring that the system’s problems were surmountable. And if Vermonters lack confidence in Shumlin’s ability to build a website, why would they trust him to proceed with his signature goal: to design a near-universal, single-payer health care system? “Here’s the big issue: We are hopefully on the path to real reform, and we’re going to be asking people to trust their political leaders in moving forward to those real reforms,” says Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P-Washington), referring to Shumlin’s single-payer ambitions. “It’s going to be very difficult to maintain that trust if we undermine it at the start. And I’m a little bit afraid that’s what’s happening with Vermont Health Connect.” Precisely what Shumlin knew about the system’s problems, and when he knew it, remains unclear. When his administration disclosed in September that the launch of the website’s payment processing function would be delayed a month — until November 1 — he publicly taunted a reporter for writing a story about it. “I was amazed that we could make a headline out of that fact, to be honest with you,” the governor said at a press conference that month. “The fact of the matter is, that’s a nothing-burger.” Asked last Friday by Vermont Public Radio’s BOB KINZEL when he knew his administration had a problem on its hands, the governor bobbed and weaved between two rather contradictory answers. Noting that he’d warned Vermonters from the start “there’s going to be a lot of bumps in the road,” Shumlin said, “I can’t tell you I’m extraordinarily surprised.” But asked again whether, by Labor Day, he knew there would be significant issues, the governor said, “No, I didn’t.” “We did not know the magnitude of the challenges we were going to face interacting with the feds, all the other problems we’ve been having,” he continued. “Because we didn’t have the time to test [the system], we didn’t know what our problems were, to be absolutely honest with you.” Department of Vermont Health Access Commissioner MARK LARSON, whose office oversees the site’s development, says he didn’t see a delay in the cards until “early last week.” “It started to become clear to me that the timeline of that becoming complete could require us to provide for the additional options that we announced Thursday,”
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It remains to be seen exactly how Vermont Health Connect’s troubles will influence the debate over whether to pursue a more universal health care system, as Shumlin hopes to do by 2017. But some advocates are getting nervous. “I think it feeds the flame of those who are opposed to reform,” says andRea cohen, executive director of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. “Why give antis anything to complain about?” One of those “antis,” Senate Minority Leader Joe Benning (R-Caledonia), says that throughout the single-payer debate, political ideology has trumped practical considerations. For the first time, Vermonters are getting a sense of the realworld implications of health care reform. “Now we’re all staring at something, realizing we all have skin in this game, where we didn’t think that before,” Benning says. “When the reality hits home that you have to make decisions based on this issue, suddenly it’s not ideology anymore.” Sen. claiRe ayeR (D-Addison), who chairs the Senate Health & Welfare Committee, stood with Shumlin at last Thursday’s press conference. She shares the concern expressed by Cohen and Pollina that Vermonters may grow wary of governmentsponsored health insurance overhauls. “But I don’t know that they’re going to change their minds that universal health care and everybody being part of the same system is a bad idea,” she cautions. “They’re just going to wonder about the government’s competency.” And while Shumlin is surely in for an uncomfortable few months as his administration works to resolve its health care woes, one big thing is working in his favor: 364 days away from Election Day 2014, no top-tier opponents have emerged. That leaves him bumming out, but not necessarily in immediate political danger. “Yeah, this is a drag,” Shumlin told Kinzel last week. “I wish I wasn’t in this position. This is no fun for a governor. I take responsibility for it. I’m going to fix it. We’re going to get it done. We’re going to do it right.” m
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says Larson, who maintains that there was no communication breakdown between DVHA and the governor’s office. Randy BRock, the former Republican state senator and auditor who challenged Shumlin for governor last year, says he has a hard time believing that. Just days before the exchange’s October 1 launch, Brock submitted a heavily researched, 2500-word op-ed to VTDigger proclaiming that, “The fact of the matter is this: The system doesn’t work.” Derided by Democrats back then, Brock’s op-ed now looks prescient. “They had to be either naively hopeful or willfully blind, because the evidence was very strong, and the people inside who were close to the project were well aware of the failures of the site,” he says. “If it were as obvious as it was to me and to others outside the project, it’s very hard to believe those close to overseeing it couldn’t see what we saw.” Behind the scenes, many legislators are fuming that they weren’t apprised of the system’s continuing problems — particularly those who are rooting for its success. And with many Vermonters now likely to be enrolling when the legislature reconvenes in January, you can expect troublemaking pols to give the administration plenty of headaches. No doubt some will seek to further delay the deadline by which small businesses must switch over to the new system. Both Scott and Bishop are already agitating for it to be extended through the end of 2014. “That’s what I would do, because that’s what’s happening in the 49 other states,” Scott says, arguing that a mid-year switch in health insurance policies could complicate matters for businesses and their employees. Both Shumlin and Larson have said further delays are not in the cards. Brock has also called for the creation of a “blue-ribbon commission” to investigate the failure. Meanwhile, his former de facto campaign manager, daRcie Johnston, who now runs Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, has declared that Shumlin should sack his top health care advisers, including Larson. Several Democratic legislators have said a more appropriate response would be for doug hoffeR, the state auditor, to investigate the matter. “We plan to look at a variety of health care subjects over time,” Hoffer says. “This will likely involve a combination of performance audits and non-audit inquiries.”
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broader goal of reducing Vermont’s prison population by removing nonviolent offenders, he said, “It’s not falling fast enough where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel on the out-of-state program.” CCA, the nation’s largest private corrections company, owns or controls 90,000 beds in 53 facilities across the country. It generated $442 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2013, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vermont has sent inmates out of state since the mid-1990s, Pallito said, and to CCA, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., since 2005. In June, the state exercised an option to extend by two years a contract it signed with CCA in 2011, leaving intact almost every provision of the original agreement. Both the Department of Corrections and the Vermont Attorney General’s Office had to apLee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, Ky. prove the extension. Pallito said the DOC went the renewal route instead of going back on the open market population, are not exported out of state. because it guaranteed relatively small CCA owns roughly 95 percent of cost increases for each of the next two all private prison beds in America and years. The cost per inmate is scheduled offers them at cheaper rates than other to grow 3 percent next year, to $65.47 states with available beds in their pubper bed per day, and another 3 percent licly owned lockups, Pallito said. in the final year of the agreement. But CCA has a long track record of Putting the agreement out to bid controversy and is something of a bête could have opened the state up to more noire for critics of mass incarceration. substantial increases, Pallito said. Inmates rioted inside Lee Adjustment Inmates awaiting trial are kept in Center in 2004 after visiting hours were Vermont, as are those who have special- reduced and accusations of prison guard ized mental or physical health needs, but nearly every other male inmate is sent to the Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, Ky., for at least part of his sentence. Female inmates, who represent 8 percent of Vermont’s prison
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abuse surfaced. Media reports across the country have documented lawsuits against CCA for alleged lax supervision that created dangerous environments for inmates. In 2011, CCA settled for an undisclosed sum a lawsuit brought by an inmate who alleged guards encouraged extreme violence among inmates and denied injured prisoners medical care inside an Idaho prison that had been dubbed “Gladiator School.” Last month, an inmate inside the Lee
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belong behind bars, citing the recent case of a man arrested and charged for allegedly committing several daytime burglaries in Addison County — technically a nonviolent criminal. “Maybe some would argue that’s not a crime of violence, but I think the expectation of society is if someone repeatedly keeps breaking into residences and continues criminal behavior, that punishment has to be a part of the calculation,” said Flynn, a former prosecutor. And nonviolent inmates aren’t the only factor driving the state’s prison population beyond the 1600 beds the DOC has available in Vermont. For the past several months, the department, which has a $143 million budget, has M-Sa 10-8, Su 11-6 seen a small, unexplained spike in the 4 04t-outdoorgearexchange103013_REV.pdf 1 10/29/13 12:56 PM number of detainees — people who have 802 862 5051 been arrested but are unable to post bail S W E E T L A D YJ A N E . B I Z while awaiting trial. Additionally, nearly 192 inmates have served a minimum sentence and are8v-sweetladyjane110613.indd 1 11/4/13 8v-windjammer(wings)110613.indd 11:46 AM 1 10/29/13 10:47 AM eligible for release but can’t find a place and to live. Present THE Pallito insisted the crunch starts with state legislators. “We haven’t done much of anything,” Pallito said. “We haven’t lessened penalties on anything. We’re pretty good at creating more crimes and penalties, but in terms of rolling back, we haven’t done it.” The barn at boyden farm A new grassroots group hoping area rotary winter wellness days Rt. 15 & 104, Cambridge to build support for those kinds of legislative efforts, Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, huddled in the Statehouse last week, trying to figure out how to spread their message, and which, if any, legislative proposals they would back. Members, including state officials, former prosecutors and other advocates, reached no conclusions, though they pledged to meet again in December. Meanwhile, when legislators return Admission ssio includes clu s a free ssmuggs’ uggs ticket, c , raffle ticket, c , food oo and beverage g to the Statehouse in January, they will be confronted by a slew of bills that LIVE MUSIC! 9:00 RAFFLE: would create longer sentences or new BRETT HUGHES & the honky tonk allstars $12,000 in ski & snowboard gear crimes for everything from forgery to grand prize is a weekend getaway at Ski Movie! 7:00 Smuggs’ and a season pass! selling drugs on abandoned property to powderwhore | ELevation making any noise “that would disturb a person of average sensibilities.” And ALSO! Tent sale 3:30-7:00 brownpapertickets.com sometime after they adjourn, the DOC $20 in advance, ($25 at the door) epic savings on gear from bURTON, venture, o’neill, Jones, Kids show: $5 18 and under ($10 adults) BCA, Liberty, Scott, Bishop, G3, THULE, Mountian equipment will start the process of bidding out the next private prison contract to replace the existing deal when it expires. m SEVENDAYSVt.com SEVEN DAYS
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Adjustment Center slashed the throat of a Vermonter incarcerated there. The identities of the inmates and other details of that incident have not been released. In July, the State of Kentucky announced it would not renew its contract with CCA. The state has reduced its inmate population through a variety of initiatives, including releasing many from prison early. Meanwhile, the Lee Adjustment Center is now populated almost entirely by Vermonters. “We have a long experience with Kentucky, and incidents are low,” Pallito said. The recent throatslashing “was the first in quite a while.” The CCA public affairs office did not respond to requests for comment. But even CCA’s most strident critics in Vermont say the focus should be not on the corporation, but on eliminating the need to outsource corrections. “It’s not good for Vermont. On the other hand, we don’t have enough beds here, and we don’t necessarily have a better option,” said State Rep. Suzi Wizowaty (D-Burlington) who introduced a failed bill that would have banned the state from contracting with a private prison company. “The solution is reducing inmates. I hate that we’re using CCA, but there’s no immediate fix to this.” Much of the reform talk focuses on reducing the number of nonviolent inmates by giving them sentences that don’t include jail time, expanding substance-abuse treatment options and diverting law breakers from the criminal justice system entirely. But neither the DOC nor the state’s lawmakers have the sole authority to make those calls. Judges have wide latitude in issuing sentences, and they, in turn, preside over cases advanced by independently elected state’s attorneys, who have discretion in deciding which charges to bring. Police also play a key role in deciding whether or not to arrest someone. Flynn said the Vermont State Police is aware of the goal to trim the prison population and has stressed the need for treatment and alternative sentencing where appropriate. But the state’s top cop questions the notion that nonviolent criminals do not
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uburban shoppers who park their cars in the garage adjacent to Burlington Square Mall and stroll along the featureless concrete wall toward the lake might be forgiven for not realizing that a very different scene existed here nearly half a century ago. Before the wrecking ball began to swing as part of a massive urban renewal project in the mid-’60s, this was a neighborhood of clapboard homes where children ran in and out of unlocked doors, where grown-ups shared glasses of homemade wine at the kitchen table, where a sense of common identity ran deep. On November 9, representatives of John Varricchione, Jane Merola and Terri Burrell standing on what the Vermont Italian Club will unveil used to be South Champlain Street between Pearl and Cherry. three illustrated street signs designed to commemorate the mainly Italian neighborhood that was razed to make way for Street. “This is where my grandfather lived in Little Italy, are still not reconthe concrete, glass and brick structures grew grapes,” Varricchione said. There’s ciled to the erasure of a neighborhood that make up a large portion of what is nothing new about Vermont vintners, he that, with its large population and deep now Burlington’s commercial district. noted, recalling that “many of the fami- sense of ethnic identity, was unlike most The plaques “will bring back a bit lies here used to make their own wine.” any other in Vermont. the lives, the homes and the community Merola, who took part in the walkThe urban renewal zone remains spirit that were taken away,” says John about, stopped a few yards to the west, contested terrain. City officials insisted Varricchione, a club where South Champlain just a few months ago on adding wording director who grew up in Street used to run be- to one of the historical signs to indicate Burlington’s Little Italy. tween Pearl and Cherry that “the existing vibrant and successful Jane Merola, whose streets. “This is where downtown with offices, condominiums, grandfather owned a my family’s home was,” hotels, and a shopping mall is the result grocery store in the Merola said, overlook- of this national project.” neighborhood, adds that ing the parking lot of But few Burlingtonians would conthe signs “pay homage to the Cathedral Square sider “vibrant” an apt description for people who didn’t have a apartment house. She the row of structures that form a threevoice in the 1960s.” remembered going to block-long wall along the south side of A total of 167 families family dinner every Cherry Street. The parking areas that and 67 single individuSunday at her grandpar- occupy much of the 27-acre redevelopals were uprooted from ents’ home above their ment sector attest to the mid-20ththe area bordered by grocery store a short century obsession with the automobile. Pearl, Main, St. Paul and distance away on Cherry A walkable neighborhood of backyard Battery streets as part Street. That site is now gardens, two elementary schools and Jane Merol A of the federally and lopart of the parking lot of streets swarming with children gave cally funded Champlain the Cathedral Church of way to freestanding glass-and-brick Street Urban Renewal Project. The city St. Paul. office buildings, hotels and a windowused its power of eminent domain to What kind of neighborhood was less shopping mall attached to a rusting buy out their homes at prices many of Little Italy? steel garage. the displaced residents later argued in Everyone knew everyone else by Peter Owens, an urban designer in court were unfairly low. The demolition name, Merola said. Kids playing on the charge of Burlington’s Community and crews moved in starting in 1966. Two street were often invited into neighbors’ Economic Development Office, proyears later, the working-class, mainly homes for dinner. And when her parents vides context for the assumptions that immigrant neighborhood and its mom- sold their home in 1961, “they had to find animated urban renewal — not just in and-pop shops were just a memory. a locksmith to make keys for it. The door Vermont but throughout the Northeast, On a walking tour with a reporter was never, ever locked.” Midwest and parts of the South. last Saturday, Varricchione paused at Last Saturday’s nostalgic outing “The intellectual and cultural what’s now a fenced-off alleyway along- made clear that Varricchione, Merola background for the ‘model cities’ proside the Costello Courthouse on Cherry and Terri Burrell, whose parents also gram of the ’60s was a 19th-century,
anti-immigrant, anti-urban bias,” Owens says. He adds, though, that advocates of radical urban reconfiguration such as New York’s Robert Moses and Paris’ Le Corbusier “weren’t bad people but saw themselves as visionaries.” In their view of utopia, “the automobile was a great liberator that would take people to wholesome, green places where their kids could grow up healthy.” Burlington built the public housing project on Riverside Avenue as replacement units for families removed from Little Italy. And those apartments were a big improvement over many of the homes in the old neighborhood, says Frank Cain, who served as Burlington mayor during the urban-renewal era. “A majority of the housing was not in good shape,” Cain recalls. The federal program that paid threequarters of the $3.2 million cost of the Burlington makeover operated from the premise that it was more efficient to level “blighted” or “slum” areas in old cities than to renovate them piece by piece. A perceived need for economic redevelopment in urban cores acted as another catalyst for the bulldozing of working-class enclaves. A 2001 video about the Burlington project by Patrick Farrington points out that the city’s economy was hurting in the 1950s due to declines in the rail and commercial lake traffic that had earlier enabled the Queen City to prosper. Suburbs were also starting to form a triangle around Burlington, stirring fears the city’s tax base would erode as businesses and residents headed east, north and south. The plan to greatly expand the downtown commercial district enjoyed strong political support, notes the 90-year-old Cain, who served as mayor from 1965 to 1971. “The board of selectmen was just about unanimous for it,” he says. And in 1963, voters in five of the city’s six wards backed a $790,000 bond to cover the local share of the urban renewal project. Only in the ward that included Little Italy did a majority of voters oppose the plan. But apart from court battles over the proffered prices for home buyouts, there was little resistance in the neighborhood to its impending doom. “ItalianAmericans weren’t rabble-rousers,” Varricchione says. And Merola adds:
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“She felt betrayed. They had taken the money and not put up a fight.” Can the historical signs form part of a broader effort to mend Burlington’s delicate urban fabric almost half a century later? Is it too late to repair the damage wrought in the name of progress and renewal? It’s at least theoretically possible to construct “in-fill” housing in some of the parking lots and barren pedestrian plazas within the redevelopment zone, Owens replies. He points out, for example, that Hotel Vermont was recently constructed on an odd-shaped lot on Cherry Street that “many people had considered unbuildable.” New housing is also rising or planned for parts of downtown, Owens notes, citing residential developments on St. Paul, King and Pine streets. In addition, PlanBTV, the Weinberger administration’s vision for a more densely developed downtown, imagines passageways piercing the stockade of buildings that now blocks north-south access along South Champlain, Pine and St. Paul streets. “The incredible irony in all this,” the CEDO chief observes, “is that we’re trying to get back to what we once had.” m
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“They had an immigrant mentality. They didn’t want to make trouble.” Privately, however, resentments simmered. “My grandfather, who came here from Italy, couldn’t believe the U.S. government would take away his property,” Merola says. “He said he sent four sons to war and only three of them came back.” One woman did stage a vocal and visible protest against the destruction of Little Italy. Victoria Dutra “stood up for a lot of people back then who couldn’t or didn’t stand up for themselves,” says one of her sons, Jimmy Dutra. The mother of eight refused to move her family even as all the homes around her on South Champlain and Cherry streets fell to the wrecking ball. She hung a sign above the front door reading “Dutra’s Ponderosa” — a reference to the homestead in “Bonanza,” a popular television show of the time in which a frontier family sticks tightly together against shysters and other bad guys. Two years after the start of demolitions, the Dutras’ home was the only one standing in Little Italy. Late one afternoon, Jimmy Dutra recounts, his mother was preparing dinner on the electric stove when the power was cut off. “Son of a bitch!” was Victoria’s reaction. She then headed straight for city hall to demand that Cain turn the juice back on. It hadn’t been cut off deliberately, the former mayor objects 46 years later. “God bless her,” Cain says now of Vicky Dutra, who died in 2009. “She sure could holler. She was a worthy opponent.” The Dutras finally did leave Little Italy for a home on North Avenue, but Vicky never forgot how it felt to wage a lonely battle against powerful forces. “My mother stopped talking to many of her Italian friends,” Jimmy Dutra says.
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“I lost a whole $11, but I’m just by myself,” said Jim, whose monthly allocation is down to $189. A veteran who previously worked as an electrician, he spent five years living on the street until landing an apartment a year and a half ago. “I’m certainly not going to go without. You take a family of four or five, though, and that’s a different impact.” For a family of four, in fact, last Friday’s change amounted to a reduction of $36 — a sum that would have otherwise purchased three boxes of basic cereal, three gallons of milk, two dozen
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eggs, three two-pound bags of carrots and five pounds of Macintosh apples. The nationwide cuts aren’t “cuts,” per se, but rather the expiration of a temporary boost to food stamps included in the 2009 economic stimulus package. One in seven Americans receives SNAP benefits, and the program has more than doubled in cost since 2008 to accommodate more individuals and families hit by the recession. Over the last five years, the number of Vermonters receiving food stamps increased by 71 percent, from 58,464 people in September 2008 to 100,087 in September 2013, according to the group Hunger Free Vermont. The Vermont version of the SNAP program is called 3SquaresVT. “It is the first solution to hunger in this country, and it’s the best one,” said John Sayles, chief executive officer of the Vermont Foodbank, a private nonprofit that distributes eight million pounds of food to Vermont each year. The Foodbank collects food from farms, businesses, grocery stores, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the organization Feeding America, then
redistributes it to food shelves and soup kitchens around the state. Sayles believes SNAP benefits were too low even before the most recent cuts, and he worries that in today’s political climate, the question isn’t if benefits will be cut further, but rather, by how much. Some SNAP recipients already turn to the food shelf to make ends meet, said BROC food shelf coordinator and outreach specialist Donna Taylor. Now food shelves like this one are bracing for an increase in demand. The BROC food shelf is a bare-bones operation. Taylor’s desk is wedged against one wall, across from a small fleet of humming, mismatched freezers and refrigerators. Canned goods and boxes of discount-brand cornflakes line open shelves. This facility serves 600 people a month, providing a three-day supply of food to each visitor. (And the onevisit-per-month rule doesn’t appear to be set in stone.) Every other Friday, the Vermont Foodbank makes a large delivery, and, when supplies get low in the interim, Taylor purchases groceries from
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Luther used to work as a maintenance tech in a broom factory that’s since closed. Now he has a job as a cook, making “barely $10 an hour.” He doesn’t receive food stamps now, though he has in the past. Luther said he is not angry, just resigned. He settled back in his chair to wait. “It is what it is,” he said. In the meantime, the three-day supply of provisions from the food shelf helps ease the pain for the couple. Food shelves that were designed as a place to go during a crisis, said Sayles, are increasingly morphing into a staple. Yet Sayles said that the country’s charitable food system accounts for just 4 percent of the total food aid delivered to needy Americans. Government programs make up the rest. Cuts to those programs — even $11 ones — are sorely felt by those most in need. “That is what some people live on,” Sayles said. “It really is a big hit to people who are struggling every day and, in almost every case, working very hard to do the right thing.” m
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Soon the food shelf was packed with cardboard boxes and discarded packaging. Twenty cases of cereal. Fifteen 10pound bags of potatoes. Fifteen cases of canned mandarin oranges. “You see how quick it comes in?” asked Jim, stacking shrink-wrapped chicken parts in one freezer. “It goes out even quicker.” The volunteers were still knee-deep in cardboard when Peter Luther and Julia Burkett, 37 and 43 respectively, ducked inside out of the rain. Taylor greeted them by name. They grabbed two seats in the waiting room, under posters advertising local community meals, while Taylor assembled plastic grocery bags full of food. “People have it worse than we do,” Luther was quick to say. “We are eating. We do have a roof over our heads.” The couple aren’t married, but they pool resources, and Burkett’s SNAP benefits play a crucial role in their budget. She’s unemployed, and, like Jim, is seeing an $11 cut to her benefits — money that might have bought a family pack of ground beef.
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Elliot says. “It’s the perfect example of a community resource that’s changing the experience of living in a cold environment.” In addition to Cochran’s and Northeast, United We Ski visits Hard’ack in St. Albans, interviewing skiers, volunteers and proprietors at each of the slopes. In focusing on moments of camaraderie and seat-of-the-pants equipment, the Wilkinson-Ray brothers make their case clearly: It’s the small-scale slopes that are keeping Vermont’s skiing history alive. All of these little ski slopes are
escape from hell. It’s stories of courage under fire, and about the difficulties in making decisions that we normally would never make.” In other words, the kinds of issues that real soldiers face — in SF settings. “Together, we’re both connected to the military community through our lives and education, and we feel that now is the time for a modern, relevant look at the state of the world around us,” write Liptak and coeditor Jaym Gates. The two expect to see some submissions from Vermont authors, Liptak says. Among the writers already on board are Joe Haldeman, Keith Brooke, Maurice Broaddus, Karin Lowachee and Yoon Ha Lee. With a campaign deadline of November 14, War Stories has currently received
“different, funky and special in their own ways, which goes to the core of our history and our culture,” Elliot says. “They’re just like town meetings, except they’re super-informal and they happen all the time.” The brothers believed the story of Vermont’s small ski areas needed to be told, and that video was the perfect medium for doing so. But they didn’t want to make what Elliot calls “ski porn” — a film with lavishly shot scenes of stellar schussing. “We wanted more storytelling, less action,” he explains. The story told in United We Ski
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Out of This World War is serious business — and so is war-themed science fiction. Your mind may be leaping to the movie version of Starship Troopers. But the genre doesn’t have to be, as Andrew Liptak writes, all about “bug hunts and unabashed jingoism.” Vermonters with an interest in SF know Liptak as the guy behind Geek Mountain State. The holder of an MA in military history from Norwich University, he’s written about science fiction for Kirkus Reviews, io9 and other publications. Now he’s coediting an anthology of military SF called War Stories. The book’s Kickstarter campaign page describes it as “a look at the people ordered into impossible situations, asked to do the unthinkable, and those unable to
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rowing up in Vermont, brothers Elliot and Tyler WilkinsonRay spent countless happy hours skiing. The slopes their family favored were not at the state’s major resorts, however, but at the “neighborhood” ones — including Cochran’s Ski Area in their hometown of Richmond and Northeast Slopes in East Corinth. These were the kinds of places equipped with motorized rope tows jerry-rigged from old tractor parts. Elliot, 26, and Tyler, 24, have played “ski bum” around the country, but they’ve stayed true to their roots. The sense of community they felt on Vermont’s small ski slopes was just as important as the skiing itself, they say. When the brothers — cofounders of Richmond-based T-Bar Films — decided to share this passion in a documentary, they became unexpected activists. That’s a word Elliot hesitates to use, but he allows that making United We Ski — “the first ever film exploring Vermont’s small ski hills” — not only deepened his connection to these communities but provided a way to give back. The 35-minute doc premieres this Thursday, November 7, at the Film House at Main Street Landing in Burlington. “The idea of producing a film came out of realizing that Cochran’s is really special, and then realizing that there are more of these places ... in Vermont,”
goes back to the 1930s, when the first rope-tow area in America opened in Woodstock. One of the film’s interviewees, Jeremy K. Davis, is a ski historian, author of 2010’s Lost Ski Areas of Southern Vermont and founder of the web-based New England Lost Ski Areas Project. Speaking by phone from his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Davis notes that in the years immediately following World War II, the number of ski areas both small and large “exploded.” That boom continued until about 1970, when economic factors PAGE such as fuel SCAN THIS costs, accessibility to air travel and comWITH LAYAR petition from larger resorts led to the closure ofSEE manyPROGRAM small ski areas.COVER An avid skier, Davis suggests “there’s plenty of room in the state” for both types, but says smaller ski areas offer an appealing “funkiness.” He cites Cochran’s in particular as providing a “nonthreatening environment” for beginning skiers, as well as a “superfriendly” staff that’s happy to discuss the slope’s history and show people around. Similar qualities come through in United We Ski. “They’ve created the anti-ski movie,” says Biddle Duke, publisher of the Stowe Reporter and Waterbury Record, of the documentary. “It’s got beautiful photography of fantastic skiing, but it also has the story of what skiing really is. It’s a passion, it’s a feeling, and it’s ... still
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going on at these obscure little wonder- explains that the gyroscopically stabiful nuggets.” lized Octocopter has eight small motors Duke observes that skiing used to and eight propellers. The rig is remotebe “an accessible family activity. If you operated by two people: one piloting the lived in New England, you’d drive until ’copter, one working the camera. The you found the snow, and then you found results in United We Ski are gorgeous, a little towline and went skiing. You exciting shots of skiers and snowboarddid whatever you needed to do to slide ers carving up bright, white slopes. down a hill.” The video was proHe laments the duced for just $20,000, bygone days when the half of that raised via region had upward Kickstarter. In making of 700 lift-accessible it, Elliot observes with slopes, many of which a touch of astonishcost “a buck a ride,” ment, “We became Duke says. He praises filmmakers.” Beyond the Wilkinson-Rays the skills they picked for capturing skiing’s up along the way, the lost history, and for brothers found a model focusing on the few for community insmall places that volvement, employing remain. local videographers, At T-Bar Films, graphic designers and Elliot and Tyler have other professionals. benefited from more That hiring decithan their family’s sion, Elliot says, was E llI ot WIlkINSoN-r AY long-held passion for central to the project. skiing. Their father, He speaks excitedly Jim Wilkinson-Ray, produced corporate about the potential of such small-scale videos for IBM for 35 years before investment, and of using video in other taking his talents to VeRmont Public projects — including an in-progress one about a nonprofit in Haiti. teleVision, where he still works. United We Ski sparkles with his wintertime “Just because someone has the skills imagery, and is laced with appealing to produce video content doesn’t mean home-movie skiing footage. they should,” Elliot says. “I could make For their doc, Elliot and Tyler used something that looks cool, but I only the Panasonic GH3, an innovative “pro- want it to be something I care about. It sumer” camera that yielded excellent, was never the idea of this project to just high-resolution images of even the fast- ‘create content.’” m est skiers. United We Ski does take a cue of sorts from “ski porn,” but on a lower INFo budget: Rather than hiring a hellaciously United We Ski screens on Thursday, Novemexpensive helicopter for aerial shots, ber 7, 6 and 8:30 p.m. (reception 7:30 p.m.), the brothers enlisted the services of at the Film House at Main Street Landing in PRoJection Films, a Middlebury company Burlington. $8-12; and on Sunday, November that uses lightweight, battery-powered 10, 7 p.m., at the St. Albans Historical Mudrones to capture footage from as high seum. $7. For future times and locations, visit as 400 feet. Company owner tim Joy t-barfilms.com/united-we-ski.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC exist around the state, allowing folks with nonmusical day jobs to practice and perform together on their instruments while providing area residents with free, live classical music. Michelli, however, faces challenges that, say, the Northeast Kingdom Community Orchestra in Lyndonville or the Vermont Philharmonic in Montpelier does not — or not to the same degree. A sparse population means not just smaller audiences and less money but a smaller pool of musicians. That means juggling instrument parts and transcribing scores
to fit the kinds of musicians available. “It’s not a typical group. You just have to make do,” admits Michelli by phone in his deep southern drawl. String players are sorely lacking, for example, so he steps in to play cello when needed, as well as bassoon. Newport pharmacist Marc Semprebon and his wife, Roslyn, of Beebe Plain both play French horn in the group, but they’ve also played viola and cello parts transcribed for their instruments. “Our other horn player plays the bassoon,” Marc Semprebon says, “and we’ve
had flute players playing oboe parts.” Recently, he adds, the group gained an oboist: A Canadian started driving down for rehearsals from Sherbrooke. Transcription is generally tackled by clarinetist Chris Maginniss, a retired patent attorney who lives in Morgan. For Saturday’s concert, Maginniss “put two clarinets on oboe parts” for Mozart’s Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major; arranged four selections from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for small orchestra using a simple piano-four-hands version; and reduced Friedrich Witt’s Symphony in C major — of which the group will play two movements — to piano, oboe, clarinet, flute and string parts. “Balance is important,” Maginniss comments, after insisting he’s no expert on musical transcription. “You have to find out who can be heard, and how rich the harmonies can be.” The fourth work of the evening, a single movement of Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata in F minor (Op. 120), also required some rearranging so that Maginniss, who will solo in it, could be heard above the ensemble. The clarinetist took up his instrument only five years ago after a 49-year hiatus. Maginniss started playing in the NEK Community Orchestra, then
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any Vermonters contemplate retiring in warmer climes. But, after 60 years in humid Georgia, Ken Michelli was happy to move in the summer of 2010 to Newport, a Northeast Kingdom town just 10 miles shy of windswept, rural Québec. For one thing, he says, now he and his wife can comfortably step outside for more than six months of the year. The tiny town (population 4530) also needed something Michelli could offer: music. It lacked a community orchestra, so the euphonium player and former elementary school band teacher and piano tuner pursued his dream of founding one. In February 2011, Michelli began building an orchestra from a quartet he’d started at the First Universalist Parish in Derby Line, attracting other players by word of mouth. The Newport Area Community Orchestra now numbers about 30 musicians. This Saturday, its third season launches with a concert upstairs in the town’s public library, featuring selections and excerpts from Mozart, Mussorgsky, Brahms and Witt. The evening is sure to be an intimate affair: The musicians will number 23, and the high-ceilinged assembly room fits an audience of 50 to 75. About eight community orchestras
Marguerite Dibble began working together at Champlain College’s gamedesign program. Growing up in Colorado, Bohn often played board games with his family at their kitchen table. “I wanted to create that feeling again — a digital board-game experience,” he says. Bohn envisions families and friends gathering around an iPad to play Pathogen just as they would gather around a Risk or Monopoly board. Up to four can play; solo players can compete against the game’s AI. There’s also an online mode in which players can be matched up randomly. The game derives its name from the way disease makes its way through living tissue. The tiles in Pathogen are called “cells” — pulsating discs of various designs and colors. When a cell is placed next to or atop another cell, the second
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learned of the Newport orchestra from or eight concerts a year. That requires Michelli when the two played together extensive research, and the horn player in Newport’s community band, the strives to make the presentations enterNortheast KiNgdom WiNd symphoNy. taining, too. “I like to play with the audiMichelli says more than one of ence,” he admits. his musicians hadn’t played for years Asked for a sample of what he’ll say before joining the orchestra. “They’d at Saturday night’s concert, Semprebon been wanting to play offers only a teaser: in something like that; “With the Witt symI just was able to offer phony, I’ll say, ‘This was them the opportunity,” a piece that he composed he says. — or did he?’ It has an Despite his modest interesting history. A lot matter-of-factness, of music does.” Michelli clearly works The Newport Area hard to provide that veCommunity Orchestra’s hicle. Semprebon notes benefits are considerable that “there’s not a lot of — and not just for musitalking” during rehearscians such as Maginniss als. Maginniss seconds and Semprebon, who that, saying the musinow travel only a few cians “don’t get much miles to rehearsal, comrest time.” pared with an hour’s KEN mIchE llI And the conductor is drive to Lyndonville. constantly adding posts “Music always fills to a killer website he created for the a need for the community,” Maginniss orchestra whose visual appeal outstrips comments. “It enriches people.” m that of some professional groups’ sites. (Michelli ran a business repairing and INFo Newport Area Community Orchestra Fall selling computers before retiring.) The hard work is shared. Semprebon Concert, Saturday, November 9, 1 p.m., at the volunteers to introduce each work of Goodrich Memorial Library in Newport. Free. music at the Newport orchestra’s seven newportareacommunityorchestra.org
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write the next Great American Novel in your bedroom, but if you don’t have the means to push it right…” To prevent history from repeating itself, the company has hooked up with Gameblyr, an independent game publisher. The market is quirky in other ways, as well. Many people who are reluctant to pay for downloadable games will, if they get hooked on a particular title, shell out for additional in-game features. This socalled “freemium” model can be highly successful; Dibble and Bohn express reluctant admiration for the subtlety with which the wildly popular freemium game Candy Crush Saga encourages players to spend money. But, Dibble notes, “The psychology behind it is very manipulative.” Pathogen’s business
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cell either “evolves” or gets “infected” to become a cell of a different type. The game’s objective is simple: to capture as much of the game board as possible. Pathogen will be officially released in the App Store on Thursday, November 7. Bohn and Dibble — also 23 — are excited and nervous. They have a lot of faith in the game, but the downloadable video-game market is, as Dibble puts it, “immensely risky.” A previous Birnam Wood title, Loc, is a clever puzzle game that challenges the player’s grasp of spatial relations. But it tanked — badly. “We didn’t have the mindset for how to market a game,” Bohn says. “We had a lot of trouble reaching out to the gaming press and the people who have a lot of influence.” Dibble likens the video-game marketplace to that of publishing. “You can
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game’s mind-boggling permutations. GreG Bemis is an instructor in Champlain’s game-design program; he worked with Dibble, Bohn and Brand when they were students. In turn, the developers worked with students at their alma mater to get feedback on the game. Though Bemis admits to being “horrible” at Pathogen, he knows it as well as almost anyone. Bemis relates a story about four students playing a demo version of the game. Three of them quickly adopted highly aggressive strategies, while the fourth sat back, observing. “At the exact moment that [the fourth player] needed to, he made a particular move that gave him 80 percent of the board,” Bemis recalls. “That’s a bit of a calling card of a good game: one that can keep players engaged all the way through ... If you keep playing in Pathogen,” he adds, “you can weasel out a victory if you see the right move at the right time. That is pretty fun.” m
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erhaps you thought the border between the United States and Canada was a thoroughly invisible boundary line, something as theoretical and imaginary as the cordon between the Eastern and Central Standard time zones. Well, you would be wrong. Thanks to the ongoing work of the International Boundary Commission, a visible line runs through 1349 miles of forested land along the 5525-mile border between the two amicable countries. It’s a narrow, clear-cut vista informally known as the “Slash.” In Vermont and New York, this northern border is based on another invisible line: the 45th Parallel. Passengers aboard the Newportbased cruise boat Northern Star, which operates daily on Lake Memphremagog from late spring to late fall, are treated to unmistakable sightings of the line where the U.S. ends and Canada begins. As captains Chris Johansen and Andy Scott steer the boat north into Canadian waters, they encourage passengers to observe the 20-foot-wide bald strip coursing through the wooded land on both the port and starboard sides. So whose chain saws do the work? Are they full of petrol or gas? Are the workers paid in loonies or greenbacks? How often do they maintain the Slash? And whose idea was it to create a notrespass express lane straight through the boundary forests? To answer these questions, I spoke with the United States’ International Boundary Commission’s acting commissioner, Kyle Hipsley.
The IBC, a cooperative project composed of both Canadian and U.S. personnel, has two commissioners, one appointed by Canada’s Order-in-Council and one by the American president. Hipsley, who spoke by phone from his office in Montana, is referred to as the “acting” commissioner because he was not appointed by President Obama, who has yet to select a commissioner. When President George H.W. Bush’s appointed commissioner, David Longly Bernhardt, resigned in January 2009, Hipsley, the deputy commissioner since 2001, stepped into the role. Hipsley has personally worked on every part of the boundary from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean, and has served as head of each of the three U.S. IBC field offices. In a calming drawl, he explained that the U.S. and Canadian divisions of the IBC both have
their own staff, equipment and budget. The two groups meet once a year to divvy up their work. Their 15-year management plan extends the entire length of the border, from Houlton, Maine, to Arctic Village, Alaska. While Alaska’s limited growing season dictates cutting its vista just once every 15 years, the vigorous forests of the East must be cut every five to six years. The Americans handle the north line from Houlton to Van Buren, Maine. But the north line running through Lake Memphremagog, forming the flat top of Vermont, is tackled by Canadians based in Ottawa, which is closer than the Maine office. Manual labor crews of five to 10 people travel the line, the eastern workers typically staying in motels along the way. (In the isolated precincts out west, workers are more likely to camp.) By
day, crews armed with maps and power tools inspect, maintain and reestablish the 20-foot-wide corridor that straddles 10 feet of American soil and 10 feet (three meters) of Canada’s. The last time our northern boundary met the shears of Canadian trimmers was in the summer of 2010, which means that, circa 2016, they will pass through again. So what is the point, er, line of thinking behind this no-tree-left-behind zone? “The purpose,” Hipsley explained genially, “is so the average person … knows they are on the border.” That border, he noted, dates back to the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which established British Canada as separate from the colonies of the future United States. Later, a survey conducted from 1872 to 1874 laid out a definitive border. Over the years, about 20 other agreements, conventions and treaties have parceled out the property of Canada and the U.S. The IBC was established in 1908, when the 1874 boundary was so overgrown and its markers (called “monuments”) so decimated that it had to be carved out all over again. Lest visitors think the 20-foot-wide endless lane they just discovered in the north woods is some kind of installation art or strange land-management practice, the IBC has placed 8000 monuments and reference points along it indicating the international border. “If you cross it and are caught, whether you intended to or not, you can be fined a substantial amount — so it’s important,” Hipsley warned. The definitive course of our southern boundary with Mexico is overseen by a separate organization, the International Boundary and Water Commission, first established in 1889. When I asked Hipsley to compare his work with that of the other commission, he contended the two jobs aren’t as different as you might think. “It’s still important, because we [the U.S. and Canada] have different governments with different policies on farming and timber management.” In any case, he noted, policing the flow of goods and people isn’t his job. “We’re not law enforcement — our job is just making sure people know where it’s at.” m
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data in his 1963 paper and in a later followup concluded the triad didn’t reliably predict homicide. The most commonly cited empirical support for the triad comes mostly from a 1966 study by Daniel Hellman and Nathan Blackman. They found that of 31 prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, 45 percent exhibited the triad and 74 percent showed at least one of the three behaviors, much higher than for nonviolent criminals. In particular, 68 percent of the violent criminals had been bed-wetters versus 28 percent of a group of nonviolent criminals. That’s interesting, but we’re only talking about a few dozen subjects. What’s more, from the case studies it’s apparent the violent criminals had so many
other bad things going on (abusive parents, personality disorders, mental problems) that it’s difficult to see why you’d attach any great significance to bedwetting, or to the triad generally. Nonetheless, Hellman and Blackman proposed the triad as a “pathognomonic sign” — when you saw it in a kid, it was a cinch they’d grow up to be trouble. That conjecture subsequently hardened into the conventional wisdom, not just in the mind of the public fed the usual baloney by Hollywood, but among professionals in the field. It was left to a criminology grad student writing a master’s thesis to make the
case that the triad was an urban legend. In her 2009 paper, Kori Ryan pointed out that: • Little research on the triad as such had been done, although it was frequently mentioned in the professional literature. • Studies looking at the individual triad behaviors were more numerous but were often beset by methodological problems. • “The limited empirical research that does exist is not sufficient to support the contention that [the triad] portend[s] later violence,” much less serial murder. The same could be said of bed-wetting specifically, and Ryan suggests recent researchers haven’t taken it too seriously as a presager of bad things — and really, why should they? Chronic fire-setting and animal cruelty are deliberate antisocial behaviors; whether or not they’re the mark of a future psychopath, they’re not a healthy sign. Bed-wetting on the other hand is involuntary, and plainly was included in the triad mostly because of half-baked psychoanalytic notions. It’s also fairly common, affecting something like 1 to 2 percent of those 15 or older, the vast majority of whom aren’t criminals. To suggest it’s a sign of a future serial killer — excuse me, that’s just wrong.
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ow, Angel. In an age of random mayhem, surely you can see the value in identifying future criminals. Let’s assume there are two million adult Americans with some history of bed-wetting (rough estimate) and 100 serial killers currently at large (very rough estimate), and that all SKs are former BWs (untrue — I’m saying let’s assume). That would mean the little pack of misfits next door, if they don’t grow out of it, collectively would have a 1 in 5000 chance of producing the next John Wayne Gacy. True, if you’re working in the PreCrime division in Minority Report, or even just writing papers for the criminology journals, that hardly qualifies as pinpoint accuracy. But at least we’d have narrowed it down. Or we would if there were any basis for the claimed correlation. However, despite the fact that the idea has been kicking around in
academia for more than 70 years and has now become entrenched popular belief, odds are it’s complete crap. Bed-wetting has often been linked to antisocial tendencies, mostly as part of an unholy triad of behavioral disorders: enuresis (bed-wetting), fire-setting and animal abuse. Drawing a connection between urination and fire goes back at least to Jonathan Swift and in modern times got a boost from Freud: “It is as if primitive man had had the impulse when he came in contact with fire, to gratify an infantile pleasure … and put it out with a stream of urine … [representing] a sexual act with a man, an enjoyment of masculine potency in homosexual rivalry,” he wrote in 1930. “It is remarkable how regular analytic findings testify to the close connection between the ideas of ambition, fire and urethral eroticism.” Others took this notion and ran with it. A 1940 paper linked bed-wetting with fire-setting and cruelty to animals. In 1963 psychologist John Macdonald tied all three to those making homicidal threats, in the process lending his name to the supposed correlation, now often called the “Macdonald triad.” In a 1986 book Macdonald upped the ante, saying those with the triad plus messed-up parents “figure prominently in the ranks of serial murderers,” a notion elaborated on by later researchers. Evidence for the triad’s predictive power has always been thin. MacDonald provided no
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But while “roboticist” denotes a profession and “transhumanist” a philosophy — that technology can and should create superior versions of humanity, aka eugenics — the two overlap to a scary degree. The latter have the money and the legal freedom to do what the former are doing. Bina48’s financier, the wife (formerly husband) of the flesh-and-blood Bina, is a multimillionaire Vermonter, Martine Rothblatt. But, just as troubling, many legitimate scientists believe as the transhumanists do that technology is god. She is the founder and prohphet — of the “trans-religion” Terasem, whose belief is that we can create “joyful immortality” by uploading all consciousness into “mindfiles,” thus freeing humans from their bulky, fallible “fleshware.” Among the Truths of Terasem (which came to Rothblatt in a vision involving the Columbia space shuttle and a leatherback turtle): “Death is optional.” Depletion of the planet’s resources by a never-dying population does not concern Terasem’s faithful because, Rothblatt prophesies, the mindfiles, some in defrosted cryogenically preserved bodies, will emigrate from this “fragile” planet to some place more congenial. What endangers Earth, by the way, is not global warming but the planet’s proximity to the center of the galaxy. Aside from being insane, this vision would surely be anathema to many roboticists. Charlie Kemp, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for instance, has a soft spot for warm bodies. “Things are not the same when you’re interacting with people,” he avers in the Times. On his website he warns visitors that he might not respond to email: “I prioritize, and much prefer, face-to-face, in-person communication.” Nevertheless, Kemp and his colleagues are using their highly educated brains to lower labor costs and increase productivity by computerizing the faceto-face occupations that once were reserved for big-brained, carbon-based bipeds. “That’s where we want robots to be,” Kemp says. “It’s where we see there are huge opportunities for robots.” Might it be a problem that huge opportunities for robots translate into slim opportunities for people? That the industrial era isn’t over just for robots, it’s
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the free market to solve all problems, and create none. Go to any futurist conference, and you’ll find an overwhelming number of libertarians. Much like the Christian Right, some transhumanists add religious fundamentalism to their market fundamentalism. The mission of Terasem — “diversity, unity and joyful immortality” — will be “ensured” in part by “universal adherence to the principles of Terasem,” according to its credo. Sounds like the Rapture. And, just as in the Rapture, some will be left behind. “God is technological,” proclaims one Truth of Terasem. In the future, “the machines [will] use their exponentially growing knowledge and ethical nanotechnology to convert universal random mass and energy into ubiquitous intelligent mass and energy that, networked together, will be a force capable of controlling cosmic physics. As the collective consciousness becomes increasingly omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, it will realize the age-old vision of a benevolent God.” Talk about unintended consequences. Rothblatt’s utopia is precisely the dystopia envisioned by science-fiction writer Fredric Brown 60 years ago. In his story “Answer,” scientists have succeeded in linking the computers from all of the galaxy’s 96 billion planets. The chief scientist flips the switch and asks the mega-computer the first question: “Is there a God?” A “mighty voice” answers: “Yes, now there is a God.” Before the terrified man can reach the switch to turn the monster off, a bolt of lightning smites him down and fuses the switch closed. As Kemp says, there are huge opportunities for robots. m
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over for American factory workers, too? That, according to the Economic Policy Institute, there are so few positions in business and the professions that more than half of working college grads under the age of 24 hold jobs like waiting tables and selling jeans, which don’t require an education? Do we really want to robotize the last jobs standing — like home health aides or hospital techs — whose most salient qualification may be the human capacity for compassion? The roboticists do not dwell quite as far from earthly reality as the Terasemites. But a common denominator among creators of “posthuman” beings — whether by bio-, nano- or cybertechnology — is their striking disregard of unintended consequences. Or — more frightening still — their embrace of consequences many of us consider unspeakable. The prominent Princeton molecular biologist Lee Silver, for instance, foresees the day when there will be two human species — the standardissue “Naturals” and the GenRich, created over time by affluent, ambitious parents purchasing genetic “enhancements” in intelligence, beauty or athletic prowess for their babies-to-be. Because once genetic material is altered, and it gets passed into future generations, the two species will eventually be as distinct as apes are from humans. Silver supports human genetic engineering and cloning. He’s blithe about writing our deepening global social inequality into our DNA. Compared with Silver’s vision, making a coffee-fetching bot — and not stopping to think about the secretaries who will be put out of jobs — is benign naïve optimism. Still, plenty of scientific futurists think consumer eugenics is inevitable. A community whose research is driven by corporate grants and the promise of multimillion-dollar patents — and inconvenienced by popular resistance to pursuits such as stem-cell research or animal cloning — they share a faith in
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Can’t This Wait ’Til I’m Old? Thirty years later, Phish are still in the groove
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y the time Phish arrived in Atlantic City last week, the Burlington band’s most rabid fans had worked themselves into a rapturous, preHalloween frenzy. For the seventh time since 1994, the group had promised to don a musical costume and cover an entire album as the second of three sets. In years past, they’d performed such classics as the Beatles’ The White Album and the Velvet Underground’s Loaded. This time around, tea-leaf-reading fans on internet message boards had convinced themselves that Phish would bust out Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road or
the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat a Peach. Or, just maybe, Peter Gabriel would join the group onstage to perform Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. But Phish had different plans. Rather than reach into the distant past, the band leapt into the future, covering an album that has yet to be recorded: their own forthcoming Wingsuit. Over 80 minutes, Phish debuted 12 brand-new songs, which guitarist Trey Anastasio told the crowd the band would begin recording within days. As bewildered but ecstatic fans looked on, the quartet alternated between jam vehicles such as the aptly named
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“Fuego” and the bass-driven “555,” and a trio of acoustic compositions performed at center stage. Midway through a quirky cow-funk number called “Wombat,” the 92-yearold actor Abe Vigoda, who played Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather, emerged onstage in a giant wombat suit to dance. The message was clear: Four weeks shy of Phish’s 30th anniversary, the band still has a few tricks up its sleeve. “We had an amazing year together,” an ebullient Anastasio told the Atlantic City crowd as he wound down the Wingsuit set. If anything, he was understating the case.
says Paul Languedoc. He served as the band’s soundman from 1986 through 2004 and still builds Anastasio’s guitars. “They were the hippie band, whether that was deserved or not,” Languedoc says. “Everything at that time was newwave kind of stuff and hardcore kind of music. The paper at the time, the Vanguard Press, sort of looked disdainfully at Phish. But they were popular. They drew big crowds.” That dynamic continued into the early 1990s, Languedoc says, when Phish’s reach expanded well beyond New England. “We would go on tours and be playing in 1500- or 2000-seat theaters and then come back to Burlington and play a 400-capacity venue — the Front, primarily,” he says. “Nobody had any idea in Burlington that they were drawing big crowds in Georgia or Boulder.” But for some aspiring musicians back home, Phish’s improbable ascent was nothing short of inspirational.
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“As a fan, you felt you were part of the journey and owned some piece of the greater collective,” says Reid Genauer, who first saw the band at the Front (located in the presentday Skirack), soon after he matriculated at UVM in 1990. “I think it was because they were such a part of the fabric of Burlington as people and personalities and musicians — and just because they were authentic as a band.” When Genauer founded Strangefolk the next year with fellow guitarist Jon Trafton, they found themselves emulating Phish’s rigorous practice regimen, their focus on the live show and eventually even their homegrown music festivals, which Phish had pioneered. “It seemed like the only logical way forward was to do it the way they were doing it — and that’s what we did,” Genauer says. That’s the sort of impact Mike Gordon — who, like McConnell and Fishman, still lives in Vermont — hopes Phish has had on his adopted state.
o the uninitiated, there are two great fallacies about Phish and their music. The first is that they are an unserious group of stoner hippies who noodle around onstage for the sake of noodling around. That perception is driven, perhaps, by the admittedly ridiculous nature of their lyrics and an inaccurate stereotype of their fans as drugaddled and dreadlocked. (In fact, you’re more likely to run into a lawyer than a drug dealer at their shows these days.) To be sure, Phish’s members have never been great lyricists, nor — with the possible exception of McConnell — particularly good singers. But you would be hard-pressed to find a rock band with compositional skills as advanced and eclectic. Nor could you easily find four musicians who have spent as much time together listening to one another and learning to anticipate their bandmates’ next moves. That’s given them the ability, says Relix Magazine editor-in-chief Dean Budnick, “to collectively improvise — not just solo over changes — and go out and enter an improvisational space where they are taking the audience on a collective journey.” Music like that doesn’t happen by accident. “They’re not just these big guys who bullshit their way through the gig,” says Middlebury drummer Russ Lawton, who plays in Anastasio’s side band. “They take it very serious.” Another Trey Anastasio Band member, Saratoga Springs bassist Tony Markellis (a longtime member of Kilimanjaro and the Unknown Blues Band), describes Phish’s guitarist this way: “If you sign on to do anything with Trey, you better be prepared to be in it 100 percent, because he expects a lot of himself and he expects a lot of the people around him. It’s just kind of a whirlwind.” That energy and devotion to the craft has yielded results for Phish, whose music sounds like more than the work of just four people.
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n December 2, 1983, a band calling itself Blackwood Convention made it halfway through a semiformal dance at the University of Vermont’s Harris-Millis dormitory before they were jettisoned. Evidently uninspired by the group’s renditions of “Proud Mary” and “Scarlet Begonias,” dance organizers allegedly drowned out the band with a recording of “Thriller.” “Michael Jackson was being played constantly,” explains Amy Skelton, one of the few fans to attend the first performance of the band that would soon rechristen itself as Phish. “If you were a mainstream college kid listening to Michael Jackson, Phish is just not what you probably wanted to hear right now while you’re drinking your Miller Lite or whatever.” After a brief hiatus following Anastasio’s suspension from UVM and a couple of minor personnel changes, Phish crystallized around a four-man lineup when keyboardist Page McConnell joined Anastasio, Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman in 1985. Soon they were playing Burlington nightclubs Nectar’s and Hunt’s — and attracting more than just Skelton to their shows. “The whole thing had a really great sense of humor, and it felt like you were going to your own personal little party,” she says. “I still think it feels like that.” In an interview with the PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown this summer, Anastasio credited Vermont’s then18-plus drinking age with creating an abundance of places to perform in Burlington. “Every bar wanted a band,” he said. “We got really good at playing live. And I think if we weren’t in the right place at the right time, I don’t know that any of this would’ve happened.” Nectar Rorris, who booked Phish on Sunday and Monday nights at his eponymous club, says the relationship was mutually beneficial. “They were good to me. They played music young people like, and they were drawing young people in,” says Rorris, whose face graced the cover of the band’s 1992 album A Picture of Nectar. “When they started making a name out of state, there were more people coming in.” But even as Phish began to build an audience, they “didn’t fit in” with Burlington’s music scene at the time,
“The biggest compliment is when someone’s inspired,” the bassist says. “And if there’s a younger fan or musician that feels like, ‘Well, Phish had some success outside of Vermont, so we can, too.’” Grace Potter, perhaps the biggest live act to come out of Vermont since Phish, says she still remembers seeing the band when it played at Sugarbush, near her Waitsfield home, in 1994. “I was 10, and my parents said I was too young to go to the concert, but me and a couple friends hiked through the woods and listened. I was hooked,” she recalls. As Potter was getting started, learning how to play Phish songs “was kind of a rite of passage,” she says. Now that she’s in the big league, Potter says she tries to follow Phish’s lead in connecting with her fans. And she, too, has taken to inviting local musicians to her festival, Grand Point North — including McConnell, who sat in with Potter and the Nocturnals for a ZZ Top cover last summer. “As I’ve gotten to know them all better, all I can say is that they are brilliant and humble human beings with talent and compassion that reaches out in a lot of different directions and touches many people,” she says. “I’m so proud to share a little piece of Vermont’s musical legacy with those fine, fine gentlemen.” PHOTO COURTESY DANNY CLINCH © PHISH
Even the band’s hypercritical fans appear to agree that 2013 has been Phish’s finest since its members reunited in 2009 after a five-year breakup — and some are even comparing it favorably to the banner years of the mid and late 1990s. From this summer’s 36-minute performance of “Tweezer” at Lake Tahoe to the group’s impeccable, 12-date East Coast tour this fall, Phish have made a persuasive case that they are entering their prime. Bassist Mike Gordon attributes Phish’s recent musical accomplishment to a newfound sense of self-confidence the members feel after decades of working out their creative insecurities. Having stretched their muscles through various side projects, they have returned to a more democratic and collaborative Phish. And they’ve freed themselves from the distractions of an enormous infrastructure and a hard-partying culture. “It’s kind of corny sounding, but there’s a lot of love between the band members right now,” Gordon tells Seven Days. “The fact that we’ve straightened out our lives — our personal lives and our creative lives — and that we feel so confident as individuals means that when we come together we have more to put on the table and to bounce off each other.”
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“I think the strength of the band is they interact successfully,” Markellis says. “A lot of musicians just play, but they really interact.” “A lot of it is subconscious,” Gordon explains. “When it feels good, we’re kind of gliding with it. And I don’t know why after 2000 gigs we couldn’t learn to make just about all of them like that, but I guess that’s the nature of improvisation.” The second and more pernicious Phish fallacy is that they are little more than a latter-day reincarnation of the Grateful Dead. The surface similarities — the tribal audiences, the improvisational style and focus on live performance — are obvious. But if you actually listen to the music, it’s dramatically different.
RECENT PHISH SIDE PROJECTS Trey Anastasio By far the busiest member of Phish, Anastasio has toured since 2000 with several iterations of the Trey Anastasio Band, which have included Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis and an evolving array of horn, percussion and keyboard players. Anastasio has also performed classical compositions, which are often reworked Phish songs, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra. Last year, a musical he wrote with Amanda Green and Doug Wright, Hands on a Hard Body, had a brief run on Broadway. Anastasio has recorded several albums, including The Horseshoe Curve (2007), Time Turns Elastic (2009) and Traveler (2012).
Jon Fishman After an 11-year hiatus, Fishman’s lounge act, Pork Tornado, returned in 2013 to play a couple of dates at Higher Ground in South Burlington. The group, which also includes Dan Archer, Joe Moore, Aaron Hersey and Phil Abair, is slated to join Jam Cruise 12 in January.
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Page McConnell From 2001 through 2004, McConnell recorded and toured with Vida Blue, which also featured Oteil Burbridge and Russell Batiste. In 2012 and 2013, he played several shows with the Meter Men, which includes several members of New Orleans funk legends the Meters. McConnell has also released a self-titled album (2007) and the instrumental Unsung Cities and Movies Never Made (2013).
The Dead’s finest work was soulful and haunting. It spoke to the midcentury American experience through adept storytelling and evocative tone. And while its members may have lacked, for the most part, the formal training and discipline of their Vermont successors, they reached emotional depths yet uncharted by Phish. What Phish lack in soul and substance, they more than make up for in range and technical prowess. Their music is smarter, edgier and more cohesive than that of the Dead. And while Phish may not have Pigpen’s grit or Jerry Garcia’s heart, their roller-coaster ride of tension and release will leave you clinging to the safety bar like nothing the Dead ever did. “The first time I heard Phish, I thought they sounded nothing like the Dead,” says Mitch Wertlieb, the Vermont Public Radio “Morning Edition” host who regularly plays both bands between segments. “They had more of a hardrock sound. A lot of the stuff I heard had more in common with early Genesis — Peter Gabriel stuff. It seemed more theatrical to me.” Indeed, while the Dead drew from R&B, countrywestern and California jug bands, Phish’s members grew up listening to Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads and YES. The differences are regional and generational and, to a certain extent, socioeconomic. This is a band whose members came of age in the suburbs of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in the late 1970s and early ’80s. They hung out in shopping malls, went to good schools and read a lot of J.R.R. Tolkien. Their parents were doctors, businessmen, artists and educators. That Phish’s music lacks the soulfulness of the downtrodden is a function of the environment and era in which its members were raised. If their music feels less relevant today than it did in the 1990s — or relevant only to those nostalgic for such times — that’s because it is. And perhaps there’s nothing wrong with that. Sometimes it’s OK to sing about multi-beasts, antelopes and big black furry creatures from Mars.
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n a superb essay exploring whether Phish constitute a great band, Steven Hyden of the sports and pop-culture website Grantland wrote in June that, “In order to like Phish, you must consciously decide to like Phish.” I made that decision at the early age of 12, when my brain function was limited enough to appreciate the band’s lyrics, but not quite developed enough to understand its music. Knowing that the cool kids at summer camp thought they were the greatest, though, I persevered. After accumulating their studio albums and trading cassette tapes of their live shows over the internet, I was rewarded two years later when I finally made it to my first show, accompanied by my dad, on November 29, 1998, in Worcester, Mass. It was a killer concert, with a guest appearance by then-teenage Vermont blues prodigy Seth Yacovone, who joined the band for “Layla” and his own “All the Pain Through the Years.” They played a soaring “Simple,” a solid “You Enjoy Myself” and a “Makisupa Policeman” with topical lyrics referring to Languedoc’s arrest — for talking smack to a cop — the night before. In the 15 years since, I’ve generally caught Phish a few times a year, with the obvious exception of their 20002002 hiatus and 2004-2009 breakup. I’ve hit a few highlights, such as their 1999 Camp Oswego summer festival, their 2002 post-hiatus New Year’s Eve show and their 2009 Bonnaroo set featuring Bruce Springsteen. I’ve seen some lowlights, too — most notably Phish’s 2004 pre-breakup festival in Coventry, when Anastasio’s worsening drug addiction was at its most evident. I’ve occasionally questioned why I keep going back
Actor Abe Vigoda (center) at Phish’s 2013 Halloween show
HALLOWEEN COSTUMES Phish’s tradition of covering an entire album on Halloween began in 1994 when they called on fans to vote on what they should play. The winner, by a long shot, was the Beatles’ The White Album. But after fans picked Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage in 1995, the band decided to override the democratic process and performed the Who’s Quadrophenia instead. Since then, Phish have covered four more classics on Halloween, plus another — Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon — three days after Halloween in 1999. This year, they switched it up and performed their own, as-yet-unrecorded album, Wingsuit. Here’s the full list of Phish’s musical “costumes”: 1994: The White Album, the Beatles — Glens Falls, N.Y. 1995: Quadrophenia, the Who — Rosemont, Ill. 1996: Remain in Light, Talking Heads — Atlanta, Ga. 1998: Loaded, the Velvet Underground — Las Vegas, Nev. 1998*: The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd — West Valley City, Utah 2009: Exile on Main St., the Rolling Stones — Indio, Cali. 2010: Waiting for Columbus, Little Feat — Atlantic City, N.J. 2013: Wingsuit, Phish — Atlantic City, N.J. *Actually played November 2, 1998
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— why I’ve spent so much time and money seeing the same band over and over again. I’ve wondered whether I suffer from an extreme case of musical inertia, as if they are a first love whose exaggerated memory I just can’t kick. Truth be told, at my ripe old age of 29, I find Phish’s concerts — or at least all that driving to Saratoga Springs and Camden, N.J. — a little bit draining. And, call me a snob, but I’m over the nitrous-dealing contingent that thrives like a parasite around the dark edges of the scene. And while sporting Phish concert T-shirts in high school made me feel pretty sweet, I recognize that being that guy in Burlington whoPAGE still blasts “Weekapaug Groove” YOUR SCAN THIS from his Volvo wagon makes me about as cool as a TEXT WITHstation LAYAR Jimmy Buffett fan. HERE SEE PROGRAM COVER So why do I keep coming back? Simply put, even the most mediocre Phish show I’ve ever attended — a couple in 2004 come to mind — has blown every other band I’ve seen out of the water. I may be stuck in a rut, but it’s a pretty good rut. Last week, I saw Phish for the 30-somethingth time at Hartford’s XL Center. I brought my dad, as I often do, because he, too, has grown to love the band — and especially their light show. Lou Reed had died earlier that day, prompting the most obvious opener in Phish history: the Velvet Underground’s “Rock and Roll.”
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On living in Vermont: It feels … like a fable, like I’m living in a fairy tale, which I think is important for an artist, because you want to feel that what you’re doing potentially has magic to it. When I was looking at college with my dad — we looked at 12 of them — what really grabbed me about coming to UVM was the lake. And then, secondly, the town around the lake. And, thirdly, some things about the school. But it was sort of like a magic that seemed to be in the air. You know, just this lake town, and something clicked. ©
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The results have showed. “The music feels more mature,” Gordon says. “Sometimes the fans look back and say, ‘You know, what about the way you jammed in ’94, and this and that.’ I never do that. I always feel like we keep progressing, personally. It might be in subtler ways, like just that the grooves are more even, but that’s a deep thing, from my perspective.” Skelton, who went on to work for the band for a dozen years and now lives in Waterbury, agrees. “It feels like they’re finding a really great groove again and really hearing each other onstage — listening, responding and playing with a commitment, I guess, to the future,” she says. Last October, the band returned to the Barn, Anastasio’s Westford recording studio, to spend time together and write. They crafted new songs inspired by old jams and wrote lyrics collaboratively.
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The show was everything we’ve come to expect from a modern Phish concert: a first set mix of controlled demolition and bathroom-break songs such as “Ocelot” and “Lawn Boy,” and a second set that nearly tore the roof off the aging arena. The band ripped through an epic “Tweezer” and segued through a suite of jam vehicles starting with TV On the Radio’s “Golden Age,” touching on the theme from 2001: A Spacey Odyssey and landing on an immaculate “Slave to the Traffic Light.” I will admit, however, that I felt a little sheepish at the start of the second set when Phish busted out “Chalk Dust Torture,” their 1991 tale of teenage angst. There I was, standing beside my 60-year-old father and worrying about whether I’d make it to work on time the next day, while a bunch of 49-year-olds on stage with receding hairlines belted out the classic refrain, “Can’t this wait ’til I’m old? Can’t I live while I’m young?” It was a bit ridiculous, yes, but it was also kind of great.
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The entire experience was different, Gordon says, now that each band member has had a chance to lead his own band. “We still accept that Trey has been more prolific over the years, and he’s a great leader, so we’re going to want his guidance in some ways, but bringing those kinds of experiences to the table, it means that we’re going to be more confident than before,” Gordon says. “It feels more like collaborating than ever before.” Out of those writing sessions came several dozen new songs, 12 of which were debuted at last week’s Halloween show in Atlantic City, and many of which are likely to appear on Wingsuit. Though the songs had never been played for an audience, they sounded more complete than many of the band’s recent originals, with tight arrangements and welldeveloped vocal harmonies. Budnick, who found some fault in the timidity of earlier post-breakup Phish, says their willingness to break with tradition and perform an untested suite of songs to an arena filled with fans expecting a classic-rock cover shows that “they’re willing to take chances again to the nth degree.” It’s as if — like the lyrics of their new album’s title track suggest — they’ve donned wingsuits and jumped out of an airplane.
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“What’s new is old, what’s old is gone. You’re pushed up to the edge, so put your wingsuit on,” they sang to their Atlantic City audience. “And gliding away, you fly where you choose. There’s nothing to say, and nothing to lose.”
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o what is Phish’s legacy after 30 years on stage? Most obviously, they — along with H.O.R.D.E. tour contemporaries such as Widespread Panic and Blues Traveler — helped spawn a third wave of jam bands. Following a rubric pioneered by the Dead, Phish showed that with little radio play and just one goofy music video, they could still sell out Madison Square Garden in minutes. “There’s not a single band playing under the jam-band umbrella that doesn’t owe some piece of their philosophy or approach to Phish,” says Genauer.
But what about beyond those narrow confines? Outside the strange, insular and incredibly white world of Phishdom, does anybody really care about Burlington’s finest? “I really think Phish have carved out a pretty unique place in music history because they have generated — you cannot deny, whether you like them or not — an amazingly fanatical fan base,” says VPR’s Wertleib. “You don’t think of them as being a mainstream band, and yet they draw huge crowds,” Markellis says. “I know that Justin Bieber is a fan, so you never know. You never know. They’re not necessarily a household name, but somebody’s filling up those arenas.” Grace Potter echoes the point. “As for the big wide world, I do hear little tickles of Phish here and there —
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In Vermont, the band’s influence has been felt both culturally and philanthropically, even though they’ve only played instate a couple times during the past decade and a half. After Tropical Storm Irene devastated Vermont in 2011, a benefit show at the Champlain Valley Expo brought in more than $1.2 million. The band’s nonprofit Waterwheel Foundation has donated another $1 million to other causes. “They are tremendous supporters of the arts — all arts,” says Russ Bennett, the Waitsfield designer and builder who helped design many of their festivals. “They’re not one-dimensional people in any way.” And if the number of out-of-state Saabs on my block featuring Phish and UVM stickers is any indication, the band is still drawing suburban youth north and infesting our state with, well, people like me. “I can’t tell you how many banjo students I’ve had who chose UVM because Phish was around here,” says Gordon Stone, who has played and recorded with the band over the years. “I’m like, ‘really?’”
often in surprising places,” she says. “Like when Justin Bieber’s guitarist went into ‘Tweezer.’ Did you see that fuckin’ YouTube?” Gordon seems a little uncomfortable with the question of Phish’s legacy, but after some reflection he says he hopes his band has made it a little easier for other groups to be themselves. “Musicians come up to me and say, ‘You guys are so weird, and the fact that you can do that in arenas … mixing compositions in odd time signatures and, you know, repeating a phrase of lyrics over and over—” he begins, before interrupting himself. “I don’t know what they’re referring to, but generally they say, ‘The fact that you can do that and bring it to an arena level so joyously and have success at it is sort of like artistic license for all the rest of us,’” Gordon says. “Ultimately, that would be the idealistic way to phrase it: If there were any inspiration, it would be inspiration for people to try to be themselves, rather than follow the formulas.”
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As veterans’ memorials look on, an Old North End resident battles trash B y C h a r l es E ic h a c k e r matthew thorsen
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Michael Jerome mentioned that they’ve to the Joint Urban Ministry Project even seen Farnham dispose of syringes. (JUMP), an emergency-assistance service So what gets her out there every day? based in the First Congregational Church Until she retired from her career as a on South Winooski Avenue. school nurse in 2007, Farnham lived with “I put a container out [by Beansie’s], Holly Puterbaugh in the suburbs. When and it’s just snowballed,” Farnham said the couple moved of the enterprise. into a duplex on She estimates that the corner of Park she now donates and Sherman $500 each year, streets, Farnham requesting that said, she (often JUMP use her with Puterbaugh) contribution to began picking up defray the costs trash as a way to of recipients’ keep serving the utilities. “Some L o i s Fa r nh a m community. people donate In the warmer clothing; some months, Farnham also began collecting donate food. I just thought they should be bottles and cans from Beansie’s Bus, which able to heat their homes in winter.” parks beside the playground near the Farnham grew up in the Northeast police station (and serves what she calls Kingdom town of Jay. She pointed to “the best French fries”). After redeeming the number of veterans in her extended the recyclables, she donated the proceeds family as a reason for her special affinity
for Battery Park, which once housed more than 1000 troops and still has cannons to show for it. Farnham speculates that when her father died from a heart attack in 1971, it was due in part to the stress he underwent while serving in the Korean War. While Farnham never donned fatigues herself, she’s a veteran of a different fight. In 1997, she and Puterbaugh — who taught math at the University of Vermont — were one of three couples who initiated a lawsuit against the state that eventually led the Vermont Supreme Court to allow same-sex civil unions. The battle didn’t end there. Not until a decade later were Farnham and Puterbaugh able to legally wed, and the federal government did not recognize their marriage until this past summer. When Farnham now discusses the ongoing campaign for marriage equality, she sounds a bittersweet note. Revealing a little attitude, she noted that only 14 states have provided same-sex-marriage rights. But she also expressed confidence in a younger generation of activists. As we finished our walk around the park, attitude again came through when a car looked like it might run the red light and turn left onto Sherman Street. Farnham addressed the errant driver: “Oh, come on, you got a red light, what do you think you’re doing?” So strong is Farnham’s footprint on the park that now, she says, her grandkids ask why other visitors haven’t obtained her permission to use it. But, according to one newly arrived Sherman Street resident, neither Farnham nor Puterbaugh has a territorial bone in her body. Desiree De Luca-Johnson moved around the corner with her two daughters three months ago. She recalled Farnham and Puterbaugh stopping by to welcome her to the neighborhood and offer to look after her kids if she ever needed help. “And I just thought that was so nice,” De Luca-Johnson said. “They’re really sweet without being invasive, which is a hard combination.” m
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Flooded Firs
Water damage can have dire consequences for an iconic Vermont industry — Christmas tree farming
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hen Whites Christmas Tree Farm in Essex opens for business later this month, children will run up and down the rows of perfectly trimmed Fraser and balsam firs, looking for perfect specimens. The parking lot will be filled with pickups and wagons ready to haul them home. For now, though, the place is tranquil, with a backdrop of foliage glowing red and orange. It’s quiet, that is, until a chain saw starts up — preparing to cut down wouldbe Christmas trees before their time. Co-owners Bob and Joan White say the unprecedented flooding their farm suffered last July will likely cause the deaths of half the standing trees in their 35-acre field. Though the flood happened months ago, the Whites still feel its repercussions as they clear out the dead and dying trees. Stories about flood damage are nothing new in Vermont. But for Christmas tree farmers, who contribute an estimated $15 million annually to Vermont’s economy, water can wipe out nearly a decade of labor. According to the National Weather Service, May 2013 brought 8.74 inches of rainfall — twice the amount of the proceeding May. June 2013 saw 9.86 inches, a three-fold increase over that month the previous year. It was on this soggy ground that more than two inches of rain fell over two hours on July 4, affecting the area around the Whites’ farm and, more significantly, upriver from it. The Browns River overflowed its banks and swallowed the farm that day, depositing silt and debris on the trees. It then settled into standing water up to six feet deep, which remained in some parts of the field for as long as 10 days before finally draining. Bob White says that the farm’s proximity to the river routinely leads to flooding in the spring, but that does little damage to the trees when they’re still dormant. This year’s flood, however, occurred during a stage of the trees’ critical growth, when their roots were actively supporting bud growth up top. The saturated soils either caused the roots to drown or resulted in Phytophthora infection, aka root rot. A look through the Whites’ fields reveals that much of the low-lying areas have already been cleared of dead trees. Trees that showed immediate stress in the weeks following the flood were the first to be removed. Since then, trees have continued to die off, but it takes a trained eye to discern the ones in trouble. As White leads
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a Seven Days reporter on a tour, he points out a healthy tree with dark green needles for reference. Then he indicates another one nearby. “Do you see that tree right next to it with the off color?” he asks, pointing to needles that are more teal than dark green. “That tree right there is dead,” White says. “If you come back in another week, that tree would look very different.” In fact, there are teal-colored trees everywhere. White explains that a sickly tree may appear fine, but as soon as the customer cuts it and brings it home, the needles will drop off within a few days. A Christmas tree farm relies on its reputation for repeat customers, and White knows he can’t leave any trees standing that aren’t in perfect health. So the field now shows wide, empty pockets, with the occasional survivor in the middle. “A tree like this has got a bad branch in it, but the tree itself is still alive and thriving, and we don’t know why,” White says. Passing a crew member on break, he asks, “How many cut today, Todd?” “I don’t know,” Todd replies. “A couple hundred.”
The sound of the chain saw starts up again.
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ermont weather has been causing havoc in all areas of agriculture for several years now, as the media have amply documented. Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 garnered the most attention for its destructive flooding, especially in central Vermont. Other wet periods, particularly last spring, forced farmers to replant multiple times or, in some cases, to give up on crops for the year. The destruction of a crop is a financial and emotional setback for the season. But most farmers have the potential to start afresh and recover the following year. A Christmas tree farmer, by contrast, invests nearly a decade in each marketable tree. Cut-your-own operations buy 5-yearold seedlings that are roughly 18 inches tall. Fir trees take approximately eight more years of growing on-site to reach market size, during which they require the annual maintenance of weed control, mowing, fertilizing and pruning. Even if White starts replanting next spring, it will take eight to 10 years before his inventory
reaches the 50,000 full-size trees he had at the start of the year. The trees were uninsured; White says he’s unaware of any insurance available for Christmas trees. A native Vermonter, White has been growing Christmas trees since 1990. He says he enjoys what he does and believes that over the years he has learned to grow robust specimens. Asked if he’s going to put in the decade to regrow his field, White sighs. “I am 55 years old,” he replies. “When I get to be 65, do I still want to be doing this?” Spring floods are part of riverside agriculture. Most farmers have adapted their schedules to the floods, and some even benefit from nutrients and silt left behind. But the inundations in Vermont have become more common, and much more intense. White says he has seen three “hundredyear” floods on his property since 2011. Tropical Storm Irene in August of that year did not cause him much damage, but intense floods in April 2011 did. Silt and grasses were deposited on the branches, and it took a crew of six using brooms, commercial leaf blowers and high volumes
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of water about a month to clean them off. Ultimately, though, the trees survived. The second hundred-year flood occurred in May of this year with the same outcome: big mess, little permanent damage. As long as the water comes between September and early May, White says, the trees are fine. But his third hundred-year flood came in July, at peak growth time. White’s tree farm is not the only one to have suffered from flooding. Jim Horst, spokesman for the New HampshireVermont Christmas Tree Association, reports that other low-lying tree farms in the region have dealt with flooding during nondormancy periods in the past few years. Glove Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Plymouth, N.H., lost 9000 trees to Irene, and others, particularly in the Londonderry area, had significant damage. Despite such incidents, says Horst, the Christmas tree industry in Vermont is generally doing well. Rain can be a boon to trees on higher ground — even White saw excellent growth this year on his 12-acre hillside field, which is separate from his main field.
Nationally, the Christmas tree industry is worth $1.07 billion, according to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State University. Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan are the top three producers in the U.S., while Vermont has just 3600 acres devoted to Christmas trees compared to Oregon’s 65,000. Horst says Vermont’s wholesome image is a draw for out-of-staters, and White tells of customers coming from as far away as New Jersey just to buy his trees. Although no data are available for the total value of cutyour-own retail operations, the National Christmas Tree Association states that 24.5 million live Christmas trees were sold in 2012, 14 percent of which were cut-your-own. The future of the Whites’ farm is uncertain. Bob White estimates monetary losses to be at least several hundred thousand dollars. All the dying and suspect trees will be pulled this fall, and he’ll place an order for new seedlings for next spring. White’s other livelihood is a 120-acre maple-syrup operation, which keeps him busy from January to April. Prices and yields have been good in the past few years, though he says any profits from maple this year will most likely go to offset extra expenses for the Christmas tree business. “If we are really lucky this year, we may break even. But I doubt it,” White says. He’s concerned that the Phytophthora fungus, which has found a favorable home in the roots of the damaged Frasers, will stay in the soil and cause problems for future trees planted there. White has other varieties of firs, such as Canaan and Korean, which are more moisture tolerant. But the Frasers are the most popular for Christmas trees, and he’s not willing to give up on them. White is keen to let the public know he’s open for business this year and has plenty of healthy trees ready to harvest. When those are cut, though, fewer mature trees will be available for a few years. “When the other field comes in in two years, we’ll have tons of trees,” says White, “but this is almost a permanent setback.” Does he think it will put him out of business? “I hope not, but if it doesn’t turn around, it might put us out of business for a few years,” White says. “Not this year or next year, but we’ll see. We’ll move a thousand, 2000 trees out this year, and that will pay the expenses. Hopefully, the death [of the trees] will settle down, and we’ll plant next spring and start all over again.” m
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God of Carnage, written by yasmina Reza, directed by catherine Doherty, produced by Northern Stage. Through November 17, Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., matinees at 2 p.m. on Thursdays and 5 p.m. on Sundays, at Briggs opera house in White River Junction. $38-60. Tickets and info at 296-7000 or boxoffice@northernstage.org. northernstage.org
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international career doing so. Her works have been produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages — from the original French — and have won numerous awards. (Vermont Stage Company recently reprised her popular 1994 play Art.) The flow and quality of Reza’s writing could keep any audience laughing. “I have no sense of humor, and I have no intention of acquiring one,” says serious and self-righteous Veronica Novak, mother of an injured 11-year-old boy. In this clean and simple plot setup, the boy has been struck with a stick by the 11-year-old son of Alan and Annette Raleigh. It happened in a park near their upscale neighborhood in Brooklyn. The fight itself is not unusual among young boys, but the blow has caused a fat lip and two broken front teeth, prompting a parental discussion. The two sets of parents meet in the living room of Veronica and Michael Novak. As Northern Stage set designer Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili has created it, it’s a stylish, chrome-and-glass-appointed room that is precisely arranged, right down to the placement of the large art books on the central coffee table. This is the backdrop for the slow but relentless disintegration of the characters — and the room itself will not go unscathed. Reza’s characters are both stereotypes and unique individuals with personal issues. For example, Michael Novak’s underlying blue-collar, man’s-man persona is complicated by his phobia of rodents — in this case, a hamster named Nibbles, whose fate is an important and hilarious subplot. Even with intriguing tangents and sharp, rapid-fire dialogue, the play requires a capable director to elevate it above a mere dark comedy. Fortunately for Upper Valley audiences, this God of Carnage benefits from the always-strong comic direction of Catherine Doherty, Northern
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on’t judge me while I’m busy judging you,” an underlying theme of “polite” society, has never been more perfectly and comically illustrated than in God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony Award-winning play is currently being performed by Northern Stage in White River Junction. When the play begins, it seems like nothing more than an updated version of some early-’60s sitcom, such as “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” The plot has all the familiar trappings: upper-middle-class parents, a problem between two of their children and the inevitable “civilized” meeting of the adults to discuss the incident. Then, like a runaway train car on a long, downhill grade, the satire slowly picks up speed. There are curves where the train threatens to tip over, then rights itself and races even faster and more out of control. Although viewers can predict the inevitable crash, there’s no way to know just how big the destruction will be, or what pieces might be left at the end. And on this ride, there is no stop — no intermission — to allow audience members to catch their breath. The densely packed, 90-minute piece flies by, as Reza engineers the breakdown of conventions and the collapse of the play’s four parents. Northern Stage’s playbill quotes Reza as saying this of her work:
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he likeness of a mug was larger than life, with beer spilling over its rim. Greg Noonan handpainted the image on an oval sign, then affixed it to the brick building he and his wife, Nancy, had leased on College Street. One raw, overcast November day, they unlatched the door of the Vermont Pub & Brewery and began selling the real thing: beers that Noonan brewed in the cellar. Such a scene might hardly make us blink today, when Vermont has become an epicenter of craft brewing. But in the fall of 1988, only 11 brewpubs existed across the entire country, the majority out west. Brewpubs weren’t even legal in Vermont until the spring of that year, when the Noonans successfully lobbied the state legislature to pass a bill allowing them. On tap during Vermont Pub & Brewery’s opening weekend were a lager called Pesky Sarpent and the rich Burly Irish Ale, both brewed by Noonan on a 14-barrel system cobbled together in part from old dairy and maple-sap tanks. Also available were $2.50 glasses of porter from Catamount Brewing — which had opened in White River Junction the year before — and one of the first sessionable beers in Vermont’s history. “To demonstrate our commitment to the responsible enjoyment of malt beverages, we have brewed light, low-alcohol Pilot Ale for our opening,” reads a typewritten flyer for VPB’s debut. Twenty-five years later, VPB’s staff of 65 has prepared for months for the pub’s silver anniversary, which takes place this weekend. But absent from the celebration will be the founder: Greg Noonan passed away from cancer four years ago at age 58. By most accounts, the bearded Noonan was brilliant, affable and deeply generous; he was respected, and is now missed, by scores of people in the brewing community. Yet his presence is still felt in the house that he built, so to speak, from the photo taped to a tank near the foyer to the recipes that brewer Russ FitzPatrick continues to use in the cellar. “Greg’s ethos
still exists in every nook and cranny of this place,” says Steve Polewacyk, the brewery’s owner, and Noonan’s longtime friend and business partner. Noonan’s legacy extends well beyond VPB to the younger brewers he mentored, who include the founders of the Alchemist and Three Needs. Today, VPB no longer stands alone; Vermont is home to 28 microbreweries, and there are hundreds of brewpubs nationwide. But its brews remain a testament to the pioneering spirit of its founder, who raised home brewing to a science and then turned it into a successful business.
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oonan was a manufacturing manager living in Williamstown, Mass., when he began his foray into home brewing in the late 1970s. His brother, Jerome, recalls that Greg taught himself brewing by finding and reading obscure books, calling up brewmasters and gradually perfecting his own techniques.
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Since chef-owner DonalD BIllIngs opened Rutland’s Roots thE REstauRant in 2011, he’s been picking up bread at nearby Baba-a-Louis Bakery practically every day. When he stopped by to supply his restaurant, he would joke with JERRy soJouRnER, the bakery’s owner of 31 years, “When you’re ready to retire, let me know.” “Then one day, he was like, ‘I’m ready,’” Billings recalls. “We worked out a deal.” That deal included retaining all the employees of Baba-a-Louis, but not the name (shared
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In the market for Mexican mayonesa, dried mini-shrimp or chile-and-lime-flavored pork rinds? Until last weekend, those purchases would have entailed a trip to a major city (or a delivery). Now, with the arrival of BRIstol mExICan maRkEt, your food miles won’t be quite as steep. The people to thank are ChaRlottE and aDam “WIng nut” hInEman, who run a fleet of three mobile eateries known collectively as taCo tRuCk all staRs. Wing Nut has cooked for 12 years in Vermont kitchens ranging from ultra-plush tWIn FaRms in Barnard to Burlington stoner landmark kountRy kaRt DElI. But the California native missed great tacos. He began Taco Truck All Stars in the summer of 2012, and the fleet has since gained a stellar reputation for its all-gluten-free tacos, enchiladas and tostadas, filled with meats such as housemade chorizo.
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raspberry mocha or peppermint hot chocolate, the Bakery’s sandwiches might tempt them to sit down and enjoy a meal in the 20-seat café. Fillings include housecured salmon with pickled shallots, capers and homemade crème fraîche; smoked pork on rye with brussels-sproutand-Napa slaw and hot-sauce aioli; and roasted butternut squash with goat cheese on seed bread. In keeping with tradition at Billings’ restaurants, emu from nEshoBE FaRm is on the bakery’s menu, too. Look for it in the form of chili, served with freshly baked bread, of course.
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Christmas is coming; the goose is getting fat... Well, many geese are getting fat, on grass and grain in the Northeast Kingdom. A goose farm — the state’s second — has opened in Cabot, and the 55 birds included in its first slaughter have been popping up on menus from Hardwick to Burlington. “We have this really dark, silky soil, and it’s fantastic at holding water, but it can also
The Bristol market will allow Wing Nut to serve Mexican fare year-round, though the kitchen isn’t yet complete. For now, the store is open Fridays and Saturdays for lunch and dinner, with food cooked out back in one of the trucks. The business might seem like a better fit for a bigger city, perhaps Burlington, but Wing Nut chose Bristol because, he says, “We live here. This is our community.” And that community has shown its support. At the market’s opening Dia de los Muertos party on November 1, the taco truck sold all its food in an hour, and the Addison County crowd snapped up luchador masks and piñatas to the sounds of a live DJ. The fiesta at 26 Main Street is only getting started.
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with another bakery in Chester) or the location. Now called simply the BakERy, the new dining spot opens this week at 122 West Street in a long-vacant former Aubuchon Hardware. The breads and pastries, all baked with kIng aRthuR FlouR, will remain, including rustic loaves such as sour wheat-barley. Billings is especially excited about the bakery’s four flavors of English muffin, perfect for his breakfast egg sandwiches. In December, he’ll introduce bagels to the menu, too. Though locals are sure to pop in for pastries and a spEEDER & EaRl’s CoFFEE
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food of seltzers and, of course, plenty of fresh, unfiltered beer. But business was uneven at first. “It was an inauspicious beginning,” Greg Noonan told Business People-Vermont in 2007. “We eked our way through the winter of ’88 to ’89, barely by our teeth, with no cash reserves.” Polewacyk had met Greg Noonan when they were both students at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., and the two stayed buddies. Polewacyk visited VPB shortly after its opening and realized, he says, that Noonan was knee-deep in controlled chaos, working 120-hour weeks to keep the business going. “He was fabricating steel, he was brewing beer,
he was writing menus, he was doing it all,” Polewacyk remembers. Soon the self-described “computer guy” from the New York City area was traveling to Burlington for a few weeks at a clip to help his friend with his books, his bar and whatever else needed doing. Polewacyk came north so frequently — and met so many people — that the notion of a permanent move finally dawned on him. He became Noonan’s business partner. By 1990 or 1991, VPB was beginning to hit its stride, he says.
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“crammed” a 14-barrel brewing system into the basement. “I got [a tank] off of a friend of mine who is in the maple syrup business. We said, ‘We’ll make it work,’” Jerome recalls. Greg Noonan designed not only the VPB logo but also taphandle labels for each of the beers. A LaPlatte Angus burger was on the menu, along with a selection
n 1990, Paul Sayler was an apprentice brewer across the state at Catamount Brewing. He came to VPB for the release of a beer that Greg Noonan had made with spruce, maple syrup and wheat in homage to colonial-era beers. “Greg mesmerized me,” Sayler wrote in a tribute after Noonan died. “With his deep, FM-DJ voice and a stunning knowledge of beer history, he set me on the path that would lead me to become a brewpub brewer.” Sayler was not the only budding home or commercial brewer to turn up at VPB. Noonan’s book was the “gospel at that moment in time,” recalls Sayler, now the co-owner of Zero Gravity Craft Brewery in Burlington. Noonan’s beer recipes were consistently years ahead of their time — even as they resurrected deep, vital traditions. “He was firmly committed to the great traditions, particularly lagers and Scottish ales,” Sayler says. “He didn’t just brew the traditional styles, but he researched them and made an effort to help craft brewing rise to where they could brew these styles.” Also in 1990, Noonan began brewing a Scotch ale called Wee Heavy, which went on to win a gold award at the Great American Beer Festival (one of many award-winning VPB beers). In 1998, he published Scotch Ale for the Classic Beer Style Series, which became another mainstay of brewing libraries. nOOnan’s legacy
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“Not many books were out there then,” recalls Jerome Noonan. “I was living in Boston at the time, and [Greg] would crash at my apartment and go to the Boston Public Library to get German brewing manuals. He became determined to talk to the head brewer of Pilsner Urquell [in Czechoslovakia], and it took several rounds of letters to set it up. It was pretty wild.” Greg Noonan eventually compiled the bulk of what he had learned into a manuscript, which he put in a shoebox and handed to Brewers Association cofounder Charlie Papazian at a brewing conference in 1984. Published two years later, Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book for Home- and Microbrewers became an instant classic among home brewers. It was one of the first volumes to offer technical guidance for brewing many styles of beers. Fresh from his research, Noonan set his sights on opening a brewpub with Nancy. It was a bold, prescient idea: Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. in Washington State, the first modern brewpub, had opened just six years earlier, followed by a cluster in northern California and one in New York City. The Noonans and their partners scouted spots in Massachusetts and pinned down a location and license in Northampton in 1987 — until they discovered that Peter and Janet Egelston were about to open Northampton Brewery. So the Noonans headed north, to Burlington, where they almost took a space in the South End. “Thank God we ended up where we did,” says Jerome Noonan of the 144 College Street venue. “I don’t think we were savvy about foot traffic. The fact that we stumbled into that downtown location was a good thing.” The building at the corner of College and St. Paul streets had held a succession of restaurants; Jerome Noonan says the inside resembled “an ’80s fern bar.” The group imprinted its own style by moving the bar from the back wall to the front and adding some of Greg Noonan’s artwork. Then they
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0237-6K 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 15, 2013, David Raphael & Nicole Carignan, 234 Old Stage Road, Essex, VT 05452 and Lowell & Shelley Spillane, 336 Tamarack Shores, Shelburne, VT 05482 filed application #4C0237-6K for a project generally described as the construction of three self storage buildings on Lot #7 and one building on Lots #7 & #8 of the Jericho East Subdivision. The Project is located on North Main Street in Jericho, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are
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available for review at the Jericho Town Office, Chittenden County Office, and the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0237-6K”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before November 18, 2013, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1263 & PUBLIC HEARING CANCELLATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 Excellent rental properties with potential $5000 On October 1, 2013, monthly net income. Two renovated apartment Rivers Edge Building Debuildings close to Champlain Bridge. New heatvelopment, LLC, c/o Tom ing system, low maintenance, off-street parking. Sheppard, 41 Gauthier Positive rental history. More info and photos on Drive, Suite #1, Essex our website, www.realty-results.com $350,000. Junction, VT 05452, filed application #4C1263 for Realty Results a Project described as 518-546-7557 the creation of a 4-lot realtyresults@yahoo.com subdivision and construction of one duplex on each lot, for a total of eight residential units, all served by a private road, municipal water tion, please notify us by matter for hearing on its 1 10/21/13 4:01 PM and on-site sewage CW-Results102313.indd own motion. Any hearing November 22, 2013. disposal. The Project is request must be in writlocated off of McMullen ing to the address below, Parties entitled to Road, in Milton, VT. participate are the Mumust state the criteria nicipality, the Municipal or subcriteria at issue, On October 18, 2013, a why a hearing is required Planning Commission, notice was issued for the Regional Planning and what additional evia public hearing on Commission, affected dence will be presented Criterion 9(B) (Primary at the hearing. Any hear- state agencies, and adAgricultural Soils (PAS)). ing request by an adjoin- joining property owners On October 28, 2013, the and other persons to the ing property owner or Agency of Agriculture extent they have a parother interested person revised its assessment ticularized interest that must include a petition of the parcel and determay be affected by the for party status. Prior to mined that there are proposed project under submitting a request for no PAS on the project a hearing, please contact the 10 criteria. Non-party site. Consequently, the participants may also be the district coordinator District Commission at the telephone number allowed under 10 V.S.A. has cancelled the public Section 6085(c)(5). listed below for more hearing. information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Dated at Essex Junction, The District #4 EnvironCommission must deter- Vermont this 31st day of mental Commission is October, 2013. mine that substantive now reviewing this apissues requiring a hearplication under Act 250 By: /s/ Stephanie H. ing have been raised. Rule 51 — Minor ApplicaMonaghan Findings of Fact and tions. Copies of the apStephanie H. Monaghan Conclusions of Law will plication and proposed District#4 Coordinator not be prepared unless permit are available for Natural Resources Board the Commission holds a review at the Milton 111 West Street public hearing. Town Office, Chittenden Essex Jct., VT 05452 County Regional Plan802-879-5662 If you feel that any of ning Commission Office, stephanie.monaghan@ the District Commission and the office listed bestate.vt.us members listed on the low. The application and attached Certificate of a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Service under “For Your LEGAL NOTICE Information” may have a Resources Board’s web JERICHO UNDERHILL conflict of interest, or if site (www.nrb.state. there is any other reason LIBRARY DISTRICT vt.us/lup) by clicking a member should be dis- BUDGET HEARING on “Act 250 Database” qualified from sitting on and entering the project Thursday, November 21, this case, please contact number “4C1263”. 2013 at 7:00 pm the district coordinator as soon as possible, no No hearing will be held The Jericho Underhill Lilater than prior to the and a permit may be brary District will hold its response date listed issued unless, on or official budget hearing above. before November 22, on Thursday, November 2013, a person notifies 21, 2013, at 7:00 pm. The Should a hearing be the Commission of an hearing will take place held on this project and issue or issues requiring in the Program Room you have a disability the presentation of of the Deborah Rawson for which you are going evidence at a hearing or Memorial Library, 8 River the Commission sets the to need accommoda-
sevendaysvt.com/classifieds Road, Jericho, Vermont. The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the proposed Fiscal Year 2014-15 Budget. NOTICE OF SELFSTORAGE LIEN SALE LYMAN STORAGE 10438 Route 116 Hinesburg VT 05461 802-482-2379 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid at the Lyman Storage facility. This sale is being held to collect
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OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS— ARTICLE VI - Livable Wages First reading: 09/23/13 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 10/21/13 Action: adopted Date: 10/21/13 Signed by Mayor: 10/30/13 Published: 11/06/13 Effective: 11/27/13 That Chapter 21, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 2180 through 21-87 thereof and adding new Sections 21-88 and 21-89 thereto to read as follows: Sec. 21-80. - Findings and purpose. In enacting this article, the city council states the following findings and purposes: (a) Income from full-time work should be sufficient to meet an individual’s basic needs;
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(b) The City of Burlington is committed to ensuring that its year-round employees (full and part time) have an opportunity for a decent quality of life and are compensated, and such that they are not dependent on public assistance, to meet their basic needs; (c) The city City of Burlington is committed, through its contracts with vendors and provision of financial assistance, to encourage the private sector to pay its employees a livable wage and contribute to employee health care benefits; (d) The creation of jobs that pay livable wages promotes the prosperity and general welfare of the city City of Burlington and its residents, increases consumer spending with local businesses, improves the economic welfare and security of affected employees and reduces expenditures for public assistance; (e) It is the intention of the city council in passing this article to provide a minimum level of compensation for city employees of the City of Burlington and employees of entities that enter into service contracts or receive
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[CONTINUED] tion, proceeding, or hearing under this article. (j) Service contract means a contract primarily for the furnishing of services to the City of Burlington (as opposed to the purchasing or leasing of goods or property) A contract involving the furnishing of financial products, insurance products, and or software, even if that contract also includes some support or other services related to the provision of the products, shall not be considered a service contract. Sec. 21-82. - Livable wages required. (a) Every covered employer shall pay each and every covered employee at least a livable wage (“Livable Wage”) as established
under this article.no less than: (1) For a covered employer that provides employer assisted health care, the livable wage shall be at least nine dollars and ninety centsthirteen dollars and ninety four cents ($13,949.90) per hour on the effective date of the amendments is to this article [Dec. 19, 2001]. (2) For a covered employer that does not provide employer assisted health care, the livable wage shall be at least eleven dollars and sixty-eight centsfifteen dollars and eighty three cents ($15.8311.68) per hour on the effective date of the amendments to this article [Dec. 19, 2001]. (3) Tipped covered employees and other ccCovered employees whose wage compensation consists of more or other than hourly wages, including, but not limited to, tips, commissions, flat fees or bonuses, shall be paid so that the total of all wage an hourly wage which, when combined with the other compensation, will at least equal the lLivable wWage as
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established under this article. (b) The amount of the lLivable wWage established in this section shall be adjusted by the chief administrative officer of the city, as of July 1stfirst of each year based upon a report of the Joint Fiscal Office of the State of Vermont that describes the basic needs budget for a single person but utilizes a model of two (2) adults residing in a two-bedroom living unit in an urban area with the moderate cost food plan. Should there be no such report from the joint fiscal office, the chief administrative officer shall obtain and utilize a basic needs budget that applies a similar methodology. The livable wage rates derived from utilizing a model of two (2) adults residing in a two-bedroom living unit in an urban area with a moderate cost food plan shall not become effective until rates meet or exceed the 2010 posted livable wage rates. Prior to the first day of May preceding any such adjustment and prior to the first day of May of each calendar year thereafter, the chief administrative officer will provide public notice of this adjustment by publishing a notice in a newspaper of general circulation, by posting a written notice in a prominent place in City Hall, by sending written notice to the city council and, in the case of covered employers that have requested individual notice and provided contact information an address of record to the chief administrative officer, by notice written letter to each such covered employer. However, once a Livable Wage is applied to an individual employee, no reduction in that employee’s pay rate is permissible due to this annual adjustment. (c) Covered employers shall provide at least twelve (12) compensated days off per year for full-time covered employees, and a proportionate amount for part-time covered employees, for sick leave, vacation, or personal, or combined time off leave. Sec. 21-83. - Applicability. (a) This article shall apply to any service contract or grant, as provided by this article that is awarded or entered into after the effective date of the article [Dec. 19, 2001]. After the effec-
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tive date of the article, entering into any agreement or an extension, renewal or amendment of any contract or grant as defined herein shall be subject to compliance with this article. (b) The requirements of this article shall apply during the term of any service contract subject to the article. Covered employers who receive grants shall comply with this article during the period of time the city’s funds awarded by the City of Burlington are being expended by the covered employer. Sec. 21-84. - Enforcement. (a) The City of Burlington shall require, as a condition of anyEach service contract or grant covered by this article section, shall contain provisions requiring that the affected covered employer or grantee submit a written certification, under oath, during each year during the term of the service contract or grant, that the covered employer or grantee (including all of its subcontractors and subgrantees, if any) is in compliance with this article. The failure of a contract to contain such provisions does not excuse a covered employer from its obligations under this ordinance. confirming payment of a livable wage as a condition of entering into said contract or grant. The affected covered employer shall agree to post a notice regarding the applicability of this section in any workplace or other location where employees or other persons contracted for employment are working. The affected covered employer shall agree to provide payroll records or other documentation for itself and any subcontractors or subgrantees, as deemed necessary by the chief administrative officer of the City of Burlington within ten (10) business days from receipt of the City of Burlingtoncity’s request. (b) The chief administrative officer of the City of Burlington may require that a covered employer submit proof of compliance with this article at any time, including but not limited to (1) verification of an individual employee’s compensation. (2) production of payroll, health insurance enrollment records, or other relevant
documentation, or (3) evidence of proper posting of notice. If a covered employer is not able to provide that information within ten (10) business days of the request, the chief administrative officer may turn the matter over to the city attorney’s office for further enforcement proceedings. (c) The City of Burlington shall appoint a designated accountability monitor that shall have the authority: (i) To inform and educate employees of all applicable provisions of this article and other applicable laws, codes, and regulations; (ii) To create a telephonic and electronic accountability system under this article that shall be available at all times to receive complaints under this article; (iii) To establish and implement a system for processing employees’ complaints under this article, including a system for investigating complaints and determining their legitimacyinitial credibility; and (iv) To refer creditble complaints to the City Attorney’s office for potential enforcement action under this article. The designated accountability monitor shall forward to the City of Burlington all credible complaints of violations within ten (10) days of their receipt. Any covered (cd) employee who believes his or her covered employer is not complying with this article may file a complaint in writing with the City Attorney’s office within one (1) year after the alleged violation. The City Attorney’s office shall conduct an investigation of the complaint, during which it may require from the covered employer evidence such as may be required to determine whether the covered employer has been compliant, and shall make a finding of compliance or noncompliance within a reasonable time after receiving the complaint. Prior to ordering any penalty provided in subsections (e), (f), or (g) below, the City Attorney’s office shall give notice to the covered employer. The covered employer may request a hearing within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice. The hearing shall be conducted by a hearing officer appointed by the City Attorney’s office, who shall affirm or reverse the finding or the penalty based upon evi-
dence presented by the City Attorney’s office and the covered employer. The City of (ecb) Burlington shall have the right to modify, terminate and/or seek specific performance of any contract or grant with an affecteda covered employer from any court of competent jurisdiction, if the affected covered employer has not complied with this article. Any covered (fdc) employer who violates this article may be barred from receiving a contract or grant from the city for a period up to two (2) years from the date of the finding of violation. A violation (edg) of this article shall be a civil offense subject to a civil penalty of from two hundred dollars ($200.00) to five hundred dollars ($500.00). All law enforcement officers and any other duly authorized municipal officials are authorized to issue a municipal complaint for a violation of this article. Each day any covered employee is not compensated as required by this article shall constitute a separate violation. (h) If a complaint is received that implicates any City of Burlington employee in a possible violation of this ordinance, that complaint will be handled through the City’s personnel procedures, not through the process outlined in this ordinance. Any covered (fi) employee aggrieved by a violation of this article may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the covered employer within two (2) years after discovery of the alleged violation. The court may award any covered employee who files suit pursuant to this section, as to the relevant period of time, the following: (i) The difference between the livable wage required under this article and the amount actually paid to the covered employee; (ii) Equitable payment for any compensated days off that were unlawfully denied or were not properly compensated; (iii) lLiquidated damages in an amount equal to the amount of back wages and/or compensated days off unlawfully withheld or of $50 for each employee or person whose rights under this article were violated for each day that the violation occurred or
continued, whichever is greater; (iv) rReinstatement in employment and/or injunctive relief; and (v) rReasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. It shall be (gj) unlawful for an employer or any other person to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right protected under this article. No person shall engage in retaliation against an employee or threaten to do so because such employee has exercised rights or is planning to exercise rights protected under this article or has cooperated in any investigation conducted pursuant to this article. Sec. 21-85. - Other provisions. (a) No affected covered employer shall reduce the compensation, wages, fringe benefits or leave available to any covered employee in order to pay the livable wage required by this article. Any action in violation of this paragraph shall be deemed a violation of this article subject to the remedies of section 21-84. (b) No covered employer with a current contract, as of the effective date of this provision, with the City of Burlington for the use of property located at the Burlington International Airport may reduce, during the term of that contract, the wages of a covered employee below the Livable Wage as a result of amendments to this ordinance. Where (bc) pursuant to a contract for services with the city, the contractor or subcontractor incurs a contractual obligation to pay its employees certain wage rates, in no case except as stated in subsection 21-85(cd), shall the wage rates paid pursuant to that contract be less than the minimum livable wage paid pursuant to this article. Notwith(cd) standing subsection 21-85(bc), where employees are represented by a bargaining unit or labor union pursuant to rights conferred by state or federal law and a collective bargaining labor agreement is in effect governing the terms and conditions of employment of those employees, this chapter shall not apply to those employees, and the collective bargaining labor agreement shall control.
(de) Covered employers shall inform employees making less than twelve dollars ($12.00) per hour of their possible right to the Earned Income Tax Credit under federal and state law. The chief (ef) administrative officer of the city shall have the authority to promulgate rules as necessary to administer the provisions of this article, which shall become effective upon approval by the city council. Sec. 21-86. - Exemptions. An partial or complete exemption from the any requirement of this article may be requested for a period not to exceed two (2) years: (a) By a covered employer where payment of the livable wage authorized based upon a determination that compliance with the livable wage requirement would cause substantial economic hardship; and (b) By the City of Burlington . where application of this article to a particular contract or grant is found to violate specific state or federal statutory, regulatory or constitutional provision or provisions or where granting the exemption would be in the best interests of the City. A covered employer or grantee granted an exemption under this Section 21-86 may reapply for an exemption upon the expiration of the exemption. Requests for exemption may be granted by majority vote of the City Council. All requests for exemption shall be submitted to the chief administrative officer. The finance committee board of the city City of Burlington shall first consider such request and make a recommendation to the City Council. The decision of the City Council shall be final. shall consider the request for exemption with prior notice provided to the city council. A unanimous decision by the finance board shall be final. A split decision by the finance board is reviewable by the city council not later than the next meeting of the city council which occurs after the date of the finance board decision. Sec. 21-87. - Severability. If any part or parts or application of any part of this article is held invalid, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of this article.
SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Section 21-88. Annual Reporting. On or before April 15th of each year, the City Attorney’s office shall submit a report to the City Council that provides the following information: (a) all list of all covered employers broken down by department; (b) a list of all covered employers whose service contract did not contain the language required by this article; and (c) all complaints filed and investigated by the City Attorney’s office and the results of such investigation. Sec. 21-89. Effective Date. The amendments to this ordinance shall take effect on January 1, 2014, and shall not be retroactively applied. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/ BOARDS On Monday, December 9, 2013, the Burlington City Council will fill vacancies on the following City Commissions/Boards: Board of Tax Appeals Term expires 6/30/14 One Opening Board of Tax Appeals Term expires 6/30/15 One Opening Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/
Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Lori with the deadline date for submission being Wednesday, December 4, 2013, no later than 4:30 p.m. If you have any questions please contact Lori at (802)865-7136 or via email lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov. Non-Discrimination The City of Burlington will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact Human Resources Department at 865-7145. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance PROPOSED ZA-14-05 – Neighborhood Mixed-Use (NMU) District Boundary Adjustment ZA-14-06 – Parking requirements for cafes in Shared Use District Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4441 and §4444, notice
Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose: the proposed amendments to the Burlington CDO are to: • ZA-14-05 - to expand the Neighborhood Mixed Use district boundary along the west side of Bright Street to include 47 Bright Street in order to facilitate re-development. • ZA-14-06 - remove off-street parking requirement for cafes in the Shared Use Parking District.
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Mixed Use Districts, Map 4.4.5-1 Residential Zoning Districts and Map 8.1.3-1 Parking Districts ZA-14-06 – Burlington CDO Table 8.1.8-1 Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and the proposed amendments are available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www. burlingtonvt.gov/pz.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area. ALL CANCER SURVIVORS Join the wellness classes at Survivorship NOW, created by cancer survivors for cancer survivors. Benefi t from lively programs designed to engage & empower cancer survivors in our community. 777 1126, info@ survivorshipnowvt. org, survivorshipnowVT. org. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community & educational group. We provide coffee, soda & snacks & are open to PALS, caregivers, family members & those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the 2nd Thu. of ea. mo., 1-3 p.m., at Jim’s House, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston. Hosted by Pete & Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, patient care coordinator for the ALS Association here in VT. Info, 223-7638. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Held the last Tue. of every mo., 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, Kim, 863-6384. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 6-8 p.m. at The Hope Lodge, Lois McClure-Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Central Vermont Man to Man regular monthly meetings are open to
ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., Methodist Church at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Brenda, 338-1170. BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Monday night, 6-8 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878. BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the VFW Hall, 204 Eastern Ave. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 1-800-639-1522. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets 1st & 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance,” 1:302:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the 1st Mon. of ea. mo. at Vermont Protection & Advocacy, 141 Main St., suite 7, in conference room #2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. St. Albans support group meets the 2nd Tues. of the month at the St. Albans Diner, 14 Swanton Road from 4-5:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. of the month at the VFW, 204 Eastern Ave. from 1-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets
the 1st Wed. of ea. mo. at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Middlebury support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center from 6-8 p.m. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772. CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP 2nd & 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, St. Albans. The Caregivers Support Group welcomes anyone who is helping care for a family member of a loved one with a chronic or life-limiting illness. 527-6717. CELIAC AND GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wed., 4:30-6 p.m. at Central VT Medical Center Conference Room #3. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every 3rd Thu. at the Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington. Please visit new website or call for location info, www.immunedysfunction.org or call 881-3821 or Lainey Rappaport at 660-4817. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy and fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance and serenity in our lives. Tues. 5:456:45 p.m., First Baptist Church, 81 Saint Paul St., Burlington. Thu. 7-8 p.m. & Sun. noon-1 p.m. Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. Susan 829-9340, Tom 238-3587, burlingtonvtcoda@gmail. com, burlingtonvtcoda. org. DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612.
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DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road. Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. The 13-week Divorce Care Support Group (for men and women) will be offered on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 p.m., September 11-December 4 at the Essex Alliance Community Center, 37 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct. For more information and to register call Sandy 425-7053. 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.
DROP BY THE WELLNESS CO-OP AND HANG OUT! Connect to a supportive community 43 King Street, Burlington. Tues, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Mon., Wed., Thu., Fri, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. We have snacks and turtles! Free and open to the public thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont. org 888-492-8218 x300 FREE WI-FI!!! FAMILIES TOGETHER SUPPORT GROUP Join other parents for support, information, and connections at Vermont Family Network in Williston on the last Wed. of the month 5:30-7 p.m. Many parents say it helps to know they are not alone in parenting a child (any age, diagnosis, and situation) with special needs. Other parents can understand, listen, and share in the experience. No RSVP required. Contact is jan.hancock@vtfn. org, 876-5315. Call in advance if weather is uncertain.
G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Please join us if you have lost a child or sibling to an overdose. Peer group for support over such a loss. Meetings will start Oct. 9 and will meet on the third Wed. of the month at 7 p.m., 310 Pine St., Burlington (Kilburn and Gates building). If Interested please email graspvt@ gmail.com.
GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP The RU12? Community Center has organized a social support group for LGBTQ individuals experiencing the loss of a loved one, be it through death or separation. The group is currently on hiatus, but if you are interested or looking for more information, please contact thecenter@ru12.org or call 860-7812.
GLAM CORE GROUP MEETING Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. We’re looking for young gay & bi guys who are interested in putting together great events, meeting new people & reaching out to other guys! Core Group runs our program, & we want your input! If you’re a young gay or bisexual man who would like to get involved, email us at glam@ru12. org or check us out on Facebook (facebook. com/glamvt).
GREIF AND RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Wed. of every month, 7-8 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, St. Albans. 527-6717. HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED THIS? I am looking for anyone who has been psychically attacked or who has been attacked (in general) by a Psychic or Healer. I am looking for support around this. Please call Patty, 989-0360.
HEARING VOICES SUPPORT CIRCLE meets every Wed. at 11:15 a.m., at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington. “I hear voices you can’t hear; you believe in a god others don’t see.” 888-492-8218 x300, thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont.org. HEARTBEAT VERMONT A free support group for those who have lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide. Meetings, facilitated by our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, are held at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome to attend. Snacks & drinks are provided to make for a comfortable atmosphere. Some who attend have experienced a recent loss, & some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Some people come to just 1 meeting, some return every mo. The choice is up to the participant & is as individual as the grieving process itself. Please call 446-3577 for info when the group will be meeting next.
HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support. IF YOU ARE A YOUTH OR YOUNG ADULT AND LOOKING FOR A LISTENING EAR, spiritual encouragement, a companion on the journey First United Methodist Church invites you to contact Rachel, our Pastor at Large for youth & young adults in the Greater Burlington area. Rachel can be reached via email at RachelStampul@ gmail.com and has open office hours for folks to just drop in on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:30 in the Burlington Town Center Mall food court. IN-PERSON QUITTING CLASSES Weekly on Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., UHC Given WEST Clinic, South Prospect St., Burlington. Call to register, 847-2278. This is a great way to
connect with others who are also trying to quit with help from experienced counselors, as well. Free 4-week group sessions, free patches, gum or lozenges, service is provided by a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact Sherry. Rhynard@gmail.com.
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LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S COUNCIL DROPIN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/ cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Varied topics, incl. relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions & sexual orientations. Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thu., 7-9 p.m. More info, call Nick, 985-8984.
MALE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for male-identified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet at the RU12? Community Center. Support groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Please contact 863-0003.
LGBTQ SUPPORT CIRCLE for individuals with disabilities. Thu., 3 p.m., at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington.
MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Tue. at 6:30 p.m. & Thur. at 8 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., suite 200, Burlington. 861-3150.
LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support. Please call RU12? Community Center at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more info.
PEER ACCESS LINE Isolated? Irritable? Anxious? Lonely? Excited? Bored? Confused? Withdrawn? Sad? Call us! Don’t hesitate for a moment. We understand! It is our choice to be here for you to listen. Your feelings do matter. 321-2190. Thu., Fri., Sat. evenings, 6-9 p.m. PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE for individuals with mental health challenges. We are never alone in our struggles. Every Wednesday at 5pm at The Wellness Co-op, 43 King Street, Burlington thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont. org 1-888-492-8218 ext 300
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS VERMONT SUPPORT/ INFORMATION GATHERING Note: We will not be a November meeting. Last Thu. of every month, 6-8 p.m. Fanny Allen Campus, Board Room #22, Colchester. Gerard, 893-8877, www.ra-vt.org.
SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Come together to talk, connect & find support around a number of issues, incl. coming out, socializing, challenges around employment, safe sex, self-advocacy, choosing partners, discovering who you are & anything else that you would like to talk about. Tue., 4:30 p.m., at the RU12? Community Center, located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski. For more info, contact thecenter@RU12.org or 860-7812.
SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. SERVICE DOG SUPPORT for prospective/ experienced at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington. How is it possible that I feel so “normal” and at the same time notice that I am the only one with a dog on the bus? Melanie, 777-8603, mel@ pathwaysvermont.org. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Ralph, 658-2657. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you. SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more, or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 8640555, ext. 19, or email our Victim Advocate at advocate@sover.net.
SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 1-877-543-9498 for more info. SURVIVORSHIP NOW Welcome, cancer survivors. Survivorship NOW has free wellness programs to empower cancer survivors to move beyond cancer and live life well. Regain your strength and balance. Renew your spirit. Learn to nourish your body with exercise and nutritious foods. Tap in to your creative side. Connect with others who understand the challenges you face. Go to survivorshipnowvt.org today to sign up. Info, 802777-1126, info@ survivorshipnowvt.org.
SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wed. of ea. mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, Liz Mahoney, 879-7109, erusso@ smcvt.edu or Myra Handy, 951-5156, myra. handyvt@gmail.com. THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Burlington Chapter TCF meets on the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston; for more info, call Dee Ressler, 598-8899. Rutland Chapter TCF meets on the 1st Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at Grace Congregational Church, West St., Rutland; for more info, call Susan Mackey, 446-2278. Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) also serves bereaved parents w/ monthly peer support groups, short-term educational consultations & referrals to local grief & loss counselors. HVS is located in the Marble Works district in Middlebury. Please call 388-4111 for more info about how to connect w/ appropriate support services. THE NEXT STEP A group dedicated to helping people that are tapering off opiate treatment medication. This is a peer-led educational group that will assist the group member work through issues and concerns related to getting off these medications. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Suite 200, Burlington. Info: 310-8515. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call David at 371-8929. TRANSGENDER SPOUSES I am a mom of 3 children whose father is now living the life of a woman. If this has happened to you & you need/want to talk, please call 279-1423. We can help each other through this.
TRANS GUY’S GROUP Every 4th Mon., RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Champlain Mill, 1st floor, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to trans men at any state of transition & to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful & confidential space for socializing, support & discussion. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more info. TRANS SUPPORT GROUP Every 3rd Wed., RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Champlain Mill, 1st floor, Winooski, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people & to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful & confidential space for socializing, support & discussion. Contact the Center at 860-7812 for more information. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the Greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991. VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK Support group for parents of children/ youth/adults with special needs. Join other parents for support information and connections. Many parents say it help to know they are not alone in parenting a child with special needs. Other parents can understand, listen and share in the experience. No RSVP req. Last Monday of the month, 5:30-7 p.m. at 600 Blair Park Rd., Suite 240, Williston. For more information, contact jan.hancock@ vtfn.org or 876-5315 ext. 215. Call if weather is uncertain.
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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step. Sat. 9-10 a.m. Turning Point, 182 Lake St., St. Albans. Is what you’re eating, eating you? We can help. Call Valerie, 825-5481.
SOBER-SECULARSELF-HELP Lifering MeetingEmpower Your Sober Self- We share ideas and insights in sober conversation, so that each individual can build a personal recovery plan. If you want to stay sober, then you are welcome in Lifering. More information at www.Lifering. com Thursdays, 8:15, Turning Point Center in Burlington, 191 Bank Street (2nd floor). Lifering meetings have no outside affiliation. Over 170 meetings nationwide, and growing.
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NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER AND SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors and family members intended to comfort and support those who are currently suffering from the disease. Fourth Mon. of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Essex Center United Methodist Church, Route 15, Essex. Info: Brecnorton@comcast. net, 878-0468. Second Thurs. of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. Second Wed. of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sun., Tue. & Thu., 6-7 p.m., at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info, 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sun., 5:30-6:30 p.m., at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info, Debbie Y., 888-5958. Meetings in Montpelier occur every Fri., noon-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info, Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Fri., noon-1 p.m., at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356, or Debbie Y., 888-5958.
QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle? Free 4-week group sessions are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program. Free nicotine replacement products are avail for program participants. Currently, there is a group every Wed., 3:30-4:30 p.m., in Burlington, & every Wed. 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Milton. Info, 847-6541, wellness@ vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, visit vtquitnetwork.org
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LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Third Sat. of each month, 9:30 a.m. Brownell Library in the Kolvoord Room, Essex Jct. Facilitator: Amy Plog. Fine out more by emailing vtlupusgroup@yahoo.com.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516, or cvana.org. Held in Burlington & Barre.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step fellowship for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. Tues., 7 p.m., First Congregational Church, Essex Jct., 39 Main St., Rt. 15. 3rd floor (follow signs). All are welcome; meeting is open. Contact: Felicia, 777-7718.
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NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tues., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT (Community Rehabilitation & Treatment Center), United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St. Burlington, every Thurs., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot). Burlington TPC, every Wed., 7-8:30 p.m., Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St. (upstairs). Rutland, every Sunday, 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 South Main St. Springfield, every Mon., 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., HCRS, CRT Room, 390 River St. St. Johnsbury, every Thurs., 6:30-8 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 47 Cherry St. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@ namivt.org or 1-800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.
HowardCenter, Corner of Pine & Flynn Ave. Berlin, 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3. Georgia, 1st Tue. of every month, 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89). Manchester/ Londonderry, 1st Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., So. Londonderry Library. Rutland, 3rd Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr. Springfield, 3rd Wed. of every month, 6:30 p.m., HCRS (Café on right far side), 390 River St., N. Springfield. White River Junction, last Mon. of every month, 5:45 p.m., VA Medical Center, William A. Yasinski Building. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont – info@ namivt.org or 1-800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family and friends of individuals living mental health challenges.
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We’re seeking a full-time Facilities Assistant to direct traffic in our parking lot during nights and Job general Description: weekends, perform maintenance and daily Division of Rate Setting – Agency of Human custodial duties, bag groceries, help wherever Experiencedandprofessional sought to lead the Vermont Department of Services Tourism needed. Qualified candidates must have outstanding & Marketing’s public and tradeThe relations efforts. This located mission-critical position Rate Setting Department, in Williston, within the Agency of communication skills, excellent customer service skills Human Services, has twocoverage outstanding career opportunities: designed to generate tourism-related of Vermont in the and the abilityis to handle stressful situations. Candidatespositive must alsonational have at least one yearinternational of experience and marketplace. The Director of Communications is in maintenance, equipment repair and cleaning responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business procedures. High school diploma or GED required. outreach plan consistent with the goals mission the aDepartment of The Due to a recentand promotion, we areof seeking Health Facility Auditor. Tourism and Marketing as well Auditor as maintaining consistent will examine nursing facility andcommunications other health care facility costs to determine whether costs are allowable for reimbursement. via social networking tools. This position is responsible forMedicaid all tourism mediaTraining will bepress providedrelease on state anddevelopment; federal regulations governing the targeted determination in-state and out-of-state; pitching This position relations is responsible for filling in where needed of allowable costs. 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Application recipes and maintain a safe, attractive and efficient developmentJob of aDescription: proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This deadline: November 15, 2013. workstation. They will provide excellent customer Experienced sought of to lead the Vermont Department of Tourism will report Commissioner Tourism & Marketing. service at all position times. Qualified applicants must to havethe a professional & Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position minimum of two years of cooking experience OR have designed positiveoral tourism-related of Vermont in the completed an accredited culinaryis program and haveto generatestrong Candidates must: demonstrate and writtencoverage skills; have a BA in one year of cooking experience, solid knowledge of national and international The Director of Communications We aremarketplace. seeking an Auditor who is organized and able to work with aishigh Relations field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work fundamentalPublic cooking techniques and soupor andrelated sauce responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business degree of independence and consult with managers when guidance is needed. demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. preparation,experience; a dedicated commitment to excellent outreach plan consistent the goals and mission of the Department of for S/he with will work with the funding applications of 18 residential programs customer service, the ability to work well with others youth determine Medicaid allowable costs and to set a Medicaid rate for Tourism and Marketing as to well as maintaining consistent communications in a cooperative environment, the ability to lift 50-80 each program. S/he will routinely interact with staff other Resume, writing samples and atools. minimum of three referencesforshould be departments via social networking This position is responsible all from tourism media pounds, and the ability to work a flexible schedule. within the state whose staff manage the licensing, clinical planning and relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community targeted payments to the residential homes. This includes organizing and leading tourism ideasLife to regional and national media; developmentInof and pressout-ofDevelopment, One story National Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. meetings where issues are presented for discussion. Good presentation familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; and and state travel will be required. 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Baker Associate Director of Family Support—Education Are you committed to improving the lives of children with disabilities and their families? Colead a familysupport team in their work providing information, support and resources to families of children and young adults with special needs, individuals and professionals. Manage education grants, oversee grant budgets, train and supervise staff, and collaborate with partners in the community around disability issues.
French Adjunct Instructor The Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Saint Michael’s College invites applications for a part-time adjunct instructor position in French for the 2014 spring semester. Candidates will be expected to teach second-semester French courses. MA or higher degree in French or a related field is required. College teaching experience preferred. All offers of employment are contingent on a successful completion of a background check.
We are looking for morning bakers in our busy Shelburne store. Experience preferred, but willing to train the right candidate. Weekend availability a must. Stop by our store on Route 7 for an application or call 802-985-2000 for more information.
Please apply online at smcvt.interviewexchange.com. Content expertise needed in education systems, specifically special education and Section 504. Proven leadership and communication skills, experience 4t-StMikes-110613.indd 1 11/1/132v-Harrington-103013.indd 3:55 PM Developmental ServiceS working with families, and knowledge of disabilityTen weekend hours with joyful 13-year-old boy in South Burlington related issues necessary. Experience parenting a child who enjoys tennis and walks. Job ID 1709 Tight-knit team supporting three young men in their Starksboro with special needs required. Bachelor’s degree preferred. home needs another member. FT and PT. Job ID 1984 Full time, 30-37.5 hours/week.
Please send cover letter and resume to HR@vtfn.org or HR, Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park, Suite 240, Williston, VT 05495.
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Immediate need for awake overnight staff in psychiatric hospital diversion/stabilization program. Bachelor’s. Sat.-Tues. nights. FT.
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Residential Program Coordinator, Northern Lights — Job ID 1634
Provide clinical oversight for transitional house for previously incarcerated women. Master’s. FT.
Substance Abuse Clinician, MAT — Job ID 1694
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Provide assessment, counseling and case management to clients waiting for Chittenden Clinic opening. Master’s.
Reach-Up Clinician — Job ID 1665
Provide Reach-Up adults/families employment and self-sufficiency support services. Master’s. FT.
Reach-Up Case Manager (2) — Job IDs 1668 and 1664
Provide integrated service planning, coordination and case management to Reach-Up participants.
Night Owls Only! Clinician, Act 1/Bridge — Job ID 1661
Thirty awake overnight hours in busy crisis program. Bachelor’s preferred. Benefits.
Case Manager (2)- Safe Recovery — Job ID 1179
Service coordination/specialized services to help people who inject drugs transition from active use to recovery.
Clinician Act 1/Bridge (2) PT/Benefits — Job ID 1695
24/7 substance abuse crisis program seeking 2 PT clinicians (20 hours/week and hours/week). Benefits.
cHilD, YoutH anD FamilY ServiceS Interventionist, Inclusion — Job ID 1680
Discover the power of what one person can do! Develop therapeutic/mentoring relationships with students. Bachelor’s. FT.
Interventionist, FCBS — Job ID 1679
Offer community-based support/guidance to children with emotional/behavioral challenges.
Residential Clinical Supervisor II, Rutland — Job ID 1678
Overall clinical accountability for individual and group therapy, implementation of treatment plans and documentation in residential setting serving adolescent males with sexual harming behavior. FT.
Clinician, Early Childhood Mental Health — Job ID 1675
Culturally competent and creative clinician to provide family support, case management and consultation to families/young children. Experience working with multiethnic/racially diverse families/communities required. Master’s. Flex hours, FT.
For more information, please visit our website www.howardcentercareers.org. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 802-488-6950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org. EOE/TTY.
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Communication Specialists Assist individuals with disabilities that impact communication in court and administrative proceedings. Must have flexible schedule. Request more info by 11/18
Vermont Communication Support Project csp@disabilityrightsvt.org
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The State of Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office is looking for a
Conference Registration Assistance This part-time position will perform conference registration support for the registration customer service coordinator. Job Description: • Provide administrative, customer service, and financial support for conferences and events • Receive, verify, and process registrations and payments into an online registration system; ensure accuracy of data entry information into registration database • Collect balance dues, finalize reconciliation reports for clients • Assist with substitutions and cancellation of registrations for events, reconciliations of registration accounts and daily deposits generated by the registration system and events • Provide on-site support for conferences and special events; required on-site early mornings, evenings, and weekends • Coordinate other part-time staff for on-site registration desk and perform customer service for the event’s participants • Perform backup duties for customer service coordinator and other duties as assigned and requested • Assist with building registration sites through registration system • Compile data from survey results • Provide basic IT support by troubleshooting computer/operating system issues; basic knowledge of html (optional) Minimum Qualifications: Associates degree and one to two years of customer service, hospitality or conference/event related experience required. Computer experience required with demonstrated understanding of software applications and systems. Effective interpersonal and organizational skills and experience working effectively in teams and independently required. Must have a valid license to operate University vehicle. Ability and willingness to occasionally work within flexible hours including early mornings, evenings, and weekends when needed. Demonstrated ongoing 12:29 PM commitment to workplace diversity, sustainability and delivering exceptional value and great experience to customers. Experience working in a higher education working experience and familiarity with online registration software desirable. Review of applications to begin on Monday, November 11th and continue until position is filled. This is a temporary part-time position and is not eligible for benefits. Please send a cover letter, resume and contact information for professional references to: Conference and Event Services, Attn: Conference Registration Assistant Search, The University of Vermont, The Villa, 220 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405-0306, Telephone: 802-656-5665, Email: conferences@uvm.edu.
daTabaSe and appLicaTiOn deVeLOpmenT cOnTracTOr.
The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, veterans and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.
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The work involves assisting in the design and development of an in-progress budget application. This would be a contract on an asneeded basis. Applicants must be able to work independently and with a team, and have at least four years of experience in developing applications. Required skills include: SQL, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server Management Studio, C#, ADO. NET, and Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013. Preferred skills: XML, XSLT, XPath, WPF. Please send a resume and cover letter to: JFOjob@leg.state.vt.us
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Receptionist/ Administrative Assistant
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Part Time
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Paper: Seven Days The Receptionist/Administrative Assistant will share some of Issue: 11/6 with the current Administrative Assistant. the responsibilities Receptionist Due: duties 11/4 will be a primary role for this person. This person will be maintaining our document log, assisting Size: 3.83 x 5.25 with facilities management, processing weekly and monthly Cost: $500.00ordering office supplies, and doing reporting documents, various other office duties. Education & Experience: • A minimum of 3 years of experience as an administrative assistant/receptionist • Working knowledge of office equipment • Skilled at using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint • High school diploma Core Competencies: • Proficient in Microsoft Office products, especially Word and Excel • Ability to work both independently and with others • Ability to multitask and manage time effectively • Customer service-minded Email questions to adrienne.melchor@hp.com. Apply via our website www.hp.com/go/jobs, create a profile, then attach it to 1170403.
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Accounts Receivable Coordinator The Institute of Professional Practice, Inc. is a private nonprofit human services and educational organization serving people with developmental and other disabilities throughout New England and Maryland. The corporate office, located in central Vermont, is recruiting for an Accounts Receivable Coordinator. Duties will include assisting the Senior Accounts Receivable Coordinator with coding and entering cash receipts, reconciling bank accounts and calculating client allowances and monitoring account balances. The appropriate candidate will possess excellent customer service and analytical skills, be detail oriented and well organized, and desirous of a fast-paced and challenging work environment. Minimum qualifications include an associate’s degree in accounting or two years' experience in bookkeeping, working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and excellent verbal and written communication skills. IPPI offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package. Please send resume and salary requirements to: IPPI Accounts Receivable Coordinator, PO Box 1249, Montpelier, VT 05601 or reply to www.ippi.org. EOE.
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Media & Communications Associate
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Join the employee-owned team at Chelsea Green Publishing — a national publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. We’re seeking a full-time Media and Communications Associate for our Burlington, VT office. Responsibilities include leading the Chelsea Green marketing team’s social media and web content strategy, as well as assisting with author and book publicity, media outreach, and relevant company marketing and communication strategies. For a full job description, visit:
Greensea Systems, Inc., a leading provider of navigation and control systems for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), is seeking a Systems Engineer to be a part of our diverse engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess both technical proficiency and exceptional interpersonal skills. JOB DESCRIPTION: The Systems Engineer is responsible for developing and managing the technical requirements, documentation, integration plans, and system testing within engineering projects at Greensea. He/she works with the rest of the engineering staff to define and document the technical requirements of a project or product and helps manage the engineering process such that development ensures a final product that meets those requirements. The Systems Engineer is responsible for generating test plans and quality assurance plans to ensure the project or product meet the technical requirements prior to final testing and delivery. The Systems Engineer owns the technical documentation process at Greensea and oversees the technical documentation staff. The Systems Engineer is a critical member of the engineering staff at Greensea and works closely with all engineering disciplines: software engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. This position requires travel, sometimes offshore. This position reports directly to the Engineering Manager.
www.chelseagreen.com/content/we-are-hiring Email a cover letter, resumé, writing samples, and references to: Shay Totten, Communications Director email: STotten@chelseagreen.com
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RESPONSIBILITIES: • • • • • • • • •
Lead overall system design for UUV navigation and control products and development projects. Develop and manage the technical requirements of engineering projects and software products. Represent the technical requirements of a project during design reviews and code reviews. Manage the interface and functional requirements of Greensea’s numerous software products. Oversee the technical documentation products and technical documentation staff at Greensea. Participate actively in software integration, testing, and evaluation. Develop test plans and quality assurance plans consistent with technical and functional requirements. Maintain the configuration management and revision control systems at Greensea. Participate in field tests, sea trials, system commissioning, and customer training.
Bolton Valley will host JOB FAIRS on November 2 and 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in our Sports Center. Please join us for immediate interviews with hiring managers. We are hiring for:
Lift Operations Food & Beverage Ski & Ride School Snowboard Manager Nordic Center Guest Services
REQUIREMENTS: • • • • • • • • •
Strong oral and written communication skills. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or computer science with 10 years of engineering experience. Demonstrated proficiency in component testing, software testing, and system testing. Proficiency with software test tools as well as common lab and electrical test tools. Working knowledge of object-oriented design practices and C/C++ software development. Working knowledge of software product management. Proficiency in standard engineering processes, configuration management, and quality management. Working knowledge of navigational and control systems for mobile robotics. Working knowledge of the Linux operating system, embedded systems, and embedded Linux.
Check out our website, boltonvalley.com, for more information and online applications.
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Warehouse Specialist
10/28/13 12:20 PM
Vermont’s leading ceramic tile operation has a full-time position available in our busy warehouse. This position includes delivery service (must have a clean driving record). We offer an exceptional benefits package and a great work environment. Motivated individuals with attention to detail, apply in person Monday through Friday, l0 a.m. - 3 p.m.
To apply, please send your resume to careers@greenseainc.com. The candidate must eligible to work in the United States. This position is based in Richmond, Vt., though some travel will be required. Greensea Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a casual and fun work environment and provide our employees regular training and continuing education opportunities. Greensea offers competitive salaries and a complete benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, and sick leave.
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Marketing Accounting Groomers Snowmakers and much more.
Best Tile 287 Leroy Road Williston, VT 05495 www.besttile.com 802-651-0746
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Starr Farm Nursing Center, a Kindred Healthcare facility, is currently seeking qualified candidates to join our teams in the following roles:
Marine Tech Looking for a technician with experience in gas or diesel marine engines. Also drives, electrical and plumbing systems. Would consider a technician with proven skills in a similar field interested and willing to learn. Must have own tools and dependable transportation. Pay level and benefits based on experience. Contact George, pbmshopgf@gmavt.net.
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Night Houseman
Sustainable Agriculture Farm Educator
$1500 sign-on bonus. Valid state certification as an LNA. High school diploma or equivalent and six months of experience in a long-term-care environment preferred.
The Sterling farm is a working, multi-faceted, living classroom that serves the entire Sterling College community. The Farm Educator is the teacher and technician who engages in whole farm care to maximize educational opportunities. The Educator’s primary function at the College is to make this agricultural classroom available for both the Sterling curriculum and community. To create availability and functionality for our academics, the Educator cares for the livestock, improves pastures, conducts onfarm slaughters, manages the compost, works directly with the Sterling kitchen, supervises farm Work College student employees, coordinates with faculty and staff, and interfaces with the community through an educational lens.
RN Supervisor Positions Full-time Evenings (Job # 159973) Part-time Weekends (Job #157637)
Graduate of accredited school of nursing; BS preferred. Valid RN state license. Valid CPR certification. Three years of experience in nursing; one year of supervisory experience preferred. Apply online at www.kindred.com and search desired job number, or call Maeve Luciani at 978-474-1107.
Ideal candidates should be Drug free/EOE reliable, possess excellent customer service skills, and able to work weekends and holidays. 5v-StarrFarm-110613.indd 1 Valid driver’s license required. Apply in person: Holiday Inn—Burlington 1068 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403
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Choir Director
The Waitsfield United Church of Christ has a vibrant music program with a committed and energetic choir and a dedicated organist. We need a choir director who is familiar with worship and music that speaks to the work of the church. Choir season is September through May. Stipend provided. Contact: Jean Joslin jjoslin@accessvt.com
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Working Hands.Working Minds.
Sterling College, a leading voice in higher education for environmental stewardship and the liberal arts, invites applications for
LNA Positions
Full-time Day (Job# 160718) Evening (Job# 160721) Night (Job # 160719)
10/28/13 12:15 PM
Seeking a
Sterling College
The Sterling Sustainable Agriculture Farm Educator is a 12-month renewable position that includes an $1,000 monthly stipend, housing, meals, one three credit equivalent course per semester, and eligibility to enroll in Sterling College full-time employee benefits. This compensation package is valued at more than $3,000 per month. The Educator begins in December. To view the complete job descriptions and how to apply, please visit www.sterlingcollege.edu/jobs.html Sterling College is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Are you dynamic and driven and seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider Kinney Pike Insurance, a leading Vermont independent insurance agency with seven offices 5:31 PM across Vermont. Kinney Pike is on the lookout for an enthusiastic, results-driven individual seeking a sales career with great earning potential for our Commercial Lines Account Executive in our Williston office. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build upon your current experience and share your positive energy, communications and sales skills with members of the business community. Insurance background is preferred but not required. Kinney Pike Insurance offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package. Interested candidates should email resume and cover letter to Terry Hughes at thughes@kinneypike.com. A full job description can be found at kinneypike.com. Kinney Pike is an equal opportunity employer.
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Applicants should have experience teaching, preferable in a small-scale farm environment, have a demonstrated ability to work independently, have some experience in managing a small diverse farm, and have completed a B.A. or B.S. program in an appropriate field by the start date of the hire.
Health Services
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Outreach Coordinator Bachelor’s degree preferred Coordinate provision of group and individual case management services to persons at clinic and home settings. Coordinator directly supervises 10-12 outreach workers in their provision of clinic and community-based supports which assist individuals’ recovery from severe and persistent mental illness. Individual will work as a member of interdisciplinary teams in planning and implementing clients’ individual plans of care. Previous experience in related human services field preferred. Must be highly organized and able to work effectively in a team-oriented service program.
Submit cover letter, resume and application online at www.rmhsccn.org.
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Team Lead MHSAS Job ID 1662
Stabilization Treatment & Recovery Team (START) is seeking Team Lead to oversee an innovative program incorporating peers into the service delivery system. This outreach-based leadership position provides clinical and administrative supervision, budget oversight, and resource allocation. Some on-call responsibilities are required. Master's required; license and/or QMHP preferred. Please visit www.howardcenter.org to learn more.
HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE Clinical Team Manager
Field Representative
Field Representative who is willing to work hard for social justice.
AFT Vermont is a democratic labor union. We organize to form unions, win better wages, win a voice at work, and demand improvements for employees in hospitals, higher education, early education and the people they serve. We are the fastest-growing union in Vermont. Our 3500 member households span the entire state, including nurses and professors, as well as a variety of other professionals. This position will be based in Burlington.
Apply at VNAcares.org/careers
For more information contact Jason in HR at 802-860-4423 or email Careers@VNAcares.org
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The Field Representative will work primarily with leaders of our health care locals to mobilize members, negotiate and enforce contracts, implement a full communication plan, build leadership as part of a team, and assist with coordination of local projects and activities.
10/28/13 3:32 PM
Water/Sewer Operator Level III
Responsibilities: Identify and train local union leaders. Work with Executive Board to develop and execute yearly plans. Draft written, email and web-based communications. Work with local union leaders to negotiate and enforce contracts. Organize actions, rallies, and strikes.
P u b l i c wo r k s | Tow N o F E s s E X The Town of Essex’s Public works Department is receiving applications for full-time employment as a water/sewer operator level iii. A cDl license and clean driving record is required. responsibilities include maintaining sewer and water facilities; testing wastewater; operation of utility and highway department vehicles and sewer cleaner. winter plowing experience is preferred. The salary will be set within the existing job classification system depending on experience and qualification; minimum starting wage is based on current town salary scale and level of experience. Position represented by local 1343 AFscME.
Qualifications: Demonstrated leadership skills in organizing and working with elected union leaders, including Executive Boards and Stewards. Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team of union staff and elected member leaders. Experience as an organizer and a field representative required. Experience working in health care a plus. Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Ability to work independently, solve problems, and manage time and priorities. Comfortable working long and irregular hours. Strong listening, speaking and written communication skills. Automobile and valid driver’s license required. compensation: Competitive salary dependent on experience. Benefits include full family medical insurance, 401k and generous paid-time-off benefits.
information on the position and application requirements can be obtained from Ann Myers, Personnel Assistant, 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452 or by calling 802-878-1341 or emailing amyers@essex.org. A copy of the town’s application form is available at www.essex.org. The closing date for applications is Friday, November 29, 2013. EoE
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Lead a community-based clinical team of RNs and LNAs for a growing end-of-life care program. You will be responsible for high quality clinical and financial outcomes for services provided to Apply online at: patients while leading an interdisciplinary team. You will oversee www.homeinstead.com/483 EOE/TTY. services provided to our clients, as well as supervise, support and educate staff in the field and in the office. This position requires a current Vermont RN license with 11/4/132V-homeinstead-060513.indd 2:50 PM 1 5/31/13 11:37 AM verifiable clinical experience, broad based clinical home health and hospice knowledge, and strong supervisory, training and communication skills with a team focus. This position is full time AFT Vermont requires a smart, motivated, experienced Job code: 13-0076 and offers excellent benefits.
Questions? 802-488-6950 or HRHelpDesk@howardcenter.org.
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Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of non-medical companionship and home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly, cheerful, and dependable people. CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, errands, and more. Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. No heavy lifting.
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GLOBAL SOURCING SPECIALIST
Dietary Aid
The right individual will have strong organizational and communication skills, as well as experience with Domestic and Asian sourcing. A successful candidate must have the ability to work well in a creative, fast-paced environment and manage several tasks simultaneously. Experience with researching vendors, vendor management, product sourcing, project management, and vendor communication is preferred. Job responsibilities will include product sourcing, vendor management, project tracking, and assuring and managing on time delivery of products. Varying levels of experience will be considered, but knowledge of Domestic and Asian sourcing a plus. Competitive salary based on experience and capabilities. Benefits include 401k, profit sharing, medical and dental plans and an exceptional work environment. Select Design is a brand marketing agency specializing in enhancing our client’s brands through the design, manufacturing and fulfillment of custom branded merchandise and apparel. Specific Skills: Organizational Skills, Microsoft Office Apply Via Email: careers@selectdesign.com
WWW.SELECTDESIGN.COM FUEL FOR INNOVATIVE BRANDS SINCE 1988
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Green Mountain Nursing & Rehab Dietary Department is looking for a Dietary Aid who can commit to long-term employment, reliability, and team work. As Dietary Aid you are responsible for serving food, dishwashing, cleaning and stocking in accordance with current federal, state and local standards, guidelines and regulations. This position is 32 hours per week, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with every other weekend. Some flexibility possible. If you are interested in working in a rewarding field of long-term care, stop by and complete an application or send resume to Rick Snelling, Green Mountain Nursing & Rehabilitation, 475 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester, VT 05446. Call 802-655-1025 for more information.
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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. These openings and others are updated daily. Business Manager - #0041007 - The UVM Office of Primary Care and AHEC. Program is seeking a motivated and skilled accounting professional to join our team. Must be organized, detail-oriented, trustworthy, and be a creative and solution-oriented thinker. The Business Manager is responsible for providing financial management for the UVM Office of Primary Care (OPC) and Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) 3v-EternityWeb-110613.indd 1 11/4/13 12:15 PM Program to include aspects of financial analysis and planning, budget development, accounts payable and receivables (PeopleSoft), creating and maintaining financial systems and internal controls, fulfilling federal, state, and foundation grants financial reporting requirements, and facilitate paper work related to personnel management (new hires and salary distributions). Works closely with the UVM Sponsored Projects Administration, Accounting and Procurement Services, and the regional AHECs. Serves as the point person for the OPC and AHEC on PeopleSoft and technology matters. Experience with PeopleSoft is desirable. Advanced Excel skills are required. Employer Relations Specialist - The University Of Vermont School Of Business Administration is seeking an Employer Relations Specialist to oversee and provide leadership for employer relations with local, national and international organizations, and UVM alumni. An important role will be to build connections with employers to promote career and internship opportunities for business Do you like winter snow sports undergraduate and graduate students (Master of Accountancy and MBA). The and appreciate great clothing, Employer Relations Specialist will conduct outreach to students, employers and faculty to build visibility for on-campus recruitment initiatives, including job fairs, ski and snowboard gear? on-campus interviewing, networking sessions and related programs. Five years of corporate experience in sales, recruitment, or training is desirable. Travel and If you are excited to help occasional weekend and evening hours are required. people find the right gear to The essential duties for this full-time, exempt position include, but are not limited to: Developing relationships with key companies and organizations to assist get outdoors and enjoy winter, business students with obtaining permanent employment or meaningful internships Skirack encourages you to while establishing a brand for UVM School of Business Administration students and graduates; Serving as the School of Business expert on trends in hiring, join our fun yet hardworking recruiting and training, to develop strategies to enhance student opportunities for team. Snowboard/ski sales internships and full-time employment; Collecting and managing data on internship and job placement for business students, administering the Bloomberg Business and boot-fitting experience Week survey, and presenting placement and survey results to the various preferred. Reliability and constituencies of the School of Business Administration; Working with the University Career Services, manage programs that enhance business students’ strong communication skills application materials and interviewing skills, networking opportunities and abilities; Cultivating relationships with alumni and providing career-related are a must. Full-time work programs and events of specific interest to business students; Providing content and available for season and input for web and social media initiatives to enhance awareness of career possibilities and placement rates. possibly beyond. For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply on-line, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656Send current resume 2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily. and cover letter to The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. info@skirack.com. Applications from women, veterans and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.
SNOWBOARD AND SKI SALES
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Home Education Counselor
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Make a difference in people’s lives! Paper: Seven Days 11/6 Housing Trust’s homeownership Join Issue: Champlain 11/4 teamDue: as a counselor and help people fulfill one of Size: 3.83 x 7 their most important needs - housing. Cost:
$600.00
You will provide the education and tools to help people build credit, rent an apartment, or purchase a home. You will also assist people in preventing delinquency and foreclosure. We’re looking for a team player with outstanding interpersonal and teaching skills who supports CHT’s mission of permanent and affordable housing. You must be well-organized, a creative problem-solver, and willing to travel to trainings and workshops. Counseling and public speaking experience, as well as knowledge of housing, mortgage lending, personal finance, and community resources a plus. Fulltime position, with some nights and weekends required. CHT is a socially responsible employer, committed to a membership based model of community controlled and permanently affordable housing, offering a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a generous benefit package. Submit cover letter and resume by November 18, to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or hr@champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.
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Front Desk Receptionist/Scheduler
Child Care Resource ®
New American Child Care Mentor/ Project Coordinator
SEASONAL HIRING!
New American women are in the process of starting family child care businesses in the greater Burlington area. Child Care Resource is making this possible by providing group training, individual mentoring, assistance navigating systems, and development of bilingual resources. The Mentor/Project Coordinator will work with 4-5 groups of women over the next two years as they start and develop their child care businesses.
Work in our busy Contact Center.
Must have computer skills. Flexible day & evening schedules. Computers not for you? Opportunities also available in Fulfillment, Shipping, & Personalization. In-store hiring starts November 4th from Noon to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday at our Shelburne Road Factory (6655 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT) Nov. 9th, 16th & 23rd we will have in-store Saturday hiring from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We look forward to having you join in the fun!
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE?
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Our ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related field; practical knowledge of running a family child care program; experience teaching and mentoring adults; and be relationship-based, organized, creative, compassionate and professional.
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Please submit cover letter and resume to emeyer@ childcareresource.org. For more information about Child Care Resource, go to www.childcareresource.org. Position will be open until filled.
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This research study will take place over a 6 month period and involve an inpatient stay and several outpatient visits.
The Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County currently has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Unit Director in Brandon, Vt. This position will administer, plan, implement and evaluate programs and activities for the Brandon Club as directed by the Executive Team. Position is a leadership position within the Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County and sits on the Executive Team, which has input on all operational matters within the organization. Position also researches and writes grants for the organization and its programs. Familiarity with Brandon and the surrounding community is a high priority.
Volunteers are eligible for up to $3000 in compensation.
Please see www.rutlandbgclub.org for full job description. This position is full-time with an office in Brandon; travel to Rutland is required at least once a week. Benefits include paid time off, paid holidays, and medical, vision and dental insurance. Three years of prior work experience with youth, and formal education in recreation, social work, education or a similar field is required.
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The Vermont Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montpelier, seeks a Director of Public Programs to develop, implement and supervise the council’s public programs. Relevant experience in program management and bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree desirable. Candidates should demonstrate broad background in the humanities, especially literature and history, have strong organizational skills, experience implementing programs, and excellent writing, people and computer skills. EOE. Please send cover letter, resume and the names of three references to Vermont Humanities Council, ATTN: Human Resources, 11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, VT 05602, or email lwinter@ vermonthumanities.org.
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The Institute of Professional Practice, Inc., seeks an IT Computer Support/Maintenance Supervisor. Job requires a strong ability to analyze and solve problems, ability to multi-task, excellent verbal and written communication skills. Knowledge of Windows operating systems, Imaging Technology, maintenance/repair, and a willingness to learn are essential. CompTia A+ certification is a must or equivalent education and experience.
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MorrisSwitzer~Environments for Health, focused exclusively in the health care design market, is seeking architects for entryto mid-level positions in our Williston office. Our awardwinning experience includes new construction and renovation projects ranging from clinics to community hospitals to major medical centers. • B.Arch degree preferred • Health care design experience preferred • REVIT experience required • Minimum three years of experience in conceptual design and construction documents preparation • Architectural Registration preferred • Strong communication and problem-solving skills required We offer competitive salary and great benefits packages, a professional and team-oriented work environment, and many opportunities for growth. Interested candidates send cover letter and resume to jcarlson@morrisswitzer.com.
trainer: TechNicool program Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is looking for a trainer for TECHNICOOL. The TECHNICOOL Program provides training to 4th-12th grade students, their parents and educators. A successful candidate must have experience teaching and training adult learners and youth; knowledge of child and adolescent development; and knowledge and a passion for technology. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in child development, social work or education are required. The position requires organization, creativity and flexibility. This full-time position is based in Montpelier and includes extensive in-state travel. Send cover letter, resume and three references to SEARCH, PO Box 829, Montpelier VT 05601 or pcavt@pcavt.org. No calls, please. | E.O.E. | www.pcavt.org
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COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Radio North Group is interested in interviewing electronics technicians for the position of Communications and Electronics Technician. Position will be based in South Burlington covering northern Vermont and New York. QUALIFICATIONS 3+ years of experience as an electronics technician with one or more of the following: networking; land mobile systems; wireless communications systems. Previous work with Motorola Communications Systems is a plus. EDUCATION Electronics school certificate or an AA degree in electronics, military electronics training and related work experience. Basic understanding of audio, RF, digital and microprocessor circuits. SCOPE OF EXPECTATIONS Problem-solving skills to troubleshoot critical communications systems day or night with minimal supervision. Must be skilled in use of basic hand tools and have computer skills with Microsoft Windows and specific Motorola radio programming software with some training. TRAINING Must be able to learn new technical systems with online training as well as attending classes held at various locations. BENEFITS Competitive salary, 401(k) plan, vacation, paid health care as allowed, and company vehicle for work-related travel.
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The Web Marketing and Game Coordinator is responsible for implementing the Vermont Lottery’s social media strategies and the assistance in planning, development and testing lottery games for the public. In this position one must quickly understand and support initiatives that will contribute to the goals and success of the Lottery’s gaming and social media campaigns. We’re looking for a creative, forward-thinking individual with 3-5 years of experience in social media marketing with demonstrated success in managing and creating social content and familiarity with a variety of social management tools. We want someone who can monitor and evaluate social media results on a regular basis in coordination with the Lottery’s goals. Additionally, this position will help support our gaming system, utilizing strong analytical skills for reviewing online game changes in a test environment and comparing data and results. We need a skill set that includes effective communication, attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a deadline-driven atmosphere. We are looking for someone with excellent analytical, organizational, project and time management skills who has a passion for web marketing and enjoys the challenges presented by an ever-changing marketplace.
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Noonan was among the first in the region to brew sour ales, spruce beers and ales with Brettanomyces yeast. Glenn Walter was VPB’s head brewer in 1994 when he created black IPA, a style that combines copious malt with intense hopping. (Though there’s some brewing-world conjecture over whether black IPA was first made at VPB or on the West Coast, Polewacyk says VPB’s records show it was first brewed there.) That same year, a 23-year-old named John Kimmich packed all his belongings into his car and drove from Pittsburgh to Vermont in hopes of scoring a job at VPB. “That’s what I told [Greg], that I had everything in my car,” jokes Kimmich. “‘In whatever capacity you want me, give me a job. I will do it.’” A few years earlier, as a business student at Penn State, Kimmich had sipped a Catamount Porter that “just blew me away. It instantly grabbed me. And during my senior year, I came back with a renewed focus.” He wrote his senior project on the brewing industry, and after graduation worked in a home-brewing store in Pittsburgh. There, Kimmich became familiar with Noonan’s books and articles on brewing in back issues of the beer journal Zymurgy. Though Noonan didn’t have a spot at VPB, he offered Kimmich a position as a server at Seven Barrel Brewery, which he and Nancy had just opened in West Lebanon, N.H. Kimmich didn’t hesitate. “I took it, and I didn’t really care,” he recalls. “I would go in on my days off and work with Paul [White, the brewer at the time].” In November 1995, Glenn Walter left VPB to start his own Burlington brewpub, Three Needs, and Noonan invited Kimmich to become head brewer at VPB. At first, Kimmich says, Noonan was close at hand as he executed his recipes. “He had this 24-year-old running his baby, and I drove him nuts with my questions,” Kimmich recalls.
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participating in the spirit of experimentation that noonan exuded. Noonan was endlessly patient as Kimmich learned his boss’ oeuvre and was no-holds-barred with his critiques. “He was the most honest critic I could ever have. He taught me how to identify flaws and how to avoid them, all that stuff. He was a wealth of brewing knowledge,” says Kimmich. “It’s something that is quite often lacking in new brewers. Everyone thinks they’re the best, and they’re not willing to hear the truth. [Greg] was brutal, and it was humbling and important.” Did the first stirrings of the beer that would eventually become Kimmich’s Heady Topper happen in VPB’s basement? Possibly, Kimmich says. “I started dumping in more hops here and there, without him knowing about it.” He also met his future
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wife, Jen, at VPB, and the two left the brewery after two years to work out west and in Boston. Later, they returned to Vermont to start the Alchemist in Waterbury. Andre Blais followed Kimmich, then Steve Miller. Next came Russ FitzPatrick, who had frequented VPB as a barely legal home brewer before heading to the University of California, Davis, for formal brewing training. In 1997, FitzPatrick returned to his hometown of Montpelier to open a brewpub called Golden Dome; when it closed, Noonan hired him at VPB. FitzPatrick recounts this story while balanced atop a three-foot stool, leaning his weight into a paddle as he mashes in malted grain for a batch of Wee Heavy. Blais, who now works at Stowe Mountain Lodge, has shown up to collaborate with FitzPatrick in advance of the anniversary and is throwing fistfuls of malted grain into the hopper. “I was the best guy they ever hired,” he quips, handing out his old VPB business cards. As steam swirls around his head, FitzPatrick remembers how, as a 21-yearold, he’d come into VPB for pints after his shifts at nearby Something’s Brewing, then go home and brew beers on his grandmother’s stove. Noonan was a mentor, he says, and while FitzPatrick’s formal training acquainted him with microscopes and pH meters, he also brews beers with snow, piles of watermelons or local hops, participating in the spirit of experimentation that Noonan exuded. It’s a spirit whose influence extends way beyond College Street. Many beers have been brewed in Noonan’s honor, including Greg, a stout from Hopfenstark brewery in Québec; and Pioneer from Dieu du ciel!, a Montréal microbrewery. Stéphane Ostiguy started Dieu du ciel! with his partner, Jean-François Gravel, in 1998, and met Noonan that same year at the annual Québec craft-brewing festival in Chambly. “He was in our booth, talking with my partner. I recognized him quickly, as I was reading his book about Scotch ales,” Ostiguy recalls. Noonan invited the pair to visit VPB for the pub’s 10th anniversary, and what they tasted there turned them into frequent
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food An SeAnchAS In addition to brewing, writing books, painting, consulting, mentoring other brewers and running a business, Greg Noonan spent years researching and translating Irish origin stories. For a dozen or so years before he died, he was working on a reinterpretation of the canon known as Lebor Gabála Érenn. “Irish proto-history ought to be dusted off, reopened and recognized as a unique and invaluable tool in the study of Eurasian antiquity,” Noonan wrote in 2007. His research began with an eye to creating a coffee-table book about Irish myths, but over time Noonan began to suspect that Irish origin myths were more literal — and less mythical — than contemporary scholars give them credit for. As he translated stories, he became convinced that early Irish “myths,” in fact, correlate with understandings of Bronze Age history. “He would work late into the night, staying up all hours,” says his brother, Jerome Noonan, who has published the work on a website and talks fluidly about Greg’s complex research. His brother’s enthusiasm for the material must have been infectious. “Eventually, he felt that some English authors really romanticized the translations and interpretations,” says Jerome. Here’s a taste of Greg Noonan’s scholarship: Lebor Gabála Érenn stated that it recounted eight ancient colonizations of Ireland. By the 10th century A.D. the invaders came to be understood as Cessair, Partholón, Nemed, the three battalions of the Fir Bolg, the Túatha Dé Danann and the Gaels. Internal evidence makes it clear that this was not the original pantheon. Cessair was a late invention and The Book of Lecan explained that the three peoples of the Fir Bolg invasion should correctly be counted as a single invasion. Cessair was created and the Fir Bolg multiplied to fill the void left by three earlier invaders that had been written out of the narrative. Noonan’s work and research can be read online at anseanchas.com.
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acutely aware that the brewpub’s torch needs to pass to a new generation. Greg Noonan’s nephew, Tommy Noonan, now helps manage the business. Polewacyk and FitzPatrick see the “pilot beers” that they roll out every week as the cornerstone of VPB’s ongoing relevance in an increasingly competitive scene. In preparation for the big anniversary, Polewacyk and his staff — which he calls family — have been spiffing up the pub for months, laying in new floors, opening up the foyer and giving the place a gentle face-lift. What hasn’t changed is the adventurous tap list, which on a recent afternoon included Spuyten Duyvil, a framboise and a pumpkin stout. Nestled among them was the relatively sedate-sounding Oktoberfest. This was Jerome Noonan’s favorite of his brother’s beers. “I’m prone to the Märzens, and Greg was, too, because it’s the brewers’ form of the art — lagers in general, but particularly the Märzens,” says Jerome Noonan, explaining his choice. “People make a lot of tribute beers [to Greg], and he made a lot of extreme beers in his career, from the black IPA to the beers with flowers. He was making sour beers before they were in vogue. Greg would gravitate to a really good lager, though — German or Czechstyle lagers.” The Oktoberfest is toasty, round and elegant, its hops tucked behind caramel and nut undertones. It’s a quiet but masterful beer, much like its originator. m
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visitors. “[Greg] told us how to brew a good sour mash beer, the traditional way. He was known for that type of beer,” Ostiguy says. “It’s something you don’t read in books.” A sour beer and a black IPA made it into Dieu du ciel!’s stable, and Ostiguy credits both in part to Noonan’s influence. What Ostiguy particularly appreciated about Noonan was his well-roundedness. “Greg was an amazing brewer, but a genius in so many other fields — politics, art history, so many things,” he says. VPB was a mecca and a classroom for home brewers. “He always maintained a consistent relationship with the local home-brewing community and was always there to answer questions and share insights,” Sayler says of Noonan. “Since the craft-brewing movement is underpinned by the home-brewing community, that’s a really important thing. Once Greg became a professional brewer, he never lost that connection.” Adam Krakowski is a hops historian working on a book about the history of Vermont beer with Kurt Staudter, president of the Vermont Brewers Association (which Noonan cofounded). Back in 2009, Krakowski was a University of Vermont graduate student who dabbled in home brewing and would stop in at VPB for the occasional pint. “You could sit down for three or four dollars and get a pint of housebrewed beer. I loved it,” he says. “It’s not a Shaun Hill [of Hill Farmstead Brewery] or Sean Lawson [of Lawson’s Finest Liquids] kind of place, but all of their beers are 4 or 5 percent alcohol. I can have a few pints [of VPB beer] and still have my head attached to my body.” Polewacyk has long realized that lowalcohol beers are an ongoing draw, as is VPB’s whimsical spirit. He also seems
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Brattleboro Film Festival: An eclectic mix of 30 films, speakers and discussions celebrates independent filmmakers and productions. See brattleborofilmfestival.org for details. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 6:30-10 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 917-239-8743. Classic Film Night: Tom Blachly and Rick Winston facilitate conversation following Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, about an ex-tennis pro's failed plot to murder his wife. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. 'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Two': The darker side of the Green Mountain State's bucolic image is illuminated in "Under the Surface." Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966. 'Kiviuq': Filmmaker John Houston presents his documentary about the hero of Alaskan Inuit legends, followed by the lecture "Kiviuq as a Living Oral Tradition." Cabot 085, Norwich University, Northfield, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 881-3625. 'The Climb to Katahdin': Coltin Calloway's documentary chronicles his adventures with his fiancé and dog as the three through-hiked the 2200-mile Appalachian Trail in 2012. Multipurpose Room, Marion Cross School, Norwich, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 737-3544.
food & drink
Slow Food Vermont Fundraising Dinner: George Schwartsz of Kimera Imports and chef Dennis Vieira host a five-course meal that pairs wines from southern Italy's with local cuisine. Nika, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 660-9533.
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Creative Flow Yoga With Deborah Felmeth: A blend of meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy builds physical and emotional strength. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5:30-7 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. Five Common Barriers to Healing: Alicia Feltus discusses the use of nutrition-response testing to detect chemical and metal toxicity, immune imbalances, food sensitivities and scar tissue. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. 'Integrative Oncology: A Union of Natural & Conventional Cancer Treatment': Naturopathic oncologist Amy Littlefield discusses the use of nutrition and supplements to complement Western medicine. City Market, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700. Kundalini Yoga With Callie Pegues: Students align organ and glandular systems while increasing energy and awareness. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:15 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. Meditation, Healing & Reading Group Session: Michele Nappi leads an interactive gathering focused on nurturing body, mind and spirit. Moonlight Gifts, Milton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 893-9966. Open Meditation: A 50-minute session allows practitioners to quiet the mind. 132 South Main Street, St. Albans, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 782-3821. R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Yoga Class: Dominique Meyers leads yogis in a mixed-level, therapeutic practice based on Anusara and Kripalu styles. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 5-6:30 p.m. $12; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115, anitra99@yahoo.com. Yoga With Tea: Participants incorporate breath, posture and meditation appropriate to their comfort and skill levels in a Kripalu class. Arrive early to request tea. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.
kids
After-School Craft: Awesome Aquariums: Local artist Nicole Vance helps youngsters ages 6 and up dive into a creative project. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420, fairfaxlibrarian@ gmail.com. Baby & Me Story Time: Mother Goose-inspired plot lines entertain parents and little listeners ages 2 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Babytime Playgroup: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy WED.06
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NOV.9 | MUSIC Legendary Status Mavis Staples began performing in the 1950s, and, judging by the 74-year-old singer’s energetic stage presence, she has no plans of stopping. With a host of awards and accolades to her name — including a lifetime Grammy Award — the Chicago native embodies the best of gospel, soul, blues and R&B. The voice behind the 1970s anthems “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself” has landed a new generation of fans among audiences and musicians alike. Complementing performances at Bonnaroo and Outside Lands with her collaborations with Wilco, Bonnie Raitt and others, Staples proves she is here to stay.
Mavis Staples Saturday, November 9, 8 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $22-42. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org
Rhythm Nations Once a year, renowned musicians and dancers descend upon the Queen City for the West African Dance & Drum Festival. Hosted by the Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater, this four-day fête honors the traditions of Guinea, Senegal and Mali with classes, workshops and performances. Instrumentally inclined attendees can feel the beat of djembe drumming or learn about the xylophone-like balafon. Those looking to explore creative movement get energized with the Senegalese dance sabar or a yoga class. This creative celebration culminates in the evening ballet Kaay (Heritage), starring Ibrahim Bangoura as a young drummer who stops at nothing to pursue his passion.
West African Dance & Drum Festival Thursday, November 7, 5:30-8:45 p.m.; Friday, November 8, 12:45-8:45 p.m.; Saturday, November 9, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Sunday, November 10, 9:15 a.m.-5:45 p.m., at Burlington City Hall Auditorium. Prices vary. Info, 859-1802. jehkulu.org
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Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7555. Book Talks for HomescHoolers: Students in grades 4 to 8 discuss titles from this year’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award list. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. fall sTory Time: Kiddos share read-aloud tales and wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Homework Help: First through eighth graders get help with their reading, math and science assignments from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science students. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. meeT rockin' ron THe friendly piraTe: Aargh, matey! Youngsters celebrate the hooligans of the sea with music, games and themed activities. 30 Church St. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Burlington 658-6452 Info, 764-1810. moving & grooving wiTH cHrisTine: Two- to Mon–Sat 9–9, Sun 10–6 Vermont Gifts 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat www.AppleMountain.net Specialty Foods tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. prescHool arT class: Budding Picassos ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers get creative with 12v-KTC(applemtn)110613.indd 1 11/4/13 12:37 PMpainting, clay sculpting, collage and more. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 425-2700. prescHool sTory Hour: Tykes gather for themed tales and activities. Discovery Place. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. red clover picTure Books for HomescHoolers: Students in kindergarten to third grade read two titles that are up for this year’s Red Clover Award, then participate in related activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. Saturday Story Time Every Saturday at 11am sTory Time & playgroup: Engaging narratives November pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. THU 7 SARAH GILMAN: DEEP IN CRIMSON 7pm A thrilling evening with Vermont’s own sTory Time for 3- To 5-year-olds: Preschoolers paranormal romance author. stretch their reading skills through activities inTUE 12 PAUL GILLIES: UNCOMMON LAW volving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex 7pm Ruminations on VT’s legal history. Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 'THe dark knigHT' comics cluB: Ben T. THU 14 ABIGAIL CARROLL: THREE SQUARES Matchstick and Ash Brittenham lead an afternoon 7pm The invention of the American meal. of drawing, writing and creative collaboration for TUE 19 ARNIE KOZAK, PH.D.: THE INTROVERT EDGE comic-book enthusiasts ages 7 through 17. Kellogg7pm Maximize the advantages of being an introvert. Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, WED 20 WE DO! PANEL DISCUSSION 223-4665.
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a musical evening wiTH roBerT resnik & marTy morrissey: Using more than a dozen instruments, the veteran folk musicians perform regional tunes that celebrate the history and lore of Lake Champlain. Milton Historical Society, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598. sHTreiml feaTuring ismail fencioglu: The accomplished oud player and vocalist joins the group for an evening of Jewish roots and Turkish blues. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713. Taj maHal: Backed by his trio, the Grammy Award-winning world blues artist anchors a performance featuring Vusi Mahlasela and Fredericks Brown. Lebanon Opera House, 7 p.m. $26-59. Info, 603-448-0400.
sport
green mounTain TaBle Tennis cluB: Ping-pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.
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allen koop: Sharing the story of New Hampshire's only World War II POW camp, the historian conveys how its location in the village of Stark influenced residents. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. amy seidl: In "Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming," the scientist and author considers the connection between climate change and societal structures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. daniel fogel: The UVM professor discusses the cultural influences of novelist Henry James and how his work applies to modern readers. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. insTiTuTe for civic engagemenT: race & racism lecTure series: Vermont Law School professor and constitutional-law expert Cheryl Hanna discusses the current state of civil liberties in America. Burlington College, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. jeffrey TrumBower: The St. Michael's College professor of religious studies presents "Christianity and Shabbateanism: A Case Study in Comparative Religion." Room 315, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 12:10 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356. kaTHerine Blume: Get creative! The cofounder of the award-winning sustainability game Vermontative! shares her unique way of addressing the global climate crisis. Marlboro College, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, pcameron@brattleboro.org. linda Tarr-wHelan: The former ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women discusses the scope of women's issues around the world, as expressed in democracy and economy. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. maria j. sTepHan & roBerT Helvey: The U.S. State Department strategic planner joins the retired U.S. Army Colonel in an exploration of nonviolent resistance. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356. micHael sHerman: Vermont History's editor discusses the role of Civil War Hospitals in Vermont. A light lunch follows. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2183.
theater
'pippin': Johnson Stage College alumnus Patrick Sawyer-Houle directs current students in a production of Stephen Schwartz's pop-driven musical about the metaphysical wanderings of King Charlemagne's son. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1251. 'proof': Under the direction of Joanne Greenberg, the Vermont Actors' Repertory Theatre stages David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the daughter of a recently deceased mentally ill mathematician. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $8-15. Info, 775-0903.
words
disTinguisHed vermonT wriTers series: Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea shares stanzas from his most recent collection, Six Sundays Toward a Seventh: Selected Spiritual Poems. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:306:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 879-8790. Healing journal & creaTive journeying: Attendees develop new work in a guided, supportive session led by Kat Kleman. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 671-4569. Huck guTman: An examination of Walt Whitman's Civil War poems by the UVM professor highlights selected verse as among the most influential of the time. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. jo knowles: The author signs and discusses her most recent young-adult novel, See You at Harry’s. A Q&A follows. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. nancy jay crumBine: Referencing Henry David Thoreau's journals and letters, the Dartmouth College professor examines the many manifestations of the poet and naturalist's spirituality.
Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. Tales from THe Bear cave: Dre Idle emcees an evening of open mic, off-the-cuff storytelling based on the theme "Haunted Histories." ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Suggested $2 donation. Info, 901-496-6918.
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comedy
uprigHT ciTizens Brigade: The famed comedy troupe presents an evening of provocative sketches and absurd improv. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $26-30. Info, 863-5966.
community
liz sTepHen olympic campaign fundraiser: Locals gather to support the nordic skier, who gives a yoga class and a presentation. Pizza, raffles and live music by the Unusual Suspects round out the evening. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $10-35; preregister. Info, 223-1151. vermonT HealTH connecT informaTion session: Navigators from NOTCH and Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce overview the new insurance marketplace for individuals and small businesses. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister for individual appointments. Info, 849-2420. vermonT HealTH connecT one-on-one assisTance: Health care navigator Jon Hodgkin helps folks choose appropriate individualized plans. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-6955.
conferences
women Business owners neTwork fall conference: Keynoter Yola Carlough of B Corp. joins esteemed presenters during a daylong exploration of corporate wellness. The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m. $60-159; includes lunch. Info, 503-0219.
environment
leaHy environmenTal summiT informaTion session: Attendees of the May 2013 conference share overall themes and strategies that emerged from the "Blue Water in Green Mountains" focus. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 864-1848, ext. 118.
fairs & festivals
Hiring our Heroes joB fair: An employment workshop preps military personnel past and present for networking opportunities with local and national organizations. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, workshop, 9 a.m.; military associates, 10-noon; public admittance, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister for workshop. Info, 652-0339. wesT african dance & drum fesTival: Internationally renowned artists from Guinea, Senegal and Mali join Burlington's Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater for four days and nights of classes and performances. See jehkulu.org for details. See calendar spotlight. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 5:30-8:45 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 859-1802.
film
BraTTleBoro film fesTival: See WED.06, 6:3010 p.m. 'freedom and uniTy: THe vermonT movie: parT Two': See WED.06. Tupelo Music Hall, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.
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'Girl risinG': Meryl Streep and other notable actresses narrate the stories of nine girls from around the world, who triumph over great adversity in Richard Robbins' 2013 docudrama. For ages 12 and up. Merrill's Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10; preregister; limited seating. Info, 863-2345. 'The hunGry hearT': Presented through the eyes of Franklin County residents and St. Albans pediatrician Fred Holmes, Bess O'Brien's documentary illuminates prescription-drug addiction and recovery. Chase Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 7 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616. 'uniTed We ski': T-Bar Films' documentary examines the role of small ski areas in Vermont's winter-sport culture. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, first screening, 6 p.m.; reception, 7:30 p.m.; second screening, 8:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, tyler.wilkinsonray@gmail.com.
games
Open BridGe Game: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.
health & fitness
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mOnTGOmery inFanT/TOddler playGrOup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. musiC WiTh mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. spanish musiCal kids: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with native Argentinian Constancia Gómez. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. 'The mad advenTures OF mr. TOad': Jessica Deeb directs a cast of local students in a stage adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's popular children's book Wind in the Willows. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $6-10. Info, 518-523-2512. WOrCesTer playGrOup: Crafts, snacks and outdoor adventures delight little ones up to age 5. Doty Memorial Elementary School, Worcester, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-1312.
language
heBreW Class: Those looking to learn the ancient language attend this weekly session. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-5125. plaudersTunde: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677 or 863-3305.
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Vito Acconci: In the illustrated lecture "From Words Through Action to Architecture," the renowned designer, landscape architect and installation artist discusses past and present works. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
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Burlington Fringe Festival: Theater artists deliver a mix of cutting-edge comedy, dance and drama at this three-day fête featuring performances by David Schein, Recille Hamrell, Henry Kellogg and many others. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, theoffcenter@gmail. com. 'Much Ado About Nothing': The Twilight Players bring swing dancing, romance and deception to a 1940s twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy about relationships that go awry. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 7:30-9:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 626-3663. National Theatre Live: 'Othello': Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's tragedy stars Adrian Lester in the title role opposite Rory Kinnear as Iago. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. 'Pippin': See WED.06, 7 p.m. 'Proof': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. 'Shrek, the Musical': A powerful score drives the hilarious adventures of a lovable ogre and cast of misfits, led by Leigh Guptill, Kim Anderson and Justin Bouvier. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $18-23. Info, 382-9222. 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee': SUNY Plattsburgh music and theater departments stage the Tony Award-winning musical about a motley crew of wordsmiths who learn valuable life lessons letter by letter. Adult language and mature subject matter. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 518-564-2283. 'The Contrast': Peter Harrigan directs this St. Michael's College interpretation of Royall Tyler's 18th-century comedy about post-revolutionary characters struggling to escape the cultural influence of Europe. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
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Jim Sterba: The journalist and author presents a eye-opening program based on his book Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds. Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926. Sarah Gilman: Set in Vermont, the local author's paranormal romance novel Deep in Crimson explores love in a world of fallen archangels and demons. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.
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Santa's Workshop Christmas Sale: Shoppers get a head start on the holidays with tree decorations, crafts, a gift shop and homemade eats. Waterbury Center Community Church, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.
comedy
Dueling Pianos: A pair of pianists take the stage for an evening of audience requests and hilarious sing-a-longs. For ages 18 and up. Event Center, Hampton Inn, Colchester, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. Upright Citizens Brigade: See THU.07, 9:30 p.m.
dance
Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.
Queen City Contra Dance: Joanne Garton and Brendan Taaffe dole out live tunes while Peter Johnson calls the steps. Shelburne Town Hall, beginners session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12. Info, 371-9492 or 343-7165. Queen City Tango Milonga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.
West African Dance & Drum Festival: See THU.07, 12:45-8:45 p.m.
Music With Robert: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216. Songs & Stories With Matthew: Musician Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Teen Advisory Board: Teens gather to plan library programs. Yes, there will be snacks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Teen Movie: Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow battle the terrorist Mandarin in the super-hero flick Iron Man 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 'The Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad': See THU.07, 7 p.m. Toddler Story Time: Words jump off the page in a reading practice featuring rhymes, songs and crafts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Fundraiser: New York City's Co-op Theatre East entertains diners with an interactive show. Live music by IncaHoots rounds out this benefit for the Plattsburgh Relay for Life Survivor Committee. Elks Lodge, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $50; $90 per couple. Info, 518-561-7213.
fairs & festivals
Brattleboro Film Festival: See WED.06, 6:3010 p.m. 'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Two': See WED.06. St. johnsbury School, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966. Friday Film Forum: Movies about Movies: Noteworthy clips from classic comedies, dramas, romances and thrillers that demystify the filmmaking process and inspire a related discussion. Burlington College, 3-5 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 923-2240. Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour: Cinema buffs screen highlights of the famed festival dedicated to art, adventure, culture and the environment. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $8-12. Info, 888-547-4327.
health & fitness
Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477. Community Wellness Day: Practitioners offer Reiki, Shiatsu, aromatherapy, acupressure, energy work and more to those looking to experience alternative healing. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations; preregister. Info, 870-0361.
holidays
Holiday Open House: A special visit from Santa helps kiddos and their parents celebrate the season of giving. Vintage Inspired, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Cash donations benefit Toys for Tots. Info, 488-5766.
kids
Acorn Club Story Time: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Dungeons & Dragons: Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Early Bird Math: Inquisitive minds explore mathematic concepts with books, songs, games and activities. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Youngsters show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Homework Help: See WED.06, 3-6 p.m. Little Dribblers Basketball Program: Drive to the hoop! Preschoolers through first graders learn new skills in a supportive environment. Gymnasium, Highgate Elementary School, 4:45 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 868-3970. Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
Burlington Ensemble 90/10 Series: See THU.07. Room 1787, Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 598-9520. Creamy Goodness Artist Showcase: Singers and rappers affiliated with the Burlington recording studio give varied performances, ranging from hiphop to acoustic soul and blues. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 863-6713. Hot Club of Detroit: Rooted in the legacy of Django Reinhardt, the gypsy jazz group showcases a versatile sound that incorporates modern influences as seen on the recent release Junction. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 863-5966.
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Elder Education Enrichment Fall Series: U.S. Forest Service research geographer Marla Emery shares her knowledge in "Mongolia in the 21st Century: Conserving Environment and Culture." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Five Women Witnesses: Two Weeks in Palestine: With a lecture and slide show, New England members of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross outreach committee recount their life-changing experiences. An optional potluck precedes the presentation. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free; preregister; bring a dish to share. Info, siegellouis@hotmail.com. Jim Heffernan: The St. Michael's professor of mathematics details the development of textbooks, including a lab manual for linear algebra. Room 104, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356. Kim Robert Nilsen: The founder of northern New Hampshire's rugged Cohos Trail presents a narrated slide show detailing routes through some of New England's most remote country. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 6:30-8 p.m. $5. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115.
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'Big Love': Tazewell Thompson directs this Dartmouth College production of Charles Mee's over-the-top adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliants about a determined group of runaway brides. Adult language and themes. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 603-646-2422. 'Birth': Based on more than 100 interviews with mothers, Karen Brody's documentary-style play explores the birthing experiences of American women today. A panel discussion follows. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Birth Network and the Vermont Midwives Association. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20-25. Info, 343-1003. Burlington Fringe Festival: See THU.07, 8 p.m. 'Chapter Two': The Shelburne Players stage Neil Simon's acclaimed semiautobiographical comedy
about a recently widowed writer's reentry into romance. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 985-0780. 'Lettres de Femmes, Femmes de Lettres (Letters by Women, Women of Letters)': Francine Conley transforms into 10 historic women who changed the course of the literary canon in this visually engaging solo show. Appropriate for students of all levels of French. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. 'Much Ado About Nothing': See THU.07, 7:309:45 p.m. 'Pippin': See WED.06, 7 p.m. 'Proof': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. 'Shrek, the Musical': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m. 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m. 'The Contrast': See THU.07, 7 p.m.
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Art & Author Night: Oil painter Lorilla Banbury displays works from "I Only Paint on Mondays," followed by a reading from poet Sherry Olson, who excerpts Four Way Stop. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Megan Price & Parker Tripp: The author of the popular Vermont Wild series appears with the retired warden, whose zany outdoor adventures appear in her newest book, Maine Wild. Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.
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Figure Drawing Workshop: Under the guidance of Krista Connolly, participants experiment with charcoal and interpret the poses of a live model. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24 includes materials. Info, 425-2700. Lantern-Making Workshop: Folks learn how to craft props for Waterbury's annual River of Light parade. BCA Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 778-0334.
bazaars
Christmas Bazaar: Baked goods and a homemade lunch fuel shoppers, who peruse offerings ranging from woodworking to knitwear and beyond. United Church of Colchester, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1595. Craft & Food Bazaar: Local and international handcrafts complement vintage treasures, a raffle and tasty eats. United Church, Northfield, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to attend; $6 for lunch; $10 raffle tickets. Info, 485-8347. Milton Pre-Christmas Craft Show: More than 70 crafters display their wares at this annual gathering featuring a kids room, raffles and tasty fare. Milton High School, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free to attend; donations of nonperishable items accepted. Info, 893-7387. Santa's Workshop Christmas Sale: See FRI.08, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
comedy
Drew Carey: The bespectacled comedian takes a break from hosting "The Price is Right" to return to his standup roots. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $39.75. Info, 775-0903. Katie Goodman: Driven by raw humor, original musical satire and razor-sharp wit, the acclaimed comedian delivers a captivating performance. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $36-45; $7075 VIP ticket benefits Girls Nite Out Productions. Info, 760-4634.
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'Little Italy' Panels Dedication: Locals recognize the Queen City's former Italian neighborhood. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2595.
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Knitting with annette: Crocheters, needleworkers and fiber artists work on current projects. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420.
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island harVest Pie milonga: Argentine tango dancers from Québec and Vermont show up for an evening of fancy footwork and music by deejays Jean-Sebastien Viard and Elizabeth Seyler. The purchase of homemade pies supports renovations of the hall. North Hero Community Hall, beginner lesson, 7-8 p.m.; Milonga, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $8-12. Info, 658-5225. 'Kaay (heritage)': Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater shares the traditions of Guinea, West Africa, in an original performance portraying a young boy's journey to fulfill his destiny as a master drummer. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 3. Info, 863-5966 or 859-1802. norwich contra dance: Folks in clean-soled shoes move to tunes by Northern Spy and calling by Brad Foster. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-8; by donation for seniors; free for kids under 16. Info, 785-4607. samba dance Party: Sambatucada! provides hip-shaking tunes at this Brazilian bash featuring authentic food and drink and dance lessons by Christine Bridges. North End Studio A, Burlington, refreshments, 7-8 p.m.; lessons, 8:15-8:45 p.m.; music and dancing 8-11 p.m. $8-10. Info, 922-1227. ET Quick-footed S swingG dance: participants get ARTER movingQinUdifferent styles, including the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8:30-11 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930. the stone cold roosters dance Party: Folks groove to free-range rock, country, blues and swing from the local band. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $5; $10 includes CD. Info, 454-1007. Vermont choreograPhers' showcase: Area dancers and choreographers present works-inprogress in an informal setting that encourages audience feedback. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 229-4676.
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community harVest FestiVal: Families celebrate the season with themed activities including grinding grain, bike-powered smoothies, seed art and more. A local lunch, live music, and silent auction round out this benefit for the Richmond Elementary School farm to school program. West Monitor Barn, Richmond, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5853. international FestiVal: Traditional Japanese drumming complements global cuisine and multicultural music and dance at this diverse gathering. Tarrant Student Recreational Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5-9:30 p.m. $5; free for St. Michael's students with valid ID. Info, 654-2536. Vermont craFts & Products Fair: Artisans display iron wares, stained glass, jewelry and more alongside homemade jams, jellies, pickles and fudge. St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Northfield, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8313. west aFrican dance & drum FestiVal: See THU.07, November 9-10 & 8 p.m.
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'amour': An elderly couple faces a new reality after one of them suffers a stroke in Michael Haneke's unflinching drama about long-term relationships. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. brattleboro Film FestiVal: See WED.06, noon-10 p.m. telluride mountainFilm on tour: See FRI.08. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $1016; $40 per family. Info, 496-8994 or 496-3372. 'the hungry heart': See THU.07. Rutland High School, 7 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616. 'united we sKi': See THU.07. Proceeds benefit Hard'ack Ski Area. Bliss Room, St. Albans Historical Museum, 7 p.m. $7. Info, tyler.wilkinsonray@gmail. com.
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autumn wine & Food FestiVal: Gourmet samples from area vineyards and food producers complement handcrafts by area vendors at this annual benefit for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Shelburne Vineyard, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items. Info, 985-8222. emPty bowl dinner: A simple meal sates appetites and raises funds for local food shelves. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 6:15 p.m. $25. Info, 388-7276. greeK Pastry sale & dinner: Phyllo-dough delights such as baklava and spinach pie complement hearty offerings of chicken souvlaki and beef gyros. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, pastry sale, 10 a.m.; dinner and takeout, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 862-2155. lasagna suPPer: Neighbors catch up over a meal of the Italian dish, green beans, salad, bread and dessert, served buffet-style. United Methodist Church, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; takeout available. Info, 877-3150. E IK
barn bash: Skiers and riders get amped up for the season with a giant raffle, a screening of Elevation and live tunes by Brett Hughes & The Honky Tonk Allstars. Proceeds benefit Cambridge Area Rotary Winter Wellness Days. Boyden Farm, Cambridge, kids movies, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; adult admission, 6:30-midnight. $525. Info, 644-6606. green mountain showdown: A multimedia expo pays tribute to mountain biking with presentations by writers, photographers and B IN TA COU videographers and the Riders RTESy OF MO UN health & fitness Choice Awards. Partial proceeds benefit the Vermont Mountain Bike Association. Hyde ancestral healing Process & oneness Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, meditation: Blessings and focused intention pro585-5495. mote the development of self-transformation tools T
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Vermont Kin as Parents talent showcase: Ginny McGehee emcees an evening featuring performances by Kathy Richards, Step 'n' Time dancers, the Urban Complex Dance Group and others. Proceeds benefit VKAP. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 5-8:30 p.m. $10; $25 per family; includes dinner. Info, 871-5109.
marine corPs birthday ball: Local marines mark the 238th year of the United States Marine Corps at a black-tie affair featuring principal speaker Bill Mares. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 6 p.m. $35; preregister; limited space. Info, 578-6508 or 862-2058. murder mystery dinner theater Fundraiser: See FRI.08, 6:30 p.m. st. luKe's rummage sale: Gently used clothing for men, women and children finds new homes at this benefit for St. Luke's Episcopal Church. St. Luke's Church, St. Albans, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 524-6212.
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bird-monitoring WalK: Experienced birders lead a morning jaunt in search of various species in their natural habitats. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. mt. mansField loop HiKe: Nature lovers up for a challenge hit the trail for this difficult 6.2-mile trek to the summit and back. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 8 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-3980. Wagon ride WeeKend: Narrated horse-drawn hay rides amid pastoral scenery complement themed programs and activities. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.
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3d printing, designing & sCanning WitH blu-bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030. genealogy: researCHing your 1812 anCestors: Connie Reik helps family-tree enthusiasts further their ancestry research with access to specialized library collections, the National Archives and online resources. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.noon. $5. Info, 310-9285. introduCtion to digital video editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor's permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.
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ameriCan bouldering series bouldering Competition: Climbers of all ages and abilities put their skills to the test. An awards ceremony follows. Petra Cliffs, Burlington, 3-8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 657-3872. Winter sport Fitness demo: Alpine ski race champion Duffy Dodge shares his secrets for staying fit and competition-ready at 88 years old. Peak Performance, Williston, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0949. SAT.09
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adamant Winter musiC series: ira Friedman Jazz Quartet: Seth Eames, Phil Carr and Giovanni Rovetto accompany the pianist in an evening of original jazz. Optional potluck dinner at 5:30 p.m. Adamant Community Club, 7 p.m. $10-15; bring a dish to share. Info, 456-7054. big spiKe bluegrass: Toe-tapping tunes bring multi-part harmonies and twin fiddles to the stage. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $8; free for kids and teens. Info, 388-6863. burlington ensemble 90/10 series: In "Giving Bach," local chamber musicians interpret works by the famed composer. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 598-9520.
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Kids nite out: Sports, games, swimming and arts and crafts entertain youngsters ages 5 through 13. Memorial Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 518-564-4147. presCHool art Class: See WED.06, 10-11 a.m. saturday story time: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. sKating WitH roCKin' ron tHe Friendly pirate: Ahoy, matey! Kiddos lace up their skates for an afternoon of ice time and a performance by the popular local entertainer. Central Vermont Memorial Civic Center, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 595-7953. teen manga Club: Fans of Japanese comics ages 11 through 19 watch anime and bond over their common interest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 'tHe mad adventures oF mr. toad': See THU.07, 2 p.m. traCey Campbell pearson: Budding bookworms and their parents join the nationally recognized children's book author and illustrator to celebrate the release of Elephant's Story. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.
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Five Women Witnesses: Two Weeks in Palestine: See FRI.08. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, siegellouis@ hotmail.com. Paul Searls: In "Major Valentine's Swedes," the lecturer explore the strange and ironic story of Vermont's Swedish colonists. Vermont History Center, Barre, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500. 'Sharpen Your Dowsing Skills': At the Chittenden County Dowsers meeting, folks discuss the energetics behind the ground-water-location technique with Mo Wheeler. Shelburne Town Offices, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $5; free for members. Info, 434-4904.
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'Big Love': See FRI.08, 8 p.m. 'Birth': See FRI.08, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. Burlington Fringe Festival: See THU.07, 8 p.m. 'Chapter Two': See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. 'Much Ado About Nothing': See THU.07, 7:309:45 p.m. 'Pippin': See WED.06, 7 p.m. 'Proof': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. 'Shrek, the Musical': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m. 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m. 'The Contrast': See THU.07, 7 p.m. The Met: Live in HD Series: Patricia Racette plays the title role opposite Roberto Alagna as her lover in a broadcast production of Puccini's opera Tosca. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222. The Met: Live in HD Series: Rutland: See above listing. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $10-20. Info, 775-0903. rt
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Dance Lab: A study of the art form allows regional dancers to hone their skills while exploring new territory with Susan Sgorbati. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 1:15-5:15 p.m. $20. Info, 279-8836, hwdennison@gmail.com.
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Greater Barre Coin Show: Collectors and enthusiasts make heads or tails of this gathering dedicated to the hobby. American Legion, Barre, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $1. Info, 863-5711. Vintage Fashion at High Tea: Twenty-seven models strut down the catwalk in threads dating from the 1890s through the 1980s. Proceeds benefit the Burlington Emergency Shelter. Garden Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $35. Info, 863-5966.
fairs & festivals
Vermont Crafts & Products Fair: See SAT.09, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. West African Dance & Drum Festival: See THU.07, 9:15 a.m.-5:45 p.m.
film
Brattleboro Film Festival: See WED.06, noon9:30 p.m.
health & fitness
Prenatal Yoga: Sila Rood leads expectant mothers in poses and stretches focused on preparing the body for birth. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 3 p.m. $14; preregister. Info, 870-0361. Spiritual Healing & EnergyUplifting Meditation: Drawing words on 20 years of experience, Cynthia To Warwick Seiler facilitates this lightBook Discussion Series: Farms w n Ha hearted session aimed at accessing & Gardens: Linda Bland facilitates ll T h eater intuition, clarity and awareness. Rainbow conversation about Michael Pollan's Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. $15 suggested Second Nature: A Gardener's Education. Varnum donation. Info, 671-4569. Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6632. holidays Celebration of Writing: Wordsmiths celebrate poetry, digital storytelling and prose through Holiday Decoration Demonstration: Using a workshops, readings and a keynote address by M.T. base of natural materials, local gardener Lynne Boie Anderson and Millennials on Stage. See youngwritguides participants through the steps of creating ersproject.org for details. Vermont College of Fine eye-catching adornments. Henry Sheldon Museum Arts, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free; preregister. of Vermont History, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. $10-12; Info, 324-9538. preregister; limited space. Info, 388-2117. Megan Price & Parker Tripp: See FRI.08. Next kids Chapter Bookstore, Barre, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-3114. Homework Help: See WED.06, 2-6 p.m. Megan Price & Parker Tripp: Hinesburg: See Jambo! African-Style Teen Dance Party: FRI.08. Kinney Drugs, Hinesburg, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Middle and high school students boogie down Info, 349-0183. at this multicultural meet-up. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 862-2608 or 863-6713. Russian Play Time With Natasha: Kiddos up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, bazaars Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Montpelier Antiques Market: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, artwork, jewelry language and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Elks French Conversation Group: Dimanches: Club, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue 751-6138. at a casual, drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. comedy Info, 363-2431. Comic Relief: A Benefit for COTS: A varied lineup of local jokesters elicits big laughs at this lgbtq fundraiser for the Committee on Temporary RU12? Fiber Arts Group: Creative types of all Shelter. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25. Info, ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and 863-5966. skill levels convene for knitting, crocheting, weaving and more. RU12? Community Center, Burlington, community noon. Free. Info, 860-7812. Children's Memorial Service: Families, healthcare providers and community members find mutual support in honoring the memory of youth Co u
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who have passed away. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-4880. Community Forum: Vermont Health Connect navigator Ellen Gershun helps attendees choose appropriate individualized plans. Craftsbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 586-9683.
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Dartmouth College Glee Club: Louis Burkot directs the 40-member ensemble in "Mysticism and Majesty," which explores works by Haydn, Brahms and Arvo Pärt. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $9-10. Info, 603-646-2422. Hot Club of Detroit: See FRI.08. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 518-523-2512. Singer Pur: The award-winning a cappella ensemble displays a vast repertoire in "Fields of Gold: Vocal Music through the Centuries." See calendar spotlight. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-3168. Social Band: See SAT.09. Congregational Church, Charlotte, 3 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 355-4216.
outdoors
Wagon Ride Weekend: See SAT.09, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
sport
Women's Indoor Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.
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Frances Foster: The lecturer draws on her knowledge of historic preservation and land conservation when considering 19th-century architecture in Vermont. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7212.
theater
'Big Love': See FRI.08, 2 p.m. 'Chapter Two': See FRI.08, 2 p.m. 'Much Ado About Nothing': See THU.07, 2-4:15 p.m. 'Shrek, the Musical': See THU.07, 2 p.m. 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee': See THU.07, 2 p.m.
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Ellen Stimson: In Mud Season, the local author recounts a series of calamities — including raising chicken, children and sheep — that occurred as she followed her dream of living in Vermont. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. Gastronomy Book Discussion Series: Barbara Whitehill elicits opinions from foodies about Nicole Mones' The Last Chinese Chef. Dailey Memorial Library, Derby, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 766-5063. Megan Price & Parker Tripp: See FRI.08. Phoenix Books, Essex, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.
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Adaptive International Folk Dancing: Creative movers of all ages, abilities and mobility learn international routines. Walkers and wheelchairs are accommodated. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $5; free for assistants. Info, 863-6713. Salsa Dance Class: DsantosVT leads hipshaking steps for dancers of all experience levels. Beginners, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. North End Studios, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713. Women's Ancient Ritual Folk Dances: Ladies learn international circle and line dances from centuries past. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968.
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Tibetan Singing & Healing Bowl Meditation: Using multitonal frequencies, Kirk Maris Jones accesses the power of the ancient instruments. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $9 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.
film
'A Place at the Table': Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush's documentary examines poverty and hunger in America through specific children and their families. A discussion follows. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. Brattleboro Film Festival: See WED.06, 6:309:30 p.m. 'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Three': "Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution" highlights influential figures in the state's history. Welden Theatre 3, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.
games
Trivia Night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
health & fitness
Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.08, 10 a.m. Awareness Through Movement: Feldenkrais With Uwe Mester: Increased flexibility and range of motion help participants address habitual neuromuscular patterns. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, noon-1 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. Herbal Consultations: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@ vtherbcenter.org; limited space. Info, 861-9757. Herbs for Children: Clinical herbalist Shona Richter MacDougall shares natural remedies for combating fever, flu, nausea and diarrhea. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100. Laughter Yoga: Giggles help participants decrease stress and tap into a playful practice. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.06, 6-7 p.m. Yoga With Tea: See WED.06, 7-8 a.m. & 6:15-7:15 p.m.
kids
Alice in Noodleland: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. My Child & Me Cooking Class: Homemade Sauerkraut: Kiddos 5 and under and their caregivers prepare tasty fare using organic ingredients and traditional methods. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $5-10; free for WIC mother/child pairs; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700. My First Yoga: Toddler-friendly poses led by Rachel Klatzer meet storytelling and song in this program for ages 5 and under. Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Preschool Story Hour: See WED.06, 11:30 a.m.
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Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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Vermont Politics sPeaker series: Local professionals ranging from reporters to state government officials past and present weigh in on relevant topics. Ellsworth Room, Willey Library & Learning Center, Johnson State College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408, events.jsc.edu.
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stories about pivotal events. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-1754. toVar cerulli: In The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian's Hunt for Sustenance, the author offers a meditative examination of diet and food sourcing. Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.
adult comPuter WorkshoP: Participants get tech-savvy and learn how to organize digital files into folders. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $20. Info, 864-1502.
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mariJuana leGalization toWn hall meetinG: Richard Van Wickler of L.E.A.P. (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) keynotes this gathering of locals and political figures, who voice opinions about the issue. Room 11, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 315-243-5844. south BurlinGton school district community Wellness & resilience ProGram: Miv London of UVM's body-mind wellness program presents "Care: Tending Ourselves With Kindness and Compassion." Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School Library, South Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-4850.
cost of War sPeaker & film series: Historian, author and Vietnam vet Mike Heaney offers an intimate perspective on Veteran's Day. Main Street Landing Train Station, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2345. elder education enrichment fall series: Amateur historian Rick Winston presents "Burlington Newspapers and the Red Scare, 1948-1954." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Garrett steWart: Considering director Michael Haneke's acclaimed film, the author and University of Iowa professor of literature presents "Haneke's Endgame in Amour." Room 232, Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Joe coVais: The CCV instructor and author presents "What Happened to My Father? One Son's Search for his Father's WWII Experience." Community College of Vermont, Winooski, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403.
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intro to triBal Belly dance: Students access self-empowerment via this moving meditation based on ancient traditions. Arrive early to request tea. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 6:45-7:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. sWinG dance Practice session: Twinkle-toed participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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the fashion shoW: Fashionistas feast their eyes on trendy threads from SportStyle at this interactive benefit for the Mary Kay Foundation featuring keynoter Peggy Eastman. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 6 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 863-5966.
film
BrattleBoro film festiVal: See WED.06, 6:3010 p.m. 'escaPe fire: the fiGht to rescue american health care': Shown as part of Integrative Health Week, Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman's award-winning documentary scrutinizes the current state of health care. A discussion follows. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2333. 'freedom and unity: the Vermont moVie: Part three': See MON.11. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.
games
maGic: the GatherinG: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
health & fitness
andréa altman: The founder of Connecting Rhythms Bodywork details the far-reaching benefits of massage as part of the Wellness and Alternative Medicine Lecture Series. Ellsworth Room, Willey Library & Learning Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1308. BaBy PumP: New moms break a sweat and get back into shape with their babies in tow. Hammer
Fit Athletic Club, Essex Junction, 11-11:45 a.m. $9. Info, 878-0444. BeGinninG meditation WorkshoP: Those new to the practice learn basic tools for calming the mind. 132 South Main Street, St. Albans, 9-9:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 782-3821. family-friendly yoGa With deBorah felmeth: Meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy help parents tap into creative expression. Kiddos ages 3 through 5 do the same at an art class across the hall. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:30 a.m. $14; $25 includes kids art class; preregister. Info, 870-0361. naturoPathic medicine demystified: See THU.07. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. systema With ryan miller: See THU.07, 7-8:15 p.m. transforminG neGatiVe emotions: Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi guides folks through Buddhist techniques and practices aimed at turning pain into something positive. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136.
kids
creatiVe tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. fall story time: See WED.06, 10 a.m. kids cookinG class: homemade souP to eat & share: Budding chefs ages 6 through 12 make and sample golden cheddar soup, then send the rest as a care package to families at the Committee on Temporary Shelter. King Street Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.
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LittLe DribbLers basketbaLL Program: See FRI.08, 5:15 p.m. music & movement with aLi: Caregivers and their youngsters lace up their dancing shoes for songs, stretches and creative play with Ali Gibson. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4095. PreschooL art cLass: See WED.06, 10-11 a.m. PreschooL story hour: See WED.06, 11:30 a.m. PreschooL story hour: 'Patterns': Kiddos up to age 6 have fun with engaging narratives and crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. PreschooL story time & craft: Books and creative projects help little ones tap into their imaginations and gain early literacy skills. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. story time with corey: Read-aloud books and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey engage young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. story time for 3- to 5-year-oLDs: See WED.06, 10-10:45 a.m. story time for babies & toDDLers: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. teen art stuDio: Anything goes at this openended creative session, during which local artists help spark ideas and facilitate current projects. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-8358. wii gaming: Players show off their physical gaming skills. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. youth meDia Lab: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.
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chamber concert: Pianist Robert Rachlin and violinist Kevin Lawrence interpret works by Bach, Beethoven and Lou Harrison. St. Paul's Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 864-0471. miLton community banD rehearsaLs: New members are welcome as the band prepares for its December holiday concert. Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398.
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congressionaL briefing: Congressman Peter Welch updates attendees on current issues, including health care, Medicare and Social Security. A Q&A follows. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 9:3011 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 877-926-8300. vermont Libertarian Party town caucus: A gathering welcomes voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year. Grand Isle Free Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4535.
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going soLar without going broke: SunCommon's Jessica Edgerly Walsh discusses financing options for harnessing the sun's energy. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.
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ceDric aLexanDer: The State of Vermont wildlife biologist shares facts about the giants of the north country in "All About Moose." Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. 'examining syria': UVM professor F. Gregory Gause joins members of Green Mountain Global Forum to analyze the conflict and its related regional issues. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2490. katherine bLume: See WED.06. Jericho Center Town Hall, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, phyl@together.net. kirk maris Jones: The KyronSchool of New Consciousness instructor details the multistep approach to spiritual awakening. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 671-4569. saLLy Pinkas, kinan azmeh & the aPPLe hiLL Quartet: The "Playing for Peace" musicians discuss how chamber music can bridge cultural gaps and heal conflict between international communities. Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. Free. Info, 603-646-2010.
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book Discussion: worLD war ii: the Loss of the age of innocence: Readers share their thoughts about Ella Leffland's Rumors of Peace with Suzanne Brown. Norwich Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 296-2191. caDy/Potter writers circLe: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through assignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970. PauL giLLies: Examining the state's former political independence, the attorney reads and discusses Uncommon Law, Ancient Roads and Other Ruminations on Vermont Legal History. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Info, 448-3350.
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homeshare vermont informationaL session: Those interested in homesharing and/or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625. mentoring Discussion grouP: "Big buddies" in the King Street Center's program find common ground over a breakfast meeting focused on boundary setting. King Street Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736.
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green mountain chaPter of the embroiDerers' guiLD of america: Needle-andthread enthusiasts work on current projects and practice crazy quilting and Quaker Ball embroidery. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.
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Dabrowski's theory: DeveLoPmentaL PotentiaL & muLtiLeveLness: Panelists Carol Story and Melissa King discuss the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski, then share examples of his ideas as implemented in their education careers. Georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 528-2455.
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research in your backyarD: Attendees explore the impact of local clinical trials on medicine, the economy and the bioscience research environment. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30 a.m. Free. Info, vermontbiotech@ gmail.com. vermont sons of union veterans meeting: The local chapter welcomes new members at a planning session for a remembrance of Vermont's Civil War soldiers. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 401-474-4889.
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'Cow Power: The Film': Allison Gillette's eye-opening documentary examines the history and science behind using manure as a renewable energy source. A panel discussion follows. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5052. 'Freedom and UniTy: The VermonT moVie: ParT Three': See MON.11. Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966. Global lens Film series: 'liFe Kills me': Sebastiรกn Silva's 2007 comedy explores the unlikely friendship between a filmmaker grieving his brother's recent death and a drifter obsessed with morbidity. Spanish with English subtitles. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. 'JFK': On 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, folks screen American Experience's portrayal of the enigmatic president. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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GlbTQQia disCUssion GroUP: High school students and adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and allies chat about relevant issues and topics. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955, kat@brownelllibrary.org. lGbTQa Family PlayGroUP: Like-minded folks bring infants and children up to age 4 together for crafts and physical activities. Leaps and Bounds Child Development Center, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org.
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PlayinG For PeaCe: Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas and Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh join the Apple Hill Quartet to promote cross-cultural understanding through chamber music. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-27. Info, 603-646-2422. The VermonT blUeGrass reVUe: An evening of stellar 12v-shelburneplayers110613.indd 1 picking and singing brings the talents of the Sky Blue Boys and Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing to the stage. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.
The ADHD Specialty Service provides both comprehensive evaluations and treatment of ADHD. This service is designed for youth ages 4-13 and accepts most forms of insurance. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call the Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy Center at (802) 656-2661 and request the ADHD Specialty Service.
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adUlT ComPUTer worKshoP: An interactive session teaches folks how to create online albums for digital photos using Picasa. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $20. Info, 864-1502. PlanninG wiTh wills & TrUsTs: Attorneys Glenn Jarrett and Jennifer Luitjens cover relevant topics related to estate planning and elder law. Jarrett Law Office, South Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 864-5951, vermontestateplanning.com.
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Green moUnTain Table Tennis ClUb: See WED.06, 6-9:30 p.m.
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'aVenUe Q: sChool ediTion': The Fair Haven Union High School Break-A-Leg Society presents an evening of music, comedy and puppets, of course. Music Center, Fair Haven Union High School, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 265-4966. 'wizard oF oz': There's no place like home! The award-winning Colchester Theatre Company travels down the yellow brick road in a production of this time-tested classic. Colchester High School, 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 264-5729.
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baby & me sTory Time: See WED.06, 10:30 a.m. babyTime PlayGroUP: See WED.06, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Fall sTory Time: See WED.06, 11:15 a.m. hisTory For homesChoolers: In "Vermont Presidents," children ages 6 through 12 learn about the state's influential political figures. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. $4-5; preregister; limited space. Info, 828-1413. homeworK helP: See WED.06, 3-6 p.m. leT's TalK TUrKeys: Explorers ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions embark on a woodland adventure to learn about the lives of the gobblers. Meet at the education barn. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068. meeT roCKin' ron The Friendly PiraTe: See WED.06, 10-10:45 a.m. moVinG & GrooVinG wiTh ChrisTine: See WED.06, 11-11:30 a.m. PresChool arT Class: See WED.06, 10-11 a.m. PresChool sTory hoUr: See WED.06, 11:30 a.m. read To a doG: Lit lovers take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. sT. miChael's ColleGe FaCUlTy Panel: Professors of geography, philosophy, chemistry and political science discuss "Biochemical Warfare: An Exploration of its Nature and Effects on Society." Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356. sTory Time & PlayGroUP: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m. sTory Time For 3- To 5-year-olds: See WED.06, 10-10:45 a.m. The ColleGe searCh: Educational consultant Nancy Milne shares strategies for surviving the college application process. A Q&A follows. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 'The darK KniGhT' ComiCs ClUb: See WED.06, 3:30-5 p.m.
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art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Mon. Night Oils, Tue. Night Watercolors, Wed. a.m. Int./Adv. Oils, Wed. p.m. Wheel, Thu. a.m. Beg. Oils, Thu. p.m. Drawing. Loretta Languet: Throwing on the Wheel Altering Workshop, Nov. 2. Children: Homeschool Pottery and Art Classes; Cartoon Workshop, Nov. 2; Thu. Hand Building; Watercolor Workshop, Nov. 9; Mon. & Wed. Wheel Classes. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., lower level, Middlebury. Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org.
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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. DIY NIGHT: HEX BOLT BRACELETS: Co-owner of New Duds Tessa Valyou is excited to show you this simple technique for creating modern bracelets at this one-night class. Learn an easy braid technique that incorporates hex nuts from the hardware store to make your own spine-like design. Plenty of time, materials and inspiration to make multiple bracelets. No experience needed. Ages 16 and up. Nov. 14, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DIY NIGHT: WRAPPING PAPER, BAGS & TAGS: Co-owner of New Duds, Tessa Valyou, will help you print your own wrapping paper with premade silkscreens designs that are ready to print. Fold paper into handmade gift bags, make customize gift tags. A great class to get in the holiday mood. Plenty of time to make multiples. No experience needed. Ages 16 and up. Instructor: Tessa Valyou. Dec. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location:
BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. KIDS: DARKROOM: Create unique, one-of-a-kind images with light and objects in our black and white photographic darkroom! Ages 9-12. Nov. 16, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
training this fall/winter. $50/ mo. Ask about family discounts. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.
KIDS: JAZZY JEWELS: Come make some impressive jewelry using a variety of materials including rolled paper beads, glass beads and more. Learn some professional tricks to make your wearable art spectacular! Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 9-12. Dec. 7, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.
PHOTO: PORTRAIT: Prerequisite: Intro SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Improve your portrait-taking skills in this hands-on class. Camera techniques, composition, the use of studio and natural light, working with a model and more will be covered. Bring your camera and memory card to the first class. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Weekly on Thu., Nov. 14-Dec. 12, 6-9 p.m. No class Nov. 28. Cost: $175/ person; $157.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.
VIDEO: TIME-LAPSE ANIMATION: Timelapse is a video art form that uses photos taken at regular intervals that, when sequenced together, can allow an audience to see subtle or imperceptible processes. Learn more about the storytelling this medium can convey and the hardware and software you can use to do so. Instructor: Kevin Murakami. Prerequisite: Intro to SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Weekly on Mon., Dec. 2-16, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $105/ person; $94.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
dance B-TRU DANCE W/ DANIELLE VARDAKAS DUSZKO: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles (poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher
drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE & CONGAS!: Taiko drumming in Burlington! Tuesday Taiko Adult Classes begin Dec. 3 & Jan. 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Kids Classes begin on the same dates, 4:305:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Djembe classes start Nov. 8, Dec. 13, & Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $60/4 weeks, $18/ class. Montpelier Djembe classes start Oct. 24, Nov. 21, Jan. 2, 7:30-8:30 p.m., $54/3 weeks! Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@ gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.
empowerment DEVELOPING YOUR HIGH SENSE PERCEPTION: Learn how to use the full range of your psychic abilities, access the Akashic records and develop your skill in working with subtle energies in this experiential workshop. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and
author. Nov. 16-17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/person, incl. snack & lunches. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.
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food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.
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DANCE AUDITIONS 101: HOW TO MAKE IT (OR FAKE IT!) THROUGH A DANCE AUDITION: Flummoxed by Fosse? Paranoid about pirouettes? Horrified by hoedowns? Picking up movement quickly is to dancers what sight-reading is to musicians. Learn the “smoke and mirrors” behind surviving and excelling in that most feared area of musical theatre: the dance audition. Students will learn essential steps and practice their growing skills in picking up combinations quickly with a mock dance audition combo each week. Class is prorated if you can’t attend all four. Instructed by Sebastian Ryder; for teens and adults. 4-wk. session, weekly on Fri., 5:45-6:45 p.m. Starts Nov. 1. Cost: $50/session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548 x4, flynnarts.org. COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL: THEATER MONOLOGUE BOOT CAMP: Strengthen your skills in text analysis, character development and audition technique to prep for the all-important college audition. Beginners learn the tools for working on a monologue, and more experienced young actors deepen their craft and acquire new insights into their own approach to performance. Class is prorated if you can’t attend all four. Instructed by John Jensen. Grades 10-12. 4-wk. session, every Fri. 5:457:45 p.m. starting Nov. 1. Cost: $100/session. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548 x4, flynnarts.org.
ANIMATED DRAWINGS: TEEN WORKSHOP: Animators-in-themaking combine creative forces to bring drawings to life! Product a sequence of drawings that will be interwoven with the group’s in one fluid Quicktime animation. Be ready to draw a lot and experience the thrill of working on an artistic team. Instructor: Leif Goldberg. Dec. 11 & 12, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $75/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com.
herbs HERBAL INTENSIVE: Heart-Spirit Medicine for Turbulent Times with Chris Marano, RH(AHG). However we describe it, most of us feel that we are in a time of great flux, turbulence and quickening. This workshop speaks to our need for adaptability and resilience and includes discussion of herbal allies and simple, timeless spiritual wisdom. Sat., Nov. 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $75/ person; $65 for members; online option: $55/$45; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org.
martial arts AIKIDO: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org. AIKIDO CLASSES: Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. AIKIDO IN BALANCE: Learn how to manifest balance internally and externally. Move with grace and precision. Begin the study of observing your own mind. Tue. & Thu., 7-9 p.m. Cost: $10/class, $65 for monthly membership. Location: Tao Motion Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Aikido in Balance, tyler crandall, 598-9204, tyler@aikidoinbalance.com, aikidoinbalance.com.
gardening MASTER GARDENER 2014 COURSE: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on gardening in Vermont. This noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more! Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Apr. 29, 6:15-9 p.m. $395/ person includes Sustainable Gardening book. (Noncredit course). Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield,
LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our seventh year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.
WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now accepting applications for Wisdom of the Herbs 2014 Eight Month Certification Program, local wild plants for food and medicine, sustainable living skills, and profound connection with Nature, Apr. 26-27, May 24-25, Jun. 28-29, Jul. 2627, Aug. 23-24, Sep. 27-28, Oct. 25-26 & Nov. 8-9, 2014, tuition $1750, payment plan $187.50/ mo. VSAC nondegree grants available, apply early. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants,
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under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
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Introduction to Zen: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. Sat. Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-1:15 p.m. (please arrive at 8:45 a.m.). Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext.net, vermontzen.org. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.
music Fast Track Guitar Improvement: Become the artist you are supposed to become. Franky Andreas can help bring your playing to the next level at the Burlington Music Dojo. Most styles covered, all skill levels welcome. Chop building, composition, improvisation, ensemble, music theory. Six string, seven string, acoustic, electric. Flexible scheduling. Cost: $50/hour lesson; other price structures avail. Location: Burlington Music Dojo, 416 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Burlington Music Dojo , Franky Andreas, 578-4912, frankyandreas@gmail.com, http:// burlingtonmusicdojo.com/ instructors/franky-andreas.
pilates All Levels BARSCULPT Classes: Pilates Evolved! This high energy class uses ballet barres, small hand weights and mats for a one-hour wonderfully intense workout. Change your body in just a few hours every week, led by a friendly, licensed instructor. Build strength and cardio, and create long, lean muscles while lifting your seat. Daily. Cost: $15/1-hr. class. Location: Studio 208, A Lifestyle Community, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3K, Burlington. Info: Burlington Barre at Studio 208, 862-8686, corestudioburlington@gmail.com, burlingtonbarrevt.com.
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spirituality Sparkle Up Your Chakras!: In this dynamic and fun seminar, Maureen will share powerful techniques to shimmer and shine for the holidays so we can enjoy the season with our Lovelight shining. With guided
meditations using sacred sound (crystal singing bowls and more), color and crystals/gemstones, you’ll leave on a higher frequency wavelength! Wed., Nov.13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/2-hr. seminar. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rte. 7, Milton. Info: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Michele Nappi, 893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo.com, lightheart. net.
tai chi Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org. Yang-Style Tai Chi: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, mindfulbreath@gmavt.net.
theater LES MISERABLES Audition Workshop: Bill Reed Voice Studio proudly presents an audition workshop with Broadway Veteran Kevin McGuire. The workshop is geared toward preparing for Les Miserables auditions. Performers may register as a participant or as an auditor. Participants will come prepared with a song selection from Les Mis and will have the opportunity to perform for Kevin and then be critiqued by him. Nov. 11, noon-8:30 p.m. Cost: $75/participant; $50 to audit. Location: Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, 223 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: 862-7326, admin@billreedvoicestudio.com, billreedvoicestudio.com.
writing ‘You Be the Keats’: It is in our nature to want to speak what is unspoken in the hearts of those around us, and in our own. Such utterances, simple or sumptuous, can bring kindred spirits together. Many will labor over food and fare this holiday season. What might you bring to the table? Sat., Nov. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $50/5-hr. class incl. light fare. Location: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Kimberlee Harrison, 985-3091, kimberlee@ windridgebooksofvt.com, Wind Ridge Books of Vermont.
Holiday Writing Circle Retreat: Writing prompts for the Holiday Writing Circle will focus on the liminal time of year, when the light dwindles, hopes soar, and traditions bolster and oppress. Whether writing the holiday newsletter to family or just letting loose the unknown wonder of the story and words, unleash your creativity with this workshop. Sat., Nov., 16, noon-3 p.m. Cost: $75/3-hr. class. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Nontraditional Essay Writing: The current surge of essays utilizing nontraditional structures reflects the role that structure plays in creating meaning. In this class, we’ll read successful examples of the lyric essay. We’ll study how the structure creates resonance and truth. We’ll do exercises to help you access material by coming at it slant. Thu., Nov. 14,
6-9 p.m. Cost: $40/3-hr. class. Location: Renegade Writers’ Collective headquarters, 47 Maple St., Burlington. Info: Renegade Writers’ Collective, Jessica Nelson, 267-467-2812, renegadewritersvt@gmail.com, renegadewritersvt.com. True Stories:Writing Your Life: Whether you wish to create a condensed-version memoir, begin work on a longer biography, or translate just one chapter of your life story into a literary form, this workshop can help keep you on track and your readers on the page. Taught by Vermont author Susan Weiss. 5 Wed.: Nov. 6, 13 & 20 and Dec. 4 & 11, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $125/5 evenings. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com. Writing Creative Fiction & Non: Whether you wish to create a short or book-length memoir, begin work on an autobiography, or translate your experiences and ideas into fiction, this workshop can help keep you on track and keep readers on the page. Prevent your story from becoming derailed. Stroke those literary aspirations! Nov. 13 & 20 & Dec. 4, 11 & 18 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $125/5 classes. Location: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Kimberlee Harrison, 985-3091, kimberlee@windridgebooksofvt. com, windridgebooksofvt.com.
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SEVEN DAYS: What did you study at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics? LUKE CSEHAK: Oh, we both studied disembodied poetics. SD: Right. And what does that entail, exactly? LC: It’s really more embodied poetics, to tell you the truth. It’s just a name. It’s a, how do you say, alternative writing school. You learn crazy techniques, read more obscure
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here has gotta be something in the water in Brattleboro. Or maybe it’s in the bedrock. How else to explain the seemingly endless strain of unusual sounds, and equally unusual bands, emerging from the small southern Vermont town? Following the lead of artists such as King Tuff, Feathers, Ruth Garbus, Chris and Kurt Weisman and others, Happy Jawbone Family Band are the latest Brattleboro-based act to draw national attention. The group originally came together at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, a sub-college of Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. In 2008, front man Luke Csehak relocated to Brattleboro with his wife and bandmate, Elspeth Bourne-Kebbell-Csehak. They would soon be joined by Francis Carr, forming the core of the band as it exists now and adding to Brattleboro’s unlikely bounty of oddball musical riches. Songs such as the offbeat “Stay-atHome Soldier” from Happy Jawbone’s new, self-titled record for Brooklyn label Mexican Summer have been drawing raves from media outlets large and small, including heavy hitters such as Spin and Pitchfork. And deservedly so. The album is by turns funny, strange and melancholy, a queerly compelling slice of pop that honors the band’s lo-fi roots while presenting its gleefully unconventional aesthetic. Think Camper Van Betthoven on a schoolyard playground, in a sonically immaculate package. In advance of the band’s show at ArtsRiot with Boston’s Quilt on Tuesday, November 11, Seven Days caught up with Luke Csehak by phone from home in Brattleboro.
writers than at a more conventional writing college. It’s a really interesting place. It’s a little bit like Hogwarts.
on this record. LC: I just love the electric guitar. I believe electric guitar is just a basic human need.
SD: Do you use the things you learned there in your writing with Happy Jawbone? LC: Yeah. I think of rock and roll as an extension of my writing. It’s a more satisfying way to write. It’s easier to get people to listen to you. It’s like writingplus.
SD: Tell me a little about your musical background. LC: I grew up playing the euphonium — it’s like a little tuba. I thought I was going to be a classical euphonium player. But then I grew up a little bit and realized it’s a sort of silly dream to chase after. So I spent more time with rock-and-roll music, one thing led to another, and my life was ruined.
SD: It’s certainly a more accessible medium. LC: It’s more sociable. Writing is a lonely profession. And I’m sort of a lonely guy already.
SD: How would you characterize your writing style? LC: I think that stuff is funny. I have some joke answers if you want to hear them.
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SD: How did you find the process SD: Absolutely. of going from LC: I like mer-punk. home recording to That’s my go-to. L UK E C S E H AK more professional I sort of think of recording? our band as a punk LC: It got more people involved. The band. But we’re just not conservative other way, me and Francis [Carr] were enough to be a real punk band. To be a real the artistic overlords. But there was more punk band, it’s like being a member of the outside input this way. The label wasn’t honor roll. You have to do everything just heavy-handed, but they let us know which right. songs they liked and which direction I was hanging out with some punks the they thought we should go in, in a very other day. And I was, like, “Shit, man, these supportive way. There are no guns involved guys will never like me.” I’d have to try so or anything. It took a lot of pressure off hard to be their friends and it would never me. I just sang and played guitar. A lot of happen. It made me a little bit sad. fucking guitar. It felt good. SD: Punk is weirdly constrictive. SD: I did notice there was more guitar LC: It is. You hear of Johnny Ramone
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being politically conservative, which seems crazy. You think of punk as being this liberal tradition. But it’s come to be really conservative. There’s something cool about that, too. Sort of like folk music. I like to think of punk as futurist folk music. And they both suffer from some of the same faults, where they’re just sort of boring sometimes. SD: That’s not a problem with your music. Do you go out of your way to find unconventional angles? LC: It’s more that it has to keep me interested. I was reading about psychoacoustics, the study of how we interpret sound. And they were saying that there is this nexus of interpretation of songs, where we enjoy a song because the notes go in an order that we expect them to. But we also enjoy it when it doesn’t quite do that. So there are two different sets of pressures that are opposite. And I realized that’s totally my songwriting process. I’m not trying to make things unconventional. I’m trying to make something that touches somebody. But also, I don’t want to bore anybody. So I find myself going between those poles. You want to make something that’s relevant to people, but also not something that’s boring. SD: Brattleboro is sort of an epicenter for weird pop music. I know there are some theories about why that is. What’s your favorite? LC: There are a few theories. The most interesting theory, and the one I subscribe to, is that the bedrock of Brattleboro is made of quartz crystal. That’s a geological fact. So the theory is that the crystal attracts a certain type of energy. I guess crystals hold energy, and it slowly radiates out. I don’t know much about crystals, which means I don’t know much about this theory. But I like it. And you can see it happen. People move to Brattleboro and stay for a season, then they move. But they all come back. It’s a little bit like “Twin Peaks,” Brattleboro.
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anyway — spouted from the stage.” Still, Capleton has come under fiyah, er, fire for lyrics that condemn homosexuality, perhaps, as his critics have suggested, even to the point of inciting violence. But whether that’s actually the case is hard to parse. For one thing, as Goff noted, navigating Capleton’s patois is a challenge — damn you, Google Translate! And over the years, both Capleton and his handlers have responded to those allegations by claiming references to fire — frequently cited as evidence of promoting violence — are religious metaphors for spiritual cleansing. Our own inquiries to the Capleton camp on that score were not returned as of this printing. But that defense doesn’t quite address these lyrics from “Pure Sodom,” off Capleton’s 2000 album More Fire: “Who dat yuh deh all a kiss yuh pon yuh cheek? / Inna di King size yuh have another man a sleep / Sight Anne Marie and yuh nuh want her meat / Sight Jackilyn and yuh nuh want her meat / Everday dem come yah with dem battyman speech / Haile King Selassi Rastafari seek / Yuh nuh want nuh gal yuh head a roll pon di streeeeeeeet.” I have a hard time imagining what beheading could be a metaphor for. What’s more, we’re now no longer in the art versus artist argument, since the artist has made violence against LGBT individuals a component of his art. Rather tastelessly, at that. Does that negate the impact and influence of Capleton’s other music, much of which falls in the mystical, uplifting “one love” camp? Probably no more than, say, nwa’s sensationally violent and misogynistic lyrics dampened their historical impact and influence on the rap landscape. But it does raise some complicated questions about how we compartmentalize art and artists, questions that Capleton fans would do well to think about this week.
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“act to destroy” any government that attempts to change the definition of marriage. History is filled with countless individuals who have made great contributions to their art but were also deeply flawed and, in some cases, flatout-horrible people. (OK, maybe Gibson isn’t great. But you watch Braveheart every time it’s on cable just like the rest of us.) It brings up a thorny issue: how, or even if, we should separate the artist from his or her art. That’s a question local reggae fans will face this week when Jamaican reggae singer capleton plays Club Metronome in Burlington on Thursday, November 7. For the uninitiated, Capleton is about as big a roots-reggae and dancehall star as there is. He’s viewed as an icon whose influence is widespread throughout the genre. He’s a prolific artist, with some 22 albums to his credit, many of which, such as 1995’s Prophecy, are viewed as modern classics. Capleton is also a controversial figure. A devout Rastafarian, his songs are often vehicles though which he expresses his religious views, including some eyebrow-raising takes on homosexuality. Namely, he’s agin’ it. Capleton has been accused of calling for violence against LGBT individuals in his lyrics. He’s had shows canceled in Europe, South America and the United States due to pressure from LGBT groups who have raised the alarm. In 2007, Capleton, along with several other reggae artists, signed the Reggae Compassionate Act, an unofficial treaty of sorts devised by the Stop Murder Music campaign to put an end to music that promotes violence against LGBT people. But as recently as last year, a Capleton show was canceled in Humboldt County, Calif., at the behest of LGBT activist groups claiming the singer was still promoting antigay messages in his music. That show was moved to a different venue and, according to North Coast Journal writer andrew Goff, “there was no antigay rhetoric — that I could understand,
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It’s hard to recall a Vermont band that has spawned so much admiration for having done so relatively little as Burlington’s Alpenglow. Since the then-Middlebury-based quintet’s unofficial coming-out party at the 2012 Waking Windows festival in Winooski, it’s been almost universally regarded as a most promising new band — with barely a demo tape to its credit. As such, expectations are abnormally — and perhaps unfairly — high for the band’s freshman effort. So it is that Alpenglow’s EP, Solitude, finally arrives, preloaded with hype and hopes that hardly any band could live up to, especially on a debut. But here’s the crazy thing: Alpenglow do. Solitude is not just a remarkable debut; it’s a remarkable record, period. At a mere four songs and 21 minutes, one could wish for a bit more, especially given the aforementioned expectations.
I’d suggest those who feel cheated simply put the disc on repeat. Densely layered and nuanced, with an array of delicate changes and accents, Solitude is a rare record that genuinely deepens with each listen. The title track opens the EP with a bright, arpeggiated electric guitar line. It’s almost clumsily picked, but those uneven rhythmic fluctuations tease a bristling energy that explodes in a wash of violin, guitar, drums and voices at the hook. That polyphony recedes to a beautiful, harmony-laden bridge before blooming again at the finish. Alpenglow are commonly — and with reasonable accuracy — compared to the likes of the Low Anthem and Fleet Foxes. Solitude will not dispel
He and bassist Chris Valyou have evidently put in the time to build a mean rhythm team. Valyou rifles through the songs with intensity and concentration. “One Big Punch Vs. Another” is a rerecorded song from the band’s 2011 debut Deadass that highlights their progression. With better sonic quality and sharper vocal attack, Trapper Keeper hit this song out of the park. Groundhog Day has an undeniably adolescent ring, but it’s merely a reminder that growing up doesn’t require abandoning your musical roots. In that way, Trapper Keeper keep a valuable aspect of punk alive, Hot Topic be damned. Groundhog Day by Trapper Keeper is available at trapperkeeper.bandcamp. com.
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those comparisons. In particular, “Catskills” and its lonely falsetto vocals eerily evoke the Low Anthem’s Ben Knox Miller and his stirring performance on “Charlie Darwin,” from that band’s 2008 debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. It’s hero worship. But it’s the best kind: mimicry that lovingly honors its source material while forwarding an original artistic idea. “Autumn Drone (Part II)” is a tender elegy to fading friendships, probably potent subject matter to a group freshly out of college. Following that, “Fields” closes the EP on a melancholy note. It’s a wandering, piano-based composition that simmers with tension before a sturdy backbeat succumbs to spastic fiddle runs and ghostly, tumbling vocals. This is the recording’s most daring arrangement, and it offers a tantalizing hint as to what Alpenglow may have in store on future releases. Solitude by Alpenglow is available at alpenglowmusic.bandcamp.com.
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Our pals over at local microlabel NNA Tapes have a new release they’re pretty jazzed about, Hubble Eagle, by HUBBLE. Hubble is a project by guitarist BEN GREENBERG, best known lately for his work with Brooklyn punk band the MEN. As Hubble, Greenberg takes a decidedly more experimental approach than with that group, offering heady, minimalist suites of deconstructed guitar riffage that will likely appeal to the drone and noise crowds. He’ll be at the BCA Center on Wednesday, November 13, with RYAN POWER and DIRTY PROJECTORS’ NAT BALDWIN.
BORDELLO’s EUGENE HÜTZ. They’ll be at
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In other news … PHISH! If PAUL HEINTZ’s cover story on the band this week gave you a craving for sea phood, I’d suggest swimming upstream to Nectar’s this Saturday, November 9, when the House That Phish Built screens archival footage of the band’s 1995 Niagara Falls show that’s been synched with a new, three-CD box set of the performance. It’s a benny for the Chittenden County Emergency Food Shelf, and it’s free if you donate 10 nonperishable food items.
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On the Rise Bakery: Songwriters in the Round with Derek Burkins, Tim Berry, Karen Krajacic (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Two Brothers Tavern: DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., Free.
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The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free. Moog's Place: Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., Free. Parker Pie Co.: Live Music, 7:30 p.m., Free.
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Monopole: The Snacks (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Monopole Downstairs: Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Olive Ridley's: Andric Severance (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Therapy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYCE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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BCA Center: Federico Aubele, Leif Vollebekk (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $7/10. AA.
Fundamental Funk Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bernie Worrell is likely best known for his work with the pioneering funk band Parliament-Funkadelic and later with new-wave legends Talking Heads. With his own group, the Bernie Worrell Orchestra,
the famed keyboardist and composer extracts elements of classic R&B and psychedelic rock that BWO bandleader and
drummer Evan Taylor aptly calls “the foundation of funk.” Catch them at Nectar’s in Burlington this Friday, November 8, with the Michelle Sarah Band.
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City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Halflounge: Wanted Wednesday with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
Leunig's Bistro & Café: Paul Asbell, Clyde Stats and Chris Peterman (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free.
Nectar's: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Pigeons Playing PIng Pong, Simple Ritual (jam), 9:30 p.m., $7. 18+. On Tap Bar & Grill: Chad Hollister (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Jeremy Gilchrist (alt-folk), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., Free. Squimley & the Woolens (soul-funk), 11 p.m., Free. Red Square: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Skinny Pancake: Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
Sweet Melissa's: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Open Bluegrass Jam, 7 p.m., Free. Whammy Bar: Open Mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.
Club Metronome: Vermont Comedy Club Presents: Funniest Comic in Vermont Semifinals (standup), 7 p.m., $10/12. 18+. No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. Higher Ground Ballroom: Boombox (funky house), 9 p.m., $13/15. AA. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Dead Sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/12. AA.
SCAN PAGES JP's Pub: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free. IN THE MUSIC SECTION Juniper at Hotel Vermont: Frank Grymes (EDM), 8 p.m., Free. TO WATCH VIDEOS Lift: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. Monkey House: Genders, Crushed Out (indie), 9 p.m., $5. Marriott Harbor Lounge: Eight 02 (jazz), 8 OF THE ARTISTS p.m., Free.
Two Brothers Tavern: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.
Nectar's: Trivia Mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Aqueous (jam), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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O'Brien's Irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.
Nectar's: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Bernie Worrell Orchestra, Michelle Sarah Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.
The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.
SCAN HERE Moog's Place: John Daly Trio (acoustic), 8 p.m., JP's Pub: Pub Quiz with Dave (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. TO LISTEN TO Free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., Free. Parker Pie Co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. Junior's: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. TRACKS Piecasso: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.
Skinny Pancake: Jay Ekis Saves Wednesday in Montpelier (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: David Cook, Satellite (pop), 7:30 p.m., $25/28/50. AA.
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Monopole: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. Olive Ridley's: Adirondack Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., Free.
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Club Metronome: MiYard Presents: Capleton (reggae), 9 p.m., $25/30. Dobrá Tea: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. Halflounge: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Ballroom: Matt Nathanson, Joshua Radin (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $22/25. AA. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Consider the Source, the Mantras, Kloptoscope (prog rock), 8:30 p.m., $8/10. AA. JP's Pub: Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & Pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.
On Tap Bar & Grill: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., Free. Pizza Barrio : Eric George (jazz guitar), 8 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Cody Sargent & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio with Geza Carr & Rob Morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $3. Josh Panda & the Hot Damned (Southern soul), 11:30 p.m., $5. Red Square: Adam Travis & the Soul (soul), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Red Square Blue Room: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: Longford Row (Irish), 8 p.m., Free. Shelburne Vineyard: Phil Henry and Gary Moon (singer-songwriters), 6 p.m., Free. Skinny Pancake: Locavore Tonight, 5:30 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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Monkey House: Peep Show (burlesque), 10 p.m., $10.
On Tap Bar & Grill: Mitch & Friends (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Justice (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Park Place Tavern: RMX (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. Penalty Box: Salsa Night with Hector Cobeo, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+. Radio Bean: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., Free. Bow Thayer & Friends (Green Mountain soul), 7 p.m., Free. Derek Siegler (Americana), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kim & Chris (blues rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. The Sanford Blackout (reggae, funk), 11 p.m., Free. Red Square: Burlington Bread Boys (bluegrass), 5 p.m., Free. Somerville Symphony Orkestar (gypsy punk), 8 p.m., Donations. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Red Square Blue Room: DJ Mixx (EDM), 9 p.m., $5. Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
Bagitos: Julia Beerworth (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations.
Skinny Pancake: Creature From Dell Pond (rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery: Send Liz to Sochi: The Usual Suspects (rock), 7 p.m., $35.
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Sweet Melissa's: Zach Nugent (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.
Bagitos: Jim Thompson (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations.
Tupelo Music Hall: Freedom and Unity: the Vermont Movie (film), 7:30 p.m., $5/8. AA.
Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery: Eric Friedman (singer-songwriter), 5:30 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
Green Mountain Tavern: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.
City Limits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.
Sweet Melissa's: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with
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presents: Funniest Comic in Vermont Finals (standup), 7 p.m., $8/10. 18+. Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRanny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
HigHeR gRound BallRooM: The Kids are alright (rock), 12:30 p.m., $5/7/10/12. aa.
ciTy liMiTs: City Limits Dance party with top Hat Entertainment (top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
HigHeR gRound sHowcase lounge: Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Counterparts, State Champs, Living With Lions (pop-punk), 6:30 p.m., $12/14. aa.
51 Main: Gumbo YaYa (funk), 8 p.m., Free.
Jp's puB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free.
on THe Rise BakeRy: Kari Beth (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Two BRoTHeRs TaveRn: The Vibratones (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
northern
Bee's knees: Keith Williams (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. Moog's place: a Fly allusion (funk), 9 p.m., Free. RiMRocks MounTain TaveRn: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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Monopole: North Funktree (funk), 10 p.m., Free. olive Ridley's: Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., Na. THeRapy: pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.
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cHuRcH & Main ResTauRanT: Night Vision (EDM), 9 p.m., Free.
JunipeR aT HoTel veRMonT: Samara Lark and the Outfit (folk), 8 p.m., Free. MaRRioTT HaRBoR lounge: tiffany pfeiffer (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Monkey House: Lou Reed tribute: Rough Francis, Dino Bravo, Swale, Wolvings, Lowell Thompson, tooth ache. (rock), 9 p.m., $5. necTaR's: The Waterwheel Foundation presents phish's Niagra Falls '95 Show (concert screening), 5 p.m., $5 donation. Sparkplug, the Dupont Brothers, tokyo Rosenthal (Melvin Sparks tribute), 9 p.m., $5. on Tap BaR & gRill: Leno & Young (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Last Kid picked (rock), 9 p.m., Free. pizza BaRRio : Joshua Boniello (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Sammie Francis (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Hadley Kennary (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Carly tefft (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., Free. Bella's Bartok (gypsy punk), 11 p.m., Free. The primate Fiasco (psychedelic Dixieland), 12:30 a.m., Free.
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RED SQUARE: Sam Averbuck (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Equalites (reggae), 8 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Stavros (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
Too Cool for School The legend goes that
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randomly submitted a demo tape to Thievery Corporation’s
Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, who, after losing their shit over his heady blend of folk, Tropicalia and electronica, immediately signed the Argentine songwriter. Aubele’s new record, 5, released last month, is a similarly gripping work. It is a shadowy fusion of Spanish guitar and dub that led Mojo magazine to wonder of Aubele, “Can you ever be too cool?” We don’t think so. Touring in support of that record, Aubele plays the BCA Center in Burlington this Friday, November 8, with LEIF VOLLEBEKK.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Slickbitch (rock), 10 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Hollar General, Maryse Smith (art folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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BAGITOS: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., Free. Eric Friedman (acoustic), 6 p.m., Donations. SWEET MELISSA'S: Andy Pitt (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Chris Robertson and the Socket Rockets Album Release (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
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BEE'S KNEES: Cody Michaels, 11 a.m., Donations. The Hubcats (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. MOOG'S PLACE: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., Free. PARKER PIE CO.: Red Tin Box (folk), 8 p.m., $5. PIECASSO: Rumblecat (funk), 10 p.m., Free. Rumblecat (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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MONOPOLE: Formula 5 (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., NA.
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Show) (psychedelic Dixieland), 4 p.m., Free. Dave Richardson (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Behold and Lo (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Dawna Hamemrs (torch songs), 9 p.m., Free. J. Rumney (IDM), 10:30 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, 12 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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SKINNY PANCAKE: Bob Arden (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Teen Dance Night, 7 p.m., $8.
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ARTSRIOT: Chrome Sparks, Solar Year, Disco Phantom, A.O. River (synthpop), 9 p.m., $8. AA.
BEE'S KNEES: David Langevin (piano), 11 a.m., Donations. Joshua Powell (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.
MATTERHORN: Chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.
FRANNY O'S: Vermont's Got Talent Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.
SWEET CRUNCH BAKE SHOP: Don Tobey and Mary Collins (singer-songwriters), 10:30 a.m., Free.
HALFLOUNGE: B-Sides (deep house), 7 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Spark Arts Open Improv, 7 p.m., $3. Red Tin Box, Bible Camp Sleepovers, the Mangroves (indie), 9:30 p.m., $5. NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Zack DuPont (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free. PENALTY BOX: Trivia with a Twist, 4 p.m., Free.
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RADIO BEAN: Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. Saloon Sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., Free. The Primate Fiasco (Kid's
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ARTSRIOT: Quilt, Happy Jawbone Family Band (experimental pop), 8:30 p.m., $10. AA. HALFLOUNGE: Family Night Live Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody (dance), 10 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.
MONKEY HOUSE: Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery, Nico Rivers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: Metal Monday: Zentauri, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Joe Adler (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free. RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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CHARLIE O'S: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: Children's Sing Along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations. David Langevin & Carrie Cook (folk), 7 p.m., Donations. MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.
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ARTSRIOT: Gregory Alan Isakov, Rachel Ries (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $15. AA. CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. HALFLOUNGE: Funkwagon's Tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., Free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ:
James Stout & Tyler Bolles (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: WBKM B-Day Bash: Seth Yacovone Band, Bob Wagner, D. Davis & Friends, the ID, Shannon McNally (rock), 7 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
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CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Andy Plant (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.
champlain valley TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: Bob Adern (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (trivia, rock), 8 p.m., Free.
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GUSTO'S: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
burlington area
SKINNY PANCAKE: Jay Ekis Saves Wednesday in Montpelier (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
HALFLOUNGE: Wanted Wednesday with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Bob Wagner & D. Davis (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free.
FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Griz, Pegboard Nerds, the Floozies (EDM), 8:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., Free. JUNIPER AT HOTEL VERMONT: Ray Vega Quartet (Latin jazz), 8 p.m., Free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell, Clyde Stats and Chris Peterman (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Gravity A (jam), 9:30 p.m., $7. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Social Club (downtempo), 4:20 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. The Usual Suspects (rock), 7 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
central
BAGITOS: Al 'n' Pete (acoustic), 6 p.m., Donations.
SCAN TO LIS WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 6:30 TRAC p.m., Free.
champlain valley
CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass, 7:30 p.m., Free.
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northern
BEE'S KNEES: Aristocratic Peasants (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Eames & Miriam Bernardo (singersongwriters), 8:30 p.m., Free. PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. PIECASSO: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.
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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Completely Stranded Standup Comedy, 8 p.m., Free.
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works at Dealer.com — many of his expressive works adorn the walls of that South End business. Macon selected Gonter for her first show because of his “really great potential on the marketplace,” she says. One of the works on display, “Irises,” is made up of splatters of yellow, blue and brown oil paint, echoing the explosiveness of Schneider’s “Bouquets.” The next wall presents the prints of retired UVM art prof Bill Davison. Macon says she has known his work for years, often having spotted it in the homes of local art collectors. Davison’s series “Moments of Darkness,” which he completed for the 10th anniversary of September 11, is on display. It features rows of uniquely textured watercolor monotypes standing side by side in parallel towers. Don Ross’ photographs of Vermont quarries command attention on the north wall of the gallery. “He’s really throwing his heart and soul into his art,” Macon says of the Brandon artist. From a distance, Ross’ large-scale prints appear almost abstract, as if they were simply stacked rectilinear shapes — similar to Davison’s towers. But a closer look reveals abandoned quarries marked with tiny details, such as a worn-down fence along the rock edge, or a tangle of rope left behind from a long-ago task. To fund the new gallery, BCA has rolled out a kind of CSA — in this case, community-supported art — financing model. So far, 13 founding members have contributed $3000 each. In return, each receives use of the gallery for private events, a $750 credit toward the purchase of gallery artwork, and other perks. “You’re basically writing a check to an artist,” says Macon, who aims to get at least another 12 members on board. As director of the new gallery, Macon says her job isn’t just about seeking out Vermont artists but also about cultivating local art buyers. “I don’t expect people to walk off Church Street and spend $4000 on a set of prints,” she says. To that end, she’s planning to hold events at which interested collectors can browse more work by exhibiting artists. Macon has been working at BCA since 2010. After a childhood spent watching her interior-designer mother transform spaces, she went on to earn a master’s degree in cultural history and has experience in business management and a woodworking hobby. She suggests that background uniquely qualifies her to run the new gallery. “I can build things, beautify things, and I can do your budget,” she says, smiling. Moving forward, Macon hopes to challenge herself by showing artwork that caters to a variety of aesthetic preferences. As for the current show, it’s a reflection of her personal tastes. “I just want to live here,” Macon says. PHOTOS: MATTHEW THORSEN
he first things you’re likely to notice upon entering the BCA Center’s new Vermont Metro Gallery are Kathleen Schneider’s explosive, hanging flower-petal sculptures. The two orb-like “Bouquets” — made from deconstructed fake flowers and wire, some of it twisted into the shape of miniature helicopters — hover like floral fireworks in front of small, deep windows looking toward Lake Champlain.
This is the fourth floor of the Church Street art center. The small, roughly square room in the eaves of the old firehouse most recently served as studio space to 2013 Barbara Smail Award winner Kate Donnelly. But since last month, it’s been transformed into a commercial gallery space dedicated exclusively to Vermont artists. Back in 1982, when Burlington City Arts opened Metropolitan Gallery, its first exhibition space, in city hall, the goal was to show work by local artists. But when it moved into the firehouse, BCA broadened its horizons, showing more and more contemporary artwork from farther afield. These days, the BCA Center stands out in the local art scene because it’s one of few places where Vermonters can be exposed to art from around the nation and the world. Still, for several years, says Kerri Macon, BCA director of sales and manager of the new gallery, the organization has been itching to return to its roots and dedicate a new space to Vermont artists. At first BCA looked into using commercial spaces elsewhere in town, but the cost was prohibitive. “It took a change of curators, timing, and we had residencies still lined up,” notes Macon, who says the Barbara Smail residency will continue in a different location on Pine Street. Macon, who will curate the rotating exhibits, sees the Vermont Metro Gallery as “a graduation point from some of the other galleries around town.” She says that BCA’s reputation as a venue that exhibits high-quality contemporary art from around the country is likely to raise the profile of the local art displayed upstairs. “We know what good contemporary art looks like,” she says. Still, the VMG will have a different flair. While the artwork shown in BCA’s main galleries is often fairly conceptual, Macon is looking for more of an aesthetic emphasis on the fourth floor. After all, this is a commercial gallery. She will be seeking out “really great conceptual art that’s also really beautiful and professionally presented,” she says. Macon’s inaugural exhibit certainly fits the bill. Schneider’s flowery orbs — despite the mission-ready helicopters lurking within the petals — are so pretty you might consider using them as wedding decorations. Schneider lives in Winooski and teaches sculpture at the University of Vermont, but Macon first saw her work in a gallery in Brooklyn. “I just fell in love with them,” she recalls. On an adjacent wall hang the abstract paintings of John Gonter, a Burlington-based artist and musician who
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tAlkS & eVentS eSSex Art leAgue meeting: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, november 7, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church, essex Junction. info, essexartleague.com. life-DrAwing SeSSion: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. wednesday, november 6, 6-9 p.m.; sunday, november 10, 2-5 p.m.; wednesday, november 13, 6-9 p.m., black horse Fine Art supply, burlington. info, 860-4972. leSlie fry: A one-day studio sale of works on paper and small sculptures. sunday, november 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 48 elm street, winooski. info, lfry@lesliefry.com. 'ArtS So wonDerful': An evening of visual art, finger food, live entertainment, a cash bar and a raffle organized by the nonprofit service Rendered inc. saturday, november 9, 5-8 p.m., Courtyard Marriott burlington harbor. info, 772-7308. 'golD, Sex AnD DeAtH At tHe muSeum': Art critic Jeff Kelley gives a talk in conjunction with Richard saunders' and sarah laursen’s art history class. wednesday, november 13, 4:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College. info, 443-3168. illA loeb: "Departure series," an MFA thesis exhibit. Through november 9 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Talk: Thursday, november 7, 3 p.m. info, 635-1469.
'tHe pASt AS preSent: mAking Art from epHemerA': new York-based book artist Maureen
'Vito ACConCi: tHinking SpACe': An exhibition that marks the inauguration on campus of a replica of Acconci’s "way station i," which was constructed in 1983 near what is now McCardell bicentennial hall. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Acconci discusses the exhibit, his 1988 establishment of the Acconci studio, and his recent public, private, national and international projects, Thursday, november 7, 7 p.m., Dana Auditorium, sunderland language Center, Middlebury College. info, 443-3168. AnnuAl SAle & benefit: burlington painter Katharine Montstream sells her work, hosts a food drive and raffles a framed watercolor to benefit the King street Center. on saturday, 2-3 p.m., she completes an original painting and sells it to benefit the intervale. on sunday, 1 p.m., she gives a watercolor demonstration. Friday, november 8, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; saturday, november 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; sunday, november 10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Montstream studio, burlington. info, 862-8752. 'book ArtS guilD of Vermont — CArD triCkS': Artists bring a completed card or mini-book, along with six undecorated cards or mini-book structures to share and decorate. wednesday, november 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., unitarian Church, burlington. info, bookartsvt@gmail.com. tHe beeHiVe ColleCtiVe: The art collective, which focuses on globalization, resource extraction and stories of resistance, gives a workshop and lecture and debuts its latest print, "Mesoamerica Resiste!" wednesday, november 6, 7 p.m., ArtsRiot, burlington. info, artsriot.com.
Vermont ArtiStS: work by artists such as Carl Rubino, Kim senior and Kelly o'neal. Curated by seAbA. Through november 27 at Vermont Custom Closets & otter Creek Awnings in williston. Reception: wednesday, november 6, 6-8 p.m. info, 859-9222.
Art town meeting: s.p.A.C.e. gallery director Christy Mitchell, artist Clark Derbes and Art Map Burlington publisher Ric Kasini Kadour meet with artists and the general public to discuss the local art market. wednesday, november 13, 7 p.m., s.p.A.C.e. gallery, burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com.
'your Junk, my Art: tHe trAnSformAtion of founD obJeCtS': work by b Amore, nancy weis, Karen Koziol, Catherine hall, bob hooker, Janet Van Fleet, Kristin humbargar, Ronni solbert, Dick weis, susan Farrow, gene Childers, Classes 7 days a week! Tom Absher and Ruth hamilton. november 8 through December burlingtonbarrevt.com 15 at Compass Music and Arts Center in brandon. Reception: saturday, november 9, 5-8 p.m. 16t-studio208-110613.indd 1 info, 247-3000.
reCeptionS 'mAke belieVe': photographs that tell fantastical stories inspired by fantasy, horror, sci-fi, fairy tales and steam punk. Through november 10 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: sunday, november 10, 4:30-6:30 p.m. info, 777-3686. miCHAel blAnkStein: photographs by the world traveler who recently relocated to Vermont. november 9 through 30 at Davis studio gallery in burlington. Reception: saturday, november 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m. info, 425-2700. 'SmAll treASureS': small-scale artwork and craft by guild members, plus handcrafted holiday ornaments. november 8 through January 28 at brandon Artists guild. Reception: Friday, november 8, 5-8 p.m. info, 247-4956. Antonello borrA & DeliA robinSon: borra's new collection of bestiary poems, Alfabestiario, with illustrations by Robinson, is displayed alongside Robinson's new works on canvas called "The Middle sister." Through December 31 at Flynndog in burlington. Reception: borra reads select works from Alfabestiario in the original italian, and actor/director Mark Alan gordon reads the english translations, Friday, november 8, 6-9 p.m. info, 863-0093. JoHn riVerS & mArSHAll webb: "The Color of Mood," landscapes in oil and photography. Through December 4 at All souls interfaith gathering in shelburne. Reception: Friday, november 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 985-3819. brittAny DAnielS: "Ascent," a bFA senior thesis exhibit. november 11 through 22 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Reception: wednesday, november 13, 3-5 p.m. info, 635-1469.
sculptures. Through november 30 at Feldman's bagels in burlington. info, 578-2512.
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Art Hop group SHow: More than 25 artists contributed to this collaborative exhibit curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222.
Al SAlzmAn: "subversive," paintings and drawings. november 7 through January 17 at ArtsRiot in burlington. info, artsriot.com. Ali moore: "Quick Draw," acrylic and collage works on paper modeled after the artist's found-junk
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kent SHAw: Color photographs taken in Morrisville, elmore and hardwick. Through January 20 16t-retnWEEKLY.indd 1 at Claire's Restaurant & bar in hardwick. Reception: Monday, november 11, 4-6 p.m. info, 472-7053. 'workS in ClAy': Clay sculpture created by students of benjamin Davis. november 9 through 16 at hermitage gallery in worcester. Reception: saturday, november 9, 3-5 p.m. info, 229-6297. 'poSter riot: 32 yeArS of performAnCeS At tHe flynn': show posters from the Flynn archives, plus posters from partner organizations such as lyric Theatre Company, Vermont symphony orchestra, Vermont stage Company, uVM lane series, higher ground and the burlington Discover Jazz Festival. november 8 through January 4 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. Reception: Friday, november 8, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 652-4500.
Through January 6 at eCho lake Aquarium and science Center/leahy Center for lake Champlain in burlington. info, 877-324-6386. CArl rubino: A selection of landscape photographs taken over the last six years. Through December 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. buRlingTon-AReA shows
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'Cool moVeS! ArtiStry of motion': An interactive exhibit that explores the beauty of motion.
meg mCDeVitt: "links," sumi-ink drawings filtered through various papers onto wood panels and more paper, creating surfaces that evoke topography. Through December 7 at Castleton Downtown gallery in Rutland. Reception: Friday, november 8, 6-8 p.m. info, 468-1266.
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'SHADeS of fAll: SmAll piCture exHibition': one hundred fifty paintings by 88 artist members. november 8 through December 29 at bryan Memorial gallery in Jeffersonville. Reception: A 2 p.m. reception follows a round-table discussion with four exhibiting artists. sunday, november 10, 1-4 p.m. info, 644-5100.
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'rAmpAnt lionS AnD tHe lAw reVeAleD': samuel D. gruber, an international expert on Jewish art and historical preservation, discusses the Chai Adam Mural painted in burlington's little Jerusalem in 1910 and rediscovered in 2012. saturday, november 9, 7-9 p.m.; sunday, november 10, 1-3 p.m., ohavi Zedek synagogue, burlington. info, 864-0218.
SHelburne ponD StuDioS HoliDAy SHow: explore the studios and artwork of Jill Abilock, stephanie bush, Jenn Cullen, Dana Dale lee, lyna lou nordstrom, Katherine stockman, lin warren, wild blossom Designs and botanical encaustic Candle Making. saturday, november 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., shelburne pond studios. info, 999-4394.
figure-DrAwing SeSSion: A live model poses for artists who have brought their own supplies; boards and benches provided. RsVp in advance to 775-0356. Thursday, november 7, 6-8 p.m., Chaffee Downtown Art Center, Rutland. info, 775-0356.
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bfA tHeSiS exHibitS: work in a variety of media by brittany Daniels, ira Musty and Ashley shotwell. november 11 through 22 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Talk: wednesday, november 13, 3 p.m. info, 635-1469.
Cummins discusses her career and shows slides from past projects based on historical subject matter such as slave narratives, turnof-the-century homosexual love letters, the salem witch trials and the Triangle Factory Fire. Friday, november 8, 5:30 p.m., bailey/ howe library, uVM, burlington. info, 656-2138.
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Through December 7 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
Carol Winn Blakeley: "Here and There..." photography. Through November 30 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.
Paul Humphrey: "Sleeping Beauties," paintings by the late Burlington outsider artist. Through November 27 at New City Galerie in Burlington. Info, 735-2542.
Carolyn Walton: "Visions," an exhibit celebrating Walton's 15 years showing her paintings at the gallery. Athenia Schinto, Susan Bull Riley, Betty Ball and Tineke Russell also exhibit their work. Through December 28 at Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-8223.
'Represent': An annual show coinciding with Art Hop that highlights the unique talents of artists near and dear to the gallery. Through November 16 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com. Susan Larkin: "Land & Lakeshore," oil paintings of Lake Champlain and Northern Vermont landscapes. Through January 2 at Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 928-3081.
Christine Demarais: "From 50 to 60, the Last Ten Years," work by the fabric artist, costume designer and belly dancer. Through November 30 at Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.
Tessa Hill: "Black Rhino Designs Mushrooms," wall hangings composed of painted polymer clay mushrooms and found wood. Through December 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107.
Christy Mitchell: "It's All In There," a series inspired by the artist's childhood practice of hiding her thoughts on paper by writing the words on top of each other, creating a new text of her own in the process. Through November 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.
Todd Kiel: Paintings by the 2013 Wall-to-Canvas winner, whose influences include vintage comics, retro signs, wartime propaganda posters, Bauhaus and the avant-garde. Through December 31 at Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington. Info, 658-2739.
'Color, Pattern, Whimsy, Scale: The Best of Shelburne Museum': Nearly 100 works from the permanent collection including paintings, folk art, furniture, wallpaper, decorative arts, textiles, costumes and more, exhibited in conjunction with the grand opening of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education. Through December 31 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346.
'Visions of Vermont': Photography by Lisa Dimondstein, Patricia Lyon-Surrey, Julie Parker and Sandra Shenk, and pottery by Gail Yanowitch. Through November 30 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.
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David Smith: "Differences in Moments," recent landscape paintings in oil. Through November 9 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848. 'Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States': Work from the Vogels' extensive collection by more than 20 artists, including Carel Balth, Judy Rifka, Pat Steir and Richard Tuttle; 'EAT: The Social Life of Food': A student-curated exhibit of objects from the museum collection that explores the different ways people interact with food, from preparation to eating and beyond. Through May 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
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Ellen Goodrich: "Palette of Glass," mosaic and stained-glass work in which the artist reflects on her gardens and seasons on the lake. Through November 29 at Studio 266 in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. Elliott Katz: Large-scale photographs suggesting a vaguely lunar landscape alongside imposing sculptures in concrete and dirt. Through November 8 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Info, 656-2014. Elvira Tripp: Art Affair by Shearer presents work by the Mexican-born artist. Through December 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111. Grace Cothalis: Mandala shields, collage cards and works in pastel. Through November 29 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233. Haley Bishop: Colorful, layered mixed-media images of familiar spaces by the winner of 2012’s "Labels for Libations" competition for SEABA/Magic Hat’s Art Hop Ale. Through November 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614. Inaugural Exhibit: Prints by Bill Davison, sculpture by Kathleen Schneider, photographs by Don Ross and paintings by John Gonter. Through January 9 at Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Jack Maiorino: "Art on Post-its," pen-and-ink landscape drawings on yellow Post-it notes, featuring scenes both urban and rural. Through November 30 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418.
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Jake Geer: Landscape paintings; Cindy Roy: Work by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through November 30 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Karen Dawson: Paintings and drawings by the Burlington artist. Through November 30 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 861-9700.
Arthur Zorn: "Cooling Bouquets for Summer Days," new paintings by the Barre artist. Through December 6 at Angeleno's Pizza in Montpelier. Info, 229-5721. 'Aviary': Bird-themed works by Virginia Beahan, Varujan Boghosian, Gail Boyjalian, David Bumbeck, Anda Dubinskis, Jesseca Ferguson, Marcy Hermansader and more. Through November 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.
‘Your Junk, My Art: The Transformation of Found Objects’ A doll head, a hunk of white ash, buttons. Sometimes the most intriguing materials are the discarded objects artists find where
they least expect it. Vermont and New York artists — B Amore, Nancy Weis, Karen Koziol, Catherine Hall, Bob Hooker, Janet Van Fleet, Kristin Humbargar, Ronni Solbert, Dick Weis, Susan Farrow, Gene Childers, Tom Absher and Ruth Hamilton — have created works of art from bits of junk, which are on display at the at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon, November 8 through December 15. Pictured: Detail of “Shrapnel” by Van Fleet. Karen Dawson: "The Boat Show," works by the Vermont painter. Through November 30 at Healthy Living Market and Café in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569. Karen Day-Vath: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016. Katherine Lucas: "NYC," paintings in tribute to the artist's hometown. Through November 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. 'Look Again: Images of Daily Life, 17th-21st Century': Depictions of daily life by Adriaen van Ostade, John Thomson, Martin Parr, Tina Barney, Nikki S. Lee, Guy Ben-Ner and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Through December 14 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Mallory Bratton Rich: Oil and pastel paintings of the landscapes of rural Vermont, eastern New York and coastal Maine and North Carolina. Through January 2 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001.
Marcy Kass: Watercolors and drawings of landscapes and portraits. Through November 30 at Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston. Info, 878-4918. 'Murales Pintados: Painted Walls & the Painters': A collaboration between American documentary photographers Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack and Cuban street artists. Through December 3 at the Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 540-3018. November Show: Work by Carl Rubino, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Gaal Shepherd, Maria Del Castillo, Marie LaPré Grabon, Sam K. and Scott Einsig/Red Birch Studio, Holly Hauser, Louise Arnold, Jacques Burke, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Tessa Holmes. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at the Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. 'Of Land and Local': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape; Heather McGill: "Night Moves," sculptures that incorporate automotive paints, hand-detailed lines and highly polished finishes to reference muscle car culture and custom motorcycle gas tanks.
Benjamin Barnes: Recent paintings of the agricultural landscape, including tractors, trucks, barns and outbuildings. Through December 1 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043. Brenna Colt: Photographs, paintings and drawings by the New Hampshire artist. Through November 9 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, outreach@chandler-arts.org. 'Celebrate': An annual show of fine art and craft by artist members. November 13 through December 28 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. 'Earth as Muse: Beauty, Degradation, Hope, Regeneration, Awakening': Artwork that celebrates the Earth's beauty while reflecting on tensions between mankind and the environment by Fran Bull, Pat Musick, Harry A. Rich, Jenny Swanson and Richard Weis. Through April 4 at the Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 258-3992. 'Eclectic: A Collection of 19th and 20th Century Art': A private collection of oil and watercolor paintings, lithographs and other prints, original exhibition posters and sculpture by artists such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Peter Max, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo and Alberto Vargas. Through November 9 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. 'From the Mountains to the Sea; Plants, Trees, and Shrubs of New England': A traveling exhibition of botanical illustrations by the New England Society of Botanical Artists. Through December 1 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200. Georgia Myer: "Authenticity," mixed-media works featuring oil, paper, pastels, charcoal, ink and watercolor on paper, canvas and linen. Through December 27 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. Group Show: Work by fiber artist Alison Cannon, blacksmith Chris Eaton and beeswax candle makers Bonita Bedard and Shawna Sherwin. Through December 31 at Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.
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Jennie Harriman & CHristopHer smitH: "Intersectionalism: An Interdisciplinary Art Show," drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, works of graphic design and childrens' literature, plus a participatory art activity. Through December 27 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. Linda maney: "Abstract Thinking," acrylic and watercolor paintings by the Montpelier artist. Through November 30 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. Lisa Forster BeaCH: Abstract paintings by the Stowe artist. Through December 31 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682. Lois masor Beatty & sHeri HanCoCk-tomek: New prints. Through November 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901. marC Beerman: Wildlife and nature images by the Pennsylvania-based photographer. Through January 5 at VINS Nature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5001. mary L. CoLLins: Photographs and other items that reflect the artist's close relationship with the Oglala Lakota nation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Through December 18 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Info, 728-1237. patriCia Lyon-surrey: "Season of Transition," photographs of the Vermont landscape. Through November 30 at the Drawing Board in Montpelier. Info, 888-7655.
'round': Circular objects ranging from uniform buttons to oddities such as a foot-powered dentist’s drill; 'tHese Honored dead: private and nationaL Commemoration': An exhibit that tells the stories of Norwich alumni from both sides of the Civil War, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals. Through December 20 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. 'serviCe and saCriFiCe: vermont’s CiviL war Generation': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the Civil War dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout Vermont. Through November 30 at Vermont History Center in Barre. Info, 479-8500. steFFany aLexis yasus: "Caras," digital and film photography. Through November 30 at the Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. winter Group sHow: Sculpture, illustration, photography and acrylic and oil paintings by nine Vermont artists. Through January 4 at Axel's Frameshop in Waterbury. Info, 244-7801. 'written in stone: voiCes oF tHe LGBtQ Community': Artists use a variety of media to respond to the question, Who are you and how do you express yourself within your community? Through November 11 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776.
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'autumn invitationaL': Abstract and representational images in a variety of media by Lily Hinrichsen, Retha Boles, Pat Todd and Carol Calhoun. Through November 10 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.
'points oF view: seven portrait artists': An exhibit that chronicles the development of a group of central Vermont artists — Agathe McQueston, Lark Upson, Sande French-Stockwell, Judith Beckett, Liesi Hebert, Marcia Hammond and Joan Feierabend — who work each week from the same model. Through November 10 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878.
'FasHion & Fantasy at tHe edGe oF tHe Forest': Selections from the museum’s vintage clothing collection paired with Vermont artist Wendy Copp's imaginative couture creations made from natural materials such as ferns, birch bark and hydrangea. Through December 31 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117. CHAMPLAIN VALLey SHOWS
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Jessica cuni: "Bioluminescence," recent work by the local artist who explores the dynamic interplay between biological form, observed natural systems and an increasingly personal, perceptual reality. Through November 26 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119. John GemiGnani: "Painting Outside the Lines," representational, graphic paintings and abstract, textural works by the Vermont artist. Through December 27 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. nick mayer & maura clancy: "Natural Patterns," naturalist fish paintings by Mayer; woven baskets by Clancy. Through November 17 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. 'of land and local': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape. Through December 1 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland and through November 8 at Fair Haven Welcome Center. Info, 865-7166. 'Portraits at the fair': Fanciful portraits created by photographer George Bouret, who uses painted backdrops and props to construct an imaginary moment at fairs and public gatherings throughout southwestern Vermont. Through November 23 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'screened and selected ii: contemPorary PhotoGraPhy and Video acquisitions, 2006–2011': Acquisitions the college made with the help of students, including images by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Alex Soth and James Welling, among others. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.
'sixth annual PhotoGraPhy contest: take the streets!': Work by amateur photographers of all ages, including featured artist Robert Gold. Through November 16 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. tom merwin: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.
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chris stearns: "Vermont on Aluminum," highdynamic-range landscape photographs printed on sheets of aluminum. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. diane Bruns: "Atmosphere," pastel landscape paintings by the Waterbury artist. Through November 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. 'draw the line and make your Point: the Pencil and the 21st century': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world. Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409. elinor osBorn: Photographs. Through December 16 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366. elizaBeth nelson: Oil and acrylic paintings. Through November 18 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. Gary c. eckhart: Watercolors by the Vermont artist. Through November 17 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.
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Kay Healy & Casey BlanCHard: In "Sublet," Healy's large-scale screen-printed and sewn fabric panels transform the gallery into the fanciful interiors of Philadelphia row homes; Blanchard's layered monoprints explore memory. Through November 26 at Upstairs at West Branch in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. 'KiCK and Glide: Vermont's nordiC sKi leGaCy': An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark and back-country skiing. Through October 31 at Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. 'KinGdom Community inside out: nortHeast KinGdom artists interpret tHe nortHeast KinGdom': Artwork by Phyllis Hammond, Sam Thurston, Marjorie Kramer, Diana Mara Henry, Judy Lowry, Ken Leslie, Diane Peel, Jack Rogers, Richard Hodio, Mary Brenner, Bradleigh Stockwell and student artists. Through November 26 at the 99 Gallery and Center in Newport. Info, 323-9013. liz le serViGet: A colorful world of cats, dogs, toothy crocodiles, flying pigs and magical kingdoms expressed in a variety of media including paintings on canvas, stone assemblage, fiber art, painted ceramics and furniture. Through November 11 at Cafe Latina in Stowe. Info, 253-3046. liz le serViGet: "A Dog's World," a celebration of dogs depicted in oil paintings, furniture, stone assemblage, ceramics and fabric. Through November 15 at Inky Dinky Oinkink Gallery in Moscow. Info, 253-3046. nanCy dwyer & steVe BudinGton: "I Am Always Your Context," a collaborative exhibition of paintings and wallpaper. Through November 24 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. noVemBer sHow: Work by artist Natalie Larocque-Bouchard, potter Alex Costantino
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art of winter exHiBition: Kasini House seeks fine artists for an exhibition of winterthemed artwork at the Pop-up Art Market at Burlington Town Center, November 29 through December 28. Info, info@ kasinihouse.com.
'puente: an exHiBition of CuBan artists': Photographs, large-scale drawings, sculptures and prints by seven contemporary Cuban artists reflecting on their island. Through November 24 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. selina Coté: "In Foraging," black-and-white photographs that explore the artist's role as forager. Through December 3 at Tegu Building in Morrisville. Info, 793-6507.
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daisy roCKwell: "The Topless Jihadi and Other Curious Birds," paintings of women in political situations such as members of the FEMEN movement, a Ukrainian feminist group that stages protests topless. Through December 30 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.
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pat musiCK: "Our Fragile Home," sculptures and works on paper inspired by the words astronauts have used to describe seeing the Earth from space. Through February 28 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.
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renee BouCHard: "Baby Ensor," recent paintings that chronicle the last 19 months of the artist's life as a new mother. Through November 26 at Southern Vermont College Gallery in Bennington. Info, 447-6316. saBra field: "Cosmic Geometry," work by the Vermont printmaker. Through March 9 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124. m
models and memBers wanted: White River Craft Center is seeking both members and models for figure-drawing sessions on Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Models of every kind and make, clothed or not, are welcome. $25 pay for a two-hour class. Also seeking solo show possibilities and members for the center. Info, Alexis, 485-6610, thesallonikipatera@yahoo.com. printmaKers sHow: January through March at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Looking for innovative prints of all kinds. Submission deadline: November 29. Include digital images and a short statement of intent. Info, janetensia@gmail.com. artists and Crafters wanted: indoor artist yard sale! Do you have old acrylics, mismatched paper, spare canvas or unfinished artwork that could be repurposed into something great? Sell it at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery’s artist yard sale in Burlington and make some cash! Looking for artists and crafters who have old artwork, art supplies and other materials (that could be used creatively) to sell. Each seller will receive a 6-by-6-foot space to set up their wares. The indoor yard sale will take place on Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Setup times and entry information at spacegalleryvt.com. Space is limited; apply today!
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faCes: portraiture sHow: Darkroom Gallery seeks photographs that reflect an enduring fascination with the photographic portrait. Deadline: November 13, midnight. Juror: Elizabeth Avedon. Entry fee. darkroomgallery.com. fiVe elements: pHoto Comp: Photograph the beauty of nature; five elements provide the foundation for our entire physical world. Deadline: December 11. Juror: Eddie Soloway. darkroomgallery.com. Exhibit is in January. memBers’ art sHow 2013: Helen Day Art Center invites you to participate in our annual show highlighting the rich and varied talents of local artists. All you have to do is become a member. Special artist price: $30. All the work will be for sale; 80 percent of sales go to the artists. Deadline: November 15. Info, hdacexhibits@helenday. com, helenday.com. open Group sHow: First Friday every month. $8 entry fee. No rules, any size/media/ subject. Entries (each artist limited to one work) accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening Reception, Friday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. People’s choice vote; cash prize. Exhibit up for month. Location: Root Gallery at RLPhoto, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com or 540-3081.
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paul GruHler: Abstract acrylic paintings on linen. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.
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ou read a lot about the battle between digital and celluloid, but little about the format that’s rapidly becoming dominant in Hollywood: Geezerscope. Mark my words, the day is approaching when every title in the top 10 will be a bittersweet comedy with a cast of one-time action stars hobbling around on walkers. Actors have always aged in front of the camera, of course. It’s provided occasions for especially moving and memorable work. I’m thinking of John Wayne in True Grit, Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond, Spencer Tracy in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (completed 17 days before he died). I am not thinking of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in Escape Plan. Somewhere along the way, the industry forgot what to do with performers who’ve passed their prime. Instead of going deep, it decided to go cute and comic. The result has been a couple of decades’ worth of films that mostly fall into one of two categories. On the one hand, pictures such as Venus, Quartet and Another Year offer relatively realistic looks at life’s last chapters. On the other, movies like The Crew, Stand Up Guys and — the bottom of the genre’s barrel — The
Bucket List present a comic-book vision of old age as an enfeebling fantasy one can snap out of, given a reason wild and crazy enough for doing so. Last Vegas is Hollywood’s latest contribution to the latter school. Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) and written by Dan Fogelman, it’s a geriatric riff on The Hangover. Minus, you know, the tiger, the roofies and the laughs. It’s official — Robert De Niro, 70, will do anything for money. The artist formerly known as an artist is this close to playing a grumpy neighbor on a sitcom. As Paddy, a grumpy Brooklyn widower, he’s initially the holdout when his old gang decides to throw a bachelor party for the only member who’s yet to tie the knot. That’s a business big shot named Billy (Michael Douglas, 69) who’s marrying a hottie half his age. There’s Kevin Kline, 66, as Sam, a generic Sunshine State retiree; and Morgan Freeman, 76, as Archie. It’s essentially the same role Freeman played in both Red and The Bucket List: a half-embalmed coot who inexplicably has the energy and moves of a 20-year-old when the plot needs him to. The four meet up in Sin City and proceed to “party like it’s 1959.” I’m not sure what’s
DICE AGE Glacial pacing and prehistoric jokes keep this story about four fossils throwing a bachelor bash from hitting the comedy jackpot.
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wasn’t off my straw when it arrived. Paddy and Billy, who fell for the same girl when they were kids, now — you guessed it — fall for the same lounge singer (Mary Steenburgen). Archie wins a fortune playing blackjack, so management comps the friends a palatial suite, the perfect place for an epic bacchanal where life lessons are served with the martinis. As though the filmmakers feared they might’ve skimped on shtick, the final act
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military regime, he represents humanity’s best hope of stopping a future attack by the Formics, an alien race that devastated Earth years earlier. As their name suggests, they’re essentially giant ants. The kid is packed off to an orbiting Battle School to play war games in zero gravity while his superiors play mind games with him. Graff aims to mold Ender into a sociopathic killer by alienating him from his fellow cadets, while Davis’ character argues for
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contains not one but two proofs of my oftreferenced YOUR Movie Pool Rule. Namely, theYOUR laws of Tinseltown physics demand that, if TEXT TEXT there’s a pool in a scene, someone must fall, slip or be pushed into it. HERE HERE In Last Vegas, no fewer than two Oscarwinning actors are pushed into pools within minutes of each other. There are five Academy Award-winning actors in the cast — so, technically, the movie could have been stupider. But not much. In the case of this lazy, laugh-free comedy, what happens in Vegas shouldn’t just have stayed in Vegas; it should’ve stayed in Fogelman’s word processor. Somebody get me a roofie.
a softer touch. Splitting the difference, Ender meets bullies with violence — in scenes that have been toned down for the film version — and forms friendships with fellow outcasts such as Petra Arkanian (Hailee Steinfeld). Ender appears to be the only character in the movie who’s allowed to have more than one dimension; none of his fellow students emerge as compelling in their own right. It’s lucky, then, that Butterfield has the skill to convey the soulfulness under the boy’s stoic
exterior. Yet he doesn’t master the steely qualities that might make this child soldier genuinely disturbing. The viewer is never in doubt that Ender, like Harry Potter, will do the right thing when he knows all the facts. Lord of the Flies in space this isn’t. As kid-aimed SF goes, Ender’s Game lacks the Saturday-morning-cartoon pacing of the Star Wars prequels, and that’s a plus in my book. But it’s heavy on the claustrophobic sensations that CGI-rich films tend to induce — reinforced in this case by the story’s airless moral dualisms. Most of the movie’s battle action takes place in digital simulations that are presented as digital simulations, illusions within an illusion. The main exceptions, the zero-G war games, are cool in concept but become a bit of a slog, not staged deftly enough to make us care about the outcome. In the age of drone strikes, of course, there’s nothing innocent about reducing war to a video game. Ender’s story eventually reveals precisely that, making the movie seem considerably more thought-provoking in retrospect than it does while you’re watching it. What we see on screen, however, is the kid resolving his dilemmas in a way that feels too much like having his hero cake and eating it, too. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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eNoUgH sAiDHHHH: a masseuse (Julia louis-dreyfus) can’t reveal to her client (catherine Keener) that she’s dating the latter’s ex in this dramedy of manners from writer-director nicole (Please Give) holofcener. also starring toni collette and the late, great James gandolfini. (92 min, Pg-13) escApe plANHH1/2: after a structural security authority is framed, he finds himself incarcerated in a prison he designed. directed by Mikael hafstrom and starring curtis Jackson, arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. (116 min, nR) FRee BiRDsHH: Back to the Future … with turkeys? two gobblers go back in time to get their species off the time-honored Thanksgiving menu in this animated family comedy from director Jimmy (Jonah Hex) hayward. with the voices of woody harrelson, Owen wilson, amy Poehler and george takei. (91 min, Pg)
HANNAH AReNDtH HHH1/2: barbara Sukowa plays the controversial midcentury writer who coined the phrase “banality of evil” to describe the nazi leadership in this biopic from director Margarethe von trotta. with axel Milberg and Janet Mcteer. (109 min, nR)
cAptAiN pHillipsHHHH1/2 tom hanks plays the title character in this drama based on the true story of the Vermonter whose cargo ship was boarded by Somali pirates in 2009. with barkhad abdi and barkhad abdirahman. Paul (The Bourne Ultimatum) greengrass directed. (134 min, Pg-13)
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eNDeR’s gAmeHH1/2: asa butterfield, hailee Steinfeld and abigail breslin star in this adaptation of Orson Scott card’s sci-fi novel about a gifted teen sent to a military school to prepare for battle with aliens. gavin (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) hood directed. (114 min, Pg-13)
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tHe coUNseloRHH: cormac Mccarthy scripted this drama about a lawyer (Michael fassbender) who gets dangerously involved in drug trafficking. with Penélope cruz, cameron diaz and Javier bardem. Ridley Scott directed. (117 min, R)
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gRAvitYHHHHH: Sandra bullock and george clooney play an astronaut and a medical engineer who find themselves adrift in space after their shuttle is destroyed. alfonso (Children of Men) cuarón directed. (91 min, Pg-13)
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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 enough said 5. Free Birds 5, 7. Gravity 7. friday 8 — thursday 14 captain phillips Fri: 5. Sat: 1. Sun: 1, 5. Mon and Tue: 5. Free Birds Fri: 5, 7. Sat and Sun: 2, 5, 7. Mon and Tue: 5, 7. prisoners Fri: 7:30. Sun to Tue: 7:30.
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friday 8 — thursday 14 captain phillips Fri: 4, 6:40. Sat and Sun: 1:10, 3:40, 6:40. Mon to Thu: 4, 6:40. ender’s Game Fri: 4, 7, 9:10. Sat: 1, 3:50, 7, 9:10. Sun: 1, 3:50, 7. Mon to Thu: 4, 7. Free Birds Fri: 4, 6:30, 8:15. Sat: 1:20, 3:30, 6:30, 8:15. Sun: 1:20, 3:30, 6:30. Mon to Thu: 4, 6:30. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa Fri and Sat: 9:10. *Thor: The dark world Fri: 6:50. Sat and Sun: 1:30, 6:50. Mon to Thu: 6:50. *Thor: The dark world 3d Fri and Sat: 4, 9:10. Sun to Thu: 4.
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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 6:15, 9:10. The counselor Wed: 6:20, 9:10. ender’s Game 6:15, 9. Free Birds 6:30, 9. Gravity Thu: 6:30. Gravity 3d 6:30, 9:05. *Thor: The dark world 3d Thu: 8.
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friday 8 — thursday 14 captain phillips Fri: 6:15, 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:25, 6:15, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:15, 9:10. ender’s Game Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9. Free Birds 6:30, 9. Free Birds in 3d Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30. Gravity Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:15, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9. *Thor: The dark world Sat and Sun: 12:45, 3:30. *Thor: The dark world 3d 6:30, 9:10.
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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 4, 6:40. The counselor 4. ender’s Game 4, 6:50. Free Birds 6:30. Free Birds in 3d 4. 1/11/12 11:35 AMJackass presents: Bad Grandpa 7.
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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 *about timeThu 8. captain phillips 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 12:45. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 in 3d 3, 5:15. The counselor 12, 2:30, 5. ender’s Game 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. escape plan 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. Free Birds 12:40, 9:15. Free Birds in 3d 2:50, 5, 7:10. Gravity 1, 5:20, 9:45. Gravity 3d Wed: 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 4:50, 7, 7:30, 9:10. Thu: 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 4:50, 7, 7:30, 9:10. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 12:45, 2:50, 5, 7:15, 9:30. last
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190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 *about time Thu: 8. captain phillips 1, 2, 3:50, 6:30, 8:15. carrie Wed: 6:45, 9:15. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 1:10, 4:40. The counselor Wed: 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15. Thu: 1:15, 3:50. ender’s Game 1:05, 2:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:15, 9. escape plan 9:20. Free Birds Wed: 1:50, 8:50. Thu: 1:50, 6:40, 9:25. Free Birds in 3d Wed: 4:20, 6:50. Thu: 4:20. Gravity 6:10. Gravity 3d 1:40, 4:45, 7, 9:10. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:30, 4:35, 7:05, 9:10. last vegas 1:20, 4:25, 7:10, 9:20. *Thor: The dark world Thu: 8:50. *Thor: The dark world 3d Thu: 8. friday 8 — sunday 10 *about time 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15. captain phillips 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 12:15, 2:30. ender’s Game 1, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:10, 9:25 Free Birds 12, 2:10. Free Birds in 3d 4:10, 6:10, 9:05. Gravity 12:30, 9:40. Gravity 3d 2:40, 4:50, 7. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:35. last vegas 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:25. *Thor: The dark world 4:30, 7:05, 9:35. *Thor: The dark world 3d 12:10, 1:20, 3:30, 6:40, 8:20, 9:15. monday 11 — thursday 14 *about time 1, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15. captain phillips 1:15, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 1:40. ender’s Game 1, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:10, 9:25 Free Birds 1:05. Free Birds in 3d 4, 6:10. Gravity 1:30, 9:25. Gravity 3d 3:45, 7. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:20. last vegas 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25. *Thor: The dark world 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10. *Thor: The dark world 3d 1:20, 4, 6:40, 8:20.
marQuis theatre Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 7. ender’s Game 7. friday 8 — thursday 14 captain phillips Fri: 6. Sat: 3:30, 6. Sun: 3:30. ender's Game Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat: 1, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Sun: 1, 3:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. Gravity 3d Fri: 9. Sat: 1, 9. Sun: 1, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. *Thor: The dark world Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat: 1, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Sun: 1, 3:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7.
merrill’s roXy cinema 222 College St., Burlington, 8643456, merrilltheatres.net
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9. The counselor 1:10, 3:40, 6:45, 9:05. ender’s Game 1:05, 3:30, 6:50, 9:10. enough said 1:25, 3:20, 5:15, 7:10, 9:15. Gravity 1, 7:05. Gravity 3d 3:10, 5:10, 9:25. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:15, 3:15, 5:05, 7, 9:20. friday 8 — thursday 14 *12 years a slave 1:10, 3:45, 6:25, 9. captain phillips 1, 3:35, 6:30, 9:05. ender’s Game 1:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:10. enough said 1:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15. Gravity 5:15, 9:25. Gravity 3d 1:05, 3:25, 7:20. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:15, 9:20.
palace 9 cinemas 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 1, 3:40, 6:30, 8:40. carrie 9:20. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 1:05, 3:20. The counselor 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50. ender's Game 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 7, 9:20. escape plan 6:10. Free Birds 1:05, 7:05. Free Birds 3d 4:50, 9:15. Gravity 3:40. Gravity 3d 1:30, 6. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:15. last vegas 1:10, 4, 6:40, 9:10. *Thor: The dark world 8. friday 8 — sunday 10 *about time 12:50, 3:40, 6:35, 9:10. captain phillips 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 8:50. ender's Game 1:20, 3:10 (not Sat), 4:10, 6:50, 8:40, 9:20. Free Birds 3:20, 6:30. Free Birds 3d 12:35, 9. Gravity 1, 9:10. Gravity 3d 2:50, 4:50, 6:55. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 12:45 (not Sat), 3, 5, 7:10, 9:15. last vegas 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:20. met in hd: tosca Sat: 12:55. *Thor: The dark world 12:30, 6:10. *Thor: The dark world 3d 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:05. monday 11 — tuesday 12 *about time 1:05, 3:40, 6:35, 8:40. captain phillips 1, 3:30, 6:20, 8:35. ender's Game 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9. Free Birds 3:20, 6:30. Free Birds 3d 1:35, 9. Gravity 1, 9:10. Gravity 3d 3:50, 6:55. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:15. last vegas 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:05. *Thor: The dark world 1:50, 6:10. *Thor: The dark world 3d 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9. wednesday 13 *about time 1:05, 3:40, 6:35, 8:40. captain phillips 1, 3:30, 6:20, 8:35. ender's Game 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9. Free Birds 3:20, 6:30. Free Birds 3d 1:35, 9. Gravity 1, 9:10. Gravity 3d 3:50, 6:55. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4. last vegas 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:05. met in hd: tosca 6:30. *Thor: The dark world 1:50, 6:10. *Thor: The dark world 3d 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9.
paramount twin cinema 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, fgbtheaters.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 6:30, 9. last vegas 6:30, 9. friday 8 — thursday 14 Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9. last vegas Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9.
the savoy theater 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, savoytheater.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Fruitvale station 6:30. hannah arendt 8:30. The summit 6, 8:15. friday 8 — thursday 14 all is lost Fri: 6:30, 8:30. Sat: 1, 3, 5, 9:30. Sun: 1, 3, 6:30, 8:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 8:30. *muscle shoals Fri: 6. Sat: 1:30. Sun. 1:30, 6. Mon to Thu: 6. The summit Fri: 8:15. Sat: 4. Sun: 4, 8:15. Mon to Thu: 8:15.
stowe cinema 3 pleX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2534678. stowecinema.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 7. ender’s Game 7. Gravity 7. friday 8 — thursday 14 captain phillips Fri to Sun: 6:45, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 7. Sat to Mon: 2:30. ender’s Game Fri to Sun: 7, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 7. Sat to Mon: 2:30, 4:40. *Thor: The dark world 3d Fri to Sun: 7, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 7. Sun to Mon: 2:30, 4:40 (2D).
welden theatre
104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 5277888, weldentheatre.com
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 captain phillips 7. ender’s Game 7:05. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 7:10. *Thor: The dark world Thu: 8. friday 8 — thursday 14 ender's Game Fri: 7:05, 9:30. Sat to Sun: 2:05, 7:05, 9:30. Mon to Thu: 7:05. Free Birds Fri: 7:10. Sat to Sun: 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30. Tue to Thu: 7:10. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa Fri: 9:30. Sat to Sun: 4:30, 9:30. *Thor: The dark world Fri to Sun: 7, 9:30. Mon to Thu: 7. Sat to Sun: 2, 4:30 (3D). The vermont movie Mon: 7.
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ReNoiRHH Both Impressionist master Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) and his son, filmmaker Jean (Vincent Rottiers), are the subjects of this French biopic, which examines their relationships with one young model during the summer of 1915. Gilles Bourdos directed. (112 min, R) WHite HoUse DoWNHH1/2 One fictional terrorist attack on the White House wasn’t enough for American moviegoers? In the year’s second action movie on this theme, Channing Tatum is the tough guy protecting President Jamie Foxx from paramilitary baddies. Roland Emmerich directed. (131 min, PG-13)
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The Army acknowledged that it caused a wildfire outside Fairbanks, Alaska, that forced the evacuation of 1200 people, scorched some 80,000 acres and cost $5.5 million to suppress by conducting artillery training with high-explosive ammunition during a high-wind warning. A 14-week investigation resulted in a promise by the Army to be more careful in the future. (Anchorage’s Alaska Dispatch)
his floor into the apartment below and striking a woman asleep in bed. The woman was hospitalized in serious condition. White explained he had been “playing around” with the gun when it accidentally discharged. (Nashville’s Tennessean) An “accidental misfire” occurred at an elementary school in Chino, Calif., when a student pulled the trigger of an AR-15 rifle mounted on a police motorcycle that was on display during a safety demonstration at an antidrug event. Police official Tamrin Olden said two students were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, likely caused by metal debris after the weapon fired. (Los Angeles’s KTLA-TV)
lobbies on behalf of lobbyists, asked members to approve a new name that omits the word “lobbyist.” “Everybody has the misconception that lobbyists are walking around with a pocketful of cash, and that’s about it,” Monte Ward, the group’s president, said. “The new brand will seek to fully represent the broad range of responsibilities that a government relations professional practices daily.” The proposed new name is the Association of Government Relations Professionals, with the tag line “Voice of the Lobbying, Public Policy and Advocacy Professions.” (Washington Post)
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Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission released the results of this year’s presidential election on the day before voting took place. It showed President Ilham Aliyev receiving 72.8 percent of the vote. Aliyev won the actual election with 84.5 percent. (Washington Post)
Gary P. Bojczak bought an illegal GPS- jamming device for his companyowned pickup truck so his boss couldn’t track his movements. When he drove by New Jersey’s Newark International Airport, however, the jammer interfered with a new GPSbased guidance system designed, according to its maker, Honeywell, to “increase airport capacity, decrease air traffic noise and reduce weatherrelated delays.” Federal agents tracked the jamming signal to Bojczak, who was fined $31,875 and fired. (New York’s WCBS-TV)
The FBI charged Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, with assault after she nearly pulled off her 6-year-old son’s genitals because she was angry with him. According to the criminal complaint affidavit filed in San Antonio, Texas, Vargas cleaned the wound with alcohol and then “applied superglue to the scrotum until the bleeding stopped, stuffed his underwear with paper towels, and then told him to go to bed.” When the child’s father came home from work, he found the boy crying in an upstairs bedroom, noticed the bloody towels in his underwear and took him to the hospital. (Houston Chronicle)
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Australian authorities said that an aircraft helping to fight a wildfire in New South Wales crashed, igniting a new wildfire. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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Nashville authorities arrested David White, 22, for firing a bullet through
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An explosion that blew out the wall of a warehouse and shook buildings blocks away in downtown Orlando, Fla., was caused by experimental cooking fuel. Fire Assistant Chief Rich Wales said that the fuel, a derivative of butane, was being stored in a five-foottall cylinder by the building’s owner, Aaron Fechter, who is credited with inventing the Whac-A-Mole arcade game and builds robot rock bands for Chuck E. Cheese’s and ShowBiz Pizza Place. Investigators believe that an animatronics machine inside the building malfunctioned and ignited a tank of experimental cooking oil. The street was littered with debris that included animatronics, old arcade games and clown suits, according to witness Tim Roth, 59, who added, “It was weird.” (Orlando’s WKMG-TV and Orlando Sentinel)
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debris that litters the world’s oceans, according to a study that found a third of the barnacles caught in one North Pacific region had ingested plastic particles. Researchers Miriam Goldstein of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Deborah Goodwin of the Sea Education Association said they aren’t sure whether these particles harm the barnacles’ health, although they observed no signs of digestive backup. “The barnacles just poop out the plastic & it floats away again,” Goldstein tweeted. (LiveScience)
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taURUs (April 20-May 20): “Poetry might
Scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
“Not for all the whiskey in heaven,” begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild and explicit.
gemini (May 21-June 20): What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. you have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. be aggressive. be bold. be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove. canceR (June 21-July 22): In the begin-
ning of his novel The White Castle, orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “to imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?” How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: on the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. on the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? now is a good time to ruminate on these matters.
leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Canadians tommy Larkin and stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. once they began
looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized.
viRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): This will be an
excellent week for you to talk with yourself — or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin … between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts … between the eager-to-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smartie who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. you should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better.
libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): In the coming week you will probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won’t be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be alert for opportunities to increase your cash flow. for example, if you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for boosting your financial fortunes, I hope you will have a pen and notebook by the bed to write it down. sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dmitri razumikhin is a character in fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the russian word for “reason.” At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece
of your current strategy, sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble.
caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At the 2013
Grammy Awards, actor neil Patrick Harris introduced the band fun this way: “As legendary gangster rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.” everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. you should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings. Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate and pave the way for fun. toward that end, it’s totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren’t exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point.
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(Jan. 20-feb. 18): some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering — a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. but I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents.
Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): Dr. seuss wrote his children’s books in english, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “you’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘z’ and start poking around,” he said. one of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the made-up word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after seuss — not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone.
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aRies (March 21-April 19): I’m not a big fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it, and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up.
be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. you seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. but you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you.
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Everyone likes a good ride now and then, but if this roller coaster has you careening to such high highs and low lows, you’re apt to get motion sick. You mention that he often has “man-child” fits after a nice day together. Have you considered that he might be a person who needs doses of alone time to decompress after a stimulation-filled day? Some folks (sometimes known as “highly sensitive people”) simply need more quiet time to function. If you’ve been out and about for an entire day of fun, the solution to your problem might be to simply leave him alone for a couple hours. His need for alone time shouldn’t be taken personally — some people just need downtime to refuel. Regardless of the cause, it’s clearly time for some serious communication with your boyfriend. I’m not sure whether you lived together before buying a house, but adding the stress of a mortgage payment to a relationship can be a catalyst for growing pains. During one of your happier moments, when he’s playing the role of Prince Charming, let him know that you’ve become acutely aware of a pattern of behavior in your relationship that you’d like to change. Don’t accuse him of being an arrogant manchild; rather, be clear that you want to work together to strengthen your relationship. Ask him what’s going on for him when he turns from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. Ask him what he needs in those moments to feel loved and supported, and assess whether you can accommodate him. If you are generous and ask what you can do, he will likely feel more open and accommodating to your needs, too.
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