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ICONIC REACTION I fear folks are missing the point of the protest against Burton over its choice of graphics for some of its boards [Local Matters, October 8].

This is not about freedom of speech or artistic expression. This is not about being â&#x20AC;&#x153;offended.â&#x20AC;? My objection is not moral or artistic. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned about the influence cultural icons like Burton have among youth with regard to what is or is not healthy behavior.

Every day social service agencies, such as Spectrum, work with youths and families who are struggling to attempt to undo some of the damage being done by violence, whether inflicted by others or, yes, self-inflicted.

Self-mutilation is a huge hidden problem in America.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that Burton doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;get itâ&#x20AC;? that using such images as marketing tools promotes the idea that these things are normal and healthy.

A friend of mine said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teens are subjected to a lot of bad stuff from many different sources. They become desensitized to it, blurring the lines of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right and wrong. It appears not cool to take the high road. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a map to get there.â&#x20AC;?

Burton, please listen to the folks who are experts in mental health and domestic violence: You may have the right to show such images, but this is not responsible use of that right.

You are an icon among youths. Please consider what messages you pass to them. Cease production of these boards. Rip up the maps to the low

road and give youths more maps to the high road.

David G. White BURLINGTON

PURIST NONSENSE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite surprised about the public outcry over the Burton snowboards that feature seminude Playboy models and other boards that feature blood and gore.

Maybe the public woke up yesterday, but partial nudity and gore are prevalent in movies, video games, CD covers and even Abercrombie and Fitch clothing catalogues. All one has to do is take a trip to the local mall or turn on the TV or Internet to witness the encroaching â&#x20AC;&#x153;indecency.â&#x20AC;?

Unfortunately, Burton has become the sole target of the purists in our society who would censor anything and everything deemed â&#x20AC;&#x153;indecentâ&#x20AC;&#x153; in the name of the children.

Give me a break! My only complaint against Burton is that they did not feature Playgirl models on any of their boards.

Owen Mulligan

a â&#x20AC;&#x153;weak campaignerâ&#x20AC;? in Symington.

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Steering committee members of Chittenden South Democracy for America invited Mr. Pollina to speak to our group last fall. Assembled were a large group of activists hungry for change. He electrified the audience, and I wrote out a check for Mr. Pollina that very night.

I did not vacillate when Ms. Symington got into the race. She also spoke to our group and paled in

Constantineau is a member of the Chittenden South Democracy for Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steering committee.

CORRECTION: Our story on NRG Systems [â&#x20AC;&#x153;HR Heaven?â&#x20AC;? [October 22] got the size of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters wrong. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 46,000 square feet, not 4600. And, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angles in Paradiseâ&#x20AC;? [October 1], we reported that Ben Falkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UVM thesis was a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thesis. It was an undergraduate thesis. Our apologies.

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Cartoonist Greg Giordano was in the audience, and offered this sketch of us at the conference table.

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re you better off than you were six years ago? Four years ago? Two years? Two months? Yesterday?

Those questions are at the heart of the presidential campaigns of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. And the same is true of Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gubernatorial candidates.

Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to blame for your misfortune?

The other guy (or gal). Or President George W. Bush. Or former President Bill Clinton. Or socialists. Or capitalists.

In Vermont, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all on the incumbent, Republican Gov. Jim Douglas.

On Monday, Douglas defended the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy under his leadership, schooling a small group of reporters on why his plans are better than those of Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington and Independent Anthony Pollina.

Armed with red and blue Sharpies, Douglas spent 45 minutes comparing and contrasting his and his opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; economic proposals as if he was delivering a college lecture.

In the end, he naturally gave the best grade to his plan, which includes tax credits, tax breaks, permit reform and

This week marks the first time Douglas has unleashed a full frontal attack on Pollina. Up to now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anthony who?â&#x20AC;? spurring housing growth by rehabbing vacant second- and third-floor spaces in downtown buildings and making it easier for developers to take over old manufacturing plants.

Douglas said Symingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans fall into two categories: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Already doingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work,â&#x20AC;? while Pollinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans fall under a single damning category: â&#x20AC;&#x153;More debt and taxes.â&#x20AC;?

This week marks the first time Douglas has unleashed a full frontal attack on Pollina. Up to now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anthony who?â&#x20AC;? But two recent polls show Pollina possibly besting Symington, though neither shows him beating Douglas. One Rasmussen poll saw the race this way: Douglas: 45 percent; Pollina: 25 percent: Symington: 20 percent. Factor in leaners and it was Douglas: 53; Symington: 39; and Pollina: 4.

A Macro poll released last week had this breakdown: Douglas: 43; Symington: 18; and Pollina: 15.

Douglas has rarely taken aim at Pollina from the campaign stump but is now mentioning him directly in press releases, TV ads and interviews with reporters.

On Tuesday, Douglas focused specifically on the failing Vermont Milk Company that Pollina abandoned to run for governor.

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Douglas wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reveal the results of his polling, but he did make sure to remind reporters his opponents are â&#x20AC;&#x153;two birds of a feather in the sense they are proposing ideas that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense and would increase the burden of taxation and regulation on Vermonters.â&#x20AC;?

What kind of bird might that be? I asked. Douglas wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thought about that,â&#x20AC;? he said with a chuckle.

It is close to Thanksgiving. Maybe a turkey?

Blame Game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; One question nibbles at the back of my mind: Who would want to be governor given the looming cuts to the state budget?

The governor-elect will face an immediate need to trim another 250 jobs from the state payroll.

No word on whether the next administration will be able to meet this target through attrition and eliminating vacant positions, as Douglas did in the first round of 250 cuts back in June. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find out by November 18, when the next round is announced.

If Douglas and his administration make any tough choices, though, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll turn around and blame lawmakers if anyone complains.

Last week, the Department of Aging and Independent Living gave notice to hundreds of participants in the Choices for Care program that they would receive one hour less in services per week. The letter blamed the cuts on the Legislature.

That infuriated some lawmakers since the reduction in services was part of $24 million in cuts they worked out with the administration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take credit for the hard choices,â&#x20AC;? said Sen. Susan Bartlett (D-Lamoille), who chairs the Joint Fiscal Committee, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to take credit for the good things.â&#x20AC;?

Bartlett and her House counterpart, Rep. Martha Heath (D-Westford), received apologies from top Douglas aides, who said the letter to Choices for Care participants had not been reviewed by upper management or the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office.

Given that the Douglas administration spends at least $400,000 a year on communications specialists, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get something like this right. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes people realize why these PR people are such a sticking point with some in the Legislature,â&#x20AC;? Bartlett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing their job if they let something like that get out.â&#x20AC;?

At lawmakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; request, a new letter clarifying who is responsible for the cuts will be issued soon, said Jason Gibbs, Douglasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; spokesman. The retooled letter will cost taxpayers $798.

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One concerned Vermonter recently quizzed state officials about cuts to the Division of Historic Preservation. In an email response to her, state housing commissioner William Noyes said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This reduction in force was necessitated by the legislated budget cut the Agency of Commerce and Community Development [ACCD] received in the last session. This imposed budget reduction forced ACCD to weigh many factors and review many options.â&#x20AC;?

ACCD Deputy Secretary Jim Saudade approved Noyesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; communiquĂŠ, according to agency officials.

Bartlett and Heath said they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recall lawmakers being told the $500,000 cut would mean lost jobs, but rather that the agency could absorb the budget reduction. And, they disagree that the cuts were â&#x20AC;&#x153;imposedâ&#x20AC;? by the Legislature.

The cuts came at the end of the session after it was learned revenues would drop.

Agency spokesman David Mace maintained that lawmakers were told the cuts would lead to layoffs. In fact, lawmak-

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The federal-position cuts will eventually save money for the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is still a taxpayer savings because we reduce future spending on postretirement benefits,â&#x20AC;? said Linda McIntire, deputy secretary of administration.

Also, federal funds can be redirected, as they are not typically associated with a specific job, McIntire said.

Sen. Bartlett isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buying it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small savings, at best. What it says to me is that this whole exercise is more about a body count than saving money. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so he can say he cut 400 jobs.â&#x20AC;?

With revenues continuing to falter, my guess is 400 will be just a start.

Looks like a long, dark winter ahead.

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But, he warns, readers shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t conflate the partisan views of an editorial board with the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s straight news coverage.

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That may be, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all that is bothering Bartlett and Heath. While laying off eight folks in ACCD, Douglas found $150,000 in the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget to hand out in the form of grants to software developers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; companies that are hiring plenty of folks on their own.

The grants came from a pool of unused money carried over from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, Mace said.

Amazing what you find laying around the office in an election year, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it?

The Body Count â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Few people noticed that about a third of the 150 jobs Douglas cut from state government this summer were funded by the feds.

According to a tally by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fair Game,â&#x20AC;? 22 of those jobs were fully funded by the feds; another 15 were at least half-funded (50 to 95 percent); and another 22 were less than half-funded by Uncle Sam. Another 35 state-funded positions were on the books â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some since 2006 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but never filled.

Bartlett and Heath wonder how the state saves money in this scenario and what it means

tally being kept by Editor & Publisher, the Obama-Biden ticket is trouncing the McCainPalin ticket for daily newspaper endorsements, by 222 to 93 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including 43 papers that backed Pres. George W. Bush in 2004.

The circulation of the Obamabacking papers stands at more than 20 million, compared with the 6 million subscribers of the papers that support McCain.

Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s margin, which includes most of the major papers, is in stark contrast to 2004, when Democrat John Kerry barely edged Bush in endorsements, 213 to 205, according to Editor & Publisher.

Going back to 1940, E&P found that GOP candidates earned more endorsements than did Democratic rivals.

A Democrat did not earn the most editorial votes until Lyndon Johnson edged out Barry Goldwater in 1964, and then not again until Clinton in 1992, notes E&P. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it has played out in Vermont. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major dailies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have all endorsed Douglas for reelection. They endorsed him in 2004 and 2006, too.

Symington has yet to pick up an endorsement. On Monday the Bennington Banner endorsed Pollina. Its sister paper, the Brattleboro Reformer, will announce its pick this weekend.

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Revolving Door â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new spokesman in the ranks of Vermont pols and, to no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprise, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a former reporter.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch hired former Brattleboro Reformer reporter Paul Heintz as his communications director. Heintz replaces long-time communicator Andrew Savage, who is taking on roles as Welchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy chief of staff and legislative director.

Heintz, a 2006 graduate of Dartmouth College, covered statewide politics, the 2008 presidential primary and local news for the Reformer.

He starts Nov. 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if Welch is reelected, that is. The Hartland Democrat is running against a small field of opponents, including Progressive Thomas Hermann, Independent Jerry Trudell, Liberty Union candidate Jane Newton and, uh, Republican Peter Welch (he earned the GOP nod in the September primary). Republican Mark Shepard, who lost to Martha Rainville in the 2006 GOP primary for U.S. House, is mounting a write-in campaign.

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n early September, after a South End man used his cellphone camera to snap a photo of a graffiti artist, Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling cautioned residents not to take law enforcement into their own hands.

But less than two weeks later, the department loaned a video camera to a North Willard Street resident for the purpose of documenting criminal activity on his property.

Deputy Chief Walt Decker said the resident was instructed to set up the police camera in his living room and aim it at his backyard, where college-aged students had allegedly been urinating, trespassing and making noise. Police records show officers have responded to a half-dozen calls from the resident since April. The resident’s property, on the first block of North Willard, is close to the site of a recent violent altercation between teens fighting over a girl.

Private businesses are free to set up surveillance on their own property — and the footage often helps police, as it did when a Perrywinkle’s Fine Jewelry camera captured an image of now-convicted murderer Brian Rooney with his victim Michelle Gardner Quinn.

The Burlington Police Department has been known to provide cameras to local merchants, according to Decker. But this marks the first time the cop shop has outfitted a private resident with one.

Decker said attempting to document crime with a camera from the privacy of one’s home is different from following a suspected vandal and taking his picture, as the South End resident did, because it doesn’t lead to “confrontation.”

“We like to think that we’re fair, we’re balanced, and we don’t engage in something that’s going to violate someone’s civil rights,” Decker said.

But it very well may, said Alan Gilbert, executive director of the Vermont American Civil Liberties Union. By loaning a police camera to a private resident, Gilbert argued, BPD has effectively “deputized” him, and the City of Burlington could be liable under a state law if the subjects of the video surveillance were to sue.

The “Safe Communities Act,” also known as Act 83, made voyeurism a crime in Vermont. Passed in 2005, the law makes it illegal to photograph or film the “intimate areas of a person,” as well as to disseminate the images.

According to Gilbert, Act 83 protects citizens’ “reasonable expectation of privacy.” He speculated that, if someone who happened to be captured on film filed a lawsuit, “The city would also get sued, because they were the ones who supplied the camera.”

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We like to think that we’re fair, we’re balanced, and we don’t engage in something that’s going to violate someone’s civil rights.

DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF WALT DECKER Decker defended the practice.

The department isn’t “deputizing” residents, he said, but rather enlisting their help in gathering information, just as an officer might ask a resident not to disturb a crime scene. “Police will, from time to time, engage property owners and encourage them to install and use surveillance systems,” Decker said. “They are both deterrents and important evidentiary pieces in addressing crime.”

Decker said the North Willard Street resident has been working with the department “for a number of years to address and reduce the problems regarding property and behavior in that neighborhood.” He also stressed that the department instructed the resident to restrict filming to his property, and he has no reason to fear that would lead to a violation of Act 83.

“If someone wanted to engage in voyeurism or engage in some type of criminal activity,” Decker argued, “why would they go and engage the assistance of the police department, who could potentially be charging them if they committed that type of crime?”

But, apparently, the department never investigated the legal ramifications before loaning the camera. Burlington City Attorney Ken Schatz said he was not aware that a city resident was using a video camera owned by the police department to videotape trespassers.

But, generally speaking, Schatz said, the city would not be liable for the illegal activities of private residents. He referred additional

questions to Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan, whose office handles lawsuits related to state statues.

Like Schatz, Donovan first heard about the BPD security protocol from Seven Days. In a phone interview, Donovan praised Schirling’s efforts to work collaboratively with residents. But he also acknowledged that, if the North Willard Street resident ever used a police camera in an inappropriate way, it could be a violation of his neighbors’ constitutional rights.

“Someone clearly has an expectation of privacy in their home, in parts of their car,” said Donovan, who plans to talk with Schirling when the chief returns from an overseas vacation. “Are we imputing state action to a private individual?”

Decker maintained that other Vermont police departments, including South Burlington, allow property owners to shoot video footage with police cameras. But South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple said his department does not loan surveillance gear to individual residents.

“I don’t know of any handheld video camera that we could loan out,” Chief Whipple said. “We’ve done something similar with radar units, but we have not done anything with video.”

Sgt. Tara Thomas of the Vermont State Police said that, in 10 years on the job, she has never heard of a Vermont trooper loaning a video camera to a private resident. “It’s just something we’ve never done,” she said. “I guess the fact that we don’t do it should say enough.”

As for the video captured by the North Willard Street resident, Decker said that, after reviewing the footage, the department deemed it too grainy to be used in an investigation. >

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he refrain is the same every four years: Young voters are destined to make a difference in the presidential election.

It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen in 2000, and while turnout among voters between 18 and 24 did rise in 2004 after three decades of steady decline, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to prevent George W. Bush from winning a second term.

But, this year, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evidence that the perennial optimism of youth-vote organizers may finally prove well founded. Vermont and other states report that record numbers of young adults are registering to vote for the first time.

Credited with helping Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination, they are now poised to crowd polling places around the country on November 4.

But what about the Vermont governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race? Will a heavy turnout of first-time voters help Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fellow Democrat, Gaye Symington? Or will students and other young adults contribute to an upset by independent Anthony Pollina, who styles himself Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political soul mate? Or could it be, as one political scientist predicts, that Republican Gov. James Douglas will win the largest share of Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth vote?

At least 22,000 voters had been added to the Vermont rolls as of early October, according to Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz.

She described that as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a tremendous number â&#x20AC;&#x201D; much higher than what we usually see.â&#x20AC;?

Statistics on the ages of the newly registered arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet available, but Markowitz estimated that a third or more of them are under 25. She said turnout for the November 4 election could rival the modern-times record of nearly 70 percent set in 1992, when Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president and Democrat Howard Dean won by a landslide in his first race for governor.

But even if an army of young Vermonters does troop to the polls to support Obama, many of them may not vote at all in the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race, said political scientist professor Eric Davis, who retired last year from Middlebury College.

Based on post-election interviews in 2004, Davis concluded that as many as half of the Middlebury students registered to vote in Vermont did not take part in that yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gubernatorial contest. Most of the abstainers indicated they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough about the candidates for governor to choose one over the others, Davis says.

The same pattern could emerge this year among students who have moved from other states to attend school in Vermont. Andrew Knapp, a St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College student from the Boston area, could prove typical. The newly registered 21-year-old said he plans to vote in the presidential election but â&#x20AC;&#x153;probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vote for someone for governor because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not familiar with whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running.â&#x20AC;?

Ashley Wheeler, Miss Vermont 2008, has found that attitude widespread among students taking part in the voter-signup drives she has helped organize on campuses around the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly as much awareness about the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raceâ&#x20AC;? as about the presidential contest among students, Wheeler said.

But young Vermont voters who grew up in the state may be just as likely to vote for governor as for president. Tabare Gowan, a 21-yearold Burlington High School grad now attending Harvard, said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll â&#x20AC;&#x153;definitelyâ&#x20AC;? choose a candidate for governor, though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not yet sure which one that will be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to learn about the candidates and state issues,â&#x20AC;? Gowan said.

Lyndsey Hobart, a 20-year-old Community College of Vermont student and Richmond resident, is also planning to vote for governor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m for Pollina because I agree

with him on most things,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like Symington, too, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not as confident that she can handle the job.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a view Pollina thinks will be widely held among young voters.

He notes that he has campaigned on several campuses and attracted â&#x20AC;&#x153;a core group of volunteersâ&#x20AC;? under age 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people organizing for Obama are supportive of me,â&#x20AC;?

Pollina, 56, adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They see that my policies are similar to his.â&#x20AC;?

Symington, 54, predicts sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll win most of the youth vote because of her emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;creating good jobs and building a strong Vermont for the future.â&#x20AC;? The Democrat is also yoking her campaign tightly to Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More and more people are understanding that as Obama moves into the presidency, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need partners in statehouses and in Congress,â&#x20AC;? Symington said.

Douglas, the 57-year-old incumbent, did not respond to requests for an interview. But Dave Coriell, the Douglas campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of operations, said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;confident in the message Gov. Douglas has about creating jobs in reaching out to young voters.â&#x20AC;? Coriell, a 25-year-old Middlebury College alum from Killington, noted that Douglas received the same 59 percent share of the total Vermont vote in 2004 as Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry did.

Political scientist Davis believes young Vermonters will vote for Douglas in roughly the same proportions as do their elders, despite the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely landslide for Obama. He offered the hypothetical example of a twentysomething Obama supporter in the Northeast Kingdom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That voter will probably go for Douglas just like his parents,â&#x20AC;?

Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably going to see with many young voters all over the state.â&#x20AC;? >

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Michigan funeral director and nationally acclaimed author has sued two of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest and largest consumer advocacy groups on funeral ethics, both based in Vermont, accusing them of libel and defamation.

The Funeral Consumers Alliance of South Burlington and the Funeral Ethics Organization of Hinesburg are among four defendants named in a federal lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in Michigan by Thomas Lynch. Lynch, whose family business Lynch and Sons owns and operates six funeral homes throughout southeastern Michigan, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages, as well as relief from â&#x20AC;&#x153;consistent and continuous harassment.â&#x20AC;?

Both Vermont organizations deny any wrongdoing and insist their criticisms are legitimate and valid.

Neither party would say much about the case on the record. But the lawsuit shines a light on an industry that critics say is fraught with unsavory and illegal business practices by funeral directors who prey upon consumers at their most vulnerable moments.

Lynch has a different view. He alleges, among other things, that the Funeral Ethics Organization (FEO) and its executive director Lisa Carlson made libelous and defamatory statements about him in a book and monthly newsletter. According to Lynch, Carlson branded him â&#x20AC;&#x153;a liar,â&#x20AC;? accused him of â&#x20AC;&#x153;misleading the publicâ&#x20AC;? about legal options available for disposing of the dead, and charged him with â&#x20AC;&#x153;breaking the lawâ&#x20AC;? in his business dealings with at least three Michigan families.

Lynchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case may hinge upon whether the court rules that the remarks constitute fair criticism of a public figure. Lynch isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a mortician but also a commentator on the funeral industry. An author, poet and college professor, Lynch has written six books, including a collection of essays entitled The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade, which appeared on The New York Times bestseller list and won an American Book Award. The book was also the subject of a PBS/ Frontline film of the same name, which won an Emmy in 2007.

But the defendants are public figures, too, in the funeral industry.

Carlson, who founded the FEO, literally wrote the book on do-it-yourself funerals. Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love is a 640-page compendium of state laws that govern the handling of the dead without the services of an undertaker.

A consummate public speaker and storyteller, Carlson also penned I Died Laughing: Funeral Education With a Light Touch, a collection of jokes and cartoons that takes an irreverent look at our passage into the sweet hereafter. Over the years, she has been a frequent critic of Lynch, most recently in the Spring/ Summer 2008 issue of the FEO newsletter, in which she accused the Lynches of lobbying against a change in the funerary laws and being â&#x20AC;&#x153;vocal against families caring for their own dead.â&#x20AC;? Michigan is one of seven states that require a morticianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in the disposal of a dead body.

Carlson later retracted her remarks, in print and online. But Lynch rejected her apology as inadequate, and accused her of simply restating and rewording the â&#x20AC;&#x153;malicious mischaracterizationâ&#x20AC;? of him and his business.

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Slocum said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write the presentation but stands by its assertions and will defend them vigorously in court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad enough that Tom Lynch does not understand that he is not above being subject to fair critique

The lawsuit shines a light on an industry that critics say is fraught with unsavory and illegal business practices by funeral directors who prey upon consumers at their most vulnerable moments. takes umbrage with that opinion and therefore fashions me, in her newsletter, a vocal opponent of families caring for their own dead . . . She is welcome to umbrage, but not libel.â&#x20AC;?

Carlson would only say that she stands â&#x20AC;&#x153;wholeheartedlyâ&#x20AC;? behind her criticism of Lynch and is â&#x20AC;&#x153;looking forwardâ&#x20AC;? to her day in court.

Joshua Slocum, executive director of the national funeral-ethics watchdog group Funeral Consumers Alliance, is also an unrepentant Lynch critic. From a small office in South Burlington, Slocum fields dozens of complaints a day of abuse, fraud or neglect by morticians, cemeteries, crematoria and mausoleum directors.

Lynch alleges that the Funeral Consumers Alliance and its Idaho chapter posted a PowerPoint presentation on its website entitled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deconstructing Thomas Lynch: Why good guys sometimes go wrong.â&#x20AC;? The complaint claims that the presentation libels and defames Lynch and his family and mischaracterizes their business practices.

for what he writes in public by people who disagree with him,â&#x20AC;? Slocum said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it is infinitely worse that he would turn his legal guns on nonprofit organizations that exist largely on donations from the public and do work in a charitable sense for the public. I find that appalling, and he should be ashamed of himself.â&#x20AC;?

Lynch has himself been an outspoken critic of the abuses plaguing his own industry. In December 2005, he gave a presentation to the Vermont Funeral Directors Association in which he chided morticians about the need to elevate the reputation of their trade if they hope to remain in business in an age when many Americans are choosing cremation over burial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have gone from trafficking in the sublime to trafficking in the ridiculous,â&#x20AC;? Lynch told his fellow morticians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just because a funeral costs the same as a trip to Disneyworld doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean we should market it like one.â&#x20AC;?

The case is expected to go to trial sometime in early 2009. >

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or years, I worked the Burlington bus station, back before it was taken over by Greyhound, when it was still Vermont Transit. I camped out through lazy afternoons when the terminal stood at its historical location â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the first-floor corner of the Huntington Apartments at St. Paul and Main streets. After the fire, when the station moved to Pine Street, I dutifully followed, and over the years taxied thousands of travelers. As Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taxi fleet exploded in the new millennium, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gradually weaned myself off the bus terminal. Too much competition for my blood.

But I recently found myself there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for old timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first up in the taxi queue, awaiting the afternoon arrival from New York City and points south.

The fare I soon caught was a slender man, perhaps 40, with a graying moustache and wispy beard. I popped the trunk, and he loaded a pair of mottled-green duffel bags before taking the shotgun seat. Giving me a Winooski address, the guy seemed guarded, ill at ease with social interaction.

In unison, our heads turned.

For the first time since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten in my taxi, a smile crossed the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, bud,â&#x20AC;? he said hesitantly as we traversed the Old North End, â&#x20AC;&#x153;any chance of stopping to pick up some smokes?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sure thing, man,â&#x20AC;? I replied, pulling over to the curb in front of the Willard Street Market.

Returning to his seat, mission accomplished, he asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you mind if I spark one up? I know I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smoke in the place Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m headed. Well, not indoors, anyways.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, why not?â&#x20AC;? I said, suspending my no-smoking rule for a man who looked like he really needed a cigarette. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just try to keep it out your window.â&#x20AC;?

He lit up and took a really long drag, exhaling slowly out his cracked window.

As we drove the streets, I noticed him staring intently at every building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, what happened to all the old downtown stores?â&#x20AC;? he asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been away, and a friend was telling me that even Woolworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is gone.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess you have been out of town for a while â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Woolworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been gone for ages,â&#x20AC;? I told him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Church Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly for the higher-end shoppers at this point. It seems to me thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more money in town these days, especially when you throw in the tourist dollar.â&#x20AC;?

We took a right onto Riverside Avenue. The trees along the Winooski River banks were resplendent with what people were calling the best foliage color in years. Muffled squawks came from overhead, and we looked up in time to catch a flock of coffee-colored Canadian

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I paused before saying another word.

We had suddenly left the realm of prosaic conversation. Thirteen years in jail, I thought. A third of the guyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life confined behind bars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How does it feel?â&#x20AC;? I asked.

Before responding, he took one final hit on his cigarette and flicked it out the window. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To tell you the truth, my heart hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped pounding since yesterday. Every time I got to sign something, my handâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaking like a bastard.â&#x20AC;?

As we crossed the Winooski Bridge and approached the traffic circle, my seatmateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes grew wide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the hell happened to Winooski? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like they rearranged all the streets and built a dozen huge apartment houses.â&#x20AC;?

On the sidewalk surrounding the rotary, two pretty college girls walked and talked together, possibly residents of the Spinner Place apartments used by Champlain College for student housing.

In unison, our heads turned. For the first time since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten in my taxi, a smile crossed the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some things never change, huh?â&#x20AC;? I said with a chuckle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you, brother,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly the number-one thing on my mind. First thing tomorrow, I got to get in touch with Voc Rehab. I was told they might front me some money for tools. I used to be a carpenter way back when.â&#x20AC;?

We pulled in front of a neat, nondescript two-story building. The man said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the address they gave me, so I guess this is Dismas House.â&#x20AC;? I told him I have a friend who used to work for the organization. This Winooski facility, I recalled, was the third halfway house theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d established in Chittenden County to help ex-convicts reintegrate into the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, this is where I get out,â&#x20AC;? he said to me, and I thought I could hear his heart pounding.

I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks nice. Hey, I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna do real good.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least now I have a chance, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something, ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it?â&#x20AC;?

I met the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yup, that is something. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really something.â&#x20AC;? >

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nd then they came for the Leaf People.

Last Friday, state agents hauled off about 20 of the colorful figures known as Leaf People that have lined U.S. Route 7 in Shelburne for most of the past 20 autumns. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) acted just two days prior to Shelburne’s annual children’s Halloween parade, in which the Leaf People play a prominent role.

Of the 60 or so scarecrow-style effigies, VTrans officials said they seized those that had been placed within a roughly 50-foot right-ofway extending from both sides of the road’s center line. It’s a violation of state law for a right-of-way to be altered in any manner, unless a permit has first been obtained.

The agency notified Shelburne authorities on two occasions last week that it would be making a “sweep” of their area on Friday, says VTrans spokesman John Zicconi. The agency’s Chittenden County maintenance district regularly removes campaign signs from rights-of-way at this time of year, he notes. “Unfortunately, there appears to have been some miscommunication. The town didn’t notify the person in charge of the mannequins that we’d be coming on Friday.”

The Leaf People were being held in a VTrans maintenance garage at Fort Ethan Allen following their arrest. “We take good care of them,” Zicconi says. “We haven’t harmed them in any way.”

Confiscation of the Leaf People has irked many town residents, says Susan Grace Pinney, the organizer of the display. “It’s outrageous, just ludicrous,” she declares. “With all the political signs you see along roads, I didn’t think we were doing anything wrong. So many people enjoy these critters.”

The Shelburne Business and Professional Association initiated the local Leaf People tradition.

Tod Whitaker, the group’s director, says the idea was inspired by a similar but smaller autumnal display in Brandon. The Leaf People are linked at least indirectly to Vermont’s agricultural history, adds Rosalyn Graham, director of community relations at Shelburne Farms and a longtime volunteer in the annual pageantry.

Pinney says she had a “run-in” with VTrans last year over officials’ claims that some of the Leaf People represented dangerous distractions to drivers. At a distance, especially after dark, some of the figures appear quite lifelike, Pinney acknowledges. She notes that bus

With all the political signs you see along roads, I didn’t think we were doing anything wrong.

SUSAN GRACE PINNEY drivers occasionally stopped along Shelburne Road as they waited for one or more of the Leaf People to board. Some motorists also stopped at pedestrian intersections, waving to Leaf People to cross the road.

The figures were moved away from bus stops and crosswalks in response to VTrans’ expressed concerns, Pinney says. Other Leaf People were untied from the poles of speed-limit signs following claims

by VTrans that those placements violate state law, she adds.

“Very, very few” Shelburne residents complain about the Leaf People, says Town Manager Paul Bohne. “For every complaint, we hear dozens of positive comments about the Leaf People. They’re very popular in town.” Leaf People are seldom vandalized or stolen, Pinney adds.

The funny, festive array has also become a major tourist attraction.

“People from away will stop to have their pictures taken alongside a family of Leaf People,” Pinney says.

“Every year we hear from tourists about how much they enjoy it and how they want to start something like this in their own towns.”

For a three-year period, however, there were no Leaf People in Shelburne. The business association stopped organizing the celebration due to flagging energy on the part of volunteers, along with the Shelburne Road construction project

that made the display impossible along the northern stretch of the road in town. The Leaf People languished in the Shelburne Farms barn, where they were stored after every Halloween.

“People eventually started asking, ‘Hey, what happened to the Leaf People?’” Pinney recalls. “They were really missed.”

And so she took it upon herself last year to revive the tradition. Pinney, who works at Giraf’s Flowers in Shelburne, says she has no relevant artistic training, but so values the “community spirit that the Leaf People bring about” that she began building 30 more figures with help from friends.

The collective name given to the effigies refers to the foliage season, not to their means of construction. Each consists of three wooden frames — a base, a legs-and-torso portion and a set of shoulders — that are draped in clothing donated by locals. Floppy hats often festoon heads that are made of plastic bags or other stuffing wrapped in burlap. Some of the Leaf People are resplendent in chintz fabrics, Carhartt overalls and ankle-length coats.

“In our time, we need to put a smile on people’s faces, and the Leaf People do that,” Pinney says.

“Everything else is just so grim these days.” >

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Next up was Palace 9 owner Harold Blank, who talked a bit about his commitment to “specialty films” — art flicks, indies and the like — before bestowing two new awards funded and judged by himself and his wife Margaret. For “Creativity in Filmmaking,” $1000 went to Bess O’Brien for Shout It Out: The Voices Project

Movie, a not-so-Disney high school musical that’s currently touring the state. (Husband Jay Craven accepted in O’Brien’s absence.) Another grand for “Storytelling” went to Lisa Merton and Alan Dater of Marlboro for Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. Taking the floor, Merton said her documentary profile of the Kenyan activist and Nobel laureate is about creating “civil society” in the face of tyranny — a message, she added, that should resonate with Americans in an election year. > MARGOT HARRISON

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Movie About Vermont Special Education, and People, Premieres

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PANEL DISCUSSION:

Origins and Evolution of the Design/Build tradition in Vermont

BY PAMELA POLSTON

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ittle Bill Villemaire started it all. When he was born in 1956 with Down Syndrome, his mother Theresa was encouraged to send him away to a private facility in southern Vermont. She opted to care for him herself — and then some. Theresa Villemaire’s ensuing activism on the part of her and other families’ disabled children was integral to the evolution of special education in Vermont, and it figures prominently in Bill’s Bill.

That’s the name of a play written by Emily Anderson, theater director of Winooski-based VSA Arts of Vermont and founder of Awareness Theater Company, that debuted two years ago in Burlington. Its title refers to legislation brought to the Vermont House in 1977 by then Representative Lorraine Graham of Burlington that allowed developmentally disabled individuals to take the time they need to get through high school. Graham dubbed her legislation “Bill’s Bill.” This week, the movie version of the story premieres at St. Michael’s College, with a suitably prominent role for an articulate, top-hatted Bill Villemaire, now 51.

Villemaire was Anderson’s assistant in a Can Do Arts self-advocacy theater class at Howard Community Services several years ago, when he happened to mention that he had a legislative bill named after him.

“I kept talking to other people and found out about it,” she says. Local videographer Jim Heltz of Green Mountain Video saw the resulting play and proposed it be turned into a film. Anderson wrote the screenplay, and Heltz directed.

The DVD of Bill’s Bill includes “auxiliary chapters” featuring interviews with individuals involved in special education, and scenes

from rehearsals in which the cast learns its lines and blocking, to much laughter all around. But while the directors and performers clearly had a bang-up time with their roles, their evident pride, and their achievements, provide many moving moments to viewers.

After all, it was mere decades ago that disabled individuals were not allowed in public schools, and very little achievement was expected of them. Bill’s Bill tells of previous Vermont legislation that mandated “mainstreaming” — legislation that was essentially copied by the feds — and traces the parallel development of special-needs teacher

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“Bill’s mother keeps saying, ‘I hope it doesn’t seem that we think we’re special,’” Anderson relates, noting that many individuals share credit for what was really a civil-rights movement in Vermont.

“What this movie shows is a very dedicated bunch of people,” she says. “Many were involved, but it took this one story to travel through the history.” >

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Anderson says the movie-making process took several months; the filming was done over just five days, but she spent a summer looking for historical photos and other documents. “I thought it would be easy,” she says, “but in the end they were hard to find.” She benefited from input from Graham,

Bill’s Bill will be shown on October 30 at McCarthy Arts Recital Hall, St. Michael’s College in Colchester, at 7 p.m., free and open to the public. The movie, followed by an interview with Bill Villemaire, will air on VCAM (Ch. 15) three times each week in November: 4:30 p.m.

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igh-fashion hysteria hit the Green Mountains in recent weeks with the news — first reported in Women’s Wear Daily — that Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld had purchased a house on a Lake Champlain island. Then a woman who had just sold her home on Grand Isle to an unnamed corporate buyer called to tell Seven Days she’d received mail addressed to Lagerfeld.

Despite this evidence, the news seemed improbable. A celebrity couturier wanted to spend his free time in the little town known primarily for its ferry docking? The house, which sold for just more than $500,000, is right on the highway — not exactly the gated community one might expect. But Lagerfeld did tell WWD that he would “start doing the Chanel campaigns” at his new Vermont home.

He didn’t waste any time. This week, Seven Days received a tip from another source: Models were arriving on Tuesday for a Karl Lagerfeld fashion shoot. Guessing that the fashionistas would slip in quietly via private plane, we opted not to stake out the airport but to

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head to Grand Isle and query the natives about the haute couture invasion.

Late Monday afternoon, several moving and service trucks seemed to augur the new resident’s imminent arrival. Willie LeBeau of Essex Equipment knew better. His company was hired to bring tables, chairs and heaters to the sizable, though far from opulent, dwelling. “I hear [Lagerfeld] bought the house just for the shoot,” LeBeau informed Seven Days. “If he were moving, it would take more than two days to renovate it.” He went on to warn that his information was hearsay — but seemingly educated hearsay, especially given that the property was not registered in Lagerfeld’s name.

Shoppers at A&B Beverage were of no help. The folks walking through the aisles, festively decorated with plastic ghosts and mummies, pled ignorance when asked if they were aware of an international ad campaign in their midst.

However, one woman got swoony when reminded that Karl Lagerfeld is the designer for the house of

Chanel, saying, “You just gave me goosebumps.”

Sources informed Seven Days that the Blue Paddle Bistro would be catering this photo shoot — whatever it was. Proprietor Mandy Hotchkiss confirmed that Alburgh chef Barbara Cote would be overseeing the preparation of breakfast and lunch for a four-day shoot.

She was also able to disclose that the photos were being taken for a Chanel campaign. And that the crew of 40 would dine on locally grown squash and Misty Knoll chicken.

On Tuesday, Hotchkiss called to report a face-to-face encounter with the designer: “I met him,” she said. “He was very nice to Barbara. He spent most of the time in the house . . . he really just dashed in and dashed out.” While Lagerfeld may not be buying bait at the Keeler Bay Store any time soon, it looks like the house on the highway will be immortalized in sartorial circles as a tiny new mark on the fashion map. >

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Slave ownership by blacks certainly wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t common, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no surprise you hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come across it before. An article published only four decades after emancipation suggests most American blacks knew nothing about it even then.

However, at one time or another, free black slaveholders could be found in every slave state. Bizarre though this sounds, most had an excuse. Let me explain the concept of benevolent slavery.

Free blacks were fairly common in the antebellum South, constituting 8 percent of southern blacks in 1840.

Most had gained their freedom through manumission (especially common just after the Revolutionary War) or been born free to a free mother. Slaves whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been permitted to earn money in their spare time sometimes made enough to buy their freedom. Another route was being bought and freed by free relatives or friends. But some who bought slaves in this way didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t formally free them for years, partly because freedmen paid higher taxes than slaves or whites. Courts since colonial times had recognized the right of free blacks to own slaves.

This gave rise to an odd arrangement in which people lived as free but were legally someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property. This was benevolent slavery.

Between 1800 and 1830 slave states began restricting manumission, seeing free blacks as potential fomenters of slave rebellion. Now you could buy your friends, but you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t free them unless they left the state â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which for the freed slave could mean leaving behind family still in bondage. So more free blacks took to owning slaves benevolently. Being a nominal slave was risky â&#x20AC;&#x201D; among other things, you could be seized as payment for your nominal ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debts. But at least one state, South Carolina, granted nominal slaves certain rights, including the right to buy slaves of their own.

Nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure how many such arrangements existed. A widely cited but imperfect source is the 1830 federal census, chosen because it supposedly represents the high point of black slave ownership. One count, taking the data at face value, found 3777 free black heads of household who had slaves living with them. If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accurate, about 2 percent of southern free blacks owned slaves.

But this number could be off in either direction. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t distinguish between slaves the householder owned, live-in

slaves he hired, and slaves who merely lodged with him. In a few cases the census listed known white slaveholders as black. Black overseers were sometimes counted as slave owners instead of absentee white planters. On the other hand, nominal slaves were often recorded as free.

In most cases, historians think, blacks owned slaves benevolently, but exploitative slaveholding by blacks did happen. Some well-off urban blacks owned house slaves, and occasionally craftsmen owned skilled slaves to work under or alongside them. Determining how often this happened isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, since the census didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consistently distinguish between nominal and actual slaves.

Proof of commercial ownership can be found in advertising for runaway slaves, sales of slaves at market rates, etc. A confounding factor is that some free blacks owned slaves both benevolently and commercially.

One scholar claims the majority of slave transactions by blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, were commercial â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but again, South Carolina was unusual, for reasons Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll return to. An analysis of Petersburg, Virginia, suggests only about 10 percent of black slaveholders owned slaves commercially, which was probably typical. Sure, slavery is slavery, but what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about is a far cry from the plantation field slavery you might have imagined.

We do, however, need to acknowledge a less common form of black slaveholding.

Whites in Louisiana and South Carolina fostered a class of rich people of mixed race â&#x20AC;&#x201D; typically they were known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;mulattoes,â&#x20AC;? although gradations such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;quadroonâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;octoroonâ&#x20AC;? were sometimes used â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a buffer between themselves and slaves. Often the descendants and heirs of well-off whites, these citizens were encouraged to own slaves, tended to side with whites in racial disputes, and generally identified more with their white forbears than black. Nationwide, maybe 10 percent of the mixed-race population (about 1 percent of all those identified as AfricanAmerican) fell into this category.

Some of these people owned lots of slaves. How common was this?

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s define â&#x20AC;&#x153;lotsâ&#x20AC;? as 10 or more in a household, bearing in mind that sometimes those with many slaves were still benevolent owners. (One man benevolently owned 18 relatives on the eve of emancipation.) In 1830, 80 percent of blacks who owned 10 or more slaves lived in Louisiana or South Carolina. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t weird, but there were only 214 such owners nationwide out of 320,000 free blacks.

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by MIKE IVES

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n the first day of each new semester, Champlain College professor Toni-Lee Sangastiano tells her graphic-design pupils a few things about herself they would never have guessed: She has a black belt in Taekwando; she’s a former volunteer firefighter; and she’s one of the leading “sideshow banner” painters in the United States.

Sideshow what? Yes, for the last decade, Sangastiano, 34, has been selling 4-by-5-foot acrylic paintings that immortalize sword swallowers, fire-eaters and other non-main-stage performers. The sideshow — what she calls the three ring’s “seedy underbelly” — was a common form of popular entertainment in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Though out of favor with modern-day masses, sideshows still attract diehard enthusiasts who maintain fan websites and trade quirky memorabilia.

Sideshow performers also strut on a side stage at Ozzfest, she informs.

“Most people don’t peg me painting this stuff, which I guess ties into what I’m trying to show,” explains Sangastiano, who’s wearing bright-red lipstick and sitting in a faux-leopard-skin chair in her Pine Street studio. “People have all these perceptions of what performers are,” she adds. “People think they’re weird, when, in fact, they’re just like everybody else.”

A sketch of Sangastiano’s next banner shows a woman whose leg is a snake that wraps around a classical-looking column.

On this balmy October afternoon in Burlington, Sangastiano is painting politically incorrect — post-PC? — banners for a Halloween sideshow gathering in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania. In keeping with tradition, most of her canvases feature an orange or red background, a scroll and a sensational caption.

Walking around her studio, she stops to stick out her studded tongue at a banner featuring a green-haired woman whose own tongue has been pierced by a gargantuan nail. “PAINPROOF,” says a caption. Further along, “REX the HUMAN REPTILE” crouches next to a mass of jungle vines. “I saw him on Ripley’s,” she explains. If Sangastiano’s laptop and external hard drive weren’t in evidence, her studio could be mistaken for P.T. Barnum’s storage room.

Sangastiano first learned about sideshows in 1996, during the fall of her junior year at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. That’s when Dick Zigun of the Coney Island Circus approached her studio-art professor, Marie Roberts, to ask if she knew anyone who could paint banners. “I was really excited, even though I didn’t know anything about it,” Sangastiano recalls.

By the following spring, she had painted six banners, three of them for the Coney Island Museum. The experience prompted her to explore the history of the genre in her senior thesis. After college, while doing graphic-design work for magazines, Sangastiano bought the domain names sideshowbanners.com, -org and -net.

They have helped her score banner commissions from comedy clubs, sideshow conventions and performers across the country.

One of the last is “Matt the Knife,” a world-traveling, Guinness Record-holding sword swallower from Rhode Island. In 2006, he asked Sangastiano to paint a 5-by7-foot banner portrait, detailing the color of his shoes, props and pinstripe suit. “He was very specific in his color scheme,” she recalls. The resulting banner shows the performer clutching his sword in front of a plush purple curtain. The accompanying caption reads simply: “REAL.” Sangastiano says Matt plans to commission a full series when he can afford it.

Not all of her patrons are entertainers or event planners. John Robertson, CEO of a nonprofit in Utah, has commissioned four banners from Sangastiano over the

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past six years. He attended his first sideshow as a child and now runs the fan site sideshowworld.com. Robertson collects such “natural wonders” as skulls, shrunken heads, Fiji mermaids, alligator men and two-headed babies. He sometimes sends samples to Sangastiano for inspiration.

A skeleton from Robertson now occupies center stage in her studio.

Robertson says he appreciates how Sangastiano channels the old-time stylings of pre-1960s banner painters. Unlike some contemporary banners, “ToniLee’s work piques curiosity,” he attests in a phone interview. “It draws someone in and helps them say, ‘Gee, what could be behind that banner? I want to be able to see that!’”

Marie Roberts, the Fairleigh Dickinson professor who jumpstarted Sangastiano’s sideshow career, says the Burlington artist has a special gift for probing sideshow performers’ psychological depths. She should know: During the 1920s, Roberts’ uncle was a sideshow “talker” — the guy who heckles passersby — for the now-defunct Dreamland Circus Sideshow in Coney Island. A classically trained artist, she also teaches banner-painting classes at the Coney Island Sideshow School.

While Roberts’ banners border on the “cartoony,” she suggests, Sangastiano’s have a “soft, fleshy” quality that both humanizes them and taps into universal themes. Speaking from Brooklyn, Roberts stresses that Sangastiano’s soft touch isn’t a sign of weakness; when her former student paints a “strong man,” she explains, “He still looks like a strong man, but there’s another layer.”

Sangastiano has plenty of formal training of her own

to draw from: She holds an MFA in Studio Art, and she spent the last two summers studying painting at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Immersion in the Old Masters, she says, influences her oil portraits of contemporary sideshow performers, whom she depicts lounging backstage or eating in diners.

Meanwhile, Sangastiano’s graphic-design skills inform her sideshow-themed posters and illustrations. One example is her 2008 Coney Island Film Festival poster, which depicts the locale’s “Wonder Wheel” in vibrant bands of primary colors. Another is a forthcoming cover of the sideshow-themed magazine Shocked and Amazed, which Sangastiano painted based on illustrations she’d created in Adobe Photoshop.

As for banner painting, Sangastiano says she’s finding ways of changing her approach sans breaking with sideshow tradition. Case in point: A sketch of her next banner shows a woman whose leg is a snake that wraps around a classical-looking column — the latter inspired by her sojourns in Florence. However, Sangastiano says, the banner still honors a request from its subject, a legendary sword swallower whom she met at last year’s sideshow gathering in Wilkes-Barre.

Another Sangastiano banner looks past the circus toward current events. Near the door of her Pine Street studio, an unfinished canvas depicts the “Alligator Man” — “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart — standing before a red, white and blue backdrop and flanked by fellow satirist Stephen Colbert. “REAL LEADERSHIP” and “REAL TRUTHINESS,” read the captions.

“It’s my first political banner,” Sangastiano explains. “I want to send it to ‘The Daily Show,’ but first I have to fix Jon’s face.” m

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t’s no use trying to hide from the dead. The world is a cemetery. Vestiges of the departed are always beneath our feet — take the autumn leaves we kick aside.

Some hold their breath driving past cemeteries. Others like to stroll the paths and read the gravestones — which, in Vermont, can be both works of art and pieces of history.

Some may call this pastime morbid. But we are the walking dead, the grave our own destiny. Why should we fear those who made it there before us? In the spirit of demystifying what so many find spooky, we provide a primer to the best necropoli in Vermont.

With the aid of lots of legwork, first-person sources, various cemeteries’ websites and Findagrave.com, we’ve learned the stories behind some of the most interesting graves in the state.

HOPE CEMETERY, BARRE When Italian immigrants flooded Barre at the turn of the 20th century, the craft of carving Rock of Ages granite took on a bold, beautiful and decidedly weird new shape. And those craftsmen took care of their own.

Really good care. The graves of simple artisans and their families surpass

anything Shelley’s mythical tyrant Ozymandias could have wished for.

Take Barre’s very own recreation of the Pietà. Sam Palmisano, chef/owner of Pulcinella’s in South Burlington, relates that his grandparents brought back “little statues” of Michelangelo’s masterpiece from their final excursion to Italy. The sculpture was his grandfather’s favorite, and “After his passing, in 1974, my grandmother wanted the headstone to be that statue.” It now stands over the graves of Palmisano’s grandmother and great-grandparents.

Perhaps the most touching artwork on the grounds is the grave of Louis Brusa. An activist for himself and other granite carvers, Brusa — whose work can be seen throughout the

cemetery — made it his life’s mission to make ventilation systems mandatory in granite sheds. Dying of silicosis caused by years of inhaling stone dust (a common fate for Hope inhabitants), Brusa secretly carved himself a tombstone: his wife holding him as he gasped his last.

More lighthearted graves include a rounded airplane, a three-dimensional racecar and a square-dancing couple.

One stone, emblazoned with a baseball bat, glove and ball, stands over the resting places of three family members, informing visitors, “Their baseball memory will live on.”

Though many families strive to enshrine their loved ones for the ages, most resting places don’t attract bus tours — which bring scores of visitors to view Hope’s examples of Vermont ingenuity. The place isn’t just a cemetery: It’s a museum.

GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY, MONTPELIER Green Mount is the dark horse of Vermont’s megacemeteries. While Hope has a lush, largely flat patch of acreage, Montpelier’s largest graveyard is almost entirely on an angle. The older stones on the grounds, mostly positioned to the right at the very top of the slope, have a distinctly English feel about them, in contrast to Barre’s lusty continental flair.

Case in point: Ned the Dog. The grave of Fred Stevens does not enshrine the man himself, but rather his trusty spaniel. Then there’s 6-year-old Margaret Pitkin, who died in 1899 but lives on in effigy as a pensive, pinafored little girl,

the picture of Victorian propriety.

Mourning their child, wrested too early from them, the Pitkins asked the artisans to work from a photograph and create a life-sized likeness of the girl. Mr. Pitkin refused to pay for the monument after he noticed a button missing from the statue’s shoes. He backed down when the carver pointed out the same button was missing in the photo.

Perhaps the largest gravestone in Vermont, the sepulcher of William Stowell is a boulder toward the front of the cemetery. Stairs carved into the massive rock allow visitors to climb to the top from street level and enjoy

the view of Montpelier below. Nearby, the remains of a tree trunk have been crafted into a throne.

One new stone stands out even from the highway. The polished black marble welcomes visitors to the resting place of Raymond (“Ray the Cop”) Quero and his wife Roxanna. “Roxy,” who works as the state senate’s office assistant, is still very much alive, but she smiles from the stone behind a proud, uniformed Ray. Emblems of their lives decorate the stone, from a gold Statehouse dome to a mini-resume for Ray, which notes his summers spent working at the Dairy Barn down the street. From the 19th century to today, Green Mount proves that life is in the details.

LAUREL GLENN CEMETERY, CUTTINGSVILLE Some of us can afford to mourn more than others. John Porter Bowman didn’t quite have the resources of Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his favorite wife. But Bowman had already made a fortune in leather when the women in his life started dying off. His first daughter, Addie, lived less than four months of 1854. In 1879, she was followed off the mortal coil by her sister Ella, who died at 23. When Bowman’s beloved wife Jenny died six months later, he was left alone.

The sorrowful Bowman put his money to use: He simultaneously commissioned a new home, and a mausoleum directly facing it, at the front of Laurel Glenn. Business kept him in New York much of the time, but in free moments he headed back to Cuttingsville to stay across the street from his family.

His heartbroken visits are commemorated on the mausoleum.

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Bowman. Clutching the monument’s key in one hand and a funeral wreath in the other, he appears eager to enter the building. (Visitors also often place flowers in the same spot.) Inside, a mirror-lined room reflects rustedgreen candelabra and the busts of Bowman, Jenny and a life-sized statue of baby Ella, reaching for her parents.

Their organic bodies are stacked in vaults in descending order of passage.

Above them all, the inscription “A couch of dreamless sleep” leaves visitors with an unsettling lullaby.

LAKEVIEW CEMETERY, BURLINGTON Inscriptions on older Burlington gravestones tend to read like a street map, with Blodgetts and Flynns galore. But for a more diverse flava, one need look no farther than North Avenue.

First established in 1871, Lakeview was meant to echo Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery and Paris’ Père Lachaise. The concept of a “garden cemetery” (or memorial park) was both romantic and pragmatic in a time when the urban dead were piling up. Literally. City burial grounds were full, so new ones took over rural spaces.

Lakeview’s founders probably never imagined that their park would someday hold consecrated Jewish and Muslim sections — or that names such as Toguchi, Nguyen and Pan would dot the serene landscape

overlooking Lake Champlain. The cemetery now mimics the melting pot of the Old North End, with its finest emblem standing toward the center. The grave of the Ngan/ Yan family dates from 1992, when all four family members passed.

Chinese characters cover the front of the stone, while names and dates are Western-style. The back of the large monument is a detailed illustration of the Great Wall, complete with cranes and jagged mountains. In English, a quote attributed to “Kwan” reads, “Outside we may look different.

Inside we are all the same. May God bless us all.”

GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY, BURLINGTON Visible from the road, Ethan Allen’s massive monument stands tall. Too bad he may not be there. A source at the Ethan Allen Homestead says Allen was buried near the home of his brother Ira. His will requested that he be interred under arms, and that his friend James Hawley “draw good liquor” for the funeral guests.

Many other members of the Allen clan rest in Green Mount, in body and stone. Ira Allen, always the overlooked, more cerebral brother to Ethan’s boorish bruiser, rests beneath his brother’s memorial. Other Allen relatives lie in intricate, Crusadersstyle tombs.

COLD COMFORT Just as winter comes and goes, so do we. But what if we go when winter comes?

Vermont winters are inhospitable to all, including the dead.

Getting a deceased loved one under the ground is a priority for most people who don’t choose cremation, and it’s also a religious duty for many Jewish and Muslim families. The formalities of modern dying, such as certificates and funeral arrangements, often drag this interval out into a couple of days, but longer would be considered disrespectful to the person’s memory. So what happens when the ground is frozen and covered in snow?

Most Vermont cemeteries are closed to new burials for part of the winter, but many are extending their open periods in response to these demands.

Those that are open all year — such as Stowe Cemetery — are plowed regularly, allowing fairly easy access. And penetrating the earth isn’t as hard now as it was in the old days, when corpses were saved until spring. According to Joy Fagan, president of the Vermont Cemetery Association, “The ground is not as frozen as people think. There are machines to heat the ground, but usually all you need is a jackhammer or backhoe.”

Many older cemeteries, such as Green Mount in Montpelier, are built on hills, making them inaccessible to plows. In these cases, the receiving vault comes into play. Those cute little houses, often built into the sides of slopes, house bodies whose relatives are willing to wait until spring to see them committed to the earth. While they may seem old-fashioned, these temporary catacombs are still the norm. According to several experts, Vermont has no indoor refrigeration facilities to serve this purpose. Green Mount Cemetery’s vault can hold about 60 people. Burlington’s Lakeview Cemetery houses bodies for all of Burlington, even those to be buried elsewhere. If you die in the Queen City in the winter, expect to call their gingerbread house of a vault home until spring.

Cremation, of course, is another option that knows no season. In 2005, the National Funeral Directors Association reported that nearly 40 percent of Vermont bodies were cremated. Tom Lavigne, of Lavigne Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Winooski, estimates that half his clients choose cremation. Islam and conservative Jewish sects forbid the practice, but many reform Jews choose fire over ice.

While Lavigne is quick to say that prolonged storage is not a financial hardship, families do have to pay for their loved ones’ snowy vacations. The only real price, he says, is psychological: “It’s hard for people to do it again.

You get people who are restless and anxious, waiting for it to happen. Years ago, people just wanted to be notified when the burial had taken place; now graveside prayers are the norm.”

Sometimes it takes a winter of frozen purgatory for a person to rest in peace.

— A.L.

EVERGREEN CEMETERY, NEW HAVEN Evergreen Cemetery proves that verse can memorialize the departed as well as stone. One of the cemetery’s oldest graves, belonging to 25-year-old Mrs. Polly Dowd, dates to 1791. The stone cutter misspelled her maiden name of Tyler as Tyer, and wrote the haunting inscription: “Death is a dept (sic) to nature due / Which I have paid and so must you.”

Many churchyards of similar vintage are covered with religious verse. What sets Evergreen apart is the matter-of-fact, sometimes morbid script, commemorating many a 19th-century youth who was untimely snatched. Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Hopkins’ parents lamented, “Youth, nor health, nor the fondest parental hope / could defend him from the arrow of death.” The family of Carr N. Sanford claimed, “He being dead yet speaketh.” The stone of another 16-year-old, Asahel Hall, warns, “Stop here my friends / and this inscription view / Death call’d for me / and soon will call for you.”

Evergreen also holds a rare example of a “security coffin.” Timothy Clark Smith, who died in 1893, so feared the Edgar Allan Poe-esque fate of live burial that he conceived an elaborate setup. It included a window in the earth positioned over his face, which he hoped would allow above-ground visitors to witness his panicked gasps, and a warning bell for him to pull should he awake in the coffin. The bell is no more, and the window is misted over with more than a century of condensation — not, one hopes, from Smith’s last breaths.

Evergreen Cemetery holds a rare example of a “security coffin.”

WEST CEMETERY, MIDDLEBURY The story of how a long-dead Egyptian ended up in an Addison County cemetery is one of disappointment. When museum founder Henry Sheldon bought the remains of 2-year-old Amum-HerKepesh-Ef toward the end of the 19th century, he discovered a poor example of mummy flesh if there ever was one. The toddler’s head was flattened in transit, and his tattered bandages barely covered his decaying remains. Not sure what to do with him, Sheldon hid the body in the museum’s attic. In 1945, George Mead, a trustee of the Sheldon Museum, sent the messy corpse into the fire. He buried the boy’s cremains at West Cemetery, beneath a stone that dates his death at 1883 B.C.

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clothespin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We originally heard that he wanted a spring in the clothespin so children could teeter on it,â&#x20AC;? notes sister-in-law Betty Crowell.

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Jack Crowell took his ardor to the grave, where his life is memorialized in the form of a giant clothespin.

Ebenezer Dewey, one of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original grantees.

The cemetery saw its first burials in the 1790s and received 49 Dewey family members in all. The Church of LDS has adopted it as home to the Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial and museum, although Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own remains reside in Nauvoo, Michigan.

Senior missionaries began restoring the burial groundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cracked stones and righting fallen ones in 1993.

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FLAVOR GRAVEYARD, WATERBURY OK, maybe this last entry is pushing it. But Vermont is the only state that can claim a cemetery devoted entirely to ice cream. To see the stones of the dearly departed Bovinity Divinity or Cool Britannia, head for the Ben & Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s factory. Dead flavors must remain interred, so no catching a lick of Ethan Almond â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose stone reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In memory of nuts / and Green Mountain Boys / Here history shuts / the pint lid on their joys.â&#x20AC;?

If you actually want to resurrect a favorite flavor, head for the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website (www. benjerry.com), where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a handy form for the purpose.

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Scared Silly

HALLOWEEN

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Block party this weekend!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great!â&#x20AC;?

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his time of year we like to think about things that go bump â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or shout, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trick or treat!â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the night. But what our pagan forebears worried about seem like childish superstitions next to the nail-biters of 2008: an impending presidential election whose outcome could not be more critical. An economic catastrophe whose depths are not yet plumbed. Global warming. Wars in the Middle East. And, oh, yeah, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this about a flu pandemic? Dark times, indeed.

Here at Seven Days, we got so carried away obsessing on our fears of the moment that the deeper ones bubbled up, too. Who knew we were such â&#x20AC;&#x2122;fraidy-cats?

But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better balm than the commiseration of friends. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we decided to take the edge off by sharing the scare with you.

A few common themes emerged, which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve clumped together, but some answers were a little more . . . idiosyncratic. And notice, not a single staffer mentioned terrorists. Go figure.

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HALLOWEEN

Catch the Spirit Vermont ghost hunters trail a scent in South Starksboro

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very October, when Caitrin McDonough was growing up in South Burlington, her dad would rent scary movies and take her for walks in graveyards. Such activities were fun for a while — before she moved to South Starksboro and met real ghosts.

It all started in September 2004, after Caitrin’s mother, Noreen, purchased a 136-year-old white house near the Jerusalem Cemetery. First a bed started shaking. Then Caitrin’s sister thought she heard a friend in a room, but the friend wasn’t there.

Another night, when 14-year-old Caitrin was watching TV in the living room, a reflection of a person appeared in a darkened window. “No one else was home,” she recalls, “so it freaked me out.”

Last month, Noreen McDonough saw an ad in Seven Days: IS YOUR HOUSE HAUNTED? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.”

She responded to the ad and, via email, explained her situation. A couple weeks later, the detectives, who are based in Burlington, visited the McDonough place and decided Caitrin’s claims merited further investigation.

On October 17, Matt Borden, front man for the Vermont Spirit Detective Agency, was eating cheesy macaroni, salad and apple pie in the McDonough’s post-and-beam kitchen.

At the table, ghost hunter Mike

Efendiev, 31, calibrated the video cameras, digital recorders and electromagnetic meters that record ghost talk — what paranormal investigators call “electronic voice phenomenon,” or EVP. Outside the window, a tire swing rocked from a tree.

Borden said a typical night of ghost hunting produces a workweek’s worth of audio-visual footage. Certain ghosts, he explained, will speak without prompting, while others respond to questions.

Borden began soliciting ghost stories back in July, when he placed the agency’s first classified ad. Twelve people have responded so far. As of last Thursday, the detectives had traveled to Burlington, Barre and Jeffersonville in search of spirit communication and other signs of paranormal activity. But they have yet to record any evidence.

While it’s safe to assume that the founders of a ghost-hunting business do, in fact, believe in ghosts, Borden and Efendiev approach the phenomenon more like scientists, relying on the evidence on a case-by-case basis.

As Borden explains it, spirit detection is not a means of authenticating ghoulish fantasies. “Some people want it to be true so badly,” he said, “that I kind of think they’re imagining things.”

Indeed, Efendiev said, some clients refuse to take no for an answer, even from professionals. “Some people out

A TIRE SWING OUTSIDE THE MCDONOUGH PLACE

BRYAN HALLETT IN THE MCDONOUGH KITCHEN

there,” he said, “no matter what you tell them, no matter what you prove, they say it isn’t the case.”

Efendiev, who wore a white baseball hat and jeans, is a chatty guy who shares an apartment with Borden’s girlfriend and fellow spirit detective Gloria DeSousa.

Borden met DeSousa two Thanksgivings ago at a friend’s house in Burlington. They didn’t talk about supernatural matters during their early courtship because, as DeSousa explains, “It’s not the kind of thing you normally bring up.”

But, after DeSousa told Borden about her spirit premonitions — for example, while living in the woods outside Middlesex, she could feel her dead cat crawling across her crotch — the lovers became partners in ghoulishness.

In June 2007, at DeSousa’s suggestion, they visited Lily Dale, a town outside Buffalo where ghosts have reportedly been talking to the living for more than a century. “We didn’t really find it very believable,” DeSousa recalls, “but it was worth the drive.”

Last summer, she and Borden went to East Bethany, New York, for a ghost-hunting investigation at a former sanatorium. The event featured celebrities from the popular television show “Ghost Hunters.”

Efendiev, a Unicel shippingand-receiving supervisor whose mother thinks her New Jersey house is haunted, is also a big “Ghost Hunters” fan. He had checked out the sanatorium in East Bethany, too, and

afterward joined Borden and DeSousa as a partner in the newly formed Vermont Spirit Detective Agency.

Efendiev said he and his fellow detectives are honing their skills in preparation for ghost hunts at larger sites. Their dream job? An investigation of Vermont Police Academy headquarters in Pittsford, which Borden read about in a book by the Burlington ghost-story collector Joseph Citro.

The agency’s ad in Seven Days attracted not only customers but freelance collaborators. One is Bryan Hallett, an eager ghost aficionado who graduated from the University of Vermont this spring. In September, Hallett’s girlfriend and classmate, Megan Laliberte, saw the Seven Days ad. Hallett emailed Borden, who invited the couple to join a ghost hunt in Barre. Now they are official members of the team, and Borden lets Hallett use his own digital voice recorder to document electronic voice phenomena.

After dinner at the McDonough house, Hallett and Efendiev did a preliminary “sweep” of the place to see if their electromagnetic readers detected non-ghostlike materials, such as copper wiring, which can set the equipment’s sensors off. Then the spirit detectives and the McDonoughs gathered around the kitchen table.

Borden explained that, if a ghost appears during a hunt, you should motion to the camera with a discreet, double-fisted thumbs-up. “We don’t want to interrupt,” Efendiev said.

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While Borden calibrated live images from four strategically placed surveillance cameras, DeSousa, Efendiev and his mother Janet — she had driven up from Jersey for the occasion — walked to a nearby red barn with Caitrin McDonough and a few of her friends. Meanwhile, Hallett and Laliberte mounted a narrow stairway to Noreen McDonough’s slantroofed second-floor bedroom. The group in the barn prepared to listen to noises coming from Hallett’s recording devices.

Hallett set up his equipment as Laliberte stretched out on Noreen McDonough’s bed. “It is 8:50,” Hallett said into a recorder. “We are in Noreen’s bedroom in South Starksboro, Vermont. It is 10-17-08, and this will be our first EVP session of the night.”

Something — tree branch? squirrel? — scratched at the window. “Is there anyone here in this room with us?” Hallett said after a pause. “If you are here with us, can you give us some sort of sign?”

Caitrin McDonough isn’t the only one who sees ghosts near Jerusalem

are basically conducting 19th-century Spiritualist séances, he explained — and that popular practice was never validated by science.

It’s not that paranormal investigators are “crazy,” Citro added. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency is one of at least three such agencies in the area. According to Citro, they reflect the “resurgence” of popular interest in the supernatural as reflected by a host of new horror movies and spooky TV shows.

“I think people are feeling tense and insecure right now, for political and other reasons,” he said. “Historically, when a population becomes insecure or frightened, they look beyond.”

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By 10 p.m., Matt Borden and Megan Laliberte were sitting in a drafty hallway near the kitchen waiting for something unusual to happen. Bryan Hallett and Caitrin McDonough were watching video feeds in the living room. Caitrin’s mom, Noreen, was eating apple pie on an adjacent loveseat. The family dog wandered in and fell asleep.

While it’s safe to assume that the founders of a ghost-hunting business do, in fact, believe in ghosts, Borden and Efendiev approach the phenomenon more like scientists Cemetery. One night this summer, a woman who lives across the road saw a blond World War I soldier with a canvas bag and a canteen standing at her bedside.

The woman, who did not want her name published, recalled that she turned to her husband and said, “Get up! Somebody’s in the house!” The soldier vanished.

Documents obtained at the Starksboro Town Office suggest the soldier was Milton Elliot, a dairy farmer who once owned Noreen McDonough’s house. Born in 1897, Elliot fought in the war during the fall and winter of 1918. Thirty-seven years later, he purchased 70 acres near the Jerusalem Cemetery for $5000 and moved into a house down the hill; Noreen McDonough’s place might have housed his farmhands. After Elliot’s death in 1962, his widow and son sold the land to a younger couple.

Joseph Citro, a Burlington novelist and self-described “supernaturalist,” doesn’t think the ghost was Milton Elliot.

Visions of ghosts seen at night or the early morning should be interpreted with care, he explained in a phone interview, because people are more likely to dream at those hours. Besides, he wondered, how does the woman know it was a World War I soldier, as opposed to a soldier from a different war? And even if ghosts of dead people exist — Citro isn’t convinced they do — why would they wear clothes?

“There’s just too much that’s illogical about it,” he concluded.

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As the computer screen flickered, Hallett told a ghost story. Not long ago, he began, a friend of his father’s felt the presence of a war-painted Native American on the edge of Hallett’s father’s backyard in Peru, New York. What was up with that?

Hallett’s father said he didn’t know, but that, for some time, he had been seeing the devil’s face in his bedroom.

The more Hallett’s father pondered his friend’s theory, the more he realized that the devil’s face was probably the Native American’s face. Hallett’s father sold the property a few months ago, but Hallett is planning to conduct further research.

“That stuff is hard for me to believe,” Hallett said. “I’m looking for the undeniable stuff you catch on camera.”

With that, the young ghost hunter returned his gaze to the computer monitor.

His girlfriend’s eyes were shining back at him — via video feed — from the infrared darkness of the hallway. Caitrin McDonough yawned. Blue light from the monitor filtered across Noreen’s lawn.

The tire swing was still swaying under a gibbous moon.

Borden and his colleagues stayed at the McDonough’s until after 1 a.m. A few days later, while reviewing audio-visual footage from the South Starksboro ghost hunt, he heard garbled whispering. But, he cautioned, it’s too early to know whether the voices belong to ghosts or the spirit detectives themselves.

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CULTURE

Classically Awesome Yo Pros aim to lower the average age, and raise the dress code, of the VSO audience

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In a city where wearing a sports coat can be a fashion statement, the sartorial display seemed slightly out of place, even discounting the weather. One of the women in the group, Megan McIntosh Frenzen, alternately glanced nervously out the window and chatted with her friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Six-thirty . . . I was expecting more people by now,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then, a bunch are notoriously late for these events.â&#x20AC;?

Frenzen was referring to a gathering of the Yo Pros (short for Young Professionals Group), a pre-VSO social conclave she organized as part marketing device, part networking tool and part opportunity to â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a Yo Pro entry on the VSO blog puts it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;be awesome.â&#x20AC;?

Frenzen, a marketing professor at Champlain College and VSO Champlain Valley regional board member, came up with the Yo Pro idea in response to a problem discussed at several board meetings. Namely, the symphony audience is aging, and not enough younger people are filling vacated seats. Without a novel plan to attract new classical-music lovers, the livelihood of the VSO is in question.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a situation that Burlington shares with many other cities,â&#x20AC;? Frenzen pointed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only are audiences getting older, but traditional marketing vehicles that used to get people through the door â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like direct mail or working the phones â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t producing the way they used to,â&#x20AC;? she explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I needed to find a new way to introduce people to an artistic resource that they might not have even been aware of.â&#x20AC;?

Frenzen felt certain that, in an artsfriendly city like Burlington, she could identify a supportive new audience for the symphony. Yo Pro, an open-door, dues-free social club, would help boost attendance and broaden the VSO experience â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyond simply attending a performance and then going home,â&#x20AC;? as she put it.

Lacking funds for a full-bore advertising plan, Frenzen went viral with an email and word-of-mouth campaign. She sent announcements to friends, who sent them on to other friends, and a core group quickly formed. Arrangements were made for Yo Pro members to receive a 20 percent discount on concert tickets in a seating area not far behind the top-tier â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gold Circle,â&#x20AC;? as well as at the local restaurants where they gather about an hour and a half before shows.

In time, Frenzenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts paid off.

Attendance at the three Yo Pro events last year grew from a few to more than 30.

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So, what exactly defines young and professional? “Well, our blog reads that membership is restricted to anyone younger than 60 and not in jail,” Frenzen explained with a laugh.

As inclusive as that description may be, the Yo Pros in circulation on Saturday seemed plucked from pretty high up the pedigree tree. Conversations flitted from banking to law to lighter topics, but the overall impression was of a rarefied social stratum.

Hannah Sachs, a consultant for April Cornell Holdings and first-time Yo Pro’er, said she had long wanted to attend a VSO performance. But she admitted she might have taken longer to buy a ticket without a pre-concert event to motivate her. “I’m not

novice, or even intermediate-level, listener.

A passage from the VSO’s online notes for Saturday’s performance of Chasing Light,

by Joseph Schwantner, is a case in point: The strings present a theme derived from the pedal point rhythmic gesture and the brass three-note figure leading to an extended series of upward thrusting six-note sonorities.

“I took 15 years of classical piano and I find that confusing,” Frenzen said, laughing. Her notes combine humor and history in a way that stands in stark contrast to standard VSO material. Take this excerpt from her introduction to the same show:

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certain what to expect from the symphony performance,” she said. “But, let’s face it, how many opportunities are there to dress up in Burlington?” Her voice trailed off when she spotted a former classmate from St. Michael’s College. “I haven’t seen that guy in almost 10 years!”

Tim Curtin, a test engineer for IBM and a three-event Yo Pro veteran, credited the group with making him “a born-again classical-music lover. I wandered away for a long while, but this was a terrific excuse to learn how ridiculously great the VSO really is,” he enthused. “Plus, the networking possibilities are definitely there.”

To Frenzen, however, the art of attracting younger people to the symphony isn’t just about socializing and discounts. She writes her own program notes for Yo Pro members, partly to address the complaint that VSO programs sometimes seem more suited to a music theory PhD than to a

“We have to assume that the people we invite to these events are newcomers to the symphony experience,” Frenzen said. “And if we don’t speak to them in a different way or make the environment more welcoming, we’ll just add problem to problem.

Besides, who decreed that you couldn’t joke around in program notes?”

As the Yo Pros signed bar tabs and prepared for the short walk across City Hall Park to the Flynn, the rain let up slightly. Giulia Eliason, who works in pharmaceutical sales, gathered her bag and coat and looked relieved that her flaxen hair would remain un-drenched. Asked what prompted her to join the Yo Pros, she smiled and said, “Well, my mother is the music director for the Library of Congress, so I feel a little obligated. But really, it’s just nice to add a little blond to that sea of silver in the audience.”>

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China Syndrome

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EXHIBIT

“Made in China,” contemporary Chinese art.

Helen Day Art Center, Stowe.

Through November 22.

ARTWORK

“Memories/ me” by Sheng Qi

photo

Marc Awodey

ew epochs in Chinese history have brought changes as dramatic as those in the last half of the 20th century. From the communist victory of 1949 to the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s to Deng Xiaoping’s capitalist reforms of the 1980s, China has reinvented itself from a feudal empire to a modern economic powerhouse in just a few generations. The evolution has taken its toll on China’s citizens, however. Accordingly, dislocation is a common subtext of the current exhibition at Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center, “Made in China,” featuring works by contemporary artists of that vast country.

A few traditional pieces provide some context for the exhibit. The forms of two 18-inch-tall Ming Dynasty “Lothan Heads,” carved from red sandstone, are echoed by the intricate airbrush on paper “Works From the 18 Monks Series,” by Qui Zhijie. Qui’s

pieces are forests of vermilion contour lines that turn into contorted faces akin to the ancient Lothan Buddhist sculptures. Qui also refers to traditional forms in the 9-foot-tall fabric columns of his “9 Elements Series.”

These are filled with large passages of calligraphic script.

Two of Qui’s 36-by-30-inch chromogenic prints are also included here. Both are altered self-portraits of the artist, nude from the torso up. “Tattoo #6 (Daoist poem)” has broad brushstrokes covering the figure; “Tattoo #4 (coins)” shows the artist behind a hailstorm of Chinese Empire and early Republic coins.

<exhibitions> In a posted artist’s statement, Qui writes that he’s examining “the problematic relationship between an image and its background,” though in his images the “background” is more than a formal design element: It’s a term that encompasses his culture.

The Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989 are more than backdrop for artist Sheng Qi. “Memories/me” is a 39-by-26-inch color digital print focused on the artist’s palm, which holds a snapshot of his childhood portrait. Sheng was active in the Tiananmen protests and escaped from China after the crackdown. Before leaving, he severed his pinky and buried it in his native soil. Also appearing at the Helen Day are two of Sheng’s redpainted sculptures — “Hero,” referring to the anonymous protester who tried to block a tank at Tiananmen, and “Bloody Tian’anmen,” in which Mao’s tomb appears to drip blood.

Ironically, after eight years in exile, Sheng returned to China; he now lives in Beijing. Chinese artists apparently come to terms with the People’s Republic by finding ways to be subtly subversive without compromising personal aesthetics.

Photographer Wang Qingsong’s 4-by-8-foot color prints directly approach contemporary China’s contradictions. “Past” recreates a monumental propaganda sculpture of revolutionary Red Guards; in this muddy tableau, the artist looks upward at the sculpture, appearing as a most unheroic, battered soldier, lifting a bouquet to the surreal statue. In “Beggar,” a chic, wellheeled Caucasian woman walks past a decrepit beggar on the right side of the photo. The woman carries a fan and holds a transparent purse stuffed with dollars, euros and yuan.

Intriguing videos of performance events by Zhang Huan also appear in the exhibition. “To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond” documents an event in which dozens of men clad only in underwear entered a shallow pond in an absurdist display of collective cooperation. As they leave the pond, all walking to the same point, small fish gather and leap before the men.

China seems to be confidently reasserting its place in world culture, and the country’s dynamism is evident in “Made in China.” It’s also clear from the show that contemporary Chinese artists are refusing to be cowed by the new empire’s ongoing political dictatorship. marc awodey

call to artists

Show! Show! Show! Clothing boutique on Church St., a participant in the monthly Art Walk, seeking out emerging artists to showcase their art. Send images to onelove1515@hotmail.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE invites artists to submit photography for possible solo exhibitions at the William Feick Arts Center. The center is accepting submissions for consideration by our jurying committee for exhibits in 2010. Info: www. greenmtn.edu/feick, 287-8398.

ART’S ALIVE is seeking submissions for its Winter Art Auction in December.

Intake will be Saturday, November 1 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Union Station, 1 Main St., Burlington. One 2-D submission per artist. Go to www.artsalivevt.com to download submission packet. Info: 864-1557.

SEEKING LOCAL ARTISTS to exhibit artwork in a nonprofit business office in South Burlington. Office space is shared with four organizations, high visibility. Art can be for sale or exhibit. Info: Kay, 863-3491.

PICTURE THAT POEM Writers and painters often turn to each other for inspiration.

This group, multimedia show will examine the relationship between visual imagery and poetry. Artists who enter work for consideration in the show should also submit the poem that motivated them to create their piece.

Deadline: December 5. Show dates: January 20 - February 28, 2009. Info: 479-7069, www.studioplacearts.com.

CALL 4 ART - GALLERY SHOW Small Works Holiday Show. On display December 2 - January 4. Visit next time you’re in Woodstock. Info: Lina & Adrian Tans, Lincoln Bond Fine Art Gallery, lincolnbond@gmail.com, 617-733-9033, www.lincolnbond.com.

talks & events

The Painted Word: Gail Mazur and Adrie Kusserow: The second of a fall semester music-and-poetry series hosted by Major Jackson, associate professor of English at UVM, highlighting established and emerging New England poets. Wednesday, October 29, 6-7:30 p.m., Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

‘Architectural Improvisation: History and Lineage’: Danny Sagan, guest curator of “Architectural Improvisations” and assistant professor of architecture at Norwich University, talks about the current exhibition in a lunchtime lecture. Wednesday, October 29, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

Michael Cadwell Lecture: In his talk, “Faxes from the Future,” the former Vermonter and current professor at Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, will speak on how modern and contemporary architecture reconfigure the natural world. Thursday, October 30, 5-7 p.m., Colburn Gallery, Burlington. Info, 656-2014.

“Exposure: Studio Show II”: New work from selected ceramicists, printmakers and photographers in the Burlington City Arts Member Studios, focusing on the intermingling of art, craft and design. November 1 through December 13 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Talk: Saturday, November 1, 5-6 p.m. Info, 865-7165.

Artisan’s Trunk Show: Gold and silver jewelry by Marion Stegner, artwear by Roselle Abramowitz and fabric collage

by Dianne Shullenberger. Sunday, November 2, 3-5 p.m., Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

receptions

Cameron Schmitz: “Between the Lines,” ink-on-paper and oil-oncanvas works by the Vermont artist.

Through November 21 at Feick Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Reception: Thursday, October 30, 5-7 p.m. Info, 287-8926.

Elizabeth Allen: “Recent Paintings,” works on canvas exploring Lake Champlain landscapes. Through December 2 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Reception: Friday, October 31, 6-8 p.m. Info, 985-3848.

Gail Salzman: New paintings by the Vermont artist. November 1 through December 2 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Reception: Saturday, November 1, 2-4 p.m. Info, 362-1405.

“Exposure: Studio Show II”: New work from selected ceramicists, printmakers and photographers in the Burlington City Arts Member Studios, focusing on the intermingling of art, craft and design. November 1 through December 13 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Saturday, November 1, 6-8 p.m. Info, 865-7165.

“New Vistas: Landscape and Fabric”: Handpainted silk kimonos

by Roselle Abramowitz, paintings by Valerie Hird, handwoven landscapes by Viiu Niiler, quilted landscapes by Judith Reilly and fabric collages by Dianne Shullenberger. October 31 through December 28 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Reception: Sunday, November 2, 3-5 p.m. Info, 644-5100.

12th Annual Small Picture Exhibition: More than 245 paintings in a small format, and multiple 2D media, by 125 artists from around New England. Through December 28 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Reception: Sunday, November 2, 3-5 p.m. Info, 644-5100.

ongoing :: burlington area Al Salzman: “Crucifixions: An AntiSeptych,” seven paintings influenced by pre-Renaissance works and detailing global inhumanity in the modern world. Through October 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107.

Altar of the Day of the Dead: Students, faculty and community members display mementos of deceased loved ones in this Mexican-inspired display. October 30 through November 4 at Alliot Student Center, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester. Info, 654-2536.

Ann Clayton Barlow: “From Here to There: Reflections on Contemporary Landscapes,” silver gelatin prints of environments that evoke contemplation.

Through December 13 at Firehouse Center Community Darkroom in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

PLEASE NOTE: Exhibitions are written

by Pamela Polston; spotlights written

by Marc Awodey.

Listings are restricted to exhibits in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor.

Submit art exhibitions at www.sevendaysvt.com/art or send via email by Thursday at 5 p.m., including info phone number, to galleries@sevendaysvt.com.

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ANNE STREET BAILEY: Paintings, landscapes and botanicals, Gates 1 & 2; JOSEPH B. ROQUE: Abstract paintings, Skyway; and GRAZIELLA WEBER GRASSI: Acrylic paintings, Escalator. Through December 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ARCHITECTURAL IMPROVISATION: A HISTORY OF VERMONTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DESIGN/ BUILD MOVEMENT 1964-1977â&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Guest-curated by Norwich University architecture professor Danny Sagan, this exhibit of photographs, drawings and other artifacts illustrates the radical, Vermont-based movement characterized by organic forms and improvisation. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ASKEWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Contemporary portraits

by Paul Humphrey, Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak and Lance Richbourg. Through November 9 at 215 College Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cooperative in Burlington. Info, 863-3662.

AUTUMNAL ART: Fall and/or Vermont images by staff and customers of the art-supply store. Through October 31 at Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mediums in Williston. Info, 879-1236. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BUDDHA IN PARADISE: TIBETAN ART FROM THE RUBIN MUSEUMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Thangka paintings and sculptures that explore the multiple conceptualizations of paradise. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

CAROL MACDONALD: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cast On, Bind Off,â&#x20AC;? a solo exhibit of prints that examine the tradition of knitting by the Barbara Smail Award winner.

Through November 1 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

DAVID HEALD: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture of Silence: Cistercian Abbeys of France,â&#x20AC;? acclaimed photographs of the medieval abbeys by the chief photographer of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guggenheim Museum. Through November 7 at St. Edmundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Farrell Room, St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College in Colchester. Info, 654-2749.

DELIA ROBINSON: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Illustrated Nose,â&#x20AC;? paintings and black-and-white illustrations created for Vermont author Marc Estrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annotated Nose. Through January 3 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

DICK BRUNELLE: New, original abstract watercolors and acrylic paintings. Through November 30 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 864-0989.

ESSEX ART LEAGUE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autumn Glow,â&#x20AC;? works of the season by members of the local arts association.

Through October 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

ESSEX ART LEAGUE GROUP SHOW: An exhibit of works in multiple media by members of the arts organization. Through October 31 at Essex Town Offices. Info, 862-3014.

FALL/WINTER AT THE MALTEX: A group show on all four floors presents paintings, photographs and steel sculpture by nine local artists. Through February 28 at the Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

JOSHUA GIVENS & AMY JELEN: New works in oil and acrylic paint and stained glass. Through October 31 at Viva Espresso in Burlington. Info, 922-4586.

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BEYOND THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE Realism with a political — and often feminist — edge turns up in Katharine Kuharic’s work at the McCarthy Arts Center Gallery at St. Michael’s College. The internationally exhibited artist presents vividly colored, almost surreal paintings, pencil drawings and even a tapestry piece — on view through November 17. Pictured: “Backwards Flag.”

PHOTO BY MARC AWODEY

KAREN DAWSON: “Favorite Places,” landscape paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media. Through December 31 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 865-1208.

KATHARINE KUHARIC: “Unsolicited,” paintings, drawings and collages by the hyper-realist artist and art prof at Hamilton College. Through November 17 at McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester. Info, 654-2536.

LEAD PAINT AWARENESS: This exhibit in conjunction with Lead Poisoning Prevention Week provides information about lead poisoning, paint hazards, examples of what lead paint looks like and how to avoid it. Through October 29 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

‘MIXED MEDIA’: Artists Amy Wild, Maggie Sherman, William Ramage, Jane Horner, Jess Graham, Roger Coleman, June Campbell, Mary Ellen Manock and Homer Wells present work in monoprint, performance/video, assemblage, sculpture, paintings and more. Through October 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 651-9692.

NEIL E. CALLAHAN: “Rock ’n Roll Retrospective,” photographs of musicians in concert, including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Neil Young.

Through October 31 at Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Info, 651-8834.

NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: Members of the 78-year-old group display two works each in multiple media. Through October 31 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 310-6489.

OTTO: “October-October,” artwork in various media representing events in the artist’s life over the past year.

Through October 31 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 659-4829.

‘OPEN MINDS, OPEN EYES, OPEN HEARTS’: Large-scale, papier-mâché relief wall sculptures and woodcut prints about the war in Iraq, by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann; a collection of posters about Palestinians’ struggle for justice, by Rajie Cook; and Emily Anderson’s mixed-media installation “When the Personal Is Political: Stages for My Father.” Also, “Dog Shows,” selected videos of past Flynndog exhibitions, will screen continuously in the gallery’s Brick Room. Through October 30 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 363-4746.

PHILIP ROBERTSON: “Post Neo-Romantic Landscapes”; CYNTHIA ROSS: “Transformational Anatomy”; ARTHUR ZORN: “Visual Improvisations”; and ALANA LAPOINT: “Stranger Folk”; all paintings, and ELLIS JACOBSON: “Moment of Clarity,” sculpture. November 1 through January 31 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273.

PUPPETS, MASKS & OTHER TRANSFORMATIONS: Works by artist Frank Gonzalez and his students, Mezzanine Gallery; and BOYS & GIRLS CLUB EXHIBIT: Mixed media

by Burlington children. November 1 through 30 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

RACHEL TROOPER: The “21st-century folk artist” incorporates stenciling, wood burning and rubber stamps into her whimsical paintings. Through November 19 at Opportunities Credit Union in Burlington. Info, 865-3404.

STEVE BUDINGTON: “The Pioneers,” paintings and drawings by the UVM art prof of anatomically altered figures, imagining what would happen to the physical body if it evolved at the rate of cultural novelty. Through November 14 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Info, 656-2014.

‘STOOKS, STACKS, AND SHEAVES’: Agricultural landscapes in America, 1850 to the present, that explore the artistic, cultural and literary responses to changing representations of the genre; from the museum’s permanent collection, the university’s special collections and private lenders. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

SUSAN RABER BRAY: “The Interior Light of Birds and Goats,” pottery.

November 1 through 30 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458.

‘THE DIALOGUE PROJECT: BRIDGING GENERATIONS OF LGBTQ VERMONTERS’: The R.U.1.2? Community Center’s interpretive art, oral history and queer archive exhibition in celebration of LGBTQ History Month and Coming Out Day. Through October 31 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 860-7812.

“THE GENUINE MEN PROJECT”: Photographic and autobiographical portraits of men by Nancy Bruno, who is spearheading a movement to address the need for positive male role models in society. October 30 through December 12 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7165.

TIMOTHY GRANNIS: “Expansion & Delirium,” gold and gemstone jewelry by the master goldsmith; and JAYNE SHOUP: “All Seasons,” color play with pastels. Through October 31 at Grannis Gallery in Burlington. Info, 660-2032.

WILLA MAMET: Handmade, computer-free black-and-white photographs; JOELLEN MULVANEY: “Ugh-ly Beauty,” oil paintings on linen; K. LENORE SINER: “Light, Line, Color,” paintings; and JOY SPONTAK: “Reimagining Memory,” mixed media. Through October 31 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273.

‘ZOMBIES!’: A group show in multiple media. Through October 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

:: central ALDEN PELLETT: “Something in the Air,” Vermont images by the outdoor/action photographer that have appeared in Vermont Life magazine over the past 20 years. Through October 31 at Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 828-3241.

AXEL STOHLBERG: Abstract paintings of Vermont barns. Through November 30 at Red Hen Bakery in Montpelier. Info, 244-7801.

BETH PEARSON & JANET VAN FLEET: “Works on Paper,” abstract monoprints embellished with oil and gouache; and “Rolling Boil,” sculptures that appear to be toys but reference political issues such as torture and military spending.

Through November 16 at The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 223-7680.

BRIAN ZIEGLER: “Skeletal Aspirations,” new drawings. Through October 31 at Fort Can Gallery & Studios in Montpelier. Info, 279-0988.

BRIAN ZIEGLER: Collage-drawings.

Through November 26 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 229-9416.

BUD CARY: “40 Years of Abstract Paintings,” mixed-media works by the late artist (1921-2001). Through October 31 at Restaurant Phoebe in Montpelier. Info, 279-6349.

JOSH MELROD: “Major Works, 20072008,” etchings, lithographs and miscellaneous prints by the artist and fiction writer. Through October 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

K. MEYER: “Rivers & Forests,” Vermont and New England landscape paintings. November 1 through 30 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

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Elizabeth Allen wrote that she is particularly inspired by Lake Champlain, as it offers a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sense of peace and wellbeing as only water and an expansive sky can give.â&#x20AC;? The lake views appearing in her show, entitled simply â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recent Paintings,â&#x20AC;? are accompanied by oil still lifes and subtle abstractions. Pictured: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Button Bay Marshes.â&#x20AC;? The show opens with a reception this Friday, October 31, at 6 p.m.

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KATE EMLEN: Paintings depicting forests and other environments familiar to Vermonters, with an impressionistic style. Through October 31 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

KATHRYN LOVINSKY: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pietra,â&#x20AC;? acrylics featuring Italian architecture.

Through October 31 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454.

MELANIE PHELPS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Circle Paintings,â&#x20AC;? works in acrylic. Through October 31 at Vermont Chocolatiers in Northfield. Info, 485-5181. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MONTPELIERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TREASURES: THE LEGACY OF THOMAS WATERMAN WOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: From the vaults of the permanent collection comes this exhibit of 107 paintings by the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s namesake and Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known artist of the 19th century, as well as works by his contemporaries and pieces from the Vermont WPA collection.

Through December 21 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743.

NANCY H. TAPLIN: Recent paintings by the Vermont artist that explore the theme of separation. Through November 28 at Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH: Fine-art black-and-white landscape photography.

Through November 30 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5422. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ROCK SOLIDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: The 8th annual stone show includes sculptures, assemblage and works that portray the qualities of stone, Main Floor Gallery; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;CREATING IMPRESSIONSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Works by members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts NH/VT, Second Floor Gallery; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WORKS BY CHARLES RYERSON AND MARIEL PITTI,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Third Floor Gallery.

Through November 8 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

ROSAMUND PURCELL: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taking Chances,â&#x20AC;? photography, sculpture and collage.

Through November 16 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

SARAH O. GREEN: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the Influence . . . of My Grandmother,â&#x20AC;? original quilts, potholders, aprons and other domestic textile works. Through November 2 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141.

SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY: â&#x20AC;&#x153;World Leaders,â&#x20AC;? color photographs by Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior senator of leaders from the Dalai Lama to Yuri Andropov to Bono.

Through November 5 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878.

WILLA MAMET PHOTOGRAPHY: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night Bodies,â&#x20AC;? a solo exhibit of black-andwhite 35mm photographs of nighttime nudes, in collaboration with model Marisa Peck. Through November 10 at AfterImage Gallery. Info, 229-4924.

:: champlain valley â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ARTISTS AND ANCESTORSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Masterworks of Chinese classical painting, exploring landscape and flora, and ancient bronze vessels and bells used to venerate ancestors; and PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: Two installations concurrent with the fall-term course History of Photography.

Through December 7 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College in Middlebury. Info, 443-6433.

BETHANY FARRELL: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hatch,â&#x20AC;? mixed-media paintings using bird and insect imagery to explore human emotions and ideas.

Through November 23 at Starry Night CafĂŠ in Ferrisburgh. Info, 877-6316.

BRETT SIMISON: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anza-Borrego Desert,â&#x20AC;? selected photographs from a work-in-progress portfolio featuring large-format film and digital imagery captured in Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest state park. Through December 14 at Carolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hungry Mind CafĂŠ. Info, 388-0101.

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CAROL NORTON & HEATHER STEARNS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autumn Textures,â&#x20AC;? watercolors and pottery, respectively. Through November 4 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032.

DEANNA SHAPIRO: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of Moons & Wings, Abodes & Things,â&#x20AC;? new mixed-media paintings. Through October 31 at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 388-4095.

ESSEX ART LEAGUE GROUP SHOW: Works

by Caroline Brown, Kathy Berry Bergeron, Lucia Chu, Suzanne Clark, Dianna Dunn, Margaret Maffin, Donna Owens, Hattie Saville, Ken Tefft and Libby Davidson.

Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 862-3014.

JANET FREDERICKS: Works on paper by the Lincoln artist, in an ongoing series about water, along with ongoing exhibits by gallery owners Kit Donnelly and Karla Van Vliet, and other regional artists.

Through November 1 at The Gallery at 85 North Street in Bristol. Info, 349-7551.

JEROME MILKS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dramatic Light in the Champlain Valley,â&#x20AC;? large-format photographs of landscape and nature images. Through November 15 at Bristol Bakery and CafĂŠ in Bristol. Info, 453-3280.

JOAN CURTIS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunken Treasure,â&#x20AC;? new work by the Vermont artist.

Through November 8 at The Brick Box Gallery, Paramount Theatre in Rutland. Info, 775-0750.

KATHLEEN DOMENICUCCI & ALTHEA BILODEAU: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flavors of Fall,â&#x20AC;? oil paintings and fiber arts, respectively, capturing the essence of the season.

Through October 31 at Brandon Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guild in Brandon. Info, 247-4956.

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“FALL”

BY JOSEPH LAMBERT JOSEPH LAMBERT grew up in Newton, Kansas.

After spending time in New York and Denver, he attended the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where he lives with his wife. He graduated from CCS in May 2008.

Joseph designed the cover of Seven Days’ student guide, What’s Good, and Vermont Public Radio’s 2008 Artist Series Mug. He is an editor and designer of the self-published Sundays Anthology. Joseph’s comic “Turtle, Keep It Steady” was published in Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Comics 2008, for which he also designed the endpapers. Look for more of Joseph’s work at www. submarinesubmarine. com.

This is the third of a five-part series by Joseph Lambert, who kicks off a new collaboration between Seven Days and the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. After that, the page will appear monthly and feature the work of current cartoon students. “Drawn and Paneled” gives Seven Days readers a glimpse into the world’s only cartoon school, right here in Vermont, and into the minds of students whose creativity is, well, channeled into panels. These pages will be archived at www.sevendaysvt.com. For more info, visit CCS online at www. cartoonstudies.org.

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<exhibitions> ONGOING << 35A ‘LAKE CHAMPLAIN THROUGH THE LENS’: The annual juried Lake Champlain Maritime Museum photography exhibit presents images of, on and around the lake by Vermont photographers both amateur and professional. Through October 29 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, 475-2022.

NEW ENGLAND SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION: A collaborative exhibit with members featuring work by more than 15 artists, including CSSC instructors B. Amore and Christopher Gowell. Weekends or by appointment. Through November 16 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

PHYLLIS DEMONG: “Abstractions from the Earth,” recent paintings and collages.

Through November 8 at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436.

“THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT”: The college library hosts a touring exhibit of more than 80 news photos from the AP spanning six decades, showing U.S. commanders-in-chief in various roles. November 4 through 25 at Middlebury College. Info, 443-5487.

‘THE GOLDEN CAGE’: “Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers,” photographs by Caleb Kenna with interviews by Chris Urban. Through December 18 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-2040.

‘TOMBS, TEMPLES, PLACES AND TEA: CERAMICS IN ASIA AND BEYOND’: An exhibit that explores the practical and social uses of ceramics; ‘ROBERT F. REIFF GALLERY OF ASIAN ART’: Bronze and stone sculptures, jades and ceramics from the 6th to the 12th centuries; ‘EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART’: An installation featuring highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art, from the Renaissance through the 19th century; and ‘ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART’: A revised installation with recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman and medieval European objects from the permanent collection. Through December 7 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-5007.

DARYL V. STORRS: “Transition and Evolution,” prints and pastel images by the Huntington artist. Through November 15 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 535-5008.

‘MADE IN CHINA’: Contemporary Chinese art exploring the culture and philosophy of the country. Through November 22 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

NORTHEAST VERMONT ARTISTS: Local artists display their works in the center’s new headquarters. Through November 5 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600.

OCTOBER FEATURED ARTISTS: This month’s highlighted artists are painters Natalie LaRocque-Bouchard and Robert Eldridge, fiber artist Jan Brosky and mixed-media artist Jaffa Paddon. Through October 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

‘THE ALLURE OF ROCKS I’: In an exhibit shared by two galleries, Michelle Colling shows photography and Dianne Shullenberger shows works in colored pencil and fiber. Local schoolchildren also contribute pieces throughout the month.

Through November 9 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

‘THE ALLURE OF ROCKS II’: Renditions of rocks by local photographers, along with works by local schoolchildren. Through November 9 at Dianne Shullenberger Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-4993.

TOM BLOCK: “Human Rights Painting Project,” portraits that represent people with the belief that individuals can make a difference, by the longtime member of Amnesty International.

Through December 20 at Martinetti Gallery in Johnson. Info, 635-1469.

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ARTHUR JONES: Landscapes and still-life paintings, 1948-2008, by the 60-year member of the SVAC. Through November 30 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Info, 362-1405.

DIANA WALKER: PHOTOJOURNALIST: A traveling exhibition of works by the Time photographer, capturing the human side of many world figures. Through November 30 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Info, 362-1405.

SHERYL TRAINOR & ANNETTE COMPTON: “Inspiration Flows Both Ways: Student/Teacher,” current works.

Through November 7 at Pegasus Gallery in Quechee. Info, 296-7693.

BEN FRANK MOSS: “Immanence and Revelation: The Art of Ben Frank Moss,” more than 70 luminous landscapes and abstract still lifes by the longtime Dartmouth professor. Through January 4 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2426.

‘COASTLINE TO SKYLINE: THE PHILIP H. GREENE GIFT OF CALIFORNIA WATERCOLORS’: An exhibition of works donated by a Hanover resident, of a group of California artists from the late 1920s through the 1950s, including Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Rex Brandt and others. Through January 4 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2426. >

:: northern ANN YOUNG: Recent paintings and sculpture. Through October 31 at Maple Ridge Gallery in Newark. Info, 467-8400.

‘AUTUMN IN VERMONT’: Landscape and nature-oriented works by Carolyn Walton, Mark Boedges, Meryl Lebowitz and Peter A. Miller. Through October 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

BONNIE ACKER: “Autumn Passage,” new landscape paintings by the Burlington artist. Through November 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

BRENDA GARAND: Wall-hung sculptures in mixed media. Through November 8 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

CAROLE ROSALYND DRURY: “Druids in the Woods of the North East Kingdom,” paintings by the Vermont artist.

Through November 27 at Greensboro Free Library. Info, 533-2359.

CASPIAN ARTWORKS GROUP EXHIBIT: An ongoing selection of blown glass by Rich and Tove Arentzen, Nathan Maez, Lucas Lonegren, Amy and David Basis and Jordan Gulickson, as well as art and craft works in varied media by other Vermont artists. Through October 31 at Caspian Artworks in Greensboro. Info, 533-9900.

COOPERATIVE GALLERY SHOW: Artwork by the 24 gallery members includes all styles of painting, collage, 3-D works and notecards. Through October 31 at Jacob Walker Art Gallery in Morristown. Info, 244-6648.

DAN BURKHOLDER: “Colors of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina,” 19 large-format color photographs of interior spaces. Through December 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): What perplexing

defeat was inflicted on you once upon a time — a defeat that you still can’t figure out how to rise above?

What painful memory continues to lurk at the edges of your awareness, taunting you with its implication that you’ll never be whole? This is the time and this is the place, Aries, to solve a riddle like that so that you can move on to the next chapter of your life. You will get unexpected help and inspiration if you make it your intention to heal what has been hard to heal.

Halloween costume suggestion: a doctor or nurse wearing a sign that says, “Physician, heal thyself.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You don’t have to be

anything you don’t want to be, Taurus. Please read that last sentence again, drinking it in as if it were an elixir you’ve been longing for since you were 13 years old. Here are some corollaries: You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations. There’s no need to strive for a kind of perfection that’s not very interesting to you. You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented, and you don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling.

In short, you are free to be exactly who you want to be. Celebrate that this Halloween season. Costume yourself as the person you’ve been hiding.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On some occasions in the coming week, you’ll be wise to act loyal, playful and unironically enthusiastic. At those times, you will attract the influences you need if you adopt the mindset of a dog that loves to play Frisbee. On other occasions, Gemini, I advise you to be cannily self-possessed, fiercely attuned to your own needs, and determined to move at your own pace. Cat-like behavior will be rewarded at those times. Halloween costume suggestion: half-dog and half-cat.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. It might feel a bit unnatural to live as if that were your motto, Cancerian, but I hope you’ll try it for a while. Here’s the experiment I propose: Whenever you have a spare moment, visualize a pleasurable and interesting scene you would like to create for yourself in the future. If a fearful image pops into your mind as you do that, imagine yourself rolling that image up into a ball and throwing it into a roaring fire. Meanwhile, any time your attention begins to wander off in the direction of the old days and old ways, pounce on it and redirect it into a vision of a fulfillment to come. Halloween costume suggestion: the person you’ll be five years from now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to San Francisco’s

Famous Wayne, the shoeshine king of the world, very few women get their shoes shined. Meanwhile, Ngo Thi Lam, the proprietress of the nail salon near my house, says that only a tiny percentage of her pedicure customers are men. I hope that you Leos buck these trends in the coming days. It’s high time for you to try new approaches to the lowest part of you.

You need to become more grounded, and an excellent way to expedite the shift will be to pay close, creative attention to your feet. Halloween costume suggestion: Find or create gorgeous, extravagant shoes that don’t make your feet hurt.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you and I were members of the French Resistance during the German occupation of our country in World War II, I’d want you to serve as the communication hub for our community. With understated ferocity, you would gather data about what’s going on behind the scenes. You’d be precise and economical in relaying messages between your comrades and allies, accurately representing the information people entrusted you with. You would be alert without being overwrought, and discerning without getting distracted by inefficient rage. In that dire setting, Virgo, I bet you’d be indispensable.

I challenge you to bring those same skills to bear in the relatively benign circumstances you’re now in the midst of. Halloween costume suggestion: French Resistance leader.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If you don’t make mistakes,” says Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek, “you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Take that to heart, Libra. Here are some of the questions you might want to ask yourself in the coming days: 1. “Am I dallying with minor challenges that are beneath me?” 2.

“Are my current dilemmas truly worthy of my soulful intelligence?” 3. “Should I go in search of more interesting problems?” 4. “Is it time to upgrade the level of mistakes that I’m risking?” Halloween costume suggestions: a magnificent klutz, a daring clown, or a pioneer wearing a big band-aid on your booboo.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming week, you can generate a lot of good karma for yourself by being an initiator. That’s why I advise you to never sit back passively and merely watch what’s unfolding, but rather formulate a vision of what you’d like to see happen, set your intention to make it happen, and then plunge into action with brisk aplomb. Halloween costume suggestions: fire-starter, seed-planter, fertility god or goddess.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Medical insurance is out of reach for 46 million of my fellow Americans. Our country is at war in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as with a ghostly omnipresent foe known as terrorism. Our national debt is stupendous, our stock market has plunged, and many companies once thought to be towers of strength have failed.

Meanwhile, right next door, Canada has universal healthcare and a budget surplus. Its banks are solvent and it’s embroiled in zero wars. Am I jealous? Of course. Am I planning to emigrate? No. I’m going to stay here and keep agitating for goodness and justice and beauty. After evaluating your astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you do the equivalent in your own life: Stand your ground as you work to fix the flawed situation you’ve been given; don’t flee to where the grass seems greener. Halloween costume suggestions: an elder statesman, wise crone or charismatic teacher.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have the potential to throw the best party ever, and also to elevate the radiance of other people’s parties through the force of your personality. Your social instincts are superb, by which I mean they’re brilliant when it comes to mixing business and pleasure and knowing how to strengthen alliances while invoking maximum fun. Your knack for getting people to work together in a noble purpose is at a peak. Halloween costume suggestion: a cross between a party animal and a community organizer. Or you and your friends could re-enact the Boston Tea Party.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I were dressing

you for Halloween, I would be inclined to draw on the inspiration of those old fairy tales that feature the theme of restoration: like the prince who, because of a curse, has lived for years as a frog, only to be returned to his rightful body and role through the kiss of a merciful soul; or like a princess who is stolen as a baby from the royal family by an old bear and raised by the beast in a forest cave, but is finally tracked down and rescued by the queen on one of her endless searches. I bet your actual life will feature a storyline similar to those.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you knew how perfect a time it is for you to dance the forbidden dance, you would begin immediately. You would break out the sexy, world-in-upheaval grooves you sometimes slip into during your ecstatic flying dreams.

You would unleash the words that have never been spoken, crack the codes that have never been broken, and give the love that has previously been verboten.

Please, dear Pisces, have faith in your ability to thrive in the wild frontier where many of the rules are negotiable and every fantasy is ripe to be mutated. Halloween costume suggestion: the dancer who dances the forbidden dance.

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movie reviews Pride and Glory HH

E DIRTY SHAME Farrell and Norton are squandered in O’Connor’s criminally formulaic tale of police corruption.

dward Norton and Colin Farrell play good cop/ bad cop in the latest from Miracle director Gavin O’Connor. Guess which one is the hotheaded ringleader of a dirty, cold-blooded, drug-dealing crew of NYPD creeps? That’s right. If you like your moral quandaries tired and your plot developments telegraphed, you’ll love Pride and Glory. There isn’t a moment in it you won’t see coming a mile away. Well, maybe one. But more about that later.

This is the story of a family of cops. To keep things nice and familiar, O’Connor — who cowrote the screenplay with Joe Carnahan — has made them Irish cops. The patriarch is Manhattan Chief Detective Francis Tierney (Jon Voight), a sad-eyed old-schooler who loves his boys and his Bushmills. (An Irish cop with a fondness for whiskey — a sure sign a filmmaker’s going where no filmmaker has gone before.)

Francis Jr. is played by Little Children’s Noah Emmerich. He’s the head of the precinct where his brother (Norton) and brother-in-law (Farrell) are stationed, but his real job, as far as the movie is concerned, is to be conflicted.

Four of his finest have been massacred in a drug deal gone wrong. On the one hand, Frank Jr. supports Norton in his quest to unravel the crime. On the other, he worries about the consequences of success, since there’s reason to believe Farrell may be behind the bloodshed.

Although the filmmakers strove for a gritty realism reminiscent of dirty-cop classics like Serpico, shooting on the meanest streets they could scout in the gentrifying neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Washington Heights, there’s something fundamentally unconvincing and

contrived about the story. Forget the fact that O’Connor hauls out every cliché in the bad-cop handbook, and that the dialogue’s more boilerplate than hard-boiled.

The premise itself is just plain preposterous.

We’re supposed to go along with the proposition that a nasty cad with booze issues marries into a family filled with veteran law enforcement personnel, rises through the ranks, and then, right under the noses of his in-laws, organizes a network of uniformed gangsters who engage in everything from drug dealing to extortion to murder. OK, if we were talking a family of plumbers or chiropractors, maybe. But it’s a bit of a stretch to believe Farrell’s character expects his double life to go undetected in a family of detectives.

Equally dubious is the notion that once Frank Jr. catches on, he says nothing. Perhaps if the dirty cop were his actual brother, his silence would come off as borderline believable. But this guy’s just his brother-inlaw. The two aren’t portrayed as particularly close, and meanwhile, the good cops who work under Emmerich

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are getting set up and butchered. You’d think this kind of issue might come up over one of the film’s crowded family dinners.

Hardest of all to comprehend, however, is the presence of Edward Norton. Throughout the film I experienced a nagging suspicion there’d been some sort of paperwork snafu, and a talent agency rep had accidentally switched his schedule with Mark Wahlberg’s or maybe Josh Hartnett’s. The material is so far beneath the actor that he appears to be not so much slumming as visiting from another planet. Norton attempts to breathe brooding life into a stock character, but the task proves beyond even his prodigious talents.

Farrell’s another matter altogether. However deliberately, he’s avoided setting the bar terribly high over the course of his career. We know he’s gifted. We’re just pleasantly surprised when he goes to the trouble of demonstrating it now and then. The actor sticks to his standard bag of tricks here, and, as a result, his mad-dog badass in blue is seldom credible — though occasionally diverting. He brings, for example, a momentarily fascinating mixture of tenderness and psychosis to the film’s sole original scene, in which his character coaxes information out of a snitch by threatening his newborn in a unique way.

Good cops or bad cops, the cops we meet here are, for the most part, dull and derivative, and the beat they pound will prove uncharted cinematic territory for few moviegoers. New Line had the picture scheduled for release two years ago and has been waiting for the right time to slip it into theaters. What the world needs now is Pride and Glory? I have to say, I haven’t uncovered any evidence to back that up. Crime scenes don’t grow a whole lot colder, and police procedurals rarely are less arresting.

RICK KISONAK

Trouble the Water HHHH

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FLOOD TIES A new documentary profiles neighbors who helped each other survive Katrina with some things intact.

f you’ve seen horror films composed of faked first-person video footage, such as Cloverfield, The Blair Witch Project and the recent Quarantine, your first question was probably “Who keeps the camera running in a situation like that?”

The answer is: a person like Kimberly Rivers Roberts. True, the young resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward didn’t film her flight from zombies or skyscrapersquashing amphibians. But what Roberts did capture in August 2005 — floods turning her street into a river; rain trickling into her attic refuge — is a good deal scarier, given that it’s real.

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, we’ve all seen news footage and documentaries and postmortem analyses. But Trouble the Water still feels current, partly because of the harrowing immediacy of that amateur footage, and partly because Roberts and her husband Scott are such compelling personalities on their own. Documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal went to New Orleans hoping to make a film about the belated return of the Lousiana National Guard, but couldn’t get access to soldiers. So they hung out at a Red Cross shelter where, in the film’s first scene, we see Kim commandeer the camera, promising them footage like nothing they’ve seen before.

If the twentysomething seems like a bit of a huckster, that could be because she’s eager to get into the entertainment business: One thing she managed to salvage from the storm is a homemade hip-hop CD she recorded as Black Kold Madina. Kim Roberts is one

of those larger-than-life people the camera loves: She’s the “real deal” yet never stops performing, figuring out ways to shape and dramatize her own story. In footage from August 28, after the evacuation order but before the storm hit, Roberts tours her neighborhood with a camera she recently bought for $20, playing the part of a news reporter: “This is Kimberly Rivers Roberts, reporting live!” She plays pundit, too, exhorting kids not to imitate the drunk passed out on a stoop, or proclaiming in the convenience store, “We’re going to show the world there was a world before the storm.”

This pre-storm footage is powerful, because there’s something very human about the mixture of excitement and fatalism with which Roberts and her neighbors anticipate Katrina. Kim and Scott weren’t model citizens (both admit they’ve dealt drugs), and they’re the sort of people the media generally ignore. All of a sudden, they’re in the path of something big, terrifying and newsworthy, and their only option is to stick it out. (Roberts did try to rent a car for evacuation, but her credit wasn’t good enough.)

Once the levees break, the story becomes one of solidarity and survival — and, eventually, of return and rebuilding. Roberts shot about three hours before her tape ran out; Lessin and Deal extracted 15 minutes and edited it together with archival materials and their own footage as they followed the couple over a two-year span. There’s no direct footage of Kim and Scott escaping the flood, but we come to know the

people they befriend in the process, such as Brian, a recovering addict whose thoughtful glumness is a nice counterpoint to Kim’s “praise-the-Lord” optimism. We also see the ravaged Ninth Ward two weeks after Katrina, when the Robertses used Lessin and Deal’s media access to return to their home.

The directing duo produced Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 for Michael Moore, and their editing sometimes shares his heavy-handedness. When a New Orleans tourism rep delivers a pie-eyed spiel about how the city has fully recovered, then dances to a promotional video in which everyone but the jazz musicians is white, the filmmakers’ point is sound, but their irony is cheap.

Far more moving are the stories of the people the city’s PR spinmeisters have no use for, and they also deliver the strongest indictments. One of Kim’s relatives sums up what she learned from Katrina: “If you don’t have money or status, you don’t have a government.”

MARGOT HARRISON

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CHANGELING: Angelina Jolie stars in the latest from Clint Eastwood, a historical thriller set in 1928 about a woman whose young son disappears and who questions the identity of the boy L.A. police return to her months later. With John Malkovich and Amy Ryan. (141 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) ROCKNROLLA: Tom Wilkinson, Karel Roden and Gerard Butler head the eclectic cast of writer-director Guy Ritchieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crime caper about the bloody mayhem that engulfs Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underworld when a deal between a bumbling crime boss and a ruthless Russian goes bad.

Featuring Thandie Newton and Jeremy Piven. (114 min, R. Palace) THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY: A dark secret from her past causes a girl to dread her 18th birthday in this suspense-fest from first-time director Mickey Liddell.

Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford and Shannon Woodward star. (87 min, PG-13. Bijou, Majestic) ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks star in this comedy from writerdirector Kevin Smith in which a pair of roommates decide the solution to their out-of-control debt lies in homemade adult cinema. Craig Robinson and Traci Lords also star.

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEARâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toe-tapping teen phenomenon makes the leap to the big screen with this song-and-dance saga in which seniors Troy and Gabriella face the tragic prospect of parting as the possibility of separate colleges looms. Starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. (100 min, G. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) IGORâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; John Cusack, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese lend their voices to this computer-generated saga of a hunchbacked lab assistant who dreams of someday becoming a scientist instead of just working for one. Directed by Tony Leondis. (86 min, PG. Big Picture) MAX PAYNEâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;1/2 Mark Wahlberg stars in this video-game-based thriller about a maverick cop intent on avenging the murders of his family and his partner. With Mila Kunis and Beau Bridges. Directed by John (Behind Enemy Lines) Moore. (99 min, PG-13. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Stowe, Welden) NICK AND NORAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INFINITE PLAYLISTâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Michael Cera and Kat Dennings are paired in director Peter Sollettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy about two young people whose shared musical tastes provide the basis for a budding romance. (90 min, PG-13.

Big Picture, Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy) PLANET B-BOYâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breakdancingâ&#x20AC;? grows up in a documentary showcasing urban dancers around the world as they prepare for a world championship.

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BODY OF LIESâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;1/2 Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe are teamed in the latest from Ridley Scott, the story of a CIA operative who risks his life to infiltrate a terrorist network operating out of Jordan. Based on the bestselling 2007 novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. With Mark Strong. (128 min, R. Big Picture, Majestic, Palace) BURN AFTER READINGâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;1/2 No Country for Old Men directors Joel and Ethan Coen lighten up big time with this comedy about a pair of chuckleheaded health club workers who get their hands on the manuscript of an ousted CIA officialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir and attempt to exploit their find for personal gain. Starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. (95 min, R. Roxy) CITY OF EMBERâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Gil (Monster House) Kenan directs this sci-fi fantasy about a glittering underground society illuminated by means of a giant generator and growing steadily darker as the machine runs out of juice. Starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan and Mary Kay Place. (95 min, PG. Majestic) EAGLE EYEâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are paired for this thriller in which two strangers find themselves tracked and terrorized by a mysterious psycho.

Also starring Rosario Dawson and Billy Bob Thornton. D.J. Caruso directs. (118 min, PG-13. Majestic) FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATERâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;1/2 Irena Salinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning nonfiction film documents a â&#x20AC;&#x153;world water crisisâ&#x20AC;? and builds a case against the privatization of water rights. (93 min, NR. Palace) FROZEN RIVERâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Courtney Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this drama in which two women are forced by hard times to form a perilous partnership smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border. Melissa Leo and Misty Upham star. (96 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

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QUARANTINEâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Jennifer Carpenter and Steve Harris play TV news reporters who find themselves trapped inside an apartment building overrun with residents infected with a rare strain of rabies. Columbus Short costars.

John Erick Dowdle directs. (89 min, R. Essex, Majestic) RELIGULOUSâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Larry Charles and Bill Maher team up for this comic dissection of belief systems around the world. (101 min, R. Roxy) ROXY MIDNIGHT MOVIES: A series of late-night flicks continues with National Lampoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell, a 2007 satire about life in postapocalyptic America. (Running time N/A, NR. Roxy) SAW Vâ&#x2DC;&#x2026; The blood continues to flow

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TROUBLE THE WATERâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; New Orleans Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Rivers Roberts used her new camcorder to record the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the footage became part of this documentary about the disaster.

With Scott Roberts. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal direct. (93 min, NR. Palace, Savoy) W.â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; The latest from Oliver Stone traces the rise of the 43rd president of the United States from his early days as a Bush family black sheep to his present status as one of historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s least popular leaders. Starring Josh Brolin, James Cromwell and Elizabeth Banks.

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With Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Costas Mandylor. Directed by David Hackl. (95 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Welden) SEX DRIVEâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;1/2 Josh Zuckerman, James Marsden and Clark Duke star in this comedy in which a teen sets out on a cross-country road trip with his best friends in search of a woman he met on the Internet. Amanda Crew costars. Sean Anders directs.

(108 min, R. Majestic) THE DUCHESSâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Keira Knightley stars in this historical drama recounting the life of Georgiana Spencer, who defied convention to become one of the most influential political figures of her age.

Also starring Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling. Directed by Saul (Bullet Boy) Dibb. (105 min, PG-13. Roxy) THE SECRET LIFE OF BEESâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Jennifer Hudson and Dakota Fanning are among the ensemble cast of this adaptation of Sue Monk Kiddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bestseller about a 14-year-old girl who leaves home to seek the truth concerning her late motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past. With Queen Latifah and Alicia Keys. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. (110 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy)

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MAJESTIC 10

wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sunday 2 Body of Lies 5, 7:30 (except Sat).

wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30

Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8994.

Nick and Norahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Infinite Playlist 2 (Sun), 6, 8. Igor 2 (Sun), 4.

Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. See www.bigpicturetheater.info.

BIJOU CINEPLEX 1-2-3-4 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293. wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30 High School Musical 3: Senior Year 6:40. Saw V 6:50. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 6:30. Max Payne 7.

Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners, Williston, 878-2010.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1,

2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:10, 8:50, 9:35.

Saw V 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50. Pride and Glory 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30. Max Payne 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40. W. 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20. The Secret Life of Bees 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:25. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:30, 3:45, 6:25, 8:40.

Body of Lies 3:40, 6:40. Sex Drive 4. Eagle Eye 8:45. Nick and Norahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Infinite Playlist 1:50, 6:30. City of Ember 1:20. Quarantine 9:45.

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& 3:40 (Sat & Sun), 6:50 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat). High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:15 & 3:35 (Sat & Sun), 6:40 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat). Nick and Norahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Infinite Playlist 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 8:30 (Fri & Sat). Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:20 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30 (all week). Saw V 3:45 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat).

*The Haunting of Molly Hartley 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:20. *Changeling 1, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25. *Zack and Miri Make a Porno 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:10, 8:50, 9:35. Saw V 1:50, 4:10, 7:25, 9:50. Pride and Glory 3:40, 6:50, 9:30. The Secret Life of Bees 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:10. W. 1:05, 3:50, 6:40. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:10, 3:20, 6:25. Max Payne 9:40.

Body of Lies 8:40. City of Ember 1:20.

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

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

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE

MARQUIS THEATER

friday 31 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 6 *The Haunting of Molly Hartley 1:25

93 State Street, Montpelier, 229-0343.

Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841. wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30

wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30 High School Musical 3: Senior Year 6:30, 9. Saw V 6:30, 9. Pride and Glory 6:15, 9. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 6:30, 9. W. 6:15, 9.

friday 31 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 6 *Changeling 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:15, 9. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Saw V 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Pride and Glory 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:15, 9. W. 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:15, 9.

See www.fgbtheaters.com.

ESSEX CINEMA

Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10. Max Payne 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35.

Nick and Norahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Infinite Playlist 12:20, 2:45, 7:30. Pride and Glory 1, 4, 7, 9:45. Quarantine 5:15, 9:50.

Saw V 12:40, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:50. The Secret Life of Bees 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10. W. 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30.

friday 31 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 6 *Changeling 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30. *Zack and Miri Make a Porno 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:20. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 12, 2, 4, 6, 8. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10. Max Payne 10. Pride and Glory 1, 4, 7, 9:45. Saw V 12:40, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:50. The Secret Life of Bees 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10. W. 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30.

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

friday 31 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 6 *RocknRolla 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:15, 3:50, 6:55, 9:30. *Changeling 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25. *Zack and Miri Make a Porno 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:35. Trouble the Water 1:40, 6:40. FLOW: For Love of Water 3:45, 8:35. Appaloosa 4:05, 6:45. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:45, 4:15, 6:30.

Body of Lies 8:40. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:10.

Max Payne 1:05, 9:15. Pride and Glory 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30. Saw V 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20.

Times subject to change. See www. palace9.com.

PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA 241 North Main Street, Barre, 479-4921. wednesday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thursday 30 High School Musical 3: Senior Year 7.

Max Payne 7.

(Sat & Sun), 6:30 & 8:45 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu). High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30 & 8:45 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu).

See www.fgbtheaters.com.

THE SAVOY THEATER

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n a typical day, Vermont dairy farmer Ruth Willmarth milks her cows, fries up a warm batch of honey-dipped doughnuts, and chugs several mugs of strong coffee. But some of her days aren’t so typical. When the single mom isn’t busy mucking out the barn, she’s putting bad guys behind bars.

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Though few farmers — even in fiction — trade their plows for dastardly plots, murder mysteries with prominent food angles are more common than one might imagine. On Amazon.com, 234 tales have been tagged by readers as “culinary mystery products.” A website called Listology.com offers up 272.

Blending a stomach-filling subject with a stomach-turning one may seem like a recent innovation, but the story scholars call the first murder mystery is food-relat-

Wright’s readers get a detailed taste of rural Vermont life, thanks to her strong sense of place. the feisty main character in a series of five mystery novels by Vermont author Nancy Means Wright; the latest, Mad Cow Nightmare, was released in 2005. The series is published by St. Martin’s Press, known for its mysteries and for bestsellers by James Herriot, Dan Brown and Augusten Burroughs.

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That’s not the case with Wright’s books. Food is less a gimmick here than a thematic element — sometimes with progressive political overtones.

Since Willmarth is a dairy farmer, nourishing others is her livelihood. When the feds try to quarantine her herd, claiming it may be infected with mad cow disease, she fights back — and solves a mystery in the process. An earlier tome, Poison Apples, features an orchard sabotaged with a mist of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, as well as the death of a Jamaican farmworker.

In some ways, Wright does conform to the conventions of her “cozy,” domestically oriented subgenre. The protagonist in a “food mystery” is often a divorced, middle-aged woman who takes up a culinary career — as caterer, baker, innkeeper or critic — after her husband skips out on her. No trained detective, she stumbles on a mystery and starts investigating.

it.” “The liberal slant of this book is overwhelming,” the reviewer lamented. “It is like having Howard Dean scream at you all the time. Who is killing lesbians and sterilizing Indians nowadays? According to this book it happens all the time in Vermont. I can’t wait till the ending when Newt Gingrich is found out to be the murderer.”

(He’s not.)

That reader might be surprised if he met Wright in person, because she doesn’t look the part of a political firebrand.

A gentle, polite older woman, she shares a rural home with her engineer husband. Cows meander across a wallpaper border in the bathroom, and her husband’s model trains chug across

were the villains discovered? The money they were spending had the unmistakable aroma of a barnyard.

Intrigued by that crime, Wright began crafting a story called Mad Season, in which barns are burned, a young boy is kidnapped, and farmers Lucien and Belle Laroque are beaten and robbed. Ruth Willmarth discovers the farmers — both grievously injured — and gets involved in solving the case.

In Ruth, Wright strove to create a “different kind of sleuth,” she says. “I don’t think I knew of any single-mother dairy farmer [detectives] at the time.”

She liked the notion of a character who stumbles into crimes and their solutions, rather than a hard-boiled police investigator.

“The amateur detective is kind of like the writer herself trying to find out whodunit and why.

That’s what I like most of all,” says Wright, who says she never plans out a book before writing it. “I’m the detective, in a sense, when I’m writing the book. I think if I knew what was going to happen, I probably would get bored and never finish the book.”

Given the books’ agricultural setting, Wright regularly mentions food, whether her

The idea of a dairying detective was sparked by a real-life crime.

Romance often rears its head, as the main character succumbs to, or resists, advances from warmhearted, occasionally mustachioed bachelors. In many cases, the writing leaves something to be desired.

True to the pattern, Wright’s heroine’s husband left her, and she ekes out a hardscrabble existence for her family while mourning his loss. In the meantime, an unnaturally patient, longtime friend acts as her sidekick but aches to be her lover.

But Wright offers a few elements such mysteries tend to lack. For one thing, her readers get a detailed taste of rural Vermont life, thanks to her strong sense of place: The stories are replete with verdant apple orchards, stubborn barnyard animals and bees swarming from their hives to feast on clover.

Wright’s liberal values are prominent, too. In one novel, a character tosses a “Take Back Vermont” sign off a cliff. Wright’s whodunits have featured samesex couples, sympathetic characters who grow medical marijuana and a look at the legacy of Vermont’s infamous eugenics project. All of them show just how tenuous the livelihood of a small farmer can be.

One Amazon.com reviewer titled his or her assessment of Wright’s Stolen Honey “Paranoid liberal lesbians will love

the living room and through the backyard.

Wright sees herself as a mystery novelist, not an activist one. “I’m Unitarian Universalist, and we’re probably one of the most liberal religions, if you can call it a religion,” she explains. “I try to not put too many of my views in there, but I guess I can’t help it. That could be a problem, I guess.” Still, she says she’s never received any letters from folks upset by her impassioned opinions.

Although Wright began publishing in the ’70s — “I was writing with one foot in the diaper pail,” the mother of four exclaims — it wasn’t until the mid-’90s that she tried her hand at sleuthing stories. When she did, in the midst of a divorce, she “discovered that maybe I have always been a mystery writer, even when I was writing plain novels,” she recalls. “Most fiction has a mystery in it of some kind.

It might not be the overt kind of mystery, it may be some secret somebody has deep down and doesn’t want anybody to know.”

The idea of a dairying detective was sparked by a real-life crime. Wright read a newspaper story about a pair of Vermont farmers too old-fashioned to bring their money to the bank.

A couple of thugs, searching for an easy take, beat them nearly to death and stole their cash. How

characters are cooking, eating or milking. “Often things happen when they’re at meals,” she says.

But her most food-centric work is outside the Ruth Willmarth series. Wright’s award-winning children’s mystery The Pea Soup Poisonings (2006) deals with a group of children who band together to solve a murder case.

The weapon: a bowl of poisoned pea soup. On the more appetizing side, the reader is enticed by mentions of zucchini quiche, lentil soup, meat loaf and chocolate cake prepared by various grownup characters.

The book’s premise grew out of a real mystery club formed

by Wright’s children and their cousins — and a real pot of safe, though unappetizing, soup.

“I’m not a big cook, but I like to cook,” Wright says. “I love to go out and have really good meals.

I always buy all my food at the local co-op. I love gardening.”

But, as the volumes stacked around her house indicate, reading, not baking, is her “priority” leisure-time activity.

In a pinch, though, Wright can whip up a mean batch of Irish coffee, or her detective’s homey sweets. She did just that for three different murdermystery cookbooks, including one called Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes >> 07B

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The eatery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; located on lower Church Street where Tantra used to be â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is owned by the same folks who own Vietnam Restaurant in Essex.

Diners will find a wide selection of Vietnamese dishes, such as vermicelli topped with meat and fried spring rolls and an Asian crĂŞpe called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banh Xeo.â&#x20AC;? There are lots of Thai tastes, too, including a â&#x20AC;&#x153;curry of the dayâ&#x20AC;? and tangy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Som Tamâ&#x20AC;? salad made with green papaya. Dim sum is served on weekends.

What sets VR2 apart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in addition to its use of organic produce â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is its pricing: At $9.50 for a large bowl of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pho Tai Bo Vienâ&#x20AC;? and $11.95 for fried rice with assorted vegetables and beef, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more expensive than its competitors. Hopefully, the quality of the food, size of the portions and appealing ambiance will make the cost go down as easily as a spoonful of noodle soup.

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Gourmet.com is taking notice of the Greensboro farm, too. A recent piece by Ben Hewitt touts the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;state-of-the-artâ&#x20AC;? cheese cave and its planned collaboration with the Vermont Food Venture Center, which will be moving from Fairfax to Hardwick next summer.

An accompanying piece by the same author talks about the up-and-coming town of Hardwick, which has gotten mucho media coverage lately.

Calling it â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the most important food towns in America,â&#x20AC;? Hewitt lauds the folks at Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant and Bar, High Mowing Organic Seeds and Vermont Soy, among others, for their ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;keen business savvy.â&#x20AC;?

None of this is news to part-time Vermonter Marion Burros of The New York Times, who published a piece on the greater Hardwick area in mid-October. In it, she suggests that the burg could eventually be known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the town that was saved by food,â&#x20AC;? and ends with an upbeat quote from Kehler about the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. Go, Caledonia County!

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Inspired by NOFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Share the Harvestâ&#x20AC;? program, which helps low-income families access CSA shares at half the usual price, the owners of Kismet restaurant in Montpelier have decided to start their own assistance project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an experiment,â&#x20AC;? says coowner Crystal Maderia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We put a jar on the counter and told our customers that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d match their donations up to $200" per month.

Anybody who donates $5 or more can nominate a recipient family in need. At the end of the month, Maderia explains, a name will be drawn from a hat, and Kismet will purchase a full CSA share for the winner. The veggies start coming in the spring.

For now, Maderia is planning to buy the shares from Wellspring Farm in Marshfield, but remains open to suggestions.

Although Maderia originally meant for the giveaway to be a yearly endeavor, she and her business partner, Alanna Dorf, decided to shoot for monthly instead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see how long people have energy and resources for it,â&#x20AC;? Maderia says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our first week we raised $150; in the second it was only $50.â&#x20AC;?

Whether or not they can sustain their fundraising goal, people are taking notice: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really sparked a lot of conversation. People are talking about families that are really suffering,â&#x20AC;? Maderia says.

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High in antioxidants, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a healthful snack. Haunting the shelf long after other staples are gone, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also useful for making desserts when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nothing else around.

I first heard about funeral pie through a blog named, aptly enough, Nothing in the House.

(Disclaimer: Founded a few years ago by a collective of friends-offriends determined to pursue the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pie enjoyment zone,â&#x20AC;? the blog

its convenience. A neighbor has died, and you want to bring the traditional form of solace â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fresh baked goods â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to the grieving family. No fresh fruit?

No problem. Whip up a funeral pie, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have slices of sweetness to share in a crisis, regardless of season.

With all due respect to the dead, and to ideals of pioneer self-sufficiency, the Halloween potential here is obvious. At seasonal spookfest dinner parties, fans of the macabre graze on mashed potatoes molded to look like brains, sip fizzy-blooded punch, and nosh

pieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whopping 3 tablespoons of cornstarch, the mouthfeel of the filling left much to be desired.

It was rather like swallowing a spicy, raisin-filled glue, though it tasted better between pie crusts.

The second recipe I unearthed (Funeral Pie II) dates from 1936 and is a masterpiece of economy. It uses half the amount of raisins, and the time it allots to resurrecting them in a water bath suggests that Depression-era raisins were routinely hard as rocks. One egg and a bit of flour do the work of all that cornstarch, though you

The unscrupulous chef could play up raisinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resemblance to plump, swollen bugs. showcases pics of pies I have made at past Thanksgivings, along with umpteen others from across the country.) In March 2006, an out-of-state contributor bewailed the dearth of appetizing fresh fruit at her local sad-sack grocery, then mentioned sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d tried an old pie recipe that called for perennially available ingredients. She posted the recipe under a tastefully morbid poem by Emily Dickinson (#1297), and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been wanting to make it ever since.

According to online resource The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, funeral pie is a classic in Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, which â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially in Amish country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; relies on locally available and/or shelf-stable, preserved foods through the winter months. Raisins become the main ingredient, and the dessertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s odd name derives from

on black-food-colored â&#x20AC;&#x153;bat wingsâ&#x20AC;? tasting of chicken. In this social settings, a well-decorated funeral pie might be the pièce de rĂŠsistance.

Raisins are tasty, but the unscrupulous chef of a ghoulish meal could play up their resemblance to plump, swollen bugs.

I tested two recipes out of the dozen or more I was able to, er, dig up. The main differences among them seem to be whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thickened by cornstarch or egg-and-flour custard, and whether the acid used to offset the raisinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sweetness is lemon juice or cider vinegar.

I started with the version referenced on the pie blog (Funeral Pie I). It tasted great, almost like a plummy mincemeat pie, probably in part because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d substituted for allspice a half-and-half mixture of ground cloves and nutmeg. However, given this

need a double boiler and a sharp eye to keep scrambled eggs from forming in your filling.

This recipe does call for a lemon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something Vermonters may not keep in the fridge yearround. The lemon rind and juice flavored this pie nicely, but with the goal of making a pie from always-accessible ingredients, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to try it again sometime with cider vinegar and pie spices instead. The latticework top is key; it allows enough water to escape in the oven for the custard to set.

There you have it. Get fancy with your pastry cutouts and tart up your funeral pies with bats, spiders, gravestones, skulls or creepy faces. Decorate the top with, say, an epitaph for your 401(k), or warn your driedgrape-hating friends with the legend R.I.P.: Raisins in Pie. >

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peril From The Joy of Cooking (first Plume printing, November 1997), p. 640.

This recipe will make enough pie dough for a double-crust, 9-inch pie: Sift together: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt Measure and combine: 2/3 cup chilled shortening (I used canola-oil shortening) 2 tablespoons chilled butter Cut half of the shortening into the flour mixture with a pastry blender, or work it in lightly with the tips of your fingers until it has the grain of cornmeal. Cut the remaining half coarsely into the dough until it forms pea-sized balls. Sprinkle the dough with: 4 tablespoons ice-cold water Blend the water lightly into the dough. You may lift the ingredients with a fork, allowing the moisture to spread. If needed to hold the ingredients together, add: 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon water When you can gather the dough up into a tidy ball, stop handling it.

Divide it in half and roll out the crusts.

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From www.allrecipes.com, via www.nothinginthehouse.blogspot.com Ingredients: Pastry for two-crust pie 2 cups raisins 2 cups water 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1 pinch salt 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 3 tablespoons unsalted butter Directions: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a pan with half the pastry and chill. Place the raisins and 2/3 cup of the water in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat over medium heat for 5 minutes.

Combine the sugars, cornstarch, spices and salt into a bowl and, mixing all the time, slowly add the remaining 1 1/3 cups water. Add this mixture to the heating raisins.

Cook and stir this until the mixture begins to bubble. Add the vinegar and butter, and heat until the butter is melted, stirring it in.

Cool until just warm. Pour into the prepared shell and top with the second crust. Bake 25 minutes or until golden. Cool.

FUNERAL PIE II

From Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fine Old Recipes (Culinary Arts Press, 1936), via www.cdkitchen.com.

Ingredients: Pastry for two-crust pie 1 cup raisins 2 cups water 1 1/2 cups sugar 4 tablespoons flour 1 egg, well beaten 2 tablespoons lemon rind, grated 1 lemon, juice of 1/4 teaspoon salt

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<music> GRAND OLD PARTY :: Election madness got you down? Are you on pins and needles anticipating the outcome of the big day? Do you just like to get blitzed on a Tuesday? If so, we humbly suggest Exit

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2008 at Club Metronome with The Dirty Blondes, Blowtorch, Cccome?, Party Star, James Kochalka, Nose Bleed Island, Caroline & Sean, Hot Neon Magic and a host of other local bands, politicos and — presumably — drunks. And did we mention the tapdancing Sarah Palin? Real America, indeed.

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Well, folks, the big day is almost here. Can you feel the change on the wind? Can you taste the excitement? I can. And you know what? It tastes like freedom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which bears an odd resemblance to chicken, actually.

Of course, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;big dayâ&#x20AC;? I am referring to is that most sacred of free world institutions, Halloween. What, you thought I meant the election? Well, that could be pretty frightening, too, I suppose. (Free Halloween Costume Idea #1: The Bradley Effect . . . terrifying.)

This year, All Hallowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Eve falls on a Friday, which pretty much creates a perfect storm of parties, candy and sexy nurses/schoolgirls/nuns. (Free Halloween Costume Idea #2: sexy music editor.) We have a lot on the docket this weekend, so without further ado: Seven Daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guide to the Seven Best Music-related Halloween Shindigs of 2008.

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Closing out the evening are punky alt-country hellions Pariah Beat with a new album in tow. The band is also rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the night before, Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night, at the Beanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kissinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cousin, Langdon Street CafĂŠ in Montpelier.

Team on a crystal-meth bender with Green Jelly. (Idea #5: The Go! Team on a crystal-meth bender with Green Jelly.)

1. Burton Snowboards Halloween Party at Parima OK, this one is actually on Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for gruesome and tasteless â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and who isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on Halloween? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nobody does it better than Burton, apparently.

5. Heartbreak Happy Hour at Langdon Street CafĂŠ Speaking of Montpeculiarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cozy hipster haunt, Halloween marks the final installment of Ăźber-talented chanteuse Miriam Bernardoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthlong Friday residency, as well as the expiration date of my marriage proposal from a few weeks back. (Idea #4: sexy, heartbroken music editor . . . sigh.)

Eclectic electro-hip-hop local supergroup Drop close out the night.

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In non-Halloween related news, the venerable Bluegrass Gospel Project is back in action this week with a benefit show for Volunteer Vermont this Saturday at the First Congregational Church in Burlington. In addition to new vocalist Colby 4. 242 Mainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Halloween Benefit Crehan of PossumHaw renown, the group will be rolling out Depending on the outcome of Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festivities, publicfactory-fresh bassist Kirk Lord, who joined the group earlier arts funding may be increasingly more difficult to come by this year. The monies raised will help send Vermont high school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although given the state of the economy, it might be a students to South Carolina to help with church rebuilding moot point regardless of who wins. So supporting Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 7. Horse Feathers, Matthew Loiacono and Paddy Reagan projects and other civic-minded good deeds. favorite city-run rock breeding pool is as important as ever. at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington That same evening, indie-pop fans will descend upon And the night before Halloween, especially, it will be lots of OK, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anything particularly ghoulish about this show Winooski en masse for an evening with fun. other than the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening on Halloween. But still, Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soon-to-be-huge punkHereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the gist: Eight local acts it promises to be one of the better indie-folk shows youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see poppers The Besties and Athens THE BESTIES dress as and cover their favorite bands. all year. Regular readers are likely familiar with Mr. Reagan by garage-pop outfit Cars Can Be Blue Among the expected doppelgängers are now. For newbies, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a quirkily talented dude and among the at The Monkey House. The Smittensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Take Warning, playing the role of â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hardest-working songsmiths in the area. Loiacono is better David Zacharias had this to say about surprise! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Operation Ivy, Husbands known as the mandolinist for Albany alt-country darlings The the latter: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The shows are almost more AKA doing their best Bouncing Souls Kamikaze Hearts, who are currently on hiatus to make babies raunchy sketch comedy than an indieimpersonation and metal stalwarts and solo records. pop band. Think Dressy Bessy with Amadis as â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are you sitting down? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Horse Feathers are, simply put, the best thing to come Sarah Silverman singing.â&#x20AC;? Awesome.

Judas Priest. Local rockers Maneuvers out of Portland, Oregon, since The Shins. And, no, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Speaking of The Smittens, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on also reportedly have something pretty not kidding. This show marks their third trip to the Green the bill too, as is James Kochalka, special on tap. But they ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t telling Mountains and their fourth Vermont show in the last 18 who will be playing a killer solo Game and neither am I. PHOTO COURTESY OF GLYNIS ARBAN months. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve managed to catch two of the first three and Boy set. No, really. have been blown away both times. In particular, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Meanwhile, at Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North End Studio, a trio of fresh3. Ghouls Gone Wild II at the Higher Ground Ballroom debut Vermont performance in the cozy confines of The Skinny faced college bands will introduce themselves to the city at large Again, we have an entry that gets â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspired punâ&#x20AC;? bonus points.

Pancake was stunning. Their brooding brand of chamber folk with a show entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Revolution Rock.â&#x20AC;? Indie-rock outfit Buzz This is simply the biggest Halloween party in the state and is intoxicating in an intimate setting such as the Firehouse Jar â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring former members of late alt-country group The will feature performances by the Poof! Drag Cabaret and DJ Gallery. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Tick Tick show, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing costumes are Marigolds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; blues-rockers The Feverbreakers and avant-noise Precious, as well as a monstrous costume contest. And better A-OK. savant Mr. Shopping are all slated to appear. Also on the bill is still, proceeds benefit the R.U.1.2? Community Center. a presentation from Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oWL PaRTY, just in time for the 6. Hallowbean at Radio Bean election.

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1/2 LOUNGE: DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Karaoke with DJ Precious, 9 p.m., $5. Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+).

JPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB: Dave Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LEUNIGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Will Patten Gypsy Jazz (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Celtic Music Party (Irish), 7 p.m., Free.

NECTARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: An Evening with W.E.S.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Silent Mind, Cherry Cassette (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Ed Devarney & Friends (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

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

RED SQUARE: Stone, Coane & Sacher (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin soul), 7:30 p.m., Free. Old School vs. Nu Skool with DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

242 MAIN: 242 Main Halloween Benefit Show (rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BACKSTAGE PUB: Blues Night with The Growlers, 7 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Battle for Burlington: Drunken Go Nuts! (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

FLYNN MAINSTAGE: Govâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Mule (rock), 8 p.m., $37/39. AA. FRANNY Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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

HALVORSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UPSTREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Friends of Joe with Dave Grippo & Matt Wright (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

HOOTERS: Hooters Karaoke Extravaganza, 7:30 p.m., Free.

LEUNIGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Juliet McVicker (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Burton Snowboards Halloween Party (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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

RASPUTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Myra Flynn (neo-soul), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hiphop), 10 p.m., Free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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

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LANGDON STREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Midwest Dilemma, Kris Gruen (indie-folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Craft Night, 7:30 p.m., Free.

:: northern BEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KNEES: Layah Jane (jazz-folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: regional MONOPOLE: Open Mike, 9 p.m., Free.

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LANGDON STREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night Party with Pariah Beat (Americana), 9 p.m., Donations.

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

:: champlain valley ON THE RISE BAKERY: Knotty Pine (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: northern BEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KNEES: Dave Keller (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

OLDE YANKEE RESTAURANT: Tim Foley (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

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FRI.31 << 11B CLUB METRONOME: Battle for Burlington: Drunken Go Nuts! (hiphop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. Lotus Entertainment Presents Hip-Hop Halloween (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5/8.

FIREHOUSE GALLERY: Horse Feathers, Matthew Loiacono, Paddy Reagan (indie-folk), 8 p.m., $7. AA. FLYNN MAINSTAGE: Great Big Sea (rock), 8 p.m., $26/33.50/38.75. AA. GREEN ROOM: Halloween Costume Party with DJs A-Dog & Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Ghouls Gone Wild 2: A Halloween Ball (dance), 9 p.m., $20/25. 18+.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Jolie Holland, Herman Dune (singersongwriters), 7:30 p.m., $14/16. AA. JPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB: Dave Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Halloween Party with Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Ian Kovac (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Andy Schlatter (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Sound of Urchin, Party Star (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Run for Cover (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Halloween Bash, 9 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: HallowBean with Pariah Beat, Nose Bleed Island, The Vacant Lots, Strangers in the Night Shadow Puppet Show (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

RASPUTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Top Hat Danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: Monoprix (swampy-tonk), 6 p.m., Free. DJ Nastee (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3. Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

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

RĂ? RĂ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ, 10 p.m., Free.

SECOND FLOOR: Voodoo with DJ Robbie J. (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3/10.

:: central CHARLIE Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Party Crashers (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

GUSTOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: The Complaints (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Happy Heartbreak Hour with Miriam Bernardo (eclectic), 6 p.m., Donations. Drop (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.

POSITIVE PIE 2: Maddub Freakass Halloween (electro-reggae), 10 p.m., $6.66.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Halloween Bash with Exit Only (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: The Slipper Kings (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Horse Traders (rock), 9 p.m., $3. DJ Dizzle (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

:: northern BAYSIDE PAVILION: Live Music, 9 p.m., Free.

BEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KNEES: Dixie Red Delights (Americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Evenkeel (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

JDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3.

MATTERHORN: Halloween Bash (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

RUSTY NAIL: Halloween Bash with Last Kid Picked (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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SKINNY PANCAKE: Doug Perkins & Jamie Masefield (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $10 Donation.

:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: B.A. Funkhouse (funk), 9:30 p.m., $3-5.

GUSTO’S: Jam on Toast (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Kendall Ludvig (indie-folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

Yankee Chank (Zydeco, folk), 9:30 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Latin Quarter Dance Party with DJ Hector (salsa), 10 p.m., Free.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Heckhounds, Hal Mayforth (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MATTERHORN: Cluster-funk (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

PIECASSO: Karaoke Championship with John Wilson & Danger Dave, 9:30 p.m., Free.

RUSTY NAIL: Lotus Entertainment Presents DJ Russell (mash-up), 9 p.m., $5.

:: regional KRAZY HORSE SALOON: Movin’ On (country), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Lucid (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

TABU CAFÉ AND NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (DJ), 5 p.m., Free.

SUN.02 :: burlington area

1/2 LOUNGE: FunkWagon (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Bonjour-Hi! (electronica), 9 p.m., $3/8.

FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Girlyman, Susan Werner (folk), 7:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Pine Street Jazz with Amber DeLaurentis, 6 p.m., Free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

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

RADIO BEAN: Old Time Sessions, 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Michael James Anderson, David James & Jared McCloud (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Nastee Soul Sunday (soul), 10 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Trinity (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battery Park, Burlington, 865-7166.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4636.

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

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

Elixir, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 281-7009.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:: central LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Stick Season Concert Series with Bob & Charlie Messing (poetry, folk), 3 p.m., Donations.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Michelle Fay Band (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Jazz on Tap (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

MON.03 :: burlington area

1/2 LOUNGE: Heal-In Sessions with Briandeye & Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Advance Music Acoustic SingerSongwriter Search Finals (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Bluegrass Jam with Bob Degree, 7 p.m., Free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paramount Theater, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570.

Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917.

Park Place Tavern, 38 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3015.

Peabody’s Pub, 11 Clinton St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-0158.

Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035.

Piecasso, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411.

Positive Pie 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

The Pour House, 1930 Williston Rd., South Burlington, 862-3653.

Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422.

Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346.

Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324.

Red Mill Restaurant at Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 475-2311.

Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909.

Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse at Living and Learning, UVM, Burlington, 6564211.

Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782.

Rí Rá Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401.

River Run Restaurant, 65 Main St., Plainfield, 454-1246.

Roque’s Restaurante Mexicano & Cantina, 3 Main St., Burlington, 657-3377.

Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744.

Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245.

Second Floor, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088.

Shooters Saloon, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777.

Skinny Pancake, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188.

Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6607.

St. John’s Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, 864-9778.

Starry Night Café, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316.

Stonecutters Brewhouse, 14 N. Main St., Barre, 476-6000.

Stowe Coffee House, 57B Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-2189.

Stowehof Inn, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722.

Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800.

Tabu Café & Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-566-0666.

Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7394.

T Bones Restaurant & Bar, 38 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 654-8008.

Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542.

Three Mountain Lodge Restaurant, Smugglers’ Notch Rd., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5736.

Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585.

Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910.

Vergenes Opera House, 120 Main St., Vergennes, 802-877-6737.

Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

Village Tavern at Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Jeffersonville, 644-6765.

Wasted City Studios, 1610 Troy Ave., Colchester, 324-8935.

Waterbury Wings, 1 South Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

Watershed Tavern, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100.

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MON.03 << 13B RADIO BEAN: Open Mike, 8 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Audiojournal (altcountry), 9 p.m., Free.

:: central LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Open Mike, 7 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Alex Dostie (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

242 MAIN: Gravemaker, Jerk City, Forever They Said (hardcore), 7 p.m., $7. AA. CLUB METRONOME: Exit Poll with The Dirty Blondes (rock), 5 p.m., Free/$5.

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LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Bob Degree & Bluegrass Storm, 7 p.m., Free.

NECTAR’S: Tuesday Comedy Night (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Second Agenda (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Island Night with DJ Skinny T (DJ), 9 p.m., Free. Poets’ Jam with Trevien Stanger, 9:30 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Small Axe (jug band), 8 p.m., Free. Honky Tonk Sessions (country), 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: World Bashment with Demus & Super K (reggae), 9 p.m., Free.

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MAIN STREET GRILL AND BAR: Abby Jenne & Mark Legrand (country), 7 p.m., Free.

STONECUTTERS BREWHOUSE: Open Mike, 7 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Shooter Night, 5 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Election Night Party, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Danville Dan (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

PIECASSO: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

WED.05 :: burlington area

1/2 LOUNGE: DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Whiplash (house), 10 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+).

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Amy Ray, Jennifer O’Connor (singersongwriters), 7:30 p.m., $15. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Eagle Country Music Night with Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., Free.

NECTAR’S: An Evening with W.E.S.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Shotgun Party, Billy Caldwell & The Aimless Drifters (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Comedy Night (standup), 7 p.m., Free.

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

RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. FunkWagon (funk), 8 p.m., Free.

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

:: central LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: David Jacobs Strain (blues), 8 p.m., Donations. Eric Sommer (blues), 9:15 p.m., Donations.

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

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TOM CADRIN, SEMBLANCE (Self-Released, CD)

(Self-released, CD) In 1998, British politicorock singer Billy Bragg and alt-country darlings Wilco reimagined the forgotten songbooks of Woody Guthrie via the remarkable Mermaid Avenue Vol. I (some will disregard Vol. II). Refracting the American folk icon through a contemporary lens, those stylistic variations added up to one of the finest albums of that year. With their self-titled debut, The Lonestar Chain have crafted an album very close in heart to those sessions, and very nearly as good.

However, this time it seems the muse is that sweetheart of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s country-rock movement, Gram Parsons. But rather than mine the Grievous Angelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost songbooks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which, if they ever existed, would likely have perished in his Joshua Tree funeral pyre â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these songs spring from TLCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead singer and guitarist Burette Douglas. The Cush front man has assembled his own local quasi-supergroup, in which lead-guitar duties are handed to Bill Mullins (Blowtorch, Barbacoa). The pairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voices and guitars harmonize tantalizingly throughout the album. Rounding out the crew is a fail-proof rhythm section of Creston Lea (Cave Bees, James Kochalka Superstar) and Steve Hadeka (Turkey Bouillon Mafia, The Seth Yacovone Band).

The disc opens with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Horse Acre,â&#x20AC;? a lost-love graveside lament. It is not the only heartache on the album. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Are You Tonight?â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Look Backâ&#x20AC;? pine for the one who got away, while â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Stand Correctedâ&#x20AC;? invokes some of Parsonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best and most heartbreaking work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; right down to guest vocalist and Cush cohort/wife Gabrielle Douglas doing her best Emmylou Harris act. When the couple sing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought that we were protected by pitfalls that come / but I stand corrected, outside of your love,â&#x20AC;? itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to feel an empty hurt of your own.

Not that the whole album is a dour affair. Douglas and company add heat to their Flying Burritos, creating a rollicking alt-country party. The American folk parable â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joe Henryâ&#x20AC;? does recall Guthrie and seems timely as recession hits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Gasoline Ageâ&#x20AC;? is a Faces-style saloon rocker, while tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make Me See Starsâ&#x20AC;? and, especially, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abileneâ&#x20AC;? display some of Crackerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wry, winking humor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pay Phone Bluesâ&#x20AC;? bristles with countrified grunge, ĂĄ la Mike Ness, lending the album a nice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and necessary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; edge.

Given these disparate pieces, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to hear how well the album functions as a whole.

Each song carries perfectly into the next, and while The Lonestar Chain may never hit a single â&#x20AC;&#x153;peakâ&#x20AC;? moment, there are absolutely no weak spots, either. I, for one, will be front and center at their album release party this Saturday, November 1, at Radio Bean.

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For musicians, versatility can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can serve to spice up an album, keep the listener on edge, and underscore an artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s range. On the other, it can result in a jumbled, inconsistent piece of work that suggests ambivalence, lack of consideration for the listener or, worse, egomania.

Fortunately, Tom Cadrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songwriting falls on the former edge of that sword, with versatility working for him on his new nine-track delight, entitled Semblance. The Burlington-based singer-songwriter has crafted a well-rounded album, alternating between acoustic guitar and vocal-rich, introspective meditations and guitar-bass-drum quarter-time rockers. But as a whole, Semblance demonstrates Cadrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abilities to compose cohesive, catchy songs that hit on more than the Eros-and-Aphrodite-inspired topics for which his crystal-clear crooning seems so perfectly suited.

On â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unlikely Human Condition,â&#x20AC;? Cadrin sings not only of love but of worldly and daily observations and the ups and downs of the human experience. His headnodding chord ascents and descents on the acoustic guitar reflect nicely the sometimes-tumultuous, sometimes-serene nature of the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title.

On those aforementioned rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tracks, Cadrin is joined

by Erik Hanko (drums, backing vocals), Alex Rossiter (bass, backing vocals), and Tom Goulet (backing vocals). And when accompanied by his pals, Cadrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multifaceted talents truly emerge.

The string-scraping start to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time to Wasteâ&#x20AC;? gives way to a sojourn of a rock song replete with stop-and-go drums, a guitar hook reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr. and a shoutalong breakdown that hints at a Bright Eyes inspiration. The pumping drumbeat and Cadrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honest, rich vocal delivery on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Impress Meâ&#x20AC;? have a slightly lip-pursing taste of The Lemonheads â&#x20AC;&#x201D; without the darker edge of drug addiction.

But make no mistake, Semblance is all Tom Cadrin. And the overall originality of this work speaks as clearly as does his rangy voice. The album is anything but monotonous. And the stylistic deviations from one song to the next serve this talented artist well. Semblance is available for free download at RapidShare.com.

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Towering Inferno

BY DAN BOLLES

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ome interviews are pretty straightforward. Question.

Answer. Repeat as necessary. Others take a more circuitous route, but still resolve at a discernible point. And then there are interviews like this one with Brian Viglione and — unexpectedly — Jack Terricloth of the Brooklyn-based “punk-rock orchestra,” World/Inferno Friendship Society.

Viglione is a relatively new member of the group and is better known for his work with Boston’s famed — and currently hiatused — punk cabaret The Dresden Dolls. Reunion plans? “Don’t hold your breath,” he says.

Terricloth is World/Inferno’s deviously enigmatic front man. Equal parts sideshow barker and Shane McGowan-esque poetic rogue, he holds court over the high-octane eight-piece punk carnival with sinister aplomb. Oh, and he also maintains an advice column on the band’s website (www.worldinferno. com), cheekily titled “What Would Jack Do?” Really.

In a recent phone conversation to preview their upcoming Higher

World/Inferno Friendship Society performs with The Dig Thursday, November 6, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10. AA.

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Ground performance, Seven Days spoke with both members of the band, en route to Atlanta. The conversation ranged from the energy of the group’s live show to . . . well, we’re still not sure.

SEVEN DAYS: Could you describe the World/Inferno concert experience?

BRIAN VIGLIONE: The energy of the shows is nothing like I’ve seen before. I mean, sure, they’re punkrock shows. But the environment, the energy is just really fun. And the music is so much more than just your three-chord rock. And the people are just totally whacked out and wonderful.

Expect the unexpected. Musically, it ranges through everything. It’s like a mash-up of Count Basie, The Ramones, The Pogues and Wilson Pickett, kind of all out on a date together. And people dressed in their best clothes going totally bananas.

SD: Tell me a bit about Jack Terricloth. He seems like quite a character.

BV: Yes, indeed. He’s actually right here if you’d like to say hello.

SD: Um . . . sure!

JACK TERRICLOTH: Hello. My name is Jack.

SD: Hey, Jack. My name is Dan. How are you?

JT: I’m all right. I’m living in a minivan.

SD: How is that going?

JT: I’m just too tall for this job, I think.

SD: I see . . . um, I was wondering if you could tell me about the advice column. How did that idea arise?

JT: I’m just trying to be more interactive with people. Why should Jesus get all the attention?

SD: That’s a fair question. But how did it start? Are there more questions coming?

JT: There are a lot more questions coming. I was hoping to have another edition out for Halloween, and I still might. You never can tell.

My hard drive died and I never got around to re-buying Word. So I have to spell-check it personally. Or maybe I’ll just send it to you and you could spell-check it.

SD: Well . . . I’m kinda busy, actually. I’d be happy to hear some of the questions you’re working on, though.

JT: Oh, sure! Lessee . . . (opening his laptop). Here’s a typical one: “Dear Jack. If you don’t mind my saying, I’ve noticed that you usually duck out of whatever club you’re playing and find a quiet place to tipple. Do you have a favorite bar?”

This one comes up a lot. And my answer is, “Any place without large-

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screen TVs. But since you asked, the lounge at Newark International Airport Terminal B. I even have a favorite stool. At airport bars you can tell the most outrageous lies and almost never get caught.”

SD: I like that. Gimme another one.

JT: “Dear Jack. Why is it that when enjoying tobacco products with two or more friends, we shouldn’t light three on a match?” To which I answered, “It turns out that was just made up by someone to sell more matches. But since matches are now mostly free, don’t worry about it.”

SD: I thought it had something to do with night patrols in Vietnam, but . . .

JT: Here’s a more existential one about a woman who died from lingering dread. Um . . . I told her not

to worry about it.

SD: Whoops. Maybe we should switch gears. I just asked Brian how he would describe your music, since many of our readers are likely unfamiliar with your shows. But I’ll ask you, too.

JT: Oh, that’s funny. It was actually my next question.

SD: Weird . . .

JT: I make up a new description every day. This week is “the jazz of robbery.” But that probably doesn’t help you much. We’re the intellectual elite you read about in conservative papers.

SD: I knew it!

JT: Just put “punk-rock orchestra.”

SD: Done and done. >

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<calendar > Horror-meister Stephen King once called Ira Levin “the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels.” The novelist who created Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives also wrote the stage play Deathtrap, the longestrunning thriller in Broadway history.

In it, a veteran scribe suffering from writer’s block holes up at his Connecticut home with his protégé.

Discovering that his younger colleague has written a terrific play called — you guessed it — Deathtrap, the washed-up wordsmith and his wife plot scary ways to persuade the pupil to share credit for his opus. Audiences at Northern Stage’s three-week production may recognize the morally corrupt mentor: Veteran Hollywood actor Dan Butler played lecherous sports reporter Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe for 11 years on “Frasier.” Here, his character gets a comeuppance as he learns the pen is mightier than the, er, dagger.

‘Deathtrap’

Wednesday, October 29, through Sunday, November 16 (except mondays), at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, see calendar listings for various times. $25-58.

Info, 296-7000. www.northernstage.org

<calendar > Listings and spotlights: Meghan Dewald

submission guidelines All submissions are due in writing at noon on the Thursday before publication. Be sure to include the following in your email or fax: name of event, brief description, specific location, time, cost and contact phone number. SEVEN DAYS edits for space and style.

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BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: Activists stand together in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

dance â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SALSALINAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; PRACTICE: Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $10. Info, 598-1077.

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CHARITY BINGO: Players seek matches on numbered cards, then say the magic word. Broadacres Bingo Hall, Colchester, 7 p.m. $10 for 12 cards.

Info, 860-1510. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MATTER OF BALANCEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Community educators from Rutland Regional Medical Center help perfectionists manage their fear of failure. Godnick Senior Center, Rutland, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 468-3093.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK: Adventurous souls stretch their legs around Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown, hearing haunted history and spine-tingling tales. Meet on the back steps of Burlington City Hall, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $13; call for reservations. Info, 351-1313, queencityghostwalk@gmail.com.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP: Habla espaĂąol? Brown baggers eat lunch and devour new vocab. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

food & drink CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery see how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591.

EARLY BIRD BREAKFAST: Hungry hunters chow down on a deer-season special featuring triple-stacked pancakes, eggs, coffee and a choice of meaty sides. Proceeds benefit a farm-to-market nonprofit. L.A.C.E., Barre, 6 a.m. $7. Info, 476-4276.

SOUTH END FARMERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MARKET: Residents of the Queen Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southernmost neighborhood peruse seasonal produce at outdoor stalls.

Flynndog, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 660-8526.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: Watch critters do dinner with help from the animal-care staff. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. $7-9.50.

Info, 864-1848. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MOVING & GROOVINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Two- to five-year-olds boogie down to rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll and world-beat music. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SUBTERRANEAN STORIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Kids age 10 and up convene for scary tales and treats in the deep, dark depths of the library basement. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7216.

Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;GAY PIONEERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: This documentary by Glenn Holsten chronicles the first organized annual demonstrations in major U.S. cities for â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexualâ&#x20AC;? civil rights, from 1965 to 1969. A post-film discussion follows. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-7812. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: In this screen adaptation of an Anne Rice novel, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt play classy-yet-conflicted bloodsuckers in 18th-century Louisiana and Paris. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, Johnson, 9 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1476. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;REBECCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Alfred Hitchcock directed this romance-gone-awry about a young married woman who discovers her new house and husband are haunted. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. ST. ANDREWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIPES AND DRUMS: Got kilt? This Scottish-style marching band welcomes new members to play bagpipes or percussion. St. James Episcopal Church, Essex, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 879-7335, jerdelyi@vhfa. org.

talks â&#x20AC;&#x153;BUY LOCAL OR BUY GLOBALâ&#x20AC;?

DEBATE: Nationally prominent economist Russell Roberts and environmental author Bill McKibben argue the pros and cons of big- and small-scale purchasing power. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5799.

CHITTENDEN FAMILIES TOGETHER: Special-needs lawyer Claudia Ines Pringles talks about trust options for families whose youth and/or adults have developmental disabilities.

Vermont Family Network, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-5315, ext. 215.

LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE: Economist and author Stacy Mitchell describes the â&#x20AC;&#x153;big box swindleâ&#x20AC;? wherein international corporations pass on hidden costs to communities, and advocates building local, small-scale economies. Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3198. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE BACKYARD OF THE USAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Independent journalist and Burlington College instructor Ben Dangl considers U.S. policy toward Latin America. Community Room, Burlington College, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;DEATHTRAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Plot twists abound in this long-running Broadway comedy thriller about the relationship between two writers. See calendar spotlight. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $25-58.

Info, 296-7000.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Lisa Kronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2006 Broadway hit begins as an orderly autobiographical monologue about allergy cures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother takes over.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-28. Info, 863-5966.

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words POETRY SERIES: Versifiers Gail Mazur and Adrie Kusserow read from works melding language with music at an interdisciplinary forum hosted by UVM English professor and poet Major Jackson. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750.

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BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See WED.29, 5-5:30 p.m.

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL & SPEAK-OUT: Community members honor the courage of domestic-violence victims and survivors. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1062.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. COMMUNITY DARKROOM: Shutterbugs develop film and print pictures.

Center for Photographic Studies, Barre, 6 p.m. $8 per hour. Info, 479-4127.

business QUEEN CITY BNI: Local members of Business Network International schmooze at a weekly breakfast meeting to help promote one anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companies. Room 202, Vermont Technical College, Blair Park Campus, Williston, 8 a.m. First visit is free. Info, 985-9965.

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An Evening of Music and Dance

Michael Chorney, guitar; Anthony Santor, bass; P.J. Davidian, percussion; Polly Vanderputten, cello; Nelson Caldwell, cello; Annette Urbschat, dance; plus special guests

Friday, November 7 at 7:30 pm Three sets: 7:30-8:15 pm/8:30-9:15 pm/9:30-10:15 pm (audience welcome to come to one, two, or all sets)

HALLOWEEN COSTUME DANCE SOCIAL: Costumed cohorts go ballroom dancing for $5 less than their street-clothed counterparts. Two 30-minute lessons start the evening with intro-level footwork, followed by open dancing. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5-15. Info, 598-6757.

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BRIDGE CLUB: Partners shuffle cards and chat. Godnick Senior Center, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-5756.

CHARITY BINGO: See WED.29, 7 p.m.

COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY: Students offer senior citizens ages 60 and older free tire changes, computer â&#x20AC;&#x153;tune-ups,â&#x20AC;? blood pressure checks, a buffet lunch and more. Please arrive between 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., and plan to spend three to four hours. Center for Technology, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 879-8152.

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR: Following a Mexican cultural tradition, community members honor deceased family members with mementos, icons and candies. Alliot Student Center, St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College, Colchester, 9-10 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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THU.30 << 19B French Conversation Group: Would-be Francophones exchange info during déjeuner. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon - 1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

Halloween Costume Craft Lab: Slapdash sewers cut and stitch last-minute disguises for themselves and others. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $20 includes some materials. Info, 862-7417.

Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.29, 7-8 p.m.

Vermont Chess Club: Pawn pushers strategize to better their games.

Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.29, 6 a.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Morning Stories: Local tale tellers engage kids of all ages with a mix of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, songs and games. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

Music With Peter: The under-5 set and their caretakers keep the beat. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Preschool Stories: Future readers aged 2 to 5 take in tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

‘Spooky-Scary Stories’: Bring your flashlights to this Halloween reading that starts with tamer fare for little tots, and ramps up the fear factor as darkness falls. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 4:30-6 p.m. Free; call to register. Info, 985-3999.

Westford Storytime: Kids ponder picture books and create crafts.

Westford Library, Westford, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-5639.

<calendar > Winooski Playgroup: Babies up to age 2 socialize with each other and their caregivers at a session offering music, books and toys. Winooski Memorial Library, Winooski, 11 a.m. 12 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

Zumba Fitness: Bodies get buff by keeping time with a trendy combo of aerobics and Latin dance. Olympiad Health and Racquet Club, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 310-6686.

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Also, see clubdates in Section B. Johnson State College Concert Band: Students and community members team up to toot their horns and beat their drums at a weekly practice session. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3498, steven. light@jsc.edu.

‘Faxes From the Future’: Architect, educator, writer and native Vermonter Michael Caldwell describes the methods by which modern and contemporary architecture reconfigure the natural world. Room 301, Williams Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014, artdept@ uvm.edu.

Guantanamo Bay: Attorney Robert Gensburg covers recent developments at an infamous Cuba-based U.S. detention camp where he has worked with detainees. North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

‘Probing the Bimolecular Encounter’: Chemistry Professor Harry Gafney of Queens College, CUNY, analyzes the process at the heart of all chemical reactions. Room 111, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

‘The Science of Hurricanes’: Lyndon State College meteorology professor Jason Shafer outlines how huge, ocean-generated storms become so powerful — and how to prepare for them. See calendar spotlight. Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, Johnson, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-1476.

‘Who Owns the Arctic Ocean’: David Monahan of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping discusses a recent United Nations convention on marine law, and the implications of various nations’ claims to northern supplies of oil and water. Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-648-3591, ext. 141.

sport ‘Stretch for a Cure!’: Pilates participants pitch in for breast cancer research. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 598-2469.

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‘Smokey Joe’s Café’: Songs in this musical revue of ’50s and ’60s ditties include “On Broadway,” “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand By Me.” Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 382-9222.

‘The Haunted Forest’: Good-natured thrills and chills await visitors to this volunteer-run, too-scary-for-tots take on outdoor theater. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m. $8.50-$12.50. Info, 238-0923, jana@thehauntedforest.org.

‘Well’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m.

FRI.31 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.29, 5-5:30 p.m.

dance

folkies of a feather World music appeals to genre-benders looking to add international flavor to their beats, but it’s difficult to do justice to a mix of divergent styles. So fans of buoyant neo-folk have been flocking to hear The Duhks.

Founded by two French-Canadian siblings seven years ago, the Winnipeg-based quintet blends Celtic, Québecois and old-timey music with Afro-Cuban rhythms and soulful shades of the blues. The band’s unique, rootsy sound has earned its young members one Juno Award and a Grammy nomination, as well as an emerging-artist nod from the Americana Music Association. The Duhks (pronounced “ducks”) land feetfirst at a Celebration Series concert featuring their recently released album Fast Paced World, as part of a tour that incorporates biodiesel-powered transport, locally raised food and carbon-emission offsets.

The Duhks

Saturday, November 1, 8 p.m. at the Barre Opera House. $10-26. Info, 476-8188. www.barreoperahouse.org www.greenduhks.com www.duhks.com

Argentinean Tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.

Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 862-2269, elabd@comcast.net.

etc.

Charity Bingo: See WED.29, 7 p.m.

Community Service Day: See THU.30, 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Day of the Dead Altar: See THU.30, 9-10 p.m.

Ghouls Gone Wild II: Green-skinned go-go dancers boogie down at a Halloween ball, costume contest and dance party set to discs spun by DJ Precious, and rock-theater mavens make sporadic spectacles of themselves.

See calendar spotlight. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $20-25. Info, 652-0777.

Halloween DJ Skate: Ghouls on ice?

Glide around at a music-enhanced, costumes-optional chill session to work off Halloween sweets. Leddy Park Arena, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5, skate rental costs $3 per pair. Info, 865-5399.

Old-fashioned Halloween Party: Friends and neighbors get gussied up according to table-specific costume themes at a pot luck dinner with live music, prizes and a cash bar. Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes, 8 p.m. $15 includes catered main course; bring a side dish to share. Info, 475-2103.

Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.29, 7-8 p.m.

Rutland Halloween Parade: Dozens of elaborately decorated floats scare and amuse watchers on a route that runs from Madison Street to Merchants’ Row. Downtown Rutland, parade lineup 5:30 p.m., parade 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1822, ext. 13.

Tertulia Latina: Latino-americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

The Freakers Ball: Costumed partiers don day-glo outfits for this psychedelic light show featuring music by four regional rock ‘n’ roll bands. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $10.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.29, 6 a.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘The Exorcist’: Halloween scare seekers catch this head-turning 1973 horrornovel adaptation, in which two priests try to save a demonically possessed child. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Halloween Concert: Costume-clad listeners take in ominous organ chords and tolling carillon bells at a recital of classically spooky faves. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:15 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-3040.

talks ‘Lake Champlain at 399’ Series: Christopher Sabick of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum sums up a decade of underwater archaeology research at Valcour Bay’s submerged Revolutionary War battlefield. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

theater ‘Deathtrap’: See WED.29, 7 p.m.

‘Smokey Joe’s Café’: See THU.30, 8 p.m.

‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.30, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m.

‘Well’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m.

SAT.01 activism

Economy Rally: Members of the Vermont Peace Economy Coalition put pressure on citizens and legislators to eschew moneymaking that relies on military means. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 863-2345.

dance Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $12. Info, 862-2269, elabd@comcast.net.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;STOMPINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WITH THE STARSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Various Green Mountain State celebrities from artist Sabra Field to VPR meteorologist Mark Breen hoof it with dance-savvy partners to raise funds for the Vermont Arts Council in a comical competition. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, cocktails 7:30 p.m., dance contest 8 p.m. $50; contest votes cost $10 each. Info, 828-3292.

etc.

CHARITY BINGO: See WED.29, 7 p.m.

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR: See THU.30, 9-10 p.m.

EDGAR ALLAN POE SPOOKTACULAR: Bone-chilling music backs written works by macabre masters at a costumed, candlelit reading; then a 21-piece big band powers a gala dance party. Dinner at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m.

Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, Montpelier, 6:30-11 p.m. $20 for theater and dancing only; $50 includes dinner and dessert. Info, 229-0492.

GREEN MOUNTAIN ALPACA FALL SPECTACULAR: Five hundred fleecy creatures and their handlers convene for a nationally certified camelid show. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $5-6. Info, 766-2105.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY: Cows, blackflies, maple syrup, foliage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; imaginative costume designers come dressed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;rural Vermontâ&#x20AC;? to win prizes at a fundraiser for the eponymous nonprofit. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 8-11 p.m. $10 includes 10 tickets to vote for your favorite costumes. Info, 223-7222.

HALLOWEEN PARADE & BALL: Rio Blanco revelers congregate for music, puppetry, a monster-petting zoo and a homecoming-royalty election at the Main Street Museum, then parade to the Tip Top CafĂŠ for the 9 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Odd Ball.â&#x20AC;? Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 6 p.m. - midnight. $5 before 9 p.m., $10 after 9 p.m. Info, 356-2776. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;MICROSOFT WORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Intermediate computer users explore a common type of word-processing software to create newsletters and resumes.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:45 a.m. $3, call to register.

Info, 865-7217.

SCRABBLE CLUB: Beginners and tournament players trade tips and tiles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and bond over the best board game ever. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, noon. Free. Info, 748-8291.

food & drink EARLY BIRD BREAKFAST: See WED.29, 6 a.m.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

BEBOP PLAYGROUP: Adults indulge in coffee and bagels while kids up to age 3 meet their peers. Bebop Baby Shop, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 860-6842. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SATURDAY STORIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Librarians read from popular picture books. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-0313.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT: New Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six-member supergroup matches vocal harmonies with impressive instrumentation to support the volunteer homebuilding efforts of Vermont teens. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 863-5966.

RIPTON COMMUNITY COFFEEHOUSE: An open mike precedes blues by guitarist and music historian Scott Ainslie. Ripton Community House, Ripton, 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 388-9782.

SOCIAL BAND: This lively group of 22 singers offers a 10th-anniversary concert of works spanning the turn of the millennium. United Church of Hinesburg, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $15; free for kids 12 and younger. Info, 863-5966.

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THE DUHKS: Five award-winning Canadian acoustic musicians rev up listeners at a neo-folk hoedown.

See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, Barre, 8 p.m. $10-26. Info, 476-8188.

TIFF JIMBER: The folk-pop pianist and California native channels Fiona Apple for original songs from her album Prove It to Me. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 247-0050.

sport â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;LEARN TO CURLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CLINIC: Certified instructors from the Green Mountain Curling Club coach stone-sliding newbies in sweeping, strategy and on-ice etiquette. Lamoille Area Recreational Center, Morrisville, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. $25. Info, 985-2861.

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TROPICAL FISH CLUB AUCTION: Live finned things go up for bid in plastic bags, along with plants, tank ornaments and aquarium equipment.

VFW Post, Burlington, 12 p.m. Free.

Info, 372-8716.

See spotlight, p.23B

talks â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE FIVE COLORS OF CHINESE MEDICINEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: A certified healer describes how different hues convey balance and imbalance within the human body. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 6 p.m. $8. Info, 253-8358.

theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;DEATHTRAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SMOKEY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFĂ&#x2030;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See THU.30, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.29, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

SUN.02 dance

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Caller Robin Hayden and Trip to Norwich inspire movers to make rural rounds in clean, soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 1-4 p.m. $8. Info, 785-4607.

etc. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;AMAZING GRACE: ART & THE END OF LIFEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Artists in various disciplines, including film, music and sculpture, discuss how to connect those who are dying with the wider world. Journalist Stephan Kiernan, author of Last Rights, reads from his work. Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington, 3 p.m. $15. Info, 862-1898.

DAY OF THE DEAD: Mourners bring photos and candles to a healing ceremony for departed ancestors. 130 Church Street, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free, bring vegetarian food and drink to share. Info, 860-6203.

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR: See THU.30, 9-10 p.m.

FRENCH-ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP: Speakers of Anglais swap syllables with native French speakers in a parlez session. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

GREEN MOUNTAIN ALPACA FALL SPECTACULAR: See SAT.01, 9 a.m.

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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE MATRIXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: A computer hacker searches for truth in this info-age scifi thriller that melds special effects with sociopolitical commentary.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-6462422.

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KIRTAN SINGING: Yoga students stretch their vocal cords with call-and-response chants in Sanskrit.

Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9404.

SOCIAL BAND: See SAT.01, Richmond Free Library, Richmond, 7:30 p.m.

TAIZE EVENSONG SERVICE: Musical prayers call for peace as part of a meditative, ecumenical program that follows the model of a French monastic community. St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

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theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;DEATHTRAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.29, 5 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SMOKEY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFĂ&#x2030;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See THU.30, 8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE VELVETEEN RABBITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Enchantment Theatre Company combines a Grammy-nominated score with magic tricks and puppets to stage this tale of a stuffed toyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transformation. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $13.50-17.50.

Info, 863-5966. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

words BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: Photographer Peter Miller hosts a one-day party to push his new book Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville. Bring your own beverages for a 2 p.m. pig roast.

Peter Miller Photography Gallery, Colbyville, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 244-5539.

MON.03 activism

BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See WED.29, 5-5:30 p.m.

etc.

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR: See THU.30, 9-10 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;INTERNET EXPLORATIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Budding browsers learn how to use search engines to locate info online. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. $3, call to register. Info, 865-7217.

SKI & SNOWSHOE SWAP DROP-OFF: Gear sorters deposit vintage-tobarely-used winter cross-country equipment for an upcoming Saturday sale. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

food & drink CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

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kids Animal Feeding: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Monday Music: Local musician Mia Adams tells stories and sings kid-friendly faves. In the J.C. Penney seating area. University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Bruce Innes: The acoustic guitarist and pianist who founded the Canadian pop group The Original Caste concertizes in an intimate setting. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $22. Info, 863-5966.

talks Islam Series: Javed Chaudhri, a lecturer in Islamic studies at the Community College of Vermont, describes the religion’s apogee. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

‘Israel’s Foundation’: In commemoration of Israel’s 60th anniversary, Archbishop of Galilee Elias Chacour describes ongoing work toward a Palestinian-Israeli peace. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

TUE.04 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.29, 5-5:30 p.m.

etc.

Champlain Valley Quilters Guild: Stitchers welcome new members and guests at a sew-and-tell meeting. North Avenue Alliance Church, Burlington, social 6:30 p.m., meeting 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-9973.

Day of the Dead Altar: See THU.30, 9-10 p.m.

Pause Café: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1346.

Ski & Snowshoe Swap Drop-Off: See MON.03, 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.29, 6 a.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Dark Knight & Supergirls Comics Club: Pencil- and pen-holders draw on their inner resources to produce paneled narratives. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

ECHO Storytime: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A.

<calendar > ‘Qallunaat: Why White People Are Funny’: Canadian Inuit writer and filmmaker Zebedee Nungak offers this tongue-in-cheek critique of Caucasian culture. Center for Northern Studies, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-648-3591, ext.

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music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Amateur Musicians’ Orchestra: Community players of all abilities and levels of experience practice pieces.

South Burlington High School, South Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 985-4939.

Shape Note Sing: Members of the UVM Traditional Music Club teach and sing melodies of fierce beauty to promote a lively, deep-rooted American vocal genre. Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 585-7309052, lgraves@uvm.edu.

sport Laughter Yoga: Chortlers channel the untapped healing power of yukking it up. Richmond Free Library, Richmond, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 349-5404.

Zumba Fitness: See THU.30, 7-8 p.m.

talks Wellness Lecture: Geomancy expert Patrick MacManaway, a co-designer of the Burlington Earth Clock, sums up “healing places.” Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, Johnson, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-1476.

WED.05 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.29, 5-5:30 p.m.

dance ‘Salsalina’ Practice: See WED.29, 6 p.m.

etc.

German-English Exchange: Anglophones practice foreign-language conversation with native speakers of Deutsch, and vice versa. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

Service & Nonprofit Fair: Recruiters from 22 local organizations, from the Boys & Girls Club to COTS, present info to area students about internships and volunteer opportunities. Alliot Student Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5684.

Ski & Snowshoe Swap Drop-Off: See MON.03, 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.29, 2 p.m.

Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.29, 6 a.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.29, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

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‘Deathtrap’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m.

Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A.

Dartmouth Double Feature: Clark Gable stars as a nightclub owner in San Francisco; then George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg take turns as fishermen hit by The Perfect Storm. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Secret Movie Night: Indie film buffs catch cinematic surprises of the lowbudget, experimental and underground variety. (Check www.secretmovienight. com for updates.) 12 North Street, Burlington, 8 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, 999-3254.

‘Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering’: The Lake Champlain Men’s Resource Center presents this documentary examining society’s messages about manliness.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-8180.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. St. Andrew’s Pipes and Drums: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m.

talks ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans offers 100 ways to appreciate Gabriel García Márquez’s famous novel set in a magical Latin America. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

‘Stark Decency’: Dartmouth History Prof Allen Koop describes the surprising camaraderie at Camp Stark, New Hampshire’s sole site for WWII German prisoners-of-war. Rutland Free Library, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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storm urge With no Atlantic coastline, Vermont isn’t exactly hurricane country. But the huge, ocean-traveling storms have been on more people’s personal Doppler radars since Hurricane Katrina decimated the U.S. Gulf Coast and New Orleans in 2005. Concern about the effects of global climate change on world weather patterns has heightened awareness of hurricanes’ increasing power. In a public talk, Meteorology Professor Jason Shafer of Lyndon State College explains the generative forces, physical structure and mechanics of storms that are all technically termed tropical cyclones. (“Hurricane” describes ones originating in the Atlantic Ocean, while Pacific storms are “typhoons.”) And he explains how people and governments can prep for future bad weather.

‘The Science of Hurricanes’

Thursday, October 30, 6 p.m. in the Ellsworth Room of the Library and Learning Center at Johnson State College. Free. Info, 635-1476. www.jsc.edu

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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: Champlain College Humanities Professor Nancy Nahra considers how Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15th-century cultural resurgence changed both art and the world. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE MEANING OF YESTERDAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ELECTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Barrie Dunsmore, a now-retired ABC News correspondent who traveled with seven U.S. heads of state, considers the local, national and global implications of the 2008 presidential race. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE NEW PRESIDENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Former Iranian Ambassador to the U.N. Mansour Farhang ponders the possibilities for the next U.S. president to change the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with Iran.

Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;CABARETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Based on Christopher Isherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Berlin Stories,â&#x20AC;? this musical set during Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise has been a smash in both its Broadway incarnations. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $9-19.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity Suggested donation: $5 (No one will be turned away for lack of funds.)

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APPLE-PICKING FALL-LOVER Into local foods and cooking up good grub.

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FROM BROTHERLY LOVE TO GURLINGTON Moved here from Philadelphia, sick of bar scene. I can’t survive without art. People say my wit is similar to Janeane Garofalo’s. The ability to hold an interesting conversation holds a lot of weight with me. I prefer to surround myself with people who are passionate and not afraid to make asses out of themselves. Who cares what people think! crowin, 25, l, #111505

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Former world traveler grows restless in his mountain redoubt. Not ready to hibernate, looking for a little variety to spice up life. Is there a lady out there like myself? Someone sane, smart, funny, who’s longing to misbehave a little? NotOutOfTheWoods, 39, #111681 FUNNY, FREE, FUN I work at Champlain College and also take graduate classes there. I am just looking for some fun with the hopes that it may turn into something more. b7dust11, 25, l, #109784 TRUST ME, I’M WONDERFUL I am almost 23. I’m working-class, artistically inclined, adventurous, and my favorite things are health food, riding bicycles and music. I’m a morning person; I work nights. I like being outside in the fresh air, sunshine, or in my downtown apt. I have a full-time job which I currently love, in a kitchen. Let’s meet up and talk! ericsavatar, 22, l, #111672

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Platypus, 39, l, #111667 NONE THE WISER Living in Burlington and loving it. Recently I have begun taking yoga classes and learning to stretch and breathe. I take daily walks in the area with my dog and practice the fiddle when my hands are not in clay making pottery for my business. sharpit, 40, u, l, #111656 READY FOR MOST ANYTHING For work, I design, build and restore steeples; lotsa heights, adrenaline, exercise, risk.

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MEN seeking MEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING REAL Looking for an honest, kind, intelligent man for a real connection. I like everything healthy - no substances - kayaking, hiking, writing, movies, music, snuggling. I tend to like shorter, hairy guys, but that is not set in stone. Mostly I want someone who can communicate and is interested in starting out slowly and seeing where it goes. Hope to hear from you! dj18822, 38, #111534 MODEST CATCH SEEKS SAME Hello, mountain people. How do you do? Art, human services and spirituality are big in my life. I want my life filled with mindful people, humor, energy healing, cozy homes, and food - lots of really good food. I offer what I seek: An honest, reliable gentleman with a lot of love and libido to offer! Cubs step right up.

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CARING, ATHLETIC GUY LOOKING Athletic, white M looking for someone to go around town and do things with. Some qualities about me are I am easygoing, dependable and physically fit, great at managing my finances and maintaining an organized life. I find pleasure and contentment in simple things. skier_123, 36, l, #111627

BORED BARRE BAD BOY 39-year-old male seeks guys for just about anything, friends w/bennies, LTRS or good times. I like the outdoors and I like the indoors (more so if there is a bar and a pool table). I love to laugh and have a good time.

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EXTRAORDINARY DWM, 52, looking for an extraordinary LT relationship with a woman 38-50. Let’s honor each other as individuals while at the same time bringing it together by creating a fun and intellectual relationship that spans quiet romantic evenings to dancing in the city…I am fit and relatively good-looking…looking for the same…no “extra” pounds, please. namseira, 52, #102608

OUT IN THE SUNSHINE! Looking for the right partner to work his ass off next to mine in making our life fruitful and full of beauty. Looking to farm, enjoy living creatively on the land, loving our neighbors, singing my heart out, and finding all that’s good that the Green Mts. and the Champlain Lake Valley have to offer. Wanta share your dream? todreambyday, 30, l, #111397

LOOKING FOR A FEMALE FRIEND Thirtysomething professional/student. Just moved back to VT, looking for kool friend to play with. Quick intro - some things that might get you to call me: I am a massage therapist, great cook, clean, adventurous, open minded, want to share control with my woman, I am politically active and also involved in the music scene. Hope to hear from you. completebalance, 38, l, #111616 COUNTRY BOY LOOKING FOR COMPANIONSHIP OK, here it goes. Currently I’m enrolled in college and besides work and school, I get very bored. Looking for someone to fill my boredom with some excitement. If you can do this, then let’s get together and see how it goes from there. locus2k, 24, l, #111612

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Into both men and women. Outside of the bedroom I am into photography, knitting, being outdoors, self discovery, cooking, baking, dancing, music. Looking2Play, 29, l, #109637

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White, blue eyes. Looking for women who want to have a good time with no strings.

One or more women. Open for anything and everything. Nasty, naughty, clean hookups.

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Hi there, everyone. Looking for email exchange at the moment. Looking for women interested in BDSM, role-play, etc. vtbmpskier, 35, #111476 LOOKING 4 NAUGHTY OLDER LADIES Good-looking, clean, young gentleman would like to satisfy an older woman—married, divorced or single. It has been a fantasy. What you want is what I will do. vtv23, 23, l, #111442

MASSAGING CUDDLER LOOKING FOR PASSIONATE, SENSUAL WOMAN New to the area and looking for a woman to have fun with. Whether out and about Simply put, I am looking for an open-minded, on the town or in among the home domain. passionate, erotic woman to enjoy uninhibited I like to hike, ride horses, read, watch the days and nights with. I am in good shape and 1x1-naughty111605 12/11/06 AMtoo.Page 1 33, u, theater, or a movie, and I’m pretty good at ask 10:05 that you be, snowlover, massages, cuddling, and other activities. Just #108735 drop me a line if interested. Bear2cuddle, 32, #111436 JUST LOOKING FOR SOME ACTION!!!

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I’ll be your slave, make you mine or share the power. I’m flexible. SexIsHealthy, 27, #111377 NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE...

Just looking for a friend, discreet play. Own my business, so daytimes are available. I’m interested in satisfying my partner. I like to be satisfied, too, but I’m not 25, I can wait for you. Multiple orgasms are a great thing.

With age comes experience. Never know, and a drink or lunch to start out never hurt anyone. steelblue913, 49, l, #105726 YOUNG AND HUNG AND GIFTED A fresh-faced, hard-body teen, looking for a lil’ badass who likes to go out and have a fun time, or stay in and have an even better time.

Youngandgifted, 20, #111315 PASSIONATE AND GIVING Despite the absence of a picture, I am very handsome and fit. I am looking for a woman who desires that intense connection of mind and body. Where we go from there is up to us. shutterbug, 34, #111229

I AM A SEX ADDICT I’m looking for friends and lovers to enjoy erotic times with. I’m fun and easy to get along with. I like adventure and the thrill of being a black sheep. I am a pleaser, so don’t wait contact me and I’ll cum see ya real soon. luv2lik, 32, #111179 HUNG AND CLEAN...NEEDING WETNESS Clean, fit, soooo horny and hungry, want to lick and get sucked, do things that would make Prince think “Ooohhh...that’s dirty and freaky...” You know...at least get you on my face. licker, 25, #111140

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FYI Friday, 10/10/08, in the kitchen. Is this who I think it is? Racer? Thanks for the compliment, you are stunning as always!

When: Friday, October 10, 2008. Where: in the kitchen. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904733 NO MORE CHICKEN WINGS, BAILEY 2. Every day I fall a little bit further and there’s no bottom in sight. You’re not just holding my hand along the way, but you’re holding my heart. Keep it safe and hold on tight, let’s enjoy the ride...together. When: Sunday, October 26, 2008. Where: our story. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904732 ALWAYS ON MY MIND There is never enough time with you. I see you everywhere. It’s been 2 weeks and I dream of you every night. I wish things could work out for us, but I know they won’t. Still I love you, and you are always on my mind. When: Thursday, October 16, 2008. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904731 MARK AT EDDIE BAUER You: a hot redhead serviced me today, Saturday around noon, great smile, wonderful personality. Loved your soft hands. Have lunch with me. Just to hang out with you would be nice. I’m Rick. I bought the gloved ice scrapers. Dark hair, blue eyes. Drop a response to I Spy - I know where to find you. When: Saturday, October 25, 2008.

Where: Downtown Eddie Bauer. You: Man. Me: Man. #904730 HIGHER GROUND, DONAVON F, WED You: F, 5’ 2”, long, black hair, wearing jeans plus LS black top w/purple SS over. Dancing alone in front of speakers (right side). Good rhythm, sexy. Again, outside, ready to light up [w/your female friend]; me, walking by with my friend. You said, “Good show, bye.” Me: M, a bit older, dark hair, by white column, 5’ 7”. When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Where: Higher Ground. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904728 MEE AND BEE @ THE CRANBERRYTREE Glad you’re better and glad you’re back. Lots and lots of good times before, and lots and lots of more good times to BEE had. So if you’re ready, say “Get ready, get set, let’s GO!!!” I’ll be your lover just like before.:):} When: Friday, October 24, 2008. Where: In the cranberry bush. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904727 JUST ME! NO DELIVERY You were radiant as ever...I was going to stop, but all that construction turned me off. You were out front of the RiverRun around 2pm. I was driving by and was hoping I would see a glimpse of you. Once again the split second sighting made my day. Justme23...is that you? When: Friday, October 24, 2008. Where: Plainfield. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904725 OLD GOLD COSTUME ROOM GIRL Stylish, blond-haired girl in the back costume room at Old Gold. I still haven’t found a costume, but maybe it’s because I’ve been distracted. Any plans for trick-ortreating? When: Friday, October 24, 2008.

Where: Old Gold. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904724 SEXY X LATIN TEACHER You’re so fine. Your little doggie’s cute, too.

Let’s meet for a drink and a stern lecture from Serge. When: Friday, October 24, 2008. Where: Old North End. You: Woman.

Me: Man. #904723 WILLISTON POST OFFICE Hi, check your messages, there should be one from me. If not, let me know when you will be there and I will meet you at the P.O.!

When: Thursday, August 21, 2008. Where: Williston Post Office. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904722 EYES LIKE THE SEA Monday - or Tuesday? - at almost exactly noon. You were biking down Colchester into Burlington; I was at the corner of Mansfield (mohawk, green jacket). I’d been staring off into space and ended up staring into your eyes...beautiful ocean colors...breathtaking!

You passed by before I could notice much else, but you’re a blonde with facial hair... cute! When: Monday, October 20, 2008.

Where: Mansfield & Colchester Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904721

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VT BUDDY MISSES BC GIRL Hey BC Girl, we miss you too! A big hello from H-Dub and, of course, your Winooski family (including Mr. Jones!). Autumn is not the same without a hike up Camel’s Hump!

We channeled you through the moonlight hike up Stowe Pinnacle last week! Will have to visit the Richmond Bakery in your honor soon! VT/Winooski Buddy. When: Thursday, October 23, 2008. Where: On top of Stowe Pinnacle. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904718 BOURBON AND CIRCUS PEANUTS I know you have a lot of Ronnie in you...but Mr. Fringe I do believe I like you... When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Where: The Jungle. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904717 ITALIAN FOOD AGAIN? I spied you eating your garlic, basil and tomato-drenched meal. Watching your pleasure was my pleasure and BTW made my mouth water. You sure know how to munch the pasta! I will be your Italian chef anytime baby girl. Next time...your bread stick or mine? ATOYS 4 2, Olive Oil. When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Where: Dining Inn - by reservation only. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904716 GIGGAGIRL - GIGGAWHAT? Yeah, I read it - all. I know you’re busy, but I think you should make time for me. Just to see. When: Thursday, October 23, 2008.

Where: everywhere and nowhere. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #904714 SEEKING MARK Your pornstar name is Harrison Hyacinth.

Saw your buddy Rob at the Crowes concert.

Call me. When: Saturday, September 6, 2008. Where: backwoods. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904713 JENNA: FABULOUS WILLARD STREET BLONDE I see you from time to time around town, and each time you make my day a little bit better. Whether you’re slurping on your Big Gulp slushy, getting brook fish at the grocery store or being walked by Sully - I always think to myself, “Hewwo lady!” You just seem to add that extra spark to my life.

143! When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008.

Where: Aspen, California. You: Woman.

Me: Woman. #904712 THE CROWES CONCERT 10/21/08 I was the tall, dark-haired guy wearing glasses. We talked for half a second, I asked your name but I couldn’t get it - the music was too loud. You were the beautiful, darkhaired girl and you said that you’re from Burlington. I was wearing the Got Mule shirt. When: Tuesday, October 21, 2008.

Where: Higher Ground. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904711 JANA The time we spent together chatting while having coffee was pleasant. We should do it again sometime! When: Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Where: Borders.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904710 RE: BUBBAWILL Unfortunately the little mobile was not mine and I no longer have access to it. But it was fun to drive around! When: Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Where: I-Spy Response.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904709 BIRTHDAY GIRL Oh Hai Miss Birthday Girl. After your long day of playing with urine and sitting in the corner is over, please join us for a tour of Italy at your favorite restaurant. And bring your little dog, too! Your RXOP Family. Team RXOP Rocks! When: Thursday, October 23, 2008. Where: work. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904707 SARAH FROM HUNGER MTN KITCHEN Hey, Sarah - I haven’t seen you in so long.

Was thinking of you...miss seeing you so much, thought I’d send my love and say hi.

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Near me. Me: long, dark hair, tall, sneaking a peek at you. Grab a beer sometime? When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: Higher Ground. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904704 HONDA ATTRACTION Monday night, Shelburne Road. You: flat gray Integra. Me: light blue Prelude. We both made sure to keep up with each other; I was impressed. Care to go for a ride sometime?

When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: Route 7 between Allen Road and Shaws.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #904702 DAZZLED You passed me on your way into the coffee shop in Waterbury. A flash of a sexy, Asian smile. You dazzled me. All this from a glance. Hope I get a second. When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: Waterbury. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #904701 STYLE AND POISE You walked by me and my dog at just before noon. After you passed, I was discreetly admiring your slender form, excellent posture and general charisma. And I caught you looking back - twice! I’m enjoying thinking those looks were for me. You: dark slacks, low heels, dark purple fitted parka, gray handbag. Want to share a cup of something?

When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: Bank Street, in front of the Chittenden Bank. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904700 BUBBAWILL Hey Bubba! The little mobile of yours is awesome. Maybe I could go for a ride sometime and show you around? When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: personal ad. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904698 REDHEAD GIRL, BOY ON BIKE I spied you at UVM coming from Redstone, you were with your friend and I had someplace to be. Your smile brightened the rest of my day (and still is!). I hope our paths cross again. When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: UVM (athletic?). You: Woman. Me: Man. #904697 MY SECRET RACK We’ve had quite a few flings now and you always leave me wanting more. Leave that silly girl you live with and bring your fine behind my way. No one deserves such things.

If you make the break, I’ll make it well worth your effort. When: Thursday, October 16, 2008. Where: sneakily in my bed. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904696 TONIGHT YOU HAVE TO LEAVE IT So sorry they lost - it was a nail-biting game - but now you can shave. When: Monday, October 20, 2008. Where: under a brown fleece blanket. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904694

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BOB KILPATRICK: What do you think of Vermont drivers? Does anything frustrate you about their driving habits?

JERNIGAN PONTIAC: To be a cab driver, you can’t get too upset about other people’s driving habits. Why? Because you’d go nuts. I drive four or five thousand miles a month, and if I let that bother me I would have ulcers on top of ulcers. To really get my attention, you’d probably have to pull out an Uzi and aim it at my gas tank.

Short of that, I give people a lot of slack. I anticipate people are going to do really boneheaded things, and then if they don’t, great.

BK: Do you think roads are getting worse, or is it cyclical?

JP: I think it’s cyclical. In and around Chittenden County, they keep them up pretty well. Given the conditions of what you’re dealing with in Vermont — the salt, the freezing and the frost heaves — I think they do as good a job as can be expected. I’ve been in other parts of the country and the roads are way, way worse.

BK: But that was one of my questions! What’s the best shortcut?

JP: I’d have to kill you. Off the record, between me and you I might, but I can’t publicly. By and large, there are ways to zip around town, but these are the tricks of the trade.

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the Bandit. But there’s a practical reason. You’ve got to zip around as a cab driver to get the maximum number of fares per hour.

BK: Who does your repairs?

JP: I have a really good mechanic, I trust him. I go to Dave at Ethan Allen Citgo on North Avenue.

The best craftspeople have a real humility, and every auto repair is like a little mystery to figure out.

To really get my attention, you’d probably have to pull out an Uzi and aim it at my gas tank.

JERNIGAN PONTIAC

BK: Burlington traffic seems to get worse every year.

Would you agree?

JP: It’s just amazing. You think one year it can’t get worse and then the next year it’s even worse.

But there are still shortcuts — which I really can’t reveal.

JP: Probably if I would drive my taxis nice and easy they would last a lot longer, but that boat sailed for me a long time ago. I brake hard, I accelerate hard, I turn hard. All the things you’re not supposed to do. I go over speed bumps like Smokey and

In the number of years that I’ve run a taxi I should be a master mechanic, but I’m a complete ignoramus. So I really depend on my mechanic, and this guy is really, really good. I never have any worry that he is going to do an unnecessary repair.

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JP: I generally go through a car every two years. There might be a better way to do it, but what has worked for me is that I get a car with about 60 or 70 thousand miles. I’m completely disinterested in what year the car was built.

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And I usually get rid of it before it starts entirely falling to pieces.

It has to be dependable at all times, because the last thing I want is to break down in Montréal or Bennington.

BK: What was your best cab ever?

JP: My best cab ever was the wet dream of cab drivers everywhere, considered the perfect taxi: the Chrysler New Yorker. It’s classy but tank-like. It was the greatest taxi I ever had, but I only had it for four months. One day at the fair out in Essex I picked up a fare. I was waiting at a light and I looked up in my rear view mirror and there was a small truck bearing down on me. I remember my thought was, That guy is not going to stop. And he didn’t. He plowed into the back of the New Yorker.

They never caught the kids who ran out of the truck. They had stolen it. I remember the sound of the tinkling glass and the dripping liquid and I almost felt like crying. I wasn’t hurt at all. I had two guys in the back who were completely hammered drunk, which totally helped them in that instance. They walked out of the vehicle and I never saw them again. You would have thought they would be dead if you took a look at the back of the vehicle.

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2006 Subaru Legacy Outback Wagon. A/T, A/C, CC, CD, power W/L. $18,750. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www. greensborogarage.com.

2006 Volvo XC90 2.5T AWD Black, tan leather interior. Immaculate. 28K miles. Loaded, AWD. Strictly dealer serviced w/ all records in hand. Factory warranty remains. $22,499. Info: 802-578-2588.

2006 VW Jetta TDI DSG Ltd. ed. diesel, black/tan, southern, 1 owner, 6-spd., 45+ mpg, incredible performance, safety & economy, new Michelins, fullservice warranty. $22,395. www. vermontTDIimports.com, sales@ vermontTDIimports.com, 802426-3889. Info: Dale Newton.

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2007 Expedition EL XLT 4x4 W/ leather & rear TV/DVD. Only 14,699 miles! Incl. heavy-duty towing package. Like-new condition. Call us today! $29,995. Info: EJ Barrette and Sons, Inc., 802-8683327, jon.barrette@barretteford. com, www.barretteford.com.

2007 Suzuki SX-4 4-dr. hatchback, 5-spd., A/C, CD, power W/L, w/ selectable FWD or AWD. $12,800. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www.greens borogarage.com.

2007 Toyota Prius Hybrid 4dr. Sedan, A/T, A/C, CD, CC, power W/L. $22,400. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www. greensborogarage.com.

2008 NISSAN VERSA Looking for great gas mileage? Check out this sporty little sedan. Only 17,741 miles & still under full factory warranty. $13,988. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisautos.com, www. lewisautos.com.

All New Diesel Technology Bluetec is finally here. Come test drive the next evolution of ddesel engines today! Info: The Automaster, 802-985-8411, www.theautomaster.com.

Auto Auction 3 Saturdays ea. month. Open to the public. Info: 802-878-9200, THCAuction.com.

New Winter Tires for Sale Four new Winterforce brand, never used, label still on tires. 15 inch.

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Nice Camper For Sale Incl. color TV, will make a good hunting camper or ideal for camping. $300.

Info: John LaFlam, 802-877-2615, journey4you2003@yahoo.com.

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1-3-BR Affordable Apts. 1-BR apts., $767/mo. 2-BR, $911/mo.

3-BR, $1045/mo. Incl. heat & HW! Weekly yoga classes, fitness center, movie room & monthly community events! To qualify: One person makes less than $29,640/ yr., 2 people <$33,900 combined, 3 people <$38,100 combined, 4 people <$42,360 combined. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com.

Motorcycles 1990 St. Fighter Project GSX600F project started, do not have time to finish. New tires, brakes, chain & sprocket, handlebars. Recently tuned motor. Elec. needs to be reattached. $1200.

355-0562. Info: 802-355-0562.

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GREAT POP-UP CAMPER! 2000 Starcraft Venture in excellent condition. Asking $2400. Don’t miss this great deal. Info: Amanda Monti, 802-249-8237, blue eye24@aol.com.

Beautiful Small Farm Milton, 1100 sq.ft., 3-BR, 2-BA, 10 acres, barn. Working gardens & fenced fields. Southern exposure, wood floors. Bordering 225 acres of preserved land. $270K. Lease/option. Info: 802-324-7074, lisalimoge@aol.com.

APT FOR RENT 2-BR, Essex Town Center. Close to Circ Hwy. Great condition. Avail. now. $1100/mo. + util., sec. dep. Call days, 878-3303 x204.

Bristol Village 4-BR Apt. Quiet neighborhood, 2 full BAs, DR, LR, kitchen, mudroom, HDWD/new carpet, W/D hookups, storage space in W/D room, DSL/cable TV, NS/cats. $1250/mo. incl. heat.

Info: 802-989-9796.

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BUTLER FARMS CONTEMPORARY

Townhouse with large eat-in kitchen, full bath & 2 bedrooms on first level. Spacious master or family/ living room on 2nd floor. Could be furnished as a 2 or 3 bedroom. New appliances, flooring, & paint. Great fenced yard. Low utilities and condo fee. $132,000.

Located in the “New” North End, this vintage home was built to last and has been well maintained ever since. The kitchen has been recently remodeled and the upstairs bedrooms are newly carpeted. Just minutes from stores, restaurants and the lake. $329,500.

A Contemporary house situated in this great neighborhood. This home offers 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.

There is a master suite with an indoor balcony that offers mountain views. Stunning vaulted ceilings. Heated in-ground swimming pool. $429,900.

Call Chris von Trapp Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9525 www.ChrisvonTrapp.com

Call Chris von Trapp Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9525 www.ChrisvonTrapp.com

Call Stella Abraham Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9552 www.stellaabraham.com

PEACE & QUIET

EASY LIVING

From this Contemporary Ranch on 5.1 acres, beautifully landscaped, 3 bedrooms, one bath, family room with 10’ ceilings and woodstove, plus office, oversized deck, shed. Enjoy the birds and wildlife from your front door. $289,900.

From this 2nd floor one-level South Burlington Condo with 2 bedrooms and 1 3/4 baths, galley kitchen with breakfast bar, formal dining, master suite, laundry room, mudroom, underground parking plus access to community exercise room, great location. $213,000.

3 bedrooms + den, 2 bath home on 3.75 acres in Westford. Eat-in kitchen, living room with fireplace.

Family room with exposed beam. Formal dining with custom built-ins. Skylights & sun tubes for extra natural light. Tranquil screened-in porch. Front deck. $260,000. MLS#2806125.

Bright, updated Cape on cul-de-sac in the hill! Large rooms, private backyard, lots of upgrading over the years - kitchen, baths, furnace, central A/C! Minutes to UVM & hospital! Could easily have 1st floor master! Beautiful new custom sauna in basement. $389,900.

Call Geri Reilly Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-862-6677 www.buyvtrealestate.com

Call Geri Reilly Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-862-6677 www.buyvtrealestate.com

Call Jessica Hubbard Riina Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9585 www.MovingYouForwardVT.com

Call Brian Boardman Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9510 www.BrianBoardmanVT.com

WELL LOCATED EASY ONINTHE JOHNSON POCKET

Is this 2 bedroom Jericho Ranch-style, end unit Condo with attached garage on 2 common acres. It offers great open living spaces, galley kitchen with dining nook, living and family rooms, woodstove set on brick hearth and private deck. Full basement.

$182,500.

Call Nancy Desany Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9540 www.VermontTrademarkHomes.com

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Charming 3 bedroom, one bath Ranch in South Burlington neighborhood, spacious living room with gas fireplace, galley kitchen with breakfast nook, newer roof and windows. Minutes to shopping and I-89. $214,900.

Call Geri Reilly Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-862-6677 www.buyvtrealestate.com

HILL SECTION CAPE

CITY’S EDGE CONDO

CHARMING BURLINGTON COLONIAL

Combine 1 comfortable porch with 2 parts apple trees, mix with lovely landscaping and add iced tea. You are ready to enjoy this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Williston treasure with fabulous finished lower level, 9 foot first floor ceilings plus 2 story entry. $415,000.

This 2 bedroom unit is just seconds from I-89, shopping, restaurants & more! Open kitchen with ample storage, separate utility room, sunny living room and more! Heat included in association fees! Extra secure storage space located in the building. $156,900

Walk everywhere from this wonderful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home! Features fire-lit living room with bay window, kitchen with pressed tin backsplash and banquette, large dining room, huge back deck, fenced-in backyard, 2 driveways, & more! $349,500.

Call Nancy Desany Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9540 www.VermontTrademarkHomes.com

Call Edie Brodsky Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9532 www.EdieHomes.com

Call Edie Brodsky Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9532 www.EdieHomes.com

MY ENERGY DELIVERS! Katrina Roberts, Realtor

Burlington - Apt for rent 2BR + office, 1-BA, Pergo flooring, first floor, coin-op W/D, parking, on busline. Flexible lease. Avail.

Nov. 1. $1000/mo. + utils. Info: 802-324-6446.

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« for rent Burl. Waterfront 2-BR Appletree Point cottage avail. till 6/13/09. Furnished, W/D, no pets.

Great view of lake. $1250, util. not incl. Call Michelle, 802-578-8776.

Burl.: College at Battery Fabulous city living in the heart of it all. 2-BR, 2-BA, garage, storage, master w/ walk-in, 1400+ sq.ft. No pets. Avail. Oct. 15; 1-yr. or spring 2010. $1950/mo.

Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok &

Burl.: Renovated Downtown Maple St., beautiful 2-BR condo, all remodeled, Whirlpool, topof-the-line appliances incl. W/D, parking, 700 sq.ft. Pets negotiable. Avail. Nov. 1, one year. $1400/mo. incl. heat! Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rent al s @ hickokandboardman. com, www.HickokandBoardman. com.

Burlington 3-BR $1400 Newly renovated 1st-floor 3-BR apt. on North Ave. $1400/mo. + util. & BURLINGTON 1-BR, sunny, redep. Off-street parking, gas heat, 2/25/08 10:26:29 AM cently renovated, off-street NS/no pets. Available Nov. 1 w/ parking, high ceilings, 1st floor, year lease. Refs. required. Info: 5 min. to downtown & lake.

Pierre Gingue, 802-343-0999. $800/mo. + utils. NS/dogs. Info: 802-238-0158.

Burlington 4-BR, clean & bright, new porch & windows, W/D, off-street parking, close to downtown & colleges. Avail. Nov. 1. $1250/mo. + dep. & refs. Info: 802-238-5881.

BURLINGTON Beautiful 1-BR downtown apt. Heat, hot water included. $825/mo. No pets. Avail.

Nov. 1. Info: 802-598-4587.

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Incl. elec., trash & water. Ward St. Avail. Nov. 15. $1550/mo. + dep.

Info: 802-863-0188.

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Twin Oaks Neat and tidy, two bedroom unit with many updates. A great place to start homeownership or downsize to a pleasant one floor living style. www.First-Floor-End-Unit.com. $159,900.

RedrocksExcellent South End location close to parks, shopping and highways. First floor end unit with southwesterly exposure. www.OneFloorCondo.com. $224,900.

Call George Gamache Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9507 www.GeorgeGamache.com

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Ranch style home with walkout basement. Great location with easy access to downtown Burlington.

For photos and info go to: www.66KillarneyDrive.com $249,900.

Call George Gamache Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9507 www.GeorgeGamache.com

MONKTON

STARKSBORO

Immaculate 2100+ sq. ft Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths.

Incredible master bedroom suite with walk-in closet.

Many bonus rooms. Large kitchen/dining room with deck. Tile & laminate flooring. Two car garage & walk-out basement. Above ground pool.

Mountain view. $229,900.

Call Greentree Real Estate 802-482-5232 www.vermontgreentree.com

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Burlington HEAT INCL. Pine St. 1st floor, sunny 2-BR, HDWD, porch, yard, W/D, DW, lg. basement storage, garage. NS/dogs. $1250/mo. incl. heat, snow & garbage removal. Avail. Nov. 1. Info: 802-453-5388.

Burlington New North End 2-BR, quiet, residential neighborhood, gas heat, off-street parking, yard. Avail. Nov. 1. $875/ mo. + refs. & dep. Info: George, 802-363-2442.

Burlington, North Ave. 2-BR house, encl. porch, hookups. No dogs. Avail. Nov. 1. $920/mo.

Neville Companies, Inc. 802-6603481 x1021. www.nevilleco.com.

Charlotte: Like-New Home Ethan Allen Hwy: 1-BR, 1-BA, 750 sq.ft. duplex. Renovated 2 years ago; like new. W/D, gorgeous yard, garage, HDWD. NS/no pets. Avail. now; 1 year. $950/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rent al s @ hickokandboardman. com, www.HickokandBoardman. com.

Clean 2-BR, 2-BA + office Well maintained, spacious, HDWD, spiral staircase, private front/back porch, yard w/ perennials, full basement, W/D. No pets. Avail. now. $1200/mo. + utils. 1-yr. lease. Info: germainstreetapt@ yahoo.com, germainstreetapartment.shutterfly.com.

Colchester 521 Porters Point.

Avail. now. 3-BR house, newly remodeled, 1.5-BA, HDWD floors, porch, parking, lg. yard. Pets considered. $1350/mo. + utils. Call Coburn & Feeley, 802-864-5200 ext. 229.

Energy conscious construction-brand & new fully dormered 3 bedroom, & 2 full bath Cape. High efficiency heating system. Natural woodwork, beamed ceilings & hardwood on the first floor. Deck & 2 car garage. 1st years heat included! $309,900

Seven year old double-wide nicely set on 3 acres with excellent views of Mt. Ellen. Three bedrooms and two full baths, cathedral ceilings and great closet space.

Large kitchen with mudroom entry. One car detached garage with storage. $159,000.

Call Greentree Real Estate 802-482-5232 www.vermontgreentree.com

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Colchester 2-BR $850/$900 Privately located 2-BRs in duplex w/ large yard in convenient location. W/D. NS/pets. 2 apts. avail. Nov. 1. 6-mo. lease. Apt. 1: $900/mo., oil heat, incl. garage for storage. Apt. 2: $850/mo., gas heat. Util. not incl. Info: 802-309-5544.

Colchester Remodeled Home 2400 sq.ft. house, lg. lot, new kitchen/BAs, all appliances.

High-efficiency gas furnace & HW heater. HDWD floors, screened-in porch. Two garages. NS/pets, refs. $1775/mo. Info: 802-233-1150.

COLCHESTER TOWNHOUSE Partridge Hill, 2-BR, immaculate condition, new appliances, gas heat, 1.5-BA, W/D, pool, garage, partially finished basement, NS/pets.

Avail. now. $1125/mo. + utils. Call for appt. Info: 802-846-9568.

THE HINDS LOFTS located at 161 St. Paul Street in the heart of downtown Burlington. Now offering two amazing incentives for the next Hinds Lofts buyer! Come to our open house, or contact Heidi to find out more.

Walk to downtown/waterfront. Spacious 2-BR w/ open floor plan, gas fireplace, granite counters, new appliances, pantry closet, hardwood and tile floors, Jacuzzi tub, covered parking and sprinkler system. Four more 2-BR units and a 1-BR available soon. Call for a showing. $224,900.

Call Heidi Tappan 2EDSTONE s www.thehindslofts.com 802-658-7400 x 20

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Colchester: Heat Incl.! Wiley Rd., NEW PRICE! Fantastic 2-BR, 2BA, 3-year-old, 1265 sq.ft. condo.

W/D. Incl. heat, A/C, etc.! Avail. now for 1 yr. $1350/mo. 802-8469568; www.HickokandBoardman. com. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, rentals@hickokandboardman.com.

Colchester: Nice Townhouse Partridge Hill: Nice 2-BR, 1.5-BA condo w/ all new appliances, W/ D, 1,100+ sq.ft, backyard, garage, partially finished basement. No pets. Avail. now; 1 year. $1150/ mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

S. Hero Winter Rental Post&-beam lakefront home 20 mins. from Burlington. November-May. Cozy Finnish stove. Firewood, DSL & DISH incl. Elec. & propane extra. Lease, dep., refs. $1500/mo.

Info: 802-372-4784.

Shelburne: 3-BR, New Price Clearwater Circle: 2,000 sq.ft., 3BR, 2.5-BA, formal dining, HDWD, Essex Junction 39 Prospect St. Avail. Nov 15. 1-BR,2/25/08 1-BA,10:25:18 W/D AMgas fireplace, porch, 3-car garage. on site, lg. yard. Pets considered. Beach rights. Avail. now through $725/mo. + utils. Call Coburn & spring/summer 2009. $1900/mo.

802-846-9568; www.HickokanFeeley, 802-864-5200 ext. 229. dBoardman.com.

Info: Coldwell Essex lovely, clean rental Large porch & yard, near shop- Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568. ping, bus & schools. Tenant pays heat and util., gas heat, well-insulated w/ new windows & doors, parking, NS/pets. $1500/mo.

Info: 802-985-1500.

FerrisburgH: Stone Federal Tastefully remodeled farmhouse.

4-BR, 2.5-BA, spa-like master BA, 2 fireplaces, 3400+ sq.ft. Jan. 1; negotiable lease. $1700/mo. Furnished OR unfurnished. 802-8469568; www.HickokandBoardman. com Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, rentals@hickokandboardman.com.

Huntington House for rent. 3BR, 2-BA, DR, FR, full basement, 2-car garage, W/D hookups, beautiful mountain views, deck. Pets neg. Credit check. First & dep. $1275/mo. Info: 802-434-4652. huntington home for rent Beautiful, in neighborhood w/ 300 acres common nature land.

Short- or long-term rental , semifurnished or empty. Great views, 30 minutes to Burlington/skiing. $1600/mo. Info: 802-310-6239, smacken@mac.com.

Huntington: Views! New $$.

Sunrise Dr.: Green Mountains’ Majesty. 3-BR, 2.5-BA contemporary w/ 2200+ sq.ft., built 2008, cathedral ceilings, fireplace, custom tile & HDWD. Avail. now, flexible lease. $1500/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, www.

HickokandBoardman.com.

Large, Quiet 1+BR Apt. Essex Jct., in owner-occupied, private residence on 1+ acres. Separate entrance, off-street parking.

Large BR w/ cedar-lined closet & built-in dresser; 2nd room for office or spare BR. Also LR, kitchen, family room, BA w/ shower. Incl. refrigerator, microwave, DW, W/D. $1100/mo. all inclusive. Free cable, share Internet cost. Available Nov. 1. Refs. req. NS. Small, wellbehaved dog considered. Easy commute to UVM or IBM. Contact Fran at 355-5129 or crescentmoonvt@yahoo.com.

Lg. 1-BR apts. Grant St. Lg. 1BR, W/D, parking, heat incl. Avail.

Nov. 15. $1075/mo. Shelburne Rd. Lg. 1-BR, HDWD, fireplace, bookcases, W/D, parking. Avail. now. $925/mo. 1st, 2nd. Info: 802-434-5757.

Luxury Apartments Keen’s Crossing! Are you looking for the space & convenience of a home in an apt. setting? 17 floor plans, incl., variously: lg. closets, bay windows, private exterior entrance, W/D hookups, central A/C! Our community offers many amenities, such as fitness & movie rooms. Prices vary, but all incl. heat, HW, sewer & trash. Call for details & pricing! EHO ADA. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com.

N. Ferrisburgh Near Lake Renovated 1000 sq.ft. living space. 2-BR or 1-BR + 1 office + 1-BA. Cherry floors. Eat-in kitchen, maple counters. Panoramic sunrise/sunset views. 5-minute walk to lake. W/D. Stainless appliances. Dog neg. $1250/mo. Info: 802-734-5001, http://tinyurl. com/806long.

Old North End 2-BR, offstreet parking. $700/mo. + utils.

NS/pets. Avail. Dec. 1. Info: 802-875-3510.

Shelburne: On the Water!

General Greene: 2-BR, 1-BA endunit townhouse in 3-unit building built 1907. 179 ft. of waterfront/beach, views, W/D, shared yard. Now; 1 year. $1600/mo.

Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

S. Burlington: Manor Wds. Kennedy Drive: Large 3-BR condo. Master w/ BA. Patio, carport + 1 coin-op W/D in basement.

Freshly painted, nice condition.

Avail. now; 1 year. $1200/mo.

Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

S. Burlington Treetop condominium, 2-BR, natural gas, carport, W/D hookups, tennis, pool.

NS/pets. $1100/mo. + utils. Refs. req. Avail. now or Dec. 1. Info: 802-985-8564.

S. Burlington 19 Cottage Grove Ave. 2-BR, 1.5-BA, garage, W/D hook-ups, gas heat. NS/pets. $1200/mo. + ref. & dep. Info: 802-862-3562.

South Burlington 1-BR apt., avail. Nov. 1. Can be seen by appt.

Parking for 1 car. No pets. $675/ mo. + dep. Info: 802-860-1642.

Unfurnished house for rent Vintage cottage w/ western views of Malletts Bay. Master BR, ampble storage, instant gas fireplace w/ stone surround, oil heat, W/D in spare office/guestroom, enclosed 40’x50’ yard, enclosed back porch, beach access, boat mooring. 10 min. to Burlington. A yearround delight. $1100/mo. + utils.

1st., damage, refs. Avail. Nov. 15.

Info: 802-496-3029, peggypotterbowls@madriver.com.

Westford Large, 4-BR barnhouse. Lots of light, 2-BA, views, W/D, DW, easy commute to Montpelier, Stowe, Burlington, Johnson. $1500/mo. incls. parking, water/sewer, rubbish/snow removal. 802-522-2481, 1st & last + dep. $100 dep. per pet. Avail.

Dec. 1. Info: 802-522-2481, www. granitegardens.com.

Williston: Gorgeous 2-BR Williston Rd.: Top floor, built 2 years ago, 1500 sq.ft., cathedral ceilings, yard, gas fireplace, W/D. Pet negotiable. Nov. 1; 1 year. $1400/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rentals@ hickokandboardman.com, www.

HickokandBoardman.com.

Williston: Raised Ranch Morgan Parkway: Nice 3-BR, 2-BA house. 1600+ square sq.ft., large family room, large yard, W/D, great deck. Dec. 1.; 12-16 mos. $1500/mo. 802-846-9568; www.

HickokandBoardman.com. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, rentals@ hickokandboardman.com.

Winooski 2-BR Heat/HW incl.

Parking, W/D in bldg., full BA w/ tub/shower. Clean, NS/pets. $945/mo. Info: Bill Wheater, 802-233-1150.

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JERICHO CONDO, A RARE FIND: $167,500

10:25:33 AM 2050 sq.ft. updated home. 2210/13/08 useable FSBO-CDewyea-102208.indd acres on Route 14. Several outbuidings.

Use as farm/primary/vacation. Less than $1950/mo. + option price. 25 minutes to Stowe, Montpelier, Jay Peak, St. J. Info: 802-472-6963.

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Beautiful 4-BR, 1.5-BA colonial in convenient neighborhood in South Burlington. Hardwood floors throughout.

New kitchen, furnace, windows and bathrooms. Fenced-In Backyard. $295,000.

Info: 802-863-5302 or pdpetralia@aol.com.

BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED CONDO

10/20/08FSBO-DPetralia-102908.indd Completely Rennovated Condo!

One of 1:53:04 PM seven owner-occupied units on 4.34 acres. 1,100 sq. feet, 2 BR, 1.5 Bath. Hiking, biking, skiing all close by with Burlington a short, easy commute. This is a must see!

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INCREDIBLE BURLINGTON CONDO

1:55:39 PM 2000+ sq.ft., 3-BR, 2-BA cape10/20/08 w/ FSBO-MDixon-102908.indd screened-in porch located on .6 acres in great neighborhood. Walk to Shelburne Village, schools. 63 Maplewood Drive, off Marsett. $398,000. www.63maplewood.com.

347-239-0577.

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10/27/08 3:15:59 PM Completely renovated 2-BR condo with all new bamboo HDWD floors and Italian Terrazzo tile in the bathroom, modern, minimalist’s style kitchen w/ commercial stainless steel sink, all new appliances.

Carport and pool. $179,500.

802-249-2640.

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10:34:07 AM Meticulously renovated 3-BR,10/28/08 1.5-BA FSBO-MGervais-102908.indd duplex on cul-de-sac. Condo convenience, single-home privacy. 1400 sq.ft. 3-level w/ attached garage. Gourmet kitchen, HDWD, jacuzzi bath, master w/ walk-in, private deck. $249,900. 802-578-2238, www. arthurcourtcondo.com.

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10/27/08 3:09:13 PM Seller moving, must sell! (2) 1-BR units and a 4-BR, plus 3-car garage. $39,00 income with $13k expenses. This will generate close to $1000 a month positive cash flow with 20% down. Priced at $260,000. Call 802-238-9803.

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« for rent WINOOSKI 2-BR, HICKOK ST. Enclosed porch, parking. No dogs.

Avail. Nov. 1. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x1021, www.nevilleco.com.

WINOOSKI 4-BR Quiet neighborhood, on bus line, fenced yard, HDWD, W/D in basement, off-street parking. $1600/mo. Avail. Dec. 1.

Sec. dep. required. NS/pets. Info: Tim Waite, 802-655-9327.

WINOOSKI SPACIOUS APT. Mansion St. Quiet upstairs, large 2level, 2-BR. Off-street parking, apt.-sized W/D, heat, snow & trash removal incl. Some pets OK. $1275/mo. Avail. immediately.

Info: 802-660-8092.

WINOOSKI, MAIN ST. Avail. Nov. 1. 2-BR. $915/mo. Heat & HW incl.

Parking. No dogs. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1021, www.nevilleco.com.

Housemates $525, CLOSE TO EVERYTHING Quiet, 2-BR condo in S. Burlington. Free parking, w/ W/D, back deck, pool, tennis. Must adore cats. $525/mo., heat incl. + half of electric (reasonable). Info: 802-355-4677.

BURLINGTON Apple Tree Point home. Needs someone to share.

Quiet w/ beach, pool, tennis, bike path. Owner gone through the winter. NS/pets. $750/mo. Info: 561-629-4990.

Roommate to share BURLINGTON, NEAR OAKLEDGE 10/14/08FSBO-RStearns-101508.indd 9:24:11WILLISTON AM 1 my home. Close to I89. $550/ Room for rent in 2-BR apt. Close mo. incl. utils. Info: Linda, to Oakledge Park, Lake Champlain 802-879-2897. & 1 mile from downtown. Ideal roommate is relatively clean, WINOOSKI Respectful roommate quiet & respectful of other roomwanted for drug-free, pet-free mate’s privacy. $420/mo. + dep. & environment. Gay friendly. $325/ half util. Info: Eric Apt-Dudfield, mo. + dep. & half utils. Avail. Nov. 802-999-4792.

1. Info: 802-655-1118.

FURNISHED ROOM W/UTIL. Roommate: Clean, quiet, pleasant nonsmoking. Incl. util. at $550/ mo. & half dep. or $150/week + week dep. Call 802-578-8393.

Info: Pauline Benoit.

MILTON FARMHOUSE Easygoing, “reasonably mature” adult HM desired to rent 1-BR of “NatureHaven” from writer with people-friendly dog. Organic garden & storage avail. Some work exchange possible. $450/mo. incl. util. Lease & dep. req. Laurie, 893-1845.

MONKTON FARMHOUSE Large rooms, W/D, master bath, cathedral ceilings. 20 acres. 19 miles to Kennedy Dr. Barn, garden space, etc. Amenities/utils. included.

Horses & pets OK. $450/mo. Info: 802-453-3457.

RESPONSIBLE, HONEST M/F Large, furnished BR. Private BA; shared living areas; horses &/or pets possible. Prefer long-term. Require refs, 1st. & last. $650/mo. 4536434 or garsa94@yahoo.com.

SHELBURNE Lg. sunny room for rent. Beautiful setting. Quiet, intellectual atmosphere. Professionals only. 8 min. to downtown, near bus line. Info: 802-355-3004.

S. BURLINGTON ROOM Close to Burlington, hot tub, pool, off-street parking, lg. house & yard, nice neighborhood, on bus line. Room avail. Nov. 1. $425/ mo. + $125 util. Info: Ryan, 802-399-2153.

STARKSBORO $550 INCL. UTIL Need 1 to 4 people to share my house, 25 min. to Burlington, 10 min. to Bristol. Animal friendly, I have dogs. For more info. please contact me. Rent may be negotiable. Info: 802-373-3033, rdlizard004@hotmail.com.

Sublets/ Temporary LAKE VILLA Magical sun-filled lake house, 12 miles to Burlington, furnished, radiant heat.

Avail. Nov. 10 - May 15. $1150/ mo. See pictures at: http:// www.vermontproper ty.com/detail/ Vermont/lake-champlainrentals/630/ Info: Joyce Dann, 802-356-5520.

Housing Wanted RESPONSIBLE, CAREFUL quiet (except for occasional flute), middle-aged woman looking for sunny, private living space, inexpensive in the greater Burlington area. Seeking quiet environment, easy parking. A bit of ground for a garden would be wonderful. Excellent ref. avail. Info: 360-6431252, FeelingMuchBetter.org.

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A beautiful 2-BR (925 sq.ft.) w/10/6/08 HDWD 4:15:52 PM floors, basement space, back porch, off-street parking, walk everywhere from here! Located at 115 N. Champlain St. Reduced to $143,000. Call 802-238-9803.

Office/ Commercial AUTO MECHANICS GARAGE For lease. 2-bay garage, 2 car lifts, office & storage areas, waste oil furnace for heat. Excellent location for auto service. $1500/mo.

Huntington. Info: 802-434-4652.

BURLINGTON OFFICE SPACE Large, 170+ sq.ft., bright office.

Shared reception/meeting area, kitchen & 3/4 bathroom. FSBO-SBedard-100808.indd Offstreet parking. Heat, elec. & WiFi broadband incl. $600/mo. Info: 802-310-1568.

COMMERCIAL SPACE @ 53 MAIN Lg., flexible, space for lease on lower Main St. in downtown Burlington. Approx. 14,000 sq.ft. on 3 floors. Parking. Currently rented as an architectural antique store. $6000/mo. Info: Original Investments, LLC, 802-343-4728.

DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON Gateway Square office space. Threeroom professional office suite, 550 sq.ft., 2nd floor, corner of Main & Battery Streets. $1200/mo. incl. utils. Parking additional. Info: 802-862-0500.

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Office/Commercial

179 South Winooski Avenue Sq Ft: 5500+ Requirements: Space must be occupied by a Non-profit Org. Lease Rate: $12 square ft. triple net

MIDD. OFFICES/WAREHOUSE Electronics recycling business looking to share its 3700 sq.ft. office & 50,000 sq.ft. warehouse. Both spaces are beautiful w/ many amenities. Offices starting at $275.

Warehouse space at $6/ft/yr. Info: Good Point Recycling, Colin Davis, 802-989-0895, colind@goodpoint.net, www.retroworks.com.

OFFICE SUITES FOR LEASE 41-47 Main St., Burlington. 2- or 3-room configuration. Ample parking, ADA accessible. From $425-$675/ mo. plus util. Call 793-0179, or weekdays, 802-223-9954. Info: Malone Properties, patrick@together.net.

Description: Large office suite in the heart of downtown Burlington on the bus line. Includes: 2 separate reception areas, a large conference room with attached kitchen, 2 bathrooms, mail/ copy room, multiple office layout and secure off-street parking is available.

Leed Certified, energy efficient architect designed space in convenient downtown location.

Description Office A:

88 King Street Sq Ft: A: 814 sq ft on 1st Floor B: 726 sq ft on 2nd Floor Lease Rate: $11.70 sq. ft. triple net

WAREHOUSE SPACE Avail. at 102 Kimball Ave. in South Burlington.

4600 sq.ft., single loading dock, lg. drive-in door, high bay w/ 22’ 2x5c-CHT102208.indd ceilings. Info: 802-862-6004.

Separate street entrance.

Common Bathrooms Conference room and other office support services available Parking Available

Description Office B: Common Bathrooms and Kitchen Conference room and other office support services available Parking Available

Call Michael Monte at 802.862.6244 mmonte@champlainhousingtrust.org

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Green Housecleaning All natural products. $25/hr. Experienced, refs. avail. Info: 802-598-5723.

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Appliances/ Tools/Parts DRY SEASONED Firewood $275 per cord at farm in Hinesburg.

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Miscellaneous items Aluminum frame greenhouse, 8x12x6. $100. 8000w generator, Briggs & Stratton. $800. American Beauty kiln. $50. Troy-built Bronco rototiller. $600. VT garden cart. $75.

Bee equipment, lots. $200. Info: 802-229-5404.

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Furniture Ethan Allen DR Furniture “British Classics” Collection: Table, 2 armchairs, 3 side chairs.

Table collapses into a console table. Like new, asking $1800/OBO. Info: 802-876-7886.

« clothing/jewelry Womens Leather Jacket Size small, gently worn (worn maybe 3 times). Info: 802-864-9558.

Electronics A NEW COMPUTER NOW! Brand name. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments avail. Call NOW. (AAN CAN) Info: 800-816-2232.

Canon 10D DSLR Camera Purchased new, has been used as a backup camera for about 3 years, very little use. Works & looks new.

Incl. Sigma 18 - 200 F3.5 - 6.3 DC lens w/lens hood; Canon speedlight 420 EX flash, orig. packing w/manuals, etc.; 2 camera batteries; 4 CF cards: 1 - 1gig, 1 - 512 MG and 2 - 256MG. Info: Wayne LaBonte Photography, Wayne LaBonte Sr., 802-658-2771.

GET A NEW COMPUTER Brandname laptops & desktops. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments available.

It’s yours now. (AAN CAN) Info: 800-803-8819.

Entertainment/ Tickets Drivers w/ late-model vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows with exotic dancers. Info: 802-658-1464.

Great Escape tickets 7 avail., previously posted at $15 each, however people who were interested never picked up. Now offering at $10 each! MUST USE BY NEXT WEEKEND! Info: 802-5400489, patriotchic2000@yahoo. com.

Solid gold, Dancers Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, deer camp or any time good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802-658-1464.

Free Stuff Is Your House Haunted? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.”

Info: Matthew Borden, 802-8811171, bigbigdeal3@aol.com.

Vegetable Oil Have used vegetable oil that can be used for diesel fuel. Come and take it. Have a lot of it! Info: Global Markets, 802-863-9460.

Water Bed King w/ bookcase headboard. Storage drawers on both sides. Moving, still in use but can’t take with us. Will be avail. Nov. 8. 802-879-6422. Info: Carol Zweighaft, 802-879-6422.

Kid Stuff KIDS WOOD PADDLEWHEEL BOAT Affordable, fun & unique gift idea! Great for lakes & ponds kids love it! 49”x24”x12”. Paddle wheels are hand-cranked. Painted in highly durable white. $150.

Info: John Weinert, 802-6546876, tjweinert@netzero.net.

Pets

Twin Mattress for Futon Wanted to trade: Full-sized Ikea futon for twin mattress. rigel. stelle@gmail.com.

Want to Buy 4 winter snow tires Cooper Discovers, 2005. Used, mounted, in great condition. 235/175/R15. $300. 802-316-1419. Info: Mark Daubenschmidt.

Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver.

Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966.

Brit/german/italian autos Wanted: Any old European sports/ classic cars, drivers or not, as long as they are whole. $$$$ waiting for car or info. All calls answered.

Info: Milo DeWitt, 802-461-8221, MiloDewitt@wildblue.net.

Twin Mattress Wanted Waterbury area preferred.

Sports Equipment Blackburn Trainer Excellent condition, low mileage. $100 firm. $200 new. Info: 802-355-2817, hikersnoski2@yahoo.com.

Canoe for Sale Nice 14” flat bottom, good fishing or hunting canoe (fiberglass). Asking $75.

Info: John Laflam, 802-877-2615, journey4you2003@yahoo.com.

Fishing Motor Small outboard, 5.5 HP, runs, will sell for $125.

Info: John Laflam, 802-877-2615, journey4you2003@yahoo.com.

Hoyt pro-vantage Bow Many extras, asking best offer. Info: 802-355-2817, hikersnoski2@yahoo.com.

KROWN LONG BOARD Used for one season, excellent condition.

Great for first timers and seasoned riders. Originally bought for $89 but will sell for $40/OBO. Info: 802-370-6984.

Never-Used Skis 2004 Rossignol Bandits. 170 cm, no bindings. Never used, still factory wrapped. Asking $125 but negotiable. C’mon, I can’t use them! Info: 802-655-1987.

Osprey Backpack Mens med., used once, perfect condition. $250 new, asking $150 firm. Info: Robert Markle, 802-355-2817, hikersnoski2@yahoo.com.

Trek Road Bike 18 lbs. total weight, alum.frame, carbon fork, seat & post, Shimano Tiagra 9speed flightdeck,105 changer, race-lite wheels, Michelin pro tires, excellent condition. $1500.

Info: 802-355-2817.

Wooden Selmer Clarinet Wooden w/ plastic mouthpiece.

Like-new condition. Incl. case, cork grease, cleaning rag. Worth $1200, asking $500/OBO. Pictures online! Info: mbkingston@ gmail.com.

Yamaha P200 Hard Road Case Excellent condition. $150. Call after 5 p.m. Info: 802-862-4164.

Instruction Bass Guitar Lessons For all levels/styles. Beginners welcome!

Learn technique, theory, songs, ear-training and slap-bass in a fun, professional setting. Years of teaching/playing experience.

Convenient Pine St. studio. Info: Bass Lessons with Aram, Aram Bedrosian, 802-598-8861, info@ arambedrosian.com, www.arambedrosian.com.

Guitar instruction All styles/ levels. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, UVM & Middlebury College Faculty). Info: 802-8627696, www.paulasbell.com.

Adoption Event Nov. 8 Good Karma Rescue Meet & Greet Event, Nov. 8, 11-4 p.m. Petfood Warehouse, Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Adoptable dogs & homemade biscuits on site! Info: Good Karma Rescue, goodkarmarescue@ gmail.com, www.goodkarmarescue.petfinder.com.

Male Bearded Dragon 4 years old, 40-gallon glass breeder tank, 3 dome fixtures, 1 ceramic heat emitter. Serious inquiries only, want to find good home. 9224351. $50.

Studio Gear/Keyboard Sale!

Charles Eller Studios is having an online “yard sale!” Visit our new “Equipment for Sale” blog at www.charlesellerstudios.com.

Info: Charles Eller, 802-425-3508, ellerstudios@gmavt.net.

Bands/ Musicians OPEN MIC Sat., Nov. 1, @ 8:00 p.m, Banana Winds Cafe & Pub, Essex Town Market Place, 8790752. Want $50? Perform Mason Williams, Classical Gas, note for note! Info: Mark Kramer, 802879-0752, vtbubba@aol.com.

P e r c u s s i o n i s t/ G u i ta r i s t Wanted for duo for rehearsal & performance in & around Middlebury. Original music, singer songwriter Jack Scanlon. Info: 802-771-7200. plattsburgh vocalist avail Lead vocals, the best around.

Avail. for bands w/ originals.

Has own equipment to play live, i.e., 32-channel mixer, speakers, mics, etc. Info: Jean-Miguel A. Gutreuter, 518-578-9852, jmagsg@yahoo.com.

For Sale 5-String Banjo 1970s. The Silver Princess by Alvarez. Beautiful, open back, w/ new strings. Pictures are available online in 7Days classifieds. $600/OBO. Call Mimi at 865-9111. Info: 802-865-9111.

Gibson SG Delux Guitar Excellent condition. $1000 firm. Manufactured ‘92. Call Dan, 999-7670.

Line 6 Pod XT Live Used twice in my home for 20-30 min. Comes w/ box, power cord, manual, presets card, USB cable. $290, cash only.

Call 4-9 p.m. Info: 802-655-9479.

Samples CDs/DVDs 5 titles. Last Laugh Recordings, starving artists special - $50 song. Info: 802-8659681, johnny_azer@yahoo.com, www.myspace.com/johnnyazer.

Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory & ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach.

All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802-864-7195, rickbelf@verizon. net, www.rickbelford.com.

Guitar School of Vermont “Not your usual music instruction.” Attention from multiple teachers, fundamentals, theory, technique, composition. Teaching Guitarist’s Growing Musicians.

802-655-5800, www.guitarschoolofvermont.com.

Music Lessons Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, songwriting. All ages, levels, styles.

20 yrs. exp. Friendly, individualized lessons in S. Burlington.

Info: 802-864-7740, eromail13@ gmail.com.

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Call to Artists CALL 4 ART/GALLERY SHOW Small Works Holiday Show. On display December 2nd thru January 4th. Visit next time your in Woodstock. Info: Lincoln Bond Fine Art Gallery, 617-733-9033, lincolnbond@gmail.com, www. lincolnbond.com.

Calling all potters Dynamite clay studio, in Plainfield, offers a positive & relaxing environment in which to be creative. Offering throwing & handbuilding classes, paint your own pottery, & membership that includes 24 hour access. Come in & make your holiday gifts this year! Info: Dynamite Clay Studio, 802-454-9947, dynamiteclaystudio @gmail.com, dynamiteclaystudio.com.

Japanese Classical Dance One of the top 20 Japanese classical dance artists/teachers (Nihon Buyo) is visiting Burlington to advertise the traditional Japanese art to whomever is interested. Please go ahead & call me if you want to interact w/ him during his visit (Nov. 13-17). Info: Yukiko Washio, 775-830-2616.

Openings/ Shows BOOSH New artwork by Dostie celebrating the historical legacy of the BOOSH administration.

Opens Tues., Nov. 4, 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Runs through Nov. 1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington.

Trombone, Trumpet Lessons Experienced Eastman School of Music graduate, trumpet, trombone, bari-horn, tuba, piano, composition lessons. See website. “If you are not having fun, you are doing something wrong.”

Info: Octavemode, Stuart Carter, 802-660-8524, www.octavemode. net.

Studio/ Rehearsal Charles Eller Studios Come check us out at www.charlesell erstudios.com & see why professionals from around the world are finding it a bargain to record, mix & master their projects in Charlotte, VT. Recent projects incl. the new Grace Potter “Live” EP, The Starline Rhythm Boys “Live” Vol. 2, Gregory Douglass, Kilimanjaro, Putumayo Records & more.

Call or email for rates & info. Info: Chuck Eller, 802-425-3508, eller studios@gmavt.net

Build your own Timber Frame: Ongoing. Cost: $40 / hour. Location: Your project site or our workshop, Ripton. Info: House in the Woods Co., Michael Cummings, 802-388-0118, houseinthewoods @gmail.com, www.HouseInTheWoodsVermont. com. Want to build your own timber frame, but need help getting started and have questions about design, tools, joinery, enclosures and foundation systems? I offer one-on-one consulting, tutoring and design help for owner/builders who want to create healthy, energy-efficient, inspired structures.

Twenty-five years building and design experience.

childbirth CVMC Birthing Ctr. Open House: First Wed. of every month, 5:30-7 p.m. Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, 802-371-4613, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org.

It’s mom’s choice: birthing the way you told us you want it! Learn more about our full range of services, meet staff members and tour our new Garden Path Birthing Center.

Friends and family welcome. Registration is required.

PostNatal Yoga: Cost: $10 / class. Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, 802-223-9940, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org.

Restore and nourish your whole postpartum body in postnatal yoga! Gentle poses, breathing exercises, restorative postures will help feed your whole self. Also, connect with other postpartum mamas and babes (precrawlers). Come when you are ready. Please call to preregister. Saturdays, 10:45-11:45 a.m.

PreNatal Yoga: Saturdays at 9 a.m. Cost: $10 /1-hour class.

Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin.

Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, Elizabeth Murphy, 802223-9940, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org. Come and celebrate this sacred time! Gain confidence in your body’s wisdom! Ease back pain, nausea, hip discomfort and prepare your body for pregnancy, birth & beyond. Prenatal yoga instructor Elizabeth Murphy weaves her knowledge as a labor & delivery nurse, yogini and mother of two.

coaching art Make (It) Work for Artists: 5 workshops, 1 per week starting Oct. 15 and ending Nov. 13.

Cost: $25 /each workshop (workshop on 10/15 is free). Location: Kasini House, 64 North Street, Burlington. Info: Kasini House, 802-264-4839, www.kasinihouse. com/workshops.htm. “Make (It) Work” is Kasini House’s fall workshop series dedicated to the professional development of artists. It is about making art work as a career, business or profession – who is an artist, art products, bios & statements, the gallery system and selling your art. Space is limited and preregistration is required.

Create Positive Change: Cost: $10 /workshop. Location: Healthy Lifestyles, 12 Gregory Rd., South Burlington. Info: Marty Garrett Coaching, Marty, 802-865-3213.

Do you often feel stuck and unable to take action? Attend this experiential workshop to explore the ways in which your perspectives impact your ability to create change.

Once you develop an awareness of how your view your circumstances, you have the opportunity to shift perspectives and open to new possibilities. You will leave the workshop with an action plan to make changes based on a new perception of what is possible. Call Marty to register.

dance Ballroom Dancing: Mondays and Thursdays in Burlington and Sunday in Shelburne. Cost: $50 /4 weeks (per person). Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street; Shelburne Town Hall, 5420

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Shelburne Road, Burlington and Shelburne. Info: First Step Dance, Kevin Laddison, 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Level I classes for beginners, Level II and above for experienced dancers. We host dances (with lessons) on the second and fourth Friday of each month. No experience is necessary, just an interest in learning to dance. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance!

Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $12 /class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@salsalina. com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style.

One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome.

No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Beginning classes Tuesdays - Kids, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $47/6 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m., $53/6 weeks. Session begins 10/28. Advanced Beginner/Ensemble class meets weekly on Mondays at 5:30-6:50 p.m., $48/6 weeks, beginning 10/27. Gift certificates are available! For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

fitness Biggest Loser Competition: Nov. 4 - Dec. 16, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday, Thursday.

Cost: $120 /12x 1hr classes. Location: Sports and Fitness EdgeWilliston, 115 Wellness Drive, Williston. Info: Sports amnd Fitness Edge-Williston, Dave Meek, 802860-3343, davidm@sfedge.com, www.sfedge.com. Just like the TV show. Workout, track your food, regular weigh-ins.(No eliminations.) Prizes for the biggest loser each week and overall winner. Sign up before October 31st. No class on Thanksgiving. Are you ready to challenge yourself and reach your fitness goals?

gardening Int’l Gardening & Service Trip: Location: Communityminded gardeners, learners and adventurers wanted: Travel with a small group to the Dominican Republic on a gardening-focused course that wraps together workshops in organic and biodynamic agriculture, cultural exchange, and service-learning projects working side-by-side with local farmers. Co-led by John Hayden, UVM Adjunct Faculty in Ecological Agriculture and farmer. February 7 - 15, 2009. Info: www.livelearning.org. The LiveLearning Program runs small-scale community development projects and educational programs in Latin America. We develop long-term partnerships to help communities achieve their goals.

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Growth and Healing Weekend: Fri., Nov. 14 7-9 p.m. (optional) and Sat./Sun., Nov. 15-16 from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: $195 /nonresidential weekend retreat.

Location: The Healer Within You, 528 Essex Rd (Rte. 2A), Suite 205, Williston. Info: Marieken Volz, 802-353-8104, marieken@verizon.net, www.onenessvermont. com and www.thehealerwithinyou.com. Enjoy a weekend of deep relaxation, rejuvenation, healing, and expansion of consciousness receiving bodywork and energy healing modalities. The retreat centers around the Oneness Experience (Deeksha) and Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) and will also include options for other healing modalities. All offerings designed to complement each other for maximum benefit.

Silver Cuff Bracelet Workshop: Nov. 15-16, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Two-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org.

Design and create an exquisite silver cuff bracelet while acquiring basic jewelry skills. Students will learn to saw, drill, pierce, file, form, sand, solder, and polish sterling silver sheet metal. Basic torch and soldering techniques will be covered.

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Members $140, nonmembers $155, materials $75.

herbs SPA AROMATHERAPY: Holiday: Nov. 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25 /2-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-8654372, www.purpleshutter.com.

Learn how to create spa exotics such as effervescent bath fizzies, luscious lip balms, relaxing eye pillows & luxurious lotion. The basics of aromatherapy will be discussed while treating your body, mind & soul to life’s little pleasures. You’ll go home with your own handmade goodies & gift-making ideas!

THE ART of SOAP MAKING: Nov. 2, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $37 /4-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, www.purpleshutter.com.

Delve deeper into the fascinating art of soap-making. You’ll be using natural ingredients to make a batch of amazing, aromatic soap. With Alissa, we’ll cover basic & intermediate soap making techniques, which will include “super fatting”.

You’ll need to bring a container & old towel to bring your new soap home.

Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security.

Class meets for two terms, three Sundays each term, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spring term: 5/24, 6/14 & 7/12, 2009. Summer Term: 8/9, 9/20 & 10/4, 2009. Tuition $480 both terms or $240 each term. $50 nonrefundable deposit each term. VSAC non-degree grants avail. Wisdom of the Herbs 2009, 8 weekends: May 16-17, June 6-7, June 27-28, July 18-19, Aug. 1516, Sept. 12-13, Oct. 10-11, Nov. 7-8. Tuition $1750. Nonrefundable deposit $250. Discounted tuition for early registration paid in full one month before class begins. VSAC non-degree grants available. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, South Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, director, 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.

WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool.com.

Unique experiential programs embracing wild plants, holistic health and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Gift certificates are available.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CTR: Introductory class. Location: One minute off I-89 at Exit 17, Colchester. Info: 802-893-8893.

Day and evening classes for adults.

Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons.

Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian JiuJitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th=Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie. Classes for men, women and children. First class is free.

massage Advanced Deep Tissue Training: Nov. 1-9, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Cost: $625 /2 consecutive weekends. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info@ t o u c h s t o n e h e a l i n g a r t s .c o m, www.touchstonehealingarts.com.

This 4-day, 32-hour intensive will provide a solid foundation in the principles and techniques of Deep Tissue Massage. You will significantly refine your palpation skills, working deeply and safely into the body’s tissue layers, cultivating an efficient use of energy through proper biomechanics, client positioning and sophisticated hands-on methods.

meditation Introduction to Zen: Sat., Nov. 8, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cost: $55 /all-day workshop, lunch included. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, vermontzen.org/ workshops.html. The workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices

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of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info, or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

metal/stained glass Stained Glass: Lead Came: Nov. 15, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. 1-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www.shelburneartcenter.org. One-day introductory stained-glass workshop for beginners to learn the lead-came method of constructing stained glass. Learn to select glass colors, cut glass, assemble with lead came, solder, cement and finish a panel.

Take home a completed lead-came panel. Members $108, nonmembers $120, materials $20.

pilates A unique Pilates Experience: New classes: Mixed Level Mat, 9 a.m., weekly on Mondays. Cardio Moves. A cardio dance and Pilates fusion class, 10 a.m., weekly on Mondays. Classes start 10/6. Location: The Pilates Den, Williston.

Info: 802-318-6378, www.pilatesden.com. Discover Pilates with Polestar-certified instructor Shannon Lashua. Years of experience combined with creativity promises fun, informative, stress-relieving sessions in a supportive environment. Private sessions and semiprivate sessions are offered on the equipment, as well as small group mat classes, all in the comfort of a sun-filled home studio.

ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. Location: Espire, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite 1, South Burlington. Info: 802-3102614, www.absolutepilatesvt. com. Tone, stretch and strengthen with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in fun group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive, welcoming locale. In the works: floor mat to standing movement to challenge stamina, coordination and balance. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials.

Natural Bodies Pilates: Join Pilates Mat and Reformer, Ballet Conditioning, or Integrative Movement classes - or combine all three in our Beginning Studio classes. Private sessions, class cards and per-class rates available. Free group introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment. Call today!. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Hwy. 127, just north of the Burlington Beltline), Colchester. Info: Lucille

Dyer, 802-863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Relieve stress and improve your health while shaping your whole body. Receive expert instruction in a supportive environment and enjoy the use of a professionally equipped studio.

Benefit from Lucille Dyer’s 20 years teaching experience to develop your awareness, strength and ease of movement. Classes are personalized, enlivening and fun!

Healing Center, 35 King St., #7, Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@risingsunhealing.com, www.risingsunhealing.com. Learn this powerful hands-on healing art and be able to give Reiki engery to yourself and others by the end of the class. Plenty of in-class practice time. Reiki teacher Chris Hanna is a member of Vermont Reiki Assoc.

Pilates Space: A division of ALL Wellness, LLC. Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: Pilates Space, 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-8639900, www.pilatesspace.net. We invite all bodies, all ages and all abilities to experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio.

We offer Pilates privates, semiprivates and group classes; physical therapy; holistic health counseling; craniosacral therapy; and Anusara-inspired yoga. First mat class is free! Also, please join us for a free introduction to the reformer, the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 – just call to sign up.

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pottery Sculpting the Head and Hands: Nov. 8, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

One-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org.

Join sculptor Erik Rehman in this workshop exploring the expression of the head and the hands in clay.

Students will be led through the sculpture process, and will discuss the relationship, both emotively and physically, of the head and hands to the human form entire.

Members $50, nonmembers $55.

Wheel Throwing for Beginners: Tuesdays or Thursdays.

5-week classes. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Habor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Learn the basics of throwing clay on the potter’s wheel while becoming familiar with the clay process from wheel to kiln. Two 5-week classes: Tuesdays, Nov. 4 - Dec. 2, 6-8:30 p.m., or Thursdays, Nov. 6 - Dec. 11 (no class Nov. 27), 9:30 a.m. - noon.

Members $105, nonmembers $115, materials $60.

Sewing Classes: Location: Threadneedle Fabrics, 4 Carmichael St., Essex Junction. Info: Threadneedle Fabrics, 802-8762000, www.threadneedlefabrics. com. Learn to Sew, Oct. 28-Dec. 2; Alterations, Oct. 18; Heirloom Sewing. Oct. 25 & Nov. 2; Sewing Workshop, Oct. 23-Nov. 20. See our website for more information.

spirituality 2008 Earth Spirit Conference: 10/31, 12-5 p.m.; Nov. 1, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.; 11/2, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cost: $275 /weekend. Location: The Ponds at Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton. Info: 802-922-7507, info @ ear thspir itconferences. com, www.earthspiritconferences. com. Wisdom for Changing Times: Join experts in Quantum Physics, Native American Spirituality, Crop Circle Research, Ancient Civilizations, Universal Laws & more as they bring illuminating, life-changing presentations to our gathering. This group of accomplished authors, filmmakers, researchers & scientists are voices of wisdom who can guide us through this time of change.

tai chi Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE , 100 Church Street, Burlington. Info: 802864-7902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

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Cloud Hands QiGong Meditation: Nov. 8-9. Cost: $150 /Saturday and Sunday Workshop (10 a.m. - 4 p.m.). Location: Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St, Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net. The Cloud Hands is an internal energy development/Nui Gung exercise. It consists of 5 nonstrenuous movements with a quiet seated meditation.

The set helps the body to maintain good health and increase vitality.

The Tao Ahn Pain System has been handed down by Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist priest who studied at the Yellow Dragon Monastery.

The Art of Playback Theatre: Nov. 6, 7:15-9:30 p.m. Cost: $15 /workshop. Location: North End Studios, 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-860-6203, www.vermontplayback theatre. org. In this workshop we will play, awaken our senses, exercise ourselves as artists and humanitarians, practice compassionate listening, and learn the fundamentals of Playback Theatre. Using the theme of What Brings us hope, we will explore this art of improv theatre, practice its forms and listen to our own stories.

reiki Reiki Daylong Classes: Two separate classes: Reiki Level 1: Sat., Nov. 1st & Sat., Dec 20th, 9:30 a.m. to 5pm, $175. Level 2, Sat., Nov. 22nd, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., $195.. Location: Rising Sun

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make cutting boards out of maple and cherry hardwoods with some other figured wood maybe used in construction. Students will be able to make up to three small cutting boards in this two-session class.

The router, band saw, planer and table saw will be used.

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visual arts Monotype: Hand-Pulled Prints: Nov. 15, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

1-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 54 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www.shelburneartcenter.org. A monotype is a type of printmaking done by drawing or painting on a surface and then transferring the image onto a paper by pressing the two together. In this introductory workshop, students will learn various techniques using black, white and color inks. Members $85, nonmembers $95, materials $20.

weight loss Vtrim Weight-Loss Program: Nov. 10 - Apr. 20, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $695 /6month program. (That’s just $29 a week.). Location: Winooski YMCA, Winooski. Info: Vtrim - University of Vermont, 802-656-2085, uvm. edu/vtrim. Bring Vtrim home for the Holidays! Enroll in the University researched evidenced-based, 24-week behavioral weight-loss program. Led by a Vtrim certified facilitator, you can learn how to modify your eating and exercise behaviors and succeed at weight management. Register easily online. Don’t delay. Space is limited to 20!

wood Cutting Boards for xmas: Nov. 11-18, Weekly on Tuesday.

Cost: $110 /includes materials and instruction. Location: Vermont Woodworking School, 382 Hercules Drive, Suite 5, Colchester. Info: Vermont Woodworking School, Blake Ewoldsen, 802655-4201, www.vermontwoodworkingschool.com. This class will

Intro to Furniture Making: Nov. 18-21, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., FourDay Intensive. Cost: $365 /8-week class (+ materials kit). Location: Vermont Woodworking School, 382 Hercules Dr. (behind Costco), Colchester. Info: Vermont Woodworking School, 802-655-4201, ver mont woodwork ing @ mac. com, www.vermontwoodworkingschool.com. Students learn the fundamentals of furniture making while building their own Shaker hall table. Work with talented furniture makers in a fun, supportive environment. Learn traditional joinery, properties of wood and safe use of large machinery. This class is appropriate for beginners and those interested in honing their skills.

Grants available.

yoga BRISTOL YOGA AND AYURVEDA: Daily Ashtanga yoga classes for all levels. Special monthly workshops on yoga, Ayurveda, diet and nutrition, breathing and meditation.

Private sessions for yoga or Ayurvedic consultations available by appointment. Cost: $14 /drop-in, $110/10 classes or $100/monthly pass. Location: Old High School, Bristol. Info: 802-482-5547, www. bristolyoga.com. This classical form of yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexibility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and free the soul. Bristol Yoga is directed by Christine Hoar, who was blessed and authorized to teach by Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore India, holder of the Ashtanga lineage.

COPPER CRANE YOGA: Beginner Series, Pre-Natal Yoga, Kids Yoga, Yin Yoga series. Cost: $14 /dropin, $60/5-class card, $110/10class card, $200/20-class card.

Location: Copper Crane Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: 802877-3663, coppercraneyoga.com.

Individual, group and custom yoga classes. Thai Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing sessions by appointment. Copper Crane provides wise and compassionate teaching to strengthen the body, uplift the heart and calm the mind. Be yourself here.

Copper Crane is directed by Carolyn Conner, RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Mondays, 5:45 p.m. Class is sliding scale, $4-10. $5 Friday classes at 4:30 p.m. Cost: $14 /single class. $130/10 class card. $12/1-hr. class. $110/10 class card for 1 hr. classes. Community classes donation $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn Street, Burlington. Check out our added location at Eastern View, 185 Tilley Drive, South Burlington. Info: 802-8649642, www.evolutionvt.com. Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar classes for all levels, plus babies and kids yoga. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/post-natal yoga. Reducedprice community classes offered 3 times a week.

YOGA VERMONT: Daily drop-in classes, plenty of choices, open to all levels, two locations. Cost: $14 /drop-in, $115/10 class card, $130/month pass. Location: Chace Mill on Winooski River, downtown at 113 Church St. (top floor of the Leunig’s building), Burlington. Info: 802-660-9718, www. yogavermont.com. Six-week Skiier and Rider class, six-week Intro to Ashtanga, Monthly Restorative, Adaptive Yoga, Yoga Instructor Training Course and more listed on website. Gift certificates available.

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The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 30 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

No hearing will be held unless, on or before November 11, 2008, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us

by November 11, 2008.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On October 10, 2008, Costco Wholesale Corp., Costco Wholesale and Lake Champlain Transportation Co., filed application #4C0288-19B for a project generally described as: the construction of a 14, 080 sf. expansion to the existing building on Lots #8, #27-#31 of the Meadow Industrial Park. The project is located on Lower Mountain View Drive and Hercules Drive in the Town of Colchester, Vermont.

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Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners, other interested persons granted party status pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c). Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5).

Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 17th day of October 2008.

By /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state.vt.us

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0025-07 CnC HSBC Mortgage Corporation USA, Plaintiff v.

John Moran, C. Tracey Moran, Chittenden Trust Company d/b/a Chittenden Bank, State Of Vermont, Department Of Taxes And Occupants residing at 4218 Spear Street, Charlotte, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Summit Financial Center, Inc. to John Moran dated April 29, 2004 and recorded in Volume 148, Page 601 of the Land Records of the Town of Charlotte, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:00 A.M. on November 19, 2008, at 4218 Spear Street, Charlotte, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John D. Moran by Quitclaim Deed of C. Tracey Moran dated May 29, 2003 and recorded in Volume 140, Page 414 of the Town of Charlotte Land Records. Also being all and the same land and premises conveyed to C. Tracey Moran by Quitclaim Deed of John D. Moran and Tracey Moran dated December 21, 2001 and recorded in Volume 122, Page 139 of the Land Records of the Town of Charlotte. Also being the same lands and premises conveyed to John D. Moran and Tracey Moran by Warranty Deed of Dana P. Anson and Dorothy A. Anson dated July 1, 1998 and recorded July 2, 1998 in Volume 99, Page 500 of the Land Records of the Town of Charlotte.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Charlotte.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

HSBC Mortgage Corporation USA By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings, advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Any home seeker who feels her or she has encountered discrimination should contact the:

HUD Office of Fair Housing, 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309.

OR Vermont Human Rights Commission, 135 State St., Drawer 33, Montpelier, VT 05633-6301. 800416-2010 Fax: 802-828-2480

Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0820-07 CnC Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders CWABS, Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-6, Plaintiff v.

John Workman, Essex Paint & Carpet, Inc. And Occupants residing at 59 Main Street, Essex Junction, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Full Spectrum Lending, Inc. to John Workman dated June 23, 2004 and recorded in Volume 614, Page 701 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex Junction, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 A.M. on November 19, 2008, at 59 Main Street, Essex Junction, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: Being all the same lands and premises conveyed to John D. Workman by Warranty Deed of Allyn J. McDonald dated January 13, 2003 and recorded in Book 521, page 742 of the land records of the Town of Essex.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale.

The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex Junction.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

Bank of New York as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1544-07 CnC Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff v.

Christine A. Corliss And Occupants residing at 1 Saybrook Road, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Sovereign Bank to Christine A. Corliss dated February 20, 2007 and recorded in Volume 711, Page 635 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:40 A.M. on November 19, 2008, at 1 Saybrook Road, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit:

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I have been appointed as personal representative of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court.

The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described within the four month deadline.

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Dated: October 7, 2008

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to the Mortgagor herein by Warranty Deed of Andrew Lothrop dated February 20, 2007 and recorded in Volume 711 at Page(s) 632-634 of the Town of Essex Land Records.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex.

Signed: George D. Gifford Address: PO Box 451 Richmond, VT 05477 Name of Publication: Seven Days First Publication Date: 10/22/08 Second Publication Date: 10/29/08 Address of Probate Court: Probate Court, District of Chittenden PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CONDUCT A MULTI-LEVEL REVIEW OF FIRE SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF BURLINGTON

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The City of Burlington is seeking proposals to conduct a multi-level review of fire services for the City of Burlington. The deadline for submission of proposals is 4:00p. m. on Tuesday, November 25, 2008.

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 32435

Proposals should be submitted to Jonathan P.A. Leopold, CAO, Offices of the Clerk/Treasurer, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401. Faxed proposals will not be accepted.

IN RE THE ESTATE OF RUTH C. WRIGHT LATE OF BURLINGTON, VT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Ruth C. Wright late of Burlington.

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Inquiries regarding this Request for Proposal should be addressed to Michael E. O’Neil, Chief Engineer, Burlington Fire Department, Fire Station # 1, 187 S. Winooski Avenue, VT 05401. Telephone: (802) 865-7578.

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DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

INSULIN PUMP SUPPORT GROUP Quarterly meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22 from 6-8 p.m. at the Vermont Regional Diabetes Center at 3 Timber Lane in South Burlington.

Topics include holiday foods, blind bolus blues and sensor updates.

Minimed clinical pump trainer and a dietitian will be presenting. Refreshments will be served and participants will receive a free One Touch Ultra Link meter or Free Style Lite meter.

For further information please call 802-847-1014.

THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit self-help bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child, will hold its regular meeting this Monday, November 3, at 7 p.m. at the Hospice Services Office located at the Marble Works (first building on the left as you enter across from the Addison Independent office) in Middlebury.

Bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents are encouraged to attend to meet others who have gone through a similar experience and for support. For more information, contact chapter leaders, Nancy Merolle at 388-6837, or Claire Groleau at 388-9603.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday. Please call or visit website for location information.

1-800-296-1445 voicemail, www. monkeyswithswings.com/vtcfids. html.

WOMEN’S RAPE CRISES CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence.

Please call 864-555 ext. 19 for information.

MEN ALIVE RETREAT 9/26-9/28 Welcomes men to build a community of caring, respect and acceptance. We create opportunities for growth & exploration through ritual, groups, drumming, and sweat lodge. Sky Meadow Retreat. RSVP Carl carl@neuroconnections.com , 343-5128. menalivevt.org.

LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild and start again. Classes start September 24 at 6:30 p.m. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802734-0695.

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, VT 802-446-3577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month.

SELF-HELP STRATEGIES SUPPORT GROUP Held at 50 Willard Street, West View House. Held in day for only Howard Center, Westview House clients.

GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided.

The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.

CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING: A group of men and women whose common purpose is recovery from co-dependence and development of healthy relationships. Weekly on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Turningpoint Center in the Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 802-247-3940, www. coda.org.

INSULIN PUMP SUPPORT GROUP Starting Wednesday, June 18 at the Vermont Regional Diabetes Center 6:30-8 p.m. Subjects covered will be maximizing the use of your insulin pump, tips, safety issues, travel, sensors and downloading info to your home computer. A pump company clinical trainer and Certified Diabetes Educators will be present to answer questions. All pump wearers and their family and friends are invited. Refreshments will be served and participants will receive either a free One Touch Ultra Link or Free Style Lite glucometer. For questions and directions please call The Vermont Regional Diabetes Center at 802-847-1014.

MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers.

Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support.

Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2 p.m. The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh.

For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com.

SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (parking in back of church/please use back entrance).

Meetings are FREE and anonymous.

For more info please call 802-8632655.

RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com.

AL-ANON Family group 12-step.

Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. “WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.

Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing.

Join us any time! Childcare reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children.

Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Burlington evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Comfort Inn and Suites, corner of Williston Rd. and Dorset St. from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772.

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FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives.

Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food?

Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators.

Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 760-9203.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094.

LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

CENTRAL VERMONT SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS COPING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES will meet at the Easter Seals office in Berlin the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New members welcome. Facilitated by Kristi Lenart, BA. For more information, call Kristi at 802-223-4744.

SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions.

Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com

STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com.

MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345.

SQUEAKY WHEELS, RUSTY HINGES: Focus groups meet at the Branon’s Pool in St. Albans for socialization, maintaining, wellbeing, improving performance of daily activities by managing aches through sharing experiences and workout in the warm water. Meeting is free, onehour pool pass, swimsuit, required.

802-527-7957.

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153.

MEN’S GROUP FORMING: Based on the work of David Deida, Core Energetics and other awareness practices. The intention of the group is to serve members into being the most extraordinary men that they can be. It is for men who are dying to penetrate every bit of the world with their courage, their presence, their unbridled passion and relentless love, and their deepest burning, bubbling, brilliant desire.

The group will function as a means for men to support each other and serve the greater good. We will be working with spiritual practices, the mind and body, and taking on our lives with the utmost integrity, impeccability and openness. The group is not a new-age group, nor is it a group dedicated to therapy.

Info, email zach@handelgroup. com or call 917-887-1276.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Open to anyone who has lost a loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker to suicide. The group provides a safe place where survivors can share their experiences and support each other. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. at the The Comfort Inn & Suites, 5 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group.

There is no fee. Please contact Linda Livendale, 802-479-9450, ljlivendale@yahoo.com.

DEBTORS ANON: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with money and debt? We can help.

Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Redstone Campus First Presbyterian Church, South Prospect St. Sat. 10-11:30 a.m. Contact Brenda, 802-4970522 or Cameron, 802-363-3747.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier.

Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345.

BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749.

CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS: A group offering support if you have lost a child to adoption or are in reunion or have yet to begin your search. 802-849-2244.

EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554.

HEPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP: Second Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30. Community Health Center, second floor, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington, 802-355-8936.

AUTISM SUPPORT DAILY: Free support group for parents of children with autism. 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston. 1st Monday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Call Lynn, 802-660-7240, or visit us at http://www.AutismSupportDaily. com for more info.

OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114.

AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961, for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996.

HAIR PULLERS SUPPORT GROUP: The Vermont TTM Support Group is a new support group for adult pullers (18+) affected by trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling), as well as parents of pullers. This will be a supportive, safe, comfortable and confidential environment.

Meets on the 4th Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Info, 453-3688 or vermont_ttmoutreach@yahoo.com.

DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285.

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THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EAST CHAPTER of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 4825319. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause.

DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278.

WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present.

WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community.

Info, 658-1996.

VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www.

VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351.

MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mentalhealth professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting.

Info, call Fred or Bennye, 6553317, or Patricia, 658-6904.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516, or visit www.cvana.org. Held in Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. For more information, call 860-8388 or toll-free, 1-866972-5266.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Men call Sandy, 863-5708. Women call Valerie, 802-760-9203.

SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309.

DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information?

Write addpartner@yahoo.com.

WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds.

DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612.

PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1877-543-9498 for more info.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-434-4423 or email: dragonheartvermont@ gmavt.net or go to: www.dragonheartvermont.org.

NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, Yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim’s House, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-862-8882 or vt@alsanne.org.

HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I’m starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/family/social life. Let’s share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology.

Marlene, 999-8005.

SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel.com.

MENTAL ILLNESSES: The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill holds support meetings for the families and friends of the mentally ill at Howard Center, corner of Flynn and Pine. Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. Park in Pine St. lot and walk down ramp.

862-6683 for info.

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Transgender, Queer and Questioning: Support groups for survivors of partner violence, sexual violence and bias/hate crimes. Free and confidential. SafeSpace, 863-0003 or 866-869-7341 (toll-free).

FAMILY/FRIENDS OF THOSE suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: second Monday of the month, 4-5 p.m. The Arbors.

985-8600.

“HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support.

DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 7-8 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Tuesday 5:30-6:30 p.m., Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, Burlington. Saturdays, 1011:30 a.m., King Street Youth Center, 87 King St., Burlington. Info, call Brenda 893-7752 or Cameron, 363-3747.

BURLINGTON MEN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3742. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions and drumming.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 and join a group in your area.

AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free.

Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-8388. Do you have a friend or relative with an alcohol problem? Al-Anon can help.

DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL violence: WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS Anonymous: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, VT 05402. Get help through this weekly 12-step program.

ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS: Burlington, meets at Birchwood Terrace, 2nd & 4th Wed., at 1:30 p.m.

Colchester, meets at FAHC, Fanny Allen Campus, 1st Thurs. of month at 3 and 7 p.m. Shelburne, meets at The Arbors, 2nd Tues. of month at 10 a.m.

DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S disease support group for the caregivers: Barre, meets at Rowan Ct., 4th Wed. of month at 3 p.m. Montpelier, 338 River St., 2nd Wed. of month at 7 p.m.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE: meets 1st Tues. of each month at the Heineburg Sr. Ctr., Heineburg Ave., Burlington. Lunch is avail. by calling 863-3982 in advance.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT group: FAHC. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 56:30 p.m. Call Rose, 847-5714.

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Supervisory clinician needed for the Chittenden Clinic to work with patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment. Individual will provide clinical supervision to clinicians; clinical services to patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy; clinical evaluations; plus make referrals to appropriate services. Clinician will also develop and review individualized treatment plans and provide administrative tasks as appropriate. Master’s required in counseling/social work with min. five years experience. Licensure in mental health and experience in substance abuse preferred.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY Adult Outpatient Division Substance Abuse Screener: Part-time (10-12 hrs/wk) clinical position providing substance abuse assessments and referrals to DWI offenders as part of Vermont’s Project CRASH program. Must be able to work independently, work with a wide range of individuals, and be highly organized. BA in Human Service field required, plus 2 years of related experience or equivalent. Must also have certification/license as an Alcohol & Drug Counselor. Flexible work hours.

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN–CHITTENDEN CENTER

The Chittenden Clinic methadone program is seeking a male lab technician/case manager. Primary responsibilities include observing and collecting samples for drug testing, analyzing and reporting data, ordering supplies and other administrative duties as needed (approximately 80%). Case management responsibilities include acting as a referral source and helping individuals navigate public systems, including health care, housing, corrections (approximately 20%). Candidate must be a reliable team player. Bachelor’s degree required. Hours are Monday through Friday 6:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

CRT Division Clinician: Full time position with full benefits providing clinical and case management services for individuals, groups, and families in support of recovery from the impact of symptoms of psychiatric disabilities. Supportive teamoriented work environment, guided by recovery values, and supportive of innovative practices and professional development. Master’s Degree in human service field, own transportation and good driving record required.

Community Support Worker: This position entails the provision of outreach support services to adults coping with the impact of mental illness on their lives. We are seeking someone who has excellent communication skills; who has an ability to work with clients with patience, insight, and compassion; and who can work well with a team. Must have own transportation. 30 hours/week, weekend availability a plus, excellent benefits. Flexible contracted hours also available.

PART-TIME NURSE – CHITTENDEN CENTER

The Chittenden Clinic, a Burlington methadone clinic, seeks a part-time nurse or LPN to join our team.

This position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone and suboxone via a computer-based dispensing system to patients in a methadone treatment program, and conducting patient education of safe methadone practice, harm reduction and general health issues relevant to individuals with opiate addiction and/or other substance abuse problems.

Residential Care Provider: Full time positions with benefits are available for a new residential program. We are seeking individuals to assist in maintaining a living environment supportive of recovery. Applicants are sought who have an understanding of challenges associated with mental illness and who have a desire to be a helpful presence for others. Part time substitute hours also available.

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Intensive School Supports Program Interventionist: Provide direct intervention and training to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior, daily living and academic or pre-academic skills to children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Emotional Behavioral Disorder. Bachelor’s degree in education or human services field. Valid Vermont driver’s license, registered vehicle and insurance that complies with Agency policy. 37.5 hours per week with benefits.

Seeking to fill two positions immediately in the Environmental Services Program of the Facilities Department to perform routine and complex cleaning and maintenance of agency buildings.

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Loan Officer Community Capital of Vermont seeks qualified applicants for a Loan Officer position.Community Capital is a nonprofit community lender offering flexible and affordable financing and technical assistance to Vermont micro and small business owners who do not yet qualify for traditional bank financing. The successful candidate must have a demonstrated dedication and commitment to excellence and performance, be independent and creative, be willing to travel and work at least two days a week in the field, and be able to work as part of a team. Must have familiarity with business and/or lending concepts; analytical skills, attention to detail and experience with financial and information management systems; written and oral communications skills; enjoy working with people; working knowledge of Microsoft Office products; and experience working with public grant programs, following regulations and filing reports. This is a full-time, 40 hour/week position. Community Capital contracts with Central Vermont Community Action Council (CVCAC) for its staffing; the Loan Officer will be an employee of CVCAC and will receive CVCACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent benefits.

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Application deadline: November 14, 2008.

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Saint Michael’s College is seeking individuals for two key positions within the Edmundite Campus Ministry Office.

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Assistant Director of Campus Ministry for Retreats & Formation

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Night Cleaners Planet Fitness is looking for Monday-Thursday night cleaners. This is a 3rd shift position that starts at 10pm and goes at least until 2am. Cleaning skills and experience are a bonus but not required. Planet Fitness has many unique qualities to offer and cleanliness is on the top of the list! We require that our cleaners are thorough and pay close attention to detail.

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