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the Maritime Museum’s withdrawal. Seven Days political columnist Shay Totten noted it on Blurt, the Seven Days staff blog. “While I’m disappointed that the Maritime Museum has decided to withdraw from the Moran Project,” said Kiss, “the city’s ﬁnancial plan has been structured to allow for this possibility. The redevelopment of Moran continues to be an exciting opportunity for Burlington’s Waterfront and the city’s future.” Our blog post drew multiple comments from readers, some supportive of the redevelopment project, others not so much. Join the conversation on Blurt at sevendaysvt. com, or on Facebook at facebook.com/sevendaysvt.

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Was the frown face regarding the “milk run” a mistake [“Facing Facts,” September 22]? The presence of the word “odd” also threw me off. The fact that Vermont has a higher amount of women breast-feeding their 1-year-olds is a good thing. This is part of the breastfeeding goals set forth by many health organizations, including the World Health Organization. I know that when I heard the numbers were higher for this statistic this year, I breathed a sigh of relief to see the stats going in an upward direction. The Burlington area is very breast-feeding-friendly, especially compared to many other parts of the country. I would be very disappointed to see a progressive publication frowning upon women doing great things for their babies’ — and own — health. April Richards-Bradt SOUTH BURLINGTON

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As a construction manager for 25 years, I’ve coordinated the construction or renovation of 400 homes and commercial spaces: half new construction, half renovation of existing or historic buildings. I’ve been on the Design Advisory Board as a member for four years, and as an alternate for six. So I’ve been on both sides of the planning office a lot. There’s nothing much easier than taking potshots at this staff, including Mary O’Neil [“The Preservation Police,” September 22]. Someone, an applicant or the applicant’s neighbor, is unhappy with the outcome of nearly every application. It’s been my experience that a “homeowner” denied approval to erect a vinyl box addition that dwarfs the original house and will produce thousands a month in rental income will likely invoke the “planning in a vacuum” line. Of course, the relieved neighbors will say how impressed they were that the volunteer board could grasp the application, blueprints, regulations, staff recommendations and applicant presentation to come to “the right decision.” The next

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I would have never pegged Seven Days as a supporter of slumlords and profitdriven developers [“The Preservation Police,” September 22]. You take a public servant and paint her as, to quote your paper, “a zealot bent on preserving the past at all costs.” Instead of focusing on what is truly at fault here — the convoluted zoning

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LOOKING FORWARD

SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 06, 2010 VOL.16 NO.05

NEWS 14

Lieutenant Governor’s Race: Who’s the Real Middle-Class Hero?

FEATURES

August “Gus” Jaccaci Wants to Give Peter Welch a “Two-Year Sabbatical”

Sports: Burlington MMA ﬁghter Noah Weisman charts a course for the big leagues BY LAUREN OBER

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Outdoors: Vermont’s ridgeline runners step it up

BY ANDY BROMAGE

BY BRIAN MOHR

ARTS NEWS 22

“Mad Scientists” Make Creative Robotics in the Wee Hours

36 Information, Please

The Other “24”

38 A State of Mind

Technology: A “bank” in Chester saves data, not dollars BY KEN PICARD

BY MEGAN JAMES

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COLUMNS

30 Ring Man

BY ANDY BROMAGE

French Twist

Up Against the Wall

We just had to ask... BY KEN PICARD

28 Poli Psy

On the public uses and abuses of emotion BY JUDITH LEVINE

43 Side Dishes

Music news and views BY DAN BOLLES

Food: Making soup that doesn’t suck

REVIEWS

19 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

63 Soundbites

42 Taking Stock

BY MEGAN JAMES

BY SHAY TOT TEN

BY SUZANNE PODHAIZER & ALICE LEVIT T

BY AMY LILLY

BY MARGOT HARRISON

Open season on Vermont politics

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The Drawer Boy; The Light in the Piazza

BY NICK PAT TEN & JOSHUA ROSEN

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Freight, Freight; Mary McGinniss, Red Tails and the Road

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When he ﬁnally relented and turned to shake Shumlin’s hand, you could hear Shumlin say to Dubie, “Let it go, buddy.” Easier said than done. Neither is likely to yield an inch of political ground — out of pride or fear. My fear is that we’ve turned a corner in Vermont politics, where dirty tricks are de rigueur. Now, that’s a scary thought.

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Is Brian Dubie fairly attacking Peter Shumlin’s prison savings plan? It doesn’t really matter, because the emotional response is all that counts when politicians talk about crime. Dubie is winning this one hands down. Expect to hear more about how dangerous criminals will be rewarded under a Shumlin administration. It’s not like we can compare plans. Dubie has only offered vague promises about how he intends to keep Vermonters safe and secure. Dubie has proposed a 2 percent spending-growth cap across all of state government. Applied to corrections, which has been growing by 8 to 10

percent a year, that would curb prison spending by more than $8 million a year, or close to $35 million within four years. Shumlin claims his plan would save $40 million over the same time period. KATE DUFFY, Dubie’s campaign spokeswoman, couldn’t say if Dubie would apply that growth cap to corrections or the state police budgets. “The number-one job of government is public safety, and Brian wouldn’t put that at risk,” said Duffy. Of course not. Dubie’s campaign also maintains that child pornographers are nonviolent offenders. Fact is, possession and distribution of child pornography are both considered violent offenses under Vermont law. Child-porn statutes were adopted in 1983 and updated in 1999; in 2002, the Department of Corrections added them to a group of so-called “listed” offenses that require treatment in prison. A person convicted of such crimes is also less likely to get out of jail early. Either Dubie knows this and chose to ignore it, or he didn’t bother to find out.

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Here’s an odd contrast: Peter Shumlin, the Democrat, is the capitalist, self-made millionaire who wants to enact singlepayer health care and universal pre-K. Brian Dubie, the Republican, wants to cut taxes and shrink government despite the fact that taxpayers have been paying his way for decades. Shumlin went public with the list of his considerable assets late last Friday afternoon. Turns out his net worth is around $10 million: half in real estate and half in cash, stocks and investments. He owns 18 properties, including a stone cabin on Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, and seven cars. That’s some carbon footprint. For the record, Dubie has a few properties, too: three separate parcels in Fairﬁeld and his home in Essex Junction. He only has two cars, though. With $1.2 million in assets and an annual household income topping $165,000, Dubie is no pauper — unless you compare him to Shumlin. More importantly, Dubie’s wealth is derived from years of working in government, for government or in governmentsupported industries.

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The small-government, antitax candidate is a product of public schools, including the University of Vermont. He attended the government-funded U.S. Air Force Academy tuition free, though he left midway through his junior year. Even his family’s Fairfield maple-sugaring operation gets a tax break: Dubie saves almost $1000 annually in property taxes because it’s enrolled in the state’s current-use program to preserve agricultural land. Participation in the program knocks about $157,000 off the land’s taxable value. Taxpayers now cough up $63,000 for his part-time lite-gov gig, and he also works as an airline pilot — an industry that has received massive federal bailouts. And, Dubie is in the Air Force Reserve. No wonder he’s willing to “serve” the public. It’s paid off rather nicely.

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The Vermont AFL-CIO voted Sunday to back Peter Shumlin in the governor’s race. No surprise, but a contingent representing workers at Vermont Yankee had been pushing the union to back Brian Dubie or stay neutral. One of those supporters — GeoRGe Clain of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 300 — is paying a price for his loyalty. The 1200member union endorsed Dubie, and Clain has emerged as a “Democrat for Dubie.” The latter affiliation got Clain into trouble, because he has the designated labor seat on the Vermont Democratic Party’s state committee. The party asked Clain to resign and the Vermont AFL-CIO to find a replacement. “Given his high-profile endorsement and activity for Brian Dubie, we thought it was only fair to seek a new representative to the state committee,” said RoBeRt DemPsey, the party’s executive director. Clain resigned on Monday. The union expects to name a replacement next week. m

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budget, a single staffer and an annual salary of $60,507. Job duties include presiding over and breaking ties in the state Senate. During his eight years as lieutenant governor in the Democrat-dominated Senate, Brian Dubie only got to vote three times. The lieutenant governor stands in for the governor in case of absence, incapacitation or death, but he or she isn’t the governor’s running mate — it’s a separately elected office. The post is widely misunderstood, according to Eric Davis, professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College. “I think most people think it’s like the vice presidency, where it’s part of the administration,” Davis says, “and it’s really not.” Can the post lead to higher office? Sure, says Davis, offering Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin as examples. Dubie is currently giving it his best shot. Historically, Vermont’s lieutenant governors have used their high-profile post

to advocate for some niche public-policy issue. Dubie focused on trade issues, introducing Vermont products to potential partners, from Québec to Cuba. Howard wants to use the lieutenant governor’s post as a launching pad to build a grassroots “movement” to give Vermonters the “power they need to make the changes they want.” Modeling himself on U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Howard pledges, if elected, to visit every town in Vermont once a year, hold town meetings in every county and knock on 10,000 doors to stay in touch with the needs of average Vermonters. Scott believes Vermont and America have become too dependent on others and wants to advance policies that promote selfreliance in food, energy and manufacturing. Three lesser-known candidates are also running, each with his or her own agenda. Progressive Marjorie Power, a 68-year-old retired state lawyer from Montpelier, wants a single-payer health

f all the candidates, Howard is the youngest and most fiery. He was 21 when he first got elected to the state House of Representatives; the campaign qualified as an “internship” while he was earning a degree in political science at Boston College. Three years later, Howard became chairman of the state Democratic Party. An openly gay man, Howard was profiled in a 1997 Advocate magazine feature titled “The Best and Brightest Under 30.” Among his goals, Howard listed becoming Vermont’s first openly gay secretary of state, then its governor and, finally, president of the United States. After three terms as a rep, Howard left electoral office to start a consultancy, organizing for groups such as the Global AIDS Initiative, NARAL Pro-Choice Vermont and the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks. He returned to the House in 2004 and spent three terms as a member of the taxwriting Ways and Means Committee. A dozen years in the Statehouse is time enough to get to know Montpelier. Nonetheless, Howard is casting himself as the outsider in the lieutenant governor’s race. “The insiders have a lovefest with my opponent,” Howard says of Scott. “They would like this to become a beauty contest, and they’d like to crown him Mr. Montpelier.” LT. GOv.’S RACE

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Howard says he’s running to reverse the state policies of the last eight years, which he says have cost Vermont 10,000 privatesector jobs and state services for the needy. He blames Scott for those ills, along with Dubie, Gov. Jim Douglas and President George W. Bush. Howard’s motto amounts to “no more corporate welfare, no more tax breaks for the wealthy, and get rid of waste in the health care system.” But he insists he isn’t A HEALTHY BODY anti-rich. BEGINS WITH “Some of my best friends are wealthy,” A HEALTHY SPINE he says. “I just don’t think they need help from state government. It’s really RUSHFORD FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC about Whose side are you on?” 100 Dorset Street, Suite 21 • 860-3336 Scott, 52, grew up in Barre and worked www.rushfordchiropractic.com summers as a laborer for DuBois Construction Inc. — the business he now co-owns. 12v-rusford-031710.indd 1 3/12/10 3:01:24 PM He’s spent the last decade representing Washington County in the state Senate, where he has earned a reputation as a bipartisan lawmaker. Two eggs lightly poached He chairs the Institutions Committee, which together with bacon & fresh decides how to spend tens of millions of dollars in capital bonds. parsley, encrusted & deep At Thunder Road, Scott is known as the fried. Served on a bed of “Flying Senator” and has become a fan fababy field greens & drizzled vorite for his clean yet competitive driving style. Notably, he’s the winningest driver with hollandaise sauce. in the track’s history, with more victories Mmmmm! under his belt — 22 in all — than any driver in Thunder Road history, says track managing partner Tom Curley. All this and m Scott’s campaign plays off the stock-car ore for persona. On his website, which has a checkered-flag motif, he’s pictured in his racing 9am-4pm suit. He even bought a fiberglass cow for Burlington’s Church Street and fashioned it into a race car. Kids can sit in the cow-car’s ...did we mention back and turn the steering wheel. we have apple cider Scott bristles at Howard’s claim that he is working against middle-class interests. donuts and sweet “Look at the calluses on my hands, the potato corned dirt under my fingernails,” Scott says. “I beef hash? fight for the middle class every day. Those are my people.” Laid back and even tempered, Scott thinks less government is often better government. He voted to let Vermont poultry farmers sell uninspected chicken meat directly to restaurants, as long as it was clearly labeled as such. He opposes laws mandating seatbelts for adults in cars and helmets for motorcyclists, though he says, personally, he’d never go without either. “I’ve got this independent, libertarian streak to me,” he says. Both Scott and Howard are brandishing 36 Main Street, Winooski endorsements as proof of their middle-class 802-497-1884 credentials. Howard has won the backing www.ourhousebistro.com of the Vermont Troopers’ Association, the Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont, 16 LOCAL MATTERS

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paid] CEO of Entergy Louisiana who will pay the price if something goes wrong.” Tax policy has divided the candidates, too. Howard has attacked Scott for supporting the so-called “domestic production deduction,” a federal tax credit that lets manufacturers deduct a portion of their production expenses on their state tax returns. Howard says the tax credit is bad on two fronts: Multistate companies can claim the deduction for out-of-state costs; and the credit does little to help struggling businesses, because only profitable ones have income to offset. He faults Scott for voting to increase the credit to 9 percent last year, even as lawmakers were slashing services for the needy. Scott argues that Howard is “blowing it out of proportion.” Increasing the deduction to 9 percent is costing Vermont an additional $1.7 million in foregone revenue — not a huge sum, in Scott’s estimation. He says homegrown companies such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Cabot Creamery have requested it. “Those businesses that are trying to be profitable in the state of Vermont are ones that we should not forget about,” Scott says. “This is just a small little step to give a sense that Vermont is open for business.” On taxing capital gains, the two candidates are split, as well. Howard wants to close “loopholes” that he perceives as giving money to wealthy Vermonters who “don’t need the help.” Scott sees capital-gains taxes as another barrier to growing jobs. Speaking from experience, Scott says small-business owners spend a lifetime plowing their profits back into a company “for the privilege of giving up a huge portion of it in capital gains when you go to sell it, or transfer it to your kids or whatever. “We’re taking more than our fair share in this state,” Scott says. Howard and Scott have sparred in two debates so far and have several more scheduled, including an October 4 appearance on Channel 17 with the three lesserknown candidates. Davis says the race is too close to call but points out that Scott finished strong in the Republican primary, beating businessman Mark Snelling by 13 points. “Scott closed very fast. He pulled that primary out in the last 19 days,” Davis says. Scott closes fast on the racetrack, too. In the final laps of the Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road, he battled back from ninth place to clinch second in a field of 30 cars. As he passed the waving checkered flag, a rainbow appeared over the hills of Washington County. Was it a good omen for Howard or Scott? We’ll find out on November 2. m

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We’re Working Vermonters, just like you. the Vermont AFL-CIO, the Vermont NEA and the Vermont State Employees Association. Scott’s website lists endorsements from the National Rifle Association, Associated General Contractors of Vermont and at least one prominent Democrat: Sen. Dick Mazza of Colchester.

iddlebury’s Eric Davis describes both Howard and Scott as “up-by-their-own bootstraps people.” The similarities end there, though. The two have very different views on whether to relicense Vermont Yankee nuclear plant for another 20 years. Scott was one of four senators who voted against shutting the nuke plant down in February; he favored letting the Vermont Public Service Board, rather than the legislature, decide the issue. Today, Scott says he’s “not sure” whether the plant should remain operating for another 20 years. He’s worried about the “vast amount of power that we’re going to lose when Vermont Yankee is shut down,” but makes it clear: “If Vermont Yankee isn’t safe, shut it down.” Howard is firmly anti-Vermont Yankee. He believes the nuke plant’s radioactive leaks and the recent misstatements by company executives to lawmakers leave the state with no choice but to close the plant as scheduled in 2012. “If you look at the BP disaster in the Gulf, you see what could potentially happen to Vermont and to all of our jobs that are dependent on our brand, on a clean environment, if something goes wrong there,” Howard says. “I think Vermonters know it won’t be the shareholders or the [highly

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networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Finally, she offers another theory about lawn signs’ critical role in the political process: They remind clueless and undecided voters to go to the polls. “For people like me, who live and breathe politics and were brought up in it my whole life, it would never occur to me not to know [that],” Johnston says. “But there are people who don’t have a pulse on it at all and have a hard enough time knowing there’s an election going on.” Selene Hofer-Shall is managing partner of Theseus Advisors in Burlington, a political consulting ﬁrm that works exclusively with Democratic candidates. Her clients this year include Chittenden County state’s attorney T.J. Donovan and state senatorial candidate Philip Baruth. Hofer-Shall suggests that lawns signs are like any other form of mass marketing: a device for generating “visual impressions” to create name recognition that lasts, at least through election day. Sure, social-networking tools are cheaper and just as effective, possibly even more so among younger voters, she offers. “But we don’t have high-speed Internet in a good chunk of the state,” says Hofer-Shall, “so you’re not going to get a lot of people with Twitter and Google ads.” Hofer-Shall confesses that she’s not a huge fan of lawn signs, either, and often reminds clients that an abundance of them doesn’t necessarily translate into votes. Nevertheless, she’s yet to meet a candidate willing to eschew them. “I don’t think we’re there yet,” HoferShall admits, “though I’d love to see that day.” Wouldn’t we all. 

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says Melodie Bean, founder and owner of Vantage Press in Burlington, which prints many of the yard signs for Chittenden County candidates of all stripes. Bean admits that her perspective as a printer may be somewhat skewed. But she offers a theory of why signs are effective: Emails and other electronic messages just don’t reach as many people. “I work electronically all day,” she says, “so when I get home, the last thing I want to even consider looking at is more technology. No computer, no email, no Facebook, none of that at home.” Fair enough. But plenty of registered voters are on the Internet in their free time. And virtually all candidates for elected office still feel compelled to leave their marks on every greenbelt, grassy knoll and tree-lined avenue, like canines with full bladders.

Eric Davis, professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College, suggests that yard signs are simply an inexpensive way of creating name recognition, especially for candidates — such as those running for the legislature — who can’t afford broadcast or print ads or mailings. “In some neighborhoods where yard signs are common, they can be a form of ‘one-upmanship’ among candidates [to say,] ‘I have more supporters than you,’” he adds. Darcie Johnston, of Johnston Consulting in Montpelier, is a longtime political consultant for Republican and independent candidates. A former staffer for Sen. Jim Jeffords — her father also worked for Jeffords for many years — she’s been immersed in politics her entire life. Johnston suggests a few reasons why lawn signs are still in vogue and haven’t been replaced by higher-tech media: They’re cheap and visible to a wide section of the populace, and they make it easy for candidates to show the depth and breadth of their support in a community. Moreover, she notes that lawn signs reach the most “reliable” voters, meaning people who consistently turn out for every election: seniors. As Johnston points out, such voters are still well above the average age of users of social-

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These numbers are puzzling, to put it mildly. Let’s break it down: 1. Running the AC meant a big mileage hit at virtually any speed. The one sort-of exception was the Corvette at 55 mph — with the AC on, fuel efficiency fell just 3 percent. 2. To our surprise, in some cases rolling down the windows without touching the AC made fuel efficiency go up. The most striking instance of this was the Corvette at 55 mph. With the AC off and windows up, it recorded 33.7 miles per gallon. When the windows were rolled down,

gas mileage rose sharply to 37.2 miles per gallon. A fluke? Fierra and Una ran the test three times, always with the same result. With the AC on, the reverse happened: When the windows were up, the ’Vette managed 32.8 miles per gallon; when they were down it got only 29.6. 3. Dex experienced the same thing in his Camry at a lower speed. At 25 mph, his car displayed much better fuel efficiency with the windows down. How do I explain this? For the moment, at least, I don’t. All I can say right now is what we might have predicted, Tony: Unless you bought a Corvette, that car salesman’s AC spiel was hot air.

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hypothesis being that reduced drag from closed windows might compensate for the extra energy needed for the AC. The results were inconclusive then. However, with the move toward better streamlining in the years since, it stands to reason that window drag would loom larger as a percentage of total drag, if you follow me. Translation: Now, under some circumstances, running the AC might actually save you gas. Other researchers have had the same thought. Tony sent us a newspaper story from this past July saying GM wind-tunnel and proving-ground tests showed drag was negligible at city speeds, meaning you were better off with the AC off and the windows down. At speeds above 55 miles per hour, though, the opposite was true — open windows reduced gas mileage 20 percent while AC reduced it just 10 percent. The crossover point was 40 mph. Here was a contention worth checking. Lab results were one

thing; we needed to know how things worked in the real world. I sounded the klaxon in the Straight Dope Labs ready room and rousted out some volunteers. My assistant Dex had a Camry hybrid that measured gas mileage in tenths of a gallon. Fierra and Una, meanwhile, said they’d drive around in Fierra’s 2008 Corvette, which also calculated gas mileage in tenths, no doubt for the benefit of the many economy-minded individuals who buy muscle cars. Each car was tested at 25, 40 and 55 mph, with multiple runs at each speed. The temp throughout was in the 80s and 90s. Here are the results, listed in this order: (1) AC off, windows up; (2) AC off, windows down; (3) AC on, windows up; (4) AC on, windows down. (Number haters, visit straightdope.com to see some easy-to-understand graphs.)

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hen he takes control of the clay extruder from a struggling novice, it’s clear John Brickels is an expert. His right thumb, the one he uses to force the rough glop through the device, is twice the size of his left. He employs the massive digit, and the clay squirts out in fine angel hair. It’s a wonder Brickels has that much force in his hands at four in the morning. Then again, Brickels and the rest of the mad scientists, as he calls his workshop participants, have already been in the studio for an hour. “Two a.m. is just staying up late,” he says, explaining why he chooses to hold his “Mad Scientist Workshop” at the Backspace in Burlington’s Soda Plant from 3 to 6 a.m. on occasional Saturdays. “Four a.m. is just getting up

early, like a farmer,” he continues. “Three a.m. is truly awful.” Funny thing is, everyone around his work table is smiling. Wearing lab coats that Brickels provides, the 10 participants in this session are busy building robots and other mysterious machinery out of brown clay, vacuum tubes, wire and taxidermy eyes. A few people swear they actually work better at this time of night. Book artist Jill Abilock claims the left side of her brain is still asleep, allowing the creative right to take control. Brickels’ wife, Wendy James, suggests the inconvenient time weeds out people who wouldn’t be quite right for the workshop, anyway. The kind of person who would agree to such a thing has to be, well, mad. To Brickels, the workshop, which he’s held twice and hopes to offer monthly, is the culmination of a yearlong effort to engage with the outside world, a celebration of not going mad.

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At the recommendation of his therapist, Brickels started looking for studio space, and found it in a well-lit corner of the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in the Soda Plant. (Backspace is the cavernous addendum behind the gallery.) The “Mad Scientist Workshop” begins with the donning of lab coats, an introduction to a table full of coffee, donuts and candy bars, and a short presentation. Brickels, in bow tie, lab coat and black Converse All Stars, offers tips on making clay resemble machinery: Follow the rules of dynamic scientific design, embellish with bolts and washers, and do not fear the secret ingredient: alphabet macaroni. John Brickels, center, Then he lets the scientists oversees his “scientists.” loose. About an hour in, things are shaping up around the table. Cole For 12 years, the artist, renowned for his McDermott, a junior at South Burlington dilapidated houses and inventive robots created in clay, worked in the basement High School, is putting flourishes on a of his Essex Junction home. It was a nice battered-looking underwater machine. basement, he says, and great for the clay. He has stamped the name “Matilda” on its base using the macaroni, which But the isolation began to wear on him. “I would get really anxious stepping burns off in the kiln and leaves behind outside in the afternoon to get the mail,” its impression. When I suggest it looks like somehe explains in an email following the thing out of 20,000 Leagues Under the workshop. “I felt really wiggy getting out Sea, McDermott smiles and lifts his into the fresh air, looking both ways to T-shirt. Along the side of his ribcage is cross the street, blue sky over my head, a foot-tall tattoo of a Jules Verne-style grabbing the mail and ducking back into

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The Other “24” Sometimes your best ideas strike in the middle of the night. Now is your chance to act on them — or at least put them in a comic book. This Saturday, practiced and newbie cartoonists will flock to Montpelier’s Kellogg-Hubbard Library and Williston’s Artists’ Mediums to participate in the 20th annual 24-Hour Comics Challenge. Armed with pens, paper and snacks, they won’t leave until each has finished a 24-page comic book. “When I sat down to put pen to paper that day, it was the first time I had to draw a comic,” says Dan Barlow, cofounder of Trees & Hills Comic Group, which is organizing the Montpelier event, of his first comics challenge five years ago. “I felt like I was using parts of my brain I’d never used before.” It all started a couple of decades ago as a friendly challenge between California-based cartoonist Scott McCloud and Stephen Bissette, who teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. Best known for his work with DC Comics, Bissette was notorious for never meeting his deadlines, says Barlow. “But he could sketch like a mad man,” Barlow adds. “You could tell him, ‘OK, T. Rex versus Swamp Thing. Go!’” So McCloud, capitalizing on that raw, unconstrained energy, challenged his buddy to complete a 24-page comic book in 24 hours. The two artists found it so invigorating that they decided to do it every year. Now, hundreds — if not thousands — of cartoonists recognize an official 24-

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A millionaire’s kidnapping exposes his secret life. A movie producer struggles with his finances and eccentric auteurs. A troubled KGB agent finds himself revealing too much to a French spy. A working-class family man can’t stop thinking about his son’s pretty teacher. Those are some tense plots you can watch unfold starting Friday at MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS at a showcase called New French Films, screened in conjunction with BURLINGTON CITY ARTS’ International Arts Celebration. Locals may remember that French flicks took over the Roxy in July 2009 for the Lake Champlain quadricentennial festivities. Back then, “a desire on our part was to meaningfully connect France and Québec in particular,” says Quad organizer and local filmmaker JAY CRAVEN. So he got in touch with the cultural officer of the Consulate General of France in Boston, which contributed $5000 for four days of film screenings. The Quad is history, but Craven wanted to continue New French Films as a stand-alone event. “In thinking about France culturally,” he points out, “film automatically comes to the top of the list. No country more than France has devoted such cultural resources to film.” So Craven again went to the French consulate, which contributed $1800 to this year’s weeklong event with the proviso that one 35mm print be shipped from France. That’s Rapt (2009), the kidnapping story, which has screened in the U.S. at festivals. Stephen Holden gave it thumbs-up in the New York Times, writing that the movie “plays shrewdly into the growing public disgust with entitled elites.” He also liked Farewell, the fact-based spy story in a Reagan-era setting. The other three films have seen more play stateside, but they’re worth a look — particularly 35 Shots of Rum, from acclaimed director Claire Denis; and Mia Hansen-Løve’s The Father of My Children, which sounds like a domestic drama but is actually about the messy movie business. Craven says he’ll “try to continue to develop that relationship” with the consulate; he’s currently in talks about curating a French film showcase at CATAMOUNT ARTS in St. Johnsbury as part of next spring’s GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL. What’s the next creative project for the Peacham filmmaker, whose last feature, Disappearances, came out in 2006? Craven has been developing a drama based on Judgment Ridge, Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff’s account of the 2001 murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop. The filmmaker, who personally knew the two teenagers responsible, calls it a “very complex story” that still stirs up powerful feelings in locals: “There’s controversy about whether I should do it or not,” he says. Less controversially, Craven has the rights to They Don’t Dance Much, a 1940 “country noir” novel by James Ross with a cult following. As always, says Craven, the biggest challenge to indie filmmaking is financing. But he’s happy to have New French Films under way with help from les Français. “We hope distributors will attach growing value to a Burlington showcase of French film,” Craven says. “We certainly felt last summer that people who are just loyal to film were thrilled to have the exposure.” Mais oui.

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Is graffiti still graffiti if it’s sanctioned? What if it’s spray-painted on a plywood “canvas” in front of a live audience, rather than on a wall under cover of night? You can ponder these questions while sipping a beer at the MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY on Saturday at “Wall-to-Canvas,” a graffiti-arts competition organized by the SHELBURNE ART CENTER. “When you talk about street art, part of the allure is that it is illegal,” says the art center’s SARAH GRILLO. “It’s asking interesting questions about politics and society and the legality of space.” At the Artifactory, a dozen artists — most of them with real street-art cred, plus a few more traditional artists with a graffiti style — will have two hours to create works of art on plywood canvases. Audience members are free to watch the action or partake of the food, live music and beer. They will also choose the winner of the competition. The event culminates in an auction of the finished work to benefit the art education and residency program at the Shelburne Art Center. It wasn’t easy finding street artists to take part in the competition, Grillo notes. There just aren’t that many in Vermont. And, of the existing artists, some were wary about going public. But the center managed, through online sources and good old word of mouth, to recruit 12 artists, including Vermonters ADAM DEVARNEY and KRISTEN L’ESPÉRANCE. “All of them are pretty comfortable doing work out of a spray can,” says Grillo, and that’s primarily what the artists will use on Saturday. Whether or not their work counts as graffiti, they’re sure to put on a show. “We recognize that these people are legitimate artists and they have a lot of talent,” Grillo says. “We want to share that with the community.”

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Why, of the three associate planners of Burlington, is just one targeted [“The Preservation Police,” September 22]? Especially if she declined an interview, why does she become the target and the face of the article, her witch-like caricature not just on the article page, but on the cover of Seven Days? The job of the associate planner is to reinforce the historical values of Burlington, and Mary O’Neil does just that — not to mention that it’s one of the hardest and, yes, misunderstood jobs in city hall. So why does the writer willfully, ignorantly misconstrue her job? This article is inflammatory. It has become not a piece of journalism but a spectacle. meredith o’Neil burlington

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I am writing in response to the letter “Foie Facts” [“Feedback,” August 25]. I decided to take Pete Millar’s advice and go to YouTube to see the video for myself. Upon doing so, I came across a number of videos showing the production of foie gras. I had a difficult time finding a video that showed ducks that did not live in cramped cages or ducks that “flock to the tube.” In fact, the vast majority of videos I came across were extremely disturbing and almost unbearable to watch. They showed ducks that were squeezed into crowded cages, had tubes shoved down their throats, and some who appeared to be on the verge of death. There was an investigation conducted at Hudson Valley Foie Gras (one of the producers Mr. Millar mentioned). The investigation revealed anything but the humane treatment of the ducks. For example, the investigator came across a duck with a maggotcovered neck wound. The wound was so

bad that water poured out of it when the duck drank. After looking into the production of foie gras, I would have to disagree with Mr. Millar’s comment that the only bad thing that could happen is “ducks fighting each other to get the tube down their throats first.” My conclusion after considerable research is that the treatment of these animals and the production of foie gras are cruel. Jessie Bonaros burlington

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I am horrified at the cartoon image printed along with the [September 15] “Straight Dope” column. Seven Days would never print a cartoon African American image, or a cartoon that slandered a Jew. Heavy people in this culture are such targets for humiliation and shaming, and this image is misogynist, cruel, demeaning and dehumanizing. Also, although the column is informative, it leaves a lot out. Children of alcoholics and of abusive homes have a much higher incidence of obesity than the general public. Families who live in poverty don’t have the money for or the easy access to carrots and fresh greens. Often compulsive overeaters have had extraordinary emotional losses or stresses, and have learned to turn to food for comfort and/or numbing of pain. The primary intervention for these issues is not simply diet and exercise; it’s social justice and emotional healing. Anya raven Hunter, licSW burlington

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He also discovered that nearly all had fallen behind in their graduate credits in their freshman years. Most faced financial burdens in their home life. The state’s Department of Education Truancy & Dropout Prevention overview had similar findings, but it also mentions one other: “School is not meaningful or relevant.” The overview also states that Act 44 includes “several provisions directed toward strengthening support for students who would benefit from flexible pathways to graduation.” You can find additional information at the Department of Education website: www.education.vermont.gov/ new/html/pgm_truancy.html. Theodore A. Hoppe MontPelier

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Great that you have discovered that good food starts just over the border and not just all the way to Montréal [“Border Bites,” September 22]. Just as accessible as Bedford is Sutton, with an astonishing range of great eateries: Bistro Beaux Lieux for modern bistro food with a twist highlighting fresh, local ingredients; Tartin’Izza for thin-crust pizzas (don’t miss the duck version if it’s on offer); Chocolaterie Belge Muriel for decadent, Belgian-style chocolate made on the premises; and La Rumeur Affamée for local cheeses, cold cuts and bread baked by Pascal (ex-Le Fromentier in Montréal) just around the corner. There is a vineyard, Domaine Bresee, almost in the village, and another, Chapelle Ste. Agnès, just 10 minutes away that’s renowned for its ice wine. These last two are part of La Route des Vins — a signposted trail linking some 15 vineyards, none of which is more than 30 miles over the border.

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adding that Tasers are less harmful than those other things. He’d been Tased and he’d been sprayed, he avowed — and pepper is worse. Others who’ve been at the wrong end of the wire differ with the chief’s assessment. “My muscles contracted like this,” said “Robert” (who asked that his real name not be used), pulling his arms sharply back. “I fell down, tore up my knee, smashed my face.” Robert, 38, showed up at one of two recent community forums called “Questioning Tasers” organized by Aaron Kromash, an activist from Greensboro; the town contracts with the Hardwick PD for coverage. “You have no control of your body,” Robert continued. “You drool, you cry, you twitch. I felt like I was being tortured.” In November 2008, Robert recounted, he arrived at the emergency room at Copley Hospital in Morrisville suffering an extreme reaction to the smoking-cessation drug Chantix.

Chantix’s advertisements warn that the medication may cause “anxiety, panic, aggression, anger, mania, abnormal sensations, hallucinations, paranoia or confusion.” Robert was experiencing them all; he wishes hospital staff had immediately sedated him. Agitated, he exited the building past a Morristown police officer. The officer smiled, said Robert, then started Tasing — repeatedly — before dragging Robert back into the ER, where staff shackled and sedated him. Once home, Robert was served with a citation for disorderly conduct. He contested it to the Lamoille County State’s Attorney, attaching medical and psychiatric records attesting that he was under the inﬂuence of a drug gone wrong and had committed no crime. No charge was brought. Robert says he has suffered extreme aftereffects of the experience:

nightmares, panic, inability to concentrate. He was hospitalized again and underwent outpatient therapy for 18 months. “And it changed me,” he told the meeting. “I used to think the police were there to protect people.” Hospital records affirm Robert’s claim that he was shocked multiple times. The officer in question signed an affidavit saying he had administered only one ﬁve-second dose of electricity. The Morristown Police Department denied my request for the incident report, citing “privacy concerns for the person of interest and the witnesses involved” and arguing it is not a public record. Both the ACLU and I dispute this interpretation of statute; the Supreme Court allows redaction of names if privacy is a legitimate issue. The only incontrovertible arbiter would be the data the weapon records with each use. But Vermont’s Public Records Law, which is vague and unevenly enforced, does not specify whether these data should be publicly

accessible, or even require police to collect them. And the Taser leaves no visible trace. Not considered ﬁrearms, Tasers are unregulated by the federal government. In 43 states, including Vermont, civilians may carry them. For under $400, I can purchase a “consumer” model about the size and shape of an electric razor in a selection of colors, including pink and “electric blue.” Vermont has no statewide protocols governing the use of Tasers. Each police department makes its own rules and “Poli Psy” is a twice-monthly column by Judith Levine. Got a comment on this story? Contact levine@sevendaysvt.com.

decides whether the rules have been broken. And if a citizen objects, the complaint — like other allegations of police misconduct — is usually handled by the department itself, or the local select board or city council. The only recourse an aggrieved citizen has is to sue. Even if the cop zapped Legrande only once, that use could be considered excessive force. The UN and Amnesty International have condemned some cases of Taser use as a form of torture, in violation of international law. In fact, the shock could have killed Robert. From 2001 to 2008, according to Amnesty, more than 300 people in the U.S. and 25 in Canada died — many from cardiac arrest — after being Tased by

police — but no apology. “We still believe Mr. Fairbrother was not actually in the throes of a seizure,” said Assistant Attorney General J.J. Tyzbir. Vermont has made some progress. After Disability Rights Vermont (then Vermont Protection & Advocacy) investigated police Tasings at the Brattleboro Retreat, a successful “safety plan” was instituted that largely obviates police involvement, says DRV supervising attorney A.J. Ruben. Eighty percent of the state’s officers have undergone training in engaging with people with mental health problems. But the training has limitations. “It tells police to slow down, give space, not be so threatening,” says Ruben. “That’s in direct con-

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police. Other watchdogs put the number above 500 today. In the deaths Amnesty investigated, 90 percent of the victims were unarmed and “did not appear to present a serious threat” to police, other people or themselves. Legrande’s experience is not unusual. The growing roster of unarmed Vermonters Tased while committing no crime includes a homeless woman in Barre whose “active resistance” consisted of folding her arms in front of her chest when she was told to put them behind her back for handcuffing; patients at the Brattleboro Retreat; and protesters who had chained themselves to a barrel. It is hard to imagine a person less capable of aggression than one chained to a barrel. People taking certain medications, suffering heart disease or epilepsy, or under the influence of drugs or alcohol are especially vulnerable to the effects of Tasing. Yet anecdotal evidence suggests these are precisely the people whose unpredictable behavior inspires police to use the Taser. One of these was Lawrence Fairbrother, 57, of Fairlee, who has a seizure disorder. When he started seizing at a friend’s home, the friend called the state police for help. Fairbrother crawled under a car in fear. He was dragged out, Tased, handcuffed and arrested for DUI. The charge was later dropped. Fairbrother’s 2007 federal lawsuit alleging excessive force won a $40,000 settlement from the state

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A thundering, ragefilled anthem pounds over the loudspeaker as Noah Weisman marches toward the steel cage to meet his opponent. Spotlights swirl; people cheer. Weisman shadowboxes in time with the music. His eyes are fixed ahead of him in a steely glare. No distractions tonight. This is the biggest fight of the 31-year-old’s life. At the ring’s edge, the cut man smears Vaseline over Weisman’s face so the punches will slide right off. An official looks over the Burlington fighter and sends him into the cage, which is menacingly referred to as “the steel.” Not all mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts are fought inside a cage. But for this event — titled “King of the Cage: No Mercy” at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. — the steel is an essential prop. Many fighters leave the ring with angry red welts on their backs courtesy of the unforgiving steel. Inside the cage awaits Weisman’s opponent, Sean Wilmot. The husky, bald fighter from Worcester, Mass., has a 6-4 record. Weisman zeroes in on him like a fighter pilot locking his target in the crosshairs. His stare-down lasts until the fight bell sounds. Intense as his gaze may be, the 5-foot11, 156-pound Weisman looks less like a dangerous fighter than does his beefy opponent. Weisman is lean and sinewy, his head topped with short, wavy curls. A pencil-thin beard frames his jawline. On his right shoulder, a lone tattoo in loopy script reads “Fetish” — the name of the short-lived company he started with friends years ago. The bell dings, signaling the start of the first round. Weisman springs from the red corner. He throws one kick, two kicks. Wilmot connects on some punches before backpedaling. In a blink, the Massachusetts fighter is against the steel. Weisman seizes the opportunity. A few swift knees to the abdomen, and Wilmot falls to the mat. This suits Weisman, a rangy grappler who is quick to exploit an opponent’s

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BETWEEN BEING AVERAGE AND BEING GREAT. weakness on the ground. Years of Brazilian jiu-jitsu taught him how. On the mat, Weisman works to contain Wilmot. A couple of knees to the mouth and his rival becomes more subdued. “Don’t let him breathe!” a fan shouts as Weisman slides around to dominate Wilmot from another angle.

The rest of the five-minute round is spent wrestling on the mat. Both men are tired. But the bell can’t come soon enough for Wilmot, who has been dragooned by the “Hebrew Hammer” for most of the round. Ding, ding, ding!

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ixed martial arts is often referred to as the fastest-growing sport in the world. It combines wrestling, boxing and a variety of martial-arts traditions, including judo and tae kwon do. In a nonchampionship bout like the one at the MGM Grand, fighters compete for three rounds of five minutes each. Championship matches are longer — typically five five-minute rounds. As in boxing, fighters can win a bout in several ways: by knockout, submission, technical knockout or decision. While fans may want to see a stunning knockout, most fights are determined by the referees, who look at the number of strikes, submissions and takedowns each fighter has accumulated. Unlike in studio wrestling, MMA fighters may not gouge eyes, butt heads, pull hair, kick groins or bite. For Weisman, this fight means the difference between being average and being great. A win could spell the end of his career selling used cars, just scraping by. A win could prove that he’s made something of his life, that his troublemaking days are behind him. It could mark the beginning of a new life for him and his two young sons, of whom he has sole custody. A notch in the W column of his fight record would also bring Weisman one step closer to achieving his dream: to fight for one of the major MMA sanctioning organizations. Like boxing, the sport has a number of these. The biggest is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which controls more than 90 percent of the MMA industry. Strikeforce, World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) and DREAM, a Japanese league, make up the rest of the pie. Weisman would be happy landing in any big show. As for the possibility of losing this fight, Weisman doesn’t even want to contemplate it. He hasn’t worked this hard — training three or more hours a day, six days a week — to be vanquished on national television as potential sponsors, agents and representatives of larger

MMA organizations with contracts to offer look on. He didn’t work his way out of a restless, troubled youth to lose on this night in Connecticut.

Noah, the middle child, to get lost, his sister Hannah says. Outside the home, Weisman regularly endured intolerance on two fronts — he was black and Jewish. On more than one occasion, Weisman recalls, he heard the word “nigger” flung in his direction as he walked to school. Once a teacher told him there was no such thing as a black Jew — even though Weisman celebrated all the Jewish holidays with his family, went to Hebrew school and was preparing for his bar mitzvah. The Burlington in which Weisman grew up was a much whiter place than it is now, says Brian Williams, Weisman’s former English teacher at Burlington High School. Williams is now the principal of the Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler School. Weisman did enough work to maintain good grades but wasn’t that invested

home and into the home of a friend. Eventually, he got his own apartment and worked as a dishwasher to pay the bills. Many friends cycled in and out of the apartment, staying a few months at a time and helping with the rent. They called the place the “homeboy hotel.” Weisman still attended school, but it wasn’t a priority. He just wanted to finish. “Looking back, it was definitely not the right choice to make,” Weisman says of his exodus from home. “But it’s a character builder, shall we say.” In 1997, while bouncing from one restaurant job to another, Weisman was arrested for simple assault and received a suspended sentence. After violating the conditions of his release later that year, he ended up spending three days in jail. Weisman is coy about his past indiscretions and especially reluctant to talk about that rocky period. The past is the past, he says. When a car salesman friend encouraged Weisman to try his hand at the auto business, the young man couldn’t resist. He turned out to be a natural salesman, with equal amounts of charm and earnestness. For the past seven years, Weisman has hawked cars at a number of local dealerships, most recently Burlington Mitsubishi. As he got serious about his fighting training, however, Weisman had to give up working full time. He wholesales cars here and there, but most of his time is devoted to priming his body and mind for the next fight. And much of the rest Weisman gives to his two sons, 9-year-old Zachariah and 7-year-old Ezra. He loves to do “family things” with the kids and his longtime girlfriend, Cilla Rybicki, such as hiking, swimming and apple picking. At home, Rybicki guides the kids in yoga sessions. Weisman works out with them in his makeshift basement gym, teaching them to punch and kick on their own kid-sized punching bags. Every morning, Weisman walks his sons to Flynn Elementary and hangs out with them on the playground until the bell rings. He’s trying to be there for his boys in a way his father wasn’t for him, he says — to break the cycle. The boys are his motivation for fighting. Assuming his career continues to advance, the payday for Weisman and his family could be substantial. Top Andy Duback

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“That was a trigger point,” Weisman says. “I was a straight-A student up to that point. I met him, and then we didn’t see each other for years after that.” Weisman is quick to point out that he has smoothed things over with Roberts in recent years. The two are in occasional contact, and Roberts even came to his son’s last pro fight. Weisman didn’t want to hold a grudge, he says. But that ill-fated reunion was everything Gigi Weisman had feared. “I think it was extremely damaging,” she says. After the meeting, Weisman, who had been straddling the line between order and rebellion, stepped onto the wrong side. At 15, he moved out of the family

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eisman’s rise as a professional MMA fighter is the classic underdog tale. During his adolescence and early twenties, officers of the Burlington Police Department knew Weisman’s name well. He landed in court for two misdemeanor charges and a handful of lesser offenses. The young man, once an A student, even served a few days in prison. Weisman was born on August 25, 1979, to a black father and a white Jewish mother. The nurses in the hospital called him Bruiser because of his above-average birth weight — 10 pounds, 1 ounce — recalls his mother, Gigi Weisman. He had a globe of black hair, she says, which prompted nurses to send him home with a brush. When Weisman was 3, his father, Newell Roberts Jr., left the family, which included the couple’s daughter, Lisa. Three years later, Gigi married Jerry Weisman, who had two children of his own. Jerry Weisman adopted Gigi’s two children, and she adopted his two. “We were like the Brady Bunch,” says Hannah Weisman, Noah’s stepsister. “But we don’t differentiate between step- and birth siblings.” Jerry and Gigi had another child, Jacob, bringing the total to seven people living in the family’s New North End home. All the kids were brought up Jewish, though some were more devout than others. The fact that Weisman’s King of the Cage Noah Weisman debut falls on Kol Nidre, the eve of the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, makes his mother shake her head and laugh. “It shouldn’t surprise me that he’s in school, he says. Former teachers refighting on Yom Kippur,” she says. “He member him as cerebral and mature in and his sister once snuck out of temple his worldview — but that didn’t prevent to get a slice of pizza during the high him from getting into trouble. holidays.” “When the tune being played wasn’t Gigi Weisman remembers her son as the tune he wanted to hear, he tried to a sensitive boy who took it hard when make his own tune,” Williams says. “The classmates teased him, even in silly one-size-fits-all curriculum wasn’t for ways like rhyming his name with non- him.” sense words. Once, his mother recalls, Despite his obvious athleticism, Weisman fretted over his eyelashes. He Weisman could never find a sport that thought they were too long. worked for him at school, either. He was “I told him, ‘Don’t worry. Your eyes one of physical education teacher Pavel will grow into them,’” says Gigi Weisman, Dvorak’s better students, but he wasn’t who is well known around town for her a standout. He just couldn’t find a way work as a children’s musician. to connect. The sprawling family made it easy for The single event that would come to

define Weisman’s high school and early adult years happened just after his bar mitzvah, the Jewish rite of passage for adolescents. For years, Gigi Weisman told her oldest son he could meet his birth father, whom he hadn’t seen since he was 3, after this milestone. As it approached, she recalls, she sensed that Weisman was teetering on the brink of revolt. She warned his birth father, who by then had a new life and family in Rhode Island, that their son was volatile. “‘This is a kid who could go either way, so stay connected,’ I told him,” Gigi Weisman says. “When you’re 15 and someone leaves you, that’s really bad. It tipped the scales.” The meeting between restive son and absent father happened when Weisman was 15, at the University Mall over Chinese food. It didn’t go well.

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fighters who have excelled in combat sports, primarily boxing. In the interwar period in the United States, boxers with last names such as Rosenbloom, Goldstein and Levine dominated the sport. Between 1910 and 1940, nearly a third of the boxers were Jewish. Twentysix became world champions. In 2005, Weisman met Tom Murphy and began training with him at the Fitness Zone, the gym Murphy owns in St. Albans. Thanks to Murphy’s credenAndy Duback

fighters in the MMA big leagues can get five to six figures for a fight, says Tom Murphy, Weisman’s coach and a former UFC heavyweight fighter. While it’s laughably less than boxing’s multimillion-dollar payouts, the MMA purse is growing. Sponsorship deals are even more lucrative. But the ifs are numerous and looming — if Weisman gets offered a contract, if he makes connections with sponsors, if he puts on an entertaining show, if he stays healthy. Professional MMA abounds in these variables, which is why the automobile business still appeals to Weisman — it offers job security. If he ever sustains a career-ending injury, he figures, he can go back to selling cars.

for years. The martial art gave Weisman structure and a channel for his native athleticism and energy. “He became a real student for what I feel is the first time in his life,” his mother says. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, like most martial arts, has its underpinnings in respect and discipline. During classes at Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Self Defense Academy in Williston, Weisman learned his moves alongside the same police of-

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Round Two Ding! Weisman trots to the center of the ring, his body sleek with sweat. He plays with his opponent, Sean Wilmot, throwing a few warning punches as he gets his legs moving. His gaze is fixed on Wilmot’s stocky frame. There is no sign of fatigue. Off in the corner of the theater, about 50 feet from the cage, Rybicki watches the fight. Her arms are crossed over her chest; her face is set in a wince. She shifts her weight from foot to foot. She hardly slept the night before. Watching Weisman fight is hell for her, she says. With a knee to the abdomen, Weisman has Wilmot down in the center of the mat. Wilmot reacts instinctively, throwing his feet in the air to block Weisman. The defensive move looks like an airplane lift one might do with a child. Weisman deflects Wilmot’s blocks and reaches over the top of his knees, landing three punches to the head right in a row. Pow! Pow! Pow! “Bust him, Noah!” one of his fans cries out. Weisman is dominating, and he knows it. Even though his left shoulder sags from a separation sustained during a recent training spar, Weisman is full of fire. Ding, ding, ding!

eisman’s life changed when he found Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2002. He first went to the classes on the suggestion of his best friend since kindergarten, Sean McDonough, who had been taking them

Noah is extremely gifted genetically.

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ficers with whom he’d had run-ins years before. In BJJ, they could all be equals. The classes also gave Weisman a new way to take pride in his heritage. He’s well aware of the tradition of Jewish

tials as a pro fighter, the Fitness Zone has become the preeminent MMA training facility in the state. Murphy is a tower of a man with rippling biceps, pectorals the size of serving

platters and the telltale swollen ears of someone who has wrestled for decades. In 2005, he appeared on a Spike TV reality show called “The Ultimate Fighter.” He’s enjoyed some success in the UFC and is currently a contract fighter for the Mixed Fight League in Montréal. Weisman was drawn to MMA for the challenge. Plus, he was tired of playing the armchair quarterback, critiquing bouts without participating himself. “You look at some of these guys doing this on TV and see the mistakes they’re making and say, ‘I can do a better job,’” he says. In 2007, Weisman fought his first MMA bout. It lasted just 52 seconds and ended when Weisman issued a blistering knee to his opponent’s stomach. The other fighter withered, and Weisman was named the winner. That win led to an eventual headline bout at the first Burlington Brawl — the region’s premier amateur MMA series. All Weisman’s friends, many of whom he has known since kindergarten, came out to support him. Weisman’s mother and sister both remark on his ability to nurture and maintain lifelong friendships. But at that bout, seeing familiar faces in the crowd wasn’t necessarily a boon. “Having grown up here and having everyone I know here adds to the pressure,” Weisman says. “I didn’t want to get my butt kicked.” He didn’t. Weisman won handily in that match against Tim Stoll, beating him with a technical knockout in the first round. The electricity of the crowd and the elation of winning stuck with Weisman. Eager to make the tingling sensation of victory last, he couldn’t wait to get back in the ring. He wanted to feel like he was doing something important, he says — fulfilling his destiny. It didn’t take long for Weisman to enter the pro ranks, buttressed by Murphy’s coaching and encouragement. “Noah is extremely gifted genetically. He has very good combinations; his recovery is good; he’s got fast muscle fiber,” Murphy says. “He’s the type of person who should be a professional athlete.” Murphy sees a bright future for Weisman in the professional MMA ranks. But he advises his student to have patience. Weisman’s biggest fight will come in two or three years, Murphy says. He qualifies this statement with another big if: if Weisman can continue to learn and keep his life on a straight path. To prepare for the event at Foxwoods — one of the four bouts Weisman will fight this calendar year — Weisman spent countless nights at Murphy’s gym.

An average training session goes like this: a five-minute warm-up on the jump rope; five rounds of five different plyometric drills, including 25 bear crawls, 75 push-ups and 125 air squats; plus cage drills, shooting takedowns and partner grappling. Murphy shouts gruff words of encouragement. By the end of the session, Weisman is soaked in sweat. With this intense training schedule, Weisman requires a dedicated support system to meet his children’s needs when he’s gone. His mother and Rybicki pick up the slack, taking care of the boys in their father’s absence. “I’d do anything to help him,” Gigi Weisman says. Her son hopes to return the favor. He

says he dreams of paying off her mortgage and setting her up for retirement.

Round ThRee Ding! Weisman charges toward Wilmot, grabs him around the neck and pulls his head down. A swift knee to the throat and Wilmot buckles. Down on the mat, Weisman swings to Wilmot’s side and tries to gain position. From a half-squatting stance, he throws punch after punch, though none is powerful enough to break Wilmot. In 10 minutes of fighting, Weisman

has connected on more punches and kicks than has his opponent. He feels the win. He just has to battle for a few minutes more. Weisman backs off Wilmot to get a better angle. Despite having been abused for the past two rounds, Wilmot springs up with surprising speed. He’s found his second wind. Wilmot shoots toward Weisman and slides onto his knees to take his opponent out at the waist. But he can’t drop him. Weisman bullies Wilmot against the cage, where the pair, heaving and exhausted, get in a few final blows. The 10-second alarm sounds. Wilmot lets sail two powerful uppercuts. Weisman throws one last jab.

Ding, ding, ding! It’s over. Three rounds and 15 minutes of combat come down to the judges’ decision. Weisman’s fans — all 50 of them, who came here from Burlington and beyond — are on their feet. The announcer calls the two men to the center of the ring. “The winner by unanimous decision, representing Rail City MMA, is NOOOAHHH WEISSS-MANNN.” Weisman flashes a little thumbs-up to his friends before throwing his fists above his head. Cameras flash. Another battle fought and won. He can’t wait for the next fight. m

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Emily Johnson takes on a stretch of the Green Mountain divide between Vermont’s Appalachian Gap and Camel’s Hump.

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rail running along Vermont’s highest ridgelines is like dancing through a scenic minefield of roots, rocks, puddles and fallen trees. It’s an experience that is at once peaceful and exhilarating — but also a bit dangerous. And when you dare look up from the trail before you, the views can be extraordinary. With a solid pair of trail-running shoes, a couple of friends and a bottle of water, Bristol resident and seasoned trail runner Vicki Beaudoin, 39, doesn’t think twice about running along the rooftop of Vermont. “It’s not so much the uphills that push me, but the challenge of maintaining the presence of mind needed to keep myself from trip-

With Vermont’s extensive networks of trails at all elevations, the options are endless. Still, running up any mountain is no small feat. Beaudoin, needless to say, is in great shape. An avid skier, gardener, outdoor guide and innkeeper who spends most of her time with her husband, Craig Augustinsky, and her 2-year-old daughter, Seneca, Beaudoin heads for Vermont’s higher ridgelines as often as she can. Her favorite route in Vermont is the rugged and scenic 12-mile stretch of the Long Trail along the Monroe Skyline, between the Appalachian and Lincoln gaps. “I spend a lot of time up there in the winter … but it’s a totally different beast in the summer,” Beaudoin says. “There

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Westford: Country Retreat Plains Rd.: Awesome 3-BR, 2.5-BA expanded log cabin w/ 2000+ sq.ft., soaring ceilings, 1st-floor master, 124-acre lot. Avail. now; 1 year +. $2000/mo. 802-846-9568; www. HickokandBoardman. com.

Burlington 68A S. Willard St. Lg. 2nd-floor room, $635/mo. 1.5-BA, W/D, kitchen, parking. NS. Avail. Oct. 1. 802-6607172.

Church St. Therapy Office Psychologist offering sublet of lg., beautiful, fully furnished office. Avail. Mon. & Fri. beginning Oct. 1. $150/day/ mo., incl. everything. benskolnpsyd@yahoo. com.

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Shelburne: Nice 3-BR Home Clearwater Circle: 2000 sq.ft., 2.5-BA, formal dining, HDWD, gas fireplace, porch, 3-car garage. Master BR w/ private BA. Beach rights. Oct. 1; 1 yr. $2000/mo. 802-846-9568; www. HickokandBoardman. com.

Avail. now Room for rent: Monkton farmhouse on 20 acres, in-ground pool, cathedral ceilings, all amenities incl., pets OK, garden space, 19 miles to Kennedy Dr. Starting at $375/mo. 802-4533457.

Burlington Downtown Premium 2nd-floor location. Avail. now. Spacious, open floor plan, 1170 sq.ft. Exposed brick walls & high ceilings. 434-3749. 156Church@gmail.com.

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S. Hero: On Keeler Bay Furnishings optional. Breathtaking views from this 3-BR, 2-BA remodeled home. Vaulted ceiling, HDWD, soaking tub, new appliances. Dog negotiable. Now; 1 yr.+. $1950/mo. 802-846-9568, www. hickokandboardman. com.

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Womans Wool Dress coat Cassidy, navy blue, lined. Midcalf length, lay-down or stand-up collar, size 8. Button at waist, 1 at collar. Excellent condition. 802-999-1053. $25.

Antiques/ Collectibles Cash for Records LPs, 45 RPMs, stereos, concert posters, music memorabilia, instruments. Convenient drop-off in Burlington (corner of Church & Bank). Buy/sell/trade. Burlington Records, 802-881-0303.

Appliances/ Tools/Parts ECHO Trimmer (gas/ oil) Line trimmer, 2 cycle, used, works well, has new starter. $50/OBO. 802-863-1537, lv. msg. Electric Hot Water Heaters (2) 40 gal. highly efficient Bradford White heaters. New on 6/1/2010. $450/each. (1) 40 gal. 2 yr. old Bradford White heater. $150. Replaced by gas. 802-476-4071.

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Kitchen appliances/ cabinet Kitchen pkg., $1000: DW, 30” above-range microwave, 30” electric stove/self-cleaning oven, 30” refrigerator, stainless sink w/disposal, 7 base cabinets, 6 wall cabinets. 802-8632469. Storm Doors 36”W x 81”L, white, scalloped, excellent condition, locking, no screen. $65/ea. or both for $120. 802-863-1537.

Clothing/ Jewelry Antique Alaskan Seal Coat Vintage 1950s E.M. Custom Furrier dress coat, 34” length, wide collar, excellent condition. Antique, this variety no longer made. $850/OBO. 802-9991053. Woman’s Wool Dress Coat Vintage camel, button & belt waist style, lined, w/ matching plaid scarf; midcalf, excellent condition! 802-9991053, $25. Suitable for older youth. Size 8. mck10708@yahoo.com.

Electronics DVD-RW Drive $65/ OBO LG, external. 881-6462. Norstar Telephone System Modular 8x24 DS for small business. Handles 6 incoming lines, auto-attendant, multiple other features. 4 standard, 1 receptionist set. 802-496-2595 x21. Sony Cyber-Shot $230 W/ memory card & case. 881-6462.

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Free Stuff FREE TOW for unwanted cars Young Life wants your unwanted vehicles. You write off the donation. We will tow it away at no cost to you. Info, 877-411-DONATE. Free Bunny to Good Home Cage not incl. Best for family w/ no/older kids. Needs a lot of attention. Located in S. Hero. 802-595-0174. Is Your House Haunted? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.” Contact: vermontspirits@gmail. com. 802-881-1171.

Furniture Table, chairs, buffet Oval table: 64 x 44, 3 leaves. 6 chairs. 3-drawer buffet: 62 x 19 x 32.5. Thomasville, solid pecan, very good condition. $300/OBO. mck10708@yahoo.com, 802-999-1053. Wooden Desk w/ iron legs 49”L, 20”W, 31”H, no drawers, great for home-office use or garage workspace. $50/ OBO. 802-863-1537.

Sports Equipment Camping Tent Hunting season is coming! Hillary, 9’ x 12’ footprint, cabin-style, w/ rain fly. Head room 7’. Sleeps 3-4. Zippered flap entrance. Excellent condition. $45. 802-343-3936. GOL! Foosball Table Perfectly functioning Sportcraft. All the dudes are there. Scorekeepers aren’t, but I’ll throw in a chalkboard. $70. 484-432-7226.

Garage/Estate Sales Want to Buy Flea Market, No Bed Bugs! Charlotte Congregational Church, Church Rd., Rt. 7 to Charlotte light. Market on Fri. & Sat., Oct. 1-2, 9-6 p.m. Donations accepted Thurs. Sept. 30, 9-6 p.m. only. Call Pat to reserve space. $5/ table. 802-985-2426. Proceeds fund “Put Back Up Our Church Steeple.” Good buys. Great apple pies, also! Garage Sale 10/1 Hinesburg Mechanicsville Rd. (between CVU Rd. & post office). Awesome luggage, Xbox, LPs, awesome vinyl storage cabinets, TV, yard tools, much much more.

Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver. Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: 802-859-8966. Buying Diamonds & Gold Buying fine-quality diamonds of 1-8 carats. Also purchasing gold. Fred Little, Jeweler, St. Johnsbury. 802-5355501.

Kid Stuff HDWD Crib w/ Mattress Nice, barely used. Everything clean & in good condition. Complete, w/ all hardware. $35. 802-343-3936.

Pets Bud & Coors Male & female rescued from high-kill. 1 y.o., UTD on shots, heartworm neg., micro-chipped, altered. ~40 lbs. must go together, no exceptions. lynsey.barrows@gmail. com. SCHNAU-TZUS Ready now: 2 females, 2 males. Mom: 7-lb. petite shih tzu. Dad: 13-lb. black/silver min. schnauzer. Vet checked, 1st shot. Photos online. $325. 802-872-5874. Standard Poodle Puppies Wonderful temperaments, AKC registered, American, Canadian, English, champion sired. Home raised. OFA, CERF, genetic testing, health guarantee. 802-5985297, vtpoodles@ hotmail.com.

Bands/ Musicians Bassist seeking Experienced bassist looking for some other musicians to collaborate w/. Prefer creative projects. Interests: funk, jam, reggae, jazz, experimental or anything without a genre. 802-324-3327. PIANO-TUNING SERVICE $75 standard tuning rate. 802-652-0730. www.justinrosepiano tuning.com.

For Sale Steinway Console Piano Mahogany art case, 42” tall. Great condition, orig. ivories. $2500, does not incl. delivery. 802-652-0730.

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Andy’s Mountain Music Affordable, accessible instruction in guitar, mandolin, banjo, more. All ages/skill levels/ interests welcome! Supportive, professional teacher offering references, results, convenience. Andy Greene, 802-658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail. com, www.andysmountainmusic.com.

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Bass Lessons For all levels/styles, beginners welcome! Learn technique, theory, songs in a professional setting. Years of teaching/playing experience. Appeared in Bass Player, Bass Guitar magazines. Aram Bedrosian, 598-8861. Drum Instruction & more! Experienced, professional instructor/ musician. Williston, Essex, Burlington areas, & all of central VT. Guitar & bass programs also offered. Musicspeak Education Program, www. musicspeak.net. Gary Williams, 802-793-8387. Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/ 30 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory & ear training. Individualized, stepby-step approach. All ages/styles/levels. Info: rickbelf@myfairpoint. net, 802-864-7195. 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: 802-862-7696, www. paulasbell.com. Trombone, Trumpet Lessons Eastman School of Music graduate Stuart Carter. Also baritone horn, tuba, piano, music composition/theory. Complimentary lesson for new students. Refer to this ad. www. octavemode.net.

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The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: Sec. 3. Stop sign locations. Stop signs are authorized at the following locations: (1) through (51) As Written (52) [Repealed.] At the intersection of Pine Street and South Crest Drive causing all traffic on South Crest Drive to stop. (53) through (280) As Written

BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Tuesday October 19, 2010 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday October 19, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications: 1. 11-0189CA/MA; 693 Riverside Avenue (RM, Ward 2) Burlington Housing Authority Construct new 8 unit apartment building to be attached to existing building. 2. 11-0137CA; 24 Russell Street (RM, Ward 2) Elizabeth Evelti Appeal of administrative denial to replace wood clapboard siding with fiber cement clapboard siding. 3. 11-0280CU, 11-0281CU and 11-0282CU; 311, 329 and 351 North Avenue (RM-W, Ward 7) Burlington College Change use from group home, vacant lot and offices to college. Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.ci.burlington.vt.us/ planning/drb or office notice board, one week before the hearing for

Adopted this 15th day of September 2010 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director-Technical Services Adopted 9/15/2010; Published 09/29/10; Effective 10/20/10 Material in [Brackets] delete. Material underlined add. NOTICE OF SALE According to the terms and conditions of the First Amended Judgment Order, Decree of Foreclosure and Order of Public Sale in the matter of VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY V. RYAN S. FORANDO, ET AL, Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division, Docket No. S1083-09 Cnc, foreclosing a mortgage given by Ryan S. Forando to New England Federal Credit Union dated April 8, 2005 and recorded in Volume 705, Page 213 et seq of the South Burlington Land Records (the Mortgage) presently held by Plaintiff Vermont Housing Finance Agency for the purpose of foreclosing the Mortgage for breach of the conditions of the Mortgage, the real estate with an E-911 address of 409 Farrell Street, Unit #209, City’s Edge Condominium, South Burlington, VT (the Property) will be sold at public auction at 8:30 a.m. on October 15, 2010 at the location of the Property. The Property to be sold is all and the same land and premises described in the Mortgage, and further described as

follows: All and the same lands and premises conveyed by warranty deed of Burlington Community Land Trust, Inc. to Ryan S. Forando dated April 8, 2005 and of record in Volume 705, Page 210 et seq of the Burlington Land Records. The Property may be subject to easements, rights-of-way of record and other interests of record Terms of Sale: The Property will be sold to the highest bidder, who will pay $10,000.00 at sale in cash, certified, treasurer’s or cashier’s check made payable to Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP Client Trustee Account (or by wire transfer, if arrangements for wire transfer are made in advance, confirmation of wire transfer is available before commencement of sale and bidder pays additional fees required for wire transfer) and will pay the balance of the highest bid price within thirty (30) days of the issuance of an Order of Confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court. The successful bidder will be required to sign a Purchase Agreement and attached Vermont Lead Law Real Estate Transaction Disclosures. Copies of the Agreement and Disclosures are available by calling the telephone number below. If the successful bidder fails to complete the purchase of the Property as required by the Purchase Agreement, the $10,000.00 deposit will be forfeited to Plaintiff. The Property is sold “AS IS” and the successful bidder is required to purchase the Property whether or not the Property is in compliance with local, state or federal land use laws, regulations or permits. Title to the Property will be conveyed without warranties by Order of Confirmation. This sale is exempt from federal lead based hazards disclosure. 24 CFR Section 35.82. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the Property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the Mortgage, including the costs and expenses of sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Kohn Rath Blackwood & Danon, LLP 802-482-2905. Dated: August 9, 2010 David Rath, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff

sevendaysvt.com/classifieds PUBLIC HEARING SOUTH BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD The South Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing in the South Burlington City Hall Conference Room, 575 Dorset Street, South Burlington, Vermont on October 19, 2010 at 7:30 P.M. to consider the following: 1. Final plat application #SD-10-33 of City of Burlington/Burlington International Airport for a three (3) lot subdivision to create lease parcels “H” and “I”, 265 Aviation Avenue. John Dinklage, Chairman South Burlington Development Review Board Copies of the application are available for public inspection at the South Burlington City Hall. September 29, 2010 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S26-10 Cnc

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. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 6609000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 1st day of September, 2010.

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Home Equity Loan Trust, Series Ace 2005- HE7 to Timothy Pelkey dated July 15, 2005 and recorded in Volume 318, Page 57 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, 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 1:00 P.M. on October 19, 2010, at 1 Streeter Brook Road, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: All that parcel of land in Township of Milton, Chittenden County, State of Vermont, as more fully described in Deed Book 200, Page 512 ID# 2-14-018-000000, being known and designated as metes and bounds property. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check 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 Milton. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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To wit: “Being a parcel of 1.1 acres, more or less, witha dwelling and other improvements thereon, located at 934 Osgood Hill Road, in Westford, Vermont, and further described as Lot #31 on a survey entitled “Plan of Lots in Osgood Hill Development, Town of Westford, VT”, prepared by John A. Marsh, dated November 10, 1967, recorded as Map Slide 8 in the Westford Land Records, which are all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Bernadette Lamphere and Oran Lamphere by Warranty Deed of Bernadette A. Cushing dated October 28, 2003, and recorded in Book 111, pages 457-458 of the Westford Land Records. “Reference is made to a survey entitled “Plan of Lots in Westerly Portion of Osgood Hill Development, Town of Westford, VT”, prepared by John A. Marsh, dated November 10, 1967, April 17, 1974, revised January 6, 1979, and recorded as Map Slide 55 in the Westford Land Records.

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S 415-09 CnC The Bank of New York Mellon, as Successor Trustee under NovaStar Mortgage Funding Trust 2004-4, Plaintiff, v Oran Lamphere and Bernadette Lamphere, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Corinthian Mortgage Corporation DBS SouthBanc Mortgage, and Any Other Occupants of 934 Osgood Hill Road, Westford, Vermont, Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated September 10, 2004 from Bernadette Lamphere and Oran Lamphere to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Novastar Mortgage, Inc. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on September 17, 2004 in Volume 117, Pages 413-425 of the Town of Westford Land Records. The subject Promissory Note and Mortgage were assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Novastar Mortgage, Inc., to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Successor Trustee under NovaStar Mortgage Funding Trust 2004-4 by Assignment dated October 15, 2008 and recorded on October 17, 2008 in Volume 140, Page 147 of the Town of Westford Land Records. The undersigned represents the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same which will be sold at Public Auction at 12:30 o’clock PM, on the 19th day of October, A.D. 2010, at the subject premises of 934 Osgood Hill Road, Westford, Vermont, all and singular

Terms of Sale: Purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or certified funds, or produce a commitment letter from a bank or mortgage company or other lender licensed to do business in the State of Vermont at the time of the sale for the amount of the winning bid. In any case the winning bidder shall be required to produce $10,000.00 (ten-thousand dollars) cash or certified funds at the close of auction as the deposit against the sale. The sale will be subject to the Confirmation Order of the Chittenden Superior Court. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid property taxes and town/city assessments, if any. In the event the auction terms are confirmed by the Superior Court aforesaid, and the winning bidder is unwilling or unable consummate the sale, the deposit shall be forfeit. In the event the sale is not confirmed the deposit will be returned without interest. The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Post & browse ads at your convenience. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Grant C. Rees, Attorney, PO Box 108, Milton, Vermont 05468, 802-893-7400. By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Dates: September 22, 2010 September 29, 2010 October 6, 2010 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION Chittenden Unit Docket No. S1037-09 Cnc Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2007QA3, Plaintiff v. Derek E. Shepardson, Sarajean Shepardson and Occupants residing at 238 North Street, Burlington, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2007QA3 to Derek E. Shepardson dated December 20, 2006 and recorded in Volume 984 , Page 186 of the Land Records of the Town of Burlington, 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 9:30 A.M. on October 14, 2010, at 238 North Street, Burlington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Derek E. Shepardson and Sarajean Shepardson by Warranty Deed of Nikolas Macik dated August 28, 2006 and recorded on August 31, 2006 in Book 972 at Page 338-339 in the City of Burlington 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 Burlington.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 6609000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 1st day of September, 2010. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 Town of Underhill Development Review Board (DRB) Site Visit & Hearings Monday, October 18, 2010 at 6:15 PM (site visit-ML020) Monday, October 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM (hearings) Hearings to be Held at the Underhill Town Hall, Underhill Center, VT The DRB will hold a final hearing on the Boundary Line Adjustment application for property owned by Johnathan Drew and Miriam Pendleton, located at 27 Harvey Road (HA027), and property owned by the University of Vermont, located at 58 Harvey Road (HA058X), in Underhill, VT. These properties are located in the Scenic Preservation zoning district. Part of this application includes a variance request for the 400 road frontage requirement for the Drew/Pendleton lot at 27 Harvey Road (HA027). This hearing is scheduled to begin at 6:45 PM. The DRB will also hold a final hearing on the Conditional Use application of Maple Leaf Farm for the demolition of a camp, the enlargement of an existing pond, and the construction of a garage on the parking lot at property they own at 20 Maple Leaf Road (ML020), in Underhill, VT. This property is located in the Water Conservation and Soil and Water Conservation zoning districts. A site visit at this property will begin at 6:15 PM on October 18. The hearing is scheduled to begin immediately following the preceding hearing scheduled for

Extra! Extra! There’s no limit to ad length online. 6:45 PM. A copy of these applications and additional information may be obtained at the Underhill Town Hall. The site visit and hearings are open to the public. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §§ 4464(a) (1) (C) and 4471(a), participation in these local proceedings is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. If you cannot attend the hearing but would still like to exercise your right to be heard, comments may be made in writing prior to the hearing and mailed to: Zoning Administrator, P.O. Box 32 Underhill Center, VT 05490 or to underhillzoning@comcast.net. VILLAGE OF ESSEX JUNCTION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Village of Essex Junction is looking to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is the governing body of the Village of Essex Junction and sets policy and makes laws for the Village of Essex Junction according to state statute. Trustees are elected for three year terms. The current vacancy will be filled by appointment of the remaining Trustees until the next annual election (April 12, 2011). The remainder of the term will be filled through Village election. Letters of interest should be submitted by Oct. 7th in order to be considered for the first round of interviews on Oct. 12th and should be sent to Village Trustees, c/o Village Manager, 2 Lincoln St., Essex Jct., VT 05452 or email admin@ essexjunction.org. Position to remain vacant until filled.

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Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 6609000.

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 14th day of September, 2010.

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NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2005-OPT1 Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-OPT1 to John E. Manchester dated July 15, 2005 and recorded in Volume 656, Page 387 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 10:30 A.M. on October 14, 2010, at 248 River Road, Essex Junction, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

Commencing at a point on the southerly side of Route 117, said point also being the place where the northwest corner of the land, now or formerly owned by Armand A. Belisle, meets the northeast corner of land now or formerly owned by Mable, and proceeding easterly along the southerly side of Route 117, for a distance of 100 feet, to the northwest corner of land now or formerly owned by Case; thence proceeding southerly in and along the westerly line of said Case for a distance of 275 feet, more or less, to the Cove, so-called; thence proceeding westerly along the Cove, so-called, for a distance of 100 feet to the said Mable’s easterly boundary line; thence proceeding northerly in and along the said Mable’s easterly line for a distance of 275 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.

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HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2005-OPT1 Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-OPT1, Plaintiff v. John E. Manchester, Christie A. Manchester, Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation and Occupants residing at 248 River Road, Essex Junction, Vermont, Defendants

To Wit: A parcel of land with all buildings thereon situated on the southerly side of Route 117 and more particularly described as follows:

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THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSTIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit selfhelp bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child will hold its regular meeting this Monday, October 4, 7-9 p.m. at Saint Ambrose Church, 11 School St., Bristol. Enter through the side door. Nancy Merolle, 802388-6837, Claire Groleau 802-388-9603. CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This group offers support to those caring for loved ones with memory loss due to dementia. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month

MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER Support group meets 6-8 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Hope Lodge at the UVM/FAHC campus. 1-800-ACS2345. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want To Feel Supported On Your Vegetarian/Vegan Journey? Want more info. on Healthy Veggy Diets? Want to share and socialize at Veggy Potlucks, and more, in the greater Burlington Area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 802-658-4991. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS Meets on Sundays from 12-1 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. This is a fellowship of men and women that meet and review the 12 steps of CODA, read stories from the CODA anonymous big book and share their experiences, strengths and hopes as we support each other. Open to everyone. Info:

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Part-time position available MASTER CONTROL OPERATOR Responsibilities include video/ audio and computer operation. Must thrive in fast-paced, highpressure, team situation. Video/ audio experience preferred. A detailed job where commitment and reliability are essential. Shift is Friday & Saturday nights plus other fill-in hours. Send resumes to: jobs@wcax.com. No phone calls, please.

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We’re Hiring - Join Our Team! Assistant Operations Director City Market is hiring an Assistant Operations Director. This individual will be responsible for overseeing all store operations, ensuring the highest standard of customer service to the City Market shopper, as well as establishing and coordinating all store functions in accordance with Co-op policies and sound financial practices. Qualifications include a bachelor’s degree, two to five years grocery store, retail or related management experience, We offerknowledge fantastic benefits including medical, dental, life and and working of managing margins and labor control, vision,experience retirement plan, both generous paidandtime off, store managing employees managers. discount, mass transit reimbursement, health club discounts, and To much are an Equal seemore! the fullWedescription andOpportunity requirementsEmployer. and Apply onlinetoatapply, www.citymarket.coop. please visit our website.

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Full-time, long-term substitute school counselor position available to promote and enhance student learning through academic development, career development and personal/ social development. Position is available beginning December 2010 through the end of the 2010-11 school year and pays $207.21/ day. Qualified candidates must hold a valid Vermont 4:23:26 PM Professional Educator’s license with Guidance Counselor endorsement (3-64). For additional information or to apply, please visit www.schoolspring.com and enter Job ID 42368. EOE.

We offer fantastic benefits including medical, Centerpoint is seeking an dental, life and vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, store discount, mass transit reimbursement, health club discounts, and much more! We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 3v-ChitCentralSU-Counselor092910.indd Apply online at www.citymarket.coop. Our new Administrative Assistant will provide front end reception and support to a busy mental health, substance abuse, and special education clinic serving teens and families. As a “first face” for many of our CityAssistant Market HR accessible, clients, our Administrative will be- welcoming, engaging, accepting, and an eye toward the possibilities in the lives 82 have S. Winooski Ave. of our teens and families, rather than simply toward the challenges. Burlington, VT 05401

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Vermont Works for Women helps women and girls recognize their potential and explore, pursue and excel in work that leads to economic independence. Our dynamic organization is hiring for the following positions:

Career Development Counselor VWW is collaborative partner in the Vermont Green jobs employment network. The CDC will recruit and support Vermont women in accessing Green Jobs training and employment through case management and retention supports. Requires excellent communication, collaboration and organizational skills. Experience in workforce development and/or case management required. This is a full-time position with benefits and is funded through a two-year American Reinvestment and Recovery Act grant from the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Catering/Food Service Manager Seeking an experienced catering/food service manager for 75-200 hours over the next 3-5 months, to assist with setting up a nonprofit food service venture. Potential for permanent employment. Must have daytime availability. Requires strong communication and problem-solving skills and a successful track record managing all aspects of a catering operation: menu design, food and equipment purchasing, production, staffing, scheduling, cost analysis, delivery logistics, and client relations. Other desirable strengths include Serve Safe certification, ability to incorporate local products, knowledge of USDA child nutrition program requirements.

Fresh Energy Crew Seeking trainees in weatherization and renewable energy for on-the-job training program for women. Seeking hardworking individuals who are interested in energy efficiency, want to learn construction skills and are good at working with their hands. Full-time position, tools provided. To apply for a specific position please send cover letter noting which position you are applying for, resume and three references via email to sgrove@vtworksforwomen.org or fax 802-655-8922. Position open until filled. EOE.

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Substance Abuse Counselor To conduct assessments, group therapy, and associated activities. Program is conducted at probation and parole office’s throughout the state. We have immediate part-time openings in the Burlington, Morrisville and Newport Probation and Parole Office. Certification (LADC, CADC, or ASAC) is required. Interested applicants are invited to complete voluntary Applicant Self-ID form at www.phoenixhouse. org/National/Careers/ Opportunities.html. Send resume and form to rturner@phoenixhouse.org or call 802-672-2500. EOE

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Consider joining the dedicated team at COTS and help to make a difference!

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Part-time 12-month position(s) available at our Essex skating facility to drive the zamboni, perform and supervise maintenance activities in the arena and surrounding facility, and assist with coordination and oversight of the facility during assigned shifts. Experience driving a zamboni and previous supervisory experience preferred. Evening and weekend shifts required. Position pays $10 to $12/ hour depending on experience and is available for approximately 24 hours/week during the skating season. Actual hours may vary from week to week and from season to season.

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The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) is seeking an experienced human resources professional. Responsibilities will include recruitment and onboarding, HR compliance, benefits planning and some administration. This position will also have the opportunity to build a training and development program, and to roll out a new human resources information system. This 32-hour per week position requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years human resource experience in a generalist role. Project management skills, knowledge of federal and state policies effecting human resources, and strong written and verbal communication skills are essential. COTS is a progressive social service agency that provides shelter, innovative programs, and housing to those without homes or who are marginally housed. COTS offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. No phone calls accepted. Please send resumes to: HR search committee, coTs

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Transitional Services is a small nonprofit organization providing therapeutic social service and educational programming to youth and families coping with emotional and behavioral challenges. Using a strength-based approach, TSYF works in conjunction with individuals and families to promote an increased sense of self and community. Be part of an education and social services team dedicated to expanding consciousness and enhancing wellness.

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We are currently seeking a Social Worker. Responsibilities include providing agency and homebased family work, case management, and coordinating our restorative justice panel. Relevant experience required. Master’s degree in social work preferred. Please send cover letter and resume via email to danielle@tsyf.org.

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Groundskeeper We are currently seeking a fulltime groundskeeper. This position is responsible for the upkeep of the grounds, which includes but is not limited to mowing, weeding, mulching, flowers, snow removal, general upkeep and monitoring of parking lots. Full-time position includes benefits such as vacation, holiday pay and health insurance. Hours are Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Applicant must be able to work with limited supervision, motivated, efficient and able to meet time restraints. Competitive starting pay. Interested applicant should apply in person to The Woolen Mill, 20 West Canal St., Winooski, VT.

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Office Assistant and Prospect Coordinator

OffiCe Of AdmissiOns Champlain College seeks an organized and detailoriented individual to accurately input and manage all prospect data into database including the import of Internet prospect data, and the planning, executing and management of daily prospect mailings. Cosupervise student workers plan and implement scheduled trainings, maintain student handbook, and attend weekly meetings with other supervisors. Answer phones and schedule appointments on a backup basis. Monitor Admissions email account and respond to emails on an ongoing, daily basis. The successful candidate will have an associateâ€™s degree and four years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Must be customer service oriented, articulate, organized, and accurate, and have the ability to multitask. A high level of MS Word and Excel knowledge is required. Knowledge of Datatel is a plus. Submit cover letter and resume online at www.champlain.edu/hr by October 5, 2010. The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment.

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St. Albans nonprofit has an immediate opening for an experienced professional to join the management team of a statewide older-worker jobtraining program. Responsibilities include recruitment and staffing, training and development, employee/trainee relations, policies and procedures, and the day-to-day operations of the program. College degree required. Please email cover letter with salary requirements and resume to HR@vermontassociates.org.

We are currently seeking a dynamic individual for the position of Engineer at the Doubletree Hotel Burlington in South Burlington, Vt. This position requires a flexible schedule to include nights, weekends and holidays. As a Maintenance Engineer, this person will perform a combination of duties to maintain, repair and clean mechanical areas and equipment. Also, the engineer will assist other trade mechanics in their duties to ensure a safe, clean and well-maintained hotel.

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THE CONVERSE HOME A community of caring for elders

The ideal candidate will possess the following: · Basic knowledge of skilled trade activities in plumbing, carpentry, electrical and mechanical work, and painting.

Job Opportunities in a supportive work environment:

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We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and shift differentials For more information or to schedule an interview, please call Donna at 802.862.0401 or e-mail donna@conversehome.com

Are you an LNA/PCA/RCA who is looking to pick up some extra shifts? 272 Church Street, Burlington,Vermont 05401 One weekend a month email: info@conversehome.com www.conversehome.com commitment. Days, evenings or nights available. We offer a gracious work environment, competitive salaries and shift differentials. Email your resume to 2:43:13 PM donna@ conversehome.com.

The Burlington Furniture Company, voted Best Furniture Store 2010, is growing. We are looking for a full-time experienced sales associate to join our team.

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Our sales associates are encouraged to connect with our customers, listen and determine their needs, and help them create a space they love. We seek positive-minded employees with strong communication skills who can provide exemplary customer service throughout the entire sales process. If you are enthusiastic and have a desire to learn, are passionate for interior design, possess strong organizational skills and are detail oriented, we would like to meet you. We offer a competitive wages, benefits package and attractive employee discount. Please email your resume to CKelsey@burlingtonfuton.com or send your resume to C. Kelsey, 388 Pine St., Burlington, Vt 05401.

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Medical Assistant needed for Urgent Care Facility. Medical office experience, medical assistant skills and computer skills required. Willingness to work flexible hours including weekend rotations. Send resume or CV to Lynn. forcier@cvurgentcare.com or fax to 802-865-3626.

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Human Resources Director Search Reopened

The Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties is seeking an experienced HR professional for our growing mission-driven health care organization. At the VNA you will support over 700 of our dedicated and accomplished staff as they deliver health and related services to the communities we serve. The Director will lead in the development, implementation, and administration of HR systems that contribute to the VNA’s ability to respond to a rapidly evolving healthcare environment. This is a hands-on role in which you will apply your expertise in HR systems and processes, as well as your broad-based HR skills and knowledge. Reporting to the CEO, this position is responsible for all aspects of Human Resources. An undergraduate degree is required with a strong preference for a graduate degree. Additionally the candidate we seek will have a minimum of seven to ten years of increasingly responsible duties which include human resource leadership. Experience will preferably be in a health care or comparable nonprofit setting. PHR or SPHR certification preferred. The preferred candidate will demonstrate a broad base of technical knowledge and skills related to human resource administration and oversight, including organizational development, labor law, compensation, HRIS, benefits, ERISA, personnel policy, employment, employee relations, and EEO/Affirmative Action along with excellent writing, statistical, analytical and problem solving skills. Please apply online at www.vnacares.org. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity in the workforce.

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Group Facilitator — Burlington Male Group Facilitator needed to cofacilitate weekly groups for adult and/or adolescent males who have been violent. Support men and young men to engage in a process of change; enhance the safety of women, children and other past/potential victims; hold participants accountable for their abusive choices. Use current and emerging approaches based in research and best practice about behavior change to address general and domestic/dating violence. Preferred: Knowledge of domestic violence; group facilitation skills; and experience working with mandated populations, victims of domestic violence and/or in correctional facility. For adolescent group, applicants should have experience working with this age group. Hours range from 2 to 15 hours/week depending on number of groups hired to work. Evening, daytime and weekend groups available. Send cover letter and resume to: smarino@spectrumvt.org.

live-in caregiver(s) Seeking

to assist elderly couple in Chittenden County. Room and board with pay, wage negotiable. Experience with dementia and personal care preferred. Kindness, patience, energy and car required. Send resume and reference to Caregiver, PO Box 68, Williston, VT 05495.

Federal Grant Manager

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Project Services Manager Vermont Fuel Efficiency Partnership seeks a self-starting person to lead design and implementation of “deep energy retrofit” improvements on multifamily housing statewide. Understanding of building systems and energy performance, and ability to motivate people and achieve results required. Excellent communication, organization, business computer and building inspection skills, as well as statewide travel necessary. VFEP is a collaboration of Weatherization Program providers, affordable housing agencies and efficiency programs. We offer excellent benefits, competitive pay and the chance to work with leaders in the industry. Submit letter of interest and résumé postmarked by October 12th to: Central Vermont Community Action, Inc. Human Resources, 195 US RT 302- Berlin, Barre, VT 05641 or email to cvcachr@cvcac.org For more details visit our website at www.cvcac.org.

Mobius, the Mentoring Movement, seeks a motivated leader to work as Grant Manager for two federal grants to serve children of prisoners and children impacted by incarceration. The desired candidate is a detail-oriented self-starter who is passionate about making a difference in the lives of children. Candidate should have the skills to lead and monitor a diverse group of mentoring organizations across the state to accomplish one set of deliverables laid out by the grant. Experience with federal grant administration (or research) and nonprofit organizations required. Specific responsibilities include: • Ensure adherence to grant requirements • Motivate partners to meet grant deliverables • Collect and compile information for monthly and quarterly reports • Provide technical support for sub-grantees • Create and maintain strategic partners in the community • Disseminate resources to improve grant outcomes • Work with Mobius to integrate 1t-UMall-092210.indd 1T H E C O N V E R S9/20/10 3:23:56 PM E H O M5V-CVCA-092910.indd E grant work and outcomes with overall mission. A community of caring for elders Please send a strong cover letter and resume (no calls, please) to Meredith@ mobiusmentors.org. Compensation: This position is budgeted at $13/hour. Number of hours/week TBD. Deadline to apply: Tuesday, October 5, 2010.

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MURPHY SULLIVAN KRONK Legal Assistant: Experience required; experience in real state and commercial transactions preferred. Receptionist/Legal Assistant: Experience preferred. The ideal candidate will be energetic, motivated and polished, with strong telephone, computer and organizational skills. Both positions require a confident professional who is pleasant, organized, detail and service-oriented, with typing and editing proficiency. Competitive salary and benefits package. All applications will be kept confidential. Please send your resume to: Deborah J. Sabourin, Business Manager, Murphy Sullivan Kronk, 275 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or via email to dsabourin@mskvt.com

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We are looking for an LPN to serve as charge of shift for our272home. This is a 40-hourChurch Street, Burlington,Vermont 05401 email: info@conversehome.com per-week position, www.conversehome.com Thursday-Monday, evening shift. We offer competitive salaries, benefits and shift differentials. Email your resume to donna@ conversehome.com.

Our Primary Care Unit is expanding with additional nursing and physician hours.

RN Day & night Full- & Part-time positions Explore opportunities to learn and grow professionally in the specialty area of addiction and co-occurring disorders. Excellent pay and benefits. Come grow with us.

272 Church St. Burlington, VT 05401 www.conversehome.com

Mail or fax resumes to: Maple Leaf Farm 10 Maple Leaf Road Underhill, VT 05489 Phone: 802-899-2911 Fax 802-899-9965 Email: info@mapleleaf.org

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Retail Help Wanted We are looking for part-time employees in our busy Shelburne store. Flexible schedule, weekends a must. Stop by our store on Route 7 for an application or call 802-985-2000 for more information.

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Maple Leaf Farm Associates Inc., an inpatient substance abuse program, has the following position open.

Roadway Inn in Shelburne is hiring experienced housekeepers. Competitive pay, experience required.

Maple Leaf Farm is seeking a full-time MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT. Responsibilities include small-appliance repair, light carpentry and plumbing, grounds maintenance, and general upkeep of six-building facility. Candidate will be expected to train for water supply operation, fire safety and maintenance. Requires driver’s license. $12/hour, excellent benefit package included.

Please apply in person at Roadway Inn, 1016 Shelburne Rd., So. Burlington, and bring references!!!

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Receive, process and prepare orders for shipping. Answer client questions by phone, fax and email. Requires using judgment in solving problems, prioritizing work tasks and making decisions regarding work methods. The 4t-MapleLeafFarm-092910.indd position has access to sensitive information that is used within the framework of departmental guidelines.

The following part-time opportunities are available:

MeMber Service repreSentative

Hours: Monday-Friday 11:45-4:45 Duties include opening accounts, maintaining existing member relationships, promoting all products and services the CU offers, as well as trouble shooting and problem solving.

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Jericho Elementary School is looking for an Evening Custodian Monday through Friday, 37.5 hours per week from 2:30 until 10:30 PM. During school vacations and summer the position is 40 hours per week beginning at 6:00 AM. Health, dental and life insurance, paid vacations and holidays. This position is open until filled.

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To apply you must submit a brief cover letter describing what specifically interests you about this part-time position and why it’s important now. You must also include a salary history for the last three positions you held. Please note: Applications must be complete with cover letter and salary history to receive consideration. NEFCU enjoys an employer of choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10%. More than 96% of our 165 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work (2009 Annual Staff Survey). If you believe you have the qualifications to contribute to this environment, please send your resume and cover letter to HR@nefcu.com. EOE/AA

A United Way Member Agency

Wake Robin provides highly competitive wages and a full range of benefits for you and your family, 25 days of vacation, and a retirement package. If you have high standards of service and a strong desire to learn, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146.

Hours: Monday 8:15-5:15, Friday 8:15-6:15 Duties include performing transactions on a busy teller line at the customer’s direction, cash handling and customer service. Hours: School year = Saturdays 8:45-3:15; Summer = full time (40 hours per week) with Saturday included and one day off during the week/ $1000 bonus awarded after one year of service. This is a great opportunity for college students or anyone interested in working in a professional work environment while earning some extra money. During the school year you will work at our Harvest Lane Branch on Saturdays and during the summer you could be at any of our six branch locations in Chittenden County.

Phone: 802-899-2911 Fax: 802-899-3617 Email: info@mapleleaf.org

Our housekeeping team works collaboratively to support residents who live independently as well as those who live in residential care. Housekeepers are critical to the wellbeing of residents and the quality of the Wake Robin environment.

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Hours: Monday 10:15-5:15, Tuesday 9:15-5:15, Friday 10:15-6:15 Duties include performing transactions on a busy teller line at the customer’s direction, cash handling and customer service.

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concerto by Albert Brouwer and a French horn solo by Shelagh Abate. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $20-24. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 10.

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Corn Maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

BrattleBoro literary FestiVal: See THU.30, 6-9 p.m.

the great VerMont Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m. WildFloWer Wander: Flora fans spy late bloomers on an identification walk, while kids get busy with leaf prints and more. Meet at Nature Center; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

politics annual Meeting & guBernatorial deBate: The Vermont Natural Resources Council hosts a conversation between candidates on the subjects of energy and environmental issues. VNRC’s annual meeting follows at 5 p.m. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 223-2328, ext. 112.

talks aiken leCture disCussion: Faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences gather to dissect Gwen Ifill’s Tuesday night lecture. Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 656-2005. roBert Manning: The recipient of the 2010 George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award opens up on “Commons Without Tragedy: Managing the National Parks.” Room 112, James M. Jeffords Hall, UVM, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3414.

theater ‘Cloud 9’: See THU.30, 7:30 p.m.

‘luCky stiFF’: See THU.30, 7 p.m. ‘PiCniC’: See THU.30, 8 p.m.

‘shirley Valentine’: See THU.30, 7 p.m. ‘the CoMPlete history oF aMeriCa — aBridged’: See THU.30, 8 p.m. ‘the light in the Piazza’: See THU.30, 8 p.m. Variety shoW: The music department puts on a medley of entertainment and a bake sale to support the Inclusion Fusion dance team’s trip to

CraFt deMonstration: In honor of American Craft Week, Starksboro’s John Clarke demonstrates the sculptural possibilities of fallen branches. Art on Main, Bristol, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4032. ‘Wall to CanVas’: Local graffiti artists work their magic with a can of spray paint at a competition benefiting the Shelburne Art Center. Observers watch the action over a barbecue, beer tastings and DJ’d tunes. See “State of the Arts,” this issue. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, noon-6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2739.

dance Barn danCe Fundraiser: Lively fiddling by Pete Sutherland sets the tone for dance-floor twirling in a rustic setting. Proceeds benefit the Lakeside Preschool. Black Kettle Farm, Whallonsburg, 5:3011 p.m. $5 for chili dinner; $10 suggested donation for dancing. Info, 518-963-8222. CaMBodian danCe: Khmer Arts Ensemble members offer an overview of the dance form’s vocabulary of movement. Space is limited; preregister. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. guest artist WorkshoP series: Tiffany Rhynard introduces students to contact improvisation techniques, which blend athletic moves with partner exercises. Space is limited; call to preregister. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. $36; $18 for drop-ins. Info, 229-4676.

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environment green Buildings oPen house: View renewable energy at work by visiting participating homes and buildings at this self-guided, educational tour hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. Visit www.nesea.org/ greenbuildings for sites. Various locations statewide, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free in most locations. Info, 496-5545. oPen hoMe tour: Vermonters learn about energy efficiency through an inside peek at one home’s green efforts, including solar photovoltaics and a heat-recovery ventilator. 8 Sebring Road, South Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8261. SAT.02

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24-hour CoMiCs day: As part of an international drawing challenge, cartoonists put pencil to paper in order to produce a 24-page book in as many hours. Preregister to participate in the full event, or drop in to draw for a shorter period of time. Artists’ Mediums, Williston, October 2, 9 a.m., to October 3, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 879-1236.

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‘Queen City radio hour’: Veteran radio stars and guests, including Abby Paige, Willem Lange and Emily Smith, present such gems as “Slender Pickens’ Rural Dating & Mating Service” and other music, comedy and spoken-word acts to be broadcast later. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $19.75. Info, 863-5966.

24-hour CoMiCs Challenge: Adult artists focus on the funnies, aiming to create a 24-page comic book in a single day. Preregister. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, October 2, 11 a.m., to October 3, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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‘death oF a salesMan’: Christopher Lloyd stars in Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking tale about achieving the American Dream, presented by Weston Playhouse. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-42. Info, 603-646-2422.

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etc. Costume Presentation With Khmer Arts Ensemble: The performing-arts company’s artistic director, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, guides teens and adults past brocaded and bejeweled frocks designed by Merrily Murray-Walsh. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. Flea Market: Thrifters thumb through new and used items up for grabs. Regular Veterans Association, Winooski, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 655-9899. French Roundtable: Speakers at various skill levels order café during an open practice session. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

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Fall Foliage Craft Fair: Shoppers browse jewelry, candles, quilts, pottery, and other fine arts and crafts lined up alongside edibles and a blacksmithing demo from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Swing by Main Street for a chicken barbecue. Hardwick Elementary School, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5906. Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival: An annual fiber fair of roving craftspeople and fleecy staples includes the Eastern Cashmere Goat Show, sheep shearing, herding and spinning. Tunbridge World’s Fairgrounds, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $1-6. Info, 223-2456.

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Historic Tour of UVM: Folks register online, then meet at Ira Allen’s statue to tour the campus’ modest early clapboards and grand Victorians, led by professor emeritus William Averyt. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 656-8673.

French Film Series: See FRI.01, 1-10 p.m.

Salute to Summer Car & Truck Show: Sweet rides submit to judgment at a rooftop trophy competition benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington. Top floor of the parking garage. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $10 for vehicle registration; free for spectators. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

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Dover Bicentennial: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

‘Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky’: More Coco? OK! French director Jan Kounen’s film charts the attraction between the fashion icon (played by Anna Mouglalis) and the radical Russian composer (played by Mads Mikkelsen). Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Oriental Carpet Bazaar: Fabric fans feast their eyes on handmade tribal rugs, carpets and kilims from the Middle East, Persia and central Asia. 1 South Street, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3863.

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Burlington International Arts Celebration: See FRI.01, noon-10 p.m.

Haunted Hike & Book Release: Spooky local legends add a hair-raising aspect to a walk along the History Trail, which serves as a release party for Tim Simard’s new book, Haunted Hikes of Vermont. Meet at History Hike parking lot. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $3. Info, 241-3665, rochelle. skinner@state.vt.us.

Homecoming & Family Weekend: See FRI.01, 8 a.m.-11:45 p.m.

The Vermont Antique Expo & Sale: Folks sort through a mixed bag of antiques and ephemera, including art, books, jewelry, dolls, clocks, and other collectibles. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $6; free for kids under 12. Info, 878-5545. UTSA India Night: A multimedia celebration of culture features live traditional music, tunes from contemporary Indian DJs, a Bollywood film screening and Indian cuisine. North End Studio, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10-20. Info, 863-6713. Waterfront Walking Tour: Preservation Burlington takes history and architecture buffs on a two-hour tour of the industrial history of the Queen City’s waterfront. Meet at the visitor’s center at the bottom of College Street. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $10. Info, 522-8259, info@ preservationburlington.org. Wood-Carving Demo: Visitors avid about avians see trees being whittled into models of various bird species. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167. ‘Woofstock 2010’: Pet owners and pooches pound the pavement to raise money for the Addison County Humane Society. A tricks contest, dog-and-owner look-alike competition, games and more make it a doggone good time. Recreation Park, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1100.

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Annual Harvest Festival: Traditional fall goodies accompany a petting zoo, corn maze, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, pie-eating contests and a spooky greenhouse. See calendar spotlight. Sam Mazza’s Family Farm, Colchester, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Most

‘Get Low’: See FRI.01, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Manhattan Short Film Festival: See WED.29, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $1012. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘Multiple Sarcasms’: See FRI.01, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. ‘Troubled Water’: Erik Poppe’s award-winning 2008 Norwegian drama chronicles the reentry of a murderer into society. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

food & drink Annual Cash Raffle Dinner: Diners tuck into plates of prime rib to support the Central Vermont Catholic School. Social hour, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. Call ahead for tickets. Knights of Columbus Hall, Barre, 6 p.m. $125 includes two dinners and the raffle; cash bar. Info, 249-6096 or 793-4276. Annual Ham Dinner: Community members dine on baked ham, mashed potatoes, winter squash and baked goods to support the Starksboro Meeting House restoration fund. Multipurpose Room. Robinson Elementary School, Starksboro, 5 p.m. $5-9; additional fee for raffle tickets. Info, 4532079 or 453-5227. Burlington Farmers Market: Sixty-two vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmers market.org. Cancer-Fighting Cooking Class: Young women at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer head to the kitchen to learn about local ingredients with preventative powers. Preregister. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 598-2469. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, perennials, seedlings, home-baked foods and handmade crafts lure local buyers throughout the growing season. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelier farmersmarket.com. Ciderfest 2010: Fruit-based beverages from Woodchuck Cider, Farnum Hill Ciders, Eden Ice Cider and other regional producers make for a sweet afternoon of food sampling, live music, apple picking and hay rides. Champlain Orchards, Shoreham, 3-7 p.m. $25. Info, 897-2777. Derby Farmers Market: Chemical-free veggies and other seasonal eats are up for grabs. Elks Lodge, Derby, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2580. Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See WED.29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘FungiBlitz!’: Mushroom madness begins with a potluck and continues with lectures, forays, a mushroom market, and other fungus fun. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $15 for half day; $25 for full day; by donation for potluck and Toadstool Tent; free for kids. Info, 229-6206. Groton Growers Market: Rain or shine, Vermonters relish a potpourri of area edibles, running the gamut from goat cheese to pastries to fruits. Veterans Memorial Park, Groton, 9 a.m. -noon. Free. Info, 5843595 or 584-3310, grotongrowers@gmail.com. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.29, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton Grange, Milton, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-7734. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Twenty-five purveyors of garden-fresh crops, pasta, herbs and spices set up shop for the morning. Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 763-8617. Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Local artists Karen Day-Vath, Paule Gingras, Meta Strick and Clair Dunn display original prints, paintings and mixed-media for Art in the Park. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Next to Fogg’s Hardware & Building Supply and the Bike Hub. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Pumpkin & Apple Celebration: Two quintessential fall crops are the theme for a harvest party boasting cider pressing, pumpkin ice cream, apple tastings and wagon rides. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $312. Info, 457-2355. Randolph Farmers Market: Open-air stalls boast crops straight from the soil, prepared foods, farm products and tchotchkes. Central Street, Randolph, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 728-9123. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472. Southern Vermont Home Brew Festival: What’s brewing in Bennington? A daylong gathering of homemade beer, food, live music, brewing demos and more. Proceeds benefit the Bennington Museum. Bennington Brush Company, noon-5 p.m. $30-40; $12 for designated drivers and people under 21; free for children 12 and under. Info, 447-1571. ‘Uncorking Autumn’: Wine connoisseurs support the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s SymphonyKids programs at a tasting event with music from DrumSchtick. Preregister. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 864-5741. Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027. Williston Farmers Market: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly

open-air affair. Town Green, Williston, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 735-3860, christinamead@willistonfarmers market.com.

kids Family Activity Day: An outdoor investigation of “mysterious mushrooms” draws nature lovers of all ages. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5 per adult; free for kids. Info, 229-6206. Kids’ Comics Challenge: Snacks fuel young artists as they put together a collection of comics. Preregister. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Kids’ Night Out: Six- to 13-year-olds let off steam through supervised activities. Proceeds benefit the women’s basketball team. Memorial Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 518-564-4147. Saturday Stories: Picture books catch the attention of kids of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

music Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra: New music director Paul Gambill makes his debut with a program of dance-inspired music with folk and mythic origins, including selections from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Brahms’ Hungarian Dances. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 877-6737, info@vergennesoperahouse.org. Fundraising Concert: Music lovers support Cindy Weed for State Representative for Franklin 4 by tuning in to Backyard Bluegrass, the Missisquoi River Band, the Fabulous Spiders, the Mike McCarthy Ensemble and the Oleo Romeos. Enosburg Opera House, Enosburg Falls, 7 p.m. Info, 933-2545. Gordon Lightfoot: The Canadian-born troubadour and five-time Grammy nominee offers songs such as “Rainy Day People” from his collection of 19 albums. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $39.25-60.25. Info, 863-5966. Homecoming A Cappella Concert: No instruments are allowed as the Top Cats, Cat’s Meow and Hit Paws offer vocal variations. Advance tickets recommended. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5-10. Info, 656-3457. Kronos Quartet: A celebrated string ensemble with a rock-band edge journeys through works by Maria Schneider, Aleksandra Vrebalov and Bryce Dessner. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-42. Info, 603-646-2422. Queen City Hot Club: A gypsy-jazz ensemble specializes in French standards as part of the Burlington International Arts Celebration. Outside the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. Recorder Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 6580030, info@prestomusic.net. Ripton Community Coffeehouse: Singersongwriter Johnsmith takes the stage after an open mic. Refreshments benefit the Middlebury Community Care Coalition. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-8. Info, 388-9782. Vermont Symphony Orchestra: ‘Made in Vermont’ Tour: See FRI.01, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $6-24. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 10.

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outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Dead Creek Wildlife Day: Bird-banding demos, fishing lessons, decoy carving and live critters teach nature lovers about Vermont’s diverse wildlife. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 241-3700. Fall Foliage Frolic: Crunchy leaves add an autumnal soundtrack to a woods walk examining the archaeological remains of old farmsteads. Meet at History Hike parking lot; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-noon. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103. ‘Making Tracks & Seeing Skins’: Explorers look for signs of furry friends by using track molds, plaster of Paris and more. Meet at the Nature Center; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103. Mystery in the Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Night Ghost Hike: Flashlight holders spy owls, bats and other denizens of the dark on a journey to Ricker Cemetery, where Vermont ghost tales await. Meet at History Hike parking lot; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103. The Great Vermont Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m. ‘Wonderful Water Critters!’: Frogs, salamanders and dragonflies make appearances on a wet walk. Meet at the Nature Trail to Stevenson Brook; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2-3:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

sport People’s United Bank Milk Bowl: Stock-car speedsters lap up road time in this fast-paced, two-day tourney. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 1 p.m. $5-25; kids 12 and under are free. Info, 2446963, media@acttour.com. ‘Tour de Teens’: Routes eight and 26 miles in length precede an open-air pig roast. Proceeds support Addison County Teens center. Rain date: October 9. Town Green, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $15-35 registration; $5-10 for pig roast only; free for children 6 and under. Info, 989-8934, jutta@ addisonteens.com.

Burt Porter: A scholar of ballads focuses on the rich heritage of traditional British melodies in New England music, supplementing the lecture with fiddle- and mandolin-enhanced songs. Town Hall, Pittsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 746-8098.

Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Brattleboro Literary Festival: See THU.30, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.

‘Multiple Sarcasms’: See FRI.01, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Jennifer Jordan: The bestselling author dives into a tale of high-altitude adventure, as told in her latest book, The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2, before a book signing. Simpson 111, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 586-7711, ext. 124.

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‘The Moth’ Storytelling: Raconteurs steal attention with well-rehearsed, five-minute-long tales. Second floor, College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8589.

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24-Hour Comics Challenge: See SAT.02. 24-Hour Comics Day: See SAT.02.

dance Israeli Dance: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706.

etc. Chess Club: Tabletop warriors do battle at the behest of players of all ages and abilities. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Flea Market: See SAT.02, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. French Conversation Group: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. Homecoming & Family Weekend: See FRI.01, 8 a.m.-11:45 p.m. Louisa Howard Chapel Opening: Architecture buffs get a gander at the fully restored High Gothic Victorian nondenominational landmark at Lakeview Cemetery. Louisa Howard Chapel, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2075. Plattsburgh Bridal Show: Blushing bridesto-be make decisions about the cake, dress and food, and enter to win prizes. West Side Ballroom, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 11:30 a.m. $5-6; cash bar. Info, 459-2897. The Vermont Antique Expo & Sale: See SAT.02, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Pumpkin Chuckin’ Festival: Homemade trebuchets catapult would-be jack-o’-lanterns in a daylong throwing contest, enhanced by prog rock from Wilbur’s Dog and family fun. Proceeds benefit the Lamoille Family Center and Cambridge Rotary. Boyden Farm, Cambridge, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. $3-5; $2-4 for corn maze. Info, 888-2910, djordan@gmavt.net.

‘Cloud 9’: See THU.30, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Death of a Salesman’: See FRI.01, 8 p.m. ‘Lucky Stiff’: See THU.30, 7 p.m. ‘Picnic’: See THU.30, 8 p.m. ‘Queen City Radio Hour’: See FRI.01, St. Johnsbury School, 7:30 p.m. $15-22. Info, 748-2600. ‘Shirley Valentine’: See THU.30, 8 p.m. ‘The Complete History of America — Abridged’: See THU.30, 8 p.m.

Annual Harvest Festival: See SAT.02, 11 a.m.4 p.m. Burlington International Arts Celebration: See FRI.01, 1-10 p.m. Dover Bicentennial: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival: See SAT.02, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

film French Film Series: See FRI.01, 1-10 p.m. ‘Get Low’: See FRI.01, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

‘The Light in the Piazza’: See THU.30, 8 p.m.

‘Inception’: Leonardo DiCaprio is a master of corporate espionage, dealing with the human subconscious, in Christopher Nolan’s visual thriller. But as he dives deeper through dreams, his past resurfaces. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center,

words Betsy Melvin: The photographer enhances a presentation of the book Robert Frost’s New England

Mystery in the Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

South Burlington Farmers Market: Growers and producers parcel out the fruits of the soil to folks looking to buy local. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569.

The Great Vermont Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.

Stowe Farmers Market: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmers market.com.

Debate Sunday: The candidates for lieutenant governor, governor and secretary of state express their views in 90-minute sessions sponsored by the Vermont Press Association and the St. Michael’s College journalism department. Sessions held at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2442.

kids Art in the Park: Crafty kids work with animal tracks and leaves. Nature Center; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 9 a.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103. ‘Sundays for Fledglings’: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-2:45 p.m. $2.50-6 for kids; free for adults. Info, 434-2167.

music ‘A Grace Coolidge Musicale’: Pianist Abigail Charbeneau, violinist Bozena O’Brien and cellist Matt Laughlin perform “Coolidge Anniversary” before afternoon tea at the Wilder House Restaurant. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth, 3-4:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 672-3773. Benefit Concert: A community unites to help a local family pay for medical bills. Dancing, food, a silent auction, and tunes by Kris Gruen and Chad Hollister, Dave Keller, and Bossman and Jeanne McCullough support the Levi Family Relief Fund. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3-9 p.m. $5-10; $25 per family; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 229-9971. Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra: See SAT.02, 4 p.m. Cody Michaels: The Vermont pianist works the hammers and strings to produce expressions of fall in “Autumn Suite.” Community Church, Stowe, 3-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 253-7257.

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sport People’s United Bank Milk Bowl: See SAT.02, 1 p.m. ‘Ride to Break the Silence’: Cyclists wind through the Champlain Valley on routes ranging from 15.8 to 46 miles in length, with the aim of benefiting the Mary Haas Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Foundation. A barbecue follows. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 7 a.m. $100 minimum registration fee. Info, 660-1012. Spectrum Ride: Cyclists of all experience levels pump pedals along 10, 25, 50 or 100K routes to benefit Spectrum Youth & Family Services. Dorset Park, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $10-75 registration; $25 registration with $100 fundraising minimum; $20 registration and $350 fundraising minimum for teams. Info, 660-0580, ext. 330.

talks Stephen Sutton: The owner and CEO of Brandon Music chats about the Edison Disc Phonograph and the music of the 1920s. Brandon Music, 3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 465-4071. Victor Zhikai Gao: The former interpreter for politician Deng Xiaoping puts the focus on economic reform in “The Inside Story of China’s Transformation.” Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5795.

First Sunday Concert Series: The Beeline Ramblers create a buzz with interpretations of traditional American folk music. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.

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Northeast Fiddlers Association: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam to brush up on their skills. VFW Post, Montpelier, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188.

‘The Complete History of America — Abridged’: See THU.30, 7 p.m.

Paul Asbell: The acoustic guitarist shares his solo works. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Still Friends and the Three Meese Band: Chuck Meese and his sons dish out irreverent humor and an eclectic mix of songs. Maple Corner Community Center, Calais, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 223-7819. Vermont Symphony Orchestra: ‘Made in Vermont’ Tour: See FRI.01, Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $18-26; $75 for Director’s Circle includes dinner at the Woodstock Inn & Resort. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 10.

outdoors ‘Aquadventure!’: A two-hour paddle offers experienced rowers a scenic look at the Waterbury Reservoir. Preregister; pick up paddles and life jackets by 10:30 a.m. Meet at A-Side Swim Beach; call to confirm. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-3 includes boat rentals; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

‘Lucky Stiff’: See THU.30, 2 p.m. ‘Picnic’: See THU.30, 2 p.m. ‘Shirley Valentine’: See THU.30, 2 p.m.

Theater Auditions: Playwright Stephen Goldberg seeks five female actors in their 20s to 40s for his new play Sluts on the Roof. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6648.

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Mount Zion Hike: Mountain climbers forge onward and upward to savor breathtaking views of autumn colors. Meet at the visitor center. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, Bomoseen, 2-5 p.m. $2; free for children 14 and under. Info, 273-2282.

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‘Irrational Rhythm: The Music of Michael Gordon’: The composer opens up about his new work for the Kronos Quartet in an interview with Dartmouth College music department chair Michael Casey. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2010.

‘FungiBlitz!’: See SAT.02, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Corn Maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

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celebrates the life of educator, activist and former Vermont State Poet Laureate Grace Paley. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. ‘Multiple Sarcasms’: See FRI.01, 7 p.m.

health & fitness Aura Healing Clinic: People receive treatment for and feedback about their personal energy fields. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.

kids Journaling/Scrapbooking: Glue, paper, scissors, shoot! Students pick up new techniques for craft projects. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up on the Prairie’: A covered-wagon tale inspired by the Little House on the Prairie series captivates kids in grades 2 to 5. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. & noon. $8.50. Info, 863-5966. Music With Mia: Tots form a circle for a special story hour with some sing-along tunes. Meet in the JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Toddler Story Hour: Words jump off pages and into little ones’ imaginations. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 453-2366.

music Pageant Rehearsal: Vermonters organize a song celebration of American folk icon Pete Seeger. All Together Now, East Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1461 or 223-1242. South County Chorus Rehearsals: Interested musicians get in tune with the local ensemble in practice sessions. Room 160, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3010, rufpat@yahoo.com.

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Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Rehearsals: New and established members of the nonprofit community orchestra fiddle around in a jam session at 6 p.m. before practice time at 7 p.m. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 877343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra.org.

Jonathan Huener: The associate professor of history at UVM looks to the past in “Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 864-3516. Ron Krupp: The local author of Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis considers the state of American food production. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Stephen J. A. Ward: The director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of WisconsinMadison considers “The Revolution in Media Ethics: How Citizens and New Media Changed Everything.” Cardinal Lounge, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-4291.

Mystery in the Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The Great Vermont Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.

sport Adult Floor Hockey: Male and female players ages 18 and up work up a sweat with the Greater Burlington Hockey Club. Sports & Fitness Edge, 4 Gauthier Drive, Essex, 6:45-9:45 p.m. $5; sticks provided. Info, 399-2985. Co-ed Dodgeball: Players break a sweat chucking and side-stepping foam balls at this friendly competition. Cool off over a beer after the games. Chamberlin School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5 for drop-in players; $30 for the season. Info, 598-8539.

Dr. Lucia Costigan: Using a historical case as an example, this Ohio State University associate professor speaks on “From Jews to New Christians: The Modern Inquisition in Spain, and Its Impact on the Iberian Peninsula and the New World.” St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

Derby Farmers Market: See SAT.02, 9:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. Heirloom & Local Wheat Bread Tasting: Foodies sample loaves baked in a wood-fired oven by TruckenBoard Bakery’s Jon Melquist. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Johnson Farmers Market: A street emporium bursts with local agricultural products, ranging from produce to herbs to fresh-baked bread. Main Street, Johnson, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1682. Old North End Farmers Market: Local farmers sell the fruits of their fields, and their labor. H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073. Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.02, 3-6 p.m.

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Book Discussion Series: ‘Earth Tones’: Thomas Berry’s The Great Work explores how to live in harmony with nature. Quechee Public Library, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 295-1232. Book Discussion Series: ‘Immigrants Coming to America’: Avid readers put themselves in the place of new Americans by reading and chatting about Bette Bao Lord’s In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Cabot Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 563-2721.

‘Detox: Cleansing for Improved Health’: Learn about tossing the toxins — which can be absorbed through food, air and water, and can cause disease, fatigue, and weight gain — with Dr. Bill Schenck. New Moon Café, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-8330.

Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m. -noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@ comcast.net.

Hatha Yoga Class: Mat posers learn gentle stretching and relaxation exercises from instructor Betty Molnar. Space is limited; call ahead. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:15-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

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business Roundtable Discussion Series: A local expert helps small business owners develop and promote their brands. Office Squared, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 951-6762.

outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.7 p.m.

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Community Medical School: In “Heart Attack: The First 60 Minutes,” professor of medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratories Harold Dauerman explains the reasons for improved survival stats among heartattack victims over the past 20 years. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2886.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: ‘Made in Vermont’ Tour: See FRI.01, Fine Arts Center, Castleton State College, 7:30 p.m. $6-24. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 10.

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Jerry Shedd: From story elements to musical motives, the local composer and conductor helps opera lovers make sense of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in advance of a Metropolitan Opera broadcast. Proceeds benefit the Opera Company of Middlebury. Middlebury Community House, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 382-9222.

etc. ‘Living Into Your Talents’: Instructor Glenda Otto aids others in identifying and developing their skills. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. Retirement Track Series: An interactive, three-part series caters to workers who’ll be retiring in the next 10 to 15 years, covering topics such as finances and Social Security. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. ‘Spend Smart’: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Preregister. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 540-2567, growingmoney@cvoeo.org.

film ‘Amarcord’: Federico Fellini’s 1973 Italian film is an imaginative, semi-autobiographical portrait of a year in a tiny coastal town, served up with a circuslike twist. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. French Film Series: See FRI.01, 1-10 p.m. ‘Get Low’: See FRI.01, 7 p.m. ‘Multiple Sarcasms’: See FRI.01, 7 p.m.

Laughter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

kids ‘Craftacular Tuesdays’: From origami animals to recycled picture frames, creative kids get caught up in low-tech projects. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Fall Into Stories’: Preschoolers learn about winged wonders through bird tales, crafts, nature walks and more. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167. Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Preschool Story Time: Songs, tales and crafts with a “Who Knows: Exploring Science and Numbers” theme captivate kiddos. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-1941. Story Hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘Stroller Strolling’: Babies take a ride as families meet and mingle along the recreation path. Community Park, Fairfax, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-1941.

music Noontime Concert Series: Soprano Merryn Rutledge, tenor Martin Poppe and pianist Annemieke Spoelestra execute sacred and secular songs in “If Music Be the Food of Love.” St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bagged lunch. Info, 860-7183.

Pat Metheny: The 17-time Grammy winner becomes a one-man orchestra with his acoustically driven “solo ensemble” performed on an “orchestrion.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $35-55. Info, 863-5966. Waterbury Community Band Rehearsals: Musicians are welcome to join the band in playing marches, swing medleys and Broadway faves at this open practice session. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 8884977, info@waterburycommunityband.org.

outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Mystery in the Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The Great Vermont Corn Maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.

politics People’s Forum: See THU.30, Hartford High School, White River Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 522-2230.

sport Cool-Weather Cycling Clinic: Diehard pedalers brace themselves for winter at a workshop about roadside skills with “Dr. Bike.” Skirack, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

talks Kathy Kelly: The Nobel Peace Prize nominee and coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence keynotes the Peace and Justice Club’s Peace Pledge Ceremony. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. ‘Partners in Dialogue: Reconciliation Through Understanding and Cooperation’: A two-day conference of panel discussions addresses violence, questions about marriage and family, environmental issues, and threats to the common good through the lens of different religions. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Robert Manning: See THU. 30, American Legion, Rutland, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1642. ‘The Role of Remembrance: Norwich University and World War II’: Tom Daly, curator of education at the Norman Rockwell Museum, paints a picture of the story behind the American artist’s Four Freedoms. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon. Free. Info, 485-2448, msolvay@norwich.edu.

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Craft Demonstration: In honor of American Craft Week, Salisbury’s Maura Clancy creates handwoven baskets from simple materials. Art on Main, Bristol, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4032.

business Networking Get-Together: People learn about sustainable building design at a Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility function. William Maclay Architects & Planners, Waitsfield, 5:15-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347, info@vbsr.org.

education College Night: High schoolers and their parents chat about programs and financial aid with reps from 120 colleges and universities. Field House, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2040. ‘Writing an Effective Admissions Essay’: High schoolers learn how to pen themselves into their top college through a winning personal statement. Preregistration preferred. VSAC Building, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177.

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film FrenCh Film series: See FRI.01, 1-10 p.m. ‘get low’: See FRI.01, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. ‘multiPle sarCasms’: See FRI.01, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. ‘un Chien andalou’ & ‘sPellBound’: Luis Buñuel’s 1929 French short is a visual blend of surreal images, and ties into the dream sequences of Hitchcock’s 1945 thriller. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink enosBurg Falls Farmers marKet: See WED.29, 3-6 p.m. lamoille Valley year-round Farmers artisan marKet: See WED.29, 3-6:30 p.m. middleBury Farmers marKet: See WED.29, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

kids musiC seeds demo Class: Children and their caregivers use beanbags, parachutes and scarves in music and movement activities. North End Studio, Burlington, session for newborns to age 2, 9:30-10 a.m.; session for ages 2 to 4, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 863-4220.

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outdoors Corn maze: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. mystery in the Corn maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. the great Vermont Corn maze: See WED.29, 10 a.m.

PeoPle’s Forum: See THU.30, Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 522-2230.

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John Cole: The founding director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress covers “The Ups and Downs of Jefferson’s Legacy.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. lamoille County liFelong learning leCture: Lyndon State College music professor William Cotte celebrates the transcendental qualities of composer Anton Bruckner’s music in “Cathedrals in Sound.” Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011. ‘Partners in dialogue: reConCiliation through understanding and CooPeration’: See TUE.05, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Peter galBraith: The former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia provides food for thought in “The Afghanistan Question,” where he considers whether the war is winnable or important. Unitarian C Church, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. roBert C. Jones: Those loco for locomotives get M an inside look at freight-train operations from this Y retired teacher, author and former railroad worker. Milton Historical Society, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-CM 2598, abtempleton2@comcast.net.

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aromatherapy INTRODUCTION TO AROMATHERAPY: Oct. 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/2-hr. class. Location: Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts/Star Root Aromatherapy, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts/ Star Root Aromatherapy, Carol von Rohr, 802-660-8060, spiritdancer. starroot@juno.com. Learn how you can incorporate the art and science of aromatherapy into your everyday life. We will discuss what essential oils are, how they affect the body and mind, and how to use them for their aesthetic and therapeutic effects. Includes handout materials and a sample oil to take home.

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ART AT WINGSPAN STUDIO: SOAR!: Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St. Burlington VT, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 802-233-7676, maggiestandley@yahoo.com, www. maggiestandley.com. Fabulous fall classes at wingspan Studio taught by experienced, encouraging instructor Maggie Standley. Offerings include Oil & Acrylic Painting for Beginners &

WATERCOLOR I W/ LISA BEACH: Oct. 16, 10-4 p.m. Cost: $120/class, 10% discount avail. for members & early registration. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. Capture the brilliant colors of the autumn foliage with award-winning local artist Lisa Beach. There will be an emphasis on creating a well-designed and interesting composition. Lisa will demonstrate her process of painting and then students will work on their own followed by a critique. WATERCOLOR II W/ ROBERT O’BRIEN: Oct. 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $120/ class. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. Learn to paint the beautiful fall landscape with renowned watercolorist Robert O’Brien. The class will begin with a demonstration by the instructor, who will explain his technique for capturing the essence of the subject in a short amount of time. Students will then paint for the duration of the class followed by a critique.

beekeeping BEEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG: Oct. 5-19, 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Tues. Cost: $35/3 weeks, senior discount for 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs.org. Join Bill Mares of Mares Apiaries and Russ Aceto of Hilltop Honey to find out what it takes to keep bees. Bill’s book on the honey industry was published two years ago. Three sessions might inspire you to start a few hives of your own. Information on ordering bees for spring, pitfalls and all things bees presented. Limit: 30.

BODY & MIND CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. Core Strength with Caroline Perkins, Tuesday and Thursday; Weight Training with Stuart Offer; Zumba (3 choices); Yoga (4 choices); Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius; Salsa; Hip-Hop; Appalachian Clogging; Jazzercise; Clawhammer Banjo; Voice-Overs; Guitar (3 levels); Beg. Piano; Piano: Return to Keyboard; Creative Dance (4-7-year olds); Herbal Manicure; Herbs: Winter Health; Facial; Mastering Sugar for Life; and Juggling. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included.

bodywork ORTHO-BIONOMY: ENERGETICS: Oct. 30-31, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $275/class; $250 if paid by Oct. 8 ($50 nonrefundable deposit). 16 CEUs. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts , Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 802-734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com. This class is designed to help participants access energetic perception in themselves and in their clients; to learn how to make contact without necessarily engaging physically. Techniques will be presented that monitor and acknowledge relationships among energetic, emotional and physical levels and that demonstrate how energetic shifts can affect changes in physical patterns.

building DRYWALL STONE BUILDING W/ CRAIG ROYCE: Oct. 9-10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $175/10% discount avail. for members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. Learn the art and craft of stone-wall building. Come learn this time-honored craft from a master stone mason. You will learn by doing as you jump into building a drylaid “no mortar” stone wall with local materials. Please register online. TINY HOUSE RAISING: Cost: $250/ workshop. Location: East Montpelier. Info: Peter King, 802-933-6103. A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a tiny house on October 2 and 3 in East Montpelier. Info at www.vermonttiny houses.com.

burlington city arts CLAY: PARENT & CHILD WHEEL ALL AGES: Nov. 6-Dec. 11, 10-11:30 a.m. Cost: $150/nonmember pair, $135/ BCA member pair. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This five-week class will introduce young and younger alike to working with clay using the potter’s wheel while having a memorable experience with your child. Students will practice basic wheel-working techniques and will also be introduced to handle making, trimming and glazing while making vases, bowls and mugs. Parents and children will each use their own wheel. Parents are expected to help monitor their child. All clay, tools, glazes and firings are included. DESIGN: ADOBE IN-DESIGN: Nov. 8-Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $185/nonmembers; $166.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. This class will give you the basics and help you become proficient at using this powerful layout program. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. This class will be taught on a Mac with InDesign CS4. ILLUSTRATION: FASHION ILLUSTRATION: Oct. 6-Nov. 10, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/nonmembers, $130.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn the basics of fashion illustration! Students will draw and paint using gouache, watercolor and more and will be encouraged to render fabrics, illustrate their own designs, and experiment with a variety of fashion drawing styles as they create a portfolio. This is a mixed-level class open to both beginners and advanced students. Class will include figure drawing with a live fashion model. ILLUSTRATION: THE CHILDREN’S BOOK: Oct. 6-Nov. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/nonmembers, $130.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn the ABCs of children’s book illustration! Students will draw and develop techniques using art materials appropriate for different stories: pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolors. Drawing subjects will focus on children, animals, interior and exterior environments, and still-life details. Lectures will include the history of great children’s book illustrators and the role they played in turning good stories into classics. JEWELRY: PRECIOUS METAL CLAY: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $175/nonmembers; $157.50/BCA members. Location: BCA

Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a composite of 90% fine silver and 10% water and organic binder. It can be shaped just like any other kind of clay and when fired burns out the binder leaving a solid silver piece. Students will create several pieces. PAINTING: ABSTRACT PAINTING: Oct. 14-Dec. 2, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $166.50/BCA members; $185/nonmembers. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Students will be guided to explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Using the paint of their choice (water-soluble oils, acrylics or watercolor), students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding other media, as well. Students will learn from each other and discuss techniques and ideas in supportive critique. PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Nov. 3-Dec. 15, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $250/class; $225/BCA members. Location: LL Classroom (Digital Media Lab), Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The class will cover importing images, using RAW files, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer. Limit: 6. PHOTO: INTRO TO B&W FILM: Oct. 7-Dec. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $195/nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Discover the mysteries of the darkroom and make your own photographic prints! Learn how to properly expose black and white film, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Class includes a free, one-month membership for use when the class ends. Bring an empty manual 35mm film camera to the first class. No experience necessary. PHOTO: MIXED-LEVEL DARKROOM: Oct. 6-Nov. 17, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $250/nonmembers, $225/BCA members. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions will help you improve your printing and film processing techniques and discussion of the technical and aesthetic aspects of your work will be included. Includes darkroom membership.

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP W/ DARYL STORRS: Oct. 23-24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $170/$153 BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Join Frog Hollow printmaker Daryl Storrs in this exciting two-day workshop. Students will learn to make a multi-block color linocut print, explore the visual language of mark making with cutting tools, as well as the basics of paper tearing and inking. No previous experience necessary. To see Daryl’s work, visit her website at www.darylstorrs. com. Limit: 8. DRAWING & PAINTING: Oct. 12-Nov. 30, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $245/nonmembers, $220.50/ BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Begin with the basics of drawing and transition to painting with water-soluble oils. Students will learn many drawing and painting techniques and how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to their work. This supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, group discussion and critique.

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com. Teacher bios are also available online.

computers COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. Computer & Internet Basics Tutorial, iWant iPods & iPhones, Google Apps, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, OpenOffice, Google Sketch Up, Skype, PowerPoint, Publisher, MS Word Basics and More, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, Social Networking for Families, Personalized Lessons. Low

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PRINT: INTRO TO WOODCUT: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $150/nonmembers; $135/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio,

PRINT: WHAT IS PRINTMAKING: Oct. 13-Nov. 17, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $165/$148.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This is an introduction class of a whole platter of printing techniques that can be used in combination to create unique prints. Demonstrations of intaglio, mono printing, relief, paper litho and stencils are included. Cost includes use of open studio hours for class work.

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PHOTOSHOP: BEYOND THE BASICS: Nov. 2-Dec. 14, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Tues. Cost: $250/class; $225/ BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Adobe Photoshop Basics or equivalent experience. Gain confidence with advanced Photoshop skills in this six-week class. Advanced retouching, manipulating multiple images, creating actions, panoramas, selective contrast and much more will be covered, as well as printing on various archival papers on our Epson 3880 printer.

PRINT: SILKSCREENING I: Oct. 7-Nov. 11, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn to design and print posters, T-shirts, fine art prints and more! Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silkscreen exposure unit, and how to mix and print images with water-based inks. Cost includes use of open studio hours for class work.

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PHOTO: YOUTH AFTER SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY: Oct. 19-Nov. 9, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $94.50/BCA members; $105/ nonmembers. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Learn the magic of the black-and-white darkroom in this fun, hands-on, after-school class for kids ages 9 to 12! Kids will go on guided photo shoots and will print their own work in the darkroom. All equipment and supplies are provided. No experience necessary.

250 Main St., Burlington. Discover the unique process of woodblock printing during this introductory class. Learn how to create a composition appropriate for carving and reproduce your image through a series of prints onto paper or cloth. This is a great technique for card making, posters and fine-art prints. Cost includes use of open studio hours for class work.

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ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs. org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. 2 Watercolor classes with Ginny Joyner, Pastel Portraits, Drawing for Beginners, Painting With Water Soluble Oils, Printmaking, Calligraphy, Photography as Art. Darkroom Use. Culinary arts: Onenight, hands-on classes where you eat well! Thai Cuisine, Vietnamese Specialties, Turkish, Colombian Specialties, Indian, Mile-High Pies, Chicken Parm Classico, Risotto Demystified, Pasta Bene, Italian Cookies, Halloween Cookies, Cheese Making-Chevre/Feta From Goat’s Milk, Mozzarella/Ricotta From Cow’s Milk.

Beyond, Plein-Air Painting Weekend, Pre-School Adventures in Art & French. Let your imagination soar! Please visit website (Classes section) for details and call with any questions!

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cooking FOOD FOR LIFE: Mondays, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25. Location: Fanny Allen, 790 College Pkwy., Colchester. Info: The Cancer Project, Kate Myerson, 802-847-2278, katemyer son@gmail.com, www.fletcherallen.org/healthsource. Food For Life is a nutrition and cooking series by the Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes cancer prevention and survivorship through cooking demonstrations. The goal is to empower cancer survivors, their family and friends with easy and delicious cooking demonstrations with food that can discourage cancer growth.

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craft CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. Wheel Throwing and Hand Building Clay, Platters and Bowls, Tile Making, Woodworking, Welding, Sculpture Welding/Brazing, Flower Arranging, Wood Carving, Bead/Wire Jewelry Making, Metal Bracelet, Spindle and Knobs, Wooden Bowl Turning, Rug Hooking (2 levels), 3 Bag Sewing, Hemming Skills, Cross Stitch, Crochet, Cheap/Dirty Framing, Mosaic Garden Frame, Midnight Mirror, Cake Decorating (3 choices), Knitting (3 choices), Perfumery.

dance BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, kevin@firststepdance. com, www.FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance! BURLINGTON DANCES: Sun., Oct. 10, 3-5 p.m. Cost: $18/Modern Improvisation, Technique & Composition Workshop. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., Suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Transform your movement arts and your self from within in this modern dance workshop open to anyone who loves to dance, taught by Hanna Satterlee. Upcoming movement intensives include inspired teachers Rich Marantz for Tai Chi, Oct. 2, and Joe Williams for the Deslarte System of Expression, Oct. 9.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-5981077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-onone, 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! DELSARTE SYSTEM OF EXPRESSION: Oct. 9, 12-5 p.m. Cost: $65/class + a bonus belly-dance hour, 5-6 p.m. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St. (Chace Mill) #372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802863-3369, info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Join Joe Williams and Burlington Dances for this workshop exploring the map of symbolic meanings of the body and of basic human movement patterns. Based on the ancient wisdom of yoga, cabala and hermetic traditions, this system of body training will awaken your innate athletic prowess and expressive power. JAZZ DANCE W/ KAREN AMIRAULT: Sep. 14-Dec. 8, 6:35-7:45 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $15/single class; $56/4; $78/6; $144/12. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., enter in the back, Burlington. Info: South End Studio, 802-540-0044, southendstudiovtcom. Jazz: From Broadway to Hip-Hop is a fun, high-energy workout with influences from swing, Broadway and musical comedy to hip-hop, African and break, for teens and adults. Structured to benefit beginning dancers as well as those with previous training. Dress comfortably and bring clean-soled sneakers. (Kids class on Tuesdays.) LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/ seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www. lindyvermont.com, 802-860-7501. Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl. MOVING OUT OF DEPRESSION: 10 Saturdays, Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 2010, 9:30-10:45 a.m. Cost: $110/10 classes. Location: Luanne Sberna, 1 Mill St., Suite 312, Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: Luanne Sberna, 802-863-9775, Luannesberna@aol.com. Awaken body, mind and spirit from the immobility of depression. Chase the winter blues away. Using dance and movement, we will invigorate body and mind, integrating thought, feeling, sensation and action. No previous dance experience needed. Free your expressive inner self! The instructor, Luanne Sberna, is a registered dancemovement therapist.

drawing FIGURE DRAWING W/ MARIE LEPRE’GRABON: Thu., Oct. 28, Nov. 4, 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost:

$145/series. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. Drawing the figure from nude models is a great way to develop both drawing and observational skills. Use a variety of drawing media including pencil, charcoal and ink to investigate the use of line, value, texture, perspective, composition and space in the development of descriptive drawing. No previous drawing experience is necessary.

education PARADIGMS AND LEARNING: AN INTRODUCTION: Oct. 2, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $35/workshop. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-2447909. Discover how you use paradigms in your own learning. Via discussions, questions and learning activities, this one-afternoon workshop will identify and connect learning paradigms. Led by Dr. Maria Kowalchyk-DeVito.

empowerment EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. Lose Weight-Feel Great, Perfumery, Genealogy, Beekeeping, Fly Fishing, Writing Quality Fiction, Memoir Writing, Wild Plant ID, Seed Saving, How Thoughts Work, Islam and the Western World with Chris O’Donnell, Donner Party Story, Winter Camping, Solar Energy 101, Bio Fuels 101, Energy=R We?, Cinema Club, The Toddler Years, Fathers & Children Together Group, Bridge-2 levels, Grief Etiquette, Suburban Homesteading 101, Goal Setting and Dreamboarding. Guaranteed.

feldenkrais FELDENKRAIS: Weekly on Wed., 7-8 p.m. Cost: $12/class. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Uwe Mester, 802735-3770, uwemester@gmx.net. Try it out! First class is free! Feldenkrais is a learning method based on movement. Discover where and how you hold tension everywhere in yourself. Calm your mind, increase your self-knowledge. Reduce and eliminate back and neck pain. For further information and complete class schedule please visit www.vermontfeldenkrais.com.

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FORZA SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Mondays, 7-8 p.m.; Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.; Fridays, 9-10 a.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: North End Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tweak Your Physique, Stephanie Shohet, 802-578-9243, Steph@ forzavt.com, forzavt.com. FORZA is an intense group fitness class appropriate for teens and adults of all abilities. Build muscle, burn calories, develop focus, vent frustrations and boost self-esteem while using a sword to practice the skills of the samurai warrior. No martial arts experience necessary. Find forzavt on Facebook for more information.

CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS TO HEAL: Oct. 8, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $40/2.5-hr. class. Location: Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts/Star Root Aromatherapy, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts/Star Root Aromatherapy, Carol von Rohr, 802660-8060, spiritdancer.starroot@ juno.com. An experiential class in which we will discuss basic sound healing principles and their application in using crystal singing bowls for healing practice. The science of sound and vibration and the effect upon the body, mind and energetic field will be presented.

flynn arts CAMBODIAN DANCE COSTUME PRESENTATION: Oct. 2, 10-11 a.m.. Location: Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 802652-4548, flynnarts@flynncenter.org. Design and costume students, professionals, fabric artists, and anyone interested in an ancient and stunning form of cultural expression: come examine and compare the costumes for The Lives of Giants, created by Los Angeles-based theater/opera designer Merrily Murray-Walsh, with intricately brocaded and bejeweled costumes worn in traditional Cambodian classical dance. CAMBODIAN DANCE MASTERCLASS: Oct. 2, 10-11:30 a.m. Cost: $15 Location: Hoehl Studio Lab, Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, flynnarts@flynncenter.org. Khmer Arts Ensemble has been integral to the survival of Cambodian classical dance, a treasure of world heritage. This introductory workshop, led by company members, provides an overview and demonstration of the form’s rich movement vocabulary and its four main archetypes: male, female, the giant (or demon), and the monkey. LAUGH ATTACK: STANDUP COMEDY W/ JOSIE LEAVITT: Oct. 11-Nov. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $185/8-weeks. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 802-6524548, flynnarts@flynncenter.org. Join the supportive and hysterically funny folks in this performance-based workshop! Learn the elements of comedy, try fun writing exercises, and develop and practice your own stand-up material in every class. Class ends with the ultimate challenge -- an optional live performance in FlynnSpace on Monday, November 29.

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herbs WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Open House Sat., Oct. 23, 1-3:30 p.m., Rhapsody Cafe, 28 Main St., Montpelier. Eat on the Wild Side, Mon., Sept. 27, 4:30-6:30 p.m., $20. Dates for our 2011 Wild Edible spring & summer terms, & for the 8-weekend Wisdom of the Herbs 2011, can be found on our website; we are currently interviewing. Plan ahead & apply now for VSAC nondegree grants for 2011 programs while funds are plentiful. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www. wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

5-6) begin on October 2 at 9 a.m.. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/staff arts and knife defense. Adult classes seven days a week. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. AIKIDO: Tues.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 9-10 a.m.; & Sundays, 10-11:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 802-862-9785, www.vermontaikido. org. Vermont Aikido adult introductory classes will be offered October 19 through November 9, on consecutive Tuesday evenings. Class time: 6-7:30 p.m. (dojo doors open at 5:30 p.m.). Intro class fee of $60 includes uniform. Please contact the dojo with questions about the class or to preregister.

JEWELRY W/ KARLA VAN VLIET: Oct. 14, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Cost: $50/10% discount avail. for members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. Take that old, funky jewelry you’ve never worn and make it new and fashionable. Using beads, wire work and sterling silver, create new pieces out of old. Please register online.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802-660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, www.bjjusa.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Oct. 5-Dec. 14, 6:45-8:15 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $195/class incl. textbooks. Location: St. Michaels College, St. Edmunds Hall 106, Colchester. Info: Japan-America Society of Vemont, Larry Solt, 802-865-3113, l.solt@burlingtontelecom.net, info@ jasv.org. The Japan-America Society of Vermont is again offering Beginner Japanese Language classes. This class is an introduction to speaking, listening, reading and writing Japanese with particular emphasis on conversational patterns that occur in everyday life. Students will also be introduced to life in Japan and Japanese customs and culture.

KNITTING A SCARF W/ ELLEN: Oct. 7, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $15/1.5-hr. class. Location: Grand Isle Art Works Gallery, 259 Rt. 2, Grand Isle. Info: Grand Isle Art Works, Ellen Thompson, 802-3784591, ellen@grandisleartworks.com, www.grandisleartworks.com. Learn LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG how to knit a multidirectional scarf. AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerKnitters will learn this pattern’s wily 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 3:32:51 ings PM for all ages. Full descriptions ways. Participants should bring size at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, 10.5-13 knitting needles (circular or MASTER COMPOSTER 2010: Mondays, Community Education link. Senior disstraight) and a skein of sport weight Oct. 18-Nov. 8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: count 65+. Location: CVU High School, yarn (variegated is best). Participants $40/incl. req. manual. Noncredit 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: can purchase needles/yarn at the Art course. Location: Various locations, 802-482-7194. Beginner French, Works on the 7th. Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Conversational Immersion French Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, with Laure Angel, Beginning Spanish Newport, Randolph Center, Rutland, (2 levels), Conversational Spanish, Springfield, St. Albans, Waterbury. Italian for Travelers, Beginning Info: 802-656-9562, master. FREE TAX CLASS: Oct. 4-Dec. 1, 6-9 Mandarin (2 levels). Low cost, hands gardener@uvm.edu, www.uvm.edu/ p.m., Weekly on Mon., Wed. Cost: on, excellent instructors, limited class matergardener. Interested in learning $129/book. Location: Liberty Tax size, guaranteed. Materials included the latest processes for producing Service, 1197 Williston Rd., South with few exceptions. fabulous compost and reducing Burlington. Info: Liberty Tax Service, greenhouse emissions? Learn how to Rob , 802-865-2829, relmes@liberbuild piles, improve soil, enhance plant tytax.com, LibertyTax.com. Sign up to resistance to disease and insects, learn about tax preparation and how AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes grow healthy lawns, produce worm the new tax laws will affect you. begin on Tuesday, October 5 at 6:45 compost, and more! p.m. Join for 3 months and receive a free uniform. Pre-school classes (ages

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ADVANCED THAI MASSAGE: Jan. 9-15. Cost: $1,300/lodging, food, 44 class hours. Location: Ojo del Mar, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Info: Thai Massage & Bodywork, Christopher Ray, 906-226-8899, chrisray1111@ yahoo.com, www.thaimassage bodywork.com. Learn advanced, therapeutic Thai massage techniques and rejuvenate on the beaches of Costa Rica! Practice assessing bodies, sensing energetic blocks, using the breath, working deeply and therapeutically, and minimizing physical effort. Effectively use your feet, knees, elbows and body weight. Come play and enhance your massage practice!

meditation 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: 802-6586795, 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

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Learn Mindfulness Meditation: Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., all programs free of charge. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., Burlington. Info: Exquisite Mind, Arnie Kozak, 802-660-8043, drkozak@exquisite mind.com, exquisitemind.com. Learn to meditate and participate in ongoing mindfulness meditation practice community at the new Exquisite Mind Studio. Nonsectarian Buddhistbased mindfulness meditation. No-fee instructions, weekly practice sessions and monthly retreats. Free weekly introductory program. Read the blog at www.blog.beliefnet.com/ mindfulnessmatters.

ALL Wellness: Location: 208 Flynn Ave., Studio 3A (across from the antique shops, before Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-863-9900, www. allwellnessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and nutrition. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. Join us for a free introduction to the reformer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.: Just call and reserve your spot!

painting Luminous Layers with Acrylics: Oct. 9, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $80/ class. Location: Artists’ Mediums Store, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Williston. Info: Artists’ Mediums Inc., 802-8791236, info@artistsmediums.com, www.artistsmediums.com. In this hands-on workshop, discover an array of Golden gels and media that can be used to create seductive textured and translucent surfaces. Build your surfaces with washes, glazing and scraffito. This workshop is designed to create ideas, not finished paintings. All Golden materials are provided for use in class.

photography CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 165 fall offerings for all ages. Full descriptions at www.cvuhs.org. Look for Access, Community Education link. Senior discount 65+. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194. Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, Share Photos, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters.

pottery POTTERY CLASSES: TWITCHELL HILL POTTERY: Location: Twitchell Hill Pottery, New Haven. Info: 802545-2476. A beautiful studio in New Haven. Private and group lessons on the potter’s wheel. Classes for children and adults, beginners and advanced students. For more info call or email Shelly Doyle: shelbeth@msn.com.

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MOVING OUT OF DEPRESSION: 10 Saturdays, Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 9:30-10:45 a.m. Cost: $110/10 classes. Location: 1 Mill St., Suite 312, Chace Mill,

Usui Reiki, 1st Degree: Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class. Location: VT Center for Energy Medicine, Shelburne. Info: VT Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Fulton Carse, 802-985-9580, cindy@energy medicinevt.com, www.energymedi cinevt.com. Learn Reiki, an ancient healing art that facilitates health on all levels (body, mind and spirit). This gentle, healing tool can lower stress, decrease pain, enhance the immune system and speed up recovery time. Reiki can be a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation, as well.

relationships Gnosticism: Oct. 7-28, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thurs. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Want new insights into Jesus’ character, personality and love life? Want new perspectives on Christianity? This course introduces the gospels that Carl Jung appreciated so much. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

Close Up & Macro Photo Wkshop: Oct. 23-24, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $165/ members; $195/nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne. Info: 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Carl Rubino. This will focus on techniques and equipment needed for shots ranging from typical close-up (flowers, rain droplets) to extreme close-up to macro photography, which reporduces an image at life size, often used to create abstract images. Lecture, demonstrations, slide shows and firsthand experience. Coptic with Wooden Boards: Oct. 9-Sep. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $70/ members; $85/nonmembers; $30/ material fee. Location: Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Elizabeth Rideout. The Coptic Binding with wooden boards is one of the oldest book forms in history. You will learn a four-needle, across-the-spine sewing technique and traditional Coptic board attachment. When finished, your historical model will open flat, great for journaling and sketching. Wheel Throwing/Handbuilding: Sep. 29-Oct. 27, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $165/members; $195/ nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne. Info: 802-9853648, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Josh Quinlan. This call will accommodate all levels of abilities. Beginners will be shown fundamentals and guided in developing strong basic skills. More experienced students will have individualized instruction in functional or sculptural techniques while considering elements of form and style.

Yang-Style Tai Chi: Beginning Oct. 6. Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. $125 for 8 classes. All levels on Sat., 8:15-9:45 a.m. $16/class. Monthly: $60/1 class per week, $115/2 classes per week. 3 calendar mos.: $160/1 class per week, $275/2 classes per week. Cost: $16/single class, $160/3 calendar mos. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St. #5, Burlington. Info: 802-3186238. Tai Chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Brought to you by Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center. Janet Makaris, instructor.

writing Writing Therapy Group for Women w/ Heather Parker, MA, LCMHC: Oct. 4-Nov. 22, 6-7 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: Heather, 802-658-9440, vtcyt. com. Exploring one’s internal world creatively through writing can support the healing process of depression, anxiety, self-image issues, relational difficulties and addictions. Writing Therapy for Women will encourage the development of self-expression and self-awareness through various writing styles and exercises: fiction, nonfiction, journaling, prose and poetry.

yoga Chronic Pain w/ Martha Whitney: Oct. 5-Nov. 9, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $75/series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-6589440, www.vtcyt.com. This gentle practice will offer the resources of yoga to bring greater ease to your body and mind. The class is designed to encourage the body’s natural relaxation response. It will include gentle movement, restorative yoga postures and mindful breath practices.

Meeting Your Inner Partner: Oct. 6-27, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-2447909. Discover the inner men and women living in your “inner city” who deeply influence your relationships and love life in this workshop full of hands-on experiential material. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

sewing Fall Sewing Classes at nido: Sep. 27-Nov. 30. Location: nido, 209 College St., Burlington. Info: nido, nido, 802-881-0068, info@nidovt. com, http://www.nidovt.com. New sewing classes at nido for the fall! Stitch up a cute top, a sassy dress or a pair of patchwork pillows to feather your nest. From handmade toys to fashionable bags, there is something

True Relaxation & Groundedness: Oct. 2, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $50/5-hour class (bring a lunch). Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., top floor, 370, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. 26th generation Wudang Long Men lineage holder and Tai Chi instructor Rich Marantz shares his insights into the foundations of movement with regard to easeful movement, relaxation, flow and groundedness. The essence of mastery of movement, this way of being, standing, and moving, is natural and relaxed, yet structured.

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 St., Burlington. Info: 802-864-7902, www. iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is

Drop-in Yoga: Every Fri., this fall, 12-1:30 p.m. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, S. Burlington. Info: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy , 802-658-9440, vtcyt.com. Move. Breathe. Strengthen. Relax. A Vajra-inspired class with Deb Sherrer, CYT, MA, that focuses on alignment, breath-informed movement, mindfulness and in-depth poses to enhance strength, flexibility and grounding. Leave class with a greater sense of well-being and relaxation. All levels welcome. EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships

Genesis Yoga w/ Robin Lawson: Oct. 3-Nov. 7, 9-10:15 a.m., Weekly on Sun. Cost: $75/6 weeks or $15/class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Robin, 802-2336783, www.southendstudiovt.com. Genesis Yoga is an exploration of consciousness and the soul’s journey back to God. It emphasizes spiritual teaching combined with prayer, meditation, movement and sound. We examine Eastern and Western spiritual philosophies in light of emerging scientific discoveries to gain new perspectives on the universal truths of being. LifeForce Yoga with Sofi Dillof: Oct. 6-Nov. 10, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $90/series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www. vtcyt.com. Anxiety and depression have become increasingly common in today’s society. In fact, you might be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t, at some point, have difficulty managing their moods. LifeForce Yoga is a practice that is intentionally designed to help with mood management through breath work, simple postures and meditation techniques. Yoga Tools for Stress Reduction w/ Lindsay Foreman: Oct. 2, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Cost: $40/class. Location: Vemront Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-6589440, vtcyt.com. Your yoga experience does not need to end when class is over. Explore ways of carrying the calming effects of yoga into your daily life to help feel more balanced and at ease. This class is for beginners and for those who want to deepen their practice on and off the mat. Yoga for Health Care Professionals w/ Annette Browne: Oct. 11-Nov. 15, 5-6:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $90/series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-6589440, www.vtcyt.com. As health care providers we gain tremendous rewards in caring for others; at the same time, we often forget to take care of ourselves, resulting in burnout of the physical body, agitation of the mind and often a shutting down of emotions. Come find a healthy balance. Yoga for Recovery: Sep. 7-Dec. 28, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $14/1.5-hour drop-in class ($12 for 10-class pass). Location: Burlington Yoga, 215 College St., Burlington. Info: Loving River Healing Arts, Katherine A. Kelley. MA, LADC, 802-343-5790, katherinekelley@burlingtontelecom. net, www.lovingriver.com. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and practice coordinating breath and movement with mindful awareness in a playful, safe community for the purpose of healing from the effects of trauma and addiction. Each session ends with a guided relaxation. No prior yoga experience necessary. All levels of yoga experience welcome. m

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Healing Grief w/ Joey Corcoran & Susan Sassman: Oct. 12-Nov. 16, 7:15-8:45 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $130/series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. Many of us hold unresolved grief. In this six-week series you will learn tools to explore your grief from a fresh perspective. We will use an approach that appeals to body, mind and heart, and may unlock the freeze of unresolved grief and provide skillful means to integrate it.

Animal Reiki I Class: Oct. 16-17, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $150/10-hour class. Location: Hooved Animal Sanctuary, Chelsea. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 802-746-8834, kelly@heartsongreiki.com, www. heartsongreiki.com. This is the foundation for self-care and animal work. Class covers history, Reiki precepts, Japanese energy system, meditation and animal protocol. Students will learn basic hand positions for people, however, focus is on animals. Four Reiki attunements. Plenty of practice time with animals. Manual and certificate given.

Alternative Firing for Potters: Oct. 9-11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Every 3 days. Cost: $200/members; $235/nonmembers; $25/materials. Location: Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne. Info: 802-985-3648, www.shelburneart center.org. Instructor: Bob Green. This three-day workshop will explore several exciting firing techniques for clay. Raku firings will occur throughout the weekend, which will include specific Raku glazes that will produce a wide array of glaze colors and textures. Eight to 10 bone-dry pots should be brought, no earthenware.

available for discounted rates. Mon.Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt.com, www.evolutionvt.com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusara-inspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/ postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt. com/evoblog.

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Dig. Photography & Photoshop: Oct. 16-17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $125/ day; $200 for weekend. Location: HUHS Digital Imaging Lab, 458 Rt. 100, S. Duxbury. Info: Sam K, 802-8821124, sambovermont@gmail.com. A two-day, comprehensive workshop. Participate in one day or both. Day 1: digital cameras, exposure tricks and better photography. Day 2: digital workflow: importing, organizing, Photoshop, printing. Contact instructor for more info about this excellent workshop held in a modern, fully equipped digital imaging lab in the Mad River Valley.

The Pilates Den: Location: The Pilates Den, Williston. Info: The Pilates Den, 802-318-6378, Shannon@ pilatesden.com, www.pilatesden.com. Experience the benefits of the Pilates method of exercise with certified, seasoned instructor Shannon Lashua, at the Pilates Den in Williston. Smallgroup mat classes as well as private and semiprivate sessions utilizing the Reformer, Cadillac and Wunda Chair are all offered in a cozy, relaxing atmosphere. Learn how to move more efficiently while increasing strength, flexibility and well-being.

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY II w/ Bob Straus: Thur., Oct. 14, 1-5 p.m. Rain date Oct. 21. Cost: $75/10% discount avail. for members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-2538358, www.helenday.com. Spend an afternoon with Bob Straus, a professional commercial photographer for over 40 years. He’s traveled the world on assignment, with a client list that includes CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox Sports, Nike, NFL, NBA, USTA, USGA, Time, Sports Illustrated, Polo Ralph Lauren and CARE. Learn about shooting in various conditions with a film mindset. Please register online.

Natural Bodies Pilates: Burlington Dances: Come dance w/ us! & book your sessions for Classical Pilates & Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates at Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., top floor, 370, Burlington. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Certified Movement Analyst and Pilates instuctor Lucille Dyer is now offering integrative private sessions in our new studio at Chace Mill. By allowing relaxation, you can correct alignment and repattern habitual movements into ways of moving that are more comfortable, more effective, and more expressive of who you truly are.

Mindfulness: A DBT Approach w/ Heather Parker, MA, LCMHC: Oct. 5-Nov. 9, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Tue.. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: Heather Parker, 802-658-9440, www.vtcyt. com. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an effective treatment in the management of intense, overwhelming emotions that may develop from exposure to trauma or neglect from childhood, affecting one’s self-image, patterns in relationships and behaviors of impulsivity. Mindfulness will explore primary states of mind, development of present-moment experience and nonjudgmental stance.

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY I w/ Paul Rogers: Oct. 5-26, 10-noon, Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $120/10% discount avail. for members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-2538358, www.helenday.com. Improve your digital photography skills in this “level 101” class. Students will learn the basics of digital photography, including camera operation, proper image exposure, file types, Photoshop file editing, and preparation of photo files for Web or print. Please register online.

Absolute Pilates: Affordable pricing; friendly atmosphere; quality NYC certified instruction. Location: Absolute Pilates, 3060 Williston Rd., Suite 6, S. Burlington. Info: 802-310-2614, www.absolutepilates. com. Experience the empowering Pilates method of body conditioning and get toned and stretched. Offering small-group mat classes; combo Tower/Reformer equipment classes (four participants); private and semiprivate equipment sessions. New class! Combo Tower/Reformer, Monday & Thursday at noon.

Burlington. Info: Luanne Sberna, 802863-9775, Luannesberna@aol.com. Awaken body, mind and spirit from the immobility of depression. Chase the winter blues away. Using dance and movement, we will invigorate body and mind, integrating thought, feeling, sensation and action. No previous dance experience needed. Free your expressive inner self! The instructor, Luanne Sberna, is a registered dancemovement therapist.

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ince their inception in the early 1980s, the Toasters have become one of the most succesful ska bands in history. Having bridged the gap between ska’s second wave and its rebirth in the 1990s, the band is also among the genre’s most important. Front man Rob “Bucket” Hingley’s late, great record label, Moon Ska, was virtually synonymous with and essentially symbolized the genre’s third wave. And if an impending fourth wave really is on the horizon, a new generation of the Two Tone Army will owe the band a debt of gratitude. In advance of the Toasters’ upcoming Burlington appearance on Wednesday, September 29, at Club Metronome, Seven Days chatted with Bucket by phone from his home in Valencia, Spain. SEVEN DAYS: You came up at the tail end of the second wave, played through the 1980s and emerged as possibly the single most important figure in ska’s third wave. So, more than most, you’ve had a front-row seat to the genre’s ebb and flow. Why is the popularity of ska so cyclical? BUCKET HINGLEY: It all has to do with the culture of the music. Ska has a rich history of blending music and politics, but also a history of largely being ignored by the mainstream for long stretches of time. So that breeds a kind of appreciation among fans that try to keep the music and the meaning of the music alive. Those people hang on to it, even when others have moved on. But really, ska is always there. SD: But there was a noticeable commercialization that grew out of the third wave. BH: I think that came more from bands that other people claimed were ska but really weren’t, bands that were simply lumped into the genre and didn’t belong. I mean, I wouldn’t call Smash Mouth ska, would you? And I suppose No Doubt was really the tipping point. But a lot of the bands that are still out there playing, like the Toasters, the Slackers, the Pietasters, were bands who were out there before. It’s come full circle in a lot

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of ways and gone back to the bands who have long-hauled. SD: It seems there has been a resurgence of interest in ska of late. I know we’re starting to see more ska bands crop up around New England, at least. Would you say we’re approaching a fourth wave? BH: First of all, I discount the wave theory. I think it’s all one wave. It’s more of a spatial-temporal continuum that some bands can materialize out of. But it’s all branches coming off the same tree, whose roots stretch back to the late 50s in Jamaica, whether it’s two tone or third wave or whatever you want to call it. But a lot of the bands that are coming

up now are bands that are playing more pure forms of the genre, more rocksteady, more reggae, more dub. And a lot more bands are getting back into two tone, which is refreshing. SD: Any younger ska bands that have caught your ear? BH: Well, for two-tone style, there’s a young band out of Arizona called the 2Tone Lizard Kings. The Green Room Rockers, out of [Indiana]. There’s a band called the Forthrights in New York. There are a lot of kids really in disparate scenes who are all really pulling together. So, I have high hopes of ska music coming back out of the doldrums, because it always does.

SD: There is some peculiar cultural baggage associated with ska: the punny names, the suits, whatever. How much of that stuff do you wish would just go away? BH: [Laughing] Well, I think some people would try to stereotype it. And mostly, it’s music that a lot of reviewers have had a problem with because they don’t really get the roots and culture of it. I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that it’s where reggae music came from. A lot of people don’t understand it’s where a lot of punk-rock music came from as well — the cusp of that was really 1977-78, the two-tone music in the UK, which really crossed over from reggae into punk. There’s a sociopolitical movement there, as well. So, there’s a lot more to ska than just the music, and I wish people would dig a little deeper and realize it’s not all party music. There are a lot of socially conscious lyrics, and socially conscious history embodied in the music, too. This is music that originally came out of the Trenchtown ghetto. So, there is a political facet that people would do well not to forget. SD: Last question: What the hell happened to Moon Ska? BH: Moon Ska has been in the grave since 2000, basically. We had to close that simply because of the marketplace. But we have a new label, Megalift, which is going ahead as well as can be expected considering that nobody wants to buy physical recordings anymore. But I think the trick these days is to reposition yourself more as a facilitator for bands playing out live. I think ska music is best carried out in a live venue and to a live audience. It’s always been difficult to really capture that on a record. So, I think most of the emphasis we have is just to get bands out on the road and on the performance value of ska music, as opposed to the wax value, which is pretty much diminished in the age of unbridled piracy.  Catch the Toasters with Husbands AKA and Rough Francis this Wednesday, September 29, 9 p.m., at Club Metronome, Burlington. $10. 18+.

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I’ve been telling you this for months: Watch out for Smith. You’re welcome. Most important of all, the benefit show lent a helping hand to the deserving crew at Burlington’s beacon of low-power-radio eclecticism, the Radiator. What’s more, I managed not to (completely) humiliate myself emceeing the show. Bonus. Sadly, this is where my

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aforementioned phlegmy malaise enters the picture, steamrolling me Saturday and keeping me from trekking to The Monkey for the FarM CD release. Hope you all went, or have at least checked out Farm’s latest record. It is probably my favorite local release of the year — and it’s in the running to be among my 2010 favorites generally. Really. (Scary thought: The time to think about 2010 “best of ” stuff is closer than you think.) Despite copious amounts of medicine, chicken soup and fluids — OK, hot toddies, but whiskey is a fluid, right? — I found myself again sidelined and unable to catch

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they just rocked, hard, and for two and a half hours. And not a single person bitched that LesLie Feist didn’t show. Amazing! It took most of my reserve not to swing into the ’noosk for Beach FossiLs at The Monkey House on Thursday. I’ve really been into their most recent, self-titled LP. But I needed to save my strength for the following evening and the Seven Days-fueled localrock showcase at Nectar’s, Burlington Bands 101. (Also, it was Oktoberfest at American Flatbread. Sue me.) BB101 was, in a word: rad. In two words: fucking rad. The joint was full from beginning to end, all the bands tore it up — especially Maryse sMith and her merry band of … um, bandmates.

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have a unique vulnerableyet-masculine nature. It’s fascinating, especially in person. Plus, you gotta love a guitarist who looks like he’s flipping off the crowd when he plays power chords. The following evening was, for my money, the week’s marquee event: Broken sociaL scene and the sea and cake at the Higher Ground Ballroom. This show held particular intrigue for me. One, the last time I saw a BSS-related show live was kevin drew’s uninspiring/borderline shit-acular show at Ira Allen Chapel a few years ago. And

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I sit here meekly cobbling this column together on a steely Monday morning, wading through a fog of DayQuil, Emergen-C and hot toddies (note to my editor on that last one: not really!) as I attempt to beat back a brutish case of the sniffles. I’m pretty sure it stems from a week of, well, too much rockin’. A week so packed with music that, as a friend accurately observed, “This week, half of Burlington will be late to work every day.” And how. I was late at least three times, and I mostly work from home. A brief recap: It all started last Tuesday evening at Club Metronome, where our new friends, MSR Presents, had put together a nifty little midweek show with former Pedro the Lion front man david Bazan, and Omaha’s the MynaBirds. I arrived in time to catch about four or five songs by the latter, and found myself wishing I could, once and for all, break my habit of operating on “musician time.” (For anyone who has never been, worked with or dated a musician, the equation for calculating MT is basically this: Take whatever time said musician is supposed to arrive, add to that the amount of time it should take to get there, adjust for weather, traffic, crappiness of said musician’s vehicle, degree of sobriety, etc., and voilà — musician time.) Anyway, I’m grateful for what I was able to catch. The Mynabirds’ soul-tinged, alt-country-rooted tunes sounded even better live than on their excellent new(ish) record What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood.

Also, I’m a sucker for sultry, dusky-voiced blondes who play the piano. Ahem. But the star of the show was Bazan, who, backed by an ace band and pulling equally from his most recent solo album, Curse Your Branches, and choice cuts from his PTL back catalog, stunned the relatively small but attentive crowd. Bazan’s writing and delivery

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That line, part of the band’s bio at Infinite Best Recordings — the label that released their excellent new album, Color Your Life — is actually a remarkable description. The Long Island-based band’s music is disarming and hypnotic, chilling the soul in a wash of dreamy, fuzzy pop bliss that could make you … well, you know. This Friday, the band stops by Winooski hotspot The Monkey House. Locals PaPEr CastLEs, tootH aCHE. and DJ DisCo PHantoM open.

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Rough Francis (ska, punk), 9 p.m., $10. 18+. Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: Fun., steel Train, Jarrod Gorbel (indie), 7:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. LEunig’s bistro & CaFé: myra Flynn & Paul Boffa (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LiFt: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

Silver

tHE MonkEy HousE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic), 9 p.m., $1.

Surfer,

nECtar’s: Events Are Objects (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

& Other

on taP bar & griLL: Pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free.

Vaporizers

raDio bEan: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. rED squarE: People Are strange (The Doors tribute), 8 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

central

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bLaCk Door bar & bistro: christabel & the Jons (acoustic), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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1/2 LoungE: DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

grEEn Mountain tavErn: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

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LangDon strEEt CaFé: Justin Levinson (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., Donations.

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tHE brEWski: comedy Night with Andie Bryan (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free.

rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free.

tHE sHED rEstaurant & brEWEry: Knotwork (irish), 7 p.m., Free.

tHE skinny PanCakE: Antara (new folk), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

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LangDon strEEt CaFé: High-Low Jack (old-time), 7 p.m., Donations. Round mountain (Americana), 8:30 p.m., Donations.

MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

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baCkstagE Pub: Open mic with Jess & Jeff, 8 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: The Jazz mandolin Project (Klezhobo, jazzgrass), 9 p.m., $15/20. Franny o’s: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. grEEn rooM: DJ Oh-Jay Fresh (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. HaLvorson’s uPstrEEt CaFé: Friends of Joe with Dave Grippo & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: Dead sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/10. AA. LEunig’s bistro & CaFé: mike martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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on tHE risE bakEry: The New Barika Ensemble (world music), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tWo brotHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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bEE’s knEEs: copper Kettle (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations. ParkEr PiE Co.: Howie cantor (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: Live Jazz, 8 p.m., Free.

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LiFt: Get LiFTed with DJs Nastee & Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

tHE MonkEy HousE: Electric Electric, Teleport (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

oLivE riDLEy’s: Karaoke with Ben Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

nECtar’s: Bluegrass Thursdays with Jatoba, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. nigHtCraWLErs: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free. o’briEn’s irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. onE PEPPEr griLL: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.

tabu CaFé & nigHtCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

on taP bar & griLL: The Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

gooD tiMEs CaFé: Tim Grimm (Americana), 8 p.m., $10.

raDio bEan: Jazz sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Anthony santor Group (jazz), 11 p.m., $3.

banana WinDs CaFé & Pub: Red stellar & the Workin’ man Band (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

rasPutin’s: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

CLub MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

rED squarE: selector Dubee (reggae), 6 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

grEEn rooM: DJ Big Kat (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Open mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.

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bEE’s knEEs: Jim charonko (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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MSR’s Sunday encore with the TALLEST MAN ON EARTH and S. CAREY. But imagine this, if you weren’t there, either: 200 people sitting on the ﬂoor at Metronome, hanging on the tallest Swedish songwriter’s every, aching word. Wow. This brings us up to today, Monday, and LCD SOUNDSYSTEM and SLEIGH BELLS at Memorial Auditorium. Although for you, dear reader, “today” is actually Wednesday, which means this should be a review, even though, as I’m writing this, I haven’t actually gone to the show yet. And, given my persistent cold, it’s unlikely I will. Still, that won’t stop me from offering this Back to the Future-ish review: The show was a lot of fun. I think both bands played great, but I can’t be sure since I couldn’t, you know, really hear anything other than an echoing blob of cacophonous sound. On the plus side, I got really sweaty, which helped with the sick thing. What a week.

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• Band Name of the Week: the GINGER SNAPS. OK, so this band doesn’t actually exist … yet. But in my travels over the last week or so, I have run into local guitarist BOB WAGNER a couple-three times. Great guy. Not a shabby axe man, either. Anyway, over a beer or four at Honky Tonk Sessions, he filled me in on an idea for a new band that is so stupid it’s brilliant. So, I’m putting out a call to arms. Ravenhaired Bob and I are now accepting applications for our new outfit — an all-star, all-redhead band, the Ginger Snaps. To be considered, you must first and foremost be (duh) a ginger. You must also be comfortable with our gigging/practice schedule: always after dark and, even then, preferably indoors. • Dept. of Corrections: Last week’s IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE spotlight incorrectly stated that Tech had been released recently from prison. He wasn’t. That would have been his

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hinted at a new album on the horizon, a curious project he referred to as “minimalist electronica.” With mandolins. Stay tuned. • Speaking of new releases, ETHAN AZARIAN celebrates his latest, a beautifully idiosyncratic country album, Cross’n Over. Join the fun this Saturday at the Rose Street Artists’ Cooperative Gallery and in Burlington. I’ll try to find space for a proper review before Azarian and his wife, Melissa Knight, move back to Austin in November. • It’s a big week at The Monkey House, featuring interesting, nationally touring indie acts almost nightly. The marquee show is probably TWIN SISTER on Friday (see spotlight, page 64). But don’t be afraid to come back Saturday to catch Allston, Mass., psych-gaze outﬁt 28 DEGREES TAURUS, with BTV rockers REVERSE NEUTRAL DRIVE, and (apparently) Portland, Maine’s answer to NOSE BLEED ISLAND: HAVE FUN, THE BAND. And don’t overlook SCOUT NIBLETT (from the “other” Portland) on Monday — thanks, Angioplasty Media! Or, and I’m really pumped on this one, Jagjaguwar signees WOMEN, with the awesomely named DD/ MM/YYYY. Go go, Gadget, immune system!

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• This week ain’t too shabby, either, come to think of it. And a highlight is certainly the welcome return of JAMIE MASEFIELD’s acclaimed JAZZ MANDOLIN PROJECT this Thursday at Metronome. In a recent JamBase interview, the virtuosic mando-wizard

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BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: The Concrete Rivals (surf), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday with Antara & Pamela Means, DJs Precious & Llu (singer-songwriter, house), 8 p.m., $5/10. AA.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

GUSTO’S: Area 51 (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Open Mic with Mike Pelkey, 8 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Hey Mama (roots), 9 p.m., Donations.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Live DJ, 9:30 p.m., Free. Oktoberfest, 10 p.m., Free.

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

champlain valley

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Badﬁsh: A Tribute to Sublime, Scotty Don’t Full Service (ska-punk), 8 p.m., $15/18/22. AA.

MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio featuring Paul Cassarino, Tracie Cassarino & Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Angioplasty Media presents Twin Sister, Paper Castles, tooth ache., DJ Disco Phantom (indie), 9 p.m., $8. NECTAR’S: Good Gravy Music Series with the Sullivan Rhodes Duo (blues), 5 p.m., Free. Mike Pedersen (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., $5. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ONE PEPPER GRILL: Kevin Greenblott and Seth Whittier (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Growlers (blues), 5 p.m., Free. The Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARK PLACE TAVERN: Big Boots Deville (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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7 p.m., Free. Bill Burrell & the Sodbusters (Americana), 8 p.m., Free.

RASPUTIN’S: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 9 p.m., $3. REGULAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION: Red Stellar (rock), 7 p.m., Free. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: DJ Johnny Utah (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

51 MAIN: Brian Kremer (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Prana (electro-acoustic), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

BEE’S KNEES: Karen from Folk By Association (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Marcel and the Trainwreck (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: Envy (house), 10 p.m., Free.

JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Andrew Moroz (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: 28 Degrees Taurus, Reverse Neutral Drive, Have Fun, the Band (rock), 9 p.m., $5. NECTAR’S: John Benninghoff (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Spiritual Rez CD Release, The Organic Sound Project (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Radio Flyer (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MATTERHORN: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., $5. RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

southern

THE LITTLE CABARET: The Dusty Pilgrims (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Side Pony with Myra Flynn & Gregory Douglass (’80s covers), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club (open turntables), 3 p.m., Free. Brett Hughes (cosmo-rural), 6 p.m., Free. Merrily James (singer-songwriter), 8:15 p.m., Free. L.Dora (rock), 9:45 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN’S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

regional

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Benjamin Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Radio Riot (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Angie Mattson (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

central

GUSTO’S: Truis (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Tumbledown House (saloon jazz), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Johnson’s Crossroads (country), 9 p.m., Donations. POSITIVE PIE 2: Movement of the People: The Fela Kuti Project (world music), 10:30 p.m., $10. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Rick Redington & the Luv (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

BEE’S KNEES: Earthman Band (eclectic), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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can play a searing guitar solo with the best of ’em. The band’s rhythm section, with Chris Jovanelli on drums and Peter Bixby on bass, gives the songs the propulsive base they need to nail that going-downthe-road vibe. Jovanelli’s drumming is especially noteworthy — he knows exactly when to lay it on and when to keep it simple. Bixby’s bass playing is technically strong, but almost too strong. At times, it’s a little distracting. When Freight stray from their electric-folk sound, results vary. “Still Life” adds some reggae grooves to the equation, and it falls ﬂat. Do we really need any more jammy bands in Vermont trying to inject reggae into folksy songs? On the other hand, closing track “Rocking With You (The Front Porch Song)” is a rollicking little country-rock number that suggests the band could really have some fun if they let themselves. But when they’ve got the weary, lonesome sound nailed so well, why should they? Catch Freight at the Langdon Street Café in Montpelier this Tuesday.

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listening.” McGinniss’ gently delivered words really count — the sentiments expressed have an iron core. Mary McGinniss has been performing a series of CD-release house concerts in the area, and she sounds just as good in person as she does on this disc.

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It’s the old question: If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only have three albums, what would they be? Putting aside the logistics of finding a CD player, turntable or iPod charger on a deserted island, people typically answer that question with their favorite albums. But I say it’s not about your favorites; it’s about what music fits the mood. Which brings us to the band Freight and their recently released, self-titled debut. If you tweak the isolation situation to a lonely deserted road, Freight would fit the mood like few other bands do. Their songs can really be described as lonesome in a “long, dusty trail” sort of way: slow tempos, clean electric guitar, mournful saxophone and tons of space to breathe. The Queen City outfit organized this summer’s Vermont Roots Rock Revival concert series in Burlington’s Battery Park, and that’s a good starting point for their sound. They pull in aspects of all kinds of Americana — country, folk, blues, rock and a bit of jam. They’re not rootsy in a traditional sense of the word, but more in a classic-rock-meets-JerryGarcia kind of way. Lead singer John-Paul Arenas powers the band with a road-weary croon that sounds a bit like that of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. Arenas’ lyrics continue the band’s general aesthetic. For example, on “Aching Blues” he sings, “I’ve been down this lonesome road before / and I’ve read these signs a thousand times or more.” You get the idea. Guitarist/saxophonist Christine Mathias also sings a handful of songs, and her confident presence provides a nice foil to Arenas’ battered sound. Mathias’ turns as lead vocalist on songs such as “Live Like This” and “The Forrest” provide much-needed variety, both in terms of her singing and the relatively upbeat nature of her songs. But even on these, Arenas is still the star in some sense, as it’s hard to ignore his takes on lead guitar. As quiet and sad as he sounds when singing, Arenas unleashes all his presumably pent-up energy on guitar. Witness the rock-out guitar pyrotechnics of “Everything.” The guy

instrumentalist Kristina Stykos. On many of the albums she has engineered in the past few years — Bow Thayer’s Shooting Arrows at the Moon, Brian Clark’s Solo Duo Trio and her own In the Earth’s Fading Light — Stykos has produced unadorned acoustic music that shows off the heart and the soul of the vocalists and their instruments. In the case of Mary McGinniss, that’s a great thing, because she has a rich singing voice, provides her own harmony, and accompanies herself on guitar and ukulele throughout Red Tails. Her playing is understated but solid. In other words, just enough to keep our attention on what’s most important: her insightful songwriting and luscious vocals. On these songs, McGinniss writes about growing up in Burlington and other events and relationships that have shaped her life. There are songs about the pain of saying goodbye to parents, lovey lullabies for grandchildren, sweet love songs and even a song that asks, “Jesus Christ, what were you thinking?” Nine of the 12 selections on this disc are originals, two are jazz standards with uke accompaniment, and one is a composition by James McGinniss, Mary’s brother and a talented songwriter himself. Red Tails and the Road is easy to listen to, but it certainly isn’t “easy

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blaCk dOOR baR & bisTRO: comedy Night with the Real Beth, mule, Nathan Hartswick, Banjo Bob and Kathleen Kanz (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5. gReeN MOuNTaiN TaveRN: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. laNgdON sTReeT Café: Games unplugged (games night), 7 p.m., Donations.

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Jonathan Harris at Firehouse Gallery

onathan Harris spends way too much time on the Internet. That much is clear from his obsessional show, “Inner Landscapes,” which is currently attracting gaggles of geeks to the Firehouse Gallery. Based on the nine interactive and photographic works on display here, Harris, 31, comes across as an electronic bag lady, collecting scads of data that mean a lot to him but may seem meaningless to those not similarly fixated. Consider the multiple, multicolor lines of yarn that intersect in the gallery’s rear room. This head-height web links photos on one wall to photos on two other walls. While the visual and tactile effect is startling, the reason for these connections isn’t apparent. It may have something to do with the diary-like narratives that accompany some of the photos, but these are so solipsistic that viewers may well stop reading them soon after they start. Harris uses the same connectinglines technique in another of his works, “We Feel Fine,” which is the product of daily scans over a three-year period of 15,000 sentences in blog posts containing the words “I feel” or “I am feeling.” Across from this piece, visitors can click their way through the 3214 photos Harris took at five-minute intervals over seven days while chronicling an Eskimo whale hunt. Nearby hangs “Balloons of Bhutan,” in which 117 subjects of the Himalayan kingdom have been photographed holding a specific number of balloons corresponding to what Harris perceives as their respective levels of happiness. In keeping with its narcissism, “Inner Landscapes” makes laughably overblown claims for what it presents. “We

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2010 ART’S ALIVE FESTIVAL WINNERS EXHIBITION: Works by John Young (first place); Wendy James (second); and Kathleen McGuffin (third and Moulton-Steele Emerging Artist Award); and Elizabeth Cleary (Roberto Fitzgerald Award). Through October 31 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 310-3211. ADAM DEVARNEY: Mixed-media collage paintings that unite the natural and urban worlds and comment on issues of social relevance, curated by

HARRIS JUST MIGHT BE PIONEERING THE FUTURE OF VISUAL ART THROUGH WORKS THAT TAKE VIEWERS ON

COPILOTED JOURNEYS THROUGH SYSTEMS SO COMPLEX THEY’LL MAKE ONE’S HEAD HURT. Feel Fine,” for example, purports to be “a constantly evolving portrait of human emotion,” but all that Harris and cocreator Sep Kamvar (a computational math professor at Stanford) have actually assembled here are the random babblings of bloggers, most of whom, judging from some accompanying photos, are young and white. Only someone who lives life online would confuse such a scrimpy

SEABA. Also, the artist offers his first-ever limitededition print. Through November 30 at Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. ‘AFTER DARK’: Images by local and international photographers that depict nighttime scenes. October 4 through 29 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. ‘ALZHEIMER’S: FORGETTING PIECE BY PIECE’: An exhibit of 52 contemporary quilted works that offer poignant tribute to victims of the disease, organized by the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative; and audio recordings of stories from elders, in conjunction with Vermont Public Radio and The

sampling with the feelings of the entire human race. Similarly, “10x10” is billed as “a continuous photographic tapestry of human life.” In fact, it’s a difficult-to-navigate, constantly updated compilation of the top 100 words and pictures found on news organizations’ websites. And then there’s “I Want You to Want Me,” a giant iPad displaying pink (for females) and blue (for males) balloons (again) that, at a touch, pop into pleas posted on dating sites. To Harris, this piece “chronicles the world’s longterm relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities…” To some viewers, it offers no more than a digital version of the voyeuristic thrills available by skimming, say, the personals section in the back of this newspaper. “I Want You to Want Me” also plays annoyingly anodyne computerized music

StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative. Also, ‘CIRCUS DAY IN AMERICA’: A multimedia exhibit celebrating the art and experience of the American circus, circa 1870-1950; ‘JAY HALL CONNAWAY: A RESTLESS NATURE’: A retrospective of the 20th-century New England landscape painter; ‘ALL FIRED UP: SIX CERAMIC ARTISTS FROM VERMONT’: Unique artist-designed installations by a half-dozen of the region’s finest ceramicists; ‘EMBELLISHMENTS: THE ART OF THE CRAZY QUILT’: Extraordinary examples from the permanent collection that have never been publicly exhibited; ‘UPON A PAINTED OCEAN: AMERICAN MARINE PAINTINGS’: Fine works from the permanent collection;

that can be heard all over the gallery’s front room. All this said, “Inner Landscapes” also qualifies as a dazzling, funny, imaginative and, quite likely, prophetic show. Harris, a native Vermonter who studied computer science at Princeton, just might be pioneering the future of visual art through works that take viewers on copiloted journeys through systems so complex they’ll make one’s head hurt. Many of the pieces at the Firehouse are as entertaining as they are engrossing. In “Word Count,” for example, mouse clickers will learn that the most common of 86,800 cataloged English words is “the,” while the least common is — wait for it — “conquistador.” “We Feel Fine” provides the reassuring revelation that people grow less sad and angry as they age. A geographic chart that’s part of this piece, meanwhile, indicates that residents of the richest U.S. states — New York and California, for example — are the least happy. (Vermont, sadly, is also included in this less happy group.) And who’s happiest? According to the findings of Harris and Kamvar’s software programs, it’s the residents of some of the reddest states — Arkansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma — where priority is said to be placed on family rather than money. “Inner Landscapes” continues the Firehouse’s run of challenging, adventuresome shows that require a significant time commitment on the part of viewers. But, unlike some of its predecessors at the Church Street venue, this mesmerizing and maddening exhibit makes the minutes sail by. K EV I N J . K EL L EY “Inner Landscapes,” installations in mixed media by Jonathan Harris. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. Through October 23.

‘TALLY-HO! THE ART AND CULTURE OF THE FOX HUNT’: Artwork, film footage and artifacts from the heyday of the sport in America; ‘THE ART OF OGDEN PLEISSNER: A RETROSPECTIVE FROM THE COLLECTION’: More than 30 rarely seen oils, watercolors and drypoints; ‘GOOD FENCES: VERMONT STONE WALLS’: An outdoor exhibit exploring the medium’s history, variety and materials; and ‘WARREN KIMBLE’S AMERICA’: Favorite works from the country’s best-known contemporary folk artist. Through October 24 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. BURLINGTON-AREA ART SHOWS

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call to artists sPa Holiday art sHow: Join Studio Place Arts member artists in a 3-floor holiday season show. Visit www.studioplacearts.com and click on “Calls to Artists.” Deadline: October 8. watercolor artists, Juried sHow: Helen Day Art Center is hosting a show for the Vermont Watercolor Society. Please submit work by October 8. Must be a member of VWS. Juror: Susan Wahlrab. Maximum size: 44 inches including frame. Info, helenday.com. crafters wanted for 3rd annual “Holiday sHowcase & craft fair” to be held at BFA Fairfax School on Saturday, November 20. Deadline for space reservation and payment is October 15. Please contact Sarah at 782-6874 for details. Grand isle art works: Now accepting applications for juried membership. We are artist owned and cooperatively managed. Info, jury@grandisleartworks.com.

talks & events ‘art at tHe coacH Barn’: The 23rd annual exhibition brings together works by Vermont’s finest artists in a broad range of media and styles. Through October 24 at Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. Poetry at the Art Show featuring Rick Bessette reading from his new book A Vermonter’s Heritage: Thursday, September 30, 5-6 p.m. Info, 985-0328.

Bca art Market: Local artists and crafters sell their wares at this Burlington City Arts-sponsored

aMze eMMons & racHel Gross: Abstract images in silk-screen and woodblock-relief prints. October 1 through 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Reception: Friday, October 1, 6-8 p.m. Info, 295-5901. PaM Pezzullo & BoB GasPeretti: The quilter and master furniture maker combine their wares in a bedroom vignette. October 1 through 31 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-8 p.m. Info, 863-6458. 54tH national fall oPen exHiBition: The center’s most prestigious show of the year features more than 200 juried works of art in a variety of media by artists from around the country.

‘art at tHe coacH Barn’: The 23rd annual exhibition brings together works by Vermont’s finest artists in a broad range of media and styles. Through October 24 at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. An Detail from a painting by Ethan Azarian at Rose Street Artists’ Art Exhibition Tea and Tour gives a look Cooperative Gallery behind the scenes with participating artists, followed by discussion over refreshments at the Inn: Wednesday, October 6, 2:45-4:30 p.m. Info, 985-0328.

recePtions nicHolas HeiliG: “Venn Diagrams,” black-and-white illustrations that focus on hypothetical relations between certain philosophical and societal issues. Through September 30 at 1/2 Lounge in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, September 29, 11 p.m. midnight. Info, 558-2796. racHel kaHn-foGel: “Inside Out,” intensely colored paintings filled with objects of incongruous size and proportion. Through October 30 at Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, September 29, 5-7 p.m. Info, 656-8937. olivia Parker: “Still and Not So Still Life,” photographs of ephemeral constructions that explore the possibilities of light by the renowned photographer. October

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October 1 through November 14 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. A conversation with the artists is followed by a public champagne reception at Yester House Galleries: Friday, October 1, 3-6 p.m. Info, 362-1405. nicHolas HeiliG: “Liquid Lines,” traditional and digital paintings that explore the beauty of aqueous forms. October 1 through 31 at The Green Room in Burlington. Reception: Friday, October 1, 9-11 p.m. Info, 651-9669. nicHolas HeiliG: “Oil & Water,” pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the BP oil spill and illustrating violence and upheaval. October 1 through 31 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Reception: Friday, October 1, 8-9 p.m. Info, 862-9647. lynn ruPe: “Urban Habitat,” paintings depicting wild animals in city environments. Through September 30 at The Block Gallery

‘tHe Hale street GanG’: Largescale black-and-white photographs of Randolph-area seniors by Jack Rowell accompany an audio version of memoirs they’ve been writing during a two-year project led by 16t-nido092910.indd 1 Sara Tucker. Through December 18 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Gala writers’ reception: Saturday, October 2, 2-4 p.m. Info, 388-4964. rita Blitt: “Passionate Artist, Passionate Gesture,” abstract drawings and sculpture by the New York artist. October 2 through 30 at Green + Blue Gallery in Stowe. Reception: Saturday, October 2, 2-6 p.m. Info, 253-6798. ‘Que sera, Hartland?’: Works in a broad variety of media by local artists that address human relationships with the environment. October 1 through 30 at Hartland Public Library. Reception: Saturday, October 2, 2-4 p.m. Info, 436-2473.

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‘soMetHinG wicked’: The We Art Women Arts Collective captures the spirit of Halloween and Day 16t-anjou090810-2.indd 1 of the Dead in a variety of media. October 2 through 31 at Studio V in Vergennes. Reception: Saturday, October 2, 6-8 p.m. Info, 349-2214. etHan azarian & Melissa kniGHt: New paintings and fabric collage, respectively. October 2 through 31 at Rose Street Artists’ Co-op in Burlington. Reception with live music by the artists and Indigo Ruth-Davis: Saturday, October 2, 5-9 p.m. Info, 454-8087. setH Butler: “Tattered,” a photoessay about the American flag by the Barnard photographer. Sales will benefit the Veterans Place, a transitional housing facility. Through October 3 at First Light Studios in Randolph. Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2-4 p.m. Info, 558-0374. cHarles woodard & faMily: “A Lively Eye,” a retrospective exhibition of landscape and portrait paintings by the local artists. Part of the Calais Fall Foliage Festival. Through October 3 at The Kent Tavern Museum in Calais. Reception: Sunday, October 3, 3:30-5 p.m. Info, 828-5657. Mildred Beltré: Prints and drawings based on the idea of the schematic. October 4 through 22 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Reception includes a gallery talk: Wednesday, October 6, 5:30-7 p.m. Info, 656-2014.

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verMont nortH By Hand studio tour: Twenty artists and artisans around the towns of Bradford, Corinth, Piermont, South Ryegate and Topsham open their studios to the public in this annual two-day event. Saturday, October 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, October 3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Various central Vermont locations. Info, vermont northbyhand.org.

‘tHe art of Horror’: A collection of “dark” works in a variety of media by 13 local artists celebrates the witching season. October 1 through 31 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. A reception includes “audio and visual nightmares” as well as ghost stories and fortune telling. Costumes encouraged. Friday, October 1, 5-9 p.m. Info, 578-2512.

‘art & tHe Garden’: Twodimensional work by Alena Botanica, Tessa Izenour and Rob Perry. October 1 through 31 at Rocky Dale Gardens in Bristol. A reception celebrates the opening of the barn gallery as well as garden tours and refreshments: Friday, October 1, 4-8 p.m. Info, 453-2782.

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sHelBurne artists’ Market: Local artists and artisans show and sell their wares, including paintings, photography, handmade clothing, prints, jewelry and more. Saturday, October 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648.

danfortH Pewterers Honored: Danforth Pewter cofounders Fred and Judi Danforth are honored at a guest reception that kicks off the gallery’s “Living Vermont Treasures” artist series: Saturday, October 2, 4-6 p.m., Collective-the Art of Craft, Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

JiM duval & Justin atHerton: Halloween-inspired paintings, prints and drawings. October 1 through 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-8 p.m. Info, 318-2438.

in Winooski. Reception: “Urban Habitat,” paintings that depict wild animals in city environments. Friday, October 1, 6-8 p.m. Info, 373-5150.

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octoBer first friday art walk: More than 30 galleries and other art venues stay open late to welcome pedestrian viewers around downtown. Friday, October 1, 5-8 p.m., Burlington. Info, 264-4839.

david wander: “Wolloch Passover Haggadah Portfolio,” images and illustrations created in memory of the Holocaust, a donation from Norbert Wolloch (class of ‘71) to the UVM Special Collections Library. October 2 through 15 at Center for Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice Gallery, UVM, in Burlington. The artist talks about the creation of this work: Saturday, October 2, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Info, 656-1145.

1 through 30 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-8 p.m. Info, 698-0320.

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‘friends BearinG Gifts’: An exhibit celebrating 40 years of acquisitions for the permanent collection purchased by Friends of the Art Museum, and featuring 40 diverse objects, from an ancient Chinese mirror to paintings by modern masters. Through December 12 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Richard Saunders, director of the museum, gives a talk entitled “Some Observations on Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Art for a College Museum,” in Dana Auditorium: Thursday, September 30, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Info, 443-5007.

open-air bazaar every weekend, weather permitting. Saturday, October 2, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Burlington City Hall Park. Info, 865-7166.

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AmAndA WAllAce: Sculptural mixed-media paintings with recycled materials, Skyway; and Judy Laliberte: mixed-media abstracts, Gates 1 & 2; and Sally Linder: “Homage to Shostakovich Opus 110,” acrylic on canvas, Escalator. Through September 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. ‘Ansel AdAms And edWArd Burtynsky: constructed lAndscApes’: The centerpiece exhibit of the season features more than 60 images by the renowned photographer of the American wilderness and the contemporary Canadian photographer who focuses on human impact in the natural world. Through October 24 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. ‘Art AffAir’: Dimensional watercolors by Shelburne painter Raimond del Noce Senior appears in this ongoing display of works by local artists. Through September 30 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111. Art Hop Group exHiBit: Sixteen local artists show two-dimensional works in oil, watercolor and acrylic, as well as wall-hung sculpture, in celebration of the newly expanded, 15,000-squarefoot showroom. Through October 15 at Burlington Furniture Company in Burlington. Info, 860-4972. Art Hop Group sHoW: suBAru-HyundAi: Paintings and photography on two levels. Through December 30 at Burlington Subaru. Info, 859-9222. Art Hop Group sHoW: VcAm/retn: Photographs, paintings and mixed-media artworks. Through November 30 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Art Hop Juried sHoW: Artworks in a variety of media by Vermont artists submitted to the 2010 South End Art Hop, and the juror’s choices. Outdoor sculptures sited along Pine Street, Flynn Avenue and other South End locations remain on view for the month as well. Through September 30 at Soda Plant in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. ‘Broken tiles And Broken liVes’: An artistic presentation with a written piece by South Burlington seventh graders studying the Holocaust with artist-in-residence Penny Pizer. Through September 30 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

cArl ruBino: “Peeling Paint and Little Puddles,” abstract closeup and macro color photographs of the two themes. Through October 30 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 518-946-7302.

clArk russell: The Burlington artist presents new abstract sculptures in aluminum and stainless-steel industrial cutouts. Through October 15 at Jager Di Paola Kemp Design in Burlington. Info, 864-5884.

eBen ernstof: Neo-op drawings, curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. erin inGlis: Abstract and nature-themed paintings. Through September 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

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Gundrun kleist-reynA: Whimsical sculptures and embroidered fashions by the German-born artist. Through September 30 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822. JAy lAnce sponGBerG: Photography and collage. Through September 30 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 865-6227. JoHn perry: Recent holographic work by the owner of Burlington’s Holographics North. Through October 1 at Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-4200. JonAtHAn HArris: “Inner Landscapes,” multimedia work by the Shelburne native that exposes human emotion on massive and intimate scales, and blurs the boundaries of anthropology, software development, complex systems analysis, graphic design and storytelling. Through October 23 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7165. Jude Bond: “A Gathering of Skirts,” two- and three-dimensional works in a variety of media that explore the lives of women, as well as digitally altered photographic self-portraits. Through October 3 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-3662. keVyn cundiff: Stained-glass pieces by the Burlington artist, in the Main Reading Room. Through September 30 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. lynn rupe: “Urban Habitat,” paintings that depict wild animals in city environments. October 1 through 31 at The Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 373-5150. mAkAsi siriWAyo: Illustrations and photography. October 1 through November 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. mAltex Group sHoW: Artwork in a variety of media fills all four floors for the South End Art Hop. Through September 30 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. ‘mAnAGed lAndscApes’: Local and international photographers contribute to an exhibit that explores the “touch of man” in the natural landscape. Through October 1 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

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