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God and Elvis This conversation was unusual for 1 in the morning. It wasn’t so much his bubbly friendliness — plenty of late-night riders are gregarious and chummy. But the lubricant of booze almost always triggers such affability. This guy, by contrast, didn’t appear intoxicated in the least. “Ayup,” I responded. “It’s been a great day and a great night — not too hot, not too cold, sunny and warm, slight breeze, just right.” When it comes to the weather, I like to cover all the bases. “Hey, where are you from, man? Your accent is escaping me. Eastern Europe, maybe?” “No, good guess,” he replied with a chuckle. “I came here from Turkey.” “Turkey? Very cool. What a great country. Kind of a bastion of progress and modernity in that part of the world, wouldn’t ya say?”

“I’m an antitheist. I’m certain that this world is all there is.” “Really?” I said, genuinely surprised. “That’s funny — I would have taken you for a spiritual guy. Anyway, you know some people distinguish between churches and rituals and religious hierarchy on the one hand, and spirituality on the other. You know what I’m talking about, right? A person’s inner personal experience of God, the universal spirit, the great beyond — however you want to call it.” “No, it’s all the same to me. I’m talking about so-called spirituality, too. It’s all just fantasy thinking. Why do we even need it? Science explains everything, and what it doesn’t, it eventually will.” “Interesting,” I said, “but I see it like this. If I were to construct a list of the things I hold most important, most meaningful in

His accent tickled my ears. it wasn’t a regional american variation but a foreign inflection i couldn’t quite place. “You know something?” he asked rhetorically, apparently passing on my invitation to talk turkey about Turkey. “I’m only 35, but my father and uncles all died at around 70, so I believe I have only another 35 years left. That’s sad to think about on such a beautiful day. I mean, the thought of leaving this world.” “Well,” I said, struck by the guy’s sincerity, “if you believe in the continuity of the soul, maybe there’s a better place we end up. Or maybe we come back to this world at some point.” “No, that’s not for me,” he said, waving away the notion with a flutter of his hand.

my life — friendship, family, music, beauty, poetry, kindness, love, for crying out loud — none of these aspects of human existence can be understood by science. To say nothing about meditation or prayer. Can science capture the profundity of these practices?” Ahmet broke into a big smile. “Absolutely it can, my friend!” he replied with gusto. It was clear the man relished just this kind of polemics. “Science can explain all of those experiences, and quite rationally. And regarding people’s so-called ‘inner experience,’ what if someone told you it is their ‘experience’ — their deepest belief, mind you — that Elvis is still alive? What would

you say to that? After all, it is the person’s quote-unquote ‘experience.’” We were swinging around the Winooski circle at this point, the perfect locale for metaphysical debate. As we came upon the Woolen Mill apartments, I interrupted the conversation at hand to ask, “Upstairs or downstairs entrance, Ahmet?” “Right here — upstairs will be fine.” I pulled to the curb and placed the vehicle in park. Turning to face my customer, I said, “If someone is telling me they know that Elvis is still alive, I’d gently tell them they’re deluded because there is obvious, objective evidence that the King has left the building. But that says nothing about the deeper things we were talking about.” “Well, let’s go through them,” Ahmet suggested. “One by one, let’s discuss.” Chuckling, I said, “Ahmet, I’d love to. But right now, I gotta head back downtown and make some more money.” As he paid the fare, a look of concern came over his face. He said, “Brother, I’m sorry if I offended you in any way.” “You didn’t offend me in the least. I thought it was a very respectful discussion.” “Well, then, next time we will have to continue this.” I said, “I’m looking forward to it.” I sped back to Burlington, thinking, Maybe the next guy also will want to debate the existence of God. Nah. Odds are he’ll probably want to talk about chicks. Or football. Definitely the weather. m

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ike the swallows returning to Capistrano, the students have come back to Burlington. While lacking the poetic cachet of migrating birds, the collegians more than make up for it in spending money. True, their arrival also infuses the city with a youthful vitality brimming with creative and intellectual possibility. That’s all wonderful, but me — a typical hustling local cabbie — I’ll take the cash, thank you very much. It was their first weekend back, and our fine-feathered friends were flocking downtown on Saturday night. The streets pulsated with excitement, movement and energy. Late nights, especially on weekends, Burlington morphs into a playground for the young. It’s truly a different world, and, given my age, one of which I would know next to nothing if it weren’t for my job. Driving a taxi, I’ve been an observer of this ecosystem for some 30 years, à la Jane Goodall in the jungle with the apes. All I’m missing is the pith helmet. Amid the bustle, I picked up a man rather too long in the tooth for collegiate status. His dress was notably neat and precise — “just so” came to mind; more afternoon-managers-meeting-at-the-office than bar-hopping-in-B-town. His dark eyes gleamed with intelligence; his short, black hair was tightly curled and as impeccably cut as his clothes. “The Woolen Mill, my friend,” he said, getting into the shotgun seat. His accent tickled my ears. It wasn’t a regional American variation but a foreign inflection I couldn’t quite place. As we turned toward Winooski, he said, “My name is Ahmet. What is yours?” I told him Jernigan, and he said, “What a beautiful night, isn’t it? It makes you glad to be alive.”

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oug Hoff er was in downtown He’s a fusion candidate — running on St. Albans on a recent Tuesday both the Democratic and Progressive night for the grand open- ballots — who seems genetically preing of the Franklin County disposed to digesting dry-as-toast Democratic Party headquarters. Dressed facts and fi gures into sober policy sharply in a dark suit and gold tie, he recommendations. exuded a quiet confidence as he stepped His weaknesses? He’s never held to the microphone to address the 40 or elected offi ce — which some describe so party faithful munching on deviled as a virtue for an auditor — and his sole eggs and supermarket shrimp. management experience was working as Hoff er’s three-minute elevatorthe head maître d’ more than 30 years speech was a matter-of-fact explanation ago at the legendary Alice’s Restaurant. of why he’s running — for the second In stark contrast, his opponent is time — for state auditor. Republican candidate Vince Illuzzi, a “I’m a numbers guy. That’s what I 32-year state senator and Essex County do,” Hoff er said with professorial gravi- state’s attorney who seems to know tas. “It’s the only job in state government I’m interested in. The bottom line is, I have a talent for identifying and asking tough questions. My work has been evidence-based, which is the core of the auditor’s work.” When voters go to the polls on November 6, after picking candidates for president, governor, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, they will face a choice for state auditor — arguably the most important statewide offi ce most Vermonters never think about. As state government’s offi cial watchdog, the auditor is charged with preventing waste, fraud and abuse, assessing the state’s everything about — and everyone in — fi scal health, and determining whether state government. First elected during taxpayers are getting the biggest bang Ronald Reagan’s fi rst term, Illuzzi is the for their buck. consummate Montpelier insider and Historically, the auditor wasn’t much a master of making deals across party of a force in Montpelier. Then, in 1992, lines. a Harvard-educated lawyer named Ed Illuzzi has the endorsement of outgoFlanagan turned the previously mori- ing Auditor Tom Salmon, a Democratbund offi ce into a platform for scrutiniz- turned-Republican who is retiring after ing executive-branch policies. Flanagan three terms. Hoff er, 61, ran against frequently issued scathing reports that Salmon two years ago. In 2009, the inembarrassed the administration of cumbent auditor got busted for drunk then governor Howard Dean — a fellow driving, and a video of his arrest was reDemocrat — and earned Flanagan the leased to the press during the 2010 camnickname “bulldog.” In more recent paign — the result of a lawsuit brought years, the offi ce has exposed serious forth by Burlington attorney and Hoff er problems with the state’s sex off ender supporter John Franco. registry as well as fraudulent billing by But Salmon’s sins didn’t hand providers who serve the mentally ill. Franco’s favorite a win. Hoff er lost Hoff er worked as a contractor for the general election by six percentage eight years in the offi ce he now seeks. points, a defeat some observers blamed

on his seeming aversion to pressing fl esh and kissing babies. This time around, though, the candidate appears to be trying much harder at retail politics. Hoping to build name recognition outside of Chittenden County, Hoff er has attended the opening of virtually every Democratic headquarters in the state and has a calendar that includes at least 69 scheduled events between March and October. Hoff er is an attorney by training but has never practiced law. A selfemployed policy analyst who works largely out of his Burlington condo, he came to the Queen City in 1988 to

committees would not” — but argues that the auditor’s job requires a solid working knowledge of state government beyond “crunching the numbers.” For his part, Hoff er admits he has neither a knack nor a great love for selfpromotion or street-level politicking. Tellingly, when a friend recently helped him set up a Facebook campaign page, Hoff er was irked that the social networking site wouldn’t let him choose another suitable tagline than “politician.” Hoff er doesn’t sound like one. He speaks eloquently, in a baritone voice, without resorting to the typical tools of the trade: well-practiced talking points, emotional appeals or humbleroots anecdotes. Those who don’t know Hoff er might mistake his confi dence for conceit, his low-key demeanor for lack of passion. An accomplished amateur golfer, he comes across as warm and fuzzy as a nine iron. Over the years, lawmakers and journalists alike have felt Hoff er’s wrath, especially when they fl ub the facts. In blistering blog comments and scolding emails, the self-described “Data Man” always endeavors to set the record straight. “He could prove to be a real headache to [Gov. Peter] Shumlin,” says work for then-mayor Bernie Sanders University of Vermont political science in the city’s Community and Economic professor Garrison Nelson. Development Offi ce. But many people who have worked He left the city’s employ in 1993 with Hoff er praise his blunt, no-nonand found a niche in the private sector, sense style. They argue that his sharp generating progressive-minded policy mind, obsessive attention to detail and analyses for nonprofi t groups. Beginning unwillingness to sugarcoat his fi ndings in 1997, Hoff er authored the Peace & are the very qualities that would make Justice Center’s “Vermont Job Gap him an excellent state auditor. Study,” a series of 10 reports on the But fi rst, Hoff er needs to get elected. impacts of wage inequalities, economic To do so, he’ll have to beat one of the development programs and Vermont’s most tireless lawmakers in Vermont. dependence on imports. He’s done simi- Illuzzi, a Montpelier native who resides lar analyses for legislative committees, in Newport, is arguably Vermont’s most including Illuzzi’s. infl uential Republican — one of only two “I’ve enjoyed working with Doug,” GOP lawmakers to chair a committee in says Illuzzi, who seems to avoid men- the Democrat-dominated Senate. tioning his opponent by name unless Described by friends and colleagues directly asked about him. Indeed, Illuzzi as energetic, gregarious and charismatic, admits he respects Hoff er’s work — “I Illuzzi is the consummate 11th-hour deal invited him to my committee when other maker who rarely fails to bring home the

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A reluctant campaigner, Doug Hoffer was irked that the social networking site wouldn’t let him choose another suitable tagline than “politician.”

bacon for his Northeast Kingdom con- Institutions Committee when Illuzzi stituents. After more than three decades chaired Senate Institutions. “ He always in the Senate, he’s rightfully earned the surprised me with his independence.” A self-described populist Republican nickname “King of the Kingdom.” So far, Illuzzi has garnered the back- in the mold of former Vermont governor ing of at least seven Democratic col- and U.S. senator George Aiken, Illuzzi leagues in the Senate, including Dick has also secured nearly every union Sears, Hinda Miller, Bill Carris, Bob endorsement. Among them: Vermont’s the Vermont-National Hartwell, Dick Mazza, Jeanette White Teamsters, and Peter Galbraith, the last of whom, Education Association, the Professional Illuzzi makes sure to mention, “sent me Fire Fighters of Vermont, the Vermont Troopers Association, the Vermont a thousand bucks.” Illuzzi also counts as supportersSheriff s’ Association and the Vermont former Democratic state auditor Liz State Employees Association. The Ready and former Brattleboro inde- Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, pendent representative Daryl Pillsbury, is the only union that has so far sided whose liberal-minded district couldn’t be with Hoffer. Asked why the Teamsters supported more politically different from Illuzzi’s. “All politicians like to think they’re Illuzzi, the union’s Ron Rabideau says great and get a lot done. But when I it’s because of all he’s done for “working was up there, Vince was one of the few Vermonters, not just the labor unions.” anopinion opinionon on people who really got things done,” Rabideau couldn’t offereran er,noting, noting,“I “Inever neverheard heardfrom fromhim.” him.” says Pillsbury, who served as vice chair Hoffer, Anotherlongtime of the House longtimeDemocratic Democratic labor activist, who asked not to be identified, ed,off off ered ered a a different erentexplanation explanationfor for backing Illuzzi. “Vince scares people,” he said. “They don’t know what he’s going to do if you cross him.”

and making recommendations to the legislature that will make it much more productive.” But Illuzzi, who was fi rst elected to the Senate at age 27 — he turned 59 this week — would also need to transition from being the glad-handing, backslapping politician to a state offi cial who cannot hand out perks or do favors for political supporters. Is there a risk of having a career politician in the auditor’s offi ce? “There’s a danger to having too many friends in high places,” says George Thabault, who spent eight years working under Democratic and Republican auditors. “You might fail to hold them accountable, or water down your fi ndings, if your offi ce is investigating the program of a friend.” Illuzzi counters that such an assessment assumes the auditor has an “adversarial relationship” with the people he audits, he says. “By and large, it’s not adversarial. You need to cultivate relationships so that agency and department heads, and rank-and-fi le employees, are willing to share with you their experiences and observations to make things work better.” As auditor, Illuzzi says he would also “focus on transparency,” with a thorough assessment of the audits done in the last decade by his predecessors to see what, if anything, resulted from their recommendations. Illuzzi insists he has no aspirations for higher offi ce. “I’ve been in the Senate for 32 years,” he says. “After that long, it’s time to get out or do something different.” Earlier this year, Illuzzi publicly fl oated the idea of running for attorney general but backed off after polls showed him trailing Democratic incumbent Bill Sorrell in a hypothetical matchup. So he pivoted to the auditor’s job — the only open seat in the statewide slate this year. Illuzzi had to know that running for either position — top cop or chief watchdog — would bring up his own history of legal transgressions. The Vermont Bar Association’s Professional Conduct Board has reprimanded Illuzzi fi ve times and twice suspended his law license. While working as an Orleans County deputy state’s attorney in 1980, Illuzzi got a speeding ticket, then asked his employer to submit a false statement saying he was en route to an emergency call when he wasn’t. Less than a year later, he was reprimanded again for allowing a cop to interview a suspect without a lawyer present. The most serious sanction came in 1996, when the Judicial Conduct Board suspended him for 18 months for fi ling

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lluzzi may be from the Northeast Kingdom, but he was right at home last Friday at the Vermont Grocers’ Association trade show in Essex Junction, where dozens of local food and alcohol retailers, distributors and suppliers were hawking their wares and pressing fl esh. Even before he got inside the expo center, Illuzzi had already handed out a dozen campaign cards and recognized several old acquaintances. Illuzzi had his picture taken with a “Got Milk?” stick-on mustache at the Hood booth — “Anything to help the farmers,” he remarked — grabbed a free hot dog at the McKenzie Country Classics booth, then made his way over to the Leonardo’s table, which was offering free samples of its pizza sauce. “See that girl over there?” he whispered, gesturing to Leonardo’s coowner Sara Byers. “She was a legislative page back in 1986 or ’87.” Clearly,this thiswas was comfortable territory for Illuzzi, and not just because of all the free food and alcohol. As chair of the powerful Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs airs Committee, Illuzzi oversees the Vermont Department of Labor, the Department of Liquor Control and the Department of Commerce. In short, virtually every businessperson in the room had been affected by his work. a break Duringabreak in the action, Illuzzi talked about his vision for the auditor’s job. “Auditing isnot is not “Auditing just about the numbers,” Illuzzi said. “As auditor, auditor, II think think II can do a great job of making state government run more efficiently, ensuring that money is spent where it’s supposed to be,

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he Hoffer camp doesn’t appear to be interested in exploiting Illuzzi’s legal lapses. Attorney Franco, who is working with Hoffer, downplays the ethics charges against Illuzzi as ancient history and suggests there was a “political aspect” to them. But Franco was more than willing to question Illuzzi’s qualifications for the job. “Vince’s narrative is that he’s familiar with state government, but that doesn’t mean he’s got the skill set to be monitoring state spending,” argues Franco, who has known Illuzzi for “35 to 40 years” and carpooled with him to Vermont Law School. In terms of the résumé needed to do the auditor’s job, he adds, “Being a prosecutor is not very persuasive to me.”

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three complaints against a judge and an attorney “with reckless disregard of obvious facts and basic legal principles.” The board said it would not reinstate Illuzzi’s license until it had “clear and convincing evidence” that his resumption of practicing law “would neither be detrimental to the integrity and standing of the bar or the administration of justice, nor subversive of the public interest.” In a 1999 Boston Globe profile, writer Jon Margolis dubbed him “the Rascal King of the North.” Illuzzi doesn’t make excuses, but explains all this happened a long time ago. “I’ve learned from my mistakes,” he says. “In large part, those were mistakes I made due to inexperience and immaturity ... If you talk to the attorneys with which I work, I expect they would tell you that I’m firm and fair.” Illuzzi has never claimed to be a choirboy, says former Seven Days political columnist and Northeast Kingdom native Shay Totten, who worked in the auditor’s office under Ready. Illuzzi has a reputation for “pulling fast ones” and inserting language into bills at the last

minute, Totten adds. “But that’s how he plays the game. He does what he has to for his district.” Illuzzi goes beyond that, according to former auditor Ready, who served with Illuzzi in the state Senate and accompanied him to a recent taping of the news program “You Can Quote Me.” Sounding more like campaign manager than close friend, she touts Illuzzi’s work over the years for “the little guy” — prison inmates, seniors, the homeless and the mentally ill. “Vince is not an ideologue,” Ready argues. “He’s not going to take the political viewpoint. He’s not out there trying to prove he’s right. He’s taking the side of the taxpayer.” She talks up his efforts in 2002 to buy back the hydroelectric dams along the Connecticut River and this year to recoup $21 million for Vermont ratepayers from a utility merger — both of which were unsuccessful. What does Ready, who had her own ethical breach in office, say about Illuzzi’s less-than-spotless reputation? “From what I’ve seen, he’s taken stands that not a lot of people have taken that have benefited many, many people,” she says. “That would be my definition of ethical.”

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come up with findings and then make recommendations. “Vince skipped the hard work and said, ‘I have a three-point plan,’” Hoffer adds. “That’s not what auditors do. And that’s the problem.” What are Hoffer’s plans for his first 100 days in office? “Nothing sexy,” he says, then ticks off three projects he’d dive into right away. Among them, he would immediately undertake a review of the state’s personal service contracts with nongovernmental entities, which now tally about $300 million. For perspective, Hoffer points out, that’s more than the total budget of the Agency of Transportation. Hoffer would also look at whether the tax department is collecting all the money owed to it. How much might Vermont be losing out on uncollected taxes? In classic Hoffer style, he won’t hazard a guess. “It might be $20. It might be $20 million,” he says. “But until we review the data, we just don’t know.” Totten suggests that Hoffer is smart to attack Illuzzi’s policies but not his character, since such tactics nearly always backfire in Vermont politics. When Barton’s Chris Braithwaite ran for Illuzzi’s Senate seat in 1992, trumpeting the senator’s ethical issues, he lost badly. In his own district, it seems, Illuzzi’s character quirks aren’t viewed as shortcomings. “When they look at Vince, they see someone fighting for them and pushing back,” Totten says. “Look at how the Kingdom folks deal with getting harassed by the police. They drive a tractor over a bunch of police cars.” UVM’s Nelson concurs. “It’s the Kingdom,” he says, “and the Kingdom operates in an us-them mentality. ‘He’s one of us, and we’ll keep sending him back.’” Will Illuzzi’s practical populism resonate in the rest of Vermont? No doubt. But this year, the auditor’s race may be decided by someone other than Illuzzi or Hoffer — namely, the man at the top of the Democratic ticket: Barack Obama. “I don’t think the ethical questions are going to sink Vince as much as being a Republican,” Nelson predicts. “Anyone with a D after their name will win.” MARC NADEL

Barbara Grimes, general manager of Burlington Electric Department, agrees. Grimes has worked closely with Hoffer for more than a decade, ever since he served on BED’s Board of Electric Commissioners. Since then, Hoffer has been producing the city-owned utility’s annual performance reports. “We give numbers to Doug and he puts them in a shape that people can read and understand,” she says. “If they’re not easily understood, they’re just a bunch of words.” Grimes says that she’s always been impressed with Hoffer’s insistence on not drawing conclusions that aren’t supported by the data, as well as his unwillingness to put a positive spin on bad news. “For me,” Grimes adds, “somebody who is dedicated to producing accurate reports is much more qualified to be state auditor than a politician who has a record and history of manipulating words to get what he wants.” Hoffer has experience in the auditor’s office: From 1993 to 2001, he worked as a paid consultant for then-auditor Flanagan during Flanagan’s four terms. Thaubault, who has worked with Hoffer, argues he is more qualified than Illuzzi to do the job and would bring a “fresh pair of eyes” to the work, without allegiance to political allies. “Doug is very detail oriented and analytical, and he’s very careful about his opinions, basing them on research and the data,” Thaubault says. “He’s not a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy.” Hoffer doesn’t bring up Illuzzi’s checkered past, but says it’s fair to challenge the senator’s recent response to the “troopergate” scandal, which involved a now-retired state police sergeant accused of padding his overtime sheets and writing fake speeding tickets. Hoffer points out that Illuzzi immediately issued a press release after the scandal broke, explaining how he would address it as auditor, including a three-point action plan. Illuzzi, he says, is “still thinking like a politician.” As auditor, Hoffer says his own response would be to pull the overtime files, analyze the data,

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the head builder scrambles over the stick-framed addition, some half dozen painters get to work staining boards. The workday provides hints of both the challenges and joys of living at Cobb Hill, a community devoted to sustainable-living practices and the preservation of farmland. The privately operated farm and dairy, run by two Cobb Hill residents, unfolds over the fields below. As the painters work, horses in the stables down the hill whinny and nicker, and a child in the nearest residence chatters noisily. At the painting station, there’s some bickering over the “right” way to proceed with the job. When someone voices a concern that the stain is a shade or two off, another resident jumps in with “Don’t even start!” The perfect is sometimes the enemy of the good with this many cooks in the kitchen. “I think it’s impossible to do anything at Cobb Hill without many opinions about how to do things right,” quips resident Angela Park. But the day doesn’t bring just bickering; with many hands, the work goes quickly. When the group settles on a technique, someone chimes in, “There’s a consensus here!” Another adds, “For once.” It’s a nod to the community’s decisionmaking structure. If push came to shove, Cobb Hill residents could vote on major decisions — a provision that Rice says the group needed to add to its bylaws to borrow money from financial institutions. But residents have never resorted to using that provision, and instead reach decisions through a mixture of committee-based governance and consensus. Those decisions aren’t always quick in coming, Rice says. But, he adds, “once forged, any agreement that we all come to is better” because of the extra time and consideration it has received. Cobb Hill owes its start to visionary Donella Meadows, a Dartmouth College professor of systems dynamics who imagined building a community around sustainable-living practices. Meadows passed away before Cobb Hill came to fruition, but meetings in her living room first inspired residents to build the village. The group bought the 260acre former Hunt farm in Hartland in 1997, broke ground k ATh Ryn Fl Agg

ermont has inspired its fair share of alterna- people behind Blue Moon Cooperative approached the tive lifestyles. Take the case of Helen and Scott town of Strafford in the 1980s, they had to convince town Nearing, radical homesteaders who moved officials they wouldn’t be a repeat of an actual commune to a farm at the foot of Stratton Mountain in that preceded them there in the 1960s. 1932 seeking what they later called “the good life.” The These communities seek to strike a balance between Nearings were followed by a generation of back-to-the- individual privacy and group engagement. Is the result a landers in the 1960s and ’70s, clutching their copies of “Kumbaya”-singing utopia, or an overcrowded hell? The the Whole Earth Catalog and looking for a connection to answer, of course, depends on the resident. Intentional Vermont’s rolling green fields and mountains. communities aren’t for everyone, their advocates say, Today, idealists continue to found and maintain “in- and even the most picturesque ones demand that memtentional communities” in Vermont. Some communities bers shoulder a heavy share of hard work and pragmatic are decades old, others still just plans on paper, but all are responsibility. imbued with a sense of optimism. The idea is both simple Seven Days spoke with residents of three of the 26 inand almost staggeringly ambitious: Looking for more authentic communities and neighborhoods, and ready to test alternative ways of living on the landscape, a small number of Vermonters are building from the ground up. Asked to describe Ten Stones Community in Charlotte, architect and founder Ted Montgomery calls it a “subdivision with a soul” — a phrase that helps a lot in defining the broad category that is “intentional community.” Most share at least some characteristics with the cohousing movement born in Denmark in the 1960s and active in the United States since the ’80s. Under the cohousing model, residents live in clusters of typically smaller homes that share some space, such as a vil- A group gathers for lunch in the Cobb Hill community center lage green or community center. Such communities appeal to residents who feel single-family dwellings are too isolating, lacking the intimate connections of tentional communities listed on a statewide directory of smaller, interdependent groups. Some have religious mis- established and forming groups. sions, while others are founded on principles of sustainability, but nearly all are, in a sense, manufactured villages. Cobb Hill Cohousing, Hartland “We’re more than just neighbors. We’re here because Once a month, residents of Cobb Hill gather on a Saturday we all serve some kind of ideal,” says Phil Rice, a founding morning to divvy up the work of maintaining their comresident of Cobb Hill Cohousing in Hartland. munity. On this particular September day, the chicken But no, these aren’t communes — a misinterpreta- coop needs cleaning and the water-filtration system needs tion against which several intentional communities in a checkup, but the biggest task is the construction of an Vermont have butted. When participants in Cobb Hill addition to the community’s wood-fired furnace room. Cohousing approached the town of Hartland with their The 40 or so adults in this community share responplan, they faced questions such as “Do you wear robes?” sibility for stoking the wood-fired furnace, which heats and concerns about potential secret ceremonies in the all 22 residences at the cohousing community. This year woods. (For the record, they don’t appear to engage in they’ve added a second GARN brand furnace, which calls either practice.) When the group of idealistic young for extra space for the village’s substantial woodpile. As

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a cooperative and helped them draft detailed bylaws and paperwork that are still used today by cooperatives around the country. “We have good fences,” says Schley, invoking the Robert Frost line “Good fences make good neighbors.” “Laddie helped us build them. They don’t divide us, but they do demarcate our responsibilities to each other and ourselves.” Remarkably, the same group has remained intact for 26 years. Twice it has expanded to welcome a new member to the cooperative — a decision that, just like purchasing a new truck or cutting down a tree, had to be reached by consensus. Schley, who says he knows of intentional communities where tensions flared and residents no longer speak to one another, credits Blue Moon’s success to its clear structure and balance of privacy and communal living. This summer, the eldest of the children who grew up at Blue Moon got married on the property — just the latest example, Schley says, of how the group pulls together for celebrations and sorrows. “We were pretty young, and very idealistic,” he says, looking back at Blue Moon’s evolution. “There’s a big element of luck, that nobody has just changed completely their values.” But the gamble paid off, and more than two decades later, the idealistic dreamers behind Blue Moon are older, wiser — and every bit as committed to their intentional community.

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to Moses to the far reaches of the Hubble Space Telescope’s sight — and back to the poet’s father’s tobacco pipe — in a matter of seconds. In that poem, Smith envisions Heston asking the speaker, “Will you fight to stay alive here, riding the earth / Toward God-knows where?” Instantly, the setting changes: …I think of Atlantis buried under ice, gone One day from sight, the shore from which it rose now glacial and stark. Our eyes adjust to the dark. This graceful teleportation is perhaps an inborn gift; for Smith, the known and the unknown, the near and the far, seem always to have occupied a shared space. Her father was an engineer who worked on the Hubble telescope when she was a young girl. And she wrote Life on Mars while living in the space between two unknowns: pregnant in the wake of her father’s death. But, as Smith told Ploughshares, beyond her own personal experience, she

thinks it’s “quite natural to use versions of what we know or have experienced as the framework for imagining what we cannot know, and what we have not yet experienced. That’s why metaphor exists.” Smith has done well for herself in this world that we all know. She is the author of two other collections of poetry — Duende (2007), which won both the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award; and The Body’s Question (2003), which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and she currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University. Smith will read at BBF as part of the sixth annual Grace Paley Poetry Series on Saturday, September 22, at 4 p.m. in the Film House at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center. k .W.

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did you get into the skins of these characters? ED: The early drafts of many of those characters were pretty caricature-ish I had to go back to the drawing board with several of them and figure out, how do I make them people, and not puppets for some kind of message? If you choose to devote your life to this, you’re convinced this is helping the people you’re offering this to. It comes from this incredibly misguided but this good impulse. [Cameron’s] Aunt Ruth believes she’s the only person looking out for the eternal salvation of her niece. SD: Miles City is where you grew up. Is it still as conservative as it’s portrayed in the book? How has your book been received there? ED: It’s come a long way in terms of LGBTQ visibility in the town. I did not know anyone who was out in my entire adolescence in Miles City. Certainly there are now people who feel more comfortable being open about it. I’m going back [there] in a few weeks for a community conversation about bullying and diversity.

SD: You and your agent tried pitching this book to editors of adult ﬁ ction before selling it as young adult. How is YA changing? What makes it especially receptive to a book like this? ED: I don’t think of “young adult” as a genre. I think of it as a marketing category. One of the few universals is that it features adolescents. There is a lot of gray area in terms of readership, the audience for these books. I think there’s something universal about a coming-of-age story. I’ve felt very embraced by all kinds of readers. [I’ve heard from] gentlemen in their forties who said, “I never would have found this book if I hadn’t read the NPR review.” SD: Have you heard from teen readers? ED: I do have teenagers who have told me that “some of my experiences are like Cam’s. My parents were not welcoming to my queer identity or my attractions because of the way religion was practiced in our household.” That hasn’t, sadly, changed for a lot of teenagers. [But today] it’s much easier to log on to the internet and find some sort of community that’s gonna offer you representations. The book is exposing [present-day teens] to this [early 1990s] queer culture, this past that they didn’t know was out there. I do think they’re relating to it. M .H.

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he titular narrator of emily m. danforth’s debut novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012), is 12 when she first kisses a girl. The next day, when she learns both her parents have died in an accident, Cameron’s first reaction is relief — because now they’ll never know. Set in Miles City, Mont., in the early 1990s, the novel takes the irreverent Cameron from junior high to first love, and from her consummation of a crush on a cowgirl to its disastrous consequence: banishment to an academy called God’s Promise for “sexually broken” teens. The topic could easily lend itself to broad satire, but danforth (who prefers to lowercase her name) took a subtler route. The novel’s Christian ideologues are fleshed-out characters. As for Cameron’s fellow “disciples,” they include a Native American who insists he’s “pre-gender” and a pot-growing girl named Jane Fonda. Cameron Post is told in such descriptive literary prose, and pulls so few punches — danforth’s teen characters drink, toke, cuss and make out — that some readers may be surprised to learn it’s a young-adult novel. On National Public Radio, Malinda Lo called it “a skillfully and beautifully written story” that’s “certainly also meant for adult readers.” Thirty-two-year-old danforth, who lives in Providence, R.I., and teaches at Rhode Island College, will read from the book as part of the Women’s Work series at Phoenix Books in Burlington on Sunday at 2 p.m. We spoke to her on the phone.

That’s a conversation that I can’t imagine even having happened 20 years ago. People have been really supportive and excited. People I didn’t even know that well in high school, several of them told me they have gone out and bought the book, and they braced themselves, but they were pleasantly surprised. I think of it in part as a love letter to Miles City, as difficult as parts of growing up there were.

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Vermont’s swing scene hasn’t always been so vibrant. Karen Graham, a Ludlow-based dance instructor who organized last weekend’s event, began swing dancing in the Upper Valley in 1996. “I was bored,” she said with a smile. “Single and bored.” When a newspaper ad for a swing-dance class caught her eye, she decided to give it a try.

one. This official championship, she said, “puts Vermont on the map.” She’s already gearing up for next year’s event, at Stratton Mountain Resort. By 8:30 on Friday night, the dance floor at the Hampton Inn was filling up. But there was half an hour to kill before the first competition was scheduled to begin. So I popped into the room next

door, which was lined wall to wall with dance shoes for sale: gold lamé gladiator sandals; black cowgirl boots; candy-colored, strappy pumps. The pros will wear out a pair of these soft, flexible, suede-soled shoes in just six to eight months, explained Melody Carr, a North Carolina dancer who sells shoes at weekend events like this one around the country.

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Graham was hooked. “I was so intrigued by it, the whole world,” she said. She began teaching in Ludlow, Rutland and Middlebury, and attended swing events around the country. But there were no “official” competitions in the region — meaning none sponsored by the World Swing Dance Council, which awards points that allow dancers to advance through levels. So Graham started

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othing is quite as thrilling as being asked to dance. But, if you don’t frequent formal dances and you’re not in middle school, it can be a woefully rare occurrence. Unless you find yourself at a swingdance convention, as I did last weekend, when some 200 dancers from around the region flocked to the second annual Vermont Swing Dance Championships at the Hampton Inn in Colchester. As a newcomer to the competitive-dance scene, and fresh from a viewing of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, I half expected to find a convention hall filled with bedazzled bras, big hair and backbiting competition. I couldn’t have been further off base (although I did spot two women sporting sexy, sheer tops over “statement” bras). The New England swing-dance scene, unlike Luhrmann’s fictional Aussie ballroom community, is made up of down-toearth types of all ages, and they seemed to be in it simply for the love of dancing. And did they ever dance, under dimmed chandeliers, for three days straight last week.

She grabbed a plain black sandal from the discount table, and I tried it on for size. When I reflexively apologized for the rankness of my feet, which had been simmering all day without socks in my old Converse All Stars, Carr laughed. “We’re dancers,” she said proudly. “We know stinky feet.” Then Carr took me out to the dance floor for a test drive. The basic step in West Coast Swing — as opposed to East Coast Swing, or Lindy Hop, which wasn’t part of last weekend’s event — goes like this: walk, walk, triple-step; slow, slow, quick-quick-quick. I got flustered, but Carr was encouraging. “Regardless of how much you know, there are plenty of leads out there who will dance with you,” she assured. Back in the shop, Jo Ann Carino, a Massachusetts-based dancer and professional literacy coach who helped Graham publicize the event, had just bought a new pair of caramel-colored sandals. Carino, 60, began dancing seven years ago. How did she get into swing? “Well, I got divorced,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to dance, but my ex-husband was never interested.” Carino came to West Coast Swing the way many people do: She started with the Lindy Hop. But once she discovered the more improvisational West Coast version, she didn’t want to go back. “There’s an elasticity, a rubber-bandy quality about [West Coast Swing],” Carino said. “It’s a style of moving that lends itself to a lot of creativity.” That creativity was on full display at Friday night’s competition, which began with a showcase of regional pros. To the uninitiated, it was an explosion of hip swirling, deep dipping and unbridled chemistry. Unbelievably, none of it was choreographed. When Montréal dancer Estelle Bonnaire and her partner took the floor — to a song the DJ had chosen at random — they moved with such fluidity, it was as if they were two sides of the same body. With her black hair, feather earrings and slow, teasing hips, Bonnaire was captivating. Another Canadian dancer, watching, leaned over to me and whispered, “This is the couple that’s going to win.”

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When most people think swing, they think big-band music. But here’s the other cool thing about West Coast Swing: You can do it to anything, contemporary pop music included. Case in point: One pro couple performed Friday night to Carly Rae Jepsen’s incessant song of the summer, “Call Me Maybe.” The competition continued with a wild event called “Three’s Company,” in which one man leads two women simultaneously. “I wanted a signature competition event,” said Graham, noting that this one isn’t actually recognized by the World Swing Dance Council. Official competition rules still require that a couple consist of one man and one woman, with the man leading and the woman following. But at the Hampton Inn, Scott Chilstedt twirled two women like spinning tops. Chilstedt, who was dressed entirely in black — from his thin mobster tie to his suede dance shoes — is largely responsible for the growing West Coast Swing scene in Burlington.

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Over the past year and a half, the 29-year-old IBM engineer has been offering Burlington Westie classes and dances at North End Studios. Cool but unpretentious, enthusiastic but far from nerdy, Chilstedt strikes just the right balance to appeal to a wide range of

students. And he has infused the local scene with a healthy dose of sexiness. As he declares on his website, “West Coast Swing is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.” Three years ago, Chilstedt was a grad student in Illinois, “buried under work,” he said. “I needed to balance out my life.” He discovered West Coast Swing and became addicted. But when Chilstedt moved to Burlington after graduating, the closest Westies he could find were in White River Junction. Teaching in Burlington “was a selfish thing,” he said. “I wanted someone to dance with.” The competition wrapped up at around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, but then the night really began: Dancers flooded the ballroom floor, while others took the elevator down to the more intimate blues room. I had never heard of blues dancing, so I followed Chilstedt downstairs, where he and a friend from Montréal demonstrated. “The guy-who-doesn’tdance shuffle is basically beginner blues,” explained Chilstedt with a smirk. The steps are simpler and slower, and, except when the leader is twirling

or dipping his partner, dancers stay in a tight embrace. The dancing continued until 3. “Late night!” I remarked to a group of chattering dancers riding the elevator back up to the ballroom. They all laughed. “That’s early!” one woman exclaimed. At her last competition, she added, everybody danced until 7 a.m. Then they had breakfast, took a power nap, strapped on their dancing shoes and started all over again. So it was no surprise, when I returned the next morning at 10, to find the ballroom packed — and hopping. So was the room next door, where participants in a beginner class were learning the basics of leading and following. “That’s pretty good,” I heard an instructor say. “Now do it with your eyes closed.” m

Weekly beginner classes in West Coast Swing start on Tuesday, October 2, 7-9 p.m., at North End Studio A in Burlington. $40 for four-week series, or $26 for students. www.bwestie.com Find other classes and workshops at vermontwestcoastswing.net.

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few chapters into F.D. Reeve’s recent novel, Nathaniel Purple, I had it tagged as a poet’s fi rst attempt at fi ction. The plot cuts awkwardly between the peaceful domestic life of a librarian narrator — an underdeveloped character — and the senseless brutality of an abusive farmer neighbor. The writing likewise lurches unexpectedly from poetic gem to inscrutable dialogue to perplexing reference. “As the morning wore on, spreading what the Chamber of Commerce calls ‘its amiable refulgence on Haystack Mountain,’ the phone in the library kept ringing off the hook,” reads one of the last cases. Sentence fragments and writerly crutches such as the slash do heavy work, as in “a woman weeping/not weeping.” My fi rst assumption was incorrect. The Wilmington author, now in his early eighties, has written fi ve previous novels, the fi rst of which was published in 1968. But Reeve is better known as a poet, the fi eld in which he has justifi ably garnered both praise and awards. So why would he write another novel? Seemingly for the same reason that drives a lot of writing in Vermont: the wish to portray smalltown life in the Green Mountains in all its anachronism and timelessness. And this Reeve does quite well. Nathaniel Purple takes place in a small village in “these years after the Gulf War” (whether the fi rst or the second is unclear). The village “seems a toy set, an architect’s cardboard design” to the narrator, Nathaniel Purple, as he sits atop his horse, Crystal, on his morning ride through the hills. But he knows it is anything but. A feud between two families, the Andermans and the Sawyers, is coming to a head, and the outcome will draw the town together. The instigator is Carl Anderman, an uneducated dairy farmer who resents his older daughter for having gone to college and shoots his gun in the general direction of his younger daughter when he fi nds her sleeping with the Sawyer boy. When Carl later discovers that his wife, a cleaning woman named Gertrude, is having an aff air with John Sawyer, his rival, he loses it, bashing the man nearly to death with a piece of furniture. In an “angry mob” scene right out of the movie Frankenstein, the town’s men convene and resolve to make Carl pay for his actions: “I’m for makin’ a posse and payin’ a visit to Mr. Anderman. Who’s with me?” one villager shouts. But before they can, Carl sets his own barn ablaze and goes down with it, intentionally or not. Nathaniel is a patrician, educated type who admires the “oikological perfection” of his study; the fi rst word

there means “domestic” and was last used around 1890. To the working-class villagers with a more limited vocabulary and worse grammar, he’s “Mister Purple.” (The name cries out for explication; could Reeve be making a self-deprecating reference to his own purple prose? But, alas, the sense of humor evident in his most recent book of poetry, The Puzzle Master, is largely absent here.) Rather unbelievably, Mister Purple worries about being “as dated as Swedenborg” with his beloved, Catherine, yet when he stops in for a Long Trail at the local pub, the all-male clientele call him “Nat” and expect him to have the inside scoop on town gossip. Reeve creates a more believable character in the wife beater, Carl, who can spoil his dog, Red, with treats and then viciously swing at him without missing a beat. Carl prefers his cows to the females in his life because “they reassured him. Their heads nodding and their tails fl icking approved whatever his plans were. Being milked, they yielded to his hands.” There’s also the French Canadian general-store owner, Arnie Prideaux, with his massive butcher’s arm and fl uid French cursing; and the town doctor, Jack Evarts, who won’t charge patients he knows can’t pay. These are characters we’ve seen before, if not outright stereotypes. If anything, Reeve celebrates that familiarity by placing them in a kind of historical arc that renders them eternal. The Anderman-Sawyer feud is tied to the “confl icting land grants” of 17th-century Vermont. Nat is “surrounded by three hundred years of furniture” inside his house. A memory of falling in love with Catherine is followed by another one rather puzzlingly described as occurring “some 380,000 cosmological years later.” Whether this renders the novel’s characters and events more or less interesting — does nothing change? — is a matter for the reader to decide. In the meantime, one wishes Reeve’s next novel would off er fewer obscure references to cosmological years and Chamber of Commerce brochures, and more sentences of pure poetry like this one: “The lemon sunlight falling on the pond falls on the dead, taking them down into a willowy half-night, folding them into the long trays of the valleys.”

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FROM NATHANIEL PURPLE ˜ e tall white spire on the Congregational Church is the ornament of our village. It marks the old cemetery with tilted stones and pieces of granite strewn among tufts of grass and uneven mounds, graves that go back three hundred years. Saturday was Bob Gladwin’s funeral. ˜ e morning was misty. Reminded me of ˜ omas Hood’s ode “Autumn.” I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; — I admire the simplicity of the ode’s opening. Catherine was soon up and about and had oatmeal clop-clop-clopping on the stove. “What would you think,” said I to her as she, in gray fl annels and a charming Guatemalan blouse, made tea and toast, “if we took the cart to the church?” “Should be a perfect day for it,” she said. “One of your better ideas, provided you promise not to smell like a horse.” After breakfast, I harnessed Crystal to the cart — she backed in brightly — and we pranced cheerfully down to the church where I set the cart in a regular parking space but traded Crystal’s bridle and reins for a halter and lead line, made her fast to a tree out back. Everyone was glad to see us, patted Crystal, who loved the attention. Sue Scammell slipped her a couple of packets of sugar and laughed as Crystal’s tongue tickled her palm. Friends were already gathering in the vestibule, couples in groups of four or fi ve blocking the way, members of the choir chatting briefl y before splitting off to go down a side aisle to robe, ushers picking up packets of programs, checking each other’s boutonnière and then taking up their positions on either side of the center aisle.

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n the produce section of the Shaw’s on Shelburne Road, a fi ve-pound bag of organic potatoes costs $5.99; nearby, an equal-weight bag of conventional potatoes goes for $3.49. Am I daft to shell out extra money for the organic tubers? According to the nowinfamous Stanford University study on organic versus conventional food, it’s a definite maybe. Two weeks ago, the California researchers published a study titled “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?” in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Within hours, the story had blown up. Though the lay public could only read an abstract — rather than the full study — online the gist of the fi ndings was clear from a slew of headlines, including “Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce” (New York Times); “Why Organic Food May Not Be Healthier for You” (“The Salt,” food blog of National Public Radio); “Study fi nds organic food is no better on vitamins, nutrients” (Associated Press); and “Organic food is as dangerous as factory farmed food, study shows” (examiner.com). Well, duh. I don’t buy organic beets because I think they have more magnesium or vitamin C than a beet grown on a conventional farm. But these researchers assumed that many people do, and aggregated 17 human and 223 food studies to fi nd that “when it comes to certain nutrients, there is not much diff erence between organic and conventionally grown food” (Albany pesticide residues,” versus only 7 Times Union); and that E. coli was percent of organic food. Organic meat present in roughly equal amounts in had fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria both kinds of food, perhaps even more than conventional meat, and organic milk was denser with fatty acids than so in organic poultry. However, readers who made it past conventional milk. It was a dizzying jumble the fi rst few paragraphs of the study learned that 38 percent of conventional information, and the study lacked any produce contained “detectable discussion of the potential carcinogenic

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pay extra for organic food because I love my neighbor; I buy organic potatoes because I don’t want to ingest a cocktail of chlorpropham, o-phenylphenol and dieldrin each time I eat one. (Organic potatoes taste better, too.) I tried but failed to reach the head Stanford researcher to ask her some questions. “Dr. [Crystal] SmithSpangler and her co-authors have been inundated with calls and emails; unfortunately, we can’t accommodate your interview request,” was the response I received. (The Gray Lady got through, though.) Dena M. Bravata, one of the paper’s senior authors, told the New York Times, “When we began this project, we thought that there would likely be some findings that would support the superiority of organics over conventional food. I think we were definitely surprised.” Surely a surprise result bolstered the study’s cred? With no researchers to corner, I phoned the University of Vermont Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and heard back from Jane Kolodinsky, chair of community development and applied economics (“not a nutritionist,” she emphasized), who used to head the school’s food-systems spire. Kolodinsky, who has studied obesity, schoollunch programs and local foods, said her students had had a spirited discussion about the controversial study earlier that day. After reading the entire study herself (a perk of academic online access), she asserted that the data had been skewed both by the press and by the study’s title. “If you look at what [the researchers] really analyze, they really look at the safety issue,” Kolodinsky said. “I don’t believe that’s where the organic movement has come from.” She also suggested that the organic label may be losing ground to consumers’ interest in local foods, at least if Vermont is a barometer.

“Empirically, if you were to ask Vermonters, they are very interested in organic and local. But if they were given a choice, they would choose the locally produced, conventional alternative” over something produced organically farther away, Kolodinsky said. “[Organic] used to mean something more than fewer pesticides and antibiotics,” she added. “I think organic has been losing its meaning as larger and larger corporations are getting into the game.” One Vermont company that has benefited from the ongoing growth of organic foods — an industry that exploded from sales of $3.6 billion in 1997 to $26.7 billion in 2010 — is Johnson’s Deep Root Organic Co-op. The 26-year-old cooperative gathers and sells organic produce from 19 farms across the state. Deep Root’s sales were up 40 percent in the first part of this year, according to sales manager Anthony Mirisciotta, and 85 percent of those sales were outside Vermont. Mirisciotta believes the Stanford study “really isn’t earth-shattering news for the organic world.” For consumers who shell out for organic food, “It usually comes down to a lot more than the nutritional aspect,” he said. There’s still enough growth in organic food that Deep Root is seeing increased competition from “industrial farms coming onto the organic scene and beating us out of the markets,” Mirisciotta noted. “We really can’t compete with their pricing.” Of the farmers he works with, he said, “I really don’t know anyone who was into it, at least from the farming side, for the nutritional aspect.” One of Deep Root’s farmers is Jonah Bourne of Cabot’s Provender Farm, which received its organic certification from the Northeast Organic Farming

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Just in time for the first frost, the state’s newest microbrewery — GratEful HanDs BrEwInG in Cabot — has opened with a focus on small batches of dark beers. On September 8, brewer rIcky MclaIn offered samples of his inky oeuvre at his Route 2 nanobrewery: They included a robust porter called Spare Change; a black IPA, Common Sense; an American brown ale, Time; and an American stout, Courage. He’s brewing each in 20-gallon batches, making them available for growler fills on the second Saturday of each month. McLain, who

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funding: “Was it Monsanto or some other large agribusiness that would benefit from the more negative coverage of organic farms?” As it happened, the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin advocacy group, sent out a press release later that day that addressed the funding of the research center where the organics study was conducted, Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. One of its two major corporate sponsors was agribusiness giant Cargill. (The other was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) That revelation didn’t seem to surprise Vermonter Barry Estabrook, author of 2011’s Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. He said in an email that researchers at Stanford “frequently produce studies with conclusions favorable to Big Ag. “Remember,” Estabrook added, “the Stanford group did no actual nutritional analysis of their own. Rather, they based their conclusions on the results of previously published scientific papers, and they simply omitted many papers with results that ran contrary to the notion that organic and nonorganic foods were the same nutritionally.” All of this is heady, and confusing, stuff to consider for anyone facing a decision at the produce counter. With the spoils of a multibillion-dollar organics industry at stake, the battle is sure to continue — at least in the media. Personally, however, I will never fancy dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene in my gratin. m

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Association (NOFA) this past year. When I reached him, he had been so busy tending 7000 Brussels sprout plants that he hadn’t heard about the Stanford study. Bourne said that he and his colleagues, Lindsay Scott and Dawn Andrews, went through the organic certification process not only for market reasons, but because of their commitment to soil preservation. “For me, it’s not about nutrition,” said Bourne. “It’s about preserving the fertility of the soils.” Bourne is unperturbed by the new study and remains passionate about keeping farms up to standard. “Organic standards are slipping. As it is, there’s more and more stuff you can use,” he said. “Eventually, we’ll need a tighter standard.” That same day, Rachel Nevitt of Hinesburg’s Full Moon Farm greeted her CSA customers as they arrived to pick up boxes of onions, leeks, cucumbers, green peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, kale, chard, GMO-free soybeans and, yes, potatoes. Nevitt said she’d heard some buzz about the study, but noted, “Enough people who are good, critical thinkers know that the real question is not really health benefits of the food, per se. It’s the health of the planet that is at stake.” Nevitt and her husband, David Zuckerman, wonder about the health aspect of carbon emissions from the transport of industrial-scale food. Why didn’t the researchers take this into account? And her own critical mind questioned the Stanford project’s

runs the brewery with his wife, Joy, eventually plans to bottle his brews. Announcing the launch, kurt stauDtEr, executive director of the VErMont BrEwErs assocIatIon, called Vermont the “Disneyland of beer,” citing the fact that we have more breweries per capita than any other U.S. state. We can expect Vermont to edge closer to beer-theme-park status in coming months: Burlington, Brattleboro, Stowe and South Royalton are all on track to host new microbreweries, possibly by year’s end. Find Grateful Hands at 2211 Route 2 in Cabot, 249-4092.

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side, a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast, as well as a win on the Food Network competition show “Chopped.” On January 1, Gerin, who has been in the States for nearly 30 years, will close his 28-year-old Restaurant Jean-Louis in Greenwich, Conn., and relocate. But for now, he’s splitting his time between Montpelier and Connecticut’s Gold

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JLG: It’s long: 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. And TV, the way it works, they ask you the same question over and over. It’s like a mother; you just keep saying, “Yes, Mom.” SD: What’s the last thing you ate? JLG: I had the pleasure of dining [at NECI on Main] last night with [past NECI executive chefs] Robert Barral and Michel LeBorgne. I had swordfish that was cooked to perfection. If you forget it a little bit, it just becomes dry. You can’t fix it. I’m so happy, because this was the students’ cooking. To arrive at that level where the swordfish is cooked [so] that it stays in the middle almost like sushi; you see it’s been taken care of. I said, Yes! Our guys are doing that!

SD: Have you fallen in love with any Vermont products? JLG: I use Vermont products down in Connecticut. The last two things that I bought [at Hunger Mountain Co-op] were cheese. Wow! I don’t want to be a snob, but the evolution of cheese from the ’80s to now, the quality that’s produced now in Vermont, is just mind-blowing. SD: If you could have any chef in the world prepare a meal for you, who would it be? JLG: For fun, definitely Guy Savoy. To pick his brain, probably [pioneering 19th- to 20th-century chef Auguste] Escoffier. I use [The Complete Guide to

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Coast, where he and his sommelier wife, Linda, still have a 17-year-old son in public high school. When he graduates this spring, Linda Gerin will join her husband in her native Vermont, where her father opened Newfane’s celebrated Four Columns Inn. Jean-Louis Gerin, who is president of the U.S. Chapter of l’Académie Culinaire de France, may be NECI’s most decorated chef yet, but he says he’s not in any rush to make grand changes to the school. “NECI is a well-oiled machine that is running very smoothly,” Gerin says. “I’m the egg yolk in the mayo — the cement. I’m gluing things together.” Part of that “gluing” mission involves working closely with NECI’s dean of hospitality and restaurant management, Michelle Ford, to better connect its respective programs that prepare students to work in “front and back of house.” “The goal is to make front-of-house a legitimate part to the restaurant business,” Gerin says. “The chef is always going to be more glamorous — they have the creativity and the big hat, but we are getting very close to a European standard where the knowledge and passion it takes to be [a manager or server] is becoming as respectable as being a chef. We just have to speed it up and make it a respected position.” Gerin, who already uses Vermont products in his Connecticut kitchen, particularly poultry, says he’s excited to make more connections with local farmers. Other plans for his first year in Vermont include hitting the slopes, working with

ermont may be home to the Most Interesting Man in the World, but we don’t have a lot of knights. Now we have at least one: The New England Culinary Institute’s new executive chef, Jean-Louis Gerin, has been knighted twice by the French government’s Ordre national du Mérite, as a Chevalier du Mérite Agricole and a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He’s also racked up a silver toque from the Maîtres Cuisiniers de France and, state-

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book. The book is impressive; you can also use it as a booster for kids when they are small. I love [Escoffier’s] charcuterie. At some times I start thinking, What if ? If you want to not impress me, foam something. I will probably laugh at you. It doesn’t impress me. It doesn’t bring anything. SD: What’s the dish you’ll be remembered for? JLG: Boneless Vermont quail stuffed with Escoffier chicken mousse. Every time I try to take it off my menu, I get people threatening me. That’s for the main course.

with escargots, parsley, garlic and milk. I froze that and put it in the ice cream. It tasted bad. Fortunately they were friends of mine, so right away they said, “You have to stop that; it’s really bad. If you continue like that, we’re going to remove the Pacojet from you.”

[wines] and says, “Don’t touch it; you’re not going to like it.” SD: What kind of music do you like to listen to in the kitchen? JLG: I stopped that because some members of my crew cannot focus. The kitchen is a creative place, but it’s also a dangerous place: There are flames; there are knives; there are people around you. When I’m prepping alone, I have a great mix of Mozart and Eminem. In the new generation, I like that cute little girl that has the small voice — Taylor Swift. She’s just herself and doesn’t try to be anything else.

SD: What’s your favorite Vermont restaurant? JLG: Whenever we have time, we stop by at Café Provence. It’s not a big change; it’s just an extra hour. It’s a great spot, and [chef-owner Robert Barral] has a fantastic car. He has a Citroën. We arrive in Vermont with an open mind and a big appetite. cOurtesy OF .guy-rene gerin

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SD: What’s your most embarrassing favorite food? JLG: The little red triangle that you buy in the gas station ... Doritos! If you open my glove compartment, there is probably a bag in there. And every chef eats pizza. SD: What do you think is the strangest thing about American food habits? JLG: The snacking is all day. This is something for a European, it is kind of shocking, the constant munching on stuff, where there is no beginning and end. What are you eating now? I’m saying that when I’m driving with my Doritos, of course. m

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Th E PiPE Classi C: Glass artists form functional pipes in a unique competition. Artists complete their piece in five heats through Friday. A VIP awards ceremony follows at Nectar's on Saturday. The Bern Gallery, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. & 4-10 p.m. Free to watch. Info, 865-0994.

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Fri EnDs o F Th E r uTlan D Fr EE l ibrary Fall book sal E: Eager readers help prune the shelves at a bargain benefit for library collections and activities. Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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kEll Ey Mark ETing M EETing : Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Nonprofits seeking help apply online. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495. WoMEn busin Ess oWnErs nETWork: burling Ton Cha PTEr M EETing : Business coach Kimberly DuBrul helps lifelong learners tap into the back-to-school spirit to bring renewed energy to their personal and professional projects. Best Western Windjammer Inn & Conference Center, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. $17-20; preregister. Info, 272-2929.

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CoMMuni Ty Dinn Er : Diners get to know their neighbors at a low-key, buffet-style meal organized by the Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult; transportation available for seniors. Info, 655-4565. oPEn ro Ta MEETing : Neighbors keep tabs on the gallery's latest happenings. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-0494.

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Mak E sTuFF!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness for Bike Recycle Vermont. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687. oPEn kni T & Cro Ch ET: Stitch and tell: Fiber fans work on current projects in good company. Kaleidoscope Yarns, Essex Junction, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 288-9200.

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‘miri Am’ Friday, September 21, and Saturday, September 22, 8 p.m., at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $25. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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killing Ton h ay FEsTival : More than 30 giant hay animals pop up through town at a five-weeklong harvest party, which includes familyfriendly events, a 5K walk/run and Killington Restaurant Week. Various locations, Killington, 8 a.m. Free; see discoverkillington.com for details. Info, 422-2185.

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'PEaCE, l ov E, & Misun DErs Tan Ding' : A newly single, type A lawyer takes her two teens on vacation to their grandmother's house in Woodstock, N.Y., where free spirits rein. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-8. Info, 748-2600. 'Th E bEsT Exo TiC Marigol D h oTEl' : Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith star in John Madden's comedy, in which a group of English pensioners find their new retirement spot — in India — rather different than what the brochure advertised. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 748-2600. 'Th E Do-DECa-PEnTaThlon' : Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed this 2012 comedy about two brothers who compete in their own version of the Olympics during a family reunion. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 748-2600.

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What does the late South African activist and singer Miriam Makeba have in common with the Virgin Mary? More than a variation of the same name, certainly. In the eyes of choreographer and dancer Nora Chipaumire, both illustrate the weight of womanhood in a man’s world. Chipaumire pays subtle tribute to both icons in Miriam, a partly autobiographical dance-theater work. The interplay of swinging lightbulbs and black shadows sets the scene for this intelligent meditation on self-discovery, struggle and spiritual triumph backed by spoken text, ululation and an original score by Grammy nominee Omar Sosa.

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SEPT.21 & 22 |TALKS Golden Girl When the women’s Olympic gymnastics team won gold in London this summer, commentators couldn’t help but wax nostalgic about the last American team to have done so. Between Kerri Strug’s triumphant vault on an injured ankle and Shannon Miller rocketing into the ranks as America’s most decorated gymnast — even today — the “Magnificent 7” team of 1996 rightfully retains its legendary status. With two gold, two silver and three bronze medals to her name, Miller later surmounted a bigger challenge: ovarian cancer. Now a survivor, she swings through the state to discuss her journey, just in time for National Gymnastics Day.

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mEEt & gr EEt With Sh ANNo N miLLEr Saturday, September 22, 10-11 a.m., at Green Mountain Gymnastics in Williston. $10 donation; $25 donation per family. Proceeds benefit the Eleanor B. Daniels Fund. Info, 652-2454.

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very dog has its day. f or pugs, it’s this s aturday, at the Green mountain pug Rescue’s 10th annual pug s ocial. pups and their people shake a tail feather — or just a tail — at this fundraiser for the volunteer-run nonprofit, which supports pugs in need and helps find them a permanent home. Competitive canines can face off in contests for curliest tail, longest tongue, best wrinkles or cleverest costume — and rescued dogs prance around in pug races and an alumni parade. Whatever you do, it’s probably best to hit up the pug Café for hot dogs and kielbasa before the “crap raffle drawing.” Woof. Gr EEN mou Nt AiN PuG rES cu E PuG Soci Al s aturday, s eptember 22, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at s herburne memorial Library in k illington. $5-10. proceeds benefit Green mountain pug Rescue. info, 626-8280. greenmtnpugrescue.com

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If the only puppet you’re familiar with is named Pinocchio, that’s your cue to head south for Sandglass Theater’s Puppets in the Green Mountains festival. The nineday lineup brings world-class puppetry and “unusual theater” to venues ranging from an apple orchard to an opera house. The onstage drama is just as varied. Garbage Monster, by Turkey’s Cengiz Özek Shadow Theatre, is a kid-friendly eco-comedy about trash disposal, while Białystok Puppet Theater’s Black Birds of Białystok is a provocative look at Poland’s anti-Semitic history. Paper Cut, by Israel’s Yael Rasooly, is a romance that morphs into a Hitchcockian nightmare. And you thought puppets were child’s play.

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BARRE FARMERS MARKET : Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods in the center of the town. Barre City Hall Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com. CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. COLCHESTER FARMERS MARKET : Vendors present passersby with fresh local produce, specialty foods and crafts. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. FARMERS MARKET WELLNESS TABLE: Eat more kale! Pizzeria Verità chef Amy Bacon whips up recipes that call for the green superfood. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers' totes. ˜ e Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-6012. NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area growers and producers. 246 Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sargentsbearnecessities@gmail.com. WILLISTON FARMERS MARKET: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly open-air affair. Town Green, Williston, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 735-3860, info@willistonfarmersmarket.com.

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WHEN LESS IS BETTER: ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE USE OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES: Medical ethicist and author Howard Brody sparks a conversation on his 2010 article about the top 5 least effective — but commonly performed — medical procedures. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $50-100. Info, 828-2909.

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BABY TIME PLAYGROUP : Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. ENOSBURG PLAYGROUP : Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FAIRFIELD PLAYGROUP: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairﬁ eld, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. HIGHGATE STORY HOUR : Gigglers and wigglers listen to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. MOVING & GROOVING WITH CHRISTINE: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and worldbeat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. MUSIC WITH MR. CHRIS : Rug rats raise their voices to original and traditional sing-alongs with local musician Chris Dorman. ˜ ere are games to play, too. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 497-7217. ST. ALBANS PLAYGROUP: Creative activities and storytelling engage young minds. NCSS Family Center, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Read-aloud tales pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshﬁ eld, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com. STORY TIME WITH BILL & HIS CRITTERS: Crafts, snacks and show-and-tell revolve around tales

— and, possibly, tails. Ainsworth Public Library, Williamstown, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 433-5887.

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SONG CIRCLE : Community members chime in at a sing-along with Rich and Laura Atkinson. Jaquith Public Library, Marshﬁ eld, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail. com.

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MONARCH BUTTERFLY TAGGING : In 2007, a black-and-orange ﬂ yer identiﬁ ed at the nature center was recovered in Mexico. Folks catch, tag and release the migrating monarchs to help with future connections. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. $3-5; free for members. Info, 229-6206. WAGON-RIDE WEDNESDAY : Riders lounge in sweet-smelling hay on scenic, horse-drawn routes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

seminars

COMMUNITY HERB CLASS: Essential-oils expert Tim Blakley shares therapeutic and sustainable uses for these distillates. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $1518; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org. COMMUNITY MEDIA MAKERS' WORKSHOP: Volunteer videographers learn about the best practices for Channel 17's community producers, who record a variety of neighborhood meetings and events for TV and web distribution. Channel 17 Studios, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, morourke@cctv.org. CREATING A FINANCIAL FUTURE: Spenders and savers learn to build wealth over a lifetime. Champlain Valley Ofﬁ ce of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

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ADAM BOYCE : In "˜ e Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Vermont's Traveling Entertainer," the speaker intersperses stories of the performer's life and career with live ﬁ ddling and humorous sketches. Georgia Public Library, Fairfax, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-3996. ANN BEHA : ˜ e founder and president of Boston's Ann Beha Architects discusses her hand in a new year-round facility at Shelburne Museum in "Architecture as Art House: Museums for a New Generation." Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. DEB KATZ : In "Life After Vermont Yankee: Creating a Green-Energy Future," the director of the Citizens Awareness Network discusses ways to reach a renewable-energy-based economy. Stearns Student Center, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327. 'LEGENDS OF THE LINE: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF VERMONT'S ISLAND LINE': Stories, video and photos bring alive the curious history of the Lake Champlain rail line (and, later, bike path). Held as part of the Big Fix, a campaign to repair the trail and relaunch expanded bike-ferry service. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 8612700, ext. 105. TERRY ALLEN & KAREN KANE: A photographer and travel consultant captivate listeners with a tale of two cities in "Behind the Scenes in Paris and Bruges." Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. VERMONT WORKERS' CENTER : A speaker briefs listeners on the statewide, grassroots network of individuals and families who take a stand for justice and real democracy. Burlington College, 6:15-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

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PROUD WOMEN PLAY MUSIC:

Viva and Her Power Trio, Antara, LDora, Alyx Lyons, and DJs E.V. and Cre8 play everything from acoustic to rock tunes at a twice-per-year jam. Red Square, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free.

• thu.20

BIG GAY ONION RU12? COFFEEHOUSE:

Antara Gatch hosts a special pride-themed open-mic night. Block Gallery & Coffeehouse, Winooski, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

• fri.21

POP-UP! QUEER PRIDE EVE DANCE PARTY:

DJs Llu, Rob Douglas and Alan Perry preside over a dance social celebrating queer culture. Signal Kitchen, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

VGSA PRIDE CRUISE:

Folks set sail for three hours of dancing, food and fun. After-party at Red Square. Lake Champlain Ferry (departs from the King Street ferry dock), Burlington, 7:45-11 p.m. $25-45.

• sat.22

BEAR TEA: A BENEFIT FOR PRIDE VERMONT:

Craig Mitchell, Rob Douglas and Alan Perry DJ Burly Bear’s loudand-proud event with contests and giveaways. Red Square, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $5.

FARM FRESH: THE PRIDE PARTY:

Costumes are encouraged at the state’s biggest pride party, hosted by Gay Acres and John Queere, and featuring Vermont pop group Rue Mevlana and local DJs. Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $13-17; for ages 18 and up.

NOH8 CAMPAIGN OPEN PHOTO SHOOT:

Folks ﬁ ght hate by joining an inspirational visual protest advocating for marriage, gender and human equality. Battery Park, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free.

NORTHERN DECADENCE:

In conjunction with the Pride Vermont Festival, folks sample the region’s best specialty eats — from award-winning cheeses to the state’s top microbrews — at a food and travel expo. Battery Park, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. $5; free for ages 12 and under.

PRIDE VERMONT PARADE & FESTIVAL:

Performers, marchers and ﬂ oats form a colorful procession from the Church Street Marketplace to Battery Park, where music, bandshell entertainment and the state’s largest LGBTQ celebration ensue. Parade departs from the bottom of Church Street at noon; festival in Battery Park, 1-4 p.m. Free.

VERMONT DRAG IDOL:

Gender-bending kings and queens compete for a sparkly crown. Proceeds beneﬁ t Outright Vermont. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12-15; for ages 18 and up.

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POST-PRIDE WOMEN’S TEA DANCE:

Ladies meet, mingle and, if the mood strikes, dance at the ﬁ nale of the Pride Vermont Festival. Red Square, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free

PRIDE RECOVERY BRUNCH & DINNER:

Ten percent of food and drink sales at this Parisian-inspired Church Street hot spot beneﬁ t Outright Vermont. Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink.

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'Next to Normal': Stowe Theatre Guild stages the Tony Award-winning rock musical about mental illness. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20-23. Info, 866-253-3961.

words

Book DiscussioN series: Farms & GarDeNs: Readers rehash their impressions of Sue Hubbell's A Country Year as part of a series about tending and growing. Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 254-5290, ext. 101. BurliNGtoN Writers Workshop meetiNG: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed; see meetup.com for details and to register (space is limited). Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8104. hiNDa miller: The Vermont author and former state senator discusses her memoir, Pearls of a Sultana: What I've Learned About Business, Politics and the Human Spirit. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999. VermoNt italiaN cluB Book DiscussioN series: Professor Al Rosa sparks a group chat about "My Little Italy and Yours" after paging through Bill Tonelli's The Italian American Reader. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211, bshatara@ci.burlington. vt.us.

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'Dark horse': Jordan Gelber and Selma Blair star in Todd Solondz's 2011 drama about a man who clings to his childhood — and his unlikely shot at love. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5418. 'halF the sky': As part of the Independent Lens series, folks screen a 60-minute preview of this documentary in which celebrity activists such as Meg Ryan and Olivia Wilde travel the world, making a personal impact in health care, education and economic empowerment. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. projectioNs: reel to real coNVersatioN: Jon Bliss hosts a screening of 2010's Waste Land, an inspiring documentary about modern artist Vik Muniz's large-scale mosaics made from landfill trash. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 8 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 875-1018. 'the Best exotic mariGolD hotel': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'the Do-Deca-peNtathloN': See WED.19, 5:30 p.m. 'West WiND: a VisioN oF tom thomsoN': In 1917, one of Canada's most beloved painters met an untimely end on a canoe trip. Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont's 2012 documentary explores Thomson's life, mysterious death and lasting impact in the art world. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 873-3022, ext. 205.

food & drink

Farm & FooD tour: A caravan-style expedition to Hardwick-area farms and food producers introduces visitors to a bustling agricultural community. Center for Agricultural Economy, Hardwick, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $50; free for children under 12; preregister. Info, 472-5840. Fletcher alleN Farmers market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. McClure Entrance, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797, tanya. mcdonald@vtmednet.org.

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aNtique appraisal NiGht: Treasure or trash? Expert James Marquis assigns monetary values to attic finds at a benefit for the Barnard Historical Society. Town Hall, Barnard, 5:30 p.m. $5 per item or $10 for three items. Info, 234-5227. mouNt maNsFielD scale moDelers: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature-construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765. queeN city GhostWalk: tWisteD history: Haunted Burlington author Thea Lewis induces goose bumps with hair-raising tales of the city's fascinating — and spooky — past. Meet at the fountain, Battery Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. $13.50; arrive 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966.

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eDiBle Forest GarDeNiNG iN a Nutshell: Agricurious? Learn about low-maintenance garden ecosystems that mimic the architecture and functions of a natural forest in this workshop with Aaron Guman and Transition Town Montpelier. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. iNDoor herBs: Got a green thumb? At a lunchtime talk, experts offer tips for bringing planted greens in from the cold. Gardener's Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

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Hinesburg Lions Farmers market : Growers sell bunched greens, herbs and fruit among vendors of fresh-baked pies, honeycomb, artisan breads and marmalade. United Church of Hinesburg, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3904 or 482-2651. Homemade Yogurt : Dairy diehards make the protein-rich milk product in glass Mason jars with Family Cow Farmstead's Lindsay Harris. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700. Jeric Ho Farmers market : Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, jerichofarmersmarket@gmail.com. new nort H end Farmers market : Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@hotmail.com. Peac Ham Farmers market : Seasonal berries and produce mingle with homemade crafts and baked goods from the village. Academy Green, Peacham, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3161. w aterbur Y Farmers market : Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 522-5965, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com.

cHess grou P: Novice and expert players compete against real humans, not computers. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $2. Info, 324-1143.

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Fitness Hu La-Hoo Ping : Hula-Hoopers wiggle their hips in a cardio workout aimed at improving coordination, balance and stamina. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 255-8699.

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aLburg H PLaYgrou P: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Farm Yard stor Y t ime: Cute cows, sheep and chickens look on as little ones flock to the Children's Farmyard for weekly activities. Shelburne Farms, 10:15-11 a.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free to members, Shelburne residents and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. Frank Lin stor Y Hour : Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Hoora Y For Habitats : Youth sleuths explore swamps, forests and meadows as they learn about what makes up a healthy ecosystem. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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'next to norma L': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'tH e Year o F magica L tH inking' : Janis Stevens steals the stage in Joan Didion's theatrical adaptation of her best-selling memoir about grief and resilience, produced by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492.

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Howard Frank mos Her : The Northeast Kingdom author introduces his lively new memoir, The Great Northern Express, which charts his three-month, 20,000-mile journey through America. Waterbury Senior Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. Lisa aLt Her : The author of Stormy Weather & Other Stories excerpts sharp and witty observations from her first book of short fiction. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999.

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LigHt t He nigHt w aLk: Illuminated balloons brighten the way for folks raising funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on a leisurely stroll. The Annex, Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info,

Hike Hedge Hog Hi LL: Leaf peepers feast their eyes on foliage on a moderOU ate hike up into a historic RT ES sugar-maple grove. Meet at YO FB RAN Hedgehog Hill Trail, Little River State D ON M USIC Park, Waterbury, 10:30 a.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, 233-0014. greenwarbler@gmail.com. art sunset > moonrise aquadventure : Paddlers of all abilities relish the serenity of the tH e PiPe cLassic : See WED.19, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. & Waterbury Reservoir as they look for loons and 4-10 p.m. beavers in an educational outing. Little River State Park, Waterbury, meet at the Contact bazaars Station by 5:30 p.m.; program begins at 6 p.m. FaLL/w inter r ummage saLe: Secondhand at A-Side Swim Beach. $2-3; free for kids under donations of cold-weather clothing and acces4; registration required; call to confirm. Info, sories support the church's local and global 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. mission work. Fellowship Hall, Congregational tree mendous LY bri LLiant : What do carrots Church, Middlebury, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, and bananas have in common with fall foliage? 352-9042. Walkers find out on an hourlong exploration of the Nature Trail. Little River State Park, business Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; non Pro Fit Lunc Heon and media maven call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@ kicko FF: In "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand gmail.com. Words: Data Visualization for Nonprofits," four panelists outline handy visual tools for seminars communicating hard facts. Channel 17 Studios, PHotogra PHing Your Products : Burlington, noon-2 p.m. $16.82 includes lunch. BPDesign's Brad Pettengill helps shutterInfo, 862-1645, ext. 21. bugs use simple cameras or other devices to photograph items for portfolios or promotional comedy purposes. Various locations, Burlington, 10 a.m.tH e second cit Y: The Chicago-based comedy noon. Free; preregister; call for specific location. troupe that launched the careers of Tina Fey, Info, 860-1417, ext. 113, gfranks@cvoeo.org. Steve Carrell, Bill Murray and others runs on Pre Pare For Homeowners HiP: Part 2 : a pro-comedy platform in "Second City for Ready to buy? Property virgins learn about the President." Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, important roles of realtors, home inspectors and attorneys. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. FRI.21 P.58

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Joe FLYnn : The Vermont Department of Public Safety's director of emergency management looks ahead in "Rebuilding Vermont's Infrastructure Following Tropical Storm Irene." Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 5:30-8:15 p.m. $25-35. Info, 735-5359. PoLLY c. darne LL: Shelburne Museum's archivist and librarian discusses the remains of the Otter Creek cotton mill in "Visualizing Middlebury's Industrial Revolution: Isaac Markham and His Drawings." Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 388-2117.

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bacon tH ursda Y: mar Ygoround : Folks come for plates of bacon and creative dipping sauces, and stay for jazzy piano tunes and rowdy accordion. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6 p.m.midnight. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090. Joe Locke : Drummer Ludwig Afonso, saxophonist Brian McCarthy, pianist Tom Cleary and bassist John Rivers accompany the awardwinning vibraphonist. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. JoHnson state coLLege concert band : Community musicians join an ensemble of college students, staff and faculty members, and select high schoolers in weekly rehearsals of contemporary compositions. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 821-0504, steven.light@jsc.edu. no second cHance, as w e w ere, no son o F mine, batting a tH ousand : A hardcore band on tour from the UK headlines this showcase of local and international bands. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872. saYon camara & Landa Ya: A master djembe drummer leads his ensemble in infectiously joyful Guinean music. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $12; BYOB. Info, 465-4071, info@brandon. org.

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Queen city ghoStwAlk: DArkneSS FAllS: Chills and thrills await as paranormal historian Thea Lewis recaps the city's dark and twisted past. Meet at the steps, Burlington City Hall Park, 7 p.m. $13.50; arrive 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966. Queen city ghoStwAlk: twiSteD hiStory: See THU.20, 11 a.m. the ghoStS oF the olD poStS: Brave souls follow the light of a lantern around the resting place of more than 100 unknown soldiers for spine-tingling ghost tales. Old Post Cemetery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8-9:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577.

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Burlington Book FeStivAl: The Queen City puts on its reading glasses for three days of workshops, panels and social events focused on the written word. A host of eminent poets and authors — including Alison Bechdel, Syndey Lea and Madeleine Kunin — offer readings citywide. Various locations, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; visit burlingtonbookfestival.com for schedule. Info, 658-3328. killington hAy FeStivAl: See WED.19, 8 a.m.

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BAllroom leSSon & DAnce SociAl: Singles and couples of all experience levels take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. engliSh country DAnce: Those keen on Jane Austen's favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Pam Bockes, McKinley James and Susan Reid. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, warm-up and workshop, 7 p.m.; open dancing, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $8-10; bring finger food to share. Info, 899-2378. FriDAy-evening DAnce SociAl: Kick up your heels in a half-hour mini lesson before open waltzing takes over the dance floor. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, 598-6757. 'miriAm': Set to an original score by Omar Sosa, Nora Chipaumire's new dance/theater piece is partly autobiographical, inspired by the artist's self-exile from her native South Africa. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. Queen city tAngo milongA: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-10 p.m.; beginners session, 7-7:45 p.m. $7. Info, 658-5225.

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'Ai weiwei: never Sorry': Known for his provocative political and social criticism, the Chinese artist and activist collides with the government as he prepares for exhibitions in Alison Klayman's 2012 documentary. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $58. Info, 748-2600. 'one For the money': Katherine Heigl stars as a broke Jersey girl whose new job as a bounty hunter leads her to an old flame in Julie Anne Robinson's 2012 crime comedy. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. 'the intouchABleS': After the death of his wife, a quadriplegic aristocrat hires an ex-con in Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's French

drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 748-2600. 'the Summer oF wAlter hAckS': Waterbury Center dairy farmer George Woodard's blackand-white coming-of-age film captures Vermont in the 1950s. Proceeds will be donated to the Vermont Farm Disaster Relief Fund. Bradford Academy, live music and food begin on the lawn at 4:30 p.m.; screening starts at 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 439-3562.

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BellowS FAllS FArmerS mArket: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and ever-changing weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. Burger night: Live music lends a festive air to a local feast of grass-fed beef or black-bean burgers, hot dogs, fresh-baked buns, salads, and cookies. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 4:307:30 p.m. Free; cost of food. Info, 985-9200. chelSeA FArmerS mArket: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com. Five cornerS FArmerS mArket: From natural meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@ gmail.com. FooDwAyS FriDAyS: Historic recipes get a revival as folks learn how heirloom garden veggies become seasonal dishes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. hArDwick FArmerS mArket: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5332337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com. king Arthur Flour grAnD opening weekenD: Baking enthusiasts explore the new state-of-the-art facilities through three days of chef demos, cooking classes and kids activities, with edible samples and giveaways to boot. School and Store, King Arthur Flour Bakery & Café, Norwich, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 649-3361. luDlow FArmerS mArket: Merchants divide a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal eats and unique crafts. Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829, lfmkt@ tds.net. lynDon FArmerS mArket: More than 20 vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, lyndonfarmersmarket@ gmail.com. plAinFielD FArmerS mArket: Farmers, cooks, herbalists and crafters attract grocery-shopping locavores with a bounty of fresh veggies, berries, meats, infused olive oils, breads, salsa and more. Mill Street Park, Plainfield, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8614. richmonD FArmerS mArket: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-620-3713, rfmmanager@gmail.com.

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Avoid FAlls With improved stAbility: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

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Children's story time: Budding bookworms pore over pages in themed, weekly gatherings. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. enosburg FAlls story hour: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FAirFAx Community plAygroup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. montgomery tumble time: Physicalfitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. songs & stories With mAttheW: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. sWAnton plAygroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 'the pirAtes! bAnd oF misFits': Pirate Captain and his oddball band of buccaneers aim for the Pirate of the Year award in this animated comedy voiced by Hugh Grant and Salma Hayek. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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mAsterFul living: the elements oF liFe: Folks explore their inner relationship to earth, air, fire and water with local author and healer Kirk White. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 660-8060.

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hAndspring puppet CompAny: Live actors and hand-carved puppets transport audiences to 1950s South Africa in Woyzeck on the Highveld. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $1040. Info, 603-646-2422. 'next to normAl': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'the pirAtes oF penzAnCe': The Pentangle Players "Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry" in their swashbuckling production of the high-seas Gilbert and Sullivan classic. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $18-22; $75 benefit tickets. Info, 457-3981. 'the tAming oF the shreW': The Aquila Theatre Company offers an accessible take on the ultimate dating drama: Shakespeare's tale of battling hearts, minds and wits. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-42. Info, 863-5966. 'the yeAr oF mAgiCAl thinking': See THU.20, 8 p.m.

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bAnjo dAn And the mid-nite ploWboys: The New England bluegrass boys strum out string sounds at a 40th anniversary farewell tour. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $17. Info, 873-3022. snAke mountAin bluegrAss & the Connor sisters: Banjos, fiddles, mandolins and tight vocal harmonies figure prominently in a collaborative bluegrass bonanza. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222. vermont symphony orChestrA: mAde in vermont musiC FestivAl: The fiery foliage inspires a statewide tour of brilliant works by Michael Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich, David Feurzeig and Franz Schubert. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7:30 p.m. $626. Info, 863-5966.

Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-5442. 'deng to dollArs: the politiCAl eConomy oF ChinA's rise': Three of the world's leading China scholars — Harvard's Ezra Vogel, MIT's Yasheng Huang and Stanford's Scott Rozelle — explore issues critical to the global economy at the International Politics and Economics Symposium. Held in the McCullough Social Space, 12:15-5:15 p.m., and Room 216, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, 7:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. elder eduCAtion enriChment FAll series: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's Richard Isenberg offers insight on "The War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 drop-in for all ages. Info, 864-3516. mArk dimunAtion: The chief of the Library of Congress' Rare Books and Special Collections Division discusses their lasting value in the digital era. Billings North Lounge, UVM, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2138, uvmsc@uvm.edu. shAnnon miller: America's most decorated gymnast, now also an ovarian-cancer survivor, shares her life story in "Competing With Cancer." See calendar spotlight. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Info, 434-3979, ebdfund@gmail.com.

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The Pi Pe Classi C ViP awards Ceremony : Art enthusiasts cast their vote on functional glass pipes at the finale to a five-day competition. Nectar's, Burlington, 3 p.m. $20 for judge's pass (space limited). Info, 865-0994.

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Bird Book exChange : Bibliophiles' hearts soar at a used-book sale that caters to avian interests. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2167. Fall/ w in Ter r ummage sale : See FRI.21, 9 a.m.-noon. Friends o F The sou Th Burling Ton Communi Ty l iBrary used Book sale : Readers restock their nightstands with fiction and nonfiction for all ages. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764. old nor Th end ar T marke T: Craftspeople display and sell their endlessly creative works. North End Studios, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 238-7994.

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Tradi Tional-Cra FT saTurdays : Experienced artisans demonstrate their expertise in blacksmithing, weaving, cooperage and lace making. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

'miriam' : See FRI.21, 8 p.m. norwi Ch Con Tra dan Ce: Adina Gordon calls the steps to tunes by Cuckoo's Nest. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@ cs.dartmouth.edu.

'ai w eiwei: neVer sorry' : See FRI.21, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ro Ta Filmmakers Clu B: Experienced or obscure, area directors, writers, actors, musicians, technicians and more come together in an inaugural meeting about potential projects. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872. 'The inTou Cha Bles' : See FRI.21, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'The kid w iTh a Bike' : A preteen is left parentless in Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's 2011 drama, and a kindly hairdresser takes him under her wing. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. 'Things w e don' T Talk aBou T: w omen's Voi Ces From The r ed Ten T': Isadora Gabrielle

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Chinese mediCine in auTumn : Jade Mountain Wellness' Brendan Kelly, an acupuncturist and herbalist, draws on age-old wisdom in an exploration of how to live in healthy harmony with the changing seasons. City Market, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $5-10. Info, 861-9700. oneness mediTaTion : Spiritual energies awaken during this transformative experience resulting in clarity, joy, peace and inner silence. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Donations accepted. Info, 893-4602. r .i.P.P. e.d.: An acronym for Resistance, Intervals, Power, Plyometrics, Endurance and Diet, this class challenges participants' determination and strength. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $8-10. Info, 578-9243.

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BuTTer making : Shake, shake, shake! Children transform fresh milk into butter in the age-old tradition. Shelburne Farms, 11:30 a.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free to members, Shelburne residents and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. Curious george : Little ones monkey around with the protagonist of Hans Augusto and Margret Rey's children's series, who pops by for story time and kidsy-activity stations. Ten percent of book sales benefit the Vermont Humanities Council. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Pra CTiCe sa T exam : Young scholars prepare for the standardized test in two Princeton Reviewsponsored sessions. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-0313. The Cookie Craze : Little cookie monsters sample sweets in a baked-treat taste test and dessert-themed games. Proceeds benefit Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $3 suggested donation. Info, 8631066, ext. 11.

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peers. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. maPle View Farm al PaCas oPen h ouse : Fiber fans get up close and personal with the luxuriously fleecy South American camelid species. Maple View Farm Alpacas, Brandon, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 247-5412. Preser VaTion Burling Ton h is Tori C w alking Tour : Walkers and gawkers see the Queen City through an architecCO tural and historic perspective. UR TE Meet in front of Burlington City SY OF Hall, Church Street Marketplace, D EB BRAT TO N 11 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259. Queen Ci Ty ghos Twalk: darkness Falls : See FRI.21, 7 p.m. Queen Ci Ty ghos Twalk: Twis Ted h is Tory : See THU.20, 11 a.m. r uTland Train show : Choo-choo! Minilocomotives and railroad paraphernalia get on track to raise money for the Rutland Railroad Museum. Franklin Conference Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3; free for kids under 12. Info, 483-2813. The h idden h is Tory w alking Tour : Folks follow in the footsteps of soldiers, sailors and patriots as they hear forgotten stories of the historic downtown, including tales of murders, hangings, the epic 1814 battle and the Great Fire of 1867. Trinity Park, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30-8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577. Vermon T naTural r esour Ces Coun Cil 50Th anni Versary : Author and activist Van Jones keynotes a celebration of one of the state's oldest environmental groups. Wellknown environmental advisers Maude Barlow, John Ewing, Bill McKibben, Will Raap and Gus Speth also attend this lively evening of food and brews. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 4-7 p.m. $35; free for children under 12. Info, 223-2328, ext. 116. Vermon T Quil Tsear Ch : The Vermont QuiltSearch documentation team — on a mission to locate and ID antique quilts before their oral histories are lost — examines quilted textiles from pioneer times through 1960. Middletown Springs Historical Society, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; $40 in-depth appraisal per quilt. Info, 235-2376.

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Herpes, Long Cat, Derive, MoutHbreatHer: Local and regional bands play hardcore punk and beyond in the gallery. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872. peaCe ConCert: Harmony keepers mark the International Day of Peace with local musicians and community choir members. Bring a chair and a candle. Rain location: Bethany Church. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 225-6006. sing for peaCe: Members of six area choruses and Counterpoint get vocal in an annual song celebration supporting Volunteers for Peace. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 540-1784. tHe aeroLites: Jeremy Harple, Victor Veve, Dannis Hackney, Micah Sanguedolce and Ian Wade play original folk-rock, funk, bluegrass and reggae at the school's homecoming and reunion weekend. South Lawn (rain location: Dibden Center for the Arts), Johnson State College, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251. tHe stepH pappas experienCe: A veteran local rocker brings her "Who's Yer Cowboy Tour" to the Pride Vermont Festival. Battery Park, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0826. tHe toD pronto banD: Born and raised in Newport, the singer-songwriter and storyteller delivers folk-rock refrains with his quintet. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 748-2600. uvM faLLfest featuring a$ap roCky: Hip-hop frontrunners Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown and the A$AP Mob join the rapper on his LONGLIVEA$AP Tour. Patrick Gymnasium, UVM, South Burlington, 10 p.m. $10-25. Info, 656-2076. 'verMont is WHere it's at': The Barre-Tones and Foreign Exchange deliver barbershop-style a cappella numbers in a high-octane showcase hosted by George Woodard. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. Info, 498-8545. verMont syMpHony orCHestra: MaDe in verMont MusiC festivaL: See SAT.21, Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m.

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a CCC CaMp at Waterbury DaM: The Waterbury Historical Society's Anne Imhoff and nature interpreter Brian Aust lead tours through Little River State Park at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Historian Brian Lindner offers personal reflections on the Civilian Conservation Corps' local impact at a potluck gathering at Thatcher Brook Primary School, with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Various locations, Waterbury. Info, 244-8433. Making traCks & seeing skins: Explorers look for signs of furry friends and make track casts to take home. Meet at the Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; call to confirm. Info, 2447103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. oWL proWL & nigHt gHost Hike: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19th-century settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. Meet at the History Hike parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6 p.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. roCkin' tHe LittLe river: Visitors meet at the Waterbury Dam viewpoint and monument to explore a reforested encampment and learn about how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1 p.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com. WaLk WiLListon: A Winooski Valley Park District educator leads a leisurely woodland stroll on the first day of autumn, investigating

the surrounding wildlife habitats. Five Tree Hill, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5744.

seminars

introDuCtion to DigitaL viDeo eDiting: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692. Learn s’More about CaMping: A marshmallow roast caps a day of tent tutorials, camp cooking 101, gear clinics and outdoor activities for kids. Mt. Philo State Park, Charlotte, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 241-3665. one-on-one CoMputer tutoriaLs: Seniors conquer newfangled technology in a no-stress environment. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955. open MeDia WorksHop: Professional or novice film editors learn about various programs for mixing and enhancing all of their video assets into a single project. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

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pLattsburgH roLLer Derby: saveD by tHe beLL: Whip it: The North Country Lumber Jills roll around the track against the Capital City Derby Dolls' Dolly Rogers. Partial proceeds benefit Bailey Avenue Elementary School. U.S. Oval, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6-8 p.m. $5-12; free for kids under 6. Info, 518-534-2695. riot roDeo rounDup: roLLer Derby bout: Central Vermont's Twin City Riot defends its flat-track turf against Seacoast, N.H.'s Poison Pixies at the final home game of the season. Partial proceeds benefit the Central Vermont Community Action Council Food Shelf. Barre City B.O.R. Arena, 7 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 9. Info, 498-8020. spartan beast: Only the toughest competitors can make it through this "obstacle race from hell," with more than 25 tricky roadblocks in 13 miles. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 9 a.m. $110-205. Info, 353-8129. stepHen Mount MeMoriaL 5k fun run/ riDe: A fast, looping course commemorates a Vermonter who died while competing in a triathlon. Williston Community Park, registration, 3 p.m.; race, 4 p.m.; awards ceremony, raffle and prizes follow. $5-10; $20 per family. Info, 8784641, scheer2@comcast.net. WaLk/run for Lupus noW: Good Samaritans move toward a cure for this unpredictable, lifethreatening disease at a 5K outing. Oakledge Park, Burlington, registration, 10 a.m.; walk/run, 11 a.m. Donations and fundraising encouraged. Info, 244-5988. WaLter n. Levy CHaLLenge: Able-bodied participants tackle mental and physical obstacles, from mud crawls to pull-up challenges, at the oldest military college in the U.S. Norwich University, Northfield, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $35; $120 per coed, four-person team. Info, 485-2194.

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biLL MCkibben: The Vermont author and prominent environmental activist takes on the fossil-fuel companies in "The Fight We Should Actually Be Having," as part of the Burlington Book Festival. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 8. Meet & greet WitH sHannon MiLLer: The seven-time Olympic medalist visits with Vermonters on National Gymnastics Day. Proceeds benefit the Eleanor B. Daniels Fund. See calendar spotlight. Green Mountain Gymnastics, Williston, 10-11 a.m. $10 donation; $25 donation per family. Info, 652-2454.

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liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT 'Next to Normal': See WED.19, 8 p.m. PuPPets iN the GreeN mouNtaiNs: Blackbox theaters, opera houses, arts centers and an apple orchard play host to Sandglass Theater's nine-day lineup of stunning international puppet arts. See calendar spotlight. Various locations in southern Vermont, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. $8-16 per performance; see puppetsinthegreenmountains.com for locations. Info, 387-4051. 'the Pirates of PeNzaNce': See FRI.21, 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'the Year of maGical thiNkiNG': See THU.20, 8 p.m.

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a BirthdaY PartY for BilBo BaGGiNs: Costumed Tolkien fans flock to a Shire-inspired celebration of Bilbo's birthday and the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit. Phoenix Books, Essex, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. fall iNto a Good Book: Readers of all ages sample fresh fruits and vegetables from the garden or bring a picnic to this day of naturethemed storytelling, arts and crafts. Vermont Garden Park, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5251, ext. 117. milleNNial Writers oN staGe: Fifteen rising stars of the literary world read their creative work at this Burlington Book Festival event, hosted by theater professional Robin Fawcett and poet Reuben Jackson. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 324-9538. WolfGaNG mieder: The coauthor of The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs discusses language, structure, length and metaphors in "Think Outside the Box: The Fascinating World of Modern Proverbs." Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Writers WorkshoP: Tracy K. Smith, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Life on Mars, reads from her work as part of a series featuring some of today's most dynamic writers of contemporary literature. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3056, bored@uvm.edu.

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freNch coNVersatioN GrouP: dimaNches: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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aN eVeNiNG With daVid GrismaN: A mandolinist/composer heads up a blend of folk, swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy music in the Foeger Ballroom. Jay Peak Resort, 7-10 p.m. $45; $100 for VIP tickets. Info, 327-2154, bsmith@ jaypeakresort.com. art herttua: The jazz guitarist plays everything from bebop to the Beatles. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569. VermoNt sYmPhoNY orchestra: made iN VermoNt music festiVal: See SAT.21, Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 4 p.m.

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Nature hike: How does a farm become a forest? Walkers rove through old fields and pastures with Addison County forester Chris Olson to see how nature is reclaiming this once-working agricultural landscape. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3406. rockiN' the little riVer: See SAT.22, 11 a.m. SUN.23

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'ai WeiWei: NeVer sorrY': See FRI.21, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. chaNdler film societY: 'the ladY VaNishes': After a storm delays their travel, a socialite realizes an old lady has disappeared

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aNNual harVest diNNer: Turkey, mashed potatoes, squash, stuffing and all the fixings highlight the bounty of the growing season. Proceeds benefit Most Holy Trinity Parish. Municipal Building, Orleans, noon. $5-10; $30 maximum per family; takeout available. Info, 754-2274. iNterNatioNal diNNer: Neighbors break bread at an evening of traditional food and music native to Turkey. North End Studios, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $12-15. Info, 861-2343 or 863-6713. kiNG arthur flour GraNd oPeNiNG WeekeNd: See FRI.21, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. octoBerfest 2012: An accordion player serenades folks as they feast on grilled 'wursts, German potato salad and Trapp lagers. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 800-826-7000. south BurliNGtoN farmers market: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sbfm.manager@gmail.com. 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@stowevtfarmersmarket.com. t.N. Vail clamBake & sileNt auctioN: Diners sample the sea's specialties at a buffet of lobster, New England clam chowder, corn on the cob, roasted red potatoes, strawberry shortcake and more. Proceeds support student scholarships. Softball Field, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, silent auction and cocktails, 4 p.m.; dinner, 5:30 p.m. $60. Info, 626-6458, jennifer. harris@lyndonstate.edu. WiNooski farmers market: Area growers and bakers offer live music, ethnic eats, and a large variety of produce and agricultural products on the green. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail. com.

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commuNitY oPeN house: Theatergoers test out the Flynn's newly installed seats and other facility updates at an afternoon of kids drama and dance workshops, and discussions by three prominent Vermont authors: Alison Bechdel, Tanya Lee Stone and Madeleine Kunin. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. maPle VieW farm alPacas oPeN house: See SAT.22, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Walk to eNd alzheimer's: Vermonters add momentum to the nationwide movement toward eliminating brain dementia. Proceeds benefit Alzheimer's research, care and support. Shelburne Museum, 9:30 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 316-3839.

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War of the Weeds! : Plant pullers say good-bye to invasive honeysuckle shrubs. A-Side Beach parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103, greenwarbler@gmail.com.

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Cider h ouse r un/Walk : Athletic types stretch their legs along a fruitful two- or four-mile race course. All paid, registered racers receive a free pick-your-own bag for apples. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m. $5-25. Info, 985-4410.

talks

Bret stephens : The Wall Street Journal's foreign-affairs columnist lends his extensive knowledge to a lecture on "Israel and the New Middle East." Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 2330556 or 863-5354.

theater

puppets in the Green Mountains : See SAT.22, 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. 't he pirates of penzan Ce': See FRI.21, 2:30 p.m. 't he Year of Ma GiCal t hinkin G': See THU.20, 2 p.m.

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fairs & festivals

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'ai WeiWei: never sorr Y': See FRI.21, 5:30 p.m. 't he f irst Year' : Davis Guggenheim's 2001 documentary charts the trials and triumphs of five rookie teachers in the Los Angeles publicschool system. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. 't he intou Cha Bles' : See FRI.21, 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

Bur Ger niGht : See FRI.21, 4:30-7:30 p.m. oCto Berfest 2012 : See SUN.23, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

health & fitness

avoid f alls With iMproved sta Bilit Y: See FRI.21, 10 a.m. r .i.p.p.e.d.: See SAT.22, 7-8 p.m.

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Musi C With r aphael : See THU.20, 10:45 a.m. paja Ma stor Y t iMe: Comfy-clothed kiddos get a bedtime tale and snack. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7147. shake Your sillies out : Tots swing and sway to music with children's entertainer Derek Burkins. JCPenney court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. south h ero pla YGroup : Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grownup companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 'star Wars' Clu B: May the Force be with fans as they share their favorite moments from the

flicks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. stories With Me Gan : Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sWanton pla YGroup : Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music

r eCorder- pla Yin G Group : Musicians produce early-folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. saMBatu Cada! open r ehearsal : New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington's samba street percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. t he Cha Mplain eChoes : New singers are invited to chime in on four-part harmonies with a women's a cappella chorus at weekly open rehearsals. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

seminars

CoMMunit Y h er B Class : Under the guidance of Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, herbalistsin-training explore the tastes and smells of therapeutic plants to glean information about their physiological or spiritual impacts. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org.

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Coed adult dod GeBall : Players break a sweat chucking and sidestepping foam balls at this friendly pickup competition. Orchard School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 598-8539.

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elder edu Cation enri Ch Ment f all series : Gregory Sharrow, the director of education at the Vermont Folklife Center, sums up the era in "Folklife in the 21st Century." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 drop-in for all ages. Info, 864-3516. t revor Weston : In "Music and Mysticism," the acclaimed composer considers the power of getting lost in a song. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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Gastrono MY Book dis Cussion : Readers gobble up mouthwatering novels about food and culture, such as this week's The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Marjorie Cad Y 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. shape & share l ife stories : Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Burlin Gton Garden Clu B Meetin G: Carol McQuillen speaks on instilling joy of the natural world in young children at this gathering of gardeners. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1:15-3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4435. t rees: plantin G & Care : Master gardener Lee Diamond reviews proper planting, pruning, maintenance and mulching techniques for keeping trunks healthy and hardy. Richmond Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

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Ballroo M & l atin dan Ce: Samir and Eleni Elabd guide a dance social in waltz and salsa styles. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $14. Info, 225-8699 or 223-2921. Modern square- dan Ce Classes : Participants do-si-do and swing their partners 'round at a wholesome evening of stress-relieving dance. Cafeteria, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-2485 or 985-2012.

Creative t uesda Ys: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. f airfax stor Y h our : Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. f rost Y & f riends t herap Y doGs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. h iGh Gate stor Y h our : See WED.19, 10-11 a.m. r iChford pla YGroup : Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. suMMer stor Y h our : Three- to 5-year-olds craft during tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Green drinks : Activists and professionals for a cleaner environment raise a glass over networking and discussion. Lake Lobby, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0188.

f ren Ch Conversation Group : Beginnerto-intermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. pause-Café f ren Ch Conversation : Francophiles of all levels speak the country's language at a drop-in conversation. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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'ai WeiWei: never sorr Y': See FRI.21, 5:30 p.m. 't he intou Cha Bles' : See FRI.21, 7:30 p.m.

Buddhis M in a nutshell : Amy Miller serves up a comprehensive overview of the Tibetan Buddhist path in bite-size modules, combining meditation, lively discussion and practical exercises. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

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h oMeMade apple pie: Champlain Orchards bakers distinguish among apple varieties as they craft perfectly flaky crusts and warm, sweet fillings. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700. oCto Berfest 2012 : See SUN.23, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. r utland Count Y f ar Mers Market : See SAT.22, 3-6 p.m.

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CoMMunit Y MediCal sChool : In "Handle With Care: Managing Traumatic Brain Injuries," assistant professor of surgery and trauma surgeon Margaret Tandoh speaks on her area of expertise. A Q&A session follows. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2886. l au Ghter Yo Ga: 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 well-being. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129. protein 101 : Alternative Roots Wellness Center's Greg Giasson analyzes this section of the food pyramid in a class covering diet and food allergies and sensitivities. City Market, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. r .i.p.p.e.d.: See SAT.22, 5-6 p.m. steps to Wellness : Cancer survivors attend diverse seminars about nutrition, stress management, acupuncture and more in conjunction with a medically based rehabilitation program. Fletcher Allen Health Care Cardiology Building, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.

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h oWard Coffin : In "Vermont and the Civil War," the historian and author offers a very local history. Book discussions of The Red Badge of Courage and Bull Run follow. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. shirle Y j ohnson : Green Mountain Audubon Society's resident globe-trotter transports listeners to the Galapagos Islands with a photo presentation on its living landscape. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4132.

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't itani C: t he Musi Cal' : The “ship of dreams" leaves port for a tragic ending in this opulent Broadway National Tour production, complete with a sinking set. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $34.50-39.50. Info, 775-0903.

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david Bud Bill : The local writer introduces his new book, Park Songs: A Poem/Play, which brings people from all walks of life together in a down-and-out midwestern town. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. sal Gado Maranhão : Noted for his "metaphoric vigor," the Brazilian poet reads from his works, live-translated by Alexis Levitin. Farrell Room, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. stor YMatters : The crisp fall air inspires autumnal tales in this storytellers meetup with poet David Weinstock. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095, david. clark@ilsleypubliclibrary.org. t ovar Cerulli : The Vermont author of The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian's Hunt for Sustenance draws on his experiences as a hunter, a vegetarian and a vegan, not necessarily in that order. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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CIrC AltErNAtIvE tAsk ForCE mEEtINg: The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization hosts a public meeting to address transportation, safety, livability and economic development in the region. Town Hall, Williston, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4490, ext. 15, mboomhower@ccrpcvt.org. opEN rotA mEEtINg: See WED.19, 8 p.m. tropICAl storm IrENE support group: Berlin-area residents affected by the flooding share their stories and learn coping skills. Berlin Elementary School, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 279-8246.

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kIllINgtoN hAy FEstIvAl: See WED.19, 8 a.m.

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'AI WEIWEI: NEvEr sorry': See FRI.21, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. 'huNgArIAN rhApsoDy: QuEEN lIvE IN BuDApEst â&#x20AC;&#x2122;86': A 25-minute documentary about the British rock band leads into archival concert footage and interviews more than a quarter-century old. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $11.50-12.50. Info, 748-2600. 'rIsE lIkE lIoNs': Jay Moore and Sue Morris spark a discussion about Scott Noble's powerful film documenting the Occupy Wall Street movement. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@ gmail.com. 'thE INtouChABlEs': See FRI.21, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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BEAtlEmANIA NoW: Note for note, this tribute band re-creates the Fab Four's defining songs of the peace-and-love era. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $26-46. Info, 603-448-0400. ClANNAD: Putting a contemporary-pop twist on traditional Irish music, this award-winning family band celebrates its 40th anniversary with a rare North American tour. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $42.25-52.75. Info, 863-5966.

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moNArCh ButtErFly tAggINg: See WED.19, 3:30 p.m. WAgoN-rIDE WEDNEsDAy: See WED.19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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CrEAtINg A FINANCIAl FuturE: See WED.19, 6-8 p.m. moDEl rAIlroAD ClINIC: Tinkerers and hobbyists learn about installing DCC sound in a locomotive with Paul Allard. Northwestern Vermont Model Railroad Association, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 370-9617, calendarnwv@gmail. com.

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'lookINg BACk: thE vErmoNt INtErstAtE systEm': Research by a team of UVM students paves the way for a discussion of how the highway's construction altered our landscape. Room 219, Delehanty Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3396.

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'NExt to NormAl': See WED.19, 8 p.m. puppEts IN thE grEEN mouNtAINs: See SAT.22, noon, 7:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.

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Book DIsCussIoN sErIEs: INNEr JourNEys: Potluckers read into Stephen Crane's Civil War classic, The Red Badge of Courage, over a group dinner. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 878-6955. BurlINgtoN WrItErs Workshop mEEtINg: See WED.19, 6:30-7:30 p.m. pAINtED WorD poEtry sErIEs: A series highlighting established and emerging New England poets features Cathy Park Hong and Neil Shepherd. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750. m

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FArmErs mArkEt WEllNEss tABlE: Trained by the Aveda Institute, masseuse Laura Emerson demonstrates the health benefits of massage. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. hErBAl mEDICINE mAkINg: Herbal education coordinator Cristi Nunziata shares recipes for salves, lotions and massage oils using calendula and lavender extracts. City Market, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700.

ItAlIAN CoNvErsAtIoN group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

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BArrE FArmErs mArkEt: See WED.19, 3-6:30 p.m. ColChEstEr FArmErs mArkEt: See WED.19, 4-7:30 p.m. mIDDlEBury FArmErs mArkEt: See WED.19, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. NEWport FArmErs mArkEt: See WED.19, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. oCtoBErFEst 2012: See SUN.23, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. WIllIstoN FArmErs mArkEt: See WED.19, 4-7 p.m.

company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. musIC & movEmENt plAygroup: Youngsters tune in for six weeks of song, dance and fun with instruments. St. Albans Free Library, 10:15-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. musIC WIth mr. ChrIs: See WED.19, 10 a.m. st. AlBANs plAygroup: See WED.19, 9-10:30 a.m. story tImE & plAygroup: See WED.19, 1011:30 a.m. story tImE WIth BIll & hIs CrIttErs: See WED.19, 10 a.m.

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art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol. com, middleburystudioschool. org. Adult: Wednesday-night wheel, Wednesday-night hand building, Monday and ˜ ursday oils, Wednesday-morning oils with Tad Spurgeon, Tuesday watercolors, ˜ ursday drawing, Digital Photography Workshop every third Saturday. Children’s: Monday wheel, Wednesday wheel, ˜ ursday hand building, Homeschool Pottery every ﬁ rst Friday, Homeschool Painting every third Friday, Inventors Workshop September 24-October 29, Wearable Art October 17-November 14, What’s Your Favorite Color? November 28-December 19. ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Watercolor with Ginny Joyner, Drawings, Zentangle, Colored Pencil, Fabric Collage Cartooning, Calligraphy. Culinary arts: Onenight, hands-on classes where you eat well! ˜ ai Vegetarian, Vietnamese,Turkish, Holiday Appetizers, Greek Coastal, Korean, Ethiopian, Balkan, Indian, Hot Tamale, Mile-High Apple Pie, Pasta Bene, Italian Cookies, Halloween Cookies, Goat-Cheese Making. Yum! WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS: Sep. 5-26, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $30/3hr. class. Location: Studio Ginny Joyner, 504 B Dalton Dr., Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Info: Ginny Joyner, 655-0899, ginnyjoynervt@gmail.com, ginnyjoyner.blogspot.com. Advance your skill or come as a beginner. Paint in a relaxed, beautiful, nonjudgmental atmosphere with Ginny Joyner in her home studio. Ginny will help you develop your own style and provide gentle encouragement and advice. Paint your own projects or work from still lifes set up in class. Bring your own supplies. Sign up for one class or all. Drop-ins welcome!

adenaroseayurveda.com, adenaroseayurveda.com. Is the shift into winter difﬁ cult for you? Join us for a gentle cleanse at Farrell Chiropractic, Jericho. We will use diet, lifestyle changes and gentle yoga in this guided program; this is not a fast! Free information session October 2, 6:30 p.m. Group meets October 9, 13, 19.

body ACCESS BODY & MIND CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 fall offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org. Core Strength with Caroline Perkins (Tuesday and ˜ ursday), Weight Training, Weight Bearing and Resistance Training, Ski and Snowboard Fitness, Zumba, Zumba Gold, Yoga (four choices), Tai Chi, Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius, African Drum, African Dance, Jazzercise, Jazz Guitar with Jim Stout, Voice-Overs, Guitar (two levels), Ukulele, Lullabies, Mindful Meditation, Winter Herbs, and Juggling. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included. Look for “Access, Community Education” link. Senior discount 65+.

building BUILDING THE TOOLS TO CARVE: Oct. 12-14. Cost: $450/residential tuition (incl. accommodations, 3 meals a day & materials); $375/ nonresidential tuition (incl. 3 meals a day + all materials). Location: Knoll Farm, Fayston. Info: 496-5690, wholecommunities.org. Workbenches, Hatchets, Knives, Spoons and More is a three-day, hands-on workshop that focuses on making the tools necessary to create a variety of hand-carved objects and will culminate in carving a wooden bowl or spoon. Designed for all levels of experience.

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ayurveda JOIN A GROUP CLEANSE THIS FALL: Oct. 2, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $108/cleanse pkg.; info session free. Location: Farrell Chiropractic, 213-E Vermont Route 15, Jericho. Info: Adena Rose Ayurveda, Adena Harford, 310-7029, adena@

CLAY: HOLIDAY GIFTS ON THE WHEEL: Oct. 16-Dec. 11, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost:

$225/nonmembers, $203/BCA members. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag. Glazes and fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Handmade gifts for the holidays are the most fun to give and receive! Learn wheel and handbuilding techniques to create ceramic mugs, bowls, teapots, ornaments and more. No previous experience needed. Includes access to over 30 hours per week of open studio time to make gifts. Ages 16 and up. CLAY: INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED WHEEL: Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $280/person, $252/ BCA member. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes & fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Wheel Room, 250 Main St., Burlington. Refi ne your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. Learn individualized tips and techniques on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorating and glazing methods. Students should be profi cient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Sep. 24-Nov. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $240/person, $216/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. An introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice. Ages 16+. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $240/person, $216/ BCA member. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes and fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Wheel Room, Burlington. Learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing and beginning to intermediate trimming and glazing techniques. Students must be profi cient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice! DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6: Sep. 18-Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $205/ person; $184.50/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a creative computer program used to create interesting graphics, clipart and more! Learn how to lay out and design posters. Explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to your interests. For beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. DESIGN: GRAPHIC DESIGN BASICS: Oct. 10-Dec. 12, 3:305:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $225/person, $202.50 BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Info: 865-7166. Learn the basics of graphic design principles and elements and how

to use them in creating effective materials. ˜ is course will focus on development and execution of a concept. Whether you are interested in creating business cards, letterhead, brochures, greeting cards, calendars or just want to learn what makes a good design. DRAWING: FASHION: Sep. 27-Nov. 1, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $215/person, $194/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Ages 16+. Learn the basics of fashion drawing! Draw and paint using gouache, watercolor and more. Illustrate your own designs and experiment with a variety of fashion drawing styles. Mixed-level class, open to beginners and advanced students, prior drawing experience is helpful. Includes fi gure drawing with a live fashion model. DROP-IN: ADULT POTTERY: 2nd & 3rd Fri. of the mo.: Sep. 14, 21; Oct. 12, 19; Nov. 9, 16; Dec. 14, 21. Cost: $12/participant, $11/ BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Wheel Room & Craft Room, 250 Main St., Burlington. Curious about the pottery wheel? ˜ is is a great introduction to our studio. ˜ rough demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs and bowls. Price includes one fi red and glazed piece per participant. Additional fi red and glazed pieces are $5 each. ILLUSTRATION: Sep. 26-Nov. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $200/person; $180/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Learn a variety of illustration techniques! Whatever your interest (children’s books, news stories, comics, sci-fi or political blogs), there’s a technique for you. Using traditional materials such as pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolors, students will be encouraged to draw the human fi gure, likenesses, animals, landscapes, interiors and more. PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Sep. 26-Nov. 14, 1:304:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $320/person; $288/ BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Ages 16+. Intermediate and advanced painters: Revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the fi gure. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback in a small-group environment. Figure-drawing experience is very helpful. PAINTING: OIL: Sep. 25-Nov. 13, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $250/person; $225/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Ages 16+. Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. With an emphasis on studio work, this class will consist of fun exercises. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM 4: Sep. 20-Oct. 25, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $250/person; $225/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Upload,

organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW fi les, organization, fi ne-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. PHOTO: DIGITAL PHOTO BASICS: Sep. 17-Nov. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.com. Learn the basics of digital photography. Camera functions and settings, white balance, composition, uploading and organizing images, making basic edits in Photoshop, printing, and much more will be covered. Any digital camera is acceptable! Bring your charged camera with its memory card, cords and manual to the fi rst class. PHOTO: INTRO BLACK & WHITE: Oct. 10-Dec. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $215/ person, $193.50/BCA member. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. No experience necessary! Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-white fi lm, process fi lm into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for outside-of-class printing and processing. Bring a manual 35mm fi lm camera to the fi rst class. PHOTO: INTRO FILM/DIGITAL SLR: Sep. 19-Oct. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $160/ person; $144/BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm fi lm or digital SLR camera to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and fi lm types/sensitivity. Bring an empty manual 35mm fi lm or digital SLR camera and owner’s manual. PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Oct. 11-Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $275/ person, $247.50/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts, Community Darkroom, Burlington. Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and fi lm processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. PRINT: ABSTRACT PRINT: Sep. 24-Nov. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $230/nonmember, $207/BCA member. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Experiment with a variety of printmaking methods, such as etching and linoleum cuts, to create uniquely expressive artwork. ˜ is is a great way to start creating your own art or explore printmaking and no experience is necessary! Cost includes over 30 hours per week of open studio hours for class work. PRINT: INTRO TO SILK SCREENING: Weekly on ° u. Cost: $225/ nonmember, $203/BCA member.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Torrey Valyou, local silk-screen legend and owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fi ne art and more! Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio. No experience necessary! PRINT: NONTOXIC ETCHING: Sep. 25-Oct. 30, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $200/person, $180/ BCA member. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn how to print using ImagOn, a user-friendly, nontoxic etching process that reproduces a range of graphic techniques from line and gouache drawings to photographic imagery. Since etching is a drawing process, emphasis will be placed on drawing and pictorial composition. Includes 30 hours of open studio time per week. VIDEO: DIGITAL FILMMAKING: Oct. 15-Nov. 26, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $250/person, $225/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Learn the basics of digital fi lmmaking, including HD videography, sound recording/mixing and video editing. Make a short narrative, experimental or documentary fi lm. Class involves aspects of photography, writing, composition, audio design, motion graphics, and video and sound editing. Taught in partnership with Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM).

business GETTING SERIOUS: INTRO TO BIZ: Oct. 4-25, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on ° u. Cost: $125/2 hrs./4 wks. Location: Mercy Connections Ofﬁ ce, 255 S. Champlain St., #8, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, mercyconnections. org/start-small-businessvermont.html. Have an idea for a business or wonder what it takes to own a business? Getting Serious can help you determine if starting and owning a business is for you. ˜ is four-week course will take you step-by-step through every facet of what’s involved in business ownership. Led by knowledgeable, caring instructors in a highly interactive, supportive environment.

computers ACCESS COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Computer and Internet Basics Tutorial, iWant iPods & iPhones, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, OpenOfﬁ ce, Google Smarts, PowerPoint, Publisher, MS Word Basics and More, Smartphone Use, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: ˜ e Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, Understanding Game Design, Personalized Lessons. Low cost, hands-on,

excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online (look for “access, c ommunity education” link). s enior discount 65+.

craft Craft Classes at CVU: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12., 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org pottery (seven choices), Woodworking, Basic machining, electrical, Wood c arving, Basket Weaving, r ug Hooking, Wool Dyeing, 3 Bag s ewing, pillows, Needle Felting, c rochet, Quilting, monotype print, mosaic Garden Frame, mosaic Birdbath, c ake Decorating, Knitting (three choices), c artooning, Hand t ool Workshop for kids. s enior discount.

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exercise strengt H t raining for w omen: Sep. 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.. Location: Artemis Fitness, 7 Fayette Ave., S. Burlington. Info: Artemis Fitness, 448-3769, artemisfitnessvt.com. artemis Fitness offers innovative group and personal training designed for women at any fitness level. s uper s aturday, s eptember 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free strength-training groups at 9 a.m. (advanced) and 10 a.m. (any level). artemis Fitness changes lives each and every day. c ome try us out and see for yourself!

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herbs Her Bal w orks Hops & open HoUse: Open House Thu., Sep. 20, 7:30 p.m. Workshops on Mon. & Wed. evenings, 6-8 p.m. Cost varies depending on class; open house is free. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main St., suite 302, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Laura Litchfield, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. apply now for comprehensive herbalist training programs at Vermont c enter for integrative Herbalism. Visit website for course catalog and application and come to our open house on Thursday, s eptember 20, at 7:30 p.m. Join us for community herbalism workshops. preregister by email or phone. Workshop descriptions online. w isdom of t He Her Bs sCHool: Wild Plant Walk: Thu., Sep. 27, 5-6:30 p.m., $0-10. Wild Edibles 2-day program: Sep. 16 & Oct. 14. $200, $50 deposit. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Wild edibles two-day program and Wild plant Walk, preregistration appreciated. Vsac nondegree grants available. 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

after- sCHool art nat Ure explore!: Thu, Sep. 27-Dec. 6, 3:30-5:30 p.m., ages 5-12. Cost: $300/10-week class, incl. materials. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard Street-3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com. explore materials, mediums and ideas to cultivate creativity, confidence, fine motor skills, visual storytelling and critical thinking. Draw, paint and construct found-object sculptures outdoors and inside this beautiful working studio. Focusing on a child’s organic relationship to imaginative ideas, maggie s tandley both encourages and challenges her students and helps them spread their wings!

knitting knitting Classes : Classes starting in September (daytime & evening). Location: The Knitting Circle, 23 Orchard Terr., Essex Jct. Info: 238-0106, thetravelingknitter@gmail.com. l earn to knit in a comfortable, helpful setting where you can purchase yarn and supplies. all ages and skill levels welcome!

language aCCess lang Uage Classes in Hines BUrg at CVU HigH sCHool : 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. French (four levels), Beginning s panish (two levels), intermediate s panish (three levels), immersion s panish, italian for t ravelers (two levels), Beginning mandarin (two levels), German (two levels), l atin alive! l ow cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online (look for “access, c ommunity education” link). s enior discount 65+. anno UnCing spanis H Classes : Cost: $175/10 1-hr. classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. s panish classes starting s eptember 17-20. Our fifth year. l earn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. l esson packages for travelers. s pecializing in lessons for young children; they love it! s ee our website or contact us for details. Bonjo Ur! f ren CH: kids/ adUlts: Youth French Fun! Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 11, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Adult Int. French, Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 5-6:30 p.m., Adult Beg. French, Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Cost: $200/10week class. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard Street-3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com. s upportive, interactive,

martial arts aikido: Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. c lasses for adults, teens and children. adult introductory classes begin on t uesday, October 2, at 5:30 p.m. c lasses are taught by Benjamin pincus s ensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified aikido teacher. Visitors are welcome seven days a week. aikido Classes : Cost: $65/4 consecutive Tue., uniform incl. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. aikido trains body and spirit

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f eldenkrais: Visit website for schedule information. Location: Ten Stones Common House, Charlotte. Info: 735-3770,

f all B Ul Bs: Sep. 22, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. Our in-house expert on bulbs, ann Whitman, will talk about planting and landscaping with fall bulbs, plus demonstrate how to choose, pot up and prepare bulbs for winter bloom indoors. preregistration required. growing garli C: Sep. 29, 9:3011 a.m. Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. l earn how to grow your own garlic! Join c harlie Nardozzi as he shares his knowledge of how to select the best seed garlic; how to grow, harvest and store it; and about the many different varieties and forms. preregistration required. pUtting yoUr garden to Bed: Oct. 6, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. With a little effort in the fall, starting your garden up in the spring will be a lot easier. mike ather will discuss what you need to do in the fall to help make spring planting easier. preregistration required.

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fun French classes in group settings or privately led by fluent speaker, an encouraging instructor who has lived in paris, France and West africa. Youth and adult. multiple modalities used to reach students of diverse learning styles. Held in beautiful Burlington atelier. f ren CH Classes t His f all!: 11-wk. term begins Sep. 24 & continues through Dec. 14; all classes held 6:30-8:00 p.m. Cost: $245/11-wk. class. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg. (Fort Ethan Allen), 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr.org/classes.shtml. French at the alliance Francaise of the l ake c hamplain r egion in c olchester. New fall schedule of French classes with offerings at six levels, evenings for adults, beginning the week of s eptember 24 for 11 weeks. Full details and easy registration at aflcr.org/classes. shtml, or call. j apanese l ang Uage Classes: Oct. 2-Dec. 11, 7-8:30 p.m., Every 10 weeks on Tue. Cost: $195/10 1.5-hr. classes & textbooks. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Pl., Colchester. Info: Japan-America Society of Vermont, Larry Solt, 865-3113, l.solt@burlingtontelecom.net, jasv.org. The Japan-america s ociety of Vermont is again offering beginning Japanese language lessons. This class is an introduction to speaking, listening, reading and writing Japanese with an emphasis on conversational patterns that occur in everyday life. s tudents will also be introduced to life in Japan and Japanese customs and culture. parlez- VoUs f ran Cais?: Location: TBD, Burlington, Mad River Valley, Stowe, Montpelier. Info: 496-7859, yvescompere@ yahoo.com. t ired of your old routine? Need a fun new hobby? t ry French classes taught by native Yves c ompere for group classes, private tutoring. all ages and levels. s towe, Burlington, mad r iver Valley, and montpelier areas. r easonable rates. c all 496-7859 or yvescompere@yahoo.com. it’s never too late to enrich your life!

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t aiko, djem Be, Congas & Bata!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, AllTogetherNow, 170 Cherry Tree Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com. Burlington classes: c all for weekly conga and djembe lessons in Burlington. Beginners t aiko starts t uesday, s eptember 11,

aCCess empowerment Classes in Hines BUrg at CVU HigH sCHool : 200 fall offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, 369 CVU Road, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org. l ose Weight-Feel Great, Beekeeping, c reative Writing, poetry Writing, mystery Writing, c ampaign 2012 with c hris O’Donnell, c ontemporary mid-east l iterature, s olar energy 101, Bridge (two levels), c ribbage, cpr /First aid, Grief etiquette, eFt , s uburban Homesteading 101, motorcycle awareness, map and c ompass, Fly Fishing, astrology. Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. l ook for “access, c ommunity education” link. s enior discounts: 65+. preparing for t He great att Unement: Nov. 9-11: Fri., 5:30-9 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Cost: $295/3-day conference. Location: Best Western, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909, jungiancenter.org/. l earn how you can prepare for the great shift coming on 12/21/12 in this threeday conference that includes 16 presenters, a keynote address, a peace concert, a trade show, five meals and multiple practitioners. For more info or to register go to jungiancenter.org. r egistration closes on October 5. tH e w ay of t He w ill: Sep. 29-30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $60/ wknd. class (incl. snacks & lunch both days & copy of e-book). Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909. l earn how you can strengthen, renew and direct your will via simple exercises and practical applications. Using the will, you will be able to work with shadow energies and create lasting change in your life. l ed by l ee Kear, writer, consultant and trainer, visiting the Jungian c enter from australia.

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introd UCtion to dreamwork: Oct. 4-25, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $60/4-wk. class series. Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909. l earn how to work with your dreams, connect to your inner life and empower yourself in a safe, supportive setting. l ed by Dr. s ue mehrtens, teacher and author.

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vermontfeldenkrais.com. The Feldenkrais method, a form of somatic education, will help you overcome aches and pains, reduce muscle tension, and increase your self-knowledge of your body. anyone, young or old, physically challenged or physically fit, can benefit from the Feldenkrais method. c all or visit website for fall class and workshop schedule.

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and October 30; kids, 4:30 p.m., $60/6 weeks; adults, 5:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. monday advanced classes start s eptember 10 and October 29, 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. c uban Bata and house-call classes by request. please call for Friday 5 p.m. c onga class, and 6 p.m. Djembe class, as well as s aturday 10 a.m. Djembe class. montpelier classes: Thursday c onga, Haitian, t aiko and children’s drumming classes.

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adUlt Ballet series: Sep. 27Nov. 15, 10-11 a.m. Cost: $96/8wk. class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. improve your coordination, posture and overall grace through the traditional dance form of classical ballet: each class will include barre exercises, short step combinations, turns, jumps and port de bras (arm movements). a relaxed atmosphere will allow you to feel comfortable as you learn or solidify the beginnings of ballet technique. Beginner swing dan Ce Classes: Sep. 26-Oct. 10, 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $30/3-wk. series per person. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 864-8382, terrybour@gmail.com, vermontswings.com. Beginner s wing Dance lessons (east c oast style), taught by t erry Bouricius. No partner necessary. t erry has taught all styles of swing dancing to thousands of students using a fun but methodical approach since 1983. r egister by contacting t erry. dan Ce st Udio salsalina: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com. s alsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/ person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! dsantos V t salsa: Mon. evenings: beginner class 7-8 p.m., intermediate 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com. add some spice to your life by learning to dance salsa club style. We also touch on bachata, merengue and cha-cha-cha. experience the excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. t rained by world-famous dancer manuel Dos s antos, we teach you how to dance and have a great time!

Hip-Hop C Horeo for adUlts: Sep. 27-Dec. 20, 8:30-9:30 p.m. Cost: $156/12-wk. class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. all the hottest moves set into a choreographed piece to be learned and drilled during the series. Hip-hop experience recommended, but not necessary. 15% discount will be given if signing up for both Hip-Hop t echnique and Hip-Hop c horeography classes. Hip-Hop t eCHniq Ue for adUlts: Sep. 27-Dec. 20, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $156/12wk. class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. t aught by Danielle Vardakas, this is an intro to fun and funky hip-hop social dances as well as B-boy/girl toprock, house and funk styles. s tudents will get fit and gain the confidence to break out some moves in the club. Danielle has trained extensively in street styles and allows students enrolled to choose which styles they want to improve upon; the first few classes are a sampling, then the focus will be on what everyone is most interested in. l earn to dan Ce w/ a partner!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. c ome alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. as with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. r iCHmond dan Ce st Udio: Check website for full schedule. Location: Richmond Dance Studio, located in Round Church Corner Shops Plaza, 83 Huntington Rd., Richmond. Info: 434-3431, richmonddancestudio.com. Brand new studio in r ichmond offering diverse dance and Zumba daily. after-school classes (ballet and hip-hop), belly dancing (beginner) and yoga classes by s ila. Broadway tap and jazz, line dancing on Friday and s aturday by Dancin’ Dean, adult ballet, and hip-hop and break dancing by c alvin Walker.

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together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans. Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt. com. Beginners will find a comfortable and welcoming environment, a courteous staff, and a nontraditional approach that values the beginning student as the most important member of the school. Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward and fair tuition and billing policies. We are dedicated to helping every member achieve his or her highest potential in the martial arts. Kempo, Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Wing Chun, Arnis, Thinksafe Self-Defense. TRADITION CHINESE GONG FU!!: Sep. 5-Dec. 19, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $12/2-hr. class. Location: Tonkins Martial Arts, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tonkins Martial Arts, Jason Carpenter, 871-3100, tonkinsmartialarts@gmail.com. Our small group practices traditional Chinese Gong Fu: Long Fist, White Crane, Eagle Claw, Qigong and Yang Style Taijiquan. We are looking for a couple more adults willing to train hard and respectfully with this great material. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 6604072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.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

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massage CRANIAL WORKSHOP 16 CEUS: Oct. 6-7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $275/16 CEUs ($250 when paid in full by Sep. 13). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/DianneSwafford. This course focuses on the observation and exploration of movement within the cranial bones. The participant will learn how to work with the facial muscles and bones in addition to the bones and muscles of the cranium. Great for neck, headache and migraine work. No prerequisites required. ETHICS & EMOTIONAL ISSUES: Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $130/ course, 8 CEUs. Location: TBA, Burlington or Essex area. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/ DianneSwafford. Participants learn skills for addressing, in an appropriate and professional manner, emotional responses that may arise during a session. In addition, participants discuss the guidelines for professional conduct and review Code of Ethics. Includes content required for NCBTMB recertification.

Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., Montpelier. Info: 595-1144, montpeliershambhala.org/. This will be a two-day program of Shambhala Buddhist teachings, discussion and meditation. To register or for more info, contact ekahler@gmavt.net.

parenting IT’S DUE TOMORROW?!: Oct. 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $45/ seminar. Location: Stern Center for Language & Learning, 183 Talcott Rd., suite 101, Williston. Info: Stern Center for Language and Learning, Jenn Proulx, 878-2332, jproulx@sterncenter. org, sterncenter.org. This twoevening seminar will provide parents of middle- and high-school students with strategies to improve their adolescent’s timemanagement, homework, study and test-taking skills. Parents will be given techniques to try, and opportunities for discussion and feedback will be provided. Register today!

performing arts IMPROV FOR EVERYONE W/ WILL LUERA OF IMPROVBOSTON: Sep. 22, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $35/2-hr. class. Location: Spark Arts, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 373-4703, sparkartsvt.com. No matter what your skill level, learn the secrets of improvising a hilarious and compelling scene on the spot in this one-time-only workshop with Will Luera, improv expert and artistic director of ImprovBoston! Great for developing comedic timing and publicspeaking skills.

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meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets the 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs every 3rd Fri. evening of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. SHAMBHALA TRAINING LEVEL 1: THE ART OF BEING HUMAN: Sep. 29-30, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $80/registration; scholarships avail. Location: Montpelier

WOMEN’S/COED CLIMBING CLINICS: Oct. 2-Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m., Tue. & Thu. Cost: $175/6 classes, rental gear, 6 additional visits. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 657-3872, info@ petracliffs.com, petracliffs.com. Learn to climb or improve your skills this fall! Intro levels cover basic climbing skills: belaying, balance, footwork and route reading. Intermediate levels progress technique, endurance and strength. Clinics are a great way to learn with AMGA-CWI instructors and meet other climbers! Coed Clinics meet Tuesdays; Women’s Clinics meet Thursdays.

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photographs with your iPhone with Dan Burkholder. Dan is the author of multiple photography books, including “iPhone artistry.” His workshops are well attended and sold out last year. This year you can attend for the entire day or choose one of the three workshops.

pilates PILATeS MAT & RefORMeR CLASSeS: 6 days/wk. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. From gentle to vigorous, we have a class that is just right for you. Get strong; stay healthy! Not ready for Reformer? Just sign up for our private introductory series. Drop in for mat classes with Hermine, register for Nia, belly dance and modern dance, too! every body loves Pilates!

plants AuTuMn InTRIGue: PLAnTS fOR MAx. IMPACT: Sep. 22, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. learn how to extend the flower season through the fall with plants that will make maximum impact in your yard. expert designer Charlotte albers will discuss what you can plant now to keep your garden going throughout the fall. Preregistration required.

psychology fAIRY TALeS & THeIR DeePeR MeAnInG: Oct. 1-22, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $60/4-wk. class series. Location: Jungian Center, Waterbury. Info: 2447909. There is a lot more to snow White and Cinderella than the Disney cartoons would have you believe. Discover the depth of wisdom in some not-so-familiar fairy tales. led by sue Mehrtens.

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uSuI ReIkI: 1ST DeGRee: Oct. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class (CEs avail. for NCBTMB). Location: Gathering Room, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 985-9580, cindy@energymedicinevt.com, energymedicinevt. com. learn Reiki, a traditional Japanese healing art that facilitates health and transformation on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Reiki can be supportive of any life path or career. In this class, you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki for yourself and loved ones.

YAnG-STYLe TAI CHI: Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo. Beginners welcome. New Beginners Session starts Wed., Sep. 19, at 5:30. 8 classes $125. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immed. after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 434-2960. 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 and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. For more info, 735-5465 or 434-2960.

self-help HOPe HAPPenS!: Sep. 26, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $40/class sliding scale; $30-50. Location: Office Squared, 77 College St., Burlington. Info: Round Sky Solutions, Daniel Little, 734-5462243, daniel.e.little@roundskysolutions.com, roundskysolutions.com. Care about the world but feel overwhelmed at the size of the problems? struggle with hopelessness and despair? Integral coach Daniel little and climate activist Kathryn Blume offer a healing, transformative, resource-building workshop for the environmentally engaged and climatically conscious. Come build focus, strength and resilience.

spirituality InTRODuCTIOn TO GnOSTICISM: Oct. 3-24, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $60/4-wk. class series. Location: Jungian Center, Waterbury. Info: 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.

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MIDLIfe TRAnSITIOnS: LeTTInG GO AnD MOvInG fORwARD wITH MARTY GARReTT: Oct. 3-24, 7:15-8:45 p.m. Cost: $120/ series. Location: Vermont Center for Intergrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit. com. an interactive workshop for women 40+. We will use meditation, visualizations, coaching tools and group sharing to guide you on your journey. You will leave open to future possibilities and a renewed sense of hope. Please bring journal and writing utensil.

weight loss eATInG w/ GRACe wOMenS GROuP: Sep. 17-Jan. 28, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $25/ group. Location: Anya Raven Hunter, LICSW, 88 King St., Burlington. Info: Eating with Grace TM, ANYA RAVEN HUNTER licsw, 318-4140, anya@eatingwithgrace.com, eatingwithgrace. com. eating with Grace groups inspire women to take better care of their bodies and hearts, and then, naturally, food and weight come into balance. It’s a learning process, full of kindness and hope, and if you are ready to really change your relationship with food and weight, contact anya!

yoga evOLuTIOn YOGA: $14/class, $130/class card, $5-10 community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Breast Cancer survivor and alignment classes. Certified teachers, Massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. LAuGHInG RIveR YOGA: Yoga classes 7 days a wk. Individual classes range from $5 to $15; $115/10 classes; $130/unlimited monthly. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. Commit to yourself. Try yoga. We offer classes, workshops, and retreats in a spacious studio overlooking the Winooski River. experienced and compassionate instructors offer a variety of styles including Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Yoga Dance, Yin, Restorative and more. Want to go deeper? The next 200-hour teacher training begins in January.

writing MenTAL COnfLICT: TRAnSfORMATIOn & DeeP ACCePTAnCe: Sep. 28-Nov. 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com/. Does your mind fight with itself? With Wright Cronin and special guest Rebecca Weisman. This six-week workshop will use the simple teachings of Internal Family systems therapy and Iyengar yoga to support participants in transforming their relationships to the parts of them that limit their ability to fully and deeply embrace life.

fReeLAnCe wRITInG 101: Thu., Sep. 27 & Oct. 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/class. Location: First Baptist Church, Friendship Room, 29 Congress St., St. Albans. Info: Joy Choquette, 782-5020, joywriter55@gmail. com, joychoquette.com. always wanted to write for publication? Here’s your chance to learn how! This introductory class will cover which publications to pursue, how to snag an assignment, how to find experts and write a compelling article, tracking your work and income, and how to make part or full-time job from writing.

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Jackson says. “That percussive pattern was as beautiful and entrancing to me as the music.” He likens a talented radio jockey to a sherpa who guides the listener through the music and connects the historical, thematic and emotional dots. Thomas, he says, was a master. “Just like a musician might have idols he’d emulate, I have programmers I idolize, either because of their knowledge, or delivery, or both,” says Jackson. “George is one of those people.” The admiration is mutual. “He has a great voice and a great delivery,” says Thomas. “And he knows his music.” That’s an understatement. Before moving to Vermont in 2011 to take a job teaching English at Burlington High School, Jackson served as the curator of the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Museum for 20 years. He is also an accomplished music critic, having written for a number of prestigious publications, including Washington City Paper and the Washington Post, as well as JazzTimes, JAZZIZ and All About Jazz. His reviews have also been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Jackson was born in Georgia and moved to Washington, D.C., as a child with his family in 1958. He says he started his musical education underground, literally. “I heard everything from Earl Scruggs to [Italian violinist Niccolò] Paganini in my parents’ basement,” he says. Jackson’s father was a voracious jazz fan who would often invite friends to the family basement to listen to records. Jackson recalls sitting at the top of the basement steps and eavesdropping. But it wasn’t just the intoxicating notes drifting from the hi-fi that captured his attention. “I was intrigued by the names,” he says. “Thelonious Monk, Carmell Jones; they were musical in and of themselves. They

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euben Jackson is almost painfully shy. As a photographer from Seven Days fl utters around him snapping pics from increasingly unpredictable angles, he smiles and nods politely, clutching a lukewarm cup of coff ee. He’s uncomfortable as the photog moves him into diff erent lights, trying to coax a less awkward pose. Jackson is clearly ill at ease as the center of attention. But put him behind the microphone in a radio booth, and this shrinking violet blooms. His thoughtful-but-hesitant speech pattern becomes smooth and easy, his words given weight by his rich, resonant voice. His cadence, though calm and almost hypnotically lilting, is self-assured and authoritative, especially when he’s riffing on his favorite subject: music. Jackson, 56, is the new host of Vermont Public Radio’s “Friday Night Jazz” program. He succeeds a man who was a virtual institution for local jazz afi cionados: George Thomas, who hosted “Jazz with George Thomas” on VPR for the past 11 years before retiring this summer. “I kind of feel like Larry Holmes after Muhammad Ali stepped down,” says Jackson of taking over for Thomas. “Who’s the heavyweight champion?” He’s joking … mostly. And for what it’s worth, Jackson could do worse than to emulate Holmes (metaphorically speaking), who is regarded as one of boxing’s all-time greats. “George is my hero,” he continues, his words shaded with genuine aff ection. Jackson admits to tuning in to Thomas’ program regularly over the years from his home in Washington, D.C., often while curled up in bed. It’s a habit he picked up as a kid, listening to late-night radio broadcasts both for the music and for what he calls the lyrical quality of a good DJ’s delivery. “I always tell people the fi rst rappers I heard were ministers and disc jockeys,”

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didn’t sound like Chubby Checker.” Neither did the music. “I would hear this sound,” Jackson says. “I was entranced.” “Under penalty of death,” he began sneaking his dad’s jazz records from their basement bin. Those risky childhood heists led him on a path that Jackson has followed ever since. “I’ve been chasing music most of my life,” he says. “It’s been a constant pursuit of that beauty and possibility.” Jackson graduated from Goddard College in 1978. The small Plainfi eld school is where he got his start in radio, DJing on the then-10-watt college station WGDR. But Jackson studied writing, not music, at Goddard. He’s an accomplished poet, which is a skill that Thomas says sets Jackson apart as a jazz scholar and DJ. “He thinks like a poet,” notes Thomas, who fi rst met Jackson through a shared love of poetry. He adds that the new host’s poetic instinct and gentle demeanor afford Jackson a broad appeal, something the oftstigmatized genre of jazz has struggled to achieve.

“Things happen on several levels, simultaneously,” says Thomas of his successor’s on-air style. “So someone who is new to the music can enjoy it because the music is really good, while someone who is into jazz can appreciate his selections because of how diverse, how intelligent and how from his heart they are.” Ultimately, Jackson hopes to use his new forum to challenge listeners, getting them to think beyond stodgy labels and outdated defi nitions and see jazz as part of the larger, always-evolving musical whole. “What I want to expose people to is that the art form is not relegated to a certain time period,” says Jackson, who generally has little use for the term “jazz” itself. (He quotes Ornette Coleman: “Rock, classical, folk and jazz are all yesterday’s titles.”) “The Winooski River doesn’t stop in Plainfi eld,” Jackson concludes, off ering a poetic metaphor. “It keeps going.” “Friday Night Jazz” airs on Vermont Public Radio every Friday from 8 to 11 p.m. vpr.net

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leonard cohen’s “Hallelujah,” was a unanimous choice, as all four judges requested her vocal services. Levine (and his tattoos) was first to chime in. The other three waited until she hit a spine-tingling, Jeff Buckley-ish high note at the song’s apex before dinging their buttons. Having never seen the show previously, I have no idea if a unanimous decision is common, though I suspect not. In any case, it’s a good sign, right? So what does it mean? Nelson, who chose Levine as her coach — and gets Mary J. Blige as a mentor — advances to the battle round, in which she and one of her teammates will square off head to head, singing the same song. Then, in the first of the live battles, contestants from each team duke it out, with home audiences voting for a winner. There are several hurdles in the rounds beyond that, but should Nelson win it all, she’ll get a big bag o’ cash as well as a record deal with Universal. I caught up with Nelson by phone over the weekend, and she was, unsurprisingly, overwhelmed by the national attention since her episode aired last week. (Her version of “Hallelujah” has been well within the top 100 on iTunes since.) Nelson said she was initially leery of competing on a reality show but that the format on “The Voice” was appealing. “I felt this show was different,” she said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to share music and every emotion in my heart with the entire world. To feel that connection is something that is so often missing when music gets too simplified or polished up. So I thought, It’s time to put your money where your mouth is, indie girl.”

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Ever watch the “The Voice” on NBC? Me neither. But methinks I may be tuning in over the coming weeks, even though it violates my standing rule against watching reality television — aside from “Top Chef,” of course. And that’s only because one day I will marry Padma Lakshmi and live out my days cooking for her and our 14 absurdly beautiful children. Ahem. Aaaanyway, in case you hadn’t heard — which likely means you’re not on Facebook or Twitter or have been in a coma for the past week — Burlington’s nicole nelson, of the über-excellent blues-and-roots duo dwight & nicole, is killin’ it on the major-network talent show. For the unfamiliar, “The Voice” is basically the Peacock’s answer to Fox’s “American Idol,” which was America’s answer to England’s “Pop Idol,” which was England’s answer to ed McMahon’s “Star Search,” which was the evolutionary cousin of the “Gong Show,” which … well, you get the idea. It’s a talent show. It involves voices. And celebrities! The format on “The Voice” differs from that of “Idol,” in large part because there’s no jerky British guy in a V-neck slinging jerky British insults at overwhelmed teenagers, or startlingly unhealthy-looking members of aerosMith as judges. Instead, the judging panel consist of cee-lo green doing flamboyantly Cee-Lo Green things, handsome country star Blake shelton being handsome, Maroon 5’s adaM levine and his tattoos, and christina aguilera’s cleavage. But the primary difference is in the varying stages of competition. The first is a blind audition in which the four judges sit facing away from the stage and can only pass judgment based on what they hear — the voice, get it? — which is actually a pretty awesome wrinkle. The judges are evaluating talent to put together a team of singers, which they will coach through the remaining rounds. When judges hear something they like, they hit a button, which spins their chair around and means they want that singer on their squad. If more than one judge wants a particular contestant, the contestant chooses which team to join. Ya dig? Nelson, doing a soulful version of

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Metronome features 10 of the area’s finest DJs. They represent styles from across the increasingly varied EDM landscape, from dubstep to moombahton to trap to whatever new iteration was just invented while I was writing this sentence. We’ll have cats from several of BTV’s best known DJ crews, including MUSHPOST, 2K DEEP and BONJOUR-HI!, Also of note, DJ Llu will drop by, both spinning and pushing the second season of her excellent interview podcast, Tour Date. The first episode, featuring indie pop duo Matt & Kim, drops Wednesday, September 19. Check it out at 7dvt.com.

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BackstaGe puB: sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., free.

nectar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Led Lo/ co (hard rock), 9 p.m., $5. on tap Bar & Grill: mitch & friends (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. Last Words (rock), 9 p.m., free. park place tavern: smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., free. radio Bean: Alexis stevens (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Last October (folk), 8 p.m., free. Eleanor Krause (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. The Kinks: A Burlington Tribute (rock), 10 p.m., free. Twice on sunday (pop-punk), 1 a.m., free. red square: Andrew parker-renga (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free. Kingsley flood (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. red square Blue rooM: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. ruBen JaMes: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free. rí rá irisH puB: supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., free. venue: pleasureDome (rock), 9 p.m., free.

central

BaGitos: Theo Exploration & Tiger swami, 6 p.m., free. tHe Black door: Zack dupont Band, michael chorney and Dollar General (indie folk), 9:30 p.m., $5.

cHarlie o's: spit Jack, the pity Whores, stone Bullet (punk), 10 p.m., 8/27/12 2:28 PMfree. Green Mountain tavern: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

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purple Moon puB: James mcsheffrey (folk), 8 p.m., free.

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WHite rock pizza & puB: steph pappas Experience (rock), 8 p.m., free.

champlain valley

city liMits: 3 sheets 2 the Wind (rock), 9 p.m., free. on tHe rise Bakery: spencer Lewis (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations. tWoSeptember BrotHers Thursday, 30th tavern: ryan Band • FullHanson Day of 101-Style Public(rock), Workshops10 • Tradeshow in Exhibit Hall • Dinner presentation with Michael Klare

p.m., $3.

northern

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MatterHorn: Wolfpack (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

cluB MetronoMe: fall improv comedy spectacular: spark improv, improv Boston (improv comedy), 7 p.m., $6/8. 18+. retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HiGHer Ground BallrooM: farm fresh: The pride pary (house), 9 p.m., $13/17. 18+. HiGHer Ground sHoWcase lounGe: VT Drag idol (drag show), 8 p.m., $12/15. 18+. Jp's puB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free.

rí rá irisH puB: The Bi-polar Bears (rock), 10 p.m., free. siGnal kitcHen: Zammuto, Errands, Harmonizer (indie), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+. skinny pancake: snake mountain Bluegrass (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5-10 donation. t. Bones restaurant and Bar: Open mic, 7 p.m., free. venue: 18 & up Destination saturdays, 8 p.m., free. The Lynguistic civilians (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

central

BaGitos: Tony mason (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

levity caFé: saturday night comedy (standup), 8 & 10 p.m., $8.

tHe Black door: Dave Keller Band (blues), 9:30 p.m., $5.

ManHattan pizza & puB: Tommy Alexander (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., free.

cHarlie o's: Viva Deconcini Band (rock), 10 p.m., free.

Marriott HarBor lounGe: The Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free. Monkey House: infernal stronghold, ramlord, Aiia, Vaporizer (metal), 8 p.m., $5. 18+. nectar's: Joshua Glass (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., free. The Edd (live EDm), 9 p.m., $5. one pepper Grill: ryan Hanson Band (rock), 8 p.m., free. on tap Bar & Grill: The real Deal (r&b), 9 p.m., free. radio Bean: Les chiara (indie folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Amy collins (celtic blues), 7 p.m., free. Jerry falzone (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. The Braren Band (rock), 9:30 p.m., free. Quiet Lion (rock), 11 p.m., free. The move it move it with the David Brizendine Drummers (Afro-pop), 12:30 a.m., free. red square: Aaron flinn (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. Live music, 8 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

purple Moon puB: Bill shafer & friends (rock), 8 p.m., free.

champlain valley

Bar antidote: Hot neon magic (’80s new Wave), 9 p.m., free. city liMits: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., free. tWo BrotHers tavern: 3 sheets 2 the Wind (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

Bee's knees: Karen Krajecic & Jon rose (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. cHoW! Bella: The Best Little Border Band (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. MooG's place: The Hardscrabble Hounds (Americana), 9 p.m., free. parker pie co.: Electric sorcery, 8 p.m., free. piecasso: Dale cavanaugh (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Donations. riMrocks Mountain tavern: DJ Two rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

red square Blue rooM: DJ raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ stavros

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riMrocks Mountain tavern: friday night frequencies with DJ rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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Monopole: Lucid (rock), 10 p.m., free. tHerapy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

decent lovers. The band’s bright, pop-centric

merely adequate in, ahem, certain arenas, onstage they are thoroughly stimulating. Catch them this Friday, September 21, at the Monkey House in Winooski. dad open.

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burlington area

1/2 lounGe: Aaron Burroughs (singer-songwriter), 3 p.m., free. flashback: pride Edition (house), 10 p.m., free.

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regional

Monopole: roots collider (rock), 10 p.m., free. taBu caFé & niGHtcluB: All night Dance party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., free.

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1/2 lounGe: TBA, 10 p.m., free. cluB MetronoMe: royal family presents Alan Evans Trio (jazz, funk), 8 p.m., $10/12. 18+. HiGHer Ground BallrooM: Beats Antique, Lynx (world rock, EDm), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. HiGHer Ground sHoWcase lounGe: milk carton Kids, Brendan Hines (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. Monkey House: sounduo (EDm), 8:30 p.m., $8. 18+. Monty's old Brick tavern: George Voland JAZZ: Dan silverman and Dan skea, 4:30 p.m., free. nectar's: mi Yard reggae night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., free. on tap Bar & Grill: sunday Brunch with Zack dupont (singer-songwriter), 11:30 a.m., free. radio Bean: Queen city Hot club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., free. saloon sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., free. mind the Gap (rock), 8 p.m., free. Late night sneaky uncle, 10 p.m., free. red square: The fleeting Ends (indie), 7 p.m., free. nicos Gun (rock), 8 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. siGnal kitcHen: The Listening room series: maryse smith, Zack dupont (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., $10. AA.

roadside tavern: DJ Diego (Top 40), 9 p.m., free.

MooG's place: starline rhythm See the full agenda online: Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., free.

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Bee'sin knees: Tradeshow Exhibit Hall mcBride & Lussen In-depth Industry Conference (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Keynote address by Soren Hermansen Gubernatorial Debate

BayvieW eats: Dale cavanaugh (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations.

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Monkey House: Decent Lovers(pop), Dad (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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Among the myriad genres, subgenres and sub-subgenres that make up the Greater Vermont music scene, glam is relatively underrepresented, particularly the glitchy, electro-pop variety. But that’s not to say the Green Mountains are completely devoid of throbbing, beat-centric fabulousness. Rue Mevlana, a self-described supergroup led by songwriter and front man Nathan Jarvis, have been keeping savvy Burlington audiences sweaty and sated since 2005. Earlier this summer, the band released its latest album, Synthetic Emotion. The effort comes on the heels of a deliciously devious holiday EP, Dancing to Keep Warm, released late last year, and marks the band’s fourth full-length album. Taken as a whole, the record’s 14 tracks represent a hypnotic 52-minute daze. Jarvis’ production is generally informed by house and techno, with

just enough occasional breakbeat snap to yank the listener out of a trance. That’s not to say Rue Mevlana’s tracks are dull. They aren’t. Rather, these cuts yearn to be blasted from the bassfortified speakers of a dance club. This is dance music, first and foremost. And the translation to the tinny confines of your earbuds might make for an underwhelming experience, at least to the casual listener. But there is good reason to listen closely. The crux of the Rue crew’s appeal, aside from those frenetic dance mixes, is its subversive nature. That quality

was made explicit on the band’s aforementioned Xmas romp, but it’s subtler on Synthetic Emotion. Jarvis and Your LocaL Source his bandmates, Marya Vallejos, Justine Since 1995 Crosby, Jess Mateik and Hannah Wall, specialize in cheeky, precocious 14 ChurCh St • Burlington,Vt songwriting delivered with a gleefully CrowBookS.Com • (802) 862-0848 shameless brat-itude that reminds this critic of a more brazenly churlish version of Burlington indie-pop band 16t-crowbookstore011812.indd 1 1/16/12 6:06 PM the Smittens — whose music is far less cute and cuddly than you think, by the way. Imagine a strung-out Colin Clary riffing on douche-y celebs (“Scumbag Slow down and Celebrity”) or a prickly Dana Kaplan come by today! taking Maverick to task (“Tom Cruise!”), and you’re in the ballpark. Synthetic Emotion is Rue Mevlana’s most complete effort to date. Though it likely doesn’t do their infamously salacious live act justice, it’s an ofttitillating album that serves as a worthy introduction to glam pop in Vermont. Rue Mevlana play Farm Fresh: the Pride Party at the Higher Ground girlingtongarage.com Ballroom on Saturday, September 22.

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Disingenuous proclamations of faith in Jah and/or Rastafarianism? Check. Obligatory ode(s) to getting high? Check. Obvious fusion with paint-bynumbers jam and funk grooves? Check and check. If predictable, this stuff is merely mildly frustrating. But what really irks about the EP is that Soulstice are better than this. Aside from the obvious shifts in tempo and syncopation, what made reggae different from its comparatively simplistic predecessors — ska and

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Why, oh why, is there so much terrible reggae in the world? Perhaps it’s because the genre is presumed — incorrectly — to be easy to play. How hard can it be to just play on the upbeat, right? Or maybe it’s got something to do with the pervading drug culture surrounding the genre. (A great idea stoned is usually half-baked sober.) In fairness, irie island music holds no monopoly on egregious violations of taste or quality. But for some reason, it seems to fall victim to frustrating clichés masquerading as soul or ingenuity, time and time again. And it needs to stop. All of which brings us to the newest member of Vermont’s reggae community, Soulstice. On its self-titled debut EP, the Warren-based quintet offers 20 minutes of island grooves that demonstrate nearly every crime against reggae perpetrated in the last 50 years.

rocksteady — is that it introduced a subtly complex style. Soulstice seem to understand this. Their opening cut, “Tour the World,” is richly arranged and textured. So, too, are tracks such as “Gotta Be Good” and “Sensi Time” — both capture classic, undulating reggae feels fleshed out with intricate and understated accents. So why the reliance on every limp lyrical cliché in the book when Soulstice have the musical sense and creativity to do better? I (and I) don’t get it. Reggae is soul music. It is, pardon the chestnut, the music of the people, born of social and political unrest. (Look it up, kiddos.) Yet what Soulstice offer is the same pseudo-hippie bullshit that has surely caused Bob Marley to spin in his grave for decades — or, at the very least, made for this brilliant yet sadly telling 2005 Onion headline: “Bob Marley Rises From Grave to Free Frat Boys From Bonds of Oppression.” Sigh.

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central

Bagitos: sunday Brunch: sean murray, 11 a.m., Donations. PurPle Moon PuB: sunday night surprise, 7 p.m., Free.

radio Bean: Zej & calen (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

Bee's Knees: David Langevin (piano), 7:30 p.m., Donations. river House restaurant: stump! Trivia night, 6 p.m., Free.

red square: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. shady Alley Band (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

sKinny PanCaKe: Ed Grasmeyer and Joshua panda (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

CluB MetronoMe: WRuV & Two sev present motown monday (soul), 9 p.m., Free.

central

t. Bones restaurant and Bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

1/2 lounge: Family night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free.

HigHer ground sHowCase lounge: The Word Alive, upon a Burning Body, Like moths to Flames, constructs (metal), 7:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. neCtar's: metal mondays: Elephants of scotland, ATLATL, Kairos (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP Bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: Fiona Luray (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., Free. Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. red square: Bob Wagner Trio (rock), 7 p.m., Free. industry night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. ruBen JaMes: Why not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Moog's PlaCe: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

1/2 lounge: Booty Trap stripper Rap with JJ Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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neCtar's: Dwight Ritcher Trio, nicole nelson, milt Reder, Jesse Dee (blues), 9 p.m., $5 donation. 18+. on taP Bar & grill: Ryan Hanson Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

northern

Bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free.

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gusto's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

folktronica act the Books. The quartet’s self-titled debut, released earlier this year, set the blogosphere into a tizzy and

sKinny PanCaKe: Funwaiser with Jay Ekis (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations.

elicited a response roughly summarized as “Whoa.” A densely glitchy affair, the record strikes a fine, if precarious,

champlain valley

zaMMuto are a new(ish) band led by Nick Zammuto, former front man of dearly departed

balance between accessible pop machinations and mysterious electronic experimentation. As part of a lengthy tour that includes dates with pop sensation Gotye, Zammuto stop by Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Saturday, September 22, with locals errands and HarMonizer. CluB MetronoMe: catamount classic VT Benefit: potbelly, Fridge & the $pins, karaoke (rock), 9 p.m., $5 donation. 18+. HigHer ground BallrooM: coheed & cambria, Three (rock), 9 p.m., $30/35. AA. HigHer ground sHowCase lounge: perpetual Groove, Tauk (jam), 9 p.m., $12/15. AA. Monty's old BriCK tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free. neCtar's: catamount classic VT Benefit: potbelly, Fridge & the $pins, karaoke (rock), 9 p.m., $5 donation. 18+.

radio Bean: stephen callahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Kwesi Kankam (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red square: shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

BaCK to verMont PuB: John Gillette & sarah mittlefeldt (folk), 7 p.m., Free. CHarlie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

two BrotHers tavern: Trivia night, 7 p.m., Free. monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

t. Bones restaurant and Bar: Trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

on taP Bar & grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

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Bee's Knees: Jen corkins (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCe: Open mic/Jam night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

1/2 lounge: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. scott mangan (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Finnigan's PuB: progress, Jukebox Romantics (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on tHe rise BaKery: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Free. two BrotHers tavern: mid-week music melodies: Zack dupont Duo (indie folk), 9 p.m., $2.

northern

Bee's Knees: silent mind (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCe: nick Denoia (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free.

regional

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

HigHer ground sHowCase lounge: Rupa & the April Fishes (world music), 7:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. JP's PuB: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

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big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 225-6479. brEAkiNg grouNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. cAStLErock Pub, 1840 Sugarbush Rd., Warren, 5836594. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. ciDEr houSE bbq AND Pub, 1675 Rte.2, Waterbury, 244-8400. cLEAN SLAtE cAfé, 107 State St., Montpelier, 225-6166. cork WiNE bAr, 1 Stowe St., Waterbury, 882-8227. ESPrESSo buENo, 136 Main St., Barre, 479-0896. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kiSmEt, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646. kNottY ShAmrock, 21 East St., Northfield, 485-4857. LocAL foLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN’S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545. NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090. PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. thE PizzA StoNE, 291 Pleasant St., Chester, 875-2121. PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453. PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827. SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202. South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.

bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. bLAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. broWN’S mArkEt biStro, 1618 Scott Highway, Groton, 584-4124. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. coSmic bAkErY & cAfé, 30 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0800. couNtrY PANtrY DiNEr, 951 Main St., Fairfax, 849-0599 croP biStro & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4304. grEY fox iNN, 990 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8921. thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. thE mEEtiNghouSE, 4323 Rt. 1085, Smugglers’ Notch, 644-8851. moog’S, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225. muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. oVErtimE SALooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366. PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064. PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. roADSiDE tAVErN, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274. ruStY NAiL bAr & griLLE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. ShootErS SALooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albwans, 527-3777. SNoW ShoE LoDgE & Pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456. SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394. WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.

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