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last experiment with socialism, during the administration of that well-known Marxist Richard Nixon, was convincing proof that government-dictated price controls don’t work. In August 1971, hoping to dampen rising inflation, Nixon declared a freeze on wages and prices. Initially the freeze applied to everything, later just oil and gas. World oil prices were fairly stable during this time; not surprisingly, so were gas pump prices. If you weren’t paying much attention, you might think the price freeze had worked.

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Then came the real test. On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, igniting the Yom Kippur War. Nixon sent money and supplies to Israel. Partly in retaliation, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced a 70 percent increase in the price of oil, and not long after, Arab countries declared an embargo on oil exports to the U.S. Oil production was cut 25 percent. A cease-fire ended major fighting within weeks, but skirmishes continued through the winter, and the Arab states kept up the oil embargo till March. By then, world oil prices had risen from $3 a barrel to $12. Amid calls for rationing,

worried U.S. consumers formed long lines at gas stations; some operators ran out. What effect did the Nixon price controls have on all of this? Not much. The pump price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. rose from 38 cents in May 1973 to 55 cents a year later — a laughable amount now, but a big jump then. Scholarly analysis of the Nixon controls suggests they had only a trivial impact on gas prices. Why? The immediate reason is that Nixon’s price controls applied only to U.S. oil production. Domestic petroleum output was then in decline, dropping from 79 percent of U.S. consumption in 1970 to 64 percent by 1975. Even so, roughly two-thirds of the oil we used at the time was produced within our own borders, and a good chunk of that was subject to price controls. Why then did the rising price of foreign oil drive local gas prices so high? The answer has to do with a basic but often baffling economic concept called marginal cost. The idea is this: In a perfectly competitive market, price is determined by the cost of producing one more unit, in this case a gallon of gas. With U.S. demand greater than U.S. production, then as now, those additional units had to come from expensive foreign oil. Since gas was gas and nobody was willing to pay a price differential depending on where the oil was pumped, the price of all gas went up.

Your father may say, “Hold on. If the price of gas is effectively determined by the cost of the most expensive oil used to make it, that means oil companies with access to a lot of cheap domestic product made out like bandits.” You got it, bubba. The Carter administration tried to address this problem with a windfall profits tax. Whatever may be said for the wisdom of that strategy, it had little impact on pump prices. If you really want to keep the price of gas down, and I mean way down, the only proven solution is to nationalize the oil companies and control the price directly. Hugo Chavez did that, and the price of gas in Venezuela is the lowest in the world, recently under 10 cents a gallon. This may be your father’s idea of paradise. It’s also socialism, and we’re not talking about the current right-wing wacko idea of socialism, meaning “anything Obama does,” but actual socialism. Happily for us, and I say this without sarcasm, we don’t have socialism in this country, we have the free market. When gas prices are high, the market is telling us a lot of people are competing for a scarce resource. If you don’t feel like spending so much and don’t want to move to Venezuela, your only choice is to quit whining and figure out some way to use less.

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on’t get thrown off the scent by your old man’s red baiting, Naomi — he’s the real Bolshevik around here. Controlling prices is what communist central planners did in the old days, and what leftist rabble-rousers like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela do now. Thankfully, there’s little chance of it happening in the U.S. Our

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Dear cecil, my wonderful father, born in 1939, insists high gas prices are the only reason the economy is in the tank (no pun intended). He constantly tells me Richard Nixon was able to stave off economic hardship for our country because he froze gas prices during his presidency, and that if obama truly wanted to improve the economy, all he would have to do is freeze gas prices too. Did Nixon actually freeze gas prices? could obama, if he wanted to, do the same, so I could pay $2 per gallon instead of $3.30? or is obama really trying to destroy the country and push his socialistic/ communist agenda (my dad’s words, not mine) by making us pay higher prices at the pump? Naomi Byrne, texarkana, texas

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The Baker’s Apprentice Rémy to teach him how to bake — a very different culinary discipline. “So tell me about Rémy,” Mario said as we drove northeast on Route 15. “I never actually met him. We only spoke over the phone.” The question made me smile. Rémy was not easily describable in the course of a half-hour taxi ride. And truth be told, I felt somewhat protective of his privacy. In the time I’d been driving Rémy, our conversa-

a monk. Rémy seems to approach his craft with a Zen-like devotion and equanimity. If the guy has a shred of ego, I’ve yet to witness it, I’ll tell ya.” “Wow, that is amazing,” Mario said. “I can’t wait to get started. I brought him a loaf of bread I baked for his critical appraisal.” Three days later found me on Rémy’s road — essentially the long driveway leading to his home — for a morning pickup. A few years ago, the town named the road

He did not even know how to open the bag of flour. tions had ranged far and wide. I’d developed considerable affection for the man and didn’t want to betray any confidences he’d shared with me. But he had accepted Mario as an apprentice — a coveted position with a waiting list — so I figured a little biographical information was in order. “I can tell you this,” I began. “Rémy is one amazing dude. His list of accomplishments is hard to fathom. Growing up in postwar France, he studied bread making as a young man, but went on to become a competitive downhill ski racer and worldtrekking mountain climber. He managed the racing team for a big ski company before going on to run its North American operation. “When Rémy retired in the early ’90s,” I went on, “he could have bought a yacht and docked in some Côte d’Azur bay to spend his days running around with starlets.” I paused to chuckle at the imagery I had conjured. “Well, that’s my fantasy, anyway,” I admitted. “Instead, he’s devoted the past 20 years to perfecting his baking technique — literally working all night, five days a week, entirely on his own. I swear, he’s like

after him, a mighty tribute in its own right. Rémy was waiting outside for me, his two black Labradors, Max and Jacques, bouncing around him. The dogs engaged in a boisterous, if not hysterical, parting or greeting ceremony whenever their master left or returned. A lot of dogs, I’ve observed, appear to display the psychological makeup of toddlerage humans; a three-hour separation from their beloved might as well be three years. “Hallo, hallo,” Rémy greeted me as he approached the passenger door, fending off the Labs. The man is spry and eager, though his posture is bent and he walks with a pronounced limp — the residual effects of a 2004 stroke. “Bonjour, Rémy,” I called back as I jumped out to assist him into the cab. (He’s made clear that he’d rather I wouldn’t, but I can’t help myself.) He first put in the old ski pole he used as a cane, and then swung deftly into the shotgun seat. “So how is your apprentice working out?” I asked as we got under way, fully expecting a glowing report. “It’s a disaster,” Rémy said. “Perhaps he will cut short the visit.”

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“My goodness,” I said. “He seemed like a friendly guy when I drove him.” “He’s too friendly,” Rémy explained. “In the bakery, I will talk, but only about technique, about the business. He want to talk about everything. Plus, while he can cook, he has not even the basic skill for baking. He did not even know how to open the bag of flour. And, most important, I do not see a desire to learn.” “What about his bread that he brought with him?” “Awchh, the bread,” Rémy said with a groan. “From the outside it look beautiful. I mean, just perfect. But when I slice it and try a bite, it was terrible.” I said, “Rémy, isn’t that a perfect metaphor for Los Angeles? It’s like those movie towns where everything looks real on the surface, but, behind the walls, there’s nothing there.” My customer chuckled. “This is why I don’t go to the West Coast, why I live here. In Vermont — how do you say? — what you see is what you get. The people are authentic. I tell you, this is the last time I bring in a student without meeting him face-to-face before I decide. This guy talk me into it in a phone call, but never again!” We pulled up to Fanny Allen, and Rémy said, “Time to face my tormentor once more. This physical therapist is excellent, but, awchh, she push me so hard.” “How about this, Rémy? Just think of her as your dominatrix.” Rémy laughed and said, “I don’t know if that will help, Jernigan. I let you know when you pick me up later.” m

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ario paused in front of the organic-greens section of Healthy Living Market & Café, the Dorset Street naturalfoods supermarket, eyeing the produce like a groom on his wedding night beholding his negligéed bride. He picked up one variety after another — fondling and smelling each glistening specimen — before settling on a particularly felicitous butterhead. “I want to bring something to prepare for Rémy when I arrive,” he told me as we meandered over to the cheese department. Mario had just flown in from Los Angeles — aka the City of Angels, though to me that’s always come across as more ironic than laudatory. He was in Vermont for an informal, two-week training session with Rémy LaConte, a renowned local baker who has worked for some two decades out of his home and attached bakery in northern Vermont. Rémy’s bread has acquired a cultlike following, his reputation no doubt boosted by the limited quantity he produces. Each loaf is fashioned by hand and baked in a stone oven that wouldn’t have been out of place in a 15th-century French kitchen. I had been driving Rémy back and forth to physical therapy at Fanny Allen for a couple of months; he had told Mario to call me for transportation out to his place. Mario was quite tall, lanky and overflowing with enthusiasm. For a few years he had been the chef-owner of a small restaurant in Alhambra, Calif., with a following, he said, within the film community. “Ed Asner showed up like clockwork, two or three times a week,” Mario told me. He had recently sold the place, having become “totally burnt out,” and was now cooking for another LA eatery. Though a self-described “accomplished cook,” he was counting on

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ot two years after Vermont’s Republican governor Jim Douglas left office, the party he led through four terms is on

the ropes. Already beset by demographic shifts that favor its opponents, the Vermont Republican Party now faces structural problems that could limit its ability to counter the growing dominance of Vermont Democrats. The state GOP’s fundraising is anemic, its professional staff is nonexistent, and its candidate-recruitment efforts have stalled out. While much attention has been paid to the foundering efforts of the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee, Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin), the biggest blow to the party’s fortunes could be further losses in the legislature. With 10 of 48 House Republicans retiring, even party leaders concede they’ll be lucky if they maintain their already depleted numbers in the 150-member body. “We wanted to have a lot more candidates than we ended up recruiting,” says House minority leader Don Turner (R-Milton). “It is discouraging. We already have a super-minority — and we need balance. We gotta have balance in Montpelier.” Up and down the ballot, Republicans are struggling against the tide of an electorate that has grown more liberal and Chittenden County-centered over the past few decades. Adding to the challenge is the trio of popular liberals at the top of the ballot this year — President Barack Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Peter Shumlin — not to mention the rightward tilt of Republican rhetoric outside Vermont. Even more glaring are the behindthe-scenes disparities. While Vermont Democrats have professionalized into a year-round political operation, the state GOP lost its sole paid staffer last March. And with the departure of Douglas, his loyal cadre of battle-hardened Republican operatives has mostly quit state politics. That leaves a handful of volunteers from the party’s activist wing running the show. This year, Republicans failed for the third election cycle in a row to muster a single credible congressional candidate. The party let first-term Democratic Secretary of State Jim Condos go unchallenged and let twice-failed U.S. Senate candidate Jack McMullen take on one of the Democrats’ most vulnerable candidates: Attorney General Bill Sorrell. Democrats, meanwhile, have reached a partial détente with the Vermont Progressive Party, which is shifting its focus toward growing its ranks in the legislature. Rather than dividing the left-leaning vote

in statewide races, the two parties this year collaborated on the candidacies of their lieutenant governor and state auditor nominees — and kept a Progressive candidate out of the gubernatorial race. This confluence of circumstances has some Republicans despairing. “This will be the year when the Vermont Republican Party truly becomes irrelevant,” says one elected Republican who was reluctant to voice such concerns on the record.

Additionally, the party has at least two promising statewide candidates with bipartisan appeal in incumbent Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and Sen. Vince Illuzzi (EssexOrleans), who is running for state auditor. “There’s still a few of us left around that are gonna fight like hell,” says Jack Lindley, the irascible chairman of the Vermont Republican Party. “I’m not convinced we aren’t going to win up and down. And all my Democratic friends who think their boy Barack Obama is going to carry the day, well, he’s going to be lucky if he carries Vermont given the situation he’s in.”

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Long odds aside, it’s not over for the party that dominated Vermont politics for more than a century. The Vermont GOP may be down but it’s not out. Propping up its faltering central apparatus is a conservative super PAC led by an experienced Republican operative and funded by a generous donor with deep pockets. Acting as a sort of shadow party, the group, Vermonters First, has spent more than half a million dollars on a paid media strategy focused on two down-ticket Republicans and 41 legislative candidates. Its efforts have helped Rutland City Treasurer Wendy Wilton mount a surprisingly strong challenge against incumbent Democrat Beth Pearce in the race for state treasurer.

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Vermont was a different place during Lindley’s first stint as state GOP chairman, from 1978 through 1981. In the previous 120 years, the state had elected just two Democratic governors and a single U.S. senator: a young prosecutor named Patrick Leahy. The pace of politics has also changed, Lindley notes. “Life is sped up. We’ve moved from a little bit of a trot to a full dead run,” he says. “It’s all generated by the communications we have now, like the Twitter and the Facebook and the computer. People want to be 24/7. It’s kind of like moving from horse and buggy to the automobile.”

A Capitol Hill staffer in the late 1960s and a veteran of the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, Lindley walked away from politics at the dawn of the Clinton era to focus on his Burlington insurance business. But when state party chairwoman Pat McDonald stepped down last January, Lindley was coaxed back into the ring. “I said, ‘I have five sons and only one of them has been able to stay in Vermont,’” Lindley says. “I’m going to do my damnedest to get this straightened around to make sure the next generation has a chance to be successful.” A month after Lindley took over, executive director Mike Bertrand left his post amid speculation that the state party couldn’t afford to pay his salary. In perhaps the most consequential decision of his tenure, Lindley opted not to replace Bertrand, even as statewide and presidential elections loomed. “Republicans traditionally have been a volunteer organization,” he explains. “I guess back in history we moved over to try to match the number of paid staff and paid chairmen. We’re not in that game anymore. That arms race is over.” Lindley has focused instead on opening local offices in Essex, Montpelier, Rutland, St. Albans, Springfield and St. Johnsbury, where volunteers convene to make phone calls and organize door-knocking efforts. What Lindley lacks in party machinery, he makes up for with his trademark over-the-top rhetoric. In September, for instance, Lindley sent out a fundraising solicitation appearing to blame a single torn Brock for Governor lawn sign in Williston on Shumlin’s “arrogance of power.” Conceding in an interview that he hadn’t a lick of proof that Shumlin’s campaign was behind the vandalism, Lindley declined to withdraw the charge. “Obviously the command and control is the guy running for governor,” he said at the time. “And his staff and his reelection campaign. I’m really disappointed in them.” Lindley’s bombastic style rubs some in the Republican Party the wrong way. “He’s got a big mouth, but outside of that, what’s he got?” asks retiring state Rep. Adam Howard (R-Cambridge). “His vitriol is just bone-chilling when I hear it. And I just wonder who would be motivated to be part of his program.”

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2011 — and to Democratic and Progressive candidates Cassandra Gekas and Doug Hoffer, who are running for lieutenant governor and state auditor, respectively. “I think you would see a much less robust campaign for the down-ticket campaigns without the assistance of the Democratic Party,” Perkinson says. “We do provide a lot of value to those. It’s our job.”

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its four-day get-out-the-vote sprint in November. In Perkinson’s view, a strong data and field program can really make the difference in down-ticket races in which neither candidate is well known to voters. It will be essential to Pearce — the state treasurer is experiencing her first campaign after being appointed to the post in January

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and its candidate-recruitment efforts have stalled out.

While Perkinson and the Democratic Party worked to elect Weinberger last winter, Republican political operative Tayt Brooks managed the campaign of Weinberger’s opponent, Kurt Wright. A former lobbyist and commissioner of economic, housing and community development in the Douglas administration, Brooks twice served as executive director of the Vermont Republican Party. This September, Brooks reemerged as treasurer, consultant and spokesman for a mysterious new super PAC called Vermonters First, which has in essence become a shadow Republican Party — spending heavily on television, direct mail, online advertising and robocalls. Thanks to the 2010 Citizens United decision and a slew of federal and state rulings since, groups like Vermonters First are free to raise and spend unlimited sums — so long as they don’t coordinate expenditures with political candidates. Soon after forming, Brooks’ group spent $100,000 on a trio of television advertisements supporting Wilton and Illuzzi and slamming Democrats’ health care plan. At first, Brooks declined to reveal who was bankrolling the entity, but subsequent campaign finance filings have shown that a Burlington resident named Lenore Broughton has donated all but $900 of the $685,000 raised as of Monday (see companion article). In the last few weeks, the role of Vermonters First has drastically expanded. It has spent at least $265,000 on TV ads, $200,000 on direct mail, $17,500 on polling and $2000 on robocalls. To put that in perspective: In the first eight months of this year, the Vermont Republican Party spent $99,000, while Vermont Democrats spent $320,00. In the past six weeks, Vermonters First has dropped $561,000. “You get a sense of an octopus of an operation that we don’t even really know about,” says Graff. To some Republicans, Vermonters First is doing the party a great service by swooping in and performing nearly all of its traditional functions — while sending the bill to a single donor. “Tayt’s doing everything the party should be doing,” says one top Republican. The underfunded Brock campaign is benefiting, too, even though Vermonters First has yet to explicitly back the gubernatorial candidate. According to Brock’s de facto campaign manager, Darcie Johnson, the campaign was poised to mail out absentee-ballot request forms when it realized the independent super PAC had already gotten the job done.

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Late last year, Lindley’s Democratic counterpart, Jake Perkinson, opened the party’s election-year headquarters in Burlington several months earlier than usual. With fellow Democratic operative Miro Weinberger running for mayor of Burlington in March, Perkinson sensed “an excellent opportunity to do a test run” of the party’s organizational capabilities eight months before the November election. In a remarkable departure from precedent, the Vermont Democratic Party was all over the city election, deploying its field, fundraising and communications staff to take back city hall. It worked. Weinberger decimated Republican city councilor and state Rep. Kurt Wright by a lopsided margin of 58 to 37 in an election many observers expected to be a nail-biter. “We wanted to kick the tires on the tools we have,” Perkinson said just days after the March election. “So I really did view it as an invaluable opportunity to figure out where any weaknesses might be.” A Philadelphia native and Vermont Law School graduate, the 42-year-old Democratic Party chairman is a study in intensity. Perkinson has juggled careers in securities law, real estate and political consulting — and though his role as party chairman is unpaid, he appears to treat it as yet another full-time job. If Lindley believes in a volunteer party, Perkinson believes in a professional, yearround campaign apparatus. The party’s permanent staff of four ballooned this summer to 16 — including 11 field-workers stationed at the Democrats’ nine regional offices. “A lot of what the parties do, we never see,” says Chris Graff, a former Associated Press Montpelier bureau chief who now works for National Life. “But the last few election cycles have shown that the Democrats’ coordinated campaign is stronger than the Republicans’ campaign.” Even some Republicans agree with that assessment. “The Democrats have just beat the Republicans on that for the last few cycles,” says state Sen. Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland). “I would say the last year the Republicans had a really, really good get-out-the-vote effort was 2000.” Perkinson’s goal this cycle is to consolidate the party’s organizational strengths by improving its chief asset: its voter file. “It can be a big waste of money and resources if you don’t know who you’re talking to,” says VDP executive director Julia Barnes. To that end, Barnes says the Democrats have already identified 30,000 additional voters this cycle and hope to ID another 20,000 by Election Day. That will bring their file to 150,000 identified voters the party can selectively target during

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documents available at websites such as Ancestry.com. According to those records, Broughton was born in Chicago in 1938 to Roger Follansbee and Nancy Avery, making her 74 years old. Her grandfather was the famous American businessman Sewell Avery, who made his fortune as president of U.S. Gypsum and Montgomery Ward, and later as director of J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel. Like his granddaughter, Avery had an apparent distaste for government meddling in the private market. In 1944, the Roosevelt administration used emergency measures to forcibly remove him from Montgomery Ward after he refused to settle a strike. That led to one of the war era’s most enduring photographs: helmeted troops carrying a defiant Avery out of his office buildDemonstrators ing in a seated position. He reportedly outside Broughton’s Burlington home retired in 1955 with a fortune estimated at $327 million. According to her friend Ruth Stokes of Williston, Lenore Broughton married T. Alan Broughton, who is now an English professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, but the couple divorced years ago. They have a son together, Camm Broughton. A former state lawmaker and head of the Vermont GOP, Stokes says Lenore Broughton is a generous philanthropist whose image as a right-wing idealogue isn’t deserved. “She does a lot of charity work that people don’t know about,” Stokes says. In 1999, Broughton hired Stokes to be executive director of the Vermont Student Opportunity Scholarship Fund, a Broughton-financed nonprofit that provided tuition assistance for K-8 students to attend religious and independent schools in Vermont. School choice has been a big cause of Broughton’s and, in effect, she took it upon herself to implement it. The scholarship fund provided as many as 100 tuition grants per year to students who were being bullied or for some other reason didn’t fit in at public schools, Stokes says. The maximum grant was $2000 — nowhere near enough to cover full tuition at most schools — so parents and schools had to come up with the difference. From 2005 to 2009, the scholarship fund received donations totaling $414,840 — most but not all of which came from Broughton, Stokes says. She shelled out another $130,000 for a separate school-choice project, creating an online catalog of independent education opportunities, according to John McClaughry, who worked with Broughton on the catalog. Broughton also remains president of a Chicago-based foundation called the Broughton Fund, which dispersed almost $835,000 in donations between 2005 and 2009, according to public tax records. Politically, Stokes describes Broughton as a principled conservative who “believes passionately in this country” and in the defense of Israel. “It’s not just that she’s MATThEw ThORsEn

ne of the most influential people in Vermont this election year is arguably the least known. Lenore Broughton, a Burlington heiress with a history of funding conservative causes, has shunned the spotlight while her money is drawing attention to a select group of Republicans running for office. Broughton is the bank account behind Vermonters First, a new conservative super PAC directed by the former executive director of the Vermont Republican Party. To date, she has donated a whopping $682,500 to buy advertising to support her chosen candidates, and to oppose Gov. Peter Shumlin’s attempt to make Vermont the first state with single-payer, universal health care. Since Vermonters First started airing ads in September, Broughton’s name has appeared in dozens of news stories. But little is known about the woman herself. Even those who call Broughton a friend describe her as “very private” and claim not to have known that she’s the granddaughter of a major American industrialist. Though a dozen sign-carrying demonstrators recently found her house on Burlington’s Henry Street, there isn’t a single photo of Broughton on the web, and a Google search doesn’t reveal much about her background. “You can tell just by looking at her she’s a very guarded individual,” says Paul Decelles, a longtime friend of Broughton’s and one of two Republicans on the 14member Burlington City Council. A few things about Broughton are well known: She’s a self-described speech pathologist who converted to Orthodox Judaism and is devoutly religious. She’s also the founder and funder of True North Reports, a right-leaning website, and the erstwhile talk show “True North Radio,” which aired for years on Waterbury’s WDEV-FM. Broughton has steadfastly refused to speak with reporters about her super PAC’s activities. She also declined to be interviewed for this story — both through a spokesman and in person. On a bright autumn day last week, Broughton answered her door clad in a black sweater and politely declined yet another invitation to participate. Nothing, she suggested, could convince her to change her mind. But with her super PAC, Broughton has gone public in a big way. And she is fast becoming a target for Democrats and single-payer advocates eager to counter the conservative message her money is paying to broadcast to the electorate. Last week, single-payer health care supporters brought the campaign to Broughton’s doorstep, delivering a letter to her home that asked her to end her “radical” attempts to thwart health care reform. They congregated outside her house with news cameras in tow, while an unmarked Burlington police car monitored the action a block away. Though Broughton wasn’t home at the time, Vermonters First quickly condemned the visit as an act of “bullying” and “intimidation” by a group funded by an

Broughton is fast becoming a target for Democrats eager to counter the conservative message her money is paying to broadcast to the electorate.

out-of-state labor union. Broughton herself issued a rare statement, saying, “I support Vermonters First because I believed outside groups were coming into our state and drowning out the voices of the people who actually live here. Now I know it for a fact. They’re outside my house. We should not allow ourselves to be bullied in our state, and I’m sure Vermonters won’t.” Peter Sterling — the head of Vermont Leads, the group that organized the demonstration — rejects the intimidation charge, saying demonstrators were there for all of 10 minutes before peacefully disassembling. Sterling charges that Broughton is funding “false ads” against single-payer, adding that there is no evidence state-run health care would result in long waiting lines and rationing of care. “If she keeps spending at this rate, it would be a big problem,” Sterling says. “It could just start scaring people. Maybe it doesn’t change their minds, but maybe it scares them.” What is known about Broughton’s family history comes mostly from U.S. Census records and other public

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the far north. As one elected Republican notes, come January, only three House Republicans will hail from south of “We pulled back because we didn’t Rutland. need to duplicate an effort that was alTurner, the House Republican leader, ready going on,” she says. “We just shifted blames retirements and recruiting those resources.” struggles. The caucus lost 10 incumbents, But not everyone is thrilled that Brooks including rising stars such as the 38-yearand Broughton have crashed the party — old Rep. Howard and the 36-year-old Rep. least of all Lindley. Oliver Olsen of Jamaica. “I think [super PACs] are specifically “We were hoping to have more candidesigned to run parties out of business,” dates, but at the end of the day, we have 75 he says. “PACs are a function of individupeople running. I would say 65 are electals and whatever their particular bent in able,” Turner says. life is. Parties with volunteers are a broadThe minority leader says he feels “very based operation.” confident” about the chances of 30 of Skip Vallee, who served as a major those candidates, while another 10 to 12 fundraiser for former president George W. are “solid.” In a bit of a mixed blessing, he Bush and the Vermont Republican Party, says he’s communicated with five people agrees. “who chose to run as independents be“I think it is helpful for any entity that cause they didn’t think they had a viable is a political force to try to get maximum chance running as a Republican.” buy-in financially and otherwise from a He adds, “It’s very troubling to me to broad base of people,” says Vallee, a former have candidates feel that way. But it’s a ambassador to Slovakia. “To the extent reality.” that the political message is dominated by Howard, who believes the House will people who have congregated around the lose Republican seats this year, says he source of money, I think that’s bad for the understands the reluctance of candidates party.” to run under the GOP label. “Who wants to be recruited by a party that has some of this baggage?” he asks. Vermonters First’s unexpected avalanche “I know a ton of people who share my of ads could well make the difference values but don’t want to call themselves in the race for state treasurer, which is Republicans. How are being contested by you gonna get them to two little-known canrun as Republicans?” didates running their House Democrats first statewide races. are also facing 10 retireBut in the hyper-local ments, but they have recontests that will decruited 111 candidates. termine control of The ace in their hole, the legislature, what says Smith, is Vermont counts is candidate Democratic House recruiting, community Campaign director Nick engagement and door Charyk, who works knocking. year-round to support “If I was going to incumbent Democrats bet on a ground game with constituent correversus an air war, I spondence, recruit new would always bet on StAtE RE p. ADAm HowARD prospects and provide a ground game,” says candidates with onHouse Speaker Shap the-ground support. House Republicans, Smith (D-Morrisville), who leads a caucus meanwhile, have no paid staff. of 94 Democrats. Still, Charyk speaks cautiously of his Despite the air support from candidates’ chances, noting that in 2010, Vermonters First, observers on both sides nine Democratic House candidates won of the aisle believe Republicans could dip by fewer than 100 votes — and two of them below the paltry 48 House seats they cur- won by a single vote. rently control. The Vermont Progressive Party, In the Senate, where Republicans hold meanwhile, is squarely focused on just seven of 30 seats, they are bullish on building its numbers in the legislature their prospects in Franklin County but — particularly in the House. Like the could fight to a draw for the four seats Democrats, they count on a full-time spread across the Northeast Kingdom staffer, the party’s executive director counties of Essex, Orleans and Caledonia. Morgan Daybell, to provide support to “I don’t think there will be a sea change, their candidates. but we’re hopeful we’ll pick up one seat,” The Progs’ numbers are small — four says Mullin, the Rutland senator. of five incumbent House members are More and more, the Vermont GOP running for another term — but the party has retrenched to regional pockets of support — mostly in Rutland County and

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I think it’s a reality that the state has moved very definitely to the left.

is eyeing seven pickup opportunities in Burlington’s Old North End, Franklin County, Lowell and elsewhere. On the Senate side, 12-year Progressive House veteran David Zuckerman won a slot on the Democratic slate in Chittenden County’s crowded, six-member district. If elected, he would join fellow Progressive/ Democratic hybrids Tim Ashe (D/PChittenden) and Anthony Pollina (P/DWashington) in the upper chamber. “Our numbers are getting close to the Republicans in the Senate,” says state Rep. Chris Pearson (P-Burlington), with a hint of exaggeration. “If we could take over the Republicans as the opposition party, boy, would that be a fascinating political discussion.”

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party’s future success hinges upon presenting itself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. “I think the party needs to be much more inclusive and needs to present a more moderate view on the social issues,” Olsen echoes. “It needs to put a renewed focus

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This isn’t the first time Republicans’ electoral prospects have looked dim. In his political memoir, Dateline Vermont, Graff recounts a speech he gave in 2001, not long after then-governor Howard Dean cruised to reelection over conservative Republican Ruth Dwyer. Asked by an audience member if he could think of a single Vermont Republican who could take the governorship, Graff said he could not. The party had so marginalized itself following fierce fights over Act 60 and civil unions, Graff writes, “that I thought years would pass before the party regained credibility with the broad middle that decides elections.” Minutes after Graff returned to his office, Douglas called to razz him about the comment. Two years later, Douglas took back the governorship. Vermont’s political pendulum tends to swing in both directions. Since 1961, every new governor has hailed from a different party than the one before. If Shumlin sets his sights on higher office or loses his luster after a few terms, a restive electorate might be ready for a Republican alternative. “When there’s an open seat, Republicans and Democrats will fight to the finish,” Graff notes. The question, however, is whether the traditional calculus has shifted as Vermont has steadily grown more liberal — and the national Republican Party has grown stridently conservative. Olsen suggests “the biggest impediment” to the state party’s chances is negative perceptions of the national GOP. “I think it’s a reality that the state has moved very definitely to the left,” says Neale Lunderville, who served as administration secretary and transportation secretary in the Douglas administration. “The party has to evolve with the times. We can’t be the party of the 1980s and 1990s.” Like many younger Vermont Republicans, Lunderville believes that the

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into its greatest asset: its ability to challenge the fiscal policies and fiscal direction in which the majority party is going.” Howard, who says all of his friends are Democrats, believes for the party to succeed “it must embrace the libertarian component of the party.”

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He and other moderates see Scott and Illuzzi as the kind of low-key, bipartisan Republicans who can still succeed in Vermont. In the Senate, Scott voted in favor of gay marriage and calls himself pro-choice, with certain exceptions. Illuzzi, meanwhile, staked out a role in the Senate as a champion of the working class and has received backing from all but one major labor union in his race for auditor. “The Republican brand is in large part identified by the action in Washington,” says Illuzzi, who briefly flirted with running as an independent. “And I, in particular, reel at some of the comments that are made. You know the 47 percent comment? I represent the 47 percent.” To illustrate his differences with the national party, Illuzzi tweeted last month that he hails from the party of “Aiken, not Akin,” distinguishing monopoly-busting former Vermont governor George Aiken from Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin of “legitimate rape” fame. Of course, not everybody feels that the Republican Party should move to the left — particularly within the activist ranks of the state party apparatus. Rev. Craig Benson, an outspoken anti-gay-marriage activist who chaired the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention this year, calls the idea that Republicans should hew to the center “a whiny argument.” “We’re seeing something that’s been a historic shift over 40 years, but I think the shift has been pushed too far by Democrats and Progressives, and that will cause a fissure,” he says. “I think we have an opportunity to pick folks up. We just have to run good candidates.” While Mullin believes Republicans must run better, smarter campaigns, he does not think the party should mimic the Democrats. “I think we have to stand up and start defending why we are Republicans and stop Democrats from co-opting it and making it sound like it’s a bad thing,” he says. “How does that help if you just become them?” As time goes on, Mullin contends, Democrats will have to answer for the decisions they make as Montpelier’s party in power. “Certainly the Democrats can’t blame it on Jim Douglas or George Bush. They own it,” he says. “I think it’s going to be a pendulum swing, because I don’t think you can continue down the path of promising everything to everyone. At some point you have to deliver. And you can’t deliver everything. The day of reckoning is going to come.” m

Who Is Lenore Broughton? « p.30 a right-wing political zealot, because she isn’t. She just believes that, in Montpelier, it’s been very hard to get the other side heard.” On a personal level, Stokes says that while Broughton is “quite a wealthy woman,” she doesn’t live a lavish lifestyle. “She uses her money for what she believes are good things,” Stokes says. Whether — and how much — Broughton has given to other charities is not known. But the money she has pumped into politics has been behind the scenes and, apparently, without too many strings attached. “She’d talk to candidates and give them her point of view, but you weren’t going to see her showing up at strategy meetings,” says Paul Beaudry, a former host of “True North Radio” and a 2010 GOP congressional candidate. According to a recent analysis by VTDigger.org, Broughton has directly donated $68,250 to national Republicans in this election cycle alone, making her the sixth-largest donor — of any party — in Vermont. Among the recipients of Broughton’s largesse are hard-right Republican candidates such as Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Murdock, the Indiana Tea Party favorite who knocked off longtime Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary this year. She has also donated at least $8500 to the Vermont Right to

Life Committee in the past decade, according to Federal Election Commission records. Broughton founded True North Radio a decade ago and recruited Laurie Morrow, an English professor from Montpelier, to be one of the program’s first hosts. “Lenore wanted to get a conservative female voice out there because there weren’t any,” recalls Morrow, a self-described “notorious conservative.” “She gave me complete creative control. I told her later how grateful I was. And she said, ‘Laurie, I just believe in you.’” Some of the people closest to Broughton wouldn’t comment for this story. Tayt Brooks, the longtime GOP operative who is running her super PAC, did not return numerous phone calls seeking comment about Broughton. Nor did Rob Roper, who is news director of True North Reports and has served on numerous boards with Broughton. Ditto Wendy Wilton, the state treasurer candidate who also knows Broughton and has been a beneficiary of her super-PAC ads. Democrats, meanwhile, have been eager to fill in the blanks and portray Broughton as a radical, right-wing “millionaire” funding dubious ads. Dems pounced last week when Vermonters First ran afoul of an obscure state law banning use of the state seal in advertising. At least temporarily, it put a stop to commercials supporting Wilton and state auditor candidate Vince Illuzzi. Despite her aversion to publicity, Broughton serves on at least one public board — Burlington Telecom’s Cable Advisory Council. She was appointed in January 2011 and has attended six of eight meetings in the past year

and a half, according to BT general manager Stephen Barraclough. Broughton opposed BT’s inclusion of Al Jazeera English in its cable TV lineup years ago, a cause taken up by a group she funded called the Defenders Council of Vermont. Broughton was treasurer of the nonprofit group from 2007 to 2009, during which time it received $150,300 in funds, according to public tax filings. According to its website, the Defenders Council of Vermont was formed to “educate the citizens of Vermont about the nature, reality and threat of Islamic Jihadism.” The website says the group would host “living room events,” in which a DCV representative would meet with concerned citizens in their homes or public spaces to discuss “the threats America faces from radical Islam and the explosive nature of Islamic Jihad.” But after two years, the group fizzled. “We didn’t have an Islamic incident in Vermont, except for that Burlington Telecom, Al Jazeera controversy,” says McClaughry, who served on the nonprofit’s board. “We didn’t really have something where radical Islamists were trying to slip stuff into the school system or anything where we might have raised a protest.” Broughton and her allies lost the Al Jazeera fight, but today have apparently taken up a new one. BT’s Barraclough says the Cable Advisory Council wants to remove Free Speech TV — a left-leaning network that broadcasts shows such as “Democracy Now!” — from Burlington Telecom’s lineup. “That’s simply not going to happen,” he says. m

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Lawn Spawn Critiquing the candidates' campaign signs B Y T Y L ER M A C HA D O

Bill Sorrell, incumbent candidate for attorney general (D)

Jack McMullen, candidate for attorney general (R) Diane Sullivan: I don’t like a serif font like that, all capitals. It just looks so ... argh. Celia Hazard: That’s not good. It’s too airy; it almost becomes like you lose the actual wording.

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DS: It just looks like a bunch of letters floating around. Is it the leading? Or the kerning. I don’t know, it’s all weird.

CH: I like the Sorrell font, that’s kinda nice. Like an old Western. The one thing I don’t like is that shooting star. DS: The star is so graphic-y, and then the shooting thing is like a smudge? CH: Everything else is super clean, and then that. You can tell that’s not a good stroke. DS: I do like the light blue over the blue. That’s kinda nice. If the shooting star looked different, maybe if it was a little cleaner, it would be better. Now it throws it off.

Bernie Sanders, incumbent candidate for U.S. Senate (I) Kit Andrews, candidate for state representative (P) Gene Bergman, candidate for state representative (P) David Zuckerman, candidate for state senator, Chittenden County (P/D) [Note: We loved seeing these three Progressives’ signs, plus “Prog-father” Sanders, displayed next to each other. Who knew Trebuchet was the official Progressive font?] DS: The little moose is cute. CH: See, I don’t really like the moose. It’s nice to see different shapes in there, but I feel like if you’re driving by, you’re not going to necessarily know it’s a moose. CH: The font that they chose for Bernie ... that’s nice. DS: It’s nice and friendly. I also like the formatting of “for U.S. Senate,” so it’s like “for us” and “for U.S. Senate.”

olitical candidates can invest in television ads, email newsletters and hyper-targeted Facebook ads. But despite all the high-tech options available to modern campaigns, those old-fashioned lawn signs persist. Love ’em or hate ’em, these miniature billboards populate the Vermont landscape for weeks or even months every year, so the least the campaigns could do is come up with good-looking signs. We asked two of our graphic designers extraordinaire, Celia Hazard and Rev. Diane Sullivan, to critique the good, the bad and the ugly of 2012’s crop of lawn signs. To pick your own favorite, vote in the poll at sevendaysvt.com.

Peter Shumlin, incumbent candidate for governor (D) CH: The Shumlin font I like. DS: I like the “Peter Shumlin” font but the “for governor” font is throwing me off. A nice, cute, fat font, and then all of a sudden you’re going to a wedding. CH: The swoop is just weird. It makes weird shapes. DS: He should just never do anything except for a big nose and then call it a day. “The nose knows: Shumlin for governor.”

Randy Brock, candidate for governor (R)

Cassandra Gekas,

DS: See, now that’s good lookin’.

candidate for lieutenant governor (P/D)

CH: I think that’s probably my favorite one. Those lines, the little Vermont in there...

DS: I’m not keen on the mix of fonts.

DS: I like the big, fat name, and then the “governor” is not too skinny, not too fat, nicely spaced. He gets a check-plus.

CH: Yeah, I don’t know about all the fonts. From big and bold to thin and serif...

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DS: If I were her, I’d make a joke about Mama Cass. Vote Mama Cass!

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Dare to Be Stupid An unapologetic fanboy interviews Weird Al B y D an Bo lles

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get funny looks when I talk about “Weird Al” Yankovic. That’ll happen when you mention that he performed the greatest live concert you’ve ever seen. (About 10 years ago at the State Theater in Portland, Maine.) Uncertain amusement will morph to slack-jawed comprehension. Is he joking? Wow, he’s not joking. That’s usually followed by some variation of this sentence: “You do what for a living again?” It has never been “cool” to be a fan of Weird Al. His music has long been the province of freaks and geeks, dateless wonders who spend Saturday nights watching “Star Trek” marathons or embroiled in epic games of Dungeons & Dragons. It is decidedly not the type of thing a Serious Music Fan, let alone a professional music journalist, should enjoy or, God forbid, respect. To which I submit: Screw that. With a career spanning more than three decades, Yankovic is perhaps the greatest pop-culture satirist of his generation. He has long outlasted most of the artists he’s parodied. In many cases — “Amish Paradise” comes to mind — his parodies are more enduring than the originals — and they’re usually more clever. And then there are the polka medleys. Oh, the polka medleys! Where were we? Oh right. Weird Al rules. In advance of his performance at the Flynn MainStage this Saturday, October 20, Seven Days geeked out on, er, spoke with “Weird Al” Yankovic by phone. It was totally awesome.

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SEVEN DAYS: This is wildly unprofessional, but before we start I just wanted to say that you were a huge influence on my developing sense of humor as a kid. I’m a big, big fan. “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC: Oh, no kidding. That’s very flattering. SD: I think you were also the reason I didn’t date much in high school. AY: Yeah … I get that a lot. Sorry. SD: It’s OK! Anyway, some of my favorite Weird Al songs are your originals, the style parodies like “Melanie” or “Nature Trail to Hell.” How do you decide when to do a style parody versus a parody of a specific song? AY: Well, the straight parodies have to be topical and timely, as does the subject matter. The style parodies, or pastiches, there’s no rhyme or reason to those. If I’m doing an homage to a band, it’s usually a band that I like or find interesting. So I listen to their body of work and try to figure them out. I figure out some of the idiosyncrasies that make them who they are and then write a song in their style, but just a little more demented and warped. SD: It’s a legal gray area, but you don’t really need permission from artists to parody their songs. Yet you always ask, and cede to their wishes if they decline. Why is that important to you? AY: I think that’s one of the reasons I’ve been able to hang around as long as I have. I want to make sure

the artists are on board. I don’t want to step on toes. I want satisfied customers, as it were. I really don’t like drama. And I want the artists to be in on the joke and appreciate what I’ve done. So if they just flat-out don’t like parody, or think I’m desecrating their work, I don’t want to do it. Also, it helps with figuring out the credits and royalties and that stuff. But mainly I don’t want to burn any bridges.

SD: Lady Gaga’s management said you couldn’t do “Perform This Way,” but they never actually ran it by her. When she did hear it, she loved it and gave her blessing. That had to be flattering. AY: Absolutely. I’m thrilled that she liked the song. I read an interview she did in Rolling Stone where she said she thought it was empowering. It was great to hear.

SD: I bet. Has there ever been a pop song more tailor-made for a polka medley than “Poker Face”? AY: Nope. Probably not. In fact it was so obvious, part of me didn’t want to do it. As soon as that song came out, everybody on social media was saying, “You gotta do ‘Poker Face.’” I was like, “Yeah, I know.” By the time the thousandth person suggested it, I was like, “I’m not doing this.” Then after the millionth person, I figured I should probably just give them what they want.

EvEry agE of pop culturE is a goldEn agE. There is always someThing ridiculous To make fun of.

AY: Well, now I don’t know. He’s still active and popular, but he hasn’t had any mainstream hits for a while. The songs I really wanted to do were his hits in the ’80s, and there were a number of them that would have been good fodder for parody. In fact, in (the film) UHF, instead of the Dire Straits parody, the centerpiece was originally going to be a Prince parody. But he said “no” and we haven’t really approached him since. I’d like to think his sense of humor has improved since then, but I couldn’t tell you from experience. SD: The michael Jackson parodies were huge for you early in your career, but you’ve only done two. Did there come a point when it just didn’t seem appropriate to parody him? AY: It had less to do with his personal life and more that I had already done parodies of him. I felt like I needed to spread the love around, I guess.

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SD: What’s the most surprising reaction from an artist to a parody? AY: Well, I’ve heard a couple of times that Nirvana said they didn’t realize they had made it until they heard the Weird Al parody. That was pretty awesome. SD: You’ve tried to do Prince a number of times and he’s always balked. If you were going to parody one of his songs, which one would you do?

SD: Are there songs that are off limits, songs you feel are just inappropriate to touch? AY: As a satirist, the answer to that should be “no.” But in all honesty, there are certain lines I won’t cross. And good taste and common sense enter into that. I mean, I don’t think anyone wants to hear a “Tears in Heaven” parody. SD: Yeah … probably not. Switching gears, pop culture seems to be increasingly absurd and disposable. Does that make this a golden age for a pop-culture satirist? AY: Every age of pop culture is a golden age. There is always something ridiculous to make fun of. I don’t

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participants in Operation Puma. The weekend-long military simulation, or MilSim, is being conducted by the Green Mountain Studies and Observation Group, or GMSOG. In Charlotte, a town better known for its apple orchards and luxury homes, GMSOG (pronounced “GM Sog”) offers 130 acres of diverse terrain for staging mock firefights, historic battle reenact-

founder Derek Chace. The 28-year-old former airline pilot and Air National Guardsman served in Iraq in 2006. Chace, who now has a 9-to-5 gig selling vintage Land Rovers, organizes airsoft operations, or “ops,” as a recreational pastime. “It’s just a hobby. I do it for the kids,” he says. “They build a lot of friendships here that they wouldn’t have otherwise.” Though often compared to paintball,

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airsoft tries to emulate actual warfare — without all that messy business of traumatized civilians, mass devastation, PTSD and debilitating injuries. While paintball is still more popular, airsoft is rapidly gaining followers. One reason, Chace suggests, is that it’s more eco-friendly. The BBs biodegrade quickly once exposed to water and leave behind no trace. GMSOG needs to be a clean inand-out operation; it’s prohibited from erecting permanent structures on its property, leased from a local farmer. Evidently,

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ments and other role-playing games, complete with authentic military vehicles, aircraft and weaponry. And yes, they’re fully insured. Begun four years ago, GMSOG bills itself as the “premier airsoft field in New England.” Airsoft, a live-action shooting game, uses replica weapons that fire biodegradable plastic BBs with compressed gas, such as CO2 cartridges. Is this the latest incarnation of paintball, only with bigger budgets and more badass toys? Not quite, says GMSOG

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t’s 0920 — 9:20 a.m. to civilians — on a recent Saturday as a light rain falls on a muddy Charlotte pasture. Several dozen “soldiers” who bivouacked here overnight are breaking camp and moving out. Clad in full battle dress — combat boots, fatigues, helmets, goggles and tactical vests — many don’t look old enough to drive, let alone carry assault rifles. Fighting acne seems more like it. “Safety briefing, 10 minutes!” someone shouts from a nearby staging area, an open-sided tent erected beside a vintage 1966 field ambulance and cook trailer. The morning’s stillness is disturbed by the growl of an arriving military transport and occasional bursts of automatic gunfire. Combat hasn’t officially begun yet, but already some of the boys are firing their weapons — testing their range or venting nervous energy. In about an hour, I will become “embedded” with some of these soldiers, who will stalk their enemy, draw fire and take casualties. The operation pits the 1990s Serbian Army against NATO forces pushing into Kosovo. A war-games exercise for the Vermont National Guard? A military-tactics lesson for Norwich University cadets? Neither. It’s all just fun and games for the 140

zoning officials don’t object to low-flying helicopters strafing teenagers with M60 machine guns. For Operation Puma, Chace has arranged for me to tag along with a Serb unit. While I wait, I meet Seth, 46, and his son, Ian, 15, from Braintree. Both wear German Flecktarn, or spotted camouflage, designating them as Serbs. Like all players, the father and son brought their own weapons. Theirs are marksman rifles modified for increased range and accuracy. Though many players prefer machine guns, Seth and Ian are snipers. How does it feel getting tagged by an airsoft BB? Like a bee sting, says Ian, who participated in an earlier GMSOG op. “You either hear it or feel it,” his dad says. “Mostly feel it.” At 0930, NATO and Serb troops assemble, loaded for bear. To an untrained eye, many are indistinguishable from actual military. One player is dressed head to toe in a ghillie suit, looking like a dyed-green sheepdog. I hope he checks himself later for ticks. Chace, aka Tiger — during ops, players use a radio handle — is decked out in full camo gear. He’ll command NATO, while Alex Caldwell, aka Otter, will lead the Serbs. Chace climbs atop the ambulance and reviews the rules of engagement: Everyone must wear full-seal goggles. No shooting at wildlife, livestock, trucks, helicopters or reporters. I breathe a sigh of relief. Also, GMSOG has a no-surrender rule, which means everyone shoots to kill. There’s no minimum engagement distance, but Chace asks players to switch their guns to semi-automatic whenever they’re within 10 feet of an enemy. “Try to keep it civil,” he says. “You wouldn’t want to get shot in the face at 5 feet in full auto.” When a player gets hit, he or she must display a red rag and leave the game for 10 minutes. A wounded soldier may only return after being touched by a teammate for one minute. If the player “bleeds out” — i.e., is not rescued within 10 minutes — the “dead” soldier must return to a designated area and wait there for another 10 minutes. This simulates actual battlefield losses. “You don’t have to count it out. We all know what 10 minutes feels like,” Chace says. “It’s like one ‘Call of Duty’ match.”

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Patriot Games « p.39 The players laugh at his computer-game reference. I’m struck by how close many of these guys — and nearly all are male — are to enlistment age. That’s a change from years ago, remarks GMSOG staffer Jonathan Quiet, aka Outlaw, when airsoft enthusiasts were mostly guys in their thirties, forties and older. The cost of airsoft equipment has dropped considerably, he says, making the sport more accessible to its prime demographic. Most participants can get into it for $300, though Outlaw says, “I’ve seen guys quickly cross the $5000 mark.” I wonder aloud how many of them will actually join the military. (If anything, Chace claims, he talks more kids out of enlisting.) “Actually, we had a military recruiter at our last event,” Quiet says. “I don’t think he did much business.” Once the briefing is over, the players give Chace a cheer for organizing the event. “OK,” he says, waving them off. “Now, let’s go shoot people.”

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1010. I’m in an ’86 troop transport riding shotgun, which is ironic, given that I’m the only one in the truck without a gun. The bed is packed with Serbs, many of whom belong to a Vermont airsoft team called Death Jesters. (Other players have come from as far away as Maine and Connecticut.) Amped, they begin a Marine-like chant: “Whose house? OUR HOUSE! Whose house? OUR HOUSE!” I ask the boys their strategy for the day. “Shoot to kill!” someone yells, and they all laugh. We rumble through a metal gate, past a herd of cows, across a meadow, then down a steep ravine. We disembark along a swollen river and set off on foot, hiking across a creek and up a steep, wooded hillside until we reach a small, camouflaged outpost called Bill Hill. Our team leader is Angus Gates, aka Stag. The 27-year-old GMSOG staffer briefs us on our mission: Capture a downed NATO pilot before he gets rescued. “Now, let’s see if we can accomplish our objective before lunch.” While waiting for the game to start, I chew the fat with several guys in the unit. One is a jeweler in Middlebury; another works retail in a mall. They jaw on about rifle modifications, past ops and sandwiches left behind in the car. I hear stories about a legendary airsoft team from across the lake called the Adirondack Rangers: highly disciplined former military troops (rumor has it) who have tons of cool paramilitary hardware, including night-vision goggles. “Not the cheap ones,” emphasizes one Death Jester. “The $5000 kind!” Several guys mention Operation Blacksheep, a massive, 21-hour MilSim

kill-fest that’s held annually at the 10th Mountain Division’s urban-warfare training facility at Fort Drum, N.Y. I’m told that players show up with all sorts of neat toys like “tornado grenades,” which spin around and shoot 170 BBs simultaneously “for room clearing.” Talk about fun for the whole family. I ask the guys whether they think they’ll get killed today. “Dude, if you go through a game and don’t get hit, you didn’t do much fighting,” says Kelsey Dobson, aka Wolf. Airsoft got its start in the 1970s in pacifist Japan, where private firearm ownership was, and still is, illegal. At first, it was a way for Japanese gun geeks to collect authentic-looking weapons. By the early 1980s, airsoft enthusiasts were modifying their guns to shoot plastic pellets, first at targets, then at each other. By the 1990s, the sport had spread to the United States, mostly via military personnel. At 1100 hours, a squawk on Stag’s radio informs us that Operation Puma has begun, which coincides perfectly with increasing rainfall. We move out, hiking downhill and back across the creek. Within minutes, I can’t see anything through my goggles and am tripping over logs. Call it the fog of war. Ducking behind trees and scanning the battlefield with his M-16, Wolf takes the lead. He signals us to move ahead with a silent wave, or halts us with a raised fist. Wolf is a high school senior whose biggest responsibility to date was working as a seasonal lifeguard in Vergennes — “Dude, you would not believe the shit that goes down at the diving board!” he declares. He has joined the Marines and ships out next August. Up ahead, we hear several bursts of gunfire, followed by indecipherable shouting. Wolf and teammates Hunter Myers (Specs) and Quintin Lewis (QuiGon) advance, while I stumble behind, wary of removing my goggles and losing an eye to an errant BB. At a meadow’s edge, Wolf returns with a Serb I don’t recognize with a red bandana on his head — our first casualty. Apparently, he surprised a NATO soldier and got shot at point-blank range. He acts surprisingly calm. Suddenly, my three comrades pivot to the right. We’re drawing fire from downhill. Flanked! Several quick bursts of BBs whiz by, followed by single shots. Two nearby soldiers get tagged. From below, I hear a plaintive wail — “Medic!” — followed by more gunfire. Another Serb runs back and reports a “big gun” up ahead in a bunker. A machine gun thunders, and my unit retreats, leaving me alone. Despite my orange vest and the rule about not shooting journalists, I’m not about to test NATO’s adherence to the Geneva Conventions. I haul ass back to Bill Hill. 1150. Hiking through the woods, I

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“Lunch!” Several dozen soldiers, friends and foes, emerge from the trees. We hike together back to the staging area. There, Chace’s wife, Catherine, stands at a British cook trailer and dishes out her famous truffle burgers and cocoa to the boys. (During the week, she sells software.) I ask her if she ever gets into the game itself. “No!” she says, with an incredulous look. “I don’t want to get shot!” I notice more than a few arms and asses covered in mud — battle wounds caused by running too fast down slippery hillsides. And, as I reflect on how to report on the morning’s firefights, I already suspect that some readers will instantly condemn airsoft itself as a different kind of slippery slope: a pastime that simultaneously glorifies and sanitizes war, even as it co-opts the name of a notoriously ugly conflict. Granted, there’s been nary a mention this morning of ethnic cleansing, forced expulsions, mass executions or any of the countless other human-rights abuses that marked the real Kosovo. But that’s not the point. This conflict is about boys playing army, not a history lesson. It’s as detached from actual warfare as “Grand Theft Auto” is from a driver’s ed class. Notwithstanding my own aversion to war and to America’s military-industrial complex, I know I would have eaten up this shit as a kid — and been bummed that the helicopter got rained out. Still, by lunch I need to ship out. My own allied commander, aka my wife, has requested I redeploy to the Williston box stores on a resupply mission. m

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chance upon Ian, the 15-year-old I met earlier. Unlike some soldiers, he uses ammo judiciously. I watch as he patiently lines up a shot, then squeezes the trigger. Somewhere in the distance I hear a faint “Hit!” Ian fires a second round. “Ow!” someone yells. In all, Ian racks up eight kills. With sniper cover, our unit advances another 30 or 40 yards. For the first time all morning, we’re gaining real estate. As we pass enemy wounded, a NATO casualty complains that the Serbs aren’t “playing dead” for long enough. Hey, complain to the Red Cross, I think. I check in with Stag for a big-picture update. Evidently, the Serbs failed to find the downed pilot. However, we overran NATO’s river bunkers and forced their retreat. “So it’s very even right now,” he says. “NATO has a slight edge on us. However, the battle has turned. We’re now a real thorn in their side.” 1255. Shortly before lunch, Stag says, is when hostilities often spike — not unlike in real wars, when combatants try to gain the upper hand just before a ceasefire. Nearby, someone yells, “Five minutes!” Stag gets word via radio that the “friendlies” we were expecting as reinforcement got decimated. He decides to send four soldiers uphill to take out a NATO post. “Go! Go! Go!” he yells. I ask if it’s a suicide mission, sending inexperienced players to storm the hill. “Yeah, probably,” he says dismissively. The advancing soldiers instantly draw fire. BBs whiz by as I duck behind a tree. One hits my poncho but not skin. Am I dead? Suddenly, a collective cry goes up:

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here’s nothing like a stroll through the park. It’s refreshing to catch a whiff of the grass, feel the breeze in your hair, hear the birds chirp. But, admit it: Sometimes people get in the way. Though we may step into the park to enjoy nature, we can’t seem to get away from others. People are everywhere. Wolcott poet David Budbill is well acquainted with these people of the park. They form the cast of his new book Park Songs, a hybrid poem-play. The book is a series of short vignettes — generally snippets of dialogue, with occasional monologues, blues songs or longer conversations — that all take place during a single day in a “small green space surrounded by a great gray city.” This green space is managed by Mr. C, a “would-be poet, keeper, attendant and guardian of the Park,” and shared by the homeless and various passers-through, both named and unnamed. If that cast sounds fluid, open-ended and difficult to pin down, that’s because it is — as is the work itself. People come and go as they would in an actual park, and reading Park Songs is somewhat akin to sitting on a bench, watching it all happen. There is no overarching drama to speak of, save for the accumulating tension of worlds approaching each other and sometimes colliding. There is no clear main character (although we spend more time with some than others). In fact, even “character” seems the wrong word, as the players more often function simply as voices in a collective song, distinguished only by line breaks and alternating fonts. This hard-to-define quality is, of course, typical of a genre-bending work, and Budbill’s experimentation shouldn’t necessarily be mistaken for messiness. Park Songs resembles a play in its theatricality (and in the author’s stated desire to have it read by a cast), while it resembles a book of poems in being a series of strungtogether moments more than a sequence of scenes. But these are just semantics; perhaps “song” indeed captures the genre best. In the afterword, Budbill encourages theater companies to do what they will with this “raw material.” The idea of using a park as a natural stage of sorts is intriguing, even if, in the process, the work takes on a form difficult to recognize as drama. It all happens with a kind of ultra-American twist on Beckettian terseness. The vignettes rarely

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last longer than two or three short pages, with one exception — “Let’s Talk” — which Budbill says in the afterword could work as a one-act play. And the dialogue of many (though not all) voices in Park Songs is full of idiomatic vernacular and candid, imperfect syntax, which contribute to a down-to-earth plainspokenness. These seem like people we can connect with, and it’s refreshing (as Budbill’s work generally is) to be offered regular ol’ simple beauty in place of incomprehensible, postmodern mumbo-jumbo, which contemporary poetry can so frequently be. Yet, when the park people speak of their personal lives, their utterances often feel too forward and abrupt to elicit any emotion in the reader. People come and go in the park, and when they sit down to chat, their conversations move too rapidly

in the direction of emotional divulgence. Even when we assume there is a backstory to justify their melodrama, we are caught off guard by their succinct, unhesitating confessions. Take, for example, the vignette in which Jeanie, a young waitress, and Sue, a mother, sit down together. Apparently, the meeting was prearranged, because Jeanie apologizes for being late. Sue asks, “Anyway, what’s new with you?” Jeanie replies, “Ah, I don’t know. Nothing. That’s the trouble. Nothing’s ever new. I’m 27 years old and I feel like my life is over.” She goes on to explain that she feels stuck at her diner job, and resents having to live with her mother. “Is this all there is, Suzie?” Sue responds: “I’m sorry, Jeanie. Look at it this way if you want: at least you got

a Mom. My mother died when I was 19 … I had so many things I wanted to talk to her about, things about my childhood, questions to ask her…” She explains that she wishes she had asked her mom if she’d ever had an affair, just to know. Then, abruptly, Sue says, “I got to get back to work.” This ultraconfessional style is barely tolerable in first-person verse; in dialogue it sounds forced and abnormal. The work sounds a disingenuous note again in passages where some of the park people wax self-consciously (and defensively) literary. On the more tolerable, though still tedious, end is Mr. C. A failed poet, he not only shares some of his compositions with us, but verbosely curses the literary elites in several freewheeling monologues: “If I choose to speak in an archaic tone; salubrious and beautiful, cadenced and melodious, I can! Which is to say: I actually, premeditatedly, deliberately and consciously speak in this harsher tongue…” We forgive Mr. C’s mistaking GRE word lists for eloquence because he is, after all, a “would-be poet.” Harder to stomach are his selfcongratulatory spiritual indulgences à la the drunken father in Nick Flynn’s memoirs, or his laundry lists of clever curse words. But, amid all his nonsense, Mr. C is a tragically funny voice, insofar as it’s funny to watch a failed poet justify his failure with false pride. On the less forgivable end, as shoehorned-in literary language goes, are parts of the awkward dialogue in “Let’s Talk.” Fred, who, according to his character description, “fancies himself a ladies man,” tries to strike up a conversation with Nancy, an overthinking mother and partner to Judy. Fred says he’s lonely, and Nancy declines to continue the conversation. He asks why, and she proceeds to talk his ear off explaining that when she talks with people, she always ends up playing the listener.

It’s a funny idea, but occasionally Nancy lapses into a strange, misplaced verbal self-consciousness that takes away more than it gives to the scene. Take, for example, the moment when, after several paragraphs of passionate confession, she corrects a prepositional ending. Or worse, when she compliments Fred’s “sensitive” wordplay in tedious detail: Yes. Loony. Lonely. The near rhyme. The subtle similarity in sound yet also the difference between the diphthong oo in loony and the long o in lonely. oo/o. And the same subtle similarity yet difference between the long e sound in loony and the ly in lonely. ee/ly.

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ot only do these writerly interruptions detract from the park’s authenticity, but they place the work more on par with that very self-conscious, postmodern tedium from which, in Budbill’s previous work, readers were so relieved to break. Perhaps it is no surprise that Budbill himself admits, in a speech quoted on his website, to being “suspended between the working class, peasant world of [his] birth” and the “elite world of the arts.” Park Songs strives toward encompassing both, but most of the time it falls flat in its attempts at impromptu, poetic sincerity and gauche high diction. As a poem, it could use less confession, and as a play, it could use more genuine character development. Budbill is at heart a nature guy. When he moves from his own backyard to a city park, people get in the way, and he loses his hallmark simplicity and attention to detail. As walks in the park go, this one is not so refreshing. m

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results less compelling. Gertrude (Tracey Girdich) doesn’t earn Hamlet’s revulsion or contempt. Paul Molnar gives Claudius a cheerful, levelheaded quality — he seems to wonder if Hamlet is simply missing the point of court life. Probst finds nuance in the soliloquies and appears to relish the great challenge of Hamlet’s inconstancy. The feigned madness never runs the risk of carrying him off; he always retains control, the better to showcase animosity over sorrow. Probst also seeks the romantic in the role, looking for the points where Hamlet can glow with the heat of his own pain. Hamlet is too long a play to stage intact: The full play can run five hours. Besides making the cuts that polish the gem, Bent has pared the cast judiciously so that eight actors can play all the roles.

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Shakespeare’s soliloquies are not just windows into Hamlet’s thoughts but glimpses into how the mind works. Caleb Probst has the vocal and physical intensity for this role, and he convincingly conveys Hamlet’s ability to distance himself from others with sarcasm. He lets an angry undercurrent bubble up, then chases it with irony, revealing his character’s pained detachment from the world. Probst is at his best when a scene allows him to connect with a fellow actor, as in his cruel and crazed jilting of Ophelia (Kate Kenney). Kenney staggers in confusion, then collapses in misery; their interplay requires each to push the other more and more fiercely, until Ophelia is left wounded and hollow. When Probst takes on other targets, the connection isn’t always there, making the

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very character, scene and line in Hamlet has been debated endlessly. In some ways the genius of the play is its protean quality — it will conform to any psychology, envelop any philosophy, reflect precisely what interests you most. In that sense, you owe it to yourself to see Hamlet whenever you can, for each staging brings something new to the surface. In Lost Nation Theater’s current production, the emphasis is on the revenge plot, with Hamlet’s anger overshadowing his anguish. Vigorous pacing brings out the energy in Shakespeare’s text, while solid acting reveals the poetry of the language. The play begins with the words, “Who’s there?” and from that tense query onward, the Danish court is embroiled in intrigue. Hamlet is still in mourning for his dead father, the king of Denmark, when his mother Gertrude swiftly remarries — to his uncle Claudius, no less. A ghost confirms Hamlet’s suspicions about his father’s untimely death at Claudius’ hand, and, with some reluctance, Hamlet accepts the duty of revenge. To observe Claudius and Gertrude closely, Hamlet feigns madness, and carries his act to the point of antagonizing his love interest, Ophelia. To test Claudius’ guilt, he engages a troupe of traveling actors to stage a play that reenacts the crime. All in all, Hamlet includes poisoning, stabbing, an offstage drowning, a skeleton unearthed and a climactic sword fight that spares almost no one. Hamlet is a play about choices, but it doesn’t just pose dilemmas; it invites the audience to plunge into each character’s interior life and feel the pain of choosing. A director has choices, too: Should Hamlet embody the energy of revenge or the torpor of depression? How mad is he? Should the director steer us toward conclusions or let us reach our own interpretations? At LNT, director Kim Bent forgoes the heavy hand. If he leans toward any pole, it’s that of emphasizing Hamlet over the supporting characters. This is an understandable bias, because whenever Hamlet isn’t talking, someone is talking about him. Hamlet presents a remarkable combination of tense plot and intellectual exploration. The play gives each major character a moment of introspection, whether it’s about the compromise struck with a guilty conscience, the nature of loyalty or the balance between parental and erotic love.

You won’t miss the lost courtiers heaved overboard, but you may have some trouble with a single pair of actors handling the roles of Laertes and Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of the traveling players, and pretty much any other character requiring a youthful countenance. Christopher Scheer and Eric William Love gamely tackle them all, but for all their enthusiasm, we are too conscious of the quick-change stunt. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are played for weak comedy; the play-within-a-play players vamp. But Love’s tender Horatio and Scheer’s strong Laertes do stand out as solid characters. Mark Roberts takes on the roles of the Ghost and Polonius, as well as assorted military and regal figures. More than quick change is necessary to pull that off, as Polonius must appear in the same scene in which Hamlet sees the ghost. Bent has a high-tech solution that I won’t reveal here, but it lacked the magic to dazzle this reviewer’s eyes. Roberts gave the ghost a rather petty urgency for revenge, without the necessary overtone of menace that spurs the philosophical Hamlet to bloody action. As Polonius, however, Roberts nicely avoids overdoing the character’s windbag tendencies. Robert Nuner ably handles seven roles, and is especially memorable as the Gravedigger. Bent designed the simple in-the-round set, and Donna Stafford painted the beautiful faux-stone floor. It’s not especially Elsinore-ish — there’s no sense of a castle’s cold, dark corridors — but it’s highly adaptable, and you look forward to the climactic sword fight from the moment you take your seat. When it comes, choreographed by Dan Renkin, the fighting does not disappoint. Renkin is good at building tension, and his repertoire of swordplay moves is impressive, including a few tussles with surprising outcomes. The swords blaze, but Renkin and Bent are always telling the story through the fighters, and Hamlet’s innocent pleasure in combat shifts to the dark realization that this battle has the highest stakes. Nancy Smith’s costumes are fine, especially Hamlet’s richly textured combination of black velvet against black fabric. Bent’s skillful use of space underscores his rhythmic sense for dramatic action, and Probst delivers a strong performance. Add this one to your collection of Hamlets. m

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Jarecki has always enjoyed tailoring new noodles to chefs’ specifications, he says. After several adjustments from both manufacturer and chef, the slightly sour-tasting noodles were ready to serve. They were such a success that, with Werneke’s blessing, VFP began selling its ramen to other clients. Crop Bistro & Brewery in Stowe and the Wooden

never expected to become the Green Mountains’ top pasta makers. Dedicated home cooks, they built Powderhounds Restaurant in the space that is now home to the Garlic. The couple and their nowgrown children lived in the building’s basement. The fresh fare they prepared included dishes with noodles from a local company called DiMartino’s Pasta. TOM MCNEILL

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ast fall, chef Michael Werneke was on the hunt for ramen — but not the loaves of dried noodles with flavor packets favored by college students. For his 2011 winter menu at the Rusty Nail Bar & Grille in Stowe, the cook planned to serve authentic Japanese noodle soups adapted from the recipe in David Chang’s Momofuku cookbook. He was surprised to find that none of his regular suppliers, including upscale specialty-foods giant Sid Wainer & Son, offered fresh ramen noodles. Sean Buchanan of Black River Produce recommended that Werneke contact Vermont Fresh Pasta, which sells both wholesale and retail. “I started talking to [co-owner] Tricia [Jarecki] about alkaline noodles,” Werneke remembers. “She said, ‘My husband is a chemist, so I think he’d be really into it.’” When the couple started Vermont Fresh Pasta in 1992, Ken Jarecki wasn’t just a former New York City chemist: He was a restaurateur. That combination of scientific know-how and culinary creativity has made VFP the state’s largest pasta manufacturer — and regional supplier to a national grocery chain. Today, 60 percent of VFP’s sales are retail to 40 percent bulk, so both home cooks and chefs appreciate its ever-changing roster of creative pastas and sauces. Werneke approached Ken Jarecki shortly after Tropical Storm Irene hit Proctorsville, washing the company’s delivery truck down the Black River. Making new pasta — a process that involved recreating the sodium carbonateand potassium carbonate-heavy water of China’s Lake Kanas — was a welcome distraction for the scientist and cook. But chemistry wasn’t the only appeal;

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Spoon Bistro in South Burlington have it on their menus, and the alkaline noodles have been a hit at institutions including Fletcher Allen Health Care, Williams College and St. Johnsbury Academy. “I’m a big open-source advocate,” says Werneke, who will soon leave the Rusty Nail (see this week’s Side Dishes), of sharing the recipe he helped create. “No one can compete with my broth, anyway.” When the Jareckis left New York City for Killington in 1986, they LISTEN IN ON LOCAL FOODIES...

When the small business closed, Jarecki and his then-business partner, David Bienstock, decided to take it over. At first, that meant producing pasta and sauces, including a popular Caesar dressing, for Powderhounds and its Killington neighbors. That is, until Whole Foods came calling. In the late 1990s, VFP became the northeast co-packer for the supermarket giant’s own pasta label. As the chain has grown, it has begun using larger factories to supply some of its stores, but the small

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Vermont company still makes and packages pasta for Whole Foods locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington and Wilson Farm in Lexington, Mass., also use VFP as their private-label pasta maker. Under its own name, VFP’s wares are sold at co-ops all over Vermont and New Hampshire and at other premium food purveyors, such as Shelburne Supermarket and the King Arthur Flour Baker’s Store. In the early years, the Jareckis used their basement home under Powderhounds as their factory. When they moved (they now live in Pittsfield), their bedroom became a walk-in cooler. Eight years ago, Black River Produce left Proctorsville for Springfield, allowing VFP to move into that much larger space. The company currently shares the expansive building with CMC Mushrooms, a fungus-growing business run by a pair of recent University of Vermont grads. When Seven Days visited the factory last Thursday, a team of 10 employees was coming to the end of a manufacturing cycle. Most of the ravioli had been pressed the day before and sent to restaurants via suppliers, including Black River Produce and Provisions International. Since losing its own truck, VFP has depended on other companies to get its pasta to clients. A pair of young women packed pasta sheets for retail, while another worker sent sheets of pumpkin-parsley fettuccine, the company’s monthly special, through a machine that looked and operated much like the automated version of a tabletop hand-cranked pasta maker. Across the factory floor, between one of two walk-ins and an industrial oven used for roasting ingredients, several USING THEIR NOODLES

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It wasn’t a good summer for Moana DIxon and her mother, ChEryl KahElEIlanI. On the night of Friday, August 3, a grease fire burned the pair’s Mexican take-out eatery in Johnson, hot taMalE Co., to the ground. The building was also their rental home. Now things are looking up. The duo has found a new location, and, if all goes well, hot taMalE Co. MExICatEssEn

will open in Morrisville in the first week of November. But not without some serious elbow grease. The

says, the 1000-square-foot space will have “a vintageindustrial cantina” look. Much of the wood is being reclaimed from area barns. A hybrid of full and counter-style service will help the pair save funds they need to “concentrate on local farms and keeping the food organic and local — not [on] all the bells and whistles,” Dixon says. The “Mexicatessen” in the name refers to the new restaurant’s retail section, where visitors will be able to buy frozen tamales, enchiladas and Kaheleilani’s famous salsas to take home.

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and JIM GolDsMIth, owners of the BluE in Stowe, have purchased their Mountain Road neighbor, the rusty naIl Bar & GrIllE. According to Kaufman, the deal has been years in the making. “Seven years ago we tried to buy it from [former owner] BoBBy [roBErts]. It just didn’t happen,” she explains. “We tried to buy it from [current owner] stan [swIErzEwsKI] three years ago, but he decided he was going to run it for a while. This was our third shot at it and [we] got it!” KIM KaufMan DonKEy

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Current Rusty Nail chef MIChaEl wErnEKE plans to move on and says he has received more than one offer that will allow him to continue to explore his porky pursuits. General manager KatE wIsE, who helped remake the nightspot into a respected gastropub, says she’s excited to take on the new role of bartender at prohIBItIon pIG in Waterbury. The current regime will end on October 27 with a Halloween party featuring local band Pleasure Dome. Kaufman says she expects to open the reimagined Nail on November 21, the night before Thanksgiving. “Our plan is [to] revive the Nail to what it used to be — more of a rocking place with good music, good food and a chill crowd,” Kaufman says. “There’ll be a lot of rock and roll and blues.” Blue Donkey food and beverage director KErMIt MElEnDEz will oversee the new restaurant as well, with current MattErhorn sushi chef MIChEllE fullEr heading the kitchen. Melendez, who calls the menu “unpretentious and exciting,” says Cajun and Creole influences will be prominent. Southern-style dishes on an early version of the menu include crawdads in diablo sauce, a fried-greentomato BLT and decidedly Memphis-style barbecue spareribs. Kaufman and Goldsmith also have plans to build a fine-dining steakhouse adjacent to the Blue Donkey, but Kaufman says they have postponed the groundbreaking on that project until next year. In the meantime, their plates are sure to be full.

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employees prepared dozens of boxes of jewel-green fresh basil for the next day’s pesto-sauce-making session. Nearby, Ken Jarecki stood alone at the 4-foot-tall Rosito Bisani pasta extruder, a machine that squeezes out and cuts pastas like a futuristic Play-Doh Fun Factory, with eminently more edible results. He was working on a sample of elbow macaroni for a client — Richard Jarmusz, executive chef at FAHC. Jarmusz already uses 150 pounds of VFP tortellini each week in dishes for the hospital’s cafeteria and patients. Now he’s requested elbows for his kitchen’s gooey, turkey-bacon-studded macaroni and cheese. “All I can tell you is, price-wise, [VFP is] very competitive with [megasupplier] US Foods and suchlike,” Jarmusz tells Seven Days. “It was a no-brainer when we switched to them three years ago.”

Finding ways to cook with VFP’s quirkier offerings seems to have been a no-brainer for Jarmusz’s team, too. They boil ramen to make a noodle salad, which they serve at the hospital’s Main Street Café in an Asian trio with sushi and Vietnamese summer rolls. On Thursdays, the ramen lands in noodle bowls featuring Vermont Soy tofu. VFP’s artichoke-mushroom ravioli becomes a bed for braised pork. VFP’s sauces come in handy, too, giving the FAHC kitchen team a break from chopping mirepoix or reducing red wine for certain dishes. Jarmusz is especially eager to talk up the company’s most recent addition to its sauce line: roasted-almond-Asiago pesto. A pesto without herbs, it’s a buttery, cheesy

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The last few weeks have seen a mini-wave of restaurant closures. In September, Stowe lost Lagniappe, a restaurant inside the Ten Acres Lodge that owners Frank and Robin Wilson opened in the summer of 2010 with a menu of gumbo, seafood étouffé, jambalaya and

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“It’s basically a cannoli filling,” Jarecki explains. The dessert has been a hit at the recently opened Bailiwicks on Mill in St. Johnsbury. Chef James Scharnowske says he goes through a case of the ravioli every week and a half. “Basically, we take four raviolis, [dip them in] flour, egg and panko and fry them in a fryolator [and serve them] with a Tahitian vanilla gelato and ganaches,” Scharnowske explains. “It is amazing; people have never seen it.” With 20 years behind them, the Jareckis have certainly found the formula that pleases customers. And that’s exactly why Ken Jarecki has no major expansion plans. “To get to the next level, we’d have to go to a frozen product,” he says. “The investment would be so big, I wouldn’t want to take the risk.” As it is, VFP continues to grow slowly and steadily; Tricia says she adds a new client or two every week. But Ken Jarecki wants to keep VFP in Vermont and its neighboring states. “I’m not interested in being a national brand,” he says. “I never planned on being a millionaire. I want to stay crafty, fresh and local.” m

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pumpkin and caramelized onion, especially during foliage season, Jarecki says. But he still has time to produce flavors such as chèvre with smoked fig pesto; curry-black-bean-sweet potato; and smoked salmon with chèvre with kalamata olives. The goat cheese comes from Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery, which makes it with lower-than-normal moisture especially for VFP. The low-moisture impastata ricotta that fills most VFP ravioli is not made in Vermont, but Vermont Butter & Cheese mascarpone pops up in some varieties. One such delicacy is the chocolate ravioli with mascarpone filling, VFP’s only dessert pasta. Its inspiration came from Tricia Jarecki’s upbringing in an Italian American home — where, she recalls, homemade pasta was always drying on the backs of dining room chairs. The chocolate pasta (also available as linguine) contains just enough cocoa powder to color and lightly flavor the dough. Inside the ravioli, mascarpone and impastata ricotta are mixed with cinnamon, vanilla and pistachios.

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That means making more than 100 phone calls every Monday and Tuesday, before the weekly manufacturing cycle begins. “Even if you’re very good, you can’t rely on a chef to call you every week,” Ken Jarecki says. “If they have Sysco or someone visiting them on the road, sometimes it’s just too easy [to buy from that mobile supplier].” Jarecki says he doesn’t sweat it too much if a chef stops using his product for a season or two. “We are not always on a menu at a particular restaurant, but we always end up back on the menu. Everyone comes back to pasta,” he explains. And, more often than not, what “everyone” is ordering is ravioli. Over the years, Jarecki says, he — in collaboration with Bienstock and their chef clients — has created more than 100 varieties. That number is always growing: As long as a customer buys 12 pounds of the product, Jarecki will make practically any type of ravioli, he says. Most chefs are happy to choose from the long roster. The most frequently requested ravioli is butternut squash,

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concoction that plays on the combination of nutty Asiago with milky-tasting chunks of almond. Another attraction of VFP products for FAHC and other large institutions is nutritional analysis prepared by Jarecki himself. The chemist doesn’t stop at listing calories and fat, as most packaged foods do, but offers specific vitamin and mineral information that helps dieticians at the hospital integrate VFP products into their patients’ meals. Jarecki runs the ingredients and quantities through his own database, rather than sending them to a costly lab. “Nutritionist” is just one of the hats he wears in the company: Jarecki also does the bookkeeping himself and repairs the machines. While much of the equipment has been upgraded over the years, some is older, such as the cutter and sheeter VFP acquired when it bought out Burlington’s floundering Vermont Pasta Company in 1997. “Running a small business, you need to be multitalented,” Jarecki says. Tricia Jarecki is in charge of coordinating with all the company’s clients.

other Cajun classics. Seven Days couldn’t reach them for comment, but Frank Wilson left a note on Tripadvisor.com explaining that “serious family issues” compelled the couple to close both the restaurant and lodge. He added that the inn was under contract to new owners and expected to reopen by December. In Essex Junction, the doors are locked and the phone is disconnected at Upper Crust. The pizzeria opened at 118 Pearl Street in December 2010. Down in Bellows Falls, the locally beloved hot dog eatery Fat Franks closed a few weeks ago, surprising community members who thought the “Wurst Place in Bellows Falls” was on the verge of expansion based on a recent permit application. Rockingham development director Francis “Dutch” Walsh says he now believes the business — name and building — is up for sale.

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It was during a 2009 trip to cocoa farms in the Dominican Republic that his curiosity jelled into an idea: Rather than buying chocolate, why couldn’t LCC buy the beans and start from there? “What we’ve been doing for the past 30 years is being a confectioner,” Lampman says. “I wanted to showcase that we’re now [also] making our own chocolate.” Two years of sourcing, hand sorting, roasting, winnowing and recipe formulation later, Lampman has just launched Blue Bandana Chocolate Maker, a subbrand of LLC that makes dark chocolate bars from single-origin beans in Vermont. This Saturday, Lampman will team up with Slow Food Vermont for a chocolate-making demonstration and tasting at the Lake

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Drivers passing along Route 7 between Shelburne Vineyard to the west and Fiddlehead Brewing to the east may not have noticed the yearlong construction project, which commenced in May 2011. But the Goldsmiths’ $1.65 million purchase of this former industrial and office complex — whose warehouse once turned out thousands of brass coffee-cup rings — jump-started an ambitious venture that could bring more traffic to Shelburne’s evolving culinary corridor. EatingWell, which moved in last February to anchor the complex, was only its first tenant. The Goldsmiths’ company, White Cap Ventures LLC, has so far poured $3.5 million into renovations, tearing down the ceilings and walls to transform a fusty 73,000-square-foot space into an environmental showcase that they hope will attract like-minded businesses. The Goldsmiths’ vision for the complex, now called Shelburne Green, includes a food hub; initially, there had been talk of aggregating a miller, baker and other food producers in one space. Macy Mullican, the wiry, dynamic Shelburne Vineyard project manager, who

has worked in and around Vermont agriculture for 20 years, has made it her mission to find those food-related businesses and connect them with the Goldsmiths. “The idea is to have a mix of production and retail,” Mullican explained to Seven Days a few months ago. “People can walk in and see someone making a few bars of chocolate, or milling some grain. It will be a center of education, retail and production that supports the food movement in Vermont. Yet filling the building has happened slowly, even with the developers eager to build out for prospective tenants. Despite the presence of EatingWell and another early office tenant, Global Maritime Transportation Services, the manufacturing “shell” out back remained empty for months. That wait tied the hands of Goldsmith Jr., who needed a critical mass of tenants before he could draw up architectural plans for individual spaces. (White Cap has priced office space in Shelburne Green at $13 per square foot, while production space is $8.50 per square foot.) “We hope to create a place for [the food businesses] to come together and

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THE ABUSE AWARENESS PROJECT: During Domestic Violence Awareness Moth, a collaborative mural of statistics raises awareness of survivors within our community. On the green, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3131.

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KELLEY MARKETING MEETING: 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.

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IMPROV NIGHT: Fun-loving participants play "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7 suggested donation. Info, 373-4703. STEALING FROM WORK: The sketch-comedy troupe offers "immature humor for mature audiences only." See calendar spotlight. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15; not appropriate for kids. Info, 863-5966.

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COMMUNITY DINNER: 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 ROTA 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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VERMONT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FALL CONFERENCE: A public forum focuses on health care as an economic tool and factor in community development. An association business meeting follows at 1:30 p.m. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 9 a.m. $35; preregister. Info, 229-9111.

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Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687. OPEN KNIT & CROCHET: 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. STRIDES HITS THE RUNWAY: Students and top stylists from O’Briens Aveda Institute make the catwalk purr in a fashion show benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides for Breast Cancer. Club VENUE, Colchester, 6:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 658-9591, ext. 3.

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ARGENTINE TANGO CLASS, FILM & MILONGA: Elizabeth Seyler schools beginners in this sultry South American dance style before a screening of Tango: The Obsession and an evening social dance event with local dancers. North End Studio B, Burlington. $10 for 6:30 p.m. lesson; $3 for 7:30 p.m. documentary; $5 for 8:30 p.m. milonga; $10-15 for the whole evening. Info, 658-5225.

Wednesday, October 17, through Friday, October 19, 8 p.m., and Saturday, October 20, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington. $15; not appropriate for kids. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE ART OF SUSPENSE: Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee! Film buff Rick Winston uses 12 movie clips to illustrate the evolution of the director's craft. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 'LOUIS MOYSE: A LIFE IN MUSIC': Janet Ressler and Linda Leehman's documentary chronicles the remarkable musical journey of this flutist and founder of Vermont's Marlboro Music School and Festival. A Q&A follows. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. 'WRETCHES & JABBERERS': Gerardine Wurzburg's 2011 documentary follows Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, two autistic men trying to change attitudes about disability. The film's subjects contribute to a post-film Q&A discussion. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Donations accepted for Vermont Family Network. Info, 876-5315.

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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.

MAKE STUFF!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness for Bike Recycle Vermont.

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Read It and Weep Skim any adolescent girl’s journal, and dreams, love and teen angst will likely be splashed across its pages. Put those emotions in the harrowing context of the Holocaust, however, and it’s obvious why The Diary of Anne Frank is a drama often revisited. Vergennes’ Little City Players put a familial twist on this production, directed and produced by Sue and Jeffrey Fox, respectively, and starring their daughter Josie. The close-knit cast and crew lend appropriate intimacy to this well-known stage play, in which the heart-wrenching ending underlines the importance of telling and retelling the tale.

‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’ Thursday, October 18, through Saturday, October 20, 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 21, 2 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. $10-12. Info, 877-6737. vergennesoperahouse.org

Frights and Delights Audiences of all ages tread with care along paths lit by flickering jack-o’-lanterns as mysterious guides lead them through the foreboding Haunted Forest. Vermont’s largest outdoor theatrical event is also its longest-running, most popular Halloween celebration, scaring up thousands of people annually. Special effects, costumes and makeup capture the spooky spirit of this macabre holiday. This year’s show is the most interactive yet; visitors sample creepy treats, play games with dire consequences and come face-to-face with some of the strangest, most fascinating freaks in town.

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Burlington go CluB: Folks gather weekly to play the deceptively simple — and highly strategic — Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 860-9587, dfelcan@yahoo. com.

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Bari ramirez: Battle of the bulge? The certified personal trainer demystifies conflicting fitness information in a discussion of exercise and healthy food choices. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295. Community HerB Class: Certified yoga teacher Lisa Weiss helps participants experience the five Chinese elements — water, wood, fire, earth and metal — in a mat session. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org. Five Common Barriers to Healing: Nutritionist Alicia Feltus introduces nutritionresponse testing, which can detect chemical or metal toxicity, immune imbalances, food sensitivities and scar tissues in the body. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. meditation & disCussion: Powerful energies arise from this participant-led session, which chases 30 minutes of meditation with a brief reading and discussion. Inspired Yoga Studios, Jay, 7-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 988-0449. PuBliC Flu CliniC: Adults immunize themselves against the infectious disease. Montgomery Town Library, 11 a.m.-noon. $35 for recipients without coverage. Info, 527-7531.

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BaBytime 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, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. growing mindFul: a Journey For young PeoPle: Little ones practice breathing techniques and interactive games designed to make them aware — and in control — of their surroundings. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, kids in grades K through 3 attend from 3:304:15 p.m.; kids in grades 4 through 6 attend from 4:30-5:15 p.m. Free; preregister (space is limited). Info, 878-6955. HigHgate story Hour: Gigglers and wigglers listen to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. may's world musiC & movement: Energetic children lace up their dancing shoes for a fun class with May Poduschnick. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. moving & grooving witH CHristine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. musiC & movement PlaygrouP: Youngsters tune in for six weeks of song, dance and fun

with instruments. St. Albans Free Library, 10:1511:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. musiC witH mr. CHris: Rug rats raise their voices to original and traditional sing-alongs with local musician Chris Dorman. There 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, Marshfield, 10-11:30 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. story time For 3- to 5-year-olds: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. story walk: Bookworms read a story along a trail to Lone Tree Hill. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $5-8; free for kids, members and Shelburne residents. Info, 985-8686. youtH media laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about movie making with Middlebury Community Television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-4097.

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drum CliniC witH todd suCHerman: Styx's master drummer keeps the beat as he reveals techniques and secrets for pounding success. Club Metronome, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10; preregister (space is limited). Info, 863-8652. ensemBle Basiani oF georgia: Choir members represent one of the world's greatest singing cultures with a blend of sacred chants and ancient folk songs. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-40. Info, 603-646-2422. song CirCle: Community members chime in at a sing-along with Rich and Laura Atkinson. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@ gmail.com.

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monarCH ButterFly tagging: In 2007, a black-and-orange flyer identified 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. tHe great vermont Corn maze: Weather permitting, a 10-acre maze of maize lures labyrinth lovers outstanding in their field. 1404 Wheelock Rd., Danville, 10 a.m. $9-12; free for ages 4 and under. Info, 748-1399, info@ vermontcornmaze.com.

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green mountain taBle tennis CluB: Ping-pong players swing their paddles back and forth in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership fee. Info, 247-5913.

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journey and her work with the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Conversation on the F-35: Tom Torti, Frank Cioffi and Roseanne Freco pool their knowledge of tourism, real estate, arms control and more in a panel discussion. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Louis Mannie Lionni: The editor and publisher of 05401 discusses "Heresies: Cultural Criticism in the Context of the Commercialization, Privatization and Militarization of a Small New England City; A Shaggy Dog Story" as the Roland Batten Memorial Lecture. Room 301, Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014. ProjeCt ManageMent institute ChaMPLain vaLLey Meeting: Speaker Erica Frost shares a behind-the-scenes perspective on rolling out Fletcher Allen Health Care's public-facing online service center in "Integrating Clinical and Financial Patient Portals: The Next Frontier in Personal Health Care Information." Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 5:30-8:15 p.m. $25-35. Info, 735-5359. susan & BruCe ishaM: Armchair travelers tour Mongolia by horseback as the speakers offer a visual adventure through the country, including a visit with nomadic reindeer herders. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

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FrankLin County ChaMBer oF CoMMerCe Mixer: Bill Stenger, president and co-owner of Jay Peak Resort, keynotes an evening of networking and prize giveaways. St. Albans Historical Museum, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-8; RSVP. Info, 524-2444, info@fcrccvt.com.

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eMPty BoWL dinner: Support at-risk and homeless youth with a delicious meal of soup, salad, bread and dessert provided by area restaurants. Music by Guagua, a cash bar and locally made ceramic wares — yours to keep and fill — augment the affair. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5:30 p.m. $20-50. Info, 864-7423, ext. 330. Monkton CoMMunity PeChakuCha night: Locals chitchat about hobbies, interests and endeavors in narrative presentations of 20 slides, each projected for 20 seconds. Monkton Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 453-6067, monkton.talk@gmail.com.

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Master CLass With PoLLy MotLey: The Vermont dancer and choreographer melds mind and matter as she teaches improvisational scores related to a new dance department work at the "pre-audition" for Dancing Uphill. You do not need to be auditioning to attend. Mann Hall Gymnasium, UVM Trinity Campus, Burlington, 3-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2295, clare.byrne@uvm.edu.

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rozaLia ProjeCt: Marine deBris CLeanuP: Volunteers pull on their gloves, pick up trash and collect data to further the understanding of water pollution in Vermont. Allen Brook Planting Site, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 859-3413, patty@rozaliaproject.org.

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BaCon thursdays: Folks come for plates of bacon and creative dipping sauces and stay for music, conversation and a "Butttattoo Contest." Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 7-10 p.m. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090. ghosts oF uvM: Suspense builds as paranormal historian Thea Lewis spins campus tales of smugglers, madmen and hermits. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $13.50; arrive 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966. 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. the 52 kids Foundation reCePtion & Fundraiser: On his first visit to the U.S., program director Frank Woitera offers a personal perspective of how local efforts have impacted this organization, which seeks to teach Ugandan children how to live positively and THU.18

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Bike Smut: A Film Festival of Radical Pleasure: Bike-curious? Inspired cyclists make transportation sexy in a touring showcase of independently made erotic bicycle films. The Firefly, Burlington, bike parade, 7:30 p.m.; doors at 8 p.m. $5; for ages 18 and up. Info, 279-1623. Films of Burlington's Sister Cities: As a prelude to the Vermont International Film Festival, folks screen short films representing Sister Cities Programs in Bethlehem, Arad, Puerto Cabezas and Yaroslavl. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6713. 'Sleepwalk With Me': Comedian Mike Birbiglia stars in this autobiographical story about an aspiring standup whose relationship issues spur a rampant sleepwalking streak. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $6-10. Info, 382-9222. 'Those Who Remain': Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman's documentary follows the daily lives of the families left behind in Mexico by migrants to the U.S. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4964.

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Chess Group: 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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Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Farmyard Story Time: 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. Franklin Story 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. Kids & Teens Cooking Class: Think flatbreads are strictly Italian cuisine? Think again. Accompanied by adults, youngsters make Mexican tortillas, Middle Eastern pita breads and Indian chapatis. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700. Middlebury Preschool Story Time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369. Montgomery Infant/Toddler Playgroup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with

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Chick Corea & Gary Burton: The multiple Grammy-winning jazz duo — a renowned pianist and a premier vibraphonist — incorporate the Harlem String Quartet into a performance of standards from their new album, Hot House. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Sold out. Info, 603-646-2422. Johnson State College Concert Band: Musicians lend their airs to a community ensemble 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. ME2/orchestra Rehearsal: Ronald Braunstein conducts this classical ensemble composed of musicians with mental health issues and the people who support them. All ability levels welcome. Chill Out Center, Burlington Town Center Mall, 7:15-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 238-8369, me2orchestra@gmail.com. Yoron Israel's High Standards Quartet: A drummer, composer and bandleader and his ensemble raise the bar on jazz standards. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $12; $27 includes early-bird dinner special; BYOB. Info, 465-4071, info@ brandon-music.net.

Start the Conversation: Health Care Planning: Franklin County Home Health Agency staff explore options for end-of-life care. Enosburgh Falls Ambulance Service, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 527-7531.

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nM Embodying Practice: Robert usic Kest considers the psychology of meditation and the body as it relates to spiritual practice. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. Tech Lab: Computer snafu? Experts answer questions and navigate the way to tech-savvy solutions. Bradford Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail. com.

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A Gnostic Path to Spiritual Awakening: Religious thinkers discuss the "new mode of life" in a compelling PowerPoint presentation. St. Albans Free Library, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosycross.org. Jason Clay: In "Feeding Nine Billion and Maintaining the Planet," this keynote speaker discusses implementing global standards for raw materials, in addition to his work on the environmentally sensitive practices of agriculture and aquaculture. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free; RSVP at learn.uvm.edu/ aiken. Info, 656-3131. Jorge Silvetti: This speaker, whose Boston firm received an Award in Architecture from

the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 20 years of “boldly conceived and brilliantly executed urban projects," presents as part of the Cameron Visiting Architect Series. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Lunch & Learn: In "Occupied Amsterdam: Beyond Anne Frank," author and poet, Mary Fillmore reflects on the key questions raised by the Holocaust. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted; lunch is provided. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@burlingtontelecom.net. Martha Hoppin: Known for his portraits of poor street children standing in sunshine, artist John George Brown's wide appeal and financial success are the subject of this author and curator's talk, "Hiding in the Old Oak: Country Children in Art." St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Patrick Keating: The author, whose awardwinning 2011 book Hollywood Lighting From the Silent Era to Film Noir examines every facet of this understated art form, presents "A Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Hollywood Cinema." Room 232, Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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'Best of New York: An Evening of Scenes': Budding thespians perform in the annual First Years' Show and present some of the greatest characters New York theater has served up in the last five years. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $4. Info, 443-3168. 'Boom': See WED.17, 7:30 p.m. 'Born Yesterday': See WED.17, 7:30 p.m. 'Deathtrap': Dorset Theatre presents Ira Levin's thriller about a Broadway mystery playwright who's lost his touch — and will do anything to reclaim his fame. Memorial Hall, Essex, 8 p.m. $12-16. Info, 291-0341. 'Hamlet': Lost Nation Theater presents the Bard's action-packed tale of political turmoil and family vengeance in Denmark. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. Short & Sweet Showcase 2012: Actors take the stage in short plays penned by locals. Selections include Luc Reid's Some Words of Advice From Your Cat and Dog, Marj O'Neil Butler's Scavenger Hunt and Katherine Trahan's Sugar in August. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0112. 'The Diary of Anne Frank': The Little City Players present this harrowing Holocaust story based on the real-life diary of a 13-year-old girl. See calendar spotlight. Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 877-6737.

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Loung Ung: The author's latest novel, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing and Double Happiness, explores the process of moving past the trauma of the Cambodian genocide. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Woden Teachout & Susan Clark: The movement toward citizen-powered decisions

is at the heart of the authors' new book, Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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Fall/Winter Rummage Sale: Affordably priced outerwear, footwear and knit accessories ensure a warm-and-toasty season for the adults and children in attendance. St. Pius X Parish, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5879.

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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. DsantosVT Salsa Dance Party: The biggest Latin dance social in the state features only the best in live salsa, cha-cha, bachata, merengue, reggaeton and kizomba music. North End Studios, Burlington, free lessons, 8-9 p.m.; music, 9 p.m.-midnight. $5; cash bar. Info, 227-2572. 'Eat My Art Out': Paul Besaw, Christal Brown, Toby McNutt and Tiffany Rhynard unveil choreographic works-in-progress. Audience feedback and refreshments follow. Ballroom. Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, clare.byrne@uvm.edu. 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, 9-11:30 p.m. $7. Info, 658-5225. Technique for Animals: Modern Technique Class: Intermediate to advanced dancers take a walk on the wild side as they roll, flex, stretch and growl with Big Action Performance Ensemble's Tiffany Rhynard in a course intended to yield gutsy dancing. Dance Studio, UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 1:55-3:40 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2295, clare.byrne@uvm.edu.

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Funeral Consumers Alliance of Vermont: Ready to tackle the delicate subject of death? An informational session covers everything from affordable burials to writing your own obituary. Montpelier Senior Center, noon2:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 223-8140. 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. Vermont Hackathon: Student and professional computer programmers on a caffeine kick are given 24 hours to build a digital product, app, website or widget benefiting the community. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation; preregister. Info, tsorrentino@ mywebgrocer.com.

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'Nosferatu': The Andrew Alden Ensemble deliver an eerie live score to F.W. Murnau's 1922 Gothic horror film, based on the Dracula story. Merrill's Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 864-4742. 'The Cabin in the Woods': College friends on a remote weekend getaway find themselves

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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. 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. HarVest CeleBratIon PotluCk: Neighbors help put the community garden to bed for the winter before a feast showcasing the season's bounty. Community Farm, St. Johnsbury, 4 p.m. Free; bring a local-foods dish to share and garden gloves. Info, 748-9498. HarVest PotPIe dInner: Hungry? Sit down to a selection of savory pastries filled with beef, chicken or turkey. There are salad, drinks and dessert, too. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $4-8; $25 per family. Info, 453-2488. 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.

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montgomery tumBle tIme: Physicalfitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. musICal tHIrds story tIme: Children read and rock out at this tuneful meetup. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. PresCHool story Hour: As part of the ongoing "Race: Are We So Different?" exhibit, little ones learn about race and racism through literature and personal stories. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. 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. story walk: See WED.17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 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. toddler yoga & storIes: Tykes up to age 5 stretch it out in simple exercise and reading activities. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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BleSSing oF The aniMalS: Well-behaved animal companions and their owners attend an interfaith ceremony celebrating interspecies bonds. Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society, West Windsor, 1 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 484-5829. john dewey day: Artist Frank Gonzalez helps fans of the Burlington-raised educator-philosopher mark his birthday by fashioning paper masks before a parade down Church Street. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 865-7216. preServaTion BurlingTon hiSToriC walking Tour: Walkers and gawkers see the Queen City through an architectural and historic perspective. Meet in front of Burlington City Hall. Church Street Marketplace, 11 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259. Queen CiTy ghoSTwalk: darkneSS FallS: See FRI.19, 7 p.m. Snd BaSe CaMp: Psyched for snow? Folks stoke their winter spirit with a screening of Meathead Films' ski flick No Matter What alongside spirits tastings and presentations on everything from ski photography to backcountry safety. Smugglers' Notch Distillery, Jeffersonville, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 309-3077.

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handCraFTerS Fair: Vermont vendors set up shop with specialty food and unique handmade items. Proceeds benefit ACCESS, community education for all ages. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 482-7194. indoor CraFT Fair & Bake Sale: Local artisans sell one-of-a-kind gift items, holiday décor, felt goods and edible treats. Country Park Apartments, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5196.

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liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT 'The InvIsIble War': This documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick breaks open one of the most under-reported stories of our generation as it paints a startling picture of the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. A discussion follows the screening. North End Studios, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 8632345, ext. 8. vermonT InTernaTIonal FIlm FesTIval: See FRI.19, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. WInTer WIldlands allIance backcounTry FIlm FesTIval: Astonishing glimpses of nonmotorized recreation and environmental preservation showcase the magic of winter in the wilderness. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Land Trust's efforts to save the Bolton backcountry. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $15; cash bar. Info, 229-9409, events@onionriver.com.

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moonlIghT body/mInd/sPIrIT bIannual reTreaT: Vermonters follow their intuition to energy readings, healing workshops, music and food. Grange Hall, Milton, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5; free for kids under 13. Info, 893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo.com.

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haunTed casTle FamIly nIghT: See FRI.19, 7-10 p.m. nIghTmare vermonT: See FRI.19, 6 p.m. ooky sPooky run: Costumed racers pound 3or 5K trails to the beach to win prizes and raise money for COTS. Rock Point School, Burlington, 8:30-10 a.m. $10; $25 per family; preregister. Info, 863-1104, jainsworth@rockpoint.org. The haunTed ForesT: See FRI.19, 6-11 p.m. ZombIe run 5k: Participants use speed, agility and their intact brains to overcome obstacles and avoid flesh-eating zombies. Nightmare Vermont's makeup artists create gruesome faces while Relic play hard-hitting music at this inaugural event. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10-87 . Info, 752-7670.

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lunch WITh sen. bernIe sanders: The Vermont senator speaks about what's at stake for the country this November, with regard to economy, health care and the environment. Northfield Middle and High School, lunch, noon; meeting, 12:30 p.m.. Free. Info, 862-1505.

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bluegrass gosPel ProjecT: Impressing audiences since 2001 with their stunning vocal capabilities and wide stylistic range, this band presents an eclectic mix of songs in the acoustic tradition. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $19-22. Info, 728-6464. conrad samuel band: Lively tunes soundtrack a 6 p.m. pot-roast supper and 7-11 p.m. dance party. Proceeds benefit Moose charities. Moose Lodge, St. Albans. $10 buffet; $4 for just the dance. Info, 527-1327. IaIn macharg: Scottish bagpipes sound out as this accomplished musician plays the

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buTTer makIng: Shake, shake, shake! Children transform fresh cream 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. Fancy nancy ParTy: Boys and girls must dress in their best to see the famed children's book character as she celebrates with books, games and prizes. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; tickets are required and available umallvt.com; suggested donations benefit the Vermont Children's Hospital. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. meeT ladybug gIrl: The wing-wearing protagonist of the children's series by Jacky Davis and David Soman buzzes by for hourly story time and ongoing activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. musIc WITh raPhael: See THU.18, 11 a.m. PumPkIns & PIraTes: Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate helps little ones search for buried treasure before it's time to paint a jack-o'-lantern. Gardener’s Supply: Williston Garden Center & Outlet, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. sTory Walk: See WED.17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. TerrIFIc TracTors & oTher cool Farm machInes: Little ones become farmers for the day as they climb aboard heavy-lifting vehicles. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free to members, Shelburne residents and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686.

aerophone. 693 McCrillis Road, Marshfield, 7 p.m. $8-10; free for kids. Info, 426-3581. john doyle & oIsIn mcauley: Two of Ireland's most influential musicians, a guitarist and a fiddler, collaborate in a compelling dual performance. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $25-28. Info, 388-0216. vermonT choral Fall gaTherIng: Singers and directors from around the state raise a sweet symphony at a daylong discussion of new and favorite repertory, vocal polyphony, and choral arts of all styles. Jameson Marvin, the former director of the Harvard University To purchase tickets Glee Club, is the special guest. Bethany United or for more information Church of Christ, Randolph, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3540. Info, 468-1322. vermonT PhIlharmonIc orchesTra's annual oPera gala: 2012 Bel Canto Institute award winners soprano Laura Soto-Bayomi and 10/1/12 mezzo-soprano Jeanette Luna perform arias by16t-NightmareVT100312.indd 1 operatic masters Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini and Channel 15 more. Auditorium, St. Johnsbury School, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 244-6208. totally vermonT symPhony orchesTra sTrIng working out wednesdaYs > 10:00 pm QuarTeT halloWeen FamIly concerT: 'a symPhony oF Whales': A musical narration Channel 16 of Steve Schuch’s eponymous book tells the 2012 burlington story of gentle giants stranded in the Siberian book fest Sea and the heroic efforts to free them. Special thursdaYs 8:30 pm spooky selections are also played before a sundaYs 7:30 pm parade of costumes. Performing Arts Center. Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, 4 p.m. and Channel 17 meet the candidates McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, for vermont auditor Colchester, 11 a.m. $5-15. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10. Join the live audienCe or watCh WeIrd al yankovIc: Part singer-songwriter, online thursdaY, 10/18 at 7 pm part epic satirist, the humorous hitmaker makes light of pop culture on his Alpocalypse Tour. get more info or watch online at vermont cam.org • retn.org Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $35-55. ch17.tv Info, 863-5966.

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annual chIcken-PIe suPPer: Savory pies, served piping hot, make for a meal of classic comfort food. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5-10; reservations required. Info, 864-6515. blue bandana chocolaTe maker launch: Confectioner Eric Lampman transforms raw cocoa beans into finished chocolate bars at the launch of a new Lake Champlain Chocolates product line designed to celebrate American craftsmanship. Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 264-2146. burlIngTon Farmers markeT: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 3105172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. caPITal cITy Farmers markeT: Fresh produce, pasteurized milk, kombucha, artisan cheeses, local meats and more lure buyers throughout the growing season. Live music and demos accent each week's offerings. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket. com. mIddlebury Farmers markeT: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-6012. neWPorT Farmers markeT: See WED.17, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. norThWesT Farmers markeT: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. norWIch Farmers markeT: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org. okToberFeasT: The Artifactory transforms into a farmers market setting, where local vendors offer delicious goods for both sampling and purchase. Enjoy live music, limited-edition brews and factory tours. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 5 p.m. $5 entry fee to benefit Vermont Food Bank. Info, 658-2739, ext. 2049. ruTland counTy Farmers markeT: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods, and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. unlockIng The nuTrIenTs: Turkey Hill Farm's Margaret Osha demonstrates the ageold — but newly popular — method for soaking grains, nuts and beans as foodies prepare a local chili, pot of brown rice and tasty dessert. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

WaITsFIeld Farmers markeT: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling open-air market, boasting extensive farm-fresh produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

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flapjacks for a filling first meal. Grace United methodist church, essex Junction, 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 878-8071 or 878-5923. 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 reStaurant week: With cuisine praised by Gourmet, Bon Appetit and Wine Spectator, Vermont's quintessential ski town hosts its second annual celebration of local fare. Various locations, stowe, noon. $15-35 per prixfixe menu. Info, 253-7321. 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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Story walk: see WeD.17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. SundayS For FledglingS: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Birds of Vermont museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3-6; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org. 'treaSured StorieS: eric carle': International mermaid Theatre company brings three of the acclaimed writer's most popular characters — a brown bear, a caterpillar and a moon — to life with superb puppet artistry. an enchanting musical score complements the magic of the black-light set. Flynn mainstage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $15-22. Info, 863-5966.

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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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dartmouth college goSpel choir: overcoming adversity is the theme for "moving on, and stronger," an inspiring concert of traditional and contemporary gospel choir music. spaulding auditorium, Hopkins center, Dartmouth college, Hanover, n.H., 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. Julian JaSter, Sarah mundy: local and regional artists deliver "post-springsteen intellectual power pop" and more in the gallery. RoTa Gallery, plattsburgh, n.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872. kurn hattin homeS For children muSic enSemBle: Young musicians from a residential school for children in need offer a varied repertoire of layered harmonies, ballads and hymns. First congregational church, manchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 362-2709. vermont philharmonic orcheStra'S annual opera gala: see saT.20, Barre opera House, 2 p.m. Info, 476-8188. vermont Symphony orcheStra String Quartet halloween Family concert: 'a Symphony oF whaleS': see saT.20, mahaney center for the arts, middlebury college, 2 p.m. $5-17. Info, 443-3168.

weird al yankovic: see saT.20, paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $49-69. Info, 775-0903.

landing performing arts center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 355-5418. vermont international Film FeStival: see FRI.19, noon-9 p.m.

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the great vermont corn maze: see WeD.17, 10 a.m.

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women'S pickup Soccer: ladies of all abilities break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron. miller community and Recreation center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

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'Boom': see WeD.17, 2 p.m. 'Born yeSterday': see WeD.17, 5 p.m. 'deathtrap': see THU.18, 2 p.m. 'hamlet': see THU.18, 7 p.m. 'the diary oF anne Frank': see THU.18, 2 p.m. 'the vagina monologueS': see FRI.19, 2 p.m.

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let'S make unSalted, cultured vegetaBleS: Go with your gut: personal therapeutic chef Tara carpenter shares recipes for probiotic-rich foods to counteract allergies, candida and digestive disorders. Hunger mountain co-op, montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain. coop. Stowe reStaurant week: see sUn.21, noon.

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avoid FallS with improved StaBility: see FRI.19, 10 a.m. herBal Support For StreSS: Feeling tense? Join angie Barger to explore natural remedies for improved immunity and decreased anxiety and fatigue. learn how to make wellness soup stock, prepare adaptogenic treats and practice relaxation techniques. Vermont center for Integrative Herbalism, montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $1012; preregistration required. Info, 244-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org. Qigong: Jeff cochran hosts a session of breathing-in-motion exercises. RoTa Gallery, plattsburgh, n.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872.

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Drop-In Story Time: Reading and rhyming activities help youngsters develop early-literacy skills. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. High School Book Lust Club: Bookworms dish on reads they love — and the ones they love to loathe. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Imagination Studio: Creative juices flow as school-age kiddos sit down to arts activities with naturalist and eco-crafter Rachel Klatzker. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Music With Raphael: See THU.18, 10:45 a.m. My First Yoga: Toddler-friendly poses meet storytelling and song in this program for kids 4 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. 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 Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Stories With Megan: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Swanton Playgroup: 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. Tales, Tunes & Tots: Preschoolers begin the week with artsy activities. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

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Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early-folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New 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. 'Songs of Struggle, Faith & Freedom': David Neiweem directs the University Catamount Singers, mezzo sopranist Evelyn Kwanza and accompanist Tom Cleary in solo and choral music from the traditions of African American spirituals. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. The Champlain 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. Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Rehearsals: New and established members of the nonprofit community ensemble fiddle around at practice time. St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. First rehearsal is free. Info, 223-8945, ext. 1.

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Coed Adult Dodgeball: 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 Education Enrichment Fall Series: In "Perspectives in Conservation," the lead interpretive ranger at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park explores the power of dialogue. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 drop-in for all ages. Info, 864-3516. Jeffrey Gettleman: The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, also the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, reports on the global atrocities he has witnessed. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Loretta Capeheart: The professor at Northeastern Illinois University shares her legal fight for the first Amendment in "Shut Up and Teach: Using the Courts to Suppress Free Speech, Academic Freedom and Shared Governance." Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4171. Tim Brookes: In "Disappearing Alphabets and the Future of the Written Word," the Vermont author spells out one perspective on the effect of the digital age on writing as we know it. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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Auditions for 'Love, Loss and What I Wore': Girls Nite Out Productions' upcoming play involves a cast of five principal women performing a series of monologues about female relationships, wardrobes and, at times, the interaction of the two. 77 College Street, Suite 3B, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free; preregister an audition slot. Info, 734-5657, pamela.carter@uvm.edu. Staged Reading of 'Spark': MOXIE Productions breathes life into Caridad Svich's contemporary drama about the mess of a recent war's aftermath. Cork Wine Bar, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 371-7400.

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Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through homework assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@ comcast.net. Monthly Book Group: Bibliophiles voice their thoughts about a shared read. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Peter Cole: The MacArthur Fellow speaks on and reads from his new book, The Poetry of Kabbalah, which explores the connection between poetic creation and mystical experience. Middlebury College Library, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5009.

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Burlington Garden Club: Speaker Jon Turmel offers a plan of attack in "Pest Invaders in the House and Garden." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764.

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'As Goes Janesville': Spend three years in this Wisconsin city, following the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders and a state senator, in Brad Lichtenstein's documentary that presents a polarized nation losing its grasp of the American Dream. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers': Foul play's afoot as a doctor investigates patients' suspicions that their loved ones have been replaced by aliens in Don Siegel's 1956 sci-fi horror. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 540-3018. 'The Dark Side of Chocolate': The title of this 2010 documentary doesn't refer to semisweet or bittersweet varieties, but rather the child trafficking and slave labor that help produce them. Fair trade hot cocoa provided; discussion follows. Room L207, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 8. Vermont International Film Festival: See FRI.19, noon-10 p.m.

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Homemade Mozzarella: Dairy farmer Lindsay Harris shows how easy it is to concoct the three-ingredient cheese in a home kitchen. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700. Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.20, 3-6 p.m.

Chess Club: Pawn pushers of all ages strategize to better their games. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; bring your own board and pieces; kids under 9 must be accompanied by an adult. Info, 518-268-9219.

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Introduction to Meditation: Instructor Sherry Rhynard shares handouts and tips for managing stress and improving health and inner peace. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. Public Flu Clinic: See WED.17, CarePartners Adult Day Center, St. Albans, 10:30-11:30 a.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.

Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Elementary School, 8:45-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Creative Tuesdays: 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.

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Classical for Kids The Vermont Symphony Orchestra uses whales, tales and costumes to connect kids to classical music in three concerts around the state. Copresented by Kids VT, the shows start with an introduction to the instruments, followed by a parade of costumed kids crossing the stage to the tune of “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” Then Swanton music teacher Melissa Ewell reads Steve Schuch’s fact-based children’s book, A S Y MPHO NY O F WHALES , in which 3000 belugas are stranded in a narrow channel in the Senyavina Strait of SYMPHONY OF WHALES: Saturday, October 20, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Siberia. A rescuing ice Colchester, 11 a.m.; Bellows Free Academy breaker arrives, but Performing Arts Center, St. Albans, 4 p.m.; the whales won’t swim Sunday, October 21, Middlebury College Mahaney to safety without muCenter for the Arts, Middlebury, 2 p.m. $15 family, sical accompaniment. $7 adults, $5 seniors and children. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10, vso.org.

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Aurora Middle School Information Session: Attendees spark a community conversation about a new school, set to open in the fall of 2013. Refreshments provided. Middlebury Community House, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2637.

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FairFax Story Hour: 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. FroSty & FriendS tHerapy 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. Halloween CraFtS: Hauntingly cute creations — from masks to painted pumpkins — make for appropriately spooky fun for the 6-and-up crowd. Fairfax Community Library, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. HigHgate Story Hour: See WED.17, 10-11 a.m. internet SaFety For parentS & SelFdeFenSe For KidS: Experts help set healthy technology ground rules as youngsters practice personal safety with Kellie Thomas of TaeKwon Do K.I.C.K.S. Library. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4369. preSCHool Story Hour: From fables to fa-la-las, kids up to age 4 strengthen their reading skills with Mrs. Rogers. Sarah Partridge Community Library, East Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. riCHFord playgroup: 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. SCienCe & StorieS: Salmon Spawning: Kids have aha! moments regarding the dangerous upstream travels of these Lake Champlain swimmers. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. Story Hour: Three- to 5-year-olds craft during tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Story time For 3- to 5-year-oldS: See WED.17, 10-10:45 a.m. write Here! HomeSCHool Support in writing: Out-of-classroom learners ages 10 to 14 take a two-hour field trip into their imaginations in this collaborative workshop with writing prompts and outdoor activities. The Writers' Barn, Shelburne, 1-3 p.m. $25; preregister (space is limited). Info, 985-3091.

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Home-energy auditS: Eco-conscious folks learn about the inspection and analysis of energy flow, the cost and incentives, the common findings, and why it's important. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

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BeHind-tHe-SCeneS lunCH & diSCuSSion: 'u.S. drag': The cast and crew of this upcoming theater production join psychology-department professors in an examination of Gina Gionfriddo's snarky comedy about postmillennial New York City. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 12:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 443-3168. Steve CHaSe & polly CHandler: The University of New England speakers facilitate a group discussion about faith and care for the Earth. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

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auditionS For 'love, loSS and wHat i wore': See MON.22, 6-9 p.m.

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arCHer mayor: See SAT.20, Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 7 p.m. Info, 472-5533. woden teaCHout & SuSan ClarK: The movement toward citizen-powered decisions is at the heart of the authors' new book, Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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improv nigHt: See WED.17, 8-10 p.m. Standup Comedy perFormanCe: Rookie yuksters produce zingy punch lines at the culmination of an eight-week comedy class. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation to the FlynnArts Scholarship Fund. Info, 863-5966.

community

open rota meeting: See WED.17, 8 p.m.

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maKe StuFF!: See WED.17, 6-9 p.m.

FrenCH 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 FrenCH 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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energy-eFFiCienCy Forum: Efficiency Vermont provides detailed information on locking in energy to help municipalities save money and improve their public buildings. Cole Hall, Shaftsbury, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-921-5990.

Brandi Carlile: The popular singer-songwriter tunes up her guitar for an intimate performance of rock-tinged country-folk. Blitzen Trapper open. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $34-58. Info, 863-5966. dartmoutH College wind enSemBle: A brand-new symphony and centuries-old masterworks showcase the development of wind ensembles through the ages. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-20. Info, 603-646-2422. poCatello, paul CarSon, marCo polio: Local and regional artists deliver folk rock, storytelling and "songs about feelings" in the gallery. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872.

aCt prep ClaSS: Practice makes perfect: Young scholars familiarize themselves with study strategies and tips for success. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; space is limited; first come, first served. Info, 878-6955.

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a triBute to george Stoney: How Film Can CHange liveS: A panel discussion with video excerpts honors the late documentary filmmaker, known as the "father of public-access TV." Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 8623966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org. poStSeCret live: Frank Warren, the founder of an online mail-art project in which people send in postcards containing their deepest secrets, shares inspiring and funny stories in a

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multimedia presentation. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free; tickets required. Info, 656-2076.

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Vermont InternatIonal FIlm FestIVal: See FRI.19, noon-9 p.m.

food & drink

newport Farmers market: See WED.17, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. stowe restaurant week: See SUN.21, noon.

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BurlIngton go CluB: See WED.17, 7-9 p.m.

health & fitness

medItatIon & dIsCussIon: See WED.17, 7-8 p.m.

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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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Current Issues In eConomICs: a CrItICal assessment oF the CandIdates' eConomIC plans: Economics professors Reza Ramazani and Patrick Walsh critique Obama and Romney's plans, respectively, with a focus on taxes, deficits, jobs and trade. A Q&A follows. Farrell Room, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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green mountaIn taBle tennIs CluB: See WED.17, 7-10 p.m.

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BrIan mohr & emIly Johnson: The Vermontbased adventurer-photographers offer a multimedia slide show, "Two Wheels, Two Planks — Pedal-Powered Skiing in Arctic Norway," about their human-powered travels. Joslin Memorial Library, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5434. ChrIstopher steIner: The director of the museum-studies program at Connecticut College holds nothing back in "Censorship 2.0: Museums in the Participatory Age." Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. daVId goVatskI: In "Land Above the Trees: Alpine Areas of the Northeast," the naturalist looks at glacial forces and plant and animal adaptations related to our "islands in the sky." Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2436. kelley hunter: How are the star cycles affecting your daily life? The internationally known astrologer and mythologist gives the latest on cosmic news for 2012 and beyond. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. peggy & murray sChwartz: The coauthors of The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus look at the life, work and legacy of the trailblazing African American dancer/choreographer. Harmon Periodical Reading Room. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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arCher mayor: See SAT.20, Norwich Book Store, 7 p.m. Info, 649-1114. BurlIngton wrIters workshop meetIng: See WED.17, 6:30-7:30 p.m. matt rIgney: An avid fisherman dives into photo- and video-enhanced discussion of his new book, In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 388-2061. reBeCCa rupp: Why were Roman gladiators massaged with onion juice before battle? The author of How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables reveals the fascinating secrets your salad is keeping. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. m

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doCtor gasp, the toes, the shandIes: Local and regional artists deliver New England folk, Halloween-themed songs and more in the gallery. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872. 'messIah' Chorus rehearsals: Experienced Messiah singers join the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra in Handel's best-known oratorio. Chorus room. Spaulding High School, Barre, 7 p.m. Free; bring your own score. Info, 244-6208. straIght no Chaser: Harmonies fly as the male a cappella group reinvents modern pop songs. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $34.50-44.50. Info, 863-5966.

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BaBytIme playgroup: See WED.17, 10:30 a.m.-noon. 'Bull run': Readers Theater cast members stage Paul Fleischman's moving Civil War drama. Memorial Hall, Essex, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. enosBurg playgroup: See WED.17, 10-11:30 a.m. FaIrFIeld playgroup: See WED.17, 10-11:30 a.m. Frankentoys wIth tIna logan: Stuffed animals and dolls, beware! Crafty young 'uns repurpose old toys into little monsters. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. hIghgate story hour: See WED.17, 11:15 a.m. may's world musIC & moVement: See WED.17, 10:30-11:15 a.m. montgomery playgroup: Little ones exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. moVIng & grooVIng wIth ChrIstIne: See WED.17, 11-11:30 a.m. musIC & moVement playgroup: See WED.17, 10:15-11:45 a.m. musIC wIth mr. ChrIs: See WED.17, 10 a.m. st. alBans playgroup: See WED.17, 9-10:30 a.m. story tIme & playgroup: See WED.17, 1011:30 a.m. story tIme wIth BIll & hIs CrItters: See WED.17, 10 a.m. story tIme For 3- to 5-year-olds: See WED.17, 10-10:45 a.m. youth medIa laB: See WED.17, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Vermont symphony orChestra strIng Quartet halloween FamIly ConCert: 'a symphony oF whales': See SAT.20, Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Call for price. yIng Quartet: Having graced the stages at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, classical music's esteemed foursome performs the first of six concerts in the Burlington Beethoven Cycle. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, preconcert lecture, 7 p.m.; concert, 8 p.m. $35; buy tickets online at burlingtonensemble.com. Info, 598-9520.

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ILLUSTRATING CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Oct. 15-29, 6-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Mondays. Cost: $75/ three-part session. Location: The Writers’ Barn at Wind Ridge Publishing, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Publishing, Inc., Lin Stone, 9853091, lin@windridgepublishing. com, windridgepublishing.com. In this three-part workshop, author/ illustrator Sarah Dillard will give an overview of children’s book illustration. The course will look at a wide variety of illustration techniques and will discuss style, composition, character development, storyboards, book dummies and pacing. This is a workshop for people who have some artistic experience.

astrology INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY: Nov. 5-26, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $75/4-wk. series. Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 2447909, jungiancenter.org. A basic course for the novice. Study the ancient symbol system of the stars and learn how to read your own and others’ charts. Led by Patrick Ross, P.E.

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THE NORTH & SOUTH NODES: A LIGHTHOUSE ON YOUR LIFE PATH: Nov. 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $45/1day session. Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909, jungiancenter. org. Learn about the crucial role of the Nodes as they clarify your Life Path. Includes an examination of the 12 Nodal Stories as mythical prototypes. Open to anyone with an acquaintance with the houses, planets and signs. Led by Susan J. Ackerman, author and astrologer. Individual sessions optional on Sunday, November 4.

beverages WINE DISCOVERY CLASS AT LEVITY: Oct. 22-Nov. 26, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $100/6-wk. class. Location: Levity Comedy Club, 9 Center St., Burlington. Info: Levity Comedy Club, Carmen Lagala, 318-4888, Carmen@levityvt.com, levityvt. com. Learn about food and wine pairings, deciphering wine labels, tasting techniques, and more about wine in general! Come explore the great wine regions of the world in our exciting Wine Discovery Class! Enjoy tasting five or six different wines per class. Led by Peter Kenseth, of TruthInJuice. com! $75 student rate.

bodywork JINSHIN JYUTSU SELF-HELP CLASS: Nov. 10-11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $250/Early Bird special before October 22nd. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 Saint Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@gmail.com, touchstonehealingarts.com. Includes history, theory and practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu, taught experientially. Learn to work with the safety energy locks and their respective releases, the eight mudras of Jin Shin Jyustu, and the first-aid flows, while developing an understanding of harmonizing the attitudes of worry, fear, anger, grief and pretense.

DESIGN: ADOBE INDESIGN CS6: Nov. 6-Dec. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $185/person, $166.50/BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign, a creative computer program used for magazine and book layout, for designing text, and for preparing digital and print publications. Explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to your interests. For beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. DRAWING & PAINTING RETREAT W/ GAIL SALZMAN: Nov. 9-11. Cost: $850/retreat (member discount avail.). Location: Seyon Lodge, Groton. Info: burlingtoncityarts. org/BCACenter. Jump-start your creative process and enjoy a weekend of drawing, painting and artistic inspiration with professional artist and educator Gail Salzman. Participants will engage in a variety of activities including spontaneous drawing and writing exercises, the artistic interpretation of the surrounding environment, and energizing group discussions. Enjoy uninterrupted time in a contemplative environment, and be inspired. DROP-IN: SAT. YOUTH ART STUDIO: Drop in every other Sat.: Oct. 20, Nov. 3, Nov. 17, Dec. 1 & Dec. 15, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $10/class. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Info: burlingtoncityarts.org. Kids ages 6-12 are invited to the BCA Center to paint, draw, sculpt and more. Participants may work on the special project of the day or work on an individual project to take home. Parents are welcome to stay or may drop their child off. All materials provided. No registration necessary. PAINTING: ABSTRACT PAINTING: Nov. 8-Dec. 20, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. (no class on Nov. 22). Cost: $195/nonmember, $176.50/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Use the paint of your choice (water-soluble oils, acrylics or watercolor), experiment and try adding other mixed media, as well. Learn from each other and discuss techniques and ideas in supportive critique. Ages 16+. PHOTO: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6: Nov. 1-Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $215/person, $193.50/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Gain confidence working in Adobe Photoshop.

Uploading images into Adobe Bridge, use of Camera Raw, imagecorrection tools such as color and white balance correction, layers, masks, selections, retouching and much more will be covered, as well as printing on our Epson 3880 printer. No experience required. PHOTO: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY: Nov. 7-Dec. 5, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $175/ person, $157.50/BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Improve your portrait-taking skills in this hands-on class. Camera techniques, composition, the use of studio and natural light, and more will be covered. Bring your camera and memory card to the first class. SILK-SCREEN CLOTHING DESIGN: Nov. 6-Dec. 18, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $200/person, $180/ BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Ages 16+. Fashion design meets printmaking in this class! Fashion designer and silk-screen expert Amy Wild will show you how to print on jackets, leggings, skirts, pants and T-shirts. Learn to transfer and print images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Includes over 30 hours of open studio. No experience necessary!

communication THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Presidential Race, Part 1: The Campaign. Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Oct. 23. Presidential Race, Part 2: The Election Results, Tuesday, November 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from Exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 4827194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org. Two-part series: Join CVUHS dynamic social studies teacher Chris O’Donnell for an exciting exploration/discussion of this unique and critical race. Historical perspective lens, important contemporary developments included. Undecided? Negative ads? Gridlock? Chris will lead a lively discussion of the political possibilities ahead. Come learn facts/historical perspective not found in media.

cooking SATURDAY MORNINGS W/ CHEF TONY: Pasta Fagioli: Sat., Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-noon. Vegetarian Cannelloni: Sat., Oct. 27, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $35/class. Location: South Village, 130 Allen Rd. East off Spear St., S. Burlington. Info: Tish DiRuocco, 861-7600, td@ southvillage.com. Now you can work side by side with this colorful award-winning Italian chef, taste the results of your labor and leave with a recipe you will enjoy for years to come. You may opt for a single class or take them all, but don’t miss this fabulous opportunity!

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes,

Brand new studio in Richmond offering diverse dance and Zumba daily. After-school classes (ballet and hip-hop), belly dancing (beginner) and yoga classes by Sila. Broadway tap and jazz, line dancing on Friday and Saturday by Dancin’ Dean, adult ballet, and hip-hop and break dancing by Calvin Walker.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com. Montpelier Djembe class at Guitar Sam’s, Thursdays, October 11 and 18, 6:30-8 p.m., $18/class (lots of drums available!). Call for Thursday 9:30 a.m. conga class location. Taiko classes in Burlington begin Tuesday, October 30, with kids at 4:30 p.m., $60/6 weeks, and adults at 5:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Friday 5 p.m. conga and 6 p.m. djembe classes are walk-in classes for $15/class. Drums are provided. Call to schedule your own classes!

empowerment PUT YOUR HEART INTO 2013 GOALS: Nov. 3-10, 9-12 p.m. Cost: $99/two 3 hour classes, plus workbook, plus personal coaching session. Location: Hawks Meadow Apartment Complex, 17 Carmichael St, Essex Junction. Info: WorkLife-Purpose, Jim Koehneke, 857-5641, jim@worklifepurpose.com, jimkoehneke.com. Create a powerful new vision, overcome limiting beliefs, and live a more passionate life! Make 2013 the year the real you shines through. Clarify your Strengths, Passions, and Purpose to guide you in

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exercise WOMEN’S TOTAL BODY FITNESS: Daily. first group is free. Location: Artemis Fitness, 7 Fayette Dr., South Burlington. Info: Artemis Fitness, 448-3769, artemisfitnessvt.com. Maintain total body fitness with Artemis Fitness. Use the latest innovative tools, from battling ropes to kettlebells, from suspension trainers to power wheels. Artemis workouts are challenging, unique and fun. Get the strong, toned body you want now. Strong is the new beautiful! First group is Free.

healing arts HEAL W/ YOUR HANDS: REIKI: Sat., 9:30-5; Sun., 10:30-4. Love offering. Location: Venue will be sent to registrants, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Clearbridge, 324-9149, clearbridge@FeelingMuchBetter. org, FeelingMuchBetter.org. In two fascinating days of training, learn to bring energy into your hands to help yourself and others. Learn basic skills, beginning techniques, principles of the science underlying energy work and beginning Reiki (First Degree). Lots of hands-on practice. Optional follow-up. Satisfaction guaranteed. Instructor is Barbara Clearbridge. Limit 12 participants.

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LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING: Oct. 19-Nov. 9, 1-4 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $165/ series. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. This class is designed to develop the visual relationship with three-dimensional form and translate that form onto a canvas. Work will be developed progressively to learn various concepts and techniques each day. Each student can expect to complete a large landscape as well as a series of smaller color sketches. Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane. FALL LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR: Nov. 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $120/1-day workshop. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Learn to paint the beautiful fall colors in this workshop. The class begins with a demonstration by the instructor, who will explain his technique for capturing the essence of the subject, as well as creating light and shadow. The class will paint for the duration of the class followed by a critique. All abilities welcome with some drawing experience recommended.

MONOTYPES: Oct. 25, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $95/ course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Experience the fun and spontaneity of creating monotypes without a press. Using water-based paints and plexiglass plates, learn to mix and layer colors, create textural variety using tools, objects and brushes, and how to handtransfer the image onto paper. You will have time to create, reflect on your process and learn to loosen up. Instructor: Lori Hinrichsen. STILL-LIFE OIL PAINTING: Oct. 19-Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Fri. Cost: $165/4-wk. series. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Students will learn basic concepts of mixing and applying color, effective painting of light and shadow, and refining of edges and form to create vivid and lively works. Each student can expect to complete a large still life as well as a series of smaller color sketches. Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane. THE BEST OF PRE-K ART PROJECTS: Oct. 20, 9 a.m.noon. Cost: $45/3-hr. class. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. This will be an informative demonstration of several arts activities. Through this show-and-tell you will learn enough to teach these activities in your home, art center or childcare setting. Materials for each activity are included, including a children’s book that serves as the jumping-off point for the activity.

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martial arts AIKIDO: Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido. org. Adult classes begin on Tuesday, November 5th. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. Classes for Adults, Teens and Children. Study with Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 6th degree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are welcome 7 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 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. 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: 660-4072, 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 JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage TONGUE DIAGNOSIS FOR MASSAGE: Nov. 3, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $150/8-hr. class, 8 CE hrs. for massage. Location: Touchstone Massage School, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Jade Mounain Wellness, Brendan Kelly, 399-2102, jademtwellness@gmail.com, jademtwellness.com/classes. Chinese tongue diagnosis is a deep-reaching tool that allows us to understand the condition of the internal organs and emotions. Class will present Chinese medicine ideas including yin/yang and five elements. We’ll look at

several tongues and discuss them in-depth. Provides eight continuing education hours for massage.

meditation INTENTIONAL MANIFESTATION: Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $95/8hr. class. Location: Firefly Collective, 200 Main St., suite 9, Burlington. Info: Ambrosia Healing Arts, Nessa Emrys, 232-2062, contact@ambrosiahealingarts.com, ambrosiahealingarts.com. Do you want to learn how to manifest your desires and deepen into the joy, health and wellness that are your birthright? This is your invitation to delve into an easy four-step process that requires less than 10 minutes of practice a day. 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. MINDFULNESS MEDITATION W/MEG: Monday, Oct 22 & 29; Nov 5 6-7 p.m. Cost: $35/ One meditative workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, PURPLE SHUTTER HERBS, 865-4372, info@ purpleshutter.com, purpleshutter.com. Would you like to learn how to be more centered, present and aware? Join Meg for an introduction to Vipassana that is experiential and will give you tools to live more fully in a stress-filled world. This class is open to all. Three Monday sessions.

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tai chi HWA YU TAI CHI/ MONTPELIER: Oct. 15-Dec. 3, 5-5:45 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $90/eight week semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St, 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellen Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@comcast.net. Hwa Yu is a rare style of Tai Chi in the liuhebafa (six harmonies, eight principles) lineage. It features exercises to ground and circulate the chi, dynamic interplay of postural sinking, rising and rounding, and beautiful, fluid movements with poetic names, such as Green Dragon Stretches its Claws. SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. YANG-STYLE TAI CHI: Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/ class, $60/mo. Beginners welcome. $125/8 classes. 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.

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music INTERMEDIATE GUITAR WORKSHOP WITH IRISH GUITARIST JOHN DOYLE: Oct. 20, 2-3:30 p.m. Cost: $30/1.5-hr. class. Location: Town Hall Theater, Merchants Row, Middlebury. Info: 3880216, afterdarkmusicseries. com. Intermediate and above students will learn different strumming techniques, along with chord substitution, fingerpicking techniques and

MINDFULNESS TOOLS FOR HEALTH & WELLNESS: MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS-REDUCTION PROGRAM: Oct. 22-Dec. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $180/series.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com. In this eight-week program, participants learn mindfulness meditation practices known to reduce stress and anxiety and promote health and wellness including a body scan, mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga. Participants are asked to practice at home with guided CDs. Come hear about the class in a free information session. DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY (DBT) SKILLS GROUP WITH ADRIENNE SLUSKY: Nov. 5, 6-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $185/six-week segments (insurance accepted). Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. This ongoing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group meets on Mondays from 6-7:30. This group consists of four six week segments dedicated to each of the four DBT modules or skill sets: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. Advanced registration and brief information session for this program is required.

writing CREATIVE WRITING FOR GROWN-UPS: Oct. 25-Nov. 29, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Thursdays. Cost: $150/ five-part session (no class Thanksgiving). Location: The Writers’ Barn at Wind Ridge Publishing, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Publishing, Inc., Lin Stone, 985-3091, lin@windridgepublishing.com, windridgepublishing.com. This relaxed, positive, process-oriented creative writing workshop is appropriate for all writers of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Writers build confidence, craft, and results. Sessions include free writing, manuscript review, and creative exercises. Writer Sue Roupp has hosted this highly successful series in the Chicago area for many years. FROM VISION TO REVISION: Oct. 17-31, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Wednesdays. Cost: $75/threepart session. Location: The Writers’ Barn at Wind Ridge Publishing, 233 Falls Road, Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Publishing, Inc., Lin Stone, 985-3091, lin@windridgepublishing.com, windridgepublishing.com. Aimed at helping you clearly identify the heart of your work. Emphasis on craft, the writing process and theories of revision. Suggestions for brainstorming, story and sentence structure, and organization will ensure that your piece matches your original intention. For those hoping to self-publish

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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: classes 7 days a week. classes range from $5-$13, 10 class card $115, monthly unlimited $130. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com. The time is now. Study yoga with highly trained instructors commited to serving you. We offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Dance and more. Deepen your practice with Sunday morning intensives or one of our beautiful yoga retreats. Yoga teacher training begins January. All bodies and abilities welcome. REFINE & ALIGN YOGA: Ongoing Wed., 9-10:15 a.m. Cost: $13/75-min. class. Location: Confluence, 654 Granger Rd., Berlin. Info: Massage And Yoga Vermont, Hannah McGuire, 565-8116, MassageAndYogaVT@gmail. com, MassageAndYogaVT. com. Align & Refine is a movement-based practice with emphasis in postural core, integrity of alignment and diaphragmatic breathing. We will learn about the inherent intelligence of the yogic postures as we open, stretch and awaken our bodies. Infuse your practice with integrious and dynamic movement; take Align & Refine Yoga!

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t was supposed to be a one-night stand. In 2001, when First Night Burlington organizers approached veteran local fiddler Gene White about putting together a special bluegrass group for the annual celebration, he never imagined the band would last beyond that night’s fireworks. But now, after six albums, one lead singer change and concerts all over New England, the Bluegrass Gospel Project have become a Vermont staple. The band’s latest record, Shine, was released in late July. As part of a regional run of shows supporting that record, the BGP will play the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph this Saturday, October 20. “I would call it ‘organically developed,’” says White of the group’s evolution from one-off to Green Mountain music cornerstone. His previous band, the well-regarded bluegrass act Breakaway, had broken up earlier in 2001. At

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— gives Dennen’s contemplative elegy a soothing texture with her plaintive delivery. “She really gets that song across,” says White, adding that “Heaven” is a good example of the band’s secular appreciation for gospel music. “We’re not particularly interested in the religious aspects of gospel, exactly,” he says. “We love the sound, but we’re not super Jesus-y, for lack of a better term.” Instead, the BGP look for music that is “spiritual in nature.” Crehan, who also fronts the local folk band PossumHaw, joined the BGP in late 2007. She succeeds the band’s original singer — a Vermont institution in her own right — songwriter Patti Casey. Initially, Crehan says, she felt intimidated by Casey, whose brassy, dynamic style had come to define the BGP. “She is a wonderful singer, but I was very careful not to mimic Patti,” says Crehan, who takes a softer approach. Cautious of the powerful influence of Casey’s inimitable style, Crehan immersed herself in the BGP catalog just long enough to learn the melodies for each song. “I needed to find a way to make these songs my own,” she says. “Colby considers every note she sings,” notes White. “But she’s also very naturally gifted.” He credits Crehan’s work ethic and humility for smoothing the band’s transition, which also included replacing original bassist Jim DiSabito with Kirk Lord. “I always freak out a little bit over personnel changes,” says White. “But as soon as Colby sang at the audition, any and all concerns evaporated immediately. When she sings, everybody just shuts up and listens.” Shine, like the BGP albums before it, is composed of live tracks recorded at concerts, making listeners feel like they’re at a show. “I’m always disappointed when I see a great concert and then listen to the record and it doesn’t sound anything like what I just heard,” explains White. “So with the BGP, we want our records to represent what you hear and feel when you see us live.” Which, some might say, is a kind of religious experience.

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Last week, NBC’s “The Voice” moved into its second stage of competition, the battle rounds. We’ll soon know whether Burlington-based contestant nicole nelson will make it to the show’s final rounds. (Note: “The Voice” airs Monday and Tuesday nights. This column is written on Monday morning, meaning we haven’t yet seen this week’s shows. It’s possible that by the time this column runs, Nelson’s episode will have aired. We’re just gonna go ahead and assume she’s moving on, because she’s Bastinado awesome. But if she doesn’t advance: “Forget” you, cee lo.) Regardless of how Nelson fares in the next round, her musical life Nicole the Reality TV Singer to fans of will certainly go on. We hope it’s as a Nicole the Hardworking Musician Who multiplatinum-selling superstar with Is Going to Have a Long and Rewarding a sweet new recording contract. But if Career No Matter What.” it’s only as one half of dwight & nicole, Amen. If you’ve seen Nelson on that’s pretty great, too. When you shoot television but haven’t checked out her for the stars, it’s important to keep work in Dwight & Nicole, go check your feet on the ground. Austin-based them out right now. I’ll wait… songwriter Rebecca loebe, who will be at Pretty awesome, right? Whatever Radio Bean in Burlington this Saturday, happens on the show, the talent and October 20, knows all about that. drive that got Nelson this far will Loebe was a contestant on “The continue to serve her well on any stage. Voice” last year. Like Nelson did, she As for Loebe, she’s gone back to the chose MaRoon 5’s adaM grind as a hard-touring levine as her coach and songwriter (she dubs her follow @ made it to the battle round, style “post-brontosaurus DanBolles on but Loebe didn’t advane. indie-folk/crunk”). Twitter for more Still, she had quite an music news. Certainly, the exposure experience. So we reached from “The Voice” has out to see if Loebe had any helped her. But she’s not sage words for our hometown favorite. resting on her laurels. Her latest album, “Enjoy the experience, but see it for Circus Heart, is delightful, with songs what it is: This is the entertainment that ooze wit and charm. She should industry, not the music industry,” writes find a receptive audience in the cozy Loebe. “Performing on the show feels confines of the Bean this weekend. different than a normal gig, I think Before we move on, Loebe has one largely because the environment is so more bit of wisdom for Nelson. heightened and judgment oriented. Be “Lastly, take pictures! Write in your aware of that energy but don’t let it get journal!” she writes. “Being on the show the best of you! Stay true to your art.” is an exciting blur and someday, when Pretty good advice, eh? But wait, you’re being inducted into the Rock and there’s more. Roll Hall of Fame, you’ll want to have “Once TV time is over, do your very some mementos to share!” best to connect with as many of your new fans as possible!” Loebe continues. “I have been honored by how many After a 10-year run, local roots-reggae new fans and friends I was able to make band Pulse PRoPhets are calling it quits. through my appearances on the show. In a recent email, bassist alex budney But I worked hard for it. In the weeks writes that there is no “Behind the after my episodes aired, responding to Music”-style infighting; it’s just time correspondence became my full-time to move on to other projects. The band job. Let your new fans know where they has two local shows left: one this Friday, can find you and your music, and try to October 19, at the Brewster River Pub convert them from being admirers of

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what many consider to be the greatest album in Canadian history, Twice Removed. And chances are you never heard it. Geffen Records, the band’s label at the time, refused to promote the album in the U.S. because it was poppier than the dour grunge sounds then ruling the airwaves. Also because the label’s honchos were idiots. While Neil Young and Joni Mitchell supporters may take issue with who really has the greatest Canadian record — just stop it, Barenaked Ladies fans — Sloan fans generally agree Twice Removed is still the finest album in the band’s own 20-year history, and that’s saying something. Touring behind a special re-release edition of the record, the band drops by the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Thursday, October 18.

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1/2 LoungE: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: Todd sucherman of styx (drum clinic), 5 p.m., $10. Kloptotoscope, Arpetrio (electro-rock), 10 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

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Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: slightly stoop featuring Karl Denson, Tomorrow's Bad seeds (rock), 9 p.m., $25. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: cris cab (soul), 8 p.m., $12. AA. JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

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ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

t. bonEs rEstaurant anD bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Go Ahead & make me Laugh (standup), 9:30 p.m., Free.

MonkEy HousE: The saturday Giant, Eat the monarchy, snails (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

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nECtar's: Jenke Jumpoff: Tommy Alexander, Bless the child, set up city, Face-One, Quiet Lion, J Kaine, Alanna Grace Flynn, mavstar (singersongwriter, rock, hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. raDio bEan: Galen Peria (piano), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. rED squarE: Jordan Hull Band (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. skinny PanCakE: Josh Panda & Brett Lanier (soul), 7 p.m., $5-10 Donations. 1

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bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. CHarLiE o's: saint Anyway (rock), 8 p.m., Free. gusto's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PurPLE Moon Pub: James mcsheffrey (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.

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51 Main: Blues Jam with Dennis Wilmott, 8 p.m., Free. City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on tHE risE bakEry: Julian chobot (jazz), 8 p.m., Donations.

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MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy's: Rick Davies (salsa), 8 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: muspost and WDYK? Present Youngbloodz: Flight Risk, J. Phlip, Kate!rush (EDm), 9 p.m., $5/8. Dobrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HaLvorson's uPstrEEt CaFé: Friends of Joe: Rich D. & the Best of the VJE (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: conspirator, Boombox, Abakus, cinnamon chasers (live EDm), 8 p.m., $18/20. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: sloan (rock), 8 p.m., $15. AA. LEvity : Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Wax with Justcaus & Penn West (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy HousE: maryse smith cD RElease, Paper castles, tooth ache., DJ Disco Phantom (indie folk), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

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nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. $$ & ¢¢ A Tribute to Radiohead, Errands, DJ Luke skyrocker (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. o'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Dave Fugal & Julian chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: something With strings (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free. saint Anyway (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. rí rá irisH Pub: Dan Parks (rock), 9 p.m., Free. skinny PanCakE: Phineas Gage (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. vEnuE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.

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They pour your drinks, they watch the door, they toast your bagel. Sometimes with a smile, even. They are the staff at Radio Bean. And their talents extend far beyond putting up with your demanding ass. This Friday, October 19, the Bean crew turns the tables, providing the night’s entertainment with the first-ever staff talent show. It’s a huge lineup, but some highlights include a collaboration between KAT WRIGHT and jazz pianist SHANE HARDIMAN, LEE ANDERSON’s delightfully strange APPALLED EAGLES, roughly 27 acts involving booking guru JOE ADLER, and the FONTANELLES WITH MATTHEW MINOR, who is the Bean’s longest tenured employee, FYI. One question, though: While all the employees are onstage, who the hell is gonna make my $5 shake? Speaking of Kat Wright, her folk duo with Maggie Clifford, the LOVEFUL

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and MARK COVINO about the proto-punk band DEATH — a sleeper hit at the LA Film Festival this past summer — makes its local premiere at the Essex Cinemas T-Rex Theatre this Saturday, October 20. Following the screening, which is part of the Vermont International Film Festival, there will be a special performance by the band and a Q&A session.

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We’re switching things up this week. Rather than hip you to whatever random bands have taken up residence on my hi-fi of late, I’m suggesting you tune in to the latest edition of Seven Days’ killer music podcast, “Tour Date With DJ LLU.” In this episode, Llu sits down with MONTY BURNS of local hip-hop band LYNGUISTIC CIVILIANS. It’s a great interview with a member of one of the state’s hottest bands, and you can check it out at 7d.blogs.com/ tour_date. While you’re there, listen to some of Llu’s other interviews, including chats with ANAÏS MITCHELL, GRACE POTTER and MYRA FLYNN.

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translucent display, creating a virtual modular synthesizer. By moving the blocks, you create different patterns, beats and loops — and look like a fucking wizard doing it. Juxtapose that futuristic instrument with the prehistoric didgeridoo, and you’ve got Bastinado, who will play Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Saturday, October 20. Oh, and wear good shoes. (For the dancing, pervs.)

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Backstage PuB: four wins (rock), 9 p.m., free. cluB MetronoMe: retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. higher grounD BallrooM: "superheroes of stoke" (ski film), 8 p.m., $16. aa. higher grounD showcase lounge: Dead sessions all star Jam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/10. JP's PuB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. Marriott harBor lounge: clyde stats and paul asbell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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wheeling. Young and in the Way On their first two albums, Minnesota’s

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anyway presented a mellow take on bluegrass that was pretty and soothing. Then they grew a pair.

The band’s latest effort, Here on the Ground, is a rollicking, banjo-centric exposition of shit-kickin’ bluegrass that continues to highlight the trio’s considerable skill while infusing their tunes with an unhinged appeal. This week, the band plays a pair of Vermont dates, including Thursday, October 18, at Red Square in Burlington and Friday, October 19, at the Black Door in Montpelier. thu.18

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the Black Door: The Great Brook Blues Band, 8:30 p.m., $5.

Banana winDs café & PuB: red stellar (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

Bagitos: sherri's Jubilee (acoustic), 6 p.m., Donations.

green Mountain tavern: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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BranDon Music café: yoron isreal's high standards Quartet (jazz), 7:30 p.m., $12. city liMits: trivia with top hat entertainment, 7 p.m., free. on the rise Bakery: Gabe Jarrett (jazz), 8 p.m., Donations. two Brothers tavern: DJ Dizzle (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

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Bee's knees: tall Grass Get Down (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's Place: max weaver (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free. Parker Pie co.: sid Gulick (blues), 7:30 p.m., free. riMrocks Mountain tavern: DJ two rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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MonoPole: Dynomatics (rock), 10 p.m., free. MonoPole Downstairs: Gary peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., free. olive riDley's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., free.

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taBu café & nightcluB: Karaoke night with sassy entertainment, 5 p.m., free.

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theraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ nyce (top 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

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Backstage PuB: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., free.

cluB MetronoMe: no Diggity: return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. higher grounD BallrooM: The infamous stringdusters, Jatoba (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $15. aa. higher grounD showcase lounge: marco Benevento, superhuman happiness, home Body (experimental rock), 8:30 p.m., $15. aa. JP's PuB: starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. lift: Ladies night, 9 p.m., free/$3. Marriott harBor lounge: Dave Grippo (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Monkey house: pooloop, teleport, cameo harlot (rock), 9 p.m., $5. nectar's: seth yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Barika, Big mean sound machine (world music), 9 p.m., $6/9. Park Place tavern: in Kahootz (rock), 9:30 p.m., free. raDio Bean: radio Bean staff night (eclectic), 6:45 p.m., free. reD square: Gabe Jarrett trio (jazz), 5 p.m., free. starline rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

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nectar's: Last october (folk), 7 p.m., free. spiritual rez, hi8us, fink (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. raDio Bean: Less Digital, more manual: record club, 3 p.m., free. you Knew me when (indie rock, indie folk), 5:30 p.m., free. curtis Becraft (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. rebecca Loebe (indie folk), 8 p.m., free. fred Gillen (folk rock), 9 p.m., free. Brad Byrd (singer-songwriter), 10:30 p.m., free. The pilgrims (rock), 1 a.m., free.

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reD square: seth yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 5 p.m., free. John fries (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ a-Dog (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

the Black Door: saint anyway (bluegrass), 9:30 p.m., $5.

reD square Blue rooM: DJ raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ stavros (eDm), 10 p.m., $5.

Bagitos: The well-trained monkeys, 6 p.m., Donations.

charlie o's: The pilgrims (rock), 10 p.m., free. green Mountain tavern: DJ Jonny p (top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

champlain valley

city liMits: smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., free. on the rise Bakery: Dan Lavoie (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Donations. two Brothers tavern: 10th anniversary party with the Grift (rock), 10 p.m., free.

northern

Bee's knees: cosa Buena (Latin), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Brewster river PuB: pulse prophets (reggae), 9 p.m., na. Matterhorn: Vt ski & snowboard museum Benefit with Jay nash (rock), 5 p.m., Donations. Moog's Place: willie edwards Blues Band, 9 p.m., free. Parker Pie co.: comedy in the Kingdom: spark improv troupe (improv comedy), 7:30 p.m., $8/10. 18+.

reD square Blue rooM: DJ mixx (eDm), 9 p.m., $5.

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

ruBen JaMes: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

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rí rá irish PuB: supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

Monkey house: Dan st. Germain, phil Davidson, carmen Lagala, pat Lynch (standup), 8 p.m., $10. 18+.

MonoPole: eat sleep funk (funk), 10 p.m., free.

signal kitchen: The nektones, wombaticus rex (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $10.

olive riDley's: happy hour with neil Gillespie, 6 p.m., free. Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., na.

skinny Pancake: sarah stickle (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

theraPy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

rí rá irish PuB: Kenny mehler Band (rock), 10 p.m., free. signal kitchen: Bastinado powered by reactable, DJ rob ticho, DJ John Gonter (world music, eDm), 9 p.m., $7/10 18+. t. Bones restaurant anD Bar: open mic, 7 p.m., free. venue: 18 & up Destination saturdays, 8 p.m., free.

central

Bagitos: Jeff parry (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Donations. the Black Door: Duke aeroplane and the wrong numbers, anna pardenik and the apologies (gypsy folk), 9:30 p.m., $5. Positive Pie 2: Benefit for highfields compost with D'moja (world music), 9 p.m., $20. PurPle Moon PuB: Bruce sklar & Geroge petit (jazz), 8 p.m., free. the reservoir restaurant & taP rooM: in Kahootz (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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city liMits: Dance party with DJ earl (top 40), 9 p.m., free. two Brothers tavern: 10th anniversary party with the Bud Leeds ensemble (jazz), 6 p.m., free. house Dance (house), 10 p.m., free.

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Bee's knees: audrey Bernstein & the young Jazzers (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. sat.20

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It feels like we’ve been waiting an especially long time for a new Maryse Smith record. Her debut, Is Becomes Was, was released in late 2009 and instantly established her as one of the state’s most promising songbirds. A follow-up EP with her then backing band, the Rosesmiths, was rumored to hit eager ears in 2010 but never materialized, leaving smitten audiences waiting in anxious anticipation lo, these past three years. But some things really are worth the wait. Smith’s newly released, self-titled sophomore record is a remarkable effort, revealing a mature and deeply thoughtful songwriter in full command of her considerable powers. Smith’s debut was a humble and winsome affair composed of her earliest songwriting. Almost impossibly charming, it exuded a warm, handmade quality as inviting as it was intoxicating. It was imperfect, but perfectly so. The album’s blemishes and quirks,

combined with Smith’s own seeming shyness and insecurity as a songwriter, gave the record a wonderfully human, familiar feel. On her eponymous new record, Smith has grown up. From the outset, the strutting, early rock-and-roll strains of “Garden Flower,” she sings with newfound swagger. It’s a sly confidence. But behind that teasing, seductive grin are sharp teeth and equally sharp wordplay. It’s precisely that incisive and insightful bite that suggests Smith has entered a new artistic phase. The characteristic melancholy of her debut lingers, but it’s girded with attitude, as though she has a chip on her newly straightened shoulders. Adding to that air of confidence

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surprise to find that these boys can play a mellower, gently sung song well. Country-tinged guitar breaks come and go throughout and, except on the power choruses, the drums only threaten to piss off the neighbors. “Snow Storm” also seems to be the Pilgrims’ best effort to write a serious, emotional song. Lines like “I’m painting pictures, burning bridges all over this town” and “I’m shaking like a runaway child when you hold my hand” stand out against the tongue-in-cheek lyrics found on the majority of the album. It’s Not Pretty ends much the same way it begins and, while I usually prefer those typically nostalgic, looking-back kinds of closing tracks, I respect the Pilgrims’ choice. “Saint Paul” is as simple and urgent as any of the tracks that came before it, and highlights the Pilgrims’ talent for arranging extreme rockers and playing them extremely well. The Pilgrims play Charlie O’s in Montpelier this Friday, October 19, and Radio Bean in Burlington this Saturday, October 20. It’s Not Pretty is available at pilgrimsvt.bandcamp.com.

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of vibe. The bass line is maybe a little too funky and the beat is maybe a little too calculated to really call it punk rock, but there’s no question that it’s raw. Vocals, when they enter, alternate between whiny rude-boy — think Billy Joe Armstrong on 1992’s Kerplunk — and throat-shattering scream. It’s all there on the first track, 1978 to 1992. And while the Pilgrims don’t stray too far from this stylistically on the remaining 12 tracks, they do keep It’s Not Pretty moving at a fun, fast pace. “Snow Storm,” the album’s fifth track, provides a break from the in-your-face aesthetic with which the Pilgrims apparently feel most comfortable. It comes as a pleasant

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If you’ve heard of the Pilgrims before, there’s probably a solid chance that you’ve heard of an entirely different band that also happens to be called the Pilgrims. It’s just one of those bandaround-town kind of names. However, these Pilgrims, from Windsor, are far from your average Pilgrims — often folk-y, maybe a little obnoxiously historical or even perhaps a Spanish indie band. These Pilgrims are rock dudes who sound hell-bent on tearing down the barriers mysteriously constructed between every generation’s punk and alt-rock scenes. “That Gold,” the first track on It’s Not Pretty, the Pilgrims’ first full-length release — and second offering for Upper Valley collective/label What Doth Life — opens with some lone crunchy guitar chords reminiscent of the intro guitar part to the Clash’s 1978 “Clash City Rockers.” The full band’s entrance shifts the song’s 1970s punk throwback sound swiftly forward into an early R.E.M/ Replacements ’80s basement-rock kind

are Smith’s backing mates, including, in various forms, Nocturnals guitarist Benny Yurco, upright bassist Pat Melvin, drummer Ryan Hayes and ex-Rosesmith Paddy Reagan, also on drums. Ryan Power, who produced and engineered the album, turns up on a variety of instruments, as well. Collectively, they provide a sturdy backdrop, filling the space around Smith’s finely crafted new songs with tact and nuance. But Smith is the focus, and rightly so. Whether unloading on old flames (“Garden Flowers”), confessing her own transgressions (“Liar”) or mourning a fallen friend (“David”), Maryse Smith writes and sings with a rare combination of wounded grace and forceful reserve. Poetic, engaging and emotionally charged, Maryse Smith is an album worth waiting for. But, thankfully, the wait is over. Maryse Smith celebrates the release of her new album with a show this Thursday, October 18, at the Monkey House in Winooski. Maryse Smith is available at marysesmith.bandcamp. com.

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Matterhorn: Gent treadly (classic rock), 9 p.m., free. Moog's PlaCe: soulstice (reggae), 9 p.m., free. riMroCks Mountain tavern: Dj two rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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by storm, racking up accolades from Aussie Rolling Stone’s 2011

CluB MetronoMe: msr Presents: the jezabels, yukon blonde (indie), 7 p.m., $10. 18+.

Album of the Year to the 2012 Australian Music Prize. Now they

halvorson's uPstreet Café: George Petit trio Plus (jazz), 6 p.m., Na.

the bet here is that they will do just that. Catch the Jezabels at

have their sights set on winning over American audiences. And Club Metronome this Monday, October 22, with yukon Blonde.

Monkey house: The shrine, Dirty fences (rock), 9 p.m., $8. 18+. red square: The hardscrabble hounds (americana), 7 p.m., free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

taBu Café & nightCluB: all Night Dance Party with Dj toxic (top 40), 5 p.m., free.

on taP Bar & grill: open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

red square Blue rooM: Dj frank Grymes (eDm), 11 p.m., free.

radio Bean: eric hisaw (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. open mic, 8 p.m., free.

t. Bones restaurant and Bar: trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., free.

red square: industry Night with robbie j (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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CluB MetronoMe: melvin seals & jGb (jerry Garcia band tribute), 7:30 p.m., $20/25. 18+.

neCtar's: mi yard reggae Night with big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., free. radio Bean: Queen city hot club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., free. Pete sutherland and tim stickle's old time session (old time), 1 p.m., free. bad accent (gypsy folk), 6 p.m., free. The fontanelles (rock), 7:30 p.m., free. Dan lavoie (acoustic rock), 9 p.m., free. Dented Personality (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

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Bush swagger — the JezaBels have taken their native Australia

neCtar's: metal mondays: atlatl, outer stylie, zombie fighter (metal), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

levity : regi b's unusual exceptional comedy Thing (standup), 8 p.m., Na.

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plenty of cinematic 1980s-pop luster — and just a dash of Kate

olive ridley's: bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., Na.

higher ground BallrooM: flobots, astronautilis, jaw Gems (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. aa.

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river house restaurant: stump! trivia Night, 6 p.m., free.

a.m., Donations.

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Bee's knees: rebecca Padula (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Donations. rebecca Padula (singersongwriter), 11:30 a.m., Donations. Danny ricky cole (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Danny ricky cole (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

ruBen JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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Charlie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

skinny PanCake: joshua Panda and brett lanier (soul), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

tue.23

northern

levity : live music open mic, 7:30 p.m., free. Monty's old BriCk tavern: open mic, 6 p.m., free.

radio Bean: ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., free. john craigie and leigh jones (folk), 11 p.m., free. red square: john craigie (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Dj cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

champlain valley

CluB MetronoMe: advance music singer-songwriter competition (singer-songwriters), 6 p.m., free. Ktr Presents: spit jack, 2nd agenda, seamus the Great (punk), 9 p.m., free.

neCtar's: jay burwick (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., free. farm fresh radio presents Delta moon (roots-rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

BaCk to verMont PuB: john Gillette & sarah mittlefeldt (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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

burlington area

Monkey house: Pocatello (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

two Brothers tavern: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. monster hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

Bee's knees: linda bassick (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCe: open mic/jam Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

t. Bones restaurant and Bar: chad hollister (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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Bagitos: acoustic blues jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., free. gusto's: open mic with john lackard, 9 p.m., free. Mulligan's irish PuB: ryan hanson band (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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1/2 lounge: rewind with Dj craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., free.

on the rise Bakery: open bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Donations.

burlington area

neCtar's: moonalice (roots), 7 p.m., $7/10.

CluB MetronoMe: brown Gold (Ween tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

on taP Bar & grill: trivia with top hat entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

radio Bean: stephen callahan and mike Piche (jazz), 6 p.m., free. Dan blakeslee: Dr. Gasp's misshapen jacko-lantern tour (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. honky-tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

higher ground BallrooM: yonder mountain string band, brown bird (americana), 8 p.m., $23/25. aa. JP's PuB: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., free. Manhattan Pizza & PuB: open mic with andy lugo, 10 p.m., free.

City liMits: Karaoke with let it rock entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

two Brothers tavern: mid-Week music melodies: ryan hanson Duo (acoustic), 9 p.m., free/$3. 18+.

northern

Bee's knees: al 'n' Pete (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCe: Dale and Darcy (folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

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bAck to VErmoNt Pub, 59 Main St., Poultney, 287-4064. 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. riVEr houSE rEStAurANt, 123 Mountain Rd. Stowe, 253-4030. 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.

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. bLAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123. brEWStEr riVEr Pub, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 253-2123. 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. riVEr houSE rEStAurANt, 123 Mountain Rd. Stowe, 253-4030. 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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51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555. brick box, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. thE briStoL bAkErY, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. cAroL’S huNgrY miND cAfé, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. citY LimitS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. cLEm’S cAfé 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337. DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. ND’S bAr & rEStAurANt, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787. South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730. StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316.

tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

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1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012. 242 mAiN St., Burlington, 862-2244. AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. AuguSt firSt, 149 S. Champlain St., Burlington, 540-0060. bAckStAgE Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. bANANA WiNDS cAfé & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752. thE bLock gALLErY, 1 E. Allen St., Winooski, 373-5150. brEAkWAtEr cAfé, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. brENNAN’S Pub & biStro, UVM Davis Center, 590 Main St., Burlington, 656-1204. citY SPortS griLLE, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. cLub mEtroNomE, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. DobrÁ tEA, 80 Chruch St., Burlington, 951-2424. frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. hALVorSoN’S uPStrEEt cAfé, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. LEVitY cAfé , 9 Center St., Burlington, 318-4888. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. mAgLiANEro cAfé, 47 Maple St., Burlington, 861-3155. mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. oN tAP bAr & griLL, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. oNE PEPPEr griLL, 260 North St., Burlington, 658-8800. oScAr’S biStro & bAr, 190 Boxwood Dr., Williston, 878-7082. PArk PLAcE tAVErN, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015. rADio bEAN, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. rASPutiN’S, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. rED SquArE, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. rEguLAr VEtErANS ASSociAtioN, 84 Weaver St., Winooski, 655-9899. rÍ rÁ iriSh Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. rozzi’S LAkEShorE tAVErN, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. rubEN JAmES, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. SigNAL kitchEN, 71 Main St., Burlington, 399-2337. thE SkiNNY PANcAkE, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. t.boNES rESturANt AND bAr, 38 Lower Mountain Dr., Colchester, 654-8008. VENuE, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. thE VErmoNt Pub & brEWErY, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

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EYEwitness TAKING NOTE OF VISUAL VERMONT

The Story in the Stone

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ulian Isaacson’s sculptural masterpieces are as deeply connected to Vermont’s people and land as is his picturesque art gallery. Stone Revival resides in a beautifully refurbished red barn at the edge of a field on Route 100 in Stockbridge. The gallery is filled with stunning bas-relief sculptures. Lifelike farmers, Native Americans, buffaloes, trees and birds appear on slabs of local marble and hardwood, revealing the artist’s preference for themes of nature and community. Isaacson’s particular focus is the connection of humans to the natural world. Bas-relief, or “low relief,” was popular during the Roman era in what is now western Europe. The technique involves cutting away background material from a flat piece of stone or wood so that the final scene looks raised, or set apart from the backdrop. Isaacson does bas relief the traditional way: “I use a hammer and chisel, which allows time for the material to speak to me,” he says. “Power tools take away too much too quickly.” Even for bas-relief, Isaacson’s pieces are unusual, combining rural Vermont and Native American themes with classically European mediums and techniques. At first glance, Isaacson, 57, appears as hard and unapproachable as the stone he shapes. He’s a broad-shouldered, 6-foottall, bald-headed man who looks like he could crush you with the flat of his palm. But, in fact, he is friendly, with a warm, wide smile. Isaacson readily sets down his tools to chat about his techniques, his latest piece or art in general. Isaacson has an open-studio policy and encourages curious passersby and aspiring artists alike to stop by and watch him work. Along the back wall of his gallery is a viewing window that overlooks his cluttered workspace: Hammers, chisels, mallets and hunks of stone and wood are strewn across tables covered with a thin film of marble dust. In the midst of it all, Isaacson works intently. During a reporter’s visit to the studio, he is hunched over a marble bas-relief of chickens in a barnyard, chipping at the stone to reveal the “story” that resides within it. Soon, an empty corner of the marble begins to resemble a chick pecking at the ground. The background is rough and textured, but the feathers of the chick are smooth and soft. If you were to run your fingers across the surface of the stone, you would almost feel the chick’s down. Seeing his work, you might assume that Isaacson was classically trained. But he

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POWER TOOLS TAKE AWAY TOO MUCH TOO QUICKLY. JULIAN ISAACSON

never went to art school. His mother, Eileen, a Native American from the Osage tribe, was a sculptor. His father, Sidney, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant, was a painter. Isaacson’s childhood home, in the backwoods of Hancock, Vt., was an incubator for artistic creation — it’s where he learned to sculpt. “I literally grew up in my parents’ studios,” he says. “I never would have developed into the artist I

am today without my parents’ influence.” Originally, Isaacson dreamed of becoming a painter like his father. But at the age of 13, when his father was trying to teach him the color wheel, Isaacson realized he was completely color-blind. His father encouraged him to become a sculptor instead. Now Isaacson combines traditional painting compositions with sculpting techniques. Indeed, his artwork reads like a painting trapped in stone. “I really fell in love with paintings that tell a story — pictorial paintings with hidden meanings,” Isaacson says. “So I morphed that painting principle into my artwork.” Five years ago, after a 27-year sojourn in Oregon, where he worked as a professional chef, Isaacson returned to Vermont to work on his art full time. He and his wife, Lee Ann, live in a small apartment above the gallery. They often host art parties, open houses and events on their stone patio, which serves as an outdoor showroom for Isaacson’s garden sculptures and landscape accents. The couple has four grown children, two of whom have also returned to Vermont — the place Isaacson considers his true home and wellspring of creative inspiration. In addition to fine art, Isaacson crafts functional items, generally on commission, including nameplates, memorials, mantels, altars, gates, doors, wainscoting and tiles. He also uses his skills as a stonemason to build traditional stacked-stone walls, patios and stairways. In all of his work, Isaacson makes a point of using materials native to Vermont. “I like to keep things local,” he says. “I want my pieces to reflect the spirituality of the people both in content and form.” For example, his piece “Deer Dance,” in Vermont marble, shows a man from the Osage Indian tribe running with a herd of deer, illustrating the connection between man and nature. Another Vermont marble piece, “The Guardian,” depicts a proud Green Mountain Boy, a member of the Vermont militia led by Ethan Allen in the 18th century. And “The Lion,” a selfportrait done in local black walnut, reveals the animal nature of the individual. “My pieces show that man is an integral part of nature,” Isaacson says. “Sometimes, we forget how connected we are to the world around us. We are, like animals, creatures on this Earth — and we need to respect the environment.” Julian Isaacson’s Stone Revival gallery, 1354 Route 100, Stockbridge, is open to the public. Info, 746-8110. stonerevival.com

Art ShowS

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'25th AnnuAl Art At the CoACh BArn': A retrospective of past participants in the barn exhibit, including Kathleen Kolb, Austin FurtakCole, Carol MacDonald and orah Moore. october 19 through november 4 at shelburne Farms. info, 985-8686. AAron Stein: "Food for Thought," work by the burlington artist. Curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. ABBey MeAker: "The unseen," color and blackand-white photography. Through october 30 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 488-5766. AlexAnder CoStAntino: Mixed-media paintings. Curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at speeder & earl's (pine street) in burlington. info, 658-6016. Ali BAddoe: Acrylic portraits and abstract paintings inspired by travels in haiti. Through December 14 at Community College of Vermont in winooski. info, 654-0513. AliSon BeChdel: "Dykes, Dads and Moms to watch out For," artwork spanning the Vermont cartoonist's career, including drawings from "Dykes to watch out For," Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Through october 27 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510. AutuMn group Show: photography, paintings, handmade paper, artist books, jewelry and sculpture by 35 Vermont artists. Curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 651-9692.

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Thursday, october 18, 6 p.m. info, 253-8358.

'CroSSing CultureS': A survey of Australia's contemporary indigenous art movement from the 1970s to the present drawn from one of the world's largest collections of aboriginal art. Through March 10 at hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in hanover, n.h. howard Morphy, director of the Research school of the humanities at the Australian national university, gives a lecture about a sacred landscape in northern Australia, and the ways in which digital technology has enabled its people to bring images from the past back to life. A reception follows: Friday, october 19, 5:30 p.m. Collector and donor will owen leads a tour of the exhibit and discusses his 20-year exploration of the art and culture of indigenous Australia: saturday, october 20, 2 p.m. info, 603-646-2095. 'MigrAtion': Artwork and writing from switzerland, greece, the netherlands, italy and the united states addressing topics of immigration, emigration, migrant workers, refugees and visa holders.Chantal Akerman’s film From the Other Side is screened

'FroM Mourning to night: John Singer SArgent And BlACk in FAShion': An exhibit exploring sargent's role in popularizing the color black in America as a choice for high fashion rather than mourning. Through December 14 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. gioia Diliberto, author of I am Madame X, discusses sargent and the little black dress: wednesday, october 17, 6 p.m. uVM english professor Daniel Mark Fogel gives a talk called "Jamesian illuminations of sargent's world: The Art of Fiction and Fictions of Art": wednesday, october 24, 6 p.m. info, 656-0750. roBert CoMpton: A 40-year retrospective featuring fountains, hanging aquariums, large urns, sake cups, pitchers and housewares displayed together for the first time. Curated by Frog hollow. Through october 31 at 152 Cherry street in burlington. The potter discusses his work: Thursday, october 18, 6 p.m. info, 863-6458. 'FiVe FAll FridAyS': sip wines from Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard and winery while taking in local glasswork. part of a weekly series

ConrAd BAkker: "untitled project: seasonal economies," hand-carved and -painted facsimiles of objects related to maple sugaring, fall foliage tour packages and vintage Vermont collectibles. Through november 24 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.

ChAMplAin College FACulty exhiBit: work in a variety of media by art professors geebo Church, Jill Madden, Marc nedal, Toni-lee sangastiano and bob selby. Through november 24 at black horse Fine Art supply in burlington. info, 860-4972.

dAn higginS: "puerto Cabezas," photographs taken in puerto Cabezas, nicaragua, over a 28-year sister-city program with burlington. Through october 31 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713.

Chepe CuAdrA: Ceramic works that address our fragmented relationship with Mother nature. Through october 31 at block gallery in winooski. info, 373-5150.

deniS VerSweyVeld & AuStin FurtAk-Cole: white statuesque sculpture by Versweyveld; process-based abstract paintings by Furtak-Cole. Through october 28 at helen Day Art Center in stowe. info, 253-8358.

kirAnAdA Sterling BenJAMin: "Moon Ascending: Japanese Rozome batik," silk scrolls. october 19 through november 16 at AVA gallery and Art Center in lebanon, n.h. The artist discusses her work: saturday, october 20, 1:30 p.m. info, 603-448-3117. MFA in grAphiC deSign Student exhiBition: installation, fabrication, animation and posters by students. wednesday through Friday, october 17-19, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Alumni hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600. pottery weekend: Functional and artistic work by Vermont potters Andrew snyder, Christopher Vaughn and susan Freeman; pottery wheel demonstrations and refreshments. saturday and sunday, october 20-21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., elmwood guest house, burlington. info, 540-0466. rolAnd BAtten MeMoriAl leCture on ArChiteCture And deSign: louis Mannie lionni, editor and publisher of 05401,

diAnne ShullenBerger: "outside influences," colored-pencil drawings and fabric collages inspired by the natural world. Through october 23 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848. 'diSCoVery in our eVerydAy world': photographs by adults who took local photographer Dawn o’Connell's VsA Vermont "Can Do Arts Class." Through october 31 at penny Cluse Café in burlington. info, 655-4606. dok wright: "The love of light," photographs. proceeds benefit Vermont CARes. Through october 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088.

delivers “heResies: Cultural Criticism in the Context of the Commercialization, privatization and Militarization of a small new england City: A shaggy Dog story": wednesday, october 17, 6 p.m., williams hall, uVM, burlington. info, 656-2014. BeehiVe deSign ColleCtiVe: Members of the Maine-based artactivist collective, which creates anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools, discuss their work. saturday, october 20, 7-10 p.m., plainfield Community Center. info, 371-7239. 'the FirSt Step to FreedoM: ABrAhAM linColn'S preliMinAry eMAnCipAtion proClAMAtion': lincoln's handwritten document is displayed alongside a 1962 text of a centennial speech by Martin luther King Jr. Friday, october 19, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., burke gallery, plattsburgh state Art Museum, n.Y. info, 518-564-2474. AngelA MerCedeS BAilon: The guatemalan artisan and fair-trade nonprofit director discusses her work. Friday, october 19, 6 p.m., peace and Justice Center, burlington. info, 888-406-6151.

eriC eiCkMAnn: "Drive by love," new acrylic paintings. Through november 28 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107. FAll group Show: works by nancy Dwyer, [michael smith], Ray brown, Clark Derbes, elizabeth nelson and Ron hernandez. Curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at The innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222. 'FelineS, FeAtherS & FuSed glASS': oil paintings of birds by lydia littwin; paintings of cats by Teresa Davis; and fused-glass pieces by Alyssa oxley. Through october 31 at Davis studio gallery in burlington. info, 425-2700.

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BriAn JenkinS & phoeBe hAzen low: Jenkins' photos taken at local music venues; low's multimedia explorations of her dreams and memories. Through october 31 at nectar's in burlington. info, 658-4771.

of receptions and wine tastings hosted by waitsfield galleries. Friday, october 19, 5-8 p.m., Mad River glass gallery, waitsfield. info, 598-4819.

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‘Once Upon a Time … Impressionism: Great French Paintings From the Clark’

Robert Sterling Clark, founder of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., built his art collection in such secrecy that he was nicknamed “Mr. Anonymous.” But the secret’s out now. His collection of impressionist works is considered one of the top three of its kind in North America, and it’s visiting the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts through January 20. Expect works by all the French masters: Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Writes MMFA director and chief curator Nathalie Bondil, “More than a style of painting, [impressionism] crystallized the aspirations of an era of profound changes in society.” Pictured: “Danseuses au foyer” by Edgar Degas.

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'Frog Holloween': Artwork inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales by John Brickels, Wendy James, Kerin Rose, Amy Felske, Mark Dabelstein, Irene Lederer Lacroix, Robin Kent and Erik Rehman. Through October 31 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458. Gallery Grand Opening: Artwork and artisan food and crafts by Kimberly Bombard, Karen Barry, Annalisa Parent, Ann McFarren, Chantal Lawrence, Tinka Teresa Martell, Ben Thurber and others. Through December 31 at Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery, Burlington Town Center. Info, 863-4600. Grace Cothalis: Mandalas, collages and works in pastels and colored pencils. Through November 27 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233. Gudrun Kleist-Reyna: Sculptures and embroidered fashions. Through October 31 at Salaam and the Men's Store in Burlington. Info, 658-8822. 'Id: The Object of Self': Self-portraits by photographers from around the world. Through October 22 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. 'Impressions of Lake Champlain and Beyond': New works by Carolyn Walton, Susan Bull Riley, Athenia Schinto, Gail Bessette, Betty Ball and Charles Townsend, plus jewelry by Tineke Russell. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Humane Society of Chittenden County. Through November 28 at Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-8223. Jason Hanasik: "Fall in Line," photographs and video projections that aim to unpack traditional Western expectations related to masculinity, social class and valor within the context of the military. Through January 19 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

Jessa Gilbert: "In Real Time," a collection of watercolors, drawings and paintings through which the artist investigates different ways of capturing movement. Through October 27 at Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 845-532-6533.

Lynda McIntyre & Joan Hoffman: McIntyre's mixed-media work, Skyway; Hoffman's oil landscapes, Gates 1-8 and Escalator. Through October 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

John Churchman & Jerry Lasky: "Autumn Glory," photographs. Through November 30 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

'Oceanic Art and the Performance of Life': Intricately crafted objects, including masks, textiles and weaponry, from indigenous cultures of the Pacific Islands. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

John Meinen: "Roadways and Pathways," photography. Through October 31 at New City Galerie in Burlington. Info, 735-2542. Joy Huckins-Noss: "The Texture of Light," oil paintings of the Vermont landscape. Through January 2 at Pompanoosuc Mills in Burlington. Info, 229-0832. Justin Atherton: Prints and paintings of monsters, fiends and other ghoulish creatures that spring from the artist's twisted imagination. Through October 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. Katharine Montstream: "L'art de Paris," paintings from the Burlington artist's recent trip to the City of Light. Through October 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Kerry O. Furlani: "Drawings for Sculpture," large charcoal drawings that have served as the embryo for the Vermont artist's sculptural slate carvings. Through October 21 at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne. Info, 855-7501. 'Lake Studies: Underwater Explorations in Contemporary Art': Paintings, photographs, fiber art, sculpture and a site-specific installation inspired by Daniel Lusk's book of poetry Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain. Through October 26 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 363-4746. Leah Van Rees: Landscape and seascape paintings. Through November 30 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

Open Studio Weekend Show: Work by mixed-media artist Donna Kunkel, watercolorist Cindy Gage Stotz, photographer Ashley Marie Barbeau and woodworker David Scrase. Through November 15 at The Gallery at Phoenix Books in Essex Junction. Info, 872-7111. Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.: "What I Have Painted So Far," a 30-year retrospective featuring 185 works. Through October 21 at Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery. Info, 399-2670. Robin LaHue: "October Moon," paintings that showcase the mysticism of the moon and trees. Through October 27 at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington. Info, 485-7770. Second Annual Alumni Art Exhibit: A student-curated exhibit featuring work in a variety of media by alumni from as far back as the class of 1946. Through October 25 at Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 201-919-2947. 'Snow Mobiles: Sleighs to Sleds': Early, experimental snowmobiles, machines from the ’60s and ’70s, and today’s high-powered racing sleds, as well as horse-drawn sleighs; 'Man-Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present': Quilts made by men; Elizabeth Berdann: "Deep End," miniature watercolor portraits on pre-ban and prehistoric mammoth ivory; 'Time Machines: Robots, Rockets and Steampunk': Toys, textiles and

art representing the golden age of sci-fi, the 1930s to ’50s, as well as work by contemporary artists and designers. Through October 28 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. Terry Findeisen: Still-life and landscape paintings. Through October 27 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001. 'The Art of Horror': A variety of local artwork that explores the beautiful side of decay, the finer points of bloodletting and that special something inside a depraved mind. Through October 31 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt. com. 'The Return of the October Podge': Paintings and prints by Michael Tonn, Brooke Monte, Jason Osterhaut, Stephanie Holman Thwaites, Adrian Tans, Mattew Douglas and Kristen L'Esperance. Through October 31 at Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Info, 660-9005. Thornton Dial Sr.: “Thoughts on Paper,” early drawings by the self-taught artist; ‘Outcasts and Rebels: Prints by William Blake and Leonard Baskin’: Works dealing with a range of charged political, social and religious themes. Through December 14 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Vanessa Compton: Mixed-media works, shown in conjunction with the 20th Annual South End Art Hop. Through November 7 at Petra Cliffs in Burlington. Info, 657-3872. 'Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan': A traveling exhibit of large-scale paintings that memorialize Afghan civilian casualties, and drawings by Afghan high school students. Through October 31 at The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 863-2345.

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'1861-1862: toWarD a HiGHEr Moral PUrPosE': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War, featuring photographs, artwork, weapons and equipment, including a cannon likely used by Norwich cadets. Through April 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. aDaM BlUE: "AstroExplorer," an exhibit featuring two narrative series: "Constellations for the New Millennium," a night-sky installation made up of 70 drawings; and "How the White Cube Hangs Once the Gallery Has Closed," photographs. Through November 18 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 603-469-3255. aNNE sCHallEr: Recent paintings by the Northfield artist. Through November 2 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. art FaCUltY ExHiBit 2012: Work by Jennifer Baker, Kevin Bubriski, Jessica Cuni and Karen Swyler. Through November 10 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Info, 287-8398. BrENt GoUlD: "Angels, Sneakers and Wheels,” digital photography. Through October 28 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com.

CaMEroN HoWarD: Hand-painted floor cloths. Through December 31 at Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

Call For ENtriEs: The Vermont Folklife Center announces the 14th annual gingerbread-house competition from November 30 through December 19. Registration due November 20. Info, 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

'EMErGENCE': Large-scale works by artists from Vermont and beyond make up the inaugural exhibit in the former Fellows Gear Shaper Factory building. Through November 1 at The Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 258-3992. GlEN CoBUrN HUtCHEsoN: "Drawings and Paintings of Sculpture," works in pencil, chalk and homemade gouache on paper. Through November 30 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454.

CUltUrEHall NEW artists: Culturehall, a curated online resource for contemporary art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. To apply, visit culturehall.com/ apply.html.

PHotoGraPHY BY DEsiGN: Darkroom Gallery. Deadline: November 14. Juror: Joe Baraban. There are principles of design that will make a good image much better. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex36.

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iris GaGE: "Majestic Biology," photographs of flora, fauna and landscapes. Through December 1 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043. lois BEattY: New monoprints made with collagraphic and solar-plate printing techniques. Through October 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

VErMoNt HiGH sCHool PHotoGraPHErs: Darkroom Gallery seeks photos by students. Send submissions to Ken Signorello, submissions@ darkroomgallery.com. rED sQUarE NEEDs art! Busy establishment on Church Street currently booking monthlong shows for 2013. All mediums considered. Info, creativegeniuses@burlington telecom.net. art stUDios iN soUtH END: The South End Arts District has so much to offer! Working artist studios opening soon at various price points and locations. Application link: bit. ly/VhGP1q. oPEN Call For artists: Selection and application for art events in Basel, Venice and London. Visual artists will have their own stand in Basel or Venice. Info, galeriazero. info/program.html. Call to artists: The Fletcher Free Library is looking for local, talented painters, photographers and sculptors for an October/ November exhibition. Info, 355-5485. PUBliC art ProJECt: BCA Center and Redstone are accepting proposals for new public artwork to be the defining landmark for a hotel planned on St. Paul Street in Burlington. Deadline: October 19, 5 p.m. Info, burlingtoncityarts. org/uploadedFiles/ BurlingtonCityArts-org/ Community/Art_in_Public_ Places/StPaulSculptureRFP Reissue.pdf.

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NEW sPaCE sEEKs FiNE art: Seeking 2-D art for Burlington location for one- to threemonth rotation beginning now. Please email three JPEG submissions, artist website and a brief description of the work to anna@eastshorevineyard.com.

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Call to art oWNErs: Bryan Memorial Gallery requests the submission of privately owned fine art by deceased artists for exhibition and sales in its galleries this fall. Info, info@bryangallery.org or 644-5100. rEstaUraNt art: Hang your work in a fine-dining atmosphere. Chow!Bella Restaurant and Twiggs @ Chow!Bella are looking for artists to exhibit their work on a three-month rotation. Chow!Bella is located at 28 North Main Street in St. Albans. If interested, email Wendi Murphy, wcmurphy06@ hotmail.com, with at least two images of your work or your web address. No charge to hang; no commissions. CrEatiVE CoMPEtitioN_004: Presented by the Root Gallery. $8 entry fee. People’s-choice vote; winner takes all (compounded entry money). Limit one piece, any size, media or subject. First Friday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Vote for your favorite piece until awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. Location: RLPhoto, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com.

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Saturday

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8:00 pm at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington Musically Speaking, 7:00 pm Enrich your concert-going experience with a free, lively and interactive discussion.

“…foremost trio with the greatest longevity…bring(ing) to worldwide audiences their expressive and exhilarating interpretations.” – MUSICAL AMERICA

Performing:

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Concerto Grosso No. 1

STRAVINSKY

Suite from Pulcinella

BEETHOVEN

Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano