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THE LAST WEEK IN REVIEW JULY 23-30, 2014 COMPILED BY MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO

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A Shelburne man pleaded not guilty last week to the murder of his girlfriend’s 2-yearold son — Vermont’s third suspicious child death in a row.

Alarming trend.

That’s how much Vermont has in its Food Fight Fund, according to VTDigger.org.

The state is seeking donations to help defend its new GMO labeling law against a food-industry lawsuit. Vermont’s legal costs could be as much as $8 million.

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A survey of loons found 300 of the black-andwhite wonders in Vermont. That’s 10 times more birds than in 1983.

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GlobalFoundries’ offer to buy IBM’s chip-making facilities, including its Essex Junction plant, fell through, Bloomberg reported last week. Who will be the next suitor?

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Gov. Peter Shumlin ordered budget cuts in light of a projected $31 million state budget shortfall. Can you spare a dime for the Food Fight Fund?

1. “VLS Professor and Legal Commentator Cheryl Hanna Dies” by Paul Heintz. A prolific legal writer and beloved law professor has died. She was 48.

2. “Vermont Hospitals Prescribe Farm-Fresh Food” by Kathryn Flagg. A partnership between the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps and two hospitals offer free produce to patients throughout the summer.

3. “Burlington-Rutland Passenger Rail Line Coming” by Kevin J. Kelley. Plans to connect Burlington to Rutland and New York via rail are chugging along, and daily service may begin in three years.

4. “Fun and Farm-to-Table Food at Tilt Arcade” by Alice Levitt. South Burlington’s new bar-arcade offers fresh takes on pub classics.

5. “Movie Review: ‘Begin Again’” by Margot Harrison. A new film from the director of Once lacks that movie’s raw, intense chemistry, but it’s still a satisfying summer movie.

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HER ENGAGING MANNER ENLIVENED THE STATE’S LEGAL REPORTING AND HER COMMENTARIES BROUGHT HOME THE RELEVANCE OF THE COURTS TO EVERYDAY LIFE.

ne of Vermont’s foremost legal authorities — not to mention its most brilliant and outspoken — died on Sunday. On Monday, Vermont Law School announced the death of writer, scholar and teacher Cheryl Hanna, 48.

“A beloved professor whose scholarship focused on the intersection of gender and the law, Hanna distinguished herself as Vermont’s most prolific legal commentator,” Seven Days writer Paul Heintz wrote in an Off Message blog post. “Her engaging manner enlivened the state’s legal reporting and her commentaries brought home the relevance of the courts to everyday life.”

Hanna leaves a husband and two children. Her untimely death is not considered suspicious, authorities said.

The sad news spread quickly on Monday. Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and former Gov. Madeleine Kunin both issued statements. Reporters who had often relied on Hanna to explain dense legal decisions thanked her publicly.

A Michigan native and graduate of Kalamazoo College and Harvard Law School, Hanna served as an assistant state’s attorney for the City of Baltimore and on the staff of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Two years later, she joined the faculty of Vermont Law School, where she taught classes on constitutional and public law. Her academic scholarship was mostly focused on violent young women, sex trafficking and domestic abuse.

Hanna was an occasional guest columnist for Seven Days. In August 2012, she contributed a personal essay to its sister publication, Kids VT, about the challenges of balancing her academic career with her role as a mother.

In the modern “culture of competitive parenting,” she wrote, “it’s easy to believe that there’s some memo on how to keep it all together.”

“I missed that memo, and so I manage career and family the same way I golf: I’m a poser. I hack away, and it ain’t pretty. Every once in a while I connect, and it’s so beautiful in that moment I believe I do have it all,” Hanna wrote. “Then the phone rings or someone throws up, and I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that the game’s hard, and almost no one masters it. But I stick with it because I love it, and because, honestly, I have to.”

For many, Hanna was no hacker; she played like a tour pro.

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ODIOUS AMERICA

A big thumbs down on Merrill’s Roxy Cinema for exhibiting Dinesh D’Souza’s odious right-wing pseudo-documentary, America: Imagine the World Without Her. This alleged “film” is nothing more than a dog whistle for dim-witted Teabaggers and other low-information reactionaries.

A poorly made, intellectually dishonest infomercial for oligarchic capitalism, America has earned one of the lowest ratings — 9 percent — ever recorded at the film-review website Rotten Tomatoes.

Consider the source: D’Souza is a neoReaganite Republican propagandist and all-around lap dog for the 1 percent. (He is also a convicted felon; having pled guilty to election fraud in May, he will be sentenced later this year.) The world is awash in great, new independent documentaries. Don’t insult our intelligence with this sort of swill.

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I live and work in the vicinity of Planned Parenthood and must walk by there at least six times a day [Off Message, “Burlington Will Investigate Alternatives to Buffer Zone,” July 14]. So it is fair to say that I have seen my fair share of scenarios related to the protesters. Now that protesters are able to stand

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in what was formally a protected area, I have observed an alarming increase in coercive tactics on the part of some of the protesters. One woman in particular I have observed chasing people, trying to give them literature that the people had refused to take. She even tried to give literature to the volunteers ushering at the door of the clinic. More alarming, this same protester was taking pictures of people leaving the building with her cellphone. I don’t know what the solution to this issue is, but I am afraid that things are heating up. As far as I can see, it is stemming from the protesters who lack respect for the consumers who are trying to conduct themselves appropriately.

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The real story is different [Off Message, “Burlington College’s Financial Troubles Detailed in Letter From Accreditor,” July 22; Last 7: “Accounting 101,” July 23].

When Jane Sanders and the BC board negotiated the purchase of the Diocese property on North Avenue, there was no intention to sell off a significant part of this remarkable, unique and essentially public landscape to ordinary speculative development; their expectations were that the loans would be repaid by a large increase in enrollment.

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Under the present administration, the college’s enrollment has remained static and has generated nowhere near the numbers required for financial stability.

There has been no capital campaign to cover the loans or the cost of renovating the older, original part of the building — a building of great historic significance; the board of trustees seems to be paralyzed.

Board chair Yves Bradley has a critical conflict of interest as vice president of commercial brokerage at Pomerleau Real Estate, to which the college owes $500,000. It is astonishing that the board would not have requested his resignation or at least that he recuse himself completely from all matters relating to the North Avenue property.

BC is not a “young” institution, as President Christine Plunkett characterizes it. The college has a long history of alternative — some would say “radical” — educational service in the Burlington community. At the present time, and during Plunkett’s tenure, the college has lost its way: Its mission is in shambles; its community of staff and faculty has been decimated; the inadequate housing it provides for its students is being sold off to manage its debt. It’s time for friends of the college and its historic mission to come together and save it from itself.

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Health: A Morrisville researcher applies hard science to her sound therapy

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Poetry al Fresco

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Culture: The Sable Project brings young artists out of their comfort zones

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Architecture: A Waitsfield architect champions a net-zero revolution

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From oxen pulling to an ATV drag race, Franklin County Field Days has something for everyone.

This 39th annual bucolic bash celebrates rural sensibilities with traditional arts and crafts, live music, a 4-H parade, and much more — including the Ms. Woodchuck Vermont alternative beauty pageant.

Looking to get schooled in the best the local music scene has to offer? Head to Burlington College for the Precipice. This pastoral party features more than 25 bands — Barika, Rough Francis, Swale, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band and the DuPont Brothers (pictured), to name a few — and rocks on well into the night.

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Feast In the Fields With farm-fresh ingredients around every corner, summer makes Vermont a foodie’s paradise. Such bounty begs for al fresco dining, where meals just taste better. Held at Snow Farm Vineyard, the Savor the Islands Farm Dinner gives folks a picnic to remember with a spread of wood-fired flatbread, salads and sides, benefiting Food for Thought.

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The rule for the Duct Tape Regatta is simple: Boats must be constructed from duct tape and cardboard only. Seem like an impossible task? The crafty paddlers in this annual event feel otherwise. Showcasing feats of ingenuity and creativity, boaters do their best to remain afloat in a wide range of handmade vessels.

Norwich University architecture professor Arthur Schaller uses strips of printed matter to create colorful mini billboards in his current exhibit, “Billboard Buildings Collage and Mixed Media” at the Sullivan Museum and History Center. The image fragments – torn from publications and reconstructed – remain enigmatic, writes reviewer Kevin J. Kelley, “because they omit points of reference.”

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t a hastily arranged press conference last Thursday in his Montpelier office, Gov. PETER SHUMLIN revealed some pretty grim news: State economists had downgraded revenue estimates for the current fiscal year by more than $31 million.

To fill that hole, Shumlin said, he had ordered his cabinet members to figure out how to cut their agency and department budgets by 4 percent.

After announcing the bad news, Shumlin spent the next 25 minutes trying KARMÊ CHÖLING’S to convince a skeptical press corps that it RELAX, RENEW & AWAKEN RETREAT was actually good news. Sure, he said, state Oct 2-5 revenue wasn’t growing at the 4.8 percent JOIN US for a spacious retreat that allows rate economists had projected, but it was time to walk the land, visit our one-acre still growing by 3 percent — a far cry from organic vegetable garden, or to follow the the revenue-shrinking years that followed spontaneous callings of your spirit. the 2008 financial crisis.

“Let’s remember, this is a downgrade of an up year,” Shumlin argued, displaying his characteristic acuity with rhetorical gymwww.karmecholing.org nastics. “We continue to grow. We continue Barnet, VT • 802-633-2384 to have good economic news. But the growth rate this year will be slightly lower than we MENTION THIS AD AND GET 20% OFF PROGRAM F EES predicted. Again, it’s 3 percent higher than it was last year. That’s good news!”

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“Team, listen: Cheer up!” he said.

Cheer up?

It’s true that $31 million is a fraction INCLUDING: VOLCANO, G-PEN, AND PAX of the state’s $1.4 billion general fund budget — a little more than 2 percent, to be precise. But anybody who’s watched the governor and legislature spend four months haggling over fractions that small knows that it’s tough to come up with that kind of money.

It’s tougher still when the fiscal year has already begun, when raising taxes is not an option because the legislature isn’t in session, and when the governor rules out cutting the state’s contributions to its retirement funds and debt service, as he did last Thursday.

Though Shumlin pledged to avoid laying off state workers, that doesn’t mean the cuts won’t hurt. Let’s be clear: Slashing d in os b y el b o agency and department budgets by 4 percent will have a palpable effect on those who rely upon state services.

It’s not good news — and doesn’t inspire cheer.

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an unusual first-quarter decline in the nation’s gross domestic product. But they also posited a more troubling explanation: Vermonters may be earning less money than they did last year.

“This unusual, though not unprecedented, decline [in income tax withholding] may reflect on the quality of jobs currently being generated, with lower paying and more part-time positions now in the mix,” TOM KAVET, the legislature’s consulting economist, wrote in a report to the Joint Fiscal Committee.

Again, that is not good news.

Of course, the Shumlin administration has long displayed an Orwellian knack for turning bad news into good.

SHUMLIN HIMSELF ADMITTED THAT THE EXCHANGE’S 10-MONTH-OLD SAGA WAS “UNACCEPTABLE,” “FRUSTRATING” AND “ENRAGING.” When the federally mandated insurance exchange, Vermont Health Connect, nearly failed to launch last summer, Shumlin described the forthcoming website as “bare bones.” When his administration revealed in September that it would not be able to process credit card payments, he called the problem a “nothingburger.” And when reporters focused on the site’s inability to enroll small-business employees, the governor berated them for dwelling on the negative.

So last week, when Shumlin’s top health care adviser issued an unusually candid assessment of Vermont Health Connect’s continued failings, it almost seemed like good news — for the truth, at least.

At an off-season meeting of the House Health Care Committee last Wednesday, Chairman MIKE FISHER (D-Bristol) told Shumlin’s newly installed chief of health care reform, LAWRENCE MILLER, that those failings had reached “crisis” stage.

Specifically, Fisher was referring to the more than 14,000 Vermonters who have tried and failed to update personal information through the website’s “change of circumstances” feature, but who have been stuck in an endless queue. Many of those have been denied care — or are stuck paying too much or too little in premiums.

Miller told Fisher he agreed with the lawmaker’s assessment.

“There is a crisis for the ‘change of circumstance’ population,” Miller told Seven Days later that week. “For them, it really sucks right now.”

That problem is nothing new. But even after the state signed a $5.7 million contract last month with OptumInsight to task 125 call-center workers to clear the backlog, the queue has continued to grow.

Miller also identified a new problem: Over the course of four months this spring and summer, some 22,000 Medicaid beneficiaries failed to renew their coverage.

Miller blames the problem on a precipitous switch from paper enrollment forms to the malfunctioning website.

When the administration finally noticed the problem earlier this month, it obtained permission from the federal government to retroactively cover all those who were dropped. Miller insists that most doctors and pharmacists continued to serve those who lost their Medicaid coverage, but he admits that some may have opted against seeking treatment out of fear they weren’t covered.

“That was a highly negative event,” he said. “I’m not trying to minimize that at all.”

Miller’s candor — unusual for a member of the Vermont Health Connect politburo, and quite refreshing — may have been contagious. At another press conference last Thursday, Shumlin himself admitted that the exchange’s 10-month-old saga was “unacceptable,” “frustrating” and “enraging.”

“At this point, [it’s] definitely not worth the money,” he told reporters. “My hope is we can make it worth the money by getting it right. As governor, that’s my job.”

So what’s he doing to get it right?

In an interview with Seven Days on Tuesday, Shumlin listed three steps: He brought on Miller and operations manager DAVID MARTINI to “get the operations right.”

He issued a “directive” to “ensure that the IT challenges that we’ve been facing at Vermont Health Connect don’t stand in the way of Vermonters getting health insurance.”

“Finally,” he continued, “I’ve said, ‘Make this as easy for Vermonters as possible by ensuring they always have the paper option as we’re moving to technology.’”

To many lawmakers, Shumlin’s latest assurances are too little, too late.

“To spend all those hundreds of millions of dollars and to have a system that’s worse for many Vermonters is kind of appalling,” says Sen. KEVIN MULLIN (R-Rutland), a moderate Republican who voted in 2011 to set the state on course for a single-payer health insurance system.

Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT, a Republican who supported the federal Affordable Care Act and who says he “truly want[s] to see the exchange work” says he’s ready for a Plan B.

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“I just don’t believe it’s working now,” he says. “I think it’s time we take a look outside the box and change course.”

Scott says the state should consider following New Hampshire’s lead and adopt the federal version of the exchange, though that would jeopardize subsidies for low-income Vermonters, or team up with New Hampshire and Maine to create a “tri-state” exchange.

“There comes a point where you have to stop, and I think we’re at that point,” Scott says.

On Tuesday, Reps. Patti Komline (R-Dorset) and Heidi ScHeuermann (R-Stowe) called on Shumlin to allow individuals and sole proprietors to bypass the website and buy approved plans directly from health insurance companies. That’s exactly what Shumlin allowed small business employees to do last year when technical problems kept them from signing up through Vermont Health Connect.

“We have more than 14,000 people who are bogged down in errors through no fault of their own,” Komline says. “This is actually a crisis.”

More problematic for Shumlin than the criticism he faces from Republicans is that from his own party.

“I don’t know how many times I’ve been promised or how many plans I’ve heard that would fix it,” Fisher says of the change-of-circumstances malfunction.

In his day job as a social worker, Fisher says, he regularly works with lowincome Vermonters who have struggled to navigate the system — and he worries that some have simply given up.

“The administration says that when people have a medical need, they’re processing those requests within 24 hours,” he says. “But how many people are out there with medical needs who don’t call — that are just sitting on it?”

Nearly a year after the launch of Vermont Health Connect, Fisher says, the state’s health insurance system is no better off than it was before the exchange.

“At the current time, with the current functionality problems, it is indeed worse,” he says. “I continue to believe — or, at least, I have a hope — that the system will work better.”

SHaP SmitH House Speaker (D-Morristown) shares Fisher’s concerns, calling the situation “unacceptable.”

“I think that it’s incumbent on the administration to look internally to see whether this is a failure not only of [contractor CGI], but of the people who are managing the project,” Smith says. “It certainly looks like people have not lived up to what they promised.”

Fisher and Smith both say they’re contemplating legislative action. Fisher says he’s “willing to look at” the possibility of allowing individuals to directenroll, as Komline and Scheuermann have

suggested. Smith, too, seems open to the possibility.

“My view is that the one thing that we could have done was to make the exchange voluntary and allow both the individual market and businesses to buy directly from the carriers,” Smith says. “And I think that’s an issue we may have to revisit if the exchange is not running effectively.”

With an election three months away, it’s no surprise that Smith and Fisher — the latter of whom faces a tough race — are suddenly coming up with ideas to address Vermont Health Connect’s failings. But where were they last winter, when the legislature was in session and the website’s problems were abundantly clear?

“My role that I applied during the session was to shine a bright light on it, because generally shining a bright light on difficulties helps clean them up,” Fisher says. “That clearly hasn’t worked here.”

Says Smith, “We are not in a place where any of the legislators can go in and fix the coding and management problems. So as far as the execution of the plan goes, I don’t think that we can be found to be at fault.”

As for Shumlin, he’s still trying to get Vermonters to cheer up about the situation. According to the governor’s latest Dickensian talking point, Vermont Health Connect is a “tale of two worlds,” which includes those who are happy with their coverage and those stuck in the changeof-circumstances queue “who are incredibly frustrated.”

And what about those who temporarily lost their Medicaid coverage?

“Let’s be clear about that: No one’s going to get dropped off the rolls,” Shumlin said in Tuesday’s phone interview. “This notion that people are getting dropped off is not correct.”

Half an hour later, Miller called back.

Asked whether thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries were, in fact, un-enrolled, Shumlin’s health care czar said they were.

“Their Medicaid cases were closed,” he said. “The difference is they were reinstated. There was no coverage gap.”

Is it possible that some decided to skip visiting a doctor or refilling a prescription during that time?

“Yes, and they should not have,” Miller said. “I’m not trying to minimize it at all.

They definitely had their cases closed.

That was not proper. But for anyone in that group, they were reinstated.”

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tart a fire.” That’s the motto at Burlington College.

Lately, though, the liberal arts school’s leaders have been busy putting them out.

In late June, the entity that accredits New England schools — a crucial marker of legitimacy — put the Queen City college on probation, citing its fragile finances. Of the 240 schools within the purview of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, just one other institution is in the same situation, which triggers heightened scrutiny for up to two years.

In a June 27 letter to the college’s president, Christine Plunkett, the commission wrote that it was “extremely concerned” that Burlington College, which had no cash reserves, was scrambling to meet summer payroll. It was also “distressed” to learn that officials planned to dip into fall tuition dollars to meet its current financial obligations.

Other red flags: After back-to-back deficits, it was “not clear” the college had a “realistic plan” to get back in the black — and in that money-starved setting, the business office had failed to collect $150,000 owed to the school.

While Plunkett declined to comment on the letter, in a press release she said the concerns were nothing new.

She stated the “decision to place us on probationary status formalizes what we have been saying publicly for several years.” She characterized the financial problems of concern to NEASC as growing pains, stemming from the school’s move four years ago.

Leaders of the liberal arts school had bold dreams when, in the final hours of 2010, they took on $10 million in debt to buy what is arguably the most coveted undeveloped piece of private land within city limits. Then-president Jane O’Meara Sanders, wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.), envisioned the 32-acre lakeside college campus becoming a cultural center for the Queen City.

Three and half years later, both the dreams and the debt remain.

Plunkett, who was chief financial officer under Sanders starting in 2007, took over as president in 2012. A year later, her administration announced a plan to cut the debt in half by selling and leasing some of the property to local developer Eric Farrell, who wants to build nearly 300 housing units on the land.

A fraction of the vast property owned by Burlington College

Nearly a year has passed, and that land has yet to change hands. Plunkett said she expects to have a deal in place by the end of the summer. Farrell did not return phone calls seeking confirmation of that timeline. (Most of the school’s debt is held in tax-exempt bonds, which complicates the process of selling the land to a private entity.)

During an interview in early June, Plunkett riffed on the possibilities.

“What if the affordable housing has a daycare in it, and our students go work in the daycare while the moms come over here and take college courses? What if some of our students intern in the senior housing … What if our community gardens grow food for the senior center?”

Plunkett spoke in her corner office, located in the renovated portion of the 19th century brick building on North Avenue. The estimate to make the rest of the 90,000-square-foot former orphanage inhabitable was once as low as $200,000, according to Plunkett, but is now at least $2 million. The price tag for a complete renovation: upwards of $20 million. Fundraising for that work has yet to begin.

Meanwhile, the offbeat institution that prides itself on its unconventional approach to education is struggling with a very conventional problem: paying

the bills. Expecting to max out a $1 million line of credit, it recently took out a $250,000 loan with the Vermont Economic Development Authority.

Budgets have always been lean at Burlington College, which doesn’t have an endowment and depends on tuition — $23,500 per full-time student — for revenue. A shift of 10 students has a big impact, for better or worse, on its roughly $5 million operating budget.

At a time when Vermont’s college-age population is declining, Burlington College is banking on big enrollment growth — from less than 300 to as many as 750 students — and big fundraising goals to survive.

NEASC’s decision makes it all the more imperative that the college increase its revenue during the next two years. Yves Bradley, the chairman of Burlington College’s board, described the news as a “catalyst” for fixing the finances.

But being on probation might make that harder to pull off.

In an interview last week, Bradley said the capital campaign to renovate the orphanage had been put on hold.

Before asking people for money, “We need to make a case to the community that the college is here to stay,” he explained. “The time to come to them is

not when you are down and in need of a Band-Aid.” The plan, according to school officials, is to focus on recruiting students — an area where they claim to have been successful.

According to a July 7 press release, Burlington College serves 290 students, up from 190 prior to its move. Asked to clarify how many of those students are full-time, Coralee Holm, director of community and alumni relations, said, “We don’t have any further information that the college wants to release.” A June 18 email between college officials, provided to Seven Days by a source who asked to remain confidential, put the current number for full-time-equivalent students this fall at 212.

Not everyone is impressed with the admissions efforts. Karen Lapan, a former academic coordinator who worked at Burlington College for 14 years until she was fired two years ago, said the college is taking a “scattershot” approach to recruitment. “Today we are going to focus on veterans. Tomorrow we are going to focus on homeschooled students. Now we are going to focus on film students.”

The college accepts 83 percent of applicants, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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attract students while its accreditation Breen said he resigned from his job is at risk? Former Burlington College at the college for personal reasons but CFO Bill Breen, who left in August 2013 also because “I no longer had faith in after a year in the post, said it “could Christine Plunkett and her leadership, very well deter efforts to grow enroll- or lack thereof.” Convincing those who ment going forward.” remain will be key for Plunkett, accordHolm is more circumspect. “There ing to her former CFO. “I would think are a variety of reasons why kids come that it is critical that the president has or don’t come to college,” she suggested. the full faith and confidence of the facIn recent months, the administra- ulty and staff, as well as the students, PRE-SIDEWALK SALE tion, which currently does not include during a financial crisis,” Breen said. a director of admissions or a registrar, Where does Plunkett’s former boss SATURDAY, AUGUST 2ND has asked faculty to help recruit stu- stand? Sanders said her successor’s apdents. A document provided to them proach — the development proposal, l oca l , f res h, ori gi na l after the college was put on probation in particular — doesn’t align with what STO R EWI D E suggested positive talking points when she’d imagined for the new campus. discussing the issue in public. “Words to “I had a very strong community vision use” included “vision,” for the school. We “growth” and “future,” had promised that the while “probation,” space would be used M-Sa 10-8, Su 11-6 1076 Williston Road, S. Burlington “risk” and problems” for the community, and 4 0                     862.6585 were listed under “less I’ve been disappointed 802 862 5051 www.windjammerrestaurant.com desirable words.” to see that done very S W E E T L A D YJ A N E . B I Z Concerned faculty minimally ... Judging and staff might need from an outside perto first convince themspective, it looks like8v-windjammer061814.indd 1 1 7/25/14 3:51 PM 6/12/148v-sweetladyjane073014.indd 1:46 PM selves of Burlington they devised a different College’s sustainabilplan. I’m in no position ity. According to three to judge how that has sources with ties to gone, but it’s disheartcurrent employees, a ening to see the difmajority of faculty and ficulties they are going staff have requested a through.” meeting with Plunkett Burlington College’s to air objections about board of trustees is NEASC her administration. behind Plunkett and Michael Dabroski was hired last her plan, according to Bradley, who befall to create a music program for the lieves the college is “in better shape now college. In June, Plunkett praised his than we were a year ago.” recruiting work, noting that she exNEASC’s opinion? “The fact that pected the program to be a major draw these financial-management problems for potential students. In July, Dabroski were exacerbated under the leadership resigned after the college’s plans for a of the current President, Burlington’s Shannon in natural classical music festival fell apart — a de- former CFO, does not bolster the milled nubuck leather bacle he blames on the administration. Commission’s confidence in the ability “The institution is a mess financially of the college to resolve the issues sucand in terms of leadership,” he said. cessfully and in a timely manner.”

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A Giga-Mistake? Some Make the Case for Keeping Burlington Telecom B y K e v i n j . kelle y

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he local response verged on rejoicing six months ago, when Mayor Miro Weinberger announced at a celebratory press conference that Citibank had agreed to settle its lawsuit against Burlington Telecom.

Progressives and independents on the Burlington City Council joined Weinberger’s Democratic allies in welcoming the deal. Citibank had agreed to accept $10.5 million to end a five-year legal struggle over the $33.5 million it claimed to be owed by the city-owned telecom network. The deal called for $6 million of the settlement to come from a “special-situation lender,” with local businessman Trey Pecor, owner of the Lake Champlain ferry system, stepping forward in March in that role. The Citicity settlement also stipulated that BT would eventually be sold to a buyer to be determined.

Under the management of the Dorman & Fawcett financial advisory firm, BT has not only been stabilized; it’s on the verge of becoming a profitable enterprise. More subscribers than at any point in its history — a total of 4,740 — are now paying for access to BT’s highspeed internet service and its cable TV offerings. As a key measure of its muchimproved financial status under Dorman & Fawcett, BT earned nearly $1 million

community-oriented apps, such as an archive of local music, Davitian explains.

“This has only been possible because BT is locally owned and therefore responsive to the community. They’ve also built a network that private companies can’t match,” she adds.

Bradley Holt, co-owner of the Burlington-based web development firm Found Line, has been a leader in efforts to enhance the economic and educational advantages of what he calls

Knodell adds that her takeaway from last week’s Public Service Board hearing on the Citibank deal is that the threemember body “is clearly looking for ways of recovering as much as possible of the $16.9 million” in taxpayer funds.

“The only way to recoup it,” Knodell adds, “is to arrange some ongoing public ownership share that is not trivial.”

Weinberger, for his part, affirms “the possibility that the city will retain a meaningful long-term interest in BT.”

BT’s “powerful gigabit infrastructure.”

He joins Davitian in suggesting it would be shortsighted of the city to cede control over its telecom business. “If we didn’t have this network today,” Holt says, “we’d be talking about building it.”

He notes that 89 municipalities around the country have created publicly owned telecoms. “This is an opportunity of the century for us,” Holt declares.

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But, he pointed out in an emailed statement, “preserving BT as a wholly public asset is legally impossible under the Burlington City Charter, state law and BT’s Certificate of Public Good. The opportunity for full public ownership of BT was lost during the years leading up to 2010 when public money was spent without authorization and when the city signed a lease with Citibank that it could not service with BT revenue.”

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The settlement contained no provision for repaying Burlington taxpayers any of the $16.9 million improperly borrowed by the administration of former mayor Bob Kiss in an effort to prevent BT from going bankrupt. Even so, Weinberger won plaudits for carrying out at least a partial cleanup of the BT financial mess. “Good riddance” seemed to be the prevailing sentiment among Burlingtonians in regard to the prospective sell-off.

Meanwhile, a backlash has been building. Some local activists and politicians are urging the city to find a way to retain control of Burlington Telecom, which, they argue, is an undervalued, underappreciated and irreplaceable public asset. And it appears the state Public Service Board may not give its needed approval to the Citibank deal unless it contains stronger safeguards of the public interest.

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in fiscal 2014 after accounting for all expenditures other than debt service.

Burlington Telecom has also proven “a proactive and supportive” partner to the local public-access television network, says CCTV’s director, Lauren-Glenn Davitian. “Thanks to BT, we’ve been able to add channels and to build a ‘public cloud,’” she notes. The telecom provider is making noncommercial server space available for web developers to create

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a consulting firm the city uses in accessing the bond market had advised that “it did not believe there would be a buyer for a BT revenue bond.”

Public Service Board utilities analyst Jay Dudley expressed skepticism, however, over the city’s decision not to go the revenue-bond route. While questioning Rusten, Dudley noted that bond markets have demonstrated “strong demand for speculative-grade, high-yield debt for

group seeking to buy BT and reconfigure it as a member-owned co-op, suggests that no amount of political capital should be expended on an effort to preserve BT’s current ownership structure. Local residents are seen as unlikely to react favorably to such a move, given that BT’s bungled operation led to a steep downgrading of the city’s credit rating — a Wall Street action that is costing taxpayers more money.

The sTaTe Public service board may noT give iTs needed aPProval To The ciTibank deal unless it contains stronger safeguards of the public interest.

several months.” Interest rates for that type of bond have been dropping, he added. The city might have had the option of paying 5 percent interest on a revenue bond rather than the 7 percent it has agreed to pay Pecor in the deal financed

by Merchants Bank, Dudley suggested.

Persuading more than 50 percent of voters to support a BT revenue bond wouldn’t be easy, all parties agree. Alan Matson, a leader of a currently moribund

Weinberger further suggests that the city is inherently ill-suited to running a business that involves intense competitive pressures. “Telecom, internet and video present unusual dynamics where business practices are constantly subjected to disruptive forces from changes in technology, market demands, and mergers and acquisitions,” the mayor said in written comments to the Public Service Board. “Exposing further

taxpayer funds to speculation in this marketplace is simply not prudent.”

Many Burlingtonians no doubt agree with that assessment.

Or do they, wonders Davitian.

“I don’t know that the voters are sick of BT,” she says. “The city and the press have never explained to them what exactly is involved.” She urges that a transparent, inclusive process be undertaken to give residents an opportunity to learn about BT’s options and decide on its future. “That hasn’t happened so far,” Davitian says.

Knodell agrees, saying, “We shouldn’t be afraid to take it to the people and see what they think.” It could be pointed out, she adds, that ownership and management of BT need not be the same.

Dorman & Fawcett currently manage the company successfully and could continue to do so if the city were to retain ownership, Knodell suggests.

Yes, many people were enraged by the way BT was being run a few years ago, the Ward 2 city councilor acknowledges. But she warns: “If we end up selling BT at a fire-sale price to some private investors who make a windfall profit from it, that anger could quickly shift to the other side.” m Contact: kelley@sevendaysvt.com

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Those obstacles to continued city ownership are formidable, critics of the Citibank/Pecor arrangement agree.

But, they add, the mayor isn’t willing to expend the political capital needed to initiate and win a campaign to preserve city control. “If we have the will, if we see this as important to the future of our community, we can do it,” Holt insists.

“It’s a challenge that can be overcome.”

But the city is now prohibited at the state and local levels from spending any more taxpayer money on BT, city officials point out. And the pending deal with Citibank would require the city to raise millions of dollars to buy back BT from Pecor, who is now its de facto owner.

What about a revenue bond?

Members and staffers of the Public Service Board wanted to know about that in their questioning of Burlington’s chief administrative officer, Bob Rusten, last week. Such a bond would be secured with revenues accruing to BT, not with taxpayer funds.

Rusten told the board that Citi would not agree to wait for the six to eight months it would take to determine whether a revenue bond could be issued.

Mike Kanarick, Weinberger’s chief of staff, added in an emailed comment that

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ong-simmering immigration issues boiled up again recently as tens of thousands of Central American children crossed into the U.S. Some of approximately 57,000 unaccompanied minors who have made the journey since last October could land in Vermont. Gov. Peter Shumlin has expressed a desire to help house them, while also noting that the state lacks the large facilities that federal officials are seeking.

In the past, Burlington-based Vermont Immigration and Asylum Advocates, the state’s leading authority for refugees seeking asylum for 30 years, would likely have been preparing to spring into action, representing the children in court and helping them adjust to their new surroundings.

But now, a message on the organization’s voicemail tells the story: “Vermont Immigration and Asylum Advocates is no longer taking any new cases. If this is an emergency or you would like the return of your file, please call...”

After helping thousands of refugees who had made their way to Vermont, the organization stopped taking new cases in June and is winding down its operations. Struggling with an increasingly difficult financial climate, and wary of carrying out their vital mission on a shoestring budget, executive director Michele Jenness said, the decision to shut down was unavoidable.

“It’s hard to close doors on people, and it was a complicated decision, but it was untenable,” Jenness said in an interview. “We just couldn’t sustain it.”

Though the group is disappearing, officials hope other organizations will pick up their work.

Jenness intends to start up and lead a department at another local refugee organization, the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, which she said has agreed to incorporate legal assistance into their social service programs.

That association assists immigrants of all nationalities, Jenness said.

Jenness’ former staff attorney, Erin Jacobsen, plans to take some asylum applications and humanitarian cases in her new job at the South Royalton Legal Clinic.

No single financial blow forced the organization to close. Grants were getting harder to secure, Jenness said, and were coming with more restrictions

on how the money could be spent. The burden of running the organization with nominal funding year after year became too much, she said.

For example, when Jacobsen left in

January, it was difficult to find a qualified professional willing to work for VIAA’s wages, Jenness said.

VIAA had less than $108,000 in revenues in 2012, according to publicly

available tax records. The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement contributed more than half of that. VIAA’s second largest chunk of revenue came from individual donors, who collectively

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“It’s been workable,” she said, “and beneficial for our clients.”

The organization gradually evolved into what essentially became a pro bono legal clinic, representing detained immigrants — who are not eligible for public defenders and often face removal hearings without attorneys — and asylum seekers, who have to navigate a complex legal landscape.

They also tried public outreach and advocacy around asylum issues. Asylum is a legal status granted to immigrants who arrive in a country and can prove that they would be persecuted or tortured — often for political or religious reasons — if forced to return home.

A 2006 study from Syracuse University found that only 7 percent of asylum-seekers who did not have attorneys were granted asylum by judges, compared with 36 percent of those with legal representation.

JE nnESS Mostly, VIAA has been a troubleshooting organization, helping immigrants here in any way it could from its humble office on North Winooski Avenue.

The group made national news in 2003 when it assisted hundreds of immigrants, mostly Pakistanis, who sought asylum in Canada after the United States enacted new laws forcing them to undergo a special registration process with federal officials. Nervous about getting arrested or deported, many of the Pakistanis tried to flee to Canada but became stuck in Vermont after Canada enacted a new law allowing its border agents to send asylum-seekers back to the United States while their cases were pending.

“Just being able to accompany people on a critical journey, just playing a role, being allowed into people’s lives, I like that I can be a part of this community in a small way,” Jenness said. “We’ve had a lot of good fights.”

VIAA is not quite done yet. They are still working with 30 or so clients with pending asylum cases. They are referring new people who come knocking on their door to other attorneys.

Said Mires: We are just so proud of our staff and our reputation and the people we’ve been able to help.” m

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kicked in more than $19,000. Several organizations, including the Vermont Bar Foundation and the Sisters of Mercy, contributed as well.

“Grant-funding sources across the nation have reduced their support, and it’s become harder and harder to receive the funds,” Jenness said. “We’ve always responded to the need and tried to figure out the money after. Maybe that was untenable.”

“It is largely financial,” echoed Larry Mires, president of VIAA’s board. “In an ideal world, we’d still be there.”

In a letter to supporters announcing the decision, Jenness and Mires cited both the funding challenges and the “need for our ... staff to correct the balance between their work and other aspects of their life.”

The organization launched in 1987 as Vermont Refugee Assistance, to support refugees who had fled MiChELE civil wars in Central and South America. Most were in Vermont en route to Canada, which has historically been more receptive to asylum seekers than the U.S. In the old days, Jenness said, friendly border guards would tip them off when people had difficulty crossing into Canada. She and other staffers carried pagers so they could fetch and house those refugees who needed help.

Mark Banks remembers taking in refugees 20 years ago — usually because some paperwork problem was keeping them out of Canada temporarily.

Typically, he said, Jenness would call with word that a family, a couple or an individual needed a place to stay.

He and his wife, Iris, and their boys hosted people from conflict zones in Africa and Central America — first in Williston, then Essex. He said his boys learned an important lesson: that not everybody enjoyed the kind of life they did.

Despite the short-term nature of the visits, “In each case, a very human-tohuman relationship developed,” Banks said.

The same could be said of VIAA’s immigration contacts. While she still rails against the practice of detaining asylum seekers and others who don’t pose a security threat, Jenness said VIAA has long maintained communication channels with some veteran border officials.

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CAROLYN CARLSON: Actually, when I got hired, they’d just hired another woman fresh out of college.

There was only one other woman, but she mostly worked out in the field. So there were just two females in the office, [out of ] maybe 30 engineers.

SD: Several years ago there was much discussion about Vermont’s deteriorating bridges. Have things improved?

CC: We still have a lot of deficient bridges. But since I first came to work for the state, the way we do business and how we evaluate bridges and decide which ones should be on the program [to rehab or replace] has all changed for the better. So we are getting those structurally deficient bridges off the system. But that’s the thing about infrastructure. There are always going to be deficient bridges and roadways. Even if a town or the state maintains them 100 percent, there’s still wear and tear, just like [on] our bodies. Eventually, we all get old.

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SD: Was the Checkered House Bridge the biggest project you’ve worked on?

CC: It was probably the most challenging. I started

SD: What’s a bridge’s typical lifespan?

CC: Any bridge that’s over 50 years old is old. The grade of steel that was used at that time is different from the steel we use today. If you were to load-rate that structure for our trucks today you may find it won’t meet our needs, because our trucks have gotten so much heavier.

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CC: Now we’re in an environment where most of our design work is done with computer programs. But as an engineer, it really helps to do it by hand. You design this structure. Now let’s draw it and make sure all the pieces fit. When a new engineer comes on board, we still make them do it all by hand because, as you know, you can input numbers [into a computer], but if you don’t know what those results mean? Not good.

SD: Have you ever had a bridge fail?

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SD: Has the nature of the work changed much?

CC: The technology has. When I first started in ’85, computer-aided-drafting design was just coming on board. The agency had just gotten its first big CAD drawing program, and technicians had to have slotted times because there were only two machines. When I first started, everything was still drawn by hand.

SD: Have you ever had a pang of doubt about your own calculations?

CC: Yes. Way back in the early ’90s, I designed a bridge in Brandon over the railroad. Anytime you build a bridge over a railroad, the railroad [company] wants you to have more clearance. So we designed this bridge, a three-span cantilever bridge. It was a design that an older gentleman had come up with over the years. But the people who knew how to design those types of bridges were all gone [from the agency] by then, and I didn’t have a lot of experience. I remember thinking, I hope this works. I have to tell you, I was really nervous.

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arolyn Carlson is a civil engineer in the structures section of the Vermont Agency of Transportation. That’s the division responsible for maintaining Vermont’s 2,712 interstate, state and town bridges. If it spans more than 20 feet over a road, river or railroad, she probably knows it.

Carlson also knows she’s been at her job a long time — 29 years — whenever she reviews the original blueprints of a bridge that’s up for replacement or rehabilitation and recognizes the name of the engineer who designed it. She has yet to come across her own name, though, despite having designed more than 100 bridges statewide.

The 50-year-old native of Reading, Mass., studied civil engineering at the University of Vermont but didn’t specifically set out to be a bridge builder. In fact, when she interviewed with VTrans in 1985, she had no idea which section she’d land in.

Carlson’s best-known project is probably the Checkered House Bridge, on Route 2 in Richmond.

In 2012, the 350-foot metal-truss span, the longest of its kind in Vermont, was sliced in two and widened by more than 12 feet. The $15.9 million project, more than 20 years in the making, was the first truss bridge ever widened this way. It earned Carlson, the project manager, several national awards.

Carlson took time late this past spring to talk bridges with Seven Days.

working on that back in 1990.

We were just going to do a deck NAME rehab — remove the concrete, Carolyn Carlson put a new concrete deck on, replace and strengthen some of TOWN the floor-system members. But Williston when we started meeting with property owners, especially the JOB farmers who farm on opposite Civil engineer sides of the bridge, they were upset that we’d have to close the bridge for that long, so we started rethinking the project. Then, in 1996, the bridge went on the National Register [of Historic Places], which meant we had to save it, even if we used it as a bike or pedestrian bridge, or a park. In 1998, someone asked, “Can you widen this bridge?” We were like, “Probably, but who knows?”

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magine for a second an object out of context. A glass eye. A butterfly mounted in a box embossed with Chinese characters. A Cortland apple. A “coiled piece of clothesline rope.” A jar full of “soil black as India ink, a spider web of moisture creeping up the inside of the glass.”

Each of those objects appears in the new short-story collection from Montpelier author Gary Lee Miller, Museum of the Americas. Each has a potent, near-talismanic significance for a character or characters in one of those stories.

Take the soil: In the book’s title story, the narrator runs a “museum” on a run-down Upper Valley farm. His artifacts are jars full of dirt from all over the Americas, hoarded by his deceased, autocratic father: The Museum of the Americas might be your only chance to see Colorado River silt from the Grand Canyon of Arizona or black gold from the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. People lined up at the Museum door summer after summer.

To you, a jar of dirt might be, well, just a jar of dirt. But to an old Illinois couple that arrives at the Museum of the Americas long past its heyday, one particular jar is much more than that: a chance to make peace with the death of their son, who met his end where the soil originated. The couple begs to buy the soil. The narrator, to whom it represents his father’s legacy, won’t sell it at any price.

You can’t actually see this jar, or any of the totemic objects in Miller’s stories — the glass eye that embodies a woman’s guilt, the rope still linking an old man to a lost companion, the apple of a boy’s lost innocence, the butterfly that represents an addict’s elusive hope of recovery. They exist only in the author’s imagination. But you can pull out your own totemic objects and bring them to a “museum” that, in accordance with the evanescent power we attach to things, will exist only for a single evening.

It’s called the Bear Pond Pop Up

Museum, and Bear Pond Books will host it as part of this Friday’s Montpelier Art Walk. Conceived as a way to involve the community in celebrating Miller’s new book, the “popup museum” is a simple affair: Bring “objects of interest or importance to their owners” to the bookstore, fill out a museum card, peruse the community display from 4 to 7 p.m. and pick up your stuff before closing time. “The goal,” says a press release, “is to create a sense of the unique people living in, and around, Montpelier.”

Helen Labun Jordan, who directs Bear Pond’s author events and marketing, says the pop-up museum dovetails with the store’s aim to “branch out”: “We’re trying to do events that engage the audience as participants.” The idea came from Miller and happened to “fit in really well with the Montpelier Art Walk,” she adds. “We had been looking to participate with something related to books.”

A “core group of objects” for the exhibit is already in place, Jordan says.

While the objects in Miller’s stories are fictional, the author has contributed an assemblage of items thematically or tangentially linked to his narratives, including photos of his parents and ex-girlfriend, a tuba “dug from the mud of the Allegheny River” (according to Miller’s label), and a “giant display toothbrush … taken from the author’s large collection of vintage toothbrushes.”

Jordan’s own contributions to the museum include “cookbooks from my mother’s extensive cookbook collection,” she says, “including 1939 and 1951 editions of [the classic crowdsourced collection] Out of Vermont Kitchens.”

She’s also bringing in the skull of a rock dassie, “a rodentlike animal that lives in South Africa, in the cliffs,” and “looks

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like a cross between a groundhog and a mouse” but is actually genetically linked to elephants.

In other words, who says “show and tell” is just for kids?

We’ve all got objects with powerful stories — some of which Bear Pond will display on Friday. But Miller, a frequent contributor to Seven Days’ music section, tells such stories more powerfully than most. The holder of an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, he’s already published some of these shorts in journals such as Vermont’s Hunger Mountain and Green Mountains Review, as well as in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Washington Square and other publications.

If MFA grads’ stories are sometimes accused of a certain airless sameness, Miller’s defy any such pattern. While his style is always highly polished, his subjects and tones range all over the map. Among his protagonists are a harddrinking minor-league mascot, a teenage fortune teller, children learning the world’s tough truths, a suburban soccer mom and an aged Canadian magician with a big secret: He killed Houdini.

The stories’ settings range from the Great Depression to midcentury to the present. A couple are essentially haunting vignettes, such as “Melting,” a time-lapse view of a motor lodge bypassed by the interstate, whose heroine is introduced thus: “She couldn’t hear and couldn’t speak and her auburn hair held thick about her white shoulders like wind-twisted curtains of cloudburst rain.”

Most of the stories, though, are sustained narratives powered by deftly established conflicts. If Miller occasionally gives those conflicts a heavyhanded resolution — for instance, in “Lucky Duck, Lucky Luck,” a story about bullying and its aftermath — he generally keeps his effects subtle enough to surprise us into emotion. I defy any animal lover not to tear up while reading “Winter,” in which an elderly farmer contemplates the illness of his beloved hunting dog in unvarnished terms: “There was nothing left for her but suffering, and it was time for that to end.”

Each of these stories ushers us into a new, fully imagined world, as redolent of elsewhere as the soil samples in the Museum of the Americas, and Miller evokes those elsewheres with sharp observation and colloquial ease. A tour of the motley assemblage in the Bear Pond Pop Up Museum might be just the right gateway to the author’s museum of American misfits, oddities and dreams.

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INFO Bear Pond Pop Up Museum, Friday, August 1, 4 to 7 p.m., at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier.

Gary Lee Miller reads in the store’s Children’s Room at 7 p.m. To contribute objects to the museum, drop them off at the store after 10 a.m. on Friday and pick them up after 7 p.m. bearpondbooks.com Museum of the Americas by Gary Lee Miller, Fomite Press, 191 pages. $14.95.

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And none creates what is traditionally considered “Vermont art.” (Indeed, given the overwhelming quantity and quality of local artwork, that very notion is passé.) “These are artists who are challenging and pushing themselves,” Derbes offers. “There are artists in Vermont who live out in the sticks and make cutting-edge works.”

“International,” “abstract” and “conceptual” are other words he uses to qualify South Gallery’s stable of artists. In short, work that Derbes and Garcia believe stands up to “the greater dialogue” of art trends. But traditionalists need not stay away: Some landscapes and craft-based works have a place in this collection, too.

At a time when Derbes’ and Garcia’s own artwork is taking off at the national level — and the couple will welcome their second child “around the time of Art Hop,” she says — founding a gallery to promote others’ work seems like a stretch. But it’s a welcome addition to a vibrant art scene that paradoxically has few commercial venues for contemporary art.

And the two are excited to embrace their new roles as gallerists.

“Wylie and I have been talking about doing this for years,” Derbes says. “We thought someone should open a gallery to show this work …

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But next week Derbes and his wife, fellow artist WyLiE SofiA GARCiA, will open a brand-new venture in the high-ceilinged studio on Sears Lane: SouTh GALLERy. In addition to showing their own sculptural and mixedmedia work and Levinson’s photography, the couple is “repping artists from around the region,” Garcia says, by which she means about 30 of them in a variety of mediums.

“We’re exhibiting one piece per artist, but we have three to five more works by each artist in storage,” Garcia adds. Among those artists are MiLDRED bELTRE, EThAn bonD-WATTS, STEvE buDinGTon, PETER fRiED, W. DAviD PoWELL and SAGE TuCkER-kETChAM. Derbes notes that South Gallery has enlisted a number of area art professors — from the University of Vermont, Johnson State College and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. “There’s never been a cohesive space [to show] all these art professors around here,” he says. “And they tend to be the most experimental [artists].”

The works, styles and mediums are wildly diverse, and Derbes thinks a moment before explaining why he selected these artists for South Gallery.

Each is simply “someone whose work I’ve admired over the years,” he says.

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Founded in January, Black Fly bills itself as both a creative marketing agency and an artists’ collective. Rittling and Gallagher’s idea is to act as a nexus, connecting local artists with clients who may be looking to hire them. Writes Rittling in an email, “As an agency, we aim to make work that aesthetically shines for our client … work that better and more beautifully represents their brands.”

Though Black Fly has a small office in Richmond, the organization is still compact enough that Rittling and Gallagher mostly work from their respective homes. But they have ambitious plans.

Though they haven’t yet worked out the specifics of Black Fly’s business model, their goal is to fund the artistic endeavors of their member-artists by finding them marketing and advertising opportunities. And they intend Black Fly ultimately to be a profitable, self-sustaining force in the local arts scene.

Black Fly takes a 10 percent fee when it brokers a deal between client and artist. While artists can join the collective at no cost, Gallagher stresses that he and Rittling are “selective about who we choose to be a part of it.” They intend

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The shop, which purchases the food it donates with the proceeds from the sale of secondhand apparel, also has a far spiffier website than do most smalltown thrift stores. Its clean, professional design banishes all thoughts of tattered T-shirts and mismatched shoes.

The designers of the website are Joe Rittling and Connor Gallagher, the 24-year-old founding partners of a new, Richmond-based arts organization called Black Fly Collective. Creating that website was a pro bono job they took not only because they know the store’s manager but because they admired its unusual modus operandi.

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to funnel half their profits back into the collective to buy supplies that can be shared by members; they currently have their eye on a new video-camera gimbal.

The founders of the collective aren’t naive; they know they have a lot to figure out about the workings of their new organization. Rittling writes in an email, “We’re small, we’re in the early stages, and we have a lot logistically to figure out with each artist. But we have … a collective of people who want to continue to make art for the sake of art, who want to help with each other’s projects, and we have a business that wants to make art for business.”

The two men are keen on the works of Jericho muralist and Black Fly member Mary Lacy, so they approached

a soon-to-open Jeffersonville bagel shop and landed her a commission there.

“There are a lot of firms doing creative design and marketing, but they’re not necessarily going straight to the source,” says Rittling. He and Gallagher assembled Black Fly’s membership largely from friends and artists whose work they admire.

That roster currently includes the acoustic folk duo Cricket Blue, graphic designer Erik Jefferis and photographer Max Strong. Rittling was struck by the stark grace of Strong’s images of everyday life in such cities as Cairo, Egypt, and Bamako, Mali, so he reached out to Strong to join the collective.

“I liked how ambitious the goals for the collective were, while also being

thoughtfully planned out,” writes Strong in an email. “Black Fly has helped me create the tools I need, building me a website, researching galleries … I see Black Fly as a support network, a place that will help me grow as a photographer and present me with solo opportunities, as well as surround me with people that I can collaborate with.”

Rittling and Gallagher have come up with a splashy way to announce Black Fly’s arrival: the flame broiling of an entire 500-pound ruminant. Not for nothing is it called the Steer Roast. The event, which will take place on Lacy’s family’s Jericho farm, is designed to highlight the works of the collective’s members. (Her tessellated bovine adorns the event posters.) Among

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“The general idea [of Black Fly] is that we want to make something beautiful,” says Rittling. “That’s what we’re trying to do.”

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member-artists slated to perform are Cricket Blue and musician/rapper AAron Levison; visual art by Lacy, Strong and others will be on display in a gallery setting.

With money raised by selling tickets to the Steer Roast ( just one ticket remained at press time), Black Fly has paid to create prints of Strong’s photos; any proceeds from the sale of those prints will go directly to the artist.

Both founders are artists themselves.

Rittling has recorded two albums (reviewed favorably in Seven Days), and the two have collaborated on a number of video projects. They’ve been working on the first chapter of a planned five-part nature video, called In the Summer. Like nearly all of Black Fly’s members’ works,

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f you’ve been hearing a subtle whirring sound around Burlington lately, it’s likely the collective hum of the rumor mill. Local gossipmongers are all a-thrum and local Tweeters are all a-twitter about Mike Myers — he who Yeah, baby’d his rottentoothed way into our hearts; he who invited us to touch his monkey. Is it true that he now resides in Vermont?

A number of unconfirmed sightings suggest that Myers has indeed purchased a home in the greater Burlington area — OK, Colchester. Though Seven Days’ crack staff of paparazzi has yet to snap a pic of Myers enjoying a creemee, say, or attending a Lake Monsters game, our sources are reliable ones who are not, we’re sure, pulling our legs.

We present (with apologies to S.J. Perelman) a fictionalized scenario that summarizes nearly everything we know about this vitally important local matter.

The scene: A wood-paneled, suburban basement outfitted with a thrift-store couch and two recliners that clash with both the couch and each other.

Catamounts and Heady Topper posters share wall space with a dartboard and a framed hockey jersey. Gary, a young man wearing a pair of impressive headphones, “air drums” vigorously and sings off-key to Rush’s “Red Barchetta.”

Gary is rocking far too hard to notice the entrance, from a staircase at the rear of the room, of Wade, a young man in a black T-shirt and baseball cap. Wade picks up a nearby electric guitar and joins Gary in slaughtering this prog-pop staple.

Wade and Gary (singing): …Run like the wind as excitement shivers up and down my spine!

Gary (doffing his headphones): Oh, hey, Wade, I didn’t hear you come in! Thanks for the tasty licks!

Wade: Anytime, dude! Hey, guess what?

Gary: A small primate sprouted wings and emerged, flying, from your anus?

Wade: What the hell are you talking about?

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Gary: Nothing. What’s up?

Wade: My sister’s coworker’s brother told her that Mike Myers just bought a house in Colchester for $1.65 million!

IS MIKE MYERS NOW A VERMONTER? Gary: That’s awesome! Wow, that guy must be, like, at least 30 by now. Do you think we could get him to…

Wade: …buy us some beer? That’s exactly what I was thinking! Great minds, dude.

Gary and Wade share a meaningful fist bump.

Gary: So how do we get in touch with him? We could definitely use some brews.

Wade: No problem. I got it all figured out. We just call his publicist and tell him that a local charity would like him to participate in a fundraiser.

Gary: What’s the charity?

Wade: Us! We need beer!

Gary: Excellent!

Wade lays down a ferocious riff that Gary augments with an air-paradiddle.

Gary: How do we get in touch with this publicist? Also, what’s a publicist?

Wade: It’s, like, when a person gets really famous, they need other people to keep all the crazy people away. Like all those chicks who want to jump your bones.

Gary: Wow, I hope I never need a publicist.

Wade: Anyway, my sister got Mike Myers’ publicist’s number from the internet, and I have it right here, my friend.

Wade pulls from his pocket a cellphone and a crumpled piece of paper. He dials a number as Gary looks on admiringly.

Wade: All I need to do now is not seem like a crazy person. No problemo. (Into phone, in a “serious” voice) Uh, yes, hello.

Ms. Trevinko? Yes, my name is Wade W. Wadesworth, and I’m the president of a charity in Burlington, Vermont, called Brews for Dudes.

Gary gives an enthusiastic thumbs up, accidentally skewering himself in his left nostril with said thumb.

Wade: We’d like to speak with your client, Mike Myers. We think he’d be a most excellent spokesman for our organization. This would be a really cool way for him to connect with his new

neighbors here in the Burlington area. (pause) What’s that? Sure, he does. My sister’s coworker’s brother saw him buying, like, some frozen shrimp at City Market.

He was wearing a big floppy hat, but he wasn’t fooling anybody. My cousin even saw him on Church Street. It’s all over Twitter, duh!

Anyway, you can consider me Mr. Myers’ personal goodwill ambassador to Burlington. Now, if your client would simply consent to the purchase of, oh, a few hundred cases of beer, I’m sure that … (pause) Hello? Crap.

Gary: I’ve got it all figured out. Mike Myers is Canadian, right?

Wade: Yeah. So? Gary: So that means he must love Rush! It’s, like, a law in the Canadian constitution. You can get arrested there if you don’t like Rush. So all we have to do is pack your amp and my kit into your car, drive to his house, and play Rush songs in his driveway until he agrees to buy us some beer!

Wade: Gary, you’re a genius.

Gary: What happened?

The two young men eagerly gather their gear and head up the stairs.

Wade: She just said, “We don’t comment on such matters regarding clients.”

Gary: Todd Nevins told me that Mike Myers has a really hot sister.

Gary: Does that mean he’s not going to buy us any beer?

Wade: Schwing!

Wade: Looks that way, dude.

Many of the facts in this story are true.

Gary: Damn. (pauses) Wait, do you know where he lives?

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results ranging from tangelos to killer bees. The difference with GMOs is that they’re created by direct modification of the genome rather than traditional breeding methods.

The first GMOs were made by inserting the Bt gene, which gives built-in insecticide properties to plants such as tomatoes, tobacco, corn and soybeans. Since then, genetic modifications have been “stacked — often via traditional crossbreeding — to produce new crop species with multiple special characteristics. For example, several GMO corn types have been crossed to create one with greater herbicide tolerance plus the Bt insecticide trait.

Gene stacking makes it possible to produce a bewildering array of GMO plants adapted for different circumstances. It’s estimated that by next year at least 24 genetic modifications of corn will be commercially feasible. If they’re quadruplestacked, that could mean more than 12,000 GMO corn varieties — which, I feel obliged to note,

would be a helluva job to track.

So what problems have been reported from GMO crops?

Let’s dispose of the scariest.

In 2012 French molecular biologist Gilles-Eric Séralini, a vocal opponent of genetic modification, published a paper claiming rats fed Bt-modified corn treated with Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide were much more likely to develop cancer.

The press conference at which the study was released was a transparent — and successful — attempt to manipulate public opinion. In return for a first look at the research, reporters were required to agree they wouldn’t ask Séralini’s professional peers to check his work. They were shown those photos of rats with bodies grotesquely distorted by enormous tumors, and within hours the images and other grim details had been tweeted, posted and blogged around the world 1.5 million times.

Séralini’s methods and conclusions were widely

bright ideas leading to massive unintended consequences.

(Example: kudzu, promoted as ground cover until 1953 and now considered a noxious weed, spreading at 150,000 acres annually.) That said, GMOs are much more closely regulated than farming experiments of old.

The hot regulatory issue now is labeling. No one can seriously dispute the public’s right to know the GMO content of consumer products, but making it happen isn’t easy — GMOs must be carefully tracked from planting to market. Laws vary among countries: The European Union requires labeling at 0.9 percent GMO content or more; in China any GMO content must be indicated; in the U.S. labeling is voluntary.

GMO crops have been a boon for farmers, with an estimated $78 billion in additional farm revenue worldwide from 1996 to 2010 due to reduced costs. Since 1996 total pesticide use has dropped by nearly a billion pounds. Reduced carbon emissions due to GMO crops are equivalent to taking 8.6 million cars off the road.

Upcoming GMO foods include more-nutritious “golden rice,” scurvy-fighting corn and cancer-preventing tomatoes.

Whatever may go wrong, and something surely will, GMO crops are here to stay.

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ny” is a sweeping term, Brian. Let’s say there isn’t much truth — and there better not be. Although GMO foes may not want to admit it, the battle is over. GMOs rule.

Since the mid-1990s, GMO crops have steadily increased in terms of total crop area, with the U.S. planting more than any other country. For some crops the great majority of acreage is planted with GMO seeds — notably soybeans, with more than 80 percent of the crop worldwide of GMO origin.

Biotech seed accounts for close to two-thirds of global cotton and roughly a quarter of corn and canola. In the U.S., about half of all cropland is growing GMOs, including 93 percent of the acreage for soybeans, 85 percent for corn and 82 percent for cotton.

GMOs are plants or animals with an altered genetic code not found in nature. Genetic modification in the broad sense is nothing new; humans have been creating hybrid plants and animals for centuries, with

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What’s the story on genetically modified organism (GMO) foods? I live in rural western Massachusetts and am exposed to a nearly constant stream of horror stories of cancerous death caused by evil GMOs, often including terrifying photos of rats with fist-size tumors. Is there any truth to the claims of those preaching the anti-GMO gospel?

Brian

disputed by other scientists, and the paper was eventually retracted and republished in much milder form. But the PR damage was done.

Researchers have reported other GMO-linked health issues — food allergies, stomach and uterine inflammation in pigs — but here, too, reviewing scientists have seen problems with methodology.

Most studies thus far have found little reason for concern.

That’s not to say there aren’t legitimate worries about GMO usage, mainly stemming from environmental impact: • A serious decline in the monarch butterfly population may be due to increased use of herbicides on herbicide-resistant GMO crops, which kills the milkweed plants monarch larvae feed on.

• Chinese GMO cotton crops have seen an increase in second-tier pest insects as the primary pests have been reduced by insecticidal GMO cotton.

• Some bugs have already developed resistance to insecticidal GMO crops in the short time they’ve been cultivated.

It’d be foolish to say nothing will ever go awry with GMO crops. The history of traditional agriculture is full of seemingly

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or cecil@chireader.com.

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evon Ewalt, aka Learic, is seated at a table at a bustling Burlington café, his long, sturdy frame leaning casually against his chair. A dog-eared copy of Three Days Before the Shooting...,, Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second novel, rests beside his coffee mug. He furrows his dark, thick eyebrows, his mouth pursed in concentration. Then a sly grin creeps across his face.

“The first time I ever recorded anything, it was myself rapping ‘The Humpty Dance,’” Learic says in his rich, full baritone, referring to Digital Underground’s chartSCAN THIS topping PAGE 1990 single. “My voice hadn’t changed, so it was a pretty funny recording.”

WITH LAYAR Now 33, Learic has grown up a bit since he was a 9-year-old kid laying down on casSEE PAGE 5sette tapes squeaky Shock G tracks about getting busy in Burger King bathrooms. The local rapper’s chosen name is actually an acronym for “Learning Entirely About Reality Is Critical.” He’s a cofounding member of seminal Burlington hip-hop act the Aztext, which remains Vermont’s preeminent rap export.

But since that group has gone into semiretirement — or at least has scaled back its previously grueling schedule of performing and recording — Learic has come into his own. He has ascended as a dynamic, provocative and — with apologies to his longtime Aztext cohort, Pro — prolific voice in Vermont music.

This year alone, Learic will star in at least four of the most impressive and artistically bold recordings released in Vermont, in any genre. And that’s not hyperbole.

For example, take Unusual Subjects, his recent album with young rap protégé Kin. The record is easily the rawest of the 2014 efforts to which Learic has lent his name — perhaps even his rawest since the Aztext’s 2006 debut, Haven’t You Heard? But it still ranks among the better recent local hip-hop recordings in an increasingly crowded and talented field.

It’s a field Learic has helped groom and grow.

Then there is This Is How It Must Be, Learic’s collaboration with local songwriter and producer Jer Coons and Eric B. Maier as the Precepts. Built on catchy, collectively written pop hooks and given life by eclectic beats and live instrumentation, it’s unlike any local hip-hop record ever made. But Learic has long made a habit of doing things a little differently from anyone else.

For example, the Aztext ran well ahead of the industry curve by releasing their 2011 album, Who Cares If We’re Dope?, as a serial record in four shorter “episodes,” each helmed by a different producer. It was an ingenious move that helped the band stay relevant after a long hiatus and reminded audiences from Vermont to Europe that the Aztext were, are and

BY D AN BO L L E S always will be dope. Perhaps not surprisingly, one of Learic’s 2014 releases will be a new Aztext joint.

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But before that album hits, fans will consume Take Flight, Learic’s forthcoming EP with producer Dante Davinci — aka JJ Vezina of Upsetta Records — as the Write Brothers. Cinematic in scope, the project was written less as a collection of traditional rap songs than as a series of thoughtfully considered narrative vignettes.

The EP has already caused a stir among hip-hop bloggers across the country, thanks to its high-flying first single, “Extraordinary I.” Those in the know locally, such as rapper and Vermont Hip Hop News blog founder Justin Boland — aka Wombaticus Rex — have good reason to believe Take Flight will be the next Vermont hip-hop record to garner serious national attention.

“If it doesn’t blow Devon’s shit up,” says Boland of the Write Brothers record recently over beers at the Daily Planet, “then something is just really wrong with music.”

Learic has been regarded as one of Vermont’s most technically gifted and cerebral rappers since the Aztext’s mid-2000s heyday — and likely even earlier, with his

causing animals to mutate and move up the food chain.

The second thing about Learic that bears notice is the wealth and variance of cultural reference points embedded in his rhymes. You’ll rarely hear him get lazy and rap about how good a rapper he is. Instead, he challenges listeners — and other rappers — to keep up by incorporating clever nods to hip-hop, film and classic literature, among his myriad interests.

For example, after that “The Far Side”/ Pharcyde/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line, he goes on to spit about research chemists, American history and the videogame characters Mario and Luigi.

“How many rappers do you know that can reference Kool Moe Dee and Keats, not just in the same song but the same sentence?” observes Pro, whose given name is Brian McVey, in a recent phone interview.

Answer: maybe just one.

How many rappers do you know that can reference Kool Moe Dee and Keats, not just in the same song but the same sentence?

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“Yeah, it was poetry,” Learic says. “But it made that jump into the timing and cadence of rapping.”

Learic began messing around with his parent’s Yamaha Clavinova, a digital piano, and recording rudimentary beats. He also started writing more raps, which he describes as containing mostly earnest, bumper-sticker-level wisdom. Or exactly what you might expect from a 14-yearold kid.

“It was really well-intentioned; it just wasn’t very good,” Learic says. “I was trying to sound like a rapper.”

He crafted a four-song EP, intended only for the ears of some best buds. One night, he played the tape for a friend in the parking lot at a Vermont Expos game. The following

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Listen to any Learic track, and a couple of things will become immediately clear. One, while he raps with an identifiable style and swagger, he’s versatile. Just as importantly, he’s adaptable. For example, with the Aztext, Learic’s flow is often more purposeful and measured than that of his partner, Pro, who’s typically the more acrobatic linguist of the two. That’s less a reflection of Learic’s ability to deliver tongue-twisting bars than of his understanding of how he can best play to his partner’s strengths.

Though he’s well equipped for a starring role, Learic is perfectly comfortable cast as the straight man — no doubt owing to his time spent studying acting at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. But dig on this flashy line from “Extraordinary I,” and it’s obvious he’s easily capable of nimble wordplay:

Learic is a cultural sponge. He’s a voracious reader who carves out time daily with books the way some people block out time for yoga or running or breakfast. He’s a font of knowledge about film, both highbrow and lowbrow, and he can talk pretty much any style of music for hours on end.

Learic was born in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., the second child of a George Washington University English professor (mother) and a land-use lawyer who also logged time as a teacher (father). He says he was introduced to the classics at an early age, which helps explain his insatiable intellectual appetite.

“They surrounded me with literature,” Learic says of his parents. But he adds that his immersion in the works of Shakespeare and Keats was hardly oppressive. “The approach was never daunting. They didn’t force it on me,” he says. “It was just, like, ‘Look at this.’ That doesn’t mean I didn’t watch Saturday-morning cartoons and movies.

Literature was just always part of it.”

So was music. Learic says his entire family loved music, if with divergent tastes. His mother adored folky singersongwriters such as Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. His father was into blues. His older brother was a jazz aficionado, always putting Miles Davis and John Coltrane on the stereo.

“I learned to absorb everything,” says Learic. “It was never compartmentalized.”

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band the Elementrix and as a frequent collaborator with influential hip-hop group the Loyalists. He’s also virtually peerless as a freestyler and widely acknowledged as the state’s premier battle rapper. Now the strength and scope of his latest output attest that he’s reaching unprecedented artistic heights. Learic is not merely upping his own game, he’s changing the game for everyone else in Vermont.

He credits his childhood in D.C. with fostering his love for rap music.

“The way I rap and the people I’ve modeled myself after was shaped by the place I grew up,” he says. He bought his first rap tape, Naughty by Nature’s self-titled debut, when he was 10 years old.

Northwest D.C. is hardly the ghetto; it’s one of the city’s better areas. But it is an urban neighborhood whose cultural demographics make Vermont’s pale in comparison. Learic, who is white, says he was often in the racial minority in school. He points this out not to bolster some phony notion of street cred but to illustrate that hip-hop was ingrained in him in much the same way the Bard and Satchmo were.

“Hip-hop was part of the culture,” he says simply.

It was not, however, part of the culture in Hinesburg, Vt., the rural community where his family moved when Learic was 11.

“I was a city kid,” he says. “To me it was a one-horse town. There was, like, one of everything. I didn’t know if I could do it.”

Learic’s sense of culture shock receded somewhat when his family moved to Essex Junction, a town that has perhaps two of everything but was physically closer to Vermont’s version of an urban environment: Burlington.

“It was not an easy transition as a lover of hip-hop,” Learic says of the relocation to Vermont. “Socially, it was hard.”

This was the early 1990s, when alt-rock and grunge ruled the airwaves — just before Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would make rap more palatable for suburban audiences with 1992’s The Chronic.

“I loved Nirvana and the Offspring, too, and still love Weezer,” Learic says. “But I loved hip-hop.”

He eventually found a kindred spirit in middle school named Daniel Gillian.

“He had the baggy hoodie and jeans, so I knew we were probably into the same stuff,” says Learic.

The two bonded over their intellectual curiosity as well as a shared love of hip-hop. Still in middle school, they read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Then, taking a page out of that book, they began reading the dictionary.

“People would think we were so weird for reading the dictionary,” recalls Learic. “And we were like, ‘Well, Malcolm X did it.’”

Learic’s first rap, if it could be called that, was a poem he wrote in sixth grade in response to Rodney King’s beating by LA police. He can still recite the first four lines from memory:

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Learic no doubt experienced many such validating moments as a member of the Aztext. For about five years in the mid-2000s, they were not only Vermont’s highest-profile rap group but one of the state’s best-known and most respected musical acts, period. The Aztext had fans all over the United States and Europe.

But eventually the grind of touring and making records began to wear, particularly on McVey. The rapper started to question how much energy he could devote to music now that he had a family and a demanding job as sales manager at Dealer.com.

So the duo put the Aztext on the back burner. Learic, still hungry for making music, began performing Aztext material solo — with McVey’s blessing.

“There was never animosity about that,” says McVey, who has known Learic since high school. “We both knew I couldn’t keep up with it anymore. And it’s been really gratifying to watch him do his thing.”

A world of new collaboration opportunities soon opened up. Learic began regularly guest rapping with the Lynguistic Civilians, the current face of Vermont

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Monday at school, other kids were talking excitedly about it. Young Devon Ewalt discovered his friend had played it during a study hall.

“That was the moment I believed I could do it,” Learic says.

Soon after, he started his first rap group with fellow Essex High schooler Jeremy Donahue; they called themselves Learic and Phantom. In their senior year, the duo released an EP under the new name Subliminal Messages. Donahue eventually changed his rap name to Framework, and later cofounded the Loyalists. Learic credits that group, which preceded the Aztext, with laying the foundation for the current generation of Vermont hip-hop.

After high school, Learic reconnected with his childhood friend Dan Gillian.

Together they founded the live hip-hop outfit Elementrix. That Burlington group also included Dan Schwartz, who now plays in the Philadelphia indie-folk band Good Old War. Elementrix achieved a modest degree of success, including touring New England and opening for Spearhead.

During that show, Learic freestyled onstage with Spearhead MC Radioactive.

If his first mixtape was the catalyst for taking rapping seriously, holding his own with Radioactive was the moment Learic understood he could make it his life.

“When you’re a local musician, you wonder, Am I good for here, or am I just good?” he says. “But there are moments in your life when you realize you are that good. That was one of them.”

hip-hop and a band heavily influenced and inspired by the Aztext.

“It’s safe to say that, without the Aztext, there might not be a Lynguistic Civilians,” says the Civilians’ MC Scott Lavalla, aka Vermonty Burns. “Seeing their live show when I was a teenager growing up in Hartford, Vermont, buying their albums and seeing that they have songs with guys like [New York rappers] Double A.B. and Wordsworth, that was an eye-opener.”

Blogger Boland, a Northeast Kingdom native, had a similar experience, though his reaction to the Aztext was slightly different.

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“We all kind of hated them,” he says with a chuckle. “But it was just jealousy because they were so good. When I got to know Devon, I realized he was all about Vermont hip-hop and doing whatever he could to help the scene grow.”

Boland adds that Learic is “one of, if not the, best freestyle rappers I’ve ever seen, anywhere.”

In addition to seeking out opportunities with other producers and rappers, Learic began devoting his energy to rap battles — freestyle rap competitions in which the goal is not only to rap better than your opponent but to mentally wear him or her down in the process. He rarely loses a rap battle at the local level.

In 2012, Learic advanced to the second round of Black Entertainment Television’s “Freestyle Friday” in Atlanta against national competition.

Generally, Learic exudes a calm, evenkeeled demeanor, bordering on shyness.

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the Moon, a 1965 science fiction novel that takes place during the space race.

In the book, the Japanese beat the Americans to the moon, despite having the technology to get an astronaut there but not back.

“The song is about an astronaut who is about to go to the moon,” Learic explains. “But think about what else is going on at that time: Vietnam, race riots, the Kennedy assassination … so much turmoil.

So what if he gets up there after this hero quest, looks back at Earth, and a change happens?”

In the song, that change is reflected in two lines: “There’s no people, / the Earth looks so peaceful.”

“He realizes that it’s people who are the problem,” says Learic. “So what if he just chooses to live out the rest of his life with the oxygen he has left and doesn’t come back?”

Vezina’s evocative beats set the scene.

As the astronaut prepares on launch day, he contemplates the minutiae of everyday life — traffic snarls, kids playing outside, drinking coffee in the morning — and the song cruises with manic, dubstep energy.

But then our hero gets to space, and we feel his inner change occur in Vezina’s serene, weightless beats.

“We approached it cinematically,” says Vezina by phone from his West Coast home. “We spent hours shaping and reshaping it, like you would writing a film or a novel.”

Vezina, who founded Upsetta Records in Burlington but now works as a producer in California, points out that every song on Take Flight was approached in a similarly no-holds-barred manner.

“We didn’t put it in a box,” he says. “We didn’t say, ‘This is how inventive or crazy it’s gonna be.’ We decided if we were going to write about something really deep, we should just do it and let whatever comes out, come out.”

Vezina adds that Learic’s training as an actor played a role in helping them do exactly that.

“I think it shows in the depth of the storytelling,” he says. “In a perfect world, we would be in the same town or on the same coast and be able to work on an indepth stage show, where the audio and visual are one thing.”

Learic has recently left Burlington to pursue acting once again in New York City. He says he’ll still be heavily involved in Vermont hip-hop, but he feels the need to reconnect with his theater roots. So might Learic’s next artistic venture be, say, a hip-hopera? Don’t rule it out.

“Actually,” he reveals, “I’ve been working on a C.S. Lewis-inspired hip-hop musical for a while now.” m

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But the second he steps onstage to battle, he transforms. You can see it in his posture, which becomes almost frighteningly aggressive. You can feel the intensity in his rhymes, which spare no opponent.

But even in this brutal arena, Learic relies more on wit than bravado.

“Rap is a genre that basically consists of dudes yelling at each other into microphones,” says Boland. “So it’s confrontational by nature. And one way to confront someone, especially in a battle, is by being as aggressive and nasty as possible.”

Boland says there is another way, though: “You can be the smartest guy in the room. And in Devon’s case, he usually is.”

That blend of brain power, improvisational skill and passion translates to Learic’s recording projects. Much of the Precepts record, in particular, was written in an opposite fashion from the way rappers typically write. Rather than coming up with verses and building hooks around them, the trio often developed the hooks on this record first; then Learic wrote lyrics to fit.

“Hip-hop is obviously very often versedriven,” says Coons. “But we started getting really collaborative and experimental with the hooks.”

Coons, Maier and Learic worked on the record for 18 months, during which time they became friends. Coons and Maier began pitching the rapper hooks based on what was going on in his personal life at the time.

“Whether it was about a breakup or whatever else was happening with him, the hooks basically became writing prompts,” Coons says. “I think he really thrives on that challenge, which is why he’s such a great battle rapper, too. When the pressure is on, Devon has nowhere to go but to whatever is in the deep recesses of his brain.”

“That record changed the way I think about rapping,” Learic says. “It became less focused on rhyme schemes and the technical aspects and all about what we were saying, the stories we wanted to tell. The more you free yourself from the technical constraints of rapping, the more things flow, the more it just works.

“It’s like acting,” he continues.

“Anthony Hopkins says his lines 1,000 times so he doesn’t need to remember them, and just inhabits his character.”

That approach carried over to the Write Brothers project. Indeed, there is a uniquely dramatic quality to Take Flight.

And Learic’s rhyme schemes, many cowritten with Vezina, can be wildly unconventional, sometimes even veering into spoken-word poetry.

“We approached it almost like you would writing the treatment for a screenplay,” he says.

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n hour and a half southeast of Burlington, in search of a group of millennial artists living off the grid, I stop at a bookstore in Rochester to ask for directions. I’m headed to the Sable Project, a new summerlong artist-residency program on a rural property in Stockbridge, and I’m relieved when a local’s face lights up in recognition.

“They’re doing all sorts of things up there,” she tells me, pulling out a map book and tapping her finger on the twisting line marked Taggart Hill Road.

“That dotted line means the road’s not finished,” she explains. “When it’s that far up, you don’t know what condition it’s going to be in.”

Two houses past the first downed power line and right before the brightorange road-closure sign, I pull into a residential driveway. A teenager clutching a lighter emerges from the garage, eyeing my city garb dubiously. I ask again for the Sable Project and his expression changes. “Oh, yeah,” he says knowingly, pointing me in the right direction.

Ten minutes later, I arrive on the Sable Project’s grounds — a 15-and-ahalf-acre swath of forest with one very recently cleared field. The 23-year-old model who owns it ambles down the hill to greet me, brushing back a shock of platinum-blond hair. Muddy clay and bits of straw cake his arms up to his biceps. I shake his hand anyway.

“I’m building a dragon oven,” he says, launching my tour of the property. “It’s an earth oven with a dragon sculpture on top of it. Smoke comes out of the mouth.”

Otto Pierce is a Royalton native, a Stockbridge Central School and Sharon Academy graduate, and a not-currentlyenrolled Middlebury College student.

He’s also an aspiring contemporary

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dancer and Ford model who’s walked the runways at Calvin Klein and Louis Vuitton, landed a major campaign with French Connection, and appeared in the pages of Vogue and GQ. When I ask what those names in fashion meant to him as a kid growing up in central Vermont, Pierce lets out a slightly hysterical laugh.

“I knew Calvin Klein,” he says.

“Everyone knows Calvin Klein. That’s the only one I can tell people around here and they’ll be, like, Oh, wow.”

Pierce bought the land in Stockbridge on impulse last year when he noticed it was for sale. Initially he simply saw it as an investment for the future and a foothold in the area where he’d grown up, close to family — his mom owns the adjacent property. “It just seemed like a smart thing to do,” Pierce reflects.

We’ve clambered up a handmade wooden ladder to the tree house he shares with two other artists. “Plus, it’s a beautiful part of the world,” he adds, gesturing at the view.

Once Pierce owned the land, he says, it became a “vacuum for ideas” and potential uses. Plans got under way earlier than expected last September, when Pierce held a birthday party on the property just before leaving for four months in Paris. “We had a potluck and stayed up singing and reciting poetry, and it just felt really great to have a lot of creative people in the space,” he remembers.

Pierce had long been attracted to artistic environments where he could collaborate with people he trusted,

something he’d had for a time in Middlebury College’s dance department. There, he “found a place,” he says, among creative professors and peers in an academic environment where he was otherwise disinclined to stay. He took time off to study hip-hop dance in New York City and was scouted by a modeling agent his first weekend there. His career took off quickly.

Though Pierce enjoys and appreciates modeling, he says it’s “not really the most rewarding or intellectually stimulating” job. He’s still working consistently; since the Sable Project began in June, he’s made three trips to New York for shoots.

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February, Pierce enlisted his friend Anna Ready-Campbell as codirector, and the two began soliciting applications via word-of-mouth and socialmedia channels.

The founding idea of the Sable Project was simple: Gather a group of artists, put them in a living situation that’s out of their comfort zone and remove the barriers to making art — as well as the costs.

The summer was bankrolled by a successful $10,000 crowdfunding campaign.

That sum pays for art supplies and frees up the artists to focus on their work.

Pierce and Ready-Campbell kept the living environment rustic to encourage participants to approach their art in new ways. “It’s been really cool to not have a studio and to be forced to dance outside, in the rocks and the roots and the grass, and see how that influences the movement,” says dancer Jessica Lee, 23. She grew up in Fairfield, Conn., and worked in New York City after college.

Pierce and Ready-Campbell selected a dozen artists for the Sable Project’s first group, mostly graduates of liberal-arts colleges such as Middlebury and Bard, or of art schools such as Cooper Union in New York.

Their art forms are diverse: contemporary dance, puppetry, painting, multimedia sculpture. Eight of the residents arrived on the “Sable Land,” as they call it, in early June. Four more are scheduled to arrive in the first week of August.

Though Pierce and Ready-Campbell came early to oversee the clearing of the field and plant the garden, there

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Unlike most early-twenties guys who haven’t quite found their place in the world, Pierce now had the means to make his own. So he reached out to friends from various areas of his life — Middlebury dance students, high school friends, people he liked from the fashion industry — to gauge interest in the idea of gathering a group for an off-the-grid, no-structure (literally and figuratively) summer of art making. He got several enthusiastic responses.

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“I wouldn’t say we’re always working hard,” she admits. “There are definitely days where you’re like, Oh, my God, I can’t get out of the hammock. But I definitely think we feed off of each other …

The biggest challenge, I would say, is finding time and space for myself. It’s just challenging being in a group of eight people all the time.”

Though the group is isolated, word has gotten out about the Sable Project in surrounding communities; apparently the idea of creatively inclined kids going back to the land still piques interest.

Following the model of other residency programs, Pierce and Ready-Campbell are inviting locals in for events or as visiting artists. They plan to continue the Sable Project into the future. “I’d like to see larger collaborative projects happening,” Pierce says. “Instead of individual work, more work that includes three, four or 14 artists.”

On the Sunday after my visit, the Sable Project held its first public event, a “midterm showcase” of work created over the past eight weeks. It drew more than 50 people despite looming thunderclouds.

“We thought about calling the rain date, but at the last second we decided to go with it,” Pierce tells me on the phone afterward. “As soon as we made the decision, the skies cleared, and we were able to get everything ready in time. Then, literally as soon as the last showcase ended, there was this huge cloud … [and once everyone left,] it rained biblically on us.” m

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was essentially no infrastructure on the property when the others got there.

“The first thing everyone did when they arrived was build their tent platforms,” says Pierce.

And they’ve all clearly been hard at work. The field is now dotted with quirky structures. Common areas — such as the covered, open-walled kitchen, an outdoor shower rigged to a hand-dug well and a wooden stage with a sprung floor — were made collaboratively. For sleeping quarters, three artists share the airy, circular tree house, two built a cozy yurt and a few tents are still pitched on the platforms.

Some of the living spaces have strong sculptural elements, particularly “Rapunzel’s Tower,” a wooden platform set back in the woods with a broad view of the cleared field. It’s the work of resident Emma Gohlke, a 26-year-old multimedia artist most recently from Tucson, Ariz. She uses her platform as a studio, retreat and bedroom — unless it’s raining. It is also a functional piece of art, inspired by the group’s conversations about magic and fairy tales. When I stop by the tower, Gohlke is putting finishing touches on a bright-blue dress that hangs suspended from the branches, along with a whimsical curtain of fresh pea shoots.

Having built the main structures, the artists have turned their focus to individual art projects. On the afternoon I visit — before they gather for dinner, the one communal meal of the day — the artists mostly paint, dance, do yoga and make sculptures on their own.

Gohlke is in her tower; Pierce and Lee are eager to rehearse a dance duet; artist Ella Belenky, a young Bread and Puppet alumna, sits on a patch of grass near the kitchen making prints. Much of the art is quite good; even a few abandoned projects scattered in the field seem, to my layperson’s eye, like promising starts.

I come across Ready-Campbell painting on a large canvas made out of

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A Morrisville researcher applies hard science to her sound therapy

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couple of years ago, Eileen Day McKusick asked her son’s teenage friend to say the first word that came to mind when she said “energy medicine.” His reply: “taboo.”

“That is a pretty standard response from the mainstream perspective,” says McKusick, a sound therapist, researcher and wellness educator at Johnson State College. By now she’s used to skeptics pooh-poohing her work. After all, when she explains that her therapy practice involves using tuning forks to retune clients’ biomagnetic energy fields, or “biofields,” from dissonance to harmony, it’s not uncommon for people to roll their eyes and look for her tinfoil hat.

But that’s OK by her. McKusick readily admits she doesn’t understand the science behind what she does or know for certain that it’s real — yet.

She can say, however, that as a healing practitioner who’s been studying the effects of audible sound on the human body since 1996, she’s seen compelling results among her clients, including relief from pain, insomnia, migraines, digestive problems and other chronic disorders. And now she’s written a book on her work, Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy, which is due out Eil een D ay on September 8.

Recently, McKusick has begun applying the scientific method to a field often dismissed by “legitimate” researchers as feel-good hokum, if not quackery. Ultimately, she says, her goal is to measure and document her results in objective terms, so that she and others can better understand and replicate them.

“I’m a nuts-and-bolts kind of person.

What makes sense, what’s efficient, what’s grounded, what’s logical — that’s the way I work,” she says. “For people to

perceive me as some woo-woo new-age healer, I do not want to be that.”

Anyone who’s ever played a musical instrument, chanted “om” while meditating or lost him- or herself in a concerto, rave or rock show can understand the inherent logic in McKusick’s theories. All life operates as a complex symphony of cycles, rhythms and frequencies, from the seasonal rotation of the Earth to the 24-hour circadian rhythm to mammalian menses that sync to the moon’s 29.5-day cycle.

Indeed, the concept of harmonious alignment has resonated throughout human history. The ancient theory of harmony of the spheres posited that celestial bodies produce tones or reverberations that can be sensed throughout the universe. Many cultures’ philosophies and spiritual traditions have identified energy flows that can move in and out of sync, affecting a person’s physical and mental state.

Likewise, scientists who study everything from the minutely small (quantum mechanics) to the immensely large (astrophysics) search inexorably for cycles, rhythms and patterns that tie everything together.

And why not? As far back as 1666, Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch physicist who invented the pendulum clock, McKu s ic k observed that two such clocks mounted on the same board will eventually synchronize their oscillations. He labeled this phenomenon “odd sympathy,” but today it’s more commonly known as entrainment.

If two inanimate moving objects will entrain to the same frequency, McKusick posits, and so much of human physiology — heartbeats, brainwaves, electromagnetic currents coursing through our skin, nerves and tissues — operates in ranges that are either normal or arrhythmic, then can those frequencies

If everything is vibration,

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be recalibrated or retuned, like a violin string?

“If everything is vibration,” she says, “then treating vibration with vibration seemed really logical.”

McKusick, 45, hasn’t always worked on the outer fringes of the establishment; she comes from a business background. After graduating from high school in northeastern Connecticut, McKusick decided that, rather than attending college, she’d backpack through Europe. Upon her return home, she and her brothers founded the Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret, Conn. It opened with 16 seats in 1989, when she was 20. Within four years, Vanilla Bean had 140 seats and 32 employees.

“It was insane, and I was insanely busy,” recalls McKusick, who was putting in 100-hour weeks. Ultimately, she devoted 13 years to the café, but realized the stress was destroying her health. So, in 1996, she launched a massage-therapy practice and began exploring alternative healing techniques, especially the use of music, sound and vibrations. In 2002, McKusick and her husband moved to Vermont.

After poring over countless books and films on sound therapy and pop quantum physics (e.g., What the Bleep Do We Know!?), McKusick saw an ad for tuning forks used in sound healing. She ordered a set, in the C major scale, and

began experimenting with them on her massage clients, alternately touching the fork to their bodies and holding it at a distance of up to six feet from them.

(Today, she moves just three feet.)

“I thought it would produce an objective tone no matter where I held it over the body, but it didn’t. It sounded different in different places,” she says. In some spots the fork grew louder, in others quieter, and in still others it encountered “static.” When the tones changed, McKusick says, it was as though the body were emitting waves that interfered with the tuning fork’s frequency. That intersection, she theorized, contained information: memories of past trauma, she suggests, which radiate outward like rings on a tree. So she focused on that spot until the static diminished.

McKusick spent about 10 years experimenting with her tuning-fork therapy, strictly as a hobby and never presenting herself as an expert or specialist. But when clients began experiencing results she could neither understand nor explain, she started asking a fundamental question: What would science call this?

“When I move the tuning fork in toward the body and hit this distortion, and it feels like a resistance or charge, it feels like there’s something there,” she says. “What is it? Is it electrons? Is it magnetic monopoles? What the heck is it?”

McKusick tried asking physicists and

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professors in other scientific disciplines for explanations, but there she encountered a different form of resistance.

When she used words such as qi or prana, which translate as “energy flow” or “life force,” the scientists instantly dismissed the discussion.

Unable to find anyone else to engage in her scientific pursuit, McKusick undertook it herself. First, she got her undergraduate degree from Johnson State — in one year. Next she spent another three years earning a master’s degree in education. Her thesis, “Exploring the effects of audible sound on the human body and the biofield,” won her an academic excellence award — and became the basis for her soon-to-be-released book. She’s currently working on her doctorate at the California Institute for Human Science.

McKusick’s clients aren’t just new agers and hippies, as skeptics might assume. George Russell of Burlington is a 61-year-old executive who retired seven years ago from a large multinational corporation. About 18 months ago, he met McKusick while flying out of Burlington and was intrigued by her approach to healing. Initially, Russell went to see her to address pain and stiffness in his shoulder and hip. Though he wasn’t a disbeliever per se, he admits he wasn’t certain she’d produce any results. But after just two sessions, Russell was convinced that

McKusick’s methods were, in a word, sound.

“Her ability to diagnose physical issues that have emotional roots has helped me to understand and deal with some long-standing issues,” Russell writes in an email. “After our first series of sessions, then over six months, she helped me to understand some deeper physical issues that have emotional origins — then to use the sound therapy to mitigate those issues.”

Today, Russell reports that he is physically healthier and has reduced tension and pain. Mentally, he adds, “I’m more centered and confident.”

“The whole intention of all sound healing is to take you out of a place of agitation or discomfort and into a place of relaxed, aware presence,” McKusick explains. “It’s all about being here now and settling the noise and static out of the system.”

Recently, McKusick was hired by someone living near the wind turbines on Lowell Mountain in the Northeast Kingdom, who attributed various ailments to the turbines’ whir. While McKusick theorizes that some people’s biofields might indeed entrain to the turbines’ spin, she says she made it clear to industrial wind opponents that “What I’m doing is not science yet. It’s invalid for your cause. Until I can quantify this data, I can’t be a part of this [debate].”

That may change, as McKusick is endeavoring to quantify her results.

Recently, she was granted access to a medical thermal-imaging device to study a client with congested sinuses both before and after receiving a 10minute sound-balancing treatment. The “before” image showed significant areas of blockage, which appeared in blue.

The blue areas were notably diminished in the “after” image.

“She was clear and able to breathe.

And it stayed gone,” McKusick says.

Despite such initial results, McKusick remains open to the possibility that the scientific method could eventually prove her theories invalid. Because the human brain is a pattern-recognition machine, she says, “It could all be a construct of my own mind … It might not have any objective existence. But I really want to know whether it does or not, because both answers have wild implications.” m

Poetry al Fresco N A sampler of local verse to read far from home

B y j ul i a s h ip l ey

o more cozying up with your book by the woodstove — it’s summer now, and there are plenty of plein-air places to read! At the risk of seeming like a control freak, I offer four new volumes

by Vermont poets with suggestions for where to savor each one.

draw in the life that gives you life the air that kindles fire in your cells

breathe out a warm and swirling mist

To Read in a Hammock The recumbent comfort of a hammock is perfect for daydreaming your way into the first section of American Drone, the first full-length collection since 2000 from Peter Money, poet and publisher of Harbor Mountain Press in White River Junction. American Drone is Harbor Mountain’s 22nd book in a steady stream of titles that includes volumes by Alice B. Fogel, recently appointed poet laureate of New Hampshire.

Money’s diverse collection is divided into three distinct sections, each of which uses words the way a cloud uses rain. The first section showers the reader in prose poems composed of associative musings.

Money issues a downpour of phrases filled with declarations and observations.

Taking “poetry” and “story making” as the impetus of these verses, he writes,

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This is poetry now.

Once upon a time, These Times the sky did not fall but a note prevailed as if handwritten not even the calculus of chords would predict the echo, the ash at bay & fire, the little mouth no one had yet known able to tell the story and with our helmets prepare to dance we touch the live wire without feeling collections of bones, marrow, salt, milk the hair an inkline producing a town on a map’s notable fiction found to be here. On the third floor windows fogged over as the lace of a night dress where many moons had been, where each silk thread held an enemy captive eating an orange, instead suffering repose because no one asked Would you like a book instead?…

and know yourself as kindred of the storm air water heat American Drone’s central section is a mystically infused correspondence, a steady rain of inquiry and reply between two men: Money and Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, whose work Money has translated. The final section, “This Bridge Will Not Burn,” sprinkles the reader with diary-like testimonies, distillations of life that escort us into some of summer’s gift moments. “The Proof,” for instance, begins: “James takes me around the bend / to where they are / a river pool / a shoal out in the middle sun, / thick tree curved for a seat / four feet above water…”

To Read in a Canoe Idling on a Lake Many of the nature poems in George Lisi’s first collection, Through the Gate of Trees: poetry of awakening, were composed during winters from 2011 through 2013.

Yet these spare, elegant verses deserve to be read in the summer and considered in an environment similar to the one where they apparently originated — Lisi’s inner aquifer.

Here’s one invoking life’s elements and exploring the reciprocity of human and atmospheric realms:

make tempest and your living frame. ~2/7/13 An instructor at the Wisdom of the Herbs School in Woodbury, Lisi writes with a naturalist’s eye, crafting verses that seem to be “received” (in the same sense in which the Shakers “received” their songs) rather than willfully orchestrated. Accordingly, they trickle down the page in spare and graceful lines, no capitals, no punctuation, as if poetry were simply one flowing river into which Lisi frequently dips his cup, then lifts it up and marvels at the easy beauty of the natural world around him. Take this passage: “my eyes / insist / a ruby hand // has spread a fire / among the trees. (~1/21/13)” The congruencies Lisi finds between outer world and inner mind are startling and refreshing, making his book the perfect companion for a sojourn away from the madding crowd and into Vermont’s woods and waters. it’s unanimous clouds of water walking about in the trees clouds of chickadees swirling about in sunflower space and my cloudy little mind

mumblely-pegging about in the mists ~1/30/13

To Read at a Campfire David Dillon’s debut collection, from the porch, is a book whose sturdy, narrow design and physical construction render it rugged enough to survive the scuffing, splashing and smearing of a camping trip.

Dillon’s tone, honed during years as a newspaper reporter, remains neat and clean, as well.

In this gathering of lean poems, his subjects run the gamut from rueful to playful (sometimes in the same poem): Mulligan could have been could have been could have been could have been could have been have been have been.

Never Was. Recycling Day Everything unpacks easily from my green canvas tote.

Regrets here, aspirations there and promise just beyond the corrugated.

Perhaps I’ll pick something up while I’m here Amazing what people throw away.

One imagines the East Albany writer is also recycling the material of his life, compressing experiences and philosophy into elemental poems.

Take this one: Soldiers of Misfortune When I was 19 my friend Harmon went to Vietnam to defend my freedom.

It killed him When I was 53 I met my friend Tom. He’d gone to Vietnam, too.

It’s still killing him.

Somehow I don’t feel free.

With lyrics at once intimate and reticent in their disclosure, Dillon’s work reminds me of the things one admits more readily by the campfire’s light. These are experiences distilled for a small, lit place, learned and shared with the same privacy one might find in communicating “from the porch.”

To Read While Waiting for Your Flight Back to Vermont

August These are the days we go away, before September sharpens its pencil, opens its lined and yellow pages.

We arrange to be on another coast, its tides dragging the hours back and forth over the bottom, to be under the cast of a new locality, charmed by its accent and acceptance. We are never here long enough to knot these habits, and our children, too, suspend themselves for now, in the rented dream they are related as cousins.

Even when fog threatens to stay and does, it covers everything, and the wires of disappointment become too wet to pass current.

Away from responsibility, the times held for making love are held, and signs that say, now, there’s time, find us looking for them.

Yet even before we leave, at night, the lawn, the stacked mail begin to tug on the ropes we forgot to untie. The road already starts our car without us and, before we know it, we have never gone away again. m

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Though I’d never wish a summer airline delay upon you, it happens.

And, should you glance up and notice your departure has been rescheduled, I would wish upon you this chunky volume: Raking the Winter Leaves: New and Selected Poems, the fifth collection from Cornwall poet Gary Margolis.

These poems have everything that enticing pulp novels at the newsstand offer. There’s suspense: In “After School Working, Boston, 1963,” a teenage hospital orderly stands by, waiting for patient Robert Frost to take his last breath. There’s mystery: “Festival on the Green” asks if serendipity will engineer a repeat of past chance encounters among lovers, entertainers and soldiers. There are thrills: In “Fire in the Orchard,” a unique series of circumstances turns the season’s harvest into a towering inferno.

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director emeritus of Middlebury College Mental Health Services, wrote these poems over four decades. He brings to them his generous understanding of fallibility, abrupt changes and life’s turbulence. Whatever the season, Raking the Winter Leaves would make a great seatmate, a book to escort you all the way home.

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n the 1970s, architects at the forefront of sustainable design were dreaming up a wildly different way to build the American home — think polyhedra in the deserts of the Southwest, or “Earthships” fashioned from packed soil and recycled materials.

“Society in general reacted like, ‘This is too far out,’” recalls Waitsfield architect William Maclay whose own 1970s building project — the Dimetrodon Cluster Housing — was an early experiment in solar-powered cohousing.

“Far out” doesn’t describe Maclay’s architecture studio, tucked into a traditional, historic carriage house in downtown Waitsfield. Nor does it apply to many of the buildings designed by him and the architects in his firm, Maclay Architects — at least not in appearance.

But today the architect is championing a new revolution in design and construction: net-zero buildings. That’s the subject of the new book — The New Net Zero: Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future — by Maclay and his firm’s architects, out last month from Vermont’s Chelsea Green publishing house.

Net-zero structures are buildings that generate more energy from renewable sources than they consume. By Maclay’s standards, a net-zero building also reduces energy loads as much as possible; that goal requires first building a highly efficient structure, and then putting in place enough renewable energy generation to fuel it.

Leading edge it might be — but if you think “net zero” is radical, think again, says Maclay.

“We have the technology, tools and knowledge we need to do this right now,” he writes in the preface to The New Net Zero. And we’ve done it before, he argues. “The reality is that human beings have lived in a net-zero world, or a fossil-free world, or a renewably powered world, for basically our entire existence on the planet,” says Maclay.

His book is part philosophical treatise, part technical manual, outlining Maclay’s argument for an urgent shift in building practices while also providing the concrete details that architects and others might need to execute that

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transition. Maclay acknowledges that not every reader will find the entire book relevant, but he believes that architects, builders and homeowners alike can take something from it.

He also hopes the book will dispel what he sees as some common myths about net-zero building: that it’s too expensive, that older buildings can’t be retrofitted to net-zero standards, that it’s relegated to the realm of small, residential construction.

That’s just not the case, Maclay says.

“We can cut energy use in existing buildings by 80 or 90 percent, and we can do that in a more comfortable, better house,” he goes on.

Maclay jokes that he came to

architecture after realizing, as a college student in the 1960s, that he couldn’t make a career out of protesting. Inspired by early pioneers in solar energy, and by a motorcycle trip to Machu Picchu, Maclay devoted himself to designing environmentally responsible, ecologically sustainable buildings.

He field-tested those ethics in Vermont, where, after one year of graduate school, he and two friends took a hiatus from the classroom to construct Dimetrodon. Maclay was 21 years old, but he says now that he and his friends thought they “had all of the answers.”

In the following years, Maclay Architects earned a reputation for leadership in ecological design; Maclay

devoted his career to imagining what a renewably powered future might look like for homes, offices and larger buildings. But he suggests that the real shift toward net zero began happening in the past decade.

One particularly eye-opening project was the field house that Maclay Architects designed for the Putney School, a progressive, coed boarding and day school in southern Vermont.

Randy Smith, the assistant head of the school and its chief financial officer, remembers that the Putney School’s leaders wanted to build a gym that was in keeping with its sustainability ethic.

But if they had a vision, the institution had a budget: $3 million. The administrators weighed the decision to build in 2008, in the midst of economic turmoil on Wall Street and a 30 percent hit to the school’s endowment.

Maclay pitched three versions of the building, each progressively more expensive and more efficient. In the end, Smith says, Putney’s board decided to spend more on the construction of the building, knowing it would save money in energy costs over the long haul.

Smith says that economic analysis helped seal the deal. But he looks beyond the cost-benefit analysis when he talks about the concept of net-zero building.

“We just can’t continue to build buildings that burn oil,” he says.

In the five years since building the Putney field house, Maclay Architects has designed a number of net-zero or “net-zero-ready” buildings (the latter designation means they’re efficient enough to be powered by renewable sources but don’t yet have a devoted energy source). Among the more notable projects are a 17,000-square-foot office complex in Middlebury, several highperformance homes, the University of Vermont’s George D. Aiken Center, and a renovation and addition to the Bennington County Superior Court and state office building.

In the case of the Bennington courthouse, building a net-zero-ready structure rather than simply a codecompliant one added 3 percent to the total project cost, or nearly $6 per square foot. In The New Net Zero, Maclay estimates that those improvements will

save nearly $49,000 a year in operating costs — making the payback period for the building just seven and a half years.

The savings of building to net-zero standards could also be applied to mobile housing. In response to a pilot program from the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board and Efficiency Vermont, Maclay Architects redesigned a mobile home to meet those standards.

They installed better insulated windows, created a more efficient building envelope and attached a solar array to the roof, among other changes. The result was a spike in the projected monthly mortgage payments accompanied by a radical decrease in energy costs per month. After eight years, the more efficient mobile home became a better deal than the code-compliant version.

We just can’t continue to build buildings that burn oil.

that net zero doesn’t equal deprivation — far from it. He argues that the modern net-zero home, when well designed and carefully planned, can be healthier and more satisfying to inhabit.

And he thinks the transition to net zero is closer than we may think. “My opinion is that, in 10 years, the practices that are in this book will be standard practice in Vermont,” Maclay says.

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“This is not some pipe dream,” Maclay says. “This is fully achievable.”

The architect concedes that building to net-zero standards may require a new way of thinking for homeowners

or commercial builders. It may mean constructing a smaller home and putting resources into conservation measures or more efficient systems instead of additional square feet. But Maclay is adamant

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orset Theatre Festival’s production of David Ives’ All in the Timing has a delightfully weightless quality — and

not just because one of the six comic sketches takes place suspended on a construction girder. The exuberance of Ives’ wordplay and the joyous energy

of the three ensemble performers defy gravity. But this airy comedic concoction has substance, too.

At center stage, sections of bright-red scaffolding give the space a provisional quality, like a world balanced in transition. Anything can happen here, the clever set design by Kevin Judge seems to say. This suits Ives’ boundless imagination and Jenn Thompson’s smart comic direction perfectly.

To the sides, three wardrobe racks of clothing foretell quick costume changes and place a little bit of backstage right before our eyes. Even before the lights go down, actors Mark Alhadeff, Adam Harrington and Kelly McAndrew stroll onstage in robes with “DORSET” stitched on the back. While the audience settles in, they quietly draw on their first costumes. They’re in plain sight, but the characters they’ll unleash remain mysterious until the lights snap up and the first scene crackles to life.

All in the Timing was first produced in 1993 and revived on Broadway 20 years later. Dorset’s production swaps out “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread” for another Ives one-act, “Mere Mortals,” but the cohesion of Ives’ wit remains.

The sketches all play with language by bringing wild thought experiments to life.

In “Sure Thing,” two strangers meet in a café. Bill tries a pickup line that

Betty swats away with ease. Just as she does, a bell rings, and the universe offers an unexpected reset button. Bill and Betty try again — and again and again — like beneficiaries of a video game lavishly dispensing extra lives. Each ding lets them advance a little further toward perfect datable compatibility.

The premise is fun in itself, but watching Alhadeff and McAndrew change direction with each new chance is the real prize. Like trapeze artists making it look easy, they conceal the intense concentration necessary to shift their line readings and produce new effects, even new people. The hidden bell ringer is the third performer, and the scene is sweet proof that it is, indeed, all in the timing.

Each sketch follows the fundamental dramatic principle of giving characters obstacles to overcome. But Ives’ ideas for obstacles are wonderfully bizarre, and the scenes are built of escalating surprises.

“Mere Mortals” finds three construction workers at lunch perched on the 50th floor of a skyscraper under construction. Ives gives them salt-of-theearth, working-class language, but in their banter about bowling, they reveal identities — or presumed identities — sharply at odds with their circumstances.

The three actors convey the warmth of friends and the precision of hitting the comic rhythms right on the nose. The storytelling is more interesting than the story itself here, but McAndrew’s turn as a male construction worker and Harrington’s measured skepticism make the performances sparkle.

All the sketches end with exclamation points, but they don’t end with the kind of resolution typical of drama. In that sense, they’re less one-act plays than sketch comedy with premises that can only be sustained so long. Still, each one feels completely realized.

In “The Universal Language,” Dawn, a lonely woman with a bit of a stutter (McAndrew), seeks lessons in Unamunda, a free-form Esperanto taught by Don (Harrington). Ives is off to the races here, using everything from brand names to foreign phrases in an exhilarating game of sound-alike. As soon as you give in to it, you begin to comprehend: “Velcro” is “welcome,” “police” is “please,” “Kennedy hep du” is “can I help you,” and on it goes. Enjoying it takes the same kind of surrender necessary to let Shakespeare’s language bloom to life.

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andor Katz was sweating. Hard.

Rivulets ran from his forehead, flowing just past his preternaturally blue eyes, finally settling in that famous moustache. He’d been touring Vermont with his whole-foods medicine show all month, but he wasn’t selling curealls — just books.

Katz is the James Beard Foundation Wild Award-winning author of Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (2003) and The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around the World (2012).

Following a two-week class at Sterling College and several one-day events, he wrapped up his Green Mountain tour with a two-day intensive at Shelburne Farms.

Last Tuesday, 105 farmers, cooks and brewers, who had traveled from as far as Florida, Oregon and Japan, piled into the Coach Barn for two days of 9-to-5 studies in a scorching, un-air-conditioned room. The uncomfortable surroundings tested the attendees’ devotion to the art of fermentation, and the population dwindled over the final day. Katz, though tired, was undeterred.

He was there as an evangelist, spreading the gospel of “the transformative action of microorganisms.”

Katz had mad-scientist intensity as he filled jars with colorful concoctions.

Nearly as authoritative as a microbiologist on the science of fermentation, he is devoted to demystifying the processes by which the bacteria inherent in raw foods transform them into something more palatable. And that means recommending the use of very little equipment. Forget about yogurt makers, water kefir grains and specialized powders. “I tend to go for path-of-least-resistance methods,” Katz told the class.

Those methods are based on harnessing the bacteria that naturally occur in all living organisms. Hence the name of Katz’s first book, Wild Fermentation. “Ten years ago, scientists came up with the statistic that our cells are outnumbered 10 to one by bacteria we’re host to,” Katz said. “They’re not enemies or parasites or freeloaders.

These bacteria give us functionality. We

gourmet store. All the cheeses but fresh ones, such as farmer’s cheese, are made of fermented milk. Sourdough breads use a naturally leavened culture. The tang in salami, prosciutto and other dry-cured meats comes from lactic acids. Soy sauce and vinegar both benefit from bacterial aging. Even our cup of coffee and square of chocolate wouldn’t taste the same if their beans weren’t sprayed down and allowed to ferment before the harvest. We all eat foods that have been fermented, and we eat a lot of them.

But for many of us, the term “fermented food” conjures up smelly, indeterminate vegetables on a hippie college friend’s kitchen counter. Whether because of fermentation’s perceived health benefits or its traditional use to preserve a harvest (Katz hypothesizes that agriculture could not have happened without such methods), fermented food has long carried a stigma of being “crunchy.”

Katz’s greatest gift to his students was sharing a foodie’s perspective on fermentation and encouraging gourmet exploration. The following are a few ideas I tried at home after class. Try these fermented-food recipes yourself, or use them as inspiration for your own culinary concepts.

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of B vitamins and eat yeasts need bacteria.” Lactic acid that cause Candida. fermentation — the creation But Katz himself is less of an oxygen-free environconcerned with the salutary ment that encourages bacteaspects of fermentation ria to produce preservative than with the taste. “I got lactic acid — is his simple interested in this because method of choice.

S AND O R K ATZ I love food,” he said. “I like Many cooks tout the fermenting. I like berries. health benefits of eating food loaded with microorganisms. Some cancer I like jams and I like ice cream and I like researchers believe that the bacteria in fer- cakes. I like all kinds of foods.”

To convey the breadth of fermented ments are anticarcinogenic, and it’s generally accepted that they contain high levels delicacies, Katz described a hypothetical

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opened at 2802 WaterburyStowe Road. And yes, that Pete is indeed pEtE JohNSoN, who started his Craftsbury farm pEtE’S GrEENS in 1995.

This is the farm’s first store outside its home base, where the pEtE’S GrEENS fArmStAND sits adjacent to the fields. “We’ve been looking for a site on Route 100 in Waterbury near the interstate for a couple years,” says the farm’s longtime wholesale sales manager, tim fiShburNE. Having found the perfect space to lease, though,

the Pete’s team had to scramble to get it ready by late July. “We were on and off the fence. We’re almost into August, and we were worried about the season,” Fishburne recalls. “But after the first three days [open], we were feeling like Oh yeah, this is the right thing.

After the first week, it’s, like, ‘Why didn’t we do this sooner?’”

It’s no surprise that Pete’s Greens, known for its wholesale supplying to restaurants, its retail and farmers market presences, and its GooD EAtS cSA, is bringing in fans and new travelers looking for a taste of its colorful produce. The eponymous greens are a hit, of course, and the massive variety of fruits and veggies for sale currently includes

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Like the CSA share, the store offers plenty of provender beyond what Johnson and co. pull from the ground. Products for sale also include honey, cheese, yogurt, grains and maple syrup. Manager mArk frANo is working to improve the stock of salads

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Pizzas, portioned to share, hold a wide variety of uncommon toppings. One comes dressed with chicken, broccoli and a house gremolata.

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For now, La Boca’s is open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday. Grimard hopes to add weekend brunch in the near future, he says; if there’s demand, lunch hours might pop up as well. The restaurant’s early popularity has already driven the owners to make one change: They’ll soon hang sound-absorbing tapestries and drapes to dim the sounds of the crowd to a manageable murmur.

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Cut the cabbage into 1- or 2-inch squares, depending on preference. In a large bowl, massage cabbage with salt. Cover in just enough water to submerge all the leaves.

Weight them down with a plate if they float. Leave the bowl for 12 hours, or as long as 24.

Remove the cabbage from the bowl, reserving the brine. Rinse the cabbage, then squeeze out any excess liquid. Combine all other ingredients in a dry bowl. Add cabbage and mix thoroughly.

Pack cabbage tightly in a jar, leaving a couple of inches at the top. Cover in just enough brine to keep cabbage submerged.

Leave the jar covered at room temperature for three to five days. Refrigerate when it has reached your desired level of fermentation.

Now, make the stew: 1/2 pound cubed pork shoulder or lean belly 3 cups kimchi 2 cups water 1 tablespoon gochujang (to taste) 1 tablespoon mirin 1 8-ounce package of tofu, cubed

In a large, flat-bottomed pot, lightly sear the pork at a high temperature. When all the meat is browned, add kimchi, water, gochujang and mirin. Once the mixture has reached a boil, turn down heat and simmer for about an hour, uncovered. Add tofu, then cook for another 10 minutes.

Enjoy with a side of rice, and perhaps with some tangy banchan (literally, “side dishes”) to beat the heat.

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Polish sauerkraut stew

This is a cold-weather dish that’s not known as “hunter’s stew” for nothing.

Make it in the fall, or get your dose of meat despite the heat. Leave out the roux to make it a hearty paleo-diet onepot meal.

Make the sauerkraut: 1 large cabbage 1 or 2 tablespoons salt, to taste Slice cabbage into thin ribbons. In a large bowl, massage salt into cabbage, releasing liquid from the leaves as you go. Pack tightly into a crock or jar, making sure

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special equipment required. It won’t be as carbonated as a typical soda since the bubbles are all created by the hungry microorganisms’ expelled carbon dioxide.

Still, there’s a reason the word fermentation comes from the Latin fervere, meaning “to boil.”

1/2-pound slab bacon, cubed 1/2-pound Polish sausage (kielbasa is fine), sliced 1 pound pork shoulder or leftover meat you may have around 1 teaspoon caraway seeds 1 bay leaf 1/2 teaspoon marjoram 1 tablespoon flour 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 cup red wine About two pounds of sauerkraut, but in this rustic dish, ratios are up to you.

4 cups water 2 cups white sugar 4 Bartlett pears, chopped 4 sprigs of mint

In batches, cook each meat until lightly browned. Set aside. Add caraway, bay leaf and marjoram. Sauté just until aromatic.

Add flour and tomato paste and cook until smoothly combined. Raise heat and add wine. Boil briefly while you deglaze the pan.

Finally, the big moment: Return the meats to the pot and add the sauerkraut.

Lower the heat and simmer for two or three hours, lightly covered. Enjoy now or save the stew for the next day, when the flavors will have combined even more thoroughly.

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About a year ago, pAttANit SmANSook closed her Stowe restaurant, Red Basil Thai Cuisine, and moved to Mendon, where she opened thAi pAN AuthENtic thAi REStAuRANt on Route 4 last summer. About three weeks ago, Smansook expanded into Quechee, where she’s now running a take-out sushi and Thai joint on weekends.

Open Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Quechee Gorge Village, SuShi StAtioN serves a smattering of dishes familiar to Thai Pan patrons, such as Thai ravioli

(steamed pork and shrimp dumplings on a stick), spring rolls, curries and noodles.

It also offers a variety of sushi dishes, mostly tried-and-true classics such as spicy tuna and California rolls.

Reached via phone, Smansook says she makes everything herself. She used to live in New York City, where she learned to make sushi and “really loved” it, she says. “So I decided to do sushi here, as well.” Weekly trips to a fishmonger in Boston keep Smansook supplied; once the cold weather hits, she says, she’ll rely on RAY’S SEAfooD mARkEt in Burlington for more of her fish, which she cuts into $1 sushi pieces and works into special rolls.

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A Sodastream may be convenient, but it’s surprisingly easy to make your own lightly fermented, sugary soft drink — no

If you are using chlorinated tap water, boil it and let it cool to burn off the chemical, which will prevent fermentation. If using spring water, you can skip that step.

In a large container, slowly add the white sugar to the water. Add pears and mint and stir rapidly. This creates a vortex, which eliminates oxygen, generating an anaerobic vacuum.

The more you stir, the sooner you will have soda. As seldom as twice a day will suffice, but there is no “too much.” No need to seal the container.

Just keep it covered with a cloth to prevent insects and dirt from landing in the mixture.

Depending on stirring frequency and ambient heat, it can take between two days and a week to see carbonation.

When you do, you have soda. Strain out the pears and mint and enjoy!

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n early April 2013, Adam Hausmann stood facing 56 acres of field and forest, high on a hill in Charlotte, with more than 5,000 mature blueberry bushes in waiting. The berries needed transplanting, and the land, he says now, was wide open.

On a recent morning, the berry farmer stands amid the neat rows of bushes that look like they’ve been there for years. “Nothing was here,” Hausmann says. “It was just a field. It was like, ‘Where do you begin?’ Where’s the first bush go?”

In early 2013, Adam’s Berry Farm was located in the Intervale, the low floodplain in Burlington where it had grown for more than a decade. By that summer, the bushes were rooting into a new home 15 miles south. Moving the farm “became a decision of stability, for me and for the business,” Hausmann says. At the Intervale, large chunks of his farm would be destroyed by perennial floods that seemed to be increasing in frequency. (Alice Levitt chronicled the stay-or-go dilemma of Hausmann and other Intervale farmers in an August 2013 Seven Days cover story.)

“In the fall of 2010,” Hausmann recalls, “I was canoeing through my raspberries thinking, I’ve got to get out of here.”

He says he had considered relocating four years before that, after high water claimed much of his harvest. “I had this big push, like, ‘I’m leaving the Intervale, maybe I’m leaving Vermont,’’’ Hausmann says. “Then I settled back into a rhythm, and things were good for a while.”

In 2011, the floods came again, and again and again.

Then, in late August, Tropical Storm Irene hit.

After a two-year process involving two land trusts, an easement ensuring the land would be farmed in perpetuity and the securing of funds, Hausmann closed on his new property in December 2012. He began digging the following spring.

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adds, “I was pretty nervous about the whole situation. The blueberries were out of the ground, and we didn’t have irrigation set up … It was a Herculean move.”

When the blueberries bloomed despite the move, Hausmann says, he stripped off the flowers so they could direct their energy to rooting rather than fruiting, a shortterm sacrifice for long-term stability. “These plants are going to produce for another 30 years,” he says, “so it was worth it.”

It’s not the first time Hausmann has uprooted his plants.

The farmer began his operation in Lincoln, Vt., in 2001 with 300 blueberry bushes and no fruit-growing experience. He moved to the Intervale shortly thereafter, where he expanded his blueberry plot to 5,000 plants. After 11 years farming the Burlington lowlands, he headed for the hills of Charlotte.

The original plants from Lincoln are now fruiting at the new farm, not far from where Hausmann and I stand. He bends over and pulls a weed from the bed. “Sorry,” he says, looking at his hand, which is gripping a hearty spray of grass, and then at me. “I don’t need to be doing this right now.”

A new location meant building infrastructure from scratch: hoop houses and drip lines to irrigate them, a driveway and parking lot, a new barn and farmstand. A year ago, Hausmann says, “so much of my head was just about the reestablishment and the planning … I kept having to remind myself that for the first two years I did pick-yourown [at the Intervale], I had an old door, two sawhorses and an umbrella, and that was the farmstand.”

But the clean slate renewed his ambition: “I had this vision of what I wanted to create,” the farmer says.

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“We designed it to be versatile,” Hausmann explains.

As we walk the farm, he mentions events, classes, retreats, conferences. “We are trying to think about income that’s not necessarily crop-based … We’ve talked to restaurants about having dinners down here; we thought about doing weddings,” he adds. “But the idea is to build in stability” — to cast a wider net and anticipate calamities such as crop damage.

“That’s the fear, coming from the Intervale,” Hausmann continues. “You never know when you’ll suffer a loss of, say, all your strawberry blossoms one season because of frost …

So whatever you can do to stabilize it gives you an ability to plan more, employ people longer during the year. Slowly diversifying more, and doing more products, means having things we can fall back on.”

But first and foremost, Hausmann is, and intends to remain, a berry farmer. He’d hoped to host four events this year, he says, but when production season started, he realized he had a lot to learn about growing berries in a new place.

Halfway through his first hill-farm harvest, Hausmann is enjoying a healthy production season, even as the plants recover from transplant. The blueberries have bounced back beautifully; Hausmann says he lost only three plants to the move, when he’d anticipated losing up to 1,000.

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the elements, have far exceeded expectations. “We’ve had a beautiful crop,” Hausmann says.

These are the first summer raspberries that the farm has harvested since 2010. 2011’s crop was washed away in the early-season deluges, even before Irene waterlogged the Intervale. “We were underwater five times that spring,” Hausmann recalls. “I lost acres of raspberries.”

The farm also cultivates dozens of different strawberries, grapes, gooseberries and currants. “[Crop] diversity and taste have always been big things for us,” Hausmann says. “I kind of equate it to the apple; everyone knows the difference between a Fuji and a McIntosh and a Red Delicious, but … people just think a blueberry’s a blueberry.” He points to subtleties of flavor, growth habits and seasonality: Patriot berries are larger and tend toward tart, while the smaller Northland berry is sugar sweet.

Both (among other varieties) are ripe on the canes now.

Two weeks ago, Hausmann opened the Charlotte farm for its inaugural pick-your-own harvest, after taking last summer off to complete the move.

Hausmann welcomes the opportunity to meet his patrons directly. “It’s a chance to engage with people,” he says. “It’s one of the things I love most. You forget how much you like it. But then … hearing kids out in the fields again, and families, seeing loyal customers come back, it just touched me in a way I hadn’t anticipated. Part of our goal is connecting people to the agricultural landscape.”

After spending last summer split between the Intervale and the new farm, Hausmann is happy to hunker down a bit. With the bushes becoming more established by the day, he’s enjoying a newfound sense of permanence.

He stands at the crest of the hill, which runs cleanly north to south and divides two watersheds: Lake Champlain to the west and the LaPlatte River to the east.

In the valley, patchwork fields roll toward the shimmering lake, delineated by rows of trees and shrubs, until they reach the water. Beyond it, the Adirondacks loom blue in the morning haze. “[Being here] forces a whole new thought process,” Hausmann says, “and a vision for the future in a way I couldn’t have known. And creativity,” he adds, “knowing this is my life’s work.” m

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Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty Meeting: Like-minded locals discuss putting the Cannabis Amnesty Referendum on Burlington's November ballot. See btvgreen.com for details. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, albertpetrarca@gmail.com.

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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Kickoff: Attendees learn about the annual event that supports breast-cancer survivors and victims with every step. G's Restaurant, Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; cash bar; preregister. Info, 872-6344.

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Kingdom Community Wind Tours: Folks learn about alternative energy sources on a visit to the 21-turbine wind farm. Kingdom Community Wind, Lowell, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 744-6664.

Middlebury College Observatory Open House: Sky gazers join Jonathan Kemp of the Middlebury College physics department to view Saturn, Mars and other celestial sights through state-of-the-art telescopes. Call to confirm.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 9-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2266.

Valley Night Featuring Phineas Gage: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 a.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.

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Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival: Blue beer, anyone? This annual fête throughout Wilmington, Whitingham and Dover serves up sips along with a Blueberry Parade, pick-your-own blueberries, a block party and more. See vermontblueberry.com for details. Mount Snow Valley, Dover, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 464-8092.

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Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain seekers of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122.

Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 673-4158.

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. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.

Slow Food Vermont Farmers Market: Foodies learn about the origins of local meats, produce and flowers at an assembly of 10 small-scale farmers and artisan food producers. Burlington City Hall Park, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, jess@hotelvt.com.

Wednesday Wine Down: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump by pairing four varietals with samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and more. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink.com.

Williston Farmers Market: An open-air affair showcases prepared foods and unadorned produce. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, willistonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Bridge Club: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments.

Info, 651-0700.

Shemekia Copeland has the blues in her blood. The daughter of late blues guitar legend Johnny Copeland, she grew up surrounded by music. A natural singer, Copeland resisted the spotlight until her teens, when she embraced her talent and never looked back. Dubbed “the next Tina Turner” by Robert Plant, the two-time Grammy Award nominee has headlined the Chicago Blues Festival and performed with Buddy Guy and B.B. King, among other icons. Channeling her Harlem roots, Copeland belts out big notes as part of the Music in the Meadow concert series.

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Montréal-Style Acro Yoga: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower helps participants gain therapeutic benefits from acrobatic poses.

Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 324-1737.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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Fizz, Boom, READ!: All About the Sun and Solar Energy: Erin Malloy leads little ones up to age 7 in a hands-on science activity about creating electricity from nature. A lunch follows.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

Lunch for Kids and Teens: Local youth share a complimentary midday meal. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

The Lunchbox Summer Meal Program: Youth ages 18 and under fill up on nutritious eats from a funky food truck that doubles as a mobile learning kitchen. St. Paul's Catholic School, Barton, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044.

Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea with music, games and activities.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free.

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In Sync When Japanese pianist Haruka Yabuno and Israeli bassist Ehud Ettun first met, they skirted the language barrier and communicated through music. Both accomplished composers, the duo bonded over a shared love of improvisation.

The result: a highly imaginative repertoire that embraces risk-taking as a crucial component of music making. Of this style, music critic Eliseo Cardona says they are “two young masters creating dialogues of mesmerizing possibilities.” This approach informs the pair’s recently released debut, BiPolar, which includes original songs alongside arrangements of influential compositions and highlights the rising talents’ chemistry.

The Yabuno Ettun Project Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m., at Brandon Music Café. $15. Info, 465-4071. yabunoettun.com

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At the Festival of Fools, strong woman Mama Lou performs this remarkable feat. A host of international performers draws more than 10,000 spectators annually to this celebration of silliness that takes clowning around very seriously. Four stages in downtown Burlington feature family-friendly performances that meld music, comedy and circus arts, making for one wacky weekend. Notable acts include acclaimed pantomime artist Rob Torres (pictured), the Yo-Yo People and fan favorites Big Nazo — a troupe of larger-than-life mutant puppets and masked musicians.

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Friday, August 1, noon-9 p.m.; Saturday, August 2, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Sunday, August 3, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., downtown Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7166. vermontfestivaloffools.com

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In China, dragons are regarded as rulers of the water. For more than 2,000 years, people there have built long, narrow canoes, or dragon boats, to honor the mythical monsters with races aimed at achieving good fortune. The Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival puts a local spin on this centuries-old tradition.

Teams of paddlers go head-to-head in 200-meter races every four minutes to raise awareness about programs for cancer survivors and to benefit Survivorship NOW. Now in its 12th year, this wet-and-wild event attracts crowds by the thousands. Live music, dancing and a flower ceremony complete the festivities.

Sunday, August 3, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Waterfront Park in Burlington. Free. Info, 9995478. ridethedragon.org

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Raggle Taggle Players: Mad scientist Clivus Von Moltrum Caddiddlehopper-Smyth and his assistant, Igor, make learning fun when they embody three famous scientific figures. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

Summer Preschool Story Time: Themed reads, puppets and activities foster a love of the written word in little ones. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Teen Art With Tina Logan: Critical thinkers in grades 6 and up interpret a controversial topic or social awareness message with mixed media pieces to be displayed at the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Toy Hacking: Because Your Toy is More Fun on the Inside: Tinkerers ages 11 and up experiment with making something new out of dismantled parts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science: Leap, Slither, Flap: Science comes alive when kiddos get up close with a raptor, a snake and a frog. Highgate Elementary School, 10:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

Wacky Wednesday: Youngsters ages 8 and up get creative with supplied materials and create unique structures. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30-1 p.m. Free with admission, $10.50-13.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

Young & Fun Performance Series: Stephen Gratto Variety Show: A fast-paced theatrical romp of vaudeville and circus skills keeps audience members on the edge of their seats. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 518-523-2512.

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Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: PingPong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

Women's Wednesday Mountain Rides: Beginner-to-intermediate pedalers cruise scenic routes. Mountain bikes suggested; helmets required. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-9409.

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Lina Menard: The designer and builder scales it down in "Let's Get Small: Tiny House Interior Design Considerations." Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 495-5545.

Paul Wood: Feats of ingenuity inform the engineer's "Inventive Vermonters: A Sampling of Farm Tools and Implements." Waterbury Center Community Church, potluck picnic, 6 p.m.; lecture, 7:30 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 585-4913.

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'The Caretaker': Harold Pinter's humorous, thought-provoking play examines the psychology behind power and corruption. Unadilla English as a Second Language Class: Those Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, with beginner English work to improve their 456-8968. vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'All In the Timing': Brilliant language and wordplay inform Intermediate Spanish Lessons: Adults refine themes of love and philosophy in six one-act their grammar while exploring different topics. comedies by award-winning playwright David Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, Ives. For ages 10 and up. Dorset Playhouse, 3 p.m.

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Intermediate/Advanced English as a The Met Live in HD Series: Theatergoers screen Second Language Class: Speakers hone a broadcast of La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's their grammar and conversational skills. wild-west opera featuring gunplay and whiskeyAdministration Office, Fletcher Free Library, drinking cowboys. Catamount Arts Center, St. Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600. music 'Middlebury's Got Talent' Auditions: Singers, dancers, comics, musicians, storytellCity Hall Park Lunchtime Performances: ers and others vie for a spot in the annual event.

Singer-songwriter Mike Roberts of Brattleboro's Byers Studio, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 Wooden Dinosaur melds folk and alt-country at p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-1436. an open-air show. Burlington City Hall Park, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

'The Nance': A broadcast production stars Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, who channels Community Evenings at the Farm: Spirited the raucous burlesque of the 1930s. Palace 9 tunes by the Rhythm Rockets give way to a fireCinemas, South Burlington, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. $18. works display. Shelburne Farms, gates open for Info, 863-5966. picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 985-9551.

'On the Town': Three sailors find love and adventure in New York City on a 24-hour leave Concerts on the Bluff: Towne Meeting hit from the U.S. Navy in this World War II up the annual concert series with a medmusical, staged by the Stowe Theatre ley of folk, country and acoustic rock.

Guild. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Bring a chair or blanket. Forrence Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m.

Center, Clinton Community College, $10-20. Info, 253-3961.

Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-562-4160.

'Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash': More than a Craftsbury Chamber Players: dozen classic hits by the Man in World-class musicians explore clasBlack propel this Saint Michael's sical compositions by Beethoven, f Playhouse production about the Miaskovsky and Mendelssohn.

Br ia iconic performer's humble beginnM UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, a cd o na ld nings and rise to stardom. McCarthy Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

8 p.m. $37-46. Info, 654-2617.

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Dave Keller Band: Original blues from the capital city rockers enliven the Barre Summer Concerts Series. Currier Park, Barre, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-2737.

Dwayne Benjamin: Tunes from the local singersongwriter make for family-friendly fun at the Summer Street Music Series. Bradford Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

Mil: The Québécois band brings traditional tunes to the Middlesex Summer Concert Series. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic fare. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand: rain location: Rumney School gymnasium, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920 or 272-7578.

'Stoop Stories': Obie Award-winning actress Dael Orlandersmith embodies a host of memorable characters this one-woman tour de force set on a New York City stoop. Contains strong language. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $14-28.

Info, 824-5288.

'Troilus and Cressida': Brian McEleney directs this Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the pitfalls of destructive love. Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 8-11:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 443-2771.

'Violet': Cotton Wright plays a scarred young woman searching the country for a televangelist to heal her in this Off-Broadway musical, presented by the Skinner Barn troupe. Skinner Barn Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 496-4422.

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Authors at the Aldrich: Outdoor educator Jen Lamphere Roberts details her time on the trails in AMC's Best Day Hikes In Vermont. A concert in Currier Park follows. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

Green Mountain Writers Conference: Best-selling authors share the tools of their craft with developing wordsmiths. See vermontwriters. com for details. The Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. $600. Info, 236-6133.

Short Fiction Writing Workshop: Readers give feedback on stories penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. Studio 266, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com. Info, 383-8104.

Writers for Recovery Workshop: Led by local author Gary Miller and documentarian Bess O'Brien, attendees put pen to paper and explore addiction, recovery and familial relationships.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, pizza, 5:30-6 p.m.; workshop, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-3150, writersforrecovery@icloud.com.

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Feast & Field Market & Concert Series: A pastoral party features locally grown produce, homemade tacos and tunes by Pete's Posse. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391.

'Outdoor For All Seasons' Launch: Music

by Vacationer and DJ Disco Phantom entertains attendees who sip Switchback brews and check out Burton's new fall apparel and bags collection.

Proceeds benefit the Chill Foundation. Burton Flagship Store, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free; cost of drinks. Info, 652-6761.

Summervale: Locavores celebrate farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440.

Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: Folks explore the inn and its cottage-style gardens, then sit down to a cup-and-saucer affair complete with sweets and savories. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442.

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'Joy Luck Club': Four Asian women and their American-born daughters navigate a clash of cultures in Wayne Wang's adaptation of Amy Tan's eponymous novel. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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Fletcher Allen Farmers Market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797.

Jericho Farmers Market: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778.

Killington Chili Cook-Off: Hot stuff! The Chad Hollister Band entertains foodies, who put their taste buds to the test with different variations of this one-pot meal. Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington, 5-8 p.m. $10; $15 per couple; $25 per family of four. Info, 422-3932.

Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-1009.

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Open Bridge Game: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

Yoga in the Mountains: Yogis of all skill levels hit the mat for an open-air practice of intuitive flow. Call for specific location. East Johnson, 5-6:15 p.m. $15. Info, 279-6663.

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Big Games In the Park: Mike and the Big Blue Trunk host an evening of wacky fun for kiddos of all ages. Highgate Town Park; rain location: Highgate Arena, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 868-3970.

Build a Balloon Car: Air-pressure demonstrations by Create It Lab inspire tinkerers ages 8 and up to craft vehicles powered by air. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

Lunch at the Library: The Burlington School Food Project puts on a healthy spread for kids ages 18 and under. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

The Lunchbox Summer Meal Program: See WED.30, Gardner Memorial Park, Newport, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044.

Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

'Once On This Island': A brave peasant girl unites people of different social backgrounds in this Broadway musical, presented by the Very Merry Theatre. Bristol Village Green; rain location: Holley Hall, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1451.

Spanish Stories & Music: Niños up to age 6 and their parents practice their español through stories, rhymes and songs. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Teen Art With Tina Logan: See WED.30, 1-4 p.m.

Young Producers Workshop: Kiddos ages 8 and 9 get a hands-on introduction to the world of television with Lake Champlain Access TV. Written permission required. Fairfax Community Library, 1:30-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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COLD COUNTRY BLUEGRASS & KICK 'EM JENNY: Toe-tapping traditional tunes entertain concertgoers. Bring a blanket or F chair. Gazebo, Jaquith Public Library, DA VI DS Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, C HE IN 426-3581.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: See WED.30, Hardwick Town House, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

MICHELE FAY BAND: Led by the accomplished vocalist, the local group perform originals and Americana tunes at a brown-bag concert.

Woodstock Village Green, noon-1 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 457-3981.

SNOW FARM VINEYARD CONCERT SERIES: Live music by the grapevines makes for a rollicking good time at this weekly shindig. Local libations and good eats complete the evening. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, grounds open, 5 p.m.; concert, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink.

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'BLITHE SPIRIT': An author holds a séance that unexpectedly rouses his ex-wife from the dead in Noel Coward's classic comedy. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

'CAROUSEL': A romance between a carousel barker and a millworker costs them their jobs in this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, presented by the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency.

Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $7.50-15.

Info, 533-7487.

'A CHORUS LINE': The legendary Broadway musical comes to life on the Weston Playhouse stage with show-stopping songs and jaw-dropping dances. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $47-61. Info, 824-5288.

'DAMN YANKEES': Home run! A man pals around with the devil to guarantee his team a win in this musical comedy, performed by the Lamoille County Players. Hyde Park Opera House, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-18. Info, 888-4507.

DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL: 'ALL IN THE TIMING': See WED.30, 8 p.m.

'HAMLET': Shakespeare in the Barn stages the Bard's tragedy about a vengeful prince's plot against his uncle. Mary's Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, Bristol, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 989-7226.

'THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD': A madcap romp through Victorian England follows Theatre Royale actors as they attempt to complete Charles Dickens' unfinished story of "Edwin Drood," with disastrous results. For ages 10 and up. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $14-16. Info, 863-5966.

'ON THE TOWN': See WED.30.

DEERFIELD VALLEY BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: See WED.30.

FESTIVAL OF FOOLS: A three-day celebration of circus arts, music and comedy features continuous theatrics by international street performers. See calendar spotlight.Various downtown locations, Burlington, noon-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FRANKLIN COUNTY FIELD DAYS: See THU.31, 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

VERMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: More than 100 events — F AA ranging from pottery demos to RO NL IN DB world-class music and everything in ER G between — delight art lovers. See vermontartfest.com for details. Various Mad River Valley art locations, Warren, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, 496POP-UP MUSEUM & BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: 6682, info@vermontartfest.com.

Lovers of unusual, interesting objects check out oddities with Gary Miller, who presents Museum food & drink of the Americas. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 4-7 BELLOWS FALLS FARMERS MARKET: Music p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and weekly workshops. Waypoint community Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, BARK FOR LIFE: Canines and their owners help 463-2018. fight cancer in a noncompetitive, 1.5-mile walkCHELSEA FARMERS MARKET: A long-standing athon supporting the American Cancer Society. town-green tradition supplies shoppers with Limit of two dogs per person. Technology Park, eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10-25; additional Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987. fundraising encouraged. Info, 872-6309.

FIVE CORNERS FARMERS MARKET: From local COMMUNITY SOLAR FARM PARTY: Eco-minded meats to breads and wines, farmers share the folks tour the solar facility currently providing bounty of the growing season. Lincoln Place, clean energy to 28 households and businesses in Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, southern Vermont. North Springfield Solar Farm, GAAR.INFO/TICKETS • (802) 533-7487 999-3249.

3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 869-2500.

WILLEY’S STORE • HAZENDALE FARM • FOODWAYS FRIDAYS: Foodies revive historic LIVE TO ITS FULLEST: BENEFIT CONCERT & recipes in the farmhouse kitchen using heirloom TOWN HALL GREEN • GREENSBORO, VT SILENT AUCTION: Live music by A2VT, Jon herbs and veggies. Billings Farm & Museum, Gailmor and others entertains attendees, who Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-14; free for kids bid on a wide array of donated items. Proceeds under 3. Info, 457-2355. go to Nathan Cosgrove's muscular dystrophy7/24/14 5:12 PM HARDWICK FARMERS MARKET: A burgeoning 8v-greensboro073014.indd 1 related expenses. Peoples Academy, Morrisville, 5 culinary community celebrates local ag with p.m.-midnight. $7-12. Info, 279-6345. garden-fresh fare and handcrafted goods. Atkins Field, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6349. dance LYNDON FARMERS MARKET: More than 20 BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: SAMBA: Samir vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, meats, Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, and couples. No partner or experience required.

3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 535-7528.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food FÊTE DE DANSE: Renowned local, regional and browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 international dancers take the stage in the first p.m. Free. Info, 999-7514. major dance production held in the renovated theater. Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 TRUCK STOP: Gourmet eats and local libations p.m. $20-25. Info, 518-563-1604. from mobile kitchens satisfy discerning palates.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and QUEEN CITY TANGO PRACTILONGA: Dancers kick drink. Info, 540-0406. off the weekend with improvisation, camaraderie and laughter. No partner necessary, but clean, smooth-soled shoes required. North End Studio B, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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Info, 831-1228.

GREEN MOUNTAIN WRITERS CONFERENCE: See WED.30, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

MEETINGHOUSE READINGS: Nonfiction writer Abigail Carroll and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding excerpt selected works as part of the annual literary series.

Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-523-9650.

WRITER'S CIRCLE: Wordsmiths of all skill levels put pen to paper. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

AUGUST FIRST BAKERY & CAFÉ 5TH ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY: Dwight & Nicole, Barika, Gold Town, and Brett Hughes and the Honky Tonk Crowd bring spirited tunes to a soirée featuring Otter Creek brews and good eats.

August First Bakery & Café, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0060.

FRIDAY NIGHT FIX BIKE CLINIC: Gearheads bond over shared interests. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

HERRMANNS' ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: The rare Austrian breed showcases feats of beauty and grace in an awe-inspiring show. Orleans 29 South Main Street • Alburgh, VT County Fairgrounds, Barton, 5:30 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 6. Info, 673-8204.

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'PAGANS' & 'MONKEY MAN': A Jewish boy and a Catholic girl have a night to remember in David Schein's teenage drama, set in Burlington in the mid-1960s.

Dana Block's one-woman show about her brother's descent into mental illness follows. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8-9:45 p.m. $8-15. Info, 716-6404639, dafschein@gmail.com.

'RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH': See WED.30, 8 p.m.

'STOOP STORIES': See WED.30.

'TABLE MANNERS': A family getaway to the country goes awry courtesy of Norman, an assistant librarian, in Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious meditation on human nature. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

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AVOID FALLS WITH IMPROVED STABILITY: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.

LAUGHTER YOGA: Breathe, clap, chant and ... giggle! Participants decrease stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 999-7373.

YOGA CONSULT: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

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CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Players put their strategic skills to the test in a meeting of the minds.

Adult supervision required for kids 8 and under.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6956.

FROZEN FRIDAY: COOL OFF WITH OLAF!: Fans of Disney's animated blockbuster Frozen join the lovable snowman for songs, stories and crafts.

Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-7505.

THE LUNCHBOX SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.30, Pavilion Park, Island Pond, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044.

MEET VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS BASEBALL PLAYERS: Baseball fans get acquainted with members of the local team over stories and an autograph session. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

MUSIC WITH DEREK: Movers and groovers up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

'ONCE ON THIS ISLAND': See THU.31, Maple Street Park, Essex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1451.

SUMMER STORY TIME: 'GROW AND CHANGE': A mix of stories, songs and science captivates little ones up to age 5. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

DEMOS & DESSERTS: Art lovers nosh on sweet treats as artist Sarah Rosedahl demonstrates watercolor techniques and signs copies of Chickens!

Illustrated Chicken Breeds A to Z. Miller's Thumb Gallery, Greensboro, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2045.

SUMMER CELEBRATION & SILENT AUCTION: Live music and tasty fare fuel bidders at this benefit for the Art House. Houston House Gardens, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15; $25 per couple. Info, 586-2200.

'BLITHE SPIRIT': See THU.31.

'A CHORUS LINE': See THU.31.

'DAMN YANKEES': See THU.31.

DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL: 'ALL IN THE TIMING': See WED.30, 8 p.m.

'HAMLET': See THU.31.

'THE MIRACLE WORKER': Blind, deaf and mute since infancy, Helen Keller learns to communicate through her teacher, Annie Sullivan, in this Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency production of William Gibson's Tony award-winning play.

Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $7.50-15.

Info, 533-7487.

'THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD': See THU.31, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

'OLIVER!': An orphaned boy yearns to escape London's seedy underworld in this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story Oliver Twist, presented by QNEK Productions. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $7-15. Info, 334-2216.

'ON THE TOWN': See WED.30.

'PAGANS' & 'MONKEY MAN': See THU.31, 8-9:45 p.m.

'RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH': See WED.30, 8 p.m.

'THE SITUATION': A horse is captured and slaughtered to the music of Brahms in this meditation on the definition of the word "situation" featuring a 14-foot skeleton and a sculpted stage. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031.

'STOOP STORIES': See WED.30, 7:30 p.m.

'SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: THE CANCER INITIATION OF THE HANDLESS MAIDEN': Keryn Nightingale reimagines an Eastern European fairy tale in a one-woman show based on her cancer experience and themes of life, death and letting go. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.

'TABLE MANNERS': See THU.31.

'TROILUS AND CRESSIDA': See WED.30, 8-11:30 p.m.

'VIOLET': See WED.30.

FIRST FRIDAY: DJs and drag acts make for a memorable queer dance party. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 877-987-6487.

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CITY HALL PARK LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCES: The Hokum Brothers meld country and honkytonk tunes at an open-air show. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES WITH MINT JULEP: A multigenre mashup blurs the lines between swing, Latin, funk, hip-hop, reggae and soul. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151.

LC JAZZ: The 17-piece ensemble brings Big Band hits to the Wine Down Friday music series.

Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 388-7368.

POSSUMHAW: Led by vocalist Colby Crehan, the award-winning quintet delivers folk and bluegrass selections as part of the Salisbury Summer performance Series.

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HANK SCHAEFER MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT: Players tee off at this 18-hole tourney benefiting the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County. Rocky Ridge Golf Club, St. George, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $90 per player; $360 per team of four. Info, garyd@turningpointcentervt. org.

NORTHERN MODIFIED CHALLENGE SERIES: Speed racers complete laps around the track — 67 to be exact. Devil's Bowl Speedway, West Haven, $10-12; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

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See theprec.com for details. Burlington College, 5 p.m.-2 a.m. $10-12; $18-20 weekend pass. Info, radiobeanbooking@gmail.com.

QUECHEE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Walt Cunningham leads an outdoor concert of reimagined classic hits by Aretha Franklin and others at this benefit for WISE. The Quechee Club, 7-9 p.m. $10-30; free for kids under 12. Info, 295-9356.

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FLY KITES NOT DRONES: Locals send kites into the sky to raise awareness about Afghan Peace Volunteers' efforts to end drone usage.

Waterfront Park, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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BOB MARLEY: Having graced the stages of late-night television and Comedy Central, New England's "King of Comedy" returns to the region to deliver big laughs. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $2038. Info, 760-4634.

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BURLINGTON RUBY CONFERENCE: Burlington's tech scene gets a boost as local and regional web developers attend talks by leading industry professionals, including keynoters Sandi Metz and Ernie Miller. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. $250; preregister. Info, info@burlingtonrubyconference.com.

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FALLOUT: History buffs revisit the Cold War with news reels, movie clips and a tour of a 1960sera fallout shelter. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 2-4 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.

HERRMANNS' ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS: See FRI.1, 3 p.m.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK: DARKNESS FALLS: See FRI.1.

SUMMER DOG PARTY: Canine lovers and their four-legged companions convene for good eats, live music, kids activities and more. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-449-2580.

UVM HISTORIC TOUR: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Meet at the Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at uvm.edu. Info, 656-8673.

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BURKE MOUNTAIN BIKE & BREW: A day of mountain biking gives way to microbrews, barbecue fare and live music by Hornbeam at this freewheelin' fest. Burke Mountain Ski Resort, East Burke, 4 p.m. $5-20. Info, 626-7300.

DEERFIELD VALLEY BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: See WED.30.

FESTIVAL OF FOOLS: See FRI.1, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

FRANKLIN COUNTY FIELD DAYS: See THU.31, 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

INCREDIBLE INSECT FESTIVAL: Visitors learn about caterpillars, pollinators and aquatic insects with regional experts. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Regular admission, $11-13; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223.

MIDD SUMMER FESTIVAL: Folks raise a glass at this celebration of Vermont beer, wine and cheese. Tunes from the Starline Rhythm Boys and Seth Yacavone Band rounds out this benefit for area organizations. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 3-7 p.m. $20-25; $5 for designated drivers and people under 21; free for kids under 6. Info, info@ middsummerfestival.com.

VERMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: See FRI.1, 10 a.m.

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BARRE FARMERS MARKET: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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, 310-5172.

BURLINGTON FOOD TOUR: Locavores sample the Queen City's finest cuisine on a scrumptious stroll that stops at the Burlington Farmers Market and an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45. Info, 2770180, burlingtonfoodtours@gmail.com.

CALEDONIA FARMERS MARKET: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor stands centered on local eats. Pearl Street, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods and locally made arts and crafts throughout the growing season. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: See WED.30, St. Joseph's Church, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: Sweets lovers tap into the nuances of sour, spicy, earthy and fruity flavors.

Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5507.

MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: See WED.30.

MOUNT TOM FARMERS MARKET: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot. Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070.

NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.30.

NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Foodies stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157.

NORWICH FARMERS MARKET: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land offered alongside baked goods, handmade crafts and live entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

PITTSFORD FARMERS MARKET: Homegrown produce complements maple products and artisan wares at this outdoor affair. Pittsford Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 483-2829.

RUTLAND COUNTY FARMERS MARKET: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 773-4813 or 353-0893.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheese and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472.

STEER ROAST: Art lovers and locavores unite!

The Black Fly Collective pairs a viewing of local artwork with a feast of roasted beef, prepared Argentinian-style. Jericho Community Center, 3-9 p.m. $20; free for kids under 10; preregister; limited space; BYOB. Info, 238-4471.

TRUCK STOP: See FRI.1, parking lot, 60 Main Street, Montpelier, 4:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

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

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Super Bingo: Cash prizes reward players who fashion five in a row. Alburgh Volunteer Fire Department, 1 p.m. $20 for six cards. Info, 796-3402.

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Bike MS: Green Mountain Getaway: A supported ride offers cyclists mountain vistas and breathtaking lake views on routes ranging from 45 to 100 miles. Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. University of Vermont, Burlington, registration, 6-7 a.m.; ride, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $35 plus $250 in funds raised. Info, 617-7193202, eileen.curran@nmss.org.

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Antique Tractor Day: Gearheads get their fix of dozens of vintage farm vehicles from the 1930s to '60s. A tractor parade, wagon rides and themed kids activities round out the fun. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $4-14; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

Herrmanns' Royal Lipizzan Stallions: See FRI.1, 3 p.m.

Hooved Animal Sanctuary Open House: Pony ride and a parade of horses complement kids activities and more at this family-friendly celebration of rescued equines. The Hooved Animal Sanctuary, Chelsea, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 685-3089.

Music, Art & Tea: Folk band Potluck perform at an afternoon tea party featuring the paintings of Maurie Harrington and stained glass, pottery and jewelry by Jennifer Buckner. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@ilmpt.org.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Wicked Waterfront: Paranormal authority Thea Lewis leads a spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

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Community Restorative Yoga: Tisha Shull leads a gentle practice aimed at achieving mindbody harmony. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 802-448-4262.

Community Vinyasa: Rose Bryant helps students align breath, intention and inner balance. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 12:45-1:45 p.m.

Donations. Info, 802-448-4262.

Community Yoga: A blend of traditions such as Vinyasa and Kundalini combines breath, movement, meditation and live music. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 9-10 a.m. $5 minimum donation.

Info, 635-2727.

Soul Purpose Development: Light Body Meditation: Cynthia Warwick Seiler helps attendees access their higher selves in a focused practice. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. $15 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

Yogic Science: Pranayama and Meditation: Mindfulness techniques focus the senses and support an asana practice. Proceeds benefit the Center for Mindful Learning. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

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Champ Week: See SAT.2, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Kidical Mass Group Bicycle Ride: Families take a leisurely spin around the Queen City.

Maglianero Café, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 508-246-4315.

Russian Play Time With Natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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Burlington Concert Band: Local musicians present a varied program of marches, old pop songs and other classics. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonvtconcertband@gmail.com.

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Festival of Fools: See FRI.1, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Franklin County Field Days: See THU.31, 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival: Paddlers hit the water in 41-foot canoes and race to the finish line in honor of breast-cancer survivors. Proceeds benefit Survivorship NOW. See calendar spotlight. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Free for spectators. Info, 999-5478.

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Bread and Puppet 'Community Circus' Rehearsal: Folks feast their eyes on the political theater work-in-progress. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

'The Caretaker': See WED.30, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

'Carousel': See THU.31, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

'A Chorus Line': See THU.31.

'Damn Yankees': See THU.31, 7-9:30 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'All In the Timing': See WED.30, 8 p.m.

'Dot': New York Theatre Workshop Workin-Progress: A woman in the early stages of dementia plans to commit suicide, much to the dismay of her children, in Colman Domingo's dark comedy. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $9-13.

Info, 603-646-2422.

'Hamlet': See THU.31.

'The Mystery of Edwin Drood': See THU.31, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

'O, Caligula!' Audition: Saints & Poets Production Company holds tryouts for its musical comedy based on Rome's most infamous emperor, Gaius. Room A213, UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, check-in, 9:30 a.m.; audition, 10 a.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, info@ saintsandpoetsproductions.org.

'Oliver!': See FRI.1, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

'On the Town': See WED.30.

'Pagans' & 'Monkey Man': See THU.31, 89:45 p.m.

'Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash': See WED.30, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

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Community Breakfast: The Ladies Auxiliary hosts a hearty start to the day for members and nonmembers alike. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 878-0700.

International Dinner Series: A celebration of Turkish culture serves up traditional fare and live entertainment from Lokum. North End Studio A, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $15-18; ages 21 and up BYOB. Info, 863-6713.

Savor the Islands Farm Dinner: Farmfresh ingredients shine in a meal of wood-fired flatbread, salads and sides, prepared by the Lake Champlain Islands Agriculture Network. Proceeds benefit Food for Thought. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 3-5 p.m. $17 suggested donation; free for kids under 13. Info, lanes@snowfarm.com.

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, 207-266-8766.

Vermont Fresh Network Hard Cider Tasting & Annual Forum: Locavores sip cider with Ben Watson, author of Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions and Making Your Own, then break bread with chefs and farmers to recognize the state's farm-to-table movement. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, tasting, 4-5 p.m.; dinner, 5-8 p.m. $50-75; $25 for tasting; preregister; limited space. Info, 434-2000 or 863-5966.

Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic eats, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 413-446-4684.

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40th Army Band: Founded in 1907, the iconic group plays traditional patriotic tunes and contemporary favorites. Forest Center, MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.

Alpha Rev: Hailing from the musical hotbed of Austin, Texas, the alt-rock band behind the hit single "Sing Loud" performs an open-air show.

Concert Lawn. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, gates open for picnicking, 5 p.m.; concert, 6-8:15 p.m. $20. Info, 985-3819 or 863-5966.

Killington Music Festival: Chamber musicians close out the annual festival with a program of works by Beethoven and others. Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort. $30. Info, 442-1330.

Lyra Student Gala Concert: Participants culminate the three-week intensive workshop with a performance of chamber music. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 1-3 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 728-6464.

The Precipice: See FRI.1.

Santa Mamba: Latin rock spices up the Cooler in the Mountains concert series, which includes lawn games, a barbecue and a beer garden.

Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 3:30-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 422-2105.

Summer Carillon Series: Giant bronze bells ring out as Tatiana Lukyanova performs a campus concert. Middlebury College, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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Champ Week: Does the famed lake monster really exist? Kids and their caregivers investigate this local legend with interactive programs and activities. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $10.50-13.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

Children's Day & Lemonade Social: Little ones and their parents play Victorian-era games and sip summer's signature drink. Noyes House Museum, Morrisville, noon-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 888-7617.

Family Fun Day: Access to Rock Point's beaches and nature trails kicks off an afternoon of lawn games, kids activities and barbecue eats. Rock Point, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. $10; $25 per family.

Info, 922-4191.

'Red!': Budding thespians ages 9 and up venture into woods in a production of the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" by the Brothers Grimm.

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. $5. Info, 229-0492.

Saturday Story Time: Youngsters and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

'Stoop Stories': See WED.30, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

'Sympathy for the Devil: The Cancer Initiation of the Handless Maiden': See FRI.1.

'Toast': A New York Theatre Workshop Work-in-Progress: Tony Award-winning writer Lemon Andersen delves into the lives of a group of inmates struggling to remain sane during the 1971 Attica Prison riots. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m. $9-13. Info, 603-646-2422.

'Troilus and Cressida': See WED.30, 8-11:30 p.m.

'Violet': See WED.30.

Duct Tape Regatta: Boaters get their sea legs in DIY vessels crafted from duct tape and cardboard at this fundraiser for the North Hero Community Hall. City Bay, North Hero, registration, 9 a.m.; race, 10 a.m. $25 per boat; free for spectators. Info, 372-4161. es y of Spring Lake Ranch Paddle Ro b er t Ca m p Battle: Canoers go head-to-head on Echo Lake while raising funds for Spring Lake Ranch Therapeutic Community. A silent auction, cookout and awards ceremony round out the community day. Camp Plymouth State Park, Ludlow, 11 a.m.-3 Festival Community Picnic: As part of the p.m. $35; $25 per boat; free for kids 12 and under; Vermont Festival of the Arts, the Grift serpreregister. Info, 492-3322 or 492-2284. enade picnickers at a spirited gathering of local Warblers, Woods and Watersheds: A food vendors, art and fireworks. Lareau Farm ranger-led hike covers the basics of monitoring Inn, Waitsfield, 5-10 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, local wildlife, forest health and water quality.

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Meet at Prosper Road parking lot. Marsh-BillingsWestford Ice Cream Social & Band Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, Concert: Locals spoon up frozen dairy treats 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, at this 19th annual neighborly gathering. ext. 22.

Proceeds benefit the ongoing operation and restoration of the Brick Meeting House. Westford seminars Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 3-D Printing, Designing & Scanning With 878-5804.

Blu-Bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their conferences ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; Burlington Ruby Conference: See SAT.2, preregister. Info, 345-6030.

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Saturday Morning Run/Walk: Amateur athletes set the pace at an informal weekly gettogether. Peak Performance, Williston, 8-9 a.m.

Free. Info, 658-0949.

Understanding Eastern Medicine: Acupuncturist Marni Adhikari details well-being as reflected in the Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements. Pathways to Well Being, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, acumedicine@ gmail.com.

Yabuno Ettun Project: Melding Baroque esthetics with contemporary selections, pianist Haruka Yabuno and bassist Ehud Ettun straddle the line between classical and jazz. See calendar spotlight. Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

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Gary Shattuck: The local author details an 1808 showdown on the Winooski River in Smugglers and Shootouts: The Black Snake Affair.

A visit to the approximate site of the event follows. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m.

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Donations of nonperishable food items accepted.

Info, 728-5188.

Shemekia Copeland: The songstress belts out the blues amid mountain vistas. See calendar spotlight. Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow; rain location: Stowe High School, Stowe, 7 p.m. $30.25; free for kids under 18 with ticketed adult; preregister. Info, 8635966 or 353-7321.

Ukulele Mele: Lovers of the es Hawaiian instrument convene for a y of Sa strumming session. For ages 10 and ndr ine L ee up. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. ur

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Appalachian Trails & Tales: A guided hike along a section of the AT introduces outdoorsy types to the history that shaped the unique landscape. Meet at the Billings Farm & Museum visitor center. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-3368, ext. 2.

Wild Mushrooms of Summer: Adults and kiddos ages 12 and up join Ari Rockland-Miller of the Mushroom Forager to seek out local fungi. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $25-30; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum Epic Summer Event: Mountain bikers spin their wheels on 10- to 25-mile courses as part of the Eastern Fat Tire Association of New England Championship Series. Proceeds benefit the museum. See vtssm.com for details. Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Craftsbury Common, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $30-40. Info, 253-9911, ext. 201.

Women's Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Starr Farm Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 864-0123.

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'The Caretaker': See WED.30.

'A Chorus Line': See THU.31, 3 p.m.

'Damn Yankees': See THU.31, 2-4:30 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'All In the Timing': See WED.30, 3 p.m.

'Hamlet': See THU.31, 8 p.m.

'The Miracle Worker': See FRI.1, 2 p.m.

'The Mystery of Edwin Drood': See THU.31, 2 p.m.

'Nothing-Is-Not-Ready Circus and Pageant': The political and apolitical movements of the not-yet-existing upriser masses come to life in a passionate performance. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031.

'Oliver!': See FRI.1, 2 p.m.

'Stoop Stories': See WED.30, 3 p.m.

'Troilus and Cressida': See WED.30, 8-11:30 p.m.

'Violet': See WED.30.

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BigTown Summer Reading Series: Poets Michael Collier, Cynthia Huntington and Cleopatra Mathis share stanzas with lit lovers. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.

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Barns & Bridges: A self-guided tour highlights hillsides, rushing streams and other picture-perfect scenery as part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts. Various Mad River Valley locations, Warren, 9 a.m.

Free. Info, 496-6682.

fairs & festivals

Vermont Festival of the Arts: See FRI.1, 10 a.m.

games

Bridge Club: See WED.30, 7 p.m.

Trivia Night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

sports

Vermont Agency Foundation All Charity Classic: Golfers take a swing for cash prizes to be donated to their charity of choice in this scramble tournament. A barbecue follows.

Country Club of Vermont, Waterbury Center, 10 a.m. $1,200 per team of four. Info, 861-3427.

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Book Sale: Thousands of gently-used titles enthrall bookworms. Proceeds benefit the library.

Rutland Free Library, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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Milton's National Night Out: Bobby and the Retrotones entertain locals at block party to support local crime prevention and build policecommunity partnerships. Tasty fare and kids activities round out the evening. Milton Municipal Complex, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

dance

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.1.

Monday-Night Fun Run: Runners push past personal limits at this weekly outing. Peak Performance, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0949.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.30.

Intro to Tribal Belly Dance: Ancient traditions from diverse cultures define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.

Swing Dance Practice Session: Twinkle-toed dancers learn steps for the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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Alice in Noodleland: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Champ Week: See SAT.2, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Electricity & the Environment: From Faraday's Coil to modern energy production, youngsters ages 8 through 12 learn about electricity in hands-on activities. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Fizz, Boom, READ!: Stories With Megan: Captivating tales entertain good listeners ages 3 through 6. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Magic Show With Tom Joyce: Summer Reading Finale & Raffle Drawing: Budding bookworms celebrate their achievements with an evening of comedy and magic. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

'Once On This Island': See THU.31, Charlotte Library, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-1451.

language

Advanced Spanish Lessons: Proficient speakers work on mastering the language. Private residence, Burlington, 5 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

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Bike Care 101 for Women: A clinic for those who identify as women/trans/queer covers basic bike mechanics, maintenance and repair. Proceeds benefit Bike Recycle Vermont.

Personal bicycle required. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $75-200 suggested donation. Info, veronica@oldspokeshome.com.

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Caspian Monday Music: Upright bassist Bronek Suchanek and guitarist John Wilkins treat listeners to an evening of improvised jazz.

Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, 8 p.m. $10-18; free for kids 18 and under. Info, caspianmondaymusic@gmail.com.

Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: See THU.31.

fairs & festivals

Vermont Festival of the Arts: See FRI.1, 10 a.m.

film

Knights of the Mystic Movie Club: Cinema hounds screen campy flicks at this celebration of offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

Peace & Popcorn: Like-minded cinephiles pick a flick as part of the Peace & Justice Center's socially conscious film initiative. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

food & drink

Johnson Farmers Market: From kale to handcrafted spoons, shoppers fill their totes at this open-air affair featuring meats, herbs, baked goods and dining areas. Johnson Village Green, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, johnsonfarmersmarket@gmail. com.

Old North End Farmers Market: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic food and more from neighborhood vendors. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.2, 2-6 p.m.

games

Gaming for Teens & Adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

health & fitness

Gentle Yoga With Jill Lang: Students get their stretch on with the yoga certification candidate. Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

Intro to Yoga: Those new to the mat discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

Nia Class: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, a sensory-based movement practice inspires students to explore their potential. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $13.

Info, 863-6713.

Yoga With Alexandra: Rocking rhythms enliven a blend of Hatha, Vinyasa and Kundalini.

Jenke Arts, Burlington, 4-5:15 p.m. $5 minimum donation. Info, 279-6663.

kids

Champ Celebration: Participants in the "Where's Champ?" summer activity meet the Lake Monsters' mascot at this community gathering.

Phoenix Books Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

Champ Week: See SAT.2, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Creative Tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Game Night: Decks of card and board games make for an evening of family fun. Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 849-2420.

Lunch at the Library: See THU.31.

Make Window Stars: Youngsters ages 8 and up explore how light and color work together in an arts-and-crafts session. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

'Once On This Island': See THU.31, Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Stowe, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 355-1451.

Yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 764-1810.

language

Beginner Spanish Lessons: Newcomers develop basic competency en español. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

French Conversation Group: Beginnerto-intermediate speakers brush up on their language skills. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

Pause-Café French Conversation: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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Castleton Summer Concerts: American Longboards bring drum-driven surf tunes to an outdoor show. Pavilion, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039.

Music in the Park: Jimmy T. doles out raucous country rhythms. Knight Point State Park, North Hero, 6:30 p.m. $5; free for kids under 12. Info, 372-8400.

The Poulenc Trio: The threesome interprets works by Glinka, Shostakovich and Rossini and Previn as part of the Summer Music from Greensboro Concert Series. United Church of Christ, Greensboro, 8 p.m. $20; free for kids under 18. Info, 533-2301.

Shape Note Sing: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the "fa-sol-la" tradition.

Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 525-3031.

Sol Driven Train: Fresh funk rhythms get audience members to their feet at the Songs at Mirror Lake Music Series. Mid's Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-524-4328.

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Strafford Common ConCert SerieS: Outdoor performances by top musical talents make for family-friendly fun. Strafford Common, 6-7:30 p.m. $5 minimum donation. Info, 765-4009. tallGraSS Getdown at tueSday niGht live: Funky folk grooves enliven a pastoral party featuring good eats. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 635-7826.

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ChartinG a happier path in a ChaotiC world: mindful liSteninG: a Creative and maGnetiC forCe: Kathleen Moore explores this powerful approach to relating with others. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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lonG trail leaGue niGht: Golfers hit the green at this weekly nine-hole scramble tournament complete with prizes, contests and themed play.

A dinner in the clubhouse follows. Killington Golf Course, 5-8:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 422-6700.

Standup paddleboard raCe SerieS: Aquatic athletes face off in a friendly competition.

Waterbury Center State Park, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 253-2542. tueSday mountain rideS: Bicyclists of all skill levels brush up on their technique while pedaling along local trails. Mountain bikes suggested; helmets required. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

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meet-the-artiStS brown baG lunCh: Artistsin-residence chat about upcoming New York Theatre Workshop presentations in an informal setting. A Q&A follows. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. Free. Info, 603-646-3691.

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'till we have faCeS' Study Group: Lit lovers analyze the first half of C.S. Lewis' final novel.

Room 227, Jeffords Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6:45-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 922-1665, celebratemind@gmail.com.

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'blaCk CanarieS': Filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer hosts a screening of his short documentary inspired by a coal-mining folktale. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 319-333-8434, jesse.kreitzer@ gmail.com. 'monty python live (moStly)': Fans of the British cult comedy are treated to a muchanticipated reunion of the original members, who take the stage at London's famed O2 Arena.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $17. Info, 775-0903.

food & drink

Champlain iSlandS farmerS market: See WED.30. middlebury farmerS market: See WED.30. newport farmerS market: See WED.30. pop-up GaStronomy: a new enGland terroir: Gourmands sample regional flavors at a multi-course al fresco feast, weather permitting. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6 p.m. $65-75 includes dinner and a glass of each featured wine; preregister. Info, 877-324-6386.

Slow food vermont farmerS market: See WED.30. wedneSday wine down: See WED.30. williSton farmerS market: See WED.30.

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bridGe Club: See WED.30.

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montréal-Style aCro yoGa: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower guides participants through poses that combine acrobatics with therapeutic benefits. Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 324-1737. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.30.

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advanCed improviSation teChniqueS workShop: Actors ages 12 and up hone their long-form improvisation. Prior acting experience required. Big Picture Theater, Waitsfield, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 496-6682.

Champ week: See SAT.2, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. the lunChbox Summer meal proGram: See WED.30. meet roCkin' ron the friendly pirate: See WED.30. 'onCe on thiS iSland': See THU.31, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 355-1451. read to a doG: Lit lovers ages 5 through 10 take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.

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German-enGliSh ConverSation Group: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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Community eveninGS at the farm: Brett Hughes shares his musical gifts with picnickers.

Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-9551.

CraftSbury Chamber playerS: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. dave keller band: The Montpelier-based musicians bring funky, soulful blues to the Middlesex Summer Concert Series. Bring a lawn chair, blanket and picnic fare. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand; rain location: Rumney School gymnasium. Middlesex, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 272-4920 or 272-7578.

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Green mountain table tenniS Club: See WED.30. women'S wedneSday mountain rideS: See WED.30.

August 9-13 at 2:00-5:00 pm

Open to members and the public at a cost of $50 per day.

Participant Piano Concerts August 12 & 13 at 7:30 pm

All concerts are free for members, guest admissions $10.

Seniors/Students: $6

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802-223-3347 or adamant.org

QuarryWorks Theater Jack and the Beanstalk (children’s show) August 2 & 3

Saturday at 2:00 & 5:00 p.m.

Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Come Back, Little Sheba (classic drama) August 7-10 & 14-17

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 pm Saturday and Sunday Matiness at 2:00 pm All QuarryWorks performances are free.

Info: quarryworks.org Reservations: 802-229-6978

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Jim newman & Sarah SlauGhter: The designbuild experts consider natural and man-made disasters in "The Built Environment and Resilient Communities." Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 495-5545.

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'a ChoruS line': See THU.31, 2 p.m. dorSet theatre feStival: 'all in the timinG': See WED.30. 'rinG of fire: the muSiC of Johnny CaSh': See WED.30, 8 p.m. 'violet': See WED.30.

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authorS at the aldriCh: Poet, essayist and translator David Hinton excerpts Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape. A concert in Currier Park follows. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. writerS for reCovery workShop: See WED.30. m

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TICKETS: $20 adults • $10 children 802-253-3961 stowetheatre.com, or at the box office.

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hiroShima day peaCe viGil: Folks commemorate the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and call for the abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide. Meet at the corner of South Prospect and Main Streets. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 8-8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-1047.

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S'moreS and StorieS by the fire: The young — and young at heart — join naturalist Kurt Valenta for sweet treats and tales of our natural history. Bring a blanket or chair. Milton Historical Society, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598. younG & fun performanCe SerieS: pirate SChool: David Engel becomes Billy Bones the bumbling pirate in this one-man swashbuckling show. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.

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burlinGton buSineSS fair: Those interested in starting or growing a business with local, state and federal resources network with area professionals. Burlington City Hall, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

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art FARM TO CANVAS: Join Whirled Tree Arts for this creative workshop at a gorgeous farm in Essex Junction. Spend your mornings amid the cows, taking in picturesque views of Mt. Mansfield, and expand your skills in sketching, painting and drawing landscapes. All materials provided. No previous experience necessary. Mon.-Thu., Aug. 4-7, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $175/12 hours of instruction, all art materials provided. Location: Whirled Tree Arts, 65 Old Stage Rd., Essex Jct. Info: Whirled Tree Arts, Carolyn Crotty, 781-771-6119, carolyn@ whirledtree.org, whirledtree.org.

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NON-TOXIC ETCHING: Join us for this weekend class with local printer Gregg Blasdel, and learn the basics of ImagOn film, a user-friendly, non-toxic etching process that reproduces a wide range of graphic techniques, from line drawing to photographic images. Includes all basic supplies; additional charges may apply for paper depending on projects. Aug. 9-10, 2-4 p.m.

Cost: $70/person; $63/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 865-7166.

business GETTING SERIOUS: SELFEMPLOYMT: Thinking about starting a business? This eight-hour class will provide you an opportunity to brainstorm business ideas, explore what you need out of business, reality filter business ideas and navigate resources for moving forward.

All the while, be supported by your entrepreneurship-exploring peers in an interactive, engaging classroom environment! Thu. & Fri., Aug. 7 & 8, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $125/8-hour class.

Location: Mercy Connections,

255 South Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

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BASICS AND BEYOND IN JEWELRY: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art. Each student

will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver. Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming and soldering techniques. 8 Wed., 5-8 p.m., Sep. 17-Nov. 5. Cost: $393/ person (members: $313.20, nonmembers: $348, materials: $45). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

BEGINNER WHEEL THROWING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. This course is great for beginners who are looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze.

After crafting your pottery on the wheel, Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. 8 Tue., 10 a.m.-noon, Sep. 16-Nov. 4. Cost: $270/person (members $211.50, nonmembers $235, materials $35). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

HAND-BUILDING: Instructor: Alex Costantino. Use of electric and gas kiln. This hand-building class will focus on creating sculptural and functional pieces using slabs, extrusions, solid building and coils. Students explore texture and surface using multiple techniques. If you already have an idea or some inspirational images (sculptural or functional), bring them to the first class. No previous hand-building experience necessary. 8 Fri., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Sep. 19-Nov. 7. Cost: $335/person (members: $261, nonmembers: $290, materials: $45). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

INTRO TO WOODWORKING: Instructor: Rachel BrydolfHorwitz. A comprehensive introduction to woodworking, this course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery and finishing.

Students will build their own Shaker-style hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project and gain familiarity with the woodshop environment. 10 Mon., 5:30-8:30 p.m., Sep. 22-Dec. 1 (no class Nov. 24). Cost: $520/ person (members $391.50, nonmembers $435, materials $85).

Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

MAD SCIENTIST WORKSHOP: Instructor: John Brickles. Dr. Brickelstein presents “Mad Scientist Workshop, Daylight Edition.” Scientists will be building Steampunkstyled sculptures exploiting the versatility of Dr. Brickelstein’s trademark mocha-colored stoneware clay.

Vacuum tubes, valve handles, faux meter dials and more are included for you to incorporate into your scientific creation. No previous experience with clay or vacuum tubes is required. Sun., Oct. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost: $105/1-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd.,

Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

WHEEL THROWING/INT.-ADV.: Instructor: Loretta Languet DiMario. Focusing on details and sharpening your skills as a potter, Loretta will demonstrate how to incorporate stacking forms to gain added height and altering wet pottery adding rhythm and gesture. Loretta will also incorporate slips and various surface techniques exploring the world of surface design. 8 Wed., 5-8 p.m., Sep. 24-Nov. 12. Cost: $393/ person (members: $313.20, nonmembers: $348, materials: $45). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

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METALS W/ MATT: ADV. JEWELRY: Instructor: Matthew Taylor. Come learn from Master Jeweler Matthew Taylor of Matthew Taylor Designs at the Shelburne Craft School. Projects may include setting a stone, wax carving, chain mail or other ideas. Prerequisite: Beginner Jewelry (students must already know sawing, filing, and soldering). 5 Tue., 5:30-8 p.m., Sep. 16-Oct.14. Cost: $345/person (members $261, nonmembers $290, materials: $55). Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

NEW SHAPE: MIXED LEVEL: Instructor: Jules Polk. Breaking away from round. Are you tired of feeling like you are making the same-shaped pots over and over again? This class will take basic shapes thrown on the wheel and give you the handbuilding and finishing skills to make any shape you can think of!

Prerequisite: Beginning wheel. 8 Sat., 10 a.m.-noon, Sep. 20-Nov. 8. Cost: $280/person (members: $211.50, nonmembers: $235, materials: $45). Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

STILL LIFE: BEGINNER: Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane.

Simple forms and colors of basic still life setups will be the inspiration for this beginners course.

We will start with basic drawing techniques, discuss materials, practice with mixing accurate colors and learn how to apply paint in a step-by-step format.

8 Mon., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 15-Nov. 3. Cost: $235/person; members $211.50; material list & syllabus. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd.,

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. . Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa.

Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

design/build TINY HOUSE WORKSHOP: Tiny house expert Peter King will teach you how to construct your tiny house. Learn framing, sheathing and putting on a roof.

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8-10 in Burlington/Essex with ReSOURCE for $285, and Aug. 16-17 in Middlesex for $250.

Contact Vermont Woodworking School to register. Aug. 8-10.

Cost: $285/3-day workshop.

Location: ReSOURCE, 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Woodworking School, Carina Driscoll, 849-2013, carina@ vermontwoodworkingschool. com, vermontwoodworkingschool.com.

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Therapeutic Marijuana Program: Do I qualify for a Vermont registry card?

Learn how to apply for your Therapeutic Marijuana Registry card. Classes are not sponsored or authorized by the Vermont Marijuana Registry or the State of Vermont or any state regulatory agency. The organizers are solely responsible for the information presented. Sat., Aug. 9 & 23, noon-1 p.m., followed

by Q&A. Location: Peace and Justice Center meeting room, 60 Lake Street, 1C, Burlington waterfront next to the Skinny Pancake, Burlington. Info: Herbal Education Center, Larry Phillips, 879-6219, lphilvt@gmail.com, vermontcompassioncenters.net.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and car- dio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self- confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

StandUp Paddleboarding: Get on board for a very fun and simple way to explore the lake and work your body head to toe. Instruction on paddlehandling and balance skills to get you moving your first time out. Learn why people love this Hawaiian-rooted sport the first time they try it. Lessons offered daily. Cost: $30 . Location: Oakledge Park & Beach, end of Flynn Ave., a mile south of downtown along the bike path, Burlington. Info: Paddlesurf Champlain, 8814905, jason@paddlesurfchamplain.com, paddlesurfchamplain.com.

Wisdom of the Herbs School: Currently interviewing applicants for Wisdom of the Herbs 2014 Certification Program, Jul. 26-27, Aug. 23-24, Sep. 27-28, Oct. 25-26 and Nov. 8-9, 2014. Learn to identify wild herbaceous plants and shrubs over three seasons. Prepare local wild edibles and herbal home remedies. Practice homesteading and primitive skills, food as first medicine, and skillful use of intentionality. Experience profound connection and play with Nature. Hands-on curriculum includes herb walks, skill-building, sustainable harvesting and communion with the spirits of the plants. Tuition $1750; payment plan $187.50 each month.

VSAC nondegree grants available to qualifying applicants; apply early. Annie McCleary, director.

Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 4568122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

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Learn to Meditate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

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Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

Yang-Style Tai Chi: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, janet@ mindfulbreathtaichi.com, mindfulbreathtaichi.com.

Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15.

Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 999-9963.

Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and

Yoga Roots: Established in February 2013, Yoga Roots provides a full daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. From Restorative to Heated Vinyasa Flow, Yoga Roots aims to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit! Coming up: Free Shelburne Beach Yoga, Aug. 10, 8-9 a.m.; Yoga in Nature Camp begins Aug. 18 for ages 5-9. Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Green Business Park. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.

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Taiko, Djembe & Congas!: Stuart Paton, cofounder and artistic director of Burlington Taiko Group, has devoted the past 25 years to performing and teaching taiko to

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Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.

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LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our eighth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. . Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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children and adults here in the Burlington area and throughout New England. He is currently the primary instructor at the Burlington Taiko Space, and his teaching style integrates the best of what he experienced as a child growing up in Tokyo with many successful strategies in American education. Call or email for schedule. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier.

Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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DRAW AND SIP ART WORKSHOP: Spend an evening soaking in the fun and creativity while making art and enjoying handpicked wine selections from the experts at Cork in Waterbury!

Discover your drawing talents with illustrator Evan Chismark as you’re guided through a no-stress drawing session. Each participant will complete their own masterpiece! Aug. 14, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $35/members; $60/ nonmembers. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com.

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Group Guitar Lessons: Beginner Level: Can you play a few chords and strum a little? Did you play years ago and wish that you could pick up where you left off? Dust off your guitar and join us for this fun and supportive class covering basic fingerpicking and strumming techniques, reading chord charts, playing out of a songbook, tuning, technique and tone. Participants provide their own acoustic guitar. Ages 15+. Instructor: Clint Bierman.

3 Tue., Aug. 5, 12 & 19, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $75/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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To that end, here are four albums that likely flew under the radar of your average Vermont music fan. In some cases, they represent the outermost boundaries of local music. Others simply slipped through the cracks. But each is worth a listen.

Mary Ellen Melnick, Sacco and Vanzetti (The Italian Years)

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italianborn anarchists who were arrested — and many say framed, due to their extremist political views and the anti-Italian prejudice of the era — for murdering two men during the armed robbery of a Braintree, Mass., shoe factory in 1920. Despite ballistic evidence and eyewitness accounts to the contrary, the two were found guilty in 1921 and were executed in 1927.

Protests and riots erupted around the globe.

On her new album, Sacco and Vanzetti (The Italian Years), local composer and pianist Mary Ellen Melnick brings their famous story to life. Presented as a single, hourlong work, Melnick’s composition is stirring.

The solo piano piece is in some moments elegant and serene. In others, it rumbles with mounting fury. Melnick’s playing is sophisticated and precise throughout. But the emotion she evokes through her graceful keystrokes and dynamic passages is what resonates, and somehow cuts wordlessly to the soul of Sacco and Vanzetti’s tragic tale. cdbaby.com/cd/maryellenmelnick

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Deb Brisson is a Middlebury-based songwriter who claims the likes of Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt as her primary influences. On Heart Shaped Stone, her latest record with her backing band, the Hay Burners, Brisson lays those inspirations bare. Over 11 tracks,

engineered and produced by the Grift’s Clint Bierman, she delivers a roots-fueled take on rock that aims for Raitt’s swagger and Harris’ sensitivity.

While she doesn’t break molds, Brisson largely succeeds at synthesizing the music of her idols. Along with co-songwriters Pete Ryan, Mark Pelletier and Mark Brisson Jr., she presents an agreeable take on heartland rock that should find a welcome audience with local Americana fans. Brisson is no Bonnie Raitt, but she knows her way around an alt-country hook and sings with fire. cdbaby.com/cd/debbrissonthehayburners

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Falgar is a pseudonym of multi-instrumentalist and composer Etienne Goldberg Santini. Santini began work on his latest album, Lejanía, while living in Puerto Rico in 2007. He has since moved to Vermont, where he finally finished and released the album, some six-plus years later. A note on the CD’s back cover states, “Lejanía is dedicated to a young woman who I love and who visits me in dreams. May this album find you.”

If it does find her, Santini’s mystery woman will find a sweeping, emotionally bold 45 minutes of instrumental music that sounds something like Mogwai on Prozac — in a good way. Dark and elegiac, Lejanía is beautifully disorienting by design. It hypnotizes and seduces through a shimmering array of guitar-based suites, urging you, likely at your own peril, to follow Santini into the mouth of madness. falgarpr.bandcamp.com

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The Irregulars, Waiting for Wisdom (Epact Music, CD, digital download)

If the Irregulars seek wisdom, then accepting the tutelage of local folk and traditional music guru Pete Sutherland ain’t a bad place to start. The Shelburnebased band is composed of six high school students who have been performing together since 2007. Their debut album, Waiting for Wisdom, released last year on Sutherland’s Epact Music label, is a lively collection of originals and traditional fiddle tunes from the British Isles, Québec and Cape Breton that suggests they’ve heeded their mentor and really don’t have long to wait after all.

The band’s takes on trad tunes such as “Big John McNeill” and “Big Scioty” are well considered and executed. But the album’s true source of strength is its original works. Accordion and banjo player Laura Harris’ “The Morning Person” has a timeless lilt and is a wonderfully crafted fiddle tune. Mandolinist and fiddler Oliver Scanlon emerges with clever reels on “On the Morgan Deck” and “Descent of the Snark.”

And the two team up on the album’s ninth track, “Amidst the Clouds/Waiting for Wisdom,” a cut that veers more toward contemporary acoustic music than the preceding jigs and reels, yet maintains a vibrant traditional feel. Kids these days…

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are two. These are good things. One downside last year — if you can even call it that — was that it was impossible to see everything you might want to.

Unless you were superfan tim LEwiS, who is inhuman. That will be less of an issue this year. Bands are staggered so that you can probably catch every single act on the slate. Speaking of which…

Friday’s highlights include marimba ace JANE BoxALL getting her jazz on with Michael Chorney and GrEGorY DouGLASS, StEADY BEttY going steady, BArikA popping an ngoni groove, the DirtY BLoNDES gettin’ down and dirty, and kAt wriGht & thE iNDomitABLE SouL BAND, well, being Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band. You can also check out rYAN PowEr’s new lineup, as well as last year’s festival favorites, BELLA’S BArtok from Northampton, Mass. Also, closing out the night is mArk DALY’s (ex-chAmBErLiN) new electro-rock project PLAto EArS. I’ve really dug what I’ve heard of PE’s recorded stuff but was a little critical of Daly’s loopy live set the last time I saw him. He’ll be debuting a full band this night that includes JEr cooNS, Eric mAiEr and JoSh wEiNStEiN. Color me intrigued.

Saturday gets under way with a set from the ever-ascendant DuPoNt BrothErS, followed by indie-folk outfit oSAGE orANGE, whom I’ve been itching to see since front man Nick VAriSANo returned from the wilderness last

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When you stop and think about it, the number, variety and quality of music festivals that happen every summer in Vermont are pretty astounding. From the biggest multi-date fêtes to afternoon homegrown hoedowns and about a bazillion others in between, there’s something to suit almost any musical taste, summer schedule and budget.

And the best part is that each of our annual summer fests has its own unique character.

You want glitzy names? Try the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival or Grand Point North. Looking to have your mind blown by some hot-shit indie band you never knew you loved? Hit up Waking Windows. Do you like your rocking with food and a side of ethical consciousness? Newbie fests such as Signal Kitchen’s WYSIWYG and the Skinny Pancake’s Eat by Northeast might be for you. And if you prefer your musical diet to be strictly locavore, look no further than the Precipice, brought to you by the fine folks from Radio Bean this Friday and Saturday, August 1 and 2.

Regular readers know I have something of a soft spot for the Precipice, which debuted three years ago at the Intervale but has since moved to the large field behind Burlington College on North Ave. In part, that’s because the festival is the single best showcase for local music there is. Also, because using that field as a venue last summer was a revelation. (See: WYSIWYG, above.)

While most fests lure audiences with marquee names and then round out the

slate with locals, Precipice architects LEE ANDErSoN and JoE ADLEr do practically the opposite, leaning almost exclusively on local talent and tossing in a few bigger regional names here and there.

So if you’ve been reading this column for a while but haven’t had the chance to check out many of the local bands whose virtues I’ve regularly espoused, do yourself — and me — a favor and make the effort to go this weekend, because most of those acts will be in attendance.

(And then, next year when the Seven Daysies awards roll around, you’ll know a few more names on the ballot and the same three bands won’t win all of the music categories again. Seriously, GrAcE PottEr is the best singer-songwriter in Vermont? Really? Best vocalist? No argument here. Best rock band? Sure.

But spread the love, people.)

Anyway, assuming I haven’t just been fired after berating Daysies voters for crimes against mArYSE Smith and michAEL chorNEY, let’s move on to the lineup for this year’s Precipice. Ahem.

(Full disclosure: I’m not offering any disclosures about any of the bands on the lineup in this week’s column. So just assume I work with, am related to, have dated, am dating or someday will date every band on the bill, mkay?)

You’ll notice this year’s festival looks a little slimmed down from last year.

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FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Jeremy Harple (folk), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Blind Owl Band, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

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Mellow Red, Green and Yellow Dubbed the “Mellow Canary” due to his forceful, pure-toned voice, BARRINGTON LEVY is one of reggae music’s all-time great songbirds. Acknowledged as one of the first original singers of the dancehall era, Levy is a reggae icon whose 25-plus-year career is virtually without peer.

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RADIO BEAN: Cody Sargent & Friends (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Amy Lynn (folk), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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ZEN LOUNGE: Wayne Beam Tribute Show hosted by Tricky Pat, 8 p.m., free.

AMERICAN FLATBREAD BURLINGTON HEARTH: Groove Is In the Hearth, 6 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Devil in the Woods, Other Colors, Smoke Bellow (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5/10.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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PIZZA BARRIO: David Pollack (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Christopher Paul Stelling, Tall Tall Trees (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $5/8.

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JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin & Geoff Kim (Parisian jazz), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke!

Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Acoustics Anonymous with Cricket Blue (jamgrass), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Rob Morse Trio with Michael Chorney & Parker Shper (jazz), 6:15 p.m., free.

Monika Heidemann (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes (blues), 8 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Swift Technique (hip-hop), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Flume (EDM), 9 p.m., $20/23. AA.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (acoustic rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: The Verbing Nouns (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

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NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Turidae Trio (Celtic), 4:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Birdshot La Funk (funk), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Mike Schlenoff (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 7:30 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6:30 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Band of Horses, Midlake (rock), 8:30 p.m., $30/32. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Waking Windows Presents: Hospitality, Porches., Frankie Cosmos (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Timothy James Blues & Beyond, 7 p.m., free.

THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Alicia Phelps (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

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PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be A DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Michelle Sarah Band (funk), 6 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Electrode Ent. Presents: Archnemesis, Revibe, Electrode DJs (EDM), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+.

VENUE: Noches de Sabor with DJs Jah Red, Rau, Papi Javi, 8 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Art Herttua and Stephen Morabito (jazz), 6 p.m., donation.

CHARLIE O'S: Gorcrow Album Release, DJ Crucible (metal), 10 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Dave Keller (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Lizzy Mandell, Rudy Dauth, Christine Malcolm (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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THE BEE'S KNEES: Linda Bassick (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

SUSHI YOSHI — STOWE: Parker Shper Trio (jazz), 4:30 p.m., free.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Paul Asbell Jazz Quartet, 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Summer Salsa Series with DJ Hector, 10 p.m., free. Summer Salsa Series with DJ Hector, 10 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Trivia & Wing Night, 7 p.m., free.

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THE PARKER PIE CO.: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

THE PUB OUTBACK: Micah Carbonneau (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Victory Orchard (rock, soul), 7 p.m., free. Victory Orchard (rock), 7 p.m., free.

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NAKED TURTLE: Turtle Thursdays with 95 XXX (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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AUGUST FIRST BAKERY & CAFÉ: August First 5th Anniversary Block Party (bluegrass, country), noon, free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: McKenna Lee and the Remedy (country), 6 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: "No Diggity" ’90s Night, 9 p.m., free/$5.

JUNIPER: Mean Martin (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., free.

THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Showcase (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $7.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRY: Ship of Fools: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., $15/20. AA. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Jerry Garcia Birthday Celebration: Cats Under the Stars, Acoustic Anonymous, 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick & Friends, 11 a.m., free. Highway Kind (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.

Em Young (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Rod MacDonald (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free.

Quiet Lion (basement soul),

10:30 p.m., free. Forget, Forget (electropop), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Con Yay (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Two Count (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Cedar Point (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Sugarhouse Run (bluegrass), 10 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Salsa Night with Jah Red, 8 p.m., $5. DJ Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5. DJ Dakota & the VT Union (hip-hop, top 40), 11 p.m., $5.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Ultimate Blacklight Glow Party, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: G. Love & Special Sauce, Among Criminals (alternative hip-hop blues), 8:30 p.m., $25. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday: Live, Laugh, Party (dance party, standup comedy), 9 p.m., $5/10.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Xavier Cardiche (singer-songwriter), 4 p.m., free. Seamus the Great, the Luxury, Aaron Flinn (rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Woedoggies (blues), 5 p.m., free.

Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Leatherbound Books (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier CHARLIE O'S: Viva De Concini Band (psychedelic punk), 10 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Gneiss (rock), 9 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Sky Blue Boys (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Mike Anderson/41 Prospect (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Sherman (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. Bell Tower Trio (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

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These include PENGUIN, GIRLCRUSH, THUNDERA, TESLA’S REVENGE and FORGET IT. GOODBYE — all from NYC — and Connecticut’s DAMN BROADS. On the locavore tip, check out MISS FITS, HARDCORE SALLIES and Reil’s band Gorgon.

Also on the bill are POXY, a band that broke up after releasing one of the more promising punk demos of 2013 but are reuniting for the night.

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which is less than $1 per band. Really, you can’t afford not to go.

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Last but not least, the local music community was deeply saddened by the loss of bartender WAYNE BEAM, who passed away unexpectedly in April. Beam had been a fixture at local nightclubs dating back to the 1990s and was one of the friendliest people you could ever hope to meet.

This Thursday, July 31, some of Beam’s old DJ pals are getting together at the Zen Lounge to honor his memory with a dance party hosted by TRICKY PAT. The lineup includes some of the biggest names from the ’90s club scene, including TWISTM, GRASSHOPPER, JUSTIN B, CHRIS PATTISON, COUSIN DAVE and BEN BARLOW, to name a few. Oh, and it’s free.

In other Burlington-area festival news this weekend — what, you thought the Precipice was the only one? Clearly you haven’t been paying attention this summer, since there have been, like, eight fests every weekend.

Anyway, local DIY feminist-punk label Stickshift Recordings celebrates its one-year anniversary this Saturday, August 2, with Stickshift Fest at the Monkey House. To refresh your memory, GORGON bassist KELLY RIEL (exDOLL FIGHT!) started the label last year and has released a couple of really solid comps featuring like-minded feministpunk bands from all over the globe.

The anniversary bash will feature 10 of

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winter. Other highlights include surfrock mavericks BARBACOA, VERMONT JOY PARADE offshoot DUKE AEROPLANE & THE WRONG NUMBERS, porn-prog progenitors JAPHY RYDER, the aforementioned Maryse Smith and Michael Chorney, SWALE, ROUGH FRANCIS — who apparently have a huge surprise up their tattered sleeves — and electro-pop upstarts ARGONAUT&WASP. Also, this will be a good chance to welcome Northampton glitter-pop band AND THE KIDS to Burlington. Word is they’re moving here. They’ll play just before locals GNOMEDAD close out the night with some heady jamz.

Oh, one last thing. The lineup isn’t the only part of the Precipice that’s slimmed down. So have the ticket prices. You can get a single-day pass for $12 and the whole weekend for $20,

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PHAT KATS TAVERN: Victory orchard (rock, soul), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE PUB OUTBACK: Funkwagon (funk), 8:30 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Implode the Abyss (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Bad Kittie (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 6 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Nastee (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR'S: Jimmy Ruin cD Release (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Strange machines, Goosepimp orchestra, the move It move It (reggae rock), 9 p.m., $5.

PIZZA BARRIO: EmaLou (folk), 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Acoustic Brunch with Waves of Adrenaline, noon, free. Less Digital more manual: Record club with Disco Phantom, 3 p.m., free. overhand Sam (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. David Pollack & Friends (indie pop), 8:30 p.m., free. Fat Bradley (funk), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Jatoba (jamgrass), 10 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Electric temple with DJ Atak (hip-hop, top 40), 10 p.m., $5.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Stickshift Fest: Damn Broads, Gorgon, Girlcrush, Penguin, Poxy and more (punk), 5 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Zach Nugent & co. (rock), 5 p.m., free. collin craig continuum (jazz), 9 p.m., free.

PEARL STREET PUB: open mic, first saturday of every month, 8 p.m., free.

VENUE: Saturday Night mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 8 p.m., $5. 18+.

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REVIEW this Tommy Alexander, Basement Soul (JENKE RECORDS, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

For a guy who’s been a central figure in seven or so records with various projects since 2011, and who’s helped birth countless other recordings through his collective/label Jenke Arts, it’s surprising that Tommy Alexander’s new record, Basement Soul, marks only his second full-length solo effort. The 12-track album, recorded at Ryan Power’s Stu Stu Studio, has a distinctly more produced and polished sound than Alexander’s previous solo works — Bogart the Ghost, a 2012 full-length album, and the 2011 debut EP Maybe One Day. While those earlier recordings were largely driven

by Alexander’s vocal and instrumental musings, Alexander’s latest feels focused and fleshed out. You can tell he took his time.

The opener, “Joshua Tree,” is a fingerpicking, bluesy folk tune that matches Alexander’s warbled voice to wandering lyrics. It’s a classic “on the road” track that positions him traveling highways and

byways alone and allowing the landscape to reflect his own thoughts back to him.

Alexander sings, “So I packed my bags and I headed west / with something strange burning in my chest / Do you relate to the crow that flies? / Bringing songs from above and a sun that shines / Life is a trip when you’re running down a highway of dreams / With nothing for miles but the Joshua trees.”

Basement Soul is as intimate and earnest as Alexander’s earlier work. But it’s also more experimental, signaling that he has found his footing and is now willing to take a few risks. Two tracks stand out stylistically. “Catalina” injects a bit of summertime reggae into the otherwise rustic, weekend-at-thecabin mix. The ominous and surprising appearance of a singing saw — courtesy of Johnnie Day Durand — in “Dreams to Dance” makes it a slightly spooky number that forgoes the comforting vibe of the rest of the album. Still, these choices show that Alexander is a thoughtful practitioner of his craft who knows what works but isn’t afraid to infuse it with something new.

While his strong vocals and light guitar touch permeate the entire album, Alexander also has a little help from his friends — nine of them, to be exact.

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“Nobody’s Cryin’” has a particularly lovely stretch of Tucker Hanson’s longing violin. Other contributors include bassist John Rogone, drummer Simon Plumpton, pianist Randal Pierce and multiinstrumentalist Eric Segalstad, among others.

The ensemble effort suits the collective ethos that Alexander and company practice at Jenke Arts. With Alexander’s honest vocals and a talented crew weaving its own sounds throughout the album, Basement Soul is yet another solid piece in the Jenke catalog, as well as Alexander’s own body of work.

Basement Soul by Tommy Alexander is available at tommyalexander.com and Pure Pop. Alexander plays a release party at Signal Kitchen on Tuesday, August 5.

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living but ultimately serves as a love letter to life in the country. In his easy, pleasant tenor, Greene reminisces about playing his guitar for “rich folks and fools” in the “dirty, gray city,” before finding an oasis, and eventually a home, “up in the woodlands of sleepy New England.”

Mandolinist Stephen Waud takes the lead on “Gallows Pole,” a dark, rustic tale of a murderer who escapes the hangman’s noose by framing another man. It’s a clever and chilling twist on the classic murder ballad, one made gloomier by the band’s sinister arrangement.

Since their debut, MGQ have shuffled their lineup. Gone are fiddler Joe Cleary and banjo ace Steve Light, two of the area’s most highly regarded bluegrass players. Filling those immensely large boots are mandolinist and banjo player Adam Buchwald and fiddler and resophonic guitar player Todd Sagar.

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On their self-titled 2012 debut, the Modern Grass Quintet introduced local audiences to a new strain of bluegrass whose roots run to the origins of the genre yet bloom in the light of more contemporary influences. The seminal works of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs is always fertile and foundational soil. But this band fertilized its sound with influences ranging from the newgrass stylings of Jerry Garcia and David Grisman to the gothic folk of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and even the Beatles. The result was a record that honored bluegrass tradition while adopting and adapting new inspirations — which itself has become a certain kind of bluegrass tradition.

Retooled and reinvigorated, MGQ are back with a new album, Bellwether, that pushes that fusion of classic and current aesthetics.

The record opens on bandleader Andy Greene’s “Home From the Mills.” It’s a lively cut that puts a twangy spin on city

Both prove eminently capable. And it seems they also bring a more traditional approach to the band.

On instrumental tunes such as “Free at Last” and “Stomping Buck,” MGQ delve even further into the history of the genre than on the band’s debut. Both songs have SCAN THIS PAGE a whirling, British Isles-style flair — apt WITH LAYAR reminders of the genealogy of bluegrass SEE PAGE 5 music.

But MGQ’s calling card remains the band’s savvy blend of old and new. The highlights on Bellwether are those songs in which that tack is most ingeniously employed. The instrumental “Spider Bridge” veers into melodic newgrass and is a fine collective showcase — as is the Sagar-led “Too Late to Classify.”

“Dance With the Bottle” is a rambunctious barn burner that, with electric instrumentation, would be an equally effective alt-country tune. And “Doing My Time” features another sly writing turn from Waud, not to mention the album’s most fiery picking.

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CHARLIE O'S: Ben Kogan Band (roots rock), 10 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Bell Tower Trio (blues), 9 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Lesley Grant (country), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Steve Morabito (jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Funkwagon's Tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Ben Kogan Band (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Mountain Ride (bluegrass), 5 p.m., free. Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6:30 p.m., free. Isra- Alien (Mediterranean gypsy), 9 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

SIGNAL KITCHEN: Tommy Alexander Record Release, Buck and Adrianne, Twain, Maryse Smith (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., $10. AA.

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ZEN LOUNGE: Karaoke with Emcee Callanova, 9 p.m., free.

THE PARKER PIE CO.: Strawberry Farm Band (progressive bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5.

THE PUB OUTBACK: Lefty Younger Band (rock, blues), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Live Music, 5:30 p.m., free. Blackbird Storm (rock), 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Model 97 (rock), 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: McKenna Lee and the Remedy (country), 10 p.m., $3.

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RADIO BEAN: Laney Jones & the Lively Spirits (blues, bluegrass), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Jam Man Entertainment (house), 10 p.m., free.

SUN.3

burlington

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: King Me (acoustic rock), 3 p.m., free.

FRANNY O'S: YOUR Kyle Stevens Happiest Hour of Music TEXT (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

HERE Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free.

THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: MI YARD Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Brunch with Peter Krag, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle's Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free.

Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., free.

VIVA (psychedelic jam), 9 p.m., free. Social Club: the Return with Yellow Crocs & Turkey P (downtempo), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Fat Laughs at the Skinny Pancake (improv comedy), 7 p.m., $3.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Andriana Chobot (singersongwriter), 2 p.m., free.

sun.3 // Iris Dement [country, folk]

Delta Spirit On her 2012 record, Sing the Delta, songwriter

Iris Dement

paid

homage to her native Arkansas. The album, her first in 16 years, was adored by fans and critics alike for its unflinching emotional honesty and raw, rough-hewn beauty. As Rolling Stone put it, “these artisanal songs of love and doubt wear their homeliness proudly; the effect is like finding a bountiful farmstand in the middle of nowhere.” Dement plays the SCAN THIS PAGE Tupelo Music in White River Junction this Sunday, August 3.

WITHHall LAYAR SEE PAGE 5 MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: RUSTY NAIL BAR & GRILLE:

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

HINESBURGH PUBLIC HOUSE: Sunday Jazz with George Voland, 4:30 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Dave Moore (folk), 11 a.m., donation. Summit School Old Time Music Jam, noon, donation.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Mass Appeal (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $5.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Ben Kogan Trio (jazz), 11 a.m., free. Elle Carpenter (pop), 7:30 p.m., donation.

Barrington Levy, Roots of Creation (reggae), 7 p.m., $25/30.

upper valley

Karaoke with Funkwagon, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Dead Relay (blues rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Iris DeMent (country, folk), 7 p.m., $30.

RADIO BEAN: Modus Operandi (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. The DuPont Brothers, Cricket Blue (indie folk), 8 p.m., free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., free.

MON.4

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

burlington

CLUB METRONOME: Metal Monday: Mac Swan & Black Holly, DoomFuck, Rail, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier CHARLIE O'S: Kick 'Em Jenny (old time), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

p.m., free. The Edd, the Schwizz and Dwajhay (livetronica), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

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MOOG'S PLACE: Sam Averbuck (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free.

middlebury area

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JUNIPER: John Cassell and Friends (jazz, blues), 6 p.m., free.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: John Daly Trio (folk rock), 10 p.m., free.

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CLUB DATES

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Leon Russell, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (rock, soul), 7:30 p.m., $30/35. AA. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chad Hollister (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Karl Miller (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Raphael Gualazzi Band (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

stowe/smuggs area

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: The Brothers Yares (acoustic roots), 6 p.m., donation.

THE BEE'S KNEES: Lefty Younger (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

middlebury area

stowe/smuggs area

MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 7:30 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

THE BEE'S KNEES: Clare Byrne (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., donation.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

WED.6

outside vermont

burlington

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

AMERICAN FLATBREAD BURLINGTON HEARTH: Groove Is In the Hearth, 6 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Imperial Wednesdays with Run Home Jack (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The X-Rays (rock), 6 p.m.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be A DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m

JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7

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Building Blocks Arthur Schaller, Sullivan Museum, Norwich University

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N

orwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center seems an unlikely setting for a show of abstract, colorful collages in the shape of small billboards.

Arthur Schaller’s “Billboard Buildings: Collage and Mixed Media” is situated amid permanent exhibits that go heavy on uniforms, weapons and other accoutrements of warfare.

Adding to the incongruity, the museum’s other temporary show, “1864: Some Suffer So Much,” focuses on Norwich alums who ministered to the maimed as battlefield surgeons during the Civil War. Schaller’s works thus form a peaceful oasis of aesthetic comfort. And it’s not as though they randomly appeared on the campus of the oldest private military institution in the United States. The artist has taught architectural design at Norwich for the past 16 years, a lengthy stint in his 40-year academic career.

Schaller’s website says he has been “obsessively exploring collage environments assembled from printed surfaces and found materials.” There is indeed a fixated, compulsive quality to these 30 or so pieces, which are mostly composed of thin, horizontal strips of printed matter glued onto boards. The artist explains that he works in series, producing variations on a particular concept or visual theme until he decides it has been exhausted.

The show offers some visual variation in the form of a few wood constructions.

These 3-D objects, which Schaller also made, are quite similar to his framed works hanging on the walls. One is hinged and opened to form a V-shaped diptych with abstract formations attached to its sides. It might be a devotional icon, or an expression of the artist’s search for “balance between abstract formal twodimensional composition and speculative spatial realism,” as described in his artist statement.

Identifying himself as “a bricoleur at heart” — that is, someone who works with found objects — artistically Schaller resides within a lineage whose luminaries include Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). Schwitters, a German artist, is best known for his “merz pictures” in which images of items from commerce are given abstract arrangements. Cornell, a self-taught artist who lived as a recluse in Queens, N.Y., made mysterious assemblages with items found in local thrift shops.

And without any allusions to humans or the things they create, Schaller’s “buildings” are both vivid and puzzling. The image fragments — torn from publications and reconstructed — remain enigmatic because they omit points of reference.

A viewer must look closely to find images of recognizable objects from everyday life embedded in a few of Schaller’s works. Raindrops are beaded on a glass surface in “Billboard Buildings #6,” while ’50s-era television sets appear in a couple of the works. And maybe that’s a sailboat in a corner of “Beach Wall,” which has grainy, sandpaperish elements but a distinctly un-beachy palette. “Havana Billboard #21” features neon streaks suggestive of nightlife in the Cuban capital.

The mostly black background might be read as the darkness of the sea on which Havana sits — or perhaps is a depiction of the unlit streets in that impoverished city.

The show includes an artist’s statement stenciled on one wall. But Schaller’s musings about buildings as metaphors aren’t much help in elucidating the thinking behind the format he has chosen.

A hint as to his influences and intentions emerges on the professor’s personal website, where he likens his billboard buildings to “a modernist Baba Yaga’s hut of sorts.” Baba Yaga, a witch of Slavic fairy-tale lore, is also one of the many antagonists featured in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

Her hut stands on stilts, which are actually chicken legs that enable the geometrically confounding structure to dance from world to world.

Schaller’s billboard buildings, by contrast, are pedestrian. They’re often bright and occasionally vibrant, but they elicit no emotional engagement from viewers. Intellectually, too, these pieces seem to be in conversation more with the artist than his audience.

REVIEW

“Billboard Buildings #10”

THE IMAGE FRAGMENTS — TORN FROM PUBLICATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTED — REMAIN ENIGMATIC

BECAUSE THEY OMIT POINTS OF REFERENCE.

“Variation Billboard Building #8”

“Billboard Buildings #15”

But those earlier artists’ works often included images of familiar objects as points of reference.

Visitors to the Sullivan probably wouldn’t recognize Schaller’s nonrepresentational arrangements as minibillboards without the depictions of supporting poles that he includes with each image. His are signs that send no clear signal.

KEVIN J. KELLEY Contact: kelley@sevendaysvt.com

INFO “Billboard Buildings: Collage and Mixed Media” by Arthur Schaller. Sullivan Museum and History Center, Norwich University in Northfield. Through December 19. norwich. edu/museum

Art ShowS

NEW THIS WEEK burlington

f BoB HoffmaN: The world’s largest collection of hand-crafted harmonica cases in a variety of mediums. Reception: Friday, August 8, 5-8 p.m.

August 1-31. info, 859-9222. sEAbA Center in burlington. f DouglaS BIKlEN, alISa DWorSKy & SuSaN oSgooD: “solé,” a contemporary exhibit celebrating light and equilibrium: photographs by biklen, prints and sculpture by Dworsky, and oil and gouache paintings by osgood. Reception: Thursday, July 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 31-september 28. info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro gallery, bCA Center, in burlington. f ErIN INglIS: “Marine Mycology,” colorful acrylic

works that meld imagery from the sea with the flora and fauna of new England forests. Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-7 p.m. August 1-30. info, 578-2512. The s.p.A.C.E. gallery in burlington.

JoHaNNE DurocHEr yorDaN: “Vintage inspiration,” artwork on vintage and handmade paper. August 1-30. info, 373-7544. studio 266 in burlington.

f JulIE a. DavIS: new works from the Vermont

landscape painter. Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-7 p.m. August 1-october 30. info, 862-1001. left bank home & garden in burlington.

f ‘PoETry IN muSIc’: Vermont artists respond

to the lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival’s theme with artwork in many mediums. The exhibit features work by Carol MacDonald, suzanne legault, Judith Rey, barbara hoke, Dennis Versweyveld, irene lederer laCroix and lynn Rupe. Reception: Thursday, July 31, 6-8 p.m. July 31-August 31. info, 863-6458. Frog hollow Vermont state Craft Center in burlington.

f racHEl HooPEr: “it’s Electric,” digital prints made with mobile apps and public-domain images, in the maker space’s first art exhibition. Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-9 p.m. August 1-30. generator in burlington. f rEflEcTIoNS of my lIfE: photographs taken by adults from howardCenter Developmental services in a class taught by Dawn Miller. Reception: Monday, August 4, 1:30-3 p.m. August 1-30. pickering Room, Fletcher Free library, in burlington. f colIN BryNE: Multimedia works by the

burlington artist. Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-7 p.m. August 3-31. info, 865-7211.

barre/montpelier

f JoSH TurK: Monochromatic, abstract impressionist prints by the Vermont artist.

Reception: Friday, August 1, 4-8 p.m. August 1-31. info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

stowe/smuggs area

f marK BoEDgES & frED SWaN: “Vermont Artists,” an exhibit of landscape oil paintings.

Reception: saturday, August 2, 4-7 p.m. August 2-19. info, 253-7282. Robert paul galleries in stowe.

mad river valley/waterbury

f BIg rED BarN arT SHoW: Two- and three-dimensional fine art by more than 30 local artists, including paintings, monoprints and sculpture, as part of the Vermont Festival of the Arts. new pieces added throughout the month. open Thursdays to sundays, noon to 9 p.m. opening reception: sunday, August 3, 5-7 p.m. August 1-september 1. info, 496-6682. big Red barn gallery at lareau Farm in waitsfield.

f JaNET mcKENzIE: “holiness and the Feminine spirit,” 15 paintings by the northeast Kingdom artist modeled on women and people of color, two groups that have been underrepresented in Christian imagery. Thursdays through Mondays; part of Vermont Festival of the Arts. Artist talk: saturday, August 2, 3:30-4:30 p.m. August 1-31. info, 496-3065. waitsfield united Church of Christ.

middlebury area

f rory JacKSoN: “growing light,” local

landscapes in oil by the lincoln painter. Reception: Friday, August 8, 5-7 p.m. one painting will be raffled to benefit the Trinity Yard school in ghana, which Jackson founded in 2007. August 1-31. f SuSaNNE STraTEr: “shape, pattern, Color,” a series of paintings that explore household motifs by the Montréal painter. Reception: Friday, August 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 458-0098. Edgewater gallery in Middlebury.

champlain islands/northwest

f alEx coSTaNTINo, BarB laNgEvIN & larry laNgloIS: pottery by Constantino and sterling silver jewelry by langevin and langlois. Reception: sunday, August 3, 1-3 p.m. August 3-31. info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery in Enosburg Falls.

upper valley

BIllINgS farm & muSEum’S 28TH QuIlT ExHIBITIoN: A juried exhibit of quilts made exclusively by artists in windsor County. August 1-september 12. info, 457-2355. billings Farm & Museum in woodstock.

f carol lIPPmaN: “Theme and Variation,”

multimedia prints that explore the environment through color, form and texture. Reception: Friday, August 1, 6-8 p.m. August 1-30. info, 295-5901. Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction.

arT EvENTS goDDarD collEgE arT craWl: grab a map and take a stroll to see multimedia work by master’s of fine arts students in various locations around campus. goddard College, plainfield, wednesday, July 30, 6:30 p.m. info, 454-8311. vcfa 2014 Program SymPoSIum: Visiting artists nathalie Anguezomo, Mba bikoro and beatriz santiago Muñoz give talks on trauma, art and locating personal experience in social context. College hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, wednesday, July 30, 9 a.m.-noon. info, 828-8734. vallEy fESTIval of THE arTS KIcKoff NIgHT: live music by phineas gage and pappy biondo and work by local artists launch this monthlong arts celebration in the Mad River Valley. The Common Man Restaurant, warren, Thursday July 31, 6-10 p.m. $35 advance; $40 same day. info, 583-2800.

EaSTErN mouTaIN mENTorINg arTISTS rEcEPTIoN: Art by: Mary Crowley, Christine holzschuh, lowell Klock, Ann McFarren, Karen seward, Alice sciore, heather shay, Christine Townsend and betsy Moakley. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Friday, August 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 775-0062. fIrST frIDay arT: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event. see Art Map burlington at participating locations. burlington, first Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. info, 264-4839. moNTPElIEr arT WalK: View works by Vermont artists, including fine art, photography, sculptures, handmade ornaments and more, at downtown venues. guidebook at many locations, or montpelieralive.org. Downtown Montpelier, Friday, August 1, 4-8 p.m.

Bca SummEr arTIST marKET: A juried market featuring handcrafted, original fine art and crafts by local artists. burlington City hall park, saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. info, 865-7166. ‘coNSErvaTIoN THrougH THE arTIST’S EyE’: American landscape paintings have inspired conservationists for more than 100 years. Take a 1.5-hour Mansion tour to see paintings by hudson River school artists including Thomas Cole and Albert bierstadt, and discover how landscape painting profoundly influenced the development of a conservation ethic. Reservations recommended. park at billings Farm and Museum, meet at Carriage barn Visitor Center. Marsh-billingsRockefeller national historical park, woodstock, sunday, August 3, 2-3:30 p.m. $8 adults; under 15 free; $4 seniors. info, 457-3368, ext. 22. ‘oN THE Way’ arT SalE aND SHoW: An afternoon of art and music, featuring works by Vermont artists holly E. King, patricia lyon-surrey, Michelle saffran and Jackie smith. Moretown Town hall, sunday, August 3, noon-4 p.m. info, 999-7342.

‘PIllarS of THE PEoPlE’ TalK: Donald R. Kennon, phD, will discuss the historical roots of the national statuary hall and how this perennial

exhibit of sculptures in the nation’s Capitol has shaped our view of the virtues embodied in the 50 united states. produced by Friends of the Morrill homestead. strafford Common, sunday, August 3, 2-4 p.m. Donations. info, 765-4288. alaSDaIr THomSoN: “The identity Collection,” presentations by the artist-in-residence about an ongoing marble wedding dress sculpture project.

The Carving studio & sculpture Center gallery, west Rutland, wednesday, August 6, 7 p.m. info, 438-2097.

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f alExaNDEr alExEIEff: original 1929 signed lithographs by the Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff, exhibited with a looped screening of his 1930s animated pinboard films. Co-curated by Cecile starr and susan smereka. Closing reception: Thursday, August 21, 7-10 p.m. Through August 26. info, 735-2542. new City galerie in burlington. aNN laBErgE: “have a seat,” photographs and sculpture focusing on chairs by the local artist.

Through July 31. info, 861-2340. Carshare Vermont in burlington. aSHlEE ruBINSTEIN: “Doughnuts,” paintings of food that loves to be bad. Through July 31. info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. info, 660-9346.

Radio bean in burlington.

‘BEyoND INSTrucTIoN’: selected artwork by burlington City Arts clay, photography and printmaking instructors. ‘BrEaK IT! BuIlD IT!’: works in varied mediums that embody a do-it-yourself spirit, by local and national artists. Through september 13. info, 865-5355. bCA Center in burlington.

‘BEyoND mEaSurE’: A group show curated by Carleen Zimbalatti features more than a dozen artists who explore the role of geometry in their artistic processes. Through August 31. info, 859-9222. sEAbA Center in burlington. camEroN ScHmITz: Drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through october 31. info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott burlington harbor. carolE croSSmaN: oils and watercolors by the award-winning Vermont artist. WayNE mIcHauD: Framed giclée prints of pet portraits by the awardwinning Vermont painter. Through september 2. info, 658-6400. American Red Cross in burlington. carolyN croTTy: Artwork in a variety of mediums inspired by nature. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 862-9614. The pine street Deli in burlington.

DENIS vErSWEyvElD: paintings and sculpture focused on the interplay of shape, composition and texture in common still-life objects. Through July 31. info, 862-1001. left bank home & garden in burlington. buRlingTon shows

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Jyl EmErSoN: “Art in Animals,” representational paintings that express the artist’s connection to the natural world. August 3-30. info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. The green bean Art gallery at Capitol grounds in Montpelier.

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f ‘From Our Minds and Hearts’: Members of FOMAH, a community group of artists that met at a senior fitness class, show works in many mediums.

Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-7 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 862-4584. St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington. f Graziella Weber-Grassi: “Who’s Past?,” new artwork made from antique portrait photography.

Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 355-5418. Vintage Inspired in Burlington.

Innovation Center Group Show: Works by Anne Cummings, Brian Sylvester, James Vogler, Kari Meyer, Longina Smolinski, Lyna Lou Nordstorm and Gabe Tempesta on the first floor; Cindy Griffith, Holly Hauser, Jason Durocher, Kasy Prendergast, Teresa Davis and Tom Merwin on the second floor. Curated

by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

f Jacques Burke: Paintings, sculpture and digitally enhanced photography from the Milton artist. Reception: Friday, August 1, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Mareva Millarc: Abstract paintings in oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

Jay Giroux: “Stay Trippy,” new paintings that explore themes from the artist’s childhood in Burlington. By appointment. Also, the gallery is promoting the READ Movement, which champions book culture, and is offering for sale Giroux’s limited-edition prints to benefit its mission.

Through July 31. Info, 860-4972. Vermont Art Supply and Black Horse S.P.G. in Burlington.

JB Woods: “Walking in Vermont,” colorful photographs curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.

Tessa Hill: Whimsical wall sculptures that celebrate the bounty of Vermont’s foraging season.

Through August 31. Info, 861-2067. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington.

Erin Inglis No matter what medium she works in, Erin Inglis makes art with

Julia Luckett Cox: Photographs that capture the daily lives and struggles of Nicaraguan coffee farmers. Through July 31. Info, 861-3155. Karma Birdhouse in Burlington.

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Justin Atherton: “A Macabre Kind of Cute,” drawings and prints by local artist Justin Atherton that explore the lighter side of monsters, aliens and other creatures that enjoy cupcakes. Through July 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

Leo Hinton Retrospective: Leo Hinton, born in Bloomfield, Vt., in 1934, bounced around foster homes as a child; in adulthood, he was a barber, auctioneer and storeowner and didn’t pursue drawing until he retired. This exhibit includes his watercolors, acrylics and pen-and-ink drawings made over the last few years. In the Pickering Room. Through July 30. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

f Lyna Lou Nordstrom: Colorful monotypes and editioned prints by the local artist. Closing reception and Jell-O printmaking demonstration: Wednesday, July 30, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 383-1505. New Moon Café in Burlington.

Payne and Elise Junker: “Shadow Light,” intricately cut, decorative steel artworks by the gallery’s featured artists for July. Through July 31.

Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

4th Annual Jericho Plein Air Exhibition: An exhibit of more than 75 landscape paintings created during the local plein air festival on July 19.

Through August 10. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

illustrative paintings of animals and insects, according to her website. In “Marine Mycology,”

Amalia Elena Veralli & Anne-Marie Littenberg: “Summer’s Bounty,” photographs of vegetables printed on high-gloss aluminum by the Vermont artists. Through August 31. Info, 985-9511.

Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

An opening reception is this Friday, August 1, from 5-9 p.m. Pictured: “Marine Mycology.”

Carol Norton: “Turning In/Turning Out,” multilayered, atmospheric oil paintings depicting natural scenes. Through August 30. Info, 985-8222.

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Evelyn McFarlane & Students: Oil paintings by the craft-school instructor and her students.

Through August 28. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School.

‘In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America’: Paintings by Monet, Manet, Degas and other French impressionist masters from the museum’s permanent collection. Through September 1. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

Sara Bridgman: A retrospective of works by the Vermont artist. Through August 2. Info, 652-4500.

Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

Libby Davidson: Fifty plein air watercolor paintings the artist completed in a year for her 50th birthday.

Monochromatic Exhibit: A group exhibit of local artists with a one-color focus. Through July 31. Info, 879-1236. Artists’ Mediums in Williston.

f ‘Strength in Numbers’: Ten art educators from northern and central Vermont, who support each other’s work in bimonthly gatherings, exhibit works in a variety of mediums created over the past six months. Closing reception: Friday, August 29, 5-7 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 363-4746.

Flynndog in Burlington.

‘Like No Other Sculpture Show on Earth’: Sculptures, sited outdoors, by Chris Thompson, Kevin Donegan, James Lentz, Leslie Fry, Caroline McAuliffe, Aimee Hertog, Gene Childers, Ruth Shafer, Susan Luss, Charles Bergen and SAW artists. Open Thursdays and Fridays 4-7:30 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 425-2152. Pizza on Earth in Charlotte.

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‘Lock, Stock and Barrel’: The Terry Tyler collection of Vermont firearms includes 107 rare examples made between 1790 and 1900. Beach Gallery. ‘Painting a Nation’: A showcase of the museum’s best 19th-century American paintings.

Webb Gallery. ‘Trail Blazers: Horse-Powered Vehicles’: An exhibit of 19th-century carriages from the permanent collection that draws parallels

artist contributed a piece of artwork to a show, then invited another, and so on. The result is visual conversation about who is making work in Vermont, who they look to and how the work interacts.

Closing reception: Friday, August 1, 5-9 p.m.

Through August 1. Info, 578-2512. The Soda Plant in Burlington.

funky pops of color. Of late, the Northeast Kingdom-based artist has created playful, pen-

opening this week at the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington, Inglis shows a new acrylic series that merges images of marine life with the flora and fauna of her New England forest environment.

to contemporary automotive culture. Round Barn. Nancy Crow: “Seeking Beauty: Riffs on Repetition,” quilts by the acclaimed textile artist, who incorporates printmaking into her work. Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery. Patty Yoder: “The Alphabet of Sheep,” whimsical rugs made with extraordinary, realistic sense of detail. Patty Yoder Gallery. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346.

Shelburne Museum.

Lorraine C. Manley: “Summer in Vermont,” a collection of acrylic paintings by the Milton artist.

Through July 31. Info, 862-5724. Lake Champlain Access Television in Colchester.

Maria Sengle: Illustrations with an aquatic life theme by the industrial designer and winner of Magic Hat’s Labels for Libations contest. Through July 31. Info, 658-2739. The ArtSpace at the Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.

‘Perilous Pigeons’: An exhibit of artworks honoring the now-extinct passenger pigeon.

Through August 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

‘Renascence’: Works by featured artist Barbara Wagner and 17 others who explore the revival of something that has been dormant. Through August 5. Info, 985-3848.

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

f Spirit Animalz: Fourteen Vermont artists explore the diverse relationships between people and other creatures. Reception: Saturday, August 9, 4-8 p.m., with live music. Through August 31. Info, 438-2097. Burlington Beer Company in Williston.

‘Warm Seasons’: A group show in various mediums by Jericho artists, and nonresident artists whose work connects to the town. Through August 31. Info, 899-2974. Jericho Town Hall.

f ‘XY: Masculinity in Photography’: A juried show of photographs that represent themes of masculinity and power. Because of the depiction of nudity and strong social commentary, this exhibit is recommended for ages 18 and older. Reception: Friday, August 8, 5-7 p.m. Through August 10. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

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‘1864: Some Suffer So Much’: With objects, photographs and ephemera, the exhibit examines surgeons who treated Civil War soldiers on battlefields and in three Vermont hospitals, and the history of post-tramautic stress disorder. Through December 31. Arthur Schaller: “Billboard Buildings,” an exhibit of original collages by the Norwich University architecture professor. Through December 19. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

‘Al- Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’: A traveling group show of book art inspired by a 2007 car bombing in a historic book-selling district of Baghdad. Through October 13. Info, 454-8311. Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College, in Plainfield.

Andy Newman: An exhibit of portrait and landscape paintings. Through August 24. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

Cindy Griffith, Marcia Hill & Anne Unangst: Three central Vermont artists display work inspired by the area. Through July 31. Info, 229-4326. City Center in Montpelier.

Corrina Thurston: Detailed pet portraits in colored pencil, and graphite drawings. Through August 3. Info, 223-1431. Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier.

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call to artists Art Hop at RU12? Call to Artists: Pride Center of Vermont is seeking LGBTQA artists, whether emerging or established, to display their work at the center during the South End Arts and Business Association’s 22nd Annual Art Hop, September 5-7. We are particularly but not exclusively interested in LGBTQ activist art and work that explores gender and sexuality. Please submit three images with title, dimensions, medium and price (if applicable), as well as a 200-word artist statement to art@ru12.org. Deadline: August 11. More info at ru12.org. RU12?

Community Center, Burlington.

ARToberFest 2014 Call for Art: Seeking visual art for Waterbury’s ARToberFest celebration of art, music and local brew. Deadline: September 14. Full details at acrossroads.org/artoberfest/.

Downtown Waterbury. Info, info.acrossroads@gmail.com.

A Call to Artists of All Kinds: The Daily Planet is looking for art work for our three rooms. Dining Room: smaller pieces based on nature and architecture. Greenhouse: open to edgier art and photography. Bar: larger works on canvas and eclectic pieces.

All styles welcome. Deadline: August 20. Please contact art@dailyplanet15.com. The Daily Planet, Burlington. Info, 862-9647.

Call to Artists: Think Square: Established and emerging artists in the Chittenden East Supervisory Union school district are invited to interpret the square in artwork of any medium or size, and to submit one or two pieces for an exhibit to be hung in the Jericho Town Hall, September through December. Deadline: August 15. Info and registration forms: blgreene@myfairpoint. net or 899-2974. Jericho Town Hall. Info, 899-2974.

Hoodoo Voodoo: Hoodoo Voodoo, on October 25, will be an evening of fall/harvest/ Halloween-inspired dance and performance art at the Rose Street Artists’ Co-op. Please contact Jamie at jamieanicks@ gmail.com if you would like to present your piece at this event.

Rose Street Artists’ Cooperative and Gallery, Burlington, through October 1. Info, 399-7514.

Lake Champlain International Film Festival Call for Entries: The inaugural film fest is accepting short and feature-length films by students, amateurs and professionals alike. All disciplines and genres welcome.

Deadline: August 31. Entry form and other info at lcifilmfest.org.

The festival will be November 15 and 16 at the Strand Theatre.

Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604.

New Self-Portraits: For an exhibit titled “Mirror, Mirror,” the Darkroom Gallery in Essex is soliciting photographic self-portraits

DJ Barry: The Middlesex artist shows his latest stencil-and-spray-paint works. Through August 31.

Info, 225-6012. Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

Evan Chismark: Detailed pen-and-ink renderings of wildlife and whimsical illustrations of Vermont culture by the Stowe artist. Through July 31. Info, 223-1151.

Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery in Montpelier.

New and Returning Student Exhibition: Current master’s of fine arts students show their work. Through August 1. Info, 828-8734. College Hall Gallery in Montpelier.

Second Floor Gallery. Through August 31. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

SB Sowbel: Mixed-media monotypes by the local artist. Through July 31. Info, 505-0271. The Drawing Board in Montpelier.

Tamara Wight: “Organic Form,” an exhibit of sculptural basketry. Through August 17. Info, 728-1000. Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center.

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‘Exposed’ Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: On the gallery lawn, along the recreation path and throughout downtown, curator Rachel Moore has sited 20 outdoor sculptures in a variety of mediums. The 16 artists hail from New England, New York, Chicago and Mexico City. In addition, writing

by David Budbill, Ariel Henley and Jennifer Rickards appears on vinyl in store windows. Through October 15. ‘The Appearance of Clarity’: Artworks in black and white by Louis Cameron, Sharan Elran, Marietta Hoferer, Jenny Holzer, Sarah Horne, Chelsea Martin, Lynn Newcomb, Andreas Rentsch, Suzy Spence and Nan Tull. Guest-curated by Amy Rahn. Through August 31. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

‘Cape Ann Artists in Vermont’: Paintings by Donald Allen Mosher, Charles Movalli, T.M. Nicholas and Dale Ratcliff, inspired by Vermont landscapes.

Through September 15. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

‘State of Beings’: A multimedia group show of work inspired by humans and human-like beings, Main Floor Gallery. Ray Brown: Paintings in series by the Johnson artist, Third Floor Gallery. Sabrina Fadial & Phillip Robertson: New monoprints,

‘Landscape Traditions’: The new wing of the gallery presents contemporary landscape works by nine regional artists. Through January 1, 2015.

Craig Mooney & Henry Isaacs: “Distinctions Between Color and Light,” paintings of New England

unsettling — images by photographers from around the world respond to that question in “XY: Masculinity in Photography,” a juried exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

“There is a tense and complex relationship between hegemonic masculinities and subordinate masculinities,” suggest the gallerists. “Throughout history, men have paid a steep price for not adhering to, or consciously resisting, stereotypical masculine models.” Accordingly, the photographers challenge traditional ideas about gender, sex and politics in portraits that include a father reading his young son to sleep; a middle-aged man sprawled before another on a raised bed, poses that evoke pornography; a close-up image of genitalia after a sex change operation; and many more. Through August 10, with a reception on August 8, 5-7:30 p.m. Pictured: The juror’s choice, “Self Portrait With Cameras 2012” (detail) by Benjamin Frederickson

landscapes by the accomplished Vermont artists.

Through August 9. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

Elvira Piedra: “To Earth, From Heaven,” photographic studies in three groups — the peony tree, landscape and water — created over 13 years by the Lunenburg artist. Eugenio Leon: “Innovate, Inspire, Aspire,” works from the local mixed-media artist include upcycles in wood, acrylic and straw; garden sculptures made from recycled record albums, and more. Through August 29. Info, 888-1261. River Arts Center in Morrisville.

Sebastian Sweatman: “In Glorious Color,” an exhibit of 18 colorful expressionist paintings in acrylic. Through July 31. Info, 279-0165. Gallery SEB in Stowe.

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Erika Lawlor Schmidt: “The Jazz Series,” recent monoprints inspired by the American jazz era.

Through August 24. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Frank Woods: Recent paintings of barns, abstract landscapes and kimonos by the Montpelier artist.

Through August 22. Info, 461-5345. Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park.

f Peter Miller: Large-format color images by the award-winning photographer and author of A Lifetime of Vermont People, among other titles.

Reception: Friday, August 1, 5:45-9 p.m. August 1-31.

Info, 272-8851. Peter Miller Photography Gallery in Waterbury.

‘In the Studio With Mary Bryan’: The gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary year with an exhibit of more than 100 paintings in tempera, watercolor, oil and collage by its namesake artist. Through September 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

Peter Thomashow: “World of Wonder,” the second in a series of exhibits on collecting, featuring collages and acquired pieces by the Vermont physician, artist and musician. Curated by Varujan Boghosian. Through August 24. Info, 767-9670. Big Town Gallery in Rochester.

‘Kick and Glide: Vermont’s Nordic Ski Legacy’: An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark, and back-country skiing. Through October 13. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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Matthew Chaney: “Unchained Art,” abstract oil pastel drawings selected from the local artist’s collection of more than 1,000 works. Through August 30. Info, 888-1261. Morrisville Post Office.

Nissa Kauppila: Gouache and watercolor paintings by the South Burlington artist. Through August 9. Info, 253-8943. Upstairs at West Branch in Stowe.

‘1812 Star-Spangled Nation’: A traveling exhibit of 25 original oil paintings by contemporary artists, depicting nautical scenes from the War of 1812. Through September 29. Info, 475-2022. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes.

Adrienne Ginter: A solo show of hand-cut paper art by the Brattleboro artist. Through July 31. Info, 415-680-4966. Outerlands Gallery in Vergennes.

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Rachel Sargent: “Animals in Black and White,” pencil drawings by the Moretown native. Through August 1. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

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Creative Competition: For this monthly artist competition and exhibit, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30, and Thursday, July 31, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, August 1. Entry $8. During the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. More info at spacegalleryvt.com.

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Eleanor Kokar Ott: “Spirit Images,” an exhibit of colored drawings. Through July 31. Jeff Danziger: An exhibit of artwork by the nationally published cartoonist. Through August 31. Info, 223-3338.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

Seeking Upcycled Art: ONE Arts seeks 2-D work (or work that can hang on the wall) made from repurposed materials. To apply, send 3-5 images of work, a 3-5-sentence bio/statement and titles, mediums and dimensions to oneartscollective@ gmail.com. Deadline: August 25. $25 hanging fee if accepted; 30 percent commission on work sold. Burlington Beer Company, Williston. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.

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Diana Mara Henry: Black-and-white photographs of one-room schoolhouses in Vermont by the famed photojournalist, with text by Middlebury College sociology professor Margaret Nelson.

Through October 15. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

that capture “your true essence,” or your alter-ego.

How does the selfie trend interact with contemporary photography? Juried by Amy Arbus. Deadline: September 3. Info at darkroomgallery. com/ex61/. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Through September 3.

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music and refreshments. Through October 31. Info, linda@ilmpt.org. Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve in Isle La Motte.

German Art Exhibit: The college celebrates its German Language School with an exhibit of works

by German artists from its permanent collection.

Martin Parr: “Life’s a Beach,” images by the U.K.-based photographer and Magnum collective member renowned for capturing people in their comfort zones. Through August 10. Info, 443-3168.

Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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‘The Hale Street Gang: Portraits in Writing’: Jack Rowell’s 12 black-and-white, largerthan-life photographs capture the elderly members of a Randolph writing group led by Sara Tucker.

Philip Godenschwager: Cartoon imagery and interactive sculpture as social and political commentary. Through October 10. Info, 885-3061.

The Great Hall in Springfield.

James Blair: “Being There,” an exhibit of photographs by a National Geographic photographer living in Middlebury. Through August 16. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘Statues of Liberty’: A sesquicentennial exhibit commemorates the 1864 signing, by Abraham Lincoln, of Congressman Justin Morrill’s Act creating a National Statuary Hall. On view are photographs and interpretive descriptions of the sculptures’ notable figures, including life-size images of the statues of Abraham Lincoln, Ethan Allen, Daniel Webster and Rosa Parks.

Through October 13. Info, 765-4288. Justin Morrill Homestead in Strafford.

f Lester Anderson: A lifetime of travels informs 46 photographs by a Lincoln resident now in his nineties. Sunday, August 3, 4-5:30 p.m.

Through August 29. Info, 453-3188. WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. f ‘Lost Gardens of New England’: An exhibit of historic drawings, watercolors, photographs and oil paintings that pay homage to the region’s rich gardening history; and contemporary outdoor sculptures by Norton Latourelle and Ethan Bond-Watts. Talk with gallery director Bill Brooks every Wednesday, noon to 1 p.m., through August 6. Through August 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

W. David Powell & Ben Peberdy: New work by the collage artists juxtaposes iconic imagery of paraphernalia from different decades with unnatural objects. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808.

Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

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Rachael Robinson Elmer: An exhibit of “Art Lovers New York” fine-art postcards, now 100 years old, by the late artist who was born at Rokeby.

Through October 26. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

‘Road Trip: America Through the Windshield’: Photography and paintings by six contemporary artists examine how automobiles and roads altered the American landscape. ‘See the USA in Your Chevrolet’: Six decades of vintage car advertisements. ‘Spotlight on Small’: Small-scale artwork by five artists: boxes by Laura Christensen; paper collage by Adrienne Ginter; paintings by Elizabeth Sheppell; egg tempera paintings by Altoon Sultan and glass sculpture by Jen Violette. ‘Your Space/ USA’: A “virtual road trip” featuring postcards, trivia and ephemera from all 50 states. Andrew Bordwin: “Deco Details,” silver gelatin prints of art deco architecture. Jessica Park: “A World Transformed,” colorful, detailed architectural paintings by the Massachusetts artist, whose art is informed by her struggles with autism.

Through October 26. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

Rebecca Kinkead: A new collection of colorful oils, inspired by childhood summers in the great outdoors, from the Ferrisburgh painter. Through July 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.

‘World in Your Hand’: Vivid macro floral photography by Cal Williams, and decorative majolica earthenware pottery by Leslie Koehler. Through August 17. Info, 453-4032. Art on Main in Bristol.

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Carolyn Shattuck: “Speaking Volumes,” a sculptural exhibit featuring pop-ups, flexagons and other unique structures by the Rutland-based artist. Through August 16. Info, 468-1252. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

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Donna Dodson: “Pillars of the Community,” sculptures inspired by ancient Egyptian art and Native American totem poles. Through August 24.

Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center Gallery in West Rutland.

‘Floral Seductions’: A juried exhibit of more 70 sculptures, paintings, prints and photographs with a floral theme. Through August 24. Info, 431-0204.

‘The Roots of Rock and Roll’: Artifacts from clothing to records to vintage turntables illustrate the early years of rock music, 1955 to 1964. Frieda Post: “Nature’s Inspiration,” vivid contemporary paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 31. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

Judith Reilly & Robin Kent: “Inside Out,” fabric and mixed-media art by Reilly and painted wood assemblages by Kent. Through August 31. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

‘Silk & Stone’: Stone sculptures by B. Amore, Eric Laxman and Florin Strejac; fiber art by Althea Bilodeau and Karen Henderson. Through September 12. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.

champlain islands/northwest Cold Hollow Sculpture Park Opening: Sculptor David Stromeyer opens to the public his property on which 50 large-scale outdoor metal sculptures are sited. Free, self-guided tours Wednesdays through Saturdays, noon to 6 p.m.

Visit website for directions. Through October 11.

Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

Anna Baker: A retrospective of paintings by the late artist. Through July 31. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

Rory Jackson From a studio in downtown Bristol, painter Rory Jackson

captures local landscapes in oil. A native of the area, he often revisits sites — such as favorite

swimming holes, or a particular red barn near his home in Lincoln — to explore the changes in light through seasons, weather or times of day. In “Growing Light,” opening at the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury on August 1, Jackson exhibits a new series of landscape scenes from the Addison County vicinity, as well as a few from Nantucket, Mass. An opening reception on Friday, August 8, 5-7 p.m., features a jewelry trunk show by Jackson’s wife, Rita Agyemang, and a raffle of one of Jackson’s paintings. The raffle benefits the Trinity Yard School in Cape Three Points, Ghana, which Jackson founded in 2007. Through August 30. Pictured: “Who We Are.”

Jo Anne Wazny: Recent work by the Berkshire photographer, two-dimensional artist and bookmaker. Through July 31. Info, 933-6403.

Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

f ‘Take a Seat in the Islands’: A community

art project featuring benches painted by 19 artists and placed throughout the Champlain Islands.

Silent Auction: Friday, August 15, 6 p.m., at the

North Hero Community Hall. Through August 15. Info, 372-8400. Various Champlain Islands locations.

‘Walk Through Time’ Grand Opening Celebration: The Isle La Motte Preservation Trust and Lake Champlain Land Trust open a unique, trail-side exhibit consisting of 71 colorfully illustrated panels that showcase 4.6 billion years of evolution. Includes ribbon-cutting ceremony, live

Caspian Arts Group Show: “Individual Perspectives,” a group show in multiple mediums by more than a dozen artists including Victoria Blewer, Elizabeth Nelson and Marion Stenger.

Through August 31. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

David Macaulay: “How Macaulay Works,” an exhibit of drawings by the renowned illustrator and MacArthur “genius,” including a large illustration called “How St. Johnsbury’s Water System Works.” Through September 30. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

‘Insectopia’: A group show with bugs made of copper, felt, papier-mâché and other materials.

Talk: “The Stories Behind an Extraordinary Collection,” by Mary Beth Prodzinski, director of collections at Fairbanks Museum. Thursday, July 31, 6 p.m. Through August 9. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘The Golden Cage’: Photographs with audio interviews of Vermont migrant workers and dairy farmers. Through September 6. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

‘Toothbrush’: From “twig to bristle,” an exhibit of artifacts and images detailing the history of this expedient item. Through December 31. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. m

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And So It Goes ★

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re you sitting down? I’m about to coin a new phrase, and I wouldn’t want to knock you over with its culturally observant pithiness.

Ready? Wrinkle porn.

That’s the classification I’m going to use from now on for the increasingly common phenomenon of crappy films distinguished solely by the fact that their casts are on the far side of 60.

It’s true, of course, that Hollywood is obsessed with youth. Everyone makes movies for 15-year-olds. Almost nobody makes them for the Social Security set.

But, sensing a market ripe for the tapping, studios have recently begun testing the waters with product for older audiences. This should be good news. The problem is that, to date, they haven’t so much tested the waters as dumped toxic waste into them.

The attitude seems to be This is an audience starved for material it can relate to. It’ll show up in droves for anything about life after AARP. Quality is not a requirement. The trend may look like progress, but it’s actually pandering of the most cynical variety.

If you need proof, just try sitting through Darling Companion (2012), Quartet (2012), Trouble With the Curve (2012) or Last Vegas

(2013). Truly, this is no country for old moviegoers.

Onto that geriatric junk pile we now toss And So It Goes, an insipid schmaltzfest whose shocking awfulness is all the more shocking for being the work of Rob Reiner.

What gives? For years the director could do no wrong. This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery, A Few Good Men — classic after classic in a mind-blowing, 10-year run.

Then, in 1994, things went south with North, and the filmmaker hasn’t been able to pull out of that creative death spiral since.

Have you even heard of 2010’s Flipped?

Doubtful, as it grossed less than $2 million.

That’s this close to going straight to video.

The prospects look equally bleak for Reiner’s latest, which stars Michael Douglas as a cranky real estate tycoon and Diane Keaton as the world’s least believable lounge singer. They meet when Douglas moves into a lakefront complex while awaiting the sale of his estate. Naturally, she lives next door.

Because these two are the only ones who don’t realize immediately that they were created for the sole purpose of falling in unlikely love, fate provides a ham-fisted nudge. This is the kind of movie in which a character’s son

AN AFFAIR TO FORGET Keaton and Douglas assist the formerly infallible

filmmaker in hitting a new low.

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up, announces he’s about to begin serving a prison sentence, and asks his grinch of a dad to look after his 10-year-old daughter (Sterling Jerins). It’s the kind of movie in which “Heroin’s an ugly drug, but it gave me a beautiful girl” is not a punch line.

The tyke adopts Keaton as her new “grandma” and moves in. This development, first, means Keaton can now play Grammy Hall when Woody Allen’s immortal comedy is inevitably remade; and, second, it provides the impetus for Douglas to drop by, bond with the new women in his life and, little by little, become less of a dick. All of which a cataract patient could see coming a mile

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and none of which is originality or wit.

The direction is phoned in and the dialogue is inane (what’s with the nonstop penis jokes?), while the film’s performances occupy a category of embarrassment all their own.

Douglas flails in search of a credible comic tone, and Keaton doesn’t really play a character so much as wear a succession of signature getups. You know the type.

This is wrinkle porn at its most synthetic and lazy. All involved are at the fake, cheesy, brain-dead bottom of their game. And so it blows.

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ucy is a silly science-fiction flick built on a concept disclaimed by actual scientists and, had it lasted much longer than 90 minutes, it might have become a drag. But writer-director Luc Besson is an expert at hitting the audience’s sweet spot, and the film goes by in such a blur of eye and brain candy that its emptiness doesn’t sink in until we head for the exits.

If Besson has crafted a less memorable twist on The Matrix, Lucy is also, for what it’s worth, a far less self-important film. Its philosophical pretensions are impossible to take seriously in tandem with its cartoonish action, and that’s part of its charm.

The filmmaker sets up his premise like an attention-deficient kid playing with action figures while console gaming and surfing Wikipedia. In the tone-setting first scene, the action figures in question are Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), a student living in Taipei, and her loutish boyfriend (Pilou Asbaek). As he tries to badger her into delivering a mysterious briefcase to an equally mysterious Korean businessman (Min-sik Choi of Oldboy), Besson repeatedly cuts away to illustrative metaphors: A mouse sniffs a trap; a big cat stalks its prey.

The director seems to want these interpellations to convey the scene’s universal resonance, rather like the prologue to 2001:

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A Space Odyssey or that trippy creation sequence in The Tree of Life. But they play more like a commentary on genre-movie conventions that are so familiar, they might as well be encoded in our DNA. Happily, Lucy doesn’t take long to veer off the rails. Predictably, the briefcase turns out to be as dangerous as the businessman, and soon the chemical contents of the former are inside Lucy, transforming her from a terrified victim to, well … Scarlett Johansson.

At this point, Besson cuts away once again, to a neuroscientist (Morgan Freeman)

expounding uncritically to a crowd on the notion that human beings could access unimaginable powers if we started using more than 10 percent of our brains. Thanks to the experimental drug in her system, we learn, Lucy is now functioning at about 20 percent brainpower. She’s already tossing strong men across the room, and she’s getting smarter by the second.

At this point, the audience has every reason to expect Lucy to spend the rest of the film using her superpowers to kick bad-guy butt. But Besson isn’t interested in remaking

his La Femme Nikita with a science-y twist.

He has something far more ambitious (and ridiculous) in mind; something that involves melting the film’s reality into a psychedelic pixel-blizzard while Freeman’s character intones things like “Time is the unity.” This is your brain on pseudo-scientific mysticism, functioning at 100 percent.

In the past year, we’ve seen (or heard) Johansson play a superheroine, a computer operating system discovering its soul and an alien trapped in a human body. All these experiences no doubt prepared her to embody a woman whose cerebral makeover lifts her off the plane of recognizable human emotions and physicality, and she does so with maximum plausibility (a relative term here) and minimum fuss. Toward the film’s end, there’s something poignant about Lucy’s isolation — unlike Samantha in Her, she can’t find 641 peers to fall in love with, or even one.

But Besson doesn’t seem too interested in exploring Lucy as a character. Terrified of losing our attention, he keeps the actionmovie business swirling around her long past the point where it has much impact or makes much sense. The filmmaker may think he’s encouraging us to run our brains at 100 percent (which, by the way, we already do every single day), but Lucy is a lot more enjoyable with your critical-thinking faculties offline.

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(121 min, Pg-13. bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Stowe, Sunset, welden) A moSt WANtED mAN: The late Philip Seymour hoffman played a weary hamburg intelligence operative trying to recruit a young chechen Muslim to the antiterrorist cause in this adaptation of John le carré’s novel from director anton corbijn (The American). with grigoriy dobrygin and Rachel Mcadams. (122 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

now playing 22 JUmp StREEtHHHH1/2 In the comedy sequel, cops channing tatum and Jonah hill find themselves undercover at college. with Ice cube. Phil lord and christopher Miller returned as directors. (112 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/18) AmERicA: imAgiNE tHE WoRlD WitHoUt HERH conservative commentator dinesh d’Souza follows up 2016: Obama’s America with this documentary that extols american exceptionalism. d’Souza wrote and directed with John Sullivan. (103 min, Pg-13) AND So it goES 1/2H Michael douglas plays a curmudgeonly realtor who seeks the help of neighbor diane Keaton when he’s saddled with a surprise granddaughter in this romantic comedy. with Sterling Jerins and annie Parisse. Rob Reiner directed. (94 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/30)

DAWN oF tHE plANEt oF tHE ApESHHHH Homo sapiens battles smart simians for control of the Earth in this sequel to the surprise hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes. with gary Oldman, Keri Russell and andy Serkis. Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) directed. (130 min, Pg-13)

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HoW to tRAiN YoUR DRAgoN 2HHH1/2 five years after the action of the first animated hit, a young Viking and his beloved dragon discover a cave holding a secret. with the voice talents of Jay baruchel, cate blanchett and gerard butler. dean deblois again directed. (102 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 6/18) iDAHHHH1/2 In communist Poland, a sheltered girl about to take vows at a convent (agata trzebokowska) makes a startling discovery about her family’s world war II past, in this black-and-white period drama from director Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love). (121 min, Pg-13) JERSEY BoYS 1/2 H clint Eastwood directed this “musical biography” of 1960s hit makers the four Seasons. with christopher walken, John lloyd young and Erich bergen. (134 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/25) lUcYHHH Scarlett Johansson starts using the supposedly idle parts of her brain and becomes a butt-kicking superhuman in this Sf action thriller from writer-director luc besson. with Morgan freeman and Min-sik choi. (90 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/30) oNlY loVERS lEFt AliVEHHHH Jim Jarmusch does vampires. tilda Swinton and tom hiddleston play the arty hipster couple who’ve been together literally for centuries, until a youngster’s arrival tests their bond. with Mia wasikowska. (123 min, R)

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HERcUlESHH1/2 It’s time for another big-budget spectacular about the strongman of greek legend, this time played by dwayne Johnson. Ian McShane, John hurt and many other fine, paycheck-earning british actors costar. brett Ratner (Tower Heist) directed. (98 min, Pg-13)

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tHE FAUlt iN oUR StARSHHHH two snarky teens fall in love at their cancer support group in this adaptation of John green’s best-selling ya novel from director Josh boone. Shailene woodley, ansel Elgort and nat wolff star. (125 min, Pg-13; reviewed

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cHEFHHHH1/2 foodie film alert! Jon favreau wrote, directed and starred in this comedy about a fine-dining chef who reinvents himself — and reconnects with his family — by opening a food truck. (115 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 5/28)

EARtH to EcHoHH1/2 a group of kids find themselves in communication with an alien who needs their assistance in this family sci-fi adventure from director dave green. teo halm, astro and Reese hartwig star. (91 min, Pg)

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BEgiN AgAiNHHH1/2 writer-director John carney (Once) returns with a new musical drama in which a heartbroken songwriter (Keira Knightley) and a producer who believes in her (Mark Ruffalo) team up to record an album on the streets of new york.

(101 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/23)

DEliVER US FRom EVilHH director Scott derrickson (Sinister) returns with a horror flick about an urban cop (Eric bana) who teams up with an exorcist to fight a wave of possession cases. with Édgar Ramírez and Olivia Munn. (118 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/9)

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Did you miss: MANIAC Frodo Baggins — er, excuse me, Elijah Wood — plays a psycho killer in a remake of a grindhouse flick that made Gene Siskel run for the exit back in 1980.

The new Maniac bears the distinction of having been banned in New Zealand, sort-of hobbit homeland, for its depiction of brutal killings from the killer’s point of view…

Should you catch up with them on DVD or VOD, or keep missing them?

what I’M watching This week i'm watching: MEN OF CRISIS A 1970s Woody Allen obscurity, Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, recently surfaced online — and will likely disappear again soon. It's a witty and hilarious movie that sees Allen laying down the groundwork for what is, to me, his very greatest film.

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NC Dances VT with Van Dyke Dance Group, Paul Besaw, and Christal Brown . . . . .9/19 Roomful of Teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/26 Andrew Rangell, piano — Models and Mimics: Homages in Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10/1 Civil War: Witness & Response with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10/4 Kiran Ahluwalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/11 Tien Hsieh, piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/17 The Sphinx Virtuosi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/24 “The Lovesong of R. Buckminster Fuller,” by Sam Green with live original soundtrack by Yo La Tengo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/30 The Rose Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11/14 Redbird: Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and Peter Mulvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11/21 A Holiday Concert with Anonymous 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12/5 The Solo Workshop: Assigned Allies, music/dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/30 Brentano String Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/6 Jazz for Valentine’s Day with Cyrille Aimée and her Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/14 Fauré Quartett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/20 Eric Bibb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/27 John Jorgenson Quintet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/6 A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Eileen Ivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/13 Dave Stryker, jazz guitar with the UVM Big Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/19 The Nile Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/28 Natasha Paremski, piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4/17 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4/24 Jerusalem Trio with Mariam Adam, clarinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5/1

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NEWS QUIRKs by roland sweet Curses, Foiled Again

Police investigating a burglary in Lakewood, Wash., found a plaque on the front lawn of the home naming Alfred J. Shropshire III, 49, as a local car dealer’s “Salesperson of the Month.” When questioned, Shropshire confirmed the award was his and was charged with the crime. (United Press International) Police charged Perry Martin, 55, with burglarizing two cars in Delray Beach, Fla., after a surveillance video showed a man wearing a shirt that said “I Got Wood LLC” and gave a phone number.

Police called the number and reached the I Got Wood flooring company, whose owner viewed the video and identified the man as Martin, an employee. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Dead or Alive

When the wife and son of one of India’s wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders reported that he died from a heart attack, his followers refused to let the family take his body for cremation because they insist that he is still alive. According to the disciples of His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order, he is “in deep meditative state.” They are storing his body in a deep freezer in a guarded room to preserve it until he decides to awaken. His son, Dilip Jha, 40, claims that his father’s followers are keeping

the body to retain control of his fortune, estimated at 100 million pounds.

Local government officials in Punjab state called the dispute a spiritual matter and said that the guru’s followers cannot be forced to believe he is dead.

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Blowing Smoke

Conservatives are customizing their pickup trucks to spew black smoke into the air to protest environmentalists and Obama administration emissions regulations.

The diesel trucks, called “coal rollers,” are modified with chimney exhaust stacks and equipment that can force extra fuel into the engine, causing black smoke to pour out. Popular targets of the choking exhaust are drivers of hybrids and Japanese-made cars. “The feeling around here is that everyone who drives a small car is a liberal,” a coal roller named Ryan told the online news website Vocativ, which reported that Facebook pages dedicated to rolling coal had 16,000 followers as of July 1.

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Wash., after she refused his request to clean his ear. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV)

Instant Karma

After Joseph H. Carl, 48, drove his pickup truck into the rear of a vehicle stopped at a traffic light in Gainesville, Fla., police said Carl jumped out and began banging on the other driver’s window. The frightened driver pulled away, and Carl’s truck, which he had forgotten to shift into park, rolled forward and ran over Carl, who failed field sobriety tests and was arrested after being treated at the hospital for foot and hand fractures. (Gainesville Sun)

The U.S. government could save $136 million a year

by switching to Garamond typeface.

Slightest Provocation

Kenneth Chambers, 52, was charged with choking and, though toothless, biting his roommate in Lakewood,

A worker installing signs limiting parking to 75 minutes on a downtown street in Santa Barbara, Calif., was ticketed for parking more than 75 minutes to do the job. “I was dumbfounded,” Dan Greding explained. “I said, ‘But I’m putting these signs up,’ and he [the officer] says, “Then you should know you can’t park here more than 75 minutes.’” (Santa Barbara’s KEYT-TV)

third person recorded the “Jackass”style incident, during which the victim bragged that he is about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest.” Ramiro then fired a .22-caliber pistol while standing in front of the victim, but the bullet hit above the vest. Noting that the incident “was a deliberate videotaped shooting of someone by pointblank range,” Assistant State’s Attorney David Chiu said after Ramiro was charged with murder that his “motivation was fame and glory on the web.”

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Saving (Type)Face

After a middle school student’s science-fair project showed that his Pittsburgh-area school district could save $21,000 a year by switching to Garamond typeface for its printed documents, he took his experiment a step further and concluded that the U.S. government could save $136 million a year by using the thinner font. “Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume,” Suvir Mirchandani, 14, said. Gary Somerset of the Government Printing Office called Mirchandani’s research “remarkable” but wouldn’t say whether the GPO might consider changing fonts. (CNN)

Second-Amendment Follies Mark Ramiro, 30, fatally shot his 28-year-old friend while testing a bulletproof vest in Baltimore, Md. A

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for the next 10 months, Aries. your creative output will be abundant if you keep sowing each new “crop” in a fertile situation where it is most likely to thrive.

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The Earth has been around for almost 4.6 billion years. But according to scientists who study the fossil records, fire didn’t make its first appearance on our planet until 470 million years ago. Only then were there enough land-based plants and oxygen to allow the possibility of fires arising naturally. Do the math and you will see that for 90 percent of the Earth’s history, fire was absent. In evolutionary terms, it’s a newcomer. As I study your astrological omens for the next 10 months, I foresee the arrival of an almost equally monumental addition to your life, Leo. You can’t imagine what it is yet, but by this time next year, you won’t fathom how you could have lived without it for so long.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): The prolific American author James fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) wrote 32 novels. In those pages, he crammed in almost 1,100 quotations from shakespeare. What motivated such extreme homage? I suspect he regarded shakespeare as a mentor, and wanted to blend the bard’s intelligence with his own. I invite you to do something similar, Gemini. What heroes have moved you the most? What teachers have stirred you the deepest? It’s a perfect time to pay tribute in a way that feels self-empowering. I suspect you will benefit from revivifying their influence on you. caNceR

(June 21-July 22): Was there an actual poet named Homer who wrote the ancient Greek epics the Iliad and the Odyssey? or was “Homer” a fictitious name given to several authors who created those two master works? Whatever the case may be, we know that Homer plagiarized himself.

The opening line of book XI in the Iliad is identical to the opening line of book V in the Odyssey: “now Dawn arose from her couch beside the lordly tithonos, to bear light to the immortals and to mortal men.” so should we be critical of Homer? nah. nor will I hold it against you if, in the coming days, you imitate some fine action or brilliant move you did in the past. It was great the first time. I’m sure it will be nearly as great this time, but in a different way.

come, I expect you will dream of creatures like fiery monsters, robot warriors, extraterrestrial ghosts, and zombie vampires. but here’s the weird twist: They will be your helpers and friends. They will protect you and fight on your behalf as you defeat your real enemies, who are smiling pretenders wearing white hats. Dreams like this will prepare you well for events in your waking life, where you will get the chance to gain an advantage over fake nice guys who have hurt you or thwarted you.

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): It’s fine if you want to turn the volume all the way up on your charisma and socialize like a party animal. I won’t protest if you gleefully blend business and pleasure as you nurture your web of human connections. but I hope you will also find time to commune with the earth and sky and rivers and winds. Why? you are scheduled to take a big, fun spiritual test in the not-toodistant future. An excellent way to prepare for this rite of passage will be to deepen your relationship with Mother nature. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): you are hereby

excused from doing household chores and busywork, scorpio. feel free to cancel boring appointments. Avoid tasks that are not sufficiently epic, majestic and fantastic to engage your heroic imagination. As I see it, this is your time to think really big. you have cosmic authorization to give your full intensity to exploring the amazing maze where the treasure is hidden. I urge you to pay attention to your dreams for clues. I encourage you to ignore all fears except the one that evokes your most brilliant courage. Abandon all trivial worries, you curious warrior, as you go in quest of your equivalent of the Holy Grail.

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): broadway is one of new york City’s main streets. It runs the length of the island of Manhattan. but hundreds of years ago it was known by the indigenous Lenape people as the Wickquasgeck trail. It was a passageway that cut through stands of chestnut, poplar, and pine trees. strawberries grew wild in fields along the route. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your own life, sagittarius?

I think there is: a modest, natural path that you will ultimately build into a major

thoroughfare buzzing with activity. Part of you will feel sad at the loss of innocence that results. but mostly you’ll be proud of the visionary strength you will have summoned to create such an important conduit.

caPRicoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The heavenly body known as 1986 DA is a near-earth asteroid that’s 1.4 miles in diameter. It’s packed with 10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum, meaning it’s worth over five trillion dollars. Can we humans get to it and mine its riches? not yet. That project is beyond our current technology. but one day, I’m sure we will find a way. I’m thinking there’s a smaller-scale version of this scenario in your life, Capricorn. you know about or will soon find out about a source of wealth that’s beyond your grasp. but I’m betting that in the next 10 months you will figure out a way to tap into it, and begin the process. aQuaRius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): “I just sort

of drifted into it.” According to author Gore Vidal, “That’s almost always the explanation for everything.” but I hope this won’t be true for you anytime soon, Aquarius. you can’t afford to be unconscious or lazy or careless about what you’re getting yourself into. you must formulate a clear, strong intention, and stick to it. I don’t mean that you should be overly cautious or ultra-skeptical. to make the correct decisions, all you have to do is be wide awake and stay in intimate touch with what’s best for you.

Pisces

(feb. 19-March 20): Members of the industrial band skinny Puppy are upset with the u.s. military. They discovered that an interrogation team at America’s Guantanamo bay detention camp tortured prisoners by playing their music at deafening volumes for extended periods. That’s why they sent an invoice to the Defense Department for $666,000, and are threatening to sue. now would be a good time for you to take comparable action, Pisces. Are others distorting your creations or misrepresenting your meaning?

Could your reputation benefit from repair? Is there anything you can do to correct people’s misunderstandings about who you are and what you stand for?

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aRies (March 21-April 19): If a farmer plants the same crop in the same field year after year, the earth’s nutrients get exhausted. for instance, lettuce sucks up a lot of nitrogen.

It’s better to plant beans or peas in that location the next season, since they add nitrogen back into the soil. Meanwhile, lettuce will do well in the field where the beans or peas grew last time. This strategy is called crop rotation.

I nominate it as your operative metaphor

(April 20-May 20): Maybe your grandparents are dead, or maybe they’re still alive. Whatever the case may be, do you have a meaningful or interesting connection with them? Is there anything about their souls or destinies that inspires you as you face your own challenges? or is your link with them based more on sentimentality and nostalgia?

In the near future, I urge you to dig deeper in search of the power they might have to offer you. Proceed on the hypothesis that you have not yet deciphered some of the useful messages you can derive from how they lived their lives. explore the possibility that their mysteries are relevant to yours.

ViRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): In the nights to

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When we hook up with someone, his or her entire past comes along for the ride, for better or worse. Sometimes former experiences prepare us to make new relationships even better and more enjoyable; other times just the opposite happens.

Sounds like your guy is open to becoming the lover you want him to be, and that’s awesome. You want to show your appreciation, and that makes telling him about your lingering dissatisfaction even more difficult. It’s hard for him, too; you mean for your critique of his performance to be constructive, but he might take the implied inadequacy to heart instead, becoming even more insecure.

But let’s focus on what’s going well: Despite his “restrained” past, your partner has enough sense of self to want to improve and take guidance. And he clearly cares about you.

One of the golden rules of sexual relationships — and any other, for that matter — is that no one can read your mind.

You have to explicitly explain to your partner what you want, where, how and when. Some people respond well to a direct approach, others need to be wooed or coddled. What’s your partner like? What’s the most effective way to communicate with him? Is he a show-don’t-tell kind of guy, or does he need a diagram? Take the time to grasp his learning style and then use it to your advantage.

He says he’s willing to see a sex therapist. So maybe he likes to talk things through. What’s holding you back from taking him up on that? Does the idea of therapy make you squeamish? Sure, it’s not for everyone, but his enthusiasm is encouraging. I say, suck it up and take his lead. And if you think seeing a therapist will force you to reveal things you’re not ready to share, well, that’s a whole other ball of wax and maybe you should look at it.

Conversely, you might discover things about him that are uncomfortable. But there is no doubt the experience would bring you closer. That’s what you want, right? Right?

Bonus: You might find that therapy will ultimately help you achieve not only better sex together but also your fantasies — such as a foursome. Because turning imagined play into the real thing has a whole lot to do with selfconfidence.

Another golden rule: You won’t know until you try.

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