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Third time’s no charm

Roofs collapse or buckle all over the state, with a number of them here in Worcester. The sky is literally falling. -1 Main South begins planning grant work to make the neighborhood eligible for millions of dollars and “cradle to career” support from the Department of Education. Talk about paperwork. +2

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What’s the real cost of automatic sentencing for multiple-felony offenders?

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ollowing the murder of Woburn police officer John Maguire by paroled career-criminal Domenic Cinelli, many are calling Inherit the Wind plays at Worcester for a crackdown on sentencing and County Light Opera Company. Just as parole regulations for third-time timely as it was in 1955. +2 felons. What exactly does that mean to Massachusetts taxpayers?

Marion Guerra, one of the hardest Several bills have been filed, one working principals in the district, by Governor Deval Patrick (who has is reprimanded by the state over already received resignations from five Goddard’s MCAS scandal, while members of the Parole Board), one in the school committee votes to end the House by Rep. Bradford Hill and any further investigation into what happened. MCAS: When you thought it Middlesex D.A. Gerry Leone, and one in the Senate by Sens. Bruce Tarr, Steven was just bad enough, it always finds a way to make things worse. -3

Communication between the City Manager and the Council puts the current FY12 budget deficit at -$14.3 million. That number is by no means final, but an official warning to brace yourselves for budget season. -3 Reverend Michael McFarland is stepping down as president of Holy Cross. It’s going to be one hell of a going away party. -1 The Weather Channel records this winter’s snowfall in Worcester at 74.6 inches, even without this past week’s dusting. The seasonal average? Only 33.6 inches. -1

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New locomotives begin running on the Worcester/Framingham line. Now if they could only find a way to make that trip faster. +1

This week: -3 Last week: -5 Year to date: -10

It’s harder to find out what it costs to parole a prisoner. According to a source at the Executive Office of Public Safety, there’s no study that shows the cost per parolee. In 2008 there were 3,185 parolees in Massachusetts, supervised by the staff of the Massachusetts Parole Board. (In that same year, there were 184,308 probationers under court supervision, plus 11,316 inmates in 32 facilities with more than 5,000 employees.) It’s safe to say that paroling a prisoner isn’t free. There’s transportation to the hearing, salaries of staff and parole board, supervision of individuals who are released, etc.

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Standoff on Canterbury Street brings “The Negotiator” to Worcester.

Kudos to the WPD and State Police – how much role playing do officers go through that practices being shot at by a bow and arrow? +1

Badour and Jennifer Bradford. Sen. Harriette Chandler has joined as a cosponsor of that version, and Rep. John Fresolo says he is “very supportive of the [House] proposal commonly known as Melissa’s Bill” and will work to be sure funding is found for it.

It’s easy enough to find the Commonwealth’s cost to incarcerate one person for a year: for fiscal 2011 it’s $45,907.28, according to the Mass.

Department of Corrections. That’s a slight drop from 2008 figures. Still, over a life sentence (say, the minimum 25 years proposed by one bill before parole), even with no increase over today’s costs, that’s close to $1,150,000.

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Back to the bidding room Mixed emotions as PharmaSphere plot becomes available Jeremy Shulkin

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n 2007 the nearly two-acre plot of land at 49 Canterbury St. had two bidders respond to the city’s request for proposals: innovative agricultural start up PharmaSphere, and their (never collected) $1 offer backed by the promise of dozens of jobs; and Absolute Machinery, a local company in the neighboring parcel that offered $50,000.

More than two years later, few were caught by surprise when the city announced last week that PharmaSphere did not have the financing to back up their $16.5 million project, and the city would accept new bids on the land.

According to director of economic development Tim McGourthy, the city expects a new request for proposal (RFP) to seek bids in the spring, with similar criteria as the one from 2007 – the winning bid must erect a new building and create a significant amount of jobs.

McGourthy says that the rebidding will start from scratch; the city has “no one waiting in the wings.” But bidders for the plot in 2011 may look very similar to the bidders in 2007.

Nathan Smith, co-founder of Absolute Machinery, says he’s expanded his business in Newbury, Ohio, “as a direct result of not being able to obtain that land.” That facility employs three people, with three to four more coming.

In Worcester, however, Absolute Machinery has 19 employees, but other cities constantly ask him to relocate.

“The reason we’re in Worcester is we have a guy who went to WPI (cofounder Michael Ortolano) and one who went to Nichols (Smith),” he says. “We try to give back to the community.”

While Smith says he’s unsure if they’ll bid again for the two acres on Canterbury and Gardner, another area businessman, David Carlson, owner of David’s Service Center and Between

the Bridges Realty Trust, says he’s interested.

Carlson says he was prepared to make an $80,000 bid in 2007, but never received the final RFP notice even though he’d been receiving draft RFPs from the city leading up to the due date.

“I would’ve loved to have that property. I would’ve already had it built out,” he says.

Carlson’s plan was to use the area for repairing large trucks and maybe building a strip mall. He would have leased out the property he already owns at 7 Canterbury St., yet he did not want

to say how much he’s prepared to bid this year.

Even PharmaSphere has announced through the press that it’s still interested in the land, with chief executive David Darlington telling the Telegram & Gazette last week, “It’s our intention, if the city has not leased or sold the property, that we would come back to the city.” PharmaSphere did not return a Worcester Mag phone call.

PharmaSphere has not contacted local officials regarding its future plans, however. McGourthy says that PharmaSphere hasn’t been ruled out in continued on page 6

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Likewise Smith and Carlson may also have trouble securing bids unless they fit the building specifications of the 2007 RFP, an issue that came up in Smith’s earlier proposal.

In between the two rounds of bidding, though, Smith and McGourthy point out that Absolute Machinery was able to expand in Worcester with aid from the Worcester Produces Deferred Loan Program. The $20,000 loan turns into a grant if two low to moderate wage jobs are created and maintained for two years. Absolute Machinery also

expanded in 57 Southgate St., which McGourthy points out actually helped the area since a vacant building is now in use while the former PharmaSphere property is still open for development.

But still, those who eyed the property two years ago wonder what could’ve been.

“It would’ve been on the tax base,” says Carlson.

“We spend several thousands of dollars a year to make sure the infrastructure (on Gardner Street) looks good,” Smith says, adding the whole process has left “a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.”

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Still, with the high cost of imprisonment, it’s easy to see why Patrick wants to get as many people out of the prison system as possible, to keep our budget from swelling. His proposal to shrink drug-free school zones from 1,000 feet to 100 feet, it’s been said, could put the focus squarely on violent crimes, like the one committed by Cinelli.

Is a move to automate sentencing, eliminate parole for three-time convicted felons, and force consecutive rather than concurrent sentencing, a budgetary problem when costs are so high?

Not according to Worcester County’s District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr., who says, “The cost to not keep [the multiple-felony offender] in is just too high. They’re a danger to society.� Early believes the proposed bills would create an atmosphere in which a two-time convicted felon picked up for a third charge would be “going to trial,� though, which also can cost the taxpayer.

None of the proposed bills differentiates between violent and nonviolent felonies, but center on third felonies carrying sentences of three years or more. Felonies include crimes like fraud, racketeering, burglary, illegal drug use and possession, and embezzlement.

Some of these are not violent in nature, though the results are deadly serious for their victims.

Our prisons, already filled to 40 percent over capacity, have problems, and a high rate of mental illness.

Adding the more violent felons to that population is likely to increase costs, according to some experts, and probably won’t increase the likelihood of rehabilitation.

Because less violent crimes are included in the proposed bills, it’s possible that the legislature will let them languish in committee once the recent tragedy is old news, as the original Melissa’s Bill has since its filing in 1999. And that wouldn’t help make Massachusetts safer. Though we’re below the national average in crime rates, our violent crimes are right at the national average. It’s not an easy balance for Lady Justice.

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Kersten says he made the decision around Thanksgiving, and that he’s committed to the race. “It’s not really a rumor. I’m doing it,” he says. While he hasn’t done much in the way of getting out to voters yet (people are more focused on digging out from the snow, he says) he has been “building his organization.”

In the past Kersten has worked as State Representative Vincent Pedone’s research analyst and as a legislative aide for Jim Leary during his state rep. days, which could provide him some hefty allies as campaign season ramps up.

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STEPPING DOWN:

The College of the Holy Cross announced last week that Rev. Michael McFarland will be stepping down as president of the school, but will stay on until a new successor is named. “It’s actually something that’s been in the works for a little over a year between Father McFarland and the board of trustees,” says a school PR rep. According to the rep, the timing coincides with a seven to eight year long fundraiser, which schools generally wish presidents to stay on board for. McFarland has had a number of accomplishments during his ten year tenure, but he’s most known recently for taking heat from city officials and the press for failing to clamp down on rowdy partying. But, last fall he seemed like the one figure in the city the students would listen to. After sending out a mass email to the students, which alternately defended them while asking them to tone down the partying, there was some change in the atmosphere on Friday and Saturday nights up on College Hill. How do we know? Worcesteria went up there one weekend expecting to get totally sloshed, but came away only mildly buzzed.

YOU’VE BEEN SERVED: So the vote on whether

or not more information regarding MCAS practices at the Goddard School of Science and Technology and Belmont Street Community School should be released was shot down by a 4-3 school committee margin, but all hope is not lost for those who want more details about the state’s investigation. Along with a Worcester Mag public records request submitted to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education last Wednesday, school committee members Tracy Novick and Dianna Biancheria filed their own request with the district and DESE. Upping the Dirty Harry factor, Novick handed the request personally to WPS Superintendent Melinda Boone during a meeting recess. Go ahead, make her day.

SKIMMING OFF THE TOP?: Councilors raised an eyebrow at a recent independent auditor’s report this week when the auditing agency found an expense on the schoolside greater than what had been budgeted. For about a year and a half the city-side of government has been taking 3 percent off of every state and federal grant the WPS receives as a type of administration fee. The issue, however, is that a federal Office of Management and Budget ruling allows that percentage to be chosen by the school administration, which ours set at 1 percent, and is backed up by the school committee’s vote to accept the grant. While 1 percent and 3 percent doesn’t seem like such a big deal, consider this: schools CFO Brian Allen estimates that difference as an additional $950,000 that went city-side without the school committee’s authorization. Expect an upcoming debate over who sets that figure, especially since the council has asked for the city solicitor to weigh in.

NOT JUST FOR PLAY (STATION): Video games were a hot topic in the council chambers Tuesday night, with Rick Rushton looking for ways to establish incentives for video game design companies to set up shop in Worcester. Konnie Lukes piggybacked on the video game theme later in the meeting, adding that the city should look at integrating CityOne – software created by IBM and the EPA that allows residents to provide ideas and simulations regarding municipal issues – within the City of Worcester website. After the meeting Lukes compared this to the old Sim City games, which brought Worcesteria back to his middle school days of sitting in his parents’ basement creating municipalities that had too much parkland to ever have a viable tax base. At least there were no concerns in Jeremyville about splitting the tax rate.

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t’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I’m not munching nachos in a room full of cigar smoke, and I’m not in a bar tossing back Coronas; nor am I attending a house party, scooping guacamole out of a plastic dish that’s shaped like a football. There’s a George Clooney movie playing on my downstairs television, which is not a flat-screen model, nor is it of the HD variety. I know that some of the Super Bowl commercials will be utterly hilarious, but I can wait and catch them all on the Internet tomorrow, without sitting through the actual football game. I admit this, the way an alcoholic admits his vice, for I carry a bit of guilt, hating football. Yes, that’s correct: I hate football.

I don’t just hate football — I loathe it. I don’t get it; I don’t want to get it. After decades of pretending I cared who won or lost a game, which massive beast tackled which massive beast and which team would make the play-offs, I have finally, stubbornly refused to continue the charade.

Over the years, I’ve attended umpteen SB parties. I cannot count how many hours I’ve wasted, how many Sam’s Club meatballs I’ve choked down. I dislike the game so thoroughly that my brain won’t even hold onto the basic premise of it. I’ve had various males explain the purpose of “downs” so many times that I should be able to recite the rules like a referee. And yet, it’s as if there’s a gaping hole in my brain where football knowledge should lodge itself.

Football information simply enters and then freefalls, landing in the same place where telephone numbers and the names of students go within two years of graduation. I can’t blame age on this phenomenon; in truth, I’ve been disposing of uninteresting information all of my life. It’s the reason why geometry might as well be Sanskrit.

I think what I hate about football is the pressure I feel by not enjoying it. Football fans are an unforgiving lot. They don’t have much patience with my kind — I think I’m seen as somewhat untrustworthy, possibly Un-American, and (dare I say?) elitist. If that isn’t bad enough, I’m also considered the Kiss of Death.

Inviting me to a sports event is like watching a litter of black cats march past your favorite team, like smashing a dozen mirrors with a ball peen hammer.

Just ask the unfortunate folks who welcomed me to the only football party I attended this season. Which game was it?

The one the Patriots lost to the Jets, eliminating them from the play-offs. These fans are die-hards, and very superstitious ones, to boot. The hostess has a lucky end of the sofa where she watches every game. When I arrived, I unknowingly sat in her spot. Apparently I tempted fate, left my unlucky mark and cast a spell of doom on the Pats, because several humiliating plays later, I was getting the stink-eye from the regulars. To ensure that I’m never invited back, I nervously knocked over and shattered a glass of Merlot, which sprayed onto the ecru carpeting, cementing their suspicions that I am a Jonah.

I have to say, I feel a bit relieved being dropped from football-party guest lists. I don’t have to feign interest anymore, or try to figure who’s winning by reading the faces around me. Thanks to the last Super Bowl, I actually got sick of Betty White. I won’t be calling in sick with a hangover tomorrow like half of America, trying to label it “the flu” — or worse — wasting a personal day.

That’s so wrong.

After all, that’s what the Monday after the St. Patrick’s Day parade is for, isn’t it?

I don’t just hate football — I loathe it.

I don’t get it; I don’t want to get it.

Janice Harvey can be reached at editor@worcestermag.com

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The Writings on the Wall Thanks for shedding some light on this WoMag! Now here is my beef, this passage is taken from the article above: According to Amanda Wilson, the city’s director of housing and health inspection, what they use to define “graffiti” is the language written in the ordinance: “The intentional painting, marking, scratching, coloring, tagging or other defacement of any property without the consent of the owner.” “That is the definition we use when we are faced with a complaint about graffiti on private property,” she explains. Therefore the poorly executed graffiti that I have seen on the CSX wall across from the University Park Lofts mural fits this description to the letter.

Yet the city refuses to fine a BILLION DOLLAR corporation for their blight. In fact we bend over backwards for them to expand in this city. If you are going to enforce the code there is probably more “illegal graffiti” on CSX owned property than any other entity in Worcester. Curious no?

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y name is Norma Santiago. I live near 10 Cedar St. where the pristine Preservation for Worcester organization is located.

For the past 3 years, several times a week I have taken this route to Becker College, where I am currently enrolled as a nursing student. Cedar Street is usually quiet and safe, but at approximately 9 a.m. Friday I was apparently mistaken for someone else and pursued. I walked across one of the parking lots on Cedar Street to William Street to avoid the man. He did the same. I ran across to Cedar Street again through another parking lot, dialed 911 and asked the parking lot attendant to help me and that I was being pursued by a strange man. The parking lot attendant who noticed my distress tried to stall this unknown man. I then tried to seek refuge in the Perservation for Worcester building until the police arrived, yet the door was locked. While on the phone with a police dispatcher, a gentleman came up the stairs and I asked him to let me into the building. The answer was a cold “no.” I frantically explained my situation, and offered to provide several forms of identification. He told me he was preparing for a meeting and could not let me in, entered the building and closed the door.

Left at the mercy of the pursuer, I pushed myself against the wall near the door and hid as best I could praying the man would not see me until the police arrived – which thankfully they soon did. By then the confused man disappeared when he heard the police car siren.

I don’t want to make this about ethnicity however I cannot get the idea out of my mind that if I had been a woman other than of Hispanic descent, the door would have been opened for me. My goal in writing this letter is to remind folks to stop and consider the wellbeing of their neighbors – even in this untrusting age – no matter their age, sex or ethnicity.

It saddens my heart to realize that the Worcester Preservation for historical buildings is only in the business of saving buildings not people that might inhabit them. They have forever changed my image of the organization.

AS K E D O N M A I N ST R E E T

I think this winter is absolutely horrible. God, please get rid of it.

Karl Magrini WORCESTER

This is the worst winter I’ve seen since 1978.

Carl Rasmussen WORCESTER

Norma Santiago Worcester Yes, well, the snow, you can’t go anywhere. There’s no where to put it.

Nicole Bradshaw This Valentine’s Day, many of us are feeling the pinch of the economy and spending money on flowers or candy may simply not be possible. Here are some ideas on ways you can show your love without spending a dime.

• Hugs: Don’t over estimate the power of hugs. Random hugs may get you in trouble if you’re wrapping yourself around a stranger, but hey, give it a try.

• Homemade cards: Nothing says I Dig You than a homemade card. Kids, mom’s love this. Dudes, girls TOTALLY dig this. Girls: um, maybe you think of something else, because I’m not sure what guy likes a homemade card.

• Assist: Do something extra. Shovel out a walkway of a loved one. Clean out the car. Do some extra laundry or dishes.

Affection can be shown by simply doing something a little extra.

• Bake/Cook: Yes, food is the pathway to the heart. Unless you can’t cook. Then you’re screwed.

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Worcester After Dark There are two sides to everything. Nothing illustrates this more than the contrast between night and day. Take the city of Worcester for example. One street can look dull, dreary and sleepy during the workday – a virtual ghost town.

Head down that same street after nightfall, and you may hear the unmistakable thud of a live band, discover packed municipal lots and find yourself slamming on the brakes for revelers spilling in and out of restaurants and clubs.

Yet Worcester After Dark can take on many faces, not just the thriving nightclub scene.

Different people in different phases of their lives may have a alternate take on the city when the sun goes down.

What better way to showcase the different interpretations of Worcester After Dark than through the lens of photographers who live and work here in the city? Worcester Mag invited several of our favorite area photographers to show us an image of Worcester After Dark. As different as night and day, the following pages offer a glimpse of a city when the sun goes down. Like a vicarious viewer, peer into the eyes of each photographer and see what they see, one image at a time.

{ paulbobkowski } For more than twenty years Paul Bobkowski has been capturing the art of the human condition from behind the lens. He began photographing while enlisted in the coastguard in 1983, when his father gave him a Pentax K1000 to send home pictures from his post in Hawaii. He went on to attend photojournalism school in Indianapolis and later became a Master Photographer Craftsman and PPA member earning accolades such as Massachusetts Photographer of the year and Kodak and Fuji Masterpiece Awards. His work has also been featured in Professional Photographer’s Magazine as well as the book “Great Unknowns,” published by Adam Slater.

Paul continues to learn and excel as a photographer, and although the field is ever changing, he will continue to be influenced by the great works of the old Hollywood masters. paulbobkowski.com.

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{ louisdespres }

I have been documenting the band/ night club scene in Worcester since the early ’90s and find myself drawn to and energized by the people who frequent the bars of the city. I recently self-published a book of a selection of photographs made with a point and shoot digital camera entitled “Five Months” and hope to release another book next year of my band photography. To view more of my work, go to louiedespres.com.

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{ jonniecoutu } I am a graduate of the New England School of Photography, 2003 with a Color Major and a Documentary Minor.

Living and working in Worcester, I am the Founder and Editor of Blank Canvas Magazine (blankcanvasmagazine.com), a Founder of Hundred Acre Design (hundredacredesign.com) and primarily photograph in New England.

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{ scotterb } Scott Erb has more than 20 years of experience working in the photography industry and a degree from the SouthEast Center of Photographic Studies. Scott also holds a Certificate from Clark University’s Computer Career Institute. In 2003 he founded the Worcester Photography Center, which now has more than 500 members. Scott also leads workshops in commercial lighting techniques as well as Photoshop at the Worcester Art Museum and the Worcester Photography Center. erbphoto.com

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{ stephendirado } Clark University’s College of Professional and Continuing Education is proud to sponsor faculty member Stephen DiRado.

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A Worcester resident for more than 27 years, artist Stephen DiRado resides in a triple-decker along with his family, Jack Russell Terrier Frankie and a community of artists. He relentlessly documents his friends, family and surrounding urban landscape. His first one person exhibition Bell Pond; Portrait of a Community opened at the Grove Street Gallery in 1984. This exhibition launched his career and was followed by his internationally acclaimed Worcester Galleria premiering at the Worcester Art Museum in 1986. Since then, he has exhibited at numerous museums and galleries across the US and Europe. DiRado specializes in numerous long term documentary projects from a humanist perspective. His primary use of equipment is an archaic large format film camera; a tool that aids DiRado’s intimate connections with his subjects, due to its methodical process.

Most recently he has included the making of short documentary films. Dinner Series is 28 years in the making with thousands of dinners documented, including the one illustrated: Dinner Series: Worcester, MA, January 22, 2011, Saturday Evening at Shrewsbury Street Bread and Pizza.

DiRado teaches in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Clark University. stephendirado.com.

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Worcester Mag’s own Steven King has been working as a photojournalist for 15 years.

During this time he has won numerous awards and been twice named the New England Press Association’s “Photographer of the Year.” In 2003 King joined the Navy Reserve as a photographer; he cut his teeth in public affairs and landed a slot in an exclusive combat camera unit located in Norfolk, Virginia. As a COMCAM photographer he has traveled to 15 countries documenting humanitarian and combat missions, including his last deployment, embedded with the Army working in northern Iraq. King has two sons and a wonderful wife, and currently resides in Worcester.

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Crafty and cool comes to town Doreen Manning

The craft movement as a whole has gone from an outdated relic of a pastime to the hippest of hip hobbies. A whole new generation has enveloped the DIY mantra and applied it to everything from making vegan soap to devil-print tea cozies. Craft is cool, which is why the area’s hottest sports team, Central Mass Roller Derby (CMRD), has taken it upon themselves to once again host the hippest craft fair of alternative and funky crafts appropriately titled Stitches, Needles and Guns on February 12 at the Davis Publishing Bldg. right here in Worcester.

Derby and crafts may sound like a strange combination for those of you not immersed in the world of flat track roller derby – those who play the sport are often of the funky underworld of do-it-yourselfers. Many combine creativity on some level of their everyday lives, so sponsoring a show full of some of the most creative people in the area is simply a no-brainer for the league.

“CMRD is not only a league of skilled, dedicated athletes, but also a group of extremely talented individuals,” says Casey Staskawicz, aka Ina Infirmary, event chairperson for the league. “We have knitters, sculptors, painters, bakers, photographers, seamstresses and even blacksmiths [in our league]… It seemed only natural to put the attitude we portray and skills we possess to the public test, and bring our fans and friends into an atmosphere of punk-rock creativity and beautifully created chaos, and invite a few friends along for the ride wielding paintbrushes and knitting needles!”

Event volunteer Amy Walker, aka Raeven Claws of CMRD, was on hand for last year’s event and recalls the diversity of craft vendors as a standout. “There were amazing hand-knit scarves, hand-spun yarn, paintings,

Good times with Jess Do you have a valentine? I always do. My mom. One year when I was bemoaning my valentineless state, my mom reassured me, “I was your very first valentine, and I’m happy to be your valentine this year.” Problem solved.

But for everyone else, there’s the valentine-gift issue. What do you do? Give her chocolates and flowers; give him a blow job.

Last Valentine’s Day, I was in Africa without a valentine, but I would’ve killed for some chocolate and a shower. The Valentine’s Day before that, my boyfriend gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I took them to work with me at Jose Murphy’s, because I felt the strange need for everyone to know that I got flowers from a

pottery, anything you could imagine and definitely things that you couldn’t imagine,” says Walker.

When looking for the perfect space, CMRD member Jessica McCorkle aka Rough Ann Tumble, a Davis Publications employee, helped secure a floor within the Davis building with the help of her company president, Wyatt Wade. “On a local level, we own the Printer’s Building, a creative economy building that supports local artists by renting building space to arts-oriented organizations, employing artists, exhibiting local artists in our Davis Art Gallery,” explains McCorkle. “By

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valentine who wasn’t my mom. But the best Valentine’s Day that I ever had was in third grade. One boy wrote me a “roses are red” poem, and my crush tore it up. It was true love.

According to Facebook updates, John-is-now-single posts are on the rise between Christmas and spring break.

This is great news if you’re single — Valentine’s Day falls smack in the middle of the two, which means breakups are on a steep up-swing.

I’m scheduled to bartend on Valentine’s Day. I’ll have my eye out for couples on the fritz. The other night, a couple walks in and sits at the end of the bar. I walk over to serve them. Well, hello. If this isn’t the most beautiful man I’ve seen in awhile and what a nice smile. At first I think, too bad he’s with this woman. Then I start to wonder, is he really with this woman? Their conversation sounds like a bad first date.

I want her to go to the bathroom, but she won’t go.

I refill her water. She won’t drink it. I offer her another drink, but she’s happy to watch the ice melt in her old one.

Why won’t she go to the bathroom? I have no idea what I’m going to do when she does go, but I’m going to do something. She never goes and they leave. I’m bummed out

providing spaces for creative minds, we are happy to provide a venue for local artists to gather.”

Due to the success of last year’s event, the vendor roster has grown in capacity to 45,

and the event will move up one floor to provide more room for both the ample crowds and expanded vendors.

Staskawicz thinks this year’s event will be just as successful as last year’s, with so many returning vendors and a slew of exciting new crafts working in mediums from metals to elegant diningware.

“We have an artist collective selling comic books, a few knitters with different stylings, screenprinters, tattoo artists, feminine crafters with a grungy flair, a leather craftsman, illustrators, and of course a crowd favorite, returning vendor Monster Hats.”

If you’re looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, a funky home accessory or just something fun to wear, you should head to Stitches, Needles and Guns. Trust me. It’s that good.

Stitches, Needles and Guns, February 12, 10a.m.-3p.m.

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Five minutes later, he walks back in without her. I rush over, grab his hands and confess the interest I’ve had in him since he came in with the womanwho-never-urinates. He confesses a similar interest, although somewhat different from mine. He met her on adultfriendfinder.com. Check it out if a few half-naked swinger bums aren’t going to offend you.

He wants to treat me to dinner. I’m all about free dinners with fun, sexy men, but considering I know exactly what he’s looking for, I warn him: “I don’t want to have sex tonight, tell me if that’s a deal breaker.” It’s not. After dinner, we make out in the car. It’s a very cold night. I’m wearing a large down parka. He grabs for a boob. He gets an armpit. He comes around to my side of the car, opens my door and next thing I know I’m bent over the passenger seat getting spanked.

He left the state a few days later. Now I have two unavailable men on my roster, both good for free dinners. And yet my heart goes to ... my mom. The main reason she is going to be my Valentine? Because she makes the best peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches cut in the shape of a heart, ever.

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Handworks of Art Wood Work at Clark’s Schiltkamp Gallery Primitive, evocative, tactile, textured, mysterious and timeless, words most apropos when describing the mythic and mesmerizing aspects of wood. The latest exhibit of the Schiltkamp Gallery, located at Clark University, is filled with immensely pleasurable and imaginative works of art handcrafted by 10 distinctive fine artists, creative spirits who have eschewed the ubiquity of technology, electing instead to embrace the sensuous delight of creating stupendous works in wood by hand.

The array of objects proffered provides a glimpse into the incredibly rich and varied ideas summoned by the mere thought of such an ancient and omnipresent substance. Elli Crocker, associate professor at Clark and the curator of this show imparts, “These artisans have chosen, quite deliberately, to use the relationship of their hands and tools to construct their respective works, an immediacy that is a physical response to the wood.” Works such as “Squirrel Girl,” by Donna Dodson, illustrate this concept beautifully. Through iteration, Dodson has achieved a highly polished, organic figure, one both mysterious and sensual, an abstract representation of the female form that intertwines the relationships of humans and animals. The smooth curves and grains of the wood engage the viewer into the creative process, and the result recalls sculptures

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wrought by ancient Egyptians, figures that combine human and animal attributes, archetypal and laced with symbolism. Dodson explains, “Each of my sculptures invite the viewer to experience something on a personal level.”

Wood, in all its sundry guises, is used by these artists in a myriad of fashions, whether hewn from solid slabs or found, scavenged along coast lines, or pieces collected from discarded piles. These artisans then manipulate and transform the raw product into shape and form, each allowing their respective muse to conjure, conceive, and construct the final product. Whether disparate scraps slapped together to form a distinctively new object, or boards painstakingly sanded to a sheen, the concepts presented in the exhibit divulge to the viewer the inherent beauty and history and primeval essence of this magnificent material.

“My work incorporates a dialogue, a tension, between tradition and innovation and where a balance or harmony can finally be achieved,” says Stephan Fowlkes, whose arresting creations such as the massive and meticulously inlaid piece, “Twain #5,” evoke the iconic images of Jasper Johns’ “Target” series. But here, Fowlkes has spliced a rich and varied tapestry of different woods in a jarring and hypnotic manner, resulting in a piece that holds the spectator spellbound. Fowlkes explains, “The idea is to combine apparent opposites into

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Another wonderfully whimsical yet disquieting work is Rob Millard-Mendez’s “Sarah Palin as Kali.” Seemingly innocuous at first glance, upon closer perusal it reveals metaphors of the human condition. “The interactivity ties in with the idea of power,” Mendez says.

“Intellectually, I strive to convey to the viewer to think who has the power to influence whom and in what ways.” Toy-like in construction, Mendez’s works are interactive, allowing the viewer to touch and play, thus becoming an integral element to the creation.

Throughout the entire show, certain themes are pervasive. Each individual artist incorporates a rich personal narrative into their work, plunging their souls into the sensuality and allure of this resource, creating a medley of sculptures that venerate a simple yet necessary element in our lives. The sheer diversity of art is brought in unity by the common respect for the primal power of this malleable and mystical medium. The artists bring their conceptual and creative genius to the exhibit, providing the public with an assemblage of art that speaks to the enduring elegance of wood.

“Wood Work” at the Schiltkamp Gallery, 92 Downing Street, Worcester.

Exhibit runs from February 14-April 17.

Opening Reception: February 23 at 5:15 p.m. For gallery hours, call 508-793-8818. Note: The gallery will be closed from March 5-13. For more information, visit clarku.edu/schiltkampgallery.

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Coming Home

The Delta Generators keep the blues flowing

Janet Schwartz

Craig Rawding got to know Charlie O’Neal when they were playing with the U2 tribute band, Joshua Tree. During that time, Rawding, O’Neal and the Joshua Tree drummer started a “side project” blues band. In 2007, they formed the Delta Generators, joined by O’Neal’s bass player brother Rick and drummer Jeff Armstrong. They’ve been getting noticed ever since.

In 2008, Delta Generators won the Boston Blues Society’s Blues Challenge, giving the band an opportunity

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to compete at the 2009 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, where it was a finalist. In 2009, Delta Generators won an Independent Music Award for best blues album category for its first album, “Devil in the Rhythm” and Best Blues Band in Worcester Mag. Last year, it was nominated for Best R&B Act in the Boston Phoenix. In November of that same year, the band released its latest CD, “Hard River to Row.” The CD was selected by the Blues Foundation as a top five finalist for the best self-produced CD competition at the International Blues Challenge in 2011. Not a bad track record for a band that really hasn’t been around all that long.

Delta Generators latest CD nicely showcases Rawding’s hard-driving vocals and O’Neal’s slick slide guitar. One of the songs, “Canebrake,” is a fantasy piece about a party in Canebrake, a region of Alabama once dominated by thousands of acres of sugar cane that sustained the local black communities. In the early 1900s, these bountiful crops were completely wiped out by white settlers. Rawding’s lyric “Meet me where the reeds shake” certainly conjures up a vivid image.

Some of its originals songs are high-energy and driving like “Coming Home” and “Don’t Uncork the Bottle,” while others are lazy, laid-back ballads like “Let the Boy Down Easy” and “Some Day.” One of the songs on its latest CD, “Hard River Blues,” has a real old-time,

down-south, chain-gang sound. Another original, “Way Down,” is a slide-guitar crowd favorite.

For this original blues band, the music is a “four-way collaborative effort,” says Rawding. Sometimes Charlie O’Neal starts it out on guitar, passing it on to Rawding to work out the lyrics, then giving it to the rest of the band to work out the arrangement and “fill it out.” Other times, they take familiar songs like Robert Johnson and Cream versions of “Crossroads” or the Allman Brothers “One Way Out,” blending each song with its own sound to create original arrangements.

Rawding’s favorite places to play? Anywhere from the “down and dirty” roadhouse clubs like Harry’s in Hyannis, where the audience can get pretty rowdy, to the attentive crowd of a theater-show atmosphere, like Chan’s in Providence.

Although referred to as a blues band, you can also hear touches of soul, funk, ’50s rock & roll as well as a hint of British blues rock in its sound. That’s one of the things that makes this blues band different—it’s mixing up the traditional blues sounds with other types of music.

That’s the crowd appeal and what keeps Delta Generators fans comin’ back for more. To hear it for yourself, come to Beatnik’s in Worcester on Friday, February 11, or visit deltagenerators.com for more information.

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A Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day anti-playlist Singing telegrams you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get this Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

Nicole J. Luparelli

Worcester is home to the legacy of Esther Howland (1828-1904), who became known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Mother of the American Valentine.â&#x20AC;? After she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, she received an ornate English Valentine and was enamored with the concept. She then pitched the idea to her father, the owner of the largest book and stationary store in Worcester, and soon began massproducing Valentines nationwide.

But what was the first singing valentine? Surely, it must be â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Funny Valentine,â&#x20AC;? written by Rodgers and Hart in 1937. The melody is undeniably lovely, but the lyrics are kind of insulting to the recipient. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your looks are laughable, unphotographableâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? It gets worse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is your figure less than Greek,â&#x20AC;? (Your body is busted.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is your mouth a little weak,â&#x20AC;? (You have an ugly mouth) â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you open it to speak, are you smart?â&#x20AC;? (You dumb beaver.)

Where am I headed with all of this? In the grand tradition of Worcesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s valentines, and following Rodgers

and Hart model of the insensitive singing valentine, here is a compilation of the worst songs you could receive as a singing valentine and the situations that make them even more so.

The candles are lit. The wine uncorked, but before you are about to propose, a sprightly bellhop pops in to sing 50 Ways to Leave your Lover by Paul Simon. Even worse if they do the modified 50 Ways to Kill Your Husband â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stab him in the back Jack. Hit him with a pan, Stan.

Poison the Soy, Roy. Throw him under the bus, Gus.â&#x20AC;?

While at the hospital giving birth, you look up and see your husband/boyfriend/sperm donor across the hall holding someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby. The mocking tones of You Know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m No Good by Amy Winehouse sung by a dancing naughty nurse followed by a sprightly rendition of Love Child by the Supremes.

Really, for any hospital stay, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd or Girlfriend in a Coma by the Smiths would throw some ice water in your sponge bath.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re downtown at city hall getting your marriage license, you definitely donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want someone showing up to serenade you with: 2 out of 3 Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Bad by Meatloaf or White Wedding by Billy Idol.

If someone sends you Date Rape by Sublime or Run for Your Life by the Beatles before your back-of-the-Chevy

date at Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Acre on Airport Hill, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go on the date!

Your Valentine may have a bit of Claus Von Bulow in him if he sends you a dancing Goth singing Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult or I Used to Love Her, (But I Had to Kill Her) by Guns â&#x20AC;&#x2122;N Roses Again, if this happens before a planned date, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go on the date!

Picture this, Worcester, Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day 2011. You show up to a party at the Courtyard Marriot with your beloved, but something doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem quite right. Your clue that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a swingersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; party? A mustached man with a bottle of K-Y starts crooning, If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be with the one you love, love the one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re with by Stephen Stills.

You are getting a root canal at the dentistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. The pretty hygienist tells you that you have a special message from a secret admirer and begins to sing Lily Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smile, while painfully sucking out your infected nerve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first, when I see you cry, it makes me smile. Yeah, it makes me smile.â&#x20AC;?

Your stalker wants to send you a singing valentine too! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be Watching You by Sting, with a note that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;love, anonymous.â&#x20AC;? but he or she is the type that wants to mess with your head, so when you confront them about the creepy valentine, you wind up hearing Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re So Vain by Carly Simon.

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Rated X part II offers extreme sounds

Laurence Levey

On February 16, Clark University’s Razzo Hall will host an evening of new music certain to challenge and reward listeners in equal measure. Where the original Rated X project of 2008 sought thematic music to explore the limits of the fairly traditional instrumental pairing of clarinet and piano, Rated X II, in the words of John Aylward, one of the composers, “commissions a wide variety of composers to produce works that push the genre” for the less familiar pairing of clarinet and percussion.

Aylward, a trained pianist, has been an assistant professor of music at Clark since the fall of 2008, having earned a Ph.D. in composition and theory at Brandeis. At the end of 2009, his longtime friend and associate, Jean Kopperud, whom he describes as an “experienced veteran in the field,” contacted him to commission a piece that would “expand and develop the repertoire for clarinet.”

Kopperud, a clarinetist and an associate professor at the University of Buffalo, and Tom Kolor, a percussionist

and assistant professor also at the University of Buffalo, will perform Aylward’s work, along with works by Mario Davidovsky, Louis Karchin, Mathew Rosenblum, Jeffrey Stadelman, and Yiorgos Vassilandonakis at Clark and several other sites around the country.

Aylward describes some of the other works on the program as “experimental, electronic and wildly imaginative.” His own piece, titled “Twin Suspension,” written over a period of four months in early 2010, was deeply influenced by the death of his godfather, who was also his father’s twin. It calls on each instrumentalist to handle not only the interplay with one another, but to alternate between two instruments – marimba and xylophone for the percussionist, clarinet and bass clarinet for the clarinetist – during the performance.

“There is a lot of research behind composition,” says Aylward. “You really have to know how each instrument works.” Ultimately, he strove for and arrived at a piece in which “each instrument inhabits its own twin.”

For Kopperud, the X in Rated X denotes “extreme.”

“This project is about going out to the edge,” she says, and “wanting people to be more creative.” She finds that too often, “music has gotten easier but less challenging.”

Rated X II, she says, “with all these fabulous percussion instruments,” is for “an educated audience not afraid to hear something new, something violent or ugly, or that

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Grant money from the University of Buffalo and other sources has ensured that the music in this concert will be played multiple times prior to a recording session scheduled for June. “It is unusual for new music to get such intense attention,” Kopperud points out. Aylward, who has an album of his compositions called “Stillness and Change” – a line from the Louise Glück book of poems, “The Wild Iris” – due out on Albany Records this spring, adds that the commission guarantees that each composer’s work will be performed all over the country, including venues in Buffalo, Purchase, and Queens, N.Y.; Sacramento, Calif.; Columbus, Ga.; Pittsburgh and Worcester.

“New music needs good performances,” says Kopperud.

“The making of art is important.” Rated X II lets the audience in on the dialogue between the “personal, psychological struggle on the level of the composition and on the level of the performance.”

X, as in extreme.

X, as in experience it.

Rated X II will be performed on Wednesday, February 16, from 7:30-9 p.m. at Clark University, Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall, 92 Downing Street, Worcester.

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But there’s an essential difference: unlike Translation, Coppola forgets to wrap a story around her star’s existential crisis. Coppola goes minimalist on us, to a fault. Her screenplay is sparse on dialogue, thin on motivation, and downright anorexic in attitude. She favors long takes of uninteresting events, like Dorff’s Johnny Marco sitting in his room sucking back Coronas, smoking cigarettes and staring into space. The

only thing less interesting than actually doing that is watching someone else do it. Indeed, Johnny is such an empty vessel that we can’t locate a source of any empathy, something to care about.

Somewhere plays like an insider’s guide to Hollywood Babylon, right down to the setting of the Chateau Marmont, the renowned celebrity hangout, deathplace of John Belushi and site of a thousand trashed rooms. It’s here that Johnny shows how bored he truly is, twice falling asleep in otherwise hyperalert circumstances: once while watching identical-twin strippers perform a pole dance dressed as candy stripers, and the second time while delivering oral sex to a starlet. (One can’t help but wonder if the connected Coppola has heard of real-life versions of this stuff.)

Johnny, and the movie, only comes alive when his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) appears on the scene. Her unconditional love awakens and humanizes him. When Johnny is flown to Italy to appear at a cheesy awards show, he brings Cleo, who acts like an emotional IV for her father, keeping him hydrated long enough to endure the silliness.

Fanning, the younger sister of Dakota Fanning, plays Cleo as the voice of reason in Johnny’s unreasonable existence.

She has a soft but strong presence, as she assumes the caretaker role for her father.

By contrast, Dorff isn’t asked to do much more than look scruffy and mope.

Dorff is a B-lister playing a disaffected A-lister, and one can’t help but wonder if an actual star — given that Coppola could recruit one — might have pulled this role off with more impact.

In an oblique sort of way, Johnny reminds me of Don Draper, the hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, woman magnet of Mad Men. The disparity is that while Johnny shares all the same vices as Don, he doesn’t appear to possess any sort of interior life. Toward the end of the film, he wearily whines, “I’m fucking nothing. ... I’m not even a person.” Unfortunately, how he arrives at such a harsh self-assessment is never even hinted at. Without that information, Johnny is indeed nothing, and Somewhere is nowhere.

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While there have been many fascinating adaptations and modernizations of works by the legendry Bard of Avon, it is one of his earliest efforts, Romeo and Juliet, the tragic story of star-crossed lovers who by their deaths bring together two warring families, that seems to have proved the most enduring.

Over the years the theme has been used in countless different interpretations, perhaps one of the most radical being the musical West Side Story. But arguably none have been more challenging and unique than this latest approach in which the characters are portrayed as garden gnomes.

At first this might seem like an incongruous idea at best, however there are many good reasons at the outset that make this actually a more realistic approach than any that have come before: remember the original play involved teenagers, which in effect are analogous to very small people. But one more overlooked fact is that the average human in Shakespeare’s time was much smaller than now, hence the “gnome” or “dwarf” metaphor brilliantly employed here.

But even beyond that innovation this adaptation takes some bold steps, so unconventional that perhaps I feel I might find myself defending this groundbreaking approach in view of some of my more traditional minded colleagues. And indeed “groundbreaking” is an apt, and I would venture to say, even a humorous adjective to use, as one of the inventions of this production is to replace the traditional swords with spray nozzles of hoses, and the steeds ridden into battle with that of the garden mower. A unique dichotomous metaphor in that the swirling blades beneath reference the dueling sabers of old, while the engine atop could be seen as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution riding into the future.

The addition of humor is also quite singular, as it effectively underscores the Bard’s masterful use of dramatic structure to heighten the tension between comedy and tragedy. And in an unprecedented move Shakespeare himself is brought to life in the form of a statue, symbolic

of Hamlet’s ghost of course, yet in this almost surrealist interpretation he has a discourse with the main protagonist about changing the ending and making it no longer a tragedy. And… No, I can’t go on. I’ve given it my best to be a gentleman and find worth in this production, but these people have RUINED the great Shakespeare! Why, it’s almost as if this thing were aimed at CHILDREN! And the Bard’s work simply does not stand up to pedestrian references to Brokeback Mountain, hackneyed jokes about “nuts” and the

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But I digress. In conclusion, I have long been of the belief that any interpretation of the Great One’s work is worthwhile, and indeed keeps the wonder of theater alive and vital for new generations. Gnomeo and Juliet however has caused me to reconsider that assertion. Simply put: this is an abomination.

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The restaurant housing Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse and its oft-namechanging Tex-Mex counterpart has been on the corner of Rt. 20 and Prospect Street for so long that my husband remembers going there in his youth. While the Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side has been reviewed, the counterpart has not - and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yummy comfort food with a fun atmosphere and a good price.

During the week, to conserve energy, all food is served on the Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, which, between painted artifacts and painted and actual books, has the dusty (only painted,

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We were seated immediately at a comfortable table and given water by our server. She was very friendly, but did put in my husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s order incorrectly.

Fortunately, she changed it quickly; he got a replacement within five minutes - long before I could put any sized dent in my plate, or even before the plate started to cool.

The food is Americanized Mexican, or Tex-Mex, cuisineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;down to the muted heat of everything. For people who like the hint of ethnicity without having to worry about any culture shock or spiciness, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect. Also Americanized are the generous portions.

We started with an appetizer of Mini Chimis. (Chimichangas are deep-fried rolls of tortilla stuffed with meat and/or beans and cheese.) They came with a chipotle sour cream, which was so good and smoky that I saved the small remainder for my dinner. The chimis tasted great and

had plenty of filling, chicken and farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheese, in every biteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even to the folds of the tortilla. They were served on a bed of fresh shredded lettuce and tomatoes, which made for additional toppings.

For entrĂŠes, I had â&#x20AC;&#x153;Combinacion 5,â&#x20AC;? which was a taco, an enchilada, and plenty of beans and rice. I also ordered a side of guacamole. The guacamole was average, not really worth the $1.25 price, but the beans and rice were solidly good and flavorful. The best word to describe the plate comes from a 5-year-old I know: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheesy-licious!â&#x20AC;? (Most dinners are not for the lactose-intolerant or vegan, but there were a few vegetarian options with just beans.) There was a little chicken, some beans, and a rich, smoky red sauce with a hint of mole. Mostly farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheese and other gooey cheeses filled the enchilada, and the melted cheese on top covered half the plate. Cheese also topped the taco.

The taco beef was shredded as opposed to ground (making it recognizable as

beef-meat), and there were plenty of vegetables atop the already generous portion of meat, making this the kind of taco you need to lean over the plate to avoid a splatter-festâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although a yummy one.

Scott had the Tio Burrito, which is a burrito with everything but the kitchen sink. He was especially pleased with how tender and flavorful the chicken was. It tasted like it had been marinated, slow cooked in mild chili spices, and then pulled apart. Like my enchilada, it was also covered in a thick layer of melted cheese.

While he finished his burrito, I could not finish my dinner. Both meals were delicious - albeit unhealthy - but filling.

Even midweek, which is when we visited the restaurant, a lot of people were relaxing and having a good time.

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Six spicy chicken wings........................................ 6.95

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Medium cut of Delmonico steak with two jumbo stuffed

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shrimp ............................................................ 17.95

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Show your sweetie how in the know you are by picking up two tickets to this all-vegan pre-Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day underground restaurant on Sunday, February 13. Tickets are $25 and by reservation only.

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At Burnside you can expect a three-course, ďŹ xed-menu meal that fuses American comfort food with exotic Asian ďŹ&#x201A;avors. The ďŹ rst course is Philly spring rolls served aside a wedge salad, followed by a southern-baked veg. chicken entrĂŠe with a side of wasabi-infused potatoes covered with brown miso gravy. For desert, a raspberry mochi (Japanese sweet rice balls) with Thai peanut sauce will be served. Expect all the amenities of a ďŹ nedining experience. Dress appropriately.

Hands down, this is the classiest way that vegan people of distinction will spend the night before Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day in Worcester.

Get your reservation in quickly. There is limited space and when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full. And yes, Burnside Fountain is the high-society name for the turtle-boy statue.

Loving Hut Buffet, Feb 12.

Show your crush your loving side by going to a special valentine fundraiser buffet at Loving Hut (415 Chandler St.) this Saturday, February 12, from noon-5 p.m. Loving Hut has been holding buffet fundraisers regularly for more than a year now, and this one is going to be special. It just so happens that the monthly buffet falls on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day weekend, so the Loving Hut kitchen will be developing two new dishes to launch at the buffet. The sugar on top is that the restaurant will be donating 10 percent of the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proceeds to VegWorcester, the group putting together VegFest on April 17 at Worcester State.

Plus, the place is called the Loving Hut, for goodnessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake.

If the weekend passes and you still havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wooed your loved one, stop by The Bean Counter (113 Highland St.) and pick up a vegan cupcake or a half dozen cookies. Or book a dinner reservation at EVO (232 Chandler St). EVOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veg steak and cheese is their most impressive dish, but sharing a vegan cheese pizza may make the meal a little more intimate. No Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day dinner should go without a desert, so be sure to split a chocolate-fudge sundae with nondairy ice cream.

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Francesco’s Italian Bakery 29 Worcester Road, Charlton 508-248-9900 Food: ***1/2 Atmosphere:*** Service: ***** Value: **** STEVEN KING

Located on Rt. 20, Francesco’s is solely a bakery, as opposed to a café. You go in for ordering and pick-up, and leave with your goodies. Even so, the service was excellent - down to the welcoming entrance, which was one of the best-cared-for despite the winter storms.

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Malbec Madness: Looking for a deal on a nice glass of red wine? The Citizen has partnered with Austin Liquors to hold the Battle of the Malbecs on February 22 from 6 -9 p.m. on its heated patio. For $20 you can sample eight Malbecs, while enjoying plated and passed dishes that The Citizen has selected to pair perfectly with these luscious reds. If you can’t make the event, stop by Austin’s for a discounted price on any of the featured wines. This deal is not only currently in effect, but will be offered

person as they entered. Even between orders, she maintained courteous eyecontact without neglecting anyone and was able to describe everything in the bakery cases.

In addition to sweets, there were savory baked goods, including focaccia, stuffed Italian bread rings, pizza, and even Italian dinners to go, like stuffed peppers. My husband and I went for sweet and ordered a pound of cookies and a few different desserts. The cookies were varieties of shortbread and butter cookies, with the best being the peanut clusters. The peanut clusters were similar to peanut-butter cups, but atop shortbread cookies and with chunks of peanuts atop that. While the others were still delicious, they didn’t stand out as much. We had lemon, anise, chocolate anise, and jelly. Regular anise was the best of the collection, but I wasn’t fond of the chocolate version.

The other desserts were a cannoli, baklava, and a lobster tail. The baklava was walnut based, rich, and not-too-sweet; the cannoli was also the right balance of richness and sweetness. They were great, but not especially memorable. Scott really enjoyed his lobster tail (a cream-filled pastry), however.

For a bakery with great service and dependably good food, check out Francesco’s on Rt. 20. for two weeks after the epic battle. The Citizen, 1 Exchange Place, Worcester.

Sweet Tooth: Some people don’t think of wine as worthy of the title “dessert,” but KJ Baaron’s would certainly say otherwise. Head over to the store at 5 p.m. on Febuary 11 for a classy evening that’ll satisfy your sweet-tooth. On the menu are sweet Rieslings, chocolate wine, raspberry wine, and Moscato dessert wines. Call 508753-3400 for more details. KJ Baaron’s, 220 Summer St., Worcester.

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The 182nd Annual Camellia Show at Tower Hill Botanic Garden celebrates The Massachusetts Camellia Society, one of the oldest societies in the United States. In its 182nd running, you’ll see hundreds of gorgeous Camellia flowers at the peak of their display, both on the Camellia trees themselves as part of Tower Hill’s own collection in the Limonaia, and also in bowls of floating blossoms from private collections. This is a perfect way to spend a winter day, amidst the subtropical greenery of Tower Hill’s indoor spaces, with the backdrop of the dramatic NEW Winter Garden – all during the weekend of Saturday, February 12 - Sunday, February 13. $10/$7 Seniors/$5 Youth/Free to members and children under 6. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Milton Gallery, Limonaia, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508869-6111, towerhillbg.org.

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Old Sturbridge Village will explore the history of two Valentine’s Day hallmarks with its new event, Be Mine: Chocolate and Valentines, on February 12 and 13. Visitors will “meet” Esther Howland, the local woman who is responsible for popularizing valentines in the United States and see examples of antique valentines. Costumed historians will demonstrate how chocolate was processed by hand using cacao beans in the original manner of ancient Mexico (where chocolate originates) and prepare 19th-century chocolate, which was almost exclusively a beverage. $20 for adults; $18 for seniors; $7 for children ages 3-17; children under 3 are admitted free. Each admission includes free parking and a free second-day visit within 10 days. For details, osv.org, 1-800-SEE-1830.

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Enjoy a romantic evening with Michael Gondek and friends at Dzian Gallery as they perform “Songs of Love,” featuring jazz and popular standards on Saturday, February 12 from 7-10 p.m. Decadent desserts and sweets from local patisseries await you, as well as Gallery specials and free drawings throughout the evening. Plus, couples and individual card readings with Claudia will help to reveal your passions and caricature portraits will be done by Neil Portnoy. Cash bar and complimentary valet parking makes the night a breeze. Dzian Gallery, 65 Water St., dzian.net.

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Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier Chinese dance and music company, and it’s bringing a world of color, movement, depth, and poignancy to The Hanover Theatre on Thursday, February 10. A collaboration of leading artists, Shen Yun seeks to breathe new life into traditional Chinese culture and to provide an experience of sublime beauty.

State-of-the-art backdrops transport you to celestial realms and lush landscapes, while ground-breaking music combines the best of Chinese and Western composition. The nearly 20 dances and songs in each Shen Yun performance make for an unforgettable experience. $60-$150. 7-10 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org.

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Gather the family for a Winter Family Concert on Saturday, February 12. Fun for kids, parents and grandparents! First up, Mr. Kim will engage and amuse with his puppets and songs. Followed by Worcester-area favorites Chuck & Mud as they entertain with songs for the whole family. First 100 admissions receive a voucher for a free kid’s cone from West Boylston Dairy Queen. Proceeds used to support school arts and music programs. $5 each or buy three and get fourth admission free. 3-5 p.m. West Boylston Middle High School, Auditorium, 70 Crescent St., West Boylston. Call 508-8356489 or visit wbaf.org.

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Calling all 3 to 5 year olds - bring your favorite adult for Third Week Wonders: The Animals’ Winter Sleep on Wednesday, February 16. This thematic hour of a story, activity and a naturalist-led walk meets the third week of each month. Bundle up as you’ll be heading outside. $7 Child, $10 Child NM. $2 each additional child. 1011 a.m. Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Ave. 508-7536087, massaudubon.org.

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The Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester is hosting the holiday with flair as its 2nd Annual Valentine’s Dance happens on Friday, February 11. A ballroom dance with a professional DJ, a few showcase performances and light refreshments await you. B.Y.O. nonalcoholic beverages, but bottled water will be available. $12 per person in advance; $15 per person at the door. 8-11 p.m. 203 Pakachoag St., Auburn.

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February Tour of the Month: The Sculpture of WAM is a great way to dig deep into

the Worcester Art Museum’s collection.

Happening on Wednesday, February 16, join docent Angela McClain for an exploration of the fascinating objects in the museum’s sculpture collection. Free with museum admission. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406, worcesterart.org

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Christianity. You can witness the legal clash between Matthew Harrison Brady, a leading Christian scholar and former Presidential candidate, and opponent for the defense Henry Drummond, a defender of free thought and the leading legal mind of his day, all seen through the magic of the Worcester County Light Opera Company.

Now through February 19, 8 p.m. Worcester County Light Opera Company, 21 Grandview Ave. Call 508-753-4383 or visit wcloc.org.

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music >Thursday 10 The Hotel Year, Major League, It’s An Attack, A Face For Radio, Static In The Radio. $8. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133.

DJ Roberta. Dance to your favorite rock, classic rock, top 40 and country hits! 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006.

Good Times with Your Friend DJ Steve. 9-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Irish Music Session. 7:30-10 p.m. Mulligans Taverne-onthe-Green, 121 West Main St., Westborough. 508-344-4932 or westboroughsession.com.

Open Mic Night W/ Bill McCarthy Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Junior’s Pizza Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-459-5800.

Five on Friday. No cover. 8-10 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/ Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton.

978-464-2300 or wachusett.com.

Flock Of Assholes w/ Neon Alley & Chloe Charles!. $5.

8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 find them on facebook.

Open Mic Jam. All players and singers are welcome! Free.

8 p.m.-2 a.m. Mill Street Brews (@ The Artist Development Complex), 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900.

Rich “Amazing Dick” Leufstedt. 8-10 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Alan Evans & The PlayOnBrother Band $10 at the door $7 online purchase. 9 p.m.-midnight The Arts Block, 289 Main St., Greenfield. 413-774-0150 or theartsblock.heroku.com.

Dive Bar Thursdays. Featuring musicians from all genres. Free.

9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Dive Bar, 34 Green St. thedivebarworcester.com.

Jeff Potter!. No Cover!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Metal Thursday CXVII: Scaphism, Composted, Boarcorpse, Naegleria. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. open mic night w/ ed sherdian. 9 p.m.-noon Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

James Keyes. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

>Friday 11 Only At Night, Chatty Maddie, Ariband. $5. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133.

X-Cess Fridays. DJ Patrick Allen BLU Ultralounge & Nightclub, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227 or blu-nightclub.com.

Ten Foot Pole Cats, Jim Keyes, Tokyo Tramps, and Farmers Union Players. 9-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Metal On Metal Show Absence Of The Sun / Martyrs And Madmen Smite / The Righteous / Tight Rope / Treachery / Widow Sunday. Tickets $10 adv., $12 door.

6-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696.

Jazzed Up Trio At Lucianos Union Station. No Cover, dine, swing, dance, mingle, enjoy! Luciano’s Cotton Club, 2 Washington Square. 508-755-6408.

Jojo & Patch CD Release Party. Free. 7-10 p.m. Rabbit Hole (bookstore and more), 805 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-3450040 or therabbitholeusa.com.

KT & The Fuse. Free. 7 p.m.-midnight Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

NBJ (Nothin’ But JESUS). We’re simple men who have fallen deeply in love with our Creator & we’re responding to the command to spread His Gospel to anyone who would hear it. Free.

7-10 p.m. Mill Church Cafe, 45 River St., Millbury. 508-864-5658 or millchurch.org.

Seven Hills Symphony Concert: Brahms, Lalo, Weber, Prokofiev. The program features the winners of the 3rd Annual Youth Concerto Contest playing the Brahms violin concerto, Weber clarinet concerto and Lalo cello concerto. In addition to the soloists, there will be a special performance by the Wachusett Regional

High School Chamber Orchestra led by Doug Miller. The program closes with a “side-by-side” performance of selected movements from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet Suite”! $12, $10 students/ seniors, free for WRSD students and children under 5 y/o. 7:30-10 p.m. Wachusett Regional High School, Auditorium, 1401 Main St., Holden. 617-824-0333 or shsymphony.org.

The Dixie Bee-Liners.$19 adults; $15 seniors, students, teachers. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Cultural Center at Eagle Hill, Abby Theatre, 242 Old Petersham Road, Hardwick. 413-477-6746 or centerateaglehill.org.

Brian Richard. No cover. 8-10 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/ Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton.

978-464-2300 or wachusett.com.

Eilen Jewell. Boise-born and Boston-based, Jewell has quickly distinguished herself as one of the rising stars of a new generation of roots musicians. $15 advance; $20 day of show. 8-11:30 p.m.

Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley.

978-425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com.

Flock Of Assholes live all weekend at Chopsticks Leominster No Cover!. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster.

The RADIX Welcome home party Fam Biz, Klep, Chris Cus Walter Weekes, Skivi B Spinning all night: DJ Sprino special guest T.R.U KRU (Bboy Crew)!. $7.

8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on facebook.

Tom Yates Group - Remembering Woodstock. Tom Yates - guitar & vocals, Rick Maida - bass, Mike Avery - drums.

Performing classic songs of the Woodstock Generation. No Cover.

8-11 p.m. Concord’s Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square, Concord.

978-369-2373.

Bill McCarthy & His Guitar - Classic & Contemporary Acoustic Rock!. FREE. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Dunny’s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield, MA, East Brookfield.

Live Music in the Pub: Mulligan’s Fancy. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-midnight Fiddlers’ Green Pub & Restaurant, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700 or mulligansfancy.com.

Chris Reddy. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Boulder Cafe, 880 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-0008.

DJ Pete the Polock. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516.

DJ T Rich. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Beemer’s Pub, 114 River St., Fitchburg.

978-343-3148.

I Love Fridays At Fusion with DJ B-LO. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100.

Jon Lacouture. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Art’s Diner, West Boylston St. Ladies Night - Top 40 Dance Party. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222 or speakersnightclub. net.

Laquerhead. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

Movers & Shakerz. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

MT Productions Presents: Angel Dust [Faith No More Tribute], Hard No. 9, and Jaded. 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543.

Occidental Gypsy! $10 Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Pete the Polak, DJ. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516.

The Obsession Band. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Squire Whites Pub & Restaurant, 347 Greenwood St. 508-752-7544.

The Snapdaddies. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277.

Jason James and the Bay State Rockers. $5 cover charge. 9:30-12:30 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden.

508-829-4566.

The Delta Generators. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

>Saturday 12 Fogue, Motel Mattress, Mirrors $5. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133.

Gilmour’s Breakfast Pink Floyd Tribute. Gilmour’s Breakfast, premier Pink Floyd Tribute band perform at Tammany Hall with opener’s Custard Pie, Led Zeppelin tribute. This show will feature a spectacular light show provided by Johnny Light boy.

The performance will feature Dark Side Of The Moon, tracks from The Wall, Animals as well as deeper cuts for the more avid fans. gilmoursbreakfast.com. Tammany Hall, 43 Pleasant St. 508-7537001.

Sauce. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Another Soldier Down. 9-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Percussion Ensemble Concert. The WPI Percussion Ensemble directed by Pieter Struyk will perform on Saturday, Feb 12th. Free admission. noon-1 p.m. WPI: Alden Memorial, Spaulding Recital Hall, 100 Institute Road.

Bob Marley Birthday Bash 2011. You and your family are invited to celebrate the life and music of Robert Nesta Marley. Video Documentary, Drumming, Live Music, Sample Authentic Jamaican Food, Spoken Word, Love, Peace and Happiness! Come and Enjoy!

Peace! 0. 1-5 p.m. Worcester Public Library, Saxe Room, 3 Salem Square. 508-410-1209.

Escape The Fate @ The Palladium. with Alesana / Motionless In White / Get Scared / Drive A Tickets $16 adv., $18 door. 6-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696.

New Bay Colony, Valentines Day, Spaghetti and The Uxbridge VFW. Because romance is one of the things we excel at, on Saturday Feb. 12 at 7:00pm The Killer Combo of The VFW, Spaghetti, Meatballs and the MeatBalls of New Bay Colony come together on Valentines Weekend. So Ladies, print out this promo pronto and leave it on the table for that oh so subtle hint.

And Gents, don’t be stupid. You get a meal, New Bay Colony, a bar to sneak into to check scores, and after she checks out the band, she’ll know she has it pretty damn good at home. $10. 7 p.m.12:30 a.m. Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1385 Uxbridge, 13 Cross Road, Uxbridge. 508-278-7540.

Will Patton Quartet in Concert. Celebrate the holiday with a jazz quartet playing swing, choro, French waltzes and such with violin, mandolin, guitar and string bass. Free Admission. 7-10 p.m.

Harvard Public Library, Volunteers Hall, 4 Pond Road, Harvard.

978-456-4114 or harvardpubliclibrary.org.

Jazz Stew. The perfect Valentine’s treat. Great romantic music of the American Song book classics. Jazz Stew features, multi award winning artist Joe D’Angelo and Mauro DePasquale with Ed Connley. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Ziti’s Italian Trattoria, 192 Harding St. 508-754-2212 or zitisitaliantrattoria.com.

Russell Thompkins Jr. and The New Stylistics.

Snuggle up to your valentine as the original lead singer for The Stylistics, one of the most successful love-ballad and soft-soul groups of their era, warms your heart with his impeccable highpitched tenor, sugary sweet falsetto, unforgettable hit songs and masterful showmanship in a special Valentine’s Day Weekend concert with his new band, The New Stylistics. $28, $38, and $48.

Please call the box office at 877.571.7469. 7:30-10 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 877-571-7469 or thehanovertheatre.org.

Wachusett Music Series Presents The Rafters and Elizabeth Lorrey. The Rafters music is focused on melody and lyrics over a blend of pop/folk influences. Elizabeth Lorrey is talented multi-instrumentalist (keys, guitar, bass, voice). 7:30-10 p.m. First Church of Christ Unitarian, 725 Main St., Lancaster.

978-365-2043 or wachusettmusic.com.

Bop n Pop plays dance music. Swing, rumba, tango, line dances and requests for dancing the night away. 8 p.m.-midnight Lake Lashaway Inn & Restaurant, 308 E Main St., East Brookfield.

508-867-2150.

Flock Of Assholes at Chopsticks Leominster No Cover!. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster.

Jon Lacouture. Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Brook’s Pub, Lincoln st.

Lori Diamond. No cover. 8-10 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/ Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton.

978-464-2300 or wachusett.com.

Dana Lewis Live!. Dana Lewis playing Acoustic Classic Rock

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Can we all just agree that we’re sick of the snow? I know, you’re probably still snowed-in, and maybe the last thing you want to think about is shoveling, but hear me out: you’ll be missing a seriously awesome weekend of concerts if you stay in and do the whole Netflix-and-hot-chocolate thing again. On Thursday February 10 you’d best go check out local favorites Flock of Assholes at the Lucky Dog Music Hall as they rock out with Neon Alley and Chloe Charles. If I told you that Beatnik’s will be featuring a guy who calls himself Rich “Amazing Dick” Leufstedt who plays ukulele and sings songs about Gilligan’s Island and women’s underwear, you might not believe me. It’d be in your own best interests to see for yourself. Jeff Potter will be singing the blues at Nick’s at 9 p.m. sharp, but if you’d rather bang your head, Ralph’s will be the place to be—it’s Metal Thursday don’t you know? Top off the night with a trip to The Raven to catch a great punk show with The Hotel Year, Major League, It’s An Attack, A Face for Radio and Static in the Radio: all five bands for only $8!

Friday February 11 is a whole new night to party, and what better way to kick it off than visiting the Lucky Dog Music Hall a second time? Tonight is a huge hip hop show featuring the likes of Fam Biz, Klep, Chris Cus Walter Weekes, Skivi B and local bboys T.R.U Kru will be pulling out all the stops for your entertainment. Occidental Gypsy will be releasing their new CD and swinging all night long at Nick’s. We crowned Jason James & The Bay State House Rockers the best rockabilly act around from 2006 to 2009, so needless to say you need to make a trip to Holden’s Blue Plate Lounge to see them live.

James’ personal style is straight out of the ’50s: mile-hair hair and leather jackets. “I’m always up for trying the latest hair products,” says James. The Delta Generators, who just put out a new album in November, will be at Beatnik’s.

Many would consider them a blues band, according to their website their sound also draws heavily from Memphis soul, Louisiana funk, and good old classic rock ‘n’ roll. “They know their blues,” said lead singer Craig Rawding when asked why he loves Worcester audiences, “and they always holler and clap for solos—the sign of a true music fan.”

On Saturday February 12 enjoy a taste of Americana with veteran performers Ric Porter & the Sons of Soil over at Vincent’s Bar. Wreckoning is known for its hardcore metal sound and will be playing their final show at Ralph’s tonight. Joining them are Sacreligion, Inaeona, Slitstitch and Suckapunch. If you want to go to the Lucky Dog Music Hall for the third time this weekend— and why wouldn’t you?—you can catch TOOL cover band Schism, along with Chase Heaven and Kanabo. If you haven’t seen Kanabo yet, please do. They’re an acoustic rock/ folk/metal band, and you have to hear them to know just how great of a combination that is. Top the night off by heading to JJ’s Sports Bar & Grill to see Roberta & The Issues. They’ve got a little something for every music-lover with covers of everything from Guns ‘n’ Roses to Katy Perry to Michael Jackson. So it might be a little cold outside, but you’re from Worcester, dammit: you can take it. Get dressed up, because you definitely have somewhere to go.

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8:30-11:30 p.m. Chuck’s Steakhouse, 10 Prospect St., Auburn.

508-832-2553 or chuckssteakhouse.com/auburn.htm.

The Tool tribute band Schism w/ Chase Haven and Kanabo. The BEST Tool tribute band in the North East! SCHISM! $10. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508363-1888 or find them on facebook.

Tuff E Nuff Classic Rock, 80’s Rock, Oldies and More! Free.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cindy’s Sports Bar, 1618 North Main St., Palmer.

413-271-0609 or FindNEWentertainment.com.

Auntie Trainwreck. Stop in to Greendale’s to hear all your favorite Classic Rock, Blues, New Country and Alt Rock favorites from your favorite Auntie. Mikey and Lisa will be behind the bar, ready to serve you your favorite drink as you dance the night away. $5 cover, 21+ $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Bill McCarthy & His Guitar. MySpace.com/ BadClownProductions FREE. 9 p.m.-midnight Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277.

Girl Spot Saturdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Club Gallery, 150 Point St., Providence. 401-751-7166 or myspace.com/girlspotri.

Keri Anderson & The Big Lonesome!. No Cover!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Live bands Every Sat. Night Live bands perform every Saturday night. The area’s hottest spot for the best bands. Blues to Rock. $3 after 9:30pm (subject to change). 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222.

Ragatta. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Beemer’s Pub, 114 River St., Fitchburg.

978-343-3148.

Rhed. $3 after 9:30pm (subject to change). 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222.

Ric Porter & the Sons of the Soil Ric Porter is a local legend already. He has nothing to prove. As a founding member of the legendary Zonkaraz, Ric has a pedigree that is hard to beat.

0. 9-11:59 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439 or facebook.com/vincentsbar.

Seductive Saturdays with DJ Hydro & DJ Savas- Top 40. DJ Hydro & DJ Savas spin your favorite Dance, Mash Ups & Top 40 Tracks. Fusion’s Lounge opens at 9:00 pm and Dance Club opens at 10:30pm. Coat room with attendant available. No Cover Charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100.

Soulstice. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750. the crows hop band. $5 cover charge. 9 p.m.-noon Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

The Big Lonesome. Wine, dine then Snuggle up to the soulful grooves of The Big Lonesome. They will serenade you with the music that originated in the 20’s. Jazz, Blues and little Western Swing is bound to get you in the mood for some lovin. It’s Hip to tip!. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Trantrum Saturdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. BLU Ultralounge & Nightclub, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227 or blu-nightclub.com.

Valentines Day Party with Scarab - Journey Tribute.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. Breakaway Billiards, 104 Sterling St., Clinton. 978365-6105.

Wreckoning!! (last show), Sacreligion, Inaeona, Slitstitch, and Suckapunch!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543.

Roberta & The Issues. Worcester, MA based cover band playing your favorite classic rock/top 40/and funky hits by male and female artists. No Cover. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

The Ed Melikian Ensemble at Sahara!. Get ready for another great night of Middle Eastern music and dancing at the Sahara, featuring the dynamic Ed Melikian Ensemble. No cover/ No minimum. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181 or myspace/edmelikianensemble.

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Josh Briggs. No cover. 4-6 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or wachusett.com.

Traditional Irish Seisiun. Authentic Irish Seisiun held the 2nd & 4th Sunday of every month. 4-8 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700.

Blues Jam w/Jim Perry. Featured artists weekly Donations.

5-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Valentines Day Show w/The Bobby Gadoury Trio featuring Trina Vargas & Dale Lepage 5pm! Then Andy Cummings 9pm to Close!. No Cover!. 5 p.m.-2 a.m.

Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Vincent’s presents: Big Jon Short. Armed with a suitcase kick-drum, National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box hillharp, Big Jon Short’s high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the Blues. bigjonshort.com 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

JOMP Faculty Recital: Elisabeth Gondek Voice Recital. Elisabeth Gondek, accompanied by Olga Rogach, piano, will perform songs by Handel, Mozart, Hahn, Rorem and Rossini.

Suggested Donations: $10; $7 students & seniors. 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Joy of Music Program, Recital Hall, 1 Gorham St. 508-856-9541.

Dale LePage & Trina Vargas with The Bobby Gadoury Trio. Free. 7-9 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or dalearts.com .

John Nickerson. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Cafe Destare, 320 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-5734.

The 3rd Annual Valentines Day “Bum Out” show featuring Danny Dark & The Black Souls, with special guests The Roadkill Orchestra. Danny Dark plays all the classic 70’s AM gold hits. $5. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on facebook.

Dancing with DJ Cisco. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mirabar, 35 Richmond St., Providence. 401-331-6761 or mirabar.com/calendar.htm.

Live At Amsterdam Sunday’s. Musicians and poets welcome! 21+ Hookah and Bar! Free!. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Amsterdam Lounge, 27 Pleasant St. 508-615-1735 or find them on facebook.

Sunday Theme Party 18+. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club Gallery, 150 Point St., Providence. 401-751-7166 or find them on facebook.

Reggae Fusion Sundays with DJ Nick. Worcester’s longest running REGGAE night hosted by DJ Nick and Guest DJ’s spinning the hottest Reggae, Hip Hop and Top 40 every Sunday. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100.

Sabrina Sundays at ENVY. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. ENVY Nightclub, 241 Southbridge St.

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Banjo, Tuba, Clarinet and Sax...bet you can’t sit still! No Cost.

2-3 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community, Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-9007 or briarwoodretirement.com.

In the Tradition, Tuesdays, WCUW 91.3fm, and streaming at wcuw.org. From 5 to 7pm Russ plays good old fashioned old-time music, as fans have come to expect over the past nine years. During the third hour Jeff either features music of younger musicians playing in the old time style, Studio phone (please call only during the program when music is playing) 508-753-2284 WCUW office 508-753-1012 Russ Bellemer russbellemer@wcuw.org Jeff Boudreau - jeffboudreau@wcuw. org Free. 5-8 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508-753-2284 or wcuw.org.

Ill Nino @ The Palladium (upstairs). Anew Revolution / Ekotren / Fashion Bomb Tickets $15. 6-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696.

Earth and Spirit Singers - A Community Chorus (weekly rehearsal). Join the Chorus! Sing for Peace! Sing for Justice! Sing for the Earth! The Worcester Community Chorus

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Open Mic Night w /Bill McCarthy Open Mike!.

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Northboro Area Community Chorus. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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“Totally Tuesdays” Spinnin Rad Tunes in the Diner

every Tuesday Night!. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543.

Big Jon Short. Armed with a suitcase kick-drum, National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box hillharp, Big Jon Short’s high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the Blues. bigjonshort.com no cover. 8-11 p.m. Armsby Abbey, 144 North Main St. 508-795-1012 or armsbyabbey.com.

Scott Riccuiti, Michael Thibodeau & John Donovan.

8-11 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

Terry Brennan. 8 p.m.-midnight Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879 or terrybmusic.com.

American Songbook Singalong w/Bobby Gadoury!. No Cover!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St.

508-753-4030.

Bass Embassy & Rebirth Tuesdays. Every Tuesday Bass Embassy & ReBirth bring you the best Dubstep ,Jungle and Drum & Bass music in Central Mass. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100 or fusionworcester.com.

>Wednesday 16 Open Mic Night hosted by Sax Player Joe Ferreira.

Open Mic hosted by Sax player Joe Ferreira Performances are held in dining room of restaurant with full bar. Dinner is served until 5-9pm. Reservations accepted. After Dark menu, desserts and cocktails until closing. http://harvestcafeonline.com 978-5670948 No Cover, Pass the hat for the host. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Harvest Café, 40 Washington St., Hudson. 978-567-0948.

Open Mic Night at BEATNIK’S with Bill McCarthy!.

Free!. 7:30-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld.

FREE Wednesday night Concert series w/ Hurricanes of Love and The Battleship Cometh!. Free.

8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or luckydogmusic.com.

Opole, Philharmonic of Poland, Boguslaw Dawidow, Music Director, featuring Evgeni Mikhailov, Piano.

The orchestra’s first transcontinental tour of the United States brings this extraordinary program to Worcester with an exciting piano soloist. Free pre-concert Talk at 7PM. $46, $43, students $20/at door $15. WOO Card at door, WGBH, WICN, AAA, etc. call office for discounts/group rates. 8-10:30 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-754-3231 or musicworcester.org.

Vincent’s Presents: Tike Night with Frank & Eric!.

Frank and Eric will help you get over the hump every Wednesday with all of your favorite tropical drinks while soaking in special musical guests and movies. 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

WPI Blues Jam with Liquid Fuel. Come down and warm up next Wednesday at the Goat’s Head Restaurant. The jam will open with a blistering set by the house band, Liquid Fuel: Brian Dagon (WPI Class of ‘95 and Assoc Director of Operations for Wipe’s Corporate and Professional Education), Kathy Marquees (Preservation Librarian at the WPI Gordon Library) and her husband Tom, and Rob Provost (WPI Class of ‘88 and also organizer of the WPI Alumni Jazz Band). After that we’ll rotate in the jammers. Free.

8-11 p.m. The Goat’s Head, Goat’s Head Pub in Founders Hall at WPI, 26 Boynton St. 508-831-5000.

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Monday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Main St., Webster.

508-949-6232 or er3.com/book Clark University: Traina Center for the Arts, Wood Work: Wood as Material and Subject, Monday - Monday. 92 Downing St. clarku.edu College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren Robbins, through March 31. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-7933356 or holycross.edu EcoTarium, Preschool and Toddler Wednesdays, Wednesdays, through Dec. 31. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 adults; $8 for

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7-10 p.m. Fitchburg State University: Wallace Civic Center, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg.

>Saturday 12 Fitchburg State Women’s Basketball vs. Salem State. 1-3 p.m. Fitchburg State University: Athletics and Recreation Center, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg.

Fitchburg State Men’s Basketball vs. Salem State.

3-5 p.m. Fitchburg State University: Athletics and Recreation Center, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg.

WSU Women’s Basketball vs. Bridgewater State. livestats.prestosports.com. Free. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Worcester State University, Gymnasium, 486 Chandler St. 508-929-8730.

WSU Men’s Basketball vs. Bridgewater State. livestats.prestosports.com. Free. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Worcester State University, Gymnasium, 486 Chandler St. 508-929-8730.

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Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape Feb 12th Dom Fig Coleen Galvin and Julie K. Feb 18th Larry Myles Dennis Fogg and Danny Gill. Feb 19th Larry Myles Dennis Fogg and Danny Gill. $20 per person except Special Events. 8 p.m.-noon Biagio’s Grille, Comedy Room, 257 Park Ave. Call 800-401-2221 or visit dickdoherty.com.

Open Mike Comedy - Saturdays. Hosted by a variety of local comedians under the leadership of Andy Paquette. Worcester’s longest running open mic attracts regional talent and newcomers.

100’s of aspiring comedians have bared their wares in front of this supportive and sympathetic crowd. Well known as the breeding grounds for local talent it has produced many known and not to be known comedians. 7-9 p.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. Call 508-754-3516.

The Sexiest Show in Town - Mondays. Come laugh with some of the best comics from the Worcester and New England area. Hosted by Shaun Connolly. Buy a pitcher, get a free pizza!

Every 2nd and 4th Monday! 8-10 p.m. The Center Bar and Grille, 102 Green St. Wisecracks Comedy Club @ Wong Dynasty Every Thursday night. $12. 8-10 p.m. Wong Dynasty, 176 Reservoir St., Holden. Call 508-829-2188 or visit wisecrackscomedyclub.com.

Wisecracks Comedy Club @ Jose Murphy’s Every Saturday night. There’s a full bar and food menu in the showroom! $12 (All Woo card holders and active duty military is 2 for 1). 8-10 p.m. Jose’ Murphy’s, 2nd Floor, 97-103 Water St. Call 508-7920900 or visit wisecrackscomedyclub.com.

Algonkuin Theatre Project presents Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth Through February 12. Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth was adapted for the stage by Richard Schenkman and directed by Marty Blackeagle-Carl. For information call 508-272-0111. $15; $10 for Seniors and Students. 8-10 p.m.

Alternatives’ GB and Lexi Singh Performance Center, 60 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. Call 508-272-0111.

Inherit the Wind - Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, February 4 Saturday, February 19. 8 p.m.-10:30 a.m. Worcester County Light Opera Company, 21 Grandview Ave. Call 508-753-4383 or visit wcloc.org.

Shen Yun Performing Arts - Worcester - Thursday, February 10. Classical Chinese dance, one of the most demanding art forms in the world With over twenty dynasties and fifty ethnic groups to draw upon, Shen Yun Performing Arts portrays an astounding cultural range on stage. shenyunperformingarts.org $150 $130 $110 $80 $60. 7-9:30 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 800-954-4606 or visit shenyunperformingarts.org.

The Drowsy Chaperone February 10 - Sunday, February 13. Treat yourself to a rare opportunity to see this two-time Tony award-winning musical romp. Directed by Justine Cameron ‘11, the play takes place against the background of the glitz and glamour of 1920’s and 30’s Broadway. A lonely theater fan, known

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The Vagina Monologues February 11 - 12. Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues will be performed by WPI students and staff members! Eve Ensler’s famous work is a collection of monologues about, and performed by, women that collectively portray the concept of female individuality and empowerment. This production will be sponsored by the SAVE (Sexual Assault and Violence Education) Committee, and will be performed in support of V-day--a global movement to end violence against women and girls. 5 Dollars. 8-9:30 p.m. WPI: Sanford Riley Hall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Riley Commons, 100 Institute Road.

An Evening with Henry David Thoreau - Saturday, February 12. Richard Smith performs as Henry David Thoreau throughout New England $10. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Friends Meeting House (Quaker), 901 Pleasant St. Call 978-464-5146.

Comedy at the Strand with Steve Bjork - Saturday, February 12. Saturday, Feb. 12 -- Comedy at the Strand, 58 High Street, Clinton. Doors open at 9 p.m. for 9:30 p.m. show. Tickets $15 in advance. strandcomedy.com. $15. 9:30-11 p.m. Strand Theatre Movie House & Grille, 58 High St., Clinton. Call 978-3655500.

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not! - Sunday, February 13.

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We welcome other nonproďŹ t shelters in Central Mass to join our monthly page. Please call June at 508-755-1199 X430 for more information. We are also seeking sponsors for future issues. You do not need to be a pet-related business to sponsor a pet. The more sponsors we get, the more pets we will feature.  If your business would like to sponsor a pet, please call June by March 4 to be in our next ADOPT-A-PAWS on March 10. Together we can make a difference.

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ARCHway Inc. A residential school for students on the autism spectrum is seeking energetic and creative people to fill the following positions: PART TIME RESIDENTIAL INSTRUCTORS Needed to teach activities of daily living and social skills Hours available are: 2nd and 3rd Shifts Mon-Fri 1st 2nd & 3rd Shifts Sat and Sun Starting Pay is $11.75/hour To apply please forward a resume and letter of interest to:

ARCHway, Inc. 77 Mulberry Street Leicester, MA 01524 Fax: 508-892-0259 E-mail: scombs@archwayinc.org TOWN OF MILLBURY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS The Town of Millbury is seeking qualified applicants interested in the position of Director of Public Works. Responsibilities include: oversight and management of the municipalityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roadways, sanitary sewer system, park and recreation facilities, cemeteries, and public facilities grounds keeping and maintenance. The successful candidate shall have a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in civil engineering or other appropriate discipline (licensed professional engineer preferred), and possess a minimum of five years of professional experience in public works management. Starting salary $85,000-$95,000 DOQ, plus an excellent benefits package. Interested candidates shall submit cover letter and resume with three professional references to the Town Manager, Town of Millbury, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, Massachusetts 01527 or by email to bspain@ townofmillbury.net. Position open until filled. EOE employer.

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Clothes rounder, stainless steel and in good condition. $40. 774-239-3099 Dining Rm Set, Pine Table, 6 Chairs China Cabinet $1000 508-829-3596 EDGE fitness Programmable Recumbent Magnetic Cycle in excellent conditon.

Asking $135. 978-728-4460 KIMBALL PIANO and Bench Excellent condition, Tuned yearly $1200 978-5378693.

OLD LIFE MAGAZINES $700. 508-434-0535 Refrigerator Frigidare bone, freezer on bottom, runs great. Kitchen remodel $100 (508) 410-7077.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CLARINET, FLUTE, VIOLIN, TRUMPET, Trombone, Amplifier, Fender Guitar, $69 each. Cello, Upright Bass, Saxophone, French Horn, Drums, $185 ea. Tuba, Baritone Horn, Hammond Organ, Others 4 sale. 1-516377-7907 * LOST & FOUND FOUND CAT Jan 20, orange tiger w/ white bib & white paws. Stoneleigh Rd, Holden. Call 508-853-1654.

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In addition, you must file a written affidavit of objections to the petition, stating specific facts and grounds upon which the objection is based, within (30) days after the return day (or such other time as the court, on motion with notice to the petitioner, may allow) in accordance with Probate Rule 16.

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Town of Sutton Conservation Commission The Sutton Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, at 7:15PM, at the Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA. The purpose of this hearing is to review a Request for Determination of Applicability submitted to the Conservation Commission by Dorothy Sundman, Sutton, MA. The project consists of installation of a septic system, new septic tank and pump chamber on Map 42, Parcel 10, for 124.5 Manchaug Road, in Sutton.

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ADVERTISEMENT The Worcester Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from HVAC Contractors for the Replacement of Boilers and Water Heaters of Housing for the Worcester Housing Authority in Worcester, Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by Reinhardt Associates, Inc..

The Project consists of: Removal and Replacement of Indirect Water heaters and Boilers The work is estimated to cost $ 247,393.

Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A J and to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive and to Davis-Bacon wage rates. Section 1606 of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on projects funded directly by or assisted in whole or in part by and through the Federal Government pursuant to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing rates on projects of a character similar in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 31of title 40, United States Code.

General bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM) in the following category of work – HVAC and must submit a current DCAM Certificate of Eligibility and a signed Update Statement (CQ3).

General Bids will be received until Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 10:00 A.M. and publicly opened, forthwith.

Filed sub-bids for the trades listed below will be received until Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:00 A.M. and opened forthwith.

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All Bids should be delivered to: Worcester Housing Authority, Facilities Management and Planning, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605, Attn: Fred Paris and received no later than the date & time specified above.

General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up at www.biddocsonline. com (may be viewed online and hard copy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc., at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978) 568-1167 on or after Wednesday, February 2, 2011.

There is a plan deposit of $ 50.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to the Awarding Authority. Deposits may be electronically paid or must be a certified or cashier’s check.

This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for subbidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority. Additional sets may be purchased for $ 50.00 Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $ 40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $ 65.00 per set for UPS Overnight), payable to BidDocs ONLINE, Inc., to cover mail handling costs.

General bidders must agree to contract with minority and women-owned businesses as certified by the State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA).

The amount of participation which shall be reserved for such enterprises shall not be less than seventeen (17%) percent of the final contract price, including accepted alternates, of which at least twelve (12%) percent shall be for minority business enterprises and five (5%) percent shall be reserved for women-owned business enterprises.

The buildings will be available for inspection on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 9:00 A.M. starting at 149 Lincoln Street and then to 204 Beacon Street.

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by Susan Rothemich, Sutton, MA. The project consists of construction and renovation of new/existing school and construction of sidewalks, driveways, utilities and appurtenances, on Map 23, Parcels 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, at 383 Boston Road, Sutton MA. This notice is publicized in accordance with the provisions of General Law Chapter 131, Section 40 commonly known as the Wetlands Protection Act, and the Sutton Wetlands and Riverfront District Administration Bylaw.

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main Street Worcester, MA 01608 CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO M.G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 Docket No WO11P0161GD In the matter of: Christopher A Deleon of Worcester, MA Respondent Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by the Dept. of Developmental Services of Shrewsbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Christopher A Deleon is in need of a Guardian and requesting that John R. Odams of Boston, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 02/22/2011. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both.

The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer.

Anyone may make this request on behalf of the abovenamed person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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Give us some background information about yourself. Where are you from, how long have you been in the medical field? What did you specialize in? I grew up in Niagara Falls, NY, attended the State University of NY at Buffalo, majoring in psychology, and then attended Upstate Medical School in Syracuse followed by a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at CaseWestern Reserve in Cleveland. I moved here right out of residency, practiced initially at the Fallon Clinic and then opened a private practice in Shrewsbury. In 1997 I took a one year sabbatical and earned a Masters in Health Policy and Quality Measurement at Dartmouth. In addition to practice, I have been president of the Worcester and Massachusetts Medical Societies, and participated in a number of groups dealing with quality in health care at the local, state and national level. I have been active in studying infant mortality in Worcester for a dozen years where I review every infant death that occurs in the city.

What interests you about being the Public Health Commissioner for Worcester? Shortly after joining the infant mortality task force it became apparent to me that there is much more to health than health care. Many of the issues that drive our health can be addressed with a public health approach. This has the promise of not only being more effective for more people but also being less costly.

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Dr. Leonard Morse has been the Public Health Commissioner for decades. What’s it like taking over the job from someone who’s been so influential in Worcester’s medical and health needs? When I moved to Worcester, he was president of the Worcester District Medical Society and I called him to ask about joining. We have worked closely over my whole career, especially in the past decade where we have addressed infant mortality. We also worked together on the Task Force that was convened by City Manager O’Brien to re-design the Department of Public Health. You don’t replace a man like Leonard Morse, you follow him. But I will do my best to live up to the standards that he has set.

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In addition to what we have listed I have three things that I would like to advance: 1. Improve our information systems to allow more in-depth and timely analysis of the health of Worcester and the day to day functions of our department.

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