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We’ve had the Grapefruit Diet and the Baked Bean Diet. What’s the next dietary craze going to be? The George W. Bush Recession-Induced Diet. — Allison Dincecco Owner, SoHom e Burlington The Canteloupe Diet — three a day. I heard it on the radio, so it must be true! — Rob Ashline Head Chef, Coyotes Cafe Burlington The No Food Diet — just drink your favorite beverage instead. — Ja ckie Rose Owner, The Store Waitsfield
; WEALTHY WILL WIN UNDER BUSH President-elect George W. Bush is a man with a mission — to give tax relief to wealthy friends. During the campaign the justification for such a scheme was that we had big surpluses and it was only “fair.” Now the justi fication is that our economy is head ing toward a recession and big tax cuts for wealthy Americans will spur investments and keep the good times rolling. ; Big tax cuts will keep the good times rolling for the wealthy, but it will likely have detrimental effects on the economy and will mean hard times for everyone else. During the Reagan-Bush administration, supplyside economic policies were imple mented in the hope that giving more money to those who already had it would help everyone else. Remember the phrase, “a rising tide lifts all boats.” It was a nice phrase but it was untrue. Supply-side economics was a disaster and it helped create massive budget deficits. While some econo mists still believe in supply-side eco nomics, others do not. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently commented on the impor tance of eliminating the national debt as the most effective means for main taining economic vitality. We are currently giving billions of dollars to corporations in the hope that these handouts will spur invest
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HISTORY LESSONS Regarding Mr. Zeichner’s letter [Weekly Mail, Dec. 27 & Jan. 3] that this country is moving to fascism under a Bush presidency, I wonder if he has ever picked up a history book? Ironically, his call to move away from “materialism,” “class divisions,” and “access to things,” the things he decries as evils in our society, were not too long ago the battle cries for the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia in 1916, and the most oppressive form of government in the 20th century — communism. Fascism, which Mr. Zeichner imagines as the leanings of the soonto-be Bush administration, calls for the same centralized and authoritative government as communism, but car ries with it a fervent nationalism. Hence, Hitler’s party, the National Socialists. The lessons to be learned from the horrific episodes in the 20th century are easily forgotten when one only has an understanding of history from, say, the 1960s on. If Mr. Zeichner wants to do away with “class divisions,” restrict people’s “access to things,” or encourage an
ideological foundation from which all society shall “move toward love and growth,” he is calling upon the very type of government he casts as evil to administer, regulate and obtain these ends; one that is more centralized and authoritative. The movement from a benevolent government to a police state is a small crossing once social and economic freedoms are removed from the peo ple and vested in the hands of gov ernment for the “greater good.” Moreover, I’m sure no one will dis agree that it is “fascist” republicans who are for less-centralized govern ment, lower taxes and economic free dom. The battle cry of Mr. Zeichner and the liberals is very disturbing, as it appears they are ignorant of the tacit facts the 20th century has so horribly lain before us in its socialist
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Legendary House Speaker Ralph W right (DBennington) isn’t dead yet, but he already has a ghost that walks the halls o f the Statehouse at night and frightens editorial page editors. At least, that’s the haunting feeling one gets reading some o f the editori als in Vermont’s largest daily newspapers lately. O ne m ust either believe in ghosts or completely suspend reality to grasp last Thursday’s editorial in the Rutland Herald. It praised the new Republican Speaker o f the House for dem onstrating bipartisan fairness in assigning House members to committees. Ralph W right, claimed the Herald, abused that power to punish political oppo nents. A big no-no. In the Herald’s foggy view, W alter Freed took the high road. Horse feathers! T he Rutland daily backed up its claim that W alt the S a lt ain’t no Ralph W right by citing several examples. They reveal the editorial writer knows remarkably little about Statehouse reality. For example, the January 11 edit, “N am ing Names,” stated “T he appointm ent o f P e g Flory as chairman o f Judiciary showed that Freed did not w ant to become bogged down in debate on civil unions.” Really? N ot a word about the fact that Freed tossed out Judiciary Chairm an Tom Little (RShelburne), who courageously did the right thing last year on civil unions. Now Little’s on Ways and BY P ETE Means, stripped o f a coveted chairmanship, punished for doing the right thing and standing up for the Vermont Constitution. Fair enough? T he Herald conceded that “Some members ended up in odd places. C a rin a D risco ll, a Burlington Progressive and daughter o f the wife of Rep. Bernard S a n d e rs, was consigned to Fish, -W ildlife, and W ater Resources, as was N an cy Sheltra, who was kept away from the committees where her strident conservativism would have more effect.” More horse feathers. Nancy “G im m e” Sheltra has served for the past four years as vice-chair of the Wet and W ild Com m ittee. It’s where she wants to be. It’s the com m ittee assignment she requested. For Rep. Driscoll, on the other hand, W et and W ild was not one o f her three requests. N or was it on the wish list o f Burlington Rep. M ark Larson. Rep. Larson is the only freshman who got to the Golden D om e by defeating an incum bent, Jim M cN am ara, who voted against civil unions. And the Herald totally ignored the mathematical fact that, o f the 14 com m ittee chairmanships, Freed the Fair gave just two to Democrats. T h at’s right, two. Last year under Dem ocrat Speaker M ich a el ObllChOWSki, Republicans had three chairmanships. Go figure. Apparently, in the eye o f the powers that be at * Vermont s second largest daily, rookie Speaker Walt Freed automatically qualifies as fair and bipartisan solely because his nam e is not Ralph Wright.
scarier he gets. A nd Newsweek reports our moderate maverick, Jim Jeffords, was a big Ashcroft booster early on. W here’S H o-Ho? — So far in the new millennium, Gov. Howard Dean has continued his long-standing
tradition o f delivering easily forgettable Statehouse speeches. Code word: boring. But aside from merely being forgettable, Dean’s addresses this year to the General Assembly have made a few people wonder if his attention remains on the high-profile job he’s held since 1991. In his Inaugural, H o-H o drew criticism for whip ping up yet another blue-ribbon commission to tack le health care. And in his budget address last week, he left all of his gold town supporters high and dry when it came to Act 60. O ne of Dr. Dean’s strengths is his determined effort to appease as many segments of Vermont society as humanly possible. T hroughout Campaign 2000, H o-H o repeatedly expressed his personal desire to eliminate the dreaded “Shark Pool,” aka the “Sharing Pool.” It’s the mechanism that levels the playing field and makes Act 60 truly fair. But it pisses off Vermont’s beloved gold-towners who lose sleep at night over the fact that their property taxes help Vermont kids in less fortu nate communities. As H o-H o’s royal spokes woman explained Tuesday, her boss sees the Sharing Pool as the “fatal flaw” in Act 60. It may R F R E Y N E “make perfect sense on paper,” said S u sa n A llen , “but a big chunk of people don’t understand it.” Won’t understand it, is more like it. Preelection, H o-H o told gold-towners on the campaign trail he wanted to eliminate the terrible Shark Pool. H e told them over and over he was working on a way to do just that. Guess what? Post-election, Howard Dean not only doesn’t have a plan to drain the water out o f the pool, it doesn’t look like he ever will. Instead, Dean has played Pontius P ilate to perfection and washed his hands o f the matter. Instead, H o-H o handed it off to Speaker Walt Freed. You guys fix it! And to that end, Walt the Salt stacked the Ways and Means Com m ittee with Republican gold-town ers determined to find the elusive “Northwest Passage” that will allow the good folks in Stowe and Manchester to share less and spend more. G ood luck, gang! At this point, Howard Dean has “lame duck” w ritten all over him. This August will mark his 10th anniversary as Governor o f Vermont. Frankly, he appears bored. Press Secretary Allen told us what one would expect a press secretary to tell us. She insisted her boss, our governor, is “fully engaged.” She noted H o-H o was at the hospital in Bennington Tuesday “talking universal health care.” At least it’s not a subject Dr. Dean is “uncom fortable” with.
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As the show opened, Sen. H atch formally pre sented Sen. Leahy w ith the gavel. A rather skinny little gavel at that. “This gavel,” noted St. Patrick for the live national audience, “was made by my son Kevin when he was in seventh grade. It just shows you how long it’s been since I’ve been chairman o f any thing.” T he Republicans have held the senate majority since 1994. And A ttorney K evin Lea h y turns 37 this very day. H appy birthday! P.S. T he more we hear about Ashcroft’s past, the
Sm o ke But No Fire — It was the hot ticket at the Statehouse Friday afternoon. Jeff Am estoy, Chief Justice o f the Vermont Supreme C ourt, appeared before the House Judiciary Com mittee. T h at’s the same Jeff Amestoy who authored the Baker Decision, the landmark, unanimous, constitutional ruling that extended marriage rights to gay and les bian couples. T he white-haired, soft-spoken Amestoy casually slipped into the room w ithout fanfare and took the witness seat he has sat in so many, many times before during his reign as attorney general. This is the man whose name will be forever attached to one o f the great legal rulings on America’s freedom trail. This is the chief justice whose brilliant words about “our com m on hum anity” will be highlighted in the history books o f the future. But this was a very different Judiciary C om m ittee than last year’s. T he new chairman, Peg Flory (R-Brandon), voted against civil unions. And
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Jumbo Feat A team of Taiwanese men, ages 35 to 77, announced plans to visit the United States in March and drag a Boeipg 747 with their penises, according to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald. Last year, three of the men astonished a crowd in Taipei by pulling a truck loaded with 100 men for 10 feet. “We will send about 20 men to pull the 400-seat Boeing 747,” Tu Chin-seng, who teaches “penis hanging art,” said. “We hope to set a world record.”
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a pursesnatching in Singapore arrested Ong Hsia Shi, 26, after he bought two mobile phones with one of the victim’s credit cards, then returned to the store to complain he had been over charged. By then, the shopkeep er had been alerted to the card theft and called police.
The Honeymoon Is Over John Turner was granted a divorce in Middlesborough, England, after complaining he had finally had enough of his wife rearranging the furniture every single day of the 38 years they were married. The couple, both 62, even swapped their house for a mobile home in the hope it would end her behavior. “Moving furniture about was
just something I did and I always will do,” Pauline Turner told a divorce court. “I suppose everybody has their little obses sion.”
Mensa Reject of the Week A man decided the best way to thaw a frozen water pipe was to warm the pipe by starting a fire next to his house in Alexandria, Virginia, but he built the fire too close to the house, fire officials said. Flames spread under the exterior siding to the interior of the home, causing an esti mated $200,000 in dam age.
people say I can’t do something because I’m blind,” McWilliams said, warning anyone thinking of attacking him, “If you choose this blind victim, you might end up dead.” • Ricky Kees, 37, an apartment manager in Memphis, Tennes see, pleaded guilty to using a .22-caliber revolver to silence a tenant’s electric alarm clock. The tenant, Don Ward, told police Kees used a passkey to enter his apartment, then
ed him and charged him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. • A 30-year-old woman rented a .40-caliber handgun at a gun range in Bellevue, Washington, but told workers the recoil from the weapon was too much and traded it for a 9mm handgun. She returned to her booth, where a surveillance video showed her deliberately and fatally shooting herself in the head. The incident occurred
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five days after George Frey, 49, a regular at the same range, rented a 9mm handgun, prac ticed awhile, then took the weapon to the restroom and fatally shot himself. • The state of North Dakota issued a permit to carry a con cealed weapon to Carey McWilliams, 27, who is blind. Pat Healey, a Cass County sher iff’s deputy who administers permit tests, said McWilliams passed the necessary back ground check and written and shooting exams, hitting the black silhouette target nine out of 10 times on the first try and the required 10 of 10 on the re shoot. “I get ticked off when
Solar Power After Israel ended its 22year occupation of south Lebanon last May, hundreds of Lebanese demonstrators began routinely hurling rocks and insults at soldiers on the other side of the border. This winter they discovered a new weapon and now use mirrors to reflect sunlight into the troops’ eyes
and into the lenses of Israeli surveillance cameras. One of the demonstrators near the Lebanese town of Marjayoun told Reuters news agency, “This is our weapon for the 21st cen tury.”
Devil’s Food The Rev. Massimo Salani, 41, a Roman Catholic priest in Pisa, Italy, condemned fast food as “the fruit of a Protestant cul ture,” insisting it “reflects the individualistic relation between man and God introduced by Luther.” Salani, the author of A t Table with the Religions, about the dietary habits of the world’s principal religions, said fast food lacks the community aspect of sharing and complete ly forgets the sacred nature of food.
Shocking Sight A man who was electrocut ed while trying to steal power cables in eastern Kazakhstan was wrapped in a cloth shroud according to Muslim tradition and buried in a shallow grave. Two days later, the man appeared at his own funeral feast, the daily newspaper Express K reported. He explained he regained con sciousness but admitted having difficulty flagging down a vehi cle to take him home. ®
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picked for the “Skins” team. A main reason for attending art school was the absence of gym requirements. Thank God Almighty, I few months ago, for the first time in was free at last! my life, I voluntarily entered a gym. Until I began noticing that just about This might not have been a major event if a large chunk of my youth hadn’teveryone else was not only going to a “health club” but planning their existences been spent dreading anything remotely around it. Invite Ph.D. nerds for dinner associated with physical education. My adult plan was to avoid all places and activ nowadays and the evening centers less on ities which might, even inadvertently, recall weighty philosophical discourse than on who’s pumping weights and how much. the humiliation of being the last one
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in the last few years the mirror has gradual ly informed me of bodily changes since my art school days. The cubist slide was under way. It was only a matter of time before my waist landed down around my ankles. Then, too, the reported health benefits of working out began to appeal — a con sideration when middle age is no longer a distant concept. Adding to the pressure was the fact that — as partner to a college p ro f— I have access to state-of-the-art gym facilities for free. No excuses about hefty membership fees! The price would come, I suspected, in being surrounded by bodies that had yet to experience the effects of gravity. Finally, casting reservations and excuses aside, I bit the bullet and sacrificed my gym virginity. Hoping to sidestep utter embarrass ment, my partner and I enlisted the expert ise of a friend recently transplanted from the California Bay Area, where working out falls somewhere above breathing on the list of life necessities. He showed us around the vast, gleaming interior of the gym, patiently explaining the virtues of each machine and demonstrating its proper usage. At the end of the session, we were exhausted. W hat would happen once we actually began using the machines ourselves? The next session began — per our friend’s instructions — with an aerobic workout on the Elliptical Cross Trainer. Not wanting to overdo, we adjusted the timer from its 30-minute default setting down to 15 minutes and attempted to appear as if we were born to elliptically cross train. Next to me were young waif-like women, bobbing up and down on StairMasters as if they could do this for hours without a hint of fatigue. As it turns
out, they can. Behind us, treadmilling young men increased their speeds until they became pure motion blurs, then slowed to shake off sweat like retrievers after a swim. I imagined janitorial herds racing in to mop testosterone up off the floor. Somewhat shy of 15 minutes, our legs feeling like overcooked asparagus, we
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I crawled over to the Vertical Chest, hopinj horizontal on a sofa with a cool compress. stumbled from our Cross Trainers. On to the weights! So many machines to choose from — which to try first? Since my pecs are what you might call nonexistent, I decided to start with a machine designed to develop them. Cautiously, I draped myself over the Pec Fly, thinking this muscle group was nowhere near ready to take wing but could perhaps be encouraged to flutter. Faced with the dilemma of where to set the weight pin, I examined the choices: I could set it way up at the featherweight top and look like a wimp, or I could set it down a few notches and look like a wimp patheti cally trying to look macho. I swallowed my pride, claiming my wimpiness. So what if I was lifting the equivalent of a Matchbox car while brawny-bod next door was lifting the WANT A NEW LOOK?
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Nearby, my partner looked like he was imi tating a dishrag. I began to recall what people had told me about feeling so good and energized after their workouts. Lies! But since my maiden voyage, so to speak, I have to concede that progress has been made. While I don’t exactly look for ward to my workout routine, once I’m in the midst of it I feel, well, almost good. The fact that its become a routine is the important part. Away from easily accessible facilities over the holidays, I experienced my first pangs of gym guilt. Mind and body grew sluggish. I imagined trufflefilled saddlebags forming around my waist. It was a relief to return to the gym last week, and that means — gasp! — I must be one of the converted. Still, there are limits. My relationship with the Preacher Curl was as unsuccessful
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I rarely The reason I’ve turned the tape recorder on, and why my shouts and gestures are drawing stares from other drivers and livestock, is because I am stuck behind a carload of snowboarders who are as baked as can be. They are barely hit ting 40, and keep weaving slowly back and forth, making it impossible to pass. God, hurry up, people. I am really about to blow. I know a fair number of people who smoke pot — I haven’t in years, I want to point out right now — and in recent conversations with some of them, they rambled on for what seemed like hours, at an unbelievably slow pace and without hearing the two words I tried to get in edgewise. This has led me to address today — since I’ve obviously got some time and these guys up ahead just reminded me — an issue that par ents and pizza delivery guys everywhere should be concerned about. That issue is denial. iS .,1 really don’t care in the least If people want to burn one once in a while. As far as we know, especially from what the people at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws tell us between bong hits, dope is not only safe, but it can cure most cancers, restore perfect vision to people with glaucoma, and clear up gonorrhea within weeks — as long as it is pre scribed in concert with penicillin. But that makes the point for me that pot is a drug, for chrissake. It’s high time these people call it what it is. There is a fascinating tendency among right smoke cigarettes anymore, either, except when eous four-twentysomethings to prattle on end I’m drinking beer, which is no more than five or lessly about the person who’s had a few drinks and climbs behind the wheel. This is indeed dan six days a week. So it’s not the pothead’s bigotry against tobacco that gets me so much as the dou gerous and wrong, I’m not disputing that. The ble standard. A remarkable number of my toking beer in my back seat is for when I get home, acquaintances strongly believes that smoking cig honest. But all that pontificating would seem a arettes is a filthier habit than heroin or violent lot less hypocritical if they didn’t do it while pornography. And, I swear to God, they’ll tell searching blindly for the lighter on the floor of you that smoking marijuana is much easier on their car as it slowly crosses the shoulder toward your lungs because you don’t smoke as much of the Lamoille River. Good thing the car’s been it, and because of all the clinical research report signaling left since they entered the highway at ed in High Times that just proves it. 10 miles an hour about 15 miles back. I’ve tried to point out that the lack of any There is a difference, of course, I’ll concede: sort of filter,'and the practice of inhaling as The consequences o f a smoking accident tend to much smoke as possible and holding it until, be considerably less severe than the average their extremities change color, cannot be consid drunk-driving collision. Smokers’ speed rarely ered a healthy thing. And that none of the exceeds 30 or 35 miles an hour in a 65-mile-perresearch addresses the deaths and injuries caused hour zone. Thus, if they bump into another from choking on muffins because of the cottonsmoker — not unusual in these parts — they generally don’t even bother to exchange insurance mouth. They just stare at me, blinking, trying desperately to open their eyes a little wider and information. Not only is it unnecessary, but the get a little moisture flowing in them. insurance card tends to be kept all the way over “But it’s natural, man,” they’ll offer. 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uspended 60 feet above the ground, I kick the sharp frontpoint of my crampon and swing the toothy pick of my ice axe into a frozen waterfall. My arms shake with exhaustion, my biceps screaming from months of neglect. A dis comforting millimeter of metal keeps me in place. The blood has drained from my hands, which I’ve been vigorously swinging overhead since my feet left solid ground. My fingers don’t hurt anymore because I can’t feel them, though I know the searing pain that will come when they begin to warm up — like my fin gernails are being pulled off by a pliers. This will counter-balance my exhausted exhilaration in reaching the top. No pain, no gain, indeed. At the end of each pitch, I find myself sweat-drenched and steaming through my layers. For sheer physical exertion, ice climbing makes Nautilus look like R&R. The upper-body workout rivals any other winter sport, and, as a calorie burner, there’s, nothing like it. If the hike to the climb isn’t enough exer cise, the shivering while you belay your partner burns fat faster than a StairMaster. While it may not sound like fun to most people, ice climbing is growing faster than, well, an icicle in January. It appears that the indoor wall-climbing craze has inspired record numbers of vertical junkies to venture out onto real rock, and for many,
.?•! tins i.A? j'K.q? isrT w climbing is not just a fair-weath er pursuit. I’ve become one of those junkies. My first ice climbs last winter weren’t pretty — I was frequently twisted into gymnastic contortions and left flailing. But with a season of strength- and technique-building under my harness, I’m starting to get the “swing” of things. Mountaineering is the forefa ther of vertical ice: When early climbers would reach a low-slop ing, icy section en route, they would spend hours hacking steps into the ice with an extra-long, wood-handled mountaineering axe and slowly walk their way to the summit. Now, thanks to technological advances, what was once consid ered the crux of a climb may only be the approach. Presentday ice climbers can challenge themselves on vertical and over hanging ice, and mixed rockand-ice climbs. They ascend with contoured carbon-fiber tools in their hands and rigid, vertical frontpoint crampons locked on their boots. The newly refined ice axes give modern climbers much more security on ice, wh'He curved shafts help them hook protruding formations and swing over bulges. Crampon points have become ice tools for the toes, and the boots keep your feet almost warm enough to compensate for your freezing hands. A read through the annals of ice climbing history would elicit a chuckle from any modern climber. The first recorded ice
climb in the East was in 1894, when three gentlemen attempted ■ the Tuckerman Ravine headwall. They didn’t make it, but had bet ter luck the next year when they brought along an ice axe. In 1928, after a party ascend ed another icy gully in New Hampshire’s Huntington Ravine, the journal Appalachia confident ly proclaimed ice climbing was at its pinnacle, and “nothing was left to be done,” ice-wise, on Mt. Washington. Their crystal ball must have cracked when climbers — inspired by the ascent — picked their way up glassy east ern cliffs with renewed ambition and success. The vertical challenge is a climber’s addiction, but the sheer irony of ice climbing is also com pelling. Ice climbing is unnatu ral. People should not be able to claw their way up fragile, tempo ral curtains of frozen water. When I reach a particularly thin, steep pitch with little for the tools to bite into, I question my own sanity. Ice is unpredictable and ever-changing. Some ascents have never been repeated because the ice never “came in” a second time: > >.>^ * *'-* Glimmering and glinting, ice has a thousand different textures and formations. In the morning it can be brittle and nearly bul letproof, fracturing and sliding off in chunks or sheets with every swing of the tool. On the same route in the afternoon, a climber might gracefully sink his tools into ice that is deep blue and for giving. I “second” when I climb,
leaving the leading to my part ner. Held tightly on belay, sec- ~ onds can challenge themselves on steep ice without worrying about a big fall if the tools pop off. If the lead climber falls, he’ll go twice as far as the last screw he placed for protection — if he placed it well. Thirty years ago, the same fall might have taken ">• him all the way to the ground. ; Only recently have ice screws become worth their metal — one more reason novice climbers like myself can ascend icy buttresses that once might have been lethal.
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Because o f the advances in eq u ip m ent, ice clim bing is safer th an ever — and m any say it’s easier th an rock clim bing. Physically, if you can do a couple o f pull-ups, you can ice clim b. However, if you get cold feet, or if you’re afraid o f falling — espe cially w ith a m in im u m o f 29 knife-like points strapped to your feet and hands — it’s not for you.
The price tag for ice climbing can be prohibitive, too — though for some the gear is part of the draw. The sport is equip ment-intensive, and the manda tory ice tools, boots and cram pons will run you about $750. If you need to add a harness, rope and belay device, round that cost up to a grand. Ice screws and other accoutrements are addi tional. Some climbers postulate that a few less-than-ideal skiing years have turned more people onto Northeastern ice. It is, after all, a winter sport that can be tackled when the mercury has plunged and the ground is bare, or under sunny skies, even in rain and snow. W hat could be better in Vermont? Climbers can smirk at the freeze-thaw cycles that skiers and boarders dread. And speaking of smirking, ice climbers are notorious for a cer tain black humor — the kind that often accompanies deathdefying behavior. It is traditional that whoever makes the first ascent of a route gets to name it, and these names are often good for laughs. In Smugglers’ Notch, climbs have been baptized “The Origin of Intelligence in Children” and “Terror-tory.” Lake Willoughby is home to “W ho’s Who in Outer Space,” “Float like a Butterfly, Land like a Tomato” and “Twenty Below Zero Gully.” Humor may be as important in ice climbing as a good axe — it counterbalances the knowledge that gear sometimes fails, climbers sometimes misjudge their own capabilities, and ice sometimes behaves differently than anticipated. On the other hand, ice climbing has many pleasures — the thrill of the ver tical, the adrenaline of pushing yourself to your limits, the cama raderie with your partner. And nothing touches the exhilaration of reaching an icy pinnacle, even if you’re quivering with fatigue, cold and maybe a few muscle cramps. For this climber, howev er, the best part is recounting my adventures afterwards — with warm hands — from the com fort of home. ®
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B y Lynda Majarian assage lovers are open to manipu lation. Generally willing to give anything a try, I’ve experienced Shiatsu, Swedish, trigger-point, Reiki and chair massage. I’ve had acupressure in Burlington, deep tissue massage in Tucson and reflexology in Beijing. And my boyfriend rubs my back before I ask. So it was with a savvy spine that I trekked to Stephen and Burns Salon and Spa in Burlington for the newest therapy in their feel-good arsenal —Hydrotherm. Developed by a massage therapist in England, Hydrotherm treatment has been licensed exclusively to Aveda “concept salons” for the next three years — which means you can give it a go at Stephen and Burns in Burlington or Williston. Which is exactly what I did on a gray, foreboding day last week when the tem perature hovered around a frigid 15 degrees. As I crabbily negotiated the slushy sidewalks the City of Burlington deems unnecessary to clear, my body stiffened against the cold. All I knew about Hydrotherm was that it involved a water mattress. “It’s like getting a massage on a really warm waterbed,” Spa Director Dorothy Stone had explained over the phone. I’ve never liked waterbeds, but the word “warm” in her description overruled my reservations. At the moment, the prospect of regaining feeling in my
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After a minute, I was ready to put to rest all my negative experiences on waterbeds during the ’80s — those nights spent flopping around like a dying fish and being sloshed out of sleep when the other person moved. I began to wonder if that English masseur might be willing to fash ion a similar contraption to fit my bed. My reverie was interrupted by Stones
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resTal^HnT^egativ^ Although a counter laden with perfumed lotions and oils beckoned from the far wall, I promptly stripped and arranged myself on the table. The mattress beneath me felt squish’ and exquisitely warm. I got my knees into a comfortable position over the bolster that propped the mattress about two-thirds of the way down, and draped the towel over my body. Soft, New Age music wafted in the air. A scented candle flickered.
return. She checked my position on the mattress, slid a cushion under my head and began rubbing fragrant oil between her palms. “I should warn you that it’s going to get a bit slippery,” she said. Briefly, I felt like I was in a porn film. “You’ll find yourself sliding around on the mattress,” she explained, “but I promise you won’t fall off.” “That would really break the mood,” I offered, and closed my eyes.
She began with my legs, easily slipping her fingers under the mattress to knead tight hamstring muscles and my frozen feet. Meanwhile, my back was luxuriously melting under its heated cushion. By the time she reached my neck and shoulders — which usually take several minutes of deep massage to uncoil — the muscles were already unraveling. I gave myself over to the experience, allowing Stone to move my limbs and manipulate my muscles, imagining the blood and lymph circulating in healthful ways, bolstering my immune system. I didn’t know where the now-greasy mat tress ended and I began. Breathing deeply, I let go of thoughts concerning the boring tasks awaiting me that afternoon. The dull headache that seems to be my constant companion this winter began to ebb. But I was getting a bit scorched on that mattress. Stone’s hands, which had been warm at first, now felt refreshingly cool against my skin. Was I supposed to toast like a Pop-tart? I wondered. Maybe the goal was, as in Ashtanga yoga, to let heat flush toxins from the body. Just go with it, I told myself, dreaming of a tall glass of iced tea. All too soon, my hour was up. “When you get up, do it slowly,” Stone suggested gently, and unnecessarily, as she laid out slippers and a fleecy robe. Gradually, I coaxed myself to rise, shower and dress. Once I had kicked my brain back into thinking mode, Stone and I sat
in chairs near the pleasure dungeon’s foun tain to chat. A practitioner of Esalen massage, Jin Shin Do acupressure, Reiki and stone therapy, she views Hydrotherm as another way to accommodate each client’s particu lar needs. “It’s important to fit the therapy to the person,” she vowed, explaining that Hydrotherm eliminates some of the prob lems associated with other types of mas sage. It is ideal for clients who have trou ble lying on their stomachs, for instance, or who find a face rest uncomfortable. “Because heat aids in the process of loosening and soothing muscles,” Stone said, “Hydrotherm is great for people with arthritis, fibromyalgia or joint pain.” However, like other thermal therapies, she noted that Hydrotherm is not recom mended for pregnant women or people with high blood pressure, diabetes or heart conditions. The rest of us can get Hydrothermed whenever we have an hour and $65 to spare. The caveat is that one’s spa treatment may not stop with a massage. Relaxed patrons may be tempted to keep the bliss buzz going with a new coif, a cosmetics makeover or armloads of Aveda products. Not that this is a bad thing. In my case, I was able to face the cold only after invest ing in rosemary mint shampoo and condi tioner, two travel candles, moisturizer samples and a bottle of very hot, vampy red nail polish. ®
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liberty, an independent, non-partisan judiciary the separation of pgwerg and states’ rights for the most part to manage their own political processes, the Rehnquist faction swooped from its heretofore Olympian and suppos edly non-political heights to declare Bush the next leader of the American Republic and the American Empire. Now, in the morning of the coup, citizens confront the men who pur sued power at the cost of democracy and who will use that power to enforce their political agenda even though that agenda and the men who put it forth are not the programs or the leaders to which Americans have given their agreement. If the selection of Ashcroft as Attorney General becomes a fa it accompli, we may have in the chief law enforcement officer a religious fundamentalist with an agenda to overturn Roe v. Wade and the rights of women. In Ashcroft, we may have a sympathizer to the Confederacy and its heroes with a willingness to ignore the civil rights of African-Americans and other minorities; and in the next Attorney General we may have a pro-business supporter who will ignore the rights of labor. We will now also have to confront the harshest truth: that the govern ment which rules us does so in viola tion of the most fundamental princi ple of a republic — that a free gov ernment can only exist with the freely given and known consent of the gov erned. — Sandy Baird Burlington ODE TO THE SIX-PACK We’ve heard of the “Blue-Dog” Democrats. Now it’s the “Republican Six-Pack,” five new representatives
from Orleans County, joining veteran Rep. Nancy Sheltra, who represents Derby and God, in the Legislature. They are Duncan Kilmartin, John Hall, Loren Shaw, David Bolduc and Kevin Goodrich; With no apologies to Mrs. Sheltra, her God or her new col leagues, I offer this meager poem. God Bless the Six-Pack Here’s to the Six-Pack, Kilmartin among ‘em, He’d impeach the high court Or better, he’d shun ‘em. Here’s to the Six-Pack. God called me, says Hall. Ain’t brains that I offer, He wants me, that’s all. Here’s to the Six-Pack. Don’t let workers take, That big minimum pay. Says Shaw: Let ‘em eat cake. Here’s to the Six-Pack. Logger Goodrich says “freeze!” It’s unconstitutional to stop us From cutting our trees. Here’s to the Six-Pack And Nancy who’s Right It’s her way or nothing And for this she’ll fight. So, here’s to the Six-Pack, Each taking their seat To do God’s handiwork. Oh, Man, ain’t that neat? — Ted Tedford Underhill Center DEREGULATION MYTHS Forget about the Bush/Gore fias
year the House is dominated by profco! Democracy has been bush its-before-people Republicans who whacked by a shamelessly partisan would force deregulation down our | Supreme Court and that’s the end of throats putting Vermonters at the that. About the same time, a more \ mercy of the uncontrolled profiteer significant event occurred with poten tially far greater impact on the lives o f ing of the marketplace as we have seen with pharmaceuticals. hard-working Vermonters — the \„ C — Al Salzman electric rate debacle in California, Fairfield y What happened since the deregu I lation of private, for-profit utilities is VERMONT YANKEE HOT nothing less than the explosion of the STUFF myths concerning the benefits of pri Tim Newcomb’s recent cartoon vatization and deregulation. about the Vermont Yankee nuclear Myth No. 1: Deregulation means plant unfairly put down the plant more competition and hence lower staff and the plant itself. Quite con rates. trary to Tim’s view, Vermont Yankee Myth No. 2: Private ownership of has attracted the interest of several utilities brings more efficient manage potential buyers because it has a tal ment. ented crew that has taken very good Myth No. 3: The so-called free care of the plant. market will benefit the little guy. — Rob Williams California put its faith in deregu Vermont Yankee lation and is now suffering the conse Vernon quences of quadrupled electric rates, brownouts and possible rolling black LIVE FREE O R ... ? outs. John E. Bryson, CEO of Edson Why is Vermont better than International, and one of the Texas? Both the respondents to the strongest advocates of deregulation, weekly “Question” and the smarmy now declares that “deregulation is a George Thabault missed the real failed policy.” But, astonishingly, as answer by a country mile [“Taking on the private sector founders, the 30 or Texas,” Jan. 10]: Because it’s closer to so taxpayer-owned utilities, including New Hampshire! Los Angeles, are thriving... — Pascal Spengemann Luckily, here in Vermont, last Burlington year’s Legislature, led by Speaker Obuchowski, didn’t fall for the myths Le tte rs P o lic y : S E V E N DAYS and held off on deregulation despite wants your rants and raves, in 250 Governor Dean’s knee-jerk conserva words or less. Letters are only tive support based on his misplaced accepted that respond to content faith in free-market forces. To his in S E V E N D A Y S . Include your full credit, Dean has publicly admitted his error, although it has tarnished his name and a daytime phone number image as the “bright boy” of Vermont and send to: S E V E N D A Y S , politics. (Perhaps he’ll soon admit he P .0 . Box 1 1 6 4 , Burlington, VT is wrong in opposing single-payer 0 5 4 0 2 - 1 1 6 4 . fax: 8 6 5 -1 0 1 5 health care.) e-mail: sevenday@together.net We were lucky last year, but this
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So what is the halimeter reading? Sulfuric gases in parts per billion. Volatile sulfur com pounds are produced in the human m outh as a result of the deterioration of proteins. When the amino acids from proteins break down, gases are released; the two most com mon bad breath gases are hydrogen sulfide — the “rotten egg” smell — and methyl mer captan. But it’s not as if you just have free-form gas molecules floating around in your mouth; there’s also a collection of gunk on the back of the tongue — accumulated bacterial plaques and food that coats the tongue where your toothbrush can’t reach. Well, it could, but it would make you gag. Lavine likens the tongue to a shag car pet that collects all sorts of stuff, and some people’s carpets are simply thicker than others. “It’s genetic — one more thing we can blame on our parents,” he quips. T h at’s where the tongue scraper comes in. Thanks to the capitalist marketplace, these scrapers come in a variety of materials and styles, but the one Lavine offers is a simple
tongue and gently pulled for ward. Generally the first few such swipes will scoop little globs of a milky liquid from the tongue. The idea is to repeat the motion until the liq uid looks like just spit. It’s not possible to mechan ically remove all this plaque, though. So the other part of the treatm ent is to brush the teeth well — for two to three minutes, not the 20 seconds most of us give it — floss, and swish around the m outh for another m inute or so a rinse containing chlorine dioxide. Oxyfresh or Retardex are two examples — Lavine doesn’t push any single brand. But he does caution that the majority of commercial toothpastes and m outh rinses only masks odor temporarily, and some can exacerbate the problem in the long run. “Products that make things worse are any product with alcohol,” he says. Listerine and the like dry out the m outh and simply change from one odor to another — so read the labels. Reducing the flow o f saliva — which can also 'result from drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking, among other
things — causes the tissues in the m outh to secrete plasma proteins that worsen bad breath over a period of time, according to the American Breath Specialists Web site (www. breath-care.com). It helps to stay hydrated by drinking a lot of water every day. And, contrary to popular myth, odors from the stomach do not cause halitosis; the vast majority o f bad breath condi tions originate in the mouth — never mind garlic breath, which is powerful but tem po rary, and at least keeps away vampires. Following Lavine’s recom m ended treatm ent twice a day is generally the answer to even the most horrific breath disor ders. In some cases he also rec ommends an electric tooth brush or a W aterpik. W here m outh odor is a result of den tal or other medical problems, such as a sinus infection, he refers patients to the appropri ate practitioner. “Ninety-five percent of patients we’ve treat ed, we’ve treated successfully,” he says. N ot surprisingly, Lavine’s approval rating is high — “practically every person comes back happy,” he says. “It’s a great satisfaction for me personally, and it’s always sur prising to people how little it takes.” Breath treatm ent is so sim ple, in fact, you’ve got to w on der why everyone doesn’t do it. Lavine attributes that to lack of inform ation. And, he notes, it’s challenging for many people to change their habits. The good news is, even beastie breath isn’t as bad as “olfactory refer ence syndrom e.” Patients who suffer from it believe they smell when they don’t. It’s part of larger syndrome, Lavine explains, called monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psy chosis, in which the sufferer is convinced the source o f his or her odor is intrinsic. Now, that would really stink. ®
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A certain toughness has crept into the headlines. Spotted recently: “So Why Not a Little Class Warfare?” “Readying for Terrorism?” and “Fun Comes at a Price.” And too much fun can be hard on the neurons: Post-holiday language disorders bring us: “When Doctors Doctor Doctors” and “Postcard Meeting to Focus on Spavin Cure.” — Black River Tribune, January 10, Morrisville News & Citizen, January 11, Deerfield Valley News, January 4, Manchester Journal, January 5, County Courier, January 4
The Crystal Ball The Long Way Home Two men left a Stockbridge party to walk home to Bethel and stopped to warm up in an empty cabin along the way. There, they lit a fire in an old toilet, which set the F o l k ^ cabin ablaze. Continuing on, they broke into a garage and appropriated a 1989 Bronco, which they drove about a mile down the road before crashing into a utility pole, knock ing out the power to about 200 homes. When police arrived at the crash scene there was nobody there; dogs were used to trace the two to their apartment, which was also empty. Theyd kept moving, but one of the men was quick ly apprehended, and the second turned himself in the next day. The perps concede they should face charges of felony burglary, unlawful trespass, opera tion without consent and negligent operation, but insist the conflagration at the cabin was “an acci dent.” — The Herald o f Randolph, December 28
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A Vermont IQ quiz, designed to gauge our local savvy, asks what is the most recent solution to the heavy truck traffic plaguing downtown Woodstock. The choices are a) the Rockefeller family has offered to bury the entire downtown; b) a new highway through small towns without any clout; c) nothing larger than a Land Rover will be allowed through; and c) nails. Most people probably know the answer is b, but how many of us remember what Dorothy Brown accidentally flicked out the window with her ciga rette back in July? Was it her miniature pinscher, a sapphire-and-diamond ring, the infamous Mendon Constable Nelson Tift or a Pacemaker? If you knew it was the ring, then it may be time to cut back on your subscriptions. — The Mountain Times, December 28
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cisms, the greatest pity is that there just isn’t much excitement here. The writing is flat and matter-of-fact, and expends no effort on things like suspense. The action, such as it is, is passionless and muted, partly because the characters are wooden, partly because there is almost no tension. But most of the action takes place off stage, in any case. Things never really get going, and many chances for action are missed. There are a couple of quick fights, and one baddie gets a satisfying come uppance at Ryan’s hands, but that isn’t enough. Worse, most of the plotting is so broad and the descriptions so blunt that surprise is virtually eliminated. Here, Ryan meets one of Ridder’s employees for the first time: An inner door opened, and a narrow shouldered man entered. His movements were fluid, but the angles o f his immobile face were as sharp as the facets o f a Paleolithic spearhead as he crossed the room, eyes on Ryan. On the same page, the man’s hand shake is “as hard as obsidian,” his gaze “stabbed like a switchblade.” This hap pens less than a tenth o f the way through the book. Guess who the villain turns out to be? It would be nice to believe that when publishers look to “thinking peo ple” as a market, they might exercise the little gray cells of their brainy readers. W ith The Babel Effect, they’ve only proved that being blinded by science is no substitute for good, old-fashioned entertainment. ®
of a shame in The Babel Effect axe its con tradictory messages. The Genesis team conducts its experiments on death-row murderers, but there’s no discussion of their particular inhumanity. Here’s an example of one exchange.
For a book stuffed with such promising material as r kidnap, torture and civil war, The Babel Effect is out as thrilling as an the Genesis team, taking myths such as the Tower of Babel — for which there are many parallels in cultures worldwide — and examining them as outbreaks of dis ease. In the ease of Babel, the “disease” inhibits people’s ability to recognize or communicate with family, loved ones or neighbors. But as often happens, this is a book that starts with a great idea and fails to build on it. The result is like bad taxi dermy: a hard skeleton (the scientific stuff), overlaid with a badly fitting mish mash of stuffing and skin (the plot). The problem is that Hecht’s characters never become more interesting than the central idea. They are badly drawn, two-dimen sional and strikingly un-endowed with developed personalities. Their seeming lack of self-awareness is echoed by the Ryan, supposedly a kind of Southie answer to Stephen Hawking — although
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Ryan decided he didn't like the man. Ianelli must have agreed, because he barked a little laugh and said, “That’s a joke! The only health hazard this guy has to worry about is the lethal injection he’s gonna get in exactly two weeks. ’’ So much for compassion. And yet the driving force of the book is that compas sion and love are the norm for our species, something that Hecht returns to again and again. The Babel Effect implies that all the miseries of life might be treatable. No more violence, no more war. It’s a sweep ing dismissal of life’s complexities, not to mention history, economics and religious and cultural differences. If the anti-war drug got into the world’s water supply and cured everyone, no one, we are to believe, would object to economic tyranny any longer. Your third-world country is gutted by the IMF? Not to worry! You can stay home and cuddle your children. But aside from these theoretical criti
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GUY COLASACCO (singer-songwriter),
OPEN MIKE, Ja k e ’s, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC.
Jak e’s, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC.
NORTH COUNTRY FAIR (Celtic/
the leaky ship that is alterna
MOVIE NIGHT, 2 4 2 Main, 6 p.m. NC.
Appalachian), Upper Deck Pub,
SONNY & PERLEY (jazz/Brazilian/
6 :3 0 p.m. NC.
tive rock with his latest CD,
cabaret), Leunig’s, 7 :3 0 p.m. NC.
MIKE MOLLICA & FRIENDS (jazz),
Dog in the Sand. The former
KARAOKE KAPERS (host Bob Bolyard),
Leunig’s, 7 :3 0 p.m . NC.
1 35 Pearl, 9 p.m. NC.
WINTER BREAD BASH W/ ELLEN POW
Pixie, whether in high or low
BLUES WITHOUT BLAME (blues jam),
ELL, BRIAN PERKINS, ROY FELDMAN &
Red Square, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
JOHN DUNLOP, STEPH PAPPAS EXPERI
LAST NIGHT’S JOY (Irish), Ri Ra Irish
ENCE & MORE (m usic, magic & poet
gear, still creates music for the thinking fan — even ones who offer up novenas in hopes that
Pub, 7 p.m. NC.
ry celebrating the alternative curren
US HUMANS (acoustic rock duo),
cy Burlington Bread), Rhombus
Nectar’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
Gallery, 8 p.m. 5 slice s/$7 .
SALAD DAYS, LUCRETIA CRUMB (pop-
SIRIUS (jazz/groove), Valencia, 9
the seminal ’80s band will
rock, alt-rock), Club Metronome, 9
p.m. NC.
p.m. $ 2 .
MINSTREL MISSION (acoustic),
reunite. For our money, though,
DJS SPARKS, RHINO & HI ROLLA (hip-
Pacific Rim , 9 p.m. NC.
hop, reggae), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m.
OPEN MIKE W/D. DAVIS, C actu s Cafe,
Frank Black with his Catholics
$ 6 . 18+
9 p.m. NC.
VINYL ONE INTERNATIONAL (DJs D-
DAN PARKS & THE BLAME (rock),
Maximum, Chancellor, Ninjahforce;
Steer & Stein, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
states. At Higher Ground this
reggae/dancehall), Millennium
MIGHTY LOONS (rock), N ectar’s, 9 :3 0
Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. N C/$7.
p.m. NC.
Sunday, with Zola Turn and The
18+ before 11 p.m.
BARBACOA (surf
OPEN MIKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub,
9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
produce adequately altared
Magic Is Gone.
A PIECE OF THE ‘ROCK’ Wishing Chair take their name from a rock in
noir), Red Square,
9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
LIVE NUDE WORDS (poetry slam ),
KARAOKE, J .P .’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $ 3 , fol
CANCER CONSPIRACY, NOGODAI 3,
lowed by JALAPENO BROS. W/SETH
CHROME COWBOYS & MORE (alt-rock,
YACOVONE (blues/jam) 10 p.m. $5 .
vintage country; Mia’s birthday and
STEPHANIE REYNOLDS BAND (rock),
CC CD release party), Higher
Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 10 p.m.
Ground, 9 p.m. $ 6 . AA
NC.
KARAOKE W/MATT & BONNIE DRAKE,
LADIES NIGHT W/DJ ROBBIE J. (Top
Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
4 0 ), Millennium Nightclub-
OPEN MIKE, Kept Writer, 7 p.m. NC.
Burlington, 9 p.m. Women NC/$7;
TOM BISSON (singer-songwriter),
men $2/7. 18+ before 11 p.m.
Good Times Cafe, 7 :3 0 p.m. $2 .
TOP HAT DJ, R asp utin ’s, 10 p.m. NC.
LADIES NIGHT KARAOKE, City Lim its,
DJ JOEY K. & JZEE (hip-hop/r&b),
were that easy — tourism to Northern Ireland
9 p.m. NC.
Ruben Jam es, T O .p .m . NC.
would surely pick up. For their part, though,
p.m. NC.
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REGGAE NIGHT (DJ), J .P .’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
BLUES JAM, Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. NC.
singer-songwriters Kiya Heartwood and Miriam
OPEN MIKE, Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m.
Davidson will leave you wishing for more. The
NC. VORCZA TRIO (lounge/jazz/funk), Charlie O ’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
acoustic duo brings soul-drenched vocals and heavenly harmonies to the Burlington Coffeehouse this Saturday.
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ENTRAIN, JESS KLEIN (modern
Red), Manhattan Pizza & Pub,
ELMORE MOUNTAIN (rock-blues
writer), Jak e’s, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC.
rock), Higher Ground, 9 pm. $ 8 .
10 p.m . NC.
boogie), Matterhorn, 9 p.m.
EXCALIBUR (rock), Henry’s Pub,
18+
PERRY NUNN (acoustic guitar),
$ 3 -5 .
Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC.
LEAVITT & DELBACK (rock),
Ruben Jam es, 6 p.m ., followed
LIVE MUSIC, Mountain
HIGHLAND WEAVERS (Irish), Tuckaw ay's, Sheraton Hotel, 9
Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.
by TOP HAT DJ, 10 p.m. NC.
Roadhouse, 9 p.m . $ 3 -5 .
OPEN MIKE, Backstage Pub, 9
MR. FRENCH (rock), N ectar’s,
FULL SWING (jazz), Mr.
p.m. NC.
p.m. NC.
9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
Pickw ick’s, 8 p.m. NC.
JOHN BROWN’S BODY, DUDE OF LIFE (reggae, groove rock),
KARAOKE W/MATT & BONNIE
FUSION (hip-hop/Top 40/house;
LIVE MUSIC, Mad Mountain
DRAKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m.
DJs Robbie J ., Toxic),
Tavern, 9 p.m. $ 4 .
Higher Ground, 9 pm. $ 7 . 18+
NC.
M illennium Nightclub-
ANNE HUTCHINS (jazz), J.P.
LIVE MUSIC (rock), Trackside
Burlington, 9 p.m. $ 3 /1 0 . 18+
Morgan’s, 7 p.m. NC.
Tavern, 9 p.m. $2 .
before 11 p.m.
BLOOZOTOMY (jump blues),
ABAIR BROS, (rock), Backstage
pella pop), Daily Bread, 7 p.m.
KARAOKE, J.P .'s Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
Charlie O's, 9 p.m. NC.
Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
$ 5 . AA
CURRENTLY NAMELESS (jam
PC THE SPINDOCTOR (house/Top
SAND BLIZZARD (rock),
LOCAL LEGENDS COFFEEHOUSE W/RANDOM ASSOCIATION (a
cap-
SUPER SOUNDS KARAOKE, Otter
rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9
40/techno), Millennium Night-
Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
Creek Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.
p.m. NC.
club-Barre, 9 p.m. $ 3 /1 0 . 18+
TOM BISSON & GUESTS (singer-
TNT KARAOKE, Thirsty Turtle, 9
COMEDY ZONE (stand-up),
ADIOS PANTALONES (party band),
songwriter), Village Cup, 8 p.m.
p.m. NC.
Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $8/6.
Nightspot Outback, 9 :3 0 p.m.
NC.
DJ PARTY, Gallagher’s, 9 p.m.
18+
$7.
BUCK HOLLOW BAND (country; line dancing), Cobbweb, 8 :3 0
NC.
EXCALIBUR (rock), Henry’s Pub,
JOEY LEONE W/HORNS (blues-
Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC.
p.m. $7/12.
rock), Matterhorn, 9 p.m . $ 3 -5 .
STEVE FORBERT, TODD THIBAUD
JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), G
ACOUSTIC ALLEY (cla ssic rock),
(singer-songwriters), Higher
Nightspot O utback, 9 p.m. NC.
Ground, 9 pm. $ 1 2 /1 4 . 18+
JOHN BROWN’S BODY (reggae),
LIVE MUSIC (rock), Trackside
Pickle Barrel, 9 p.m . $ 5 -1 0 .
Tavern, 9 p.m. $2 . OPEN MIKE, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m . NC. JOHN CASSEL (jazz piano),
3
Tavern at the Inn at Essex, 7
20
Stop, 9 p.m. $ 3 . SEVEN (jam rock), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC.
SATURDAY
KARAOKE W/FRANK, Franny O ’s,
WISHING CHAIR (folk-rock duo),
DJ DANCE PARTY, City Lim its, 9
9 p.m. NC.
Burlington Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $
6.
LEATHER & LACE DRAG BALL &
p.m . NC. SAND BLIZZARD (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
p.m. NC. HART-ROUGE (French-Canadian trad.), After Dark M usic S eries,
SHOW W/BARONY OF VERMONT
United Methodist Church, 7
13 5 Pearl, 8 p.m. $ 1 0 , followed
p.m. 16/18. TNT DJ, Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY
LIZ PARMALEE W/GUESTS
by DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 10 p.m.
CLYDE STATS TRIO (jazz), Upper
(rock/pop), Village Cup, 8 p.m.
$4.
$3.
Deck Pub at the Windjammer,
NC.
GLEN SCHWEITZER & GUEST
SMALL AXE (acoustic), Capitol
(rock/groove), Valencia, 9 p.m.
Grounds, 7 :3 0 p.m. NC.
NC.
ED HALL, GEORGE WILSON & PETE
5 :3 0 p.m. NC.
EDIFIED PRESENTS W/DOUG
TODD THIBAUD(singer-song-
PERKINS, PATRICK ROSS & DAVE
writer), Borders, 5 :3 0 p.m . NC.
RODRIGUEZ, THE CLEARY BROS.
PICTURE THIS (jazz), Wine
(newgrass), Underhill Town Hall,
Works, 6 p.m. NC.
8 p.m. $ 7 . 18+
BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish),
LINE DANCING W/DANCIN’ DEAN
Rasputin’s, 5 p.m . NC, followed
(counry), Cobbweb, 7 :3 0 p.m.
by TOP HAT DJ, 9 p.m . NC.
$ 6.
NATTERJACK (trad. Irish), R) Ra,
SUTHERLAND (acoustic; con-
9 p.m. $ 2 .
tradance), Capitol City Grange
MANSFIELD PROJECT (rock),
Hall, 8 p.m. $ 7 .
N ectar’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
SPINN CITY W/DJ ROBBIE J. (hip-
RETRONOME (DJ; dance pop),
hop/Top 40/dance), Millennium
Club Metronome, 10 p.m. $ 2 .
Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. $ 3 /1 0 .
PHIL HENRY (singer-songwriter),
LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim ’s Grille,
STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS (honky-
18+
Borders, 7 p.m . NC.
7 :3 0 p.m. NC.
tonk boogie), Red Square, 9 :3 0
LIVE MUSIC, Gallagher’s, 9 p.m.
ATLANTIC CROSSING (Celtic; con
KATE BARCLAY (singer-song
tra dance w/caller Rachel
writer), Kept Writer, 7 p.m. NC.
Nevitt), Cham plain Club, 8 p.m.
SWEATIN’ LIKE NIXON (rock),
$ 6.
Monopole, 10 p.m. NC.
p.m. NC.
$5.
KARAOKE, J.P.'s Pub, 9 p.m. NC.
LIVE MUSIC, Mad Mountain
DJS TIM DIAZ & RUGGER (hip-
Tavern, 9 p.m. $4 .
hop/r&b), Ruben Jam es, 10
TIN PAN ALLEY (acoustic rock),
CRAIG HUROWITZ & DAN SHER-
JIMMY T & THE COBRAS (rock),
p.m. NC.
Charlie B ’s, 8 :3 0 p.m. NC.
WIN (acoustic), Sweetwaters, 9
Franny O ’s, 9 p.m. NC.
FLASHBACK (’8 0 s DJ),
LIVE MUSIC, Matterhorn, 9 p.m.
p.m. NC.
DISTANT THUNDER (rock), City
Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. NC.
$ 3 -5 .
DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 13 5 Pearl, 10
Lim its, 9 p.m. NC.
THE CLUBB MIXX W/DJS IRIE &
LIVE MUSIC, Mountain
p.m. $ 4 . THE NATURALS (rock), Thirsty DANCETERIA (’8 0 s & ’9 0 s dance caLi Turtle, 9 p.m. $3 . hits; DJ Frostee), Club - DUO PRIZMA (Latin duo), Villa Metronome, 10 p.m . $ 2 . Tragara, 6 :3 0 p.m. $ 5 .
GUESTS (hip-hop/house),
Roadhew^^ p,|%^t3-5.
SANDRA WRIGHT (blues), Red Square, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC.
LIVE MUSIC (rock), Gallagher’s, 9
OPIUS (jazz/groove), Vermont
Pickw ick’s, 8 p.m. NC.
p.m. $ 3 .
Pub & Brewery, 9 p.m. NC.
THE NATURALS (rock), Blue
JASON CANN (acoustic), Charlie
COMEDY ZONE (stand-up),
Tooth, 9 :3 0 p.m. $ 2 .
B ’s, 8 :3 0 p.m. NC.
Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $8/6.
DJ NIGHT, R1 Ra Irish Pub, 1 0 :3 0 p.m. NC. LION’S DEN HIFI SOUND SYSTEM (reggae DJs Yosef & R as Jah I.
weekly
Millqnniugi Nightcli Burlington, 9 p .m .; before 11 p.m.
FULL SWING (jazz), Mr.
THE CLIQUE (party band), Rusty
18+
Nail, 9 p.m. $ 5 .
GUY COLASACCO (singer-song
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w here to go Adams Apple Cafe, Portland & Main streets, Morrisville, 888-4737. After Dark Music Series, Town Hall Theater, 53 Merchants Row, or United Methodist Church, 47 N. Pleasant St., Middlebury, 388-0216. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-5494. Back Street, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-0033. Blue Tooth, Access Rd., Warren, 583-2656. Boony's, Rt. 236, Franklin, 933-4569. Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 5 -2 7 IT.: ; : ; Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 864-5888. Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson Ln., Burl., 862-6900. Cambridge Coffeehouse, Windridge Bakery, Jeffersonville, 644-2233. Capitol City Grange Hall, Northfield Rd., Montpelier, 744-6163. Capitol Grounds, 4 5 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800. Champion’s , 32 Main St., Winooski, 655-4705. Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington, 863-5701. Charlie B’s, Stoweflake Resort, 1746 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-7355. Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. City Limits, 14 Greene St. Vergennes, 877-6919. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527-7000. Daily Bread, Bridge St., Richmond, 434-3148. Diamond Jim’s Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St. Albans, 524-9280. Edgewater Pub, 340 Malletts Bay Ave., Colchester, 865-4214., Finnigan's Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209. Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966. Franny O’s 7 3 3 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. Gallagher’s, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8800. Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg Village, Rt. 1 1 6 ,4 8 2 -4 4 4 4 . Ground Zero, 3 Durkee St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6969. i> G Stop, 38 Main St., St. Albans, 524-7777. Heartwood Hollow Gallery Stage, 7 650 Main Rd., Hanksville, 434-5830/888-212-1142. Henry's, Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6361. Higher Ground, 1 Main St., Winooski, 654-8888. Jake’s, 1233 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 658-2251. James Moore Tavern, Bolton Valley Ski Area, 434-3444. J.P. Morgan's at Capitol Plaza, 100 Main St., Montpelier, 223-5252. J.P.’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. The Kept Writer, 5 Lake St., St. Albans, 527-6242. Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Mad Mountain Tavern, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 4 9 6-2562. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Matterhorn, 4 9 69 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 2 3 0 N. Main St., Barre, 4 7 6-3590. Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. Mountain Roadhouse, 1677 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2 5 3-2800. Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. 135 Pearl St., Burlington, 863-2343. The Nightspot Outback, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-9885. Otter Creek Tavern, 215 Main St., Vergennes, 877-3667. Pacific Rim, 111 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-3000. Pickle Barrel, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. Radisson Hotel, 60 Battery St., Burlington, 658-6500. Rasputin's, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 865-3144. Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782. R1 Ra the Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. Sai-Gon Cafe, 133 Bank St., Burlington, 863-5637. Sam’s Charlmont, Rt. 15, Morrisville, 888-4242. Signal to Noise HQ, 416 Pine St. (behind Speeder & Earl’s), Burlington, 951-1140. Starksboro Community Coffee House, Village Meeting House, Rt. 116, Starksboro, 4 3 4-4254. Steer & Stein Pub, 147 N. Winooski Ave., 862-7449. Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 4-9800. « ^ ;a ; The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 878-1100. Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-5223. Toadstool Harry’s, Rt. 4, Killington, 4 2 2-5019. Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542. T. Rugg's Tavern, 149 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, 658-0456. Tuckaway's, Sheraton, 870 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 865-6600. 242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244. Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585. Valencia, Pearl St. & S. Winooski, Ave., Burlington, 658-8978. Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College, Burlington, 865-0500. The Village Cup, 30 Rt. 15, Jericho, 899-1730. Villa Tragara, Rt. 100, Waterbury Ctr., 244-5288.
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TH EY’RE BAAACK Isn’t it just swell when something you thought was gone forever makes a comeback? That’s precisely what the Local Legends Coffee House has done — after a two-year hibernation, the weekly acoustic music series is back at the Daily Bread Bakery in Richmond. In case you haven’t been there for awhile, the place is under the owner ship of Aaron Millon, who’s still serv ing tasty treats and hopes to soon have a wine and beer license. The place has been significantly expanded, too — 50 seats. That means more elbow room for fans of the appropri ately local a cappella popsters Random Association, who reboot the series this Thursday. Though it’s only been on break a month and a half, Edified Presents is also back — with its first concert of the new year. That is, the Town Hall and Grange Series, the handiwork of Ed DuFresne, offers up some musical resurrection with a newgrass revival. Following a successful Pyralisk Carnivale in December at the Moretown Town Hall, DuFresne is taking on 2001 with Doug Perkins, Patrick Ross and Dave Rodriguez, and The Cleary Brothers. The dou
ble-header steams up windows at the Underhill Town Hall Friday, and the Sheffield Town Hall Saturday.
GETTING SERIE-OUS Thanks to the O SOLE MIA I guess one of the perks
of being a “club goddess” is, you get to throw a big, fat musical birthday party in your favorite club’. O f course, it helps that she works there, too. Mia Sladyk turns 26 this Wednesday, and Chrome Cowboys, Nogodai 3 and Cancer Conspiracy will be on hand to make it a party at Higher Ground. It’s also, by the way, a CD release party for the Conspiracy’s new three-song disc (see review below). Sounds like there won’t be a single dull moment between bands, as Birthday Girl promises “nonstop excitement” in the guise of theremin and bagpipe players, a deejay and choreographed dances. Hey, you’re only 26 once. Live it up, girl! KNEAD A LIFT? Speaking of parties, the Burlington Bread people really know how to throw one. The backers of community currency offer up the first Winter Bread Bash that’s sure to get a rise out of all comers, even if all you’ve got is cold hard cash. Rob Michalak hosts the evening at
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Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, concertizing opportunities
for local pros are limited. That’s why Montpelier flutist Karen Kevra decided to strike up Capital City Concerts — a new chamber-music series that showcases homegrown tal ent in Montpelier’s acoustically friendly Union School Hall. “It’s a way to play with my friends,” Kevra says of her motivation. “Since I live here, and I’m not all that interested in moving, I wanted something to do at home.” Kevra got the idea from Louis Moyse, who co-founded the Marlboro Music Festival on the same assumption that colleagues would come together for concerts. Paul Orgel has already jumped on the bandwagon — as a performer and presenter of a new series at St.
stood how firm the booking for Magic Hat’s annual Burlington Mardi Gras street dance was — I noted last week that the bon temps would be led by Warren Haynes & Friends. However, says Stacey SteinmetZ of Magic Hat, that’s not down in ink just yet. Fans of the Southern rockers, keep your fingers crossed . . . If you want to get into the club biz on the ground floor, Millennium Nightclub in Burlington is looking for interns to deejay, do promotions and Web design. Interested? E-mail Robbie at millenniumDJ2K@aol.com . . . Heads-up, edgy, envelope-pushing performers: The 5th annual Fringe Festival in Philadelphia doesn’t start until August 15, but they’re already seeking artists in music, theater and dance. For more info, e-mail Deborah Block at pafringedb@aol.com, or visit www.pafringe.com. Deadline: March 15 . . . If you’re a fan of the newly revitalized 5 Seconds Expired, you can vote for the homeboys on farmclub.com — the band has a new song, “Memory,” on the music Web site (see review below) . . . If you read music mags like Rolling Stone or Spin, or watch television, you’ve probably noticed the ads this month for the Winter X Games, to be held at Vermont’s Mount Snow February 2-6. So can anyone explain to me the “Do Not Drink Gasoline” warning? ®
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and if you don’t watch out, sleight-ofhand artist Christopher McBride just might make your money disappear. “Slice” of life, indeed. (For more info about the Burlington Currency Project, call 434-8103.)
Michael’s College. Fle’s bringing all three Kevra-created concerts to the Colchester campus this spring. The first one — a mixture of Pawnee pre ludes, Bach and Busoni — debuts this weekend in Montpelier.
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— Five years ago, the future was looking bright for Burlington hardcore band Slush. Freshly signed to Another Planet Records, they realized they shared a moniker with another group, and switched their name to 5 Seconds Expired. (This is becoming a more and more common occurrence, occasion ally resulting in nasty lawsuits, which 5SE managed to avoid.) The band’s eight-song release, Null, showed promise by charting on national radio stations, so it must have been deeply disappointing when their label failed to follow through with adequate distribution or tour support. Their two-record contract was ren dered null (pun intended) and void, and 5SE basical ly disbanded. Oh, the sweet karma when Another Planet dropped its roster of bands and also disap peared. But it turns out 5 Seconds Expired didn’t expire after all, but were simply on “hiatus” for the past three years. Now they’re back, with a two-song sam pler from an upcoming new album. “Memory,” the first single, has an easy melody buried beneath layers of noise, and is friendly enough to be almost guaranteed airplay. But it’s on “Ome” that the band shines: tight, well-produced, with unrelenting riffs that would make Danzig proud, and enough tempo changes to keep the listen er from being pummeled into a state of aural — if head-banging — complacency. A promising sign from 5SE is that they’re once again ready to wail, and to challenge the notion that only groovy hippie bands can come from Vermont. Does this mean the local clubs will once again be graced by vocalist Jeff Howlett, sporting his pork pie hat and giant stogie? One can only hope. — Ara Finlayson THE CANCER CONSPIRACY, CANCER CONSPIRACY
(SoGoodMusic, CD) — The Cancer Conspiracy
play instrumental, non-bluesbased, post-hardcore, emotion al, progressive rock. And what does that mean? There is no singing. The guitarist combines a constant stream of juicy notes, power chords and pro gressions without ever playing a traditional guitar solo. The bass player lays down heavy root notes like it’s going out of style, strumming the strings and locking in with tight rhythmic fills. The drummer just plain rocks, about as adventurously as one can without overplaying — which is saying a lot, considering he works around the beat, playing with and against the guitar. It’s exciting and laid-back all at once. And he plays sax, too. While drumming. Really. Combining restraint and intensity, Burlington’s Cancer Conspiracy pull off precision and grand art/progressive rock gestures without pretentiousness. Refreshingly, they seem to a) not give a fuck what you think; b) really give a fuck about what they’re doing; and c) take themselves very seriously. As a live band, The Cancer Conspiracy are so visually striking that presen tation is almost half the show: an amazing and tech nical drummer, Greg Beadle with good hair; a lean, non chalant guitar player, Daryl Rabidoux, with good elbow and chin-bob moves; and a moody bass player, Brent Frattini, stalking the stage. On disc, the treat is finding out that the tunes still have the power to move you in the absence of the live spec tacle. On the band’s self-titled debut, “The Summer of Andy” lays a perfect head bobbing, swaying groove against the backdrop of a crazy guitar loop. It’s about faith in the beat, because
Rabidoux and Beadle head in different directions, playing off and with each other in a satisfying way. Sometimes it feels like free-form math rock — you nearly need a calculator to know it’s gonna work out. Frattini, meanwhile, holds John Entwistle-solid in the middle. Remarkably, CC’s musical parts aren’t overly complex; kinda bare bones, but craftily constructed, with each player’s seeming independence creating delicious juxtapositions. Rabidoux uses a rack of pedals about a mile long, yet manages to keep his playing all about the guitar and not about the gear. How can you explain pedals and saxophone in the context of a post-hardcore guitar trio? It’s bad ass. In the opener, “October Days Club,” the transi tion out of Beadle’s sax break is Amazing — the haunting strains cry out for someone, anyone, to sing Glenn Frey’s “You Belong to the City,” which should feel cheesy but doesn’t. Coming out of it, the guitar and sax intertwine so you almost lose track of which is which, until Rabidoux breaks into a riff against the saxophone trill. This might just be my favorite spot on the disc. By skipping lyrical content, these songs are some how devoid of emotion, but still manage to stir up feeling. You find yourself making up new dance moves — your foot catches the beat while you sway in time with your hips; your head is bobbing to the guitar and sometimes your elbows and arms just have to fly out. Phew, it makes my neck hurt. Zack Martin plays extra guitar on the first two tracks here, filling things out nicely by taking the high road or feeding back and getting all ethereal against Rabidoux’s low riffs. This teaser CD is only three songs long, but it’s worth your time. Put it in your player when you want to feel cool. It actually works. Better yet, check them out at the CD release party this Wednesday at Higher Ground. With Nogodai 3 and Chrome Cowboys.
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and Nature M eet,” January 2 1 , 2 p.m ., followed by reception. ICONS OF BEANIE THE SINGING DOG, sculptural paintings by David Klein. Brown Library Gallery, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 5 8 6 7 7 1 1 . Reception January 2 1 , 2-4 STORY QUILTS: VOICES IN CLOTH, fea turing six contemporary quilts by Faith Ringgold and Peggie L. Hartwell, along with two historic exam ples of “narrative” quilts. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 4 4 3 - 5 0 0 7 . Slide/lecture, “Story Quilts and Child ren ’s Books,” by Faith Ringgold, January book signing.
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BURLINGTON AREA LYNN RUPE, recent paintings and monotypes. Union Station, Burlington, 6 5 1 - 1 0 7 0 . Through January. VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: WORK BY NORTHEAST KINGDOM 5TH AND 6TH GRADERS, featuring mixed media. Living/Learning Gallery, UVM, Burlington, 6 5 6 - 4 2 0 0 . January 2 2 February 15. ARTS FROM THE AMAZON: 7 0 0 artifacts assem bled by UVM prof Jim Petersen offer a glim pse into the lives of Amazonian tribes in Brazil. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 5 6 0 7 5 0 . Through May 2 0 . KAREN DAWSON, paintings. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 8 6 5 - 3 1 4 4 . Through January. IMPRESSIONS FROM TWO DECADES, fea turing photographs by Bruce Acciavatti. Cafe Piccolo, Burlington, 8 6 2 - 5 5 1 5 . Through February 4. EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE, recent pastel paintings by Tammy Wood. Penny Clu se Cafe, Burlington, 6 5 1 8 8 3 4 . Through January. PASTELS, landscapes and garden
o n g o in g
scen es by Tim Fitzgerald. Village Cup, Jericho, 8 9 9 - 1 7 3 0 . Through January.
UNMATCHED, match-cover art by Diane
Sm ith and Linda Kent. Chaffee Center
Sullivan. Red Square, Burlington,
for the Visual Arts, Rutland, 7 7 5 -
8 6 2 - 3 7 7 9 . Through January.
0 3 5 6 . Through February 18. RECENT PAINTINGS by Robert Waldo
FRESH FISH: CONTEMPORARY ICHTHY OLOGIES, featuring artwork inspired by
Brunelle Jr. Christine Price Gallery,
the first vertebrates, by Michael
Castleton State College, 4 6 8 - 5 6 1 1 .
Sm ith, Amy White, P.K. E llis, Art Blue
Through February 16.
and Terry Barrett. Fletcher Room,
FIONA COOPER, oil pastels. Capitol
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington,
Grounds, Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 7 8 0 0 .
8 6 5 - 7 2 1 1 . Also, FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Through January.
LOOKING AT FOOD AND CONNECTED
NORTHERN LIGHTS, clay lighting by
IDEATION, artworks by m em bers of
Doug Blum , Dennis Kirchm ann, Walt
Caravan Arts on the subject of su ste
Schm idt and Jim Schneider. Vermont
nance. Pickering Room. Both through
Clay Studio, Waterbury, 2 4 4 - 1 1 2 6 .
January.
Through January.
HOME AND AWAY, recent paintings by
BEFORE THE GOLDEN DOME: THE STATE
Ellen Mazur Thomson. Mezzanine
HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD, 1859-1907,
Balcony, Fletcher Free Library, 8 6 5 -
featuring historic photographs reveal
7 2 1 1 . Through January.
ing daily life in Montpelier before the
FRIENDS AND FAMILY, a group show in
dome was gilded. The Vermont
mixed media. Men’s Room, Burlington, 8 6 4 - 2 0 8 8 . Through
Historical Society presents at the State House Card Room, Montpelier,
February.
2 3 4 - 5 0 3 9 . Through January.
ARTHUR HINES, photographs, TONY
FIRE & SPICE: THE CULINARY ALCHEMY,
SCHULL and TISHA SCHULL, paintings,
photographs by Jeffrey P. Roberts. A
Daily Planet, Burlington, 8 6 2 - 3 7 7 9 .
Single Pebble Restaurant, Berlin,
Through January.
4 7 6 - 9 7 0 0 . Through January 24 .
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW,
VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS: Work by
Vermont scen ic photographs by Fred
local artisans. Vermont By Design
Stetson. Dorothy Ailing Memorial
Gallery, Waterbury, 2 4 4 - 7 5 6 6 .
Library, Williston Village, 8 7 8 - 4 9 1 8 .
Ongoing.
Through January 3 0 .
SCRAP-BASED ARTS & CRAFTS, featur
SEEING WITH NEW PERSPECTIVE, Neo-
ing re-constructed objects of all kinds
Surrealist paintings uy Ethan Azarian
by area artists. The Restore,
and Neo-Surrealist Assem blage by
Montpelier, 2 2 9 - 1 9 3 0 . Ongoing.
Greg Brower. Flynndog Gallery,
ALICE ECKLES, paintings and mixed
Burlington, 6 5 2 - 9 9 8 5 . Through
media. Old School House, Marshfield,
January 2 3 .
4 5 6 - 8 9 9 3 . Ongoing.
THE ALLURE OF THE CURVE, featuring hand-forged sculptural gold jewelry by Timothy Grannis and a photo-collabo
NORTHERN
ration by Alex W illiam s and Claudia
FROM THE DREAM TO THE STUDIO: THE
Venon. Grannis Gallery, Burlington,
ART OF SURREALISM, featuring works
6 6 0 - 2 0 3 2 . Through January.
by 12 surrealist artists, 10 of them
TORIN PORTER, an evolving installa
contemporary. Helen Day Art Center,
tion, and MR. MASTERPIECE, wall
Stowe, 2 5 3 - 8 3 5 8 . January 2 0 - April
paintings. Club Metronome,
7.
Burlington, 8 6 2 - 3 7 7 9 . Ongoing. THE FABULOUS ’5 0 S : WELCOME HOME
SOUTHERN
TO POST-WAR VERMONT, the m useum ’s
NAPOLEON IN EGYPT, engravings, pho
newest historic house, depicting a
tographs, maps, letters and artifacts;
Vermont family in 1 9 5 0 ; SOMETHING
and LUIGI LUCIONI: A CENTENARY RET
OLD, SOMETHING NEW: Continuity and
ROSPECTIVE OF A RENAISSANCE REAL
Change in Am erican Furniture and
IST, landscapes and still lifes by the
Decorative Arts, 1 7 0 0 - 1 8 2 0 ; FROM
part-time Vermonter (1 9 0 0 -1 9 8 8 ).
GEORGE WASHINGTON TO P.T. BARNUM,
Elizabeth d e € . Wilson Museum,
prints; and LANDSCAPE & LIGHT, paint
Southern Vermont Arts Center,
ings by Martin Johnson Heade.
Manchester, 3 6 2 - 1 4 0 5 . Through
Shelburne Museum, 9 8 5 - 3 3 4 8 . Ongoing.
January.
RICK SUTTA, oil paintings “with im p act.” Rick Sutta Gallery,
ELSEW HERE
Burlington, 8 6 0 - 7 5 0 6 . Ongoing.
PICASSO: THE VOLLARD SUITE, 19301937, featuring 10 0 prints compiled by French art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
C H A M P L A IN VALLEY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
RUDY BURCKHARDT AND FRIENDS: NEW
College, Hanover, N .H ., 6 0 3 -6 4 6 -
YORK ARTISTS OF THE 1950S AND ’60S,
2 8 0 8 . Through March 11.
an exhibit centering on photograph-
HITCHCOCK, an exhibit devoted to the
er/filmmaker Burckhardt and featuring
aesthetic development of director
photographs and film selections on
Alfred H itchcock's film s, with posters,
video, both documentary and abstract.
production stills, film clip s, annotated
Middlebury College Museum of Art,
scripts and set models. Montreal
4 4 3 - 5 0 0 7 . Through March 18.
Museum of Fine Arts, 5 1 4 -2 8 5 - 1 6 0 0 .
TOM HOMANN & JILL MADDEN, ceram ics
Through March 18. ©
B y M arc A wodey n the last quarter of the 19th century, one or more quilters in the Childs family of North Adams, Massachusetts, produced a masterpiece. Known as “Centennial Album” because of references to the 1876 U.S. centennial celebrations, the quilts 36 squares contain more than 50 figures, dozens of ani mals, buildings, flowers and trees. The panoramic melange of images describes significant events in the domestic life of a New England family in a bygone era. “Centennial Album” is a “story quilt.” Produced by women, often over the course of generations, story quilts comprise a unique genre of nar rative traditional art. “Story Quilts: Voices in Cloth” is a modest exhibit of eight pieces currently showing at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. It presents works by two contemporary quilters — Faith Ringgold and Peggie Hartwell — and two historic pieces on loan from the Shelburne Museum, including “Centen nial Album.” Ringgold and Hartwell are African-American women who tell their stories by making this time-honored art form their own. Hartwell’s “Ode to Harriet Powers” pays homage to the 19th-century quilter and freed slave, whose works were the first to be recognized as art. “Ode” presents a portrait of Powers, surrounded by recre ations of block designs from the
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and paintings. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, 8 7 7 - 3 6 6 8 . Through January. STONES, SCHOLARS AND SUPPORTERS: MIDDLEBURY AND THE GROWTH OF ITS COLLEGE, a multi-media exhibit in honor of the college's bicentennial. Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 3 8 8 - 2 1 1 7 . Through March.
CENTRAL VERMONT FLIGHTS OF FANCY, featuring paintings and sculpture by John Gem ignani,
is unable to accommodate all of the displays in our readership area, thus these list ings must be restricted to exhibits in truly public viewing places. Art in business offices, lobbies and private residences or studios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted. Send art listings to gaiieries@sevendaysvt.com. You can also view art listings at www.sevendaysvt.com. PLEASE NOTE: Seven Days
Larry Golden, Kato Jaworski, Deborah
Harlem family enjoying a rooftop repast around a table and under stars that twinkle over the George Washington Bridge. The large pictorial ele ment is silk-screened. Geometric patterns fill the scene, and children, including Ringgold’s character, Cassie Louise Lightfoot, are floating in the sky as if in a dream sequence. The sky is modulated from a light horizon to darkness around the stars, and the build ings are brightly colored, almost festive. “Wedding on the Seine” is part of Ringgold’s “French Collection,” a story line that unfolds in Paris. “Wedding” is essentially a quilted acrylic painting that proceeds from the fictional narrative of an artist named Simone. In this work, Simone, in a bridal gown, tosses a bouquet off a bridge of the Seine as it wends through the environs of Paris. Seven blocks of text at the bottom and top of the image tell the full story of the scene. Ringgold contrasts the sewn geometric lines of quilt-making with the active brushwork and mixed colors of painting to create an image that is neither wholly quilt nor painting. It is a personal tech nique that speaks to the dis parate influences of the artist. The “Centennial Q uilt” is not necessarily an AfricanAmerican piece, and it’s likely that story quilts were common craft. Like gigantic Frida Kahlo paintings, Ringgold’s quilts bor to many of the religious and ethnic groups who passed their row heavily from folk idioms to traditions on to succeeding gen create intensely personal narra erations throughout history. tives. But rather than being Nevertheless, in visual art as in totally autobiographical as literature, dance and music, the Kahlo was, Ringgold has creat African-American heritage con ed characters. A sense of com tributes an extraordinarily vital munity is also conveyed in her patchwork of material to the works. aesthetic quilt that is our com “Tar Beach” is a brilliantly organized cityscape portraying a mon culture. ©
quilt presents a lively congrega tion of children and adults around him as he spins a tale. Hartwell uses broad swaths of bright color reminiscent or the collages of Romare Bearden, but on a much grander scale — about seven feet square. Unlike historic quilts, Hartwell s pieces are more like large-scale paint ings, focusing on a single uni fied image rather than a sequence of Images created ’ from sewing scraps. Ringgold was born in the period of the Harlem Renaissance. Her works are often actual paintings on canvas that have been combined with quilted border elements. An academic and activist, she sees story quilts as a feminist art form of special significance to the African-American experi ence, as they preserve cultural memories. Her works combine text as well as painting, synthe sizing visual art, literature and
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“Bible Quilt” that Powers her self produced in the early 1890s. It contains an intuitive abstraction of folk art, telling Bible stories with just a few appliqued symbols gathered into squares. “The Storyteller” is an image from Hartwells child hood in rural South Carolina. Her grandfather was a story teller of local renown, and the
“Story Quilts: Voices in Cloth,” narrative quilts by Faith Ringgold and Peggie L. Hartwell, and historic examples. MidtUobury College Museum of Art. Through June 3. January 17, 2001
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WRITING CLASS Connery and Brown bond in the latest from Gus Van Sant TRAFFIC***172 FINDING FORRESTER***172 Is there a more even, consis tently satisfying filmmaker than Steven Soderbergh today? Maybe. Did any of them make two of the past year’s most criti cally acclaimed movies? Nope. Only Soderbergh. Where Erin Brockovich was smart and uplift ing, the director’s latest, Traffic, is a visually dazzling downer, a pes simistic meditation on the power of addiction and futility of America’s drug policy. The film interweaves two sto ries. One is set in Mexico and centers on a police officer played by the wonderful and underrated actor Benicio Del Toro. The other follows the family of Michael Douglas, a judge recent ly installed as the country’s drug czar. South of the border, we peer into the back rooms of the business, remote places where greed is the law of the land and military officials ally themselves with powerful cartels. Del Toro gives a complex performance as a basically good man surrounded and eventually subsumed by cor ruption. Up north, we watch Douglas’ life crack and collapse into two distinct pieces — his public front, his businesslike determina tion to “make a difference” and his private tragedy, a daughter whose own substance abuse has put her life at risk. The more his character learns about the drug problem on the large scale, the more clearly Douglas comes to see that it can be combatted effectively only on the small scale, one human being at a time. Traffic is periodically difficult
to follow, and here and there is a tad apocrophal, but the vividness of its performances, the elegance of Soderbergh’s vision and the brutal honesty of his thesis make it a high point in recent American drama. Much lighter, far more Hollywood but every bit as fine an entertainment, surprisingly, is Finding Forrester, the latest from Gus Van Sant. A triumph of style over substance, the film spins the deceptively paint-by-numbers yarn of an inner-city teen and aspiring scribe who coincidental ly befriends a reclusive Pulitzer Prize winner who just happens to live around the corner. From frame one you know that the kid — played by 16year-old newcomer Rob Brown — is going to impress the eccen tric old master (Sean Connery) with his talent, will come to see him as the father he never had, and will run into some sort of snafu at school, necessitating a climactic scene in which the lit erary lion comes out of hiding to defend his new friend. It’s all in the trailer. W hat you might not expect is that, even with a formulaic story line and key plot points revealed, the film is a ton of fun. The idea is, Brown’s a nice Bronx kid whose abilities on the basketball court are exceeded only by his way with the written word. When state tests uncover the true measure of his gift, he’s offered a spot at an exclusive prep school. Meanwhile, homies dare him to break into the apart ment of the neighborhood her mit. He does, and it turns out the place is the tome-lined home of William Forrester, literary
giant and one-hit wonder. The two slowly and tentative ly become friends, then student and teacher. When Brown’s writ ing gets so good that his English professor accuses him of plagia rism, well — you’ve seen the ads — Connery has to search his soul and make a tough decision: Will he continue to guard his privacy or change out of his paja mas for the first time since the Truman administration? Sure, it’s all about as hard to see coming as Dick Clark in a parka on December 31st, but the picture transcends its predictabil ity through a combination of fine acting, sawier-than-average writing and super-stylish direc tion. The pacing of the film is agreeably relaxed, the score is a twinkly, new-age jazz thing that’ll warm you like a good brandy, and the entire cast is earnest and appealing. At bottom, too, is the common hope that the picture’s central character will get the break he deserves, rise above his humble origins and realize his great expectations. That, I think, says something nice about Brown. And about audiences as well. Van Sants latest, to be sure, is only a notch or two above feel good fluff, and sheds about as much light on the workings of the literary mind as Cast Away does on the overnight shipping business. As a gracefully crafted celebration of the transformative power of friendship, hard work, truthfulness, loyalty and beauty, however, Finding Forrester has your average saga about a teen in search of love and acceptance beat all to hell. (Z)
desert island for four years. With
Cormac McCarthy novel, Matt Damon
tations of his working-class fam ilyan d
Jackie Chan plays a young master of
Helen Hunt. (P G -13)
plays a young cowboy who finds love
his deep love of performing. Stephen
the “drunken” fighting style w ho’s
BEST IN SHOW Christopher G uest, who cowrote This Is Spinal Tap, directs and
THE SECRET GARDEN (NR) Kate Maberly
and trouble south of the border. With
Daldry directs. (R)
framed for a theft by a high-ranking
and Heydon Prowse are paired in Agnieszka H olland’s highly praised
CHARLIE’S ANGELS*** Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu get togeth
Manchu officer. With Anita Mui. (R)
stars in this com ic look at the weird
Penelope Cruz, Lu cas Black and Henry Thomas.
world of dog show com petitions. With Catherine O ’Hara and Eugene Levy. (R)
1 9 9 3 adaptation of the cla ssic ch il dren’s book about a spoiled orphan
TRAFFIC**** Michael Douglas,
er for this skimpy-on-the-costumes, heavy-on-the-effects adaptation of the
n e w o n v id e o
CHAC: THE RAIN GOD Mexican film m ak
who moves in with her uncle and dis
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benecio Del Toro star in Steven Soderbergh’s hard
vintage TV series. Don’t worry, Bill
ME, MYSELF & IREN E*** Jim Carrey
er Rolando Klein earned critical acclaim in 1 9 7 4 for this mystical
covers a world of beauty and mystery. (NR)
hitting and complex rumination on
Murray is fully clothed. (P G -13)
plays good cop-bad cop without any
A m erica’s drug war. (R)
MEET THE PARENTS*'* In the latest
adventure about a village in the grip of
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (NR) As
MISS CONGENIALITY**'* Sandra
from Jay
a devastating drought and forced to
Cold War black com edies go, John
Bullock stars in the story of an unre
De Niro is an intimidating ex-CIA oper
Farrelly brothers. Renee Zellweger
seek the aid of a mysterious diviner it
Frankenheim er’s 1 9 6 2 cla ssic has few
fined FBI agent who gets a major
ative. Ben Stiller is the prospective
costars as the woman he finds arrest ing. (R)
p r e v ie w s
(Austin Powers) Roach Robert
fears is a w itch. (NR)
rivals. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey
makeover so she can go undercover in
son-in-law who accom panies his
THE GIFT Sam Raimi directs this super natural thriller set in a sm all Southern
and Angela Lansbury star in this tim e
a beauty pageant. Michael Caine
less festival of fear and paranoia. (NR)
daughter home for a first visit and finds him self on the wrong end of a
town in the ’5 0 s and concerning a
DOUBLE TA K E**'* Orlando Jones and
costars. Donald Petrie directs. (PG-13) WHAT WOMEN WANT*** Mel Gibson
psychic who helps police find a m iss ing woman. The ensem ble cast
Eddie Griffin are teamed in this buddy comedy about a banker who’s framed
includes Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank and Keanu Reeves. (R)
stars in the new comedy from writer-
grueling interrogation. With Teri Polo
director Nancy Meyers, in the role of a
and Blythe Danner. (P G -13) THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER (NR)
for laundering drug money and tries to
regular guy who suddenly develops the
In his latest, martial arts superstar
switch identities with a street hustler
ability to hear what women are think
SNATCH Brad Pitt heads the cast of
to avoid authorities. George Gallo directs. (P G -13)
VERTICAL LIMIT*** Chris O ’Donnell
Guy R itch ie ’s new comedy, the story of
SAVE THE LAST DANCE*** Julia Stiles
plays a young clim ber who launches a
a diamond heist gone awry. Benicio Del Toro and Dennis Farina costar. (R)
stars in the story of a small-town white girl who moves to Chicago and devel
highly treacherous recue expedition to
CHOCOLAT The new comedy from Lasse
ops a passion for dance and a young
atop the world’s second-highest moun
Hallstrom is set in the 1 9 5 0 s and
black man. Vince Green costars.
tain. Bill Paxton and Scott Glenn costar. (PG-13)
ing. With Helen Hunt. (PG-13)
stars Juliet Binoche as a single mother
Thom as Carter directs. (PG -13) ANTITRUST*** From director Peter
DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?*** Seann
open an unusual chocolate shop. With
Howitt com es this saga of a young
William Scott and Ashton Kutcher play
Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. (P G -13)
computer genius who discovers the
hard-partying potheads who wake up
dark side of Silicon Valley. Ryan
one morning to find they ca n ’t find
Phillippe and Tim Robbins star. (PG-
their car and need to piece together
13)
the events of the previous night.
0 BROTHER, WHERE ART TH O U?***'* George Clooney and John Turturro star
Jennifer Garner costars. Danny Leiner directs. (PG-13)
in the latest from the the Coens, a
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE*'*
* = REFUND, PLEASE ** = COULD'VE BEEN WORSE, BUT NOTA LOT *** = HAS ITS MOMENTS; SO-SO ***** SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE BEAR ****** AS GOODAS IT GETS
comedy about M ississippi chain-gang
Disney’s latest animated m usical com edy tells the story of a young emperor
THE FAMILY MAN**
escapees that the brothers say they based on The Odyssey. (PG-13)
the story of a Wall Street playboy who
STATE AND M A IN ***'* The new film from writer-director David Mamet
It's a Wonderful Life meets The Sixth Sense, sort of, in
wakes up one morning m agically trans planted into the life he might have led if he’d married his high-school sweet heart. Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni star. (PG-13)
should have special appeal to Burlington-area residents. It tells the com ic story of what happens to a New England burg when a huge Hollywood movie crew com es to town for a shoot.
CHRISTM AS***'* Ron Howard directs this adaptation of the children’s cla s sic. Jim Carrey stars as the big green meanie. With Christine Baranski and Molly Shannon. (PG)
Beneath) Zem eckis com es the reason
BILLY ELLIO T***'* Jam ie Bell and Julie
ALL THE PRETTY H O RSES**'* In Billy
Walters star in the saga of a talented
of a corporate strategist stranded on a
Bob Thornton’s adaptation of the
young dancer torn between the expec-
shOWtimES NICKELODEON CINEM AS College Street, Burlington, 8 6 3 -9 5 1 5 . W e d n e sd a y 1 7 — t h u r s d a y 1 8 13 Days 6 :2 0 , 9 :3 0 . 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 6 :5 0 , 9 :2 5 . State and Main 7 :1 0 , 10. Cast Away 6 :4 0 , 9 :4 0 . What Women Want 6 :3 0 , 9 :4 5 . All The Pretty Horses 7 , 9 :5 0 . frid a y 1 9 — t h u rs d a y 2 5 The Gift* 12:2 5 , 3 :3 0 , 7 :10 , 9 :5 0 . Chocolat* 1 2 :3 5 , 3 :5 0 , 7 , 9 :4 0 . 13 Days 12 :1 5 , 3 :2 0 , 6 :3 0 , 9 :3 0 . 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 1 2 :5 0 , 3 :4 0 , 6 :4 5 , 9 :1 5 . State and Main 1 2 , 2 :2 0 , 4 :4 0 , 7 :15 , 1 0 . Cast Away 12:0 5 , 3 :1 0 , 6 :2 0 , 9 :2 0 . Matinees Sat-Sun only.
SHOW CASE CINEM AS 5 Williston Road, S. Burlington, 8 6 3 -4 4 9 4 . W e d n e sd a y 1 7 — t h u r s d a y 1 8 Save the Last Dance 6 :5 5 , 9 :3 0 . Double Take 7 :1 5 , 9 :4 0 . Family Man 6 :3 5 , 9 :2 0 . Miss Congeniality 6 :4 5 , 9 :2 5 . Dude, Where's My Car? 9 :3 5 . How the Grinch Stole Christmas 7 :0 5 . frid a y 1 9 — t h u rs d a y 2 5 Save the Last Dance 1:3 0 , 4 :2 0 , 7 , 9 :3 5 . Double Take 1:4 0 , 4 :3 0 , 7 :1 0 , 9 :4 0 . Family Man 1, 3 :5 0 , 6 :3 0 , 9 :15 . Miss Congeniality 1:2 0 , 4 :1 0 , 6 :5 0 , 9 :2 5 . What Women Want 1:1 0 , 4 , 6 :4 0 , 9 :2 0 . Matinees Sat-Sun only.
CINEMA NINE Shelburne Rd, S. Burlington, 8 6 4 -5 6 1 0 . W e d n e sd a y 1 7 — t h u r s d a y 1 8 Antitrust 7 :3 0 , 10 :0 5 . Save the Last Dance 7 , 9 :3 0 . Finding Forrester 6 :4 5 , 9 :4 5 . Traffic 6 :4 0 , 9 :5 0 . Cast Away 6 :3 0 , 9 :4 0 . Family Man 7 :2 0 , 10 :0 5 . Miss
cosponsored by Lippa’s Jewelers
the m usic of Sting. (PG) DR. SEU SS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE
Tom Hanks grew that beard, the story
{What Lies
FiLM Q u IZ
transformed into a llama by a devious and power-hungry enemy. Featuring
Alec Baldwin and Charles Durning star. (R)
CAST AWAY*** From Robert
the hoyts cinemas
save his sister and her team trapped
who moves to a sm all French town to
sh o rts
help from anyone, as a split personali ty in the latest laugher from the
All shows daily unless otherwise indicated. *New film
Congeniality 6 :5 0 , 9 :2 0 . What Women Want 7 :1 0 , 1 0 . The Emperor’s New Groove 7 :15 . Dude, Where’s My Car? 9 :10 . frid a y 1 9 — th u rsd a y 2 5 Snatch* 1:2 0 , 4 :4 0 , 7 :3 0 , 10:3 5 . Antitrust 9 :1 0 . Save the Last Dance 1:10 , 4 :2 0 , 7 , 9 :3 0 . Finding Forrester 12 :3 0 , 3 :4 5 , 6 :4 5 , 9 :4 5 . Traffic 12:1 5 , 3 :3 0 , 6 :4 0 , 9 :5 0 . Cast Away 12 :0 5 , 3 :15 , 6 :3 0 , 9 :4 0 . Family Man 1, 3 :5 0 , 7 :2 0 , 10:0 5 . Miss Congeniality 1:3 0 , 4 , 6 :5 0 , 9 :2 0 . What Women Want 1:15, 4 :1 0 , 7 :10 , 10 . The Emperor's New Groove 12 :2 0 , 2 :3 0 , 4 :3 0 , 7 :1 5 . Matinees SatSun only.
ETHAN ALLEN CINEM AS 4 North Avenue, Burlington, 8 6 3 -6 0 4 0 . W e d n e sd a y 1 7 — t h u rs d a y 1 8 Meet the Parents 1:4 0 , 4 :10 , 7 , 9 :1 5 . Remember the Titans 4 , 9 :2 5 . Pay it Forward 1:3 0 , 6 :5 0 . Charlie's Angels 1:5 0 , 4 :2 0 , 7 :2 0 , 9 :3 0 . The Legend of Drunken Master 2 , 4 :3 0 , 7 :10 , 9 :4 0 . Matinees Sat-Mon only. frid a y 1 9 — t h u rs d a y 2 5 Dude, Where’s My Car? 2 :1 0 , 4 , 7 :3 0 , 9 :2 5 . Meet the Parents 1:4 0 , 4 :1 0 , 7 , 9 :15 . Charlie's Angels 1:5 0 , 4 :2 0 , 7 :2 0 , 9 :3 0 . The Legend of Drunken Master 2 , 4 :3 0 , 7 :1 0 , 9 :3 5 . Matinees Sat-Sun only.
BIJOU CIN EPLEX T-2 -3 -4 Rt. 1 0 0 , Morrisville, 8 8 8 -3 2 9 3 . W e d n e sd a y 1 7 — th u rsd a y 1 8 Family Man 1. 10 , 3 :4 0 , 7 , 9 :1 5 . Vertical Limit 1, 3 :3 0 , 6 :5 0 , 9 :0 5 . Castaway 12 :4 0 , 3 :2 5 , 6 :3 0 , 9 . What Women Want 12 :5 0 , 3 :3 5 , 6 :4 0 , 9 :1 0 . Matinees SatSun only. Late show Fri-Sat only.
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Save the Last Dance 1:10 , 3 :4 0 , 7 :10 , 9 :10. Vertical Limit 1, 3 :3 0 , 6 :5 0 , 9 :0 5 . Cast Away 12 :4 0 , 3 :2 5 , 7 , 9 :1 5 . What Women Want 12:5 0 , 3 :3 5 , 6 :4 0 , 9 . Matinees Sat-Sun only. Late show Fri-Sat only.
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movie in which the above performer played each of
W ed n e sd a y 1 7 — th u rsd a y 1 8 Billy Elliot 6 :3 0 , 8 :5 0 . The Manchurian Candidate 4 (Thurs).
the characters shown?
frid a y 1 9 — th u rsd a y 2 5 Best in Show* 1:30 (Sat-Sun), 6 :3 0 , 8 :3 0 . The Secret Garden 11 (Sat-Sun). Chac: The Rain God 4 (Sat-Sun).
Schedules for the following theaters are not available at press time.
For more film fun don’t forget to watch "Art Patrol" every Thursday, Friday and Sunday on News Channel 5!
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Speaking of Civil Unions — The Civil Unions Review Commission filed its required report with the Legislature last Friday. And so far everything’s running smooth as silk. Between July 1 and December 29, 1527 same-sex couples got their love legalized in Vermont. Windham County recorded the most. Also, 35 percent were male couples and 65 percent were female. Just 22 percent of the par ticipants were Vermont residents. After Vermont, the largest number of CU-ed folks came from New York, Massachusetts and California. Non-U.S. residents hailed from Canada, England, Venezuela, Mexico, Phillipines, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, India and Guatemala. To date, the hysterical asser tions by opponents that civil unions were a “threat to tradition al marriage” have in no way, shape or form been substantiated.
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“Winter Gala?” In fact, it was called both in the letter that went out to prospective donors. With the first Republican Speaker of the House in 16 years, it’s “make hay while the sun shines time” for Vermont Republicans. And Gorgeous George McNeil of Danby, the whiz-bang head hon cho of the GOP’s legislative politi cal action committee, has wasted no time in organizing the earliest campaign fundraiser in memory. It was scheduled to be held Tuesday night in two parts, kind of a double-header. The first part was a $ 1 00-ahead liquid part at Montpelier’s legendary Thrush Tavern, the watering hole that features the closest beer taps to the Statehouse. The second part was a chow-
down across the street at the Capitol Plaza H otel-Fpr-$150 .you get cocktails and dinner. The headliners were Walter Freed and State Sen. John Bloomer, the Rutland Rocket. Wow! “For those who wish to help sponsor these events there are 3 Sponsorship levels: Patron Circle, $500, Leadership Circle, $1000, and Speakers Circle, $2000. Sponsorship levels include the Cocktail Party and a seat with the Republican Majority Leaders and the Speaker.” Election 2002 is just around the corner. In a political cam paign, one can never have too much cash on hand.
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b re a d , spread Want the government to get out of your business? Put your money where your mouth is, and bite into “Burlington Bread.” You’ll find plenty of promoters — call it the “upper crust” — at a bash designed to spread the word about the local currency alternative. Musicians Ellen Powell, Brian Perkins and Steph Pappas, magician Christopher McBride and poets Kim Jordan and Michael Nedell are expect ed to show, /hich should make for a tasty slice of night life.
Barnes 6 Noble, S. Burlington.
7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001
Thursday, January 18. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington. 8 p.m. $ 7 or 5
sister act “Life is short and it’s up to
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The D’Amours are a nuclear family on the brink of melt
Having Our Say — the
called “Moonlight in Vietnam” — so they should feel right at home in
Delany S is te rs ’ First 100
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has failed as a father, and his son, Ryan, has drifted into a dangerous life as a car thief. In his first novel, B lu e’s Coach Works, South
ing the wit, wisdom and his tories of two AfricanAmerican sisters on the occasion of their centenni
Burlington’s Neal Graham
als. Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater presents the
chronicles a family’s disin tegration and determination
state’s maiden production of
to reinvent itself. Could be the family name has some thing to do with the solu tion. Get it from the source at a booksigning this week. Thursday, January 18.
the play to coincide with Vermont’s first official recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Thursdays through Sundays, January 18 through February 4. Montpelier City
8 p.m. Sundays at 6:3 0 p.m. $18. Info, 2 2 9 -0 4 9 2 .
“ moonlight” in vermoht Like a lot of touring acts, the renowned Khac Chi Ensemble plays its share of
Saturday, January 20. Tuttle Hall, College of St. Joseph, Rutland. 8 p.m. $8-15. Info, 775-5413.
golden oldies. The differ ence is, their greatest hits go back 4000 years. Now based in Canada,the duo has earned worldwide acclaim for its high-spirited and imaginative presenta tion of Vietnamese classical and folk music using only indigenous string, wind and percussion instruments. The
his work opens Sunday with a lecture on local landscapes by Vermont Life editor Tom Slayton. Not only have the curators docu
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Sunday, January 21.
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Flem ing Museum, UVM, Burlington. 2 p.m. Free.
annual tour with a perfor mance of “Riding the Wild
Info, 656-0 7 5 0 .
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Burlington’s Adirondack
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tour will take them through
Charles Louis ^eyde, a French-born artist who cap
The Dance Company of Middlebury is a class act.
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century Vermont from his
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STORY TIME: Little listeners \ enjoy tall tales. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. STORY AND CRAFT TIME:
• Also, see listings in “Sound Preschoolers aged 3 to 6 dabble in Advice.” designs and drama. Fletcher Free BENEFIT CONCERT: Jamie Lee Library, Burlington, 10-10:45 a.m. Thurston and the Rattlers team up Free. Info, 865-7216. with Jimmy “T ” in a rare Vermont appearance to raise funds for the Killington Music Festival. Wobbly BRANCH OUT BURLINGTON Barn, Killington, 8 p.m. $10. Info, MEETING: Join with others inter 773-4003. ested in the cultivation and care of OPEN MIKE: Strum, sing or say urban trees. Fletcher Free Library, your piece at the Kept Writer i Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, Bookshop, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. 863-4938. Info, 527-6242. BUSINESS MEETING: The 40TH ARMY BAND CON “good old girls” of the Women’s CERT: The National Guard Band Business Owners Network talk weaves “An American Tapestry” at taxes. Windjammer Restaurant, S. the Vermont State House, Burlington, noon - 1:30 p.m. Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, $11.30. Info, 434-4091. 338-3480. LEARNING AND LUNCH SERIES: UVM prof Susan Wehry presents her research on adult men ‘CARNIVAL’ AUDITIONS: The tal health and the aging process. Middlebury Community Players UVM Montpelier Regional Center, seek singers, actors, dancers and City Center, noon - 1 p.m. Free. acrobats for their spring musical Info, 800-870-0388. production. Middlebury Union BATTERED WOMEN’S SUP High School, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, PORT GROUP: Women Helping 443-9046. Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1996. ‘NURSE BETTY’: This unlikely , HEALTH LECTURE: Learn how comedy follows the flight of a to get fit — fast — at a talk enti newly widowed waitress to Los tled “Half Hour to Better Health.” Angeles, where she immerses her Chiropractic Works, Burlington, self in a General Hospital-style soap 5:20 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5000. opera. Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6 . Info, 748-2600. ‘STARDOM’: Filmmaker Denys Arcand chronicles the rise of a super-model through the distorted lens of media hype and fashion coverage. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth • Also, see listings in “Sound College, Hanover, N.H., 6:45 & Advice.” 9:15 p.m. $6 . Info, 603-646-2422. BURLINGTON BREAD BASH: ‘SANKOFA’: In the midst of a Local musicians, including Ellen fashion show, a 2 0 th-century Powell, Brian Perkins and Steph African-American model is whisked Pappas, help circulate the local cur back in time to slave days. Loew rency. See “to do” list, this issue. Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Dartmouth College, Hanover, Burlington, 8 p.m. 5 slices or $7. N.H., 8:30 p.m. $1. Info, 603Info, 434-8103. 646-2422. RANDOM ASSOCIATION: The
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art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. FIGURE DRAWING: The human figure motivates aspiring and accomplished artists in a weekly drawing session on the second floor of the Firehouse Gallery, 135 Church St., Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-7165.
words CRIME NOVEL BOOK DIS CUSSION: Readers launch a thor
ough investigation of Pick-up, by Charles Willeford. South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.
kids ‘TINY TOTS’ STORY TIME:
The 3 -and-under crowd shares social time and stories. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
a cappella band cooks up a choral treat to recognize the return of the Local Legends live music series in the Daily Bread Bakery, Rich mond, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 434-3148. ‘KEEPING THE AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUAL ALIVE’:
Tenor Francois Clemmons and members of the Middlebury College choir explore the roots of traditional spirituals in solos and choral form. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
drama ‘W;T’: An English professor strug
gles to find humanity while under going cancer treatment in the Pulitzer-winning drama performed by Center Stage. See review, this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $22. Info, 863-5966. ‘HAVING OUR SAY’: Lost Nation Theater stages the dramatic narrative of Sadie and Bessie
Delany, two African-American cen tenarians whose life stories prod audiences to confront their preju dice. See “to do” list, this issue. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 229-0492.
film ‘NURSE BETTY’: See January 17. ‘THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE’: Luis
Bunuel’s cinematic satire centers on six characters who are forever sit ting down to dinner, yet never actually eat. Loew AuwHnum, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7<p.m. $6 . Info, 603-646-2422.
art • See exhibit openings ir •the art listings.
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author introduces his new novel, Blue’s Coach Works, about a family’s falling apart and redefining itself. See “to do” list, this issue. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘WHY IS CANCER KILLING OUR PETS?’: Author Deborah
Straw shares lessons from her new book about the treatment and pre vention,of cancers in domestic ani mals. Bdok Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. WRITER’S WORKSHOP 2001:
Wannabe writers are welcome to discuss their manuscripts and top ics for upcoming workshops. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. BOOK CLUB: Readers get cozy with hot drinks and baked goods to discuss Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. Vermont Leadership Center, E. Charleston, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 723-4705. POETRY SLAM: Sekou Sunidata refs a struggle of student wordsmiths. Collis Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 10 p.m. midnight. Free. Info, 603646-2422. POETRY WORKSHOP: Local poet David Weinstock shares writ ing tips with aspiring authors. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7523.
kids SONG AND STORYTIME:
Threes are company at this singing read-along for babies and toddlers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. , BABY BEEBEE BIRD’ STORY TIME: Kids hear about an avian
insomniac and how the other ani mals help him to sleep. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
sport GROUP SKI: Adventurers explore
the network of nordic trails at the Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 9:45 a.m. Free. Register, 533-2647.
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Borders!moment no. 24 “As change sweeps rural America in the 21st century, this is the handbook for community leaders seeking to rebuild rural institutions to meet the challenges of the future. It is inspiring, optimistic, and practical.” —U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy IN C O M M U N I T I E S
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all levels learn more about the hands-on healing method. Spirit Dancer Books, Burlington, 6:308:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY WORKSHOP: Parents get tips on
making the home healthier, from improving air quality to reducing radon. Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 524-1234. WOMEN’S BUSINESS SEMI NAR: “Business therapist” Marcia
Rosen guides participants in “elimi nating obstacles to success.” Shera ton Hotel, S. Burlington, 1:304:30 p.m. $59. Register, 728-9101. ART AND SCIENCE CREATIV ITY SEMINAR: Faculty members
tackle the topic of creativity in a lunchtime panel discussion. JaffeFriede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 12:15-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 234-5401.
music • Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.” PACIFICA QUARTET: The young group offers “impassioned interpretations” of one string quar tet from each of Beethovens three “periods.” The Vermont Mozart Festival presents at the First Con gregational Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097. PHIL HENRY: The Adirondack singer-songwriter strums for liter ary listeners at Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. MUD SEASON: The folk group gets knee deep in New England songs and stories. Deerleap Books, Bristol, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5684. PIANO CONCERT: Brazilianborn keyboarder Arnold Cohen carves through a concert of works
by Bach, Chopin and Brahms. Concert Hall, Middlebury Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 443-6433. KATE BARCLAY: The local singer-songwriter turns book browsers on to her brand of “alter native folk.” Kept Writer Bookshop, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242. SETH YACOVONE BAND: The
young bluesman and his bandmates belt it out as part of the River Arts Winter Concert Series. Peoples Academy Auditorium, Morrisville, 9:15 p.m. $8 . Info, 888-1261.
dance LATIN DANCE PARTY: New York DJ Jose mixes classic and fresh Latin American hits. Coyotes Tex-Mex Cafe, 161 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. $5. Info, 864-4334.
drama ‘W;T’: See January 18. ‘CREATOR OF BASKETBALL’:
Actor Robert Cheney portrays James Naismith as he invented the popular American game at Springfield College. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. LYRIC INFORMATIONAL MEETING: Recruits interested in
The Three Musketeers learn about stage and backstage roles in Lyric Theatre’s spring production. Champlain Senior Center, McClure Multi-Generational Center, Burling ton, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6383.
film ‘DANCER IN THE DARK’:
Bjork stars as a blind factory work er trying to raise her sickly son in this film from Lars von Trier, who also made Breaking The Waves. Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6 . Info, 748-2600.
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kids ‘MUSIC WITH ROBERT AND GIGI’: Kids sing songs with
Robert Resnik and his fiddle-play ing friend Gigi Weisman. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216.
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Solomon concentrates on the men tal health risks of smoking. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill, UVM, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3181. CROP CIRCLES SLIDE SHOW:
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Glenn Broughton offers evidence of the mysterious patterns that have turned up in farmers’ fields. Spirit Dancer Books, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5666. WILDLIFE TRACKING WORKSHOP: Tracker Susan
Morse offers pointers on finding signs of bear, bobcat, moose and other forest creatures. Richmond, noon - 4 p.m. $10. Register, 223-2328. HUNTING AND FISHING SHOW: This annual event brings
together sportspeople of all stripes to check out exhibitors, seminars and the “wall of trophies.” CollinsPerley Complex, St. Albans, noon - 8 p.m. $7. Info, 877-0033. ‘2600’ MEETING: Hackers, cyberpunks, geeks and assorted wired types meet to socialize and converse. Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. RAPE CRISIS VOLUNTEERS:
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Continued from page 3b development and advocacy efforts. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0555. GLBTQ SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends and get support. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 800452-2428. BATTERED WOMEN’S SUP PORT GROUP: Battered Womens Services and Shelter facilitates a group in Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0855.
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‘ROME AND JEWELS’: Hiphop poet and choreographer Rennie Harris and his dancers transform Shakespeare’s Romeo - :; and Juliet into a 2 1 st-century bal let. See preview, this issue. A preperformance talk brings on the Bard at 5:30 p.m. Flynn Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $22 & 28. Info, 863-5966. ‘DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE’: Put spiritual practice in motion by participating in dances and songs that celebrate commu nity. Vermont Yoga Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-7. Info, 482-2836. CONTRA DANCE: Ed Hall calls the steps at this community dance, with accompanimentFromb George Wilson and Pete Suther- w land. Capital Grange Hall, Mont pelier, 8 p.m. $7. Info, 744-6163.
music • Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.” 4 PIANO CONCERT: Paul Orgel kicks off the Capital City Concert Series with a program called “Identity Exchange: German music in the Italian style and Italian music in the German style.” See “backtalk,” this issue. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 229-9408. ‘AFTER DARK’ MUSIC SERIES: The four Saskatchewan^; born siblings in Hart-Rouge offer acoustic roots music with a pop sensibility. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 7 p;m. $ l 6 -d 18. Info, 388-0216. INTRO TO ‘NINE’: Potential chorus members sample the music from Stowe Theater Guilds upcoming summer production. Town Hall Theatre, Stowe, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 253-3961. KHAC CHI ENSEMBLE: The Vietnamese duo uses traditional instruments to update ancient
drama ‘W;T’: See January 18. ‘COYOTE DREAMS’ AUDI TIONS: Jennifer Bloomfield is seeking a male actor for her upcoming play about an ill
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woman’s closest relationships. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Call for appoint ment, 862-4223. COMMUNITY FORUM: Members of the Lost Nation Theater troupe discuss transform ing non-fiction for stage in con junction with a production of Having Our Say. Montpelier City Hall, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0492. ‘OH, VICTORIA!’: Victoria Woodhull ran for president even before women could vote. Sarah Payne plays the scandalous fore mother to female pols in a onewoman show. Reading Town Hall, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 484-7271.
HOPSTOP: SONG AND DANCE OF HAWAII: Members of the Hawaiian Student Assoc iation share traditional songs and dances for children and families. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 603646-2010. BORDERS STORYTIME: Tales of fact and fiction fire up young imaginations at Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. ‘TRACKS TELL TALES’: Naturalist detectives tail local ani mals to learn where they’re going — and why. Shelburne Farms, ages 4 and 5 at 9:30-11:30 a.m. and ages 6 and older at 12:302:30 p.m. $6 . Register, 985-8686. CREATIVE WRITING WORK SHOP: Carol Ann Wooster works with 8 - to 15-year-olds on creative writing projects. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 862-4325.
film ‘DANCER IN THE DARK: See January 19, 7 & 9 p.m. ‘BEAU TRAVAIL: In this French film, an ex-Foreign Legion officer remembers his past glories in Africa and the destruction caused by his jealousy. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘DR. T AND THE WOMEN’: Robert Altman directed this cine matic exploration of a Dallas gynecologist and the strong-willed women in his life. Loew Audit orium, Hopkins Center, Dart mouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6 . Info, 603646-2422.
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words VERMONT WRITERS BOOK\<Jl DISCUSSION: A roundtable of readers looks into real Vermont life via Howard Frank Mosher’s A Stranger in the Kingdom. Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 644-5603.
VERMONT EXPOS BAN QUET AND AUCTION: Baseball fans gather during the “hot stove” off-season to benefit the Vermont Children’s Aid Society. Clarion Hotel, S. Burling ton, 5 p.m. $50. Info, 655-4200. SNOWSHOE HIKE: Beginning and intermediate groups venture into the woods with expert guides. Meet at Extern Mountain Sports, S. Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. " ‘ Register, 884-0473. ADIRONDACK HIKE: Get vis tas of frozen ponds on a high country trek along the Schroon River with the Burlington section of the Green Mountain Club. Free. Register, 863-1145. SLOPESTYLE SNOWBOARD CONTEST: The Mount
Mansfield Ski and Snowboard Club hosts a qualifying event for the USASA nationals. Stowe Moun tain Resort, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Regis tration $3 5 , spectators free with lift ticket. Info, 253-7704 ext. 24. INTRO TO CROSS-COUN TRY SKIING: Learn techniques to get a kick out of cross-country skiing while exploring the trails at the Vermont Leadership Center, E. Charleston, 10 a.m. - noon. $5. Info, 723-4705. SNOWSHOE NATURE WALK A naturalist leads a woodland tromp to observe the winter life of plants and animals. Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $5.507.50. Register, 533-2647. .
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duo kicks off the Winter Blues series with an acoustic afternoon at Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. VAUGHAN RECITAL SERIES:
Dartmouth College students of Alex Ogle toot their flutes for an audience. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Dance Theater presents a foot loose history of jazz dance in a performance dedicated to the late film and jazz aficionado Lorraine Good. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-3982.
drama ‘W;T’: See January 18, 3 p.m. STAGED READING: Members
of Northern Stage run through the new screenplay by Norwich film maker Nora Jacobson. A feedback session with the filmmaker follows at Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 296-7000. ‘CABARET SHAKESPEARE’:
James Hogue presents “bawdy, boisterous flashes of the Bard” in a one-man show at the South Burlington Community Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.
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race on a moto-cross-style course open to skiers, snowboarders and skiboarders. Killington Resort, Reg istration 8-9 a.m. $50, spectators free with lift ticket. Info, 422-6200. LITTLE RIVER STATE PARK:
art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. LANDSCAPE LECTURE:
Vermont Life editor Tom Slayton celebrates a bygone Burlington landscape painter at the opening of an exhibit of works by Charles Louis Heyde. See “to do” list, this issue. Fleming Museum Audit orium, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750. SLIDE LECTURE: Fiber artist and writer Faith Ringgold gives an illustrated talk about her “story quilts” that incorporate text and textiles. See art review, this issue. Middlebury Center for the Arts, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
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get feedback and try writing exer cises at the Kept Writer Bookshop, St. Albans, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242.
The Montpelier section of the Green Mountain Club leads a cross-country ski trip on the Stevenson Brook and Hedgehog Hill trails. Meet at the rear park ing lot of Montpelier High School, 11:30 a.m. Free. Register, 223-7025.
HUNTING AND FISHING SHOW: See January 19, 9 a.m. -
5 p.m. OPEN HOUSE: Families learn
more about the academic offerings at the private Mater Christi School, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3992. HOVERCRAFT EXHIBIT:
Sharon Academy’s grand prize winners of the UVM design com petition float their levitating invention at the University Mall, S. Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8748.
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bucklers try out for Lyric Theatre’s spring production of the Dumas classic. Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., S. Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6383.
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words BOOK GROUP: Readers share their impressions of John Irving’s Widow for One Year. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
kids STORY TIME: See January 17. SINGING SONGS: Musical
librarian Robert Resnik hosts a vocal workout for little listeners at the Wheeler Community School, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4420.
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Discuss the weather with Fairbanks Museum meteorologist Mark Breen and Kathleen Friestad, co-authors of "The Kids’ Book o f Weather Forecasting. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
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tunities with the Peace Corps. Marsh Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8269. COMMUNITY CULTURAL NIGHT: Families for whom
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words RURAL AMERICA BOOK SIGNING: UVM prof Jean Richardson, author of Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric o f Rural America, offers a scholarly look at sustainable rural community development. Borders, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. ‘THE BABEL EFFECT’: Based on up-to-the-minute neurologi cal and genetic research, the lat est from Montpelier-based Daniel Hecht has been touted as a “thinking person’s thriller.” See review, this issue. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. BURLINGTON WRITERS GROUP: Bring pencil, paper and the will to be inspired to this writerly gathering at the Daily Planet, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6063.
kids SONG AND STORYTIME: See January 18. OWL EVENING: Experts from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science teach families who’s whooo in the world of nighttime predators. Leicester Central School, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 247-8825.
sport STOWE WINTER CARNI VAL: Arts meet athletics in a sixday event that kicks off with the annuals“Right to Brag” race, fea turing the best ski bums from Stowe and Sugarbush. Spruce Peak Ski Area, noon. Free to watdh. Info, 253-7704.
Winners and losers: trade stories at an apres-ski race party at the Matterhorn, Stowe, 4 p.m. 253-8198.
etc PEACE CORPS INFO SESSION: See January 22, North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM. SILENT AUCTION AND MIXER: The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Com merce hosts a social gathering for local business types. Magic Hat Brewery, S. Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $12. Info, 8633489 ext 2 1 1 . ‘WILD UTAH’ SLIDE TALK: This multi-media event docu ments citizen efforts to conserve Utah’s red-rock ^canyon country. 103 Rowell, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1447. VERMONT FARM SHOW: Displays fill three floors of two huge buildings in a farmer-ori ented show of Vermont agricul ture. Barre Civic Center, 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2433. WEEKLY MEDITATION: Learn how focused thought can result in a “calmed center.” Spirit Dancer Books, Burlington, 78:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. RITUAL WORKSHOP: Brian Hebert makes the spiritual con nection between ritual and reli gion. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 229-4425. l.vn,II R.S AND U1IU1REN GROUP: Dads andLids spend I quality time together during a weekly meeting at the Wheeler Community School, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. BASIC MEDITATION: Cherokee and Tibetan Buddhist practices help renew the body and spirit. Ratna Shri Tibetan Meditation Center, 12 Hillside Ave., Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-5435.
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aikido AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: Adults, Monday through Friday, 5:456:45 p.m. and 7-8:15 p.m. Thursdays, noon - 1 p.m. Saturdays, 9-11:45 a.m. Children, Tuesdays &c Thursdays, 4-5 p.m. Aikido of Champlain Valley, 17 E. Allen St., Winooski. $55/month, $120/three months. Introductory classes start January 18 and February 2 at 5:45 p.m. Info, 654-6999 or www.aikidovt.org. Study this graceful, flow ing martial art to develop flexibility, confidence and selfdefense skills. AIKIDO O F VERM ONT: Ongoing classes Monday through Friday, 6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Saturday, 9-10:30 a.m. Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m. Above Onion River Co-op, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info, 862-9785. Practice the art of Aikido in a safe and supportive envi ronment.
art KIDS’ FUN W IT H CARTOONING: Saturday mornings, beginning January 20. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Rd., Shelburne:'!Ihfo,'985-3648. Kids escape from the television variety and learn to cre ate their own characters and cartoons. SK ETCHBOOK W IT H JANET FREDERICKS: Tuesdays, January 23 through February 13, 6-8 p.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. $50. Info, 865-7166. Learn techniques to draw architecture, landscape and people using pen, pencil and watercolor. IN TRO T O PASTELS: Wednesdays, January 24 through February 28, 1-3 p.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. $65. Info, 865-7166. fa n Fead helps you create paintings based on still lifes, photos or sketches. ART 101: Thursdays, January 25 through February 13, 10-11:30 a.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. $30. Info, 865-7166. Diane Gabriel lectures on the Impressionists and post-impressionists and explores the ideas behind their works. CLASSES FOR YOUNG ARTISTS: “Monoprints for Children Ages 6-8,” Saturday, January 27, 10 a.m. - noon. $10. “Sculpture for Children Ages 6-8,” Saturday, February 10, 10 a.m. - noon. $10. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Jude Bond helps young artists explore simple print and sculpture techniques. IN T R O D U C T IO N T O M O N O TYPE: Mondays, January 29 through February 26, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. $140. Info, 865-7166. Diane Gabriel assists adults in basic printm aking techniques. A COLLAGE OF O N E ’S OW N: Mondays, beginning February 5. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Create and , assemble a collage combining such tech niques as printing, sewing sculpture and CHIN ESE BRUSH CALLIGRAPHY: Tuesdays, beginning February 6. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Learn the aes thetics o f Chinese calligraphy, focusing on basic principles o f balance and structure. ELDER ART: Tuesdays, February 6 through March 27. Drawing, 1-3 p.m. Firehouse Gallery Building, Church Street. Info, 865-7166. Watercolors,
9:30-11:30 a.m. O ’Brien Civic Center, S. Burlington. Info, 879-0685. $76 for drawing, $90 for watercolor, includes all materials. Instructor, Mark Montalban. Call for details on other classes in St. Albans (524-1519), Bristol (453-5885) and South Hero (372-4237). Transpor tation assistance is available and an art show is scheduled at conclusion o f courses. BEGINN ING STAINED GLASS: January 23 & February 4, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild. $100, plus $7 materials. Info, 877-3668. Create a leaded stained glass pane while learning the frndam entals o f glass-cutting, soldering and cementing. IN T R O D U C T IO N T O TRADI TIONA L OIL PAINTING: Eight Tuesdays, January 30 through March 20, 6:30-9 p.m. Bristol Recreation Depart ment. $125- Info, 453-5885. New Yorktrained Lisa M errill offers a personalized step-by-step approach in the style o f the Old Masters. WATERCOLOR: Monday and Wednesday evenings, February 5 through 28. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild. $150. Info, 877-3668. Beginning and intermedi ate level artists focus on the traditional glazing technique as well as exercises in color analysis and layering.
autos AN TIQ U E AUTOS AND EARLY M O TO RIN G IN VERMONT: Saturday, February 10, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Avery’s Garage, Ferry Road, Charlotte. $40. Register, Community College of Vermont, 865-4422. Learn about Vermont’s early auto-related history and restoration o f antique automobiles.
bartending PROFESSIONAL BARTENDING TRAINING: Day, evening and weekend courses. Various locations. Info, 888854-4448 or bartendingschool.com. Get certified to make a mean martini, margarita, manhattan or mat tat.
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IN T R O T O KN ITTING: Saturday, January 20, 1:30-4:30 p.m. & Tuesdays, January 23 & 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Northeast Fiber Arts, Williston. Info, 288-8081. Leam the fundamentals o f wool working, including casting on, increasing or decreasing and decorative stitches while making a traditionalfishermans scarf. HANDM ADE TILE W ORKSHOP: Saturdays, January 20, February 10 & March 24, 1-4 p.m. Bristol Clay Studio. $75. Register, 453-5885. Students create
tiles to be mounted installed or used as trivets. Fee includes materials and firing. POTTERY FOR ADULTS, TEENS & CHILDREN: Classes begin in January. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Experience the excitement of expressingyour creativity with clay. Instruction fo r all levels. BEGINNING FLOOR LOOM WEAVING: Classes start January 17. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Create two pieces o f handivoven cloth while learning about looms, pattern drafting and weaving elements. TERRA SIGILLATA WEEKEND: January 20 & 21. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Delve into unglazed primitivefired pottery techniques. Beginners to advanced students welcome. ADULT POTTERY/BRISTOL: Eight Mondays, starting January 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Bristol Clay Studio. $125. Register, 453-5885. A ll levels explore wheel work, hand building, sculpture and tiles. INTRO TO WEAVING: Eight Thursdays beginning January 25. Northeast Fiber Arts, Williston, Info, 288-8081. Leam the basics o f weaving from “p lain”to frills, dressing the loom, planning andfinishing techniques. FELTING CLASSES: Introductory classes start Saturday, January 27. Northeast Fiber Arts, Williston. Info, 288-8081. Get into slippers, hats, jackets, nuno and needle felting. PAINTING CERAMICS: Ongoing classes. Blue Plate Ceramic Cafe, 119 College St., Burlington. Free. Info, 6520102. Learn thefundam ental o f painting ceramics. HANDPAINTED QUILT: Saturday, January 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Design and assemble a small quilt you paint, print and sew. DESIGN, CARVE & PRINT: Saturday, February 10. Shelburne Craft School, arbor Road, Shelburne. Info) 985648. M ake your mark with individually designed rubber stamps that can be used to create cards, stationery, etc. CLAY CLASSES: Ongoing classes. Frog Hollow State Craft Center, Burlington, Middlebury and Manchester. Info, 8607474, 388-3177 o r www.froghollow.org. Work with clay in various classes offered throughout the year. POTTERY & SCULPTURE: All ages and levels, group classes, private lessons, studio rental. Days, evenings, weekends. Vermont Clay Studio, 2802 Rt. 100, Waterbury Center. Register, 224-1126 ext. 41. Savor the pleasures and challenges o f working with clay, regardless o f your ceramic experience.
“Sexy Partnering & Styling,” 2-3 p.m. $15/each or $25/both. Register, 8647953. Leam or refine basic patterns, styling and advanced steps with New Yorkja zz influences. “JUST IN TIM E” ADVANCED BALLROOM DANCE CLASS: Four weeks, beginning February 7, 8-9:30 p.m. Jazzercize Fitness Center, Williston. $10/class. Register, 864-7953. A dd or polish your moves in elegant, smooth-style ballroom dances. PRE-VALENTINE’S DAY LATINO DANCE CLASS: Saturday, February 10, 7:30-9 p.m. Radisson Hotel, Burlington. Free. Info, 864-7953. Get hip to Cubanstyle salsa, merengue and new bachata dances. CUBAN-STYLE SALSA DANCE CLASSES: Four weeks, beginning February 15. Champlain Club, Crowley Street, Burlington. Intro level, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Level I, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Level II, 8:30-9:30 p.m. $10/eaph, $35/four. Register, 864-7953. Leam the salsa basics or the brand new Cuban rueda patterns and styling.
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MEDICINAL HERBS: Six Thursdays, January 18 through March 1, 6-9 p.m. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. $175, includes all materials. Info, 888-7671. Leam to make your own medicines, appro priate uses o f herbs and a 36-herb materia medica. BACKTALK: Tuesdays, January 23 through March 6, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Thursdays, 10:15-11:15 a.m., 69 Mountain St. Studio, Bristol. $8/class. Info, 453-5885. Leam practical and effec tive ways to recoverfrom or prevent back injury.
DANCE AT T H E FLYNN: Semesterlong classes and weekend workshops for children, teens and adults begin January 22. Flynn Center, Burlington. Info, 6524500. Scholarships available. Ongoing classes in modem dance include occasional “master class”encounters with visiting artists. BEGINNING M ODERN & JAZZ DANCE: Twelve Wednesdays beginning January 24, 1-2:30 p.m. Flynn Center, Burlington. $180. Info, 652-4500. Students discover the joy ofdance through modem, ja zz and improvisational move ment. SWING DANCE IN BRISTOL: Fridays, January 26 through March 9. Level 1, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Level 2, 6:307:30 p.m. Sundays, January 28 through March 1. Level 1, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Level 2, 5:30-6:30 p.m. General practice for both levels, 7:30-8 p.m. $42 for 6 weeks, $39 if pre-registered or $10 drop-in. Bristol Recreation Department. Info, 453-5885. Leam to Lindy Hop — the original style o f swing. YMCA DANCE: Ongoing classes for adults, teens and children. YMCA, College St., Burlington. Info, 862-9622. Classes are offered in Latin, swing and youth ballet. “JUST IN TIM E” SALSAMERENGUE DANCE W ORK SHOPS: Saturday, February 3. Champlain Club, Crowley Street, Burlington. “Just the Basics,” 1-2 p.m.
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feng shui FENG SHUI W ORKSHOP: Three Tuesdays, January 23, 30 & February 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. All Saints Church, S. Burlington. $80. Register, 496-2306 or ccwheel@accessvt.com. Carol Wheelock weaves her perspectives o f energy, interior decorating and color into a practical west ern approach to Feng Shui.
film MAKE YOUR OW N MOVIE: January 27, March 3 & April 6, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Bristol Recreation Department. $25. Info, 453-5885. Teens work on basic pro duction techniques and conceive, shoot and edit a short video. FROM PAGE T O SCREEN: January 24, Into Thin Air, February 28, The Horse Whisperer, March 28, A River Runs Through It, April 25, Snow Falling on Cedars. Films shown at Howden Hall, Bristol, 6:30 p.m., $20 for series, or $7 each. Info, 453-5885. Read a book and meet to watch and discuss the film adap tation.
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juggling JUGGLING CLUB: Ongoing Mondays, 5-7 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. Ongoing Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. Racquetball Courts, Patrick Gym, University ofVermont, Burlington. Donations. Info, 658-5512. Beginner-to-expertjugglers and unicyclists
karate TRADITIONAL JAPANESE KARATE: Ongoing Wednesdays and Fridays, 6-7:30 p.m. 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 951-9047 or Kumite46@excite.com. Benefitfrom the physical, mental and spiritual training o f traditionalJapanese Shotokan karate.
kayaking W IN TE R PADDLING CLINICS: YMCA pool, Burlington. January 22 &
25, 8-10 p.m. Blending Strokes Clinic: how to maneuver your boat in a fluid and efficient manner. $95. January 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. & 28, 5-7 p.m. Kids & Family Workshop: learning the basics in a warm, controlled, friendly atmosphere. $125/parent and child, $75/single. January 16, 23, 30, February 6. Paddling Series: stroking, maneuvering, rescues, leans, braces and Eskimo Roll. $195Info, 658-3313 or 1-800-20-KAYAK. Instructor J e ff Cooper offers you the chance to leam, practice and argue the fin er points ofpaddling.
language ITALIAN: Group and individual instruction, beginner to advanced, all ages. Middlebury area. Info, 545-2676. Immerse yourselfin Italian to get ready fo r a trip abroad, or to better enjoy the coun try’s music, art and cuisine. ESL: Ongoing small group classes, beginners and intermediates. Vermont Adult Learning, Sloan Hall, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Free. Info, 654-8677. Improve your listening, speaking reading and writing skills in English as a second language.
martial arts KUNG FU: Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu (wing chun). Classes available in Waitsfield and Waterbury. Info, 4964661 or vingtsunvt@yahoo.com. Develop health, fitness and inner strength while learning a practical and applicable m artial art. C H EN STYLE TAIIJI W ORKSHOP: Saturday and Sunday, January 20 & 21, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Movement Center, Montpelier. $60 before January 18, $75 at door. Info, 454-7330. Leam an entire 16-movement taiiji “shortfo rm ”and hear tdifri principles explained in detail. TAE KW ON DO : Beginners, childrens and advanced classes. The Blue Wave TaeKwonDo School, 182 Main Street, Thursday, 3-8 p.m.^iaturday, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Info, 658-3359, or info@bluewavetkd.com. Fifth-degree black belt and former national team member Gordon W. White teaches the exciting art and Olympic sport o f TaeKwonDo. TAE KW ON D O : Mondays & Wednesdays through February 28 and March 5 through April 18. Ages 5-12, 56 p.m. Ages 13 & up, 6-7 p.m. Bristol Recreation Department. $70 per 10week course. Register, 453-5885.
meditation SATSANG: Wednesday & Thursday, January 24 & 25, 7-9 p.m. 33 North Avenue, Burlington. Free. Register, 8937742. In a rare East Coast visit, Americanborn guru Nirmala shares essentials truths through meditation, dialogue and discusZEN M EDITATION: Mondays, 4:455:45 p.m. Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Burlington. Free. Info, 658-6466. M editate with a sitting group associated with the Zen Affiliate ofVermont. M EDITATION: Ongoing Tuesdays, 78:30 p.m. Green Mt. Learning Center, Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Donations. Info, 6608060. Take part in a weekly meditation and discussion group. ‘T H E WAY O F T H E SUFI’: Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info, 658-2447. This Sufi-style meditation incorporates breath, sound and movement. M EDITATION: Sundays, 9 aim. noon. Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sec tarian and Tibetan Buddhist meditations. G U ID ED MEDITATION: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. T he Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne Commons. Free. Info, 9852229. Practice guided meditation fo r relax ation and focus. . ‘M IN DFU LN ESS M EDITATION’: Ongoing Sundays, 5-6 p.m. 35 King St., Burlington. Free. Info, 864-7715. Gain greater awareness, breath by breath.
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H O W T O READ PEOPLE: Saturday, February 10, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Community College of Vermont, Burlington. $40. Register, 865-4422. Jack Palm offers guidance on deciphering verbal and non-verbal clues and develop ing a range o f communication strategies. COUPLES THERAPY GROUP: Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m., starting February 15. Possibilities Counseling Center, 255 Pearl St., Essex Jet. $20/group. Pre-registration required. Info, 878-6378. A professional counsel ing couple hosts weekly therapeutic group
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T H E ART O F T H E SLAM: Begins Tuesday, January 24, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Flynn Center, Burlington. 12 Weeks. $180. Info, 652-4500. Slam master Seth Jarvis teaches writing styles, word wrangling and performance skills.
BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU A ND CARDIOBOXING: Ongoing classes for men, women and children, Monday through Saturday. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info, 660-4072. Escape fear with an integrated self-defense sys tem based on technique, not size, strength or speed.
photography INSTRU CTIO N: Classes, workshops and private instruction. Info, 3723104. Take classes in creative and tech nical camera and darkroom skills while learning to “see” with a photographic eye. PHOTOGRAPHY: Ongoing class. Jon’s Darkroom, Essex Junction. Info, 879-4485. Beginning photographers, or those in need o f a refresher course, take classes in shooting or black-and-white processing. Darkroom is available fo r rental.
psychology COUNSELING W IT H T H E SPIR ITS IN SHAMANIC JOURNEY:, Four Sundays, beginning January 21, 1-5 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington. $125.Tnfo, 660-8060. Participants get guidance, insight and healing while developing relationships with spirii teachers and anim al helpers,
DEALING W IT H DEPRESSION: Eight Wednesdays through February 21, 7-9 p.m. 119 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington, $15 per class. Info, 6585888. Develop creativity, community and the “courage to change”while you “blow your winter blues. ”
spirit ‘A COURSE IN MIRACLES’ STUDY GROUP: Thursdays, January 25 and February 8 & 22, 6-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington. Donations. Info, 6608060. Tim Conver applies the Courses main thought system to our everyday experiences. PROPERTY A N D PAST LIVES: Five Thursdays, January 18 through February 15, 7-9 p.m. Rising Sun, 35 King St., Burlington. $120. Register, 860-7286. Participants leam prosperity principles and explore past lives to clear blockages and awaken cellular memories ofsuccess. HEALING CIRCLE: Tuesday, February 13, 7:15-9 p.m. Body Mind Connection, 119 S. Winooski Ave.,
Burlington. $8. Info, 658-5888. Guided visualization, Reiki, crystals and music promote healing in a small group.
sport SPINNING: Ongoing daily classes. Chain Reaction, One Lawson Lane, Burlington. First ride free. Info, 6573228. Pedalyour way to fitness in a diverse, non-competitive environment. FENCING: Fifteen Wednesdays start ing in January, 7-9 p.m. UVM Marsh Dining Hall. $100. Info, 654-8674 or TCate@zoo.uvm.edu. Learn the essen tials o f modem, Olympic-style fencing while studying its history, nomenclature and concepts o f attack and parry-ripost. W EEKEND GYMNASTICS FOR KIDS: Ten Saturdays, January 20 through March 10. Grades 1-3, 2:303:30 p.m. $60. Grades 4-6, 3:30-5 p.m. Bristol Elementary School. $70. Register, 453-5885.
substance abuse SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREAT MENT: Weekend program. Possibilities Counseling Center, Essex Jet. Info, 878-6378. Working profes sionals get non-residential, affordable treatment in a private setting.
support groups OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 863-2655. Overeaters get support in addressing their problem. AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 655-6512. Do you have a friend or rela tive with an alcohol problem? Alcoholics Anonymous can help. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Ongoing daily groups. Various loca tions in Burlington, S. Burlington and Plattsburgh. Free. Info, 862-4516. IJ you’re ready to stop using drugs, this group o f recovering addicts can offer inspiration. PARENTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUS ING TEENS: Mondays starting February 12, 7-8:30 p.m. Possibilities Counseling Center, 255 Pearl St.,
and achieve your goals. VOLUNTEER TRAINING: Two full Saturdays, January 13 & 20 and two weekday evenings, January 17 & 23. Info, 658-3131. Women Helping Battered Women organizes volunteer training for hotline, shelter, child care and court work. CHANGE H O W Y O U SEE, N O T H O W YOU LOOK: Six Tuesdays beginning February 13, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Burlington. $150. Info, 6585313. Workshops fo r women teach that “ from self-love flows all the goodness oj the universe. ”
Essex Jet. $20/group. Info, 878-6378. Parents come togetherfo r support in a therapeutic group environmentfacilitat ed by two professional substance abuse counselors. PSYCHIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP: Thursdays, 7 p.m. Various Burlington locations. Free. Info, 2881006. Get peer supportfo r depression, anxiety or other psychiatric illness. ‘T H E HEALING JOURNEY’: A free, confidential 10-week support group sponsored by Women Helping Battered Women begins in January. Info, 863-1236. The Healing Journey welcomes all survivors o f sexual violence regardless o f when the assault happened.
woodworking W O O D W O R K IN G COURSES: Classes for adults and teens begin in January. Shelburne Craft School, Harbor Road, Shelburne. Beginning, intermediate and advanced wood working; furniture restoration clinic, basic cabinets. Info, 985-3648. Join a tradition o f woodworking construction and design excellence in place at the Shelburne Craft School since 1945-
voice BURLINGTON CO M M UN ITY CHOIR: Wednesdays, January 31 through May 9, 7-8:30 p.m. Lower Level Room 7, Community College of Vermont, Burlington. $45. Info, 8654422. Creative director Jody Albright leads singers in gospel, folk, pop, jazz, classics and theater favorites. Beginners and “shower singers”welcome. No audi tions required.
yoga ‘BECOM ING PEACE YOGA’: Ongoing classes. Essex Jet. Info, 8785299. Release chronic tension, gain selfawareness and honor your inner wisdom through Kripalu-style yoga study. U N IO N STREET STUDIO: Ongoing daily classes for all levels. 306 South Union St., Burlington. Info, 860-3991. Three certified instructors offer classes in a variety o f yoga styles that promote strength and tranquillity. BEECHER HILL YOGA: Ongoing daytime & evening classes for all lev els. Info, 482-3191 or hillyoga@sover.net. Get private or group instmetion in prenatalyoga, integrative yoga therapy or gentle yoga fo r recovery and rehabilita tion. YOGA VERM ONT: Daily classes, noon, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Chace Mill, Burlirigjgn.Jnfo, 660-9718 or yogaverfront.com .Ashtanm -style “pou>er.”ybga classes o ff all levels o f experience. ®
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dance ‘RIDING THE WILD EPHEMERID’: The Dance Company of Middlebury kicks off its annual tour with an improvisational performance. See “to do” list, this issue. Dance Theatre, Middlebury Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 443-6433.
‘THREE MUSKETEERS’ AUDITIONS: See January 22. PIANO STORIES: Vermont Stage Company pairs period piano pieces with stories, includ ing Tchaikovsky with Chekhov and Gershwin with F. Scott Fitzgerald. FlynnSpace, Burling ton, 8 p.m. $23. Info, 863-5966.
film ‘DANCER IN THE DARK’: See January 19. ‘THE COLOR OF PARADISE’: Crossroads Arts Council presents the cinematic story of a blind boy in Iran who is apprenticed far from his family. Rutland Plaza Movieplex, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 775-5413. ‘THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE’: This French film cen ters on the erotic connection between a circus knife-thrower and the desperate woman he recruits as a “target.” Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $ 6 . Info, 603-646-2422.
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Champlain Vocational Services, Inc. Rewarding, full and part time positions in our organization are now available. We are a private, non-profit that was founded in 1967 by local families. CVS is committed to providing inclu sive community opportunities by enhancing self-esteem, maxi mizing independence, and supporting personal fulfillment. ' Existing positions include day and residential support staff, contracted work with individuals and their families, profes sional roommates and home providers and case management staff. Full and part time positions include Medical, Dental, Life, Disability insurances, accrued leave, and begin at $8/hour. Contracted positions are based on need and availability. Home provider compensation is by a generous tax-exempt stipend. Please call Cartwright or Laura at 655-0511 for more informa tion or an application. Send letters of interest and/or resumes to: Laura Chabot, CVS, 77 Hegeman Ave., Colchester, VT 05446. EOE
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Help us monitor nutrition status, set policy and bring the message of good nutrition to all Vermonters. Minimum Qualifications: Master's degree in Nutrition or Public Health Nutrition; or a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition with a Master's in Public Health. Three years full time employment at a professional level as a nutritionist or dietitian with at least one year in a public health field. Registration or eligibility to apply for registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration is required. If you are interested in this key leadership position, please submit a standard State of Vermont Application no later than February 2, 2001, to:
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Townscape Activities Specialist FT position for after-school project serving middle school students (grades 5 - 8 ) in Barre Town Middle/Elementary School. Design and implement activities for youth; coordinate with school teaching teams and community organizations. Qualifications: experience working with youth ages 10 - 14 ; creativity, flexibility; team player; proven ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. $i 8 , ooo -$22, ooo 8 wonderful benefits.
Department of Personnel, Recruitment Services, 144 State Street, Drawer 20, Montpelier, VT 05602-1701. If you would like to leave a message to have an application sent to you, you may contact 0$ at 800-640-1657 or during tfus^ess l You may also email us at recruit@per.state.vt.us or visit our web site http://www.state.vt.us/pers for more information. An Equal Opportunity Employer
Montpelier Teen Center - Basement Coordinator FT position - Responsibilities include administrative oversight, outreach, supervision of youth and adult staff and volunteers. Direct service with youth and administrative experience pre ferred. $2 2 ,0 0 0 8 wonderful benefits.
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Barre Teen Center 16 hours per week - Responsibilities include: direct service with teens, planning and executing recreational activities afternoons and Friday evenings. Experience and awareness of adolescent issues preferred. $io/hr.
Assistant to the Out-Of-School Time Coalition Administrator FT position - Assist in the administration of a state-wide network serving Vermont youth and teens. Administrative support and assistance on projects such as training; data collection and maintenance; report preparation; public education; volunteer recruitment; and inter-agency realtions. Requires writing, organizational, computer and communication skills, and ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Strong opportunity to gain community-build ing and administrative skills and experience. $18 ,0 0 0 8 wonderful benefits.
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Wanted: Intelligent, self-confident R.N. leader with good mental hygiene. Long term care experience preferred but not absolutely required. Interest in, even love of, ageless elders and the aging process (physical, psycho-social, spiritual) absolutely essential. Good supervision, team building, empathetic, empowering skills vital. Comfort with (better still: excitement about) sophisticated, building wide computer-based information/quality control systems beneficial. Willingness to abandon “fear based” approach to government regulatory apparatus and focus on quality outcomes based on integrity of our environment of care required. If you think life (& work life and the work place) can be a parade, not a forced march...If you’re willing to entertain possibilities and help us polish and provide stewardship to a really great, brand new, multi level not-for-profit, long term care community on a small, rural hospital campus... If you’re looking for a great spot to live (mountains for skiing and hiking, valleys for canoes and kayaks and bicy cles, a really great quality of life) just 25 miles off the interstate and 30 miles south of the Canadian border... If you want to be part of something really good.. .let’s talk.
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Stefansson noticed the same thing you did, that the tradi tional Eskimo diet consisted largely of meat and fish, with fruits, vegetables and other carbohydrates — the usual source of vitamin C — accounting for as little as 2 percent of total calorie intake. Yet they didn’t get scurvy. Stefansson argued that the native peoples of the Arctic got their vitamin C from meat that was raw or minimally cooked — cooking destroys the vitamin. (In fact, for a long time “Eskimo” was — thought to be a derisive Native American term meaning “eater of raw flesh,” although this is now discounted.) Stefansson claimed the high incidence of scurvy among European explorers could be explained by their refusal to eat like the natives, and proved this to his own sat isfaction by subsisting in good health for lengthy periods — one memorable odyssey lasted for five years — strictly on whatever meat and fish he and his companions could catch. A few holdouts didn’t buy it. To settle the matter once and for all, Stefansson and a colleague lived on a meat-only diet for one year under medical supervision at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, start ing in February d 928. The two ace between >100 and 140 grams of protein a day, the balance of their calories coming from fat, yet they remained scurvy-free. Later in life, Stefansson became a strong advocate of a high-meat diet even if you didn’t live in the Arctic; he professed to enjoy improved health, reduced weight, etc., from meals consist ing of coffee, the occasional grapefruit and a nice steak, presumably rare. Doesn’t sound bad, and one might note
that until recently the Inuit rarely suffered from atheroscle rosis and other Western ailments. Vitamin C can be found in a variety of traditional Eskimo/Inuit staples, including the skin of beluga whales (known as muktuk), which is said to contain as much vita min C as oranges. Other reported sources include the organ meats of sea mammals as well as the stomach con tents of caribou. You’re thinking: It’ll be a mighty cold day in the Arctic before you catch me eating the stomach con tents of caribou. You have to wonder whether the Inuit really ate such stuff either, since Stefansson describes it being fed to dogs. Other aspects of the Arctic diet also remain controver sial. For example, some say the Eskimos could get vitamin C from blueberries during the summer months, while oth ers say you’d be lucky to find enough berries to cover a bowl of Rice Chex. I say let’s not sweat the details of the menu, which varied from region to region anyway. We know Eskimos got enough vitamin C in their traditional diet to survive, because obviously they did. Now it’s acade mic — most Arctic natives live in villages and get their vit amin C from OJ and Juicy Juice, just like you and I. QUESTIONS WE’RE STILL THINKING ABOUT / read in a recent magazine that the ringworm parasite cannot stand anesthesia. So i f and when a victim o f ringworm is put under for any medical purpose, the ringworm has been known to use any means o f escape possible, and it would not be unusual to see quite large infestations evacuating through a patient’s nostrils almost immediately upon anesthetizing. True? And are there any documented incidences o f this? Can you fin d pictures?'- V t ------------ " T . — Morbid Curiosity in Providence
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RAY: W e know that sugar does not dissolve in gasoline. A nd there’s an old m yth that sugar will “caramelize” once it gets into the cylinders and turn your cylinder walls into peanut brittle. But the tru th is, it’ll never get as far as the engine. T O M : Right. T here are sever al filters between the tank and uhe engine that are designed to stop exactly this type o f conta m inant from reaching the engine. T here’s a “sock” at the end o f the pickup tube in the gas tank, and there’s a gas fil ter further up the fuel line. A nd the sugar will be stopped there. RAY: It will, however, alm ost certainly plug up the fuel filter and stop the car from ru n n in g . A nd, depending upon , . how m uch sugar you dum ped in there, you m ight have to replace the fuel filter — and get stranded — several times before you clear it all out. T O M : So you really should get the sugar out o f there. And the only way to do it is to remove the gas tank, turn it
upside down and dum p it out. RAY: You’ll have to have it towed to a gas station, since you don’t w ant to run the engine. Any decent mechanic can drop the tank and clean it out for you. It’s not a huge job, b u t it's not som ething you’re going to do yourself. It should cost you between $100 and $200. T O M : A nd next tim e, think about doing som ething more easily reversible ... like putting itching powder in his shorts.
Dear Tom and Ray: I just bought a mint, lowmilage '89 Chevy 4x4 Blazer. I ’m looking for an owner’s man ual, and cant seem to locate one. Can you help? — Doug RAY: T here are m any places to get old owner’s m anuals. Helm Inc. (wy/w.helminc.com or 800-782-4356) publishes and sells old manuals for General M otors Corp. (Chevy, G M C , Pontiac, Olds, Buick, Saturn and Cadillac). H elm also carries m anuals for Ford M otor Co. (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar), H onda, Acura, Isuzu, Suzuki, H yundai, Subaru and Kia.
T O M : For those looking for other m anuals, Chrysler (Dodge, Plym outh, Jeep, Eagle) manuals are handled by D D S (800-890-4038). D D S also sells Nissan and Infiniti manuals (800-247-5321), as V W and Audi m anuals (800544-8021). Toyota and Lexus m anuals are provided by Toyota’s own Material D istribution C tr (800-4437656). RAY: So that covers m ost o f the m ajor m anufacturers. For other m anuals, you can try the parts departm ent o f your local dealership. A nd if you need hard-to-find m anual or a m an ual for a rare car, you can try one o f these publishers: carm anuals.com , autobooksbisko.com (440-338-4811), llodsautolit.com (440-3381527), Faxon (800-458-2734 or Bob Johnson’s Auto Literature (800-334-0688).
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BOLTON to WINOOSKI: I work Monday through Thursday from 7 am 5:30 pm. (4 0 0 6 7 ) MORRISVILLE to MONTPELIER: I am looking for a ride Monday - Friday. I work from 7 :3 0 am 5 pm. (4 0 0 7 0 ) GEORGIA TO SOUTH BURLINGTON. I am looking for a ride from Georgia to Shelburne Rd. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I need to be there by 7 :0 0 a.m. (4 0 0 6 6 ) S. BURLINGTON TO S. BURLINGTON: I am looking for a ride from Shelburne Rd. to the University Mall. I work Monday through Sunday and would like a ride anytime between 8 a.m. and 1 1 p.m. (4 0 0 6 3 )
WATERBURY to IBM: I need a roundtrip ride from Waterbury to Essex Jet. I work from 7 am7 p m . (4 0 0 5 1 ) RICHMOND P&R to ST. MICHAEL’S COLL. I am hoping to share driving on my com mute to work, my hours are 7 :15 am-5 pm, M-Th. (3 2 7 1 ) ENOSBURG FALLS to ESSEX JCT. I work at IBM from 7 pm to 7 am. Wed.-Sat.(4 0 0 2 7 ) WINOOSKI to FAIRFIELD INN. I need a ride from Maple St. in Winooski to the Fairfield Inn. I work Tu., Th. & Sat. at 8 am. (4 0 0 5 5 ) ST. ALBANS to ESSEX I need a ride to IBM. I need to be to work between 7 :30 am & 9 :30 am. (4 0 0 5 6 )
MORRISVILLE to ESSEX. I need a ride to IBM. I work from 7 pm-7 am. (4 0 0 5 7 ) BURL, to S. BURL. I need a ride to Sears at the University Mall. I work Sun.-Sat. from 6 am-2 pm. (4 0 0 5 8 ) WATERBURY to MONTPELIER. My hours are 7 am-3 pm. I am flexible & looking for a ride M-F. (4 0 0 4 5 ) S. BURLINGTON to ESSEX JCT. I am look ing for a ride to IBM from S. Burlington. I work M-F, 8 am-4 :3 0 pm. (4 0 0 3 8 ) CABOT to WILLISTON: I am looking for a ride or to share driving from the Cabot/ Montpelier area. I work 20 hrs./wk. & am very flexible. (4 0 0 3 4 )
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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): My Uncle N ed is an advertising execu tive. I consider his w ork to be the dark side o f a set o f abilities we share. We both dream up catchy language to captivate people’s im aginations. But m y purpose is to tu n e people in to their inner wisdom and encourage them to cultivate the soul power that our culture relentlessly devalues. N ed ’s w ork is to seduce people into thinking they can achieve happiness and m easure their success through the item s and images they consum e. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect there’s about to be a show down in your psyche between the opposing influences m y uncle and I embody.
TAURUS
(Apr. 20-M ay 20): O f your zillions o f longings, Taurus, w hich ranks n um ber one? Please do yourself a big favor and decide, then nurture it w ith all your fierce and tender m ight for the next 28 days. According to m y reading o f the astro logical omens, you have an op p o rtu nity to supercharge the grow th o f that prim al dream , and you’d be crazy to pass it up. So set aside all your flabby inklings and half-assed wishes for now, C hannel your libido into one (and only one) flying wedge o f raw, flam ing am bition.
GEMINI (M ay 21-June 20): In m y hum ble astrological opinion, G em ini, it’s high tim e to dxpand your repertoire o f personalities from a mere five (a nu m b er it’s been stuck on for too long) to at least eight. As * versatile as you are, I believe you’ll need to develop even greater m ulti plicity and adaptability in order to take full advantage o f jhe expansive ;f invitations th a t’ll be tem pting you in the com ing weeks. For best results, give a nicknam e to each o f your eight selves, and throw regular parties where they can all get together and com pare notes. ,C,;.
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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is there a spiritual tech nique for flossing one’s teeth? Yes. I once observed an Indian holy m an do it after a yogic dinner. A nd what about changing a diaper w ith artistry and grace? Is it possible? I know it is, because I’ve done it. But how about this: Is there a righteous way to gossip and jockey for position and play one side against the other? Well, Sagittarius, I believe it’s now your job to prove there is. For helpful clues, study the favorite form ula o f profes sional spin doctors: W hoever defines the debate, wins it. But then use that form ula to fight for beauty and tru th and justice. Subvert the agendas o f the sm all-m inded m anipulators and authoritarian personalities.
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(Dec. 22Jan. 19): You have a date w ith a nice fresh twist in your financial destiny, and I’d like to make sure that all your m oney karm a is squeaky clean for the occasion. So be a saint in all m atters related to earning and saving and buying and selling, please. As m uch as possible, pay off your debts and your dues. C ontribute to charities. W ear a T-shirt that reads “I’m not a slave o f m y buyological urges!” D on’t purchase items that were assembled in T hird W orld sweatshops or whose m anufacture required the torture o f little animals. A nd finally, Capricorn, don’t you dare try to get som ethin’ for n uthin’. \J" pt;. v c
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P IS C E S
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): T here’ve been tim es during the block buster you call your life th at I’ve w anted to take you aside and whisper point-blank, “You w orry too dam n m uch!” O th er times I’ve been in awe o f your superhum an capacity for m eticulous w orrying, b u t wished you’d agonize about m ore o f the right kind o f problem s. T his week, though, I’m fretting about a whole new fron tier o f your worrying. It seems you’ve becom e so addicted to it that you’re reluctant to give it up even when obvious solutions are in sight — alm ost as if you find it m ore enter taining to w orry about the predica m ents than fix them . Are you con cerned that peace o f m ind would bore you? Take a chance that it w on’t, Pisces. I bet you’ll be pleasantly sur prised. ®
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outdoorsman, loving, caring, good cook. Seeking SWF, similar interests, friends or LTR. Family interested and oriented. 2926 WELL AND BROADLY EDUCATED, SELFemployed man w/sophisticated wit and eclectic interests seeking repartee, many small adventures, empathy, deepening with woman 45-55. At 59, the last Beatnik not the first hippie. 2920 ________________ DWM, HAVING SUCCESSFULLY RAISED A family, I find myself newly part of the dating scene. I would like to find a confident lady to give me a guided tour. My treat. 2783 SM, 34, 5’io", 165 LBS, SEEKS CHARISMATIC F for dinner and movies this winter. I enjoy spontaneity and have a list of interests as long as the next guy, but why spoil the first date? 5 4 9 2 ______________ 40 YO, BLONDE/BLUE, I65 LBS, DWPM, extremely fit, educated, hunter/gardener, wants to snowboard mountains and kayak rivers with someone other than his dog. ISO similar SF w/o tail! 32-45, LTR? 5491 ACTIVE, FRIENDLY, SHY SWM, 39. ISO younger, SWF, for fun, friendship, relation ship. Enjoy outdoors(run, ski, hike, bike) nature & quiet times. ND, NS honesty a must. Let’s talk. 5490_________________ TALL SWF W/GOOD INTELLECT & HUMOR sought by 30+ affable, rural, multi-talented SWM. For outdoor adventures, dancing, laughter, & intimacy. 5484___________ SWM, 27, TALL, HANDSOME, SOMETIMES smoker, w/penchant for relevant conversa tion & great wit. Enjoys Nick Cave, Camus’ novels, & scotch. Seeking interested 81 inter esting woman, under 35, for company. 5467
24 YO, SWM, IN MONTPELIER. ISO SOCIALLUSCIOUSLY FULL-FIGURED SWF WITH BLACK l ly/environmentally minded, creative woman, boot fetish, ISO 20-25 YO teddy bear who’s : near same age, who enjoys poetry, music, intelligent, sincere, and man enough to t biking, showshoeing, thoughtful philosophi watch chick flicks. Kindness, sensitivity, and l cal talks. Please be reflective about your open-mindedness essential. 5411__________ l thoughts/feelings. 3055_____________ _
SW DAD, 39, AVE. HJJWT., SPIRITUALLY metaphysically oriented, introspective, avid reader, strong outdoor/nature collection, tooling w/inner technologies. ISO S/DF for the exploration of the mysteries of life/love.
I’M A WHIMSICAL YET WISE CHILD AT 33. A : music-loving revolutionary, a strong yet vul- : nerable goddess who is humbled by the I Oneness of life, yet inspired by its beauty. J 5404 . — f i C f r -'— 1
VERY HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, SUCCESSFUL IN arts. My gorgeous wife and I both enjoy going out with others occasionally. Works for us. Would: like smart, very attractive, togeth er playmate to spoil. 3052
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5425 WANTED: A OUTDOORSY LADY, THAT LIKES gardens, farm animals, flowers, to go to the ocean. Me: A 6’3”, 260 lbs., brown haired, good looking farmer, worldly, strong. 5422 SWM, 22, HONEST, HARDWORKING, CONSIDerate. Farmer, fiddler & logger. ISO SF, 2030, down to earth, who likes to laugh and is willing to snowshoe for tea by the woodstove. 5421 ___________
GROUNDED DREAMER SEEKS ENLIGHTENED fool. I recognize my idiosyncrasies, do you? 24 YO, SWF, ISO, 24-?, SPM for astounding adventure, clever conversation, flourishing friendship, realistic romance, and more! 2931 SWF, 40’S, 5’6”. ACTIVE, ATTRACTIVE teacher, sociable and down-to-earth. ISO fun-loving, educated, M w/old-fashioned fam ily values for LTR, friendship first. Care to skate, xc-ski, hike, dance, listen to Irish music over a Guinness? 2928
NOT ANOTHER SINGLE YEAR. SWM, 35.
RETURNED FROM TAOS. 46 YO M, CURRENTly P, w/lapses into the artistic, looking to lis ten and be heard. ISO emotionally strong, physically healthy, socially adventurous lover ________________ of life. 3058
SPF, 42, 5’5", 125 LBS. I LIKE FAST CARS & loud music, dancing, dining & entertaining. Mostly I enjoy working around my house in the country & want someone to share this. 2945 _______________
SOUL MATE WANTED. ATTRACTIVE, PETITE, SWF, 38, 5’4”, 105 lbs., long brn./brn. Loves music, dancing, movies, candles, romance, passion, company of a great man. ISO attractive, slim, SWM, 28-42, for exciting LTR. Call or send photo. 2939
SWPM, 29, ATTRACTIVE, ATHLETIC, LOVE VT’s mtns & waterways. ISO an honest, fit & emotionally mature woman. 2935 ___
DIGGING BEETS & DIGGING DEEPER. SF, 24, adventurous, quirky, wide-eyed. Hopeful yet realistic revolutionary loves acrobatic conver sations, silence of snowy woods, music-mak ing, watching moonrise over the compost pile. 5 4 1 8 _______________
TIRED OF BEING SINGLE. BROKEN-HEARTED too many times. F, 28, attractive, seeks M, 30-38, who enjoys dining out, movies, & long talks. 2953 _________
ACTIVE, ENGAGING, PF, 42, LOVES OUTdoors. Seeks exuberant, self-aware, NS, PM w/slim, athletic build, sense of humor, pas sion for life. XC skiing, snowshoeing, nature, films, music. WA county environs. 2943
PROFESSOR, ARTIST, METAPHYSICIAN, 53, DM, loving, sensitive, caring, articulate. Seeks life companion, preferably younger, petite, bright, sweet, gentle, calm, rational, no perfume, no makeup. NS. 2948________
IS THERE LOVE IN THE WORLD? 34, TALL, attractive, P, creative, unrequited human, mateless in the urban wilderness. Are you 25-34? Can we build an oasis together? 5417
ARE YOU CREATIVE, NONMATERIALISTIC, spiritual, fit, active, progressive, 50+, emo tionally grounded? Do you enjoy gardening, arts, music, projects, cooking? Me, too. 5402
ATTRACTIVE WM, 40’S HEALTHY & D is creet. Seeking F for friendship and affection only. Must be well-kept and spontaneous. All who respond will be called. 3049
SWF, ATTRACTIVE, SHAPELY, PASSIONATE about outdoor activities. Intelligent conver sation, entertaining w/friends. You are hon est, fun-loving, monogamous, financially secure, who is avail, to share new experi ences & spontaneous travel. 5397
SWM, 43, ISO SWF, WHO LIVES FOR RECIprocity, affection, boundaries, confirmation, openness, honesty, sensuality, vulnerability, integration, interdependence, enhancement, : HEALTHY WM SEEKS VENTUROUS F FOR consistency, and healthy enmeshment. LTR * friendship 81 affection. I’m 46 YO, 5’8”. Very possible. Meaning is the fulfillment of l caring & affectionate. Your marital status not dreams. 3046 y . -■ ■ l important as I am discreet. From NY area.
SWPF, 32 YO, HONEST, HUMOROUS, FUNloving, active, outdoorsy, healthy, worldly, attractive, secure, traveler, ISO similar SWPM, 29-40 who is also ambitious, for ward-thinking, protecting, responsible, resourceful. Friends? LTR? 5395 BUFFY SEEKS HER ANGEL 30, FUNNY, INTELligent, full-figured. Into Pop Culture, film 81, fun. ISO like-minded man, 28-38, for late night slayings. Good humor a must! 5394
POOH LOOKS FOR LOVE, LAUGHS 81 LOGIC SWM, 31, 5’8”, moved from Boston. Centered, funk, Simpsons, cooking,funny, educated, fit. ISO friend, companion, laughs & a warm heart. Honesty is still #1. 5413
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V HAPPY WITH MY LIFE. LEARNING ALL THE l time but want to share some of those things l with someone. WM, 52, NS, in great shape. ’ . Love outdoors & in. 5405
Dear Lola, My boyfriend loves to go cut partying with friends, while I'm more of a quiet, stay-at-home sort of gal. I don’t begrudge him his friend ships or his good times. But he does have one habit that really gets under my skin. When he’s out with his buddies and he gets a little toast ed, he’ll often call me on the phone. We’ll talk for a little while, and then he’ll start putting his friends on, one after another. He says he only does it because he’s proud of me and wants to show me off, but it makes me feel as if I’m being put on display, and I find it embarrass ing and demeaning. How can I get him to stop this habit? Bashful in Burlington Dear Bashful, There’s no law that says you’re required to provide entertainment for your boyfriend’s drunk buddies. Next time you get one of these rowdy communications, politely tell him you’re not in the mood, and get off the phone fast. If he can’t get no satisfaction from his calls, chances are he’ll stop.
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IF YOU CAN REMEMBER WHAT IT’S LIKE TO feel totally in love. This in-shape, good-look ing SWMP ISO similar SWF, 27-37, to make a real connection, intimacy, challenges, fun. 5236
women Aeekinq women SINCERE, SPIRITUAL, PASSIONATE, WILD, creative, sexy, psychologically & physically fit, PBiF, early 40’s. Seeks, NS, F companion, 37-47.,Let’s check out local art exhibits, xcountry ski. 2950 GWF, 31, ISO, 25-37 YO, LIKES MUSIC, dancing, movies, laughing, giving/receiving back rubs & more. We can be friends then maybe LTR in the future. You never know? Try! 5485______________________________
* SUBMISSIVE M WANTS TO PLEASE. ENJOYS * dirty talk & likes to eat out. Can I please : you?5247
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CUTE SUBMISSIVE BEAR CUB, 34, 6’, 165. Dark-hair & eyes, trimmed beard, muscular, discreet, masculine. ISO bears/cubs w/similar qualities for hot winter fun. Chittenden area. Call or write. 5449 FAVORITE MEN: JUNG, JOSEPH CAMPBELL, Matthew Fox, Harry Hay, Will Roscoe, St. Francis, Black Elk, Chief Seattle, Hans Christian Anderson, Wilde, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Buddha, Jesus, Rumi, Magritte & you. 5448 S & M BUDDIES WANTED. GWM, 36, 6', 180 lbs. Handsome rugged type craves hot times with dominate men, 20-40, who’ll use and punish me. 5430 CENTRAL VT, GWM, 41, 5*10” BROWN & brown. Honest open-minded. Big chest & shoulders. Looking for Mr. Right. Need someone honest in my life. I’m caring, are you? Have nice country home and would like to share it. 25-41 YO, friends, maybe LTR.
5423_________________________
* jealous, CU for enlightened conversation, * good wine, movies, fun in our outdoor hot
FRENCHMAN, MM, ARTISTIC, VERY ATTRACtive, in great shape, insatiable. ISO attractive, sensual, adventurous woman for steamy, passionate relationship. 2956 PCU SEEKS ATTRACTIVE F, 25-35, FOR DIScreet sexual fulfillment. 2947 SEEKS OLDER WOMAN. SWM, 40’s, 6’, 190 lbs., good-looking, intelligent, creative. Seeks older woman, 60+ for erotic encounters, LT friendship. 2938 MWCU, 30, ISO, 18-39. CU IN CENTRAL VT for friendship & much more. Her BBW, shaved. Him 165, shaved & pierced. Lets have some fun! 2934 ADVENTUROUS CU ISO BiF WHO IS PLAYFUL, attractive, petite, 25-35, for safe, fun erotic relationship. Weekends in Montreal included. Must be discreet. 2927
SO MANY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ENJOY MAKing a handsome, intelligent, independent t man feel like a subjugated boy. Why can’t I l find one who’ll do the same to me? I need 1 discipline. 5488
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; WPM, 40, MARRIED TO AN ARTIST WHO IS * married to her art. Seeking ‘friend with bent efits’. You; married or single, open-minded, l too young to sit lamenting what you are I missing, too old to play games. Please be in t reasonable physical shape. 5480 : THE SWEDISH BLONDES ARE BACK! SWED * ish Skier to Swiss Misses; Have you seen t my goggles? I lost them while “moving this.” j HALP! 5473____________________________ * WANTED: ARTISTS TO MEET WEEKLY TO l share & encourage each other in a supportl ive group network. Call me.5460 * SWM, 30s, 5’4”, 140 LBS. ISO TWO SWF TO » fulfill my fantasies. Must be in good shape. : 5419_________________________________ * SWM, 40, EXPERIENCED. ISO SHY, QUIET, l modest, intelligent, and cute student; my * soul mate, my little girl. A shy one, to nurj ture & guide, with care & love. LTR possible. : 5 415_________ _______________ __ J * * »
LOOKING FOR A MUSE? YOUNG MALE, 28, looking to be an inspiration for an amazing woman. Tell me what you want. I will comply. Be for real. 5408
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CLEAN, ND, NS, SWPM, LATE 40S, ISO SIMIlar female or CU, 35-50 to share meals, companionship and adult fun. In excellent physical shape, willing to travel. Let’s share dinner and put our desires on the table. 5392_________________________________
23 Bi, INEXPERIENCED, TATS, HEAVY-SET, fun, dark hair, goatee. Likes movies, alterna * CU ISO BiF OR CU WBiF, 25-45, FOR EXOTIC * fantasy fulfillment. Are you creative? Call us tive music, art, hanging out. ISO M, 18-30 J for your next fantasy encounter. 5390 for friendship & maybe more. Gamers & freaks a plus. 5393
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* * BIMWM, 26, BROWN HAIR & EYES, 5*9”, 220 * lbs. Looking for a BiWM, med. build, 23-35, * uncut a plus. Must be disease free w/short : hair and live in the Essex, Williston, t Colchester area. Looking for noon-time bed J fun. 3075 t SPGWM, 37, SEEKS COMMUNICATIVE GAY ‘ guy w/a life, friends & interests who wants » someone to share them with and would like : to share mine. 2951 « LOOKING FOR A STRAIGHT-ACTING, HAIRYl chested, muscular, hard-working type of guy * for a little hot, discreet, private, man-to-man : contact. 2944 J MID 30’s SMOOTHIE ISO RUGGED FIXER« upper for value realignment, hang-up * removal, equipment instruction and package I delivery. Photo of tools a plus. 2940
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BB BOTTOM, 41, 5’7”, 155 LBS. ISO VERSAtile, or exclusive BB top relationship orient ed. You don’t have to be out or discreet, just affectionate, heavy libido, avail. & comfortable with gay. 5481__________________
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: TIME FOR A CHANGE? WHY NOT? BiWM, 30, l 6’, 185 lbs., fit, attractive, inexperienced. ISO I same, 18-35, for fun. Nothing serious. * Discretion a must. No mail. 5269
* tub. 3056 GWF RELOCATING TO VT. ISO STRONG, TALL, * VERY ATTRACTIVE PCU, ATHLETIC, WELLoutgoing F. Must be independent & debt* educated. ISO kindred spirits. She loves free. Must love animals & me. Let’s be * younger, hip guys, both love women, late friends first. Ages 38-49. 5406 * nights, long dinners. Like CU welcomed. SWF 31, ISO FRIENDS 25-40. MUST BE CAR- * We’re fun, funny, very relaxed about this. ing sensitive, & secure w/who they are. : 3053___________________________________ Trying to reconnect with the world! You J PATRICK, I THINK YOU’RE AFRAID I WILL won’t find a better friend than me! 5383 * outgrow you. I’m afraid of the same. My » heart tells me we should give it a shot. Tell * me your thoughts. 3048
SUBMISSIVE M SEEKS DIRTY, NASTY, Daddy/Master who can be ripe & raunchy. 2937_________________________________
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BOARD GAMING! LOOKING TO FIND OR make a group of regular gamers for my vast collection of board games. I have Germanstyle war games, party, family, dexterity & everything in between. 5385 ATTRACTIVE PCU, EARLY 40S, TO SHARE ongoing friendship & adult sensuality w/likeminded attractive CUs, either individual or group socials possible. Privacy & intimacy assured. You’ll like us. 5381 TALL, ATHLETIC, ATTRACTIVE, 30S, SWM. Into adult pleasure. Maybe I can make your sexual fantasy a reality. Let me know your desires. Must be healthy & discreet. 5245 MACU ISO F FOR FUN TOGETHER. F WHO would enjoy being w/both of us & also enjoys being outdoors, football, movies, etc. Sound like you? Please let us get to know you. 5239 FOR HALLOWEEN & BEYOND. SWPM, 40s. cross-dresser, longtime. Genuinely fascinated student of the scene. ISO attractive, domi nant Fem(s) for safe & sane initiation into y o u r world. “Aching” to be pleasing & amus ing. Clean & discreet, imperative. Have cos tume, will travel. 5220
jm Jt piiend& SKI BUDDIES? SWPF, 36, LOOKING FOR strong downhill skier(s), to share snow, fun, chairlift chats and a ride to the slopes. Age, gender irrelevant. 5459
BIKING ON NORTH STREET DAILY. YOU recently changed your attire. I like it! Care to tango? Watch for me. 3076 12/22, I FOLLOWED YOU INTO THE MALL garage. Saw you later at Stone Soup. You sat by the window and were beautiful. B/T/W she and l are just friends. 3062 SPIKE-HAIRED BEAUTY IN FREESTYLE SALON. You’ve stolen my heart w/your enchanting face. I now believe in love at first sight. Please respond and make my dreams come true. 3060 I WAS LEANING ON YOUR COAT ALL EVENing at the Ricki Lee Jones concert, we were both with friends. I would like to know who you are, I was wearing a black hat. 3057
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tYour shy teddy bear. I cherish our special l friendship & our times together. Share the «magic? 2942 : TIM, FROM NY WHO WORKS AT IBM AS A l pipe liner. You tried to help me when I J locked my keys in the car at the Mobile * Station. I lost your address. 2941
* LISA, YOU ARE A NURSE. I AM A MUSICIAN.
JWe picked on the girls at Rasputin’s 10/27. ‘ Said you’d come see my band, but never ‘ did. Let’s have dinner. Steve. 2933 ‘ MELISSA AT BERLIN WALMART. THE FIRST
* time we saw each other you ran & you ‘ blushed when we had eye contact. Been in ‘ several times to see you and to try to talk ‘ to you. Please contact me. I had on a red J ski parker & wore glasses. You know who I Jam, I want to know you. 2932 ‘ JAY: I KNOW, I’M REALLY FAR AWAY. I ALSO
Jknow you probably don’t like me. But, I l miss the foam, and we never watched l Wayne’s World. If you don’t see this, I know * ELK will. I guess I miss you, and I finally J know what to say to you. 2930 ‘ AARON, I’VE HEARD THAT WHATEVER
Jyou’re doing during the first seconds of the l New Year, you’ll do throughout the coming jyear. I hope that’s true for us. 2924 * KATHERINE, RED SQUARE, NEW YEAR’S.
j Dancing near another was wonderful, for me * at least. I want to know more about every;thing-Russian is fine. 2923
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i Apy, coni. SUNSHINE, I UNDERSTAND NOW. WHEN YOU look back I will always be there encouraging you to keep trying, you’re not alone. Take care of you. Always your angel and soul mate. 2922 YOU: TALL, SHORT BROWN HAIR, W/AMAZing eyes from Champlain. ME: Girl from UVM who’s been crazy about you before last semester began. Movie maybe? 5493 12/16 SATURDAY AUTO PARTS IN Middlebury. Male w/mustache, gray ford pick up, snowplow and bought a cylinder hone. Interested in discussing honing methods? I was the bearded guy by you. 5489
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FAHC. TO THE BLONDE WITH THE EKG 0 machine We’ve seen each other around work, smiled in the elevator. You give me an Ml. Lunch? 5429
SONG FOR WOMBATT: “I GOT SEVEN WOmen on my mind, 4 they wanna own me, 2 that wanna stone me, one says she’s a friend of mine. Take it easy.” 5477
I SPY A NAUGHTY LITTLE FAIRY IN NEED OF some OTK!!! 5468
BEAR/DEER SEASON HAS COME AND GONE. What a season it was. Now it’s time to take care of business till we can be together again? I love you, Sugarbush XO.5426______
11/24, WATERFRONT VIDEO. YOU: SHANGHAI Triad Cinophile, sexy nose piercing, rented Titus. Me: “Porn Connoisseur”, rented Shanghai Triad, per your suggestion. Loved it. Wanna go see a movie? 5476
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HUNGER MTN. CO-OP, DEC. 13. YOU: adorable in flowery skirt w/black leggings, short hair, friendly, energetically open, assur ing me it was suitable to put crunchy almond butter in Hummus container. If you are unattached & would like to chat, please respond. 5474
BOSTON TO BURLINGTON 12/27. YOU: Reading War & Peace. ME: Reading cheesy murder mystery. WE: Shared cab from airport. Care to meet again? 5486____________
SWEET BOY, CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER than the beautiful people? Please stand up, closer, I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates, you’ve got the key. XXOO, Sunshine.
MAGOO, YOU MAKE ME HAPPY. L, MAYHEM
LEANN, ALLIE, & JEN: THANKS FOR BEING my biggest supporters and most honest crit ics. Lunch @ the Mill made me miss VT more than ever. Love you girls! KATE. 5483 MIKE, YOU WERE THE “THIRD WHEEL” AT JP’s Pub. I was the blonde graduate studentOennifer) that you played pool with, 12/29. Wanna meet? 5482
5472 ___________ _____________ SATURDAY 12/16, ESSEX JCT. A&P; YOU, 40 something attractive blonde F. Spied me in checkout line w/fresh haircut, shaved face & blue jacket. Surprised? Would love to meet
you-5471_______________________________ JESS, WAITRESS AT SHA-NA-NA’S. WE MET in early Sept, on a Fri. night. I was the Navy guy! I lost your cell phone number. Give me another shot? Still interested in going to Cactus Pete’s? Call me. 5470
MARIPOSA; TU ERES EL VIENTO QUE ME enciade mi fuego a baiiar. Spanish Lady.
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LORD OF THE TRAILS-SNAP! I LOVE YOU more than the untamed wilderness. Yours, supreme goddess of the universe. 5465
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woman Making man SF, 58, LOOKING FOR A TRUCK DRIVER. I enjoy c&w, reading, travel, eating out, going to the movies, animals. Looking for a lasting friendship, can’t be married. Box 874._____ PSWF. MUSIC, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, NATURE, poetry, laughter, cats. ISO NS, ND, ISJA, loyal, secure, honest, caring, sensitive, supportive, patient, M, 40-56. Friends first. LaWienforcement &/or “artistic” a +. Rut, area. Box 873. SWF, 30, ISO SWM, 25-35, WHO ENJOYS music, movies &. dining. If interested please respond. Box 870.______________________ LOVING WOMAN, 60, WHO LOOKS & FEELS younger. ISO affectionate man to love & who will love me back. One who is a NS, affec tionate, health conscious, likes music. Box 855_____________________________ SHINE YOUR LOVE LIGHTS ON ME. ARE YOU kind? Are you cool? Positive? Healthy? Love life? Got spirit? Savor every second? Breathe deep? Seek peace? Know thyself? Me too. Yupper. Box 854_________________ ______ 23 YO GM TRAPPED IN A WOMAN’S BODY. ISO SM who will cum & open their Christmas present early. Includes hot candle wax, love oils & edible undies. Box 845
S W F- CARRIE, 38 YO, 5’4’, no LBS., LT. smoker from Montreal. Seeking guy with similar tastes. Love music, early Bowie, Iggy, 70’s, alternative, movies, animals, painting & making films. Box 842___________________ MATURE SWF, NS, PRIVATE, PASSIONATE, pensive, political, perceptive, particular, Drawn to beaches, books, theater, music, labyrinths, fantasy and family. Please, don’t assume anything. Box 843_______________ VOLUPTUOUS VIRGO, 50S, ATTRACTIVE, PWF childless, loves outdoor fun, music, dancing. ISO gentleman for lasting friendship w/honesty & trust. Let’s bring in 2001 together! Burlington area. Box 828_________________ PRETTY PROFESSIONAL WITH A TWINKLE IN her eye, info painting, >ea2lm&'§i aerobic' dancing, is looking for a gentleman, 51-69, who’s intellectual, aware 81 loving— & can twinkle back! Box 830___________________ SEEKING FRIENDSHIP CONVERSATION W/ gentleman, 65+, tall, intelligent, caring. Me: tall, hazel eyes, slim, trim, education,, retired P, active, NS. Box 831 - , W;' "< GROW OLD WITH ME. SWF, 57, SMOKER, ISO WM who likes auto racing, country music, camping, dining out & quief tfthes at home. Friends first. Write soon. Box 832__________ 23 YO, ATTRACTIVE SWF, WHO LOVES DANcing, sports, driving, cuddling & adventure. Sorry, country music not incl. ISO SM, 18-30 w/same interests & sense of hufflfe, Box 827 IN SHAPE, UP BEAT, ATTRACTIVE DWF. SEEKing well-mannered, trustworthy gentleman, good appearane, NS, to share my life. 50-60. Not afraid of commitment. Please tell me aout yourself. Box 834
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SHANNON, 10/24 OR 25, WE SHARED ONE dance at the end of the evening at RiRa’s. Your eyes sparkled, your smile made me speechless. I left into the night w/friends but never thanked you. May I, over coffee? 5416
MONIQUA, I LOVE YOU & YOUR “BUG” TOO! I couldn’t ask for a better friend. Well I could but would never find one. Merry Christmas. Love, Shaniqua. 5457
MY LADY GUINEVERE, YOU KNOW WHO YOU are. Your bubber can’t wait to be with you for the holidays! 5414
12/16-BARNES & NOBLE SAT EVENING YOU: captivating beauty, black hair, wearing long black coat w/white flower lapel, long green dress, with two F friends. Me: behind you at coffee counter, we exchanged glances sever al times. Your eyes were inviting, the situa tion was not. You left in a Ford Explorer. Are you available for coffee? 5456
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT FINNIGAN’S bar. It’s tike Christmas year ‘round. Since you I have found. It seems very clear, there’s much to anticipate in the New Year! 5412
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TO THE FORMER NECI PASTRY-COUNTER maiden, studying Eng. Lit. at UVM. your smile beckons. I’m the red-coated occasional vagabond w/a penchant for languages. Let’s talk books! 5399
ERIN, MAY WE TALK AGAIN? DAVID. 5453 REBECCA (PASTRY CHEF). TRIED TO REACH you thru your ad #5148, no joy, would you like to meet? 5445
• • • • • • • # HANDSOME M, 40, STRONG BUILD, 5’io”, 185 lbs. Friendly, gentle, outgoing but demanding schedule. Desires fit F for good friendship, discreet encounters. Youth age or Ma, no barrier. Honesty, security, closeness. Box 851_______________________________
SWM, 44, BLUE EYES W/SO MUCH MORE. Tired of the bar scene. Looking for a warm, gentle, understanding F willing to take that chance. Box 871________________________
SF, 50. LETS PUT TOGETHER A GROUP OF F & M who’d like to go dancing, to the movies or easy hiking. Expand the circle of friends. Box 864.________________ _____________
SWM, 52, 6’, 200 LBS., NS, ISO, SF, 40-55, active, fun, loves movies, quiet life. Box 835
SWM, 36, NS, LAID-BACK, INTELLIGENT, FIT, fun. Seeking similar, SF, for occasional x-c or snowshoe exploration. Could lead to hiking, canoeing, ping-pong, who knows? Plattsburgh or Burlington areas. Box 865________
PBGH^B’TON. - NOT: SLIM, GORGEOUS, degreed or wealthy, but a genuine good woman, 50s, musical, artistic, kink-friendly, NA, ND, NS, seeks a “like” male. Safe, sane, discreet, clean, possible LTR. Box 846
LOOKING FOR ROMANTIC, PASSIONATE, companion. Me: PSWM, 61, tall, slim, NS, You: attractive, slim, free spirit, adventurous, assionate. Like travel & dining. Box 838
SWM, 47, BRN HAIR/EYES. I AM A LOYAL, honest, faithful gentleman. ISO a slim, sexy, loyal, faithful F who desires a best friend, lover, soulmate. Enjoys quiet nights, dining out. Send photo. Box 866._______________
MAPWM, 40, TALL, HANDSOME, IN SHAPE, well endowed. Seeks cute, bit on the side, 18-30, sexual. I’m generous. Send photo. Will consider all. LTR possible. Box 868.
SWM, 54, WRITER, MANAGER OF NON-PROF it tenants group. Doing intensive organiza tional work seeks F, any age, who can follow his lead for the long term, public & private. Box 867.______________________________
oifm DWF, 50’S, QUEEN/TALL EMPLOYED, LONG walks, creativity, bibliophile, movies, con certs, NS, ND, good reputation, seeking same in kind, caring M. Safe, sane, discreet, dean, “Kinky" a plus. Possible LTR. Box 876
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28 YO SWF ISO 30+ SWF FOR FRIENDSHIP & more. I’m looking for honesty, love and affection. We’ll take on the world together.. let the adventure begin! Box 849__________
MWM SEEKS MF OR SF FOR DISCREET ENcounters, days/evenings. Age, looks, race unimportant, passion is. Let’s meet over a coffee. Box 872.________________________
BIM, 5’5”, 140 LBS. SAFE, CLEAN 81 DIScreet. ISO Cu who would like a slave to toy with. S&M, B&D, w/s OK. I take orders real well. Box 869. __________________■
WOODSWOMAN (N.CT. VT.), 49, SEEKS KINDred soul for dance of intimacy, led by kind hearts, step by step, to loving, celebrating & honoring our being together & apart. Let’s-, dance. Box 844
SM, 42, ARTISTIC, POETIC, ROMANTIC Southerner, 5T1”, 200 lbs., in good shape. Enjoys camping, boating, fishing and dance. ISO open, honest, friendship first. Explore the depths of a labyrinth heart. Box 852
INCARCERATED, 39, NON-VIOLENT, SUBMISsive WM. Happiness is: dominant, heavyset, wealthy woman, 30-50, to feminize me and teach me how to be the woman I crave to be. Box 856___________________________ MWM 40, ISO COUPLE FOR CLEAN, SAFE, intimate fun. Central to Northeast VT. Very discreet. Let’s trade letters. Box 853
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INCARCERATED NON-VIOLENT HANDSOME French Carribean. 32, 5’n ”, athletic physique Sexy chocolate complextion w/dreadlocks. Into Asian foods/beliefs, family, books & laughter. ISO NS, loyal, intelligent, goal ori ented SF. Photo please. Box 850
NEW TO VT/ST. ALBANS. 60 YO GM, WOULD like to meet GM, singles & couples. Box 876 SGWM, ST. ALBANS-AREA, 5’ 10”, 230 LBS. sincere, quiet ISO SGM, 30-40S, honesty first. LTR only. I have much to offer, are you the one? D/D free, smoker OK. Box 848
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CASEY, (KASEY, KC?) & BIZ. MET YOU WITH my “brother” at 3 Needs. Perhaps we could meet for G&T’s again, Andy 5409
YOU: LEATHER PANTS & HALTER TOP W/TATtoo on your back, 12/9 at Millennium. You were w/a friend. I was going to ask you to dance, but missed out. Coffee? 5455_______
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ANTHONY I’VE LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG. You’ve changed my life! I can’t wait to spend the rest of it with you and the kids too! Love you-your girl. 5424
12/17/00-SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT DORSET St. Friendly’s. Your Mom & I shared a laugh over the ketchup. I’d love to share some laughs w/you! Call me. 5464 _________
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