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G O O D FOR T H E GANDER? I Find it very interesting that that incredible, overly self-right eous male trio of Congressman Bernard Sanders, Congressional candidate Jack Long and Vermont Senate Majority Leader Dick McCormack have failed to come to former Senator Susan Sweetser’s defense after Peter Freynes unwarranted and unfair attack against her. IVe waited four weeks and there has not been one peep out of these guys, none of whom is rarely at a loss for words. That must mean that these “gentlemen” condone Freynes conduct. Accordingly, I hope in the weeks ahead that your readers will be treated to all the details of Sanders’ two divorces, Long’s very recent divorce or separation, and McCormack’s three divorces in Freyne s column. After all, whats good for the goose must be good for the gander (unless, of course, Freyne really is just out to get Susan at all costs, which is what it appears to me). — Rashmika A. Mehta Richmond

SHUM LIN PIECE A SHAM Jeezum! After writing a fun letter praising Seven Days for its excellent reporting by the dynamic duo, [Peter] Freyne & [Kevin] Kelley, you burst my balloon by publishing Aaron Nathans’ rhetorical, sophomoric poof-piece of a political report about the quiet ascension of Peter Shumlin into the leadership of the new Democratic Senate majority. Instead of insight and understanding, we are given regurgitated pablum about our latest New Democrat emerging from the same Jello mold that formed fellow queslings Clinton and Howard Dean. Reporter Nathans showed little curiosity or writing ability by merely purveying the “neo-liberal” (read: wretchedly conservative) propaganda that Shumlin wanted us to hear. In the last election Shumlin, a very wealthy individual by all accounts, teamed with fellow aristocrat Howard Dean to actually limit the oncoming tide of progressive Democrats over whelming a prone, out-of-touch Republican Party. By withholding funds and critical support to several liberal Democrats in close elections, Dean and Shumlin and their misnamed “coordi nated campaign” actually cost Democrats two to three Senate seats. As a liberal, left Democrat who participated in electing Bernie Sanders, I saw first-hand what

an empty shell the Democratic party has become. For example, a recent statewide Democratic fundraiser drew only 40 to 50 peo ple, whereas the Republicans had 600 at about the same time. Yet Republicans lost because they chose to focus on unseating our ever-popular populist democratic Socialist Congressman. Bernie, not the Democrats, deserves credit for defeating the entire Republican Party. I’m afraid that the Democratic Party has become an elitist party controlled by a handful of very wealthy plutocrats (aka, Dean and Shumlin). Part of the reason that Republicans are in decline in Vermont is that it was dominated by Richard and later Barbara Snelling to the exclu sion of everybody else. Similarly, Democrats will falter if Dean and Shumlin dominate. Evidently, reporter Nathans has been reward ed for his services in the line of duty for the sta tus quo (and journalistic mendacity), as his byline recently graced the pages of our shallow, near-textless purveyor of political illiteracy, the Burlington Free Press. Otherwise, happy New Year to the readers and writers of Seven Days. — Dave Pell Hinesburg

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melting of the glaciers and Alzheimer’s? The facts aren’t going to get in the way here, § folks. This one’s wired. Nobody wants to know j After 25 years of shouting, The Loudest that the herbicide used is approved by the EPA g I Mouth in the Green Mountains has finally and already in use without hurting even one lit- J 1 decided to put it all down on paper. Congresstie frog leg. Nobody wants to know that farm- 8 | man Bernie Sanders, whose years of screaming ers and apple growers will continue to use aerial | ®and yelling finally necessitated throat surgery last spraying on their fields and orchards ’cause no g 8 summer, has a potential best-seller (at least politician will dare mess with farmers. Nobody » S among left-wing Vermonters), coming out this wants to know Champion doesn’t want to spray | summer titled Outsider In the House. Cute. grown trees, despite the bogus editorial in the 1 I The 240-page hardcover volume, to be pubFree Press — just areas that have recently been g f lished by Verso, a New York City-based pub logged and replanted with spruce and fir. g lishing house, will retail for the “affordable” Nobody wants to know Champion depends on ^ i price of $25. It’s billed as “a political autobia healthy forest and nobody gives a damn that 8 1 ography,” written in “a passionate and personal just last month Interior Secretary Bruce I voice.” Verso touts Bernie’s book as one that Babbitt gave Champion the U.S. Fish and ~ “gives the inside scoop on Sanders’ discussions Wildlife Service’s Corporate Stewardship I about class politics with Bill Clinton in the Award. Z | Oval Office [what, no bimbos or hookers?], his Nope. Champion is this year’sMonsanto. 1 | battles with the often byzantine politics of the String ’em up! | House floor [excuse me, but where am I sup Medical Advice — Back in 1981 the legislature | posed to sit?], and his encounters on the camapproved a law allowing docs to prescribe pot I paign trail in Vermont [hello, WGOP-TV?].” for cancer patients. But for the last 15 years the O f Bernardo wrote the book with the assisstatute has just been sitting there in the law i I tance of his close friend and confidant, books. Though the law directed the health Huckleberry “Huck” Gutman, a UVM English commissioner to promulgate rules and get the 1 professor who presumably can turn Bernie’s program going, nothing was done. Federal drug » | words of wisdom into something that has a ring laws take precedence, says Bill Wargo, the department’s legal counsel. S | to ft“The path which Congressman Bernie Rubbish, says Dr. Douglas | ®Sanders has taken,” says the McSweeney. For many years j i publisher, “must be followed by McSweeney was a distinguished | others before US democracy can surgeon up on Hospital Hill. § | be revived. Outsider In the Back in 1981 McSweeney was § I House is a compelling signpost also a state senator who helped J * for that most difficult of politiwrite Vermont’s medicinal mari- g 1 cal journeys.” juana law. He learned about the s Sounds like a 240-page serbenefits of pot in 1963 out in S | mon. Wonder if Susie CreamOregon, where he noticed its J cheese will get a mention? effectiveness in treating patients g Paying the Piper Time — This undergoing toxic chemotherapy, g I week, members of nightclub After hearing the Gov’s recent j g owner Shawn Cliche s legal draconian statement that there’s ff | dream team — Karen Shingler, “absolutely no medical benefit” g Norm Blais and Joseph , to be derived from marijuana, g Obuchowski — plan to sit Dr. McSweeney wrote Dr. Dean ^ i down with Burlington City and gave him a medicinal scold- 8 gAttorney Joe McNeil to give the ing. 1 I city what Shingler calls “one last “I told Ho-Ho he was g J chance” to rectify the wrong wrong on his stand against mar- g S done by the distinguished City ijuana for medical purposes,” | Council in revoking the liquor said McSweeney. license for Cliche’s planned No response, yet. Maybe it’s | I Coliseum nightclub on Cherry time the legislature revisited the g ®Garcia St. two weeks after they matter. Why let the damn g 1 issued it. If that doesn’t work, statute just sit there gathering • | Cliche will proceed with a lawdust? | suit against the City of Burlap Paul the Puck Laces ’Em Up! g g and the 13 pure and holy coun— Dejti vu all over again last week as Rep. Paul g 8 cilors who voted to take back his license before Poirier, the new chairman of House Health and 1 he ever got to use it. Ward 7 Councilor Gary Welfare, kicked off his health-care offensive. | Hevey will not be a defendant, since he had the Health-care consumers unite! | wisdom and courage to stand alone against the Poirier played center ice on Speaker Ralph | “ regressive council’s dastardly deed. Shingler Wright’s deadly political power play unit in the g « notes that the recent Supreme Court decision 1980s, lost a congressional bid in 1988 and 1 that ruled the South Burlington City Council drifted off into Green Mountain Power Land. 1 | was wrong to revoke the liquor license at But Poirier’s back, and now sits at the right I Cliche’s Club Fantasy fuels their case. hand of Speaker Michael Obuchowski. Word | JJ Burlington’s moral majority played the tune, is, Vermont’s medical moguls are taking skating ^ i and it looks like they may have to pay the lessons. j piper, too. This is going to cost the city a Media Notes — A reader called the other day 1 | “whole bunch of money,” says Shingler. Cool. to express shock at The Burlington Free Press' I Extremism Returns? — Now that the Web site on the Internet. 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' either. Information “Technology.” Let’s get those math scores up, hop on that Starship! The Truth is Out There. Could make case for artificiality of Western calendar. A Catholic invention. Insulting to other cultures. Shows con tempt for diversity and consen sus. Could suggest: Let’s declare it some other century and get it over with. I’d go for the 14th — would give people a real taste of “spirituality” and “fami ly values” and keep the Pope happy, too. Could attack children. Delicious idea. Mouthwatering. Ties in with 21st century thing — “the Future,” better known as “Our Childrens Future.” Every dumb idea on the planet justi fied by reference to the kids. W hat are the rest o f us, chopped liver? Meantime children treated as complete idiots. Witness recent story in Free Press about Tooth Fairy. Psychologist says some children nervous about losing baby teeth and need Tooth Fairy to help them cope. Where’s Johnny Carson? I did not know that! Handwringing parents further warned by experts not to interfere with childrens tooth-losing process. Sooner or later kids will stop believing in theT. F., then what do you do? “Validate their perception.” “Understand tyhat they’re feding.”^ o u t 4 j ^ ^ ^ J t t $ t 'a $ easy to tell them how teeth grow. Obvious crank. Head spins at thought of a million Asian children dying annually of common diarrhea while two-income yuppies chase “quality time” and complain about lack of “support” for families. Expect in the future to see army of grief-and-loss counselors every time Brandon or Brittany looses a tooth. Think world migD - 1---- ---- ’— 1C

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lent of an annuity. The original stove — and the espresso to get out of the rat race, and The club attracted Theodor writers get first right of refusal machine. because a house in Cornwall Nelson, the wacky inventor of on every revision, and royalties “Both of us have been in opened up unexpectedly when hypertext, who envisioned the no matter who updates the the situation where the goal is her aunt and uncle were killed personal computer and the book. In the case of Internet for to make money, build a career World Wide Web in advance of — Don and Peg Arnold died Dummies, now in its fourth edi together on a motorcycle trip in and do all this stuff,” he says. the industry, as well as the tion, that is at least an annual “And both of us have decided Australia. Although constant woman who is now “personal event — things Web surfer” are changing to Japanese For now, Amazon is handling electronically. “I thought, ‘oh, that fast. software « > no problem. Jump on the Web, all the business and distribu 1 m not giant Kay tion — and takes 92 percent of Amazon.com, it has all these even sure we Nishi. Margy the profit. books. I’ll find some big Web had the Web in urfing the Net is one thing. and her pro “It is just a way to get start site that sells videos.’” She the first edition Turning the Big Kahuna grammer ed,” Margy says of the project, found information about the of Internet for into cash is another. When brother John which could turn into a wel tape, but nobody was doing Dummies,” they are not writing how-to both graduat business. “We thought, ‘This is come sideline for the Margy says. “If books, Margy and Jordan ed in com Cornwall-based co-author of an opportunity. We should try we did, it was Young are doing their own puter science Internet for Dummies. After all, this.’” just a tiny research in the brave new at Yale. Business on the Web for For the cost of a phone mention. You world of computer commerce. “I think Dummies has already been line, they got Great Tapes for look back on it The work in progress is a back and I written. “The cool thing,” Kids up and running. The and say to three-week-old Web site that wonder, Margy says with mouse in four-color site — now accessi yourself, ‘How functions as a video store. ‘How come hand, “is we did it right here.” ble via Yahoo! — features can this be?’ Margy describes the inventory none of us wholesome and somewhat off And yet it was as “stuff our kids like.” was Bill Great Tapes for Kids can be beat videos like Let’s Go to the n’t that long Margy was looking to Gates?”’ >5 found at httpd/www.great Farm, with Mac Parker, and ago. replace a Tintin video when Margy pon tapes.com the complete Madeleine series. Margy and she got the idea to sell kid vids ders without her brother an ounce of John wrote pretention. their first computer book that it is not what we wanted to revisions keep Margy at the “We were positioned for it, but together in 1987. Four years do.” I guess none of us had the drive keyboard, and Jordan is busy later, they got their first It’s an existential crisis with chasing two kids and more to spend 36 hours a day work“dummy” offer, when the guy • >5 a strong economic foundation: chickens, the couple looks set in g . Financially speaking, a comput tled on a cold January morning. The Youngs moved to Continued on page 12 er book contract is the equiva Jordan is working the woodVermont from the Boston area

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ELLEN POWELL & JERRY IAVENE (jazz), Mona’s Jazz Bar, 6 p S o cover. OPEN MIKE NIGHT WITH MARK GALBOr (acousticj/Cactus Cafe, 8 p.m. No cover. GEORGE PETIT & THE DESIRED EFFECT (jazz), Halvorson’s, 9 p.m. $2. PERCY HILL, AUGUSTA BROWN (groove rock), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $6/8. MOTEL BROWN (rock-reggae), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. $4. BUZZ NIGHT (alt DJ), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $2 after 11 p.m. SETH YACOVONE (blues), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. FUNKS-G (funk), Manhattan Pizza, 10 p.m. No cover. MATT MCGIBNEY (blues), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. THE ADAMS (rock), Patches Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. JALAPENO BROS, (rock), James Moore Tavern, Bolton Valley, 8 p.m. No cover. COOL RULES (rock), Cafe Banditos, Smugglers Notch, Jeffersonville, 9:30 p.m. $ 1 . INI DJ, Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9 p.m. No cover. ZEN COWBOY (bluegrass), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. OPEN MIKE, Gallagher’s, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. No cover. BRUCE SKLAR TRIO (jazz), Common Man, Warren, 8 p.m. No cover.

FRIDAY

CLYDE STATS TRIO (jazz), Windjammer, 5 p.m. No cover. PERRY NUNN (acoustic), Ruben JarST 5 p.m. No cover. KAREN KENNEDY & SOME BOYS (jazz), Mona’s Jazz Bar, 5:30 p.m. No cover. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance, 7:30 p.m. No cover. SMALL POTATOES (country-blues-folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $6. DEVIATIONS FROM THE NORM, KAMIKAZE COMEDY (improv comedy), Last Elm, 8 p.m. Donations. ARIEUS (house DJ Craig Mitchell), 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. $5. THE TOASTERS, BARBACOA (ska, surf), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $10. PURE PRESSURE (soul/r&b), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. $4. THE X-RAYS (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. ACOUSTIC BLOW-OUT, Mr. Mike’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. BE THAT WAY (rock), Manhattan Pizza, 9:30 p.m. No cover. THE MANDOLINQUENTS (swing-bluegrass), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. $7. THE ADAMS (rock), Patches Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. WALT ELMORE &ALL THAT JAZZ, Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE (acoustic), Williston Coffee House, 8 p.m. $3. HANNIBAL & AGOSTI (rock), James Moore Tavern, Bolton Valley, 9 p.m. No cover. JAMIE LEE & THE RATTLERS (country), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $3. SPIN CYCLE (rock), Charlie-o’s, Montpelier, 10 p.m. No cover. ELLEN POWELL & JERRY LAVENE (jazz), Main Street Bar & Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 8 p.m. No cover. SANDRA WRIGHT (blues, r&b), Mad Mountain Tavern, Waitsfield, 9:30 p.m. $3. VIBROKINGS (rock), Gallagher’s, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. $2. WORLD PREMIERE (dance funk), Rusty Nail, Stowe, 9 p.m. $5. SHANE BRODY (folk), Three Mountain Lodge, Jeffersonville, 6:30 p.m. No cover. SMOKEHOUSE (rock), Cafe Banditos, Smugglers Notch, Jeffersonville, 9:30 p.m. $3. DIAMOND JIM JAZZ BAND, Diamond Jims Grille, St. Albans, 8 p.m. No cover. C ontinued on next page...

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V alley beat Across from Frog Hollow Craft Center in Downtown Middlebury Q SATURDAY THE RESIHATORS (chant down babylon), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. GEORGE PETIT TRIO, Monas Jazz Bar, 7 p.m. No cover. BUBBLE TRIBE, MAGIC PEBBLE (psychedelic), Slade Hall, UVM, 8 p.m. No cover. GREG GREENAWAY (contemporary folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $6. THE X-RAYS (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. LITTLE MAR TIN (DJ), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $3. THE PANTS, LUGHEAD, QUEER FOR ASTRO BOY (alt-rock), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $5. RETRONOME (funk, disco, ’80s DJ Craig Mitchell), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. No cover. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (rock), Mr. Mike’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. GENERAL TOM THUMB'S BAND (hobo-rock), Last Elm, 9 p.m. Donations. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance, 7:30 p.m. No cover. THE BROTHERHOOD (rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. $7. THE ADAMS (rock), Patches Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. SAM ARMSTRONG (jazz), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. No cover. GORDON STONE TRIO (bluegrass-jazz), James Moore Tavern, Bolton Valley, 3:30 p.m., no cover, followed by HULLABALLOO (classic rock), 9 p.m. No cover. ILENE WEISS (singer-songwriter), Community Coffee House, Ripton, 7:30 p.m. $3. JAMIE LEE & THE RATTLERS (country), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $3. ALEX BETZ TRIO (jazz), Main Street Bar and Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 8 p.m. No cover. SCOTT KOKIN (rock), Charhe-os, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. No cover. COOPER & LAVOIE (blues), Mad Mountain Tavern, Waitsfield, 4 p.m., no cover, fol lowed by UPROOT (reggae), 9:30 p.m. $3. WORLD PREMIERE (dance funk), Rusty Nail, Stowe, 9 p.m. $5. SETH YACOVONE (blues), Gate House Lodge, Sugarbush Resort, 9 p.m. $3. JALAPENO BROS, (rock), Cafe Banditos, Smugglers Notch, Jeffersonville, 9:30 p.m. $3. CLIFF EBERHARDT, CAROL NOONAN (contemporary folk), Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. $16+. ...E A ST MEETS W EST

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SUNDAY

RACHB BISSEX (singer-songwriter), City Market, 11 a.m. No cover. ACOUSTIC SUNRISE BRUNCH (open jam), Java Love, 11 a.m. No cover. FLEX RECORD NIGHT (dub DJ), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. No cover. RUSS FLANIGAN (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. DIAMOND DJ (’80s revival), James Moore Tavern, Bolton, 10 a.m. No cover. ADAM ROSENBURG (acoustic), Thirsty Turtle, 8 p.m. No cover. GLENDON ENGALLS (acoustic), Main Street Bar and Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 11 a.m^ No cover. u, r , , . • ;

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THE BURLYTOWN BEANERY OPEN MIC KNIGHT (acoustic), Java Love, 7 p.m. No cover. OPEN POETRY READING, Last Elm, 8 p.m. Donations. JUSAGROOVE (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. FLASHBACK: HITS OF THE '80S (DJ), Club Toast, 10 p.m. No cover/$5 under 21. BLACK RHYTHMS (DJs Little Martin, Craig Mitchell), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. No cover. JAMES HARVEY QUARTET (jazz), Rio’s, Winooski, 8 p.m. No cover.

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Continued from page 9 That’s not to say that songs with a stronger melodic compo nent, like the velvety “Blues for Charlie Haden” or orchestrat ed lines of “Where Have Your Been?” are less satisfying. Though my ears favor the smoky, murky kind of jazz that sounds like it’s keeping a secret — the exotica of “Barbute” comes close. Petit’s prowess of guitar is evident but wisely never overpowers the whole; indeed, there’s no grandstanding here, just lean and limber chops that ask you to consider the tapestry more than its weavers. Still, Petit’s and Stuart Paton’s percussive elements are worth singling out — diey allow Patachou! to rise above the limitations of the jazz quartet. Haa fluid and sexy blowing on “The Way” also get extra credit, ro< Petit finishes up solo and sensitive with finely crafted acoustic balladry on “A Poem for Amy Taylor.” On the whole it’s a romantic score, with production at Petit’s Foundation studio providing a warm and intimate sonic embrace. Take in the Halvorson’s. Petit also plays Monas Jazz Bar on Saturday. O

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New York chanteuse who was rejected by Madonna's Maverick label as "too authentic." Reality bites, eh, baby Lourdes? But for most of us, the Weissian formula of hilarity, honesty and devilishly good songwriting works just fine. By the way, the woman has a par allel career as Dr. Noodle with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, if that tells you anything. Get a dose of Weiss this Saturday at Ripton's Community Coffee House.

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Continued from page 8 - around the world. One o f them was Australia. So this DJ in Brisbane loved Palieri’s heart-felt folk so much that he asked him to please tour Down Under. With the help of a fellow DJ in Melbourne, the pair put together Palieri’s current trip. (And it was he, says the folkster, who alerted Lockridge about AudioNet in the first place. Will the circle be unbroken?) “It’s important now,” says Palieri, “for people without much money to use the Net while it’s relatively small and accessible (you call that smalft)." Just the other day, he notes with resignation, half his e-mail was — eek — advertis ing. One last note, so to speak: “It’s interesting that someone

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ent corporation, the Rochester, New York-based Frontier Corp., has been on a buying binge for years, swallowing up telecom munications firms across the country. Layoffs frequently fol low when merged companies consolidate departments and services. Employees in down town Burlington are a casualty. “We won’t be buying any thing at Woolworth’s, we won’t be buying ice cream cones at Ben & Jerry’s. We’re gone — history,” said one downsized worker who asked not to be named for fear of “jeopardizing my severance package.” Even by this employee’s account, Frontier has offered a decent severance package to its employees. The company also offers to help workers write resumes and find other jobs — some are given the option of taking positions in the compa ny elsewhere in the country. Redmond said Frontier has not yet decided whether it will remove the huge bank of com puter gadgetry at the Burlington Square Mall — known as a switch — that

advertising, Frontier has bought a good name for itself and expects it to pay off in increased sales. The company calls it “community giving.” It has sup plied toll-free lines into Vermont Public Radio, for example, in exchange for a reg ular on-the-air plug. It has pro vided voice mail for homeless folks looking for work, and a toll-free line for women report ing domestic abuse. Giving to high-profile bene ficiaries will continue, but donations to over 13 other groups, which Frontier won’t name, will be cut off or halved. “We’ll still have a pres ence... in Vermont” said Ron Redmond, manager of the Community Giving Program. “But we’re now a national com pany, and you have to make those hard choices.” Among other hard choices are 24 full-time and two parttime employees who have lost their jobs. It’s the story of telecommunications in the 1990s: Companies get bigger and workforces get smaller. Frontier Communications’ par

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bout a year ago, I was hired away from my job at a national magazine «— okay, it was a fashion magazine, Harpers Bazaar — to become ,, the book editor for a start-up online journal called Salon. This wasn’t a hard decision to make. Bazaar was an alien uni verse, particularly for someone (namely me) who has roughly as much clothes sense as Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczinsky. I was also bone-tired of compos ing sentences that con tained references to My editor can lit high cheekbones and Prada bags. My one erally call me up regret, as I cleared out — although he my desk on the final day, was that I would hasn't yet, thank n’t be bumping into God — and say: Naomi Campbell in the elevator anymore. “Well, big guy, Signing on with 2401 people read Salon felt like being sked to jump through the first page o f different kind of your article yester looking-glass. I was, at the time, a fairly com day, but only 372 mitted techno-peasant. Content with my 10ju m ped to the year-old word proces second page. ” sor and skeptical about the joys of email, I scorned as wee nies those who droned that I’d be throwing my work on at dinner parties about down a hole — that nobody hyperlinks or modem speed, or would be there to read it. who spent hours divining the Happily, this hasn’t proven to cryptic sayings of Wired maga zine guru Nicholas Negroponte. be the case. Salon attracts Actually, I still scorn a lot of between 50-70,000 readers a week, which is good for any those people. Manhattan is cultural weekly that doesn’t put thick with “New Media” types movie stars on its cover. (To put these days, goateed young netin a quick plug, Time magazine workers who, 10 years ago, recently called us the single best would have gone into advertis site on the Internet.) My sec ing or junk bonds. But what I ond concern ran deeper. I won quickly found out about the dered whether anyone — online world is that it is also myself included — would ever full of serious, literate people learn to interact as intimately who believe — as Leon with words on a computer Wieseltier puts it in this week’s screen as they do with words on New Republic — that the com paper. puter, “like all technology, will This is a complicated issue. lend efficiency to our ends, but There’ s no denying that reading it will make the devising of from a computer screen can feel those ends no easier.” In other like homework: You’ve got to words, ideas and language still sit up in your chair, your eyes matter. grow blurry after too many I didn’t become wired hours spent staring at a moni overnight. It took me a few tor, and worse, you can’t bring months to adjust to the sub an online magazine into the tleties of e-mail conversation, bathtub with you. (At least, not although I am now an addict. I yet.) Yet one grows increasingly work from New York for a accustomed to reading online magazine that is based in San — printing articles out is Francisco, and I speak to the

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another option — and the best online magazines have quickly proven that they are worth searching out. Here’s one reason this is true: Because online magazines don’t have to shoulder the mas sive paper costs that ultimately sink most print journals — or drive them to write about soft, advertiser-friendly topics — Web ’zines tend to be freer, livelier and far less corn-fed than most magazines you’ll pick up at a newsstand. There’s a pioneer spirit and, frankly, a

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like Vermont ETV and likeminded avant-garde advertising agencies. “It’s excellent work,” testifies Jeff Wakefield, director of pub lic relations for KSV Commu nicators. The two companies are partnering on an education al CD-ROM. “Our client is very impressed, and so are we.” Strauss calls what Rhombus

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d a n ce D A N C E CO M PANY O F MIDDLEBURY: Andrea Olsen trans forms personal loss into creative expres sion in “Crossing Over” — a moving response to her fathers battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $4. Info, 443-6433. ‘FREE SPIRIT D A N C E ’: The barefoot boogie convenes at Earth Dance Healing

Arts Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-9828. C O N T A C T IMPROV: Make con tact with other fearless movers in the Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $1. Info, 860-3674.

d ra m a ‘GIM PEL T H E FOOL’: Based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this operatic outgrowth o f a winter-term class features faculty, student and community talent. Wright Theatre, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. LYRIC A U D IT IO N S: Interested in get ting Into the Woods? Audition for almost two dozen fairy tale parts, including

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t ilm ‘SO M E LIKE IT H O T ’: The Billy Wilder film stars Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis. Waterbury Senior Center, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6648.

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author Katherine Paterson,.to dem on strate effective character development. S. Burlington Library, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

kids T E EN PARENT-CHILD GRO UP: Teen moms hang out with their babies at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. STORY TIME: Kids under three also hear songs at 11 a.m. Three- to five-yearolds also craft at 10 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORIES: Children listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, W inooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

etc U P O N T H E FARM: Imagine the Champlain Valley Fair w ithout the rides or the racing pigs. T he Vermont Farm Show turns out the agricultural implements, and the farm folks who use them, at a time o f year reserved for soil searching. D on ’t miss the Wednesday night milking contest that pits legislators against technocrats. Wednesday, January 2 9 a n d Thursday January 3 0 . A uditorium Complex, Barre, 9 a. m. Free. Info, 828-3823.

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M IM I, YOU-YO U: It was 19th-cen tury poverty, not 20th-century grunge, that brought the kids together in La B ohim e. But the opera, about young Left Bankers, inspired the hit new musical Rent, with its cast o f contemporary starving artists. Its worth saving up for this one. Tuesday, February 4. Flynn Theatre, 8 p.m . $18.50-51. Info. 863-5966.

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W H A T IS A PUBLIC W ATERFRONT? Recent activities on and around the waterfront have sparked discussion about how the area will change over the next decade. Participate in the planning process at a public forum. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7191. REIKI HEALING: Mary Abele practices transpersonal therapy as part o f her train ing for the ministry. Unitarian Church, Burlington, noon - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5630. TRA NSPO RTA TIO N M EETING : The Metropolitan Planning Organization meets to discuss its own dissolution, as suggested by the Vermont Agency o f Transportation. Essex Junction, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004. V E R M O N T FARM SHOW : Displays fill three floors o f two huge buildings in a farmer-oriented show o f agricultural interest. All are welcome at the Barre Civic Center, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3823. STO W E W IN T E R CARNIVAL: Wacky, artistic and athletic events continue with a noon ski race at the Stowe Mountain Resort. A pre-snowgolf party begins at 8 p.m. at the Rusty Nail. Watching most events is free. Info, 253-7321. SEW ING N IG H T : Need help with a sewing project? Bring your machine and supplies to the Com m unity Center in

Jericho, 6:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 899-9931. LABOR PARTY M EETING: The Vermont chapter meets to establish bylaws, and discuss actions and regional meetings. Teamsters Hall, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 2 2 3-4172. BATTERED W O M E N S SU PPO R T G RO UP: W omen Helping Battered W omen facilitates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1996.

BRUCE KLAVIER D U O : See January 29. P IA N O CO NCERT: Pianist-in-residence Sally Pinkas performs the world premiere o f six Preludes for Piano composed for her by Daniel Pinkham. Spaulding Auditorium, H opkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $10.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n ce D A N C E CO M PANY OF M IDDLEBURY: See January 29.

d ra m a ‘GIM PEL T H E FOOL’: See January 29, 8 p.m. LYRIC A U D IT IO N S: See January 29.

t ilm ‘STRAWBERRY A N D CH O C O LA T E’: Feast on bean burritos while you watch this delightful Cuban comedy. Blue Couch Cafe, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066.

a rt W O M E N ’S ART GRO UP: Women artists meet weekly for feedback, ideas and support. Burlington Waterfront, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3269.

w ords POETRY READING : Contributors to the literary journal at Burlington High School read from their works. Book Rack, W inooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 6550231.

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kids LEAD SAFETY PROGRAM : Parents learn how to protect their children from heavy metals. Wheeler School, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. IN TR O T O W ALDORF EDU CATIO N: Julia Pellegrino answers questions about the philosophy and structure o f Waldorf education. Com munity Center in Jericho, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4275.

etc V ER M O N T FARM SHOW : See January 28, 9 a.m. - 4p.m. STOW E W IN T E R CARNIVAL: See January 29. Snowgolf tees o ff at 10 a.m. at the Stowe Country Club.

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V E R M O N T M O ZA RT FESTIVAL: One o f the great European string quar tets, the Prague-based Talich Quartet plays the music o f Schubert and Brahms. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 8 0 0 -6 3 9 -9 0 9 7 . A talk begins at 7 p.m. M IN G U S BIG BA N D : T he hot jazz legacy o f Charles Mingus is carried on by this 14-member band o f former col leagues. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $ 17.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

d ra m a GIM PEL T H E FOOL’: See January 29, 8 p.m. KAMIKAZE COMEDY: This sponta neous theater troupe welcomes a new members in a com bo routine with Boston-based Deviations from the Norm. Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6120.

film ROCKY H O RRO R PICTU RE S H O W : The wacky cult classic shows at the Blue Couch Cafe, midnight. Donations. Info, 865-5066.

kids M USICAL STORY TIM ES: Folks under three listen at 10 a.m. All ages hear tales at 10:30 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORY H O U R : Toddlers listen to sto ries at the M ilton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

etc STOW E W IN TER CARNIVAL: See January 29. Turkey bowling on Commodores Pond begins at 6 p.m. A beer tasting follows for $3 and a can o f food. BATTERED W O M E N ’S SU PP O R T

G RO UP: See January 29, 9:30-11 p.m. M A D RIVER VALLEY CARNIVAL: Ski mogul D oug Lewis presides over the Jeep King o f the Mountain Downhill Series. A torchlight parade is followed by fire works. Various locations in the Mad River Valley, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 496-3409. S T U D Y ABROAD FAIR: Learn about international study opportunities from satisfied returnees. Marsh Dining Hall, U V M , Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4296. ALASKA TRAVELOGUE: Follow Christa Alexander on an illustrated tour o f Alaska. Com m unity Center in Jericho, 6:30-8 p.m. $2. Info, 899-3211. H O R SE STORIES: The Green Mountain Pony Club offers dessert and horse stories from area equestrians. Covenant Com m unity Church, Essex, 6:30 p.m. $5. Reservations, 879-1357. ‘H A N O I T O SA IG O N ’: Ellie Byers recently completed a bicycle trip through Vietnam. She shares slides and tales with outdoor enthusiasts at the Green Mountain Club, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $4. Reservations, 244-7037. TE EN VARIETY SHOW: Storyteller Peter Burns hosts an evening o f potato jousting and performance art in a relaxed, drug-free atmosphere. Spectrum O ne Stop, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5396. LESBIGAY Y O U T H SU PPO R T M EETING : Lesbian, bisexual, gay and “questioning” folks under 23 are wel come at Outright Vermont, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428.

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M IN G U S BIG BAN D: See January 31, Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1223.50. Info, 863-5966. A talk with Sue Mingus and two band members starts at 6:30 p.m. C ABIN FEVER M U SIC SERIES: Carol Noonan opens for C liff Eberhardt in a new folk concert at the Briggs Opera House, W hite River Junction, 8:30 p.m. $16. Info, 295-5432. BR E N TA N O STR IN G QUARTET: Old works by Mozart and Beethoven, and a new one by Chou Wen Chung, are on the program. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $17.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e BALLROOM DANCE: Fox trot, waltz and swing to live music on the biggest dance floor in town. S. Burlington Middle School, 8 p.m. $14 per couple.

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P H O T O G R A P H IN G Y O U R ART: Saturday; February 1, 1-4 p.m. Frog Hollow, Middlebury. $ 25. Register, 3883177. Learn abou t lighting, film selection a n d accurate color rendition.

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k i d s TRACK ING PROGRAM: Folks over five follow — and find the creatures that made — animal tracks in the snow. ft Shelburne Farms, 9:30 a.m. or 12:30 Info, 253-4733. JUm D ,Q ,d » k<uk » * p p.m. $5. Register, 985-8686. STORY TIME: Folks over three listen at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 11writing 11:30 a.m. Free. Info,7 865-7216. v o f Stm s to d c ,U u 6 c l» d ) .i«'m foW RITER'S W O RK SH O P: Tuesday,,

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b o o k s REEVE LINDBERG: The Vermont author signs her new children’s book, Nobody Owns the Sky, about a young black woman aviator. Chassman & Bern Booksellers, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4332.

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O Sunday m u s i c FIDDLERS CONCERT: The Northeast Fiddlers Association holds its m onthly concert at the Knights o f Columbus Hall, Essex Junction, 1-5:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 244-8537. C A D E N ZA W O O D W IN D Q U IN TET: William Craig narrates “Peter and the W olf” in a lighthearted concert suit able for youngsters. Montshire Museum o f Science, Norwich, 2 p.m. $6. Info, 649-2200.

a rt M U SEU M M EETING: T he Main Street Museum o f Art holds its annual meeting to consider a new home, elec tions o f officers and a public art project. Main Street Museum o f Art, W hite River Junction, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 296-7955. xv e r d s BIO G RAPH Y D ISC U SSIO N SERIES: Historian Willard Sterne Randall leads the discussion o f Ethan Allen, w ho docu mented his own voyages and travels. Ilsley Library, Middlebury, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

e tc STO W E W IN T E R CARNIVAL: See January 29. Today you can try horsepowered skiing — a.k.a. “joring" — at Pristine Meadows, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. for $5. Send a dum m y down the slopes in a “big air” contest at Stowe Mountain Resort at 3 p.m. M A D RIVER VALLEY CARNIVAL: See January 31. Sled dog races and an animal tracking trek are followed by a chili lunch, 9:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. ‘W ATERFRONT PRO JECT’: Artist offers on-site interpretations o f the waterfront from the Pease Grain Tower to the Urban Reserve. Burlington Waterfront, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7144. AFL-CIO CO NFERENCE: Governor Dean and Representative Sanders have been invited to this political gathering. Suzanna’s Restaurant, Berlin, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $25 includes lunch. Info, 223-5229. NATURE WALK: Celebrate Groundhog Day with an all-ages outdoor walk. N o shadows, please. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 2-3:30 p.m. $4. Info, 229-6206. C R O SS-C O U N TR Y SKI: An easy ski on trails in N ew Branch Park will be canceled if snow conditions are not con ducive. Meet at the Montpelier

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a rt ‘REAL VS. CO NCEPTUAL’: Bryon Kim had work in the W hitney Biennial. The abstract painter shows slides in Noble Lounge, Vermont College, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8614.

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etc M AD RIVER VALLEY CARNIVAL: See January 31. Com m unity Race Day ends in a Beach Party for families. PET BEREAVEMENT: Counselor Gloria Cooley and Reverend Gary Kowalski talk about recovering from the death o f a pet. Unitarian Church, Burlington, noon - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5630.

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t ilm GAY & LESBIAN FILM NIGH T: Buxom babes rule the world in Faster Faster Pussycat, K ill, K ill — a hilarious pseudo-sexy romp sanctioned by John Waters. Blue Couch Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066.

a rt ARTISTS T H IN K SC IE N C E’: International installation artist Martha Fleming discusses “the tuning o f the gaze.” Noble Lounge, Vermont College, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8614.

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STORY T IM E FOR H O M E SCHOOLERS: Kids over five celebrate Black History M onth. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORY TIME: Kids under three also hear songs at 11 a.m. Three- to five-yearolds also craft at 10 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORIES: Children listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Childrens Pages, W inooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

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gallery to encounter the oppo site of the don’t-touch rule, this piece is too small in scale and so lacking in textural complexi ty that even kids’ fascination will wane after a minute or two. In the category of partial successes lies Greg Giordano’s series of drawings from a comic-book-in-progress. He’s clearly a skilled draftsman, able to turn out demons and were wolves as hirsute, toothsome and evil-eyed as those for sale across the street at Earth Prime Comics. But Giordano is squandering his talent on car toon characters. Most postteenage viewers are going to give these panels no more than a glance. “Attack of the Killer Insect,” a video by Josh Bridgman and Keith Spiegel, would have been even funnier had the pair trimmed an introductory inter view with Bridgman and there by given greater prominence to the story itself. Such a cut would sharpen the absurdity of an amateurish, 60-second sci-fi flick. “Housewife Cockfight,” an installation by Steve Tremblay, is plainly intended to be the star of the show. Physically its centerpiece, this glass-enclosed

chewed gum dangle from ceil ing-suspended strings. This sur realistic suburban stockade can be experienced in its most dis turbing manifestation on Saturday afternoons from four to five when Bly, dressed in baby-doll white, stands motion less at the far end of her cage — head bowed, mouth drool ing through protruding bobby pins, and with a bowl of cherry Life Savers resting in her prayerfully entwined hands. Jon Roberts’ minimalist aquatint, subdued and affect less, ranks as the most aestheti cally accomplished piece in the show. It’s a split-screen presen tation: on one side, a hand reaches out of the enveloping black background; similarly highlighted on the other side is a lone object, probably a plumb. But those who find beauty in simplicity will want to see the half-dozen additional exam ples of Roberts’ printmaking finesse on display across Church Street in a second-floor show co-presented by Working Design Gallery and the Men’s Room. Pay particular attention to “Hanging Pears” and “Party,” both of which are exquisite. O

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“When people first hear about it, they think, how tasteless, — Pat M artin evolving into needs — people will probably wonder how they ever managed to die without Virtual Funerals. “I don’t have a lot of expe rience with death,” Martin admitted. “But think about the times when you missed someone’s funeral. It feels unresolved. Some therapists say that if you don’t go through the mourning process, you kind of think that it never happened.” O f course, some of us might leave a cyberfuneral similarly less than certain that what we’d just experienced had really happened. To see for yourself, check out the Web site at www.skc.com. □ Jay Kirk works for an advocacy g?oup that monitors the funeral industry.

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announcements ISO GIVERS A N D /O R RECEIV ERS o f VT Grown Family Cactus. Call 425-2296 to leave name & address or stop by Bazou (top of Burl. Square Mall). We will send upcoming 1st edition o f VGFC Newsletter filed w/ surprises. -E&J.

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housemates BURLINGTON: Rooms avail. Feb. 1 & after in house close to downtown. Must be NS, responsi ble (prof, or grad.), mature & easy going (blah, blah, blah). Cats O.K. 1 person = $350/mo. or 2 people = $175/mo. each, includes heat & utils., some parking. 865-3734. After Feb. 1, 860-0548. BURLINGTON: North Ave., mature male to share nice 2 bdrm. apt. near bike path; W /D, gym, game room. $265 + 1/2 utils. No students. 862-7684. BURLINGTON: Roommate want ed Feb. I in quiet, beautiful, eclec tic household on So. Winooski Ave. O ff street parking, no pets. $275/mo„ includes utils. 6584256.

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buy this stuff FENCING SUPPLIES. Foils, sabres, masks, etc. LOW PRICES. We have most everything. Please call with any questions, The Zacharian Fencing Conservatory, 864-0951. Leave a message.

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wanted to buy TOBOGGAN WANTED. Also interested in a sled, wagon or cart, any condition, cheap. 456-1522.

cleaning/housekeeping TRANSFORM YOUR DUSTY castle into a glimmering palace. Call Diane H., Housekeeper to the Stars! Pay the price, get the results 658-7458.

#1 FASTEST GROWING CO M PANY in America now expanding in VT. Call 862-8081. WANTED: 2 MULTI-DISCIPLI NARY ART TEACHERS for weekly workshops w/ pre-school & elementary school kids. Must have BA, 2 yrs. experience. Send resume/references by 2/3/97 to: ECPD, d o VSAVT, 1 Main St., Rm. 120, Burlington, VT 05401. Info call 860-6220. EOE.

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A R IE S (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): The j next 11 months will be anything but bug-free. Judging by the planetary | alignments, I expect that bugs will be your constant companions. This j doesn’t have to be anywhere near as j ghastly as it sounds, though. Consider the possibility that you may be able to I ally yourself, metaphorically speaking, with good bugs that will chase away the bad bugs — sort o f like in the insect world, where ladybugs eat those j nasty pests, the aphids. Meditate on this hint, Aries, and I’m sure you’ll be led to a secret weapon that’ll give you robust immunity. In the meantime, to build up your psychic power, I suggest you make the ladybug your power animal. In fact, why don’t you acquire a symbol o f that noble beast? TAURUS

(Apr. 20-M ay 20): I’ve brushed up against many celebrities in my life. I rode in an elevator with ex boxer Muhammed Ali. Writer William Burroughs and I shared a stale bagel in a Greyhound bus station restaurant. My band once opened for The Neville Brothers, and I said, “Hey, man” to Aaron Neville. And you know what all that’s worth? Absolutely nothing. Pin even to encourage

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along with Gideons Bible. My old Gemini friend Bob Lordsburg used to push the idea that every college freshman should be required to take a course on the work o f Gemini songwriter Bob Dylan. And now I, who was born just north o f the Gemini-Cancer cusp, am advocating that all you Geminis should carry a world atlas with you everywhere you go in the next few weeks. This’ll remind you to ceaselessly meditate on making travel plans and to act like an explorer on a pilgrimage in all the familiar places you frequent.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Everyone has a dark side. Even Mother Teresa. Even you and me. O ne reason I fear many Christian fundamentalists and N ew Age bliss-ninnies is because they deny this universal truth; it leads them to be, in a sense, “demonically possessed” by their own repressed anger and elitism and hatred. W hy am I bringing this up, Cancer? Because I hope it’ll make it easier for you to have a tete-a -tete with the evil twin you

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s healthy to worry this week, Virgo — preferably with a touch o f selfmocking detachment. It’s smart to entertain anxious fantasies and fearful visions — preferably as you chuckle about how extreme they make you feti. If you’re not flirting regularly with a state o f nagging perplexity, you’ll miss vital clues about the precautions you need to put in place and the sins o f omission you need to counteract. Please note that I am not necessarily predicting that your apprehensions will come true. On the contrary. I’m scaring you into taking action to change the future. L IB R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The word “yeast” seems to have acquired some unfortunate connotations in recent years, but I’d like to rehabilitate it. As a metaphor, it perfectly captures crew or gang right now: as an agent o f fermentation. You should be much like the frothy stuff that makes the medicine and turns the brewing beer jj$^hohe. ,, , t ” * i& t ' v . 1

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SA G IT TA R IU S (Nov 22-Dec. 21): W hen I’m riding on a plane in the middle o f the night I often gaze down at the pretty lights shining in the cities below and think, “W hat a #@%A&* waste o f electricity!” Inevitably I then wonder if God ever looks down at the ideas flickering in my brain and exclaims, “What a #@%A&* waste o f neurons!” But I’m sure that thought will never occur to the Supreme Being as She peers at you during the next couple weeks. You will, I predict, be making the best use o f your intelligence ever. Like the record number o f hurricanes that erupted in the Caribbean last year, brainstorms will be relentlessly coursing across your mental landscape. landscaj CAPRICO RN

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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The poet Jennifer Stone once said, “There are only two kinds o f love: too much and too little.” W hich would you prefer, Aquarius? Before you impulsively answer, let me ask you to consider the possibility that maybe you could prove Stone wrong; that maybe you could improvise a life for yourself in which, like Goldilocks, you’re receiving neither too much nor too little love, but just the right amount. I’m not saying you could accomplish this all in the next week. But I believe that if you pledge yourself fiercely to this goal in the next 20 days, you’ll be able to achieve it no later than February 1998 — and possibly much earlier.

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for fantasy fun & romantic candlelight dinner. Age not important. I’m 47, DWPM, NS. 64206 SINCERE, FRIENDLY, PASSIONATE, attractive SWM, NS, 37 (5’10”). Interests include fitness, humor, music (rock/classical), movies, theater, cuddling with someone special. Seeks attractive, fit SF, NS, 20’s-30’s, for friendship, possible LTR. 64185 ROM ANTIC SW M, 32, O U T DOOR^Y type seeks SF for adventure, romance and exclusive access to my dementia. Romance and fun guaranteed. 64201 BiM SEEKS BiF O R CO U PLE FOR hot times. Discreet, clean, open-minded. Any age, race. Will answer all. No strings. Let’s do it now. 64198 THIS AD TAKES COURAGE! University graduated, financially inde pendent gentleman seeks F with sex appeal who might view positively my fetish for kissing her boots & shoes! Call/write. 64192 SWM, 38, FIT, NS, LO OK ING FOR A warm hearted lady with a great sense of humor. Must enjoy the outdoors, dining out, movies, traveling, playing cards. Let’s talk!! 64189 BOSTON ENTREPREN EU R SKI BUM M ING IN STOWE! 29 YO, 5’9 ”, blonde/blue, good looking & fun loving! ISO romance w/ goodlooking SWF, 2028, petite and fun loving. I love my life, come and enjoy it with me! 64190 W ILD DANCER SEEKS BEAUTY T O modulate to rhythms o f night with... deal here is: a night o f social dancing. All you need is — reply — k!!! 64178

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NS, SPM , 27, LOOK ING T O MEET new people, down to earth, athletic, fun, light-hearted. You: SF, 27+, athletic, nice smile, easy-going. 64177 EUROPEAN, 50, N E W T O AREA, DW M , N S/N D , educated professional, enjoys nature, travels, photography, din ing out, laughs, music, gourmet cooking, interesting conversations. Seeking NS, similar woman, 35-45, romantic, active, fit, secure, independent and communica tive, for LTR. Serious only. 64171 LEAN MALE, 36, ISO SLIM T O ZAFTIG, submissive F to explore sensu ous role play, discipline and fantasy fullfillment. Trust, honesty, communication paramount. All limits respected. 64173 I AM A 25 YO M SEARCHING FO R a strong, opinionated, intelligent and beautiful woman inside and out! 64175 M O N TPELIER T O WAITSFIELD: newcomer, 41, almost tall & slim, some what brainy, artsy and outdoorsy, seeks like-minded friend & lover, 25+. 64157 H IPSTER LOOK ING FOR H IPCH ICK . Gotta dig jazz and classic cars. Must be cool and not smoke cigarettes. Should like sailing and believe everyday is a learning experience. 64163 N U T T Y FRUITCAKE SEEKS CHEESEBALL for fun in the new year. If you’re a SWF, 25-33, who likes to eat, drink and be merry year-round, give this SWM, 31, a jingle. Yule be glad you did. 64162 SERIOUS SKIERS ONLY! NS SW PM , 30, financially secure w/ all hair and teeth intact seeks skiing partner. Are you fit and attractive w/ a good sense of humor? 64158 IN SEARCH O F YOUNG (18+), beautiful, sexy SF for fun and play. Me: SWM, 23, very attractive, great body, happpy, cool, kind, healthy. Call me! 64164

SW M ACHO MAN LOOK ING FOR SWF, 18-25. Have dinner by candlelight, go to the movies, hug, cuddle, snuggle. 64154 W M , 34, SEEKS WF. M UST BE beautiful and submissive for house slave. Age not important. 64153 SENSITIVE & RO M ANTIC SW M, 33, outgoing, athletic, down to earth, creative, very good appearance, seeking F, 20-35. 64155 MULDER-LIKE, 33, SEEKS SCULLYlike td investigate V T paranormal, and maybe squeeze in movies and coffee. We’ve got a full case load, lets go. 64148 L IG H T MY FIRE FOR W IN T E R ’S here! SWM, 34, attractive, fit, into selfsufficient, adventurous lifestyles, nature, music ISO affection, romance, other things worthwhile. 64144 T V W RITER/PROD UCER, 38, athletic, creative, new in town. Into skiing, travel, foreign film, confident women. Seeking a bright, trim, cute, 28-38, NS who’s emotional baggage size qualifies as “carry-on.” 64142 HEDO NIST? SW M, 39 SEEKS younger women with alike interests (ski ing, travel, sex, music, food). Like indoor and outdoor fun. 64143 SPECIAL SJF SO U G H T BY DYNAM IC, attractive, fit, educated, successful, compassionate SJPM, 31, 5’8”. I’m a lawyer for the good guys, into hiking, biking, jazz/blues. I’d like to meet a SJNSF, 21-33, who is warm, relaxed, fit, kind, intelligent, funny, romantic and emotionally secure. 64141

W OMEN SEEKING WOMEN BiWF, 20, COLLEGE STUDENT, politi cal activist, seeks a woman to hold her hand & her heart. 64261____________________ A DIAMOND IN TH E ROUGH. SWGF, 31, playful, positive, adventuresome, seeks friendship/relationship with same. Dare to answer? 64205________________________ SWF LOOKING FOR SPECIAL FRIEND to share feelings and fun with. Sense of humor, caring, zest for life required. Good personality a must. 64150

MEN SEEKING MEN BiM, 31, ISO GENTLEMEN, 45-55, for playful encounters. Must be very discrete. 64262 BiWM, 28, SEARCHING FOR SENSI TIVE feminine man for friendship & possi ble relationship. Love of crossdressing and techno a +. 64197 SWGM, 18 YO, SEEKING A LOVER who will knock me off my fruity feet. I love the opera, long walks on the beach, and you with me. 64214 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 29, 5’10”, 1391bs., seeks EQUAL for experimentation and fun! You and me. Discrete. No strings. 64191 A CATCH waiting to be caught. Attractive PGWM, 49, 5’ 11 ”, 1651bs., ISO an experi enced angler to reel me in. I’m fishing for a GWM, 35-55, NS, HIV-. 64179 ATTRACTIVE, SHORT, SLENDER, older GWM seeks relationship with similar, age 40 +, NS, ND. Many cultural interests. Must appreciate country living. 64172 HANDSOME, SWARTHY, BRAINY, and brawny hunk, 5’10”, 1651bs., 31 in age and waist, ISO well-educated GWM w/ similar

attributes and stamina to spare for intellec tual repartee & physical mischief. 64169

OTHER ADVENTUROUS COUPLE ISO T H IN and voluptuous BiWF, 20-30, for a night of some good, hot fun and experimentation. Discrete, no strings, just fun! 64260 RELATIONSHIPS FOR T H E 90 S. Vermont Expanded Love Network is a discussion/support group for those interested in creating/nurturing committed, multipartner relationships. 64249 YOUNG, ADVENTUROUS AND openminded couple, who enjoy sex, looking for attractive BiF, 18-24, for friendship, possi bly more. No strings. 64218 SOLO VOYAGERS: D O YOU ENJOY films, culture, travel, the outdoors, good food and conversation? Caring, refined edu cator seeks quality friendships. Age & gen der unimportant. Integrity is. 64217 OPEN-MINDED COUPLE SEEKING gentle BiWF for adventures and fun. We are mature (40’s) and responsible. Seeking same. 64199

I SPY I SAW YOU AT CHARLIE O ’S. I’VE known you as a friend. Let’s get to know each other better. I more than love you. 64239 I’M LO O K IN G FO R A YO UNG W O M A N with the initials E .M A 64240 BRUEGGERS, SAT. M O R N IN G , 1/18. You: blue hat, great smile. Me: behind you in line. We listened to laundromat lady horror story. Interested? 64230

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CENTRAL VERM ONTER, SW M, 49, well read, youthful, athletic, imaginative, seeks an assertive, cultivated, domineer ing woman, 50-65. Box 102 LIFE IS M USIC (W IZN, BLUES); mountain aired thoughts; wanderlusting; bowling. Bowling??? NS, 36, ISO Cowgirl in the Sand/Heart of Gold (‘cause I’m growin’ old). Box 103 SW M , 41, SEEKS M USIC LOVING, dance stepping gal not afraid o f having a good time. Summer’s coming. Box 101 39 YO ALASKIAN FISHING BOAT CAPTAIN ISO adventurous VT lady. We cruise S.E. Alaska this summer; you show me VT in the fall. Photo please. Box 098 PLENTY O F EVERYTHING, BUT TIM E. Handsome, driven, entrepreneur ISO truly gorgeous young vixen who deserves to be spoiled. No chains, pre tenses, expectations. Just photo. Box 090 PASSION PURIFIES. Beauty bores. Intelligence intrigues. Drugs depress. Sensuality stimulates. Music mesmerizes.

Smoking sucks. Caresses cheer. Alcoholics abhorrent. Seniors sexiest. Telephone tedious. Writing wiser. Let’s liason. Box 097 G RO U N D ED , SENSITIVE, SECURE SWPM, 40, 5’6”, handsome, great shape. Humorous!! Great family man without the family - yet. Into arts, outdoors, wildlife, reading, dance, food, travel. ISO meaningful talks, some moonlight walks... with similar, earthy, smart, attractive, romantic F, 29 +. Box 093 70 YRS. YOUNG DW M . Clear out your attic. I did. Saved the good times. Children/grandchildren. No fancy word here. Just to enjoy rest of life. Box 094 ENVIRONMENTALIST, SCIENCE/ academic sort, not an activist, some what athletic, a young 34, decent looking, seeking similar F with a zany sense of humor, who laughs easily - a few interests like nature, camping, hiking, or snowshoeing. Box 091 SW M, 31, 1501bs. 5’10”, NS, seeking SWF, 25-33, to share romantic evenings by the fireplace, movies, fine dining, good books. Please write me. Box 089

fault, financially secure member o f presti gious profession seeking very attractive SPF, 22-35, who is possessed o f an active intellect, a toned body, and an indomitable sense of adventure to explore all aspects of life, the bounds of which know no parameters. Be ready to embark upon the intellectual, sensual and roman tic experience of your lifetime. Photo appreciated. Box 085__________________ YOU: YOUNG, EPISCOPALIAN; have read Alibon’s Seed; family tree traces great migration arrival 1629-1641; seek ing tall, brown, blue for pith and procre ation. Sensual, happy. Box 084 INTELLECTUAL, CARING SWPM, 31, 5’7”, cute, seeking NS SWF (23-31) who is sincere, easy going, attractive, likes the out doors, music and intellectual conversations. Box 082

GWF, 30’S, SEEKS FRIENDSHIP W ITH intellectually challenging, sensitive, honest, compassionate woman. You are spiritually minded, appreciate humor, the arts, beauty,

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truth. Enjoyment of outdoor activities as well as cultural pursuits desired. Creative, playful, gentle, loving soul please write. Box 095_________________________________ IN “TH E EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES,” who are you? Food: suste nance only or art medium? When was the last time you hugged your shadow side? Are you easily amused? What would make God laugh? Let’s ponder the imponderables together, and more. Box 083

MARRIED BiWM, 38, ATTRACTIVE, well-built, seeking SBiWM. Imagine the possibilities. All letters will get a fast response. A photo is appreciated, but not necessary. Box 100 GWM, PROFESSIONAL, 60 S, DARK eyes, ready smile, 1451bs., good body tone, seeking friend, 40-70, for discreet, on-going affectionate relationship. NS, ND. Write, please. Box 088 GWM, 5T 0”, 1651bs., HONEST, OPENminded, loves the outdoors, hiking, biking, nature, ISO GM 20-40 for friendship and good times. Box 087

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