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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIO NS

W hen you are looking for a legal representative for matters concerning real estate, you want someone with expe rience in Inis area of the law. With these qualifications and the determination to obtain the best legal solution pos sible, A TTO RN EY J O Y M ID D LE B R O O K K ARNES is available to serve you with 14 years of legal experience, developed from clerking under some of the best real estate attorneys in Chittenden County. The legal services offered by Joy include transactional real estate for commercial and residential properties, refi nancing, title research, real estate litigation, pre-closing contracts and 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges. In addition, she provides real estate counseling to advise you about the advantages and consequences of your real estate pur chase. Providing personalized attention to each client, she offers a free initial consultation to enable you to clearly understand the legalities of your situation, your legal options and the professional services she can render. Buying a new home or property may be the largest financial decision you will ever make. Doesn't it make sense to utilize the services of a real estate attorney from planning to completion? Joy's commitment to your best interest and her knowledge in the'field of real estate law make her a wise choice. Her general practice includes wills & probate, estate planning, collections & civil litigation.

Law Offices O f Joy Middiebrook Karnes 6 0 0 Blair Park Road, Suite 2 0 5 • W illiston, VT 0 5 4 9 5 • (802)878-0011

• ACUPUNCTURE, CHIROPRACTIC & MASSAGE MIDDLEBURY HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER was established in 199 8 to provide a complementary and multi disciplinary approach to good health and well-being. Director Irene Poole, BA, NCTMB - Massage Therapist, Molly Fleming, N D, LAc, Dipl.Ac - Naturopath & Acupuncturist and. Winfield O : Kelley, Jr., BA, DC - Chiropractor, are dedicated to providing high quality holistic health care, while recognizing the interdependence of physical, psy chological, emotional & spiritual well-being. IRENE POOLE has 9 years of massage therapy experience and applies in her work deep tissue massage, neu romuscular therapy, myofascial release, and Reiki. She is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork and helps people with chronic neck and back pain, tendonitis, sports injuries and stress reduction. DR. FLEMING has combined the practices of naturopathic medicine & acupuncture for almost 2 0 years. She has a special inter est in pain & injury rehabilitation, women's health, ADD /A D HD /autism in children and treats the effects of stress a n d /o r emotional stress on the body through acupuncture & traditional Chinese medicine. DR. KELLEY has 2 0 years of chiropractic experience and uses his knowledge & training in Tae Kwon Do, Judo & Yoga for instruction in prop er movement, posture & stretching. To enhance the benefits of chiropractic, dietary recommendations & exercise programs are available. All three feel that one of their primary responsibilities as holistic practitioners is to help their clients and patients find the best kind of treatment for their conditions. Besides doing their best as individual prac titioners, Poole, Fleming, and Kelley work closely to understand each other's work, so they can offer the most com prehensive holistic health care possible.

M iddieburv Holistic Health Center 135 Creek Rd • Middlebury, VT 0 5 7 5 3 • (8 0 2 )3 8 8 -9 6 0 0 • www.middleburyholistic.com

• LIFE TIME A D O P TIO N SERVICES Director Judy Sherry & her staff at A C O R N A D O P T IO N & FAMILY SERVICES, IN C . have more than 3 0 years of adoption experience to serve you from your first questions, to finalizing your adoption and then into life as an adoptive family. Acorn, a non-profit agency licensed in Vermont, is committed to placing children with families who not only can provided them with a safe and nurturing environment, but who also have an understanding and acceptance o f each child's unique genetic heritage. Acorn's goal is to offer each family the support and guidance they need as they go through the entire adoption experience. They will help you choose the program which best suits your needs and then help you complete your journey to your child. Acorn offers you a variety of adoption situations, including international adoptions, domestic adoptions & pri vate adoptions. Excelling in international adoptions, Judy & her staff work with several other US agencies which have successful programs in China, Russia, Korea, Guatemala, Belarus, Colombia, and Kazahstan. Services from Acorn include home study and adoption education, assistance with paper work, post placement visits, finalization and post adoption services. The latter includes three or more scheduled visits during the six month period after a child comes home to help the family's adjustment to parenting and adoption issues. Acorn will prepare all needed reports including those required by some countries for post finalization. Acorn's other services include consultation, community education programs & support groups.

Acorn Adoption & Family Services, Inc. 2 7 8 Pearl Street • Burlington, VT 05401 • (8 0 2 )8 6 5 -3 8 9 8

• BRA SPECIALTY SHOP i v BERTHA C H U R C H IN TIM ATE APPAREL is a beautifully decorated intimate apparel speciality shop meeting the special needs of women of all ages for 5 0 years. Experienced Mastectomy Fitters Jeanette Racine and Lynne Harwood will work with your physician and other healthcare providers to assure you a personal and unique shop ping experience, whether for mastectomy/cancer care, pre-natal/nursing, or for personal care. Jeanette & Lynne have been extensively trained to offer you the most complete selection, the most innovative prod ucts, and the finest services after breast surgery to ensure you a positive fitting experience. They will help you deter mine the proper size, shape and style of prosthesis that meets your lifestyle. They carry all of the popular styles from leading manufacturers, from traditional silicone forms to attachable forms, as well as partial forms for lumpectomies. They also specialize in the non-surgical alternative to the underdeveloped breast - external breast prosthesis. Bertha Church Intimate Apparel's comprehensive services encompass maternity & nursing bras, slips, foundation & lingerie, sleepwear & robes, athletic bras, specialty bras for special events and full figure bras. Jeanette & Lynne's mission is to meet their clients' special needs and make a positive difference in the w ay they look and feel about themselves.

Bertha Church Intimate Apparel 3 2 Church Street • Burlington, VT 0 5 4 0 1 • (80 2)6 58-2 99 1

HEALTHY SMILES FOR A LIFETIME

Board Eligible Orthodontist DR. D A R A J. C H IR A explains that orthodontics is important not only to a great smile and improved self-confidence, but to better dental health. She emphasizes that teeth in correct alignment are easi er to clean, and clean teeth are more resistant to decay and less susceptible to gum disease. And you should know she takes a comprehensive and bioesthetic approach to her practice of orthodontics in diagnosing & treating prob lems related to the teeth, jaws, jaw joints & face. Dr. Chira has 9 years of experience. She has the distinction as being the only female & Roth Williams trained orthodontist in Northern Vermont and is the current President of the Champlain Valley Dental Society. She is also an avid lecturer & presenter on a variety of orthodontic topics locally, nationally & internationally. She sees both children & adults and states that each patient's orthodontic needs are different, requiring a customized treatment plan based on a complete diagnosis, this involves x-rays, dental impressions, mounted dental models and photo graphs from which she'll make decisions about your specific treatment and how long it will take. Treatment time varies widely, usually between one and three years, depending on age, the patient's cooperation and the severity of the case. Orthodontic treatment is so simple, convenient ana affordable, that individuals from childhood through retirement can reap its important health benefits. "Your smile is important to us", says Dr. Chira, "so we want to make your orthodontic experience worth smiling about". If your smile is less than what you want, orthodontics may be your answer.

• EXPERIENCED ALTERNATIVE CARE Director Eva Paquin & her associates' mission at the WESTFORD WELLNESS CENTER is to serve area com munities by offering alternative & complementary therapies, provided by knowledgeable, skilled & experienced therapists in a setting that is peaceful, respectful & nurturing. Eva & her team of therapists have years of combined experience. All are licensed or certified in the type of body work that they practice and are dedicated to providing quality care tailored to individual needs. The Center's ther apists include Ann Ramsay - acupuncture & traditional Chinese medicine; Katherine Veilleux - spiritual direction & tarot reading; Pam Cuneo - Asian bodywork (Thai massage & Shiatsu), Swedish massage & reflexology; Nancy Evon - computerized ElectroDermal Stress Analysis; Dena roster-Dentone - massage (Swedish, deep tissue & hot stone), yoga therapy & instruction; Katie Harrington - massage, Kripalu yoga & workshops on self-development; and Eva Paquin - Swedish esalen style massage, NeuroMuscular Reprogramming, Reiki II, BodyTalk & massage instruc tion (40 hour basic relaxation massage program). These are all holistic healing techniques that balance individual energies on a body, mind & spirit level. All treatments can be used alone or to complement traditional Western med ical care. Eva & her skilled team state that they are experts in optimizing client functioning - simultaneously on mul tiple levels, which can ultimately offer the greatest chance for recovery from dis-ease and the maintenance of good health.

Westford Wellness Center • 2 2 6 Huntley Road • Westford, VT 0 5 4 9 4 (8 0 2 )8 7 9 -0 6 7 0 • www.westfordwellnesscenter.com

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DENTAL LABORATORY

Reliability. Knowledge. Artistry. Combine these qualities with respect for accuracy, timely, customer service and state-of-the-art materials and procedures and you have a dental laboratory which assures area dentists quality and attention. C H A M P L A IN DENTAL LABORATORY cultivates these values and invests in trend-setting technology and innovative materials to accommodate the complexity of dental cases and to assure customer case satisfaction. Their lab is ideal for those dentists who want the very best tooth shading and shaping for their patients. They emphasize that it is much more in the patients favor that a local dental lab be involved with highly custom shading and stain ing procedures. With 3 5 years of experience, Champlain Dental Laboratory provides custom fabrication of crown & bridge, cos metic restorations and most implant systems. Each dental appliance is handmade to fit the special needs of each patient. Teeth are all different shapes, sizes and shades. Champlain Dental Lab's technicians work closely with area dentists and handle each prescription on an individual basis, paying close-attention to every detail of the case.

Champlain Dental Laboratory 6 0 Timber Lane • South Burlington, VT 05403> • (8 0 2 )8 6 3 -3 5 5 6

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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Clinical Psychologist CLIFFORD TROTT, PhD, devotes a major part of his practice to educational consulting and parent training. He has 15 years of experience and focuses his practice on children and adolescents, but he works with adults & families as well. He assists them with behavior management & instruction, psychological testing (per sonality tests, psychological evaluations, IQ testing), school consultations and helping students & their families with education decisions, including selection of independent secondary schools & colleges. Dr. Trott endeavors to under stand the child and the family and is trained to evaluate the student both academically & personally. Providing assessment & treatment, he represents parents and children at schools & lEP's to establish appropriate educational planning. Dr. Trott also helps people with transition & crisis, personal problems, parenting, stress & anger management, developmental problems, gender issues, depression, ADD, parent/child conflicts, step parenting, behavioral issues, family of origin issues, child therapy and family concerns, with specialized training working with minority groups & rural mental health. He guides his clients in making the changes that are necessary to resolve family, education al, professional, personal or other interpersonal difficulties. People learn how to deal more effectively with stressful situations & personal issues during the course of therapy, then develop coping skills to handle their problems in ways appropriate to their age and situation. Contact Dr. Trott for an appointment. He is located at Pathways to Well Being, Vermont's oldest holistic health center.

Clifford Trott, PhD 168 Battery Street, Pathways to Well Being • Burlington, VT 05401 • (8 0 2 )8 6 2 -0 8 3 6

REIKI MASTER & FITNESS CONSULTANT

Beverly Stannard at INTUITIVE FITNESS is a Reiki Master who teaches and has practiced the healing art of Reiki (RAY-key) in the Colchester area for years. She explains that Reiki is a form of natural healing which is prac ticed through a hands-on technique of channeling energy through the body. She believes that this energy works on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of each client according to each individual's unique needs and circumstances. . j, f< Beverly's clients come for Reiki treatments in conjunction with many traditional services. Some come on a regu lar basis to maintain a sense of health, relaxation and well-being. The Reiki sessions are generally conducted in a quiet, relaxed setting where the client lies comfortably clothed on a massage table. Beverly uses her hands to chan nel energy to the client who integrates that energy into many levels of his/her being. Reiki translates from the Japanese as universal life force; spirit; essence. It is this spark of shared Divinity that she hopes to fan in every client and student of Reiki. Beverly is also certified as a fitness consultant who makes house calls to residents throughout Chittenden County to help them set-up program designs for strength training, nutritional counseling & cardiovascu lar training. Her clients range from ages 9-12 to 8 5 years of age. A free 3 0 minute phone consultation is provid ed on what programs she can design for you: To schedule an appointment, request a class schedule, or for more information, contact:

Intuitive Fitness 133 Blakely Road • Colchester, VT 0 5 4 4 6 • (8 0 2 )8 6 4 -3 9 9 9

ROOT C A N A L SPECIALIST

Board Certified Endodontist DR. VICTOR L. RATKUS explains that root canal treatment is a technique used to save teeth which would otherwise have to be removed. Each tooth consists of a crown and one or more roots. The inside of the crown connects with channels running down the length of each root. These channels are the root canals. The chamber and the root canals normally contain the pulp of the tooth - blood vessels & nerves (nerves of the root) which are responsible for growth of the roots during childhood and for pain & thermal sensation. The pulp can become dam aged in a number of ways (deep decay, previous deep fillings, trauma, gum disease, etc.) all of which may lead to its degeneration a n d /o r infection. Root canal treatment consists of removing the affected pulp organ, widening the root canal spaces and filling these spaces with a material to prevent the bacteria from re-entering & re-infecting the tooth. The root canal treat ment generally requires one to three visits, depending on the tooth involved, and each appointment lasts from a half-hour to an hour. The treatment itself is usually a painless & anxiety-free experience. It is Dr. Ratkus' goal to make your experience at his office as pleasant as possible. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dentistry - Endodontic Graduate Program, he has 31 years of experience in effectively addressing his patients' root canal needs.

Victor L. Ratkus, DDS 2 2 7 Colchester Avenue • Burlington, VT 05 40 1 • (802)8 64-0 46 1

Dara J. Chira, DMD • Chira Orthodontics 1073 North Avenue • Burlington, VT 0540 1 • (8 0 2 )6 5 2 -1 0 1 0

INTERNATIO NAL A D O P TIO N A G EN CY

Adoption Coordinator Barbara Davis at ANGELS' HAVEN OUTREACH (AHO) extends a warm Welcome and Thank You for considering international adoption as a wonderful option for expanding your family! Angels' Haven Outreach is a licensed, non-profit, international adoption & child welfare agency. A H O was founded in 1 98 6 by a small group of adoptive parents committed to providing assistance to children needing families worldwide. Today, their mission remains the same. They are continuing their efforts to make a difference in the lives of orphaned chil dren by finding loving, nurturing, adoptive homes. As adoptive parents themselves, they are egually committed to providing you, the prospective adoptive parents, with support, guidance and expertise as you face the challenges involved with an international adoption. The agency places children with families nationwide as well as Americans living abroad. They also provide home study assessments and post-placement supervision for residents of Vermont. Currently, A H O has active adop tion programs in Guatemala, Russia, Romania, Africa and China. They also have sponsorship programs in Korea and Liberia, West Africa. Barbara is available to discuss your situation and help you determine the best course of action for you & your family. Most families will receive a referral within 4 to 8 months from the submission and approval of their paperwork. The international process typically takes between 3 and 6 months.

GENERAL & FAMILY DENTISTRY

Doctors and their staff who are caring enough to listen to you is a concern that many consider most important in their oral healthcare provider. People want to rind caring, gentle dentists with expert skills to treat themselves and their families. Kenneth Palm, DM D, and Lee J. Weltman, DDS of COLCHESTER FAMILY DENTISTRY, provide the latest techniques to keep you comfortable during and after your visit. You meet the world with your smile; people's reaction to you is based on it. If your lips are the frame, your teeth are the picture. Drs. Palm and Weltman have more than 3 0 years of combined experience and they offer the best in all phases of dental care and cosmetic den tistry. Their "N ew W A N D " technology takes the fear and pain out of dental injections, so this helps them "cater to cowards". Colchester Family Dentistry provides preventive and personalized care, general dentistry, emergency treatments, cosmetic dentistry for porcelain crowns, bleaching & veneers, periodontics, endodontics, crowns, implants, bridges, dentures, sports .dentistry and non-surgical TMJ. State-of-the-art sterilizatioh techniques are utilized and exceed State, O SH A ana CDC regulations. The office welcomes most dental insurance plans and they will be glad to discuss your required procedures and their costs before treatment begins. Drs. Palm and Weltman and their friendly staff take pride in preventing dental diseases, improving the appearance of your teeth and protecting your valuable smile.

Colchester Family Dentistry • 2 4 5 South Park Drive, Suite 3 0 0 • Colchester, VT 0 5 4 4 6 (8 0 2 )6 5 5 -5 3 5 8 • www.colchesterfamilydentistry.com i

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Davis is an environmental advocate for VPIRG. UP THE UNION I am writing as one of the sup porters of the Montpelier Downtown Workers’ Union whose face was blurred in the photo on anarchism in Seven Days\zst issue [“Power to the People,” February 11]. The blur ring of faces for the photo may have been well-intentioned, but it gave the false impression that supporters of the Montpelier union are anything other than proud to support workers’ rights. I and many others will contin ue to do all we can to publicly support the J. Morgan’s workers in their struggle to be treated with respect by their employer. We come from many different political backgrounds, but we share the belief that unions are one of the best ways workers can improve their conditions, and that workers should be able to

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MUSICAL TREASURE I just finished [Pamela Polston’s] article “Sax Appeal” [February 11]. You captured the essence of the Big Joe Burrell experience as it should have been captured... My wife and I are regulars at

Halvorson’s each Thursday night for the purpose of experiencing Big Joe. I truly believe that Thursdays at Halvorson’s is one of the great happening treasures, not only in Burlington but in the world. I grew up on rock and roll, and the experience of being introduced to live blues and jazz by this master of the craft each and every week, up close and personal, is a treat that I will for ever cherish. Not only did you capture the Big Joe experience, but you also did a great job

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CORRECTIONS: Last week’s review of Credo by William Sloane Coffin implied that Aristotle said the unexamined life isn’t worth living. However, it was in fact Socrates who said this, and we can only guess what he might have said about the misattributed paraphrase. Thanks to a modern philoso pher friend out there for catch ing the error. Yikes! In last week’s story about Lord o f the Rings lust, we mistakenly illustrated “the woofy, muscular, furry presence of Sean Bean’s Boromir” with a photo of John Rhys-Davies as Gimli. Our apologies to both these hirsute hunks and their fans. Here’s what Sean Bean really looks like in his role.

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“The Democrat running for governor,” announced anchor Darren Perron, “today dropped a political bomb that could divide the Democratic Party.” We were on the edge of our seat as Perron handed the ball to ace crime reporter Brian Joyce “live in the newsroom.” Mr. Joyce, in a deadly serious, Watergate-style tone, told the audience the shocking news — Burling ton Mayor Peter Clavelle was supporting the reelection of his longtime friend, Ward 3 City Councilor Phil Fiermonte. “It was a bizarre bombshell,” said Clavelle this week. He told Seven Days that a friend remarked on Monday that when he saw Ch. 3’s lead he got scared, thinking Mayor Moonie had dropped out of the race. Clavelle, as everyone knows, rejoined the Democratic Party a year ago before his sev enth successful run for mayor. Democrat born-and-raised, Peter ran for the legislature back in 1980 as a Democrat. Fiermonte, who works for Congressman Bem ie Sanders, is a member of the Progressive Party. Stop the presses! “The potential division in Vermont’s Democratic Party today became a reality,” reported Joyce, “with an endorsement from Peter Clavelle. Burlington’s longtime Progressive Mayor turned Democratic can didate for governor is creating controversy in the race for city council.” Our research indicates the controversy appears to be one stirred primarily by WCAX. Joyce was able to get Fiermonte’s Democratic challenger, Lynn Mesick, on camera to express “shock” over Peter’s sup port for Phil, but we’re having a hard time finding anyone else in “shock.” O f course, there is Vermont GOP Chairman Jim Barnett, and we’ll get to him in a minute. In fact, it could be argued Peter Clavelle is the best thing to happen to the Democratic Party in Burlington in 23 years. After all, Clavelle is the city’s first Democratic mayor since Gordie Paquette lost the 1981 elec tion to the guy with a Brooklyn accent. What’s interesting here is WCAX’s inter pretation of what constitutes a “political bomb.” It must connote a candidate of one party supporting a candidate of another. But is that so unusual? We don’t recall Ch. 3 using such incen diary “bomb” language to describe Democrat State Auditor Liz Ready’s endorsement last year of Progressive City Council candidate Carina Driscoll. And we don’t recall the same treatment for Democrat Howard Dean’s endorse ment of Republican State Sen. Helen Riehle a few years back. Or his endorse ment of Clavelle in 1997. Or Independent Congressman Sanders’ endorsement of Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Or Progressive Party state chair Martha Abbott’s endorsement of the Democratic candidate for governor just one week ago. In fact, this week Prog Carina Driscoll and her mom, Jane Sanders (wife of the \ ; guy with the Brooklyn accent), are both >

endorsing Democrat Cheryl Rivers’ candi dacy for lieutenant governor. This despite the fact that two Progs, Anthony Pollina and Rep. Steve Hingtgen, are publicly “thinking about” running. Marsillyiss, please pass the smelling salts! Interesting to note that the Democratic Party’s state chair, Scudder Parker, doesn’t appear to be shocked by Clavelle’s support for his longtime friend like Ch. 3 is. To some, loyalty is actually a positive attribute, rarely witnessed in political circles. “My preference would be,” said Parker, “that [Clavelle] not endorse a Progressive. But Vermont is not a place of party purity.” Tell that to Mad Dog Jimmy Barnett, the sharp-toothed political snapper over at GOP headquarters. Barnett pounced on the WGOP, sorry, WCAX “political bomb” story like an RPG-packing Iraqi on a Humvee. Bright and early Monday morning, the Vermont GOP sent out an email alert titled “Progressive Pete Disses Dems.” It included a copy of Ch. 3’s report under the subhead “Democrat Leadership Stands Idly By As Prog Mayor Undermines Their Candidate.” Remarkable hand-in-glove teamwork, eh? Barnett could write headlines for Ch. 3, or vice-versa. To report as a “political bombshell” that “you’re supporting a close friend of 20 years doesn’t make sense,” said Clavelle. “Obvi ously,” he added, “the Republican strategy is to drive a wedge between Democrats and Progressives. The GOP’s effort, he said, “is being aided and abetted by Ch. 3.” PS. Don’t expect to hear it from the lips of TV anchors Marselis Parsons and Sera Congi any time soon, but the Vermont Republican Party has already unveiled its red-baiting strategy for the fall extravaganza. A January 30 fundraising pitch put out by Barnett claims Democrats are so “lack ing in leadership” they’re turning their party over to a “socialist.” The GOP letter cites a 1989 New York Times article tided “Socialists Retain Majority in Burlington, VT” as proof. Nice work, James. J. Edgar Hoover would blush with pride. Clavelle’s Vermont or Castro’s Cuba. Same difference, eh? Now, Mad Dog, go find those weapons of mass destruction our Republican presi dent warned us about, will ya? As of Tuesday, 544 American soldiers have died protecting us from them. Charge of the Gov-Lite Brigade — In addition to Ma Rivers and the two afore mentioned “thinking about it” Progs, Democrat Jan Backus has her sights set on dethroning Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, too. By the way, poor Jan of Arc took a nasty tumble on the ice the other day and broke two bones in her foot. She told Seven Days she was en route to the bank in Winooski to deposit campaign contributions at the the time. She’ll require surgery, but expects to be back for the kickoff of spring march ing season. Best wishes! But back to the big picture. Surely news of the Prog interest is music to DoobieDoo’s ears? INSIDE TRACK »

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an cannot live by bread alone, and the same might be said for a small retailer, even if that business happens to be a bak ery. At least, that’s what I’m told by the owners of Great Harvest Bread Company on Pine Street in Burlington. Sara Goodwin Brown and her husband, Ethan Brown, moved to Burlington from Missoula, Montana, in August 2002 and •opened their bakery about a year later. Like any fledgling business, Great Harvest has had its share of ups and downs as it has carved out a niche for itself in the

Like so many cases of bureaucratic hair-splitting, the switch from a butter knife to a soupspoon bumped the bakery into a new class of licenses. community. But the bakery has done well, selling specialty breads and other freshly baked goodies that can be sampled every day. If you haven’t stopped in for a free wedge of cinnamon-swirl bread fresh out of the oven, you’re missing out on one of Burlington’s great hidden pleas ures. But February’s Arctic weather can make it tough for small retailers. So to help pay the bills this year, the bakery began serv ing soup and grilled-cheese sandwiches for takeout during lunch. Until a few weeks ago, that is, when an inspector from the state Health Department informed them that a bakery license doesn’t allow them to sell soups and sandwiches. Like so many cases of bureaucratic hair splitting, the switch from a butter knife to a soupspoon bumped the bakery into a new class of licenses. Not wanting to get busted for bisque, the Browns dutifully ceased and desisted their unauthorized ladling and made the requisite permit requests to Burlington’s Planning and Zoning Board. “They were super,” recalls Goodwin Brown. “We’ve applied for many permits through them and they’ve been very helpful and know who we are and are always eager to help businesses out.” But the same couldn’t be said, Goodwin Brown reports, for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, which also had to issue the “restaurant” a permit for water and wastewater. “I trot out to the Agency of Natural Resources expecting them to be pretty helpful like everyone else, and they seem so baffled by it,” Goodwin Brown says. “You’d think this has never happened before.” Apparently, ANR took over jurisdic tion of water and wastewater permitting in 1970 and, as a result, many of Burling ton’s commercial buildings built before that year — including the building where Great Harvest is located — were never

issued a wastewater permit. That seemed odd to the Browns, considering that their building had housed a large maple-syrup plant from 1917 until 1975, followed by a Laundromat in the 1980s. Both busi nesses generated considerably more wastewater than does the bakery, which doesn’t even have a dishwasher on the premises. Still, such details have a way of slip ping through the cracks, and so Goodwin Brown got an application and began fill ing it out. “It’s the same application as somebody would fill out who was subdi viding farmland and putting in a bunch of homes and septic tanks,” she says. “Three-quarters of it are not applicable to us. Recognizing that she was in for a paper chase, Goodwin Brown asked if there was a speedier solution. ANR told her that it could issue a wastewater permit as long as the building’s landlord provided them with a letter attesting to all the other businesses that had occupied that space since 1970, as well as how many employ ees had worked at each one. In addition, Goodwin Brown needed to get a letter from the City of Burlington estimating the water usage at that address in 1970 as well as water-meter readings from that year. She also needed to provide a site plan, which, luckily, she had on hand. Otherwise, the Browns would have had to shell out even more money for the services of an architect and an engineer. All this in order to serve a few cups of chicken-noodle soup to go. “It’s nobody’s fault. It’s a vestigial organ of bureaucracy left over from the 1970s,” says Richard Donnelly at Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office. “When you look at it from a bird’s-eye view, it makes sense that some one should determine whether or not the sewer capacity can handle the number of customers they may be getting. The prob lem as I see it is that the form is very arcane and really does bear some updat ing. For small businesses, it’s a very ardu ous task.” The point here isn’t to bust on the folks at Natural Resources. Like most state agencies, ANR is woefully shortstaffed and under-funded for the work they’re charged to do. And, as an ANR spokeswoman points out, each regional office has a permit specialist to help busi ness owners figure out which forms are required and how they need to be filled out. Still, if Vermont’s hottest buzzword is “business-friendly,” a request to serve soup with bread shouldn’t trigger an application process comparable to propos ing a new big-box store. And small-busi ness owners already put in enough hours without having to track down meter read ings from the Watergate era. Because for entrepreneurs like the Browns, that’s time they can’t spend making bread.® Email Ken at ken@sevendaysvt.com

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The ambiguity of the situation was vexing; it bugs me when I can't figure out what's going on back there! “Shut up, Harvey,” the woman con tinued. “Tell us about the awesome time we’re gonna have at your place. I mean, ‘supposedly.’” “Well, I’m so glad you asked. The first thing — I mean after we remove all these bulky clothes — is SpaghettiOs. I have two cans sitting on the counter and yes, they come with the little meatballs.” “T hat’s a good start,” the other woman said. “And after the SpaghettiOs?” Harvey stretched out his long frame, draping an arm around each of the women. “How’s about we just take it one step at a time? OK, girls?” If the banter in the back of the taxi had been going on between two people, you could have called it flirty. Given the higher head count, it struck me as licen tious, not to get too fundamentalist about it. O n the other hand, their inter play could merely represent fooling around among a group of friends — as innocent as a can of SpaghettiOs. The ambiguity of the situation was vexing; it bugs me when I can’t figure out what’s going on back there! I was still trying to sort all this out when the guy suddenly lurched forward in his seat and said, “Wait a second. Don’t I know you?” I took another look at the guy and considered his question. “I don’t think so,” I replied. “Although by this point, I’ve pretty much driven everybody in town at least once.” “No, no. About 10 years ago. On Maple Street, that icy day. I couldn’t get my girlfriend’s car in gear going up the hill, and I slid back into your taxi.”

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“Yeaaaah, all right,” I said. “Like the blind man said as he pissed into the wind, ‘It’s all coming back to me.’ I remember you busted my directional lens.” “That’s right! Well, how have you been? W hat’s going on?” Well, this is weird, I thought. Now were like, what, old chums? Sliding into another guy’s car doesn’t strike me as a bonding experience, but I wasn’t going to be anti-social. “I’ve been fine and dandy, I suppose. W hat have you been up to? “Oh, a little of this, a little of that. You know how it is.” Not really, I thought. “Oh sure,” I returned the volley, “I know how it is.” Now it was my turn for the startling revelation. “Didn’t you promise to call me — yeah, I gave you one of my cards — and then send me the 25 bucks to replace the lens? Because, I remember, we didn’t get the cops or the insurance com pany involved.” “Yeah, absolutely!” he replied. “Man, what a good memory you have. This cab bie’s something, isn’t he, girls?” “Oh, Harv — we just love him!” one of the women blurted with a tremulous catch in her voice, like I was one of The Beades or something. Her sarcasm was actually quite funny. “He’s, like, our favorite, favorite cabbie!” “Yeah,” Harvey continued, ignoring his giggling seatmates, “neither me or my girlfriend had any money on us that day. That was nice of you to keep things informal. That was real solid, man.” We took the right at Burger King and swung left at Hannaford Supermarket onto the back road to the condo units. It’s just an empty street now, but it’s slat ed for commercial development. That is, when the dollar signs align correctly. Harvey directed me to his apartment and we stopped at the curb. One of the women said, “Woo-hoo, SpaghettiOs time!” and she and her friend spilled out of the taxi. “That’ll be nine bucks,” I said to Harvey. He lifted a wallet from his hip pocket and pulled out a 10. “Keep it,” he said with a big smile, as if 11 percent just made him the King of the Big Tippers. “It was great seeing you again.” “Sure thing,” I said. “Good seeing you, too. Do ya got the 25 bucks you owe me?” “Jeez, that was my last 10. I’m so sorry. Why don’t you give me your card, and I’ll call you with the money?” I laughed out loud. Harvey’s feckless grin, however, never faltered. What the heck, I thought, and handed him a busi ness card, doing my best not to roll my eyes in the process. I had no way of knowing how well the two women knew Harvey, or what they expected from him. But based on my lim ited experience with the guy, I would have recommended they stifle any high hopes — canned pasta notwithstanding. ®

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Qi is the life energy ever imagined yourself doing this? force. Stimulating qi can achieve har TF: At age 17, I wanted to go to St. SD: Did you stick with those thick mony and balance. You can’t put your Michael’s College because there was a Shanghai needles? finger on it, but then again, I’ve never good pre-med program. But we were TF: No. I use thin Japanese needles, seen air. too poor. My undergraduate studies, as which are about as thick as a human a biology and environmental chemistry hair. I went to Hawaii for a few weeks SD: After a while, you decided to major, were at Marist College in in 2000 to learn Japanese meridian pursue this interest even more Poughkeepsie. After graduation in 1977, therapy. It’s a softer approach. With wholeheartedly? I had a job at a water treatment facility acupuncture, I burn moxtabustion on TF: People told me I was crazy. I cleaning up Long Island Sound. Then I or near the skin. Needles move qi, but attended a four-year school, the New was a hygienist and safety engineer for moxabustion, which warms and com York College of Health Professions, to an insurance company, making sure forts, enhances it. We also do acupunc get a master’s degree in Oriental medi workplaces were safe. I finally started ture with micro-electrical stimulation cine. After graduating in 1999, I went my own insurance agency, because those that helps backaches or, for paralysis, to China with my whole family to work were the people who wore the most builds up the muscles. If there’s an ovar at the Longhua Traditional Chinese expensive suits. ian cyst, it can break up the mass. Medical Hospital in Shanghai for a month. I worked in the cancer, stroke SD: How long did that last? SD: Is it all about acupuncture? and internal medicine wards. They TF: For 19 years. 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SD: Does it take off the top layer of the epidermis? TF: I do it with oil, so there’s no fricebhave the largest Chinese fin Vermont. SD: How do you integrate ancient heating arts with technology? TF: My latest thing is laser acupunc ture, with ^sjbtoebox-size device that has a wandSft’s a painless way to stimulate the cells to operate better, or decrease production of mast cells that contribute to inflammation and joint pain. I use laser to treat carpal tunnel syndrome. SD: Laser acupuncture sounds like the wave of the future. Do you transfer most of these techniques to animals? TF: I always work in conjunction with a vet. I’ve found that Japanese meridian, which is hands-on palpation, works very well on animals. One client is a cat who has feline leukemia that I’ve been treat ing with laser and Chinese herbs. SD: Feline leukemia is usually fatal. TF: Yes, I didn’t expect to see the cat the following week, but it was actually doing better. A facial tumor had gone down. I’ve also worked with dogs and ferrets. We’ve got a rabbit coming soon. And I’ve been asked to look at some horses. There’s a company building me a battery-operated laser for treating large animals. SD: The animal sideline is too recent for much anecdotal success. But what's your most remarkable accomplishment in working with people? TF: I have a client whose hand and foot were paralyzed in a car accident 13 years ago. She had not moved her pinky in all that time. I treated her with laser acupuncture at 2 p.m. and five minutes later the finger could move. That was absolutely amazing. And she’d been unable to straighten her thumb but now she can. I hope to get her back to 99 percent. This is so much better than selling insurance. ®

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— It’s a rare occur rence indeed when the mighty Speaker of the Vermont House steps down from the throne to take the witness chair before a measly, lower-tier House committee. But that’s what Dorset’s gift to the Golden Dome did last Thursday. What issue of grave statewide importance made Speaker W a lte r F re e d come out of his closeddoor cave and take a public stand? Tax reform? Health-care re form? Homeland security? The dairy crisis? Would you believe H. 475, the Burlington Charter Change bill? In a state where Republican Party chairman James Barnett describes Burlington’s Democratic Mayor Peter Clavelle as an “angry socialist,” it’s not surprising that a Republican Speaker would lead the charge against anything Clavelle-related. Last year, Burlington voters overwhelmingly approved the char ter changes. Landlords would have to give tenants 90 days’ notice in cases of evictions for no cause. It’s currently 60 days. Same with rent increases. The required notice would go from 60 to 90 days. In return, Burlington’s renter class would be required to give landlords longer notice when they decide to move: 60 days instead of the current 30 days. Pretty radical, socialist stuff, eh, Fidel? F re e d 's L a w

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It’s rare indeed when the clear and distinct wishes of the voters of any Vermont hamlet, town or city are blocked by the High and Mighty under the Golden Dome. Rare for a House Speaker to speak so ill in public of local control. But, if anything, the Freedmeister’s trademark has always been his commitment to partisanship. For Walter, politics is war. Unlike his predecessors in the corner office, Speaker Freed employs a distinctive closed-door style, both figuratively and literal ly. Communicating with the Democrat opposition appears to give him an upset stomach. He’s much more comfortable lunching with the business lobbyists who are required to worship him. History will record that Freed’s ascension to Speaker in 2001 was won with the scalps of more than a dozen courageous legislators taken down in the civil-unions backlash election of 2000. Not surprisingly, Wally’s back lash majority melted away in the 2002 election. Vermonters real ized civil unions cause no harm after all. With just 74 GOP seats, Freed held onto the gavel by pay ing off a handful of Independents and moderate Democrats with choice committee assignments. Still, despite the close division in the House, Freed rules with a iron fist. You’d think O liv e r C ro m w e ll was his mentor. Not one of the 14 committee chair manships Freed hands out went to a Democrat. Not one. Those who heard Freed’s testi mony before the Local Govern ment Committee s.ay he argued that Burlington’s new landlordtenant rules would exacerbate the Queen City’s housing shortage and “drive landlords out of Burlington!” Freed claimed the taxpayers of the rest of the state would have to bail out the city. Pretty wild stuff, eh? Burlington, as everyone who’s ever lived there knows, has been a landlord’s paradise for years. It’s all about supply and demand. Nothing in Vermont matches the low vacancy rate and high rents in beautiful Burlap. Thank you, University of Vermont! But, as with apples, there are good landlords and bad landlords. Good landlords who maintain their properties and play by the rules have thrived in the People’s Republic. Only twice before can we recall Speaker Freed stepping up to the plate on an issue that meant so much to him. Once was in 2001. With homophobia ruling the roost in the Republican-controlled Vermont House, a bill repealing civil unions legislation quickly made its way to the House floor. But not all Republicans want ed to revisit civil unions, even some who had previously opposed them. It was a time in Vermont for healing. Time to move on. Walter Cromwell, er, Freedwell didn’t think so. The floor vote was tight. Very tight. In fact it ended in a tie vote. Under House rules, that prompts one of those rare moments when the Speaker must provide the Vaseline to move things forward and cast his vote.

SEVENDAYS Sir Walter, the fuel oil million aire, could have redefined himself that day as a political leader who would put Vermont first and party second. He could have shown the people of the state that he preferred to move forward, not backward. Unfortunately, it’s not Wally’s style. Speaker Freed cast his vote to repeal civil unions, even though he knew the bill had no chance what soever in the Democratic Senate. But it was a matter of principle for Walter. It was also a defining moment of his speakership. The second time Walter Freed stood tall was when he played Marlboro Man on the cigarettetax increase. Freed’s a smoker — nothing wrong with that. It’s a free country, eh? But, more importantly, Freed’s the successful proprietor of a “cash cow” parked on the New YorkVermont border. In West Pawlet, just 200 yards from the New York line, Freed has long owned and operated a couple gas pumps and a rundown wood en shack that dispenses smokes by the carton to cost-conscious New Yorkers from near and far. Funny, but when it became clear that the New York ciggy tax would continue to exceed the Vermont ciggy tax, Speaker Tobacco dropped his opposition to the increase. It was all about price differential. Vermont’s still cheaper and Walt’s tobacco shop still thrives. Who says Walter Freed’s never done anything to promote the Vermont economy? Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle says Freed’s dire warnings about a landlord exodus and increased state subsidy “are simply not true.” Rising revenues from Burlington’s sales tax and rooms-and-meals taxes are going to Montpelier, noted Clavelle. And the 31,000 jobs in Burlington, 600 new ones in the last year, boasted Mayor Moonie, mean truckloads of income-tax dol lars going to Montpeculiar, too. Clavelle expressed surprise that Freed, a leader in the party that makes “local control” a mantra, “is doing everything he can to stuff local control for the citizens of Burlington.” “Tell Walter,” said Peter, “land lords are doing fine in Burlington.” Hey, Walter, you listening? Speaking of Lobbyists — Getwell wishes this week for Allison Crowley Demag. Allison repre sents an impressive client list that includes everything from Budweiser to Viagra. Ten days ago, while reaching into the back seat for her briefcase, Allison’s right arm popped out of its shoulder socket. It hurts just to write about it. The daughter of political legend Tom Crowley, former Democratic state senator and now Chittenden County Assistant Judge, is one tough cookie. She was quickly back on deck at the Statehouse last week wearing a strapped-on contraption that makes her look like a onearmed Italian organ grinder with out the monkey. Most of us would happily take a few weeks off under similar cir cumstances. But most of us don’t love our jobs as much as Allison Crowley Demag does. ® Email Peter at InsideTrackVT@aol.com

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DEAN DIS Mr. Dean is not the right person to be president. My observations of him over the years have lead me to feel very strongly that he is arrogant, an egoist, self-cen tered, self-righteous and a per son with a quick temper who) feels that he and he only knows what is best for the entire nation. He says he is a fiscal conser vative and socially conscious person. Both these statements are not true. While his claim of balancing the state budget is true, it was done on the backs of the people. Programs were under-funded. Programs help people! Our roads and bridges need repairs, but our budget was balanced. He wanted to shut down all the rest areas, even though tourism is an important part of our economy, and then turned around and tore down two very serviceable rest-area buildings and erected two huge two-story high buildings just outside of Burlington! The state mental hospital will soon be closed. These are people with needs, but our budget was balanced. Our largest hospital came in $175 million dollars over budget in their expansion program. This happened during the Dean administration. • O ur present Governor had the good judgment to shut down Mr. Dean’s choo-choo train. Mr. Dean is for abortion on demand, partial-birth abortion, no parental notification on teenage abortion, civil unions and physician-assisted suicide. His Dr. Dynosaur program has merit but it also funds teen abortions.

When I see him speaking, the veins in his neck throbbing, pointing his finger telling Ameri cans what is best for them, I see extreme anger in him. It is hard to know what he truly believes and what is just bitterness. During the civil-union debates, people opposing civil unions were cast as bigots and hateful. By whom? Mr. Dean. John Koval MONTPELIER

EXECUTIVE DISORDER? One of the latest moves from’ Bush is to work with Bill Frist, Speaker of the House, to put an end to the investigation of what happened on 9/11/01. It makes me wonder if Bush has some thing to hide. Could the fact that the deed was carried out by someone Bush knew and had been in business with, bin Laden, be a factor? Could the fact that Bush had the authority to order an air strike to stop the planes and he did not be a fac tor? Could the fact that the hijackers were all Saudi nationals and that the Bush family has close business ties with the Saudis be a factor? How about the “hands off the Saudis” order, no investigations of anything to do with Saudi Arabia that both papa and baby Bush implement ed for years? How long was the Kennedy assassination investigated? How about the shuttle disasters? The Watergate hearings went on for quite some time. Why does Bush want this investigation stopped? W hat is he hiding? It seems to me that if he were all so gung-ho for the people of the U.S.A. he’d want to know what happened on 9/11. Instead, he allowed the steel beams that came from the wreckage to be sold to South Korea and other countries for construction. Now the physical evidence is gone. Why would he do that if he wanted the truth to come out? He wouldn’t. Bush is a liar and a thief, and what he’s stealing is the life of the people and the lives of the future. A $500 billion deficit. Our chil dren and grandchildren will be paying for that. Walter I. Zeichner BOLTON

TWO-PARTY LOCK While we’re counting reasons why the Dean campaign failed, let’s add history. We’ve elected Democrats and Republicans for so long, people can’t imagine anyone else winning a presiden tial election. Dean is really neither; he’s an outsider who thinks for himself, makes his own decisions and basically gives lip service to party mythology — an eclectic and naive, self-taught pragmatist. “Naive” is complimentary; I think it’s why a lot of people like •him, and why I hoped he would beat the game.

I don’t think he understands the difference, though. Distan cing himself from other candi dates is good strategy for gaining attention, but also revealing. No doubt the special interests in the back rooms judged him correctly from the start; everyone else just decided at the last minute that, to beat Bush, they need a real Democrat. O r so it seems to me with hindsight. Complain as we always do about incumbents, most people are comfortable with our one-and-a-half party system. They don’t like to choose between “Yes” and “No”; they prefer “Yes” and “Yes, b u t...” The “wisdom of the peo ple?” At least it’s a system that has worked better and longer than anything else but monar chy. Imagine living in Italy or France, let alone under the coupand-assassination dictatorships. By “people,” of course, I mean those who actually vote. Those who cheer and wave make for photo ops and news stories. Do they then hike to the polls? If even the majority, let alone all of registerable voters, actually showed up at the polls some day, who knows what would happen? Fred G. Hill BURLINGTON

FROZEN FOOD Sure, Bill McKibben skied twice as far as me in half the time, but I think skiing 25K is not too shabby, and let me tell you, it was no picnic [“Snowing the Distance,” February 11]. O f the five “feed stations” on the course of the Craftsbury marathon, two had “gourmet” offerings which looked OK if you weren’t a vege tarian. It’s true, I did take the time to stop at each station, where I attempted to hold a Dixie cup full of water, grab a Fig Newman (even this was not easy — picture reaching for one and coming up with a lopsided mass of them stuck together), and get my frozen-solid balacla va off so I could reach my mouth, all without taking off my gloves or falling over. After this three-minutes-tops gourmet extravaganza, it took a good 20 minutes of skiing to warm my extremities to their prefig temperature. At one station, I did have one of the cookies McKibben describes as “giant” and “chocolate-studded.” If they were, I didn’t notice. I just ate it as fast as I could so I could get my balaclava (which by that point I had renamed my “ball of slobber”) back on. So, Mr. McKibben, I hate to break it to you, but I believe it was honesty, not love, that kept your “food touring” wife from teasing you with tales of mountain treats. I hope she ate half the pizza — she earned it every bit as much as you. Laura Philipps BURLINGTON

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Finck points out that a b o u t 4 0 p e rc e n t of her stu d en ts go on for a p o s ts e c on dary e d u cation, a n d even m o re sp e n d tw o or th ree years earn ing m o n e y b efo re applying to college.

what this new academy would do to small communities and their high schjjpls. Creating a * new school district, he says, will only divert millions of dollars away from existing districts at a time when all public schools are struggling financially and the Legislature is trying to scale back the educational bureaucracy. The proposal “doesn’t talk about school choice other than our kids choosing to go to them,” LeBaron says. Proponents “like school choice,” he contends, “but only if it all comes to them and the truckloads of money follow.” But it isn’t just the loss of students and money that opponents fear. “This school is the center of our communi ty,” says Scott Lang, principal of Bellows Free AcademyFairfax, the town’s K-12 pub lic school. “Town Meeting, Boy Scouts, Alcoholics Anonymous, you name it. Anything that happens in town happens here.” According to current esti mates, his school could lose about 100 of its 350 or so students if the RTA opens. And that, Lang says, would likely result in program cuts and staff reductions, if not the eventual closure of the school. As a result, the BFAFairfax school board voted recently to oppose the RTA plan, as did the school board at Mount Mansfield Union High School in Jericho.

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Others aren't as convinced that the RTA proposal is a wise investment, however. Winooski’s Ticehurst remains skeptical of the Chamber of Commerce’s oft-repeated claim that the state will pay for all the project’s capital costs. “That’s not what I’m hearing from the state,” Ticehurst says. “When you talk to legislators or the Department of Education, they’re saying, ‘Wow! The last we heard, it was $27 million and that was a year ago.’ Now it’s up to $45 million. So if we launch this boat now with the assumption that the state will foot the bill and it doesn’t mate rialize, who is liable for that?” . Vermont NEA, the state’s largest teachers’ union, has remained largely on the side lines in this debate and has not taken a formal stance on the RTA. According to President Angelo Dorta, union members are of two minds. Many are attracted to the state-of-the-art facilities and diversity of pro grams being proposed. But others are asking whether a $40 million to $70 million investment in bricks and mor tar is preferable to investing that money on improving pro grams in existing high schools. Moreover, Dorta doesn’t believe any of the educators at either CTE or the Burlington Tech Center have been assured they will have jobs at the new school. And a new academy with its own school district would require negotiating a new teachers’ contract. All of these uncertainties are worrisome for longtime educa tors like Fairfax’s LeBaron, who has drafted his own scaleddown alternative to the RTA plan. Rather than centralizing all tech ed in one place, he proposes offering existing school districts their own spe cialties. And he wonders whether a centralized, full-time academy that channels students into highly specialized career paths is really the best way to offer the most students a flexi ble, well-rounded education. I think a large part of this is that we have a corporate influence saying, ‘Let’s spend some public money on training private workers,” LeBaron says. It s a bit like seeing kids as drones to be shaped to particu lar ends, and that rankles the hell out of me.” (7)

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'incetown and Bread Loaf. He got a >000 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a ional Book Critics Circle nomination for ing Saturn. On the day after Town ting, under the auspices of a Witter tier Fellowship from the Library of tgress, he is organizing a reading by nont poets. tseems Jackson’s mother had a feeling ttt her son’s accomplishments when she led him Major. And while he lives up to t^ne, his manner is unassuming. He’s a 'Pact man with a deep, gentle voice and a air of amused watchfulness. His longproject is not self-aggrandizement but to poetry matter. ewonders how a writer can come to grips social ills — abuse, class differences, all impolite subjects for poetry... How do take sense of it? I’ve been fed by that tton,” Jackson explains, hith be told, he did wonder at first her he and his poetry would be able to the move north. “I expressed concern worry about how being here might affi :t ^rk, Jackson says. “But it’s a part of who t0 be drawn to these subjects, no matter ‘ Tam.” quickly discovered that the same social Ust in Vermont as in North Philadelphia.

A woman was killed in a crack house the week after he moved here. A homeless man died of exposure. He and his son were tailed by a security guard when they went shopping for snow gear at J.C. Penney — in short, plenty

It’s easy to write about snow. It’s tougher to write about someone freezing in the snow. MAJOR JACKSON of fodder for a poet who opens his eyes to the worlds colliding around him, and uses poetry to face up to the damage. “It’s easy to write about snow,” Jackson says. “It’s tougher to write about someone freezing in the snow.”

It’s a chilly afternoon on the last day of January when I find myself at the dining room table in Major Jackson’s light-filled home, piling

lunchmeat and cheese on sandwich rolls. He and his wife are serving hoagies, a Philadelphia culinary staple, in homage to past connections: Jackson and I knew each other for a while in Philly in the mid-’90s when he was writing about hip-hop for the weekly paper I edited there. We briefly discuss the condiment ques tion; traditionalists opt for oil, but there’s a camp that favors mayonnaise. “I’m bad, I used to work at a deli,” says Jackson. “And so I just put it all on.” “Yeah,” concurs his wife. “You put a little of everything...” “A little of everything.” Jackson has always existed in at least two worlds at once. He experienced firsthand W.E.B. Du Bois’ famously controversial theory of “double-consciousness,” which reflected a time when black self-image and white America were at odds. Even though conditions have changed, that duality remains, says Jackson. You have “always a sense of yourself as part of the larger culture, but [you’re] also very much aware of your identity, your racial identity.” Aptly enough, one of the poems in Leaving Saturn is entitled “Between Two Worlds.” It’s one of several — including the title piece — written in the persona of jazz musician and self-styled extraterrestrial Sun Ra. His personal cosmology embraced galaxies, but in this poem the musician is confined to the space behind a curtain so that his band won’t be seen by the white audience in a 1940s nightclub. Jackson

uses the image as an acute metaphor for dou ble consciousness: Sun Ra trapped by the sys tem, but sailing on “Wind synths, organ/ Music. My Myth Space Lab, next best/ Thing to a crystal ball.” Jackson’s writing soars whenever he writes about music. It’s in his blood: one of his grand fathers collected jazz records and took him to see Lionel Hampton; his father’s mother danced in the Cotton Club and dated Cab Calloway. Jackson recognizes, as Sun Ra did, that music can be a way to pierce the curtain of identity. Still, Jackson has never found much escape from the sense o f ’’betweenness,” even within black communities. Raised in North Philadel phia by his maternal grandparents until age 8, he was acutely aware that his family’s econom ic status was different from his neighbors’. “You say North Philadelphia, most people think impoverishment. That wasn’t my experi ence, but that was the experience of my friends — and that’s where the self-consciousness comes into play.” His parents were separated, but both had solid middle-class jobs, and they lived in pros perous black neighborhoods. The contrast with North Philly “was very difficult for me,” he says, “because although the faces were the same, the pockets weren’t the same.” Even tually, Jackson’s mother remarried and he moved back in with her. »

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He remembers the way people reacted to “The Cosby Show.” “Most people in this country thought no way in the world could there be a household like that, black lawyer and a black physician... My best friend in high school, both of his parents were physicians, so when I’d come across peo ple at Temple who’d say that could never happen, I’d say, ‘Are you kidding?”’ He has been the target of such skepticism himself. Working in the computer lab at Temple, Jackson was play ing an e-version of Jeopardy with another student, who was white. “The Final Jeopardy question was very simple: ‘The art movement that sounds like a call to a parent.’ He didn’t know it was Dada, I got the answer correct, and he was furious. I’ve never seen someone so angry. He wanted to know, how did I know that? It just boggled his mind that I could potentially have that kind of awareness.” He accused Jackson of having played the game before — the assump tion being that there was no other way he could have known the answer. “It’s about accepting intelligence,” Jackson says. “We marvel at it.” Who marvels? “Specifically white people,” he responds first, but later adds that he’s encountered suspicion of black intellectualism among blacks, too. “I think we’re all implicated.” Jackson’s high school memories include specific instances when he was challenged for being different. Once, a student tore his headphones from his head to find out what he was listening to. “It wasn’t Chuck D, it was The Cure, and it was like, ‘What is this?”’ Another time, on the bus to a game with his basket ball team, a teammate stole Jackson’s journal and began reading his poetry aloud. Everyone laughed. It was so embarrassing that he stopped writing for a while. “I felt exposed; it was my interior self being read back to me. That was the other thing — it sounded weird to me, like, ‘Who is this guy?”’ Now Jackson’s son is being assailed by similarly confused attitudes about blackness. Langston is 11; his mother, who is black, lives in Philadelphia. Langston has lived with his father in Oregon, in New Orleans, where Jackson got his first professor’s job, in Provincetown, and now in Burling ton. The boy is polite and articulate, and his teachers love the knowledge of the world he brings to the classroom. But Langston came home one day and said that he’d heard a rumor that a friend had accused him of trying to act “more black than what he really is.” “What is that?” asks Jackson. “What is acting black?” “My mind spins,” adds Johanson. “So this kid [who is white] is claiming knowledge of blackness. He has the understanding.” “He has a blackometer!” Jackson says, laughing. They can laugh about it, but Jackson’s been measured by the blackometer, himself — been accused of being an Oreo, he says, by other blacks. He was refused service in a black barbershop in a poor section of New Orleans. It’s as much , an issue of class as race, yet the irony is that his poetry is celebrated for its vivid evocation of inner-city black culture. “I’m exhausted, to be honest, talking about race,” Jackson says. But he can’t ignore indignities that involve his son — like the classmate’s comment, or the J.C. Penney incident. Jackson complained to management that he and Langston had been the victims of minority profiling, and his colleagues at UVM petitioned the store to condemn the practice. Corporate lawyers called Jackson to make sure he was mollified. Otherwise, Burlington is more likely to offer a surfeit of brotherhood. Johanson reminds him, “You came back from the health-food store, first week or two that we were here, and you were like, ‘Every white person had to say hi to me. I mean, I love alternative spaces, but jeez, I’m tired of smiling!” Neither he nor Johanson feels that being an interracial couple is a particularly big deal. “Both of us are interested in working through issues of sexuality as well as race as well as class as well as you name it,” says Johanson. “It’s a fasci nation of mine as a counselor and a human being, and of his as a poet and a human being. But in the relationship I ' don’t remember that ever coming into play.” Their baby, 18-month-old James Welden Romare Jackson, is adorable and, no surprise, highly verbal in a screechy kind of way. His name pays tribute to African-American cultural history through the black artist Romare Bearden, and to Johanson’s Minnesota roots. James and Welden are names from her family tree. It’s a nicely symbiotic coincidence that the name also recalls James Weldon Johnson, a venerated fig ure in early 20th-century black poetry.

Like any writer, Jackson must contend with literary ancestors.

He is particularly attuned to the canon of great 20th-centu ry African-American writers: Johnson, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden. A course he taught last fall traced a path from these poets through the Black Arts movement of the ’60s — Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni — through to the pioneers of hip-hop. >

He’s experienced firsthand the benevolence of that tradi tion. When he was an undergrad at Temple taking his first poetry class with Sonia Sanchez, she happened to see him on campus one day and asked what he was up to. Computer lab, he answered. “She asked me if I wanted to go up to Bard [College] with her and bring some poems.” It was an impromptu invitation to share a trip to New York, courtesy of boxer Joe Frazier’s limo company, and read On the same program as a famous writer — two, actually, because Nobel Prize winner Chinua Achebe was also on the bill. “I ran home and grabbed my poems,” Jackson recalls. He writes about that experience in a poem dedicated to

mal considerations, vowing to write consciously “for, about and to black people.” In the poem, Jackson imagines confronting her about that decision: “...Why the conversion/ At Fisk in ’67? Why dull the edge/ O f a weapon, then hand over your badge?” The critique, he says, is that “her work lost something in making that transition. Her work wasn’t informed by dedi cation to the art as much as it was informed by race poli• » tics. Major Jackson has different priorities — owing, no doubt, to Sanchez, who made sure her students knew their way around poetic forms from haiku to villanelle. Now retired but still living in Philadelphia, Sanchez recalls that Jackson’s poetry required “hauling in, like a lot of young people’s work” when he first started out. He shows how far he’s come in a poem from Leaving Saturn, in which he addresses race, class and the city without sacrificing craft. From the LIBERTY BELL’S glass asylum, tourists emerge convinced of a cracked republic, and for signs further join the edge of the human circle where you break-dance the bionic two-step. Democracy depends upon such literacy. Snapshots. Maps. The vendor’s fist of stars and stripes — She sewed pennants. The public gallery of bronze statues whose Generals grimace frightened looks at the darkening scenery. Your Kangoled head spins on cardboard, a windmill garnering allegiance. Here prayed those who signedfor Independence. Break beats blasting your limbs to Market, you’re ghostbloom in the camera’s flash, so they call you FURIOUS ROCKER, CRAZY LEGS,— The circle tightens like a colony, horse-and-carriages hemming OLDE CITY' to scraps of time; squirrels pretremble then leap to bark. Tourists ease on shades to enhance the dark.

that Jackson is going to be one of the voices they study when poetry of the early 21st century is written about. That’s not something I’d say about anyone who’s been in the English Department in UVM in the last 100 years. I’ m convinced

UVM ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIR ROBYN WARHOL Sanchez and Achebe in Leaving Saturn. And he’s now work ing on a book in verse that posthumously thanks another mentor for an unexpected offer. In 1994, just a few years out of Temple, he was literary curator for an arts center in Philadelphia where Gwendolyn Brooks came to read on her way to giving a major lecture for the National Endowment of the Humanities in New York City. “She asked me if I could drive her. When we got up there... to the Plaza Hotel, she said, ‘Do you happen to have any poems on you?’ I just so happened to have some. She invited me and another young lady to read before her.” These may seem like moments of rare good luck, but Jackson sees both as part of a black writers’ continuum. “You read Brooks’ biography, she talks about the generosity of Langston Hughes. So it’s almost like this is what they inherited.” Jackson is writing his poem to Brooks in the form of a letter. It’s modeled after W.H. Auden’s 1936 “A Letter to Lord Byron” and takes the same demanding rhyme scheme and witty tone. He thanks Brooks for the opportunity she gave him, but he’s got questions, too, about the direction in which she took her poetry in the ’60s. Brooks at her best combined social consciousness with impeccable technique, but after attending a black writers’ conference at Fisk University in 1967 she seemed to pay less attention to for

Major Jackson’s use of classical forms in poems about jazz, hip-hop and the inner city is “unique as far as I know among serious poets writing today,” says UVM’s Warhol. But if the mix is new, the subject matter is not. As Sanchez points out, “This is not the first time” writers have explored “the kinds of things Major’s writing about.” So why has his poetry attracted such attention? Is it just about writing talent? Was his success at all due to a skill at politicking? “All of it,” Jackson says with a self-deprecating laugh. Then he reneges a bit. “I won’t say all of it. It was just being aware of not so much the places to be but where I could go that would help me as an artist — and in turn that has allowed me to make connections.” Later, recalling his time in the highly social arts scene in Provincetown, he adds, “That’s the other thing — you gotta go to all the good literary parties.” “He’s made for ’em,” Johanson agrees. “Definitely,” murmurs Jackson. “Love ’em. Love ’em.” Warhol compliments his networking abilities, too: “He’s eminently easy to deal with.” Sanchez says it’s a matter of timing — academia is finally paying attention to minority poets who not too many years ago would have been ignored. Both Warhol and Sanchez emphasize that, first and fore most, Jackson is a success because of the quality of his writing. “I’m often surprised how many people think there’s some kind of formula” for success as a poet, Jackson explains. His schedule is grueling. With an infant in the house and par enting duties to share, he frequently writes between the hours of one and five in the morning. Ambition may be as important as hard work. In gradu ate school, Jackson predicted to his friends that he expected to have his first book published two or three years after get ting his degree, and five years out would be working on his second. “And they all thought I was fuckin’ arrogant!” he says, still sounding a bit bewildered at the reaction. His forecast ing turned out to be correct. Major’s not seen too often at Vermont poetry events, but he’s about to raise his local profile with the Town Meeting Ppetry Reading March 3 at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. The lineup includes a number of UVM poets, including President Dan Fogel and occasional Seven Days contributors Angela Patten and Daniel Lusk. Jackson is hop ing that at least some of the poems “address an issue of civil, national or global importance,” but it’s not mandatory. Issues of content aside, participating poet Lusk sees the gathering as potentially significant in itself. “I think it is important for poets to have a role in the community, and maybe this is the way to do that. Just to be there is an important gesture.” Sanchez shares a belief that poetry can play a larger role in the world. Asked what advice she’d give him now, Major Jackson’s first poetry teacher recommends, “Go beyond just writing a good poem. Become a better human being and write poetry that will make people better human beings, and by writing good poetry come full circle to becoming a

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Last December, in the final session of his Black Arts/hip-hop semi nar, Jackson was making those connections naturally. The task for the day was the oral presenta tion of term-paper proposals. The mood was orderly yet relaxed, with students seated at tables arranged in a square, their back packs, iMacs and Dasani bottles spread out in front of them. Jackson, in slouchy but suit ably professorial tan sports jacket and green corduroys, stood on the perimeter, moving during discussion to different sides of the room. O f 19 students, two were African-American, the rest were white. The lopsided ratio lent some unintended irony to the discus sion. A white female student sug gested that Nikki Giovanni’s bourgeois background made her anger inauthentic. After another white student’s presentation on “nation-conscious rap,” a selfpossessed black student named Bjorn Pink asked the loaded question, “What do you mean by ‘urban’?” Lit-crit jargon leaked into Jackson’s remarks every once in a while: “Nikki Giovanni problemadzes the feminine other.” But the overall mood was impressively open. It was, in the best sense of the word, a dis course, with students’ comments respected by one another and by the professor. And it was fun: Jackson rolled up his sleeves dur ing a discussion of Robert Hayden and announced, “I wish he were alive, I’d love to talk to him about this.” Later, he went off on a tangent about Denzel Washington. “I always do that — start talking poetry, get into pop culture,” he confessed. His links to some of the figures being dis cussed — Sun Ra and the Philly hip-hop group The Roots — seemed, sweetly enough, to be a source of pride for his students. Because it was the last day of class, Jackson had to wait outside the classroom so that the stu dents could fill out their end-ofsemester course evaluations. He told me that he’d been afraid his evaluations from the previous semester would come back nega tive because he’d had to take so many trips off-campus for read ings, awards, dinners — the increasing obligations of an increasingly famous poet. But no one complained. In fact, one stu dent told him he liked the fact that his professor was out and about; for him, “it was a bridge from the larger world into the classroom.” Near the end of the class, Jackson asked a key question. You re about to graduate as English majors,” he reminded the group. ‘Really, can a poem affect the way we see ourselves, and see others? That gets to the heart of this enterprise: Can it be transformative? I’d like to see evi dence of that.” In many ways — in his own poems, in the lives of his stu dents, in the hearts and minds of his readers — Major Jackson is producing a major body of evi dence. (7)

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happy I felt.” But Bell’s innate entrepreneurial spirit reasserted itself. “Glad as I was to be a woodworker, I just couldn’t stop myself once I had the idea for another little computer company. We called it American Happyware,” he s^ys. The Vermont endeavor, which would last 18 months, designed an external software appliance with multiple uses, “like a Swiss Army knife” for accessing email addresses, Web links, movies and such. During this time, Bell was also making frequent trips to New York City to ghostwrite a book on animation with Kit Laybourne. His wife, Geraldine Laybourne, who had been a powerhouse at the Nickelodeon network, purchased American Happyware “lock, stock and barrel” from Bell and his colleagues in 1998. That business deal included Oprah Winfrey as a key investor, and the venture, renamed Oxygen Media, became a Manhattan operation that focused on women’s issues. “We were supposed to be equally a cable television and Internet company, ” says Bell, who was hired as chief technology officer. “But the balance shifted toward programming [the Oxygen cable channel] and away from the Web aspect, which is now a glorified TV guide.” Tired of commuting, in 2001 he decided to open a wireless company, Moeo, in the Queen City. It proved to be Bell’s “first official failure.” But before long, Bell began to explore his passion for movies, beginning with courses at Burlington College and at The Maine Workshops in Rockport. His debut personal film, “Ice,” is a meditative glimpse of two men skating on frozen Lake Champlain. Bell shot the four-minute piece last February with his Canon Digital Elf, “a point-and-shoot camera that’s the size of a pack of cigarettes,” he explains. “I’ve been asked, ‘How did you get crews and dollies out onto the ice?’ I pull the camera out of my back pocket and tell them, ‘I did it with this.’” One of the mini-film’s “stars,” Shelburne Farms woodlands man ager Marshall Webb, remembers the skating excursion as rather uneventful. “Three of us were just out on the lake late in the day, he says. “It’s not like Art was the director. It just happened. The light was pretty flat. It didn’t seem all that dramatic, but turned out to be pretty magical.” Bell enhanced the magic with the addition of a song by the band Sigor Ros from — where else? — Iceland. A CBS producer who was also a friend of a friend asked to broadcast “Ice” on the “Sunday Morning” show. But there was no time to secure the music rights, so Bell had to say no. His next project was the more ambitious, seven-minute “Only a Farmer.” In it, nine women are seen tending their livestock and til ling the soil while reciting a poem about the agricultural experi ence. The anonymous verse had been found by one of his subjects tacked to the wall of her Waterbury house, and “It just hit me in the chest,” says Bell, whose two sisters are farmers. . . . Uis,

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documentary camera course at the Maine school last September, Bell had never even heard of cinema verite. “I learned how to be the fly on the wall,” he notes. A recent project required a more reportorial approach. “About three days before the Iowa caucuses, the Dean cam paign called me,” Bell says. “They knew he wasn’t going to do too well there and wanted something that would make him feel good about why he decided to run for president in the first place. So, I drove around New Hampshire for two days interviewing volun teers.” In the four-minute “You Have the Power,” a diverse group of Deaniacs talks about the “energy and excitement” inspiring the candidates grass roots supporters. “I was told he was tired and needed to get recharged,” Bell says of the for mer governor. “He would come out on the stage each time, get the applause, this short would roll on big screens, he would watch it, get [back in touch with] some of why he was doing all this. It was for Howard and for the loyalists.” At the moment, Bell — who has dual citizenship — is immersed in shooting and edit ing an industrial documentary about the largest steel-recycling mill in the world. The plant is •H. f f run by 130 Russians in Hamilton, Ontario. When that project is fin ished in the spring, Bell intends to head back to Rockport for more studies. “I’ll take a 16-mm production course,” he says, referring to equipment that dwarfs his tiny Elf. In addition, he is deter mined “to work on my story telling skills. My goal is to eventually do a narrative fea ture.” First, though, he wants to make a 20-minute film based on footage shot with his Elf while traveling. That visual component will eventually ' mesh with scenes of two peo ple conversing inside the car. But Bell does not consider himself a writer, so he’s looking for a script. Film is perfect for both Art’s geeky and creative sides,” sug gests Webb, who is a still photographer. “There are endless ways to string images together, and he knows the tools so well. He has a determination to keep after it, to keep learning, to keep getting better.” The Zelig moments that Bell encounters along the way are a bonus and, perhaps, a sign of perpetual Buzz reinvennon. I do follow my curiosity, deeply,” he acknowledges. “I think I have this dynamo in me when I feel bigger things coming. There is no path in life. The best you’re going to get is an inkling that you have to run with. And I’ve run with my inklings maybe four, five,

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IR ISH SESSIONS, Radio Bean, 8 p,m.

NC. PIN E ST. JAZZ ENSEMBLE, Parima, 7

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TOP HAT KARAOKE, 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. NC. PAUL ASBELL TRIO (jazz), Leunig's, 7 p.m. NC. LAST N IGHT'S JOY (Irish), Ri Ra Irish Pub, 7 p.m. NC. JAM ES HARVEY QUARTET (jazz), Red Square, 10 p.m. NC. CHRIS WHITLEY, PATRICK FITZSIM MONS (folk-rock), Club Metronome, 8 p.m. $8/10, followed by L-BU R N ERS (hip-hop/reggae DJs), 10 p.m. NC. GRATEFUL DEAD JAM W /M EM BERS OF LIQUID DEAD & GUESTS, Nectar's, 9:30 p.m. NC. COLLEGE NIGHT W /D J ROBBIE J . (top 40 dance), Millennium Nightclub, 10 p.m. $5/NC. 18+ before 11 p.m. DJ KW IK (hip-hop/r&b), Rasputin's, 10 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 9:30 p.m. NC. DAVE HARRISON W /STARSTRUCK KARAOKE, 3 .P.'s Pub, 10 p.m. NC. DJ A -D 0G (hip-hop/lounge), Waiting Room, 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, The Pour House, 9 p.m. NC. H IP-H O P D JS, The Monkey House, 8

p.m. NC.

OPEN MIKE, Geno's Karaoke Club, from 8 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W /MATT & BONNIE DRAKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. JULEE GLAUB & PETE SUTHERLAND (folk), Good Times Cafe, 8 p.m. $15.

:: C h a m p la in v a lle y LADIES' NIGHT, City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. MONSTER HITS KARAOKE, Otter Creek Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.

;; c e n tra l SAN GORDON BAND (rock), Charlie 0's, 9:30 p.m. NC. ROB W ILLIAM S (singer-songwriter). Purple Moon Pub, 7 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE (hosted by Uncle Buzz), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.

:: n o rth e rn OPEN MIKE W /B IL L & CODY, Monopole, 9 p.m. NC. OPEN M IKE, Riverview Cafe, 5 p.m. NC.

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THE SHANE HARDIMAN TRIO (jazz), Radio Bean, 6 p.m. NG, followed by USER SHORTY (rock), 9 p.m. NC. POOF! (drag cabaret), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $3, followed by QUEEN CITY ROCK

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Leunig's, 7 p.m. NC. EYE OH YOU (live hip-hop). Red

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Square, 10 p.m. NC.

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CHROME COWBOYS (vintage country), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. $5.

one from Miles Davis to Eminem, and

KAMIKAZI COMEDY ACT, Nectar's, 8 p.m. NC, followed by, BROTHERS PAST (groove), 9:30 p.m. NC.

counts artists as diverse as Al Green

LADIES' NIGHT (DJ Robbie J .), Millennium Nightclub, 10 p.m.

and the Velvet Underground as major

$7/NC. 18+ before 11 p.m. TOP HAT ENTERTAINMENT DANCE

influences. Front men John Bigham and

PARTY (hip-hop/r&b DJs), Rasputin's, 10 p.m. NC.

Chris Thomas layer acoustic guitars,

LIVE MUSIC, Manhattan Pizza & Pub,

thick, hip-shaking bass, understated

9:30 p.m. NC. L BURNERS (hip-hop DJs), Ruben

hip-hop beats and soaring vocals to

James, 10 p.m. NC. REGGAE NIGHT (DJ), J.P.'s Pub, 9 p.m.

create music certain to rock your body

NC. JESSICA LURIE ENSEMBLE (jazz),

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Waiting Room, 10 p.m. NC. LIVE BRAZILIAN MUSIC, Souza's,

Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Higher

6:30 p.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC, Henry's Pub, 9:30 p.m.

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NC. BLUE JEW EL LIGHT (folkadelic), Upper Deck Pub, Windjammer, 7 p.m. NC. W RUV D JS (eclectic), The Monkey House, 8 p.m. NC. PSYCHEDELIC BREAKFAST, NERO (groove rock), Higher Ground, 9:30 p.m. $8. 18+. BUDDHA FOOD GROUP (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Geno'^ Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W /FR A N K, Franny 0's, 9 p.m. NC.

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venues 411 Angela's Pub, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-6936. Ashley's, Merchant's Row, Randolph, 728-9182. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-5494. Banana Winds Cafe & Pub, Town Market Place, Susie Wilson Rd., Essex Jet., OPEN JAM (blues/funk/rock), Ashley's, 9 p.m. NC.

c e n tra l OPEN MIKE, Montpelier Community Coffee House, Rhapsody Main Street, 7 p.m. Donations. ALEJANDRO TORRENS TRIO (Latin jazz), Starlight Lounge, 9 p.m. NC. BILLY CALDWELL (acoustic rock), Purple Moon Pub, 8:30 p.m. NC. SETH YACOVONE BAND (blues-rock), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5.

n o rth e rn IRISH JAM SESSION W /A LLAN CHURCH, Bee's Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC. AA. REGGAE NIGHT W /SOLOMONIC SOUND SYSTEM, Phoenix Lounge, 10 p.m. NC. OSHE (rock), Monopole, 9 p.m. NC. SASSY KARAOKE W /TH E C MONSTER, L. D. & C.C., Riverview Cafe, 5 p.m. NC. LADIES' NIGHT (top 40, hip-hop; DJ Frostee), Tabu Nightclub, 9 p.m. $2/10. 18+ before 11 p.m.

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Middle Earth Music Hall, Bradford, 222-4748. Mr. Mike's, 206 Main St., Burlington, 864-0072. The Monkey House, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. The Music Box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury Village, 586-7533. Nectar's, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

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1/2, 136 1/2 Church S t , Burlington, 865-0012. 135 Pearl St., Burlington, 863-2343. Old Lantern, Greenbush Rd., Charlotte, 425-2120. Orion Pub & Grill, Route 108, Jeffersonville, 644-8884. Otter Creek Tavern, 35 Green St., Vergennes, 877-3667. Overtime Saloon, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. Paramount Theater, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917.

Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. Phoenix Bar, Sugarbush Village, Warren, 583-1024. The Positive Pie, 69 Main St., Plainfield, 454-0133. The Pour House, 1900 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-3653. Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. Rasputin's, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. Rhapsody Main St., 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-6112. Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782. Ri Ra Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. Riverview Cafe, .14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-566-0666. Riverwalk Records, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-3334. Rozzi's Lakeshore Tavern, 1072 West Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. Sami's Harmony Pub, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 893-7267. Souza's Churrascaria, 55 Main St., Burlington, 864-2433. St. John's Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, 864-9778. Starbucks, Burlington Town Center, 651-9844. Starlight Lounge, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8913. Stowehof Inn, Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722. Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800. Tabu Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-566-0666. Three Mountain Lodge, Jeffersonville, 644-5736. Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542. Trinity Church, 137 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9158. Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002. 242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244. Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington,

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BAND (rock), Radio Bean, 9 p.m.

Pearl, 8 p.m. $5, followed by BLAST! W /DJS CHIA, ELLIOTT & CRAIG MIT CHELL (techno/house), 10 p.m. $5. LIVE DJ, Ri Ra Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. GORDON STONE (jamgrass), Red

MIKE PEDERSEN (rock), Nectar's, 8 p.m. NC, followed by NAKED

KARAOKE, J.P.'s Pub, 10 p.m. NC.

AMBITION, ALMOST FAMOUS (rock), 9:30 $wn. NC.

DJ A-DOG (hip-hop/lounge), Waiting

TOP HAT DANCETERIA (DJs), Rasputin's, 10 p.m. $3. FLAVA (hip-hop/dancehall/old school; DJs Robbie J. & Toxic), Millennium

Square, 10 p.m. NC. NAKED AMBITION (rock), Sweetwaters, 9 p.m. NC. METRO W /N IG EL RICHARDS, DJ LARS (techno/house), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. NC.

DAVE HARRISON W/STARSTRUCK

Nightclub, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+ before 11 p.m. KARAOKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 10 p.m. NC. L BURNERS (hip-hop DJs), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC.

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KARAOKE, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. W IZN BAR & GRILL (live radio show),

KARAOKE KAPERS (host Bob Bolyard), St. John's Club, 7 p.m. NC.

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Lincoln Inn Lounge, 4 p.m. NC, fol lowed by SUPERSOUNDS DJ (dance

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STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS (honky-tonk rockabilly), Charlie 0's, 9:30 p.m. NC.

MASSIVE (DJs), Rasputin's, 10 p.m. $3. SPIN CYCLE (hip-hop/reggae/old

LINDA CULLUM (acoustic folk-rock),

school; DJs Robbie J., Kwik & Big A),

Purple Moon Pub, 8:30 p.m. $3.

Millennium Nightclub, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+ before 11 p.m. KARAOKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub,

LEON TUBBS (funk-jazz), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.

10 p.m. NC.

BOW THAYER BAND (country-folk; CD release party), Starlight Lounge,

DIAZ & RUGGER (hip-hop/r&b DJs), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC.

9:30 p.m. NC. BOOZE BROTHERS (rock), Matterhorn, 9

DAVE HARRISON W /STARSTRUCK KARAOKE, J.P.'s Pub, 10 p.m. NC.

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MOE. (groove rock), Higher Ground,

REZI (rock), Monopole, 9 p.m. NC.

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DR X. (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m.

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UNCLE BUZZ BAND (rock), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. NC.

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MANGO JAM (Cajun/zydeco), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5.

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MCFEETERS (singer-songwriters),

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p.m. NC.

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PATRICK FITZSIMMONS (folk-rock),

Metronome, 10 p.m. $3.

Overtime Saloon, 9 p.m. NC.

OPEN MIKE, Nectar's, 8 p.m. NC.

ANTHONY GERACI (jazz), Emily's,

FREESTYLE (hip-hop/r&b DJ),

Stowehof Inn, 7 p.m. NC. SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE (eclec tic new bands), Sami's Harmony Pub, 7 p.m. NC. SUTTER KAIN (rock)* Monopoly,9 p.m. NC. LIVE DJ, Riverview Cafe, 5 p.m. NC.

Rasputin's, 10 p.m. NC/$7. 18+ M IGHTIER PRODUCTIONS (multimedia; artsPROJECT VT benefit), Waiting KARAOKE, Geno's Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC. Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC.

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Monkey House, 9 p.m. NC.

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VT DIXIELAND ALLSTARS W /JA M IE MASEFIELD (Mardi Gras celebration),

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Brothers Tavern, 11:30 a.m. NC,

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p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 9:30 p.m. NC. DAVE HARRISON W/STARSTRUCK

GHISLAINE (piano), Chow! Bella, 6:30 p.m. NC.

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ACOUSTIC OPEN MIKE W /TH E HARDLUCK KID, Kacey's, 8:30 p.m. NC.

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o f g en d e, m elodic, cleverly rh y m e d acoustic folk. T h a y e r’s voice suggests a g en etic splicing o f Jerry G arcia, B ob D y lan a n d G ra m Parsons, a n d his pick in g o n guitar, ban jo a n d m a n d o lin is ad ep t. T h e so n g w ritin g is m atu re, th o u g h tfu l a n d full o f im ages fro m n atu re. T h a y e r so u n d s com fo rtab le w ith h im self a n d w o o d sy V erm o n t, less so w ith th e rest o f this big o f m essed-up w o rld . R etro influences a b o u n d , b u t he m akes these songs h is o w n , because they are. T h e 10 originals serve

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THE GIRL YOU LOVE

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(J a m R e c o rd in g s , C D )

“Paradise in th e R o u g h ” to th e D ead-like “C hate au g ay ” to the

Driftwood w ith a C D release p a rty a t W aitsfield’s Starlight T h e n u m b e r s h a v e b e e n lo w o n th e t h e r m o m e te r , b u t t h e m u s ic o f B u r lin g to n ’s R a q u e l’s B o y s is p u r e

L o u n g e this Friday.

s u n s h in e . F r o n te d b y lo n g - tim e lo c a l m u s ic ia n S e a n H u t t o n , t h e b a n d is b r e a k in g o n t o th e s c e n e w ith

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a d e b u t re c o rd ,

Music fo r the G irl You Love.

H u t t o n h a s a lw ay s h a d a g ift fo r p o p m e lo d ie s , a n d th is d isc is n o d is a p p o in tm e n t. T h e s o n g s a re su g a ry , c a tc h y a n d lig h th e a r te d , fille d w ith B e a c h B o y s -lik e h a r m o n ie s a n d ja n g lin g g u ita rs . T h e g e n e r

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al s o u n d h e re re calls ’6 0 s p o p , a n d t h e a r tis ts w h o h a v e to y e d w i t h t h a t s o u n d o v e r t h e la s t 4 0 y ears. H i n t s o f R E M , M a tth e w S w e e t a n d o t h e r c o n te m p o r a r ie s s it a lo n g s id e m o r e o b v io u s r e fe re n c e p o in ts

(Im m e rg e n t R eco rd s, C D )

s u c h as T h e B y rd s, B e a tle s a n d th e “ C a lif o r n ia s o u n d .” M a s te r e d b y J e re m y M o r r is a n d C a s e y R e a (w h o ’s n a m e is s p e lle d “ R a y e ” th r e e tim e s in t h e lin e r

N e w York’s d o w n te m p o groovers M o o n rak er m ove tow ard a m o re radio-friendly p o p so u n d o n th eir ep o n y m o u s d e b u t fulllength.

n o te s — o o p s!), th e a lb u m sp a rk le s w ith a g lo ssy s h e e n . H u t t o n a n d fe llo w m u l t i- in s tr u m e n ta lis t R e g

Nada Brahma, th eir previous EP, was a chill collection

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o f live d ru m ’n’ bass a n d trip -h o p grooves, pulled together by

W h ile s o m e so n g s , s u c h as “W h o le s o m e G ir l,” a re ju s t f re a k in g w u ssy , th e m a jo r ity o f th e tra c k s o n

th e sugary voice o f vocalist Kelli Scarr. T h is tim e o u t, th e q u in

th e r e c o r d a re q u ite g o o d . H u t t o n isn ’t th e w o r ld ’s m o s t e x c itin g ly ric is t — h e sin g s a b i t m u c h a b o u t

tet expands a bit, p lacing cru n c h y alt-rock cuts alongside their

h is c a t — h is m e lo d ie s p ic k u p th e sla c k . O p e n e r “ P lease T h r i l l M e ” is a r e tro r o c k e r w ith a v ic io u s

m o re typical gen d e soul a n d fun k y pop. Problem is, the songs

b ass lin e th a t lo d g e s in y o u r h e a d a n d is o v e r in less th a n tw o m in u te s .

aren’t yet stro n g en o u g h to becom e th e focal p o in t o f the

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g ro u p . M o o n rak er have always excelled instrum entally, crafting

W ils o n im p re s s io n a n d la y e rin g s im p le y e t d e lic io u s h a r m o n ie s o v e r a “W a ll o f S o u n d ”-lik e p r o d u c

h ea d -n o d d in g m osaics th a t tra n sp o rt the listener to a decidedly,

tio n . T h e title tr a c k is a f u z z - d re n c h e d r o c k e r th a t p la c e s a w e lc o m e b i t o f p s y c h e d e lic r iff in g in t o th e

laid-back place. T h is recording, however, fails to capture the

a lb u m ’s m o s tly s a c c h a r in e s o u n d .

po w er o f th e in stru m en tals. T h e drum -an d -b ass attack lacks

Music fo r the G irl You Love is n o t w i t h o u t a fe w m u s ic a l w e a k n e sse s, b u t all in all H u t t o n a n d

th e d eep d u b a n d crackling hits o f th e b a n d ’s live show.

R a q u e l’s B oys h a v e m a d e a n e n jo y a b le a lb u m w i t h a s tr e a k o f p u r e - p o p n u g g e ts .

Likewise, th e w ah-w ah-heavy fu n k guitar sou n d s tinny, strik

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ing against ra th er th a n accenting th e o th e r m usicians’ sounds. Finally, there is Scarr, w h o is a con fid en t, im pressive singer b u t doesn’t seem co m fo rtab le carrying th e w eight o f th e ban d . T h e re are a few sw eet spots o n this disc, b u t for the m o st part,

Moonraker is a p o o r su b stitu te for th e real th in g — w h ich you can see a n d h ear th is S aturday a t C lu b M e tro n o m e.

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ynn Rupe is batting a thousand. Viewers, that is, of her painting “Field Trip” at the Burlington International Airport. That’s a modest estimate of the travelers coming through Gates 1 and 2, and it doesn’t even include the “meeters and greeters,” as Director of Aviation J.J. Hamilton calls them, nor the ground and sky employees. There’s no guaran tee, of course, that all those travelers really look at the artwork hung above the escalators, but even so, Lynn Rupe is happy that it’s hers. The aptly named “Field Trip” was chosen by Burlington City Arts for the space, which the orga nization curates along with the waiting area nearby. The airport-as-gallery collaboration with BCA began nearly a year ago; Hamilton says, “The City of Burlington wanted travelers to see culture as soon as they step into the airport.” Jessica Dyer, director of exhibitions at BCA, claims the airport approached City Arts first. Either way, Rupe’s art work is the third to appear on this prominent wall. The two previous exhibits were a “clocks in differ ent time zones” installation by Middlebury archi tect Parker Croft, and a collection of license-plate constructions by Burlington artist Aaron Stein. The airport artwork tends to be livelier than, say, the typical hotel airbrush, but there are some sensible limitations. “We don’t want anything ugly, airplanes crashing or terrorists,” says Hamilton. “We’re not here to provide any political statement to any walk of life... We don’t need to offend any one.”

Rupe took the travel theme literally — there are numerous small planes in a swath of sky, for example — but somehow the painting itself took charge.

"FIELD TRIP" BY LYNN RUPE

for the escalator wall must be large enough that it can be essentially grasped in the time it takes to descend to baggage claim. If you dally at the top of the stairs, though, you can look at Rupe’s work for a long time and continue to be pleasantly sur prised. There are sheep, geese, a deer, a moose and something like the green pastures of Vermont in “Field Trip,” but to call this a landscape would be missing the point. You might also miss a slice of cityscape, taut with traffic and tucked Escher-like under Roman arches. Or greenbelts that weave around yellow-and-black checkerboard strips and vanish into the horizon. And then there’s the curv ing staircase — or is it a DNA strand? — the grove of parking meters, and colorful geometric shapes, All these elements are densely packed together, as if in a dream. So what is the point? Even Rupe isn’t entirely sure. “I had no idea where it was going,” she admits, explaining that the painting began with a rather static vase of red flowers. She took the travel theme literally — there are numerous small planes in a swath of sky, for example — but somehow the painting itself took charge, and along the way it turned into a metaphorical trip unlike any other. Rupe added, subtracted, painted over — “the moose used to be the Holy Family,” she reveals. “It really grew organically.”

T he s iz e o f " F ield Trip," or s o m e t h in g c lo s e

LYNN RUPE

Hamilton notes that, as with all public art, feedback has run the gamut from Wow, look at that! to My God, what is that? “It must be doing what the art world wants it to do,” he says with a chuckle. “Field Trip,” actually a triptych whose panels collectively measure 88 inches high and 12 feet long, is unlikely to offend anyone, though it may cause some head-scratching. Any artwork selected

to it, is what Rupe enjoys working with these days — not including, of course, a batch of relatively austere monoprints she made for the annual Burlington City Arts Print Project. Recently BCA granted Rupe, 52, the Barbara Smail Independent Artist Award, which Dyer explains is for “mid career artists who maybe haven’t had as much exposure as their work merits.” Named for the late Grand Isle painter, the Smail award is more than a pat on the back; with it comes a $ 1000 prize and a year’s access to one of BCA’s studios, Dyer says. Rupe plans to return to the Print Studio... when she can find the time. Right now, when she’s not at her day job — as a science teacher for Burlington High School’s alter native Horizon Project — Rupe is in full produc tion mode. Two exhibits this summer have put her in a not-entirely-unpleasant panic: one at the Supreme Court in Montpelier and a second at the Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center. “The shows over lap,” she says with a grimace, “so I need two com plete bodies of work.” Though she’s inclined to modestly repeat, “I don’t know what I’m doing,” Rupe’s paintings sug gest otherwise. There’s always an outside chance she’s the beneficiary of otherworldly assistance — the pigment version o f automatic handwriting, say — but it’s more likely Rupe is such an intuitive painter that she is perpetually astonished to discov er what flows from her brush. Numerous canvasses in various states of comple

tion lean against two walls in her studio — a sec ond-floor room in her Northshore condo, the beige carpeting wildly splattered with color. Though the view beyond her windows is inspiring — the Burlington Bikepath and Lake Champlain — Rupe’s paintings have less to do with nature than with imagination. Many of the large-scale finished paintings stacked in her studio and her garage have black backgrounds with vivid, deeply saturated “marks.” The works seem to be influenced by contempo rary African art, though Rupe claims to know nothing about it. These abstractions might be called barely controlled chaos: squiggles or shapes with hard edges seem to tumble over each other but without really falling. You have to remind yourself this is a painting, the shapes are not actu ally moving. Several newly started pieces indicate a direction that she says is inspired by migration. Vague bird like shapes wing across the canvas, their details yet to emerge. A few seem to have migrated to another large painting, a cityscape in which birds are the only living things visible. “I like the idea of what animals do with development,” Rupe explains, “how they navigate developed environs. There are falcons living at the tops of buildings in New York City — they swoop down and grab a pigeon or two. The row of manmade structures in Rupe’s painted city is the first indication of anything like order in her works, but it would probably be a mistake to read anything into it. Another simulta neous series, inspired by “Field Trip,” has sprout ed a border of squares the size of children’s build ing blocks, but the wormy shapes curving around and around in the paintings’ middles belie this colorful corral, going everywhere and nowhere at once. “I’m liking this snakes, ladders, roads thing,” Rupe says. “They’re sinister and gamelike.” Indeed, like a board game without any clear rules, her newest paintings invite the eye to move around at random. “There’s a way to enter it, get a foothold and go up or left or right, or hop off and take a new route,” she suggests. “I really enjoyed in “Field Trip” that cruising around. T hat’s what I’m think ing here.” Rupe’s own life has been anything but a straight line. From Deerborn, Michigan, to a Peace Corps stint in the Philippines, to Burlington, Vermont. From a Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan, to an M.S. at UVM in resource plan ning, to an MFA at the Vermont Studio Center. From sheep farmer to town planner to high school science and art teacher. Rupe’s varied experiences may or may not be reflected in her unsettled but increasingly masterful paintings, but you wont hear that kind of analysis from her. Still, her assess ment sounds a lot like... life. “These really do start from nothing,” she insists. “You just make a mark, and then another mark, and you hope eventually the marks mean something.” ®

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O P EN IN G S ACNA EXHIBIT: A juried art show fea turing works in multiple media. Fine Arts Gallery, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 518-523-2512. Reception February 20, 5-7 p.m.

That’s All Folk

w E XHI B I T "Always in Season," arts and crafts by V erm ont fo lk artists, p ast and p resen t. V erm ont Folklife Center, M iddlebury. .Through N ovem ber 13. ARTW ORK

"Driving Hog to Market" by Im elda L epine

NICHOLAS HECHT: "Vertical River," paintings and sculptures. Northern Power Systems, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-2955. Reception February 20, 5:30-9 p.m.

hen the world is bored with automated, mass-produced music, our descendants will despise us for having thrown away the best of our culture.” Thus spoke music archivist Alan Lomax, regarding his mission to preserve American folk music. The folks at the Vermont Folklife Center would say the same thing about Vermont folk art. Their first visual art exhibition was in 1984; this year the museum’s 20th-anniversary show, “Always in Season” offers up 50 pieces that celebrate “traditional forms both old and new to Vermont.” The traditional forms include textiles, basketry, metalwork, wood, stone and even fungus carving. The fungus was carved — or, more properly, etched onto — by an octogenarian Northeast Kingdom expat who is now an Adirondack artist, Nellie Dunbar Staves. Her untitled piece portrays a shaggy wolf, or maybe a bear, on the fungus. The beady-eyed critter stares out from the center of a big, fanned-shaped piece of the stuff, attached to some debarked pieces of softwood limb. In The Conservationist magazine Staves described her process: “The hard er you press to mark a fungus the deeper the color will be. You don’t want to go too far or you’ll cut through the sur face.” You might call her the Rembrandt of fungus; her piece is filled with a diverse variety of lines. In 1908 John Benjamin Evans of Poultney turned thin slices of one of Vermont’s three official state stones into the amazing “Slate Fan.” Comprising about 35 intricately carved slats, it unfolds like a peacock’s tail into a broad semicircle more than a foot in diameter.

Another of Vermont’s state stones is represented in a Barre granite piece by Angelo Ambrosini. It’s a solidly patriotic, heraldic eagle with outstretched wings. Woodcarving appears in the form of whirligigs, butter molds, decoys, a carousel horse and assembled scenes, such as “Snow Roller” by Edward Dubray. Before the days of massive truck plows, teams of draft horses pulled big wooden rollers after each snowfall. In

and contemporary New York artist Faith Ringgold is also influenced by such story quilts. The hooked rug “Driving Hog to Market” by Imelda Lepine represents another folk idiom of decorative textile. It’s a relatively newer piece, dated 1978, made in a 19th-century style. The maritime tradition of Lake Champlain is referenced in John Montgomery’s “Schooner Rigged Scow.”

PR IA CAMBIO: "Fantasy Fest," colorful acrylic paintings. Julio's Restaurant, Montpelier, 229-0984. Reception February 24, 5-7 p.m. Live music by the MardT Gras Swing Band.

T A LK S / EVENTS "STORIES BEHIND THE SPECTACLES": Fleming Museum registrar Margaret Tamulonis and UVM graduate student in historic preservation Charlie

In Dubray's miniature version the teamster wears a black-andred woolen cap and is perched precariously atop the roller. Dubray’s miniature version the teamster wears a black-and-red woolen cap and is perched precariously atop the roller. This show also offers a remarkable relief carving around a large knot of wood: the 1940 “Noah’s Ark Bowl” by Gustaf Herzberg. The work is a master piece by any standard. Herzberg skillful ly carved a menagerie of reptiles, mam mals and birds around the bulbous knot while remaining sensitive to the wood’s natural rhythms and surface bumpiness. Among the textiles are several fine quilts, including the “Farm and Home Memory Quilt” completed by Amber Densmore in the 1940s and ’50s. The quilt is graced by dozens of iconographic embroideries, each a marker of favorite events and memories of various years. Native Americans of the Great Plains made similar chronicles on buffalo hides,

The large, two-masted model replicates a type of ship that was once prevalent on both the Great Lakes and Lake Cham plain. “Pha Kuane,” representing a newer tradition, also has a prominent presence here. It’s a lush bouquet of flags and artificial flowers made by women of Vermont’s Laotian immigrant communi ty. The label describes it as a “ritual object” associated with weddings. It’s planted in a large, ornate silver urn. . With due respect to Alan Lomax, when the world is bored with posters of “Le jardin de Monet a Giverny” and giant plasma-screen televisions, our descendants will praise the Vermont Folklife Center for preserving pieces of the state’s cultural heritage. If someday its gallery is filled with dozens of Pha Kuanes and other multicultural art forms, so much the better. ®

Degener discuss the current exhibit, "Spectacles to Behold." Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. February 18, 12:15 p.m. ARTIST TALK: New York artist Vanessa Beecroft discusses how her work in "Lateral Thinking" exemplifies her questioning of boundaries in art-mak ing. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-1469. February 20, 5:30 p.m. GALLERY TALK: Middlebury College art history professor John Hunisak speaks about the museum's recently acquired painting, "The Studio of Jules Dalou," by Alphonse Gaudefroy. Museum of Art, Middlebury College, 443-5007. February 24, 4:30 p.m. ARTIST TALK: Artist Diane Gabriel talks about the photographs, monotypes, etchings and mixed-media works in her exhibit, "Prayers and Nightmares." 2nd Floor, Firehouse Gallery, Burling ton, 865-7165. February 25, noon.

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< e x h ib itio n s > PHO TO : M AR C A W O D EY cal developments in eyeglasses through out history. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 656-0750. Through June 27.

develop a finished product over a period of five weeks. Firehouse Gallery, Burling ton, 865-7166. Through March 7.

"CREATIVE REUSE SHOWCASE": Recycled art works by area high school students. Frog Hollow Gallery, Boutilier's Art Center and ReCycle North, Burlington, 872-

ANTHONY D. SIN I: "Dark Matters," paintings and drawings; and JONA THAN DRAUDT: "Bioforms," oversized forms from nature sculpted in pine. Flynndog, Burlington, 863-2227. Through February. GIANESSSA P IR R 0 : "Self Portrait of My

8100, ext. 207. Through February 22. "ARTS W IT H IN ": Works in a variety of media by Burlington City Arts employ ees and volunteers. Airport Gallery, Burlington International Airport, 8657166. Through February. PETER LANGROCK: "Canada; Cultural &

Father," gouache and watercolor paint ings. Battery St. Jeans, Burlington, 310-7478. Through March 3. LISA LILLIBRIDGE & ELLIS GOVONI: "The Home Show," new works by the

Literary Greatness," brilliantly colored landscape paintings inspired by early 20th-century Canadian artists the Group of Seven. McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 654-2536. Through February 20.

mother/son duo. Mirabelles, Burlington, 863-4306. Through February. ROBERT W. BRUNELLE, JR .: "Swim Goggles," paintings. Sneakers Bistro, Winooski, 899-1106. Through February. "RETURN OF THE SPRING": Contemporary

SEAN PAUL LAMBERT: Colossal collages, premier paintings and dynamic drawings. 3rd Floor Gallery, Community College of Vermont, Burlington, 865-4422. Through

Chinese art by internationally known artists Ziyu Guo, Xubai Li, Zou Ming and Yinglei Zhang. Phoenix Gallery, Burling

May 5. ABBY MANOCK: "Bottled Up," new draw ings. 1/2, Burlington, 310-1856.

ton, 863-9400. Through March. KIDS' ART SHOW: Artwork created by local public and private school stu dents K-8. Gallery on the Green,

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word "contemporary" has a relative meaning when it comes to a 3000-

year-old culture. Most of the pieces in "Return of the Spring: Contemporary Art of China" at Burling ton's Phoenix Gallery are both traditio nal and contemporary, such as "The Four Seasons" suite of brush paintings by Xubai Li. I t wouldn't be a surprise i f the show sells out — in Chinese folklore the phoenix is a symbol of prosperity.

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GALLERY TOUR: A discussion-based tour of selected works in Vanessa Beecroft's exhibit, "Lateral Thinking." Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-1469. February 25, 7 p.m.

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Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 656-2014. Through March 5. EDWARD PIERCE: "Intimate Landscapes," contemplative photogra

::b u rlin g to n a r e a GLORIA KAMEN: "Portraits of Composers," two-dimensional works in acrylic, watercolor and collage. Living/Learning Center Gallery, UVM, Burlington, 656-4200. Through March 12. DIANNA RUST: "Recent & New Work," photographs. Francis Colburn Gallery,

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phy. Freestyle Works of Hair, Burling ton, 651-8820. Through May 29. RYAN T. COOK: "Medium Blue;" acrylics on canvas. Club Metronome, Burling ton, 233-6698. Through February 20. "PRO CESS": Ten artists become working residents of the Firehouse Gallery and

Through February 28. ALEX LEVAC: "Our Country," black-andwhite photographs of Israel and its people. Allen House, UVM, Burlington, 656-1153. Through February.

Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648. Through March 5. "A CELEBRATION OF YOUNG ARTISTS": Paintings, drawings and photographs by Chittenden County high school

MYESHA G 0SSELIN: New photographs. Red Square, Burlington, 865-0120. Through March 2. MELINDA W HITE: "The Lord is My

students. Daily Planet, Burlington, 862-9647. Through March. 2 0 0 4 INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOW: Works in mixed media by 14 Vermont artists. The Gallerie@Opaline, Burling ton, 860-4972. Through February. KATIE CAPRARA: Acrylic paintings. Speeder & Earl's, Pine St., Burlington,

Shepherd," sculptures, through February 24; and RICHARD CLARK:

985-9537. Through February. NICOLE TARNAY: "Colored Perceptions,"

Burlington, 864-0471. RACHEL TROOPER: New mixed-media

"Stations of the Cross," paintings, February 25 - April 9. Cathedral Arts Gallery, Cathedral Church of St. Paul,

works. Penny Cluse Cafe, Burlington, 651-8834. Through February 20.

oil paintings and mixed-Oafedia works. Rose St. Gallery, Burlington, 888-7279. . Through February 28. DIANE GABRIEL: "Prayers & Night

RICK DAVIS: "Antique Tins," a collection of graphically interesting containers from the early 20th century. Main Floor dis

mares," photographs, monotypes, etch ings and mixed-media works. 2nd Floor, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington,

play case, Fletcher Free Library, Burling ton, 865-7211. Through February 29. MICHAEL JEWELL: Abstract paintings; also, JOHN NORTH: Photographs; and

865-7166. Through February 27. "ARTS OF ASIA": Recent acquisitions from the Nalin, Duke and Pickens Collections;

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::c h a m p !a in v a lle y GILLIAN L. MCGARVEY: Paintings and photographs. Bristol Bakery, 388-3280. Through February. CLAIRE DACEY & DAN WELLS: "A Sense of Place," drawings, watercolors and photographs of Vermont landscapes. Starry Night Cafe, Ferrisburgh, 6586717. Through March 6. "ALWAYS IN SEASON': An exhibit show casing arts and crafts by Vermont folk artists, past and present. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 388-4964. Through November 13. "EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY": Paintings by Carmen Lomas Garza and William FI. Johnson that depict family traditions, Indian miniatures that illus trate scenes from epic adventures and story quilts by Faith Ringgold, through April 18; also, "ART N O W ": Contem porary images of fictive reality, through May 1; and "FEAST THE EYE, FOOL THE EYE": The Oscar and Maria Salzer

Collection, featuring some of the finest still life and trompe I'oeil paintings in the country, through March 28, College Museum of Art; and ANDREA COHEN: Abstract sculptures and installations made from common materials, Johnson Memorial Building, through March 6. Middlebury College, 443-6433. ROYCE DENDLER: "Antarxia," works in plastics. Sawmill Gallery, Monkton, 453-6975. Ongoing. "VERMONTERS IN THE CIVIL W AR": A collection of artifacts, letters, photo graphs and documents belonging to Vermonters during the American Civil War. Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 388-2117. Ongoing. ROD MACIVER: Wilderness-themed watercolors and gifts. Heron Dance Gallery, Middlebury, 388-4875. Ongoing

Gallerie@ Opaline in Burling to n . The show features work by 14 Vermont artists, including the in tricate watercolor by Susan Wahlrab entitled "Falling Down the Trail" (pictured). The annual Art's Alive Festival its e lf w ill be popping up on Church Street and environs in Ju ne.

.^ central W INTER ART SHOW: Photographs, oil and watercolor paintings and pastel works by members of the Art Paletteers. Milne Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 476-7550. Through March 26. GROUP EXHIBIT: Diverse works by 13 members of the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. Spotlight Gallery, Vermont Arts Council offices, Montpelier, 828-5422. Through February. RACHEL HOUSEMAN: "Color Therapy!" prints of original watercolors. Montpelier City Center, 223-5624. Through February. MICHAEL T. JERMYN: "In Search of Ancient Light," photographic images inspired by British painter J.M. Turner. Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, 223-7800. Through February. CAROLINE SAGANICH: "Animals and Abstracts," paintings. The Shoe Horn, Montpelier, 229-9409. -Through February. JAMES F. WOGLOM & JEN N IFE R BROWN: "The Lotus Connection," oil paintings and photographs, respective ly. Eclipse Theater, Waitsfield, 4967787. Through February. WILLIAMSTOWN MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL EXHIBIT: a show featuring mixed-media works by students, 2nd Floor Gallery; and "FAR OUT": A group exhibit featur ing "wild and wacky" art in all media, Main Gallery; and DAN MORAN: "From a Dark Abyss," drawings, 3rd Floor Gallery.

Studio Place Arts, Barre, 479-7069. Through February 28. "TH E TRUE STORY BEHIND THE W IZ ARD OF O Z " :A re-telling of the classic tale in watercolor and collage by Orange Center School 7th-graders; and "M ONTPELIER A RTISTS": A group exhibit featuring paintings and photo graphs. The Book Garden, Montpelier, 223-2824. Through March 2. ANDREW KLINE: "Geometry of Light," black-and-white photographs. Supreme Court Building, Montpelier, 828-4784. Through February. "QUILTING: STITCHING THE PAST, PRESENT & FU TU R E": A collection of 20 memorial quilts, special occasion quilts and multi-generational quilts and their stories, through July 27; and ELSA BORRERO: "Earth Dances 2002," evocative large-format Cybachrome photographs, Through March 7. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 728-3232. CARLEEN ZIMBALATTI: Floral digital prints. Salaam Boutique, Montpelier, 223-4300. Ongoing. KENNETH P. OCHAB: Landscape oil paintings, as well as works by other Vermont artists. Goldleaf Gallery, Waitsfield, 279-3824. Ongoing.

THE ART GALLERY: A group exhibit fea turing original oils, watercolors, sculp ture and giclee prints. The Art Gallery, Stowe, 253-6007. Ongoing.

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P R E V IEW S CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN: Lindsay Lohan stars in this coming-of-age comedy about a young woman who worries that Life as she knows it is over when her parents move from the Big Apple to a small town in New Jersey. Based on the book by Dylan Sheldon. With Adam Garda and Alison Pill. (90 min, PG)

EUROTRIP: From the folks who gave us Road Trip comes this comedy about friends who make a mad R-rated dash across the conti nent after an email snafu threatens to pull the plug on a love connection between a young American and his German pen pal. Scott Mechlowicz and Jacob Pitts star. Jeff Schaffer directs. (92 min, PG)

HARRIET THE SPY: As part of its Children's Cinema Series, the Savoy is offering a Saturday screening of the 1996 comedy about an 11-year-old girl who runs into trouble with her friends when her secret journal falls into the hands of the school snob. (100 min, PG)

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: James Caviezel stars in Mel Gibson's controversial and high ly anticipated account of the 12 hours pre ceding the crucifixion. Filmed in Italy and also featuring Monica Bellucci and Claudia Gerini. (90 min, R)

TEN: The latest from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiorastami offers a portrait of present-day Tehran through the story of a free-spirited divorcee who crisscrosses the city giving rides to people from all walks of life. Mania Akbari stars. (92 min, NR)

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very five years I seem to find myself leaving a theater after see ing a new Gus Van Sant film and saying to myself, “OK, nice to look at, but beyond that, so what?” Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (’93): “What was he thinking?” The shot-for-shot remake of Psycho (’98): “And the point is?” With 2003’s Elephant, the writer-director offered a cinema verite depiction of a Columbine-style shooting spree, and I have to say, “Why?” According to Van Sant, his aim was neither to solve the rid dle of school violence nor even to shed new light on the phe nomenon. “We didn’t want to explain anything,” the filmmak er has explained to interviewers. “As soon as you explain one thing, there are five other possibilities that are somehow negat ed because you explained it one way. There was also the issue of finding an explanation for something that doesn’t necessarily have an explanation.” Well, that explains that. So now we’ve got two things for which we aren’t able to account: school violence and Van Sant’s decision to devote a movie to the graphic portrayal of it. The title of the director’s latest refers to the sort of problem everyone is aware of but nobody wants to acknowledge. And from a strictly technical standpoint, Elephant comprises an experiment that’s interesting, if not groundbreaking. The direc tor’s purpose was to simulate a typical day in a generic American high school, and his assumption was apparently that a viewer’s response to the movie’s shocking final act would vary according to how much he or she accepts that these are real kids making their way through a day at a real school. So Van Sant used real kids and a real school. With the exception of three adults, all the performers are non-actors. O f course, the realism of other movies has been enhanced by means of the same approach — most recently, for example, City o f God. While other films have been made without profes sional actors, however, not many have been produced entirely without a script. To create the film’s Wisemanesque documentary feel, Van Sant handpicked 40 or so teenagers from a group of 3000 who answered a Portland, Oregon, casting call. He and his team interviewed those selected and made note of each young per son’s background and interests. Players were then assigned roles

race between a local plumber and the former president of the United States. Ray Romano and Gene Hackman star. ( I l l min, PG-13)

that the filmmakers felt matched their real-life personalities, and were given directions as to where they should stand or walk. They were instructed, in a nutshell, to talk to one anoth er about the sorts of things they would normally talk about. Van Sant then filmed them in various combinations from various vantage points and edited the result so that their story lines wove in and out of each other’s in a fashion similar to that pioneered by Richard Linklater in Slacker. Given their lack of training, nearly all the young performers do a commendable job. It’s the director who slips up by, among other things, dividing his cast into such predictable phyla: the good-looking jock and his homecoming-queen squeeze; the artsy guy; the clique of vacuous but popular chicks; the dorky girl who dreads gym class, and of course the pair of Clockwork OrangeASkt outcasts. While Van Sant may maintain that he hasn’t tried to account for what makes these walking time bombs tick, he’s appropriated familiar signifiers in compiling their profile, and that comes close to the same thing. One of the boys, for exam ple, is taunted by classmates. Away from school, the two play violent video games and watch archival Nazi footage on TV. Throw in a couple of devil-worship heavy-metal CDs and you’ve got the recipe for your standard disaffected adolescent male. Judges at Cannes gave Van Sant the Palme D ’Or for his insight. Palme Duh would have been more like it, if you ask me. Which brings us back to the question “Why?” Why has the filmmaker made a film about kids being mas sacred at school by other kids? To show us it’s a horrible thing? We already know it’s a horrible thing. To show us what it looks like? We already know all too well what it looks like. I’m not sure there isn’t something unsavory about a picture made for no other purpose than to build suspense and anticipation toward something so monstrous. How much difference is there, after all, between the killers gazing at video images of human beings getting mowed down and a moviegoer buying a ticket, killing 70 minutes and then doing the same thing? That’s the elephant in the room. That’s the problem it might make sense to mention. (7 )

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BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN B U S IN E S S * * 1" Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer team up for this sequel to the surprise 2002 hit. This time around, the shop is threatened by a greedy corporation with plans to move in and "regentrify" the neighborhood. Queen Latifah costars. Kevin Rodney Sullivan directs. (106 min, PG-13)

BIG F I S H * * * * Tim Burton's latest may be his best film yet. Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney give faultless performances in this imaginative and moving adaptation of Daniel Wallace's novel about a son trying to get to the bottom of his dying father's larg er-than-life life story. Jessica Cange and Danny DeVito costar. (110 min, PG-13)

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relatively recent Vermonter — from Texas by way of Florida — Alexis Holloway has already made her mark on Burlington’s cultural scene. The 33-yearold filmmaker and film impresario is about to produce the fourth annual Estrogen Fest. From February 19 through 22 at the FlynnSpace, the free event will offer 13 motion pictures of various lengths, all either by or about women.

The 9 2-minute documen tary concerns the Brazilian superstar of the 1940s who gave fruit a ripe reputation in Hollywood. Holloway also brings live perform ances into the mix. At this year’s “Opening Night Broadway Musical Revue: Exploring the Lives of Women in Musical Theatre,” six vocalists — Miriam Bernardo, Sarah Cohen, Jenni fer Ellis, Erin Fehr, Colleen Horan and Hannah Wall — present the work of composers such as Kurt Weill, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim. “It’s totally crazy, I know,” Holloway confesses, referring to the scale of the revue, which is directed by a New York actor named Shawn Lipenski. But this is a movie column, so, beg ging Broadway’s pardon, the focus will

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remain cinematic. Estrogen Fest began in 2001 with the subtitle A Weekend of Women’s Films. Holloway, then a stu dent at Burlington College, dreamed up the idea as part of her research for a project on domestic violence. “I found a catalogue from a group called Women Making Movies that had all these things I wanted to see,” she recalls. “We had a special arrangement with them for that first year to show the films for only $40 each.” Along with her pal Matt McDermott, Holloway tapped sponsors who each underwrote the cost of one screening. About 200 audience mem bers appeared for the three-day debut — enough of a success to prompt a repeat in 2002. “We made the mistake of holding the second one at Champlain College,” Holloway says. “They have a great audi torium, but parking is impossible. Even so, we drew 250 people. That was the first time we had performance art and guest speakers.” In 2003, 500 people attended Estrogen Fest at FlynnSpace. “We showed 16-mm film, which was new,” Holloway points out. “It was at the same time as Mardi Gras, so people were already downtown. This year, by coincidence, it’s Mardi Gras again on our weekend, and we’ve expanded to four days.” The fare is eclectic, from Your Name Is Cellulite, Gail Noonan’s ani mated satirical short on how the adver tising industry idealizes beauty, to

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sions of the same story. Maybe Holloway is fascinated by numerical challenges. Her 12-minute Attraction, also on the Estrogen Fest schedule, emerged from a six-month period in which six local filmmakers each spend only one month writing, casting, shooting and editing a short project. The group, which calls itself 6 x 6 (pronounced six by six), is halfway to completion; the topics were chosen three months ago. They are sacrifice, timing, deception, reflection and faith, as well as attraction. Holloway’s plot centers on a woman who has just bro ken up with a boyfriend. She walks into a bar and starts to cry, then reveals details of the ruined relationship through flashbacks. With a 10-person staff, predomi nantly made up of volunteers, the festi val’s $17,000 budget is mostly a mirage. “We’ve never actually raised that much,’ Holloway admits. “It just means that I don’t get paid.” That’s one numerical challenge she could probably do without. ® For more info about Estrogen Fest, call 660-4848 or visit wwiu.estrogenfest.net.

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'SALSALINA' PRACTICE: Work on your sensuous nightclub routine at this weekly Latin dance ses sion. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 899-2422. DUNYANA: The performing-arts troupe celebrates female beauty and strength through American tribal belly dancing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 865-7211.

drama PLAY READING: Community members convene to discuss upcoming summer productions, read scenes and share interpretations. Weston Playhouse, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 824-8167.

film 'SHATTERED GLASS': This film tells the true story of a journalist who works his way up the ranks at the New

Republic writing phony stories. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:15 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422. 'THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE': In this animated French flick, a world-class cyclist is kidnapped by the Mafia during the Tour de France. Catamount Center for the Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600.

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words W RITING GROUP: Penmen and women generate ideas and get instant feedback at a weekly free-write ses sion. Kept Writer Bookshop, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242. 'FOOD FOR THOUGHT GROUP: Veteran war corre spondent Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is the topic on the table at the Waterbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. CANADIAN CULTURE SERIES: Bookworms learn about our northern neighbor through a discussion of Roy MacGregor's Canoe Lake. Durick Library Special Collections, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2400.

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READING & YOGA PROGRAM: Kids ages 2-5 stretch

at the Library & Learning Center, Johnson State

their bodies and minds under the direction of a

College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356.

certified YogaKids instructor. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

P U LITZER SER IES : In this book group, folks talk

about what makes John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces prize-worthy. Morristown

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FATHER & CHILD STORYTIME: Men and their off spring bond over books at the S. Burlington

Elementary School, Morrisville, 7:30 p.m. Free.

See clubdates in Section A.

Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. POETRY JAM: Teenage wordsmiths swap verse at

Info, 888-5851.

the Bee's Knees Cafe, Morrisville, 6:30 p.m. Free.

talks

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Studio, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1683.

Theatre production. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 9:30 & 11 a.m. $12. Info, 518-523-2512.

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BURLINGTON PEACE V IG IL : Activists stand togeth

financial and legal decisions faced by families caring for loved ones with dementia. Fanny Allen

drama KAM IKAZE COMEDY: The local improv troupe takes cues from the crowd at Nectar's, Burlington, 8

Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, ALZHEIMER'S TALK: This lecture addresses the

Info, 518-297-3202.

adventures of a spunky orphan determined to win over her new family in this Arts Power Touring

Railroad historic site. Memorial Lounge, Waterman

Anthony's Church Hall, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $6.

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to price their work at Grace Pomerleau Furniture HISTORY TA LK : Rokeby Museum director Jane

dance LIN E DANCING: Show off your fancy footwork at St.

'ANNE OF GREEN GABLES': Children follow the

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p.m. Free. Info, 863-0091. 'OUT OF ORDER': In Ray Cooney's contemporary

er in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

British farce, a freak accident ruins two parlia

Top of Church Street, Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m.

mentarians' romantic rendezvous. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 583-1674.

Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 5.

Health Care, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1022.

SENATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE:

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: At this meeting, league education committee chair Vee Gordon asks "Is there room for civics in Vermont schools?" Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon.

explore themes of power and human interaction

Vermont state officials' terms. Mayo Center, St.

in three short plays. Memorial Hall Theater, Essex

Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2272.

Center, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 878-9109.

NEIGHBORHOOD ZONING M EETING: Burlington

Free. Info, 657-0242.

residents brainstorm about land use, planning and

ENERGY FORUM: Power people focus on how to

development issues. Champlain Elementary School

meet Vermont's energy needs and maintain its

gymnasium, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info,

economic and environmental health. Vergennes

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Opera House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-3430.

ONE-ACT EVEN IN G: The Essex Community Players

At this public hearing, citizens consider extending

film T H E TR IPLETS OF B E L L E V IL L E ': See February 18. T H E EVENT': In this film, an inquiry into one man's death becomes a celebration of his life. Loew

TOWN MEETING: Civic folks discuss the 2004 elec

Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,

tion and whether their vote can "stop the war."

kids

Contois Auditorium, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

'MOVING & GROOVING': Youngsters ages 2-5 dance

EXTREM E MOVIE NIGHT: Teens and young adults

BURLINGTON BREAD INFO SESSION: Learn about

and play at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington,

a different kind of dough at Radio Bean Coffee house, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 951-5174.

11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. WESTFORD LIB R A R Y PLAYGROUP: Children gather for games, songs and stories at the Westford Library, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639. PRE-SCHOOL STORYTIME: Tots take in their

puppets and crafts. Brownell Library, Essex *

WATERBURY LIB R A R Y STORYTIME: Tykes ages 2 and under get hooked on books at the Waterbury Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. BURNHAM LIBR A R Y STORYTIME: Preschoolers get an early lesson on the value of reading. Burnham

helped th e "re co ve ry m o ve m e n t" g e t on

Living Room, Burlington Town Square, 6 p.m.

its fe e t. A u th o r Susan Cheever, w ho

Free. Info, 496-9691.

described her ow n stru g g le s w ith a lco h o l in her m em oir, Note in a B o ttle , il lu

R E IK I CLIN IC: Find out how it feels to center your

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COMMUNITY DARKROOM: Shutterbugs develop film

Name Is B ill. Based on le tte rs , d ia ry

history and current events of the Emerald Isle.

discover the fun of picture books, songs, rhymes,

check out on-screen kitesurfing action at the

m in ates th e im p e rfe c t life o f A lco h o lics

and print pictures at the Center for Photographic Studies, Bane, 6-9 p.m. $8 per hour. Info, 479-4127.

AN DATH UAINE: This culture club focuses on the

BROWNELL LIB R A R Y STORYTIME: Preschoolers

n a ture and people's a b ility to change. Yet fe w are fa m ilia r w ith th e man who

art

Bristol, 5-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 453-2627.

10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

A lco h o lics Anonym ous re v o lu tio n iz e d th e way so cie ty sees a d d ic tio n , hum an

etc chi through ancient touch therapy. Reiki Clinic,

favorite tales at the Pierson Library, Shelburne,

Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

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Ri Ra Irish Pub, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info,

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SUSAN CHEEVER: The acclaimed author discusses Afy

'BUSINESS A FTER HOURS' EVEN T: Businesspeople

p o rte d him th ro u g h th e m , and th e good t h a t e v e n tu a lly resu lted .

cofounder Bill Wilson. See calendar spotlight.

Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $6-12. Info, 863-3489, ext.

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b io g ra p h y d is tills W ilson's highs and ro c k -b o tto m lows, th e people w ho sup

Name Is Bill, the biography of Alcoholics Anonymous

schmooze in a casual setting. The Waiting Room,

e n trie s and hundreds o f in te rv ie w s , her

Borders, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. 'BOOKED FOR LUNCH': Listeners digest a light

MACINTOSH COMPUTER GROUP: Apple users talk

meal, as well as information from children's

Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info,

tech at the Gailer School, Shelburne, 7 p.m. Free.

author Tanya Lee Stone. Fletcher Free Library,

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Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 863-4312.

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talks TRAVEL TALK: Jeanne Wisner is your tour guide on this armchair excursion to Lhasa, Tibet. Bixby Info, 877-6392.

entitled "Terrain," student and guest artists move

Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 7 p.m. Free.

to award-winning contemporary works. See calen

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NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING ASSEMBLY: Ward 5

Memorial Free Library, Vergennes, 7:30 p.m. Free.

residents focus on ways to improve their sur

rounds. Champlain Elementary School, 7 p.m.

KANAN MAKIYA: The Iraqi National Congress advisor

Free. Info, 864-7573.

and author of Republic of Fear talks about "identity,

etc

Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5795. BIODYNAMIC GARDENING TALK: Enosburg farmers Doug and Sara Flack dig into a discussion about Jeffersonville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 644-5391. VERMONT CONSULTANTS NETWORK: Attorney

Performance, S. Burlington, 7:30 a.m. $10-15. Info, 496-1000.

a fun, friendly, toy-filled atmosphere. Hinesburg Town Hall, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 453-3038.

food. ART Theater, Hannaford Career Center,

the Brook School, Williston, 7 p.m. Free. Info,

Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 352-4204. 'THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES': This performance of national campaign to stop violence against women.

calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Jonathan B. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law

shows. Various locations, times & prices. Info,

SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME:

888-477-9955.

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Burlington, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Parish Quartet gets strung out on themes and counterpoints from Bach's "Art of Fugue." Elley-

sensory stimulation and recreation at the Family

Long Music Center, Colchester, 8 p.m. $24-27.

Center, Montpelier, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 828-8765.

Info, 862-7352. WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyat, an 80-year-old balaphon master

Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8765.

from Guinea, joins the student ensemble in a pro gram entitled, "Music of the Griots." Spaulding

sport

Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,'

BURLINGTON WOMEN'S RUGBY CLUB: Ladies

Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10. Info, 603-646-2422. JEZ LOWE: The British singer-songwriter croons' about working-class folk. United Methodist Church,

Colchester, 5:30-7:30^ p.m. Free. Info, 879-6745.

Middlebury, 8 p.m. $18-20. Info, 388-0216.

VERMONT PADDLERS CLUB: White-water kayakers roll around in the Mt. Abraham Union High School

JOEL SACHS: This pianist keys in on John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes." Concert Hall, Center for

pool, Bristol, 8 ,p.m. $15. Info, 453-7879. CROSS-COUNTRY SKI: Touring on nearby trails is

the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info,

activism

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

trations. Catamount Center for the Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600.

QUILT GROUP: Partake in patchwork fun at the Family Center of Washington County, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-8757, ext. 100.

talks 'RAPTORS IN FL IG H T : Orno-enthusiasts learn about the natural history, ecology and adapta tions of owls, hawks and falcons, and watch a live flying demo. Waitsfield Elementary School, 7 p.m. Free, Info, 496-3551, ext. 17.

SULLIVAN' TALK: Music theorist Stan

Greenberg looks at the social commentary in Act I I of HMS Pinafore. Faith United Methodist Church, S. Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 863-5980. 'W IN TER LIFE' TALK: Wilderness expert Seth Gibson recounts his trip to the Cree village of Ouje Bougoumou, north of Montreal. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 244-7037.

DANCE SOCIAL: Singles and couples of all ages

PRE-SCHOOL STORYTIME: See February 18, 10:15

learn the basics of ballroom, swing and Latin

p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. 'A SOLDIER'S LIFE': In this living-history presenta tion, a "Revolutionary War sergeant" talks to young

Library, Vergennes, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2211. 'S C H 00L H 0U S E ROCK LIV E!': The Barre Players stage this high-energy musical based on the 1970s cartoon series. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 476-8188. KALEIDOSCOPE FUN: Families explore reflections and symmetry making optical toys. Montshire

etc ESTROGEN FEST: See February 19, 7-11 p.m. $5. MONTREAL HIGHLIGHTS FESTIVAL: See February 19.

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kids

dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7 p.m. $10.

rehearsals. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30

649-2200.

dance

BURLINGTON PEACE VIG IL: See February 18.

Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. DRAMA CLUB: Hams meet for theater games and

Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m. $5. Info,

art

443-6433.

sure to cure your cabin fever. Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 9:45 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2647.

'THE FOG OF WAR': In this documentary, former

'GILBERT

sit still for their favorite tales. Waterbury Branch

fought for American independence. Bixby Memorial

Also, see exhibitions in Section A.

Also, see clubdates in Section A. VERMONT MOZART FESTIVAL: The world-class

WATERBURY LIBRARY STORYTIME: Preschoolers

sters about the challenges faced by those who

film explains the contexts that influenced his deci

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ing at the South Burlington Library, 10 a.m. Free.

scrum for fun at Fort Ethan Allen Field,

School, S. Royalton, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 831-1309.

sions during the Kennedy and Johnson adminis

Youngsters ages 3-5 get together for easy listen

bond through fun and games. Family Center,

Eve Ensleris award-winning show is part of a

formance art and films celebrate girl power. See

ANIMAL FEEDING: See February 18.

DADS' PLAYGROUP: Fathers and their offspring

grandson with unsolicited advice and plenty of

cators find out about certification programs at

photo exhibits, cooking demos and fireworks/light

10 a.m.

11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.., HINESBURG PLAY GROUP: Little ones let loose in

Italian-American grandparents overwhelm their

street performers, comedy cabarets, dance parties,

BURNHAM LIBRARY STORYTIME: See February 18,

Gigi Weisman. Fletcher pree Library, Burlington,

this Middlebury Community Players production,

celebration features children's entertainment,

a.m. $5. Info, 865-7558. WASHINGTON COUNTY PLAYGROUP: Tykes enjoy

with Robert Resnik and his fiddle-playing friend

Various locations, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6111.

$10-12. Info, 660-4848. MONTREAL HIGHLIGHTS FESTIVAL: This 11-night

kids

Info, 828-8765. The United Church, Northfield,

POKER GROUP: Card sharks gather for fun and games.

ESTROGEN FEST: Three days of femme-focused per

on service-industry management. Network

February 19. WASHINGTON COUNTY PLAYGROUP: See February 19, Family Center, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m. Free.

'M USIC W ITH ROBERT AND G IG I': Kids sing along

'OVER THE RIVER & THROUGH THE WOODS': In

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Mike Gadue gets down to business with a lecture

SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See

9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 828-8765.

drama ONE-ACT EVENING: See February 19.

TEACHER CERTIFICATION MEETING: Aspiring edu

eco-conscious cultivation. 158 Main Restaurant,

the ice at Leddy Park Arena, Burlington, 10-11

Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 443-6433.

'OUT OF ORDER': See February 19.

memory and democracy in post-war Iraq." Dana

TTTY BITTY SKATING': Pint-size bladers take to

DANCE COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY: In a program

ed in zoning issues congregate at Contois

JO N GAILM 0R: The Vermont singer-songwriter gets listeners of all ages grooving with family-friendly tunes. Rochester High School auditorium, 7:30

a.m. ANIMAL FEEDING: See February 18.

p.m. $8. Info, 767-3161.

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Americana. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 728-6464. REBECCA PADULA & KAREN MCFEETERS: The

acoustic guitarist and keyboardist share the stage at the Music Box, Craftsbury, 7 p.m. $8. Info, 586-7533.

dance USABDA DANCE: Ballroom dancers of all abilities merengue and waltz the night away. Elley-Long Music Center, Colchester, 7 p.m. $8-12. Info, 878-5784.

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drama 'OUT OF ORDER': See February 19. ONE-ACT EVENING: See February 19, 2 & 8 p.m. 'OVER THE RIVER & THROUGH THE WOODS': See February 20.

film 'THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE': See February 18, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9 p.m. $5. Info, 603646-2422. 'THE FOG OF WAR': See February 20, 7 & 9 p.m. 'CASA DE LOS BABYS': In this film, six American women wait for adoptions to go through at a South American motel. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

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STOWE DERBY: This challenging race combines down

the struggle for gay marriage in Vermont with a

the elements to learn about plants' and animals'

bassoonist Janet Polk, clarinet player Karen

hill and cross-country swooshing. Stowe Mountain

reading from his book, Civil Wars. Briggs Carriage

cold-weather adaptations. Highland Lodge,

Beachum and pianist Martin Perry meld musical

Bookstore, Brandon, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Greensboro, 2 p.m. $6.50-8.50. Info, 533-2647.

talents on works by Saint Saens, Poulenc and

DAVID MOATS: The Middlebury journalist recounts

SNOWSHOE/NATURE WALK: Outdoorsy folks brave

SNOWSHOE W ALK /RU N: Fast-paced winter walkers

kids

take steps toward the finish line at Palmer's Sugar House and Maple Trails, Shelburne, 10:30 p.m.

ANIMAL FEEDING: See February 18. 'SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIV E!': See February 20, 2 & 7 p.m. 'SATURDAY STORIES': Librarians read from popular picture books at the Burnham Memorial Library,

Donations. Info, 985-5054. NORDIC WEEKEND: Cross-country skiers glide along

stories at Borders, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info,

Strauss. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College,

Nordic types take to the trails around Highland

Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

Lodge, Greensboro, 10:30 a.m. $6.50-8.50. Info,

'JAZZ ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON': Burlington gui tarist Nick Cassarino sits in with saxophonist Matt

229-0153. GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB SNOWSHOE: Saunter up

the groomed trails and backcountry paths at

Center for the Arts, St. Johnsbury, 4 p.m. $7.

the steeps of Stowe Pinnacle with members of the Burlington section. Meet at the UVM visitors'

Stowe Mountain Resort, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $25.

Info, 748-2600.

parking lot, Burlington. Freer Info, 863-2433.

Info, 496-4990.

Colchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. BORDERS STORYTIME: Little bookworms listen to

Resort, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7704. GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB CROSS-COUNTRY SKI:

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Clancy and pianist Phyllis Isaacson. Catamount

dance

etc

DANCE COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY: Andrea Olsen's

ESTROGEN FEST: See February 19, 1-9 p.m. $5.

865-2711. BILLINGS FARM ACTIVITY: Parents and kids create

ESTROGEN FEST: See February 19, 1-11 p.m. $5.

ensemble performs modern moves in an unusual

MONTREAL HIGHLIGHTS FESTIVAL: See February 19.

studio/gallery setting to raise funds for

MAH JONGG: Bring your set and your game face to

stories by looking at family photos. Billings Farm

MARDI GRAS PARADE AND BLOCK PARTY: Church

Middlebury Town Hall Theatre. Gallery-in-the-

& Museum, Woodstock, 10-11:15 a.m. $5-7. Info, 457-2355. CHILDREN'S STORYTIME: Youngsters take in their favorite tales at the Book Rack & Children's Pages, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 872-2627. HOMESTEAD PROGRAM: Dads and kids explore

Street becomes Bourbon Street with fantastic floats, merry pranksters, beaded booty, New Orleans moon pies and tunes by moe. See calen dar spotlight. Church Street, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2739. 'A DAY IN THE 1 8 9 0 HOUSE': Experience 19th-centu

Vermont history through stories, music, crafts and

ry life through farm chores, traditional activities and

nature activities. Ethan Allen Flomestead,

old-time games. Billings Farm & Museum, Wood-

Burlington, 11 a.m. $2.50-5. Info, 865-4556.

stock, 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. $40-55. Info, 457-2355.

LITTLE THEATER FOR YOUTH: Young hams

'OWL PROWL': Learning about Vermont's nocturnal

rehearse for upcoming productions of America's

hunters is bound to be a hoot. Missisquoi National

Tallest Tales and Jane Eyre. North Country Cultural

Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info,

Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Ages 8-12, 10 a.m. - noon. Ages 13-16, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604. 'TREASURE H U N T': The No Strings Marionette Company uses hand-held actors to tell the story of a young boy in search of excitement on the

868-4781. NOFA CONFERENCE: Workshops, theater, chiTdren's activities and live bluegrass by the Cleary

p.m. $35-45. Info, 434-4122. 'W IN TER WONDERLAND' CELEBRATION: This fam

Randolph, 11 a.m. $5. Info, 728-6464.

ily festival features seasonal songs and stories

creative kids how to make small books. Artists Mediums, Williston, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 879-1236.

sport GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB SNOWSHOE: Icicle forma tions abound on this challenging trek on the Laraway Mountain Loop. Meet at the UVM visitors' center parking lot, Burlington. Free. Info, 863-1469. GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB SNOWSHOE: Don cram pons for a slippery ascent up Mt. Mansfield. 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3375.

862-5125. ■ TAX ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS: Tax reps make it

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easy for elders to get their due at the Burnham Library, Colchester, every 45 minutes from 10 a.m.

'OVER THE RIVER & THROUGH THE WOODS':

See

about Earth-based spirituality. Clementwood Spiritual Life Center, Rutland, 1:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-0665. 'DAY OF W ELLNESS': Reiki, healing touch, yoga, Tai

- 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

February 20, 2 p.m. ONE-ACT EVENING: See February 19, 2 p.m.

FLEA MARKET: Grab great deals on new-to-you

film

BURLINGTON SCRABBLE CLUB: Serious spellers

goods at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Barre, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1961.

'THE FOG OF WAR': See February 20. 'SILEN T CLOWNS' SE RIES: Film fans take in early comedies The Im m igrant, Cops and The Music Box. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center,

Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Brothers celebrate organic agriculture. Vermont Technical College, Randolph, 8:45 a.m. - 5:15

open seas. Chandler Center for the Arts, BOOK-MAKING DEMO: Artist Sabina Evarts shows

Temple Sinai, S. Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info,

Field, Brandon, 1 p.m. $25. Info, 388-1436.

art See exhibitions in Section A.

talks . 'PLACES TO PLAY': Natural resources expert Muriel More focuses on the development of Burlington's

engage in friendly competition at the Allenwood Senior Living Center, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6192.

M O N .23 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. ONION RIVER CHORUS: Community crooners tune up at the Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $25/semester. Info, 476-4300. ART DEQUASIE: The Vermont pianist presents an evening of ragtime tunes by Scott Joplin. Elley-

Chi, pilates, hypnotherapy, aura photography and

public park system and its link to national trends.

clairvoyant counsel set you on the path to well

S. Burlington Municipal Building, 1:30 p.m. Free.

Long Music Center, Colchester, 8 p.m. $5. Info,

being. Beyond Infinity, Brandon, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Info, 658-1047.

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'THE FOG OF WAR': See February 20. BURLINGTON FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE: Aspiring moviemakers trade shots and discuss

sport

possible group projects. Locations vary, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 598-2124.

FLOOR HOCKEY CLUB: Practice your puck work with

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words BOOK GROUP: Maryse Conde's Tituba, Black Witch of Salem prompts a conversation about honor. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. 'RELIGION MATTERS' SERIES: Lit lovers engage in a faith-based discussion with inspiration from Chaim Potok's The Chosen. Latham Memorial Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

talks 'INTERESTING PERSONALITIES' SERIES: UVM pro fessor emeritus of art history Bill Lipke explores how "taste" is defined and acquired. Faith United Methodist Church, S. Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 86 3-5980.

kids BURNHAM LIBRARY STORYTIME: See February 18, 10 a.m. ANIMAL FEEDING: See February 18. 'ITTY BITTY SKATING': See February 19. WATERBURY LIBRARY STORYTIME: See February 20, Waterbury Main Library. FAMILY SING-ALONG: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. GYM FOR TOTS: Youngsters burn energy running, jumping and hula-hooping at the Charlotte r Community School, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 425-4144. CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP: Children and their caregivers gather for crafts, reading and music-making. Charlotte Community School Cafeteria, 9-10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5096. MAD RIVER KIDS CHORALE REHEARSAL: Vocally inclined youngsters mouth off at the Waitsfield Elementary School. Kindergarten-^rd’ grade, 4 p.m. 4th-8th grade, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781. "WARM FINGERS': Young philanthropists make fleece mittens to donate to COTS. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ADINKRA CLOTH-MAKING: African block-prints inspire amateur artists at the Waterbury Public Library, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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warm while they listen to Jane Yolen's classic story in the lunar light. Shelburne Farms, 6:30

Dartmouth College, Flanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $26. Info, 603-646-2422.

p.m. $5-6. Info, 985-8686, ext. 41. 'FROM THE DESK OF ALLISTER P. MACMILLAN': In this Firefly Productions musical, a singing army action-figure and a disheveled toy lizard take the audience on a tour inside a boy's desk. Richmond Library, 3 p.m. $7. Info, 644-2542.

sport MEN'S PICK-UP BASKETBALL: Guys gather for free-throws and fun at Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $3. Info, 864-0123.

BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See February 18. RADICAL CHEERLEADERS: This protest perform ance-squad practices aerobic activism at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0980. CO-OP HOUSING ORIENTATION: Folks interested in creating an affordable, resident-run community convene at Burlington Community Land Trust, 179 S. Winooski Ave., 11:45 a.m. & 5:45 p.m. Free.

etc MONTREAL HIGHLIGHTS FESTIVAL: See February 19. SHIATSU MASSAGE DEMO: Lucrezia Mangione shows and tells how a little bit of rubbing can go a long way. Lincoln Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2665.

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dance LINE DANCING: See February 19, CB's Party Place, Essex Junction, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $7. Info, 878-5522.

10 a.m. ANIMAL FEEDING: See February 18. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See

SWING DANCING: Movers of all ages and abilities dance at the Greek Orthodox Church, Burlington,

February 19. Babies-age 3, 10 a.m. WASHINGTON COUNTY PLAYGROUP: See February

7:30-9:30 p.m. $3. Info, 860-7501. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE: Anyone with the will

19, Faith United Methodist Church, Plainfield, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 828-8765. ADINKRA CLOTH-MAKING: See February 23. TODDLER STORYTIME: Tykes take in stories, songs and finger-plays at the Burnham Memorial Library,

to jig can learn lively, traditional steps at the Essex Junction Congregational Church, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4. Info, 879-7618.

Colchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. ECHO STORYTIME: Young explorers discover the

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words DAVID MOATS: See February 21, Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

863-4231. PAUSE CAFE: Novice and fluent French speakers practice and improve their linguistics — en frangais. Borders Cafe, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1346.

talks 'ENERGY SPEAKERS' SERIES: Vermont's leading energy-policy makers get charged up about the state's power issues. John Dewey Lounge, Old

Also, see clubdates in Section A. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS: Male music-makers rehearse barbershop singing and quartetting at St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6465. MARDI GRAS PARTY: Celebrate Fat Tuesday with Zydeco, r&b, country and blues tunes by Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 518-523-2512. PERU NEGRO: The 22-person troupe creates world rhythms using improvised instruments such as wooden crates, donkey jaws and church tithing

fixed to prevent surplus births. Green Mountain Animal Defenders, Shelburne, call for times. $35.

Mill, UVM, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7375. VBSR NETWORKING MEETING: Socially responsible businesspeople learn about Chroma Technology Corp. from CEO Paul Millman. Chroma Technology Corp., Rockingham, 5:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 862-8347. MOUNTAIN LION TALK: Fish and wildlife biologist Doug Blodgett talks about the elusive catamount. Lincoln Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2665.

Public Library, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. SCRAPBOOK MAKING: Kids stitch, cut, glue and fold their way to a hardcover memory-keeper. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Info, 878-2230. WINTER SHELTER BUILDING: Hands-on types par ticipate in community construction at the Nordic Center, Bolton Valley Resort, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2945. STARGAZING: Amateur astronomers scope out con stellations in the winter night sky. VINS North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 229-6206.

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'THE FOG OF WAR': See February 20.

BURLINGTON WRITERS' GROUP: Bring pencil, paper and the will to be inspired to the Daily Planet, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info,

Info, 862-6244.

Waterbury Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. SPAY DAY USA: Pet owners get their furry friends

BROWNELL LIBRARY STORYTIME: See February 18. Toddlers, 9:10 a.m. Preschoolers, 10 a.m. BURNHAM LIBRARY STORYTIME: See February 18,

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BURLINGTON WOMEN'S RUGBY CLUB: See February 19. CO-ED VOLLEYBALL: Adults bump, set and spike at a weekly pick-up game. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $3. Info, 864-0123.

film 'THE FOG OF WAR': See February 20. 'MYSTIC RIVER': Three boyhood friends are haunted by the past when one of their daughters ns mur dered. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:45 & 9:30

activism BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See February 18. ANTIWAR COALITION: Citizens opposed to the

p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

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etc MONTREAL HIGHLIGHTS FESTIVAL: See February 19. LAUGHING CLUB: Local yoga instructor and author Carol Winfield touts the untapped healing power of yukking it up. Union Station, Burlington, 8-

words WRITING GROUP: See February 18. 'YOUNG & OLD' SERIES: Newberry Award-winner Karen Hesse's young adult novel, Out of the Dust, is the topic of conversation at the Bridport

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acting AUDITION WORKSHOPS BY CATALYST THE ATRE CO.: Four separate workshops: February 11, 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m., February 15, 22, after noon time TBD. McClure Multigenerational Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. $20/session, $35 for one group session and one solo coaching session, $25 for solo coach ing session by appt. Info, 862-2287 or catalyst @gmavt.net. "Be seen, be heard, be remem

bered, be cast!" A “soup to nuts" workshop designed fo r regulars and newcomers o f all ages. Class covers a realistic understanding o f the dynamics o f the audition process, guideposts on attitude adjustments and choosing materials, and guidance on winning headshots and resumes. Workshop leader Veronica Lopez is a professional actress/director/producer who is a resource fo r casting directors and producers o f stage/film/video/audio in search o f local talent. FILM ACTING CLASSES: Classes in Burlington, Tuesday evenings or afternoons, and Rutland, Thursday evenings. Visit www.thoreast.com or call 802-318-8555. Learn the technique o f

"Hollywood's most sought-after acting coach," (Movieline, 11/02). Taught by Jock MacDonald in conjunction with Cameron Thor Studios, whose clients include Faye Dunaway, Sharon Stone, David Arquette and Cameron Diaz.

art ARTS AND CRAFTS CLASSES: Studio Place Arts (SPA), a community art center that provides art education activities for Central and Northern Vermonters, has an exciting array of classes and teachers during its winter term. SPA has adult workshops and classes in Waterless Lithography with Davis Teselle, Carving Stone with George Kurjanowicz, Oil Painting with Armond Poulin, Watercolor

certified to make a mean martini, margarita, Manhattan or mai tai.

childbirth HYPNOBIRTHING: Classes now forming for 10hour series. Four-week evening series or

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eight-week lunchtime series. Burlington. $175. To register, call Nan Reid, 660-0420.

Learn self-hypnosis and summon your natural birthing instincts. INFANT MASSAGE: Communicate your love

cooking COOKING CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG Dumpling Dim Sum, Wednesday,

through touch — learn to massage your

March 10, 6-8:30 p.m. $30. Tropical SouthEast

baby. Group or private classes in your home

Asian Supper, Wednesday, March 24, 6-8:30

available. $100 for three classes, including a

p.m. $30. Vegetarian Indian Dinner,

book, massage oil and informational hand

Wednesday, April 7, 6-8:30 p.m. $30. CVU,

outs. Info or to register, 864-5840. Infa nt

Hinesburg. Limited class sizes. Register, 482-

massage is a wonderful way to make a deep and lasting connection with your new baby. Tamra Yandow, the instructor, is a pediatric physical therapist and Certified Infa nt Massage Instructor. She brings her extensive knowledge o f infant development into her work as an infant massage instructor.

7194, eddie@cvuhs.org or fin d fu ll descriptions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12.

craft CRAFT CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Five week classes: Batik on

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Silk, $65. Basic Drawing, $65. Container

CLIMBING FOR BEGINNERS: Every other

$38. Flower Arranging (Contemporary), $38.

Gardening, $25. Flower Arranging (Oriental),

gwinnad@yahoo.com. Great fo r all ages,

12-1 p.m. Climb High, 2438 Shelburne Rd.,

class sizes. Register, 482-7194, eddie@cvuhs

Shelburne. Free. Pre-register, or call 985-5055 for details. An introductory class taught by

women fo r women in a comfortable, no-pres sure environment. Learn the basics o f climbing on Climb High's natural climbing wall.

on the relationship between math and art,

Multi-Track Recording. CVU, Hinesburg.

drawing superstar faces and more. SPA class

Limited class sizes. Register, 482-7194,

astrology WANT TO GET A SERIOUS GRASP ON THE LAN GUAGE OF ASTROLOGY? An excellent in-depth beginning: "Introduction to Astrology with Laurie Farrington," nine-week class starts February 24. $210. Intimate class size, with personal perspective. Info, 879-1147. Intensive

introduction to the basic concepts and tools o f Western natal astrology. The knowledge learned here will be greatly beneficial to anyone wishing to understand themselves and those around them.

6757 or visit www.FirstStepDance.com.

Somewhere, sometime, you've been to a party and seen that one couple who could dance, really dance. Wouldn't you like to learn how to dance as well? Dancing is a great way to meet new people, so come on out and try it! GET STRONG, FEEL BEAUTIFUL! LEARN AMERICAN TRIBAL BELLY DANCE: New

Basics; Getting to Know Your Car, $70. Cake

tions), Powerpoint, Computer Guts, Digital

3648. Learn or advance in a fin e craft with instruction by skilled professionals.

Montpelier. $40/general or $20/student for four weeks. No partner required. Info, 598-

(sharp). Old North End Storefront, 12 North

more. There are children's and teen classes

and children's classes. For more info, 985-

Foxtrot and Tango. 8 p.m. Continue with Waltz, Foxtrot and Tango. VFW, 1 Pioneer St.,

St., Burlington. Info, 863-3005 or email

Digital Camera Use (choose from three sec

in woodworking, clay, fiber, stained glass

Learn the basics of Rumba, Cha Cha and Merengue. 7 p.m. Learn the basics of Waltz,

Fly Rod Construction, $35. Automotive Repair

Page), Organizing My Computer, Publisher,

7166 or visit www.burlingtoncityarts.com. SHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL: Ongoing classes

MONTPELIER: Thursdays, March 4-25, 6 p.m.

Beginners, $65. Scrapbooking (Winter), $15.

Eggs with Sofia Shatikivska, Exploring

Burlington. For brochure and info, call 865-

Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

tion to climbing in a no-pressure environment on Climb High's natural climbing wall. Fun fo r anyone curious about rock climbing. WOMEN'S CLIMBING: Every other Sunday,

Artistic Movements with Janice Walrafen, and

Church St. and Studio 250, 250 Main St.,

Continue with Waltz, Foxtrot and Tango. The

$65. Quilting for Beginners, $65. Crochet for

Decorating II , $40. CVU, Hinesburg. Limited

.org or fin d fu ll descriptions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12. SHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL: Learn from a

eddie@cvuhs.org or fin d fu ll descriptions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12. INTERNET EXPLORATION: Mondays, March 15,

classes are beginning in March 1, 7:30

body types and ethnicities. Learn to shimmy, undulate and play the zils (finger cymbals)! LINDY 102: Six Tuesdays, February 17 through March 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church, 600 S. Willard St. (entrance on Ledge Rd.), Burlington. $45, includes free Vermont

nationally respected resident woodworker or

Swings practice sessions immediately follow

potter, or try your hand at a class in fine

ing. Info, 862-7501 or www.vermontswings

Microsoft Excel II , Website Design (Front

Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135

Rumba, Cha Cha and Merengue. 7 p.m. Learn the basics of Waltz, Foxtrot and Tango. 8 p.m.

or call 985-5055 for details. Get an introduc

Engraving on Granite and Making Ukrainian

and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. The

March. 2-23, 6 p.m. Learn the basics of

Photography B&W Darkroom, $65. Rug

offered during afterschool hours. Shelburne

March '04. Life Drawing, Mondays, 6:30-9 p.m.

Center, St. Albans. BURLINGTON: Tuesdays,

Hooking II , $55. Calligraphy, $55. Sewing,

Creative Furniture Painting with Ruth Pope,

kids. New classes beginning January through

7 p.m. Learn the basics of Rumba, Cha Cha and Merengue. 8 p.m. Continue with Rumba,

Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. Free. Pre-register,

COMPUTER CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Word for Beginners,

es are in an historic building with active gallery exhibits in downtown Barre. For info, call 479-7069 or visit www.studioplacearts.com. PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE, CERAM ICS, PRINTMAKING AND PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AND THE CLAY AND CRAFT STUDIO (FORMERLY FROG HOLLOW): Adults and

Learn the basics of Waltz, Foxtrot and Tango.

Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m. Climb High, 2438

computers

Drawing Portraits with Marie LaPre Grabon,

ST. ALBANS: Mondays, March 1-22, 6 p.m.

Cha Cha and Merengue. Barlow St. Community

arts, stained glass, fiber, photography, black-

Painting with Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams,

tions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12. DANCE CLASSES WITH FIRST STEP DANCE:

smithing and more. Children's art classes also Craft School, Shelburne Village. For more info, call 985-3648. We have 58 years o f

experience teaching art to the community.

.com. A Level 2 Swing dance class specifically designed fo r graduates o f Lindy 101 or a basic Swing class, avid Lindy Hoppers looking to pol ish their fundamentals and accomplished dancers o f other styles who want to learn Lindy Hop.^ LINDY HOP/SW ING DANCE: Sundays, February 22 through March 28. Three levels:

dance

experience required. 7-8 p.m. Level 2; Classic

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: TRADITIONAL DANCES FROM CUBA AND HAITI: Weekly

Mini-Dip and more). Emphasis on technique.

6-7 p.m. Swing lA/Lindy Hop Basics. No Lindy Hop Moves (Swing Out, Sugar Push,

classes: Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. - noon. Capital

Focus is fundamentals. For Swing 1 gradu

City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays, 5:30-7 p.m.

ates or by permission. 8-9 p.m. Level 3;

Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. Info,

Balboa. Beginning and Beyond. A smooth

29, 3-4:30 p.m. Fletcher Free Library,

985-3665. Dance to the rhythms o f Cuban and

lilting dance from the 1930s currently enjoy

Community Room, 235 College St., Burlington.

Haitian music. Dance class led by Carla Kevorkian. Live drumming led by Stuart Paton. Monthly master classes with visiting instruc

ing worldwide revival. Must have six months

$2/class. For more info or to sign up, please approach or call the reference desk, 865-7217.

Learn to use a search engine to fin d information on the World Wide Web. Practice visiting various sites on the Web and learn about the different kinds o f information that are available. Learn to download files and work with favorites to make your Internet use more efficient Discover how to fin d movie times, driving directions, news and the weather. I f you are not comfortable using a mouse, please arrive half an hour early. MICROSOFT PUBLISHER: Saturday, February

tors. Beginners welcome! BALLET AT SHELBURNE ATHLETIC CLUB: Seven weeks, beginning March 1: Ages 4-6, Creative Pre-Ballet, Mondays, 2:45-3:30 p.m. or Wednesdays, 1:15-2 p.m. $56. Ages 6-10, Children's Ballet, Mondays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $70.

Lindy Hop experience. Champlain Club, Crowley St., Burlington. $50 for six-week series. $40 for students and seniors. Info, 860-7501 or www.lindyvermont.com. All

classes taught by Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl. We focus on having fu n and catering to the needs o f our students. No partner needed! MOCA NEW WORLD DANCE CLASSES: Offers

Adult Ballet Exercise Class, Wednesdays, noon-

classes in belly dance, Samba, Flamenco, Hula,

1 p.m. $70. Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne.

Firedancing, Latin Salsa, Cha Cha, Merengue,

To register or for more info, Annette, 860-

Hip-Hop, Northern & Southern Indian, Kathak,

9927. Beginners welcome! Experience quality

Oddissi, Swing and more! Kids, adults, begin join in the fun. Info and to pre-register, 229-

info or to sign up, please approach or call

classical ballet instruction in a supportive, fun environment. No experience necessary. BELLYDANCING FOR TEENS AND VIBRANT WOMEN: Saturday, February 28, 3-4:30 p.m.

the reference desk, 865-7217. Interested in

Yoga in the Mad River Studio, (above Bisb-

28, March 6, 27, April 3, 10-11:30 a.m. Fletcher Free Library, Community Room, 235 College St., Burlington. $2/class. For more

making brochures or flyers using Microsoft Publisher? This class focuses on the basics o f Microsoft Publisher including creating a design grid, text and picture frames, background ele ments, form atting characters and paragraphs, working with graphics and more. Students interested in signing up fo r this class should be comfortable with the mouse and keyboard and have some knowledge o f Microsoft Word. MICROSOFT WORD: Saturdays, February 28,

ee's.), Rt. 100N, Waitsfield. $16. Pre-register, 767-6092. $16. Sisters, friends, mothers,

daughters join together in a special circle o f women to learn the healing secrets o f dance. And banish the belly myths while strengthening your body and spirit. No prior experience needed. DANCE CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Five weeks, Tuesdays beginning

ners and pros, all ages, shapes and sizes can 0022. Monica is an award-winning dancer and

international choreographer who travels the globe seeking dance groups fo r local and global events. Many days, times and locations. Available fo r performance, parties and privates. Some scholarships available. MONTPELIER SWING DANCE CLASSES: Popside Toes presents six Wednesdays of Swing, starting March 3: Intro to Lindy Hop, 6:15-7:15 p.m. (right from the beginning). Lindy I "The Swingout," 7:45-8:45 p.m. (must

March 9: Swing Dance, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Country-

have taken Intro to Lindy, or equal experi

Western, 7:35-8:35 p.m. $50, students $40.

ence). Montpelier Union Elementary School

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March 6, 27, April 3, 2:30-4 p.m. Fletcher Free

Four weeks, Wednesdays beginning March 10:

Cafeteria, Montpelier. $50 for six weeks, or

Library, Community Room, 235 College St.,

Dancing, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35, students $25.

$10/class. No partner necessary. Please bring

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Day, evening and

Burlington. $2/class. For more info or to sign

CVU, Hinesburg. Limited class sizes. Register,

weekend courses. Various locations. Info,

up, please approach or call the reference desk,

482-7194, eddie@cvuhs.org or fin d fu ll descrip

clean, soft-soled shoes. For registration and questions, email Dan at dmciivt@gmavt.net or

888-4DRINKS orbartendingschool.com . Get

865-7217. Get acquainted with the basics of-the

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call Chris at 223-0026. These classes will teach the rudiments o f Swing, with a strong emphasis on technique: center, balance, connection, lead and follow, timing and more. It's not ju s t moves, it's the way that YOU move. MOVEMENT WORKSHOP SERIES: "Authentic

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workshop, Saturdays, February 21, 28, March

drumming

6 and 20. Tango, noon-1 p.m. Waltz, 1-2

CONGAS AND DJEMBE: Eight-week beginner

WEDDING DANCE WORKSHOP! Four-week

p.m. Foxtrot, 2-3 p.m. Swing, 3-4 p.m. Greek

conga class runs Wednesday, February 4

Orthodox Church at the rotary on Shelburne

through April 15 (no class 3/3, 3/10, 3/17),

Rd., Burlington. $70/couple for four hours

6 p.m. Eight-week beginner djembe class runs

Movement," Saturday, February 28, 10 a.m. - 1

(mix and match or learn one dance for four

Wednesday, February 4 through April 15 (no

p.m. "Anatomy in Motion," Saturday, March 27,

weeks). Info and registration, 864-7953.

class 3/3, 3/10, 3/17), 7:30 p.m. Alliot

This 4-week workshop will get you ready to look great at your wedding. Painless and fu n ! Taught by David Larson, with 25 years o f teaching wedding couples. WEDDING DANCE WORKSHOP: Sunday,

Student Center, Room 207, St. Michael's

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Flynn Center, Burlington. $30/workshop. For more info or to register, call 652-4548, email registrar@flynncenter.org or visit www.flynncenter.org. FlynnArts' Movement

Senes examines the body from a variety o f per spectives. "Authentic Movement" offers an exploration o f the unconscious through move ment. "Anatomy in Motion" focuses on the body from an anatomical perspective, allowing one to move with more ease. NEW SESSION OF CUBAN STYLE SALSA! New

February 29, 1-3 p.m. (Rumba and Foxtrot

February 19. Three levels to choose from: Intro, 6:30 p.m. Level 1, 7:30 p.m. Level 2, 8:30 p.m. The Champlain Club, Crowley St., Burlington. No partner necessary. $35 for ses

Monday and Wednesday Nightclub-style Salsa 7-8 p.m., Intermediate (members only). 8-9:30 p.m., Advanced practice (members only). Membership $35 or $55/month or $10/class. Monthly social, Fridays: 6:30-7 p.m., Night club-style Merengue. $5 (free to members). 710 p.m., Social. $5 open to the public (free to members). Saturday, Salsa/Merengue: 10-11 a.m., children ages 6-10. 11 a.m. - noon,

paton@sover.net. Stuart Paton makes instru ments available in this upbeat drumming class. TAIKO: Kids' beginner classes begin Tuesday,

basics). The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St.,

March 2, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $42/six weeks. Kids'

Burlington. $50/couple. Info, visit www.First

intermediate classes begin Monday, March 1,

StepDance.com or call 598-6757.

3:15-4 p.m. $42/six weeks. Adult beginners'

Congratulations! You are about to begin the

classes begin Monday, March 1, 5:30-6:50 p.m. $56/seven classes. Adult intermediate

Visual Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. For

Burlington. Info, Stuart Paton, 658-0658.

Experience the power o f Taiko-style drumming.

April 8, 7-9 p.m. Shelburne Craft School,

Styles of Vermont, Basic Investment Strategy,

Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. Bring your

Juggling, A Taste of American Sign Language,

St. (above Recycle North), Burlington. Info, 899-2422 or write to vemoore@gmavt.net. At

Vermont's first Saba dance studio you will learn the basic techniques required to advance to our classes taught by professional Saba dancers from Boston and New York City. No dance expe rience or partner necessary, ju s t the desire to have fun! You can drop in at any time and pre pare fo r an enjoyable workout! Come join our company o f exultant dancers and, who knows, you may get hooked.

the model as the su bject in a series o f drawing explorations that will fo cu s on a different aspect o f composition each class, including positive/negative shapes, place ment, light and dark, and relationship o f the fig u re to the surrounding space. A vari ety o f media will be available and there will be an opportunity to make drypoint prints o f some drawings.

brochure and info, call 865-7166 or visit www. burlingtoncityarts. com.

healing CONSIDERING THE USES OF ADVERSITY: SELF-HEALING FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE: The series, designed and facilitated by Gwen Evans, will run Wednesday evenings, February 18 through March 31. For

Finding the Time; Great Time Management

more info or to register, call 864-0555 (office)

Strategies, Herbal Pet Care, Standard First Aid,

or 846-2544 (TTY). This is a spiritually based

Living Tobacco-Free. CVU, Hinesburg. Limited class sizes. Register, 482-7194, eddie@cvuhs.org or fin d fu ll descriptions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12.

energy

p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. This class will use

Mondays, March 1 through April 24, 10 a.m. - noon. "Intro to Wood Sculpture with Bob

$56/seven weeks. Apprentice classes begin

CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Strength Training, Yoga, Architectural

Membership $35/month or $10/class. 266 trine

a.m. - 2 p.m. "Pastels for Beginners,"

Tuesday, March 2, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $56/

DRAWING FROM THE MODEL - U N IN STRUCTED: Six weeks, March 4 through

weeks, March 2 through April 20, 1:30-4

"Introduction to Portrait Drawing with Jolene Garanzha," Saturday, March 20, 9

Babcock," Tuesdays, March 9 through April

empowerment

youth ages 11-16. 12-1 p.m., all ages Social.

FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS:

13, 6:30-9 p.m. Firehouse Center for the

seven weeks. Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave,

pencib, charcoal, conte crayons or paints and work from the model to practice your handand-eye fusion . Gesture, short and long poses, as the group wishes. Call to register fo r the series — share your slot with a fellow artist i f you cannot make it to each session. EXPLORING FIGURE DRAWING: Eight •

fine arts

classes begin Monday, March 1, 7-8:30 p.m.

drawing

classes: 6-7 p.m., beginners and new members.

and how to work with it to enhance and accel erate personal and planetary evolution. Suitable fo r anyone interested in learning about an exciting, new energy system and its role in transformation, holistic practitioners who might like to diversify their practice or learn about new developments in the fie ld o f energy, and newcomers to energy work who would like to learn a revolutionary system to facilitate sessions with clients.

Stuart Paton, 658-0658 or 872-0494 or email

next chapter o f your life with the most won derful person in the world, your future spouse! Would you like to look great during your firs t dance together as a married couple? Take the First Step and jo in us fo r a wedding dance workshop designed to teach the basics o f looking good together on the dance floo r!

four-week session of Salsa begins Thursday,

sion. Info, 864-7953. Taught by David Larson, 2003 US National Latin Dance Championship finalist...teaching Burlington to Saba fo r five years. Friendly atmosphere, good music. SALSALINA DANCE STUDIO CALENDAR:

College, Colchester. $80/eight classes. Info,

EMF BALANCING TECHNIQUE: Five-day practi tioner certification classes by appointment. Pre-requisite Universal Calibration Lattice. Schedule and contact info, see display ad in

series that will teach alternative methods and toob fo r coping with the ongoing issues o f being a sunrivor. Through discussion, exercises, journaling and guided meditation, pathways to self-healing will be opened. Survivors will reclaim pieces o f their soub left behind, learn to develop a deeper inner relationship and begin a path o f self-discovery. Ms. Evans has been offering this workshop series through the Women's Rape Crisis Center fo r two years. HEALING FROM SPORTS INJURIES: Friday, February 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Elements of

Wellness Aahhhhh. This training is concise and

Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Jet. $35. Pre-regis

powerful in a gentle and nurturing way. Learn about a new system in the energy anatomy, the Universal Calibration Lattice and the EMF Balancing Technique, given to work with this system. Understand how your personal lattice connects to universal energy, the cosmic lattice

ter, 288-8160. Elements o f Healing is offering

this lecture to teach people how to manage and treat different types o f injuries. There will be lecture, demonstration and hands on practice. Topics will include neck, hip, back, elbow, wrist

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Vermont, Pearl St., Burlington. $225 for entire

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institute includes materials and snacks. For

ALTERNATIVES TO ANTIBIOTICS AND VACCINES; CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY FOR KIDS WITH CHARLOTTE GILRUTH, CCH, RSHOM (NA ): Saturday, February 21, 10

23, 6 p.m. Discover Chiropractic and

a.m. - noon. InnerHarmony Community

Wellness Center, 431 Pine St., The Maltex

Wellness Center, 42 Main St. (Rt. 100N),

Building (underneath Cafe Piccolo),

Rochester. $10-35 donation. Registration is

Burlington. Space is limited. Pre-register,

strongly suggested, 767-9914 or 767-6092.

951-5700. Learn how to de-stress at work and

home. This 30-minute informative lecture will discuss the devastating effects o f stress on the body. Learn how to de-stress, improve coping skills and increase the body's function! THE UVM ASIAN STUDIES OUTREACH PRO GRAM PRESENTS: TRADITIONAL CHINESE HEALTH AND WELLNESS: Six-session series: March 8, "Eastern Philosophy on Health." March 15, "Qi Gong and Tai Chi." March 22, "Acupuncture/Acupressure." March 29, "Healing the Body With Chinese Herbs." April 5, "Feng Shui." April 12, "Chinese Astrology." 7:15-8:15 p.m. St. Albans Community Educational Center,

child to the excitement of music, theater and dance

summer camps. For more info or to register,

March 1. Mail a check made payable to: UVM

call 652-4548, email registrar@flynncenter.org or visit www.flynncenter.org. FLYNNARTS FEBRUARY AND APRIL VACA TION CAMPS: Grades 1-3, "Cartoons into Puppets," Monday, February 23 through ~i

community members to the philosophy behind the use o f traditional Chinese herbs and medi cine to maintain or improve health. Instructors: Jeanette Moy (March sessions), Lydia Solini (April sessions).

Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. Bring your

imagination and join the fun with a variety o f art mediums and some crafts. We will paint and draw and build and create a winter collage.

through FlynnArts classes and

the door. Deadline to pre-register is Monday,

656-7985. This Six-session series will introduce

27, 9 a.m. - noon. Shelburne Craft School,

Brochure available now! Introduce your

sions or $7/single session, $7.50/session at

Burlington. Info, Kunie.Renaud@uvm.edu or

or visit www.tdivermont.com. This program is an off-shoot o f the highly successful TDI offered every summer at Johnson State College. Strands will include offerings in science, writ ing, improvisation, poetry, math and chess with faculty who're experienced in gifted education. TDI is a chance fo r gifted learners to get together fo r fu n and academic stimulation. VACATION ART FOR AGES 7 -1 1 : February 23-

Come explore natural alternatives to antibi otics and to help promote vibrant children with strong immune systems. Children are especially responsive to homeopathy, a precise system o f energy healing. Gilruth creates indi vidually matched constitutional remedies to promote healing from chronic physical com plaints, behavior and learning problems, cop ing difficulties, phobias and anxieties, depres sion and grief. Plus a free consultation with Gilruth afterwards. -Musical peace circle fo r kids is available while parents attend workshop. FLYNNARTS SUMMER CLASSES FOR KIDS:

Main St., St. Albans. $36.00 for all six -ses

Asian Studies Outreach Program, 479 Main St.,

more info or registration, contact Dr. Carol Story, 635-1321, email carol.story@jsc.vsc.edu

, Center Studio, Burlington. For more info or to

HERBAL STUDIES: Wisdom of the Herbs 2004, an eight-month experiential herbal program, one weekend a month from April to November 2004. Annie McCleary, herbalist. Lincoln.

Every other Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m. Climb High,

$1200. $150 non-refundable deposit holds

2438 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. Free. Pre-reg

your place. Class size limited, please register

ister or call 985-5055 for details. An introduc

early. Info, 453-6764 or visit www.purplecone flowerherbals.com. Develop connection with the

plant-people. Identify, sustainably harvest and prepare local wild plants fo r food and medicine. Participate in nature adventures, meditations and herb walks. Learn to use a botanical key to identify wild plants. Practice spiritual dowsing. Beginners and experienced students welcome.

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1-6, five Saturdays, March 6 through April 3, 8:30 a.m. - noon. Community College of

solution. Ten years of professional language

p.m. Children's classes, Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m.

teaching experience including college level.

and Saturdays, 9-10 a.m. Iaido (the way of

private lessons. ^Colchester. Tree introductory class. Info, 893-8893. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-

Jitsu , Amis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. One minute o ff 1-89 at exit 17. THE BLUE WAVE TAEKWONDO SCHOOL: Adult, family and children's classes available Monday through Thursday and Saturday for beginners,

offer the best value in the area with student

Please call Sibylle fo r more info, 388-4173. FRENCH LANGUAGE IN JERICHO: Day classes

and family discounts available. Mention this

Seven Days ad and receive a free uniform

(all levels): Monday and Tuesday. Weekend

when you sign up! Info, call 658-3359, email

workshops (advanced): One half-day (4 to 6

info@bluewavetkd.com or visit www.blue

hours) once every four weeks or so. Please visit http://www.together.net/~ggp fo r sched

wavetkd.com. Former national team member and Vermont state coach Gordon White teaches

Pottery,

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and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and

Street, Burlington (next to Muddy Waters). We

B o o te s , c n r u tle s , L o t io n s ,

traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flow ing movements, jo in t locks and throwing techniques. Visitors always welcome. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Day

German all levels and business. Middlebury.

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Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info, 951-8900 or www.aikidovt.org. This

advanced and competitive students. 182 Main

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p.m. and Fridays, 4-5:15 p.m. Aikido of

widen your horizons? French beginner classes,

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quick-draw sword), Thursdays, 6:45-8:15

faraway lands full of beautiful people? Need to

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5:30-6:30 p.m. and 6:45-7:45 p.m.;

10-11:15 a.m. Zazen (Zen meditation, free

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Introductory classes begin Tuesday, March 2,

and open to the public), Tuesdays, 8-8:40

speaking, reading and writing skills in English as a second language. FRENCH AND GERMAN: Wanting to travel to

Mountain Center for Gifted Education. Grades

martial arts AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY:

learning style, offering a suitable training

Free. Info, 654-8677. Improve your listening,

Saturday Program sponsored by the Green

needs. Free info by calling 496-3436 or emailing constanciag@123spanishnow.com.

p.m.; Saturdays, 10-11:45 p.m.; Sundays,

Sloane Hall, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester.

tion to climbing in a no-pressure environment on Climb High's natural climbing wall. Fun fo r anyone curious about rock climbing. TDI SATURDAYS: Talent Development Institute

Burlington (Shelburne), reasonable rates with instruction tailored to your individual

program-fits-all approach. Depending on

intermediate. Vermont Adult Learning,

register, call 652-4548, email registrar@flynn center.org or visit www.flynncenter.org. INTRO CLIMBING FOR YOUTH: Ages 5-12.

niently located in Montpelier (Tuesdays) and

your needs, interests, available time and

Classes will focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening and grammar. They are open to all who want to learn and improve their English, as well as explore American culture and history. ESL: Ongoing small ^roup classes, beginner to

Thursday; April 22, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Flynn

herbs

classes starting in March. Courses conve

Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m.; Fridays, 5:30-7

Burlington. Free. Info, Carrie Bern's, 865-7211.

with ECHO, Tuesday, April 20 through

and experienced teacher. Accompanying

AWAKEN YOUR SPANISH: I don't take a one-

Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St.,

Visual Arts, Burlington. "Tales of the Lake"

and speaking skills with a native speaker

5:30 p.m. Adults: Monday through Thursday,

Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Sundays, 4-6 p.m. The

Friday, February 27, 9 a.m. - noon. Flynn

Argentina in April. So don't miss this oppor tunity! Improve your Spanish comprehension

language

For info and to register, email Spanish4me@ latinmail.com or call 310-4701. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: Ongoing

Center and the Firehouse Center for the

ule, registration and more details. Or call Georgette at 802-899-4389. SPANISH: DO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL AND MEET GREAT PEOPLE?: We are going to

SEVENDAYS I february 18-25, 2004 I classes 15B

the exciting martial art and Olympic sport o f Taekwondo. Our experienced teaching sta ff emphasizes proper body mechanics and Taekwondo technique during plyometric, tech nical and cardio training sessions to improve flexibility, strength and overall fitness. TRADITIONAL KUNG FU CLASSES: Ongoing classes available. Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Jet. Info, 288-8160. Two tra

ditional form s o f Chinese Kung Fu are taught: Ba J i Chuan and Xing Yi Chuan. These are powerful form s o f self-defense and self-culti vation. This is fo r both beginners and experi enced practitioners from other styles. VING TSUN KUNG FU: Moy Yat lineage. 12 North St., Burlington. Call for a free intro, 324-7702.

Traditional family-style training in the pure Ving Tsun system. Relaxation, centerline, efficiency.

massage ADVANCED MASSAGE AND BODYWORK TRAINING: Four-week classes and one-day intensives starting in February and March, and ongoing throughout 2004. Discounts for early registration. Neuromuscular Therapy of Vermont and the Center for Advanced Bodywork Training, The Chase Mill, Suite 226, Burlington. Complete info at www.stephen odwyer.com or call 658-1005. Neuromuscular

massage technique classes fo r the low back, shoulder and neck. Massage therapists and other health practitioners learn advanced neuromuscular and structural techniques fo r treating many form s o f chronic pain. COUPLES MASSAGE: Friday, February 20, 6:30-9 p.m. Vermont Center for Acupuncture and Holistic Healing, 257 Pine St., Burlington. $50/couple. Info, 864-7778 or www.vcahh.org.

Leam massage basics to help you and your part ner relax and feel harmony using a variety o f techniques. An excellent overview fo r our advanced Couples Massage classes. MASSAGE FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS: An

meditation MASTERY AND MEDITATION CLASS: First and third Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free.

sculpt and tone. Bring exercise mat or towel and a pair o f hand weights (3-5 lbs.). PILATES VERMONT, FREE INTRODUCTORY PILATES REFORMER CLASS: First and third

Indian Sufi Master Inayat Khan. Focus on accomplishment and success in your life and interfaith prayer fo r world peace.

Mondays, 5:30 p.m. Pilates Vermont,

Intermediate/advanced wheel, Thursdays, 6-9

Shelburne Athletic Club, 4068 Shelburne

p.m. Handbuilding all levels, beginners wel

Rd., Shelburne. Pre-register, 985-8700 or

come: Figure sculpture, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.

www.pilatesvermont.com. Experience the ulti

music JAZZ AND GOSPEL CHOIR: Thursdays, March 18 through June 10, 6-8 p.m. Flynn Center, Burlington. For more info or to register, call 652-4548, email registrar@flynncenter.org or visit www.flynncenter.org. Learn vocal

techniques and ensemble skills in this per formance class rooted in the traditions o f ja z z and gospel. The class culminates with a show in FlynnSpace and a performance as part o f the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.

mate workout that dramatically improves strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and posture. I t creates a body that looks long and lean, with slender thighs, fla t abdominals and a strong back. Hollywood celebrities and top models use it to maintain beautiful form. Sports enthusiasts and professionals use it to develop coordination and prevent injury. THE PILATES DEN: Ongoing, small group mat classes. The Pilates Den, Williston.

Join us in our sunny home studio fo r a challenging workout utilizing Joseph Pilates' dynamic body conditioning method and enhanced by small apparatus like magic circles, therabands, foam rollers and light weights. Sculpt a better body while improving strength, posture and flexibility. Experienced, certified and caring fitn ess instructors.

painting ENCAUSTIC PAINTING: Eight weeks, Tuesdays, March 2 through April 20, 6:308:30 p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. The ancient tech

nique o f encaustic, practiced by the Egyptians and Greeks thousands o f years ago, has become popular again, notably after the American painter Jasper Johns used it fo r his fam ous fla g paintings in the 1960s. The medium o f pigment in wax is unlike any other, and offers a whole range o f possibili ties fo r contrasting opaque and translucent layers, sgraffito drawing, collage elements and textures. Heated palettes, wood panels and painting materials will be provided.

pilates

classes, Tuesdays, 3:30-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 1-3 p.m. Free practice days for adults. 141 River St. (Rt. 2), Montpelier. Info, 224-7000.

Give your creativity free rein in a friendly, sup portive atmosphere.

qi gong QI GONG CLASSES: Ongoing classes where beginners and advanced students are wel come. Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Jet. Info, 288-8160. Qi Gong is a soft and flowing self-healing exercise that is similar to Tai Chi. With consistent practice, healing from many chronic ailments can be achieved.

reiki REIKI I AND II: Ongoing classes and private instruction. Pathways To Well Being, Burlington.

pottery

Info, Blakely Oakes, MS, Reiki Master Teacher,

PORCELAIN AND STONEWARE SLIPCASTING CLASSES: Beginning in March. Ceramic studio opening on Pine St. For info and

862-8806 ext. 4. Reiki is an ancient heabng art originating in Tibetan Buddhism. REIKI I AND II CERTIFICATION TRAINING:

brochure, call 978-852-2454 or email info@ paigestahl.com . Classes include plaster-

mold making fo r creating functional vessels, custom tile and table lamps. POTTERY CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Eight week classes: Pottery Mondays beginning March 8, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

CLASSES AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL IN HINESBURG: Five weeks, Thursdays beginning March

Instructor: Jen Labie. $95. Pottery Tuesdays beginning March 9, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

4-5 p.m. $40. CVU, Hinesburg. Register, 482-

Tuesday Evenings beginning March 9, 8 p.m.

7194, eddie@cvuhs.org or find full descrip

$95. Wheel and Handbuilding, beginning and

5:30-9 p.m. Touchstone Healing Arts, 205

tions for alt 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and

intermediate. Open studio time on Monday

Dorset St., S. Burlington. $325. Call for an

click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit

evenings. CVU, Hinesburg. Classes limited to

application, 658-7715. Class covers all the

12. Join instructor Kym Reid Taylor to develop

basic strokes building up to a fu ll body flow. Includes grounding and centering and correct body mechanics. Instructed by Mark Adams.

your core strength and muscle control. Suitable fo r all fitness levels. For Pilates class bring pilates/yoga mat. Strength Training class: Use o f free weights and mat exercises will help

12 people. Register, 482-7194, eddie@cvuhs.org or fin d fu ll descriptions fo r all 60 classes at www.cvuhs.org and click on Access to CVU. Ten minutes from exit 12.

a w o r k

Handbuilding, Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. Kids all ages/levels, two handbuilding and wheel

$10/class, first class free! Info, 879-7302.

ning Friday, February 27 through April 16,

diate (three classes), Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 6-9 p.m.

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UVM Asian Studies Outreach Program, 479 .

tion and info, call 865-HERB or email

p.m. $40. Backyard Astronomy, Wednesdays,

Main St., Burlington, VT 05405. Info,

April 28 and May 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10.

Kunie.Renaud@uvm.edu or 656-7985.

psherbs@sover.net. Hot flashes? Night sweats? Memory loss? Join Kelley o f Horsetail Herbs and learn what to do fo r these and other menopausal symptoms. We'll discuss a holistic approach including lifestyle, diet, herbs & supplements to help you through these powerful hormonal, psychological and emotional changes. You'll drink hot-flash tea, taste a high-calcium shake and go home with soothing oil fo r vaginal dryness.

CVU, Flinesburg. Limited classes sizes.

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scrapbooking SCRAPBOOKING 1 0 1 : Wednesday, February 25, 6:30 p.m., Thursday, February 26, 10 a.m ., Thursday, March 11, 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, 6:30 p.m. and Thursday, March 25,

Medical studies show that regular practice o f Tai Chi benefits the mind and body. Tai Chi is a weight-bearing exercise that strengthens jo in ts, aids in the reduction o f bone loss and improves balance. The slow, flowing move ments help to relax and ease tension in the body. Instructor: Jeanette Moy, M .S., L.Ac.

training BABYSITTING INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE: Ages 10-14. February 23 and 24, 9

wood BASIC WOODWORKING FOR BEGINNERS:

a.m. - 4 p.m. Northern Vermont Chapter of

Ten sessions, 30 hours: Thursdays, March 4

Shopping Center, Williston. $15/class. Pre

the American Red Cross, 29 Mansfield Ave.

through May 6, 6-9 p.m. Shoptalk, 7A Morse

registration and prepayment is required,

Free. $35, including textbook and materials.

Drive, Essex. $200/nonmembers, 25%

879-1240. This is where it all begins. Join us

Be sure to pack a bag lunch. Pre-register,

off/members. Limited class size, 878-0057,

and learn all about Scrapbooking, the tools and the basic rules fo r designing a layout. This class is great fo r people new to the hobby or current scrapbookers who want to review basic techniques. You'll leave with a completed layout and lots o f ideas to get you started in the world o f Scrapbooking. Please bring a penal, scissors, ruler, an eraser and a group o f 4-6 photos o f the same event.

Amy McNall, 802-660-9130 or 1-800-660-

www.shoptalkvermont.com. Beginning wood

9130, mcnall@nvtredcross.org or visit www.nvtredcross.org. Participants will learn

skills in leadership, basic care, firs t aid, safe ty and play. Space is limited, sign up early to get placement.

well-being LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE WITH MELANIE BROTZ PUTZ: Ages 13 and up. Shutter Herbs, TOO Mafn St., Burlington..

Jiu-Jitsu and Self-Defense: Mondays through

$12. For registration and info, call 865-HERB

Fridays, 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 11:45 a.m.

or email psherbs@sover.net. A special "hap pening" o f mirth and merriment as your favorite herb shop is transformed into an inviting 19th century establishment called "Purple Shutter Pub and Brewery, " where the only alcohol comes in the form o f tinctures, elixirs, cordials and flow er essences. Let this evening melt away your winter blahs, as you partake in silly and creative parlor and pub „ games to get your giggles going and sip from a selection o f freshly brewed comforting teas. The games are easy to learn and require nei ther boards nor supplies other than common household objects such as coins, dried beans and scraps o f paper. V/e invite you to wear Victorian period costumes o f any sort.

Saturdays, 11 a.m. Cardio/Power Boxing: Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. First class free. Filipino Martial Arts: Saturdays, 10-11 a.m. Vermont Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu, 4 Howard St., A-8, Burlington. Info, 660-4072. Learn self-

defense, martial arts, boxing and hand-andstick combat fighting in this positive and safe environment.

snowshoeing MAD RIVER GLEN: Programs include a different two-hour guided snowshoe, every Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. a Full Moon Snowshoe/Nighttime Nature Ramble, 7 p.m. or the Outbound Snowshoe Adventure, a

workers are exposed to the various compo nents o f milling and joinery techniques as they learn to use woodworking machinery nec essary to construct a small end table. BASIC WOODWORKING II INTERMEDIATE: 12 sessions, Thursdays, March 4 through May

Friday, February 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Purple

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20, 6-9 p.m. Shoptalk, 7A Morse Drive, Essex. $300 nonmembers, 25% off members. Limited class size, 878-0057, www.shoptalk vermont.com. Come to the shop to refine and

enhance the techniques you learned irfithe Basic Woodworking Class fo r Beginners. The project fo r this course is a drop-leaf table. Very minimal classroom time. 95% o f class is on the shop flo o r working on your table. CUTTING DOVETAILS W ITH HANDTOOLS: Four sessions, Saturdays, February 21 through March 13, 1-5 p.m. Shoptalk, 7A Morse Drive, Essex. $150/nonmembers, 25% off/members. Limited class size, 878-0057, www.shoptalkvermont.com. Participants will

learn to construct dovetail jo in ts using mark ing gauges, hand saws and chisels. Come and learn the art o f cutting dovetails by hand and make a bench that will last you a lifetime. No prior woodworking experience required. FINE WOODWORKING APPRENTICE PRO GRAM: Interested in a career as a furniture maker? Cabinet maker? Or artist in wood?

vations ($50 p/p). Program fees for the two-

wine

Shoptalk provides an intensive shop-based

hour snowshoe programs are $20 for adults,

EXPLORING PINOT NOIR: Monday, February

woodworkers. Shoptalk, 7A Morse Drive,

backcountry trek, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. with reser

$15 for kids (12 and under) and $50 for a

23, 6:30 p.m. The Wine Bar, 133 St. Paul

family. Tubbs Snowshoe rentals, $5 with a

St., Burlington. $20/person (plus tax).

Naturalist Program. All programs meet at Mad

Reservations are suggested, call 951-WINE or

River Glen Ski Area Base Lodge, Rt. 17 West,

visit www.wineworks.net. Get a chance to

Waitsfield. Contact Sean Lawson, Naturalist Director, 496-3551 x l7 , sean@madriver glen.com, www.madriverglen.com/naturalist.

experience all o f the unique styles o f this challenging grape! FRENCH FOOD AND WINE: Wednesday, February

Mad River Glen's award-winning Naturalist Program educates the public about the ecology and conservation o f Stark Mountain's forests

includes tax and gratuity. Purchase tickets

and wildlife.

in advance, 862-6585. Join us as we discover

support groups SEE LISTINGS IN THE CLASSIFIEDS, SEC TION B.

18, 6-9 p.m. Windjammer Restaurant, 1076 Williston Rd„ S. Burlington. $60/person,

some fantastic wines around Burgundy and Loire Valley. Chef Andy will prepare an amaz ing Bistro Menu to compliment this region's fabulous wines. INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH W INES: Monday,

apprentice program designed for emerging Essex. For more info, call Shoptalk, 878-0057, email info@shoptalkvermont.com or visit our website at www.shoptalkvermont.com. LATHE CLASS: BOWL OR SPINDLE, YOUR CHOICE: One session, three hours. Shoptalk, 7A Morse Drive, Essex. $80. Individual instruction, 878-0057, www.shoptalkvermont .com. Call to schedule a convenient time fo r

you to attend. POND YACHTS FOR ADULT AND CHILD AT THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM: Two sessions are being offered during the Winter Recess: Saturday through Monday, February 14-16 or February 21-23, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is located 6 miles west of

tai chi

March 8, 6:30 p.m. The Wine Bar, 133 St.

Vergennes at 4472 Basin Harbor Rd.

Paul St., Burlington. $20/person (plus tax).

$195/team, open to ages 10 and up, and

TAI CHI CHUAN: Beginners' series, Wednes

Reservations are suggested, call 951-WINE or

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475-2022 or www.lcmm.org. Spend the win

days, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Ongoing classes, Thursdays, noon-1 p.m. Saturdays, 9-10 a.m. The Vermont Center for Acupuncture and Holistic Healing, 257 Pine St., Burlington. $12/class or $45/month for unlimited class

ing wines on this trip through the great, wine regions o f Spain! THE GRAND CRU OF BORDEAUX: Wednesday, March 10, 6-7:30 p.m. Windjammer Restaurant,

es that month. Info, 864-7778 or

1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. $50/person,

www.vcahh.org. This traditional Yang-style

includes tax and gratuity. Purchase tickets in

short-form Tai Chi is a gentle and flow ing exercise that helps correct posture and creates deep relaxation and overall health. ■

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writing DRAWING ON YOUR INNER WISDOM: March 2, 9, 16, 5-8 p.m. Mercy Connections Transition and Education Center at Joseph's House, 113 Elmwood Ave. (entrance on Allen S t.), Burlington. $90 (materials and instructions provided), scholarships avail able to eligible participants. Register, 8467163. Embark on a journey to uncharted

waters — your inner self. Through the use o f a fu n and absorbing art therapy technique, participants will be guided to follow their intuition to a deeper level o f self-knowledge. While open to this deeper level o f awareness participants will creatively jou rn al into their more authentic selves. Group sharing, to whatever degree fe e ls comfortable, grounds participants in the genuine experience. No artistic ability or experience with journaling needed.

yoga ASTANGA INSTRUCTION TAUGHT BY DAVIS SWENSON AND K. PATTHABHI JO IS: Tuesdays beginning February 10, 6 p.m. Athletic Club of Vermont, 62 Pearl St., Essex Jet. $60 for eight weeks or $12/class (if space available). Lim ited space. Please

pre-register by calling 288-9612. Bring mat. BRISTOL YOGA: Daily Astanga classes for all levels: Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays a t/ j:3 0 p.m., Wednesdays, 10 a.m. and Saturday^/9:30 a.m. Beginners: Sundays, 4 p.m. and Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. Starting in January: Special six-week intro series for teens, six-week intro series for beginners. Old High School, Bristol. Info,

482-5547 or www.bristolyoga.com. This

classical form o f yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexib ility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and fre e the soul. YOGA AND CREATIVITY: Six weeks, Wednesdays, March 3 through April 7, 5:307 p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. In understanding

our relationship to our chosen medium and the process in which we work, we must plumb the depths o f our minds and open our bodies to unlock the creative fo rces within. In this class we will explore asana (posture), pranayama (expansion o f the vital energy through breathing), visualization and yoga nidra (yogic sleeping). Yoga and creativity class is fo r those who understand the need to bring more creativity, spontaneity and fle xib ility to their lives. Open to all. Bring a yoga mat, journal or sketchbook and your joy! YOGA CLASS: Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m. The First Unitarian Universalist Church, 52 Pearl St. (head of Church St.), Burlington. Free. Info, Maura O'Connor, 860-5097. All are welcome

to this easy class. YOGA FOR CLIMBING AND HEALTH: Sixweek series, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Climb High, 2438 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. $8/class. Info, 985-5055. Stay in shape and

have fu n with yoga. Special emphasis on exercises fo r climbing and general health taught by Cat Earisman. YOGA VERMONT: Astanga classes every day. Jivam ukti, Kripalu, Kundalini, Gentle, Iyengar, beginner, prenatal and senior classes weekly. Chace Mill and Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info, 660-9718 or www.yoga vermont.com. Many styles to choose from,

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SWM, 36, 6'5 ", BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR Firefighter/SaLes rep. Enjoy kids, cooking, sports, travel and quiet evenings at home. ISO, NS/ND, SF/DF, 25-45, for friendship first. Possible LTR. Let's get together and talk. 1313__________ _________________________

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5 THINGS I CANT LIVE WITHOUT: MY Subaru Outback, my fiddle, my tele-gear, my tools and my kids. Divorcing Dad, 43, 6'1", 175, looking for some low pressure female companionship. On the slopes? Mad River some weekday? 1285 COME AND EXPLORE THE BOUNDARIES of body, mind and spirit in a compassion ate way. Good looking, PDM, 49, into sustainable living, healthy cooking, good loving. Share adventures; hiking, x-c ski, yoga. Creative, intelligent, earthy and worth the wait! 1280 NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE! SWM, 46, 5'11", 175 lbs, fit, healthy, ambitious, good look ing, NS. Likes country, animals, outdoors, movies, cuddling. ISO soulmate that's fit, attractive, healthy, down-to-earth for LTR. 1224__________________________________________ SWM, BLUE-EYED, 5'1 1 ", 195 LBS. ISO SAF, 19-40 YO for steady friendship/love. Must be vibrant and refreshing. A mint for salad. She knows the lie of buddha and the scams of impression. All answered. 1223 SPM, 28, ROMANTIC THAT WORKS TOO much. Been there, done that. Looking for something new. ISO F, 24-32, for backcountry skiing, movies, playing and watch ing music, and general mischief. 1215 SWPM, 41, FATHER, OPEN-MINDED, STEEP learning curve, skier, athlete, good listen er, enjoys live music. ISO SF, 30-45, with direction, grace under pressure. Let's meet! 1214

SM, 38, TEDDY BEAR TYPE, ISO 420 friendly F. I am loving, caring, gentle, kind and a little shy at first. I like music, movies and being outdoors. Age and race unimpor tant. Looking for possible LTR. 1192 SWM, 59, SMOKER, LOW INCOME, ISO low income F for LTR, 50-60. 1190 YOU: BLONDE, LIBERAL, ARTISTIC JOKES, movies, TV, outdoor activities, simple living, animals, soft spoken, personality, painted nails, lingerie, classic rock, board games, Chinese food. Did I mention blonde hair? Me: DWM, 45, 5'10", 150, fit, NS, despise football, kissing expert. 1187 22 YO, SWCVM, 135 LBS., SWIMMERS build, hopless romantic, knight, kind, lov ing, caring. Love: books, movies, outdoors, dogs, strategy games, hanging out, writ ing, talking. ISO SF, 18-28, same sort of interests/personality. Similar body type. LTR preferred, anything possible. 1139

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FEMME MOST FAIR, SENSITIVE, SPIRITUAL intuitive, joyous, sensual and aesthetic, where art thou? Doest thou enjoy Bach, Mozart, the OUD and Bazooki. Be ye a lover of water, travel, cooking, walks and talks. ISO WPF, NS, 55+, Anglican? 9913 SWM, 24, HONEST, CARING, CHARMING outgoing punk, sometimes shy, NS. Loves dancing, has learning challenges. ISO SWF, 19-28, honest, funny, flirty, roman tic, NS, drink occasionally, like movies, basketball, music, bike riding. 9912

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bi s e e k in g ? SGWF, 37, OUTGOING, HIGHLY MOTIVated for work and play, athletic, ski, yoga, I enjoy anything outdoors. ISO someone w/similar energy and spirit to share all this amazing world has to offer, 27-40ish. Up for whatever develops. 1308 F, 22, LOOKING TO EXPERIENCE SOME first time female companionship. 5'9, 135, dark eyes and hair. In college and curious. Want to be my "lucky star"? 1293 SWEET, DOWN TO EARTH AND SEXY femme, 28, seeks handsome, tender butch, 27-37. I am curvy and fit, soft in all the right places and am craving some butch arms to hold me. 1219 LOOKING FOR SPECIAL JEW EL TO CHERish and admire. ISO GWF, 34-42, on the femme side, self-assured, communicative, ready for a relationship that's fun, inspir ing, deep and meaningful. NS/ND. I know you're out there, so sparkle and reveal yourself. 1198 ECLECTIC ARTIST ISO AN INTERESTING, intelligent, creative, spiritual, indepen dent F that likes deep conversation, mak ing a difference and skinny dipping. Me: PWF, 26, athletic, who likes just about anything. 1105 NSF ISO LTR WITH WOMAN, 40-50, WHO is as intelligent, well rounded, learned, physically/emotionally fit, informed, trav eled, philosophic, spiritual, passionate, romantic, musical, nature loving, creative, humble, adventurous, playful, tender and intense as I am! Monogamously oriented only! 1041 GWF, 51, INDEPENDENT, SELF-SUFFICIENT, honest, loyal, intelligent, well educated, socially conscious loves family, friends, the outdoors, animals, movies, reading and much more! Seeking healthy, happy, emotionally mature, self-sufficent woman with a good sense of humor. Serious replies only. 1038 SWP BIF, 40s, 5'9", PLUS SIZE, LIKE TO walk on the beach, read, garden, spend time w/pets and family. ISO F to spend adult time with. Clean, ND, age and size unimportant 1014

m en > m en MY ENERGY LEVEL IS LOW, BUT NOTHING that a little of the familiar can't charge back up. GM, early forties, into the casual and enormous good looks, and a sense of humor. How's your energy level by the way? Post Valentine's Day thing getting to ya'; ennoble my spirit with a fantastic date as is (between us). This guy will show you how to charge back up! 1398 RECENTLY OUT GWM, 45, SPIRITED, handsome, loves outdoor adventures, movies, dining out. ISO GM, 30-50, of similar ilk to form a community of friends. No games, please. 1391 GM, EARLY 20s, UVM STUDENT, ATTRAC-

BIF, 23, ISO OPEN MINDED SBIF 18-30 for fun and friendship. I'm 5'8, about 150 lbs and dirty blonde hair. 1318 BI-CURIOUS F, 20, BUT 21 SOON. 5'7" seeking femme female for first time expe rience. Relationship? Probably not, but we'll see. 1312 GENTLEMAN WITH YOUNGER WIFE. ISO F, BI lover, 20-25 YO sexy on the beach and to be creative nanny for child. For European travel. 1273 FIT, ATTRACTIVE HOTTIE, MID-30s AVERage height and athletic build. Burt. area. Looking for hot, sweaty fun with BI, BIcurious or GMs, 25-45, for one time or regular hookups. Into safe, discreet sex with all types. 1133 SWBIM ISO OTHER M FOR HOT PASSIONate phone or real hookups. All ads answered. Please be 18-45. 1016 SWPM, BI, LATE 30s, SINCERE THOUGHTful, physically fit, healthy lifestyle, near to Burlington. Seeks woman who is simit.lar, height and weight proportionate and ISO LTR with the right person. 9936' ARE YOU TIRED OF A DULL SEX LIFE? Unfulfilled, feeling unwanted, unimpor tant. We are going to create a fun Friday sex night. The goal is excitement, good communication, a feeling of importance, with a balance of S M/F/CU. 9923

ju s t frie n d s NEW TO BURLINGTON: EMPATHIC, NURturing easy going, open minded and lov able M, ISO down to earth, people not afraid to express themselves or their feel ings, to explore VT and the human experi ence together. Great people only! 1397 CASH-FLOW 101 PLAYERS WANTED! YOU can learn how to get rich by playing a board game! Meet at Barnes & Noble once or twice a week. Limited 2-6 players. Absolutely free, just come to play, learn and have fun! 1387 SNOWBOARDING AT JAY PEAK OR BURKE Mt.? Looking for kind friends to ride the slopes with? I'm 28, from Lamoille coun ty. I usually hit the slopes mid week. Call me up and let's go! 1314 FRIENDLY, EXUBERANT DOG IS LOOKING for a pal to romp around with, wrestle and chase. Loves frisbees, balls and long walks in the woods. Her owner, F, 27, is also seeking an exercise partner: jogging, hiking, walking, gym. 1211 COLLEGE EDUCATED F, 23, SEEKS FRIENDS in the Rutland area. Interests include reading and creating all types of art. Looking for grounded people, M/F, 20-26, who enjoy good times and interesting conversations. 1129

EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR LTR, LOVE, the perfect match. Good luck! I'm ISO a lady friend. With friendship, anything is possible. Without it, nothing. Be honest, open and sincere. No games, please. Me: young 55, DWM. Confident, happy, waiting. 1112 LIKE TO HELP THE NEEDY IN YOUR community? Single and looking for a new way to meet other singles? Want to begin a singles volunteer group and lend a hand while meeting other singles in the area. Anyone interested? 1022 LOOKING TO HOOK UP WITH OTHER HIKers, bikers, joggers, dog owners, for non competitive exercise and compadre. 1013 NEED NO REPLY, JUST STOP BY WHERE the S. Burlington mall buildings are blue. I will meet you. Think music. M, 60, ISO SF NS for friendship. Let's visit. 1002

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CU ISO M, 30-45, FOR FRIENDSHIP AND possibly more. He's 42 and straight. I'm 32, blue eyes, blonde hair, medium build. 1005 WCU, ME: WBIF, PREGNANT RED/GREEN, 5'7", 134. Him: straight WM, brown/hazel, 5'9", 145, sexy and firm. ISO WBIF for fun. He will just watch unless you would like otherwise. Serious responses only, drug free. Prefer WBIF or W, curious F. 9932

w o m e n s e e k in g . BISWF, 19, POET, MUSIC LOVER PESSIMIST, book lover, Atheist, smoker, drinker, 420 friendly, opinionated, creative, outgoing, generous, friendly, ISO someone new and refreshing for some discreet adult playtime. 1374___________________________________________ SUGAR DADDY WANTED. HOT, HORNY mature, queen size F, seeks mature SM for dating if chemistry is right. 1330 MAPF, VERY BI-CURIOUS, ISO BEAUTIFUL well endowed woman for incredible encounter. Come with me and my husband to Montreal and help me be liberated. Be with me alone, or whatever. 1028

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c o u p le s seek in g ... WMACU, MID-20S, CREATIVE, PHYSICALLY fit, safe, deeply in love, private, trusting and secure to share sexy first time fun. You: please be the same. Prefer long-term, no strings. Light drink/smoke okay. 1363 SHE'S HOT, BOOBS, ASS AND TWAT HE'S long and big, 8.5 inches, he even has a cute butt and trim belly. We make girls cum together. More into him or her? It doesn't matter, must be attractive. 420, okay. 1329 WCU, 44, SEEK M FOR DISCRETE EROTIC encounter in the Burlington area. Must be well endowed, NO, NS. Tell us about yourself. 1296________________________________ CU ISO SF FOR ADULT FUN. UNINHIBITED sensual, creative play. Him: 5'11", 180, dark hair, green eyes, muscular build and very sexy. Her: 5'4", 120, dark hair, green eyes, petite and eager to please. Age, race and weight not important. 1127 EASY GOING AND FUN, PARTNERED GCU in Burlington area, in our mid 40s, seek ing other couples interested in home, gar den, movies, travel and just making good friends. 1125 PMACU, JAPANESE AND CAUCASIAN, NS, ND, 36 YO ISO first BIMF eXXXperience. Desire clean, attractive, height/weight proportional CU under 40 YO. No strings. 1045

LOOKING FOR THAT FORBIDDEN FRUIT the first kiss, the first touch of your body. All the erotic joy that 2 or 3 or ? can stand. Good looking M ISO F/CU/BIF. Be discreet and STD free, I am. Wa. county, afternoons. 1383 SGWM, 21, COLLEGE STUDENT. SEEKING WM under 28, for a friend, relationship or fun intimate encounters. ND, NS a must, alcohol is ok. 1379 OSCAR MADISON & FELIX UNGER, ISO Thelma and Louis. SJM, 23 and SBIM, 30, are on the lookout for two smart and attractive F playmates. Come and get the best of both worlds. Yeah. 1373 STRONG, HARDWORKING, CONFIDENT M funny, in great shape, 41. ISO BIF, 18-40, to be my model, my swing partner sexually and my Montreal rendezvous girl. We will bond, connect and have an ongoing, full commu nicative friendship and relationship. 1369 JACUZZI TUB, WOOD BURNING FIREPLACE, culinary creations and fine wines. Handsome, healthy, easygoing, youthful, 5'11", 175 lbs., 40ish, SWM seeking 25-45 YO slender female for friendship and sexual adventures. All responses answered. Let's talk. 1332 GOOD LOOKING, 32, HEALTHY, TALL, VERY nice body, well hung, black hair, blue eyes. Not hairy, fun, sexy. New to scene. ISO sexy F or CU. I'm open-minded, love to please. For great fun sex, give this box a call. 1327 WM, 39, VERY HANDSOME, VERY WELL hung. ISO all grandmothers, 45-75, any size, if you are clean. Do you want to feel young again? Husband at work during the day? Hot and wet, lots of oral, maybe LTR. 1315

MAPCU, ISO WOMAN TO BE SATISFIED? We want to give you the world! Let us touch you and make you squirm. Just for fun, we want a rendezvous. Spice it up for the new year. 1031

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PRINCE CHARMING ISO VALENTINE'S DAY SF Princess, 18-35. Looking for love, sexual pleasures in the bedroom. I will supply you physical pleasure all night long. I am also a great lover of passionate women. 1102 GM ISO SAME. I WANT SOMEONE TO FUCK me all night and I'll do anything you want. Age/race unimportant. 1101

SWM, 23, 6'6 ", W/AN ATHLETIC BUILD ISO PF, 35-60, about 155 lbs for a clean discrete sexual relationship. 1289

I AM LOOKING TO MEET A GM I AM A bottom, 6', 227 lbs. ISO a top M from Bristol, Hinesburg, Middlebury. I live alone during the week. 1099

STRAIGHT ACTING BIM BOTTOM, 40, INTO Polaroids, private videos, group scenes, oral, anal, golden showers, lingerie, B&D, exhibi tionism, voyeurism and more. ISO others, 18-45, who are healthy, open-minded and discreet. Leave a detailed message. 1288

WANTED: ATTRACTIVE, FIT, BI OR BI curious F, 35-48? DWM, clean, safe, discreet, seeks partner for adult get togethers. No com mitments, just good clean adult fun. Help me make your (our) fantasies a reality! 1098

LONELY MALE LOOKING FOR PLAYMATES. Race and age not important. N/S, D/D free and enjoy some good, hot, relaxing sex together. Looking for someone to take my virginity away. Looking for a person that likes to kiss and cuddle. 1222

ATTRACTIVE WM, VERY WELL HUNG AND in very good shape looking to have very good times in whatever suits your needs. 1034 ISO LF TO HELP ME WITH MY SPANISH IN return, I am sure that I can help you with your English, or whatever you need. 1017

LOOKING FOR DISCREET ENCOUNTERS. Easygoing and fun guy. No head games or diseases please. 1204

M, 42, ORAL SUB W/INSATIABLE appetite. Looking to give long lasting oral sessions. No reciprocation necessary 1009

A LEAN AND SMOOTH GENTLEMAN IN his 30s, is hunting for a couple of superendowed guys with bubble buns for some rear winter sports. Fine dining and music can always be included in our feast of lux uriant passion and pleasure. 1197

GWM, 33, 6'4", 240, ISO GUYS 18-25, for no-strings fun. The smoother-bodied the better, not into hairy chests. Would like the right young dude to top me, but bottoms welcome as well. 9930

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SAT, 1/24, ALCHEMIST, WATERBURY YOU: very attractive blonde w/your girlfriend. You were passing time talking w/bartender. Me: 5'10", dark hair, glasses. Walked in late, sat down a few stools away. I had one beer and left. I don't really feel comfortable in a bar. I may be that piece of the puzzle that you're looking for. I do believe that I fit the description. Take a chance, call! 1367 LAUNDROMAT, 11/22, ME: BLACK SWEATshirt, baggy jeans. You: very pretty and intrigued. We exchanged smiles and hellos. I have thought about you since that day. I'm 32 and single and very interested in you. Care to respond? 1365

spy THE WAITING ROOM, SEVEN DAYS I SPY event on 2/11. You: F, blonde, #82, wear ing orange shade sweater/shirt, sitting at bar w/friend. Never got the chance to say hi and introduce myself. Would you like to talk? 1401 BEAUnFUL GIRL WITH DEEP GREEN/BLUE eyes and a dog named Tala. Me: tall and lanky with a dog to match. Want to go for a walk sometime? Maybe we can bring a sleeping bag? Let me know. 1393 WINEBAR. I HAVE SEEN YOU THERE A FEW times. Once, showing off your big black shoes. Usually wearing a green scarf, always wearing a stunning smile and gor geous green eyes. I look forward to seeing your beautiful face again. 1392 THURS., 2/5, BOLTON VALLEY TELE. CUTE tele-woman in blue hat and vest w/a friend wearing a pink hat. My friend and I saw you on the hill, in the bar and rental shop, both have beards. Catch some turns? 1388 A CUTE GIRL WITH SHORT BROWN HAIR that I met at the cottage. Last time I saw you, you were chilling with Dempsey and Charlie. Can't get you out of my head. 1386 TO MY CASHIER CUTIE, SUNDAY NIGHT, 2/8 you were wearing a blue hat. I got a 6-pack of beer and was enthralled by your smile. We simply must meet again. 1385 2/8, CITY MARKET, 2:20 PM. YOU: LONG brownish hair pulled back, black Nissan, your pretty, open smiles were beautiful surprises. Me: tall, brown hair, blue Honda, we waved, you left. Sad I didn't talk to you. Let's meet, so we can? 1381 TALL, GOOD LOOKING, 30-SOMETHING windshield repair guy, Executive Carwash. You offered to fix the crack in my window but I want a different crack worked on. I'm the sexy blonde, black Jetta, UVM sticker. My friend is also interested. Fun x3? 1375 HEY PRETTY PRINCESS. JUST SO YOU know you rock and roll my world all day long sweet S. But don't think that means you're safe from the stairs Trogdor. 1371 ONLY A BEAUTIFUL PERSON AT HEART would help shape the youth, you just hap pen to be the most beautiful on the outside too! I want to see you arch your back again. No rush, just want to be your man! 1368

A TASTE FOR YOU, HEIDI WITH THE VOICE so fair. Your song so sweet, your effort rare. The box you gave me wasn't there, lest you think I did not care. 1361 LED, THE FIRE IN OUR BELLIES CAN ONLY be extinguished by the skin of the loconator. XO DB. PS, we're proud to be filthy. 1333 MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE, 1/31 WE danced, we talked, we danced the last dance. Incredible eye contact. I'm kicking myself for not asking for your number. Please call. I like what I saw in your eyes, a lot. 1328 HEY LIMITED GIRL, I SEE YOU WATCHING me. Your red hair captures me each time I pass by. How about a "hi" if you can guess it's me. 1326 I SPY THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL WITH LUScious curls and your far-out hats! I am in Thanksgiving. Share my heart, fly deep inside with me forever. Happy Valentines Day. 1322 CAMEL'S HUMP, 2/1, WE WERE TWO GUYS and a dog passing by three women at the top. You have brown hair, warm brown eyes. Western view was spectacular. The passing glance and small talk left me want ing more. You too? 1319 1/27 I SPY A CAMO LOVING GIRL AT 135 You beat me at pool and made my heart beat even harder. Trust in yourself, I will be waiting. 1311 FILTHY, BOTTOM FEEDER BLONDES YOU'VE been told who walks the streets here sans testes. Don't force us into action lest you want to taste the sparkling skin of the Loconator. 1309 2/2, HOME DEPOT. WE SAW EACH OTHER twice and exchanged smiles. You: guy w/lots of metal tubes. Me: in my 40's, w/short brown hair and purple sweater. Could a cute guy like you be free for a drink? 1307 PISCES MAGICIAN, I LOVE EVERYTHING about you. You not only think of people, you do for them. I don't know everything about you, but I'd like to. You rock every molecule of my body. 1304 YOU WHISPERED SUCH FLATTERY TO MY friend at JP's Friday, 1/23. I was shocked that you didn't stay for a proper introduc tion. Want one? 1302

2/2, MUDDY'S. I BORROWED YOUR TRUEMajority pen. You were cute, probably still are. Were you driving a Honda, Colorado plates, bike on top? You're probably too young and we may have nothing to talk about, but I liked your pen. 1301

1/22, TALL GUY LEAVING THE CO-OP with an armload of empty boxes as I was headed in for same. Chatted about mov ing, scoring free boxes, I liked your smile. I f you aren't moving far, coffee now that we are settled? 1221

YOU TOLD ME YOUR NAME, I BEAT YOU at arm wrestling twice. Need a post-wres tle massage? 1297

LEMMING LADY SEEKS GOAT BOY. LAST I knew, you were on a sheep farm in NZ. Now I've seen your creations on section B. Still as good with science as you are with paint? Come beetle hunting with me. 1220

1/30, 135 PEARL. YOU: CUTE BOY IN glasses rockin' a hot blond mohawk. Me: long-haired dirty-blond, having too much fun dancing to cheesy pop w/the girls. You knew all the words to Justin, had the moves to match. You're "Still on My Brain" and I wish I had made some moves of my own. You can "Take it from here." 1294 CHARLIE'OS WED NIGHT. YOU: LUSCIOUS smile, short brown hair, sitting in the back corner. I was hoping you would be there. Your presence brings me peace and you're a hottie! Let's get some soy hot choco lates sometime soon. 1291 PRICE CHOPPER, MORRISVILLE, 1 MONTH ago You caught my eye/interest moving through the aisles. Our paths crossed again. I asked about Thai Food. You said it was the only thing you didn't know about. Wonder what we could cook together? 1290 DIDGERIDOO-ER ARE YOU STILL SOUNDING the serpent? I f you are still weaving the streets of Burlington respond with another ad. 1287 0 THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL W/BRACES WORKing at Speeder and Earl's counter, you're everything I could ever ask for and more. I love your smile and stop telling me to turnaround, dammit. Be my Valentine? I'n% yours, promise. 1286

I SPY A BROWN EYED MAN SHOOTING 100s of baskets at Twin Oaks, 0 1 /2 4 .1 was the one trying to keep the little boy out from under your feet. Single? Interested in a replay? 1213 I SPY A SEXY GUY, LEXUS SUV SAW YOU on RT. 7, traveled together until 89 south. You have sexy eyes. Let's talk! 1212 A SAT. EVE IN LATE JANUARY YOU: LONG, dark hair, cool red Metronome bouncer shirt. Me: short hair, yellow dress, jeans. 70s/80s night dancing. Are you single? Curious? Looking for a change? 1201 YOU'RE LEAVING IN YOUR ORANGE KNIT hat and green scarf. You look great, you always do. I spy an unexpected smile on your face as I wave good-bye from my morning window. Let's have dessert and champagne in NY. 1188 TO THE TEACHER ON SCHOOL ST.: ON A warm Saturday morning, you strolled home from the library. My surprising "hello" brought out your bright smile. Will you join me for a hot drink so that we can exchange camping tales? 1138 BARRACA, 1/10/04. YOU WERE FAMILIAR with my two favorite trees in VT and I was impressed with your film. I'd like to chat more sometime. Tea? 1134

YOU: MONTPELIER MOBIL CUTIE W/YOUR nose pierced and long brunette hair. Me: light blue ski cap, I come in for coffee almost nightly with my friend. Our eyes meet often. Single? 1281

MUDDY WATERS, SAT 1/17, IN THE evening. Young woman dressed in black w/long thin dreadlocks, sitting at the end of the bar reading. You're radiant. 1126

WE CHATTED BRIEFLY ABOUT THE WEATHER and running at Uncommon Grounds, 1/25 /04.1 asked you to join us, but you had your own paper. Maybe you'd join me another time? 1279

1/15, I WAS ON A FIRST DATE. YOU: WITH two friends, sat at next table beside my date. Your above shoulder brown hair, pretty smile, soft eyes made it difficult to stay focused. You too? Name restaurant if it's you. 1122

CITY MARKET, THURS 1/29. YOU: TALL, dark and handsome, sideburns, black coat and lip ring. Me: bright green jacket, cot ton candy pink scarf, couldn't stop smiling at you! Sorry so shy, I should've waited to say hello. Single? Interested? Drinks? 1278

YOU: BLONDE HAIR, BLUE EYES, INFECtious smile and silver pearls. Drive a red Xterra with cute dog. I think he was a Yorkie. I often park next to you. Fancy a Stella? 1121

YOUR KARMA: YOU STOLE MY BLACK, cashmere scarf! 6:45 showing, "The House of Sand and Fog," Roxy, Jan. 23. I get the irony, do you? Give it back! Drop at 7 Days office: No questions, no retribution! SARAH: CONTACT IMPROV AND CONTRA dancing. You spied me at Uncommon Grounds or at least everyone seems to think it was me. Was it? Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Let me know how to get in touch with you. 1275 1/24, FLYNN CONCERT. G IN ROW G. YES, the bass violins were so cool. Sorry you had to leave early. You left me wondering. 1225

SHELBURNE IGA, SUN 1/11, NOON YOU: buying Bert's Bee's for baby shower. I had the gourmet pizza and dark chocolate. Loved our chat and your joie d' vivre! Care to share a glass of wine? 1109 BUMPED INTO YOU IN THE HALL AT THE Shed on 1/10. You: sexy, dark haired guy w/goatee. Me: petite blonde looking at bar glasses. Our eyes met and I felt sparks! I'd like to explore more. 1106

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): O n February 1, six big-name entertainers took control of the Super Bowl half time show. The result was a histrioni cally boring spectacle of robotic sexuali ty and fake emotion. If there was any saving grace amidst the monumental emptiness, it was Janet Jacksons climac tic unveiling. In a New York Times arti cle, Alessandra Stanley wrote, “The one moment of honesty in that coldly cho reographed tableau was when the cup came off and out tumbled a normal middle-aged woman’s breast instead of an idealized Playboy bunny implant.” Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to be inspired by that moment of honesty. Strip away pretension and phoniness everywhere you find them, thereby exposing the raw humanity that lies beneath. One caveat. Do this ethi cally and without breaking the law.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): The President of Belarus has issued a mandate to his country’s athletes regard ing their performance in the 2004 Summer Olympics. “You should have clear-cut plans for victory,” Alyaksandr Lukashenka told them. “It is unaccept able for you to win fewer than 25 medals.” That sounds a bit unrealistic to me, so I won’t be that demanding in my decree to you, Taurus. But the astrologi cal omens are on my side as I command you to pull off a feat that would be your equivalent of a gold medal between now and March 20. In addition, I order you to gather a new privilege, new perk, or new tide.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): After years of occupation by the Soviet Union, Georgia became an independ

ent republic in 1991. Its new leader was Eduard Shevardnadze, who over the next 12 years brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy and became the most hated man in public life. Last November he relinquished power in the face of a “revolution o f roses,” a blood less insurrection led by protestors bran dishing flowers. Two months later, one of the leading “rose revolutionaries,” 36-year-old Mikhail Saakashvili, was elected Georgia’s new president. I sug gest that you Geminis make Saakashvili your role model for the next two months. You’ve got a lot of status quo to overthrow, and the best way to do it is with your version o f flower power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to my analysis of the astro logical omens, it’s time for you to make two corrections. First, you are suffering from an exaggerated sense of what’s possible to accomplish in the short term. I urge you to deflate your grandiosity a bit. Second, your expec tations of what you can pull off in the long run are way too small. I authorize you to pump up them up.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Our subject this week, class, is the aphorism, “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine the meaning of success.” Your assignment is to make practical use of this principle. Judging from the current astrological omens, I think the best place to apply it might be in your love life. If you agree, here’s a suggestion about how to proceed. First, figure out what it is you’ve been doing wrong that has kept you from get ting the exact kind o f love you want. (One possibility is that your soul and your ego are craving different things and

therefore working at cross-purposes.) Second, revise your definition of the exact kind of love you want, incorporating a more realistic assessment of who you are. Third, forgive yourself for having previ ously had an inadequate definition.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love may not conquer all in the coming weeks, Scorpio, but it could conquer 60 percent, and even as much as 75. The key factor in determining love’s power to accomplish wonders will be your knack for avoiding obsessive perfection ism and all-or-nothing thinking. You should work with love like a master politician who’s skilled at compromise, not like a glory-seeking hero who thinks she can change everything overnight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m grateful for my years of psychotherapy. They’ve been crucial in helping me shed bad mental habits and master the art of being happy. How about you, Virgo? Have you ever met regularly with an empath whose prifnary purpose is to lis ten to you and enhance your life? It’s a perfect time to start giving yourself this necessary luxury. Or, if you’re one of the lucky few who already has a skilled wise person working in service to you, it’s a favorable time to dive deeper into the work. The astrological omens suggest that you now have the power to get more help than you’ve received before —r but you have to ask for it.

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SAGITTARIUS

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is a bit stiff, but his Libran wife Teresa is just the opposite. “She can be as unbuttoned in her speech as Kerry is buttoned up in his,” wrote Philip Gourevitch in The New Yorker, “with the result that she is sometimes impolitic and always worth listening to.” In Salon.com, Rebecca Traister said Teresa has complained that George W. Bush “is afraid to be Socratic” and that he entered his presidency “with a lack o f curiosity about the job.” She playful ly told one interviewer that if John is elected, her main job as first lady will be to keep him humble. I urge you to make Teresa your role model in the ♦coming week, Libra. Be uni

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The fishermen of the Colombian coast must be learned doc tors of ethics and morality,” writes Eduardo Galeano in The Book o f Embraces, “for they invented the [Spanish] word sentipensante, or ‘feel ing-thinking,’ to define language that speaks the truth.” I advise you to make sentipensante your word of power in the coming days, Sagittarius. It may help you synchronize your galloping emotions and your restless intellect. And that may be your best hope for solving the conundrums headed your way. Here’s another way to describe your assignment: Think with your heart and feel with your mind.

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►office space BRISTOL: Newly renovated, bright and sunny office/studio space. 800 sq. ft., central, Main St. location. Avail, now. Calt Louise for appt., 802-453-5841. BURLINGTON: Main Street Landing Company has lovely waterfront space available to rent. Visit www.mainstreetlanding.com and click on "space available." Interested? Call Melinda at 802-864-7999. S. BURLINGTON: 1272 sq. ft. office suite. Avail, now. $1375/mo. Plenty of free parking. High speed Internet access avail. Gorgeous, convenient location! Lakewood Commons, 658-9697.

►real estate ATTN LANDLORDS: Apartment rental service available. Experienced real-estate broker will advertise your apartments, show your apartments, run credit reports and check references. You make final decision and retain the right to rent the apartment yourself. If you rent to my customer, I charge half of one-month rent. Call David at 860-4641 to find out more.

►housing for rent BURLINGTON: 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed rooms. Close to UVM/bus line. Offstreet parking. Avail, immed. $6001300/mo. 864-4449. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom and office. 236 S. Union. Pristine condi tion, Hill Section, hdwd, high ceil ings, sunny, balcony, lake views. Avail, now. $1175/mo. + utils. 802879-9440. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom studio apt. Incl. HW, elec. $600/mo. + dep. Mark, 355-1011. BURLINGTON: 2 and 4-bedroom avail. 6/1. Nice, clean, quiet, porch, gas heat, well-insulated/ energy eff., parking, yard, garden space, coin-op. 879-2436: BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom apt. 1year sublet. Partially furnished. Walk to downtown/waterfront. Offstreet parking. Quiet neighbor hood. No pets. $975/mo. + utils. Refs. + dep. 233-3415. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom apt. Off-street parking, basement stor age, W/D hookups. Please, no pets. $900/mo. + utils. Call 859-9652. BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom house. Downtown. Home office, off-street parking, W/D, gas heat. $1350/mo. + utils. 865-3449.

BURLINGTON: 2-bedroom, second floor in owner-occupied duplex. Quiet. 207 Park St. No smoking/ pets. $900/mo., incl. heat/HW, parking. 865-1794. BURLINGTON: 260 College St. Fullyfurnished, quality apts. Flexible lease lengths. 1 and 2-bedrooms, $12001650/mo. Avail, now, 2/1 and 3/1. W/D on-site. All utils./cable incl. Call TWO Properties, 658-9697. BURLINGTON: 3-bedroom, $1200/ mo. Large 4+bedroom house, $2500/ mo. Each have W/D, storage, offstreet parking. Avail, now and/or 6/04-6/05 lease. Call 324-3500. BURLINGTON: 3-bedroom apt. 196 Pine St. Newly renovated. Two blocks from Main St./lake. Gas heat, some off-street parking. Avail. July. $1250/mo. 864-8314. BURLINGTON: 4-bedroom house. Clean, quiet, laundry, parking, close to downtown. Avail. 6/1. $1800/mo. + utils. 482-4822. BURLINGTON: 5-bedroom, 2-bath, two floor, townhouse style. Avail. 6/1. Hickok PI. Rent incl. heat, elec., water, HW, trash, lawn, snow, parking. $525/mo. per bed room-. 951-2457. BURLINGTON: 72B N. Prospect St Three-story townhouse, walking dis tance UVM, 2.5-bath, two off-street parking spaces, W/D, DW, central A/C, central vacuum. Sec. dep., refs., lease req. $1800/mo., incL utils. Email gybissell@comcase.net, phone/fax 617-354-5499. BURLINGTON: 81 Adams. Hill Section. 2-bedroom apt. Avail. 6/1. $1050/mo., incl. heat, parking, trash, water, etc. Call 863-0272 or 864-5299. BURLINGTON: 81 Adams. Hill Section. 3-bedroom apt. Avail. 6/1. $1550/mo., incl. heat, parking, trash, water, etc. Call 863-0272 or 864-5299.

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►space for rent BURLINGTON: Looking for bodywork/massage therapist and/or licensed psychotherapist to rent 1-3 days/week in established holistic healthcare center starting February. Convenient downtown location. Beautiful, light space. Pathways to WellBeing, 862-8806 x 2. BURLINGTON: Spacious industrial/commercial studio to share with artist/seamstress. 208 Flynn Ave. Avail. 4/1. $420/mo., incl. utils, and Internet. Call 658-9700. STUDIOS will be avail, soon for yearly rental by individual artists or possibly to share. Studio Place Arts in Barre. Call Nancy Hanson, 802476-6110 for more info. WAREHOUSE/LIGHT INDUSTRIAL space for rent. Rte. 7 location, 30 mins south of Burlington. 14,000‘ sq. ft. clear span, concrete slab, loading docks, drive-in access, rail access, competitive rates, could be subdivided for right tenants. 453-4914 or 453-4596.

BURLINGTON: 83 Adams. Hill Section. 4-bedroom apt. Avail. 6/1. $1850/mo., incl. parking, trash, water, etc. Tenant pays heat. Call 863-0272 or 864-5299. BURLINGTON: Avail. 6/1. 3, 4, 5bedroom units. Hickok PL, N. Willard, Colchester Ave., School S t 863-9656. BURLINGTON: Avail, now. 349 Pearl St. 3-bedroom + garage. Short term through 5/31. Very nice. Very popular. Hill Garden condo. Near UVM/Champlain College/downtown. $1200/mo. Also avail. 6/1, several sweet 2-bedroom apts. in same complex. 802-893-4163, 802-3551373, coreproperties@msn.com. BURLINGTON: Beautiful 4-bedroom home for rent. Off-street parking. Avail, immed. No pets. $1700/mo. 355-0995. BURLINGTON: Bright, sunny, clean 2-bedroom. Upper North St. Gas fireplace, hdwd, W/D, DW, lots of storage and parking. Avail. 6/1. $1000/mo. + utils. 651-8855. BURLINGTON Downtown, sunny 1bedroom w/views. $725/mo. + utils. Or sunny 1-bedroom. Walk to down town. $675/mo. + utils. South End: Quiet studio w/parking, $595/mo. + utils. Owner occupied duplex w/three spacious bedrooms, dining room, hdwd, yard. $1199/mo. + utils. Negotiable. All avail, now. RED E. Rentals, 860-4641. BURLINGTON: Efficiency apt. near Champlain College/UVM. Comfortable, bright, cozy space, very clean. Pvt. entrance and yard. New carpeting. No pets/smoking/off-street parking. $550/mo. + utils. Steve, 363-8064. BURLINGTON: Fully furnished, spacious 4-level townhouse. 2.5bath, fireplace, W/D, pvt. court yard. 1.5 blocks from UVM. Two parking spaces. Avail. 6/15. $2400/mo., incl. cleaning person. 305-292-0628. BURLINGTON: Large, bright 2-bedroom. New paint and flooring. Gas heat, Berber carpet, porch, yard, storage, laundry. Off-street parking. Nice, quiet building in great neigh borhood near the lake. No dogs. Sec. dep., credit check, lease req. $850/mo. 802-425-4549, liamL5inc@hotmail.com. BURLINGTON: Large, clean'3-bed room w/screened porch. Near UVM/downtown. Avail. 6/1. $1200/mo. + utils. 651-8855. BURLINGTON: Maple St. Bright and clean 1-bedroom w/full bath, parking. $695/mo. + utils. Park St. Modern 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath condo, $1100/mo. + utils. Avail, now. RED E. Rentals office located at 138 Church St. 860-4641.' BURLINGTON: Near UVM. Upper North St. Quaint 2-bedroom. W/D (not coin), DW, parking. Avail. 6/1. $900/mo., incl. all. Call Chris, 859-3377. BURLINGTON: New North End, large 1-bedroom w/office, quiet, hdwd, laundry, parking. Avail. 3/1. $725/mo. + utils. 482-4822. BURLINGTON: New North End, mod em, large 2-bedroom. $850/mo., heat ed. Midtown, 4-bedroom, $1600/mo. S. End, modem 2-bedroom, fully applianced. $1250/mo., heated. AvaiL now. RED E. Rentals office located at 138 Church St 860-4641. BURLINGTON: Newly renovated, large 4-bedroom, 1-bath apt. 196 Pine St. Some off-street parking. W/D hookups, ceramic tile, hdwd. Close to downtown/lake. Pets neg. AvaiL now. $1300/mo. + utils. 864-8314.

BURLINGTON: Professionally renovated 2-bedroom apt. New kitchen/bath, full lake views, deck, off-street parking, W/D in unit. Avail. 4/1. $1450/mo., incl. heat/HW. 658-8371. BURLINGTON: Sunny, quiet. South End location near South Park. 3bedroom. 1000 sq. ft. Hdwd. Full basement, W/D, parking. Pets neg. Avail. 3/1. $1100/ mo., incl. heat. 862-4817. BURLINGTON: Three huge bed rooms, 2 baths. Lake view. Near downtown. Unique, quiet, parking, gas heat, W/D. No smoking. Avail. March/April. $1350/mo. 860-1443 or 355-1841. BURLINGTON: Two-story, 2 bed room condo in the New North End. Garage, W/D, low utils, nice space. No dogs/smoking. Avail, now. $1050/mo. Refs. 434-8548. BURLINGTON Walk to downtown, 3-bedroom house. Fresh and clean, eat-in kitchen, skylights, yard, parking. Avail, now. $1100/mo. + utils. Walk-in service located at 138 Church St. RED E. Rentals, 860-4641. CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE: 1-bedroom, new efficient gas heat, new win dows, first-floor open kitchen/living area, off-street parking. Pets neg. No smoking. Avail. 3/1. $700/mo., incl. elec. + dep. 373-0893. CHARLOTTE: 1-bedroom furnished apt. Charming, cozy, Adirondack views, near village center. Monthto-month. Well-behaved pet OK. No smoking. Avail.-3/l. $1150/mo., utils., ISDN + cable incl. 578-5962. CHARLOTTE: Duplex, clean 2-bedroom, W/D hookups, garden, views. $850/mo. Call 425-3451. CHARLOTTE: Sunny 3-bedroom apt. Newly renovated. Large bed rooms. Huge yard w/garden space and pond. Covered porch, hiking trails, 20 mins, to Burlington. Gas fireplace. No smoking. Indoor cat OK. $1000/mo. 425-3779. COLCHESTER: 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath townhouse. Quiet location. Attached garage, open floor plan, economical monitor heating system. No pets/smoking. $975/mo. + utils. Days: 859-6469, nights: 658-6780. COLCHESTER: Cute 2 bedroom house sharing lot w/owner. Large, great room for den/office, 1-bath, garden space in quiet backyard. Great location near lake/bike path/post office/schools. No smoking. Pets neg. Avail, immed. $1000/mo. + utils. + dep. Call Sundance Services, 802-893-2348. COLCHESTER: Executive takefront 4bedroom, 2.5-bath, fully furnished. March through June. $2900, incl. utils. This home rents for $11,000 during the summer months. 802-3166933. www.myhomeisyourhome.com/ vt2. COLCHESTER VILLAGE: Two quiet 2-bedroom apts. Large yard. Dogs welcome. $850/mo. and $895/mo. 888-9200. ESSEX JCT.: 2-bedroom. Pvt. deck, carport, storage, pool, tennis. Many new updates. No pets/smok ing. $950/mo. 859-6786. ESSEX JCT.: 3-bedroom house, convenient location. Gas heat, A/C, pvt. yard, garage, W/D. No smoking/pets. $1350/mo. + utils and dep. 879-7423. ESSEX JCT.: Comfortable 2-bedroom condo w/1.5-bath, carport, extra parking. Incl. five appliances. Pool, tennis. Near Five Comers, shopping plazas, Essex Community Ctr. Great neighborhood. Avail, now.

$1200/mo. + Utils. 802-879-8849, 324-4551, 859-8076, bpdobhal@earthlink.net. MONTREAL: 1-bedroom apt. Fully furnished incl. appliances. Clean and quiet. Close to metro/grocery. Avail, now. $300 US/month. Call Garth, 655 9316. RICHMOND VILLAGE: 3-bedroom duplex. W/D hookup, porches, appli ances, parking for two cars. No smoking/pets. $1050/mo. + lease, dep. and utils. 802-434-2489. RICHMOND VILLAGE: 3-bedroom house on river. Charming, porches, garden, W/D, pine floors. Short or long-term. AvaiL immed. $1450/mo. + utils. 212-691-1145 or tallen@igc •org. S. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom apt. for rent off Farrell St. Clean, one year old. Avail. 3/1. $750/mo., incl. heat. Kelly, 863-4541. S. BURLINGTON: Quarry Hill condo. Immaculate 2-bedroom, 1-bath, close to UVM/bike path/pool/tennis, off-street parking, W/D, gas heat. No dogs/cats. AvaiL 3/1. $900/mo. + utils. One-year lease. 802-598-3324 or 802-343-7879. S. BURLINGTON: Spacious 3-bedroom, newly renovated. $1125/mo„ incl. heat, water, trash removal, plowing, off-street parking. Basement storage, W/D hookups. Nice, quiet location. 862-8664. SHELBURNE: Furnished studio apt. in luxury three-level condo. Enjoy pvt. entrance, fireplace, pool and tennis. Quiet, wooded setting. $700/mo., incl. utils. 985-8711. SHELBURNE: Three-level luxury condo. Fully furnished w/garage, short-term. Incl. all. $800/mo. 985-8711. UNDERHILL Spacious 2-bedroom apt. Recently remodeled kitchen/ bathroom, pvt. parking, storage area, 25 mins, to Burlington. Cats OK. Avail, now. $695/mo., incl. heat/water. $100 cash back if lease signed by 2/28. Lee, 6445650 (h) or 764-4471(w). VERGENNES: Riverside apts. Two medium-size 2-bedroom apts. Clean, enclosed porch. No dogs. $635/mo. and $660/mo. Call only 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., 802-877-1276. WINOOSKI: 3-bedroom. Lease, gas heat, off-street parking, yard, remodeled, W/D, rubbish removal. $1150/mo. 434-5736. WINOOSKI: Avail, now. Downtown, 1- bedroom. Lease. No dogs. $550/mo. + $550 sec. 2-bedroom, downstairs apt. Gas heat. Offstreet parking. $650/mo. + $650 sec. 655-2544.

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MIDDLESEX: 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath open living, deck overlooking 1500' riverfront, 15 acre pasture, barn, orchard. Call Bill, Sugarbush Real Estate, 802-496-3500, www.sugar bushrealestate.com/SCRIBNER.htm $ 6 9 5 ,0 0 0

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660-0638 w w w .g e t a h o m e .o r g B u r lin g t o n C o m m u n i t y L a n d T r u s t CHARLOTTE: 3/4-bedroom, 2.5bath. 1300 sq. ft. + 700 sq. ft. unfinished. 1.4 acres w/wildflower meadow. Fireplace, family room, large fenced-in play yard off back deck. Great neighborhood. $259,900. 425-6317. CHARLOTTE: Sunny 3-bedroom, 2bath home on 7+/- acres. Great views, privacy, three-stall horse barn. Call for more pictures. $350,000. 425-3233. MILTON: Townhouse condos. 3bedroom, 1.5-bath, 1400 sq. ft. plus basement. Parking, back patio, gas heat, city water. Three minutes from Husky and 1-89. Purchase price, $153,000. Buyer's net, $127,500. Call Emily, 660-0638.

►housing wanted HAVE AN EFFICIENCY, 1-bedroom or studio apt? Must have by May 1. Short term. Responsible female. No smoking/pets. 654-6371, Iv. msg.

►room for rent BURLINGTON: Close to lake/ downtown. W/D, backyard, parking. Share kitchen. Pets considered. Avail, immed. $425/mo. + 1/2 utils. + dep. Call Tony, 658-2191. BURLINGTON: Flexible living. Looking for part-time or short term housing? Lovely, furnished room in three-level townhouse, flexible terms, nonsmoking, 25+ grad. studertt/pToT.'Niraogs*, sorry. $425/mo. + 1/2 utils, 859-0878. S. BURLINGTON: Neat, prof. M/F to share 3-bedroom, 2-bath house w/two females. Quiet neighbor hood. W/D, Internet, parking, yard, deck. No pets. Avail. 3/1. $500/mo. + 1/3 utils. 324-4368. WINOOSKI: Grad student. New, clean, large 14x17 semi-studio. Refrigerator, microwave, separate entrance. Nonsmoking, quiet, no pets. $400/mo. + share of phone, dep. and refs. Call 655-5448. WINOOSKI/COLCHESTER: Exit 15. Private room, country kitchen, perfect for profs., extended stay. $175/week or $39/day. Maggie's Inn, 324-7388 or 324-3291.

►vacation rental CARIBBEAN: St. Thomas, April 310, 1-bedroom sleeps four. St. Martin, April 10-17, 1-bedroom on Dawn Beach sleeps four. $700 each for the week. Email odinhound@ adelphia.net or 802-863-8605.

►housemates ALL AREAS, ROOMMATE.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: www.Roommate.com. (AAN CAN) BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom and studio/office space, avail, in old Victorian. Laundry onsite, close to downtown. Full bath, hdwd. Avail. 3/1. $600/mo. Amanda, 598-0913. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom avail, in townhouse. W/D, off-street parking. Prof., quiet. No smok ing/pets. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. 660-2935. BURLINGTON: 1-bedroom in 2bedroom apt. Sunny, spacious, big windows, high ceilings, parking, W/D. No pets. $450/mo. + utils. 8603902. BURLINGTON: Act now! This offer won't last! Not sold in stores! Laid-back, creative types wanted or our funky downtown apt. Musicians, painters, writers, Philosophers, freaks, etc. Large room avail. 3/1. $450/mo. + dep. 8612273.

BURLINGTON: Clean, relaxed prof, to share perfect 2-bedroom. Hdwd, yard, off-street parking, heated garage/workshop/storage. Avail. 5/1. $500/mo., incl. heat/HW. Scott, 355-7869. BURLINGTON: Fun, prof, needed to share 3-bedroom apt. w/two late 20s females, cat and schnauzer. Off-street parking, studio, storage, close to downtown. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. Amanda, 578-9181. BURLINGTON: Grad, student, F, wanted to share quiet 3-bedroom South End house. Backyard, gar den, parking, W/D. $485/mo., incl. utils. 658-3932. BURLINGTON: Large house on bike path. Pvt. beach, nice neighbor hood. 2-bedroom, pvt. bath. Fully furnished 1-bedroom set up as liv ing room. Nice setup, leather, color, shared kitchen. No pets. $550/mo., incl. all. John, 864-3412. BURLINGTON: M seeking prof./ grad, to share large 3-bedroom apt. near UVM/downtown. Parking, yard, storage. No pets/smokers. $450/mo. + 1/2 utils. 658-6864. BURLINGTON: M/F, young prof./student wanted to share large 3-bedroom Riverwatch condo. Parking, pool, deck, laun dry. Avail. Tmmed. or 3/1. $475/mo,( incl. heat/HW/elec. Jesse, 802-233-7818. BURLINGTON: Prof., quiet NS seeks same to share 2-bedroom condo a few flocks frqm dovy[y- ,n. town. W/D, DW. Pets OK. $50d/mo. Please call 951-9629, Iv. msg. BURLINGTON: Prof., single, GWF looking for similar to share 3-bedroom apt. near Church St. Must like cats. Nonsmoker. $450/mo. + 1/2 utils. + dep. Sabrina, 865-4626. BURLINGTON: Quiet, sunny loca tion within six block radius of UVM/downtown/Intervale. Join three others in tobacco-free zone and respectful lifestyle in large house. Share gas heat, wood stove, large gardens, new bath, floatation tank and earnest efforts at urban sustainability. $450/mo. + 1/4 utils. M-F, 3-7 p.m., 658-4396. BURLINGTON: Responsible, clean, laid-back roommate needed for sunny, newly renovated 2-bedroom downtown apt. $350/mo. + utils. 658-8148. BURLINGTON: Responsible, pro gressive, quiet, tidy grad./prof. seeks same as housemate. Large bedroom in huge, beautiful, peaceful, South End 2-bedroom. Lake view, W/D, parking, hdwd. No TV/dogs/smokers. Avail, now through 9/1. $515/mo., incl. utils. Wendy, 660-8634. BURLINGTON: Room for rent. Friendly, responsible. Cat friendly. Avail. ASAP. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. Call 651-0145 for more info. ESSEX: Housemate wanted for large colonial home near IBM. Garage, hot tub, wood stove, quiet neighborhood. Nonsmoker. $550/mo„ incl. utils. 872-0847. ESSEX JCT.: Roommate wanted. Near Five Corners. 2-bedroom, 1bath, gas heat, parking. No pets. $405/mo. + 1/3 utils. Katie, 879-0974. ESSEX: Roommate wanted to share laid-back house. Soifth St. Possible pet. Rooms from $400450/mo. Call Brad for more details, 802-318-5108. HINESBURG: 1-bedroom in 2-bedroom house. Pvt. 1/2-bath. Female pref. Some pets OK, two cats already. W/D, garage. Quiet street. Avail, immed. $350/mo. + 1/2 utils. + sec. dep. 482-6356. HUNTINGTON: Small room. Country house, fireplace, yard, fields, garden, garage. Sorry, no pets. 2 dogs and horses provided. 25 mins, to Burlington. $350/mo., incl. all. 434-3718.

JERICHO: Great pvt. place. 25 min. drive to Burlington. Looking for kind, clean & responsible indi vidual. $350/mo. + 1/2 utils. Call to inquire, 862-2212. MILTON: Cheerful, "green" house mate to share renovated farm house w/naturalist (into organic gardening, spiritual growth, games) and Border Collie. Nonsmoker, please. $300/mo., incl. utils. ($400/mo. 2-bedroom). Some work exchange possible. Laurie, 893-1845. MILTON: Seeking a responsible, prof, person to share a home. Mu?t be nonsmoker and respect privacy. Short-term lease req. and is open for renewal. Last rent and sec. dep. req. $675/mo., incl. utils and facilities. Refs. req. 578-0909 for appt. MONTPELIER: Bright, spacious Victorian in ideal location. Walk to downtown/colleges/Hubbard Park. Two outgoing profs, seek third. No additional pets. $400/mo., incl. utils. 274-0901 or 229-4776. RICHMOND VILLAGE: Roommate wanted to share 3-bedroom farm house. Large back yard, must be dog friendly, NS. Young profession al or graduate student pref. $425/mo. Call 434-7051. S. STARKSBORO: Looking for mature, responsible, working adult to share big, beautiful country home on 30 acres. No smokers/ pets/children. $485/mo., incl. utils. Dep. req. 453-5409, lescoe@madriver.com. SHELBURNE: Female to share nice, clean condo. Sunny room, pvt. bath, pool. No pets/smoking. No lease. $575/mo„ incl. all utils, except phone. Danielle, 985-5355. SHELBURNE: Looking for prof., nonsmoker to share beautiful 3bedroom home. Fully furnished. Quiet location. Near tennis court. Utils, incl. except phone. $550/mo. 985-3910.

(for sale by owner) BURLINGTON: Three-unit building. St. Paul St. Magnificent views. Owners unit: 2-bedroom duplex w/executive loft, hdwd throughout, marble bath, ch e fs kitchen. Plus, two

NORTH CAMBRIDGE: Three-story w/storefront, second-floor apt. Currently occupied. Building needs work. Lots of room and possibilities. $55,000 neg.

strong rentals: off-street' parking and separate utils. Asking, $399,000. Vermont Independent Properties, 860-4641.

893-2743, eves.

M O R ETO W N : Cozy, cen trally located condo. 2bedroom, 1-b ath, gas heat. Very to asty and affordable. J u s t renovat ed. A ll new: windows, kitchen floor, flat-top stove, fridge, DW. Pvt. deck/porch has storage clo se t. Close to Mont pelier, Waterbury, W aitsfield and Sugarbush. Pre-qualified, please. $ 8 5 ,0 0 0 . 4 9 6 -5 7 5 9 .

S. BURLINGTON: 10 Shunpike Rd. Lease-to-own pending final subdivision permits. 3-bedroom, 1bath, 1400 sq. ft. updated ranch house, hdwd, fireplace/wood stove, full basement, attached garage, patio. Move in pending pre-approval letter, credit check. $197,500. Lease payment ($1,200) 50% subtracted from purchase price. See pictures/info: www.obrienbrothers agency.com. Call O'Brien Brothers Agency, 658-5000. Owner/Broker.

BURLINGTON: Hill Section. 3-bedroom, 1.5bath, w/4-bay carriage barn. Formal living room and dining room, den, cu tom kitchen. Lake views, gardens, pvt. yard. $375,000. 233-2978.

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►homeshare UPBEAT WOMAN in her 80s seeks homesharer to assist with some meals and housework inrexchange for a room in her home. Call HomeShare Vermont at 802-8630274 or visit www.homesharever mont.org. EHO.

COLCHESTER: Colonial w/many renovations on 1.1 acres. 3-bedroom, 2-bath, wood stove, hdwd, detached garage, in quiet neighbor hood close to C.H.S. trails. $210,000. 651-6855, eves.

off Rt. 15. Fully permitted w/approved septic design (conventional primary and backup). Builder-ready.

BURLINGTON: Beautiful

VERGENNES: 4-bedroom,

features, easy access to

1920 sq. ft. raised-ranch,

bike path, downtown.

1 .5 -bath , 2-car attached

2106 sq. ft., 3-story home,

garage, fam ily neighbor

3/4-bedroom, 2-bath, fire

hood. Less than one mile

place, fenced-in yard. $270,000. 864-7330.

from quaint downtown.

Easy drive to Essex, Circ Highway, Burlington and Smugglers' Notch ski area. $79,900. Second building lot also available. 802-899-3868.

$ 16 5 ,0 0 0 . 8 77 -3671.

S. BURLINGTON: Twin Oaks condo. 2-bedroom flat, first floor. Excellent condition, updated carpet,

S. BURLINGTON: Spear St.

ceramic tile, appliances,

Great location. 3-bedroom

pool, carport. $131,500.

house. 2-car garage. ,

434-3749.

Fireplace. Great yard.

HINESBURG: Texas Hill

MONTPELIER: Spacious,

Rd. Beautiful 2-year-old, 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath, 2300 sq. ft. Colonial on 10.4 acres. Finished bonus room over garage. $291,500. 482-6673.

sunny Victorian. Beautiful woodwork, 3/4-bedroom,

Asking, $300,000. Owner, 860-3923.

porches, deck, large yard, full basement. Nice neighborhood, very convenient. Separate third floor 2-bedroom apt. New. $275,000. 454-4636.

CHARLOTTE: Sunny 3bedroom, 2-bath home on 7+/- acres. Great views, privacy, th ree-stall horse barn. Call for more pictures. $350,000. Call, 425-3233.

BURLINGTON: River Watch condo. 2-bedroom, deck. Secure building, underground parking, elevator. Tiled kitchen/bath, other updates. Fees (heat/HW/ pool +). Close to downtown/college/hospital. $125,000. Keith, 802-865-2234 or Sandy, 802229-4568. www.fusionmgmtgrp .com/property.

JEFFERSONVILLE: 32 acres, awesome views. End of road. Near Smuggler's Notch or backcountry ski out your door. Improvements. Covenants. Owner financing. $289,000. 802-355-6998.

3 CONTI CIRCLEHOMES STONEMOUNTAIN BARRETOWN Near Good Schools - Views 3 Bedrooms - 2 Baths - Deck Fully Equipped Kitchen Full Basement And More! $162,900-$168,900 CALL: LARRY (802) 433-6283 OR TOM (802) 244-6963

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ust the thing to brighten a rainy winter day — Saab’s new 9-3 Convertible frocked in dusk-defying limeyellow metallic paint. Like a black-headed salaman der, the convertible sat motionless in my soggy drive way during an incessant downpour. Figments of open-air exhilaration danced like post-holiday sug arplums in my head. W hy even wait for the showers to subside? Saab’s 2004 9-3 Convertible struts about on General Motors’ stiff and sophisticated Epsilon plat form. For a convertible, extra stiffness is most wel come. W ithout the superstructure of a roof, a con vertible’s tub-like cockpit is prey to all sorts of Newtonian vagaries. So you can imagine my surprise when I hopped in for a splashy spin around the block only to encounter a steady flow o f rainwater streaming into the cabin. For all of the 9-3 s many improvements, someone forgot to make double-caulkin’ sure that the roof sealed properly. In fairness, it must be said that I isolated the prob lem to a section of misapplied weather-stripping at the forward corner of the retracting roof where it meets the passenger-side A-pillar. W ith a tweak here and some caulk there, perhaps, the seep might be stopped; and I’m certain this was an unrepresentative case of spontaneous irrigation. That my giddy first impressions were dampened I cannot deny. Nevertheless, when blue sky broke clear the very next day, it was with reinvigorated glee that I hopped into the 9-3, popped the top and shagged my lime-yellow bootie all over town. I had, in short, a blast. In its element — that is, in the sunshine of a 70-degree day — Saab’s 9-3 con vertible is sporty to drive, jaunty to flaunt and comfy enough for sharing the experience with three passen gers. One-touch control of the retracting roof initi ates a 20-second sequence wherein the ragtop either origami-folds tidily under a sheetmetal boot or re deploys back out from there.

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If jaded “cabriolistas” have had their fill of auto-action rooftops, Saab has at least one innovation they will not have seen before. Dubbed CargoSET, this “self-expand ing trunk” makes sure that the 9-3 s 12.4-cu. ft. trunk is the largest in the cabrio class. It’s all a matter of having a trunk and eating it, too. When the roof retracts, the trunk automatically resizes to make room for it; and if CargoSET detects an impediment during the process, a fail-safe prevents shattering the Waterford crystal. Other convertible-dependent cleverness is to be found within the automatic climate-control system. W ith the roof overhead, the 9-3’s HVAC is thermo statically controlled for set-and-forget comfort at both driver and passenger positions. Pop the top, though, and you’ll note that your 72-degree settings have been reduced to mere single digits. It’s not a case of creep ing Celsification; instead, it’s just a re-calibration of the climate controls to indicate fan settings, so that - you’re not temp-adjusting the universe. Elsewhere about the new 9-3 cockpit are gende updates — rather than a complete makeover — of what is a favorite jet fighter-style interior. As for the Saab Information Display (SID) that coordinates disparate audio, telephone and data functions, it’s a bit beasdy to manipulate at first. Master it, though, and you’ll have a portfolio of different settings “profiles” for different driv ers or even different moods of a single driver.

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Saab’s convertible exploits H.O.T. — high-output turbocharging — to extract 210 horsepower from a mere 2.0-liter inline-four. Infamous torque-steer is largely gone; noticeable turbo lag somewhat remains. Combined with agile handling, the powerplant is adequate to the task of sport-touring and extrovert hot-dogging about town. At 3360 portly pounds, however, the 9-3 reaches its cornering limits early and even shudders a bit when pummeling potholes and speed bumps. As a fair-weather friend, Saab’s 9-3 convertible succeeds with a niffy combination of charm and spunk. W hen it rains, there is at least one Saab I am aware of that also weeps. ®

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BUICK PARK AVENUE, 2001, ultra sedan, 4 dr., maroon, V6/3.8L Supercharged, auto., FWD. 29,483 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/cass./CD, OnStar, air bags, ABS, traction. Best price, $18,997. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. CADILLAC ELDORADO ESC, 2001, coupe, 2 dr., white, V8/4.6L, auto., FWD. 32,697 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/CD/cass., OnStar, air'' bags, ABS, leather. Best price, $22,895. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. CHEVROLET CAVALIER, 2001, sedan, 4 dr., silver, 4-cyl./2.2L, auto., FWD. 46,692 miles, A/C, PS, AM/FM, dual front air bags. Best price, $6650. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. CHEVROLET PRIZM, 2001, sedan, 4 dr., gold, 4-cyl./1.8L, auto., FWD. 35,435 miles, A/C, PS, AM/FM, air bags. Best price, $6698. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. HONDA CIVIC DX, 1997, excellent condition. 88K miles. Full mainte nance records. Clean title. New studded snows. Auto., CD. Asking S5700/0B0. Kevin, 860-3326. PONTIAC FIREBIRD TRANS AM, 2002, coupe, 2 dr., silver, V8/5.7L, 6 spd. manual, RWD. 15,105 miles, Ram Air Handling pkg., A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/CD, air bags, ABS, leather, T-bar roof. Best price, $23,750. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. PONTIAC GRAND AM SE, 2004, sedan, 4 dr., gold, V6/3.4L, auto., FWD. 384 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/CD, air bags, sun roof. Best price,

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8 0 2 -6 5 8 -1 2 1 2 FORD EXPLORER, 1999, auto., 4 dr., 4WD, PW, PL, A/C, CD, alloy wheels w/Goodyear Wranglers and steel w/new Hankook snows, 91K miles. $7500. Steve, 985-5378. JEEP LIBERTY, 2003, sport utility, 4 dr., silver, V6/3.7L, auto., 4WD. 27,503 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/cass., air bags, roof rack. Best price, $18,472. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. PONTIAC AZTEK, 2001, sport utility, 4 dr., pewter, V6/3.4L, auto., AWD. 33,174 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/CD, air bags, ABS, roof rack. Best price, $10,986. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212. PONTIAC AZTEK, 2003, sport utility, 4 dr., maroon, V6/3.4L, auto., AWD. 13,295 miles, A/C, PS, PW, PL, cruise, AM/FM/CD, air bags, ABS, roof rack. Best price, $15,765. Call Shearer Pontiac, 802-658-1212.

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NOTICE OF INTENT Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. secs. 81(a) and 82(b), notice is hereby given that the Assistant Judges of Chittenden County have com pleted preliminary plans and cost estimates for the construc tion of certain capital improve ments to the Chittenden County Courthouse located on Main Street in the City of Burlington. Summaries of such plans and estimates have been delivered to the Clerks of each city and town within the County for inspection and copying by any person dur ing normal business hours. In addition, detailed plans and estimates are available for inspection and copying at the office of the Chittenden County Clerk, Chittenden County Courthouse, 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont. The Assistant Judges of Chittenden County intend to submit a proposition of incurring bonded indebtedness for the financing of such capital improvements to the registered voters of Chittenden County at a special meeting to be held on Tuesday, March 2, 2004. The cost of such capital improvements is estimated to be One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000), to be financed by general obligation bonds of the County in such amount, subject to reduction from available state and federal construction grantsin-aid, such bonded indebted ness to be paid by taxes assessed upon the equalized grand list of the County. Done at Burlington, Vermont this 16th day of December, 2003. signature Elizabeth M. Gretkowski Assistant Judge signature Thomas Crowley Assistant Judge

Shall general obligation bonds of Chittenden County in an amount not to exceed One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000), subject to reduc tion from available state and federal construction grants-inaid, be issued for the purpose of financing the cost of certain public improvements, namely: Chittenden County Court House exterior and structural repairs, heating and ventilation system replacements and grounds recon struction, all at an aggregate estimated cost of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000)? Polling places in the respective cities and towns shall be the fol lowing: TOWN LOCATION ADDRESS Bolton Smilie School US Route 2 Charlotte Charlotte Elementary School 408 Hinesburg Road Colchester District 7-1 Colchester Meeting House Main Street Colchester District 7-2 Colchester High School Laker Lane Essex Essex High School 2 Educational Drive Essex Founders Memorial School 168 Sand Hill Rd. Hinesburg Hinesburg Town Office * * 10632 Vermont Route 116 Huntington Brewster Pierce Memorial 120 School Rd.

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Jericho Jericho Elementary School 90 Vermont Route 15

The legal voters of the Cities of Burlington, South Burlington and Winooski, and the Towns of Bolton, Charlotte, Colchester, Essex, Hinesburg, Huntington, Jericho, Milton, Richmond, Shelburne, St. George, Underhill, Westford and Williston, being the legal voters of Chittenden County, are hereby notified and warned to meet on Tuesday, March 2, 2004, between the hours of seven o'clock in the forenoon (7:00 a.m .), at which tie the polls will open, and seven o'clock in the afternoon (7:00 p.m.), at which time the polls will close, to vote by Australian ballot upon the fol lowing Article of business:

Milton Milton Municipal Building 43 Bombardier Rd. Richmond Camel's Hump Middle School 173 School St. Shelburne Shelburne Town Center 5420 Shelburne Rd. St. George St. George Town Office 1 Barber Rd. Underhill Browns River Middle School 20 River Rd. Westford

Westford Elementary School 146 Brookside Rd. Williston Williston Central School 195 Central School Dr. CITIES LOCATION ADDRESS Burlington Ward 1 Mater Christi School 100 Mansfield Ave. Burlington Ward 2 HO Wheeler School 6 Archibald St. Burlington Ward 3 Lawrence Barnes School 123 North St. Burlington Ward 4 St. Mark's Youth Center 1271 North Ave.

Monday, February 23, 2004). Applications for absentee or early voter ballots may be made by 5:00 P.M. on Monday, March 1, 2004, or the close of the city or town clerk's office on that date. A voter or family member may apply in person, in writing or by telephone. Other author ized persons may apply for a voter in person or in writing. Adopted and approved at a meeting of the Assistant Judges of Chittenden County, duly noticed and held on the 16th day of December, 2003. signature Elizabeth M. Gretkowski Assistant Judge signature Thomas M. Crowley Assistant Judge

Burlington Ward 5 Burlington Electric 585 Pine St.

Received for record and recorded in the records of Chittenden County, on the 16th day of December, 2003.

Burlington Ward 6 Edmunds Middle School 275 Main St.

signature Diane A. Lavallee Chittenden County Clerk

Burlington Ward 7 Lyman C. Hunt School 1364 North Ave.

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South Burlington 7 Orchard School 2 Baldwin Ave. South Burlington 8 South Burlington Middle School 500 Dorset St. South Burlington 9 Chamberlin School 262 White St. South Burlington 10 South Burlington Middle School 500 Dorset Street

DON'T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call United Way GET-INFO (a confiden tial help line) 652-4636, Monday- , Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. WOMEN'S WEIGHT LOSS SUP PORT GROUP: Do we know what to do? Yes! Do we do it? Not always! Sometimes the answer is mutual support — for free! Let's decide together what works for us. I want to start — do you? Anne, 861-6000. BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP open to new members. Meets downtown. Our goal is to

Winooski Senior Citizen Center 123 Barlow Street

become healthy and happy. For info, call Gerhard at 864-3103. ALS (Lou Gehrig Disease) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim's Flouse, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-8628882 or vt@alsanne.org. AL-ANON: Thursdays beginning February 5, noon-1 p.m. The Aware Office, 88 High St., Hardwick. Angie, 472-6463. WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free support groups for survivors of domestic violence. Please call 658-1996 to get information on locations and times. GAMBLING PROBLEM? It's time to get help! Do you or does some one you know have a problem with gambling? For information and a free, confidential screening, please call: 802-878-2120. WOMEN IN TRANSITION: Join a support/social group for women who are separated or divorced. The goal is to form a circle of friends for support and social activities. If interested email Katherine at MKR27609@ aol.com. SMART RECOVERY: Cognitive Behavioral group examination of addiction and recovery. Monday, 7 p.m. 56 Twin Oaks Terrace (off Kennedy Drive) in Day One building. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION of Vermont: Daytime support group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester, from 12-2 p.m. For more info, contact Polly Erickson at 847-6941. METHADONE ANONYMOUS: A medication-assisted recovery support group. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. The Alano Club. Directions: Rt. 15 Fort Ethan Allen entrance,

Barnes Ave., third right on to Hegeman Ave., #74 on left. All are welcome. TRANS PARTNERS support group: Meet and tatk with other partners of transgendered/transsexual peo ple. The second Friday of every month. R.U.1.2 Community Center, 6 p.m. 860-RU12. WOMEN IN MIDLIFE: a group for women navigating the chal lenges of transition (divorce/ marital difficulty, career change, children leaving home, caring for elderly parents, etc.). Soulstice Psychotherapy, 651-9816. HEPATITIS C SUPPORT group: Second Thursday of each month. McClure Multigenerational Center, 6-8 p.m. Those who have hepati tis, their friends and family members are welcome. 454-1316. ARE YOU A BUTCH, F2M, StoneButch, TGButch, TransMan, Femme, High Femme or any other description of Butch, FtM or Femme/feminine woman? I f so, join us as we plan fun activities and offer each other resources, support and friendship within the Butch/FtM-Femme world. For more info, contact Miss Morpheus at missmorpheusl@yahoo.com. HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I'm starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/family/ social life. Let's share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology. Marlene, 865-9781. WOULD YOU LIKE to join a thriving mixed social group? Get together for various activities/ friendship in Montpelier/ Burlington. 229-4390 or email DA1076@yahoo.com. SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel.com.

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High Quality Early Childhood program seeks full-time teacher to work in a play-based classroom. Center offers supportive team, and unique wooded trails. Excellent wages and full benefits. Come join our wonderful team!

Assistant to Director of Career Services Seeking independent, analytical thinker to join creative, dynamic team. Administer budget, personnel, publications, technology, assessments and reports. Develop systems; interpret policies; oversee web site. Associate's degree in related field and up to three years related experience required, or an equivalent combination. Successful experience with office related technology, software applications and web pages as well as effective writing and editing skills required. Ability to deal positively and effectively on a team and with persons from diverse backgrounds is required. Financial and supervisory experience highly desirable. For further information, or to apply with electronic application, resume and cover letter for #030298, visit our website at:

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IMMEDIATE O PEN IN G , 2nd shift custodian. Full time position with benefits. Please apply at Williston Central School. If questions, contact Kermit LaClair at 879-5823.

Graphic designer going on three-month maternity leave. Temporary full-time position available. Compensation based on experience. Knowledge in Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, emailing and Internet on a Mac a must.

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:40-hour/w eek, M onday-Friday p osition . Join a rewarding, fun-filled team at a growing adult day center committed to providing frail adults a warm, safe place to spend the day. Plan and im plem ent stim ulating, meaningful activities for individuals and groups o f adults w ith dem entia or physical im p a ir m e n t. P a rticip a te in a sse ssm e n t, care planning and docum entation o f services. Assist w ith h an d s-on care. G ood co m m u n ica tio n , organizational, team building and creative skills crucial. Qualified candidate should be certified in activities coordination or have Bachelors degree w ith one-year related experience. Subm it resume and cover letter by March 5 to:

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skills: computer literacy, ability to prioritize m ultiple tasks attention to detail, ability to learn new concepts quickly and excellent communication skills. Technician applicants must possess their own hand tools. Southworth-Milton, Inc. offers top pay with a competitive benefit package. Interested applicants should send a cover letter with resume to: Route 2, 1 Cat Lane, Richmond VT 05477. No phone calls or walk-ins please.

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Attention photographers! Dreamed of seeing your work in vibrant, page one color? Can you create crisp landscapes, feature and I news images that grab attention? Are you personable, organized, motivated and possess basic writing skills? An award winning Vermont daily newspaper offers full-time and/or freelance possibilities. Send cover

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For small, progressive educational publisher and consulting firm. Excellent office, organizational and people skills a must. Strong w ritten and verbal communication skills. M inimum 50-wpm typing. C om puter savvy. M icrosoft Office and internet proficiency required. Experience in marketing, media and managing print publications a plus. Responsibilities include booking consultant engagements nationally and coordinating publication outsourcing. Flexible, pet friendly preferred. Discover Writing Company is a 1 thriving, 13-year-old family-based business in Shoreham, VT. Please subm it cover letter and resume or make inquiries by email only to carol-lee@discoverwriting.com. D e a d lin e M a rc h 1st.

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Self-directed, energetic individual needed to work as part of a team in a residential program serving homeless adults who are considered to have mental illness. Assist residents with learning independent living skills and provide support for behavioral and emotional difficulties. BA and related human services experience necessary. Resume by March 1 to:

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fieaCmgCegartes@jpsfLijt.net Healing Legacies Laurie Eddy PO Box 5353 Burlington, VT 05402-5353

Clare Conner - MSN, RN at (802) 899-2911 orclarec@mapleleaf.org Maple Leaf Farm Associates, Inc. PO Box 120 Underhill, VT 05489 Phone: 802-899-2911

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A fa m ily-like atmosphere. Passion fo r ^helping people. A com m itm ent to our community. These are a fe w o f the reasons employees are attracted to Gifford. B u t more importantly ; ids why they stay. Career opportunities available in the following areas:

Full-time Openings: • Billing Representative I (hospital billing experience desired) • Data Analyst (data and financial analysis, databases and standard reporting, cost accounting, reimbursement and contracted management, budgeting and analysis, internal audits) • Registered Nurse, Medical/Surgical

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NFI, an expanding statew ide m ental health treatm ent system fo r children, adolescents a n d fam ilies, is seeking to fill the follow ing positions:

COMMUNITY SKILLS WORKER St Albans Community Alternatives Program is looking for a new member to join our talented team of mental health professionals. This person would be a great communicator, have a lot of desire to help kids, and be a respectful, stable and resourceful component of our therapeutic team. Responsibilities include doing one-on-one and group activities with youth both in the community and their homes.

O penings at the Pine Ridge School Join us in our mission to help teens w ith learning difficulties define and achieve success. We are currently seeking a m otivated and caring-individual to teach full or part-time in our residential program. Applicant should have experience working w ith female adolescents and a strong desire to learn. Pine Ridge School offers an excellent training ground for people interested in the following fields:

Social Services, Education, Counseling, Outdoor and Experiential Education.

They would be active members of the treatment teams and supportive to clients, foster and biological parents, and the other clinical professionals. Must be able to work a flexible schedule including

Seeking part-time staff members to work one weekend per m onth in the Residential

evenings, work from a strength based approach, and be able to set limits. Previous work with children

Program. Lead trips, organize activities, and supervise students during unstructured time.

with emotional/behavioral challenges required. Bachelors degree in related field preferred. If you are interested in this position call Marc Adams at 524-1700, or submit cover letter and resume to Marc Adams, NFI-CAP 35 Catherine St. St. Albans VT. 05478. EOE

Resume accepted until position filled. For more inform ation or to apply, please contact:

Bernadette Parker, Administative Assistant to Dept of Residential Life 9505 Williston Rd, Williston, VT 05495

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Community Health Nurse Addison County Home Health & Hospice is seeking a licensed RN to join our team. This position will provide skilled nursing services to agency patients based upon a plan of care approved by the physician. In the delivery of care, the nurse will use independent judgm ent based on com m on principles o f pathophysiology and accepted standards of care. This person will work collaboratively with patients, families, other disciplines and community agencies. Qualified candidates should stop by our office on route 7 , 2 miles north of Middlebury to fill out an application or should send resumes to:

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DATA CENTER OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR We have an opportunity for an experienced Data Center Supervisor responsible for timely and accurate processing of scheduled programs, monitoring of all systems, loading of software releases and assurance of data integrity and recovery. The Data Center support staff responds to requests for assistance from internal computer users with the Data Center Operations Supervisor being the primary respondent for critical events occurring outside scheduled staff hours. The preferred candidate will be an experienced Data Center Supervisor, familiar with UNIX or AIX and Windows 2000.

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JOIN OUR TEAM! AUTISM INTERVENTIONISTS To provide educational, social, behavioral and life skill development in public school & community settings with children & youth w/Autism Spectrum Disorders. Intensive training & ongoing supervision provided. Excellent professional development opportunity. Transportation required. Bachelor’s degree preferred. $23,303/year plus full benefits. Send resumd to: Torrey Farquharson.

AWAKE OVERNIGHT RESID EN TIA L STA FF Full-time awake overnight position available in our innovative residential treatment program for children with emotional and behavioral challenges. Opportunities for training and advancement. Competitive salary and great benefit package. Substitute positions also available. Resume to Coleen Lillie.

TEACHER/TEACHING ASSOCIATE PFCC is looking for permanent, full-time teachers and teaching associates to work with children from ages 6 weeks to six years. There is one position available in a classroom and one position available that floats in the entire center. A degree in Early Childhood Education/early childhood endorsed license is preferred for the classroom teacher position. Related degrees will be considered. Associate’s degree or similar for teaching associate. Positions require an ability to multi-task, to work with challenging behaviors, and to be part of a team. Salary is competitive with the area, and includes an excellent benefits package. Please send cover letter, resume, and 3 references to Wendy Scanlan, Director. Phone: 802-651-7048.

1138 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 863-1326 bairdjobs @ howardcenter.org www.howardcenter.org w w w .how ardcenter.org EOE/TTY * Individuals with disabilities encouraged to apply.

NEFCU is seeking a Consumer/Commercial Loan Services Supervisor to be responsible for supervising and training of the consumer and commercial loan servicing staff and maintaining integrity of the servicing of consumer and commercial loans. The successful candidate will have knowledge of Federal lending regulations and commercial and consumer lending skills. Candidates must have decision-making and effective communication skills and an ability to prioritize various demands in a fast-paced environment. Professionalism, flexibility, management skills and an ability to lead and motivate staff are critical to success in this position.

TELLERS NEFCU tellers have excellent, effective communication skills, are friendly and personable and provide our members with excellent customer service. Qualified candidates must show attention to detail, be knowledgeable with computers and demonstrate accuracy. Cash handling and customer service experience required. If you would like the opportunity to work in a professional atmosphere where teamwork and customer service are hallmarks of the organization, please consider working with us. Opportunities exist for a: F U L L - T I M E T EL LER -M o n d a y through Friday and one Saturday per month. S U M M E R T E L L E R S -T w o temporary summer tellers. The positions begin May 15th through August 20th. P A R T - T IM E TELLER -P art-tim e teller to cover the hours of 11:15-4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday.

If you are interested in working with us; and would like to be part of a dynamic team at NEFCU, please send your letter of interest and resume/application by email to HR@nefcu.com or by mail to NEFCU, Human Resources, PO. Box527, Williston, Vf 05495-5027.

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G EN ER A L M A N A G ER The Randolph Go Market of g an enthusiastic, Randolph, Vermont is er with a retail talented General management background. Experience with natural a l 'foods is highly desirable, but financial management abilities are crucial and required. Contact: Sanders H. Stephen 802-728-4218

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and child sexual abuse required. Position is 40 hours per week. Reliable transportation necessary. Position open until filled. Send cover letter, resume and 3 references to:

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Founded in 1995 , Fuse is a 30+ person youth culture marketing services agency in Burlington, Vermont. Fuse provides Brand Consulting, Communications, Event Production, and Creative Services to Fortune 500 and other companies that market to youth culture. Fuse currently has several open employment opportunities. For full job descriptions and requirements please visit www.fusesports.com

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Fuse is seeking an independent contractor experienced in planning, executing and compiling results of consumer focus groups. Research projects will take place in Spring and Fall 2004 and last approximately 4-6 weeks each. Position will be 40-hours per week during these periods.

Shared Living Providers Flexible team players needed to provide homes and support to persons with developmental disabilities. Excellent tax-free compensation, training and opportunity to work with a supportive team provided by Howard Community Services. Must live in Chittenden County. Contact Kathy at 802-865-6173.

To apply, prepare a cover letter, resume and list of references and email to: jobs@fusesports.com.

Respite Providers Support providers are needed to provide supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. Howard Community Services acts as a listing agency. After the screening process is complete, providers are listed out to consumers and others on their team that will employ providers. Various opportunities are available that offer a flexible schedule and skill-building challenges. Hours and locations vary. Contact Melissa at 802-652-2123.

On-Call Substitutes Opportunities to provide supports to individuals with developmental disabilities, teens and adults, in three HCS residential homes located throughout Chittenden County and one-day program located in Burlington. On-call, variable hours. Paid orientation and training. This program offers an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with HCS and sometimes provides a stepping stone to other employment opportunities. Contact Melissa at 802-652-2123.

Residential Instructor A wonderful opportunity to gain valuable clinical skills working with dually diagnosed adolescent clients and a dynamic team in a residential treatment setting. Skill and experience in supporting clients with developmental disabilities and co-occurring mental health issues is needed. Verbal crisis management skills and relationship building skills are highly desirable. Applicants must be comfortable with working most of their hours during weekends. Applicants must show strong communication and problem solving abilities within a team. Reliable transportation and a willingness to transport clients is mandatory. Resume to Mark Margolis or e-mail markm@howardcenter.org.

Weekend Provider Generous tax-free stipend to support a young man in your home from Friday 5:00 p.m. through Sunday 6:00 p.m., three weekends/month. He enjoys playing board games, watching some TV, playing the guitar, singing and drawing. The person who works with this young man will have to have strong boundaries, flexibility, and the ability to be a team player as well as follow a strict supervision policy. Extensive training provided, and backup assistance is available. Send resum6 to Doris Clayton-Viens or email Doriscv@howardcenter.org.

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A fun, exciting and growing children’s apparel business located in Central Vermont is in need of filling the following positions:

PART-TIME RETAIL SALES ASSOCIATE Weekday and weekend positions available. Motivated self-starters with preferred previous retail experience are needed to work in our charming Outlet Store in Montpelier. We are looking for individuals who have an eye for fashion and a love for children. Must be hands-on, well-organized and reliable.

SEASONAL DISTRIBUTION WORKER Weekday position with flexible hours. This position is available for four weeks but may develop into on-going position. Motivated self-starter to work in our East Montpelier Distribution (enter. Duties include picking and packing product, inspection. Both positions offer a competitive wage based upon experience. If you are interested in joining our team, SEND A UTTER OF INTEREST AND/OR RESUME' to: Zutano, Inc. I785 Colts Pond Rd. Cabot, VT 05647 or email us at kris@zutano.com

Burlington's friendly and beautiful community-owned downtown grocery store is hiring fo r two key positions in our Marketing Department. Join the City Market team and work in a thriving fun, and diverse workplace!

GRAPHIC ARTIST AND ADVERTISING COORDINATOR City Market is looking for a dynamic and organized person to coordinate storewide advertising and provide his or her artistic flair to our graphics team. Help us show the world how wonderful City Market is through a variety of advertising venues by creating exciting ad designs and layouts as well as negotiating and coordinating advertising contracts. This full-time job requires an Associate’s degree and/or sufficient experience in art and design, including experience and talent in illustration, hand-rendered drawing, painting, and/or other artistic media with Mac & PC proficiency, expertise in Quark, Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, too.

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Live in the MMU School District? Family, couple or individual needed to work as part of a team providing a home and supports to a 20-year-old young man with developmental disabilities. He needs help with all aspects of his daily living. Some activities that he enjoys include being in a swing, hot tub, listening to music and being told stories. 1 st floor bedroom and bathroom required. Bryan Civalier will be accepting phone calls on behalf of the family at 802-859-1274.

Our Marketing Team is in need of some assistance in coordinating our various publications. Do you have a strong command of the English language and find yourself editing articles in magazines just for fun? Are you a detail-oriented multi-tasker with a knack for Microsoft Office software and a witty line or two? Then you just might be the person we need to lend a full-time hand supporting the department and adding your expertise to the content and layout of our different member publications. Send your resume and some samples of your writing to the address below!

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In home support person needed for 20-hours a week for a 54-year-old woman with Downs Syndrome and Progressed Alzheimer’s Disease. Applicants should be willing to provide personal care and should be skilled in managing challenging behavior. This woman needs gentle care and support. Ideal applicants would be available to work in the afternoon, four to five days a week. Competitive salary and excellent benefits! Please send resume to Amy Brady or email to amyBR@howardcenter.org. *** EOE/TTY Individuals with disabilities encouraged to apply

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Join our team a t Planned Parenthood! We are seeking a mid-level provider (NP, PA CNM) to serve our patient's needs for gynecologic and reproductive health in our new Williston Express Health Center. This is a part-time 12-15. hour per week position requiring evenings and rotating Saturday hours. The ideal candidate will be able to fully support our mission of providing, promoting and protecting voluntary choices a b o u t reproductive health and be able to work in a fast-paced, team oriented, progressive clinical environment. Send resume, cover letter and three current references to:

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A full-time, experienced adult education teacher to teach reading/GED prep; Bachelor's degree; some night work required. A part-time experienced ESOL teacher to work with students learning English; Bachelor's degree; some night work required. A friendly, outgoing, highly-organized, people person to be a part-time receptionist/office person; good phone skills, computer skills, office skills; experience dealing with the public. For all positions please send resume and cover letter to:

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