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in a state of shock after watching Republican House Speaker Walter Freed behaving badly at Rep. Bernie Sanders’ May 19 forum on child care in South Royalton. About 50 people were there to hear from a panel of experts. Freed, in suit and tie, sat quietly in the back for about an hour. At that point, apparently, Freed had heard enough of O f Bernardo trashing “millio'naires and billionaires.” He leapt up from his seat and, in a booming voice, commanded the floor for a cocky, awkward and wandering 10-minute lecture based on his one-day visit to a couple of Bennington < County child-care homes at an unspecified time in his days before becoming Speaker. At times Freed engaged Bernie in a “who can shout louder contest.” The Freedmeister’s body language ran from Lon Chaney to Dagwood Bumstead. Event ually Sanders calmed him down with a series of questions. In the end, Freed agreed child care is at a crisis and he promised to do something about it. Attempts to reach our favorite Dorset millionaire were unsuccessful this week. Sanders told Seven Days Monday it was “the first time there was a dialogue” between the two political leaders. What was Freed doing there? Sanders told us the House Speaker had not been invited. In fact, Bernie thought Freed came because “the panelist from Rhode Island was his cousin.” While Freed did not d iro irv iy respond to our inquiry, his delightful secretary did. She told us Walt went because Dean Corren had invited him. Corren is a former Progressive state rep who currently is Bernie’s driver and right-hand man. And Mr. Corren, officially the congressman’s outreach director, told us he was also the guy who videotaped the Freed Freakout. Way to go, Deano! No word on which of his snazzy vehicles Speaker Freed motored down to South Royalton in.

After decades of conducting his public life in the shadows of national politics, Vermont’s Sen. Jim Jeffords is now part of the vocabulary. The other day U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York), called herself a “Jeffordsonian.” And on a recent New Hampshire swing, the House Democrat leader, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri declared, “I’m a Jim Jeffords kind of Democrat!” Not all agree, however. As the local crop of let ters to the editor reflect, some on the Republican right-wing fringe would rather piss on Jeffords than praise him. Literally. That was precisely the case last week at the posh Capitol Hill Club located next to the Republican National Committee headquarters. Some loyal Republican had placed the face of Jeezum Jim that adorned the cover of the conservative National Review into a urinal in the first floor men’s room. According to one press report, “While several folks got a kick out of taking aim at the photo of a man they now detest because of his decision to bolt the GOP, a peeved member of the club ripped the photo out of the uri nal, fearing it would be seen as yet another symbol of the party’s alleged intolerance.” “Alleged” intolerance? Hello? And remember the case of the unnamed lobbyist for the w d it t c Louisiana Home Builders Association, who told a Jeffords staffer at the height of Jeezum’s Jump he wanted to “kill” the senator from Vermont? According to Jeffords spokesman Erik Smulson, the National Association of Home Builders bought lunch for the entire Jeffords staff Monday and apol ogized for the Louisiana wing-nut. It was take-out barbecue, said Mr. Smulson. Very tasty. . Meanwhile, our Capitol Hill sources on both sides of the aisle say there’s nothing to back up the rumors in Vermont that Jeezum’s nomination of Rutland attorney Peter Hall to be Vermont’s next Best Sign in the March — Our count had close to U.S. Attorney is dead in the water. Not one U.S. 1000 proud and playful marchers in Saturday’s Attorney nomination has been sent over from the 18th annual Gay Pride March through beautiful Bush White House so far. Relax. downtown Burlington. We noticed a few tourists gaping in dumbfounded surprise at the lively noon Dean’s Got “ Recessive Genes” ? — That charge time spectacle. Lots of music this year. One recently from the lips of the distinguished press sec Southern voice was overheard inquiring, “You retary to the Republican governor of Virginia, Jim Yankees are a little late celebrating Mardi Gras, ain’t Gilmore. Two weeks ago, Vermont Gov. Howard you?” Dean attended the Rural Policy Conference the ■ One banner best proclaimed the vibe of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) put on moment — “First Civil Unions. Now Jeffords. God in Hot Springs, Virginia. During his visit, our HoBless Vermont.” Ho, along with fellow Democrat guvs Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi and Tom Vilsack of Iowa, Hall of Fame Qualified? — As everybody knows, decided to pay a courtesy call on Gov. Gilmore. left-winger John LeClair, formerly of St. Albans, Unfortunately, Gilmore was out of town. But his signed a multi-gazillion dollar, five-year contract press flak, Reed Boatright, apparently took offense with the Philadelphia Flyers last week. Word to the Democratic hospitality. A Richmond Times among Philly fans is, they’re glad Big John’s staying Dispatch reporter heard his quip, “You’ve got to put in a Flyer uniform, but many think team owner watch out for these people with recessive genes who Ed Snider paid him more than he’s worth. come here to tell us how to run our state.” The With one Olympic gold medal and 316 NHL comment made the morning edition. goals to date, the former UVM star is on track to Bonehead, er, Boatwright, a charming, deep be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in voiced gentleman, told Seven Days he called the Toronto. For now, John can content himself with wire service that morning to issue a public apology. his recent nomination to the UVM Athletic Hall of The crack, he said, “was unmeant to see the light of Fame. day.” ■ Mr. LeClair is one of 11 nominees to be induct We can feel his pain. ed at the annual fall dinner. The list runs from ten Our Guv, soon to mark his 10th anniversary as nis star and hometown boy Chuck Davis, class of King of Vermont, is chief recruiter for the DGA. ’72, to LeClair, class o f ’91. Big John’s getting the Virginia is one of two states — New Jersey’s the honor in his first year of eligibility (after the other — with a hot governor’s race this year, and required 10-year waiting period). Chuck Davis may Ho-Ho has a very strong horse in it: a tall, hand not be a household word coast-to-coast and across some, rags-to-riches millionaire venture capitalist, Canada, but he possesses one thing John LeClair health care/education visionary, Harvard Law does not — a college degree! School grad and family man named Mark Warner. Hockey fans recall that as soon as the college This week, Ho-Ho and the kids are vacationing season ended in March 1991, LeClair drove 90 in, of all places, Virginia. miles north, changed sweaters and took the ice as a Small world. / Montreal Canadien. 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Convicted burglar Arnold Ancheta, 25, managed to escape from his medium-security dormi tory at California’s Elmwood Correctional Facility on the morning before his sentencing. Instead o f heading toward the fence that leads to a public road, however, he jumped a smaller fence and ended up on the womens side o f the facility. Department o f Correction spokesperson Mark Cursi said the female inmates spotted the man r aiming around the yard and told guards, who found Ancheta hid ing in the bushes.

• BBC International of Boca Raton, Florida, has patented sneakers that speak. The shoes have a loudspeaker fitted in the sole that broadcasts a selection of recorded sounds, including a message saying, “Outta my way.” A hand-held remote device lets the wearer choose the sound or, when the shoes are removed, set an alarm connected to motion sensors that activates a scream and cries of “I am being stolen.” • Seitec of Kumayama, Japan, has developed a device that sits on top o f television sets and warns children not to sit too close to the screen. When a viewer comes within three feet, it sounds a three-secon4 alarm; if the viewer fails to move away, it cuts the power to the TV.

Gridlock Plus Traffic in Bangkok, already among the worlds worst, is get ting even more chaotic because thieves are stealing road signs. According to the city’s highways department, the thieves are selling the aluminum alloy signs, some weighing as much as 330 pounds, to scrap metal dealers, getting paid around $3.20 a pound, and the government is spending $235,000 a year to replace them. “People are getting lost, and when a sign warning people o f a dangerous curve is stolen, for example, it is very dangerous,” city traffic engineer Sampan Angchawala said. “There have been lots o f accidents because of this.”

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“But I won’t budge.” • When a supermarket in Livermore, California, offered a free ham to customers spending more than $50 in one trip, Rachael Cheroti, 33, bought only $48 worth of groceries but demanded a ham anyway and got it. Then, according to police, she “got upset because the manager would not give her more than one ham” after she pointed out she spends about $400 a month at the store. When the manager tried to escort Cheroti from the store, she pinned him against the wall with her cart, then started wrestling with him on the floor. When a police officer arrived to

Missouri, Todd Poller, 45, yelled to them, “Hey, watch this,” then grabbed a 5-inch perch from Neal’s Creek and tried to swallow it headfirst. Poller choked and gasped as his companions tried to dislodge the fish and was pro nounced dead when emergency crews arrived, according to Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes, who said Poller was a “well-known character” in the area.

the money had simply fallen into their hands. • After a jury ordered MP3.com to pay record label TVT Records $292,000 for copyright infringe ment, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said two jurors notified him that the award was a mistake. They explained they left off a zero in their calculations and that the award should have been for $2.92 million. MP3.com’s lawyer disputed the miscalculation, how ever, noting that one of the jurors was a high-school math teacher.

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Money Matters Colombian customs officers who stopped a family of three adults and two minors arriving at Bogota’s international airport found $1 million in U.S. curren cy in their luggage. One of the women in the group explained that the Virgin Mary had appeared before the family and

driving down the price of the popular snack. Cambodians enjoy the crickets raw or fried. “Just in one morning, I can collect one and a half to two tons of crickets in Kompong Thom province alone,” one cricket vendor told the Rasmei Kampuchea newspa per. “The price of crickets has dropped to 1000 riel (26 cents) per kilogram, compared with 2500 to 3500 riel before.” • After drinking with his friends all day outside Viburnum,

David Bryant, 29, was accused of approaching a woman at the Rutgers University Library of Science and Medicine and talking her into removing her shoe and sock by telling her that he had seen a spider on her ankle. He then stroked her foot and ankle. Bryant fled but later sur rendered after seeing a television news report on the episode. • Brandon Clifford, 27, an Immigration and Naturalization Service agent in Sackets Harbor, New York, pleaded guilty to using an Internet message service to get in touch with a 15-year-old girl in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and asking her to meet him in a motel room and strike his geni tals. The girl’s father intercepted the message and notified police, who posed as the teen-ager dur ing subsequent discussions, then arrested Clifford when he drove to the girl’s school to pick her up and take her to a motel. ®

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espite Richard Nixon in the White House and a seemingly

endless war in Vietnam, Americans seeking social change still shared a sense of optimism in 1971. They believed it was possible to give a damn, make a difference, save the world. T hat’s the year Barbara Newsome, Marie Garrison and her sister, Donna Santor, set out to save the South End. The three Burlington mothers, with five children apiece, launched the King Street Youth Center to make the neighborhood a better place for families. “We wanted something for our kids,” recalls Newsome, now 61. “And we knew that if we wanted that, we were the ones who had to do it.” Jim Moyer, then a University of Vermont student working as a paid intern, is credited with the initial idea for the center. He recruited the trio of women, none of whom had any prior experience, to join a collective effort to keep young people out of trouble in-a part of town where vandalism and fights were common. The project caught on quickly, with hordes of little tykes eager to participate and adults volunteering their time. Garrison, 59, remembers that they began operating from their own homes. “At first, we were just three moms super vising, then other parents got involved. We had arts and crafts, ping-pong. We took them roller-skating, canoeing, camp-

ing, fishing and horseback riding. There were visits to Maine and Massachusetts,” she says wistfully. The kids got to see a little bit of the world that we couldn’t afford to show them on our own,” Santor adds, “I’ve heard they started with $90, three baseball gloves and a van,” suggests Roxane Leopold, now executive director of- an agency that has survived, and thrived, for three decades. “ They met at a laundromat to go on field trips as an alternative to street life. It was a quintessential 60s model of community organizing.” The King Street Youth Center, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this week, now has a $630,000 annual budget for a range of programs serving about 150 kids from pre-school through teen years. There are 22 staff members, about 10 of them * working full-time, and as many as 20 interns from area colleges, “We surround children with a lot of caring adults,” Leopold explains. “We reassure parents that we love their kids, which we do, and that their kids are valuable, which they are. We play a fairly large part in their lives. We’re often the first people to see their report cards.”

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Diane Morrison, and Ashley St. Andrew, none o f whom is older than 11, are gath ered around a table where everyone is pasting wooden Popsicle sticks together toward some artistic end. A gaggle o f boys maneuvers toy trucks along the floor in one corner. Others have just returned from an outing. “They’ve been in school all day, so when they come here they can be very energetic, or sometimes really grouchy or even sleepy,” observes Peggy Curtis, a spe cial educator who has worked at the center for two years. “They can do homework or use the computers. We also give them incentives to read. They have a lot of choices. I’m just the cheerleader.” Mona Abdelgawad is waiting to take her four sons home. Amr, 5, peers shyly from her lap. Ten-year-old Mohammed, wearing shorts, comes over to confess: “Mom, I forgot my pants at the park.” Lost apparel notwithstanding, “they’ve learned to be more responsible,” Mona says o f the boys’ progress during two years o f coming to the center. “It keeps them

Santor, 53, witnessed many similar success stories during the first decade. “We had some hard kids, but those hard kids came around.” Burlington Community and Economic Development Office Director Michael Monte, who ran the center for five years, was sometimes amazed by that reversal. “We had kids who acted out so intensely, I would think: ‘Oh, my God, how are we going to deal with this?”’ he recalls. “But many o f them went on to be incredibly successful in life. So maybe that was good. Maybe a catharsis to get it all out o f their systems was precisely what they needed.” Santor witnessed a positive change in her children. “They became more cooper ative at home,” she recalls. “I think it gave them more self-confidence.”

hile the Pentagon spent tax payer dollars on napalm and landmines, it was no picnic for the founding mothers to keep the amorphous King Street Youth Center going in the early days. Yet, after a few years of ad hoc coordinating, enough funds were raised to purchase a build ing at 141 Maple Street. “We held bake sales, car

room,” according to Monte. “It was like a club. We had dances, the kids went swim ming at the Y and played basketball. The place was really in the [New York City] settlement house kind o f tradition. People advocated for affordable housing, better schools, against racism. Kids were the focus, but there was a recognition that many issues had an impact on our ability to be successful.” At one point, the founding mothers even blocked traffic at three different intersections. “A child was killed at Maple and St. Paul,” Marie Garrison says. “So, we took our kids and stood out in the road. It worked. We got stop signs.” Monte believes the South End is “a whole lot better off now than 30 years ago. There’s more affordable housing and I think it’s safer. I’m sort of stunned that King Street survived all o f its history.” His position at the center, which he left in 1982, was never terribly lucrative. “I had part-time jobs to get by,” Monte says. “I worked for nothing, and it still seems to be that way.” Leopold agrees. “It’s a small organization in a small town, but there are great rewards that go to the heart, not the pocketbook.” She took the reins in 1985 on the heels of Susan Roche, the director who followed Monte. “Susan brought a more program matic infrastructure to King Street, versus the daylong drop-in center approach,” Leopold explains. Soon, the old space proved too small

“We tend to see families for 10 to 15 years,” Leopold says. “Five o f our kids are about to graduate from Burlington High School; I knew four o f them when they were 3 or 4 years old.” Monte also marvels at the generational sweep o f those affiliated with the center. “My 8-year-old attends Champlain Elementary School with the'children of people who were kids at King Street when I worked there. It’s remarkable. Some of Donna Santor’s grandchildren played soc cer with my daughter.” Periodically, boys and girls who met at the center later fell in love. Newsome’s son Brian has been with one of Santor’s daughters, Penny, for 20 years. A niece, Anne Donaldson Francis, married some one she got to know there in childhood. Although their hands-on responsibili ties waned as time went by, the founding threesome are now all grandmothers, too modest to acknowledge they were once local heroes. They do speak, however, o f the ways in which they were personally transformed by the King Street movement. “I was kind o f strict with my kids,” Santor says. “It showed me how to ease up on them a little. I saw things differently.” Garrison echoes that assessment. “I learned how to cope better with my own children.” Newsome enjoyed the process so much that she has been taking in foster kids for 27 years. They also became King Streeters. Sadly, the college student who started

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t h o s e h a rd k id s c a m e a ro u n d .” - King Street co-founder Donna Santor washes, raffles, block parties with live bands — some of them right in front of my house,” Marie Garrison recounts. SU CCESS STORY Former King Streeter Kevin Garrison, It was a rollin the Center’s original site, now the King Street up-your-sleeves laundromat kind o f commit ment. “I held busy. At home, they’d be fighting and every position there at one time or anoth watching TV.” er, even office manager and president of Carrie Jacques, who coordinates the the board of directors,” Newsome says. after-school program, points out that kids “My mom got involved, and my two “need a place to be other than the streets. brothers and then their kids.” Many parents can’t afford other options. In the mid-1970s, a three-alarm fire We provide wonderful child care and great almost gutted the structure. The center snacks. This place challenges them. They then took up temporary residence in a develop social skills.” cramped apartment at the corner o f Maple Kevin Garrison, Marie’s 32-year-old and St. Paul streets, until more money was son, knows firsthand what a structure like raised to partially renovate the fire-dam that can do for a child. With his mother aged site. “The community rallied again. so involved, he was a King Street Youth The kids themselves did a lot o f work,” Center kid from age 4 through seventh Leopold points out. grade. “We were wild, but it helped us “It was some kind o f miracle,” says channel our energy,” he says. “We went to Monte, who became the center’s director the Granby Zoo, we learned to ski. It gave in 1977. “The will was so strong. We us the opportunity to experience things we would have died before letting it go otherwise would not have.” under.” As a production manager o f the offset At first, he was the only full-time division at Reprographics o f New employee, working with five other staff England, Garrison counts his blessings. “I members. “We thought o f ourselves as the have a good life, a beautiful home, two hired hands for the people o f the neigh children. I don’t think I would have borhood,” Monte says. “We brought turned out so well. I’m a better person administrative skills to the basic grassroots because o f King Street. It made me the nature o f the place.” person I am,” he vows. The center was then “like a big living

to comfortably handle the load: a session for pre-schoolers, an after-school program for elementary-age kids and a teen gather ing at night. In 1990, Leopold and board chairman Rick Davis launched a capital campaign to buy a building at 87 King — once again matching the name to the loca tion — and significantly expand it. A gym was constructed on what had been a park ing lot. The new facility was ready for occupancy in January 1993. “We raised $1.3 million in six months through a $ 10,000 federal grant, money from private foundations and individual donations,” Leopold says. “The concept of ‘kids and prevention’ was the key. When you talk to potential donors about families that struggle, it’s not hard to present a compelling story.” Leopold came to Vermont in 1982 with a master’s degree in special education from Boston University and experience in Beantown mental health and public health departments. She and her husband Jonathan — former Burlington city treas urer, now a financial consultant — have two grown kids: Sarah, 22, and Jesse, 21. After volunteering with a variety o f social service and civic agencies, Leopold finds her work at the center “never boring, always stimulating. It’s an honor to take care o f other people’s children.” The reach o f King Street has extended to include a full-day licensed early child hood education operation, an after-school program that continues in the summer, and a “teen futures” initiative geared to persuade adolescents they should avoid getting pregnant.

it all died a few years ago. Jim Moyer, who later opened a Burlington bar called Pearl’s, remains a kind o f mythic figure in the King Street neighborhood, where he worked side-by-side with residents to make a difference. “Everybody loved him ,” Newsome says. O f the many idealistic enterprises that sprang up in Burlington in the late ’60s and early ’70s — the People’s Free clinic, for example — the King Street Youth Center is among the few that have endured. While the center can boast a plethora o f happy endings, not every young person who spends time there is able to make the right choices in life. “There will be disappointments,” Leopold says. “All the big national problems are our problems, the ones we’ve been work ing on for 30 years. You cannot rest on slogans like, ‘Leave no child behind.’ You’ve got to back that up with resources and stay the course,” she continues. “We measure success in terms o f kids staying in school, delaying parenting, going on to higher education, getting good jobs.” Although these might be less opti mistic times, Leopold believes that King Street represents a rich heritage o f which the neighborhood and the entire city can be proud. “We’ve earned our bragging rights,” she says. “We’re compassionate people doing what’s right for children, who deserve every bit o f it.” ®

The 30th Anniversary Block Party for the King Street Youth Center; Burlington, is Saturday, June 23, 2 -6 p. m. It is free and open to the public. Info, 862-6736. -

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describes his role in more collab orative terms. “When I first started doing this it was around the time Madeleine Albright was going to the Middle East... I ended up feeling like one o f these negotia tor people,” he says. Typically, musicians want “to play really loud,” while singers “just want accompaniment. That’s what you have to negotiate.” Little Shop o f Horrors has retro music written by Alan Menken — lyrics by Howard Ashman — and a schlocky hor ror-movie script: A nerdy skidrow florist named Seymour dis covers an unusual plant that thrives on human blood. And as it grows to a preposterous size, the botanical beast begins to steer Seymour toward his true love, and to ... well, we don’t want to give if all away. The play, staged originally in New York nearly two decades ago, became a cult hit and was made into a 1986 movie starring Rick Moranis, Bill

Murray and Steve Martin. In the St. Mike’s version, part o f Cleary’s task is to direct the singers: Seymour, played by Glenn Peters, Bob Saikevicz as his boss Mr. Mushnik,* his love interest Audrey, a.k.a. Allison Mayne, and the girl-group “Greek chorus” of Ashanti Johnson, Taifa Harris and Simone Zamore. But then there’s the singing plant, which is really puppeteer Rachel Routhier inside a burgeoning succulent. Cleary has to coordinate her actions with the plant’s big, growly voice, supplied by Kevin M. Cheatham, who’s out o f sight in a studio behind the stage. Now that’s a directing challenge. Also invisible to both audi ence and cast, o f course, is the band — and accordingly, they don’t get much cred. But, Cleary points out, it’s the music that moves things along. The trick is to make it all sound seamless. Unlike a conduc tor, whose job is to keep an

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orchestra together and not drop the baton. Cleary manages to play the piano while waving one hand in the air and keeping an eye, and ear, out for everyone on and below stage, and every cue, whether scripted or accidental. All this while remembering not to sing along — a temptation when you’ve memorized all the parts. “I do some head banging sometimes,” he concedes. Cleary is modest about his role, but doesn’t underestimate it. The 10-member cast of Little Shop had 11 days to rehearse together, under the capable direc tion of Bob Durkin. But once the curtain goes up, Cleary’s the only one who can bring the action, singing and music together. “He’s fantastic,” declares Durkin, a New Yorker who worked with Cleary at UVM on Anything Goes and Sweet Charity. Durkin has choreographed two previous touring versions of Little Shop. Much in demand, he’s on his third musical in a month, and has three more to go before he takes a vacation this summer. The musicians, he vows, are “the driving force behind a musical.”

he players behind — and literally beneath — this Little Shop o f Horrors have shared plenty of pit time already. “They’ve been togeth er for four shows; they’re just really tight,” says Playhouse Artistic Director Cathy Hurst. '- P lu m m e r Rich Magnuson, bassist Art Dequasie and guitarist James O ’Halloran are all in their early thir ties and, like Cleary, have played instru ments since childhood and make music their livelihood. Collect ively, their musical credits number in the dozens, but Magnuson is the most prolific, with 17 or so shows * behind him. “My dad was the music director at CVU [High School],” he explains. “My first show was playing for him in The Music Man.” Since then Magnuson has performed with Lyric Theater — including backing Crazy For You with his own Swingin’ Vermont Big Band “plus two French horns.” Pressed to name his favorite musical, O ’Halloran offers Jesus Christ Superstar, because it has a good guitar part. T hat’s not typi cal, and perhaps it’s why the Grand Isle guitarist is surprised he likes musicals at all. “But I really enjoy it, the guitar being a cog in the machine,” he says. “At a club date it’s all about the front man; here you’re just a part of this greater spectacle. It’s bigger than anything a band could cre ate.” Still, he’d love to do Tommy some day — another rock-based musical with great guitar parts. O ’Halloran’s musical back ground is blues, but he was born to go multicultural: His mother is English, his father Irish. He recently spent six months in

Spain studying flamenco, and performed some gigs there with a Guatemalan guitarist. This spring he accompanied Jenni Johnson to an international jazz festival in Russia. In the fall he’s playing in Berlin with a guy he calls a German Bob Dylan. Back in Vermont, this former student of Burlington guitarist Paul Asbell is a teacher himself, like his Little Shop pitmates. “I think this show is going to be great,” he enthus es. “W ith a smaller cast you can really keep the focus.” Dequasie holds the smallesteast record, having backed the four-person Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris while still a high school student in Bennington. But Sweet Charity has the most interesting music, in his opinion. Though he’s also a pianist, Dequasie says he’s in demand as “a bass player who can read music.” W hat does he like about musicals? “You nearly always end up being surrounded by very positive people who real ly love what they’re doing,” he decides. “St. Michael’s in particu lar, as it’s very professional. Everyone is treated like they’re very important to the show.” Dequasie stresses that the music creates the mood of a play or a film. “If you were to watch The Exorcist with a Loony Toons soundtrack, I don’t think you’d

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Resurrecting Vermont’s historical figures is a matter of interpretation B y M a r k B u sh n ell immy’s death can still bring Helene Lang to tears. Her soft eyes grow misty as she thinks about the young doctor who was killed while helping another man. She apologizes for being sentimental, but she can’t help it. She’s a mother. It doesn’t matter that Jimmy died during World War II, more than 56 years ago. It doesn’t even matter that she never met Jimmy. He might as well have been her son. And in a way, he was. For the last three years, Lang has been passing herself o ff as Jimmy’s mother, who was Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Lang is a “first-person interpreter,” one o f a small group o f actors who portray historical fig ures in order to bring the past alive. “I am extremely proud o f this woman,” Lang says o f Fisher, the famed Vermont writer who was an early defender o f the rights o f women and minorities. “It is an honor, even for 50 minutes, to take on the persona o f this woman.” Lang will have the honor again this weekend when she performs at the Vermont History Expo in Tunbridge. Also appearing at the event will be actors por traying the famously succinct Calvin Coolidge and the brilliant investor Hetty Green, known by her detractors as the “Witch o f Wall Street.” First-person interpreters study every thing they can get hold o f about their sub jects: books, newsreels, recordings and let ters, even clothing. Jim Cooke, who first portrayed Coolidge 25 years ago, learned from the president’s son John that Silent Cal never put his hands in his pockets. “He didn’t put them in anyone else’s pock ets either, like so many other politicians,” Cooke cracks. It was a helpful tip. In playing Coolidge, Cooke relies mostly on articula tion. “Coolidge is not a man o f tremen dous gesture,” he says in extreme under statement. Fortunately, Cooke comes well trained for the part, having once worked as an art-class model. After years o f study and performance, he has memorized much o f what Coolidge said publicly or wrote. Despite the hard work, it all comes togeth er seamlessly on stage: It’s difficult to tell where Cooke ends and Coolidge begins. “I am lost in the character and lost in the tim e,” the actor says. But it’s not an out-of-body — or rather in-body — experience, either. “At the same time there is a part o f me that is really aware o f what that woman in the back row is doing,” Cooke adds. The best way to describe what he does is also the best definition he’s heard for acting — a “controlled hallucination,” Cooke offers. Edith Nichols has been on the same trip. You study your character’s life, you don their clothes and then suddenly “you cross over,” she says. “My family thinks I’ve gone around the bend. Hetty was obsessed with money and I got obsessed with Hetty.”

Through inheritance and shrewd investing, Hetty Green owned a sizable chunk o f America, including railroads, office buildings, prime real estate in Chicago and Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Now, you might say, she owns part o f Nichols’ life. Each morning, Nichols logs onto eBay to see if any Hetty-related merchandise is for sale. Among her prized possessions is a cape believed to have been hers. The obsession started innocently enough. Nichols, who runs an event organizing business in New Bedford, Massachusetts, needed a subject for a pres entation she had to give to her Toastmasters class. She stumbled upon Green, who had been born into a wealthy

New Bedford whaling family in 1834. By the time she died, Green had amassed a fortune worth between $100 million and $200 million — this in a time before women could even vote. In today’s dollars, she would have been worth at least $17 billion, Nichols says. During her life, Green earned a reputa tion as a penny-pincher. The Guinness Book o f World Records lists her as the world’s greatest miser. And clearly she was a hard case. When she married Vermont businessman Edward Green and moved with him to Bellows Falls, the local mer chants thought they’d get rich. They got more than they bargained for. Their mixed feelings for Green are betrayed in their nickname for her: “The Pride and Pain of Bellows Falls.” The problem was, she wasn’t much interested in sharing her wealth with her neighbors. Green is said to have purchased

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But Cooke couldn’t shake the Coolidge character. People who’d seen the Follies production kept calling him Mr. President. Eventually, he embraced the role, appearing in a 1985 Emmy Award winning docudrama about Coolidge. Now Cooke performs around New England and conducts walking tours o f Boston, where he lives, as Coolidge, showing tourists the city he had known when a state lawmaker and later governor between 1907 and 1920. It hasn’t hurt business'that Coolidge’s reputation has been on the mend. That resurrection has been fostered by people like Cooke himself, who have read Coolidge’s words and found a far more compassionate man than they’d expected. During a performance at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, chief historian Sheldon Stern was stunned to learn that Cooke’s lines came from Coolidge verba tim. He was so impressed with Coolidee’s

eloquence that he organized a symposium on the oft-overlooked president. Helene Lang came to know her Fisher’s character through reading as well. Poring over the author’s works — 40 books and novels — Lang came away awed. Indeed, one o f the greatest challenges in perform ing as Fisher, she says, is to detail her accomplishments while also portraying her modesty. Lang must artfully explain how, during World War I, Fisher and her two small children followed her husband to France because she could not bear the separation. And how, once there, she established an orphanage and had Braille presses sent from the United States to print books for blinded soldiers. And how, in 1924, she wrote The Home-Maker, a novel in which the father becomes the stay-at-home par ent and the mother finds greater fulfill ment in the workforce. And how, later, she nurtured the careers o f female authors like Isak Dinesen and black writers like Richard Wright. It was this strong character that drew Lang to Fisher. She had already been per forming with the support o f the Vermont Council on the Humanities as Beatrix Potter — another impressive woman whose conservation ethic helped preserve England’s Lake District — when she agreed to take on a second character. Lang chose Fisher because o f her uncommon courage and her love o f the common things in life, such as gardening and the community spirit o f her adopted home town o f Arlington, Vermont. In many ways, Fisher’s life fits Lang like the white gloves she pulls on for per formances. Both women’s professional lives revolved around Vermont and books — Lang recently retired after teaching lit eracy and literature for 34 years at the University o f Vermont. She continues to work on a UVM program addressing issues o f race and culture. Both women were committed to equality. And both found lifelong loves: Fisher with her hus band John, and Lang with hers, Richard. Despite the parallels, Lang is quick to note that she plays a different role from Fisher. “I am not a composer. I am a con ductor,” she explains. “I feel in a way I am a conduit. I can bring Dorothy Canfield Fisher to people.” And for Lang and other first-person interpreters, that’s the whole point — to capture a bit o f history and bring it back alive. ®

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So there I was in the bathroom the other morn ing reading The New York Times, and I have to admit I did end up finding something that piqued my interest. It concerned the alleged pranks and vandalism committed by Clinton’s White House staff on their way out of office. Apparently there was some damage left to the offices. Ari Fleischer, the current President’s press secretary, was so upset that he felt the Clintons’ security i deposit should be with held. The new adminis tration found “pornographic or obscene messages” on the voice mail of 15 telephones, said Fleischer, and “The White House determined that we had no choice but to erase all the voice mail messages throughout the White House phone system.” That wasn’t all, and Fleischer probably had to take a moment to compose himself before continu ing: “In an attempt to deprive the incoming White House of office supplies, the previous administra tion threw out vast quantities of paper, pens and pencils and three-ring binders, which we recov ered.” This initially enraged even me, and I’m more or less a liberal, because I am certain that if I hadn’t lost several of my own three-ring binders in college I would now have a degree. So I could feel Fleischer’s pain. If I had been at that briefing, I wouldn’t have been able to resist embracing him. “Ari,” I would have said, wiping away the tears, “You had me at pornographic.’” Then I got to the end of the article, where I read this: “Pranks by an administration that is leav ing office are not unheard of. In 1993, when Clinton aides arrived at their White House offices, they found desks upended, headsets glued to tele phones and bumper stickers poking fun at the new president.” While impressed by the Times’even-handed reporting, I was now beginning to feel that Fleischer had cynically manipulated my emotions. As stressful as it must be for a new Republican administration to inherit an office-supply deficit, gluing headsets to telephones is easily as tasteless as anything the Democrats did. More than that, it’s just plain dangerous. Here’s why: Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that George W. Bush loses the Presidency to, say, Independent candidate Jim Jeffords in the next election. President Jeffords moves into the Oval Office and is relieved to find that the desk is still upright. Sure, there’s a tremendous “Take Back Vermont” mural painted on the wall, but Jeffords takes that in the spirit of good-natured joshing and immediately gets to work taking inventory of the office supplies. Remarkably, all the three-ring binders can be accounted for. Don’t open your eyes yet, because all is not well

in Russia. The government’s payroll checks have bounced again. To pay for vodka and hookers, Russian maintenance workers have been forced to sell key components of their early-warning system to Iran, causing a short, and thus a false alarm, at President Putin’s monitoring center. Mr. Putin immediately becomes concerned, of course, when he looks up at his monitor during lunch and sees thousands of the little red arrows crossing the North Pole on their way to Moscow. But he does not panic. Mr. Putin is a cool cus tomer. He knows this is probably just those utility workers on a bender again, and that he can just let his fingers do the walking over to his red hotline phone. He also knows that as soon as he picks up the receiv er it will ring at the other end, alerting President Jeffords, who, despite private doubts, will reassure Putin that Bush did not let his butt hit the doomsday button on his way out the door. We are still not in trouble, because the U.S. government has wisely insisted that 200 competing phone companies be jointly awarded the hotline contract. This means that the system is in perfect working order, albeit on a rate plan that neither government will ever be able to figure out. Incidentally, that is one of the glorious benefits of deregulated utilities, one to which burgeoning capi talist economies should pay heed. We may be able to keep the entire Russian work force in grain alco hol for a week with what we pay for a 10-minute call across The Pond, but at least we know our phones are going to work. Anyway, now our new President is somewhat alarmed himself— he just found the Nintendo Bush left behind and, dammit, the Nuclear Hotline is ringing already. Like Putin, however, President Jeffords is also a cool customer and is not yet pan icked. He can just pick up his own little red phone and get this whole thing straightened out. But Jeffords can’t pick up, because some prankster, desperate to prove how zany Republicans can be, thought it would be funny to superglue the receiver down on the Nuclear Hotline. Now Jeffords is panicked. He puts both feet down on the phone and yanks as hard as he can, to no avail. Vice-President Patrick Leahy loses several finger nails when he tries. Not even Secretary of State Bernie Sanders, the tough guy of the group, has any luck smashing it against the “Take Back Vermont” wall. Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney are hiding in the bushes outside the window, giggling like a cou ple of University of Texas sorority girls. Putin’s not laughing, though, is he? You’re darn right he’s not. Especially when he gets the White House voice mail instead of the President. Naturally, Putin does what any head of state who can retreat to his own private underground city would do: He pushes the button that will end life on Earth as we know it. Twenty minutes later, Vermont’s in the Southern Hemisphere, Las Vegas and New Orleans are pillars of salt, and New Zealand is a superpower. And you can’t open your eyes, because they’re fused shut. ^ You see what I mean? Do you really think that’s funny? Well, I don’t. I think somebody needs some

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Too Many Authors? and waste resulting from the dogged f the United States were to adopt its pursuit of more.” own version of the Chinese calendar, Potentially most interesting to some 2001 would surely qualify as The readers are the chapters devoted to the Year of the Pig. As would 2000, 1999, origins of affluenza. And the brief history 1998... and all the way back, with only lesson about the movement for a 30-hour a few exceptions, to the seminal postwork week does deliver the intellectual World War II period, which might be goods. Generally, though, the search for labeled The Years of the Piglet. causes of affluenza leads only in circles. Ostentatious over The authors argue that affluenza consumption has long does not spring been evident almost from the everywhere in the human con U.S.A. It’s reached dition, but is truly grotesque instead a dimensions during uniquely the past decade, as is American ail obvious to anyone ment, at least in who compares the terms of the Spear and Dorset diagnosis they streets of 1990 present. That may with today’s boule be true — other vards of bloated highly developed dreams. countries don’t The sight of seem to have suc SUVs rolling cumbed to such a down the drives virulent form of the of suburban disease. But the book castles en route doesn’t adequately to the explain how the U.S. University Mall could be . developed such a bad dismissed as mere tastelessness if the case. Tracing the out costs of all that glittery glop were borne break to a 1920s “gospel of consump solely by those who choose to live in tion” and subsequent brainwashing via such fashion. But the spillover affects all mass media advertising is hardly rigorous of us. It’s not just a matter of aesthetic epidemiology. blight, but of resource depletion, bios ■The section on suggested remedies is phere pollution and cultural coarsening. disappointing as well. Here, the best the So what if most of humanity subsists in authors can do is to urge affluenza suf squalor? ferers to spend more time outdoors and Someone ought to write a book that to think less about themselves and more attempts to explain how this happened, about others. • and what might be done about it. Well, okay. But when the scourge has Actually, someone has. In fact, three peo reached pandemic stage, more radical ple have: John de Graaf, a Seattle-based treatments might be in order — like a producer of TV documentaries; David $5-a-gallon tax on gasoline, maybe, with Wann, an environmental analyst living the proceeds going to create a public in Colorado; and Vermont’s own transportation system worthy of the Thomas Naylor, professor emeritus of name. Affluenza doesn’t go there or any economics at Duke University. Their where close, however, even though one book is called Affluenza: The Allsuspects the authors might be harboring Consuming Epidemic. such unpopular proposals. Fittingly for an age in which images The lengthiest part of the book enu matter more than words, Affluenza is merates various symptoms of the sick derived from a two-part television docu ness. The writing is occasionally witty, mentary that aired on PBS in 1997 and but this section is flaccidly repetitious. 1998. And the book retains a TV-like Reader-responsive editing would have format, complete with frequent illustra pared these 120 pages to no more than tions, sub-headed sections of only a few 30. But if that had happened, Affluenza paragraphs and a sound-bite prose style. wouldn’t qualify as a book at all — more This approach has both good and bad as a TV documentary script. How ironic aspects. that a work excoriating excess is itself so Because the authors laudably seek to heavily padded. preach to the unconverted, it makes Naylor doesn’t seem all that enthusi strategic sense to present their informa astic about the book, even though his tion and arguments in easily accessible name is on it. The fizzy style is not to form. Affluenza reads like a primer that his liking, but he rationalizes it on the might alternately have been entitled grounds that a heavier touch is no longer Downsizing for Dummies. allowed by publishers hoping to tap into The authors strive as well to avoid the the mass market. He also complains hectoring tone that would cause many about being outvoted 2-1 by his co open-minded readers to recoil. The book authors on most matters of controversy. manages to be earnest and not arrogant, for the most part. 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its break with communist dogma. The fascinated American watched as social and economic restructuring turned into full-scale dis mantling under Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Naylor regards as “the greatest political leader of the 20th century.” Along with the retool ing of his philosophy came a change in his personal life. While traveling among the Soviet Union’s centrifu gal satellite states, Naylor met and married a Polish psychiatrist, Magdalena Raczkowska. They had a son, Alexander, in 1987. Naylor also has a 38-yearold daughter from a previ ous marriage. Following the Soviet Union’s demise, Naylor reflected on its causes in “a book that was read by prac tically no one.” This absence of attention may have been due in part to the author’s observation that the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. actually had many similarities, including their gigantism. It’s his contention that

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the Soviet Union fell apart mainly because so vast a nation could not be forever controlled by a centralized bureaucracy. And he thinks the United States, an equally enormous entity, might also break up as its cultural adhesives come unstuck. In the 20th centu ry, Naylor posits, the U.S. was kept intact by three major foreign threats — two world wars and a cold war — and by the internal trauma of the Great Depression. The new glue, he suggests, is “techno-fas cism,” which may not bind much longer if George W. Bush stumbles onward with his “outlandishly con servative” program. With 30 titles already to his credit — including co-authorship of the recent Affluenza: The All-Consum ing Epidemic — it’s no sur prise that Naylor is com pleting another book, this one called The Genteel Revolution: Escape from Techno-Fascism. According to an outline, it’s a broad-

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“Everybody in Charlotte knows this to be true,” Naylor continues, “but you’re not sup posed to talk about it.” It’s for those reasons, he says, that he has enrolled his own son in the pri vate Gailer School in Shelburne, where tuition is more than $13,000 a year. The nation itself is also too big for its own good, according to Naylor. Sweden and Switzer land, each with less than 5 per cent o f the population o f the United States, qualify as his model societies. He’s particularly taken with Switzerland because it has “the most decentralized, least

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powerful central government of any Western democracy.” Almost no outsider can name the presi dent o f Switzerland, Naylor notes approvingly. In another o f his commu niques, Naylor advocates the for mation o f a “New Atlantic Republic,” to consist o f the seces sionist states o f Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, along with the breakaway provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. “Freedom, independence, self-sufficiency, hard work, thrift, respect for individual rights, envi ronmental integrity and loyalty to family and community are among the common values shared by these regions,” he writes. What political content would Naylor give to his visions? He calls himself “a left-wing libertar ian with strong anarchist tenden cies.” That narrow a niche does n’t leave roonWor many allies. And, indeed,* Naylor doesn’t admire many local politicians — one exception being Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle, whom he has offered to support for the presidency o f an independent Vermont. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, takes the right stand against globalization, in Naylor’s opinion, but fails to see the criti cal importance o f decentraliza tion. “He’s a big-government guy in a small state,” Naylor says o f Vermont’s socialist congressman. The one Vermont political theorist with whom Naylor might identify is Murray Bookchin. Oddly, though, he has no acquaintance with Bookchin’s many books and essays delineat ing a world-view strikingly simi lar to Naylor’s. There’s little truly new in what Naylor is saying. But he finds some marketable ways of saying it. ®

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and explore the intimate grandeur of a beautifully cut gemstone. She he express elevator launched was right. W hat a view! We had begun our search for us to the top of Place Ville views at sea level — in this case, Marie, the tallest building by the St. Lawrence River — in in downtown Montreal. “I hope the Old Port section of Montreal. „you’re not afraid of heights,” I We’d hoped for a city view from * said to my friend Ellen. It hadn’t the middle of the river, but the occurred to me to ask earlier, ferries to lie Ste-Helene weren’t because I had invited her to accompany me on a scoutihg W 7 running yet. So we settled for the quai, and a view of the city sky mission to locate the city’s best line from the far end of Jacques views. But I noticed her look of ‘Concern as the G-forces pressed down on us. Just a few hours earlier, we had tromped through the sum mer heat from one belfry to another and had an interesting discussion about the whole con Cartier pier. cept of “a view.” Ellen noted that The next step — up — was we tend to think “panorama,” the the tower of the Notre-Dame-deBig Picture, the view from on Bon-Secours chapel, from which high. But sometimes, she offered, we looked across the rooftops of the better view is the small one, Old Montreal. Flanked by the narrow angle, the close-up. archangels, Notre Dame herself Case in point: The week before hovered above us, with arms out we’d been in a fabulous jewelry stretched to the tourists below on store, Birks et Fils, and Ellen, an rue de la Commune. Six blocks amateur gemologist, had encour away, we ducked into the cool aged me to put a loupe to my eye B y J ean n e K e l le r

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Which brings us back to the elevator and Ellen’s worried look. Perhaps all her talk about small views was simply a cover for acrophobia. But just as she was reassuring me, the elevator swooshed to a stop and the doors opened at “PH 2,” revealing an ochre-and-orange lobby lined with mirrors and murals. We stepped out into a cacophony of club music, and several chic young Montrealers walked by pushing utility carts full of soda, napkins and plastic cups. Others

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overwhelming, courtesy of Hydro-Quebec. a restaurant on top of the build ing, complete with spinning search lights. Why, we pondered, are people so drawn to a highaltitude restaurant? And more to the point, why is the food up there always so bad? Since we both believe that no view justifies lousy food, we agreed to just go up, take a look around and forget the meal.

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conversed over clipboards and reached for buzzing cell phones. A sign at the end of the corridor indicated yet another elevator to our destination, “737.” Once inside the elevator, there’s a choice of lounge, terrace or restaurant. We went for the restaurant at the very top. When the doors opened, the view was stunning — 360 degrees

of the city lay before us, and we were hovering over it. Tables decked in linen and crystal were set against the floor-to-ceiling windows. It was late afternoon, so we could see all the streets, parks and landmarks. At night, we imagined, the lights would be overwhelming, courtesy of Hydro-Quebec. From the restaurant we could also look down two floors at the Terrace, an open-air club where the adventurous can party under the stars until 5 a.m. Only a fence stands between you and a 37-story fall. The maitre-d’told us that only one person has jumped from the Terrace; he had a parachute and was promptly arrested when he landed some where below. He also noted that the best view is a summer evening during the fireworks festival. Not surprisingly, those nights are booked weeks in advance. By this point Ellen and I had had enough of views from tall places. We cleared our heads with a bit of shopping at Holt Renfew and enjoyed the view of the tea garden at the Ritz Carlton. Too down-to-earth? Maybe, but a nice view nonetheless. ®

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Hardware Criminal It’s been said that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. An unnamed woman from the Bristol area has taken that concept a step further. Apparently she went down to Martin’s Hardware, poked around for a while, and then approached the register with about $60 worth of tools that she said she wanted to return for a refund. When the items were checked against the store’s com puterized inventory, they were listed as still in stock; a little checking showed the empty places on the shelves where the items had been. No charges were filed, perhaps on the theory that her behav ior qualified more as a compulsion than an actual crime; instead, the woman was simply asked to leave the store. Area businesses were later advised of this new twist on the ancient crime of shoplifting, just in case she decides to try again. — Addison Independent, June 7

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Talking Heads Headlines have turned manic and strangely aphasic: We found “Boss Clown Becomes Smirko-inResidence,” “Turn Back the Clock Tennis” and “Monuments May Move in Proctorsville.” Elsewhere we’re told “Killer Carrots Take Over the World,” “Psychosexual Cave Jazz Hits Community Center” and “The Mountains Are Really Green,” as if we need, reminding. “Walk the Dog Softly and Carry a Big

Sunseri Sunset Don Sunseri, the founder and artistic director of the Northeast Kingdom’s Grass Roots Arts and Community Effort, a.k.a. GRACE, is recognized nationally for his commitment to art and personal vision, especially among elders. He is also fighting pancreatic cancer and, frankly, the battle is pretty much over — Sunseri doesn’t expect to see the colors turn this fall. His answer to the, death question, or at least one of his answers, was a recent one-man show in East Craftsbury, a kind of estate sale that he would have the unusual pleasure of actually attending. Although his name is linked most firmly with GRACE, he is also an artist in his own right and a long-time per former with the Bread and Puppet Theater. People from all over turned up at the opening and bought pretty much everything in sight. He seemed to find this both weird and gratifying: “Part of the craziness is, if you sell a piece, you don’t have to look at it any more,” he said. As for the diagnosis, he says, “The timing was good.” With GRACE now firmly ensconced in the old firehouse in Hardwick and staffed by people he trusts, he is ready to move on. “I had been having trouble letting it go. This made it real easy. I said, ‘I have a new job, guys.’” It’s a job he seems to be good at: “Talk about an unknown!” he says. And he does talk about it, which is refreshing. It’s too early to grieve and in poor taste to party, so the only thing left is to honor a Vermont artist as he steps gracefully out of the picture. —- Barton Chronicle, June 13

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Stanley Gup there. No question, he’s qualified for a plaque in Toronto. But, lacking a degree, does LeClair qualify for the uni versity’s Hall of Fame? According to the require ments, a candidate must have attended Groovy UV for “at least four semesters.” No problem there. LeClair played hockey for four seasons. In addition, “a candidate should have earned an academic degree from UVM or another accredited institution of higher learning.” Oh, really? You see, a guy can’t be two places at once. LeClair never fin ished up that semester. And as professional hockey took him onward and upward, he never got back to the books. John was majoring in agricultural econom ics, like a good Franklin County boy, when opportunity struck. He completed 107 credits. According to the Registrar’s office, 122 are required for a degree. Hey, c’mon now. Academic standards are there for a reason, right? But, under the official Hall of Fame rules, there is one and only one little exception: “In lieu of the degree requirement, consider ation may be given to those who showed a serious commitment to his or her academics and did not obtain a degree.” Athletic Director Rick Farnham told Seven Days Tuesday, “John left here with an almost 3.0 grade-point-average. He was a ' student in good standing. He only needed six credits to finish.” Well, actually 15, but we catch the drift, Rick. “What do you do with a $50 million success story?” he asked. With just 15 credits to go, noted. Farnham, Mr. LeClair was clearly right on track to graduate on time. He assured us the Hall of Fame would not accept into its esteemed ranks “someone who was a donkey in school.” Agreed, no donkeys allowed. Not now, not ever. Perhaps, mused Mr. Farnham, the famous UVM" dropout “may decide to come back” to Universitas Veridis Montis one day and finish up, “so he can go out and make his mark in the world.” Hey, it’s a wonderful life! Media Notes — The TV news ratings are out for the May sweeps and little’s changed. Ch. 3 beat Ch. 5 for No. 1. Congratu lations, Marsillyiss! And Ch. 22 continues to be a distant third. The best spin? Well, Ch. 22 went from 2 to a 3 percent audience share at 6 o’clock. Hey, that’s a 50 percent jump! Railroad No Talkie? — Ifs been

three weeks since Amtrak put its foot down and stopped sending the Vermonter passenger train into the Green Mountain State. The Vermonter runs daily between Washington, D.C. and St. Albans. Used to, anyway. The train is subsidized by Vermont taxpayers. According to Amtrak, the track, owned by the New England Central Railroad (NECR), was found to be in subpar condition. NECR wanted to / .2 sJV A -■:

place “temporary speed restric tions on its track,” said Amtrak. That would have caused big delays, so the service north of Springfield, Massachusetts, was canceled. Asked last week at his weekly press conference what was up, Gov. Howard Dean confessed he hadn’t a clue. Ho-Ho told reporters he was very concerned about the future of the Vermonter, especially since Amtrak had just canceled bus service north of Springfield, too. An Amtrak spokesman told the Associated Press last Friday it’s committed to getting the Vermonter rolling again. The problem is with NECR’s track maintenance. Transportation Secretary Brian Searles says the next safety check of the rails will be June 26. One other little problem is NECR’s silence on the matter. Attempts by several Vermont media outlets to get information from NECR officials were in vain. Our calls and e-mails to NECR General Manager Mike Olmstead in St. Albans were ignored. Nice. The likely explanation comes from a visit to the railroad’s Web site. You might recall that in 1995, the old Central Vermont line was sold to an up-and-com ing non-union outfit out ofTexas called RailTex. Rep. Bernie Sanders led the battle against the sale. He lost. Central Vermont got a new coat of paint and a new name — New England Central. RailTex (www.railtex.com) is now called RailAmerica and is based in Boca Raton, Florida. Doing very, very well, thank you. RailAmerica bills itself as “The World’s Leader in the Ownership and Operation of Short Line and Regional Freight Railroads.” We’re talking 39 railroads in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Chile. The corporate strategy is to acquire more and more small regional lines “to create a diversi fied international rail transporta tion company through an aggres sive, focused acquisition pro gram.” Cool. So why doesn’t RailAmerica respond to Vermont press inquiries about it’s worn-out Vermont track that’s apparently in such crappy shape Amtrak won’t let the public ride over it? Because, mes amis, it doesn’t have to. RailAmerica, a publicly held company, is in the business of making money for its share holders, not serving Vermont’s transportation needs. Wake up and smell the capitalism. When it comes to being a good corporate citizen and a good neighbor in Vermont, RailAmerica adheres to the old “Screw You” policy so popular among multinational cor porations these days. All aboard! Thought For the Day — In the

20th century, the revolutionary thing to do was take over the gov ernment by any means necessary and then privatize industry. In the 21st century, the revo lutionary thing to do is take over industry by any means necessary and privatize government. Think about it. ® E-mail Peter at InsideTrackVT@aol.com

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THE BLAME (rock), Edgewater Adams Apple Caf6, Portland & Main s t m t s , Morrlsvilte, 888 Backstage Pub, 6 0 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 8 7 8-5494. : | . ■' " i 'M Banana Winds, Town Mkt. PI., Susie W ilson Rd., Essex Jet., 879-0752. Bayside. Bar-be-cue, Lake Rd., St. Albans, 5 2 7 - 7 il§ P s Boonys Grille, Rt. 236, Franklin, 9 3 3-4569. Borders Books & M usic, 29 Church St., Burlington, 6 6 5-2711. Breakwater Cafe, King St. Dock, Burlington, 6 5 8-6276. Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 864-5888. Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson Ln., Burl., 862-6900. Cactus Pete's, 7 Fayette Rd., S. Burlington, 863-1138. Caffeino's, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 828-0029. Capitol City Grange Hall, Northfield Rd., Montpelier, 744-6163. Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800. Champion’s, 32 Main St., W inooski, 655-4705. Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 2 2 3-6820. Chow! Bella, 2 8 N. Main St., St. Albans, 5 2 4-1405. City Limits, 14 Greene St. Vergennes, 8 7 7-6919. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 86 5-4 56 3 . Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527-7000. Compost Art Center, 39 Main St., Hardwick, 47 2-9 61 3 . Daily Bread, Bridge St., Richmond, 434-3148. Danny’s Pub, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 479-5664.

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. DREAMWEAVER (DJ), G Stop, 9 p.m. NC. -r '' LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim ’s Grille, 7:30 p.m. NC. NC = NO COVER. AA = ALL AGES JIM LACLAIR (folk), Kept Writer, ‘ 7 p.m. NC. AA BAD HORSEY (rock), Bayside DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 135 Pearl, 10 Barb-be-cue, 9 p.m. $3. p.m. $4. ELECTRIC BLUE & THE KOSMIC ADAM ROSENBURG (acoustic), TRUTH (rock), Monopole, 10 Radio Bean, 9 p.m. NC. p.m. NC. ROCK ’N’ ROLL SHERPA (ambient GEEZER (funk rock), Ground Zero, rock), Valencia, 10 p.m. NC. 10:30 p.m. $1/5. 18+ INCREMENTAL BALANCE (jazz), GOOD GUYS PRODUCTIONS (DJ), Halvorson’s, 9 p.m. $3. Naked Turtle, 9:30 p.m. NC. BTOWN SOUNDJIMMY T & THE COBRAS (rock), UNDERGROUND(djs), Liquid Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC. Energy, 9 p.m. N.C. CYLINDER (rock), Otter Creek ANNI CLARK (singer-songwriter), Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. Burlington Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. GOOD QUESTION BAND (rock), City $ 6 . AA Limits, 9 p.m. NC. GREGORY DOUGLASS (singer-song GRUPO SABOR, JOE DAVIDIAN writer), Barnes & Noble, 8 p.m. (Latin dance; jazz piano), NC. Moretown Town Hall, 8 p.m. REDHEADED STEPCHILD $ 10 . (acoustic), Sweetwaters, 9 p.m. GINAMARK (rock), Thirsty Turtle, NC. 9 p.m. $3. DJ NIGHT, Ri Ra Irish Pub, 10:30 GIGI WEISMAN, BARB KESTER, p.m. $ 2 . ROBERT RESNIK (romantic JULIET MCVICKER (jazz), Red European acoustic), Villa Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. Tragara, 6:30 p.m. $5. DANCETERIA (’80s & '90s ONCIDIUM (funk/jazz), dance), Club Metronome, 10 Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3/5. p.m. $ 2 . THIRD WORLD, LAMBSBREAD (reg LION’S DEN HIFI SOUND SYSTEM gae), Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. (reggae DJs Yosef & Ras Jah I. $16/19. Red), Manhattan Pizza & Pub, JIM BRANCA & THE RED HOT 10 p.m. NC. INSTANT COMBO (blues), Mad RUN FOR COVER (rock), Nectar’s, Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. 9:30 p.m. NC. BOB GAGNON (jazz), J. Morgan's, BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), 7 p.m. NC. Rasputin’s, 5:30 p.m. NC, fol DYSFUNKSHUN (punk-hop), lowed by TOP HAT DJ, 9 p.m. NC. Charlie O's, 10 p.m. NC. FUSION (hip-hop/reggae/dance; OPEN MIKE, Mediums Blend, 7 DJs Robbie J. & Toxic), p.m. NC. Millennium NightclubWIDE WAIL (alt-pop), Compost Burlington, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+ Art Ctr., 9 p.m. $5. 18+ before I I p.m. PC THE SPINDOCTOR (house/Top KARAOKE, J.P .’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. 40/techno), Millennium RIGHT IDEA (rock), Vermont Pub Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. $3/10. & Brewery, 9 p.m. NC. 18+ LARRY BRETT’S JUKEBOX (DJ), ShNa-Na’s, 8 p.m. $3. ADAMS & EVE (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. JOHN VALBY, A.K.A. DR. DIRTY (adult comedy), Higher Ground, GREEN MOUNTAIN CHEW CHEW 9 p.m. $13/15. 18+ W/STOCKWELL BROS., CAROLYN REDNECK ALIENS (rock), HESTER, TOMMY OVERSTREET, Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. RICK & THE RAMBLERS, DIXIE KARAOKE W/PETER BOARDMAN, CHICKLETS (roots rock, Western Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. swing, country), Burlington JOHN CASSEL (jazz piano), Tavern waterfront, from 3 p.m. NC.

SATURDAY

TELL ALL It’s been six years since Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball parted company, but their “story” continues to evolve. For Brooke, the tale includes several solo albums, each more assured than the last. With edgy intelligence and a gift for aural adventures, she makes pop-folk-jazz-rock into a genre of her own. Brooke comes to Higher Ground next Wednesday.

LIVE MUSIC, Breakwater, 6 p.m. NC. LISA MCCORMICK W/LYNN DEEVES (singer-songwriters), Burlington Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. $10. AA SUMMER FLING (alt-rock), Radio Bean, 9 p.m. NC. AAv. . GIVEN GROOVE (rock), Valencia, 9 p.m. NC. DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4. FREEFALL (jazz), 'Halvorson’s, 9 p.m. $3. HOY (acoustic blues-funk), Liquid Energy, 9 p.m. N.C. MANSFIELD PROJECT (rock),

Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. THE HALOGENS (modern rock; CD release party), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $3, followed by RETRONOME (DJ; dance pop), 10 p.m. $ 2 . CHROME COWBOYS (vintage coun try), Red Square, 9:^0 p.rri. f^C. LIVE MUSIC, Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P .’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. FLASHBACK (’80s Top Hat DJ), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. NC.

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and-easy swing groove, and, thanks to some musi cal cruise control, doesn’t stray far from it on these 11 tracks. This CD is a good addition to the col lections of swing-dance novices, in fact, because none of the tunes is too fast to trip over. W hat’s more, the sound is smooth, the playing flawless, and the production from Charles Eller Studios mighty pleasing to the ear. W hat’s more, the “Western” in the subtitle means business. Rick & the Ramblers is Rick Norcross — impresario o f the annual Green Mountain Chew Chew, and lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist here — and a posse of fine local musicians. Though his lineup has changed over the years, the current members are Leo Roy on vocals and lead guitar, Jim Pitman on pedal steel and dobro, Chris Peterman on saxophone, Tom Buckley on vocals and bass, and Roy Cutler on vocals and drums. Taking a big leap from acid soul to country swing, former Belizbeha chanteuse Shauna Antoniuc con tributes both lead and backup vocals. Roy and Cutler take the center mike on one song each — the latter on his own countryish “Snow in April,” which closes the album. Three of the other four Vermont-made tunes were penned by Leroy Preston, a founding mem ber of Asleep at the Wheel who also weighed in on this production’s final mix. His is the title track, a gentle, mid-tempo twanger on which Norcross’

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country crooning matches the sorrowful slide of the pedal Steel. Preston also contributed the aptly named TBiunp Bounce Boogie,Tone of myfavorites here! The song really does all three of those verbs, and is sung by Antoniuc in her sweet, girlish voice, with sax and steel responding to her vocal lines. Preston’s “Lonely Night Song” is a swingy number featuring the terrific David Gusakov on fiddle. Hearing him suddenly makes you wish he were present on all the other tunes, but this was it. Antoniuc delivers Vermonter Colin McCaffrey’s lyrically anxious “Never Get the Nerve to Call,” and here one could wish for a little more full-throated vocal spunk than she’s got. But this is a minor quibble; Antoniuc’s honeyed tones are a welcome addition overall. Another AATW alum, Ray Benson, wrote “Dance W ith the One W ho Brung You,” which shows off Cutler’s sprightly drumming and one of many silky sax maneuvers by Peterman. Roy hand ily takes on the easy-listening Vince Gill tune, “I’ll Take Texas,” another highlight. It’s hard not to like the tom-tom-driven “Cherokee Maiden,” a Cindy Walker tune made famous by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, among others. Roy’s sassy guitar tone helps make this one an irresistible toe-tapper. There isn’t a single flat on I Heard the Highway — it’s a good record for the road. But you don’t have to go farther than the Burlington waterfront to hear it live, this Saturday night, when Rick & the Ramblers take the Chew Chew stage. Giddyup.

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It’s creepy and depressing, actually making you feel trapped in a sort of stasis while synth keys add to the ambiance. The second track, “If The Sea Won’t Rise,” is a similarly gloomy, two-chord, one-riff affair. It makes you feel kind of post-drunk but unable to get off the couch and go to bed. “Open the Brick H and” changes things up with more of a bouncy, twisted-circus-backstage feel. This song features strange, Morrison-style poetry spoken over the sin gle riff. I like the line, “Can you see the sun behind the smoke of the gun?” But it could also be “son,” I dunno. “The Sirens” is a four-minute percussion piece that builds a tribal groove, as if leading up to a deep, hidden jungle ritual. Drummer Altrui plays well, but every song on this disc is a one-part deal. To be fair, each song evolves from beginning to end on a layering journey around a single chord progression. It’s just a different approach to song structure, I guess. I can’t decide if it’s mesmerizing or a little tedious, but it’s definitely moody and interesting as far as downer soundscapes go. The final track, “The Crossing,” is much the same, but slightly more adventurous, with saxo phone and guitars layering lines of semi-psychedelic freak-out. It reminds me of In the Court of the Crimson King-cvk King Crimson — if they had played a song with only one part. Still, the pro duction quality is good — a clear, crisp execution of hypnotic depression, file this one under pro gressive, gothic drone.

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sO U nd AdviCe continued from page 30 CLUB MIX (hip-hop/house; DJs Irie, Robbie J. & Toxic), Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. NC/$10. 18+ before 11 p.m. BLUES FOR BREAKFAST, Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. HOLLYWOOD FRANKIE (DJ; video dance party), Sh-Na-Na’s, 8 p.m. $3. ADAMS & EVE (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. DJ SUPERSOUNDS (dance party), Lincoln Inn Lounge, 9 p.m. NC. ERIN BECKER (singer-songwriter), Village Cup, 8 p.m. NC. AA CANCER CONSPIRACY, DEEP SODA, THE RISE PARK (modern rock), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $ 6 . AA YO YO NIPPLES (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. THE BLAME (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. DJ NIGHT, G Stop, 9 p.m. NC. 18+ BOB GESSER (rock/folk), Boonys Grille, 7 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W/DAVID HARRISON, Sam i’s Harmony Pub, 9 p.m. NC. BAD HORSEY (rock), Bayside Barb-becue, 9 p.m. $3. BLUE BANDANA (country), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12. ELECTRIC BLUE & THE KOZMIC TRUTH (rock), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. DJ BLACK BOX (jungle/house/hip-hop), Ground Zero, 10 p.m.- 6 a.m. NC before 12 a.m., $5 after. 18+ THE NATURALS (rock), Naked Turtle, 9:30 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W/FRANK, Franny 0 ’s, 9 p.m. NC. TOP HAT DJ DANCE PARTY, City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. CYLINDER (rock), Otter Creek Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. DJ DANCE PARTY (Top Hat; Top 40/hip-hop/r&b), City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. JANE MONHEIT (jazz vocalist), Southern Vermont Arts Center, Arkell Pavilion, 8 p.m. $20/25/30. GINAMARK (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3. SETH YACOVONE BLUES BAND, Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3/5. BEN & JERRY’S ONE WORLD ONE HEART FESTIVAL W/TONIC, ROBERT CRAY BAND, CPR, JOAN OSBORNE, CUBANISMO, ENTRAIN AND MORE (rock, blues, Latin, etc.), Sugarbush Resort, Warren, from 11 a.m. NC (parking $10). AA SHADRAQ (groove rock), Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. STEVEN KELOGE (singer-songwriter), Mediums Blend, 7 p.m. NC. SPINN CITY (DJs NY & PC the Spindoctor), Millennium NightclubBarre, 9 p.m. $3/10. LIVE MUSIC, Compost Art Ctr., 9 p.m. $5. 18+

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OBJECTS OF PASSION AND DESIRE, paintings by Lon Michels. Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier, 828-4784. Reception June 21, 5-8 p.m. KNOX CUMMIN, KATO AND FRED GUGGENHEIM, sculptures in wood, glass, metal and mixed media. Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, 438-2097. Reception June 22, 5-7 p.m. SUSAN BRITAIN, featured artist, and others; watercolors, oils and pastels. Adirondack Art Gallery, Essex, N.Y., 518-963-7921. Gala opening recep tion for the season, June 22, 6-8 p.m..

o n g o in g BURLINGTON AREA TOM LARSON, CRAIG MOONEY, BETH PEARSON & BEN POTTER, paintings on temporary walls surrounding Firehouse renovation project. Street Gallery, Church Street, Burlington, 865-7524. DONNA M. KUNKEL, watercolors. Village Cup, Jericho, 899-1730. Through June. SEPARATE JOURNEYS, pen and watercolor sketches by Tom Weiner, and manipulated photographs by Jim

Kahnweiler. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 865-7211. Through June. NEW WORKS: A PORTRAIT OF BURLING TON HIGH SCHOOL, photographs by Andy Duback, dining room. Daily Planet, Burlington, 862-3779. Through June. CRAIG A. MOONEY, oil paintings. Wine Works, Burlington, 865-7166. Through August 1. LEGENDS OF JAZZ, photos of jazz musi cians by Mark Harlan and Creative Music Photography/Dee. ArtSpace 150 at the Men’s Room, Burlington, 8642088. Through July. RE/COLLECTION, a curatorial collabora tion of Janie Cohen, Fleming Museum, David Fairbanks Ford, Main Street Museum, and Pascal Spengemann, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, culling objects from the permanent collection and more. Wilbur Room, Fleming Museum, Burlington, 6560750. Through August 19. DJ CULTURE, paintings by Kyle Thompson, and ORIN LANGELLE, pho tographs. Red Square, Burlington, 862-3779. Through June. IN THE GARDEN, a group exhibit cele brating the garden. Frog Hollow, Burlington, 863-6458. Through June 24. NEW WORKS, paintings by Ethan Murrow, and SUBCONSCIOUS SIGHT LINES, mixed-media photo collages by Larry Bowling. Doll-Anstadt Gallery,

Burlington, 864-3661. Through June. FATHER & SON EXHIBIT, photography and painting by Tony and Scott deBie. Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, 862-3654. Through June 23. RICHARD ALTHER, LAKESCAPES , new oil paintings by the longtime watercol orist. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848. Through July 5. OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES, architectural collages, works on paper by Gordon Meinhard. Grannis Gallery, Burlington, 660-2032. Through June. ART’S ALIVE 15TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF FINE ART, juried works by 50 artists at Union Station as well as works in storefronts on the Church Street Marketplace and on the Champlain Flyer. Through June. Also, OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBIT, S.T. Griswold, Williston, through August 30. Info, 864-1557. THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN INTERI ORS, six new or re-interpreted historic houses showcasing American interior design from 1795 to 21st century. Shelburne Museum, 985-3346. Through October 14. VERMONT PHOTO GROUP, featuring the work of 18 local photographers. Cafe Piccolo, Maltex Bldg., Burling-ton, 862-5515. Through June. 4th ANNUAL ELDER ART EXHIBIT, featur ing art work by seniors in mixed media, in association with Art’s Alive.

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Community College of Vermont Gallery, Burlington, 434-8155. Through June. PICK OF THE LITTER, art work inspired by ordinary and extraordinary materi als by Tom Beale, Jude Bond, Linda Bryan, Diane Gabrielle, Catherine Hall, Kate Hodges, Jane E. Horner, Suse Mowrer and Prescott Smith. Flynndog, Burlington, 865-9292. Through June 24. COOKIN’ AT THE ONiON IV, handmade prints by Roy Newton, featuring images of jazz performers. Red Onion Cafe, Burlington, 372-5386. Through June 27. LANDSCAPES AND GARDEN SPACES, paintings, prints, photographs and illustrations by Jean Carlson Masseau. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 4348155. Through June. LUIS TIJERINA, paintings, greenhouse; and MAGGIE JOHENGEN, paintings, bar. Daily Planet, Burlington, 862-3779. Through June. LAND, SEA AND SKY, acrylic paintings by Ian Karn. Finale, South Burlington, 862-0713. Through July 15. PRINTED TEXTILES, hand-printed fabric designs by Megan Keenan, Mezzanine balcony; and DIGITAL GRAPHIC DESIGNS, Fletcher Room. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 865-7211. Through June. PAT ADAMS, paintings on paper and canvas. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 652-4500. Through June. COLORS ABOUND, acrylic and oil paint ings by Lorraine C. Manley. Chittenden Bank, Burlington, 8641557. Through June. RECORD DEAL, an installation by Clark Russell. Club Metronome, Burlington, 862-3779. Through June. FLYING, CRAWLING, PURRING, SNIFFING, HOPPING, CROWING, RUNNING, BUZZING, ETC., paintings by Boone Wilson. Smokejacks, Burlington, 8655079. Through June 28. AMERICAN PAINTINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, featuring 19th- and 20th-century works; and THE STORY OF HARNESS RACING, Currier and Ives lithographs from the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame. Also, IMAGES IN FOLK ART: QUILTS AND SCULPTURE, images of farm and domestic life; hooked-rug exhibit, FOR HEARTH AND HOME, Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery. Shelburne Museum, 985-3348. Through December 7.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY LIGHT SHOW, featuring electrical lamps in mixed media by local and national craftspeople. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Middlebury, 388-3177. Through July 29. ELEMENTS, paintings and pottery by Susan Raber Bray. East Gallery, Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, 877-3668. Through June 26. BRENDA MYRICK, watercolor paintings. Storm Cafe, Middlebury, 388-1063. Through July.

CENTRAL VERMONT GAYLEEN AIKEN, drawings. Also, plaster model exhibit and granite museum plans. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 476-4605. Tours by reserva tion. Through October 15. NEW WORKS, gouaches by Frank S. Wilson and prints Sabra Field. Shimmering Glass, Waterbury Center, 244-8134. Through August 10. FIVE PAINTERS, featuring the works of Vermonters Annelein Beukenkamp, Todd Binzen, Sean Callahan, Barbara Gettel and Judy Hawkins. Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Rutland, 775-0356. Through July 22. MY WEEK IN JOHNSON, new prints by Phillip A. Robertson. City Hall Showcase, Montpelier, 229-9416. Through June 29. OVER AND UNDER, a group show of wearable art, quilting, painting, pho tography and sculpture in the theme of weaving. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through July 22. A CLASS ACT, an exhibit of SPA teach ers. Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, 479-7241. Through June. PHOTOGRAPHS by Eva Weiss, Merwin Gallery, Castleton, 468-2592. Through September 2 . SUE SWETERLITSCH, watercolors. Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, 2237800. Through June. I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, annual exhib

it of ice cream dishes by 16 national ceramic artists. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 244-1126. Through June. A FEW ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES, paint ings by Axel Stohlberg. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury, 244-7801. Ongoing. IMAGE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE WORK OF THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD, T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College Campus of Norwich University, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through July

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FLORALS, works in various media by Vermont artists. Vermont Fine Art, Stowe, 253-9653. Through June. THIS IS THE LANGUAGE I AM SPEAKING paintings by Lynn Rupe. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, 6 3 5 -1 3 TO. Through June 23. INSPIRATION COLLABORATION, individ ual and collaborative artwork created by staff in multiple media. Stowe Craft Gallery Design Center, 2537677. Through June. NVAA 71ST ANNUAL JURIED ART SHOW, featuring works in multiple media by members of the Northern Vermont Artists Association. Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 8992792. Through July 15. DON SUNSERI, mixed-media artwork from two decades. Tamarack Gallery, E. Craftsbury, 586-8078. Through June 23. JAKE GEER: POINT OF VIEW/LANDSCAPES, and DIANE SOPHRIN: FIGURES AT WORK/PATTERNS AT PLAY. Through August 26. Also, SUZANNE RITGER, oil and wax paint ings, East Gallery. Through July 14. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 2538358. BREAD & PUPPET MUSEUM, featuring a collection of giant puppets, masks, installations and other artworks from the theater troupe. Bread & Puppet Farm, Rt. 122, Glover, 525-3031. Through November 1. VERTIGO VERMONT, an evolving exhibit of aerial photographs of Hardwick and surrounding area, by Jerry Trudeau. Compost Art Ctr., Hardwick, 651 7848. Weekends, ongoing. BITS AND PIECES, paintings, handmade books and cotton canvases by Tule Fogg. Brown Library Gallery, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 5869938. Through June 28.

BODY TALK, a group show defining the body in various media. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Manchester, 362-3321. June 27 August 26. AYN BALDWIN RIEHLE, paintings. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, 362-1405. Through June 24. PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION OR PROFIT? VERMONT AND ITS NATURAL RESOURCES, an exhibit featuring works by 14 artists in conjunction with Earth Day. Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, S. Royalton, 763-8303 x2332. Through August 2.

ELSEWHERE CULTURAL SURVIVAL: CHIRICAHUA-FORT SILL APACHE IDENTITY EXPLORED THROUGH WEARABLE SCULPTURE AND TRADITIONAL ART, an exhibit by Dartmouth senior Lisa LeFlore examin ing her roots. Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-2426. Through June 24. COLLECTORS’ CHOICE QUILTS, a revolv ing exhibit of American quilts. Cupola House Gallery, Essex, N.Y., 518-9637494. Through October 12. LIFE IN AFRICA, the Collins Collection of Angolan Objects, featuring 50 arti facts from daily and ceremonial life. Through September 23. Also, PICASSO EROTIQUE, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by Pablo Picasso expressing eroticism. Through September 16. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 514-285-2000. PLEASE NOTE: Seven Days is unable to accommodate all of the displays in our readership area, thus these list ings must be restricted to exhibits in truly public viewing places. Art in business offices, lobbies and private residences or studios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted. Send art listings to galleries@sevendaysvt.com. You can also view art listings at www. sevendaysvt.com.

B y M arc A wodey wo previously exhibited artists return to the Doll-Anstadt Gallery this month, but both have fresh stories to tell. Ethan Murrow of Carrboro, North Carolina, offers an entirely new body of work, including smallscale, mixed-media pieces and a few larger landscapes with abstract elements. Larry Bowling of Charlestown, Massac husetts, presents a new batch of his intricately layered photo collages. In Bowlings exhibit, entitled “Subconscious Site Lines,” images are gleaned from a wide range of sources. Portraits, photos of Renaissance architecture, studies in movement by Eadweard James “Dream with Dogs,” Muybridge, images of flowers and other plants all find a place in his work. “Dream with Dogs” has two Muybridge frames of a running dog superim posed on a repeated view of a cathedral. Many of Bowling’s multi-layered images are Xeroxes on acetate, and transparent reds, amber and blacks, like photo negatives, are the dominant colors. His pieces also often contain copper nails and wire, or sheets of copper with a turquoise patina amidst layers of images. “Pre-Raphaelite Dream” has all those elements incor- porated into scenes of an arched bridge spanning a . pond of water lilies. Three panels of photos of lit can dles gleam beneath the bridge. While implied nar ratives appear in Bowling’s work, what he is getting at, besides poetic juxtaposi tions, is not always clear. Less enigmatic, “Broken Word” places the por trait of an anonymous'Plains Indian man in the middle of a classical colonnade. A landscape with tepees also unfolds within the five arches, as if this view of Native American life has been enshrined. Three frames of a running elk sprint through col lage sec tions beneath the colonnade. The por trait of a white man has been split verti cally, his two halves placed at the right and left of A detail from “Assortment,” the piece. by Ethan Murrow. The implication seems to be that history is multi-dimen sional, and perhaps the white man’s view of Native Americans is ambivalent, if not schizophrenic. Murrow is a former Burlingtonian now in grad uate school. He is well-established as one of the

area’s strongest painters, and the oil landscapes included in this show demonstrate why. Murrow’s concerns are primarily abstract, and purely abstract components appear in his landscapes. “Ridge Road III” captures an impending storm in shifting grays and pale yellow, but blocks of bright orange hang

by Larry Bowling onto the lower right of the canvas. Such statements create tension by flattening the image and providing a bold counterpoint to the Turneresque naturalism of the scene. Like Bowling, Murrow also seems to be examin ing the past in his most recent works. A series of live ly mixed-media sketches on paper recall childhood mem ories. Toys, large flowers and other simple objects are drawn in a very spontaneous way. While these 18 works on paper are interesting, they are relatively minor compared to Murrow’s efforts in sculpture. These could be considered the most substantial work he has presented locally to date. “Library” resembles a decayed pile of books unearthed from red clay soil and stacked neatly on a pedestal. Corroded bits of metal also appear in the stack. The books seem to be notebooks, diaries and ancient pamphlets held together by nothing more than twine and hardened mud. It seems as if they would disintegrate if touched, yet they are displayed like objects of vener ation. The series “What they carried with them” con sists of books that are framed and mounted on the wall. The frames have latches, like display cases, but they have no hinges and are thus unopenable. Murrow presents them as ungraspable items, or per haps mysteries that cannot be easily examined. Labels such as “Bundle — buried in the back 40” have been framed with the books, as if they were specimens of natural history. While he does not mention it in the show, Murrow is a direct descendant of the legendary for eign correspondent Edward R. Murrow, and the battered, inaccessible book labeled “Receipts — London 1943” appears to be a deeply personal, per haps poignant, statement referring to the artist’s relationship with his own lineage. These tandem exhibitions contain richly com plex discussions of cultural and personal history and are well worth seeking out. Besides, the DollAnstadt Gallery’s air conditioning is as good as any movie theater’s. ®

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As I sat through the 75 or 80 previews and com mercials that preceded Angelina Jolie’s summer extrav aganza, I had ample time to muse on how much the source material for movies has changed over the past 100 years. In the beginning,, motion pictures were inspired by historical events, the lives of the great, ancient myths and fables, the Bible, immortal works of literature. Along the way, great books gave way to best-sellers. And now, at the dawn of the new century, a $100 million film is just as likely to be based on a comic book, TV show or even video game. Which I’m sure says something deep and mean ingful about our culture. Only, before I could decide what it was, the previews and commercials finally came to an end and the actual main attraction came on. One thing was obvious immediately: This wasn’t going to be the kind of picture you can watch and simultaneously formulate illuminating sociological insights. Based on the popular video game of the same name, the latest from director Simon ( The General’s Daughter) West doesn’t so much open as explode. Almost as soon as Jolie comes on screen with her long hair tied back, clad in her character’s trademark tight black T-shirt, shorts and combat boots, a giant killer robot attacks her without mercy, but with a enormous amount of determination and theater-rattling noise. It’s a thunderous wham-bam tango of mayhem, with more than a little sexual innuendo just under the PG13 radar. But, we learn shortly, the apparently perilous encounter is not what it seems. Croft — for those of you who don’t spend as much time on your Playstation as you used to — is a fabu lously wealthy photojournalist-daredevil-archaeologist who lives in a palatial English mansion, and whose staff consists of one butler and one computer nerd. The killer robot is actually the work of the staff nerd and is designed to keep the lady of the house’s reflexes sharp, her survival skills well-honed. Real life-and-death challenges await Croft almost every time she ventures outside the mansion on one of her glistening fleet of luxury motorcycles and

sports cars. As, I would imagine, they must await all photojournalist-daredevil-archaeologists, especially those whose dead fathers left them secret instructions for finding the two halves of an ancient Egyptian tri angle possessing the cosmic ability to control time and therefore making anyone who gets his hands on them the most powerful human being in the universe. It just kind of goes with the job, you know? Anyway, the story has something to do with the fact that the planets are about to line up in a way they do only once every 5000 years. Jolie comes across a mysterious device her father — and I do mean her father; he’s played by real-life dad Jon Voight — left behind for her. It turns out to be some.sort of key to all the supernatural goings-on and, the next thing she knows, a shadowy cartel of the rich and ruthless called The Illuminati has dispatched a dashing attorneydaredevil-archaeologist (Iain Glen) to steal the thing from her. The two engage in a game of cat-and-mouse, which takes them to at least three continents and leads to one of the loopiest space-time continuumrelated duels to the death between daredevil-archaeol ogists ever put on celluloid. Which isn’t to say I didn’t take in the entire thing with tons of guilty pleasure. I’m not kidding. It’s oddly watchable. Jolie assumes an agreeable British accent, but oth erwise poses more than she acts and, between all the ancient curses, Egyptian spooks and comic-book cos mology, movie mumbo has never been more jumbo. Somehow, though, the spectacle transcends the merely preposterous and achieves a sublime ridiculousness. The cinematography and dialogue are better, in places, than one would expect; the globe-hopping makes for lots.of good, dumb fun; and the actress — in real life almost vampirically peculiar — turns out to be surprisingly appealing when reduced to a one dimensional character. Hey, who would have predicted that theaters in the first half of the summer would be dominated by exotic, high-tech adventures about, of all people, archaeblogists? Or, even more improbable, that Tomb Raider would prove the better of the two? ® ■?

p re v ie w s DR. DO LITTLE 2 Eddie Murphy has built a whole new career based on talking animals. Shrek, in which he plays a wisecracking donkey, isn’t even out of theaters and here comes this sequel to the comedian’s 1998 hit about a vet who gabs with his patients. Kristen Wilson costars. Steve Carr III directs. (PG-13) TH E FAST AND TH E FURIO US Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are teamed in director Rob Cohen’s high octane tale about LA street gangs that adapt sportscars into deadly weapons and race them illegally. With Jordanna Brewster and Rick Yune. (PG-13) THE GOLDEN BOWL James Ivory directs Uma Thurman and Nick Nolte in this adaptation of the Henry James novel about an American art collector traveling through Europe with his daughter. Kate Beckinsale costars. (R) HIMALAYA From French filmmaker Eric Valli comes this critically acclaimed story about a tiny band of villagers who risk their lives by making a treacherous mountain crossing with salt-laden yak to trade for the coming year’s coming supply of grain. Shot in Nepal and tibet. (PG)

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. THE ANIMAL**172 Rob Schneider # stars in the story of a police cadet who receives some beastly medical atten tion after nearly dying in a car wreck. It turns out the doctor who operated on him used animal parts as trans plants, and his side-effects include performing tricks like a trained dolphin and licking himself. With Ed Asner and “Survivor” ’s Colleen. (PG-13) ATLANTIS: THE LO ST EMPIRE*** Michael J. Fox, James Garner and Mark Hamill provide the voices for the cartoon cast in this animated adven ture about a group of daredevil explor

ers who set out to uncover the leg endary lost city. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise direct. (PG) BRIDG ET JO N E S’S DIARY***172 Renee Zellweger plays a young English woman looking for love and writing about what she finds instead in this big-screen version of the Helen Fielding best-seller. With Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Directed by Sharon Maguire. (R) CHOCOLAT**** The new comedy from Lasse Hallstrom is set in the 1950s and stars Juliet Binoche as a single mother who moves to a small French town to open an unusual chocolate shop. With Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. (PG-13) CROUCHING TIG ER, HIDDEN DRAGON**** The latest from Ang (The Ice Storm) Lee adapts a series of pulp novels published in the 1920s and tells the story of two strong young women whose fates intertwine during the Ching Dynasty. Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zi Yi and Chow Yun-Fat star. (PG-13) EVOLUTION** The latest from Ivan (Ghostbusters) Reitman stars David Duchovny and follows the computeranimated adventures of investigators who discover a meteor that has crashed to Earth bearing alien organ isms that evolve at an uncontrollably rapid pace. Hmmm, sound suspicious ly similar to the plot synopsis for Men in Black to anyone else? Julianne Moore and Orlando Jones costar. (PG13) MOULIN ROUGE**** The latest from Baz Luhrmann pairs Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman for a musical about a 19th-century poet who immerses himself in the decadence of Paris’ Montmartre district, where he comes under the spell of a sultry singing courtesan. John Leguizama costars. (R) TH E MUMMY RETURNS*** Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are back in the desert and have bigger supernatur al problems than ever. This time around, the couple is called upon to save the world from not just the Mummy but an even more evil, force-

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PROOF OF LIFE***172 Fiction and reality meet in this action adventure about a hostage negotiator who falls in love with the wife of the American businessman he’s sent to South America to save. Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe star. Taylor Hackford

SAVE TH E LA ST DANCE*** Julia Stiles stars in the story of a small-town white girl who moves to Chicago and develops a passion for dance and a young black man. Vince Green costars, Thomas Carter directs. (PG-13) STATE AND MAIN***172 The new film from writer-director David Mamet should have special appeal to Burlington-area residents. It tells the comic story of what happens to a New England burg when a huge Hollywood movie crew comes to town for a shoot. Alec Baldwin and Charles Durning star. (R)

WITH A FRIEND LIK E HARRY***172 From director Dominik Mol comes this story about a family vacation that turns into unbearably hard work due to the interference of a well-meaning acquaintance. Laurent Lucas and Sergi Lopez star. (PG-13)

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06W Oil V id e o THE PLEDGE**172 Sean Penn brings Friedrich Durrenmatt’s best-selling drama to the big screen. Jack Nicholson reteams with the filmmaker for the story of a small-town police chief who promises a bereaved mother he’ll find her daughter’s killer. With Aaron Eckhart and Robin Wright Penn.

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New Yorker cartoonist and creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mans holocaust tales, Art Spiegelman is now applying his talents to the performing arts. Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera is what the 53-year-old writer-illustrator calls “a kind of requiem to comics.” Its a work-in-progress commissioned by Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center — where he’ll be in residence before two shows next week — Arts at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The production’s title is a nod to The Three-Penny Opera by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill. Composer Philip Johnston, known as “the H.G. Wells of the jazz world,” has set Spiegelman’s lyrics to music for a story about a dark period in American comic book history. In the 1950s, antiCommunist fervor cast a shadow over any thing seen as a threat to the country’s grim McCarthy-era mentality. Dr. Frederic Wertham, a criminal psychiatrist, incited PTA groups and churches to begin burning comic books in the belief they were respon sible for juvenile delinquency. In 1954, the government investigated, and an industry wide censorship code followed. Their livelihood in decline, two men with flourishing comics careers decided the crackdown spelled personal doom. Bob Wood, co-founder and managing editor of

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down-east dilemmas He’s no Paul Newman, but wordsmith Richard Russo provided the blue-eyed actor with two of his best film roles during the last decade: in Nobody’s Fool, a 1994 adaptation from the author’s book of the same name, and in Twilight, based on a 1998 script Russo co-wrote with director Robert Benton. The 51year-old scribe visits Vermont to read from and sign his fifth novel, Empire Falls, which once again evokes life in a remote corner of rural America — or, as Janet Maslin describes it in The New York Times, “another of those hapless little backwaters.’’ In this case it’s a decaying mill town in Russo’s home state of Maine, and his tragicomic story traces a tangle of complicated relationships among ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives. A movie is inevitable. The only question is which role will Newman play? Richard Russo Thursday, June 21. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. .

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When he’s not writing Pulitzer Prize-winning edi torials for the Rutland Herald, David Moats “emotes'’ with the Middlebury Community Players. This weekend the theatrical troupe will present “An Evening of One-Acts,” which includes the world premiere of “Stray Bullet,” by Vermont playwright Eileen Belle. Her drama, a work-in-progress based on a real incident, con cerns the way a family comes to terms with an act of street violence. Don Nigro’s “Genesis” is a monologue delivered by the world’s first woman. “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again,” by Dennis Reardon, is a spoof on tourism from the prestigious Actors Theatre of Louisville. Now, if Moats can just turn that prize-winning editorial about civil unions into a 10-minute sketch...

eat to the beat It’s hard to believe we’ve been nibbling at the Green Mountain Chew Chew Festival for 16 years now. The annual feeding frenzy, with more than 40 restaurants, caterers and food producers participating this year, allows the hungry masses to taste dishes from Russia, China, India, Italy Greece, Holland, Belgium, Mexico and various regions around the U.S. The three-day event also always pairs edibles with audibles. So listen for music by The Starline Rhythm Boys, Rosie Flores, Elvis-imitating James Cawley, Rick & the Ramblers, The Dixie Chicklets and Sterling Weed’s Imperial Orchestra. Dig in. Green Mountain Chew Chew: Friday through Sunday, June 22-24. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday. Admittance is free, but nine food tokens cost $5. Info, 864-6674.

Art: Ethan Murrow and Larry Bowling are back at the DollAnstadt Gallery p. 33a

An Evening of One-Acts: Friday through Sunday, June 22-24. Town Hall Theatre, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 862-0680.

seasonal steps In the swelter of summer, “Hidden Snow” might remind Vermont audiences of last year’s epic winter. The verse by acclaimed poet Galway Kinnell, a part-time Sheffield resi dent, inspired choreographer Lise Brenner to create a dance set to an arrangement of Norwegian folk melodies. It’s one three new Wellspring Project works— along with “Caesura and “Soma” — that makes up Dancing Modern, performed to live music by an ensemble called Fireworks. This is the s< ond annual Vermont visit by the New York company that is dedicated to preserving and extending techniques learned from the late Erick Hawkins — the dancer and choreogra pher who got his start partnering Martha Graham. Film: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider at the Nickelodeon, Cinema Nine, Bijou and Stowe Cinema p.34a

Wellspring Project: Saturday, June 23. Haskell Opera House, Derby Line 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 873-3022.

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‘M EM ENTO ’: The cinematic story of one man’s journey through the chaos of memory loss unfolds in reverse at Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 748-2600. ‘M ANHATTAN’: Woody Allen brings his unique JewishAmerican-New Yorker perspec tive to a big-screen portrait of the city that never sleeps. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.

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• Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.” ANGELICA CANTANTI CONCERT CHOIR: The kids’ chorus from Minnesota shares the stage with the local Essex Children’s Choir. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2200. ‘LITTLE SH O P OF H O R RORS’: This horror-film spoof is set in a skid-row flower shop, where romance blooms along side a singing, man-eating plant. See preview, this issue. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $22. Info, 824-5288. ‘N IN E ’: The Stowe Theatre Guild opens its season with the Tony-winning musical loosely based on the life of filmmaker Federico Fellini. Town Hall Theater, Stowe, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 253-3961.

Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. FIGURE DRAWING: The human figure motivates aspiring and accomplished artists in a weekly drawing session at Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 865-7166. ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: Panelists Diane Tetrault, Dorothy Martinez and Nancy Diefenbach discuss “Working from Within” as part o f the ongoing Art’s Alive festival. Fletcher Free Library, Burling ton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1557.

‘EVEN MYSTICS HAVE BILLS TO PAY’ SERIES: Jim Rosemergy’s book “adds value” to a class on increasing prosperi ty. Unity Church, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m. Book, $14. Class, donations. Register, 288-9265. PHILIP BARUTH: The local author o f Dream o f the White Village shares snippets from his newest work-in-progress. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. DAVID BUDBILL: Nineteenth-century writer and early ecologist Rowland E. Robinson inspires a talk by the Vermont poet. Carpenter Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878. BO O K DISCUSSION: Readers sit down to Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast as part of the “film, feasts and fiction” series. Warren Public Library, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3913. ‘PERFORMANCES IN TH E PARK’: Self-published poet G eof Hewitt says a few words before the bluegrass band Radio Rangers takes over. City Hall Park, Barre, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4588. POETRY SLAM: Wordsmiths rack up poetry points at this competitive performance event. Tonight Vermont’s National Poetry Slam team takes the mike. Rockydale Pizza, Bristol, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4545.

kids ‘TIN Y TO TS’ STORYTIME: The 3-and-under crowd shares social time and stories. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME: Tykes aged 3 to 5 earn an early appreciation for literature. S. Burlington Community Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. STORYTIME: Little listeners enjoy tall tales. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

Free. Register, 223-8000. BUSINESS MEETING: Businesswomen compare mar keting problems at a power lunch. Windjammer Restaurant, S. Burlington, noon - 1:30 p.m. $11.30. Register, 434-4091. CHICKEN BARBECUE: The Bristol Town Band plays for a feast to finance upcoming Independence Day celebrations. Bristol Town Green, 5 p.m. $7. Info, 793-6546. ‘LOOK G O O D , FEEL BET TER’: Female cancer patients get tips on maintaining their looks while undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. Shepardson 4, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Register, 655-2000. CURRENCY PROJECT POTLUCK: Swap food, stories and services at a potluck and video screening focused on local currency alternatives. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-8103. LAW LECTURE: Attorney Steve Bredice delivers his verdict on civil law tradition. Community Room, Burlington College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. BRANCH O U T BURLING T O N M EETING: Join with others interested in the cultiva tion and care o f urban trees. Department o f Parks and Recreation, 645 Pine St., Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8245. M A C IN TO SH CO M PUTER USERS MEETING: Appleheads unite for an infor mative session at the Gailer School, 4066 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6742. ARCHAEOLOGY V O LU N TEERS: High schoolers and adults get a feel for field meth ods as they help University of Vermont’s anthro department excavate an ancient Colchester campsite. 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free. Register, 656-4310.

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ursday music • Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.” ‘LITTLE SH O P OF H O R RORS’: See June 20. ‘N IN E ’: See June 20. U N D E R T H E SO N G TREE: The local trio harmonizes on acoustic guitars, flute and har monica as part o f the Rusty Parker Memorial Park summer music program. Village Square, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. F-ree. Info, 244-5308. W O O D ’S TEA COMPANY: You can buy wine to comple-

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drama ‘A RT’: See June 20, 8 p.m. $31. M ONTREAL FRINGE FES TIVAL: See June 20. ORIGINAL ONE-ACTS: A showcase o f original short plays written, performed and directed by Burlingtonians helps “enlarge” the Room to Grow food program in the Intervale. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 863-5966. ‘SWEENEY T O D D ’: The “Demon Barber o f Fleet Street” sings while he snips in Lost Nations take on Steven Sondheim’s Tony-winning musi cal thriller. Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10 for tonight’s preview. Info, 229-0492.

film ‘M EM E N T O ’: See June 20. ‘FU N N Y FACE’: A high-fashion photographer and an intel lectual frump fall in love on a trip to Paris. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 7 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.

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words RICHARD RUSSO: The acclaimed author o f Nobody’s Fool introduces his new novel, Empire Falls. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. The Book ' Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. POETRY W ORK SH O P: Local poet David Weinstock shares writing tips with aspiring authors. Today’s topic is “Poetry and Politics.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7523.

kids BACKYARD W ILDERNESS: School-aged kids get a hands-on organic gardening lesson with a rep from the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216. ‘READING R A IN BO W ’ ST O RYTIME: Fifteen budding authors share the stories they submitted to the young writers contest. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘PAINLESS POETRY’ SES SION: The Essex author o f this poetry primer for middle-school students puts in rhyme time at Borders, Church Street Market place, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info. 865-2711. AFTERSCHOOL STORY TIME: School-aged kids hit the new books at Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

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etc ARCHAEOLOGY V O LU N TEERS: S e e > « £ 2 0 . URBAN G RO W TH -TALK: Oregon-based planner and activist Eben Fodor fosters dis cussion on sustainable growth in Vermont’s biggest city. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 238-2918. SUM M ER SOLSTICE CELE BRATION: A labyrinth walk comes after Celtic fiddling by members o f Atlantic Crossing and a dance o f universal peace. All Saints Church, S. Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-5713. C O -O P H O U SIN G O RIEN TATION: W hy rent when you can co-op? People inclined to participate in their housing con vene at Burlington Community Land Trust, 179 S. Winooski Ave., noon & 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6244. SUM M ER SOLSTICE GATH ERING: Bring your own lantern to a community bonfire and procession to mark the longest day o f the year. VTNS North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $3, $5 per family. Info, 229-6206. ‘IM PROVING O U R CITY SC H O O L S’: Burlington offi cials, including school board president Michael Green, take on the subject o f race relations in Queen City schools. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1755. VISIT A N ARCHAEOLOGI CAL SITE: University of Vermont archaeologists field questions in the midst o f a local excavation. Colchester, 1-4 p.m. Free. Call for directions, 656-4310. TRANSPORTATION D IS CUSSIO N: A planning organi zation runs through recommen dations for improving travel between Burlington and Essex. Winooski Municipal Building, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794. GLBT SOCIAL GROUP: Addison County’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered com munity mixes it up at Mister Up’s, Middlebury, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-8298. FARMERS’ MARKETS: Look for Vermont-grown agricultural products, baked goods and crafts at open-air booths. Magic Hat Brewery, 5 Bartlett Bay Rd., S. Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2739. Essex Junction Shopping Plaza, 2-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-0068.

Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 583-1674. A N N RABSON: The “Uppity r Blues Woman” pianist, guitarist and vocalist samples songs from her latest, Struttin My Stuff. Ballard Park Performance Pavilion, Westport, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-962-8778. CUBAN PERCUSSION JAM: The musicians o f Traje Nuevo call up Cuban rhythms at an open jam and salsa lesson. Bring a drum to the Dartmouth College Green, Hanover, N .H ., 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2010. FOLK CONCERT: Local folksinger Jim Laclair performs classic and little-known folk songs at the Kept Writer Bookshop, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242. GREGORY DOUGLASS: The Burlington singer-songwriter pipes up in support o f his recent self-titled disc. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘A N IG H T AT TH E OPERA’: Visiting opera singers perform selections from works by Puccini, Verdi and Rossini. Tuttle Hall, College o f St. Joseph, Rutland, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 773-5900 ext. 264.

drama ‘ART’: See June 20, 8 p.m. $31. M ONTREAL FRINGE FES TIVAL: See June 20. ORIGINAL ONE-ACTS: See June 21. ‘SWEENEY T O D D ’: See June 21, 8 p.m. $18. EVENING OF ONE-ACT PLAYS: The Middlebury Community Players stage single set plays, including the premiere o f Stray Bullet, by Eileen Belle. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. Town Hall Theatre, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 863-0680.

‘HANNIBAL’: The sequel to Silence o f the Lambs is set in Florence with Julianne Moore as a federal agent obliged to con tact the deranged Hannibal Lector. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘AMORES PERROS’: In this acclaimed Mexican film, three overlapping stories focus on love, loss, retribution, redemp tion — and the destiny o f a dog. Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 748-2600.

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aged 1 to 4 get active with art projects and prose. Learning Express, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-4386.

22 . O N E W O RLD, O N E HEART’ FESTIVAL: The ice cream makers serve up Robert Cray, Joan Osborne, Cubanismo and other national and local acts on simultaneous stages. See four-page pull-out, this issue. Mt. Ellen, Sugarbush Resort, Fayston, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free. Info, 846-1500. ROBIN SPIELBERG: The contemporary pianist and com poser plays cuts off her new release, Dreaming o f Summer. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $16. Info, 800-836-0833. BACH BASH: The Rochester Chamber Music Society is behind this “no stage” concert featuring nearly two dozen string players in a relaxed, informal setting. Hancock Town Hall, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-4012. TRAJE NUEVO: The “new suit” septet hangs contempo rary stylings on a traditional Cuban son. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $21. Info, 603-646-2422.

etc ARCHAEOLOGY V O L U N TEERS: See June 20. FARMERS’ MARKET: See June 21, Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2759. GREEN M O U N T A IN C H EW CHEW: Local food providers serve up Cajun, Vietnamese, Mexican and Indian fare at this annual food , fest with live music. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Nine tokens for $5. Info, 864-6674. CIRC HIGHWAY BREAK FAST: A couple o f experts debate the pros and cons o f the long-delayed highway project over breakfast. Monas on the Waterfront, Burlington, 8-9:30 a.m. $10.50. Register, 863-3489 ext. 209. STARGAZING: Check out celestial bodies at a public observing session with the Vermont Astronomical Society. Dorset Park, S. Burlington, 911 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0184.

dance WELLSPRING PROJECT: A troupe inspired by the late dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins performs three mod ern works, one o f which refer ences a poem by Galway Kinnell. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. Haskell Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 873-3022. A free pre-performance talk on “Dancing Modern” starts at

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862- 5082; OTTER CREEK CONTRAS: Caller Patrick McCullough gets musical backup from Scatter the Mud, comprised o f musi cians Beth Telford, Kristine Stykos and Nikki Matheson. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes to Holley Hall, Bristol, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 524-1466. M IDDLE EASTERN DANCE: Wannabe belly dancers join musicians and drummers for a “get together” for practitioners of Indian music and dance. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. Yoga Vermont Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-3005. SW ING DANCE: In a special “battle o f deejays,” two spinners provide standard and updated tunes for jumping and jiving. Memorial Hall, Essex, 8-11 p.m. $7. Info, 878-1999. DANCE SOCIAL: Step out for an evening o f ballroom, Latin and swing. Couples demon strate moves for an upcoming Montreal competition. Vermont DanceSport Academy, Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burling-ton, Mini-lesson, 7:30 p.m. Dance, 8-11 p.m. $10. Info, 846-7236.

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22 . ‘SHOW ER’: Sons and fathers — and a traditional bathhouse — lend this Chinese comedy plenty o f generation-gap gaffes. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 7 & 9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5510. ‘CRO UCH ING TIGER, H ID D E N D R A G O N ’: Ang Lee’s cinematic combo o f mar tial arts and love centers on two women warriors in China’s Qing dynasty. Loew Audit orium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 7 & 9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.

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words BOOK SALE: Select from sec ond-hand literature for sum- ’ mertime reading to benefit the Burnham Library, under the big tent next to Claussen’s Green house, Colchester, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

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INSTRUCTIO NAL ROAD BIKE RIDE: Pick up basic bike tips from a service “spokes man” on an early morning ride. Alpine Shop, S. Burlington, 7:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-2714. SUNSET RIDGE HIKE:

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etc GREEN M O U N TA IN CH EW CHEW: See June 22. FARMERS’ MARKETS: See June 21, Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Info, 482-2507. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Info, 933-4073. Corner o f Elm and State Streets, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Info, 426-3800. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Info, 496-5320. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-5778. BLOCK PARTY: The King Street Youth Center turns thir tysomething — hey, that’s the beginning o f middle age — with live music, games and grilled burgers. See cover story, this issue. 87 King Street, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6736. LADIES’ RALLY: Damsel dri vers o f antique and vintage vehicles raise funds for the Vergennes Opera House. Leaves the Vergennes Town Green at 10 a.m. Pledges. Info, 877-6737. - idU' -’ -4 ‘W IN O O SK I N IG H T ’: Shop

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Advice.” ‘SOUP D U JOUR’: See June 22 . SUM M ER SOLSTICE CEILIDH: “Tradition bearer” Richard Hill joins local story teller Tracy Chipman for an evening o f songs and stories from the Scottish Outer Hebrides Islands. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 951-1865. ORGAN CONCERT: Organist Fred Hohman of Indiana strikes a community chord at the Essex Community United Methodist Church, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 518-963-7766.

drama ‘A R T’: See June 20, 8 p.m. $28. M ONTREAL FRINGE FES TIVAL: See June 20. ‘SWEENEY T O D D ’: See June 21, 7:30 p.m. $18. EVENING OF ONE-ACT PLAYS: See June 22. .

film ‘AMORES PERROS’: See June 22, 1:30 & 7 p .m . ‘ALL T H E PRETTY H O R S ES’: Matt Damon plays a Texas youth who drifts across the bor der into Mexico in search of a better life and love. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.

art • See exhibit openings in the art listings.

words B O O K SALE: See June 23, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. W R IT IN G GROUP: Share

ideas, get feedback and try writ ing exercises at the Kept Writer Bookshop, St. Albans, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242.

kids ‘TH E ELEPHANT’S C H ILD ’: A homeschooler drama club stages Rudyard Kipling’s story explaining how the elephant got its trunk. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. MEET CHAMP: The cos tumed monster mascot o f the Vermont Expos meets and greets tots at Learning Express, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4386. ‘LINGUASONG 2 ’ PRESEN TATION: The Vermont cre ators debut a new educational release, subtitled Songs for

Language, Giggles and Wiggles. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

sport M IDDLEBURY TRIATH LON: Athletes complete a swim, bike ride and run, indi vidually or as a team. Vermont Sun Fitness Center, Middlebury. Swim, 7 a.m. Bike & run, 10 a.m. $28-44. Free for spec tators. Info, 388-6888. CAMEL’S H U M P HIKE: An eight-mile loop on the Forest City trail brings hikers to the top o f Vermont’s most distinc tive peak. Meet at Montpelier High School, 9 a.m. Free. Register, 223-0918. ALPINE CIRCLE HIKE: Hike up the exposed south face of Camel’s Hump to Gorham Lodge with the Burlington sec tion o f the Green Mountain Club. Meet at UVM Visitor Lot, Burlington, 8 a.m. Free.

etc FARMERS’ MARKET: See June 21, Mountain Road, Stowe, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8532. GREEN M O U N TA IN CHEW CHEW: See June 22, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. V ERM O NT HISTORY EXPO: See June 23. SUM M ER REVELS A N D SOLSTICE FESTIVAL: See June 23, behind Woodstock High School, 5 p.m. RUMMAGE SALE: Savvy shoppers find bargains on a host o f items, from clothing to electronics, at the Temple Sinai Congregation, 500 Swift St., S. Burlington, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3443. FO O D BA N K OPEN HOUSE: The Vermont Foodbank dishes out family entertainment, festive foods and tours o f the new facility. Vermont Foodbank, 33 Parker Rd., Wilson Industial Park, Barre, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-3341. ‘JUSTIN MORRILL’S GAR D E N S’: Get a look at proper perennial gardens — as pro moted by 19th century land scape designers — on a tour o f the grounds o f the late U.S. senator. Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 2 p.m. $4. Info, 765-4484. PIE A N D ICE CREAM SOCIAL: You can have it made in the shade with pie h la mode and music by the FairfaxFletcher-Westford-Band. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 7 p.m. $2.25. Info, 849-6638. M ISSISQUOI BIRD WALK: Avian adventurers join a Birds of Vermont Museum-sponsored trip in search o f black terns,

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etc FARMERS’ MARKET: See June 21, Depot Park, Rutland. ARCHAEOLOGY VO LUN TEERS: See June 20. ;j>yi. MIGRANE TALK: Dr. Timothy Farrell offers info on the causes o f and cures for headaches. Racquets’ Edge, Essex, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Register, 899-9991. NATURAL PET CARE:

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kids ‘M USIC W IT H ROBERT A N D GIGI’: See June 22. BACKPACK THEATER GROUP: The traveling troupe entertains vacationing young sters with a dramatic duo: The Hat and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. S. Burlington Community Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. STORYTIMES: Youngsters benefit from books read aloud. 1-3 years, 10 a.m. 4-5 years, 1 p.m. S. Burlington Comm unity Library. Free. Info, 652-7080. ‘THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF’: The Seat-of-thePants Players promise “a wild twist on an old familiar tale.” Fletcher Free Library, Burling ton, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Walk-ins are welcome at this family lit lesson. Carpenter Carse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

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Advice.” ‘LITTLE SH O P OF H O R RORS’: See June 20. WILLIAM TORTLANO: The acclaimed organist enter tains lunchtime listeners with a program o f works by Bach, Flor Peeters and Vermonter Charles Callahan. Saint Michael’s College Chapel, Colchester, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. ‘DRAW N TO DEATH: A THREE PANEL OPERA’: Pulitzer-winning illustrator Art Spiegelman narrates a stage production o f his work-in progress, an operatic history of the comic strip set to a jazz swing score. See “Seven Selects,” this issue. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $21. Info, 603-646-2422. GREEN M O U N T A IN C H O RUS: The all-male chorus seeks voices to learn barber shop singing and quarteting. S. Burlington High School, 79:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6465.

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ACTING FOR FILM: July 16 through 20, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Champlain Arts Theatre Company, Rice High School, S. Burlington. $275. Info, 8603611 orcatco@together.net.

Director Nora Jacobson brings stu dents ages 12 and up in front of the camera to work on improvs and scenesfrom her latest script. PLAYING W IT H SHAKE SPEARE: Evenings, July 23 through 27, 7-9 p.m. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

Immerse yourselfin the Bard's sonnets and soliloquies with Vermont Stage Company actor Kathryn Blume. THEATRICAL A U D IT IO N TECHNIQUES: Four evenings, August 1, 2, 8, & 9, 7-9 p.m. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info, 6524500. Cathy Hurst, co-artistic

director o f St. Michael's Playhouse, provides new and expe rienced actors with methods to give a strong, creative audition. CHAMPLAIN ARTS TH E ATRE COMPANY: Two-week acting and musical theater class es for youths 6-18 begin July 2, Rice Memorial High School, S. Burlington. Prices $250-325. Info, 860-3611 or catco@together.net. Acting I, ages 6-8, begins July 2, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Acting II, ages 9-12, begins August 6, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Acting III, ages 13-18, begins August 6, 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Musical Theatre, ages 1218, begins July 16, 9 a.m. noon. Professional theater educa

tors teach acting skills through skits, games, scene work, improv and play production.

art PASTEL LANDSCAPES: Wednesdays, June 20 & 27, July 11, 18, & 25, August 1, 9 a.m. noon. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. $110. Info, 865-7166. Jan Feadguides artists

o f all skill levels in dealing with distance, color, composition, per spective and texture. IN T R O D U C T IO N TO PRINTMAKING: Fridays, July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. $ 140 plus $20 materials fee. Info, 865-7166. Learn the techniques

ofprintmaking and press opera tion as you explore monotypes with instructor Diane Gabriel. PRINTM AKING FOR BEGINNERS: Weekend work shop, July 21-22, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. $80 plus $10 materials fee. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

This class teaches the basics o f monotype printmaking and pre pares students to use the studio and press during open hours. LANDSCAPES IN PASTEL: July 10, 11 & 12, 9:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Joslin Round Barn, Waitsfield. $185. Info, 4967722. Develop greater individual

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KINDER ART: Ongoing ses sions, Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild. $5 per class. Info, 877-3668. Budding artists

explore clay, collage, painting and other media.

aikido AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: Adults, Monday through Friday, 5:45-6:45 p.m. and 7-8:15 p.m. Thursdays, noon - 1 p.m. Saturdays, 911:45 a.m. Children, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-5 p.m. Aikido o f Champlain Valley, 17 E. Allen St., Winooski. $55/month, $120/three months. Info, 654-6999 or www.aikidovt.org. Study this graceful,

flowing martial art to develop flexibility, confidence and selfdefense skills. AIKIDO OF VERMONT: Ongoing classes Monday through Friday, 6-7 p.m. and 78 p.m. Saturday, 9-10:30 a.m. Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m. Above Onion River Co-op, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info, 862-9785. Practice the art

o f Aikido in a safe and supportive environment.

bartending PROFESSIONAL BARTEND IN G TRAINING: Day, evening and weekend courses. Various locations. Info, 888-854-4448 or bartendingschool.com. Get

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

cooking NECI CLASSES: Saturdays, 1011:30 a.m. New England Culinary Institute Restaurant & Market, 25 Church Street, Burlington. $22.50. Register, 863-5150 ext. 38. Upcoming classes with top teachers include *

Gourmet Picnic, June 23; Knife Skills, June 30; Texas BBQJuly 14 with Vegetarian Grilling 34:30p.m.; Ice Cream & Sorbets class for kids and parents, July 21.

craft PAINTING CERAMICS: Ongoing classes. Blue Plate Ceramic Cafe, 119 College St., Burlington. Free. Info, 6520102. Learn the fundamentals of

painting ceramics to create gifts and other treasures.

creativity KABBALAH A N D CREATIV ITY: Saturday, June 30, 2-8 p.m., Forests Edge, Warren. $75, includes vegetarian dinner. Info, 496-9022. Eric Ronis

imparts valuable models for the artistic process based on Jewish mysticism.

dance D A N C IN G W ITH HORSES: For dancers, July 5, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. For riders, July 6, 7-9 p.m., July 7-8, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. The Equestry, New Haven. Info, 652-4500. Choreographer Joanna

Mendl Shaw and equestrian expert Kate Selby teach partici

pants to move in tandem with another species.

187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Free. Info, 658-5040. Dr.

HOLLYWOOD STYLE SWING: Six-week summer ses sion begins Sunday, July 8. Beginners 5 p.m. Advanced 6 p.m. Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street, Burlington. $40/six weeks. Info, 862-9033 or www.hollywoodstyleswing.com. Learn the nations

Kirsten Alexander offers alterna tive treatments for chronic ear aches.

most popular dance in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. ARGENTINE TANGO WORKSHOP: Sunday, July 1, beginner level, 10 a.m. - noon; intermediate level, 12:30-2:30 p.m. $20/$35 both. Memorial Auditorium loft, Burlington.

Todd T. Brown, dancer!instructor for the San Francisco Tango for Protest Dance Project is offering this one-day workshop. SUMMER SOLSTICE DANCE WORKSHOP: Saturday, June 23, 2-6 p.m. Plainfield Town Hall. $45. Info, 603-868-7168. Helena Melone

leads improvisational dances to invoke archetypes, animals and the imagination. FLAMENCO WORKSHOP: Sunday, June 24, 2-5:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $40. Info, 603-8687168 This workshop focuses on

arm, body and hand movements, turns and footwork as well as emotional aspects o f the dance. VERM ONT DANCESPORT ACADEMY: Intro classes in ballroom, Latin and swing begin the week of July 5. Viennese waltz and West Coast swing classes begin July 9. Vermont DanceSport Academy, Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burlington. Prices vary. Info, 846-7236 or www.VermontDancesportAcademy.com.

Improve your steps at a new Burlingon studio. COM POSITIONAL IMPRO VISATION: July 10-12, 6:30-9 p.m., July 14, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. & July 17-19, 6:30-9 p.m. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info, 6524500. Middlebury College profes

sor Peter Schmitz teaches improv dance as a creative resource and discipline. Previous experience is not required.

floral design FLORAL DESIGN CLASSES: Four Tuesdays beginning July 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648 o r www.shelburnecraftschool.org. Learn to

create simple and stunningfloral arrangements by understanding the elements o f design and the mechanics o f construction.

health HEADACHES & NECK PAIN: Tuesday, June 26, 6 p.m. Mansfield Family Chiropractic, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Free. Info, 658-5040. Dr.

Kirsten Alexander answers ques tions about alternative treatments. CHRONIC EARACHES: Saturday, June 30, 9 a.m. Mansfield Family Chiropractic,

MEDICINAL & EDIBLE HERBS: Sunday, June 24, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. or Wednesday, June 27, 6-7:30 p.m. Rooted Wisdom Center for Wholistic Living, 56 Old Farm Road # 10, Stowe. $10. Info, 253-2808 or sana@together.net. Learn about

and identify over 30 medicinal herbs.

horticulture PERMACULTURE & H O M E DESIGN WORKSHOPS: June 23, July 7 & 9, all day. Isle La Motte. $10-45. Info, 928-3648 or genest@together.net. Claude

Genestfacilitates workshops on the design o f sustainable human habi tats that are aesthetically beautiful and ecologically beneficial. BUTTERFLY GARDENING: Saturday, June 23, 10-11:30 a.m. & 2-3:30 p.m. Gardeners Supply Co., 128 Intervale Road, Burlington. Free. Register, 6603505. Rick Mikula talks about

attracting and feeding butterfly visitors. INTRO TO PERMACUL TURE: Sunday, July 8, 1-3 p.m. Arcana Gardens and Green houses, Jericho. $5. Info, 899-5123 or arcana_gardens@hotmail.com. This workshop

explains ecological garden and landscaping design principles and possibilities for your home.

jewelry IN T R O D U C T IO N TO JEW ELRY MAKING: Six Wednes days, beginning June 20, 6-9 p.m. Studio3d, 208 Flynn Avenue, Burlington. $135. Info, 864-0810 or Studio3d@together.net. Work with traditional and

non-traditional light metals to create jewelry you will be proud to wear.

kung fu MOY YAT VING T SU N KUNG FU: Ongoing classes in Waitsfield and Waterbury. All levels. Prices vary. Info, 496-4661 or vingtsunvt@yahoo.com. Study this traditional

Chinese art which focuses on cen terline, relaxation and efficiency o f motion.

languageITALIAN: Group and individ ual instruction, beginner to advanced, all ages. Middlebury area. Prices vary. Info, 5452676. Immerse yourself in Italian

to get ready for a trip abroad, or to better enjoy the country's music, art and cuisine. ESL: Ongoing small group classes, beginners to intermedi ates. Vermont Adult Learning, Sloane Hall, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Free. Info, 6548677. Improve your listening,

speaking, reading and writing skills in English as a second languagc.

martial arts

W IN G C H U N KUNG FU: Ongoing Fridays, 6 p.m. Martial Way Self-Defense Center, Colchester. Prices vary. Info, 879-2554. Wing Chun is an

ancient Chinese martial art invented by a woman and does not require great size or strength. TAEKW ONDO: Beginners and advanced classes. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 4:30-8:30 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Blue Wave TaeKwonDo School, 182 Main Street, Burlington. Prices vary. Info, 658-3359 or info@bluewavetkd.com. Fifth-degree black belt

and former national team mem ber Gordon W. White teaches the exciting art and Olympic sport of TaeKwonDo.

meditation ‘TH E WAY OF TH E SUFI’: Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info, 658-2447. This Sufi-style medita

tion incorporates breath, sound and movement. MEDITATION: Sundays, 9 a.m. - noon. Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burling ton. Free. Info, 658-6795.

Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist medita tions. MEDITATION: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Green Mt. Learning Center, Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski Aye., Burlington. Donations. Info, 660-T&060. Take part in a

weekly meditation and discussion goup. G U ID ED MEDITATION: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. The Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne Commons. Free. Info, 985-2229. Practice guided

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music PRIVATE LESSONS: Summer and fall openings, Mondays, Tuesdays & Saturdays, Burlington. Individual and group rates vary. Info, 660-8524. Stuart Carter instructs

in trombone, trumpet, baritone horn, tuba, piano, voice and music theory. TAIKO: Mondays, 3:30 p.m. for kids, 5:30 p.m. for adults. 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Thursdays, 4 p.m. for kids, 5 p.m. for adults. Capital City Grange, Montpelier. Prices vary. Info, 658-0658. Experience the power of taiko -style drumming. DJEMBE: Ongoing Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. Burlington, $12. Info, 6580658. Stuart Paton makes instru ments available in a djembe

drumming class.

nature EARTH SKILLS W ORK SHOPS: Trailess Navigation, Saturday, June 23 or Tracking and the Art o f Wilderness Observation Skills, Saturday, June 30, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Bristol Cliffs Wilderness Area. Info, 425-4710 or www.earthislandexpeditions.org. Improve your hik-

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photography POLAROID TRANSFERS: June 18, July 23 & August 20, 6-9 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. $30 each, includes materials. Info, 865-7166. Linda Bryan shows how to make Polaroid image transfers from your personal slides. PHOTOGRAPHY: Ongoing class. Jon’s Darkroom, Essex Junction. Info, 879-4485. Beginning photographers, or those in need o f a refresher course, take classes in shooting or black-andwhite processing. Darkroom is available fo r rent.

pottery OPEN STUDIO : Available 36 hours per week. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Prices vary. Info 985-3648 or www.shelburnecraftschool.org. Potters with some experience can work a t their convenience throw ing or hand building. POTTERY CLASSES: For kids and adults, in summer camps, group classes or private lessons. Days, evenings and weekends. Vermont Clay Studio, 2802 Waterbury-Stowe Road (Route 100), Waterbury Center. Info, 224-1126 ext. 41. Whether you've had a lot, ju st a little or no pottery experience, let yourself experience the pleasures and chal lenges o f working with clay. CREATIVE CLAY FOR PAR ENTS A N D CHILDREN: Four Sundays, beginning June 17, 10 a.m. - noon. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild. $115, includes materials. Info, 877-3668. Families enjoy creative clay time together. ART, CLAY OR POTTERY FOR FUN: Clay classes for all ages and abilities. Schoolhouse Pottery, Moscow, Info, 2538790. Learn to express yourself through clay. The summer kids program is by the day, week or session.

psychology ARTS-BASED CO UNSEL ING: Beginning in late June, Burlington. “Way o f the Artist” for teens, “Finding Our Voices” lor middle schoolers, “From Tears to Art” for adults who have suffered trauma or loss. Info, 860-6203. Michael Watson, licensed mental health counselor and arts educator, leads these inspiring sessions. CO -DEPENDENCY GROUP: Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Possibilities Counseling Center, Essex Junction. $10/group. Register, 878-6378. The weekly therapeutic group, which is not affiliated with Al-Anon, is fo r any one experiencing co-dependency.

self-defense BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU A N D CARDIOBOXING: Ongoing classes Monday through Saturday for men, women and children. Vermont Brazilian JiuJitsu Academy, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Prices vary. Info,

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singing SING ING SOLO JAZZ: Ten weekday evenings, July 23 through August 3, 7-9 p.m. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info, 6524500. Burlington Community Choir director Jody Albright helps students master two ja z z stan dards fo r a performance in the FlynnSpace.

spirit PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT: Ten Thursdays, beginning June 21, 7-10 p.m. Burlington. $135. Info, 899-3542 or kelman.b@juno.com. Develop your natural abilities in this class taught since 1975 by Bernice Kelman. VIBRATIONAL BALANC ING: Saturday, June 30, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington. $75. Info, 660-8060. Vibrational balancing is a simple technique which comes from dowsing and helps in locat ing and clearing blockages in a persons energy system. MYSTIC ROSE MEDITA TIO N: Ongoing morning ses sions, Burlington and Stowe. $35. Info, 244-8827, or JivanAmara@-yahoo.com. Alternative meditation with Jivan Amara clears emotional tension, returning you to centeredness and stillness.

spoken word TH E ART OF SLAM!: Three evenings, July 17, 18 & 19, 7-9 p.m. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info, 652-4500. Burlington slam master Seth Jarvis introduces par ticipants to the old/new medium o f wo rd- wrangling.

sport FULL SW ING GOLF INSTRUCTION: Six Wednesdays, beginning June 13, July 25 or Sept. 5, 6-7:30 p.m. Vermont National Country Club, S. Burlington. $245. Info, 652-9010. Players o f all levels improve skills and course tactics in these weekly sessions. SPINNING: Ongoing daily classes. Chain Reaction, One Lawson Lane, Burlington. First ride free. Info, 657-3228. Pedal your way to fitness in a diverse, non-competitive environment.

substance abuse SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT: Weekend pro gram. Possibilities Counseling Center, Essex Jet. Info, 8786378. Working professionals get non-residential, affordable treat ment in a private setting.

summer camps SUM M ER BODIES IN M OTION: Daily classes begin ning Monday, June 25 for youths 5-19. Leddy Park Arena dance studio, Burlington. $6/class in advance. Info, 8641858. Kids get into a groove with fu n , creative yoga classes.

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O U T OF DOORS: ART: Fiveday collaborative sculpture ses sions, beginning Monday, June 25, for ages 7-9, 9 a.m.- noon. Monday July 23 for ages 10 and up, Monkton. $75 includes sup plies. Info, 453-3164. Anna Davis gives young people the chance to explore outside and cre ate collaborative "sculptural hap penings”each day. SHELBURNE SUMMER ART CAMPS: Beginning Monday, June 25 through August 3, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648. Kids 5-11 experience “serious art fu n ” in separate, oneweek sessions.

support groups ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: June 19 & 26, 6-9 p.m. Whitney Hill Community Room, Williston. Info, 800698-1022. This is a “Caring Companion” training course. W IDOW S & WIDOWERS: Looking for persons interested in forming a support group for activities in the Burlington area. Info, 656-3280. “HELLENBACH” CANCER SUPPORT: Every other Wednesday beginning June 27, 6:30 p.m. Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 3886107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: Ongoing Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. First Baptist Church, St. Paul Street. Info, 655-6512. I f you have a problem with debt man agement, this 12-step program can help. MENTAL ILLNESS: Twelve Thursdays beginning in March, 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. McClure MultiGenerational Center, 241 N. Winooski Avenue, Burling ton. Free. Info, 865-6135. People who suffer from mental ill ness, their families and providers gain support, tools for self-help and new social connections. POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME: Saturday, June 23, 1-3 p.m. Rutland Free Library. Free. Info, 524-6110. Learn more about the leading cause o f infertility in women o f childbearing age. BURLINGTON M EN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 79 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4830. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions anct drumming. OVEREATERS ANO NY MOUS: Daily meetings in vari ous locations. Free. Info, 863-2655. Overeaters get support in addressing their problem. ALCOHOLICS ANO NY MOUS: Daily meetings in vari ous locations. Free. Info, 8608382. Want to overcome a drink ing probleml Take the first step — o f 12 — and join a group in your area. AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-838§f Do you have a friend

or relative with an alcohol prob lem?Alcoholics Anonymous can help. A D D ISO N C O U N TY DOM ESTIC VIOLENCE: Various locations. Free. Info, 388-4205. Support groups benefit survivors o f sexual assault and women who have experienced physical or emotional abuse. NARCOTICS ANONY MOUS: Ongoing daily groups. Various locations in Burlington, S. Burlington and Plattsburgh. Free. Info, 862-4516. I f you’re ready to stop using drugs, this group o f recovering addicts can offer inspiration. SEX A N D LOVE ADDICTS ANONYM OUS: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, 05402. Get help through this weekly 12step program. PARENTS OF YOUNG ADULTS USING HEROIN: Educational support groups forming in Burlington. Free. Info, 859-1230. I f you suspect your child is using heroin or other opiates, this group offers an oppor tunity to learn and strategize. BATTERED W OMEN: Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Burlington. Info, 658-1996. Women Helping Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington. HEPATITIS C: Second Thursday of the month, 6:308:30 p.m. McClure MultiGenerational Center, 241 No. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info, 454-1316. This group wel comes people who have hepatitis C, their friends and relatives.

tai chi TAI CHI FOR BEGINNERS: Ongoing beginner classes. Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 a.m. Sundays, 11 a.m. - noon. Shelburne Athletic Club. Tuesdays, 8:30-9:30 a.m. and Mondays, noon -1 p.m. Yoga Vermont Studio C, Chace Mill, One Mill Street, Burlington. $9/each, $80 for 10-class card. Info, 651-7575. Session leader Kristen Borquist is a seventh-year student o f local expert Bob Boyd.

woodworking LATHE TU R N IN G W ORK SHOP: July 13, 14 & 15. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburnecraftschool.org. Learn the essen tials o f turning wood round. Start with a block o f wood and make a finished piece in a day. INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED W O O D CLASS: Tuesdays, July 10 through 31, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburnecraftschool.org. Design and build a project o f your choice, aided by demonstrations o f wood joinery, basic lathe-turning and routing. RUSTIC GARDEN TRELLIS: Saturday, July 28, Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne Village. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburnecraftschool.org. A d d a dis tinctive touch to your yard or gar den with a rustic white cedar trel lis you can construct in one day.

yoga YOGA AT TH E SHELBURNE ATHLETIC CLUB: Hatha and Astanga styles, advanced or beginners. Days and times vary. Shelburne Athletic Club, 4068 Shelburne Road, Shelburne. $9/single, $80/10 sessions. Info, 985-2229. Experience an invigo rating stretching session in a con venient location. ‘BECOM ING PEACE YOGA &c MASSAGE’: Ongoing yoga classes, new groups forming. Stress reduction workshop, Sunday, June 3, 9 a.m. - noon. Essex Junction. Info, 878-5299. Release chronic tension, gain selfawareness and “honor your inner wisdom” through Kripalu-style yoga practice. BEECHER HILL YOGA: Ongoing daytime and evening classes for all levels. Info, 4823191 orhillyoga@sover.net. Get private or group instruction in prenatal yoga, integrative yoga therapy or gentle yoga for recovery and rehabilitation. BIKRAM YOGA: Ongoing daily classes for all levels. 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info, 651-8979. A heated studio facili tates deep stretching and detoxifying. YOGA VERMONT: Daily classes, noon, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Chace Mill, Burlington. Info, 660-9718 or yogavermont.com. Ashtanga-style “p ower”yoga classes offer sweaty fu n fo r all levels o f experience. (Z )

Gale continued from page 8b Learn how nutrition, homeopa thy, flower essences and other natural remedies can promote good health in your pet. Rooted Wisdom Center for Wholistic Living, 56 Old Farm Rd., Stowe, 6:15-8:30 p.m. $16. Info, 253-2808. SOLAR POW ER UPDATE: Reps from Solar Works and Renewable Vermont offer applicable info on solar power, including photovoltaics, gridconnected systems and net metering. Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6060 ext. 1016. FATHERS A N D C H ILDREN GROUP: Dads and kids spend quality time together during a weekly meeting at the Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. WEEKLY M EDITATION: Learn how focused thought can result in a “calmed center.” Spirit Dancer Books, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. BASIC M EDITATION: Cherokee and Tibetan Buddhist practices help renew the body and spirit. Ratna Shri Tibetan Meditation Center, 12 Hillside Ave., Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7318.

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‘A R T ’: See June 20. ‘SWEENEY T O D D ’: See June 21, 1:30 p.m. $14 & 7:30 p.m. $18.

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22 . ‘POLLOCK’: This bio-pic paints a portrait o f the com mercially successful painter whose private life was, well, a mess. Crossroads Arts Council presents at the Rutland Multiplex, 1:30 & 7 p.m. $7.50. Info, 775-5413. ‘T H E W ID O W OF ST. PIERRE’: In this acclaimed French film, a sailor on a remote island submits to mur

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‘PERFORMANCES IN TH E PARK’: See June 13. Novelist Shelby Hearon reads from Ella in Bloom before the Barre Town 7 th and 8 th Grade Jazz Ensemble takes the stage. LYNN STEGNER: The Shelburne-based author and writing prof reads from her lat est novel, Pipers at the Gates o f ~~ Dawn. Book Rack, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. ‘READINGS IN THE GALLERY’: Poets Chin Woon Ping of Malaysia and Dartmouth prof Cleopatra Mathis read from their respec tive works. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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To find out how this score stacked up, I called Educational Testing Service, publisher of the SAT, and learned that in 1994, SAT scores had been “re-centered.” To offset the steady downward drift of test scores over the years, the scoring scale was adjusted upward so that the mean score for both math and verbal was again 500 (the midpoint on a scale of 200 to 800). Those who took the test before 1994 are now entitled to add a prescribed amount to their scores to see how they compare to students today. / Having made the necessary adjustment, Little Ed announced, “I got 800 on my verbal! I’m a direct benefi ciary of the stupidity of the American public!” Doing the same for Bush gives him 640 on both verbal and math, good enough for 88th percentile on the verbal and 86th in math were he entering college now. Those scores may not be as high as mine, of course, or even Al Gore’s original scores (625 verbal, 730 math), but they ain’t bad. Then again, I recall having seen a college guide circa 1970 that listed the average SAT for Yale freshmen as

I get the feeling you guys are trying to make a point here. But this is no time to be coy. Let’s put the question bluntly: Is George W. Bush the stupidest person ever to serve as U.S. president? If not, who is? And isn’t he a drunk besides? It’s all the fault of those goddamn Republicans on the Supreme Court. Why, I oughta... There, there. Let’s take this one step at a time. Is George W. Bush stupid? We have pretty good data here. In 1999 the New Yorker obtained a copy of the future president’s Yale transcript and revealed that he’d had a C average in college and, more interestingly, scored 1206 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) — 566 on the verbal and 640 on the math.

about 670 in verbal, 705 in math. So Bush was well below average for his class. He must have written a great essay. Is Bush the stupidest president? Doubtful, but here the data is lacking. You can get a book called The Intelligence of Dogs but not The Intelligence of Presidents. I refrain from the obvious jokes. The best I could come up with was a 1926 list in which intelligence researcher Catharine M. Cox estimated the IQs of 300 famous people based on their achievements in childhood and early adulthood. Presidents ran the gamut from John Quincy Adams (165) to Thomas Jefferson (150) to Ulysses Grant (125). She didn’t single out stupid presidents, but near the top of everyone’s list you’re sure to find Warren G. Harding, prob ably the nation’s least competent chief executive, who described himself as “a man of limited talents from a small town... I don’t seem to grasp that I am president.” Among presidents since FDR, political scientist Fred I. Greenstein (Presidential Difference: Leadership Style From FDR to Clinton) cites Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan as being “marked by cognitive limitations,” although even detractors would concede that they had their gifts. Smarts aren’t easy to judge. Greenstein gives John F. Kennedy high marks for brains, but according to biograph er Thomas C. Reeves (author of the infamous A Question of Character), Kennedy as a kid scored a less-than-brilliant 119 on the Otis Intelligence Test and graduated 65th out of 110 at Choate. And remember Bill Bradley, who every body considered brainy but boring? His verbal SAT score, according to Slate: just 485. As for alcoholic presidents... define alcoholic. According to The Health of the Presidents (1994) by John M. Bumgarner, the following were heavy drinkers: Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce (died of cirrhosis), James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson (appeared drunk at the inau guration in 1865), Ulysses S. Grant and Chester A. Arthur. The next edition may include George W., who had that 1976 drunk driving conviction. Regarding other substance . abuse... does it count if you don’t inhale? — CEGIL ADAMS

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