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-Harry Grabenstein Bow-maker, Williston ' I w e lf e think al it, but about whether someone else has it. And if they do, you can smell them across the room, and they have lightning bolts coming out of their eyeballs.
W H O KNOW S T H E W H OLE TRUTH ? In regard to “The Lord Is My Shepard” (October 21), is Peter Kurth sure that those accused o f the torturemurder o f Matthew Shepard ever heard a debate about family values, alternative lifestyles, Trent Lott or Christian fundamentalism? Was Mr. Shepard him self really gay, homosexu al, bi or whatever, and did his murder ers know anything about that? Was he really fooling around in a bar with those men with whom he presumably left and was then murdered by? Has Mr. Kurth read the police and coro ner’s report, seen the forensic evidence or cross-examined the witnesses? On what grounds does he imagine the accused have pleaded “innocent”? Has Mr. Kurth stopped for one minute to wonder what the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as determined by a court o f law in this case might possibly be? Frankly speaking, it takes a big, dumb redneck to lynch a big, dumb redneck, but hardly advances the cause o f understanding and acceptance or ushers in anything close to a new and better world. Once again, this is just a case o f Mr. Kurth getting a kick out o f acting as idiotically as everyone else in the national media. So, has he got anything original or interesting to say? — John Shaplin Burlington C R E D IT C A R D R E SP O N SIB IL IT Y ? While I usually find Peter Kurth’s bi-weekly commentary to be accurate ly cynical as well as entertaining, I felt compelled to comment myself on pan o f his column, “ Capital Crimes” . [O ctdbef 14},. Near the end o f this well-stated litany o f disturbing facts concerning our society’s growing eco nomic polarity and governmental injustices he brings up the issue o f consumer debt. As he states it, the proposed changes to the personal bankruptcy laws would remove exist ing protections from the consumer,
making them 100 percent responsible for the debts they incur as they take part in the “orgy o f growth and expan sion” taking place in America. It may be true that banks and credit card companies are acting irresponsibly in “extending credit to any id io t...” regardless o f their capacity to afford their purchases. It is not, however, the banks who plunk down the cards at the cash register in every attempt to establish credibility and respectability through conspicuous consumption. As a society we seem to be all too willing to relinquish responsibility for our actions and hold others responsi ble for their outcomes. This is the rea son that our courts are bogged down with outrageous litigation and our insurance rates are driven up by ridiculously large awards. It is that same lack o f accountability that requires that credit-card companies charge interest rates o f 18 percent to help offset debts that go unpaid. While I am by no means advocating these rates or the gratuitous solicita tion o f credit consumers, Mr. Kurth seems all too willing to assume that society has an obligation to forgive those who are unable to use credit responsibly. I would suggest that this “most contemptible” action on the part o f the House may be an act o f fis cal tough love that will hopefully resound into other aspects o f our soci ety as we all can begin to take greater responsibility for our actions and their outcomes, both short- and long-term. — Marc Sherman Burlington
T H E AGE O F FO R G ETFU LN ESS 1 am a 57-year-old circumcised male who at one time was a lifeguard at the pool at Plato’s Retreat and, for the life o f me, I can’t remember why I liked your last issue [“ Hey Mister: The Men’s Issue,” October 28] so fucking much. — L.J. Palardy Winooski
SO U N D T R A C K SY N C H R O N IC ITY I just finished reading Barry Snyder’s article on media synchronicity [“Somewhere Over the Moon, er, Rainbow,” October 14], and I couldn’t help but smile that sly-but-knowing grin that comes from experiencing a synchronistic media moment oneself. My personal gem o f a find, as memory recollects, results from playing Fritz Lang’s silent-movie masterpiece,
R EA PIN G W H A T W E SO W I have been meaning to comment on “ Pot Shot” [Inside Track, August 26]. I was pleased to read the two let ters from 9/23/98 regarding the fact that Greg Stevens joined the ranks o f “government informant.” I remember the day during the trial that Mike Johnson stated, “Greg Stevens said if anyone ever talked, they’d be a beating heart attached to a machine.” As Johnson left for the witness room he
Metropolis, to the soundtrack o f Alan Parsons Project’s “ I Robot.” This was discovered by me back in my U VM days o f the late 1970s, when you could rent gratis a projector and movie copy o f Metropolis from U V M ’s media center. I used to rent this on occasion for parties and provide soundtracks on the fly. I discovered the Parsons synchronicity by accident (or is it?), and I recall that it is quite uncanny: Just start the movie with the beginning o f the album and play it through, though I can’t remember details o f the “ahhas” after so long. Readers may like to try this little experiment some time. Maybe the university still rents out its wares. I can’t remember the follow-up soundtrack to the Alan Parsons stuff, but it was also probably Pink Floyd, as I hazily recollect. Synchronicity is like statistics sometimes: Given enough raw data, one can always come up with patterns, regardless o f the underlying connectiv ity (or lack thereof). However, syn chronicity is always in the eye o f the beholder (or pyramid). — M . P. Kirick Westford
had to pass all o f the co-defendants and their lawyers. Greg Stevens looked like a snake about to eat a rat. Johnson smirked and walked by. What happens if we really do “reap what we sow?” — W olf Stevenson Hinesburg M A JO R IT Y R U LE S I enjoyed John Dillon’s cover story on Vermont Supreme Court Justice John Dooley [“Justice For All?” October 21]. At one point, however, Dillon refers to a Vermont Law Review article critical o f the C ourt’s Brigham decision as being “devastating.” Scathing, perhaps, but certainly not devastating. Law review articles do not lay waste to (overturn) Supreme Court decisions. In the absence o f some form o f legislative override, as, for example, a constitutional amendment would constitute in the case o f Brigham, only subsequent majority decisions can overturn established precedent and, as Dillon rightly notes, three o f the origi nal five Supremes in Brigham are still around and able to put on their gloves — I mean robes. — Christopher L. White Waterbury C O R R E C T IO N : Last week we identified letterwriter C. Chaya Boughan [Weekly Mail, October 28] as a math professor at U V M . Turns out we gave her a degree prematurely: Boughan is an undergraduate in mathematics. Our apologies for any confusion or undue ribbing.
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Vermont’s Armani says the windows o f his men’s clothing emporium were adorned with a Regardless o f the vote count, there’s been batch o f Bernie stickers. Shocking! one major political power shift in this year’s In an unrelated matter, check out the flyer election. It’s pretty clear that Vermont’s our congressman found under the windshield Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders has o f his car parked in front o f his New North picked up the most impressive endorsement o f End home last weekend. The flyer reads, “Your his political life! political preference shows that you are a That’s right, O l’ Bernardo, the Vermont Communist Socialist Pig.” socialist fighting for the interests o f “poor peo Now what kind o f genius was behind such ple, working people and the elderly” in the a daring deed? Land o f Newt Gingrich, has received an extra You got it — another distinguished, wacko ordinary backhanded compliment from the member o f the Vermont political fringe. Republican National Hey, the last couple Congressional Committee. Two weeks o f a campaign bring years ago Bernie was on the out the worst in some. Take national G O P ’s Top 10 hit list the lawn-sign battles. o f congressmen they’d like to Political lawn signs have pro defeat. The national G OP liferated in the last decade. fueled Susan Sweetser’s 1996 And that’s led to a whole campaign with over $130,000. new role for campaign vol But Susie Creamcheese selfunteers who find stuffing destructed in a storm o f sleaze envelopes boring. These days that was but a foreshadowing o f there’s no shortage o f dedi Ken Starr’s “Fornigate” expedi cated volunteers who make tion. Sweetser’s hiring o f a pri the nighttime rounds remov vate investigator to squeeze ing the signs o f the opposi some dirt — any dirt — out o f tion. No class. Bernie’s first wife hit a new low Looking Ahead — Hey, you in Vermont politics. The rising think 1998 was fun, just red-headed star o f the Vermont wait until the 2000 election. G O P ended up with just 32 What’s Ruth Dwyer’s next percent o f the vote. All that move? Take on Jim Jeffords cash — for what? in a U.S. Senate primary and The G O P head honchos in turn out all the right-to-lifers Washington, D .C ., have appar and right-wing wackos to ently learned their lesson. This BY PETER FREYNE give Jeezum Jim a good year they declined to give O l’ scare, or worse? Run for governor again against Bernardo’s Republican opponent Mark the herd o f candidates who want to follow in Candon a nickel. Why throw money down the Howard Dean’s footsteps? Barbara Snelling, toilet in support o f a hopeless candidate who’s D oug Racine, Peter Clavelle, Bernie Rome given many Vermonters the distinct impression and Michael Obuchowski come to mind. Or he’s dumber than a box o f rocks? else take on Bernie Sanders in a battle o f the Nope. This year the Republican Party at state’s most passionate pols? the national level has accepted the fact that Chief Update — Burlap’s new police chief Befnie Sanders is Vermont’s “congressman for Alana Ennis takes over the post Dec. 1. Last hk” y ~ week, according to sources down at the home Sign Wars — One result o f Bernie’s success is o f the Thin Blue Line, Ennis put a downpay demonstrated by the fact that he’s much betterment on a condo at Red Rocks. Meanwhile, dressed than in the old days. He makes a good Attorney Jerry O ’Neill, the chairman o f the buck-now, and o f late he’s become accustomed police commission and Alana’s #1 fan, blew to wearing suits on a regular basis. But he’s still town yesterday for a month-long vacation not shopping at Burlap’s upscale men’s haber touring Asia. That’s right, Asia. O ’Neill’s law dashery Michael Kehoe Ltd., just up the block firm has a distinguished reputation for special from City Hall. And he won’t be shopping izing in personal injury cases. With the rapid there any time soon. growth o f automobile ownership in China, A couple Friday nights back, there was a Jerry could probably give ’em a few pointers on fundraiser for Sanders at City Hall. And out rear-end collisions and back pain. on the front stoop was a big “Bernie” banner Closer to home, there’s great anticipation and a bunch o f balloons. That did not sit well over how Chief Ennis will utilize her experi with two local gentleman who had been dining ence as top cop at Duke University to cool the across the street at Smokejacks. Michael Kehoe jets at Groovy UV, where hardly a week goes and Michael Wool, an attorney at Langrock by without some gross alcohol-related incident. Sperry & Wool, took exception to the presence Recent news coverage makes it difficult to dis o f a political banner on a public building. tinguish Vermont’s largest institution o f higher Kehoe tells Inside Track the Bernie banner gave learning from Beer Camp. Perhaps UVM Prez him “a mild case o f indigestion.” The pair Judith Ramaley could break the ice by throw decided, in the name o f democracy, it had to ing a keg party to welcome Ennis to town? g°Meanwhile, the grumbling hasn’t ceased According to eyewitnesses, Kehoe, the hab over the $20,000 pay raise O ’Neill got the city erdasher, had popped most o f the balloons and council to tack on to Ennis’ salary. At the was fixing to cut the banner’s strings when sev recent fire commission meeting, vice chair eral Sanderistas intervened. The argument, Kevin McLaughlin made a motion to award according to witness, was quite nasty and was Fire Chief Dayton Contois a $20,000 pay embellished with references to Nazi Germany increase. It passed unanimously. in the 1930s. Police were called by the Sanders Contois, a 30-year veteran who makes just camp. $53,000 a year, compared to Ennis’ $81,000, Bernie’s campaign workers made it clear politely refused the pay raise, saying he’d rather they had rented Contois Auditorium for the see the money go into the fire department’s event and had permission to put up the Bernie operational budget. Class act, Chief Contois. banner after 5 o’clock. The coppers advised Finally, in Cop Land, federal mediator Ira Mr. Best-Dressed and Wooly Bear to take their Lobel did bring both sides together in his complaint to the media or the city council. recent visit to town. Union Prez Jim Marrier The banner remained in place. tells Inside Track there is a tentative contract Unbeknownst to Wool and Kehoe was the agreement with the city. Ratification by the fact that a “Ruth Dwyer” banner had adorned the same railing just a few days earlier. 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Democracy in Action While Nepal’s parliament debated a bill to provide autonomy to local government institutions, government min isters and opposition lawmak ers began yelling insults at each other, then broke chairs and used the pieces as clubs during a 25-minute brawl. The incident began when Nepal’s opposition Communist Party o f Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) demanded changes in the bill, and the ruling Nepali Congress and the Communist Party o f Nepal (MarxistLeninist) insisted the bill be adopted in its original form. While the melee raged, Local Development Minister Keshav Lai Shrestha presented the bill for a vote, and ruling lawmak ers approved it in a voice vote. • Two convicted Swedish crim inals serving time in a mental hospital were being escorted to
a post office in Orebro to vote in the country’s general elec tion when they gave their escorts the slip. The two hailed a taxi and ordered the driver to take them to a liquor store in the neighboring town o f Arboga. • Robert Pastor, the director of the Atlanta-based Carter Center’s China Village Elections Project, invited nine Chinese election officials to watch him vote in Georgia’s September primary. When the well-known Democrat asked for a Democratic ballot, the poll worker refused to give him one, insisting that he was a Republican. “This is what we call an irregularity,” Pastor told the Chinese visitors after the polling station manager had to call Fulton County election officials to resolve the matter. “Voting irregularities occur in any election, even in advanced democracies.” • Norbert Michael Lindner, who was elected in 1996 to a seven-year term as mayor of Quelle ndorf, Germany, announced this summer that he would start wearing women’s clothing and calling himself Michaela in anticipa tion o f a sex-change operation. Immediately, 175 o f the town’s 1048 citizens signed a petition calling for the impeachment o f the married father of four
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That Old Black Magic Paula Green-Albritton, owner o f Green’s Funeral Home in Bradenton, Florida, stuffed voodoo dolls into a corpse as part o f a death curse, according to police, who reported she invoked the voodoo deity Damballah in the hope that her business competitors and other ene mies, whose names she had written on notes pinned to the dolls, would die. • Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Court Judge Richard J. Hodgson dismissed charges against Jamaican spiri tualist Joy Jadusingh, 51, that she bilked a 75-year-old woman out o f nearly $82,000 by claiming she could drive out the evil cabbage-head spir its in the woman’s backyard. Hodgson explained there was no way to prove that the evil cabbage heads did not exist and that the voodoo did not work, telling prosecutors that for the charges to stand, they would have to prove that Jadusingh did not truly believe she was driving away the spir its. '• Hungary’s witches have been
brought to court on charges o f tax evasion, London’s Guardian newspaper reported. Noting that witches earn huge incomes from their work, especially since the fall o f com munism, the nation’s tax office said they should pay taxes like other citizens. The Hungarian Witches Association, which claims to represent almost 9000 witches, insisted it is a church and thus it and its members are tax-exempt. • British officials acknowl edged that the government is considering a posthumous par don for Helen Duncan, the last woman to be jailed in Britain for witchcraft. The Scottish homemaker, who died in 1956 at age 58, performed seances throughout World War II to put
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might “see” and reveal the sites o f D-Day landings, she was found guilty o f “pretending to raise the spirits o f the dead” under the 1735 Witchcraft Act and sentenced to nine months in prison. • The Catholic Church announced it was establishing a commission in the Czech Republic to consider whether pardons should be granted to hundreds o f people burned at the stake as witches. During the “Burning Times,” between the 12th and 18th centuries, conservative estimates suggest that church-sanctioned hunts for the devil’s agents resulted in about 100,000 Europeans dying by fire or torture. • The Vatican has quietly encouraged Catholic bish ops throughout Europe to appoint more exor cists. Citing increased demand with the approach of the millennium, The New York Times reported that France now has 95 exorcists — five times the number it had 20 years ago. The paper also noted that many lay exorcists in and around Paris charge from $200 to $2000 to cast out demons. (7)
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STEADY FREDDYl Whether or not he achieves senator ial status, Fred Tuttle is still a star. The Tunbridge dairy farmer was in fine form — and short sleeves — on “The Tonight Show” last week, answering tough questions about interns and inhalation with unprecedented aplomb. While Tuttle held his own, Jay Leno held Seven Days, which served as an unexpected visual aid during the interview. You won’t read it in The Burlington Free Press— which has an unwritten rule about never mentioning its competitors — but SD was front-and-center on national television for a couple of crucial seconds. Referencing the “Vermont weekly, Seven Days," Leno pulled out a copy of the September 2 edition while the cam era zoomed in on the only ad purchased by the Tuttle for Senate campaign — a one-column incher next to Peter Freyne’s “Inside Track.” Amazing how far a $10 ad in the local weekly can take you. While in Los Angeles, campaign manager and filmmaker John O’Brien “took a meeting” with a company that might be interested in turning the Fred story into a film. “It may never happen,” O’Brien downplays. “But there was a lot of speculation about who would play Fred.”
CHANCE ENCOUNTER: it, hard to imagine Steve Goldberg in cahoots with the State Liquor Control Board — his provocative plays are not exactly buttoned-up. But someone — something — is looking out for the Burlington playwright these days. First he convinced folks at the Flynn to let him stage a play in a brand-new space right on Main Street — something no other local theater group has managed to do. Then he got around anoth er seemingly insurmountable problem: despite projecting, his actors were completely drowned out by the live music from the Last Chance Saloon. Just as he started to panic, Goldberg learned the bar is shutting down for three weeks as a result of two state liquor-control violations. “Luck be a License Suspension?” Goldberg calls it “a really amazing coincidence” that the shut-down happens at precisely the same time as the three-week run of his play, which opens Thursday. Who knows? Maybe the displaced drinkers will take a chance on theater instead. In End Zone, about an ex-football star in a loveless marriage, Seven Days columnist Peter Freyne plays a bar fly. Stanislavsky method, of course.
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It's h ard enough to ju d g e a beauty contest, especially b ased on p h y sical looks alone. A s every p e t ow ner knows, beauty’s m ore than f u r deep. For th at reason, a n d because there are so m any reign in g cats a n d dogs, we w ussed ou t a n d chose one o f each — a s w ell a s an H onorable M ention fo r the only other species entered, Trixie the Bunny.
Dog: “Cassie came to live with us when she was six months old. She had been born at a puppy mill and then sold to a family that was ill-prepared for a puppy, so they kept her locked in the basement ' most of the time. She had been with us only a few months when 1 made this photographic portrait. She hadn’t quite gotten over being worried. Now Cassie is 10 1/2 and beginning to show signs of aging, but she hasn’t looked worried in years.” — Dawn Jones-Low ;• , South Burlington v•
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Cat: *He’s the mist that swirls around your ankles on a foggy morning. He’s quicksilver at play. He’s the most dedicated ornithologist in the world. He is Houdini with latches and a thief of hearts. Like a burglar he prowls the night. He isn’t made of fur, he is made of velvet. A master fly exterminator and a clown. He’s better than a politician at making friends. His purr reflex is set in motion the moment he is touched. He retrieves like a dog and coos like a baby. His musi cal voice is often heard. No one who has met him has ever said he’s just an ordi nary cat, because he isn’t an ordinary cat! He is Baxter, “Boo Bear,” a year-old blue Persian, whose parents are Master Ninja of the Night and Notorious Nikita.” — Jennifer Blanchfield Burlington
enter her feline in the more competitive “Unleashed” cat egory, but well give him Honorable Mention here, any way. “Every morning Patch waits for his snack of ground turkey meat. He weighs in at 15 pounds, and also loves McDonald’s burgers and then some vanilla ice cream. Scott R. Quinlan Burlington
2. FAT CATS After all the corpulent kitties we saw last year, imag ine our surprise to receive only one entry in this category. Hence the title has to go to Patch, who, judging from h'is diet, ought to be even tubbier. Still, in our opinion Cranleigh, a white Persian caught reading a book while sprawled on a couch in a most compromising position, looks, well, fuller-bodied. Sadly, her owner saw fit to
our good-byes he jumped into the car and made him self comfortable for the ride home. After asking some nearby residents if he belonged to anyone, it appeared I had a new dog. On the ride home my friends and I began the quest to give him a name. Nothing came right away, that is, until I said, reflectively, “What a great weekend; we went camping and found a dog, to boot.” That’s it, except I did take some artistic license with the spelling, Tooboot. P.S. He’s the only dog whose name is a palindrome, and he’s the best dog in the world, to boot.” — Kristen Faulkner Burlington
3. PET NAMES Tough contenders in the name game. Our winner was up against such marvelous monikers as Smoochie, Blithe Spirit, Bowie (one blue eye, one brown, natch), and Bisy Backson (hint: think Winnie the PoohJ. But this fellow’s lovely black face, and his story, won us over. “I found my dog four years ago while camping with friends in Helen, Georgia. He was in real rough shape, worms, underfed and scars on his face. He stuck with us all weekend. We hiked, ate cheese and sat around the fire together. At the end of the week end my friends and I were very sad to leave our new pal, as he was sad to see us leave, because after saying
“Little Anika, a patient at our office, decided that this Halloween she wanted to dress as our dog Atlas when he was a puppy. The photo says the rest.” — Drs. Matthew and Julieta Rushford Rushford Chiropractic, Burlington
4. SEPARATED AT BIRTH Just like last year, there was only one entry in this category, giving us, uh, paws about keeping it in the future. Guess most people just don’t want to admit they resemble their pet. But chances are, we would have cho sen this year’s winner even if she’d had competition. Sometimes, two-year-olds know best.
5. PET Severalpet owners outfhere seem to be terrorized by cats that like to lurk under the covers. One kitty plays havoc with TV reception by lounging on top of the cable box. Unable to narrow thefeline field (andflummoxed by one entry that appears to be a stuffed animal), we decided instead on a pooch with a penchantfor holes. “Having been born in August, LaMont lives his life in true Leo style. After moving from a small apart ment to a house with a big fenced-in yard and lots of flowers to destroy, he has declared himself King of his own jungle! (His “jungle” is actually a few 3-4-foothigh primrose bushes, but what a blow to his ego that would be if he knew the truth!
6. HAUTE CREATURE Nautical Nicky loves a stiff wind. I f there were doggie top siders, you could count this canine in. In a second photo, that we could not print here, “The Little One” is wearing an animal-rights sweater that reads, “Fur is dead. ” Spoiled, indeed.
7. UNLEASHED As always, the entries here are especially competi tive, forcing us to steel ourselves against any number of fetching felines and adorable doggies. We were smitten by Xander lounging in the bathtub, by Whacker the cat in sunglasses, and we liked to imag ine Blossom scaling the full-sized tree in her living room. Honorable Mention goes to a heart-melting photo of Gipsy, a five-month-old Staffordshire Terrier (aka pitbull). But who could turn down a kitten in a jack-o’-lantern — or his testimonials?
“LaMont has diligently burrowed basset-sized holes in each primrose bush in the yard, not to men tion the day lilies and daffodils that were sacrificed in the process. From these secret hiding places, he keeps a watchful eye on all things good and evil, like those pesky squirrels, frogs and all those neighborhood cats that dare to enter his domain. He thinks that these spying spots are known only to him, but we caught him on film as he was leaving his jungle after a long afternoon nap. “The joy of having Monty, King of the Jungle, around outweighs the joys of having a nice flower gar den any time.” — Kristin Allosso & Jeff Smith Burlington
“Nicky’s most impressive/unique possession is his life jacket.” — Eileen Brady Whitney South Burlington
“Lest his parents sound too biased, here are some quotes from Max’s friends and acquaintances: ‘Max is the only cat I like.’ ‘If our cats were like Max, I’d never leave home.’ ‘When are you going away, so I can cat-sit Max for you?’ ‘Max is the best.’ :> ‘Max is the max.’ . ' . ' ‘Max is the only cat that makes us want a cat.’” — Jennifer Taub Burlington
Our thanks to everyone who shared with us their pets, and their tails, er, tales! novem ber4, 1998
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ankering for a little lowkey companionship in the dead o f winter, Katie -Robinson went to a pet store last January looking for some thing, if not cuddly, at least manageable — a frog, a lizard. What she came home with was more akin to a rat with quills. Her new pal was a baby African pygmy hedgehog the size o f her thumb. “It was an impulse buy,” says Robinson, admitting that for the first week or so she couldn’t touch the prickly insectivore without wearing leather gloves. The 25-year-old Burlington resident could’ve gotten away with this initial squeamishness if her electric heat hadn’t gone on the fritz during the ice storm. How do you keep a crea ture native to the African savan nah from freezing to death? Fortunately, her boyfriend came to the rescue that night, oblig ingly snuggling with the noc turnal hedgie. Since then, Sonic — yes, as in “Sonic the Hedgehog,” the less-than-superhero cartoon character — has
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triangular nose with whiskers, and ears no bigger than a fin gernail. But Sonic isn’t simply un petit chotc, she’s got a real per sonality — what a hedgeophile construes into human attribut es. When she isn’t hanging out
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in a dog carrier at work, where Robinson does time as a graph ic designer, she’s at home indulging in her shoe fetish, burrowing in the toes o f tennis shoes, loafers and Birkenstocks as if they were piles o f leaf litter in the closet. She sleeps on her
side like a person, and does flat ness stretches in her aquarium — no doubt to keep in shape for those apartment adventures that take her to forbidden places, such as the inch-high space under the couch. When she’s hungry, Sonic sits and stares at her bowl. Her toiletry entails a toothbrush scrubbing, followed by a run around the apartment while Robinson attempts to swaddle her in a washcloth. If Beatrix Potter’s quaint washerwoman comes to mind, you’re thinking o f Sonic’s cousin, the European hedgehog. In England, wild Erinaceus europaeus lumber out in droves at night, browsing for worms in gardens and fields. And the Homo sapiens anglia don’t seem to mind. There’s even a hospital called St. Tiggywinkles, where people bring hedgies run down by motorists. Les and Sue Stocker, who put into practice Doctor Doolittle’s kind o f magic at their hospital in Aylesbury, esti mate 100,000 hedgehogs die on British roads every year. The ones that don’t end up as road pizza are nursed at the wildlife hospital, their wounds swathed in bandages and their broken limbs set in plaster casts. But hedgehogs aren’t native to North America. The closest
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you can get to the real thing Stateside is the African pygmy hedgehog, Atelerix albiventris\ a hand-sized version o f its European relative. “They’re becoming the new ’90s pet,” says Meadow Marmar o f Noah’s Ark Pet Center in Colchester. She says people like hedgehogs because they’re more intelligent than hamsters or guinea pigs. Unlike these glori fied rodentia, hedgehogs can learn their names and be trained to use a litter box. They’re also “low-mainte nance”: Hedgehogs don’t seem to care if you’ve been gone all day, they tolerate other pets, their cages only need changing once or twice a week, and they don’t smell. If these omnivores don’t succumb to obesity from a fatty cat-food diet, they can live six to eight years — a lot longer than your average ham ster. There’s no doubt about their popularity. Somewhere between 100 and 200 hedgehogs are sold every day in North America, according to Brian MacNamara, o f the Tipp City, Ohio-based International Hedgehog Fanciers Society, a loose-knit educational organiza tion that sponsors a registry for breeders and pet shows. But not everyone is enthused about hedgies enter
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ing the realm o f petdom. “The pet-owning population is J addicted to fads,” says Dr. Steven Metz o f the Shelburne Veterinary Hospital. He ticked off a list o f other creatures that fall in the craze category: bald
skin ailments. He’s even per-A 3* 'formed cancer,.surgery on J ^ hedgehogs. “They are a difficult creature,” he says. “They’re hard to handle and they’re not domestic animals, they’re wild. I have to anesthetize them for a
uncurls, it’s not much fun to play with, and .it’s an indication hedgie wasn’t handled enough as a baby. Even the friendliest hedgehogs — the type that go limp in your lap — aren’t emo tionally dependent like a dog.
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pythons, iguanas, rabbits and ferrets. “Briefly there was even a push for prairie dogs,” Metz says. “I wish stores wouldn’t sell these creatures. They’re not meant to be confined.” Metz, who treats everything from circus tigers and ele phants, to wild hawks and owls, to exotic and domestic house pets, sees at least one hedgehog a week. Under the spell o f twi light sleep, Metz has set their tiny broken bones, treated them for middle-ear infections and
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simple exam, or to clip their toenails. They just roll up, and out go the spines. Most o f them are kind o f surly.” There’s no denying it: First encounters are worrying for the shy and solitary hedgehog. They’re apt to employ all the defenses at their disposal — namely their spines — at the least sign o f danger. They pro tect their vulnerable bellies by rolling up into a ball. This is as anti-social as their behavior gets, but if your hedgehog never
So owners cannot expect a jubi lant reunion after a long day at the office. These character flaws don’t bother Caitlin Coughlin, a University o f Vermont student and unemployed commercial pipe fitter. She has three hed gies living in separate, 15-gallon aquariums — “condos” stacked on shelves in her kitchen. Coughlin laughs when asked if she’s a breeder, sputtering, “Who told you that?” When her female had babies
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brought Smilla to see Dr. Lisa Nelson, a veterinarian with a special interest in animal behav ior. Now, as a result o f lots of hard work on the part o f both Longstreth and Smilla, things are better. With the aid o f Nelson’s homemade liver brownies, Longstreth can get Smilla to focus on her face while she talks to her. She can get the dog to sit calmly, even with some distractions nearby. “Much better,” reports the pleased owner, a small, wiry woman who clearly is out weighed by her dog. “ I don’t
know about Smilla, but at least I ’m much calmer now.” On this Wednesday in late July, Longstreth is back in Nelson’s office at the Onion River Animal Hospital in Montpelier with a more urgent problem: Smilla’s aggression. Aggression is not necessarily an abnormal trait in a Great Pyrenees, which is bred to be a guard dog. But Smilla, who changed homes three times as a puppy before landing at the Longstreth’s wooded home in West Bolton, has been taking things too far. She attacks neighbor dogs and cats who venture too close to her territo ry. Her most serious transgres sion to date was nipping a young child who came up behind her while she was tied up outside the Post Office. Today’s exercise involves a fourth party: Jake, Nelson’s aging, good-natured mutt. Jake’s job is to act as bait while Nelson circles him ever closer to Smilla, who is parked in the middle o f the lawn. Smilla’s task is to sit quietly — a “defer-
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and small children, always in a controlled situation. With that, owner and dog are off, giving wide berth to the cat sleeping on the front porch and the dog wandering loose on the grounds. When Nelson, 49, a Middlebury College graduate, got her DVM from the University o f Pennsylvania in 1984, courses in animal behav ior were just beginning to creep into the veterinary curriculum. Nowadays, she says, they’re much more common. For good reason. “Behavior is the leading cause o f death among companion animals,” says Nelson, who began to develop her special interest in behavior about three years ago. “Many people say that between three and six million pets are put to death each year because o f behavior problems. While there are some dogs with truly
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On th e C o u c h Continued ffom page t o dogs that turn on their owners (dominance-aggression) and dogs that destroy a house or break through windows when their owners leave home (sepa ration anxiety), cats that elimi nate all over a house to mark their territory or signal their stress, dogs that follow their owners from room to room incessantly, constantly fearful that they may be left alone. “I can’t believe some o f the things that people are willing to put up with,” she says with a sigh.
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in dominance-structured hierar chies, which is to say that they’re part o f a pecking order. The owner achieves a status as the dog’s leader through an on going socialization process, beginning ideally when the dog is a puppy, which is why Nelson considers behavior counseling every bit as impor tant as vaccinations and med ical exams during a puppy’s first series o f visits. “I was a co-founder o f the Addison County Humane Society back in the early 1970s while I was still at Middlebury College,” Nelson recalls. “My interest in behavior came about because o f my long association with humane societies. It’s very disheartening to see so many animals turned in to humane societies when some counseling or therapy could solve in the problem.” She has not, as yet, joined that elite group o f board-certi fied behaviorists, who are more formally known as Diplomates o f the American College o f Veterinary Behaviorists. Currently, there are only 18 such certified behaviorists in the nation, most o f whom prac tice in urban areas or at large teaching universities. To join
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an extraordinary amount of preparation time, beginning with an extensive medical and behavioral questionnaire which she reads in advance, highlight ing possible problem spots. The first session takes two hours, including a 54-point aggression screening. “Does the dog lift his lip when you reach out to pet him?” she asks rhetorically. “You’d be surprised at how many people say, ‘Well, yes, I guess he does.’ That can be a sign o f a serious dominanceaggression problem.” She will prescribe drugs, on occasion, but only as an adjunct to behavior therapy — never as a substitute for it. For those willing to make the effort — and behavior problems don’t lend themselves to quick fixes — the concepts are relatively simple, and predi cated on the fact that dogs or wolves in their natural state live
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their ranks, Nelson would have to invest three years in a resi dency, publish numerous arti cles on animal behavior and take “the dreaded boards,” which cover the behavior o f animals ranging in size from lab mice to dairy cows. However, it’s a goal she’s actively consid ering, and much o f her time these days is spent out-of-state at behavior seminars and work shops, recently at her alm a mater, the University o f Pennsylvania. “A lot o f these are not my ideas, but they’ve been devel oped by other people and I’ve adapted them,” she says frankly. “I don’t want to pose as an expert — I’m not — but I have seen a lot o f behaviors in my practice that I can help people with. After all, owning a pet is supposed to be a pleasure, but there are too many cases where it is not.” (Z)
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a-Horse is not just a program to put aged horses out to pasture. “If a horse is too old or sick or infirm, we advise the owners to have the animal put down,” Hislop explains. “We can help make those arrangements, if that’s what they decide to do.” In other cases, Hislop fig ures the owners would be better off selling the horse. “When I see they’re living in a rough sit uation, and they don’t have enough food or the kids need shoes, if they’ve got a $2000 animal in the yard, I’d advise them to sell it, and offer to help find a buyer who will take good care o f it,” she says.
they’re ready to take care o f a horse immediately or, if not, what sort o f assistance they might need to get ready. That assistance could be anything from transporting the horse to creating a pasture — as in Anderson’s case. “They were there to help me with materi als,” she says. “When Chris called me about taking care o f Rosie, I said, ‘I’d love to help you, but I’m not set up.’ Chris said, ‘We’ve got fencing and posts,’ and it was bing-bangboom — they made it happen.” Adopt-a-Horse doesn’t just find homes for horses and for get about them; the organiza tion is committed to the ani mals — and their adoptive fam
to keep it. We supplied them’^ ii with hay and helped them out for a few months to tide them over till they were back on their feet again.” I f the benefits to Adopt-aHorse recipients are evident, what the donors get is peace o f mind, knowing that their horse will be assured a good home. “We protect that animal for life,” assures Hislop. “We go out and visit each animal twice a year. If the adopters fall down on their care, we work with them to solve the problem; but if it’s not possible, we put the horse in interim care, and find a new situation for it. “We had a horse that belonged to a girl who went off to college,” Hislop continues. “Her parents wanted to travel, but couldn’t leave because o f the horse. The girl still loved the animal, but her interests had changed, so they contacted us. For them this was a way that they could give up the horse, but still keep track o f it, be able to visit it sometimes, and know it was being taken care of.” Adopt-a-Horse has an annu al budget o f $4000 to 6000, and relies on donations o f not just money but trailers, tack, fence posts, horse shoes and oats, as well as the time and energy o f volunteers and adopters. “My job’s easy,” says Hislop. “They’re out in the field taking care o f a large animal day in and day out.” Hislop hopes to double her operation over the next few years. “We’re looking for younger people to get involved in the program,” she says. “Some o f these horses are six, seven years old, so they’re going to be around for another 30 years. I may or may not be around to track them.” Hislop notes the “tremen dous satisfaction” Adopt-aHorse provides both sides. “A lot o f the people who adopt have wanted a horse all their lives, and never could have one. Now they feel they’re ready to treat themselves.” “I used to ride as a kid,” says Anderson, working over Rosie’s withers with a curry comb. “When I was a teenager, I got interested in other things, but always had it in the back o f my mind to have a horse o f my own.” As she talks, the horse cops a carrot out o f a secret pocket, and every now and then reaches back to nuzzle Anderson’s shoulder. She acknowledges this happy rela tionship would not have been possible without Adopt-aHorse. “I’m a single, working mom, and with even the aver age price for a horse about $1000, plus fencing and a stall and grain, I never would have been able to have a horse,” says Anderson. “I was honored to be offered this horse; she has already become one o f the brightest spots in my life.” ®
“A lot of the people who adopt have wanted a horse all their lives, and never could have one. Now they feel they’re ready to treat themselves.” — Chris Hislop If the animal passes muster and is admitted to the program, Hislop looks through her files o f aspiring adopters — people who have filled out forms (and paid a nominal fee) explaining why they want a horse, what type they would prefer, whether
ilies — throughout the horses’ lives. “Last year we had owners who hit bad times,” says Hislop. “He injured himself and couldn’t work, and they called me to say they hated to give the horse up, but really didn’t think they could afford
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what the outcome would be. At what point do people decide what is best for all involved? As I cared for Sheebs each day, lifting him from his bed or up the three porch steps, I
his condition was getting worse, and his long hair began to smell pretty bad. My dilemma was com pounded by the fact that we were going away for a week.
At that moment, my body began trembling and I found I couldn’t stop myself from telling him that it w as okay to die if it w as his time... Sheebs had all his faculties and his worst problem was inconti nence. Sure, it was an inconve nience to me, but did it warrant his death? The only thing he seemed to suffer was embarrass ment. Every day I wondered
imagined him to be one o f my grandparents. That’s how I knew that the dreaded decision could never take place. My wish for him was that he be allowed live out his time with dignity and without intervention. Still,
Who would have the time or patience to care for our elderly dog? Who would want to lift him and clean up after him? I agonized privately, hoping that an answer would reveal itself Continued on page 20
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A Farewell... Continued from page 19 somehow. On the last Sunday in March, after several days o f rain, the snow was finally almost gone. We hadn’t seen the ground since the first snowfall in early November. For the first time, Sheebs refused to eat or drink his food and water. He hurried — Sheebs? In a hurry? — off the porch and made a beeline into the woods, the opposite o f where his habit dic
tated. After about a hundred yards, his legs gave out. Although this happened fre quently — because o f our ter rain and his hips — I still felt alarmed and ran into the woods, fearing the worst. I arrived to find him lying down, with his head up, grin ning from ear to ear like he was just enjoying this day without snow. Stroking his head and neck, I told him what a good dog he was and how happy we all were that he had been our pet for so long. At that
moment, my body began trem bling and I found I couldn’t stop myself from telling him that it was okay to die if it was his tim e... and if he came back as a dog again, to please find his way back to us, because we’d love to have him around again. I’ve never been totally con vinced about life after death or reincarnation. I’ve certainly explored the possibilities through analytical thought, meditation and comparison o f belief systems, but believing is different from knowing. Yet
when I found myself in the powerful presence o f death, a tingling feeling in my midsec tion took over and all intellec tual perspectives vanished. I was left with a raw, gut-wrenching sensation that my awareness had shifted into another reality — an extraordinarily sharp and clear reality. I knew Sheebs was dying, he knew he was dying, but there was no sadness, no question, no reluctance. When I sat with my dog and felt his very present, very strong spirit, and then
observed his very weak body, I knew that only the body has an end. The image that appeared in my mind was o f a candle flame gently dwindling at the end o f the wax and wick. The element o f fire still exists, but the candle simply has no more power to sustain it. Still smiling, Sheebs lifted his paw to tell me he wanted to get up, but his legs wouldn’t hold him. I rushed to the house to get a blanket, which I slid under his belly. This allowed me to hold him like a suitcase
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B y David H ealy tremendous hunting dog is your best friend in the world, but your best friend can’t be a tremendous hunting dog,” is the way John Hayes puts it. A well-respected breeder and dog trainer up in the Northeast Kingdom, Hayes knows a thing or two about gun dogs. Echo, his 10-year old Brittany Spaniel, is a former AKC fieldtest champion and the nation’s number-one producer o f cham pion offspring. For better or worse, Echo’s progeny proves the point. “ He’s my co-pilot,” Frank Stanley says about Kempo, a frisky five-yearold Brit purchased from Hayes’ Kirby Mountain Kennels. “ He’s not a 10; I’d give him a seven, but that’s okay with me,” offers the tall 27-year-old outdoorsman while casually hunting the fields near his home on the Hinesburg-Monkton border. But even if Kempo never becomes a champion like his brethren, Stanley will always see blue ribbons when he looks at his handsome brown-and-white spaniel. “He’s a great compan ion, it’s just a bonus that he’s become pretty good to hunt with,” says Stanley, looking at his pup with affection. “It’s not as big a deal to go out and get birds. It’s just fun to watch the dog, watch him work, watch him grow up,” he adds pater nally. But besides being a best friend and pretty fair bird dog, Kempo does have his special talents: He “points” trout, for h
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bred right out o f them,” he laments. But many Brittanys, espe cially a top-quality dog like Kempo, can hold their own in the show ring or in the field. Sweeping the terrain like a windshield wiper in a storm, the ever-buoyant spaniel bounds through the high grass in a wave o f enthusiasm. Possessing good genes and an acute sense o f smell, Kempo could find a bird with his eyes closed. “You should be able to
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footed friends don’t get much smarter. “We breed ’em bril liant,” Hayes boasts, “that’s just so we don’t have to train so hard.” To his credit, a long list o f clients from all over the globe sniff out his services and support that claim. A hunter through and through, Hayes is less likely to lavish praise on show dogs, which place a premium on appearance, size and conforma tion. “They’ve had the brains
blindfold your dog, stick it out in a field, and have it be able to find a grouse,” Stanley says, before adding wryly, “not a wooded field.” Although there are as many dog training methods as there are ways to raise kids, the ulti mate reward for a bird dog is the sound o f gunshot. “It means, ‘Good work, you did your job,”’ instructs Stanley. But like catch-and-release fish ermen, he and Hayes often fol-
low a practice called “dry hunt ing,” where they fire their guns to praise their dogs, but inten tionally miss the bird to hunted another day. And just as raising a dog is said to be good training for the responsibilities o f parenthood, people inevitably make compar isons between dogs and their owners. Stanley, a part-time bartender who could have walked right off the pages o f an L.L. Bean catalogue, smiles at the suggestion. “People say, ‘Your dog is nuts, he’s just like you,”’ he relates, feigning inno cence before admitting, “He likes to get into a little bit o f trouble, but generally is a good boy.” In fact, Stanley seems to be one of the more responsible people you’d ever run into. Mild-mannered and generous with his time — he volunteers countless hours with Vermont’s fledgling guides association — the only thing that raises his ire are bad hunting practices and people who don’t take proper care o f their dogs. “Anyone who buys a dog needs to plan on 14 years, at least,” he says after a short search for some birds, “but it’s worth it.” Even John Hayes, with his strong opinions and kennel full o f “ 10s,” softens up when he hears that one o f Echo’s brood has a good home and a respon sible owner. “What’s more important?” asks the passionate trainer, “a dog that’s loved and taken care of, or a dog that’s mistreated but gets to go huntmg? For a couple o f best friends in Hinesburg, that question has been happily answered. (Z)
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Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. J MAX MIX (DJs Cousin Dave, Rob Psychotrope), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $3/5. METRO SWING (dance lessons) Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $8, followed by RETR0N0ME (DJ Craig Mitchell), 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. HIP-HOP NIGHT, Ruben James, 11 p.m. NC. BUCK & THE BLACK CATS (rockabilly) Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. SOLOMONIC SOUND SYSTEM (reggae DJ), Chicken Bone, 10 p.m. $1. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m. $7. GUY C0LASACC0 (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. RUN FOR COVER (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. JENNI JOHNSON (jazz/blues), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC. RAY VASS0 (acoustic), Ground Round, 8 p.m. NC. TANTRUM (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2.
M A H VACHON & DAN PARKS
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(acoustic rock), Jake’s 7 p.m. NC. RUN FOR COVER (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. RAY VASS0 (acoustic), Ground Round, 8 p.m. NC. TANTRUM (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2.
that this here band comes with a guarantee to send you home happy. Louisiana’s
BLUE RAGS, LARRYLAND, SALAD DAYS (Americana roots, pop), Higher
beloved, Grammy-winning Beausoleil are a sure cure — at least temporarily — for
Ground, 9:30 p.m. $7. DJ NIGHT (Dr. E), Clover House Pub, 9 p.m. NC. SAND BLIZZARD (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. DANCIN’ DEAN (country dance & instruction), Cobbwebb, 7:30 p.m. $5. LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim’s Grille, 7:30 p.m. NC. SOUTHBOUND (country rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. NADA (closed for 2 weeks), Rusty Nail. THE ROOKIE BAND (rock), Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3/4. LIVE MUSIC, Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. (SIC) (alternafunk), Emerald City Nightclub, 9 p.m. $4/6. LIVE MUSIC, Cafe Old, 8 p.m. $3.50/NC. MIRAGE (rock), Rude Dog Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. CLOVE (rock), Night Spot Outback, 9:20 p.m. $7. SUNNYLAND BLUES BAND, Toadstool Harry’s, 9 p.m. $3. JANIS IAN (singer-songwriter), Lebanon (NH) Opera House, 8 p.m. $20.
November gloom, and that’s why their Vermont appearance is so thoughtfully timed. Beausoleil, featuring vocalist/fiddler Michael Doucet, bring French-flavored Cajun, Creole, New Orleans jazz, reels and swamp pop to Higher Ground this Sunday. Yankee Chank opens.
ACOUSTIC JAM W/HANNIBAL (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. LOCOMOTION (DJ Little Martin/ 70s disco), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. NC.
BELIZBEHA (acid soul/funk), Emerald City Nightclub, 9:30 p.m. $5/8. OPEN MIKE, Gallagher’s, 8:30 p.m. NC. HALF STEP (Dead/orig.), Monopoles, 10 p.m. NC.
AGNOSTIC FRONT, DROPKICK MUR PHYS, U.S. BOMBS, MAXIMUM PENALTY (hardcore), Club Toast, 8
p.m. $10. THE BUCK DEWEY BIG BAND (wacky
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(Dixieland jazz), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 7 p.m. NC. DAVE ABAIR BAND (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. BAG OF PANTIES, ZOLA TURN (altrock), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $5. KARAOKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. MICHAEL P & LINDA BASSICK (blues), BU Emporium, 7 p.m. NC. GUY C0LASACC0 (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. COMEDY NIGHT, Rude Dog, 9 p.m. NC. TNT (DJ & karaoke), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. MARK LEGRAND (Americana), Thrush Tavern, 7:30 p.m. NC.
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p.m. NC. LES RIOS (jammin’ acoustic), Sweetwaters, 8:30 p.m. NC. JAMES HARVEY (jazz), Red Square, 9:30 p.m, N C r -U - - .I EVOLUTION (DJ Craig Mitchell), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4/5. ORANGE FACTORY, CRITICAL MASS, HELICOPTER (acid funk, freak rock),
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(Louisiana Cajun/swamp-pop), Higher Ground, 7 p.m. $15/17. KARAOKE, Edgewater Pub, 7 p.m. NC. ERIK K0SKINEN (acoustic), La Brioche, 11 a.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC (acoustic), Main Street Bar & Grill, 11 a.m. NC.
UNKNOWN BLUES REVUE W/BIG JOE BURRELL & SANDRA WRIGHT, Higher
Ground, 9:30 p.m. $5. BLUESBUSTERS, Backstage Pub, 8:30 p.m. NC. SAND BLIZZARD (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. DJ DANCE PARTY, Extreme Sports Bar & Dance Club, 9 p.m. NC. BUCK HOLLOW BAND (country-rock; round & square dancing), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12.
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Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. METRO SWING (dance lessons), Club Metronome, from 7 p.m., $8, followed by dance party. ANTHONY B, HALF PINT (reggae), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $12. • ' -
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HANDS ACROSS THE WATER You might have thought the established clubs in Burlington wouldn’t be thrilled about the snazzy new Higher Ground across the river. But compe tition can turn into cooperation if the players are cool. Both Dennis Wygmans at Toast and Ann Rothwell at Metronome have booked shows at the higher-capacity Winooski nightspot — a recent Toots & the MaytalS gig and this week’s Cake show, respectively. And next week, All Points Booking is putting Little Feat in the room — a makeup show from a canceled date at the Old Lantern last summer. “It works basically as the Flynn does,” says H G ’s Alex CrOtherS. “If promoters have relationships with bands, they can come in here — it’s a room rental fee. Ann was owed a date with Cake, because last time they canceled due to an illness in the band, and this time the Flynn wasn’t available.” Both Toast and Metronome are too small for some shows — including bands that were launched in those very clubs — while the Flynn Theatre may be too large. That makes the in-between-sized Higher Ground a welcome addition, even to its ostensible rivals.
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unison fau x disco hit, like The Bee Gees on a bad night (“Baby Baby”). Friday Night goes on to offer vocalist/band founder Jimmy Fox on some smooth crooning, a spoof o f a reggae song (“Rasta M og”), hip-hop on downers (“River Road”), organ-driven rap with a south-of-the-border flavor (“Tijuana”), slinky jazz (Walk the World,” the falsettoed “Now That You’re Living in the City”), a shit-eat ing-grin o f a song that would almost work on “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” (“Happy Froggy”), alt-noise-jazzspoken-word (“Daisies”) and, finally, the brassy, slap-happy rag, “Cowfull.” The whole o f Friday was recorded live at the Middle East, to what one can only assume was a roomful o f ardent fans or people scratching their heads in bafflement. Personally, I welcome a band with a sense o f fun — think Squirrel Nut Zippers with a few acorns missing — who have the chops to not be dismissed as a joke. Friday Night Chicken Waltz, with a dozen wryly wacky tunes and a crayoned cover, sug gests BD BB are no dumb clucks. Leave the angst at home and join the musi cal mayhem — Thursday at Metronome. (7) — Pamela Polston
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RUMBA A N D BOMBA: Folklorist and ethnomusicologist Roberta Singer explores the dance traditions o f Cuba and Puerto Rico in the context o f the African Diaspora. Flynn Gallery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. D O S ALAS/TW O W IN GS: The sacred and secular mix in spirited, spiritual dance from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-23. Info, 863-5966. EWA PO D LES: Her deep-toned voice — and three-octave range — earned this Polish contralto accolades at Carnegie Hall. Rachmaninoff and Brahms are on the program at the Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $9. Info, 443-6433.
drama ‘TARTUFFE’: The theater department suits up in 17th-century garb for this tour de farce about French manners, religious fervor and a calculating house guest. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michaels College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. DIARY O F A SCO U N D R EL’: Northern Stage satirizes politics and class struggle in Alexander Ostrovsky’s comical tale o f a young man in 19th-century Russia. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 291-9009.
film MOLLY HASKELL: The author and film critic regularly featured in The New York Times explores sexual politics in cinema with the question, “Whose Fantasies Are We Seeing?” See “to do” list, this issue. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5593. ‘M ALCOLM X ’: Spike Lee focuses on the controversial American Muslim leader fighting for black liberation. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N .H ., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
art ‘DAY O F T H E DEA D ’: Fruit, flowers and photos adorn altars to deceased com munity members at this exhibit commefl orating the dead according to LatinAmerican custom. St. Edmund s Hall, St Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 a.m. -9 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2454.
words P.R. SM ITH : The local poet, artist and musician lays down lines from Shakespe e to jazz scat, with mood-enhancing light11g effects. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College S ; Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-9® BO O K D ISC U SSIO N SERIES: Reader ponder the notion o f honor as it plays0 t in Edith Wharton’s The Age o f Innocenct South Hero Community Library, 7 p mFree. Info, 372-4734.
kids SO N G AN D STO RYTIM E: Babies an« toddlers benefit from a singing read-al°[ ! Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, lOa-n Free. Info, 865-7216.
picture imperfect: if good aim les for w om en are indeed a rarity, as film itic M olly H askell asserts, the reasons go jyond the legacy o f a m ale-dom inated film idustry. T h e regular contributor to the New )rk Times, Am erican Film and Esquire gets el about the insidious workings o f sexual ish-fulfillment in m ainstream and indepennt film m aking in a lecture entitled, “Movies: ose Fantasies Are We Seeing?” Wednesday, Novem ber 4. Center fo r the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 :3 0 p. m. Free. Info, 143-5593.
learning from experiments: Chemistry experim ents like these w ould have earned you a trip to the principal’s office, ghat’s why m em bers o f the Green M ountain section o f the A m erican C hem ical Society will take the heat — and the super-cold — at an evening o f dem onstrations m arking N ational Chemistry Week. Flowers frozen to shatter like glass, glow-in-the-dark “elephant” toothpaste and the I D ream o f Jeannie effect — hydrogen peroxide and m anganese dioxide, actually — are all part o f the lesson. Thursday, Novem ber 5. B 1 0 6 A ngell H all, JV M , Burlington, 6 :3 0 -7 :3 0 p.m . Free. Info, 893-3606.
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before the “ Renaissance Man,” there was pre-Renaissance nun, com poser, and m ystic H ildegard von Bingen. T h e 12th-century Benedictine’s cult status am ong artists and religious scholars reaches critical mass at a 900th birthday party in her honor. The celebration-cum -conference, dubbed “T he
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great excavations: To really know V erm ont’s history, you have to get your hands dirty. A nd for 30 years, the Verm ont A rchaeological Society has been digging the state’s storied past by land and sea. T h e Society hosts a two-day m eeting for archaeologists o f all strata to bone up on recently unearthed burial grounds and battleships. Saturday, Novem ber 7, 8 :3 0 a.m . - 7 p .m ., & Sunday, Novem ber 8, 8 :3 0 a.m . - 4 :3 0 p.m . Best Western Conference Center, S. Burlington. $30. Info, 6 5 6 -3 8 8 4 .
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etc ARTS EDU CATIO N TOW N M E E T ING: The results are in from the greater Burlington area arts education survey. Get briefed at Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7157. LU N C H TIM E LEC T U RE SERIES: Professors Grant Critchfield and Janet Whatley discuss Egyptian “enlighten ment.” Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $3. Info, 656-0750. IN TERN ATIO N AL LEC T U RE SERIES: Business School prof Ronald Savitt shares his economic insights from the Czech Republic. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill,
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PARENTS ANO NYM O US: Parents gath er for support and assistance around the challenges o f childrearing. Babysitting goes with the program at the King Street Youth Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-4014. H O M ESCH O O LERS’ STORYTIM E: Stay-at-home students five and up share scary tales at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORYTIM E: Four- and five-year-olds enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts. South Burlington Community Library, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 652-7080. TINY TO TS: Kids three and under hear age-appropriate tales at Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. STORIES: Little listeners hear stories, snack and make crafts at the Childrens Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.
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W EST AFRICAN D AN CE AN D DRUM FESTIVAL: Percussive perfor mances, discussions and master classes emphasize the importance o f dance and music in African culture. The weekend event kicks off tonight at Burlington City Hall, 5:30 p.m. $20. Info, 660-4305. A C O U STIC M U SICIA N ’S CO-O P: Songwriters compare notes in a works-inprogress workshop. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-9603.
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drama ‘TARTUFFE’: See November 4. DIARY O F A SC O U N D R EL’: See November 4. ‘E N D Z O N E’: A former sports heroturned-car dealer makes the play o f a life time in a dangerous family drama that contains adult language. Flynn Theatre Storefront, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 863-5966. ‘W HY W E HAVE A BO DY’: Middlebury student Sondra LeClair directs this tale of a woman grappling with passion, smother ing mothering and a sister who can’t stop shoplifting at 7-11. Hepburn Zoo, Middlebury College, 9 p.m. $1. Info, 443-6433. TALES O F T H E LO ST FO RM ICA N S’: Outer-space aliens level with earthlings in this dark comedy about family, friends and “neighbors.” Fine Arts Center, Castleton State College, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 468-1119.
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art ‘FO RM IN G A CR ITIC A L VIEW ’: Pat de Gorgoza examines how artists and aficionados answer the question, “Yeah, but what does it mean?” T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, Vermont College, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8743.
w ords LAZY W RITERS FO RUM : Share your writing in progress in a supportive workshop environment. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
kids PARENTS A N O N YM O U S: See November 4. STO RYTIM E & CRAFTS: Cultural activities keep your children occupied at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘SU P E R SIT T E R S’: Young caregivers learn the babysitting basics, including what to do in an emergency and whether or not it’s okay to raid the fridge. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-4:30 p.m. $15. Preregister, 865-7216. STORY HO UR: Young readers learn from lighthearted literature in a coun try setting. Flying Pig Childrens Books, Ferry Rd., Charlotte, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 425-2600.
NATURAL RESOU RCES SEM INAR SERIES: A federal forest service official considers the environmental trade-offs in resource management. 104 Aiken Center, UVM, Burlington, 12:30-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005. CONVERSATIONAL FREN CH : Converse with fellow Francophiles at intermediate and advanced levels at this informal social cercle. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 326-4814. C O M M U N ITY M EDICAL SC H O O L: This weekly medical info session covers the physiology o f asthma. And you can breathe easy — it’s free. Hall A, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2882. W O RLD R ELIG IO N S LECTU RE: A Hildegard von Bingen expert explores spirituality and mysticism as they apply to the musical abbess, in connection with the four-day “Greenest Branch” conference. See “to do” list, this issue. Trinity College, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Reservations, 846-7195. CH EM ISTRY EXPERIM EN TS: Parents wouldn’t buy you a chemistry kit? The Green Mountain Section of the American Chemical Society demon strates the elemental wonders. See “to do” list, this issue. B106 Angell Hall, UVM , Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-3606. ‘A JU S T A N D EQUAL C O M M U N I T Y ’: A visiting vice president o f stu dent affairs reviews “lessons to be learned” about the university’s role in a community. Martin Luther King Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3819. TO ASTM A STERS M EETIN G: Wannabe public speakers develop com munication and leadership skills at the Econolodge Conference Center, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878- 3550. ‘T H E AWFLES M ESS I EVER WAS IN ’: Historians chronicle the hardships faced by 19th-century New England women when their men went west ward. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879- 7576. LASAGNA LU N C H EO N AND M IN I BAZAAR: Noodles and knickknacks complement each other at this neighborly meal. Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 11:30
a.m. - 1 p.m. $6.50. Reservations, 229-9158. A C U P U N C T U R IST AN D A U TH O R TALK: Montpelier acupuncturist Deborah DeGraff discusses the finer points o f her new Body Owners Manual. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. ‘25 YEARS O N A MOVE’: Reps from MOVE recount a quarter century of grassroots urban struggle and give an update on controversial Death Row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8493.
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friday m usic W EST AFRICAN D AN CE AND DRUM FESTIVAL: See November 5. Raymond Sylla discusses the spiritual roots o f dance and drumming in West African life. Room 500, Old Mill, UVM, Burlington, noon. $5. AN O N YM O US 4: The astonishingly popular medieval-music vocalists per form Hildegard von Bingen hits from their C D , 11,000 Virgins. See “to do” list, this issue. St. Michael’s College Chapel, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 656-4455. ‘E LECTIO N CO M IC RELIEF’: Rep. Donny Osman and Bread and Puppeteer Chuck Meese offer respite from the political rhetoric with a “wild and wacky” cabaret program following a pasta feast. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 229-5118. CIVIL WAR M U SIC: It took more than “The Battle Hymn o f the Republic” to rally the troops. The North Country Chorus and St. Johnsbury Town Band join forces on a musical tour o f duty. North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 748-2372. W O RLD M U SIC PERCUSSION ENSEM BLE: Drumming, “boot danc ing” and a western instrument or two take listeners on a sonic tour o f South Africa and Malawi. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422. T H E AGE O F O PU LEN CE’: The Dartmouth College Chamber Singers perform Purcell’s Dido and Aneas with baroque accompaniment. Rollins Chap
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1301 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 6 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. M O N TPELIER GALLERY WALK: Check out crafts, creative canvas and cheap art on a culture crawl through downtown Montpelier. Stop in for cake at the Artisans’ Hand’s 20th birthday celebration. Ten locations, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2766.
drama ‘EN D Z O N E’: See November 5. ‘TARTUFFE’: See November 4. ‘WHY W E HAVE A BO DY’: See November 5, 8 p.m. DIARY OF A SCO U N D REL’: See November 4. ‘TALES O F T H E LO ST FORMICA N S’: See November 5. ‘PEOPLE LIKE U S’: The Champlain Arts Theatre Company stages the sec ond o f three short plays carrying big social messages. Workplace diversity is front and center at the Campus Center Theater, UVM, Burlington, 11:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3437. ‘GO DSPELL’: The gospel according to Matthew comes to musical life when the Essex Community Players stage this Bible-based rock opera. Memorial Hall, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 863-5966. ‘DAMN YANKEES’: The real-life Yankees won big this year. But the Barre Players revisit the popular musical adapted from the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $11. Info, 476-8188. ‘O N E FLEW OVER T H E C U C K O O ’S N E S T ’: The Lamoille County Players break out their musical mold to stage Ken Kesey’s provocative tale o f a not-so-mental patient. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 888-4507.
w ords O PEN READING: “The uncommon din rises again” at this open reading for poets o f all persuasions. Firehouse Gallery, 135 Church St., Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. 864-6106.
kids SO N G A N D STO RYTIM E: The under-three crowd drops in for tunes and tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘M U SIC W ITH RO BERT RESN IK’: Kids sing songs with the musical host o f Vermont Public Radio’s folk show “All the Traditions.” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216. STORY H O U R: Toddlers listen to sto ries at the Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.
D IABETES EXERCISE CLASS: People with diabetes benefit from week ly low-impact and aqua aerobics. YMCA, Burlington, 9-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 862-9622. JIM BRIDW ELL: The rock-climbing star gives a slide lecture on scaling some of the world’s gnarliest rock faces. Student Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 860-0190. T E N N IS FUN DRAISER: Auction bidders take advantage o f a free tennis clinic, a post-clinic dinner and a “Calcutta” to benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sport programs. Racquet’s Edge, Essex Junction, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7734. SKI AN D SNOW BO ARD SWAP DROP-OFF: Get rid o f your old gear to make room for new stuff you can pick up at the swap on Saturday. Camel’s Hump Middle School, Richmond, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-3507.
film MY M O TH ER’S EARLY LOVERS’: After a screening to benefit the Green Mountain Independent Film Festival, Norwich-based Nora Jacobson shares her thoughts on independent filmmak ing in Vermont. See review, this issue. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6:30 & 8:45 p.m. $8. Info, 229-0947.
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with a knack for art, music and vision ary thinking gets feted in a four-day celebration entitled “The Greenest Branch.” See “to do” list, this issue. Sheraton Conference Center, S. Burlington, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $100. Info, 425-5229. APPLE SALE: Look for forbidden fruit in all its forms at this annual harvest offering. Horticulture Research Center, Green Mountain Dr., S. Burlington, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9166. SLEIG H T-O F-H A N D D EM O N STRATIO N : Local magician Chris McBride gives away a secret or two at this demonstration o f fancy fingerwork. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 879-5726. PLANT CONSERVATION W O RK SH O P: Learn to cultivate and conserve native plants and find out what the New England Wildflower Society is up to. Horticulture Research Center, Green Mountain Dr., S. Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-3073. G L B T Q SU PPO R T GRO UP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends and get support. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. BA TTERED W O M EN ’S SU PPO R T GROUP: Women Helping Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-1996.
matches the musical traditions of France and the British Isles. Alumni Auditorium, Lyndon Institute, Lyndonville, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 748-2600. BARBARY CO A ST JAZZ E N SEM BLE: Dartmouth students team up with a professional trio to play tribute to Latin big bandsman Chico O ’Farrill. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 603646-2422.
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CINEM ANIA: See November 6. ‘M O VING TA RGETS’: Rutland-based filmmaker David Giancola premieres his latest action flick about a murdered lawyer’s lethal legacy. Hoyts Nickelodeon Cinema, Burlington, 7 p.m. $8.75. Info, 773-0510. ‘M O TH ER AN D SO N ’: Alexander Sokurov is the picture of filial piety in this Russian movie about a son who cares selflessly for his ailing mother. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘ FIREW ORKS’: In this Japanese film, a seasoned cop fends off yakuza gang sters while caring for his dying wife. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 7 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603646-2422.
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dance C O N T R A DANCE: David Kaynor calls for Michael Kerry and Lissa Schneckenberger at this northern-style community hoedown. Capitol City Grange Hall, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 426-3734.
drama ‘E N D Z O N E ’: See November 5. ‘GO D SPELL’: See November 6, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘TARTUFFE’: See November 4. ‘W HY WE HAVE A BO DY’: See November 5, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘DAM N YANKEES’: See November 6. ‘TALES O F T H E LO ST FORMIC A N S’: See November 5. ‘O N E FLEW OVER T H E C U C K O O ’S N E S T ’: See November 6. DIARY OF A SCO U N D R EL’: See November 4, 2 & 8 p.m.
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words PH OTO STO RYTELLIN G: Kids ages six to eight learn how to make every picture tell a story. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m. - noon. $10. Info, 865-7166. BILLY ROMP: The local author of Christmas on Jane Street reads and signs the holiday page-turner at the Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.
kids STORY TIM E: Kids three and up lis ten to literature read aloud. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘BEAD-DAZZLED’: Kids check out the creative ways glass beads have been used to decorate clothing, jewelry and personal accessories all over the world at this family day o f arts, crafts, live music and more. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. $3. Info, 656-0750.
sport PRO-AM TE N N IS TOURNEY: The able-bodied and wheelchair-bound bat tle it out to benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sport. Racquet’s Edge, Essex Junction, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7734. SNOW BOARD AN D SKI SWAP: Gear up for the season without break ing the bank at Camel’s Hump Middle School, Richmond, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 879-3507. TAYLOR LO D G E HIKE: Hike the Nebraska Notch trail to Taylor Lodge on this easy 4.5-miler. Free. Call for meeting place, time and info, 658-4453.
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H ILD EGA RD VON BIN G EN C O N FERENCE: See November 6. A “medieval banquet” starts at 6 p.m.
‘FAMILIES, BO O K S, C O M PU TE R S & FU N ’: Learn to become a facilitator in this computers', literacy and art pro gram for pre-schoolers and their par ents. Flynn School, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Register, 864-8523. G O T M ILK?’ PH O TO OP: You can lend your lip for a photo — or congrat ulate Fred Tuttle — at this event mark ing The M ilk Mustache Book. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 23 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. ‘FULL-BORE LIV IN G ’: Make today that “someday” of your dreams through stories and guided mediation. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. NATIVE PLANT GA RD EN IN G: Want your garden to grow the indige nous way next year? Catch this session at the Horticulture Research Center, Green Mountain Dr., S. Burlington, 10 a.m. $6. Info, 864-3073. ARCHAEOLOGY M EETIN G : Dig into topics like underwater archaeology and local burial grounds at a two-day gathering of history buffs. See “to do” list, this issue. Best Western Conference Center, S. Burlington, 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. $30. Info, 656-3884. BEN EFIT CA SIN O N IG H T: Roll the dice so the United Way can win big at this fundraising event. Sheraton Conference Center, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. $3. Info, 864-7541. CH RISTM A S BAZAAR: Santa Claus makes the scene at one of the area’s largest craftsy, baked-goodsy holiday events. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Williston, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8519. VETERANS DAY PARADE: Boy and Girl Scout troops join fife and drum outfits to march in remembrance of area veterans, winding up at the Huntington Town Office, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3622. CRAFT FAIR: Get a jump on holiday shopping and help Richmond fourthgraders get to Boston for a field trip. Richmond Elementary School, 9 a.m. 3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4181. CRAFT A N D BAKE SALE: Local arti sans and bakers deliver the goods to the Jericho Community Center, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4716. BARN D AN CE & RAFFLE: Lend a helping hand to the Stowe Rescue Squad at this benefit bash featuring the music o f local rockers Silverwing. Percy’s Garage, Stowe, 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. $3. Info, 253-9060. FALL BAZAAR: Area elementary
schoolers profit from your arts and crafts purchases at this seasonal sale. Barre City Elementary & Middle School, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-8108. FLEA MARKET: Fetch a bargain or two to benefit animal operations at the Central Vermont Humane Society, Barre, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. $1. Info, 244-1588. EGG D RO P C O N T E ST : Crash-con scious contestants design egg containers for a 20-foot drop-off competition. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 2:30 p.m. $5.50. Info, 649-2200. OVEREATERS AN O N YM O U S: No gimmicks, no diets and no fees make this support group a winner for getting thinner. First United Method Church, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4571.
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dance D A N CES O F UNIVERSAL PEACE: Set peace in motion by participating in simple circle dances and group chants from around the world. Jericho Community Center, 4:30-6 p.m. $1-5. Info, 482-2836.
drama ‘G O D SPELL’: See November 6, 2 p.m. ‘E N D Z O N E ’: See November 5. ‘D AM N YANKEES’: See November 6, 2 p.m. ‘O N E FLEW OVER T H E C U C K O O ’S N E S T ’: See November 6, 2 p.m. ‘TALES O F T H E LO ST FORMIC A N S’: See November 5, 2 p.m. ‘W ALDO & W O O D H E A D ’: The jug gling jokesters o f kids-video fame bring their antics to the Vergennes Opera House, 1:30 p.m. $8. Info, 877-6737.
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film CINEM ANIA: See November 6. ‘BO B & CAROL & T E D & A LICE’: Two married couples experiment with shrink-sanctioned adultery — part one o f a double feature with Shampoo. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 6:45 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘SH A M PO O ’: Warren Beatty plays a bed-hopping hairdresser in this swinging-’70s period piece — part two of a double feature with Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8:45 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
art C H R IST IN A D ICK: The local artist and educator opens her photography exhibit by discussing the images, maps and music she collected on travels through Bolivia and Guatemala. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
w ords L IN C O LN LIBRARY BOOKFAIR: Vermont authors Chris Bohjalian and others read while browsers buy books to help the Lincoln Library recoup lit erary losses in last April s flood. See “to do” list, this issue. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, noon - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
sport PRO-AM T E N N IS TOURNEY: See November 7, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. SNOW BOARD AN D SKI SWAP: See November 7, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. CAMEL’S H U M P ECOLOGY HIKE: Learn why broad-leafed trees drop their leaves and needle-leaf trees don’t on this “difficult” seven-mile trek into the alpine zone. Free. Call for meeting place, time and info, 524-1156. LO N G TRA IL W O RK HIKE: Help clean water bars along the Bamborth Ridge in an effort to ready the trail for spring. Meet at Montpelier High School, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-1406.
etc ARCHAEOLOGY M EETIN G : See November 7, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: See November 7, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. HILDEGARD VON BINGEN CO N FERENCE: See November 6. The confer ence comes to an end today with an ecu menical service in the Chapel, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 9 a.m. Free.
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Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3819. ‘KRAKTER’: A young man is arrested for murdering a despised public official in this award-winning picture from the Netherlands. Welden Theatre, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $3.50. Info, 524-1507.
etc TEEN HEALTH CLIN IC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually related problems. Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 863-6326. RUMMAGE A N D NEARLY NEW SALE: The whole family finds deals on clothes, household items and toys at a weekly yard sale. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, North Prospect St., Burlington, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2311. GEOLOGY SEM INAR SERIES: Thirty-five years o f geology research gets summed up in Room 200, Perkins Geology Building, UVM, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0245. BATTERED W OM EN V OLU N TEERS: Attend an orientation session covering domestic violence education and volunteer opportunities with Women Helping Battered Women. UVM Womens Center, 34 South Williams St., Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3131. ‘H O M ELESSN ESS IN V ER M O N T ’: A rep from the Committee on Temporary Shelter discusses efforts to help the indigent in Vermont. Martin Luther King Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 656-6352. BIO LO GY SEM INAR SERIES: A Tulane University prof takes a swat at “Insects That Vector Diseases.” 105 Marsh Life Science, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005. PARENTING W O RKSH O P: Get tips on bringing up toddlers and preschool ers at this info session. Burgess Assembly,
words POETRY READING: Read, respond and relax at this open reading. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-3144. BO O K D ISCU SSIO N : Cowboys, out casts and prostitutes mix it up in Tom Spanbauer’s The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon. Martin Luther King Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2060. W RITER’S W ORKSHOP: Local author Steven Shepard encourages wannabe authors with assignments and regular feedback. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. LITERATURE OF T H E FAR N O RTH : Readers play it cool on a lit erary exploration of Two Old Women, by Velma Wallis. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
kids STORYTIM E: Children from three to five enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts. South Burlington Community Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.
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10 tuesday m usic AM ATEUR M U SICIA N S O R C H ES TRA: Vermont Symphony violinist David Gusakov oversees this weekly harmonic convergence o f amateur musicians in the Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-9750. MARY BLACK: The beguiling — and multiplatinum-selling — Irish per former sings traditional and contempo rary, haunting and happy-go-lucky. Irish-American group Solas opens.
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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, .4 Howard
November 10 and 17, 6:30-9 p.m. The
W EST AFRICAN D RUM M IN G:
marily in Spanish.
St., Burlington. Info, 660-4072 or 253-
Book Rack, Winooski. $52.Register,
Ongoing. Memorial Auditorium Loft,
ESL AND SPANISH: Ongoing indi
9730. Escape fear with an integrated self-
65 5-0231. Learn about how to pursue a
Burlington. $10/class, $55/six classes.
vidual and small group classes. S.
defense system based on technique, not
career in writingfo r businesses and orga
Info, 660-4305. Master drummer
Burlington. Info, 864-6870. Take classes
size, strength or speed.
nizations.
Mohamed Soumah teaches the traditional
in English as a second language or
rhythms o f Guinea, West Africa.
Spanish.
silverworking
DRUM CIRCLE: Thursday, November
ITALIAN: Ongoing individual and
BASIC JEW ELRY D ESIG N : Saturday,
‘CREATIVITY O N CALL, BECO M IN G A M O R E PRO D U CTIV E W RITER’: Saturday, November 14, 10
12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Spirit Dancer
group classes, beginner to advanced,
November 4, 10 a.m. Spirit Dancer
a.m. - 5 p.m. $69. The Book Rack,
Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,
adults and children. Burlington. Info,
Books, 125 S. Winooski Ave.,
Winooski. Register, 655-0231. Discover
Burlington. $5. Info, 660-8060. Bring
865-4795. Learn to speak this beautiful
Burlington. Free. Info, 660-8060.
how to call dependably upon your muse
your own drum to a circle o f Native
language from a native speaker and expe
Create earrings, bracelets and necklaces
instead o f waiting fo r her sporadic visits.
American rhythm.
rienced teacher.
when you learn simple wire-wrapping
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herbs
literacy
techniques.
SH O P: Four Thursdays, November 19
HERBAL HOLIDAY CRAFTS:
‘FAMILIES, BO O KS, CO M PU TERS
spirit
Sunday, November 8, 1-4 p.m. Purple
A N D FU N ’ TRA IN IN G : Saturday,
‘SPIRIT RELEA SEM EN T’: Saturday,
0231. Explore the “G aia principle”
Shutter Herbs, Main St., Burlington.
November 7, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Flynn
November 7, 1-4 p.m. Soulworks, 35
through poetry and prose, and express
$40. Info, 865-HERB. Make incense,
School, Burlington. Free. Register, 864-
King St., Burlington. $20/class.
your own feelings o f “Gaia consciousness. ”
bodyawareness
herbal hotpads, lollipops and liqueurs to
8523. Become a facilitator fo r this com
Register, 860-7287. Learn about the
POETRY W O RKSH O P: Thursdays, 1
give as holiday gifts.
puter, literacy and art program for
phenomenon and interfering effects o f
p.m. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury.
‘T H E FIN E ST FACIAL’: Tuesday,
preschoolers and their parents.
‘EM BRACIN G O U R BO D IE S —
November 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Purple
EM BRA CIN G OU RSELVES’:
Shutter Herbs, Main St., Burlington.
magic
Saturday and Sunday, November 21
$25. Info, 865-HERB. Come in stressed
‘ MAGIC 101’: Friday, November 13,
Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. Winooski
and 22, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 9:30
and go home relaxed and glowing, with
6:30-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125
Ave., Burlington. $3. Info, 660-8060.
a.m. - 1 p.m. Guided Yoga Studio, 35
yoga
facial recipes in hand.
S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.
Focus on your “inner journey" through
YOGA: Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Green Mt.
Donations. Info, 660-8060. Get a basic
talking and group guided meditation.
Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane,
intro to the history, theory and practice o f
‘M AKING T H E H O U SE O F T H E
Williston. $8. Info, 872-3797. Practice
various types o f magic.
W O RLD ’: Friday through Sunday,
yoga with Deborah Binder.
the upcoming change from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age.
ayurveda AYURVEDA PART I’: Wednesday, November 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Main St., Burlington. $20. Info, 865-HERB. Explore the “Doshas" and how to maintain a life o f balance and vitality.
King St, Burlington. $160. Register, 860-9927. A dancer and a yoga therapist
kendo
team up to help you explore your relation
KENDO: Ongoing Wednesdays and
ship with your body.
Thursdays, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Warren Town
computer
Hall. Donations. Info, 496-4669. Develop focus, control and power in this
CYBERSKILLS V ERM O N T:
Japanese samumi sword-fencing martial art
658-2447. This Sufi-style meditation
Ongoing day, evening and weekend
- December 17, 2-4 p.m. The Book Rack, Winooski. $60. Register, 655-
“spirit attachment. “
Free. Info, 388-7523. Bring a poem or
‘IN N ER JO U RN EYS G R O U P’:
two to read an d discuss a t this ongoing
Monday, November 9, 6:30-8 p.m.
workshop.
November 13-15, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
BU R LIN G TO N YOGA: Mondays,
Middlebury. $150. Register, 453-5072.
5:30 and 7 p.m. Flynn Gallery, 148
‘T H E WAY O F T H E SU FI’: Tuesdays,
Mayan Shaman M artin Prechtel offers
Main St. Info, 658-3013. Find healing
7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info,
this workshop on “finding home through
through Iyengar style yoga.
the indigenous nature o f the human soul. ’
YOGA V ERM O N T: Daily classes, 12
meditation
classes. Old North End Technology
kids
incorporates breath, sound and move
SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY: Eight
Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave.,
p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
‘MOVE A N D LEARN’: Saturday,
ment.
Thursdays, November 19 through
Burlington. $39-349. Info, 860-4057,
Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Chace
November 7, 10 a.m. - noon. The
M EDITATION: Thursdays, 7-8:30
January 21, 7-9 p.m. Soulworks, 35
ext. 20. Take classes in computer basics,
Mill, Burlington. Info, 660-9718.
Book Rack, Winooski. $25. Register,
p.m. Green Mountain Learning Center,
King St., Burlington. Info, 864-6616,
Astanga style “power”yoga classes offer
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drama ‘M EASURE FO R M EASURE’: Visiting thespians the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express spool out the Bards buffoonery for better or verse with trademark pared-down style. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4215.
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M A K IN G TH E HOUSE OF TH E W ORLD Finding home through the indigenous nature of the raman soul
A Workshop with M a r t in P r e c h t e l, Mayan Shaman Author of
Secrets o f the Talking Ja g u a r “To ‘go home’ we don’t literally have to return to where our ancestors came from, we ‘go home’ by m aking home, by finding home through the indigenousity of the human soul. Together we will build a many-storied ‘house’, a house in which our own ancestory is the spiritual DNA, the root and foundation out of which to grow our new existence.” - Martin Prechtel
• November 13 (evening); 14-15 (10 am - 6 pm) • $150 • Middlebury, Vermont (site TRA) For information contact: Honey In The Heart 714 Quaker Street • Bristol, V T 05443 • 802-453-5072
The author will give a reading from S e c re t s o f th e T a lk in g J a g u a r Wednesday, November 11 , 7:00 PM at the Book Rack and Children’s Pages, Champlain Mill, 1 Main Street, Winooski, 655-0231
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“M a r t i n Pre ch tel ga llops t h ro u gh the fiel ds o f h u m a n po ssib ility w i t h flo w er s d r i p p i n g o u t o f his m o u t h " - R o b e r t B l y
film CINEMANIA: See November 6. ENVIRO NM ENTAL HEALTH FILMS: Two short videos and follow up discussions highlight the effects of environmental changes on human health. Hall B, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005.
words W R IT ER S’ GRO UP: Writers work with words at Dubie’s Cafe, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9257. ‘ FROM PAGE TO SC R E E N ’: This discussion group grapples with the eternal question: Is the book always better than the movie? Uncle Vanya is the subject at Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
kids ‘M U SIC W ITH ROBERT RESN IK’: Kids sing songs with the musical host of Vermont Public
and get support. Outright Central Vermont, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. FREE LEGAL C LIN IC : Attorney Sandy Baird offers free legal advice to women with questions about family law, housing difficulties and welfare problems. Room 14, Burlington City Hall, 3-5 p m. Free. Info, 865-7200. BATTERED W O M EN ’S SU PPO RT GROUP: Meet in Barre, 10:30 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 223-0855.
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PICK-UP VOLLEYBALL: No matter how you spike it, this weekly co-ed adult game is a laid-back night of exercise. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6:45-9:45 p.m. $2. Info, 865-7088.
FIBROMYALGIA A N D CFS TREA TM EN TS: Dr. Charles Anderson discusses alternative treat ments for illnesses. Healthy Living, S. Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-21579. C O LLEG E OPEN H O USE: Learn how to earn a bachelor’s or graduate degree at night or on weekends through the Prevel School. Room 144, Jeanmarie Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2100. C O LLEG E FINANCIAL AID: College-bound students and parents get valuable advice on making the financial aid grade. Two separate meetings, Essex Junction Education Center & Mount Mansfield Union High School, Jericho, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177. G L B T Q SU PPO RT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends
music GHAZAL ENSEM BLE: Iran meets India when this acclaimed trio strums magical, mystical music on sitar and tabla. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $9. Info, 443-6433. DARLA W IG GIN TO N -H ECH T: The mezzo-soprano hops off the national opera tour bus for a solo show at the Fine Arts Center, Castleton State College, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 468-1239.
drama ‘T H E D IN IN G ROOM ’: The neglected dining room table symbol izes the waning glory of wealthy American WASPdom in A.R. Gurney’s poignant family drama. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $8. Info, 656-2094. ‘T H E TAM ING O F T H E SH REW ’: Life and love’s a bitch as visiting thespians Shenandoah Shakespeare Express bring the Bard’s comical domestic drama to town in trademark pared-down style. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.
Adventurous Traveler Bookstore Travel Guides and Maps to the World 245 S. Champlain St 860-6776 www.AdventurousTraveler.com M o n d a y - F rid a y 1 0 a m - 6 p m Sa tu rd a y
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“All the Traditions.” Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216. STORY TIM E: Kids under three lis ten in at the South Burlington Community Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. PRESCH O O LERS: Young readers between three to five take a book break at Barnes & Noble, S. Burling ton, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. STORY HO UR: Kids between three and five engage in artful educational activities. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.
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Embracing Joy These sessions are three classes designed to help you choose JOY in your life by releasing fear patterns and stretching your vision Session 1 - Sat: Nov. 14, Dec. 5, & Jan. 9 10 am Noon Session 2 - Wed: N ov.ll, Dec. 9 & Jan. 6 6:30-8:30 pm fee: $75.00 (includes copy of “Sustaining Joy”)
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Creating Joyfully These sessions are offered through the Writers At The Champlain Mill, and will awaken creativity through your writing by choosing JOY Mon: Nov. 9,16 & 23; 6:30-8:30 pm $60 Call 655-0231 to register.__________________________
‘T H E SANDW ALK’: In this comical drama about Charles Darwin, the evo lutionary pioneer and his wife adapt to life with each other just prior to the publication of The Origin o f Species. College o f St. Joseph Playhouse, Rutland, 7 p.m. $4. Info, 773-5900.
film CINEM ANIA: See November 6. ‘PU SH IN G H A N D S’: Cultures clash in this comic tale of a Beijing tai-chi master who moves into his son’s New York City pad. Waterman, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3819. ‘T H E DEVIL PROBABLY’: Teen angst comes to a boil in this French tale of a youth with “no desire to be useful in a disgusting world.” Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum o f Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603646-2422.
words SARAH VAN ARSDALE: The local author of Toward Amnesia and Beyond reads from works of original fiction. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-3144. MARTIN PRECH TEL: The author of Secrets o f the Talking Jaguar recounts years spent living and training to be a shaman among the Maya people of Guatemala. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. ‘LOVERS IN LOVE’: This discussion looks at literary loves spurned and spoofed in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. S. Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7050.
kids PARENTS AN O N YM O U S: See November 4.
STO RYTIM E: Four- and five-yearolds enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts. South Burlington Community Library, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 652-7080. STO RIES: Little listeners hear stories, snack and make crafts at the Childrens Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.
etc W O M EN ’S ST U D IES LECTU RE SERIES: Ide Corley-Carmody speaks clearly about “Articulation: A Pedagogy o f Personal Resistance.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill, UVM, Burlington, 12:20 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4282. C ITIZ E N RESEARCH D ISC U S SIO N : Educators and local town offi cials discuss the public’s role in formu lating policy. Memorial Lounge, Waterman, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389. T H E LIFE O F G EO RGE WASH IN G T O N : Noted historian Willard Sterne Randall debunks myths about the monumental “Father of our Country.” Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2731. ‘SEX AND C O LLEG E ST U D E N T S’: A health education prof screens the film Playing the Game as he examines date rape, ST D s and other issues relat ing to student sexuality. Campus Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0505. ‘E T H IC S IN LEADERSHIP’: Business, religious and judicial leaders discuss the tension between personal and professional ethics at this work shop for leader types. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 a.m. $12. Info, 863-3489. ST R ESS M ANAGEM ENT: How much stress is too much? Assess your tension level and get tips on cooling
down. Burgess Assembly, Fletcher Allen Healthcare, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2278. C O M PU TER M EETIN G: Gail Murphy leads “Wired Women Mac Users” into the brave new world. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. FORT ETHAN ALLEN CELEBRA T IO N : Tour the historic quarter of Colchester before the unveiling o f its new historical Web site. Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2271. CERVANTES D ISCU SSIO N : Modern languages prof Luis Quiroz discusses the author of Don Quixote and his political ambitions in Bolivia. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2621. ANIM AL W IN TERIZIN G : Learn how woolly and winged critters pre pare for the long winter ahead. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, Huntington, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $3. Preregister, 434-3068.
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bers’ works in mixed media. Red Mill Craft Shop, Jericho, 8991106. Reception November 8, 2-4 p.m. CONNECTING..., paintings by Gail Salzman inspired by the 1997 Liz Lerman workshops with students and seniors. Jeff’s Seafood Restaurant, St. Albans, 524-7376. Reception November 9, 5-7 p.m. ELDER ART PROGRAM, a group show in mixed media. North Hero Town Hall, 658-7454. Reception November 10, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
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tographs by Catherine Dowd, Paul Hagar, Chad Harter and Matt Siber. Living/Learning Gallery, UVM, Burlington, 656-4149. November 9 - December 10. RANDALL SMITH, a five-year retro spective in mixed media. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 863-3403. Through November. DUANE MICHALS: Words and Images, photographs and writings by the American photographer. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 514-285-1600. November 5 January 10. COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS & LANDSCAPES in watercolor and
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father-daughter show of paintings. Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, 828-3291. Through January 2. THE INTERIOR FOREST, a group show by Caravan Arts. Daily Planet Restaurant, Burlington, 660-9060. Through November. KAT0 JAW0RSKI, MFA Thesis exhibit. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnston State College, 635-1310. Through November 12. A KALEIDOSCOPIC PANORAMA OF BURLINGTON, photographs by Howard Romero, and IN-STALL,
new work by Kristin Humbarger. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 865-7165. Through November 29. PAINTINGS by Anna Vreman. Bread & Beyond, Williscon, 8932951. Through November. A MOMENT OF RISING MIST:
Echoes of a Journey in China, photographs by Jeffrey P. Roberts. A Single Pebble Restaurant, Berlin, 476-9700. Through January 3. LESLEY BELL, paintings. Art Gallery of Barre, 476-1030. Through December 12. ORGANIC CURVES, watercolor paintings by Kate Hartley. Smokejacks Restaurant, Burlington, 660-2794. Through December. TRAVELS, recent paintings by Lynda Reeves McIntyre. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 9853848. Through November 23. MYSTERIES IN STONE: Beyond Public Art, featuring sculptors from Barre and beyond, Main Gallery; and PAST MASTERS: History in Stone, featuring pho tographs from the archives of the Barre Museum, South Gallery. T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, 878-8743.
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“portraits” on clothespins. McAuley Lobby, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337. Through November 24. HARVEST FEAST: Cuisine & Clay, an exhibit of handmade pottery cooking and serving pieces. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 244-1126. Through November. ART: A SPECTRUM, Fine Folk and Outsider Art from the Collection of Pat Parsons. Francis Colburn Gallery, UVM, Burlington, 6562014. Through November 13. VERMONT COMPOSITION, featur ing paintings and mixed media by Klara Callitri, Chuck Rak, Carrie Rouillard, Carolyn Shattuck and Pat Hamilton Todd. Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Rutland, 775-0356. Through November 15. CARIBBEAN EXPRESSIONS, fea turing photographic portraits of Cuban artists by David Garten, and paintings by Alejandro Torrens and Fabre Salient. Flynn Gallery, Burlington, 863-8778. Through November 10. SILKSCREEN PRINTS by Sally Stetson. Shimmering Glass Gallery, Waterbury, 244-8134. Ongoing. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE,
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work by nine former L/L students. Living/Lcarning Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4200. Through November 5. A BOUQUET OF FLORALS, paint ings and drawings by Pria Cambio. Bellini’s Restaurant, Montpelier, 223-5300. Through January 1. EVAN S. EINH0RN, black and white photography of nudes. Red Square, Burlington, 859-8909. Through November 5. COMPILATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE:
The Diderot and Napoleonic Encyclopedias, volumes of text and engravings depicting French Enlightenment and Egyptian scholarship. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 20. MARIE LAPRE GRAB0N oil pastels and charcoal drawings. French Press Cafe, Johnson, 635-2638. Through November 7. CLARK RUSSELL, metal sculpture. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 865-3144. Through November 6. LORRAINE MANLEY, paintings. Better Bagel, Williston, 864-1557. Through November. PAINTINGS by 11 members of the
Otter Creek Art Guild. Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury, 4535997. Through November 15. A CORNISH HOMECOMING, fea turing works by siblings Daryl, Shari, Susan, Judith, Jim and Diane Cornish. Compost Exhibition Space, Hardwick, 4729613. Through November 19.
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turing contemporary printmakers. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 21. HUBBLE’S PASTURE AND THE TRUTH ABOUT COWS, sculpture
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Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, an exhibit of international artists who address social and political circumstances in their work. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 13. BEADS AND MORE BEADS, an exhibit from the permanent collec tion showing how European glass beads have been used in clothing, containers and more. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December. Y0SEMITE VIEWS: MammothPlate Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins from the ParkMcCullough House. Historic milestones in photography from 1861. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-5007. Through December 13. THE TIME OF THE NABIS, the first North American exhibit of paint ings, drawings, prints, decorative art and playbills by the artists who made up the post-impressionist avant-garde in the 1890s. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 514-285-1600. Through November 22. ELLEN HOFFMAN, pencil draw ings, and TOM MERWIN, paint ings. Merwin Gallery, Castleton, 468-2592. Ongoing. BASKET TREES/BASKET MAKERS, showcasing works of
Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 3884964. Through November 16. SCRAP-BASED ARTS & CRAFTS,
featuring re-constructed objects of all kinds by area artists. The Restore, Montpelier, 229-1930. Ongoing. 40 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY,
featuring black-and-white pho tographs and books by Peter Miller. Peter Miller Gallery, Waterbury, 244-5339. Ongoing: by appointment only. 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS including
landscape paintings by Vermont artists Kathleen Kolb, Thomas Curtin, Cynthia Price and more. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116. Ongoing. FURNISHINGS AND PAINTINGS
by Ruth Pope. Windstrom Hill Studio/Gallery, Montpelier, 2295899. Ongoing. PLEASE NOTE: Seven Days is unable to accommodate all o f the displays in our readership area, thus these listings 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.
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intimisme settings, though in a few paintings “The Conversation” (1891), for t’s unusual nowadays for instance — the artist does artists to join together in depict his subjects as ghostly, formal groupings based on unpleasantly plump or just specific aesthetic ideals. But plain ugly. during earlier stages of Similarly, some of the Western art history, such same Nabis who produced movements were fairly com what amounted to left-wing mon, with individual painters agit-prop would later become forging a distinctive collective ardent nationalists glorifying identity. the war against Germany. An The “Nabis,” for exam equally startling transforma pie, emerged around tion occurred in the case of 1890 in France as a Verkade. This rebel even sort of secret soci tually found his cause ety, complete with not in the Montmarte its own initiation demi-monde but in a rites. The mem Black Forest monastery. bership included And how can the still-famous group’s expressed com painters such as mitment to a socially Pierre Bonnard conscious art be squared and Edouard with the Symbolist rever Vuillard, along ies conjured by Maurice with the nowDenis, Felix Valloton and obscure Jan other fully credentialed Verkade, a Dutch Nabis? man by birth, and No less perplexing are the Hungarian the neo-classical tenden artist Jozef Ripplcies evident o f artists who Ronai. The group’s “Self-Portrait,” by Edouard Vuillard claimed to be breaking title, a transcription decisively with traditional o f the Hebrew styles. It’s true, as co-curator geoisie-bashing and anarchist word for “prophets,” was cho and new MMFA director Guy sen to express a self-conscious posturing fashionable at Corgeval points out in the cat ly avant-garde outlook. alogue, that the Nabis were that time among Parisian In some ways, the Nabis “drifting swiftly” toward intellectuals. Some o f their did follow a coherent set o f abstraction while their increas canvases likewise demonstrate principles. Rebelling against ingly riotous color combina a disdain for the ivory-tower the academic style still domi tions anticipated the Fauvists isolation o f aesthetes. nant in Paris at the close of and other “wild beasts” o f But the Nabis were also a the 19th century, they pro 20th-century art. But 100 self-contradictory bunch, as a duced a body o f work charac years after the Nabis disband current show at the Montreal terized by an emphasis on ed, their conservatism appears Museum o f Fine Arts makes lines and colors and by a dis almost as conspicuous as their regard for modeling and oneabundantly clear. radicalism. point perspective. Gauguin The most appealing o f the One o f the chief charms of this exhibit, which includes no blockbusters but several fine paintings, is its refusal to blur the Nabis’ inconsistencies. Corgeval and his collaborator Claire Freches-Thory, chief curator o f the Mus^e d’Orsay in Paris, instead present the group as the odd assortment 200 works on display are . was their hero, with Japanese o f individualists that it surely was. By resisting the tempta art and Medieval mysticism examples o f intim ism e, as in tion to tie its pieces into a serving as primary sources of intimate interior scenes. These inspiration. are nothing if not art-for-ardsmisleadingly neat package, “The Time o f the Nabis” sake meditations on bourgeois “Enough o f easel paint - * - proves that artistic movements ing!” declared Verkade in what dpmcsticity. Vuillard, the unrivaled star amounted to a Nabi mani are usually more interesting in festo. “Down with useless their dissonance than in their i o f this particular show, seems •- U - * O ‘ trappings!...Down with per consonance. (7) not at all disapproving o f his
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“Enough of easel painting!” declared Verkade in what amounted to a Nabi manifesto. “Down with useless trap pings!...Down with perspective!”
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DAVID GIANCOLA'S MOVING TAR GETS Holy blast from the past, Batman — T V ’s original Robin, Burt Ward, is just one o f the big names recruited by Rutland filmmaker Giancola for his latest, a high-octane adventure about a detective trying to stay alive long enough to testify against a powerful crime boss. LIVING OUT LOUD From screenwriterturned-director Richard LaGravenese comes the story o f an unusual romance between a divorcee and a misfit. Holly Hunger and Danny DeVito star. MONUMENT AVE. Denis Leary stars in the new movie from Ted Demme, a gritty saga about young Irish kids growing up, and selling drugs, on the streets o f Boston.
new on vi deo GODZILLA**172 I’m sorry, but, from what I’ve seen, the $120 million event movie o f last summer looks like little more than The Lost World on steroids: The lean, muscular giant reptiles, that familiar dino-roar, the bull-in-a-chinashop romp through the streets o f New York. Oh, I see the difference — Matthew Broderick plays the yappy know-it-all scientist instead o f Jeff Goldblum! Roland (Independence Day) Emmerich directs. LES MISERABLES (NR) From Bille ( The House o f the Spirits) August comes the latest big-screen adaptation o f Victor Hugo’s classic, featuring an all-star cast that includes Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman and Shine's Geoffrey Rush.
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JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES (NR) James Woods stars in the big-screen version o f John Steakley’s 1992 novel about the adventures of a professional vampire hunter. Sheryl Lee and Daniel Baldwin co-star.
PRACTICAL M AG IC**'/2 Griffin Dunne adapts Alice Hoffman’s 1995 best-seller about a pair o f sisters descended from a long line o f witches. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star.
PLEASANTVILLE (NR) Two present-day teens find themselves trapped in an old black-and-white family sitcom in the directorial debut from Gary Ross. With Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon and William H. Macy. BELOVED (NR) Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover star in Jonathan Demme’s adaptation o f Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an escaped slave haunt ed by a murdered child.
BRIDE OF CHUCKY (NR) Shouldn’t there be a statute o f limitations on sequels? First, there was The Odd Couple II. Then the longunawaited Halloween H 2 O. And now this, a fourth install ment in the dormant, dead as a doornail Child's Play series. This time around the homici
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WHAT DREAMS MAY CO M E**** Robin Williams stars in Vincent Ward’s visually sumptuous but emotionally gruelling allegory concerning one man’s quest to reunite with his family in the next world. ANTZ (NR) In the first o f the year’s two — count ’em: two — animated bug sagas, Woody Allen provides the voice o f a drone who longs for both a more independent life and a female ant played by Sharon Stone. With additional vocal stylings courtesy of Sylvester Stallone, Jane Curtain and Christopher Walken. RONIN**** Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno and Stellan Skarsgard star in this saga o f international intrigue from director John Frankenheimer. RUSH HOUR (NR) Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan star in this action comedy about an LAPD detective who experi ences culture clash when he’s teamed with a cop from Hong Kong. Brett Retner directs.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT M ARY*** There may be something about Mary, but there’s nothing about this movie that’s worth buying a ticket to see, since almost all the film’s funny stuff is available for free in its pre views. Ben Stiller plays a one time nerd who can’t get over a high school crush on Cameron Diaz. From the folks who brought you Dumb and Dumber.
THE PARENT TRAP (NR) From the team behind Father o f the Bride comes this update o f the Disney classic
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DOCTOR DOOLITTLE (NR) Eddie Murphy’s stick ing with the formula that breathed new life into his fail ing career: A la Nutty Professor, the comedian stars here in an update o f another familyfriendly classic Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Norm Macdonald, Paul Reubens and other comics provide the voic es for a menagerie o f wise cracking animals. Betty (.Private Parts) Thomas directs.
AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER (NR) Kevin Zegers returns for the continu ing adventures o f everyone’s favorite sportshound. This time around, the fuzzy family fun involves the dog’s foray into football.
THE MASK OF ZORRO**'/2 Anthony Hopkins plays a middle-aged swashbuckler who passes pro fessional secrets on to Zorroin-training Antonio Banderas. Martin ( Golden-Eye) Campbell directs.
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recordings. From the low-key, sleepy funk o f the opener, “Ghost,” with its swirly seagull noises and super-deep bass lines, to the cold north wind o f the aptly named “End o f Session,” Phish take a decided turn for the laconic. The infre quent guitar solos veer out like a car in the passing lane, only to tuck back into the traffic soon after. The foursome sound — even in some sleepy moments — as if they are watching one another very, very closely. Only the second tune, “Birds o f a Feather” has hit-sin gle qualities — “hit” by Phish standards, at least — with its catchy, Steely Dan-esque chorus and churning organ-guitar groove. Other tracks might get a warm reception from the acid jazz/funk audience, even with out the presence o f brass. On “Birds,” and most cuts, producer Andy Wallace opts for an intimate, whisper-in-yourear vocal sound from Trey Anastasio — which here sets apart the brief guitar break and noisy trail-off. On other songs, Anastasio seems to be singing absentmindedly and noncom mittally, in the way one does while, say, washing the dishes or walking the dog. During these moments, their trademark noodly, frenzied-dancing motif is traded for something far The S tory o f the Ghost; by
more subtle. s , “Meat” is the* most minimal funk, with a sp arse staccato ^instrumental arrangement cour tesy o f bassist Mike Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman, and quirky vocal sounds. Its strength comes in part from the “white space.” “Guyute” offers up a Phish favorite, the silly story-telling song, delivered in the simplistic fashion o f a nursery-school rhyme. Anastasio even whistles, for heavens sake, and the instrumental bridge is all sparkly piano from the delightfully diverse Page McConnell — until the song spins wildly into a seemingly endless but very controlled jam, one o f few on the disc. Veering faster and faster, finally breaking into one o f those stately, pompous metally endings, “Guyute” returns to the story and the near-classi cal piano work. This is also by far the longest cut — at 8:26 — on Story. In “Fikus,” Anastasio and bandmates wander vocally through quiet parallel universes, befitting the dreamy, nonsense lyrics, with exceedingly little going on instrumentally. It is on cuts like this that one might fairly accuse the band o f selfindulgence, and ask: Fourteen hours o f jamming with wild abandon at Bearsville and you opted to keep this? Again, lis
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tening to Anastasios wan — singing is like being privy to another’s daydream — a partic ularly directionless one at that — though actually it is not unpleasant. Following “Shafty,” a quiet
tip-toeing “Brian and Robert,” so soft and laid-back it scarcely "exists. Atiastasio’s lyrics are barely audible, asdf he’s lulling his little daughters to sleep, and yet they bear hearing — a mild remonstrance toward someone
W ill people who love jam bands — and, specifical ly, Phish — hate this meditation on the reality o f hell, Phish swim in more famil iar waters with “Limb By Limb.” It successfully weaves a mellow, syncopated melodic structure and quirky but stronger lyrics, a middle section o f jumbly guitar, drum rolls and grand piano gestures. Fishman’s brief percussion coda is a nice touch, one o f many details on Story that belie its < casual, almost lazy, feel and enhance the overall atmosphere. “Frankie Says” is another mellow melody, a lazy stream o f notes and words and a vocal style that could be used in hyp nosis, it’s that mesmerizing. With the word “relax” promi nent in its chorus, there’s a beguiling sense o f floating down a river, nearly napping. The mood is deepened with the
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who’s not really living life: “Slip past strangers in the street/there’s no one that you care to meet/longing for your T V seat/this one is for you.” Straining to listen, you end up appreciating the quietude after all. Thus the lickety-split, bluegrass-inspired “Water in the Sky” is a bit o f a wake-up call — though still the gentlest o f alarms — with its rolling, trilling piano work and Appalachian rhythm. Beautiful, shimmery key boards and ringing guitar chords make the most o f the otherwise poky “Roggae” — this is softcore music; not tired but dreamy, floaty, and scant on the roiling jams charactistic o f live shows. “Wading in the Velvet Sea,” offers more o f the same — its quiet refrain, “I’ve
been wading in the velvet sea.% has nothing to do with the < remainder o f the lyrics, another o f the semantic' non sequiturs jthat inhabit this album. Still, the song is touchingly senti mental: “You won’t find moments in a box/and someone else will set your clocks/I took a moment from my day/wrapped it up in things you say/and mailed it o ff to you.” “Wading” trudges resolutely forward, crowned by a high, lonesome, melancholy guitar ending that is one o f the sweetest moments on the album. “The Moma Dance” returns to tight and economical funk — this more than anything shows off the electric circuit created by Gordon and Fishman. It percolates under fairly meaningless, repetitive lyrics that jerk forward until drifting off into a winding, recidivist line from “Ghost.” There is a lot o f drifting off on The Story o f the Ghost, as if each song is itself a sorry ghost, reluctant to leave. The run-on sentence o f “End o f Session” begins with a lonesome howl, then a sustained keyboard note lays down a carpet o f sound into which is woven a brief double-vocal. Phish may have taken to telling ghost stories, but at least
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o f familiar names and faces. Most o f us know, for instance, that Manhattan is not part of the Casella Waste Management territory — and one can’t miss their logo on the sanitation engineers’ hats, shirts and jack ets and on the dumpster and the garbage truck. Also, it’s a bit jarring to see local actors as far out o f context as a shootem-up picture, particularly when some o f the performances are so strong. Sue Ball — the same as in My Mother’s Early Lovers— plays the tough-asnails cop Zoe Crowe with a similar frustration with men that makes her so strong in the Jacobson drama. Mark “Woody” Keppel is credible as her pain-in-the-ass partner, the doughnut-driven Walter King.
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And Paul Schnabel is genuinely creepy as the assassin Werner. Paul “ Detective” Soychak gives himself away, though, when he says o f crime lord Richard Corliss, “ Frickin’ guy runs this town.” One hears such things from native New Yorkers, o f course, but the trained ear can tell the difference. If action flicks aren’t your thing, trying to spot shades o f local color can make Moving Targets sporting fun. ®
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Would You Care to Rephrase That? “All the refills you like,” Dromise the fine folks at The Olive Garden in the spot for their current Never-Ending 5asta Bowl promotion, “plus all the salad and breadsticks for $6.95!” G an t you just envision an episode o f “Seinfeld” with Oamer and Newman squeez ing into a booth and demand ing all the restaurant s salad and breadsticks for just $6.95? Well, history’s greatest sci entists and artists haven’t been able to swing it — it took the geniuses at L’Oreal to create . the first “new colors” since the dawn o f time. Meanwhile, the people who make Oil o f Olay’s body wash want you to know that it will eave your skin “feeling clean as
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A Few Words From Our Sponsors There’s so little grasp of grammar and general flair for language in today’s T V adver tising that even the buzzwords and catch phrases have gone downhill. Can’t think o f anything new to say about your product? Just tack a “plus” onto its name! The people at Alka-Seltzer Plus did. Some companies put the word in right from the start, o f course. Like First Plus, a financial institution special izing in home equity loans (motto: “Pay us first or we take your home”). But the use o f the word that drives me the craziest is as a substi tute for “and.” Have you noticed? Almost nobody in ads ever says “and” anymore — certainly not a plus from the standpoint o f good grammar. What’s the most over worked, misused word in T V ads today, according to my research? “Over.” The makers o f the Bowflex home gym, for example, claim with doubly defective grammar, “We’ve got over 50 exercises!” Direct T V ’s spots offer access to “over 90 channels.” The no-load fund Invesco has “over 60 years o f experience.” And the company that makes First Response Pregnancy
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— Countrywide Home Loans Web site promo “This is enough toppings [to satisfy any appetite].” — Pizza Hut “People are finding more and more ways to live healthier.” — Subway “We’re only seconds away before the show is over.” — Don Lapre’s Making Money Secrets infomercial “At First Plus you get more ways to help lower your monthly payments.” “There’s not even any health questions!” — The Mature Life Health Plan “I got that last piece o f the puzzle. Everything fell in place.” — Sylvan Learning Center So what have we learned? I mean, besides the fact that even the folks at the Sylvan Learning Center need to brush up on basic grammar. Clearly, the younger generation has Cheez Wiz for brains and watched too much “A lf” when it should’ve been doing home work. But what are we going to do? The future o f television is theirs, with all their shaky, hand-held cameras, computer graphics and split infinitives. It is, I fear, way too late to send them to bed without supper. Some other medium will need to step up and act as curator o f the language if it is to survive. We are, meanwhile, left with nagging questions. Otherwise known as...
TV’s Unsolved Mysteries The spots currently run by LensCrafter offer a special dis counted price on “a complete pair o f glasses.” Are they under the impression that, up until now, we’ve been assembling them at home? Advil’s latest is a little something called Liqui-Gels. So is it a liquid or a gel? The laws o f physics say it can’t be both. Kinney Drug has a spot running which offers a cure for your busy schedule, with the announcement that they’re now “open nights and seven days a week.” Hmmm, I won der if the counter help have been told they can never go home again? And, finally, from the peo ple at Kleenex, the ultimate in commercial conundrums: their new Cold Care 3-Layer Lotion Tissue. Get it? It’s a wet Kleenex! Isn’t that like buying your Bounty paper towels with the messy spills already sopped into them? Or your Charmin with...well, never mind. That just makes 0% sense, if you ask me. That and the over 30 other examples o f gar bled, semiliterate gobbledygook cited above. In fact, it makes me feel like popping an Advil or three (hope I don’t spill any). But now, you’ll have to excuse me, I’ve got $7 and a rented semi to back up to the Olive Garden. Thanksgiving at the Kisonaks’ is going to have a salad and breadstick theme this year. ®
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Tests boasts that it’s “over 90 percent accurate.” Who’s writ ing these things, pre-teen brag garts? The last time I checked, “over” meant “above,” not “more than.” There’s a marked movement toward the surreal, or maybe it’s the Dadaist, in today’s buzz words, I’ve noticed. What on earth, for instance, is “preferred suede?” All I know is that Chrysler’s got plenty o f it if for some reason you should want any. Avon’s new skin treatment is capable o f “vertical lifting,” so be sure to have a jar on hand the next time you’ve got heavy furniture to move. Teens, tired of putting up with oily skin? Smear a handful o f Clean & Clear Persa-Gel all over your face for that desirable burn-vic tim look. Alka-Seltzer Cold Medicine promises to “break up” my symptoms. Hey, I’ve got a sore throat and a little congestion in there, not the Gambino crime family! Snackwell has announced that its Mint Cookies are “all new.” Well, I assumed they weren’t used. And what’s with all this “0% Financing” silliness? Why don’t they just say they’re not going to charge any interest and get on with it? I saw an ad for Jergens Moisturizer claiming that it “hydrates” the skin. Sounds like just the thing for a rice paddy, too, if you happen to have one out back.
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MOTIVE SEPARATE BUT EQUAL? D ear Tom an d Ray: I nearly got into an argum ent with a frien d about "badge engineer ing. " I know the Honda Passport is the same as the Isuzu Rodeo. As fa r as I can tell, the Honda an d the Isuzu are identical except fo r three things: the nameplate, the price (Honda costs more) an d the warranty (Isuzu s is better). My frien d insists the Honda is made to a higher standard o f some kind — as i f there's a Honda coming down the Isuzu assembly line an d the forem an yells out, "Hey, Vinny, that one's a H onda; give the bolts an extra tw ist!" I believe this is exactly what Honda wants you to believe so you 'll pay more an d get less warranty. Do you guys know the real story? — Doug RAY: O f course we do, Doug. They come down the same assembly line, have their bolts twisted the same number o f twists, and, except for some cosmetic differences, they're identical. T O M : This is called "badge engi neering," when one company takes another company's car (to Fill a per ceived "hole" in its lineup), and simply slaps its "badge" onto it. The H onda Passport is an Isuzu Rodeo in disguise.
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RAY: This has been done for years; it's just more prevalent now. The Mazda B Series pickup truck is a Ford Ranger with a Mazda sticker on it. The Chevy Tracker is really a Suzuki Sidekick. And on the list goes. T O M : In terms o f price, shared vehicles tend to be priced pretty similarly. Usually the company that actually makes the car (in this case, Isuzu), sells it for a slightly lower price. But it is hard to really com pare the prices because the optional and standard equipment is rarely the same. RAY: For instance, if you go to cars.com on the Web and look up the prices o f cheapest versions o f each car, you'll find the Isuzu is about $4000 cheaper. "Wow!" you might say. "That's much cheaper!" But when you look closely, you'll notice that the Isuzu comes with a four-cylinder engine, and the base Honda version is only available with Isuzu's optional V6. T O M : So you compare the base Isuzu with the V 6 option to the base Honda, and suddenly the dif ference is less than $2000. "That's still a big difference," you say. But when you look carefully down the list o f standard and optional equip ment, you'll find that for that $2000, Honda throws in a bunch o f stuff that costs extra on the Isuzu; like air conditioning, power win
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D ear Cecil, Why aren’t seat belts mandatory in a ll school busesl — KestilG, via AOL When I First considered this question the words “natural selection” bobbed inexplicably to mind. On examination, however, the main factors are safety and expense. Which one was more important to the peo ple in charge I leave for you to decide. Their ungainly appearance might suggest other wise, but school buses are actually pretty safe. On average only 11 children are killed in school bus
wrecks each year, compared to the 5500 who die in accidents involving other vehicles. On a per-vehiclemile basis the school bus fatality rate is one-seventh that o f other passenger vehicles. Several factors account for the good record. School buses are taller and heavier than most other traffic and generally travel at moderate speeds. In a collision, high seat backs prevent kids from being thrown great distances, and impact-absorbing materi als soften the blow. The question remains controversial, however. High seat backs don’t help much when a bus is hit from the side or rolls over, and some people think more should be done. The national Parent-Teacher Association, for example, has called for seat belts on new buses. The federal government recently began a two-year investigation o f school bus safety that will likely result in new precautions. According to Education Week more than two dozen state legislatures have considered mandatory seat belts over the years, although only New York and New Jersey currently require them. Seat belts wouldn’t necessarily make buses safer. On the contrary, some believe they would increase the number o f serious injuries. Shoulder harnesses aren’t practical in buses as currently designed, and lap belts are likely to cause more head and abdominal injuries because in a collision the wearer is jerked for ward from the waist. Then we get into the cost-benefit analysis. At $1800 a bus, outfitting the 440,000 school buses in the U.S. would cost nearly $800 million — and when the annual death toll is only 11, how much
lower can you go, realistically? Given that three times as many fatalities occur when students exit or enter buses, some think the money might be better spent educating the all-too-oblivious public that when the school bus’ stop sign swings out, it means you. Dear Cecil, Why do we feel hot and cold at the same time when we’re sick? — Shannon Gavin, Lisle, Illinois This is a little complicated. Under normal circum stances your core body temperature is maintained at a constant level by a glandular control center called the hypothalamic thermostat. During a fever, bacteria and degenerating body tissue give off substances known as pyrogens, which somehow cause the hypo thalamic thermostat to ratchet up a notch. A host o f physiological mechanisms then kicks in to elevate the body’s temperature, which usually takes several hours. At the outset the body is way colder than the hypo thalamus wants it to be, so although you’re heating up, you feel cold, experiencing shivering, goose bumps, vasoconstriction o f the skin (clamminess), etc. By and by you reach fever temperature, and the chills stop. When the fever breaks, the hypothalamic thermostat drops back to normal. You perspire, and because o f the vasodilation your skin becomes flushed and hot, even though objectively you’re cooling off. Sound a little complicated? All I can tell you is, don’t sweat it. (7) C E C IL ADA M S
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Nov 5-11 ARIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I’m fed up with the cute, stylized symbol
terfere with your inalienable ght to act like an open-
o f the heart which everyone uses to
earted sex god. You’ve got a date to indulge in a cathartic
convey lovey-dovey messages on Valentines Day and other Hallmark occasions. That ain’t how the real seat o f the soul looks; it’s actually a gnarly mass o f muscle with tubes coming out o f it. The discrepancy is instruc tive, however: It pretty much sums up the crazy-making difference between popular soft-focus delusions about romance and the way love actually works in the clinches. I’m bringing this up, Aries, because the stars are telling me that you’re ready to leave behind every last vestige o f the saccharine heart, and graduate to the primal. Maybe you could buy an anatomy text from a used-book store, cut out a picture o f the primal pumper, and send it to your consort.
TAURUS (Apr. 20-M ay 20): It may be impossible to avoid devel oping some new addiction in the coming days. I can almost guarantee that you will at least become obsessed with a pretty plaything you’ve merely been attracted to before. Since you’re unlikely to find a way to escape this fate, try to arrange to get hooked on stuff that’s good for you — broccoli instead o f heroin, for example, a mas ter teacher instead o f an abusive lover, strip poker rather than gambling on the stock market.
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GEMINI (M ay 21-June 20): In his book History o f Torture, John Swain describes a subtle form o f tribulation which seems almost benign compared with being stretched on. the rack or having bam boo splints shoved beneath the fin gernails. In squassation the victim was fettered to a table with a thin, clingy cloth draped over his face. The tor turer steadily dribbled water down on the cloth, which slowly but relentless ly conducted moisture into the mouth and nostrils. Does this have
the T V with the sound o ff and
Scorpio. Your efforts will be medici
devour an emotion-churning novel.
nal for some, upsetting to others;
Wear a Star o f David necklace and clutch a Tarot card while murmuring
you’ll be lauded and pilloried. But no
it’s not so bad; on the other hand it’s
matter what your influence, you’ll be
18): Even if you’re a woman, your job
about to drive you absolutely berserk.
ecstatic prayers to Kwan Yin in front
downright unforgettable — and in
is to be like a spyboy this week. And
(P.S. You can and must escape.)
o f a statue o f Mary Magdalene. Pour equal amounts o f cappuccino,
some cases an object o f obsession or a
what’s a spyboy? In the New Orleans
more than a passing resemblance to what you’ve been enduring lately, Gemini? I bet it is. On the one hand
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
whiskey, and infant formula in a tall
romp on the frontiers o f science.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
breeder o f hypnotic trance.
Mardi Gras, it’s the person who cavorts at the front o f the parade,
Percentage o f Cancerians who’re in the midst o f an experience having
glass and gulp it down between bites
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
o f organic carrots and a M cD onald’s
22-Dec. 21): When I was shot in the
troublemaker. His job is to get every
certain resemblances to falling in
fatburger. Boast to your friends that
butt in Durham, North Carolina
one riled up, to do whatever it takes
love: 67. Num ber o f homes whose energy needs could be met for a
while everyone else seems to be suf fering from a shrinking attention
years ago, I was wearing the next best thing to bullet-proof underwear. Let
to induce the giddy craziness neces sary to escape normal patterns o f
month if there were a way to harness
span, yours is expanding.
me explain. It was an evening in May.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m
thought and behavior. You’ve got to have a com m anding presence to be a
radiated by the average Cancerian:
In a fit o f inspiration, I’d just finished writing a 22-page poem. I folded up
good spyboy, Aquarius, as well as an
137. Rank o f Cancerians, among all
taking the week off from writing your
the text and jammed it in my pants’
ability to provoke healing mischief.
signs o f the zodiac, in both reproduc
horoscope so that I may devote
back pocket, then headed downtown
the animal magnetism now being
serving as a combination clown and
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20):
tive and artistic fertility: 1. Percentage
myself with more ferocious intensity
on foot to catch a bus. Halfway there,
o f Cancerians who’ll be confused
to grubbing for money — in an
about the difference between frivo
enlightened way, o f course. You’ll be
I was interrupted by a shotgun-wield ing assailant. As the emergency room
that you’ll get stigmata this week. I
lous diversions and healthy pleasures:
relieved to know, though, that I’ve
doctor ministered to me later, she
wouldn’t be shocked, for that matter,
31. Distance covered by lining up,
ransacked other sources and come up
pulled out the pellet-riddled pages o f
if a burning bush spoke to you, or a
head to toe, all Cancerians who’re
with two fortune cookie-style oracles
poetry and said, “These prevented a
spiky-haired angel materialized at your bedside long enough to slip you
It’s not utterly out o f the question
entering their second childhoods:
that are completely in sync with your
far more serious injury.” And that’s
halfway to the moon.
current cosmic mandate (which is not
how poetry saved my ass, Sagittarius.
a prophetic (though intensely practi
unlike the good greed that’s driving
I believe it could save yours, too, in
cal) vision. In other words, Pisces, the
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While on
me, by the way). Your fortunes come
the coming months, though not as
spirit world is dying to deliver a very
the whole I think your time in the
courtesy o f James Finn Garner’s book
literally. Here are some ass-saving
concrete statement. Invisible yayas are
Magic Theater will be well spent, you
Apocalypse Wow!: 1) You are wealthier
do have to be alert for deceivers and
in friends than rich in goods, Libra,
poets to consult: Rumi, Neruda, Rilke, David Whyte, Mary Oliver,
imposters who’ll contribute nothing
so maybe it’s time to get some richer
Gabriela Mistral. (Or write your
hope that in the face o f such explicit revelations you’ll be willing to revise
to the dramatic entertainment.
friends. 2) Wealth is headed in your
own.)
your religious beliefs. (7)
Likewise, the vast majority o f the
direction; so watch out for runaway
reflections you’ll see in the Hall o f
armored cars.
Mirrors will be instructive, but two
about to become bankable gagas. Let’s
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22You can call Rob Broxsny, day or night for your
Jan. 19): You know what deferred
or three o f them will subtly distort
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
your image in ways you can’t afford
21): A few years back, sculptor
iar with the concept o f deferred sleep.
to believe in. So enjoy your adven
Rachel Whiteread was named best
But have you heard about deferred
tures in this alternative reality, Leo. Just keep in mind that a small pro
artist o f the year during a show at
pain? It’s angst that you can put off
London’s Tate Gallery. The K.
for a rainy day when you’re more in
portion o f the fantasies you
Foundation chose that same occasion,
the mood to benefit from it. And this
encounter there will not be in the ser vice o f beauty and truth.
however, to bestow on her the sarcas
week, Capricorn, I recommend a
tic honor o f being Britain’s worst
hearty, hedonistic week full o f all the
18 and over.
artist. (She actually won more money
above deferments. Accumulate a little
Touchtone phone.
for the second award.) I suspect
debt if you must, go without your
Drink in some dreamy music on the
something like this will happen to
usual amount o f sleep, and refuse to
headphones while you channel-surf
you in the next couple weeks,
recognize any torment that might
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
payments are. You’re probably famil
expanded weekly horoscope
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7 - 9 0 0 -9 0 3 -2 5 0 0 $ 1 .9 9 p e r m inute.
C/s 8 1 2 /3 7 3 - 9 7 8 8 And d on ’t fo rg e t to check out Rob’s Web site a t mrurur.realastrolo gy.com / Updated Tuesday night.
last week’s answers
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I’M A FAIR AND LOVELY, TRUE Libra who lives w/ balance & harmo ny in life. I’m kind, loving & strong. Would like to meet friendly males w/ similar qualities, 46-56. Many inter ests. Values & family important. I’m a sweet heart, don’t miss out. 2211
LONG-LEGGED AND LONELY, SWF,
38 ,
looking to make new friends, possibly more. Out going, active and love to laugh. Looking for men who are honest and don’t play games. 2212_________
A MEETING OF THE MIND, HEART & SOUL with compatible S/DM, NS, 4560, is sought by holistic, fit, petite, NS vegetarian F with poetic expression and natural appeal. 2215____________
SOULFUL, INTREPID MUSE WHO UVES in her body and knows what she means, seeks same in large, wise, sol vent adventurer who could sleep on the other side of my dog and not take it personally. 2216_________________ A o e k in q n m n
SELF-PROCLAIMED “GLAMOUR GIRL" seeks self-proclaimed “ Bad Boy.” SWPF, blonde, 30s, seeks male: “good by day,” over 40. 2223_____________
SWF, 34. PRETTY & SLENDER, INTO A serious relationship or real friendship. Looking for a good-looking SWM, 2735. Must be interesting, exciting and reliable. 2227 _______________
LETS CREATE A FRIENDSHIP. SWF, 31 , 5’i ” , quiet, pleasant, ISO SWM, 30-37, who balances with me and to share experiences. I enjoy movies, travel, working out and shopping. 2245_____
COOKING PARTNER WANTED. Ingredents I have: 30 years life experi ence, BFA, height, own business and a big smile with dimples. Looking for: big hearted, financially secure, creative man under 35. 2239________________
PM THE EXCEPTIONAL WOMAN YOU’VE always wanted to meet! Classy & sexy, warm & witty, sensitive & beautiful, I love cooking, theatre, kids, animals, kayaking & silk lingerie. ISO very exceptional man, 35-45. tall & very handsome, successful & soulful, light hearted & fun, romantic & smiling, kind-hearted & affectionate. 2247 38 , 5 ’8 ", NS, VEGETARIAN, liber al thinker, friend of animals. I like British comedy, hiking, canoeing, danc ing, art, antiques, museums and being involved in my community. I’m ISO a single male, 3oish-4oish, with similar attitudes and interests for friendship or possible LTR. 2243_________________
PETITE, BLUE-EYED,
blonde, a true romantic, emotionally & financially secure, kind, caring, honest & loving. Enjoys a variety of interests. Life’s too short to spend it alone. 2147 DANCE WITH ME! SWPF, writer, slim, funny, musical, adventurous, loves jazz, yoga, outdoors, more. ISO fiscally/ physically fit, funny SWPM, 40S-50S, NS, with well-stocked mind, generous heart. 2156_______________________
LEADING THE GOOD LIFE. Blonde, 42, fit and funny. Your masculinity isn’t threatened if I reglaze the windows (you grill the steak). Deeply respectful, irreligious left-field inhabitant; awaiting your fly ball. 2159_________________
LETS MAKE THE ROCKIES CRUMBLE &
nice land, healthy outdoors man, sheep, dogs, cats. Educated eccentrics welcome, NS/ND. Do you snowshoe, XC-ski, bike, walk, canoe, quilt, garden, cook? 2174_______________________
aware, playful, artistic, health-con scious, progressive, politically activeSF, 34, NS, ISO SM with similar qualities, to goof off w/ and to share ideas & adventures. 2166
OK, SO I WAS A LATE BLOOMER...BUT I
NEED MUSICIANS TO COMPLETE SONGS & life. Attractive SWF, 5’s” , green/dark
get it now. If you’re a guy who wants to help my blooming flower evolve, do buzz me. I’m a SWF, 33. 2175 INTELLIGENT, PRETTY SWPF, 31 , petite, Ctrl. VT. Interested in intellectual/cultural pursuits and cooking. Fit, but not athletic. ISO SWPM, 30-40, NS/ND, emotionally & financially stable, con siderate, with sense of direction in life and similar interests for friendship, possible LTR. 2180 ______________
auburn hair, smoker, mother of two. You: tall, fit, good-looking. 2123______
STATUESQUE, IRREVERENT OPTIMIST seeks witty, intelligent, warm profes sional man, 35-45, who loves life, the arts, the ocean...and doesn’t mind the occasional chick flick. 2128
QUICK MIND, CARING HEART. Bright, witty, fit female, 43, loves outdoors,
ANYBODY OUT THERE LOVE JAZZ? Fiercely independent SWPF, 61, seeks
music and ideas, but misses sharing life’s pleasures with an intelligent man who can think, feel and laugh. 2130
M companion who likes to get out, to hear the great music available in our area. Jazz tops my list of favorites. Other interests are walking, talking, singing, papermaking, movies, theater, friends & family. 2186
ITS A HOEDOWN. 29 YO, petite brunette, NS, ND, fiddle player, (Burl, area), does aerobics, avid reader on spirituality, ISO M musician for jam ming, friends, maybe more. 2133
SWF,
28 ,
MOTHER OF TWO BOYS ISO
SWM, 25-35, who enjoys country music, dinner, movies and just having a little fun every now and then. 2112
DELIGHTFUL NATIVE VERMONTER, SW, 45, currently residing south of Philly,
blares Madonna w/ the top down ISO responsible, motivated Wesley w/ pas sion for living. Animal lovers a +! Me: SWF, 24. You: near there. 2119
ISO MOONSTRUCK D/SM W/OLD SOUL & young heart, 40-55, (over)educated, creative, mature, centered, appreciative of fireplace as well as trail. Huntress is DWPF, 44, 5’ 3” , slender, high-energy, loves mountains, oceans, music, books, sports, travel, art, food (cook/ dine), movies, (my) kids, you? 2062
SINGLE,
32 , ARTSY
BUSINESS OWNER,
down-to-earth, ISO somewhat gor geous, tall, well-built, NS hunk who is educated, has his sh*t together, ski, rock, must like dogs. 2068__________
HONEST, KIND, ATTRACTIVE, PETITE, educated, NS SWPF, 41, ISO fun, edu cated, kind-hearted M, 34-47. Good conversation, low-key sports, communi ty events, helping each other grow together & individually. Possible LTR.
2070
SWPF,
HOW DUSTY ARE YOUR DANCING SHOES? Let’s kick up some dust together. Be my swing-dance partner. I’m 40, fit, a little to the left and look ing for fun. 2218 ARE YOU READY FOR A LOVING chal lenge? Attractive DWF ISO fiscally/physically fit NS, ND caring man, 50-55, to share providence, poetfy and bliss. Mother of intelligent, delightful li-yr.-old boy. 2219
IACKOFALL TRADES, MASTER OF SOME wanted by this petite, fit, auburn haired beauty-in-search-of-a-beast. Prefer 40-45. fit, active. 2191
CREATIVE, PASSIONATE, WORDY, urban-minded, kind-hearted, humorous, attractive SWF, 28, seeks smart, sweet, sexy S/DM, 25-35, for inspired verbal exchange with possibilities for romance. Enough adjectives for you? 2195
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NETTLE TEA DRINKING VEGGIE who
CUTE, FUNNY, HONEST. SMART, SELF-
ISO SMALL HOMESTEAD W/
43 ,
(sailing, skiing, hiking) seeking LTR. I’m educated, caring, and spirited with a good sense of humor. Call if you share my love of laughter, eclectic musical tastes (jazz, classical, rock) and liberal politics. 2108______________________
WORKING WEEKENDS MEANS HAVING
DWF,
47,
SWF.
ISO financially/emotionally secure WPM, 50+, for long-distance LTR. Enjoy outdoor activities, witty conversation, romantic evenings and animals. 2104
woman, go snowboarding & teach me how to master my board. 2171.______
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POLITICAL, BUT NOT PC, high voltage SPF, 49, NS, light drinker, enjoys hik ing, writing, cats, folk music in Ctrl. VT. Values honesty, humor, spirituality, hard work. ISO SM minus macho/insecurity. Passionate about life, love, loyalty. Like cats. Friendship, possible LTR. 2140
Gibralter tumble. SBF seeks submissive SWM 81/or crossdresser for intimate journeys which cross peaks of mutual desire & the heights of pleasure. 2150 the trails to myself mid-week. Restaurants, theatres and roads are quiet, too. We still have time to hike, paddle, bike and blade before we get our winter toys out. DWF, 40, NS, seeks mid-week playmate, 30-50. 2164
M(mm...) SNOWBOARDER, HELP ME! SWF, 20, slim, attractive, crazy hairdo, ISO you, 19-30, knows how to treat a
adventures, snowboarding, good times. Also into music (all types), writing. ISO friendship, honesty, possibilities. 2136
I’M READY FOR A HEALTHY, FUN, AND
Morticia seeks Gomez for an unwhole some relationship. I have a Wednesday. No Pugsleys, Festers or Lurches need apply. 2189_______________________
must be 18 or older.
ADVENTUROUS, SPONTANEOUS, FUNloving SWPF, 25, seeks SM for cycling
honest relationship with an emotionally sound professional, late 20s-early 40s, who’s good-looking, fit & loves nature. I can offer the same, and more. I’m 35.
2188 A BOY, A GIRL, AN OPEN GRAVE...
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Dear Lola, I’ve been dating this guy for about a month. He’s always seemed very gentle and caring. But last night we attended a Halloween party. I went as a fairy god mother. He went as an ax murderer, and really got into the part. I’ve never seen him sc turned on, and it totally freaked me c u t . I feel like I’ve seen his true, inner self, and I don’t like it one bit. How off the wall am I? Creeped cut in Cornwall Dear Creeped, your friend may be a truly gentle soul who needs an occa sional, safe outlet for his pent-up aggres sions. Or he may be a closet creep. Keep your eyes open. If the guy brings cut more sadistic outfits, hang it up with him. Love,
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to an end. We’re taking over. Looking for a great lady to help this SWM, 25, start the revolution. Let’s start a great cause. 2199_______________________
RECEPTIVE, EBULLIENT, LUMINOUS,
COUNT DRACULA SEEKS MINA TO BITE into love. SWPM, 42, blue-eyed, active
earthy, resonant, athletic SWM, 37, 5’n ” , 185 lbs. NS vegetarian ISO multi faceted, musical, spontaneous, embod ied woman for mundane activities & bubble baths. 2224________________
HANDSOME KNIGHT, OF HONOR & chivalry, no longer slaying dragons. Living alone in his castle. Would like to serve his queen, 35-42, beautiful inside & outside, to share love, laughter & fun times. 2225____________________ CONNECTION HAPPENS. I’m 32, tall, attractive, high IQ, professional, cre ative, genuine, relationship-oriented. If you’re 25-32, believe key to happiness is relationship, mutuality, nurturing, respect, sharing, call. Otherwise, don’t. 2226________ __________ _________
SINGLE DAD,
52 ,
SEEKS YOUNGER
female for dating, to LTR. Single parent okay. No head games. Honesty a must. Rutland/Manchester area. 2233_______
DWM, NS, MID-40S, LOVES LIFE’S pas sions. I’m youthful, creative, fun, gen tle, fit, adventuresome. Enjoy dancing, travel, hiking, kayaking, XC skiing, working out, gardening, art, antiques, food/wine. Have two part-time, live-in, wonderful children. ISO fit, NS, sensual lady, 33-48ish, to share similar inter ests. Value humor, smiles, laughs, ten der touch, some spontaneity for quality friendship and/or LTR. 2246__________ SOULFUL SYNERGY. SWPM, 54- WHAT'S important? Friends, the country life, thoughts, values, passions, humor. ISO a kind woman who walks lightly on the sands of time. 2241________________
SWPM,
34 ,
MUSICIAN, HIKER, RURAL,
folksy, literate. No kids, ex, or bag gage. Seeking harmonious female forever. 2242________________________
I KNOW THAT WHAT I’M DOING NOW IS not living. FIT DWM, 45, looking for fit partner. No control either way. Want to share life’s adventures? Call, I don’t bite. 2248________________________
SCM,
36 ,
SEEKS SCF FOR FRIENDSHIP.
Must be kind, spiritual and open-minded. Call and we’ll chat. 2237_________
DWM,
36 ,
GOOD-LOOKING, 5 *9 ",
165
lbs., realistic, honest, down-to-earth, looking for the one—open-minded, sane, uninhibited, honest, female. Age, race unimportant. Friends, LTR. Are you there? 2220_______________________
SWM,
21 , ATTRACTIVE,
WITTY, LIKES
sports, music, quiet evenings, ISO SWF who’s dominant, kinky, funny, disease free, who wears sexy stockings, leather, garterbelts, maid uniforms, for LTR. Photo/letter. 2221__________________
UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING. SWPM, 36, 5’n ” , 185 lbs., tall, dark, handsome, likes exercise, outdoors, adventure. Recently separated from LTR, no kids. ISO attractive SPF, 36 +/-. shares the above & wants to swing-, slow-dance away cares together. She believes life’s best things are mostly free. 2193_________________________
YOU: YOUNGER, INTELLIGENT, NS W/ eclectic taste, reliable fire starter, enjoy antiquing. Me: above & shy, over worked supervisor, student, most sports, avid reader & junk collector, intense to laid-back, some surprises.
2198
night creature wants directions straight to the SWF soul mate’s heart. Remember, true love never dies. 2210
GOLDILOCKS DESIRED FOR STORYBOOK life w/ attractive, successful, SWPM, 50, NS, teddy bear. Great book, but needs attractive, slim, intelligent, avid skier, biker, ballroom dancer, traveler to make best-seller. 2204______________ 48 , PROFESSIONAL, 6 ’i", FIT, reason ably sane, equitably pragmatic with a mild streak of silliness. Seeking attrac tive, slender lady to share our laughter and, if simpatico, commitment. Call or write. 2208___________.____________ MONTPELIER/MAD RIVER SJM, 43 . seeks loving friendship. Let’s dance, play in the garden, share quiet times and wild adventures. 2209__________________
TWO REGULAR GUYS, SWM,
36 & 3 7 ,
NS, self-employed, four-season outdoor athletes. Literate, articulate. Comfort able in big cities or backwoods. World travelers, one cynical, one very sin cere—both irreverent. Seeking two active, bright women for friendship, adventure, snowball fights. 2177______
HEY, WAKE UP! INSTEAD OF READING these ads and doing nothing because you assume that there are only strange, maladjusted guys advertising, try calling me. I hate smoky bars, and I love to play outside. I’m athletic, welleducated, sane. SWM, 37, NS, vegetarian, loveable. 2178_________________
THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN FOR this mid-life teacher/writer. Lettuce meet in the garden & dig some carrots & turnip up. It beets me why not! 2170
“BOB’’ SEEKS “CONNIE.’’ OLD PUNK/ skinhead, recently singled, ISO “ Betty” to skank with. Talking is good, too. I’m 27, NS, veggie with ink. Lydia Lunch, Cock Sparrer, Specials. Ctrl. VT, but do drive to Burlington. 2187____________
SWP, 33 , WANTS TO MEET GREAT SWF, 22-28ish, for weekends, friendship, din ners, sports, reading, nights, dancing, more. I’m tall, fit, witty, handsome. You have brains, beauty, a casual soul. Willing? 2161______________________
SEEKING A FRIEND. YOU: SWF,
55 -6 5 ,
who isn’t afraid of a straight-forward guy like me. Me: SWM, 63, classically educated, enjoys music, movies and reading. If you share similar interests, and appreciate a good conversationalist, you are the friend I need! 2163
ATTRACTIVE A HUMOROUS DWM, 6’i ” , NS, professional, active—
47,
Rollerblade, hike, dance, X-C ski, dine, concerts—ISO D/SF w/ similar interests for fun & possible LTR. Kids OK. 2132
CONCERTS, “SOUTH PARK," RAIN, cloves, sarcasm, Deftones, sunsets, thunderstorms, biking, movies, pasts, Guiness, swimming, nymphomania, piercings, “ Simpsons,” snowboarding, atheism, hiking, Corona, Halloween, Korn, tequila, skinny dipping. Don’t you agree? Call. 2134___________________
“SEACHING" GOOD-LOOKING, HEALTHY. classy, focused & committed. Enjoys: workouts, running, biking, tennis, stock market, plays, classical music, concerts, nature, family & coffee. ISO equivalent female life partner, 35-47ish. 2135
to respond to a personal ad call l-Q O O -3 7 0 - 7 ^ 2 7 We’re open 24 hours a day! $1.99 a minute, must be 18 or older. SENSITIVE, ROMANTIC, HONEST SWPM, 38, 5’n ” , 195 lbs., brown hair, green eyes, energetic, active. Enjoys biking, hiking, golfing, dining out, movies and traveling. Loves long romantic walks & cuddling on the couch. ISO SWPF, 3540, with similar interests. If you’re the one, give me a call. 2139___________ NSP, ATTRACTIVE, HEALTHY, FIT, slen der, Burlington area, 50, with full head of hair, spiritual, energetic, enthusias tic, veggie, musician, dancer, hiker, meditator, reader. Loves culture, heart felt communication, intimacy and matu rity. 2142 SWM, 36 , NS. PHILOSOPHICALLY practical seeks absurdly impractical; farmer seeks concert pianist; Luddite seeks Fran Drescher; Dangerfield seeks Rachel Carson; Groucho seeks Hepburn; knuckledragger seeks ditz with tits; Alberich seeks Rhine maiden; Ralph seeks Josephine; earth seeks ethereal; Yin seeks Yang. I seek you. Phone home. 2143 SENSITIVE, DEEPLY INTUITIVE^ athletic, grounded, spontaneous, musical, can did, playful, cute SWM, 37, NS, vege tarian. Deep love of nature, animals, dancing, swimming and intimacy. ISO LTR w/ sparkling, self-aware woman who likes to exercise multidimensionally. What does that mean? 2099_______
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DO YOU LIKE SUN, SWIMMING, SAILING more than snow? Adventurer and pro fessional photographer heading south for the winter. Are you adventurous, sensual, playful, 28-4oish? Let’s rendezvous. 2117_____________________
movies, long rides, cards, coffee, cook ing, golf, wine and weekend getaways. If this sounds like you, please call so we can talk! 2116__________________
HONEST, INTELLIGENT & GENTLE WPM. 6’, 170 lbs., 45. Seeking my e q u a l-
blading and skiing. Sure I like all that, but also enjoy fine and casual dining, a good margarita, and lazy weekend mornings under the blankets. ISO attractive SWPF, 30-38, NS,, to partici pate in some/all of the above. 2121 LETS GO FISHING! SWM, 38, brown hair & eyes, seeks F for companionship & unlimited fun. I love long rides in the country and warm nights at home. Help fill the hole. 2083_____________
bold, adventurous, self-confident, spontaneous, humorous, optimistic, appreciative & fit. Chitt./Add. Co. 2103
DARK & ALLURING WANTED: soft & sweet, mild to wild, fun, attractive BHW, 28-40, F, great smile/eyes/figure to be my other half. I’m a SWM, tall, good-looking, desireable, warm-hearted, great kisser & then some. 2105
SWPM,
38 , TALL,
LOOKING FOR THE DAUGHTER OF THE
physician into classical music, out doors, seeking spiritual (non-dogmatic) F counterpart, 25-30, for hiking/camping trips...maybe more? 2109_________
devil himself; looking for an angel in white. SWM, fun, witty, playful, loyal, ambitious, romantic, wants to meet woman w/ similar qualities to share life on the road less traveled. 2090______ DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER? SWM, 26, prof, musician, seeks alluring siren for harmony & music making on an acoustic wilderness adventure. 2091
“DOG-CENTERED" WOMAN SOUGHTintelligent, wise, attractive, proportion ate, sensual, confident, centered, con sistent, kind, warm & thoughtful; understands (and speaks) fluent K9; seeks a balanced life (and partner). LTR possible. 2110_________________
SWM,
21 , ATTRACTIVE,
FUNNY, LIKES
sports and movies ISO SWF who’s kinky, NS, disease free and wears seductive clothes such as spandex, leather, fishnets, garter belts for romance. Photo/letter, 2113__________
YOU’RE THE NEEDLE, I’M THE THREAD, let’s make something lasting. SWDM, 42, 6’, fit, handsome, giving, financially secure, monogamous w/ great place, 40’ boat, Flynn membership, ISO intelligent, pretty, sensual F, 30-40. 2115
PROGRESSIVE, SMART, LITERATE SM, 45 (attractive & fit, tool), ISO happy, hip and adventurous F for active fun (biking, dancing, music, backpacking, skiing...), travel, stimulating conversa tion, other sensual pleasures, and painting the town pink! Enjoying garlic, tequila, questionable humor, and playing music helpful. 2120_____________ SWM, 40 , HONEST, HUMOROUS, sec ond-shift worker, enjoys outdoors,
MY LUVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ’VETTE with the top down in June. My luve is like the fine green bud’s coiling sweet perfume. And fair art thou my bonnie lass as down the slopes she fly; and I will love her still my dear ’cause she makes the best moonshine! 2094
AFFECTIONATE AND ATTRACTIVE SWM, 30, like trying new things, enjoys danc ing, travel, a few sports & life. ISO S/DWF who’s honest, sexual, with a great smile. 2098__________________ 42
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LBS., ENJOYS DINING,
movies, dancing, outdoors, day trips and cuddling by a nice quiet video with someone special. ISO LTR. 2096 UNDER THE RAINBOW. Ethnically diverse, culturally varied, politically independent and spiritually unorthodox NS M, 45, ISO kindred NS free-spirited F for friendship and more. Age & eth nicity irrelevant. Nonconformists encouraged. 2081
SMART, CREATIVE, PASSIONATE, HIPPIE femme looking for fun, active butch to laugh, bike, ski, travel, eat healthy, stay sober, talk deep and touch a lot. Burl, area, 40-55. 2176_____________
PRETTY, HONEST, EDUCATED SWF WHO loves life, philosophy, writing, cooking, skiing seeks kindred spirit for potentially LTR. Burl, area only. 2160_______
SMART, FUNNY, POLITICALLY AWARE, attractive, creative, SF, early 30s, NS, ND, seeks like-minded SF to share laughs, cultural activities, conversations & more. 2167_____________________
I AM GIRLIE, HEAR ME ROAR! 5’8”, auburn hair, 130 lbs., 19, loves to do a little dance, make a little love, & get down, ISO the keymaster, GWF, 18-23. 2138_____________________________ MID-FORTIES. ARTISTIC, CREATIVE, sen sitive GWF, ISO LTR. I’m sick of being alone & lonely; need someone to light en & brighten my heart & life. 2082
men Asckinq tm n MEN: HESITANCY IS NOWHERE IN THIS personal, only true thoughts and feel ings for you... If this is unclear, don’t let it be; I’m all ears! 2222__________
GWM,
24 ,
MASCULINE, LOVES HUNTING
and outdoor activities, as well as inti macy, seeks straight-acting, masculine, fit man, 20-35, with similar interests. Hoping for a great friendship, possible LTR. 2238________________________ _
GM,
38 , 5 ’7 *, 160
LBS., MUSCULAR,
hazel, PA, military cut, br./gr., glasses, attractive, open mind, heavy libido. ISO relationship-oriented man, who is at least 50% top, self-supporting and not afraid to take charge. OK if not out, but you should be comfortable. 2244
to respond to a personal ad call l-Q O O -3 7 0 "7 1 2 7 We’re open 24 hours a day! $1.99 a minute, must be 18 or older. BiWM,
LBS., BEER DRINKER,
men AsskjJnq mm, amt
likes history channel, old cars, good times. Seeks same for first-time on other side. Must be masculine, discreet and healthy. 2169
36 , NS, ENJOYS TRAVELING, hik ing, staring at the stars, skiing, walking and just chilling out. Not into bars or large parties. ISO 18-40 YO for friendship or possible LTR. 2084__________
DAYTIME FUN/STRESS RELEASE. BiWM
PM, ATTRACTIVE,
LIFE’S WONDERS. BIWM,
will provide during casual encounters, no strings attached, to: clean, discreet, straight-acting Bi males. Experimenters, beginners welcome. 2235
& spark, ISO super nice guy who’s also 3oish & looking for something new. You’ve gotta live life, love sports, trav eling & arguing your point. You work hard & want the best. Ditto. Burl. 2162 TALL 81 TENDER GWM, 28 , 6 ’2", brown/ hazel, into spirituality, sci-fi, Chinese, jeans and travel, seeking man w/ smile & personality. Try something & some one new: me. 2124
GWM,
41,
ISO PHYSICALLY challenged G/BiPM, 25-45, not giving up, who enjoys life, for friendship, possible LTR. Intellectual stimulation just as important as physical in a relationship. 2201
BiWM ISO THIN G/BIM,
25 -40 ;
FIRST-
time encounter. Walks, read, films, laugh, massage & play. NS, ND & open mind necessary. Discretion please. 2213
GWM, BOTTOM BEAR, SMOKER, 3 RD shifter looking for LTR or just some fun w/ a hot top. I’m 6’ 2” , 270 lbs., #3 buzzed brown hair, blue eyes, pierced, tattooed and hairy. 2185_____________
AFFECTIONATE GWM, MID-20 S, BROWN eyes, blonde hair, 6’, 190 lbs. Wants it all! Deserves to be spoiled & to have someone to spoil in return. ISO more than one-night-stand. 2158_____ _
GWM SEEKING THIN, A/B/HM,
18-2 5 ,
for
new experiences. Enjoy videos, mas sages and quiet times. Discretion expected and assured. 2168
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To respond to Letters Only ads: Seal your response in an envelope, write box # on the outside and place in another envelope with $5 for each response. Address to: PERSON TO PERSON c/o SEVEN DAYS. P.O. Box 1164, Burlington, VT 05402
comfort, support, fun, adventure & sharing life’s experiences. A dream I want to share w/ a special man. Masculine, 33, sailing addict, nature lover. LTR. Uneffeminate, friends of any disposition. 2102__________________
I’M NOT FUSSY ABOUT BEING GAY, TO also have fun in gay terms... A future without gay love? “ Not being gay or real is the furthest thing from my mind!” 2085______________________
GBM,
38 ,
NS/ND, 6 ’, 180 LBS., GOOD-
looking, straight-acting, in good shape, seeks GM, 18-40, NS/ND, for fun, possi ble relationship. Please respond. 2097
ATTRACTIVE, SMART, HEALTHY, spiritu al, educated, passionate, French DF, 40, 5’ 4” , 115 lbs., ISO S/DWM, 35-45, ND, NS, NA, to kiss, dance, swim, bike, laugh, travel, dining, reading, music, XC-skiing. Looking for LTR. Box 365
CAN YOU COOK? I CAN’T HUNGRY NSPF, 33, loves dogs, movies, music, restau rants. Fit, friendly and fun. ISO NSPM, 28-38, for possible LTR, Box 358_____
KINDNESS, LAUGHTER. ROMANCE? Attractive, plus-sized SWF artist, 39, seeking special guy, 30-45, to create awesome atmosphere of trust, affec tion, fun and friendship/LTR. We love the outdoors, music, food and movies. Humor required. We can really create magic! Ctrl. VT/Burl. area. Box 377 FIG. lA ASSEMBLE LIVING DOLL; Attach long slinky legs to svelte torso, glue thick blonde hair onto fair head, paint full lips, blue eyes, program bawdy attitude, write for date. Box 374______ DWF, 42 , EUROPEAN NATIVE. I’m long ing to find a nice,\honest American man to share the rest of my life with, here in VT. Box 368_______________
COUNTRYWOMAN LOOKING FOR part ner. Are you 55-65, with sense of humor, compassion? Inquiring mind, lean body, chainsaw a +. Box 370
5 7 , s’™”, 169
lbs., blue eyes, looking for other Bi or straight men. Let’s explore the possibilities. No head games. Please call. 2073
GWM,
33 ,
INTO GOLF, GOOD WINE,
good food, electronics. Not fit, but working at it, and seeking friendship, fun, maybe more. Call if you’re under 40 and like to laugh. 2079
INTELLIGENT, FUN-LOVING, PLUS-SIZED woman, 54, seeks hopeful, secure, loving man, grounded, but reaching for stars. Love ballroom dancing? Movies? Good food? Feminist? Appreciate Christian, other theologies? Love laughter, music, pets? Box 359____________ A HEART OF GOLD. Very attractive, fit, DWPF, 40, NS, enjoys dancing, working out, outdoors, life. ISO attractive S/DWPM, fit, NS, 34-42, similar inter ests. Please include photo. Box 360
TALL, HANDSOME ARTIST, POET, Taoist monk and weekend father, 49, seeking companionship w/ beautiful woman, any age, race or color, with a curious mind, open heart, soft style and imagi nation. Box 376
IF YOU LIKE TO WISH FOR 40 ISH DEEP dish of Pisces passion, too precious to waste on anyone but you, who are insightful, creative, affectionate & hon orable, please write. Box 369
CU (M
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SEEKS ATTRACTIVE
female that wants to explore sensual pursuits. Safe, discreet, upscale, fun, attractive CU awaits your reply. 2183
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WANTED: KICK-ASS CHESS PARTNER YMCA, WEEKDAY MORNINGS. YOU ARE
who can *uck me up. Age, sex, race, species unimportant. 2148________ COUPLE SEEKS HOT, YOUNG, attractive college stud for stud services. 2149
DOMINANT WM,
55 ,
always smiling and friendly. Love your neon Hawaiian shirt. Care for a tropical getaway? Islands would be ideal, but I'd settle for coffee! 2194____________
LOOKING FOR
“IS THIS SEAT TAKEN?" SAW YOU W/
woman or couple to participate in bondage scene w/ other people. Medium build. Must like Canada, travel, sailing, meeting new people. Relationship possible. 2146__________
girlfriend at Church St. Tavern, Sat. night, 10/ 17, in gray turtleneck and jeans. Me: in beige overcoat and suit after show at Flynn. How about coffee, dinner, dance sometime? 2214_______
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25 , SCORPIO
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or BiF, 18-45, for fun and games. Discreet sex, sex, sex. No pigs. 2240
CREATIVE ROLE PLAY. ELEGANT, exdusive & new. 2236__________________ WM, 41 , AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER, ISO female subjects) for steamy photo session and possibly more. Age, race and looks not as important as attitude. 2192____________________________
MaWM,
5 7 , 5 ’8", 160
LBS., GRAY HAIR,
blue eyes, NS, clean, discreet, seeks Ma/SF for daytime adult games, possi ble LTR. 2190
BEAUTIFUL BLONDE! YOU WALKED BY
appreciates other species (M & F) for reflective tidal musings, aphrodisiac meals, and high meadow romps. Mammals preferred (please, no dogs), but will consider dolphins and other intelligent creatures. Definite NO to snakes, leeches, hornets and inverte brates! 2100
BiWM,
22 . 5 ’7 ", 135
the window of Leunig’s restaurant on Church, Monday evening, 10/ 19. Our eyes met; would like to meet you! The handsome gent in the blue shirt. 2205
PENNY, FRI., iq/16 . WE MET, ATE, drank, danced, connected on several levels, & had fun. I want to do some more. Call me! I can’t find you. 2206
LBS., SUBMISSIVE
M.P. WITH THE BLACK CANE & GOLDEN
sissy boy ISO Ms, Fs, CUs to have fun with. Age/looks/race unimportant. 2111
smile, Hope that your foot is healing quickly and neatly, and that your heart is doing well. 2217
MaWCU SEEKS SINGLE, PETITE, BiF for erotic encounters. Race unimportant. He is tall, dark hair and blue eyes. She is petite with fair skin and green eyes. 2122
only. RETIRED DPM ISO GRAY-HAIRED LADY, 55-65, who’s warm, open, sharing & fit, who, like me, reads broadly, enjoys continuing to learn, loves classical music, has sense of the ridiculous & enjoys country/city & travel. Box 380
SHELL: WALLY CLEAVER MEETS JOHN Travolta. Stuffing: Kurt (Vonnegut), Carson (Rachel), Kramer (Cosmo). Genuine, nutty, very fit, conversant, deceptively clean-cut quasi-vegan, 26, loves writing silly songs, hiking, biking, reading and cooking; seeks smart, witty, confident, fit Burl, girl, 21-28, for friendship first. Box 381______ _______
DWM,
46 . 5 *6 ", 41
LBS., FIT AND UKES
to run, bike and hike, Buddhist, rea sonably successful professional, likes art—Monet & Rembrandt—classical music and baseball. I lead a quiet, sim ple lifestyle. Seeking an intelligent, cul tured, emotionally secure F for a gentle relationship. Please write first. Box 378 WHATEVER YOU CAN DO OR DREAM you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. SWM, 35, live simply, travel widely, ski, climb, bike, seek adventurous F. Box 371_________
FATHER OF GIRLS SEEKING GRACIOUS, articulate intimacy with a southern Chittenden Co. beige lady. This cheerful entrepreneur is starting over in every way. Can discuss history, nature, finance, architecture, health. Box 375
DWPM,
44 , ISO S/DWPF. WE BOTH love laughing, biking, cooking, arts, philo sophical conversation, loud parties, quiet moments. Isn’t it time we met? Photo, please. Box 373_____________
INTELLIGENT, PLUS-SIZED WOMAN,
OVER-EDUCATED M, MID-50S, A TAD offbeat, but stable, civil & responsible; reads, is intellectual, funny, happy, handy, productive. Seeks happy, welleducated woman, 30-51, NS. Essential good match of psyche & soul is the goal. Must like pets, outdoors; on the fit side. Picture appreciated. Box 366
WELL-ROUNDED SWM,
26 ,
GWM, 5 ’u ",
LOVES GOLF,
football & other sports, ISO petite SWF, 23-30, to enjoy slow days & hot nights. Please send photo. Box 367
SWM,
48 ,
50s,
great sense of humor, seeks loving, respectful relationship with GF, 45+, who enjoys laughing, holding hands, snuggling, movies, concerts, dancing, dogs 81 cats. No smokers. Box 356
SLIM SENSUOUS, HEALTHY,
seeking submissive, passive,B/AF, any age, smoker/drinker OK. Open-minded, no kids or marriage. Steady weekend companion. Describe yourself. I’m not »■ ______ _ abusive. Box 363
195
LBS., LOOKING FOR
relationship. Can travel. Any race or color. Box 384___________________
UVM QUEER, GWM,
19 , 6 ’2 ", 165
LBS.,
brown/hazel, student, activist, revolu tionary. Cute and sincere, somewhat shy, loves foreign/vintage films and theater. Seeking GWM, 18-25, who’s comfortable with themselves. Box 382
ONE-MAN GUY,
36 . 6 ’, 190
LBS., GOOD-
looking, fit, intelligent, has lots to offer. Looking for that special male to build a quality relationship with. Handsome loners encouraged to reply. Box 379
WORD LOVER SEEKS WITTY WOMAN with passion for language, letters, music, walking, tea and marmalade, old houses, rock gardens, cats, slow food, fountain pens, elegant clothing, tall slim men. Box 362_____________
SWM, SNOW BIRD, 5 *7 -, EASY-GOING, good habits, likes biking and giving joy. ISO female, 40-50, to share Class-A full-time RV living situation. Flying south soon. Box 361
PASSION PACKED WM, IN MY
40S,
healthy, discreet, seeking discreet S/Ma/BiF for pleasure. Be healthy, open-minded, and be for real. Box 383
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