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SOMETHING OLD...T
not a 24-hour media event but a
mance o f Berit M ilah prior to the
W ho does Ron Puddles, Towels, whatever his nam e is, I forget, think
grainy, 8-m m blue movie w ith the
child’s eighth day o f life. U nder rare
that w hat she is “facilitating” comes
boys in the barn, and m en prided
exception the cerem ony m ay be per
from Rawson, b u t it is not so.
he is insulting — those o f us who are
themselves on the speed w ith which
form ed after the eighth day, for exam
Facilitated com m unication is a kind o f
agedly disadvantaged [“W ho Me?
they com pleted their business.
ple, if the child’s health is in question
hum an ouija board. T his m ethodology
O ld?” by Ron Powers, O ctober 28]?
Given this background, Mr. Kurth’s suspicion, pessimism and even
the berit m ust be postponed.
Just because he’s a few years older than
questio
revulsion w ith respect to the straight
ing to do with m edicine or medical
world is not surprising, nor his sym
circumcision. It is a purely religious
Psychological Association and the
our problem s w ith ...ju st a second, I’ll
bolic identification with the Shepard
and cultural ritual event, which, as
N ational Education Association as a
th in k o f it, ah, yes, memory. I’ve a
incident in W yoming, however vague
your article points out, has profound
pseudoscientific fraud. Yet, amazingly,
and uncertain it may appear to the
significance to observant and no n o b
facilitated com m unication is thriving
at least after I see m y chiropractor to
rest o f us. Straight or gay childhood is
servant Jews. Judaism has historically
in Verm ont. It is used in our school
fix m y dislocated ribs (doesn’t he know
alm ost always filled with senseless per
viewed the foreskin as a blem ish to be
systems and m ental health clinics. T he
laughing so m uch is dangerous to 50-
sonal conflict and hum iliation, but we
removed. Berit M ilah is considered to
University o f V erm ont is currently
year-olds? Right, he probably forgot.)
ought to build our hom es in the world
be a purifying act sym bolic o f reaching
offering a class in facilitated com m u
Well, I don’t intend to let him get
and changing times on som ething else.
toward perfection.
away w ith it. I have a good friend
— John Shaplin
— David I. Schneider, D.O.
nication through its C ontinuing Education division.
Burlington
Rutland
‘MOHEL’ NOT ALONE T he article, “A C u t Below”
is still widely used in V erm ont and is
finest obstetricians in Vermont, and he
M enagh [September 30], a profile o f
wasting taxpayers’ money. I wrote an
“serves” as a Mohel, he is not “Verm ont’s sole M ohel.”
Derek Rawson, who is handicapped
open letter to G overnor How ard Dean
and non-verbal. T he article describes
and Ruth Dwyer, neither o f w hom has
I am a Mohel. I was certified in 1993 by the Berit Milah Board o f
how Verandah Porche uses “facilitated
responded. I have contacted journalists
com m unication” to help Rawson write
at several publications (including
a town which even by the m id-’60s
Reform Judaism o f the Hebrew Union
m oving poetry and to com m unicate in
Seven Days), begging them to write an
could be fairly described as the “ass-
College, and the National O rganiz
other ways. As the article describes, a
investigative piece on facilitated com
end o f the burned-out district,” a ter m inus for generations o f New-English
ation o f American M ohalim . I have
“facilitator” can supposedly sense
m unication. I hope such an article will
been perform ing Berit Milah
where a non-verbal subject wants to
appear shortly.
rural m illennialism sunk on the west
(Covenant o f Circum cision) cere
place his or her finger on a keyboard,
ern border o f a state just emerging
m onies throughout Verm ont for over
so that with gentle support o f the
from the thrall o f the Klu Klux Klan. .
five years.
wrist or arm, the subject can control
T he Berit M ilah cerem ony is per
A place where m ost m en regarded
— M ark Pendergrast Essex Junction
L e tte rs P o lic y : SEV EN DAYS
w hat is typed.
happiness, as e.e.cumm ings once sug
form ed on the eighth day o f life. T he
gested, “the closest m ost singular plur
ritual and this day is so im portant in
uplifting, giving an otherwise silent
W hile this story appears to be
w ants your rants and raves, in 2 5 0 words or le ss. Letters
al approxim ation to pre-natal passivity *
Jewish tradition that perform ance o f
voice an outlet, it is unfortunately a
which m odern science, in its finite yet
the circumcision even takes prece
misleading hoax. Unless the subject
unbounded wisdom , has succeeded in
dence to the laws o f Shabbat, the
can type independently — which I
respond to content in Seven
selling their wives,” where the “gay
Sabbath, which prohibit work o f any
gather is not the case here — facilitat
Days. Include your full name and a daytime phone
life” was mostly a commercial transac
kind. T he ceremony is linked to the
ed com m unication never works. It can
tion in the dead o f night at the Stone
child’s Hebrew nam ing ceremony (in
be easily tested. Show Derek Rawson a
House or Pizza by Charles, and the
the biblical story o f Abraham he
com m on object, out o f sight o f
nearest thing to cosm opolitan culture
received his name when he was cir
Verandah Porche. T hen ask him to
was not the Flynn T heatre or the
cumcised as a m ark o f the convenant
type what he saw w ith her “facilitat
Fleming M useum but a seat on a bus
between G od and the Jewish people).
out o f town. Back then titillation was
Jewish law prohibits the perfor
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ON THE WATERFRONT
W in te r C o o k in g C lasses Nov 30
?Question is a weekly
I have only recently discovered that it
Adam ant T hanks to Peter K urth for rem ind
— Charles Catlett Environmental consultant, Burlington
— Cynthia Price Artist, Bristol
I am concerned about “Letters
1995 book, Victims o f Memory, which
From a Young Poet,” by Melanie
STRAIGHT TALK?
“You know, Mars is looking for a few good men. Why not to go Mars? John Glenn should go to Mars ”
Washington and do his thing. He should talk to people. He should go back up again!
came out in a second edition in 1996.
[O ctober 28] is inaccurate. Although Dr. Ira Bernstein is perhaps one o f the
[“Straight and Narrow,” O ctober 28],
honest truth, I thought he was great. The guy’s got some good stuff going on. I really liked what he had to say about growing old and going for it. I think he
‘FACILITATION’ IS FRAUDU LENT
— Andrew Nemethy
ing us that he was raised in Burlington
— Joe Pete Wilson Teacher/learning specialist at UVM, Essex Junction
I wrote about facilitated com m uni cation and its raising o f hopes in my
that piece o f p a p er...?
“I say we strap him to the top of a jet boat and send him on a fact finding tour of Honduras.”
denounced by the American
good m ind to punch him in the nose,
his name. Let’s see, where did I put
— Lois Trombley Barrista & dance
debunked. It has been officially
th in k he has the right to make fun o f
soon to discuss Ron’s slanderous com m ents. Now, if I could only think o f
territory on the planet.
has been thoroughly and scientifically
Finally, the Berit M ilah has n o th
m e (nyah-na-na-nyah-na), does he
w ho’s a lawyer and I’ll be calling him
he missed his
I am sure that Porche truly believes
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dome. Beer Watch — In a daring attempt to outflank Voting — what a concept! It’s more power the Progs in Burlap’s political grandstanding ful than a steaming locomotive and able to wars, the four Republican city councilors, leap tall arguments in a single bound. It’s the Kevin Curley, Gary Hevey, Matt Gardy and most precious right o f citizenship and the last Kurt Wright, are backing a resolution that word on who’s in charge. Across the country “hereby declares Burlington City Hall alcoholand across Vermont, Election ’98 was real free, and that all future requests for alcoholic beauty. Democracy — gotta love it. consumption be denied for this public facility.” After all those months o f Newt Gingrich Curley says he got the idea after the and the Republicans ramming “oral sex” down “Sanders for Congress” fundraiser held in the throats o f the citizenry, it was a pleasant Contois Auditorium on October 16. “We’re surprise to see Newt and the right-wing talking about curbing alcohol abuse,” says Republican sex fiends get a Curley, and the very same taste o f their own medicine. room where the talking goes And closer to home, after on, he notes, can be turned all those months o f listening to turn into “a nightclub.” It’s a the shrill, greedy, anti-Act 60 “physician heal thyself-type screamers predicting economic thing,” says Curley. ruin for Vermont, it was Take note, you can stum delightful to see Vermonters ble out o f City Hall any vote to give the new law a night and fall right onto a chance to work. Bad for busi bar stool. Let’s see, there are ness? Baloney. Just ask IDX’s six licensed establishments Ritchie Tarrant who cited Act on that Church Street block 6 0 s tax incentives for business alone — and soon to be a development as a factor in seventh. Irish Pub Concepts IDX’s 1000-job Vermont Inc. just received a zoning expansion. permit to transform the for The voters heard enough mer Merchant’s Bank lobby from the GOP leadership about across from Sweetwaters into blow jobs and shark pools. a 120-seat slice of Ireland. Greed and the probe o f the The concept comes from the presidential prick weren’t sell Irish Pub Company in ing. Rather, let’s hear it for Dublin. According to city Lite-Gov Doug Racine, winner records, Neil Callahan, o f Inside Track’s “Profile in BY PETER FREYNE Kevin Burke and Michael Courage Award.” Despite O ’Leary are the principals. WGOP, er, WCAX’s polls showing him well Currently Finnigan’s Pub around the corner behind Barbara Snelling, Racine never once on College Street claims the title as the top backed away from his articulate defense o f Act tapper o f Guinness Stout in the Green 60 and the cause o f equal educational opportu Mountains. Is proprietor Patrick Finnigan nity. This time Racine truly earned his wings. concerned about the stout competition about A few other highlights come to mind: to move in down the block? • In the Chittenden County state senate race, “The more the merrier,” says Pat. Susan Sweetser and Dennis Delaney learned O f course everyone knows the new Irish that an endorsement from The Burlington Free Pub wouldn’t have a prayer o f winning council Press isn’t worth much at the polls. Guess vot approval if Shawn Cliche were behind it. It ers didn’t take the Freeps’ advice to forget was two years ago this month that the City Sweetser’s 1996 congressional debacle. Shucks. Council yanked the liquor license they’d just • Sen. Helen Riehle, a Jim Jeffords-style given Cliche for his planned Coliseum night Republican, was the top GOP vote-getter club on Cherry Street. A dastardly deed it was, despite her support for Act 60. Helen since Cliche has a spotless record with the State thumbed her nose at Ruth Dwyer and the Liquor Control Board. Cliche was done in by right-wing fanatics. Riehle returns in January his notoriety as the impresario who once as one o f the most respected veterans under the brought strippers to South Burlington via the golden dome. late Club Fantasy. He played by the rules, but • Vince “the Body” Illuzzi not only wins Chief Kevin Scully lobbied hard against him, reelection to what is effectively the Illuzzi sen claiming the Coliseum would open a new ate seat for a long as he wants it, but he was “drinking corridor” in the Queen City. also elected state’s attorney in Essex County. Cliche sued in federal court and the case is Can Essex County secede? winding to a resolution shortly. Most o f the • The godparents o f Act 60, Democratic Reps. city councilors from 1996 have been deposed Paul Cillo and John Freidin, were taken out in by Cliche’s legal team. This is a biggie, folks. surgical strikes by the well-heeled House City Attorney Joe McNeil has reached outside Republican political action committee. Four his firm, all the way to Middlebury, to find a years ago a similar well-funded tactical strike lawyer with the expertise to represent took out House Speaker Ralph Wright. “Cillo Burlington. And if attorney James Carroll does and Freidin suffered from success,” Ralphie not win on the city’s pending motions, the tells Inside Track. “Power is an attraction and only argument at January’s trial will be over they went after them,” he says. “That’s part o f how much moolah Cliche will collect. the game. That’s why you don’t need term lim Somebody sure gave the city council some its.” beautiful advice on this one. The current speaker, Michael Obuchowski, Police Contract Update — Word from the has a little problem on his hands. With at most Antonio Pomerleau Police Headquarters this 77 Democratic seats in the 150-member cham week indicates the tentative contract agreement ber, Obie & Co. will have to be on their toes between the city and the police officers union all the time. The loss o f Cillo and Freidin is not going to be signed, sealed and delivered means the House Ds have lost 90 percent of in time for Chief Alana Ennis’ arrival. The their brain trust. “We’ve taken off both arms deal on the table had been reached with the and performed a good part o f the lobotomy,” help o f a federal mediator. Sources say the boasts one GOP insider. $20,000 salary boost that Police Commission Democratic Whip John Tracy o f Burlap is Chairman Jerry O ’Neill slipped in at the 11th after Cillo’s post, and Matt Dunne o f Hartland hour for Burlington’s first Blue Devil has is running for whip. In the coming weeks, become a major sticking point with Jerry’s GOP leader Walt Freed will be organizing a Kids. Is anyone really surprised? O ’Neill is “hockey team” o f Democratic moderates. touring Asia this month and unavailable for Surprise, surprise! The House is where the comment. 0 action will be come January under the golden
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toral hour, it’s the going wis dom that the drive for Clinton’s impeachment is dead, and that the “Bush boys,” George and Jeb, who won resounding victories in Texas and Florida respective ly, will re-gild the Repub lican lily by reaching out to “Hispanics” and the poor. This I want to see. What do they have in mind — 401 K’s for the help? Me, I wouldn’t vote for a Republican for dog-catcher, taking reverse inspiration from my great-grandmother, who used to say that she’d vote for a monkey so long as he was Republican. In 1940, however, when the G.O.P. nominated the internation alist Wendell Willkie for President, she cast her vote for Roosevelt. “I thought you said you’d vote for a monkey if he was Republican?” her children asked. “A monkey, yes,” said my great-grandmother. “Wen dell Willkie, no.” As to Mrs. Snelling, I have nothing against her in principle,, if you ignore the fact that she’s a Brahmin running on dynastic coat tails and that she allies her self in the first place with a party that hates and harms women — unlike Chittenden County Senator Helen Riehle, for example, who practically declared herself a Communist this year in order to escape the drubbing that any idiot could have told her party was coming. Any idiot but a Washington pundit, that is, as that dried-up parasite, Sally Quinn, made plain in a recent article for the Washington Post. Quinn is the wife o f the Posh former editor, Ben Bradlee, who was something of a populist hero until he fell in with Sally’s tip-nosed-and-cocktails set. Quinn’s November 2 Op-Ed, in which she begged us to consider how fine, moral and civic-mind ed she and her powerful friends “inside the Beltway” really are, and how they sim ply cant stand by and watch someone from Arkansas make a mockery o f their val ues, owes more to Martha Stewart than Martha Washington, and has been the object o f such ridicule on C-SPAN and the Internet that it’s disappeared from the Posh Web site, leaving nothing but a trail of incredulous letters in its
wake. “How good o f Sally Quinn to instruct us dim mer folk how morally supe rior the Washington establishmentarians are to that low-life, redneck, hillbilly nobody who doesn’t even own a house,” says one, Beltway “outsider” Rose Pritchard. “Her piece not only sets forth precisely why Kenneth Starr has had col laborators up the gump stump in the establishment press. It also is an invaluable ‘Guide to the Establishment Umbrage-Assertion Society,’ whose tireless campaigning has brought us in this other wise golden age o f peace and prosperity to the verge o f a preposterously senselesss constitutional crisis that may trigger a world market panic.” Wish I’d said that. One by one the authors and fulminators of Monicagate are scrambling for higher
We are also told in press releases that Newt and his wife need to “get to know each other again,” an enterprise that doubtless spells horror to them both. ground. In The New York Times, having donned rain wear and rubbers several weeks ago as protection against the rising anti-estab lishment tide, Maureen Dowd now declares that there’s nothing left o f Ken Starr and his “investigation” but two shriveled feet stick ing out from under a house that’s fallen on him from the sky, like the Witch o f the East in The Wizard o f Oz. “Who would ever have thought that the man Monica would bring down would be Newt?” Ms. Dowd inquires, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Let’s hope she’s right about Starr, and that this particular Repub lican distraction isn’t still wearing the ruby slippers. It’s a new day in Washington, anyhow, as Maureen and Sally can tell you. Let’s hear it for the Republic — without the an.
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Using information from the Jeep’s registration, investigators pay a call to Tarbox’s mobile home, and there they find a gruesome surprise. Lying on the floor o f the dining room is a second body, that o f 76-yearmining the cause o f death: Dr. old Eno Piermarini. How did Paul Morrow, Vermont’s Chief Piermarini die? Is there a link Medical Examiner. between these two deaths? Bedside manner isn’t an What exactly is going on here? issue when all o f your patients In this, and other mysteri are dead on arrival. But for ous demises, one man is ulti mately8responsible deter- -- november 11, 1998 page - SEVENforDAYS
Morrow, that’s just part o f his job’s appeal. “Being a physi cian,” he explains, “there’s always a tension between view ing the patient as a person and the patient as a medical case; a
disease. I always had a problem bridging that gap.” When the goal is to cure the living, a doctor is often com pelled to perform procedures that are painful or degrading
for the patient. This task demands a degree o f detach ment. “But when they’ve already died,” Morrow contin ues, “there’s not much more you can do for them. It’s easier to view a dead person as a med ical problem.” Morrow, whose trim, gray ing beard and leather elbow patches suggest an academic more than the Grim Reaper, didn’t originally intend to make his life’s work staring death in the eye. Like many careers, his unfolded by degrees: a high school diploma from South Burlington High; a B.A. in music theory from Haverford College; and an M .D. from the University o f Vermont. Before settling on forensic pathology, Morrow pursued pediatrics and pathology. Why these two fields? “Maybe because they both start with the letter P, and so does my name,” the doctor dead-pans. “Then again,” he adds, “I was never interested in podiatry. Or proctology.” After medical school, a resi dency in anatomic medicine took Morrow to Syracuse, New York. While he was there, he did a rotation with a medical examiner — purely out of curiosity, he says — and was surprised at how much he liked it. He followed up with clinical and forensic residencies and, in 1981, returned to Vermont to work as Deputy to Chief Medical Examiner Eleanor McClullan. Nine years later, Morrow rose to the rank of
Chief. The state’s master o f post mortems executes his duties from Baird One, a spanking new suite discreetly tucked away beside Fletcher Allen’s Ambulatory Services entrance. Beyond the deathly still and surgically sterile waiting room, Morrow’s inner sanctum is arrayed with cheerful personal effects: miniatures o f Superman and Don Quixote; the hand some remains o f a console radio whose plug the doc pulled some years back; a fan o f hunting arrows he bought in the Amazon Basin when he was a teenager and his parents were practicing physicians with Project Hope. Ask Morrow the difference between a medical examiner and a coroner, and he launches into an unexpected history les son. Though coroners’ work often comes in the wake o f coronaries, the word doesn’t come from the heart, but the crown. The term dates back to medieval England, where the county sheriff acted on behalf o f the royal family. As coroner, his job was to ensure that whenever someone died, the crown received its share o f the estate. Identifying suicides was o f particular interest because, when someone took his or her own life, the crown took the entire estate. On this side o f the Atlantic, coroners still are not always required to have medical train ing. But the position has evolved into an elected office. Today, some states just have coroners, some only use med ical examiners, and some, like New York, have both. Vermont has never used coroners. Prior to the 1950s, when the state established the position o f Chief Medical Examiner, the job o f determining causes o f unattended deaths fell to the town selectboard. VSA Title 18 Statute 5205 decrees that the Chief Medical Examiner be a qualified physician. The law charges the examiner with investigating any death due to non-natural causes — a catego ry that includes accidents, sui cides and homicides — and any unexplained natural deaths. In addition, anyone who dies in a state mental hospital, in jail, or while in police custody comes under the examiner’s purview. The medical examiner is also required to look into any deaths deemed possible public health hazards. This last provi sion came into play in the 1970s, when an outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease was tied to UVM ’s water tower. “For awhile,” Morrow says, “anyone in the area who died o f pneu monia was given an autopsy.” All told, o f the 4000 to 5000 deaths that occur in Vermont each year, about 500 come before the medical exam
iner. Roughly half o f these are from natural causes. Among the rest, around 15 are homicides, 80 or 90 are suicides, and the rest are accidental. Fewer than half the cases that cross the examiner’s desk end up requir ing an autopsy. If it’s a drunk en-driving accident in which no one will be charged, a straight forward suicide where the per son shot himself, left a note and was known to be depressed, or an 82-year-old with document ed heart disease who died at home, chances are the death certificate will simply be signed and the body buried without extra fuss.
at a drug overdose.” The formal autopsy begins with an external examination, which Morrow says is like any other rigorous medical exam. Except that this one takes place in the morgue — a cross between an operating room and a laboratory space, with stain less steel sinks and counters and a body cart. And except that, for this final exam, the doctor is joined not only by the usual cadre o f medical students, but also an assistant to help remove organs, a police officer to snap the corpse’s portrait and, some times, staff from the crime lab. As with any surgical proce dure, everyone but the bucknaked body on the table is swathed in a protective mask, cap, gloves, sleeve covers and apron. In this case, however, the precautions are meant to pro tect the attending personnel from the body’s fluids. As Morrow notes somewhat stiffly, “infection is not an issue” for the deceased. The first order o f business is
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into a procedure appropriately known as the “gross” autopsy. Standard surgical incisions are made to gain access to the chest cavity. Each o f the major organs — heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — is removed and dissected. During this phase, Morrow fer rets out such fatal flaws as blocked arteries, liver damage or internal injuries. While the body is still open, the examiner also extracts samples — a small slice o f brain; vials o f eye fluid, urine and blood; bits o f undi gested food from the stomach. The samples are put up in quart containers with formalde hyde. Then the organs are returned to the body, the body is sewn up, and the remains are released to the family. Very often at this point, cause o f death is determined and the autopsy ends. But sometimes it’s necessary to screen urine for drugs, test blood for alcohol, or run more sophisticated toxicological tests. In natural-cause cases, it’s fre quently useful to take a closer
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elusive. The only marks left by a sudden cardiac arrest, for example, are those changes the body undergoes when the heart stops beating. N ot terribly use ful, Morrow comments. “Every heart I examine has stopped beating.” Expiration date also makes a difference. “If the soft tissue is gone and the cause o f death is strangulation, you just don’t find it,” Morrow sighs. “If the body is severely decomposed or a skeleton, it’s often impossible to find out what happened. Those are my favorite cases,” he adds, smiling. “I like bones.” The chief had plenty o f opportunities to indulge this taste a few years ago in St. Johnsbury. In the mid-1990s, excavators exhumed the skele tonized remains o f 63 citizens who’d been buried more than 150 years ago under what’s now the county courthouse parking lot. Working with an archeolo gist, Morrow helped determine the sex, age, height and weight o f the former St. Jayers.
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s much as Morrow enjoys an old skeleton, he has a hard time handling cases that hit close to home. Childhood deaths are especially taxing, particularly when the victim happens to be a girl about the same age as his daughter, now a teenager. Women who are victims o f rape-murders or domestic abuse, and other innocent peo ple who’ve died violent deaths also get to him, Morrow admits. But o f the nearly 2000 autopsies the examiner has per formed, the one that took the biggest emotional toll on him was that o f Governor Richard Snelling. “I live in Shelburne/’ he explains. “I knew his family and went to school with his kids. I was a big admirer o f his. I thought he was a very good governor.” Every medical examiner has his or her own limits. Interact ing with next-of-kin can be dif ficult and draining. But for Morrow, this duty can also be rewarding. “For some people, it’s very important in the griev ing process to know what really happened,” he observes. “As the medical examiner, you can help them understand the medical details.” Does dealing with death on a daily basis make the doctor’s own mortality more vivid? Some practitioners are bothered by the natural deaths o f people their own age, Morrow says, adding it hasn’t been a problem for him so far. But on further reflection, says the chief, who turns 50 on his next birthday, “I have found that the bodies get younger every year.” ®
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The author was definitely the cen ter o f attention last Sunday at Barnes & Noble, at a fundraising event for the flood-damaged Lincoln Library. Two hours after his reading, Bohjalian was still madly signing books — stacks and stacks for the store, and “personal ized copies” for anyone brave enough to seek him out in the cafe. Neither sudden celebrity, nor fame-induced fatigue, has made the former ad agency executive any less accommo dating. “I am always somewhat bemused to find there are people not related to me who are interested in my books,” Bohjalian said with humility that is hard to believe in light o f his current success. He seemed even more taken aback when two teenage girls nervous ly approached him with an official invitation to speak at their high school
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he calculated rigor with which Bohjalian has applied himself to literary pursuits could hardly be shrugged off as “luck.” What looks like a meteoric rise has actually been more like a long uphill battle fueled by unflag ging determination and an abil ity to turn out better and better books. Bohjalian’s first novel, which he describes as “the singularly worst thing ever published,” was written in two-hour incre ments before and after work at one o f the largest ad agencies in Manhattan. But the proceeds helped finance a “downwardly mobile” move to Vermont, where Bohjalian promptly went to work on novel number two. Twelve years after he moved to the funky mountain town o f Lincoln with his wife, photog rapher Victoria Blewer, Bohjalian still gets up every morning at five like a com muter with a train to catch. He devotes the first five hours of the day to fiction, with a brief
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scheduled stop for breakfast with his four-year-old daughter Grace. At 10, he switches gears to nonfiction and toils at jour nalistic endeavors until 1:30, when he breaks to do errands. “At five o f three I meet Grace at the bus stop and take primary parental responsibility until 4 :3 0 ...” he goes on, with the geeky detail o f a guy who knows he is anal-retentive and makes the best o f it. His study is spotless, with all the comput er equipment protected with dust covers. His collection o f Vermont authors is in alphabet ical order. Even his November garden is a work o f compulsive composting, with the dead flowers laid out in alternating patterns, like cords o f wood. A dozen years in the shadow o f Mount Abraham have not made 38-year-old Bohjalian look like less o f a transplant. Preferring turtlenecks and Vneck cardigans to flannel, he approaches his adopted com munity like an eager but respectful anthropologist, whether he is celebrating the quirky charms of rural life in his weekly column in the Burlington Free Press, or delving into Vermont-specific subcul tures o f dowsers, midwives or homeopaths. His understanding o f the place deepens in each new
“I found my voice in Vermont, there is no question about it, in the community of Lincoln and the people I met here who are so profoundly together and supportive and downto-earth.” — Chris Bohjalian novel: Hangman, his second book, was a “perfectly adequate New England ghost story about a couple from New York City who wind up in a rural village in Vermont,” he explains. Compare that to Water Witches, which pits old tradition against new technology in the context o f a controversial ski area devel opment, or Midwives — a courtroom drama about a mid wife charged with womanslaughter in a home birth gone bad. His inspiration for the book came from Lincoln midwife Carol Warnock, who clued Bohjalian into the fact that you
could “catch” a baby at home. Years ago, Warnock also faced charges o f practicing medicine without a license when she safe ly delivered a breach baby in metereological conditions simi lar to the ones described in Bohjalian’s book. He spent hours interviewing her at the Squirrel’s Nest diner in Bristol, and also picked the brains o f a local obstetrician, state’s attor ney and criminal defense lawyer. “Writers talk with an ago nizing amount o f hubris about how they found their voice, that tic that makes their work distinctive,” says Bohjalian,
noting his journalistic back-;; ented” fiction. “I found my ' voice in Vermont, there is no question about it, in the com munity o f Lincoln and the peo ple I met here who are so pro foundly together and support ive and down-to-earth.”
ohjalian was not exactly speechless as a kid — only “way too comfort able being alone,” as he puts it. The product o f an Armenian father and Swedish mother, he and his older brother had a “pretty reasonable” upbringing in Cheeveresque settings — in 13 years and five different New York suburbs, he attended seven different public schools. One o f those public schools was in Miami, where the family moved for three years when Bohjalian was 13. He was not exactly an athletic boy, although his third book, Past the Bleachers, draws from his lessthan-stellar career as a Little League pitcher. “All I did was read,” he remembers vividly. “This psychotic, sadistic ortho dontist gave me a retainer that I had to wear awake, four hours a day, but not during school. O f course I never met anybody.” His book list wasn’t bad,
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To one side, in startling con trast, was a statue o f Nathan Hale — the twenty-one-year-old Revolutionary spy caught on his first time out — standing with a rope around his neck under some shade trees. Either the guys behind that choice had seen patriotism and nobility where I also saw amateurism and failure, or someone with a wicked sense o f humor had been given too much leash. Most o f the action unfolds on more mundane turf familiar to Vermonters: There’s a car chase in Middlebury and an altercation in the college’s Center o f Fine Arts — an occa sion Mayor uses to critique both the museum’s motley architecture and the village’s serpentine traffic patterns. Gunther pulls a gun on an ostensible pursuer right in the middle o f Route 9 in West Brattleboro. The story’s loops take him to the Windham County Courthouse, the Woodstock Correctional Facility, an unnamed motel on Shelburne Road. But the real action, o f course, comes last, after a suit ably tense build-up incorporat ing high-tech tracking devices and age-old bone-chilling cold: The final shoot-out locale is an abandoned former military installation in the frosty Northeast Kingdom. Its impres sive but now-impotent, vandal ized radar towers provide Mayor his signature architectur al device as well as ironic postCold War symbolism. Here the battle — and Mayor’s prose — escalates to its bloody denoue ment: There was a sudden blast o f gunfire from below, and a stut tering o f blinding flashes. Bullets came screaming through the gridwork before us, bouncing off the wall and ceilings, careening among the obstacles wed laid out, like crazed hummingbirds hungry for blood. We hit the floor and covered our heads, feeling the thud o f spent missiles falling around us. In the background, we could hear the dull thunder of footsteps pounding up the stairs. The Disposable Man is a far cry from the spy classic, The Third Man — Lt. Gunther’s concerns are much closer to home. But Mayor’s newest vol ume nevertheless reminds us that the isolation o f rural Vermont is no longer immune to whatever evils plague the greater world, including the ragged remnants o f internation al espionage. If his ruthless criminals infiltrate only to die at the hands o f the “good guys,” there is something in Gunther’s intimate glimpse at “disposability” that permits him merely another o f his equivocal triumphs. This detective can’t help but cop a plea for humanity, for life itself. Thus in the month when mortality is so evident, a little Gunther goes a long way. ®
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enator, the President has asked for a word.” “Which one?” the Senator wondered. “He can’t have ‘senator.’ I’ve gone flush with it. ‘Senator’ has lubri cated my life,” he thought and then relaxed for a moment, having cleared that up. But then fidgeted with a start, “He can’t have ‘littoral,’ either. It’s the only sexy word I get to repeat in gener ously funded conversations with young co-eds.” “Mr. President?” the Senator said into some device o f transmission. Not a walkie-talkie. Not a cellular phone. He was strapped into a seat outside the cockpit. His feet did not touch the ground. He was prepared for take-off. It was necessary though embarrassing for a younger astronaut to hold the phone device to the Senator’s mouth and ear. “Mr. President?” the Senator said again, and caught a dry “i” in his throat. Preseedent. The young astronaut kept his eyes averted and kneeled in genuflection. The Senator looked like a child in a car seat who was talking to his imaginary friend Antonio while waiting in the back o f his mother’s Dodge Caravan as
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she groceried. The soft sounds inside the shuttle reminded the Senator o f one womb in particular — that which had housed a boy he’d known in grade school. The boy was born with a debilitating muscle disease, and the disease had been explained to the boy like this: “Son, it’s as though you were born with pillows for legs.” The Senator was unsure how that might have made the disease any clearer to the boy. “Mr. President?” he said for the third time, but the line had apparently gone down. The young astronaut stood up and took the receiver to his own mouth and ear, demanding, “Hello? Mr. President, do you read me? Copy? Do you read me? Over.” “What had the President wanted?” the Senator wondered later, once some o f the commotion and officious busi ness o f a disconnected presidential phone call had died down. “Maybe there’s something wrong with the shut tle,” he thought and scratched gently, then efficiently, at the hairs brushing his temple. He waited for some word, wishing they’d given him a puzzle or the Times so that moments would pass without so much notice. “If something were wrong they
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galaxy after my mother’s china pattern, “Reverie in Strawberry.” wouldn’t leave it up to the President to drop the news,” he thought. Still, he wondered what the phone call might have wanted. Perhaps the President had phoned to encourage the astronauts’ sense o f American duty. He might have said, ‘You’re a beacon to the nation, a shining star in the world.” Or he might have said, “Give those young tigers hell, pal.” Or, “Senator, don’t tell the others, but I haven’t been feeling too hot, some stomach thing the doctors can’t decide what to call. Read me?” The Senator used the seat in front o f him as a shield while he investigated a facial blemish. Swiftly, without the knowledge of the other crew members, he inserted his pointer nail into the inconsistency until he felt blood on his fingertip and the door to the shuttle was sealed. ‘The President probably wants me to claim anything out there for us. Maybe he was call ing to remind me o f his wife’s
maiden name in case something new up there doesn’t have a name.” At this the Senator sat up straighten “What’s wrong with my wife’s name?” he thought. Lift-off was noisy and upsetting to his constitution. Once the battering calmed down, a voice on his headset altered him. “Senator, the citi zens o f Perth, Australia, have a message for you.” From the window the Senator saw the lights o f an entire city flash on, flash off, flash on. A beacon. A shining star. “Down there,” he thought, “God used the word to separate light and dark into meaning. Up here, what is the word? From my window 1 see space. I name it wind, but that word has lost its glue. Nothing sticks in space. I could name the galaxy after my mother’s china pattern, “Reverie in Straw berry.” See, then name, then try to forget it for the rest o f your life so that you can stay mar-
He remembered a conversa tion: “You are mine,” he’d told her. And she’d looked up from the bed where she sat. “If you scientists are so smart, how come glue dispensers always clog when there’s still glue left inside?” she’d asked. “Please,” he’d said to her neck, which was exposed and red after her shower. “I’ll stop breathing if you are not mine.” “Five, four, three, tw o ...” “What?” he asked. “Stop breathing when I get to one.” Copy? Over. From his window was the world. Separated from the word by one tiny sliver o f “L.” In his space process of neology, if indeed neology was called for, there’d be no “L”s. This ruled out his last name. Fine. “L”s tended toward erosion more than the other letters. Think of it in lower case, a mica flake of biotite or muscovite dissolving under stress or simple percola tion. He rested his cheek against the seat’s headrest, catching his dry lip on the vinyl. “Stars are boring in the daytime,” he said to comfort himself. He could talk about light without using an “L.”
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don’t know a lot o f theater artists who are big pro-foot ball fans. The American obsession with pro sports is typically a source o f consterna tion for thespians struggling to draw attention to plays on stage, not on ESPN. In his newest play, End Zone, play wright-director Stephen Goldberg manages to draw attention to both. Like the view from the cheap seats, however, what we’re looking at is not always clear. The play finds former high school football hero Sammy Edell afflicted with the worst case o f could’ve-been-somebodyism since Brando’s turn in On the Waterfront. Unlike Brando’s has-been boxer, Sammy didn’t take a fall for money; the impetus for his decision not to “go pro” is a secret he keeps until near the end o f the play; That secret has eaten away at him, bringing him to the shattered mental state in which he finds himself as the play opens. Lest Sammy find contentment in the pre
sent, his drinking buddy Marty fuels his nostalgic reverie and gives bad advice, while Sammy’s wife, Anna, crushes him nightly for the damage his failure has done their family. That damage mainly concerns their lost son, Joey — another mystery revealed in the play. Goldberg has created, in Sammy Edell, a composite o f alienated everymen from mod ern American drama. Like Brick Pollitt in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sammy drinks to dull the echoing roar o f his glory days. Like Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death o f a Salesman, he has come up short o f his dreams and plies the drudgerous car salesman’s trade. The play’s rough barroom talk and the fuck-or-be-fucked world view could have come straight from any number o f David Mamet scripts. As Sammy, G. Richard Ames fills these worn-out shoes well. With a touch o f gray around his slicked dark hair, dark-rimmed glasses, and plain suit and tie, he cuts a credible figure o f the athlete put out to
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pasture in an auto dealership. Hints o f the quarterback calling plays are still visible in his demands for some explanation as to how he has fallen so far behind in life’s game. Although Sammy’s rage is constant, Ames modulates his performance, deftly evoking the full range and depth o f his anger. He is on the brink o f violence then immediately deflated during exchanges with Anna — played by Tracey Girdich with a split personality that jumps from zombie-homemaker to castrating bitch. Ames spews stream-of-consciousness invective during his session with shrink Dr. Goldman, played with convincing com passion by Marc Awodey. And when he goes for the throat o f Marty, portrayed by Peter Freyne with the two-faced affa bility o f an all-American barfly, he seems to mean it. The alienated American everyman is an important cul tural icon — some critics have called him the new American hero. While his world is, by definition, an unpleasant place, his progress usually conveys some message — about perse verance or, in less optimistic works, the costs and benefits o f
truth-telling. The message o f End Zone is more elusive. Whereas football can be confusing for its meticu lous code o f rules, in this play all rules are muddled. What begins as a fairly naturalistic tale o f a man trying to make his wife jealous by having an affair transforms into absurdist come dy. The morning after Sammy’s first tryst with Renee, the parttime weathergirl, played with blank physicality by Isis Erb, the whole household — Sammy, Anna, their son Jamie and a semi-nude Renee — have breakfast together. The play shifts stylistically again, in the final scenes, when physical fighting and armed struggle take End Zone out of absurdist comedy and into action-adventure territory. There is no rule that says that plays must hew to one style. Still, the looseness with which this story is told makes it hard to tell whether Sammy’s team is winning or losing. David Symons’ Jamie offers a glint of hope in this otherwise hopeless descent into dysfunc tion. His subtle blend o f irony and innocence smacks o f real humanity. But subtlety never won a football game, and here
it gets trampled as the play charges at the next obstacle. Those obstacles seem to exist for their own sake, like tackling dummies set up at football practice. Conflict — not resolu tion — seems the object o f this game. Even, the return o f the estranged son Joey, played with a balance o f pain and menace by Paul Soychak, confounds rather than completes the Edell family reconciliation. In the final, pivotal scene, key charac ters are piled onto each other in a ridiculous psychosexual heap, like football players trying to recover a fumble. Sammy is that fumble, of course, but at play’s end it’s still difficult to say who — if any one — has the ball. he madness is more methodical in the Lamoille County Players’ production o f One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Working from Dale Wasserman’s stage adapta tion o f the Ken Kesey novel expose o f mental institutions in the 1960s, director John Dunn and his cast have successfully conveyed Kesey’s poignant mes sage about the dark ages o f mental health care without
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squelching the play’s comic potential. An episode in that dark age grows lighter with the entrance o f new patient Randle Patrick McMurphy, brashly rendered by Greg Wells. McMurphy has arrived at the institution by way o f a prison work farm — a transfer he finagled, we learn, to get out o f serving his sen tence in lockup. Far from out smarting the system, McMurphy is shocked — first figuratively, later literally — to discover that being committed means staying in the hospital until the doctors and nurses decide he’s cured. By the time he makes this discovery, he has already pissed off mean Nurse Ratched beyond redemption. More to the point, he has also emboldened some o f the other patients to rage against the institutional machine that seems intent on keeping them institutionalized. At the risk o f offending, the principal cast members make believable mental patients. The strongest o f the bunch play the larger roles. As Dale Harding, Jim Galvin evokes an emascu lated WASP with an avuncular charm and wit, while Dean Burnell is impressive as Billy
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Bibbit, the young man cowed by the mere threat o f his moth er’s disapproval. Mark Roberts is also solid as Chief Bromden, arguably the play’s conscience. The timbre o f his voice and his reticent disposition evoke the fear that the institution has instilled in him, despite his physical size and strength. As McMurphy, Wells gives the conniving rebel a jolt o f ras cally energy. At times, though, his performance goes over the top, exploding with mirth when more subtle responses seem called for. As the ward’s fire brand, he needs to be enthusi astic, but over the long haul the portrayal is a little exhausting. Conversely, while Enid Rosenblum has mastered the voice and carriage o f a head nurse, as Ratched she is some times too calm, too nice, to be the evil architect o f others’ per petual dependency on the hos pital — and on her. Perhaps meanness is just not a quality that comes easily to the Lamoille County Players as a company. After all, this fall marked 20 years they’ve been staging the sprightly chestnut, The Sound o f Music. It’s no wonder they were ready for the loony bin. (7)
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After Dark Music Series, Knights of Columbus Hall, Middlebury, 388-0216. Alley-Cats, 41 King St., Burl., 660-4304. Amigos Cantina, 4 Merchants Row, Middlebury, 388-3624. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-5494. Boony's, Rt. 236, Franklin, 933-4569. Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711. Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5432. BU Emporium, Bellwood Shpg. Ctr., Colchester, 658-4292. Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson Ln., Burl., 862-6900. Cafe Banditos, Mountain Rd., Jeffersonville, 644-8884. Cafe Ole, North Common, Chelsea, 685-2173. Cafe Swift House, 25 Stewart Lane, Middlebury, 388-9925. Cambridge Coffee House, Smugglers’ Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 644-2233. Charlie O's, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. Chicken Bone, 43 King St., Burlington, 864-9674. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. Clover House Pub, 42 Church Rd., Colchester, 860-3631. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Club Toast, 165 Church, Burlington, 660-2088. Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527-7000. Deerleap Books, 25 Main St., Bristol, 453-5684. Diamond Jim's Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St. Albans, 524-9280. Dubie's Cafe, 160 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 658-0693. Edgewater Pub, 340 Malletts Bay Ave., Colchester, 865-4214. Emerald City, 114 River St., Montpelier, 223-7007. Extreme Sports Bar/Dance Club, Lakeshore Dr., Malletts Bay, 864-8332. Franny O's 733 Queen City Pk. Rd„ Burlington, 863-2909. Gallagher’s, Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-8800. Giorgio's Cafe, Tucker Hill Lodge, Rt. 17, Waitsfield, 496-3983. Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg Village, Rt. 116, 482-4444. Greatful Bread, 65 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 878-4466. Ground Round, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-1122. Halvorson's, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. Henry's, Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6361. Higher Ground, 1 Main St., Winooski, 654-8888. Horn of the Moon Cafe, 8 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-2895. Jake’s, 1233 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 658-2251. J.P.’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. LaBrioche, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0443. Last Chance Saloon, 147 Main, Burlington, 862-5159. Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Live Art at the Barre Opera House, Barre, (schedule) 883-9307; (tickets) 476-8188. Mad Mountain Tavern, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-2562. Main St. Bar & Grill, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. Manhattan Pizza, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Monopoles, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, 518-563-2222. Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. The Night Spot Outback, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-9885 135 Pearl St., Burlington, 863-2343. Pickle Barrel, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. Radisson Hotel, 60 Battery St., Burlington, 658-6500. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 865-3144. Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. Rude Dog, 14 Green St., Vergennes, 877-2034. Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. Sai-Gon Cafe, 133 Bank St., Burlington, 863-5637. Sandbar Motor Inn, 59 Rt. 2, S. Hero, 372-6911. Sha-Booms, 45 Lake St., St. Albans, 524-9014. Slammer, Rt. 7, Milton, 893-3454. Something Cool, 22 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-563-8639. Swany's, 215 Main St., Vergennes, 877-3667. Strand Theater, 25 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-566-7185. Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800. The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 878-1100. Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-5223. Three Mountain Lodge, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5736. Thrush Tavern, 107 State St., Montpelier, 223-2030. Toadstool Harry's, Rt. 4, Killington, 422-5019. Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542. Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 870 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 865-6600. Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3409. Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College, Burlington, 865-0500. Villa Tragara, Rt. 100, Waterbury Ctr., 244-5288. Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585.
Mullins may be more surprised than anyone to finally find himself with a hit on alternative radio. But the success of “Lullabye” means the smoky-voiced troubadour no longer has to sweat out the coffeehouse circuit in Atlanta — he gets to rock the whole country’s cradle. Could be your last chance to see the soulful sensation for under 10 bucks — at the Pickle Barrel in Killington this Saturday.
STILL COOL AND DREAD Like most groups that have been around since back in the day, The Itals have had changes in the line-up. But the defining voice of lead singer Keith Porter still rings with the joy of Jah in righteous riddims. The group’s newest release, Modern Age, is a knock-out. See what becomes a legend, this Sunday at Toast.
W EDNESDAY JASON BERGMAN & BOB GAGNON (French jazz cabaret), Leunig’s, 8 p.m. NC. ZOLA TURN (acoustic alt-rock), Billings North Lounge, UVM, 8 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE (acoustic), Dubie’s Cafe, 8 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, 135 Pearl, 9:30 p.m. NC. DISCO FUNK (D JsJohn Demus & Tim Diaz), Ruben James, 11 p.m. NC. ADVANCE MUSIC ACOUSTIC GUITAR SUMMIT (competition), Nectars, 8 p.m. N C, followed by JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), 10 p.m. NC. KATHERINE QUINN (singer-song writer), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. PICKLE-DAVIS (jazz-folk), Manhattan Pizza, 9 p.m. NC. MXPX, THE GET-UP KIDS, COOTER (punk, emocore), Club Toast, 7 p.m. $
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BLOOZOTOMY (jump blues), Nectars, 9:30 p.m. N C. JAZZ QUARTET, M anhattan Pizza, 10 p.m. NC. ACOUSTIC JAM W/HANNIBAL HILL (rock), Alley Cats, 9 p.m. NC. LOCOMOTION (DJ Little M artin/ ’70s disco), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. N C. HIGH GRADE (DJs Demus, Huli & Diaz), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $3/5. OPEN MIKE W/D. DAVIS, Cactus Cafe, 9 p.m. NC. SHAOLIN FIGHTING FUNK (fusionfunk), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9:30 p.m. NC. SAND BLIZZARD (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. MICHAEL P & BRIAN (orig. rock), BU Emporium, 7 p.m. NC. GUY COLASACCO (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. COMEDY NIGHT, Rude Dog, 9 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE, Swany’s, 9 p.m. N C. TNT (DJ & karaoke), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. MARK LEGRAND (Americana), Thrush Tavern, 7:30 p.m. NC. DYSFUNKSHUN, SKAMAPHRODITES (hip-hop/funk, ska), Emerald City Nightclub, 9:30 p.m. $5/8. OPEN MIKE, Gallaghers, 8:30 p.m. NC.
13 FRIDAY PICTURE THIS (jazz), Windjammer, 5 p.m. NC. JOE CAPPS (jazz), Sai-Gon Cafe, 7 p.m. NC. REBECCA PADULA (singer-song writer), Borders, 8 p.m. NC. PERRY NUNN (acoustic), Ruben James, 5 p.m. N C , followed by DJ NIGHT, 10 p.m. NC. DAVE GRAVELIN (orig. folk), Sweetwaters, 8:30 p.m. N C. STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS (hillbilly boogie), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. EVOLUTION (DJ Craig Mitchell), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4/5. R0CKETSLED, ARMY OF DARKNESS, NEVER AGAIN, SMASHED RAPTURE (reunion show; metal/hardcore), Club Toast, 8 p.m. $5. RED HOUSE (blues-rock), Nectars, 9:30 p.m. NC. RIGHT IDEA (rock), Vermont Pub &
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proved to be overly modest: Surviving three decades in the music biz is no little feat. The all-American band Little Feat — which now has its own Radio Hour — perservered through rock’s inevitable ups and downs, including the death of co-founder Lowell George, with a rip-snortin’ funky, bluesy sound that’s instantly rec ognizable. Little Feat falter? Their latest CD, Under the Radar, says it isn’t so. All Points Booking presents the classic rockers at Higher Ground this Wednesday. DJ NIGHT (hip-hop/r&b DJs), Ruben James, 9 p.m. NC. JAMES HARVEY BAND (jazz), Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. SICK OF IT ALL, VISION, ENSIGN (hardcore), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $ 10. SWING DANCE LESSONS Club Metronome, 6 p.m. $8, followed by ALL-AGES RETR0N0ME (disco), 8 p.m. $5. KARAOKE, J.P.’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC. HIP-HOP NIGHT, Ruben James, 11 p.m. NC. DYSFUNKSHUN (hip-hop/funk/rock) 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 COLASACCO (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6:30 p.m. NC. ADAMS & EVE (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. BOB G ESSER (jazz guitar), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC. JERRY LAVENE (jazz guitar), Ground Round, 8 p.m. NC. MR. FRENCH (rock) , Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2. GORDON STONE BAND, ORGANIC GROOVE FARMERS, LIVING DAY LIGHTS (jazz-bluegrass, jam), Higher Ground, 9:30 p.m. $4/6. SHANE BRODY & FRIENDS (folk, swing), Greatful Bread, noon. Donations. PICTURE THIS (jazz), Tavern, Inn at Essex, 8 p.m. NC.
SMOKING GUN, Backstage Pub, 8:30 p.m. NC. KALLIT MOLLY (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. DJ DANCE PARTY, Extreme Sports Bar & Dance Club, 9 p.m. N C . LIVE MUSIC (country-rock; round & square dancing), Cobbweb, 8:30 p.m. $7/12. GARETH HEDGES (British blues gui tarist), Good Times Cafe, 7:30 p.m. Donations. EAST COAST MUSCLE (blues-rock), Rude Dog Tavern, 9 p.m. N C. REFRIED CONFUSION (eclectic groove/funk), Ross Lounge, Middlebury College, 9 p.m. NC. EDGE OF SUNDOWN (Southern rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. NC. DJ BONANZA, Emerald City Nightclub, 9 p.m. $3/5. LIVE MUSIC, Mad M ountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4. LIVE MUSIC, Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3/4. BL00 (jam rock), Nightspot Outback, 9:20 p.m. $7. SHAWN MULLINS (singer-songwriter), Pickle Barrel, 8 p.m. $6/8.
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GOSPEL BRUNCH W/CHRISTINE ADLER, SANDRA WRIGHT, KIP MEAKER & CRAIG MITCHELL, Red Square, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $14.95, followed by UN BAR DISCO (Craig Mitchell turntablism/improv), 9 p.m. NC. BILL SHIMAMURA (singer-songwriter), Borders, 7 p.m. N C. JO M0 F0 (funk/r&b), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. BAG OF PANTIES, JAMES K0CHALKA SUPERSTAR (alt-rock; all-ages mati nee), Club M etronome, 4 p.m. $5. THE ITALS (reggae legends), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $10. RU SS & CO. (rock), Chicken Bone, 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Edgewater Pub, 7 p.m. N C. RIK PALIERI & GARETH HEDGES (vintage folk & blues), La Brioche, 11 a.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC (acoustic), Main Street Bar & Grill, 11 a.m. NC. THE PRESENT (jazz vocals; brunch gospel), Cafe Old, 10 a.m. Donations. HALF STEP (Dead, orig.), Nightspot Outback, 9:30 p.m. N C.
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Mountain is a five-piece acoustic jam-folk band based in Johnson, and with their eponymous debut they unveil what some people do with their spare time up in them thar mountains. One o f those things is practice: Guitarist Gary Levine, the elder statesman of the bunch at 31, leads with thoughtful plucking — sometimes matched note for note by 20-yearold bassist Josh
couraged with the rock biz? Getting tired o f waiting for that record deal? Well, maybe you should give your regards to Broadway. That is, consider a career singing the beloved hits of 42nd Street to adoring, all-ages (and some all-aged) audi ences. Works for John ThadB. This fall, the St. Johnsbury tenor earned himself a “Top Ten Event” vote from the Vermont Chamber o f Commerce — an imprimatur that will undoubtedly lead to more accolades like Vermont Magazines “a true crowd-pleaser!” Think about it — and get some tips from Mr. Broadway himself at the Charlotte Congregational Church this Saturday.
SPACE CADETS Never mind all this fuss about John Glenn. Burlington singer-songwriter Rachel BisseX had a recent brush with B U Z Z Aldrin — the naughty astronaut who played golf on the moon. Bissex shared a bill in Virginia with Aldrin’s step-daughter Lisa Cannon, and got to chat up the former high-flyer. All o f which inspired a space theme for the music suite she shares this weekend with Marianne Flemming, Annie Wenz and Katherine Quinn at the Northeast Folk Alliance conference in the Poconos. Dubbing themselves the “Space Girls,” the four have adopted the per sonal handles Saucy Space, Drippy Space, Hippie Space and Butchy Space, respectively. Visitors to their suite can get hap pily lost in space with a few gulps from their sponsors: homie brewers Magic Hat. Bissex notes too that she was one of only 20 chosen, from 300-some applicants, to showcase at the conference Saturday night. Chances are it won’t be her final frontier.
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DO GOOD DEPT. You don’t often hear “arias” and “assessor’s office” in the same sentence, and that’s a shame. But this Friday Vermont composer Dennis Murphy gets to air his “operina,” titled A Perfect Day, at the Chelsea Town Hall, courtesy of the nearby Cafe Ole and Montpelier’s Savoy Theater. Performed by The Fyre and Lightning Consort, the whole affair — including dinner — is a benefit for next spring’s Green Mountain Independent Film Festival. Call Cafe Ole for reservations, 685-2173. SINGLE TRACKS A big happy birthday to Vermont Pub & Brewery, which turns 10 this week! Despite being under-age, Burlington’s premier brew pub serves up some of the stoutest, burliest ales around. The, er, pint-sized party gets off to a reel good time with Highland Weavers this Wednesday. Many happy returns to VPB owners Greg and Nancy Noonan . . . Fans o f the singer-songwriter genre, don’t forget to come to
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only three songs to go on, but you could still say Zola Turn’s new silver-embossed cassette/single is a cut above previous fare. Producer Glen Robinson’s signature mega rock treatment doesn’t hurt, especially on the up-tempo power-pop middle track, “Tastes Like Nothing,” sung by guitarist Alice Austin. But neither does the beefier instrumental sound over whelm Zola’s sometimes delicate female vocals. The finale, “Falling” is a lovely slice o f dream-pop with vocalist Jen Karson’s voice weaving a tapestry o f diaphanous beau ty, abetted by ethereal textures by Austin, before the song rushes headlong, and loudly, into a punchy right-hook o f an ending. The first song here is the biggest departure from previous material, though: The march-like “Is This Goodbye?” layers bass (Julia Austin), drums (Rachel Bischoff) and tambourine behind vocals reciting odd and inscrutable lyrics. You could call this release a power trio. — Pamela Polston
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS When Richmond folk singer Rik Palieri toured Merry Olde England this fall, his olde friend Gareth Hedges joined in for a spot of the fun. Now the British bluesman, who learned his considerable chops from Southern masters like Rev. Gary Davis and Son House, pays his own visit. For their “Across the Pond Tour,” the lads will appear on WW PV’s “Burlington & Beyond” show this Friday and Tim Downey’s Sunday morning “Live” show on The Point, followed by a performance for brunchers at Montpelier’s La Brioche. Hedges goes it alone Saturday night at the Good Times Cafe in Hinesburg, and with Palieri again next Thursday at the Burlington Coffeehouse. Meanwhile, Palieri has launched a new public access tele vision show called “Song Writers Notebook.” On the first one, Palieri tells viewers the program is about “trying to get us all to write songs, not just for the big-time, but for the happenings in peoples lives,” he says. His first guests will be prolific songwriter Steve Gillette — who’s authored a book called Songwriting and the Creative Process — and his singersongwriter wife Cindy Mangsen. Palieri’s especially psyched for his first remote — an interview with legendary folksinger Utah Phillips at his home in Nevada City, California, next spring. “Notebook” airs three times weekly on Channel 15, beginning the 19th, Thursday at noon, Fridays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 p.m.
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Lanzetta. The quieter moments o f these 1 1 songs are sweet, crystalline, as gentle as the tinkling o f a small bell — this effect enhanced by quiet, understated production from Ad Astra Studio. But that bubble is just as likely to burst with a rapid jam o f arpeggioed runs and over wrought exercises, such as in the middle o f “Comes a Time,” and the busy-bee structure o f “Happy Song,” in which 20-year-old drummer Caleb Bronz seems deter mined to noodle as hard on percussion as the guitarists (including rhythm guy Dan Jones) are on strings. Personally I favor the restraint o f the twangy, minimalist lead on “Bull’s Song,” a slow, almost-jazzy song which also stretches the girlish vocals o f the aptly named Harmony Glynn — think Ricki Lee Jones at age 12 — into breathy sensuality, despite the naive lyrics. It is Glynn’s unique voice — and sometimes-odd pronunciation — that gives currency to this band, though her pixie ways could be used to more startling effect if the songwriting were more compelling. “We Don’t Need Words,” though saccharine, has a memorable chorus and heartfelt lyrical focus, but unfortunately most o f these songs are instantly forgettable. October Mountain would do well to discard aimless fare like the dull “Sweet Nectar,” rein in the overplaying, and concentrate on developing stronger melodies for Glynn to wrap herself around. (7) — Pamela Polston
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BURLINGTON CONTACT JAM: Explore your range of motion through alternative dance forms at this informal gathering of movers. Memorial Auditorium loft, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-3674.
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‘THE DINING ROOM’: The neglected dining room table symbolizes waning W.A.S.P. glory in this poignant family drama by A.R. Gurney. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 656-2094. ‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREW : The bitch is back. Catch a pared-down version of the domestic comedy from the visiting Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4215. ‘THE SANDWALK’: In this comical drama about Charles Darwin, the evolutionary pio neer and his wife adapt to life before Origin o f Species. College of St. Joseph Playhouse, Rutland, 7 p.m. $4. Info, 773-5900. ‘CAT O N A H O T TIN ROO F: Big Daddy’s birthday brings surprises of all sorts in this sultry Southern family drama from Tennessee Williams. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 291-9009.
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‘PUSHING HANDS’: 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. ‘THE 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 Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
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FIGURE DRAWING: The human figure motivates aspiring and accomplished artists in a weekly drawing session at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $3-6Info, 865-7165.
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SARAH VAN ARSDALE: The local author of Toward Amnesia and Beyond reads from her works of original fiction. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p ®$3-6. Info, 865-3144. ‘LOVERS IN LOVE’: This discussion look at literary loves spurned and spoofed in Jan* Austens Northanger Abbey. S. Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7050. MARTIN PRECHTEL: The author of Secrets o f the Talking Jaguar recounts his y^ as a shaman-in-training among the Mayan
ssages to india: Most ic fans think o f “classical” and “improvisai” as polar opposites. To the Ghazal ;emble, a trio playing traditional m usic o f them Indian and Persia, they’re one and :same. W ith sitar, tabla and the “spike vio” the group calls forth the ethereal, everjnging sounds o f their exotic hom elands. •Jnesday, Novem ber 11. Center fo r the Arts, '\ldlebury College, 7:30 p .m . $9. Info, '5-6433.
l ing factual, not poetic, when he says that \ olin m usic has a certain chemistry. T h e Texas J ScM chem istry professor should know —he’s violin builder. In a lecture entitled
coding the Stradivarius: T he Materials, the iund and the M ystique,” he sheds scientific r on the harm onious sounds o f w ooden itruments. irsday Novem ber 12. M cC arthy Arts Center, Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m . Free, fo, 654 -2 3 2 6 .
tist Sue C oe is a vegetarian. Raised near a g farm in her native England, she w ent on champion animal rights by visiting and ren ting slaughterhouses across the U nited States -images captured in her 1995 book D ead feat. C oe discusses her drawings, w hich are irt o f the “Political Pictures” exhibit, in a lecre entitled “Vivisector’s Progress.” ursday Novem ber 12. Fleming Museum, M , Burlington, 5 : 3 0 p.m . $3. Info, 6-0750.
amnot say it was love at first sight,” begins the irst tale in W illem Lange’s Tales From the Edge the Woods. T h e object o f his affection? N ew ngland. A lthough he now hails from N ew
people of Guatemala. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. MARTHA COOLEY: The Archivist author reads and discusses fiction at the Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5502.
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PARENTS ANONYMOUS: Parents gather for support and assistance around the chal lenges of childrearing. Babysitting goes with the program at the King Street Youth Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-4014. STORYTIME: Four- and five-year-olds enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts. South Burlington Community Library, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 652-7080. STORIES: Little listeners hear stories, snack and make crafts at the Childrens Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537. TINY TOTS: Kids three and under hear age-appropriate tales at Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
etc WOMEN’S STUDIES LECTURE SERIES: Ide Corley-Carmody speaks clearly about “Articulation: A Pedagogy of Personal Resistance.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill, UVM, Burlington, 12:20 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4282. CITIZEN RESEARCH DISCUSSION: Educators and local town officials discuss the publics role in formulating policy. Memorial Lounge, Waterman, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389. SEX AND COLLEGE STUDENTS’: A health education prof screens the film Playing the Game as he examines date rape and other issues relating to student sexuality. Campus
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Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0505. ‘ETHICS IN LEADERSHIP’: Business, reli gious and judicial leaders discuss the tension between personal and professional ethics at this workshop for leader types. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 a.m. $12. Info, 863-3489. STRESS MANAGEMENT: 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. COMPUTER MEETING: 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 CELEBRATION: Get an armchair tour of Fort Ethan Allen history, from its cavalry days to the present, along with a glimpse of the new Web site. Sloane Hall, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2271. CERVANTES DISCUSSION: 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. ANIMAL WINTERIZING: Learn how woolly and winged critters prepare for the long winter ahead. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, Huntington, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $3. Preregister, 434-3068. REDESIGNING DEMOCRACY”: The for mer president of Trinity College, Lorna Edmundson talks about the essential ele ments of a healthy, democratic institution. Norwich University, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7715. ‘NEWS OF T H E UNIVERSE’: Psychology
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‘THE DINING ROOM’: See November 11. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROO F: See November 11. ‘ANNIE’: Lyric Theatre stages the Depression-era musical about a little orphan with a big heart. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $14-19. Info, 863-5966. ‘END ZONE’: A former sports hero-turnedcar dealer makes the play of a lifetime in Stephen Goldberg’s dangerous family drama. See review, this issue. Flynn Theatre Storefront, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 863-5966. ‘T H E MATCHMAKER’: A Thornton Wilder comedy set in turn-of-the-century Yonkers, this play went on to become the musical Hello Dolly. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.
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$8. Info, 862-7566. ‘UNDER MILKWOOD’: Fourteen high school students play five dozen characters in this poetic play by Dylan Thomas about life in a Welsh fishing village. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 482-7100. ‘WEST SIDE STORY’: High school stu dents and community members play it cool in the Romeo and Juliet-inspired musical about a neighborhood divided. Vergennes Union High School, 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 877-2938. ‘GRAVITY OF MEANS’: A blind date with a clear-eyed woman upsets the friendship between an artist, a carpenter, and a rich, young narcissist. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $1. Info, 443-6433. ‘ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST’: The Lamoille County Players break out of their musical mold to stage Ken Kesey’s provocative tale of a not-so-mental patient. See review, this issue. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $7. Info, 888-4507. ‘THE FOREIGNER’: Misunderstandings about a “foreign” British visitor to the back woods of Georgia lead to languagerelated laughs in the Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $7. Info, 603646-2422.
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‘TH E TALLEST TREE IN OUR FOR EST’: This 1977 documentary continues the centennial celebration of pioneering African-American actor, athlete and activist Paul Robeson. Bailey Howe Library, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2138. ‘THE MASTER’S HOUSE’: Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein comes to life in a documentary incorporating stills and clips from his brilliant career. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
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‘VTVISECTOR’S PROGRESS’: One hundred years after Upton Sinclair, artist Sue Coe discusses her drawing and paint ings inspired by the American meat-pack ing industry. See “to do” list, this issue. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $3. Info, 656-0750. HOWARD ROMERO: The photograph er gives a slide lecture on his “kaleido scopic panorama” technique, which can produce prints 25 feet long. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7165. ‘MYSTERIES IN STONE’: Local sculp
tors discuss the hard facts of an art form many take for granite. T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, Vermont College, Mont pelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8743.
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LAZY WRITERS FORUM: Share your writing-in-progress in a supportive work shop environment. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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PARENTS ANONYMOUS: See November 11. STORYTIME & CRAFTS: Cultural activities keep your children occupied at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘SUPERSITTERS’: 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 HOUR: Young readers learn from lighthearted literature in a country setting. Flying Pig Children’s Books, Ferry Rd., Charlotte, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 425-2600.
GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB MEET ING: Share slides and snacks with other outdoorsy types at the Waste Water Treatment Plant, Perkins Pier, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6773.
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NATURAL RESOURCES SEMINAR SERIES: Probing profs explore the con nection between suburban sprawl and water quality in a presentation subtitled, “Sociology and Engineering Hits the Fan.” 104 Aiken Center, UVM, Burlington, 12:30-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005. COMMUNITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: This weekly medical info session sorts out fact from fiction concerning the “global crisis” of antibiotic resistance. Hall A, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2882. W OM EN’S WELLNESS WORKSHOP: Rebecca Radcliff covers emotions, food and body hatred in “Learning to Live in Our Bodies.” Campus Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burling ton, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7892. RAPE CRISIS CENTER ANNIVER SARY: Vermont’s first rape crisis center celebrates a quarter-century of helping women cope with sexual violence.
Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 864-0555. STRESS MANAGEMENT: Learn to ease your mind and balance emotional energy at this heart-healthy workshop. Healthy Living, S. Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569. INTERNET BUSINESS SEMINAR: Successful cyber-selling is the focus of this mini expo for small businesses in Vermont. Best Western, S. Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $8. Register, 865-4560. ‘DECODING THE STRADIVARIUS’: Chemistry professor and violin maker Joseph Nagyvary examines the finer points of the finest of stringed instru ments. See “to do” list, this issue. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2326. LAKE CHAMPLAIN BYWAYS: The “heritage” offshoot of the Addison County Regional Planning Commission meets at the Vergennes Fire House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3141. ‘WHAT’S THE DIAGNOSIS?’: As part of a symposium on sub-Saharan Africa, a panel of experts, including a Rwandan ambassador, examine health issues in Africa. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5936. WORLD WAR II PERSPECTIVES: Historian Mark Stoler considers scholarly and “popular” notions about World War II. Heaton Woods, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1857. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: Women suffering from depression, anxiety or any other mental or emotional problem find sorority in this 12-step support group. Seneca Center, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 660-9036.
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VERMONT MOZART FESTIVAL: Mozart and Poulenc are paired in this program of “lighthearted and goodnatured” classical music with the New York Chamber Soloists. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 862-7352. ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays Mendelssohn under the direction of Hugh Wolff. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $35. Info, 603-646-2422. REBECCA PADULA: The local folk diva performs under the influence of Mitchell,
Baez and Dar Williams. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. FLUTE AND PIANO CONCERT: Flutist Karen Kevra and pianist Paula Ennis-Dwyer perform works by Bach, Faure, Ibert and Martinu. Stowe Community Church, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 223-6743. JABALI AFRIKA: The Kenyan contin gent combines voice, rhythm and dance at a three-day symposium on sub-Saharan Africa. McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5936. VIENNESE SALON MUSIC: Hear small-scale works by Beethoven, Schubert and others who provided musical accom paniment for polite Austrian society in the early 19th century. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. PETER ORTH: The prodigal pianist breaks in a brand-new Steinway with works by from Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Robert Schuman. Grace Congrega tional Church, Rutland, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 775-5413.
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‘END ZONE’: See November 12. ‘THE DINING ROOM’: See November 11, $11.50 ‘ANNIE’: See November 12. ‘THE MATCHMAKER’: See November 12.
‘UNDER MILKWOOD’: See November 12.
‘WEST SIDE STORY5: See November 12. ‘GRAVITY OF MEANS’: See November 12 ‘ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST’: See November 12. ‘CAT ON A HO T TIN ROOF’: See November 11, $20. ‘THE FOREIGNER’: See November 12. ‘OPUS II’: Poetry, drama and romance intermingle in this varied program featur ing the Broadway one-act, “Scheme of the Driftless Shifter.” College of St. Joseph Playhouse, Rutland, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-5900. ‘DAMN YANKEES’: The real-life Yankees won big this year. But the Barre Players revisit the popular musical adapt ed from the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $11. Info, 476-8188.
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ST. ALBANS STORIES: Storytellers of all ages tell tales with words and move ment to culminate the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange residency. See ‘to do’ list, this
issue. St. Albans City Hall, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-7376. DANCEBRAZIL: A movable musical feast of Afro-Brazilian dance samples samba, candomble and capoeira — a combination of dance, martial arts and acrobatics. Chandler Music Hall, Ran dolph, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 728-9878.
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‘MA VIE EN ROSE’: Youth Aware of Addison County hosts a screening of this cross-dressing film for teens grappling with questions of sexual identity. Star Mill, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. FILM FUNDRAISER: Enjoy an East Indian dinner followed by Fyre and Lightning Consort’s performance of a Dennis Murphy operina to benefit the Green Mountain Independent Film Festival. Chelsea Town Hall, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 685-2173.
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CLAY AND CUISINE: Potters and chefe collaborate to present delicious dishes — of both types — at the Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-1126.
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ALISON BECHDEL: The local cartoon ist signs her new book, Split Level Dykes to Watch Out For, at the Peace and Justice Store, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-8326. JOE CITRO: Vermont’s “Bard of the Bizarre” reads from Shadow Child, his lat est Green Mountain gothic thriller. Waldenbooks, Burlington Square Mall, 57 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6019. WILLEM LANGE: The popular publicradio raconteur reads and signs his book, Tales From the Edge o f the Woods. See “to do” list, this issue. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231. BILLY ROMP: The Vermont author of Christmas on Jane Street reads and signs the holiday page-turner. See “to do” list, this issue. Decrleap Books, Bristol, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5684.
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SONG AND STORYTIME: The underthree crowd drops in for tunes and talcs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘MUSIC W ITH ROBERT RESNIK’: Kids sing songs with the musical host of Vermont Public Radio’s folk show “All the Traditions.” Fletcher Free Library, Burling ton, 11 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216.
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DIABETES E EXERCISE CLASS: People with diabetes benefit from weekly lowimpact and aqua aerobics. YMCA, Burling ton, 9-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 862-9622. ‘ON AIR’: Catch some air — on screen, that is — at this snowboard-flick screen ing to benefit the Burlington skate park. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 863-0539.
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EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: See November 12. This co-ed section wel comes men. GLBTQ SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, les bian, bisexual, transgendered and ques tioning youth make new friends and get support. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 800-452-2428. BATTERED W OM EN’S SUPPORT GROUP: Women Helping Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-1996. VIKING JOURNEY: John Abbott gives an illustrated account of his journey across the North Atlantic in a replica Viking ship. Campus Center Theater, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2004. AN AMERICAN IN JAPAN: Susan Saitoh revisits chopsticks, tatami and leg less ghosts in this travelogue discussion. South Burlington Community Library, 3 p.m. $5. Info, 658-4398. ‘FACIAL DISTINCTIONS’ LECTURE: Sondra Solomon talks about the psy chosocial effects of women’s appearances. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2638. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SYMPO SIUM: The director of international health at the Morehouse School of Medicine delivers a lecture entitled, “African Science: Emerging from the Shadows.” Geonomics House Library, Route 125, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5936.
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FLUTE AND PIANO CONCERT: See November 13, Bethany Church, Montpelier.
‘AFRICA N IG H T IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS’: African and Caribbean dance, song and drama blend in a spirited cultural evening — part of a symposium on sub-Saharan Africa. McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5936. JO H N THADE: The popular tenor sings hits from Broadway’s “golden age” at the Charlotte Congregational Church, 6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 800-559-7070. ‘EMBARGO’: Performance doesn’t get much more political than this “dramatic mural of poetry, music and dance” inspired by U.S.-Cuba relations. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 229-0800.
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FAMILY DANCE: Caller Peter Amidon hosts this family affair featuring music by the Amidon Family and a pre-perfor mance potluck. Edmunds School, Burling ton, 5:30 p.m. $6. Info, 658-0832. SWING DANCE: Take a lesson then show your stuff at this dance featuring live music by Swingset. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m., $8. Info, 223-4712. SQUARE DANCE: Bucky Tenney calls for a Western-style dance hosted by the Central Vermont Squares. Montpelier Grange Hall, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4. Info, 485-6739.
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‘TH E DINING ROOM’: See November 11, $11.50. ‘END ZONE’: See November 12. ‘ANNIE’: See November 12, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘THE MATCHMAKER’: See November 12. ‘DAMN YANKEES’: See November 13. ‘UNDER MILKWOOD’: See November 12.
‘WEST SIDE STORY’: See November 12. ‘GRAVITY OF MEANS’: Sec November 12.
‘ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST’: See November 12. ‘OPUS II’: See November 13. ‘CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF’: See November 11, $20. ‘TH E FOREIGNER’: See November 12. ‘TRUE LOVE’: This explosive tale of domestic violence features two members of the internationally renowned vocal group Barrio Boyz. North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 656-2005.
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adventure movie, which pits ski bums against terrorists. Howe Center, Rutland, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 773-0510. ‘KUNDUN’: Martin Scorsese directs this bio pic chronicling the early years of Tenzen Gyatso — the current Dalai Lama. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘HIGH ART’: Ally Sheedy plays a reclu sive lesbian photographer who eschews fame and hipness for the edgy, druggy world of a close circle of friends. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘STRIKE’: The Alloy Orchestra supplies sound for this once-silent film by Sergei Eisenstein about reprisals against striking factory workers in Russia. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
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PINHOLE CAMERA WORKSHOP: Taking pictures should be a snap, right? Shutterbugs of all persuasions get the photography basics at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. $20. Info, 865-7166.
words BILLY ROMP: See November 13- Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. DAVID MINDICH: The St. Michael’s College prof discusses the history of objectivity in journalism by reading from his new book, Just the Facts. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. ARCHER MAYOR: The local mystery author reads and signs his new Vermontbased detective novel, The Disposable Man. See review, this issue. Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.
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STORY TIME: Kids three and up listen to literature read aloud. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ORIGAMI BOXES: Crafty kids ages six and up learn when to fold ’em to make attractive gift boxes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Register, 865-7216. KIDS’ CONCERT: You don’t need a dri ver’s license to enjoy Motor City hits from the local folks at Rebop Records. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. BIRD WORKSHOP: Young bird lovers
flock together to make a feeder at this avian-awareness event. Yankee Kingdom Orchard, Lake Road, W. Addison, 9-11 a.m. $5. Info, 759-2387.
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MEN’S AND W OMEN’S TENNIS: Finalists in statewide tournaments serve up singles and doubles at Twin Oaks Sports & Fitness, Kennedy Dr., S. Burlington, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0001. NATURE CENTER HIKE: Trek to Lookout Rock and down the Bob Spear Commemorative trail on this easy fourmiler on the first day of deer hunting sea son. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, Huntington. Call for time and info, 899-4717. DIRT ROAD HIKE: Stroll in orange clothing at a moderate pace over nine miles of rolling roads in the East Mont pelier area. Meet at Montpelier High School, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-7035.
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BAKE SALE: Rhino Foods serves up ice cream novelties, cheesecakes and cookies to benefit the United Way. Rhino Foods, 79 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0252. DOWSING DISCUSSION: The Chittenden County Chapter of Dowsers hosts a talk by Joe Ann Van Gelder on a runic energy program called “Pathworking.” Hauke Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 10 a.m. $4. Info, 658-2007. SCHOOL OF TH E AMERICAS VIGIL: Pax Christi sponsors a silent protest of the U.S. government-sponsored school for Latin American military and police training. Burlington Square Mall, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0068. HUMANITIES CONFERENCE: The annual two-day gathering of the Vermont Council on the Humanities has a theme this year: “Harlem in the Jazz Age.” Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. $175. Info, 888-3183. CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Get in the holi day spirit — and beat the shopping crunch — by investing early at the All Saints Episcopal Church, S. Burlington, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9750. HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Making a list? All you want for Christmas is on sale at Faith United Methodist Church, S. Burlington, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6553. MAGIC HAT BIRTHDAY BASH: After one year in their new location, the local brewmasters unveil a “mystery beer” that goes great with birthday cake. Bartlett Bay Rd., S. Burlington, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free.
Info, 658-2739. CRAFT FAIR: Browse for crafty gifts by local artisans while someone else watches out for your kids. Founders Memorial School, Essex Center, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8302. CUBA SOLIDARITY MEETING: Cuba-friendly factions from New England and eastern Canada convene to discuss possible joint actions and activities. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free Info, 229-0800. ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE: Prospective students tour the campus and chat with faculty and staff. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-762-8000. ART AND ARTISANS HOLIDAY MARKET: The handmade and handy give you a head start on holiday shopping at this seasonal sale. Jericho Community Center, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4576. HARVEST DINNER: Bring a main dish to share, but leave the salad, dessert and drinks to your hosts at the Richmond Congregational Church, 6 p.m. $2. Info, 434-2429. BIRDFEEDING WORKSHOP: Slides and demonstrations show you how to give winter birds a boost. Green Mountain Audubon Society Nature Center, Hunt ington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. $5. Register, 434-3068. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DAY: Get the latest info on causal theories and alterna tive medicine at an “education day” on multiple sclerosis. Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. $10. Info, 800-344-4867. BENEFIT AUCTION: Take a chance on the arts, and you could end up in Spain, Martha’s Vineyard or the Basin Harbor Club. Your bidding benefits Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.
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VERMONT W IND ENSEMBLE: D. Thomas Toner conducts this lively “American band concert” featuring works by Gershwin, Ives and Sousa. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. BILL SHIMAMURA: The mountain man from western Maine plays acoustic tunes in a New England style. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 7
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DANCES OF 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.
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‘END ZONE’: See November 12. ‘ANNIE’: See November 12, 1 & 6 p.m. ‘DAMN YANKEES’: See November 13, 2 p.m. ‘UNDER MILKWOOD’: See November 12, 2 p.m. ‘CAT ON A H O T T IN ROOF’: See November 11, 5 p.m. $20.,A pre-perfor mance discussion starts at 3:30 p.m. ‘THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST’: Fool’s Jacket Troupe stages a dramatic reading of Oscar Wildes witty parlor farce. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-9603.
film ‘ALL TH E PRESIDENT’S MEN’: Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
portray the Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603-646-2422.
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BILLY ROMP: See November 13. Waldenbooks, Burlington Square Mall, 13 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6019. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711.
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HUMANITIES CONFERENCE: See November 14, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ART AND ARTISANS HOLIDAY MARKET: See November 14, 12 a.m. - 4 p.m. VPIRG MEETING AND CELEBRA TION: The public-interest watchdogs cut loose with a slide show on deformed frogs, camaraderie and contra dancing. Burlington Community Boathouse, 2 p.m. (meeting) Free. Party, 4-6 p.m. $5. Info, 658-6659. ‘BIRTHING TH E FUTURE’: Birth advocate and educator Suzanne Arms talks about routine use of unnecessary and harmful medical practices in childbirth. Noble Hall, Vermont College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 786-0740. HOLOCAUST LECTURE: The director of the “Facing History and Ourselves Foundation” kicks off a professorial panel discussion entitled “The Holocaust: Whose History Is It?” Geonomics Center for International Studies, Middlebury College, 4-10 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5391. ‘WILDLIFE DETECTIVES:’ Learn which critters leave clues at this trail-trac ing workshop. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 2-4 p.m. $5. Info, 229-6206.
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TORI AMOS: The piano-playing popster brings other instruments into the act in support of her latest release, From the Choirgirl Hotel Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. BALUCHI MUSIC: The nomadic proto gypsies of southern Pakistan showcase their native musical tradition blending poetry and ancient Indo-European ele ments. Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
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‘THE MAGIC OF SHAKESPEARE’: Actor Sam Lloyd performs a pastiche of the Bard’s dramatic and poetic works. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 483-6708.
film
‘LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!: The Bird Cage meets The Big Chill in this film adaptation of Terrance McNally’s Tony Award-winning play, starring Jason Alexander. Martin Luther King Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burling ton, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2060.
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OPEN POETRY READING: Bring your favorite lines to share with kindred liter ary spirits at the Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4673. MINIMAL PRESS COLLECTIVE: The local literary group hosts an open reading and teams up with Essential Books to dis cuss collaborative anthologies and events. Rhombus Gallery, 186 College St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-9603.
POETRY PERFORMANCE WORK SHOP: Performers, poets and orators join forensic forces to revive a once-popular New England tradition. Isley Library, Middlebury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1014. BOOK DISCUSSION: Leanne Leahy picks up where Oprah left off in dis cussing Vermont author Chris Bohjalian’s Midwives. See story, this issue. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. CANADIAN LITERATURE SERIES: Nancy Means Wright leads a literary tour of our northern neighbor through Alice Munro’s Lives o f Girls and Women. Wake Robin, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8307.
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STORYTIME: 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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TEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treat ment for sexually related problems. Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 863-6326. RUMMAGE AND 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. LITE-N-LENS CAMERA CLUB: Can photo filters enhance your pictures? Bring samples of your work to Delahanty Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0627. SPACE SUIT DISPLAY: A bona fide space suit and a real, life astronaut bring space travel closer to home. Campus Center Theatre, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free.
Info, 656-2005. ASPECTS OF ISLAND ECOLOGY’: In this lecture, Irish university prof John O ’Halloran wonders, “Is the Emerald Isle Getting Greener?” 105 Marsh Life Science Building, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: People with emotional problems meet at the O ’Brien Center, S. Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-9036. BATTERED W OM EN’S SUPPORT GROUPS: Women Helping Battered Women facilitates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1996. Also, the Shelter Committee facilitates a meet ing in Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0855.
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AMATEUR MUSICIANS ORCHES TRA: Vermont Symphony violinist David Gusakov oversees this weekly harmonic convergence of amateur musicians in the Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-9750. UVM ORCHESTRA: Piano soloist Elizabeth Metcalfe plays Mozart and Brahms in a student concert. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. LUNCHTIME CONCERT: Organist Alan Walker plays a mid-day m(flange of tunes at the St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 864-0471. DARTMOUTH W IND SYMPHONY: The student ensemble performs dance music from Broadway, Hollywood and the concert hall with guest dancers from the Boston Ballet. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, ___________________________________
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aromatherapy A R O M A T H E R A PY A N D BEAUTY BASICS: Thursday, N ovem ber 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Star Root, Battery St., Burlington. $15. Info, 862-4421. Get an intro to using essential oils for facial steaming, cleansing, masks and moisturizers. A R O M A T H E R A PY FO R KIDS: Thursday, N ovem ber 19, 6:30-8 p.m. Star Root, Battery St., Burlington. $10. Register, 862-4421. Learn about the alternatives aromatherapy offers fo r common childhood diseases, a n d basic applications o f essential oils fo r babies and children.
art MASK SC U L P T U R E S : Adults: Fridays, N ovem ber 20 and Decem ber 4, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. or Saturdays, N ovem ber 21 and D ecem ber 5, 1-4 p.m. C hildren: Fridays, N ovem ber 20 and Decem ber 4 or Saturdays, N ovem ber 21 and D ecem ber 5, 1011:30 a.m. Clay Forms Studio, W ing Building, Burlington. Register, 8607600. Explore form , texture a n d your imagination in two-session creative workshops.
astrology A S T R O L O G IC A L AW AKEN IN G S ’: Saturday, N ovem ber 14, 2:30-5:30 p.m . Spirit D ancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. $40. Info, 660-8060. Get an astrolog ical update on the upcoming change from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age. D A N C IN G W IT H T H E P L A N E T S ’: Saturday, D ecem ber 12, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m . Burlington. $50 includes dinner. Register, 482-2836. Get an intro to astrological yoga, integrating "planetary attunements" into movement meditations.
ayurveda AVURVEDA PART II’: Wednesday, N ovem ber 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m . Purple S hutter Herbs, M ain St., Burlington. $20. Info, 865-H E R B . Continue to explore the "Doshas" a n d how to m ain tain a life o f balance a n d vitality.
bodyaw areness
Saturday and Sunday, N ovem ber 21 and 22, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. G uided Yoga Studio, 35 King St, Burlington. $160. Register, 860-9927. A dancer and a yoga therapist team up to help you explore your relation ship with your body.
computer CYBERSIGLLS V E R M O N T : O ngoing day, evening and weekend classes. O ld N orth End Technology Center, 279 N. W inooski Ave., Burlington. $39-349. Info, 8604057, ext. 20. Take classes in computer basics, Windows 95, Office 9 7 applica tions, Internet or Web site basics. Private and custom classes are also available.
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C H IL D R E N ’S W E S T A FRICA N D A N C E : Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. M emorial A uditorium Loft, Burlington. $45/5 weeks. Info, 8643227. Kids seven and up learn tradi tional dances o f Guinea, West Africa, accompanied by live drumming. S W IN G LESSON S: Six-week ses sion starting Novem ber 29. Burlington. $40/six weeks. Info, 8629033. Learn Lindy Hop, the original style o f swing.
healing SU R V IV IN G W IN T E R SP O R T S IN JU RIES: Sunday, Novem ber 15, 1-3 p.m . Purple Shutter Herbs, Main St., Burlington. $20. Info, 865HERB. F ind out about natural thera pies to reduce inflammation and pain associated with athletic injuries.
herbs SALVES A N D L O T IO N S : Monday, N ovem ber 19, 6:60-8:30 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, M ain St., Burlington. $25. Info, 865-H E R B . Learn how to make your own skin care products with all-natural ingredients.
kendo K E N D O : O ngoing W ednesdays and Thursdays, 6:45-8:30 p.m. W arren Town Hall. D onations. Info, 4964669. Develop fonts, control a n d power through this Japanese samurai sword-fencing martial art.
kung fu ‘V IN G T S U N ’: Tuesdays and T hursdays, 7:45-9 p.m. T he Body Garage, Pearl St., Burlington. Info, 658-7821. This practical a n d applica ble m artial art promotes health, fitness a n d inner peace.
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‘E M B R A C IN G O U R B O D IE S — E M B R A C IN G OU RSELV ES’:
SP A N ISH C O N V E R S A T IO N I: Four W ednesdays, N ovem ber 18 -
D ecem ber 9, 7-9 p.m. T he Book Rack, W inooski. $63. Register, 6550231. Focus on everyday conversation and vocabulary acquisition. This class is conducted primarily in Spanish. ESL A N D SPA N ISH : O ngoing indi vidual and small group classes. S. Burlington. Info, 864-6870. Take classes in English as a second language or Spanish. ITALIAN: O ngoing individual and group classes, beginner to advanced, adults and children. Burlington. Info, 865-4795. Learn to speak this beauti f u l language from a native speaker and experienced teacher.
m agic ‘M A G IC 10 T: Friday, N ovem ber 13, 6:30-8 p.m. Spirit Dancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. Donations. Info, 660-8060. Get a basic intro to the history, theory and practice o f various types o f magic.
meditation ‘T H E WAY O F T H E S U FI’: Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. S. Burlington. Free. Info, 658-2447. This Sufi-style meditation incorporates breath, sound and movement. M E D IT A T IO N : Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Green M ountain Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane, Suite 203, W illiston. Free. Info, 872-3797. Don't ju st do something, sit there! M E D IT A T IO N : First & third Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Sham bhala Center, 187 S. W inooski Ave. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist meditations. G U ID E D M E D IT A T IO N : Sundays, 10:30 a.m. T he Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne C om m ons. Free. Info, 985-2229. Practice guided m edi tation fo r relaxation and focus.
music D R U M CIRCLE: Thursday, Novem ber 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m . Spirit D ancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. $5. Info, 6608060. Bring your own drum to a circle o f Native American rhythm. SA CRED H A R P S IN G IN G : Saturday, N ovem ber 14, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Friends’ M eeting House, 173 N . Prospect St., Burlington. D onations. Info, 658-5713. Beginners and experienced singers learn about the "shape notes"and “strong archaic sounds" o f sacred harp singing. D ID G E R ID O O : Thursday, N ovem ber 19, 7-9 p.m. Play it Again Sam, M ontpelier. $5. Info, 2290295. Pitz Quattrone teaches the histo ry o f the didgeridoo and playing and breathing techniques. W E S T A FRICA N D R U M M IN G : O ngoing. M em orial A uditorium Loft, Burlington. $10/class, $55/six classes. Info, 660-4305. Master drum
mer M ohamed Soumah teaches the tra ditional rhythms o f Guinea, West Africa.
St., Burlington. First class free. Info, 862-6931. Theresa Bacon offers infor mation, support, exercises and consulta tion in meditation a n d stress manage ment.
photography PH O T O G R A P H Y : Private and group, basic and interm ediate classes. G rand Isle or Burlington. Info, 3723104. Learn darkroom skills as well as how to choose, use a n d exploit the cam era to express your creative style.
‘W IS H C R A F T /S U C C E S S T E A M S ’: O ngoing groups forming. B urlington area. Free. Info, 8633101. Success teams provide goal clari ty, creative ideas and support until you reach your goal. N A R C O T IC S A N O N Y M O U S: O ngoing daily groups. Various loca tions in Burlington, S. Burlington, St. Albans and Plattsburgh. Free. Info, Help Line, 862-4516. I f you're ready to stop using drugs, this group o f recovering addicts can offer inspiration.
reiki U SU I REIKI II: Saturday, N ovem ber 21, 10 a.iti. - 6 p.m. Spirit D ancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. $150. Register, 6608060. “First degree”practitioners talk about building a practice a n d receive an “attunement. ”
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BRAZILIAN JIU -JIT S U : O ngoing classes for m en, w om en and children, M onday through Saturday. V erm ont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, 4 H ow ard St., Burlington. Info, 6604072 or 253-9730. Escape fear with an integrated self-defense system based on technique, not size, strengh or speed.
‘M AKE A N E C K L A C E ’: Saturday, Novem ber 21, 1:30-3 p.m . Spirit D ancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 6608060. Cover basic stringing methods a n d design ideas to create your own necklaces.
spirit M AIK K IN G T H E H O U S E O F T H E W O R L D ’: Friday through Sunday, N ovem ber 13-15, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m . M iddlebury. $150. Register, 4535072. M ayan Shaman M artin Prechtel offers this workshop on “ f in d in g home through the indigenous nature o f the huntan soul. ” S P IR IT U A L EM ERGENCY: Eight Thursdays, N ovem ber 19 through January 21, 7-9 p.m. Soulworks, 35 King St., Burlington. Info, 8646616, ext. 1. Individuals experiencing acute despair due to Loss f in d opportu nity fo r healing and g o w th in sujfering. IN T R O D U C T IO N T O RITUAL: Thursday, N ovem ber 19, 6:30-8 p.m . Spirit D ancer Books, 125 S. W inooski Ave., Burlington. $10. Info, 660-8060. Learn how ritual can give a name to the sacred a n d offer a place fo r magic and healing.
yoga , Y O GA: W ednesdays, 7 p.m. Green M t. Learning Center, 13 Dorset Lane, W illiston. $8. Info, $72-3797. Practice yoga w ith Deborah Binder. B E E C H E R H IL L YOGA: M ondaySaturday, daytim e & evening classes for all levels. Info, 482-3191. Get p ri vate or group instruction in therapeutic yoga, vigorous yoga, yoga fo r pregnancy or yoga fo r health and well-being. B U R L IN G T O N YOGA: M ondays, 5:30 and 7 p.m . Flynn Gallery, 148 M ain St. Info, 658-3013. F in d heal ing through Iyengar style yoga. YO GA V E R M O N T : Daily classes, 12 p.m ., 5:30 p.m . and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. C hace M ill, Burlington. Info, 6609718. Astanga style “p ow er”yoga classes offer sweaty fu n fo r all levels o f experi ence. S H E L B U R N E A T H L E T IC CLUB YOGA: M ondays, 5:30 p.m ., Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. T he Shelburne A thletic Club, Shelburne C om m ons. Info, 9852229. Take classes in Astanga yoga.
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DANCE PERFORMANCE: Formerly with the Parsons Dance Company, Gail Gilbert and her troupe culminate their local residency with an innovative mod ern-dance program. See “to do” list, this issue. Middlebury High School, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 382-1024.
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WRITERS’ GROUP: Writers work with words at Dubie’s Cafe, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9257. AYURVEDIC MEDICINE: Amy Danley-White examines the Indian heal ing approach considered by some to be the oldest known form of medicine. Borders, Church St. Marketplace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. W OMEN’S LIVES BOOK GROUP: Terry Tempest Wdliams’ Refuge is the topic of this discussion led by Larissa Vigue. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
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o p e n i n g s 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. Romero shares photographic tech niques, November 12, 6 p.m.
C0L0R-C0ATE0: PHYSICAL AND PHENOMENAL WORKS, perfor mance, photography, sculpture and installation by Missy Bly and Josh Reiman. Exquisite Corpse Artsite, Burlington, 864-5884, ext. 149. Reception November 13, 7-9 p.m. THE INFRARED SHOW, pho tographs by Catherine Dowd, Paul Hagar, Chad Harter and Matt Siber. Living/Learning Gallery, UVM, Burlington, 656-4149. Gallery discussion November 13, 5 p.m., followed by reception.
HAROLD ARTHUR DRURY & CAROL R0SALINDE DRURY, a father-daughter show of paintings. Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, 828-3291. Reception November 13, 5-7 p.m. HARVEST FEAST: Cuisine & Clay, an exhibit of handmade pottery cooking and serving pieces. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 244-1126. Reception November 13, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
KATHARINE MONTSTREAM 10TH ANNUAL ART SALE, paintings and cards (benefit VT CARES & Chitt. Food Shelf)- Union Station, One Main Street, Burlington, 8628752. November 14, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; November 15, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. WILLIAM KIRBY, recent paintings. Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury, 388-0267. Reception November 15, 3-5 p.m. THE INTERIOR FOREST, a group show by Caravan Arts. Daily Planet Restaurant, Burlington, 660-9060. Reception November 15, 3-5 p.m.
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FAMILY PICTURES & RECENT PAINTINGS by Alice Eckles. Old School House Common, Marshfield, 456-8993. Also, RECENT PRINTS, Buffalo Mountain Coop, Hardwick. Both through December.
GRANNIS GALLERY GRAND OPEN ING, featuring the work of design er/goldsmith Timothy Grannis and other jewelry artists. Bank Street, Burlington, 660-2032. Ongoing.
JUAN PERDIGUER0, “Metamorfosis,” paintings, and FRANK CARMELITAN0, “The Spanish Years,” paintings and etch ings. Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, 864-3661. Through November. PASTEL FIGURE DRAWINGS by Fred Varney. Phoenix Rising, Montpelier, 229-0522. Through November. JANET VAN FLEET, recent oil paintings, and JOY HUCKINS, oils and pastels. City Center,
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AN ODYSSEY OF THE MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, photographs by Christina Dick. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 863-3403. Through November. ALPHABET SOUP, new paintings featuring letters, by Elizabeth Bunsen. Alley Cat Arts, 416 Pine St., Burlington, 865-5079. Through November 23.
NVAA ANNUAL HOLIDAY ART SHOW AND SALE, featuring mem bers’ works in mixed media. Red Mill Craft Shop, Jericho, 8991106. Through December 30. CONNECTING..., paintings by Gail Salzman inspired by the 1997 Liz Lerman workshops with students and seniors. Jeff’s Seafood Restaurant, St. Albans, 524-7376. Through November 28. ELDER ART PROGRAM, a group show in mixed media. North Hero Town Hall, 658-7454. Through November. 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
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COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS & LANDSCAPES in watercolor and oil, by Brenda Myrick. Charlotte Library, 453-6323. Through November. KATO JAWORSKI, MFA Thesis exhibit. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnston State College, 635-1310. Through November 12. PAINTINGS by Anna Vreman. Bread & Beyond, Williston, 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. JOHN WEAVER, paintings. Art Gallery of Barre, 476-1030. Through December 19. 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. Through December 20. A GIFT TO THE COLLEGE: The Mr and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, featuring 110 works on paper from the donated collection of 257 Old Master and 19th-century European prints. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-6462808. Through December 20.
G. ROY LEVIN: CLOTH’D PINS, “portraits” on clothespins. McAuley Lobby, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337. Through November 24. 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. SILKSCREEN PRINTS by Sally Stetson. Shimmering Glass Gallery, Waterbury, 244-8134. Ongoing.
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, featuring watercolors and oils of water scenes by 13 Shelburne artists. Gentry Gallery at Wake Robin, Shelburne, 985-9400. Through November 23. A BOUQUET OF FLORALS, paint ings and drawings by Pria Cambio. Bellinis Restaurant, Montpelier, 223-5300. Through January 1.
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. 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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POLITICAL PICTURES: 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.
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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.
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America needed a good laugh after all these months o f hideous scandal and campaigning. How else to explain the record-shattering embrace with which the movie-going public greeted Adam Sandler’s latest and made it the largest-grossing November opening since the beginning o f time? Well, for one thing, there’s the general con sensus that the SNL grad is, for all intents and purposes, the funniest guy in film, now that Chris Farley has gone to his great reward and Jim Carrey has turned serious thespian, Sandler pretty much has the place to himself and is quickly amassing the most impressive actioncomedy resume since the glory days of Eddie Murphy. With movies like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Bulletproof, The Wedding Singer and now The Waterboy, Sandler has carved out a peculiar entertainment niche and made it uncontestedly his own. When it comes to the comedy o f arrested development, Adam Sandler is the man. Directed by Frank ( The Wedding Singer) Coraci and co-written by Sandler, The Waterboy is a perfectly ridiculous bit o f business in which the comedian plays a slow-witted mama’s boy who ventures out o f the bayou each day to pur sue his life’s calling: that of a “water distribution technician” for the local football team. Sandler’s character quite literally has water on the brain,
and goes about the business o f tasting, preparing, monitoring and, finally, dis tributing his “high-quality H 2 0 ” with the single-minded (well, maybe addleminded) fervor o f a physician adminis tering to the sick and injured o f some earth-shaking calamity. To Bobby Boucher, thirst is more than an incon venience; it’s a deadly enemy. Since boyhood he’s believed his father per ished o f dehydration in the Sahara Desert. Destiny steps in when the team’s unlikely coach fires the 31-year-old and he lands an (unpaid) job with a downand-out organization coached by Henry Winkler. By this time, Sandler’s character has endured a lifetime o f taunting and cruelty and his fuse has grown short. Quite by accident, he discovers he has the makings o f an unusually savage tackle, just so long as he pretends to be smashing into someone who’s insulted him in the past. Winkler rebuilds the loser team around his new secret weapon, and off we go on the road to the championship. Think Rain Man meets one o f those annoy ing old Mickey Rooney movies about spunky, gung-ho kids who refuse to give up on their dreams. While the story is told with tongue deeply in cheek, Sandler always somehow man ages to radiate real humanity, making it possible for the filmmakers to satirize corny big-game movies while simultaneously drawing in the audience and convincing it to root with total sincerety for the underdogs. The amazing thing about The Waterboy is that it’s a cartoon, a joke and sometimes surreal parody, but works on the levels o f both parody and the art form being parodied. I swear I saw a grown woman wiping away tears as we filed out. The elections are over. Newt is out. Before they can stoke up the impeachment machinery again, have yourself a good laugh. A silly, mind less chuckle or two. The Waterboy is a day off for the brain, pure and simple. Every synapse in there will thank you.
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Ronin 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50. Halloween H20 5:25, 9:30. Simon Birch 12:50, 3:10, 7:10. Mask of Zorro 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:40. Dr. Doolittle 1, 2:50, 7:30. Armegeddon 4:45, 9:20.
NICKELODEON CINEMAS College Street, Burlington, 863-9515.
Antz 12:45, 2:40, 4:30. Meet Joe Black 12:30, 4, 7:40. Living Out Loud 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:15. The Siege 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40. The Wizard of Oz 1, 3:30, 6:40, 8:50. Pleasantville 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30. Beloved 7:20. All shows daily unless otherwise indicated.
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer* 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10. Meet Joe Black* 11:50, 1, 3:20, 4:40, 7:10, 8:20. Waterboy 12:10, 12:40, 2:15, 2:50, 4:30, 4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 9, 9:55. The Siege 12, 12:50, 2:25, 3:30, 4:50, 6:40, 7:25, 9:25, 9:50. The Wizard of Oz 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:15, 9:35. Practical Magic 7, 9:30. Antz 12:15, 2:20, 4:20. All shows daily.
At the following theaters in our area listings not available at press tim e. Call for info. CAPITOL THEATRE 93 State Street, Montpelier, 2290343.
PARAMOUNT THEATRE 241 North Main Street, Barre, 479-9621.
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cowboys who try to stop an oncoming
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comet from wiping out the world.
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Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Will Patton
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Todd Solondz’s portrait o f suburban
back for naughty twentysomethings.
SMALL SOLDIERS (NR)
subversion would have a lock on it
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to mention small laughs, small thrills and small audiences. Everything I’ve
a pederast doctor has been met with
I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRIST MAS Jonathan Taylor plays a prep
equal quantities o f shock and acclaim.
school brat who discovers the true
inch military action figures come to
Lara Flynn Boyle and Ben Gazzara
meaning o f the holidays in the course
life and wreak havoc) suggests director
also star.
o f a cross-country trip home. Jessica
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Biel co-stars.
out his supper.
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already. Dylan Bakers performance as
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Death? Well, sort of. In the latest from Reaper who decides to get physical and sample the pleasures o f the flesh. Claire Forlani, for example. With Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Tambor.
read about this Toy Story rip-off (12-
THE HORSE WHISPERER (NR) Robert Redford is back in the
Scent o f a Woman to The Stench o f Martin Brest, Brad Pitt plays a Grim
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from Jerry ( Top Gun, Crimson Tide)
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THE SIEGE (NR) Denzel Washington joins forces once again with director Edward (Courage Under Fire) Zwick for an action-thriller with political undertones. When Arab terrorists wreak havoc on New York City, the military begins rounding up ArabAmericans under the com mand o f General Bruce Willis. Annette Bening and Tony Shalhoub co-star.
LIVING OUT LOUD (NR) From screenwriter-turneddirector Richard LaGravenese comes the story o f an unusual romance between a divorcee and a misfit. Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito star.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (NR) The musical classic is back in all its digitally enhanced glory.
***** NR = not reviewed 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.
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME**** 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 of 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 o f 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.
story about ultra-macho space cowboys who try to stop an oncoming comet from wiping out the world. Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Will Patton and Steve Buscemi star. Michael (.Bad Boys) Bay directs.
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 of another familyfriendly classic Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Norm Macdonald, Paul Reubens and other comics provide the voic es for a menagerie of wise cracking animals. Betty {Private Parts) Thomas directs.
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They ca n ’t all be c la s s ic s . In fact, what we’ve got for you this week are sce n e s from four pictures that barely even registered in the public co n scio u s ness and did so-so business at best. Your job is to convince us they are gone but not forgotten.
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n the dizzying array o f print ed images that wallpaper our modern world, it’s easy to forget that pictures have not always been mass-produced. Every image was unique, every line was drawn by hand. Though block printing was developed by the Chinese more than 1000 years ago, the dis tinctly European intaglio processes o f etching and engrav ing on metal plates developed during the Renaissance — a technological revolution that saw both a decline o f the armorers trade and the rise of the printing press. By inking lines incised into metal plates, Europeans could
illustrate their newly mass-pro duced books while providing gainful employment to the craftsmen who had formerly decorated suits o f armor. Sootblackened metal plates, coated with an acid-resistant ground of wax, proved to be easier to work with than naked plates of metal or wood blocks. As options for the mass dissemina tion o f pictures increased, a new form o f artistry — graphic art, or printmaking — was developed. Three important exhibits in the region illustrate how diverse the realm o f the graphic arts really is. “Colorprint USA” at Middlebury College brings together the works o f 50 con temporary printmakers — one from each state. It is in turn
one o f 50 simultaneous, identi cal exhibits that have opened around the United States. “Pulled Images: The Art of Printmaking” at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe has gathered selections from more than three dozen 20th-century printmak ers, including a collection of works by visiting artists at the Vermont Studio Center. Meanwhile, a new acquisi tion o f 110 graphic works can be seen at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. Part o f a recent bequest of 257 artworks from Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr., it includes some o f the most important Old Master prints in existence. Albrecht Diirer was described by art historian Francis Russell as “the first great
“Knight, Death and Devil,” is genius o f mass communica an allegorical piece with mindtions.” The first truly great boggling details. As a Christian series o f graphic works can be knight ignores Death and the attributed to him, and the Hood now offers crisp examples Devil, the muscles o f his war horse seem to ripple on the o f these masterpieces. Diirer’s page. The Devil is in possession primary mediums were woodo f loose and decadent teeth, a cut and engraving, and the dif swinish nose and a tangleferences between these tech niques can be clearly seen in his bearded jaw. Diirer also experimented works. The woodcuts have soft with, and abandoned, etching er lines, and Diirer’s plain yet powerful com positions are supported by his unique sen sitivity to the process, evident in his cycle of religious woodcuts known as “The Large Passion.” Diirer did “Lineage,” by David Bumbeck not relegate the early on. One hundred years carving o f his block to anony later, an artist o f equal genius mous craftsmen, as was the would demonstrate that the usual practice o f his time. The newer process had come into its son of a goldsmith, he learned how to handle the gravers o f his own. Rembrandt van Rijn is best known now for sumptuous father’s trade at a young age, chiarascuros in oil, but in his and he sought a veracity o f line day he was considered an etcher that could only come from his own hand. The 1513 engraving, first and foremost. Etching
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m on op rin ts for “T h e Print Project ’9 8 ” m ay feel like aerialists w orking w ith ou t a net. B ut organizer D o n H an son w ou ld never allow guests using his press to tum ble into oblivion. A master printm aker him self, H anson
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allowed for the gestural mark ings o f a drawing, and by alter nating between fine needles and engraving burins Rembrandt was able to produce dramatic variations o f line, and ultimate ly give his compositions transi tions o f value much as he did in painting. “The Three Crosses” captures the moment o f Christ’s death as described in Luke 23: “...A nd the sun dark ened, and the veil o f the temple was rent with mist.” With Rembrandt’s vision o f Golgotha, a new conception of
printmaking was born. The Rembrandt works are the backbone o f the Hood exhibit, but Goya’s aquatint etchings, “Disasters o f War,” provide bitter commentary on the price o f complacency, and selections from William Blake’s “Divine Comedy” o f 1827 are harbingers o f modernism. “The Circle o f the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca,” a swirling composi tion in a shallow space, is a cen tury ahead o f its time. At the Helen Day Art Center, the story o f printmak
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Continued from page 39 geometric abstraction. The silkscreens o f Sister Cortita Kent are also particular ly remarkable. Her 1959 piece, “Fringed with Radiance,” con tains explosive color, layered like sheets o f tissue paper to create atmospheric lavenders and reds accented with blue that enmesh themselves into the hues o f a placid sunset. Among the contemporary artists at Stowe, Sarah Amos displays monoprints o f excep tional simplicity and drama. Her “Ghosts” contains deep brown markings hanging like bats in an ambiguous, earthy field. No less mysterious is “I’m Over Here,” a larger, vertical monoprint o f olive, brown and Prussian blue. Among the Vermonters rep resented in this exhibit, W olf Kahn displays a 9 ” x 12” etch
ing (“Untitled, Woods”) in which a few key trees define the whole structure o f the forest. He also appears to have worked back into the print with a gray pastel over his dark and tangled trees. Most o f the the works o f Warren artist Bill Brauer, though prominently featured in the exhibit catalog, are fairly lightweight illustrations. An exception is “Schism,” a female torso split by a bolt o f negative space and animated by the con tours o f her form within the edges o f the paper. In this piece Brauer seems to focus on what Blake intuited 150 years ago — the notion that composition is everything. Though its conceptual scope is impressive, “Colorprint USA” is the least engaging o f this trio o f exhibits. Most o f the 50 artists seem to be so interest ed in technique that they’ve
neglected content. Happily, the piece that many will consider the strongest in the show comes from Vermont’s own David Bumbeck. The Middlebury College art professor contributes a curious work combining etching, engraving and aquatint that lay ers images and disparate intaglios on a handmade, embossed paper. Bumbeck’s piece, “Lineage,” is literally divided between an interior world and an exterior universe. The nearly Baroque landscape filling the left side of the page seems to digest 500 years of printmaking within the con fines of its frame. Perhaps this is as it should be. It would be nice if every graphic image pulled by a mas ter such as Bumbeck contained ghostly impressions that have lingered through five centuries o f refinement. ®
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cinemas first documentarian, referred to as sur le v if— “life on the run.” For audiences o f the Lumiere Brothers’ first films — referred to, tellingly, as actualities — the cameras abili ty to make visible even the most ephemeral aspects o f real ity constituted the new inven tion’s greatest delight. According to published accounts, what intrigued view ers most about the Lumi&res’ minute-long films was not always the intended subject, but rather such things as the flutter o f leaves on trees in the background, the exact render ing o f the movement o f waves as they broke on a beach. As the movie image became more commonplace, however, these aspects became less com pelling, and audiences began to gravitate toward the gratifi cations o f fictional narrative, rather than documentary, rep resentation. In part a develop ment o f the medium’s natural inclinations, and in part a reac tion to these changes, documentarians began to search for
more exotic, more taboo sub jects to hold their audience’s attention. The camera’s ability to cap ture on film — and thus make available for close and repeated examination — the most tran sient and uncommon aspects o f reality was given a tremen dous boost by the advent of smaller and less expensive equipment. “Home movies” were a staple o f middle-class life in the ’50s and ’60s, and the video revolution has made increasingly miniaturized recording devices an even more ubiquitous aspect o f everyday life in the ’90s. It was inevitable that these devices would be increasingly present to record events that heretofore might be merely witnessed and recounted — but never with the force o f an audio-visual record. It seems inevitable, too, that in time the records them selves would become entertain ment, and a means o f making money. Several series o f videos cur rently available mark the evo lution o f this trend. On one end o f the spectrum is Real Entertainment’s Cops and Amazing Video series, derived from a popular series o f shows produced for the Fox channel. The first consists largely o f videos recorded by policeman
morality, the videos themselves never protect the viewer from the most graphic, horrific images imaginable: a bystander ravaged by a bull, a pedestrian struck by a train, military-style executions. Visual records o f this sort provide an antidote to the fal sities and obfuscations o f fic tion. Indeed, you might well come away from the viewing experience with your faith in the goodness o f Creation and humanity completely shat tered It’s troubling to ponder the possible reasons why series like Banned From Television are among the most popular videos on the shelf. Personally, I could not shake the feeling I had, after watching one, that I had taken part in a kind o f violation, o f trespass, opening my eyes to sights not fit for humans to see. As a result, I am willing to concede, for the first time in my fife, that there are things that should not be imaged and offered to the general public. And I now realize that the abil ity to forget is really a kind o f blessing. (7) Early Lumiere Brothers films can be seen on a recent release from Kino Video called The Lumiere Brothers’ First Films. Videos courtesy o f Waterfront Video, Burlington.
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Dear Cecil, . Did the Celts really celebrate a holiday by building a huge, hollow man out of wicker, filling the man with prison ers, then lighting the thing on fire? Or instead, are they the victims o f really bad Roman press? If true, this really sets a high bar forjudging a tough family holiday. — tam2731, via the Internet I have to agree with you. My personal feeling is, if the celebration progresses to the point where you’re setting fire to the in-laws, you really shouldn’t have opened that last jug of Manischewitz.
The wicker man ritual was described by Julius Caesar in Book Six of The Gallic War, in which he describes the customs of the Celts of Gaul. He writes: “The whole Gallic race is addicted to religious ritual; consequently those suffering from serious maladies or subject to the perils of battle sacrifice human victims...Some weave huge figures of wicker and fill their limbs with humans, who are then burned to death when the figures are set afire. They suppose that the gods prefer this execution to be applied to thieves, robbers and other malefactors taken in the act, but in default of such they resort to the execu tion of the innocent.” Caesar wasn’t the type to retail wild stories. On the other hand, he evidently hadn’t witnessed a wicker-man sacrifice himself, and as far as I can tell, no other classical author mentions it. So it’s hard to say how common this practice really was. But it’s definitely caught the modern imagination. One of the most disturbing retellings was the 1973 film, The Wicker Man, starring Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward and Britt Eklund. Woodward plays a cop who travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate a disap pearance and winds up entangled in pagan carryings-on that culminate in...well, you can probably guess. It is all very eerie and understandably became a cult classic. O f the several extant versions, the original 103-minute cut is said to be the best; for more information, see www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8049/index.html. More recent takes on the wicker man have been only marginally less macabre. At the genteel end of the spec trum are the modern pagans who reenact wicker-man burnings as a purgative ritual. No humans are actually burnt, aside from the occasional warlock singeing himself with his Zippo. Far more interesting is the annual Burning Man
Festival, a bizarre combination of participatory art event and drunken orgy held the week before Labor Day in the Nevada desert. No direct line can be drawn between the Gallic wicker man and the Burning Man Festival, which drew 15,000 this year. The festival, I’m told, began when one of the founders torched an effigy on a San Francisco beach in 1986 to purge himself of negative vibes after he broke up with his girlfriend. However, if we consider the salient features of the Gallic and U.S. events — flaming destruction of a giant wooden man, frightening pagan rit uals, slaughter of the innocent (well, severe sunburn and dehydration of the innocent, anyway) — we see that they’re closely related. Or more accurately, that they spring from the same pyromania that makes kids join the Boy Scouts. Cecil’s friend Shauna, who attended this year’s festival, describes it as a testosterone-driven affair in which any number of art, uh, thingies, many of them quite impressive in an unhinged sort of way, are assem bled and then gleefully destroyed over the course of the week. The grand finale is the destruction of the 50-foottall Burning Man himself, which is accomplished with enough flame, explosives and noise that I daresay even the guys in my old Italian neighborhood would be impressed. For more, see www.burningman.com. A similar event, although presumably lighter on the sex and drugs because it’s sponsored by the Kiwanis, is held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Straight Dope Science Advisory Board stalwart Ian informs me that a giant effigy called Zozobra is put to the torch as part of the annual fiesta, said to be the oldest civic celebration of its kind in North America. Again, no strict connection to the Gallic wicker man — just more proof that moths ain’t the only critters drawn to flame. (7) — CECIL ADAMS
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ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Attention conspiracy buffs and UFO freaks and wannabe gossip colum notebooks ready at all times. Hidden agendas are about to be revealed. Juicy revelations will soon bubble up out o f nowhere. Don’t blink! Expect, peeks at the man behind the curtain and the woman beneath the veil. Before this window o f opportunity
How about staging your first knew exactly what I had to say to my
threaten to hamper your ability to
drous creation you just weren’t wise
friend to make things right again.
communicate. Prepare now, though, and you may avoid a crisis.
enough or strong enough to bring to
This is the exact meditation I’d like to recommend to you, Gemini, as
60 percent o f what’s been concealed — enough to revamp at least 40 per cent o f your pet theories about how the world works.
TAURUS (Apr. 20-M ay 20): I foresee a slow-motion explosion o f fresh nuance in the game o f love. You could very well be ready to take an evolutionary leap in what turns you on. N ew erogenous zones may reveal themselves. You and your main squeeze will have the power to awak en prodigious emotions in each other. You’ll have a deft instinct for experi mentation, allowing you to chart a course deep into the frontiers o f inti macy — a place that’ll be scary in all the healthiest ways. (ES. Try using your voice to evoke strange and won derful states in each other. Whisper and growl at the same time; sing
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with a friend. The fix we were in seemed intractable; I couldn’t see a way to restore harmony. Unable to concentrate on anything else, I decid ed to clean house. After a manic hour o f scrubbing and straightening, I picked up the headphone o f my
Miraculously, my head began to clear. It was as if what I was doing with my
18): I’ve got to be frank and say what I truly believe: You Aquarians no
near-miss. I predict that in the next
longer have the luxury o f holding on
don’t think you’ll necessarily be eaten alive by the thousand and one
eight to 10 weeks you will finally
to your adolescence, let alone your
demands on you, Virgo. Nor am I
earn the breakthrough that was fore
childhood. The same goes for your
shadowed back then.
amateur status and Mickey Mouse
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
approaches. In my astrological opin ion, it’s time to take a step towards
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
worried that you’ll be driven berserk
Published in 1985, my book Images
by all the runaway minds around you
Are Dangerous has been out o f print
spewing out their millions o f half-
since my publisher failed to pay the
digested thoughts. It may, however,
22-Dec. 21): I hesitate to compare
being on the verge o f tiptoeing to the
rent on his warehouse and the land
take heroic efforts for you to be true
you to cockroaches, because in most
brink o f preparing to accept mature
lord relocated the entire stock to the
to yourself without committing the
ways you’re nothing like them, but
professionalism into your heart with
dump. Yet I just discovered today that my beloved creation is actually
kinds o f fa u x pas that lower your
this week you’ll have something akin
unconditional welcome. You could
social standing and hurt your family’s
to their legendary resourcefulness.
ranked on the best-seller list at the
feelings. But you can do it. The stars
Just as the annoying insects can sur
make the process less harrowing by hanging out with those rare wise guys
amazon.com Web site. (It’s in 1,092,768th place.) I’m not sure what
say so, I say so, the Tarot cards say so.
vive in almost any environment, no
and wise gals who’ve survived the
Even Miss Manners said so in my
matter how hostile — indeed, one
transition to adulthood with their
it means, but it’s got to be a hopeful
dream last night.
experiment showed they can thrive by
irreverence and curiosity intact.
omen, right? And it happens to dove tail with my astrological hunch about
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
eating nuclear waste — you, too, Sagittarius, are primed to triumph
the imminent fate o f the Cancerian
You’ve got a tough job this week,
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20):
over (perhaps even capitalize on)
The seductive torments o f insatiable
tribe (o f which I’m a member). I
Libra. I’m sending you my telepathic support. True, you won’t be on the
messy adversity. Whether your bril
desires are leaving you in peace, at
believe that a beautiful thing you did
liant adaptability will get you brand
least for a while. N ow you’re free to
some time ago is still sending ripples
spot in quite the same way as the
ed as a pest is still up in the air, but
concentrate on more satiable desires.
through the world, even though you
comedians in the court o f the old
I’m sure you can avoid it if you pre
Just one problem: A few astrological
may have thought its effects were nil.
Ottoman sultans. Those poor souls
tend to be polite every now and then.
experts I know are saying that you’ve
This week you’ll get a vivid sign o f its
were expected to entertain the royal
grown so fond o f the chase that you
lingering potency.
females as they gave birth. Neither
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every 33
are your tasks as demanding as that o f
Jan. 19): I do believe in Judgment
catch your prey. Prove the experts
the nannies in the court o f ancient
Day, though my version has no
wrong. Surrender to the mysteries o f simple and utter gratification. (7)
years, the Leonid meteor shower puts
China, who had to nurse the emper
resemblance to the Christian event by
on a spectacular light display in the
or’s Pekinese puppies. And yet there is
the same name. In my view, each o f
constellation Leo. The next show is
something about the work ahead of
us faces a personal evaluation at the
scheduled for this November 17-18.
you that will require you to have as
end o f our life (and after the climax
Splashing down at a rate o f several
good a sense o f humor as the
o f every one o f our incarnations, for
thousand per hour, the meteors are
Ottoman comedians and as much
that matter). But there’s no stern
small but fast, and may knock satel lites out o f commission. (The upper
nurturing skill as the Chinese wet nurses.
faced archangel tallying up our mis to cast another sinner into a fiery
takes, no devilish-looking god itching
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
abyss. Your judge is none other than
technology since Leonid’s last extrava
21): Think back to what you were
your own higher self. “H ow complete
ganza in the ’60s.) This event hap
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IEMI-SERIOUS DWPM, 40S. LOVER OF nuseums, mtd. trails, carriage rides & azy kisses. Attractive, balanced assortnent of virtues & vices. Seek confident open to life’s possibilities. 2251 ft FRIEND-LOVER FANTASY: Radiant, estful, soulful, healthful, fit & athletic ilaymate. Intelligent, articulate & imagnative learner. Empathetic, giving, senual, loving, unguarded, centered, powtrful & independent yearner. Ready for ne. 35 +- 2252 ______________________
JFE IS SHORT. A LITTLE BIT SHY, livorced for three years, and ready to tart exploring new adventures. I enjoy nany outdoor activities, dining out or n, and good conversation. 2259 ______
IMART, HEP. FUNNY, CUTE, GEMINI, lative o f NYC, been at school in VT for our years now. Seek funny, cool girl ho likes fun and adventure. 2268
iDVENTUROUS, FIT, OUTDOORSY DWM, oish, enjoys biking, hiking, canoeing, [C, etc. ISO attractive, fit, petite F w/ imilar interests to enjoy outdoors, lature & hopefully more. 2260 ________
963 MODEL: WELL-MAINTAINED PROF. quipped w / independent suspension, iverdrive, ABS (attractive, bright, sensiive), boots (ski 81 hiking), tent, clubs, anoe, and other options. Has garage pace for sleek, SWPF with great lines, lassie good looks, and desire to see rhere the road goes from here. 2278
26, 6’i*, 200 LBS., SEEKS attracor BiF, 18 -45 , for fun and games. tion & maturity ensured. 2264 rRL VT DWM, 44. SUM, SEEKING lual partner for fun & sharing life’s jod and bad times. Optimistic, confi;nt and adventurous. You be the ime. All replies answered. 2270
E COMING MONTH & YEAR DO NOT ist. Ours only is the present’s tiny loint. Romantic, NS, ND, 39 , hand|>me, blue eyes, 6’ , ISO pretty, sexy, art, fun woman to share. 2271
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MONTPELIER/MAD RIVER SJM, 43, seeks
female for dating, to LTR. Single parent okay. No head games. Honesty a must. Rutland/Manchester area. 2233 ________
loving friendship. Let’s dance, play in the garden, share quiet times and wild adventures. 2209 ___________ _
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 -48 ish, to share similar inter ests. Value humor, smiles, laughs, ten der touch, some spontaneity for quality friendship and/or LTR. 2246 __________
TWO REGULAR GUYS, SWM, 36 & 3 7.
SWPM, 34. MUSICIAN, HIKER, RURAL,
THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN FOR
folksy, literate. No kids, ex, or baggage. ISO harmonious F forever. 2242
this mid-life teacher/writer. Lettuce meet in the garden 81 dig some carrots & turnip up. It beets me why not! 2170
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 __________
5*9”.
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lbs., realistic, honest, down-to-earth, looking for the One—open-minded, sane, uninhibited, honest, F. 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/
lALL, ATHLETIC, FIT, ATTRACTIVE, affeclonate, progressive, well-educated, I vorced, prof, single dad, 51 , who Ices conversation, ethnic food, films, linnis, hiking, skiing. ISO intelligent, I :tive woman for friendship/LTR. 2276
(ECEPTIVE, EBULLIENT, LUMINOUS, jfarthy, resonant, athletic SWM, 37 , 11” , 185 lbs. NS vegetarian ISO multi-
eclectic taste, reliable fire starter, enjoy antiquing. Me: above + shy, over worked supervisor, student, sports, avid reader 81 junk collector, intense to laid-back, some surprises. 2198 _______
NICE GUYS FINISHING LAST HAS COME 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. 2 1 9 9 _________________
COUNT DRACULA SEEKS MINA TO BITE into love. SWPM, 42 , blue-eyed, active
feeted, musical, spontaneous, embodd woman for mundane activities 81 ubble baths. 2224 __________________
night creature wants directions straight to the SWF soul mate’s heart. Remember, true love never dies. 2210
AND DSOME KNIGHT, o f honor 81 chivalI, no nc longer slaying dragons. Living lone in his castle. Would like to serve is queen, 35 -42 , beautiful inside/outide. Share love, laughter & fun times.
GOLDILOCKS DESIRED FOR STORYBOOK life w/ attractive, successful, SWPM, 50 ,
«L________________________ ttractive, high IQ, prof., creative, genine, relationship-oriented. If you’re 25 2, believe key to happiness is relaonship, mutuality, nurturing, respect, haring, call. Otherwise, don’t. 2226
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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
ONNECTION HAPPENS. I’m 32 , tall,
HEY, WAKE UP! INSTEAD OF READING
important? Friends, the country life, thoughts, values, passions, humor. ISO a kind woman who walks lightly on the sands o f time. 2241 _________________
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“BOB" SEEKS “CONNIE.* OLD PUNK/
ners, sports, reading, nights, dancing. I’m tall, fit, witty, handsome. You have brains, beauty, a casual soul. 2161
SEEKING A FRIEND. YOU: SWF. 55-65, 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
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workouts, running, biking, tennis, stock market, plays, classical music, concerts, nature, family & coffee. ISO equivalent female life partner, 35 -47 ish. 2135
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 81 cuddling on the couch. ISO SWPF, 35 40, with similar interests. If you’re the one, give me a call. 2139 ________
NSP, ATTRACTIVE, HEALTHY, FIT, slen der, Burl, area, 50 , w/ full head of hair, spiritual, energetic, enthusiastic, veg gie, musician, dancer, hiker, meditator, reader. Loves culture, heartfelt commu nication, intimacy 8t maturity. 2142
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cal 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
will provide during casual encounters, no strings attached, to: clean, discreet, straight-acting Bi males. Experimenters, beginners welcome. 2235
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; FIRSTtime encounter. Walks, read, films, laugh, massage 81 play. NS, ND &. open mind necessary. Discretion please. 2213
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Rollerblade, hike, dance, X-C ski, dine, concerts—ISO D/SF w / similar interests for fun & possible LTR. Kids OK. 2132 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 ____________________
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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
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
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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 _____________
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
AFFECTIONATE GWM, MID-20S, BROWN eyes, blonde hair, 6’ , 190 lbs. Wants it all! Deserves to be spoiled 8t to have
PRETTY, HONEST. EDUCATED SWF WHO loves life, philosophy, writing, cooking, skiing seeks kindred spirit for poten tially LTR. Burl, area only. 2160
someone to spoil in return. ISO more than one-night-stand. 2158 ___________
GWM SEEKING THIN, A/B/HM, 18-25, for new experiences. Enjoy videos, mas sages and quiet times. Discretion expected and assured. 2168
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likes history channel, old cars, good times. Seeks same for first-time on other side. Must be masculine, discreet and healthy. 2169
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
PM, ATTRACTIVE, 30S, FULL OF ENERGY
and outdoor activities, as well as in ti macy, seeks straight-acting, masculine, fit man, 20 -35 , with similar interests. Hoping for a great friendship, possible LTR. 2238 __________________________
& spark, ISO super nice guy who’s also 3 oish 81 looking for something new. You’ve gotta live life, love sports, tra v -; . eling 81 arguing your point. You work hard 81 want the best. Ditto. Burl. 2162
GM, 38, S'7M, 160 LBS., MUSCULAR,
TALL & TENDER GWM, 28, 6’2*, brown/
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
hazel, into spirituality, sci-fi, Chinese, jeans and travel, seeking man w/ smile & personality. Try something & some one new: me. 2124
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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 81 SOUL with compatible S/DM, NS, 45 60, is sought by holistic, fit, petite, NS vegetarian F with poetic expression and natural appeal. 2215 _____________
SOULFUL, INTREPID MUSE WHO LIVES 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 ___________________
M(mm...) SNOWBOARDER, HELP ME! COOKING PARTNER WANTED. Ingredents i have: 30 years life, $1.99 a minute, must be 18 or older.
experience, BFA, height, own busi ness and a big smile with dimples. Looking for: big hearted, financially secure, creative man under 35 . 2239
I’M THE EXCEPTIONAL WOMAN YOU’VE to charge directly to your credit card. Si 99 a minute must be 18 or older
Open 24 hours!
A Bokw qjm B n ADVENTUROUS DPWF, 37, 5’3 ”, slen der, attractive & passionate. Loves ski ing, honesty, good conversation & inti macy. I would like to meet a non smoking, intelligent M who is financial ly secure, 35 -47 , and has a positive, confident approach to life. 2249
THE PASSION IN WHICH JULIET LIVES IS so potentially infectious. DWPF, 28 , attractive, slender, funny, ISO D/SWPM, 28 -35 , attractive, ambitious, outgoing, blue jeans and baseball caps, for fun, LTR? 2265 __________________________
DWCF, 37, NS, ND, WRITER SEARCHING for kindred spirit who enjoys the quiet & simple pleasures of life, hiking, movies, science fiction, cuddling and is emotionally & financially secure. 2272
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
s’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, 3 oish- 4 oish, with similar attitudes and interests for friendship or possible LTR. 2243 __________________ SWPF, 38,
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 looking 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, poet ry and bliss. Mother of intelligent, delightful n-yr.-old boy, 2219 _________
JACK OF ALL 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?
SLIM BLONDE, BLUE-EYED MID-LIFE-
2125_________________________
mama w / children gone, who refuses to grow old, is searching for that special, lovable PWM to share interests such as skiing & travel, who can be serious, too. Must still believe in love. Let’s take a chance! 2277 _________________
I'M A FAIR AND LOVELY, TRUE Libra
FUN IS WHAT I LIKE TO HAVE. SWF, 30, loves the outdoors, dogs (I have 2),
who lives w/ balance & harmony in life. I’m kind, loving & strong. Would like to meet friendly males w / similar qualities, 46 -56 . Many interests. Values 81 family important. I’m a sweet heart, don’t miss out. 2211
SWF, 20 , slim, attractive, crazy hairdo, ISO you, 19 -30, knows how to treat a woman, go snowboarding & teach me how to master my board. 2171 .
DWF, 47, ISO SMALL HOMESTEAD W/ 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 _________________________
OK, SO I WAS A LATE BLOOMER...BUT I 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 __________________ ANYBODY OUT THERE LOVE JAZZ? Fiercely independent SWPF, 61 , seeks 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_______________
SWF, FULL-FIGURED, SEEKING FRIENDship. Travel, investments, photography, art, museums, jewelry, weekends, books/good writing, busy, financially/ emotionally secure. 2184_____________
I’M READY FOR A HEALTHY, FUN, AND 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... Morticia seeks Gomez for an unwhole some relationship. I have a Wednesday. No Pugsleys, Festers or Lurches need apply. 2189_________________________
DANCE WITH ME! SWPF, writer, slim, funny, musical, adventurous, loves jazz, yoga, outdoors, more. ISO fiscally/ physically fit, funny SWPM, 4 0 S - 5 0 S , NS, with well-stocked mind, generous heart. 2156 _________________________
He’s tall, handsome, financially secure, honest, romantic, chivalrous, sincere. She’s a very attractive, red-headed wonder, loves 4x 4s, children, garden ing, dancing, classic cars, cooking, football, thigh-highs, NASCAR. Sir Lancelot, please reply; Jeff Gordan fans be cautious to try! 2281 ______________
SELF-PROCLAIMED “GLAMOUR GIRL” seeks self-proclaimed “ Bad Boy.” SWPF, blonde, 30 s, seeks male: “ good by day,” over 40 . 2223 ______________
SWF, 34, PRETTY 81 SLENDER, INTO A serious relationship or real friendship. Looking for a good-looking SWM, 27 35 . 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
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LET’S MAKE THE ROCKIES CRUMBLE & Gibralter tumble. SBF seeks submissive SWM &/or crossdresser for intimate journeys which cross peaks of mutual desire & the heights of pleasure. 2150
WORKING WEEKENDS MEANS HAVING 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
NEED MUSICIANS TO COMPLETE SONGS & life. Attractive SWF, 5 ’ 5 ” , green/dark 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, music and ideas, but misses sharing life’s pleasures with an intelligent man who can think, feel and laugh. 2130 IT’S A HOEDOWN. 29 YO, petite brunette, NS, ND, fiddle player, (Burl, area), does aerobics, avid reader on spirituality, ISO M musician for jamming, friends, maybe more. 2133 ______
ADVENTUROUS, SPONTANEOUS, FUNloving SWPF, 25 , seeks SM for cycling adventures, snowboarding, good times. Also into music (all types), writing. ISO friendship, honesty, possibilities. 2136
SHARE MY LOVE of natural beauty, fine craftsmanship, animals, art, guitar music, kayaking, biking, horseback. Earthy, travelled, educated. Can look like a million, but prefer back roads/ thrift shops. ISO wise, open-hearted, educated, mid-aged DWM who’d enjoy the company of an artist. 2144 ________
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
40-SOMETHING, 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
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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 imagination. Box 376 _____________________
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 8t enjoys country/city & travel. Box 380
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