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W i l d rice s t u f f i n g w i t h p e a r l o n i o n s , dried c h e r r i e s a n d apricots (8 to 10 servings) 6 Tbs butter (3A stick) 18 oz. pearl onions, blanched in boiling water 1 minute, then peeled 41/2 C canned, low-salt chicken broth 3 Tbs chopped fresh thyme VA C wild rice 1 !4 C long-grain white rice 1 6oz package dried apricots 1 C each: dried tart cherries, raisins, pecans, toasted & chopped Melt 2 Tbs. butter in large skillet over med. heat. Add onions and saute until brown, about 15 mins. Set aside. Bring 4/4 C of broth and 1 Tbs. thyme to boil in large saucepan. Add wild rice, bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 3 0 mins. Add white rice, cover and simmer until all rice is tender and liquid is almost absorbed, about 15 minutes longer. Stir dried apricots, cherries, raisins and 2 Tbs thyme into rice mixture, cover and simmer 3 minutes. Stir pearl onions and remaining 4 Tbs butter into rice. Mix in pecans. Season generously with salt and pepper. To b a k e in dish: preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 13x9x2" glass baking dish, fill with stuffing. Cover with buttered foil, butter side down, and bake 3 0 - 3 5 minutes. Uncover and bake until top is slightly crisp, about 1 5 - 2 0 minutes more.

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The Colonies were at war with the Indians and French, and many young men had gone to defend Maine. One third never returned. Horowitz later writes that "the court pardoned those who confessed." I did not say that, though she may have thought I did because that is the argument male relatives of the women of Andover used to induce confessions. I did say that confessed witches like Tituba remained in prison, but failed to explain that the reason they were not executed directly is because they were being used as witnesses against others. I also noted that Judge Stoughton had every intention of executing confessed witches in the end, and that he was not happy when the governor pardoned all, even those who had confessed. Regarding Martha Corey's case, when I spoke of women who tipped their heads or scratched, they were general examples. The specific example I gave was that Corey, during questioning, bit her lip and the girls then bit their lips till the blood ran, so that it seemed to those present that Corey worked witchcraft before their very eyes, torturing without even the use of a doll and pins. Also, I should have given dates, it seems: Corey was interrogated on March 21. No one looked

said was that I'm doing research for the National Outlaw and Lawman Association (NOLA) which publishes a quarterly that focuses on Western lawlessness during the 19th century. I am a member of NOLA. Also, I have never researched Madame Montespan with intent to write about her (though I suppose I could). I mentioned her to Horowitz because she was accused of witchcraft in 1689 and people in Salem would have heard about her case. A contemporary of Madame's that I have written about is Charles Perrault, author of famous fairy tales like "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Little Red Riding Hood." On the subject of Salem witchcraft, several mistakes need to be corrected. It is not quite accurate to say that Reverend Parris was "upset about losing his salary." The selectmen whose duty it was to go door to door collecting the tax that paid Parris' salary failed to do so. He wasn't receiving his salary, but one could argue that it was a case of postponement rather than loss. Also, I had said regarding Parris' niece, Abigail, that she is believed to be the one who, while attempting to learn what sort of man she would marry, conjured up a coffin. I never said nor implied that she thought she saw her own coffin. She saw the coffin of him that she hoped to marry.

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charged alongside the best rapists, robbers, child molesters and drug dealers Vermont has to offer. Hey, Have you heard about Knight's Law? Instead of moonlight in Vermont, it's 1-800-GETIt's a new phenomenon. Its arrival in Vermont A-LAWYER time! Liquor Land comes courtesy of Greg Knight, the Chief Inspector Knight anticipates his familynew chief inspector for the Vermont Liquor values approach will have beneficial results. We'll Control Board. Knight is an ex-Burlington cop who see. moved On to be state liquor inspector. Recently he Livable to Die For! — These are pretty hot times was promoted to the new position of "chief inspecin the old town of Burlington, Vermont. What a tor." It's a "people" job, and Sir Knight is a people weekend. Friday night, the high school football person. team won a state championship for the first time in For years, bar owners and licensees in the 29 years. Vermont booze trade have moaned and groaned Saturday, the big downtown anchor department over how they get whacked with a store that city leaders have been cement truck, in the form of a dreaming about for decades license suspension, if caught sellfinally opened its doors. ing to a customer under 21. And Sunday night, A&E, Meanwhile, the customer, without the national cable TV station, whom the law cannot be broken, I icked Burlington as the numgets a slap on the wrist. ber-one most livable city in the There has been a "disparity," United States of America! said the new chief inspector of the "It was a lot of fun," said booze police. "I feel it's my duty," Mayor Peter Clavelle. He said he said, "to look as hard at the he watched parts of the A&E other side of things," i.e., the broadcast, "particularly the part thirsty customer with the phony where Burlington was declared identification. number one. What can you say? In a Seven Days interview this We all know this is a great place week, Knight whipped out a fistto live." ful of 40 fake IDs he collected in Mayor Proggy first got wind the last month from young adult something was up back in customers at the popular local August. beverage center located on the "One Saturday afternoon," edge of Burlap's student ghetto. he told Seven Days, "I was on Then, with his other hand, he my way to a wedding and there pulled another fistful out of his was this film crew on the steps inside pocket — IDs seized by the of City Hall. So I said, 'What ETER FREYNSi store's managers and clerks and the hell are you guys doing turned over to him. here?'" Hey, it's a jungle out there, a real anthropolo'"We're filming Burlington for A&E,'" they gist's wonderland, full of young monkeys craving replied. "'Who are you?'" state-regulated canned and bottled beverages laced '"Well, I happen to be the Mayor,'" Clavelle ("with the universally popular, number-one drug on answered. '"What's A&E?'" Earth. This Bud's for you! They told him what they were up to and then And the word is starting to leak out that, from asked him why people want to live here. ;now on in Vermont, getting caught with a fake ID '"People don't want to live here,'" replied the fwhile in pursuit of the culture's favorite mind-altermayor. '"Long winters and not a lot of jobs.'" ing substance is going to hurt. That's because Chief 1 Obviously, A&E wasn't buying it. Inspector Knight is applying his seasoned investigaAfter listing Burlap's obvious shortcomings, like tive skills to locating the individuals those fake IDs the lack of a downtown hardware store or superonce belonged to. market, Clavelle added, "I'd be the first to acknowlUnder Knight's Law, retailers are instructed to edge the city's got a lot of assets. Many of them seize any ID they believe is phony. That can be a have nothing to do with politicians — like lakes real tester in this'computer age, where the price of and mountains." the fakes ranges from $50 to $250. Still, it is a bit of a shock to many who live "I take it from there," said Knight, "and do the here. Our beloved Burlap beat out Chapel Hill, investigation to find out from whence it came." North Carolina, Austin, Texas, Charlottesville, Once he's located the unlucky suds-seeker, Sir Virginia, Eugene, Oregon, and all the rest. Of Knight mails them a little traffic ticket for $192. course, it was pretty cheesy the way A&E turned "It carries a 60-day suspension," he noted, "and Burlington into a Ben & Jerry's ice cream commeryou have to pay a $30 reinstatement fee to get your cial. Viewers unfamiliar with the area will surely driver's license back." And, added Knight, "they think Ben & Jerry's Waterbury ice cream factory is might want to check with their home state, because located just off the Church Street Marketplace. But it could be reciprocal, meaning if they're suspended we did learn one little tidbit of folklore we hadn't here, they've got problems back home." heard before. Namely, that Ohseeohzo, the Indian And there's more. God of Creation, turned himself to stone to stay in Under Knight's Law, individuals who by ruse Burlington eternally. attempt to buy a six-pack prior to the attainment of Then how come there isn't a restaurant named their 21st birthday are also being cited into criminal after him? court. You see, explained Knight, "Under Title 7, Filene's Review — On first blush, it's simply freakit's illegal, criminally, to misrepresent your age to ing enormous. Filene's new department store on procure alcohol. It's one problem that you have the Cherry Street is 102 paces from east to west. It's the fake ID, the other problem is your using it to illelongest indoor straight line we've ever walked in gally get alcohol. That's a criminal violation, so you Vermont. And the escalators zip right along during get a court date for attempting to procure alcohol the 21-second trip between the first and second by a minor." floors.

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And there's more. The new chief inspector is going the extra mile for these young Americans. The concerned parent in him is reaching out to help. And to help in the most effective way possible, Chief Inspector Knight is sending letters to their out-of-state parents. Out of the goodness of his heart, Sir Knight is letting the 'rents know their darling college student daughter or son is in serious hot water up in Vermont. He's informing them their precious offspring has a date-certain appearance booked before the judge down at district court. Imagine their reaction when they picture their beloved baby being arraigned and

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the money behind. Police spotted the suspect running down the street with his arms full of machinery and dangling wires. • Police in Whitmire, South Carolina, reported that a woman who robbed a video store made off with about $150 but left behind a book bag with a pager inside. Deputies checked telephone records and traced the pager to Ernest Jennings III, 19. W h e n they went to his home, they spotted the getaway car and arrested Jennings and Kimberly McGowan, 22. • After Roland Tough, 22, dropped off a roll of film to be developed at a Tesco supermarket in England, store employees who saw the prints recognized the men in the photos as the ones who had robbed the store two weeks earlier. T h e Times of London reported that when Tough returned to pick up the snapshots, police arrested him and said he explained he had taken the pictures of the gang to show friends in prison how well they were doing.

V v London police reported that a serial nail biter struck again this summer — his ninth attack in 18 months. " T h e suspect is alleged to have approached the victims in the street and praised them on the appearance of their hands and nails," a spokesperson told Reuters news agency. "He will then either snatch the victims hands or ask to see them and attempt to bite off one or more fingernails." • Robert Ersek, a doctor in Austin, Texas, has begun performing cosmetic surgery on women's feet, sucking excess fat from the toes, feet and ankles of women who think their feet are ugly. " O n e exotic dancer was very self-conscious about her big toe," Ersek said. "She wanted to be more attractive for her clients."

Foiled Again Police arrested a teenage gunman who they said tried to rob a bank in Durham, N o r t h Carolina, but left without any money when he dropped his gun and it fired into the ceiling. Durham C o u n t y Sheriff's Capt. Bill Wrenn said the suspect grabbed the gun and fled.

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TABLE WHERE? The Charlotte-based food writers once employed by the mega-magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi are eating well enough under new ownership. A number of the former employees, including editor Marcelle Langan Di Falco, are now contributing stories and recipes to TavOlO, an online retailer specializing in food-related merchandise. The San Francisco-based company bought the assets of Eating Well magazine last May and changed its name from Digital Chef — a Web site launched two years ago in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America. Located at digitalchef.com, Tavolo claims to be the largest online supplier of food-related products — kitchenware, specialty food products and books — with stories, "scalable" recipes and cooking tips mixed in. Bylines are apparently a thing of the past. When I logged on to the chat room to ask a question about the dangers of eating with old, rusting silverware, I got a little sympathy before the $500 question. "Can I help you find a new set?" I also asked, "Where are you located?" Long pause. "Our offices are in San Francisco." No mention of the crew of Vermont photographers, writers and recipe testers toiling away on this side of the table, er, tavolo.

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hen Vladimir Selec, owner of Burlington's new import grocery store, considers his most vivid food memory, he comes up empty — as in empty stomach. "I was mostly hungry in my life," says the owner of Balkan Pearls. "My father left us when I was seven and we weren't really able to support ourselves. We were always lacking food." A former basketball player with an open smile and dark, almond eyes, the 32year-old Bosnian native sought refuge in Vermont three years ago, along with his mother, stepfather and younger sister. The hunger pangs his family felt back home were hardly unique, he points out. "There would never be enough for the whole nation. And the war made food even more scarce. O n the other side," he adds, "they were great cooks. They would make magic out of what they had." Selec hopes Balkan Pearls — recently opened on lower Main Street — will make its own kind of magic for the 1000 Bosnian refugees he believes are currently living in the Champlain Valley At the store's grand opening, the sound system piped out Sevdalinke — old-fashioned, sentimental Bosnian folk music — as Selec's mother, jelena Cosabic, presided

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over a table laden with beans, bread, baklava, strawberry preserves, cheese and meat. As each curious customer came in, Cosabic switched back and forth between English and Serbo-Croatian as she dished up equal portions of nourishment and good will. His mother's home cooking won't be available every day — Cosabic works as a housekeeper at Pillsbury Manor South during the week, and helps her son on weekends. But Selec hopes his store, with its jars of tart Bosnian plum butter, boxes of Bosnian cookies and bottles of mineral water from Croatia and Slovenia, will provide a sense of the familiar for a group of new Americans who, he points out, "didn't really decide to come, but have nowhere to go back to." For non-Bosnians — especially those of us who couldn't tell a Serb from a Croat and would be hard-pressed to locate the city of Sarajevo on a map — perusing the wares on Selec's shelves provides a quick introduction to the culture and geography of this long-troubled region. Turkish Delight, a soft confection laced with chopped walnuts and dusted with sugar, recalls the area's long-domination under the Islamic Turkish empire. Soft, brined sheep's-milk feta cheese comes from Eastern Orthodox Bulgaria, just across the mountains from Serbia. Pickled red bell

peppers, plump as pincushions and stuffed with sauerkraut, are made in Roman Catholic Hungary, just north of Croatia. And strings of white sausage are products of Germany, which occupied what was then Yugoslavia during the Second World War.

osnia's recent history is also reflected in Selec's life story. T h e son of a Serbian mother and a Croatian father, he moved from Belgrade to Banja Luka when he was two, so his father could pursue a career in professional handball and his mother could find work. Five years later, Selec's father left his wife, son and year-old daughter to join a handball club in Germany. "He would sometimes send money, but not enough, so we would make do," Selec recalls. During this time, the family lived with Cosvabic's parents. Much of what Selec knows about cooking today he learned in his grandmother's kitchen.

Though his father has been absent for most of his life, Selec shares the man's athleticism. In the early 1990s, he played professional basketball in Sarajevo's B league, and majored in physical education at the university before earning a master's in physical training and nutrition. After graduation, Selec settled in Belgrade, where he worked as a trainer with the

Yugoslavian ski team. But the war ended his career. In 1996, he sought refuge in Banja Luka, where his mother was living with her second husband, Ahmed Cosabic — a Muslim. Those were dangerous days, especially for a family like Selec's, who defied ethnic boundaries. "That's basically why we came over," he explains.

ut of deference to his Muslim stepfather, Selec stocks sudzuk, a bloodred beef salami, pungent with garlic, that Selec believes originated in the Middle East. Also influenced by the Middle East but much more familiar to Selec is jufka ("yoofka") the paper-thin dou^h better known to Americans as phyllo. Cosabic serves it sweet as baklava — filled with chopped nuts, drenched with butter, and soaked in sugar-water syrup cut with a touch of lemon — or savory, layered with cheese, spinach or meat. Savory jufka dishes make good foils for ajvar — an orange puree of red pepper, garlic and eggplant whose flavor is as bright as its color. T h e prepared ajvar available at Balkan Pearls tastes great spooned straight from the jar. But Cosabic confides that she likes to add a little oil and garlic to give it extra oomph. Though the Slovenian company that packages the ajvar calls it a "vegetable spread," Cosabic refers to it as zimnica — a diminutive of zima, which means winter — and describes it as a preserved "salad," perfect for rounding out a cold-weather meal. In a traditional Bosnian home, the main meal is eaten at noon. For Cosabic, in times when meat was hard to come by, this mid-day dinner was often built around beans. Slow-cooked white beans layered with caramelized onions, meltingly tender and mildly sweet, is the ultimate comfort food. Macedonians cajl the dish gravcenatavce — a name that refers to the ceramic pot in which it's customarily cooked. The Serbian name, prebranac, means "first of the harvest." Cosabic includes a box of Vegeta soup mix, which contains dried carrots, parsley and parsnips — "everything you can find in the green market," according to Cosabic. Back home, she says, she would set up a pot of gravcenatavce in the morning, go off to school or work, and return to a home Filled with the welcoming aroma of dinner ready to be served.

t his grand opening, Cosabic offered dishes of her own homemade gravcenatavce and bowls of corba— the "c" is pronounced "ch," as in chili — prepared by her son. Corba is gravcenatavces wet cousin. Selec describes the dish as "soup with all the ingredients left in it." An inside-warming melange of beans, smoked meat and vegetables finished off with oil, flour and paprika, corba is the essence of the Bosnian mid-day meal, he says, and it's "good for your metabolism." Ingest a bowl of this, he promises, and "all the poisons in your body will go out." Back home, a bowl of corba might be paired with a thick wedge of plain white bread sliced from a round, free-form loaf.

For special occasions, the bread might be fancied up by adding a little sugar to the dough, rolling it out and brushing it with oil, then twisting it into a rope, coiling the rope into a spiral and topping it with a shiny egg glaze. The result is maslenica — rich, yeasty, with just a hint of sweetness. The real sweetness comes at the end of the meal — or maybe between meals. "If you come to my house back home," Cosabic explains, "I will give you mineral water and a bowl of this, to make your life sweet." She's referring to slatko, a dish prepared by stewing fruit in sugar syrup. Its name literally means "sweet." Thinner than jam but thicker than apple sauce, slatko can be made with berries, cherries, oranges or pineapple. Cosabic's grandmother used watermelon, saving the tender, white flesh inside of the green rind after the family had eaten the melon's red fruit. To make proper slatko, Cosabic instructs, boil sugar in water until its consistency is thicker than water but thinner than maple syrup. Then add the fruit and heat gently for about 20 minutes. Above all, she advises, don't stir the mixture, or you'll risk damaging the fruit. Though

this ideal was Marshal Josip Tito, who assigned Ignajatovic command of the country's air defense in Zagreb. But Ignajatovic's tenure with Tito's government was hardly smooth sailing. Trouble came in 1950, when relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union broke down. As Selec puts it, the Yugoslavian government "wanted to see who likes Russians and who doesn't, and whoever did they would send to this prison island in the Adriatic. [My grandfather] said, 'We can't fight the Russians.' He was too honest. So they sent him to that island." Ignajatovic spent the next six years breaking rocks on Naked Island. Eventually, Selec says, "They beat him real badly so they had to release him." After he returned to Belgrade, Selec's grandfather went back to work for the government, using the linguistic skills he'd learned in the German concentration camp. As an interpreter for the Yugoslavian Secret Service, his job was to translate documents intercepted from the powers that were squeezing the country from both sides of the Iron Curtain: the KGB and the CIA.

ut even ;i he had all the kajmak in the world, Selec acknowledges that food alone cannot compensate for all that Selec and his fellow refugees have lost. "I know how much they really do miss home," he attests. "They're not here of their own will and that plays a great role. It's a very, very uncomfortable situation for all of them." To help assuage this discomfort, Selec wants to "try to provide the feeling. This is a small space," he admits, "so I can't do much more." But he can play evocative music from home. And Selec plans to decorate the store with scenes of special places — including some that no longer exist, like a 700-year-old mosque in Banja Luka that was destroyed by Serbian forces. "It's just terrible," Selec declares. "They had carpets that were there for 500 years, and that's all gone. You can't make it up." T h o u g h he speaks with understandable passion about the Fighting that sent his family into exile, Selec hasn't founded his business on bitterness. Instead, he projects the same idealistic, accepting attitude apparent in his grandfather's

Selec hones his store, with its iars of tart Bosnian T lum butter, boxes of Bosnian cookies and bottles of, ill ineral water from Croatia and Slovenia, will provide T sense of the familiar for a group of new Americans. Cosabic is full of opinions about the dish, the ruby-red strawberry slatko she spooned up at the Balkan Pearls grand opening wasn't her own creation. It was her son's.

ow did Selec learn to cook? "I grew up with the women," he replies. "The women in my family were ruling." Selec's father was in Germany and his grandfather spent most of his time shut up in his room. "He would close himself in that room and work on his translating," Selec recalls. "He once said to my grandmother, 'If you could put me in a library and then bring me out with my feet up, I would be the happiest man in the world.' He just wanted to read."

Almost immediately, Selec's attention shifts from his own culinary apprenticeship to a larger tale that seems to need telling. It's the story of Rade Ignajatovic, Selec's grandfather, who died in Belgrade earlier this fall. During World War II, his grandfather served as an officer in the Royal Yugoslavian army, Selec says. When the Germans captured his unit, Ignajatovic was sent to Germany, where he was incarcerated in a special concentration camp for officers. While the other prisoners spent their time playing soccer, Ignajatovic busied himself studying English, German and French. When the war ended and the camp was liberated, he was well-versed in all three languages. Ignajatovic was a big fan of Yugoslavia, Selec continues, an advocate for the ideal of a single, unified state in which Serbs, Croats and Muslims could peacefully coexist. Thef one person capable of attaining

Here, Selec segues neatly back to the original question. With his grandfather constantly sequestered in his room with his documents, he concludes, his grandmother was "basically the head of the house." As for his own skills, he admits, "I always liked good food. So I would try to make it myself. And I guess I was talented." Selec hopes to fill in the gaps in his culinary know-how by getting hold of the personal cookbook kept by his grandmother, who passed away in January. But even with those recipes in hand, he realizes, some of the tastes he misses most can never be reproduced on this continent. Take ham, for example. "Even the prosciutto in Montreal isn't the same thing," Selec laments. "[In Bosnia] you can put it on bread or make a pizza out of it. You eat it and you're full. Here it's not the same thing. It doesn't have that heaviness." And then there's this certain kind of sausage. "Kranjska kobasica," Selec declares, his eyes growing distant. "It's an original Slovenian recipe: a little pork, some beef, garlic and pepper. That's the best thing in the world." Most of all, though, Selec longs for kajmak, a very thick, slightly soured cream. Farmers make kajmak by boiling cow's milk, skimming off the skin that forms on the surface, and laying it, salted, in special wooden bowls. The bowls are then covered and left to ferment in special stone cold houses. Younger kajmak is white, older kajmak gets slightly yellow. Served for breakfast with eggs, ham, bread and jam, it competes as "the best thing in the world," Selec swears, sighing deeply. "Oh, yeah. It tastes like — it's better than any cheese. It's salty and has that milky taste. That's something that I definitely do miss."

support for a unified Yugoslavia, and his mother's marriages to men from outside her ethnic background. "I don't want to say I believe in Yugoslavia," Selec reflects. "But all these people — I was friends with them yesterday, and today I'm not supposed to talk to them? It's ridiculous." As customers came and went during the store's grand opening, Selec and his mother were pleased to see not just Muslim and Christian Bosnians stopping in, but also some O r t h o d o x Serbs and even a few Kosovar Albanians. This last group, Selec feels, will be the hardest for him to reach. Even in the best of times, when Serbs and Croatians were freely mixing, the country's ethnic Albanians, who don't speak Serbo-Croatian, were a community unto themselves. Will Burlington's Kosovar refugees return to Balkan Pearls? "It depends on what they Find in me," Selec suggests. "My dialect is Serbian. My father is Catholic. My mother is Serb. I am what I am." N o matter what personal circumstances may have brought them here, Selec argues that members of Vermont's Bosnian community will do best here if they focus on the future. "As soon as they learn the language .and do what they need to do, they can make a good living," he maintains. But some American habits are best left for Americans, he believes. O n e area in which this is particularly true, he suggests, is in the kitchen. "Americans don't take so much time with their food," he contends. "We know if the food is made with love...it tastes good. It needs attention, like anything in the world." ®

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f you stop by the Mist Grill in Waterbury for a cup of coffee and a muffin on your way to work, or if you happen to order an espresso after your meal in the downstairs restaurant, you'll probably find yourself thinking, "Damn, that's good coffee." And if you're like most people, you'll return to the renovated grist mill tucked alongside Thatcher Brook on Stowe Street for more. This comes as no surprise to Mane Alves, a fortysomething world-renowned coffee expert who oversees the coffee at the bakery-cafe. "People know what a good cup of coffee is," Alves explains with the earnestness of any single-minded aficionado. "They may not be able to identify it or describe it, but they come back because they like the coffee."

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Alves, on the other hand, can both identify and describe the taste of coffee, and this is exactly what he does for a living. As the director of his own small coffee consulting company, Coffee Lab International, Alves devotes himself to a multitude of projects and contracts that involve the taste, science and business of coffee. The title of director is a bit misleading, however, as Alves is Coffee Lab International. Aside from a coffee-roaster apprentice and two part-time assistants to help with the books and the formal coffee tastings — known in the biz as "cuppings" — Alves does all the work. Exactly what that work is can be somewhat bewildering for anyone not steeped in the world of coffee production and marketing. In fact, if you happen to stop by Alves' office — which doubles as a roastery and a research lab — to ask what he's up to, he'll most likely point to the tall fire-engine-red coffee

roaster that dominates the small room and just tell you about roasting specialty coffees for the Mist Grill. He'll deftly ignore the high-pressure liquid chromatography machine in the other corner and the series of high-tech scales, graduated sieves, specialized thermometers and other indications of a scientist at work. "I don't go into the detail of all my businesses because it's too complicated," he admits with a modest shrug and a smile in his espresso-brown eyes. In truth, providing Vermonters with some of the best coffee this side of Rome is only a small part of what Alves is up to. O n the day I visited, Alves was producing a training video for a national franchise of coffee kiosks, the Coffee Beanery — you may have seen them in the Pittsburgh or Albany airports. Coffee Beanery has hired Alves to improve their espressos, lattes and other coffee drinks — a multi-tiered task. First he sourced and developed a new blend of coffee beans — espressos are most always made from a blend rather than a single type of coffee. Next he created a new method for making the drink using more ground coffee and less water. Now the trick is to convince the employees in the 200 or so Coffee Beanery outlets to pay attention to the details necessary to create an espresso perfecto. "A perfect extraction is difficult to do," Alves explains as he makes one espresso after another. He delivers a non-stop monologue of specifics — the exact amount of ground coffee per liquid; the precise method for tamping the grounds with a prescribed number of pounds of pressure; the number of seconds for the extraction. Finally, he discloses how to tell if an espresso is indeed perfecto: You break the

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had small vineyard lots and wineries, and for fun he learned to make wrine. "Everyone would jump barefoot into these big stone vats, where we stomped on the grapes." Like many young men searching for a career, Alves bounced around a bit; he worked as a salesman for a pharmaceutical company, taught language in high school and graduated from law school before he followed a love interest to California in 1984. Witnessing the hype around wine and all the opportunities it provided, Alves decided to bank on what he knew. Over the next six years, he lived and worked primarily in Alexander Valley and Dry Creek Valley — two primo wine-producing regions. After jobs at such well-known wineries as Murphy-Goode and Rodney Strong, he was hired by a large wine-making corporation, Vintech, to buy grapes from various growers according to specific flavor profiles. Alves is quick to deny that his palate is exceptional, though. "It's just a matter of experience," he says. "I would taste, taste, taste, taste every day to understand the taste profiles that the wine makers wanted." In the early '90s, Alves again impulsively followed his heart, pursuing the woman who would become his wife, all the way to Vermont. Since there were no wineries in Vermont, and the then-fledgling microbrewers in the area couldn't afford his expertise, Alves redirected his focus. During his first year in the state, Alves busied himself traveling back and forth to Portugal to import hand-painted tiles. O n one trip, he introduced some Portuguese friends to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters' flavored coffees. They flipped. "Nothing like this existed in Portugal and they thought it was

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tell my relatives that I'm a drug dealer. Since I'm the family comedian, most of them don't believe me. But I do deal in a substance that many people seem addicted to. Another thing I might tell my nosy relatives is that my job consists of rolling a large rock up a hill. Just when it gets to the very top, it slips from my grasp and rolls back down to the bottom. W h y am I so reticent to give them a straight answer? Because my job has no prestige, no status, no benefits, and is looked down on by nearly everyone. O n the other hand, it has absolutely no chance of being shipped overseas and will never be replaced by a computer, and if I'm really careful it covers my bills with a small sum left over for fun. I'm a Pizza Delivery Guy. Actually, it's not that bad. After all, it's one job that combines two of the great inventions of the 20th century: the car and the phone. It's sort of like "Taxi" with food. And it's almost never boring; no two deliveries are the same, no two nights the same — one difference, I suspect, between my job and yours. Another difference is that, when most of you are , winding up your work day, I'm just starting mine. Sure, there's a steady stream of lunchtime orders around town, but the dam really breaks about 5 p.m., when the first wave of day workers and parents gets home. A few hours later come the single folk and the early student rush. Finally, around 1 a.m., the late students and bar crawlers call in for their final snack. By the time it's all over I'll have driven around 50 miles and delivered 25 to 35 pizzas from one end of Burlington to the other. But my job does have a few occupational hazards. My worst nightmare is people playing in traffic — say, skateboarders, runners and Rollerbladers dressed in black at night. I haven't hit one yet, but I average at least one near-miss a week. Case in point: I was stopped at the light at Pearl and Willard Streets one night when I saw a jogger run into the intersection. He didn't look for oncoming cars, ignored the light, and was obviously hoping that the laws of Vermont would protect him from the laws of physics. Of course, he was hit by a car that had the green light. The driver only winged 1m, so he got up and jogged away, leaving a panicky and distraught woman parked in the middle of traffic. Next time this guy might not get up, and it won't be anyone's fault but his own. (Note to the city: You want to save lots of money on your maintenance budget? Take down those "Walk-Don't Walk" signs. No one pays any attention to them.) Equally challenging are bicyclists who want to be treated like motorists, but then zoom through stop signs and traffic lights because the cars are going too slow. Hey, it's hard enough trying to find the right balance between

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If you're picturing an old guy in overalls and rubber boots, rub your eyes. Rommer is a 50-yearold graduate of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston who tends his crops in a T-shirt and Birkenstocks. He grows four products, year-round, without ever having to go outdoors. His soil-grown sunflower, radish and snow pea greens get shipped twice weekly to stores as far as Maryland. You can find them at local health-food stores and coops. Gourmet Greens also grows wheatgrass — the chlorophyllrich "nutriceutical" thought to "eliminate toxins as you drink it," Rommer says. The future of farming in Vermont may end up looking a lot like this: smart, specialized operations catering to people who will pay for certified organic. Reaching enough of those people of course, has always been the challenge for far-flung growers. The Internet now allows virtual Vermont cultivators to reach their customers directly, and to sell them related products online. In addition to sprouts, seed and soil,

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Gourmet Greens' Web site brokers new and used juicers that range in price from $89 to $560. Sales of online merch have improved the bottom line for Rommer, who estimates he will gross about $230,000 this year. O n a drab November day, the brilliant green shoots are a welcome contrast, maturing under grow-lights in flats about the size of industrial baking trays. Seven days after planting, they are ready to harvest. With a straightedged razor blade, and the dexterity of a cosmetologist, Virginia Brown slices off the plants about three-quarters of an inch above the soil line, and stacks them in a rubber basin, sending the rootfilled soil back to the compost. It's a labor-intensive process because no sharp-edged instrument has yet been developed to mechanize the shearing. And harvesting is the easy part compared to seeding, watering and composting the organic soil, which Rommer also sells over the Internet. But the effort pays off. Like most things in small, plastic packages, specialized salad greens command a good price. Rommer gets between $5 and $8 per pound from wholesalers. Retail customers — who e-mail their orders online and receive them by next-day air — shellout $35 for the first pound, most of which pays for shipping. "I thought I wa Is going to grow a little bit of everything — carrots, lettuce and all those other things. I soon realized there is very little money in those things, because you are competing against agribusiness," Rommer says. Large producers tend to stay away from sprouts, he says, because they require so much individual attention. "If you are a farmer out in

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lettuce or any other salad stuff. And his sunflower greens come with a warning: "Remove any seed hulls before eating." Rommer keeps close watch over his own growing operation, overseeing every stage of the process from seeding to shipping. It's an organic cycle that plays itself out every day. Most of the heavy lifting is done by noon. While part-time workers bustle between buckets of soaking seed and bags of freshly harvested radish greens, Rommer is just as likely to be showing off the company Web site as tending to the furnace, which burns oil and wood. Employees approach Rommer with every imaginable question. Only one worker, Virginia, seems sufficiently selfreliant to cover for the boss. A teenage boy, Nick, oversees the composting operation, which takes up a large portion of the greenhouse. A home-schooler, he is getting an excellent hands-on lesson in microbiology and horticulture, tending to a dozen wooden bins in various stages of decomposition. Nick is also the sole worker to turn down a couple ounces of free wheatgrass juice during the mid-morning break — a company ritual, apparently, that suggests Rommer really does believe in his product. In fact, Rommer was still pretty young when he first experienced the benefits of good nutrition. At 18, he went to the doctor with a severe case of acne, and was told to stop eating certain foods. "I avoided those and it did clear up my face," he says. "So I saw the connection." H e saw the connection again when he came back from Europe, buff and healthy after eating vegetarian for several months, and resumed an American diet of hamburgers and cookies. "My face broke out, I gained weight, and I said, 'Hey, I don't want to lose this health that I came upon by accident.'"

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Netherlands make prodigious amounts of milk, which is then used to produce a variety of specialty cheeses. While an average U.S. sheep used for milking may give 100 pounds of milk a year, these tall, longeared ewes can produce 1000 pounds annually. Although the cheese is selling well, the real money was supposed to come from the sale of breeding stock. Because the USDA halted imports soon after the Faillaces bought their sheep in 1996, the Warren operation and another farm in Greensboro have the only U.S. flocks of East Friesian sheep. The Greensboro farm belongs to Houghton Freeman, a philanthropist whose Freeman Foundation has donated millions of dollars for education and land conservation efforts in Vermont.

inda Faillace keeps her emotions under control until she gets to the point in her story when she had to tell her children their animals might have to be put to death. Then the tears start to flow, and she is forced to break off her account of how the family's small sheep farm in Warren became the focus of the government's concern over food safety. Six years of work, numerous trips to Europe, intensive research on animal health and genetics had come to this: Federal and state officials want the Faillaces' flock of imported sheep destroyed because of a possibility they may have been exposed to an untreatable, always fatal brain disease that could spread to humans. The Faillaces' saga extends to the science of emerging diseases and the politics of international trade. But its also a story of one family's fight against an intractable bureaucracy. Federal and state officials have refused to budge in recent weeks from their position that the sheep must be destroyed. The Faillaces have also dug in and have won support from neighbors and town officials. Warren selectmen last week urged the state to change its mind. But Vermont Health Commissioner Jan Carney continues to argue that the sheep should be killed. The East Friesian sheep the family brought in from Belgium and the

Department of Agriculture. They were certified free of scrapie — a sheep brain disease that has been endemic in Europe and the United States for years — and were quarantined in both Europe and this country. But last year, federal agriculture

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Freeman and the Faillaces saw the East Friesian breed as having strong potential for Vermont agriculture. Freeman invested significant amounts of money in launching his sheep operation, which is run by a young couple. "In reality, there probably isn't a return for him," says his lawyer, Thomas Amidon. Prior to the controversy, farmers looking to get in on ground floor of the emerging dairy sheep business were willing to pay up to $25,000 for a bred ewe, Faillace says.

officials told the Faillaces they wanted to buy and then destroy the 300 animals held on their farm and on the Freeman farm in Greensboro. Government specialists said that the sheep came from an area of Europe where bovine spongiform

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Freeman is also incredulous that the U S D A wants the animals killed, after first helping to bring the animals into the country. "My client has said, 'Show us the evidence.' There isn't any," says Amidon, speaking for the philanthropist. But U S D A officials have insisted for over a year that the most prudent course is for both flocks to be slaughtered. Nothing less than the national interest is at stake, according to Alfonso Torres, deputy U S D A administrator. "The high stakes...mandate very conservative measures if there is a possibility of the sheep being infected with the BSE agent. We are conscious that these actions require difficult

disease-free and safe. But USDA officials did not back down. N o w the Vermont Department of Health, which only recently learned of the problem from state agriculture officials, has sided with the feds. "Because of the uncertainties involved in this unique Vermont situation, we all agree that getting these sheep out of Vermont to USDA is the priority; however, no recall of the milk-cheese products is indicated," Jan Carney says. "These recommendations and proposed actions are based on prudent public health practice."

f Larry and Linda Faillace have a ready rebuttal for every concern raised by the USDA, government officials also have a compelling comeback. Dr. Linda Detwiler, a leading BSE specialist and a veterinarian with the USDAs Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, says the public would be justifiably outraged if BSE did spread to the United States and the government had not done everything possible to stop it. Detwiler also notes there is some sign — although the Faillaces

"I have followed all the details of this case. I do not understand why your t overnment is acting like it i s . . . This ^could be the beginning of a big war." | m- Dr. Bernard Carton, fl Belgian veterinarian little-known practice of feeding animal meal to herbivores. Until the practice was curbed, commercial feed mills bought meat and bone meal for use as a protein source in feed. M a n y researchers believe the BSE outbreak in the U.K. began when cattle were fed meal made from infected animals. Some also believe that meal made from sheep infected with scrapie — a disease related to BSE — jumped the species barrier and may have caused the mad cow disease. Belgium and the Netherlands both had cases of BSE, and the U S D A says the Vermont sheep may have been exposed through feed.

he Faillaces argue there is no chance their sheep, or their forebears in Europe, were fed processed animal meal. They say their flock doesn't have scrapie. T h e y have documentation that feed mills in the area where the sheep originated did not use animal products. N o sheep has contracted BSE, outside the laboratory, they note. And tests on their sheep for a telltale protein that indicates the presence of BSE have all turned

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up negative. Larry Faillace holds a doctorate in animal health and worked in the early 1990s for a leading British researcher who advised the government on BSE. H e is confident the science is on their side. "The chances of any sheep in the world [getting BSE] are remote," he says. "The chances of these particular sheep getting it — well, you'd have a better chance of a meteor landing on your front step tomorrow."

choices on your part," Torres told the Faillaces in a letter this spring. "However, this is a case in which the welfare of our nation must be placed above any other consideration." For a long time Linda and her husband had not discussed the issue of their sheep's slaughter with their three children, all of whom work on the farm — 15year-old Francis does the pasture management; Heather, 13, does the daily milking; and Jackie, 12, is the cheesemaker along with her father. But after a meeting with the U S D A last October, the parents broke the news that the animals might have to be killed. "We sat down with our children and explained to them what was going on," Linda says, pausing to control her tears. "At that point, what we found out is that our children are as obstinate as we are. They said, ' N o way, there's nothing wrong with our sheep."' T h e Faillaces mustered scientific evidence. They flew top veterinarians down from Europe to meet with the U S D A and an official from the National Institutes of Health. Their experts insisted the sheep were

dispute the significance — that the brains of sheep culled from both farms have "vacuoles," small holes that could possibly indicate a spongiform disease. "The overriding issue is human health," Detwiler says. "If you protect animals, then you protect humans. If we ignore [the disease potential] and something happened, somebody could come back and say, 'Did you know they could have been exposed?' We'd have to say yes. And if they ask, 'Was there any indication in the brains of the animals [that they carried the disease]?' We'd have to say, 'Possibly, yes.' .. .We don't know all the answers, but I think we know enough to be conservative." Detwiler acknowledges that there is nothing "overtly" wrong with the Vermont sheep. She says the issue "is exposure, or potential exposure." Neither the Faillaces nor the farmers who sold them the animals can be absolutely sure that the feed in Europe did not contain meat or bone meal, according to Detwiler. Belgium's government has told the USDA that feed mills cannot be ruled out as a source of the disease in Belgian

cattle. And feed mills often changed their mixes depending on price and availability, she says. "A lot of time, the rations were developed by least cost calculations, so on any given day, there might be a substitute [such as meat or bone meal] for a protein source," Detwiler says. Dr. Gerald Wells, one of the leading British experts on BSE, agreed with the U S D As stance after examining the slides of brain tissue taken from the two flocks, Detwiler adds. "He said he couldn't say what it was. But he couldn't rule out [some form of transmissible encephalopathy]. Given the background of the sheep, he would support the action taken by the state and USDA." Larry Faillace says the animals in Vermont were born after a ban on animal meal went into effect in Europe. And he and his wife say that the vacuoles detected by lab tests in the brains of the culled sheep are not evidence the animals have scrapie or BSE. Vacuoles in brain tissue can be caused by other illness or the way the slides for the microscope are prepared, they say. T h e alcohol used on the sample can dissolve fat molecules in the tissue, giving the appearance that the tissue has small holes. They also say that researchers did not detect several other signs of transmissible brain disease, including the key protein associated with BSE. Dr. Bernard Carton, a Belgian veterinarian who works with the Faillaces, also says the lab work does not show their sheep have a brain disease. "I have followed all the details of this case. I do not understand why your government is acting like it is," he says. "To me, it has nothing to do with science, it just has to do with politics." T h e United States — which has already faced a European ban on its beef over hormones in the meat — wants desperately to keep its BSE-free status, Carton notes. But if the U.S. government destroys the Vermont sheep, it could have an impact on international trade, since dairy products from the same sheep breed are imported from Europe. If the sheep are deemed unsafe, what would happen to those cheese imports if the public believed the animals were at risk to get BSE, he asks. "I wonder what will happen with my [Agriculture] ministry if they kill these animals," Carton says. "Up until now, it's been very quiet, but what happens with cheese from Europe? This could be the beginning of a big war."

hile the U S D A has moved aggressively to control BSE in sheep, government officials have allowed several Vermont farmers to import elk from Western states, where there is a similar brain disease infecting wild herds. T h e Faillaces feel there is a

double standard at work. Elk are not tested, nor does the USDA or the state ban their import from infected states. "I can understand wanting to take a conservative approach. But if [they] were doing their utmost, testing elk, testing [other] sheep, then I could understand this. But to select us, to say these sheep are under more suspicion than any in the world, seems ridiculous," says Linda. Detwiler refers questions on the elk issue to the state Agriculture Department. Agriculture Commissioner Leon Graves says he is aware that elk in other parts of the country have the brain disease, but that no action has been taken in Vermont. "It's on the radar screen. We haven't done anything about that yet," he says. Graves says he supports the USDAs position. "We've never had BSE in this country and we can't afford to take the risk." T h e Faillaces believe some of the pressure to destroy their sheep comes from the beef industry, which does not want the U.S. to lose its BSE-free status. Dr. T h o m a s Pringle, an Oregon biochemist and an expert in the protein structures of transmissible spongiform diseases, says the Faillaces are pawns in a larger effort to protect the American beef industry. Pringle points out that officials are far less aggressive in preventing other potential exposure routes, such as infection of the state's deer herd by elk afflicted with chronic wasting disease — the elk variant of BSE.

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The battle over biotechnology takes root in Vermont BY TERRY ALLEN

feel like a drunk at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting," U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) representative Arnold Foudin told a group of 60 activists, farmers and legislators assembled at the Statehouse last week to hear a panel on biotechnology and genetic engineering. It was the only light moment of the day — and one of the few times the panelists and largely hostile audience agreed. "The revolution in biotechnology," Foudin ftllG predicted, "is going to T f t f ! be the most powerful J ISSI16 technology man has encountered." Hyperbolic as it sounds, Foudin may be right. A®*®; Biotechnology has the potential to alter life, to create new species of plants and animals and to accomplish more change in a few days than evolution cranks out in a million years. Advocates claim genetic engineering (GE) will feed the world, cure diseases and promote a healthy environment; critics counter that the technology is inadequately regulated, driven by industry greed and making guinea pigs of the planet and its population. O n Friday, Foudin, along with University of Vermont faculty John Burke, John Bramley and Mary Tierney, and representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the biotechnology industry, presented an educational session for the public and legislators. The academics reviewed current and planned medical and agricultural applications; the government and industry representatives explained the commercial and regulatory issues. State legislators Dan Darrow (DNewfane), Sara Kittell (D-Franklin), Harvey Smith (R-New Haven) and Cheryl Rivers (D-Windsor) were among the very few legislators who attended. In the last decade, genetic engineering has grown from obscurity to a widespread, controversial and highly profitable industry.

The laboratory manipulation of genes is now used to synthesize insulin and other pharmaceuticals as well as to create new varieties of trees, food crops and "transgenic" animals. Some of the changes are temporary, some live as long as the host, and some — called germ-line manipulation — are incorporated into the hosts genetic structure and passed down to all succeeding generations through sexual reproduction, including pollination. "We still don't understand how it works," said Bramley, dean of the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Nonetheless, scientists have inserted the D N A of fish into vegetables to make them frost-resistant, and put human D N A into pigs to make them larger and leanWhile such experiments have drawn fire, it is the widespread engineering of new foods — critics call them "Frankenfoods" — that has galvanized dissent in Europe and is fast becoming a major issue in this country as well. Currently in the U.S., 60 percent of food in local supermarkets contains ingredients grown from GE seed, according to recent articles in both The Boston Globe and Food and. Chemical News. In the last three years, G E cotton, corn and soy has skyrocketed to almost half of U.S. production. In Vermont, where rBGH milk and Bt corn are the most common examples, no state agency tracks their use. Nationally, regulation falls variously to the USDA, EPA and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Bt corn is regulated by the EPA as a pesticide, since the plant contains — and in a sense is — a toxin that kills insects, according to Phil Benedict at the Vermont Department of Agriculture. Monsantos Roundup Ready soy and cotton incorporate a gene that makes the crop immune to Roundup — a potent herbicide also manufactured by Monsanto. Aside from concern that G E crops may harm humans and wildlife, critics

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predict that widespread use may create "superweeds." Organic farmers also fear that air- or insect-borne pollen will "pollute" their farms and cost them their organic status and livelihoods. "It is a biologic reality," admitted Foudin at last weeks session, "that genes will move to neighboring crops." Many audience members staged a demonstration during the noon break, claiming that the panel was not balanced — a view echoed by Senator Rivers. She accused Agriculture Commissioner Leon Graves of "trying to protect industry interests," noting "if he had given legislators more advance warning, there would have been an uproar about the bias" of the panel. Only three days' notice was given. "This is one of the worst things he has done as commissioner," she concluded, adding that she will be introducing a bill calling for labeling of GE products in January. "There was not a conscious decision made" to exclude opponents, said Graves. "We just wanted strictly factual information based on sound science." "Industry-supportive bureaucrats hide behind the term sound science,' and use it to undermine the credibility of opponents," charged Anthony Pollina, senior policy advisor to Vermont Public Interest Research Group. Pollina added that the Union of Concerned Scientists feels the burden of proof should be on industry and government to establish safety of GE foods, rather than on the consumer to demonstrate harm. -> Industry and government insist the technology is safe. "Yes, there are simple screw-ups," conceded Foudin, "but not one single case of a serious accident." While the UVM panelists acknowledged safety and ethical concerns, they expressed confidence that adequate regulatory mechanisms were already in place. They did, however, advocate that GE products be labeled for consumers. The representatives from the USDA, EPA and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) argued that labeling would raise unnecessary concerns, since there are "no crucial differences" between

G E food and traditional foods. The panelists seemed surprised by the open hostility of audience members and their lack of trust in government regulators. It was the first time, said Foudin, that he had experienced such consumer anger and skepticism. While BIO's Michael Phillips commended the regulatory role of the Vermont Department of Agriculture and the federal government, organic tomato grower David Miskell cited the "oops factor." "We keep getting told that things are safe, and then 10 to 20 years down the road, we hear 'oops,' and find out that the scientists were wrong," Miskell said. His call for a GE-free Vermont sparked sustained cheers from the audience. Representative Darrow noted that "Monsanto has much more to say in Washington than I do." Indeed, the close relationship between industry and government has raised serious concern about scientific objectivity, critics say. According to an August article in The New York Times, "Phillips had been directing the [National Academy of Sciences] crucial bioengineered crops study when he abruptly departed the Academy to work for [BIO]." Last week, Phillips denied having a conflict of interest, but admitted that he negotiated his job with BIO, the industry's major trade organization, while he was directing the NAS study. As the contentious session ended, Senator Kittell drew applause from the audience when she announced the Senate Agriculture Committee she heads will hold hearings on biotechnology during the next legislative session. (7)

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W h e n she started Bien Fait in 1995 as a hobby mail-order business at her home, she sold a few hundred cakes. Just a year later she was discovered: Perron's cakes were featured in The New York Times and her phone began

Perron. She and her husband MacNeil ran a bakery out of their home in the early 1980s before they began helping out on her family's 140-acre dairy farm. Then Perron worked as a chef at the Highland Lodge for many

Perron, a petite woman with piercing blue eyes and cropped dark hair, is apparently tireless. She makes 2500 one-pound fruitcakes and non-alcoholic teacakes a year, plus 335 pounds of granola and 70 pounds of pan-

There's no need to worry about the long-term shelf life of Perron's fruitcakes. Forget freezing these delectable dolce as some sort of millennial time capsule. You'll be lucky to make her fruitcake last more than five minutes at this year's holiday table. ®

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FRIDAY PICTURE THIS (jazz), Windjammer, 5:30 p.m. NC. RODNEY & FRIENDS (acoustic), Ri Ra, 6 p.m. NC. JOE CAPPS & SHAUNA ANTONIAC (jazz), Dockside, 7 p.m. NC. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance Saloon, 7:30 p.m. NC. THE PLATTERS, THE DRIFTERS, THE COASTERS (oldies soul), Flynn Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $19.50/24.50. YAVUZ AKYAZICI SEXTET (jazz; benefit for Turkish Earthquake Relief), Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/20. GREG DOUGLASS (singersongwriter), Borders, 8 p.m. NC. AYE (singer-songwriter duo; CD release party), Burlington

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MR. FRENCH (rock), Franny O's, 9 p.m. NC. RUN FOR COVER (rock), City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), Swany's, 9 p.m. NC. MIRAGE (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3. PICTURE THIS (jazz), J.P. Morgan's, 7:30 p.m. NC. MIGHTY LOONS (rock), Charlie O's, 9 p.m. NC. JASON BERGMAN & COLIN MCCAFFREY (swing), Villa Tragara, 6:30 p.m. $5 with dinner. BLUES FOR BREAKFAST, Mountain Roadhouse, 9 p.m. NC. PLATFORM SOUL (horn band), Rusty Nail, 8:30 p.m. $5 REGGAE NIGHT (DJ), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE NIGHT, Adams Apple Cafe, 7 p.m. NC. ADIOS PANTALONES (party rock), Nightspot Outback, 9 p.m. $5-7. SUPERHONEY (alt-rock), Wobbly Barn, 9 p.m. $6-8. THE GIRL SCOUTS (rock), Toadstool Harry's, 9 p.m. NC.

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where to go After Dark Musip Series, Knights of Columbus Hall, Middlebury, 3 8 8 - 0 2 1 6 . Alley-Cats, 4 1 King St., Burl., 6 6 0 - 4 3 0 4 . Adams Apple Cafe, Portland & M a i n streets, Morrisville, 8 8 8 - 4 7 3 7 . Backstage Pub, 6 0 Pearl St., Essex Jet., 8 7 8 - 5 4 9 4 . Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1 0 0 Dorset St., S. Burlington, 8 6 4 - 8 0 0 1 . Boony's, Rt. 2 3 6 , Franklin, 9 3 3 - 4 5 6 9 . Borders Books & Music, 2 9 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 5 - 2 7 1 1 . Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 1 8 6 College St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 5 8 8 8 . Cactus Cafe, 1 Lawson Ln., Burl., 8 6 2 - 6 9 0 0 . Cambridge Coffee House, Smuggler's Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 6 4 4 - 2 2 3 3 . Capitol Grounds, 4 5 State St., Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 7 8 0 0 . Champion's, 3 2 M a i n St., W i n o o s k i , 6 5 5 - 4 7 0 5 . Charlie O's, 7 0 M a i n St., Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 6 8 2 0 . Chow! Bella, 2 8 N. M a i n St., St. Albans, 5 2 4 - 1 4 0 5 . City Limits, 14 Greene St. Vergennes, 8 7 7 - 6 9 1 9 . Club Extreme, 1 6 5 Church St., Burlington, 6 6 0 - 2 0 8 8 . Club Metronome, 1 8 8 M a i n St., Burlington, 8 6 5 - 4 5 6 3 . Club 1 5 6 , 1 5 6 St. Paul St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 3 9 9 4 . Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 5 2 7 - 7 0 0 0 . Diamond Jim's Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St. Albans, 5 2 4 - 9 2 8 0 . Dockside Cafe, 2 0 9 Battery, Burlington, 8 6 4 - 5 2 6 6 . Edgewater Pub, 3 4 0 Malletts Bay Ave., Colchester, 8 6 5 - 4 2 1 4 . Finnigan's Pub, 2 0 5 College St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 8 2 0 9 . Franny O's 7 3 3 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 8 6 3 - 2 9 0 9 . Good Times Cafe, Hinesburg Village, Rt. 1 1 6 , 4 8 2 - 4 4 4 4 . Halvorson's, 16 Church St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 0 2 7 8 . Henry's, Holiday Inn, 1 0 6 8 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 8 6 3 - 6 3 6 1 . Higher Ground, 1 M a i n St., Winooski, 6 5 4 - 8 8 8 8 . Horn of the Moon Cafe, 8 Langdon St., Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 2 8 9 5 . Jake's, 1 2 3 3 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 6 5 8 - 2 2 5 1 . J.P. Morgan's at Capitol Plaza, 1 0 0 M a i n St., Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 5 2 5 2 . J.P.'s Pub, 1 3 9 M a i n St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 6 3 8 9 . LaBrioche, 8 9 M a i n St., Montpelier, 2 2 9 - 0 4 4 3 . Last Chance Saloon, 1 4 7 M a i n , Burlington, 8 6 2 - 5 1 5 9 . Leunig's, 1 1 5 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 3 - 3 7 5 9 . Live Art at the Barre Opera House, 4 7 6 - 8 1 8 8 , or Wood Art Gallery,

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M a d Mountain Tavern, Rt. 1 0 0 , Waitsfield, 4 9 6 - 2 5 6 2 . M a d River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 1 0 0 , Waitsfield, 4 9 6 8910. M a i n St. Bar & Grill, 1 1 8 M a i n St., Montpelier, 2 2 3 - 3 1 8 8 . Manhattan Pub, 1 6 7 M a i n St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 6 7 7 6 . Matterhorn, 4 9 6 9 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2 5 3 - 8 1 9 8 . The Mountain Nectar's, 1 8 8 The Nightspot 1 3 5 Pearl St., Pickle Barrel,

Roadhouse, 1 6 7 7 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2 5 3 - 2 8 0 0 . M a i n St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 4 7 7 1 . Outback, Killington Rd., Killington, 4 2 2 - 9 8 8 5 Burlington, 8 6 3 - 2 3 4 3 . Killington Rd., Killington, 4 2 2 - 3 0 3 5 .

Radisson Hotel, 6 0 Battery St., Burlington, 6 5 8 - 6 5 0 0 . Rasputin's, 1 6 3 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 9 3 2 4 . Red Square, 1 3 6 Church St., Burlington, 8 5 9 - 8 9 0 9 . Rhombus, 1 8 6 College St., Burlington, 8 6 5 - 3 1 4 4 . Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 1 2 5 , 3 8 8 - 9 7 8 2 . Ri Ra, 1 2 3 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 0 - 9 4 0 1 . Ruben James, 1 5 9 M a i n St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 0 7 4 4 . Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2 5 3 - 6 2 4 5 . Starksboro Community Coffee House, Village M e e t i n g House, Rt. 1 1 6 , Starksboro, 4 3 4 - 4 2 5 4 . Strand Theater, 2 5 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh, 5 1 8 - 5 6 6 - 7 2 6 5 . Swany's, 2 1 5 M a i n St., Vergennes, 8 7 7 - 3 6 6 7 . Sweetwaters, 1 1 8 Church St., Burlington, 8 6 4 - 9 8 0 0 . The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 8 7 8 - 1 1 0 0 . Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. M a i n St., Waterbury, 2 4 4 - 5 2 2 3 . Toadstool Harry's, Rt. 4 , Killington, 4 2 2 - 5 0 1 9 . Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., W i n o o s k i , 6 5 5 - 9 5 4 2 . Tuckaway's, Sheraton, 8 7 0 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 8 6 5 - 6 6 0 0 . Vermont Pub & Brewery, 1 4 4 C o l l e g e / B u r l i n g t o n , 8 6 5 - 0 5 0 0 . Villa Tragara, Rt. 1 0 0 , Waterbury Ctr., 2 4 4 - 5 2 8 8 . Windjammer, 1 0 7 6 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 8 6 2 - 6 5 8 5 . Wobbly Barn, Killington Rd., Killington, 4 2 2 - 3 3 9 2 .

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Children, at least, have the opportunity to learn Vermont's new state song — Plainfield composer Diane Martin and her arranger, Rita G l U C k of Montpelier, are touring some of the states elementary schools to sing "These Green Mountains," the song chosen last summer from 106 entries. It won't be voted in by the legislature until January, but it seems safe to call it official. Other than those small-fry venues, though, Ira Allen Chapel at the University of Vermont will host the public debut of the state song, by the Burlington Choral Society, this Sunday at 3 p.m. As such, it's an interesting opening act for the main progam, Ein deutsches Requiem, by 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. But then, the Requiem was a mass that paid tribute to the composer's mother and was the work that put him on the map, so maybe there's a cosmic connection there somewhere. This first choral arrangement of "These Green Mountains" is the work of BCS Director David

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Neiweem. The most curious member of the audience? I'd guess Martin. DO GOOD DEPT. The only thing worse than Turkey's devastating earthquake in August — which killed more than 17,000 and left half a million stranded in makeshift camps — was having another one. The death toll from last Fridays quake is more than 400, and counting, and many of the remaining residents are reportedly fleeing the area, fearing more disasters. The devastation in their homeland compelled University of Vermont grad student Metin Ozbek and postdoc associate Tugrul Giray to help. Along with other students and staff from local colleges, the pair have organized Turkish Earthquake Relief Days this Friday and Saturday, which, like many a benefit, involves music. Unlike every other benefit you've ever been to, though, this one includes Turkish music — a chance to educate yourself, have fun, and do good all at the same time. Friday night at Burlington's

Marsalis bands, among others. A program Saturday at Billings Theater, "A Journey to Turkey," shares the energetic world of Turkish-Anatolian folk dance with a performance and slide show; and Saturday evening at the UVM Recital Hall, The EurAsia Ensemble, from Wesleyan University, performs a repertoire of the Ottoman court and other Turkish traditions. Oh, and did I mention the whirling dervishes? Members of the Mevlevi order will spin like it's 1299. Get tickets at the usual outlets, and if you can't attend, consider a financial donation — call 879-2565, or visit ww.uvm. edu/ earthquake/ main. html. Not to make invidious comparisons, but the UVM Snowboard Club also needs a leg up, as it were. WRUV and Club Extreme host a hip-hop/dancehall party this Wednesday with deejays John Demus, A-Dog, Melissa and Sam, and a snowboard will be raffled — just in time for this week's snowstorm. Part of the proceeds Thursday at Club Extreme will benefit COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter) — that one's an all-night rave from HarmonX Entertainment, featuring deejays

Omega, Spin, Justin B., Craig Mitchell and Aqua.

Diane Horstmyer (of Steam Genie fame) Thursday at Rhombus: Tinker Taylor promises more avant-art pop, and will be accompanied by bluesgrrrl Steph Pappas . . . Last-minute booking of note: M. Doughty, the quirky genius behind, or rather in front of, Soul Coughing, will perform a midnight show at Higher Ground this Friday. The special unplugged set will feature what Doughty calls "deep slacker jazz" . . . I noted last week the passing of beloved jazzman

Lester Bowie. His wife Deborah has established a scholarship fund for the couple's youngest daughter, Zola — an opportunity to funnel your fond memories of Bowie into a college education: Send contributions to the Zola Bowie Scholarship Fund, c/o Citibank, 181 Montague St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 . . . ® Got a musical tip for Rhythm & News? Send it to Pamela Polston at Seven Days, POB 1164, Burlington, VT 05402, e-mail to sevenday@together. net, fax 8651015 or call 864-5684.

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strings is masterful, especially on the sparse Sonnet 25. Shakespeare Sonnet 29, recorded at GHOST (self-released, CD) — Scat Shakespeare SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 27 S8 AT DOOR the Knitting Factory, is much busier, compared to may not be a new thing, but I confess I've never EARLY SHOW: BOORS 7 PM SHOW 8 P M the spare composure of the rest of the works. heard it before — even with all the Bardolotry at Chants is not just about Shakespeare: The other the turn of the millennium. Leave it to West ford six "songs" here are Smith originals along with HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN artist/musician Pete Smith to pair up lines like borrowings from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and How heavy do Ijourney on the way,/When what I THE SUN MOUNTAIN FIDDLER seek, my weary travel's end,/Doth teach that ease andAmerican Beat jazz-poet Bob Kaufman. Jazz and MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29 S12 ADVANCE S14 DAY OF SHOW 104.7 THE POINT & MAGIC HAT BREWING WELCOME that repose to say,/"Thus far the miles are measurd poetry have gone hand in hand for half a century, and this latest addition to the genre is, like the from thy friend!" with cool-cat improvisational AN CRY SALAD best jazz music, worth repeated listenings. Smith jazz. Of course, it's not a far cry from Vermont TUESDAY, N O V E M B E R 3 0 S15 ADVANCE S17 DAY OF S H O W & ensemble perform next Wednesday at UVM's poet David Budbill's collaboration last year with ALL AGES! 99.9 THE BUZZ WELCOMES • FROM SOCIAL DISTORTION Colburn Gallery, at a reception for Smith's artNew York bassist William Parker, but at least Zen work displayed there. Mountains, Zen Streets was in English you didn't ROAD KINGS have to furrow your brow to comprehend. That's — Pamela Polston W E D N E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 1 S16 ADVANCE S18 DAY OF S H O W not a dis; I personally love the measured eloquence of Shakespearean language — though I'd AYE, AYE (self-released, CD) —The two women FEAT. KIMOCK, VEGA, HERTZ & WHITE rather hear it spoken than read it. So Smith's who comprise Aye — Adrienne (who opts for THURSDAY, O E C E M B E R 2 SOLD OUT! "original appropriation" of four Shakespearean the single nom de tune) and Marsia Shuron M A G I C HAT B R E W I N G AND 10E.7 W I Z N W E L C O M E sonnets (numbers 25, 29, 50 and 65, if you want Harris — possess voices that alone distinguish to look them up), howevthem in the crowded singer-song& THE DESTROYERS er plaintive and raspy his writer field. Adrienne's is sweet, MURAL I CORYELL voice may be, is a unique girlish, breathy, sometimes light as FRIDAY, D E C E M B E R 3 S10 ADVANCE S12 DAY OF S H O W pleasure. It helps that he's a cloud. Harris' voice is startlingly backed by four outstanddeep — even more than that of the ing musicians — the rest singer she calls to mind: Joan of the Improvisational Armatrading. In tandem, the voices COREY HARRIS Jazz & Poetry Ensemble: of Aye (pronounced I-yay) are THURSDAY. D E C E M B E R 9 S8 AT DOOR JOE GALLANT'S Ellen Powell on upright remarkable, and capable of melodic bass, Stephen Goldberg mesmerism. Harris' vocals are the UNCLE SAMMY on horns, Al Sport and "earth" to Adrienne's "air," making MONDAY, DECEMBER 13 S7 ADVANCE S9 DAY OF SHOW ALL AGES! EARLY SHOW: DOORS 7 PM 99.9 THE BUZZ WELCOMES occasionally Zach Leader for music that manages the nearon sax. Smith himself impossible feat of floating while contributes jembe/percusWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 S8 ADVANCE S10 DAY OF SHOW remaining grounded. In short, forALL AGES! sion as well as vocals. The Ensemble packs a big tune smiled on these women when they met as punch by remaining minimal. The soundtrack is fellow buskers in Harvard Square. That said, U " C O D(WU-TANC CLAN) Chet Baker moody, murky and dark, but never Aye's material is a long way from equalling the dreary. As improv, recorded live (at Goldberg's magic of their voices. For starters, many of the One Take Studio, Rhombus Gallery and New dozen songs on their eponymous CD are spoiled York's Knitting Factory), Chants of a Ghost might by a saccharine sheen of synthesizers when, have lucked out with the musicians working beaufrankly, the songs would be better served by a FRIDAY. DECEMBER 31 S40 ADVANCE TICKETS PRICE INCLUDES FULi BUFFET & CHAMPAGNE! tifully in sync, but my guess is these players are Sweet Honey in the Rock approach —- a cappella skillful enough to do it all over again. Goldberg plus a little percussion. This production gloss is — no stranger to the darker side of jazz-fusion — surprising given Aye's penchant for rootsy, ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT HIGHER GROUND, FLYNN THEATRE BOX OFFICE, ALL FLYNN OUTLETS, excels here with assorted emotive bleeps and Caribbean-esque rhythms, such as in the lilting, PURE POP, T O N E S O R CHARGE BY P H O N E at 8 6 - F L Y N N honks, and Powell's resonant, nimble play on the anthemic title track. The instrumentation is ilff;fflili'l»l!OfHi Ihi >ii]Ji'i,' E li iii»

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often more irritating than supportive to works that are sort of r&b lite cross-pollinated with world-beat and new-age. Exceptions are the nice sax work on "Spirit in My Bones," the spare, laid-back percussion and Native American/Carib rhythms of "Take Me to Nowhere" and the searing, tasteful guitar work behind the gentle, tantalizing groove of "Feeling Safer." Instrumentation is less troubling when Aye plays live with just congas and guitar. A more fundamental issue, though, is the collection's unbearable lightness of being, lyric-wise. There's semi-inspirational stuff ("I can do anything, it's up to me..."), words that just don't go anywhere ("Take me outta here/Take me to nowhere..."), and incomprehensible drivel ("All I know/Take it slow and steady/It's just a matter of time"). Huh? What are Aye saying here? Nothing, as far as I can tell. Don't get me wrong, I have adored plenty of tunes over the years whose "meaning" quotient is lower than a fruitfly's IQ. But those were typically songs completely devoid of loftier aspirations, as Aye appears to have — and deserves. Personally, I might like some of these songs better in a foreign language, so I could just focus on those lovely voices and the way they weave around and through each other into a single, beautiful tapestry. And, like other reviewers before me, I might be swayed by their charms in person. Say, at Aye's CD release party/performance this Friday at Burlington's Rhombus Gallery. — Pamela Polston

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SUNDAY JENNI JOHNSON (jazz/blues), Sweetwaters, 11:30 a.m. NC. DAMI0N WOLFE (singer-songwriter), Borders, 3 p.m. NC. SUNDAY SESSIONS (trad. Irish), Ri Ra, 5 p.m. NC. SUNDAY BRUNCH (benefit for UVM GLBT), 135 Pearl, 11 a.m. $5, followed by POOL TOURNEY, 6:30 p.m. $5. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Nectar's, 9:30 p.m. NC. SUNDAY NIGHT MASS (DJ), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. $2. HIP-HOP NIGHT W/T0P HAT (DJ), Rasputin's, 9:30 p.m. NC. DEEP BANANA BLACKOUT, CURRENTLY NAMELESS (funky groove rock), Higher Ground, 9 p.m. $8/10. JAIR0 SEQUEIR0 & JOHN LAR0UCHE (Latin jazz), Capitol Grounds, 11 a.m. NC.

TUESDAY PAUL ASBELL, CLYDE STATS & JEFF SALISBURY (jazz), Leunig's, 7:30 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE (acoustic), Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 8 p.m. Donations. DRAG BINGO W/LADY ZEN0, 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. NC. MARTIN & MITCHELL (DJs), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $2. LIVE MUSIC, Red Square, 9:30 p.m. NC. ABAIR BROS., Nectar's, 9:30 p.m. NC. '80S NIGHT (DJ Frostee), Club Extreme, 9 p.m. $2/NC. BASHMENT (reggae/dancehall DJs), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. RUSS & CO. (rock), J.P.'s Pub, 9:30 p.m. NC. NORTH COUNTRY (folk), Tavern, Inn at Essex, 6 p.m. NC. ®

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• Go ahead, name one Renaissance artist or scientist. Now name a Renaissance composer. . . The enlightened era's music is not so easily remembered. That's why The Clerks' Group revives the works of Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem and his musical inheritor, Josquin des Prez. The composers lived in a time when many musicians dressed as devils or beggars to attract audiences — a precursor of punk, grunge, Goth or all of the above? The English vocal ensemble takes on the complex melodies in traditional style, singing around a single choir book, in a performance that rekindles the Renaissance spirit. Wednesday, November 17. Concert Hall, Middiebury College Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. $9. Info, 443-6433.

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apocalypse then • Calendar-induced hysteria wasn't invented this year. People last dreaded the changing year at the end of the 1800s, according to Vermont children's author Katherine Paterson. In her latest book, Preacher's Boy, a minister's son is convinced that the world will end with the century. So he becomes a heathen and begins to live out his last days as devilishly as possible. His worst turns out to be not so bad — he steals some food but ends up sharing it with vagrants. At an upcoming reading, the award-winning writer reads from her work, allaying any fears youngsters might have about the end of the world as we know it. Friday, November 19. Flying Pig Children's Books, Charlotte, 4-6p.m. Free. Info, 425-2600.

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• What do women want? According to French psychologist Jacques Lacan, they want to be wanted — not just loved. Polly Young-Eisendrath takes on the topic and Lacan's bold statement in her new book, Women and Desire. The Burlington psychoanalyst and UVM professor explores the tendency of women to want to be the object of desire, rather than the subject. Her book cites case studies and historical examples — from Pandora to Princess Di — to illustrate the shame and poor self-esteem that can result. A practicing Buddhist, she also discusses the rewards and conflicts brought on by spirituality. Check out her reading — if you want to. . . Friday, November 19. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

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• Also, see listings in "Sound Advice." MUSICA FEMINA: The women's choral group joins musical forces with the Catamount Singers for a concert in the UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Music prof and Gershwin guru Wayne Schneider gives an overview of 19thcentury American music. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $3. Info, 656-0750. THE CLERKS' GROUP: The Renaissance music ensemble performs seldom-heard vocal pieces by Josquin des Prez and Johannes Ockeghem. See "to do" list, this issue. Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Middiebury

College, 7:30 p.m. $9. Info, 443-6433. OPEN MIKE NIGHT: Bring your own talent to a performance potluck at the Cambridge Coffeehouse, Smuggler's Notch Inn, Jeffersonville, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 644-2233. DANIEL BRUCE: The Montpelier pianist plays digitally demanding pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. Faulkner Recital Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

drama 'ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD': Northern Stage performs Tom Stoppard's tale of two confused minor characters from Hamlet. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 296-7000. 'TWELFTH NIGHT': Students stage Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of selfdiscovery with shipwrecks, forgery and unrequited love. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,

Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

film 'AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD': A Bulgarian man returns to his childhood home to find a long-lost love in this tear-jerker — part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., y 6:45 & 9:15 p.m. $6. Info, 603646-2422. 'THE BAND WAGON': In this musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, Fred Astaire stars as a washed-up movie star looking to revive both his love life and his career. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $6. Info, 603646-2422.

art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings. 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. $3-6. Info, 865-7165. CHINESE ART AND POETRY TALK: Poet David Budbill and artist Sam Thurston share insights on the arts of ancient China. T. W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8743.

MYSTERY BOOK DISCUSSION: Marian Mosher heads up an investigation of Abra Cadaver by James Tucker. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. 'LITERATURE OF T H E FAR NORTH': A discussion of Olga Kharitidi's Entering the Circle sheds light on a relatively unknown part of the world. S. Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

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KATHRYN DAVIS: The Calais author leads the way through The Walking Tour, her new suspense novel set in Wales. Barnes Noble, S. Burlington, "p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

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er. VINS North Branch, Montpelier, 78:30 p.m. $3. Info, 229-6206. W1LLARD STERNE RANDALL: The local historian speaks about General Oliver Howard, who commanded Vermont troops during the Civil War and later founded black universities. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700. MIDDLE EAST LECTURE: Former ABC News correspondent Barrie Dunsmore shares his notes on the conflict-ridden region. Dewey Lounge, UVM, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1096. EATING DISORDER TALK: Counselor Nancy Weber gives advice on how to help a friend with foodrelated problems. Women's Center, UVM, Burlington, noon - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7892. MEDITATION FOR WORLD PEACE: Generate good vibrations with others at the Center for Health and Welibeing, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0364. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS EXERCISE PROGRAM: Learn about an exercise and balance training program for sufferers of the disease. UVM Building 114, University Heights, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0912. 'THE FEEDER AND BEYOND': Bird lovers learn how to attract — and

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CHANTS AND JAZZ MANTRAS, bleach-water portraits of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus by P.R. Smith. Colburn Gallery, Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6562014. Reception November 24, 5-7 p.m., with a live poetry-jazz performance.

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STRAIGHT 0UTTA JOE'S GARAGE, abstract paintings by Joe Harig. Daily Planet, Burlington, 863-4649. Through November. RISEN FROM THE BEAST, blackand-white photos by Ivey, about moments of self-actualization, with poetry by Todd Grooms. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 865-3144. Through November. PLAY OF LIGHT, oils and pastel paintings by Joy Huckins-Noss. Isabel's on the Waterfront, Burlington, 229-0832. Through January 3. SERENITY, photographs of Vermont landscapes and people by Monique Laperle. Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 6550231. Through November. STRONG HEARTS: Native American Visions and Voices, featuring color and black-and-white photographs by 29 Native

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WHERE THE SEEDS HIDE, paintings of Vermont by Sylvia Haron. Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall, 865-7166. Through November. W H A T YOU LOOK LIKE: Portrait Photographs by more than 25 Vermont photographers, .and COLLAPSIBLE CITY, a "city-in-asuitcase" installation by Stephanie Seibert. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 8657165. Through December 5.

CAROL NORTON, JOANNE DELANY & CELENE HARGRAVES, paintings. Better Bagel, Tafts Corners, Williston, 864-1557. Through January. POLLY T H O M P S O N , new paintings. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848. Through November. A GARDEN PARTY, new paintings by Elizabeth Bunsen and her four-year-old son, Boone Wilson. Alley Cats Arts, Burlington, 8655079. Through November.

THE MATING HABITS OF LINES: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of Ree Morton, featuring drawings and journals detailing the artistic process, from an early pioneer in installation art who died in 1977. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through January 23.

FOUR H0NDURAN ARTISTS, featuring the work of Mario Castillo, Virgilio Guardiola, Rolando Lopez Trochez and Xenia Mejfa. Fleming Museum, Burlington, 656-0750. Through February 13. PURSUING THE LIGHT: Visual Impressions of the Natural World, featuring fine art color photography by Christopher C. Leeper. Working Design Gallery at the

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DAVID GOODRICH, pen and ink drawings of Vermont views. The Book Rack, Winooski, 654-4650. Through December.

RICK SUTTA, representational oil paintings. Rick Sutta Gallery, Burlington, 860-7506. Ongoing.

GERRIT GOLLNER, abstract paintings and prints. Farrell Rm., St. Michael's College, Colchester, 654-2487. Through December.

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temporary paintings by Val B. Hird, paired with 19th- and 20th-century textiles of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. Also, in the Hands-On Gallery Space, a Central Asian yurt by Rachel Lehr. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 20.

BRENNAN MICHAELS: Masks. Bulwagga Books and Gallery, Whiting, 623-6242. Through November 20. JOYRIDE, abstracted oil landscape paintings by Jake Geer. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, 8773668. Through November 24.

USE IT UP, WEAR IT OUT, MAKE IT DO OR DO WITHOUT: Our Lives in the 1930s and '40s, featuring oral histories, photographs, artifacts and music exploring Addison County life in those decades. Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 388-2117. Through March 10.

NO TWO ALIKE: AfricanAmerican Improvisational Patchwork, featuring the works of 20 quilters with Southern roots. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 388-4964. Through November 20.

HORATIO GREEN0UGH: An American Sculptor's Drawings, a retrospective on the life of the early American artist (18051852), featuring 15 sculptures, 48 drawings and related materials, from the private collection of George R. Rinhart. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 4435007. Through December 12.

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NESTS AND EGGS, featuring part of a painting series by Janet Van Fleet. Phoenix Rising, Montpelier, 229-0522. Through November 27. PASTELS by Barbara "Ara" Banks, and works by other member artists. The Art Gallery of Barre, 476-1030. Through November.

CLAY VESSELS: Interpretations of a Vessel Aesthetic, featuring the works of potters Bob Green, Terri Gregory and Nicholas Seidner. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 20.

19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS, including landscape paintings by Vermont artists Kathleen Kolb, Thomas Curtin, Cynthia Price and more. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 2537116. Ongoing.

ELSEWHERE HITCHCOCK, a collection of stills, posters, set models and artwork that reveals the director's aesthetic influences. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noel Desmarais Pavilion, 514-285-1600. Through March 18.

MEXICAN MODERN ART, featuring works from the first half of the century. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noel Desmarais Pavilion, 514-285-1600. Through February 6. FOR SALE, a public art installation created by the Swiss art alliance relax. Dartmouth College Green, Hanover, N.H., 603-6462808. Through January 3.

TRANSIENCE: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century, featuring works in mixed media by the country's younger generation of artists. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 603-646-2426. Through December 19.

HOLLY KING, landscapes of the imagination in black-and-white and color photography. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noel Desmarais Pavilion, 514-2851600. Through December 5. ®

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National Treasure of Japan," is a Whether they know it or not, laughing most of the photographers at smudge with the Firehouse Center of the Coke-bottle Visual Arts this month owe a eyeglasses debt of gratitude to Arnold and a mouth Newman. Now in his early full of shiny eighties, the New York City metal dental portraitist pioneered a style he work. This called "environmental portrailaughing ture" to describe the private world of both subject and artist. master is contrasted in While the show's title is "What the opposite You Look Like," the best porprint by the traits often say as much about placid doll the artist as the subject, and draw on formal traditions much faces we assume he older than the invention of created. photography. Newman's style Artists emphasized the environment of Trena Isley his sitters — a revolutionary and Terry notion in the early 1940s but McCants standard practice today. "Skip James," by Robert J. Campbell have created Older threads are woven enigmatic throughout the show as well. immortal question, "Who constructions out of their phoThe two untitled pieces by V tographs. Isley applied a print Arther Hays recall the Baroque. cares: to each of seven corrugated Hays has framed three views of Robert Campbell's battered glass bricks in "Examination." his sitters into one image, preblack-and-white portraits of personalities that haunted the New York City scene in the 1960s are much more appealing. T h e scuffed corners of "Skip James" add volumes to the pensive face of the old blues man. Campbell also caught an impressive shot of Son House and Mississippi John senting a full face in the center Hurt relaxing at From left to right on a table are and opposite angles at right and Carnegie Hall. It is portraiture a female face, hands, breast, left. One subject is a middleworthy of Life magazine, but torso, buttocks, legs and feet, all aged man wearing a blazemade more intimate by the with lines of nearly indecipherorange hunter's cap and thick frayed condition of the pieces. glasses. The other grouping is of able text on the tops of the While the context of each bricks. As a formal object of an elderly woman with large subject in these photographs is illusive meaning, McCants' sunglasses and what appears to important, a mastery of the foruntitled work is also interesting: mal aspects of two-dimensional be an unruly blond wig. They are not unlike the famous three- a photo of what seems to be a design is what makes each mother with two children, faced portrait of Cardinal "story" clear. Michael Sipe's clothespinned inside the clothRichelieu painted by Philippe untitled horizontal portrait of and-metal bag of a lawn sweepde Champaigne, though the an elderly craftsman has orgaer. The sweeper acts like an flanking visages of Hays' more nized vertical lines of shop clutabsurdist frame to focus attenplebian sitters are not in pure ter in a manner suspiciously tion on the portrait. profile; he has angled his side akin to the Golden Mean. His Another three-dimensional views, perhaps to prevent the 50" x 40" untitled portrait of a piece, "Jay's Face," is a visually mug-shot look. Shriner ready to officiate bingo inconsequential but conceptualnight is perfectly framed by "Dieta and Verena," by ly ambitious exercise in extreme orderly patterns in space, these Charlotte Hooper Rosshander, narcissism. Artist Jay Monahan bordered within the photomuris likewise a painterly double claims to have taken a snapshot al's messy edges. As an exemportrait. She skillfully blurred of his face every Thursday over plary example of the "environthe faces in the black-and-white the last few years, and slides of mental portraiture" practiced by print, without overly obliteratthese artless self-portraits are Newman, the figure in the fez is ing the features, to suggest tranprojected into a black box. This also steeped in venerable pictorsience. The craftsman excessive self-documentation ial traditions that may be as old Munakata in Rosshanders dipmay compel viewers to ask the as the Pyramids. ® tych, "Munakata, Living

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College Street, Burlington, 863-9515. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* 12, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:20. The World Is Not Enough* 12:40, 3:30, 6:45,9:40. Being John Malkovich 12:20, 2:45, 7:15, 9:50. The Insider 11:45, 3, 6:20, 9:30. Three Kings 3:40, 9:10. Music of the Heart 12:50, 6:30. American Beauty 12:10, 3:10, 7:30, 10. All shows Sat.-Wed., first matinee not Fri. _

BIJOU CINEPLEX 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* 12:10, 7:30, 9:30. The Worid Is Not Enough* 1:40, 7, 9:25. Elmo in Grouchland 12, 4. Pokemon 12:15, 4:15, 6, 9. The Bone Collector 1:50, 7:10, 9:20. The Bachelor 2, 7:20, 9:15. Matinees not Mon.Tues., last show not Sun.-Tues.

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M Y LIFE SO FAR Set in the 1920s, this Miramax art-house drama tells the story of a wealthy Scottish family thrown into turmoil when oldest son Malcolm McDowell brings home young fiancee Irene Jacob. From the filmmaking team behind Chariots of Fire. (PG-13) KING OF MASKS Wu Tianming's gender reversal parable offers the touching story of an itinerant street performer who adopts a seven-year-old boy hoping to pass on his magic skills but soon discovers that his new "grandson" is really a girl. Zhou Renying stars. (PG)

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THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH And, apparently, audiences can't get enough when it comes to these deals. Which always mystifies me. Pierce Brosnan presides over the 19th Bond film, in which the Menudo of undercover operatives faces off against an evil genius with designs on the planets oil supply. With Robert Carlyle and Denise Richards. Michael Apted directs. (PG-13)

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ANYWHERE BUT HERE**172 Wayne (The Joy Luck Club) Wang directs this big-screen version of Mona Simpson's 1986 bestseller. Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman star as a Wisconsin mother and daughter who start a new life in L.A. (PG-13)

THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF A R C * * * Luc Besson directs this big-screen bio of the tragic heroine in which you'll find Mrs. Besson (Milla Jovovich) playing the title role and John Malkovich being the King of France. (R)

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH**** Music video director Spike Jonze makes his big-screen debut with this odd-a-thon about a guy (John Cusack) who discovers a portal that transports him into the brain of the actor John Malkovich. With Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and — surprise! — John Malkovich. (R) LIGHT IT U P * * 1 * Now here's what American audiences are panting for — a movie that glamorizes high school violence. Pouty, heavily armed teens take a school guard hostage when their favorite teacher is fired. Sara Gilbert, Usher and Judd Nelson star. (R) P O K E M Q N * * * Kiss your kids goodbye. You're not likely to see much of them now that the most popular T V show/marketing gimmick in the universe has hit the big screen. At least not until it makes it to home video. (G) THE I N S I D E R * * * * A1 Pacino and Russell Crowe star in Michael Mann's fact-based account of compromises that took place behind the scenes at "60 Minutes" when the legendary news magazine was pressured to kill a whistle-blowing tobacco industry piece. Christopher Plummer plays Mike Wallace,

AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED M E * * * What could be groovier? Mike Myers is back as everybody's favorite man of mystery. Heather Graham, Rob Lowe and Robert Wagner join him for this second battle between the farces of good and evil. (PG-13)

TEA WITH MUSSOLINI**172 Director Franco Zeffirelli draws from childhood memories for this story about a small Italian boy raised by three eccentric English women when his mother dies. Featuring Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith and Cher. (PG)

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(R) THE BACHELOR*** Recent Burlington visitor Renee Zellweger catches Chris O'Donnell's eye in this remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton classic about a young man who has just 24 hours to find a bride if he wants to inherit a fortune. With Brooke Shields and Mariah Carey. (PG-13)

MUSIC OF THE HEART***" 2 It's not unusual for director Wes Craven to have a new movie released around Halloween. It is, however, nothing short of shocking for it to tell the story of little kids learning the violin in East Harlem and star Meryl Streep. (PG) SUPERSTAR** 1 7 2 The latest "Saturday Night Live" sketch to make it to the big screen has Molly Shannon stretching her Catholic schoolgirl spaz bit into a 90-minute saga about an underdog's triumph over geekiness. With Will Ferrell and Mark McKinney. (PG-13) AMERICAN B E A U T Y * * * * 1 ' 2 Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening play the heads of a nuclear family in the process of meltdown in the feature debut from from whitehot Broadway director Sam (The Blue Room) Mendes. (R) THREE K I N G S * * * * " 2 The buzz is big for this off-beat black dramedy-action from Flirting With Disaster director David O. Russell. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube star as American soldiers who do some personal treasure hunting during the Gulf War. (R)

ELMO IN GROUCHLAND*** The fuzzy red one makes his bigscreen debut alongside the more experienced Mandy Patinkin, who co-stars as a mean junkyard owner who tosses a beloved blankie into Oscar the Grouch's trash can. (G) DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 172 Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones are teamed for the saga of a woman who's wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, and

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(R) THE THOMAS CROWN A F F A I R * * * If Entrapmcnt\eh you wanting more (now there's a comical thought), here's another romantic saga about a debonair art thief with a sultry insurance agent on his trail. Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo star in John McTiernan's remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen favorite. (R) DRIVE ME CRAZY** 1 ' 2 Sensing it might be difficult to sell the public on yet another Gen-X Pygmalion update in which a dowdy teen is transformed into a prom queen, the makers of this innovative tour de force transform a dowdy dude instead. Starring TV's Sabrina herself, Melissa Joan Hart. (PG-13) THE FIGHT C L U B * * * Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are teamed in the dark new film from Seven director David Fincher. Based on the best-selling novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the picture concerns an underground organization in which men meet to beat the postmodern numbness out of each other. (R) THE STORY OF U S * * * Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer are paired for this romantic comedy about a couple which attempts a trial separation after 15 years of marriage. Rob Reiner directs. Rita Wilson and Paul Reiser co-star.

(R) RUNAWAY BRIDE** 172 Hey, didn't she just settle down with Hugh Grant? I guess there's no such thing as happily ever after when you sell tickets the way Julia Roberts does. This time around she plays an altar-phobic chick whose last-minute chapel exits attract the attention of newspaper columnist Richard Gere. From the director of Pretty Woman (PG)

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but he is officially in the care and control of the Department of Corrections. That's a relief Political Cross Dresser? — Amazing. James Dwinell, executive director of the Vermont GOP, sure didn't look sleepy at the recent Republican State Committee Meeting at the Elks Club in Montpeculiar. Jimmy the Joker had been up al! night returning home from a very special Friday night party at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. It was the 15th reunion of the old "Gary Hart for President" team. Dwinell was Mr. Monkey Business' finance director. Among the old faithful in attendance was New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who headed up the Hart campaign in the Granite State. And singer-songwriter Carole King was on hand to provide the sentimental tunes. Unfortunately, with duty calling back in Vermont, James had to leave the Washington reunion party early to catch the 10 o'clock bus to the New York Port Authority, where he picked up his car and drove back to Vermont in time for the G O P pow-wow. Do you think if Gary Hart had become President we would have got the "sex with the White House intern" thing out of our national psyche back in the 1980s? Home Improvement — Unlike that state across the pond, frugal Vermont does not have a governor's mansion where the states chief executive and family can reside in fish-bowl splendor. In Vermont, it's pot luck. Dick Snelling had the most gubernatorial-looking manse in recent times out on Shelburne Point. Madeleine Kunin started out as governor in a mid-size split-level on Dunder Road in Burlington's South Cove area — a quietly classy neighborhood carved out of the north side of Red Rocks in the 1960s and populated by university professors and doctors. Queen Madeleine later moved up to a refurbished camp on Shelburne Bay in South Burlington. Gov. Howard Brush Dean III moved into South Cove in the

mid-1980s. Nothing special. Not even a lake view. The Dean hacienda on South Cove Road is assessed at $221,300. Annual property taxes are just under five grand. But we recently noticed improvements under way. A remodeling contractors sign was planted in Ho-Ho's front lawn for weeks (it's on our regular bike route). According to Tom Peterson, vice-president at Prime Construction on Pearl Street, the House of Dean is now enclosed in brand new vinyl siding. It's been a good year in the building trades, said Peterson, and the Guv, like everybody else, had to book the job three to four months in advance. "He was a very nice client to work with," Peterson told Seven Days. "He and his wife [Dr. Judy] were very pleasant." Peterson declined to reveal the cost of the gubernatorial siding assignment, but we do know our governor is a certifiable fiscal conservative. In fact, we can almost hear his scoffing that this distinguished little weekly has allowed yours truly to stoop so low as to report an item so lacking in news value. However, the choice was between writing about Ho-Ho's leadership on the Hydro-Quebec Crisis or reporting on his brand new vinyl siding. Besides, Katie, the Guv's three-legged kitty cat, told Seven Days the secret reason her master is fixing up the old house is to put it on the market. That, she confided, is because "Howies anticipating the invitation from a certain presidential hopeful to join the national ticket." Katie broke the Dean family's wall of silence, she said, because she thinks "pets have constitutional rights, too," especially gubernatorial pets. And the furry little amputee doesn't want to move to Washington, D.C., and be thrust into the national spotlight as America's #1 Disabled Pet. Just imagine it — "Larry King," the "Today Show," People magazine, Oprah Winfrey? "It's enough to make your fur fall out," Katie said. Jeezum, it's starting to feel like April Fool's around here, and it's only November. By the way, if you bump into Ho-Ho today, November 17, wish him a "Happy Birthday!" And wish his press secretary, Sweet Sue Allen, one, too. Congratulations! — To radio talk show host Mark Johnson and Ch. 17 honcho Lauren-Glenn Davitian on the birth of their first child, Stella Rose. Suggestion — For Richard Sedano, head of the Department of Public Service, which represents the public in the minefield of utility regulation. Don't go on any more talk shows without committing your department's consumer hotline number to memory. Or at least write it on your hand or sleeve. It's 1-800622-4496. Now, don't forget it again! ®

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f theater tells us anything about why we are the way we are — as many critics say it should — the explanation might be boiled down to this simple statement: Things were going great until some guy came along and screwed everything up. This doesn't describe the plot of all plays, of course, but if you think about it,

a large body of dramatic literature hinges on the conflicts wrought through the clumsiness, or cunning, of men. Two plays currently running in Burlington continue this basic storyline. Uniting the works further is the fact that both begin with a once-great man falling from grace — and taking the rest of the world down with him. King Lear is getting a lot of attention

this year, aided in part by the general tribute to Shakespeare that millennium mavens have inspired. When people start talking "the best of" this and that, the Bards name just keeps coming up. And King Lear, specifically, has been widely regarded as Shakespeare's best work — not his best play, necessarily, but perhaps the best example of his yet unrivaled command of language and ability to confront

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Players among those troupes that have _ . pulled out all the stops. Directed by and starring Don Rowe, the college's theater director, this staging is notably strippeddown in terms of production values. The stage is sparsely set with a small riser at center; large, tombstone-shaped panels form a backdrop. Even Lear's throne is a rather simple affair. The Scenic design makes sense in light of the fate the King meets once he has divided his kingdom among two of his three daughters — they cast him out into the cold.

play in the parking lot and it would have been no less effective. Actually, in some ways it might have been more effective, since the one conspicuous production element — music cues that are heavy-handed at times — would have been avoided. Much credit goes to Rowe for his masterful turn as Lear. Sporting a white beard and bushy eyebrows, with a makeup job aging him to a convincing "four score," he skillfully embodies both the rash monarch who might deserve to "taste his folly," as daughter Regan puts it, as well as the feeble victim of neglect he becomes in the play's later scenes. It would be difficult to overstate the complexity of this role, ^ a character drawn to represent the human struggle itself, and Rowe compellingly evokes the broad range of emotions this struggle elicits. Though he often looks skyward and calls on Nature for a favor or two — to smile favorably on him here, to curse his disloyal daughters there — the tone of these requests are unique and distinct. Among the most impressive moments are those in which a quite-crazed Lear peers through the haze of madness to recognize, first, his old friend the Earl of Gloucester and, later, daughter Cordelia, whom he had misjudged and denied a portion of his realm. As Gloucester, Ken Wade turns in the strongest performance of his last few outings. Favoring a somewhat grand acting

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style, Wade is a suitable pal to Rowe's Lear. While the King bemoans the lousy hand life has dealt him, Wades Gloucester accepts his punishment with greater resignation. He's a more uniformly sympathetic character and, as one of the few people Lear has left in the world, a warm presence on a stage full of cold hearts and calculating minds. As the treacherous Edmund, into whose snare Gloucester wanders, Galen Joyce also shines. He is lithe of step and sharp of wit in the role of the moral pauper and political puppeteer. Lear's daughters, too, are well cast. As Regan, Roberta Harold is appropriately blase in the face of criticism, wearing her disgust for her father's rash judgments on her sour puss. Playing Goneril, Brenda Woodbury is more typically Shakespearean — all sidelong glances and husky-voiced inflections. She could be Lady MacBeth's sorority sister. And as Cordelia, Lisa Belfon is gentle and sweet. Her soft voice conveys the pure spirit lost, then found, on Lear's harrowing journey. On the whole, the cast offers Rowe dutiful support, although some of the supporting roles are not as fully realized. The Fool, played by Michael Farrell, is a bit too puckish for his own good. And Patrick Lescarbeau's Earl of Kent, effective much of the time, sometimes sounds like Richard Nixon as he skulks about disguised as Caius. This disguise itself creates a touch of unwelcome attention: The Earl of Kent wears a beard, but his alias, Caius, is clean-shaven. Wouldn't it make more sense to wear the beard as a disguise? When the play sags, it usually does so under the weight of artifice — parts overplayed, accents that don't quite ring true, costumes regal in color but too simple in

design. In this production, King Lear works best when the artifice is stripped away, exposing the artistry within.

he artistry within is the theme of Stephen Goldbergs latest, Burning Bridges. As with some of the Burlington dramatist's other works, this one revolves around an otherwise talented guy who's screwed things up royally. In this case, the leading man is not a king, but a former king of jazz. Local real-life blues musician Kip Meaker stars as Tony Franks, a faded legend who has traded guitar licks for liquor bottles. In the opening scene, Tony's girlfriend, Sheila, tries to rescue her man from death — professional and/or bodily — by getting him a recording date with the upand-coming diva Peggy Lincoln. Tony has evidently been hitting the self-pity even harder than the bottle, though. The resulting scene, in which Sheila, played by Tracy Girdich, tries to get Tony dressed for the session, will resonate with parents who have ever tried to get a four-year-old ready for school. Sheila finally gets Tony to the studio, where, to no one's surprise, things don't go so swell. A long professional nosedive hasn't humbled Tony one iota, and no sooner has he collapsed into a chair and fired up his amp, he's playing the petulant prima donna, much to the annoyance of the other players. That Tony is sometimes an annoyance to the audience speaks to some sour notes in this drama. For one thing, the cast is composed primarily of musical talent, not actors per se. Girdich and Paul Soychak,

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The Guy's The Limit continued from page 51 who plays the fussy record producer, are the only cast members one is likely to see in local playbills. The others — Meaker, Jenni Johnsons Peggy Lincoln and two session players, bassist Anthony Santor and keyboardist Paul Webb — are best known for their work as musicians. The acting is thus a bit uneven, to say the least. Meaker has his moments, though. At his best when playing a kind of checked-out genius, at his weakest when wallowing in the emotions that explain his demise, he recalls the wasted Chet Baker documented in the film Let's Get Lost. As the enabling, caretaking girlfriend, Girdich turns in one of her stronger performances. Wearing her flaws on her sleeve, she shows more emotional range than in her recent roles. Still, she doesn't quite find the natural groove that would make her work more convincing. Soychak is way over the top this time out, taking the producer's exacting disposition to the point of caricature. At the same time, his lines may be the funni-

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Rowe skillfully embodies both the rash monarch who might deserve to taste hi feeble victim of neglect he becomes. cohorts are no less impressive as the group works through a couple of numbers. As a play interspersed with musical interludes, Burning Bridges falls short of a clear, strong message. Call it more a riff on a particular style of dysfunction. And, like a complicated jazz composition, the work's themes can be difficult to follow. Either you hear it...or you don't. ®

is more realistic, and audiences may enjoy this inside look at the simultaneously tedious yet magical enterprise of recording. Johnson enhances this experience as Peggy Lincoln, her dialogue peppered with studio jargon, tries to keep the session from falling apart. Some of her interactions with Tony, to whom she owes a professional debt, are quite believable. Given the central ity of music to the story,

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company's list of 40,000 customers that had generated about $100,000 in sales. Today, with a customer list of 1 million and sales of $10 million, The Baker's Catalogue is on a steady growth track. Business at King Arthur Flour Co. is grandly complex, because of the history, logistics and geography of the product. Originating in 1790 in Boston, and relocating to Vermont in 1984, the company is now the oldest flour and food firm in New England — making flour "to the same specs for 103 years," according to public relations director Joe Caron. Those specs call for an unbleached and unbromated product; the chemical potassium bromate is often added to flour to strengthen it in the baking process. Every batch is tested for things like ash and protein levels and color. The all-purpose flour is milled in Topeka, Kansas, from hard, red winter wheat; the bread flour is milled in South Dakota from hard, red spring wheat. The company's flour distribution reaches at least one store in all 50 states, with a heavy concentration east of the Mississippi. Back in the kitchen, Rezendes, a friendly, soft-spoken man, is part of the five-member Baking Education Team. A professional baker with an associate's degree in pastry arts from Johnson & Wales College in Providence, Rhode Island, he worked in a variety of places, including the bakeshop at the Hanover Inn, before coming to King Arthur in 1993. "I've been baking since I was 13," says Rezendes. "I found out about it in Home Economics, and that's how I got started." His team knows how every one of the 800 products in the

catalogue works, from bread machines to bread bases, and their job is to support and inform the customer-service people. Rezendes gives short weekly demonstrations to the staff on such skills as using thermometers, the "Quick Whip" for cream or comparing varieties of salts. He also cooks for on-site customers in the company's retail store kitchen. When the Baking Education Team is stymied by questions, they can go upstairs to the test kitchen, where professional bakers RJ. Hamel and Sue Gray produce wonderful smells and plates of baked goods. "They ultimately decide what is the best stance the company will take on a product if there is any ambiguity," Caron says. Hamel and Gray, who recently took a week-long advance-bread class at the Culinary Institute of America, create the recipes and test the products for the catalogue. Their job, explains Caron, is "to take fundamental concepts and try to bring them to the level of home bakers." One of the reasons The Baker's Catalogue brings in sales is because the products, even with their old-fashioned focus, don't neglect the realities of busy households filled with people who love to bake but are pressed for time. Mixes, from scones to dinner rolls, are very popular. The chocolate-chip cookie mix supplies flour, white and brown sugar, vanilla, soda and chocolate chips in a neat little bag. All the cook has to do is add butter and one egg. About 15 minutes later, when the home baker is munching on a moist, warm cookie, the attraction of King Arthur Flour is clear. ®

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Dear Tom and Ray. I have a '97 Nissan Sentra. I changed the spark plugs at 30,000 miles and just did it again at 60,000. The owner's manual says the spark plug gap should be between .039 and . 043 inches. I set them at .040 and the car runs fine. I checked the gaps on the old plugs I pulled out, and they were between . 050 and. 060 — WAY o f f . But the car had been running fine.

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VERGENNES to BARRE: I am looking to share driving on my commute. Willing to meet anywhere along the way—Williston, Monkton, etc. Hours are 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., M-F. ( 3 1 7 2 ) WILLISTON to VERGENNES: I am looking to share a ride 2 days a week. 1 work M, 9 - 4 and W, 9-7. ( 3 1 9 4 ) BURLINGTON to SHELBURNE: I am looking to share driving to and from Shelburne. I need to be in Shelburne by 8 : 3 0 a.m. and woulc like to return around 3 p.m., but the afternoon is flexible. (3193) MILTON to BURLINGTON: I'm looking for a ride to the Williston Rd. area. Work schedule is a bit irregular— M 9-5, W 1-6, F 1-5 & Sa 11-4. Please respond even if 1 or 2 days would work with your schedule. (3192) SO. BURLINGTON to WINOOSKI: I'm looking for a ride to the Champlain Mill. My hrs. are 8 - 2 : 3 0 , M-F. ( 3 1 7 1 )

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BURLINGTON: Room avail, in cheerful 2-bdrm. on quiet street, close to downtown, porch, garden, one mellow cat. Kindness essential, smoker OK. $325/mo. + utils. 8 6 0 - 9 5 6 2 .

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How important is the gap? Daniel RAY: Well, as you've discovered, Daniel, not that important! Most cars will run fine, even with the gap pretty far off. T O M : And in your case, what probably happened was that the plugs burned down to .050 or .060 from their original settings. That's what happens to old plugs — the metal in the electrode and the tip wears down from all that firing. And that's one of the reasons you replace old plugs. RAY: At some point — it may have been at .070 or .080 in your car — the engine would have developed a miss because the gap would have gotten so big that the spark could N O T jump it. And if you had other problems — like a weak coil or bad spark plug wires — that miss would have developed sooner rather than later. T O M : The gap recommended by the owner's manual is the optimal gap. That's where the engine runs most efficiently. But in modern cars with otherwise healthy high-

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It took a while, but I've finally got to the bottom of H U D ' s questionable Creole caper. Lets take it from the beginning: (1) A Straight D o p e reader alerts me to an odd brochure published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Purportedly a "Creole" translation, the document begins, "Yuh as a rezedent, ave di rights ahn di rispansabilities to elp mek yuh HUD-asisted owzing ah behta owme fi yuh ahn yuh fambily," and continues in that vein for several pages. (For the full text, see www.straightdope.com/columns/huddoc.html.) A H U D tenants' association I consult declares it a

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"racist parody." (2) A junior PR staffer at H U D says the translation was produced by a government contractor. Two thousand copies were printed and 1500 were distributed. T h e brochure was withdrawn after a complaint was filed. (3) Professor Salikoko Mufwene, chairman of the linguistics department at the University of Chicago and an expert in English-based Creoles, says the brochure phonetically reproduces the sound of Caribbean English and bears some resemblance to Jamaican patois. Jamaicans write notes and such in patois, but it's considered slang, and no one in Jamaica would write a formal government document that way. T h e H U D brochure reflects "a demeaning attitude, a condescending attitude," says Mufwene, a Congo native who studied patois in Jamaica. "It's like saying, 'If we wrote this in regular English you wouldn't be able to understand it."' Jamaicans are taught standard English in school; any Jamaican who can read reads standard English. (4) Ginny Terzano, H U D ' s public affairs director, calls to denounce the brochure as bogus. "This was not sanctioned or authorized by H U D , " says Terzano. "We did not knowingly distribute this. We think it is offensive." She suggests the brochure is a prank by somebody with "access to the process." (5) A few days later Terzano faxes me: "The Government Printing Office (GPO) has now verified that the language of the brochure is Creole. H U D contracted with G P O for translation of the brochure into nine languages and Braille...the G P O stands by their work as an accurate translation into Creole...it's hard to see what story there is now." I'll be the judge of that, ma'am. She says that the document has been permanently yanked. (6) G P O public affairs officer Andy Sherman tells me that last April H U D requisitioned a translation into Creole, without specifying the type. (Earlier the H U D tenants' association had requested a version in Haitian Creole, a French-based language, but both English- and French-based Creoles are spoken in the Caribbean.) T h e G P O didn't know from Creole ("We're printers, not lin-

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ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I confess I have mixed feelings whenever I see bears riding unicycles or tigers leaping through flaming hoops or humans of the Aries persuasion wielding diplomatic phrases and wending their way through delicate compromises. On the one hand, I'm a big fan of the precise and disciplined exercise of raw power. On the other hand, I worry for the soul of the magnificent beast that's being tamed. For my sake, then, Aries, please consider keeping a part of your fierce animal heart wild and free — immune to civilization's pettiest obsessions. Never let the nice people think they've got you all figured out.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): My Taurus friend Annette was a successful stockbroker and bought her first house years before she scored her first ounce of marijuana. Her detour into mind-altering substances was mildly disruptive, yet done responsibly, and it ultimately inspired her to find more interesting ways to make lots of money. Judging from Annette and countless other Bulls I have known, I've come to the conclusion that you thrive on a rhythm that moves from methodical pragmatism to fertile disorder and back. Guess which phase of the cycle you're now being invited to enjoy?, Hint: Where do productive fun and holy mess overlap?

GEMINI (May

21-June 20): Trees are your power objects this week. I advise you to hang out with them a lot so they can permeate you with their staunch and trusty love. If you dare, don't just hug a tree, but actually kiss a whole bunch of them. I'm totally serious. Lay your lips upon the bark. And if anyone makes fun of you for it, tell ,'em your soul doctor prescribed it as the best treatment for your skittishness. Most importantly, Gemini, burn into your mind's eye

a vivid image of the place where your favorite tree enters the ground. This juncture of wood and earth will serve as your personal symbol of stability — a quality which you are now ready to claim in much greater abundance than ever before.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): If there's such a thing as a healthy virus, Cancerian, you'll catch it this week. If it's possible for you to get a pat on the back at the same time you're collecting a kick in the butt, you'll find a way to do that, too. And if crazy justice is available anywhere in this rigged and hypocritical system, you'll shake it loose, even if you have to go a little berserk. To aid you in your efforts to win these backhanded victories, I offer the following advice: Never let your talents make you overconfident or unreceptive, and scheme diligently about bow to turn your weaknesses into assets. L E O (July 23-Aug. 22): As I gaze into my crystal ball, Leo, I'm getting a pretty funny image of you. You're trying to look relaxed even though you have one foot on a dock and one foot on a boat as the boat pulls away. You know I hate to tell you what to do, so I won't. But it seems likely that any minute now you'll have to commit yourself to either the dock, the boat or the ice cold water. I advise you to do it sooner rather than later.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I eat organic food. Ibuprophen is the only drug that enters the holy temple of my body. I regard polyesterwearing to be a sin, I rigorously

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limit my TV-watching, and I vigilantly monitor my subconscious mind for hateful thoughts. I am, in short, a bastion of purity. Yet every so often, my pristine addiction to all things good and healthy actually becomes a sickness. At those times, I'm no longer motivated so much by noble intentions as by a compulsive desire to be holier-thanthou or a lazy attachment to robotic regularity. As a cure, I might watch "South Park" while gobbling Twinkies and guzzling Budweiser. If you know what's good for you, Virgo, you'll see you're now in a similar phase. You simply must rebel against your fanatical fantasies of perfection.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Wanted: free-speaking, improvisational Libras to disseminate an amazing form of instant therapy called telling the naked truth. Must not only love humanity but also like individual human beings. Must be willing to forswear small talk and soundbite-ism in order to communicate with stunning candor. Prefer someone willing to serve as a rent-a-conscience for ethically handicapped people. Also a plus if you shun psychobabble, technojargon, government-speak, groupthink and media cliches. No pay at first, but plenty of free lunches and fresh self-esteem.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Recently a Scorpio reader scolded me, saying I should be spanked for all the trouble I give your tribe. I was hurt. In my own mind, I have to constantly check tendencies to assume Scorpio is the smartest, strongest, subtlest, sexiest sign. If I ever give you a hard time,

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here you come dragging your exhausted ass out of the deep, dark forest. You may have a few scratches, bags under your eyes and a fresh crop of worry lines, but I have a good feeling about the long-term effect these recent ordeals will have on your inner beauty Already, the mind parasites you'd been hosting for so long have flown away. And the demons that were secretly draining your love juice seem to be on the verge of self-destruction. Can it be that something wonderful happened to you while you were lost? That dormant parts of your intelligence and will power finally woke up? I'm betting on it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Bear with me while I float by you a few preposterous but possibly true metaphors. Let's hypothesize that your life last July could be roughly compared to a tug-of-war match. Now try to imagine August as a game of hideand-seek; September as a threelegged race; and October as pinthe-tail-on-the-donkey. If you've followed me this far, Capricorn, you might be willing to believe

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10-Feb. 18)r The gnostic •RlPGospel of Thomas quotes Jesus thusly: "If you give birth to the genius within you, it will free you. If you do not give birth to the genius within you, it will destroy you." Implicit in this formulation is the certainty that we all have a unique talent or special intelligence. I'm bringing this to your attention now, Aquarius, because I believe that it's prime time for you to expedite the birth of the genius within you. I'll go even further: Expedite the birth of your inner genius or else.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Welcome to "Create Your Own Horoscope," a special edition of Real Astrology. Normally, you can't dictate what your horoscope will be any more than you can control tomorrow's weather. But during this cosmic grace period, planetary forces are giving you a much wider berth than usual. Fate and karma, which usually insist that you carry out patterns ordained long ago, are granting you a big dose of slack. You may actually find that you can become what you imagine yourself to be. To take maximum advantage of "Create Your Own Horoscope," come up with a list of three themes you'd like to incorporate into a selffulfilling prophecy for your own life. May I suggest that your first theme be liberated love? 0 You

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Bennington Chip & Dip Set

$32.00

$15.99

Set of 3 Votives

$2700

$13.50

Family 5 pc. Pasta/Salad Set

$126.00

$63.00

Holiday Dish Towel Set of 3

$13.98

$6.99

Bean Pots

$30.00

$15.00

Large Pizza Stones

$24.00

$12.00

Blue Agate Pie Pan

$25.00

$12.50

$25.99-29.99

$12.99-14.99

Holiday Scented Candles

$9.99

$4.99

Cookie Mold with Recipe

$11.99

$5.99

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