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Thanks for publishing Kathryn Flagg’s excellent article on the disparate payments that Vermont’s private health insurers pay for services provided by independent physicians as compared to hospital-employed physicians [“Independent Docs Struggle to Compete With Hospitals,” October 1]. Vermonters need to know this is happening, and to understand that insurance-payment practices that threaten the survival of independent medical offices will undercut their freedom to choose from a range of different providers. But one thing Vermonters should not think is that this is a conflict between independent doctors and large hospitals such as Fletcher Allen Health Care. Like independent providers, Fletcher Allen has a vital role to play and should be reasonably paid for its services. But Vermonters will be better off with a system where all providers, large and small, are reimbursed enough by insurance companies that we can continue providing high-quality, cost-effective care to our patients. Policy makers in Montpelier should keep this in mind as they work to improve Vermont’s health care system. Kym Boyman
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Although I am the parent of children who never attended school, I share the uneasy feeling several readers expressed regarding Kathryn Flagg’s piece, “School’s Out Completely” [August 27]. Perhaps my concerns arise from the palpable hollowness of the claims made by the parents, who have essentially become appendages to the latest technique. Or maybe it is seeing two young, privileged white males being raised with “freedoms” to do as they please, and their parents trying to convince us that this is a meaningful alternative. Or could it be that at a time when our myopic, entitled culture is destroying the entire biosphere, this just makes no sense. What is sorely missing from this method is a healthy respect for and responsibility toward others, both human and nonhuman, that comes from the heart. If this were present, it is unlikely that the Hewitts would feel the compulsion to commodify and market their own children. Suzanna Jones WALDEN
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ll things being equal, Gov. PETER SHUMLIN and Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT would cruise to victory if November’s election were held today. Or, at least, if it was held two weeks ago, when the Castleton Polling Institute wrapped up this fall’s most scientific survey of Vermont voters. The poll, commissioned by WCAX-TV, Bobbi Brown showed that Shumlin’s approval ratings Trish McEvoy have softened considerably in the past two Laura Mercier years. Nearly as many respondents disapSkinCeuticals prove of the gov’s job performance (41 Kiehl’s Since 1851 percent) as approve of it (45 percent) — a bareMinerals by Bare Escentuals difference just outside the poll’s 3.8 per...and many more!! cent margin of error. But it also showed Libertarian DAN FELICIANO pulling 6 percent of the vote from Republican SCOTT MILNE, leaving the GOP candidate with 35 percent to Shumlin’s 47. More surprisingly, at least to Castleton Corner of Main & Battery Streets, polling director RICH CLARKE, was Scott’s 58 to 24 percent lead over Progressive/ Burlington, VT • 802-861-7500 Democrat DEAN CORREN. Surprising, he www.mirrormirrorvt.com admits, because, “I listen to pundits!” (Note to the professor: Step away from this column.) “I kept hearing the lieutenant gover8v-MirrorMirror030514.indd 1 3/3/14 11:58 AMnor’s race was really going to be the one to watch,” he says. “So the margin there was much greater than I expected.” Of course, it’s important to remember that in campaigns, all things are certainly WINTER CLOTHING OUTFITTER not equal — and polls are just a snapshot in time. Especially in a low-turnout election, as nearly everyone expects this one to be, candidates and parties can really move the needle with sophisticated voter-targeting, aggressive field operations and a solid getout-the-vote program. That’s where the Vermont Democratic Party has a serious edge. In recent months, the VDP has staffed up from five year-round employees to 15 full-timers, according to executive director JULIA BARNES. Ten of them work under field director JOSH MASSEY at temporary offices scattered throughout the state, coordinating daily phone-banking and weekly canvasses. Since July 2012, when he joined the party, data director JOHN FAAS has been running the numbers to figure out which reliable Democrats need a nudge to go to the polls. For the past month, the party has been focusing on the ever-growing number WW W.S H O P S N OW D RO P. C O M of voters who request absentee ballots. In 2012, more than 76,000 Vermonters — a quarter of the state’s 302,000 voters — did so. “It’s a good way to bank as many votes as possible as early as possible,” Barnes w w w . e s s e x o u t l e t s . c o m says. 21 ESSEX WAY SUITE 207, ESSEX, VT | 802.871.5029
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But not everything is rosy for the Dems. Without President BARACK OBAMA, Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) or Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) on the ballot, fewer wishywashy Democrats will bother going to the polls. In 2002, the last time Vermont lacked both a presidential and a senatorial contest, just 233,000 people turned out to vote, according to the Secretary of State’s Office — and that year featured a competitive gubernatorial race. “There’s nothing motivating the left right now, and I think that’s an opportunity,” says JEFF BARTLEY, the Vermont Republican Party’s so-called “victory campaign director.” “There’s a lot of dissatisfaction with Peter Shumlin, and nobody at the top of the ticket driving turnout. If we can get out our guys, I think we might pick up more seats than people think we might.”
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Both Bartley and Vermont Progressive Party chairwoman EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK concede that their party organizations don’t come close to matching the Dems’. Mulvaney-Stanak jokes that her party’s field office consists of elections director KELLY MANGAN’s car, while Bartley says the Vermont GOP has just three full-time staffers: operations director MARTY SEARIGHT, fundraiser SUSIE HUDSON and himself. But Mulvaney-Stanak insists the Progs have an enthusiasm advantage — with 19 legislative candidates, plus Corren and two other statewide candidates on the ballot. And Bartley maintains that Republicans are getting their organizational act together. “We know as a party we’ve been terrible at getting out the vote in the past. We’ve put a lot of time and energy into data collection,” he says. “It’s like breaking a paradigm.” The Democrats’ organizational advantage will certainly help Shumlin keep his conservative competitors at bay, but it’s less clear how much it’ll benefit Corren — a longtime Progressive who won the Democratic nomination as a write-in candidate in the August primary. Because he qualified for up to $200,000 in public financing, Corren can’t receive in-kind donations from political parties — so he’s
been left out of the Democrats’ mailers and call scripts. And even though Dems are far more likely than independents or Republicans to back Corren, the Castleton poll showed that nearly a third of the Democrats surveyed support the Republican incumbent. Barely half were behind Corren, while nearly 20 percent were undecided. Those yet to make up their minds — 8 percent in the governor’s race and 15 percent in the LG contest, according to Castleton — may well be persuaded by the increasing number of television advertisements gracing the airwaves. Shumlin, the biggest spender, dropped another $80,000 on ads last week — bringing his TV total to $375,000 — while Milne hasn’t run a single commercial since the primary. Scott is outspending Corren on air $55,000 to $30,000. At least one out-of-state organization is also playing ball. The Republican State Leadership Committee invested $143,000 in a generic, pro-GOP TV ad last week — plus another $100,000 on radio, postcards and online ads promoting Republican state Senate candidates in Franklin, Rutland, Washington and Orange counties. Major donors to the RSLC, which has also cut a $6,000 check to Scott’s campaign, include tobacco giant Reynolds American ($1.1 million), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($1.1 million) and Koch Industries ($461,000) — the Kansas conglomerate owned by conservative bogeymen CHARLES and DAVID KOCH. Asked if the organization will keep investing in deep-blue Vermont, spokeswoman JILL BADER says, “We don’t give away our playbook, but we think that people who are watching races closely will see continued activity [in the four Senate districts], with the possibility of elsewhere, as well.”
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In a report last Thursday night on the ongoing trial of accused murderer Allen Prue, WCAX-TV aired a graphic photo of his alleged victim, St. Johnsbury teacher meliSSA JenkinS. The photograph, displayed in open court earlier that day, depicted Jenkins as she was found in March 2012 in the Connecticut River. Seconds after the story aired, news anchor kriStin kelly apologized for the photo’s inclusion. Within minutes, the station took to social media to reiterate the apology. “We used a photo in our 6 o’clock report that should NEVER have been used,” the station wrote on Facebook. “We are investigating how something so egregious could happen. We are deeply sorry.” WCAX news director AnSon tebbettS did not respond to Seven Days’ requests for comment last week, but said Monday morning that the station had spent the previous days apologizing to Jenkins’ family and friends — and to the court. On Friday, he attended proceedings at Vermont Superior Court in Burlington. The station’s “preliminary investigation,” Tebbetts said, found that it accidentally aired an earlier version of the piece, before the photo in question had been replaced by another image. “It was never intended to play,” he said. “Even when [newsroom staffers] were double-checking it to make sure that wasn’t going to air, they were seeing the proper [version].” He said the station was still trying to determine precisely why the wrong version went live and was “still evaluating the personnel issue.” “One thing we’re going to do from now on: If it’s anything remotely sensitive, we’re going to make sure we delete the first version, so there’s no chance it could be played,” he said. m
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the piece. “During the next several weeks, the staff will apply for these jobs with new expectations. We expect time for adaption to the change in structure.” Townsend declined to elaborate and rebuffed questions from the media. “I don’t talk to you guys,” he told Seven Days last Wednesday after the Freeps’ gubernatorial debate. “I’m old-fashioned when it comes to competition.” Sources inside the Free Press’ Bank Street headquarters have filled in at least some of the gaps. They say they were informed last Tuesday that 22 out of 26 editorial staffers must apply for new jobs with different titles. According to a document obtained by Seven Days, applications are due today, though sources say the computer system through which staffers are supposed to apply was malfunctioning in recent days. Interviews are to be conducted next week, according to the document, and final decisions will be announced the week of October 27. Four current employees are exempt from the process: Townsend, associate editor AdAm SilvermAn, news editor Clover WhithAm and veteran reporter mike donoghue. How many positions will be eliminated isn’t as clear. We’ve heard between two and four, though one source cautioned that the bosses have provided conflicting information. Other papers owned by Virginia-based Gannett Company, Inc., have been expected to shed 15 percent from newsroom budgets as this round of layoffs has spread throughout the organization. So it’s possible the number of job losses will depend on the salaries of those leaving. Also unclear is whether Hemingway’s departure will be counted. A list of new positions obtained by Seven Days provides some clues about the areas in which the Free Press hopes to devote its dwindling resources. The paper plans to rehire four reporters for its “Chittenden team,” three for its “watchdog team,” and a reporter each for its Green Mountain, Innovate and Savorvore sections. Other available positions include “content coach,” “engagement editor,” “planning editor” and “audience analyst.” Sources say that editors have become increasingly focused on web metrics in recent months. Reporters are expected to monitor the number of clicks their stories receive on a daily basis and rejigger headlines and copy to boost readership. Townsend alluded to the new priority in his note to readers, after praising a story dAn d’AmbroSio wrote about IBM earlier this month. “We can make adjustments instantly as we move along in the cycle of news to elevate a story package by adding more information, tweaking of headline or rewriting a lede,” Townsend wrote. “One small change can lift story interest from
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mily Peyton was drawing a dragon. “I really should be doing this,” she said ruefully, pointing her black pen at a pile of campaign materials to her right. Also on the table: a thick paperback titled Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act And the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq. Approximately 630,000 people live in Vermont. In the last election, 295,412 of them cast a ballot for governor; 5,868 voters — or 2 percent — picked Peyton. The problem, according to Peyton, is that the media have willfully ignored her. “It’s a disservice to the people for the press to decide I’m not a viable a candidate,” she said last Friday during an interview at Red Hen Baking in Middlesex. In the same journal as her drawing, Peyton had sketched a 20-by-40-foot modular home. This is part of her platform: Build houses for homeless veterans from hempcrete, a concrete-like substance made from the plant’s core; and manufacture Rolls Royce-quality cars, also from hemp. To end the opiate epidemic, embrace hypnosis, meditation and marijuana in lieu of prescription painkillers. To break free of the current monetary system, which is “controlled by people who are destroying the planet,” establish a state bank. To increase food security, give small plots of land to people to farm tax-free. Gubernatorial candidates need 500 signatures to get on the ballot in Vermont. This year there are seven contenders. Unlike some of them, Peyton, an independent making her third run, runs a bona fide campaign. The backseat of her tiny Toyota is full of lawn signs, which were cropping up in far corners of the state long before Republican Scott Milne or Libertarian Dan Feliciano even announced. She took a refurbished 50-year-old tour bus around the state, stopping to march and sing in crosswalks. On the digital side: Peyton has a website — and she tweets. A lot. Fundraising, however, is another matter. Peyton, who is supported financially by her composer father, has never done it. She said her supporters tend to be poor, and she’d shun corporate money if it ever came her way. Applying many of the same strategies she’s employed to win votes, the 55-yearold Putney resident, who describes herself as an “Earth activist,” has also been
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on a four-year crusade to get more media coverage. In 2010, she started showing up at local newspaper, television and radio headquarters, demanding to be heard. When that didn’t work, she sued several outlets for excluding her from debates. This year, she got Vermont prisoners to send postcards to news organizations from their Kentucky cells, urging editors to “make more coverage of Emily Peyton’s candidacy.” Peyton gave the cards to Victor Hall, who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault, to distribute at the correctional facility where he is incarcerated. Hall had previously sent Peyton a nine-page letter claiming to be innocent. “I’m not a judge but I sense he’s got a sincerity to him,” she said. Peyton takes full of advantage of opportunities to leave comments on websites, including those of media outlets such as Seven Days, laying into them for ignoring her. Her partner in the hempcrete project also contacted a Seven Days advertiser, alleging a “lack of impartiality in its coverage of political candidates” and censorship. “Let them know it’s not OK with you,” he wrote. Peyton, who grew up in Princeton, N.J., speaks in a singsong voice with an inexplicable hint of Southern drawl. She has sandy hair and a square jaw and
will likely wince at those eight words because they describe her, rather than her platform. Her appearance, or more specifically “my granola mannerisms,” is one of Peyton’s theories to explain why the press has decided she is not credible. Another: The press enjoys a “special relationship” with major party candidates, offering them coverage in exchange for “scoops” later on. To get more coverage, Peyton ran in the GOP primary this year. Contrary to her claim that media ignores her, it kind of worked. The Burlington Free Press ran a front-page story on her under the headline “New Face of Vermont GOP?” Vermont Public Radio gave her 30 minutes of airtime and invited her to its primary debate. Then Scott Milne entered the race, at the last minute and with little political experience. Tearing up in frustration, Peyton described how the media flocked to him anyway, simply because he was assumed to have the Republican leadership’s blessing. It’s been so discouraging, in fact, that Peyton is thinking about quitting politics after November. Peyton’s not the only underdog to push the limits of media relations. Peter Diamondstone, a perennial candidate for the Liberty Union Party, was arrested in 2008 for refusing to leave the stage of
a gubernatorial debate he wasn’t invited to. During the 1970s, Bernie Sanders ran for governor and U.S. senator in four elections and finished in the single digits in each race. He too lashed out at local television stations for excluding him from debates. It’s OK for the press to prioritize credible candidates, some local news directors say. The public deserves to hear from the people who have a chance at winning; the inclusion of others dilutes the debate. But can the press objectively assess credibility? Neither Peyton nor Diamondstone thinks so. With polling they can, according to Kelly McBride, a media ethics expert at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism-training center. “This is not a new thing for an unknown or a dark horse to complain that they are being disenfranchised because they can’t break through,” McBride said. “I think independent legitimate polling is the only way to know whether somebody is a serious contender or not.” Past election results works, too, she added. Peyton clinched 2 percent in one of the first polls of the gubernatorial race conducted in late summer by CBS News, the New York Times and YouGov. But without press attention, isn’t it nearly impossible to poll well?
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marginalizing people or making judgments for the voters.” Vermont Public Radio left Peyton off its guest list, inviting Shumlin, Milne and Feliciano to its general election debate. News director John Dillon said VPR sticks to major party candidates, with occasional exceptions if someone on & off site has shown a “significant presence” in catering available. the campaign. “We included Feliciano after some discussion because he had registered Coming Eat almost 15 percent in a Republican priLocal Original Soon! mary,” Dillon explained, whereas Peyton (Colchester - Exit 16) Rustico came in with just under 7 percent. 85 South Park Drive (So. Burlington) Pizzeria / Take Out The debate on WCAX was a cozier 408 Shelburne Rd. Delivery: 655-5555 affair, with only Shumlin Casual Fine Dining and Milne standing at Downtown Reservations: 655-0000 side-by-side podiums. (Burlington) No. 32 1/2 The Bakery: 655-5282 176 Main St. News director Anson ChurCh St. Pizzeria/Takeout Tebbetts said he relies Cat Scratch, Knight Card Delivery: 862-1234 861-3035 & C.C. Cash Accepted on fundraising reports and polling to gauge a TrinkeT-VermonT.com www.juniorsvt.com candidate’s “electability,” and he considers double-digit polling a 8v-trinket101514.indd 1 10/14/148v-juniors101514.indd 3:32 PM 1 10/14/14 2:48 PM good indicator of this. Last Thursday, during the Vermont PBS debate, moderator Stewart Ledbetter asked candidates: If you could sneak one bill by the legislature, what would you choose? Peyton didn’t men3 DAYS/2 NIGHTS, tion hemp or state banks. Instead, she used her hard-fought airtime to argue AIRFARE & ACCOMMODATIONS for inclusion. “I’d like to make sure that AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO! every public debate for public office includes every balloted candidate. Rutland Herald, Times Argus, Vermont Digger, Seven Days and other press have never ever run one article about my platform so that you know what I have to offer.” Peyton is not insensitive to people’s impressions. She lugs a black box full of hemp samples (hempcrete, fabrics, TEST DRIVE A NEW 2014 = 1 CHANCE insulation) around, showing the plant’s BUY A NEW 2014 = 1 CHANCE potential to anyone who’ll listen, and sometimes she’ll hear people “tittering” PURCHASE THE PLATINUM RIDER PROGRAM = 2 CHANCES about it. At one point during the interview, she paused mid-sentence and said, Bring this ad into dealership for an additional chance to win! “There’s good crazy and bad crazy, right? *This offer is good 10/16/14 through 10/28/14. … We’ve got a lot of bad crazy going on in In stock 2014 H-D only. Some exclusions apply. See dealership for contest rules. government and corporations. And we’ve got a lot of wonderful crazy people who March-September 157 Pearl St., Essex Junction Mon., Closed 878-4778 are doing new things like farming, and Tues.–Fri., 10-6 GreenMountainHD.com that’s the crazy we want to come forth.” m Sat., 9-5 Facebook.com/greenmtnharley
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Not so, in McBride’s view. “I don’t see it as a chicken-or-egg question, because it’s not the responsibility of the media to do public relations for a candidate.” In her opinion, “There are lots of political strategies for getting an unknown candidate into the public sphere. There’s a political machine for doing that, and the press can’t be the political machine.” Looking at the last four gubernatorial debates — each of which has featured a different cast of candidates — it’s clear the Vermont press corps isn’t letting poll numbers be its only guide. Some news organizations kept it black and white — the Burlington Free Press invited candidates with major-party status; Vermont PBS invited everyone to participate, as it always does. Peyton was one of seven souls who would be governor, and she used her airtime to make multiple plugs for a state bank. She stood next to Shumlin, who also hails from Putney, and before the cameras starting rolling, tried repeatedly to engage him in conversation. She made him an offer, Peyton later explained: Put her in charge of a state hemp or tax-free farming program, and she’ll drop out of the race. WDEV-FM’s Mark Johnson decided whom to invite to his Tunbridge World’s Fair debate. He said he looks at whether a candidate is credible — a marker he readily admits is subjective — and whether they are “actively campaigning.” This year, Johnson determined that Gov. Peter Shumlin, Milne and Feliciano fit the bill. If other candidates made the effort to complain about being left off the roster, he decided in advance that he’d invite them, too. Peyton, predictably, did. “I think she added to the debate that day,” Johnson said, despite the fact that she “chronically accused me of being anti-woman” throughout. “It’s a real balance,” Johnson said. “You want voters to have a chance to see the candidates who have a chance of winning really debate each other head to head, but I don’t think we in the press want to be in a position where we are
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In the case of Butterworks, a DOL investigation initiated in April 2013 included 30-minute interviews with current and former employees, as well as a detailed examination of payroll records dating back to 2010. It turned out the company owed $11,000 in back wages. Jack Lazor said he had no idea he was violating the labor law. “It took the wind out of my sails for a while,” said the congenial, bearded owner of Butterworks Farm, an elder statesman in national organic farming circles. He soon learned that if a worker doing approved agricultural tasks spent even an hour or two processing yogurt or milling grain, all of his or her labor in excess of 40 hours a week — regardless of how it was spent — would be subject to overtime pay.
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n a sunny, blustery afternoon last week, Asa Manning maneuvered a tractor carrying a large round bale of haylage into the barn at Butterworks Farm, a bustling Westfield organic dairy and granary. Upstairs, in the small milk-processing plant, Theresa Peura shuttled quarts of yogurt, made from milk from the farm’s big-eyed Jerseys, from the filling machine onto a cart. One of these jobs — Manning’s — is considered agricultural labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, so it is exempt from regulations such as overtime. The other one — Peura’s — isn’t exempt. Failing to draw that distinction has landed some Vermont farms, including Butterworks, in hot water with the U.S. Department of Labor. DOL has investigated 22 Vermont farms since January 2013, according to its regional hours and wage division. The result? Farmers — many of whom were reportedly surprised to learn that they weren’t in compliance with labor law — faced civil fines and hefty bills for back wages. The bills ranged from a few thousand dollars to six figures, according to Alyson Eastman, an Orwell bookkeeper and accountant who specializes in farm labor.
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Milking cows? Ag. Turning that milk into yogurt or kefir? Nope. Sowing wheat? Ag. Milling flour in the granary? Nope. The unexpected bill threw Butterworks for a loop. Overtime just isn’t in the budget, Lazor said. Some of his employees were already making relatively high wages — up to $17 an hour. The time-and-a-half rate for overtime bumped that to more than $25 an hour. “We’re still farmers,” said Lazor. “We get up, we milk cows, we grow grain. We’ve got to fix our tractors like everyone else.” By adding items like “make yogurt” and “dry black beans” to the to-do list, he said, Butterworks “lost the advantages” other farms enjoy. Agricultural labor is afforded certain exemptions under the 1938 law that gave Americans the 40-hour work week. Ag workers don’t qualify for overtime pay — and in some cases, farmers are even exempt from paying minimum wage. The exemptions derived from a congressional desire to protect family farms and recognize the variability of seasonal work, said Daniel Cronin, who directs the Manchester, N.H., office of DOL’s wage and hour division. But when farms begin diversifying — by making value-added products such as yogurt or apple pies, or aggregating products from other farms, for
instance — their workers can lose those exemptions. One farmer said the crackdown has done more harm than good. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the individual suggested that some agricultural colleagues have capped the number of hours employees can work in an effort to avoid overtime, causing some of those workers to move on to other jobs. A number of larger Vermont farms have also reportedly cut their internship programs for fear of running afoul of DOL, according to the same farmer. “Education” is not an acceptable form of compensation. Lazor isn’t taking any chances. When a young New York farmer offered to work in his granary in exchange for the experience — and valuable livestock feed for her pigs — he wound up paying her minimum wage, just to be safe. Cronin said the ramped-up enforcement came at the urging of higher-ups at DOL, and that agricultural labor was a matter of interest in particular because the workers — sometimes migrants or seasonal labor — can be a vulnerable population. “We were encouraged to check agricultural compliance in all areas of our office,” said Cronin. Manpower had been a limiting factor in the past, but with more boots on the ground in the form of additional investigators, Cronin
said, “We had more resources to invest, and were reminded to make sure that we were following the operating plan.” Cronin acknowledged that the violations, in some cases, came as a result of farmers following the advice of local and regional agriculture specialists. “Farmers are encouraged to become more profitable,” said Cronin, noting that state and regional ag officials promote value-added processing as a way to make farms financially viable. “However, when they change the raw and unmanufactured state of the agricultural commodity,” Cronin said of Vermont farmers, “it can take them outside the definition of agriculture.” It didn’t help that the messenger, Vermont investigator Kelly Connelley, sometimes showed up unannounced and flashed her badge, according to Lazor and others. With “guns blazing,” as one farmer put it. Others have received letters in advance of DOL’s visits. Since the investigation of Butterworks, Lazor has made changes. Some employees have been promoted from hourly to salaried positions. Hourly ones are scheduled so they are less likely to work overtime. But it’s not always possible. “In farming, you make hay while the sun shines,” said Enid Wonnacott, the executive director at the Northeast Farming Association of Vermont. That means long hours in a short window.
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from opening an investigation based on a farmer’s query. As Wonnacott sees it, the message from DOL today is, “We want to work with farmers.” And after a flurry of workshops and forums in recent months, she believes more farmers do understand the rules. “There’s a whole other conversation of, are these the right regulations?” said Wonnacott. “Are these farmer-centric enough?” And: Do they make sense in light of changing agricultural practices? Wonnacott, for one, doesn’t think so. She sees little “common sense” in applying the same regulations that govern massive, industrial-scale agriculture to small, diversified farms. But she acknowledges there’s little chance that a handful of small producers in Vermont could influence U.S. ag policy. “It’s all federal labor law,” agreed Lazor. “There’s no debating it.” This month marks 35 years since
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Lazor is vastly healthier today than he was at this time last year. “We live in a beautiful place, surrounded by a lot of nice people,” he said. He tries to focus on the positive. Even so, Lazor, who describes himself wryly as a food radical and rebel, is still smarting after his dustup with DOL. He’s at work on a second book for Vermont publishing house Chelsea Green after his guide to organic grain growing was released last year. In light of his recent experience, though, Lazor will likely add a cautionary postscript or two to his Letter to a Young Farmer, as the new book is currently titled. “What it boils down to, you start out by dipping your big toe into the system,” said Lazor. “And then the rules and the regulations start creeping up your leg. Right now I feel like I’m about up to my eyeballs.” m Contact: kathryn@sevendaysvt.com
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And the nature of work on diversified farms doesn’t necessarily fit neatly into DOL’s definitions of agricultural versus nonagricultural labor. At harvest time, pickers can put in countless hours, without overtime pay, harvesting fruit. But processing that fruit into jam or pies or cider — which happens at the same time of year — doesn’t qualify for the same exemption. “Nobody works under 12- or 14-hour days in farming in the summer,” said Wonnacott. According to Wonnacott, the labor crackdown has had unintended consequences: Involving workers in the farmto-table arc of a food product is suddenly much more complicated. Some larger operations are drawing bright lines between “ag” and “processing” staff — although even that isn’t always possible during the busiest times of year. And for workers who want to learn about both growing food and value-added processing, those distinctions can be frustrating. But Eastman doesn’t have much sympathy for farmers who complain about the enforcement of the standing law. She points out that other food producers who aren’t also farmers have never enjoyed agricultural exemptions. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” said Eastman. She urged farmers to simply ask if they have questions about how they should apply often-complicated labor laws to their own farms. So did Cronin, at the regional DOL office, noting that the federal investigators are prohibited
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ntil recently, Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell, a Democrat who has been in office for 17 years, appeared comfortably headed for reelection in a race that seemed a foregone conclusion. Shane McCormack, a contracts lawyer in Burlington, assumed that someone would challenge Sorrell. After all, the attorney general had nearly been unseated in the Democratic primary in 2012, and Republicans usually manage to put at least a token opponent on the ballot. But as filing deadlines came and went, no one stepped forward. McCormack, an Underhill resident who has never run for office, didn’t want to see the incumbent go unchallenged. So he mounted a last-minute write-in campaign for the Republican line, convincing more than 700 Vermonters to scrawl his name on the ballot in the August primary. It was enough to snag his party’s nomination and win a spot on the November one.
charges that Sorrell has devoted too much time to filing lawsuits in consumer-protection cases, and not enough to helping police and other prosecutors fight a spike in opiate abuse and related crime. In debates and interviews, he has mocked Sorrell’s lawsuit against the makers of 5-Hour ENERGY, which alleges the company made false claims about the product’s invigorating effects. McCormack also criticized what he called Sorrell’s “puritanical” lobbying of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban menthol cigarettes.
salesman who went door to door in central and northern Vermont hawking bulk purchases. The attorney general’s office alleges customers received boxes of foul-smelling meat that weighed less than promised. Sorrell grew up in Burlington at the same time as former governor Howard Dean, and the two families were close. Sorrell earned his law degree from Cornell Law School but returned to Vermont to be Chittenden County state’s attorney from 1977 to 1978 before taking a job in private practice. He served as Vermont’s secretary
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Since then, McCormack has been driving across Vermont introducing himself to Republicans and trying to overcome the stigma usually attached to write-in candidates. “That’s the problem, no one knows who I am,” McCormack, 39, said in an interview. “That’s part of the challenge of being a write-in. There’s a general assumption that there’s something wrong with you, or you want to talk about fringe issues. But I don’t think it’s insurmountable.” McCormack spent most of his childhood in Jericho and Charlotte — and, like Sorrell, graduated from the private, Catholic Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington. He got his law degree and MBA from Boston University in 2000, and after four years at a large New York City firm, returned to Vermont, where he and his wife are raising four young children. McCormack is still working full-time on his commercial lending and business law cases while he tries to attend four campaign events a week. “It’s completely outside my comfort zone,” he said of the spaghetti dinners and other Republican Party fundraisers, “but I enjoy it.” Every chance he gets, McCormack
POLITICS “If you’re asking yourself what is the No. 1 threat you see, you can’t be looking at Marlboros,” McCormack said of the attorney general’s role. “You have to look at what is killing people. You have to allocate the most resources to what is harming the most people. Leadership is about taking the limited resources you have and saying, ‘This matters.’” Sorrell, 67, said he takes pride in his fights on behalf of consumers. Smoking remains a leading public health risk, he said, and his office’s effort to get companies to play by the rules is important to many residents. “As I go around Vermont, there’s not one aspect of my office that I receive more positive feedback on than our consumer-protection efforts,” Sorrell said. “Consumers of Vermont deserve to have the law of Vermont enforced. My opponent thinks that government should let the marketplace work, and let consumers get their relief from the marketplace. That’s wishful thinking.” Sorrell even recently sued a meat
of administration, a key role overseeing numerous parts of the state’s bureaucracy, for five years before Dean appointed him attorney general. Within weeks, Sorrell launched the first of many actions against tobacco companies. In following years, he helped defend stricter standards for automobile pollution, and sued so-called “patent troll” companies for violating Vermont’s consumer protection laws. The attorney general said he has also done plenty to help what both candidates characterize as an “opiate epidemic” that threatens the quality of life in Vermont. In the past two years, Sorrell has sent one of his lieutenants on a special assignment to Rutland to prosecute drug cases. Two other prosecutors from his office are working with the Vermont State Police Drug Task Force to prosecute dealers, Sorrell said. “We do the most serious state court drug prosecutions all over the state,” Sorrell said. “The big cases that don’t go federal, by and large, are done by my office.”
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McCormack said it isn’t enough. If elected, he said, he would pivot away from consumer-protection issues and devote more staff attorney time to help police and prosecutors reduce the use of heroin and illegally obtained prescription opiates. McCormack noted that the attorney general’s office has dedicated three attorneys to drug crimes. That’s the same number of lawyers that Sorrell has assigned to his defense of Vermont’s GMO labeling law, which has already been challenged by food industry giants. “He’s got three lawyers signing briefs on the GMO case. He has I don’t know how many lawyers working on 5-Hour ENERGY,” McCormack said. He described those as lost “opportunities.” (The candidates agree that Vermont lawmakers will eventually legalize marijuana. Both support drug courts and alternative justice programs designed to get nonviolent drug offenders out of the legal system and into treatment programs.) McCormack’s criticisms are similar to those leveled by Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan during his failed 2012 run against Sorrell in the Democratic primary. To be successful, the latest contender for Sorrell’s seat knows he’d need to convince the same Republicans and Democrats who sided with Donovan two years ago. Sorrell won by about 700 votes in the closest race of his career. To that end, McCormack has faulted Sorrell for taking contributions from firms that have worked for the state. During the Great Recession, Sorrell’s office joined with representatives of other state and union pension funds in a classaction lawsuit against Bank of America’s Countrywide Financial Corp., alleging the company knowingly hawked risky securities on subprime mortgages. The lawsuit was settled for $500 million in 2010. One of Sorrell’s assistants filed a motion in federal court defending the plaintiffs’ decision to award $85 million of the settlement to the private firm that handled much of the work: Kessler, Topaz, Meltzer & Check. Last month, that firm, which has offices in Pennsylvania and California, donated $2,000 to Sorrell’s campaign. It isn’t the only questionable contribution, according to McCormack. Another came from Dallas-based Baron & Budd, one of three companies the state hired to litigate a groundwater contamination case against the nation’s top gasoline providers. Sorrell’s campaign received an $8,000 donation from Baron & Budd, which Sorrell claimed was chosen by his deputies and
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the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. a few minutes from his workday to give an The other winning firms have not made interview, Sorrell was in Washington, D.C., any contributions. joining with other attorneys general to McCormack has proposed that Sorrell announce that AT&T had agreed to a $105 should not accept donations from any law million settlement to resolve charges that firm that’s done work for Vermont. it improperly billed consumers for some “I think that’s wrong, and I think most services. Sorrell quickly fired off a press people can appreciate that’s wrong,” release that earned him some free publicMcCormack said. ity: He said that up to 45,000 Vermonters Sorrell said he has nothing to apologize could receive payments as a result. for. “Have I received contributions from But will it get voters to pay attention outside the state? Yes, I have. Am I for hire to this down-ballot race? Just as much of for campaign contributions? Never.” a challenge, according to both candidates, Sorrell noted that he went before the is explaining exactly what the AG’s office U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 to defend does. With an $8 million budget and more Vermont’s doomed law that would have than 40 staff attorneys, it’s essentially tightly restricted privateVermont’s law firm — best sector donations to political known for its role defending candidates. In that case, the state in civil lawsuits, big the court ruled 6-3 that and small, and pursuing litiVermont’s law, which limited gation on behalf of the state. single contributions to stateWhile the attorney genwide candidates to $400, eral is informally known among other restrictions, was as “Vermont’s chief lawa violation of free speech. enforcement officer,” that Sorrell said he would moniker exaggerates the prefer it if those limits were office’s influence in fighting in place today. crime. Almost all criminal “No attorney general in prosecutions in Vermont are the country has done more handled at the discretion to fight large-money influ- ShAnE MCCORMACk of 14 independently elected ence in campaigns,” he said. state’s attorneys, who answer McCormack has raised $3,000: half from to voters in their county. (State’s attorneys his own pocket; the other half from a have acceded to the partnerships that couple of friends. In all, Sorrell has raised police have made with three of Sorrell’s more than $40,000. deputies to prosecute drug crimes.) While he said he sometimes gets advice Much of the power of the attorney from state Republicans, McCormack is general’s office comes from the bully handling almost all of his campaign him- pulpit and the ability to influence state self, traveling on his own dime and learn- legislators, according to Kim Cheney, who ing the fundamentals, such as writing served as Vermont’s attorney general from press releases, as he goes. 1973 to 1975. Still, he comes across as fairly poised During his tenure, Cheney lobbied and polished for a political neophyte. At a lawmakers to overhaul the state’s criminal recent fundraiser dinner for Orange County code, scrapping arcane laws — including Republicans in Randolph, McCormack, one prohibiting the “painting and disguistraveling well outside his Chittenden ing of horses”— and simplifying more County comfort zone, ripped through his commonly invoked statutes. platform without stumbling or sounding “The attorney general is really in the robotic. He also made a crack about shar- best place to take a strong look at the aring a last name with Dick McCormack, a chitecture and say, ‘What can we be doing longtime liberal state senator from nearby better?’ and then convince the legislature Bethel. The quip won knowing guffaws that you’re right,” Cheney said. from the crowd of conservative insidSorrell says his work in consumer ers, most of whom were hearing Shane protection has demonstrated his ability McCormack for the first time. Afterward, to lead. But McCormack insists that more several rushed up to introduce themselves could be done. and ask McCormack if he had brought any “This office is an incredibly powerful lawn signs they could put in their yards. tool,” McCormack said, “if you use it the Sorrell has been making his own right way.” m appearances at party events, but the incumbent requires no introduction. Last Contact: mark@sevendaysvt.com, Wednesday, while McCormack carved out 865-1020, ext. 23, or @Davis7D
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SD: You’re known for your improvisational skills. Have any of your improv sessions with an audience ever gone sour? PP: Very, very rarely. One time, I was taping a special, and I had engaged a woman in conversation. She told me
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… If you talk to anybody for more than a few minutes, there’s great stuff there.
A Winooski Exhibit Puts Faces to Front Porch Forum Names couple of summers ago, Winooski photographer Dan Higgins attended two neighborhood fish fries in a single day: one hosted by the Winooski Fire Department, the other by the O’Brien Community Center. Though the events were located within spitting distance, he recalls, the crowds couldn’t have been more different. “I’m the only person, I think, who went to both of them!” Higgins says with a laugh, over coffee at the Block Gallery & Coffeehouse. “And all you wanted to do was pick up half of the people from one place and move them to the other one,” he adds more seriously, “because there’s so much isolation in these subgroups.”
more “improvised” than is a conversation with anybody. It’s not really all that amazing. If you talk to anybody for more than a few minutes, there’s great stuff there. That’s not because of me; that’s because of the human condition. I’m a big advocate of humans.
Winooski’s demographics have diversified significantly since Higgins arrived in the 1960s. Now in his early seventies, the retired UVM professor founded that university’s photography program, and has been taking portraits of Winooski residents for more than 40 years. For his latest show, he found his subjects in a new way — through the virtual neighborhood Front Porch Forum. As Higgins speaks, café customers stop to check out the 28 framed photographs that line the walls. The subjects include a noted local contemporary artist crouching in a pile of leaves; an attractive young couple, one of whom inadvertently sparked a national controversy last summer when she criticized a sign touting the bacon at
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surprise. But the guy beside her was very offended. He yelled, “What kind of question is that?” But “improv” is sort of a highfalutin word … What I’m doing is having a conversation with the crowd. It’s no
Sneakers Bistro & Café; two smiling post office employees; and a family surrounded by a flock of chickens. Printed beneath each image is the text of a Winooski Front Porch Forum post. Titled “Posted in Winooski,” the exhibit is Higgins’ most recent photography project. Since April, he’s been reaching out to FPF posters and asking them to do reenactments that say something about themselves and their post. His first portrait was the one of the family with chickens, who’d posted to FPF offering eggs. Higgins approaches photography differently from most documentarians. Rather than trying to capture subjects off guard or unposed, he actively works with them to create the final shot, using props, poses and costumes to help them craft a visual narrative about themselves. Afterward, Higgins sometimes uses Photoshop to tweak or add elements to his image, which in practice creates a lo-fi collage effect. But seamless execution isn’t the point. “I like to think of these as collaborations,” Higgins says. “I have some input about
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aula Poundstone had paid her dues touring the country’s comedy clubs when, in 2001, she landed a career-changing gig as a regular panelist on the National Public Radio news quiz show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” At NPR, Poundstone found an ideal venue for her off-the-cuff observational comedy. She continues to tour regularly and is an in-demand voice actor, with many shows and films under her belt. Poundstone has written one book and has another due out next year, and is a spokesperson for the American Library Association; somehow, she’s also found time to foster eight children and raise a truckload of cats. In advance of her October 17 show at Randolph’s Chandler Music Hall, Poundstone spoke with Seven Days from her home in Los Angeles about improv, camels and technology addiction.
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with small neighborhoods in mind (many of the Burlington lists are limited to residents living within a few blocks), Winooski has just one forum for the entire 7,267-resident city. Many of the people Higgins photographed had never met him or each other — but they recognized the names and addresses of other frequent FPF posters. Finally, Higgins admits, he was looking forward to the opening reception, which was held last Thursday. “When you have 28 prints, that’s 28 people that want to see what their picture looks like,” he points out. That meant bringing Winooski residents from different city blocks and various walks of life into one room. If only for one night, Higgins’ photos offered a chance to mix it up and meet the neighbors — no internet access required. m
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Higgins’ purpose in creating the show was manifold. First, it gave him an excuse to meet some of his neighbors face-toface. “Most of these people I only met while doing the project,” he says. Second, the gallery show helps put faces to people in the neighborhood. Though FPF was launched in Burlington
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lighting and composition and so forth, but I really wanted people, especially in this series, to decide what they wanted to include in the picture.” Many subjects responded to his project enthusiastically. Others preferred to remain behind their computer screens. The “really cranky ones,” Higgins says, never responded to him.
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SD: right — and now many schools and colleges proudly boast that they’ll give iPads to every student. PP: They did that in Hoboken, N.J. I guess they came into some money, and this is what they decided to do with that money. Now, they have a closet full of laptops that they want to get rid of. I was telling my son about this one night, and he was like, “Why, why, why?” He’s 16 and a moron. “OK, you tell me. Why do you think?” He says, “Kids broke them.” Yes, that’s one reason. “Kids stole them.” Another reason. “There was nothing they could do to keep them off the wrong websites?” That’s correct. “And nobody paid attention to the teacher?” He came up with all that in a five-minute conversation, but the school board and teachers and parents couldn’t come up with that? I suppose it’s like any other addiction: Society had to hit bottom before they cut it out. m
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ou were aglow with movie love,” said Seth Jarvis to Orly Yadin, describing Yadin’s mood after seeing the 2013 Swedish film We Are the Best! Yadin concurred, remembering how she’d immediately announced that it would be the opening-night film for the upcoming Vermont International Film Festival. Yadin is the executive director of the Vermont International Film Foundation, which stages the annual Burlingtonbased VTIFF, and she programmed this year’s lineup along with four other local cinephiles. Her “movie love” has, in the eight years since Yadin took over as director, become increasingly important to the festival’s mission. Over 10 days, starting October 24, VTIFF will offer a wealth of documentaries and narrative features both vintage and new. Countries represented cinematically include Latvia, Iceland, Turkey, Spain and South Korea; most titles will run twice on one of the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center’s two screens. Unlike larger, more renowned festivals in more populous cities, VTIFF (an acronym that, confusingly, refers to both the festival and its parent organization) is curated and does not issue a call for entries. As Yadin describes it, the decision to curate was both necessary and beneficial. “When you call for entries,” she says, “you get hundreds and hundreds of submissions, which requires a lot of staff to sift through them. We don’t have that capacity. It also means that most of them are bad, anyway. So we decided a few years ago that the festival would be much better served if there was a programming committee that went out and searched for films.” One strand of the festival does solicit cinematic submissions: the Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase. About half of the 23 local entries were ultimately selected for VTIFF. They include several that may be familiar to Seven Days’ readers, such as the documentary United We Ski, telling the story of Vermont’s seatof-the-pants family-run ski areas; Colin Thompson’s narrative feature Loser’s Crown, about a soul-seeking thirtysomething; and 100: Head/Heart/Feet, a doc about ultramarathoner Zak Wieluns. Yadin isn’t kidding about the festival’s dearth of staff: She’s the sole full-time employee. Jarvis, who joined in April
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as executive assistant and outreach coordinator, works part-time for VTIFF, as does administrative assistant Joanna Thomas. Everyone else, from programmers to ticket sellers, is a volunteer. VTIFF’s status as a small festival is reflected in its humble headquarters — a single, windowless room in downtown Burlington. While it’s not in the same league as the famous Toronto or Venice film fests, VTIFF has optimized its limited resources, bringing 42 features and more than 40 shorts to Burlington for its 29th iteration.
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According to Yadin, the festival’s audience has increased about 20 percent every year since 2009. That growth, she suggests, is due at least in part to a broadening of VTIFF’s mission to embrace more fully the “movie love” that inspires cinephiles like Yadin and Jarvis. When it was founded nearly three decades ago, VTIFF took as its mission the exhibition of cinema of social justice. Films were chosen more on the basis of
their political leanings than on their cinematic value. Yadin says that, ever since she joined the festival board several years ago, she’s felt “that we needed to gradually shift away from being identified as a ‘social issue’ film festival. We need to be a film festival.” That doesn’t mean films with messages about social equality are forbidden at VTIFF, just that first and foremost they must be good films. VTIFF’s mission is now more explicitly cinematic, Yadin says. Its goals are to show films from all over the world that aren’t usually played in local theaters — films people might not discover on their own. As Yadin puts it, films that are “not necessarily always innovative, but that have something to say in terms of cinematic language.” Asked to name films that fit that bill
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especially well, Yadin and Jarvis cite several. Though she’s cautious about overselling it, Yadin can’t hide her enthusiasm for the Icelandic tragicomedy Of Horses and Men. Being an animator herself, she’s also very excited that the festival will showcase several works by visionary Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. Jarvis is a “huge fan” of the Harry Potter-esque Spanish film Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang, which he calls “Spielbergian.” He also singles out Michel Gondry’s most recent feature, the fanciful romance Mood Indigo. This year, the programming committee found that of the 42 features selected, 16 were directed by women — a percentage far higher than in mainstream American filmmaking. “We were looking for what we felt were interesting films,” says Yadin. “The result was, to the pleasure of everybody on the committee, that a high number of them were made by women.” That roster includes films by established auteurs (Catherine Breillat’s autobiographical Abuse of Weakness), first-time directors (Iranian filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour’s horror film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) and muckracking documentarians (Pamela Yates’ Granito: How to Nail a Dictator). Other such themes emerged organically; some are highlighted in the festival program, which was distributed in last week’s Seven Days and is available at vtiff. org. “Emerging Filmmakers” showcases the work of up-and-coming directors; “Artists in Action” presents films about
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Less known is Reed’s work with aspiring opera singers. As a classically trained singer himself, he makes sure his students have a solid foundation in classical technique. If a student wants to sing in Rent, for instance, he or she must first learn how to tackle art songs in German and French. Some end up liking that track better. Cases in point: Two of Reed’s former students, tenor ChRistopheR ColmeneRo and baritone GeoffRey penaR, went on to pursue careers in opera. This Sunday, the young singers will show off their classical chops (and a couple of Broadway tunes) in a Burlington recital accompanied by pianist paul oRGel. Reed planned the concert as the first in a twice-a-year series called “The
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Singer’s Art,” intended to boost former students’ careers in the selective world of classical singing. Colmenero, 26, and Penar, 25, say they are excited for the opportunity. Both work two jobs — in Manhattan and Burlington, respectively — while doing auditions and awaiting gigs. Colmenero is performing a recital series in Long Island churches; Penar will premiere an opera in Toronto and sing Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in Seattle. “The boys,” as Reed, 69, calls his former students, began training with him in group lessons during their first years at Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington. They quickly moved to private lessons. Says Colmenero, who grew up in Charlotte, “After a year, [Reed] started throwing in some classical music — Tamino’s aria from Magic Flute,” and, eventually, art songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Schumann. “Vocally, it clicked.” When it came time for college applications, Reed helped Colmenero put together an audition package of five songs, then got on the phone and negotiated better financial-aid packages with two schools. Colmenero arrived at Purchase College, State University of New York, to find that, thanks to Reed’s training, he could already hit the high notes. Penar, of Shelburne, has a similar story. “He got me through college auditions, and he got me into Eastman [School of Music],” says the baritone. “He did a great job of making me sing legitly.” Few other entering students had his level of technical training, Penar notes. Pianist Orgel, of Shelburne, notes that Reed’s “understanding of the physiology of singing is outstanding.” That’s clear from a conversation with the voice teacher in his meticulously arranged Spear Street home. Describing classical
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stateof thearts VTIFF Expands « P.22 artists such as choreographer Elizabeth Streb and visual artist Sol LeWitt. Other categories show how the festival is branching out to appeal to a wider local demographic. The three-film “family friendly” series does what it says on the tin, and “VTIFF After Dark” showcases three recent horror movies in screenings at artsriot at 10 p.m. — “the Burlington midnight,” the program wryly calls it. More ambitious is the series of student matinees. Curated by Jarvis, this four-film miniseries uses movies old (the 50th anniversary rerelease of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) and new (the dialogue-free, feature-length Brazilian animation The Boy and the World) geared toward school-age kids. Jarvis says he chose them in part for
their “potential as educational tools and launching pads for discussions.” Next year is VTIFF’s 30th anniversary, and Yadin is already envisioning “a big splash.” While she hasn’t worked out the details, she says she’d like to celebrate VTIFF’s history while continuing to nudge it forward. That’s exactly the kind of push and pull that is likely to define this growing, ambitious festival — and propel it into the future. m
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Perhaps for that reason, along with the exigencies of the market, Reed has “way fewer” classical students than musical-theater ones. Yet, he says of classical technique, “I still think it forms a foundation for singing … If kids have a real, fundamentally sound technique, it gives them the ability to sing all their lives.” Reed earned a bachelor’s of music education in choral music from the
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singing technique, Reed says, “You keep your larynx low and the focus in front with a lot of space in the back.” That’s a different approach from musical theater, he explains. Reed likens Broadway singing to “speaking on pitch,” and the current trend of “belting” to the natural tendency to shout in highly emotional moments. By contrast, classical singing is “unnatural in that it takes training to do it — at least 10 years’ worth.”
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University of Wisconsin and a musiceducation doctorate from Columbia University. All his training was classical because, he says, “that’s all they offered in those days.” Remaining in New York, he went on to sing in the premier choruses of the day — often soloing in Baroque-era works, his specialty — and to direct choirs. Reed says fate made him “Mr. Broadway.” In 1980, working a side job with voice-recognition researchers at IBM, he attended a conference where he met a speech teacher for actors who envisioned adding Broadway voice coaching to Circle in the Square’s offerings. Reed filled the post for the next 20 years, keeping up with new research on pop and musical-theater voice techniques. But he never left his classical training behind, making him unusual among voice teachers; most specialize in either classical singing or musical theater. At Sunday’s recital, local music lovers can hear the results of Reed’s classical teachings for themselves. The success of Colmenero and Penar, says Orgel, is “a tribute to Bill Reed’s excellence as a voice teacher.” m
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aloney. I’ll grant the two of you may not be chummy, but surely you’ve heard of that well-known Englishwoman Elizabeth II. You may think monarchical naming practices have nothing to do with your question. But they do. They illustrate what’s going on here: the progeny who need to be conspicuously numbered (or, anyway, ordered chronologically) are the ones who rule — and generally, though not always, they’ve been male. I don’t mean to overemphasize the fell hand of the patriarchy. Naming a child is, above all, a practical matter. The first order of business is to identify what family or tribe you belong to — in ancient times, and to a considerable extent now, these were the people who’d have your back. That done, you needed a name to distinguish you from your relatives. In principle, nothing prevents parents from inventing names for this purpose; in practice, the number of widely used given names
in most societies is relatively small. To avoid duplication, a common practice has been to pile on additional names or suffixes. Some of these were less imaginative than others. When the early Romans needed to keep their kids straight, they evidently numbered them. The Roman emperor we know as Augustus was in his youth called Octavian, from the Latin for “eighth.” That’s not because Augustus himself was the eighth-born child; by the emperor’s day, Octavian was a family name and had lost any strictly numerical significance. But perhaps one of his ancestors had been. For girls in classical Rome, though, sequential naming remained literally descriptive, since all girls in a family bore the same name, the feminine form of the family name, often without any distinguishing given names. Thus, sequential names: The daughters of the general Scipio Africanus, whose family name was Cornelius, were known as Cornelia Africana Major and Cornelia Africana
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Why are girls and women not given the title “Junior,” “II,” etc., when named after their mothers, as boys are when named after their fathers? I’ve never come across a woman with this sort of suffix on her name. Jorge Martinez
Minor — Big Cornelia and Little Cornelia. (Their mom was Aemilia Tertia, Aemilia the third. Whether she was the third girl among her sibs we don’t know.) But these were birth-order names. Matters get more interesting when we turn to generational names — naming a kid after a parent or other ancestor. Giving children patronymics — names derived from those of their fathers — is standard practice in some cultures. Vladimir Putin’s middle name is Vladimirovich, son of Vladimir, because (duh) that was his dad’s name too. Russian women have patronymics, as well: e.g., Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, named after her father, Joseph Stalin. Use of matronymics, on the other hand, is rare. In the 1800s it was sometimes taken as the mark of a bastard, whose father either wasn’t known or had disowned the child. And, no, the practice common in
Spanish-speaking countries where a child receives family names from the father’s and mother’s sides — e.g., Gabriel García Márquez, son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán — doesn’t really count as an exception. What’s combined there are, effectively, the family names of the kid’s father and maternal grandfather. Clearer exceptions do exist: In Greek literature, the hero Achilles is sometimes identified as “Achilles, son of Thetis,” a sea goddess. But there you go: Achilles’s father was a mere mortal king, Peleus. Once the old man hooked up with Thetis, he was outranked. You see my point. In a male-dominated world, a son named after his father is commonplace. A daughter named after her mother is fairly unusual, and a daughter whose naming is proclaimed with the title “Junior” or “II” betokens a woman — perhaps two women — of unusual stature. Consider a few modern examples: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Jr. was the firstborn child and only daughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. In New York Supreme Court
documents, not only was the younger Anna Eleanor referred to as “2nd,” her mother was referred to as “Sr.” Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. was a child prodigy given a classical education as a toddler by her like-named mother. She reputedly spoke six languages, was typing at age 6 and had translated Mother Goose into Esperanto by age eight. A prolific versifier, she’s best remembered for the couplet “In fourteen hundred ninety-two / Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Mère et fille toured the U.S. in the 1920s scouting for other geniuses. Broadcast journalist Dorothy Fuldheim applied the “Jr.” suffix to her similarly named daughter, who grew up to be a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Carolina Herrera Jr. designs fragrances for her mother, the fashion designer. Nancy Sinatra, daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, is sometimes referred to as Nancy Sinatra Jr. The senior Nancy is chiefly known for having been the wife of one entertainer and the mother of another. However, on the evidence of other women who named their daughters after themselves, I’ll guess she’s not someone I’d care to cross.
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Stevens Mills There’s a couple routes to get there — all gorgeous, especially at the cusp of the foliage season. I chose to take the interstate to St. Albans, then to cut across Franklin County. “So you said you live on your family farm?” I asked, rekindling our conversation. “How many generations back does it go?”
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to speak in norman rockwell’s oil painting titled “Freedom oF speech.” “My parents bought it in 1945 for 45 hundred dollars. And then, the next year, I was born. I never married, but I had a son late in life. Brian’s now 16 years old.” Ken took a deep breath, perhaps working out the kinks in those new valves. Adjusting himself in his seat, he continued the autobiography. “Yup, the girlfriend told me she couldn’t get pregnant anymore. Surprise. But don’t get me wrong — Brian’s the best thing that ever happened to me. He gives me a reason to live. Well, that and my girlfriend, his mother.” “Your growing up in the Kingdom, I wondered if you got into Burlington much. Or at all, really.” “No, not so much, but I did have a girlfriend there once. Used to drive down to see her.” He skipped a beat, and I thought I detected just the hint of a smile. “That was a waste of gasoline,” he added. I chuckled at Ken’s dry Vermont wit, and asked, “So where’d you go to hang
Morrisville for something or other, and they kept wanting to draw my blood. I asked them why, and they said, ‘Mr. Kingsley, you’re drinking a bit, aren’t ya?’ I told ’em I was, and they said, ‘Stop or it’s gonna kill ya.’ So I did.” “Just like that?” I asked. “Cold turkey?” “Ayup.” We got off the highway and headed east on Route 105. Outside of Enosburg, we passed a huge cornfield. Ken saw me looking and said, “Yup, that was first frost last night.” “How could you tell?” “The tops of the stalks are white.” I looked over again, and, indeed, I could see the lightest dusting of white, like a sheer sheet fluttering across the field. If Ken hadn’t pointed it out, I never would have noticed. As much as I treasure the rural beauty of our state, I’m frequently reminded just what a city boy I am.
I thought of the year my customer had said he was born and did the math. What we baby boomers called “the war” remains a touchstone generational experience, even 40 years after it ended. “So did you see service in Vietnam?” I asked. “Nope, they didn’t call me up, I believe on account of I was an only child. A lot of my friends served, though. Yup, the Vermonters were the best troops, those farm boys and hunters. They learned how to stay still to track and shoot deer, and that same patience got used for shooting Vietcong.” We passed a farm that had seen better days. It looked like someone still kept a garden, but the main buildings, including the barn, were in the early stages of collapse. Ken said, “That’s my girlfriend’s place. She worked it with her late husband. She still stays there some of the time, mostly in the summer.” Nearing Ken’s home, we passed another farm, and I noticed a herd of brown cows ambling across the field. Ken said, “We’ve been talking to my neighbor about buying those Jerseys. If we can come together on the price, we just might do it. My son, Brian, has been working on a nearby farm owned by a couple of my friends, and he’s starting to make noises about getting our place up and running again. Those Jerseys just might do the trick.” And the light coming up in his eyes told me that future beckoned to him like no other. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.
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enneth Kingsley was sitting beside me in the shotgun seat of my taxi on a mild and sunny weekday afternoon. “I never imagined something like this would happen to me.” “Nope,” I commiserated. “We never do.” My customer had just spent some life-saving time at Fletcher Allen hospital having “a few valves” installed in his chest. I was driving him back to Stevens Mills, the site of the family farm where he’s lived his whole life. Well, not yet, thanks to the heart valves and the skill of his surgeon. “Do they want you to do exercise now?” I asked. “You know — like rehab?” “Not really,” he replied. “I’m not supposed to lift over 10 pounds for the next month. ‘Take it easy’ is what they told me, basically.” Ken was wearing the classic outfit of a Green Mountain farmer: well-worn blue trousers, brown work boots and a plaid flannel shirt — in this case with a rectangular pattern of kelly green, rosy red and off-white. He was a slim, goodlooking older man, with angular features and wavy black hair. Glancing over at him, I flashed on the man standing up to speak in Norman Rockwell’s oil painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” from his famous 1943 series known as “The Four Freedoms.” This guy, I thought, could be the older version of that man. Then, recalling that Rockwell based the drawing on a Vermont town meeting, I almost said out loud, “Well, there you go.” Our destination was close to the Canadian border, west of Jay Peak.
out and relax? Were there any bars in the towns up there?” “Well, every so often I would go to Sha-Booms in St. Albans.” “Sha-Booms — what’s that? A bar?” “Yup.” “So, at some point, you took over the farm, and you’re still working it?” “Well, not so much anymore. I sold the cows 11 years ago, and that gave me a mental depression, and I started drinking hard liquor for the first time in my life. I wound up in the hospital up in
Gov. Shumlin may win in November, but can he convince the legislature to back his single-payer plan? b y paul h e in tz matthew thorsen
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ov. Peter Shumlin tried to liven up a staid crowd of supporters last month by summoning his inner Barack Obama. “Are you fired up?” he yelled, his nasal voice mimicking the president’s familiar inflection. “Come on!” Dressed in a charcoal suit, blue shirt and pink tie, Shumlin stood at a wooden podium on the third floor of Burlington’s Main Street Landing, squinting through a narrow band of afternoon sunlight. He was there for the formality of all formalities: the official kickoff of a reelection campaign that had been under way for months and whose successful conclusion was all but preordained. “Now, listen: I can’t do this without you,” he said. “Just as we as a state must say yes to progress, I need you to say yes to working hard over the next two months! Can I count on you to join me in knocking on doors all over the state? Are you in?” Standing before him was much of Montpelier officialdom: cabinet secretaries, commissioners, legislators, lobbyists and assorted political muckety-mucks. Clad in business casual, they clapped politely, though it was difficult to picture any of them schlepping from door to door on the governor’s behalf. “Can I count on you to stuff envelopes and to make phone call after phone call after phone call to help get out our voters?” he yelled. “Are you in on that?!”
Shumlin’s rhetoric was that of a candidate trailing in the polls, but his demeanor betrayed a certain bored confidence. This was not the scrappy state senator who overcame long odds in 2010 to defeat four fellow Democrats and a Republican lieutenant governor to take the state’s top office. It was a man who surely realized that the only politician capable of derailing his ride to a third term was himself. Just once in his 15-minute announcement did Shumlin brush aside the boilerplate and sound a convincing call that he was the “bold” leader he kept saying he was. Acknowledging Vermont Health Care for All founder Deb Richter, who stood in the sea of supporters, Shumlin renewed his pledge to create “the nation’s first single-payer health care system.” “I was elected to get tough things done, and this may well be the toughest,” he declared. “But I will not rest until it is done.” For years, Montpelier’s chattering classes have openly questioned whether Shumlin would really follow through on his 2010 campaign commitment to build a universal, publicly financed health care system. Would he really buck the Chittenden County business elite, to whom he has grown increasingly close, in order to satisfy a liberal base whose support he has come to take for granted? Would he risk severe economic
dislocation to grasp the golden ring of progressive governance? For a moment, at least, the politician known for equivocation sounded resolute. It didn’t last. Two days later, Shumlin modulated his message in an interview with Vermont Public Radio’s Bob Kinzel. Calling himself “one of the most pro-business, anti-tax governors that you’ve seen in a long time,” he vowed that he would halt his drive toward single-payer if he determined it would hurt the economy. “If we come up with a financing plan that doesn’t grow jobs, economic opportunity and make Vermont more prosperous, trust me, we’re not gonna do it,” he said. It wasn’t the first time Shumlin had issued such a caveat. But his otherwise listless Republican opponent, Pomfret businessman Scott Milne, quickly seized on it as evidence of inconsistency. “You’re totally doubling down on single-payer on Tuesday when you’re with your Democratic [supporters],” Milne said at a VPR debate later that month. “Then you’re on a statewide radio program three days later [saying], ‘I’m not going to go forward with it unless it’s going to be good for the economy.’” So which one is it? Will Shumlin take the biggest risk of his 24-year political career and drive ahead with singlepayer? Or will he find a way to blame the legislature, the business community or the federal government for its demise and simply walk away? “He could blame it on a million things,” says Burlington restaurateur Al Gobeille, who oversees the state’s reforms as chairman of the Green Mountain Care Board. “But every time I’ve met with him about health care reform, he has never wavered from what he wants to do. And I, at times, have actually been shocked by it. He doesn’t joke about wavering. He doesn’t gossip about wavering. He doesn’t waver.” More to the point, does Shumlin have what it takes to get the job done? In interviews with some two dozen legislators, lobbyists, activists, administration officials and political observers, many said they wouldn’t bet against the governor’s legendary political acumen. “If anybody has the skills,” says House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown), “it would be Peter Shumlin.” But others questioned whether, after four years on the job, he still has the juice to achieve what no other governor has. Though he’s unlikely to lose to Milne or Libertarian candidate Dan Feliciano next month, recent polling suggests his public approval has declined and he may struggle to crack the symbolic 50 percent threshold. More ominously, Statehouse insiders say he’s lost the trust of many legislators — just when he needs them the most. To sign single-payer into law, he’ll have to persuade them to put their own political careers on the line by raising roughly $2 billion in new taxes. The question is whether they’ll trust him to lead the way.
Tough Things Done When he first ran for governor four years ago, Shumlin vowed to “get tough things done.” The campaign slogan was intended to distinguish the 54-year-old senate president from his four Democratic rivals by reminding voters of his impressive legislative accomplishments. In a single biennium, the Putney businessman had led the charge to legalize gay marriage, deny Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant a license to operate and override Douglas’ veto of the 2010 budget.
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says Doug Racine, the former lieutenant governor and state senator who narrowly lost to Shumlin in the 2010 primary. “You could see he was personally moved by what he saw — and he made a huge commitment on the part of his administration to fix things.” He also became the state’s biggest cheerleader, vowing to make post-Irene Vermont “stronger than ever before.” “People like that sort of cocky bravado, you know? Howard Dean talked the same way. Dick Snelling talked that way too,” Racine says, referring to Shumlin’s gubernatorial predecessors. After Shumlin handily defeated then-senator Randy Brock in the 2012 election, he and the Democratic supermajority checked the box on a host of long-sought liberal priorities. In just two years, they decriminalized marijuana, legalized physician-assisted suicide, granted drivers’ licenses to noncitizens, unionized home health care workers and daycare providers, expanded net metering, mandated GMO labeling, and raised the minimum wage. And yet, somehow, Shumlin simultaneously managed to alienate liberal legislators of his own party. In his second inaugural and budget addresses in early 2013, the governor employed Reaganesque language to pitch cuts to the Reach Up welfare program and the Earned Income Tax Credit. His fellow Democrats revolted — not just at the substance of his agenda, but at his failure to consult with them about the proposals. By the end of the session, the governor found himself the emperor’s new bros
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The slogan “was the result of looking at his record and what he wanted to get done in the future,” recalls Alex MacLean, who managed Shumlin’s first two gubernatorial campaigns and became his deputy chief of staff. In the Senate, Shumlin had earned a reputation for being “a little cocky,” as his friend and ally, Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington), puts it. Others, including former Republican governor Jim Douglas, recall his tenure in less charitable terms. “No matter what he said, it was likely to change in the next conversation,” Douglas wrote in a memoir released this September. “I have no idea what really motivates him.” Shumlin’s slogan seemed to send the signal that you didn’t have to like the guy, but you could count on him to finish the job — including defeating the Republican nominee: then-lieutenant governor Brian Dubie. In his first term as governor, Shumlin did, indeed, get tough things done. With the passage of Act 48, he established the Green Mountain Care Board and set the state on course toward single-payer. When Tropical Storm Irene inundated central and southern Vermont, he earned high marks for spearheading the state’s recovery. “I think those were his finest moments as governor,”
The Emperor’s New Bros « p.31 in a standoff with legislative leaders over whether to make progressive tweaks to the tax code. Tensions became so inflamed that, even after Shumlin vowed to veto the bill, his Democratic allies nearly forced him to carry out his threat. To a certain extent, Shumlin appears to relish his differences with legislative liberals. He happily chides them for their profligate ways, vowing at nearly every campaign stop to “match Montpelier’s appetite for spending with Vermonters’ ability to pay.” Like Dean, he uses them as a foil
major shortfall. Even after this summer’s mid-year cuts, state economists are anticipating a $100 million hole in next year’s budget. That has many progressive advocates alarmed. “We already have an anemic state government that is not able to deliver the services it is promising to Vermonters and Vermonters need and want,” says Paul Cillo, a former House majority leader who now heads the left-leaning Public Assets Institute. “The challenge to the governor and the legislature is: Are we going to back off on our commitment to Vermonters or are we going to find the money to provide the services they actually want?”
when his administration first revealed that the exchange, called Vermont Health Connect, would not be prepared to accept electronic payments when it launched the next month. Shumlin, who enjoys goading reporters as much as he does legislators, responded to that news at a Montpelier press conference by attacking the messenger. “I was amazed that we could make a headline out of that fact, to be honest with you,” he lectured reporters at the time. “The fact of the matter is, that’s a nothing-burger.” Few Vermont politicians can match Shumlin’s quick wit and verbal acuity — skills honed, he has said, to compensate
“There’s not even lipstick to put on that pig,” says Tom Torti, who served in the Dean and Douglas administrations and now runs the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. To be sure, Vermont’s difficulties complying with Obamacare’s condensed timelines and sisyphean mandates were not unique to the state. And much of the blame can fairly be laid at the feet of CGI, the Virginia-based contractor whose poor performance building Vermont’s website finally led to its dismissal in August. “The bottom line for me is that CGI just did not deliver,” says Racine, who served as Shumlin’s Agency of Human Services secretary until that same month.
for his dyslexia. But when his rhetoric fails to match reality — as it has with Vermont Health Connect — his tongue tends to get him in trouble. MacLean says that charge isn’t quite fair. “People who don’t agree with his policies spin his articulateness to say you can’t trust him, and I don’t think that’s a fair representation,” she says. “Nothing-burger” or not, the Vermont Health Connect headlines kept coming. Users struggled with the website’s interface, while small businesses couldn’t navigate it at all. In November, Shumlin extended the deadline to enroll and allowed businesses to bypass the website completely. With every new assurance from the governor came another problem. Over the spring and summer, thousands of Vermonters trying to update basic information on the website became stuck in an endless queue. After the state failed to conform to new security protocols, the feds forced it offline in September — just seven weeks before Election Day.
But Hamilton Davis, a health care analyst and veteran Vermont journalist, says the episode speaks volumes about the governor’s management style. “Shumlin wasn’t paying attention. He really didn’t care about the exchange because, when you step back from it, the exchange wasn’t his,” Davis says, explaining that the governor was more invested in his own single-payer plans than Obama’s health care reforms. “Even when he put his eye back on it, it took him a year to get a handle on it — way, way, way too long.” The exchange’s management team — initially led by Department of Vermont Health Access Commissioner Mark Larson and Deputy Commissioner Lindsey Tucker — was versed in policy, not operations. And, according to an August report by Optum, they “ceded ownership” of the project to the CGI. Contributing to the chaos, Racine says, was the fact that Larson reported to an evolving cast of overseers in the governor’s office. Racine, nominally Larson’s boss, was cut out of the chain of command.
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to establish himself as a fiscal conservative. Among his proudest accomplishments, he often notes, is having balanced four tight budgets without raising what he defines as “broad-based” taxes: those targeting income, sales, rooms and meals. Even Rep. Patti Komline (R-Dorset), one of the governor’s sharpest critics, credits Shumlin with restraining the more progressive elements of his party. “If we had a Republican governor in there, the left side of the party would have passed legislation that would have been more expensive for taxpayers,” she says. “But Democrats don’t want to see a public split like that, so they make sure not to put anything like that on Shumlin’s desk.” Implicit in the governor’s resistance to tax hikes is an acknowledgement that he will have to raise revenue dramatically to pay for his health care overhaul. He does not want to wear voters out before he asks them to pay for his signature policy priority. But six years after the 2008 financial crisis drained state coffers, Shumlin’s budget writers are preparing for another
Add to that a growing unease over ever-rising property taxes and Shumlin may find himself with far more on his plate next year than single-payer. “Historically, Vermont can solve a problem, whether it’s [the 1965 legislative] reapportionment, Irene, marriage or civil unions,” says Steve Terry, a retired reporter and corporate consultant. “But I don’t recall a time when we’ve been able to solve so many issues with such huge price tags.”
Lipstick on a Pig Two years after they dusted off the “get tough things done” slogan for his 2012 reelection campaign, Shumlin’s advisers appear to be giving it a rest. And for good reason: He still hasn’t gotten the toughest assignment of his second term — fixing the state’s broken health insurance exchange — done. Shumlin himself says his “biggest regret, unconditionally, is the frustrating rollout of the website for the Affordable Care Act.” It has dogged him since September 2013,
“It hasn’t been consistent,” the ex-secretary says of Vermont Health Connect’s organizational chart. “When it came to crisis management, it was as much about management of the project as it was management of the bad news that was out there.” The way Milne sees it, Shumlin was distracted from the website’s woes by his frequent travels. Between January 2013 and September 2014, the governor spent 141.5 days — or nearly a quarter of his second term — outside Vermont. As Seven Days reported last month, Shumlin spent 58.5 of those days tending to political affairs as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, and 55 of them on vacation.
A month earlier, Shumlin’s top aides, chief of staff Liz Miller and Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding, summoned him to the governor’s office at the end of a Monday to tell him he was fired. Shumlin’s spokeswoman, Sue Allen, tried her best to spin the news, writing in a press release the next morning that Racine would be “stepping down” as secretary. Later that day, after flying to Rutland in the state-owned Cessna 182, Shumlin addressed the leadership change at press conference held, somewhat fittingly, at a landfill. But he refused to characterize the nature of Racine’s departure, nor why he felt it was “time for a different kind of leadership.”
secretaries, but they’re always there with me doing work.” In off-the-record comments, several people who work closely with the administration characterized Shumlin as increasingly disengaged from the day-to-day workings of government. “He’s the most remote governor we’ve ever had,” Davis says. Others, such as Speaker Smith, say he’s plenty focused — at least, on his top priorities. “I think that he has kept his eye on the ball on things that he wants to do,” Smith says, “which is health care, putting forward balanced budgets and trying to do the kind of economic development that he
and former Department of Public Service secretary, and Lawrence Miller, who founded Otter Creek Brewing and now serves as the governor’s all-purpose fixer. Outside of state government, Shumlin’s cultivated a coterie of top business leaders and donors who were equally at home in the Douglas administration, including Jay Peak president Bill Stenger; the Chittenden County developers Bobby Miller, Jeff Davis and Ernie Pomerleau; and the Burlington power brokers David Coates and Harlan Sylvester. “On certain issues, it’s still the same guys — and I used the word ‘guys’ advisedly — calling the shots behind the scenes,” says one Montpelier insider.
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When Shumlin took office in January 2011, he made much of the fact that he’d hired three of his four Democratic gubernatorial opponents: Racine as AHS secretary, Deb Markowitz as Agency of Natural Resources secretary and Susan Bartlett as “special assistant.” These days, none in his “team of rivals” appears particularly close to the governor. But Markowitz says she has had a different experience than Racine. “I have to say: I’ve been so incredibly supported by the governor in everything I’ve done,” she says. “We’re in constant communication.” The same can’t be said of state legislators, who routinely grouse that they’ve been left out of the loop — particularly regarding Shumlin’s singlepayer plans. There’s a good reason for that: The governor clearly wants to release them on his own schedule — after the election, his critics note — and legislators would be likely to spill the beans.
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Two weeks ago, Racine contemplated his newfound freedom over a glass of juice at Burlington’s Muddy Waters. These days, he said, he’s stacking wood, cleaning out his basement — and looking for a new job.
thinks is going to work for the long-term benefit of the state.” Shumlin’s advisers paint a different picture than his critics do. “There’s never been a governor who’s as connected as Peter Shumlin,” Spaulding says. “Whether it’s cellphone or texting or email, he does it all the time. Whether it’s legislators or business or labor people, environmentalists, he’s in touch with everybody.” As in any administration approaching its fifth year, several key members of Shumlin’s team have moved on or are about to do so — including MacLean, former chief of staff Bill Lofy and legislative liaison Louis Porter. Most consequentially, Spaulding announced last month that he’d be leaving early next year to become chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges. A former state treasurer and longtime senate colleague of Shumlin’s, Spaulding has come to be regarded as almost a co-governor. Shumlin’s closest remaining advisers on the fifth floor of the Pavilion State Office Building include Liz Miller, an attorney
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Racine, who quickly told reporters he’d been fired, still sounds steamed that Shumlin didn’t deliver the news himself. “I would’ve talked to the man, OK?” he said. “If he had been thinking he wanted to make a change because of my performance in some way or my style or whatever it was, I would’ve liked to have had the opportunity to hear that from him, so we could work on it.” All Racine got was a brief phone call from the governor after Miller and Spaulding cut him loose. Remarkably, Racine alleges, it was the first time they had spoken outside of group meetings since May 2013. “I had not had a one-on-one conversation with him in a year,” Racine said. “That, to me, was the most disturbing part of my work in the administration: the lack of contact.” Shumlin denies the charge — somewhat. “We were in meetings consistently together; I mean, like, every other week — every week,” the governor says. “I often don’t get to sit down individually with my
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Former commerce secretary Lawrence Miller, who took over Shumlin’s health care programs in June, defends the governor’s management style. But he has an equally troubling explanation for why the boss didn’t take action sooner: Early reports from a consultant indicating that Vermont Health Connect wouldn’t be ready by its launch date simply never made it to Shumlin’s desk. “It doesn’t appear he was ever really getting the full story,” Miller says. Even Shumlin admits his administration failed to manage the project. “Absolutely. I mean, I don’t know how you — the answer is yes,” the governor says. “When something doesn’t do what you expect it to do, it’s a failure.”
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That happened last spring, Spaulding says, when he shared some preliminary ideas with retiring Sen. Peter Galbraith (D-Windham), who quickly broadcast them on the Senate floor. “When you have informal conversations, sometimes it’s hard to try out ideas with people and not have them take those as your specific proposal,” Spaulding says. “Like, I thought I had some informal conversations with Peter Galbraith and then he’s out saying, ‘Here’s what the governor’s plan is.’” But according to Racine, leaving out legislators could be an even bigger mistake. “My advice would be that there needs to be a concerted effort to make legislators part of the process, so that they are part of the team,” he says. “You want to make sure that their first chance to talk isn’t when they have to vote — or when somebody figures out they aren’t entirely on board.”
“I do not think it’s a good idea to rush into it. I think it’s a train that’s coming our way,” the Pomfret businessman said. “What I would urge Vermonters to do is talk to your legislators. I’m not encouraging it, but if I get a bill, I’ll sign it.” Shumlin looked my way again. When he saw me crack a slight smile at Milne’s wishy-washy answer, he flashed an enormous grin at me. The consummate politician had turned on the charm and was working the room, even as he parried questions in a debate. Shumlin’s magnetism often draws comparisons to that of Bill Clinton. He feeds off the energy of friends and strangers alike, draping an arm around a shoulder or coming in for a close chat. He is infamous for his aggressive, double-armed handshakes, during which he grabs the oppos-
“It didn’t come across that way, and maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing he ever did.” Like several of Shumlin’s advisers, Spaulding says there’s a private side of the governor that the public — and the press — rarely sees. “He is one of the sweetest, most generous, most compassionate people I know,” the secretary says. Shumlin’s interpersonal skills have made him “a master” of the state’s political scene over the years, says Torti, the chamber of commerce chief, who has known the governor since the mid-1980s. “What I think you get with Gov. Shumlin sometimes is a candor and a wit that is not often expected from elected officials,” Torti says. “Some people don’t like his glibness. To that I say, ‘So what?’ He’s glib. He’s funny. Some days you wanna
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kill him. Some days you wanna hug him. And some hours you flip-flop within 60 minutes.” Equally infuriating to some supporters is his seeming malleability on the issues. One moment, he’ll argue that mandating GMO labeling is a bad idea; the next, he’ll take credit for the mandate in a campaign ad. Behind the scenes, he’ll try to kill a bill banning certain toxic chemicals, but when a modified version passes, he’ll hold a signing ceremony trumpeting it. “He’s a pragmatist,” says Anthony Iarrapino, who recently left the Conservation Law Foundation to lobby for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. “As an advocate — somebody who’s really clear on what the right answer is — that flexibility can be maddening.” To Torti, that’s just the art of negotiation and compromise — skills Shumlin has in spades. “One of the things I have always appreciated about him is you know where he
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ing elbow or forearm with his left hand and doesn’t let go. “He’s got this personal charm thing where you’re rolling your eyes even as you’re melting into his arms,” says one longtime ally. “But you also know you can’t trust him.” Trust became a serious issue for Shumlin in May 2013, when a real estate deal with his East Montpelier neighbor captivated the Statehouse press corps. Faced with a looming tax sale, Jeremy Dodge had agreed the previous fall to sell his 16-acre property to Shumlin for $58,000, even though it was assessed at $233,700. Dodge, an ex-con with an eighthgrade education, came to regret the deal he struck without an attorney. As public pressure mounted, the governor agreed to reverse the sale and return the property to Dodge. “He thought he was helping the guy out,” Spaulding says, though he concedes,
Few governors have staked so much on a single policy proposal as Shumlin has on single-payer. That’s why it’s hard to see him walking away before he can claim at least a partial victory. “He’s really invested way too much into this to not move forward,” says Peter Sterling, who runs the pro-single-payer advocacy group Vermont Leads. But the barriers to success are considerable — and they’re not just political. According to Lawrence Miller, “The single biggest risk factor is the federal government’s participation.” In order to move ahead with Shumlin’s plan, the state will have to secure a waiver from the feds that would allow it to bypass many of the strictures of the Affordable Care Act and to use Obamacare cash to fund the new system. Three weeks ago, Shumlin and several top advisers met with Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell in Washington, D.C., to discuss the prospect. Gobeille, who attended the
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Shumlin tried to keep a straight face last Wednesday afternoon as his Republican rival, Scott Milne, struggled to explain his position on physician-assisted suicide. The governor was sandwiched between Milne and Liberty Union candidate Peter Diamondstone at the Burlington Free Press’ “Innovation Incubator,” a drab conference room on the third floor of the Burlington Town Center. They were there for the third debate of the gubernatorial campaign. Asked by Free Press reporter Terri Hallenbeck whether he’d support changes to Vermont’s year-and-a-half-old law allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, Milne bobbed and weaved. “One of the principles upon which I will govern and upon which I founded my campaign is that the more locally decisions can be made, the better they are,” he said. “If it’s important to you, you should talk to your legislator —” “But what about you?” Hallenbeck interjected. “You’d have to sign the bill.” “I’ll sign a bill that comes from the legislature, with changes or with repeal,” he said. “No matter what it says?” Hallenbeck asked. “Yes,” Milne said. “Or with repeal?” Shumlin repeated, appearing incredulous. “Yes,” Milne said. Shumlin looked across the room at me and cocked his head, as if to say, “Did you hear that?” Three minutes later, Milne was waffling again — this time on whether he’d sign a bill legalizing marijuana.
stands both today and where he’s going to be in the end,” Torti says. “With a wink and a nod, you know what his position is and is going to be.” Hours after last week’s Free Press forum, Shumlin worked the front lobby of WCAX-TV’s South Burlington studio before the station’s live debate. He chatted up reporters, posed for photos and absorbed the praise of Andrew Champagne, a Democratic Party activist who told the governor he was going to “smoke” Milne during the debate. “I’m gonna smoke it,” Shumlin said, stretching his shoulders and walking with a bounce in his step. “They’re telling me to be Zen.” Half an hour into the broadcast, WCAX cut to the first two-minute commercial break. Shumlin exchanged a private word with Milne and then beelined to a small audience consisting of Champlain College students, Milne’s family, Shumlin’s own supporters and two reporters. He needed to get in some glad-handing. “How we doing, team?” the governor said, flashing a double-thumbs-up. “How we doing?” he repeated. “Riveting stuff.” The governor chatted briefly with his campaign manager, Scott Coriell, before a producer warned him he had 30 seconds to return to the podium. At the end of the debate, Shumlin worked his way back to the chairs where the audience had been seated and introduced himself to the Champlain students. He clasped one young blonde’s right hand with his, then traced a line down her forearm with his left pointer finger, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world to do.
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like finding a dead skunk in your mailbox. Nobody’s gonna like it.” For that reason, argues Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell (D-Windsor), Shumlin has been wise to keep his ideas to himself until they’re ready for primetime. “If you have a vision or a goal and you’re not able to fully articulate what it is, you leave it open to come under attack by people who might just not agree with you from a political standpoint,” he says. For Shumlin to succeed, he’ll have to convince the legislature — and the public — that he can manage the transformation of Vermont’s entire health care system better than he managed Vermont Health Connect. Even he admits that’s a tall order.
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“Clearly the biggest stumbling block is the rollout of the Affordable Care Act,” Shumlin says, because it resulted in “the loss of confidence in government’s ability to get health care right.” Racine, who knows the legislature as well as his old rival does, says he’s not confident its members will line up behind the governor. “I really don’t know how to predict that one,” he says. “I will say that with some legislators, I do not see the commitment to doing — if I can use Gov. Shumlin’s words — the tough things that need to be done and deal with the political fallout from that.” But, as Shumlin has proved time and time again, nobody in Montpelier is more skilled at working the levers of power. With a mix of charm, chutzpah and dogged determination, the governor usually gets his way. m
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n September 21, hundreds of thousands of people descended on New York City for what was called the largest climatechange march in history. The air swirled with conversations about fuel efficiency, energy policies and the relationship of economic and environmental health. Back home in Vermont, such conversations are nothing new at the Agency of Transportation. For several years, VTrans has been pushing for local transportation solutions that address citizens’ concerns about both their economic livelihood and their environment. Offering a suite of services, the state aims to minimize the number of vehicles on the road, increase fuel efficiency and change the way Vermonters consider their daily commute. Vanpool, anyone? Though vanpooling debuted in Vermont in 2009, many locals may never have heard of the practice. It’s like carpooling, but with a bigger vehicle and government help. Go! Vermont is a project of VTrans whose mission is to help Vermonters “reduce the cost and environmental impact of driving.” Working in collaboration with vRide, a national vanpooling company, Go! Vermont currently provides commuting vans to 11 different groups of seven to 12 people each. Vanpoolers pay a monthly rate based on mileage — for Vermonters, it averages $120 per person per month. That cost covers the use of the vehicle, gas, repairs and insurance. For most users, that’s a great deal. “When I drive my car to work, it takes a quarter of a tank of gas per day,” says Wendy Edwards, an administrative-services coordinator for the State of Vermont, who has vanpooled for three years. “I fill up twice per week, so that’s about $120 per week. The most we’ve ever paid per person for the vanpool is $130 per month. So just in gas alone, it’s a huge savings.” Edwards and the 10 colleagues with whom she shares a 12-passenger van commute 35 miles each morning from Montpelier to Williston. While she acknowledges that having fewer vehicles on the road means less pollution, she says she uses the service primarily for its economic benefits. It’s not like Edwards or other Vermont commuters can just jump on a bus anytime. Though public transportation does exist along the state’s major corridors and within its larger towns, a huge portion of the state doesn’t fit into a bus-stop model. “Public transportation is expensive,” concedes Go! Vermont public transit
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coordinator Ross MacDonald, “and Vermont is sparsely populated enough that real, effective public transit is a challenge. “We know that we aren’t going to be able to provide for anyone to go anywhere at any time that they want,” MacDonald adds, “but we’ve found that an effective way of filling in those gaps is through carpools and vanpools.” Although Edwards’ commute up Interstate 89 overlaps with a bus route, she still prefers the vanpool. “I’ve looked into the bus service, and it would be more expensive,” she says. “I would have to [ride] all the way to Cherry Street [in Burlington], and then I’d have to get on another bus to come here, and then walk about half a mile. It just doesn’t work.” The benefits of vanpooling extend beyond the bottom line, according to MacDonald. In surveys, users have reported being surprised “by how much they’ve enjoyed starting the day and ending the day [with others], where they can vent, share work experiences and mentally prepare to transition in or out of the work environment,” he says. In a recent nationwide vRide study, MacDonald notes, 96 percent of vanpoolers said they plan to use the service again in the coming year.
Bonus: These riders get to practice “good citizenship,” as MacDonald puts it. “Everybody is cutting down on tons of carbon dioxide and NOx [nitrogen oxide] emissions. So from an environmental, social and cost-benefit perspective, it’s all a win.”
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Then why aren’t Vermonters seeking out vanpools in droves? MacDonald acknowledges that the service works best for those with a set work schedule and the same workplace each week, an arrangement many Vermonters don’t have. “It’s a commitment,” says Edwards. “And the hardest part for people is that
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orget whatever preconceived notions you may have about a science fiction anthology that was coedited by a Norwich University administrator who has a master’s degree in military history and a hobby of dressing up as a Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper. The 23 short works in War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, released last week by Apex Publications, aren’t some lame rip-offs of The Clone Wars. Nor are they tales of a boy and his robotic, mine-sniffing dog or cartoonish shoot-’em-ups about cyborg marines who shout, “Once more unto the breach!” before jumping to hyperspace at the edges of black holes. Instead, what Norwich University’s Andrew Liptak has pulled together — along with his coeditor, Jaym Gates — is a collection of lean, absorbing and well-executed prose that was authored, in part, by those who have experienced war firsthand or have a working familiarity with military life. Accordingly, War Stories places the emphasis less on alien battlegrounds and futuristic military gadgets than on very human, or humanlike, soldiers who wage war, and the toll it exacts on their psyches. Escapist fiction it’s not. “The point of this anthology was not to champion war but to stand back and look at it on a broad canvas, and do so in a way that people find interesting and entertaining,” explains Liptak, a 2007 Norwich grad who currently works as student-services adviser for the military university’s online graduate program. War Stories is divided into four sections: “Wartime Systems,” “Combat,” “Armored Force” and “Aftermath.” Many of the stories, especially those in the “Aftermath” section, wrestle with such present-day realities of military life as posttraumatic stress, suicide, the moral implications of remote killing via drones and the difficulties of re-acclimating to civilian life after years of extended deployment. Liptak and Gates — both of whom write science fiction themselves, but not for this collection — first conceived of the idea for War Stories in 2012. At Readercon, an annual convention held in Burlington, Mass., devoted to SF, fantasy, horror and speculative fiction, they assembled a “wish list” of authors whose works they hoped to include. Topping their list was Joe Haldeman, an award-winning SF author and member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame who
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happened to be the convention’s guest of honor that year. Haldeman is a decorated Vietnam War veteran best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War, which won science fiction’s highest honors, the Hugo and Nebula awards. He agreed to contribute one of his previously published works: “Graves,” about a Vietnam vet haunted by night terrors years after a mission that involved investigating an officer’s badly mutilated corpse. With Haldeman on board, Liptak and Gates were inundated with submissions from other acclaimed authors around the world. “We had over 200 stories and 900,000 words of fiction submitted, enough to
fill nine books,” Liptak recalls. “If we had the money, we could probably stand up another entire anthology tomorrow from what we rejected.” (War Stories was partially funded by a successful $10,000 Kickstarter campaign.) One of the more impressive aspects of the collection is its broad international representation. The anthology includes works by award-winning authors from the United States, Canada, South Africa, Guyana, Brazil and Australia. Liptak considered it important to include a diversity of voices, he says, in part because war is a product of society, and the ways nations wage war reflect their unique histories.
Also notable is the book’s abundance of female authors — who, as Liptak points out, often don’t get their due respect in science-fiction circles, especially when they write military-oriented fiction. “The military is changing. We’ve got women who are serving on the front lines now and going to combat schools,” he says. “That’s an important story to tell that really hasn’t been told yet in science fiction.” One of Liptak’s favorite sections was “Aftermath,” for which he and Gates asked prospective contributors to address how war affects soldiers and the people around them. “That was a particularly interesting set of stories to read because of the variety,” he recalls. “The stories we wound up picking were fantastic. Some of them are my absolute favorites of all the stories I’ve ever read.” Among them is “Coming Home,” by Janine K. Spendlove. In the world of SF/ fantasy publishing, Spendlove is known primarily for her best-selling trilogy War of the Seasons. When she’s not writing, she serves as an active-duty Marine Corps pilot flying KC-130s, which are large aerial tankers used for refueling other aircrafts midflight. In “Coming Home,” Spendlove tells the story of Pia, a Marine pilot, and her struggle to overcome recurring visions of a mission she commanded that went awry. Some of her fellow Marines were killed, and others left behind — the latter a mortal sin in Marine Corps ethos. “I keep waiting to go back to the old me. The always-chipper, happy-go-lucky me,” Pia tells a chaplain in the story. “So I guess what I want to know is when will it happen? When will I be me again? When will I feel right inside?” In “The Radio,” author Susan Jane Bigelow tells the story of Kay, a “synthetic” warrior constructed from the remains of a human soldier killed in action. When Kay is separated from her entire army after a roadside bomb kills everyone else in her unit, she gets picked up by a band of human deserters. She must come to grips with her sense of abandonment, as well as the loss of identity that befalls a warrior who no longer has orders to follow or battles to fight. Addressing similar themes from a different perspective, “Enemy State,” by Karin Lowachee, tells the story of a lover awaiting a soldier’s return home from repeated deployments in deep space. When the soldier finally returns, the lover says,
“In bed you told me about all the parts of you that weren’t human anymore.” Lowachee writes, “Every time you go back to the war, they steal another part of you. How much of you returns home?” It’s clear she’s not just talking about the returning soldier’s artificial eyes and animatronic limbs, but about the fragments of identity that a combat veteran leaves behind on the battlefield. War Stories is all the more relevant given that the anthology was assembled, in part, at the nation’s oldest private military college, where scores of Corps cadets will soon join the ranks of active service members deployed in overseas war zones. “War is around us. Just look at the last 10 years,” Liptak notes. “Whether you agree with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or not, they’ve had a tremendous impact on day-to-day life in the United States.” Despite being a Norwich alum, Liptak doesn’t hail from a military background himself, nor was he a member of the Corps of Cadets, Norwich’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). However, through his two uncles who served in World War II — one in the Philippines, another dead at the Battle of the Bulge — Liptak developed an early interest in military history. The 29-year-old traces his fascination with SF to his elementary school days in
the 1990s, when his father took him to see a new Star Wars theatrical release. “It was a light-bulb moment for me,” he recalls. “I never looked back.” That dual interest in military history and SF inevitably led Liptak to Starship Troopers,, Robert Heinlein’s
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Liptak, a self-described “geek” who bears a slight resemblance to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, now writes quarterly book reviews for Lightspeed Lightspeed, a monthly SF/ fantasy magazine, as well as biweekly features on speculative fiction for Kirkus Reviews Reviews. Through his blog Geek Mountain State, he has broken local SF-related news and organized a popular reading series featuring Vermont genre writers. Liptak readily admits that in his free time he enjoys dressing up in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes, of which he’s bought and made several. More than just play, it’s a form of community service for Liptak’s New England chapter of an international costuming group called the 501st Legion. Members raise money for local charities such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the American Red Cross and Walk Now for Autism Speaks.
“Those are incredible,” Liptak says of the autism events, “because you have kids who don’t usually look people in the eye look right at you, and you’re this character who’s basically stepped off the screen for them, and they love it. It’s pretty amazing to see what kids’ reactions will be — and grown-ups’, too.” Liptak cautions against drawing parallels between his fascination with military history and his penchant for dressing up as a foot soldier in a fascist regime. While he draws a line between reality and entertainment, he hopes some people who don’t see war as a legitimate area of academic study will consider reading War Stories, and not only because it’s diverting fiction. For sure, War Stories includes the genre’s requisite dose of plasma weapons, power armor and gory combat scenes, Liptak admits. “But it’s also a good way to get people to think about why we fight and why soldiers put their lives on the line.” Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com
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he inspiration for Burlington City Arts’ sprawling, statewide art exhibit “Of Land & Local” arrived in the form of a tomato. In early summer 2013, BCA’s chief curator, DJ Hellerman, was perusing the stalls of the weekend farmers market Low-residency degrees in creative outside his organization’s flagship galwriting, psychology, interdisciplinary lery in City Hall Park. A gesture caught arts, education & teacher licensure, his eye: A farmer was waving a tomato, health arts & sciences, sustainability, speaking intently to a curious customer about growing produce. clinical mental health counseling, “We’d had an opening the night and individualized studies before,” Hellerman recalls over coffee at August First Bakery & Café in Burlington. RSVP goddard.edu/discover “And I thought, That’s exactly like an admissions@goddard.edu artist talking about their paintings.” Hellerman had been mulling over a Goddard College challenge for the past year, since he left his native Cleveland. When he arrived at BCA, he was tasked with developing an WGDR\WGDH COMMUNITY RADIO exhibit about Vermont’s locavore food movement, an idea originally floated by former curator Chris Thompson. But until that day at the farmers market, Hellerman hadn’t put his finger on what with a Saturday kids show it was about food that made Vermonters so passionate. Plus, he confesses, he hadn’t come across much food-related art that en, gaged him. “I cared a lot about food, Tall Heights & Jim and Sam and I cared a lot about art, but for some reason I wasn’t finding artwork that was able to deal with those interests in a successful way,” Hellerman says. “So I kind of went on this journey of trying to figure out, OK, what is it about food , that [Vermonters] are really interested in? featuring What are my interests in food? And where do they come from?” Tommy Larkins on drums After witnessing that exchange, Hellerman left the farmers market with a new question: How are food producers and art makers alike? Some things were immediately apparent: Both farmers and , artists work for little pay, generally in Buy tickets at isolation, to bring a product to market. goddard.edu/concerts Then Hellerman realized that both art and food are deeply influenced by place goddard.edu and the natural world. That idea was the WGDR/Goddard College Concerts ticketsgoddard.edu/concerts seed of “Of Land & Local,” now midway PLAINFIELD, VERMONT through its second year.
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It seems like a humble and happenstance beginning for what’s grown into one of the state’s largest and most ambitious art exhibitions. This year’s show is a massive undertaking that involves more than 40 artists producing hundreds of works. Five separate gallery locations house them: BCA Center in Burlington, Shelburne Farms, MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland, and the Kent Museum in Calais. Each location has its own show dates and openings, ranging from early September to mid-November. “It’s a far-reaching survey exhibition that starts to get at a lot of the ways that the land influences art making, and [those ways don’t] have to be visual,” Hellerman says. Translation: Don’t expect a lot of pretty landscape paintings. Many of the artists involved worked on commission for the exhibit or as part of a residency, while others submitted existing work. Their ways of tapping into the “Of Land & Local” theme are as varied as the terrain itself. What links the art — and the artists — in Hellerman’s mind is a
palpable response to Vermont’s landscape and issues surrounding the land. “I look for whether the ideas are challenging, for work that has good quality and has good content,” the curator says. For instance, one of the show’s more direct narratives comes from artist Kate Katomski, whose family has roots in Rutland’s marble industry and who created a series of multimedia works while in residence at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center. She used marble dust, maps, and her own sketches and photography to capture aspects of those quarries; the results are displayed at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. A few of the other diverse works at that site include an installation of leaves and ceramic objects by Leslie Fry, color-saturated abstract photography by Douglas Biklen and a life-size metal elephant sculpture by Eben Markowski located just outside the entrance to the barn. Downtown, the BCA Center offers various works, such as as recycled bike-tire sculptures by Olivia Kaufman-Rovira and political prints by 83-year-old Northeast Kingdom book artist Claire Van Vliet. Though most of the 40-plus artists
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because it just keeps going,” Hellerman says. The multidisciplinary approach surfaced early in the planning stages, he adds, but couldn’t be realized in 2013, when the show was planned in six months and included 60 artists in seven locations. “The first year was really about getting our feet wet, laying the groundwork you need to connect to a statewide community,” Hellerman says. This year, a smaller roster of artists has made possible the addition of more commissions and artist residencies.
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Why is a Burlington-based contemporary arts organization spearheading a cluster of happenings on land issues? While Hellerman’s vision played a role, so did early partnerships with Shelburne Farms and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing. The former has a mission of sustainable agriculture and community education; the latter encouraged “Of Land & Local” to develop a statewide reach. “This is a story we love to tell,” says Megan Smith, the state commissioner of tourism and marketing. “When we signed on, [the project] was just an empty piece of paper. So we just started thinking about places where we could
put artists and exhibits. We travel around the state all the time.” “We wanted to move people around the state,” agrees Hellerman. “The whole exhibition is modeled on agrotourism. Why can’t we have a cultural tourism in this state? Our goal this year was to set up a couple of locations, reduce the number of artists, increase some events that would push and encourage people to move around” — such as the tours and talks. Some of the art installations, such as Markowski’s life-size elephant or Nancy Winship Milliken’s ethereal installation of 11-to-40-foot-tall sail sculptures (made from the wool of Shelburne Farms sheep), are probably photo-worthy enough to draw tourists in their own right. Though “local” is the exhibit’s focus, the organizers are also keeping an eye outside state lines. BCA intends to invite more artists like Natal in for residencies, and Smith hopes that “Of Land & Local” will appeal to national and international visitors. “We’re already starting to build the reputation of the exhibition outside of Vermont,” Hellerman says. He adds that the third year of “Of Land & Local,” which is already in the works, will feature fewer artists but a greater number of residencies, with the aim of encouraging “more work in Vermont, in response to Vermont.” Why the emphasis on new work when so many Vermont artists already create work responding to the land? “We like having artwork that’s either site-specific or made in response to being here,” Hellerman says. “It’s meant to deal with the world we live in. That changes. So the art should be changing, too … and [this exhibit] just gives us the opportunity to come back again, and come back again, and come back again.” m
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in this year’s show consider themselves Vermonters, some out-of-staters created new work in response to Vermont. Chicago-based artist Judy Natal, for instance, completed a series of fine-art portraits during a monthlong residency at Shelburne Farms. She photographed staff members partially submerged in Lake Champlain and holding animals and lake debris found on the estate. The departure from the show’s original concept doesn’t surprise BCA executive director Doreen Kraft, who hired Hellerman in 2012. (BCA is both a department of the City of Burlington and a nonprofit entity.) “Putting the frame just around food just felt too narrow to [Hellerman], I think, and he moved that frame in such a way that we [at BCA] all moved with him,” Kraft says. “It was this evolution of his thinking, this response to land and Where’s genesis? And Where’s the creation of culture? Where does creativity come from? We all got involved in this conversation with him. “His practice,” Kraft adds, “is very much seeing things from a global perspective, then bringing it down to a local level.” For Hellerman, creating a show about land issues gets to the heart of what makes people care about food in the first place. “Food is manifested from the land, and land is what we fight about,” he says. “When people get passionate about wind turbines, it’s really being passionate about the land and the aesthetics of the landscape. I like that we fight about that. I like that Vermont fights about billboards. I like that people are interested in aesthetics when it comes to land and landscape.” Visual art, of course, is only one prism through which to view land issues. So, this year, the exhibit has expanded beyond gallery walls to include an array of multidisciplinary events and talks. They include farm-to-table dinners at Shelburne Farms, tours of David Stromeyer’s Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls and a Forest Festival Weekend at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller. The show’s website features a full event schedule and is updated frequently; Hellerman calls it a “live catalog.” “‘Of Land & Local’ started as a concept, became an exhibition and it’s now something that we’re calling a ‘project,’
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and the winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, keeps its characters in bathrobes or fairy-tale costumes or shirtless for most of its playing time. Despite the title’s reference to Anton Chekhov, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike relies on costumes to tell much of the story, and playwright Christopher Durang uses Chekhov as nothing more than a trampoline to send some cartoonish characters flying high. Vermont Stage Company’s production elicits hearty laughs, and director Cristina Alicea succeeds at adding depth and warmth to Durang’s silly story. Vanya and his sister Sonia, now in their fifties, have never left home. They took care of their now-dead parents, and whatever maturity they needed to be caregivers hasn’t sufficed to propel them out into the world. Other than bantering with Cassandra, a cleaning lady constantly spouting dire warnings of future calamities, not much lies ahead for them and painfully little lies behind. Their sister Masha, by contrast, has built a low-grade movie career. She starred in a trashy action series but has been trending lower ever since, and it’s her money that supports the family. When she arrives for a visit, she brings along a doltish boyfriend a generation younger. Spike knows his best feature is his physique and finds any excuse to show it off. That’s plenty of fun for Masha until Spike locks eyes on Nina, a young girl next door. The three siblings were named for Chekhov characters by their theater-loving parents, and their lives of simple disappointment parallel events in the Russian dramatist’s complex, tragicomic works. The play may beg the viewer to spot the similarities, but the comparison neither enhances Durang’s work nor illuminates Chekhov’s. It’s best to suspend the hunt while watching the play. In the same way that Durang renders Chekhov’s situations silly by pasting them into a modern context, the reviewer is tempted to use the contrast between Durang and Chekhov to pin the play to the mat — take that! But neither of these are fair fights. Instead, consider Durang’s style on its own terms. He builds a base of “Seinfeld”-esque normalcy, mines those attitudinal jokes for a while, then injects the play with a spurt of surrealism nobody sees coming. With hyperbolic outbursts like Cassandra’s voodoo vamping and Spike’s athletic showboating, Durang keeps the audience on its toes. In this production, Lili Gamache’s Sonia supplies the humor’s human touch. Gamache explores what it means for Sonia not to have fully grown up, making her giddy and impulsive, and weaving vulnerability through her immaturity. When someone mentions the possibility of doughnuts, her eyes light up. And when it looks like she might find love,
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she summons hidden reserves of courage to pursue it. Gamache is a fine comic, but she’s even better at building a character we can care about. One moment she’s tugging the corner of her sweater with a childish fidget; the next, she’s gliding through the room with imperial posture, her tiara and sequins serving as an exclamation point. Gamache reveals Sonia’s real heart, giving us permission to laugh at her and to hope for her. Kraig Swartz makes Vanya the calm presence in the eye of the storm. Swartz keeps Vanya’s placid suffering at a low boil, and demonstrates the warm, unquestioning sibling bond he shares with Sonia by remaining charmingly unsurprised by all she says and does. His comic rhythms drain the last drop out of Durang’s bon
mots, and he’s a master of the quiet “Why me?” reaction. As Masha, Ellen McQueeney surfs grandly on the role’s big wave of narcissism. Durang underwrote this part, and McQueeney plays it with eyebrows arched, as if she’s in on the joke instead of suffering as Masha descends from leading lady to low-paying grandmother roles. Masha never feels the pain of overweening pride confronting diminishing applause, but McQueeney still lands the laugh lines. To Spike, a role that requires a good body, Andrew Butterfield brings a great one, adding scene-stealing physical prowess to produce a few surprises only live theater can offer. Spike’s depth goes no further than his prime pecs, and Butterfield gives him the carefree
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owntown Groton has two churches, a post office and some town offices. There’s also an al fresco junk shop in someone’s front yard and a gazebo tucked into a tiny town green, now corn-stalked, pumpkined and mummed into the very visage of fall. Years ago, the main drag also had a general store — one of the darkest, dingiest, dankest ones in all of Christendom — but now it’s gone. In its place stands a meadery. On an easel chalkboard out front, the words “Wine tasting” beckon, with an arrow pointing toward the door. Inside, married mead makers Mark Simakaski and Nichole Wolfgang mix Vermont honey with water and yeast, fermenting and aging it into something akin to wine. Their wine — sold under the name Artesano — tastes like honey, if that honey were evaporated, robbed of its syrupy sweetness and condensed back into a light, alcoholic liquid. It’s a modern version of an ancient beverage, said to be the oldest fermented drink in human history. Some may recall mead from literature. In his namesake epic, the hero Beowulf delivered meadsoaked Danes from the monster Grendel, and Chaucer references the old honey-cup in his Canterbury Tales. The drink fell from favor in the past millennium. Its brewing tradition lost centuries ago, mead is a beverage without a contemporary narrative; until recently, it was an oddity reserved for new-agey home brewers and wenches at renaissance faires. But in recent years, the honey wine has begun to creep its way out of antiquity. Though counts vary, sources suggest there are more than 220 meaderies in the U.S. — three times as many as 15 years ago. The industry seems to be piggybacking on the demand for handcrafted booze led by the craft-beer movement. For adventurous drinkers with a penny to spend, the world’s oldest boozy beverage holds much to be savored.
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stuff going on here,” Gagner says. “Once people realize this is a cool place to be, they’ll bring their friends back. The pub was really designed to be a draw for downtown.” Gagner plans to keep the downtown pub’s menu ultrasimple: meats and cheeses, soups and sandwiches. “We understand that a lot of our success is due to St. Albans restaurants buying our beer and selling it to their customers,” he says, “So if we were to show up and build a big
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Restoration of the space once known as Waterworks Restaurant in Winooski’s Champlain Mill began early this year, and diners can expect the new restaurant to open in late November. Following precedent, it will be known as wAtErworkS fooD & DriNk. Waterworks owner DAViD ABDoo also co-owns pizzEriA VErità; his co-owner at the latter, lESliE wEllS, is helping him with managerial tasks at the new restaurant. Wells says Waterworks will serve a diverse, contemporary American menu inspired by the workers of many ethnic groups who once toiled at the mill. The on-site Heritage Winooski Mill Museum traces the contributions of Italian, Middle Eastern, French Canadian, Irish and Polish immigrants, all of whose cuisines may influence the bill of fare. “We’ve come full circle in the cuisine that we’ll have,” says Wells of the building’s history.
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output from the current 750 barrels per year to about 12,000 barrels at capacity. While the new facility’s focus will be squarely on beer production, it will also house a minimalist brewpub to open later this fall. “The real design behind the pub was to serve as an R&D ground for new beers,” says brewery founder StEVE GAGNEr. The brewery’s original, much smaller brewing system will move to the new place, where Gagner plans to use it to pilot new beers, which will be road-tested on brewery visitors. Ever embracing of the community spirit, Gagner says he expects the new brewery — located at the top of Main Street, blocks from the town center — to bring visitors to newly revitalized downtown St. Albans. The town is now home to a coffee shop, an indoor farmers market, several restaurants and a boutique. “There’s a lot of cool
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Founded in 2008, Artesano was the first of Vermont’s two meaderies to open. Its products are night-and-day different from those produced by Colchester’s Groennfell Meadery, but the brewers at both companies agree that theirs is a drink woefully misunderstood. “We’re the odd man out,” Groennfell’s head mead maker, Ricky Klein, tells Seven Days. Klein’s wife, Kelly, is the company CEO, and both recount struggles with permitting. Their mead mimics beer — carbonated, with single-digit alcohol content — but the government controls it more like wine, they say, complicating everything from recipe writing to packaging and distribution. Then there are the marketing troubles. “Everything we do here is absolutely dry to the bone,” Ricky says, pouring a sample at the tasting counter. “There’s a chemical in honey that makes your brain think, Sweet, but it’s not,” he says of mead. Groennfell’s four flagship meads vary in flavor, but their base note is an effervescent, featherweight musk that scampers over the tongue — neither bashful nor bold, and tinged with yeast. It’s warm and soft, a liquid with the body of a lager, and sweet by association only. “The sweet thing is a real problem for us,” Ricky says. “It reinforces false expectations. I don’t mind bee references, but I’m not a beekeeper.” In Groton, Artesano mead maker Mark Simakaski — who, incidentally, is a beekeeper but sources his production honey from farms in Westfield and New Haven — says he keeps a similarly secco agenda. “I go for light, crisp, dry [in my meads],” he says. “Because everyone thinks it’s going to be heavy, thick, sweet.” Artesano’s meads are higher in alcohol content than Groennfell’s and made in classic wine styles. They age for a year or more in stainless steel or wood barrels and take about a month to ferment. During a tasting, Simakaski’s Essence Dry Mead carries a snappy minerality; the mead maker says he models it on white
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table wine. A bubbly cranberry mead reads like sparkling rosé. A test batch of fortified mead is poured from a glass jug behind closed doors, with oak cubes floating on top and sediment swirling off the bottom. It has heavy oak on the nose, caramel and vanilla in the quaff, and a deep, fruity finish — all the hallmarks of a fine dessert wine. The port-style mead will enter production this fall and be ready for Christmas 2015 drinking. But the wine-style production and branding — Artesano is listed on the Vermont Winery Passport, which takes drinkers to vineyards and wineries around the state — brings its own challenges. Simakaski says he spends lots of time educating the consumer. “People walk up to me at market, like, ‘Gimme your best red,’” he says of giving someone a first taste of mead. “You see the gears turn; they’re like, What am I tasting? That’s the flavor of mead. That’s what it tastes like … It’s nice if your palate does a little work to figure it out.” He describes most of his customers as “people without preconceived notions about what mead is”; open-minded drinkers who can absorb the drink’s flavor without superimposing their own (usually sweet) ideas about the taste of honey, or images of sword-swinging Norsemen. Artesano meads are not the cup of yore, which Simakaski says was likely made from honey and rainwater, served mid-fermentation when the alcohol levels were fairly low and the drink was still sweet. “When you hear about people drinking and drinking and drinking in the mead hall, it was that early fermentation,” Simakaski says. “More beer-like.” That early mead was probably closer to what the Kleins make at Groennfell, though theirs undergoes a full fermentation, down to the last drop of sugar. They market it as “craft mead,” rather than “honey wine.” “Our product isn’t really like wine at all,” Ricky says. “So to call it ‘honey wine’ would be really misleading.” Groennfell’s goal is to make a drinkable, affordable beverage that people can consume like a beer. “The only way we
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kitchen, too, where he’s willing to make significant tweaks to his seasonal menu. The biggest tweak came little by little at the Common Man. Though Longworth gained many fans with the modernist, New York-influenced cuisine he initially prepared, he realized he was leaving many longtime fans of the 42-year-old restaurant out in the cold. “When I was younger, I did some really cool food, but I don’t know if it was the tastiest food,” he admits. “Now I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore. I’m trying to serve wholesome, delicious food that’s cooked right.” The biggest hits of the new regime have been Longworth’s multiple takes on the meatball, the happy results of trimmings from his center-cut, locally sourced meat dishes. The Common Man’s menu still attracts adventurous eaters with intense crudos and complex soups. But the meatball choices, ranging
Training: Culinary Institute of America, followed by work in London. “I flew over there and got destroyed. It’s a different type of world — angry English dudes, asshole French dudes, rugged Germans. I was the only American. I definitely got a thick skin.” Select experience: Worked his way up from line cook to chef de cuisine at Manhattan’s Gotham Bar and Grill (2003 to 2010) What’s on the menu? Neill Farm pork meatballs in spicy tomato sauce with pancetta, bacon and guanciale; cauliflower cannelloni with braised lamb shank; roast chicken in a sauce of cider vinegar, maple syrup and a hint of chipotle
from spicy lamb merguez to bacon to classic beef, have become so big a draw that Longworth is working to package them for retail sale. Recently, Longworth scaled back the restaurant’s hours to dinner service Thursday through Saturday, leaving him and his crew time to prepare the COOKING UPHILL
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is unique, available only until it runs out. The contents can’t be replicated, since what happens in the firkin stays in the firkin. “[One aspect] of craft beer is the artisan part,” Streets says, “and the conditioned beers are just another end of that. It’s part of the art form; it adds something different.” For production brewers who make the same beer day in and day out, Streets adds, conditioning is a fun, appreciated break in the routine. “You’re going to get flavor profiles that you’re not going to get in regular beers.”
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Cooking Uphill « p.50 meatballs once the kitchen is approved. The chef also plans to cook pop-up dinners outside Warren, perhaps in collaboration with friends such as Hen of the Wood’s Eric Warnstedt. After a long pedal uphill, Longworth is finally coasting back home in Vermont. We grilled him to learn the details. SEVEN DAYS: When you were growing up, were there any foods you couldn’t stand? ADAM LONGWORTH: I hated tomatoes. Every kid will eat ketchup and tomato sauce. But raw tomatoes I hated. My mom was always trying to get me to like them, but I just couldn’t do it. I think it had something to do with the tomatoes she bought at the Grand Union. I remember going to culinary school and trying heirloom tomatoes and saying, “Oh, this is good!” A good lesson when you’re cooking: If it’s not fresh, why even use it?
mom and dad, “I’m going to cooking school,” because it was the only thing I understood. Even at the CIA, I didn’t love it. I didn’t love going to school. Oddly enough, it was in London that I fell in love with it. It wasn’t so much the cooking as the hard-core “I don’t give a shit” attitude. I was like, Oh, my God, it’s acceptable to act like this! That’s what hooked me. SD: Name three foods that make life worth living. AL: Fresh eggs. Ground beef. Good bread. Most of my dinners happen to be good, grilled bread with sunny-side-up eggs on it. There’s something about ground meat. I used to be a big steak guy, but I don’t eat as much steak now. I like to use ground beef as a base. It can take on so many flavors.
SD: What was the last meal you ate? AL: An epic grilled cheese that Lorien made me. We use the Red Hen [Baking Company] Waitsfield Common bread. It’s got the perfect size holes. She puts SD: Your dad was once a chef but is now known to Burlington-montpelier a nice Vermont cheddar and really super, super thinly sliced white onions commuters as “Buddy the Bus with yellow mustard. It Driver.” [Buddy tastes like you’re eating Longworth drives the a cheeseburger. When chittenden county tomatoes are around, transportation she puts a couple slices Authority’s LINK in, too. Express.] How did that The other thing that happen? makes a grilled cheese AL: He was a chef, and pretty epic that I use a he noticed that he had a lot for myself — I call little bump on his neck A D A m L o N g Wo r t H it “muracha.” It’s equal one morning when he parts yellow mustard was shaving. Found and Sriracha mixed toout he had cancer in gether. That’s my favorite. his lymph nodes. He made it through,
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but what happened in the treatment process was he lost his taste buds and ability to produce saliva, which pretty much put an end to his cooking career. Seven years later, he thinks he has about 80 percent of his taste buds. I don’t know how true that is with some of his cooking. But that’s when he started driving the bus.
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SEVEN DAYS: Were you always a foodie? AL: I cared about just being outside and sports my whole [time] growing up. Oftentimes I’d have to go help my dad in the kitchen, and I had zero interest in it, even when I was graduating high school. I didn’t do the best job applying to colleges — I wasn’t even sure I wanted to go. But all of a sudden all my friends were in college, and I was stuck in Northfield. I was not happy. I told my
SD: When you cooked in New York, what Vermont food did you miss? AL: I’m not a junk-food guy, but one of the things I missed most was going to Cold Hollow Cider Mill and getting cider doughnuts with warm cider. I would usually just make a trip home and do that. SD: You’re trying to impress someone with your culinary prowess. What do you make? AL: I would probably course it out and begin the progression with a raw dish. Assuming they’re not vegetarian, I’d do some sort of sashimi. I’m a big sea urchin guy — there would probably be some sort of sea urchin or uni component in that sashimi. Then I’d throw some form
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SD: Do you have any hobbies? AL: I love to collect cookbooks. I really keep an eye on them. I don’t really let people touch them too much, and I’ll notice if one is out of place. The Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook was the first I ever owned. I bought it in the CIA bookstore. I collect autographed cookbooks, but it took me until right before I was leaving New York to move up here to ask Alfred [Portale, author and Gotham’s executive chef ] to sign it. He was like, “You need to give me a couple of days; I want to bring it home.” I told him absolutely no way. “This is the first book I ever bought; there’s no way that you’re bringing this thing anywhere. Figure out something to write and sign it, and I want it back immediately!”
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SD: What’s the worst dish you ever created? AL: Wow, I have a lot of them. I was trying to do this baked-potato tortellini. I got so wound up in the process of trying to make potato stock for the sauce and trying to keep a lot of trashy,
loaded baked-potato ingredients and using horrible cheese and a lot of sour cream. When I was younger, I thought it was cool. Unfortunately, it’s in a cookbook [photographer Alan Batt’s Pasta]. If I happen to flip through that book, I’m devastated. But after that, [Batt] did a salad cookbook [for which] I did an artichoke salad and redeemed myself.
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of octopus at them. Then, for the last course, I think that I would still have to stick with seafood and do some sort of crispy black bass. I didn’t get a lot of seafood growing up, and when I was introduced to high-quality seafood, it really did a number on me. Ethan Wood from Wood Mountain Fish has really been my saving grace. If we didn’t get the seafood that we get from him, I don’t know if I’d still be part of the Common Man. It’s such a big part of my cooking. He’s our savior for sure.
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Spirit Circles Workshop: Artist Lynne Reed leads participants in the practice of ensÕ, a meditative circle created with one fluid brushstroke. Greenhouse Building, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $8. Info, lynne@lynnereed.com.
business Kelley Marketing Meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.
community Community Dialogue Night: Locals share a meal and discuss ways to create a safe and drug-free Winooski. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister for childcare. Info, 655-4565.
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New Economy Week: 'The Story of Stuff': A screening of the thought-provoking sustainability film inspires a dialogue among viewers. Room 103, Aiken Center, UVM, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, eric.zencey@uvm.edu. 'Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch': Filmmaker Angela Sun presents her award-winning documentary about the wasteland of disposable products polluting the Pacific Ocean. A Q&A follows. Ackley Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m.-midnight. Free. Info, 287-8926. 'We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream': Employee-owned, New Belgium Brewing, Namasté Solar and DPR Construction serve as alternatives to traditional business models in this award-winning documentary. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, reception, 7 p.m.; film, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 338-7448.
food & drink Coffee Tasting: Folks sip Counter Culture Coffee varieties, then make side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com.
'Who Owns Vermont?' Forum: Author Marjorie Kelly keynotes an exploration of emerging alternative ownership models in business, land, energy and finance. Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, 8:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, shelley@cleanyield.com.
Newport Farmers Market: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area growers and producers. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.
Waltz & Fox Trot: Twinkle-toed participants get familiar with the basics of ballroom dancing. Colchester Parks & Recreation Department, 6-7 p.m. $12.50; $23 per couple. Info, 264-5642. Wedding & Party Dances: Students learn all the right moves in a weekly session for ages 14 and up. Colchester Parks & Recreation Department, 7-8 p.m. $12.50; $23 per couple. Info, 264-5642.
etc. New Economy Week: Films, forums, presentations and other community-driven events address ways to create a more local, equitable and value-driven economy. See donellameadows. org for details. Various locations statewide, 8:45 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 659-7250. Valley Night Featuring Chicky Chuck & Brendon: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.
All Jazzed Up New Orleans meets the Northeast Kingdom when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the stage with legendary pianist Allen Toussaint. Heralded as the “best jazz band in the land” by the San Francisco Examiner, this eight-member ensemble is steeped in the traditions of the Big Easy. That said, the horn-driven harmonies travel beyond the boundaries of the bayou, steering a rock-solid repertoire into uncharted musical waters. With a packed tour schedule that takes them from Coachella to Carnegie Hall, the group mixes new inspiration and classic influences into what is clearly a winning formula.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Tuesday, October 21, 7 p.m., at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy. $15-64. Info, 3574616. kingdomcounty.org
Wednesday Wine Down: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump by pairing four varietals with samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and other local food producers. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink.com. Wine Tasting: Italian Reds From Piedmont: Vino lovers evaluate varietals from Italy's famed winemaking region. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-5811.
games Bridge Club: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700.
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health & fitness Kundalini Yoga: An in-depth practice fosters physical, mental and emotional balance and supports alignment with the cycles of nature. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. $12. Info, 540-0406. WED.15
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Fantastic Four When a musical group takes its name from Ralph Waldo Emerson, it had better be able to live up to the poet and philosopher’s legacy. Such is the case with the Emerson String Quartet. A leading force in chamber music for nearly 40 years, the esteemed foursome returns to Dartmouth College with new cellist Paul Watkins. An accomplished performer and conductor, he replaces founding member David Finckel, bringing what the New York Times calls a “fresh, palpable vigor” to the ensemble. This onstage chemistry comes alive in a concert of works by Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Emerson String Quartet Tuesday, October 21, 7 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $10-50. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu
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Montréal-Style acro yoga: Partner and group work helps participants access the therapeutic benefits of modified acrobatics. Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 324-1737. Public Flu clinic: Registered nurses administer immunizations to those looking to avoid the ailment. Enosburgh Falls Ambulance Service, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 527-7531. r.i.P.P.e.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. yoga For VeteranS: Suzanne Boyd draws on specialized training when leading a practice aimed at reducing stress, anxiety and depression. The Innovation Center of Vermont, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-8887.
kids all in the FaMily FilM SerieS: Themed flicks provide age-appropriate entertainment for movie lovers. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. highgate Story hour: Budding bookworms share read-aloud tales, wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. KingDoM all StarS: The Northeast Kingdom's top musical and vocal talents in grades 5 through 9 perform a string of soundtrack hits in "Music From the Movies." Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. $4. Info, 535-8674. lego club: Kiddos ages 6 and up snap snazzy structures together. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.
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Story tiMe & PlaygrouP: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Story tiMe For babieS & toDDlerS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. SuMo botS: roboticS club: Students ages 6 through 9 build and program robots for battle in the ring. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.
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WorlD MuSic choir: John Harrison leads vocalists in musical stylings from around the globe. See summit-school.org for details. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $10-15; preregister; limited space. Info, 917-1186.
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music belcea String Quartet: The renowned foursome brings equal parts elegance and energy to works by Mozart, Brahms and Schubert. Greg Vitercik offers a pre-performance lecture at 6:45 p.m. in Room 125. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-3168. Dorian Michael: More than 40 years of performing inform fingerstyle guitar tunes that meld blues, jazz, folk and rock. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. turtle iSlanD Quartet: The Grammy Award winners push the limits of classical music with innovative arrangements in "Birth of the Cool." Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119.
StePhen Kiernan: In "Knowledge is Power," the best-selling author and award-winning journalist examines the current state of end-of-life care in Vermont. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 860-4435. toWn braintaP: FreD Wilber: The longtime musician and founder of Buch Spieler Music discusses music's sociocultural reach. An improvisational recording session follows. Twinfield Union School, Plainfield, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister at townbraintap.net. Info, 454-1298.
theater 'a chriStMaS Story' auDitionS: Thespians try out for a December production of the classic story about a boy growing up in the 1940s whose holiday hopes repeatedly fall short. Enosburg Opera House, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 933-6171. 'into the WooDS': Classic Grimm characters get entangled in the darker side of fairy tales in Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical, presented by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $20-55. Info, 296-7000. the Met: liVe in hD SerieS: Anna Netrebko stars opposite Željko Lucic in a broadcast production of Verdi's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300. 'Vanya anD Sonia anD MaSha anD SPiKe': Vermont Stage Company explores the hilarious interplay between three middle-aged siblings in Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning adaptation of Chekhovian themes. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50. Info, 863-5966.
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PreSchool MuSic With DereK: Kiddos ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the afternoon away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
interMeDiate/aDVanceD engliSh aS a SeconD language claSS: Students improve grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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interMeDiate SPaniSh leSSonS: Adults refine their grammar while exploring different topics with classmates and native speakers. Private residence, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
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gerMan-engliSh conVerSation grouP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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MoVing & grooVing With chriStine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and worldbeat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
engliSh aS a SeconD language claSS: Beginners work to better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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seminars Financial WorKShoP: PreParing For the unexPecteD: Financial adviser Roberto Abele shares his expertise with those looking to better secure personal funds. Room 101, Montpelier High School, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1617.
sports coeD Floor hocKey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. Collins-Perley Sports Complex, St. Albans, 7-9 p.m. $6; equipment provided. Info, safloorhockey@gmail.com.
talks enVironMental & health ScienceS SPeaKer SerieS: Michael Smith of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation presents "Fate and Transport of Contamination in the Subsurface." Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327. oSher liFelong learning lecture: WilDliFe cSi: Science writer and wildlife-crime consultant Laurel Neme provides an eye-opening glimpse into the world of illegal wildlife trade. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1:30-3 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 454-1234. robert WittMan & robert golDMan: The founder of the FBI's art crime team and his legal adviser tell captivating tales in "U.S. versus Art Thieves: True Stories of the FBI's Real Indiana Jones." Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
archer Mayor: Detective Joe Gunther faces new challenges in Proof Positive, the latest novel in the local author's bestselling Vermont-based mystery series. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 448-3350.
literature into FilM: Lovers of the arts analyze George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the inspiration for the 1964 film My Fair Lady. Kimball Public Library, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 782-5073. lynn Martin & tiM Mayo: As part of the Readings in the Gallery Series, the poets pair up and share stanzas from selected works. A reception and book signing follow. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 748-8291. SaM Drazin: The educator and founder of Changing Perspectives explores themes of disability awareness in R.J. Palacio's Wonder. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. StePhen craMer: The Burlington bard excerpts From the Hip: A Concise History of Hip Hop (in sonnets). Dion Family Student Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2392. SuSan PalMer: Positive personal change translates to the page in Seasons of Leadership: A Self-Coaching Guide. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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'Planet For Sale: the neW WorlD agricultural orDer': To commemorate World Food Day, Vermont Oxfam Action Corps hosts a screening of Alexis Marant's 2011 documentary about high-profile investors and bankers who are purchasing farmland around the world. Vermont Goat Collaborative, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, oxfamactioncorps.vermont@gmail.com.
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art Drink & Draw: Artists loosen up with libations and drawing exercises, then sketch a live model or an autumn-themed still life. Personal materials required. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $8-15. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com.
business Franklin County Chamber oF CommerCe mixer: Area professionals nosh on catered eats while mingling with special guests from the Samaritan House and Shelter Analytics. Re/Max Destinations, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444, info@fcrccvt.com. integrating mission into ownership: new approaChes to business ownership, Control anD FinanCe: An interactive discussion on socially responsible businesses features Securities Deputy Commissioner Michael Pieciak, author Marjorie Kelly and Will Raap of Gardener's Supply. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-8347, scottb@vbsr.org. projeCt management institute: Champlain Valley Chapter meeting: Speaker Joe Kelly shares his expertise in "Managing Teams for Innovation and Success." Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $30-40; preregister. Info, 735-5359.
community soCial hour at the generator: Like-minded locals network with Generator staff and learn about opportunities at the maker space. Local libations and good eats from Taco Gordo round out the evening. Generator, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; cash bar. Info, outreach@ generatorvt.com.
conferences renewable energy ConFerenCe & expo: Leaders in clean power, heat, transportation and efficiency sectors share their knowledge in workshops, presentations and exhibits. See revconference.org for details. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. $40-260; free for exhibit hall only. Info, 865-5202.
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film 'last Call': Enrico Cerasuolo's documentary examines the impact of the 1972 Limits to Growth study by MIT scientists, who detailed the relationship between population growth and finite resources. A discussion follows. 110 Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 7 p.m. Free. Info, chris@balevt.org. 'to the moon': Eighteen college students bicycle from California to Massachusetts to spread awareness about cooperative business models in Emma Thatcher's documentary. Maglianero Café, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3155.
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tea & Formal garDens tour: Explorations of the inn and its cottage-style gardens give way to a cup-and-saucer affair complete with sweets and savories. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:304:30 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442.
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Beginning pianO leSSOn: Guided by Kim Hewitt, students of all ages try their hand at the black and white keys. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon, 3:30-5 p.m. $15; preregister for 30-minute time slot. Info, 989-1694. cricKet Blue ep releaSe ShOW: The folk duo debuts new tunes. Eric George opens. Jenke Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, cricketbluemusic@gmail.com.
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daVe rOVicS: Acoustic guitar stylings pair with politically charged lyrics in an intimate show as part of the singer-songwriter's Songs of Social Significance tour. Plainfield Community Center, potluck, 6 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-15; bring a dish to share. Info, 254-1333. neW ecOnOMy Sing-alOng: Community members lift their voices in songs about peace, justice and sustainability. Bagitos Bagel & Burrito Café, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9212.
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pOWerful tOOlS fOr caregiVerS: Wendy Bombard and Carrie Shamel of the Visiting Nurse Association cover self-care topics relevant to those responsible for the medical needs of family members. Fletcher Allen Health Care, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. $30 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 658-1900, ext. 3903.
thOMaS Keidel: The CEO of the German Public Banking Association explains the financial model. Atrium, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 649-7250. uVM hiSpanic fOruM: "The Hispanic City and the Global Imagination" inspires a two-day exploration of literature, culture and more, featuring esteemed guest speakers. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3196.
theater 'the 39 StepS': An onstage plane crash, missing fingers and romance propel this Tony Award-winning adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film, presented by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. 'intO the WOOdS': See WED.15, 2 & 7:30 p.m. the Met: liVe in hd SerieS: See WED.15, 1 p.m. 'OctOBer': A young woman dreams of a life beyond the confines of her parents' Vermont orchard in the premiere of Tom Blachy's new play. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 426-3955. Open Mic night: Performers take the stage with 10 minutes or less of original music, poetry, comedy and more. Minors require an adult companion. Vergennes Opera House, registration, 6:30 p.m.; open mic, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 877-6737. 'Saucy JacK & the Space VixenS': Cabaret artists fall prey to a slingback shoe in an interactive glam-rock murder mystery that keeps audience members guessing. Twiggs — An American Gastropub, Saint Albans, 8 p.m. $19; $35 dinner package. Info, info@fctcvt.org. 'Vanya and SOnia and MaSha and SpiKe': See WED.15.
words Ben heWitt: The local author kicks off the Norwich University Writers Series with Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting Off the Beaten Path, Unschooling and Reconnecting With the Natural World. Multipurpose Room, Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University, Northfield, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886. BOOK launch party: Lit lovers celebrate the release of Tamra J. Higgins' Nothing Saved Us: Poems of the Korean War and Mary Jane Dickerson's Water Journeys in Art and Poetry, featuring artist Dianne Shullenberger. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 598-0340. rOWan JacOBSen: Vermont's signature fruit takes center stage in Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics and Little-Known Wonders by the James Beard Award-winning author. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2200.
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bazaars ruMMage Sale: Deal seekers finds new homes for gently used items. Richmond Congregational Church, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2053.
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'shoWsToPPeRs!' a ToWn hall TheaTeR gala: Tourterelle serves up gourmet eats alongside live entertainment at this benefit for the theater emceed by Doug Anderson. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $100; preregister.
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Feed My sTaRving childRen MobilePack: Volunteers assemble food donations to be delivered to Congolese and South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. See withlovefromvermont. com for details. Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Essex Jct. & Mt. Abraham Union Middle/ High School, Bristol, 1-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-5811. WoMen's ciRcle: Those who identify as women gather for readings, discussion and activities. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 302.
conferences ReneWable eneRgy conFeRence & exPo: See THU.16.
crafts Maggie's adulT FibeR FRiday: Veteran knitter Maggie Loftus facilitates an informal gathering of crafters. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6curly2@gmail.com.
dance ballRooM & laTin dancing: Quick sTeP: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.
english counTRy dance: Sarah BabbittSpaeth and friends provide live music for newcomers and experienced movers alike. All dances are called and taught. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, introductory workshop, 7-7:30 p.m.; dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $810; bring a snack to share. Info, 899-2378.
etc. aMeRican Red cRoss blood dRive: See THU.16, noon-6 p.m. neW econoMy Week: See WED.15, noon & 7 p.m.
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belloWs Falls FaRMeRs MaRkeT: A freshfood marketplace serves up produce, meats, crafts and more. Bellows Falls Amtrak Station, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. Five coRneRs FaRMeRs MaRkeT: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249.
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FoodWays FRidays: Foodies use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. heiRlooM aPPle dinneR: Chef Sarah Langan and James Beard Award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen host a three-course meal featuring fall's famous fruit and Eden Ice Cider. South End Kitchen at Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, 6 p.m. $65-80; preregister. Info, 864-0505. PlanTing hoPe dinneR: A meal of Nicaraguan fare gets diners in the spirit for salsa dancing that follows. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. $12-30 suggested donation. Info, 778-0344. RichMond FaRMeRs MaRkeT: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7514. Wing nighT: A smorgasbord of this favorite finger food features flavor variations that please every palate. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 878-0700.
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health & fitness avoid Falls WiTh iMPRoved sTabiliTy: A personal trainer demonstrates daily exercises for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477. laughTeR yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and ... giggle! Participants decrease stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. FRI.17
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Queen ciTy ghosTWalk: daRkness Falls: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. Burlington City Hall Park, meet at the steps 10 minutes before start time. $15; preregister. Info, 863-5966.
'soMe Thing else': Powderwhore Productions' latest film goes steep and deep into the backcountry for an adrenaline-pumping ski adventure. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7-10. Info, events@gearx.com.
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Welsh clogging WoRkshoP: Fiddler Sian Phillips and clogger Ann Whiting pass timetested traditions along to intermediate and advanced dancers. Green Mountain Performing Arts, Waterbury, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $15. Info, woodburystrings@gmail.com.
MaRTial aRTs Movie: Kung fu fighters unite! A classic flick brings fast-paced action to the screen. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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classic FilMs oF The 1950s: Referencing movie clips, cinema buff Rick Winston transports attendees to the golden age of Hollywood. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.
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blues dance: Folks find rhythm at this grooving session open to all levels. No partner necessary, but clean-soled shoes are required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 pm. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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nia With Suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. Shelburne Health & Fitness, 9:45-10:45 a.m. $13. Info, 522-3691. vinyaSa FLoW: Rocking beats and a unique sequence of postures make up this midday class. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. $13. Info, hannasatt@ gmail.com. yoga ConSuLt: Yogis looking to refine their practice get helpful tips. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
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muSiC With derek: Movers and groovers up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. roBin'S neSt nature pLaygroup: Little ones up to age 5 and their caregivers engage in naturalist-led activities through fields and forests. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 229-6206. SongS & StorieS With mattheW: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. 'Stuart LittLe': Rutland Youth Theatre presents E.B. White's endearing tale about a mouse who tries to make it in the human world. Rutland Intermediate School, 7 p.m. $6-8. Info, 558-4177.
'Winnie-the-pooh': A.A. Milne's beloved bear and his pals come to life via puppets and live actors in this Saints & Poets Production Company play. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-5966.
Steve BLair Septet: The accomplished guitarist leads local musicians in jazz-fusion numbers from Ostinato. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. tien hSieh: The prize-winning pianist performs a program of original compositions and transcriptions by Franz Liszt. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966.
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talks giLLian gaLFord: How has climate change impacted Vermont? The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics fellow assesses the situation. Johnson House, UVM, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, eric.zencey@uvm.edu. groWing oLder diSCuSSion group: Andy Potok leads an informal chat aimed at addressing thoughts and fears about aging. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. Jo ann gardner: The author and master gardener taps into the spiritual aspects of working with the land in "The Hebrew Bible Through Plants." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. marion neStLe: The award-winning author sparks attendees' appetites for knowledge in "Food Politics: A View From 2014." See calendar spotlight. Classroom 3, Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 586-7711. uvm hiSpaniC Forum: See THU.16, 10:30 a.m.2:45 p.m.
theater 'Comedy oF errorS': Two sets of identical twins separated at birth wander the same city, creating a colossal case of mistaken identities in this Shakespearean romp, interpreted by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. 'into the WoodS': See WED.15. 'Long day'S Journey into night': Themes of addiction and familial dysfunction thread through Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prizewinning drama, presented by the Parish Players. Eclipse Grange Theater, Thetford, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 785-4344.
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aLpengLoW: Vocal harmonies pair with fiddleand guitar-driven arrangements on indie folk-rock tunes from the group's new EP Chapel. Iron Eyes Cody open. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2834.
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'SauCy JaCk & the SpaCe vixenS': See THU.16. 'vanya and Sonia and maSha and Spike': See WED.15.
FaLL FoLiage Book SaLe: Bookworms thumb through thousands of page turners. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, noon-6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.
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'Wait untiL dark': A blind housewife and her neighbor struggle to hold their own in a cat-and-mouse game with a gang of con men in Frederick Knott's thriller. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $13-15. Info, 748-2600.
the point FaLL harveSt ConCert: SCarS on 45: Lessons from the road inform rock selections on the group's recently released album Safety In Numbers. Ryan Miller opens. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $15-50. Info, 476-8188.
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myra FLynn & pauL BoFFa: An intimate show of originals and covers hits all the right notes as part of the performers' Uncorked: A Vermont Fall Music and Wine Tour. Tasting Room, Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free; cost of beer and wine. Info, 985-8222.
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art garage reaWakenS to art: See FRI.17.
bazaars Community FLea market: A wide array of secondhand goods delights shoppers at this benefit for Elmore SPCA. Durkee St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 518-493-5052. orientaL Carpet Bazaar: Handmade vintage rugs display colors and patterns unique to the Middle East. Shelburne Town Hall, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, info@orientalrugandcarpet.com. redeemed thriFt Shop FLea market & yard SaLe: Deal seekers sift through a treasure trove of items. Redeemed Thrift Shop, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0277. rummage SaLe: Bargain hunters scoop up take-home treasures. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Plattsburgh N.Y., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. rummage SaLe: See FRI.17, 9:30 a.m.-noon.
community another Way artS Jam: A day of arts, crafts, dancing and barbecue eats celebrates the community center dedicated to providing alternatives to conventional mental health services. Another Way, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0920. Charity maSoniC Lodge open houSe: Locals learn about the meeting place of Freemasons. Masonic Hall, Bradford, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4014. Feed my Starving ChiLdren moBiLepaCk: See FRI.17, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
conferences FrankLin County Women'S We Can expo: An exploration of mentorship features seminars, panel discussions and keynoter Madeleine Kunin. See womenwecan.com for details. Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, womenwecan@outlook.com.
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Renewable eneRgy ConfeRenCe & expo: See THU.16. VeRmont fRenCh Canadian genealogiCal SoCiety annual ConfeRenCe: Ancestry lovers learn more about genetics, genealogy, the Filles du Roi and the Battle of Lake Champlain. See vtgenlib.org for details. St. John Vianney Parish Hall, South Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $15-20. Info, 310-9285.
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Champlain Valley Quilt guild Quilt Show: Local artisans elevate sewing to an art form with their displayed handiwork. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. $6; free for kids under 12. Info, 858-9114.
peak to peak feStiVal: Family-friendly activities on the town green set the stage for guided hikes of Mount Tom and Mount Peg featuring trail games and picnic lunches. Woodstock Green, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.
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ailey ii: The country’s top emerging dance talents bring the creative vision of the renowned Alvin Ailey Dance Theater to the stage. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $29.7535.75. Info, 775-0903. aSpen Santa fe ballet: An eclectic repertoire of cutting-edge choreography comes alive with a combination of athleticism and grace. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-50. Info, 863-5966. open Studio: Local dancers take visitors around the world with demonstrations of international dance styles. Green Mountain Performing Arts, Waterbury, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8600. 'ShRoud: taleS of digital maSCulinity': Technology figures prominently in new and repertory works by Middlebury College artist-inresidence Scotty Hardwig. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
education diSCoVeR goddaRd day: Campus tours, faculty meetings and information sessions introduce potential students to the school's low-residency degree programs. Goddard College, Plainfield, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 800-906-8312.
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'the unknown' & 'the unholy thRee': Pianist Jeff Rapsis provides live accompaniment for a silent-film double feature starring legendary actor Lon Chaney. Cold-weather attire recommended, as building is unheated. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 603-236-9237. 'the SelfiSh giant': Two working-class teens suffer tragic consequences after becoming entangled with a local scrap dealer in Clio Barnard's acclaimed coming-of-age drama. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3-4:30 & 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
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himalayan Singing bowlS: Limitless combinations of tones and sound vibrations create a meditative, awe-inspiring aural experience. Infinity Dance Studio, Essex Junction, 5-6:30 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 233-4733.
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aRtobeRfeSt: Talent is aplenty at this autumn fundraiser for Across Roads Center for the Arts featuring eye-catching art exhibits, local brews and live music. See acrossroads.org for details. Waterbury Congregational Church, 4-10 p.m. $10. Info, info.acrossroads@gmail.com.
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indigenouS peopleS moVieS: Films from ethnographer Ned Castle and award-winning filmmaker Matt Day explore basket-making, drumming, language and fellowship. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free with admission, $10.50-13.50. Info, 877-324-6386.
CaRS and Coffee of VeRmont: Auto enthusiasts talk shop over cups of joe while checking out rides ranging from hot rods to vintage motorcycles. South Burlington High School, 7-10 a.m. Free. Info, 229-8666.
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tibet feStiVal: The Tibetan Association of Vermont presents a day of traditional food, crafts, songs and dance. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 777-0242.
bike Jam: Gearheads help low-income Vermonters with repairs, while others craft jewelry out of old bicycle parts or help out around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, dan@bikerecycle.localmotion.org.
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Mount toM FarMers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070. newport FarMers Market: See WED.15. northwest FarMers Market: Foodies stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. norwich FarMers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land offered alongside baked goods, crafts and live entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. pittsFord FarMers Market: Homegrown produce complements maple products and artisan wares at this outdoor affair. Pittsford Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 483-2829. rutland county FarMers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 353-0893. waitsField FarMers Market: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling, open-air market boasting extensive seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.
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border board gaMes: Players of varying experience levels sit down to nontraditional board games, including Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. Derby Line Village Hall, 5 p.m. Free. Info, trashvacuum@hotmail.com.
Milton haunted Forest: Tread with care! Thrills and chills await visitors on a spine-tingling trek through the woods. For ages 12 and up. Bombardier Recreation Park, Milton, 1-4 & 6-11 p.m. $6-10. Info, communications.miltonpack43@ gmail.com.
health & fitness deVelopMent oF a healthy iMMune systeM: Doctor Suzanne Humphries examines how breastfeeding, nutrition, vaccination and other medical choices impact infant immunity. A panel discussion follows. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 626-6007. FaMily health & Fitness day: Tots and their parents celebrate well-being with an afternoon of yoga, massage, face painting, healthy snacks and more. Greater Burlington YMCA, Burlington, noon3 p.m. Free. Info, navigator@cvoeo.org. FundaMentals oF tai chi chuan: Beginners and seasoned practitioners alike explore the style of moving meditation passed down through the Tung family lineage. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9:30-11:45 a.m. $25. Info, 453-3690. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.15, 9-10 a.m. southeast asian Martial arts: Led by Pat Gagnon, students learn self-defense techniques used in the Kali and Krabi-Krabong disciplines. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 2-4 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 870-0361.
terror in the Fields: See FRI.17.
kids break it! Make it! FaMily workshop: Rachel Hooper helps tinkerers ages 8 through 12 and their adult companions transform old toys and household junk into DIY creations. Generator, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $22.50-25; preregister; limited space. Info, info@generatorvt.com. drop-in story tiMe: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. FaMily Jell-o printMaking: Little ones and their parents create one-of-a-kind abstract prints with instructor Dasha Kalisz. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 9 a.m.-noon. $15 per adult/ child pair; $5 per additional family member. Info, 253-8358. Free wheelin': Budding artists ages 6 through 12 work the wheel and transform clay into cups, bowls and more. BCA Center, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $22.50-25 includes one fired and glazed piece; preregister. Info, 865-7166.
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Meet little critter: Kiddos get acquainted with the lovable character from Mercer Mayer's Little Critter children's book series. Crafts, activities and stories round out the day. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Milk to cheese Magic: From farmyard to finished product, dairy lovers delve into the cheese-making process. Shelburne Farms, 11:30 a.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free to members, Shelburne residents and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. printMaking For FaMilies: Guided by Alissa Faber, kids ages 7 through 12 and their parents transfer images onto paper using printing blocks crafted from household materials. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $25-30 per adult/child pair; $10 per additional guest. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. raptors in residence: Fans of feathered fliers stretch their wings and experience the birds of prey firsthand. Shelburne Farms, 1-1:30 p.m. Regular farm admission, $5-8; free to members, Shelburne residents and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686. special olyMpics young athletes prograM: See THU.17, the RehabGYM, Colchester, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-0280. s.s. taylor: The local author presents her latest book The Expeditioners and the Secret of King Triton's Lair. A Q&A and a book signing follow. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.
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Manga club Meeting: Fans of Japanese comics in grades 6 and up bond over their common interest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
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Story ExplorErS: trout ArE MAdE of trEES: Kiddos cast a line into an investigation of the native species' feeding habits. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. 'StuArt littlE': See FRI.17, 2 & 7 p.m.
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SEnAtE CAndidAtES foruM: SiAn phillipS & friEndS: Local F EM Candidates from Chittenden and folk musicians join the Welsh fiddler ILy MU R E T RI O Grand Isle counties rotate among for an evening of traditional tunes from small groups, where they answer rapid-fire Britain and the New World. Ackley Hall, Green questions in a speed-dating-format. Robert Miller Mountain College, Poultney, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 11 223-8945. a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, seaheidi@earthlink.net. VErMont ContEMporAry MuSiC EnSEMBlE: See FRI.17, Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing seminars Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $1225. Info, 849-6900. 3-d printing, dESigning & SCAnning With Blu-Bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches outdoors attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; AutuMn WAgon ridE WEEkEnd: Fall foliage preregister. Info, 345-6030. provides the backdrop for this seasonal celebration, complete with narrated horse-drawn hay lASEr-CuttEr trAining: Tinkerers learn rides and themed programs. Billings Farm & machine safety and maintenance, file formatMuseum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-14; free ting, material usage and operational procedures. for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. Generator, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 540-0761. fAll fArM dAy & opEn BArn: Cider and doughnuts fuel families for wagon rides, barn tours, games and a pumpkin-carving contest. Country Cedars Farm & Stables, Charlotte, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 727-667-4539. y
BooM Vt: Folks with and without disabilities unite through music at a community drumming festival featuring Jeh Kulu, Sambatucada, Burlington Taiko and others. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 655-7772.
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Mount MAnSfiEld hikE: Picturesque views reward hikers after a difficult 10-mile trek. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 355-7181.
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dAyVE huCkEtt: The Middlebury College affiliate artist and special guests celebrate his 50 years as a guitarist. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
sports Burlington firEfightErS SupEr hEro 5k for MdA: Super-hero attire is encouraged at this benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association featuring family-friendly routes and a post-race cookout. Oakledge Park, Burlington, registration, 9 a.m.; race, 10:30 a.m. $25-30. Info, 862-6424.
talks riChArd AllEn: The past comes alive in the narrated slide show "Along the Winooski Turnpike: Historic Tour of Williston Village," presented by the local historian. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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indOOr gArdEning: Master gardener peter Burke teaches locavores how to grow and harvest a steady supply of sprouts and salad greens throughout the winter. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. OpEn BArn pArty: Dairy lovers celebrate the passage of the Raw Milk Delivery Bill with tasty samples, live music and farm tours. Larson Farm, Wells, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-7222.
bazaars Btv flEA: Marketgoers browse an eclectic mix of local artwork and vintage household goods. Wood-fired pizza and Switchback Brewing Company tours round out the afternoon. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, Burlington, noon4 p.m. Free. Info, 488-5766.
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dance 'EAt my Art OUt': Area dancers and choreographers showcase works-in-progress in an informal setting that encourages audience feedback. Green Mountain performing Arts, Waterbury, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 244-8600. iSrAEli fOlk dAncing: All ages and skill levels convene for circle and line dances, which are taught, reviewed and prompted. No partner necessary, but clean, soft-soled shoes are required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $2; free first session. Info, 864-0218, ext. 21.
etc. hiddEn SpAcES, UniQUE plAcES: Architecture buffs tour the park's historic landmarks — including a rarely visited 1960s fallout shelter. Meet at the Carriage Barn Visitor Center. Marsh-BillingsRockefeller National Historical park, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $4-8; free for kids 15 and under; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. QUEEn city ghOStwAlk: lAkEviEw cEmEtEry: paranormal authority Thea Lewis leads a grave adventure through historic headstones. parking available at Burlington High School. Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, 8 p.m. Meet at Louisa Howard Chapel 10 minutes before start time. $15; preregister. Info, 863-5966.
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rOOtS Of injUSticE, SEEdS Of chAngE: An examination of past treatment of indigenous peoples sparks a dialogue about ways to nurture more positive relationships among ethnic groups. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, ruahswennerfelt@gmail.com.
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fAll fOliAgE BOOk SAlE: See FRI.17, 10 a.m.2:30 p.m.
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An EvEning Of StOrytElling: Wordsmiths welcome autumn by spinning tales old and new, or listening to others share. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6203.
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vErmOnt Ski And SnOwBOArd mUSEUm hAll Of fAmE indUctiOnS: Jim Galanes, Mike Holland, Marvin Moriarty, Anabel "Ma" Moriarty and Betsy Shaw are recognized for their success on the slopes. Spruce peak performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 4-7:30 p.m. $65. Info, 253-9911.
film indigEnOUS pEOplES mOviES: See SAt.18. 'OlAfUr EliASSOn: SpAcE iS prOcESS': Shot over five years, Henrik Lundø and Jacob Jørgensen's documentary provides insight into the creative process of the acclaimed DanishIcelandic installation artist. Reading public Library, 2 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 484-5588. 'pygmAliOn': Rick Winston presents the 1938 Academy Award-winning adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's eponymous play. A Q&A and discussion follow. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, reception, 5:15 p.m.; screening, 6 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204.
food & drink pAncAkE BrEAkfASt: Bring on the syrup! Neighbors catch up over stacks of flapjacks and eggs and sausage. Grace Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 & 10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5923.
health & fitness niA with SUzy: See FRI.17, South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.
holidays hAllOwEEn cOStUmE mAking fOr fAmiliES: A witch, a dragon, a ghost or an angel? Youngsters and their parents transform their ideas into eye-catching trick-or-treat threads. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $25 per family; free for members; preregister. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. hAUntEd hOrnS: A BrASS QUintEt hAllOwEEn fAmily cOncErt: Vermont Symphony Orchestra musicians perform a program featuring Anthony plog's Animal Ditties and a costume parade. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 2-3:30 p.m. $6-8; $20 per family up to five members. Info, 443-3168.
kids fUn with ApplES: Kiddos ages 3 and up and their adult companions make sweet and savory recipes that showcase the versatility of fall's favorite fruit. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. rUSSiAn plAy timE with nAtAShA: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. 'ShrEk, thE mUSicAl' AUditiOnS: Aspiring actors in grades K through 12 vie for spots in Rutland Youth Theatre's interpretation of the hilarious adventures of a lovable ogre and his cast of misfits. Rutland Youth Theatre, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 558-4177. SUndAyS fOr flEdglingS: From feathers and flying to art and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.
language dimAnchES frEnch cOnvErSAtiOn: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
montréal 'BEllES SOEUrS: thE mUSicAl': An all-female cast stages the English-language premiere of Michel tremblay's 1968 tragicomedy about a housewife who wins one million trading stamps from a department store. Segal Centre for performing Arts, Montréal, 1:30-4 p.m. $32-64. Info, 514-739-7944.
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Alpenglow: See FRI.17, First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 877-987-6487.
'A christMAs story' Auditions: See WED.15, 1 p.m. 'coMedy oF errors': See FRI.17, 2 p.m.
Arlo guthrie: Raised on a steady diet of storytelling and social justice, Woody Guthrie's son takes the stage in a solo show. Barre opera House, 7 p.m. $2546. Info, 476-8188.
'into the woods': See WED.15, 5 p.m. 'long dAy's Journey into night': See FRI.17, 2 p.m. the Met: live in hd series: See SAT.18, paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.
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the Modern grAss Quintet: progressive bluegrass gets audience members to their feet as part of the Westford Music Series. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 879-4028.
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'sAucy JAck & the spAce vixens': See THU.16, 8 p.m. 'vAnyA And soniA And MAshA And spike': See WED.15, 2 p.m. 'winnie-the-pooh': See FRI.17, 2 p.m.
richArd wood & gordon Belsher: Hailing from prince Edward Island, the fiddle-guitar duo delivers an evening of traditional Canadian tunes. Haskell Free Library & opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 873-3022. siAn phillips & Friends: Joined by local musicians and clogger Ann Whiting, the Welsh fiddler treats music lovers to an evening of traditional tunes. The Woodbury Strings fiddle club opens. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 223-8945. 'the singer's Art concert series: Rising opera stars Christopher Colmenero and Geoffrey penar return to their musical roots for an afternoon of art songs, arias and duets. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 4 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966.
outdoors AutuMn wAgon ride weekend: See SAT.18.
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coed Floor hockey: See WED.15, Montpelier Recreation Department, 3-6 p.m. $5. Info, bmfloorhockey@gmail.com.
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liFe drAwing: Artists use their own materials to interpret the poses of a live model. BCA Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $6-8. Info, 865-7166.
community puBlic heAring: The Williston Selectboard hosts a meeting about proposed amendments to the sewer allocation ordinance. Meeting Room, Williston Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0919.
dance eAsy internAtionAl Folk-style dAncing: Folks of all experience levels form a circle, where they learn ancient and modern village dances. ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 978-424-7968.
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etc. AMericAn red cross Blood drive: See THU.16, noon-6:30 p.m.
film conFlict resolution Movie night: Burning Bridges inspires a conversation about the use of restorative practices as a method for resolving disputes. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-9405.
games AFter-school gAMes: players in grades 3 and up swap trading cards or challenge each other to one of the library's games. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Bridge cluB: See WED.15, 7 p.m. triviA night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
health & fitness Avoid FAlls with iMproved stABility: See FRI.17. Beginner tAi chi For heAlth & BAlAnce: A weekly class welcomes students of all fitness levels for warm-ups, form practice and meditation. ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:15-7 p.m. $25 for entire series. Info, 978-424-7968. herBAl consultAtions: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market/onion River Co-op, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org. MoN.20
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'the science And Art oF sound As Medicine': From the harp and didgeridoo to Tibetan singing bowls, presenters explore the therapeutic qualities of sound. A book signing, reception and after-party follow. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1-5:45 p.m. $8-40. Info, emckusick@gmail.com.
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sMugglers' notch trAil rAce series: Athletes of all ages go for gold on the resort's cross-country trails. proceeds benefit local charities. Donations of nonperishable goods and gently used sneakers are accepted. Smugglers' Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, fun run, 9:30 a.m.; 4K and 8K, 10 a.m. $10-25; free for kids 7 and under. Info, 644-1173.
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Mount ABrAhAM hike: A moderate trek to the summit culminates in 360-degree views. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Abraham, Bristol, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 658-2104.
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Living Strong group: See FRI.17, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Monday-night Fun run: Runners push past personal limits at this weekly outing. peak performance, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0949. pubLic FLu cLinic: See WED.15, Franklin County Home Health Agency, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-7531. r.i.p.p.E.d.: See WED.15.
kids aLicE in noodLELand: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. onE-on-onE tutoring: See WED.15, 5-8 p.m. prESchooL Story tiME: See THU.16. 'ShrEk, thE MuSicaL' auditionS: See SUN.19, 5:30-8:30 p.m. trad band: Intermediate musicians practice under the tutelage of Colin McCaffrey. See summit-school.org for details. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $10-15; preregister; limited space. Info, 917-1186.
language advancEd SpaniSh LESSonS: proficient speakers sharpen their skills in discussions of literature and current events. private residence, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
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music bEginning piano LESSon: See THU.16.
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boz ScaggS: Explorations in blues, rock, jazz and R&B highlight the performer's prowess as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $49.50-99.50. Info, 863-5966.
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SaMbatucada! opEn rEhEarSaL: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. uvM concErt choir & cataMount SingErS: Students lift their voices in a performance of solo and choral music that includes a tribute to the Civil War sesquicentennial. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.
seminars how to SurvivE & thrivE: A daylong training empowers parents of children with mental and behavioral health challenges. See vffcmh.org for details. Counseling Service of Addison County, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 343-4114.
sports coEd FLoor hockEy: See WED.15, the Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided. Info, gbfloorhockey@gmail.com.
talks charLiE bakEr: Chittenden County Regional planning Commission's executive director covers all the bases in "Environment, Community, opportunity, Sustainability (ECoS) plan." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.
gEShE SoEpa: The Buddhist monk offers insights into the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 p.m. Donations; $10 for dinner; preregister. Info, 633-4136. vErMont poLiticS SpEakEr SEriES: Local professionals ranging from reporters to state government officials past and present consider current topics. Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 3-4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1664.
words highgatE book group: Themes of self-discovery permeate Cheryl Strayed's best-selling memoir Wild, which chronicles her solo hike of the pacific Crest Trail. Highgate public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.
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community hoME SharE now inForMation SESSion: Locals get up-to-date details on home-sharing opportunities in central Vermont. Home Share Now, Barre, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8544.
dance intro to tribaL bELLy dancE: Ancient traditions from diverse cultures define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. Swing dancE practicE SESSion: Twinkletoed dancers learn steps for the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
etc. aMErican rEd croSS bLood drivE: See THU.16, noon-5 p.m. Echo aFtErdark: caFé SciEntiFiquE: Katlyn Morris and Ernesto Mendez share their expertise in a presentation on environmental issues facing coffee farmers. A Q&A and discussion follow. ECHo Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5; free for members; cash bar. Info, 877-324-6386. quEEn city ghoStwaLk: darknESS FaLLS: See FRI.17, 7 p.m.
film 'thE bridE oF FrankEnStEin': A raging thunderstorm sets the tone for this morbid tale about the fate of Frankenstein's mate. Film House, Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018. coMMunity cinEMa: 'MakErS: woMEn in war': The pBS series featuring fearless females follows those who served in international conflicts from the Vietnam War to the present. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. knightS oF thE MyStic MoviE cLub: Cinema hounds screen campy flicks at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776. 'LEttErE daL Sahara (LEttErS FroM thE Sahara)': A Senegalese man struggles to begin his life anew in Italy in this drama from veteran Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Seta. Room 413, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, cmazzoni@uvm.edu.
food & drink oLd north End FarMErS MarkEt: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic food and more
games GaminG for Teens & adulTs: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
health & fitness CandleliT flow: Hanna Satterlee guides yogis into a restful state that encourages deep opening and connecting within. Zenith Studio, Montpelier, 6:45-8 p.m. $16. Info, 598-5876. Chair YoGa wiTh Jill lanG: Yogis limber up with modified poses. personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. danCinG ThrouGh PreGnanCY: Mothers-tobe prepare for birth in an open class based on the Nia Technique. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $13. Info, 522-3691. droP-in haTha YoGa: Betty Molnar leads a gentle practice of mindful stretching and relaxation. personal mat required. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. GenTle YoGa wiTh Jill lanG: Students get their stretch on with the yoga certification candidate. personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
sTorY Time for 3- To 5-Year-olds: preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. sTorY Time for babies & Toddlers: picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Toddler sTorY Time: Little ones get excited for music, rhymes, stories and snacks. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.
Queer movie soirée: An attorney stricken with AIDS fights back after being fired from his law firm in Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Room 126, Burlington College, 6 p.m. 860-7812. Info, Free.
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lisTeninG for whaT maTTers mosT: A workshop on reflective listening examines its role in interpersonal communication. peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 863-2345.
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sTorY exPlorers: everY auTumn Comes The bear: How do these massive mammals prepare for winter? A captivating tale gives curious kiddos the answers. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.
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sCienCe sTorY Time: 'sTones & bones': Educator Kristen Littlefield leads good listeners ages 3 and up on an adventure into the wild world of fossils. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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PresChool sTorY hour: numbers & daYs: Themed tales and activities make learning fun for kids up to age 6. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.
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Pause-Café frenCh ConversaTion: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
PubliC flu CliniC: See WED.15, Carepartners Adult Day Care Center, St. Albans, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-7531.
musiC wiTh mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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frenCh ConversaTion GrouP: Beginner-tointermediate speakers brush up on their language skills. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
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beGinner sPanish lessons: Newcomers develop basic competency en español, starting with the first session. private residence, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.
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Spiritual Stewardry: working with the energeticS of place: Fearn Lickfield of the Green Mountain School of Druidry outlines geomancy, then teaches participants how to tune into the subtle energy of the land around them. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
talks h.e. Maen raShid areikat: The palestinian Liberation Organization's ambassador to the u.S. discusses diplomacy in the Middle East. perry Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3489. Mary kerr: Recounting her journey to the Middle East, the former journalist presents "Educating Girls in Afghanistan." Ilsley public Library, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. natural MarShfield: From wetlands to wildlife corridors, naturalists share their knowledge of local ecosystems. Jaquith public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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'project wild thing': Father and filmmaker David Bond's eye-opening documentary captures his quest to get his children and others to engage with nature. The Nature Museum at Grafton, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 843-2111. 'raiSing of aMerica' conVerSationS: A preview of the new Raising of America documentary inspires a community conversation about early childhood development in Chittenden County and more. Film House, Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 730-4732.
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fairfax readS: 'wonder': Themes of disability awareness in R.J. palacio's Wonder encourage a dialogue about physical appearances during a mask-making activity. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items. Info, 849-2420.
wine taSting: MountainS & ValleyS: It's all about location when it comes to the unique flavor profiles of wines produced at different elevations. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.
writer'S circle: Wordsmiths of all skill levels put pen to paper in an encouraging environment. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.
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community hoMeShare VerMont open houSe: Those interested in homesharing and/or caregiving programs mingle with staff over cider, artisan cheeses and apple pie. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5625.
dance north end fuSion: Tunes from the Steve Goldberg-Lar Duggan Group get folks on the dance floor in this "anything goes" approach to partner dancing. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. $8; $15 per pair; BYOB. Info, 863-6713.
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putting your garden to Bed: Master gardener Ron Krupp help home horticulturalists prep plots for the cold months ahead, then excerpts his latest book Woodchuck Returns to Gardening. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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Valley night featuring roB & erica: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.
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toaStMaSterS of greater Burlington: Folks looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills learn more. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.
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tech tutor prograM: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.
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wine taSting: new releaSeS of SpaniSh red wineS: Oenophiles sample vintages with international ratings of 90 or more points. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-5742.
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health & fitness herBal adjunctS in alcohol oVeruSe: participants discover plant-based remedies for the emotional and physical symptoms that accompany excessive drinking. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100. Montréal-Style acro yoga: See WED.15. puBlic flu clinic: See WED.15, Brownway Residence, Enosburg Falls, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-7531. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.15. relaxing riVer flow: Watery rhythms inspire postures aimed at opening the hips and lower back while developing strength and flexibility. River House Yoga, plainfield, 6-7:15 p.m. $14. Info, 832-978-1951. uncoVering the healthStyleS of the fit & faBulouS: Holistic health coach Sarah Richardson presents specific methods and strategies for reclaiming well-being. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. yoga for VeteranS: See WED.15.
kids highgate Story hour: See WED.15. Meet rockin' ron the friendly pirate: See WED.15. MoVing & grooVing with chriStine: See WED.15. one-on-one tutoring: See WED.15. preSchool MuSic with derek: See WED.15. Story tiMe & playgroup: See WED.15. Story tiMe for 3- to 5-year-oldS: See TuE.21.
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Montpelier Moonlight Madness Thursday, October 16, 6-9 pm Super sales throughout downtown!
intERmEdiatE SpaniSh lESSonS: See WED.15. intERmEdiatE/advancEd EngliSh aS a SEcond languagE claSS: See WED.15. italian convERSation gRoup: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
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music Song ciRclE: community Sing-along: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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EllEn StimSon: How does one deal with raising a family in a tiny rural town? The local author poses this question and others in her new memoir Good Grief! Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. m
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pEacE coRpS diScuSSion: Former Vermont governor Howard Dean moderates a conversation about the volunteer program’s role in international development. Room 216, Living/ Learning Center, UVM, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3489.
Montpelier Fall Art Walk Montpelier Art Walk showcases works of Central Vermont artists at multiple stores downtown.
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pEacE & JuSticE lEctuRE SERiES: Panelists Omekongo Dibinga, Vince Thomas, Sasha Lezhnev and Annie Callaway present different perspectives on conflict minerals and the Congo. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
EnviRonmEntal & hEalth SciEncES SpEakER SERiES: Norwich University professor Elizabeth Wuorine presents "Laboratory Techniques to Evaluate the Connection Between Exercise, Hunger and Energy Intake." Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.
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ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Mon. p.m. Oils, Altering on the Wheel Workshop, Wed. p.m. Wheel, Thu. a.m. Oils, Tue. Watercolors, Wed. a.m. Int/Adv Painting, Thu. Drawing, Hunter Eddy Still Life Workshop, Nov. 15 & 16. Children: Mon. & Wed. Wheel, Hand Build Night Lites, Thu. Hand Building, Glow in the Dark Art, Draw Magical Creatures, Holiday Gifts, Gingerbread Fantasy. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., lower level, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org. SOCIAL PAINTING PARTIES: Painting with Payton helps you to unleash your inner artist while having a fun time with friends and family. Payton leads you step by step with easy instructions to paint your own work of art to take home. Even if you have never held a brush before, you can do this! See website for upcoming events. Cost: $39/2-3-hour painting party. Location: See website for details, Burlington area. Info: Painting with Payton, LLC, Payton Pellegrini, 557-1533, payton@ paintingwithpayton.com, paintingwithpayton.com. TOUCH DRAWING STUDIO WORKSHOP: Touch Drawing is a simple, intuitive, meditative process that moves us deeply into ourselves. Paper is placed over inked Plexiglas. Impulses from within take form through the movement of fingertips on the page. Artists of any level, including absolute beginners, can experience inner imagery coming alive. Come play with us! Weekly on Mon., Oct. 27-Nov. 10, 3-5 p.m. Cost: $135/3 sessions (incl. basic Touch Drawing supplies & 1 canvas). Location: Expressive Arts Burlington/Studio 266, 200 Main St., Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net.
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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. ABSTRACT PAINTING: Students will be guided to explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting through demonstrations and exciting exercises. Using the paint of their choice (water-soluble oils, acrylics or watercolor), students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding other mixed media as well. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Linda Jones. Weekly on Thu., Nov. 6-Dec. 18 (no class Nov. 27). Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: In this class, designed for those with wheel experience, students will learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing and beginning to intermediate trimming and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Option 1: Weekly on Thu., Nov. 6-Dec. 18 (no class Nov. 27), 6-8:30 p.m. Option 2: Weekly on Thu., Nov. 6-Dec. 18 (no class Nov. 27), 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $240/person; $216/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay & 30 hours/week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately at $20/25-pound bag. All glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: WORKING WITH COLORED CLAY: NERIAGE AND NERIKOMI: In this class, Andy will introduce Neriage (Agate thrown on the wheel) and Nerikomi (Ageware that is hand built). This class will include demonstrations on the creation of colored clay, preparation and control of the medium, releasing the beauty with carving techniques and finishing
with or without glaze. Instructor: Andy Snyder. Sun., Nov. 9, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. DIY DESIGN: LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this onenight class where you’ll create your own leather earrings and bracelets. Lean simple ways to make one-of-a-kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts. Make snap bracelets, cuffs and fun earrings. Wed., Nov. 5, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. FRANKEN-CRITTERS: Make your stuffed animal come alive while learning basic hand sewing skills. Bring a few stuffed animals or creatures and we’ll sew them into something new and especially yours! All decorative and sewing materials provided (some stuff animals included). Instructor: Rachel Hooper. Ages 8-12. Sat., Nov. 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center & Generator, Burlington. FREE WHEELIN’: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel and learn how to make cups, bowls and more in our clay studio in this afternoon wheel class. Registration is required. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. All supplies provided. Instructor: Kim O’Brien. Ages 6-12. Sat. Nov. 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. ITSY BITSY FASHION DESIGN: Bring your favorite doll (American Girl dolls welcome) and become a miniature fashion designer. Learn some basic hand-stitch sewing techniques and create some fashionable outfits and accessories for your doll! All supplies are provided, and students are encouraged to bring fun fabrics. Registration is required. Ages 6-8. Instructor: Joanna Elliott. Sat., Nov. 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. MONOPRINT: Create unique, painterly images using a variety of tools and materials in this introductory monoprint class. Learn the studio’s equipment and materials while practicing proper inking techniques, print registration and Chine-colle (thin colored paper that is glued to the print paper in the process of printing). Instructor: Susan Smereka. Weekly on Tue., Nov. 4-Dec. 16, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.
Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM: Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW files and more, plus archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. Pair with Digital SLR Camera for a 12-week experience and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing! No experience necessary. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Weekly on Wed., Nov. 5-Dec. 17, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $260/person; $234/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Digital Media Lab, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK: In this lecture-based class, professional photographer Dan Lovell will demonstrate techniques for lighting for the purpose of photographing your artwork. Get tips on how to properly upload and save images onto the computer and what sizes and formats you should use for emailing and uploading to a website. Thu., Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $30/person; $27/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Students will learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. No experience necessary. Instructor: Torrey Valyou. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 23-Dec. 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. SOUND ARTS LAB: Learn the basics of field recording with digital audio devices and audio editing, or come and refine your sound arts skills in this mixedlevel workshop. Each class students will work on building a cache of loops, sounds and compositional sketches. Beginners and more experienced sound artists welcome! No experience necessary. Instructor: Renee Lauzon. Weekly on Mon., Nov. 3-17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $90/ person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. WOODCUT: Woodblock printing originated in the Han Dynasty (before 220 BC) in China and has become
a printing technique used throughout the world. This class will focus on the fundamental techniques and characteristics of relief woodblock printing and explore the use of multiple colors and other creative possibilities for printing your design. Instructor: Gregg Blasdel. Weekly on Mon., Nov. 3-Dec. 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
coaching DO YOU FEEL STUCK IN SOME AREA OF YOUR LIFE?: Do you feel stuck in any area of your life? Like you are not creating the vital life you would like to have? Psychologist Dr. Carolyn Edwards Basiliere is now forming two small groups to take you through a powerful transformational process to get unstuck. Phone consultation for individuals considering joining. Mon. evening or Thu. noon starting last week of Oct. Cost: $300/1.5 hours/ week for 6 weeks. Location: Private office, 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Carolyn Basiliere, 657-3647, carolynbasiliere@gmail.com.
craft NEEDLE FELTING CLASS: PROJECT GNOME: In this class, you will learn the basics of needle felting and how to needle felt a simple gnome. Wool will be provided by the instructor. Materials needed: skewer, thread, foam felting base and felting needles (38T, 38S, 36T). If you don’t have these materials, you may purchase them through the marketplace. Wed., Oct. 22, 6 p.m. Cost: $30/person. Location: Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 488-5766, info@ vintageinspired.net, thefeltedgnomeknows.com. PAINTING FURNITURE WITH CHALK PAINT: Bring your own small furniture piece from home (something you can carry with one arm). Mary Heinrich Aloi will demonstrate how to paint various techniques and wax with Chalk Paint decorative paint by Annie Sloan. You will have full access to materials and paint to finish your piece. Fri., Oct. 17, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. & Sun., Oct. 26, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $55/person. Location: Vintage Inspired, 180 Flynn Ave., suite 2, Burlington. Info:
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488-5766, info@ vintageinspired.net. WOODWORKING: Woodworking: You Build It! 12 Thu. beginning Oct. 23, 5:30-8:30 p.m. For beginners or experienced. Jon, a pro woodworker, helps with project design, material, and/or tool and machine use. Instructor: Jon Kohn. $245/ person. limit: 9. Wooden Bowl Turning: 2 Wed., 6-8:30 p.m. Three sessions available. Join Nick Rosato, a professional wood turner, to create your first bowl or continue learning skills. lathe for every student. Info about Nick: thesculptedtree.com. $145/ person. limit: 6 Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access.
culinary COOKING & NUTRITION CLASS: PLANT-BASeD PROTeCTION WITh FOOD FOR LIFe: In the headlines daily is advice to eat less meat and load up on fruits
and vegetables. Perhaps you’re not quite sure how to make the switch to a plant-based diet. If diabetes, cancer, arthritis or heart disease run in your family, please know that it’s largely the food that runs in our families. come learn which foods trigger these diseases so you can avoid them. enjoy a live cooking demonstration and sampling of multiple recipes, easy to duplicate at home, all designed to prevent illness while dazzling your taste buds. Sun., Oct. 26, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $45/person. Location: 2 Wolves Holistic Center, 179 Main St. (above Linda’s), Vergennes. Info: 342-2946, beth.perera@ gmail.com, plantbasedprotectionvergennes2.eventbrite.com.
dance B-TRU DANCe AT hONeST YOGA: B-Tru is focused on Hip-hop, Breakin’, Funk, Jazz, lyrical Ballet & Pointe dance. Danielle Vardakas-Duszko & her staff have trained with originators in these styles, performed and
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DANCe STUDIO SALSALINA: salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.
LeARN TO DANCe W/ A PARTNeR!: come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. as with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.
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dreams DREAMSCAPES THE WORKSHOP: Are you interested in learning creative ways to breath life into your dream images and learn their meanings? Join us for this exciting 5-week journey into Dreamland where a pickle might just be a pickle ... or it might not be. No experience or training required. Weekly on Wed., Oct. 22-Nov. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $135/person (all materials incl.); preregistration required. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., Suite 9, Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 862-5302, topazweis@ gmx.net.
drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m., starting Nov. 5, $90/5 weeks or $22/ drop-in. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. starting Nov. 6, $72/4 weeks or $22/drop-in (no class Nov. 27). Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space & Capitol City Grange, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, & 6612 Route 12, Burlington & Montpelier. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.
TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class is on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 4, $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m., starting Nov. 3, $108/6 weeks. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m., starting Nov. 5, $90/5 weeks. Kids and Parents Class is on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Nov. 4. $60/6 weeks. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN MONTPELIER: Learn Taiko in Montpelier! Starting Thu., Nov. 6 (no class Nov. 27): Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:306:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.
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empowerment EXPLORING DOWSING: What can you do with dowsing? What can you not do? Using two books written by T. Edward Ross, The Divining Mind and The Healing Mind, we will explore dowsing in depth. Students should purchase the books in advance and have read them before class begins and come prepared with questions. Led by Rachel Chevalier, professional dowser. Weekly on Mon., Oct. 20 & 27, 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.
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BUSINESS OF BEING AN ARTIST: This free forum is a new series of conversations around the business of making a living as a performing artist. Join this gathering of artists, professionals and arts organizations to examine the realities of achieving success in the arts.
This month’s topic is producing your work and taking it on the road. Artists in all genres welcome! Adults and teens 16+. 4th Fri. of each mo., Oct. 24 & Dec. 5 (rescheduled from Nov. 28 Thanksgiving holiday), 5:45 p.m. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. MONOLOGUE BOOT CAMP: Whether prepping for an audition or deepening your acting abilities, this class strengthens your skills in text analysis, character development and audition technique. Beginners learn the tools for working on a monologue, and veterans deepen their craft and acquire new insights into their own approach to performance. Please bring in one or two monologues you like â?? no need to memorize in advance. Adults and teens 16+. Instructor: John Jensen. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 30-Dec. 11, 5:45-7:15 p.m. Cost: $125/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
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HERBAL INTENSIVES AT VCIH: ‘Selva Oscura”: In the Dark Forest of the Spirit: Emerging research on the intersection of psychedelic therapy, microneural damage, the microbiome, and mental health. With Guido Masé. Sat., Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Practical alchemy: Principles and Techniques of Spagyric Extraction with Guido Masé. Sat., Nov. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $50/person; $45 for members; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.
WORKING WITH THE ANCESTORS: This is an introduction to shamanic work with the Ancestors. Participants will learn how to prepare an Ancestral alter, feed the Ancestors and begin to offer healing to the Ancestral line. Registration required. Instructed by Michael. Sat., Nov. 1, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: $40/ person. Location: Journeyworks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworks@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.
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WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: If you are interested in attending our next Wisdom of the Herbs program, starting April 2015, and need financial assistance, check out the VSAC nondegree grant program and consider applying really soon to reserve your grant while their funds are abundant. Annie McCleary, director. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.
history INTRO TO SOLIDWORKS: Solidworks is one of the most popular CAD tools on the planet and is a great first step for anyone looking to bring their ideas to life. This course will focus on introducing the basics of Solidworks, from modeling your first 3-D parts in virtual space to assembling multiple parts together, creating a virtual moving mechanical assembly! Prerequisite: General computer skills. Instructor: Andrew Kalinen. Weekly on Tue., Nov. 4-Dec. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. No class Nov. 11. Cost: $240/person; $216/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington. LASER CUT JEWELRY: Learn how to create pendants, earrings, charms and bands with an Epilog 60 watt laser cutter working in acrylic, wood and leather. Students will learn basic laser cutting and software skills to etch and cut their own designs and fabrications. Prerequisite: Must be comfortable using a computer. Instructor: Erin Barnaby. Weekly on Mon., Nov. 17-Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington.
BOOKMAKING: For the professional artist or complete beginner, this class will guide you through the steps of creating your own hardback, hand-bound artist’s book. Design and construct your own unique books and use the Coptic stitch, an ancient and beautiful bookbinding technique known for the braided open spine and it’s ability to permit books to lay flat when opened. These books are stunning and perfect for an artist or writer’s journal or a lovely gift. Sat., Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $100/person; $75/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.
TURMOIL IN THE MODERN WORLD: A survey of the major forms of turmoil that the world has experienced in the 20th and 21st centuries, including political as well as nonpolitical forms of turmoil, like the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The focus of the course is on what we might learn from history so as to minimize or lessen world turmoil in the future. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Oct. 21, Nov. 4, 11, 18 & 25, & Dec. 2, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $75/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.
CREATIVE DRAWING WITH EVAN CHISMARK: This class will focus on harnessing creative energy and creating visually interesting works. The direction of the class will be largely driven by the students, and we’ll focus on concepts that the class as a whole is open to exploring. Weekly on Thu., Oct. 28-Dec. 2, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $125/person; $100/ members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com.
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language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our eighth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.
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martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National
Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. WU XING CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS: For us martial art is a way of life, not a sport. We offer the finest instruction in two complete internal Chinese martial arts — Taijiquan and Pudaoquan — at an affordable price. Our classes for adults have a friendly and conversational atmosphere, geared towards learning quickly and well. Weekly on Tue., 7-9 p.m.; Fri., 6-8 p.m.; & Sat., 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 1-hour classes; pay by the mo. or by the class. Location: Tao Motion Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, 355-1301, info@wxcma.com, wxcma.com.
meditation FULLY ALIVE: A PEMA CHODRON VIDEO SERIES ON LIVING BEAUTIFULLY WITH UNCERTAINTY & CHANGE: In this series, beloved teacher Pema Chodron provides a wealth of wisdom for learning to be completely, fearlessly present even in the most difficult situations. A great introduction for beginners and a fresh inspiration for experienced meditators, this course includes a video series of Pema, meditation
N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: White Cloud Living Arts Foundation, Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 453-3690, whitecloudarts@gmail. com, whitecloudarts.org.
instruction and group discussion. 4 Wed., Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $40/person. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tracy Suchocki, 658-6795, tracy@cpro.cc, burlington.shambhala.org/ program-details/?id=192468. INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher. It focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. Oct. 18, 9 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; please arrive at 8:45 a.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. MIDDAY MINDFULNESS: Get the most out of your lunch break and come to a 45-minute drop-in mindfulness meditation class to refresh and recharge for the rest of your day. Instruction provided. Great for beginners and experienced practitioners. Weekly on Mon. & Thu., noon-12:45 p.m. Cost: $10/45-minute drop-in. Location: Full Circle Health & Wellness, LLC, 73 Main St., suite 22, Montpelier . Info: Catherine Schiller, 734-2833, cschillervt@ gmail.com.
spirituality OPENING THE 3RD EYE: Opening the 3rd Eye is a dynamic and experiential workshop to explore and expand upon your natural psychic gifts and insights of inner knowing, inner sight, inner hearing, etc. The veils are thinning and the opportunity for greater awareness is offered. Held in a sanctuary that is
SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.
sacred space. Sun., Oct. 26, 1-5 p.m. Cost: $50/4-hour class. Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Rd., New Haven. Info: Maureen Short, 453-4433, maureen@lightheart.net, lightheart.net. SECRET LIFE OF WOMEN: with Astro-Mythologist Kelley Hunter. A cosmic approach to awakening female consciousness in both women and men. Various dimensions of the divine feminine are explored in our subjective and impersonal life experience -- Moon, Venus and Black Moon. Our own astrological birth charts personalize this material. Sat., Oct. 25, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $40/3hour class. Location: Two Wolves Holistic Center, 179 Main St., 2nd floor, Vergennes. Info: Kelley Hunter, 456-1078, kellhunter@ earthlink.net, heliastar.com, 2wolvescentervt.com. THE NEW DISPENSATION: Learn about the new form of religious expression that Carl Jung felt would be appropriate for the Age of Aquarius in this experiential course rooted in the Biblical teachings of Jesus. Oct. 29 & Nov. 5, 12 & 19, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.
tai chi LIVING ARTS TAI CHI CHUAN: Learn this supreme Yang-style practice passed on traditionally by the Tung Lineage, generating limitless benefit to well-being. Teachings are open to all levels, beginners start any time with the first class free. Focus is on postures, alignment and flow of basic form guided by principles and Yin/Yang philosophy. Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1.5hour class. Location: McClure Multigenerational Center, 241
YANG-STYLE TAI CHI: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, janet@mindfulbreathtaichi.com, mindfulbreathtaichi.com.
well-being HEALING A RECENT LOSS WORKSHOP: Joey Corcoran, LCMHC, and Susan Sassaman, Certified YogaDance instructor, offer a contemplative bodymind approach to healing loss. In a small, supportive group, mindfulness practices and guided gentle yoga movement will support bringing a compassionate perspective to the mixed emotions of grief. Preregistration required. Fri., Nov 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., & Sat., Nov 15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $130/workshop. Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: Joey Corcoran, 654-7600-4, joey@mindfulrest.com, mindfulrest.com.
yoga BURLINGTON HOT YOGA: TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B,
294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963. EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. HONEST YOGA, THE ONLY DEDICATED HOT YOGA FLOW CENTER: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Highly trained and dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops and retreats in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. Class types include Kripalu, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative and more. 300hour teacher training begins in January. Or join us in Costa Rica February 28-March 7. All bodies and abilities welcome. $5-14/ single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/monthly unlimited. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. YOGA ROOTS: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Anusura-inspired all levels, Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! Workshops Coming Up: The Birth That’s Right For You w/ Lisa Gould-Rubin Oct. 18, 9-4 p.m., Chakra Workshop with Heidi Bock and Laura Lomas Oct. 25, noon-5 p.m. Registration required. Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Green Business Park. Info: 9850090, yogarootsvt.com.
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t’s taken Natalie Merchant nearly a lifetime to know that this was all original material. People talk find her voice. That may come as a surprise to about finding your voice as a writer. And writers are those who have followed the singer’s long career. lucky; they just have to rely upon themselves to estabWhether performing solo or as front woman for the lish a voice. But when you’re a recording artist, you acclaimed 1980s rock band 10,000 Maniacs, Merchant have to learn to channel your vision through other muhas long possessed one of the most distinctive voices sicians, through collaboration. And that’s something in pop music. But according to her, she I feel like I finally figured out how to only recently discovered the artistic do, after Leave Your Sleep and working voice she has spent a career seeking. with something like 130 musicians. I Earlier this year, Merchant, 50, felt like this album was an expression released her sixth studio album. The of what I had to say in a way that I self-titled solo record is her first coltruly wanted to say it. lection of original material in 14 years. SD: So you’re saying you’re just now It follows a 2010 release, Leave Your finding the voice you’ve been lookSleep, composed of interpretations of ing for after all these years? 19th- and 20th-century American and NATALI E ME R C H ANT NM: I am. I think it just comes with 34 British poetry about childhood. While years of experience. It takes a long time that record found the singer collaboand a lot of trial and error, learning rating with more than 100 other musicians, her latest was crafted on a far smaller scale. It’s a deeply moving from your mistakes. You have to be adventuresome. And work that stands as her most intimate and personal to that happens as an artisan or technician or whatever it date, its title implying that Natalie Merchant has found is I am, but also as a person. I’d like to be able to claim a little bit of self-knowledge at this point. That’s the her voice and perhaps even herself. Seven Days spoke with Merchant by phone in ad- benefit of being old. vance of her performance at the Flynn MainStage in SD: Did working with so many different and differBurlington on Tuesday, October 21. ent types of musicians on Leave Your Sleep help SEVEN DAYS: After some 30-plus years of making shape how you approached the new record? NM: Definitely. It took over a year to record Leave Your records, why self-title this one? NATALIE MERCHANT: I wanted to differentiate it Sleep. And through that process we kept commenting from the last couple of projects. I wanted people to that going back to a more traditional record with, say,
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SD: You’ve said that you learned a lot about songwriting from doing Leave Your Sleep. What, specifically? NM: Subtle things. Subject matter and voice. Also simplicity. A technique that I’ve used for years is the first-person voice, stepping outside of the characters in my songs. I did a lot of that on this record. Sometimes I created characters and then spoke to them, had dialogues with them that became the lyrics. The main thing I learned with Leave Your Sleep was how to color the lyrics after they’d been written. That was a different approach, because I’d always worked in the opposite direction. I’d always written the music first, then the lyrics. So I experimented with that on this record, writing poems that transferred to music. I would interpret them four or five different ways before I settled on one approach. SD: Many of the songs on the new record were written over the course of the last 14 years. Have the meanings of those older songs changed for you over time? NM: The oldest song on the record is “The End.” And sadly, nothing’s changed. That’s a song that I wrote about people who have been displaced by war. It’s about what’s happening in Iraq and Syria and about a dozen other countries right now that makes up the 47 million displaced people who exist in the world right now. So I think I write about themes that are pretty eternal, cyclical. The specific characters that I might write about don’t really matter as much as the theme itself. SD: You’ve spoken quite candidly about being an older woman in the music industry and how aging in that business is much different from aging as a man. What are some of the ways you’ve approached that challenge? NM: Just by getting older, really, which is an inevitable and natural consequence of being alive. You become a subject of ridicule as a female musician or an actress. So just allowing myself to have gray hair. Even Nonesuch, which is an extremely progressive record label, when I walked in with my gray hair — they hadn’t seen me in years, and consciously wanted to embrace me as an older woman — and they said, “Is this a final decision?” [Laughs] And I said, “Well, you have Emmylou Harris on your label.” But other than Emmylou Harris and Patti Smith and me, I’m hard-pressed to think of many other female musicians who have dared to be gray. I’ve had a few female musicians approach me and say that’s extremely brave. Or foolish. They can’t decide.
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One damn thing. That’s what JEff twEEDY told Middlebury-born indie folk group AlpENGlow when the band met the wilco front man after they played a gig in Chicago with luciuS and Tweedy’s son SpENcEr twEEDY’s band, the BliStErS. One. Damn. Thing. Don’t move to Brooklyn. So what did Alpenglow do with this sage advice from one of America’s most beloved and influential songwriters? “We disobeyed the Godfather,” says Alpenglow cofounder GrAEmE DAuBErt in a recent phone conversation with Seven Days. From Brooklyn. Where the band now lives. One damn thing, Alpenglow! “I don’t know how sincere he was being,” says Daubert. He points out that the headlining band that night, Lucius, hails from Brooklyn and is about as Brooklyn-y as a Brooklyn band can get. “So I don’t know how seriously I should take him.” Clearly, they didn’t take Tweedy’s perhaps tongue-in-cheek advice very seriously at all. However, it seems the group is settling in nicely. “I think everyone has been pretty happy with the decision,” Daubert says.
“We miss Burlington and might like living there more than we like living here. But we’ve met some really helpful people here.” Daubert hints at new studio material in the works, but he’s more interested in talking about a more immediate endeavor — namely, the band’s upcoming Chapel Tour. The fivedate run of shows this week will see Alpenglow visit chapels and churches in Vermont and New Hampshire before winding up back in Brooklyn. The first stop is this Friday, October 17, at the Mead Memorial Chapel in Middlebury, where the band recorded its stunning 2013 debut EP, Solitude. During those same sessions, the band also recorded another EP, Chapel, whose release was intended to coincide with the Chapel Tour. Daubert notes that, while a number of copies will be available at the chapel shows, the full run of records won’t be ready until midNovember. We’ve yet to hear the EP, but based on our conversation with Daubert, it seems safe to expect more of the stark, haunting low ANthEm-esque fare that
defined Solitude. In fact, producer and engineer JESSE lAutEr, who worked with the Low Anthem on Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (2008) and Smart Flesh (2011), mixed the Chapel EP. “We had some very special shows early on at Mead Chapel,” says Daubert. “That’s where we first began to understand there was something about our sound, especially in that setting, that people latched on to and [that] made people want to be quiet. “I think our music breathes in a certain way with a reverence to stillness,” Daubert continues. “I think people are looking for that kind of thing, something that will let them breathe for a little while.” Daubert adds that the Chapel Tour and the new EP will together serve as something of a close to the Vermont chapter of the Alpenglow story. While he’s reluctant to delve into specifics, he explains that the band’s sound is evolving, in part owing to the recent change of scenery. “Context is so important in terms of the music we make, and we feel like our old songs are very connected to Vermont,” Daubert says. “So we’ve been envisioning this tour as a chance to say good-bye to that time.” He explains that Alpenglow is moving to a more focused, song-centric style of writing, as opposed to the lush suites and meandering movements of their earlier work. Audiences at the Chapel Tour shows should hear a hint of that lean new direction, Daubert says. “We’re becoming a hardcore band,” he jokes. “We’re trying to play as many 30-second songs as we can before the cops come.” Following the Mead Chapel show, Alpenglow will stop at the Waterbury Congregational Church on Saturday, October 18; the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington on Sunday, October 19; and the Sumner Knight and Family Memorial Chapel in Keene, N.H., on Monday, October 20. The tour wraps up at the First Unitarian Congregational Society Brooklyn on Friday, October 24. For more info, visit alpenglowmusic.com.
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In the days leading up to the Tech Jam, I began researching companies on sites like Glassdoor and LinkedIn. I made a list of ones that seemed well regarded and seemed to be pursuing technologies and ideas I was interested in. At the event, I spoke to pretty much everyone, but waited to get comfortable with “selling myself” before speaking with representatives from companies I was highly interested in.
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Last year, I was living in Pleasanton, California, and was thinking about moving to Vermont. I was looking online for jobs and saw a posting for the Tech Jam. Since I was attempting to move from so far away, I figured it would be best if I could meet in-person with potential employers in Vermont instead of being an anonymous résumé submitted from across the country.
After the Tech Jam, I was hired as a software engineer at Middlebury Interactive Languages. I attribute my successful job search and relocation to Vermont directly to the Tech Jam. I received many useful leads and opportunities to get past the initial introduction and proceed to interviewing, which in my experience has been the most difficult part of job seeking.
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If you drop by Radio Bean in Burlington on a Monday evening for the next couple of months, you may be surprised to find that the cozy café is no longer running its weekly open mic, one of the longest-running and most popular such events in town. Given that the Bean’s open mic has helped more local
musicians get their starts than we could possibly count, that’s kind of a big deal. In a recent email, Bean music guru JOE ADLER confirms that the Monday open mic has been taken off the schedule. But fret not, newbies. Adler tells us the open mic will return in January with a new, streamlined format. Stay tuned. And in the meantime, maybe drop by ANDY LUGO’s equally long-lived Wednesday open mic at Manhattan Pizza & Pub in Burlington.
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when does Colin Clary not have a new band? I’m kidding. Sort of. But Clary, who is about half a degree removed from practically every band in town, does indeed have a new group, COLIN AND THE CLARYS, which he will unveil at a show at the BCA Center in Burlington this Thursday, October 16. The band also includes former GUPPYBOYS JEFF BARON (guitar) and CHRIS ZITER (keys), fellow SMITTEN DAVID ZACHARIS on bass, and drummer MICHAEL BRADSHAW — the last of whom is a Seven Days employee. In a recent email, Clary writes that the new band is a more low-key outlet for his solo material than his main gigs
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with the Smittens and bedroom-pop duo LET’S WHISPER. “It is basically my stress-free, fun-toplay-for-the-sake-ofplaying band,” he informs us. He adds that the group’s material is mostly composed of Clary songs that until recently were only played in the confines of Clary’s bedroom but that have taken on new life with a little help from his friends. To paraphrase: Yow! To help celebrate the new group, Clary has enlisted a few of his favorite local and formerly local bands for the show, including spectral-pop duo POURS, prodigal garage-psych duo the VACANT LOTS — playing their first VT date in about a year, BTW — and Clary’s brother RYAN CLARY, who will be spinning and scratching as DJ CLARITY. Oh, one more thing: Clary adds that his new group has a policy of “only playing at a reasonable hour.” That means that Colin and the Clarys, while technically the headlining band, will play first. Because even eternally youthful indie rockers need a good night’s sleep.
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Death Becomes Him The grandnephew of jazz pianist Alice Coltrane and her husband, iconic saxophonist John Coltrane,
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p.m., free. DALY, He3loise, the High Breaks (indie, dance pop, surf), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Bridge & Davies (folk), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Birdman's Birthday Show (reggae), 11:45 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Zach Nugent Trio (funk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Commune Presents: Homeboy Sandman, Brenmar, I Am Many, Sasquatch (electronic), 8 p.m., free. 18+. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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For reasons we can’t quite explain, surf music has recently experienced a minor renaissance in Vermont. But long before local bands such as the High Breaks, the Concrete Rivals and the Tsunamibots began wading in those waters, Bill Mullins reigned as the local king of the surf guitar. His band, Barbacoa, has been shooting the curl in Burlington with a slick
instrumental brand of self-described “surf noir” since the 1990s. As the band’s latest record, Italian Medallion, proves, there’s still no one who does surf rock better. Though Italian Medallion is billed as a Barbacoa record, in truth, it’s a Mullins solo project. Live, the band typically features the talents of drummer Jeremy Frederick, guitarist Lowell Thompson and bassist Kirk Flanagan. But for this record, Mullins handles everything himself, from the classic boom bat-bat surf backbeat to the rumbling low end to the buoyant rhythm guitar that floats his stinging lead licks. Each of the record’s 15 tracks is a Mullins original, making the album the most comprehensive showcase of Mullins’ prodigious talents to date — and that includes his excellent 2010 self-titled solo record. Simply put, ain’t nobody plays guitar like Bill Mullins. As referenced earlier, Barbacoa trade in a vein of surf rock they refer to as surf noir. Mullins surely takes cues from genre originator Dick Dale, as is evident in his immaculate technique. But his spooky compositional style is equally informed by the likes of spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone and the campy spy and surf themes of 1960s TV shows “The Munsters” and “Batman.” There is a retro
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Steve Blair is one of the most accomplished and well-respected jazz guitarists in Vermont. He has toured the world and played on records with the likes of Will Patton, Science Fixion and his own fusion project, Freefall. Blair, who currently serves as the director of jazz studies at Johnson State College is, in no uncertain terms, a monster player. On his new record with the Steve Blair Septet, Ostinato, he undoubtedly showcases his prodigious chops. But given that this is a follow-up to that band’s 2006 album, Momentum, which at times felt more academic than artistic, the question is really whether Blair can translate his technical gifts and profound genre knowledge into a work that compels not just with musical science, but with soul. More often than not, the answer is a resounding yes. Blair’s stated influences comprise an unlikely, if not exactly motley, crew. The guitarist and bandleader takes cues from
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CAPITOL GROUNDS CAFÉ: Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $5. NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursday: andric Severance (jazz), 7 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: michael arnowitt, John Wilson & John LaRouche (folk), 7:30 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Dana and Susan Robinson (folk), 7 p.m., free.
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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): John Daly Trio (folk rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
THE BEE'S KNEES: Lesley Grant (country), 7:30 p.m., donation.
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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Bob Gagnon Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: Funkwagon (funk), 9 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: The Raunchy Randos (folk), 6 p.m., free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: The Keating 5 (rock), 6 p.m., $3. DJ Demic (house), 10 p.m., free.
CHARLIE O'S: Drunken Cuddle (outlaw country), 10 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
ESPRESSO BUENO: Stroke yer Joke! Comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7:30 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free.
PHAT KATS TAVERN: Lynguistic Civilians, the mangroves (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Comedy night (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): mm3 (dub), 10:30 p.m., $5.
MONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand,
MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.
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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. EAST SHORE VINEYARD TASTING ROOM: THUnDER KITTEnS (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: adam Reczek (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Sin-orgy (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Jahson (reggae), 9 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Jon and the Jones (indie rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: mike Pedersen (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. max Creek (rock), 9:45 p.m., $15/20. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: acoustic Brunch with Shannon Hawley, noon, free. Dane aaron (blues rock), 7 p.m., free. Britt Kusserow (folk), 8 p.m., free. Doctor Sailor (indie), 9 p.m., free. The Stilts (blues rock), 10:30 p.m., free. Binger (rock), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: The aerolites (rock), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ Stavros (EDm), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: Craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
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It Does a Body Good Equally admired as a producer and rapper, Detroit’s
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respected figures in modern underground hip-hop. He’s collaborated with everyone from the late J Dilla to Pharoahe Monch to Sean Price. His solo efforts, which reveal an affinity for influences such as A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, are regarded as some of the most thought-provoking and musically progressive in Motor City hip-hop. Touring in advance of a new COURTESY OF BLACK MILK
album, If There’s a Hell Below,, Black Milk plays Signal Kitchen in Burlington on Sunday, October 19, backed by the live band NAT TURNER. SMOOTH ANTICS and CRUSTY CUTS open. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Last Words (rock), 9 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Flying Lotus, Thundercat (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $25/27. AA.
NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Borealis Guitar Duo (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.
Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.
NUTTY STEPH'S: Workin' On the Railroad Night: Eric Swanson, Patrick Quimby & Friends (rock), 7 p.m., free.
CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Andy Pitt (folk), 5 p.m., free. Dave Keller Band (soul, blues), 9 p.m., $5.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Jam Man Entertainment (house), 10 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Live Music, 7 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Alexz Johnson, Jared & the MIll, Patrick Droney (indie folk), 8 p.m., $15/17. AA.
stowe/smuggs area
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Bless the Child, Enemy Self, Miranda Writes, Boomslang (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
MOOG'S PLACE: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Zach Nugent & Co. (rock), 5 p.m., free. Sticks & Stones (rock), 9 p.m., free. VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Saturday Night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 8 p.m., $5. 18+.
barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.
RUSTY NAIL BAR & GRILLE: Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers (Americana, soul), 9 p.m., $7.
mad river valley/ waterbury
SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: The Usual Suspects Blues Band, 9:30 p.m., free. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: The Tenderbellies (bluegrass), 10 p.m., free.
middlebury area 51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE:
THE STAGE: The D-25s (rock), 6 p.m., free. Milkbone (rock), 8 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Blind Spots with MIke Suave from the Jug Band (rock), 10 p.m., free.
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FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free.
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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Gypsy Jazz Brunch with Bob Gagnon,, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle's Old Time Session,, 1 p.m., free. The Tenderbellies (bluesgrass), 6:30 p.m., free. Leatherbound Books (folk), 8 p.m., free. Jone and the Jones (indie rock), 9 p.m., free. The Raunchy Randos (psychedelic blues), 10:30 p.m., free.
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NECTAR'S: MI YARD Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus,, 9 p.m., free.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Welcome to My Living Room
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THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free.
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CHARLIE O'S: Vicious Gift, Sorry Mom, Dirty Kills (punk), 10 p.m., free.
THE BEE'S KNEES: Zak Trojano (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
THE PARKER PIE CO.: The Kingdom Tribute Revue: Pink Floyd, 8 p.m., $5.
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Martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. DALY, Lowell Thompson, Disco Phantom (indie), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: After Jack (hot folk), 6:30 p.m., free. Lotango (tango), 7:30 p.m., free. Doctor Gasp (Halloween folk), 9 p.m., free. Sundown (instrumental), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: The Woedoggies (blues), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Dsantos VT Kizomba Class & Social, 7 p.m., free.
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sun.19// Arlo Guthrie [folk]
Getting the Band Back Together
Arlo Guthrie has been a busy guy. For the past two years he’s been on the Guthrie
Centennial Celebration tour, a multifaceted undertaking in honor of his late father, American folk icon Woody Guthrie. This has included shows with the entire clan (the Guthrie Family Reunion Tour), solo-ish dates (Here Comes the Kid), and with his own children and grandchildren (Here Come
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the Kid(s)). Honestly, dude could use some “me” time. So Woody’s eldest son recently embarked upon a new solo tour dubbed, in typically cheeky fashion, the “Arlo Guthrie Together at Last,” includingSCAN a stopTHIS at thePAGE Barre Opera House on Sunday, October 19. SCAN THIS PAGESolo Reunion Tour:YOUR TEXT WITH LAYAR WITH LAYAR HERE SEE PAGE 5 Near North, Lake Superior SWEET MELISSA'S: Live Music, Milo, DJ Kenny Segal (hip-hop), SEE PAGE 9 sun.19 « p.83 THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Fat Laughs at the Skinny Pancake (improv comedy), 7 p.m., $3.
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CLUB METRONOME: Metal Monday: Ruin, Vultures of Cult, KYOTY, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Les Amis Creole (Cajun), 8 p.m., $17/20. AA.
JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.
PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.
NECTAR'S: The Full Cleveland (yacht rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
THE BEE'S KNEES: Bridge & Davies (folk), 11 a.m., donation. Clare Byrne & Aislynn Taber (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Bear Connelly aka Talking About Commas (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Emily Lopez (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., free.
MOOG'S PLACE: Curtis Evans Kile & Friends (rock), noon, free.
RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.
stowe/smuggs area
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(rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
5 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lokum (music of the Near East), 6:30 p.m., free. Grup Anwar (classical Arabic music), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.
stowe/smuggs area
stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.
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burlington
CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free. Friend Zone with DJ Two Sev (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: The FOHR Sessions (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Fabian and Micah (jazz), 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Gubbulidis (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. REDadmiral,
THE BEE'S KNEES: Children's Sing Along with Allen Church, 10:30 a.m., donation. Bliss Hill (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.
SIGNAL KITCHEN: Floating Action (rock), 8 p.m., $7. AA.
middlebury area
ZEN LOUNGE: Karaoke with Emcee Callanova, 9 p.m., free.
chittenden county
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Krill, Chopin, Gregory Michael Jordan (experimental rock), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Old Time Music Session, 6 p.m., donation. CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Cabinet, Starline Rhythm Boys (bluegrass, rockabilly), 8 p.m., $10/13. AA.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Art Herttua and Stephen Morabito (jazz), 6 p.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Cookie's Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Allen Church (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 7:30 p.m., free. Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife Wednesday (house), 9:30 p.m., free.
THE STAGE: Val Davis (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.
burlington
JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike
THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m
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Art for the Classes “Visual Weimar: 1919-1933,” Middlebury College Museum of Art
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iddlebury College Museum of Art, with its small but impressive permanent displays and consistently strong special shows, serves as a valuable cultural resource for both locals and visitors. But that’s only half of its identity. The museum is also integral to the college’s educational mission. Both aspects of the institution shine forth in “Visual Weimar: 1919-1933,” a compact and compelling show that samples paintings, prints, etchings and drawings produced in Germany and Austria between the world wars. Curated by Midd students, the exhibit also includes students’ computer animations of selected pieces, which visitors can view on iPads provided by the museum. German professor Bettina Matthias offered background and some guidance as members of her “Weimar Germany and Its Legacies” class selected 25 of 50 works made available to Middlebury by the Sabarsky Foundation in New York City. But, Matthias says, “I didn’t want to dictate what the exhibit should be.” She finds that young people don’t automatically open up to a body of work she describes as “sometimes gruesome and very, very dark.” The Weimar Republic comprised a troubled and ultimately tragic interlude of democracy bracketed by Germany’s humiliating defeat in World War I and the rise of Nazism. Hyperinflation combined with stark inequality left many Germans wretchedly poor. Some turned to prostitution or thievery to survive, while the partying of the upper classes was increasingly characterized by desperation and outright depravity. Most of that’s shown here. Viewers will likely regard a woodcut and a lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz as the most disturbing pieces in a show filled with unsettling images. In “Hunger,” a mother with shriveled breasts and a skeletal chest sits with her mouth agape and her fingers tearing at her eyes. A bony baby rests listlessly on her lap. Alongside this grotesque rendition of a pietà hangs Kollwitz’s print of black-caped Death snatching two children, one of whom appears to have surrendered to her fate, while the other glances in terror at her abductor. Otto Dix’s etching of a suicide scene would be equally macabre if it weren’t so weirdly comical. A hat and coat hang neatly from a hook on one side of a narrow room, while a man wearing glasses hangs from a noose on the other. His tongue lolls from his mouth, and he appears to be sporting an erection. In the middle sits his ghost, smiling and reading a newspaper. Despite such images, “Visual Weimar” isn’t relentlessly bleak or tormented. A few works express a degree of hope or depict mundane, everyday scenes. In “Hammer und Sichel,” a brush-and-ink drawing by George Grosz (1893-1959), a mustachioed man joyfully thrusts his arms toward a sun emblazoned with the hammer-and-sickle emblem of communism. That ideology’s promise of working-class deliverance held great appeal in an era stalked by starvation and fascism. Neither Grosz nor the worshiper depicted in this 1925 work could have known that what they were seeing would prove to be a false dawn.
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Hammer und Sichel” by George Grosz”
“Leonie” by Otto Dix
YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T AUTOMATICALLY OPEN UP TO A BODY OF WORK THAT IS
“SOMETIMES GRUESOME AND VERY, VERY DARK.” BE T T I N A M AT T H I AS
“Lesende” by Oskar Kokoschka
Viewers can witness a moment of genuine tenderness in Max Liebermann’s etching of a woman knitting while nearby a child rests on a bench. Dix’s “Leonie” likewise offers relief in the form of a mauve-cheeked woman in a floppy, feathered hat with a crooked, toothsome smile. The exhibit includes a sidebar of works associated with the Bauhaus, an art school and production center whose lifespan coincides with that of the Weimar Republic. Its comparatively austere style is just as engaging as the
expressionism practiced by the artists represented in the show’s main section. The minimalist look developed by Bauhaus architects, designers and painters has also proved more enduringly influential. The geometric shapes in Lyonel Feininger’s “Fisher Boats” and the curves and protrusions of a sculpted head by Oskar Schlemmer offer examples of the Bauhaus aesthetic. The pieces included in “Visual Weimar” come from the trove of works of that period owned by the Sabarsky Foundation. In an effort to make its holdings accessible to a wider audience, the foundation has offered Middlebury the opportunity to choose pieces to be displayed in three shows at the college’s museum. This initial exhibit will be followed next year by “The Naked Truth: The Body in Early 20th-Century Germany and Austria,” and in 2016 by “Bloom and Doom: Visual Expressions and Reform in Vienna 1900.” Artist and Middlebury alum Jordan Jones assisted students in creating the animations of selected works in “Visual Weimar.” A sampling can be seen at museum. middlebury.edu/exhibitions. “I was incredibly proud of my students,” Matthias says. She notes that while assembling the show and working out the process of making the art move, the members of her class communicated exclusively in German. The students must, in turn, be proud to attend a college that so effectively and creatively integrates its museum into its curriculum. KEVIN J. KELLEY Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com
INFO “Visual Weimar: 1919-1933,” through December 7 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. museum.middlebury.edu
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‘Dance at Bennington College: 80 Years of Moving Through’: Historic photos tell the story of America’s first academic dance program that nurtured seminal figures in modern dance including Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and Hanya Holm, and continues today. Through November 29. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.
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f ‘The Body Electric’: An exhibit of “sensual, visceral, biological and electric” art by Steve Budington, Tara Jensen, Scott Dolan, Eric Eickmann and Hiroka Nakahira. Reception: Thursday, October 16, 6-8 p.m. October 16-November 21. Info, 225-6148037. South Gallery in Burlington.
David Tanych: The fine woodworker and metal sculptor exhibits big and bold works outdoors on Pine Street for the South End Art Hop and beyond. Through October 15. Info, 777-7002. Curtis Lumber Burlington.
‘Hooked in the Mountains XVII’: One of the world’s largest hooked rug and fiber art exhibitions with more than 500 rugs, 20 vendors, 30 workshops, guest speakers, demonstrations of needle felting, spinning and weaving. During the final weekend, Champlain Valley Quilters and Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular join the show. Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. October 15-19. $8/$6. Info, 434-8191. Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction.
Ellen Powell: Photographs of Acadia National Park and Chittenden County by the local jazz bassist and photographer. Through October 31. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Grace Cothalis: Assemblages, mandalas and pastels, plus handmade booklets and one-of-a-kind cards. Through November 29. Info, 862-2233. Vintage Jewelers in Burlington.
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f Daniel Barlow & Scott Baer: “Green Mountain Graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in Vermont. Reception: Saturday, October 18, 1-4 p.m. October 18-April 1. Info, 4798519. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
Hope Sharp: Current figurative paintings in oil. Through October 31. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington. Innovation Center Group Show: Paintings by Anne Cummings, Brian Sylvester, James Vogler, Kari Meyer, Longina Smolinski, Lyna Lou Nordstorm and Gabe Tempesta on the first floor; Cindy Griffith, Holly Hauser, Jason Durocher, Kasy Prendergast, Teresa Davis and Tom Merwin on the second floor; Camilla Roberts, Chance McNiff, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy James on the third floor. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.
Skye Forest & Annie Tiberio Cameron: Calligraphy by Forest and artwork photographed by Cameron. The show accompanies the Poetry StoryWalk, featuring “Peace of the Wild Things” by Wendell Berry. October 15-22. Info, 223-4665. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.
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f Judith Vivell: “New England’s Magnificent Wild Turkey,” paintings by the New York artist. Reception: Friday, October 17, 5-7 p.m. Gallery talk: Saturday, October 18, 4:30 p.m. October 17-November 14. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.
art events
‘Seven Women Painters’ The contemporary landscapes
at Rochester’s BigTown Gallery this fall were all created by female painters. But the diversity of styles represented in this “director’s choice” show is striking, from Ying Li’s lush, color-saturated oil abstractions to Laurie Sverdlove’s post-apocalyptic depictions
‘GARAGE Reawakens to Art’: A pop-up gallery and all-day “visual art experience” in the landmark downtown Montpelier building, featuring work by Studio Place Arts members. Garage, Montpelier, Friday, October 17, 4-8 p.m. Info, 279-0774.
represent some of the most accomplished contemporary landscape and abstract painters
BCA Summer Artist Market: A juried market featuring handcrafted, original fine art and crafts by local artists. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166.
of shamanic objects by the Burlington author and artist. Through November 30. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.
‘Art With a Spice’: Sample wine and create a work of art in the same evening, at a watercolor and acrylic painting class led by local artist Kadina Malicbegovic. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, Tuesday, October 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $25. Info, 859-9463.
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Anzi Jacobs: “Chasing Italy’s Beauty: A Photographic Portrait,” a show of digital images of Northwest Italy’s people, landscapes and towns. Through October 30. Info, 985-3930. Martin Bock: “Healing Art,” sculptures and paintings
Art Hop Group Show: A collaborative group show featuring more than 30 artists. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington. ‘The Art of Horror’: A juried group show celebrating “the beautiful side of decay.” Guest curated by Sarah Vogelsang-Card and Beth Robinson. Through October 31. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Ashlee Rubinstein: “Bad Food,” paintings of food that’s gone bad and food that’s bad for you. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Cameron Schmitz: Drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through October 31. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor.
f The Canvas Peace Project: Artwork by local artists inspired by the conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan. Benefit auction: Saturday, October 18, 7-9 p.m., with a talk by South Sudanese speakers at 6 p.m. Through October 18. Info, 203-520-2473. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington.
art listings and spotlights are written by pamela polston and xian chiang-waren. Listings are restricted to art shows in truly public places.
‘Civil War Era Drawings From the Becker Collections: Drawings for newspaper publication by artist-reporters Joseph Becker and his colleagues not only from the battlefield but from the construction of the railroad, Chinese workers in the West, the Great Chicago Fire, and more. East Gallery. Through December 12. ‘Civil War Objects From the UVM Collections’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17, 2015. Kara Walker: “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated),” large-scale prints combining lithography and screen printing, and with the artist’s signature cut-paper silhouettes, that address slavery, violence, race, sexuality and American culture. Through December 12. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. ‘Cradle & All’: A contemporary exhibit with works by Nissa Kauppila, Leslie Fry, Alexandra Heller and Susan Smereka. Through November 29. Info, 865-5839. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.
Julie A. Davis: New works by the Vermont landscape painter. Through October 30. Info, 862-1001. Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Katherine Taylor-McBroom: “Spectral Evidence: Dreams and Visions,” mixed-media work inspired by paranormal phenomena. Through October 31. Info, 578-2512. Studio 266 in Burlington. Kristine Slatterly: Abstract pop-art paintings; exhibit curated by SEABA. Through November 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington. Lily Hinrichsen & Karla Van Vliet: “Altared/ Altered States: A Journey Into Our Dreams,” new 3-D assemblages, monotypes, oil paintings and mixed-media works by the Vermont artists. Through October 29. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. Matt Morris: Drawings of locations by a Winooski artist and illustrator, with handmade frames. Through October 31. Info, 859-8909. Red Square in Burlington. Michael Smith and Brooke Monte: “Mind bending” paintings by Smith and geometric abstractions by Monte. Through October 31. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Mike Reilly: “I Cover the Waterfront,” digital photography of Lake Champlain and the Burlington waterfront by the Shelburne photographer. Through November 30. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross in Burlington.
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working in Vermont today.” Through November 22. Pictured: “Last Stroke of Fall” by Li.
John Gonter: Abstract and impressionist paintings. Through November 4. Info, 355-5418. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington.
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Champlain Valley Quilt Guild Quilt Show: Local artisans elevate sewing to an art form with their displayed handiwork. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Saturday, October 18, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. $6; free for kids under 12. Info, 858-9114.
of palm trees. Aside from gender, the artists are united by the “deep creative roots”
Jad Fair & Daniel Smith: “Solid Gold Heart,” an installation of paper hearts and copper wire by two noteworthy musicians. Documentaries about Fair and Smith’s musical careers play on loop in the gallery. Through October 28. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington.
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Vergennes Art Walk: Downtown galleries, library and businesses host visual art for this monthly event, which includes an open mic night at the opera house. Multiple locations, Vergennes, third Thursday of every month, 5-7 p.m. Info, 734-0031.
Irene Lederer LaCroix: “Form and Figure,” intricate pottery and abstract ceramic sculptures by the gallery’s October featured artist. Through October 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.
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‘1864: Some Suffer So Much’: With objects, photographs and ephemera, the exhibit examines surgeons who treated Civil War soldiers on battlefields and in three Vermont hospitals, and the history of post-traumatic stress disorder. Through December 31. Arthur Schaller: “Billboard Buildings,” an exhibit of original collages by the Norwich University architecture professor. Through December 19. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.
Nancy Tomczak: Watercolor paintings of birds. Through November 2. oneartscollective@gmail.com. Info, 863-6713. North End Studios in Burlington. Northern Vermont Artists Association Fall Show: Works in a variety of media by NVAA members. Through November 2. Info, 864-7999. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington. ‘Of Land & Local’: Burlington: A multidisciplinary exhibition in multiple statewide locations designed to foster conversations on issues impacting the Vermont landscape. Through November 15. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington.
Aaron Stein: Mixed-media artwork created from vintage license plates, matchbox cars, tires and more by the Burlington artist. The deli serves up automobile-inspired menu options in conjunction with the exhibit. Through December 31. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.
Rebecca Weisman: “Plastic, Body, Dirt and Squirrel,” experimental, multimedia work grounded in critical theory by the Vermont artist. Through October 24. Info, 656-4200. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington.
f Ben Peberdy: New collages by the Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, October 17, 4-8 p.m. Through November 21. Info, 552-8620. gallery SIX in Montpelier.
Robert Chamberlin: Burlington-inspired images by the local painter, curated by the ONE Arts Collective. Through November 2. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Info, 660-9346. Radio Bean Coffeehouse in Burlington.
‘Rock Solid In & Out’: Stone sculptures and assemblages by local artists both in the Main Floor Gallery and around downtown. Beth Haggart: “Bills, Bills, Bills,” a mixed-media installation. Second Floor Gallery. Marie LePré Grabon & Mary-Ellen Lovinsky: “Who Makes Community,” charcoal drawings and interviews, respectively. Third Floor Gallery. Through November 1. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
f ‘Trans Art Matters’: In conjunction with the Translating Identity Conference at the University of Vermont, the group exhibit showcases the work of local transgender artists. Reception: Friday, October 31, 4:30-6 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 656-7990. Center for Cultural Pluralism, UVM, in Burlington.
Chris Stearns: Landscape photographs from the founder of 21mm Photography. Through October 31. Info, 223-1151. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery in Montpelier.
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‘Art for Gillett Pond’: Friends of Gillett Pond present artworks for exhibit and sale to benefit the local endangered body of water. Through October 31. Info, 434-4583. Huntington Public Library. Dan Higgins: “Posted in Winooski,” new photographs by the longtime local photographer, inspired by posts in Front Porch Forum. Through October 31. Info, 373-5150. The Block Gallery & Coffeehouse in Winooski. Darlene Charneco: “CoHabitat,” an exhibit of layered, mixed-media models and maps that explore human settlements. Through November 7. Info, 654-2795. McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester.
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Elizabeth Allen: “Color, Light, Moments: New Landscapes and Still Lifes,” paintings by the awardwinning Vermont artist. Through October 28. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Evie Lovett & Paula Bradley: Two photography shows in one location: “Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.” by Lovett and “Onstage: New Work” by Bradley. Through October 25. Info, 862-5724. LCATV in Colchester. ‘Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War’: More than 70 rare Civil War-era textiles including quilts, Confederate and Union flags and the noose reportedly used to hang John Brown are on view. Through January 4, 2015. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘Impressions of Lake Champlain and Beyond’: The gallery features an anniversary exhibit of artwork by local and regional artists including Helen Nagel, Carolyn Walton, Athenia Schinto, Tineke Russell and more. Through December 30. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. John W. Long: Sculptures made of wood recycled from early-American barns. Through November 30. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. Laurel Fulton Waters: “New Works,” framed prints of small work and several large installations. Through November 30. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard. ‘Lock, Stock and Barrel’: The Terry Tyler collection of Vermont firearms includes 107 rare examples made between 1790 and 1900. Beach Gallery. ‘Painting a Nation’: A showcase of the museum’s best 19th-century American paintings. Webb Gallery. ‘Trail Blazers: Horse-Powered Vehicles’: An exhibit of 19th-century carriages
Champlain Valley Quilt Guild More than 70 artists
exhibit their work in “Baskets Aplenty,” the 32nd annual quilting show of the Champlain Valley Quilt Guild. If the words “quilting show” just made your eyes glaze over, trust us and take a peek at the dizzying range of styles used by contemporary quilters. “Quilting today isn’t simply about traditional patterns in muted colors,” says Janet Jaffe, a member of the show committee. “It’s diversified and evolved into something that has crossed the boundaries between skilled craftsmanship and art.” Indeed, these 140-plus artisan quilts run the gamut from vivid depictions of sunsets to abstract, geometric patterns. “Baskets Aplenty,” October 18 and 19 at the Champlain Valley Expo, also features music, food and raffles. Pictured: “Venezia III” by Marya Lowe.
from the permanent collection that draws parallels to contemporary automotive culture. Round Barn. Nancy Crow: “Seeking Beauty: Riffs on Repetition,” quilts by the acclaimed textile artist, who incorporates printmaking into her work. Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery. Patty Yoder: “The Alphabet of Sheep,” whimsical rugs made with extraordinary, realistic sense of detail. Patty Yoder Gallery. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. Lorraine Manley & Kathleen Manley: Landscapes by two cousins: oil paintings by Kathleen, from Massachusetts, and acrylics by Lorraine, from Vermont. Through November 9. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.
f ‘Mirror, Mirror’: A juried exhibit of self-portrait photography. Reception and Halloween Party: Friday, October 31, 5-7:30 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Nini Crane: “Evolving,” mixed-media paintings inspired by Vermont’s four seasons, and scenes from travel. Through October 25. Info, 482-2878. Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. ‘Of Land & Local’: Shelburne: A multidisciplinary exhibition in multiple statewide locations features work by hundreds of local artists, designed to initiate dialog about issues impacting the
Vermont landscape. Through October 26. Info, 865-5355. The Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. ‘On Purpose’: Upcycled, recycled and repurposed art by more than 10 Vermont artists. Through October 19. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Info, 863-2337. Burlington Beer Company in Williston. ‘Perilous Passages’: The exhibit shows the consequences of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. From abundance to absence, art and science intersect to tell this story, 100 years later. . ‘Wings of Clay’: Under the guidance of art teacher MC Baker, Williston Central School students created a fundraising exhibit of ceramic bird ornaments. Purchases benefit the Bridges to Birds flood recovery project. Through October 31. $7/3.50. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. The Pottery Show: An exhibition of pottery by clay instructors at the Shelburne Craft School and their students. Through December 4. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School. Scottie Raymond: “150 Minutes,” a show of mixed-media works informed by the artists of the Beat generation, by this year’s Wall to Canvas winner. Through December 31. Info, 658-2739. The ArtSpace at the Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.
Diana Mara Henry: Black-and-white photographs of one-room schoolhouses in Vermont by the famed photojournalist, with text by Middlebury College sociology professor Margaret Nelson. Through October 15. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
f Emily Mitchell: “In the Moment,” abstract paintings inspired by nature, music and play. Reception: Friday, October 17, 4-8 p.m. Through October 31. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Felt Tapestry Exhibit: Handmade felt tapestries, rugs and home décor items created by Neysa Russo. Through November 1. Info, neysa. russo@live.com. Info, 229-9212. Bagitos Bagel & Burrito Café in Montpelier. ‘Finding a Common Thread’: A group show of fiber arts including experimental embroidery, knitting, crochet, lace, weaving, felt, textile jewelry, tapestry, quilting, soft sculpture, basketry and mixed-media works. Through November 5. Info, 431-0204. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Frank Woods: Selected work from “Recent Chaos: Landscape, Kimono and Abstraction,” a series of geometric, abstract paintings that depict small barns and kimonos. Through October 31. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
f Mary Anna Abuzahra: An exhibit that tells the story of the artist’s relationship with India. Reception: Friday, October 17, 4-8 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 223-1431. Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Tony Connor: “An Artist’s Journey Through the Seasons,” plein air landscapes by the Vermont watercolorist. Through October 31. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.
f W. David Powell: “Everything Must Go 3.0,” large paintings, prints, mixed-media and woven pieces by the Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, October 17, 5-7 p.m. Through December 31. Info, 8280749. Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier.
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f Chris Jordan: “Midway,” photographs from the Midway Atoll of baby albatross killed by discarded human consumer goods. Artist talk: Thursday, October 16, 3-5 p.m. Through October 25. Info, 635-1408. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.
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‘EldEr Art Exhibit’: A show of artwork from members of the Johnson, sterling View and Morrisville elder Art Groups. JEnnifEr hubbArd: large-scale landscape and portrait paintings. Through november 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts Center in Morrisville. Eric tobin & KArEn WinsloW: “Reflections: new works showcase,” paintings by the noted landscape and figurative artists. Through november 30. Info, 413-219-7588. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville. ‘ExposEd’ outdoor sculpturE Exhibition: on the gallery lawn, along the recreation path and throughout downtown, curator Rachel Moore has sited 20 outdoor sculptures in a variety of mediums. The 16 artists hail from new england, new York, Chicago and Mexico City. In addition, writing by david Budbill, Ariel henley and Jennifer Rickards appears on vinyl in store windows. Through october 15. ‘unrEst: Art, Activism & rEvolution’: An exhibit of artwork by national and international contributors that use social media, storytelling and visual mediums to provoke political change. Through november 23. polly motlEy: “In no Time: A Retrospective of Ideas by polly Motley,” a performance-based installation that combines dance, sound, light, video and ever-evolving set pieces. daily performances are held during gallery hours, plus evening and weekend events; check helenday.com for details. Through october 31. Info, 253-8358. helen day Art Center in stowe. idolinE duKE: “spirit of nature,” bold, hyperrealistic paintings of flowers and the natural world by the Vermont artist. Through november 9. Info, 253-8943. upstairs at west Branch in stowe. ‘lAnd & light & WAtEr & Air’: The annual exhibit of landscape works features more than 100 new england painters and a corresponding photography exhibit. Through december 28. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. ‘lAndscApE trAditions’: The new wing of the gallery presents contemporary landscape works by nine regional artists. Through January 1, 2015. pAul schWiEdEr, duncAn Johnson And chris curtis: Abstract works in glass, wood and stone by the contemporary artists. Through october 31. Info, 253-8943. west Branch Gallery & sculpture park in stowe.
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‘7 WomEn pAintErs’: paintings in various styles by Renee Bouchard, Margaret lampe Kannenstine, Ying li, Celia Reisman, laurie sverdlove, nancy h. Taplin and Jessica nissen. Through november 22. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.
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AnnE cAdy: “Imagining My way to what Is True,” new, colorful paintings of Vermont landscapes by the noted local artist. tom dunnE: hand-turned woodcarvings. f vcEvy strEKAlovsKy: plein air paintings in oil and watercolor. en plein air painting demonstration: saturday, october 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through october 31. Info, 458-0098. edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.
f KAtE gridlEy: “passing Through,” an exhibit
of oil paintings and sound portraits of emerging adults. Gallery tour and talk with Middlebury College psychology professor Barbara hofer: Friday, october 24, 4 p.m. Through october 26. Info, 443-5258. Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in Middlebury. ‘picturing EnlightEnmEnt: tibEtAn thAngKAs’: A collection of 18 centuries-old scrolls by anonymous Buddhist monks, primarily from Tibet, on loan from the Mead Museum of Art at Amherst College. ‘visuAl WEimAr’: paintings, drawings and etchings by some some of weimar Germany’s most prominent artists, including George Grosz, otto dix and Kätthe Kollwitz. Through december 7. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.
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rAchAEl robinson ElmEr: An exhibit of “Art lovers new York” fine-art postcards, now 100 years old, by the late artist who was born at Rokeby. Through october 26. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. ‘WAtEr, ElEmEntAl And fundAmEntAl’: Forty photographs from around the world capture the allure of water. Through october 17. Info, 388-4500. photoplace Gallery in Middlebury.
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‘Artfull vErmont’: Fifteen local artists present works in many mediums that celebrate Vermont. Through november 2. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Autumn All mEmbEr Exhibit: All members are invited to exhibit up to three pieces each in this annual show. Through october 17. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.
f don ross photogrAphs: “Collaborators, photography and Fine Art,” an exhibit of the artist’s photography and fine art; includes photos of Fran Bull’s “sTATIons” installation, which is on view at Chaffee downtown and Castleton downtown galleries. Reception: Tuesday, october 21, 12:30 p.m. Through november 25. Info, 468-6052. Christine price Gallery, Castleton state College. f frAn bull: “sTATIons,” mixed-media sculptural paintings by the Brandon-based artist, also showing at Castleton downtown Gallery. Artist talk at the paramount Theatre: wednesday, october 15, 7 p.m. Through october 25. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee downtown Art Center in Rutland. f grEEn mountAin collEgE fAculty Exhibit: Artwork by Jennifer Baker, Kevin Bubriski and Karen swyler. Reception: Friday, october 17, 5-7 p.m. Through october 28. Info, 287-8398. Feike Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in poultney. ‘sculptfEst 2014’: Twelve artists created installations in response to a prompt (“when the work stops and it becomes more than it was”) in a variety of mediums for this annual sculpture exhibit. KAtE KAtomsKi: “The Quarry project: Then and now”, a mixed-media installation of marble dust, maps, archival images, photographs and sketches by the new York artist, whose father and grandfather worked in west Rutland’s marble quarries. part of BCA’s statewide “of land and local” exhibition. Through october 26. Info, 438-2097. The Carving studio in west Rutland.
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JunE pAul: “Alphabet City,” an exhibit of “timeless Americana meets radical neo-nostalgia,” mixedmedia works by the 78-year-old Vermont artist. Through october 30. Info, 989-9992. ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury.
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ings of Vermont’s botany, birds and landscapes by the east Montpelier artist. Reception: Friday, october 17, 4-7 p.m. Through december 31. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in waitsfield.
frEdEricK “fritz” JAEgEr: A selection of work from the longtime local artist and teacher. Through october 31. Info, 989-7500. eastView at Middlebury.
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Farm Through photography: Two Artists, Two stories,” an exhibit of photographs by two Vermont artists. Reception: Thursday, october 23, 5-7 p.m. Through october 25. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in waterbury.
with artwork by generations of his students. Gallery talk: wednesdays at 12 p.m. with executive director. Bill Brooks. Through november 9. Info, 388-2117. henry sheldon Museum of Vermont history in Middlebury.
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lisA forstEr bEAch & sAndrA noblE: “oil and water,” watercolors by Beach and oil paintings by noble that celebrate special moments and favorite places. Through november 10. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe.
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WaRRen KimbLe: “House of Cards,” a playful collection of wooden assemblages made from antique wood and playing cards by the celebrated folk artist. Through November 4. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.
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mauReen and baRRy GenzLinGeR, maRtha OhLinGeR, caRL neWtOn: Mixed-media ornaments and art by Maureen Genzlinger, wood craft objects by Barry Genzlinger, paintings by Ohlinger and boxes by Newton. Through October 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.
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‘WaLK thROuGh time’: The Isle La Motte Preservation Trust and Lake Champlain Land Trust open a unique, trail-side exhibit consisting of 71 colorfully illustrated panels that showcase 4.6 billion years of evolution. Through October 31. Info, linda@ilmpt.org. Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve in Isle La Motte.
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Judith PettinGeLL and debORah fRanKeL Reese: “Old Friends, New Works,” oil paintings by two Upper Valley artists who first met more than 50 years ago as undergraduates at Skidmore College. Through November 19. Info, 295-3118. Zollikofer Gallery at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction. ‘KunstKameRa: the tRicentenniaL anniveRsaRy Of the PeteR the GReat museum’: Artworks and artifacts in a variety of media that celebrate the great Russian institution. Through January 31, 2015. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction. ‘LOcaL cOLOR’: The inaugural group show at ArtisTree’s new location features works in many mediums inspired by “life lived within the landscape.” Through November 15. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret.
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‘OnLy OWLs’: Representations of the nocturnal predators by more than 30 artists including Leonard Baskin, Arthur Singer, Don Richard Eckelberry, Tony Angell and Bart Walter, from the collection of the Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin. Through December 7. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. scuLPtuRe fest 2014: The annual outdoor sculpture exhibit, this year featuring Richmond artist Bruce Hathaway, is on view at 509 Prosper Road and on King Farm. Through October 15. Info, 457-1178, charletdavenport01@gmail.com. Various Locations, Woodstock.
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stePhanie suteR: “Eye Portraits,” haunting drawings of eyes in gold and silverpoint, framed by varied materials. Through November 7. Info, 2950808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.
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‘ROad tRiP: ameRica thROuGh the WindshieLd’: Photography and paintings by six contemporary artists examine how automobiles and roads altered the American landscape. ‘see the usa in yOuR chevROLet’: Six decades of vintage car advertisements. ‘sPOtLiGht On smaLL’: Small-scale artwork by five artists: boxes by Laura Christensen; paper collage by Adrienne Ginter; paintings by Elizabeth Sheppell; egg tempera paintings by Altoon Sultan and glass sculpture by Jen Violette. ‘yOuR sPace/usa’: A “virtual road trip” featuring postcards, trivia and ephemera from all 50 states. andReW bORdWin: “Deco Details,” silver gelatin prints of art deco architecture. Jessica PaRK: “A World Transformed,” colorful, detailed architectural paintings by the Massachusetts artist, whose art is informed by her struggles with autism. Through October 26. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
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Idoline Duke’s world, pools of water are depicted as eye-catching clusters are big, bold and abstract; and vibrant paintings of “wavy lines” evoke sunsets. “Enlarging and painting objects that I find in nature is my way of getting to know the things I love about the world,” the artist writes on her website. “Spirit of Nature,” a collection of Duke’s large-scale watercolors displayed at the West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe, makes for a welcome jolt of color as the leaves begin to brown in the Green Mountains. Through November 9. Pictured: “Evening Lines, Summer.”
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caROL macdOnaLd: “String Theory,” prints that explore elements of connection by the Colchester artist. Through November 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. chiP tROianO: “Landscapes of New Zealand,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through November 17. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. GayLeen aiKen: “Inside/Outside,” oil paintings and mixed-media drawings made between 1952 and 2000 that explore the outsider artist’s fascination with Vermont architecture and landscape, her own home in Barre, and the granite industry. Through October 16. Info, 472-6857. GRACE in Hardwick. KathLeen JudGe: Prints and drawings by the nationally known printmaker and video artist. Through October 31. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. ‘tOOthbRush’: From “twig to bristle,” an exhibit of artifacts and images detailing the history of this expedient item. Through December 31. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.
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JOhn cassin: “Oil and Stone,” original works by the painter and sculptor in the debut exhibit of DaVallia Art & Accents’ recently opened second location. Through November 22. Info, 875-8900. DaVallia at 39 North in Chester.
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‘evOLvinG PeRsPectives: hiGhLiGhts fROm the afRican aRt cOLLectiOn’: An exhibition of objects that marks the trajectory of the collection’s development and pays tribute to some of the
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call to artists ‘amore’: Studio Place Arts invites artists working in traditional and nontraditional media to submit artwork or installations for an exhibit that “reveals the grandest and most evocative of emotions.” Deadline: December 5. Info, 479-7069, info@studioplacearts.com. ‘art of Place: The Chandler Gallery invites artists to submit two- or three-dimensional works that evoke a sense of place. Email submissions to artofplace.chandler@gmail. com. Deadline: December 15. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, Info, 728-9878. curiosity, aPPreciation or connection to natural World: The Art House Gallery seeks work for exhibition in the Gallery at Brown Library and the Trustees Room Gallery. Submit five to eight works in digital format (high-quality JPEG or PDF files titled with the name of the piece) accompanied by a text document with the title, medium and size of each piece. All works should be framed, with adequate hanging apparatus. Submissions may be made to vtarthouse@ gmail.com or by mailing a CD or thumb drive to PO Box 85, Craftsbury Common, VT, 05827. Deadline: October 25. Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, October 15-25. Info, 586-2200.
‘gone fishing’: Studio Place Arts seeks artwork depicting water, fish and other water life forms (including fly-fishing flies) for a spring 2015 exhibit that coincides with the gallery’s annual BASH fundraiser and the start of fishing season. Info, studioplacearts.com. Deadline: February 27, 2015. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069. model engineering shoW: We are looking for Generator members who are building CNC engraving/cutting machines to provide an Arduino Hands-On section at the Model Engineering Show at the American Precision Museum in Windsor on Saturday, October 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. If interested, please contact Sarah Rooker: srooker@americanprecision. org. Generator, Burlington, montPelier alive community & arts grant: Individuals and organizations are invited to submit proposals for community arts grants. Awards of up to $4,000 per proposal will be granted for the development and implementation of a program, festival, event or art installation that promotes and enhances the vibrancy of downtown Montpelier. Deadline: October 30, 5 p.m. Decisions made by November 15; funds available to awardees on or about November 30. Info, 223-9604, director@ montpelieralive.org.
social/environmental Justice calendar/Poster art: The 99 Gallery and Center seeks original artwork with an environmental or social justice theme for a poster show and calendar fundraiser. Artists will be credited but not financially compensated. Deadline: November 29. The 99 Gallery and Center, Newport. Info, 323-7759. island arts gallery 2015: Island Arts Gallery invites artists to apply for the 2015 season. Submit an artist statement, a description of mediums and two to five digital images. Deadline: November 3. Email submissions to maryjomccarthy@gmail.com. Island Arts South Hero Gallery, October 16-November 3. Info, 372-6047.
‘dreaming in glass’: A group show of glass sculptures by Québec artists. Through November 9. Info, 819-843-9992. Le Studio de Georgeville in Georgevile, Québec. ‘from van gogh to kandinsky: imPressionism to exPressionism, 1900-1914’: More than 100 paintings and an equal number of drawings and prints, augmented with photograph and media of the time, reveals the cross-currents of modern art at the turn of the 20th century in France and Germany. Through January 25, 2015. ‘remarkaBle contemPorary JeWellery’: Thirty Québec and international designers showcase works that illustrate new approaches and techniques to this wearable art form. Through November 30. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.
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les cosgrove: “Love Your Mother,” artwork by the upstate New York artist. Through November 30. Info, 518-962-4449. Depot Theatre in Westport, N.Y. m
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diane leifheit & Barry loBdell: Paintings, pastels and photographs by two Saranac Lake artists. Through November 1. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
seeking crafters, makers, artists & instructors: For an artist marketplace for November and December, we’re seeking high-quality original work, including handmade art, crafts, jewelry, scarves, ceramics, soap, etc. We’re also seeking instructors to teach drop-in classes. We take a 40 percent commission on sales (30 percent for members). Email images, description, bio and ideas for workshops, if any, to oneartscollective@ gmail.com by October 15. ONE Arts Center, Burlington. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com.
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people who shaped it. Through December 20. ‘the art of WeaPons’: Selections from the permanent African collection represent a variety of overlapping contexts, from combat to ceremony, regions and materials. Through December 21. ‘Witness: art and civil rights in the sixties’: More than 100 works of photography, painting, sculpture and graphic art by 66 artists who merged art and activism for the civil-rights movement. Through December 14. Info, 603-646-2095. allan houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3-D work from 1986-1992. Through May 11, 2015. Info, 603-635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.
‘rock-PaPer-scissors!’: Studio Place Arts seeks artwork that employs rock, paper and scissors for an upcoming exhibit. Info, studioplacearts.com. Deadline: January 23, 2015. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069.
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daily Planet: We are looking to fill our dining rooms with local artists’ work! Shows are two months long, starting on the first Saturday of the month. We consider diverse mediums of work. Please contact us if you are interested! The Daily Planet, Burlington. Info, 862-9647, gm@dailyplanet15.com.
‘con[text]: Word & image’: Darkroom Gallery seeks photographs that use written language to enhance meaning and add visual value and/or compositional balance for an upcoming group show juried by Tim Clark. Info, darkroomgallery. com. Deadline: November 26. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.
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ometimes people should stick to what they do well. Sure, it’s only natural to want to prove you’re a pony with more than one trick, but the cruel truth is that some people were put on earth for one purpose only. Director David Dobkin was born to give us 2005’s immortal Wedding Crashers and comedies like it. The Marx Brothers never did Shakespeare. Dobkin was definitely not put on this planet to helm meandering, dysfunctional family/courtroom dramas. Exhibit A: The Judge. This movie manages to run nearly two and a half hours, feature some of the most gifted actors alive, and somehow fail to offer a trope, motif or character type we haven’t seen a hundred times before — in pictures a hundred times less predictable. You want predictable? How about Robert Downey Jr. as Hank Palmer, a wiseass Chicago lawyer with an attitude? His specialty is twisting the law to keep rich creeps he knows are guilty from seeing the inside of a cell. It’s the sort of glib masterof-the-universe role the actor could play in his sleep. Or how about Robert Duvall reduced to recycling codger mannerisms? Actors don’t get more masterful than Duvall. But, when you get to be 83, Hollywood has pretty much
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one role left for you: the crotchety SOB with a warm, gooey center waiting to be discovered in Act 3. Duvall’s small-town Judge Palmer — Hank’s dad — is a walking, talking supercut of the characters the actors played in Get Low, The Road, Jayne Mansfield’s Car and Crazy Heart. Hank is forced to return to his Indiana hometown for his mother’s funeral. Father and son have been estranged for years (long story). Blood is found on the grill of the old man’s Cadillac, and he’s arrested for murder and can’t remember whether he did it (even longer story). So, guess who winds up defending him and, just maybe, reconciling with him? Eugene O’Neill this isn’t. The domestic drama is as clueless as the courtroom proceedings are convoluted. Hank’s older brother (Vincent D’Onofrio) dreamed of a career pitching in the majors until his hand was crippled in a car crash. (Hank was driving — really long story.) His younger brother (Jeremy Strong) is among the most offensive screen creations I’ve come across in years. Someone should’ve informed Dobkin, along with fellow writers Nick Schenk and Bill Dubuque, that cognitive disability is no longer acceptable comic fodder in the 21st century. Dale Palmer clearly suffers from a
ODOR IN THE COURT Let’s just say the sweet smell of success does not exactly emanate from Dobkin’s star-packed legal drama.
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form of autism that the writers don’t take the trouble to define. Instead, they make a running joke out of his carrying the family’s old Super 8 camera everywhere and shoving it in everyone’s face. Dobkin has claimed in interviews that he was inspired by Rain Man, but The Judge has about as much in common with that film as it does with Inherit the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird or any of the other timeless courtroom dramas of American cinema. Other squandered players are Billy Bob Thornton as the unnecessarily sinister prosecuting attorney, Vera Farmiga as Hank’s high school squeeze, Dax Shepard as
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PRESS UNDER PRESSURE Renner plays a reporter who pays dearly for the scoop of a lifetime in Cuesta’s fact-based drama.
that David Simon did so well in his HBO series “The Wire.” Cuesta, who directed eight episodes of “Homeland,” knows his way around tensely paced procedurals. He gives the early scenes of Kill the Messenger a tight, propulsive narrative, as Webb follows a tip from a drug dealer’s girlfriend all the way to a Nicaraguan prison. There he meets a courtly former drug lord (Andy Garcia) with a damning tale. Once Webb’s story hits print, however, the movie stops being an absorbing case study of how a reporter pursues a great lead. What we’re left with is a collection of persecuted-truth-teller clichés. Soon Webb’s
a hick lawyer and Ken Howard as the judge presiding over the case. You know you’re bored when you catch yourself musing on the evolution of his toupees. Here’s my closing argument: There are two things a movie should never waste — the talent of its cast and the time of its audience. The Judge is guilty on both counts. Dobkin should be sentenced to the community service he’d be performing if he simply ditched the “serious artist” shtick and went back into the funny business. RI C K KI S O N AK
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Kill the Messenger ★★★
hich is worse: not to tell an important story, or to flub its telling? Journalist Gary Webb didn’t commit either sin in 1996 when he published his “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose Mercury News. The story alleged that, during the 1980s, the CIA knowingly countenanced Nicaraguan Contras who smuggled cocaine into the U.S. to bankroll their insurgency. That thriving drug trade gave birth to the era’s crack epidemic. “Dark Alliance” was compelling enough to ignite a firestorm of controversy — and scrutiny, which eventually ended Webb’s journalistic career. (He committed suicide in 2004.) Fellow journalist Nick Schou chronicled Webb’s travails in a 2006 book called Kill the Messenger, which argued that the powers that be buried his story precisely because the evidence supported it. Based on both Schou’s and Webb’s work, this film from director Michael Cuesta portrays Webb (Jeremy Renner) as a heroic David brought down by the twin Goliaths of the CIA and the mainstream media. It’s undeniably a story we need to hear. But, in the hands of Cuesta and screenwriter Peter Landesman, it’s not a particularly compelling one. The problem isn’t the material but the timid, boilerplate approach. Webb’s story offers golden opportunities for the sort of dramatic dissection of broken institutions
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long-suffering editor (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and publisher (Oliver Platt) turn from nuanced characters into turncoats who quickly betray him. When Webb visits a Washington player (Michael Sheen) in hopes of finding a source in the intelligence community, he’s given the sinister, on-thenose message that “Some stories are too true to tell.” Rather than exploring the voracious media culture that built Webb up and then tore him down, the film keeps the focus on the man himself. Nobody plays obsessive, unhinged characters better than Renner, as he showed in The Hurt Locker. In this role,
his wild eyes match the frayed strap on his messenger bag, his sartorial sloppiness serving as a badge of journalistic virtue. (The film depicts the staff of the Los Angeles Times, which systematically picked apart Webb’s story, as immaculately suited and tied.) But the script is too busy building Webb up as a hero to give him a truly troubled or even interesting psyche. Sometimes real persecution breeds pathological paranoia, but Kill the Messenger waffles on the question of just how justified Webb’s paranoia was. Instead of investigating his dark places, it treats us to scene after static scene of his home life with a loyal but worried wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) and a kid who just wants his dad back (Lucas Hedges). These actors deserve better than going through the motions of the tired “Daddy, why do you have to go save the world?” trope. So does the audience. While the particulars of Webb’s story are still disputed, a subsequent CIA report appears to support his central contentions. Hobbled by their limited approach, Cuesta and Landesman miss their chance to illuminate a world in which such revelations sank within a news cycle. There may be a story here about the last gasp of great shoe-leather journalism, but they’re not telling it. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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new in theaters AmeRicAN BeAR: AN ADveNtURe iN tHe kiNDNess oF stRANgeRs: directors gregory grano and Sarah Sellman took a 60-day road trip, seeking hospitality from strangers and chronicling the process for this documentary. The first screening on October 17, 7 p.m., features a Q&a. (93 min, nR. Roxy) tHe Best oF me: The latest screen version of a nicholas Sparks novel features James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as former high school sweethearts who return to their hometown for a last chance at love. Michael hoffman (The Last Station) directed. (117 min, Pg-13. bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace) tHe Book oF liFe: guillermo del toro produced this fantastical animation in which a young man (voiced by diego luna) must explore three worlds to resolve a conflict between his duty and his heart. with Zoe Saldana and channing tatum. Jorge R. gutierrez makes his feature directorial debut. (95 min, Pg. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, welden) FURY: brad Pitt plays a tank commander behind enemy lines in 1945 in this world war II drama from director david ayer (End of Watch). with Shia labeouf, logan lerman and Michael Peña. (134 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) meN, WomeN & cHilDReN: Jason Reitman (Labor Day) directed this ensemble drama about a group of high school kids and their parents whose lives are all touched, for better or worse, by the internet. Kaitlyn dever, Jennifer garner, Rosemarie dewitt, adam Sandler, Judy greer and dean norris star. (119 min, R. Roxy) tHe tWo FAces oF JANUARY: a con artist preys on tourists in athens in this period thriller adapted from Patricia highsmith’s novel, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten dunst and Oscar Isaac. Screenwriter hossein amini makes his directorial debut. (97 min, Pg-13. Savoy)
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DRAcUlA UNtolDHH So, guess what? Vlad tepes (luke Evans), aka dracula, apparently was a not-so-bad transylvanian dude who had to become a vampire because reasons. we-need-anew-marketable-action-franchise reasons. with Sarah gadon and dominic cooper. gary Shore makes his directorial debut. (92 min, Pg-13) tHe eQUAliZeRH The ’80s tV show comes to the screen with denzel washington as the former intelligence officer who uses his special skills to help people in trouble. Martin csokas and chloë grace Moretz also star in the crime thriller, directed by antoine fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen). (131 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 10/1)
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goNe giRlHHHH david fincher (The Social Network) directed this psychological thriller about a golden boy (ben affleck) who becomes a suspect after his wife vanishes, adapted by gillian flynn from her novel. Rosamund Pike and neil Patrick harris also star. (149 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 10/8) gUARDiANs oF tHe gAlAXYHHHH Make way for another Marvel comics film franchise, this one featuring chris Pratt as an interstellar rogue who assembles a rag-tag team to defeat a space tyrant. with Zoe Saldana, bradley cooper, dave bautista and Vin diesel. James gunn (Super) directed. (121 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 8/6) tHe JUDgeHH Robert downey Jr. plays a big-city lawyer who returns to his hometown to defend his estranged dad (Robert duvall) against a murder charge in this drama from director david dobkin (The Change-Up). (141 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 10/15) kill tHe messeNgeRHHH Set in the 1990s, this fact-based drama from director Michael cuesta (L.I.E.) traces bay area journalist gary webb’s struggle to defend his reporting linking to the cIa to the drug trade and other shady doings. Jeremy Renner stars. (112 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 10/15) leFt BeHiND 1/2H Originally filmed with Kirk cameron in the lead, the christian best-seller about survivors seeking redemption after the Rapture gets a reboot starring nicolas cage. with lea Thompson, cassi Thomson and chad Michael Murray. famed stunt coordinator Vic armstrong directed. (110 min, Pg-13)
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DolpHiN tAle 2HHH In this sequel to the 2011 family flick, winter the dolphin needs a new companion to replace her long-time surrogate mom at the aquarium. with ashley Judd, nathan gamble and Morgan freeman. charles Martin Smith again directs. (107 min, Pg)
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AleXANDeR AND tHe teRRiBle, HoRRiBle, No gooD, veRY BAD DAYHH nothing seems to go right for the titular 11-year-old (Ed Oxenbould) in this family comedy based on Judith Viorst’s 1972 picture book. Steve carell and Jennifer garner play his parents. Miguel arteta (Cedar Rapids) directed. (81 min, Pg)
BoYHooDHHHHH Richard linklater (Before Midnight) filmed one boy (Ellar coltrane) over 12 years to create a one-of-a-kind real-time portrait of coming of age. Ethan hawke and Patricia arquette play his parents. (165 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/6)
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veNUs iN FURHHH1/2 Roman Polanski directed this adaptation of David Ives’ two-character play about an actress who auditions for the role of a dominatrix and starts to live her part. With Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric. (96 min, NR)
tHis is WHeRe i leAve YoUHH1/2 Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll play siblings who find themselves sitting shiva with their mom (Jane Fonda) after their dad dies. Shawn Levy (The Internship) directed the comedy. (103 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/24)
X-meN: DAYs oF FUtURe pAstHHH1/2 Bryan Singer returns as director for this time-hopping mutant extravaganza in which the X-Men join forces with their younger selves. With Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. (131 min, PG-13)
tRAcKsHHHH Mia Wasikowska plays Robyn Davidson, who trekked 1,700 miles across the Australian outback, in this adaptation of her popular memoir. With Adam Driver. John Curran (The Painted Veil) directed. (110 min, PG-13)
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After police released surveillance videos of a carjacking in New Haven, Conn., three probation officers identified the suspect as Gary Harding, 26. To avoid arousing suspicion, they asked Harding to attend a routine probation meeting. He obliged by showing up in the stolen vehicle and was arrested. (Hartford’s WFSB-TV) Police chasing a vehicle that fled a traffic stop lost sight of it but then spotted it parked in Lebanon, Ore. Authorities searching for the driver in the dark noticed a strong scent of cologne that led them to Charles V. Agosto, 35, crouched in some shrubbery, “only about 10 or 20 feet away from his car,” Police Chief Frank Stevenson said. (Albany DemocratHerald)
An Inconvenient Truth
Climate change and overpopulation helped create the terrorist group ISIS, according to researchers at New York’s John Jay College Center on Terrorism. Charles Strozier and Kelly Berkell blame catastrophic weather for ruining 800,000 Syrian farmers and herders and knocking two to three million people into extreme poverty, turning many “climate refugees” into terrorists. “Environmental stressors and political violence are connected in surprising ways,” the authors said, asking, “If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather …
would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags? (Huffington Post)
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The National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars apologized after team mascot Jaxson de Ville mocked the Pittsburgh Steelers during their game by holding a Steelers signature yellow “Terrible Towels” next to a sign that read “TOWELS CARRY EBOLA.” Team president Mark Lamping said Curtis Dvorak, who has played the mascot since 1996, “made an extremely poor decision” and apologized “to anyone who was offended.” (Associated Press)
The germ-zapping robot, dubbed “Little Moe,” could destroy Ebola on any surface in two minutes. Ebola protective clothing will be popular this Halloween, according to social media, where users are posting costumes based on Ebola emergency responders wearing goggles, rubber gloves and fullbody suits. New York Costumes manager Tony Bianchi said Ebola costumes would be homemade because no manufacturer has produced any. “There are certain things, you just don’t go there,” he explained. (Reuters)
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A robot that hospitals use to disinfect and destroy bacteria and viruses may become a key weapon in the fight against the Ebola virus. The device, developed by Xenex and used in 250 U.S. hospitals, relies on a xenon bulb to emit powerful ultraviolet light, which fuses the DNA of a virus and kills it. Xenex’s Mark Stibich added that the germzapping robot, dubbed “Little Moe,” could rid a hospital room of germs in five minutes and destroy Ebola on any surface in two minutes. (San Antonio’s KENS-TV)
Second-Amendment Follies A 21-year-old man who’d just bought a handgun was openly carrying it on a street in Gresham, Ore., when a stranger approached and asked for a cigarette. As the men talked about the new gun, police said the stranger pulled his own gun from his waistband and announced, “I like your gun. Give it to me.” The victim handed over his gun, and the robber ran away. (Portland’s KPTV-TV)
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Looking to broaden their market, Colorado pot shops began selling marijuana aimed at beginners. It’s available in edibles, following reports of first-time users becoming ill after eating medical-grade pot without knowing how much of the psychoactive drug THC to consume. New low-dose products include a marijuana-
infused soda 15 times weaker than other brands and Rookie Cookie, which contains 10 milligrams of THC, a mild dose for adults. “For a long time, the medical market was a race to the strongest edible,” Holden Sproul, who works for the maker of Rookie Cookie, said. “Now it’s a new market, and people want something that won’t get them so inebriated they’re not functional.” (International Business Times)
Scofflaw Follies
While writing a speeding ticket for Julius Lupowitz in West Melbourne, Fla., police officer Ted Salem heard a radio call about an attempted murder nearby. Salem was abandoning the traffic stop to respond to the priority call but caught the 911 operator announcing that the emergency caller was Julius Lupowitz. “When she broadcast that information, our officer was standing at the door of Mr. Lupowitz’s vehicle and realized it was the same person making the 911 calls,” police official Richard Cordeau said. Lupowitz apparently made two anonymous emergency calls, hoping the officer would respond rather than write the speeding ticket, but the operator traced the caller’s phone number. Lupowitz now risks a thirddegree felony charge that could net five years in jail — and he still received the $209 speeding ticket. (Orlando’s WFTV-TV)
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In 1936, Libran author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle. Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory. If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.
(April 20-May 20): In 1987, a college freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the university of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny. The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to more than $28,000 — enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, taurus: Ask for a little from a lot of different sources.
gemiNi (May 21-June 20): The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the climax of their tricks; the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit materialize from a hat or an assistant disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s no real sorcery. It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s hocus-pocus. but “abracadabra” has a less well-known history as an incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment with this possibility, Gemini. say “abracadabra” to boost your confidence and enhance your derring-do. you already have more power than usual to change things that have been resistant to change, and intoning some playfully ferocious “abracadabras” may put your efforts over the top. caNceR (June 21-July 22): The 17th-cen-
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23-sept. 22): I suspect that one of your allies or loved ones will get caught in his or her own trap. The way you respond will be crucial for how the rest of the story plays out. on the one hand, you shouldn’t climb into the trap with them and get tangled up in the snarl. on the other hand, it won’t serve your long-term interests to be cold and unhelpful. so what’s the best strategy? first, empathize with their pain, but don’t make it your own. second, tell the blunt truth in the kindest tone possible. Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity.
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(oct. 23-nov. 21): on a late summer day in 1666, scientist Isaac newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, england. An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity. fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped earth’s gravity on his trip to the International space station. by my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a comparable gesture or ritual, scorpio. With a flourish, update your relationship with an important point of origin.
sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high, either flying or perched somewhere off the ground. one species that isn’t subject to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird.
aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): “Problems
that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,” said philosopher Alan Watts. you have either recently made a personal discovery proving that this is true, or else you will soon do so. The brain-scrambling, heart-whirling events of recent weeks have blessed you with a host of shiny new questions. They are vibrant replacements for the tired old questions that have kept at least one of your oldest dilemmas locked in place.
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(feb. 19-March 20): “There is for everyone some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life,” said Irish poet William butler yeats. I invite you to identify that numinous presence, Pisces. And then I urge you to celebrate and cultivate it. Give special attention to it and pay tribute to it and shower love on it. Why? because now is an excellent time to recognize how important your secret life is to you — and to make it come more fully alive than it has ever been.
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As it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the Cornell Lab of ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot — or your power animal, as they say in new Age circles. Why? I doubt that you will be soaring. you won’t be gazing down at the human comedy from a detached location high above the fray. but I expect you will be well-grounded and good-humored — holding your own with poise amid the rough-and-tumble. As you ramble, sing freely!
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Diamond District is home to more than 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewelry. Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here. Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches and other accessories. now an enterprising man named raffi stepnanian is cashing in. using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters. “The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,”
tury writer rene Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His famous catchphrase is a centerpiece of the Western intellectual tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides the bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality? I say no. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to instead adopt
one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.”
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My boyfriend and I have been together for more than six years, and we have a pretty good thing going. I have always had a vibrator and recently attempted to bring it into sex, but he was really not into it. He even said he doesn’t like that I have one. He didn’t tell me I had to get rid of it, but he was, like, totally weirded out. I don’t get it. I asked him to tell me more, but he wouldn’t. How can I get him interested?
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I’m certainly glad he didn’t forbid you to use your trusty vibrator anymore; that would have been a serious bummer. And it sounds like your ideal would be harmony among you, the boyfriend and the vibrator. But he’s got issues about it, for sure, so let’s get down to why. Does he feel intimidated? Do you use it more often than you play with him? He actually might be jealous. If you want your honey to share the good vibes, you have to find a way to carefully ask him why he’s turned off. Many stressful situations with a partner can be addressed by simply asking why. Avoid being defensive or challenging. If he thinks he can’t pleasure you like your old pal the dildo, he may be feeling inadequate. Reassure him that no batteryoperated buddy could ever out-do his human touch. Unless, of course, he isn’t hitting the mark, and vibey is your only chance for an orgasm. If that’s the case, initiate a casual convo about where and how you like to be touched. Show him while in bed. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: You’re responsible for your own orgasm. Whether your man responds to subtle guidance or needs Google maps, you gotta do what you gotta do. If your boyfriend is put off by the vibrator because it’s unbelievably huge, maybe try changing brands. Plenty of vibrators don’t even resemble a penis but still do the job. Look into something that doesn’t resemble his piece and he may settle down. We all need to feel useful and desired by our sexual partner, and your guy clearly doesn’t want any competition. In time, he might be ready for — and even enthused — about your mechanical participant in the bedroom, and will see it for what it is: a fun toy. Then you can be a happy little threesome.
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A LOCAL TURKEY ON EVERY TABLE ORDER YOUR TURKEY TODAY AT THE SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE OF /lb Pre-order price available now through November 21st from one of our trusted, local farms:
• Adams Turkey Farm • Stonewood Farm • Misty Knoll Farm We’ve been putting the tastiest turkeys on Thanksgiving tables for almost 30 years! It’s been our mission to work with local farmers we know and trust; farmers who raise fantastic birds! Over the years we’ve worked with Dave and Judy Adams of Adams Turkey Farm in Westford, to bring their products to market. Here we are this week‌.Judy and I and all the turkeys! Katy Lesser, Co-Owner, Healthy Living Market and Cafe
Order today at healthylivingmarket.com or in the store! DORSET ST, S. BURLINGTON Ă— . . Ă— HEALTHYLIVINGMARKET.COM
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