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Homicides are uncommon in Burlington; last year, there was just one — a homeless man killed in an encampment. Authorities said last September that they lacked evidence to charge anyone in that case.

“He left a big hole,” Dunoskovic said of his friend. “I have no idea. I don’t know anything. I can’t imagine any kind of motive.”

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evin DeOliveira was 23 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he lived in an apartment in a two-story house at 58 Greene Street in Burlington, just a couple of blocks from Pomeroy Park. He had attended University of Vermont.

Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling gave that brief summation of DeOliveira’s life during a news conference on January 5, during which he revealed that the young Burlingtonian, a homicide victim, had been shot in his home.

Worried that they hadn’t heard from Kevin, DeOliveira’s family members had asked his friends to check on him. They found him dead.

The day after the news conference, another friend, Stewart Dunoskovic, filled in some personal details about DeOliveira, Mark Davis reported on Seven Days’ Off Message blog. The two became friends a few years ago, while working together at the Ice House Restaurant. Although both went on to work at other downtown restaurants, they stayed close. Dunoskovic described his friend as generous and fun loving — a good tipper who was quick with a joke.

DeOliveira had studied art at UVM, and that was his passion, Dunoskovic said. He had stacks of drawings and sketches at home that he showed friends.

Dunoskovic thought his friend might have made a living in the arts one day.

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As a long-time opponent of single-payer, I was pleased to see that the governor awoke to the stark economic reality [Off Message, “Analysis: Caving on Single-Payer, Shumlin Forfeits Remaining Credibility,” December 18].

As a taxpayer, I am outraged that the state spent so much money on high-priced, out-of-state consultants who told us little that differs from what perfectly credible in-state economists and business analysts were saying.

As a voter, the timing of this announcement between Election Day and the beginning of the new legislative session simply disgusts me. Knowing that some six months ago leading Democratic legislators were privately acknowledging that singlepayer was dead, I suggest that the governor has mortally wounded his rapidly waning career.

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overlooks so many musical genres that I am surprised. I want to give a shout-out to Dawn Willis, founder and director of Bella Voce Women’s Chorus and Solaris Vocal Ensemble and choir director at First Baptist Church in Burlington. Her biography is too long to list here, but she is one of your many, many missing influential artists we are fortunate to have among us. Also, Vermont Symphony Orchestra?

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In “Life Stories: Remembering Vermonters Who Died in 2014,” [December 24], Ken Picard misidentified the mother of the two children in Jason Allen’s household; she is Amanda Kelley.

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Rick Kisonak’s Wild review is a smug dismissal of Cheryl Strayed’s personal healing tale [Movies, December 17].

The movie’s merits aside, I enjoyed this funny, compelling book. Perhaps, as a woman, I more easily admired the plucky drive of this female protagonist on the kind of solo adventure more commonly attributed to men.

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Alicia Freese’s “A Plan for the People?

Burlington Progs Put Mall Man Through the Paces” [December 17] indicates the city is considering using tax-increment funding to pay for a park four stories above Church Street in a redeveloped Burlington Town Center, considering it “public infrastructure.” A half mile away, 32 acres of pristine and undeveloped lakefront land sits on the chopping block, most to be tossed over the side of a fiscally sinking Burlington College. Most observers know it won’t save the college but will destroy the North End’s last opportunity for open space. The city should and can lead an effort to preserve 26 of those acres from intense development by forging a coalition with land trusts and philanthropists to preserve this as a public park; a park where a revitalized Burlington College can carry out a signature mission involving urban agriculture, fresh water ecology, archeology and botany. I urge elected officials to focus on this opportunity existing on the ground rather than on the dream of greenery in the sky.

“Wild is kind of silly,” Kisonak pronounces. He then claims that when Strayed hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, “she wasn’t a writer, a philosopher or even a hiker.”

She was, in fact, working on a manuscript and journaling on the trail, and had a dual major in English and women’s studies.

Kisonak can’t see the connection between Strayed’s motivation for this hike and her previous self-destructive behavior. Really?

Undertaking a rigorous solo hike to snap oneself out of a downward spiral makes perfect sense to me.

Into the Wild and 127 Hours are referenced as adventures with merit, whose male protagonists apparently have more admirable “mind-sets” than Strayed.

Hmmm. Christopher McCandless disappears into the Alaskan wilderness with a 10-pound bag of rice and inappropriate footwear. Danny Boyle, after failing to inform anyone of his hiking plans, has us watch for two hours to see if he will saw off his arm. Regarding the discounted baggage metaphor of Strayed’s overfull backpack: At least she brought adequate gear.

In the reverse metaphor, McCandless tries to outrun his baggage —eschewing money, possessions and family. Strayed has the balls to carry her baggage with her.

Lastly, Kisonak keeps saying Strayed “walked” the PCT. She most definitely hiked it.

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Power to the People: Envisioning Rutland as ‘Energy City of the Future’

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Vermont Crime Lab Struggles to Stay Legit

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Short Takes on Film: Celebrating Tunbridge, Petitioning Tim Burton Stowe’s West Branch Gallery Shifts Gears and Keeps Growing

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Retrofitting a 1950s Burlington house

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Getting to Zero: Three Ways Vermonters Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

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BY MARGOT HARRISON

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Ultra-efficient passive houses

VAC Announces Plans for the State’s Official ‘Year of the Arts’

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Queen City ShakeUp: New Districts, Candidates in Landmark Election

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Books: Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman

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Food: Taste Test: Parkside Kitchen, Richmond

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On Tap: Zero Gravity Craft Brewery

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In the Year 2015…

BY DAN BOLLES

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Stuck in Vermont: Tony Telensky, aka

Max Speed, has been organizing sledding adventures with family and friends since 2008. Eva Sollberger recently joined Tony and his compatriots for a ride down the Notch Road in Stowe.

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Art: Six exhibits to look forward to in 2015

BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN & PAMELA POLSTON

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ways Vermonters can reduce their carbon footprint — and dial back global warming — at home

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Does this ultra-efficient home point the way to carbon neutrality in Vermont?

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Switching Gears Known for tackling the steepest inclines with ease, Italian cyclist Marco Pantani won the hearts of fans along with prestigious races — including the 1998 Tour de France. The following year, doping allegations caused the elite athlete’s fall from grace and subsequent drug addiction. It’s all brilliantly captured in James Erskine’s documentary Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist.

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Purrfectly primped purebreds take center stage at the Vermont Fancy Felines Cat Show. This annual event draws kitty lovers from around the state who check out four-legged friends as they compete in various classes. Rounding out this pawsitively good time, cats take a spin around the ring in the Parade of Breeds.

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Uphill Battle Where better to test your skills on cross-country skis than in Stowe? Vermont’s quintessential ski town hosts the Race to the Cabin, a 5K climb to Slayton Pasture Cabin. Competing against the clock, cold-weather athletes hustle to the humble abode nestled deep in the woods, where bowls of hot soup await.

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A Way With Words At just 33 years old, poet Charlie Bondhus is already an established literary force. Praised

by Lambda Literary for its “meticulous use of restrained, pointed, focused language,” his recent collection All the Heat We Could Carry won the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The bard returns to his alma mater Goddard College for a reading of select works.

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Old Souls Taylor Smith and Laura Heaberlin of Cricket Blue are onto something. The folk duo pairs acoustic guitars with hushed, haunting harmonies about love, mythology and everything in between. Formed in 2013, the two recently released their self-titled debut EP, an effort fortified with poetic prowess that shines when the performers take the stage at Nectar’s.

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World Music Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley before them, the members of Kina Zoré make music filled with messages of peace, brotherhood and social change.

Featuring front man Helder Tsinine, the Bostonbased ensemble elevates Afro-pop with spirited rhythms and stellar songwriting. Music lovers can expect a danceable mix of infectious drumbeats and catchy solos.

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Round Two

elcome, ladies and gentlemen, to one of the strangest weeks in Vermont’s recent political history.

Behold: On Thursday morning, a newly sworn-in legislature will settle a gubernatorial election whose outcome Bobbi Brown has been (at least somewhat) up in the air since November. That’s because neither Trish McEvoy Democratic incumbent PETER SHUMLIN Laura Mercier nor Republican challenger SCOTT MILNE SkinCeuticals managed to win 50 percent of the vote — Kiehl’s Since 1851 Vermont’s constitutional threshold for victory — and neither would concede.

And now for the first time When 180 legislators make the final call in Vermont ... La Mer!!!!! on Thursday, believe it or not, they’ll do so by secret ballot.

Immediately thereafter, the newly elected governor — be it Shumlin or Milne — will pop across State Street for a traditional luncheon with Vermont’s former governors.

Corner of Main & Battery Streets, Of course, Shummy’s invited either way: In the unlikely event the Democrat-dominated Burlington, VT • 802-861-7500 legislature kicks him to the curb, he can www.mirrormirrorvt.com hang out with his fellow formers.

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While both candidates claim they’re catholic not twisting arms to secure victory, mass Shumlin went out of his way Monday to sunday > 11:00 am illustrate the calamity he believes would befall Vermont if Milne prevails. The Phoenix governor-for-now noted that when he was books first elected, it took him more than two thursdays > 8:00 pm months to staff his administration, start writing a budget and prepare to lead the state — steps Milne has not publicly taken.

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Paralyzed? Damn. Them’s fightin’ words.

For his part, Milne has purchased Facebook ads and produced web videos encouraging voters to call their legislators and urge them to support his candidacy.

Meanwhile, a shadowy new organization called Vermonters for Honest Government has spent at least $30,000 on TV ads supporting Milne’s cause. The group’s frontman, WILLIAM ROUND of Newport, won’t say who’s footing the bill — even though the ads slam Shummy for a lack of “transparency.”

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of legislators is too much for you, you’re not alone. This year’s never-ending-November has prompted several lawmakers to dust off long-debated constitutional amendments that would ensure that the person who received the most votes would actually become governor.

For the record, that was Shumlin, who won 2,434 more than Milne. You know, if that kind of thing matters to you.

“We live in a democracy, and in a democracy the citizens’ votes should really make a difference,” says Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P/D-Washington). “I’m not a constitutional historian or scholar, but it doesn’t make sense to me to have the legislature electing the governor.”

PARALYZED? DAMN. THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS. Pollina is drafting a constitutional amendment that would call for a runoff election if no candidate won more than 40 percent of the vote. Another proposal, which veteran Sen. BILL DOYLE (R-Washington) has repeatedly introduced over the years, would throw the election to the legislature only when no candidate received 40 percent. Instant-runoff voting could be another option.

Shumlin endorsed Doyle’s idea this week, arguing that Milne’s decision to keep fighting has set a “really dangerous precedent.”

Sen. JEANETTE WHITE (D-Windham), who chairs the Senate Government Operations Committee, says she plans to cosponsor Pollina’s measure because she wants to “have a conversation” in her committee about throwing out the old system.

“I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do anymore,” she says.

But White acknowledges that, especially in Vermont, constitutional amendments are “pretty darn difficult” to enact.

Proposals must pass the Senate by a twothirds majority and the House by a simple majority in two successive biennia and then survive a public referendum.

Eleven times in Vermont’s history, amendments similar to Pollina’s and Doyle’s have failed to go the distance.

And support for such measures is not universal. White’s counterpart in the House, Rep. DONNA SWEANEY (D-Windsor), says she’s leery of making such a significant change based upon one unusual election.

“The system that we have right now has worked in the past at some level,” she says.

We’ll see on Thursday whether it works this time around.

Stay Tuned

For years, Shumlin talked smack about the federal Affordable Care Act, saying it didn’t go far enough in expanding access to health insurance or containing rising health care costs. Only a universal, publicly financed, single-payer health care system would do the trick, he argued.

That was before he pulled the flip-flop of his political career last month and dropped his signature policy initiative — giving up the fight for single-payer before it truly began.

Now, it seems, Shummy’s tune has changed on the ACA, better known as Obamacare. At Monday’s press conference, the gov said he was “delighted” that the federal law’s expanded Medicaid coverage and health care subsidies have cut the number of uninsured Vermonters almost in half over the past two years — from 42,760 to 23,231.

Shumlin seemed ready to unfurl the “mission accomplished” banner over the aircraft carrier.

Now, he said, the state should transform the way it pays for health care and focus on reducing its costs. To that end, Shumlin promised to outline in this week’s inaugural address and next week’s budget address — assuming he’s reelected — a plan to reduce the Medicaid cost shift by increasing the amount that providers are reimbursed for their services.

As for the details?

“Stay tuned,” Shumlin said at least six times during the hour-long presser.

Not included in his spit-shined list of health care priorities was any mention of a plan to cover those 23,000 Vermonters who remain uninsured.

Asked about the omission, Shumlin said, “I am open to any ideas that would help us move to the universal health care system that you know I deeply believe in.”

Open to any ideas? Hardly the words of a governor planning to lead the charge.

So what, exactly, is he going to propose to achieve universal coverage?

“We’re still developing those recommendations,” he said, noting that he had only recently abandoned his last grand plan.

“You spent four years working on that plan that didn’t go forward,” Seven Days noted. “Do you have an ETA for when your next recommendation of how to deal with those uninsured people will reach the legislature?”

“We will be working on that in this biennium,” he said.

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The Burlington Free Press reported Tuesday that its next publisher will be aL GetLeR, who helmed a Massachusetts newspaper group during a period of costcutting and layoffs at its Eagle-Tribune and sister papers. According to Getler’s

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Getler replaces JiM FoGLeR, who left the Free Press in September. At the time, the paper was undergoing a newsroom reorganization that resulted in several departures, retirements and layoffs.

The Freeps isn’t the only local daily shedding staff.

In recent months, the Mitchellfamily-owned Rutland Herald and BarreMontpelier Times Argus have lost several key employees, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.

BRuce edwaRdS, who spent nearly 27 years at the Herald, most notably its business reporter, left in September. Kevin o’connoR, a 31-year veteran and Vermont Sunday Magazine mainstay, left the paper in December. The Times Argus, meanwhile, recently lost sports reporter anna GReaRSon and Montpelier reporter aMy nixon. The latter started a new gig this week covering education for VTDigger.org.

Perhaps most troubling for the company’s bottom line, advertising director and sales manager peteR coLoMB, who spent nearly 25 years at the Herald, left last week to work for rutland’s Catamount radio.

The T-A hasn’t had an advertising director in years.

In a note to readers in December, Herald editor RoB MitcheLL, whose father, John MitcheLL, serves as publisher of the two papers, announced that the Herald was doing away with its Southern Vermont section and consolidating its content into the Local & State section.

Sources say the move portends further reductions in its delivery to and coverage of Bennington, Windham and Windsor counties.

It’s unclear whether O’Connor, who covered Windham County, was laid off as part of a southern Vermont pullback or left voluntarily. He confirmed his departure but declined to comment further.

The Herald’s other southern reporters — Springfield’s SuSan SMaLLheeR and Bennington’s patRicK McaRdLe — remain on the job.

The Mitchells are also considering enlisting VTDigger to provide Statehouse coverage for the Herald and T-A, sources say. It’s unclear whether such a move would spell the end of the Vermont Press Bureau, which has served as the papers’ Statehouse outpost since rob Mitchell’s grandfather, BoB MitcheLL, joined it in 1935. The bureau currently includes neaL GoSwaMi and JoSh o’GoRMan. Ironically, VTDigger was founded by veteran journalist anne GaLLoway after she was laid off by the T-A in 2009. Galloway says her former bosses have not approached her about a collaboration.

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Sounds familiar.

Now that Shumlin has moved on from single-payer, much of the apparatus built up to assure its passage appears to be disintegrating.

Last year, the Montpelier lobbying firm KSE Partners founded the nonprofit advocacy group Vermont CurE with $100,000 in funding from the American Federation of Teachers. The group’s mission was to support candidates who backed singlepayer and lobby for its passage in the Statehouse.

Just days before the governor announced his intention to abandon his plan, the organization hired former Shumlin administration and campaign staffer Ryan McLaRen to serve as its executive director. Now Vermont CurE plans to disband in six weeks, says board chair BRaM KLeppneR, and McLaren will lose the job he just started.

“Our sense is that the organization doesn’t really have a reason to exist anymore,” Kleppner says. “If the governor says we can’t figure out how to do this and we’re giving up, the odds of implementing something without his leadership is so steep that it’s not worth our time and money to do something that’s probably a lost fight.”

Of course, Shumlin certainly isn’t the only player in state government.

In the absence of gubernatorial leadership, House Speaker Shap SMith (D-Morristown) or Senate President Pro Tem John caMpBeLL (D-Windsor) could adopt universal coverage as a top priority this session. But both men held their noses at the notion of passing Shumlin’s singlepayer financing plan before they even saw it — and both have identified other issues, such as education finance reform and Lake Champlain cleanup, as higher priorities.

Whether they or any other legislators fill the vacuum left by Shumlin’s abdication of the universal health care throne remains to be seen.

What is certain is that Shumlin will continue to at least talk about health care. He pledged Monday to focus his inaugural and budget addresses on the two issues he said “anyone who listened to voters in this election” heard the most about: the rising cost of health care and the rising cost of education.

Given that he’s yet to advance a plan to counter either, can we expect something real — or just a bunch of rhetoric?

“You’ve got to come to the speeches,” he said. “But the answer is: I sure hope it will be more than rhetorical.”

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ailing into unknown waters, are you better off with old salts or a fresh crew navigating the ship? Vermonters are about to find out.

As the 2015 legislative session launches this week in Montpelier, several key roles will be filled by new players — or, in some cases, by veteran players with new assignments. They’ll face a host of serious challenges, from bridging a $100 million

state budget gap to revamping Vermont’s education finance system.

A change at the top looks unlikely: Gov. Peter Shumlin is expected to keep his job when the legislature votes to ratify his election on Thursday.

But he’s already announced several high-level staffing changes.

In the legislature, 35 new House members and

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four new senators are taking their seats. Not all the committee leaders will be the same as they were last session, though Senate committee chairmanships had yet to be announced as of Tuesday.

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recently deputy secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. He previously served as commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and was a holdover from the administration of former Republican governor Jim Douglas.

An Australian by birth, Johnson is now a U.S. citizen. He came to the United States to work as an agricultural journalist and was lured to Vermont for a communications job with the state agriculture department in 1994.

The upshot: Johnson’s new job –

essentially chief operating officer — is one of the toughest in state government. The “secretary” is expected to solve nearly all of the problems and get none of the credit.

Among his first priorities will be addressing that $100 million budget gap. Unlike his predecessor, Jeb Spaulding, who had previously served as state treasurer and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Johnson has little financial background.

He said he will look to others for accounting expertise and sees his role as finding the path to achieve goals. Others describe Johnson as an adept manager who can navigate his way through bureaucracy. Whether it’s on account of his Aussie accent or his affable demeanor, he has a reputation for finding solutions that leave all parties feeling reasonably satisfied.

As for his own politics, Johnson says, “I tend not to approach it particularly politically.

I see it as a public-service role.”

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has been vice chair of the Appropriations Committee for four years, a member of the committee for eight and in the legislature since 2003. This is her first legislative chairmanship, but she has experience keeping a tripartisan set of legislators in sync as conductor of the Statehouse Singers group.

The upshot: Johnson studied under

longtime Appropriations Committee chair Martha Heath, who retired from the legislature last year. The Grand Isle rep recently earned a master’s degree in public administration.

As her committee tackles the $100 million budget gap, expect Johnson to try to keep members focused on the state’s new resultsbased accountability strategy, reminding them to ask whether state programs are making Vermonters better off before agreeing to spend money on them.

“It’s really about figuring out how to make decisions differently,” Johnson says.

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legislator since 2003, is a longtime member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

member of the House Judiciary Committee; legislator since 1994

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(D-Morristown) says his No. 1 priority this session is to reform Vermont’s complex and controversial education finance system. To achieve that goal, he plans to broaden the ed committee’s jurisdiction to include tax policy — and he’s replacing its longtime chair, Rep. Joey Donovan (D-Burlington), with Sharpe.

A retired auto repair shop owner, Sharpe loves getting into the weeds of education funding. He’s never chaired a legislative committee, but says that when he led the Bristol Selectboard, his style was to build consensus.

Many have tried and failed to find a way to lower school spending and property taxes while improving education — without stripping communities of control over their schools. “I recognize it’s a difficult issue to talk about,” Sharpe says.

become a little easier when Gov. Peter Shumlin announced on December 17 that he was dropping plans for universal, government-financed health care. But Lippert might be left to referee a free-for-all among those seeking some other way to make health care more affordable and available.

Lippert, a Democrat, didn’t ask to head the health care committee, but Speaker Smith was looking for a veteran to tackle the hotbutton issue after former chair Mike Fisher lost his bid for reelection.

Lippert is known as a passionate but deliberate chair who takes time to defuse differences. He was involved in crafting the 2000 civil unions and 2009 same-sex marriage laws — some of the state’s most contentious and delicate legislation to date.

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The upshoT: Copeland hanzas has been a part of the

house democratic leadership team since she was elected, and now moves into the caucus’ top role. She replaces Willem Jewett, who opted against remaining in the position after two years on the job.

Vermont-raised Copeland hanzas has a wide range of connections to people and issues: The mother of three owns the Local buzz café in bradford and coaches youth sports. her new role marshaling the majority caucus will require her to play the heavy with members on close or controversial bills. Copeland hanzas has a no-nonsense demeanor that could help keep the ideologically diverse caucus in check.

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three of Shumlin’s gubernatorial campaigns and for the democratic governors Association, which Shumlin chaired. between fundraising gigs, she served as deputy labor commissioner. She got her start in the Vermont political arena as an intern for the Vermont State Employees Association.

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working to fill campaign coffers. Senators need her to become the behind-the-scenes magician who can manage many competing egos. And given that she’s spent much of her career working for Shumlin, Wolffing will likely have to assure independent-minded senators that her loyalties are now to them. her ability to do that — and to keep Campbell organized, focused and communicating with other senators — will help determine how well the upper chamber functions this session.

Wolffing replaces Rebecca Ramos, a lawyer and veteran political manager who played a big part in keeping the Senate running smoothly for the last two years. Ramos left Campbell’s employ last summer for a much more lucrative gig working the Statehouse halls as a lobbyist with the necrason group.

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t first glance, the rows of panels that snake along a hilltop in Rutland look like any of the large solar arrays popping up in Vermont. But Green Mountain Power’s two-megawatt Stafford Hill Solar Farm project is one of a kind.

The project is the first in the country to power a “microgrid” using only solar power and batteries, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Constructed on a landfill defunct since 1991, it’s also the first known solar storage project located on a brownfield — a site where reuse is complicated by the presence of contaminants — formerly used to bury waste.

Energy experts say the solar farm is paving the way for what could be a new model for how utilities deliver power.

When the roughly 7,700 panels go online in a few months, they’ll generate enough electricity to power 365 homes yearround, or 2,000 homes during “full sun” conditions, feeding that electricity onto the larger, regional grid.

But the real innovation happens when the power goes out, and Stafford Hill can disconnect from the regional grid and function as a self-sustaining unit. Two types of batteries will store energy, which in turn can light up a designated Red Cross shelter at the nearby high school.

At the groundbreaking ceremony last summer, one DOE official called it the “perfect” project and “a national model for the future of clean energy.”

Grant funding from the DOE is covering $235,000 of the $10 million price tag; the Vermont Public Service Department chipped in another $50,000 through the Clean Energy Development Fund.

Microgrids aren’t new. Electricity generation in the United States actually started with small municipal utilities dotting the landscape, largely disconnected from one another. Islands and other remote locations have long relied on microgrids for power.

Most electricity customers, however, pull their power from mega, not micro, grids, such as ISO New England, which oversees New England’s bulk electric power system. It’s not always the ideal model, according to AJ Rossman, a longtime solar entrepreneur and founder of Burlington-based Smart Resource Labs. He said that as demand surges and

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more small-scale, renewable generation comes online, energy experts are considering tweaks to the one-size-fits-all mega grid.

Microgrids provide communities with resiliency during emergencies, allowing critical services — like a shelter, or a police station — to remain functional when the grid goes down. It’s also economical; using the power that’s generated close to home cuts down on “line

loss,” or the electricity that goes to waste when power is transmitted over long distances. Many of the arguments are the same ones locavores make for eating food grown in the immediate vicinity.

“It becomes time to think about doing things a little bit smarter,” said Rossman.

Microgrids offer benefits beyond providing power during the occasional outage.

When paired with storage capability, these facilities can bank power during times when energy generation exceeds customer demand. Traditionally grids have to fire up or power down generation sources, like coal or gas plants, to accommodate the energy needs of the moment.

Batteries can also help smooth out the peaks and valleys associated with intermittent renewable energy sources.

Rod Viens, the executive vice president at White River Junctionbased groSolar — the company that constructed the Stafford Hill panels — agreed that the Rutland project is innovative by both Vermont and industry standards. It is the latest in a number of projects under way in a city dogged in recent years by a bad reputation as a crime-ridden burg

battling unemployment and a depressed downtown.

When Stafford Hill powers up in March, Rutland is poised to become the “solar capital of New England” — meaning the city will generate more kilowatts of solar power per capita than anywhere else in the region.

The milestone is a realization of Green Mountain Power’s promise to the city when the Colchester-based utility service merged with Rutland-based Central Vermont Public Service in 2012.

Aggressive downtown investment and a no-layoff policy were also part of the deal, which has since led to a loftier goal: to make Rutland the “energy city of the future.” The plan, in real-world terms, is to use Rutland as the laboratory for new projects in energy generation and efficiency. Experiments may be as large as Stafford Hill or as small as individual home and business energy makeovers.

Promising as all of that sounded, many in Rutland County, including Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras, still feared losing CVPS as a local employer and major player in the business community. “The most basic concern was that there was going to be a giant sucking sound of jobs from Rutland [going] up to Colchester,” Louras said.

Public officials were also wary, Louras said. “The city and local stakeholders frankly told Green Mountain Power that we were going to hold their feet to the fire on the commitments they made to the city,” said Louras. But so far they haven’t had to do so. “The fact of the matter is we haven’t been able to catch up to them.”

The idea, said GMP CEO Mary Powell, was to build on CVPS’ history in Rutland, while doing something “that was forward looking and forward thinking.” True to its word, GMP has made strides to enliven downtown Rutland in the two and a half years since the merger. It’s recruited businesses — some tied directly to the solar industry, like groSolar and SunCommon, as well as those unrelated, like Small Dog Electronics — to relocate downtown, and Louras said GMP is working to bring an independent bookstore back to the city.

GMP itself moved into a vacant storefront on Rutland’s Merchants Row: What was formerly a department store is now the gleaming, high-tech Energy Innovation Center. In the rear of the

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building is a large, open-concept office space where workers tap away at laptops at standing desks. There’s a conference room encased in glass walls and a large educational exhibit that invites schoolchildren to learn about energy and efficiency.

Powell remembers showing up on Merchants Row a few years ago to find seemingly deserted streets and abundant parking. Not so today: Occupancy rates in downtown storefronts are now at 95 percent.

“Rutland does feel different,” said Powell.

But solar projects have raised few objections within Rutland city limits, and Stafford Hill is no exception. One benefit of constructing a solar farm atop a former landfill is that the location was already tucked out of sight. The roughly 15 acres on which it sits weren’t suitable for many other types of development.

On an overcast day last month, Kirk Shields — who introduces himself as an “innovation champion” with GMP — put on a hard hat and began the trek up Stafford Hill. He crunched through the snow that lingered after a powerful winter storm had swept the region a

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Shields, who worked with the city on the permitting for the project, said Rutland officials were happy to put the former landfill to good use. The panels are in place, and construction is under way on a battery-storage system that will hold lead acid and lithium ion batteries. By producing electricity when the sun shines, and banking excess power in those batteries, the microgrid should be able to power the shelter indefinitely.

Energy experts like Viens predict it won’t be long before solar-powered microgrids are everywhere. Rutland is already considering other potential sites for the technology, according to Louras, including the city’s water treatment facility.

When Stafford Hill powers up in March, Shields said, it will be GMP’s biggest solar project yet. Pausing atop the snowy hill now blanketed with solar panels, he predicted, “It won’t stay the biggest for long.” m

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But Powell doesn’t take sole credit for the change. When she first started coming to Rutland, she tapped into a network of young, energetic people working to change their city. GMP’s arrival also coincided with renewed efforts at neighborhood stabilization and a new approach to police work. The timing and overlap in these areas, Louras said, transformed the city. “I’m not just blowing smoke,” he said. “That’s a fact.”

Louras’ optimism is tempered by concerns that solar jobs — booming now — won’t make up for the loss of CVPS. Sen. Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland) acknowledged that GMP is making good on its promises, but still believes that “there’s no question the merger hurt Rutland,” particularly when it comes to the loss of executive-level positions formerly associated with CVPS. He also shares the concerns of some Rutland County residents who object to the sudden onslaught of solar development in the region. “What the state has done is turn their backs completely on local control,” said Mullin, citing concerns about the long-term affordability of solar and calling some projects in the region “eyesores.”

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ermont’s forensic laboratory missed a December deadline to qualify for a key accreditation, potentially throwing into doubt the admissibility of evidence in hundreds of criminal cases across the state.

The Waterbury-based Vermont Forensics Laboratory knew for four years that it would have to meet tougher standards when its previous accreditation, based on less stringent scientific criteria, expired last month. Two weeks before that expiration, the lab requested and received a six-month extension for promising to improve.

The accrediting agency says the June deadline is the lab’s last chance to comply with international standards that most labs across the country have already met. Part of the Department of Public Safety, the Vermont Forensic Laboratory is accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, a North Carolinabased nonprofit that has issued certifications to nearly 400 state, local, federal and international labs. It is the largest of four U.S. organizations that accredit forensic labs.

Interim lab director Tara Tighe, whose agency handles physical evidence for almost all criminal prosecutions in the state, said it could meet the June deadline.

“It’s a lot of hard work, but in six months, we should be there,” said Tighe, who has been in the top job since October. “We’re working hard on that.”

But at least one prominent Vermont attorney questions whether the state lab will ever be able to satisfy its accreditors.

St. Johnsbury defense attorney David Sleigh challenged a slew of DUI cases in 2012 based on alleged shortcomings in the lab’s testing equipment — but his argument failed to win over the judge at that time. Sleigh said that this year he may challenge every piece of evidence handled by the VFL in his clients’ cases, citing its inability to meet modern scientific standards.

“It’s dog-ate-my-homework reasons,” Sleigh said. “Here is what they are saying in a nutshell: ‘We’re not capable of meeting international standards; please give us an extension. We don’t have the ability to be a scientific forensic lab; please give us an extension. They’ve known for four years, and they haven’t been able to do it.’”

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Most concerning, he said, is the lab’s failure to document its testing processes with sufficient detail and rigor so that outside examiners can replicate the results.

Tighe contends that the lab has made progress in several disciplines.

For example, it’s been able to perform studies and improve documentation for testing in the alcohol, firearms and drug departments. Most of the work required to meet the newer accreditation standards, Tighe said, has to do with improving written procedures and generating paper trails,

not changing how lab workers handle evidence.

“It’s a lot of paperwork,” Tighe said.

“There’s not a lot of things changing procedurally.”

The whole industry has been under pressure since a 2009 report issued by the National Academy of Sciences determined that forensic labs needed a “massive overhaul.” It found that some criminals had been released and others wrongly convicted based on faulty lab work. Many common forensic tests — including ones involving fingerprints, bite marks, and hair and fiber analysis — had

never been subject to strict scientific review, according to the report.

The academy urged Congress to develop universal standards for labs and lab workers.

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) responded: “I am troubled by the report’s general finding that far too many forensic disciplines lack the standards necessary to ensure their scientific reliability in court,” he said in 2009. “I am also concerned that forensic laboratories and their experts do not have uniform, mandatory accreditation policies.”

In response to the outcry, accrediting groups have urged labs across the country to meet tougher, so-called “international standards” — global requirements for personnel qualifications, scientific validation of test results, properly functioning equipment, record keeping and other criteria.

Accredited since 1999, Vermont’s lab has never made the grade. Instead, it has repeatedly been grandfathered in as part of ASCLD/LAB’s “legacy program,” designed to allow labs to buy time, and retain their official status, while they work to meet the more rigorous accreditation standards. Of the 400 accredited labs in the country, 40 remain on legacy status, including the one serving the state of New Hampshire.

After the 2009 report was released, ASCLD/LAB announced that it would begin to phase out the legacy program, meaning all labs would have to meet the tougher international standards when their current legacy certifications expired.

In recent years, top Vermont lab officials gave state legislators reason to hope. In January 2013, while discussing the lab’s breath and blood alcohol testing program, former lab director Peg Schwartz issued a report to lawmakers that stated “the program will meet accreditation standards when the laboratory is next reviewed in 2014.”

One year later, Schwartz reported more good news to lawmakers: The lab contracted with outside companies that meet international standards to maintain lab equipment and had begun to develop measurements of their equipment’s accuracy. The paperwork to achieve full international standards accreditation for the whole lab would be filed by the spring of 2014, she wrote.

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different picture to ASCLD/LAB, according to documents provided to Seven Days.

Acknowledging that “our expiration date is around the corner,” Swartz’s successor pleaded for additional time.

In a letter included in the documents, Tighe provided a litany of reasons — many of which predated Schwartz’s assurances to the legislature — for the lab’s inability to meet the deadline. The lab lacked a stable director: Former director Eric Buel retired in 2011, and his replacement, Schwartz, retired in October 2014.

Additionally, Tighe said, lab workers were overworked and lacked suffiDAviD cient managerial staff.

DEfEnSE The letter also mentioned Tropical Storm Irene, stating that while the resulting floods did not damage the lab, the storm forced it and other facilities housed in Waterbury’s state office complex to close for five weeks in 2011.

Further, Tighe’s letter cited Vermont’s “heroin epidemic,” which she said caused a spike in the lab’s drug-testing unit and consumed lab workers’ time. She also wrote that moving into the lab’s “new, state-of-the-art facility” in 2010 actually hindered the accreditation effort. “While this is a tremendous improvement for the VFL,” Tighe said of the move, “it did require a lot of time and effort from all lab sections.”

Tighe did not specify what steps had been taken to meet international standards.

Under a section labeled “optimism,” she told the ASCLD/LAB that SLEigh, the lab planned to form AT T ORnEy a “core audit team” to update protocols and compile paperwork necessary for accreditation. But she also noted that the lab was preoccupied with finding qualified workers and filling vacant management positions.

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Nonetheless, ASCLD/LAB executive director John Neuner granted the Vermont lab a six-month extension in the legacy program. In a telephone interview, Neuner said he granted the extension largely because there had been no documented problems with the accuracy and integrity of the evidence produced in the lab.

“What’s most important is we have confidence in the results of the lab,” Neuner said. “Right now, I do. I have no objective evidence that causes me to be concerned about granting that extension.

The evidence suggests to me that the lab is competent to do the things they are accredited to do.”

But Neuner said this would likely be the Vermont lab’s final extension; according to his agency’s rules, he’s prohibited from granting another one. The full board would have to vote for a second extension, which could only occur under “extreme circumstances,” he said.

In the next five months, VFL will have to meet international standards, submit to a full on-site inspection, fix any problems that the inspection team identifies and report back to the ASCLD/LAB’s board of directors.

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If the lab can’t step up, its accreditation could be pulled.

And that, Sleigh said, would be akin to Christmas Day for defense attorneys, who could then challenge the validity of nearly every piece of evidence handled

by VFL — by asking judges to throw it out or by convincing juries that it is unreliable.

Sleigh said he isn’t going to wait until the June deadline. He is going to argue that the lab’s extension cannot mask its shortcomings, and in the coming weeks he will start challenging the evidence against his clients.

A similar bid by Sleigh in 2012 was not successful. He then led a team that simultaneously appealed 28 DUI cases, again on grounds that the lab fell short of international standards.

Judge Mary Miles Teachout rejected the appeal, noting that the state lab was still comfortably under its legacy certification. But in her ruling, Teachout also suggested that the courts expected to see improvement soon. m

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Recent Burlington elections have been plagued by several glitches, but city officials are hoping for smoother sailing on Town Meeting Day. In October, the clerk/treasurer’s office, which is charged with overseeing the city’s elections, temporarily stopped early voting because five of 15 Republican candidates for justice of the peace had been left off the ballot. It had to reprint ballots — a $10,000 mistake. Then, roughly two weeks before the election, the office discovered that 87 voters in a New North End housing development had been listed in the wrong district.

There have been other snafus, too: In 2012, absentee ballots had to be reprinted because a tax rate was wrong.

The upcoming election on March 3 is a big one — due to redistricting, all the city councilors and school commissioners are up for reelection.

So is the mayor. After the last ballot mishap, Mayor Miro Weinberger declared, “These avoidable and costly errors must end.” He asked his chief administrative officer, Bob Rusten, to draft a plan to make that happen. Rusten presented it to the city council on January 6.

For the most part, the plan reads like a manual on common sense. The solution for misprinted ballots? Proofreading.

The clerk/treasurer’s office already had multiple people reviewing the ballots before they were printed, according to Rusten. Now even more will be looking them over, including reps from every political party. (The Republicans caught the last $10,000 mistake concerning the justices of the peace.)

The fix for assigning residents to the wrong voting districts? The office will

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Survey Says: Fewer Vermonters Lack Health Insurance The percentage of Vermonters without health insurance has dropped to 3.7 percent, second lowest in the nation, according to new data from a survey of 4,000 households. Massachusetts, which mandates health insurance coverage, has the lowest percentage of uninsured.

Since the last state-sponsored survey, in 2012, the number of uninsured Vermonters declined from 42,760 to 23,231, according to weighted results.

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“I’m delighted with these numbers,” Gov. Peter Shumlin said January 5 at a news conference to trumpet the results of the Vermont Household Health Insurance Survey. He attributed much of the reduction to provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act, which Vermont implemented using its online health-insurance marketplace — Vermont Health Connect.

The vehicle for signing up for insurance — the state’s much-maligned website — struggled, but Shumlin said the underlying policies it implemented helped more Vermonters gain coverage for their health expenses. The Affordable Care Act expanded who was eligible for Medicaid and provided subsidies to help more people afford private insurance.

“With all the pains and struggle, it is clear that Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act are benefiting Vermonters,” Shumlin said.

Shumlin noted that the growth in the number of Vermonters on Medicaid has consequences. It means more medical coverage is paid at Medicaid’s lower rates, shifting costs onto private insurance.

Shumlin said he hopes to offer a remedy for this long-standing problem as part of a health care package he will announce as the legislative session opens.

The extensive survey asked respondents not only if they have insurance, but what kind and how satisfied they are with their coverage.

For the first time, the survey also asked respondents about their familiarity with health insurance terms. All the buzz about health care in recent years, especially concerning Obamacare, may have contributed to the high level of healthinsurance literacy that the new survey found.

“Nearly all residents are confident they understand premiums, deductible and copays while 55 percent are confident they understand the term ‘health exchange,’” the report states.

The 119-page report contains dozens of tidbits ripe for further analysis. Some highlights: • The percentage of Vermonters with private (nongovernmental) insurance continues to decline. The new figure is 54.4 percent, down from 56.8 percent two years ago and 60.1 percent in 2000.

• The percentage of Vermonters on Medicaid increased 3 percent in two years, from 17.9 percent to 21.1.

• The percentage of uninsured dropped from a high of 9.8 percent in 2005 to 3.7 percent in the new survey.

• The 25-to-34 age bracket has the highest percentage of uninsured — 11 percent.

• The number of uninsured is highest for Vermonters age 25-34 and 45-64 and lowest among children and seniors. The 35-44 bracket has about half the number of uninsured as the age groups on either side.

• Northeastern counties plus Windham County have the highest rates of uninsured.

• Of uninsured adults, 79.4 percent are employed and 76.1 of them have full-time jobs.

• Fewer uninsured adults said they had trouble paying their medical bills than in previous surveys — 35.6 percent compared to 40.3 percent two years ago and 46.1 percent in 2008.

• Many of the uninsured — 77 percent — don’t have access to insurance through work.

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conduct a computerized audit one month before Election Day. Rusten defended the clerk/ treasurer’s office’s efforts, noting, “We believe most of the elections have functioned in a smooth and efficient way, recognizing the complexity of election processes here.” Likewise, Weinberger said that the “smooth functioning of local democracy generally is very healthy in Burlington, thanks in large part to our committed election staff and volunteers.”

Calling Burlington’s election system “too complex to be completely error-free,” Weinberger added, “I appreciate CAO Rusten’s timely efforts and am satisfied with how the report addresses past and potential issues and believe it positions the city to do better in future elections.”

The clerk/treasurer’s office will be implementing the report’s recommendations without Scott Schrader, who as an assistant chief administrative officer was the point person for administering elections. Schrader resigned recently, citing family and personal reasons, according to Rusten. The chief administrative officer will fill his shoes for now, along with assistant city attorney Gene Bergman.

Some councilors and candidates said they were satisfied with the report, but several expressed lingering concerns.

Republicans Kurt Wright and Michael Ly were both running for state rep in the district where 87 voters were listed on the rolls incorrectly. They found out about the mishap through a chance run-in with one of those voters. Ly, who lost by fewer than 50 votes and is now running for city councilor, said his race was potentially impacted by the screw-up.

Wright and Lee also expressed concern about potential conflicts of interest at the polls — a worry shared by independent councilor Sharon Bushor. The problem?

Nothing prevents the ward clerks who help run elections from being affiliated with the candidates. To address that, Rusten said, would require a legal change that is beyond the clerk/treasurer’s office’s purview.

Tricia Coates and Peter Welch

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) is saying goodbye to a longtime political aide who has run his Vermont office since 2007, the year he became the state’s lone congressman.

Tricia Coates is going to work for soonto-be Vermont State Colleges chancellor Jeb Spaulding as director for external and governmental affairs.

Coates is leaving in two weeks, Welch spokesman Ryan Nickel said. No word yet on who will replace her. One possibility is Jon Copans, the deputy state director who has also been Welch’s campaign manager.

Spaulding himself has yet to start his new job as chancellor. Thursday is his last day as administration secretary for Gov. Peter Shumlin. That’s the same day lawmakers are to vote on Shumlin’s election, and, assuming they say “yea,” the governor gives his inaugural address.

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Joan Shannon — than the number of seats available in Ward 5, Ward 6 and the South District. “I figure it’ll be a question of who wants it least,” suggested Blais, who represents Ward 6, to Seven Days in late November. That individual turned out to be Blais, who explained more recently that he bowed out because “I don’t want to run against another Democrat.”

Democrat Bianka LeGrand, who came to Burlington as a Bosnian refugee and is finishing her first term on the council, is also stepping down, avoiding a showdown in Ward 7 against fellow Democrat Tom Ayres. LeGrand said she is leaving not to avoid a primary, but for personal reasons.

Meanwhile, some internal challenges have cropped up in unexpected places.

L’Ecuyer, an IBM employee and first-time candidate, is challenging Ayres for the Democratic endorsement. The party will make its pick during a January 11 caucus.

(Progressives and Republicans chose their candidates last month. Libertarians haven’t met yet, but Loyal Ploof has declared his candidacy for mayor.)

In the New North End, Kurt Wright, a Republican state rep who’s closing out his sixth term representing Ward 4, made a turf deal with Democrat Dave Hartnett, his friend and political ally. Hartnett is going for the North District seat (Wards 4 and 7) while Wright runs for reelection in Ward 4. But now Carmen George, a former councilor and current marketing director at TruexCullins architecture firm, has decided to challenge Hartnett for the North District Democratic nomination.

The rest of the city is shaping up to be an incumbent’s market. In Ward 1, no one has yet emerged to challenge Sharon Bushor, an independent who has served 28 years on the Burlington City Council. The coast is similarly clear for Max Tracy, a Progressive who has represented Ward 2 since 2012.

The same goes for Wright in Ward 4.

Mason is so far unopposed in Ward 5, as are Paul in Ward 6 and Shannon in the South District (Wards 5 and 6).

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weeks, incumbents quietly decided among themselves who will run for which seat and who will bow out.

In Ward 3, one Progressive — either Vince Brennan or Rachel Siegel — was positioned to lose a seat. Instead, both announced that they are stepping down, and Giannoni will try to fill the single spot. Brennan said he wants to spend more time with his wife and two teenage sons; Siegel said she’s dealing with several minor health issues.

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In the New North End, Michael Ly, who nearly won a House seat in November, is campaigning again, this time hoping to reclaim the Ward 7 council seat for Republicans. The selfemployed financial consultant will face a to-be-determined Democrat.

At the outset, redistricting seemed ripe for drama, since the redrawn lines lumped councilors of the same political stripe into the same district, meaning they would have to compete against each other for a single seat. But the potential for intraparty contests has mostly fizzled. During the last few

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ifty-two-card pickup” — that’s how political newcomer Jason L’Ecuyer characterized the upcoming election season in the Queen City.

On March 3, every city council and school board seat — as well as the mayor’s — is up for grabs.

For the past 21 years, Burlington has had seven wards that elected two councilors apiece during alternating years.

Starting in March, that system will be replaced by one that more accurately reflects Burlington’s population: eight wards and four districts (comprising two wards), each of which will elect one councilor.

The same structure applies to the school board, which, like the council, will be reduced from 14 members to 12.

Campaigning has yet to start in earnest, and candidates could still surface — the deadline for filing is January 26 — but several interesting matchups have already emerged. In the race for mayor, Progressive-endorsed Steve Goodkind, the former public works director, is challenging his old boss, Miro Weinberger — the developer-turnedDemocratic politician who’s wrapping up his first three-year term.

It’s been a rocky year for the school board, which clashed with the school administration while trying to fix financial problems. Half of the members are finishing their first terms, and those who run for reelection will be peddling a budget that likely entails school staff cuts and a tax increase. At least two new candidates have publicly announced bids: Mark Barlow in the North District and Helen Hossley in Ward 7.

On the council, nearly a quarter of the incumbents are stepping down, and L’Ecuyer is one of at least seven new candidates stepping up.

University of Vermont juniors Ben Vidal, an independent, and Brock Gibian, a Democrat, will compete to represent the brand-new, student-heavy Ward 8.

As executive director of Emerge Vermont, Sarah McCall has been working to get female Democrats into office.

Now she’s running in the Old North End’s Ward 3 against Progressive Sara Giannoni, another new candidate.

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Emily Lee, a former candidate and financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, has scrapped plans to run in the East District (Wards 1 and 8), according to Fauna Hurley, chair of the Burlington Democratic Party. That means Progressive Selene Colburn currently

and hawing and testing it out,” Hurley said, adding that the party is well positioned to preserve half the seats on the council.

The Progs stand to lose at least one seat, but in a smaller body, that’s not as dire as it sounds. Party labels don’t always stick on the Burlington City Council — Bushor and Wright often side with the Progs, and if Vidal prevails, he might align with them, too.

The economics professor who convinced the college student to run happens to be Knodell. Vidal got a taste of city politics working on her campaign.

Siegel’s parting wish is for some change in the status quo. In her opinion, politics often trumps principle on the council, and part of the problem is that Democrats rarely break with Weinberger out of party loyalty.

In practice, that’s meant, “Almost every single policy idea that I’ve been passionate about, I’ve lost,” Siegel said.

Her seatmate, Brennan, agreed that Democrats consistently vote as a bloc and nearly always carry the day.

Blais, however, argued the opposite — that Progressives have more of a pack mentality when voting.

Last month, during a council discussion of plans to redevelop the Burlington Town Center, Siegel ruffled some feathers when she called out Democrats for not publicly asking any questions about the project. (Progressives had already posed several dozen in previous weeks.)

If the Dems were to lose their plum position — which would happen if they lose two of their three contested races — “There will be a need for them to reach out more and find more common ground,” Siegel said. m

University of vermont jUniors Ben vidal, an independent, and Brock GiBian, a democrat,

will compete to represent the brand-new, student-heavy ward 8. has no competition. Nor does Prog Jane Knodell in the Central District (Wards 2 and 3).

Despite all the potential for upheaval, no party has managed to stack the deck in its favor. The Republican Party could double its presence on the council — but that’s only because it boasts just one member to begin with. In addition to the lone R, the current 14-member council includes seven Democrats, five Progs and one independent.

The Dems are best positioned, with candidates in seven races.

Several more are mulling runs, according to Hurley. “We still have a few folks out there who are hemming

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1952-2014, MARSHFIELD Kathleen Ondis Eardensohn, 62, died at her home on December 19, 2014, with her friend and companion Gregory Sanford and their daughters Dosia and Emma Sanford by her side.

Ondis was born on October 11, 1952, in Nashville, Tenn., the daughter of Albert (Gene) and Liddell Eardensohn.

Ondis attended Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., and graduated from the University of Vermont.

She was a caring and loving person who worked for years in a series of mental health services in Vermont and as a hospice worker. Ondis later worked for the U.S. Postal Service in Plainfield, Vt., and, as postmaster, in Marshfield, Vt. Diagnosed with cancer almost 20 years ago, Ondis used her experiences to help others with the disease. For years she drove cancer patients to their appointments and offered counsel and an ear to those just diagnosed and those receiving end-of-life care. She actively participated in Kindred Connections and other cancer groups and developed a wide network of friends in the cancer communities. She was admired by all for her determination, courage and commitment to helping others. Throughout it all, she shared her love and strength with her family. As she wished, Ondis died at home and was buried on her property, looking out at the Worcester Range.

In addition to her mother, her partner and her daughters, Ondis

1926-2014, GRAND ISLE Leo P. Latimer, 88, of Grand Isle, Vt., passed away December 31, 2014.

He worked as a machinist. He was born on May 23, 1926, to Edward and Rosanna Latimer. On March 25, 1946, he married C. Ardell Herbert, who passed away December 12, 2001.

Left to cherish his memory are his daughters, Ginny and husband Bob Gokey, Betty and husband Talbert Hill, and Polly and husband Len Provost Sr.; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sister Marie Ward; brother Roland; sister-in-law Rita Latimer; lady friend and companion Jeanette Bushell; many nieces, nephews and cousins; extended family; and countless friends. Leo was predeceased by his wife, parents, grandson Thomas Lemire and brothers George and Art Latimer.

The family would like to extended a special thank you to Rita and Roland for being there in their time of need for both Mom and Dad. Also a thank you to the staff at the Medical Center for all the loving care.

“A special good-bye to all my mall friends.”

Visitation was held on Tuesday January 6, 2015, at LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 132 Main Street, Winooski. A funeral service was on Tuesday, January 6 at the funeral home. Burial will be at Grand Isle Cemetery in the spring. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Leo’s name to a charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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1929-2015, WINOOSKI Paul E. Dufresne, 85, a lifetime resident of Winooski, Vt., passed away on January 3, 2015, at home surrounded by his family.

Paul leaves his loving, caring and devoted wife of 59 years, Rita (Thibault), as well as his children: Louise and Richard Mongeon of Winooski, Raymond of Burlington, Vt., Normand and Kelly of Hawaii, Richard and Mary of New Jersey, Diane of Winooski, Jane and John Tafoya of Colorado, Janet and Ron Blair of Colchester, Vt., and Marie and Hernan Zapata of Florida.

Pepere leaves many grandchildren and great grandchildren. In addition, Paul is survived by his sister Cecile Marcel Messier, brother-inlaw Conrad Bergeron, and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

Paul now joins his parents, Regis and Dorilda (Couture), his sisters Marie Ann Bergeron and Theresa Dufresne SP, and his infant son George in eternal life.

Paul was a devoted husband, generous father and mentoring grandfather with a gentle demeanor. His job and life mission was to provide his family the best life possible.

He owned and operated Dufresne’s Gulf Station and Fuel Oil business for 33 years, until he retired in 1985. Numerous awards were bestowed upon him for exceptional business acumen and business pride as well as his legacy of foresight for the development of Dufresne Drive in Winooski.

Paul was a well-known and respected community member active in city government and ready to give his opinion and advice. You could always count on him for a good laugh and pranks with his buddies.

Paul was a lifetime member of Saint Francis Xavier Parish, Elk’s Club #0916, fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus, and member of the Winooski Senior Center and the Winooski Historical Society.

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1941-2014, BETHESDA, MD. Robert L. Ayres, an internationally acclaimed political economist whose career spanned four decades in California and Washington, D.C., died on December 23, 2014, in Rockville, Md. He was 73.

The cause was pneumonia following complications from frontotemporal dementia.

Dr. Ayres began his career in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He arrived in that tumultuous academic community on June 6, 1968 — the very day that one of his political inspirations, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died from an assassin’s bullet in Los Angeles.

While at Berkeley, Dr. Ayres taught and conducted research in Latin American politics and international political economy.

He was also a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution; the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile; and at the Torcuato di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Leaving California for Washington, D.C., in 1978, Dr. Ayres served as a senior fellow with the Overseas Development Council, where he directed a highly regarded project on U.S.-Mexico relations. From his base at the ODC, Dr. Ayres also conducted research leading to his widely cited book, Banking on the Poor: The World Bank and World Poverty, which traced the evolution of poverty-oriented policies under the leadership of World Bank President Robert McNamara from 1968 to 1981.

Dr. Ayres then joined the World Bank, where he spent nearly 20 years in a variety of senior advisory, research and administrative positions. This work took him to 35 countries throughout the world.

Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Ayres coordinated an 18-nation task force on foreign aid, participated in writing the Bank’s

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is survived by her three brothers: Paul Eardensohn and his wife, Tory, of Warren, Vt.; John Eardensohn and his wife, Patty, of Poway, Calif.; and Richardson Eardensohn of Florence, Mass.; and by many cousins, nephews and nieces, as well as her numerous friends.

People can donate in Ondis’ name to Kindred Connections, vcsn.net/donate.html, or the Vermont Cancer Survivors Network, PO Box 42, Montpelier, VT 05601; to Michael’s Fund, cvhhh.org/donate; or to Central Vermont Home, Health & Hospice, 600 Granger Rd., Barre, VT 05641.

Please designate “In memory of Ondis” on check or online.

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1928-2014, BURLINGTON Jannette “Janet” (DuBrule) Daignault, 86, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 7, 2014, with her family by her side.

Janet was a loving and caring mother, grandmother, sister and friend who will be greatly missed.

She enjoyed camping and fishing and never missed a garage sale! She traveled cross-country many times with her family. She always had a special place in her heart for her loyal pets. In her later years, she enjoyed dining out, especially at Friendly’s.

Janet was born on October 21, 1928, in Burlington, the daughter of John and Lillian (Galvin) DuBrule. She graduated from Burlington High School and Burlington Business College and enjoyed a long career with the Internal Revenue Service in Burlington.

Janet is survived by her son, John Paul Daignault, and his partner, Linda Earley, of Fairfax, Vt; her daughters, Janet (Daignault) Dufrane and her husband, Jerry, of Burlington, and Joan (Daignault) Jorczak of Manchester, Conn.; her granddaughters, April (Daignault) Rand and her husband, James, of Milton, Vt., Michelle Daignault of Bridport, Vt., Kristina (Daignault) Cram and her husband, Lenny, of Whiting, Vt., and Racheal Liberty of Milton, Vt.; her grandsons, Alexander Jorczak and Tanner Jorczak of Manchester, Conn., James Daignault Jr. and his wife, Jaclyn, of Lima, Ohio, and Paul Daignault of Middlebury, Vt.; her 13 great-grandchildren, Austin Rand, Kayden Rand, Haylee Rand, Patrick Rand, Justin Anderson Jr., Kaitlyn Anderson, Dylan Anderson, Cody Anderson, Devin Anderson, Isabella Bailey, Joann Daignault, James Daignault III, and Jason A. Daignault; her three sisters, Noella (DuBrule) Gonyo of Clearwater, Fla., Vivian (DuBrule) Ells of Northampton, Mass., and Joan (DuBrule) Cannistrano of Burlington; as well as many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her son James P. Daignault; her former husband, John Daignault; her grandson Jason P. Daignault; and her brother, Maurice DuBrule.

Visiting hours were Saturday, January 3, 2015 at the LaVigne

1990 World Development Report, and led a group that assessed the first 50 years of the Bank’s operations. He drafted that team’s final report, The World Bank Group: Learning from the Past, Embracing the Future.

For many years at the World Bank, Dr. Ayres coordinated a worldwide group of finance and development ministers that advised the organization on policy priorities. He later directed the Task Force on Reform of the State in Latin America and the Caribbean, during which time he authored studies on antipoverty policy, as well as on crime and violence as development issues in the region.

Upon retiring from the World Bank in 2002, Dr. Ayres served as a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he directed a project on U.S. policies toward “poorly performing” states.

He later served as assistant vice president of international affairs at American University until 2006.

Dr. Ayres received his PhD in political science with a minor in international economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an undergraduate at Valparaiso University in Indiana, he majored in government and participated in American University’s Washington Semester Program.

Dr. Ayres was born on August 14, 1941, in Passaic, New Jersey. He is survived by his son, Kenneth, and wife Amy of Gaithersburg, Md.; his daughter, Rachel Reed, and husband Craig, and granddaughters Charlotte and Lorelei Reed of Austin, Texas; his father, John Ayres, of Whiting, N.J.; his brother Tom and wife Anne Barrett of Burlington, Vt.; and his brother Dean of Falmouth, Mass. His mother, Helen (Faure), predeceased him in 2005.

During four decades as a teacher, scholar, and senior political economist, Robert Lewis Ayres established a reputation for intellectual vigor, creativity and consensus building among people of very different perspectives on many highly controversial subjects. He combined compassion and wisdom with a razor-sharp, often irreverent sense of humor — all factors that made him a particularly effective and revered colleague.

A private service for immediate family members was held on Saturday, January 3, followed by interment at the Whiting Memorial Park in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. A celebration of Bob’s life — full of the people, memories and music that shaped him and those who loved him — will be held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C., in April, when the cherry blossoms bloom in the city he called home for nearly 40 years.

care. The family would like to express our special thanks and appreciation for the compassionate, competent care given by Melanie and her caring team.

In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory can be made to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 3 St. Peter St., Winooski, VT 05404, or to the Visiting Nurses Association of Colchester, Hospice program, 1110 Prim Rd., Colchester, VT 05446.

Visitation will be held at LaVigne Funeral Home on Thursday, January 8, from 3 to 7 p.m. A Mass of Catholic burial will be celebrated on Friday, January 9, at Saint Francis Xavier Church, at 10 a.m., with burial to follow. He will be missed by all who knew him.

Arrangements are with the LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 132 Main Street, in Winooski. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome.com.

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1941-2014, WINOOSKI Lionel Joseph “LJ” Palardy, 73, of Winooski, Vt., passed away on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, in the Vermont Respite House in Williston, Vt., after a nine-year campaign with cancer. Born August 19, 1941, in Putnam, Conn., to Leo and Rita Palardy, LJ spent his youth in Albany, Ga., before entering the U.S. Air Force in 1959.

Honorably discharged in 1963, he moved to New York City, where he worked at numerous watering holes, including the Gordian Knot, while honing his love for jazz.

The summer of 1967 brought LJ to Burlington, then to Waitsfield and Warren, to raise his children, Michele and Douglas. During the ’70s and ’80s, LJ made his mark on the Mad River Valley with various stints at establishments that included Gallagher’s, Mehuron’s, China Barn, Van Loon Construction, Blue Tooth, the Den, Beggar’s Banquet, WCVR, Fayston Iron & Steel and Mad River Transit, among others. He became legendary for his elaborate Chinese dinners, which he hosted into the early-morning hours of many memorable nights at his residence on the Roxbury Mountain Road.

LJ returned to Burlington in 1989, where he began decades of volunteer assignments for the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, WWPV, 105.9 The Radiator and Lawrence Debate Union, as well as Jazz Director and “Head Curmudgeon” at the University of Vermont’s WRUV. Each Sunday morning for more than 20 years, “LJ’s Dream” radio show was the culmination of countless hours, weeks and years of listening, researching and discovering jazz, which he shared with the Burlington community and beyond.

He will be remembered as an avid reader of the Boston Globe, for his love of model trains, and for his pride in being “a fountain of useless information.” LJ was a 1996 graduate of Community College of Vermont, a 1999 graduate of UVM, and a founding member of the Roxbury Mountain Music & Clambake Society. He is survived by his daughter, Michele Palardy, and partner, Kelly Behan, of Winooski; son, Douglas, and husband, Daniel Innis, of Portsmouth, N.H.; sister, Janet Haviland, of

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Albany, Ga.; and brothers Dennis of Southside, Ala., David of Albany, Ga., and Michael of Mount Joy, Penn.

A festive remembrance of L.J. Palardy will take place on Saturday, February 14, 8-11 p.m., at North End Studio A, 294 North Winooski Avenue, in Burlington. Live music by numerous local musical friends (TBA), as well as WRUV and WPPV DJs, and dancing. Donations will be accepted for the Vermont Respite House. Cash bar.

In lieu of flowers, LJ requested that letters of stories/debates/ altercations with him be mailed to his children, Michele & Douglas Palardy, 81 Hood St. #A, Winooski, VT 05404.

Catholic Church. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneralhome. com. Arrangements are under the care and direction of LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service.

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1939-2015, BURLINGTON Thomas John Rock, youngest of 13 children, went to be with the Lord on January 1, 2015. Tom was born on July 8, 1939, the son of Arthur J. Sr., and Nancy (Davis) Rock in Burlington, Vt. He attended grade school in Burlington and high school in N.Y., where he enjoyed four years of seminary life. He returned to Burlington and worked at IBM until his retirement. In 1981 he married Rita Barrows.

Tom and Rita loved traveling the country, especially on summer camping trips with their large family, but they were always happy to return home to Vermont. Tom was a quiet and humble man who enjoyed a good laugh and loved to make other people laugh.

Tom is survived by his wife, Rita Barrows Rock; stepsons and wives Andy (Lee Ann), Brad (Mary), and Clay (Linda) Barrows; siblings Sr. Janet Rock, Carmelita (Joe) Violette, Jim (Maris) Rock and Pauline Rock Adams; extended family; and countless friends.

“We will miss you, Tommy.”

He was predeceased by siblings Fred, Theresa, Sr. Monica Rock, Vernon, Nancy, Mary, Arthur and Jean.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 7, 2015, at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Colchester, Vt., with burial to follow at New Mount Calvary Cemetery, Burlington. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society or Our Lady of Grace

1953-2014, HINESBURG John Robert Roos, MD, age 61, died on December 24, 2014 at the VNA Vermont Respite House in Williston, Vt., as a result of esophageal cancer.

John was born on April 30, 1953, in Fargo, N.D., to Lillian Mercedes Mickelson Roos and Norman Carl Herseth Roos. He grew up in Hawley, Minn., as the youngest of three boys. His parents were both teachers.

Growing up, John loved helping his father tend their bee-yards and his mother in their perennial gardens in the summers.

John graduated from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., in 1975, and then from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1981. He completed a three-year residency in preventive medicine at the University of Minnesota in 1984. As a licensed physician, John practiced complementary medicine, specializing in homeopathy and osteopathy, for over three decades. He was greatly appreciated by multitudes of patients, who traveled from a distance to receive the healing modalities he offered. He was well known for his curiosity, and for his caring and relational approach, spending time to assess the whole person, and tailoring unique treatments to each individual.

John’s great love was his relationship with the land, from which he coaxed bounties of fruits, vegetables, nuts, flowers, mushrooms and honey, creating beauty and nourishment with a deliberation and enthusiasm that was stunning to witness. When not tending patients, he could be found tending bees, or in the dirt with the flowers, or harvesting bushels of organic peaches, pears, apricots, nectarines and kiwi, or baskets of shitake mushrooms from his logs.

John was truly a wonder to behold in his relationship to the natural world. Throughout his adult life, he devoted himself also to civic and political activities in support

of environmental protection and preventive health. He was instrumental in the development of the alternative medicine program at the University of Vermont Medical School and taught students in that program.

John is survived by his beloved wife, Bonnie Morrissey, of Hinesburg, Vt., his two sons, Nick Landsman-Roos of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Arri Landsman-Roos, of Jacksonville, Fla., and his stepson, Travis Morrissey, of Johnson, Vt. He was intensely proud of Nick’s accomplishments in the field of law, Arri’s work with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Travis’ development as a plumber. He took great pleasure in playing and watching basketball with his sons and sharing his interest in beekeeping and gardening.

John is survived also by his brothers, Howard Roos of Saint Louis, Mo., and Don Roos of Northfield, Minn., and their families, including nieces Celeste and Shannon and nephews Dan and Nelson. John is survived by the mother of his children, Susan Landsman. John was predeceased by both parents.

A memorial service in John’s honor will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington, Vt. at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 17, 2015.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the VNA Vermont Respite House, 99 Allen Brook La., Williston, VT 05495, in John’s name.

Mary Lynn Rupe

1951-2014, BURLINGTON Mary Lynn Rupe is with us now only in our hearts, our memories and in each of the works of art she created over the decades. She died at the Vermont Respite House in Williston, Vt., on Saturday, December 20, 2014, just as she

had lived — with grace, beauty, fearlessness and no regrets.

Just two weeks earlier, accompanied by friends and family in her room and online from venues all over the United States, from Central America and from Europe, Lynn had celebrated her 63rd birthday with Chardonnay wine and a humming chorus of “Happy Birthday to You.” Hers was an irrepressible spirit, someone with a one-of-a-kind mixture of humor and determination that expressed itself in so many ways. Lynn brazenly swam the width of Lake Champlain, played ice hockey for years, windsurfed, played raquetball and learned to roller blade. An accomplished painter, sculptor, glassblower and printmaker, she captured the world around her and gave it to us all. As a teacher, she melded her love of science, color and invention to assemble a world full of wonder and discovery. Lynn could do anything and had the ability to make you feel that you could, too. Each rich moment was a full accounting of history and brand new at the same time.

Bicycling was a special joy for Lynn, always bringing visitors to Burlington’s bike path. When she could no longer manage a bicycle, she switched over to a motorized trike and became Queen of the Bikepath, never failing to garner comments like “Cool ride.” She also loved to dance and, although her MS progressively interfered with it, she always found a way to move to the music, sometimes just holding on to a chair or a friend and swaying a bit. Lynn knew all the words to songs she loved, especially those coming out of Detroit’s Motown. With an unbounded enthusiasm for learning, Lynn read Science News magazine weekly and often regaled one and all with the latest developments and discoveries. And she regularly emailed cartoons, jokes and humorous stories to a fluctuating distribution list, some more ribald than she thought the tender ears of her husband could bear.

Lynn traveled the world, but her two favorite places were Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Vermont. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in forestry, her interest in the world and people led her to join the Peace Corps, and she was posted to the Philippines for two years. Subsequent travels took her to multiple countries in Southeast Asia, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean Sea, Canada and places far and wide in the United States — but she always called Vermont home.

It was her love for both mountains and water that brought her to Vermont. She enrolled in graduate school at the University of Vermont and earned an MS in natural resource planning, which led to a job as town planner for Shelburne, Vt., for two years. She later earned an MFA from Johnson State College and then, having obtained a teacher certification from the University of Wisconsin, went on to a career as a teacher. Lynn’s art garnered awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Puffin Foundation and the Barbara Small Memorial Award and earned her fellowships at the Hambridge Center, Johnson State College and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Her art has been shown at scores of galleries and museums in Vermont and elsewhere throughout the United States and Canada. One of her larger paintings is on permanent display at the Burlington International Airport.

Lynn is survived by her husband, Graydon Wilson, a New Orleans boy who found immense love in Vermont; and by her sister, Jennifer Rupe Cromer, her brother-in-law, Bruce Cromer, her niece, Claire Fairley Moloney and husband Tim Moloney, and their children, Cecilia and Silas; by her “Uncle” Nancy Tharpe and her Aunt Ginny Pressley; her sisters-in-law, Nancy Reid and Pamela Bearce; her cousin, Clem Blakney; and by her guys, Laird Wilson and wife Ashlen Wilson and Timothy Wilson and partner Sarah Horvitz. Lynn is also survived by her posse, by the art community in Burlington and farther afield in Vermont, by the Northshore community in Burlington, by the hundreds of students whom she taught during her long career as a science teacher for the Burlington School District and as an art teacher in South Burlington and by the many, many people whom she knew — people whom she called friend and who called her friend.

Lynn Rupe survives; she lives on in all of us.

In accordance with her wishes, there will not be any funeral. Lynn wanted her ashes spread about in her beloved Vermont — especially in Burlington — and melded into the shoreline of Lake Superior.

A remembrance gathering will be held at a later time, yet to be determined. For now, and for those who would like to take a moment and honor Lynn, she would have liked nothing more than for you to do something bold, fun and close to your heart.

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hen the Vermont legislature Aldrich. “But we felt it was high time for last year declared 2015 the the arts to proclaim the visibility that they Year of the Arts, it wasn’t only have long deserved.” 2015, he notes, is also because the Vermont Arts the 50th anniversary of the realization of public support for the arts in the U.S. — the Council would be turning 50. And it wasn’t just because the VAC has, according to the VAC shares a birth year with the National legislative resolution, “fulfilled its promise Endowment for the Arts. to Vermont citizens and visitors, nurturWhile no bucket of money came ating hundreds of arts tached to the legislature’s organizations, thousands resolution, Aldrich isn’t of artists, and fostering complaining. At a time public art installation in when plenty of other State facilities in all 14 states are pinching back counties.” No, the legisfinancial support for their lature also acknowledged arts organizations, the a third motivating factor: Vermont legislature has, “According to 2012 if not increased, at least U.S. Census data, level-funded the VAC’s Vermont ranks third roughly half-million-doloverall for artists as a lar annual budget. “It’s Al e x Al drich , percentage of the worknot enough,” concedes Verm ont Arts Cou ncil force, second for fine Aldrich, “but that’s an inartists and writers, and credible show of support eighth for musicians and photographers…” [from the legislature] — not to get cut.”

In case you missed the significance of So what does the Year of the Arts actuthat quote, the governing body of Vermont ally mean? Under the snappier moniker officially recognized the huge presence Vermont Arts 2015, the VAC is taking a of the arts, and artists of all kinds, in the more active role in promoting arts events lifeblood of the state. through an online calendar — though indi“The arts council’s anniversary was viduals and presenters need to “populate” the triggering event” for the legislative it themselves. While the VAC is not a proaction, says VAC executive director Alex ducing organization, its leadership hopes

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and as examples, saying, “There isn’t really any formal way we’ve developed to engage with them.”

“How can we help these institutions and many others reach their goals and attract more people?” he asks rhetorically.

Aldrich points to a challenge that every artist and presenting organization in Vermont faces: waning audiences.

Growing the population seems to be beyond the purview of the VAC, and even of the state’s offices of creative economy and tourism. But Aldrich suggests that VAC’s proposed creative network could become a tool to promote the arts, fostering not only donations but attendance.

He’d also like to increase national media exposure for the state’s art events, giving potential tourists another reason to come to Vermont.

“If we all start this statewide conversation,” Aldrich concludes, “then this will become, for us, an ongoing strategic form.” m Vermont Studio Center

to corral other activities and events under the rubric of Vermont Arts 2015. Aldrich believes it’s a way to show both citizens and visitors “our best work: Vermontmade cultural events.”

A larger goal, what he calls the “biggest challenge,” is to build a creative network along the lines of what the farm-to-table movement has achieved for Vermont agriculture. That goal is twofold: VAC aims to provide a framework for Vermonters to identify arts events happening in or near their own communities; and it plans to work with arts organizations “that are part of Vermont’s cultural landscape but don’t look at the arts council for support,” Aldrich says. He offers the Shelburne

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Short Takes on Film: Celebrating Tunbridge, Petitioning Tim Burton On the morning of September 11, 2001, when news of the destruction of the World Trade Center arrived in tiny Tunbridge, the town’s famous World’s Fair was in full swing. The rides were shut down, and for 10 minutes, fairgoers heard nothing but “the cows in the background.”

That poignant snippet of history comes from “Tunbridge: A Vermont Town, a World’s Fair,” a new 27-minute documentary from Colchester’s Mt. Mansfield Media.

Underwritten by White River Toyota and directed by MMM founder and creative director Jake Cunavelis, the film doesn’t just celebrate the bustle of the almost 145-year-old fair, with its midway, livestock shows, and agricultural and historical pageantry. It puts the annual event in context, profiling families who’ve been farming in Tunbridge for generations.

For some, the fair may be a tourist attraction; for others, it represents a way of life. “I’m the fifth generation on the property,” says South Royalton farmer, fair director and former state representative David Ainsworth in the film. “The whole town’s almost like a family,” says Ted Hoyt about Tunbridge, which counted just 1,300 inhabitants in the 2000 U.S. Census.

“Tunbridge: A Vermont Town, a World’s Fair”

Old-timers’ tales and historical photos bring the earlier days of the World’s Fair to life. Interviewees reminisce about the once notoriously rowdy scene at the beer hall: The saying in town was that no one ventured in there without “a fifth of liquor and another man’s wife.” At one point, even the Orange County Sheriff’s Department ran one of the “girly shows” that turned the mid-century fair into Vermont’s equivalent of Vegas.

Today, the Tunbridge World’s Fair is a lot more family-friendly. “I’m convinced we would have lost the fair if we had not changed,” says one interviewee. The film portrays a freshfaced new generation embracing the fair and farming as a lifestyle. Young Anna Poulin, for instance, talks about preparing her nervous prize pig for the fair: “I had to read a book to him to get him calmed down.”

When fair time comes around, of course, everybody’s a kid again. Plenty of adults could second the sentiment of one youngster in the film: “I couldn’t sleep last night, ’cause I was so excited about it.”

Sadly for those of us mired in January, the Tunbridge World’s Fair won’t come around this year until September 17. For a taste of the excitement, view the doc on YouTube or at tunbridgeworldsfair.com.

A Change.org petition with 100 signatures as of December 30 entreats filmmaker Tim Burton to “Please consider filming the next Beetle Juice in Vermont.” Does it have a chance?

In Burton’s 1988 comedy Beetlejuice, as all fans of the weird and wacky know, East Corinth furnished the idyllic exteriors for the small town in which a ghost couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) sought the services of the title character (Michael Keaton) to help them haunt tacky new owners out of their home.

Since 1988, a lot has changed — but not in East Corinth, asserts the petition authored by East Topsham’s Galusha Hill Farm, which runs an artist-residency program. A public letter to Burton touts

the town’s “many opportunities for creating unspoiled and unique atmosphere.”

While we’d all love to see movie stars and crew members strolling the streets of East Corinth, there are a few problems with this proposition. First, Vermont lacks the tax incentives for film production that are all-important to today’s Hollywood budgets; in 2011, the state’s film commission was folded into the Office of the Creative Economy. No wonder Vermont hasn’t hosted a major film production since 2000’s Me, Myself & Irene.

Even more worrisome, while Burton has said he plans to direct Beetlejuice 2, he told Yahoo! Movies that “I wouldn’t call it so much a sequel.” While Keaton’s return is likely, that of Davis and Baldwin — and their unspoiled New England town — seems much less so.

Oh, well. We’ll always have our memories of the witty death-on-thecovered-bridge scene. To watch fan videos comparing East Corinth in Beetlejuice and now, visit YouTube or vermonter.com.

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The married duo had used the former indoor tennis court as a studio for some years. Eventually, heavy and unsolicited visitor traffic inspired them to transform part of the capacious building into a gallery and display sculptures outside on the sprawling, shady lawn. sculpture park

owners call the “most ambitious” program in its history, starting with a playful exhibit of animal sculptures and paintings titled “Menagerie: Animals in Art” (January 3 to March 29) and an exhibit called “Endless Beginnings: Nonrepresentational Art Today” (January 24 to April 19.)

The complete schedule will be released in February, but the owners promise that it features “frequently changing, curated exhibits” in each of West Branch’s four exhibition spaces. Those include the main gallery; the outdoor sculpture park; a small, loft-style upstairs gallery; and a

and contributes regularly to Art New England. Kadour’s role includes curating and contributing to West Branch’s blog and press materials.

Swenson and Curtis are also reimagining the way artwork is displayed in the gallery’s multiple exhibition spaces. Most notably, the owners have chosen to integrate West Branch’s representational landscapes into each of the indoor gallery areas.

Swenson says the change is not due to the landscapes’ sales performance, but rather to an “intuitive” sense that the landscape wing was becoming a stale experience for viewers. Curtis adds that, unlike many contemporary galleries, West Branch sees its sales driven not by two-dimensional work but by sculpture, which brought in more than 60 percent of the gallery’s revenue in 2013. Last year, that figure dropped to just under 50 percent, which is still Jacob and Kristin Albee unusually high. Total sales in 2014 JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 were up by 5 percent from the previ41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT ous year, Swenson adds — giving the Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY lie to the idea that contemporary art does not sell in Vermont.

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Previously, the gallery had carried painters with high levels of technical ability whose subject matter tended to be less traditional than a representational landscape. And Swenson admits her own inclinations evolved: “For me, photorealism never felt emotive,” she says, “and for me that’s the reason to have art on your wall.”

Then she happened across some realistic images that she loved. In particular, she saw painting of houses

by Lincoln artist kathleen kolB and found herself captivated by Kolb’s use of light.

Soon after, painter GaBriel tempesta stopped by with paintings of bees, and Swenson once again “fell in love,” as she puts it.

West Branch’s “Landscape Traditions” wing opened with nine artists; several will remain with the gallery even as the wing concept dissolves. That style of work, as both owners observe, draws a wide range of viewers to the gallery, including those without an art background — and that’s the goal.

“Our patrons pay the way for all those other people who just wander in,” Curtis says. “And we smile and say, ‘That’s great!

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630-square-foot wing on the south end of the building added in March 2014, which until recently was dedicated to representational landscapes.

Swenson notes that while the gallery’s growth has happened “very organically,” the owners are stepping up efforts to plan exhibits months — and even years — into the future. That doesn’t mean they’ve lost their spontaneity, Curtis adds. They’re planning an impromptu pop-up exhibit for one of their artists, Jonathan Prince, who was recently featured on the cover of Art New England.

To keep up with the rising curatorial responsibilities and to amp up the gallery’s blogging and online presence, the owners recently hired Ric Kasini Kadour, a Montréal-based artist, writer and former gallerist who publishes Art Map Burlington

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“Chris would be outside drilling or sand blasting or pounding, and people would mosey over from the bike path and just love what they’d encounter,” remembers Swenson. “I had a small studio in the warehouse, where the main gallery is now. We started thinking: All of these people are just kind of walking in; we have the building — why don’t we make a space?”

West Branch’s inaugural exhibit was titled “10 Stowe Artists”; its initial roster of exhibitors was a few of the owners’ contemporary artist friends who tended not to show their work in Vermont, according to Swenson. It’s now a premier contemporary art destination.

Entering 2015 — the gallery’s 14th year — West Branch carries more than 60 sculptors and two-dimensional artists. It’s kicking off an exhibition calendar that its

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Dear Cecil,

Did the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico really cause any lasting environmental damage?

Or did the environment just kind of take it in stride?

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might have feared: Humans, sea creatures and BP alike have all seemingly recovered. The entire state of Louisiana wasn’t classified as a biohazard, and not all the dolphins died. But the consequences aren’t entirely dismissible, and the worst damage is often the hardest to quantify. It’s only been four and a half years, after all; some effects might not show up for decades.

Part of the reason things look so peachy is that the spill originated 50 miles offshore — oil didn’t penetrate much more than a few yards past the shoreline. What oil did manage to get that far was extensively weathered, meaning it had lost most of its volatile organic hydrocarbons, and with them a lot of capacity for damage. As a result, marine life closer to shore fared surprisingly well.

Crab and shrimp were found to have three times as many deep lesions as before the spill, but fortunately they have an admirable reproductive instinct and their numbers rebounded to pre-spill levels very quickly.

Fish were discovered with similar lesions, but these decreased

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ou know the old saying: Don’t cry over spilled oil — at least not if you’re getting billions in damages to make up for it. These things are bound to happen, right? A couple of CEOs get fired, the president shakes his head disappointedly and we’re a little short on bayou shrimp for a year or so.

But before long someone drops a bomb on someone else, or someone new turns up naked on the cover of something.

Twenty-eight billion-plus in cleanup costs later, and we can’t help but turn our eyes to more pressing matters.

In all honesty, though, you ask a fair question. Two hundred million gallons of crude oil gushed out into the Gulf of Mexico over the three months following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010 — 19 times the official volume figure for the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 — and then another 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants were pumped in to break up the slicks. President Obama called it a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.” Despite all this, the surface-level answer is that things are better than one

resulting long-term impact on the ecosystem. Fish near the site have shown evidence of DNA damage, and studies suggest exposure to oil-spill hydrocarbons would likely cause heart defects in developing tuna, swordfish and other large predator fish, limiting their ability to hunt for food. Something like 200,000 to 700,000 birds have died thus far following contact with oil; it’ll probably wind up being a million eventually.

Dispersant chemicals were found in pelican eggs in Minnesota (where the birds migrate to) two years after the spill. And finally, the mammals: While only around 100 whale and dolphin carcasses were found in the months immediately following the spill, estimated historical carcass-to-death ratios suggest that 50 times as many may actually have died.

Dolphins in the areas hit hardest with oil showed numerous health problems, with nearly half expected to die.

The impact on human mammals isn’t so clear, either.

Leaving aside the 11 oil-rig workers killed on the day of the

by more than half after two years.

But, much like when the dog pees on your kid’s bed instead of yours, just because the damage isn’t front and center doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Promising population totals notwithstanding, there’s plenty of evidence to keep both the environmentalists and the fishing industry awake at night.

Various heavy metals contained in oil from the spill have been accumulating in the flesh of the gulf’s sperm whales ever since. Among these, nickel and chromium in particular are carcinogenic (some dispersant ingredients may be too), which could lead to mutations and

explosion, a study of 117 people involved in the cleanup found changes in their blood chemistry and levels of liver enzymes; they also reported a variety of chronic conditions like headaches, rashes and shortness of breath. Health surveys showed that alcohol and illegal drug use increased among residents in affected counties, with the most psychological stress on fishers and coastal dwellers. Overall, however, spill-specific results were difficult to distinguish from the lingering traumatic effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It’s been a tough decade on the Gulf Coast.

If you’re still inclined to conclude that Obama’s a dirty liar (The environment’s fine! And these shrimp are terrific!), you should consider this: The 2010 spill was enormous, but only 8 percent of the total oil making its way into North American oceans each year comes from pipeline spills. The fact the environment recovered to the extent that it did is impressive, but this spill was just one of many, many factors contributing to the ongoing damage of the marine habitat. Maybe in 20 years our waters will be full of three-eyed mutant fish, maybe not. We can predict with some confidence that however apocalyptic the future scenario, the Deepwater Horizon spill was probably a contributor.

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Ray, a Drop of Golden Sun Flower Drum Song. You really don’t hear about that one too much anymore. I guess it’s now considered politically incorrect.

I don’t see why, though. I always thought it was a sweet tribute to the Chinese immigrant culture. Then again, maybe I’d feel different if I were Asian.”

Nodding his head, my customer said, “Did you know the play was revived on Broadway in … let me see, I think it was 2002?

The libretto — what we call the ‘book’ — was reimagined by David Hwang, a Chinese American playwright, updating the story to reflect, well, a more modern sensibility. The reviews were mixed, at best, but David’s intentions, I thought, were honorable. I remember a quote from him, something like ‘I tried to write the book that Oscar Hammerstein would have written if he were Asian American.’ I really think Oscar would have approved, and that’s why we gave it the go-ahead.”

“Yeah, I think I heard about that,” I said. “At least they kept the song-anddance numbers. Man, were they great.”

My customer chuckled, saying, “You won’t get any argument from me on that.

Did you know we also released a special edition of the movie version of Flower Drum Song, including commentary by Nancy Kwan?”

“Oh, my God — how sexy was she in that movie? She certainly stirred my adolescent heart the times I saw it on TV.” In my mind’s eye, I visualized Nancy Kwan’s solo number, “I Enjoy Being a

Girl,” during which she dances around wearing only a short white towel. “I guess she stirred more than my heart,” I confessed.

For the remainder of the ride, we talked musicals, from Oklahoma! to Rent.

I felt transported back to my childhood, when I used to lie on the living room floor listening to my parents’ cast albums and dreaming about the stories the songs were telling.

Heading north on Route 100, I turned onto Moscow Road, a shortcut to our destination. I thought about how, back in the ’90s, I had a regular customer who would fly up to visit the Trapp Family Lodge a few times a year, summer and winter.

My cabbing career has been replete with piquant personalities, yet I would call Trevor a singular character. A diminutive elf of a man, he looked, spoke and carried himself like the late Truman Capote. And the von Trapp family saga was his lifelong fascination, if not obsession.

When he was a child, Trevor shared with me, he and his mother would take regular road trips from their Rhode Island home to vacation at the lodge.

On these visits, he often interacted with Maria, the grand matriarch herself.

Trevor continued this vacation tradition into his adulthood, except he never learned how to drive; hence his use of my service.

During what turned out to be the last time I drove him, Trevor asked if I’d like to see “something special” inside the

For the remainder oF the ride,

we talked musicals, from oklahoma! to rent.

main building. I followed him up to the second floor, where the von Trapps had hung family memorabilia along the wide hallways. Leading me into an alcove, Trevor pointed out one specific item, which appeared to be a publicity photo.

It was a shot of the great stage star Mary Martin, decked out as Maria von Trapp in the original stage production of The Sound of Music.

“Just look at the inscription,” he said, his quiet tone almost reverential.

It read, “To my dearest Maria, The joy of my life has been playing you, knowing you, and Loving you, [signed] Mary Martin.” The words “Loving you” were twice the size of the others. I looked over at Trevor to see tears sliding down his cheeks.

Emerging from that vivid, 25-year-old memory, I arrived at the lodge with my new customer. He paid the fare, and we exchanged business cards and shook hands. We had bonded over our shared love of this uniquely American art form.

Exactly one week later, a puffy manila envelope showed up in my mailbox.

When I saw the return address, I had my suspicions. When I tore it open, my guess was confirmed: It was the special-edition DVD of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song — a unique and treasured tip, after the fact, from a thoughtful and generous taxi customer. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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was driving a customer to the Trapp Family Lodge, one beauty of a fare in the heart of the ski season. It was late afternoon, and after three straight days of skies evocative of a gray overcoat, the sun had splashed through like clear water through a broken dam.

As I turned off the highway at the Stowe exit, the Hunger Mountain range was bathed in lemony light. For the past half hour, since we’d left the airport, my customer had been on the phone with his home office in Manhattan. The conversation had something to do with The Sound of Music and a new project involving the von Trapp family members, many of whom still reside in Vermont. The man was bald, well dressed and well groomed — some might say to the point of fastidiousness, but it was working for him. His voice was calm and brimming with enthusiasm for the work being discussed.

Me, I was feeling voluble. I hoped he would be, too, when he completed the call. I wanted to know the guy’s story.

Having waited a respectable 20 seconds after his call ended, I got the ball rolling with “So, you’re producing some sort of DVD?” “Yeah, that’s part of my business,” he replied. “I work for the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, the company formed by the heirs of the songwriting team to manage the performance rights for their music and plays. A few years ago, we produced a 40th-anniversary DVD for The Sound of Music, which included interviews with the von Trapp children who were still alive.”

“Wow,” I said, “that sounds really great. I’m a big musical-comedy guy myself. My favorite from that era was

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GETTING TO ZERO

Three ways Vermonters can reduce their carbon footprint — and dial back global warming — at home

What does it mean for a building to be “net zero”? Simply that “the total energy required to maintain a building cannot exceed what it generates through renewable sources or saves through efficiency,” explains Ken Picard in his story about passive houses. It’s one of three stories in this issue that detail approaches some Vermonters are taking to reduce their residential energy consumption.

In a second story, Ethan de Seife profiles a Wilder, Vt.-based company named Vermod that has introduced a new version of the modular, or “mobile,” home that is both energy-efficient and affordable. And in a third, Amy Lilly visits a Burlington couple who have retrofitted their older home to reach a nearly net-zero status.

These examples outline a potential trend — with state backing.

In December 2011, the Vermont Department of Public Service issued a Comprehensive Energy Plan that set the state on a path

Passive House:

Does this ultra-efficient home point the way to carbon neutrality in Vermont?

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uddles the cockatiel and Stripe the parakeet sit cozily in their cages on the bedroom windowsills of 12-year-old Charlie Paul, oblivious to the frigid December air on the other side of the glass. Charlie’s secondfloor bedroom is in the southeast corner of this Charlotte home, and, like every other room in the house, it maintains a nearconstant 70 degrees year round.

At first glance, the 1,200-square-foot, split-level house looks comfortable but unremarkable. Then you notice what’s missing: radiators, baseboard heaters, air conditioners and forced-air vents. All the appliances, including the stove and hot water tank, run on solar or electricty from the grid — no fossil fuels on the premises.

No thermostat clicks on or furnace fires up, even on the coldest winter nights.

There are no cold, drafty spots, even in the unfinished basement. In fact, the air always feels fresh and comfortable, neither too humid nor too dry, regardless of the weather or season.

Those aren’t just the observations of Charlie; his 17-year-old brother, Dylan; or their mother, Katie Palmer, the house’s inhabitants since May 2011.

Their home, which was built by

toward net-zero energy for all new residential and commercial construction by 2030. It’s an ambitious goal. Yet advocates such SEVENDAYSVT.COM

as the energy experts at Efficiency Vermont, as well as architects, builders and producers of renewable-energy systems, believe it’s reachable. Clean-energy-producing technologies are growing more sophisticated and, importantly, more affordable. And, despite a current decline in the price of gasoline, the cost of oil and other

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carbon-based fuels is predicted to rise in the future.

For Vermont to reach its laudatory goal, popular will — and ability — must be part of the equation. Despite state and federal regulations and subsidies, utility rebates and declining technology prices, not all Vermonters have the wherewithal to make changes in their homes.

Not everyone can spend more now to save in the long run.

But for those who can, these stories offer some concrete hows and whys. They also pose the question: If not now, when? Says one homeowner, “We can’t all wait around for a magic bullet; we’ve got to

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step up and make a difference to slow down global climate change.”

PAME L A P O L S TO N Passive house in Charlotte

Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity, is the first-ever certified passive house in Vermont. As such, it’s outfitted with an array of sensors that constantly monitor its indoor air quality and energy consumption. And the data they capture should be of interest to anyone in Vermont who designs and builds houses, owns a home or pays a utility bill.

Passive houses — not to be confused with passive solar systems — are built to the most rigorous design standards in the world to maximize energy efficiency, indoor air quality, physical comfort and durability. They’re oriented to minimize solar gain in the summer and maximize it in the winter. They’re so tightly insulated that they retain the heat generated by refrigerators, lights, stoves and the residents

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themselves. Accordingly, these houses can be heated and cooled through the ventilation system, requiring far less energy than conventional homes — about 90 percent less, in most cases.

When it comes to greenhouse gases, no sector has a greater impact on global warming than the built environment.

According to 2010 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, buildings account for 47 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions, more than transportation (34 percent) or industry (19 percent).

In December 2011, Gov. Peter Shumlin laid out a comprehensive energy plan aimed at making all new residential and commercial construction in Vermont “net zero” by 2030. That means the total energy required to maintain a building cannot exceed what it generates through renewable sources or saves through efficiency.

And, as efficiency experts often point out, the cheapest energy of all is that which is never used. If Vermont intends to get serious about meeting Shumlin’s net-zero goal in 15 years, advocates say that passivehouse design must be part of the equation.

Chief among those advocates is Peter Schneider, a senior consultant with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation/ Efficiency Vermont. He worked on the Charlotte house in 2010 and agreed, with the owner’s permission, to show it to a reporter.

At the house, Schneider pulls out his iPhone, which features a dashboard app that can check all the home’s sensors remotely — 3,600 data points per hour. From it, Schneider can monitor the electricity usage of every appliance and wall outlet, the

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Wager was so impressed by the concept that he spent the next five years producing a feature-length documentary about it and other passive homes. SUPERHouse! is now in international distribution.

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urrently, a passive house in Vermont costs 5 to 10 percent more to build than a conventional home. But because its utility costs are so low, homeowners begin saving money from day one, and can recoup the added expense within 10 to 15 years.

Furthermore, given that passive-house owners are less vulnerable to seasonal fluctuations in their utility bills caused by severe weather and fuel-price spikes, some lenders, including the VSECU credit union, will approve higher monthly mortgage payments for passive houses than for conventional homes.

Says David Mullin, executive director of Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity, “It makes a world of difference for low-income families to have energy bills that don’t eat them alive.”

Although the idea of super-insulating homes to save energy and money emerged in the United States in the 1970s, the so-called Passivhaus movement began in Darmstadt, Germany, in the late 1980s.

There, Swedish scientist Bo Adamson and German physicist Wolfgang Feist built the world’s first passive house; Feist later founded the Passivhaus Institute in the same city.

German-born architect Katrin Klingenberg, who built her own passivehouse residence in Urbana, Ill., reintroduced the concept to the United States in 2002. She later cofounded the Passive House Institute U.S. PHIUS is now the standard bearer and certifying organization for all passive-house construction in the U.S.

Although the design concept has been slow to catch on in this country compared with Europe, its ability to excite designers, builders, architects and conservationists was evident on an evening in late September in Burlington’s South End. There, about 80 people gathered in the offices of the energy consulting firm Better to hear a presentation by Austrian Günter Lang, a consultant and champion for the international passive-house movement.

The event was sponsored by Better, Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office, Burlington Electric Department, and New Moran. Tad Cooke, who’s working to redevelop the former coal-fired plant on Burlington’s waterfront, said he and his partners are considering adopting the passive-house standard for the new Moran Plant space.

For more than an hour, Lang showed slides, photos and graphs of award-winning passive-house buildings — not just single-family homes but high-rise apartments, college dorms, commercial offices, courthouses, health care facilities, even prisons. These structures are transforming Europe’s energy landscape and saving their owners tens of thousands of dollars.

One such building, a 354-apartment complex in Innsbruck, Austria, requires fewer wood pellets to heat than six single-family conventional homes.

Another, a 444-unit apartment complex in Innsbruck that was part of the Olympic Village for the 2012 Winter Games, takes 90 to 95 percent less energy to heat than a conventionally designed structure. Today, the city of Innsbruck won’t allow any new construction that doesn’t meet passivehouse standards.

The Austrian city isn’t alone in this pursuit. According to Lang, more than 60,000 passive-house buildings, totaling more than 350 billion square feet of interior space,

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temperature of all the rooms and their indoor air quality, including levels of relative humidity, carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds.

Schneider, who could talk about all this for hours, calls the Charlotte house “the most influential home in Vermont.” Since it was built, he’s given countless presentations, slide shows and tours to architects, engineers and builders who’ve studied the data, scrutinized the design and downloaded the blueprints.

For Schneider, this house, the first of 20 passive houses that have since been completed in Vermont, represents “a totally different way of thinking” about energy-efficient construction in cold-weather climates.

“Passive House seems ahead of its time,” he says of the movement. “But really, when you get there, this is the right time to be building houses this way. It’s a true 100-year home.”

Indeed, spend any time with local advocates — the Passive House Alliance of Vermont now has more than 70 members — and you’re bound to hear someone cheerfully admit to having “drunk the Kool-Aid.” Those enthusiasts include Jeff Wager, a Burlington filmmaker whom Schneider invited to produce a short video about the

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Five years ago, in a measure sparked by the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union agreed to adopt the passive-house standard for all new construction by 2020, if nations hadn’t done so already.

At the end of his sometimes-technical presentation, Lang got down on one knee and implored his Burlington audience to spread the word, saying, “We can do this.”

When he was done, the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Lang’s plea to his American counterparts is understandable, given the slow pace of passive-house construction in this country. Currently, less than 0.1 percent of all new construction in the U.S. meets passive-house standards.

One notable exception is Hickory Hall, a 40,000-square-foot dormitory at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., which was completed in December 2012. Like its sister dorm, Elm Hall, Hickory Hall contains 61 units with 117 beds. But, unlike the conventionally built Elm, Hickory is a passive-house structure, one of the largest in North America. Thanks to its tight building envelope and high-efficiency

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ventilation system, it uses 74 percent less energy than a conventionally built dorm, and 60 percent less than the moderately efficient Elm. As for its construction cost, the school reports that Hickory Hall was less expensive to build than Elm Hall — $118.75 per square foot compared with $125 per square foot.

If this technology can reap savings in both energy and construction costs, why is it taking so long for American builders to awaken to it?

“Why are 30 percent of Americans overweight and dangerously so? Why does gasoline cost half here what it costs in Europe?” asks Chris West, former president and current secretary of the Passive House Alliance of Vermont. “It’s an American myopia. We don’t want to see what’s happening in front of our faces unless it hits our pocketbooks, our freedoms or our safety.”

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mong those who came to hear Lang’s talk were Barb and Greg Whitchurch of Middlesex. In November 2012, Greg’s parents, both in their nineties, faced the prospect of moving out of their home in Akron, Ohio, and into an assisted-living facility. But after looking at one, they were, in Greg’s words, “totally freaked out” by all

the restrictions, including the costs, which totaled more than $3,000 per month.

“So I said to them, ‘For that kind of money, we can build you a place in Vermont,’” recalls Greg, a computer engineer who lives on 17 acres. For $225, Greg

purchased a computer program called the Passive House Planning Package, which provides detailed building instructions.

Working with passive-house consultants Chris Miksic and Indigo RuthDavis of Montpelier Construction, the Whitchurches erected a modest, two-story home that’s wheelchair accessible, ultraefficient and, Greg emphasizes, extremely comfortable inside. The house was oriented to face south, with large windows that capture the sun’s heat in winter but not in summer. The roof and walls are nearly two feet thick, with extra-thick insulation below the foundation. Says Barb, “You end up with a house where you can sit with your back right against the window and you’re not cold in the dead of winter.”

“Ours is small, but [a passive house] can look like anything you want it to. It can be any size,” adds Greg, who recently learned that the house won Efficiency Vermont’s Best of the Best Award in the Innovation category. “It’s just doing what we already do, just much better than people ever thought was possible,” he says.

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he term “mobile home” is a serious misnomer. That they are homes is certain: Figures from the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) suggest that tens of thousands of Vermonters reside full-time in these smallish, lowcost structures. But mobile they are not.

Though technically attachable to a trailer for hauling, the great majority of mobile homes remain where they were originally sited. Few Vermont mobile-home owners relocate them to, say, Arizona when the winter winds begin to blow.

Despite their permanence, mobile homes are far more vulnerable to weather fluctuations than so-called “stick-built” houses. They’re less well insulated and are typically propped up on concrete pillars rather than a true foundation. In short, mobile homes may be relatively inexpensive to purchase, but their owners can get slammed with energy costs.

Now the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board and Efficiency Vermont are collaborating to rewrite that energy equation. Embracing forward-thinking design and construction techniques, the Manufactured Housing Innovation Project (MHIP) aims to create mobile homes that are energy-efficient and reasonably affordable. A Wilder company called Vermod has the exclusive contract to build what it calls “high-performance manufactured homes for the 21st century.”

Vermod’s structures are built to withstand Vermont winters and other rough weather.

Mobile homes’ vulnerability to the elements was forcefully driven home to Vermonters in 2011, when Tropical Storm Irene slammed into the state and took an outsize toll on them. According to Peter Schneider, a senior consultant with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation/ Efficiency Vermont, 15 percent of the residences that qualified for post-Irene Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance were mobile homes — yet those homes constitute only about 7 percent of the state’s total housing stock.

(According to CVOEO, that translates to 22,490 housing units.)

Schneider says the devastation wrought

by Irene was “the catalyst” that inspired the collaboration of Efficiency Vermont, the University of Vermont, the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board and the nonprofit High Meadows Fund. The goal was to design and build a mobile home that far exceeds the standards laid down by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which have not been updated since 1976.

Sarah Woodward, director of the mobile-home program at CVOEO, helped MHIP gather feedback from owners about what they’d like to see in the next generation of such housing. She calls MHIP “an innovative group that’s approaching this problem with a fresh mind.” CVOEO’s

Vermod home on display at Burlington’s Innovation Center

operating question, Woodward says, is “How can we find a safe design that’s going to be affordable for people?” The project commenced in 2012, and the first homes were built the following year.

With Schneider as a guide, Seven Days took a tour of a Vermod mobile home last fall, when it was on display in the parking lot of Burlington’s Innovation Center of Vermont. Schneider eagerly pointed out the home’s many energy-efficient features.

So far, he’s overseen the placement of 16 Vermod homes in towns across the state.

Schneider started his tour by calling attention to an easily overlooked but important feature: roof overhangs. Many manufacturers omit them, since they occupy precious width in an interstate lane. “But they’re almost critical to durability in our climate,” he explained; the roof extensions allow ice and snow to drip down and away from exterior walls.

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Holladay, who reports on energy-efficient construction and lives off the grid in Wheelock, has been a longtime skeptic of passive-house construction because, he contends, the structures are not as costeffective as their proponents claim.

According to Holladay, PHIUS recently made a “180-degree turn” on its standards and released brand-new draft ones that will completely redefine the passive house in North America. The old standards, he says, required insulation so thick that “You would have to go 200 to 300 years before you would ever pay back either the carbon footprint or the cost of all that insulation.”

Meanwhile, he adds, in more temperate climates, builders can reach the passivehouse standard so easily that, arguably, they should be required to add more insulation than PHIUS requires.

“The passive-house standard does result in wonderful houses,” Holladay concedes. “They’re comfortable, their energy bills are low and there’s nothing wrong with how they perform.”

Still, he contends that the PHIUS standard of evaluating a home’s efficiency based on its airtightness and energy budget is “rigid and illogical,” as it doesn’t allow designers to consider other factors that affect energy usage.

“Cost-effectiveness,” Holladay concludes, “is not part of the passive-house criteria.”

VEIC’s Schneider is familiar with Holladay’s criticisms, and, in many respects, he agrees. Passive house isn’t a “cost-optimized” energy standard, he readily admits, noting that Vermont can build net-zero and zero-carbon homes without adopting everything in the PHIUS standard.

One distinct advantage of passive houses, he says, is that they’re relatively simple and labor-free for their owners.

That’s a marked change from some other high-efficiency houses that have been built in Vermont in recent years — notably, the 5,000-square-foot home that Dotty Kyle and Eric Brattstrom built in Warren. That house, as the New York Times described in a profile last month, is environmentally sustainable but proved too technical and labor-intensive for the couple, who are both 78 and retired.

Ultimately, Schneider suggests that passive houses can raise the bar for all builders, so that, one day, homebuyers may look as closely at a home’s energy profile as they do now at its school district and property taxes.

For his part, West, a passive-house consultant who lived in the Netherlands for 10 years and is currently building four new passive houses in Vermont, says there’s no reason for Vermont to build any other way.

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Another outdoor innovation: Vermod homes are set on true foundations. Mobile homes perched on blocks expose more surface area to cold and damp. Many owners invest in skirting that covers the gap cosmetically, but it remains uninsulated.

Inside the home, Schneider called attention to the energy-efficient kitchen appliances and washer/dryer, but the more powerful innovations are less visible. Each exterior wall is packed with 10 inches

of insulation; the roof has 14 inches, the better to prevent ice damming. Standard ductwork has been eliminated in favor of a system that monitors and vents fresh air; it sits beside a quiet, pump-based, highly efficient water heater. The system “saves every BTU in the house,” Schneider said, “stealing” heat from the air and putting it into the water heater, for example.

On the roof, a Vermod home is outfitted with a 20-panel solar array that, according to Schneider, provides for the structure’s entire energy needs. That array is one of the few features that must be installed on-site; its cost, like that of the flooring and appliances, is included in the sticker price. Each home’s energy usage is carefully monitored, and an automated system can notify the homeowner of any anomalous energy consumption.

Equal effort went into designing the Vermod home’s living space. The 14-by-70foot model that Seven Days visited has two bedrooms, two full bathrooms, a good-size living room and kitchen, and several closets. At 980 square feet, the Vermod home is compact, yet it feels fairly spacious, owing in part to sloping ceilings and numerous windows.

All this innovation does come at a price.

A Vermod home costs roughly twice as much as its conventional mobile-home equivalent. The two-bedroom model — the program’s most expensive — is $105,800.

For comparison, Brault Manufactured

Homes in Colchester offers a new mobile home of approximately the same size and with similar appliances for about $50,000, including the costs of siting and utility hookups in Chittenden County.

If potential buyers take the long view, Schneider suggested, the energy-efficient mobile home is a better deal. MHIP’s argument is this: The energy savings the home promises are so significant that, over the course of long-term ownership, it will cost less than a conventional model. MHIP estimates the annual energy expenditures of a traditional mobile home at more than $3,800, while 6v-cswd010715.indd 1 1/2/15 the Vermod home’s costs would run about $180.

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Jerry Laframboise is one buyer who’s made the leap of faith. When he retired, he moved from his ranch-style house into a Vermod home in a Middlebury

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mobile-home park. To purchase it, Laframboise received grant assistance from the Addison County Community Trust in Vergennes, and took out a mortgage to cover the balance. It took him a while to adjust to the home’s small size, but, he says, “other than that, I really love it.”

Overall, Laframboise says, the home is “well thought out.” He cites the foot-thick, leak-free walls; the high-quality windows; and the efficient heat-pump system.

Though energy efficiency wasn’t his first concern in purchasing the home, he says

that earning credits with his utility company is most welcome.

“When the sun shines,” Laframboise says, “I make more energy than I use.”

The energy credits he’s stockpiled proved useful during a recent snowstorm that temporarily prevented his solar panels from producing. At times like that, his home literally pays for itself.

Jeff Smith is the director of credit administration in the South Burlington headquarters of NorthCountry Federal Credit Union; he oversees a portfolio that includes some 100 mobile-home loans that amount to nearly $6 million. According to Smith, many

2012 — they hoped to find one where they could prove that existing homes can be brought to net-zero status. New buildings can now easily be designed as net-zero.

But until recently, few people attempted to retrofit older homes — the ones where the majority of Vermonters live.

Retrofitting has been made possible by a decline in the cost of solar panels — by as much as 75 percent since 2008 — and the advent of net metering.

The latter eliminates the need to store home-generated energy in batteries; residents can instead sell it to the grid. In Vermont, electric utilities are required to buy energy produced by residences at the same rate they charge for usage. And residents receive a bonus for that energy, called a feed-in tariff.

The house Ponzio and Young found on Cherry Lane met a few key requirements for retrofitting. Like virtually every house

in the neighborhood, it is relatively small at 1,400 square feet. It dates from the 1950s, an era of solid construction. And it has a large roof span, due to its ranch design, which faces directly south — two important factors for solar panels. Also, the house hadn’t undergone substantial remodeling. “It wouldn’t have made sense to go into a home that had just had $20,000 of work,” notes Ponzio.

At $280,000, the price was “a big stretch for us,” says Young. But a concession from the seller took care of most of the cost of removing asbestos-laden insulation from the attic. Renewableenergy incentives for solar installations, including a 30 percent federal tax credit (which expires at the end of 2016) and a state incentive of 25 cents per watt ( just expired), whittled the costs of the couple’s 9,390-watt solar-panel array down to $20,000.

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t’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit the morning that Seven Days stops by the home of Li Ling Young and Nik Ponzio in the Burlington neighborhood behind Lake Champlain Chocolates on Pine Street. Inside? A luxurious 69 degrees.

New Englanders accustomed to skimping on their fossil-fuel consumption — whether out of respect for the environment or their wallets — would likely frown on such profligacy. But Young and Ponzio don’t have to burn natural gas, fuel oil or propane to create that heat. Seventy percent of their heat comes from an air-source heat pump powered by electricity that’s generated by rooftop solar panels. The other 30 percent is from two highly efficient woodstoves.

In fact, those 38 photovoltaic panels on the house’s south-facing roof, along with three cords of wood used annually, generate as much energy as the occupants need. (The couple has two children, one currently away at college).

That includes water heating, electricity and one electric car, charged in the garage. Young and Ponzio’s house is “net zero,” i.e., one that produces as much energy in a year as it consumes.

Some net-zero advocates would differ, citing the fact that Young and Ponzio don’t produce their wood; they buy it. But wood is nevertheless a renewable energy source, and it’s carbonneutral because it sequesters carbon dioxide in the environment. “These are fluid terms,” says Ponzio.

As for their electricity, the couple produce pretty much what they use.

Young can tell the ratio exactly: “We buy 1 percent of our electricity,” she says, sitting on a couch beside the currently dormant living room woodstove.

That’s because they have a whole-home monitoring system: Their electric panel has been wired so that every source of

electricity usage, as well as each solar panel’s electricity generation, is tracked and uploaded to the internet moment by moment.

Ponzio opens his tablet and calls up eGauge, the app for their whole-home monitor, which provides instant graphs over any time span. Last year, the house generated 10.6 megawatt-hours of electricity, the green bars show; it consumed 10.8.

Young and Ponzio began retrofitting their 1955 single-story ranch two years ago and have been keeping a blog about the process. They’ve seen such amazing results that they named the blog Energy Freak Show and subtitled it “Chronicles about the living laboratory we call home.”

One post, titled “Payback, Baby!” shows two documents from the Burlington Electric Department: a “bill” for zero dollars and a check for $1,000. The latter was credit for the energy the family produced beyond what it used. Eventually, Young and Ponzio plan to eliminate wood burning and work toward a fully renewable-electric home — a goal that, if duplicated in enough residences, would help slow global warming.

The two are not only mission-driven; they also work in the energy sector.

Young is a senior energy consultant in the residential energy services department of Efficiency Vermont, the state’s efficiency utility outside Burlington. (In town, Burlington Electric fills that role.) Before that, she worked in construction for an energy-minded building contractor.

Ponzio, an engineer for renewableenergy systems, designed and sold solar photovoltaics, solar hot water and wind-power systems with Vermont Solar Engineering until he cofounded Building Energy in Williston in 2007.

There he is also a project engineer.

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to insulate it, too. Insulation is still in progress in an addition that contains the master bedroom — one of three bedrooms — and a basement room below it.

When the home’s meticulously maintained but aging oil furnace failed in the first six months of their ownership, Young and Ponzio pondered their options and came up with an air-source heat pump. “It’s magic!” Young says, explaining that the pump works just like a refrigerator but can use even very cold outside air to create heat. (The blog offers her full explanation of the physics of its mechanism.) The pump costs a little more than natural gas to run, much less than propane and about the same as fuel oil. But, in tandem with the solar panels, it’s powered by renewable energy that doesn’t increase global warming.

The heat pump, a trim, white, rectangular machine about three feet long, sits high on a kitchen wall. The heat blowing out of it has to reach the living room and bedrooms on its own. When it does, however, the insulation keeps it from escaping. (The heat pump produces cold air in the summer; Ponzio and Young use it a few days each year as an air conditioner.) Young hopes someday to knock down the wall between the kitchen and living room to increase heat circulation — heat pumps work best with open floor plans — and natural light.

Today, however, the house is at 69 degrees, even without the heat pump. All the heat is coming from the basement woodstove, a Lopi. That’s because Young looked at the weather report when she woke up. “I knew it was going to be sunny,” she says, “so I decided not to fire up the woodstove” in the living room, which gets full sun, or the heat pump.

Houses like this one, which Young calls “energy-light,” “take a lot of active engagement from the occupants,” she adds.

“It’s very different from ‘energy-rich’ homes,” which can be run on autopilot.

The couple’s next project was water: They replaced the electric water heater with a heat-pump water tank. Built into this kind of tank is a smaller unit of the same technology as heats the house.

While an electric water heater is already 90 percent efficient, Young explains in a blog post, a heat-pump tank is 200 percent efficient.

All these improvements in efficiency might make one wonder: Do Ponzio and Young find themselves using more energy because they can do so without affecting the environment? It turns out the efficiency industry has a term for that — “takeback” — and has measured it, Young says. People almost never use significantly more energy than before they instituted efficiency measures.

Young and Ponzio may have kept the heat slightly lower in their old house, but in general their habits haven’t changed, they say. “We’ve been conserving for many years,” Young says, “and we’ve found the level of conservation that we feel empowered by and that allows us to live comfortably.”

Young and Ponzio hope to empower others, too, through their blog as well as by participating in energy-efficiency tours.

The house was one of eight included on an October 2013 tour organized by the Burlington committee for the Vermont Home Energy Challenge, a statewide competition among Vermont towns hosted by Efficiency Vermont. The same group of volunteers — led by Jennifer Green, sustainability coordinator at Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office — put Young and Ponzio’s house on a four-home tour to celebrate Earth Day in April 2014.

One “tourist” who drew inspiration from the couple’s retrofitting was Peter

Jones, who lives in a 1964 raised-ranch house in South Burlington.

“The air-source heat pump was a no-brainer,” Jones recalls thinking after seeing Young and Ponzio’s. Ponzio proceeded to install Jones’ heat pump, which typically costs $5,000, including installation. The stay-at-home dad decided against the heat-pump water tank, however, because he had installed a solar hot-water heater on his roof years before, along with photovoltaic panels. (“I put up solar panels too early,” Jones admits; he is now engaged in a multiphase insulating project.)

“I’m just a layperson who’s interested in doing what a lot more people should be doing,” says Jones, whose goal is to reach net-zero without burning any fuel, including wood. “We can’t all wait around for a magic bullet; we’ve got to step up and make a difference to slow down global climate change.”

CEDO’s Green appreciates the “exciting array of different things [Young and Ponzio] have going on” in terms of their energy-efficiency measures. She also champions their choice of a house that is modestly sized and close to downtown, cutting down on transportation energy usage.

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Ponzio was able to get the panels and other equipment at wholesale prices and install them himself. Lay folks may not be able to access such savings, but the couple make every effort to discuss costsaving measures on their blog.

“I’m really interested in knowing this work can be affordable,” says Young. To that end, they’ve documented all the cost-containment thinking that went into each step of their net-zero journey.

The pair began by solidly insulating their house — a must before installing solar, and a first step for homeowners with a net-zero goal. They blew three feet of cellulose into the attic, dense-packed the exterior walls with cellulose blown through holes bored in the 1955 cedar shingles, and air-sealed every crack. In the basement, they applied 6-inch foam board to the cement-block foundation, and they dug out the exterior of the foundation

“If you look at the audience that I serve day to day, I’m not necessarily seeing a matchup,” she says. “If you’re struggling to make ends meet … you may not have the luxury of thinking long-term about your housing.”

Schneider was more optimistic during our tour. The Vermod home, he asserted, is a smart housing option not just for mobilehome owners who want an upgrade but for first-time home buyers and for retirees looking to downsize. “We really hope that this home will help to end that cycle of poverty for our lower-income homeowners,” he said.

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is a challenge,” he says. Still, Smith notes that Vermod homes appear to retain their value longer, which could diminish lenders’ reservations about them.

One of the biggest problems facing MHIP is more tangible, in the eyes of CVOEO’s Woodward. For the program to catch on, she says, mobile-home owners — and potential buyers — need to embrace a “paradigm shift.” That is, they must begin to view the homes not as depreciating assets but as durable, permanent residences that can yield long-term returns. Woodward worries that this mind-set shift may be too high a hurdle — at least for the immediate future.

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financial institutions are “gun shy” about financing mobile homes, viewing them as a “depreciating asset,” he says. When a bank or credit union does finance a mobile home, it may require a significant down payment or aggressive payment terms.

Smith sees MHIP as “an excellent program,” but he concedes that lenders may still find it a tough sell, for two reasons. First, the mobile-home mortgage market is “already depressed” and may not currently be robust enough to respond to a new wave of energyefficient and sustainable structures. Second, simply “finding an appraiser to understand the value of what these homes are offering

Gone Girls

Book review: Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman

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ach of the 13 stories in Shaftsbury writer Megan Mayhew Bergman’s engrossing second collection, Almost Famous Women, begins with a photo or painting of the real woman whose life inspired the story. So it’s almost inevitable that readers will peruse the fascinating images and their captions first, looking for women they recognize.

Many of those faces, however, may not be familiar. There is the Romantic poet Lord Byron’s illegitimate daughter Allegra, dead at age 5; and Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were vaudeville and burlesque entertainers in the 1920s and ’30s. There are women who pulled off daring physical feats for their time and then faded from view: an aviator (Beryl Markham), a speedboat racer (Standard Oil heiress M.B. “Joe” Carstairs), a stunt motorcyclist (Hazel Eaton). And there are writers and dancers and artists, such as the 1920s Left Bank painter Romaine Brooks, whose work inexplicably failed to make a lasting impression.

Yet, by the end of Almost Famous Women — and the bout of googling it inspires — each of these women has become unforgettable. Like a literary version of Judy Chicago’s installation piece “The Dinner Party,” Bergman’s book assigns each woman her place at the table. The portraits, often drawn near the end of life or after the possibility of fame had passed, create a sense of each woman and the compromises she faced.

Sometimes Bergman accomplishes this in astonishingly few pages. A story from her first collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, was chosen for The Best American Short Stories 2011, and her talents are no less on display here. James Joyce’s daughter Lucia emerges as a mind to grapple with in the three-page “Expression Theory,” a masterpiece of compression.

“Aggression is ugly in a woman,” silently muses Lucia — called “L” in the story — after having thrown a chair at her mother. This act prompted the real Lucia Joyce’s lifelong institutionalization for insanity, cutting short the career she might have pursued in modern

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“What if I bastardized a grand plié, assumed the position of birth, squatted down like a woman in the Amazon? L thinks as her mother sobs. Would that look useful?”

Always present in these stories are the ghosts of the men who did become famous. In the background of

“Expression Theory” hovers Joyce, whose total absorption in his creative work (aside from drinking) was, unlike his daughter’s, not just tolerated but celebrated. Ernest Hemingway, an ambulance driver during World War I, is the shade evoked in “Who Killed Dolly Wilde?” — the story’s protagonist, Oscar Wilde’s niece, also drove one.

“Papa” is also evoked in “The Siege at Whale Cay,” about Carstairs, who was the “fastest woman on water” and

another ambulance driver in the same war.

Those two stories use fiction to explore the phenomenon of post-traumatic stress disorder inflicted on women by their war experiences, something that didn’t even register at the time. Dolly is portrayed in her drug-addled old age through the eyes of a close friend, a younger woman who once fell in love with her. The latter, unnamed, discovers letters Dolly wrote but never sent describing the horrors of her war work.

One reads, “The flesh has been burned from his body, what’s left of his body.

There’s no nose or mouth, just eyes.”

This “face of fire” belongs to a living soldier she must transport back from the front line.

The real Dolly, an admired London wit and socialite, never wrote the book many expected her to. Could PTSD have accounted for that failure? Bergman’s story, set during the subsequent war’s bombing raids, leaves the reader to wonder. In an author’s note, Bergman explains, “While I absorbed facts about these women’s lives, I did not stay inside the lines.”

Ultimately, it’s the reality Bergman creates in her stories that counts. One mark of her success is that a character such as Dolly’s friend and narrator can muse convincingly about a phenomenon feminists have pondered at least since the 1970s: “Maybe the world has been bad to its great and unusual women.

Maybe there wasn’t a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive.”

Like “Who Killed Dolly Wilde?” many stories are told through the eyes not of the almost-famous woman in question but of someone who knew her. In “Romaine Remains,” Romaine Brooks is a sharp-tongued 93-year-old observed by her envious male servant.

The younger man attempts to absorb his employer’s fame and eventually control her fate.

Readers of “Hell-Diving Women” get a glimpse of the 1940s African American jazz trumpeter Tiny Davis — and her fearless comments into the mic challenging audiences’ blatant racism. The story is told from the point of view of

Ruby Lucas, Davis’ lesbian partner and the drummer in her band at the time, the integrated, all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Ruby worries about Tiny’s chutzpah; the trumpeter lately addressed her southern audience with the words: “When I think of the south, I think … of those three bad brothers, Klu, Kluck, and Klan.”

Less successful in inhabiting the reader’s imagination is “Hazel Eaton and the Wall of Death,” told in third person without an outsider’s viewpoint.

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She dreamed of Sarasota.

There was the cinder-block changing room that smelled of bleach and brine.

On the door hung a gold star, as if to suggest that the showgirls could claim such status. A bucket of lipsticks sat on the counter, soon to be whisked away to the refrigerator to keep them from melting.

Georgie pulled on her mermaid tail and slipped into the tank, letting herself fall through the brackish water, down, down to the performance arena. She smiled through the green, salty water and pretended to take a sip of Coca-Cola as customers pressed their noses to the glass walls of the tank. She flipped her rubber fish tail and sucked air from a plastic hose as elegantly as she could, filling her lungs with oxygen until they hurt. A few minnows flitted by, glinting in the hot Florida sun that hung over the water, warming the show tank like a pot of soup.

Letting the hose drift for just a moment, Georgie executed a series of graceful flips, arching her taut swimmer’s body until it made a circle.

She could see the audience clapping and decided she had enough air to flip again. Breathing through the tricks was hard, but a few months into the season, muscle memory took over.

Next Georgie pretended to brush her long blond hair underwater while one of Sarasota’s many church groups looked on, licking cones of vanilla ice cream, pointing at her.

How does she use the bathroom?

Can she walk in that thing? Hey, sunshine, can I get your number?

thoughts after a near-fatal crash, allows Bergman to imagine the motivation behind Eaton’s refusal to stop performing her death-defying act. “Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it’s like to be able to call a man chickshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.”

By far the most moving story in Almost Famous Women is about a girl who never lived to womanhood: “The Autobiography of Allegra Byron.”

Bergman, a droll blogger of her life as a mother of two on a family farm, excels at writing children, their ploys for attention and their unexpected observations.

(Bergman’s Best American Short Stories entry, “Housewifely Arts,” includes an indelible portrait of a 7-year-old boy.)

The story begins with the poet’s daughter’s arrival at a convent in northeast Italy, where she will live out the last two years of her short life. “I don’t like it” is the imperious 3-year-old’s first comment. “I watched her quietly,” says the woman who will allow herself to develop an affection for the girl — an unnamed first-person narrator who came to the convent after burying her own newborn child and husband. “The way she pretended to play while eyeing her chaperones’ every move. Her anxiety was evident. She moved to clutch at the knees of the lead chaperone.”

Allegra’s fate during her stay, and that of her caretaker, is to learn that her famous parents have abandoned her.

That gradual realization has its greatest impact at the end, when the narration absorbs the caretaker’s bitterness: “Lord Byron made a show of his grief and sent for her body as if it were a rare volume, the thing that had been missing from his library all along.”

Passages like these, one hopes, will help this fine author achieve the lasting recognition that eluded her almostfamous subjects. m

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We simply ignore the baby who’s making a mess at the next table and dig into the food with the steel-trap jaws of a pit bull.

That’s not to say that the scene at Richmond’s Parkside Kitchen is the kind of free-for-all one might expect at, say, Friendly’s. But it is certainly a contrast to the fine-dining destination Kitchen Table Bistro, for which owners Steve and Lara Atkins and Neal Johnston are best known.

The James Beard Award-nominated culinary team has exported some of its casual hits, including burgers and mac and cheese, to the site of the former On the Rise Bakery.

Don’t look for the previous occupant’s thriving music scene, bagels or vegetarian menu. In their place, pastry specialist Lara Atkins leads the kitchen in serving three meals a day. There are still lots of dishes to please veg-heads, but the broad menu is full of new treats that strive for the quality established at the Kitchen Table. Often, the food reaches those heights, but the climb isn’t without stumbles.

Service is simple: Consult a printed menu and order at the counter, then grab a drink from the case. A server will bring you your food and bus your dishes when you’re finished.

When it comes to the baked goods on the counter, you could try to resist an apple fritter or doughnut — or let your id rule. If a soft, chewy chocolate-potato doughnut will make you happy, why not indulge?

Before I saw the apple fritter, I assumed it would be a member of the cider doughnut family. Instead, Atkins has replicated a glazed Krispy Kreme. The fritter was just as light, but instead of a hole in the middle it had spiced apples that melted into the feathery pastry.

I tried those sweets when I stopped

by Parkside for Sunday brunch and joined a full house of diverse diners — from country oldsters in overalls to young, hipster parents. We scored the

last open table, a two-top next to the busy kitchen.

My dining partner ordered a cup of hot chocolate, and after the first taste immediately spat out what he thought was paper.

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the same thing happened again, another staffer explained that the offending texture wasn’t paper, but a film that developed on the drink as it sat throughout the day. He strained the chocolate and brought a final, smooth version — worth it for the rich, nutty sip.

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The drink made an indulgent pairing with the Parkside Benedict. This dish demonstrated that one of the best ways to trick me into eating my greens is by piling them under a thick layer of uncommonly tangy hollandaise. Atkins’ take on the classic incorporated another idea that was even smarter: a base of polenta, lightly crisped on the griddle. Softer than an English muffin, the unassuming cornmeal put more focus on the toothsome smoked ham and crunchy pickled onions that joined the runny poached eggs in a tower of breakfast ecstasy. The Benedict looked small at first glance, but the calories added up to a nap.

I expected similar pleasures from the Brunch Mac & Cheese, but was foiled.

Elbows combined with ham and woodroasted mushrooms, then crowned with a poached egg — what could go wrong?

The answer came in the apparent lack of a roux. Instead of noodles covered in thick cheese sauce, what I got was a pile of pasta tangled in stretchy cheese, sitting in a pool of hot milk.

On my next visit, the mac featured crisp-edged winter squash, roasted mushrooms and garlic, but the result was the same. The gooey, liquidy stuff that filled the cast-iron crock had a split personality, and I didn’t like either of them.

Parkside’s take on the Cubano rescued that second meal. The soft slabs of focaccia framed all the usual suspects, including ham, pickles and yellow mustard. But a thick melt of cheddar and slices of houseroasted pork gave the sandwich an identity all its own.

The meat was billed as “all-day roasted,” and I believe it. I just don’t know how the cooks were able to slice something so tender. A small side of creamy slaw added a welcome crunch, but a tangy side salad would have been a better respite from the heavy sandwich.

On my third visit to Parkside I resolved to get some veggies — not much of a challenge. The menu offers no fewer than four salads, including one tempting combo of wood-roasted beets, pickled fennel and feta. Another combined warm KITCHEN TABLE CASUAL

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There’s no door yet at the 2,300-square-foot location abutting Sweetwaters at 191 College Street. But late this spring, passersby will be able to step into the ArchiVES, a bar and arcade.

“At the very core of all of this, our focus is on making it a good bar,” co-owner NAthAN bEAmAN explains of the project. “If you take the games away, we’ll still be a place people want to go.”

Beaman, a local filmmaker, says that he and college pals ADAm lukENS and mAtthEW WAltErS have been pushing the idea of opening a “barcade” in Burlington for a decade. For three years, the crew, which now also includes video-game expert mAtthEW StrAuSS, has been seeking a Burlington or Winooski space. A section of the building formerly occupied by the Burlington Free Press turned out to be a perfect fit.

Beaman and Lukens co-own a local motion-picture equipment-rental company, quEEN citY liGhtiNG AND Grip, and its counterpart in Brooklyn. The New York connection keeps them tied to the big-city cocktail world. “We want to be a destination for people who want to tantalize their taste buds rather than going out to get smashed,” Beaman says. He envisions a rotating menu of upscale tipples. A Brooklyn-based sommelier and mixologist is consulting on the Archives’ drink list, and a big-name local bartender is currently in talks to pour those drinks, Beaman says.

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The Archives team is already working with local brewers on potential custom brews, but Beaman is adamant that not all his suds will be fruits of the Green Mountains. “Since Vermont brewers are doing so amazing, we’ve kind of patted ourselves on the back so much that people have blinders on a little bit to what’s happening in the rest of the craft-beer world,” he says.

At its core, the Archives will be a bar, with food generally limited to a grilled-cheese menu pairing local breads and cheeses. And what of the games? The 25-plus options will hail from the late 1970s to the 1990s, with an emphasis on stand-up cabinets rather than pinball. Beaman is reluctant to share too much, but lets slip that guests can expect to find the beloved 1992 Konami X-Men.

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On Christmas Eve, partners liSA oSorNio and mAtt GrESS opened tiGht SquEEzE coffEE Shop at 125 College Street in Burlington. The shop takes the place of the erstwhile Daily News, but Osornio and Gress have completely renovated the tiny space.

The shop is now open daily, though hours vary.

On offer is a variety of caffeinated pick-me-ups that aren’t available elsewhere in town; Osornio says she made a conscious choice to incorporate ingredients not offered at Burlington’s other coffee shops. “I wanted to create recipes that were different than what everyone else was doing,” she says.

So, in addition to standard espresso-based offerings brewed with a custom roast from South Burlington’s EArthbAck coffEE roAStErS, visitors can sip unconventional lattes. The milky drinks come in varieties like

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Wish took over ownership of Middlebury’s NooNiE DEli last summer.

Now he’s adding a second incarnation of the beloved sandwich spot — and returning it to Burlington, where the original Noonie was established in 1986. Wish is shooting for a February opening at 30 Main Street, the storefront most recently occupied by loGAN’S of VErmoNt. The Noonie Deli chain “was widespread throughout Vermont once upon a time,” Wish recalls. “There’s a lot of nostalgia for Noonie’s. The more I asked around — once people found out we owned Noonie’s — it was requested time and time again.”

Diners seeking to recreate the lunch experience at the last Burlington Noonie, which closed more than two decades ago, are in luck. Wish says he’ll keep all the classics and revamp the menu only slightly, adding several new breakfast sandwiches.

The signature bread likewise won’t change, though

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shell beans with quinoa and herbs. I settled on a bowl full of chopped romaine, cubes of roasted squash, juicy apple and chunks of cheddar. Slightly overdressed in a puckery vinaigrette, the salad had a wilted look but was still refreshing alongside my heavy entrées.

In the grand tradition of On the Rise, Parkside serves pizzas, but only from 4 p.m. until closing at 8. Enticed by the gluten-free polenta pizza, I nonetheless stuck to the basics, ordering the “house concoction” of pepperoni and roasted mushrooms over house tomato-basil sauce and cheese.

The pizza arrived with pepperoni, but no mushrooms. It didn’t matter much; I was all too happy to tear into the skinny, personal-size pie and its tangy layer of sauce. The crust was soft but sturdy enough to hold up beneath its toppings.

My dining partner was worried by the dearth of cheese, but the combination of mozzarella and sharp grana Padano held enough power to satisfy him.

The final dish we tried at Parkside Kitchen was the best of all. Let’s put it this way: Nectar’s in Burlington now has competition for best fried chicken in the state. At Parkside, $14 gets you a thigh and breast, both flowing with the juice of a buttermilk brine. While ultra-moist, the chicken never soaked away the crunch of its own coating.

If you’d told me there was such a thing as fried chicken that tastes like movie theater popcorn, I might have told you that sounded gross.

I would have been wrong.

And what a coating! If you’d told me there was such a thing as fried chicken that tastes like movie theater popcorn, I might have told you that sounded gross. I would have been wrong.

I don’t know what alchemy Atkins uses, but the result is wild indulgence. Paired with crisp, pepper-laden, hand-cut fries, the result is certainly a “sometimes” food, but one to mark the calendar for. I’ll probably skip the sides of clumpy buttermilk dip and mayo-soaked slaw next time, but the central elements are so compelling that I may even be willing to try the version of the dish in which southern-fried tofu replaces chicken.

Of course, there are other dishes to try first. Lasagna made with layers of polenta in place of noodles looms large on my list.

So does a rice bowl with smoked tofu and minted yogurt. And if hungry locals keep Parkside thriving, I’ll have plenty of time to eat my way through the menu. m Contact: alice@sevendaysvt.com

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from each brewer’s $10 entry fee will be split between Purple Hearts Reunited and a charity of the winner’s choice.

The winner will get to pour his or her beer at the 14th Star tent at the brewfest and see it on draft at local restaurants and sold in cans statewide.

He or she will also be featured — along with other competitors — in a minidocumentary about the competition and Vermont’s homebrew scene.

14th Star owner StEVE gAgNEr, a longtime homebrewer, says he’s excited to give someone the chance to share their beer with a wider audience.

“It’s kind of like when you give your kids presents on Christmas. I’m really excited to see that person’s expression when we give them a chance to put their beer in front of a couple hundred thousand people,” he says.

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Homebrewing, like any act of creation, involves inspiration and, often, passion.

It’s dirty, stinky, pricey and labor intensive, and there are never any guarantees that the beer will be drinkable. But the fruit of a homebrewer’s effort — whether good, bad, plain or interesting — is a reflection of that brewer’s skill, as well as of his or her thoughts and ideas, hopes and dreams, and the moment when he or she made and nurtured the brew.

Most homebrewers work by day and brew during nights and weekends, but many dream of supplanting their nine-tofive gig with a professional brewing job.

Earlier this week, 14tH StAr BrEwiNg, Winooski’s BEVErAgE wArEHouSE and FArrEll DiStriButiNg announced a statewide brewing competition called Make the Cut, which will give one winning homebrewer the chance to sell his or her beer statewide.

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aul Sayler founded Zero Gravity Craft Brewery at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth in 2004. Every day of the week, the restaurant offers a rainbow of beers — Belgian saisons, English bitters, American pilsners, hoppy IPAs, gruits, porters and stouts — in hues from pale gold to black.

With unusual grace, the pizzas and the beers strike a delicate balance between tradition and innovation. New classics emerge from the kitchen and brewery in an alliance that’s both provocative and pleasing to the palate.

In 2012, Sayler and head brewer Destiny Saxon — who joined Zero Gravity as a rookie brewer in 2008 — began brewing beers for consumption outside the restaurant. Now Sayler is wrapping up construction on a new, 30-barrel production brewery on Pine Street that will bring canned, bottle-conditioned, barrel-aged Zero Gravity beers to the market this spring.

Last week, Sayler, Saxon and bar manager Margaret Leddy sat down with Seven Days to reflect on their current fixations, future plans and the state of Vermont beer.

SEVEN DAYS: What’s the last beer you drank?

DESTINY SAXON: I think it was our Black Cat Porter, yesterday.

PAUL SAYLER: I think it was our pilsner, but that was right after having a Sierra Nevada Estate-grown beer.

SD: What beer is in your fridge at home?

DS: Right now I have a bunch of stouts because I was working on an oyster stout recipe. It’s basically a stout brewed with whole oysters. Some people will throw oysters into an oatmeal stout or a sweet stout, but I wanted to keep it traditional, so we did an Irish dry stout, similar to a Guinness base.

SD: Where did you work before you got into brewing?

DS: I got a degree in geology and realized pretty quickly that there were no jobs in Vermont. I started working for this environmental lab, and realized I wasn’t really helping the environment at all — I was just exposing myself to all these chemicals — and that I should look for some other work.

SD: What’s one beer that really changed the way you thought about brewing?

PS: I took three years between high school and college. At the end of that period, I went to Europe and did a bicycle trip. I started in Germany, and that was really a key moment. In Munich, I had hefeweizen for the first time, and that was a real game changer for me.

But I tried a bunch of German beers, and that got me really interested in beer. I started homebrewing when I got to college.

SD: What’s in the fermenter right now?

DS: We have a German bock lager and our TLA IPA, which has been our house IPA since the beginning. There’s Bamberg Helles, which is a lightly smoked helles, and aging right now is a Czech dark lager, which we call Tmavé.

MARGARET LEDDY: It’s a staff favorite.

DS: It’s sort of like a Czech dunkel.

SD: What’s the worst beer you’ve ever brewed?

DS: I made a soured stout, which we called Bermuda Triangle.

ML: People ask for that beer all the time!

There are some huge fans of that beer. I had a gentleman in here last night begging me to beg you to brew it.

DS: It just wasn’t what I intended. I collaborated with someone on that beer, so I felt really bad that it didn’t come out the way we had hoped.

PS: The most disappointing brew we’ve ever done was probably the dubbel. We got some candy sugar, which you use in Belgian beers, and it wasn’t bad but the sugar overcooked, which we couldn’t know until the beer was finished. The beer tasted like crème brûlée.

SD: And the best?

DS: One of my favorite hoppy beers we make is Sim City, which is an all-Simcoe IPA. That’s going on tap this afternoon.

PS: Probably the Czech Pils. Although the Tmavé is right up there.

SD: What’s a major challenge of making beer for a living?

DS: Working alone, there are just so many things you have to stay on top of.

Maintenance, cleaning, fitting those things in alongside brewing and kegging. It’s stuff you don’t necessarily have to do right then, but if you don’t, things go downhill fast.

PS: Brewing is something you can never fully take a break from. As long as the beer is fermenting and conditioning, you’re always thinking about what’s going on with it. It’s like having children; it’s a 24-7 reality. That’s the hardest thing.

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PS: It’s really Destiny. I’m mostly here for feedback at this point. She comes up with the recipes. They’re really her creations.

DS: We usually talk about everything, especially if I’m doing something extreme like adding herbs or something with unpredictable flavors.

PS: It’s important for me to give her lots of space. It’s essential that she is fully responsible for the beer. She does all that work to make the beer special; she should also be able to feel the joy of creation and accomplishment.

SD: What are some ingredients you’ve been playing around with?

DS: Herbs are really my new interest for this winter. We’ve always made gruit ales, which are beers that aren’t necessarily hopped.

We’re working with a local herb farmer — Hallow Herb Farm in the Intervale. Jeff Philie, who owns the farm, has been very willing to grow whatever we want to use.

Also, hops. There are always new varietals of hops coming out; the combinations are endless. But it’s a little intimidating because IPAs are everywhere, and there are so many great examples out there.

PS: American brewers draw so heavily on the European tradition, but it’s really grounding for us to explore the ingredients that grow here as part of the floral landscape. That’s one way we can really root ourselves in New England and also have a wealth of material to work with.

There’s no way we’re going to tap that out.

SD: Will you continue brewing at the restaurant?

DS: Yes, I’ll stay here.

PS: I’ll be down at the new place, but we will definitely be sister breweries. There’s so much potential synergy between the two.

SD: Do you have a favorite beer and food pairing?

DS: Our London Calling is amazing with food.

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It’s the classic. You really can’t beat a pilsner and a cheese pizza.

SD: What has changed about the Vermont brewing industry since you started?

DS: It’s exploded! Which is intimidating.

People are opening up breweries with barrel-aged beer, which is pretty intense.

So it’s definitely keeping me on my toes.

I’m always learning more and taking in whatever I can. It’s a little scary; I don’t want to get lost in the sauce.

SD: Do you think that growth is sustainable?

DS: A lot of the new breweries are tiny, but several brewers are opening new, larger breweries now, and I don’t think it can all be sold in Vermont. So we’ll have to look to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New York. But all those places have lots of breweries, too.

SD: What’s the best thing about brewing in Vermont?

DS: I’ve never brewed anywhere else. I just went to Washington State, and it seems like it would be pretty cool to brew out there, too. But since we’re a small state, it’s easy to have contact with other brewers.

We’re within two hours of each other. So we have the ability to communicate as a group, and it’s still pretty grassroots. m Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com

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(It looks so good!)

SD: How’s the new brewery coming along?

PS: We’re at an exciting stage. [Next week], our tanks come, and then it’s a question of getting everything hooked up and testing the system. There are always questions of final permitting that make one hesitant to set dates, but we expect to be testing the equipment mid-February.

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ML: All of our staff taste the beers, but they also learn the background: how we brewed it, why we brewed it, where our ingredients come from. We get a lot of people in here who know nothing about beer and want to learn, and a lot of people who know a lot. So you can’t pull one over on them; you have to be able to have an intelligent conversation.

maintain. If you’re not able to differentiate the styles and know what you want, and able to recognize when you’ve done something new that’s worthy, as opposed to something new that’s not worthy, there’s only so high you can go.

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PS: Our orientation towards brewing hasn’t changed much. But our relationship to our customers has become really rich.

It affects our choices about beers and what we brew. That immediate contact with the customer makes brewing in this setting really special — the ability to get people excited about beer by sharing beers and talking about the brews. When we opened this place, that communication and education became just as important as the beer itself.

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PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE: A confidential, welcoming space allows participants to converse freely without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP NETWORKING: Ladies committed to improving the financial stability of females in the community mingle with members of the United Way of Chittenden County Women's Leadership Council. FreePressMedia Center for Innovation, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-7831.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Colchester Meeting House, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

SHANTALA SHIVALINGAPPA: The master of the classic Indian dance kuchipudi elevates her craft to visual storytelling. See calendar spotlight. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $17-40.

Info, 603-646-2422.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and more.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

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CLASSIC FILM NIGHT: Cinephiles screen a memorable movie with Tom Blachly and Rick Winston. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

food & drink

COFFEE TASTING: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee varieties inspire side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com.

WEDNESDAY WINE DOWN: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump with four different varietals and 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: Cheers! Bruce Magoon of Baker Distributing hosts a sampling of new Californian Syrah releases. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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.

health & fitness

EATING WELL ON A BUDGET: A weekly workshop with Frances Fleming of UVM Extension highlights ways to save and get healthy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: A supportive environment allows for a deeper understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

PRENATAL YOGA & BARRE: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and birth.

Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 & 5-6 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

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.

TANGOFLOW!: Creator Cathy Salmons leads students in a customized blend of Argentine tango, ballet, modern dance and body awareness. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 345-6687.

The New York Times calls dancer Shantala Shivalingappa “divinely gifted.” Born in India and raised in Paris by her mother, dancer Savitry Nair, the passionate performer spent her formative years surrounded by music and dance. This upbringing proved ideal for Shivalingappa’s study of kuchipudi, a 2,000-year-old narrative dance from southeastern India. A blend of intricate footwork, flowing rhythms and live musical accompaniment, the discipline requires vigorous training. Studies with one of its greatest masters, Vempati Chinna Satyam, helped Shivalingappa blossom into the cross-cultural success behind works such as Akasha, which features five solos and traditional Indian musicians.

SHANTALA SHIVALINGAPPA Wednesday, January 7, and Thursday, January 8, 7 p.m., at Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. $17-40. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu

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EVENING BABYTIME PLAYGROUP: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7555.

GREEN MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARD CLUB: Teens chat about their favorite titles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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.

MEET ROCKIN' RON THE FRIENDLY PIRATE: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

READ TO A DOG: Lit lovers take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.

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Melodies So Sweet Before the hit television series “Glee,” there was the Yale Glee Club, an institution founded in 1861. More than 150 years later, the coed collegiate ensemble boasts 80 members and a repertoire that spans five centuries, from Renaissance motets to contemporary choral pieces. Led by conductor Jeffrey Douma, undergraduate vocalists deliver performances the Washington Post lauds as “otherworldly, transcendent even.” In a rare visit to Vermont, the group presents works by Johannes Brahms, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon alongside folk songs and spirituals.

YALE GLEE CLUB Saturday, January 10, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester. Free. Info, 654-2284. gleeclub.yalecollege.yale.edu

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hen it comes to music, composer Mary Ellen Childs literally marches to the beat of her own drum. Known for highly original instrumental works, the acclaimed artist founded CRASH, an aptly named ensemble that brings her eponymous performance piece to the stage. From cymbal players on rolling stools to staccato rhythms created with nothing but drumsticks, Childs’ visual percussion seamlessly incorporates elements of dance and theater. Illuminated on a darkened stage, performers interpret Childs’ emotive style and choreographic vision with precise movements and dramatic expression that push the boundaries of music making.

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Give Phil Henry a microphone and an acoustic guitar, and he’ll knock your socks off. The award-winning singer-songwriter’s folk music has taken him from Rutland to national stages — including the famed Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, where he twice placed as a new-folk finalist. A storyteller at heart, Henry pens songs with a craftsman’s hand and counts fellow folkie Martin Sexton and writer Kurt Vonnegut among his creative influences. The consummate performer brings this approach to his latest album, Aberdeen, and treats music lovers to a CD-release show featuring the Phil Henry Acoustic Trio and special guests.

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calendar Red Clover Picture Books for Homeschoolers: Students in grades K through 3 read two titles nominated for the 2014 Red Clover Award, then participate in related activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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 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.

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Allen Koop: The Dartmouth College professor considers the history, traditions and legends of the Appalachian Mountain Club's hut system in New Hampshire. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

James Maroney: In "Georgia O'Keeffe: A Critical Look," the former head of American paintings at Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses evaluates the artist's best works.

Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 649-1184.

Pam Pearson: The director of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative outlines the impact of global warming on the earth's ice- and snow-covered regions. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Reeve Lindbergh: Reflecting on four decades of her mother's musings, the author and daughter of aviator Charles presents "Rowing Against Wind and Tide: The Journals and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh." Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

Rosemary Gladstar: The renowned herbalist examines the history of herbalism and its role in health care today. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Sue Morse: Will the cougar return to the eastern U.S.? The expert wildlife tracker shares insights on its biology and ecology. Richmond Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 434-3068.

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Plauderstunde: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language test out their vocabulary over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677.

lgbtq

Board (GAY)me Night: Pizza and snacks sustain players during an evening of board and video games. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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'The Freak and the Showgirl': SOLD OUT. Political correctness be gone! A burlesque CVU Celebrate the Arts Night: cabaret from Mat Fraser and Julie Student film, artwork and engineering Atlas Muz challenges social demos give way to music and norms with song, dance and theater performances at this striptease. For ages 18 and up. family-friendly ode to creative FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. pursuits. Champlain Valley Union $25. Info, 863-5966.

High School, Hinesburg, 6-9:30 National Theatre Live: p.m. Free. Info, 482-7100.

James Franco and Chris O'Dowd explore the bonds of friendship community f in a broadcast production of John FL ng yn i Burlington Town Center m nC Steinbeck's Great Depression-era fo r en te Public Engagement Kickr f or Per tale Of Mice and Men. Lake Placid off Meeting: Locals learn about Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $10-16. Info, redevelopment plans for the Burlington Town 518-523-2512.

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Premier Floor Hockey League: Experienced players aim for the goal in a competitive setting.

The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 355-4588.

Women's Pick-up Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game.

Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m.

Free; limited space. Info, carmengeorgevt@ gmail.com.

Davorka Gosto: A Mother's Journey Through War recounts the author's struggle to keep her family intact during the Bosnian War. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

Ruth Ozeki: The novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest reads selected works. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m. Free.

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Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m.

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Yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.

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English as a Second Language Class: Beginners better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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.

Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: Students sharpen grammar and conversational skills.

Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

Susanne Claxton: The philosophy scholar shares her wisdom in "The Examined Life."

Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

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Wine Tasting: Varietals from winemaker Maxime Magnon please discerning palates.

Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-2368.

health & fitness

Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

Jazzercise Lite: Adults ages 50 and up break a sweat in a supportive environment. Essex Junction Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. $3-3.50.

Info, 876-5087.

Postnatal Core: Babies are welcomed at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening gluts, abdominals and the pelvic floor. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15.

Info, 829-0211.

Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.7, 12:151:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

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Crafternoon: Students in grades 4 and up get creative with a drawing activity. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Food For Thought Library Volunteers: Pizza fuels teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Lego Club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire budding builders. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918.

PJ Story Hour: Little ones dress for bed and wind down with tales and treats. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Books & Bites: Bibliophiles nosh on light fare while conversing about B.A. Shapiro's The Art Forger. Bayside Activity Center, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Nonfiction Book Club: Erik Larson's Devil in the White City inspires conversation among readers. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 849-2420.

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Laugh Local Comedy Open Mic: Jokesters take advantage of a lighthearted atmosphere and perform brief material before a live audience at this monthly event. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, registration, 7:308 p.m; open mic, 8-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 793-3884.

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Queen City Contra Dance: Pete's Posse dole out live tunes while Mary Wesley calls the steps.

Shelburne Town Hall, beginner session, 7:45-8 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12.

Info, 371-9492.

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Coupon Queen Darby Mayville: Savvy savers swap and share circular clippings. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Snow Farm Wine Down: Live music and local beer and wine served up in a pastoral setting make for an ideal end to the workweek.

See snowfarm.com for details. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 372-9463.

food & drink

Feast Together or Feast to Go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

games

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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, 1011 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.

Laughter Yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 999-7373.

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.

kids

Dancing With Sophie: Movers and groovers in grades K through 4 listen to music and learn new steps. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Dungeons & Dragons: Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Early Bird Math: One plus one equals fun!

Youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 434-3036.

Family Movie: A fleet of elite aircraft battle forest fires from above in the animated adventure Planes: Fire & Rescue. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6956.

Middle School Planners & Helpers: Lit lovers in grades 6 to 8 plan cool projects for the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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.

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Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble: Sleigh bells ring! Classic holiday tunes meet contemporary selections in "Bells in Wintertime." St. Peter's Catholic Church, Vergennes, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 425-2177.

Paul Asbell: The gifted guitarist performs original tunes and reimagined blues and jazz standards as part of the Brick Church Music Series. Proceeds benefit the King Street Youth Center mentoring program. Old Brick Church, Williston, 7 p.m. $10-14. Info, 764-1141.

seminars

Keys to Credit: Money-unwise? A class clears up the confusing world of credit. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free with income guidelines. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

talks

'Extreme Composing: The Radical Originality of Mary Ellen Childs': The famed composer discusses her approach to innovative instrumental works that meld music, dance and theater. Room 125, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

Jane Austen Lecture: "Making Sense of Regency England" explores societal norms that appear throughout Sense and Sensibility.

Governor's House in Hyde Park, 8 p.m. $14; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

Suzanne eikenberry: The nonprofit consultant helps those who serve as board members better understand their financial management responsibilities. North Branch Café, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, suzanne.eikenberry@ gmail.com.

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'The arabian nighTS': Twenty-two cast members embody nearly 80 characters in a production of Mary Zimmerman's drama, set in ancient Baghdad. For ages 10 and up. South Burlington High School, 7-9 p.m. $6-8. Info, dbailey@sbschools.net.

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Charlie bondhuS: The award-winning poet and Goddard alum shares stanzas from All the Heat We Could Carry and other works. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-468-4888.

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reCruiTing for PeaCe Training: Participants learn how to facilitate conversations with high school students whose interests range from activism to military service. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, program@pjcvt.org.

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'STand uP, SiT down & laugh': Series veteran Josie Leavitt delivers punchlines with fellow yuksters Autumn Spencer, Ashley Watson, Kendall Farrell and Sean Hunter Williams. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.

Info, 863-5966.

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embroider a PaTCh for your JeanS: Folks deck out denim using crewel embroidery techniques. For ages 9 and up. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

ConTra danCe: Mary Wesley calls the steps while folks in clean, soft-soled shoes groove to rollicking rhythms by Red Dog Riley. Cornwall Town Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 462-3722.

ConTra danCe & PoTluCk dinner: Live music propels this traditional New England social dance. All dances are called and taught.

Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, potluck, 5:30 p.m.; dance, 6:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 472-5584.

Vermont Yankee employees have volunteered countless hours and, over the past few years alone, contributed more than a million dollars to the communities where they live and work. Working side by side with so many of you, Entergy is proud of our efforts to improve the lives and livelihoods of our friends and neighbors.

On December 29, we began the safe, secure decommissioning of the plant. On behalf of all of our employees at Vermont Yankee, we want to thank the people of Vermont. Entergy is proud to have been part of your lives, as you have been part of ours. It has been a privilege to serve you.

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'ballaST': A man's suicide transforms the lives of three characters in a rural Mississippi Delta township in Lance Hammer's 2008 drama. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

'PanTani: The aCCidenTal deaTh of a CyCliST': From athlete to addict, James Erskine's acclaimed documentary examines the rise and fall of celebrated cyclist Marco Pantani.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.

Leo Denault Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Entergy Corporation

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Big Eyed Phish: Front man Brandon DePaul leads the seven-piece group in an evening of infectious grooves that pay tribute to the Dave Matthews Band. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 327-2596.

Crash: A one-of-a-kind performance of works by composer Mary Ellen Childs integrates drumming, dance and theater. See calendar spotlight.

Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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Babysitting Certification Course: Caregivers ages 11 through 15 learn to handle emergency situations in this American Red Cross seminar. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 878-6956.

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.

Story Explorers: Snow!: From snowmen to snowflakes, kiddos explore the characteristics of seasonal weather. 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.

Toddler Yoga & Stories: Karen Allen leads tykes ages 1 through 3 in simple poses and engaging narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-4918.

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Montpelier Memory Café: People with memory loss and their caregivers bond over music, movement and interactive games.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 223-2518.

Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.7, 10:3011:30 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.7, 9-10 a.m.

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Chocolate Tasting: Sweets lovers sample treats while learning about how cocoa is grown and produced. Nutty Steph's Granola & Chocolate Factory, Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-2090.

Jane Austen Tea: Fans of the famed writer sit down to a Victorian-style affair complete with readings and discussions. Governor's House in Hyde Park, 3 p.m. $22; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

Norwich Farmers Market: Farmers and artisans offer produce, meats and maple syrup alongside homemade baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

Pizza Start to Finish: Bakers Rob Keim and Martin Philip demonstrate recipes for tasty pies that can be made at home. The Baker's Store, King Arthur Flour, Norwich, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 800-827-6836.

Roast Pork Supper: Families feast on a spread of pork, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, applesauce and dessert, served buffet-style. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9; takeout available.

Info, 877-3150.

Rutland Winter Farmers Market: More than 50 vendors offer produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 753-7269.

Wine Tasting: Vino lovers sip new releases of Washington State merlot. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

Dana & Susan Robinson: The North CarolinaRace to the Cabin: Athletes test their speed based duo channel the essence of rural America on cross-country skis in a 5K showdown to with the fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin.

Slayton Pasture Cabin, then celebrate with a Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7 p.m. $8; free for kids party at the finish line. Trapp Family Lodge, and teens. Info, 388-6863.

Stowe, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $25-30. Info, 253-5755.

Eight 02: The contemporary jazz-fusion group theater showcases a knack for improvisation. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner 'The Arabian Nights': See FRI.9. package; preregister. Info, 465-4071.

'From Here to Eternity the Musical': Justin Levinson & Aaron Flinn: The local When a soldier falls for his captain's wife, he singer-songwriters team up for an intimate weaves a tangled web of love and desire in Tim show. Local libations and fare from Starry Rice's World War II-era drama, broadcast to the Night Café round out the evening. Mt. Philo Inn, big screen. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 Charlotte, 6:30 p.m. $20 suggested donation. p.m. $10-16. Info, 518-523-2512.

Info, 425-3335.

'The Secret Garden': Opera Theatre of Kina Zoré: Led by Mozambique native Weston adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's Helder Tsinine, the award-winning timeless tale for the stage. Weston ensemble interweaves socially Playhouse, 2 p.m. $15-30. Info, conscious lyrics into a mix of drum 824-3821. breaks, lyrical solos and rocking rhythms. Tunbridge Town Hall, words 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 431-3433.

Regency Dinner & Jane Phil Henry CD Release Austen Book Discussion: Concert: Joined by an allDiners discuss Sense and star lineup of special guests, Sensibility at an intimate affair f the singer-songwriter performs Re dedicated to the English novelist. be cc selections from Aberdeen. See Governor's House in Hyde Park, 7 p.m. hy a R. P h ot og ra p calendar spotlight. West Rutland Town $35; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

Hall, 7:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, 779-4769.

Shady Rill: Acoustic stylings from Patti Casey and Tom MacKenzie enliven the Adamant Winter Music Series. Adamant Methodist Church, 7 p.m. An optional potluck precedes the art show at 5:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 223-5762.

Drawing Birds in Motion: Local artist Yale Glee Club: Jeffrey Douma directs Charles Norris-Brown joins naturalist collegiate vocalists in a varied program Gwendolyn Causer for an exploration of avian featuring works by Brahms, Jennifer Higdon and anatomy and artistry featuring photos, video Tomás Luis de Victoria. See calendar spotlight. and live subjects. For ages 12 and up. Green McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-4 p.m.

Colchester, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2284. $15-20; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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outdoors

Sleigh Rides: Giddy up! Weather permitting, horses trot folks over snow-covered open fields.

Rides leave every half hour; seats are first come, first served. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $810; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8442.

Snowshoe Demo: Nature lovers test out winter gear from Eastern Mountain Sports while exploring forested trails. Welcome Center, Shelburne Farms, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 985-8686.

seminars

'Conversations From the Working Landscape' Workshop: Chris Pierson of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative outlines industry pricing structures and marketing strategies. A Q&A follows. Willey Memorial Hall, Cabot, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 563-3338.

Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor's permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 651-9692, bill@vermontcam.org.

East Asia Seminar Series for Teachers: Educators expand their knowledge of contemporary Japan-China relations and the development of political institutions in China.

University of Vermont, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 656-7985.

sports

Bolton After Dark: When the sun sets, skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain, then unwind with ski and snowboard films. Bolton Valley Ski Resort, 4 p.m. $19 lift tickets; cash bar. Info, 434-3444.

Ladies Nordic Ski Expo: Cross-country skiers of all abilities get familiar with skate, classic and backcountry disciplines. A catered lunch and après ski social round out the day. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $70-105; preregister. Info, 253-5755.

bazaars

Sunday Sangha: Community Ashtanga Yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses.

Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183.

kids

Kids Yoga: Yogis ages 3 through 7 gain strength and balance while learning how to focus and relax. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:155:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183.

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.

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.

music

Jefferson Hamer & Kristin Andreassen: The accomplished performers find common ground in country-inspired duets. Richmond Congregational Church, 4 p.m. $17.50-20. Info, 434-4563.

Northeast Fiddlers Association Meeting: Lovers of the spirited art form gather to catch up and jam. American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, noon-5 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 728-5188.

Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble: See FRI.9, Stowe Community Church, 3-5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 425-2177.

outdoors

Sleigh Rides: See SAT.10.

Montpelier Antiques Market: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, artwork, jewelry and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Canadian Club, Barre Town, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

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Gary Shattuck: The local author explores the darker side of the state in Insurrection, Corruption and Murder in Early Vermont.

Woodstock History Center, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 457-1822.

OK ABC Practice: A: Who am I? B: What do I want to be? C: How can I change the world? An open meeting explores these inquiries. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

etc.

Vermont Fancy Felines Cat Show: See SAT.10.

film

Dartmouth Film Society: 'Gone Girl': Ben Affleck stars in David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel about a man who becomes the prime suspect in his wife's disappearance. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 & 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

'The Wizard of Oz': There's no place like home! Judy Garland takes viewers on a journey down the yellow brick road in this time-tested classic. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.

food & drink

Pizza Start to Finish: See SAT.10.

health & fitness

Nia with Suzy: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

'The Secret Garden': See SAT.10.

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Milton Community Dinner: Diners sit down to a luau-themed feast of shoyu chicken, barbecue pork, island-style fried rice and more.

Milton Elementary School, 4:30-7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 893-1009.

etc.

Legislative Breakfast Series: Area professionals share the first meal of the day with Gov. Shumlin. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30-9 a.m. $25; preregister. Info, 863-3489, ext. 208.

film

'Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part 4': "Doers and Shapers" explores people and institutions that pushed sociopolitical boundaries. Mt. Tabor-Danby Historical Society, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 293-2265.

games

After-School Games: Youngsters 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.

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Bridge CluB: See WED.7, 7 p.m.

TaBleTop game NighT: Players ages 14 and up sit down to friendly bouts of Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride and more. Colchester Meeting House, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

health & fitness

avoid Falls WiTh improved sTaBiliTy: See FRI.9. preNaTal yoga & Barre: See WED.7. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.7.

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.

Kids yoga: A fun-filled class for students ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183.

musiC WiTh peTer: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. presChool sTory Time: Tales, crafts and activities arrest the attention of kiddos ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. 'sTar Wars' CluB: May the force be with you!

Fans of George Lucas' intergalactic epic bond over common interests. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. sTories WiTh megaN: Captivating tales entertain budding bookworms ages 2 through 5.

Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

WillisToN pajama sTory Time: Kids in PJs bring their favorite stuffed animals for stories, a craft and a bedtime snack. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

music

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, 6-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-5017.

seminars

speNd smarT: A practical introduction to money management focuses on personalized financial goals. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free with income guidelines. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

sports

Coed Floor hoCKey: Men and women aim for the goal in a friendly league setting. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-9 p.m. $5; equipment provided; preregister; limited space. Info, gbfloorhockey@gmail.com.

words

highgaTe BooK group: Lit lovers join local author Joy Perrino Choquette for a discussion of her book Subversion. Highgate Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. musT-read moNday: Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose inspires conversation among bibliophiles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

Tue.13 art

'exhiBiTioNs oN sCreeN: maTisse': A broadcast of the "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs" exhibit treats art lovers to rare archival footage of the artist, interviews and more. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.

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Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Mixer: Area professionals network over hors d'oeuvres and door prizes. The Local Bar & Nightclub, Rutland, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-2747.

Tuesday Volunteer Nights: Folks pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

dance

Beginner West Coast Swing: Newcomers need only a clean pair of shoes when learning the partner dance rooted in the lindy hop. North End Studios, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $6.50-10. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

Intro to Tribal Belly Dance: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@ gmail.com.

Master Class With Makeda Thomas: The Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence in Dance inductee breaks down steps for area dancers.

Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Swing Dance Practice Session: Twinkletoed dancers get familiar with the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 448-2930.

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Girl Develop It Code & Coffee: The Inspirational Series: Coders of all skill levels sip cups of joe while sharing recent projects and programming problems with author and consultant Julie Lerman. Hinge, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, maureen@girldevelopit. com.

Tech Help With Clif: See WED.7.

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Feast Together or Feast to Go: See FRI.9.

games

Chess Club: Checkmate! Players of all ages and abilities apply expert advice from a skilled instructor to games with others.

Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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

Fitness Boot Camp: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with high intensity interval training.

Vergennes Opera House, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10.

Info, ginger54@sover.net.

Gentle Drop-In Yoga: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

Gentle Yoga With Jill Lang: Students get their stretch on in a supportive environment.

Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Intro to Yoga: Newcomers discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.

Jazzercise Lite: See THU.8, 8-9 a.m.

Nia With Suzy: See SUN.11, North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $13. Info, 522-3691.

Pee-Wee Pilates: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15.

Info, 829-0211.

Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.7, 12:151:15 & 4:30-5:30 p.m.

kids

Creative Tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Fairfax Story Hour: 'Mice Are Nice': Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Highgate Skater Tots: Tykes up to preschool age lace up their skates and glide across the rink. Highgate Sports Arena, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Free. Info, 868-3970.

Highgate Story Hour: See WED.7.

Lego Club: Kiddos ages 6 and up snap together snazzy structures. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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.

Preschool Music: Kids ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the afternoon away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Preschool Story Time & Craft: Science educator Kristen Littlefield leads a creative exploration of owls. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Reading With Therapy Dogs: Youngsters share a story with lovable pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.

Stories With Megan: See MON.12, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Story Explorers: Ice: Little ones tap into the properties of frozen water with themed tales and crafts. 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.

Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: See WED.7.

Story Time for Babies & Toddlers: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kiddos under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Tech Tuesdays: Youngsters tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming after school gets out.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

Toddler Story Time: Tykes up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

music

Burlington Choral Society Auditions: Vocalists vie for spots in the organization's spring concert, featuring Estonian music by Arvo Pärt and others. St. Paul's Cathedral, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0788.

Noontime Concert Series: Gifted young musicians from around the state perform an annual recital. St. Paul's Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 864-0471.

politics

Burlington Libertarian Party Candidate Nominations: Like-minded locals prepare for the upcoming March elections. Shaw's Supermarket, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 735-2149.

talks

Woodstock Ski History: Early skiing in the area comes to life via stories, photographs, vintage equipment and archival film footage.

Woodstock History Center, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-1822.

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HomeShare Vermont Information Session: Locals interested in homesharing programs meet with staff to learn more.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

Peer Support Circle: See WED.7.

crafts

Green Mountain Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America: Needle-and-thread enthusiasts work on current projects and learn about Huck Towel embroidery. Living/Dining Room, Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.

Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

Knitters & Needleworkers: See WED.7.

dance

Master Class With Maree ReMalia: Students hone their skills under the tutelage of the internationally recognized dancer and choreographer. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

education

Toastmasters of Greater Burlington: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.

etc.

Tech Help With Clif: See WED.7.

film

'A Path Appears': Celebrity activists join reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn to shed light on poverty and human trafficking in the U.S. and beyond. A discussion follows.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

'The Wizard of Oz': See SUN.11, 2 p.m.

food & drink

Coffee Tasting: See WED.7.

Wednesday Wine Down: See WED.7.

games

Bridge Club: See WED.7.

health & fitness

Eating Well on a Budget: See WED.7.

Fitness Boot Camp: See TUE.13, Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, ginger54@sover. net.

Insight Meditation: See WED.7.

Prenatal Yoga & Barre: See WED.7.

Quit Tobacco: A nonjudgemental support session welcomes folks looking to kick the habit.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.7.

TangoFlow!: See WED.7, $15.

kids

After-School Tutoring: Students in grades K through 8 get homework help from St. Michael's College volunteers. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a 30-minute time slot. Info, 878-6956.

Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Discussion: Lit lovers ages 8 through 11 voice opinions about Todd Hasak-Lowy's 33 Minutes…

Until Morgan Sturtz Kicks My Butt. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5664.

Highgate Story Hour: See WED.7.

Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: See WED.7.

Moving & Grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Story Time & Playgroup: See WED.7.

Story Time for 3- to 5-Year-Olds: See WED.7.

language

English as a Second Language Class: See WED.7.

Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: See WED.7.

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.

music

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The renowned ensemble brings new and established talents together for a performance of works by Kodaly, Brahms and Dvořák. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $17-50.

Info, 603-646-2422.

Farmers Night Concert Series: The 40th Army Band pairs traditional patriotic tunes with contemporary favorites in "Vermont in the Civil War: Connecting to the Legacy of Vermont's Military." House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 338-3480.

Middlebury College Orchestra: Andrew Massey conducts student musicians in an interpretation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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.

sports

Premier Floor Hockey League: See WED.7.

Women's Pick-up Basketball: See WED.7.

talks

Salman Rushdie: SOLD OUT. The celebrated author muses on the importance of storytelling in "What's the Use of Stories That Aren't Even True?" Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m.

Free; no-show seats available at the door. Info, 262-1355. m

CLASS PHOTOS + MORE INFO ONLINE SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSES

classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art JOURNEY TO THE SOUL: In this ongoing group, participants explore in an open expressive arts studio to combine uninhibited art, music and movement making with thoughtful writing and reflection. The studio at JourneyWorks is a safe space, free of criticism, providing you with a healthy environment to access your inner wisdom and explore and expand your intuition. No prior art or writing experience necessary. Jan. 7, 14, 21 & 28 & Feb. 4 & 11, 6:30-9 p.m.

Cost: $40/session. Sliding scale avail. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 N. Ave., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

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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. Learn simple ways to make one-of-a kind jewelry that you’ll want to wear and give as gifts, like snap bracelets, cuffs and earrings. All materials provided. Registration is required.

Thu., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28/ person; $25.20/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DROP IN: ADULT WHEEL: Learn the basics of wheel-working.

Through demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs and bowls. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary; space is limited; first come first served.

Instructors: Julia Berberan and Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Jan. 23-May 22, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $14/ participant; $13/BCA members.

Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

DROP IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Learn wheel and hand building techniques at BCA’s clay studio in a relaxed, family-friendly environment. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand-building demonstrations throughout the evening. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary. All ages.

Instructors: Julia Berberan, Alex Costantino and Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Jan. 23-May 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/ BCA members. Purchase a dropin card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING: This drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes.

Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary.

Instructor: Glynnis Fawkes.

Weekly on Mon., Jan. 26-May 18 (no class Feb. 17), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $10/participant; $9/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in

DRAWING: Learn a variety of drawing techniques, including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow. Students will work mostly from observation and use a variety of media including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, and charcoal. Comics and illustrations may be incorporated. No experience necessary. Material list online. Instructor: Marc Nadel. Weekly on Wed., Jan. 28-Mar. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $224/person; $201.60/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

JEWELRY: INTRO TO JEWELRY: Learn the basics of creating metal jewelry. Techniques covered will include sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more, so that students can create at least two completed pieces. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 3-Mar. 17 (no class Mar. 3), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington.

JEWELRY: STONE SETTING: BEYOND THE BASIC BEZEL: Want to know how to make different kinds of settings for your gemstones? This class will cover a variety of stone setting techniques for your cabochons and faceted stones. Basic metalsmithing skills are strongly recommended. Basic tools and materials provided. Additional material fees will depend on individual projects. Limited supply of stones available for purchase.

Pair with Bangles or Chasing and Repousee. Prerequisite: Intro to Jewelry or relevant experience.

Instructor: Rebecca Macomber.

Weekly on Thu., Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington.

OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with nontoxic watersoluble oils. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. This supportive class will balance studio time, gentle group discussion and critique.

BCA provides glass palettes,

PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Bring your camera and owner’s manual to class. Pair this class with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12-week experience, and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing. Instructor: Dan Lovell. No experience necessary. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Mar. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170/ person; $153/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Improve your printing and film processing techniques and discuss the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-ofclass printing and processing.

Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience.

Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Apr. 1 (no class Mar. 11), 6-9 p.m. Cost: $295/person; $265.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

PRINT: WOODBLOCK PRINTING WITH COLOR: This class will explore a variety of techniques for woodblock printing with color.

The class will start with basic two-color prints and progress to multiple woodblocks and colors.

The class is designed to explore a range of printing possibilities.

Akua, nontoxic, soy/water based inks will be used. All materials included. Instructor: Gregg Blasdel. Weekly on Mon., Feb. 2-Mar. 16, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

PRINT: PRINTMAKING: This introductory class will teach techniques such as block printing with linoleum, collograph (a low-relief intaglio technique) and drypoint etching. Students will also be encouraged to explore these techniques and have fun experimenting. Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio hours for practicing, and all basic supplies and equipment for each printmaking technique.

Instructor: Katie Loesel. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 4-Mar. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/ BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SELLING YOUR WORK WITH ETSY: Etsy seller Laura Hale, owner of Found Beauty Studio, will walk you through opening a shop, setting up policies, listing items and filling sold orders, as well as looking at various marketing tricks. You can bring your laptop, use our computers, or

SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and co-owner of New Duds, will introduce you to silkscreening and show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio time for practicing, use of studio chemicals, class ink and equipment. Students must provide their own screens and design materials; please see student materials list online. No experience necessary. Weekly on Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

YOUTH: PAINTING: Spend an afternoon painting at BCA! Learn many techniques including splatter painting, watercolor, bubble painting, collage and more. All materials provided.

Registration required. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 6-12. Sat., Feb. 7, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

business GETTING SERIOUS: SELFEMPLOYMENT: Think you might want to start a business, but aren’t sure where to start? Join this fun, supportive, interactive class to brainstorm and reality-filter business ideas, find resources, and figure out what you need out of a business. Learn decision-making tools and make a plan for your next steps. Wed., Jan. 14 & 21, 5:30-9 p.m. Cost: $125/7-hour intensive class; incl. materials.

Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., suite 8, Burlington, Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 8467338, gpokalo@ mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

PERSONAL FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT: Find hope and clarity in your personal financial life! Fun, supportive, safe class.

We’ll cover everything from your personal spending habits to your retirement account, without deprivation. Gain a support network, technical knowledge/ resources, detailed money management plan. Tailored to the specific needs of women at any point in their lives.

Addresses the everyday and major life circumstances. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 3- Mar. 17, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $250/7-week course, incl. all materials & guest speakers.

Location: Mercy Connections, 255 S. Champlain St., suite 8, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 8467338, gpokalo@ mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.

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CONTEMPORARY FIGURE PAINTING: Intermediate and advanced painters, revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Work from live models, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback.

Figure drawing experience is helpful. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Material list online.

Instructor: Gail Salzman. Weekly on Wed., Jan. 28-Mar. 18, 1:304:30 p.m. Cost: $360/person;

DROP IN: POLLYWOG ART: This popular drop-in program introduces young children and parents to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social.

Participants will create paintings, sculptures, prints and more, with a variety of changing projects to keep everyone engaged!

Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided.

No registration necessary. Ages 6 months-5 years. Instructor: Zoe Barracano. Weekly on Thu., Jan. 22-May 21, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members.

Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

come tech-free and watch Laura lead you step by step. Tue., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; 22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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COMMUNITY LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOP: Play an important role in Burlington’s 150th birthday celebration! Join artist Gowri Savoor and make a magical willow and tissue-paper lantern.

Participants are invited to return on February 21 at 4 p.m. to be part of a special festive event at City Hall. All materials provided.

Not suitable for children under 4; children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Space limited, registration required.

Option 1: Sat., Jan. 17; Option 2: Sat., Jan. 24; Option 3: Sat., Jan. 31, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Incl. 1-hour lunch break. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a creative computer program used to create interesting graphics, clip art and more!

Students will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. Class is aimed at furthering individual design software skills. Bring a Maccompatible flash drive to the first class. Instructor: Jeremy Smith. No experience necessary.

Weekly on Mon., Feb. 2-Mar. 16 (no class Feb. 16), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $205/person; $184.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

easels, painting trays and drying racks. Material list online.

Instructor: Linda Jones. Weekly on Tue., Jan. 27-Mar. 24 (no class Mar. 3), 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: This class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio.

Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Students will learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience necessary. Option 1: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 12:30-3 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaugh. Pair with Mixed Level Wheel. Option 2: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaugh. Pair with Mixed Level Wheel. Option 3: Wed., Apr. 1-May 20, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay & 30 hours/week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately: $20/25-pound bag.

All glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

CLAY: MIXED LEVEL WHEEL THROWING: Mixed Level Wheel supports students across a range of skill and experience levels. This eight-week course is rooted in fundamentals and encourages individual projects.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing, trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Option 1: Thu., Jan. 29-Mar. 19, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Option 2: Thu., Apr. 2-May 21, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Option 3: Thu., Apr. 2-May 21, 6-8:30 p.m.

Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay & 30 hours/week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately: $20/25-pound bag.

All glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington.

card & get the 6th visit for free.

Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org.

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the intersection of function and form through handles using lecture and demonstration.

Students will learn how to make and attach handles using several methods. Instructor: Jeremy Ayers. Sun., Feb. 15, 1:30-3 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

$324/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington.

classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

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ABSTRACT PAINTING: Instructor: Sage TuckerKetcham. This class is about exploring different ways of abstracting form, meaning and composition. Using acrylics and oils or water base oils, you will explore layering, color and surface techniques. Each class will focus on a different demonstration and technique. This class is geared toward people who have some painting experience.

6 Wed., 1-3 p.m., Feb. 4-Mar. 11. Cost: $175/nonmembers; $157.50/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

BASICS AND BEYOND IN JEWELRY: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art. Each student will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable finished piece out of sterling silver. Every week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming and soldering techniques. 8 Wed., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Jan. 28-Mar. 18.

Cost: $335/nonmembers; $306/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

BEGINNER WHEEL THROWING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. This course is great for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw, trim and glaze. After crafting your pottery on the wheel, Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. 8 Tue., 10 a.m.-noon, Jan. 13-Mar. 3. Cost: $270/nonmembers; $246.50/ members; incl. $35 materials

fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

HAND BUILDING: Instructor: Alex Costantino. This handbuilding class will focus on creating sculptural and functional pieces using slabs, extrusions, solid building and coils. Students explore texture and surface using multiple techniques. If you already have an idea or some inspirational images (sculptural or functional), bring them to the first class. 8 Fri., 9:30 a.m.-noon, Jan. 16-Mar. 6.

Cost: $335/nonmembers; $316/ members; incl. $45 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

WAX PENDANT ADV. JEWELRY: Instructor: Matthew Taylor.

Come make a beautiful finished piece of jewelry by carving a wax pendant! In this wax-carving class you will spend three weeks designing and carving the wax.

The piece will then be cast in sterling silver. After the piece has been cast, you will spend two weeks cleaning, finishing and polishing your work. *Cost of casting separate. 5 Tue., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 27-Feb. 24. Cost: $345/ nonmembers; $316/members; incl. $55 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne.

dance 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, Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa.

Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

FREE TANGOFLOW! WORKSHOP!: Free introduction to TangoFlow! danceconditioning technique! Taught

by TangoFlow! creator Cathy Salmons, MA, MSW. TangoFlow! combines Argentine Tango technique with elements of ballet, modern dance and body awareness. Best core workout ever! Also shown through research to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Wed., Jan. 7, 7 p.m. (Weekly class series begins Wed., Jan. 14, 7:15 p.m.!).

Location: North End Studio A, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Info: TangoFlow!, Cathy Salmons, 863-6713, vttangopoet@yahoo. com, tangoflowworkout.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.

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. Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class is on Thu., 7-8:20 p.m. $22/drop-in (no class Nov. 27). New session starts in Jan. 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 on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. New sessions start in Jan. 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! Weekly on Thu. : Montpelier Beginning Taiko class, 5:30-6:50 p.m., $72/4 weeks, and Montpelier Kids and Parents’ Taiko class, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $48/4 weeks; $90/parent + child. New sessions start in Jan. Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Route 12, Berlin, Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment MAKING YOUR KITBAG WORKSHOP: In Aion, Jung warned his students that anyone who is destined to descend into a deep pit had better set about it with all the necessary precautions rather than risk falling into the hole backward. Identify what can support you in times of crisis. An invaluable adjunct to the spiritual journey and useful for anyone who works with his or her dreams. Led by Sue Mehrtens.

Jan. 24, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $35/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury, Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Feldenkrais FELDENKRAIS METHOD: Improve your movement in 2015! The Feldenkrais-Method, a form of somatic education, will help you to overcome aches and pains, reduce muscle tension, and increase your self-knowledge, flexibility and awareness of your body. Anyone, young or old, physically challenged or physically fit, can benefit from the Feldenkrais-Method.

For more information about Feldenkrais (including testimonials) and complete class series and workshops schedule, please visit vermontfeldenkrais.com.

Upper back, neck & shoulder Feldenkrais, 6-week series. Cost: $90/1-hour class. Location: Otter Creek Yoga, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: Uwe Mester, 735-3770, info@ vermontfeldenkrais.com, vermontfeldenkrais.com.

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CONTEMPORARY DANCE: LOOKING DEEPER: This intensive is designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers in our region. Each intensive will focus on different aspects of the skills at the core of strong and compelling performers and performances. Using improvisational structures, the aim will be to strengthen our capacity to be fully awake, aware and able to respond to our constantly changing “world,” be it the studio, the stage, a specific site, or our community. Instructor: Polly Motley. Sun., January 11, 1-4 p.m.

Cost: $30 Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

DANCE CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Join ballet, tap, modern, hip-hop, jazz (world jazz, cabaret, burlesque), breakdancing and dance composition lab. Children’s classes in ballet, creative dance or musical theater dance are also

enrolling students. Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

MUSIC CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Jazz combos for grades 5-12 and adults, voice lessons, show choirs, beginning ukulele and parent/child music-making for ages 0-5! Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

THEATER CLASSES AT THE FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Acting for all ages (kids, teens, adults) including standup comedy, physical acting, technique and improvisation, and devising theater. Classes start the week of Jan. 19. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

gardening MASTER GARDENER 2015 COURSE: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on gardening in Vermont.

This course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping and more!

Registrations will be accepted by credit card online or by phone through the UVM Extension Master Gardener Program office.

A downloadable registration form also is available on the website if paying by check.

Weekly on Tue., Feb. 3-Apr. 28, 6:15 p.m.-9 p.m. Cost: $395/ person incl. online Sustainable Gardening book. Printed copy can be ordered for an additional $55. Noncredit course. Location: VIT Studios, , Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, White River Jct. & Williston, Info: 6569562, master.gardener@uvm. edu, uvm.edu/mastergardener.

STONE WALL WORKSHOP: Introductory stone wall workshop for homeowners and tradespeople promotes the beauty and integrity of stone.

The one-day, hands-on workshop focuses on basic techniques for creating dry-laid walls with an emphasis on stone native to Vermont. Workshops are held inside warm greenhouses in Hinesburg. Sat., Jan. 10, Feb. 14, & Mar. 7 & 21, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $100/1-day workshop.

Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Queen City Soil & Stone, Charley MacMartin, 318-2411, macmartin@igc.org, queencitysoilandstone.com.

healing arts RELEASING GRIEF: Sharing our grief in a group can help us to feel connected and supported.

Grief is about acknowledging transition. Using the expressive arts offers us new ways to communicate, tell our stories and express our grief. In this group we will use the arts to gently explore self expression and to gain insight, growth and healing.

Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, & Mar. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $300/ person, incl. materials. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 N. Ave., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail. com, journeyworksvt.com.

health TLC HOMECARE PCA TRAINING CLASS WITH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES!: TLC Homecare is offering a PCA training class. Director of nursing Alan Sousie, RN, will teach skills required to become a top caregiver. TLC connects you with a PCA mentor to guide you through your first weeks. Jan. 20-23, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $55/ person: cost of book. Location: 1550 Williston Rd., S. Burlington.

Info: Pamela Issenman, 735-1123.

herbs VERMONT SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES: Foundations of herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited. Gift certificates available. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825/person.

Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015.

Tuition $1,750. VSAC nondegree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

language ABSOLUMENT FRANCAIS!: Winter Session Starts Jan 10.

Classes: toddlers/pre-K, youth, adults led by experienced, excellent instructor. Burlington’s South End Arts District. Join a fun, interactive, encouraging small-group class in inspiring atelier that will have you speaking in no time. Private lessons available to fit your schedule and specific interests as well. Allons-y! See website.

class photos + more info online SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSES Winter session starts Jan 10.

Cost: $175/person. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com/ classes.html.

Alliance Francaise Winter Warm-Up!: Is learning French part of your 2015 resolutions?

The Alliance Francaise can help: six-week French classes designed to meet you where you are in your learning of French.

Let’s put French into action with a variety of classes such as French for Travelers, conversations about current events, virtual travels to francophone destinations and more. This mini-session will get you ready for your next full-term class. One Winter Warm-Up also available in Montpelier. 6 weeks starting Jan. 12. Cost: $135/course.

Location: Alliance Francaise Center, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 881-8826, michelineatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr.org.

SPANISH CLASSES BEGINNING SOON: Join us for adult Spanish classes this winter. Our ninth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring.

You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Beginning week of Jan. 12 for 10 weeks, w/ Feb. break.

Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center, Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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 Café (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.

Make 2015 More Mindful!: Aspiring to be more peaceful, less stressed and more present in 2015? Come to Exquisite Mind!

Start this year right. Learn a new mindfulness technique or get support maintaining your current practice. Enlightenment is a team sport! Join our friendly community at an upcoming class, retreat, or group sitting.

Instruction: Thu., 7-8:15 p.m.

Lunchtime group sits: Tue. & Fri. 12:15-1 p.m. Daylong retreats & open studio: see calendar.

By donation. See website for details. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., suite 101, Burlington. Info: Nina La Rosa, 735-2265, nina@ninalarosa.com, ninalarosa.com/schedule.

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Touch Drawing: A Window to Our Soul: In this workshop, we will learn the art of touch drawing. Touch drawing was developed by Deborah Koff-Chapin.

It is a form of printmaking that involves rolling ink on a plate, placing paper over on the ink, and using the hands to draw and paint. The deep connection of fingers to the paper offers us a unique and direct relationship to the soul. Jan. 29 & Feb. 7 & 14, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/session or $145 for all 3. Location: SEABA, 404 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: JourneyWorks, 860-6203, jkristel61@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.com.

spirituality A Course in Spiritual Insight: Embark on a nineweek journey to rediscover the profound spiritual potential you carry within. This free course will walk participants through theory and application of practical spiritual techniques which open radical possibilities for a more fulfilling, spiritually focused life.

A mixture of theory and guided meditations. All are welcome.

Weekly on Tue., 7:30-8:45 p.m., Jan. 13-Mar. 10 (open enrollment through Jan. 27). Location: Burlington Friends Meeting, 173 North Prospect St., Burlington.

Info: Andrew Sepic, 730-0112, vermont@esotericteachings.org, esotericteachings.org.

Out of the Blue Shamanism: Learn how to journey into the spirit realms, where you will meet powerfully compassionate and intelligent spirit guides, teachers and healers. The session will include an introduction to the practice of shamanic divination and an overview of shamanic healing. Meet your power animal in a core shamanic introduction. Sat., Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $100/8.5hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Woodbury Healing Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury.

Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

sports Smuggs Ice Bash: Ice Clinics: We love ice climbing, and we want to share it with you! Clinics for all abilities, beginner to advanced. Best time (and price) for world-class education with our local and guest guides. Intro to Ice, Intro to Mixed, Steep Ice, Thin Ice, Classic Climbs and much more in Smuggler’s Notch!

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.

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.

Social Media 101 for Writers: Author and editor Angela Palm will teach participants will learn how to create dynamic profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr.

Develop engagement strategies and timelines to launch online platforms. See your audience and connections skyrocket!

Participants should bring their own laptops to class. Weekly on Wed., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 14-Feb. 4.

Cost: $120/4 2-hour sessions.

Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-4202, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com/ writing-workshops.

The Art of The Short Story: Pushcart Prize nominee and author of a new novel, Shape of the Sky, Shelagh Connor Shapiro is teaching a short story workshop.

Participants will explore the art of story writing through exercise, reading and discussion, focusing on such subjects as character, setting, plot, point of view and narration. Weekly on Mon., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 5-Jan. 26. Cost: $120/4 2-hour sessions. Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-4202, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt. com/writing-workshops.

Tarot for Life Workshop: The Tarot deck is a powerful tool used for divination, guidance and self-awareness. This six-week workshop will guide participants through learning the basics of the deck, how to use it for readings for oneself and others, developing intuition and using Tarot for personal/ spiritual development. Weekly on Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 15-Feb. 19.

Cost: $170/6 weeks. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, 174 Rte. 7 S., unit 104, Milton. Info: Sherri Glebus, MA, 224-6756, sglebus@ gmail.com, tarot-intuitive.com.

Writer’s Boot Camp: Is your writing stuck in neutral?

Beginning in January, Michelle Demers will hold a Writer’s Boot Camp to exercise the writing muscles and help participants lift their writing back into shape.

Demers welcomes writers of all interests and experience to give their writing practice the kickstart it needs. Weekly on Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 15-Feb. 19.

Cost: $175/6 2-hour sessions.

Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-4202, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com/ writing-workshops.

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Clean Eating Group Cleanse: Start your year with 10 days of clean eating: boost your energy and immune system and feel great after the holidays. Guided through informational packet and emails, food plan and recipes, and tips. Adaptable to any diet and lifestyle. Connection with group through Facebook and a one-on-one phone consult optional. Jan. 12-22; other times avail. Cost: $50/person, incl. information packet, email support, 1-on-1 phone consult, food plan & recipes. Location: Via email, phone & Facebook group, Central Vt. & beyond. Info: McKellar Wellness, Kim McKellar, 595-5710, mckellarwellness@ gmail.com, mckellarwellness@ gmail.com.

Beginning Yoga: This class serves as an introduction to yoga and is specifically designed for beginners over age 50. Weekly on Wed., Jan. 7-28, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: $60/nonmembers; $40/members. Location: OLLI at UVM, 322 S. Prospect St., Burlington. Info: 656-2085, uvmolli@uvm.edu, learn.uvm. edu/olli.

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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. Brandnew 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. Join us in Costa Rica February 28-March 7. All bodies and abilities welcome. Classes 7 days a week. $5-14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/ monthly unlimited. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, 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! On our new Winter schedule try Sacred Space w/ Pam, Sunday mornings, 7:45-9 a.m. or Therapeutic Vinyasa w/ Lakshmi, Tuesdays, noon.

Special Series for de-stressing: Sunday Vespers-Sound Healing w/ Dorothy Stone and Melinda Kinzie, 3-6 p.m. Gift Certificates available at the studio and online! Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s.

Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt. com.

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Prenatal Method Studio: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and fitness classes blending yoga, barre and Pilates.

Childbirth education class series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program. Book groups, new mom

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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., teach- ing

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. Jan. 24, 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.

Jan. 23-25. Cost: $130/full-day ice climbing clinic. Location: Smuggler’s Notch, Jeffersonville.

Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petracliffs.com, smuggsicebash.com.

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playgroups, pregnancy circle teas. Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends.

Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

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Spanish weekend classes: Express Fluency courses draw upon brain and language acquisition research to get students understanding and speaking Spanish in the fastest way possible. Weekend is perfect for anyone who wants to jumpstart or refresh their Spanish in preparation to travel, for work or just for fun! Jan. 24-25. Cost: $199/ person; discounts avail.: see website. Location: Chef’s Corner, 209 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Express Fluency, Elissa McLean, 275-2694, elissa@expressfluency.com, expressfluency.com.

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.

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ith 2014 in the books, it is time once again to gaze into the crystal disco ball and see what the year to come has in store for the local music scene. As always, these predictions, though perhaps rooted in frayed strands of reality, are not to be taken seriously. Why? In the years we’ve been running this feature, not a single one of our predictions has come true. Ever.

Nevertheless…

At its annual summit in a remote, undisclosed mountain location, RADS (Rockers Against Dumb Shit), the Illuminati-like secret society that controls the local music scene, decrees that $5 is no longer an acceptable industry standard as a cover charge for a local show.

Incredibly, the concertgoing public not only accepts the new standardized door charge of $10, they welcome it.

“I’ve been paying five bucks to see local shows since the 1970s,” says one longtime local music fan after a show at Nectar’s. “How stupid is that? You can’t even see a movie for $5 these days. Hell, you can barely buy a decent beer for that. No wonder nobody makes any money in music anymore.”

“Serious bands work incredibly hard to entertain their fans,” says another concertgoer at the Monkey House.

“They are craftspeople, professionals. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to be paid like it. You wouldn’t give a plumber $5 for unclogging your toilet, or promise them ‘exposure,’ would you?”

As a result of the cover hike, relations between artists and venues in Vermont have never been more amicable, or profitable. Venues can afford to pay artists what they’re worth. And artists respond by acting professionally — showing up on time, working to promote their own shows, staying reasonably sober, etc. Never again are established working musicians asked to play for tips, a free meal or exposure.

The album-tribute show remains as popular as ever in Burlington, and local bands continue to pay homage to a great number of records that are celebrating milestone anniversaries. 1995 is a particularly well-covered year.

Pours and Swale combine to do justice to Radiohead’s The Bends. The DuPont Brothers reconceive Elliott Smith’s self-titled record. Numerous local rappers, including Learic, Wombaticus Rex and members of the Lynguistic Civilians, come together to re-create GZA’s Liquid Swords. Lendway reemerge to deliver a painstaking recreation of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis — which, ironically, is bigger than the local tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ 1965 record Rubber Soul that same night.

But the most successful anniversary tribute of the year is the all-star blowout of Fred Sex, the 1995 classic by beloved local rockers the Pants. The show sells out ArtsRiot and prompts local filmmaker Bill Simmon to finally finish

his long-dormant documentary on the band. (OK, fine. That last one is just too far-fetched.)

Speaking of tributes, a new level of Grace Potter’s celebrity is confirmed when the firstever local Grace Potter & the Nocturnals tribute band debuts: Nocturnal Emissions.

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Following a breakthrough in cloning technology, the local music scene bands together to clone superfan Tim Lewis. A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the procedure is so successful that a veritable army of Lewises is created. This changes the generally accepted tenet that “a local rock show ain’t no rock show unless Tim Lewis is in the crowd,” as there is now a surplus. The new benchmark becomes at least two Tim Lewises per local rock show.

Seven Days celebrates its 20th anniversary in grand style with a concert at Burlington’s Waterfront Park. The show is co-headlined by Wilco and Son Volt, both of whom are on tour in celebration of the 20th anniversaries of their respective debut albums, A.M. and Trace. That Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar will share the same stage becomes national news when the show is announced, as it’s believed to be the first time they’ve done so since the split of their seminal alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. But Burlington becomes the envy of the rock world when the pair emerges for an encore and performs UT’s 1993 record Anodyne in its entirety. Somewhere in the crowd, 7D music editor Dan Bolles faints.

A NEW LEVEL OF GRACE POTTER’S CELEBRITY IS CONFIRMED WHEN THE FIRST-EVER LOCAL GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS TRIBUTE BAND DEBUTS:

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS.

The legend of Nectar’s sound man Sergei Ushakov grows when one night during a particularly painful set by a young new funk band, the famously crotchety Russian takes to the stage and proceeds to play the group’s songs for them. He plays all of their instruments.

Simultaneously. At the conclusion of the set, he explains to an awestruck crowd that this would be the moment he would just drop the mic and walk off the stage. “But that’s not how you treat a microphone, dammit,” he says, suspiciously eyeing the rock band waiting nervously in the wings to take the stage.

In a stunning move, Radio Bean proprietor Lee Anderson submits a last-minute bid to buy the parcel of land behind Burlington College, thus saving the lakefront spread

from the clutches of evil condo developers. There he erects a permanent outdoor shop called the Wits’ End where he sells upcycled end tables. Against all conventional business wisdom, the shop is hugely popular, even in the winter, owing in part to the underground tunnel Anderson builds connecting the Wits’ End to its companion enterprise, the Light Club Lamp Shop.

In a related story, the Burlington College field continues to be a hot spot for outdoor music festivals. In fact, festivals dominate the local music calendar from May through October. Following the lead of Signal Kitchen’s WYSIWYG, the Skinny Pancake’s Eat by Northeast and Radio Bean’s the Precipice, dozens of local bars and nightclubs get in on the action and debut their own fests, to varying degrees of success. Red Square’s Hip to Be Square, for example, is a raucous good time. The Olde Northender’s Bender at the ’Ender is slightly less so, perhaps owing to its 6 a.m. start time.

The festival trend reaches a high — or perhaps low — following the outdoor block party thrown jointly by Nectar’s and the O.P.: A Pitcher of Nectar. The PBRfueled shenanigans that ensue during the fest overwhelm the police and overcrowd the adjoining drunk tank on North Winooski Avenue. However, it is universally agreed that the decision to mount cameras on all Queen City cops is money well spent, as the footage from the festival is friggin’ hilarious and goes viral, leading to a new revenue source for the city.

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finicky when it comes to changing strings. After a few minutes, Sergei exited stage left and returned with a few small tools. He promptly changed the string and replaced the guitar to its stand onstage. Without saying a word, he returned to the booth as the entire crowd began chanting his name.

To recap: A guitarist broke a string at a show Sergei was working. So Sergei fucking changed it for him! That’s why he’s the best, folks.

As for Tim Lewis, well, he was there, right up front where he always is. Because Tim Lewis is always there, which is why he’s Tim Lewis. Man, that guy’s great.

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2015 will be the year of CAROLINE ROSE. After breaking into the national consciousness with her remarkable 2014 record, I Will Not Be Afraid, Rose will sign with a prestigious label — you listening, Sub Pop? — that unleashes her hellaciously good punkabilly EP on the world. That recording will grace

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Happy New Year, music fans! I trust your holidays were happy and healthy!

Or one or the other! Or that you at least made it through them without going nuts! Or that you’re still alive. The holidays can be rough, huh?

Before we get settled into the business before us in 2015, I’d like to take a moment and revisit an article we ran at the end of 2014. In that December 17 piece titled “Did You Ever Know That You’re My Hero?” we polled local scenesters to ask who they thought were some of the unsung heroes of the local music scene — or, to mangle the BETTE MIDLER reference even further, who was the wind beneath their wings.

Of the all the responses we received, two names were mentioned most frequently: superfan TIM LEWIS and Nectar’s sound engineer SERGEI USHAKOV. And on a recent Tuesday in late December, I saw exactly why that was.

I’d like to briefly share that anecdote with you now.

I had ventured down to Nectar’s to catch SWALE playing a New Year’s Eve

Eve gig. Watching Swale has recently become a personal pleasure — even more than it used to be — because my brother is in the band. That means when I see Swale now I can simply be a fan and a proud big brother. It’s refreshing.

Anyway, during a particularly rowdy tune — I forget which one, exactly. See: just a fan, above — guitarist ERIC OLSEN broke a string on his Creston and had to switch guitars. After the song, he joked to the crowd, “Can anyone out there change a guitar string?” Given the number of musicians in the crowd, I’m guessing at least 40 people in attendance, myself included, could do exactly that. But none of us stepped forward.

Well, except for one guy.

Sergei hopped down from the sound booth, strode to the stage and proceeded to attempt to remove the busted string while Swale continued playing. Apparently, Olsen’s axe is

On page 54 of this very paper, you can read a tongue-in cheek column “predicting” the year to come in local music. That piece is a long-running annual gag that in no way whatsoever is meant to be taken seriously. At all. I stress that only because every year some rankled reader writes in outraged that I predicted GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS would break up citing “artistic indifferences” or that PHISH would become a Christian rock band or any number of dumb — and really, really not real! — things I’ve written in that piece.

Which, again, is not real.

This year, in addition to that decidedly not real piece, I’d like to take a stab at making some genuine, if maybe outlandish, predictions. So if you’ll indulge me, here are a few things I expect we’ll see in 2015. (And, yeah, it’s a sloooooow news week.) As always, feel free to flood my inbox with how I got it all wrong.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife Wednesday (trap, house), 9:30 p.m.

JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: tom cleary & Amber deLaurentis (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Vt comedy club Presents: What a Joke! comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Abbie morin, cricket Blue, DJ Late Night (folk), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Dinner with Zack DuPont (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Jack Bandit (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

ZEN LOUNGE: Zensday with DJ Robbie J (house), 10 p.m., free.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Ebn Ezra (rock), 8:30 p.m., free/$3. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: chad hollister (folk rock), 7 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Live music, 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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.,

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: myra Flynn (neo soul), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Donovan & the Doc (folk), 6:30 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: open mic, 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Thursday Night trivia, 8 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Sundown hollow, the Fatheads, milk chocolate (rock, country), 8 p.m., $3.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Shane hardiman (jazz), 8:30 SCAN p.m., free.

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BENTO: classics Vinyl clash (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN'S PUB: craig mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: half & half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Blue Gardenias (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: trivia mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: The Pizza tapes, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Andy Pitt (americana), 6 p.m., donation.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Bert Wills and clint Boyd (blues), 10 p.m., free.

is equal parts mad scientist, magician and musical virtuoso, concocting a unique, everchanging sound that Billboard calls “slamming, futuristic funk.” Touring with a brandnew audiovisual invention in tow, That1Guy plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Tuesday, January 13, with DJ FEELS GooDmAN.

MOOG'S PLACE: open mic, 8 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN'S PUB: DJ Jon Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O'S: hi-Way 5 (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Bruce in the USA (Bruce springsteen tribute), 9 p.m., Na.

JUNIPER: Justin Levinson (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: comedy Showcase (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $7.

NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Funkwagon, the Lynguistic civilians (funk, hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Kids music with Linda "tickle

Belly" Bassick & Friends, 11 a.m., free. Dan Stevens (blues, americana), 5 p.m., free. Derek Siegler (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. APEX (funk, rock, world music), 8 p.m., free. Great Western (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. taylor haskins Quartet (jazz), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Funkwagon (funk), 4 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ con Yay (EDm), 9 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Salsa Night with Jah Red, 8 p.m., $5. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Jamie Bright (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

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Last but not least, 2015 will be another remarkable year in Vermont music, filled with landmark records, once-ina-lifetime shows, and no shortage of thrills, chills and surprises. We’ll have highs, we’ll have lows and we may not always see eye to eye on everything. But it’s gonna be a hell of a ride. So here’s to 2015!

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among the top-five best-selling authors from Vermont. And his memoir, I Was a 400 Pound 80’s DJ, will easily be the funniest book from the Green Mountains this year. It’s not finished yet, and as of this writing doesn’t have a publisher, but if the batshit-crazy stories that Thompson has told me over the years about his time in the DJ booth are any indication, I feel pretty good about this one.

sleeper contender as one of the best local albums of the year. Though a little overlooked, for my money Yates is one of the finest rock songwriters in Vermont. A sneak-peek single he recently sent my way has a little bit of “angry young man”-era ELVIS COSTELLO to it that I really dig. See for yourself when his band plays the Monkey House in Winooski this Saturday, January 10.

When I interview him prior to his Higher Ground show in February, country-music messiah STURGILL SIMPSON — excuse me, Grammy-nominated country-music messiah Sturgill Simpson — will reveal, for the first time, the real meaning behind his song “Turtles All the Way Down.” So what if his management team has repeatedly declined my interview requests and stopped taking my calls? (Call me, Sturg!)

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MONOPOLE: Funky Batz (funk), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Usual Suspects, Kirby Lane (blues), 8:30 p.m., free/$5.

barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Retro Fridays, 6 p.m., donation.

CAPITOL GROUNDS CAFÉ: Miranda Moody Miller (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

NUTTY STEPH'S: Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free.

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER):

SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: The Pizza Tapes (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Seth Yacovone (blues), 10 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: John Daly Trio (folk rock), 6 p.m., free. DJ Eric Hass (house), 10 p.m., free.

rutland area

RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Lost in Paris (rock), 9 p.m., NA.

RUSTY NAIL: Spiritual Rez, Gang of Thieves (reggae, funk rock), 9 p.m., $10. 18+.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: The NEKTones (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Crazyhearse (rock), 8 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom THE STAGE: Donovan & the Doc (blues rock), 6 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Gina & Jeff (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Heaters (rock), 9 p.m., free.

GOOD TIMES CAFÉ: John Abair & Collin Cope (blues, country), 8:30 p.m., $10.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Particle, Milk Chocolate (jam), 8 p.m., $15/17.

AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Velvet Noise, Phil Yates & the Affiliates, Alexei Martov (indie rock), 8 p.m., $5.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: J Rumney (synth), 9 p.m., $3.

rutland area

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Lost in Paris (rock), 9 p.m., NA.

northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: Collective Rhymes: Food Justice for All (hip-hop), 8 p.m., donation.

THE STAGE: Lefty Yunger (blues), 6 p.m., free. Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Ultimate Benatar (Pat Benatar tribute), 8 p.m., $18. Saturday Night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.

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JUNIPER: Almost Nowhere (rock), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: Ramblin' Dan Stevens (rock, blues), 7 p.m., free. The Edd, Hayley Jane and the Van Burens (electronic, soul), 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Brunch with Andriana Chobot, noon, free. The Mighty Orq (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

Billy Collins (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Nicole Carey & Friends (folk blues), 8 p.m., free. Bert Wills and Clint Boyd (Americana), 9 p.m., free. Dan Johnson and the Expert Sidemen (Americana), 10:30 p.m., free. Downfall Country Album Release (country), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Collin Craig Continuum (funk), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county ABC CAFE AND PUB: Bluerock

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Broken String Band (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Charlie O's A-Go-Go Beach Party, 10 p.m., free.

NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: Emma Back (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MATTERHORN: Grundlefunk (funk), 9 p.m., NA.

MOOG'S PLACE: Mothership Orchestra (funk), 9 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, Doctor Rick, 9 p.m., $20/25. 18+.

mad river valley/ waterbury

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: The Full Cleveland (rock), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Soul Junction (soul), 10 p.m., free.

burlington

FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free.

THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR'S: MI YARD Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., free.

OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Gypsy Jazz Brunch with Queen City Hot Club, 11 a.m., free.

With Will (punk), 4 p.m., free.

Folkapotamus (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Phil Yates (rock), 8 p.m., free.

Clare Byrne (folk), 9 p.m., free.

Clay Man (jazz rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Morin, who previously called New Hampshire home before moving to Burlington, is seemingly obsessed with not conforming to genre restrictions or labels. That fervent desire to exist outside of any box but that of her own creation is admirable and evident in her music, which traverses myriad styles.

Shadowproof opens on “Better Half.”

The twangy, chrome-plated cut about losing love is laced with barroom swagger.

Morin writes with a wry and pointed sensibility. It’s never completely clear whether the “better half” she’s lamenting is her former lover or the half of herself she gave up to be with that person. It’s clever and mysterious.

Morin shifts gears, in more ways than one, on “Cadmium.” The song begins with a breezily waltzing melody that darkens amid a creeping crescendo flecked with sinister organ swirls. The mounting tension relents as Morin abruptly switches moods — and time signatures — over a bouncy pop backbeat with airy vocals and bright, ringing guitars before returning again to the song’s opening vibe.

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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Chasing Days (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3-5.

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Eric Friedman (folk), 11 a.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: John Wilson & Friends (acoustic), noon, free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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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.

are both widely admired

JP'S PUB: open mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

young folk musicians. The latter, a former member of

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: mike martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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The group includes Nancy Dwyer, a University of Vermont associate professor of art and art history, and Hellerman credits her with providing perspective that assisted in early planning for the show.

Dwyer and her peers in the exhibit were among “the first generation to grow up with TV,” notes Hellerman — in other words, with the increasingly powerful influences of media culture. It may be difficult for today’s younger, tech-savvy viewers to imagine a time when this was a new thing; when artists were just beginning to adopt both the means and content of media to make their own statements. Significantly, it was also a time when countercultural dreams of social and political change turned to disillusionment.

An important exhibit at New York’s Artists Space in 1977 featured some of the loose group of artists that would come to be called the Pictures Generation. BCA’s exhibit acknowledges and examines their processes. It also, as Hellerman puts it, “calls attention to the significant technological developments since the early 1970s that have made such a dramatic impact on the ways in which images are shared, archived and repurposed.”

nough with remembering the year that was.

2015 is here to stay for a while and, while we can’t predict everything that will happen, we can guarantee that a host of new art shows will come our way. Here are six we’re looking forward to in the months ahead. Keep your eyes on these pages for all the rest.

“Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’”

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Fleming Museum of Art, UVM, Burlington. February 3 to June 21, with an opening reception on Tuesday, February 10, 5:30-7 p.m. uvm.edu/~fleming

We won’t get to see the original painting that inspired this show; Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” which upended the art world in 1907, is ensconced at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. But the work will nonetheless reverberate in “Staring Back” — through “innovative installations and advanced technologies that transform the museum experience,” intriguingly promises the Fleming’s website. Museum director Janie Cohen, who curated the show, doesn’t want to reveal much more than that until it opens.

The exhibit “looks at the creative process,” she says. “This is something I’ve long been interested in. This [show] takes the example of ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,’ arguably one of the most important paintings of the 20th century.” Indeed, Picasso’s masterpiece ushered cubism into the world.

“Staring Back” examines his influences and looks at the enormous legacy of this single painting by a singular artist, evidenced by a selection of contemporary works. Cohen notes that “Picasso was inspired by a wide swath of visual culture — virtually everything that came across his view.”

In the case of “Les Demoiselles,” a clear influence was African art, including masks.

Picasso’s “mashup” of different cultures was a precursor of 20th-century appropriation techniques by more than half a century. In that way, too, Cohen says, “he was so ahead of his time.”

Cohen’s technology collaborators in the exhibit are Jenn Karson and Coberlin Brownell. Expect augmented reality, soundscapes and more to help viewers get inside the head, as it were, of Pablo Picasso.

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (detail) by Pablo Picasso

“Arches” by James Casebere

“Taking Pictures”

BCA Center, Burlington. January 30 to April 4, with an opening reception on Friday, January 30, 5-8 p.m. burlingtoncityarts.org

Speaking of appropriation (see “Staring Back,” above), the first major show of the year at BCA Center uses that concept as a starting point for a sort-of retrospective.

The exhibit features 10 artists from the so-called Pictures Generation, displaying both works from the late 1970s and newer ones. Seeing them side by side, suggests curator DJ Hellerman, allows viewers to “reinterpret these artists’ early work through the lens of their more recent production.”

“Grafton, 1973”

by Nathan Benn

“Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990”

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

January 24 to May 25. shelburnemuseum.org

Nathan Benn is a longtime photographer for National Geographic whose 2013 book Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990 was chosen as one of American Photo Magazine’s best books of the year. Now Shelburne Museum becomes the first venue to mount an exhibit of the same name featuring Benn’s color photographs (organized by New York-based art2art Circulating Exhibitions). Moreover, it is Benn’s first solo show, and only the second time that the Shelburne Museum has hosted a photography exhibit.

“Kodachrome Memory” at the Pizzagalli Center differs from the book in a locally relevant way. Among its 67 vivid, almost painterly images — taken with now-discontinued Eastman Kodak color film — are previously unpublished images of Vermont shot in 1973. These, along with two decades’ worth of Benn’s other pictures, illustrate the evocative quality of pre-digital photography — before the “sea change that created a surplus of images of everyday life,” as the museum describes it.

Of course, the photos also chronicle a disappeared way of living. In Vermont, Waterbury photographer Peter Miller has amply and beautifully documented that bygone era — albeit in black and white. Like Miller’s work, Benn’s does not trade in nostalgia. Rather, says the museum, Benn simply “focused his lens with ethnographic precision on the regional textures of an America, in Vermont and Florida, which for the most part now exists only in memory or on film.”

The Vermont images, notes executive director Tom Denenberg, “capture the end of an era in the Green Mountain State before commercialization forever altered the landscape.” Viewers of a certain age can compare their own memories of that time, and this place, with Benn’s.

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f Ann Young: “And They Shall Inherit,” two

groups of paintings, subtitled “In a Dangerous Time” and “Microcosm,” express the artist’s views of the “mess” left by previous generations, and the joys in the natural world that still exist, respectively.

Reception: Thursday, January 15, 5:30 p.m. January 12-February 6. Info, 656-7787. Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington.

f DJ Barry: “Project Stencil,” graffiti-inspired paintings by the local artist. Reception: Thursday, January 8, 5-7 p.m. January 8-31. Info, 660-9346.

Radio Bean Coffeehouse in Burlington.

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“Play,” curated by Matt Neckers

“Play”

Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. January 16 to April 12, with an opening reception on January 16, 6-8 p.m. helenday.com

Contact: pamela@sevendaysvt.com, xian@ sevendaysvt.com

f Joe Bolger: Plein-air impressionist landscapes by the Shoreham artist. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-7 p.m. January 9-February 28. Info, 388-1436.

Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

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f Richard Weis: “Artifact: Fifty Years in Art,” a multi-gallery exhibit featuring more than 80 paintings, drawings and combined works that span five decades. Castleton Downtown Gallery and Chaffee Downtown Gallery in Rutland, January 14-February 14, and Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, January 12-February 13. Reception: Friday, January 16, 5-7 p.m., at the two Rutland venues.

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f Harry Bernard, Gail Smuda & Sumner

Winebaum: Paintings and sculptures by the local artists. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-7 p.m.

January 9-February 6. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

f Larry Poole, Peter Shrope & Denise Duprey: Intaglio prints by Poole and ceramic works by Shrope in the Main Gallery; photography

by Duprey in the Community Gallery. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. January 9-February 6. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Performing Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

art events Essex Art League Meeting: Members of the art organization gather for their monthly meeting.

Info, essexartleague.org. First Congregational Church Essex, Thursday, January 8, 9-11 a.m.

‘Second Saturday at the Museum’: The Bradford Historical Society hosts a gathering and exhibit of photographs and artifacts for the Bradford250 celebration. Bradford Historical Society, Saturday, January 10, 2-4 p.m. Info, 222-4423.

‘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. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington.

Innovation Center Group Show: Works by Ashley Veselis, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Kathryn Jarvis, Longina Smolinski, Lori Arner, Robert Green, and Scott Nelson on the first floor; Jean Cherouny, Jeanne Amato, Laurel Waters, Lyna Lou Nordstrom, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin on the second floor; and Camilla Roberts, Chance McNiff, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy James on the third floor. Curated

by SEABA. Through January 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

Inty Muenala: “Mishky Way, Vía Dulce, Sweet Path,” an exhibit of new contemporary paintings that reflect traditional values of the Kichwa (Quechua) people of the Ecuadorian Andes, which the artist also finds in Vermont culture. Through January 31. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

James Vogler & Carolyn Crotty: Abstract paintings by Vogler and mixed-media by Crotty.

Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

Leah Van Rees: Paintings inspired by the natural world. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through February 28. Info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor.

Linda Smith: Storybook-style paintings by the former elementary-school teacher. Curated by SEABA. Through February 28. Info, 859-9222.

Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.

f Lyna Lou Nordstrom: Painterly monoprints by the Vermont artist. Reception: Wednesday, January 14, 4-6 p.m. Through January 31. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

Lynne Reed: “EdgeWalker Paintings,” an exhibit of Japanese Enso-inspired paintings by the Burlington artist. Through March 6. Info, 233-6811.

Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

Maltex Group Show: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

Martin Bock: “Healing Art,” sculptures and paintings of shamanic objects by the Burlington author and artist. Through January 31. Info, 865-7211.

Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

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You don’t have to be a connoisseur of ancient Mediterranean art to be swept up in “Poseidon and the Sea,” a major exhibition of historical artwork and artifacts.

Take a tour of the Rutland area this month, and you won’t be able to miss the multigallery exhibit of artwork by acclaimed local artist Richard Weis.

Under the title “Artifact: Fifty Years in Art,” the three venues collectively present 80-odd drawings, paintings and sculptures.

The accomplished artist and Green Mountain College professor emeritus is known for his boldly colored abstract works, which have been widely exhibited in the state. His long career has included several Fulbright scholarships, international residencies and exhibitions around the country. A Weis show in a single location would be well worth a trip; here, you get a power trio.

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f Charles Lysogorski: Paintings, prints and drawings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m. Through January 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

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Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. January 17 to March 15. hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu

Castleton Downtown Gallery and Chaffee Downtown Gallery, Rutland, and Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College.

January 14 to February 14 at the Rutland galleries; January 12 to February 13 in Castleton. chaffeeartcenter.org, castleton.edu/arts/art-galleries

adults participating in the Big Picture Project. f Maria Anghelache: “Tropical Abstract/ Abstractions,” colorful paintings by the Romanianborn Vermont artist. Reception: Thursday, January 8, 5-7 p.m. January 8-March 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

BCA Local Sale 2014: Affordable artwork in a variety of mediums by Vermont artists. Peter Heller: Fantastical abstract paintings by the noteworthy Morrisville painter, who passed away in 2002. Through January 24. Info, 865-5355. BCA Center in Burlington.

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“Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult and Daily Life”

“Artifact: Fifty Years in Art”

f ‘Through Our Lens’: Photographs by young

Ann Clayton Barlow: “Alternative Landscapes,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through February 14. Info, 923-3088. Hinge in Burlington.

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Visitors to “Play,” a refreshingly hands-on exhibit, will be encouraged to let loose their inner child the moment they set foot in the gallery.

“Rather than walking through the normal gallery door when you walk in, you’re asked to walk through a fort,” explains guest curator and longtime arts educator Matt Neckers. “The doorway is smaller, so, rather than enter the show as an adult, you have to enter the space as a kid.”

The fun doesn’t stop there: Kids and kids at heart can also explore a tire-swing installation, a teepee, a graffiti-art touchscreen and a collaborative fortress. The last is an “exquisite corpse”-style project by community groups and classes from local elementary schools. As the show continues, visitors will add to its existing bare-bones fortress structure.

“Because [Matt’s] professional background is not as curator but as artist and art educator, he has a unique vision,” says assistant director Rachel Moore. “The grassroots involvement of the local schools, teachers and students has a tremendous impact on how active and participatory this exhibition will be.”

The exhibition isn’t all fun and games.

Gallerygoers can also take in works by accomplished regional and national contemporary artists who variously incorporate the concept of play into their creations.

Curated by Dartmouth alumnus Seth Pevnick, who currently oversees the Greek and Roman art collection at the Tampa Museum of Art, “Poseidon” is the first U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to the tempestuous god and the relationship that Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures had with the sea.

Visitors can journey back in time — from 800 BC to 400 AD — by viewing ancient marble sculptures, pottery, glassware and a plethora of artifacts that demonstrate those cultures’ cult worship of Poseidon.

The exhibit features more than 100 works culled from public and private collections around the country that offer a “rich picture of life in the ancient world,” according to the museum’s website.

Judith Wrend & Paul Gruhler: “Harmonics,” painted-aluminum sculptures and minimalist paintings, respectively. January 12-February 14.

Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

‘Animal Power’: Paintings of horse-powered transportation and agriculture in Vermont by multiple artists. Through February 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

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‘Menagerie: Animals in Art’

f ‘Our Favorite Things’: Plein-air water-

color paintings by friends Sally Hughes and Carol Shallow. Reception: Friday, February 6, 5-8 p.m.

Through March 29. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

Are sub-freezing temperatures preventing you from riding horses, looking for wildlife

‘Preoccupied’: Ornate, detailed artwork in various mediums by Adrienne Ginter, Wylie Garcia, Xavier Donnelly and Dianne Shullenberger. Through January 24. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

or taking your dog for long outdoor romps?

‘SEABA Folio 2003 Project’: Original prints by 22 of Vermont’s finest artists. Through February 28.

Info, 859-9222. The Pine Street Deli in Burlington.

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Susan Norton: “We Are Love, Eternal,” works in paper and fabric. Through February 6. Info, 860-9463. Drink in Burlington.

regional and national artists. The creatures

UVM Medical Center Group Show: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington.

from Janet Fredericks’ ethereal, abstract

If you’d like an indoor animal fix, Stowe’s West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park has featuring sculptures and paintings by 11 on view are both domestic and wild, butterflies to Nissa Kauppila’s signature watercolor-and-gouache birds to Rebecca Kinkead’s dreamlike depictions of Holsteins,

Vermont Artisans: Frame shop owners Alex and Jeremy Dostie have been collecting artwork since opening in 2011. A selection of those pieces is on view, featuring some 20 Vermont artists. Through March 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

dogs, snow leopards and hummingbirds.

Through March 29. Pictured: “Blue Horse”

by Georganna Lenssen.

f ‘We Are the South End’: A group exhibit by local artists and business owners, celebrating the creative vitality of the neighborhood. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-8 p.m. Through January 31.

Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

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Michelle Ennis Jackson: Watercolor paintings of nature and the changing seasons by the Essex Junction artist. Through February 28. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

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‘Natural Beauties: Jewelry From Art Nouveau to Now’: Nearly 300 works from the likes of Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston, Cartier and others illustrate the fascination with nature, and our evolving relationship to it, in jewelry design.

Through March 8. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

Studio Place Arts in Barre. Stone Fogg began making art at age 5. Later in life, she attended the Art Students League of New York and exhibited widely throughout

f ‘Nine Artists: Mary Reed & Students’: A collection of oil paintings by Milton Artists Guild instructor Mary Reed and her students. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through January 31. Info, 862-5724. LCATV in Colchester.

her adulthood; her work is held in private collections nationwide. The SPA exhibit includes paintings, drawings, woodcuts

‘Reverence and Risk: Surveying the Past and Mapping a Future’: Paintings of the gritty side of Vermont by the late Northeast Kingdom artist Robert Klein, plus works by 18 other artists.

Through January 31. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

and pastels from various periods of the artist’s life. Through Saturday, January 10, with a closing reception from 3 to 5 p.m.

The pictured work is untitled.

‘Visions of the Seasons’: New paintings by Carolyn Walton; pastels by Athenia Schinto; jewelry

by Tineke Russell; landscapes by Betty Ball, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette. Through January 31. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

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Daniel Barlow & Scott Baer: “Green Mountain Graveyards,” a photography exhibit that explores the evolution of historic gravestones and funerary art in Vermont. Through April 1. Info, 479-8519.

Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

Shamus McCaffrey Langlois: “Liminality: Totems and Lovers, Clowns and Villains,” recent sculptures, paintings and drawings by the gallery cofounder that interpret and explore the transitional spaces or boundaries between experience, desire and transformation. Through January 23.

Info, 552-8620. Gallery SIX in Montpelier.

Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas: Hand-painted scrolls. Through January 30. Info, 223-1431. Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier.

f Vera Van Stone Fogg: A lifetime retrospective of paintings, pastels, drawings and woodcuts from the accomplished artist, who turns 102 years old in March. Receptions: Monday, January 5, 2-4 p.m., and Saturday, January 10, 3-5 p.m. Through January 10. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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f ‘Menagerie: Animals in Art’: Paintings and sculptures by 11 artists depict an array of domestic and wild creatures. Reception: Saturday, February 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Through March 29. Info, 253-8943.

West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

Peter Fiore: “Intuitive Light,” new landscape paintings by the renowned artist. Through January 10. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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Ben Frank Moss & Varujan Boghosian: “Collage, Drawing, Painting,” works by the abstract and collage artists. Through February 14. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

f Bonnie Barnes: “Blanc et Noir,” new photography inspired by rural life and frontiers by the Waitsfield artist. Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-7 p.m. Through February 28. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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Fall Term Studio Art Exhibition: Students exhibit work produced during the fall semester, including drawings, photography, paintings and sculptures. Through January 20. Info, 443-3168.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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Andy Warhol works has doubled. A gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York late last year added to the museum’s holdings several of the pop artist’s iconic portraits, which already included those of Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger and others. The “new faces” include Chairman Mao Zedong, Sitting

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‘the ARt of GivinG’: One-of-a-kind gifts by local artists Mary Cliver, Barb DeHart, Barbara Gutheil, Sarah Hewitt, Jill Kleinman, Sara Longworth, Cristina Pellechio, Kristen Varian and Andrea Varney. Through January 11. Info, 247-4295.

Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

seAn dye: “Visions of Addison,” paintings of Addison County by the founder of Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. Through January 10. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

champlain islands/northwest JAn BRosky, elizABeth mARtin & ReBeccA WRiGht: The month’s featured artists exhibit fiber works, pottery and mixed media, respectively.

Through January 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

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COLLEGE IN MY BACKYARD call to artists 2nd annual art’s alive open photography exhibit: Vermont photographers may present one to three photographs, ready to hang, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, for exhibition until March 29. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station, Burlington. Info, 660-9005. ‘birds of a fiber’: Do you create with fibers? Do you have a thing for birds, science or conservation?

Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington invites submissions of up to three pieces of artwork in all mediums for a summer 2015 show. Limited space for 3D works. Info, 434-2167. Deadline: March 1.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington. Info, 434-2167.

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Registration forms and more info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: March 5. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295. compass crafters’ show: Compass is holding a Crafters Sale on Saturday, January 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This is not a sale for full-priced, galleryready pieces, but a chance to offer older, unsold work.

Supplies such as used equipment, unopened kits, leftover/ surplus yarns or fabrics can also be sold. $25 per space ($30 if renting a table).

Registration forms and more info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: January 29. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

‘colchester rides!’ art bicycle racks: The Colchester Parks & Recreation Advisory Board seeks designs for permanent, artist-designed outdoor bicycle racks to be located throughout Colchester.

Submissions open to Vermont residents only and will be displayed and voted upon at the Winter Carnival, February 6 and 7. Winners announced March 6; rack installation

by July 1. Info, colchestervt. gov or 264-5640. Deadline: January 16. Various Colchester locations.

creative competition: For this artist competition and exhibit during monthly First Friday, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Entry $8. During the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. More info at spacegalleryvt.com.

compass artists’ show: Sell unwanted art materials or older, unsold work at the Artists Sale on Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This

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‘fibrations!’: Fiber creations by more than a dozen renowned New England artists. Through March 30. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield.

‘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. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction. trps members’ show: A selection of prints in several techniques and styles by resident artists.

Through January 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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alter Keane liked women with large, uh, eyes. In the early 1960s, he created an empire founded on paintings of sad children with massive moppet peepers. He was a pop icon, a talk-show fixture and — in Tim Burton’s paint-by-numbers biographical drama — a sadistic Svengali who took credit for the work of his wife, Margaret. Amy Adams portrays the latter in the most colorless role of her career.

Christoph Waltz plays Keane as a megalomaniac cad who sweet-talks his bride into going along with the ruse because nobody buys “lady art.” Besides, he assures her, “Your pocket, my pocket — what’s the difference?” One of the movie’s many problems is that the script wants to have it both ways: It suggests Margaret was a browbeaten victim of her husband’s greed while making it clear she was actually a willing participant in the scam.

The two meet at a San Francisco art fair and marry shortly thereafter. Walter makes the rounds to galleries in search of a showplace for his work and his wife’s. Jason Schwartzman has a one-note part as a snooty exhibitor but proves unable to do much with

dialogue like “Clear out the clutter before the taste police arrive.”

Walter has better luck when he strikes a deal with the owner of a nightclub to rent space on his walls. The next thing he knows, everyone from suburban squares to movie stars is snapping up the pictures of wideeyed waifs as fast as Margaret can churn them out. Well before Warhol conceived of his factory, Walter Keane brainstormed the mass reproduction of images on posters and postcards. He earned millions and, according to Life magazine, made the paintings the most popular in the world.

The Keane saga is a fascinating one, and Burton could’ve taken it in any number of directions. Unfortunately, he chose the dullest.

Instead of giving Big Eyes the Ed Wood treatment (the picture is scripted by the team responsible for that 1994 classic), he inexplicably turns it into a Lifetime movie, contorting the couple’s story into a feminist fable with far from convincing results.

Big Eyes is all Walter and no Margaret.

Burton is so intent on painting Keane as a cartoon creep that he concocts scenes such as one where Walter tries to burn down his house with his family inside. But he offers scant insight into Margaret’s psychology or process. At one point, she’s asked why she paints the giant eyes, and Burton actually

has her answer that they’re “windows to the soul.”

Two observations. First, Walter Keane may not have painted those pictures, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t suggest the feature that made them famous. Before Margaret, he was married to designer Barbara Ingham, with whom he created a line of toys called Susie Keane’s Puppeteens. Walter painted the wooden dolls, which were distinguished by — you guessed it — big eyes. I’m just saying.

Second, Burton doesn’t even pretend to approach the material without bias. He purchased the rights from Margaret Keane. The screenwriters have gone on record as being interested only in her version of events.

Press accounts confirm that the filmmakers rebuffed efforts made by members of Walter’s family (he died in 2000) to document his side of the story.

Keep in mind that the filmmaker has not only been collecting Keanes since the ’90s but has even commissioned portraits of his wife and others by Margaret, and I think it may be fair to suggest a conflict of interest.

That might be a bigger problem if the film weren’t so shallow, over the top and instantly forgettable that “interest” is unlikely to prove much of an issue.

COLOR SCHEME Adams and Waltz play the couple behind an art-world phenomenon in Tim Burton’s latest trifle.

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TIMELY MATTERS When two amiable doofuses are set loose on international relations, what could go wrong?

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irst it was just another stoner comedy. Then it was the international provocation that inspired North Korea to hack Sony. Then we weren’t going to be able to see it, ever. Then it was our patriotic duty to see it. Then people saw it and discovered that it was, in fact, basically just another stoner comedy. Then it landed on four spots on the Razzies shortlist, including Worst Picture.

What’s left to say about The Interview?

First, this second directorial effort from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is a flawed one that still delivers some laughs, provided you

enjoy its brand of hyperverbal, half-improvised comedy. Second, its main satirical target isn’t Kim Jong-un, but the all-American struggle between news reporting and infotainment.

Dan Sterling, who scripted based on Rogen and Goldberg’s story, is a past executive producer of “The Daily Show,” and his screenplay recalls Jon Stewart’s oftexpressed ambivalence about crafting gags that double as a primary news source for disaffected viewers. Here, that ambivalence shades into self-hatred, because protagonist Aaron Rapaport (Rogen) is a true sell-out.

He’s a trained journalist who produces a lowest-common-denominator celebrity talk show hosted by a preening, witless egomaniac named Dave Skylark (James Franco).

Unlike Stewart, Skylark wouldn’t know a genuine news story if it bit him on the ass of his designer jeans. But when he discovers that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Randall Park) is a huge fan of his show, he’s eager to set up a ratings-grabbing interview.

Reputable journalists sniff with disgust at Skylark’s plan to go to Kim’s homeland for a controlled, scripted encounter, while the CIA smells an opportunity. Soon Aaron and Dave have been enlisted by a sexy agent (Lizzy Caplan) in a plot to assassinate Kim. There are just two problems: the pair’s general incompetence, and the budding bromance between Dave and his target. The TV peacock and the lonely dictator turn out to share a taste for Soviet tanks, babes and the songcraft of Katy Perry.

Ridicule has undeniable power, and thinkers have been arguing for centuries about the political clout of comedy. So when The Interview asks us to entertain the possibility that assassinating Kim Jong-un might be less effective than demonstrating to his people that he “has a butthole” — that’s dumb humor, all right. But it also follows a long cultural precedent of using schoolyard scatological jeers to bring down the mighty.

So the problem with The Interview isn’t that its humor is lewd, crude and just plain

silly. It’s that Rogen and Franco don’t know when to stop riffing, mugging and killing decent jokes with repetition. While the former has written himself into the role of a straight man, the latter goes so broad that he could be auditioning for a Dumb and Dumber sequel.

(Luckily, Park’s performance as Kim is much subtler and funnier.)

There’s something both naïve and endearing about a fictive scenario in which a fatuous idiot like Dave Skylark does what diplomats, generals and spies could not.

(It’s worth noting that he leaves most of the hard work to smarter characters, including a North Korean played by Diana Bang.) But that tall tale pales in comparison with the history of The Interview itself. The movie is a well-meaning piece of foolishness whose insights, while real, never quite justify the climactic scene that purportedly provoked all this trouble.

Or did it? Some cybersecurity experts have raised doubts about whether the disastrous Sony hack was actually inspired by the film’s baiting of North Korea or by a smaller, domestic grievance. Sure, it’s all speculation. But if disgruntled former employees of a megacorporation inadvertently turned one of its middling entertainment products into an international cause célèbre, that would be an absurdist farce for the ages.

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now playing ANNieH1/2 Quvenzhané wallis plays the irrepressible foster child who holds out for “tomorrow” in this new take on the family musical, set in the present, from director will gluck (Easy A). cameron diaz, Jamie foxx and Rose byrne also star. (118 min, Pg) Big eYesHH iN tim BuRtoN’s Biopic, christoph waltz plays walter Keane, who built a midcentury art empire on images of creepy-eyed waifs, and amy adams plays his wife, Margaret, who actually painted them. (106 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 1/7) Big HeRo 6HHHH a young genius and his inflatable robot friend assemble a team of tech-equipped heroes to save their city in this adventure comedy from disney. with the voices of Ryan Potter, Scott adsit and Jamie chung. don hall and chris williams directed. (108 min, Pg)

eXoDus: goDs AND kiNgsHH1/2 christian bale plays the rebellious Moses and Joel Edgerton is Egyptian pharoah Ramesses in this biblical epic from director Ridley Scott. ben Kingsley, Sigourney weaver and aaron Paul also star. (150 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 12/17)

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iNteRstellARHHH1/2 Earth’s last hope is a newly discovered interdimensional wormhole and the astronauts who agree to risk their lives there, in this sci-fi adventure from director christopher nolan. with Matthew Mcconaughey, anne hathaway, wes bentley and Jessica chastain. (169 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 11/12) tHe iNteRvieWHHH Seth Rogen and James franco play tabloid tV personalities who find themselves recruited for an assassination attempt on north Korea’s Kim Jong-un in this comedy directed by Rogen and Evan goldberg. (112 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 1/7) iNto tHe WooDsHHH1/2 Rob Marshall (Chicago) directed this film version of Stephen Sondheim’s dark musical take on the fairy tales of the brothers grimm. with anna Kendrick as cinderella, Meryl Streep as the witch, chris Pine, Johnny depp, Emily blunt and many more. (124 min, Pg)

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NigHt At tHe museum: secRet oF tHe tomBHH1/2 ben Stiller explores the nighttime shenanigans of the british Museum in the third installment of the family fantasy-comedy franchise, featuring Robin williams’ final screen performance. Shawn levy (This Is Where I Leave You) directed. (97 min, Pg) peNguiNs oF mADAgAscARHH1/2 The beloved birds from the Madagascar franchise get a comic spinoff featuring the voices of tom Mcgrath, benedict cumberbatch and John Malkovich. Eric darnell and Simon J. Smith directed. (92 min, Pg) tHe tAle oF tHe pRiNcess kAguYAHHHH1/2 The latest animation from Japan’s Studio ghibli is based on a folktale about a girl found inside a bamboo reed who finds herself celebrated as a princess. with the voices of chloë grace Moretz, James caan and Mary Steenburgen. Isao takahata directed. (137 min, Pg) tHe tHeoRY oF eveRYtHiNgHHHH1/2 Eddie Redmayne and felicity Jones play physicist Stephen hawking and his wife, Jane, in this adaptation of the latter’s memoir of their marriage.

James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. (123 min, Pg-13)

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top FiveHHHH chris Rock plays a famous comedian trying to make it as a serious actor in this self-referential comedy that he also wrote and directed. Rosario dawson plays the journalist interviewing him. with gabrielle union, Kevin hart and adam Sandler. (101 min, R) uNBRokeNHHH angelina Jolie directed this adaptation of laura hillenbrand’s bestseller about Olympian louis Zamperini (Jack O’connell) and his hellish travails in a Japanese prison camp during world war II. with domhnall gleeson and Jai courtney. (137 min, Pg-13)

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tHe imitAtioN gAmeHHH1/2 This biopic chronicles the world war II decoding efforts of british mathematician alan turing (benedict cumberbatch) and his struggles with social norms. with Keira Knightley and Matthew goode. Morten tyldum (Headhunters) directed. (114 min, Pg-13)

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tHe HuNgeR gAmes: mockiNgJAY, pARt 1HHH1/2 Rebellion against the regime breaks out into the open, with Katniss (Jennifer lawrence) as its symbol, in the first half of the last installment of the film adaptation of Suzanne collins’ ya saga. francis lawrence returns as director. (123 min, Pg-13)

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tHe HoBBit: tHe BAttle oF tHe Five ARmiesHHH bilbo and his companions go to war to stop the dragon Smaug from destroying Middle-earth in (we think) the last installment in this tolkien-based series. with Martin freeman, Ian McKellen and benedict cumberbatch. Peter Jackson directed. (144 min, Pg-13)

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Britain’s beloved Princess Susannah has been kidnapped. In a viral YouTube video, her abductor promises to kill her unless the prime minister performs an unspeakable act — on live television.

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Charges of racism were directed at a clothing store that posted a sign banning Chinese customers. The store is located in Beijing. “We didn’t want to hang up the sign in the first place and lead people to think we Chinese look down upon ourselves,” a salesperson at the store on Yabao Road said.

“But some Chinese customers are too annoying.” The store sells chiefly to foreigners. (South China Morning Post)

Circumventing Nature

British social media accused London authorities of wasting money by paying workers to climb ladders and pull leaves from 145 trees in autumn at sites around the Houses of Parliament instead of letting nature take its course.

“If we waited for the leaves to fall off, it would waste a lot of time raking them up,” a House of Commons official explained. “It is more efficient.” (Britain’s Express)

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An Air France passenger jet traveling from the Dominican Republic to Paris with 142 passengers and 12 crew made an emergency landing at Ireland’s Shannon Airport after a fire alarm sounded in the forward cargo hold.

Although the onboard extinguishers had activated, emergency workers found no fire on board and blamed the alarm on heat generated by a shipment of chili peppers. (Irish Times)

Cold-War Update

Separate Defense Department studies concluded that the Pentagon needs to spend billions of dollars over the next five years to fix “systemic problems across the nuclear enterprise.”

Emergency repairs to the Air Force’s and Navy’s aging nuclear weapons infrastructure are necessary because neglect has caused their decay. For example, investigators found crews maintaining the nation’s 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had only one wrench able to attach nuclear warheads, so they were required to share it. “They started FedExing the one tool” to three bases spread across the country, one official said, because no one had checked in years “to see if new tools were being made.” (New York Times)

ner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive.” Examples cited by the five researchers, all men, include a thief trying to steal an elevator cable by unbolting it while standing in the elevator, causing his death when it plummeted to the ground; a man who hitched a shopping cart to the back of a train trying to get a free ride home and was dragged two miles to his death; and the terrorist who mailed a letter bomb and when it was returned for insufficient postage, opened it.

The study suggests drinking is often a contributing factor, supporting “the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel ‘bulletproof.’”

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“Men are idiots, and idiots do stupid things,” concludes a British study that surveyed winners of the Darwin Awards (darwinawards.com) over the past 20 years. It found 88.7 percent were male. To win an award, individuals “must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic man-

Slightest Provocation

Rachel Anne Hayes, 27, repeatedly slapped her 72-year-old grandmother in the face, according to authorities in Pinellas County, Fla., for refusing to accept her Facebook friend request.

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Police arrested George Robert Pineda, 44, after they said he attacked his 53-year-old girlfriend in Ocala, Fla., for suggesting that he take anger management classes. (Ocala Star-Banner)

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Judges of the annual World Pie Eating Championship had to nullify the results after discovering that the 24 meat-and-potato pies for this year’s speed-eating contest in Wigan, England, were twice regulation size. The supplier mixed up the event’s order with “a divorce party up the road,” competition organizer Tony Callaghan explained. “It was a shame, because these lads practice long and often.

You can see how seriously they take it, practicing pie-eating late into the night on every street corner in Wigan town center.” (Britain’s Manchester Evening News)

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When Costco changed a minor ingredient of its store-brand baby wipes to comply with a Minnesota requirement, some customers complained about a new “chemical-y” smell, and a few said the new formula burns their babies’ skin. “It’s an uncomfortable kind of stinging,” Jennifer Flores said. “My husband and I tried them and were like, ‘Oh, my God.’” Others on Costco’s review site also reported burning and rashes. Costco’s Craig Wilson insisted the Kirkland Signature Baby Wipes 900 CT are “very, very benign,” and explained, “People don’t like change.”

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Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. you finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways … to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form … to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

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aRies (March 21-April 19): In his novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, ned Lingamon, who “had a penis 800 miles long and 210 miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles

gemini (May 21-June 20): Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion?

In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out purge.

Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for you, and get rid of them. While you’re at it, why not carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life? canceR

(June 21-July 22): “nothing was ever created by two men,” wrote John steinbeck in his novel East of Eden. “There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional nonsense. And it’s especially

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(July 23-Aug. 22): I live in northern California, where an extended drought led to water rationing for much of 2014. but in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. now bursts of white wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. you could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling. Any ideas about how to get it? brainstorm. Ask questions. seek help.

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(Aug. 23-sept. 22): Actress uzo Aduba’s formal first name is uzoamaka. she tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. one day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call me zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “because no one can say uzoamaka.” Mom was quick to respond: “If they can learn to say tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Michelangelo, they can learn to say uzoamaka.” The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: This is no time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That’s rarely a good idea, but especially now. say no to making yourself more generic.

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Doug Von Koss leads groups of people in sing-alongs. you don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfection-free zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. you need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek and savvy. you have a poetic license to be innocent, loose and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands. scoRPio

(oct. 23-nov. 21): “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert

in his poem “The forgotten Dialects of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. you’re more eloquent than usual. you have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts.

As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If you have built castles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. but I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task. aQuaRius

(Jan. 20-feb. 18): Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when the White rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. she follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. on the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. finally she lands safely.

As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): you are positively oceanic these days. you are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy wise dreamer.

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Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time. “When Mockingbird first heard rock / He cocked his head and crapped / What in the hell is that? / It sounded like a train wreck / Someone was screaming / Someone’s banging on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen.

Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves — “all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you — maybe even fulfill you.

Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. you can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. you wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, taurus.

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My penis size is 4.5 inches and my duration is short. How can I increase both?

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My penis is so small. I’m embarrassed. How can I make it bigger?

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Ashamed of My Size

My penis size is just 2 inches, and I worry about that so much.

I worry that I can’t satisfy any girl properly. Please help. Any suggestions on what to do?

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Is it something about the holidays? I received a number of messages over the last few weeks from men who are dissatisfied with the size of their penis. While I generally support change and growth in the New Year, sometimes you have to live with what you’ve got. Let’s make 2015 about personal progress, not penissize perfection. Focus on how you feel about yourself, not how you look.

I’m not going to lie: Penis size does matter … a little bit. For some, it matters a lot — and you don’t want those people for partners. You should want someone who accepts you just as you are. Good sex isn’t about the size of the little mister; it’s about your confidence. And trust me, the biggest turn-on is being with someone who takes great pleasure in giving pleasure — and knows how to do it.

There are so many ways to make someone feel good. You can become a master of massage or oral sex. You can cuddle, bathe together, make out, hold hands. These are often overlooked but really effective turn-ons. A man who is receptive to his partner’s needs is far sexier than a guy who only has a big dick going for him.

Regarding duration (which has nothing to do with penis size): If you want to last longer in bed, slow down. Take your time with foreplay and intercourse. When you find yourself getting excited and picking up the pace, take a breath and dial it down.

Draw the whole delicious ordeal out for as long as you both can stand it.

Also, here’s a funny tip: You can exercise your penis when you pee. Stopping the flow of your urine mid-stream strengthens the same muscles that keep you from losing it too soon in bed.

Masturbation helps, too. Get to know when you are about to ejaculate — then stop. It’s tough, but it’s been known to help.

Desperate men have turned to penis pumps, jelqing (an ancient form of repetitive penis massage), pills and even penisenlargement surgery — none of which I’d advise. These won’t solve your self-esteem issues. In addition to the above, focus on whole-body wellness through exercise, or therapy if necessary.

When you’re positive and healthy, you’ll feel good. And when you feel good, you look good, too.

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