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OPEN SEASON ON VERMONT POLITICS BY TERRI HALLENBECK

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ate last month, five candidates for governor of Vermont stepped onto a stage, stood in front of a microphone and tried to persuade audiences that they should lead the state. Within four weeks, most of the candidates had repeated the electoral exercise four times. What’s unusual about that? These events are happening more than a year before Election Day 2016 — way earlier than the norm. And even before the Democratic and Republican parties have settled on their respective nominees, candidates from both parties are appearing on the same stage. Last time around, the first gubernatorial debate didn’t happen until September of the election year, a full 10 months later than this year. In 2010 — when Democrats also faced a highly competitive primary — the party’s first debates started in the spring of the election year. The early start “asks a lot of the candidates,” says KSE Partners lobbyist ALEX MACLEAN, who managed Democratic Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’S first campaign in 2010 and is supporting Democratic candidate SUE MINTER this year. “You’re asking them to know their in-depth political views a year out — where do they stand on virtually every issue.” Before the ink is dry on their campaign signs, candidates are standing before crowds articulating their stances on everything from education funding to beer. Strong turnout at the forums so far suggests voters are keenly interested in who’s got game. So far, all five major-party candidates have declared they want to make Vermont a better place — surprise! But none of them has drilled down to explain how to do that. Yes, it’s early, but here’s a look at each candidate’s main message and challenge as he or she seeks to succeed retiring Shumlin.

Matt Dunne His pitch: Democrat Dunne, 45, the youngest candidate in the race, is hanging his hat on innovation. The Hartland resident argues that as a young legislator, head of AmeriCorps VISTA and now community affairs director at Google, he knows how to attract and keep young people in Vermont: by making downtowns vibrant, extending

high-speed internet to the last mile and celebrating the state’s world-class beer. His challenge: Putting his plans into plain English. Dunne’s opening speech at a November 3 VTDigger.org forum was filled with jargon unlikely to attract voters of any age. An example: “To be able to realize our full potential, we need the capital, the people, the infrastructure and the synergy to create an ecosystem where small businesses can start, can grow, can have strong exits and then reinvest — a virtuous cycle.”

Bruce Lisman His pitch: No candidate more forcefully dismisses the Shumlin administration and the legislature than Lisman, 68, a retired Wall Street executive who lives in Shelburne. At a November 6 forum hosted by the Community of Vermont Elders, the Republican called the current budget management “incompetent.” At the Digger forum, he said, “We should never, ever be surprised by an employer leaving,” referring to companies such as Energizer that have closed their factories in Vermont. His challenge: Lisman claims he’d do a better job of managing money and monitoring Vermont companies. But to persuade voters, he’ll have to erase from their minds a 2008 Wall Street Journal article that described his performance in the middle of the financial meltdown. Lisman, who was cohead of global equities for Bear Stearns, stood on a desk and bellowed to his stock traders, “Bear Stearns has been here a long time, and we’re staying here.” By the end of the month, the financial firm had collapsed into JPMorgan Chase’s arms.

Sue Minter Her pitch: Democrat Minter emphasizes her experience as transportation secretary and as the state’s recovery officer after 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene. “I have a proven track record of bringing people together to solve problems,” Minter, 54, a former state representative from Waterbury, said at a FreshTracks Capital event on October 26. Her challenge: Minter needs to show voters what she actually did to solve those problems in any of her previous roles. With relatively weak statewide

name recognition, voters are apt to assume Minter was a bureaucrat managing a mound of red tape in the Shumlin administration. She has yet to provide specifics on what she did to move boulders, figuratively or literally.

Phil Scott His pitch: Republican Scott argues he can provide predictability and steady leadership to make Vermont a more affordable place to live. Scott, 57, of Berlin, insists he will not overpromise, a reference to Shumlin’s undelivered plans to provide universal health coverage and border-to-border broadband.

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GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES HAVE ALREADY MET FOUR TIMES. His challenge: The rap on Scott is that he’d merely be a caretaker governor with few policy ideas of his own. To counter those critics, who sit both to his left and right politically, the three-term lieutenant governor will have to show voters that he’s more than a well-liked race-car driver. How would he make the state more business-friendly? Which state permits would he dispense with?

Shap Smith His pitch: Backed by many Statehouse insiders who vouch for his leadership over for the last seven years as House speaker, Democrat Smith comes into the race with perhaps the broadest knowledge of state issues. His challenge: Smith’s experience as a legislative leader is a double-edged sword. Perhaps even more than Minter, he’ll be blamed for just about every policy decision that’s come out of Montpelier in the last five years. That was apparent at the FreshTracks forum, where he delivered a forceful defense of the state’s new school-consolidation law. Smith, a 49-year-old lawyer from Morristown, still must show voters how he would differ from Shumlin.

Faction Reaction When the Vermont Republican Party’s state committee meets November 14 to elect a new slate of officers, it will be a very different scene from two years ago, when there was a divisive two-way race for the party chairmanship, open dissent within the ranks and allegations of a projected budget deficit. DAVID SUNDERLAND, a former state representative from Rutland, won the chairmanship that year, backed by the party’s only statewide elected officer, Lt. Gov. Scott. By a vote of 48-30, Sunderland out-polled JOHN MACGOVERN of Windsor, who had the support of the anybodybut-Phil-faction of the party. This year, Sunderland appears to be unopposed for reelection to a two-year term. He says the party’s finances are in the black. And, as Scott makes a run for governor, its factions seem less fractious, which can come in handy at election time. “We’ve made a lot of progress toward giving Vermonters a reasonable, common-sense alternative to what they’ve seen over the last five years,” Sunderland says, referring to Democratic Gov. Shumlin’s tenure with a Democratcontrolled legislature. SCOTT MILNE, a Republican travelagency owner from Pomfret who nearly defeated Shumlin last year, says the mood has shifted. Two years ago, Milne says, Republicans felt so outnumbered that many chose not to get involved, the public and media assumed Shumlin would cruise to reelection, and the party mustered candidates for fewer than half of the legislative seats. “This will be very different in 2016,” says Milne, who describes himself as a possible candidate for U.S. Senate or lieutenant governor. Of course, not everything is grand in the Grand Old Party. No Republican candidates have surfaced for an open attorney general’s seat — or for treasurer, auditor, secretary of state or U.S. House. While the party is stepping up its recruitment efforts, Republicans still trail Democrats. Republicans say they have organized committees in 134 Vermont towns, while Democrats have done the same in 185. Sunderland puts the party’s cash-onhand at $25,000, which is better than nothing but less than expected after two Republican presidential candidates headlined recent party fundraisers.

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As for the intraparty rancor that was apparent two years ago, it has dissipated, according to Republicans on both sides. There’s still an anybody-but-Phil faction that will likely support Lisman for governor, but the all-out battle for control of the party is over. MacGovern says he has no plans for a rematch against Sunderland. Now, as chair of the Windsor County Republican Committee, he’s focused on getting candidates elected. On that front, he’s seen improvement, he says. Last election, the party failed to supply him with a voter list, MacGovern says. “That won’t happen again. We have obtained a voter list and will work on perfecting it so that our candidates will always have that asset,” he says. “The vibrancy and health and future of the party lies in the likes of the newly elected representatives and new candidates running in 2016. All I ask of the state party apparatus is to stay out of the way.”

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Democratic House members gathered for their annual pre-legislative planning session at the Statehouse on Saturday, and Speaker Smith acknowledged it would be a tough, and different, year. “It’s going to have an overlay of politics,” Smith said. “Our job, quite frankly, is to put that aside.” Smith is one of several Statehouse leaders who will be running for higher office during the next legislative session. But all 180 legislators will be up for reelection. It will be impossible to set aside politics, because anyone running for office is ultra-sensitive to criticism. The Dems demonstrated as much when they discussed issues heading into the 2016 session. Take Act 46, the new education law. Legislators said they’re getting hammered with questions, particularly about budget spending caps but also requirements to consider school district consolidation. Rep. CYNTHIA BROWNING (D-Arlington) plans to call for a year’s delay in implementing the law. “You’re certainly not alone in your concerns,” responded House Committee on Education chair DAVID SHARPE (D-Bristol). There will be no repealing or delaying the law, Sharpe said, insisting it

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racially charged incident on Thursday, he hobnobbed with and moved people to gather out- delivered a speech to members of the side Burlington City Hall on Burlington Business Association. Many two separate occasions last in the crowd nodded vigorously as he week. Last Thursday night, more than spoke of the need to collaborate with 200 formed a tight semicircle in front of merchants to keep commercial areas the building, and speakers focused their safe, citing New York City’s Times ire on two primary targets: whoever left Square as a successful example. Ku Klux Klan fliers at the homes of two Like his predecessor, Michael African American residents; and the Schirling, the new chief spoke in comBurlington Police Department, for not plete sentences, exuding an eloquence reacting swiftly enough. befitting a guy with three master’s deToward the back of the crowd, grees — in criminal justice, philosophy neither hiding nor drawing attention, and public administration. But del Pozo Burlington’s new police chief stood in is more at ease than Schirling, whose uniform. Brandon del Pozo knew in ad- militaristic reserve lent him a technocrat vance that public officials would not be vibe. In modern political parlance, the invited to speak at the rally — he’d read new chief passes the backyard barbecue as much on Facebook — but he said he test. At the BBA event, he sipped a Diet felt it was important to show up. Coke as a steady stream of citizens came Del Pozo hasn’t gotten much of a up to make his acquaintance. honeymoon in Burlington. In his first Later that evening, post-rally, he attwo months on the job, he has dealt with tended a public safety committee meeta cop charged with committing a violent ing at the Fletcher Free Library. crime, a controversy involving an officer Mayor Miro Weinberger said del who shot a Colchester man, the arrest of Pozo’s energy, and his willingness to a prominent environmental activist and throw himself into the public eye, has a courthouse rape. The 18-year veteran served him well. “It has been a notably inof the New York City tense couple months, Police Department but I think he has spent most of last responded well to week at the Vermont it,” Weinberger said. Police Academy in “Burlingtonians Pittsford, getting his expect a lot from Vermont law-enforcetheir police department certifications. ment and their chief, He’s been able to and I think over his make one proactive first couple months policy change since he Brandon has demonC HIEF BRANDON DEL P OZ O started in September: strated that he has In a nod to national the ability to handle concerns about municipal police of- the huge range of issues.” ficers becoming too “militarized,” del Since he comes from the outside, the Pozo announced the Burlington Police mayor noted, del Pozo “needs to underDepartment would stop accepting sur- stand the Burlington context.” plus military gear from the Pentagon. His crash course has given the new Otherwise, though, the chief has chief plenty of insight into the Queen been responding to one crisis after City and its relationship to law enforceanother. “Trying to make progress in a ment: “Burlington has a really engaged police department is like trying to refit populace that really cares about justice a ship at sea,” del Pozo, 40, told Seven and equality and responsiveness in govDays. “And in this case, it’s like refitting ernment and openness of government, a ship that’s been sailing through a series which are values I hew closely to,” said del Pozo. “Citizens here have the opporof storms.” Thus far, del Pozo has chosen to tunity to really take issues to heart that navigate by being candid and highly cities simply trying to beat back violent visible. Before the racial justice rally crime don’t have the luxury of doing.”

McKibben and has read a few of his books, wanted to make sure the first act of civil disobedience on his watch “was handled in the right way.” So he personally attended and supervised McKibben’s uneventful arrest on October 15. Within a week, though, headlines were harsher. The Burlington Free Press reported that an arrest warrant had been issued for a man accused of raping a woman in a bathroom in the Edward J. Costello Courthouse. Though the warrant was a public document, reporters questioned why, seven days later, the police department had still not announced that a crime had been committed in the public building. Del Pozo, in turn, criticized the media for reporting on the warrant for Robert Rosario. He claimed that coverage caused the suspect to flee for the Bronx, where he was eventually arrested. The chief also chastised reporters for publishing Rosario’s name. He argued that, because the incident was a socalled “acquaintance rape,” naming him would reveal the identity of the victim, at least in some circles. It was a dubious assertion. The majority of sex assaults are committed not by strangers, but by somebody known to the victim. Media outlets generally name the alleged perpetrator but almost always refrain from identifying victims of alleged sex crimes, as happened in this case. The connection between Rosario and his alleged victim received attention only because del Pozo emphasized it in his critique. In an interview, del Pozo promised that over time, he’d be viewed as an advocate of media transparency. He chalked up the courthouse conflict to

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dispatcher in a public rebuke — a rarity in law enforcement. “In my police department, the only person who gets to decide if a biasrelated incident is a crime or not is the chief of police. So I’ll take responsibility for that very curt fact-finding mission of my dispatcher,” he said in a press conference. In a separate interview, del Pozo told Seven Days: “I’ve made no bones about standing up for my police officers and employees when they have acted properly or deserved the benefit of the doubt. But I did listen to that tape, and I was not happy with that interaction between that dispatcher and the father.” Del Pozo said he intends to send department dispatchers to racial bias training at the Vermont Police Academy in the coming months. A few days later, he announced that his officers had tracked down the suspect in the KKK case, and Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan was thinking about bringing charges. The chief praised the detective work in the case, noting that numerous tips from the public assisted in the investigation. Will that outcome be enough for people such as Senowa Mize-Fox, an organizer of Thursday night’s protest? During the rally, she suggested del Pozo and city officials would have swept the KKK incident under the rug had she and other demonstrators not drawn attention to it. Mize-Fox, a City Market employee, also acknowledged that del Pozo, who stood a few feet away, should be commended for showing up. A few people, including some of the organizers, came over and shook his hand. A TV crew wrangled him for a quick interview. Del Pozo chatted amiably with a couple of patrol officers on hand and listened to the speeches. Toward the end, he walked up to a Seven Days reporter and began talking excitedly about the law-enforcement reforms he wants to implement in Burlington. That could include a citizen committee to review footage from police body cameras. He said he wants to have a small team of officers who report directly to him and act as liaisons to neighborhood groups. Del Pozo said repeatedly that it’s not healthy when the only interactions between city residents and their police are the ones that result from calling dispatch or 911. That will change, he assured, adding: “I just need a little breathing room.” m

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its unusual circumstances: The rape occurred in a public place that is meant to be secure, and the situation involved a search for a fugitive. “I think this was one of those cases where it was exceptional, where there was no playbook between the press and police as to how to handle it,” he said. Days after Rosario’s arrest, del Pozo again found himself jousting with local media outlets. On November 2, Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan held a press conference to announce that he had determined that two Burlington police officers acted lawfully when they shot and wounded a distraught Colchester man. The investigation was complicated by the fact that the officers turned off their body cameras during the September standoff. Last year, Burlington police embraced the recording devices as a way to record confrontations and increase transparency. Donovan and Burlington Deputy Chief Bruce Bovat defended the officers’ decision to hit the “off” switch. They said the two men feared the red lights on the cameras would give them away in the darkness, as they tried to negotiate with a man who had threatened them and whom they believed to be armed. A short time later, though, Vermont Public Radio reported that the user’s manual for the body camera explains that in potentially dangerous situations, the red light can be turned off while the camera is recording. Within hours, Donovan was forced to announce that he was reviewing the Burlington officers’ statements to state police investigators, to ensure they had been honest about why they chose not to film the altercation. Police acknowledged that they rushed the cameras into service, but del Pozo stood by the officers, saying only that the department will use what happened as a “learning experience.” “Our officers are greatly relieved to hear this shooting was found to be lawful and that they can keep the camera on without light and sound,” he said. “They were dismayed because they were worried it would reopen or cast doubt on a very traumatic event.” His department’s response to the KKK flier has been tougher to shake off. After the fliers, which read, “Join the Klan and Save Our Land,” were discovered, the father of one of the recipients called the Burlington police. A dispatcher dismissed him, saying the incident was not a crime. Del Pozo later criticized the

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inda Alderman put on a brave smile as she greeted parents and children last Thursday morning, her final day at the Janet S. Munt Family Room in Burlington’s Old North End. After the 54-year-old Milton resident had given each of them a long hug, the kids took off to play in the Big Room while the adults milled about, catching up with each other. The Family Room provides free early childhood services, parenting education, and other support services in St. Joseph’s School on Allen Street under the auspices of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties. Alderman had worked there for 25 years when, three weeks ago, she learned that she and two other long-term support staffers would be losing their jobs. For nine years, the Family Room has been funded by a federal New Pathways for Fathers and Families grant — to the tune of between $250,000 and $390,600 per year — and has grown

from a $638,000 operation to one with a $1 million annual budget. Last month, however, the VNA learned that its grant renewal request had been turned down, surprising administrators who were confident that they would be successful. Parents arranged a speak-out and took to social media to express their shock and disappointment. “The Family Room helped me and my daughter in a time where I felt like I had no one to help me understand parenting and co-parenting without judgment,” Monica Forte wrote on a Family Room Facebook page that is now 500 members strong. Maggie Graham offered more practical advice: “I sent an email to mayor@burlingtonvt.gov to state my support for VNA Family Room and implore the mayor to do what was in his power to keep the Family Room doors open. Maybe we could inundate him.” The Family Room is named for late state senator Janet Munt, who created the parent-child center in 1988 when

she was director of the VNA’s nowdefunct maternal child-health division. Although it originally catered to high-risk families, today the program serves a diverse population. About 500 families and 1,200 individuals visit each year — twice the number the center served just five years ago, program manager Samantha Stevens told the House Health Care Committee in 2014. Forty percent of the clientele hails from refugee communities. Maryan Maalin goes to the Family Room every day. The Somali Bantu mother of five started visiting the center soon after she arrived in the U.S. from Kenya in 2006 — initially she worked at the center as an AmeriCorps volunteer. “You go there and meet people from around the world,” she said. “Most of my friends are from the Family Room.” Her two youngest are there now, too. Last week, Maalin balanced her 6-month-old infant, Tasnim, on her hip, while her 3-year-old daughter, Asha,

trailed after her. The free on-site childcare during Family Play on Tuesdays and Thursdays has allowed Maalin, who is a student at the Community College of Vermont, the rare opportunity to do her homework. Dressed in a green fleece jacket, billowing cotton skirt and fluffy bedroom slippers, she stared intently at her laptop. In the adjoining Big Room, equipped with an indoor swing set and a sandbox, Asha climbed into Alderman’s lap to read a book. The aroma of fried red and green peppers wafted from the kitchen into the Baby Room, where a staff member rocked Tasnim to sleep. The lunch menu that day also included roasted Brussels sprouts and mac and cheese. For 14 years, Rosie Senna has planned and cooked meals for the people who come to the Family Room, some of whom have no other source of hot, nutritious food. Like Alderman, Senna is losing her job at the Family Room — a place the

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come to the center has driven up operating costs, but funding has not kept pace, noted Nicole Haley, assistant director of development and community relations at the VNA, which subsidizes the Family Room program with almost the same amount as the federal government contributes: nearly $500,000. The VNA is struggling with its own funding problems, as reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid have plateaued and foundations are spreading out their resources, according to Haley, resulting in smaller, less reliable grants. Though Peterson M ON I C A said she’s 100 percent behind the Family Room’s mission — to build strong families and support healthy children — “there was no way we could come up with several hundred thousand dollars to maintain the program,” she said. Fundraisers cannot make up the funding shortfall, she said, but the nonprofit has reached out to community partners, policy makers and businesses for help. But some still seemed surprised. “I was not aware that they had any concern about their funding,” said Pam McCarthy, CEO of the social services organization Vermont Family Network. “Had we pulled together as a community, maybe we wouldn’t go through this now,” McCarthy said, adding, “We’re looking at the possibility of supporting that one

Family Day that they’re having to cut, with some other resources that we have.” Asked why the VNA didn’t send out a distress signal sooner, Ellen Kane, the organization’s vice president of development and community relations, said there was “a concern about alarming people” regarding the Family Room’s financial situation. She did acknowledge, however, that the VNA could have done a better job of communicating with parents. Last Thursday, the Family Room staff, parents and volunteers organized an appreciation lunch for the three departing staff members FORT E and gave them scrapbooks full of photos and thank-you notes. Afterward, the advisory council held a speak-out during which parents described how they’d been helped. Denise Foote, 41, didn’t take the microphone, but she detailed to a reporter all the ways in which the Family Room assisted when her kids were young “through finding houses, finding jobs, postpartum depression, legal issues with the school district. All the things your family would be for, if your family were close.” “I feel at a time when my life was the hardest, I was the most vulnerable, Rose, Linda and Glenn were there to be my support system,” she continued. “And I don’t want anyone to miss out on that.”

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Kane acknowledged, “In retrospect, I think we could have, when we look at how the community is rising up, harnessed and engaged the community more.” She said she was hopeful the current situation would get the attention of legislators. “We really believe we … can prevent other things, such as substance abuse later in life … if we do intervene early on with these children and families,” Kane said. “The only thing is, no one is funding it.” Some parents have suggested that the Family Room become a stand-alone entity or partner with a different organization. The VNA would not “resist that exercise,” Peterson said, because its ultimate goal is to see that the services continue. She added, “If it would work better with them being a separate charitable organization with their own board of directors that’s totally dedicated to fundraising for them, we would support that. But we in no way want anybody to feel like the VNA is pushing them out at all, because we created this program.” At the very least, she believes the Family Room should become a certified childcare center and get paid for the services it provides. In the meantime, Alderman and Senna are out looking for jobs. Both promised to come back and visit, but that didn’t reassure one of the preschoolers who hugged Alderman last Thursday morning — and refused to release her arms. Only with great reluctance did the little girl finally let go. m Contact: kymelya@sevendaysvt.com

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54-year-old Old North Ender sought services 24 years ago, when she had her own kids. She volunteered for 10 years before it turned into a paid position. “This is my family, and I’m not going to just let it go,” Senna said. The Family Room’s parent advisory council has criticized the VNA’s decision to eliminate three of 10 positions at the center and reduce programming. The Dad’s Program service will no longer include the parenting, employment and education programming that was supported by the federal grant. The Family Play program will be cut from two days to one. “I reject the solution,” said Meg Cline, a member of the council, after it met with VNA CEO Judy Peterson on October 27. She added: “It was framed to us as being unavoidable due to the loss of that grant.” The Family Room gets funding from state and federal grants, as well as from VNA fundraisers — including a contribution from United Way — and an endowment. In 2006, the Family Room received its first five-year federal grant from the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood demonstration program. The grant was renewed in 2011 but came to an end on September 30. Last spring, VNA budgeted as if the half-million-dollar grant were going to continue, Peterson told Seven Days. Officials knew they’d have to make cuts if it wasn’t. “In the meantime, we stepped up our efforts to try to find ways to bring in other money and have just not been successful,” said Peterson. The growing number of people who

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220 people. Seventy of them work at its central administrative headquarters in Burlington, which provides human resources, accounting and IT support to all three states. It also runs a unified educational program across Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. Unlike several Planned Parenthood affiliates, the northern New England group does not run a fetal-tissue donation program. The practice is legal — as is getting reimbursed for the Meagan Gallagher costs associated with it — although profiting from it is not. In the aftermath of the videos, the national Planned Parenthood and its state affiliates have strenuously denied making money from selling tissue, and a series of investigations failed to uncover evidence to the contrary. But in response to the uproar, Planned Parenthood announced last month that it would no longer accept reimbursements. Abortion opponents, meanwhile, continue to hold up the videos as proof that Planned Parenthood profits from selling aborted fetuses. Outside the Manchester, N.H., clinic last Thursday, a friendly man who introduced himself as Fran sported a new pink sign slung around his neck that read, “Planned Parenthood sells baby parts.” When a car with Vermont license plates pulled up, Fran explained that he assumed that what he called an “abortionist” was arriving. It was, in fact, a reporter, but he was right to think that the organization shares resources across state lines. A single medical director and a director of health center operations oversee the clinics in all three states. Gallagher explained that there’s also MATTHEW THORSEN

he secretly filmed videos provoked a national furor. Although none of the footage of Planned Parenthood employees discussing the price of fetal tissue came from New England, the backlash was especially swift in New Hampshire, where the Republicancontrolled Executive Council, which shares authority with the governor, quickly terminated a $640,000 state grant to the organization. On October 6, someone spray-painted “Murderer” on the front window of a Planned Parenthood health center in Claremont, N.H. Two weeks later, police apprehended a hatchet-wielding intruder who had wreaked tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage at the same clinic. Vermont’s reaction to the videos? Meagan Gallagher, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, paused to reflect: “We heard from one legislator who had heard from some constituents just looking for information, clarifying the fetal-tissue situation, and that was pretty much it.” Welcome to the tripolar universe of PPNE, an affiliate of the national organization that spans three states: New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. While public opinion polls show pro-choice majorities in all three states, the prolife movement appears to have more momentum on the other side of the Connecticut River. In Maine, as in New Hampshire, Republican lawmakers are calling for further investigation and defunding measures. “There’s a big difference between understanding the political environment in one state and understanding the political environments in three states,” said Gallagher, one of several leaders of the long-embattled organization who pass daily between friendly and hostile territory. “In New Hampshire and Maine, we’re on the defensive, and in Vermont, we’re talking about proactive ways to make people healthier.” Abortion opponents staged a daylong protest last Thursday at the Manchester, N.H., clinic, where an attentive security guard escorted patients and staff inside. By 10 a.m., there were nearly 20 protesters walking up and down the sidewalk,

POLITICS saying the rosary, including a priest in a black sport coat. “Keep your baby! It’s your baby!” one woman called to a young woman who walked into the clinic with her boyfriend. She held brochures for the pro-life Pennacook Pregnancy Center, located just one block away. In contrast: The previous Saturday, only two regulars kept silent vigil by the sidewalk in front of the Burlington clinic while passersby ignored them. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England began 50 years ago as a statewide family-planning organization in Vermont. It later expanded to southern and central New Hampshire and Maine. In 2014, the regional organization provided a range of reproductive health services to 41,643 people — most of them low-income women — across 21 health centers. Twelve of the clinics are in Vermont, but, according to Gallagher, that concentration is simply a product of the organization’s evolution. It began by serving all of Vermont and later expanded. The $20 million organization employs

a lot of “border crossing,” particularly along the Connecticut River Valley: Doctors and other health professionals licensed in both states can serve patients in Brattleboro and Keene, N.H., or Claremont and White River Junction. Surprisingly, Gallagher insisted that the decision to relocate a clinic from West Lebanon, N.H., to White River Junction last year had more to do with finding an appropriate building than with politics. Funding isn’t so fungible. Planned Parenthood receives three types of government support — state grants, federal Title X dollars and Medicaid reimbursements. Gallagher explained that the organization couldn’t dip into Vermont state grants or Medicaid monies to, say, fill the funding hole created by the Executive Council vote. It has, however, been able to preserve health care services in New Hampshire by cutting costs at its headquarters in Burlington. Last weekend, Planned Parenthood left its Lakeside Avenue office — and the Lake Champlain view — for cheaper rent at a complex behind Costco in Colchester. The move will save $150,000 a year, according to Gallagher, and the clinic on St. Paul Street isn’t going anywhere. Also helpful to the tristate organization: Donations increased amid the video fracas. To address the remaining shortfall, the organization plans to take short-term measures, such as delaying capital projects. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England operates a formidable political arm. It has political action committees and 501(c)(4)s — nonprofits that can spend money to influence elections without disclosing donors — in each state. As CEO, Gallagher must work across state boundaries and make decisions about where to expend resources when advocating for Planned Parenthood’s agenda. Her background is in numbers, not policy making. After graduating from Tufts University with a bachelor’s in mathematics, Gallagher spent three years auditing companies for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston. In 2000, she joined Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts as a comptroller and was

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promoted to chief financial officer three months later. A decade later, the New Hampshire native and her husband left Boston for Vermont. Now 40, Gallagher is one of Planned Parenthood’s youngest CEOs. Gallagher spoke excitedly about plans to launch a program in Vermont to reduce unintended pregnancies by promoting more effective birth control — think IUDs rather than the pill, for instance — made possible by the Affordable Care Act, which requires insurers to pay for contraception. She outlined more basic goals for Maine and New Hampshire. During the upcoming legislative sessions, Planned Parenthood will fight defunding efforts. While Maine doesn’t give them any grants and New Hampshire just terminated its contribution, Gallagher expects Republicans in both states to try to put an end to Medicaid reimbursements for abortion services. Planned Parenthood has argued that the tactic violates the federal Medicaid law. The tristate group is also focused on the 2016 elections. In New Hampshire, the situation is particularly uncertain. Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan,

who is pro-choice, is running for the U.S. to the cheese board, a pink banner above Senate, hoping to unseat Kelly Ayotte, the fireplace advertised the organizer a pro-life Republican and longtime foe of this Sex, Politics and Cocktails fundof Planned Parenthood. Chris Sununu, raiser: Planned Parenthood’s Vermont PAC. a Republican Gubernatorial candidate for hopeful Shap governor and an Smith, the Executive Council Democratic member, had supHouse speaker ported Planned from Morristown, Parenthood in the swooped in to past but in August catch a word cast the decidwith Gallagher ing vote against as she prepared the organization M E AGAN GAL L AGH E R, PL AN N E D for her speech. because of the PARE N T H OOD Sue Minter, who’s videos. also making a bid In a presidential battleground state, Gallagher said, for the state’s top post, snapped photos “The long arm of Washington shows up of the CEO when she stepped up to the podium. Matt Dunne, the third declared in painful ways.” In Vermont, Planned Parenthood can Democratic candidate, was there, too. Neither Republican candidate atrest easy. Political support for the organization was on full display on October 29 as tended, but both Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.), an as- Bruce Lisman have said they are prosortment of state lawmakers and political choice and have disavowed national efcandidates fraternized in the Farmhouse forts to defund Planned Parenthood. Despite the chummy political climate, Tap & Grill’s cozy basement bar in downtown Burlington. If it wasn’t already Planned Parenthood’s Anne Burmeister obvious from the bowl of condoms next warned the Sex, Cocktails and Politics

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will offer a little-known work by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, a rare 19th-century female composer whose work rivaled that of her younger brother, Felix Mendelssohn. The BURLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY will give a concert of 20th- and 21st-century Estonian music, which puts that country’s best-known composer, Arvo Pärt, in cultural context. In attendance will be the Estonian Yutaka Kono ambassador, who is traveling from Washington, D.C., for the event. And, preceding both of these unusual offerings, ORIANA SINGERS OF VERMONT will perform Bach’s Mass in B-minor. It’s Bach was working on when he died, it is not such an unusual choice for this particular group — which has per- an expression of spirituality that points formed it six times, by the estimation of beyond religion. Like the other two opfounding director BILL METCALFE. But the portunities to hear great music, it should B-minor mass, a landmark of Western not be missed. YUTAKA KONO, who has conducted the music, was rare for its time in that it met neither Catholic nor Lutheran re- UVM Symphony since 2011, says he quirements for practical performance chose Hensel (1805-1847) because he as a mass. Perhaps the last composition was looking for a female composer to

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t this weekend’s VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL conference at the University of Vermont, the doctor is in — the fairy tale doctor. Harvard University professor Maria Tatar is one of three academically distinguished guests scheduled to speak on the conference theme, “Why Do Stories Matter?” Ofﬁcially a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, and former

chair of Harvard’s folklore and mythology program, Tatar has written extensively on the enduring cultural power of children’s ° at dovetails stories. Th neatly with this year’s Vermont Reads selection, Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories. “Once upon a time” is usually shorthand for announcing fantastical,

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introduce to his 60-member orchestra. From a Women’s Philharmonic performance on YouTube, Kono learned of Hensel’s Overture in C Major. The work is not always listed among the composer’s oeuvre of more than 400 compositions because it was discovered only in 1972, in the Mendelssohn archive in Berlin. Kono had to rent the music from that institution; it’s rarely played in the U.S., notes the tuba player from Japan, who also

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Some of Hensel’s compositions bore her brother’s name, a measure she resorted to after her father began to discourage her pursuit of music as unwomanly. Yet Hensel received as much training as Mendelssohn and, notes Kono, equaled him in melody writing. The Overture has a “really beautiful, songlike melody,” he says, that is cleverly contrasted with a fast cello line at one point. The conductor also marvels at a woodwind interlude followed by a “really effective use of flute. It’s just a great piece of music.” The UVM Symphony consists of students — some music majors, some not — and community members. Kono was

assumptions of fairy tales’ inherent innocence. Most recently, she has translated more than 70 lesser-known stories, published as ˜ e Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. Originally recorded by folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth in the 1800s (a few decades after Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm were working), the tales were drawn from “The Tinder Box” (Andersen), by Jean O’Neill the Regensburg archives in Germany by Erika Eichenseer. Unlike the Grimms, von Schönwerth refrained from “cleaning up” and homogenizing simplistic stories meant for the ears the stories he recorded — ˜ e of the very young. Much of Tatar’s Turnip Princess includes ample work, however, seeks to complicate gender-bending (like a male Cinderella

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named a finalist for the American Prize plainsong and the composer’s Russian in Conducting (college and university Orthodox background. The first half orchestra division) for a 2013 concert features a through line on a single note with the group. He encourages the com- until the chant explodes in a moment of munity to come and see the orchestra triumph. precisely because, with no profit motive BCS’ 75 singers will also premiere ILLADELPH, JM FLOW, and the university’s support, it can play a work by the contemporary Estonian LICIT, MGW AND MANY unusual pieces such as the Hensel. American composer Lembit Beecher LOCAL AND NATIONAL Smaller orchestras called “An Estonian ARTISTS will accompany both Diary.” Familiar to choral concerts. The some Vermont audiNOW CARRYING PAX 2, Burlington Choral ences through colAS WELL AS G PEN, Society’s all-Estonian laborations with SCRAG AND MAGIC FLIGHT program draws from in MOUNTAIN MUSIC Warren, the New York one of the most singCity-based composer ing-oriented cultures in the world today, acgrew up speaking both cording to director DICK English and Estonian. He based the twoRILEY. Tossed between BIL L MET C ALF E, ORIANA SING ERS OF VERMONT Russia and Germany part “Diary” on his for most of its modern two trips to the Baltic life, Estonia began a four-year “singing country. Riley describes the piece as revolution” in 1987, staging mass pro- unique for a large chorus because “most tests in which thousands of Estonians of it is quiet.” spontaneously belted songs that the Possibly nothing could be further Jacob and Kristin Albee 75 Main St., Burlington, VT 864.6555 JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 Russians had banned. The tradition from that eight-minute work than Mon-Thur 10-9 Fri-Sat 10-10 Sun 10-8 continues in the annual Estonian Song Bach’s monumental Mass in B-minor, w w w .nor t her nlight s pipes .c om 41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT Must be 18 to purchase tobacco products, ID required Studio Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY which clocks in at just under two hours. Festival. Three festival songs are on the BCS’ As Metcalfe avers, “I have no question in @ N or th er n Li g h tsVT program, which will be performed at my mind” that the work is the greatest ever written for chorus. Scholars have ELLEY-LONG MUSIC CENTER in Colchester. 11/4/14 8v-northernlights101515.indd 10:38 AM 1 10/1/15 12:13 PM “It’s very stirring stuff,” says Riley — analyzed its status as a compendium of8V-JacobAlbee110514.indd 1 “not drums and outward exuberance, Bach’s many stylistic achievements, but, as on the American Fourth of July,” he declares the well-read Metcalfe, “the adds, “but deeply spiritual and pro- sounds and how they work together — that’s miracle enough.” foundly personal.” At 30 singers, Oriana is about Even Pärt’s orchestral compositions — the program includes two — are half BCS’ size, and therefore typi“normal for voice,” says Riley. A third cally oriented toward a different Pärt work to be performed, “Magnificat,” repertoire — a fact that has allowed written in 1989, is a haunting piece for the two Burlington choirs to coexist unaccompanied chorus that draws from BURLINGTON MUSIC GROUPS » P.25

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stepson and is later killed by a falling millstone. “This is not something you’d want to read to a 3- or 4-yearold,” Tatar says. More significant than their surface-level violence and obscenity, though, is the arena that fairy tales can provide for thinking about complex moral and ethical situations. Tatar identifies “Beau y and the Beast,” for example, as contemplating the dividing lines between nature and culture, and asking questions about monstrosity,

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counterpart and a frog princess), as well as a lot more dung. Tatar first encountered fai y tales through her older sister. The pair found a beautifully illustrated German book of stories in their home’s attic, which the elder sibling used to inspire her versions of the tales — neither of the girls knew German. And that was all, for a long time. “Like many people, I discarded the stories I grew up,” Tatar says in a phone conversation with Seven Days. “I didn’t think I had much of a nostalgic interest in fairy tales.” Only after Tatar had children of her own did the darkness of certain stories really hit home. She recalls “The Juniper ree” in particular, in which a stepmother decapitates her

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sk anything you want, and we’ll see what happens,” says DAVID HINTON on his sunny porch in East Calais. He rolls three quarters and writes down their corresponding values: three for heads, two for tails. The much-lauded translator, essayist and poet recently translated I Ching: The Book of Change, the classical Chinese book of wisdom, and has agreed to do an I Ching reading for this reporter. “[The I Ching] is very philosophical, so the more probing your question is, the more relevant the answers will be,” Hinton says. I choose a weak but safe question — “Should I finish my articles in the next couple days — hoping that ancient Chinese wisdom will confirm that I should play outside in this unusually warm autumn instead of work. The original I Ching consisted only of 64 hexagrams, or figures composed of six horizontal lines. Their corresponding names and interpretations were added over the centuries, with the canonical I Ching completed around the third century BC. Other English translations of the classic text include extensive commentaries and historical context; Hinton’s version is notable for its eloquent sparseness, and for its ability to retain, instead of explain, the mystery of the text. Hinton has the background for the job, having extensively translated classical Chinese poetry and philosophy, including Tao Te Ching. Also the author of a meditative memoir called Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape (2012), he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. After rolling the three coins, Hinton tallies up the values for each roll and consults his book to find and draw the corresponding lines, which represent feminine yin (a line with a gap in the middle) and masculine yang (a solid line). Once he’s done this six times, we have the hexagram, which leads us to I Ching 35: Advancement. Hinton begins the interview by reading from his translated commentary. “Advancement is when a sage

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advising peace and prosperity is given horses in large numbers and meets the emperor three times a day.’ Boy, I don’t know how to apply that to your question. Do you?” SEVEN DAYS: Well, I don’t think it’s advocating procrastination. DAVID HINTON: No, it’s advancing, so the first thing is, yeah, do it. In [ancient] Chinese governing, emperors had

lots of advisers, and the advisers were supposed to tell the emperors how to act. Often, if they told the truth and were critical, they’d get in trouble. So this is saying that advisers who advise peace and prosperity, if they tell the truth, are rewarded — that’s how things should be. [Reading on]: “Trust everything. What could there be to regret?” I mean, if you live deeply enough, which is impossible to do, life, everything, is so

SD: What were the original meaning and interpretation of the I Ching? DH: The I Ching is complicated because it was so early in the language. It was the first real book. It’s not clear what its original meanings were, and even meanings of words sort of evolved over time. It’s this sort of urtext, the place where words get their meaning, but since it’s the first one, people weren’t sure what that meaning was. It came to be read, over the centuries, according to how people were thinking at the time. They say that the very, very earliest meaning of this had to do with sacrifices and things like that, and that it evolved into this wisdom text. Even in Lao Tzu’s time, in 600 BCE, people would have been reading this in a Taoist way, like I’m describing to you.

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of this more as philosophy, rather than fortune telling. This book sort of helps you [find this] other way of experiencing reality, as you being part of this flow of change, in your everyday life. It helps you think about how to cultivate wisdom in this other way to live, of seeing the world, which is the same reality, just seeing it differently, as this generative process of change. [One could read this] in general as a wisdom text, the same way you could read Tao Te Ching, which is the most translated book in the world — because you want to understand life a little deeper. I hope the introduction orients you, and then you just have to keep reading, like any good book, and then maybe it leads you to Tao Te Ching. If you sit and read the two of them, you should really get this other way of thinking about things. But other than that, I mean, what good is that? Maybe it’s no good at all. What good is philosophy, what good is thinking about your life? [Laughs.] I don’t know. I still don’t know. m

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peacefully for the past four decades. Metcalfe notes that the Mass “stands up no matter how you do it,” but Oriana’s size suits it well by not overwhelming the 21-piece orchestra, with approximately one musician to a part. Six soloists will sing, including soprano MARY BONHAG and tenor ADAM HALL. But chorus member BILL MARES, a bass, notes that the B-minor mass is much loved by choruses because it’s “two-thirds choral, as opposed to solo, music.” Mares, who has sung the work at least three times, describes it as having “that contrapuntal hallmark of Bach, that fugal mode” from which Bach “always brings you home.” Even rehearsals of this “transporting, interwoven piece of music” leave him teary, he admits. Tenor BILL HARWOOD, who sings in both choruses and invited the Estonian ambassador to the BCS concert — Harwood is a retired cultural attaché in the United States Foreign

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— to not change it,” Tatar claims. “The bottom line is, in times of crisis, these stories become more important than ever because we use them to renegotiate our values.” The professor concedes, however, that rural environments may still be somewhat more conducive to perpetuating a robust storytelling culture. “When you have a slightly slower metabolism in the world around you, stories become all the more important for connectivity and community,” Tatar notes. “Once things speed up in the way that they do in urban areas, you just have less of an opportunity to use the story as a mode of connection.” At this week’s conference, Tatar will deliver two talks: “The olf Trap: Entering the Woods Through Fairy tales” on Friday afternoon, and “Telling Lies: Storytelling and Negative Capability” on Saturday TATAR morning. The two other speakers are William Cronon, professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting “The Po tage: Time, Memory and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place,” and Wendy Doniger, a history of religions professor at the University of Chicago, on “Myth, Reason and Rationality: The ale of the Clever Wife.” m

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“seething cauldron of emotion.” “They may look innocent and sweet and peaceful,” says Tatar, “but there’s a lot going on there. [Theres] a lot that they have to work through that they can’t put into words.” Given the gravity of the stories’ themes, as well as their role in German culture, Tatar was shocked when she discovered that folktales were nowhere to be found in the 20-page reading list of her graduate German literature program. Despite the global reach of that country’s folklore, “It wasn’t considered worthy of academic analysis at the time,” she says. Perhaps unexpectedly, Tatar is not afraid of folk stories being lost to time and paradigm shifts. “I don’t think we’re at all in danger of losing these stories, because they speak to themes that are so central to the human condition,” she says. She explains that the Brothers MARIA Grimm recorded their fairy tales in large part due to fear that the stories would disappear as industrialization and urbanization took hold, a sea change comparable in magnitude to this century’s digital revolution. “So many major sectors of the economy have just sort of dropped out,” says Tatar. “Remember travel agents?” But if the internet has threatened jobs, it’s only offered “new portals” for fairy tales, she says. Tatar aligns herself with anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss, who believed that every version of a particular story belongs to the cultural legacy — even, she says, something like a Chanel No. 5 commercial that riffs on “Little Red Riding Hood.” “The only way we can ki l off a fairy tale is to keep telling the same story over and over again

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in response; it was only after a full week of deliberation that Kennedy was able to sell the blockade idea instead. Why didn’t it go worse? Most obviously, neither side was crazy enough to want to precipitate the end of the world; it was pretty obviously acknowledged by both that detonating a nuclear bomb would be a bummer for all involved. This was particularly plain to the Soviets in 1962, when the U.S. warhead stockpile was nine times the size of theirs. (They’d catch up over the next 15 years, and by 1978 were out in front.) It was openly known by both governments that even if Russia were to launch all its missiles in Cuba, it couldn’t take out the U.S.’s capability to obliterate the USSR in response. So while theoretically we might have suffered massive loss of life, the chances of the Soviets purposely ordering the all-out attack needed to accomplish it were low. Beyond that, historically speaking, there simply haven’t been many preemptive wars — i.e., ones where, amid ongoing high international tension, one country strikes first for fear of becoming a target itself. By this standard, arguably the only cases since 1861 that qualify would be World War I,

That said, it’s unlikely either side would have launched its full arsenal. A few tactical bombs might have gone off; there might have been a ground war in Berlin; possibly there’d be several million fewer people around now. But rationality won the day: It was in neither state’s interest to escalate. This, unfortunately, may not hold true for today’s conflicts — but that’s another topic for another column.

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’m confident human society would have survived, which I assume is your main concern. Even if things had gone off the rails and the odd nuke popped off here and there, I think cooler heads would soon have prevailed. But that’s easy to say now. For a week in October 1962 the whole planet was wondering if Cold War antagonism was about to boil over into nuclear Armageddon. Everyone knows the story: U.S. spy-plane photos reveal Russian nuclear-missile bases under construction in Cuba; Kennedy orders a blockade of the island and demands the missiles’ removal; six tense days later, Khrushchev complies. What’s better understood now is how little Khrushchev had thought through the ways it might all play out. He needed more negotiating leverage than the USSR’s iffy intercontinental missiles could buy him, and he hoped he could rattle the Americans by placing mediumrange missiles at their doorstep. The Americans were rattled, all right. Despite the insistence of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that the new deployment didn’t change the balance of power, the Joint Chiefs of Staff initially supported some sort of invasion of Cuba

the Korean War and the ArabIsraeli war of 1967. Empirically it seems fairly difficult for governments to pull the trigger (so to speak), even when they’re under serious threat. Nonetheless, it was a scary time, with many opportunities for the shit to hit the fan. During the last days of the standoff, 60-plus B-52 bombers were in the air carrying nuclear payloads at any given time; one technical or communications glitch could have meant catastrophe. A Russian submarine lost communication with the surface, assumed war had broken out and almost launched its own nuclear torpedo. According to an Air Force vet who’s only recently come forward, at one point launch orders were sent by mistake to U.S. missile bases at Okinawa. The crews didn’t comply only because a commanding officer noticed enough irregularities in protocol to investigate further. So let’s say the worst happened: An overconfident officer made the wrong call, or Kennedy listened to his military advisers. If the U.S. had invaded, we might have walked into another embarrassing Bay of Pigs-type fiasco — the Soviets had four times as many troops on the ground as the CIA thought at the time — but most likely no mushroom clouds. If either side did go nuclear, though, accidentally or not, then we’ve got a whole different picture. The emergency document called the Single

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my favorite aspects of the job is the contact I have with rural Vermonters, and Gail and Freddie were salt-of-the-earth examples of “Kingdom folk.” I dropped them off at half past 10, and they called me back at noon. As we pulled out of the hospital lot, I said, “Gail, check out this radio station.” Fiddling with the knob, I explained that I replaced my cab a couple of months ago, and — incurious technophobe that I am — discovered only last week that it came with free satellite radio. B.B. King came on, singing about the thrill that was gone. “This whole channel is blues 24-7,” I pointed out. “Pretty cool, huh?” “I love it,” Gail agreed, and began singing along and gently bopping in her seat. We listened to the blues and chatted along the highway and up Route 100 through Waterbury, Stowe and Morrisville, while Freddie in the back texted with her two kids. As we approached Wolcott, I asked Gail about her family’s heritage and when they arrived in the Green Mountains, a question I would immediately regret. “My people have been here since the 1600s, Norwegian and English stock. We’ve done the genealogical research. Nowadays, of course, they’ve stopped letting white people into the country, just the Asians, the Africans and the Hispanics. Under Obama.” This came out of nowhere. It didn’t quite register in my brain. I asked, lamely, “Are you talking about the country’s immigration policy?” “Yes, what kind of country can’t secure its own borders? The Mexicans are just

pouring across. And those women who sneak in for a day to give birth.” In the rearview mirror, I saw Freddie shake her head. She might have also rolled her eyes. “Do you know,” I said, “that illegal immigration is down since President Obama took office, and that he has deported far more illegal aliens than Bush ever did?” “That’s just plain wrong,” Gail countered. “I don’t know where you’re getting your facts.” “I think you’ve been watching too much Fox News.” “No, I watch MSNBC, too. I consider it opposition research. The liberals are destroying this country. They have no morals. They go against God. Do you know that Obama supports partial-birth abortion? That’s just evil.” “Look, I’m not proabortion, either. I just don’t think a woman who makes the tough decision to have an abortion should be locked up in jail. Or the doctor who provides it, for that matter.” “What do you mean?” Gail asked. “Nobody wants to put anyone in jail. The problem is that the Supreme Court legalized abortion.” Gail’s reasoning had me dumbfounded. “What? That’s the whole point. Either abortion is legal or it’s not.” “You just haven’t talked to pro-life people, I think. The same with homosexuals. You think they’ll stop with marriage? The homosexual agenda goes far beyond that.” And on and on. I was in the thick of it. Words spewed from my mouth, seemingly of their own accord. Back and forth

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ASPECTS OF THE JOB IS THE CONTACT I HAVE WITH RURAL VERMONTERS, AND

GAIL AND FREDDIE WERE SALT-OF-THE-EARTH EXAMPLES OF “KINGDOM FOLK.”

All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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o, do you get into Burlington much?” “Rarely lately, but all the time in the ’60s when I was in nursing school and commuting to UVM. And Jacob and I would go to Burlington clubs in the early years of our marriage, to listen to bands.” I was conversing with Gail Shipley, who sat beside me in my taxi. We were en route to UVM Medical Center for an important medical test. Later in the day, I’d be driving her back to her home in Glover. Sitting behind us was Gail’s daughter, Freddie, who had recently moved in with her ailing mother. Not every parent has a grown child able to step into such a caretaker role; for those so fortunate, the assistance can be immensely helpful, an immeasurable boost for both body and spirit. “What kind of music did you and your husband enjoy?” I asked. “Oh, jeez — that would be blues, blues and blues. Jacob was crazy for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Buddy Guy.” “Mom, I think Buddy Guy is coming to Vermont again,” Freddie said. “Maybe the Paramount Theatre in Rutland? We should go.” Gail smiled. “Yup, I’ll get out my dancing shoes.” From her wistful tone, I gathered that her condition precluded such an outing. Not any time soon. Fading foliage surrounded us as we drove, past its peak but still shimmering gold and yellow in the morning sunshine and wind. I was enjoying the company of these two gregarious women. Gail shared stories of life with her late husband and of his time in the Barre granite quarries before they opened a family bakery in their home. Freddie told me of her musically gifted teenage son who could play “just about any instrument you put in his hands.” One of

we went. I truly wanted to shut up, but I couldn’t find the off switch. As we turned north on Route 16, Gail brought up the Bible. She believed our country is doomed — doomed — because we’ve stopped following the word of God. This kicked me over the limit. “You know what I think?” I snarled. “Anyone can talk about Jesus. How about trying to live like Jesus. You know, with love and compassion toward our fellow man?” This was now officially the worst conversation I’d had in years. We reached Glover, and I pulled into Gail’s rutted driveway. I remembered the house from earlier that morning: a rambling old farmhouse that had been expanded through the years. I looked over at Gail, but she wouldn’t meet my eyes. She looked totally dispirited, and I felt the same way. She quickly stepped out without even a good-bye. This fare, perfectly amiable for the rest of the round trip, had gone utterly south in the last 15 miles. “This is why I don’t talk politics with my mom,” Freddie said. I had forgotten she was still in the cab. Getting out, she added, “Thanks for the ride, and it was nice to meet you.” As I backed out of the driveway, the spell broke. In a flash, I recognized the error of my ways. Gail’s belief system was intrinsic to her personal identity, far more than was true for me. I knew that attacking her ideas would hurt her feelings, but still I kept at her. And worst was the culmination of the entire argument: my hypocritical invocation of Jesus, in which my actions precisely belied my words. I had spoken unkindly to Gail, with a stark lack of love and compassion. I exhaled and steered the taxi back to Burlington. Next time, I vowed, I’ll do better. m

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tanding in the foyer of the funeral home she owns in Greenwood, S.C., Anne Parks tried last Friday morning to wrap up a phone call with a relative of a prospective client. “Why don’t you come on in here and we can set and talk about it,” she said, offering to pick up the deceased at a local hospital and settle on the terms later. “We can work it out.” Parks, who has spent 17 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives, hung up and took a seat on an overstuffed couch in the parlor. She recalled the time, in May 2007, when a United States senator named Barack Obama asked her at a Democratic Party dinner what it would take to earn her endorsement. “I said, ‘Just simply come to Greenwood,’” Parks recounted. “I don’t

think he actually knew where Greenwood was located.” But the next month, Obama found his way to this small city of 22,000 in the northwest corner of the state and shook hands with some 40 people gathered at the Greenwood Civic Center. “It was a gloomy day. It was raining. And he had said that he hadn’t had much sleep and he didn’t feel the best in the world,” Parks said. That changed near the end of the meetand-greet, when Edith Childs, a member of the county council, launched into her signature call-and-response, as she was known to do at local political rallies. “Fired up!” she called. “Ready to go!” the crowd responded. Parks recalled Obama’s reaction. “At first he looked like he was kind of confused. He didn’t know what was going on,” she recounted. “By the end of the

chant and the cheering, he was fired up and ready to go.” Within months, Childs’ chant had become a staple of Obama rallies from Des Moines to Nashua to Las Vegas — and the story of Greenwood had become a symbol of his long-shot campaign. “It shows you what one voice can do,” the future president would say. “One voice can change a room. And if a voice can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.” Obama would go on to defeat thensenator Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses and then lose to her in New Hampshire and Nevada. In South Carolina, he pulled off a stunning upset, beating the former first lady of Arkansas 55 to 27 percent.

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Here in Greenwood, Obama walked away with 70 percent of the vote — a result state Sen. Floyd Nicholson (D-Greenwood) attributes to the visit he paid the city. “People say it’s good to hear you,” says Nicholson, a former mayor whose downtown office features a photograph of him with the president. “But when you take time out to come to these rural, small communities, people think a lot about that.” Eight years later, another U.S. senator is hoping to replicate Obama’s comefrom-behind victory and defeat Clinton in a state she’s traversed since her husband, Bill, won it in the 1992 primary. But the senator, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, hasn’t made much headway in a place Winthrop University professor Scott Huffmon calls “Clinton country.” A poll Huffmon released last week showed Clinton leading Sanders 71 to

15 percent in South Carolina, which is scheduled to hold the fourth presidential nominating contest, on February 27. More than a third of respondents said they were not familiar enough with Sanders to form an opinion of him. “Before the presidential campaign, nobody really knew about Bernie,” says Nicholson, who quietly supported Obama in 2008 but is undecided about 2016. In particular, the white, Jewish Vermonter with an unmistakable Brooklyn accent is struggling to win over African American voters, such as Parks and Nicholson. According to

Rep. Anne Parks

MILL TOWN BLUES By the time the financial crisis crippled Wall Street in 2008, globalization and automation had already taken their toll on Greenwood. The once-thriving textile town, 30 miles from the closest interstate, had been losing its mills for years. As Obama took office, it was losing its factories, too. By 2010, Greenwood County’s poverty rate had more than doubled, to 24 percent, according to the New York Times — the steepest increase of any county in the country. Three years

Harris blames the North American Free Trade Agreement for his town’s woes and, by extension, Hillary Clinton, whose husband signed it into law in December 1993. Asked his feelings about Sanders, who opposed NAFTA and rails against it on the stump, Harris stared blankly. “I’m trying to think,” he said. “There’s so many of them now.” Five minutes later, something clicked. “Is he the guy with the scruffy hair?” said Harris, a skinny, whiskered white man wearing faded jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. “I kinda like him.” Up the road from Harris’ gun shop, Capers McGrier looked stressed as he

Sen. Floyd Nicholson

Rauch Wise

As in much of South Carolina, race remains a sensitive subject in Greenwood, whose population is evenly split between blacks and whites. Only recently did the city get behind an effort to replace the plaques on an American Legion war memorial that lists the dead as either “white” or “colored.” But the plaques still stand on Main Street because state law prohibits the alteration of certain memorials without the legislature’s imprimatur. Greenwood is also deeply conservative. McCaslan’s Book Store & Office Supply has a section devoted to presidential candidate memoirs — from Ben Carson to Marco

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Rubio to Ted Cruz — but not a single volume written by a Democrat. “They don’t sell,” explained owner Alvin Rankin. Even Rauch Wise, a white man who calls himself “Greenwood’s most liberal lawyer,” concedes Bernie Sanders might be too far to the left for his town — and his state. “You’re not going to win in South Carolina calling yourself a democratic socialist,” he said, referring to Sanders’ self-professed political identity. “I think everybody’s basically assuming that Hillary’s gonna win it.” That includes Norval Davis, a selfdescribed “Bernie man, through and through” who referred to Sanders as “our last hope.” Leaning forward on a recliner in his dark, cluttered house last GONE TO CAROLINA

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worked behind a desk at the car wash he owns. Three years ago, he said, he had cut the price of a wash from $25 to $20 because his customers told him they couldn’t afford his services anymore. He hasn’t been able to raise his prices since. McGrier, who is black, said he voted for Obama in 2008 but now considers that a mistake. “I’m not racist or biased or anything like that, but to me, the only people he helped was the homosexuals and the Mexicans,” he said. “They got too much. I believe people like Obama favor them over the people here in America today that been here — that struggle all their life.” Like Harris, McGrier said he’d probably vote Republican next year, but he likes what he’s heard from Sanders. “Bernie just a straightforward guy,” he said. “He been down low before, so he know what the common man need in life.”

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later, its unemployment rate reached 8.6 percent. These days, city boosters such as Parks and Nicholson say the local economy has turned a corner. They point to Greenwood’s revitalized “uptown,” whose tree-lined Main Street features several new restaurants and a refurbished inn. They speak with excitement about the new Colgate-Palmolive plant, which will soon produce soap and deodorant in a facility that once served as a Sara Lee bakery. But Chris Harris, who owns Apache Pawn & Gun, isn’t so sanguine. “It’s still pretty bad,” he said last Thursday, perched behind a glass counter next to a row of rifles and semiautomatics. “I mean, when you own your own business and you don’t take a paycheck for three or four weeks, it kind of hurts.”

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Huffmon’s poll, Clinton leads Sanders 80 to 8 percent among black South Carolinians. That’s a problem in a state whose Democratic primary electorate is expected to be more than 50 percent African American. Though Sanders has invested significant resources in courting communities of color — his South Carolina staff is more than half black — many African Americans in Greenwood and throughout the state say they’re inclined to support Clinton because they know her better. “I’m kind of thinking that I would like to go with Hillary Clinton,” said Parks, who has not formally endorsed either candidate. “It’s just something about her that I think she kind of fits in with the everyday people. She has the little man’s concern in mind.”

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to win,” Devine told Bloomberg’s John Heilemann in what seemed a moment of excessive candor. “Probably only need to win 30 percent.” Standing next to the “Hardball” set, Weaver argued that Devine had been “making a broader point,” that delegates to the Democratic National Convention are awarded proportionally, so a candidate like Sanders could still walk away from the Palmetto State with delegates even if he lost its popular vote. Huffmon, the Winthrop pollster, makes a similar point. “I don’t think it was ever possible for him to win it,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean he can’t get delegates.” According to Jay Parmley, who helped organize a four-state tour of the South for Sanders two years ago, “His goal in South

Later, Sanders sounded as if he was speaking directly to the people of Greenwood as he railed against what he called “our disastrous trade policies.” “The textile industry here [has been] very significantly impacted by bad trade agreements,” he said. “So what we are going to tell corporate America [is], ‘You know what, instead of moving abroad, how about investing in the United States of America?’”

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS On Saturday morning in Columbia, Aaron and Angela Noble strolled the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse. After visiting the African American History Monument, they asked a stranger where

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Thursday, the retired consumer loan officer bemoaned the state of the local economy. “Here in Greenwood, we don’t have so much industry anymore,” he said. “But, damn, we got a lot of banks and fast-food stores.” Davis stood up and walked into his kitchen to let his dogs loose from behind a gate. He named one, a Boykin spaniel, after state Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D-Orangeburg), and the other, a BoykinBrittany spaniel mix, after Obama. “Our president’s half-and-half, so that’s how he got his name,” explained Davis, a large, bearded white man who could pass as Santa Claus. “Barack, come here! Tone it down, boy. Sit down.”

couple dozen rabid campaign volunteers hoisted Sanders and Clinton signs and chanted their names. After squabbling with host Chris Matthews over gun control, democratic socialism and negative campaigning, Weaver stepped down from the stage, removed his microphone and chatted with a reporter about what he hoped Sanders would accomplish during the Winthrop forum, which would air on MSNBC. “I think he needs to, obviously, introduce himself more to people in South Carolina. I think that’s pretty clear,” Weaver said. “I think he wants to speak to some of the issues of particular importance to African Americans. I think a lot of people in the African American community are not aware of his record or his agenda.”

Sanders’ African American outreach director, Marcus Ferrell, in Rock Hill, S.C.

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Though he believes Clinton will ultimately prevail, Davis thinks Sanders’ presence in the race “is going to make her a better candidate.” And he’s confident that as South Carolinians get to know the Vermonter better, they’ll realize he’s fighting for them. He predicted, “I think he’s going to surprise people and get more votes than people think.”

THIRTY PERCENT Ninety miles northeast of Greenwood, on Winthrop University’s leafy campus in Rock Hill, S.C., Sanders was preparing for the first Democratic candidate forum in the South. Campaign manager Jeff Weaver, a native of St. Albans and Highgate, Vt., had been tasked with representing Sanders on a pre-forum panel on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” which was airing live from a television set temporarily erected on a lawn in front of Byrnes Auditorium. Behind the panel, a

While it might be tempting for Sanders to just skip South Carolina and focus on states more demographically akin to his own, doing so would instantly pigeonhole him as nothing more than a regional curio — incapable of mounting a national campaign. Black support is crucial to Democratic candidates in a country where whites are voting in growing numbers for Republicans; in 2012, presidential nominee Mitt Romney won the white vote but lost the race. Without the African American community, Obama might have been a one-term president. While Sanders has recently flooded South Carolina with resources — this week his campaign staff is scheduled to grow from 29 to 40, according to state director Christopher Covert — a recent remark made by senior strategist Tad Devine seemed to contradict Sanders’ stated commitment to courting black voters. “We don’t have to win 50 percent of the African American vote in South Carolina

Carolina is to just beat expectations — and right now his expectations are just terribly low.” “If he’s trying to take this presidential campaign to the next round of states, it’s not so much about winning here, as can he find a way to get 30 percent of the vote?” says Parmley, who chairs the Richland County Democratic Party. When Sanders took the stage in Byrnes Auditorium later that night, moderator Rachel Maddow wasted little time before addressing the matter of race. Noting that his home state is 95 percent white, she asked whether Sanders had “enough real-world experience with the issues that racial minorities face” to convince them to vote for him. “I believe I can,” Sanders said, citing his involvement as a college student in the civil-rights movement. “But more importantly, I think I have the economic and social justice agenda now that, once we get the word out, will, in fact, resonate with the African American community.”

they might find the flagpole that activist and filmmaker Bree Newsome climbed in June to tear down the state’s Confederate flag. The Nobles, who live in Burlington, N.C., recalled the July day when South Carolina legislators voted to lower the flag for good. “I was extremely happy,” said Aaron Noble, who is black. “I know the flag means different things to different people, but to African Americans it is a symbol of oppression.” Noble, a human resources director who considers himself a political independent, said he’d heard Sanders on a National Public Radio program earlier in the week. He’d been impressed by the candidate’s focus on fighting income inequality — and by his participation in the civil rights movement. After Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted Sanders at a Phoenix, Ariz., conference in July, he was mocked by many younger black commentators for

telling them, “I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity.” Their message: What have you done for me lately? “I take issue with some of those views, because I don’t think they’re fair to him,” countered Noble, who is 62. “He has a history, and I think he has a sensitivity. He realizes the fact that while the country has made significant progress, there’s still more progress to be made. And I think he wants to be a part of moving the country forward.” Others in Noble’s generation think Sanders has a long way to go. Introducing the candidates at the Rock Hill forum was Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House and one of the most powerful black men in America. Earlier that morning, he suggested, “Bernie

personally showing up.” To drive his point home, he paraphrased a passage from V.O. Key’s 1948 book, Southern Politics in State and Nation. “South Carolinians vote for their friends and neighbors,” said Fowler, who is white. “Bernie needs some friends and neighbors to speak up for him in Charleston and Columbia and Florence and Greenville and places like that.” On Saturday afternoon, that’s precisely what Sanders tried to do. At a press conference on the northern side of town, the Vermonter introduced 16 of the 28 members of what he called his “South Carolina Leadership Team.” Nearly everyone standing behind the podium with him was black. Some were state legislators, others party officials and others student activists.

also trailing Clinton at this point in the race eight years ago. “When the African American community starts hearing from him personally, you’ll start seeing the numbers shifting up,” Alexander said.

A SEA OF WHITE In recent weeks, Sanders advisers have said they would be moving away from the blockbuster rallies that defined his burgeoning campaign last summer in favor of more intimate affairs. But on Saturday night in Aiken, S.C., Sanders returned to the format that made him a star. “All across this country, millions of people are going to have to stand up

conservative town in which he lives, some 50 miles away. “I don’t really discuss politics with anyone but my wife,” he said. “I’m an artist and a musician, so I’m already ostracized.” They were people like Yvette Hicks, a blue-haired, tongue-pierced, tattooed stay-at-home mom from Augusta, Ga., who brought a cardboard sign that read, “Occupy the Whitehouse! BERNIE. Augusta Feels & Loves the BERN.” They were people like Mike Huber, an Augusta investor and yoga teacher, who helped Hicks hoist her sign into the air. “The yoga side of me says he’s enlightened,” said Huber, who wore a neon yellow shirt. “The more ego side of me says money is the issue ruining politics in this country. And he’s the only one fighting it.” Onstage, Sanders faced a sea of white

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people, but he was speaking to a different audience. “While we can applaud ourselves on the progress we have made in overcoming racism, everybody here knows that we still have a long, long way to go,” the senator said. “What I am talking about are people like Sandra Bland and Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and many others, who died at the hands of police officers or in police custody.” Sanders did not refer to his notes. He had learned the names of the fallen African Americans by heart. “That sad reality exists today,” he said. “And my pledge to you is that, together, we are going to end institutional racism in America, and we are going to make major reforms to a broken criminal justice system.” With one voice, it seemed, he hoped to change a room and a city and a state and a nation. Sanders was fired up and ready to go. m

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and say, loudly and clearly, ‘Enough is enough!’” he shouted to an enthusiastic audience of 1,300 at a University of South Carolina Aiken gym. “That this country and our government belong to all of us and not just a handful of billionaires!” There was one notable difference from Sanders’ earliest arena rockers: Introducing him on a stage decorated with giant American and South Carolinian flags were three black supporters: his national press secretary, Symone Sanders; his state political director, Christale Spain; and Young Democrats of America Black Caucus chair RaShad Gaines. “When people ask me why I support Bernie, the answer is very simple for me: He has the juice,” Gaines told the crowd. The diversity onstage, however, was not reflected in the audience. In a county where blacks make up more than a quarter of the population, mostly white supporters filled the bleacher seats. They were people like Henry Wynn, a retired illustrator for the U.S. Army, who complained about the

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“I’m here because it is clear to me — it is clear to me — that Sen. Sanders is the strongest candidate here for African Americans,” state Rep. Terry Alexander (D-Florence) told a small crowd of mostly national reporters. In his remarks, Sanders focused on criminal justice reform, expanding access to Medicaid and fighting voter registration laws he believes are designed to disenfranchise blacks and Hispanics. “Let me be very clear — as clear as I can be — that people who are afraid of free and fair elections, who are working overtime to deny the right of people to vote, just because those people may vote against them, are political cowards,” he growled. “If you are afraid to run in a free and fair election — if you believe that your ideas can’t win, then get another job and don’t participate in politics.” After the press conference, Alexander munched on a plate of shrimp provided by the Sanders campaign and admitted that his chosen candidate faced “an uphill battle.” But he pointed out that Obama was

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suffers from being from part of a country all of his adult life that does not necessarily live with these issues.” The congressman continued, “I think the problem he’s got is, if you don’t have the presence of these people and you don’t have to talk to them, you don’t learn the words and phrases that are necessary.” Rev. Joe Darby, a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, says he’s noticed Sanders making a greater effort to speak to blacks, but he wants to see the candidate better distinguish between “economic woes” and “racial woes.” “He still needs to push that a little bit longer,” says Darby, first vice president of Charleston’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “There needs to be a sense of personal identification, and I don’t think he’s quite hit that mark yet.” According to Don Fowler, a former chair of both the state and national Democratic parties, “There is a lot of parochialism in South Carolina politics that requires personal attention and

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f Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to become the 45th president of the United States — or even win the Democratic primary next July — he’ll need to score big in several key voter demographics. He’ll need support from women. He’ll need to rally minority voters. And, perhaps most critically, he’ll need to win the youth vote — which means mobilizing young people to the polls. That last one might be an especially tall order. Since 1964, 18-to-24-year-olds have voted at lower rates than all other age groups, according to a 2014 U.S. Census Bureau report by Thom File called “Young-Adult Voting: An Analysis of Presidential Elections, 1964-2012.” What’s worse, the report suggests that young adults’ tendency to vote is steadily declining. According to the study, 51 percent of eligible young people turned out to vote in 1964. That number dropped to 38 percent in 2012. Kids today, right?

Despite the trend, File notes spikes in the youth vote in certain presidential election years. In 1992, young voters turned out in droves, relatively speaking, to cast ballots for Bill Clinton. Following the lowest turnout since 1964 in 2000, the percentage of young voters hitting the polls peaked at 44 percent when Barack Obama was elected in 2008. Clearly, when they deign to rock the vote, young voters can have a significant impact on elections. The question is, will America’s young voters #feelthebern? That’s where Luis Calderin comes in. The Burlington resident is the arts, culture and youth vote manager for the Sanders campaign team. His uniquely challenging task will put his years as a brand manager, marketing whiz and general culture maven to a supreme test. The position also finds him coming full circle. Calderin, 41, is the oldest son of Cuban immigrants and the first person in his

Burlington’s Luis Calderin looks to capture young voters for Bernie Sanders B Y D A N B O L L ES

family born in the United States. His parents fled the Castro regime in the 1970s, only to land in a no less tumultuous setting — Miami during the reign of the so-called Cocaine Cowboys. In the ’80s, the city was among the most violent and crime ridden in the country. So Calderin’s mother moved her children as far from Miami’s mean streets as she could — literally and figuratively. Working their way up the East Coast, Calderin and his family reached the frigid, lily-white hamlet of Burlington in 1986. It was not a smooth transition for a kid who had only ever known concrete jungles and palm trees. “Culturally, ethnically, Burlington was a very different place in 1986,” says Calderin over coffee at a Burlington café. “And for a street kid from Miami, it was night and day.” Despite his culture shock, Calderin found a safe haven: the teen center at 242 Main.

That fabled space in the bowels of Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium is now known mostly as a hardcore punk club. But in the mid to late ’80s, 242 Main was a vibrant hub for the city’s youth, offering a wide array of after-school programs largely planned and organized by kids themselves. Here’s the nifty part: The teen center was under the aegis of the Mayor’s Youth Office, a kid-oriented extension of Burlington city government created by then-mayor Bernie Sanders. “I came from trouble,” says Calderin. “But 242 Main kept me off the street. It kept me out of trouble.” You can bet that story came up when Calderin interviewed for his current position in the Sanders presidential campaign. He had another in, too, having grown up down the street from Sanders and his nowwife, Jane O’Meara Sanders. Then Jane Driscoll, she headed the youth office and was, along with Kathy Lawrence, one of

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four or eight years, that’s probably an understatement. And it’s hard to overstate how important young voters, and hence Calderin’s efforts, will be to Sanders’ chances of winning. Anthony Gierzynski is a political science professor at UVM who specializes in mass media, elections, campaign finance and political parties. He’s published four books, among them Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the

Nor is buzz an antidote to the most poisonous enemy Sanders faces in winning the youth vote: cynicism. “We live in an incredibly cynical time, and all it takes is a little nudge from more cynical voices in our culture to make people think it isn’t worth it,” writes Gierzynski. So how does a candidate sustain excitement and translate buzz into votes? According to the UVM prof — and history — it’s all about superior organization.

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“Part of the story with Obama was that they had an extremely sophisticated organization that was able to reach out to personally contact a large number of young voters,” Gierzynski explains. Exit polling in 2008 battleground states bore out the importance of those tactics. As Calderin’s job title implies, arts and culture are the foundation of Sanders’ organizational strategy for engaging youth voters. On the arts beat, one of the programs Calderin is organizing is a call to artists to produce unique Bernie iconography: “The Art of a Political Revolution: Artists for Bernie Sanders 2016.” “This campaign is not about Bernie,” says Calderin. “It’s about the people and the issues. So what we did not want to do is make a bunch of pictures with his glasses and his hair.” No need: The fans who are busy producing unofficial, bootleg Berniephernalia have ensured there’s no shortage

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Politics of the Muggle Generation (2013) and Saving American Elections: A Diagnosis and Prescription for a Healthier Democracy (2011). Gierzynski says that the youth demographic is paramount in elections, particularly for candidates such as Sanders, who swim outside the mainstream. “Given that younger voters are the segment of the population that seems to get most excited about insurgent candidates, this group is more important for him,” he writes. In the early going, Sanders hasn’t had much trouble ginning up excitement, as attested by his popularity on social media, his raft of high-profile celebrity endorsements, and the thousands who have flocked to his rallies and speeches. But Gierzynski cautions that buzz is not enough to swing an election. Howard Dean, for example, had plenty of buzz before he went down screaming in 2004. “Social media and excitement can only take you so far,” he writes.

of such images. So, taking a different tack, Calderin reached out to artist friends and asked them to produce pieces inspired by Sanders’ policies. Among the 30 or so artists he recruited are Burlington painter dug Nap; Portland, Ore., graphic designer Aaron Draplin; and Dallas-based contemporary artist Ron English. The resulting art exhibit will tour the country, and some of the pieces will show up as limited-edition prints and other swag sold on Sanders’ website. Another of Calderin’s duties is corralling and coaching celebs to preach the gospel of Bernie. Sanders has received a startling number of high-profile celebrity endorsements given this early stage in the campaign, including ones from musicians Killer Mike and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and actors Susan Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo. That means Calderin has been keeping impressive company in recent months. “I’ve met some pretty incredible people lately,” he says. “I think of my role [in the campaign] as camp counselor at Camp Political Revolution. I meet them, and we discuss what issues are important to them and how they can speak to those issues on our behalf.” Commissioning art while keeping the likes of Will Ferrell on message could be a full-time job. But those efforts are just part of Calderin’s larger mission of managing the youth vote. His task is not just to mobilize young voters and help organize groups on college campuses, but to take the pulse of American youths and find out what’s most important to them. That mission was clear when Sanders held a digital town hall at George Mason University in Virginia. The studentfocused meeting was broadcast online to colleges in every state in the U.S. The meeting wasn’t meant simply as a platform for Sanders to make his case for becoming president, Calderin says, but as a forum for students to weigh in on what they want in a leader. He stresses that involving young people directly in the election process, rather than just paying them lip service, is far more important to winning the youth vote than hip paintings and clever YouTube videos. “Young people need to know that we can’t do this without them, and we can’t do this without them the whole way through,” says Calderin. “If you want change, then we need a million kids in Washington.” Calderin is keenly aware of just how high the stakes are in Sanders’ presidential run, and of how much pressure falls on him. For him, though, some of the stakes might be smaller and more personal. “I don’t think there’s ever been a DJ on staff in the White House,” Calderin observes. Then he grins and adds, “I want to be First DJ.” m

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the primary adult supervisors in the early days of 242 Main. Calderin became fast friends with the neighboring Driscoll kids, in particular Dave Driscoll. The two also have a work history in common: Calderin has done two separate stints as a brand manager for Burton, where Driscoll currently works. Driscoll recommended Calderin for the position in his stepfather’s campaign. “Bernie has always been passionate about the arts and creativity, and I think Luis epitomizes that, as well,” Driscoll says. “He’s outgoing and well spoken. He’s a great people person, so putting him in a position where he goes out and meets people all over the country, he’s a great representative. He’s a perfect fit for the campaign.” Despite Calderin’s personal connections to Sanders, his appointment is hardly a case of nepotism. All of his intertwining personal and professional interests helped prepare him for the job. In high school, Calderin became interested in radio. He learned the ropes at University of Vermont student-run station WRUV 90.1 FM, where he became the youngest DJ in the station’s now 60-year history. That hobby led Calderin to Emerson College in Boston, where he received a degree in communications. Likewise, Calderin’s sharp sartorial sense inspired a stint working in New York City fashion after college. Dude is always dapper. These days, you’re apt to spy him in a slim-fitting dark suit that sits neatly on his wiry frame. He typically tops his look with a jaunty hat, tilted back to frame his angular face and alert eyes. Calderin backs up his aesthetic instincts with a strong background in marketing, including work at the nowdefunct Burlington design firm JDK and the Fox action-sports brand in California. His own company, Okay!! Okay!!, is a boutique firm specializing in music management and promotions, which has rostered clients such as Burlington’s Heloise & the Savoir Faire and Rough Francis. Calderin is still passionate about music, and in his free time — increasingly rare — he’s a widely respected club DJ in Burlington. He’s also a founding member of Friends for A-Dog, the local nonprofit that does charitable arts-related work with Burlington youth in the name of late DJ Andy Williams, who was one of Calderin’s best friends. Given his professional credentials and varied personal interests, Calderin, a father of two, is well suited to be Sanders’ point man on the youth vote. He doesn’t seem intimidated by the scope of his new gig. But he’s the first to admit that the task before him is unlike anything he’s tackled before. “Everything is so much bigger right now,” Calderin says. Since we’re essentially talking about the fate of the free world for the next

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ne late-November day, Ali Dieng pulled the van he was driving into the Burlington High School parking lot to drop off Khinaye Lwin. Though the school day was over for the high schoolers, it was just starting for Lwin. Carrying a floral pink-and-black knapsack, the pint-size 33-year-old, Burmese woman entered the school and followed pink posters that directed her to Parent University. Research has shown that parental involvement is linked to higher student achievements. Accordingly, the Burlington School District, along with community organizers, established Parent University to equip parents with the skills and knowledge to become partners in their children’s education and well-being. Though the program isn’t designed solely for New American or multicultural parents, many of them seek out the classes, explained Dieng, the program manager. That’s because they are new not only to the Burlington School District but to the culture. Several local organizations help refugee parents resettle, find jobs and adapt to life in Vermont, but little support has been available to help them navigate the

school system. Those who have little or no education themselves face an even more formidable task. “I think it can be frustrating for New American parents that schools are expecting and wanting them to be there,” said Miriam Ehtesham-Cating, the district’s English Language Learning (ELL) director, “but they’re not sure how to engage appropriately with schools — what’s expected of them, what contributions they should make or what they might get out of it.” These issues motivated Dieng to start the 10-week Parent University program last spring. It caters to parents from the Burlington School District and is free for participants. Teacher volunteers include those from Spectrum Youth & Family Services, the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Prevent Child Abuse Vermont and the University of Vermont Extension. The session costs about $9,000 to run; AARP Vermont and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a program of the Administration for Children & Families, are underwriting the current one. Twenty-eight people signed up for Parent University’s first session, and 12 graduated. The April-through-June

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class covered nutrition education, financial literacy, parenting skills and English language classes. For the current session, the U has several new partner organizations and teachers, which allowed for additional class sessions — they run Monday to Friday, 3:30 to 5 p.m. — and new topics including technology and substance abuse. Twenty-four people from Angolan, Burmese, Burundi, Guinean, Nepali, Senegalese and Somali Bantu communities signed up. Class sizes vary from six to 14, and, three weeks into the program, 17 parents have attended at least one class. If it were up to Lwin, she would have liked to have more years of formal education. She grew up in refugee camps in northern Thailand and started going to school when she was 10. But she quit at age 17 when her parents died and she had to work and fend for herself. Life in the camp was difficult, and when Lwin was offered a chance to be resettled in the U.S. in 2008, she grabbed it. “I don’t want to give my kids life in refugee camps,” said the mother of four. When Lwin’s older children first started school in Burlington, they would come home crying. Not only did they struggle with the language, but they

were not used to being away from their mother all day. Back in the refugee camp, they had attended school for shorter hours and eaten lunch at home. Over time, though, Lwin’s kids adapted to their new environment at the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes in the Old North End, and they received ELL support. But when they transitioned to Edmunds Middle School, homework was once again a struggle. “My daughter and son said, ‘Mum, we have homework. Can you help?’” recalled Lwin, who works as a housekeeper at the DoubleTree hotel. When she saw how anxious her children were about their schoolwork, Lwin would stay up all night trying to help. She decided to approach the kids’ teachers and explain their situation: “I asked, ‘Can you take the time to show them?’” The teachers agreed, and her kids now have homework support twice a week. These days, Lwin is worried that her now-teenage children might fall into bad company because both she and her husband work — a concern that all parents can relate to. When they lived in the refugee camp, the whole community looked out for everyone’s kids. But here in their new home, “there is a lot of

freedom,” Lwin said. She confessed to spring’s session and said he’s now better buying the latest Xbox so the kids would prepared for the current one. “I was stay at home instead of socializing unsu- making a lot of assumptions about what pervised with their friends. people were interested in learning,” he Through the U, Lwin hopes to learn said. “I was making those assumptions ways to provide teaching moments based on many years of working with for her children — not by coercion but an English-speaking, disadvantaged persuasion — and to explain “why we’re community.” not staying with you, why we need to go White hosted two Tibetans who imto work, why we need the money,” she migrated to Vermont in the early 1990s said. and described his experience as “wonLwin, who speaks five languages, derful.” He said he feels compassion for also wants to learn professional devel- people arriving from somewhere else in opment skills so that she can get a better the world and has resolved to make his job. Though she’s proficient enough in latest class as useful as possible. “I don’t English to help interpret for Burmese feel that many generations removed and Karen students when needed, from my own refugee roots,” White Lwin wants to improve her reading noted. “My people escaped the famine in and writing skills. She Ireland with nothing.” also wants to acquire For this session, financial literacy skills he has made his lesso her family can buy a sons “more visual, house. For now, though, less verbal” to cater she can’t attend those to his students, specific classes because most of whom have her work and public little formal educatransportation schedtion and speak little ules don’t allow it. English. This is imSome parents, such portant, White said, as Judith Mukeshimana, as he recalled two are able to rush straight Karen students who from work to class. The dropped out of his last 34-year-old Burundian class when the intermoved from a refugee preter got a full-time camp in Tanzania to job elsewhere and Vermont eight years stopped coming. ago. Today, she works As the university’s as a cleaner at IBM in program manager, Essex Junction and is Dieng faces many back for the U’s second session. Last spring, challenges, including Mukeshimana took numaking sure that all trition and financial litstakeholders — inMIRIAM E HTESHAM-CATING eracy. She smiled when structors, interpreters she recalled how much and parents — remain her children enjoyed committed. When it came to his attenher homemade vegetarian pizzas and tion that parents had trouble getting to fruit popsicles. the school, Dieng borrowed a van from For this session, the mother of the Association of Africans Living in three makes the 30-minute drive every Vermont. When one of the instructors Monday and Friday for the multi-topic fell ill, instead of canceling, Dieng gave and English education classes, respec- an impromptu motivational class on tively. She misses the first 45 minutes of parental involvement. He’s already enevery lesson, though, and is already fret- gaging with potential new teachers and ting about how much more she’ll miss in hopes to introduce driving classes in the the winter because of traffic conditions. third session. During a Monday class led by Dieng’s main concern, though, is getEhtesham-Cating, Mukeshimana esting the word out to parents about the pecially wanted to know what to look classes. for when reading her children’s report “When we talk about education, cards. “So many, many things I don’t it’s not just from kindergarten to high know,” she lamented. “I want to tell my school; education is more than that,” friends to join the classes. If they don’t he said. Parents, he added, should “find come, they don’t know.” Jim White, from the human services out what their kids are good at and help agency Champlain Valley Office of them succeed.” m

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— introduced as “Dangerfield, the account man, the closer” — comes to rural Vermont to pay a visit to a reclusive retired schoolteacher named Langdon Taft. What Dangerfield is and wants is never in doubt — he can manipulate space and time, and he offers Taft a “deal” with a contract to match. Taft, who knows his Marlowe, doesn’t need anyone to explain to him that, after seven months of wishes magically granted, this dapper little salesman plans to carry him off to “the hot place.” But Taft’s “not worried. Why? Simple: Not a believer.” Regarding the soul as a fiction, the crusty old drunk tells himself, “You beat the devil, not by superior play, but by ignoring the game.” This isn’t a new twist: Skepticism is built into the Faust character, along with prideful self-deception. What’s novel about Freeman’s version isn’t how Taft doubts the existence of hell but how he chooses to use the devil’s power. Here there’s no hookup with Helen of Troy, no consorting with witches. Forgoing such traditional hell-granted benefits as youth, wealth, power and sex, Taft instead pays a child’s hospital bill, gives

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ELEMENTAL QUEENSHIP: TAROT ROYALTY: Participants illuminate their paths to power and sovereignty. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $8-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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MONTPELIER LEGO CLUB: Budding builders tackle colorful construction projects. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

MANDARIN CHINESE CLASS: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11. STORY TIME: Page turners thrill little ones. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504.

EAT. DRINK. CHILL.: Classic Burton films, hand warming beverages and local eats complete an après-ride bash. Retro duds are encouraged. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-25; for ages 21 and up. Info, 864-1848.

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JIM CONDOS: Laws relating to accountability in all levels of government become crystal clear in a stop on the Vermont Secretary of State’s Transparency Tour. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. LIFELONG LEARNING MUSIC SERIES: KURT WEILL: A sequence of lectures and musical presentations focuses on the lives and works of different classical composers. Conference Room, South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. NANCY COTT: Listeners engage in “The Rei(g)n of Marriage: An American History.” Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5000.

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‘ROMEO AND JULIET’: See WED.11. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: Two World War II veterans move their song-and-dance act to Vermont to win over a pair of sisters in Lyric Theatres production of this holiday classic. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-38. Info, 863-5966. ‘WOMEN’S FICTIONS: A ONE-ACT PLAY’: Writer Mary Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont and their modern-day analogues create family memory through storytelling in Small Potatoes Theaters multimedia production. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 503-7408. ‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’: Theater l vers laugh until they cry during the Lyndon State College Twilight Players’ production of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1930s screwball comedy. Alexander Twilight Theatre, yndon State College,

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS SALON: A casual evening of conversation and cocktails offers opportunities for networking and community building. ONE Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $5. Info, 518-649-6464.

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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. HOME SHARE NOW INFORMATION SESSION: Locals get up-to-date details on home-sharing opportunities in Vermont. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 12:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8544.

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LEGITHON: Students and professionals challenge themselves to create laws and policies supporting economic development during a three-day brainstorming session. Vermont Statehouse, House Chamber, Montpelier, 6-10 p.m. $10-75. Info, 831-1264. VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL FALL CONFERENCE: SOLD OUT. The theme “Why Do Stories Matter?” propels two days of exploration into the value of narrative. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-9 p.m. $79-129; $30 for Friday evening dinner. Info, 262-1355.

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MAGGIE’S ADULT FIBER FRIDAY: Veteran knitter Maggie Loftus facilitates an informal gathering of crafters. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6maggie2@myfairpoint.net.

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ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: A movement session with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspires joy, transformation and divine connections. Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010. OPEN-LEVEL IMPROVISATION: Structured prompts, imagery and partnering forge adaptive problemsolving skills in movement. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $12. Info, 363-5544.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Cinephiles screen a diverse selection of shorts and feature-length films from around the world. See strandcenter.org for details. Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. $5-30; free for SUNY Plattsburgh students. Info, 518-563-1604.

‘MARAT/SADE’: Using the French Revolution as a metaphor, this play, presented by the University of Vermont Department of Theatre, addresses issues of class, social turmoil and human frailty. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-22. Info, 656-2094.

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MUSIC WITH ROBERT: Sing-alongs with Robert Resnik hit all the right notes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216. MUSICAL STORY TIME: Melody makers of all ages read and rock out with books, songs and instruments. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. READING DOROTHY’S LIST WITH CLARA: Lit lovers in grades 4 through 8 dive into Dorothy Canfield Fisher ward-winning titles. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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‘THE LARAMIE PROJECT’: Moisés Kaufman’s drama examines the aftermath of the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Ackley Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 800-776-6675.

RUMMAGE SALE: Deal seekers browse a treasure trove of secondhand scores. First Baptist Church of Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.

MOBILE VET CENTER: See THU.12, Community College of Vermont, Springfield, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1381.

EARLY-BIRD MATH: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics. Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

‘IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’: Audience suggestions are the backbone of a yet-to-be writen play fi led with star-crossed lovers, sword fights and side-splitting comedy. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $26-30. Info, 863-5933.

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CHICKEN AND BISCUIT DINNER & HARVEST BAZAAR: Diners dig into Friday’s hearty spread, then browse for gourmet foods, jewelry, Christmas ornaments and more. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 4-7:30 p.m. $5-10; $30 per family of four. Info, 862-5010.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: The i famous lothario finds himself in a post-WWI Europe populated by women only in this dark comedy presented by the Dartmouth College Department of Theate . Moore Theate , Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover N.H., 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 603-646-2422.

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DROP-IN STORY TIME: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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‘BAD JEWS’: A family’s power struggle raises questions of culture, identity and faith in this comedy staged by the Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre. Brick Box Theate , Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

SYDNEY LEA, NEIL SHEPARD & BRETT ANN STANCIU: Lovers of words revel in an evening of readings by three Green Writers Press authors. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

‘EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)’: Professor Ben Luce outlines arguments against utility scale industrial wind development on mountainous ridges. Music, wine and a short film y Energize Vermont complete the evening. Bliss Room. St. Albans Historical Museum, 6:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 527-7933.

CRAFTERNOON: Creative kiddos in grades 4 and up think outside of the box to construct unique structures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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STEPHEN P. KIERNAN: The ermont-based writer commands attention with passages from The Hummingbird, a story of commitment and service to country. Phoenix Books Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-8078.

environment

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Little ones up to age 4 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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WILLIAM CRONON: “The Riddle of Sustainabili y: A Surprisingly Short History of the Future,” delivered as part of the Aiken Lecture Series, elucidates the changing nature of environmental ideas. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2085.

SONGWRITING WORKSHOP: Seth Cronin guides musicians and singers in structuring original strains. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

STUDENT WORKS CONCERT: Pupils perform completed works, then field feedback from their peers. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the A ts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-6433.

kids

BIG MAKERS: JAE RHIM LEE & MIKE MA: According to the alt-death movement founders, shiitake and oyster mushrooms can thrive on the organic surfaces of expired human bodies. Drinks, 7 p.m.; talks, 7:30 p.m. Generator, Burlington, Free. Info, 540-0761.

FICTION BOOK GROUP: Bibliophiles break down Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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vinyasa flo . Sangha Studio, Burlington, 7-8:15 p.m. $5-10. Info, 448-4262.

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BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: New and veteran players are welcome to attend a practice to learn about the sport and join the team. Bring cleats and a mouth guard. Jaycee Park, South Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

QUEEN CITY CONTRA DANCE: Colin McCaffrey, Sarah Blair and Tim Cummings dole out live tunes while Adina Gordon calls the shots. Bring clean, soft-soled shoes. Shelburne Town Hall, beginner session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $9; free for kids under 12. Info, 371-9492.

sports

7:30 p.m. Donations; free for LSC students. Info, 626-3663.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11.

STORY TIME: Tots sit tight for engaging narratives. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11.

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THINKSAFE FOR KIDS: An informative program teaches youngsters about stranger danger. Martial Way, Milton, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4922.

REEL ROCK FILM TOUR: From big walls to big moves, an eclectic program features footage of athletes Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson and others. Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, Burlington, food trucks, 5:30 p.m.; film, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 657-3872.

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food & drink

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See WED.11, 10 a.m. & 12:45 p.m.

FIRKIN FRIDAYS: Suds lovers sip unique smallbatch brews. Tap Room, Switchback Brewing, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 651-4114. LOCAL EATS! SERIES: LOCAL POTION: Beer hero Josh Pitts shares his knowledge on brewing bubbling beverages. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.11, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY HATHA YOGA: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflecti e workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. LAUGHTER YOGA: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The ellness Co-op, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.11. PRESEASON SNOW WARRIOR SERIES: Yogis get psyched for the season with a three-week series meant to condition the body for snow sports. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister; limited space. Info, 448-4262. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.11. SOUL PARTY YOGA SERIES: Emina Kelestura welcomes students of all levels for a seven-week course focused on finding freedom through

‘BUTCHER’: See WED.11, 8 p.m. CINEMANIA: See WED.11.

music

CHRIS COLLINS & THE BOULDER CANYON BAND: Country roads take me home! The tribute band channels the energy and musicality of John Denver. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $25-30. Info, 476-8188. ‘HE WROTE THAT TOO: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY MERCER’: Renditions of smash hits such as “Moon River” and “That Old Black Magic” honor the legen ary lyricist. Town Hall Theate , Middlebury, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 382-9222. ORIANA SINGERS: Under the direction of William Metcalfe, the vocal ensemble wows listeners with Bach’s Mass in B minor. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. SLOW JAM: Musicians convene to learn simple fiddle tunes from Europe and No th America by ear. North End Studio C, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 223-8945. UVM CONCERT BAND: Led by Tom Toner, student performers present a contemporary repertoire including compositions by Samuel Hazo, David Gillingham and others. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2295.

outdoors

WORK WEEKEND: Helping hands scrape, paint, wash and scrub the facility in preparation for the winter season. Wear appropriate clothes and work gloves. Blueberry Hill Inn, Brandon. Free; bring a

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talks

DAVID S. ROSENTHAL: As part of the Laura Mann Integrative Healthcare Lecture Series, the Harvard Medical School professor offers up “Integrative Oncology: An Evolving Discipline.” Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 656-9266. EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: FALL SERIES: Vermont Public Radio Classical host James Stewart hits all the right notes in “A War in Harmony: Prokofievs 7th Piano Sonata and the Battle of Stalingrad.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. AN EVENING WITH BILL MCKIBBEN: The professor and environmental activist shares his wealth of knowledge at a talk presented by the Charlotte Land Trust. The Old Lantern Inn & Barn, Charlotte, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, info@charlottelandtrust.org.

theater

‘12 ANGRY MEN’: Johnson State College students portray a jury who must decide the fate of an accused murderer. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 730-9414. ‘BAD JEWS’: See THU.12. ‘BALTIMORE WALTZ’: Siblings Anna and Carl embark on a riotous romp around Europe in this Dartmouth College student production. Warner Bentley Theate , Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $4. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘THE CRUCIBLE’: Saint Michael’s College presents Arthur Miller’s tale of a community driven by power, lust and greed. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. ‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: See THU.12. ‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: The longest running revue in o f-Broadway history comes to the Green Mountain State courtesy of the Shelburne Players. Shelburne Town Center, 7:309:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 343-2602. ‘THE LARAMIE PROJECT’: See THU.12, 7 p.m.

WRITING SALON: Wordsmiths employ neuroscientific research to kick out the inner critic who can curb creativity. Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-25. Info, 865-4209.

bazaars

STUDENT WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOWING: Those studying dance share fresh creations in an informal setting. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

RUMMAGE SALE: See FRI.13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

SWING DANCE: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa, to the live sounds of Pine Street Jazz. Indoor shoes are required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $15. Info, 864-8382.

SAT.14 HARVEST CRAFT & VENDOR SHOW: Artisans offer handmade items amid a Chinese auction, a concession stand and a bake sale. Lamoille Union Middle & High School, Hyde Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, kmoulton0468@comcast.net. SAINT LUKE’S RUMMAGE SALE: Gently used clothing, shoes, linens and purses delight bargain shoppers. Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Saint Albans City, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 524-6212.

comedy

IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: See THU.12, 2 & 8 p.m.

community

CHICKEN AND BISCUIT DINNER & HARVEST BAZAAR: See FRI.13, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

MONTPELIER MEMORY CAFÉ: People experiencing memory loss and their caretakers connect in a relaxed atmosphere. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518. OPEN HOUSE: A youth development program incorporating aviation and military customs offers tours, demos and presentations for kids and parents. Civil Air Patrol, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 598-8702. SECOND SATURDAY: MOUNTAIN BREWS!: Author Tim Matson schools suds lovers with his guide to country-style brewing. Vermont History Center, Barre, 2-3 p.m. $3-12; free for members and kids under 6. Info, 479-8500. VERMONT COMPASSION CENTERS: Folks get information about the Vermont law allowing for legal medical marijuana access. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

conferences

LEGITHON: See FRI.13, 9 a.m.-midnight. VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL FALL CONFERENCE: See FRI.13, 7:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m.

‘MARAT/SADE’: See THU.12.

LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOP: Locals let their creative juices flow when cra ting props for the annual River of Light Lantern Parade. Kids ages 6 through 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-8358.

‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.12. ‘WOMEN’S FICTIONS: A ONE-ACT PLAY’: See THU.12.

words

FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze creative works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

CONTRA DANCE: Fern Bradley is the caller at a shindig complete with live music by Red Dog Riley. Cornwall Town Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 462-3722. CONTRA DANCE HARDWICK: A potluck supper leads to a stepping session set to toe-tapping tunes by Lamoille Landing. Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, 5:30 p.m. $7; $4 per family member. Info, 472-5584. FAMILY CONTRA DANCE: The oodbury Strings Band Lab dole out live numbers at this traditional social dance. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 3-5 p.m. $8-15; free for kids under 12. Info, 223-8945. ‘JEWELS & INCENSE’: Students of Middle Eastern dance perform a semiannual recital. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. $3. Info, 518-572-9153.

SCHUSS: A FUNDRAISING CELEBRATION: Vintage ski sweaters are encouraged at a shindig supporting the museum. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $65; preregister. Info, 253-9911, ext. 203. SILENT AUCTION: Bidders make out like bandits, with more than 50 items at hand. Gymnasium, Chelsea Public School, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4841. SKI & SKATE SALE: Winter athletes stock up on new and used gear to benefit Waitsfield Elementary School. Waitsfield Elementa y School, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3643.

fairs & festivals

SUNY PLATTSBURGH ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: Handmade, rustic and primitive wares are up for grabs at this 43rd annual creative convention. Field House. SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3; free for SUNY Plattsburgh students and kids under 12. Info, 518-564-3054. VERMONT CRAFTS & PRODUCTS FAIR: Shoppers choose from a wide variety of handmade wares. Northfield St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8313.

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LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.13, 10:30 a.m.-11:20 p.m. ‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11. ‘MEN AT LUNCH’: Viewers learn the story behind the iconic “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photo in this documentary shown as part of the Woodstock Vermont Film Series. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355. ‘TEN THOUSAND SAINTS’: This 2015 comedic drama set in the 1980s follows a Vermont teenager as he moves to New York City to live with his father. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

CULINARY CLASSIC: Who’s the top chef? You be the judge as six area kitchen masters compete for top honors. Auctions and live entertainment round out this benefit for the Cancer Patient Suppo t Foundation. The Essex Culina y Resort & Spa, 6-9 p.m. $75; $130 per couple. Info, 488-5495. DEER HUNTERS/COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Rise and shine! Diners start their day with pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, home fries and plenty of coffee. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 4-9 a.m. $7. Info, 782-9713. FIVE CORNERS INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: From prepared foods and local produce to handmade gifts, vendors share the fruits of their labor. Maple Street Park, Essex, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249. HARVEST DINNER: Locals feast on a hearty spread, then dance the night away to the sounds of Movin’ On. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., dinner, 4-7 p.m.; music, 7-11 p.m. $8.50. Info, 518-643-2309. INFUSE YOUR BOOZE: HERBAL COCKTAILS AND ELIXIRS: Amateur mixologists concoct creatively fla ored liquors and cordials. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space; for ages 21 and up. Info, 861-9700. LASAGNA SUPPER: Pans of cheesy baked pasta are the centerpiece of a buffet of greens, bread and dessert. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150. MAKE YOUR OWN CHOCOLATE BARS: First-time confectioners tie on their aprons to temper, mold and wrap full-size take-home treats. South End Kitchen at Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. $25. Info, 864-0505.

games

NORTHERN VERMONT SCRABBLE CLUB: Wordsmiths use lettered tiles to spell out winning combinations. Panera Bread, Barre, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1801.

health & fitness

AMERICAN MEDICINE CHEST CHALLENGE: Local law enforcement facilitates the safe disposal of prescription drugs as part of a nationwide event. See americanmedicinechest.com for details. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, 877-919-2622. AWAKEN INTUITION: KUNDALINI YOGA & MEDITATION SERIES: Happiness seekers connect with their inner teachers to find strength and cla ity. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. $7-15. Info, 448-4262. PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.11, 10:30-11:30 a.m. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.11, 9-10 a.m.

holidays

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Baked goods and a soupand-sandwich lunch sustain shoppers as they browse offerings ranging from woodworking to knitwear and beyond. United Church of Colchester, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1595. HOLIDAY BAZAAR & TAG SALE: Handmade gifts, baked goods, holiday items, books and more fi l tables at an annual market. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7014. MILTON PRE-CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW: More than 70 crafters display their handiworks, to the delight of seasonal shoppers. Milton Middle/High School, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 893-7387. SAT.14

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THE RIGHT FIRST STEPS TO GETTING PUBLISHED: Penmen and -women pick up career-advancing tips from editor William Notte and bid in a silent auction benefitting the Burlington Writers orkshop. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8104.

ABUN-DANCE!: An evening of music, dancing, a silent auction and light refreshments supports the Sunflower Circle omen’s Group. Richmond Free Library, 7-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 777-7862.

NIGHT OF THE NATIONS: AWAY WE GO: SUNY Plattsburgh students from around the world treat audience members to a multicultural spectacular. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, amosc005@ plattsburgh.edu.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the fla or profiles of four di ferent confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

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‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’: See THU.12.

dance

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: A bustling indoor marketplace offers fresh and prepared foods alongside crafts, live music, lunch seating and face painting. Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

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‘WHEN IN ROME’: Mythological gods meddle in the lives of men and women in this Trumbull Hall Troupe production. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 603-448-0400.

CREATING ORNAMENTS: People of all ages craft handmade baubles. Swanton Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 868-7656.

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP FOOD & WELLNESS EXPO: Locals sample artisan breads, cheeses, sweets and treats while learning about wellness resources in central Vermont. See calendar spotlight. Montpelier City Hall, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8000.

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‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’: A blind housewife and her neighbor struggle in a cat-and-mouse game with a gang of con men in Frederick Knott’s thriller, presented by the Lamoille County Players. Hyde Park Opera House, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-18. Info, 888-4507.

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CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION WINTER ART AUCTION & ANNUAL MEETING: Collectors bid on winter-themed works following a business assembly and presentation by Pavel Cenkl. Green Mountain Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5794.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: In Neil Simon’s play performed by ArtisTree Theatre, the star of a weekly comedy television show battles station executives over his sense of humor. Damon Hall, Hartland, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 457-3500. ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’: See WED.11.

NORWICH CONTRA DANCE: A potluck supper kicks off at the final No thern Spy hootenanny, with David Millstone calling the steps. Tracy Hall, Norwich, supper, 6 p.m.; dance, 7:30 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607.

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DISCOVER THE BRAIN!: High school students flex their mental muscles for a day of neuroscie tific fun. McCarde l Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, vermontbrainbee@gmail.com. ESSEX CHILDREN’S CHOIR CONCERT: Young singers raise their voices in a rousing recital. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. FAMILY ACROYOGA WORKSHOP: Kids and caregivers bond over partner stretches. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 1:30-3 p.m. $15-20 per adult/child pair. Info, 448-4262. FARM CRAFT: PAST & PRESENT: Little ones ages 5 and up spin wool, dip candles and make butter while learning about life on the farm during the 1800s. McClure Education Center, Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-noon. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $5-6 per additional child. Info, 985-8686. HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: Aspiring artisans ages 7 and up choose natural and nautical designs to create colorful window hangings. Orwell Glass workshop, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $15-20; preregister for a time slot. Info, 475-2022.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11. YOGA TOTS: YogaFit instructor Jessica Frost leads kiddos ages 1 through 8 in poses that focus their energy and relax their minds. Community Room, Highgate Municipal Building, 9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

language

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CONVERSATION GROUP LUNCH: French speakers chat en français over a midday meal. La Villa Bistro & Pizzeria, Shelburne, noon-2 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 793-4361.

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‘BUTCHER’: See WED.11, 2 & 8 p.m. CINEMANIA: See WED.11. ‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See WED.11, 2 p.m.

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CHARLES NEVILLE & THE NEW ORLEANS SOUND: The Big Easy meets ermont’s littlest city when the saxophonist serves up sizzling selections with a southern flare. ergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $18-20. Info, 877-6737.

MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Guest conductor Jeff Domoto leads the ensemble in selections by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Richard Danielpour. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 279-8460.

‘BALTIMORE WALTZ’: See FRI.13.

SOCIAL BAND: The Burlington choral group draws from the human condition for the program “Late and Soon: Songs of the Heedless and the Wise.” United Church of Hinesburg, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 355-4216.

‘12 ANGRY MEN’: See FRI.13. ‘BAD JEWS’: See THU.12. ‘THE CRUCIBLE’: See FRI.13. ‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: See THU.12. ‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: See FRI.13. ‘THE LARAMIE PROJECT’: See THU.12. ‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See FRI.13. ‘MARAT/SADE’: See THU.12.

SATURDAY STORY TIME: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

theater

SCOTT AINSLIE: The singe -songwriter, guitarist and historian shares his gifts for the blues as part of the Burnham Music Series. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $8; free for kids and teens. Info, 453-3803.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HD LIVE: Wagner’s Tannhäuser hits the big screen with tenor Johan Botha in the title role. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, noon. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

M VE ON UVM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: OF TV SY IRT U Student musicians present a varied OSI | COU RTE NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: Benedict repertoire under direction from Yutaka Cumberbatch plays the eponymous prince Kono. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, in a broadcast production of Shakespeare’s tragedy Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2295. Hamlet. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the VERMONT VIRTUOSI: A chamber ensemble featurArts, Dartmouth College, Hanover N.H., 1 p.m. $10ing flute, violin, viola and ce lo hits all the right 23. Info, 603-646-2422. notes in the program “Contrasts.” Elley-Long Music ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’: See WED.11. Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 ‘UNDERNEATH THE ABOVE SHOW NO. 1: INSPIRED p.m. Free. Info, 881-9153. BY THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE outdoors WORLD’: Bread and Puppet Theater dramatizes CAMEL’S HUMP LOOP HIKE: Adventurers take three fictional regime changes as commenta y on on a difficult 6-mile excursion gaining 2,400 feet the United States presidential campaign. Lowe in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 7:30preregister; limited space. Info, 899-9982. 8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-1271. WAGON RIDE WEEKENDS: A seasonal celebra‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’: See FRI.13. tion comes complete with narrated horse-drawn ‘WHEN IN ROME’: See FRI.13. hay rides and themed activities. Billings Farm &

Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-14; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. WORK WEEKEND: See FRI.13.

politics

DEBATE WATCH PARTY: Friends and neighbors gather in front of a giant screen to watch the Democratic presidential candidates duke it out. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-6713. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATE: Politically conscious community members watch as candidates vie for their party’s presidential nomination. Chris Graff hosts this Project 240 event. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, info@project240 org.

seminars

AUTISM TASK FORCE WORKSHOP DAY: Folks pick up practical strategies for living on the spectrum through a series of seminars. First Presbyterian Church, Barre, 9:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m. $15-25. Info, 476-3966. BASIC GERMAN GENEALOGY: Ed McGuire traces the roots of Deutsche lineage. Vermont Genealogy

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0820. OK: Like-minded individuals plan for the future, contemplate the past and connect with the present. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684.

conferences

LEGITHON: See FRI.13, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

crafts

SCRAPBOOKING: Paper crafters share ideas and techniques at this daylong creative session open to beginners. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 8 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

dance

MICHELE FAY BAND: Led by the accomplished vocalist, the local group performs original and Americana tunes. Music Box, Craftsbury, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 586-7533.

SATURDAY DROP-IN STORY TIME: A weekly selection of songs and narratives engages all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

HUDSON MOHAWKE & THE DREAM: Hip-hop beats heat up the room. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 540-0406.

RUN YOUR CAN OFF: Joggers make strides along a forested trail, completing as many 1.25-mile loops as they can muster to support the local food shelf. Gilbrook Natural Area, Winooski, registration, 7 p.m.; run, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 425-4197.

ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: First through sixth graders get extra help in reading, math and science. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

‘HE WROTE THAT TOO: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY MERCER’: See FRI.13.

sports

NEIGHBORHOOD TOY STORE DAY AT THE COLLECTION: Crafts, activities and an epic artificial snowball battle enliven a celebration of community, play and local businesses. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-6055.

THE DUPONT BROTHERS: Vocal harmonies and intricate guitar stylings propel the siblings’ signature Vermont-made Americana. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes dinner; preregister. Info, 247-4295.

VCAM’S DIGITAL EDITING CERTIFICATION: Adobe Premiere 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.

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JUNK MUSIC WITH THE JUNKMAN: Three intera tive programs engage families with and without musical experience. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $11-14; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200.

DOM FLEMONS: Percussive banjo playing pleases fans of the Carolina Chocolate Drops cofounder. See calendar spotlight. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 728-6464.

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DAVID MACAULAY: Kids gear up for science and engineering with a reading of How Machines Work: Zoo Break! Norwich Bookstore, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

INTRO TO EXCEL: Columns, rows, cells, formulas and data entry become second nature at a tutorial on electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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CRAFTSBURY LITERACY FAIR: Books, puppets, finger pla , letter crafts and more support early reading skills. Craftsbury Public Library, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683.

Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.

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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GOSPEL CHOIR: Backed by a 20-piece band, the 40-member singing group gets the crowd on its feet with traditional and cutting-edge spiritual music. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $13.50-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

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‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.12, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘WOMEN’S FICTIONS: A ONE-ACT PLAY’: See THU.12. ‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’: See THU.12.

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ALEXANDER WOLFF: The best-se ling author fêtes the release of The Audaci y of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. BOOK DISCUSSION: RETELLINGS: John Gardner’s Grendel inspires a lively discussion. Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-2025.

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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.

BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. $6; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020. DARTMOUTH DANCE ENSEMBLE: Renowned choreographers John Heginbotham, Rebecca Stenn and Mina Lawton direct dancers in works-inprogress. Hop Garage, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 & 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

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BURLINGTON FALL BRIDAL SHOW: Brides-to-be listen to live music, pile into photo booths and mingle with industry professionals. Hilton Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. $6-7. Info, 459-2897. SKI & SKATE SALE: See SAT.14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

fairs & festivals

SUNY PLATTSBURGH ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: See SAT.14. VERMONT CRAFTS & PRODUCTS FAIR: See SAT.14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

film

‘APUR SANSAR’: Released in 1960, this final installment of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy shows the protagonist facing challenges as he aims to be a writer. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422. LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.13, 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. ‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11. ‘MON ONCLE’: Francophiles file in for this 1958 French-language comedy. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 728-6464. STAGED READING: Film buffs listen in on the first public reading of Jay Cra en’s screenplayin-progress, titled Wetware. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 208-720-0640.

food & drink

ALL-YOU-CAN EAT BREAKFAST: Diners pile their plates with pancakes, eggs, meats, home fries and toast. Alburgh Volunteer Fire Department, 7 a.m.-noon. $6-8; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 796-3402. CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.14. CIDER & CHEESE & PIGSKIN: Sports fans pregame with specialty beverages and eats. Hen of the Wood, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $30. Info, 540-0534. PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Neighbors connect over helpings of flapjacks, eggs, sausage, juice and coffee. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 & 10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-8071.

games

GAMES PARLOUR: Strategic thinkers bring favorite tabletop competitions to play with others.

LIST YOUR EVENT FOR FREE AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT Champlain Club, Burlington, 2-8 p.m. $5. Info, orsonbradford@gmail.com.

virtuosity. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $54.50-74.50. Info, 775-0903.

health & fitness

VERMONT WIND ENSEMBLE: An adventurous program includes works by Steven Bryant, Robert W. Smith, John Philip Sousa and others. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2295.

KUNDALINI YOGA: Asana, pranayam, mantra and meditation accelerate the path to awakening. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m. $12. Info, 540-0186. MIXED-LEVEL FLOW YOGA: Students may modify postures to meet their individual needs during a sequence of feel-good poses. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 4:30-5:45 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186. MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.11. NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. WOMEN’S WELLNESS SERIES: YOGA FOR FERTILITY: Women working toward becoming pregnant hit the mat for a relaxing practice. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. $20. Info, 829-0211.

kids

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE VERMONT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: Tinkerers ages 9 through 14 put their skills to the test as part of a national robotics competition. Shapiro Field House, Norwich University, Northfield, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2256. HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: See SAT.14. ‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11.

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outdoors

WAGON RIDE WEEKENDS: See SAT.14. WORK WEEKEND: See FRI.13.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while connecting passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

talks

‘COMING HOME: REFLECTIONS ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR II’: History teacher Matthew Rozell pays homage to the past in his book The Things Our Fathers S . The H de Museum, Glens Falls, N.Y., 2 p.m. Regular admission, $13-15; free for members, students and kids under 12. Free for veterans, military and family. Info, 518-792-1761. MIKE ATHER: “Living Like Original Vermonters of the Winooski: Applying the Best of the Past for a Sustainable Future” gets back to the basics. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865 4556.

montréal

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See FRI.13, 5 p.m.

‘HANA’S SUITCASE’: See WED.11, 1 & 4 p.m.

music

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL’S YOUNG TRIO-IN-RESIDENCE: Bows in hand, Robyn Bollinger, Wenhong Luo and SuJin Lee deliver solos, duos and trios for strings. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 3 p.m. $10-15. Info, info@cathedralart.org. MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: See SAT.14, 4 p.m.

PURE COUNTRY BAND: Music lovers start with food, then dance the afternoon away to toe-tapping tunes. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., meal, noon; band, 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-643-2309. SOCIAL BAND: See SAT.14, Charlotte Congregational Church, 3-4:30 p.m. $15. Info, 355-4216.

THE TENORS: Selections from Under One Sky showcase the chorus’ songwriting skills and vocal

‘MARAT/SADE’: See THU.12, 2 p.m. ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. ‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREW’: The bards outrageous comedy inspires uproarious laughter as part of Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen Film Series. CinemaSpace. Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 514-739-7944. ‘UNDERNEATH THE ABOVE SHOW NO. 1: INSPIRED BY THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’: See SAT.14, Old Labor Hall, Barre, 3-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-1271. ‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’: See FRI.13, 2-4:30 p.m. ‘WHEN IN ROME’: See FRI.13, 3 p.m. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.12, 2 p.m. ‘WOMEN’S FICTIONS: A ONE-ACT PLAY’: See THU.12, 2 p.m. ‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’: See THU.12, 2 p.m.

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BOOK RELEASE: Local author and photographer Deborah Harte Felmeth celebrates the launch of Syria: Remember Me. Vergennes Opera House, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6737.

MON.16 community

LIFE AFTER DEATH: An open discussion hosted by Eckankar inspires questions about the end of life and beyond. Rutland Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390. PUBLIC HEARING: Citizens consider a reduction in speed limit on Sunset Hill Road. Williston Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0919.

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SPIDER ROULETTE: Carrie Cook, Mike Kirick and Keith Williams enliven the Westford Music Series with a repertoire that travels from bluegrass to jazz. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, mhamrell@comcast.net.

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PATRICK SWEANY: Country fans swoon over the singer’s Nashville sound. Lowell Thompson opens. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0406.

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NEW MUSIC FOR THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE CHOIR: Fresh pieces composed for the vocal ensemble include works by current students, alumni and faculty members. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: See FRI.13, 2-4 p.m.

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DONNA THE BUFFALO & PETER ROWAN: THE STAMPEDE: Joining forces with Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen, the roots rockers play to raise awareness of corporate money in politics. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 7 p.m. $20-35. Info, 760-4634.

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‘BALTIMORE WALTZ’: See FRI.13, 2 p.m. ‘DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR’: See THU.12, 2 p.m.

CINEMANIA: See WED.11.

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DIMANCHES FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

‘BUTCHER’: See WED.11, 2 p.m.

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RESIDENCY: MACARTHUR GENIUS PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE: Renowned choreographer and performer Liz Lerman leads a series of master classes. A book signing and lecture titled “Making Rules, Breaking Rules” rounds out her residency. See middlebury.edu for details. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 1:45-2:35 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5000. SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: See WED.11, Champlain Club, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-9. Info, 355-5901.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

film

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11. ‘PAPER TIGERS’: This 2015 documenta y looks at selected students at an alternative school that specializes in educating traumatized youth. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 800-488-6912.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.11, 7 p.m. TRIVIA NIGHT: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

health & fitness

DYNAMIC QIGONG: Breathing, stretching and meditative movements enhance health and well-being. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 6:30-7:45 p.m. $14. Info, 238-2637.

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ESSENTIAL OIL BASICS: Body and soul benefit from extractions and infusions. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $2-3; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. MUSHROOMS, ROOTS & BERRIES: IMMUNE STIMULATING REMEDIES FOR WINTER: Allison Dellner leads an interactive class on beating bugs throughout the snowy months. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $15-17; preregister. Info, 224-7100. NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.15, 7 p.m. POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.11. PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.11. PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.11. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.11. 11.11.15-11.18.15

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.11. SLOW FLOW YOGA: Breath guides a series of seated and standing postures aimed at improving balance. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186. ZUMBA: See WED.11.

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CRUISERS’ & CRAWLERS’ PLAY & STAY STORY TIME: Babies and toddlers up to age 2 engage in books, songs and social time with blocks, bubbles and parachute play. Highgate Public Library, Highgate Center, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. DROP-IN STORY TIME: Reading, rhyming and crafting entertain creative kiddos. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

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HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: See SAT.14. ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: See SAT.14, 5-8 p.m. PRESCHOOL MUSIC: See THU.12, 11 a.m. ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Naturalistled activities through fields and forests captivate

little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 229-6206. ‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11. ‘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: Budding bookworms ages 2 through 5 open their ears for exciting tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. WILLISTON PAJAMA STORY TIME: ‘STAR WARS’: 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.

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‘GEN SILENT’: Aging members of the LGBTQ community face unique challenges in health care in this 2011 documentary. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

music

COODER-WHITE-SCAGGS: Three masters of American roots band together for an evening of blues, gospel and bluegrass. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $27-73.50. Info, 863-5966. DARK STAR ORCHESTRA: The se en-member band dazzles Grateful Dead fans young and old with a concert experience to remember. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $34.75-39.75. Info, 775-0903. MAD RIVER CHORALE OPEN REHEARSAL: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its upcoming concert. Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2048.

Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. INTENSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Intermediate to experienced wordsmiths flesh out long-form projects with Jay Dubberly. Otter Creek Room, Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208. MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. VERANDAH PORCHE: Verses from Sudden Eden and Shedding Light on the Working Forest delight poetry devotees. Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:45-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.13. PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSPORTATION: See WED.11, Thatcher Brook Prima y School, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2942. TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands 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.

conferences

VERMONT WEB MARKETING SUMMIT: National experts and local professionals convene for an indepth exploration of the digital marketing industry. Hilton Burlington, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $247-297; preregister. Info, 862-8783.

SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington’s samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

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FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA: The New York-based company bridges cultures through dance. Casella Theate , Castleton University, 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 468-1119.

INTRO TO FACEBOOK FOR SENIORS: An overview of social media helps participants ages 50 and up stay connected in the digital age. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: FALL SERIES: Marc Boucher crosses physical and societal borders in “Our Neighbors to the North: History, Politics and Culture in Québec.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. GAUGUIN IN POLYNESIA: THE FINAL YEARS: Professor Elizabeth Childs paints a portrait of the artist’s later life and work. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. VERMONT POLITICS SPEAKER SERIES: MADELINE KUNIN: Vermont’s former governor serves up a stately speech to students and the public. Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 371-7898.

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BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & BLUES FUSION DANCING: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com. RESIDENCY: MACARTHUR GENIUS PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE: See MON.16, 9:30-10:45 a.m. & 4:30-7:30 p.m. SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different styles, including the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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MOBILE VET CENTER: See THU.12, Community College of Vermont, Newport, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1381. OPEN-SOURCE HARDWARE DROP-IN: Electronics enthusiasts experiment with a robot arm and learn about programming and engineering. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

BOOK DISCUSSION: B.I.G. (BIG, INTENSE, GOOD): Readers looking for a challenge share opinions on Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-0185.

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BOOK DISCUSSION: CANADIAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Bookworms exchange views on Island by Alistair MacLeod. Norwich Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 296-2191.

KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy flicks at this ode to o fbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

ELEANOR HENDERSON: A reading from Ten Thousand Saint leads to a discussion of its movie adaptation. Abernethy Room, Axinn Center, Starr

‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11.

‘AUTISM IN LOVE’: See THU.12, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1200.

‘THE THIRD MAN’: This 1949 film noir f lows pulp novelist Holly Martins on an investigation into

his old friend’s murder. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.11, 7 p.m. 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.

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BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Folks get fit with strength, endurance, agili y and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160. BUTI YOGA: A fusion of power yoga, tribal dance and deep abdominal toning boosts the flow of e ergy throughout the body. The ellness Collective, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 540-0186. 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. FIND IDEAL FOODS FOR YOUR DIETARY NEEDS & HEALTH GOALS: Culinary medicine educator Lisa Mase shares recipes and strategies for staying well through the winter months. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. FIRE CIDER: Participants arm themselves against the cold season with an age-old tonic for immune support, digestion and energy. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700. KICKBOXING CLASS: Music propels this highoctane practice focused on maintaining form and achieving power through movement. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 646-577-7985. MINDFULNESS CLASS: See WED.11, 12:15-1 p.m. MIXED-LEVEL FLOW YOGA: See SUN.15, 5-6 p.m. MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.11. PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.11, 6-7 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m.

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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. HANDS-ON GLASSBLOWING PROJECTS & CLASSES: SUNCATCHER: See SAT.14. HIGHGATE FALL STORY TIME: See WED.11. PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: Potential Picassos ages 3 through 5 and their caregivers engage in the arts though books and projects. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y., 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2498. READ TO A DOG: Tots share stories with lovable pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918. READ TO DAISY THE THERAPY DOG: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for engaging narratives. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. ‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11. SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. SPECIAL PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: ANIMAL TO SWEATER WITH FARMER VIRGINIA: Kids up to age 6 get gather for themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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STORY TIME: Youngsters stretch their legs on a walk to Gary Home. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREW’: See SUN.15.

epic rock, paper, scissors session. Proceeds benefit ANEW Place. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $15; free for spectators. Info, 540-0406.

STORY TIME FOR 3- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS: Preschoolers expand 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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STORY TIME FOR BABIES & TODDLERS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of children under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. TEEN TINKER TUESDAY: WRITER’S JOURNAL: Creative kiddos ages 12 and up bind blank pages to make their own sketchbooks and diaries. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. WILLISTON FALL STORY TIME: A wide variety of books and authors jump-starts preschoolers’ early-literacy skills. A craft activity follows. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Language learners sharpen communication skills. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1311. ‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer one-time consultations on issues ranging from name changes to second parent adoption to estate planning. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 860-7812.

montréal

‘BUTCHER’: See WED.11, 8 p.m.

music

THE KING’S SINGERS: Acclaimed for its virtuosity and charm, the vocal sextet takes listeners on a musical world tour with tunes collected during their travels. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-25. Info, 803-443-6433.

SYMPHONIC CONCERT BAND: Community members and students share the stage with the group for a delightful performance. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2000.

sports

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: See THU.12.

ERINN MCGURN: Social change and communitydriven design are the SCALEStudio owner’s primary focus. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

business

KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising and communications brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 864-4067.

community

CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: An informal open discussion delves into newsworthy subjects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSPORTATION: See WED.11, Addison County Regional Planning Commission, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2942.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: See WED.11, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

AFROLATIN PARTY: See WED.11. DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.11. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: See FRI.13, the Open Space, Hardwick Inn Building, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.11. MEDITATION & DISCUSSION GROUP: Teacher Barry Weiss encourages participants to quiet the mind for increased energy and decreased stress and anxiety. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.11. MINDFULNESS CLASS: See WED.11. NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.11. POSTNATAL REHAB: See WED.11. PRENATAL BALLET BARRE: See WED.11. PRENATAL YOGA CLASS: See WED.11. PUSH-UPS IN THE PARK: See WED.11. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.11. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.11. VINYASA FLOW YOGA: See WED.11. WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND MEDITATION: See WED.11. ZUMBA: See WED.11.

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BUILD IT!: Students in grades 3 through 5 tackle engineering challenges. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918. CHESS CLUB: Players use strategic moves to capture the king. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. HIGHGATE FALL STORY TIME: See WED.11. KIDS’ OPEN GYM: See WED.11. ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING: See SAT.14, 3:30-8 p.m.

RESIDENCY: MACARTHUR GENIUS PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE: See MON.16, 12:15-1:30 p.m.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Youngsters cuddle up in PJs for captivating narratives, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’: See WED.11.

GIS DAY: From Essex Junction to South Sudan, this all-ages celebration of Geographic Information Systems is recognized around the world. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See MON.16. TURNON BURLINGTON: See WED.11.

film

LATINO AMERICANS FILM SERIES: Middlebury College professor Gloria Estela González Zenteno facilitates a discussion following the final screening in this documentary series. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. ‘LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES’: See WED.11. ‘WHO’S THERE?’ FILM SERIES: Cinephiles take in titles exploring the topic of identity. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581

food & drink

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL DIETS: Foodies discover the core principles of nutrientdense menus. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.11. RPS CHARITY TOURNAMENT: All hands are on deck as competitors battle for a cash prize in an

STEM CLUB: Inquisitive minds ages 6 and up tackle challenges in science, technology, engineering and math. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.11. STORY TIME FOR 3- TO 5-YEAR-OLDS: See TUE.17. TODDLER TIME: See WED.11. YOUNG ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION: Readers engage in a lively discussion of Feed by M.T. Anderson. East Montpelier Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

seminars

LUNCH & LEARN: SOLAR BASICS: SunCommon representatives answer burning questions about harnessing the power of the sun. Hinge, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring lunch. Info, 923-3088. MINDFULNESS, MOVEMENT & CHARACTER: Students cultivate a responsive relationship to their bodies and to the world. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.11.

talks

JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE FREE SPEAKER SERIES: Susan Tappan gets cerebral in “Understanding the Structure of the Remarkable Brain.” Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327. RAI FARRELLY: The Saint Michaels College professor crosses cultures in “The International Student Experience: Theirs to Share, Ours to Embrace.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. SHARON COLVIN: Listeners lean in for the lecture “Bringing Brown Girl Dreaming Alive Through the Arts.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

theater

‘MARY POPPINS’: A drab family gets a visit from a magical nanny in this beloved musical produced by Northern Stage. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $20-55. Info, 296-7000. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: See SAT.14, Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30-11:30 p.m. $12-20. Info, 457-3981. ‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREW’: See SUN.15, 2 p.m.

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BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘SUSTAINABILITY’: Readers chew the fat over The Man Who Planted rees by Jean Giono. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. DINE & DISCUSS SERIES: Bibliophiles join Ed Cashman for a shared meal and conversation about a selected literary work. Call for details. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-9 p.m. Free; bring a dish inspired by the book to share. Info, 878-6955. ‘THE JOURNEY OF HEALING: WISDOM FROM SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE, A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY’: Writing activities follow readings from the literary anthology showcasing the work of sexual abuse survivors. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

language

POETRY & POTLUCK: Baron Wormser shares his gifts for verse following an open mic session. The Art House, Craftsbury. Open mic, 6 p.m.; reading, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 586-2200.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

STORYCRAFT: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CREATIVE WRITING: See WED.11.

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.11.

lgbtq

JOHN KILLACKY & LARRY CONOLLY: The married couple discuss their contributions to QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. Phoenix Books Burlington. See calendar spotlight. Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

montréal

‘BUTCHER’: See WED.11, 1 & 8 p.m.

TAMRA HIGGINS: The poet shares her gi t for verse with passages from Nothing Saved Us. Craftsbury Public Library, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683. WEDNESDAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. m

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FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with inte val training. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7-8 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. Holley Hall, Bristol, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

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VOCAL RECITAL: Classical connoisseurs take in the sweet sounds of soprano Caroline Rood over a bag lunch. Burlington St. Paul’s Cathedral, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, info@cathedralarts.org.

WINE & STORY OPEN MIC: Prompts trigger first person narratives told to a live audience. Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

DANCE-BASED CONDITIONING: See WED.11.

SONG CIRCLE: Music lovers congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

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MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: New musicians are welcome to join the ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Milton Middle School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398.

HOWARD FRANK MOSHER: Fans flock to a rea ing, talk and book signing by the author of God’s Kingdom. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy donors give the gift of life. Vermont State Employees Credit Union, Williston, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 371-5162.

SINGERS & PLAYERS OF INSTRUMENTS: See WED.11.

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HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: SOLD OUT. Directed by Robert Duff, 100 vocalists lend their powerful pipes to Handel’s “Messiah.” Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422.

FALL LITERATURE READING SERIES: Ambitious readers discuss pages 247 to 290 of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

music

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DIY LEATHER CUFFS AND EARRINGS: Join co-owner of New Duds and advanced crafter Tessa Valyou at this one-night 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. Make snap bracelets, cuffs and fun earrings. Materials provided. ˜ u., Dec. 3, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $28/person; $25.20/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. EARRINGS: Come check out the jewelry and ﬁne metals studio by making your own silver earrings. Open to all skill levels. Class includes copper and brass, silver ear wire and all basic tools. Silver can be purchased separately. ˜ u., Dec. 10, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington. FUNDING SOURCES FOR ARTISTS: Learn how to utilize grants, competitions and crowdfunding sources to get your next project off the ground! Discover tips for writing a successful proposal from the budget to the statement of purpose. Resources for national, state and local grants provided. Participants are invited to bring materials to be reviewed. Mon., Nov. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PAINTING SEMINAR: COMPOSITION: What one thing do all great paintings have in common? Strong composition! No matter what artistic style, color, palette or subject matter, composition is the essential glue that pulls it all together. You will be guided through exercises designed to stimulate awareness of dynamic shape, rhythm and movement. Beginners welcome!

Sat., Dec. 5, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK: Professional photographer Dan Lovell will demonstrate lighting techniques for photographing 2D and 3D art. Whether you’re applying to art school, submitting for an exhibition or putting together a website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations. Basic understanding of your camera required. Mon., Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

craft HOLIDAY BEGINNER CARD MAKING: In this class, Bonnie Rowell-Mullen will teach you how to heat, emboss and water color using brush markers and the difference between inks, powders and adhesives. Everything is provided to complete two cards, but you will also have the opportunity to buy supplies at the end of the class if you have been inspired. Sat., Nov. 14, 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Cost: $37.50/person. Location: Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 488-5766, info@vintageinspired.net.

culinary DISCOVERING TEA! A TASTING: In this introductory tasting workshop, tea specialist Gwen Russell will share a wide palette of world teas and teach you how to enhance your appreciation of this classic beverage. Participants will gain the ability to taste more in tea than ever before and will gain a foundational knowledge of tea. ˜ u., Nov. 12, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $33/2-hour class. Location: Bijou Fine Chocolate, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. Info: 540-5343, kevin@bijouﬁnechocolate.com, bijouﬁnechocolate.com.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable

workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, 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! ˛ ere is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime; weather permitting)/North End Studios, 0 College St./294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.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! Drums provided! Burlington Beginners Djembe class: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 4 & Dec. 9. $36/3 weeks or $15/drop-in. Montpelier Beginners Djembe class: ˛ u., 7-8:20 p.m., starting Nov. 9 & Dec. 10. $54/3 weeks or $22/ walk-in. Please register online or come directly to the ﬁrst class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington, & Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Nov. 3 (no class Nov. 24). $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners: Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m., starting Nov. 2 & Nov. 30. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents’ Class: Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting Nov. 2. $60/child; $105/parentchild duo. Five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Register online or come directly to the ﬁrst class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO IN MONTPELIER: Kids and Parents’ Taiko: ˛ u., 4:30-5:20

p.m., starting Nov. 5. $60/ person; $114/pair. 5-week class. Montpelier Taiko: ˛ u., 5:30-6:50 p.m., starting Nov. 5. $90/5 weeks; $22/walk-in. Register online or come directly to the ﬁrst class. Location: Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment TRANSITIONS: WISDOM JOURNEY: Change happens. Wonderful or awful, we grieve what is gone to fully embrace the new. Honoring and moving through these transitions we ﬁnd Joy. In keeping with shamanic and mystical traditions let’s creatively express ourselves through our journey, loss/grief/ joy, by using our dreams, art making, movement, music and written word. Weekly on ˜ u.,

Dec. 10-Feb. 11 (no class Dec. 24 & 31 & Jan. 28), 6:30-8:45 p.m. Cost: $195/person; all materials incl. No previous art experience necessary. Preregistration is required. Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St. Suite #9, Burlington. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com.

healing arts A HOLIDAY TIME GRIEF GROUP: Winter, particularly the holiday season, can be a time of intensified grief. Grief may grow, even in the rush of celebration of the season. ˛ is group will support participants to address grief, while finding meaning and even comfort in the season and the many holidays that fill it. Preregistration required. Some insurance accepted. Led by

Jennie Kristel & Michael Watson. 5 Tue., Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $40/session; sliding fee scale. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd ﬂoor, Burlington. Info: 8606203, journeyworksvt.com.

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FAMILY ORIGAMI WORKSHOP: Share the joy of Japanese paper folding with your family as you create colorful animals inspired by nature. Sat., Nov. 21, 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $25/adult/child pair. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info:

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253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP: Students will explore pattern, design and construction and leave with a unique piece of stained glass to hang. Instructor: Sarah Sprague. Sat., Nov. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $125/person; $100/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury

Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibili y, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. e offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10

a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

seasons, with less light and shorter days, can affect mood and energy. Using dance and movement to enhance vitality, we will forge a deeper mind/ body connection and explore the interplay of thought, feeling, sensation. Ideal for recovery from depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions. No dance experience required. Please preregister. 6 Wed., Nov. 11-Dec. 16, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Cost: $125/6-week session. Location: Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., Suite 312, Burlington. Info: Luanne Sberna, 863-9775-2, luannesberna@aol.com.

meditation 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 Sunday of each month, noon-2 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

outdoors Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlington shambhalactr.org.

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BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Learn to repair and maintain your bike! Bicycle Mechanics 101 is sevensession introduction to bicycle mechanics. Students receive instruction on the systems and parts of the bicycle and bicycle anatomy, practice common repair,s and work one-on-one with professional mechanics to learn all the basics. Every

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att Lorenz began experimenting with junk when he was a kid. Growing up in rural Cavendish, Vt., he started with dismantling random electronics gleaned from his family’s weekly trips to the local dump. Back then, the only instruments Lorenz played were his violin and the free piano his family received from the public library — which he and his sister fought over. Now, Lorenz’s junk is his backing band. Better known as the Suitcase Junket, he’s a one-man band that creates a harsh-but-hypnotizing sound with a guitar and an array of found objects repurposed as instruments. Lorenz performs at Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Saturday, November 14. Now 33, Lorenz has a lax posture and an easygoing aura. His wiry, dark-brown hair is kept short on the side and longer on top. His narrow face tends to be in a permanent smile, as if that were its resting position, and is garnished with a long, impressively curled mustache. Lorenz swears he normally doesn’t use wax; his facial hairstyle is just the product of particularly fidgety hands. But when Lorenz finds himself on the road for a couple of days without a shower, when his mustache is getting squirrelly, he’ll dab a bit of wax in it so it doesn’t take out an eye, he says. Lorenz is well-spoken, and his hair and outfits are dashing. His look seems most complete, however, when his self-made instruments surround him. Lorenz’s “band members,” as he likes to call them, include an oversize suitcase that doubles as his stool and his bass drum. His left foot controls a pasta pot and a circular-saw blade, as well as an old gas can with a baby shoe as a drumstick. The shoe, which he wore as a child, has beaten through four pieces of metal. “It’s super rugged,” Lorenz says. As his right heel thumps on the suitcase, his right toes simultaneously control a hi-hat cymbal along with “a box of bones and silverware that operates very much like a hi-hat,” the musician explains. The bottom of this hi-hat is a wooden box; the top is an 8mm film reel with a mix of deer, sheep and chicken bones, silverware, and other random knickknacks hanging on string. All together, this produces a crunchy sound, as the objects dance like marionettes in the box. Suitcase Junket’s percussive sound is tied together by a guitar Lorenz found in a Dumpster in 2008 while he was a student at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., studying experimental composition. “It was a crappy little toddler guitar filled with mold,” he says. He cleaned it with vinegar and began messing around with it. It didn’t sound very good, he says, so he put it in open tuning and started playing songs on it with a slide. Lorenz tunes to the guitar’s own preference, which usually changes with the seasons. During the summer, he says, the guitar sounds best in open C; in winter it shifts to open C sharp. “The guitar is actually pretty bossy,” Lorenz says with a laugh. ONE MAN’S TRASH

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Tom Banjo is a state treasure. Tom Banjo, aka TOM AZARIAN, is probably best known for his old-timey “Cranky Show.” But he is a walking encyclopedia of early American folk music. I think I learned more about the genre in 15 minutes from his engaging and informative pre-song setups than I have in years.

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Tim Lewis is more dedicated to local music than most of us are to anything. I pulled two lengthy shifts at the birthday bash this year, one in the afternoon, one in the evening. When I caught up with Lewis, the local music superfan was clocking in for his fourth, I believe. Next to Radio Bean owner LEE ANDERSON — and maybe not even him — dude saw more of the 80 bands that performed at the Bean and the neighboring Light Club Lamp Shop than anyone. Hats off, sir.

Honky Tonk Tuesday is in good hands. As we reported last month, BRETT HUGHES has been eyeing the end of his 10-year run leading the Bean’s weekly Honky Tonk Tuesday. The questions were simply when he would step down and who would pick up the mantle when he did. That someone would inherit the gig was never particularly in doubt, since it’s such a profitable night at the Bean. So, speculating on who that might be was kind of like the local version of guessing who would succeed JON STEWART on “The Daily Show.” Hughes played his last HTT — “for now,” he told me — on November 3. And the man taking his place? Local songwriter ERIC GEORGE. George is a terrific songwriter and guitarist and is well schooled in early country, as evidenced by his excellent 2015 self-titled solo record. Hughes advised him to collect his own core band — always a tricky task with HTT — and so he’s enlisted guitarist JOHN ABAIR, harmonica player and singer COLLIN COPE, and a crack rhythm section. Also, since every GEORGE JONES needs a

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Last Saturday’s daylong Radio Bean birthday party was, as always, a blast. From eight in the morning until last call, it was jam-packed with great music, free coffee and general merrymaking. But it was also an enlightening day in which I found out some interesting tidbits about our cozy little local scene. So, in no particular order, here are those newsy nuggets, along with some other (occasionally) relevant observations.

Whitman’s Sampler of local music. Sometimes you get a weird, stale coconut thingie. But sometimes you get gloriously gooey, melt-in-your-mouth caramel and chocolate. Point is, you can get a taste of practically the entire scene in 15-minute nibbles. The DuPonts offered one of the most delicious sets of the day. I got chills more than once thanks to the intertwining harmonies of ZACK and SAM DUPONT. They even test-drove a new tune that featured some complex and prettily atonal guitar and vocal work. Afterward, Zack let it slip that they are currently at work on a new record with MICHAEL CHORNEY. After what he did with MARYSE SMITH’s last record, the thought of him Chorney-ing up a DuPont Bros. album is tantalizing. Look for it sometime next spring or summer.

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Sometimes Lorenz sings into the hole in the body of his acoustic guitar. He vocally produces the same note that the string is tuned to, forcing it to vibrate and create sound — a technique known as sympathetic resonance. Lorenz has an air of transience about him — wanderlust, as if he won’t be in any one place for too long. On his 2015 album Make Time, opening song “New Old Friend” supports this idea: He sings about the soles of his feet getting tired and warbles that he was “Born to wander free, born to cross both land and sea.” Though he presents the image and tone of a vagabond folk singer, Lorenz is equally influenced by rock. Listen closely to his music, and you’ll hear shades of the Black Keys and Led Zeppelin. On “Earth Apple,” the second cut on Make Time, Lorenz doesn’t hold anything back. The percussion is heavy and tumultuous, the drive on the guitar crunchy. When paired with his scratchy vocals — and sympathetic resonance — the sound is full and forceful. Lorenz is fresh off a tour of Ireland that lasted most of October. Earlier this year, he mesmerized an audience at Otis Mountain Get Down in Elizabethtown, N.Y., managing to keep them engaged even as rain began to fall on the outdoor venue. He plays some 250 shows a year, always with that same Dumpster guitar. While Lorenz’s accumulation of junk is compelling, the most distinguished part of his act is another vocal trick that originated in Mongolia: throat singing,

in which more than one pitch can be sung simultaneously. Lorenz says he learned how to do this by accident. While in college, he took a South Indian cooking class in which many of the dishes’ names had a retroflex R — that is, the letter is pronounced with the top of the tongue on the roof of the mouth. He was singing in his car with his mouth in that shape when he discovered that it created an overtone sound.

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Lorenz practiced overtone singing exclusively in his car. Only years later, when he found the guitar, did he put the two together and decide it sounded good enough to play for listeners. When he’s not performing solo as the Suitcase Junket, Lorenz plays in the Northampton, Mass., band Rusty Belle with Zak Trojano and his older sister, Kate Lorenz. Even after 33 years of making music together, he says, harmonizing with his sister is still a magical experience. m

INFO The Suitcase Junket plays Signal Kitchen in Burlington on Saturday, November 14, 8:45 p.m., with Mal Devisa and Dietrich Strause. $10/12. AA.

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As for Hughes, he’ll be as busy as ever, gigging multiple times per week. He also hinted at heading to the studio soon to finally lay down the solo record we’ve all bugged him about for years.

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“It definitely won’t be the same without Brett and his crew, but my intention is to be faithful to the music,” wrote George in a recent email to Seven Days. “What I keep reminding myself is that what makes a country song great is the song. Even if we’re short a pedal steel player for a while, which is sometimes the tastiest ingredient in country music, the cleverness and depth of these old songs will always be the appeal, at least for me.”

Red Stripe is Lamp Shop PBR. It’s often struck me as funny that the Jamaican beer is the suds of choice for cost-conscious hipsters — myself included — at the LCLS. Then it hit me: LCLS used to be the Caribbean Corner. Well played, Lee Anderson.

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Being a sound engineer is hard. And Paddy Reagan is a great dude. Sound guys and gals get no respect, because the only time you really notice them is when something goes wrong. But it’s a tough job, and tweaking knobs and faders at an event like the Bean birthday is thankless bordering on impossible. That’s because you’re mic-ing and mixing a new band every 15 minutes. In the span of a few hours on the Lamp Shop side, sound man JASON HORNE had to mix two acoustic duos, a band whose lead instrument was a saw, DWIGHT & NICOLE, Maryse Smith, a kid-fronted punk band that he also played drums in, two indie-rock bands and Tom Banjo — the last of whom played not his namesake instrument but switched between guitar and autoharp, a diabolically annoying instrument to do, well, anything with. Unsurprisingly, there were a few snags — an especially finicky speaker certainly didn’t help. But for the most part, Horne handled the juggling act with poise. The one set beyond his control was PAPER CASTLES, during which vocalist PADDY REAGAN could hardly be heard

— see: speaker, finicky, above. Despite the unfortunate sound issues, at the conclusion of their set, Reagan, no stranger to engineering live music himself, leaned into his mic, looked at Horne and said, “Thank you, Jason.” Ironically, it was the only time his mic seemed to work. The lesson, as always, is: Hug your sound engineer.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: ‘Fade to Winter’ (ski ﬁlm), 8 p.m., $16. AA. MONKEY HOUSE: Winooski Wednesdays: Quiz for a Cause (ﬁlm trivia), 5:30 p.m., donations. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Zach Rhoads (instrumental guitar), 5 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: McKew Devitt (country, blues), 6 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., free. Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

MOOGS PLACE: Jim Charonko (folk), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

LE BELVEDERE: Fishhead Unplugged (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free.

jaunt along U.S. 1. It’s a serene work, with nods to the gentle twang of the Grateful Dead — a favorite of front man Bleeker, who is also the bass player for New Jersey indie band Real Estate. Alex Bleeker and the Freaks play the Monkey House in Winooski on Sunday, November 15.

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ARTSRIOT: Frankie Cosmos, All Dogs, Paper Castles (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10. AA. CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Elephant (funk, rock), 9 p.m., $10. 18+. THE DAILY PLANET: Hot Pickin’ Party (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free. FINNIGAN’S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. THE GRYPHON: Paul Asbell & Clyde Stats (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

outside vermont

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Nighttime (ephemeral folk), 8 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. WBKM Birthday Bash: Real Old and Insane Donkey, Seth Yacovone, Joe Moore (Neil Young tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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to a coastal California setting. The collaboratively written record reflects those bucolic surroundings, unwinding like a lazy Sunday

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Stroll (folk rock), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Soul Sessions, 10:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: ˜ e High Breaks (surf rock), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Da.Root (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Kermit (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

rutland area

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Eric Sievert (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: DJ Aras UVM Dance Party, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dave Rawlings Machine (Americana), 8 p.m., $30/35. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: ˜ e Slackers, the Screw Ups (ska), 8 p.m., $13/15. AA. MONKEY HOUSE: Second ˜ ursday Selector Sets with Disco Phantom (eclectic), 9 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: ˜ e House Rockers (rock), 7 p.m., free.

THE LOCAL BAR & NIGHTCLUB: ˜ e Moneys, Morpheus, Sould Shove, Hadrons Collide, Transrat, Kennedy Drive, Destructive Nature (punk), 6 p.m., free. 18+.

northeast kingdom

PARKER PIE CO.: Parker Pie Music Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Lowell & Sabo (rock), 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Ladies’ Night with DJ Skippy, 10 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Cooie DeFrancesco (blues, folk), 6 p.m., donation.

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burlington

SWEET MELISSA’S: BYOV ˜ ursdays, 3 p.m., free. Dan Zura (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Paul Asbell & Clyde Stats (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Dave Keller (blues), 7 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Carnival with DJ Luis Calderin (dance), 10 p.m., free/$5.

stowe/smuggs area

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: ˜ rottle ˜ ursdays, 9 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Brett Hughes (country), 7 p.m., free. 2K Deep presents Good Times (house), 10 p.m., free. FRI.13

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House music has had a home in Burlington at least since the godfather, Craig Mitchell, arrived in Vermont to attend Saint Michael’s College. Innovative electronic sounds have been bubbling somewhere on Church Street for two decades now, and the genre has grown hugely popular. In the past decade, the event promotion team at Nexus Artist Management has been instrumental in that success, breaking local acts globally as well as bringing great talents from around the world to Burlington. The latest rising name on their roster is Harder They Come, consisting of Chris Pattison and Mike Incalcaterra, both capable DJs and producers in their own

right. (Pattison is also one of the founders of Nexus.) They’ve had a meteoric run in 2015, working the touring circuit and gaining a reputation for transcendent live sets. As DJs, they make their name from mixes: stitching new, classic and obscure tracks into seamless, continuous playlists. The Freak EP, however, showcases their own production work and, without question, these gentlemen deliver the goods with style to spare. In a genre that frequently mashes the levels of every track past Spinal Tap’s mythical 11, The Freak EP was mixed with dynamics and clarity in mind. Body-rocking grooves aside, this is dance music that rewards careful listening under good headphones. (Considering the sheer power of the sound systems at your average EDM show, it’s a wonder more artists don’t take this approach.) The Freak EP is a strong release, but, with only three tracks, it had better be. That format works in HTC’s favor, though, because each track is a very different animal. As producers, the two have a real gift for arrangements, deftly weaving unexpected elements and sounds that perfectly balance each other. The breaks and drops are all diamond cut, thanks to precise editing that turns on a dime without missing a beat. Opening track “Freak” is a mammoth banger, channeling the polished propulsion of vintage Fatboy Slim or

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much dissonant and disorienting sound as he can. The frightening mechanical bent to his electronic orchestrations is cut with trembling organ, ghastly sound effects and discomfiting spoken-word segments that play like a demonically possessed animatronic figure. 6v-topnotch110415.indd Side B, composed by Sci-Fi — aka Griffin Jones — in collaboration with Bigman, is more accessible but offers just as many twisted aural apparitions in its 30 minutes. Jones trades in offbeat indie pop of the no-fi variety. His songs would still work well if stripped bare to the simple melodies and Casio keyboard beats around which they appear to be written. But Bigman surrounds Jones’ fragile voice with some of his own sonic curiosities. He yields to Jones’ more gentle approach yet still finds a way to craft weird, compelling soundcapes with winding tones and subtly shifting beats. Transparency by Harvey Bigman and Sci-Fi is available at comotapes. bandcamp.com.

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which was reviewed in these pages last week. If the kaleidoscopic Wand is the bright, colorful entryway to the funhouse that is Como Tapes, then Transparency is when the doors slam shut behind you and your rickety car clicks down the tracks into the ominous darkness of the unknown. The release is divided into two individual suites, each called “Transparency” and composed of numerous, unnamed smaller movements. Bigman’s piece, nominally the project’s Side A, is by far the more harrowing of the two. In the album’s liner notes, the work is described as a “symphony of ‘soulcode,’” a synthesizer-based experiment in … well, it’s hard to say what, exactly. Over the course of 32 minutes, Bigman’s chief intention appears to be to concoct as

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Some things that went through my mind as I listened to Transparency,, the recently released split record from Burlingtonbased experimental composers Harvey Bigman and Sci-Fi: I’m scared. Is that a … duck call? I need to change my laundry over, but I’m not sure I should go to the basement alone. The only thing creepier than carnival music is carnival music slowed down and detuned. Braaaaaaaaaains. Seriously, was that a duck call? Transparency is the second of two local releases from experimental label Como Tapes, which was founded in New Jersey last year but recently set up shop in Burlington. The other release is Wand, by local electronic composer Amelia Devoid,

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Basement Jaxx. From the intricately chopped vocal samples to the pummeling bass, this is a five-minute master class in carefully controlled chaos. It takes a special touch to spin so many dance-floor clichés into something this compelling. The other two songs demonstrate how tonally diverse house music can be without ever abandoning the steady 4/4 pulse that universally defines the scene. “Beating on the Drum” is a lushly orchestrated and melodic journey, a moving jigsaw puzzle of synth lines and percussion samples built around another catchy vocal hook. The final track, “Everything (I Ever Wanted),” sounds more like a conscious throwback to early’90s “acid house” work such as that of Adamski, who later became famous for his collaborations with R&B singer Seal. As a teaser, The Freak EP is effective stuff, because the sweaty faithful will surely be left wanting more. Harder They Come are master craftsmen, and it is impossible to finish this short presentation without wondering what kind of full-length album they could cook up. Here’s hoping we won’t have to wait too long to find out. The Freak EP by Harder They Come is available for download at soundcloud.com.

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JUNIPER: Zach Nugent (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Andriana Chobot (jazz, folk), 8 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. New Kingston, DJs Big Dog & Jahson (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. NEW CITY GALERIE: Wren Kitz, Matt Robidoux, Colby Nathan, Staples (indie), 8 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Roan Yellowthorn (indie), 7 p.m., free. Strork (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Hadley and the Jackal (folk rock), 10 p.m., free. Great Blue (rock, reggae), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: Lovewhip (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: D Jay Baron (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. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Francesca Blanchard, Maryse Smith (indie folk), 8 p.m., free.

Salsa Night with Jah Red (Latin), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dopapod, the Nth Power (live electronica), 9 p.m., $15/18. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Bronze Radio Return, Brothers McCann (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Brevity Thin (rock), 7 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Loose Association (rock), 5 p.m., free. Nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Back to Black with Disco Phantom & Operation Prince (Prince tribute), 8 p.m., $25.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Shane Cariffe (acoustic), 6 p.m., donation. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Abby Jenne & Doug Perkins (rock), 6 p.m., free. Bella’s Bartok (gypsy punk), 8:30 p.m., free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Jazzyaoke, 7:30 p.m., $5.

ZEN LOUNGE: Justice (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house, hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: St. Patty’s Day Happy Hour with Trinity (Celtic), 6 p.m., free. Zephrus (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Woodstack (jam), 8 p.m., free. Disco Phantom (eclectic), 10:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5.

northeast kingdom

JP’S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.

JASPER’S TAVERN: Raised on Radio (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

JUNIPER: Jeff & Gina (jazz), 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Carbon Leaf, Jubilee Riots (Celtic rock), 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Katie Trautz (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: The Suspects (blues), 9:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE STAGE: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Mal Maiz, Osage Orange (Cumbia, indie), 8 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Sinkane, Stephen A. Clark (soul), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

outside vermont

NECTAR’S: Francesca Blanchard (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. McLovins, Chromatropic (jam), 9 p.m., $5.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Matthew O’Neill (rock), 7 p.m., free. Travis Cyr (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. The Sun Parade (indie rock), 10 p.m., free. Revibe (jam), 11:30 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Old School Boogaloo, 9 p.m., $5. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Coquette (rock), 10 p.m., $5.

MOOGS PLACE: Curtis (rock), 7 p.m., free. Blue Fox (blues), 9 p.m., free. RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE ROOST: Coon Hill John (Americana), 6 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Seth Yacovone Band (blues), 9 p.m., $7.

mad river valley/ waterbury

THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Mogani (Latin jazz), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: North Country Rock Show (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Hudson Mohawke, the Dream (electronic), 9 p.m., $20/25. AA. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Andrew Moroz (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Girls Rock VT Rock Lotto, 6 p.m., $5. AA. Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

RED SQUARE: Andy Lugo & Andy Kareckas (rebel folk), 4 p.m., free. Great Blue (rock), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: The Suitcase Junket, Mal Devisa, Dietrich Strause (one-man band, singer-songwriters), 8:45 p.m., $10/12. AA.

FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

chittenden county

MONKEY HOUSE: Karavan, Rumblecat (rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Two Count (rock), 5 p.m., free. Last Kid Picked (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Jennifer Matthews (roots, rock), 6 p.m., donation.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Chalice, Castle (metal), 10 p.m., free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Worst. Song. Ever. (contest), 8 p.m., $5. LA PUERTA NEGRA: Vinyl Night with DJ Bay 6, 9 p.m., free. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Electroloads (live electronica), 10 p.m., $5.

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are one of only a handful of third-wave ska bands to make it to the 2000s. Where other bands of the generation proved too gimmicky to last, the Slackers’ longevity is a testament to their timeless fusion of reggae, rocksteady, ska and American R&B. It’s a laid-back hybrid that front man Vic Ruggiero aptly calls “Jamaican rock and roll.” Catch the Slackers at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Thursday, November 12, with the SCREW UPS. SWEET MELISSA’S: Penny Arcade (jazz), 5 p.m., free. Fun and Frolic (rock), 9 p.m., $5. WHAMMY BAR: Chris Killian (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: Happy Birthday Max (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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mad river valley/ waterbury

THE CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: The Band SuGar (blues, Americana), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Hot Neon Magic (’80s New Wave), 9 p.m., free.

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northeast kingdom JASPER’S TAVERN: Wound for Sound (rock), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Formula 5 (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Patrick Sweany, Lowell Thompson, Ron Ga lo (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $10. AA. FRANNY O’S: Kyle Stevens’ Happiest Hour of Music (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. THE GRYPHON: Shane Hardiman & Linda Oates (jazz), noon, free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Sam DuPont (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3. THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Songwriter Sessions, 4 p.m., free. Jamie Cunnigham (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. Shaken and Stirred (indie), 8:30 p.m., free. Ransom Smith (folk punk), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Jackie Lee (singer-songwriter), 5:30 p.m., free. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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JP’S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Magic Mondays with Squimley & the Woolens, Doctor Rick (jam), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Art Herttua & Ray Carroll (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Denmark (indie), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The on Trapps, Francesca Blanchard (indie folk), 8 p.m., $25/27. AA.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: July Talk, Little Hurricane, John Daly Trio (rock), 7:30 p.m., $12/14. AA.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Open Mic Comedy Café, 8 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Kelly Ravin (country), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Papadosio, Thri tworks, Third Nature (live electronica), 8:30 p.m., $17/20. AA.

outside vermont

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Givers, Doe Paoro (indie), 8 p.m., $13/15. AA. MONKEY HOUSE: WW Presents: Alex Bleeker and the Freaks (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

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burlington

PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

barre/montpelier

DRINK: Drink Comedy Open Mic, 9 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Bleeker & MacDougal (folk ballads), 11 a.m., donation. SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

FRANNY O’S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free. Comedy Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

FRANNY O’S: Smokey Neufield Project (rock), 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: NYT (R&B), 6 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pullin’ Yo Chain: A Standup Comedy Showcase, 8 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Mt. Philo, Sophia Donovan (folk rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Lokum (music of the Near East), 6:30 p.m., free. Grup Anwar (classical Arabic), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

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Short and to the Point Greta Kline, aka

FRANKIE COSMOS, writes really short songs. For example,

“Sands,” from her forthcoming EP Fit Me In, is a slice of Smiths-ian indie pop that clocks in at 47 seconds. But owing to her chirpy melodic style and knack for efficient, introspective wordplay, Kline packs plenty of catchy hooks and emotive heft into her sleek mini-suites. A full-band version of Frankie Cosmos plays ArtsRiot in Burlington on Thursday, November 12, with ALL DOGS and locals PAPER CASTLES. RED SQUARE: Karaoke, 7 p.m., free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: The Fo (rock), 8:30 p.m., free/$3. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. The Z (Frank Zappa tribute), 9 p.m., free/$7/$10. 18+.

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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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“Feather & Fur: Portraits of Field, Forest & Farm,” Great Hall

he Great Hall in Springfield embraces its purpose as a public art space with “Feather & Fur: Portraits of Field, Forest & Farm.” The exhibition by nine regional artists includes representational works depicting birds of prey, domestic fowl, farm animals and the wildness that remains in even the most domesticated beasts. As exhibitions director Nina Jamison put it in a statement about the show, “One of the goals of this new exhibit is to renew a sense of wonder and awareness for animals and nature ... The portraits convey a poetry and beauty that are part of the animal’s story.” Two acrylic paintings by Plainfield artist Adelaide Tyrol dramatically anchor the space, and the exhibit. A raptor sweeps the dawn sky and fills the 10-by-8-foot canvas in Tyrol’s “Morning” at one end of the hall. At the opposite end, her 10-by-6-foot “Prey and Predator” captures a hawk in flight diving toward its prey — a mouse unaware of its imminent fate. Tyrol positioned hawk and mouse on a grid, like pieces on a chessboard. These paintings in particular take advantage of the 14-foot-high walls in this expansive art space, which measures 150 feet long and 45 feet wide. Tyrol fills each canvas with an image and, in so doing, suggests the monumental role that even the smallest creature plays in the natural world. Although Tyrol’s works are large, they don’t dominate the exhibit. Instead, they introduce a sense of calm, of natural order. These paintings, along with other works on display, speak to both the beauty and beastliness of nature — and underscore that the life cycle of every living thing is finite. The Great Hall can be entered from either end, each option offering the viewer a different ordering of and perspective on the exhibit. Located near one entrance, Springfield artist Jamie Townsend’s painted-wood sculpture “Pig” (57 by 29 by 26 inches) and his paintings are abstractions in an otherwise largely realistic show. But his subjects are sufficiently recognizable to provide an interesting counterpoint rather than a jarring anomaly. “Pig” is roughly carved, its angles forming a 3D cubist composition. The animal stands on a painted wooden box, like a winner at the state fair. Painted in various complementary pastel colors, the sculpture has no trouble competing for attention with Townsend’s paintings. Of these, “The Boys,” a 43-by-42-inch oil, is the most successful. The subject, a pair of oxen, is painted in multiple expressive shades. Successive layers of paint add texture, dimension and vitality to the canvas. The title and subject of the 18-by-36-inch oil painting “Bovine Chorus Line” make a lasting impression. The artist, Donna Ellery of McIndoe Falls, depicts nine cows in a lineup, seemingly at the ready with best hooves forward. The witty composition is endearing yet not cutesy. Ellery’s strong technique is evident in the overcast sky and trampled grass, which she renders with great visual sensitivity and little fanfare. In her artist statement, Ellery writes that she has recently returned to painting in the Dutch masters tradition,

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TYROL FILLS EACH CANVAS WITH AN IMAGE AND, IN SO DOING, SUGGESTS

THE MONUMENTAL ROLE THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST CREATURE PLAYS IN THE NATURAL WORLD.

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“Prey and Predator” by Adelaide Tyrol

“The Boys” by Jamie Townsend

in which she was trained beginning at age 9. Her 36-by-32-inch oil “Great Horned Owl” is arresting, depicting the bird against a dark night sky. Ellery combines an impressionistic style with the rich, dark palette and quality of a 17th-century Dutch work, and she commands both. Another majestic bird of prey, a barn owl, appears in strikingly intimate detail in the archival giclée prints of Jennifer MaHarry, a Los Angeles-based photographer. “Farm Boy,” a 41-by-54-inch oil on canvas by Carolyn Enz Hack, brings a human onto the scene. A boy driving a small tractor through a field is central to the landscape, yet he is dwarfed by a cascade of rolling hills behind him and open farmland in the foreground. Hack articulates different aspects of the scene using, for example, a thicker brush for the clouds and scratches in the paint to evoke harvested crops.

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Many smaller works in the exhibit also deserve a close look. These include Chester artist Rick Hearn’s naturalistic “Egret Rising,” a 25-by-37-inch acrylic painting; and the five diminutive works by Manchester Center children’s book illustrator and author Christine Mix. The Great Hall is a gallery like no other: As part of the mixed-use commercial space at 100 River Street, it is also a hub of activity, with workers coming and going all day. The facility, once home to the Fellows Gear Shaper Company, now includes a medical center, a pharmacy and other businesses. The sprawling, gritty workrooms of the former factory have become clean, well-lit spaces. Most employees, patients and visitors walk through the Great Hall on their way to and from the parking garage.

“Barn Owl Face” by Jennifer MaHarry

NEW THIS WEEK burlington

‘SPONTANEITY’: New free-spirited works by the Vermont Watercolor Society, Burlington-St. Albans hub. November 13-28. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington.

barre/montpelier

f ‘CELEBRATE!’: A 15-year anniversary celebration

of local arts featuring a wide variety of fine a t and crafts by SPA member artists. Reception: Saturday, November 14, 4-6 p.m. November 11-December 31. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

f ‘TURN, TURN, TURN’: Abstract paintings by Barbara Baker-Bury, Scott J. Morgan and Matthew Peake, viewed with turning frames meant to prompt a dialogue between artist and viewer. Reception and artist talk: Thursda , November 19, 5-7 p.m. November 17-January 15. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY: Students of Gigi Gatewood’s black-and-white darkroom class present their photographs. November 12-December 1. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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f ‘CELEBRATING 65 YEARS “ON THE HILL’’’:

The a ts center celebrates its 65th year at the Webster Estate with work from its permanent collection, as well as pieces from artist members. Reception: Saturday, November 14, 2-4 p.m. November 14-January 3. Info, 367-1303. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

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‘STUDENT ASSOCIATION COLLECTS: 2000-2015’: An exhibition of objects purchased by a group of students under the guidance of faculty. November 12-January 24. Info, 518-564-2474. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y.

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KAREN DAWSON: The winter 2015 featured a tist presents new work. Reception: Thursda , November 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Health Center of Burlington, November 12-February 28. Info, 264-8191.

JERICHO ARTISAN MARKET: Showcase of work from local artists in a variety of mediums, with food and live music. Jericho Community Center, Saturday, November 13, 5-8 p.m. Info, 899-2366.

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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY TALK: Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger donates casts of Homo naledi specimens, one of the most significant archaeolog cal finds in recent histo y, in this presentation with Dartmouth associate professor of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Tuesday, November 17, 3-4:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 649-2200.

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‘THE ACT OF LIVING’: Large-format color photographs of nature and country life in Vermont. Through November 30. Info, 425-2700. Davis Studio Gallery, SEABA Center in Burlington. ART HOP GROUP SHOW: An exhibit organized by SEABA for this year’s South End Art Hop features works by 30 local artists. Through N vember 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington. BRUCE R. MACDONALD: “Metal, Fire and Color,” work in metal representing various elements in the universe. Through N vember 30. Info, 651-4114. Switchback Brewing in Burlington. CHRIS ALLEY: “The Science of Flaws and Miracles,” works by the Burlington College professor. Through December 31. Info, 860-4972. Vermont Art Supply and Black Horse S.P.G. in Burlington. EMILY MITCHELLE: Playful acrylic paintings. Through N vember 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee (Pine Street) in Burlington. FRYSCH DUTSON AND EDSEN LUTERS: Works by two painters with different sensibilities striving to find strength in co laboration. Through N vember 30. Info, 863-6713. North End Studios in Burlington. ‘IN GRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WORK IN WOOD’: Contemporary wood sculpture with examples of hand- and machine-carved figurati e, abstract and geometric works and laser-cut biomorphic forms by 10 artists. Through December 18. ‘SEX OBJECTS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY’: An exhibition of everyday and ceremonial art and artifacts curated by 40 anthropology and art history students. Through May 22, 2016. ‘WORLD LEADERS & GLOBAL CITIZENS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY PATRICK LEAHY, U.S. SENATOR’: An exhibit organized on the 40th anniversary of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s first term, featuring his view of historical events over the the past few decades. Through December 18. Info, 656-0750. University of Vermont Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington.

JORDAN DOUGLAS: “Images of Havana,” photographs from the streets of Cuba, shot in January 2015. Through N vember 30. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington. MICHAEL SMITH: “Old Paintings” by the Burlington artist. Through N vember 30. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. ‘NIGHTMARE APOLLO: ADVENTURES IN ASIA’: New photographs from southern Japan and other destinations in Asia by Robin Katrick. Through December 31. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. NIKKI LAXAR: “Inktober Challenge,” the 31 ink drawings the Burlington artist produced in as many days. Through N vember 30. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. ‘OF LAND & LOCAL 2015’: Stella Marrs, Jeroen Jongeleen, Olga Koumoundouros and Jim Westphalen are four of 14 artists who created work in a variety of mediums inspired by local landscapes. More are on view at Shelburne Farms. Through N vember 14. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. RILEY: “Pieces of My Mind,” abstract paintings. Through N vember 15. Info, 448-3657. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington. ‘RIO BLANCO RIDERS: FOUR GEEZERS WITH SCISSORS’: Collages and assemblages by Varujan Boghosian, W. David Powell, Marcus Ratliff and Peter Thomasho . Through N vember 30. Info, 540-3081. South Gallery in Burlington. ROBIN KATRICK: Vermont landscape photographs. Through N vember 30. Info, 865-6227. Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. VERMONT PHOTO GROUP: Eight photographers exhibit images of landscapes, nature and animals on media including aluminum and cotton rag paper. Through December 28. Info, 434-5503. New Moon Café in Burlington. ‘VISUALIZATIONS IN THE SCIENCES’: Images of scientific information in a varie y of formats created by UVM faculty and students. Through December 17 Info, 656-4636. Davis Center, UVM in Burlington. WILLIAM CHANDLER: Photos of Vermont scenes. Through N vember 30. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington.

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‘EYES ON THE LAND’: Installations, sculpture, paintings and photographs by 13 artists who were matched with 15 farms and forests conserved by the Vermont Land Trust over one year’s time. Artists include painters Mark Nielsen, Cameron Davis, Bonnie Acker, Charlie Hunter, Susan Abbott and Neil Riley; sculptors and multimedia artists Brian D. Collier, Dan Snow, Karolina Kawiaka and Gowri Savoor; and photographers Tyler WilkinsonRay, John Willis and Caleb Kenna. Through Janua y 3. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. CHITTENDEN COUNTY SHOWS

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A SURVEY OF PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY TALK: Photographer Peter Moriarty talks on the history of his discipline in conjunction with the three-artist exhibition “Hot Houses, Warm Curves.” BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Saturday, November 14, 3-5 p.m. Info, 767-9670.

JOHN DOUGLAS: “Looking Through the iew Finder,” works including photography and computer-generated imagery. Through N vember 30. Info, 540-8333. Sequoia Salon in Burlington.

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PECHAKUCHA NIGHT: Presentations on art, design and the Vermont landscape from local artists including Eric Cook and Yestermorrow students, Susan Abbott, Brian Collier, Cami Davis, Karolina Kawiaka, Caleb Kenna, Gowri Savoor and Dan Snow. Shelburne Museum, Thursda , November 12, 6 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

‘SERVICE AND SAFETY: NATIONAL SKI PATROL, 1938-1988’: A sneak peek at artifacts from the history of the National Ski Patrol, with ribbon cutting and visiting dignitaries from local, regional and national patrols. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, Saturday, November 14, noon-4:30 p.m. Info, 253-9911.

JEREMY LEE MACKENZIE: “Hidden Blueprints,” intricate wood scrollwork by the Champlain College student, who secretly made drawings for his artwork while incarcerated. Through N vember 28. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington.

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‘SUSTAINING TRADITION: TURKISH CERAMICS, TOURISM AND THE CRAFT REVIVAL’: Southern Vermont College President David R. Evans combines personal and scholarly reflection on urkish cini objects, and draws parallels with Vermont’s tourist craft economy. Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Wednesday, November 11, 5:30-7 p.m. $15 advance; $20 door; $5 SVC students, faculty and staff. Info, info@tccvt.org.

MEET THE ARTIST: KAROLINA KAWIAKA: The a tist and Dartmouth College studio art teacher explains how she uses technology to artistically explore our impact on the landscape, in conjunction with the current exhibit “Eyes on the Land.” Shelburne Museum, Saturday, November 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

INNOVATION CENTER GROUP SHOW: First floor: Catherine Ha l, Elizabeth Bunsen, Kasey Prendergast, Matt Gang, Michael Buckley and Michael Pitts. Second floor: Jason B yd, Kathy Hart, Kelly O’Neal, Meryl Lebowitz, Lyna Lou Nordstorm and Billy Bob Green. Third floor: Haley Bishop, Jane Bonneau, Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings and Meryl Lebowitz. Through N vember 30. Info, 859-9222. The Inn vation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

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Mall-like pop music, played on a sound system, at first feels incompatible with the surrounding art. Yet the music seems to give many visitors a spring in their step. They stop to look at a few pieces, perhaps commenting on them to friends or passersby before moving on to appointments. Signage from the Springfield Regional Development Corporation references President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which facilitated the development of public art during the Great Depression. In that tradition, the Great Hall’s programming endeavors to inspire conversations about the arts, culture and history, as well as about the environment and social issues. “Feather & Fur” won’t ruffle any feathers or rattle any cages, but it doesn’t need to. Displayed in a much-used public space, it is noticed, appreciated and talked about day after day. And that’s a success. m

OLA WLUSEK TALK: The independent curator and public arts professional speaks about her work, in conjunction with Burlington City Arts’ Visiting Critic Series. Burlington City Arts, Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

TURKISH CALLIGRAPHY ART: Calligraphy master Aydin Cayir presents on the history, styles and techniques of the writing form and offers a live demonstration. RSVP requested to info@tccvt. org. School for International Training Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, Saturday, November 13, 7 p.m. Info, info@tccvt.org.

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‘Speculative Biology’ The future may be filled with uncertainty,

his attempts to restore humanity to our future selves through eating and food.” Shown

but at least there will be fantastical animals and a new cuisine built around them.

alongside the cookbook are drawings by Luke Eastman, a debut exhibit that includes

“Speculative Biology” at Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction features Adam

“alien wildlife, dinosaurs and marooned space explorers,” rendered with intricate detail.

Blue’s Cookbook 2314, an artist book filled with recipes for eating the peculiar critters of

Eastman is an art instructor at the Richmond Middle School in Hanover, N.H. Through

the future. Blue, who is education director at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, N.H., notes that

December 3. Pictured: cover of Cookbook 2314 by Adam Blue and “Pikielney’s Urgrod”

his inventive culinary exercises “provide a snapshot into one survivor’s experience, and

drawing by Luke Eastman.

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JOHN W. LONG: Wall-hung sculptural works using reclaimed wood. Through N vember 30. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. ‘JUXTAPOSED SPACES’: Works in a variety of mediums by Shelburne Craft School instructors and staff including Wylie Sofia Garcia, Sarah Ahrens and Sage Tucker-Ketcham. Through December 1. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School.

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MILTON ARTISTS GUILD: Twenty artists share photographs that represent meaningful passageways in life. Through Februa y 5. Info, lstech@ comcast.net. Milton Municipal Building.

ROBERT CHAPLA: “New Directions in Plein Air Painting,” oil and acrylic landscapes by the Newbury artist. Through N vember 22. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. ‘SHADES OF RED’: Works by more than 30 Vermont artists, including photography, painting, stained glass and collage. Through December 31. Jericho Town Hall. ‘VISIONS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND BEYOND’: Local landscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Helen Nagel and Gail Bessette; pastels by Athenia Schinto and Betty Ball; and jewelry by Tineke Russell. Through December 30. Info, 985-8223. Luxton Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

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ALMUTH PALINKAS AND JEANNE CARIATI: “Interface,” alabaster sculptures and works in fiber and watercolo . Through December 31. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier. JANET WORMSER: Paintings using simple elements of form, color and line. Through N vember 28. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield JONATHAN VANTASSEL: “Wemosphere,” new abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 31. Info, 828-5657. ermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. MARK LORAH: Blocky abstract artworks. Through November 30. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.

f ‘OUTSIDER ART INSIDE’: Works from nine self-taught artists associated with Grass Roots Art and Community Effort. Reception: Friday, December 4, 4-7 p.m. Through December 31. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. PHYLLIS CHASE: “Life in Vermont,” oil paintings and framed limited-edition prints by the Montpelier-based artist. Through December 15. Info, 223-7800. The Gre Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR. AND EDWARD KADUNC: New works in multiple mediums by the Vermont artists. Through N vember 13. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. SYLVIA WALKER: Landscape paintings by the self-taught Vermont artist and teacher. Through November 27. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

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Fairbrother and John T. Kirk have worked together as collectors, and they have maintained a relationship with Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art for nearly as long. This exhibition showcases the breadth of the Fairbrother-Kirk acquisitions, featuring early American decorative art (such as chairs and vases) by unknown makers, as well as a dizzying roster of blue-chip artists that includes Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mike Kelley, Sol LeWitt, Catherine Opie, Elizabeth Peyton and Andy Warhol. Presumably to aid digestability, the approximately 140 works have been arranged in seven categories: Histories, Wonders, Goods, Marks, Males, Geometries and Surfaces.

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Through December 6. A collectors’ talk is Tuesday, November 17, at 12:30 p.m. Pictured: “Jacqueline Kennedy II” by Warhol.

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GABRIEL TEMPESTA: “Our World, Charcoals & Casein,” highly detailed paintings rendered from photos of the natural world. Through December 31. Info, 253-8943. Upstairs at West Branch Gallery in Stowe. GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: Photographs by Lauren Stagnitti, Chris Crothers, Marie LaPre Grabon, Brenda Gravel, Tammy Parker, Virginia Patterson, Katherine Robinson and Susan Russo. Through N vember 22. Info, 635-7423. The L vin’ Cup in Johnson.

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f MONICA CARROLL: MFA thesis exhibition of landscape paintings inspired by explorations in New Mexico and Vermont. Gallery talk: Thursda , November 12, 3 p.m. Through N vember 21. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

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RIVER ARTS PHOTO CO-OP: Images from 18 dedicated participants of the monthly photographers’ meetup. Through Janua y 4. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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ELLEN GRANTER: “Lotus Pond,” colorful oil paintings inspired by aquatic life. Through N vember 30. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

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‘2015 LEGACY COLLECTION’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 now-deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and a tists Alden and Mary Bryan. Through December 30. ‘GEMS’: An exhibition of 135 small-format works by gallery members. Through December 30. FESTIVAL OF WREATHS EXHIBIT: First annual event displays wreaths created by community members, available for sale at a silent auction to benefit the ga lery’s educational programming. Through N vember 22. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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‘WOMEN OF NORWICH: TRAILBLAZERS AND TORCHBEARERS’: Photographs, documents, uniforms and objects celebrating the women who were “first,” from the first ladies of un ersity presidents to the first women in the Corps of Cadets and so-called nontraditional fields. Throug December 31. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield

‘FRACTURED / WORKS ON PAPER’: Two- and three-dimensional works by 11 artists including Kiki Smith, Leonardo Drew and Olafur Eliasson that deconstruct space as interpreted through architecture, optics and narrative. Through November 22. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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f VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: “Beauty Is Interconnectedness,” photography-based works exploring relationships of humans and nature. Reception: Friday, November 20, 3-5 p.m. Through November 20. Info, 800-468-4888, ext. 208. Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College in Plainfield

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LYNN GRAZNAK: “The Beautiful Light of Burning Bridges,” sculpture, assemblage and installation exploring memory and childhood, folk tales and heartbreak. Through N vember 14. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret.

TOD GUNTER AVIATION ART: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighte -bomber active in Vietnam. More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Ga lery in Stowe.

REBECCA LEVI: “Queering the Lines,” embroidery works from the Brooklyn artist that subvert traditional assumptions of handicraft and gender normativity. Through December 2. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

mad river valley/waterbury AUGUST BURNS: “More Than Meets the E e: Portraits and Figures,” paintings by the former women’s health advocate. Through N vember 21. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

‘SPECULATIVE BIOLOGY’: Imaginative works featuring invented animals, with drawings by Luke Eastman and the sci-fi 2314 Cookbook by Adam Blue. Through December 3. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

BOB AIKEN: “Vermont Impressionist,” landscapes depicting rural fields, ri ers, mountains and small villages, in acrylic with a palette knife. Through December 31. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield

TOM SCHULTEN: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.

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HIVE COLLECTIVE FALL EXHIBIT: Paintings by members Liz Harris, Nancy VanDine and Jessica Churchill-Millard and furniture and decorative objects by Kelly Fekert-McMullen, along with works by 30 local artists. Through N vember 30. Info, sca66@hotmail.com. STEVE FARRAR: “Beneath the Bark,” large-scale portraits and sculptures made with wood and paint by the Richmond artist. Through N vember 15. Info, 595-4866. The Hi e in Middlesex.

‘BOXCARS: RAILROAD IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY REALISM’: Realist paintings with trains as subject, curated by Charlie Hunter. Through March 12. f ‘DRAWING ON, IN, OUT’: Drawings by Christina de Gennaro, Terry Hauptman, Monique Luchetti, Craig Stockwell, Jane Sutherland and Scott Tulay. Exhibition tour: Sunday, December 6, 2 p.m. Through Februa y 8. ‘SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE WORKING FOREST’: A multidisciplinary examination and celebration of the working forest featuring paintings by Kathleen Kolb, poetry by Verandah Porche and exhibition design by Mark O’Maley. Through Janua y 3. EVAN CORONIS: “Penumbra,” hexagonal forms made with unrefined industrial glass. Through March 12. LINN BRUCE: “Stories in Color,” vibrantly colorful paintings. Through Janua y 3. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

RITA IOANNIDIS: Colorful paintings by the Warren artist. Through N vember 30. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield

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‘NAKED TRUTH: THE BODY IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN ART’: Prints, drawings and watercolors by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and others whose work addressed the relationship of the nude body and contemporary morality. Through December 13. Info, 443-3168. Middlebu y College Museum of Art.

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‘BREWING UP LOCAL ART’: Group show of selected works by Vermont artists Levi Tetreault, Martha Elmes, Jimm Gerstman and Dorian McGowan, including etchings, charcoal drawings, elaborate paper cuts and assemblages from wood and bike parts. Through N vember 30. Info, 626-0724. Grindstone Café in Lyndonville.

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f ‘PERSPECTIVE’: Photographs of the natural world by Richard Cofrancesco, CJ Hockett, Alistair McCallum and Jon Olsen. Reception: Saturday, November 14, 4-6 p.m. Through N vember 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery Mill Street in Middlebury. ‘PORTRAIT OF A FOREST: MEN AND MACHINE’: Contemporary images from Weybridge photojournalist George Bellerose presented alongside archival material from the logging industry. Through Janua y 9. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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STACEY STANHOPE DUNDON: “Back in the Saddle: 25 Years of Horse Play,” oil paintings, dinnerware and decorative, large-scale horse heads. Through November 30. Info, 388-1639. The National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury.

Third Floor Gallery. For each of her intimate and highly art-directed portraits of women,

WARREN KIMBLE: “All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective,” works by the internationally known Brandon artist, along with works from his own folk art collection. Through December 31. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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DONALD SAAF: “Town and Country,” mixed-media works by the local artist. Through N vember 28. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. ‘FINE ART GIFTS FOR HOLIDAY GIVING’: Exhibition and sale of affordable artwork by guild members. Through December 29. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

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HARALD AKSDAL AND DEBRA KIEL: Featured drawings and new jewelry, respectively, from the local artists. Through N vember 28. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

which are printed on Belgian linen, Zolnoski has built a metal shrine with scraps she salvaged from metal shop dumpsters. She notes that most pieces are complemented used, Zolnoski explains, and describes her show as “a first attempt at addressing the sacredness created when I photograph women in nature.” Through December 26. Pictured: an image component of “Altar to Beatrice.”

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ADELAIDE TYROL: “The Outside Sto y,” images of the natural world, many of which have been featured alongside ecology-related articles in regional publications. Through N vember 29. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. COLLECTIVE FALL SHOW: Hooked rugs by Janet Avery, jewelry by metalsmith Susan Riach, ornaments and whistles by Mary Stone and hand-molded beeswax candles by Vermont Honey Lights. Through December 31. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. ‘FEATHER & FUR: PORTRAITS OF FIELD, FOREST & FARM’: Portraits celebrating the beauty,

intelligence and grace of animals by nine artists. Through April 30, 2016. Info, 885-3061. The Grea Hall in Springfield KEITH SONNIER: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. PETER SAUL: A retrospective exhibit that spans 1959 to 2012 and includes colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and, occasionally, politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading. LOIS MASOR BEATTY AND ELIZABETH MAYOR: Prints by the local artists. Through N vember 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

‘DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES: ANCIENT FOSSILS, NEW IDEAS’: Fossils and models reveal how current thoughts on dinosaur biology have changed since the 1990s. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through December 15. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury. ‘DUST’: Displays include samples of “this most ubiquitous substance” from around the world, and the cosmos, as well as unique moments in the history of dust and a visual history of dust removal. Through N vember 30. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of E eryday Life in Glover. GERRY TREVITS: New paintings of the Northeast Kingdom. Through December 7. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. MERI STILES: “Attractor,” drawings, paintings and constructions by the psychology professor and self-taught artist. Through N vember 21. Info, 7480158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. OTTO: Prints of recent work from “The Book of Wales” by Newport artist Brian McCurley (aka OTTO). Through December 15. Info, 323-7759. Th 99 Gallery and Center in Newport. VICTORIA PATRICK ZOLNOSKI: “Altared,” new altarpieces and digital and altered method photographs. Through December 26. Info, 472-9933. Third Floor Ga lery in Hardwick.

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‘THE BOWL, A CELEBRATION’: A collection of special and treasured bowls from the Tunbridge community and beyond, each accompanied by a story about its meaning to the owner. Organized by art teacher and potter Stephanie Loeffle , the show marks the establishment of a bowl lending library with pieces from local artists available for

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CALL TO ARTISTS 2016 SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS: Vermont students in grades seven to 12 are invited to submit art and writing entries in dozens of categories, including ceramics, digital art, painting, photography, poetry, humor, science fiction, personal essay/memoir and more. Visit brattleboromuseum.org for more info. Deadline: December 16. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124. DAILY PLANET EXHIBITS: Artists are invited to display their work for a two-month period. Please email art@ dailyplanet15.com with samples and size dimensions. The Daily Planet, Burlington. Deadline: November 13. Info, 862-9647. EIGHTH ANNUAL LEGO CONTEST & EXHIBIT: Creators of all ages are invited to design and build original Lego sculptures and display them at the museum at an event November 20-22. Guidelines and entry forms available online. Works must be delivered to the museum on Wednesday, November 18, 4-6 p.m., with completed entry form and $5 fee. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124, ext. 101.

THE FRONT SEEKS NEW MEMBERS: Cooperative gallery in Montpelier seeks new members. Dues are $75 per month and members are required to staff the gallery for at least three hours per month and to serve on a committee. If interested send link to online portfolio (preferred), or fi e images less than 1MB; state why you think membership would be mutually beneficial. Submissions due to applications@thefrontvt.com by November 29. The Front, Montpelier. Info, applications@ thefrontvt.com. THE GALLERY AT LCATV: Lake Champlain Access Television (LCATV) is looking for artists to exhibit visual arts at a spacious community media center in northern Colchester. Artists must meet the criteria of LCATV membership (live, work or attend school in Colchester, Milton, Georgia, Fairfax, Westford, South Hero, Grand Isle or North Hero). Exhibitions can be one, two, or three months and include a reception. Group shows are welcome. Proceeds from any sales go to the artists. Lake Champlain Access Television, Colchester, through August 1, 2016. Info, 862-5724. MEMBERS’ ART SHOW: Helen Day Art Center members are invited to contribute up to two

checkout. Through December 31. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

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‘HOT HOUSES, WARM CURVES’: Paintings by Anda Dubinskis, photography by Peter Moriarty and painted shoes by Rick Skogsberg. Through December 12. Info, 767-9670. Big Town Gallery in Rochester.

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‘WINTER AS PRISM OR PRISON’: How do you view winter: as a beautiful prism of light or a prison of epic proportions? Thats the theme of an upcoming juried exhibit. More info at cmacvt.org. Deadline: December 4. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

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‘COLLECTING AND SHARING: TREVOR FAIRBROTHER, JOHN T. KIRK AND THE HOOD MUSEUM OF ART’: Almost 140 paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and early American furniture from the Fairbrother-Kirk collection and the museum, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, Carl Andre, John O’Reilly, John Singer Sargent and others. CANALETTO’S VEDUTE PRINTS: An exhibition honoring collector and donor Adolph Weil, Jr. features etchings from the early 1740s of Venetian scenes by Antonio Canaletto. Through December 6. Info, 603-646 2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

CHRISTIAN WOLFF: “Beginning anew at every ending,” an exhibition highlighting key aspects of the composer’s work — indeterminacy, politics and collaboration — and celebrating his long association with Dartmouth College as a professor. Through December 10. Info, 603-646-2422. Bake Berry Library, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. ‘COLLAGES OF COLOR’: Recent works from more than 20 participants of Art Lab, a community art program for adults with special needs. Through November 28. JOHN MCNALLY: “Recent Work,” oil paintings, watercolors and iPad drawings from the former lawyer and self-taught Thetford a tist. Through N vember 13. VERMONT GLASS GUILD: 2015 Art Glass Invitational exhibition featuring work from 22 Vermont artists. Through N vember 13. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘GEORGE S. ZIMBEL: A HUMANIST PHOTOGRAPHER’: Images from collection of the documentary photographer covering 1953 to 1955, which includes his shots of Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grate during the filming of The Se en Year Itch by director Billy Wilder. Through Janua y 3, 2016. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m

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CAMILLE HENROT: “Grosse Fatigue,” 13-minute video installation inspired by the concept of the encyclopedia, produced during a residency at the Smithsonian Institute. PATRICK BERNATCHEZ: “Les Temps Inachevés,” collected interdisciplinary works by the Québec artist, including drawings, photographs, film, sound pieces and insta lation, that together form a singular rumination on time. Through Janua y 10. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art.

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TOM LEYTHAM: “The Other orking Landscape,” watercolors by the artist and architect depicting the remnants of Vermont’s 19th- and 20th-century industrial structures. Through December 31. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Seeking local emerging artists to apply for a residency program starting December 1. Selected artists will be granted a small private studio and the opportunity to exhibit at the center. For details and proposal requirements, see studioplacearts. com. Deadline: November 14. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069.

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MONIQUE VAN DE VEN: “Gleaned Near South Royalton,” ceramics inspired by and incorporating objects found in nature. Through December 5. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

‘SALVAGE’: Chandler Gallery seeks submissions of work made from found and repurposed materials, asking, “How does the reimagining of salvaged parts come together in your work?” Deadline: December 9. Chandler Gallery, Randolph. Info, salvage. chandler@gmail.com.

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DONA MARA FRIEDMAN: “The Nature of Things, encaustic oil paintings by the regionally recognized artist. Through N vember 16. Info, 362-4061. The Ga lery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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ronically, the three kinds of movies that have always interested me the least are the three about which other filmgoers get worked up the most: comic-book adventures, the Star Wars series and James Bond films. That is, until Daniel Craig entered the picture. For a brief, shining moment — which may already be over — those films became more than gimmicky cartoons. The four films in which Craig has played 007 have possessed something close to gravitas. Sacrificing none of the fun, they’ve added an existential dimension to the half-century-old series by giving us a character who fights not only evil but the ravages and realities of age. I love the way director Sam Mendes took a moment in Skyfall to have Javier Bardem’s character remind the agent that he’s “barely held together by your pills and your drink.” Likewise, in Spectre, Bond answers a doctor who asks how much he drinks with a matterof-fact “too much.” Maybe it’s because I’m approaching the edge of middle age, but the film is enhanced for me by the admission that all this isn’t as easy for Bond as it once was. Every time this Bond chases a bad guy, his knees feel pain they didn’t use to. After he endures a controlled tumble to the bottom of a building imploding around him — as

he does in the bravura opening sequence of Spectre — every joint and muscle will scream for weeks. You can see it in his eyes. They reflect Bond’s fast-approaching fate: obsolescence. The agent is threatened from two sides in this 24th outing. On one side is the next generation of MI6, represented by a smarmy up-and-comer known as C (Andrew Scott), whose agenda includes a plan to replace double-0 operatives with drones. Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw) team up with our hero to alter his career trajectory. On the other side is the shadow organization SPECTRE, which is based in Rome and orchestrates much of the world’s crime, masterminded by a soft-spoken madman named Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) who goes way, way back with Bond. I mean way. Oberhauser has an evil plan to steal everybody’s personal information and tells Bond all about it while torturing him at his lair in a Moroccan meteor crater. OK, so the part with Waltz is a tad cartoonish, the film’s single misstep. Indeed, Bond has a full plate — keeping his job, saving the world, dispatching a series of XXL assassins and, in the picture’s second half, falling in what looks very much like real

CRAIG’S LISTLESSNESS The actor responsible for one of the most successful franchise reboots in movie history is sending signals that he may indeed say never again.

love with a French psychologist. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) is the ultimate Bond woman: gorgeous, super-smart and good with a gun. She even talks Bond into taking his martinis dirty. Scripted by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth, Spectre has a running time of nearly two and a half hours. That’s ample time for running through exotic streets, staging virtuoso set pieces such as a fight in a pilotless helicopter, and racing Aston Martins — not to mention making countless allusions to previous Bond films. While completely lost on me, those should prove fun for longtime fans to spot.

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ANOTHER EDUCATION Mulligan plays a laundry worker who finds herself drawn reluctantly into the women’s suffrage movement in Gavron’s period piece.

ment was driven by pampered middle-class wives with political aspirations will get a reality check when Maud offers her halting testimony to a parliamentary committee. Her tale of hard labor from an early age, minimal schooling, occupational hazards and low pay might remind young viewers of District 12 from The Hunger Games — it has a material urgency that history lessons normally lack. And Mulligan sells the monologue with beautiful thoughtfulness, showing us a young woman just starting to realize she might have options beyond diligent toil and resignation.

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Suffragette ★★★

he problem with historical “issue” movies is that everyone already knows who won, which can promote a certain retrospective smugness. (“Silly Edwardians! How could they really think that granting women the vote would be a disaster?”) To create a compelling story instead of an opportunity for selfcongratulation, the filmmakers need to immerse us in the historical context; to show us why the controversy was a controversy, and perhaps how it still resonates today. Lincoln and Selma achieved that with a tight, unsentimental focus on leaders and their strategy — essentially, both were period procedurals. With Suffragette, director Sarah Gavron and writer Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) take a different tack. Set in 1912, the year that Britain’s suffragettes began turning to violent protest, it concerns not movement leaders but “foot soldiers” (as the hand-holding introductory text tells us). Meryl Streep plays famous firebrand Emmeline Pankhurst, but her screen time amounts to a few minutes of speechifying in a plummy accent. Her only function in the film is to inspire militancy in our fictional protagonist, 24-year-old laundry worker Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan). Focusing on working-class women instead of their more privileged counterparts offers a fresh view of the suffragette movement and, for a while, that choice serves the film well. Anyone who thinks the move-

Will Craig slip into that tux once more? The jury is still out. The Internet Movie Database lists his participation in the untitled Bond 25 as “announced,” Mendes’ agreement to direct as “rumored” and the movie’s projected year of release as unknown. The actor has stated for the record that he’d rather “slash my wrists” than play Bond again. For now, all we can say for sure is that, if he doesn’t, it’ll be a shame. As Carly Simon sang almost 40 years ago, “Nobody does it better.”

But Suffragette never achieves quite that degree of immediacy again. While the scenes of street violence and prison life are kinetic and harrowing, a strong narrative arc is lacking, and the characters remain underdeveloped. Anne-Marie Duff brings grit to the role of the worker who radicalizes Maud, but we learn only bits of her own story. Helena Bonham Carter, as a bomb-making pharmacist, remains merely a sketch of determination. Brendan Gleeson plays a role designed to humanize the antagonists: a conflicted government investigator assigned to root out the militants. But, while we see his sympathy for

Maud, we never learn much about his own attitudes toward women or how they might be changing. Indeed, the film never goes far enough in pinpointing the cultural attitudes that made the fight for women’s suffrage distinct from the fight for working-class men’s suffrage — which was still ongoing at the time. Gavron milks the pathos of Maud’s forced separation from her child, but the laws that give custody to her husband might as well be random, dystopian dictates from on high. Of course, from Maud’s perspective, they pretty much are. By focusing on a “foot soldier,” the film sacrifices the wide view of a Lincoln for one person’s story of empowerment. At times, it’s a stirring story; at others, that note of retrospective smugness sneaks in. Too many details get swamped by Alexandre Desplat’s swelling music, which constantly reminds us we’re seeing an uplifting struggle for liberation. And the vitality of Maud and her fellow workers is lost in murky compositions that remind us this movie is serious, award-worthy business. Suffragette’s end titles remind us that in some parts of the world, women still can’t vote. Viewers would do well to remember that — and perhaps, too, to give some thought to why suffrage still matters, given that so many of those who take it for granted today don’t use it. Nothing to be smug about there. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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