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10/22: The RGA launches a TV ad featuring pro-choice women for Brian Dubie — including Dubie’s cousin.

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A big thank-you to Sen. Richard Mazza for speaking out against Brian Dubie’s smear campaign and character assassination of Peter Shumlin [“Fair Game,” October 20]. The Peter Shumlin I know is a conﬁdent, articulate, vigorous politician but would never attempt to destroy an opponent’s character. Peter has been working hard to keep to the issues and let the voters know who he is and what he stands for. Meanwhile, his opponent Brian Dubie and his buddies at the Republican Governors Association are playing cesspool politics and — simply put — lying about Shumlin’s proposal and his record. Peter has built a successful business while at the same time getting many good things done for Vermont, like balancing the budgets and ﬁghting for the rights of all Vermonters. I trust Peter Shumlin to create good jobs, bring health care to all and improve access to early education. He has the legislative experience, leadership skills and integrity I want in our next governor. Please join me in voting for Peter Shumlin for governor. Pat Cram

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I usually enjoy Tim Newcomb, but was offended by his Dubie-Shumlin cartoon on October 20. Brian Dubie is anti-abortion. Whether you agree or disagree, it’s a publicly stated position. But Peter Shumlin is “said to be a greasy womanizer”? Who “says”? Is a rumor Mr. Newcomb heard somewhere journalism? (And, yes, political cartoons are — or should be — journalism.) And “greasy”? Is that a comment on Mr. Shumlin’s hygiene? Or his ethnicity? Either way, it’s uncalled for. If, for the sake of argument, the comment about Mr. Shumlin were true (I have no reason to believe it is), it’s still a shot at his personal life, whereas a politician’s stand on abortion is a matter of policy. Policy is what elections should be about. If Tim Newcomb wants to make an allegation about Mr. Shumlin, he should make it directly, with evidence to back it up, not with “someone said” innuendo. Failing that, ﬁnd another cartoon to draw. Between Seven Days’ ethically challenged “poll” results and gutter cartoons, maybe it’s time the staff took a remedial course in civics. Mark Floegel

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OCTOBER 27-NOVEMBER 03, 2010 VOL.16 NO.09

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Vermont Towns Vie for Next Round of E-Vermont Broadband Assistance

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Can the City of Burlington Toughen Its “Lawn Care” Regulations?

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Art: At the Fleming Museum, small versions of the very large works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Past in Present An all-female trio and allmale quartet conduct a musical journey through the past at UVM Recital Hall this week. Red Molly and the Wiyos specialize in old-time tunes: The former blend polished, three-part vocals with down-home bluegrass and gospel songs, while the latter have been known to kick 1920s and ’30s ragtime ditties up a notch with beat boxing. Red Molly also play at Tunbridge Town Hall on Saturday.

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Streets swarm with all manner of costumed creatures for the third annual Middlebury Spooktacular. It’s just not Halloween without a little trick-or-treating, so don a disguise and collect candy along paths lined with jack-o’-lanterns. Dying for a little more fright? Flip to the calendar section for haunted houses and cemetery tours, if you dare.

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A Simple Plan Garnet Rogers’ take on folk music is pretty simple: The Canadian baritone, pronounced “one of the major talents of our time” by the Boston Globe, celebrates everyday victories through song. Threading in blues, rock and classical influences, the multi-instrumentalist delivers a slice of life along with his popular between-sets banter at the After Music Series. Music, wit ... the dude seems to have it all. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 55

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Sticks and stones don’t just break bones; they’re the backbone of nature. Burlington artist Linda E. Jones’ “Sticks & Stones” exhibit at 215 College Gallery uses objects found in nature — along with archaeological finds and medical references — in veiled mixed-media constructions that contemplate decay and regeneration. Dig through her layered message until Sunday.

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Defining itself as “a festival with a purpose,” the Wild & Scenic Film Festival sparks environmental activism. Its lineup of shorts seeks to illustrate our planet’s beauty and chart community efforts to combat climate change. Curt Ellis and Aaron Woolf’s “Big River,” for example, examines the impact of one acre of corn, and Nick Waggoner’s “Signatures” portrays the rhythm of the seasons.

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Brian Dubie has made Peter Shumlin’s character a major issue in this governor’s campaign, even making it the focus of his questions to Shumlin in their last televised debate. Yet, when pressed, Dubie never has the cojones to say Shumlin is “unethical.” Instead, he’s letting his website do the talking. When launched, shumlinsethics.com listed 12 of Shumlin’s alleged “ethical lapses.” One focused on the president of the state troopers’ union — Det. Sgt. MICHAEL O’NEIL — trying to “fix” Shumlin’s ticket. “Shumlin acknowledged having a conversation with the union president about ‘taking care of’ the ticket. Though Shumlin claims the trooper was joking, it is clear by his actions he was not,” the Dubie camp stated in its original missive. The Dubie folks have even called on O’Neil and Shumlin to hold a joint press conference to clear the air. The attacks on O’Neil upset members of the Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont — a union that endorsed Dubie. In fact, the firefighters were rumored to be thinking about retracting their endorsement. So, guess what?

The item about O’Neil has been removed from Dubie’s website. Interesting. The Dubie camp pulled an item complaining about an alleged quid pro quo between a union official and Shumlin because they were worried they might lose the support of a key union?

That’s the (Down) Ticket!

In case you missed it, there are a number of other statewide races on the ballot next week. This is how I think they’ll turn out: LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Republican PHIL SCOTT will win by a comfortable margin over Democrat STEVE HOWARD, Progressive MARJORIE POWER, Socialist BOOTS WARDINSKI and Independent PETER GARRITANO. Scott has maintained himself as a steadyhand-on-the-wheel kinda guy, and I suspect he’ll take enough left-leaning votes from the other four candidates to allow the race-car-driver-cum-politician grab the checkered ﬂag. SECRETARY OF STATE: Republican JASON GIBBS has set the tone of this campaign — starting back in the primary — and has been relentless on the campaign trail. I give him the edge over Democrat JIM CONDOS, who hasn’t exactly been a ﬁreball in debates. Expect Vermonters to “go with Gibbs.” AUDITOR: I thought Republican TOM SALMON had this one in the bag, but his challenger — political newcomer DOUG HOFFER, who is running as a DemocratProgressive — has made this a very competitive race. With a strong showing in a VPR poll and a Burlington Free Press endorsement, Hoffer is holding his own. It’ll be upstream all the way for Salmon, but he’ll net a win in the end. Attorney General BILL SORRELL and Treasurer JEB SPAULDING should have no problems with their various challengers, though I suspect both Progressives will earn at least 5 percent of the vote, which will help the Progs retain “major” party status in Vermont.

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If none of the candidates in statewide races wins an outright majority — as in 50 percent plus one vote — the Democratic legislature will officially elect someone. Each lawmaker — in the House and Senate — gets one vote. That’s what happened in 2002 when a Democratic-led legislature chose Gov. Jim Douglas, a Republican, over Democrat DOUG RACINE.

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History could repeat itself if Dubie bests Shumlin in the popular vote but falls short of the 50 percent threshold. The 2002 vote was the 22nd time in state history the legislature decided the outcome of an election. In that time, it’s only picked two “loser” gubernatorial candidates, notes Vermont State Archivist GreGory Sanford. In 1789 the state’s first governor, ThomaS ChiTTenden, was up for reelection. He won 44 percent of the vote and his chief opponent, moSeS robinSon, won 26 percent. Robinson got the job because Chittenden had reacted negatively to early Revolutionary War leaders. Sanford also mentioned a “questionable land grant” deal. In 1853, incumbent Gov. eraSTuS fairbankS received 44 percent of the vote, while his chief challenger, John robinSon, received 38 percent. The legislature picked the loser because Fairbanks was a big temperance supporter.

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arlier this year, the federal government announced that Vermont would receive the nation’s largest per-capita share of federal stimulus money — more than $170 million — to expand high-speed Internet access to every community in the state. It was welcome news for dozens of rural towns and villages that still don’t get it.

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Since then, most of the public debate about universal broadband access has focused on the infrastructure: Who will supply it, by what means, how soon and for how much? But getting wired — or wireless — is only the ﬁrst step. Even after every school, public library, town hall and downtown business district is online, there’s no guarantee that people will know how to use the connections. To

approach is unique, she notes, in that each community gets to choose how to use these technologies. “We’re actually starting with the question ‘What are your needs as a community, and how can we use broadband as a tool to reach those needs?’” she says. Over the last few months, e-Vermont convened a series of meetings in each e-Vermont town to create a list of townspeciﬁc priorities. From there, each town formed a “broadband committee” to draft a plan that lays out its goals and how they’ll be reached. In effect, those plans will serve as examples for other communities around the state. Many of the goals spelled out in the town plans use 21st-century technologies, such as email, Facebook, Nixle and Front Porch Forum, to reinforce oldfashioned Vermont values: connecting young people with elders; helping Vermonters stay in touch with friends and family out of state; ﬁnding new ways to increase civic participation; and helping Vermonters identify neighbors who live alone, are disabled or need someone to check on them periodically. Another common theme that emerged from all the town plans is a desire to use the Internet to create a stronger local identity. For example, the 3600 residents of Pownal actually live in three separate villages — Pownal, Pownal Center and North Pownal — that are several miles apart. One of Pownal’s goals is to use the

TELECOM email message board Front Porch Forum to boost community cohesion and spark livelier dialogue among its residents. The framers of Pownal’s plan say this could be an especially useful tool as plans move forward to convert the former Green Mountain Race Track in Pownal into a renewable energy park. Likewise, one of the stated goals in Grand Isle County — the only e-Vermont pilot community that encompasses an entire county — is to “create greater unity” across the ﬁve disparate towns of the Lake Champlain islands. “The towns in the islands each have their own unique identity,” says Ruth Wallman, who chairs the Grand Isle County Broadband Committee, “so one of the challenges has been: When there’s a project that’s bigger than just one E-VERMONT

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many Vermonters, especially older ones, the Internet is a vaguely understood, even intimidating, technology. That’s where the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project comes in. E-Vermont’s mission is to help rural schools, businesses and municipalities make the most of the new digital tools at their disposal. Funded largely through a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the project is also supported by a coalition of local philanthropists, businesses and nonproﬁt organizations. In May, 12 Vermont communities were selected from more than 40 that applied to receive technical and educational assistance in maximizing their broadband usage. Over the next few weeks, more towns across the state will line up to be considered for the next round of assistance. They’ll be vying for 12 open spots that come with a variety of free services, including new computers for their elementary schools, training and consulting services for small businesses, web-design instruction for town governments and a host of other community-building tools. Helen Labun Jordan is program director of the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project. As she explains, e-Vermont was one of only 12 programs funded nationwide to receive federal stimulus money to “bridge the digital gap.” The Green Mountain

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town, how do we find a way to work together?” One way is to set up a Front Porch Forum, and possibly a community access TV station, that serves all five towns collectively, rather than each individually. In Ludlow, one of the town’s e-Vermont goals is to engage the out-of-state owners of second homes, who make up 86 percent of the town’s tax base. Says Ludlow Broadband Committee chair Jill Tofferi: “It is our hope to attract our frequent visitors into becoming a more integral part of Ludlow, spending more time here working, playing and being involved.” Labun Jordan predicts the next round of e-Vermont assistance, which wraps up November 17, will be very competitive. Although judges will be looking for geographical diversity among the applicants, potential e-Vermont communities will also need to meet certain basic criteria. For one, a town must meet the federal definition of “rural” — population under 20,000 — and have a good understanding of the e-Vermont services offered; in the first round of applications, representatives of some towns didn’t realize they were getting services, not money. Finally, each town must have a proven track record of having worked collaboratively on a community project. Labun Jordan adds that, while having some broadband access in the community is a prerequisite to becoming an eVermont town, a technical understanding of how broadband works is not. As she puts it, “We’re reaching out to people who don’t fall into that category.” m

slopes right down into the lake.” In September, the Winooski Valley Park District asked for and received permission to apply the herbicide Rodeo, also made from glyphosate, to stop the spread of invasive plants in the wetlands around the Ethan Allen Homestead. The phragmites and knotweeds were crowding out native plant and animal species and threatened to create a monoculture. The park district sought the herbicide exemption after a decade of unsuccessful attempts to control the plants by ripping them out or smothering them with tarps. They applied the herbicides in targeted doses, by tying together clumps of plants, cutting them at thighheight and then dripping the herbicide into their stems. The federal Environmental Protection Agency rates glyphosate a three on a toxicity scale of one to four — four is the safest. Numerous other “over-thecounter” herbicides and pesticides are considered safe for use by the EPA. But a growing body of research is drawing links between exposure to lawn-care products and diseases, from Parkinson’s to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A study published last summer in the journal Pediatrics found a strong correlation between children’s exposure to pesticides and the occurrence of ADHD. New North End resident Jean Markey-Duncan has been a vocal proponent of strengthening the city’s pesticide regulations. She has twice reported neighbors to the city for leaving out information on the signs they’re supposed to post on their

lawns — with no response that could be described as “enforcement.” Markey-Duncan also spoke up four years ago when she heard the Board of Health had granted TruGreen ChemLawn a waiver to spray within the buffer zone. She leafleted her neighborhood with a flyer listing 10 reasons people shouldn’t use pesticides. “We don’t need lawn-care chemicals,” she says. “It’s all for aesthetics — that someone’s lawn needs to look like a green carpet.” For Markey-Duncan, the issue is personal, too. Her sister died suddenly at the age of 43, six months after giving birth to her third child, and doctors suggested environmental toxins as a possible cause. Markey-Duncan has since read volumes on chemical toxins and zeroed in on chemical pesticides and herbicides, which she calls “totally unnecessary.” Bergman and others say that education is an important complement to enforcement. Each year, the city publishes buffer-zone maps in community newspapers. This year, Burlington partnered with the University of Vermont to create the Healthy Lawn Lab project, an experiment that invites two city residents to spend a year cultivating and blogging about caring for their Roundup-free lawns. “You can’t have a cop on every street,” Bergman says. “You can’t have a code office that’s going to stop everything, so we need people to do the right thing.” Changing state law to boost Burlington’s pesticide powers could prove difficult. In 2007, state lawmakers attempted — and failed — to give cities and towns the power to regulate pesticides and herbicides. The Senate Agriculture Committee

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about where he lives and the particulars of the crime? In short, because that’s the law, says Jeffrey Wallin, director of the Vermont Criminal Information Center (VCIC), which manages the registry. “We’re guided by legislation,” Wallin says. Putting case narratives online isn’t authorized by law, he clariﬁes, and would prove a cumbersome task if it were. Vermont’s sex-offender laws have become stricter in recent years. After the rape and murder of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett in 2008, the registry was expanded to include a greater number of sex crimes. Beginning on July 1 of this year, the legislature authorized VCIC to include sex-offender addresses on the web. But a test audit found so many factual errors in the registry that the changes have been placed on indeﬁnite hold. Today, there are about 2500 registered sex offenders in Vermont, with an

average of 85 new ones added each year, Wallin says. Only 1500 of those offenders — the ones convicted of the most serious crimes, such as rape or sex with a minor — are listed online. The remaining 1000 offenders, guilty of less serious sex crimes such as “ﬂashing,” are catalogued in an offline registry maintained by the Department of Public Safety. The public can get certain information about these offenders if the requestor can articulate “a clear publicsafety concern regarding themselves or another person,” according to state policy. The state can release an offender’s name, date of birth, general physical description, date and nature of offense, and information about whether the offender has complied with treatment requirements or has a warrant outstanding for violation of registry requirements. What constitutes a clear public-safety concern? Wallin offers no strict criteria. “We look at those on a case-bycase basis,” he says. “Every situation is unique.” The online registry is searchable by last name, city/town and county, but not by street or neighborhood. For each offender, the database contains the treatment status (compliant, not compliant, not applicable or unavailable) and whether the offender is at high risk of reoffending. When applicable, the listing indicates an offender is on the registry for a “sex offense against a child under 13.” What makes someone “high risk”? That depends on the crime itself, plus a “validated risk instrument” that

considers someone’s age, physical condition, pattern of offending and intent to commit additional offenses, says Deputy Commissioner of Corrections Lisa Menard. All that is weighed by the Vermont Sex Offender Review Committee. Currently, 131 offenders are considered high risk, Menard says. Dozens of others are labeled “presumed high risk,” a status applied to all sex offenders who refuse to undergo an assessment by the state, or were convicted before passage of a 2005 law requiring them to do so, Menard says. Interestingly, the DOC keeps track of the age and gender of victims, but that information doesn’t appear online. Why not? One reason is victim conﬁdentiality. “If you posted all the details, you might know this person perpetrated the crime against his daughter, and then you’re outing the victim,” says Sarah Kenney of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Kenney has spent years shaping sex-offender law in the Statehouse. “Underlying affidavits in crimes can be really inﬂammatory and contain a lot of detail that most victims wouldn’t want out there for the world to Google,” she adds. To state Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the registry is “a useful tool,” but it’s not “a be-all, end-all.” “It’s only a tool for those who have been caught, convicted and put on the registry,” Sears says. “So many sex offenders have never been convicted. Look at the priests.” Amen. 

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f They Mated” was a sketch on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” The formula: Take two mismatched celebrities, such as Courtney Love and John Boehner, and preview their potential progeny via Photoshop. The pic of the offspring always proved both disturbing and hilarious. Vermont’s new SAINTS AND POETS PRODUCTION COMPANY pairs two unlikely theatrical partners for its debut creation, The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show, currently at Burlington’s BLACK BOX THEATER. Mating a campy, sex-filled musical with the kid-friendly medium of puppetry gives birth to a raunchy love child and makes for a rollicking evening. Director KEVIN CHRISTOPHER’s team pulls off the ambitious enterprise with élan. Rendering randy Dr. Frank-N-Furter, reticent Janet, and the other familiar characters in felt and fur raises Rocky Horror’s naughtiness to a new level. Scantily clad people behaving badly has become routine in modern theater. Bumping and grinding by Bert and

Ernie’s 3-foot-tall cousins, however, feels much racier and funnier. One human appears among the frisky foam creatures to play Rocky, the object of every character’s desire. The puppeton-puppet action is hot. Actor ANDY BUTTERFIELD getting freaky with his fabric castmates? Scorching. Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (1973) began as a London stage musical before it was made into the 1975 Tim Curry movie that became a midnight cult fave. The plot pays cheeky homage to B-grade horror and sci-fi flicks of the 1950s. On a dark and stormy night, newly engaged Brad and Janet come upon a sinister-looking castle after their car breaks down. They need to borrow a phone, but the mansion’s inhabitants uncover the virginal twosome’s deeper needs. Lord of the lair Dr. Frank-N-Furter takes them up to his lab and unveils the blond muscleman he created, Rocky. A perfect specimen, with an uncontrolled libido. Extensive liberation of everyone’s libido ensues. When Frank’s policy of

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“give yourself over to absolute pleasure” goes too far, his extraterrestrial bosses terminate his mission. For Brad and Janet, their night at the castle means “nothing can ever be the same.” Christopher skillfully orchestrates a large cast on the Black Box’s modest-sized stage. Clustered to one side are 11 black-clad performers: seven standing at microphones and four seated in the band. Narrator SETH JARVIS stands behind two rows of three actors who sing and speak the parts that the puppets enact. Music director and pianist NATE VENET also plays Riff Raff ’s role from behind the keyboard. The show runs 85 minutes without intermission, and the ensemble delivers a consistently high level of energy and execution. The puppeteers work in full view of the audience. They also wear black, including beekeeper-like hoods, and move so stealthily against the black floor and backdrop that they seem to disappear. One puppeteer manipulates each creature, synching the character’s

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t’s rehearsal time for pianist ELAINE on a recent afternoon at the CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PAUL. As the ethereal, superhumanly quick runs of a Debussy piece fill the church’s airy nave, sunlight filters through a south-facing curtain wall of windows, lighting up one of Burlington’s best classical-music performance spaces. Yes, it’s an Episcopal church. Unusually, however, St. Paul’s was built specifically to accommodate arts performances as well as weekly services. The 1973 design has some serious modernist cred: According to architectural historian DEVIN COLMAN at the Vermont Divison for Historic Preservation, local architects WILLIAM HENDERSON and TOM CULLINS of Burlington Associates won the American Institute of Architects anonymous-submission design competition over, among others, Marcel Breuer — who had taught at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s. (Cullins and one of the judges, WILLIAM TRUEX, went on to found the Burlington firm TruexCullins.) St. Paul’s redoubtable exterior — whose masses of light-gray concrete blocks and darkened window panels GREENFIELD

reduce the iconic elements of the Western cathedral to their purest, most rectilinear forms — gives little clue to the soaring space inside. Chairs, rather than pews, allow unlimited configurations on the cubic space’s vast slate floor. The unmodified concrete walls create a clean backdrop broken only by a mix of religious and abstract paintings hung at eye level and one wall’s inset, angled blocks of sound-tempering wood. (The latter resemble those in the University of Vermont’s Music Building, also designed by Burlington Associates in 1973.) High overhead, a flat, cofferedconcrete ceiling is flanked by corridor-like skylights that let in even more sun. Greenfield, a petite 67-year-old, is practicing for a concert in the church’s Evening/Weekend Series — which, along with the free Tuesday Noon to One Series, makes up Cathedral Arts, St. Paul’s classical-music programming for the public. Her delicate white updo notwithstanding, Greenfield has just ousted the organist from his perch with purposeful efficiency and pushed the

church’s wheeled Steinway concert grand to the center of the floor, unceremoniously bunching up its quilted cover on a nearby chair. She is all business, and appropriately so: Greenfield started Cathedral Arts in the mid-1970s, only a couple years after the church opened, and has served as its dedicated artistic director ever since. “People at the church have always been really supportive of using the space for the arts,” the South Burlington-based professional piano teacher and soloist affirms, adding that the venue once hosted plays such as The Crucible and continues to serve as an exhibition space for local art. When Greenfield proposed in 1986 that the church acquire and refurbish its 1920s piano — not a small undertaking — the administration agreed to split the cost with GREENFIELD PIANO ASSOCIATES, the pianist’s membership organization for students and supporters. Does she remember how the nearly new building first struck her in the mid’70s? “Modern,” she says after a moment, with a laugh. She describes its acoustics

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movements with the actor’s vocals. Particularly stellar puppetmasters are Christopher, swooping around the stage with Frank’s manic zest, and Meghan DewalD, who captures Brad’s variations on goofy disbelief. The ’50s drive-in set, well-conceived by TiMoThy Shuker-haineS and Jon Malboeuf, provides plenty of room. A movie screen allows for an Ed Woodesque prologue short, “It Came in Outer Space,” during the opening song; it also serves as the castle’s TV monitor and a scrim to view sex scenes in shadow. Christopher and Dewald, along with CaTherine alSTon and JeSSiCa bernarD, constructed the, anatomically correct cast of creatures. (“Puppet Nudity!” is one of the show’s warnings. Do not bring the kids.) Alston costumed the puppets brilliantly. If Miss Piggy ever needs a black satin thong, fishnets and vinyl fuck-me heels, Alston is her go-to wardrobe woman. All the performers give spirited interpretations of their characters’ spoken lines, especially Venet as Riff Raff and riCk hoMan as Brad. Their singing voices were the least polished on opening night, but the rest of the ensemble was in fine vocal form. Standouts include g.

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Pianist Elaine Greenfield performs with flutist Karen Kevra at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the corner of Pearl and Battery streets in Burlington, on Friday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. General admission, $20; seniors and students, $15; ages 15 and younger are free. stpaulscathedralvt.org

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upcoming concert. The second half is a duo performance with Grammy-nominated flutist karen kevra, the artistic director of CapiTal CiTy ConCerTS in Montpelier. Other events in this year’s ticketed Evening/Weekend Series include the New York-based ensemble Repast performing selections from a French baroque opera, a Bach organ recital, and a choral concert by CounTerpoinT. While the ticketed concerts at St. Paul’s may be less well known than, say, the University of Vermont’s lane SerieS, they are of equally high caliber, says MarTin poppe, manager of Cathedral Arts’ publicity and sales. And it’s oddly fitting to hear classical music — an art that originated in the medieval Christian church and gradually went secular — in a secular performance space that doubles as a church. How much more transporting can it get? m

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with Arizona-based pianist Janice Meyer Thompson — the two perform four-handed piano around the country as the Transcontinental Piano Duo — Greenfield played an 1878 French-made Erard held in the Frederick Historic Piano Collection in Ashburnham, Mass. Unlike modern pianos, which “sound uniform from one end to the other,” she says, the historical instrument had “unique sounds in each register ... a texturing of sounds.” The experience changed her approach to playing: “It affects the way you play because of what it’s done to your imagination. It makes what you do in each register very different, dynamically. It informs you.” Greenfield will play Messiaen, Debussy and Ravel during the first half of her

sexy Frank, aliCe leviTT’s lusty Magenta and ariel Cohen’s sweet Janet. In a production that overflows with inventive elements, mixing one human into the puppet cast is the true stroke of genius. Andy Butterfield simply rocks as horny Rocky, embracing lascivious interspecies interaction with athletic abandon. He sings, dances and, yes, has sexual relations with his felted friends, while confidently sporting satin briefs and high-heeled boots. With this show, Christopher and company accomplish something remarkable: adding a fresh twist to beloved original material. In “The Time Warp,” for example, the puppets’ tiny felt hips and fishnet-clad legs doing the pelvic thrust will drive you insane — with laughter. m

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n the Socialist Republic of Vermont — leader in environmental protection, marriage equity, health care and education finance reform — why are liberal Democrat Peter Shumlin and conservative Republican Brian Dubie running neck and neck in the gubernatorial race? I’ll forgo parsing the effectiveness of their tactics — whose TV ads are better, who’s on the offensive or the defensive, even who’s telling the truth more of the time — and get right to the heart of the matter. The emotion propelling voters in this and every other race in the country is cold-sweat economic fear. Conservatives have cleverly named the object of this fear The Deficit. But beneath this abstract alias lurks a person — a horde of persons. They are the poor, people of color and immigrants. Some are terrorists and sexual “predators.” When the going gets tough, the tough blame the Other. The candidate who can best marshal fear and loathing wins. Take a look at the GOP’s “Pledge to America.” The text is the usual: “Blah blah blah Constitution. Blah liberty, taxes taxes taxes blah blah blah.” The conclusion, also paraphrased: “Eliminate government except for bombs.”

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But the photographs in the pledge tell the real story: endless overfed, middle-aged white people watching white men (and one woman) explain things; soldiers; pretty small towns; and not one but two pictures of cowboys. In 48 pages there’s not a single face of color — unless you count the Statue of Liberty, which is green. Nationwide, candidates are using similar tactics. Constituents pictured on the website of Sharron Angle, Harry Reid’s Tea Party opponent in Nevada, are also all white. That’s no accident in a state that is 35 percent nonwhite. Vermont is not above this fray. Because race is a less discernible subtext than class here, it’s easy to miss it. But here, too, Othering is a useful tactic for solidifying a constituency — and, more subtly, undermining your opponent’s legitimacy to represent Vermont. I use the word “represent” as both a transitive and a reflexive verb. As Seven Days political columnist Shay Totten has pointed out, Dubie’s theme, “Pure Vermont,” creepily reprises the 2006 Take Back Vermont campaign against same-sex civil unions, whose implication was that homosexuals were not Vermonters. Add to that the candidate’s gaffe that William Hsiao, the eminent Chinese American health care consultant

hired by the Vermont legislature, is “a doctor from Taiwan” invading “a small little state in New England.” And top it off with the bogus “list” Dubie waved around at one debate, allegedly containing the names of 780 child pornographers and drug dealers who’d be released by Shumlin’s plan to save $40 million in corrections spending by transferring nonviolent prisoners to community supervision. “Pure” starts to evoke not maple syrup but the Aryan Nations. But there’s another prominent person in this race who is also suspiciously impure. Peter Shumlin. The Democrat’s Otherness problem became explicit when a Dubie supporter showed up at a campaign event sporting a swastika tattoo. But you don’t have to be a Nazi to sniff a certain sinister foreignness in this guy with the big nose. Even progressives call him too smart, too confident — “arrogant,” they say, a term right up there with “cheap” in the lexicon of antiSemitism. Dubie may not have created this bigotry or even encouraged it, but his campaign has let it go with faint “poli psy” is a twice monthly column by Judith levine. Got a comment on this story? contact levine@sevendaysvt.com.

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condemnation: Staff called the actions of the man at the rally “childish” and “theater and jokes and games.” Still dogged by the incident, Dubie clarified his position: “Well, first of all, I don’t support swastikas.” Interestingly, the word “Jew” has not been uttered. Shumlin doesn’t utter it much, either. The last time I can find was in 2007 — an interview with Philip Baruth in which he spoke of his Russian Jewish immigrant father and Protestant immigrant mother. As if to balance this just-barely-from-here profile, though, Shumlin added that his wife’s great-grandfather was a “fullblooded” Vermont Native American. And in this race against a fifth-generation Vermonter, he wastes no opportunity to remind voters he was born and bred in Putney. He is also frequently pictured driving a tractor. The Democrat is unable to invoke purity, and he is possibly disgusted by the idea. His website vows to “encompass” the “legitimate concerns” of “women, men, lesbians, gays, heterosexuals, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics [and] Caucasians” in the equal application

of the law under his leadership. But Shumlin has his own code for asserting his Vermont bona fides — and perhaps weakening those of his fifth-generationVermonter opponent. This is “the Vermont Way,” which, Shumlin declared, Dubie’s “campaign of mistruths and fear” is not. What is the Vermont Way? Aside from being the Shumlin Way, it is hard to say exactly. It surely evinces nostalgia for a golden Vermont, not so long ago, when politicians were civil and everyone told the truth. There’s also a sugges-

the bogeyman’s name is the budget deficit, but his body is that of a poor person. Linda Johnston, a Greensboro Republican running for the House, assures voters that “we must preserve our safety net for our most needy and vulnerable citizens,” she told the Hardwick Gazette. But she also promises to “limit welfare benefits to a maximum of a five-year lifetime benefit.” In the following sentence she vows to reduce waste, fraud and abuse. It’s not hard to figure out whose well-being she deems wasteful to maintain.

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the tough blame the other. tion of purity — if not racial, then moral — in the phrase. I mean, are political aggression and general meanness really so outré in Vermont? Was it the Vermont Way when white settlers stole Shumlin’s great-grandfather-in-law’s land? The closer to the grassroots you go, the more blatant Othering becomes in this year’s political races. In most cases,

Over in Lyndonville, Republican Senate hopeful Joe Benning decries Vermont’s decaying bridges and furloughed judges “These problems stem from trying to do too much for too many for too long and with too little,” he says. You know he’s not talking about corporate tax giveaways. And in Bennington County, GOP State

Senate candidate Gerald Woodard is tossing some witches on the fire to heat up his popularity. Among his “commonsense” plans: “Create tougher laws for sex offenders.” Peter Shumlin has risked considerable political capital by standing up for the Other — homosexuals, teenagers seeking abortions, pot smokers and now (though under the banner of fiscal conservatism) even some criminals. Although, like Dubie, he has signaled an unwillingness to raise taxes on the wealthiest — and that means more painful cuts to programs for the poorest and most marginalized — Shumlin’s ideas for saving money, such as single-payer health care, tend to give equal value to human need and economic sustainability. Dubie is doing his best to paint these ideas as politically too liberal for Vermont. So far, half of Vermonters are saying they don’t think so. But in the privacy of the voting booth, that soupçon of Otherness may sow enough mistrust to defeat this Putney “halfbreed” and put the Pure Vermonter over the top. m

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he most powerful man in Vermont politics has never held elected office. He’s never sought name recognition or the limelight. And his friends and longtime colleagues insist he doesn’t wield his influence for personal profit. But, through Democratic and Republican administrations, Harlan Sylvester has had the ear of every one of the state’s chief executives — going all the way back to Gov. Tom Salmon in 1973. Prominent businesspeople and pols flock to his corner office at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney on Swift Street in South Burlington, a Chittenden County substitute for the governor’s office in Montpelier. As chairman of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors — a post Sylvester has held since Gov. Madeleine Kunin was in office — the now 77-year-old personal money manager often sees the state budget before Vermont lawmakers do. Just don’t ask him to confirm, or comment on, his role as the governor’s proxy. “Harlan never says, ‘I’m talking for the governor.’ He always tells people, ‘I might be seeing the governor’ or ‘I might be talking to the governor,’” says Steve Terry, a former journalist and executive at Green Mountain Power, who calls Sylvester a friend and serves with him on the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. “He is very protective of that relationship with governors,” says Terry. “And, like all people I’ve known who follow the rule in the White House — that you never repeat what the president told you or discussed — as far as I can see, he’s used those rules in Vermont.” Sylvester’s behind-the-scenes political prowess has earned him the dubious distinction of being part of what many insiders call the “Burlington Bishops” or the “Chittenden County Mafia.” The implication is that to run for statewide office, candidates — Republican and Democrat alike — must first “kiss the ring.” Others in this esteemed club include former KPMG executive David Coates and insurance exec Luther “Fred” Hackett. While Sylvester and Coates are Democrats, they often support Republicans, such as Gov. Jim Douglas, who are in sync with their businessfriendly views. Hackett has always been a Republican and lost a governor’s race in 1972. Sylvester’s secretive ways have also earned him a long-standing, and perhaps at times unfounded, reputation as a puppet master, the proverbial “man behind the curtain.” The man some

insiders call the “Prince of Darkness” declined to be quoted for this story. “He’s got access to people with real money, and those people with real money will invest in politicians who will protect their interests,” says Garrison Nelson, a University of Vermont political science professor and longtime political observer. “Harlan’s basic goal has always been to keep the tax rates low for his high-end clients, and he’s found congenial Democrats and Republicans to go along with him.” Sylvester also has a knack for sniffing out winners in multiple primaries and

That slogan easily sums up Sylvester’s role in Vermont politics. No matter who is elected governor next week, one thing is clear: Like his predecessors, he’ll likely be listening to Harlan Sylvester.

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His clients are among the wealthiest people in Vermont, but Sylvester’s own Green Mountain origins are humble. “He has never forgotten his bluecollar roots, living in St. Albans, and that’s an important aspect of Harlan that most people don’t know,” says U.S. Rep.

star player. At the University of Vermont, he joined the jock-filled Kappa Sigma fraternity and played one season on the freshman basketball team. He studied economics and political science and graduated in December 1959. After a six-month stint in the Vermont National Guard, he spent several years in the reserves. According to Terry, Sylvester took out a loan to buy his first two business suits and went off to learn the ropes of high finance working for Hartford Insurance Group in Connecticut. He returned to Vermont to work for

The Man Behind the Throne When Harlan Sylvester talks, Vermont governors listen • backing the ultimate victor in a statewide contest. This is one reason why pols of all political stripes reach out to him. Sylvester is supporting Brian Dubie in the governor’s race, but that didn’t stop all the Democrats in the five-way gubernatorial primary — except Racine — from seeking his counsel. “A lot of politicians will meet with Harlan because, even if you can’t get him on your side, you want to at least neutralize him,” says former Gov. Phil Hoff. “In other words, you just want to make sure he’s not working against you.” A horse-racing fan, Sylvester knows how to hedge his bets to ensure he earns a little something from the winning jockey. He was said to be “intrigued” by Secretary of State Deb Markowitz in the Democratic primary. But when Peter Shumlin began to surge, he started talking up Shumlin as the Dem to beat. The result? If Shumlin wins the governor’s race next week, Sylvester won’t be left out in the cold. He and Shumlin already have a relationship. In a carefully worded statement, Shumlin explains, “I don’t comment on private conversations I have, because I’m afraid they wouldn’t have any more private conversations with me.” Early in his career, Sylvester was one of two regional managers to sit on the national board of the powerful investment firm E.F. Hutton, whose famous advertising slogan was “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

Peter Welch. “No matter how successful he’s become, that connection remains, and it really infuses his beliefs, which he is more than willing to share with you whether you agree with him or not.” Sylvester’s first encounter with politics came early — at 12, he served as a legislative page. That meant making the daily drive from St. Albans to Montpelier

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with two Franklin County lawmakers, one of whom was his Republican father. Harold Sylvester later became a Vermont Supreme Court judge. “He often credits those rides with helping him understand Vermont politics and shaping his personal philosophy,” says Mark Snelling, the son of former Gov. Richard Snelling and Lt. Gov. Barbara Snelling, and a recent candidate for lieutenant governor himself. Sylvester’s lifelong love for high school hoops started at Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans, where he was a

by Citigroup. In 2009, Smith Barney merged with Morgan Stanley to become Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Sylvester’s political access and financial prowess helped position his company to sell bonds on behalf of the state of Vermont. His brokerage was the firm of choice during Douglas’ tenure as state treasurer and earned several hundred thousand dollars in commissions selling state bonds that fueled construction, roadwork and other state capital investments. During the tenure of current Treasurer

Jeb Spaulding, the commissions have mostly gone to Citigroup, though Smith Barney is often a secondary broker in state bond sales led by Citigroup. A review of bond sales shows Smith Barney has a strong track record of selling bonds to Vermonters and regional investors, which is considered preferable to offering them to investors from out of state. “He always spent a lot of time working close to the people who manage the state’s money, but he didn’t directly gain anything from it; he just wanted to make

sure he had a seat at the table,” says Art Ristau, who served as Kunin’s secretary of administration. Ristau also worked for governors Salmon and Snelling. “If there ever was a bond issue on the table for the state or VSAC [Vermont Student Assistance Corporation], he would belly up with a quote,” Ristau says. “He’s very competitive. He loves the action; he loves to be around the power, the money, and the influence.”

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Sylvester has been a bridge between politics and commerce since Gov. Salmon was elected in 1972 — almost 40 years ago. “He had emerged as an important personality in the Vermont business community, and we

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“He was a mentor of mine. I started working on my dad’s 1976 campaign and got to know him. Shortly thereafter, I really wanted to do something and get more involved, and he turned to me and said, ‘Give these people a call,’ etc.” Discretion is always part of the deal. For all his influence, Sylvester’s name rarely appears in the Vermont media — even when he’s the subject of a story. Retired businessman and author Bill Schubart broadcast a Vermont Public Radio commentary in August lamenting Vermont’s “shadow cabinet,” whose members “vet and bless candidates of their choosing and will.” There was no direct mention of Sylvester, Coates or Hackett, but that’s precisely the trio he was referring to. Besides declining to be interviewed for this article, Sylvester at one point tried to put the kibosh on it. The official reason: His employer does not allow brokers to speak to the press. The unofficial reason: The gag order makes him invaluable as a confidant to politicians. Reporters, too. Sylvester served as a loyal anonymous source for the late Peter Freyne and visited the ailing political columnist every day during the last months of his life. At Freyne’s memorial service, he declined to be one of the speakers. That self-effacement extends to Sylvester’s community-service work. He and his wife, Joan, have given generously to organizations that work with the mentally ill, the homeless, and the poor. Snelling recalls when Sylvester was stepping down from the board of the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont — now Fletcher Allen Health Care — after nearly a decade of service. MCHV held a customary dinner in honor of the departing board members. “He had done a tremendous amount of work for that hospital and had mentored many of the trustees. But, when the night of the dinner arrived, Harlan was nowhere to be seen,” says Snelling. “That’s typical of Harlan — work behind the scenes and disappear when the limelight arrives.” Only once — during Gov. Howard Dean’s run for president — was Sylvester properly outed. The American Prospect credited Sylvester for the Democrat candidate’s fiscal conservatism, noting, “Dean has been guided for more than a decade by a behind-the-scenes kingmaker named Harlan Sylvester, a senior executive at Salomon Smith Barney in Burlington

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had some mutual friends,” says Salmon. “He’s … very much keyed in to trends in the business and investment world, given his calling in life, but he’s also just as much a very astute observer of the political world, and everyone would hope to have him working in their interests.” It was during Salmon’s tenure that Sylvester earned a spot on the Vermont Racing Commission — a panel he has chaired since the Dean administration. While it currently subsists as an “office” in Rutland with no budget allocation, the commission was once a well-oiled conduit for tickets to the racetrack in Saratoga. “Harlan is a very bright, engaging person who is incredibly smart and loves politics,” says Kunin, who acknowledges she benefited from Sylvester’s counsel before and after she became Vermont’s first female governor. “He just feels passionately about certain issues, and it’s important for any administration — Republican or Democrat — to hear those voices,” says Kunin. “It’s even more important for Democrats, who are always under suspicion that we are not pro-business, even when we are.” Kunin and Sylvester got off to a rough start, though. He urged her to back conservative Democrat Treasurer Stella Hackel in the 1976 primary for governor, but Kunin backed Hackel’s opponent, Brian Burns, because she preferred his positions on women’s issues. “[Sylvester] was quite upset … and remained so for quite a while,” recalls Kunin. In the end, however, as Kunin rose through the ranks in state politics, Sylvester’s hard feelings softened. By the time she was governor, he had returned to his rightful seat beside the throne, serving as the chairman of her council of economic advisors. He handpicks its members with the gov’s blessing, according to Terry, in an effort to bring together male and female leaders in business, politics, nonprofits and higher education. Sylvester makes himself available to any aspiring politician — be they Democrat or Republican, blessed with name recognition or not. “He has a great intellect, a great knowledge of Vermont and great contacts,” says Mark Snelling.

The Man Behind the Throne « p.27 who chairs Dean’s council of economic advisers.” No mention that Sylvester’s Vermont license plate number is “100” — the first number the governor can assign to “regular” citizens after the 99 assigned to high-ranking elected officials, judges and cabinet secretaries. That was a little gift from Gov. Dean. But search Google for images of Sylvester, and three gravestones pop up — with other guys’ names on them. Sylvester even managed to stay out of his UVM college yearbook. “He always keeps you guessing — he never plays out his hand,” says Terry. “That’s what makes him so mysterious.”

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When it comes to party loyalty, Sylvester is flexible. Despite being a lifelong Democrat, he easily went from championing Dean, a Democrat, to backing Douglas, a Republican. Ditto Dubie — all three talk plenty about lowering taxes and keeping the wealthy from leaving Vermont. Former state Sen. Jim Leddy says he remarked to his longtime friend after Douglas was elected: “Harlan, you went from supporting Howard Dean to supporting Jim Douglas, and you never dismounted.” In fact, Sylvester’s support assured that Dean faced minimal challenges — particularly from Republicans. It also kept another powerful pol at bay: Bernie Sanders. “One of the reasons the Republicans never ran anyone serious against Howard Dean is because of Harlan’s support and his own personal background — son of a stockbroker, from a Wall Street family and a Protestant; he was one of them,” says Nelson. “So they had no trouble voting for him. It also worked to keep Bernie from ever coming back to run for governor.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most powerful Vermont politician who has never sought Sylvester’s counsel — nor has Sylvester reached out to the Brooklyn-born self-styled socialist. “To the best of my knowledge, I have never talked to Harlan Sylvester in my life, and if he walked up to me, I would not know who he is,” Sanders says. Sylvester and Doug Racine have a similar relationship. When he served as lieutenant governor during Gov. Dean’s tenure, Racine says, he met with Sylvester

several times but never asked for his advice. “Howard thought Harlan was someone I should meet with, so I did,” says Racine. “His big thing is trying to lower taxes for wealthy Vermonters, and I didn’t agree with him on that. I believe in a progressive income tax, and I don’t believe he does. He works for wealthier people, and that’s OK, but I know a lot of people who are wealthy and who do support a progressive income tax.” Racine’s more liberal tax views certainly cost him Harlan’s support when he ran against Douglas in 2002. Sylvester was a major Douglas booster. “Harlan had a lot of influence at that time, and I even heard from some of my friends who said Harlan had asked them not to support me when I ran for governor,” says Racine. “And they didn’t — at least not publicly.”

may I say with some pride, I hope he was right,” says Wright. “To be fair, Harlan had reason not to think too highly of me, as I always threatened to place a sales tax on stock-market transactions. Never did, but it still resonates as not that bad an idea.”

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Sylvester has been known to say that, spouses aside, he’s the first person the governor talks to in the morning and the last person the governor speaks to before going to bed at night. That kind of influence causes Bill Schubart to wonder: “Is power given, or is power earned, and what’s the balance? Does Harlan’s political influence derive from his ability to raise money, trust or his political instincts? Or is it a fealty?”

A lot of politicians will meet with Harlan because, even if you can’t get him on your side, you want to at least neutralize him.

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Racine lost to Douglas by just a few thousand votes. Former House Speaker Ralph Wright also rubbed Sylvester the wrong way because of his liberal interest in levying higher taxes on wealthier Vermonters. “My only memory of any relationship was that he once sent a check through someone to me for one of my annual fundraisers,” says Wright from his Florida home. “In the envelope containing the check was a note saying something close to ‘Hope you can do more for me this session than you have in the past.’ I ripped up the check and had it sent back — I may have said something nasty in reply.” Wright says he also recalls Dean once saying that, during a meeting with his council of economic advisors, Sylvester said, “Ralph Wright is a dangerous man.” “If he didn’t say it, I’m reasonably sure he would have agreed 100 percent. And,

More importantly, can it last? “I hear an awful lot about him. His name comes up regularly in conversations, and there are definitely still a lot of people who talk to him,” says House Speaker Shap Smith, 44, who says he has never spoken to or met Sylvester. Sylvester’s connections with two younger pols demonstrate some of the ways in which he continues to be “useful.” Auditor Tom Salmon, a 47-yearold Democrat-turned-Republican, and Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan, a 36-year-old Democrat, have both held political fundraisers at Sylvester’s favorite watering hole: Burlington’s St. John’s Club, a private club with blue-collar origins — just like Sylvester. He goes there at least once a week. Sylvester is believed to have been the strategist who pushed Salmon to leave the Democratic Party with the goal of challenging Sanders in 2012 — Salmon

had spoken out against legislative Democrats’ spending plans, giving Gov. Douglas additional political cover. Plus, Salmon’s political pedigree harks back to Sylvester’s heyday in his father’s administration. Sylvester stood by Salmon through his subsequent drunk-driving arrest and public displays of erratic behavior. The auditor declined to be interviewed about his relationship with Sylvester. Donovan was a clerk at the nowdefunct Longe Brothers store in Burlington’s South End when he first met Sylvester. On Sundays, Sylvester would meet up with former Merchants Bank president Dudley Davis and others, and go for long walks through Burlington and Winooski. Afterward, they’d shoot the breeze inside the store, roping Donovan into the conversation. “Those guys treated me like a friend, not like some kid,” says Donovan. “It was a very formative experience for me to work in that store. It was the best political education I ever received.” They also supported Donovan when he needed it later: Davis helped him get a scholarship to go to college. Sylvester provided political guidance and helped the attorney raise money during his first, and spirited, race for state’s attorney in 2006. Donovan briefly considered a run for lieutenant governor this year, but opted for a reelection bid. Perhaps Sylvester sees a brighter path down the road for his political progeny? The pair talk regularly, but more often about family and basketball than politics, according to Donovan. Sylvester has a reserved courtside seat at Rice High School, where he watches his grandson play. He lives a short walk from the school. Sylvester also works out every day for an hour on the StairMaster. Donovan still sees him as “the guy you would seek, at least from my perspective, to get advice and counsel on political questions; he’s a guy whose judgment I trust.” Sylvester provides something else to up-and-coming pols that most highly paid political consultants can’t: an encyclopedic knowledge of Vermont political history. “Because he’s been doing it for so long, he’s seen innumerable political and fiscal cycles. When you talk to him, it’s not about what’s going on right now, but what’s gone on three times before,” says 36-year-old Neale Lunderville, Douglas’ longtime political aide and current secretary of administration. “That kind of perspective is invaluable, and it’s often missing in today’s politics.” m

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f you ask people whether they’re familiar with Christo and JeanneClaude, you’ll likely get either an enthusiastic “yes” or a blank look. Prompt the latter individuals with “the artists who wrapped things” and, more often than not, a smile of recognition appears. That is to say, almost everyone knows something about Christo and JeanneClaude’s massive public-art installations created over nearly half a century — from the wrapped Reichstag in Berlin and Pont Neuf in Paris to the many more nonwrapped works, including “Running Fence” in California and “The Gates” in New York City. This public familiarity is a curious thing, since the installations themselves have “altered the environment,” as Christo puts it, only for a few weeks at most. It’s not like you can go to a gallery or museum and see the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude hanging on a wall. Except that, at Burlington’s Fleming Museum right now, you can. Or at least you can get an idea of their hugely ambitious projects through the drawings, prints, sculptures, collages, photographs

and artifacts that make up “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection.” The nationally touring exhibit has begun its run at the Fleming. Director Janie Cohen explains simply, “I saw it [in California] and thought it would be a valuable thing to bring to the community.” Indeed, its contents, collected by a longtime friend and associate of the artists, are fascinating, enlightening and surprisingly rewarding. Described as a Sonoma County “real estate agent and nurseryman” in an accompanying catalog, Golden first encountered Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1974, when they appeared before a local planning commission to make their case for “Running Fence.” That project would, two years later, manifest in an 18-foot-high fabric “fence” billowing across 24.5 miles of Sonoma and Marin counties. Golden befriended the couple and, over the next 27 years, worked on several of their projects, for which he took artworks as payment. Upon his death, the pieces were bequeathed to the Sonoma County Museum of Santa Rosa, Calif., which, with the help of Landau

Traveling Exhibitions, has put the show on tour. Christo himself spoke to an enraptured, standing-room-only crowd at the University of Vermont in late September. After a 51-year partnership, he now appears sans Jeanne-Claude, who passed away last November in the couple’s adopted home of New York City. Generous with his time, the artist talked at length about two works in progress — “Over the River,” an installation that would straddle the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a lopped-off pyramidal stack of 410,000 oil barrels, proposed for the United Arab Emirates. Then Christo graciously answered questions from an eager audience. Everyone in attendance seemed to agree his talk surpassed even the highest expectations. The man knows how to work a room. There are two reasons why so many people have heard of this Bulgarian artist and his joined-at-the-soul French partner, both born on the same day in 1935 (as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon): One, the extraordinary physical scale of their installations, and the vision and

audacity behind them, tend to generate a lot of media attention. Two, the couple have explained their works, while asking permission to carry them out, to more small-town councils; city, state and national officials; and rural and urban land owners than any other artists in history. Their listeners have included a lot of individuals who might not otherwise know the first thing about art. “Everything in the world is owned by somebody,” Christo told the Burlington audience. ... The hardest thing is getting permission.” As he talked, it became clear that the collaborative process itself — even the months or years of cajoling petty bureaucrats or wading through environmental permitting — defines the art as much as the finished installation does. “I even enjoy the people who scream against me,” Christo vowed. “They are a part of my work.” With the scale and accessibility of their works, he and Jeanne-Claude have distinguished themselves in the art world. And there is yet another distinction: As Christo explained, never have they taken a dime of public or private money for their projects. No grants, loans or corporate sponsorships. Nor have there been, remarkably, any licensing deals — no tote bags, mugs or even posters. Christo does allow a few publishers to sell signed prints, but the sales benefit the nonprofit Nurture New York’s Nature. A statement on the artists’ website clarifies this purist position: “Refusing this money assures them they are working in total freedom.” (Though the site acknowledges Jeanne-Claude’s death, the operative pronoun throughout is still “they.”) And, Christo noted at UVM, everyone involved in a project gets paid. When someone in the audience asked how one could volunteer to work with him, the artist replied succinctly that one couldn’t. “You can’t fire volunteers,” he explained. Every project has been funded through the sale of Christo’s individual “preparatory studies,” such as the ones on view in the Fleming. (He and JeanneClaude came up with ideas together, but he has made the drawings according to the website.) While items in this museum collection bear no price tags, of course, an auction ad in a recent issue of Art in America offered a clue to their value.

Up for bid was a 57-by-96-inch mixedmedia work on paper of “Surrounded Islands.” The drawing shows one of the 11 small islands in Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, that Christo and Jeanne-Claude skirted with floating pink polypropylene fabric in 1983. Estimated value: $150,00 to $200,000. And that’s the going price for such a collector’s item now. Christo clearly had to create and sell many smaller works to fund the couple’s multimillion-dollar installations. Golden’s collection consists of these smaller pieces, but to view them is to be awed by magnitude. A by-the-numbers accounting of each project is staggering: “Valley Curtain,” a bright orange expanse of orange nylon polyamide across Rifle Gap in the Rocky Mountains, spanned 1300 feet and rose to 365 feet. For “The Umbrellas,” a U.S.-Japan

mounted on a panel and encased in clear Plexiglas. Bisecting drawn lines on the gray background add to the sense of dimensionality. A legend informs viewers that Christo and Jeanne-Claude worked with chairs as early as 1958. As a young artist in Paris, Christo was fascinated with the transformation of everyday objects when they were obscured, package-like. It was just a matter of time before he and Jeanne-Claude were wrapping a coastline in Australia, an art museum in Switzerland, a historic bridge in Paris. Asked by a Burlington audience member why he wrapped things, Christo gave an answer that evoked Rodin’s sculpture “Monument to Balzac” … and how much more magnificent the French novelist looked robed than he would have naked.

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coproduction, 1340 blue umbrellas — 19 feet tall and 28 feet in diameter — clustered in a green valley north of Tokyo, while 1760 yellow versions dotted an arid stretch of California. It took 119,603 square yards of silver polypropylene fabric to wrap the Reichstag, a project conceived in 1971 and finally realized in 1995. And it goes on. A master of documentation, Christo records every fact and figure with the precision of an architect. In fact, the drawings and lithographs in the Fleming exhibit are strongly architectural, with rules, numbers and other handmade notations suggesting the artist’s vision. But this is not to say they are all straight lines and mathematics. A number of the artworks are made three dimensional — and oddly charming — with fabric, polyethylene and twine relief elements. In the photo-collage for “Wrapped Trees,” a project proposed for the Avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris, the trees are wrapped. “Wrapped Armchair Project” is a hand-collaged lithograph of a single overstuffed, cotton-wrapped chair,

But if the artists found concealment provocative, Christo pointedly notes on the website that their wrapped works are few compared with their entire portfolio. No doubt a number of Vermonters witnessed “The Gates” in New York City in February 2005 — a project first conceived in 1979. Throughout 23 miles of serpentine paths in Central Park, Christo and Jeanne-Claude planted 7503 goalpost-like gates 16 feet high and 12 feet apart, from which hung loose, saffron-colored curtains. The poles of the gates, Christo told his Burlington audience, collectively used two-thirds the amount of steel in the Eiffel Tower. It has since been recycled. Public art on this scale, experienced by so many people, is simply inspiring. “I refer to this as ‘extreme art,’ visually, aesthetically and community-wise,” says Cohen. What will surprise people who take in the Christo and Jeanne-Claude exhibit, she suggests, is “the overall impact of the work, and how many of them they were able to achieve.” m

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dam Minter sits center stage and throws his arms in the air, pumping them more or less to the beat of the music. Girls in baggy sweatpants and tight tees twist and bounce in front of him. Adam smiles as he watches the dancers. Keri Hilson’s catchy single “Get Your Money Up” pulses through the auditorium. Occasionally, Adam, 22, kicks his legs to the hip-hop beat. Next to Adam, his 18-year-old brother Sam rocks to the bass line. He hoists a tentative arm above him and then drops it in his lap. Every so often, he claps. The brothers’ dance teacher, Bonnie Destakasi, stops the music and hops up on stage. “Adam and Sam, I need more from you,” she says. It’s not a reprimand, but the brothers seem to get the point. On the next take, they are more animated. They better be. In January, the Minters, along with the rest of Destakasi’s intro dance class at Essex High School, are slated to perform at

the Champ Sports Bowl in Orlando with hundreds of other scholastic dancers. That’s assuming they raise the money needed to get there. Between now and December 7, the 24-person class must produce a sum in the neighborhood of $40,000. Not an easy proposition even for prolific and experienced fundraisers. If Destakasi’s class were an average dance crew, the price tag wouldn’t be nearly so high. But the ever-optimistic, plucky teacher’s class is called Inclusion Fusion, a nod to the fact that kids of all kinds are welcome in her class. Her students range from varsity soccer players and aspiring professional dancers to kids with cerebral palsy, autism and Down syndrome. The Minter boys both have an undiagnosed global developmental disability whose symptoms include limited language skills, low muscle tone and delayed cognition. Adam uses a walker, while Sam gets around in a wheelchair pushed by an aide. But that doesn’t stop them from dancing. Seeing the brothers dance on stage

with a crew of other students is heartening to their mother, Sue Minter. Adam and Sam’s participation in Destakasi’s class gives them a chance to interact with their peers — a rarity for the boys. While most of their schooling at Essex High School has been special education, it’s important, their mother says, for them to be exposed to “regular” classes where they work side by side with their contemporaries — as they do in Inclusion Fusion. The class began last year as a beginner dance offering for students in all grades at the high school. Then Destakasi got some interested inquiries from special educators who wanted to integrate their students into more traditional classes. Dance seemed like a perfect way to do so. Soon Destakasi had eight kids in her class who had a variety of disabilities, some more complicated than others. Of the 24 students in the class, “almost half are accessing their personalized learning plans in nontraditional ways,”

Destakasi’s says. Because of privacy rules she can’t say anything more about the students’ disabilities. During this practice, the teacher seems to treat all the kids the same, not differentiating between those with physical and emotional limitations and those without. But the inclusion of kids with special needs has not been without its problems. Some of the conventional students were initially unreceptive to dancing with their disabled counterparts. Destakasi did her best to nip the bad attitudes in the bud. “We really had to build a climate of respect and compassion,” she says. Liz Weller, a 17-year-old junior with professional dance ambitions, found Inclusion Fusion hard in the beginning, saying she had to “warm up to it.” But now she sees her class as a family of sorts. “I love how everyone’s included, and there’s no drama. It’s like a real crew,” she says. “We’re all connected to one another.” Last year, the class performed at football games and other school functions. At one of their events, someone filmed the troupe and put their performance on YouTube. The video caught the eye of a talent coordinator for the halftime show at the Orange Bowl, one of the largest college football bowl games in the country. Earlier this year, Destakasi received a phone call asking if her class would be interested in performing at the halftime show with other dancers from around the country. The talent coordinator said she liked how inclusive Destakasi’s group was and thought they’d be a good addition to the show. Destakasi was floored, she says. She had kids with severe disabilities who needed 24-hour care and multiple aides. Transporting them to Florida and getting them to perform in front of such a gigantic crowd was overwhelming. Ultimately, Destakasi declined the Orange Bowl. But she accepted the talent coordinator’s second offer — to perform at a similar halftime performance at a smaller Florida bowl game. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all her students, she says.

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t must be hard living here,” the ghost investigator says to the darkness. “So much space. So many windows.” She’s silent for a few minutes. Then: “Can you give us a sign that you’re here? Can you knock for us?” It’s after midnight in Wilson Castle, a 32-room, 143-year-old Victorian mansion just outside Rutland. Four of us — two investigators from Dark Knights Paranormal of Weare, N.H., and two reporters — are sitting on the floor of a huge, girlie-pink bedroom that may have belonged to the house’s original mistress. The lights are out. A single flashlight in the center of the floor casts a blue glow straight up. By its light, we can see some of the hand-stenciled, vividly colored trompe l’oeil designs that grace most of the ceilings in the house. The work of a 19thcentury Italian artist, they remind me of the shapes and patterns you see behind your eyelids as you fall asleep — or of the lurid wallpaper that hides spyholes in a Dario Argento film. But I’m more concerned right now about the motion sensor sitting at the foot of the majestic bed. Katrina Wagner, the Dark Knight who’s taken the lead in ghost whispering, has asked any resident specters to activate it. So far, nothing. The electromagnetic (EM) activity sensor in my hand is dormant, too, except when it gets near my cellphone. But we keep hearing things that might be footsteps — or pool balls clinking. Wagner contacts home base on her walkie-talkie to make sure the noises don’t come from other ghost hunters. “Is there somebody on the second floor with us?” None of us is moving a muscle. The voice from the walkie-talkie says, “You’re the only ones there.”

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Trombley, a bearded, voluble fellow with a theatrical bent, is part of that. He works “about a dozen days a year” at the castle, he says, but they’re busy ones. Right now, he explains as he leads us inside, he has five days to transform the place from a staid summer tourist attraction into a Halloween haunted house: “I have to turbo-change it.” Trombley ushers us into the firstfloor floyer, the only part of the castle that could be described as “cozy.” A gray-and-white cat in a basket soaks up heat from the blaze in the green-tiled fireplace — one of 13 the house contains. Classic rock plays from a boom box on the stairway landing. Jack-o’-lanterns, real ones and paper dime-store versions, leer from every surface. Since central heating at Wilson is a thing of the past, a handful of Trombley’s coworkers have gathered by the fire. They watch as our guide, who resembles a young John. C. Reilly, describes the ghostly encounters he had as a teen. None of them happened at Wilson Castle. Trombley says he’s “been here countless hours and had no experiences.” He’s impressed by some odd video and EVP (electronic voice phenomena) recordings the Dark Knights collected on their previous visit. But when Trombley was devising his murder-mystery events, he scoured the place’s history for “juicy stories,” he says, and “they just weren’t there.” He’s not even sure anyone has died in the house. Here Andy Probst, a lanky young man who describes himself as a friend of the Wilson family, joins the conversation. His parents both worked at the castle, he says, and his father knew a caretaker who succumbed to a heart attack in the pool room. Probst, who’s been preparing the house for tomorrow morning’s pumpkin festival, hasn’t seen any ghosts in the house, but “I’ve definitely been creeped out,” he says. “It gives an eerie vibe. I don’t like being here alone.” An enthusiastic castle booster, Probst laments that we can’t see the 84 stainedglass windows with sun shining through

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Like haunted Hill House in Vermont author Shirley Jackson’s famous novel, Wilson Castle comes up suddenly in the dark. One moment you’re traversing the industrial flats of Rutland; the next, you’re standing beside a turreted brick Victorian pile that seems to stretch forever. To get a sense of the house’s exterior dimensions, I’d have to return in daylight. But daylight is not the time for a paranormal investigation, which is why Castle entertainment director Rusty Trombley has invited us here. In the hours to come, I will hear a few different stories about who brought Dark Knights Paranormal to Wilson Castle and why. But Trombley’s reason for calling the media to document their investigation is clear — as clear as a yawning gash in the ceiling plaster above one of the huge windows. Without cash infusions from tourists, donors and locals who come for murder-mystery evenings and hauntedhouse tours, the castle itself will become the ghost — a specter of its former glory. Five years of spooky October tours have created a public “misconception” that the castle is haunted, says Trombley. And now, he adds with a chuckle, “once we get this out to media, we’ll never be able to go back from that.” He doesn’t seem to mind. If saving the building

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Wilson Castle comes up suddenly in the dark. means playing up its creepy aspects — the echoing attics and dank, rubbishstrewn cellars — so be it. Like all grand mansions, Wilson Castle has never been cheap. The original owner, John Johnson, built the estate with his aristocratic English wife’s money and lost it to repossessors in the 1880s. The castle often stood vacant between then and 1939, when a Missouri radio engineer named Herbert Lee Wilson bought it and established AM station WEWE in the stables. Today, Wilson’s granddaughter, Denise Davine, lives in the caretaker’s quarters and runs part of the castle as a nonprofit. Last year she launched a new fundraising effort, Friends of Wilson Castle.

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them. He narrates a colorful account of the Johnsons’ courtship — seems she was a rich spinster, he a gold digger — and rattles off facts and figures: The ceilings took three and a half years to paint; the artist was paid seven and a half cents per day. Marketing the castle can be a challenge, Probst suggests, because “It was never historically significant for the area. It was just a big mystery. No one famous lived here or died here. It’s an oddity.” But mystery is its own draw. Just this morning, Probst opened a secret compartment in the Wilsons’ library furniture. “The walls are so thick,” he says, “you could hide a stairway in there.” The seven ghost hunters have arrived and started setting up their equipment in the library. Their investigation requires darkness, so if we want to get a good look at the place, the time is now. Our self-guided, whirlwind tour starts with parts of the house that are staged and open to the public: the lush, red Italian Renaissance-style dining room; the pink bedroom with its round window-seat alcove; the glossy cherry stairway with its stunningly detailed ceiling. The whole place is stuffed with motley art and artifacts, from a Mayanlooking figurine to a vintage Monopoly set to a boar’s head.

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institutions not with saving lives but with a ghoulish practice: grave robbing. Even in the 19th century, few had the privilege of dissecting or “anatomizing” human cadavers. For centuries, surgeons had relied on documents left behind by the great ancient doctors, such as Galen and Hippocrates, who themselves were more likely to have cut open a dog or

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orangutan than a man. UVM opened the doors to its medical school less than 80 years after London’s surgeons first separated themselves from barbers, asserting themselves as physicians who would perform the procedures previously associated with a shave and a tooth pulling. At the time, medical education still meant apprenticing on the job at a

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.V. Bowker was set to graduate from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1879. A promising student, Bowker had landed a gig assisting Leroy Bingham, one of the school’s top professors of anatomy. His duties included aiding in all aspects of the dissections that helped students learn about the human body. On this day, his task was to pick up a barrel of onions from a train headed north from New York. Bowker’s last assignment had been to retrieve a package at a Burlington grocery store. This barrel was even heavier and betrayed the unmistakable smell of the raw allium. Once inside Bingham’s UVM classroom, Bowker opened the barrel. He tossed aside onion after onion before hitting pay dirt. A body. The grisly cargo would enable his class to learn firsthand, at that time still very much a luxury. But they would need smallpox inoculations: As Bowker dug farther, the characteristic pimple-like macules on the cadaver’s skin made themselves apparent. Today, Vermont’s medical school trumpets its research triumphs. But in the old days, trainee surgeons kept a lower profile. People associated their

hospital and taking classes in instructors’ homes. This system resulted in a lack of supervision that worked just fine for anatomists, but not so much for families worried that a loved one might end up in pieces on a surgeon’s table. Without a standard procedure for getting subjects for dissection, teachers and students alike were often forced to rob graves. In 1796, just two months after Dartmouth College announced the debut of its medical school, fear in the community reached such a pitch that New Hampshire passed legislation against body snatching. In an attempt to protect its eternally sleeping citizens, Vermont passed its own law against “disturbing the remains of the dead” in 1804 — 14 years before the state’s first medical college opened in Castleton. The penalty: a fine of $1000, a year in prison or “39 stripes” at the whipping post. When the Clinical School of Medicine opened in Woodstock in 1827, the college regularly ran ads that promised citizens, “we are well assured of obtaining competency of the means from remote parts.” Translation? With the closest seaports — the promised source of cadavers — no closer than Boston, the Vermont students were most likely getting their specimens 13 miles across the border in New Hampshire. Dartmouth students probably made the journey in the opposite direction. Missing mother in the Green Mountains? She may be on a slab in Hanover. In 1830, according to Frederick Clayton Waite’s The Story of a Country Medical College, a sexton at the Hubbardton churchyard noticed something amiss at the grave of Mrs. Penfield Churchill. The

LocAL BoY mADE BAD Many Vermonters may have read Erik Larson’s 2003 historical account The Devil in the White City. But fewer are likely to know that one of its protagonists, serial killer H.H. Holmes, had roots in Burlington. In 1878, the 18-year-old New Hampshire native, who had already dropped his birth name, Herman Webster Mudgett, attended the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Perhaps he had a smallpox shot along with A.V. Bowker after dissecting the onion-barrel body. Saying he wished to attend a larger med school, Holmes headed to the University of Michigan. More likely, he was seeking a populous area to indulge unnoticed in criminal activity. According to Harold Schechter’s true-crime work Depraved, Holmes’ M.O. in Michigan involved stealing corpses from the university, buying them hefty insurance policies, then disfiguring the poor stiffs and claiming his due as their “relative” following an “accident.” It wasn’t until 1892 that Holmes’ famed Chicago “murder castle” was completed. He later admitted to offing 27 guests at his hotel during the 1893 World’s Fair, though accounts suggest casualties numbered as high as 200. As in the case of Holmes’ fellow Burlingtonian serial killer, Ted Bundy, rumors still fly that the good doctor first plied his murderous trade here. What we do know is that, in 1894, Holmes dispatched his assistant Benjamin Pitezel as part of yet another insurance scam. The killer then sent Pitezel’s wife, Carrie, on a wild goose chase across North America that ended with three Pitezel children dead. After stops in Philadelphia,

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Winfield Scott Nay and Frank A. Packard were discovered hoarding the body of Joseph Germain, which they had “resurrected” from Milton’s Catholic cemetery, they chose to leave the Burlington area for a few months. Packard returned before the end of the term and graduated on time in 1837. The aforementioned Bowker paid for his education with the $5-per-body rate he received from his professors. This Wild West mentality fostered unlawful disinterments until, in 1884, a new act decreed that social agencies such as poorhouses and insane asylums were required to turn over corpses of those who died there to medical schools. Wards of those institutions still had a few ways to escape old Doctor Sawbones — veterans were exempted, as were unidentified travelers and anyone who had specifically requested burial. As surgeons became more knowledgeable, the general population feared

Toronto and Indianapolis, Holmes, using the last name Judson, rented 26 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington. He installed Carrie there, with her two remaining children, under the alias Mrs. A.E. Cook. The house has changed little since 1894, save for the addition of a front porch. Using the alias G.D. Hale • RESTAURANT of Columbus, Ohio, Holmes • SOLARIUM checked himself into Hotel ! • BAR DINE Burlington, a lodging CALS O L E W H T H E E R located at 121-123 St. Paul Street. If you’ve ever had JUST OFF CHURCH STREET MARKET PLACE your hair colored at Jac 15 CENTER ST., BURLINGTON • dailyplanet15.com • 862-9647 Huntley, you may have trod where a serial killer once laid his head. Opening Reception Finally, to rid himself 16t-dailyplanet102710_ad2.indd 1 Friday November 5th, 5-810/21/10 pm 3:44:53 PM of the Pitezels once and for all, Holmes concocted one of his strangest plans yet. He headed down St. Paul Street to a drugstore, where he bought eight to 10 ounces of nitroglycerin. He carefully placed it in the basement of the North Winooski house, along with a note instructing Carrie to bring the bottle upstairs. Holmes hoped that, by agitating the bottle’s contents in a long walk up the Frog Hollow Honors the Memory of stairs, Carrie would transform it into a makeshift explosive. Instead, wise to Holmes’ ways, she hastily buried the bottle in her backyard. The apothecary’s cure for angina probably remains beneath the ground on North Winooski. Holmes was tracked down and apprehended in Boston that November. In court documents, Pitezel describes not only Holmes’ plot to kill her and her remaining family, but also a curious incident in which she found her late husband’s employer “removing some boards on the cellar floor. She says he exhibited much confusion when he found her observing him.” Is it possible that Holmes returned to Burlington with plans for a final score beyond ending the Pitezel family? He was executed in 1896, having never admitted to a murder in Burlington. SEVENDAYSVt.com

county sheriff organized three divisions of 100 men each and stormed the campus of the Castleton Medical Academy. The surprisingly polite militia waited to enter until a student calmly exited the school, holding something under his coat. Inside the classrooms, nothing seemed amiss until one man noticed some loose wainscoting. The headless body of a woman lay awaiting discovery. Knowing full well of the newly updated law against grave robbing, which raised the sentence to three years’ hard labor, the college’s dean would admit to nothing until the county sheriff guaranteed that no arrests would be made in the case. The dean sent for the student who had passed through the school’s doors earlier. With him came the head of Mrs. Churchill. Four years later, Burlington dealt with its first documented grave robbery. On March 28, 1834, the Burlington Sentinel declared that “the citizens of Burlington and vicinity are, at this time, under very considerable excitement at a late robbery of the Grave of this town ... the graves of the persons who lately died have been violated, and their bodies removed.” The name of one of the bodies has been lost to history. The other was identified as “Mrs. Holbrook.” In a letter published in the Sentinel signed by 120 citizens of Burlington, the deceased and her family were described as “highly respectable.” Though the writers admitted it “probable that the dissecting Knife has not been used upon her remains,” they warned that “the disinterment of her remains ... is universally regarded as a vile outrage which will not be submitted to unless the laws have lost their power to punish.” That was bad news for the Daggett brothers, who were caught transporting the bodies from Burlington to Woodstock. John Daggett, 18, was a student at the Clinical School of Medicine there. His 30-year-old brother, Willard, was a well-known Burlington businessman with a history of lawsuits and ill-advised business decisions. He was known to many around town as the owner of the waterfront tavern that was the site of Burlington’s first bathhouse. The pair were admitted to state prison in September 1834. After just two months, John was discharged by order of the governor. He graduated from Woodstock in 1837 and, according to Martin Kaufman’s history The University of Vermont College of Medicine, went on to serve in the Illinois state senate. Willard was less lucky. He died in 1838, months after completing his three years’ imprisonment. The stories continued to pile up like plague dead. When UVM students

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In time, Grannis joined her. The budding designer quickly put her sewing skills to work in the professional world. At 13, she began an apprenticeship at Recollections, a company that creates period clothing and accessories. By the time she was 19, Recollections’ owner had promoted her to assistant designer. In her new position, Grannis designed garments and trained new employees. “My employer taught me almost everything I know about sewing and the clothing industry,” she says. Indeed, her tenure at Recollections prepared Grannis for a career in costume design. Because she has created period clothing, she’s well versed in fashion history. Perhaps more importantly, Recollections’ specialty in detailed Victorian wear, with its ruffles and fitted waists, forced Grannis to work outside her comfort zone. “My normal design sense is very linear and clean, very different than the exaggerations of Victorian dress,” she says. “Working in that style helped me become a more versatile designer.” Since moving to Vermont eight years ago, Grannis has launched Rosemary Jayne Design, a custom design and alterations business. In addition to costumes, she creates original tops, dresses, handbags and totes. Her Seven Threads line includes silk, sleeveless blouses and simple, low-backed dresses that wear equally well for business and nights out. Grannis markets and sells her clothing online; her bags are available at Burlington’s Alchemy Jewelry Arts Collective, of which her uncle, goldsmith Timothy Grannis, is a member. Rosie Grannis admits that her everyday pieces, while fashionable, reflect a more conservative sensibility than do her costumes. “With my own designs, I usually make clothing I would like to wear,” she says. At her interview, she’s effortlessly stylish in a fitted turtleneck sweater, jeans and chunky heels. Still, she says, “Through costume design I have learned to take more risks and be more daring.” Costume and couture intersect when Grannis gets a bridal commission. “In a sense, wedding gowns are costumes, since the woman who is getting married dresses up as a bride for the day,” she suggests. And she enjoys the challenge: “It’s that person’s big day, so you want to make it perfect.” Most of her bridal customers contact Grannis after they’ve exhausted the resources of formal-wear and bridal shops, she says. By that point, brides usually have a sense of which styles

and fabrics suit them and can articulate what they want. Transforming a client’s vision into reality requires careful listening, Grannis says. She encourages prospective clients to bring their own inspirations to their first appointment — pieces of fabric, swatches of color or pictures of garments they like. “It’s hard to translate visual design into words, since we all describe colors and styles differently,” Grannis explains. “If they admire some elements of one garment and some of another, we can incorporate those diverse elements into the design.” She suggests that costume seekers provide an image of the character they’d like to portray. After her initial consultation with a client, Grannis produces a few sketches of the desired costume or gown. She considers hemline, neckline and fit, then color and texture. The first drawing is simply what the customer ordered, but

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not tempura [frying it]. Nothing. It just doesn’t sit with me well. Do you have any favorites that make others balk? Oysters and sweetbreads. People get a little grossed out about anything gooey. But I don’t think I eat anything that makes other people go, “Ew.” Sea urchin. Monkfish. It’s just a general consensus in the kitchen that it’s the ugliest and grossest thing in the kitchen to clean. You draw straws to see who cleans it.

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Local actor playing Frank-NFurter in The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show What’s the most frightening meal you’ve ever eaten? I’m a vegetarian, and a lot of times I’ve ordered a big calzone with a big meatball in the middle. In ’05, I was actually chewed on at the Chew Chew Festival when a dog lunged at my face and took a chunk out of my chin, so that was the worst time I was ever eaten. In high school, I ate some chicken croquettes that were still half frozen, but I ate them anyway. I’m not one to send something back unless it’s totally wrong. Another time, my mother and I were going to see a movie, and they brought me my vegetarian omelette and dropped it on the floor. Overall, though, I’d say hot dogs are about the scariest thing I’ve ever had. What was the scariest meal you ever cooked? I lived in New York at 19, and I had a girl visiting me from back in New Hampshire. I wanted to impress her, so

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Car essential. Marge, 9/20/10 GeriReilly-102710.indd 12:42:48 1 Chic S.PM Burlington 802-893-2468. Condo Stonington: Freshly Milton: Short-Term painted 4-BR, 2.5-BA 3-BR townhouse w/ fireplace, Overlake Dr.: 2.5-BA cherry floors, master contemporary colonial, suite w/ walk-in, garage. 5-star energy rated, Finished basement, cathedral ceilings, built private yard. Now; 2003. 2-car garage. 1 yr. $1800/mo. Dog OK. Now 6, 12, 802-846-9568; www. 18 mos. $1600/mo. HickokandBoardman. 802-846-9568, www. com. hickokandboardman. com. S. Burlington condo 3-BR, 2-BA, storage, N. Hero $750/mo. screened-in porch, House for rent. 2-BR, 2nd floor, W/D, pool. kitchen, LR, BA, W/D. Convenient to everyBackyard. No cats, thing. NS/pets. $1250/ maybe 1 well-trained mo. + utils. Avail. Nov. 1. dog. 802-372-4674. Kim, 828-713-9923. S. Burl., LAKEFRONT S. Burlington: HOME Landings Amazing views! Beach, mooring. 3-BR. Optional S. Beach Rd.: Beautifully appointed 3-DR, 3-BA 4th/den. 1.5-BA. Full townhouse. Luxuriously kitchen, DW, W/D. renovated 2008, on 2269 sq.ft. <10 mins. lake, chefs kitchen, to Burlington. 12+-mo. surround-sound lease. Avail. Nov. 1. throughout. Furnished $2000/mo. + utils. or not. $3000/mo. Now; 1st/last mo., refs. 1 yr. + 846-9568, www. 425-4060. hickokandboardman. com. S. Burlington 2-BR, kitchen, LR, DR, all appliances, porch, carport w/ storage, pool. NS/pets. $975/mo. 802-862-8047.

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3-BR eco-home build package in Charlotte, incorporating geothermal, solar, state of the art green build experience. Your home will be sited on a lovely, accessible, private 1 acre lot, with Camel’s Hump sunrise views, new state approved mound system. Permits in place, ready to build immediately. Build/ lot package price, $485,477. 802-310-0840.

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ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION AND HEARING 10 V.S.A., SECTIONS 6001 - 6092 On October 6, 2010, Hubert M. McCormick filed application #4C1224-1 for a project described as The construction of Phase I of a mixed use, 27-lot PUD including roads and infrastructure, Lots #1 and 2 (both commercial) and Lots #9-24 (single-family residential). The project previously received partial findings on Criterion 5 (Traffic) (Partial Findings of Fact, Conclu-

sions of Law, and Order #4C1224). The project is located on Route 7 in the Town of Milton. This project will be evaluated by the District #4 Environmental Commission in accordance with the 10 environmental criteria of 10 V.S.A., § 6086(a). A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. The following people or organizations may participate in the hearing for this project: 1. Statutory parties: The municipality, the municipal planning commission, the regional planning commission, any adjacent municipality, municipal planning commission or regional planning commission if the project lands are located on a town boundary, and affected state agencies are entitled to party status. 2. Adjoining property owners and others: May participate as parties to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the ten criteria. 3. Non-party participants: The district commission, on its own motion or by petition, may allow others to participate in the hearing without being accorded party status. If you wish further information regarding participation in this hearing, please contact the coordinator at the address below before the date of the first hearing or prehearing. If you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify this office at least seven days prior to the above hearing date. Copies of the application and plans for this project are available for inspection by members of the public during regular working hours at the Milton Offices, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the District #4 Environmental Office. The application can also be viewed at the Natural Resources Board web site: www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the case number above. Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of October, 2010.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802.879.5662 E/ stephanie.monaghan@state.vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A., SECTIONS 6001 - 6092 On October 7, 2010, 222 Franklin, Inc. filed application #4C1075-5 for a project generally described as The construction, and change in size and use of, Buildings #1 and #2 at Riverside in the Village. Each building will contain thirty-two, onebedroom apartments. The project is located at Park and Franklin Streets in the Village of Essex Junction, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Essex Junction Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before Friday, November 12, 2010, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared

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BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Tuesday November 16, 2010 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday November 16, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications: 1. 11-0300MA/CA; 476 South Prospect Street (I, Ward 6) UVM/Redstone Construction of a student apartment complex consisting of two connected buildings and

law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings, advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Any home seeker who feels her or she has encountered discrimination should contact: HUD Office of Fair Housing 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309 — OR — Vermont Human Rights Commission 135 State St., Drawer 33 Montpelier, VT 05633-6301 800-416-2010 Fax: 802-828-2480

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associated site work. Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www. ci.burlington.vt.us/planning/drb or office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard. NOTICE & WARNING SPECIAL WARD THREE MEETING The legal voters of WARD 3 are hereby notified and warned to come and vote at the Special Ward Three Meeting Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 2010 between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. in their ward, at their voting place hereinafter named, for the purpose of electing one city Councilor to complete the two year term of

former City Councilor Marissa Caldwell which began April 6, 2009 and which will expire on April 3, 2011, such seat having become vacant by resignation. The following is the designated polling place, viz: WARD THREE—Saint Joseph’s School Cafeteria, 20 Allen Street The polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. Bob Kiss, Mayor Publication Dates: Burlington, Vermont NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/ tax year(s) 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the rental registration fees assessed by such City for rental registration year(s) 2010 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delin-

Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. quent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Leo W. Bushey, Jr. and Lawrence J. Bushey Property Address: 256 North Winooski Ave., Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 044-3-151000. Deed recorded at: Vol. 680, Pg. 478, on May 18, 2001. Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on November 16 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved. Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 14th day

of October, 2010. Jonathan P. A. Leopold, Jr. Chief Administrative Officer Burlington, Vermont NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/ tax year(s) 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the rental registration fees assessed by such City for rental registration year(s) 2010 and the reinspection fee assessed by such City for the reinsepction year 2009 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Bushey Property Holdings, LLP Property Address: 260262 North Winooski Ave., Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 039-4-001-

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000 Deed recorded at: Vol. 813, Pg. 231, on March 6, 2002. Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on November 16 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved. Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 14th day of October, 2010. Jonathan P. A. Leopold, Jr. Chief Administrative Officer Burlington, Vermont

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1. PROPOSED GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT “Shall the City Council be authorized to issue revenue supported general obligation bonds or notes in one or more series, and to pledge the credit of the City in connection therewith, pursuant to the City Charter on behalf of the Electric Light Department in an amount not to exceed Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($5,900,000), for capital additions and improvements to the electric system, including investments in Vermont Transco, LLC? Total Estimated Project cost: $5,900,000.00 City’s Share: $5,900,000.00 ” The following are designated as polling places, viz: WARD ONE Mater Christi School, 100 Mansfield Ave. WARD TWO H.O. Wheeler School, Archibald & Walnut Streets WARD THREE—Saint Joseph’s School Cafeteria, 20 Allen Street WARD FOUR St. Mark’s Youth Center, 1271 North Ave. WARD FIVE Burlington Electric Department, 585 Pine St. WARD SIX Edmunds Middle School, King & So. Union Sts.

Bob Kiss, Mayor Publication Dates: Burlington, Vermont * * * * SPECIAL CITY ELECTION * * * * TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Clerk/Treasurer’s Office open: 9 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Saturday, October 30, 2010, Voting purposes only Clerk/Treasurer’s Office open: 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Monday, November 1, 2010, Voting purposes only The following are designated as polling places: WARD ONE Mater Christi School, 100 Mansfield Ave. WARD TWO H.O. Wheeler School, Archibald & Walnut Streets WARD THREE—Saint Joseph’s School Cafeteria, 20 Allen Street WARD FOUR St. Mark’s Youth Center, 1271 North Ave. WARD FIVE Burlington Electric Department, 585 Pine St. WARD SIX Edmunds Middle School, King & So. Union Sts. WARD SEVEN—Robert Miller Community & Recreation Ctr, 130 Gosse Court The polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 33452 IN RE THE ESTATE OF ALAN M. CASS LATE OF COLCHESTER, VERMONT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Alan M. Cass late of Colchester. I have been appointed as personal representative of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described within the four month deadline.

Dated: October 19, 2010 Signed: Teki Cass Print Name: Teki Cass Address: 182 Lindale Drive Colchester, VT 05446 Telephone: (802)8782380 Name of the publication: Seven Days First Publication Date: October 27, 2010 Second Publication Date: November 3, 2010 Address of Probate Court: Probate Court, District of Chittenden PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT IN RE: Appeal of Gregg and Elizabeth Beldock ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION Docket No. (not yet assigned) NOTICE OF APPEAL Notice is hereby given that Gregg Beldock and Elizabeth Beldock, by and through their attorneys, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, hereby appeal the Department of Environmental Conservation’s issuance of Wastewater System and Potable Water Supply Permit WW-138-1018 dated October 13, 2010. A copy of the permit is attached hereto. The applicants under the permit are Randolph and Page Frantz. The statutory provision as to party status is 10 V.S.A. § 8504(a). The property at issue is located at 250 Plouffe Lane, Charlotte, Vermont (Tax Parcel ID# 00113-0250) and also concerns lands of the Appellants known as Lot #6, Plouffe Lane, Charlotte, Vermont. DATED at Burlington, Vermont this 20th day of October, 2010. LANGROCK SPERRY & WOOL, LLP /s/ Eric M. Knudsen Eric M. Knudsen Alison J. Bell P.O. Box 721, 210 College Street Burlington, VT 05402 (802) 864-0217 Attorneys for Appellants Gregg and Elizabeth Beldock SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 21, 2010, the legislative body of the Town of Jericho adopted the Ordinance Regulating Open Burning and Incineration of Solid Waste, pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1971, § 2202a(a), and § 2291(14) for the purpose of promoting the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Jericho and to regulate open burning

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Article I Purpose and Title Article II Definitions Article III Open Burning and Incineration Article IV Penalties and Civil Enforcement Article V Designation of Enforcement Personnel Article VI Repeal of Inconsistent Provisions Article VII Severability Article VIII Effective Date A full text of the Ordinance, and answers to any questions about it, may be obtained at the office of the Jericho Town Administrator, 67 Route 15, Jericho, Vermont. Telephone 899-9970 ext. 3, or on the town website at www.jerichovt.gov. This Ordinance shall take effect 60 days from October 21, 2010 unless a petition for disapproval, signed by not less than 5% of the qualified voters of the Town of Jericho, is presented to the legislative body of the Town of Jericho within 44 days of October 21, 2010. If such a petition is received, a special Town Meeting will be warned to consider such disapproval. Dated this 21st day of October, 2010. Town of Jericho Selectboard The contents of storage unit(s) 01-04224 located at 28 Adams Dr, Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 4th of the month of November, 2010 to satisfy the debt of Robert Sweeney. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. Please note this in not a public auction.

DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-11 or 866-652-4636 (toll free) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636, 24/7. LGBTQ GRIEF AND LOSS GROUP Every Monday, 12pm, RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. A once-a-week group is forming at RU12? for those interested in giving voice to their experience(s) with loss and listening to other’s. Topics could include but are not limited to: grieving, letting go, resolution, moving on, self-image, rituals, and learnings. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more information. TRANS GUY’S GROUP Every fourth Monday, RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Champlain Mill 1st Floor, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. This is a social and support group specifically for trans men. This informal, peer-facilitated group welcomes maleidentified people at any stage of transition. As this is currently a closed group, please contact the center to sign up: thecenter@ru12.org or 860-RU12. SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Come together to talk, connect, and find support around a number of issues including: Coming Out, Socializing. Challenges around employment. Safe Sex. Self Advocacy. Choosing Partners. Discovering who you are. And anything else you want to talk about! The first meeting will be on Tuesday, October 26 at 4 p.m. at the RU12? Community Center at the Champlain Mill in Winooski. For more information contact Sheila (Sheila@ru12.org) or David (Dave6262002@ yahoo.com) GLAM CORE GROUP MEETING Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m., RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. We’re looking for young gay and bi guys who are interested in putting together great events, meeting new people, and reaching out to other

TRANS SUPPORT GROUP Every first and third Wednesday, RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Champlain Mill 1st Floor, Winooski, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people and to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful and confidential space for socializing, support, and discussion. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more information. LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please call Ann or Brenda at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more information. MALE GBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for maleidentified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet in Winooski at the RU12? Community Center and will be facilitated by Damian. Support groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. 802-863-0003. ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS will hold its regular meeting this Monday, November 1, 7-9 p.m. at Saint Ambrose Church at 11 School Street, Bristol. Enter through the side door. Bereaved parents, adult siblings and grandparents are encouraged to attend to meet others who have gone through a similar experience for support. For more information, contact chapter leaders Nancy Merolle at 388-6837, or Claire Groleau at 388-9603. CHITTENDEN FAMILIES TOGETHER MEETING: Wednesday, Oct. 27, 5:30-7 p.m. Vermont Family Network Conference Room, 600 Blair Park Rd. #240, Williston. “Guardianship and Special Needs Trusts”

is being presented by Claudia Inés Pringles, Esq. Claudia Pringles is an attorney in private practice with a focus on special needs planning. www.specialneedstrustsvermont.com Contact: Jan Hancock. 876-5315 ext. 215. jan.hancock@ vtfn.org, www.VermontFamilyNetwork.org. NAMI CONNECTION (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group for individuals living with mental illnesses. Call Tammy at 1-800-6396480 or email us at connections@namivt.org BENNINGTON: Every Tuesday, 1-2:30 p.m., United Couseling Service, 316 Dewey St., CTR Center (Community Rehabilitation and Treatment). BURLINGTON: Every Thursday, 4-5:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2 Cherry Street. ESSEX JUNCTION: 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 2-3:30 p.m., Congregational Church, 39 Main Street. HARTFORD: 2nd and 4th Friday 4-5:30 p.m., Hartford Library. Call Barbara Austin, 802-457-1512. MONTPELIER: 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m., Kellogg-Hubbard Library, East Montpelier Room (basement). NEWPORT: 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m. Medical Arts Building (attached to North Country Hospital), 2nd floor conference room. RANDOLPH: Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m., United Church, 18 N. Main Street. BATTLEBORO: Call for details. EATING DISORDERS SUPPORT GROUP This is a therapist-facilitated, drop-in support group for women with eating disorders. Women over 18 only please. This group will be held every other Wednesday from 5:30-7 p.m. beginning Oct. 20. Free. Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, So. Burlington. 802-658-9440. CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This group offers support to those caring for loved ones with memory loss due to dementia. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at The Converse Home, 272 Church St, Burlington. For more info call: 802862-0401. MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER Support group meets 6-8 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Hope Lodge at the UVM/FAHC campus. 1-800-ACS2345.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want To Feel Supported On Your Vegetarian/Vegan Journey? Want more info. on Healthy Veggy Diets? Want to share and socialize at Veggy Potlucks, and more, in the greater Burlington Area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 802-658-4991. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS Meets on Sundays from 12-1 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. This is a fellowship of men and women that meet and review the 12 steps of CODA, read stories from the CODA anonymous big book and share their experiences, strengths and hopes as we support each other. Open to everyone. Info: Larry, WLTRS@aol.com, 802-658-9994 or Jeff, JCDANIS@Burlingtontelecom.net, 802-8633674. For directions, call the Turning Point Center at 802-861-3150. QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle? Free 4-week Quit Smoking Groups are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program in your community. Free Nicotine Replacement products are available for program participants. For more information or to register, call 847-6541 or wellness@vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, contact the VT Quit Network at www. vtquitnetwork.org. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Learn how to cope with grief, with the intention of receiving and offering support to each other. The group is informal and includes personal sharing of our grief experiences. Open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Meets every other week Mondays, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Barre. 802-223-1878, www.cvhhh.org. DIGESTIVE SUPPORT GROUP Join this open support group, hosted by Carrie Shamel, and gain information regarding digestive disorders. If you suffer from any kind of digestive disorder or discomfort this is the place for you! Open to all. Meets the first Monday of every month in the Healthy Living Learning Center. For more information contact Carrie Shamel at carrie. shamel@gmail.com. www.llleus.org/state/ vermont/html.

sevendaysvt.com/classifieds AL-ALNON IN ST. JOHNSBURY Tues. & Thurs., 7 p.m., Kingdom Recovery Center (Dr. Bob’s birthplace), 297 Summer St., St. Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry St., St. Johnsbury. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS, ACA is a 12-Step program for people that grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. We meet in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St., Burlington. For info contact Emily at 802-922-6609, emily@ intrapersonalcoaching. com. SEEKING ACTIVE RETIREES/50+ To form a social group. Snowshoeing, theater, biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. Please call 802-864-0604. Lv. msg. if no answer.

CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-229-5724 or 1-800-children. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community and educational group. We provide coffee, soda and snacks and are open to PALS, caregivers, family members and those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the second Thursday of each month from 1-3 p.m. at “Jim’s House”, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston, VT. Hosted by Pete and Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, Patient Care Coordinator for the ALS Association here in Vermont. 223-7638 for more information.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS) Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) of Addison County and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will collaborate to sponsor a monthly ongoing support group for people who have lost someone by suicide. The group will meet the 1st Wed. of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. These free peer support groups will be held at Hospice Volunteer Services at the Marbleworks in Middlebury, and cofacilitated by professional representatives from HVS and AFSP, both suicide survivors. For more information and to register call HVS at 388-4111. A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues. Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. 191 Bank St., Burlington. 802-861-3150.

NEED A HUG? New support group starting. Would you like to explore personal intimacy in a safe environment? This is accomplished by using touch for expressing and receiving tenderness. This is platonic and personal boundaries are respected. Day, time and location TBA. Jeff 310-4903 email iiyog@ aol.com. COED SINGLES GROUP Ages 50-65, forming for friendship and fun. Chittenden County area. Activities to include weeknight/weekend dinner, bowling, hikes, snow shoeing, movies, etc. If interested email Myra at csbnc27609@aol.com. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802985-8600. WOMEN’S RAPE CRISIS CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10week support group for adult female survivors of

sexual violence. Please call 864-0555 ext. 20 for information. LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802-7340695. SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-4463577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month. GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided. The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register. ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from

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bury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.

SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@ pshift.com. AL-ANON Family group 12-step. Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/ management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives. Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food? Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@ gmail.com.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the ground floor boardroom from 6-8 p.m. Middle-

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Calcoku Varied topics including: Using the work, enclosed math operations as a guide, the grid STARTING AfillWOMEN’S relationships, parusing the numbers 1 - 6 only once in each row and GROUP Ages 45+, to enting, column. personal growth, meet weekly for lunch healing.90x Confidential, 2÷ 10+ 2÷ and other activities nonjudgmental. Open to such as walking, book all ethnicities, religions 6 5+ discussions, museum and sexual orientavisits, matinees, etc. tions. Joseph’s House, Email Katherine 113 Elmwood Ave. 3+ Every 9+ 3 15xat MKR27609@aol.com. Thursday, 7-9 the p.m. More Complete following puzzle by using the info: call Chris 434-4830. numbers 3+ 1-9 only once4 in each 11+ row, column and 3 x 3 box. LYME DISEASE Are you interested 3- in 36x 5forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

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HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/ AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094. SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions. Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@cs.com

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SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wednesday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington, VT. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, call 802-479-9450, or ljlivendale@yahoo.com.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 6-7 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info: 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sunday 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info: Debbie Y., 8885958. Meeting in Montpelier occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info: Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356 or Debbie Y., 888-5958.

BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause.

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GIRL POWER Learn about your inner power through meditation, sacred space, healing energy modalities. Connect and attune to empower & enlighten, expand your sense of awareness, network with others your age, find peer support within this on-going monthly group. Please bring a notebook journal, writing utensil and a folding chair. Ages 12-18. First Sat of each month at 4 p.m. at Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rt. 7, Milton. To reserve space call Michele, 802893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo.com.

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CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at The Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington. Please call or visit website for location information, www. vtcfids.org or call 1-800296-1445 or 802-6604817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport).

IS FOOD A PROBLEM FOR YOU? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? Call Overeaters Anonymous, 863-2655.

BURDENS WEIGHTING YOU DOWN? Unemployed, homeless, in need of direction? We are people just like you and have found the answer to all of the above problems. We meet every Wednesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Imani Center 293 N Winooski Ave. Please call 802-343-2027.

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA) Drug Problem? We Can Help. If you think you have a problem with drugs, including alcohol, give yourself a break. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for individuals who have a desire to recover from the disease of addiction. NA offers a practical and proven way to live and enjoy life without the use of drugs. To find an NA Meeting near you in Vermont or Northern New York, please go to www.cvana. org/Meetinglist.pdf or call our 24-hour, toll free, confidential number, (866) 580-8718 or (802) 862-4516. For more information about NA, please go to http://www. na.org/?ID=ips-index and click on “>Is NA for Me?

10-11:30 a.m. & Wednesdays 5:30-6:30, 45 Clark St., Burlington. Contact Brenda at 338-1170.

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Personal Care Assistant PROFESSIONAL MANUFACTURING ADVISOR Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC) REsponsibilitiEs: As an important member of the VMEC team

working with clients primarily located in northwest Vermont, this challenging position involves identifying, evaluating, implementing and managing multiple projects involving manufacturing, process improvement, and growth strategy solutions for Vermont manufacturers that desire to improve their operations and grow. QualifiCations: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other

appropriate discipline, plus a minimum of 10 years manufacturing experience or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. An advanced business degree or second degree that provides cross-functional skills desirable. Must possess strong project management skills, selling ability, and excellent writing, presentation and oral communications skills. Hands-on experience with Lean manufacturing required and experience with Lean transformations and Lean culture desirable. Must be a self-starter, detail oriented, and be able to multitask. In-state travel required. Some flexibility in office location may be possible.

Currently looking for a caregiver to join our team providing care for a bedbound elderly gentleman in his beautiful Williston home. Regular weekly schedule to be two evenings, 3:30-9 p.m. Flexibility desired for possible extra hours, and occasional overnights. Responsibilities will include all levels of physical care, and light household duties. Ideal candidate is experienced in the care of bed-bound patients. Current references demonstrating commitment and responsibility required. Send resume to: eldons@ burlingtontelecom.net.

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Web Writer/Content Developer Our busy Communications Office seeks a full-time writer and multimedia producer to help tell the many stories of the College on our web site. Typical duties include interviewing students and faculty, writing news stories, editing web content, and producing video shorts. Must have excellent written and interpersonal skills. 2-3 years experience in a journalism or public relations related field required. Web experience a plus. Salary range: mid-20s plus benefits. To apply please mail or e-mail resume, cover letter, and three journalistic writing samples to: Janie Evans, Human Resources, Pollock Hall, Green Mountain College, One College Circle, Poultney, VT 05764 or e-mail to: evansmj@greenmtn. edu. Review of applications will begin immediately, position open until filled. EOE/AAE.

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ResearchField Interviewer

10/18/10 10:58:23 AM

CONDUCT INTERVIEWS FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED STUDY

On behalf of the Research Triangle Institute, Headway Corporate Resources is currently seeking field interviewers to work on a government-sponsored research study in Burlington, Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Applications will be Vt., and surrounding areas. This is a part-time position offering reviewed until position is filled. Information on VMEC is available at 3v-Eldons-102710.indd 1 10/25/10 2:44:56 PM an average of 20-25 hours per week. Field Interviewers will be www.vmec.org. responsible for traveling to participant's homes in an assigned area and conducting research interviews with randomly to apply: selected participants. Candidates must be able to work a flexible • Download, complete, and submit (via U.S. mail) the following: [1) a schedule including evenings and weekends, and must be willing confidential Vermont Technical College Application for Employment; to travel locally. [2) your resume; [3) the names and contact information for three • Evening and weekend hours personal references, and [4) a cover letter expressing your interest • Average 20 to 25 hours per week in this position. • Paid training (7 days excluding travel days) Looking for an experienced • The Application for Employment may be downloaded from the VT • Pay range, based on experience, starting at $12.00 Massage Therapist for Tech website at: www.vtc.edu. Select the “About Vermont Tech” tab, • Dependable transportation required, mileage reimbursed at then the “Employment” tab, and follow the link to “Application for new salon in Stowe. $.50 cents per mile Employment.” Must be experienced in • No solicitation involved, although skills gained from previous • Send all information together to: Vermont Technical College, all types of massage, sales work is helpful Human Resources, PO Box 500, Randolph Center, VT 05061. professional and reliable. • Household interviewing and/or computer experience Candidates must be willing to submit to a criminal background check. preferred Any offer of employment is contingent upon the satisfactory results of this check.

Vermont Tech is an equal opportunity employer.

Send resume to: salon4men@yahoo.com.

To apply, go to www.NSDUHjobs.com.

salon4men@yahoo.com | 802-777-9229

* All interviewers will be employed by Headway Corporate Resources, under subcontract to RTI.

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TEmpOrary pOsiTiOn

Vermont Works for Women seeks a weatherization solar tracker lead/ project manager sub for a six month temporary position. This position will lead a crew of on-the-job trainees in doing weatherization work and solar tracker installation work. Experience in weatherization, carpentry, running a business and leading a crew required. This is a full-time temporary position. Email resumes and references to sgrove@ vtworksforwomen.org. OEO.

Jvillage Network is a rapidly growing online membership engagement company in Burlington, VT. We build websites for synagogues and Jewish not-for-profits and are focused on creating community around our member organizations. Reporting to the CEO, the Director will be leading the Member Technology and Production Group. You will manage, monitor and refine our digital production processes. Direct reports include Project Managers, Web Designers, Web Developers and Support Specialists. You must have six years of experience directing web production teams. Deep understanding of web technologies, social media and content management systems a must. Visit www. jvillagenetwork.com/careers for more information.

Send a cover letter, resume, LinkedIn profile and salary requirements to careers@jvillagenetwork.com.

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VT Works for Women 32A Malletts Bay Ave. Winooski, VT 05404

Director of Field Education, Social Work

The Social Work Department at SUNY College at Plattsburgh invites applications for full-time lecturer to serve as Director of Field Education and a teaching faculty member, effective fall 2011. This is a renewable, term appointment. RESponSibilitiES incluDE: Administrative direction and oversight of the field education component of the program, including development and maintenance of relationships with regional service providers, teaching undergraduate social work courses, advising students, serving on committees at the program, division, and college level, and fulfilling field practicum liaison role.

Master’s of Social Work degree from accredited program; minimum of two years post-masters practice experience; state licensure as a professional social worker; supervisory experience including supervision of students; college level teaching and/ or agency-based training experience required.

REqu iRED qualiFicationS:

Experience in a CSWE accredited social work program; commitment to program development; commitment to professional development of social work students preferred. pREFERRED qualiFicationS:

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$40,000 minimum salary, with excellent benefits.

Full consideration will be given to applications received by February 1, 2011. Please apply at https://jobs.plattsburgh.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50919 and provide resume/cv, cover letter of interest, a syllabus from a previously taught course, a copy of state license as a professional social worker, and three letters of reference. Candidate to whom offer is made will be required to verify educational credentials by providing official transcripts from an accredited institution prior to the start of employment.

to our team.

Armistead offers homebased, nonmedical personal care and other support services for seniors. Armistead has day, evening, night and weekend shifts available, and offers a flexible schedule.

must have a reliable vehicle and be willing to work every other weekend. Visit us online at www.armisteadinc.com to learn more and to fill out an application.

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Outreach & Development Director

• building awareness about runaway, homeless and at-risk youth living in difficult circumstances; • communicating our unique Vermont model that helps youth across the state achieve success; • supporting Coalition member fundraising efforts; and • identifying potential funding opportunities to support the Coalition’s work. RequiRemenTs: • College degree required, advanced degree preferred. • Experience building long-term relationships. • Background in communications, development, marketing or related field. • Knowledge of development strategies, basic financial planning and regulations governing charitable giving. • Ability to get results and independently manage work schedule. • Excellent communication skills including interpersonal, written and public speaking. • Able to use technology to broaden our community of supporters through social media, website, donor database and productivity software. • Commitment to the mission of the Coalition and a concern for the well-being of Vermont youth. salary range: High 30s

SUNY Plattsburgh is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence through diversity.

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The Vermont Coalition of Runaway & Homeless Youth Programs (VCRHYP) is composed of member agencies representing every region of Vermont and guarantees the existence of a statewide safety net for runaway and homeless youth. The Coalition is seeking an Outreach and Development Director to join our 12:38:16 PM team. This individual will support and advance the mission of the Coalition by

Care Partners

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Director of Digital ProDuction

Weatherization and Solar Tracker Installer Lead/ Project Manager

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Please send resume along with letter of interest to VCRHYP, Attention: Calvin Smith, PO Box 627, 38 Elm St. Montpelier, VT 05602, or email csmith@vcrhyp.org.

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Nexgen seeking high energy, goal-oriented individuals to join

our team for both FT and PT opportunities in Williston, Burlington and Rutland! If you possess a drive to be number one in the wireless industry, and enjoy fostering relationships with both consumers and businesses, this may be the right opportunity for you. We’re seeking career-minded professionals to grow with our company. The ideal candidates will have strong organizational skills, a professional demeanor, as well as the desire to join a team of highly motivated and ambitious individuals. Basic computer skills required for daily operations.

Women Helping Battered Women is seeking an:

Office AssistAnt

24 hour/week with flexible workday hours providing administrative support. Sales or sales management experience is highly preferred but not required. Duties include volunteer recruitment, Knowledge of the wireless industry is a major plus, however, we will happily train the best candidates. An interest in the latest technology, a strong customer maintaining office records and service mentality, and being self-motivated are some of the qualities of our most equipment, ordering supplies, successful employees. We are looking for candidates who go above and beyond answering phones, mail pickup and because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. distribution, assisting with donations Please apply with resume to: resumes@nexgenwireless.net. and supervision of administrative volunteers. Office experience w/ MS Word, Excel, Outlook preferred. Prorated 4T-NexGen102710.indd 1 10/25/10 11:19:48 AM benefits. Job description at www.whbw.org. Resume and cover letter by 11/5/10 to: whbw@whbw.org or mail to WHBW, P.O. Box 1535, Burlington, VT 05402.

Regional Sales Representative Southern Vermont territory PayData is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, experienced sales professional to join our team. A college degree and 2 years of business-to-business sales experience is necessary. A payroll background would be helpful. Duties will encompass telephone prospecting, cold calling and sales presentations to HR & Accounting professionals throughout the southern Vermont territory. Salary + commission and benefit plan. Please, no phone calls. Send resume and cover letter with compensation requirements to: PayData Payroll Services, Inc., Attn: Human Resources, P.O. Box 706, Essex Jct., VT 05453 hr@paydata.com.

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Come build your future at Middlebury College! The Community Sailing Center is seeking a motivated and organized individual to join our team!

Administrative Coordinator A part-time position responsible for assisting the CSC in a variety of areas and managing the daily administrative needs of the office. 20 hours/ week with flexible workday hours. Candidates should possess the ability to work in an open and collaborative environment, and have excellent interpersonal, and communication skills. Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Kate Neubauer, Executive Director, at kate@ communitysailingcenter.org. No phone calls, please.

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Director for Rikert Ski Touring Center, full-time The Rikert Ski Touring Center located in Ripton Vermont is a diamond in the rough, waiting for the right person to bring it to its full potential. The ideal candidate must understand the cross country ski business, be able to support our Nordic Ski team needs, be able to work with a diverse group of people and organizations, manage our staff, market the Center, improve the trails and foster a strong customer focused culture. The effective use of labor, ability to manage budgets and good verbal and written communications skills are also required. The Director will work approximately 10 months of the year.

Retail Food Operations Manager, full-time Middlebury College seeks a seasoned restaurant manager to oversee daily operation of The Grille, a 225 seat restaurant, in our student center and to provide management and direction for our convenience store, Wilson Café, and snack bar operations at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Ralph Myhre Golf Course. The ideal candidate must have excellent people management skills, must understand retail food pricing, menu design, effective use of labor and be able to foster a culture of strong customer service. This position reports to the Business Service Group and is separate from our Board Plan Dining Program. Why work for us? Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. As the tenth largest employer in Vermont and an institution with operations on five continents, Middlebury’s workforce is one of its most valuable assets. Thus the college is firmly committed to the success and development of its employees. Interested applicants, please apply online via: http://apptrkr.com/164410 For assistance, please call Human Resources at 802-443-5465.

Middlebury College is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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10/25/10 4:13:05 PM

Managing Editor

for Parenting Publication Wanted: Creative, detail-oriented, web-savvy editor with journalistic training and social media skills. Must be an entrepreneurial team-player familiar with family-friendly businesses, organizations and activities in Vermont and ready for a challenge.

no phone calls, please.

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Sous Chef Sophie’s American Bistro located at Severance Corners in Colchester is seeking an experienced sous chef. Sophie’s is an up-and-coming restaurant looking to strengthen its depth in the kitchen. Our ideal candidate can do it all — from grill to sauté, baking to prep. Creativity is welcome, organization a must, and the ability to recognize and solve problems will not go unnoticed. If you are efficient, easygoing and dependable, we would love to see what you’ve got. Special function experience is a plus. Send resume to: alisondattilio@comcast.net.

duties Will include: coordinating print, web and *email newsletter content

8 wrangling writers maintaining databases * 8 coordinating events

new jobs posted daily!

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Communities, an international nonprofit with headquarters in Montpelier, Vt., has openings for skilled individuals in our Institutional Advancement and Climate & Environment departments. We are seeking:

CLINICAL OPPORTUNITIES Experience the independence and satisfaction of one-to-one patient care in a supportive, flexible and professional environment. Work individually with patients in their homes providing them with skills that will help to maintain their lifestyle. These positions offer a personally and professionally rewarding way to share your knowledge and have a direct hand in a patient’s quality of life at home!

FULL-TIME PHYSICAL THERAPIST Qualifications include a current Vermont Physical Therapy license and a minimum of two years of experience preferably, within a rehabilitation program.

FULL-TIME HOSPICE RN Hospice and/or palliative care is strongly preferred. VT RN license with two years of nursing experience.

Development Officer Individuals and Major Donors

Development Officer Corporations & Foundations

Senior Program Officer Climate & Environment

Program Officer Climate & Environment

Please visit our website for job details and application instructions. http://www.iscvt.org/who_we_are/ jobs/.

Please visit our website at www.achhh.org and apply directly online. Or, please send your resume to cpaquette@achhh.org, or to ACHHH, Human Resources, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753. You can fax your resume to (802) 388-6126, or drop by for an application and interview. We look forward to hearing from you!

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ISC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Network Administrator Are you ready to ditch foosball, free soda and 15-hour days for a grown-up job?

Don’t get us wrong. We dress business casual. We won’t make you switch to decaf (though we probably won’t mock you if you do). We do fun and food and, yeah, you can expect weird hours sometimes. But mostly, we work hard to build, maintain and secure a solid technological foundation that lets our 70+ employees and 50+ agencies serve the 60,000+ Co-op members who rely on us to help protect their homes, vehicles, farms, and businesses in VT and NH. As part of our network admin team you will • monitor and maintain our network infrastructure • perform upgrades and additions to network hardware and software • maintain optimal network performance by monitoring and troubleshooting network issues related to stability, connectivity, speed, access, compatibility • maintain and enforce security and compliance mechanisms • support desktop systems for local and remote users, and work with our development team in supporting our Web-based applications • create and maintain documentation associated with all of these responsibilities. To make our team, your strong technical creds must include • at least three years recent network admin experience, and preferably relevant education or certifications • a current and thorough knowledge of MS Server products • strong current knowledge of VMware and MS Office products. • knowledge of or experience with most of the following: • Cisco routers and switches • fiber channel SANS • Citrix Metaframe or Presentation servers; XenApp • HP and ProLiant servers • Web servers, CMSs, Web application servers (such as IIS, Apache/IHS, Tomcat, Plone, Exchange server, Websphere, SharePoint) • network protection technologies, firewalls, proxy and reverse proxy servers. And you must • be organized enough to juggle and prioritize multiple assigned tasks and follow through on them • take initiative when you see something’s being missed • be able to work independently with minimal instruction • think critically, research well, and learn easily and constantly • be a talented troubleshooter, with a logical approach to problemsolving that’s supplemented by great instincts • balance “quickly” with “calmly,” “desirable” with “necessary,” and “independent” with “team” • clearly and patiently explain complex (and simple!) tasks and concepts so nontechnical folks can understand them • operate on the belief that we maintain a network for our users, not in spite of them. In return, you’ll get • a friendly, professional work environment in Middlebury, VT • competitive compensation • excellent benefits, including medical and dental; defined-benefit pension; 401(k) with matching; FSA; great employer-paid life, LTD, STD and LTC insurance • generous paid time off; support for home and work life balance; health, wellness and social programming • professional education support and an active role in charting your own professional development. If you’ve applied in the last 18 months, you need not resubmit. No phone calls, please. Reference job code SNA and email, fax, or mail all correspondence by 11/1/2010 to: jobs@ciui.net 802-388-0063 Fax Human Resources Co-operative Insurance Companies PO Box 5890 Middlebury, VT 05753

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Custodian

T h e A m er icA n PA i n Fou n dAT ion (A PF),

Champlain Valley Union H.S. is seeking a second shift custodian.

Library CirCuLation assistant Part time (20 hours/week), Evening, Weekend and Daytime

Hours: 3 - 11:30 p.m., M-F.

We are seeking a responsible, committed individual to supervise library circulation services in Champlain’s dynamic library. Reporting to the Manager of Circulation Services, oversee the facility and circulation systems, carry out projects and supervise student employees. Positio begins in December.

Summer hours: 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pick up an application at the CVU Office, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg, VT 05461

the nation's leading organization devoted to improving the quality of life of people affected by pain, is seeking an experienced, innovative

Chief Operating Officer. The APF is headquartered in Baltimore, Md., but its management team works virtually from all parts of the country. The position requires significant nonprofit financial management skills, program quality improvement understanding and skills, ability to manage a team of top-flight managers, and an evident passion for the mission of the organization. Please submit a letter of interest and resume electronically to Bonnie Weissfeld, assistant to the CEO, at bweissfeld@painfoundation.org.

A minimum of an associate’s degree with 2-4 years of recent Deadline for submission is customer service & supervisory experience is required (or equivalent Call 802-482-7112 for more October 30, 2010. information. combination of experience and education). A bachelor’s degree is preferred. Must be able to provide demonstrated ability to work independently in a position of responsibility and be proficient with common office computer applications. The finalist must be able to 2v-ChitSouth-CUST-102710.indd 1 10/25/10 11:45:20 4t-AmericanPain-101310.indd AM 1 work a flexible schedule.

Assistant to the Operations Manager

The successful candidate will have exceptional interpersonal and customer service skills, and a willingness and ability to manage projects and student employees.

New Bakery

Library instruCtion anD rEfErEnCE Librarian

opening in Winooski is looking for:

temporary, Part-time Champlain College seeks a part-time librarian who will join a dynamic team offering course-embedded, inquiry-based information literacy instruction. S/he will also provide service-focused reference to undergraduates and engage on library projects as assigned by the Library Director.

• Baristas • Counter Help • Kitchen Help Must be able to work early morning and weekends. Pay commensurate with experience.

APPly in Person

This position is temporary, 20 hrs./week for the spring 2011 semester, beginning in January and ending in May. Flexibility in scheduling is a necessity, especially during teaching times of the semester. This is an excellent opportunity for a librarian to sharpen and build their teaching and public services skills.

25 Winooski Falls Way suite 212 Winooski, VT 05404 Call for an interview, 802-598-9699, or email resume to: cuppsvt@gmail.com.

The right candidate will demonstrate: a willingness to try new things in the classroom; interest and/or experience with inquiry-based learning; experience working in a service-focused library environment;2V-Cupps-102710.indd experience using technology in instruction; creativity; excellent oral communication and presentation skills; and willingness to collaborate and work on a team. Candidates should be comfortable working with students and faculty, and be a self-starter. An ALA-accredited Master of Library Science (or equivalent) degree is required. Current MLS students may be considered dependent on experience. Excellent communication skills are a must. Library instruction and reference experience strongly preferred.

for both positions:

Submit a resume and cover letter online at www.champlain.edu/hr. The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment. Review of applications to begin immediately, positions open until filled. Champlain College values, supports and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives of students, faculty and staff. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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10/25/10 Wanted:

Resilient Sheet Installers

11:35:50 AM

PART TIME Enjoy a fast-paced, fun environment? Come work with ACTR! ACTR, the nonprofit public transportation provider for Addison County, is seeking an Assistant to the Operations Manager. This is a 25-30 hrs./wk. position to start, with growth potential. Duties include: light repairs and maintenance, transporting buses to local repair facilities, substitute bus driving when needed and other misc. duties. Ideal candidates should be physically fit and possess a Class B CDL license with passenger endorsement. ACTR can assist candidates in earning this endorsement. Candidates must be willing to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed. Join a growing non-profit and bring a sense of humor. Salary is $10-$10.25 per hour based on experience. Prorated benefits include health insurance, generous paid time-off and disability insurance. Email resume, including three references, to jtomaino@actr-vt.org or mail to Operations Manager, ACTR, P.O. Box 532, Middlebury, VT 05753.

with minimum of five years experience. Must know flash coving and heat welding. Full-time or Part-time for temporary work in 5v-ACTR-102710.indd Plattsburgh, NY area. Potential to be hired as permanent full-time employee. Email resume to Rlundborg@ futurefloorsinc.com.

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No phone calls, please. ACTR is an AA/EO Employer

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Kids like me need families like yours. Casey Family Services is seeking a therapeutic foster family to help a ten-year-old boy exit residential care and learn to live and thrive in a family setting.

Human Resources Administrative Assistant

This child is very active and likes to ﬁsh, bike, and do all around rough and tumble things. He is inquisitive and has a loveable quality that is captivating. An ideal family would be an active, outdoorsy couple with no younger children who approach parenting this boy with compassion, conﬁdence, and a determination to gain his trust.

Franklin West Supervisory Union is seeking a friendly professional with strong organization and communication skills to join our team! The Human Resources Administrative Assistant position is year round, 35 hours per week, open immediately, and reports to both the Superintendent and Business Manager. This person provides human resource support (i.e., benefit administration, new-hire processing, contract generation, etc.) for the SU and its member schools. Must be comfortable working in a fastpaced, multi faceted environment; have solid experience managing multiple projects/deadlines with a positive attitude; and possess a sense of humor. Associate’s degree with two years of related office experience preferred. Other qualifications include respect for confidentiality, commitment to accuracy, high attention to detail, problem-solving skills and ability to work independently. Working knowledge of general technology tools such as word processing and spreadsheet, etc. applications is essential.

Casey Family Services provides support, training, and a tax-free monthly stipend. There will be a team of professionals to support a family in parenting this young boy, including intensive in-home staff supports.

Franklin West offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and opportunity for flexible summer schedule. We provide a caring and supportive work environment. Candidates may apply online at www.SchoolSpring.com (Job ID #: 43047).

Contact Michelle Turbide 802.655.6688 or mturbide@caseyfamilyservices.org

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Merchandiser

Head Chef

needed for local distribution company.

C u l i n a r y Opp or t uni t y An exciting new opportunity awaits the "special individual" who has the talent, desire and drive to make a "culinary statement" showing his/her unique talents as a head chef. An existing restaurant with a new vision is coming to Shelburne, Vt. It offers an existing loyal customer base with the potential for attracting a significant new clientele. We are looking for an experienced chef to help us achieve the highest standards of food service, with a passion to lead, train and surpass all others within the industry. You must have the ability to work well with others, and have an exceptional knowledge of all aspects related to the kitchen and food industry. Exceptional opportunity for those who qualify.

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Master Control Media Specialist

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Vermont Public Television is looking for candidates with technical aptitude to fill the position of Master Control Media Specialist. Successful candidates will be well organized and detail oriented. Applicants must have solid computer and communication skills, an aptitude for operating electronic equipment, and the ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment. This position requires the proficient operation of automation systems, servers, routers, and switchers as well as the monitoring and controlling of multiple program streams and the preparation of daily logs. Flexible scheduling is required. For more information regarding this position please visit our website at www.vpt.org/learn/about-vpt.Please submit resume and cover letter by November 11, 2010 to: Vermont Public Television Attn: HR Dept. 1 204 Ethan Allen Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 Or email to: hresources@vpt.org Equa l OppOrt u n i t y E m plOy E r

Early morning hours are required. Ability to work independently is a must. Good driving history and people skills are critical. Approximately 20 hours a week. Send resumes to: cedarsfoodsvt@yahoo.com.

Send resume to: barkeatersrestaurant@yahoo.com.

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Learning Specialist Full time 37.5 hours/week VSC-UP PAT Bargaining Unit Johnson State College’s Academic Support Services Department is seeking a full-time Learning Specialist to provide specialized support for eligible students with disabilities. Applicants must have a master’s degree in special education, a broad base of knowledge of disabilities, expertise interpreting disability documentation, and at least 3 years of experience working with students with disabilities in an educational setting. Experience in a post-secondary educational environment is preferred. Initial screening of applications will begin November 8, after which the position will remain open until filled. Send a completed JSC job application (at www.jsc.edu/employment), resume and cover letter to: Susan.Rothschild@jsc.edu OR mail to Human Resources Office, Learning Specialist, Johnson State College 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656-9898. Final offer of employment is subject to a fingerprint-supported criminal background check. JSC strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. JSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of the Vermont State Colleges system. In compliance with ADA requirements, we will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

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Senior management team position. Responsibilities include development, management and tracking of: family partnership systems including family goal setting; and support and followup around community services and resources; partnerships with Come in Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays from community and state agencies providing services relevant to 10am-2pm for an on-the-spot interview for one of Head Start or its program participants, including services for our fun seasonal openings in our Contact Center, Art English Language Learners; child abuse and neglect prevention, & Embroidery, Fulfillment and Shipping! Weekdays identification and reporting systems; volunteer and internship don’t work? Come to our job fair on Saturday, systems; parent involvement in program, and community November 6 from 10am-4pm! functions and services; and parent education and family literacy Vermont Teddy Bear is located at 6655 Shelburne Road in initiatives. Participation in regional and state-based committee Shelburne - on the bus route! Hope to see you soon! work. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in social work, human We look forward to having you join in the fun! services or related field, and 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience. 40 hrs/week, full year. Competitive salary, health plan and excellent benefits. Please send resume and cover letter 4t-VtTeddy102010.indd 1 10/18/10 2:23:43 PM with three work references by email to: pbehrman@cvoeo.org.

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Estimator The Lane Press, a highly respected web-offset magazine printer providing high-quality multiple media solutions to customers in the publication industry, is seeking an experienced Estimator. Specializing in regional, alumni, consumer and special-interest publications, we offer our customers a full range of digital and printing services from website development to digital page prep to distribution. The position will also be involved in the procurement of paper. Our Estimator must be a strategic thinker with the ability to recommend process and pricing decisions that allow us to remain competitive in our estimates while at the same time satisfying the needs of our customers. Our successful candidate must be a business-savvy individual with knowledge of the printing process, combined with excellent computer skills. Understanding of financial principles is a must. Cost accounting background or experience is highly desired. Our Estimator will be flexible and able to adjust to shifting priorities on a regular basis while working independently. A college degree or equivalent proficiency and five years of related experience are required. Lane Press offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and ability along with a comprehensive benefit package. Qualified applicants should respond with their resume and salary requirements to:

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Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and monthly home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children. Teacher – Richford: 40 hours/week, 42 weeks/year. Starting wage $15.61–16.94/hour. ECA – Burlington: 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year. Starting wage: $12.67–14.36/hour. Both positions include health plan and excellent benefits, and require bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field, VT educator’s license, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Teacher position requires license with endorsement in early childhood education or early childhood special education. Please specify position and location, and send resume and cover letter with three work references by email to pirish@cvoeo.org. For all positions: Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record keeping; proficiency in MS Word, email and Internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply.

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The Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate is Qualified candidates should apply online at: www.burton.com. looking for an Accounting Manager/Financial Analyst to join our fast-paced, growth-oriented No phone calls, please. and metric-driven company. The candidate must have a minimum of three years experience as a public accountant or other qualifying experience. The role requires experience in managing the GL, preparing consolidated financial statements, evaluating product 10/25/10 margins, and manage accounting and credit 5v-Burton-102710.indd 1 staff. Experience in Microsoft Navision, foreign exchange and corporate income tax preferred but not required. Bachelor’s degree in business required. CPA preferred. Submit letter and resume to jobs2@romesnowboards.com, or mail to Camp Ta-Kum-Ta Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate PO Box 150, Waterbury, VT 05676. cultivating, soliciting and maintaining Camp Ta-Kum-Ta has been serving

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In the midst of our first major campaign, Camp Ta-Kum-Ta’s Board of Directors invites nominations and applications for a new position, Director of Development. This position reports functionally to the Executive Director and administratively to the Board. The successful candidate will be responsible for the effectiveness of all fundraising activities, which will support both annual operations and capital projects. In addition, this person will also be responsible for

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a pool of qualified leadership donors. Requirements include: a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience; solid organizational, communication and interpersonal skills; good computer skills; availability for statewide travel; and a capacity to deal effectively with a wide range of relationships and situations. Salary is commensurate with the successful candidate’s level of experience. While this position will be based out of our main office in South Hero, some travel will be required. Preference will be given to applications received by 11/05/10; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled. If you are visionary, innovative, a selfstarter, enjoy being part of a successful and dynamic team, have high energy and a commitment to accomplishment, send a letter of application, résumé and a list of three references by email to: Search Committee for the Director of Development at takumtacoc@aol.com. Visit us on the web at takumta.org.

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Career advisor - sUCCeed Program Career Advisors help college students with developmental disabilities identify a meaningful career path through securing part-time employment and an internship placement. They work closely with students on job related skills such as interview coaching and workplace communication, as well as support students to build employment portfolios. Candidates with a background in business and experience with the population are preferred. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a cutting-edge post secondary education program in diverse and dynamic Burlington, Vt. Full time with comprehensive benefits package.

The Comptroller has primary responsibility for the quality and integrity of the fiscal and administrative systems of Vermont Adult Learning, a statewide provider of Adult Education and Literacy Services. Duties include budget development, forecasting and reporting. Supervises business office and administrative staff in Waterbury office. This full-time position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, flexible spending, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible paid time-off. Visit our web site: www.vtadultlearning.org for more information. Resume Deadline: November 15, 2010.

Program manager, Family Team Looking for dynamic individual to be integral part of case-management team that coordinates services for children with developmental disabilities. Responsible for working with individuals and their support network to identify and develop supports necessary to maximize integration in the community. Candidates should be self-starting team players. Experience in community support, collaboration, advocacy and dual diagnosis (MI/MR) desirable. Bachelor’s degree in related field, valid driver’s license and dependable transportation required. Two to three years experience preferred. Full time.

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Home Provider needed specifically in downtown Burlington on the bus line. Female or couple is the best match to complete a winning team for an independent young woman. Many interests include music, culinary arts and socializing. Mother-in-law apartment or similar would be ideal. Please call Marisa Hamilton for more info: (802) 488-6571.

Since 1971 the Community Health Center of Burlington (CHCB) has provided comprehensive health and human services to Vermonters from all walks of life. We are dedicated to providing exceptional care with respect and compassion, and with a commitment to serving people who have a limited ability to pay. CHCB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Learn more about CHCB and these openings – go to www.CHCB.org!

Administrative Services environmenTal serviCes sPeCialisT/FloaTer This custodial floater position will provide coverage for absences within the Environmental Services Program of the Facilities Department. This job is accountable for the proper maintenance of both soft and hard floors, which includes stripping, scrubbing and resurfacing of vinyl tile and inlay floors; the burnishing/spray burnishing of vinyl tile and inlay floors; the extraction of carpets and upholstery at various HowardCenter sites. This person must also have knowledge of both routine and complex cleaning, as he/she is expected to cover the duties of coworkers when they are absent. The position requires two years of experience in commercial or residential cleaning, as well as a minimum of one year experience in the maintenance of both hard and soft floors. This person must be openminded and flexible with regard to scheduling and shift changes. In addition, the candidate must possess a valid Vermont driver’s license.

We have two openings! DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MANAGER Be a key team player in CHCB’s development office focusing on fundraising and development, including our capital campaign, and signature special events and foundation grants. We’re looking for an all-around development generalist to take us to a new level! Bachelor’s degree plus three years experience in fundraising/marketing. Experience with coordinating events, outstanding written and verbal communication skills, experience with marketing/fundraising software/database applications, skill with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Adobe Acrobat. Willingness to attend evening and/or weekend activities, outstanding organizational and time-management skills, and strong attention to detail.

REGISTERED NURSE Provides direct care and education to a diverse population of pediatric and adult patients. Facilitates care and patient flow; involved in development of protocols/education materials; assists with triage, lab procedures, documentation in EMR. Requirements: RN licensure, good standing with Vt. State Board of Nursing, BLS certification, familiarity with EMR and electronic scheduling systems, ability to work flexible hours, and comfort with a fast-paced team environment. CHCB offers a complete benefits package including medical, dental, life, disability insurances; a 403 b Retirement Savings Plan; paid time off; paid holidays; continuing education funds; and an employee assistance plan. To apply, send resume and cover letter to HR@CHCB.org; FAX to (802) 860-4327 or mail to CHCB, Attn: Human Resources, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington, VT 05401.

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Project Manager EatingWell Media Group is looking for a results-driven project manager with usability experience along with a good balance of analytical and execution skills. We are looking for someone with a passion for creating engaging, user-friendly interactive solutions that solve key business needs that can also manage our in-house and partner technology solutions from soup to nuts.

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• 5 + years of experience managing web-based projects; a proven track record of interactive project delivery; and demonstrable knowledge of Internet technical protocols such as HTML, JavaScript, XML, web publishing and database structure are ideal. • Hands-on wireframing, user interface design, usability/functionality testing. • Previous experience working with cross-departmental and cross-platform initiatives. • Must have excellent communication and organizational skills.

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What was the scariest meal you ever served? We had a New Year’s Eve dinner, and we had two seatings of 55 people. It was getting to be ten o’clock, and no food was coming out of the kitchen. It turns

out my chef had gotten drunk and was passed out in the parking lot. That was unpleasant. We were able to revive him and get the food out a half hour late. That was 10 years ago. He was gone right after that. What food makes you cringe? I really hate eggnog. It has nutmeg in it, and I really don’t like the flavor of nutmeg. I’m such a peasant I’ll eat anything, but I really don’t like marzipan, either. I don’t like the flavor of cooked almonds.

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What culinary trend spooks you? Farm-to-table is so big these days. It can be great for local producers, but sometimes it can be hard to get consistent quality for a reasonable-sized restaurant. Like lamb, in particular. I would love to be able to serve Vermont lamb, but it’s hard to get sometimes. The other thing I don’t like: grassfed beef. I think corn-fed beef has great flavor. I like to serve that as opposed to grass fed. In a life-or-death situation, would you resort to cannibalism? I had such a hard time with [the movie]

Halloween Weekend Fine Wine Sale and Auction. Friday, October 29, 7-11 p.m.; Saturday, October 30, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. at The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa. Info, 800-727-4295. “The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show.” Thursday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, October 29-30, 7:30 and 10 p.m.; at Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $15-20. Info, 863-5966. “murder Is a mystery.” Saturday, October 30, 6 p.m. at North Hero House Inn & Restaurant in North Hero. Info, 372-4732. Queen city Ghostwalk Presents Spirits and Legends: countdown to Halloween. Airs at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, on WCAX. Full disclosure: Alice Levitt performs in “The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show.”

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Sometimes we all need an old-fashioned, home-cooked meal. For St. Michael’s College students who can’t easily access a Mom-made dinner, AnDrEw GrEco will have to do the trick. This fall, the senior business major started a comfort-food catering company that, judging from its Facebook page, is a hit with his classmates. Each week, Greco updates the DrEw’s cAmpus cookIn’ page with a new menu. This week, he’s offering rosemary pork chops with rice and green beans; chicken Alfredo with peas and mushrooms; sausage and pepper sandwiches; and homemade mac

’n’ cheese for vegetarians. Greco says he’ll also go off the menu and prepare food to order, provided he has one-day advance notice. After a stop at Shaw’s supermarket in Colchester, Greco makes the rounds of his clients’ campus townhouses, where he cooks in front of them for a bit of dinner theater. Price per plate is less than $10 — a small markup from food cost. Greco says, “Right now, everyone who’s gotten it loves the chicken Parm.” It’s not hard to see why, since he makes the marinara sauce from scratch before hand-breading the chicken and baking it all with fresh mozzarella. When the Pelham, N.Y., native graduates this spring, he says, he plans to stay in

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Vermont and continue running his catering company on a larger scale. According to the ladies of one St. Mike’s townhouse he visited, Greco will be a success. His Facebook fans rave about more than his cooking skills: “Just when it seemed like it couldn’t get any better, he left our kitchen spotless.” — A. L.

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Unless you’re Wolfgang Puck, cooking is rarely the best way to make a buck. But sometimes a skilled home cook with a winning recipe has a shot at a jackpot. Five Vermonters are currently in the running to win $10,000 as part of the Hood New England Dairy Cook-Off. At 7:30 a.m. this Saturday, JoAnnA scott of Milton

will prepare her Complete Breakfast Muffin for a crowd gathered at the Ocean Gateway waterfront terminal in Portland, Maine. Each of 30 semifinalists will cook a dish in one of five categories, with the winner of each round becoming eligible for the grand prize. Entries will be judged on taste, presentation and creativity, as well as use of Hood products. One Vermonter will cook in each of the five categories. In the appetizer and sidedish round, thomAs YounG of Swanton plans to prepare his Rockin’ Reuben Meets Red Hot Cuban. Fellow Swanton resident JEAn GAGnE’s German caramel-apple tart with bourbon whipped cream sounds like a contender. Here’s hoping Vermont’s entries are the cream of the crop. — A .L.

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Do you have any favorites that make others balk? I used to work with a guy who would say, “You eat the weirdest crap I’ve ever heard of. You have no problems getting up and eating a can of sardines for breakfast.” It’s true. There are so many foods that I enjoy eating and very few that I dislike.

in a life-or-death situation, would you resort to cannibalism? [My husband once] said, “If we were in a plane crash and I died, you would eat me.” I told him, “Yes, darling, if it meant I would survive to care for our children.” Some people think you need all your parts for life after death, but I don’t agree. If it’s a matter of survival, you go ahead and dig in. I would hope there would be a heat source. The idea of raw human is like raw pig. Not really appetizing. Hopefully, the period of time right before your accident would have been a sanitary time. m

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What food makes you cringe? There’s a food that I couldn’t eat when I was a kid: Rice Krispies. A science teacher gave us all an assignment to take mealworms home, and he told us to feed them Rice Krispies. After watching those little worms undulate around Rice Krispies in a clear container and making notes about my mealworms, I just couldn’t do it. Until I was college age, I would look at plain Rice Krispies and all I could see was little mealworms crawling around.

What food trend spooks you? If you’d asked eight years ago, I would have said Chilean sea bass. All of a sudden everyone is hot on frying things in panko bread crumbs. If you’re hearing too much about one ingredient, after a while, you’re going to get sick of it. On “Chopped” [on the Food Network] the other night … people were crusting things with granola bars. Now I want to try crusting things in a nice, crunchy, honey-rolled oat granola. I can imagine a nice pork chop in that nice crunch coating with some apple slices and onions. Pork lends itself so well to that sweet/ savory thing.

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What’s the most frightening meal you’ve ever eaten? I’d have to say that the worst meal that I’ve ever eaten was when I went to visit some friends who had some issues with spice. I knew they had issues with spice to begin with, because they always shot down any restaurant options with even a hint of ethnicity, but I wasn’t prepared. It turned out their diet consisted of mostly white food. As someone with a ghost tour, I’m not opposed to the white thing. It started off with something very mealy rolled up in a wrap — a creamcheesy thing that was like a mayonnaise-y thing — just white. It was the kind of food a 3-year-old might enjoy. Hospital food, basically. I’m talking a pasta with a

cream sauce with no flavor. It’s basically like eating worms at that point. It was so unappetizing and gluey. As we looked around the table, everyone was giving each other the eye — and drinking lots of wine. The meal ended with some still hungry, very drunken people walking out the door — just not a good scene.

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Smart Ass It’s tough to count the number of times humans have made asses out of themselves in literature — literally transformed into donkeys, that is. Shakespeare’s Nick Bottom gets a donkey head in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; even Pinocchio turns into a furry jack at one point. But it all began with Latin writer Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, penned circa 150 A.D. In the witty illustrated work — the sole Latin novel to survive in one piece — a young man, using magic, mistakenly mutates himself into a donkey rather than an owl. “It’s a great book that people will enjoy if they know about it,” asserts author and University of Vermont classics professor M.D. Usher. With the help of New York City-based illustrator T. Motley, Usher adapted Apuleius’ story into an English-language version for all ages, due out in early 2011. The two share sketches and passages in a talk this Monday. Don’t be an ass; check it out.

M.D. USHER & T. MOTLEY Monday, November 1, 5 p.m., at Multipurpose Room, University Heights North, University of Vermont, in Burlington. Free. Info, 656-4431.

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It’s the start of an unlikely love affair when shy English-lit major Adam Sorenson meets beautiful artist Evelyn Ann Thompson ... but audience members soon detect more to the relationship than “opposites attract.” Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, first produced in 2001 starring Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz, and transferred to the big screen in 2003 with the same cast, probes painful themes of love and art, magnified by a shocking final twist. Champlain Theatre — a collaboration of Champlain College students and faculty, professional and emerging artists, as well as community members — puts the story onstage this week. It’s a particularly appropriate choice, says director Joanne Farrell, because “The subject matter applies so well to what we’re teaching at Champlain.” Course titles such as Concepts of the Self, Aesthetics and Ethics hint at the startling climax; snag a seat to see how it plays out.

‘THE SHAPE OF THINGS’ Thursday, October 28, through Saturday, October 30, and Wednesday, November 3, 8 p.m., at FlynnSpace in Burlington. View website for future dates through November 6. $20; $10 for Champlain College faculty and staff; free for Champlain College students with ID. Info, 865-5468. www.champlain.edu

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OCT.31 | SPORT Spooky Sprinting Horror movies have taught us it’s best to bolt in the eerie presence of ghosts and their ilk. Suffice it to say you’ll be doing a lot of running at Onion River Sports’ Autumn Onion 5K Costume Race, where Halloween characters ranging from the silly to the scary abound. At last year’s costumed trail race at Morse Farm, two women disguised as packages of jelly beans — bedecked in garbage bags chock-full of colored balloons — booked it an impressive six-plus miles, recalls ORS marketing director Carrie Baker Stahler. Other memorable getups include a robot clan, Elvis and a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. It’s basically “everyone’s excuse to dress really, really crazy,” she says. This year, the dash winds through downtown Montpelier, raising money for Girls Move Mountains ... and counteracting trick-or-treatinginduced sugar comas.

AUTUMN ONION 5K COSTUME RACE Sunday, October 31, 10 a.m., at Onion River Sports in Montpelier. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. $15; free for kids in strollers. Info, 229-9409. www.onionriver.com

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UVM BUSINESS LUNCHEON: Teamswork president Randy Rowland, ‘77, advises the local business community on “Doing More With Less: Building Trust in Stressful Times.” Diamond Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $25. Info, 656-2010.

‘WALKABOUT’: A young Aborigine aids two British children abandoned in the Australian outback in this 1971 film by Nicolas Roeg. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

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‘UNDERSTANDING THE COLLEGE APPLICATION PROCESS’: High schoolers glean admissions tips from a panel of local students. Preregistration is encouraged. VSAC Building, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177.

environment WILLISTON GREEN INITIATIVES: Locals devoted to forming a more ecologically sound community gather to make it happen. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

etc. BURNHAM KNITTERS: Yarn unfurls into purls at a chat-and-craft session. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

‘BRIGHT NIGHT’: Folks fill up on localvore fare at the gastropub to help raise funds for Bright Pink Vermont, a nonprofit providing education and support to women who are at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 4-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink; reservations required. Info, 598-2469. ENOSBURG FALLS FARMERS MARKET: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503 or 933-6623. LAMOILLE VALLEY YEAR-ROUND FARMERS ARTISAN MARKET: Farmers and food producers fill Vermonters’ totes with local and organic dining options, including eggs, cider, seeds and cow cheeses. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1261. ‘SAUERKRAUT & KIMCHI’: Someone’s in the kitchen with lacto-fermentation; preregister to join this hands-on workshop. The Chubby Muffin, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

EVENING WITH FLOURISH NATURAL BODY CARE: The creator of the Woodstock-based skin-care line introduces its Vermont-made soaps, scrubs, lotions and shampoos. Wine and cheese provided. The Green Life, Burlington, 4:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0633.

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FREE CREDIT REVIEW DAY: Credit counselors dole out financial advice at one-on-one appointments. Walk-ins welcome, but preregistration is recommended. Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-2569, dcunningham@ cvoeo.org.

YOGA EXERCISE: Gentle stretches improve core strength and flexibility. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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BABYTIME: Crawling tots and their parents gather for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 6583659.

‘LAST TRAIN HOME’: Lixin Fan’s documentary looks into the world’s largest human migration as millions of people travel home to China for the New Year’s holiday. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘MAO’S LAST DANCER’: Bruce Beresford’s 2009 drama draws from dancer Li Cunxin’s biography. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

ARMCHAIR EXERCISE: Gentle physical activity helps folks stay fit. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 658-3585.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA: Little ones parade their dress-up attire and hope for sweet rewards. Call for more details and to sign up. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON: The award-winning author of children’s and young adult books reads

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from her latest work, Forge. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999. MuMMenschanz FaMily show workshop: Little ones explore the ideas and art forms they see on stage before and after the performance. Space is limited; preregister. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 6 p.m. $15 for one child with accompanying parent or caregiver; fee doesn’t include show tickets. Info, 863-5966. peter the Music Man: Educator Peter Alsen lets preschoolers try out various instruments at a fun intro to music theory. Colchester Meeting House, 12:30-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. power play DeMonstration: Bright students learn about electricity, wind turbines and energy choices with an educator. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Regular admission, $8.5010.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. preschool Discovery prograM: It’s all about the creatures of the night at this spooky Halloween workshop for ages 3 to 5. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5 per child; free for adults. Info, 229-6206.

music valley night: Bill Shafer and friends show off their guitar prowess through classic covers and originals. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

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corn Maze: Walkers navigate a labyrinth of 12 acres of organic corn. Boyden Farm, Cambridge, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. $5-7; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 644-5974.

talks Dr. John kricher: Using birds as an example, the Wheaton College biology professor considers the delicate balance of nature. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

You may be able to participate in a research program at the University of Vermont! STUDY #30: For ages 18-45 • You will learn strategies to decrease your anxiety and quit smoking! • The study involves a total of 12 visits • Free Nicotine Replacement Patches are included in the brief 4-session intervention • Also earn monetary compensation for most visits, totaling up to $142.50 in cash For more information or to set up an appointment, please call 656-0655

STUDY #33: For ages 18-65 This study involves 2 visits, a total of approximately 4 hours. If eligible you may be asked to quit for 12 hours. Participants in the study may be paid $40 in cash

harlan Morehouse: A speaker from the University of Minnesota considers “Environmental Catastrophe, or the Catastrophe of the Environment? Remarks on Politics and Community in the Shadow of Ruin.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389. neil kaMMan: The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation program manager discusses “Bridging Science With Water Quality: The Role of Ambient Monitoring in the Protection and Improvement of Vermont’s Lakes, Rivers and Wetlands.” Room 203, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327. osher liFelong learning lecture: Professor William Mann, chair of UVM’s philosophy department, explores two seemingly contradictory trains of thought in “Chance and Design in Religion and Science.” Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30-3 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011. robert l. Mccullough: An associate professor of UVM’s historic preservation program bridges the present to past in a talk about “Vermont’s Historic Bridges.” Noble Lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 1 p.m. $20-40 membership to

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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs, or $5 donation. Info, 454-4675, ataplow@vtlink.net. ‘the gospel oF thoMas’: A PowerPoint show illuminates the Gnostic perspective on experiencing “Inner and Outer Christianity.” 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@ goldenrosycross.org. ‘the role oF reMeMbrance: norwich university anD worlD war ii’: Music historian and author Michael Lasser examines two famous songs by Irving Berlin and how they embody the attitudes of a nation on the brink of war. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon. Free. Info, 485-2448, msolvay@ norwich.edu.

theater ‘all in the tiMing’: Stowe Theatre Guild presents David Ives’ collection of six one-act comedies containing life themes about love and philosophy. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 253-3961, tickets@ stowetheatre.com. MuMMenschanz: Miming and make-believe intertwine as the Swiss theater group puts on a visually compelling, silent performance. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $31-46. Info, 863-5966.

words book Discussion series: ‘never-setting sun’: Wole Soyinka’s Aké: The Years of Childhood inspires bookworms to consider the complexities of colonialism. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209. book Discussion series: ‘roMantic iDeal’: A reading group considers whether ideal love, happiness and fulfillment can ever actually be achieved while discussing Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower. South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7076. Doyle canning & patrick reinsborough: The coauthors of Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World share accounts of using narrative to make a difference. Vermont Workers’ Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 861-4892.

while working with organizations such as Cisco and Google in “The Customer of the Future: The Art of Creating True Customer and Employee Loyalty.” Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7-10 a.m. $30. Info, 660-4223, lesli_blount@keybank.com.

etc. briDge session: Partners shuffle cards and chat. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. chess club: Checkmate! Board-game players try to attack the king with sly strategies. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $2-3. Info, 363-5803. halloween extravaganza: Green Mountain Bingo puts on a festive display of random-number games, cider, donuts and costumes. Bingo Palace, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8338. php users Meeting: Web developers of all levels receive a “don’t do this” tutorial from René Churchill on bad security practices. Preregister. Burlington Free Press, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 383-4737, ext. 11. terror at the MuseuM: Twenty-five thousand feet of fright await the daring as Barre’s haunted legends come to life. Not recommended for kids under 13. Funds raised benefit the Vermont National Guard Family Readiness Group. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 6-11 p.m. $7. Info, 373-9322.

film ‘35 shots oF ruM’: Claire Denis’ 2008 film captures a father’s realization that he must let his daughter grow up. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘alaMar’: A father teaches his 5-year-old son about his Mayan heritage on a trip to the sea in Pedro González-Rubio’s 2009 drama. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. big Flicks at the paraMount: A revived theater works its way through the most popular films of all time, such as this week’s Young Frankenstein. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $4-6. Info, 775-0903.

‘how writers Do it: a Fiction workshop’: Wordsmiths analyze passages of fiction from different eras before experimenting with point of view, voice and structure. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7217.

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JenniFer steil: The memoirist of The Woman Who Fell From the Sky regales listeners with stories of a year spent as a journalist in Yemen. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

wilD & scenic environMental FilM Festival: Experience the adrenalin of globe-trekking while learning about the world’s important environmental issues at this screening to benefit the Vermont Natural Resources Council. Film House and Lake Lobby, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 5:30-9 p.m. $10-20. Info, 223-2328, ext. 112.

shakespeare weDnesDays: Scholars of the Bard linger over lines of star-crossed lovers, roses by any other name and other favorite passages. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 598-9802. thoMas heise & bianca stone: Established and emergent New England poets explore language, song, and art in a reading series. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750.

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business workshop series: Dazed and confused by digital communication channels? Brandthropology’s Matt Dodds simplifies newmedia marketing, and reasons to embrace it. Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Burlington, 8-10 a.m. $15-25. Info, 863-3489. key4woMen ForuM: Renowned strategic consultant Cindy Solomon shares insights gained

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food & drink ‘a slow taste oF italy’: Three courses of authentic Italian dishes made with local, sustainable ingredients celebrate Jessica Theroux’s book Cooking With Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories From Tuscany to Sicily. Partial proceeds benefit the Vermont Fresh Network. Three Tomatoes Trattoria, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $75 includes a copy of the book, wine, tax and tip. Info, 660-9533.

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kids ‘critter construction’: Little ones ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions don hard hats as they explore beaver lodges, bird nests and fox dens, before crafting their own hideaway. Preregister. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child. Info, 434-3068, vermont@audubon.org. halloween cupcake Decorating: Kids in grades K through 8 choose treats over tricks as they adorn holiday sweets. Preregister. Dorothy

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Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. & 4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Lego CLub: Future engineers, urban planners and pirates sharpen their skills with a big bucket of building blocks. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. LightbuLb Lab: Bright thinkers ages 2 to 8 sharpen their skills with problem-solving and math activities. Preregister. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. MusiC With Peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PresChooL story hour: Picture books and crafts captivate early bookworms. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. PresChooL storytiMe: Tots ages 3 to 5 bury their noses in books with read-aloud tales, rhymes, songs and crafts. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

music Deb brisson: Jazz standards from the Great American Songbook emerge from this powerhouse local singer. With Chuck Miller, Kevin Boyer and Bear. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222. guster: The perpetual alt-rock favorites tour their newest album, Easy Wonderful. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $32.75-36. Info, 863-5966. Margaret shaub: The pianist provides ivory-key entertainment. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. noontiMe ConCert series: Music lovers do lunch with viola da gamba player Peter Tourin, violinist Jean Twombly and harpsichordist Lynnette Combs. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515. sCottish ChaMber orChestra: Polishborn pianist and composer Piotr Anderszewski joins an award-winning ensemble in works by Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-55. Info, 603-646-2422.

Corn Maze: See WED.27, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

talks buraCk LeCture series: Syracuse University’s William Duncombe discusses “School Consolidation, Service Collaboration and Alternative Strategies for Improving School District Efficiency in an Age of Scarcity.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5665.

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‘aLL in the tiMing’: See WED.27, 8 p.m. ‘Major barbara’: George Bernard Shaw’s protagonist, a disillusioned officer of the Salvation Army, challenges views on religion, war, profit and poverty in this play directed by Richard Romagnoli. Wright Memorial Theater, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-10. Info, 443-3168. MurDer Mystery Dinner: Preregistered participants receive a handwritten letter detailing an exclusive evening out, but things go ghastly wrong at a fundraiser for the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery addition. The Backspace, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $100, or $75 each for couples. Info, 578-2512, spacegalleryvt@gmail. com. ‘nightMare verMont’: The state’s creative and evil geniuses scare the socks off visitors to this interactive PG-13-rated haunted house. “Monster wards” and “monster teasers” customize the experience. Performances start every half hour. Picard Circle, South Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 734-9687, info@ NightmareVermont.org. ‘onCe on this isLanD’: The CVU High School Theatre Program presents a lively, Caribbean-set musical suitable for all ages. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $6-8. Info, 482-6991. ‘ProMetheus’: Addison Repertory Theater students put a comic twist on the Greek myth about the minor god who helped create mankind. Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 12:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 382-1036. ‘roCky horror (PuPPet) shoW’: Brace yourself for full-on puppet nudity ... The Saints and Poets Production Company’s inaugural play puts a unique twist on Richard O’Brien’s racy cult fave. For mature audiences only. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 863-5966. ‘the haunteD forest’: Good-natured thrills and chills await visitors at this volunteer-run, too-scaryfor-tots take on outdoor theater. Tours run on the hour; Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $8.50-$12.50. Info, 879-9160. the Met: enCore series: Opera lovers catch a rebroadcast of Puccini’s Tosca. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7-10 p.m. $12. Info, 496-8994. ‘the shaPe of things’: An unlikely affair between an insecure student and a dynamic artist challenges conventional ideas about love and art in this production by Champlain Theatre. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-20; free for Champlain College students with ID. Info, 865-5468, farrell@champlain.edu.

words DonaLD thoMPson: The author of Castleton, Vermont: Its Industries, Enterprises and Eateries sprinkles in personal anecdotes alongside Lake Bomoseen history. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

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argentinean tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077. ‘Diagnosis of a faun’: Choreographer Tamar Rogoff blends Jerome Robbins’ ballet, Afternoon of a Faun and dancer Gregg Mozgala’s experiences with cerebral palsy in an examination of medicine and art. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-24. Info, 443-3168. haLLoWeen CostuMe baLL: Dancers get their spook on to deejayed tunes at a benefit for the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University. Sweet treats, an auction, raffles and prizes coincide. The Barn at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, 8 p.m.-midnight. $25 with costume; additional $10 without costume; cash bar. Info, 879-0122.

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‘rave-o-Ween terror night & DanCe’: Deckedout revelers boogie to tunes by DJ Cody Rice and an astonishing lights show. Annex. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.-midnight. $15. Info, 863-5966, unitedcollegeclub@yahoo.com.

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bingo: Luck comes into play as folks wait for five in a row. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

‘Crafting CoLLaborations’: The annual meeting of the League of Local Historical Societies includes workshops on artifact labeling and publishing projects; cemetery and craft-exhibit tours; and a keynote presentation by Martha Fitch and Anne Majusiak. Preregister. Bennington Museum, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $35-50. Info, 479-8522. essex faLL Craft & fine art shoW: Shoppers peruse stained glass, herbal soaps, gourmet specialties and various demonstrations at this gathering of juried artisans. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, noon-7 p.m. $7; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 878-4786. haunteD CastLe fright night: Hair-raising sights and sounds make this Halloween tour plenty spooky. Wilson Castle, Proctor, 7-11 p.m. $5-8. Info, 773-3284. haunteD house: A gruesome dinner-party massacre provides a little pre-Halloween exhilaration. Recommended for teens and adults. 376 South Prospect Street, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. Nonperishable-food-item donations accepted. Info, 779-4920. ‘nightMares beneath the ChaPeL’: Thrill seekers uncover an evil secret behind forbidden doors at this inaugural haunted house. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Basement, College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7-11 p.m. $7-10. Info, 476-3619 or 249-0414. PuMPkins in the Park: Orange orbs go under the knife at a carving party. Bandshell. Dorset Park, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4108. terror at the MuseuM: See THU.28, 6-11 p.m.

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EEE RECORDS DESTRUCTION ATTN: Parents/guardians of children who received special education services at the Burlington School District’s Essential Early Education Program between the years of 1995 and 2002. The Vermont Department of Education’s Manual of Rights and Practices, Section 2365.2.13 (a) Destruction of Records states: “For purposes of an audit, when a participating agency has counted a child to justify receipt of IDEA funds, the district shall retain copies of the child’s IEP and special education eligibility evaluations for a minimum of 5 years from the end of the school year in which the document was in effect.” The Burlington School District’s Essential Early Education program is planning on destroying special education records of students who attended the EEE program between 9/95 through 6/2002 and did not transfer to an elementary school within the Burlington School District. At this time, the information is no longer relevant/needed for the student’s educational program. If your child attended during these years and you would like a copy of your child’s records, please contact the Essential Early Education Program at 864-8463. We must receive your request prior to 11/18/2010.

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LunCh & Learn: Archivists Aaron Goldberg and Jeff Potash revisit “Burlington’s ‘Little Jerusalem,’ 1880-1940” in a PowerPoint presentation. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@burlington telecom.net.

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Dr. DaviD yeMba: The United Methodist Bishop of the Congo and Chancellor of Africa University briefs listeners on “Traditional Religious Practices and Contemporary Christianity on the African Continent.” East Room, Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

taMar rogoff & gregg MozgaLa: The choreographer and actor/dancer detail their process of creating art. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 12:30-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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Doug sChneibLe: An art and antiques collector describes a visit to Cangshan Mountain in “Created at the Dawn of Time: China’s Extraordinary Natural Stone Paintings.” Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4147.

sanDra Lory: A local herbalist just back from Haiti shares her firsthand experience with the Naturopathic Earthquake Victim Relief Clinic. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations accepted for the clinic. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

story tiMe: Lit lovers of all ages take in fanciful tales. Bud & Bella’s Bookshop, Randolph, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 728-5509.

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calendar Tertulia Latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

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‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ & Devil Music Ensemble: Three musicians present spooky musical accompaniment to this classic silent thriller. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $4-6. Info, 775-0903. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’: Audiences let their inner Transylvanians out at a midnight screening of this quirky, sexy cult-classic comedy. Prop bags included. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., midnight. $16-20. Info, 518-523-2512. Vermont International Film Festival: See WED.27, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.

food & drink Five Corners Farmers Market: Farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6701 or 355-3143, essexcommunityfarmersmarket@yahoo.com. Rwandan Community Dinner: Traditional song-and-dance performances augment a cultural feast. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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Armchair Exercise: See WED.27, 11:30 a.m. T’ai Chi: Seniors learn to improve balance and reduce stress with fluid movements. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 658-3585.

kids ‘Act Out Halloween Dance’: Teens don clever disguises for a full-out fright frolic, with scary attractions, a costume contest and deejayed songs to boot. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $7; $5 with costume. Info, 382-9222. Comics Club: Doodlers, writers and readers alike have fun with the funnies. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Kids’ Knight Out’: Swimming, arts and crafts, movies, games and concession food keep five- to 10-year-olds dressed for Halloween on the move. Proceeds benefit the Purple Knights’ basketball program. Preregister. Ross Sports Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5:30-9 p.m. $10-15. Info, 654-2500. Science and Stories: Harvest-themed tales and investigations examine everything from foliage to the season’s bounty. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

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Spooky Stories: Bring a flashlight for an evening of Halloween legends, starting “mild” and working up to “real chillers.” Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999.

Piano Dedication Recital: Joseph Pepper revisits works by Bach, Haydn and Chopin on a newly acquired set of ivories. First Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 862-5630, ext. 5.

‘Nightmare Vermont’: See THU.28, 7-10:30 p.m. ‘Once On This Island’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. ‘Pippin’: King Charlemagne’s son sets out to find a fulfilling life in this musical by Stephen Schwartz, presented by the College Theatre Association. Studio Theatre. Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 518-565-0145. ‘Prometheus’: See THU.28, 12:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. ‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.28, 7-11 p.m.

Red Molly & The Wiyos: An all-female trio weaves stunning harmonies through American roots tunes, and an allmale quartet blends vintage country-blues and western swing with pop and postmodern instrumentalism. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. ‘Return of Shostabrahmshwin!’: Cellist Michael Close, pianist Eliza Thomas and clarinetist Joni McCraw present the music of — you guessed it — Shostakovich, Brahms and Gershwin. Congregational Church, Waterbury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9000. Sophie Shao & Friends: A top-notch cellist assembles impromptu chamber ensembles for popular piano quartets by Schumann and Elgar, and more. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-24. Info, 443-3168. Susannah blachly cd release concert: The local fiddler and singer-songwriter unveils her fourth solo album, All the Colors, with special guests Colin McCaffrey, Patti Casey, Lewis Franco and others. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30-10 p.m. $10. Free for kids 12 and under. Info, 426-3955

outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.27, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

talks Dr. David Yemba: The United Methodist Bishop of the Congo and Chancellor of Africa University explores “Issues of Life in the Congo.” East Room, Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

‘The Shape of Things’: See THU.28, 8 p.m.

words David Budbill: A Vermont poet, playwright and performer turns pages in “Happy Life: New Poems, New Book.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 864-3516.

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Ciné-Club Film Night: François Truffaut’s 1959 semibiographical film Les Quatre Cents Coups captures a boy’s troubled childhood. Discussion follows. Alliance-Française, Lake Champlain Region, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free to members; $2 suggested donation for nonmembers. Info, 540-0310.

Elaine Greenfield & Karen Kevra: A pianist and flutist, respectively, reprise selections by Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel and others. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; free for ages 15 and under with paying adult. Info, 864-0471.

‘Makhafinenyi Khiyee: Lover’s Dream’: Traditional West African drumming and dancing figure prominently in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-17; free for kids under 3. Info, 859-1802.

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Bread & Bones: The trio entertains browsers and sippers with eclectic and original folk. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

‘Major Barbara’: See THU.28, 8 p.m.

Harvest Feast & Festival: Pumpkin carving, face painting and a story hour precede wine and cheese tastings, plates of local foods, and dancing to tunes by the Wall-Stiles Band. LACE, Barre, 3-9:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 476-4276.

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‘The 10-Minute Memoir’: In “A Pain-Free Writing Workshop With Sara Tucker and the Hale Street Gang,” folks get comfortable with committing life stories to paper. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-4964.

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‘Diagnosis of a Faun’: See FRI.29, 8 p.m. Lar Lubovitch Dance Company: Minimalist scores pave the way for technically challenging choreography by a highly acclaimed dance troupe. See calendar spotlight. Preperformance lecture by Flynn Center executive director John Killacky in the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, 6:30 p.m. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $27-45. Info, 863-5966. ‘Nocturnal Fantasies’: Black Widow Belly Dance and Yasmia present hip-shakin’ moves. Rose Street Artists’ Co-op, Burlington, 7 p.m. $8; for adults only. Info, 735-3641.

Tamar Rogoff & Gregg Mozgala: The creators of Diagnosis of a Faun draw connections between neuroplasticity and their work with cerebral palsy. Room 220, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 12:30-1:20 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Solo Ballroom Dance: Exercise seekers learn basic dance-floor steps in a fun movement exploration. Space is limited; preregister. Studio 58, Suite 236, Chace Mill, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. $10. Info, 865-6815.

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Swing Dance & Concert: Jenni Johnson and the Jazz Junketeers serve syncopated beats for 1940s- and 1950s-style partner dancing, after a free lesson. Shelburne Town Hall, 7:30-11 p.m. $15-20. Info, 343-1475.

‘All In the Timing’: See WED.27, 8 p.m. Deadnberry Mortuary Haunted House: Death lurks behind every door on this bone-chilling tour. May be too scary for kids under 10. Partial proceeds benefit the Wilson Castle Restoration Fund. Garden Time, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. $4-6. Info, 747-0700. ‘Goldberg: Scenes, Monologues and Disturbances’: Paul Schnabel, John D. Alexander, Tracey Girdich, Allan Nicholls and others produce works written and directed by Burlington playwright Stephen Goldberg. Off Center for the

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education School Open House: Prospective students and families explore the facilities and get a feel for the education over lantern making and refreshments. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 9 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 985-2827.

etc. A Family Halloween: Costumed kids and their parents bite doughnuts on a string, carve pumpkins and hop on horse-drawn wagon rides. Parades at noon and 2 p.m. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-12; free for kids in costumes accompanied by an adult. Info, 457-2355.

AARP Safe Driver Course: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a how-to refresher. Preregister. Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $12-14. Info, 372-8511. Circus Fun: Big top-themed entertainment includes a preview of PBS’ “Circus” series, a talk about the museum’s collection of rare circus posters, and juggling and wire walking by Circus Smirkus members. Shelburne Museum, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3351. Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show: See FRI.29, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. French Roundtable: Speakers at various skill levels order café during an open practice session. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Grand Opening of Cross Street Bridge: A street party with local musicians and fireworks celebrates the completion of the $16 million bridge. Downtown Middlebury, noon-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1436, danderson@townhalltheater.org. Halloween Celebration: Preschoolers through fifth graders don disguises for Halloween fun, carnival games and, of course, sweets. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4108. Haunted Castle Fright Night: See FRI.29, 7-11 p.m. Haunted House: See FRI.29, 7-11 p.m. Heritage Halloween Party: Vermonters dress as their ancestors for games and snacks. Glee Merritt Kelley Community Library, Wolcott, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-6983. Historic Walking Tour of Elmwood Cemetery: A guided walk among gravestones highlights tales of past Queen City citizens. Tours begin every hour and a half. Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Elmwood Avenue Cemetery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259. ‘Hoichi the Earless: A Japanese Ghost Story & Aikido Demonstration’: Youth and teens demonstrate the Japanese martial art in a shadow play with percussion by Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko. Proceeds benefit the Samurai Youth Program. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 1011 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 951-8900. Lamoille Housing Partnership Haunted House: Scary or not, here they come! Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and other creepy creatures make hearts skip a beat. Lamoille Housing Partnership, Morrisville, 5:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 888-5714. ‘Murder Is a Mystery’: Dinner guests become part of a homicide investigation over a four-course meal linked with an interactive performance by the South Hero Players. North Hero House Inn & Restaurant, 6 p.m. $69 for murder-mystery dinner; various rates for overnight stays. Info, 372-4732. ‘Nightmares Beneath the Chapel’: See FRI.29, 7-11 p.m. ‘Shred for Good’: From paper cutting to harddrive destruction, confidential information is safely dealt with. SecurShred, South Burlington, 8 a.m.noon. $2-5 donation suggested. Info, 863-3003. Terror at the Museum: See THU.28, 6 p.m. Waterfront Walking Tour: Preservation Burlington takes history and architecture buffs on a two-hour tour of the industrial history of the Queen City’s waterfront. Meet at the visitor’s center at the bottom of College Street. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $10. Info, 522-8259, info@ preservationburlington.org. Wood-Carving Demo: Visitors avid about avians see trees being whittled into models of various bird species. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167.

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Park, music and donuts-on-string at Main Street Museum, a grand street parade, and scarily good music and dancing at Tupelo Music Hall. Various locations, White River Junction, 6 p.m.-midnight. Free for early events; $5-10 to the ball. Info, 356-2776.

Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Next to Fogg’s Hardware & Building Supply and the Bike Hub. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

Store, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 6580030, info@prestomusic.net.

Middlebury Spooktacular: Hay bales and lit pumpkins decorate a civic stomping ground before a kids’ sidewalk trick-or-treat parade, and carving and costume contests. Parade starts at 3:30 p.m. Middlebury Town Green, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 3888666, ext. 223.

Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass: Shrug off the coolweather blues with this quartet’s fast-paced bluegrass strains. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Pumpkins in the Park: Gourd carvers enter their masterpieces in a competition before a 7 p.m. “pumpkin glow” and costume parade. Vergennes City Park, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951, ext. 1, marguerite@addisoncounty.com. Rutland City Halloween Parade: A “Running Scared” Halloween 5K, midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, glowing jack-o’-lantern display, costume parade and more ring in All Hallows’ Eve. Visit www.rutlandhalloween.com for details. Various downtown locations, Rutland, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Free.

film Big Flicks at the Paramount: A revived theater works its way through the most popular films of all time, such as this week’s Ghostbusters. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $4-6. Info, 775-0903.

health & fitness ‘Elder Dance’: An open dance floor and the promise of improved mood, balance and mobility beckon folks ages 50 and up. Space is limited; preregister. Studio 58, Suite 236, Chace Mill, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. $10. Info, 865-6815. Kettlebell Combat Fitness Training Intro & Demonstration: Instructor Abdul Majib shows iron pumpers how to work with this cannonball-like weight for more effective muscle building. Combat Fitness Mixed Martial Arts Center, Winooski, 10-11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 655-1035.

kids Great Pumpkin Gala: Hayrides, donuts and apple bobbing abound at this not-so-scary event for kids 6 and under. Gymnasium, Fairfield Center School, Fairfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 827-3945. ‘Hoots & Howls’: Dressed in their Halloween best, families meet nocturnal animals and creepy crawlers along a jack-o’-lantern-lit stroll, tune in for theatrical performances, and settle down for story time. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 5:30-8 p.m. $5-7. Info, 359-5001, ext. 223.

‘The Concert’: Decades after a renowned orchestra conductor was fired for taking on Jewish musicians, he reforms the ensemble for a surprise Paris performance in Radu Mihaileanu’s 2009 film. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Marko the Magician: Card tricks, coin illusions and other nifty sleights-of-hand mesmerize costumed audience members. Halloween activities take place in the upper gallery before the show. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 11 a.m. $5-10. Info, 728-6464.

Vermont International Film Festival: See WED.27, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.

Night-Before-Halloween Family Party: Store-to-store trick-ortreating at 7 p.m. follows musical story time, roaming railroad train rides, a game of “walkable Candyland” and more. University Mall, South Burlington, 2-7:30 p.m. Most events are free; additional fee for bouncy castle. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

food & drink Burlington Farmers Market: Sixty-two vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmers market.org. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, perennials, seedlings, home-baked foods and handmade crafts lure local buyers throughout the growing season. Bring a cloth or paper trick-ortreat bag to decorate. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com.

Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@ yahoo.com.

music After Dark Music Series: Canadian baritone Garnet Rogers offers quick wit and passionate songs. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 7-10 p.m. $18-20. Info, 388-0216. Jimmie Vaughan: The Tilt-a-Whirl Band join the blues guitarist in a rollicking concert of rock ‘n’ roll. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $24-28. Info, 476-8188.

Panton Flats: Motown, blues, funk, country and rock ‘n’ roll fuse in a steaming mix of danceable tunes. Vergennes Opera House, 9 p.m. $6. Info, 877-6737, info@ vergennesoperahouse.org. Recorder Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music

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Great Haunted Pumpkin Hike: Leaf-crunchers of all ages take a jaunt in the crisp autumn air. Proceeds benefit Planting Hope’s initiatives in Nicaragua. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 5-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 793-9309.

sport Co-ed Adult Dodgeball Tournament: Prizes and glory await teams victorious in this throwand-duck bout. Proceeds benefit a Montpelier High School trip to Italy. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. $84 per seven-person team. Info, 229-4435. ‘Shocktober’: Action Packed Wrestling presents nine matches between champs such as Delirious, Homicide, the Sheik, Daizee Haze and more. A costume contest and silent auction also take place. Proceeds benefit Autism Support Daily. Vermont National Guard Armory, Rutland, 7:3010:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 683-0886. The Kingdom Challenge: A point-to-point race benefits the Good Shepherd Catholic School. Marathon starts at Municipal Building in Lyndonville, 8:30 a.m.; 5K starts at St. Johnsbury School, 9:30 a.m. Various locations statewide, 7 a.m. $15-20 for 5K; $30-35 for half marathon. Info, 748-7121, thekingdomchallenge@yahoo.com.

talks Vermont Marxist Conference: Folks consider the unintended coincidences and inevitable consequences of the capitalist system through daylong workshop and lectures. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $5-10. Info, 881-9157.

theater ‘All In the Timing’: See WED.27, 8 p.m. ‘An Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular Variety Show’: Lost Nation Theater’s performance of Poe’s most macabre works will make your hair stand on end. Featured storytellers include David Budbill, Tim Jennings, Leanne Ponder and Jason P. Lorber. A haunted dance follows with the LC Jazz Band. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $20-25 includes dessert; cash bar. Info, 229-0492. ‘Haunted Illusions’: Magician David Caserta offers dazzling stunts and spells that call for audience participation. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘Major Barbara’: See THU.28, 8 p.m. ‘Makhafinenyi Khiyee: Lover’s Dream’: See FRI.29, 2 p.m. ‘Nightmare Vermont’: See THU.28, 7-10:30 p.m. ‘Once On This Island’: See THU.28, 2 p.m. ‘Pippin’: See FRI.29, 7:30 p.m. ‘Prometheus’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. ‘Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. ‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.28, children’s matinée shows, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., & regular shows, 6-11 p.m.

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Israeli Dance: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706.

etc. Chess Club: Tabletop warriors do battle at the behest of players of all ages and abilities. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show: See FRI.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. French Conversation Group: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. ‘Nightmares Beneath the Chapel’: See FRI.29, 7-11 p.m. Pumpkin-Carving Contest & Trick-orTreating: Jack-o’-lanterns light up the market for judging, and disguised kids make a plea for sweets. Steeple Market, Fairfax, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6872.

film ‘House’: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 psychedelic ghost story follows along as a girl and her classmates come across a house full of ghoulish spirits. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’: The wacky 1975 musical parody of sci-fi and horror films gets a revival in the lounge. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994. Vermont International Film Festival: See WED.27, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.

kids ‘Sundays for Fledglings’: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-2:45 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167.

music Halloween Organ Concert: A colorful lights show and vocals from the University Concert Choir and Catamount Singers enliven organist David Neiweem’s spooky musical choices. Costumes encouraged. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.27, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

sport Autumn Onion 5K Costume Race: Runners in holiday getup stretch their legs on the scariest day of the year. Proceeds benefit Girls Move Mountains. See calendar spotlight. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 10 a.m. $15; free for kids in strollers. Info, 229-9409. Costumed Halloween Bike Ride: Witches, princesses, pumpkins and other festively adorned cyclists wheel their way through town to Battery Park sun.31

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Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and sy handmade crafts. Local artists of Ga rne Karen Day-Vath, Paule Gingras, t R o ger s Meta Strick and Clair Dunn display original prints, paintings and mixed-media for Art in the Park. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821.

Saturday Stories: Picture books catch the attention of kids of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

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John Zaffis: Chilling tales of cursed objects from this “Godfather of Ghost” storyteller paves the way for a “ghost hunt.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2076.

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Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Old-Fashioned Fall Carnival: Festively dressed revelers partake in fortune telling, bobbing for apples and donut-eating challenges. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-2 p.m. Free; bring a nonperishable-food-item donation or come in costume for game tickets. Info, 223-3338.

Timothy Cummings: Celtic instruments — including the penny whistle and three types of Scottish bagpipes — evoke music from the British Isles and Appalachia. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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‘Capitalism: A Love Story’: Documentarian Michael Moore’s latest film investigates the effect of corporate dominance in America. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Red Molly: Three-part harmonies join a potpourri of bluegrass, folk and old-time gospel. Tunbridge Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433, folkbloke@hotmail.com.

‘The Shape of Things’: See THU.28, 8 p.m.

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with the Burlington Bicycle Coalition. Burlington City Hall Park, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 732-850-4676. ‘Got Guts?’ Climbing Day: Rock scramblers of all ages and abilities scale indoor walls to support the CHILL Foundation; Burlington Freestyle; Mobius, the Mentoring Movement; and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. Petra Cliffs, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 657-3872.

theater ‘All In the Timing’: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

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Rutland Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting: Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked in 2009 in the Indian Ocean, delivers the keynote speech before a rundown of the Chamber’s accomplishments and awards. Ballroom, Holiday Inn, Rutland, noon. $32.50 includes luncheon; reservations required. Info, 773-2747, rrccvt@aol.com. ‘Spend Smart’: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Preregister. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-2567, growingmoney@cvoeo.org.

film ‘Georges Méliés Encore’: A collection of 26 newly discovered shorts from 1896 to 1911 captures work by the innovative French filmmaker. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

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food & drink ‘Menu for the Future’: A community discussion group considers food from cultural, economic, ecological, health and social standpoints. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

health & fitness Aura Healing Clinic: People receive treatment for and feedback about their personal energy fields. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.

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kids Music With Mia: Tots form a circle for a special story hour with some sing-along tunes. Meet in the JCPenney Court. University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Preschool Storytime: See THU.28, 1010:45 a.m. Stories With Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Toddler Story Hour: Words jump off pages and into little ones’ imaginations. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. ‘Write Now!’: Wordsmiths in grades 6 and up get inspired to put pen to paper. Preregister. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

music Afro-Brazilian Percussion Class: Community band Sambatucada teach the pulsating rhythms of samba, samba reggae and baião. No experience re-

Candidates for U.S. Senate Debate: State Senator Bill Doyle hosts a speaker series with candidates Patrick Leahy and Len Britton. Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 371-7898.

sport Adult Floor Hockey: Male and female players ages 18 and up work up a sweat with the Greater Burlington Hockey Club. Sports & Fitness Edge, 4 Gauthier Drive, Essex, 6:45-9:45 p.m. $5; sticks provided. Info, 399-2985.

talks Dr. Zail Berry: A practitioner in palliative medicine mulls over “Writing and Updating Advance Directives.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 864-3516.

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ar Hatha Yoga Class: Mat posers yd utto n learn gentle stretching and relaxation exercises from instructor Betty Molnar. Space is limited; call ahead. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:15-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 8797576.

Laughter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129. ‘The Beneficial Effects of Massage Therapy’: Folks trade Swedish massage strokes in this interactive workshop with Andrea Altman. Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1308.

Jeffrey Herf: The University of Maryland’s professor of modern European history looks at “Globalizing Anti-Semitism: Nazi Germany’s Arabic Language Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

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Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Book Discussion Series: ‘Orchestrated Stories’: Bookworms pore over Janice Galloway’s Clara: A Novel, which offers a fictional interpretation of famous composer Clara Schumann. Dailey Memorial Library, Derby, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 766-5063. ‘Extempo’ Live Original Storytelling: Amateur raconteurs deliver polished, 5-minutelong true stories at an open-mic evening, sans note cards. Black Door Bar and Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free to participants; $5 otherwise. Info, 223-7070, storytelling@extempovt.com. M.D. Usher & T. Motley: The author and illustrator present The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, a collaborative English translation of Apuleius’ Latin comic, composed circa 150 A.D. See calendar spotlight. Multipurpose Room, University Heights North, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4431. Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@ comcast.net.

music Dartmouth Wind Symphony: New York-based trumpeter John C. Thomas is a featured soloist in a concert of pieces that tap into universal spirituality. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603646-2422. Noontime Concert Series: Melody Puller illuminates the poetry of the piano through works by Ravel, Chopin, Schumann and Grieg. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471.

Poetry Open Mic: Scribes speak in stanzas of their own creation. The Block Gallery, Winooski, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.

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Rug Hooking & Knitting Circle: Experienced and novice needleworkers present their looped creations, swap ideas and indulge in textile camaraderie. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. es

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Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Rehearsals: New and established members of the nonprofit community orchestra fiddle around in a jam session at 6 p.m. before practice time at 7 p.m. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 877343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra.org.

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‘Pippin’: See FRI.29, 2 p.m.

Sylvia Parker: Solo piano refrains celebrate the birthdays of composers Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin and Samuel Barber. Works by Claude Debussy and Béla Bartók also come into play. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

Conscientious consumers learn about improving their home’s energy efficiency, and the available tax credits and financing programs to get the best returns. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

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Deadnberry Mortuary Haunted House: See FRI.29, 7-10 p.m.

quired. Call for specific location. Various locations, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-7107.

Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Music With Robert: The host of a weekly folk and world-music show on VPR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Preschool Discovery Program: Kids ages 3 to 5 learn the cold-weather tricks of small water animals in “Mr. Frog, Where Are You?” North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5 per child; free for adults. Info, 229-6206. Science and Stories: Winter-themed tales and investigations examine everything from migration to hibernation. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. Story Hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Waterbury Community Band Rehearsals: Musicians are welcome to join the band in playing marches, swing medleys and Broadway faves at this open practice session. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4977, info@waterburycommunityband.org.

talks Angela Ndalianis: In “Playing With the Living Dead: A Transmedia Experience,” the University at Melbourne’s associate professor in cinema and cultural studies focuses on vampires, zombies and returned-to-life characters such as Huckleberry Finn that appear in stories, video games and films. Room 232, Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. Miriam Black: A local resident explains the educational adventures available through Elderhostel, drawing on more than 15 years of personal experience. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. ‘The Role of Remembrance: Norwich University and World War II’: Assistant professor of architecture and art Wendy Cox offers a design strategy for memorializing women in the military service. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon. Free. Info, 485-2448, msolvay@norwich.edu. Thomas Streeter: The sociology professor juxtaposes UVM and Romanticism in the 21st century in “From James Marsh to Computers in Backpacks.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 4-5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8349.

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Star Meadow Open House: New parents and caregivers experience early-childhood education with their infants. Apple Blossom Room, Child’s Garden, East Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7400.

etc. Burnham Knitters: See WED.27, 6-8 p.m.

‘Stroller Strolling’: Babies take a ride as families meet and mingle along the recreation path. Community Park, Fairfax, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-1941.

Chittenden County Philatelic Club: Stamp collectors of all levels of interest and experience swap sticky squares, and stories about them. GE Healthcare Building, South Burlington, 6:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817, laineyrapp@yahoo.com.

Open Mic: Artists and writers spin spontaneously told true stories about life’s “transforming moments.” Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 863-1754.

Teen Video Games: Middle and high schoolers rock out to Guitar Hero, Rock Band and various other PS2 and Wii faves. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Open Mic Night: Local poets, musicians, singers, storytellers and comics unearth hidden talents and step into the limelight. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

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Toddler Storytime: Little ones ages 18 to 35 months get cozy listening to stories, singing nursery rhymes and playing games. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

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Roundtable Discussion Series: A local expert helps small business owners use social media to effectively develop and promote their brands. Office Squared, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 951-6762.

environment ‘Energy Saved Is Money Saved’: Don’t let your hard-earned cash go out the window ... literally.

‘El Chacal de Nahueltoro’: Miguel Littin’s 1969 drama is based on the true story of an uneducated Chilean peasant who murdered his family. Yokum Lecture Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145. ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’: A traveling magician’s arrival in a small town coincides with a series

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food & drink Harvest Dinner: Autumnal eats support the eighth grade’s trip to Boston. Milton Middle/High School, 5-7 p.m. $7 suggested donation; $20 suggested donation per family. Info, 893-3230, ext. 217. LamoiLLe vaLLey year-rounD Farmers artisan market: See WED.27, 3-6:30 p.m.

kids 4-H super science: Third through fifth graders expand their knowledge of the natural world through hands-on activities about insects, roller coasters, rockets and more. Preregister. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5429 or 878-0313, rosemarie.garritano@ uvm.edu. Book Discussion: Readers ages 8 to 11 voice opinions about Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award winners. This month’s pick is Nora Raleigh Baskin’s Anything But Typical. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. HigH scHooL Book group: Bookworms crack open the tomes they like to read. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. miDDLe scHooL Book group: Young people discuss their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. moving & grooving WitH cHristine: Young ones jam out to rock ‘n’ roll and world-beat tunes. Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. peter tHe music man: See WED.27, 12:30-1 p.m. prescHooL Discovery program: See TUE.02, 10-11:30 a.m. ‘toying WitH science’: First through sixth graders investigate gravity, simple machines and more as performer Garry Krinsky melds circus skills with miming and music. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. $6. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

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vaLLey nigHt: Déjà Nous produce jazz and cabaret numbers with European flair. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

aLLison stanger: A Middlebury College professor identifies a disturbing trend in politics — the privatization of American foreign policy — in “One Nation Under Contract.” Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

Devin coLman: The historic buildings specialist for the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation switches it up with “Green Mountain Modern,” a lecture about modernist architecture. Noble Lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 1 p.m. $20-40 membership to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs, or $5 donation. Info, 454-4675, ataplow@vtlink.net.

gLoBaL & regionaL stuDies Lecture: St. Michael’s College’s Robert Brenneman delivers a speech on “Homies and Hermanos: God and the Gang in Central America.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1096. mark rosen memoriaL Lecture: Harvard University’s Nancy Rosenblum explores “Partisanship and Independence: The Moral Distinctiveness of Party Identification.” John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4316. merceDes guerrero arista: The director of Planting Hope speaks about and shares photos from Naturally Nicaragua, a natural history and service learning trip for teens. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

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nicHoLas scHmiDLe: A gripping account of the journalist’s time in Pakistan reveals a country that may be a battleground for the future of the Muslim world. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. osHer LiFeLong Learning Lecture: Deborah S. Shapiro of Edible Green Mountains offers examples of Vermont’s local food movement. Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30-3 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011 or 888-2190. pauL searLs: The author of Two Vermonts: Geography and Identity, 1865-1910 compares and contrasts cultural and political perspectives in “Then and Now.” Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. pHysics coLLoquium: Pawel Hawrylak of the Institute for Microstructural Sciences simplifies “Semiconductor and Graphene Devices for Quantum Information Processing.” Room 413, UVM Waterman Building, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2644.

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sienna craig: Memories of years spent living in a remote Nepal kingdom fill the Dartmouth anthropologist’s lecture, “Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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words Book Discussion series: ‘eartH tones’: Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea Wind explores how to live in harmony with nature. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. ‘HoW Writers Do it: a Fiction WorksHop’: See WED.27, 6-8 p.m. ron krupp: The local author of Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis offers up practical actions for Vermonters. Farmers join the discussion. Richford Town Hall, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 848-3313. m

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Dr. anDrea pearce: A postdoctoral research associate from UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources elaborates on “Environmental Data Analysis: Tools and Applications From the Lake Champlain Basin.”

george Dennis o’Brien: Homing in on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, the former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester pinpoints the promise and danger of the world of rock. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 301.

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Barrie Dunsmore: In “What Did the Voters Really Say?” the former ABC news correspondent scrutinizes election results. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Forrest HoLzapFeL: A Marlboro-based photographer and historian dishes on the role of the village photographer in 19th-century Vermont — and how to continue the tradition. Milton Historical Society, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598, abtempleton2@comcast.net.

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Dr. mary cHiLDers: A memoirist discusses her broken childhood, her path out of poverty and the ethical issues she faced writing about them in “Welfare Brat.” Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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HinesBurg artist series FaLL concert: A cappella group In Accord, the South County Chorus and the Hinesburg Community Band reproduce classical works as well as crowd favorites. Auditorium, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6962.

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animals PROPER PUPPY PUPPY SOCIALS: 9-10 a.m. Cost: $85/8 weeks. Location: Bow Meow Pet Grooming Boutique, 26 Susie Wilson Rd., Essex Jct. Info: The Proper Puppy, Lynn Roberge, 802-881-5151, lmroberge22@yahoo.com. These fun classes with canine trainer Lynn Roberge are specially designed for puppies 8 wks. to 1 yr., depending on breed and size. Focusing on developing good social skills with people and other dogs, exposure to new experiences, relationship building and manners. Most importantly, it’s all off leash! First puppy groom is free!

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ayurveda AYURVEDIC FALL WORKSHOP SERIES: CLEANSE & REJUVENATION: Oct. 27-Nov. 10, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset Street, Suite 204, South Burlington. Info: Carmen Maron-Walker, 802-658-9440. During this 3-week workshop, you will be supported through a 7 day Ayurvedic cleanse. Workshops will explore the fundamentals of Ayurveda, examine how Ayurveda supports optimum health, and understand how this medical system applies to you. For more information: www.vtcyt.com.

burlington city arts CLAY: CLASSIC ITALIAN TILE DECORATION: Nov. 15-Dec. 13, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $125/$112.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. The traditional Italian style of tile painting, known as Majolica, has long been admired for its exquisite and unique designs. Create your own tiles with an instructor who studied this art form at Studio Giambo in Florence, Italy.

CLAY: PARENT & CHILD WHEEL ALL AGES: Nov. 6-Dec. 11, 10-11:30 a.m. Cost: $150/nonmember pair, $135/BCA member pair. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This five-week class will introduce young and younger alike to working with clay using the potter’s wheel while having a memorable experience with your child. Students will practice basic wheel-working techniques and will also be introduced to handle making, trimming and glazing while making vases, bowls and mugs. Parents and children will each use their own wheel. Parents are expected to help monitor their child. All clay, tools, glazes and firings are included. CLAY: RAKU FIRING WORKSHOP: Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $75/$67.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Raku is the most exciting and fulfilling firing process, which involves removing glowing pots from a red-hot kiln. Participants will learn various raku techniques including naked raku, rosehair, crackling and bright metallic lusters. Workshop will include glazing instruction, firing as well as demos on creating great forms of raku. DESIGN: ADOBE IN-DESIGN: Nov. 8-Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $185/ nonmembers; $166.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. This class will give you the basics and help you

become proficient at using this powerful layout program. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. This class will be taught on a Mac with InDesign CS4. JEWELRY: PRECIOUS METAL CLAY: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $175/ nonmembers; $157.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a composite of 90% fine silver and 10% water and organic binder. It can be shaped just like any other kind of clay and when fired burns out the binder leaving a solid silver piece. Students will create several pieces. PHOTO: LIGHTING TECHNIQUES: Nov. 18-Dec. 16, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $125/nonmembers, $112.50/members. Location: Firehouse Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Learn the basics of photographic lighting and gain more creative control over your images in this foursession workshop. Portrait lighting, fill flash and use of studio lights/soft boxes will be covered, as well as white balance control and other camera techniques. PRINT: INTRO TO WOODCUT: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $150/nonmembers; $135/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Discover the unique process of woodblock printing during this introductory class. Learn how to create a composition appropriate for carving and reproduce your image through a series of prints

onto paper or cloth. This is a great technique for card making, posters and fine-art prints. Cost includes use of open studio hours for class work.

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com. Teacher bios are also available online.

at Montpelier Mud. New class session starts in November for adults, teens and kids. CLAY BASICS W/ CHRIS TOWNSEND: Weekly on Tuesdays, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 30, Dec. 7, 14. 6-9 p.m. Cost: $275 Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www. helenday.com. Learn how to center clay and make small vessels such as cups, bowls and vases. Become proficient at throwing basic shapes so that later you will be able to sue these skills to create more complex forms later. Basic glazing techniques and an introduction to the kiln will also be discussed.

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MINDFUL LEADERSHIP W/ DANNY MORRIS: Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/class. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, vtcyt.com. Mindful Science and Practices for professionals. Utilize the power of neuroplasticity, using your mind to change the brain. This class will provide a scientific framework for understanding what mindfulness is and how to practice it in the workplace. Learn practical techniques to cultivate active leadership skills and sustain lasting change.

EXCEL BASICS: Nov. 8-29, 7-8:15 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $50/class. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Burlington. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs.org. Learn how to use the MS Excel spreadsheet program so you can organize your own projects. This is a great introduction to Excel or for those with very limited use of the program. Students will master data entry, formatting, mouse operations, keyboard shortcuts and basic menu selection. Activities will be designed to enhance class demonstrations and prepare students for other at-home or business projects. Instructor: Tony Galle. Limit: 15. Senior discount 65+.

clay CLAY: Nov. 1-24, Weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Cost: $195/3-hour adult class. Location: Montpelier Mud, 961 Rte. 2, Middlesex. Info: Montpelier Mud, 802-224-7000, info@montpeliermud.com, www. montpeliermud.com. Brace your elbows and cup your hands, get ready to get dirty with clay

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BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, kevin@ firststepdance.com, www. FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance!

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SAT. WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS: Oct. 16-Dec. 18, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $25/ sampler class. Location: Davis Studio Gallery, 404 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Davis Studio, Teresa Davis, 802-425-2700, info@davisstudiovt.com, http:// davisstudiovt.com/adult_workshops.html. Try a sampler class at Davis Studio: Painting With Tissue, Acrylic Painting for Beginners, Quilt Square Potholders, Decorative Painting Techniques, Creative Cupcakes, Mosaic Trivets, Handmade Holiday Cards and Functional Origami. Saturdays at 10 a.m.,

$25 per class. Register online at www.davisstudiovt.com.

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DANCE MASTER CLASS W/ LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY: Intermediate/advanced adults & teens: Fri., Oct. 29, 4:45-6:15 p.m. Cost: $20/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, flynnarts@ flynncenter.org. Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the ten best choreographers in the world,” Lar Lubovitch is known for the musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures of his radiant and highly technical choreography. A company member leads this class for intermediate and advanced dancers, which includes a warm-up followed by the chance to learn works from the Lubovitch repertory. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! JAZZ DANCE W/ KAREN AMIRAULT: Sep. 14-Dec. 8, 6:357:45 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $15/single class; $56/4; $78/6; $144/12. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., enter in the back, Burlington. Info: South End Studio, 802-540-0044, southendstudiovtcom. Jazz: From Broadway to Hip-Hop is a fun, high-energy workout with influences from swing, Broadway and musical comedy to hip-hop, African and break, for teens and adults. Structured to benefit beginning dancers as well as those with previous training. Dress comfortably and bring clean-soled sneakers. (Kids class on Tuesdays.) LEARN TO SWING DANCE Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www.lindyvermont.com, 802-860-7501. Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every

six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl. MODERN DANCE CLASS: Take class w/ Ellen Smith Ahern, Tue., 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $16/class, or $60/4-class session. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St. #372 (top floor, Chace Mill), Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Blend contemporary dance techniques that strengthen, center and challenge dancers to move with clarity and intention. The class will build with exercises and phrase material that support a healthy range of movement that is imaginative, rigorous and playful. Be ready for dynamic weight shifting, handstands, floor work! Intermediateadvanced: Teens, adults. MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE: 4-week session, Fri., 5:30-7 p.m., starts Oct. 29. Cost: $60/4 1.5-hr. classes for ages 14+. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., 372 (Winooski River Falls, Chace Mill, top floor), Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Transform yourself from within in this four-week session with Stephanie Overton. Focus on momentum, recirculation and redirection of energy from one movement and one moment to the next. A physically demanding combination of the stylistic aspects of Release, Graham and West African techniques. Great for beginner and intermediate dancers, 14+.

family PASSIONATE PARENTING W/ NICOLE WILLIAMS & TISH LINSTROM: Nov. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $40/parent, $75/couple. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www. vtcyt.com. Celebrate the gift of parenting while considering how to reconnect and use one of our greatest resources: passion. Explore ways we can infuse passion into parenting to stay connected in the difficult and simple moments and create both a sustainable family vision

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high-energy, bombastic class will explore lightning-speed drumming and razor-sharp rhythmic precision in a combination of electronic beats and live drumming. Drummers with at least one year’s playing experience are invited to see for themselves how the most basic beats and rudiments can be used at many speeds and in different styles.

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FORZA SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Mondays, 7-8 p.m.; Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.; Fridays, AIKIDO: Adult introductory 9-10 a.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. classes meet on Tue. & Thu. at Location: North End Studio, 294 6:45 p.m. Classes for adults, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. children (ages 5-12) & teenagers Info: Tweak Your Physique, meet 7 days/week. Location: Stephanie Shohet, 802-578Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 9243, Steph@forzavt.com, Pine St. (across from Conant forzavt.com. FORZA is an intense Metal and Light), Burlington. group fitness class appropriate Info: 802-951-8900, burlingfor teens and adults of all abilitonaikido.org. Aikido is a dyties. Build muscle, burn calories, namic Japanese martial art that develop focus, vent frustrations promotes physical and mental and boost self-esteem while harmony through the use of using a sword to practice the breathing exercises, aerobic conskills of the samurai warrior. No 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 3:32:51 PM ditioning, circular movements, martial arts experience necesSTAINED GLASS W/ NATASHA and pinning and throwing techsary. Find forzavt on Facebook BOGAR: Weekly on Wednesdays, niques. We also teach sword/ for more information. Nov. 3, 10, 17, Dec. 1, 8. 6-9 p.m. staff arts and knife defense. The Cost: $245 Location: Helen Day Samurai Youth Program provides Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802scholarships for children and 253-8358, www.helenday.com. MUMMENSCHANZ FAMILY teenagers, ages 7-17. Learn the old world art of stained PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP: AIKIDO: Tues.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; glass. Creating a simple fi rst Ages 6-10: Wed., Oct. 27; Saturdays, 9-10 a.m.; & Sundays, project will help you learn the 6-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1 child w/ 10-11:30 a.m. Visitors are always techniques of cutting glass, the accompanying parent or carewelcome. Location: Vermont Tiffany method of copper foiling, giver. Location: Flynn Center, Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. soldering and fi nishing touches. Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Design, color and composition flynnarts@flynncenter.org. Vermont Aikido, 802-862will also be covered. Coming to see Mummenschanz 9785, www.vermontaikido.org. at the Flynn? Enrich your child’s Vermont Aikido adult introducexperience of the performance tory classes will be offered in an exploratory workshop led October 19 through November WISDOM OF THE HERBS by FlynnArts faculty. Together, 9, on consecutive Tuesday SCHOOL: Open house Sat., Oct. you and your child play with the evenings. Class time: 6-7:30 p.m. 23, 1-3:30 p.m., at the Rhapsody ideas and art forms you’ll see on (dojo doors open at 5:30 p.m.). Cafe, 28 Main St., Montpelier. stage, and then head behind the Intro class fee of $60 includes Dates for our 2011 Wild Edible scenes after the show to meet uniform. Please contact the dojo spring & summer terms, & for the artists and see how they with questions about the class the 8-weekend Wisdom of the worked their magic! Backstage or to preregister. Herbs 2011, can be found on our tour subject to confirmation. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUwebsite; we are currently inDANCE MASTER CLASS W/ LAR JITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & terviewing. Plan ahead & apply LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY: Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. now for VSAC nondegree grants Intermediate/advanced adults Location: Vermont Brazilian for 2011 programs while funds & teens: Fri., Oct. 29, 4:45-6:15 Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. are plentiful. Location: Wisdom p.m. Cost: $20/class. Location: Info: 802-660-4072, Julio@ of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: bjjusa.com, www.bjjusa.com. Info: 802-456-8122, annie@ 802-652-4548, flynnarts@ Classes for men, women and wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, flynncenter.org. Hailed by the children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu www.wisdomoftheherbsschool. New York Times as “one of the enhances strength, flexibility, com. Earth skills for changing ten best choreographers in the balance, coordination and cartimes. Experiential programs world,” Lar Lubovitch is known dio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian embracing local, wild, edible and for the musicality, rhapsodic Jiu-Jitsu training builds and medicinal plants, food as first style and sophisticated formal helps to instill courage and selfmedicine, sustainable living structures of his radiant and confidence. We offer a legitimate skills, and the inner journey. highly technical choreography. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts Annie McCleary, director, and A company member leads this program in a friendly, safe and George Lisi, naturalist. class for intermediate and adpositive environment. Accept vanced dancers, which includes no imitations. Learn from one a warm-up followed by the of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” chance to learn works from the LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF Lubovitch repertory. DOORS: Location: Spanish in certified 6th Degree Black Belt, FULL BATTERY DRUMKIT Waterbury Center, Waterbury Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor WORKSHOP: Adults & teens: Center. Info: Spanish in under Carlson Gracie Sr., teachSat., Nov. 6, 10 a.m.-noon. Waterbury Center, 802-585ing in Vermont, born and raised Cost: $20/workshop. Location: 1025, spanishparavos@gmail. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: com, www.spanishwaterBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu National 802-652-4548, flynnarts@ burycenter.com. Improve your Featherweight Champion and flynncenter.org. “Full Battery” opportunities in a changing 3-time Rio de Janeiro State is a hands-on workshop in live world. 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meditation INTEGRATED AWARENESS MEDITATION: A MEDITATION WORKSHOP W/ THOMAS JACKSON & ANN RODIGER: Nov. 6, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $75/class. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, vtcyt.com. We will practice meditation by focusing on optimal posture, breath and balance through the principles of the Alexander Technique. We will use creative visualizations and guided meditations to liberate the wisdom of our hearts. Wonderful introduction to meditation for beginners and an opportunity for experienced meditators to go deeper. INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: Sat., Nov. 6, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $25/half-day workshop, limited time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, ecross@ crosscontext.net, www.vzc.org. The workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info, or register online. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. 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. LEARN MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., all programs free of charge. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., Burlington. Info: Exquisite Mind, Arnie Kozak, 802-660-8043, drkozak@ exquisitemind.com, exquisitemind.com. Learn to meditate and participate in ongoing mindfulness meditation practice community at the new Exquisite Mind Studio. Nonsectarian Buddhist-based mindfulness

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meditation. No-fee instructions, weekly practice sessions and monthly retreats. Free weekly introductory program. Read the blog at www.blog.beliefnet.com/ mindfulnessmatters. Satori Meditation System Cost: $50/6 30-minute sessions. Location: Satori Mind Spa, 2 Church St., 2nd floor, suite 2-I, Burlington. Info: Satori Mind Spa, Rahn Bouffard, 802-4985555, atman@satorimindspa. com, satorimindspa.com. Jumpstart your meditation practice or deepen your current meditation experience. State-of-the-art brainwave entrainment music programs will take you to the next level of understanding. Receive added sound healing benefits on a VibroSonic massage table, inner-space exploration platform. Special rate.

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reiki REIKI (Usui) LEVEL 1 Cost: $195/Sat., Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., #7, Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@ risingsunhealing.com, www. risingsunhealing.com. Learn this powerful hands-on-healing art for healing and personal growth and be able to give Reiki energy to yourself and others by the end of the class. Plenty of in-class practice time. Learn the history of Reiki and ethics of a Reiki practitioner. Individual classes available. Member Vermont Reiki Association.

Miniature Book Ornaments: Nov. 13-Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $135/ members; $160/nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Art Center, 802985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter.og, www.shelburneartcenter.org. In this three-day workshop, students will be introduced to leather bookbinding. Students will create unique cover designs and assemble two full leather miniature books. Leather techniques including pasting, covering, shaping, corner pleating and decoration with on-lays will be covered. (No leather experience is required. Dexterity with small pieces suggested.)

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Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802-8647902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

well-being Workshop for Women in Midlife: Listening to Body & Soul w/ Deb Sherrer & Holly Wilkinson: Nov. 19, 3-8:30 p.m. Cost: $70/ class (vegetarian meal incl.). Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, vtcyt.com. Midlife for women is a time of exploration, reevaluation and re-creation in anticipation of the second half of life. A Yoga and Soulcollage Workshop for Women in Midlife: During this workshop we will use breath, movement and imagery to explore and honor our questions, desires and inner wisdom.

yoga spirituality Awakening to Your Inner Treasures: Nov. 13, 1:30-5 p.m. Cost: $35/workshop incl. materials. Location: Best Western Motel, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Work with symbols, images and archetypes through collage to experience and integrate deep layers of soul with body to reach an Earthrooted, spirit-centered state of being in this hands-on workshop led by Kathy Warner, teacher and author.

Anxious Body, Anxious Mind w/ Lindsay Foreman: Nov. 16-Dec. 28, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $105/ series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, vtcyt.com. Do any of these symptoms apply to you? Trouble sleeping? Feel restless and then exhausted? Can’t stop worrying? Difficulty focusing? Or do you want to just find more rest in your life? In a compassionate and safe environment, we will explore gentle and spacious yoga, guided meditation, breathing exercises, deep relaxation, and mindfulness for daily living.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon.-Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt. com, www.evolutionvt.com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusarainspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog. Laughing River Yoga: Daily yoga classes & monthly yoga workshops. $13 drop in; $110 for 10 classes. By-donation classes Mon.-Fri. at 9 a.m. & Tue./Thu. at 7:30 p.m. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: Laughing River Yoga, 802-3438119, emily@laughingriveryoga. com, www.laughingriveryoga. com. Yoga studio now open downstairs in the Chace Mill. Experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Restorative and DJ Yoga Flow. Educate yourself with monthly workshops and class series. Lots of light. Gorgeous floors. Parking. All levels welcome! Come and deepen your understanding of who you are. Laughing River Yoga: Morning, afternoon & evening classes every weekday. Sat. morning & Sun. afternoon classes. Monthly Sun. morning & evening workshops. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: Laughing River Yoga, 802343-8119, emily@laughingriveryoga.com, www.laughingriveryoga.com. Yoga studio now open in the Chace Mill. Experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Restorative, Dj Yoga Flow and monthly workshops. Classes are $13 drop-in. $110/10-class

card. By-donation classes offered almost every day. All levels welcome. Come and deepen your understanding of who you are. Spirit & Strength: 10 a.m., Tue. & Thu. Cost: $13/class; $10/ class w/ 20-class card, good for all yoga, Pilates Mat, noontime classes. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St. #372 (Winooski River Falls, Chace Mill, top floor), Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Burlington Dances, 802-863-3369, info@ BurlingtonDances.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Join Yoga Pilates Fusion classes with Julie Peoples-Clark for a combination of yoga postures, breath work, Pilates conditioning, balance and relaxation. Purify, align, strengthen and stretch while connecting to your inner core. Classes emphasize breath awareness, standing and floor work, dynamic flow, and relaxation for a state of balance within. Yoga at South End Studio: See website for times & days of classes. Cost: $13/single class; 5-, 10- & 20-class passes avail. Also offering 3-mo., 6-mo. & 1-yr. memberships. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. South End Studio offers excellent yoga classes in a variety of styles: Vinyasa, Vigorous Vinyasa (heated), $6 Kripalu, Mindful Yoga (meditative), Ashtanga, Yoga Power Flow (heated), Genesis Yoga (by donation), Yoga Express (50-minute $7 noon class) and Flow. Use your class card for any yoga, Nia or Zumba class.

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Wheel Throwing & Handbuilding: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $165/members; $195/nonmembers; $35/ materials. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, info@ shelburneartcenter.og, www. shelburneartcenter.org. This class will accommodate all levels of abilities. Beginners will be shown fundamentals and guided in developing strong basic skills. More experienced students will have individualized instruction in functional or sculptural techniques while considering elements of form and style.

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Drop-in Yoga: Every Fri., this fall, 12-1:30 p.m. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, S. Burlington. Info: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy , 802-658-9440, vtcyt. com. Move. Breathe. Strengthen. Relax. A Vajra-inspired class with Deb Sherrer, CYT, MA, that focuses on alignment, breathinformed movement, mindfulness and in-depth poses to enhance strength, flexibility and grounding. Leave class with a greater sense of well-being and relaxation. All levels welcome.

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Natural Bodies Pilates: Burlington Dances: Come dance w/ us! & book your sessions for classical Pilates & Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analysis. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates at Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., 372 (Winooski River Falls, Chace Mill, top floor), Burlington. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Get

Japanese Woodblock Printing w/ Alex Angio: Oct. 30-Nov. 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Weekly on Saturday. Cost: $255 Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 802-2538358, www.helenday.com. Learn the basic techniques in the Japanese tradition of woodblock printing with waterbased pigments. This tradition is associated with the earliest lessons of design and color from the Ukiyo-e masters. All aspects of the process will be introduced including use of carving tools, wood preparation, color registration and had printing. Deadline for registration is: Friday, Oct. 15.

SHANDDARAMON Discussion & Book Signing: Nov. 6, 4-6 p.m. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rte. 7, Midtown Plaza, Milton. Info: 802-893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo. com, shanddaramon.com. In the span of six years, author Shanddaramon has written and published 16 books about living a sacred life as a pagan in the modern world. Combining the arts with mysticism, he has created classes and workshops for others with similar interests and has led rituals for organizations and individuals.

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ALL Wellness Location: 208 Flynn Ave., Studio 3A (across from the antique shops, before Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-863-9900, www.allwellnessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and nutrition. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. Join us for a free introduction to the reformer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.: Just call and reserve your spot!

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Decorative Artistry For Home: Nov. 4-Dec. 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $155/members; $185/nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Art Center, 802-9853648, info@shelburneartcenter. og, www.shelburneartcenter. org. Learn how to redecorate your own home. We’ll discuss how to choose and mix color, and get lots of hands-on experience to build your confidence. Striping and stenciling will be addressed. If you want to emphasize focal points in your home, this class is for you!

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Telling Point Drum Journey & Guided Meditation Workshop!: Nov. 3, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $35/workshop. Sign up required. Limited space. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rte. 7, Midtown Plaza, Milton. Info: 802-893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo. com, www.tellingpointmusic. com. The sound of the drum is a powerful heartbeat that guides participants into a meditative, subconscious state. Journeyers have felt shamanic healing energy, seen past life images, received inspirational messages or simply experienced deep relaxation. Guided meditations provide direction throughout the journey to assist participants on their path.

that feeling of deep internal strength with whole-body workouts that leave you feeling surprisingly relaxed, flexible and more expressive of who you truly are. Professional actors, dancers and Olympic athletes benefit from Movement Analysis and stay fit with Pilates exercise, and now you can, too! Set your appointment today!

Sound of the City Navigating the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC B Y DAN BOLLES

After dropping in on a series of soso sets in the East Village, I decided to check in at Pianos a little early and stake out a spot for Das Racist. Just before they took the stage, I caught what would prove to be my favorite find of the fest: Virginia Beach’s We Are Trees. The dreamy folk-pop outfit was a late addition to the bill, and wasn’t even listed in my copy of the guidebook. As such, it took me almost all week to figure out just who the hell they were. But I’m glad I did. For starters, the band stunned a packed room of snarky critics who came to see a hip-hop band. For another thing, their Grizzly-Bear-meets-Andrew-Bird aesthetic was right up this indie-folkloving scribe’s alley. Das Racist was underwhelming but still fun, putting the cap on a great first night and kicking off a remarkable week. The remainder of my time at CMJ was similarly unpredictable and rewarding. Some highlights: our old pals Good Old War at the Canal Room; an Italian instrumental band, Calibro 35, at Nublu that sounded like what would happen if Ennio Morricone scored a Tarantino film; Nublu again the following night for the launch of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival artist-relations director Lisa Giordano’s new venture, New Vogue Records; sneaking into the Mercury Lounge to catch Nada Surf; a stunning, sultry Swedish band, First Aid Kit, who persuaded a

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drunks at the Delancy to shut up so they could play unamplified; and about a dozen other bands I wish I had space to write about here. This is not to mention a slew of enlightening panel discussions and networking opportunities with rock writers from around the country. My only issue with the CMJ experience has less to do with CMJ and more to do with, well, you. By my count, there were exactly two Vermont-based acts performing at this year’s fest: songwriter Kris Gruen and rising songstress tooth ache. (Though that tally doesn’t include the Vacant Lots, who showed up in Brooklyn for a non-CMJ gig.) Two out of 1200. So … what gives? I have long been skeptical of the value of monster showcases such as CMJ and SXSW for virtually unknown, unsigned bands. Does the expense — travel, time, etc. — balance out the opportunity to be heard by new, possibly influential ears? After spending a week immersed in CMJ, my conclusion is this: absolutely. Will playing CMJ guarantee that you get signed? Nope. Will it break you to thousands of new fans? Probably not, though you never know. Will it give you a snazzy bullet point for your press kit? Meh. Whatever. But here’s what it can do. CMJ will expose you to new music you never knew existed, and, in turn, expose your music to people looking for the same. How often do local bands get to play for audiences almost exclusively composed of willing listeners eagerly looking to discover them? Sadly, not as often as they should. But at the CMJ Music Marathon, that’s exactly what you’ll find, and on an almost unfathomable scale. See you there next year? 

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want to see. And a good percentage of the shows you’ll remember most fondly will feature bands you’d never heard of. It’s important to come up with some sort of itinerary. But, as I would discover, it may be even more important to not be too rigid in sticking to it. Half the fun is getting lost and stumbling upon a band you never knew you needed in your life. I found a few. The rough outline for my first night was to head to Pianos on Ludlow Street for rising ironic hip-hop darlings Das Racist, stopping in at as many showcases as I could along the way. The first stop was an old favorite haunt, the Lit Lounge. As I crammed into the dive bar’s dark, crowded basement, the first band of my CMJ experience took the stage. Let me tell you, what an introduction. The group was an Israeli psych-rock quartet called Izabo. They rocked my world — so to speak. Here’s a snippet from a description I posted the next day to my blog, Solid State, cribbed from my rather messy notes: Narcoleptic psych-pop with a dramatic lead singer caught somewhere among the Velvet Underground, the Yardbirds and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Intricate arrangements and surprising melodic turns, bolstered by cleverly carefree backing vocals. Also, I have something written down about when a bartender asks if you’re with a band, just say “yes.” Sage advice. Next up was a nifty little electronic-pop duo from Minneapolis, Dada Trash Collage. These guys bridge the gap between the hookyas-hell pop I so easily fall for and the unwieldy experimental fare proffered locally by the folks from Aether Everywhere and Mars Pyramid. This stuff always interests me, but often I fail to completely connect with it. Unleashing anthemic pop goodness over a maelstrom of electronic drones, loops First Aid Kit and noise, DTC proved a happy medium and another good find.

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here is but one word to sum up the annual College Music Journal Music Marathon & Film Festival: overwhelming. The five-day rockanalia is a beast of epic proportions. Even the most seasoned festival veteran could barely hope to experience but a fraction of the conference’s bounty: more than 1200 bands at more than 50 venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, and dozens of films, panel discussions and exhibitions. And that doesn’t take into account all the “unofficial” events that piggyback on CMJ’s considerable cachet. Add to that the general mania of New York City and you’ve got an experience most music fans would be lucky to emerge from alive — or at least not completely broke. Last week, I made my maiden voyage to CMJ — actually, my first trip to a major music conference of any kind. I haven’t experienced South by Southwest in Austin or its Canadian cousin, North by Northeast in Toronto … yet. It was a wild, unpredictable, exhausting and expensive few days in New Amsterdam. As best I can, I’ll attempt to distill the experience here. Buckle up. I arrived in New York last Tuesday afternoon and, after depositing my stuff in Brooklyn, made my way to the CMJ registrar at a church near NYU to claim my press credentials, a mammoth but indispensable guidebook and an utterly hideous, neon-splattered gift bag. The only thing said bag proved to be good for was identifying, from a distance, the meatballs you didn’t want to talk to if they were wearing the shoulder bag in public. Ahem. Here’s the thing about CMJ: You can’t possibly get to everything you’ll

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Hard to believe, but JOE ADLER’s successful weekly songwriter’s showcase, Burgundy Thursdays, at the Parima Acoustic Lounge turns 1 year old this week. To celebrate, Adler has brought a slew of heavy hitters and favorites from the year that was, including SCOTT MANGAN, AARON BURROUGHS, the AMIDA BOURBON PROJECT, BRETT HUGHES, ANTARA, AARON FLINN, COLLIN COPE & MIKE SULLIVAN, SAMARA LARK, ERIC SEGALSTAD, the NEBRASKA SESSIONS BAND and JOSH GLASS. Congrats, Joe! You know who’s superpissed about the city’s recent decision to limit the number of 18-plus shows at Burlington nightclubs? Well, most reasonable, thinking people, actually. And 18-yearolds. And Y69’s GREG DUSABLON. The punk drummer sent in a scathing missive after reading about the news last week in the Freeps — just an FYI, Greg, 7D covered that story, like, a month ago. Just saying. Anyway, few local SOUNDBITES

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welcome rising hip-hop electropunk impresarios NINJASONIK to Parima. These cats have been pulling some serious love around the blogosphere — and at CMJ last week, actually — and for

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and CASIO BASTARD at Positive Pie 2. Heading north again on I-89, the belle of the Burlington ball is undoubtedly Carnivale Nocturna, a party in both rooms at Parima. The lineup features local funk-rockers FUNKWAGON, hip-hop upand-comers

the HUMAN CANVAS. One quick note about Saturday: Don’t sleep on the always-entertaining Halloween bash at 242 Main. If you’ve never been, local bands dress up as their favorite nonlocal bands and cover their songs. Unfortunately, no word on the lineup just yet. Last but not least, the Halloween weekend concludes at Club Metronome Sunday night, where prodigal Afrorockers RUBBLEBUCKET kick off a two-night stand at the reinvigorated rock haunt. Sunday the band will be joined by Roxbury, Mass. FULL TANG. And on Monday, locals BEARQUARIUM and BTV art-rock royalty SWALE handle opening duties.

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at Club Metronome. I’m really curious to see how this band will outdo their already glamorous attire for Halloween. Hell, their regular outﬁts would likely win most area costume contests. Speaking of which, this is a costume party. Dress up, dammit. Things really get cooking on Friday, as Nectar’s hosts local Dead acolytes BLUES FOR BREAKFAST. This one’s a costume party, too, and it has a

good reason: They’re fun, funny, socially conscious and, best of all, they straight up rock. Hard. Not to be left out of the fun, Montpeculiar has its share of cool happenings Friday as well, including the VACANT LOTS, just back from Brooklyn, at Langdon Street Café. There’s nothing speciﬁcally Halloween-y about this one. But the Vacant Lots rock, and well, I guess they’re kinda scary in a druggy psych-rock kinda way, right? Moving on … Saturday is, of course, the main event. LSC hosts its annual Halloween Masquerade Ball with local electro-rock outﬁt DURIANS and THEY WILL HATE US — more on the latter below. Meanwhile, the good folks from Halogen Records give the capital city a taste of Burlington Rock City with

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theme: Dress as your favorite GRATEFUL DEAD band member. Now that’s fucking scary. Meanwhile, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, get your freak on at Dragula, the evening’s marquee costume party featuring, sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, more sex, and, um, did I

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I love Halloween. Like, it’s my absolute favorite holiday. And, yeah, I know I probably say the same thing about a handful of other fun dates throughout the year. But for me, there is Halloween, and then everything else. The great thing about All Hallows Eve is that it doesn’t come with any of the baggage accompanying almost all the other big holidays. There are no religious overtones as with Christmas or Easter, no family obligations as with Thanksgiving, no overhyped expectations as with New Year’s Eve, and no overblown patriotic nonsense as with Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Halloween is all about dressing up like an idiot and attending fantastically absurd parties. And eating candy. That’s it. And this year, since Halloween falls on a Sunday, we get three full nights of ghoulish revelry before we even get to the actual day/candy. Responding in kind, area clubs are seriously ramping up the spooky fun this week. Here’s a blow-by-blow. It all starts Thursday with disco-rock sensations

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PurPLE Moon Pub: Bruce sklar’s Harwood Jazz Workshop (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LoungE: DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m. CLub MEtronoME: siN siZZle & Kampus Boyz Ent present: King of VT Rap Battle (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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LEunig’s bistro & CaFé: Paul Asbell & clyde stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LiFt: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. tHE MonkEy HousE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1. nECtar’s: Kelly Ravin (roots), 7 p.m., Free. Papadosio, Jeff Bujak (prog rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. raDio bEan: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

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ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Josh Brooks (rock), 10 p.m., Free. tHE MonkEy HousE: Airwaves, Hello shark (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

tHE brEWski: comedy Night with Andie Bryan (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free.

nigHtCraWLErs: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

tHE sHED rEstaurant & brEWEry: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

o’briEn’s irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

big PiCturE tHEatEr & CaFé: Valley Night with Bill scafer & Friends (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: Heloween Party with Heloise & the savoir Faire, Big Digits, Dj Disco Phantom (electro-rock), 9 p.m., $6/8.

bLaCk Door bar anD bistro: The carmonilla Quartet (world music), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Franny o’s: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

CHarLiE o’s: The Bucktails (country), 8 p.m., Free.

tHE grEEn rooM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

grEEn Mountain tavErn: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

HaLvorson’s uPstrEEt CaFé: Friends of Joe with Paul Asbell (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LangDon strEEt CaFé: Rob Lutes (roots), 9 p.m., Donations.

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LiFt: Get LiFTed with DJs Nastee & Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

nECtar’s: Top Hat Presents (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. shady Alley, The medicinals Reunion show (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $10/5.

baCkstagE Pub: Open mic with Jess & Jeff, 8 p.m., Free.

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LEunig’s bistro & CaFé: mike martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

bEE’s knEEs: Andrew Parker-Renga (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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sHELburnE stEakHousE & saLoon: carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

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on tHE risE bakEry: Open Bluegrass session, 7:30 p.m., Free.

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rED squarE: The stereofidelics (rock), 8 p.m., $3. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Open mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.

HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: Yonder mountain string Band (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $20/25/30. AA.

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HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: slavic soul Party! (Balkan brass band), maryse smith (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

PariMa aCoustiC LoungE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, scott mangan, Aaron Burroughs, Amida Bourbon Project & more (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $3. raDio bEan: Jazz sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Anthony santor Group (jazz), 11 p.m., $3. rasPutin’s: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. rED squarE: selector Dubee (reggae), 6 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free. rí rá irisH Pub: Longford Row (irish), 8 p.m., Free. tHE skinny PanCakE: Darlingside, caitlin canty (folk), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

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grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. LangDon strEEt CaFé: The Bucktails (honkytonk), 6 p.m., Donations. Doug Keith (acoustic), 8 p.m., Donations. squid city (electro-acoustic), 9 p.m., Donations.

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music communities will be as affected by the BPD’s asinine move as much as the city’s punk and hardcore scenes, which are composed mostly of underage kids — though, in fairness, the bulk of those shows do happen in teen centers. Well, Dusablon is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. He’s put out a call to arms — arms with “X” marked on their hands — for his band’s all-ages show at Manhattan Pizza this Friday with BTV punk legends the WARDS, who threaten it will be their last of 2010. “It stops now, and we are not going to let them win,” writes Dusablon — referring to the 18-plus thing, not the Wards, presumably. He adds, “Punk rock.” Indeed.

Ukranian American dad to see them and the dude dances. No kidding, this actually happened the last time the NYC-based Ukrainian brass band SLAVIC SOUL PARTY! was in town earlier this year. They’ll be back at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Thursday with, in one of the odder/cooler pairings in recent memory, local opener MARYSE SMITH. So, contrary to musings in last week’s issue, I did make it home from CMJ in time to catch BLUE BUTTON, the SHEEPS and JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD at the Monkey House last Saturday. Good thing, too, since I clearly hadn’t spent enough time in loud, crowded rock clubs last week … Anyway, JTB were every bit as good as advertised. The Sheeps, a newish local band, were interesting, if a little rough around the edges. But Blue Button. Oh, Blue Button! Holy rock and roll. Regular readers know I love me some artsy indie rock. But Burlington hasn’t had a straight-up rock band like this in a long, long time. This is gonna be a fun ride. I was pretty psyched to see that Portland, Ore.-based songwriter NICK JAINA will be in town this week and seems to have made Burlington a regular stop on his tour

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last chance to catch her will be Wednesday, November 3, at the Parima Acoustic Lounge. Best of luck, Anna. It’s been a pleasure. 

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• Badly Drawn Boy, It’s What I’m Thinking: Part 1: Photographing Snowﬂakes • The Besnard Lakes, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night • John Legend & the Roots, Wake Up! • Freedy Johnston, This Perfect World

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LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Swati (rock), 9:30 p.m., Donations. The Vacant Lots (psych-rock), 11 p.m., Donations. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Live DJ, 9:30 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Johnny A (blues), 8 p.m., $27. AA.

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51 MAIN: The Bobolinks, Doug Keith (folk), 9 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: The Johnny Devil Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Jazz Session with Dan Silverman, 7:30 p.m., Free. STARRY NIGHT CAFÉ: Left Eye Jump (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Happy Hour with Bill Wright (folk), 4:30 p.m., Free. Funk Forest (funk), 10 p.m., $3.

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PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Funkwagon, Lynguistic Civilians, Human Canvas, Mushpost (hip-hop, funk), 10 p.m., $6. RADIO BEAN: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club (open turntables), 3 p.m., Free. Swati (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Brett Hughes (swampy-tonk), 6 p.m., Free. Doug Keith (singer-songwriter), 8:15 p.m., Free. Barbacoa, Blue Button (rock, surf-noir), 10 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN’S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. The Thang (funk), 9 p.m., $3. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

BEE’S KNEES: The Heckhounds (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Seth Gallant, Tommy Alexander, Kia Ochun (indie folk), 7 p.m., $5 donation.

THE BREWSKI: The Mighty Loons (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

BLACK DOOR BAR AND BISTRO: BossMan (reggae), 10 p.m., $5.

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CHARLIE O’S: The Stereoﬁdelics (indie), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Benjamin Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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242 MAIN: 242 Main’s Annual Halloween Cover Show (rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BACKSTAGE PUB: The Blame (rock), 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Soulive, Nigel Hall (electro), 9 p.m., $16/18/25. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Telepath (indie), 9 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio featuring Paul Cassarino, Tracie Cassarino & Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Citizen Bare Halloween Bash with Gneiss, Coba Stella (rock), 9 p.m., $3. NECTAR’S: Sound of Urchin, Workingman’s Army (alt-rock), 9 p.m., $5. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Run for Cover (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: They Will Hate Us (acoustic), 9 p.m., Donations. Masquerade Ball with Durians (electro-acoustic), 10 p.m., Donations. POSITIVE PIE 2: Rough Francis, Villanelles, Casio Bastard, 10 p.m., $5. 18+. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Torpedo Rodeo (surf-punk), 10 p.m., Free.

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51 MAIN: The Dirtminers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Horse Traders (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

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BEE’S KNEES: Open Mic with Jay, 7:30 p.m., Free. THE BREWSKI: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 9 p.m., Free. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: The Hamiltones (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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haunted house One of my favorites from the new collection is the ﬁnal track, the hymnlike “Hope Begins in the Dark.” The song features a heavenly pairing of Blachly’s beautiful voice and that of her niece, India Laughlin. McCaffrey and Jeremiah McLane provide gentle backup on piano and cello, respectively. The tune showcases Blachly’s ability to write and perform a real gem. She’ll be appearing with many of the musicians who guested on All the Colors at a CD release concert this Friday, October 29, at the Bethany Church in Montpelier.

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Marshfield singer-songwriter Susannah Clifford Blachly’s “solo CDs” are never really solo flights. On her first three recordings, Blachly enlisted a talented mob of central Vermont musical friends and cohorts to join her on a wide variety of original acoustic music. Her new recording, All the Colors, provides more of the same, and includes many familiar names, including Blachly’s longtime singing partners Lewis Franco and Patti Casey, ubiquitous producer, musician and studio master Colin McCaffrey, and stringman/co-composer George White. White was a bandmate in Blachly’s last musical combo, Wagtail. Her compositions have recurring themes and textures. Blachly’s ongoing love affair with the five-string banjo has resulted in a number of compositions with a “bum-titty” Appalachian groove. Of the 13 originals here, “Bache Alone,” “Won’t Be Long” (both cowritten with White), “Canyon Dream” and the title track all have that Southern mountain feel. Blachly is also known for composing insightful songs about family and interpersonal relationships, and about how they change over time. Some halfdozen songs, including “It All Goes By,” “Reach for the Stars” and “Broken Girls,” are part sweet lullabye and part earnest therapy session. “Morning Prayer” also includes a sweet duet with Franco that recalls “Another Day,” the marvelous Blachly composition on her 2007 release, Come on Home.

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in a sweet, gruff baritone that exists somewhere in the space between folk-rock impresario Bobby Bare Jr. and legendary folkie Phil Ochs. Akin to his visual art, Azarian’s wordplay is deceivingly simplistic; adolescent, but somehow also worldly and weary. “Mexico” is next and seems to borrow the opening progression from Mazzy Star’s classic “Fade Into You.” Gary Newcomb’s swooning pedal steel gracefully frames Azarian’s gloomy musings. “Upside Down” is pitch-perfect, blue-eyed country soul. There is an endearing, if stunted, innocence to Azarian’s writing, fully on display here. But the singer contrasts his searching, straightforward prose with the album’s most ambitious and nuanced arrangement, particularly on the song’s driving outro, which features blooming steel lines over bright, staccato bursts from Knight’s cello. “Winter” is a curious highlight, especially considering that Azarian and Knight spend winters in Texas despite his claim in the song, “Winter is my favorite time of year.” Still, Azarian’s song, tactfully crafted and gleefully optimistic, may soften the impending blow in the Green Mountains for even the most ardent cold-weather cynics. $10 Adults, $7 Students/Seniors* “Feet on the Ground” is yet another *under 13 years must be deliciously offbeat number, dedicated to accompanied by an adult. the importance of keeping a level head amid life’s unending challenges. There’s Tickets at the door. something oddly reassuring in Azarian’s 802-249-0414 or unsophisticated delivery, almost like 802-476-3619 advice from your blue-collar father. “1000 Miles” is a touching ballad, and an album highlight — thanks in no 10/25/10 11:01:32 AM small part to Clare Surgeson’s bashful 6v-centralvtcommplayers102710.indd 1 backing vocals. “Knock’n on Your Door” is another rambling gem, featuring some of Azarian’s ﬁnest writing. Following the truly strange “Clementine,” Cross’n Over is laid to rest on a cello-driven, untitled instrumental, a beautiful elegy to a wondrously idiosyncratic record. Ethan Azarian plays Burlington’s Radio Bean this Friday, before the snowbird retreats to the warmer climes of Austin for the winter.

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Tabu Café & NighTClub: all Night Dance party with DJ toxic (top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

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1/2 louNge: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, moonflower & Friends (house), 7 p.m., Free. The bloCk gallery: Open mic, 1:30 p.m., Free. Club MeTroNoMe: Rubblebucket, Full tang (afro-rock), 9 p.m., $10/15. higher grouNd ShowCaSe louNge: project/ Object with ike Willis and Ray White (Frank Zappa tribute), 8:30 p.m., $17/20. aa. The MoNkey houSe: DJ Dakota Halloween Bash (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5. NeCTar’S: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. radio beaN: Hallowbean! with Dr. Gasp (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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higher grouNd ballrooM: indigo Girls, Lucy Wainwright Roche (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., $30/35. aa. The MoNkey houSe: Funerary call, Xiphoid Dimentia (indie), 9 p.m., $5. PariMa MaiN STage: Jazzed up mondays (jazz), 7 p.m., Free (18+). radio beaN: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. red Square: Hype ‘Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. rozzi’S lakeShore TaverN: trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free. rubeN JaMeS: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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blaCk door bar aNd biSTro: Extemporaneous storytelling (storytelling), 8 p.m., Free. laNgdoN STreeT Café: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

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Club MeTroNoMe: Bass culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.

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bee’S kNeeS: carmel mikol, Kim Wempe, Rosie macKenzie (roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Parker Pie Co.: DJ two tone (eclectic DJ), 8 p.m., Free.

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1/2 louNge: DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (hip-hop), 9 p.m. Club MeTroNoMe: Oh-J Freshhh presents Homegrown Wednesdays with DJ Dan (reggae/ hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. fraNNy o’S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. higher grouNd ballrooM: umphrey’s mcGee (jam), 9 p.m., $20/25/30. aa. leuNig’S biSTro & Café: paul asbell & clyde stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. lifT: DJs p-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. MaNhaTTaN Pizza & Pub: Open mic with andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

higher grouNd ballrooM: matt & Kim, Javelin, Fletcher c. Johnson (indie), 8 p.m., $16/19. aa.

The MoNkey houSe: am presents: sharon Van Etten, maryse smith, Brett Hughes, DJ Disco phantom (indie), 9 p.m., Free ($8).

higher grouNd ShowCaSe louNge: advance music acoustic singer-songwriter contest Finals (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free.

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Charlie o’S: That’s What she said (indie), 10 p.m., Free.

leuNig’S biSTro & Café: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

laNgdoN STreeT Café: Dr. Gasp Halloween! (freak folk), 3 p.m., Donations.

lifT: Karaoke … with a twist, 9 p.m., Free.

radio beaN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

The MoNkey houSe: Queer Night with DJ Gunner (house), 10 p.m., Free.

red Square: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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oN The riSe bakery: The Real Deal (r&b), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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bee’S kNeeS: Open irish session, 3 p.m., Free. Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. The brewSki: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. ye olde eNglaNd iNNe: corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.

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MoNoPole: Lucid (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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1/2 louNge: Heal-in sessions with Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. Club MeTroNoMe: Rubblebucket, Bearquarium, swale (afro-rock), 9 p.m., $10/15.

MoNTy’S old briCk TaverN: Open mic Night, 6 p.m., Free. NeCTar’S: tuesday Night Residency with Ray & Russ (psychedelic), 9 p.m., $5/Nc. radio beaN: Honky-tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red Square: upsetta international with super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.

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Charlie o’S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. laNgdoN STreeT Café: Day of the Dead with Watchpoets, shanty Rats, marvin and the cloud Wall (eclectic), 8 p.m., Donations. MaiN STreeT grill & bar: abby Jenne (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Slide brook lodge & TaverN: tattoo tuesdays with andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.

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51 MaiN: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. Two broTherS TaverN: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

ShelburNe STeakhouSe & SalooN: carol ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.

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greeN MouNTaiN TaverN: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

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hen you enter the front room of Burlington’s 215 College Gallery, the first thing you see is a small, crumbling house seemingly made of cinder blocks and situated under thin, fallen trees. Featured artist Linda E. Jones created the sculpture, inspired by a Haitian tomb, in the late 1980s. After exhibiting it at that time, she stored the work outside under a tarp for more than 20 years. Jones had nearly forgotten about the little house when she rediscovered it shortly after the Haiti earthquake in January. For the artist, the work took on new meaning, symbolizing the Haitians’ loss of shelter, safety, structure and life. The two rooms of Jones’ exhibition hold distinctly different works, yet themes link them. Destruction and the potential for healing are strong undercurrents in both the Haitian tomb installation and the digitally based works that surround it. The latter originate in the artist’s son’s MRI scans following a sports injury. In “Deciphering the Code I (Assessing the Damage),” an internal image of the body looking down from the shoulders, a bright cyan background lurks beneath bright white ovals (ribs) that frame a swirling plasm of blue, blob-like forms. In places, Jones painted looped groups of swirling red lines. To the right of the ghostly white spinal column, what seems to be a highlighted rectangular section features one organ colored black and pink — perhaps the “damage.” The MRIs are medical and detached, yet strangely intimate. They reinforce

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2010 ART HOP ORIGINAL JURIED SHOW WINNERS EXHIBITION: Works by Ida Ludlow, James Riviello, Sophie Eisner and John Brickels. November 1 through 30 at SEABA Gallery in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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ADAM DEVARNEY: Mixed-media collage paintings that unite the natural and urban worlds and comment on issues of social relevance, curated by SEABA. Also, the artist offers his first-ever limitededition print. Through November 30 at Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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DESTRUCTION AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALING ARE STRONG UNDERCURRENTS

ter around the damaged body, coupling an artist’s fascination with color and form and a mother’s fear. Together with the Haitian tomb, the works suggest the artist’s desire to ease the pain of others. They are tender, yet sharpened by the knowledge and fear of loss. A different series of Jones’ works picks up themes of death and regeneration. She found a log in the woods, broken open with a flat, white, disc-like fungus growing inside a narrow crevice along its length. The image inspired her; two works in this exhibition draw on the conical shape filled with stacked white discs. The first, a nearly three-dimensional wall-mounted work built into a thick

“Remembering Haiti”

IN BOTH THE HAITIAN TOMB INSTALLATION AND THE DIGITALLY BASED WORKS THAT SURROUND IT.

the physicality of the patient and the viewer, suggesting both our individuality and sameness. Perhaps because these are internal scans of a person intimately related to the artist, her painterly additions to them can give the sense of wringing hands; of an anxious person waiting for news of her loved one. The marks jump and flut-

wooden panel, seems to be a direct physical representation of her find. Jones drew a tree-bark-like texture over the surface of the panel and carved into it to create the funnel with stacked fungi inside. The fungi stand out several inches from the surface. The nubby wax material used to create the white discs is grotesque, while the waxed-rice-

‘AFTER DARK’: Images by local and international photographers that depict nighttime scenes. Through October 29 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

‘ART OF VSA VERMONT’: Sculpture and paintings by artists affiliated with the arts-and-disability organization; also, MELANIE ROSS: Photographs. November 1 through 29 at August First in Burlington. Info, 655-7772.

ART HOP GROUP SHOW: SUBARU-HYUNDAI: Paintings and photography on two levels. Through December 30 at Burlington Subaru. Info, 859-9222. ART HOP GROUP SHOW: VCAM/RETN: Photographs, paintings and mixed-media artworks. Through November 30 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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CARL RUBINO: “Peeling Paint and Little Puddles,” abstract close-up and macro color photographs of the two themes. Through October 30 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 518-946-7302. ‘CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE’: “The Tom Golden Collection,” a nationally touring exhibit featuring drawings, prints, photographs and collages that trace the careers of the husband-and-wife

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paper sheath surrounding them has an unnervingly transparent, skin-like texture. A brush stroke of red paint weaves over and under the wood-grain drawing, adding formal strength to the piece while obscuring its otherwise representational veracity. Nearby, an almost equal-sized drawing of the same subject on panel succeeds with nuance and elegance where the more direct piece explains too much. The drawing, “Fungus Tree,” is textural and richly wrought. The surface is scumbled, rubbed, brushed and layered with marks that reinforce the organic originality and beauty of the conical shape and composition of the companion piece. The red circle recurs, only here it is dynamic and strong, its relationship to the shape of the fungi an almost joyous celebration of the cyclical decomposition and regeneration the fungi may symbolize. Jones’ simplest work is her strongest. The paintings, the most eloquent translation of her experience, communicate her skill with material and imagery, and her resonant empathy for the world’s varied organisms. The Haitian tomb, the MRIs and the strangely regenerative fungi seem at first unrelated, yet each points to the essential connectedness of living things and our shared experience of brokenness and healing. A M Y R A HN “Sticks & Stones,” new mixed-media works by Linda E. Jones. 215 College Gallery, Burlington. Through October 31.

installation artists and convey the monumentality of their process and their work. Through December 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. DICK BRUNELLE: “Abstract Explorations,” paintings in watercolor and acrylic. Through October 30 at Mirabelles in Burlington. Info, 864-0989. DIMA GROZA & MIRANDA STEWART: Animal portraits in oil and acrylic. November 1 through 30 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.

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Dot Albelo: oil pastels that capture scenes from Vermont and beyond. Through november 16 at heineberg Community & senior Center in burlington. info, 863-3982. eben ernstof: neo-op drawings, curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 859-9222. ethAn AzAriAn & MelissA Knight: new paintings and fabric collages, respectively, by the husband-and-wife artists. Through october 31 at Rose street Artists’ Co-op in burlington. info, 454-8087. frAnK gonzAlez: works in mixed media inspired by the educator and philosopher John Dewey. Through october 30 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211. JAnet VAn fleet & eMiKo sAwArAgi gilbert: “All Aboard,” an installation of “train” cars created from found materials; and “Cornucopia,” an installation of found, manipulated branches, respectively. Through october 31 at Flynndog in burlington. JennA Kelly: large-scale artworks in a variety of media, including photography, prints and glass carving. november 1 through 30 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. JiM DuVAl & Justin Atherton: halloweeninspired paintings, prints and drawings. Through october 31 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. Jon gregg: Recent works on paper in oil stick with mixed media by the founder of the Vermont studio Center. open saturdays, during Mainstage shows and by appointment. Through December 31 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4505. leAD sAfety exhibit: Artwork about lead safety by burlington schoolchildren. Through october 31 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7598. linDA e. Jones: “sticks & stones,” constructions, paintings, digital prints and installation in mixed media explore the concepts of life from decay and shelter from the rubble. Through october 31 at 215 College gallery in burlington. info, 863-3662. lynn rupe: “urban habitat,” paintings that depict wild animals in city environments. Through october 31 at The block gallery in winooski. info, 373-5150.

new publiC Art DrinKing fountAin proJeCt in burlington: The Church street Marketplace, Department of parks & Recreation and burlington City Arts are issuing a Request for Qualifications from artists or a design team for a public art project. Deadline: December 1. Download the RFQ at burlingtonCityArts.org. Artists’ MeDiuMs gift show: seeking arts and crafts for our annual holiday gift show at Artists’ Mediums in williston, running november through January. info, 879-1236. ‘Color: the spiCe of light’: This exhibit is your opportunity to express nature in a manner that doesn’t necessarily express reality. Juror: bruce haley. Deadline: october 28. info, Vermontphotospace.com. sCene on the street: This contest asks photographers to submit images that capture the essence of candid street moments. Juror: ed Kashi. Deadline: november 26. info, vermontphotospace. com/ex9. Art on MAin in bristol seeks new exhibitors in a variety of media for holidays or beyond. no 2-D, please. Jury october 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Application: artonmain.net/ forms.html. CoMe show the CApitAl City whAt you’Ve got! The green bean Art gallery at Capitol grounds in Montpelier seeks artists for one-month

shows in 2011. booking on a first-come, first-served basis. Art must be professionally presented and customer friendly (no nudes or politics, please). send examples and inquiries to artwhirled23@ yahoo.com. Deadline: December 1

tAlKs & eVents robert gerhArDt: “life on the border: The Karen people of burma,” black-and-white photographs that document people who have been fighting a civil war for independence from the burmese military. Through December 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson state College. Artist talk: Thursday, october 28, 3-4 p.m. info, 635-1469. hAlloween night glowDooDle proJeCtion: At this interactive event, trickor-treaters create images by “painting” with light in front of a camera. The resulting doodles are projected onto the façade of the art center. sunday, october 31, 5:30-8 p.m., helen Day Art Center, stowe. info, 253-8358.

reCeptions 2010 Art’s AliVe festiVAl winners exhibition: works by John Young (first place); wendy James (second); and Kathleen Mcguffin (third and Moulton-steele emerging Artist Award); and elizabeth Cleary (Roberto Fitzgerald Award). Through october 31 at union station in burlington. Reception: Thursday, october 28, 6-8 p.m. info, 310-3211.

niCholAs heilig: “liquid lines,” traditional and digital paintings that explore the beauty of aqueous forms. Through october 31 at The green Room in burlington. info, 651-9669.

MArK ChAney: “guiding light,” images of “collected light” using Tritography, a blending of more than one digital image. Through october 31 at The skinny pancake in burlington. info, 304-1024.

pAM pezzullo & bob gAsperetti: The quilter and master furniture maker combine their wares in a bedroom vignette. Through october 31 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458.

MAry frAnCes o’Donnell: “Reflections,” color images by the Montréal-based photographer. Through october 29 at living/learning Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-7787.

rAChel KAhn-fogel: “inside out,” intensely colored paintings filled with objects of incongruous size and proportion. Through october 30 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-8937.

MiChAel strAuss: Recent high-chroma landscapes in acrylic and ink. Through october 31 at barnes & noble in south burlington. info, 865-2329. MiChAel DeMeng: Assemblages about the evolutions and revolutions of existence. Through november 20 at shelburne Art Center. info, 578-5763.

shAnley triggs: “barns of Vermont,” watercolor paintings. Through october 31 at penny Cluse Café in burlington. info, 893-1006. ‘sMAll, preCious, intense’: work by students in uVM’s advanced sculpture class. Through october 29 at Colburn gallery in burlington. info, 656-2014. stephen huneCK: A retrospective of the legendary Vermont artisan’s work, including copies of his books, block prints, furniture and sculptural pieces. Visitors can leave thoughts and remembrances in a miniature dog chapel, created for the exhibit in conjunction with his widow, gwen huneck. november 1 through 30 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458.

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steVe buDington: “homunculus” paintings and three-dimensional work depicting bodies that 1 unravel, fly apart and merge 16t-anjou090810.indd new ozark with prosthetic technolhandspun ogy, from gore-Tex to ipods. october 29 through January 1 at Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in burlington. Reception: Friday, october 29, 5-8 p.m.

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steVen p. gooDMAn: “bend in the Road,” recent landscapes in oil by the Vermont painter and photographer. october 29 through november 30 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. Reception: Friday, october 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 985-3848. betsy MelVin: “poetry of Trees,” photographs paired with the poetry of Robert Frost; also, her “once in a blue Moon” series of photographs features moonscapes. 16t-nido102710.indd 1 november 3 through 11 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. Reception: wednesday, november 3, 7-9 p.m.

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tArrAh KrAJnAK: “inch of Dust,” a photographic installation utilizing appropriated images of peruvians to explore and challenge how photography is used to characterize ethnicity and archive its meaning. Through December 11 at second Floor gallery, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, in burlington. info, 865-7165.

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‘the Art of horror’: A collection of “dark” works in a variety of media by 13 local artists celebrates the witching season. Through october 31 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, 578-2512. ‘we Art woMen: A ColleCtiVe show’: photographs, paintings and mixed-media work 16t-nightmarevt101310.indd 1 from Vermont’s newest all-female art co-op. november 1 through 27 at uncommon grounds in Channel 15 burlington. info, 865-6227. ‘wilD on My tongue’: A collaborative exhibition on the subject of lesbian sexuality consisting of 15 haikus by poet Judith Chalmer matted with charcoal nudes by Marie lapre’ grabon that were inspired by the poems. Through november 2 at The Men’s Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. ‘within the frAMe’: Vermont high school students exhibit photos that regard the world in dynamic compositions of line, shape, repetition and tone. november 1 through 12 at Vermont photo space gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686.

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niCholAs heilig: “oil & water,” pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the bp oil spill and illustrating violence and upheaval. Through october 31 at The Daily planet in burlington. info, 862-9647.

‘shADows of the sAMurAi’: Armor, swords, prints, masks and other artifacts representing Japanese warrior traditions. Through May 11 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.

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‘MetAls/MAteriAls/Culture’: students in uVM’s seminar in museum anthropology curated this exhibit composed of tools, weapons, artwork and currency from different cultures and crafted in brass, silver and copper. Through December 18 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.

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MArion guilD: “Dusty Drawings and Doodles,” drawings from the ’30s and ’40s by the essex Junction artist. november 1 through 30 at brownell library in essex Junction. info, 878-6955.

‘A wilD, unsettleD Country: eArly refleCtions of the ADironDACKs’: nineteenthcentury engravings, aquatints, lithographs and rare maps from the Adirondack Museum documenting the wilderness of the region before it became a tourist destination. october 29 through november 27 at lake placid Center for the Arts, n.Y. Reception: Friday, october 29, 5-7 p.m. info, 518-523-2512.

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MAKAsi siriwAyo: illustrations and photography. Through november 30 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107.

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Fall: A Caterpillar Tale

Katherine Roy has lived in many states and been to many countries, but currently resides in White River Junction, Vt., where she just graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can see more Caterpillar Tales and other work at www.caterpillarpublishing.com.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawn and Paneledâ&#x20AC;? is a collaboration between Seven Da ys and the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, featuring works by past and present students. These pages are archived at sevendaysvt.com/center-for-cartoon-studies. For more info, visit CCS online at www.cartoonstudies.org.

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AlenA BotAnicA: Through October 31 at Center Bakery in Waterbury Center. Info, 244-7500. ‘All for one’: A group exhibit featuring works in a variety of media by artists from Vermont, New Hampshire and beyond. Through November 1 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 299-1801. ‘Almost UtopiA: in seArch of the Good life in mid-centUry AmericA’: Historic photographs, text and audio from the Vermont Folklife Center that capture back-to-the-landers and their homesteads. Through November 12 at Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

noAh sinGh: “Sunshine State Forecast: Floridian Predictions,” similar yet contradictory forms in etched bones, assembled bits of everyday objects and performance. Through October 31 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 295-6370. oliViA pArKer: “Still and Not So Still Life,” photographs by the renowned photographer of ephemeral constructions that explore the possibilities of light. Through October 30 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Info, 698-0320. peter miller: “France in the Fifties,” black-andwhite photographs of Paris street scenes and a wine harvest in Margaux. Through November 3 at Peter Miller Photography Gallery in Colbyville. Info, 244-5339.

Amze emmons & rAchel Gross: Abstract images in silk-screen and woodblock-relief prints. Through October 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

plAinfield historicAl society photo exhiBit: “Images of the Past,” 50 photographs of historic Plainfield, 1880-1940. Through October 31 at Plainfield Community Center. Info, 371-7239.

BArBArA leBer: “Black, White and Color,” paintings by the local artist. November 1 through 30 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com.

‘QUe serA, hArtlAnd?’: Works in a broad variety of media by local artists that address human relationships with the environment. Through October 30 at Hartland Public Library. Info, 436-2473.

BArBArA leBer: “Trees & Birds,” acrylic paintings on board. Through October 31 at Red Hen Bakery & Café in Middlesex. Info, 223-0352.

‘rocK solid’: The 10th annual group exhibit features figurative carvings, abstract forms and assemblages as well as paintings that depict the qualities of stone, Main Floor Gallery; Axel stohlBerG: “Little Stories,” paintings, Second Floor Gallery; and JAne pincUs: “Tell Me a Story,” paintings, Third Floor Gallery. Through November 6 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

cArA Joy: “Joyful Hearts,” acrylic on canvas. November 1 through December 31 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. collin o’neil: “Indigenous Closeups,” photographs featuring a Tibetan yak-herding tribe and Peruvians in the Andes. Through October 31 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. ‘connections’: A group show in a variety of media that expresses physical and spiritual connections, in celebration of the gallery’s newly renovated space. Through November 13 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204. d’Ann cAlhoUn fAGo: A 75-year retrospective of works by the Bethel artist. Through November 24 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

‘doUBle exposUre: photoGrAphinG climAte chAnGe’: Images taken over two decades of Alaska’s glaciers and the Alps by mountaineer Bradford Washburn and Boston Globe photographer-writer David Arnold. Through November 28 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

JoAn feierABend: “Portraits in Two Visual Languages,” abstract oil paintings and realistic pastel drawings. Through November 19 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.

KAtie o’roUrKe: “Layers,” abstract acrylic paintings. Through October 31 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. lindA mAney & missy storrow: Works in water media on paper and canvas. Through October 30 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

Brett simison: “In Vermont,” black-and-white landscape photographs from an upcoming monograph documenting the state’s scenery, seasons and culture. Through October 31 at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. Info, 349-0072. cAmeron schmitz: “Moving Still,” photographs based on chance and place that appear to be painterly abstractions. Through January 1 at Inn at Baldwin Creek & Mary’s Restaurant in Bristol. Info, 870-7006. cynthiA GUild KlinG & John h. clArKe: “Forest & Field,” oil paintings and wood sculptures, respectively, by the Starksboro artists. Through November 15 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. eric nelson: “365: An Idea and the Reality,” composed of miniature sculptures carved from a 2-by-2-by-4-inch block of mahogany and completed one a day for a year; and “Three Years Passing,” photography involving the artist’s observations of pattern in the natural and constructed worlds. Through November 7 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. eriKA schmidt: “Astral Projection,” collages that explore open space and silence, influenced by Eastern philosophy and Indian mysticism. Through November 23 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1266.

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lorrAine reynolds: “What Remains,” mixed-media assemblages that speak to lost and forgotten things. Through November 20 at Seminary Art Center in Waterbury Center. Info, 399-8286.

‘Art & the GArden’: Two-dimensional work by Alena Botanica, Tessa Izenour and Rob Perry. Through October 31 at Rocky Dale Gardens in Bristol. Info, 453-2782.

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elizABeth nelson: “In Between,” new oil and mixed-media paintings that depict intersections in the natural world. Through October 29 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

‘the lAnd-the Art-the Artist’: Part of the “State of Craft Showcase Events” honoring the 20th anniversary of the Vermont Craft Council, this exhibit features works by seven of the state’s finest crafters: George Ainley (Windsor chairs); Susan Langley (woven baskets); Chris Sherwin (glass); Truddi Greene (quilts); Susan Leader (pottery); Cheryl Flett (fiber art); and Don Heurerman (wood carving). Through October 31 at Gallery at the Vault in Springfield. Info, 885-7111.

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denis VersweyVeld & JUdith rey: “Shelter:Dwelling:House:Home,” mixed-media artworks that explore the psychological and spiritual components of the places we call home. Through October 29 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5423.

stellAn wollmAn & ArthUr williAms: Oil paintings on canvas and board of New England landscapes and still lifes by the local artists. Through October 31 at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Info, 496-8994.

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‘Forever Fiber’: Stitched, woven and dyed wall hangings, baskets, felt sculptures, wearable art and more by fiber artists Deb Allen, Marsha Chase, Karen Henderson, Martha Loving, M.J. Russell and Tamara Wight. Through November 13 at Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. Info, 877-3850.

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Rubblebucket @ Club Metronome Joan Baez @ Flynn MainStage “The Shape of Things” (11/3-6) @ FlynnSpace The Headhunters @ Club Metronome Pedja Muzijevic @ UVM Recital Hall Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater: “Makhafinenyi Khyee - Lover’s Dream” @ Contois Auditorium From Brazil: Luísa Maita@ FlynnSpace Lyric Theatre: “Peter Pan” (11/11-14) @ Flynn MainStage “Concrete Kingdom” (11/11-14 and 11/18-21) @ The Off Center for the Dramatic Arts Julian Lage and Taylor Eigsti @ UVM Recital Hall “Who Taught J.S. Bach” @ The Cathedral Church of St. Paul Bryan McNamara & Souls’ Calling @ FlynnSpace Fight Fest 5 followed by DMX @ Winooski Education Center, Winooski Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble @ FlynnSpace Dailey & Vincent @ Flynn MainStage “Stand Up, Sit Down, & Laugh” @ FlynnSpace Pink Martini @ Flynn MainStage Chamber Music Vermont @ FlynnSpace Rubberbandance Group @ Flynn MainStage Ricochet Duo @ FlynnSpace Crooked Still @ UVM Recital Hall “What’s Alive Inside” (11/19-20) @ Main Street Landing Black Box Theater Wallace Roney Sextet @ FlynnSpace Rice Memorial High School: “Stunt Nite” @ Flynn MainStage Albany Berkshire Ballet: “The Nutcracker” (11/27-28) @ Flynn MainStage

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‘Friends bearing giFts’: An exhibit celebrating 40 years of acquisitions for the permanent collection purchased by Friends of the Art Museum, and featuring 40 diverse objects, from an ancient Chinese mirror to paintings by modern masters. Through December 12 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007. liza myers: “Starry Night Sunflower Moonlit Vista,” a 4-by-16-foot mural hanging on the outside of the gallery as part of the Brandon Artists Guild Sunflower Power summer exhibit. Through October 31 at Liza Myers Gallery in Brandon. Info, 247-5229. medana gabbard & gabrielle mcdermit: “Country Nostalgia,” figurative folk works, and “Of Earth and Sky: Reflections on a Pastoral Landscape,” paintings, respectively. Through October 31 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956. ‘moving images: Works of photography and video art from the permanent collection, including photographs by pioneering time-lapse photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Through December 12 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007. ‘our PeePs’: The museum’s first community art show presents photography, paintings, illustration and digital art by local artists. Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 434-2167. scott & Kelly FunK: New photographs celebrating the sights, lights and feeling of fall. Hours by chance or appointment. Through November 24 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434. sculPtures in the Form oF a chair: Students in the studio art program exhibit works that consider the idea of a chair from many perspectives. Through November 4 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168. ‘something WicKed’: The We Art Women Arts Collective captures the spirit of Halloween and Day of the Dead in a variety of media. Through October 31 at Studio V in Vergennes. Info, 349-2214. susannah draKe: The Cameron Visiting Artist and architect in a multidisciplinary design firm exhibits images of recent public projects. Through October 28 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168. ‘the hale street gang’: Large-scale blackand-white photographs of Randolph-area seniors by Jack Rowell accompany an audio version of memoirs they’ve been writing during a two-year project led by Sara Tucker. Through December 18 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

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‘Free range: animals in art’: Artworks befitting the theme by Cynthia Kirkwood, Carolyn Letvin, Linda Reynolds, Hannah Sessions, Brett Simison and others. Also, Janis sanders: The featured artist of the month shows bold, bright sea- and landscapes. Through November 7 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

‘the hand to hand ProJect’: Cecelia Kane, working with nearly 200 artists, chronicled the events of the Iraq War since its inception in March 2003 until the declared end of the combat mission, on August 31 of this year, with an installation of white cotton gloves, upon which were painted each day’s news headlines (except Sundays). Through November 20 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

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Warren Kimble: Contemporary abstracted paintings from the artist’s “Let the Sun Shine” and “Widows of War” collections. Through December 31 at The Gallery at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

Jim DuVal & Justin Atherton

Looking for a dose of humor with your horror this Halloween weekend? At Red Square, Burlington artists Jim DuVal and Justin Atherton exhibit paintings, prints and drawings that manage to be both gruesome and tongue-in-cheek. DuVal, a tattoo artist by day, features busty, undead beauties in his gleefully blood-splattered scenes. Atherton’s specialty, playfully pornographic drawings, were deemed a little too racy, so instead he contributes levitating zombies and cute, shadowy monsters. The work is up through October 31. Pictured: “Last Breath,” by Jim DuVal.

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ann young: Paintings of landscapes, portraits, interior scenes and subways in rich colors and conveying a sense of mystery. Through November 7 at Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Info, 586-8078. ‘autumn in vermont’: Meryl Lebowitz, Robert F. Aiken and Elisabeth Wooden exhibit paintings that depict the state’s foliage-season glory. Through October 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653. axel stohlberg: Paintings and drawings of local barns. Through October 31 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 839-8818. carrie bagalio: “Inner Landscape,” oil paintings that depict the “everyday” of the youth generation. Through October 31 at The Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-6007. ‘continuous threads: creative legacies oF the northeast Kingdom’: As part of the touring “State of Craft” exhibit, the featured artists show their works in basketry, printmaking, metal, rug braiding and more, and show where their mentors and inspirations came from. Through November 20 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158.

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ElizabEth allEn: “Color and Light,” oil landscape and still-life paintings. Through November 21 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. ‘ExposEd! 2010’: UVM sculpture professor Meg McDevitt curates the annual outdoor sculpture exhibit featuring the works of 19 local artists, as well as three international artists, on the gallery grounds and sites around town. Through October 31 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. handmadE lighting & FurniturE show: Functional art for the home, including tables in wood and salvaged steel by Bill Kreider and furniture and lighting by Steven Bronstein, Janna Ugone, Payne Junker, Greg Gehner and CostaTrujillo. Through December 6 at Stowe Craft & Design in Stowe. Info, 253-7677. ‘inspirEd by naturE’: One hundred paintings of Vermont landscape, created on Nature Conservancy preserves, honor that organization’s 50th anniversary and lisa ForstEr bEach: Watercolor landscape paintings. Through October 31 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

marK tougias: Landscape paintings inspired by Vermont and upstate New York by the regionally known artist. Through October 31 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

octobEr FEaturEd artists: Photographs by Lenny Christopher, paintings by Jim Foote and Melissa Haberman, and painted china by Kitten Ellison. Through October 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. rita blitt: “Passionate Artist, Passionate Gesture,” abstract drawings and sculpture by the New York artist. Through October 30 at Green + Blue Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-6798. robErt waldo brunEllE jr.: Recent paintings in oil and acrylic. Through October 31 at The Village Cup in Jericho. Info, 899-1730. rolF andErson: “Sweden: Going Home,” photographs, artwork and text exploring the artist’s Swedish ancestry. Through October 29 at Brown Library, Sterling College, in Craftsbury Common. Info, 326-4799.

marjoriE KramEr: The painter explores the tension between what we see and what we can invent with paintings of New York City and flower still lifes. Through November 6 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

VErmont watErcolor sociEty: A members’ exhibit juried by Vermont watercolorist Susan Wahlrab celebrates the organization’s 15th year. Through November 21 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

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54th national Fall opEn Exhibition: The center’s most prestigious show of the year features more than 200 juried works of art in a variety of media by artists from around the country. Through November 14 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. ‘statE oF craFt’: An exhibit of works in various media by Vermont’s master crafters in the studio craft movement, 1960-2010. Through October 31 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

Repetition, variation and layering are key to the Middlebury artist’s dual exhibition, Years Passing,” showing through November 7 at the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater. For “365,” Nelson created a 2-by2-by-4-inch mahogany sculpture each day like slightly humanized household objects, such as a voluptuous pair of scissors. Still more are miniature hybrid animals. “Three Years Passing” is composed of photographed patterns the artist observed in the man-made and natural worlds, zeroing Shown here: a detail from “365.”

‘FranK stElla: irrEgular polygons’: An exhibit marking the museum’s 25th anniversary presents one of each of the artist’s 11 monumental compositions for his 1965-66 series, along with preparatory drawings and other works. Through March 31 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.

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“Watching Strawberries in January is like listening to music. The orchestration is rich, and the lines dance with ease, precision and clarity—and above all, wit.” Calgary Herald

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Monica Callan, actor/ director/producer/educator as well as the originator of the annual Vermont Contemporary Playwrights Forum, will present her latest work, FREEDOM: 101. A solo stage play, it explores what being “free” can mean in the American landscape, and includes original film, music and video components.

One-acts and short films, some classic, some contemporary, some original, but all promise an evening that is poetic, deeply human, and often funny.

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max hEigEs: “The Juggler,” wood and steel sculpture by Dartmouth College’s studio art intern. Through December 2 at Barrows Exhibition Rotunda, Hopkins Center, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-3651. ‘natiVE amErican lEdgEr drawings From thE hood musEum oF art’: The acquisition from the collection of Dartmouth grad Mark Lansburgh (1949) is one of the largest of its kind in the country, and reveals through meticulous artworks the lives of 19th-century Plains Indians. Through December 19 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808. m

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François wishes life could be more like the movies. A frustrated screenwriter, he uses every event in his life as inspiration. He casts Sophie, his ex–flatmate–turned–lover –turned–friend, opposite Rober t—a univer sity professor. Ou t side Montréal, Sophie’s childhood friend Léa, who runs a B & B, claims she’s drowning in ‘too much fresh air and boredom’. A surprising, passionate encounter provokes her to seek out Sophie for a reunion. Their stories collide and inter weave with intriguing serendipity. Originally written in Québec French, the play won the Masque Award for Best Original Script.

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‘brEaKing through thE clouds’: A group show of works in a variety of media that express themes of experience, reflection and hope, and that combat the stigma related to those with mental illness. Sponsored by the National Alliance on the Mentally Ill of Champlain Valley. Through October 29 at North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604.

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michEllE turbidE: Mixed-media monotype prints using linoleum or handmade stencils, images inspired by nature. Through November 10 at Merchants Bank in South Hero. Info, 372-4222.

Kathy starK: Fourteen mixed-media paintings on panel by the Vermont artist. Through November 14 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

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movies Hereafter ★★★

lint Eastwood’s supernatural drama tells the stories of several characters who’ve lost loved ones or narrowly sidestepped death themselves. But, engaging as it is at times, it left me contemplating their plight less than that of the departed, who evidently spend eternity anxiously waiting by the metaphysical phone. Matt Damon plays a reluctant San Francisco psychic. He has only to graze the hand of the bereaved to be flooded instantly with messages from the other side. If there is life after death, I certainly hope it offers more recreational opportunities than this picture implies. It would be nice to think Damon might get a busy signal now and then, or at least be transferred to voicemail. The script is the work of the accomplished British playwright Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), who, according to reports, wrote it some time back following the death of a friend and shelved it. If I had to guess why he did so, I’d note that once-prominent TV psychics such as John Edwards have worn out their welcome and faded into relative obscurity. (Edwards’ site currently lists $750 as the price for a private “reading,” a fraction of what the con man would have commanded just a few years ago.)

Damon’s character, George Lonegan, is the anti-Edwards. He’s had the fame and passed on the fortune he could have made exploiting his gift, because he considers it a curse that keeps him from living a normal life and developing normal relationships. Despite pleas from his mercenary brother (Jay Mohr) to go for the big bucks, he drives a forklift in a factory. The screenplay interweaves his story Babel-style with several others. The Belgian actress Cécile de France plays a Parisian TV news reader who picks the wrong week to take a tropical vacation and is swallowed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. (If you see this film, by all means arrive on time; it’s a spectacular bit of cinematic wizardry.) She has a classic near-death experience — the white light, the waiting relatives, the feeling of profound peace. But, despite being a successful, highly educated journalist, she seems unaware that millions of other people have reported such sensations and decides to write a book about the conspiracy to keep the phenomenon a secret. Hmm. The movie has more players. Frankie and George McLaren play 12-year-old London twins separated by a momentary lapse in street-crossing skills. Richard Kind is an inconsolable fellow who’s just lost his wife.

DEAD ISSUES Eastwood’s latest deals with matters of life and death, but not in a way that ultimately matters much.

Bryce Dallas Howard meets Damon in a cooking class, discovers his secret, begs him to give her a demonstration, and then has a completely incomprehensible reaction when he gives in. Hereafter is directed with grace, beautifully shot and well acted, yet it disappoints for a number of reasons. It has nothing at all new to say about the afterlife; everyone’s seen depictions of near-death experiences, and Morgan’s is in no way atypical. Besides, science suggests such experiences are less related to what happens after life than to what the brain perceives in its final moments. There’s a rather significant difference. Then there’s the customary Hollywood cop-out with respect to George’s unusual talent. Why makers of supernatural movies feel the need to provide real-world medical

explanations for otherworldly abilities confounds me. Why can’t Damon simply possess an inexplicable gift? Presumably for the same reason John Travolta wasn’t permitted to have inexplicable intelligence and telekinetic powers in 1996’s Phenomenon. There always has to be some kind of a brain deformity or disease. Between the loose ends and lapses of logic, the latest from one of our greatest directors ranks as a lesser contribution to his filmography. His subject is one every human being will find compelling. His treatment of it, not so much. RICK KISONAK

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o, you’re an incorporeal entity of some sort, ghost or demon or whatnot, and you want something from a human family. (Never mind what you want; that would be a spoiler.) People don’t know you exist; they refuse to believe you can exist. How easy would it be to waltz into their nice suburban home and grab what you desire? Not easy, apparently. Not at all. Instead, you start by banging around in the cellar. Knocking the occasional pot off the kitchen rack. Making the mobile in the baby’s room turn by itself. Gradually, you escalate to bigger stuff such as slamming a door. An observer can only conclude that you, the source of paranormal activity, are hemmed in by all sorts of protoplasmic rules and regulations. Either that or you just enjoy messing with people. Wait, no — that’s the makers of this movie. Love them or hate them — and many do the latter — the genius of movies like Paranormal Activity and its sequel is that they get viewers off balance.

When we see a slasher or a zombie movie, or even a typical action flick, we know the rules of physics and psychology don’t apply. Those of us who are horror fans can witness all sorts of hideous mayhem — Saw 3D, anyone? — and still sleep fine. But watching this film, with its long, fauxdocumentary scenes of the Rey family going about its boring business — turning off the lights, putting the baby down for the night — we can’t help being lulled into a sense of order and security. Pans aren’t supposed to rattle. Doors can’t slam when there’s no wind. Right? If they do, something’s wrong. And it doesn’t matter that we know it was accomplished with Foley effects and wires. Movies like the Paranormal Activities are experiments in reconditioning jaded moviegoers to experience film the way they did when they were too young to trust stuff on the screen to stay there. Some are amenable to the manipulation and some aren’t, and some would simply rather not pay for it. But to those who actively enjoy being teased and tormented by their own fluctuating sense of what’s real, I can say this: Paranormal Activity 2 is the rare sequel that’s as good as the original. It’s actually a prequel. When we last saw Katie (Katie Featherston), the camera-shy protagonist of Paranormal Activity, she was not herself. This film takes us back several

GHOST ON THE MACHINE A California family discovers that high-tech security systems don’t protect you from supernatural entities in Williams’ sequel.

months to explore the parallel story of Katie’s sister, Kristi Rey (Sprague Grayden), who, as Katie mentioned in the first movie, also had paranormal experiences as a child. Now she has a family: a husband (Brian Boland), a teenage stepdaughter (Molly Ephraim), a toddler and a dog. Their story is told entirely through images captured by a camcorder (originally bought for Baby’s arrival) and security cameras the Reys train on their home after a mysterious break-in. Unlike the makers of the recent horror mockumentary The Last Exorcism, director Tod Williams doesn’t make the mistake

of using the sequel’s higher budget to pretty it up. He understands the power of poorly framed shots: They withhold information. The actors playing the family are low key and natural, even when the plot lurches into its hokey home stretch, and our suspended disbelief returns in full force. Even after that, you may find yourself ill at ease when you’re alone in the kitchen and hear a clinking sound. But, hey, this is reality. You know the rules. It’s the wind. Just the wind. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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BRAN NUE DAE: In 1969, an aboriginal teenager discovers love and liberation in a small town in this Australian musical scored by Jimmy Chi. With Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy and Geoffrey Rush. Rachel Perkins directed. (88 min, PG-13. Savoy) cAtFiSH: This controversial documentary demonstrates the odder things that can happen when you travel across the country to meet people you’ve only known on MySpace. Nev Schulman is the photographer who strikes up an Internet friendship with a fan and her family. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman directed. (94 min, PG-13. Palace) FREAKoNomicS: Vermont’s Eugene Jarecki directed a segment of this documentary that brings to life the best-selling book about how reality defies conventional wisdom, by “rogue economist” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morgan Spurlock and Alex Gibney are among the other directors. (85 min, PG-13. Palace) HoWl: James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg in this biopic focusing on the landmark obscenity trial that revolved around his title poem. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) directed. With Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels. (90 min, NR. Palace) SAW 3D: The seventh annual Saw installment promises to be more in-your-face than usual. Moralizing maniac Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has been dead for, like, three movies now, and his survivors are fighting to control his legacy. Maybe they should just set up a memorial foundation. With Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell and Gina Holden. Kevin Greutert directs. (91 min, R. Essex, Majestic)

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GEt loWHHHH1/2 Robert Duvall plays yet another ornery old coot in this 1930s-set drama about a loner who insists on throwing his funeral party while he’s still alive. With Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and Lucas Black. Aaron Schneider directs. (100 min, PG-13. Marquis)

it’S KiND oF A FUNNY StoRYHHH A stressed-out teenager (Keir Gilchrist) commits himself to a mental institution and bonds with an older

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liFE AS WE KNoW itHH Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel play a mismatched pair who find themselves raising someone else’s baby together in this comedy-drama from Greg (“Everwood”) Berlanti. With Christina Hendricks. (102 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe) mAo’S lASt DANcERHHH Bruce (Driving Miss Daisy) Beresford directed this biopic about Li Cunxin (Chi Cao), the Chinese ballet dancer who caused an international incident in the 1970s. (117 min, PG. Savoy, Welden; ends 11/1) micmAcSHHH A band of misfits who live in a junkyard take on a weapons manufacturer in the latest celebration of quirk, gadgets and pathos from French director Jean-Pierre (Amélie, Delicatessen) Jeunet. With Dany Boon and Dominique Pinon. (105 min, R. Savoy; ends 10/28) mY SoUl to tAKEH1/2 Horror impresario Wes Craven returns with this tale of a small-town serial killer who appears to have risen from the grave to murder teens born the night he died. With Max Thieriot and John Magaro. (88 min, R. Majestic [3-D]; ends 10/28) NEVER lEt mE GoHHHH A serene English boarding school hides a dark secret in this coming-ofage drama based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield play students. Mark (One Hour Photo) Romanek directs. (103 min, R. Palace) pARANoRmAl ActiVitY 2HHH1/2 The ending of last year’s surprise-hit mockumentary about a haunted tract house didn’t lend itself to a sequel, but here’s one anyway. Katie (Katie Featherston) is back, along with her inner demons. Tod Williams directs. (91 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Paramount, Roxy, Welden)

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JAcKASS 3DHHH At last, the film digital 3-D technology was made for. Johnny Knoxville and his friends hurl Port-o-lets and other stuff at the audience as they engage in yet another round of ill-advised pranks and stunts. With Bam Margera and Steve-O. Jeff Tremaine, who helmed the previous Jackasses, directs. (94 min, R. Bijou [2-D], Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis [3-D], Palace [2-D], Welden [2-D])

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H. ALIEN: RESURRECTION

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For more film fun watch “Screen Time with Rick Kisonak” on Mountain Lake PBS.