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He began his interrogation with: “I’m wondering why hish drummer Jon Fishman usually wears a doughyou’re such an awesome drummer.” nut-patterned muumuu onstage. Last week, when Said Fishman: “I’ve been playing for 42 years. If I it was his turn to testify before a House committee haven’t gotten somewhere on the instrument by now in Montpelier, he shed a black hoodie, revealing a slightly — I don’t know that I’m an awesome drummer. I know more formal green sweater. “This is as well-dressed as I that I’ve been doing it for 42 years. After 42 years, you can be,” he told the Statehouse crowd. get halfway decent, at least. So I’m probably halfway Our political editor, Paul Heintz, had dropped by to decent.” hear Fishman speak. The topic? Elephants, mostly. Heintz also wondered what led Fishman to tesThe Committee on Fish, Wildlife and Water tify, given his band’s relatively apolitical Resources was taking up a measure to history. Turns out two of his five children ban the sale and trade of ivory in the attend Shelburne’s Endeavor Middle state, and Fishman was in favor. “I understand that a big concern School, which took on the ivory legislafor the inconveniences that a ban tion as a pet project. ★ ★ ★ T H E S TAT E H O U S E S C E N E ★ ★ ★ “When you’re a parent, it’s kind of like on ivory would cause humans is the effect it might have on traveling muyou gotta put your money where your mouth is,” he told Heintz. “I can’t tell [my sicians,” said Fishman, who has played children] that they should support something or that on the road for 32 years. “I just can’t begin to tell you how crazy and absurd I think that is.” they should be mindful of their activities in the world if Heintz, who later interviewed the 50-year-old they ask me to participate in something and I’m not willCharlotte resident, did not hide his self-described “fanboy ing to participate.” Read Heintz’s entire post on sevendaysvt.com. tendencies.”

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I want to offer a point of correction to Ethan de Seife’s assertion that “the jurisdictional relationship between Cambridge and Jeffersonville is anything but clear, even to locals” [“Tempest in a Silo,” April 1]. It may not be clear to all locals, but it is clear. Jeffersonville, like Cambridge Village, is an incorporated village within the town of Cambridge. Cambridge is one of half a dozen or so towns that includes multiple incorporated villages. Next door to us, the village of Johnson is an incorporated village within the town of Johnson. Jeffersonville isn’t even unique in having a village name unrelated to that of the town: Wells River is a village in Newbury, and White River is in Hartford, to name but two. One further correction: On Town Meeting Day, residents of the town — which includes residents of the two villages as well as those of the surrounding township — cast votes. Residents of the village of Jeffersonville hold their village meeting in mid-May; only residents of the village of Jeffersonville may vote at that meeting. Residents of Cambridge Village hold their village meeting in late May, and only residents of Cambridge Village may vote at that meeting. In other words, there are three separate municipal entities at play here. While most town services are based in Jeffersonville village, it’s worth noting that

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I feel that art depicting Vermont life will be a welcome sight to the tourists and visitors to the area [“Tempest in a Silo,” April 1]. I pass these silos every day on my drive to work and think how depressing they look standing there in the empty field. How is painting them any different from the painted cows throughout Vermont or the iron “sculptures”? There are some things I object to, but art is never one of them. Especially when it makes a small tourist town even better! Jessica Lussier

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Over the years I have been dismayed and disappointed by some of the restaurant reviews your food-writing team has issued, but the recent review of Junior’s Rustico [“Roughly Rustic,” March 17] really put me over the edge, and I felt the need to write

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“Sacred Cows” [April 1] exposes a fragment of the problem. If we are to tackle water pollution reasonably, then all parties need to be held accountable. The producer, processor and consumer of dairy should take responsibility for the consequences their occupational and dietary choices impose on the tax base. Kathryn Flagg lays out the need for greater enforcement and better land management, and she omits how much this will cost the government and AN APP A DAY… TATT TALKS taxpayers in a time of deficit. Further, this theoretical money will be in addition to the epic farm bill already in place. How much money does the dairy industry need from the general public to police and engineer their business? Why do we not treat this enormous industry as a business? There exists a routine public outcry for an end to runaway government spending. Elected officials talk about the hard choices they face when cutting public programs to live within our means. The line item that sparks the most heated debate is education funding. I bring it up to highlight our fixation with school/property tax costs while we have no problem picking up the Lake Champlain tab for the dairy industry. The federal government dropped $1 million on the Vermont Agency of Agriculture to plant cover crops in addition to the $45 million federal response toward lake cleanup efforts. The real cost of dairy must include the enormous load it imposes on society before the industry calculates its profits.

to you directly. Over the years Seven Days has become a well-respected publication in our small community. Your journalists and contributors have become trusted sources for information and opinions. So I really struggle when I read an article that blasts a small business in such a painful and overt way. The author opens the review by saying that she started off the experience in a foul mood, then goes on to talk about how absolutely horrible the food at Junior’s was. Then she goes on … and on … and on — paragraph after paragraph about how awful everything about it is. My point? We get it! She didn’t like Junior’s Rustico. FURRY FURY I respect peoples’ opinions — I haven’t been to Junior’s, so I wouldn’t know — but the fact of the matter is that in a town as small as Burlington, writers have the power to make or break a small business with one review. I feel like the hurtful tone EGGERS’ BANQUET you take in articles like this one puts small businesses at risk of closing before the public gets to decide for themselves whether they want to spend their hard-earned dollars there. The disregard for citizens who are trying their best to make it in a competitive market really sours my view of Seven Days and the people who contribute to it.

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NEWS 14

Why Funding for Vermont’s AntiTobacco Efforts Is Going Up in Smoke

BY NANCY REMSEN

Can Suburban South Burlington Build a Real Downtown?

ARTS NEWS 22

Art, Activism and Identity Fuel the Fagbug Crusade

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BY ETHAN DE SEIFE

In Brief: An Arts News Roundup

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High Society

Culture: Readers clear the haze over Vermont’s cannabis culture

Calling the Shots

Sport: From tournament player to pool hall owner, Van Phan has minded her cues BY ETHAN DE SEIFE

Entrepreneurial Dream Team Sets Sights on Marijuana

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Field Work Fred Kirschenmann holds many titles — farmer, philosopher and award-winning author among them. The nationally recognized leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems has a 2,600-acre organic farmstead in North Dakota that influences his ideology. A visionary thinker, Kirschenmann lends his expertise to Vermont’s Table Speaker Series.

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When Gilberto Gil (pictured) performs, listeners catch a glimpse of one of the masters of Brazilian pop. Since his debut in the 1970s, the Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter and guitarist has helped shape and reshape Brazil’s musical landscape. The iconic performer stops off in Burlington as part of a national tour.

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Within months, Messina, Madrid and representatives of Baron & Budd were traveling to Vermont to discuss the potential litigation. In May 2014, Sorrell’s office signed a contract with the firm and several others to represent the state. Messina, Madrid and Summy did not return calls for comment. In the interview, Sorrell defended his decision to hire a company that contributed so much to his campaign, arguing that “the two other firms didn’t offer me a dime, and they have the same contract as the Baron & Budd folks.” He was referring to Weitz & Luxenberg and the Pawa Law Group, which also serve as outside counsel.

friends at Baron & Budd got that out of the way months before they signed the contract. As arrangements like these have proliferated throughout the country, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform has sounded the alarm. “Situations like these can enrich lawyers at the expense of taxpayers and raise concerns about ‘pay-to-play,’ conflicts of interest, the use of a public entity for personal gain and fairness in prosecutions,” said ILR spokesman JUSTIN HAKES. “That’s why a growing number of states have recently taken action to limit outside contingency fee counsel arrangements by state attorneys general.” Whether Vermont’s outside firms will make a dime in this particular case remains an open question. In a January decision that went unnoticed in the press, Judge MARY MILES TEACHOUT dismissed a major argument set forth by the state, imperiling its case. Exxon, one of the 29 defendants, argued that the state was well aware of the harm caused by MTBE outside of the state’s six-year statute of limitations. After all, Vermont passed a law banning the stuff in 2005 — and New Hampshire filed its suit, which was well publicized, in 2003. Vermont didn’t get around to suing until July 2014. Teachout largely agreed, writing that the state “indisputably discovered this generalized injury more than six years ago.” Therefore, she ruled, Vermont would have to come up with specific instances in which it discovered MTBE contamination within the past six years. “We respectfully disagree with the decision,” said assistant attorney general SCOT KLINE. The state has filed a motion requesting permission to immediately appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court. DAVID CLEARY, a Rutland attorney who is not involved with the case but who has followed it closely, said he was surprised when Sorrell filed suit last summer, given “the significant statute-of-limitations issue.” “Why the heck didn’t you file this suit a long time ago?” Cleary wonders. One answer, according to a report issued by the Institute for Legal Reform, is that the “jackpot verdict” Pawa reached in the New Hampshire case has led to “the newest trend” in plaintiffs’ firm litigation: MTBE copycat suits. “Did somebody meet him at one of those cocktail parties and say, ‘This is the time to bring it’?” Cleary asks. Whether anybody will answer that question — and determine whether Sorrell’s campaign contributions played a role — remains to be seen. So far, his fellow Democrats are keeping their distance.

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Sorrell did not mention that a fourth firm was included the state’s contract: the Law Office of L. Michael Messina. According to the terms of the contract, the four firms stand to collect 25 percent of any money Vermont makes off its MTBE lawsuit. Of that, 40 percent would go to Baron, 40 percent to Weitz, 12 percent to Pawa and 8 percent to Messina. Eight percent of 25 percent may sound pretty small, but it’s not in the world of MTBE litigation. Just two years ago, Pawa helped win an eye-popping $236 million verdict in a similar suit New Hampshire brought against Exxon Mobil. It’s currently being appealed. The Granite State previously settled with other refiners for $136 million, of which $35 million went to outside counsel. Asked Tuesday why he’d neglected to mention that Messina was getting a slice of the pie, Sorrell said via email, “I was unaware Mike Messina is mentioned in the contract.” As for what the broker was contributing to the lawsuit other than connecting Sorrell to the plaintiffs, the AG said, “I do not know which of the private counsel are responsible for what.” Like most state contracts, this one bars the contractors from giving “any thing of substantial value … to any officer or employee of the State during the term of this Agreement.” Of course, Messina and his

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Asked last week who is in charge of enforcing the laws against Vermont’s chief law-enforcement officer, Gov. Peter Shumlin dodged the question several times, concluding with, “You research it and get back to me.” Secretary of State Jim CondoS, meanwhile, said he did not plan to investigate whether Sorrell committed unrelated campaign finance infractions, which Seven Days documented last week. “Our office serves as a filing cabinet for campaign finance reports and does not have any investigatory or prosecutorial powers,” Condos wrote in an email. “Given this, when individual instances of possible noncompliance are brought to our Office’s attention we recommend that anyone who suspects a violation report it to the Attorney General’s Office directly.” We’ll get right on that.

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Gov. Shumlin is one courageous dude, he’d like you to know. Three months ago, he proposed raising $90 million through a new, 0.7 percent payroll tax. Much of that, plus another $100 million in federal matching funds, would go to undercompensated medical providers who treat Medicaid patients. Since those docs would no longer have to shift costs to the privately insured, Shumlin argued, everyone’s premiums would become more affordable. “What I was trying to do was solve this problem that no politicians have yet had the courage to solve,” Shumlin proclaimed last week with characteristic modesty. “And I think we should solve it.” But as he’s noted several times in the past few weeks, his Democratic colleagues in the legislature aren’t nearly as courageous as he sees himself. In March, the House Health Care Committee cut Shummy’s plan to $47 million and proposed paying for it with a smaller payroll tax and a new tax on sugarsweetened beverages. Weeks later, the House Ways and Means Committee cut it to $22 million and got rid of the payroll tax altogether. The resulting legislation, Shumlin told Vermont Press Bureau chief neal GoSwami, is “really miniscule, and it does nothing to address the cost-shift.” “Their bill will not make a dent in the problem we’re trying to solve together. Everyone agrees we’ve got to fix the costshift,” he said, before pulling out the C-word again. “Well, let’s have the courage to fix it.” Translation: If you don’t do what I say, you’re a wuss. House Speaker ShaP Smith (D-Morristown) didn’t much like Shummy’s courageous rhetoric. In an interview last week, he said the governor’s inability to pass the centerpiece of his legislative agenda was nobody’s fault but his own. “I think that the proposal the

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administration put on the table in the first instance did not hold together,” the speaker said. “And as a result of that, it was dead almost before it started.” The problem, Smith argued, was that not all the money Shumlin proposed raising through the payroll tax would have gone toward addressing the cost-shift. Some of it was earmarked for other health care expenses that Smith thought should’ve been in the base budget. “It didn’t add up to the rhetoric that was used around it,” Smith said. “The notion that the dollars raised were going to go back into Vermonters’ pockets didn’t end up bearing out.” Shumlin, who opposes taxing sugar-sweetened beverages, hasn’t explicitly said he would veto the House bill if it reaches his desk, but he might not need to. Since it limped out of Ways and Means two weeks ago by a six to five vote, the measure has been stuck in purgatory — better known as the House Appropriations Committee. “I think we’re still working to make it the right bill,” said Rep. mitzi JohnSon (D-Grand Isle), the committee’s chair. “It’s no big secret that it has struggled.” House leaders are reluctant to bring even the smaller health care bill to the floor, where Republicans and Connecticut River Democrats opposed to the sugarsweetened beverage tax might vote it down. “It’s on pause,” Ways and Means chair Janet anCel (D-Calais) said diplomatically. Even if the bill cleared the House, it wouldn’t stand a chance in the Senate in its current form. “I don’t think the Senate will pass the sugar-sweetened beverage tax, nor do I believe it will pass the payroll tax,” said Sen. tim aShe (D/P-Chittenden), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee. “Unless or until a majority of the Senate appears interested in them, they don’t appear to be moving.” Asked at a Statehouse press conference last week whether a single member of the Senate supported his payroll tax proposal, Shumlin said, “You’d have to ask them.” But did the governor know of any? “I’m going to let them speak for themselves,” he responded. “But, listen … I mean, if you’re asking the question, ‘Is it easy in public life not to take on tough challenges?’ the answer is yes.” Ah, right. Courage. Sounds kind of like the governor who spent five years promising to pass the nation’s first single-payer health care system, only to lose his courage last December when its financing plan came due. As he said three months earlier at his reelection campaign kickoff, “I was elected to get tough things done, and this may well be the toughest, but I will not rest until it is done.” My, how fleeting this courage is. m

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n 1998, Attorney General Bill Sorrell announced that he and his counterparts in 45 other states had reached a landmark deal with cigarette companies. The states had sued to recover the cost of providing health care to smokers. Under the agreement, Vermont would receive between $24 million and $30 million every year in perpetuity. Since then, Vermont has reaped more than $500 million, and the state will get millions more as long as the tobacco companies stay in business. Most of that money goes to Medicaid to cover the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses of low-income Vermonters. The rest finances state programs to discourage tobacco use and a trust fund to ensure their viability. Yet since the Great Recession, settlement money bound for the trust fund and smokingprevention programs has been steadily raided to help balance the state’s budget. The amount allocated for smoking prevention has dropped from a first-year high of $6.5 million to $3.7 million. Now Gov. Peter Shumlin’s proposed budget for next year would essentially defund the independent board that oversees the state’s tobaccocontrol initiatives; instead of getting $224,000 to carry out its work, the Vermont Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board would receive $25,000, eliminating the tobacco board’s paid administrator and the experts who help evaluate the state’s tobacco-control programs. The governor’s plan would also drain a trust fund that five years ago was valued at more than $30 million. It’s since dropped to $836,205. “It shocked all of us,” said Rebecca Ryan, an official with the American Lung Association of the Northeast. How did the independent body that oversees and evaluates anti-tobacco initiatives wind up on the chopping block? In 1999, then-governor Howard Dean and the legislature appointed a task force — which consulted national experts and held seven public forums — to determine how Vermont should put the windfall of tobacco proceeds to use. It recommended dividing the money in thirds between Medicaid, the trust fund, and the state’s prevention and cessation programs. “Again and again at the forums, task force members heard Vermonters say they didn’t want all the program decisions to come from the legislature or from a state agency,” the task force report stated. “They didn’t want the annual settlement money to be raided for tax cuts

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additional contributions. The state treasurer invested the money, which grew to $30 million by 2005. That’s when annual settlement payments, which are tied to cigarette sales, started dropping, and former governor Jim Douglas’ administration started tapping the fund’s annual investment growth to make up the difference. For four years, the fund maintained a $30 million balance. Then in 2009, mid-recession, lawmakers authorized taking more than it was earning. Ted Marcy, a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine and longtime member of the tobacco evaluation board, said he was disappointed, but not surprised. “It was sitting there like a cookie jar full of cookies,” he said. The depletion continued even when Vermont started receiving an additional $12 million a year from cigarette makers in 2008 — part of a 10-year deal for states that were key players in the tobacco lawsuit. Vermont has directed all the extra money to Medicaid, but in two years those payments will stop. “It is a $12 million problem waiting for you to solve,” Stephanie Barrett, associate fiscal officer to the legislature, advised the House Appropriations Committee last week during a briefing on the tobacco trust fund. In 2013, lawmakers directed the Shumlin administration and the Vermont Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board to come up with a three-year funding plan “to maintain the gains made in preventing and reducing tobacco use.” Legislators agreed to the board’s recommendation to give anti-tobacco programs $3.9 million annually through next year. The deal didn’t last long. In mid2014, the administration and lawmakers trimmed $68,000 of the board’s funding, and they maintained the reduced level this year. The board’s current budget is MIC HA $224,698, which includes $90,000 EL T ON N for the salary and benefits of the administrator and $120,000 for its contract with RTI International, the firm that evaluates state programs. Shumlin’s proposed cuts would put board administrator Kathryn O’Neill and RTI out of their jobs and rely on the Vermont Department of Health to or for other non-tobacco-related programs, however evaluate the state’s tobacco-control programs, which worthwhile.” include television campaigns, a smoking-cessation The task force called for an independent board to hotline and website, nicotine-patch giveaways, anadminister the tobacco-prevention programs to assure tismoking education in schools, and enforcement of their effectiveness. sales restrictions. State Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen In 2001, the legislature created the independent Vermont Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board but defended the governor’s recommendation, calling abandoned the three-way split in favor of allocating attention to the $113 million revenue shortfall state about two-thirds of the money to Medicaid. It created government faces in the coming year. “One of the a trust fund and banked $19.5 million from the first things government has to do in times of shortages is couple of settlement payments but never made any look at what is the most effective use of dollars,” he

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swath of woods in the center of South Burlington could soon give way to something novel for the sprawling suburb: a real downtown. After 30 years of discussion, momentum is building around a proposal to develop a hub along the east side of Dorset Street, where people would live, stroll and shop. Plans are in the works for a 300,000-square-foot mixed-used building on Market Street; work on roads and parks in the 106-acre downtown zone between Williston Road and Dorset Street is set to start in 2016; and a pivotal bond vote is expected this year that would provide crucial financing for the project. But the proximity of Burlington’s already-thriving historic downtown just a few miles away raises the question: Should South Burlington even bother? Yes, say supporters, including former South Burlington city councilor Paul Engels. “We want to build an attraction,” he said. “We want downtown South Burlington to be a place that people come to when they come to Vermont, just like Ben & Jerry’s or Church Street.” University of Vermont assistant professor Abby Crocker likes the idea of a well-designed, pedestrian-oriented downtown that would strengthen South Burlington’s identity. “We don’t want to be the town that’s overlooked all the time,” she said. When South Burlington broke off from Burlington 150 years ago, it left behind the historic center of the region and saw no need to create its own. Then as now, many residents of South Burlington headed to the Queen City to shop, dine and attend parades, concerts and speeches in City Hall Park. As South Burlington shifted from rural outpost to suburb in the mid and late 20th century, strip development proliferated along its Williston Road and Shelburne Road arteries. The University Mall consumed South Burlington’s core and attracted shoppers from around the region. Development followed the car-centric pattern that dominates many U.S. suburbs. The concept of constructing a city center first came up in the 1970s, according to Paul Conner, South Burlington’s director of planning and zoning. It became official in the city’s

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1985 comprehensive plan, which recommended that the burg “should investigate the establishment of a centrally located, multipurpose municipal center to serve as a focal point and to displace strip development.” It also argued for “a Master Plan of the Dorset Street area and ... recommendations toward establishing a City Center.” Now the $300 million project might finally happen as financing and political backing coalesce. In recent years, the city council has repeatedly voted to affirm the downtown concept and, most critically, seek funding. The city has spent more than $1 million — much of it grant money — on planning. Two years ago, South Burlington won state approval to create a tax-increment financing district for the City Center area,

which will allow the city to use tax dollars from private development in the zone for infrastructure such as parking garages, sidewalks and street landscaping. In March, the Vermont Economic Progress Council gave the project another big boost: It approved the city’s final TIF financing plan and allowed that money to fund the construction of public buildings in the zone — a first in Vermont. “They agreed that a vibrant and successful downtown is one that has a public presence,” said Conner. The project could include a public library, ending the current arrangement whereby residents have to borrow books from South Burlington High School. Other ideas for the downtown include a recreation center and a new city hall. Public buildings illustrate the difference between historic city and suburb. Burlington’s city hall — with its marble stairways, fancy plasterwork and gold cupola — suggests a building of import where democratic ideals are showcased. By contrast, the South Burlington municipal building is an oddly shaped, no-frills affair located near the on-ramp to I-189. “It looks a lot like a 1960s fallout shelter,” Engels said. He’d like something more impressive at the proposed City Center.

Private developers would build most of the South Burlington downtown. If fully completed, the project could generate about $100 million in new tax revenue. Some $55 million would be harnessed to help pay for infrastructure, public buildings and possibly a bikepedestrian bridge over Interstate 89. Ultimately, it’s up to voters, who will likely see multiple bond questions over the next 20 years if the downtown is to be fully built. “We’re not going anywhere without voter approval, so we’re going to have to convince people that we’re doing the right thing,” Engels said. South Burlington is not the first suburb to try to design a downtown. Many communities have attempted New Urbanism and anti-sprawl development with mixed results. But it’s still good to try, said James Howard Kunstler, the Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based author of The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. “Any attempt to create a coherent center is probably a good thing, depending on the design intelligence brought to the task,” said the famously anti-car Kunstler. What does Kunstler think of the 100acre South Burlington plan? “A hundred acres seems like a lot unless you are

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both sides of Market Street. The company has a parcel under contract with Saxon Partners, a Hingham, Mass.-based developer that is vying to construct one of the first downtown buildings — a 300,000-square-foot structure with

Some neighbors worry traffic will “fly” down new connector roads. Others want to make sure it has a city green, dedicated bike lanes and solar panels on roofs. Three-story height limits would be best, said one resident, while another wants at least one building to be tall enough to provide dramatic views of the surrounding landscape. Another piece of the puzzle: One of South Burlington’s three elementary schools sits on 11 acres of the City Center zone. Saxon Partners wants to buy the Rick Marcotte Central School property and build a 45,000-square-foot shopping center that would help fund the downtown-style building the company wants to erect on Market Street. The city and school district ar e exploring all the options: keep the school, shift the students to another building or construct a new school. Abby Crocker, the UVM professor, who is also a parent, might support selling the school if she felt confident about both the replacement plan and the promise of a new downtown. She wouldn’t want to lose the school for a big-box retailer or something like Maple Tree Place in Williston, which has downtown-style, multistory buildings but is surrounded by box stores. “That’s not a downtown,” Crocker said. Former city councilor Engels predicts that public support for the project will grow: “When people get onto the idea that it is not going to be just another suburban mall, that we really are serious about having a 21st-century city, I think they’ll get on board.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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retail on the ground floor and residential above. Tim McKenzie of South Burlington Realty said the design would be consistent with the downtown vision. “I think there’s a lot of people in MO LL the city of South Burlington that would like to have a greater sense of identity, a greater sense of community,” he said. “Kind of a downtown focal point where civic activities could happen, so instead of remaining a bedroom community to Burlington we’d have our own cultural, civic-type center.” The proposed form-based code allows buildings up to six stories tall. That’s not a skyscraper, McKenzie notes, and he believes the end product would mesh well with its environment. “This is South Burlington, Vt.,” McKenzie said. “It’s not Boston or New York.” The city gathered public comments about the project, and responses vary. w

to Hinesburg Road and would undergo a $9.3 million reconstruction next year if voters OK the bond. The largest single-property owner in the zone is South Burlington Realty, which has about 35 acres of prime real estate on

unduly preoccupied with surface parking, which will not be a big feature of life in the future,” said Kunstler. “You could fit most of the center of Florence, Italy, in 100 acres, so the public needs to be wary of grandiose schemes.” Another quibble: The renderings show multiple parking decks, which Kunstler said are a mistake. “I wouldn’t spend a fucking dime on a parking garage,” he said. Zoning is another issue. South Burlington is considering adopting new building standards — called form-based code — that discourage box-store development. The approach, which is being considered in Burlington and other Vermont municipalities, emphasizes strict design standards that adhere to a specific aesthetic. According to the current form-based code proposal, parts of the zone call for doors every 30 feet and the extensive use of glass on the ground floor — design specs that promote storefront appeal. “We want glass on the first floor and either offices or apartments above, to look like Burlington looks on Church Street,” Engels said. “An old-fashioned city.” Still, City Center’s proposed zoning favors residential over retail: 1.3 million of the 2 million total square feet are residential; the rest is zoned for office, retail and municipal uses. Private developers own most of the City Center land. The city owns the 7.65-acre Dumont Park and wants to revamp the space near wetlands and Hinesburg Road, possibly next year. The city also owns the land under Market Street, which winds from Dorset Street

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hen Will Raap was building Gardener’s Supply into a successful business three decades ago, he met regularly with a few other young Vermont entrepreneurs. They traded tips and talked about how to balance money and mission. Alan Newman, who worked for Raap and went on to found Magic Hat Brewing, was among them. So was Hinda Miller, who helped invent the first sports bra. “We spent 10, 15, even 20 years hanging out together once every month or two trying to figure out how to make business in Vermont,” Raap said. “It was really like, ‘Let’s do business a different way, but how do you do that?’” Now those same entrepreneurs are hanging out again, but this time they’re talking about marijuana. A dream team of six seasoned CEOs — almost all of them old enough to join AARP — is trying to figure out how their alternative business philosophy could be applied to commercial cannabis. Vermont lawmakers appear poised to legalize recreational use as soon as next year, in which case there will be plenty of money to be made. The RAND Corporation estimated earlier this year that Vermonters bought between $125 million and $225 million in marijuana on the black market in 2014. “This is a culture-changing phenomenon that’s coming through America. This is a pivotal moment in time,” said Michael Jager, who last year transformed Vermont’s hippest marketing and design company, JDK, into another one: Solidarity of Unbridled Labour. “Vermont is perfectly suited to do it well.” Jager and his five fellow “steering committee members” have formed the Vermont Cannabis Collaborative, through which they hope to position the state to create a legal marijuana industry “the Vermont way.” They readily admit that it sounds a bit nebulous. “We are figuring it out as we go,” Raap said — just like 30 years ago. Meantime, there’s a vision statement, a brochure and a website. “We see Vermont as the East Coast Cannabis Center of Excellence supporting a thriving business cluster by 2020,” the statement says. Marketing ace Judy MacIsaac Robertson, founder of maple syrup company Highland Sugarworks, and Dan Cox, founder of java-testing Coffee Enterprises, are also part of the group. When his co-collaborators talk about the “Vermont way,” Cox balks: “I said, ‘What the hell is that?’” He calls himself the killjoy of the collaborative. Raap has an answer: “It has to do with things which would be Vermont-like. Organically produced, smallscale, high-quality clusters of businesses that collaborate together but don’t dominate any one business.” Marijuana is the perfect challenge for these business brains, who have collectively built, helped build or rebuilt more than a dozen companies in Vermont. The rules of the pot industry have yet to be written.

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Some members of the group hope to start their own cannabis businesses. Raap has registered two companies related to grow-at-home medical marijuana. Others, including Newman, say they have no plans to do so. None of the members has any interest in selling marijuana, but they hope to work with others who do. All of them claim that their focus is not to make a buck, but to help Vermont get marijuana right. “If money could be made, great,” Raap said. “Much better would be hundreds of new businesses. This is an economy that could either be dominated by a few really big guys or could be distributed like the local food business or the craft-brew business.” “We’re trying to keep out big corporations,” said Robertson. The collaborative doesn’t want Vermont to legalize marijuana the way it happened in Colorado. The first state to legalize recreational use of marijuana has seen an explosion in the number of pot shops, confusion over the strength of edible products and an industry that operates on a cash-only basis because of federal banking laws. Raap likens the situation there to the “Wild West.” Members of the Vermont group don’t know if the Center of Excellence they envision would be a single building or a concept. They picture a plethora of independent businesses developing to produce, test, experiment with, teach about and sell high-quality marijuana products. With a few tweaks in state law, perhaps one of the state’s colleges could host a cannabis research center, Raap suggested. Each member of the collaborative brings a business expertise that could come in handy, but none has an ounce of experience in the marijuana field.

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Raap and Robertson have both excelled in packaging and marketing agriculture-related products. Cox’s Burlington-based Coffee Enterprises tests for all kinds of chemicals in coffee, which could just as easily be applied to products that contain THC — the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Miller, who served 10 years in the state Senate, has experience in shaping legislation. The details of what’s signed into law could have a dramatic impact on what businesses develop. The regulations Newman faces in the beer business could provide valuable insight for creating sensible regulations in the marijuana industry. Jager, who was instrumental in branding and building Burton Snowboards, understands how to market the Vermont name. “We all have pieces of the puzzle,” Raap said, but each is likely to ply his or her trade differently. Newman said he has no interest in running a marijuana business. He’s too busy building four craft breweries in a partnership with the Boston Beer Co., the company best known for Samuel Adams beer. But he has strong ideas about transforming the marijuana economy from black-market to legitimate, and he’s offering his expertise to help make that happen. “Cannabis is an agriculture-based product that could really fuel Vermont’s economy,” Newman said. Miller looks at her role as helping to craft legislation that fosters a small-scale, Vermont-centric recreational marijuana industry. She’s already been to the Statehouse to offer her input to her former Senate colleagues.

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Sen. Jeanette White (D-Windham) said the collaborative is welcome at the table, but she noted that legislators plan to consult with lots of others as they work toward legalization. White’s Senate Committee on Government Operations has been meeting weekly throughout the session to work on legislation, with an eye toward passage next year. Other collaborative members are looking to open their own cannabis businesses if Vermont legalizes marijuana — or perhaps even before then. Cox was in California last week visiting a marijuana testing facility. “I’m not making a commitment. I’m just doing my homework,” he said. He’s finding that marijuana presents some interesting business challenges. Federal law prohibits it from crossing state lines, so each state that legalizes medical or recreational marijuana is required to have its own testing facilities. Cox has already asked his bank whether it would cash a check written by a pot-related business. His banker said yes, as long as he’s only testing medical marijuana, he said. When he consulted with his insurance agent, Cox said, “It took a month for him to get back to me to say Lloyd’s of London will offer coverage. I’m going, That’s going to be through the nose.” Raap, who is now chairman of the employee-owned Gardener’s Supply, said he’s long sold equipment to those who grow marijuana. He just hasn’t been able to market it that way. He’s about to launch two companies that would sell equipment and advice to people who grow their own marijuana, but he’s still trying to figure out how to navigate the legal terrain. Robertson’s college-age son has lined up an internship with one of Raap’s new businesses. “This is bringing him back to Vermont for the summer,” she said. That’s exactly what she hopes a vibrant cannabis industry would do: lure young adults to live in ever-aging Vermont.

The collaborative is hardly the first group to look at the landscape and see opportunity in the marijuana industry. Across the country, organizations are putting on seminars for would-be profit makers. Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, said some of those who enroll are naive about the challenges. “Some of [the courses] are designed to draw people who are looking to get rich quick,” she said. People often don’t realize how long it takes states to set up medical or recreational marijuana programs after legalization, she said. That usually means it will take longer than expected for a new business to make money. The Vermont Cannabis Collaborative is also not the first to wade into the marijuana business in Vermont. Eleven entities have already registered in Vermont that have the word “cannabis” or “marijuana” in their name. The state’s four medical marijuana dispensaries have all had to navigate how to grow, test and sell a product that is legal only to their clients. “They’re the ones that put their necks out there,” said Virginia Renfrew, who represents the four dispensaries through the Vermont Cannabis Trades Association. Renfrew said she hopes anyone getting involved in the Vermont marijuana industry won’t try to push the medical dispensaries aside. But she agrees with the collaborative’s idea of a customized approach. “We need to do it in a really thoughtful way,” she said. “How is this best for Vermont, so we don’t have 25 retail shops in downtown Montpelier?” Raap concurs. “It’s happening all over the country. It’s happening in craziness, but it also can happen in logic,” he said. “The Vermont Cannabis Collaborative is about, How do you bring a logic to this that is a Vermont logic?” m

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On Monday, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger presented the city council with an 18-point plan for solving the Queen City’s affordable housing crisis. The mayor has said it’s a top priority of his second term. His administration has been working on the plan — with input from city councilors and members of the public — for roughly a year. Earlier drafts proved controversial, providing ammo for his opponents. The plan calls for building housing for another 1,500 college students on campuses and downtown; considering more housing in the South End; and overhauling the zoning ordinance by adopting form-based code. That would reduce permit fees and remove a requirement mandating a certain number of parking spaces for each project — all of which would make it easier for developers to build downtown. Other recommendations in the plan: • Double the funding for the Housing Trust Fund, which supports permanent affordable housing. • Encourage construction of small mother-in-law units as a housing option for elderly residents. • Support a permanent cold-weather shelter that doesn’t turn away homeless people who’ve been drinking or using drugs. The public’s response on Monday was mixed. There wasn’t a huge crowd, but the residents who did show up were clearly invested — at least six of them took notes. Some people asked the council to slow down; others urged the opposite.

One common refrain: Do more to encourage the local colleges to house their students rather than create housing for them downtown. The plan pledges to pursue strategies to avoid “over-gentrification.” When Progressive City Councilor Max Tracy asked the administration to get more specific, Weinberger offered the idea of building housing set aside for artists in the South End.

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The term “affordable housing” was bandied about throughout the meeting, with little agreement about what income brackets it actually referred to. “I am for real affordable housing,” said resident Andrew Simon. “I’m not convinced that the housing plan as proposed really achieves that.” Brian Pine, former housing director for the Community & Economic Development Office, said people shouldn’t be paying more than 30 percent of their income toward rent. According to the plan, the majority of Burlington residents shell out 44 percent.

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Developers Propose 79-Unit Apartment Building in Burlington Brothers Ed and Frank von Turkovich are hoping to build 79 apartments across the street from the University of Vermont Medical Center. While they haven’t yet applied for a permit, last month they submitted a proposal — referred to as a sketch plan — to the Development Review Board for preliminary feedback. The DRB will discuss it on April 21. The brothers are planning to build a threestory building to house people who work nearby at the hospital or at the university. Apartments would range from studios to two-bedroom units, according to Frank von Turkovich. Asked if they are hoping to attract students, he responded, “Definitely not.” The project includes parking both above and below ground level. It would occupy three acres

between 80 and 94 Colchester Avenue, which is currently a mix of open space and parking lots. The houses along Colchester Avenue would remain. The plan won’t likely come as news to the neighbors. “We’ve had extensive conversations with individual neighbors and the neighborhood groups, and we expect those discussions to continue,” von Turkovich noted. At a February 11 neighborhood planning assembly meeting for Wards 1 and 8, several neighbors said they oppose the project. A resident of 25 years worried he would lose his view of the sunset. Susan and Robert Butani, whose Fletcher Place house would abut the new building, expressed concern about the size of the project. Even so, von Turkovich seemed optimistic. Neighbors, he said, “have been very helpful to us in coming up with a plan that we think is going to work for everyone.”

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the rainbow sticker affixed to the car. Initially shocked but undaunted, Davies decided to turn the incident — and her Volkswagen Beetle — into a message of empowerment. Thus was born the “Fagbug,” Davies’ mobile slur-reclaiming conversation

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The GOVERNOR’S GALLERY is back! Where has it been? Well, on the fifth floor of the Pavilion Building, right outside Gov. Peter Shumlin’s office, just as it’s been for more than 40 years. But the space has been art-free and unavailable to the public since an unfortunate security incident back in November 2014. That’s when members of Rising Tide Vermont breached security and entered the gallery to protest a proposed naturalgas pipeline in Addison County. As a result, access to the fifth floor was closed, SUSAN BULL RILEY’s paintings were moved to exhibition space in the Statehouse, artist ELIZABETH BILLINGS lost her January-to-March slot, and, um, security people set about improving the security system. Oh, and 64 protestors were served with trespassing violations. It was originally estimated that the Governor’s Gallery would be closed “at least a year,” state curator DAVID SCHUTZ told Seven Days at the time. However, just four months later, it has reopened — with an exhibit of plein-air landscape paintings by Westminster West artist NANCY CALICCHIO — and will resume a quarterly exhibition schedule. “We’re very happy the Governor’s Gallery is back in business,” says Schutz. But, he

cautions, “One must come with a photo ID or you won’t get in.” When the VERMONT CREATIVE NETWORK rolls into Burlington this Thursday, it will mark the sixth such community forum around the state, with four more to come. According to the VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL’s outreach and advancement guy, ZON EASTES, the VCN has been greeted with enthusiasm — not to mention hundreds of Facebook likes. Just what is this network? It’s a new and evolving statewide initiative intended to “advance the entire creative sector” by increasing “communication and planning, advocacy and funding opportunities, individual and organizational capacity and effectiveness in engagements with other sectors,” Eastes says. In other words, the VCN takes a strength-in-numbers approach to giving artists and arts organizations a leg up through, well, networking — sharing knowledge and resources, collaborating, community building, that sort of thing. And it’s one of the arts council’s responses to the legislaturedesignated but unfunded Vermont Year of the Arts. One VCN partner is

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starter, which she’ll drive to Johnson documentary that Davies directed about State College this week. Its original graf- her work; a sequel, Fagbug Nation, came fiti replaced with rainbow vinyl wrap, the out last year. When she’s not making apcar will pull into JSC’s quad on Thursday, pearances with her one-of-a-kind vehicle, April 16. Its very presence is sure to get Davies teaches art classes and produces people talking about gender identity and independent video projects. hate crimes. Davies, who is visiting campus When she meets with students or apfor the school’s Pride Week, will give a talk pears in Pride events around the country, Thursday evening. Davies writes, she speaks about “turning An artist and activist negative experiences based in Syracuse, N.Y., into positive ones, about overcoming fears, acDavies says the Fagbug project has allowed her to complishing goals, taking risks, having respectful exercise both those functions. She’s been on the dialogue with people road with the Fagbug for of opposing views, and having a sense of humor.” almost exactly eight years, Jacob Fourier, a crisscrossing the country to initiate dialogues about 23-year-old senior at Johnson State, is a thehate crimes. In an email interview, she writes that ater major and copresiE R I N D AVI E S she considers the car a dent of the Johnson State College Pride Alliance. “performance piece” and “a catalyst to a much deeper conversation.” Though familiar with Davies’ work from Though Davies has been successful in having seen Fagbug, he says it was school sparking that conversation, it hasn’t been administrators who suggested Davies visit easy. “Sadly, the longer I’ve been doing campus as a guest speaker. JSC Pride rethis, the more hate crimes I document quested that the invitation be coordinated per year,” she writes. “Every event I do, to coincide with the school’s Pride Week. The fact that Pride Alliance is only a someone shares a similar story with me. Politically, a lot has improved over the last few semesters old, says Fourier, reflects eight years; however, that also comes with the “very small” scope of LGBT culture on a bigger backlash from people who don’t campus. From 2008 to 2012, he says, the school had no such organization. Fourier accept the gay community.” Fagbug is also the title of the 2010 characterizes the JSC campus as “really

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methods (like in-situ retorting — heating the shale underground and pumping the liquid out) has been limited thus far by the lack of investment in shale production generally. So, assuming that the break-even price for shale oil falls somewhere between $60 to $85 per barrel, the overall profit on a trillion barrels could be anywhere between $5 trillion and $30 trillion. Given that the total national debt is now approaching $18.2 trillion, Green River shale oil money might or might not cover it. As I write this, oil is at about $52 a barrel, meaning you’d likely lose money on shale mining — one big reason the government couldn’t just sell off the rights today. And then, as always, there’s environmental impact: Among other problems, extracting the Green River shale oil would require vast amounts of water in an area suffering from severe drought, and it would be competing for these resources with the country’s most valuable agricultural land — say goodbye to almonds. But even if that shale oil had the potential for $30 trillion in profits, we’d still need to raise maybe $60 trillion in capital to pay for the investment. Even if Apple, the most valuable company in the world, were to liquidate itself, it wouldn’t raise $1 trillion. Valuewise, none of our other energy assets are in the same league. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, currently

the largest emergency supply in the world, now contains 691 million barrels. Even at $90 per barrel (which, again, is well above the current price), that’s only $62.2 billion. The government also owns about 88 billion tons of coal reserves, and could possibly sell that off as well. But production costs are mighty here too — only a dollar or two per ton below the retail price — so those reserves probably aren’t worth more than $176 billion. But America is nothing if not enterprising, and if it came down to a national rummage sale there’s lots of things we could slap a price tag on — the Smithsonian Institution, for instance. High-end museums don’t tend to include the value of their collections on balance sheets, presumably because this would be both speculative and gauche, but I think we can assume the Hope Diamond has some significant street

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t’s not an entirely crazy thought, I guess. Estimates vary, but the U.S. Geological Survey believes there’s about three trillion barrels of oil sitting in what’s known as the greater Green River Basin, a sedimentary rock formation lying beneath parts of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, more than 70 percent of which is owned by the federal government. Even if only a trillion barrels of that is recoverable, that’s still nearly four times the total oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. So how much does a trillion barrels of oil get you these days? Depends on your timing. Over the last five years, the price of oil has varied nearly as much as your post-divorce weight — from less than $50 a barrel to nearly $130. Average that out to $90, and we get the whopping sum of $90 trillion in revenue. OK then, you say: time to make it rain. Before you get too excited, consider the expenses. Production costs vary more than prices, so much so that recent estimates for the break-even price — the per-barrel price above which it’s worth extracting oil from shale — range from $24 to $110. The crucial organic compounds in oil shale are in solid form, so the stuff has to be mined and retorted (heated to a high temperature), and then the resulting petroleum-like liquid gets separated out and collected. The development of other, possibly cheaper

value. At $1,200 a troy ounce, the gold in Fort Knox would be nominally worth around $177 billion, if you could dump that much gold on the market without obliterating the price. What else? One idea floated by a Washington Post financial writer a few years back: sell Alaska. Projected value: $2.5 trillion (minus reparations to the current residents). Then there’s our nuclear arsenal, which we sunk at least $5.5 trillion into between 1940 and 1996. Deterrence is all well and good, but it may be time to get some more tangible benefit out of these things. Of course, the actual answer to your question is: Why pay off the national debt at all? We haven’t since World War II, and as long as we make sure tax revenues keep up with the interest, we don’t really need to. Running a country’s economy isn’t very much like running a household, as many economists have pointed out, and anyway we actually earn more from our assets abroad than we pay to foreign investors. Look, at the moment there’re clearly a couple things we could stand to spend a few extra trillion dollars on — infrastructure and energy development come to mind. Squaring the national debt may, under the circumstances, be an unaffordable priority.

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Bloomingdale. Get this — it’s a $13 million property being built for one of the wealthiest women in America.” “Wow, I bet it’s all top-of-the-line material and whatnot.” “Oh, you have no idea. My friend was installing this chandelier that raises and lowers by remote control. The thing cost $240,000, if you can believe it. So he’s working on it, and one of the fucking crystals falls and breaks. Each one of these crystals apparently costs five grand! So he’s totally freaking out, but manages to glue it back together with Super Glue.” “Oh, my Lord in heaven,” I said. “Could you imagine? How’d he get away with it? Nobody saw him?” “Nope. But now, of course, he’s sweating bullets every time the lady visits the job site, which is, like, every few weeks.” I dropped the guy at his condo in the Brickyard neighborhood and, coming back on Route 15, a middle-aged guy hailed me from the parking lot in front of Contois Music. He was tall and rangy with a woolen beanie cap and scruffy beard. I pulled into the lot to pick him up, a fortuitous bonus return fare. Grabbing shotgun (which is a Vermont thing for cab riders and very homey), he said, “Well, figured I better take my shot at the ladies tonight. Like they say, you can’t score if you don’t shoot.” “Yup,” I agreed, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” There’s that sex drive again, paying dividends, I thought and smiled to myself. “Problem is,” he said, “I got this busted lower tooth, which is curtailing my smiling. And I do have a lovely smile, if I say so myself.” His laugh let me know, in case I had any doubt, that he was fooling around. I laughed along and said, “Well, you’ll just have to

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smile with your eyes. So what do you do for work, man, if you don’t mind me asking?” “I’m a forager. I go into the woods collecting mushrooms, wild ginseng, leeks, sometimes wild artichokes. I sell them to the local restaurants. They love my stuff. Of course, it all slows to a trickle in the winter, as you could imagine.” “Wow, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Is it, like, strictly legal?” “Of course! Hunter-gatherer, man — since the dawn of mankind.” This guy intrigued me, living a life so far removed from mine. “So what instrument do you play? You strike me as a musician.” “I do, do I?” he said. “Well, I’m not, but I do love music. I used to go out dancing all the time back in the ’90s. Remember the band 8084? I used to follow them around the state. I recall a concert in Morrisville with this beautiful farm girl from up that way I used to see.” The forager shook his head, releasing an audible sigh. It’s tough realizing that your best days might be behind you. I thought of that song by the Pretenders with a lyric that never fails to choke me up: “I found a picture of you. Those were the happiest days of my life.” He said, “Jeez, I’ve had this slight chest pain for, like, a week now. I’m pretty sure it’s just a muscle pull, but, shit, I am really getting old.” I said, “Well, you look to me like you still got some life in you.” My customer turned to face me and nodded his head a few times. “Smile with my eyes. That’s your recommendation, right?” “Yup, and if that don’t work, try crinkling your nose. Whatever it takes, brother.” m

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t was a Saturday night, and the previous day had been the first day of spring, for what it was worth — which wasn’t much. Here’s an open secret: Vermonters actually enjoy complaining about the weather, and this winter has provided plenty of fodder. Arriving over a weekend of freezing temperatures and snow squalls, the official start of spring was but a poke in the eye, a cynical joke on the long suffering. Yessirree, I can kvetch with the best of them. A robust man hailed me from the sidewalk. Taking the shotgun seat, he said, “I had plans on taking home this one young lady, but it didn’t work out.” “Well,” I said, channeling my inner Zen sage, “sometime it do, and sometime it don’t.” “Ain’t that the truth,” he said, chuckling. “So could you take me and my sorry ass back to Essex?” I assured him I could and steered up the hill, thinking about how the sex drive fuels so much of my business. What else propels a young man out of his warm house in Vermont’s distinctly un-lamb-like late March to blow his paycheck on a Saturday night? Three cheers for sex, or the promise thereof! “Well, at least I don’t have to work until Monday,” he said. “What are you in? Lemme guess — construction?” “Good guess,” he said. “I’m working on a $3.4 million home in Saranac Lake. We’re one year into a two-year project.” “What, do you commute across the lake for the job?” “Yup. They pay me three hours drive time every day. So it ain’t bad. The only thing I think about is, like, you want to do something to help folks, right? And here I am, spending two years of my life on a home that will be used by one friggin’ person. And just part time, too, is what I understand.” “Yeah, I see your point. But at least it’s helping out you and all the other guys on the crew.” “Well, yeah, there is that. But you should see some of these homes going up in the North Country. I got a buddy, an electrician, who’s working on this place in

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t’s no secret that many folks in the Green Mountain State enjoy their green bud. But we’ve only recently learned just how much. Last year, Vermonters consumed a shit-ton of weed — an estimated 15 to 25 metric tons, according to the RAND Corporation. That nonprofit think tank was commissioned in 2014 by the Vermont legislature to study the consequences of legalizing marijuana in the state. The resulting RAND report, which largely focused on the projected impacts on Vermont’s criminal-justice system, substance-abuse treatment programs and state tax revenues, was informative and decidedly nonjudgmental. However, it told us little about the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Vermonters who spent $125 million to $225 million last year getting high. We learned almost nothing about who they are, what they do and their relationship to America’s mosttalked-about cash crop. So last month Seven Days invited readers to fill out an anonymous, 54-question survey about themselves and their weed use, including what they consume, how much they pay

for it and why they get high. We hoped to get 1,000 responses over the two weeks the survey was available online and in print. Within the first 24 hours, more than 500 readers had weighed in. In all, 2,059 people took the survey, 203 of whom no longer smoke pot or never tried it. Almost 300 responders filled out paper questionnaires and snailmailed them to us, including two people whose return address read: “Governor Peter Shumlin.” (Only one spelled his name right.) Contrary to the lazy-stoner stereotype, most people who took the survey devoted a fair amount of time to it. Of those who did it online, more than half spent in excess of 10 minutes on it; more than a third spent 15-plus minutes. As for the 200-plus people who devoted more than a half-hour to it — including nearly two dozen people who burned away more than two hours — our suspicion is that they took frequent “breaks.” And what did we learn? Although the survey was not scientific, the results are illuminating. Vermont’s cannabis consumers are a diverse, creative and passionate bunch, with no shortage of opinions,

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accomplishments and anecdotes. Vermont’s “typical pot smoker” — itself a somewhat misleading term, as many users prefer to vape, dab or eat their cannabis instead — is more likely to be over 40 than 20 or younger. He or she is generally a left-leaning, collegedegreed homeowner who’s either married or in a long-term, committed relationship. Vermont’s dank denizens typically consume at least once a week, generally in the evening, after school or work, often before playing music, tackling household chores, putting up drywall,

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watching a movie or whipping up a meal for friends and family. Many of those who say they get high before work or school do so to boost their productivity — and give examples of their alteredstate accomplishments. The vast majority of those surveyed do not “regularly” or

even “occasionally” indulge in harder illicit drugs. In fact, more than nine in 10 say they’ve never done or no longer do LSD, cocaine, crystal meth, inhalants, prescription opiates or heroin. Despite the fact that only 2 percent of respondents are on Vermont’s medical marijuana registry, many report that they partake specifically to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Vermonters say they use weed to sleep better, exercise more, and relieve their stress, anxiety and depression. Nobody describes cannabis consumption as a vice, crutch or hard-to-kick habit. Most characterize it as a positive and beneficial element in their lives, enabling them to better appreciate nature, solve problems, tackle difficult or tedious tasks, relate to others and connect spiritually with the universe. Or, as a thirtysomething Lamoille County woman who smokes “most days” puts it: “It helps me keep things in perspective and remember what is truly important in life.” Lawmakers in Montpelier are doing the cost-benefit analysis as they wrestle with whether — or perhaps more accurately, how soon — Vermont should legalize marijuana. Surely the equation should also factor in what the state’s cannabis consumers are experiencing and have been kind enough to pass along. Read on. m

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According to the RAND report, Vermonters consume marijuana at some of the highest rates in the country. How often are Vermonters packing bowls, bongs and vaporizers? One-third of Weeders Survey respondents say they’re daily users; another quarter crack the baggie or unscrew the mason jar on “most days.” More than 80 percent inhale or ingest at least once a week. Among the more casual users, slightly more than 7 percent indulge only on “holidays and special occasions” — we’re thinking the Fourth of July and Jerry Garcia’s birthday, for starters. Two percent only Asked to rank your preferred puff when a pipe or joint gets doobage delivery device, passed to them at parties. you told us: Fewer than one in 10 respondents say they spark up 1 as soon as they roll out of bed, but many of those reserve their BOWL wake-and-bake sessions for weekends and days off. Among the 2 percent who 2 say they partake before work or JOINT school — and another 2 percent during work or school — many noted that they work at home. Our bad for not offering selfemployed, retired or disabled options as separate categories. Several remark that they puff prior to punching the clock to relieve work-related anxiety, or after hours because, as one user put it, doing so “helps me 3 unwind from dealing with the VAPORIZER general public all day.”

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Nearly one-third of the people who took the Seven Days Weeders Survey are between 21 and 30 years old, numbers consistent with the findings of the RAND Corporation study. Nearly 64 percent are older than 30, and close to 40 percent are 40 and up. Clearly, Vermont still has its share of WOODSTOCK-ERA TOKERS. More than half of the 289 people who filled out paper surveys are older than 50; more than a quarter of them are 60-plus. Their preference for paper — writing on it, not rolling it — may reflect a lower rate of computer use or distrust in our ability to protect their online anonymity. Or both. WHERE DO THEY LIVE? Mirroring Seven Days’ readership, the single largest group of respondents (more than 55 percent) resides in Chittenden County, followed by Washington County (10 percent), Addison County (6 percent) and Franklin County (4 percent). Only 3 percent of respondents reside outside Vermont. Equally predictable are their POT POLITICS: Nearly 40 percent align with Democrats, 14 percent with Progressives; fewer than 5 percent are Republicans and 30 percent are independents. Among the 7 percent who identify as “other” are “Greens,” “anarchists” and “socialists.” (You in there, Bernie Sanders?) Vermont’s cannabis consumers are WELL SCHOOLED. Nearly two-thirds have at least a bachelor’s degree, including more than 4 percent who’ve earned doctorates. Fewer than 8 percent didn’t make it past high school. Speaking of high school … More than 40 percent of our respondents say they FIRST TRIED POT during those years — typically by age 15 — while many others took it up during college. More than 90 percent had toked before their 21st birthday, compared to fewer than 7 percent who discovered the wonders of weed in their twenties. Only two respondents were older than 60 when they burned their first doobie.

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It’s fair to say that stoners who partake together stay together. The single largest group of responses (40 percent) came from people who are married. Adding in those who are unmarried but coupled, in serious relationships or widowed brings to more than 66 percent users who are or were in romantic relationships. In contrast, fewer than 6 percent report being divorced or separated. Our (admittedly unscientific) conclusion: With a solid majority of stoners also saying that nugs are nice with nookie, cannabis is either boosting Vermont couples’ sex lives or making bad relationships more bearable.

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More than 200 people who took the Weeders Survey have never tried weed or have given it up. Among those who’ve quit, 38 percent say they’ve smoked in the last five years; another 13 percent in the last six to 14 years. The rest last indulged in ganja in the last century. One in five respondents report that they tried it a few times but didn’t like it. About 18 percent say they don’t like it anymore, and about 10 percent stopped when they began families and “grew up.” Only 1 percent say they stopped using pot because they got into trouble with it — or with the law. Of the 32 people who provide additional comments, one sums up the remarks of many: “It got in c hi t t enden C oun t y wo m an the way of my work, relationships, friendships and family. It negatively impacted my mental health. I became paranoid. It was a big problem for me.” Others note general problems with substance abuse and say that smoking weed only increased their desire and likelihood to use harder drugs. Only one person is worried about the physical health effects. Still others express concerns about drug testing. One thirtysomething married man in Chittenden County says there’s “too much risk due to it being illegal. Would use it on a semiregular basis otherwise.” Several people who work in the military or law enforcement fear their credibility or opportunities for career advancement could be compromised, even if marijuana were legalized. Says one, “I became a professional adult, and the stakes for illegal behavior were no longer tenable.” Another fortysomething single homeowner in Washington County is more blunt: “Smoking pot is a waste of time and energy.”

Happy, Healthy and Horny Vermonters Seven Days stoners emphatically believe that ganja is good for their bodies, minds and souls. Nearly nine in 10 say that weed makes them more creative. More than six in 10 say they get hornier when high, and 56 percent say it improves their sex drive. Nearly eight in 10 say pot usage helps them sleep better. A sixtysomething daily user in Chittenden County writes: “I wake up every three hours, like clockwork, to walk around, take a leak, open the door to the deck, take a toke and slip back asleep.” His restlessness may derive from another source: The same respondent says he once got stopped by police in Steamboat Springs, Colo., with a half pound of coke in his car. D’oh! More than half of our self-reporters say pot makes them more sociable, but more than one-quarter feel less sociable with a buzz on. Almost equal numbers say weed is good or bad for their concentration. Different tokes for different folks… We weren’t shocked to learn that weed negatively affects coordination in nearly one in three people. But for the others, it either has no effect (47 percent) or improves moves (22 percent). Could this have something to do with Vermont’s prominence in the world of competitive snowboarding? Does reefer relieve anxiety? Sixty percent of users say yes. But 19 percent get the opposite effect. Twenty-one percent say that weed neither boosts nor blunts their tendency to get anxious. Similar results crop up regarding levels of depression. A solid

63 percent report that herb has a positive impact on their state of happiness, compared to just 7 percent who feel more bummed after burning one. Only 30 percent say that weed has no effect whatsoever on their happiness levels. Perhaps these folks should consider a different strain. More solid numbers align pot use and stress relief. A solid 84 percent of respondents say that weed relieves their stress, while fewer than 5 percent report that it increases theirs. Overall, about 80 percent of respondents say that pot is a positive influence on their mental health, compared to just 16 percent who are neutral on it and 4 percent who say that weed negatively affects their mental health.

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Pot proponents partake for myriad reasons, such as avoiding hangovers, getting a better buzz and “want[ing] to have fun without falling down.” As one daily user puts it: “Cannabis is like the loudness button on your stereo — it makes most things better, but for me it’s about being active, and it’s hard to be active when you’re drunk or on most other drugs.” Many of the 211 people who elaborate on why they get high say they use cannabis for its medicinal properties — including those not on the registry. A thirtysomething married woman in Chittenden County writes: “I have Crohn’s disease, and weed mitigates my flares better than any FDA-approved drugs.” Another fortysomething divorced female, who smokes Northern Lights in the evenings, says, “It helps my nausea and my PTSD symptoms.” From a twentysomething daily smoker who grows his own in Chittenden County: “Unlike Zoloft or Risperdal, it doesn’t make me happy while at the same time making me want to kill myself.” Still others enjoy weed’s psychological and physical properties. A twentysomething single male from Essex County writes that it makes him a “more tolerant and patient person,” and also CHIT TE NDE N COUNTY MAN “relaxes my stomach muscles and eases my farts!” On behalf of your date companions, we thank you for pot smoking.

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OTHER CHRONIC REASONS VERMONTERS GET HIGH: • “It helps me connect with my spirituality and surroundings as well as allowing me to have a greater appreciation for nature.” • “It puts me in a comfortable and pleasant state where I feel like myself and good about me.” • “Weed has the least amount of risk of being contaminated with nasty chemicals.” • “It’s less dangerous than alcohol.” • “I won’t die from it.” • “It takes my creativity off in some zany directions and really enhances sex.” • “I pay more attention to the beauty in the world when I’m stoned.” • “I have crippling anxiety, and this makes me feel normal and happy.” • “Spiritual enlightenment and mindfulness enhancing.” • “Lubricates the imagination.” • “It just makes me feel very uplifted and thoughtful. I would say it’s a very positive part of my life.”

Breaking news flash! Nearly eight in 10 stoners say that pot makes them hungry. Someone alert the researchers at the New England Journal of Medicine and Lake Champlain Chocolates. Before you exclaim, “No one’s ever eaten this!” consider what your fellow Vermonters have ingested to satisfy the munchies:

Quick, hide the bong! Mom’s home! Nearly half of all survey respondents say their family members know they partake; another quarter report that they’ve told a select few. Only 7 percent are closet stoners around their kin. As for talking to the kids about pot use, 36 percent of parents say they have or will. Just 4 percent say their kids don’t know. A lot of people with older children wrote in to say it was no big deal: The kids are fine with it and, in some cases, pot has become a shared activity. This was reassuring: 84 percent say they had not shared weed with a minor — not deliberately, anyway. No one copped to sharing weed with anyone under the age of 16.

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Just 18 percent of stoners say they prefer to spark up solo. Those who enjoy the company of others are very selective. For many, it’s “only with my wife” or another romantic partner, with good friends or with family. “But not all family!” clarifies one. “Some of them are a buzzkill.” Suffice it to say, a fair number of cats and dogs would also recognize the sound of a bubbling bong. Just about half of our respondents abide by the “put-it-in-front-of-me” rule: They partake whenever, however and with whomever it’s offered.

What’s Your Kind?

Evidently, a fair share of Green Mountain ganja users are cannabis connoisseurs. More than a third say they know the name of the strain they’re smoking, eating or vaping; another quarter want to know. A solid 60 percent know that sativa and indica strains aren’t yoga postures. Indeed, several readers offer a handy tip for remembering which is which: Indica is short for “in da couch,” i.e., the more relaxing and calming body buzz, versus sativa’s uplifting, cerebral and potentially hallucinatory high. About 25 percent of respondents are locavore cannabis consumers; they seek out weed grown in the Green Mountain State. Fewer than 10 percent say they get it exclusively from outside Vermont. Thirty-seven percent use both — presumably, buying whatever is available. Fully one-quarter have no clue from whence their weed comes, though many express a desire to know what they’re consuming, where and how it’s grown, and who they’re supporting by buying it. What kinds are currently kicking around Vermont? We’ve grouped them into categories based on other things for which they might be mistaken:

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When asked, “What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done while high?” a bunch of clever folks write, “Take this survey!” Others challenge the suggestion that smoking bones causes boneheaded behavior. Yes, we know you’ve all grasped Einstein’s theory of general relativity six bongs hits into the night. You just couldn’t explain it to anyone. Though this question wasn’t meant to be provocative, we asked it for another reason: to see what didn’t turn up. Granted, there are a few truly scary responses, including “set 500 acres on fire,” drove “90 mph without knowing,” “jumped into the Huntington Gorge” and “did a backflip off a 60-foot cliff into water.” That said, no one reports beating a spouse or kids, chipping a tooth on a beer bottle, punching a cop or backing over a toddler. Many identify driving as their worst stoner move, but equally common are reports of classes skipped to play video games, milk returned to the cupboards rather than the refrigerator, ill-considered marriage proposals and bad food decisions. (See page 32 for more on the munchies.) The vast majority of the 1,106 written answers fall into the hilarious-andharmless category, including “peed pants,” “accidentally shit in a hoodie,” “ate too much junk food,” “lost car keys” and, tellingly, “nothing I wouldn’t do sober.” In short, Vermont’s cannabis consumers, like all humans, cop to doing some stupid shit — they just don’t blame it on the weed. As one twentysomething woman from Windsor County puts it, “I can’t think of any significant ‘dumb’ things I’ve done on pot. Ask me about alcohol and I could write you an entire list.”

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Did a backflip off a 20-foot cliff Dashed through a glass door by accident Waited for a stop sign to turn green Pledged $100 to PBS Voted for George Bush Fucked a cop’s wife Got my contact lens stuck in my eye socket Painted my dog Ate a Hot Pocket Walked away from a great woman Made some really ugly paintings Looked for the flashlight with the flashlight Drew the smile outside of a smiley face Thought it wouldn’t be a big deal to bring 1/4 pound across the Canadian border and back, and the weed was in this gaudy Bob Marley tin. Oh, and we smoked a joint minutes from the border. Asked a cop if he wanted a bite of my pizza Texted my mom about how high I was “Borrowed” a golf cart at a public event and went for a spin Turned the car off and put my seatbelt on Spent eight years with the wrong person Ate an entire jar of Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter Met my boyfriend’s entire family for the first time Tried to make a point Dated an idiot Got a joint stuck to my lip and burned my hair Fucked my sister-in-law Married an asshole Wrapped myself in a blanket like a burrito and said that I could taste colors Searched for car keys for an hour while they were in my hand Pulled out a bag to pay for a pizza instead of my wallet Got super-high and freaked out because I thought I could smell my thoughts

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A lot of weed-loving Vermonters work for themselves — in which case, the boss is totally cool with it. Keeping that in mind, 32 percent of survey respondents say their supervisor is aware of their penchant for pot. Twentyseven percent aren’t sure. A full 42 percent aren’t sharing that info with the so-called higher-ups. Green Mountain stoners are more chill about their cannabis consumption around their coworkers — about 38 percent report that their workmates know, while 26 percent say only the ones who get high know. Says one Washington County Dem, who is now in his sixties: “I worked for the State of Vermont for 35 years. I am now retired. I have smoked pot with people in the governor’s office as well as employees from a half dozen departments. It was never a big deal.” No word yet on which administration hot-boxed the fifth floor. A young woman working in Chittenden County is more discreet: “I think it’s very likely that most of my coworkers smoke weed, but it’s not appropriate to discuss at work, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable smoking weed with coworkers because it’s illegal, and if they felt vengeful they could use it to get me fired.” Harsh toke! Despite ample workplace caution, 802 stoners seem to seek each other out at work. About 70 percent of people report getting high with a coworker — though often off-premises and off the clock. Says one, “Sometimes it was THE THING that saved a shitty day. We’d call it an ‘attitude adjustment.’” Says another, “My entire office smokes. If we had a drug test, everyone would be out a job, including the managers and owners.” One sixtysomething Chittenden County man says he’d never consider getting high with his current coworkers, writing “They’d have to ‘process it’ over multiple useless staff meetings and still not come up with a clear outcome objective. My head would explode if I had to smoke with a rookie hipster who has anxiety about drinking the wrong beer or the wrong coffee.”

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It takes more than a toke or two to extinguish the Vermont work ethic. Asked “What’s the most productive thing you’ve done while high on weed?” Seven Days stoners say they routinely lay down masonry and put up cabinets while high. They learn and play musical instruments and compose musical scores. They write term papers, master’s theses, dissertations, novels, songs, poems and articles. One even claims to have taken the Vermont bar exam while baked. For others, being productive means being reproductive. Several folks say they conceived their kids on kind bud; two others managed their labor pains by getting high. Another two claim they saved someone’s life, including one who prevented a suicide. othEr high-fuNctioNiNg ActiVitiES

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Shocking news: Three percent of respondents haven’t decided whether Vermont should legalize marijuana. A whopping 96 percent say yes. Fewer than 1 percent of respondents vote no. If and when legalization happens, 83 percent of respondents say they’d feel moderately to totally “free at last,” while fewer than 1 percent say they’d still keep their cannabis consumption closeted. No worries. Your secret is safe with us. If Vermont were to legalize marijuana: • • • • • • •

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86% of 1,442 respondents said they’d “definitely or probably” buy and smoke it 75% would “definitely or probably” buy and use edibles 52% would grow it for personal use 12% would definitely or probably grow commercially 50% would use it instead of other legal drugs 59% would use it along with other legal drugs 29% said they’d definitely use it instead of other illegal drugs 65% would use it as a painkiller About six in 10 respondents 15% would definitely or probably want to capitalize are only mildly or not at all on it by selling, marketing or distributing concerned about others knowing. Only 2 percent say no one can ever know.

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Marijuana: The Gateway Drug — to Caffeine and Alcohol By a wide margin, Seven Days stoners say they prefer the green stuff to other substances — though alcohol and caffeine are close runners-up. Nearly nine out of 10 cannabis consumers describe themselves as “regular” or “occasional” drinkers, and more than eight in 10 down caffeine in some form. One in four uses tobacco products. In contrast, 98 percent of survey respondents say they’ve never used bath salts, GHB, heroin, crystal meth, inhalants or steroids; 97 percent have never done amphetamines. More than 90 percent have never abused prescription opiates, and more than 80 percent have never tripped on ecstasy. Three-quarters avoided acid altogether. In fact, the only other illegal drugs that show up on our survey with any frequency — that is, in more than single-digit percentages — are mushrooms and peyote. Fourteen percent have enjoyed that psychedelic experience. At least 74 respondents explain that their harder drug use, especially psychedelics, were youthful dalliances or once-in-a-blue-moon indulgences.

Eight out of 10 cannabis consumers have lit up in public — including at concerts, festivals, ski resorts, Church Street, bike rides, in Amsterdam, at beaches, in parks, in college dorms and on campus. Even more — 96 percent — have been high in public. Shocking.

POT and THE Po-Po Only one in 10 people surveyed has ever been busted for pot sales or use. A fiftysomething Orleans County Progressive who last bought weed “when disco was still all the rage” says he got arrested for herb but beat the rap. A jury acquitted him. He currently makes money by selling weed. Incidentally, the most productive thing he claims to have ever done stoned was build parts for the aerospace industry. Yikes.

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The good news: Fewer than 1 percent of Weeder Survey respondents have flown a plane or operated a military vehicle under the influence of marijuana. The bad news, if you’re promoting legalization to public safety advocates: More than three-quarters of respondents have operated a car or truck high; only 16 percent of those surveyed say they’ve “never” driven stoned. Generally speaking, pot-loving people are on the go: 44 percent have ridden something pedal-powered; 28 percent have piloted a sailboat, kayak, canoe or inner tube; 12 percent drove a snowmobile, motorboat or ATV; and 9 percent operated a tractor, forklift or snowplow. More than 90 “other” responses mention stoned motorcycling, skiing, snowboarding, horseback riding, driving golf carts, and riding skateboards and lawn mowers. At least one Vermont stoner from Windsor County knows he shouldn’t have been behind the wheel and expresses remorse over it. “Drove a tractor trailer during rush hour in Atlanta,” he writes. “Got super paranoid. Won’t do that again!”

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A few years later, at Burlington’s since-shuttered Trinity College, Phan took courses in sociology and criminal justice. Initially interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement, she soon “fell off the wagon,” she says with a laugh. While Phan learned English and adjusted to her adoptive country, billiards fell by the wayside. It wasn’t until 2000, when she took a bartending job, that Phan picked up a cue stick for the first time since leaving Vietnam. It was probably not a coincidence, she allows, that the job was at the now-defunct Burlington Billiards. “That’s where I ended up spending most of my time,” she says.

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His official status: missing in action. “He could have been killed in the war, or he could be here somewhere in the United States, or he could be somewhere…” Phan says, her voice trailing off. Phan was 16 when she, her mother and three siblings moved to Burlington’s Old North End and she enrolled in Burlington High School. She spoke only Vietnamese at the time; her now-excellent English, she says, is a product of her high school’s ESL classes.

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Despite a 15-year hiatus from the game, and the fact that it was pocket billiards rather than three-cushion, Phan says she felt comfortable immediately. “It came naturally for me,” she says. Her game steadily improved. Liz Ford played with Phan in qualifying and professional events as members of the Green Mountain American Poolplayers Association League. In an email, Ford recalls Phan’s ease in making flashy bank shots. But it was Phan’s ability to have fun among dour opponents, Ford says, that gave her a strategic edge: “She’d be joking around and having a good time, all the while sneaking out the win from under the other player’s nose.” In 2003, on a regional women’s billiards tour, Phan performed well enough that professional pool player Jennifer Barretta encouraged her to try out for the Women’s Professional Billiard Association tournament in New York City. Barretta tells Seven Days via email that Phan “had some natural ability, and I could see how much she loved the game … I immediately knew that Van had what it took to become a good player.” Thus emboldened, Phan jumped into national tournament play and was soon invited to the U.S. Open in Albuquerque. She won’t say how well she played in

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an Phan carefully places two pool balls on a table in a South Burlington billiards hall. The arrangement would make it tricky for anyone to knock the ball into a side pocket. It takes her a few tries, but she nails it as the ball slams authoritatively into the hole. Phan plays like a boss because she is the boss: It’s her pool hall. Van Phan Billiards & Bar will soon celebrate its 11th anniversary. That’s nearly twice as long as Phan’s reign as the women’s billiards champion of Vermont, a title she last held in 2009. These days, Phan spends most of her time mixing drinks at the bar, but she’s happy to leave her post to offer advice to other players, who would do well to take it. More than once, Phan uses the word “passion” in speaking of her relationship with billiards. When she tackles a difficult trick shot, she seems physically incapable of relinquishing her cue until she pulls it off. Van Phan, 39, says she was about 10 years old when she first picked up a pool cue. Her family ran a games parlor in her native Saigon, so she figures it was inevitable. They even had a table right in her home. Still, she had to hide it from her parents because young girls weren’t supposed to play pool. Phan’s opponents were often adults, the stakes cans of soda or candy bars. She learned three-cushion billiards on equipment that was anything but top quality. “There were holes everywhere in the felt of the table,” Phan recalls, adding that the playing surface wasn’t made of industry-standard slate but of crumbly cement. “The balls would make holes on the table, the rails were dead, the cloth was slow,” she says. These inadequacies didn’t stifle her fascination with playing pool. Phan is hard-pressed to articulate exactly what about the game appeals to her. It’s not the mathematical precision, she says, nor the opportunity for competition. “I can feel the game,” she finally concludes. “It’s all about feeling for me. The cue ball is this little” — she holds up two outstretched fingers — “but you can make it dance on the table.”

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The Green Mountain APA league has convened regularly at Van Phan Billiards since 2011; its main room is lined with plaques commemorating members’ victories. But even on league nights, Phan says, a few tables remain available for anyone looking to play. Phan says that pool hustlers are neither welcome nor a particular problem at her billiards hall. And if they do show up, they’re easy to spot, she says — and they’re not tolerated. Nowadays Phan doesn’t hit the floor much, unless it’s to offer a little coaching. She hesitates to even pick up the cue. “I’ll forget that I’m supposed to be working,” she says. m

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The Way We Were Book review: A Slant of Light by Jeffrey Lent

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arly in Jeffrey Lent’s new historical novel, A Slant of Light, a teenage hired hand named Harlan turns to a powerful lawyer who’s questioning him and says, “You know how people, when they think they’re more clever, will let on when they’re trying to hide something?” The lawyer, the de facto leader of a Shakerlike Christian sect, takes a moment to recover from the boy’s boldness and then responds simply with, “I do.” Such moments of insight into the wisdom and foolishness of humans make pieces of A Slant of Light shine long after the book ends. As in Lent’s stunning first novel, In the Fall, his protagonist is a Union soldier just returned from the Civil War — though A Slant of Light takes place in western New York, not Vermont. To Slant’s veteran, Malcolm Hopeton, the reader is less immediately sympathetic: Within the first chapter, he kills his wife, Bethany, and Amos, the adult hired hand with whom he believes she’s been having an affair. A Slant of Light is not a thriller or

a courtroom drama. The rest of the novel instead endeavors to unravel the histories of the people, living and dead, who are affected by the murders, and to imagine what justice or atonement for Malcolm could look like. After he’s caught, some of the townspeople demand that he be hanged, while others feel that Malcolm was victimized by those he killed: by Amos, who stole and sold of some of the farm’s assets, or by Bethany herself.

The most interesting character in A Slant of Light is 15-year-old Harlan, an orphan who unsuccessfully intervenes when Malcolm attacks Bethany and the other farmhand. When his boss is imprisoned, Harlan goes to work for August Swarthout, a middle-aged farmer for whom his sister is a cook and housekeeper. For reasons that become clear as the novel progresses, Harlan stays loyal to Malcolm and tries to help him. Well-crafted historical novels like

From A Slant of Light He would be buried next to his grandfather in the small plot fenced with peeled rails in the higher ground under a pair of elms in the larger pasture where both lakes could be seen. Where his body would rot and his pine coffin would likewise and he’d turn back to soil and commingle and join the soil his grandfather had made and the two of them would become slow host to roots and then seeds to send forth new life: grasses, flowers, perhaps sprout an elm. Perhaps be hay for cattle in winter. Torn stems to line a bird’s nest. Perhaps only a stem that rose and died and rotted back into the earth to one way rise again. And that would be enough. That would be miracle enough. Indeed. Yet there remained discontent. Bethany was not in that ground. Stone had told him she’d been buried in Jerusalem. Where, Stone had not said but was clear it was a hidden place, a place of shame. Perhaps such a place was in need of her but he wished her close, close upon him for eternity. As would be with his grandfather. And he thought, I am making too much of this; it matters not where we return to the earth. We return, that is the only truth.

this one can show readers how the struggles of the past differ from or mirror those of contemporary humans. How do perpetrators’ histories of abuse and warfare complicate how we view guilt and innocence? How have sexual and religious shaming shaped how we understand victimhood? In one of the most chilling scenes in A Slant of Light, Bethany’s father tells his neighbor August that, because his daughter was evil and a whore, he wants to help exonerate her killer, “another man snared by her foulness.” Regardless of one’s feelings about the death penalty, it’s painful to read the father’s cruel judgments on his daughter, even more so after the narrative makes clear that his assessment of Bethany is utterly inaccurate. Nor is it an opinion of her with which Malcolm agrees, after he learns in prison what happened to Bethany while he was away fighting in the Civil War. And when August reflects on his own childhood sexual experimentation (an inner monologue, not shared — these are 19th-century Yankees, after all), he wonders, “Except that she was alone, how different was Bethany from himself as a child?” Lent masterfully creates a convincing, unromanticized portrait of postCivil War life in a rural northeastern community. He gives a long look at the sunup-to-sundown labor of farmers — harvesting grain, putting up hay, cleaning, milking cows — intermixed with passages of cautiously measured conversations. The characters’ respites are generally simple meals, which Lent gives such attention in the novel that the biscuits, bread and ham half seem like characters themselves. At times the story has contemporary resonance, such as when characters discuss the moral implications of war and capital punishment, and when a farmer in upstate New York sends his fresh butter to the city for a pretty price. But Lent does show us what has changed drastically: the chestnut trees that readers know no longer stand, a pace of life that is sometimes unbearably dull. “August remained silent as Harlan pulled another rocker up and sat, drinking a bit from his cup and then leaning to set it upon the boards and after a moment of lifting first one foot then the other…” After the first chapter of A Slant of Light, any sense of urgency all but dissolves into the pastoral landscapes, excessive descriptions of food and

Books characters who tend to behave quite reasonably. Save Harlan’s dignity — which he maintains with his willingness to reveal his own victimhood at the hand of the man Malcolm killed — no one’s heart or fate seems to hinge on the outcome of Malcolm’s trial. His destiny is less interesting than his past; Malcolm seems to have genuinely loved and understood Bethany, and laments the ways in which he is yet another man who has failed her. Contrite and making his peace with the possibility of being hanged, Malcolm is ultimately sympathetic, and it’s

Lent masterfuLLy creates a convincing, unromanticized portrait of post-Civil War life in a rural northeastern Community.

impressive how Lent sketches such a complex character. This author does not offer us the range or variety of pacing typical of contemporary novels. A Slant of Light moves at the speed of a mule — steady, but refusing to move when it feels like staying put for a while. Some readers might not have the patience this book requires, but slowing down is an unavoidable part of the experience — and, one assumes, is intentional. As magnificent as Lent’s prose is, though, it doesn’t fully compensate for

the novel’s lack of action. Reading A Slant of Light is a bit like taking the time to knead a loaf of bread by hand — either a meditative ritual, or tedious in the era of stand mixers with dough hooks. To extend the metaphor, Lent turns out a dense, nutty loaf with a thick crust, one that rewards readers who want long, pensive chews. m

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bout three years ago, Vural, Hasan and Jackie Oktay opened Istanbul Kebab House at the base of an apartment complex in Essex Junction. In a subsequent review published in this newspaper, food writer Alice Levitt praised Vural Oktay’s nuanced knowledge of his native Turkish cuisine and devotion to excellent service. However, she also observed that the menu lacked focus, the dishes — though made from scratch with fresh, often local ingredients — seemed pricey and the waitstaff were inexperienced. Despite these initial hiccups, the Essex location garnered a loyal following. In late 2013, the Oktays purchased the Tuckerbox café in White River Junction and began serving Turkish dinners there in early 2014. In January 2015, the family traded their Essex restaurant for a new space on lower Church Street in downtown Burlington — and what a difference three years makes. During my two recent visits to the new location, Hasan Oktay flawlessly led the dining room with charm and grace. He delivered drinks with an easy smile, bussed tables and pulled out chairs for female guests. Friendly, knowledgeable waitstaff led first-timers through the menu and were ready with thoughtful recommendations for indecisive diners. They also showed impeccable knowledge and nuance about wine. This might come as a surprise to many guests, as Turkey is generally overlooked as a formidable wine region. But Kebab House carries a dozen charismatic Turkish bottles and offers most of them by the glass ($8-11). In fact, Turkey is home to a rich wine tradition: Ancient Anatolians practically bathed in the lush liquid more than 5,000 years before Jesus walked the earth, and wine

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prohibitions on alcohol — took a toll on the industry. But even as people moved away from viticulture, the vineyards remained, and in recent years a general loosening of rules reinvigorated the wine business. Turkish winemakers began working with hundreds of native varietals — most of them unfamiliar to westerners and woefully unpronounceable. Though the government again imposed stringent rules on the industry in 2013 and 2014, a strong base of dedicated winemakers perseveres. Rooted in limestone-rich and volcanic Turkish soils, the wines show character and restraint. And at recent

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meals at Kebab House, they proved to be exceptionally food-friendly. I recommend trying one with every course. A crisp Kavaklıdere Lal rosé, grown atop the arid Denizli plateau, just inland from the Aegean Sea in southwestern Turkey, began with a subtle, floral nose. An initial sip flooded my palate with new peaches and apricots, while the finish suggested wet stones and hints of mushroom and moss. As the wine warmed, riper strands of musky apple and green melon emerged.

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months, that bacon disappeared from store shelves because the commissary could only produce enough to supply its own restaurants. Now VERmoNt pAckiNGhouSE in Springfield, which cures bacon on a larger scale, will take on the task. “We will have the retail product back very, very soon,” Davis says. The Springfield plant will also use Guild’s recipes to produce deli meats and Frank Pace

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One reason for the commissary’s decline is the longawaited opening of LApLAttE RiVER ANGuS fARm’s processing facility: About 90 percent of Farmhouse Group’s beef comes from LaPlatte. Now the Kleptz family’s cattle can go from pasture to slaughter to aging without leaving their Shelburne farm. “They’ll process all of the LaPlatte beef that we buy for us. It’s fantastic for them, too. It’s something they’ve been working on for a while — they’ve been literally building it themselves,” Davis says of the Kleptzes’ facility. Customers are already seeing the rewards of lower overhead: Farmhouse has lowered its burger price by $1. Fans of Guild bacon are also in for a treat. In recent

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Distinctly Mediterranean, the rosé transported me from a cold April night in Vermont to a cobblestone alley in that mysterious land where Europe meets the Middle East. Hasan Oktay woke me from my reverie with snacks. We’d ordered the meze platter, which consisted of dolma and a selection of cool dips and sauces including hummus, haydari, baba ganoush and Turkish salsa. “Careful,” he cautioned as I reached for a piping-hot pillow of lavash. “Maybe poke it with a knife first.” Fresh from the oven and filled with hot air, the unleavened bread was an evanescent joy. It’s best to eat it quickly: Soft and pliable when fresh, it becomes dry and brittle as it cools. Within moments, my guest and I had broken the bread and slathered it with dollops of supremely smoky baba ganoush. Creamy with tahini and just a touch of salt, the spread was gone in minutes, as was the spicy, handchopped Turkish salsa, tangy with pepper, lemon and pomegranate juice. In answer to the warming zest of the salsa, a cool, tightly wrapped dolma stuffed with pine nuts, currants and rice was tinged with cinnamon and other sweet spices. If rosé and cold appetizers seemed premature given the lingering winter weather, Kebab House offers an array of warm starters. On a blustery evening last week, a duo of bulgur croquettes — one stuffed with chicken, the other with beef, both blended with walnut, red pepper, garlic and onion — were

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fried to a brittle, bready crisp outside and filled with crumbly, spice-laden meat. We dunked these in the accompanying tomato-and-olive-oil dipping sauce for a moment of bliss. Falafel may seem familiar and bland to American diners, but the Oktays’ petite chickpea fritters were little flavor bombs. Seasoned with cumin, coriander and mango powder, they were smooth and refined. Zucchini pancakes were equally beguiling. The palm-size patties — made with shredded zucchini, carrot, garlic, dill and Turkish white cheese — were airily crisp without but soft and creamy within. Their peppery twinge built up bite by bite. Served with a weightless, yogurt-based cacik sauce similar to tzatziki, the pancakes were a refreshingly simple, straightforward delight. Across the menu, the kitchen presents bold, forward flavors but relies on quality execution and classic Turkish spices to carry the food. Nothing suffers from extraneous cheffy flair; nothing is overdone. Nowhere is this truer than with the kebabs — which present marinated meats, skewered and grilled, served with a couple of basic, humble sides. The menu offers more than 10 kinds, and they’re somewhat pricey ($15 to $30 per dish), but a $30 mixed-grill option provides five kebabs in tasting portions. For newbies or those seeking variety, the mix of chicken and lamb makes an ample entrée for two. We paired our kebabs with the house red wine — Kavaklıdere Yakut, a peppery vintage made with öküzgözü and Boğazkere grapes. Deep crimson

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capped with a generous spoonful of pungent tomato sauce. A fragrant shrimp güveç casserole — scattered with cheese and still bubbling in its shallow clay dish — was loaded with succulent, sweet shrimp and studded with vegetables. The latter were firm but cooked through and were swimming in a tomato-based sauce mellowed with a splash of cream. I don’t often go for fish unless it’s raw or cooked whole, but Kebab House’s savory stew was a special treat. I was grateful to my guest for ordering it — and for agreeing to a cool, complex white wine with notes of honeydew and pear, which balanced the dish’s richness. Saving room for dessert was a challenge. But a toasty shredded-wheat künefe — a baked dessert layered with stringy white cheese and soaked in light maple syrup — richly rewarded our fortitude. So did a bowl of rice pudding, with its baked top layer and milky vanilla understory. An almond milk pudding was similar to the rice, but custardy and smooth and scattered with crushed pistachios. Normally I don’t drink coffee in the evening because I won’t sleep, but one night, I lingered over sips of sweet, smoky, barely bitter Turkish java served in a dainty cup, and bites of pale-pink, rose-flavored Turkish delight. When at last I wandered off to bed, it was with heavy eyelids and spice-scented dreams of warmer weather. m

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in color, the round-bodied, spicy wine played well with a rich, juicy lamb patty (köfte) seasoned with an aromatic bouquet of garlic and herbs and tinged with smoke from the grill. The wine’s juicy, red-fruit acid was equally agreeable with the chicken shish kebab, which was fork-tender and so briny that every bite released a rush of mouth-filling flavor. Sipped alongside the lamb shish — which had just a hint of barnyard gaminess — the wine was a quiet, unobtrusive complement. Chicken adana — wrought of hand-ground chicken breast, fire-roasted red peppers and parsley — was formed into pieces and skewered. It sung with heady spice that crept up after several bites. For this the delicate, approachable Yakut provided amiable company. Sides of pale-yellow, subtly seasoned rice pilaf and pickled red cabbage added color to the plate and a refreshing bit of acid to cut through all that meat. During a second visit — at our server’s suggestion — my guest and I paired a beef tenderloin kebab with a glass of Öküzgözü from Cappadocia’s Kocabağ Winery. The sun-soaked, velvety red was rounder and more robust than the Yakut, with ripe, dark black cherry, currant and mulberry fruit. The bold yet dangerously drinkable wine was the perfect answer to the hearty timbre of the beef, which was charred a pleasant medium-rare. Smaller sections of the menu offer Turkish “comfort foods,” our server explained — homey baked dishes that afford a more serious plunge into the region’s cultural flavor. A halved eggplant came stuffed with seasoned ground beef, bell pepper and herbs

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In late March 2014, DaWa Poulet Frit & Grille Coréen opened on busy rue Sherbrooke in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood. There’s a Korean-Japanese market next door and giant Persian supermarket Akhavan is across the street. The diverse area has a feeling similar to that of Astoria, Queens — an ideal setting for Montréal’s first devoted KFC spot. Other restaurants, such as Shabu Shabu BBQ Corea, an all-you-can eat barbecue joint on the outskirts of the NDG ’hood, have long served fried chicken as an incidental part of the menu. At DaWa, it’s the main attraction. Recently, fried noodles, teriyaki and pork cutlet have joined the roster of fried-chicken varieties. While the western style is to butcher chickens into anatomically specific parts,

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ver the past decade, Vermont’s food landscape has seen a gustatory revolution. Menus tout local ingredients aplenty, and global cuisine is on the rise: Within a few weeks Burlington will be host to not one but three Himalayan restaurants, for example. Even so, there are times when diners crave something we can’t find locally. And that’s when we look northward for even more dining options. As southern Québec’s highway A-35 nears completion, Vermont’s closest big city is easier to access than ever. In our new occasional series, Bouffez Montréal, we’ll share our favorite finds — a particular cuisine type, neighborhood or even hardto-find dish — to help our readers get acclimated in that city. This first installment is dedicated to Korean fried chicken, or yangnyeom tongdak. When massive Korean-owned chains KyoChon and Bonchon arrived in New York City late last decade, Americans began to develop an appetite for the extracrispy, twice-fried birds. Montréal was slow to catch on, partly because the chains never opened locations there. The city welcomed its first KFC (the tongue-in-cheek abbreviation for Korean fried chicken) joint about a year ago, followed in the space of seven months by two more. Each is independently owned. On a recent Saturday, we hit them all to compare their juicy, spicy merits.

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the Korean word for beer. Here, though, beer options were limited to one tap and a few bottles and cans. Still, this was no excuse for the disappointing sides included in our meal: out-of-the-freezer fries and vinegary, Montréal-style coleslaw. This tiny storefront is clearly KFC in its most basic form.

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Asian practice focuses on reducing the animal to bite-size pieces. In the case of DaWa, a whole chicken is broken down into 18 mostly cube-shaped segments. Wings and legs are left somewhat whole, but smaller, bone-in chunks may encompass only a rib or two. We ordered a 10-piece half-and-half chicken platter for $16.99. Five pieces of chicken were taken out of the fryer and dressed with nothing but a shower of parsley. The other five were tossed in what the DaWa menu calls Tao Coréen, a sweet-andspicy take on General Tso’s chicken. When our server took our order from behind the cheerful orange counter, backed by a fast-food-style picture menu, she asked in awkward English if we’d like the sauced pieces “mild or hot.” Often, the only significant burn sauced KFC offers is the juice that bursts forth from the flesh onto the

roof of your mouth. But the spicy Tao we chose was serious. Chiles created a flame so intense it was difficult to taste anything but heat and a hint of lightly caramelized sugar. As is typical of KFC, the chicken was coated thinly with sauce that merged with the crisp coating. But it took a taste of the unsauced meat to really get a read on its quality. The commonly stated reasons for frying the chicken twice, at only about 350 degrees, is to attain the thin, crisp jacket and an exceptionally juicy interior. The chicken at DaWa excelled in the former but not the latter. The blandest of the chickens we tried, DaWa’s was also the driest. Perhaps this leads to more beer sales. Suds are so integral to the ritual of eating fried chicken that many Koreans refer to a meal of it as “chi-mek.” “Chi” is short for chicken, while “mek” is an abbreviation of “mekju,”

A few minutes away, also in the NDG, 7-month-old Restaurant Coréen Mon Ami is anything but basic. Korean teenagers sat in front of a flat-screen TV that played K-pop music videos. Only a few of them ate chicken. The menu also includes several soups, stews and noodle dishes. There’s even jokbal, skinny slices of sweet, soy-braised pork trotter. Yet fried chicken is still the centerpiece of the menu. With Mon Ami’s more formal feel, though, comes less flexibility. Unlike most KFC eateries, there’s no half-andhalf option. Most orders consist of a whole chicken prepared one way. Not that the place lacks variety. Rather than beer, we ordered a can of sikhye, an excessively sugary “rice punch.” It’s basically the sugar water you use to attract ants, plus floating chunks of rice with a cardboard texture. Drinking it hurt a little. Our palates were saved by a complimentary bowl of pickled daikon and a small platter of shaved cabbage covered in a salmon-pink blend of ketchup and mayonnaise. Our appetizers arrived quickly. Skewered rice cakes were crisp from frying and covered in a sweet-and-spicy sauce dominated by gochujang. A few black sesame seeds made it a visually appealing plate and, at just $1.25, it was difficult not to order more. But then deep-fried mandu arrived on a heartshaped plate. The exact contents of the finely chopped dumpling fillings were mysterious, but cabbage and garlic were chief among the flavors. The $17.99 chicken was served in a basket lined with the classic chipshop “newspaper,” but in French. The bird’s batter was slightly thicker, with more American-style carbuncles than usual. This made for an even crunchier coating, balanced by an orange-colored chile brine.

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On televisions in each corner of the restaurant, young female rappers from the South Korean show “Unpretty Rapstar” and other K-pop royalty provided entertainment. The all-plastic and angular wood touches lent the room have a futuristic ’60s vibe. Tables are equipped with bells to call the waitress, who, in addition to beer, might also bring soju or Korean plum liquor maehwasu. We decided to try one of Basak’s homemade soft drinks. Kiwi soda turned out to be bubbly water lightly flavored with kiwi the natural way: Slices of the fruit bobbed along with the carbonation. It was an effervescent delight. The menu offers little besides fried chicken, though the bird is also available braised or served in a salad. The half-andhalf is available with or without bones for the same price of $22.99. As at Mon Ami, the chicken was served with cubes of pickled daikon. We couldn’t resist ordering a side dish simply referred to as “corn cheese,” which was just that. A mini cast-iron pan was filled with kernels of corn and topped with mozzarella cheese that was browned in the oven. It was as much a taste of the Midwest as the Far East, but, classy or not, it disappeared quickly. The Korean word “basak” refers to the sound of crunching into food, but, oddly, the restaurant’s bird was the least crisp of the lot. The batter was on the thicker side, and, at times, the garlic-flavored dredge that dressed the plain chicken was slightly doughy. The pieces rolled in sauce and sesame seeds fared better. Only a hint of sweetness marred the subtle spice and vinegar of the sticky coating. The chicken was far from perfection, but I had no complaints in the moment it sizzled across my tongue. And those meals were just the beginning of Montréal’s KFC adventures. Especially with the States’ now-powerful dollar, Vermonters can keep up to date on the crispy fun. m

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choosing panelists from a mix of female brewers, administrators and other industry folk. The film and panel will be followed by an industry mixer where attendees continue the conversation over — you guessed it — beers. Saturday will follow a more traditional beer-fest format, with attendees sampling brews from a dozen or

Brothers brewery, both from Portland, Maine. Despite assumptions to the contrary, Schultz says finding breweries with women in leadership positions was easy. “Here in Vermont and regionally, we have such an incredible group of women in beer,” she says. “I just kind of wanted to say, ‘Hey, ladies, let’s look at these incredibly awesome

depth to it — I wanted to have the conversation,” Schultz says. Beer is — or should be — a gender-neutral topic, she adds, and attendance is by no means limited to women. “This is not about ‘girls rule, boys drool.’” Friday’s events will include a screening of The Love of Beer, a 2012 film about women of the Pacific Northwest’s beer industry, directed by Portland, Ore.-based Alison Grayson. Eating Well senior food editor cArolYN tESINI, who cofounded Maine Beer Mavens while living in that state, will moderate a panel discussion. Schultz says she’s still

more regional brewers. All weekend, Big Picture will be home to a brewfest tap takeover featuring participating breweries. Schultz is still finalizing the list, but confirmed Vermont breweries include Waterbury’s the AlcHEmISt and Northfield’s PAINE mouNtAIN brEwINg. (brucIE DoNAHuE, who brews at the latter, is the president of the Vermont chapter of the PINk bootS SocIEtY, which aims to empower women to enter the industry through education and collaboration.) Also coming are Rising Tide Brewing and Bissell

women who are already out there and doing it.’ It’s about introducing women to an opportunity that they don’t think they have.” No one is intentionally or institutionally excluding women from the business, Schultz adds. “It’s not like men are afraid of women [entering the business], but brewing has historically been the man’s dominion. It’s just the way it is.”

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Thursday, April 23, 7-9 p.m. Higher Ground Ballroom, 1214 Williston Road, S. Burlington. Limited tickets available. $15 adv./$20: highergroundmusic.com.

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Sunday, April 26. Doors open at: 6 p.m. Trivia: 6:30-9 p.m. Vermont Sports Grill, 1705 Williston Rd., S. Burlington.

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Wednesday, April 29, 5:30-7 p.m. ArtsRiot, 400 Pine St., Burlington, $5 donation.

Childcare for kids ages 2-12 at the Greater Burlington YMCA.

Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, 6-8:30 p.m. $15/$20. Preregistration required. Info, 862-9622.

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Foodies compete against one another in a statewide Instagram scavenger hunt. The challenges will be announced at the start of Restaurant Week and the participants will have one week to complete the tasks. The winner will receive a dinner for six in the butcher room at Hen of the Wood (Burlington) cooked by chef Eric Warnstedt.

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Compete for prizes in seven rounds of foodie trivia hosted by Seven Days and Top Hat Entertainment. Limited space. Pre-registration is required on the Vermont Restaurant Week website.

some of our finest cheeses with their milk. But most Vermonters have never eaten chevon, or goat meat, and it rarely appears on restaurant menus. How come? Why aren’t more farmers introducing meat goats into their fields? Why aren’t local chefs putting them on their menus? Join a panel of local experts for a lively discussion on the potential these bleating babies represent for Vermont’s food system and evolving agricultural landscape.

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Tax Day Penny Poll: As part of the Day of Action Against Military Spending, the Peace & Justice Center raises awareness about the percentage of income tax dollars that go to the military. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

business

Kelley Marketing Meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495. Working Globally, Connecting Locally: A networking event provides area professionals with access to employers who work around the world. Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-2343.

community

Community Dialogue Night: Locals sit down to dinner and discuss ways to create a safe and drugfree Winooski. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 655-4565. Men's Group: A supportive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

Vermont ’70s Community Forum: Folks offer input for a multiyear project dedicated to documenting the decade in the state. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

conferences

Gensler Family Symposium on Feminism in a Global Context: "Punishing Bodies: Feminist Responses to the Carceral State" gives rise to an in-depth examination of race, gender, class and more. Middlebury College, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2007.

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Knitters & Needleworkers: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. checked into Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. The following day, he stepped onto the balcony and was assassinated. Playwright Katori Hall reimagines the eve of King’s death in The Mountaintop. Titled after King’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” the Olivier Award-winning drama takes place entirely in Room 306. There, a hotel maid lends an ear to the civil-rights leader, who reveals flaws and insecurities at odds with his public persona. The Vermont Stage Company opens a three-week run of the play, with Jolie Garrett starring opposite Myxolydia Tyler.

Gregg Treinish: The founder of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation presents the keynote address for the college's recognition of Earth Week. Roy Event Room, Dion Family Student Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2733. Who Controls the Water? Managing River Resources Through Civic Engagement: Nile Project founder Mina Girgis joins environmental experts to address how international water issues relate to socioeconomic development. Room 41, Haldeman Hall, Haldeman Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2010.

‘The Mountaintop’ Wednesday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., at FlynnSpace in Burlington. See website for future dates. $28.80-32. Info, 863-5966. vtstage.org

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Girl Develop It Code & Coffee: Coders of all skill levels sip cups of joe while sharing recent projects and programming problems. Dealer.com, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, burlington@girldevelopit.com.

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Valley Night Featuring Peter Day: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.

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Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-40. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org. Wednesday, April 22, 7 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $17-50. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu

ECHO Earth Week's MudFest: Families celebrate muck in all its glory with themed activities, games and mud flinging. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

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Frog Hollow Winter Film Series: 'Handmade Nation': Faythe Levine's 2009 documentary highlights contemporary American crafters amid the rise of the DIY movement. A discussion with Vermont artists Moe O'Hara and Mark Dabelstein follows. Feldman's Bagels, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458.

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

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AfroLatin Party: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, WED.15

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BLACK VIOLIN Monday, April 20, 7 p.m., at Casella Theater, Castleton State College. $10-15. Info, 468-1119. castleton.edu

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ooks can be deceiving. Just ask Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, the classically trained violin and viola players whose hip-hop style seems incongruous with their instruments — until they start playing. Performing as Black Violin, the two remain true to their orchestral roots while pursuing a shared passion for popular music. For the past decade, Baptiste and Sylvester have carved out a genre-bending niche, pulling their sound from classical, hip-hop, rock and R&B. With an average of 200 shows a year and appearances at the Apollo Theater and President Obama’s Inaugural Ball, the groundbreaking group shows no signs of slowing down.

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Typically, the word ukulele conjures up images of grass skirts and Hawaiian beaches. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is nothing of the sort. Clad in formal concert attire, the eclectic ensemble pushes the teeny four-string guitar beyond its Polynesian past. According to the New York Times, the instrument is “endowed with an oversize dose of unexpected hipness” when the group appears onstage. Melding humor with vocal harmonies and technical ability, the polished performers embark on a musical journey that travels from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana to Lady Gaga.

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Kathleen Madigan entered the world of standup comedy on a whim. A former bartender, she worked next to a comedy club, where a spur-of-the-moment decision to participate in an open mic spawned a 25-year career. Now an awardwinning comedian, the Missouri native has a lengthy and impressive résumé — from countless late-night television appearances to specials on HBO, Showtime and Comedy Central. Despite her success, Madigan remains an “old-school touring performer with an unpretentious take on her craft,” says the Denver Post. This straightforward approach comes to life in the laugh-a-minute show “Madigan Again.”

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'Travesties': Vladimir Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara unite onstage, where they explore art, politics and philosophy in Tom Stoppard's World War I-era drama. Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, Through 8 p.m. $24.50-59. Info, 514-739-7944.

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Insight Meditation: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

Song Circle: Singers and musicians convene for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.

Postnatal Core: Babies are welcome at a class for new moms aimed at strengthening glutes, abdominals and the pelvic floor. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

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'All in the Family' Film Series: Themed movies provide age-appropriate entertainment. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Story Time & Playgroup: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

language

English as a Second Language Class: Beginners better their vocabulary. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. German-English Conversation Group: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: Students sharpen grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

Montpelier Alive Networking Event: Members of the capital city's business community mix and mingle over cocktails and light fare. 13 Main Street, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604.

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Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce Mixer: Friends and colleagues catch up in a relaxed environment while learning about current community projects. Bliss Hall, St. Albans Historical Museum, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister; cash bar. Info, 524-2444. KidSafe Collaborative Outstanding Service Awards Luncheon: Area professionals and volunteers are recognized for their efforts to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $25. Info, 863-9626.

Current Events dr en Conversation: An informal open nt ’s ce Ch nn o ir discussion delves into newsworthy | COURTESY OF Fly Vermont Creative Network: From subjects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, artist and designers to business owners, those Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. interested in developing the state's creative sector Willem Lange: The outdoor adventurer recounts meet to discuss ideas over dinner. Fletcher Free the trials and triumphs of his paddles in "The Best Library, Burlington, 4:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Worst Canoe Trip I Was Ever On." Green Mountain Info, 828-5423. Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 6 p.m. $8-10; l

Pajama Story Time: Tykes cuddle up in PJs for captivating tales, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5664.

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One-on-One Tutoring: Students in grades 1 through 6 get extra help in reading, math and science. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

talks

Wildcraft Your Artwork: Participating With the Living Landscape: Art lovers get back to the land with artist Nick Neddo, who forages for tools and supplies in nature. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Music Makers: Song-based activities help increase children's vocabulary and phonological awareness. Richmond Free Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

Women's Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies hit the court for a weekly game. See meetup.com for details. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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Moving & Grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Premier Floor Hockey League: Experienced players take shots in a competitive game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 7-10 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 355-4588.

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Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Kiddos channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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Unfiltered: Wine & Poetry: Locally made vino pairs perfectly with verse from Vermont poets. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

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ChildLight Yoga for Kids: Little ones ages 4 through 8 hit the mat and learn a sequence of stretches. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-2:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Spring Into Clean: Lauren Andrews helps participants prep for spring cleaning with DIY products made from wild-harvested essential oils. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $20-22; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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

Short Fiction Writing Workshop: Readers give feedback on stories penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

Mapping Found Sounds: Repurposed microphones become electronic listening devices for future use on an auditory adventure around Burlington. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 656-8056.

fairs & festivals

Prenatal Barre: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and delivery. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

Basic Everyday Bicycling Workshop: Pedal pushers nosh on pizza while acquiring safety tips for traveling on two wheels. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6:307:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-2700.

Pizza & Poetry: Poets give a salon-style reading over slices of pie. Positive Pie, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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Miwa Matreyek: Digital animation meets realtime shadow play in This World Made Itself, an awe-inspiring journey through Earth's history. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. 'Songs for a New World': Jason Robert Brown's musical revue travels from a 1492 Spanish ship to New York City when telling the story of people seeking out a new beginning. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $20-55. Info, 296-7000.

words

Book Night Out: Local authors sign their work at a family-friendly gathering featuring a scavenger hunt and live music by the UVM Top Cats. South Burlington Community Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. Lunchtime Poetry Reading: Wordsmiths serve up a literary lunch as part of PoemTown St. Johnsbury festivities. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Margaret Gray: More than 10 years of extensive interviews inform Labor and the Locavore, an examination of the lives of farm workers in New York's Hudson Valley. Room 111, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 12:15-1:20 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2733.

conferences

Gender and Precarity: The Consequences of Economic & Climate Instability: Panel discussions address issues of gender and contemporary family life. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4282.

dance

'Dare to be Square' Square Dance Series: Will Mentor calls the steps to tunes by old-time fiddler Jim Burns. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 229-9043.

education

Upper Valley Educators Institute Information Session: Faculty meet with educators to discuss certification programs for teachers and principals. Upper Valley Educators Institute, Lebanon, N.H., 5 p.m. Free. Info, 603 678-4888.

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Bacon Thursday: Piano jazz from Andric Severance entertains costumed attendees, who nosh on cured meat and creative dipping sauces at this weekly gathering. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 7-10 p.m. Cost of food; cash bar. Info, 229-2090. Mount Mansfield Scale Modelers: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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Thursday Night Inspirations: Renowned Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön offers insights in "Taking Care of Each Other," recorded live at the Omega Institute in 2013. Yarn and Yoga, Bristol, 6-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7799.

food & drink

¡Salud!: A Wine Auction & Vermont Food Event: Philanthropic oenophiles pair hors d'oeuvres with select wines, then bid on bottles to add to their collections. Proceeds benefit the Community Health Centers of Burlington. The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 6:30-9 p.m. $75. Info, 264-8199.

health & fitness

Beginner Tai Chi for Health & Balance: A weekly yang short-form series winds down with a seated breathing meditation. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $25 per series; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968. Community Mindfulness: Folks relieve stress and tension with a 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O'Connor. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. Fitness Boot Camp: Participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Cornwall Town Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Winter Into Spring Lunar Sound Bath Meditation Series: Immersion in the vibrations of didgeridoos, singing bowls, frame drums and flutes alleviates stress and tension. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 540-0186.

kids

Food For Thought Library Volunteers: Pizza fuels a teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Lego Club: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire young minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Middlebury Preschool Story Time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake out their sillies to toe-tapping tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Plainfield Preschool Story Time: Children ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504. Poetry Reading With Children: Librarian Nicole Westbom facilitates an open-mic for kiddos ages 5 and up. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Preschool Story Time: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for tykes ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. Read to a Dog: Lit lovers ages 5 through 10 take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. Spanish Musical Kids: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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yoga With Danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

language

manDarin chineSe claSS: Linguistics lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

lgbtq

FagBug: Arriving in her rainbow-colored Volkswagen Beetle, hate-crime-victim-turnedLGBTQ-activist Erin Davies raises awareness about the far-reaching effects of homophobia. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

music

lunch & learn: Gail Rosenberg and Elise Guyette journey through bygone neighborhoods in "Our Edible Past: Food Traditions and Cultural History of Burlington." Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, 863-4214. m.a.g.i.c.: maSculinity anD genDer iDentity converSation: Open sharing encourages attendees to find common ground. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218. mark eDmunDSon: The University of Virginia professor of English lends his expertise to "Real Life or Ideal Life: In Defense of the Great Ideals." Roy Event Room, Dion Family Student Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2795. camille Dungy: The author, poet and Colorado State University professor of English presents "What the Past Reveals About the Future of Environmental Writing." Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5710.

theater

'calenDar girlS': Chaos ensues when a group of women pose nude for a calendar as a fundraising effort in Tim Firth's awardwinning drama, staged by the Shelburne Players. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 343-2602. O LL E G E

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'next to normal': Themes of loss, suicide and drug abuse drive Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's rock musical about a mother's struggle with bipolar disorder, presented by the Middlebury College Musical Players. 8 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-3168.

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h. nicholaS muller iii: The coauthor of Inventing Ethan Allen poses serious questions about the historical figure's personal and political motives. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2291.

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'o, caligula! a mvSical': History comes alive in Saints & Poets Production Company's musical comedy based on the Roman emperor. Adult content; for mature audiences only. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966.

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the BuSineSS oF craFt BreWing: Home brewers curious about pursuing their hobby beyond the basement get helpful tips from industry professionals. Vermont Food Venture Center, Hardwick, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 595-3388.

national theatre live: A researcher finds herself at the intersection of biology and psychology in a broadcast production of Tom Stoppard's drama The Hard Problem. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-24. Info, 748-2600.

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tranScontinental piano Duo: Four hands are better than two when pianists Elaine Greenfield and Janice Meyer Thompson interpret works by Brahms, Bernstein and others. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 775-4301.

the SixtieS experience: Flower power! Burlington band Mellow Yellow channels the psychedelic era in a multimedia concert of peace-andlove grooves. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 399-2589.

seminars

raphael gualazzi: The singer-songwriter's vocal and instrumental gifts shine when his classical training intersects with jazz and blues. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 683-0006.

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learning to Be a purpoSe-Full Worker: Nia Austin Edwards of PURPOSE Productions helps artists and activists engage with the world through online identities, mailing lists and social media. Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

'euryDice': Aerial silks, shadow puppetry and live music put a modern twist on the classic myth GE JO Orpheus and Eurydice. Montpelier tt OF Er Y tS TES City Hall Auditorium, 7-9 p.m. $10-60. hoE DeaD Set: The Grateful Dead tribute mAKEr | CO UR Info, 229-0492. band delights music lovers with an evening of covers. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Cafe, 'hamlet' auDition: Actors vie for spots in Middlebury, 9 p.m.-midnight. $10. Info, 388-4841. Adirondack Regional Theatre's summer production of Shakespeare's tragedy about a vengeful FranceSca BlancharD: Armed with an acoustic prince who plots against his uncle. Plattsburgh guitar, the bilingual singer-songwriter belts out City Recreation Center, N.Y., 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, introspective tunes in French and English. River adirondackregionaltheatre@hotmail.com. Arts, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261. miDDleBury college orcheStra: Andrew Massey conducts student musicians in an interpretation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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BurgunDy thurSDay: Michael Chorney, Joe Adler, Aaron Flinn and Eric George lend their talents to an evening of songs and storytelling. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation; BYOB. Info, 617-780-7701.

All Souls Interfaith Gathering

aFrican chilDren'S choir: An uplifting show blends song, dance and traditional instruments with eye-catching costumes and video projections. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-36. Info, 863-5966.

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vermont Symphony orcheStra 'ah! cappella' vocal Quartet: c.p. Smith elementary: Vocalists wow elementary students with a program ranging from early madrigals to African American spirituals. A Q&A follows. C.P. Smith Elementary, Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10.

entrepreneurial Spirit Seminar: The Burlington Young Professionals host an evening dedicated to new trends in social media. New Moon Café, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 863-3489.

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Spring DiScovery: Little ones ages 3 through 5 and their adult companions search for wildflowers and other signs of the changing seasons. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 9-10:30 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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poetRy fest 2015: Neil Shepard, David Cavanagh and Carol Potter excerpt selected works, to the delight of lit lovers. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-33350. poetRy slam WitH geof HeWitt: Wordsmiths bring verse up to three minutes long to an all-ages event led by Vermont's poetry slam champion. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. sydney lea: Vermont's poet laureate pays homage to National Poetry Month with selections from What's the Story? Short Takes on a Life Grown Long and the forthcoming No Doubt the Nameless. Waterbury Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. tHiRd tHuRsday poetRy slam: Pizza fuels poets for a stanza extravaganza. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 324-9538.

'tHRee WRiteRs fouR nigHts': Journalist Joanna Tebbs Young joins Castleton State College professors of English Burnham Holmes and 4/6/15 10:35 AMJoyce Thomas to discuss the writing life. Herrick Auditorium, Castleton College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, burnham.holmes@castleton.edu.

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baRgain dRess basH: Teens say yes to the dress when selecting gently used, discounted threads for prom and graduation. Proceeds benefit Essex CHIPS. Essex CHIPS & Teen Center, Essex Junction, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6982.

4/8/15 2:23 PMfeast togetHeR oR feast to go: Senior

citizens and their guests chat over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288. Home sHaRe noW infoRmation session: Locals get up-to-date details on home-sharing opportunities in central Vermont. Orange East Senior Center, Bradford, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8544.

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Relay foR life uVm: Participants complete laps around the track as part of the world's largest cancer-fighting movement. UVM Archie Post Athletic Complex, Burlington, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, 872-6307.

Spring Classes Start Soon! SPRING ADULT CLASSES KIDS SUMMER CAMPS clay • metal • wood visual art and more! theshelburnecraftschool.org 802 985-3648 64 Harbor Road, Shelburne

eCHo eaRtH Week's mudfest: See WED.15.

health & fitness

Community Vinyasa WitH CandaCe: Students of all skill levels deepen the body-mind-breath connection. South End Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $6. Info, 683-4918. laugHteR yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

kids

'CalendaR giRls': See THU.16. 'CiRque pRom': DJs Christelle Franca and Speakeasy Electro Swing provide the soundtrack for a subversive circus show featuring world-class performers. Gymnasium, Austine School for the Deaf, Brattleboro, 7:30 p.m. $8-15. Info, 254-9780. 'euRydiCe': See THU.16, 8-10 p.m. 'Hamlet' audition: See THU.16. 'next to noRmal': See THU.16. 'songs foR a neW WoRld': See WED.15.

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spRing book sale: Bookworms check out thousands of titles. Milne Community Room, Aldrich Library, Barre, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

stoRies WitH megan: Captivating tales entertain budding bookworms ages 2 through 5. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

CanCeR suRViVoR stoRytelling: True tales highlight the ways in which stories can heal, inspire and illuminate. North Branch Café, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2736.

music

CReatiVe WRiting WoRksHop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

daRtmoutH College glee Club: Vocalists honor the life of former Dartmouth College student Christina Porter with a suite of her poems, set by composer Pierre Jalbert. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. gRegoRy alan isakoV: The contemplative crooner lends his lyrical gifts to selections from The Weatherman. Jolie Holland opens. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 862-5630.

conferences dance

natasHa paRemski: Works by Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff come alive in the hands of the prize-winning pianist. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 863-5966.

ballRoom & latin danCing: tango: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience is required. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 862-2269.

theater

tHe aRt of JouRnal WRiting: Participants experiment with different styles, then discuss their experiences. The N Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 At A AS AT hA tHe nile pRoJeCt family matinee: p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 888-492FN PAr YO S E E T m S ki | C O U R A family-friendly show introduces 8218, ext. 302. kiddos to Africa's rich song-and-dance tradibRoWn bag book Club: Readers voice tions. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, opinions about John Grisham's A Painted House. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $15. Info, Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30603-646-2422. 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Jason lee: Folk, rock and soul influences thread through an intimate show by the singer-songwriter and guitarist. Growler Garage, South Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2337.

gensleR family symposium on feminism in a global Context: See WED.15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

talks

'o, Caligula! a mVsiCal': See THU.16.

eaRly biRd matH: One plus one equals fun! Youngsters and their caregivers gain exposure to mathematics through books, songs and games. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. musiC WitH RobeRt: Singalongs with Robert Resnik hit all the right notes. Daycare programs welcome, with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Community JouRnalism day: "Media Ethics and You" prompts an in-depth examination of reporting in the digital age. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 635-1276.

leaRning to be a puRpose-full WoRkeR: See THU.16.

fairs & festivals

spRing into summeR Rummage sale: Shoppers snatch up toys, books, clothing and household items. The Congregational Church of Middlebury, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7634.

seminars

felloWsHip of tHe WHeel spRing fling season kiCk-off paRty: Cyclists get psyched for spring mountain biking with tasty eats and live tunes by A House On Fire. Proceeds benefit current FOTW projects. Union Station, Burlington, 7 p.m.midnight. $20; cash bar. Info, 609-709-9625, info@ fotwheel.org.

spRing Rummage sale: Bargain seekers browse a wide array of secondhand treasures. First Baptist Church of Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.

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VeRmont ContempoRaRy musiC ensemble: David Huddle's poem, "The Husband's Tale," inspires original pieces by local composers in "Too Intimate?" Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, 849-6900.

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Red Wagon plants opening day CelebRation: Greenhouse tours give way to refreshments and cocktails at this daylong gathering dedicated to the arrival of spring. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 482-4060.

tRaditional italian Village danCe: Dancers tap into the cultural heritage of Italy's small mountain villages with various steps and styles. Middlesex Town Hall, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 793-2624.

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Red Hot Juba: The local group delivers an intimate performance of countrified jazz as part of Jazz Appreciation Month. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 6-8 p.m. $12-15; preregister; cash bar. Info, 985-3346.

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kaRen getteRt sHoemakeR: Bookworms travel back in time to the World War I immigrant experience in America in The Meaning of Names. Stearns Cinema, Johnson State College, noon. Free. Info, 635-1340.

'moVement matteRs': Middlebury College choreographer-in-residence Maree ReMalia explores the intersection of dance and academics in a lecture-demonstration of her work. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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tHe nile pRoJeCt: Eleven African artists offer a diverse program of music from Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda and beyond to raise awareness about cultural and environmental issues in the Nile River basin. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-40. Info, 603-646-2422.

poemCity: CouRting tHe muse: geneRating poems: Prompts from poet Kate Fetherston help writers create original material. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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autumn's abundant gaRden display: Master gardener Richard Dube presents ways to plan for seasonal landscapes that incorporate color, texture and form. Proceeds benefit the Richmond Food Shelf. Richmond Free Library, check-in, 9:30 a.m.; workshop; 10 a.m.-noon. Donations; preregister. Info, 434-4834. 'lost apples' pRuning WoRksHop: Horticulturalists head to the museum's orchard to learn about arboreal upkeep from the pros at Shacksbury Cider. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3406.

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Volunteer tree Planting: Locals lend a hand to the land and add saplings to a forest restoration project on the Missisquoi River. Call for details. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 868-4781.

art

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'the hunting ground': Kirby Dick's 2015 documentary exposes the often-overlooked epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. A discussion follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

art With a SPice: All skill levels are welcome at an open class aimed at learning art techniques while socializing and building community. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $22. Info, 540-8300.

'nothing like dreaming': George Woodard plays an outlaw fire artist whose life changes upon meeting a woman named Emma in the latest drama from Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson. Fairfield Community Center, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 827-3130.

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SPring rummage Sale: See FRI.17, 9 a.m.-noon. SPring into Summer rummage Sale: See FRI.17, 9 a.m.-noon.

community

cambridge area rotary bunco: Games, prizes, raffles and a silent auction entertain attendees at a fundraiser for rotary club activities. Boyden Farm, Cambridge, 6-10 p.m. $15; cash bar. Info, 793-0856. one SPring Fling: an old north end community celebration: Food, raffle prizes and a photo booth complement tunes from the Art Herttua & Stephen Morabito Jazz Duo at a fundraiser for the ONE Good Deed Fund. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $20-35. Info, 238-7994. rokeby muSeum Volunteer orientation: A brief training course details opportunities ranging from bookkeeping to guiding tours. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 11 a.m. Free. Info, rokeby@ comcast.net. Vermont comPaSSion centerS: Folks get information about the Vermont law allowing for legal medical marijuana access. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

dance

meditatiVe Sacred circle dancing: Uplifting music enlivens ancient and modern international choreographies in a welcoming class. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 978-4247968, mellybock@gmail.com.

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bike Jam: Gearheads help low-income Vermonters with repairs, while others craft jewelry out of old bicycle parts or help out around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, dan@bikerecycle.localmotion.org.

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rutland Winter FarmerS market: More than 50 vendors bring produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products to a bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269. Sugar on SnoW: Folks welcome spring with maple syrup treats, sap-boiling demos, live music and a petting zoo. Palmer's Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054.

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Vermont ScholaStic cheSS chamPionShiPS: Quick thinkers in grades K through 12 vie for their opponents' king in a meeting of the minds. Berlin Elementary School, registration, 8:30-9:30 a.m.; games, 10 a.m. $12; free for spectators. Info, 223-1948.

health & fitness

FitneSS boot camP: See THU.16, Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7:30-8:30 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. r.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.15, 9-10 a.m.

kids

burlington Saturday Story time: Tots and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. hoPStoP Family SerieS: 'riVer SongS': Tykes ages 3 and up explore African music and culture with members of the Nile Project. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free; limited space. Info, 603-646-2010. middlebury Saturday Story time: Captivating narratives arrest the attention of young ’uns. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. one-on-one tutoring: See WED.15, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday droP-in Story time: A weekly selection of music and books engages kids of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5664. School oF creatiVe and PerForming artS Summer Program inFormation SeSSion: Teens get the scoop on intensives in filmmaking, photography, dance and acting. Champlain College, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 800-718-2787.

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'child'S PoSe': When her son is charged with manslaughter, an architect will stop at nothing to keep him out of jail in Calin Peter Netzer's awardwinning thriller. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3-4:30 & 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

middlebury Winter FarmerS market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 989-7223.

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the Way oF the heart Sacred cacao ceremony & Sound healing: Katrina Coravos of Liberty Chocolates facilitates a traditional celebration of Mexican cacao. Potluck fare, guided sound meditation and ecstatic dance round out the event. Bobbin Mill Community Center, Burlington, 3-8 p.m. $20 suggested donation; preregister. Info, stevescuderi@gmail.com.

Wine taSting: acroSS corSica: Vino lovers sample varietals from esteemed winemakers JeanCharles Abbatucci, Yves Canarelli and Antoine Arena. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

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Verd mont button club oPen houSe: Button collectors from around the state display their wares and welcome fellow enthusiasts to bring their stash in for assessment. Nella Grimm Foxx Room, Rutland Free Library, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 775-3639.

ham SuPPer & Silent auction: Neighbors feast on a spread of ham, roasted potatoes, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, veggies and dessert. Winooski United Methodist Church, 6 p.m. $510; takeout available; preregister. Info, 655-7371.

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chocolate taSting: Chocoholics sample confections and discover the steps involved in evaluating flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

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BurlingTon BarBershop harmony socieTy & green mounTain chorus: Regional favorites from throughout the United States enliven "The Road Less Traveled." Essex High School, 2 & 7 p.m. $4.50-18. Info, 505-9595. heliand consorT: The woodwind trio spans centuries with an expansive repertoire for clarinet, oboe and strings. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner package; preregister. Info, 247-4295. Kemp harris: With rich vocals and stellar piano skills, the seasoned performer travels between blues, jazz, American roots and African folk. Sanctuary, Waterbury Congregational Church, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 244-6606. marTin & eliza carThy: The father-daughter duo taps into history with a program of English folk songs. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7:30-10 p.m. $20. Info, 233-5293. The poulenc Trio: As part of the Northeast Kingdom Classical Series, the threesome interprets works for the oboe, piano and bassoon. South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-3315. social Band: The Burlington choral group juxtaposes Renaissance pieces with traditional English tunes in "A Beautiful Adventure: Songs of Travels and Transformations." United Church of Hinesburg, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 453-4658. vermonT conTemporary music ensemBle: See FRI.17, Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $525. Info, 849-6900. vermonT symphony orchesTra chorus: Compositions by Bach, Handel, Brahms and Vaughan Williams propel "Masters in Springtime." College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5741, ext. 10.

outdoors

Birding WalK: Break out the binoculars! Birders trek through diverse habitats to gather information for the Vermont eBird database. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 8-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-4781.

seminars

'lava fossil': The adventures of a dad, a crab and a dentist come to life in a suitcase theater show by Beth Nixon. Singer-songwriters Joshua Marcus and Chenda Cope open. Plainfield Town Hall, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, plainfieldtownhall@gmail.com. 'nexT To normal': See THU.16. 'o, caligula! a mvsical': See THU.16, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 'songs for a neW World': See WED.15.

words

spring BooK sale: See FRI.17, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. creaTive WriTing WorKshop: See FRI.17, 11 a.m. five colleges BooK sale: Thousands of used, antiquarian and out-of-print volumes delight bibliophiles at a benefit for New England collegiate scholarships. Lebanon High School, N.H., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 295-0906. poeTry experience: Rajnii Eddins facilitates a poetry and spoken-word workshop aimed at building confidence and developing a love of writing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. poeTry slam: Wordplay figures prominently in an evening of open-mic verse. Washburn Tattoo, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. sTory sharing symposium: Recille Hamrell hosts a panel of professional storytellers, who help participants craft compelling narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

sun.19 comedy

KaThleen madigan: The seasoned performer elicits big laughs as part of a national tour. See calendar spotlight. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $29-37. Info, 603-448-0400.

dance

BalKan folK dancing: Louise Brill and friends organize people into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $6; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020. 'ivan The TerriBle': The Bolshoi Ballet brings the tragic love story of Ivan IV to the big screen in a broadcast production. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

finding BeauTy, receiving BeauTy: Writing exercises, imagery and art help participants examine what it means to be beautiful outside of societal pressures for physical perfection. The Writers' Barn, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-noon. $20 suggested donation. Info, 922-7641.

fairs & festivals

genealogy seminar: Vermonters with French Canadian heritage learn how to navigate Genealogie Québec's Drouin Institute databases. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285. inTroducTion To poWerpoinT: Those familiar with the program get creative with slide shows, charts, text, templates and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

vcam orienTaTion: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

theater

'calendar girls': See THU.16, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 4/13/15 4:28 PM

'henry iv, parT 1' audiTion: Actors ages 18 and up try out for Shakespeare on Main Street's summer production of the Bard's tale of romance, music and high political intrigue. Brandon Town Hall, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 282-2581.

compuTers and safeTy: An informative session identifies ways to protect personal information online. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

mapping found sounds: See WED.15, noon-3 p.m.

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music

'eurydice': See THU.16, 2-4 & 8-10 p.m.

echo earTh WeeK's mudfesT: See WED.15.

film

chandler film socieTy: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore star in Stephen Daldry's 2002 cinematic interpretation of Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 6 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204.

food & drink

pancaKe BreaKfasT: Bring on the syrup! Neighbors catch up over stacks of flapjacks and eggs and sausage. Grace Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5923. sugar on snoW: See SAT.18.

health & fitness

nia WiTh linda: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

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Sunday Sangha: Community aShtanga yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183. Zumbathon: Dancers groove to Latin rhythms at a fundraiser for the Franklin/Grand Isle Bookmobile. St. Albans City Hall, noon-1:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 868-5077.

kids

KidS yoga: Strength and balance exercises encourage focus and relaxation in yogis ages 3 through 7. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. RuSSian Playtime With nataSha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

language

dimanCheS FRenCh ConveRSation: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

montréal

'tRaveStieS': See WED.15, 2 & 7 p.m.

music

auStRalian ChambeR oRCheStRa: Clarinetist Martin Fröst joins the ensemble in an ambitious program of works by Haydn, Prokofiev and Greenwood. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-60. Info, 603-646-2422.

seminars

diSCoveRing buddhiSm Study gRouP: Readings, discussions and meditations help participants better understand the complete path to enlightenment as taught by the Buddha. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136.

'euRydiCe': See THU.16, 2-4 p.m. JeWiSh PlayWRiting ConteSt: Three plays enter, but only one play leaves at this assembly of theatrical talent hosted by Theatre Kavanah. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $10-15. Info, 503-1132. 'SongS FoR a neW WoRld': See WED.15, 5 p.m.

words

CaRol milKhun: The author of A Tapestry of Queens discusses her evolution from poet to novelist, then considers the current state of small publishing houses. A Q&A follows. Warren Public Library, 3-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3913. dan CloSe: The local poet shares stanzas in honor of National Poetry Month. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.

RobeRt mello: The Vermont Superior Court judge lets his love of history shine in Moses Robinson and the Founding of Vermont. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

big tRee Ride: A seven-mile pedal takes nature lovers to the biggest tree in Vermont. Personal bike locks required. Meet in front of the Winooski Post Office. Downtown Winooski, 8-11 a.m. Free. Info, 399-7095.

community

SaSh inFoRmation SeSSion: Folks get details on Support and Services at Home, a statewide wellness program available to the elderly. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 343-2219.

dance

SalSa mondayS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and the cha cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

fairs & festivals

eCho eaRth WeeK'S mudFeSt: See WED.15.

food & drink

baCKSeat beRneR & oveR eaSy launCh PaRty: Cheers! The folks at Otter Creek Brewing debut two new flavors at a spirited shindig. Nectar's, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-0727.

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games

tRivia night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

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laPlatte RiveR natuRal aRea Paddle: An outing through marshes highlights wildlife habitat and native vegetation. Contact trip leader for details. LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area, Shelburne, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, ted@ted-albers.net.

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2015 gRavel gRindeR: Cyclists spin their wheels on a 25-mile course of hills and dirt roads, then unwind at a post-race party. Meet at Pilgrim Park. Various Waterbury locations, registration, 8 a.m.; ride, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $35. Info, 999-9762.

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Student Piano ReCital: Diana Fanning's Middlebury College pupils put on a spring concert of arrangements by Bach, Chopin and others. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 & 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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SPRing booK & ePhemeRa FaiR: Bibliophiles visit pages of publishing past with rare and unusual titles. Maps, postcards and more complete the trip down memory lane. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 527-7243.

SoCial band: See SAT.18, Charlotte Congregational Church, 3-4 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 453-4658.

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Radio Play WoRKShoP: Wordsmiths explore the art of writing narrative to be broadcast over the airwaves. 22 Church St., Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister at meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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Paul oRgel: In "Music From the Holocaust," the pianist presents a composition from Viktor Ullman alongside works by Schubert, Beethoven and others. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-1800.

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helen Kim: The internationally recognized violinist puts on a bow-and-string clinic in "The A |H E El GL EN Art of the Violin." Cloudland Farm AN Ki m NT E P | C F OURTESY O Restaurant, Woodstock, 3-4 & 5-6 p.m. $10-20. Info, 457-3981. navy band noRtheaSt: Forty-five musicians from across the country combine talents for a concert of popular standards, jazz and patriotic tunes. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 728-6464.

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bRooKS WilliamS: The singersongwriter and guitarist taps into the best of American roots and blues in an acoustic show. Tunbridge Town Hall, 4 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433.

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health & fitness

Beginner Tai Chi for healTh & BalanCe: See THU.16, 5:15-6:45 p.m.

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Body reBooT Camp for new moms: Using timed intervals, body weight and other tools, an innovative class helps mothers get fit. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

adulT wriTing group: Wordsmiths hone their skills at a monthly meet-up. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

pee-wee pilaTes: Moms bond with their babies in a whole-body workout. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 829-0211.

dan fagin: As part of the Benson Lecture Series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Green Mountain College, Poultney, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.15.

kids

poeTry worKshop: Lit lovers read and respond to hand-picked verse. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

aliCe in noodleland: Kiddos get acquainted over crafts and play while new and expectant parents chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

sCreenwriTing worKshop: Aspiring dramatic writers practice the art of the three-act structure. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

inTro To Video produCTion Camp: Handson instruction gives kids ages 9 through 14 the chance to film and edit projects for Lake Champlain Access Television. Georgia Public Library, Fairfax, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 524-4643.

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Kids yoga: A fun-filled class for yogis ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. musiC wiTh peTer: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk tunes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

business

real esTaTe inVesTing as a Business: Local professionals provide resources and up-to-date information when sharing their experiences with investment properties. Fusion Property Management, LLC, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-7654.

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VermonT aThleTiC aCademy open house: Prospective students learn about opportunities on and off the field at the soccer academy. Vermont Athletic Academy, Shelburne, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 415-290-4332, vermontathletic@gmail.com.

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BlaCK Violin: Classically trained musicians Kev Marcus and Wil B bring a hip-hop sensibility to string instruments. See calendar spotlight. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119.

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gilBerTo gil: The Grammy Award-winning master of Brazilian pop draws from a decades-long career to lead a passionate performance. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-60. Info, 863-5966. mad riVer Chorale open rehearsal: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its June concert, "I Hear America Singing." Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781.

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Tuesday VolunTeer nighTs: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

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poemCiTy: songwriTing for Teens: Emerging musicians ages 12 through 18 pen lyrics and develop ears for melody with Michelle Rodriguez. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:15-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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

dance

Beginner wesT CoasT swing & Blues fusion danCing: Students get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com. inTermediaTe & adVanCed wesT CoasT swing: Experienced dancers learn smooth transitions and smart stylings. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com. inTro To TriBal Belly danCe: Ancient traditions define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $13. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.

fairs & festivals

eCho earTh weeK's mudfesT: See WED.15.

film

CommuniTy Cinema: 'The house i liVe in': Eugene Jarecki's award-winning documentary examines the repercussions of America's war on drugs. A panel discussion follows. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-211. darTmouTh film soCieTy: 'TimBuKTu': Cinephiles screen Abderrahmane Sissako's new drama about the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali, by Islamic militants. A discussion with the filmmaker follows. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

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food & drink

The Pennywise PanTry: A tour of the store helps shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

games

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music

casTleTon Jazz ensemBle: Led by Glenn Giles, performers present a mix of jazz standards, pop covers and fusion pieces. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 468-1119.

GaminG for Teens & adulTs: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

ukulele orchesTra of GreaT BriTain: From Tchaikovsky to Lady Gaga, no musical stone goes unturned when the eclectic ensemble takes hold of the traditional Hawaiian instrument. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

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acTive senior BooT camP: Participants break a sweat while improving strength, flexibility and cardiovascular health. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. droP-in yoGa: Yogis hit the mat for a Hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PuT your money where your dreams are: Financial consultant JoAnn Thibault helps attendees save for the future. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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GenTle yoGa wiTh Jill lanG: Students get their stretch on in a supportive environment. Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

floor hockey for PeoPle wiTh inTellecTual disaBiliTies: Participants ages 10 and up work on passing and shooting skills, then play a short game. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, gbfloorhockey@gmail.com.

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BaBy & Toddler sTory Time: A Mother Goosebased morning features rhymes, songs and stories. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. fairfax sTory hour: 'PiraTe day': Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. fairy sTory Time & crafT: Little ones listen to a fantastical tale, then make fairy houses inspired by what they hear. Children ages 8 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. leGo creaTions: Youngsters ages 4 and up piece together eye-catching structures. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

naTural marshfield: Naturalist Susan Sawyer imparts her wisdom in "Native Pollinators and Your Gardens." Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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chemisTry maGic show: St. Michael's College students bring their bag of tricks to a family-friendly performance. Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, dheroux@smcvt.edu. 'sonGs for a new world': See WED.15.

kayla williams: The Iraq War veteran and memoirist excerpts selected works. Norwich University, Northfield, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2261.

screenPlay wriTinG workshoP: Attendees analyze a work-in-progress about two estranged friends forced to face their failed careers upon reuniting. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meet up.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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children's earTh day concerT & celeBraTion: Songs, stories and tours of the greenhouse and cow barn make for family-friendly fun. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4060.

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'The fuTure of GardeninG: iT's all aBouT PlanTs': Rodney Eason of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens digs into his horticultural knowledge in an informative session. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10. Info, info@ friendsofthehortfarm.org.

youTh media laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Toddler sTory Time: Young ’uns up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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ralPh culver: The award-winning Vermont poet celebrates rhythm and meter as part of National Poetry Month. Brown Public Library, Northfield, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-4621.

Teen Tinker Tuesday: hand-Bound Journals: A hands-on activity rewards participants ages 14 and up with a one-of-a-kind blank book. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:305:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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Tech Tuesdays: Tinkerers tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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Earth Day CElEbration: Eco-minded folks reduce their carbon footprint with a book swap, electronics recycling, kids activities and more. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8000. Earth Day: Earth DinnEr: UVM FeelGood hosts an evening of local fare, live music by Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band and spirited conversation about sustainability. Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $8. Info, 922-7375. Earth Day: 'into thE GyrE': Scott Elliott's documentary chronicles an expedition aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer to examine the effects of plastic pollution in the North Atlantic Ocean. A discussion follows. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. Earth Day Plant Walk: Nature lovers join herbalist Rebecca Dalgin for a seasonal stroll. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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bEnEFit bakE: Pizza lovers dine on slices in support of the Middlebury Arts Walk. Partial proceeds from each flatbread sold are donated. American Flatbread, Middlebury Hearth, 5-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 388-7951. CoFFEE tastinG: See WED.15.

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FrED kirsChEnMann: The awardwinning author, farmer and philosopher presents "Practical Strategies for Anticipating Future Food and Agriculture Challenges" as part of the Vermont’s Table Speaker Series. Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 586-7711, ext. 164.

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hosPiCE & PalliativE CarE WorkshoP: Jaina Clough and Nancy Carlson of the Visiting Nurse Association outline options for those suffering from serious illnesses. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 847-2278.

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aarP sMart DrivEr Class: Drivers ages 50 and up learn to safely navigate the road while addressing the physical changes brought on by aging. Winooski Senior Center, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $15-20; preregister. Info, 655-6425.

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in thE MoMEnt: Every show is different when Charlie Messing, Chanon Bernstein, Phil Blank and Sam Hughes improvise onstage. BCA Center, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0449.

MonEy sMart WEEk: 'lEarn thE kEys to CrEDit': An informative session demystifies the often-confusing world of credit. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

WinE tastinG: WinEMakErs DEsCEnD on DEDalus: Cheers! Oenophiles raise a glass with Daniel Brunier and Pierre de Benoist. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

Earth Day: Jazz voCal EnsEMblE & Jazz CoMbo ConCErt: UVM performers take the stage in an environmentally themed concert. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

Martin WEinstEin: In "The Argentine Pope," the author and William Paterson University professor emeritus examines the rise of social justice within the Roman Catholic Church. Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. 'rEvisitinG Wabanaki aGriCulturE iii: thE CErEMony': Frederick M. Wiseman and the Koas Singers access the past with a narrated slide show, music and video. A discussion follows. Vermont Heritage Galleries, Barre, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-1928.

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'GrEasE': Johnson Stage College Sudents stage Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's famed musical about the students of Rydell High School. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. 'thE MountaintoP': A chance meeting between a motel maid and Martin Luther King Jr. the evening before his assassination propels the Olivier Award-winning drama, presented by Vermont Stage Company. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50. Info, 863-5966. 'sonGs For a nEW WorlD': See WED.15.

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beverages 2-DAY BARTENDING COURSE: Learn from the masters in business since 1989. You’ll learn: drink building, alcohol liability training, customer service and the dos and don’ts of professional bartending. You’ll get: the online bartending web tutorial, drink list, bartender’s manual and job interview training. This course is recognized nationally through pbsa.com. Sat., May 2 & Sun. May 3, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $149/2-day course. Location: Hilton, 60 Battery St., Burlington. Info: 800-262-5824, info@bartendingschool.com, bartendingschool.com.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. CLAY: THROWING SETS: Students will be guided through the process of creating wheel thrown sets. Topics will include making multiples of the same piece, stacking mugs and nesting bowls, and serving sets specific to a type of food or beverage. This intermediate level course is intended for students with proficiency in centering, throwing cups and throwing bowls. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Weekly on Thu., Apr. 23-May 14, 12:30-3 p.m. Cost: $140/person;

$126/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. CLAY: LIDDED FORMS: Creating jars, teapots and other lidded forms that both function properly and make sense visually can be quite a challenge. In this class, Jeremy will demonstrate the mechanics of throwing several types of lids, discuss choosing the style of lid best suited for a particular form, and explore the relationship between a pot and its lid. Instructor: Jeremy Ayer. Sun., May 17, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. DESIGN: DIGITAL ART & DESIGN LAB: Explore the endless possibilities within the realm of digital art and design! Collage and layering techniques, digital painting, data glitching and more will be covered in this three-week exploratory workshop. Come with your own ideas or complete instructorprovided creative prompts. Bring a Mac-compatible flash drive or external hard drive to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rachel Hooper. Thu., May 7-21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. EXPLORING LOCAL FILM PRODUCTION: Interested in making a film? Screen the work of local filmmakers and discuss their processes and the resources available to produce films in Vermont with local filmmaker Michael Fisher. Students are welcome to bring their own film ideas to discuss, to meet potential collaborators and to seek advice. Tue., May 5, 6:308:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Digital Media Lab, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. JEWELRY: BANGLES: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own silver, copper or brass bangle. Open to all skill levels. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Thu., May 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person; $31.50/BCA members. Location: Generator, 250 Main St. (Memorial Auditorium), Burlington. Info: 865-7166. SCHOOL BREAK: DIY GAMES: Jon us for a day of fun and games! Make your own DIY board games and puzzles, create your own Mad Libs, build your own

adventure stories and more. There will be time for group and individual projects and plenty of time for playing. All materials provided. Registration required. Instructors: Alissa Faber and Rachel Hooper. Ages 6-12. Wed., Apr. 22, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85/ person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. YOUTH: SILK-SCREENING: Come and silk-screen in BCA’s Print Studio! Learn the basic techniques of silk-screening and create your own artwork to print on paper, T-shirts, bags and more. All materials provided. Registration required. Ages 8-12. Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Sat., May 2, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

370-6034, beheernow2000@ yahoo.com, facebook.com/ makelifecozyvermont. CERAMIC SCULPTURE: Learning how to use the basic handbuilding methods of coiling, slabs and solid, we will explore making the images you have always dreamed of making. We work from live models, photos and books but mostly from imagination! Weekly on Wed., May 13-Jun. 24. Cost: $210/7 3-hour classes. Location: The Mud Studio, Vt. Rte. 2, Moretown. Info: Sande French-Stockwell, 439-5092, sandestockwell@ gmail.com, sandestockwellsculpture.com.

computers INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS: This class focuses on design for manufacturing: designing sheetmetal, machined components, injection moldings and castings — skills companies look for in their potential employees. You will learn to solve real-world problems encountered in product design and leave able to design products and communicate design intent through drawings. May 18-21. Cost: $1,095/4-day class. Location: Vermont Woodworking School, 148 Main St., Fairfax. Info: 849-2013, info@ vermontwoodworkingschool. com, vermontwoodworking school.com.

craft DAYTIME KNITTING CLINICS: Annette Hansen of Make Life Cozy provides expert guidance as you socialize and knit. Bring your current project or problem and learn from what others are doing too! Beginners welcome. Yarn and supplies available for sale. Cash or check only. Weekly on Thu. starting Apr. 23, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 1-3 p.m. Cost: $12/2-hour session. Location: Green House atrium, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Make Life Cozy, Annette Hansen, 370-6034, makelifecozy@gmail.com, f acebook.com/ makelifecozyvermont. EVENING KNITTING CLINIC: Annette Hansen of Make Life Cozy provides expert guidance as you socialize and knit. Bring your current project or problem and learn from what others are doing too! Beginners welcome. Yarn and supplies available for sale. Cash or personal check. Weekly on Tue. starting Apr. 21, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $15/2.5hour session. Location: Green House atrium, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Make Life Cozy, Annette Hansen,

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TEEN: TABLE WITH MOSAIC TOP: Instructor: Chris Ramos. Ages 14-18. Become a woodworker! In this high-skill building camp you will learn and combine craft disciplines in creating a unique, stylized table. You will power up in the wood shop and be guided through the use of various tools and machines to cut, shape, and smooth components for a side table. You will learn about pattern selection and creation, different types of glass, cutting and fitting glass pieces, and create a beautiful glass tabletop. Aug. 3-7, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $395/nonmembers; $355.50/ member. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org. WORKSHOP: LANDSCAPE IN OIL: Instructor: Evelyn McFarlane. Drawing correctly from nature is a basic skill and the foundation of good painting. This two-day workshop is designed to develop the student’s visual relationship with nature and translate it onto a canvas in paint. The goal will be an Impressionistic but accurate painting using various comparative methods that will be taught to facilitate drawing, mixing colors and rendering forms. Students will learn basic concepts of applying color, effective painting of light and shadow, and refining of edges and form to create vivid and lively works. We will work step by step progressively through the lessons to learn a variety of concepts and techniques to help the painting process. Aug. 1 & 2, Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $203/ nonmembers; $183/members. Location: The Shelburne Craft

School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org/ news/projects/workshop-landscape-in-oil-0801-0802/. WORKSHOP: MATISSE: Instructor: Jackie Mangione. Matisse said, “Exactitude is not truth.” This one-day workshop is designed to guide you through the process of creating your own imagery through shape and color. Using the luminous paint quality of transparent watercolors, we will use Henri Matisse’s paintings as inspiration to create vibrant colored still-life compositions. Learn to extract shapes and playfully compose them to create dynamic pictures through observation. Materials we will use will combine floral and still life subject matter. We will discuss basic color-wheel theories and follow the color recommendations suggested on the materials list. All levels of painting are welcome! Jul. 18, Sat., 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $94.50/ nonmembers; $85/members. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburne craftschool.org/news/projects/ workshop-matisse-0718/. WORKSHOP: MONOTYPE/ MONOPRINT: Instructor: Lyna Lou Nordstrom. In this two-day workshop, students will paint on a plastic plate surface. The image is then transferred to the paper using the etching press. After it goes through the press, there is usually ink left on the surface so that a second print can be pulled through. This print will be a different, or it might be the beginning of another monotype. We will be using nontoxic Akua Intaglio printmaking ink which is soy-based and cleans up with soap and water. We will also be using a small professional

press. Come ready to have fun with this magical process. This is suitable for all levels of students. Jul. 11 & 12, Sat. & Sun., 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $120/nonmembers; $110/members; incl. $20 materials fee. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org/ news/projects/2-day-monotypemonoprint/. WORKSHOP: PASTEL: Instructor: Robert Carsten. This fun and exciting workshop will explore various ways to explore bold color with dramatic light effects in pastel landscapes. Working from your sketches or photos, we will explore concepts of color, design and techniques. Various approaches will be presented and demonstrated. Critique, at-easel assistance and lots of painting time will make this an educational and enjoyable painting experience. All levels are welcome from beginner through advanced. Materials list provided. Aug. 7-8, Fri. & Sat., 10-4:30 p.m. Cost: $188.50/ nonmembers; $170/members. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org/. WORKSHOP: STAINED GLASS: Instructor: Chris Jeffrey. In this one-day stained glass workshop, beginners will learn the Louis Comfort Tiffany copper foil method of constructing stained glass. Learn to select glass colors, cut glass, and apply copper foil, solder and finish a small colorful glass piece for your window. All materials will be supplied for this workshop. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Jun. 6, Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $150/nonmembers; $138.50/members; incl. $35 materials fee. Location: The Shelburne Craft School,

64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. WORKSHOP: Veneering: Instructor: Antoine Schapira. Come learn from renowned furniture designer Antoine Schapira and acquire skills in extraordinary veneering techniques. Topics he will cover include inspection of the bundle of veneer prior to use, flattening and leaves numbering, different ways to cut veneer, layouts and geometrical marquetry, effects created by laminating blocks of various species and resawing, inlays, and methods of applying veneers to a substrate. This workshop is appropriate for professional woodworkers as well as hobbyists. Jun. 20 & 21, Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $575/nonmembers; $520/members $550; incl. $25 materials fee. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, theshelburnecraftschool.org. WORKSHOP: Wood Intensive: Instructor: Chris Ramos. This five-day intensive course will offer a comprehensive introduction to hardwood furniture design and construction. Students will construct their own Shaker-style hall table, gaining familiarity with wood characteristics, machine and tool use, traditional joinery, and wood finishing through the build. Come devote yourself to a week of hand building and hand

learning, and leave with a truly crafted object for life. Aug. 10-14, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $520/nonmembers; 476.50/ members; incl. $85 materials fee. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.

dance Dance Studio Salsalina: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Burlington Beginners Djembe class is on Wed., 7-8:20 p.m. Three-week sessions start Apr. 22 & May 3. $53/3 weeks, $22 drop-in. Djembes are provided. Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space , 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlingto . Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study Japanese drumming with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon., 7-8:20 p.m. Taiko Training Class for Beginners on Wed., 5:30-6:50 p.m. Kids and Parents Class on Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Sessions start Apr. 20, 21 & 22. Register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment Jung the Man: Discover the man behind the myths, the character behind the concepts, in this illuminating examination of the life of one of the geniuses of the 20th century. Jung the Man: His Life Examined, a short biography of Jung, is the text we will use. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Apr. 16, 23 & 30 & May 7, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, smehrtens@ potlatchgroup.com.

Exploring Connections: Intent & Clarity: The Exploring Connections workshop series uses movement and metaphor to explore the expressive body, incorporating movement fundamentals as well as drawing and writing to explore the relationship between movement and personal expression. Our goal will be to facilitate a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity to enrich your movement potential, change ineffective neuromuscular movement patterns, and encourage new ways of moving and embodying your inner self. Fri., May 1, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $22/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. Physical Acting: An essential class for the actor looking to

Hands-on Pruning: Learn about the proper equipment, timing and techniques to care for your trees and shrubs. Weather permitting, we’ll do a handson demo outside. Instructed by Charlie Nardozzi. Apr. 18, 11:30-1 p.m. Cost: $12.50/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505. Hands-on Gardening Course: Want to grow your own fresh vegetables, but not sure where to start? Join the Community Teaching Garden, a hands-on 22-week course for beginning gardeners. Scholarships available. More information and registration: vcgn.org/what-wedo/community-teaching-garden. Registration deadline: April 17. Twice weekly, May-Oct. Cost: $300/person incl. 22 weeks of instruction, garden space, seeds, plants, water, supplies, tools, resources & all the veggies you can grow. Location: Two Community Teaching Garden sites: Ethan Allen Homestead & the Intervale, Burlington. Info: Vermont Community Garden Network, Denise Quick, 861-4769, denise@ vcgn.org, vcgn.org/what-we-do/ community-teaching-garden/.

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Expressions in Paint with Claire Desjardins: Deepen your understanding of acrylic painting as you learn innovative mark-making techniques, experiment with larger brushes and explore color theory. Sat., May 9 & Sun., May 10, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

herbs Wisdom of the Herbs School: Now interviewing for our eight-month Wisdom of the Herbs 2015, a unique experiential program embracing the local herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Apr. 2526, May 23-24, Jun. 27-28, Jul. 25-26, Aug. 22-23, Sep. 26-27, Oct. 24-25 and Nov. 7-8, 2015. Tuition $1,750. VSAC nondegree grants available, please apply soon. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Vermont School of Herbal Studies: Foundations of Herbalism Apprenticeship 2015 offers plant identification, wildcrafting, herb walks, tea formulation, aromatherapy, tinctures, herbal oils and salves, first aid, materia medica, elixirs and much more. Space limited. Certificate upon completion. 7 Sun., Apr. to Oct. Cost: $825/person. Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344. HONORING HERBAL TRADITION 2015: Herbal Apprenticeship Program held on a horse farm. Herbal therapies, nutritional support, diet, detox, body systems, medicine making, plant identification, tea tasting, plant spirit medicine and animal communication, wild foods, field trips, iridology, and women’s, children’s, men’s and animal health! Textbook & United Plant Saver membership included! Open to all! 1 Sat./mo. for 8 mos., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $900/person. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@ comcast.net, horsetailherbs.org.

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First Strides Vermont: First Strides is a beginner 12-week program that will help you progress from the couch to walking or running at a pace that’s right for you. Find self-confidence you never imagined possible. Weekly meetings include a self-paced group walk and/or run with supportive, experienced mentors, plus inspirational, informative speakers. Weekly on Wed., May 6-Jul. 22. Cost: $45/12-week

Contemporary Dance: Looking Deeper: This intensive is designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance makers in our region. Using improvisational structures, the aim will be to strengthen our capacity to be fully awake, aware and able to respond to our constantly changing “world,” be it the studio, the stage, a specific site or our community. Instructor: Christal Brown. Sun., Apr. 26, 1-4 p.m. Adults & teens 16+. Cost: $30/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

Grapes & Other Small Fruit: Everyone is growing grapes, and why not? New varieties make this a great garden crop in small spaces. Learn about varieties for Vermont, how to grow them and also about growing other small fruits (gooseberries, honeyberries and more). Instructed by Charlie Nardozzi. Apr. 18, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $12.50/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505.

Spring Watercolor Landscape with Lisa Forster Beach: Examine tips and solutions to making watercolor paintings with stronger composition and better design in this Spring Landscape workshop. Sat. Apr. 25, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $75/person; $100/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.

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Women’s Climbing & Meditation: This four-week climbing and meditation series is geared toward climbers looking to develop a deeper connection with their own inner world. The goal of the group is to cultivate a calm place within and bring this awareness to the art, act and movement of rock climbing. Weekly on Sat., Apr. 18May 9, 9-10:30 a.m. Cost: $120/ class + 1-mo. membership & gear rental. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petracliffs. com, petracliffs.com/climbing/ adultclasses/.

build skills. Learn ways to align, activate and focus the body as a primary storytelling source. Become more responsive to impulse and work on freeing the body of tension or habits that impede flow and creativity. Instructor: Jena Necrason. Weekly on Sat., May 2-Jun. 6, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $115/6week class. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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Martha’s Mandala: In the heyday of Jung’s work in Zurich, two Americans, Leonard and Martha Bacon, joined his circle of students/analysands. This two-hour presentation presents a vivid picture of Jung and his environment via poems, letters, journal passages and slides. Led by Martha Oliver-Smith, teacher, professor and writer. Apr. 25, 10 a.m.-noon. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

program if preregistered online; $50 day of. Location: Community Park & Paths, behind Williston Central School, Williston. Info: First Strides Vermont, Kasie Enman, 238-0820, info@ firststridesvermont.com, firststridesvermont.com.

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language JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: The Japan-America Society of Vermont (JASV) is offering Japanese language lessons for children. Classes meet weekly on Sundays beginning May 3. Japanese Language Classes, Level 1, 9:30-10:30 a.m. This class does not require any Japanese speaking ability. Intermediate Japanese Language Classes, Level 2, 10:4511:45 a.m. The intermediate class requires a certain level of comprehesion for daily conversation. This ad is supported by the Japan Foundation, Central for Global Partnership. For more

information, please visit jasv.org. 7 1-hour classes. Location: Japan America Society of Vermont (JASV), 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. ABSOLUMENT FRENCH CLASSES!: Oh la la! Adult French classes in inspiring, small-group environment with experienced instructor Madame Maggie will have you speaking in no time! Join fun, interactive, encouraging class this spring in Burlington’s South End Arts District. Private lessons also available to fit your schedule and specific needs. Allons-y! Oui! Oui! Weeeee! Weekly on Mon., Apr. 27-Jun. 8, Intermediate: 5-6:30 p.m., beginner: 6:45-8:15 p.m. Cost: $120/6-week class, no class Mon. May 25. Location:

Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com/ classes.html. EXPERIENCED NATIVE PROFESSOR OFFERING SPANISH CLASSES: Interactive lessons to improve comprehension, pronunciation and achieve fluency. Grammar and vocabulary practice plus audio-visual material is used. Classes individually and in groups. Children and adults. “I feel proud that my students have significantly improved their Spanish with my teaching approach.” —Maigualida Gomez Rak, MA. Location: College St., Burlington. Info: 276-0747, maigomez1@hotmail.com, burlingtonvt.universitytutor. com/tutors/116306. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our ninth year.

Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@ gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

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meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher. It focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. Apr. 25, 9 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; please arrive at 8:45 a.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop; limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

pregnancy/ childbirth PRENATAL METHOD STUDIO: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and barre classes. Yoga for Fertility Class Series. Childbirth Education Series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program. Empathy circles, infant massage and new mothers groups. Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends. Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@ prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

spirituality CHEROKEE PEACEKEEPER TEACHINGS: Inspired by the Peacemaker and teachings passed down for 27 generations. Suitable for people in these times to remember their direct connection with all of creation. Includes sitting and moving meditations, dance, work with sacred sound and shape, and joyful community practices. Apr. 24-26; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $325/3 days. Location: Sunray

Peace Village, 2202 Downingville Rd., Lincoln. Info: Sunray Peace Village, Catherine Dyer, 647-6880984, info@sunray.org, sunray. org.

tai chi NEW BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: Long River Tai Chi Circle is the school of Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Professor Cheng Man-ching and author of three classic works on tai chi chuan. Patrick Cavanaugh, a longtime student of Wolfe Lowenthal and a senior instructor at Long River, will be teaching the classes in Burlington. Begins Wed., May 6, 9-10 a.m. Cost: $65/monthly (registration open through May 27). Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org. SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

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well-being Tension Releasing exeRcises: Inside our bodies there is a natural mechanism for unwinding deeply held tension. TRe is a series of exercises that help the body trigger this natural stress-relieving mechanism. TRe is for anyone who can benefit from more relaxation. The exercises can be modified for all body types and capabilities. Weekly on Thu. starting Apr. 9, 5:30-6-30 p.m. Cost: $25/1-hour class. Location: Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 312, Burlington. Info: Jay Gleason, 578-0741, jay@ jaygleasonvt.com, jaygleasonvt. com. sTRong Beings: shamans and Narrative Therapists agree disruptive feelings, addictions, and violence act as powerful forces who appear to be aware and calculating. We will explore the ways these strong Beings shape our lives, and suggestions shamans and Narrative Therapists make for limiting their influence. Instructor: Michael Watson. Thu., Apr. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. By donation. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com.

ayuRvedic Remedies foR HealTH: an introduction to ayurvedic medicine, then discussion of simple herbal formulas, self massage, kitchari (a traditional healing meal), sinus cleansing remedies, mindful eating, foundations in ayurvedic nutrition and gentle cleansing techniques. a great class for those beginning their ayurvedic path and those wanting to enhance the routines they are currently practicing. Sat., Apr. 18, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $25/. Location: Burlington Yoga, Burlington. Info: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, Allison Morse, 8728898, ayurvedavt@comcast.net, ayurvedavermont.com.

writing moving THe manuscRipT: Many classes focus on the creative spark: that initial idea or prompt that gets us going. This class will help students take a draft of a story or essay to the finish line. Poets and novelists could also benefit from the concepts, though we will look at shorter prose forms as examples. 4 Mon., May 4-18 & Jun. 1, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $100/person. Location: The Writer’s Barn, 233

Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Wind Ridge Books, Lin Stone, 922-7641, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

yoga HonesT yoga, THe only dedicaTed HoT yoga flow cenTeR: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in essentials, Flow and core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. communiTy yoga classes: ses offers five community Yoga classes a week! We also offer Heated Vinyasa, Hatha Flow, Men’s Yoga, Katonah Yoga and

Middle school Yoga; prices vary. are you a beginner? ask about our affordable private or semiprivate classes to get you ready and comfortable to join a yoga class! Times vary; check website. Cost: $6/1-hour drop-in class. Location: South End Studio, Burlington. Info: 540-0044. evoluTion yoga: evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Therapeutics and alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. BuRlingTon HoT yoga: TRy someTHing diffeRenT!: Really different, hot yoga with far infrared heating panels. We offer creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring Prana Flow Hot Yoga in a 93-degree studio with balanced humidity, accompanied by eclectic music in our newly remodeled studio. come try this unique heat which has many

healing benefits. classes daily. ahh, to be warm on a cold day, a flowing practice, a cool stone meditation and a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963.

Camp week of spring break, daily beginning Apr. 20, 3-4 p.m. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt. com.

yoga RooTs: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, anusurainspired all levels, Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! Kripalu Yoga w/ Pam, Sun.,12:30-1:30 p.m. Upcoming series/workshops: Men’s Yoga drop-in series, Apr. 7-May 12, Tue., 6-7p.m.; Feldenkrais: Happy legs, knees, ankles and feet: 6-week series with Uwe Mester, Apr. 16-May 21, Thu., 9:15-10:15 a.m.; Teen Yoga

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o many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out. To that end, here are four albums that likely flew under the radar of your average local music fan. In some cases, they represent the outermost boundaries of local music. Others simply slipped through the cracks. But each is worth a listen.

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No Humans Allowed are a mercurial hip-hop duo consisting of Boston-based rapper Louis Mackey and Burlington word-slinger Thirtyseven — the latter of whom also goes by Wombaticus Rex and, in his day-to-day life, Justin Boland. (Disclosure: He occasionally writes for Seven Days.) In 2011, NHA released their self-titled debut recording, a hair-raising hodgepodge of classic boom-bap rap, downtempo and house laced with tabs of smoky, psychedelic jazz and funk. It was a wildly unconventional collaboration of two prodigiously talented rappers. The duo’s new EP, Yesterday, Tomorrow and You, takes the experiment even further. If hip-hop archetypes are a playground, then Mackey and Thirtyseven are like two deviant kids devising creative and dangerous ways to use the monkey bars — and probably terrifying onlookers in the process. Primarily produced by Mackey, sonically the record has the effect of observing a high-wire act in which the acrobats might be drunk. Mackey’s simmering goulash of beats and samples is heady and uncouth. It’s often playful, but a sense of uneasy disillusionment gurgles below the surface of jazz-inflected thump. That disorientation is matched in the album’s turbulent wordplay. Boland and Mackey rarely take the direct tack, lyrically. Instead they bob and weave, pirouetting their way through a shifting fog of love, dead-end jobs and societal apathy. It’s complex and challenging stuff. But how many rappers do you know who would name-drop Charlie Sheen and Ben Bernanke in the same verse? nohumansallowed.bandcamp.com

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On their 2012 debut, Off on a Wild Adventure, local duo Waves of Adrenaline delivered a sturdy, if polite, take on modern folk music modeled after the folk-pop stylings of the Indigo Girls. Alana Shaw and Bridget Ahrens are back with another WoA outing, Let Go the Sails. Like their debut, it’s an earnest collection of tunes that, while not especially infused with artistic adrenaline, is endearing in a homespun kind of way. Unlike that debut, which featured mostly original material, Let Go the Sails is almost half composed of cover songs. While few will prefer the duo’s rather stiff renditions of “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” or “Wagon Wheel” over the originals — or the bazillion other covers of those same tunes — their inclusion does add some insight as to WoA’s formative inspirations and some context for the album’s seven original cuts. Of those, the chirpy opener “Relativity” and the gentle counterpoint melody of “Tin Woodsman” — inspired by Albert Einstein and The Wizard of Oz, respectively — are among the more creative highlights. WoA could stand to loosen up a bit, especially vocally, if only to match the whimsy of their songwriting. wavesofadrenaline.com FILE UNDER ?

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solo tour for a solo record, so the fact that the Nocturnals aren’t involved is kind of a given. Lead singers of big bands do solo stuff all the time and it doesn’t necessarily mean the band is kaput. JEff twEEDY plays solo a bunch and wilco are still around. DAN AuErbAch, who helped produce the last GPN record, has a killer solo album to his credit and the blAck kEYS are still together. Hell, Tournet himself has a solo record or two, including the underrated Ver La Luz in 2013. And he’s done side projects, too, most notably bluES AND lASErS. Musicians play music, and not always with the band that is their bread and butter. But the next chunk of Tournet’s post muddies the water. “At this time I can’t comment any further on anything except to say THANK YOU for all the support you have shown the band and me over the years,” he wrote. “It has been a tremendous ride and meant the world to me. I sincerely mean that. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.” He goes on to say — presumably after realizing his caps lock was stuck — that he’s planning to release an album “in the near future,” for which he’s soliciting fan support via a crowdfunding campaign. That certainly sounds like someone who is planning to move on. But again, he never explicitly says he’s leaving the Nocturnals, or that Grace is ditching the band beyond the solo record. Reached via email, Tournet declined to comment to Seven Days on his future with GPN. (As an aside, I have no idea as to the financial state of lead guitarists in globally touring majorlabel bands, but if even they need to go the Kickstarter route to make records, maybe the music industry is even more dismal than we realized.) mAtt burr, who is both the Nocturnals’ drummer and Potter’s husband, was equally evasive when reached for comment. He wouldn’t speak for Grace but did suggest she will divulge more details,

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Stephen Kondi has been rocking Vermont stages, Fender Strat in hand, for close to 35 years. Schooled in blues, rock and country and inspired by the likes of Eric Clapton and B.B. King, Kondi, who goes by Stephen Wentworth onstage, is a consummate pro as an axeman and bandleader. His debut with the Stephen Wentworth Band, Good & Bad, is a vibrant throwback to the days when bands like Cream and the Moody Blues ruled rock radio airwaves. Wentworth proves a capable songwriter. If you were to sneak cuts such as “Can’t Catch Me,” “Dream” and “Send a Sweetheart” into the rotation at a classic-rock station like WIZN, few would recognize that those tunes were written in 2015 and not 1968. Wentworth growls with a classic southern-blues-rock rasp, adding more authenticity to his vintage sound. But his guitar playing sets him apart. Dude simply shreds. And he’s backed by a veteran band that knows how to set the groove and get out of the way. That allows Wentworth to carve up the scenery with ferocious licks, which he does track after track.

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For a good chunk of the last decade, Lawrence Welks & Our Bear to Cross produced some of the most confounding music in Vermont. Located on the fringiest fringe of the experimental-pop scene, the duo of Andre Welks and Jonny Geetar poked and prodded our delicate sensibilities. Their music was fearless and sometimes fearsome, the reanimated corpse of mangled pop convention. LW&OB2X are no more, and Welks and Geetar no longer call Vermont home. Before they fled, they raised one final collection of zombie pop, Binary Execute Now, for upstart microlabel Beautiful Music CDs. That last bit of info is important, because, perhaps improbably, there is something strangely beautiful about the record. Though LW&OB2X could be manic and possessed of a basely juvenile sense of humor — occasionally veering into gleeful sacrilege — a queer kind of tenderness could often be found beneath the jarring cacophony. They were also genuinely skilled musicians who just happened to wield their talents recklessly. Binary Execute Now is easily the duo’s most accessible record. Even so, it’s a rough listen for timid types. But those willing to brave LW&OB2X’s cartoonishly grotesque skewering of indie rock, electro pop and hipster R&B will find a record that has more heart than much of the music they appear to lampoon. beautifulmusiccds.com

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In other news, local funk rockers GANG OF THIEVES are set to release a new EP this week, called Mantra. We’ll have a full review in an upcoming issue, but my initial take is that it picks up where the band’s 2014 debut Thunderfunk left off, which is to say roughly 1999. I mean that in a good way. The band has tapped into a throwback sound that recalls the likes of SUBLIME, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS and LESS THAN JAKE to varying degrees. The new EP continues in that vein, but is a little more playful, less inyour-face and, best of all, loaded with nifty horn parts. I dig it. You can catch GoT at Nectar’s this Friday, April 17.

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perhaps as soon as this week, that might clarify the situation. In the meantime, all we can do is speculate. And that’s way more fun anyway. So… My semi-educated hunch is that Grace is not bailing on the Nocturnals, at least not permanently. Her new single, “Alive Tonight” is a step or six beyond even the more pop-inclined stuff from latter-day GPN records. The folks at SPIN compared it to Sia, which isn’t far off the mark. It’s certainly a stylistic shift into dance-pop territory, which is not really the Nocs’ forte. After a decade of doing the blues-rock thing, you can’t blame her for wanting to try something new. But that doesn’t automatically mean she’s abandoning the Nocturnals any more than it meant Tournet was leaving when he made Ver La Luz, or when he and Burr did Blues and Lasers. Given what he wrote on Tumblr and the fan reaction on his Facebook page, it does seem like Tournet may not be long for the band. But he still hasn’t explicitly said so. Maybe he was just tipsy and wanted to tell his fans he loves them — kind of like drunk dialing but with Tumblr. Until he comes down one way or the other, we just don’t know. On the other hand, maybe Grace’s new sound catapults her into BEYONCÉ-

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Last but not least, before he was Tuesdays KILLED IT! KARAOKE 10PM, 18+ the booking guru at Radio Bean, 165 CHURCH ST, BTV • 802-399-2645 songwriter JOE ADLER was the host of a nifty weekly series at Parima’s Acoustic Lounge called 12v-zenloungeWEEKLY2.indd 1 4/14/15 11:29 AM Burgundy Thursday. To refresh your memory, each week featured a different set of songwriters sharing stories and songs in FRIDAY APRIL 17 an informal “in the round”style setting. It was a neat and engaging way to check out local ”ORIGINAL BLUESY IMPROV ROCK” tunesmiths. Sadly, when Parima WITH closed, so too did BT end. (It’s not the greatest fit for the rowdy Three Needs crowd, I’m afraid.) SATURDAY APRIL 18 Good news! Adler is bringing the series back this week and will likely continue it on a monthly basis. FREE SHOW! He’ll host it at the New City Galerie FRIDAY APRIL 24 in Burlington this Thursday, April 16. Joining Adler for the BT redux will be AARON FLINN, ERIC GEORGE and MICHAEL CHORNEY. Oh, and speaking of Chorney, you can find him with his stellar all-star FUNK & BLUES • FREE SHOW! band MAGIC CITY at the Haybarn Theatre SATURDAY APRIL 25 at Goddard College this Friday, April 17. That oughta tide you over until his featuring ridiculously good new record with MARYSE SMITH comes out next week. COURTESY OF GANG OF THIEVES

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middlebury area

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

burlington

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Aquatic Underground (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

outside vermont

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Julian Chobot Jazz Trio, 8 p.m., free.

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

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

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

NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Funkwagon, the Fritz, 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

THU.16

ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. ZensDay (top 40), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Loose at the Root (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Papa GreyBeard (blues), 6 p.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Open Blues Jam hosted by Jason Jack, 8 p.m., free.

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BARRIO BAKERY & PIZZA BARRIO: Wallace (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. BENTO: Classics Vinyl Clash (eclectic), 10 p.m., free. CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: UVM Ski & Snowboard Club's Third Thursdays: Atlas Road Crew, Tar Iguana, Bison (rock, blues), 9 p.m., free/$3. 18+. THE DAILY PLANET: Hot Pickin' Party (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Brickdrop (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Right Coast Leftovers, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Sessions with Julian Chobot, 6:30 p.m., free. Matt Pless (folk), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Steve Leaf & Ryan Joseph (Americana), 9 p.m., free. Grundlefunk, Goose (sexy party funk), 10:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Tequila Project (funk), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Ryan Brewer (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Tytanium (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Django & Friends (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: UVM Women's Volleyball Fundraiser, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Shakey Graves, David Ramirez (blues-folk), 8 p.m., $15/17. AA.

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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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RED SQUARE: Small Change (Tom Waits tribute), 7 p.m., free. DJ Dave Villa (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ray Vega Quintet (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Rick Cusak (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Jericovox (hybrid rock), 9:30 p.m., free. As We Were (punk), 11 p.m., free.

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Everyday People Songwriter

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has a knack for finding wonder in the mundane.

The latest example of this is the South Africa native’s new record, The Weatherman. Quietly stirring and sincere, the record has drawn raves from the likes of the Washington Post and Esquire. Writes the latter, the album is “straightforward and pure, and manages to reveal the beauty in ‘everyday’ moments.” Isakov appears at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington this Friday, April 17, with songwriter Jolie Holland. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Jimkata, argonaut&wasp (electro rock), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

SWEET MELISSA'S: BYOV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free. Broken String Band (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., free.

DJ Dizzle (dance party), 10 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Session, 7 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Blue Road Crossing (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: James Gingue & Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Bless the Child (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jenni Johnson & the Junketeers (jazz, blues), 7 p.m., free. PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Giovanina Bucci (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Light Crusher, DJ Crucible (metal), 10 p.m., free. NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: James Secor (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Michael Iula (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. SUSHI YOSHI (STOWE): Andrew Moroz Trio (jazz), 5 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Mt. Philo (alt-folk), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: 3rd Thursday Comedy Night: Ryan Kenyon (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free.

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outside vermont MONOPOLE: Soul Junction (funk, soul), 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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burlington

BENTO: Open Improvisation Jam, 10 p.m., free. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: James Harvey (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Back to the Future Friday (’90s/2000s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. FINNIGAN'S PUB: DJ Jon Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Justin Levinson (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pat Markley Duo (jazz), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Saint Lou (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Gang of Thieves, Wild Adriatic, Holy Smokes (funk rock), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. Castle Creek (blues), 5:30 p.m., free. Seth Adams (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Rick Palieri's Country Roots (folk, country), 8 p.m., fri.17

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REVIEW this Phil Yates & the Affiliates, No Need to Beg

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The 1990s are hot right now, and Phil Yates is into it. Beginning with the title of the Burlington songwriter’s latest album, No Need to Beg, which recalls the Cranberries’ 1994 hit No Need to Argue, ’90s alternative rock references abound. On his second full-length album with his band the Affiliates, Yates doesn’t abandon his steadfast influence, Elvis Costello, but accompanies him on a ’90s alt-rock walkabout, exploring the desire for something more. From the first track, “Burn It Down, Bernadette,” which would be at home on the Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience, Yates wants to instigate change. He emphatically urges a former lover to set her stasis ablaze, singing, “Lather, rinse, repeat with kerosene / The embers will spread from town to town, / So burn it down.” “Co-Pilot,” much like

the 1997 Letters to Cleo song of the same name, is a dare, with Yates ready to throw caution to the wind, declaring, “My car has a full gas tank / I’m ready to empty out the bank.” He then tempts the listener to “leave at the count of three” on a journey toward the unknown. “Grass Is Always Greener” tells of the darker side of domestic discontent. “A roving eye never did anyone any good,” he sings, suggesting that sometimes, despite temptations, what we already have is exactly what we need. The Wurlitzer piano, played by bassist Raph Worrick, adds depth and variety to the song. With the exception of the borderline cringe-worthy “Masterpiece,” Yates keeps with the writing skills showcased on previous albums, particularly his penchant for wordplay. In the rocker “Little French Earthquakes,” he is delightfully creative

with rhyme. This track adds a sexy twist to the album, with Worrick and drummer Jake Blodgett building tension with a bass-and-drum break that leads to the coolest guitar solo on the album. While Yates’ Costello-ish singing is not strong, it is approachable and endearing, and he exercises prudent editing on the sparse closing track, “Insomnia,” on which he plays all the instruments. Kevin Stevens balances Yates’ cleaner guitar tone with his overdriven solos on “Little French Earthquakes” and “Drinking for Two” and adds texture to “I’m Thrilled” with slide guitar. Blodgett’s drumming is enthusiastic, if loose, keeping the energy high. Throughout No Need to Beg, Yates seems to wish things were just a little bit different. As dreary winter weather dragged on, pushing Vermonters to dream of alternate realities, Phil Yates came up with a likable pop-rock record that lets us know he’s right there with us, dreaming of a sunnier future. Phil Yates & the Affiliates play Friday, April 17, at New City Galerie in Burlington. No Need to Beg is available at philyates. bandcamp.com.

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Johnson cruises with gritty twang and steady pace though the record’s 12 songs, each evoking a southern, porch-rockingchair feel. Small kinks in instrumentation and vocal pitch pass for authenticity, stringing his musings together like the white lines on a long stretch of highway. On the whole, Mercury 85 is consistent. Johnson’s tunes are lyric driven, poetic and prophetic. The chord progressions are simple, even canonic — picture something like the Soggy Bottom Boys’ “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” reimagined by Bob Dylan. That unfiltered talk-singing comes out in full on the blues cut “Allentown,” where we find Johnson in a loner’s paradise sopping up the last bits of a one-sided affair. “It’s a two-room flat way down in Allentown,” he speaks over a wandering banjo line. “She don’t love me but I’ll stay as long as she lets me hang around / She makes me coffee in a Turkish coffeepot / She can’t be sold, she swears she won’t be bought.” Johnson’s broken

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Leaving behind New York’s Hudson Valley and burrowing in a cabin in Jericho, folk singer Dan Johnson ruminated on, then wrote and recorded, his third album, Mercury 85. A follow-up to his 2013 fullband effort with the Expert Sidemen, Bound for Abiquiu, the new album is spare and honest — it’s effectively the diary of a lonely boy’s travels scrawled on the backs of dinner napkins. Johnson generally relies on an acoustic foundation for his folky drawl. But he also experiments with rock-and-roll inflections that add layers and depth. The opening track, “Out on the Road,” revs up with drum kicks and a bluesy, reverb-drenched guitar. Reveling in his vagrant wanderlust, Johnson sings, “Eating hot dogs and FritoLays / out on the road for 17 days / The inside of my car smells like a dirty sweat sock / I don’t got a boss, and I don’t have to punch a clock.” The rock by no means overpowers Johnson’s mellow vibes. Even on the record’s loudest cut, “What Doors Are For,” his level of angst doesn’t get much past high school band practice in a buddy’s garage.

romantic streak gives the songs substance and lends the album a relatable charm. The trope of lost lovers fades in and out of Johnson’s writing. The second track, “Rose,” speaks of a one-night encounter with a nameless woman. In a somber yet endearingly hopeful refrain, Johnson informs us that if we see a girl with a rose tattoo, we should let her know he loves her. Stripped down to vocals and acoustic guitar, the title track epitomizes good songwriting as unapologetic selfexpression. Here we get Johnson’s life story as he laments absent friends, a broken marriage and an increasingly rundown body. Yes, there are depressive effects to the song, but there’s lightheartedness, too. You can’t help but appreciate the double entendre in the refrain in which Johnson insists that, despite the haggard appearance of his old jalopy, “it’s got a lot of life underneath the hood.” (Wink, wink, nudge.) After the trip through smoky bars and sunset skies that is Mercury 85, Johnson lulls us out with dreamlike fingerpicking on the final track, “Drive.” It’s a cathartic ending that falls somewhere between toked up and burnt out. It feels right. Mercury 85 by Dan Johnson is available at danjohnsonandtheexpertsidemen. bandcamp.com.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Delta Rae, Greg Holden (rock), 8:30 p.m., $16/18. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: max creek (rock), 9 p.m., $17/20. AA.

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JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: chasing 440 with David Benway (rock), 7 p.m., free.

Saturday, June 13, Waterfront Tent

THE MONKEY HOUSE: two turntables and a Pint to Hold, 7:30 p.m., free.

Tickets & Info: 802-86-FLYNN or www.discoverjazz.com

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King me (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. Revolver (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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ESPRESSO BUENO: Stroke Yr Joke! (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. GUSTO'S: Killin' time (country), 9 p.m., $5. NUTTY STEPH'S: Latin Friday with Rauli Fernandez & Friends, 7 p.m., free. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Barika (etheral dubscape), 10 p.m., $5. SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. canopy (rock), 9 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: 2 cents in the till (folk), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: old Sky (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Sherman (folk), 6 p.m., free. The Smoking J's, coquette (rock), 9 p.m., free. RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Seth Yacovone Band, Shady trees (blues), 9 p.m., $10.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Sound Investment Jazz Band, 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Raphael Gualazzi (jazz piano), 6 p.m., free. DJ Blinie (dance party), 10 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

PHAT KATS TAVERN: Electric Sorcery (rock), 9:30 p.m., free. THE STAGE: comedy Night, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: The B-Sides (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour tunes & trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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BENTO: Selah Sounds, 10 p.m., free. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: chris Peterman Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Burning monk, Saberhound (rock), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: John Daly trio (folk rock), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: DF (saxophone looper lights), 10 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Lake milk (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Small change (Tom Waits tribute), 7 p.m., free. Grippo Funk Band with Kenwood Dennard, DJ Rekkon (funk, hip-hop), 9 p.m., $7. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Folk Brunch with the Young Novelists, noon, free. The Antara and Suzy Harris Project (happy songs), 7 p.m., free. Kali Stoddard-Imari (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Vedora (atmospheric rock), 10:30 p.m., free. otter (freaky boogie funk), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: Space carnival, Squid Parade (rock), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign one (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Dr. Rick (rock), 10 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Sarah Jane Scouten (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: open mic with Steve Hartmann, 7 p.m., $5. DJ Atak & Guests (EDM, top 40), 10 p.m., $5.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: Papa GreyBeard & michael (blues), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: mud city Ramblers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5. RUSTY NAIL: The cop outs (Irish rock), 9 p.m., free.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: fiddleFunk (jazz, folk), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

PARKER PIE CO.: tribute Night: Jimi Hendrix (rock), 8 p.m., NA. THE STAGE: Drew cathart (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. The Endorsements (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Universal transit (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., $3. THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: open mic, 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: celtic Brunch with Hannah Beth crary, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & tim Stickle's old time Session, 1 p.m., free. Front Porch Foursome (folk), 7 p.m., free. Ryan oz (alt-country), 8:30 p.m., free. Soul Finger (funk), 10:30 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Katie Glassman & Snapshot (western swing), 5:30 p.m., $5-10 donation. Spark open Improv Jam & Standup comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/open mic, 8 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Badfish: A tribute to Sublime, Among criminals, Seamus the Great, 8 p.m., $18/22. AA.

PENALTY BOX: trivia With a twist, 4 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Rough Francis, Barbacoa, Disco Phantom (punk, surf), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Eric Friedman (folk ballads), 11 a.m., donation.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: citizen cope (acoustic rock), 8:30 p.m., $27/30. AA.

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THE BEE'S KNEES: Howard Ring Guitar Brunch, 11 a.m., donation. Aaron Bachelder (folk), 7 p.m., donation.

VENUE NIGHTCLUB: Saturday Night mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

northeast kingdom

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Sugarhouse Run (bluegrass), 6 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Worst. Song. Ever., 8 p.m., $5. NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ: tas cru and maryann casale (blues), 7:30 p.m., free. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): House Shuffle Dance Party, 10 p.m., free. RAILSIDE TAVERN: Hot Neon magic (’80s new wave), 9 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Poetry Slam with Geof Hewitt, 7 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: The Lynguistic civilians "Go Green 420 celebration" (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Penn Johnson (folk), 6 p.m., free. Lotango (tango), 7:30 p.m., free. Back Porch Society (Americana), 9 p.m., free. REDadmiral (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Dirthouse (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Dave Villa (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Filibusta (electronic), 8 p.m., $12/15. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: criwd control (standup comedy), 8 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.

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THE STAGE: metal monday: Six Feet to Heaven, Voices in Vain, Eye 91, 7 p.m., free. Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

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SWITCHBACK BREWING COMPANY: music Wednesdays in the tap Room, 5 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos Vt, 7 p.m., free. ZensDay (top 40), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Best coast, Swale (indie rock), 8 p.m., $20/23. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Seth Adam, Shay Gestal (folk), 8:30 p.m., $3. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the collin craig trio, 7 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: coffee With a cop, 4:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

burlington

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: open mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: mike martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pat markley Duo (jazz), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Jamie Bright (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Gubbulidis (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. The Fritz (funk, rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lokum (music of the Near East), 6:30 p.m., free. Grup Anwar (classical Arabic), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky tonk tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Ellen Powell trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Phineas Gage (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: old time music Session, 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Nancy & Lilly Smith (folk), 5 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: children's Sing-Along with Allen church, 10:30 a.m., free. Erin Powers (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Andy Frolich (folk), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area

THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free. Wisewater (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: christine malcolm (folk), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: open mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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burlington

CLUB METRONOME: The Dolla Party: Ler Stevens and more (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $1/5. 18+. THE DAILY PLANET: Abbie morin (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

THE STAGE: open mic, 6 p.m., free.

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Mary Admasian, Vermont Supreme Court Gallery

atural and man-made elements conspire to create a beautiful, dark vision in Mary Admasian’s new exhibition “Boundaries, Balance and Confinement: Navigating the Limits of Nature and Society” at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery. The Montpelier artist infuses every one of her mixed-media constructions with provocations, enlightening the viewer with titles and descriptions. But she also leaves the work exposed to individual interpretation, thus allowing the show to resonate deeply. Admasian’s 23 works are composed of natural materials, including dirt, rocks, wood, chicken bones, feathers and butterflies, used in combination with floral wire, netting, a chain saw, found objects and lots of barbed wire. In fact, every piece in the show incorporates or highlights barbed wire, underscoring the concepts of constraint indicated by her title. In her artist statement, Admasian writes, “Rusted objects have always been of interest to me and, in particular, the connective yet alienating beauty of barbed wire.” Indeed, her associations with the stuff are charged, and will likely evoke reactions in viewers, as well. Barbed wire comes in many styles; even the word “barbed” has multiple meanings: physically thorny and prickly, as well as acerbic, cruel or taunting (in reference to language). In “Boundaries,” Admasian carefully curates the materials she incorporates with found objects, and she is equally concerned with language. Case in point: “Go Cut Yourself a Switch” (8-by-4-foot acrylic on board, 2014), the visual focal point of the show. Six bundles of five willow switches are each mounted vertically on a neutral-colored horizontal board and held in place with a short length of barbed wire. Some viewers will be familiar with the title’s meaning, but it’s not terminology common to everyone. A “switch” is a short whip cut from a thin tree branch — typically willow — and used for corporal punishment. An adult might require that an about-to-be-disciplined child go out and cut her or his own switch, thereby inflicting psychological pain along with the physical.

“A visit to the henhouse”

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ALL OF IT IS FINELY EXECUTED WITH EXQUISITE ATTENTION TO DETAIL.

“The Last Flight” and “Halted Journey” are more prosaic titles describing the deaths of Charaxes and other types of butterfly, caught up in netting and barbed wire. “The Last Flight” captures six butterflies, seemingly still in motion, between layers of netting. Their arrangement — separated from one another by barbed wire and on display — makes viewers unwitting participants in their captivity. These are beautiful but disquieting images whose literalist titles contribute to the narrative. In addition to assemblages and sculptures, Admasian includes two black-and-white mixed-media paintings in the exhibit. Distinctive for their stark graphics, “The Well” and “Black AND White — When will the discrimination end?” are hung in the front room on opposite walls, possibly intended as a pairing. “The Well” (40-by-30-inch barbed wire, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2015) is a wide black rectangle

“The Nest”

with a painted white square “hole” in the center. Black barbed wire runs across the canvas in multiple horizontal and vertical rows. The view is from the bottom of the well looking up, expressing the flip sides of hope and hopelessness. At the top of the well, bright white suggesting light and organic brush strokes hinting at grass tease the viewer. “The Well” seems to depict psychological confinement or depression. That may not be light at the end of the tunnel after all. Admasian’s work concerns itself with many issues, including gender and societal constraints. In “Black AND White,” the sophisticated abstract veneer invites viewers to investigate the title

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Amplifying Voices Mural Project: A collaborative mural by Jen Berger and Michelle Sayles based on interviews with local residents about making the South End safe and sustainable. Shown in conjunction with the “HeART & Home” exhibits in support of Fair Housing Month. April 16-May 1. Info, 540-0406. ArtsRiot Gallery in Burlington.

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Advanced Drawing Exhibit: Student artworks. April 21-30. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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f Ernest Montenegro: “Flatmansquared: The Tyranny of Ism,” stainless steel and bronze sculptures by the New Hampshire artist, E.N. Wennberg Gallery. f Helen Shulman: “Happy Medium,” abstract, earth-toned landscapes in oil by the Quechee panter, Clifford B. West Gallery. f Joan Morris: “Imprint of Absence,” featuring metal-printed textiles that investigate the space between objects and surfaces; and “Mill + Cross 1, 2 and 3,” plant-dyed materials with sewn lines across the surface, Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery. f Jonathan Sa’adah: “Seeds of Change: Upper Valley 1968-1975,” photographs from the artist’s book How Many Roads?, Johnson Sisters Library. f Stephanie Suter: “Invisible,” silverpoint drawings that explore ideas of time, memory and impermanence by the Brownsville artist, Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry. Reception: Friday, April 17, 5-7 p.m. April 17-May 20. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

art events ‘Draw and Sip’: An evening of wine and drawing with artist and illustrator Evan Chismark. All levels welcome. Price includes wine and all materials. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. $40; $35 members. Info, 253-8358. ‘Handmade Nation’: The documentary by Faythe Levine is the final art film in Frog Hollow’s winter series. A discussion will follow with Moe O’Hara and Mark Dabelstein. Feldman’s Bagels, Burlington, Wednesday, April 15, 7 p.m. Info, 863-6458. Graphic Design Thesis Exhibit: “WOVEN,” works by graduating art students. College Hall Gallery, Montpelier, Friday, April 17, 7:30-9 p.m. Info, 828-8600.

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DJ Barry Art: “Project Stencil,” spray paint on canvas works including a portrait of Lady Gaga. Through April 30. Info, 658-2010. Indigo Salon in Burlington. ‘Double Visions’: Collaborative collages in acrylic on panel by Frysch Dütson and Edsen Lüters (aka Blake Larsen and Alex Costantino). Through April 25. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘Abstract All Stars’: A group exhibition of thematically abstract art. By appointment only. Through April 30. Info, 225-614-8037. South Gallery in Burlington.

Essex Art League Spring Art Show: League members exhibit works with a spring theme. Through May 2. Info, 849-2172. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

‘Back to Nature’: Textiles, paintings and mixed media by Karen Henderson, Jill Madden, Joe Salerno and Gowri Savoor that celebrate the beauty of the Vermont landscape and reinterpret our connection with place through time. Sumru Tekin: “One Day,” a multimedia installation by the Barbara Smail Award winner, with audio elements meant to orchestrate an encounter between the visitor and the gallery space. Thomas Brennan: “Darkness From Light,” photogenic or camera-less photographic drawings by the associate professor of art at the University of Vermont that explore mortality and document nature. Through June 20. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center in Burlington.

‘Function, Fire and Fun’: An exhibit of ceramic works by UVM Pottery Co-op teachers and students. Through April 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

‘Belongings’: Works by sculptor Ruth Shafer, photographer Ted Wimpey and painter Holly Hauser as part of the “HeART & Home” series in support of Fair Housing Month. Through April 30. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. ONE Arts Center in Burlington.

‘HeART & Home’: Pam Favreau, Janice Walrafen, Rick Castillo, Robin Katrick and James Secor exhibit work in multiple media part of the Fair Housing Project’s HeART & Home series. Through April 30. Info, 863-6713. North End Studio A in Burlington.

‘Book Works’: Artists redefine books using various mediums and techniques to construct or reconstruct a visual narrative. Through April 24. James Vogler: Abstract oil paintings by the Charlotte artist. Through April 24. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. ‘Burlington Then and Now: 150 Years a City’: An exhibit of historic black-and-white photographs of Burlington from University of Vermont Special Collections dating back to the 1860s, along with contemporary photos by Paul Reynolds taken from the same viewpoints. Through May 31. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Cara Lai FitzGibbon: “Home,” an exhibition of paintings inspired by Vermont architecture. On view as part of the HeART & Home series in support of Fair Housing Month. Through May 26. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. Chance McNiff: “Geometrically cosmic,” acrylic and oil paintings lined with ink. Curated by SEABA.

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Georgia Smith: Photographs of Europe capturing the spontaneous, mysterious moments that keep life interesting. Through May 31. Info, 540-0107. Speaking Volumes in Burlington. ‘GRACE: Grass Roots Art & Community Effort’: An exhibit showcasing 28 pieces of work from artists living in Chittenden County. Lower level of the mall, at the southwest entrance. Through May 31. Info, 472-6857. Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery, Burlington Town Center.

The Innovation Center Show: Group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First floor: Ashley Veselis, Casey Blanchard, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Liz Cleary, Lori Arner, Robert Green and Scott Nelson; second floor: Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Mitchell, Lyna Lou Nordstorm, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin; third floor: Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings, Haley Bishop, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney and Wendy James. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. ‘Interstices’: An interspecies exploration of home and homelessness curated by Aubergine Avilix, as part of “HeArt & Home” exhibits in support of Fair Housing Month. Through April 30. Info, oneartscollective@gmail.com. Radio Bean Coffeehouse in Burlington.

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“Boundaries, Balance and Confinement: Navigating the Limits of Nature and Society” by Mary Admasian, through July 2 at Vermont Supreme Court Gallery, Montpelier.

Kathleen Kolb: “Houses,” paintings influenced by American luminism, a 19th-century landscape style emphasizing light, in which the artist illustrates how Vermonters live. April 22-June 22. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘Eat for Art’: A silent auction of nearly 20 works by area artists and a “benefit bake,” at which a portion of every flatbread purchase will be donated to the 2015 Middlebury Arts Walk season. American Flatbread (Middlebury Hearth), Wednesday, April 22, 5-9 p.m. Info, 388-7951 x 100.

‘Civil War Objects From the UVM Collections’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art, and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17. ‘Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon’: The exhibit explores the origins and influence of the seminal cubist painting through a selection of American, African and European contemporary art, as well as new technologies. Through June 21. ‘Travelers in Postwar Europe’: Black-and-white photographs of Germany, Paris, London and Venice by Burlington doctor H.A. Durfee Jr. between 1951 and 1953. Through June 28. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington.

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f Hee Sook Kim & Christopher Shultis: “Encounter,” a multimedia exhibit including projected video images, 12 paintings and 12 glass jars with dried medicinal plants by internationally renowned printmaker Kim, with an audio installation and 12 poems on wood panels by Shultis, a composer and musician who worked with John Cage. Art talk: Thursday, April 16, 4:30 p.m. April 16-23. Info, 635-1496. Black Box Gallery, Visual Arts Center, in Johnson.

ONE Spring Fling: A fundraising night for the ONE Good Deed Fund with music and art projects throughout the Old North End, in conjunction with “HeART & Home” exhibitions during Fair Housing Month. North End Studios, Burlington, Saturday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. $20 each; two for $35 in advance; $25 per person at the door.

Christine Wichert: The artist’s “Jack in the Pulpit” series includes one-of-a-kind multimedia work on canvas and paper with hand- or machinesewn stitching. Through May 1. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

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Alissa Faber: The Burlington-based artist exhibits a trunk show of her latest ceramic and glass creations and hosts a “terrarium bar,” at which visitors can create a terrarium to take home. Free raffle for a handmade sculptural glass and wood vessel by Faber, 4 p.m. New City Galerie, Burlington, Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 617-780 7701.

Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.

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question: “When will the discrimination end?” The location of the exhibition itself, the lobby of Vermont’s Supreme Court, insinuates itself into the viewing experience, as do recent headlines. With the halls of justice nearby, it’s possible to read hope or despair into these works. The back room of the gallery holds “But Why?”, the largest piece in the show by far. Although it’s fully realized here, in a larger space it might be part of an even bigger installation. The work’s subtitle, “Dedicated to those who have been victims of childhood sexual abuse,” leaves no misunderstandings about the content. A wire box spring serves as the core; its coils hold items painstakingly sourced from a past era. These include a child’s faded yellow dress, a broken alarm clock, a No. 8 black billiard ball and a No. 10 blue one, a seven-inch vinyl record of “If I Had My Way,” pink tulle, playing cards, a Pinocchio head, an old Playboy magazine, three poker chips and more. The gallery is too small and “But Why?” is too large for it to be hidden, yet the piece seems to exist in a private space of its own. Although signs in the exhibit instruct visitors not to touch the works, it’s easy to imagine this piece as a healing touchstone for some. Much of Admasian’s work is poetic, some of it is shrouded in mystery, and all of it is finely executed with exquisite attention to detail. Whether we see her handiwork in the precision of the 350 pieces of spray-painted white barbed wire inserted in “The Plank,” or in the winding procession of wire in “The Nest,” Admasian is attentive and present. Having created all this work within the past 18 months, she seems to have opened a rich vein for further exploration.

f ‘Interpreting the Surface’: Textiles by eight Vermont members of the Surface Design Association, featuring styles from traditional quilting to the abstract. Reception: Friday, April 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 17-May 26. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘Portrait of a Man: Govaert Flinck and the Rembrandt School’: A talk by the Robert F. Reiff Intern Carolina McGarity exploring the possibility that the man who sat for the portrait was Rembrandt himself or his student Flinck. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Friday, April 17, 12:15 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 443-5007.

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Final Show: Codirectors Abigail Feldman & Shamus Langlois announced the closing of their 2-year old gallery. The final exhibit shows members’ works. Through April 30. Info, 552-8620. Gallery SIX in Montpelier.

Jason Boyd, Jordan Douglas & Matt Gang: Wood and mixed-media assemblages by Boyd; photographs on infrared and black-and-white film capturing recent travels by Douglas; and works in cork and wood by Gang. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

‘Gone Fishing’: A group exhibition of multiple media and installations depicting water, fish, watery organisms and fly fishing flies, Main Floor Gallery. Through May 15. Michael Heffernan: “Sweet Images,” an exhibition of surrealist abstract paintings, Third Floor Gallery. Through May 15. Silent Auction Exhibit: Original artwork and other items will be auctioned to benefit Studio Place Arts programs, Second Floor Gallery. Final bids on May 8. Through May 15. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

Jessica Cooper & Corey Armpriester: A pop-up exhibition of paintings and photographs in an apartment converted to a gallery as part of the “HeART & Home” series in support of Fair Housing Month. Through April 30. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com. APT. Gallery in Winooski. Julie A. Davis: Oil paintings and works on paper by the Burlington artist. Through April 27. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

Jonathan VanTassel: “So handsome! I know right?,” abstract large-scale paintings and photographs. Through May 1. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

Kate Cahill Vansuch: The first solo show of watercolor and mixed-media collage by the hospice nurse. Through April 28. Info, 488-5766. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington.

‘A Legacy of Caring: Kurn Hattin Homes for Children’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

Lisa Lillibridge: “Freak Show,” an installation of carved relief paintings created from found objects and textiles, influenced by vintage carnival signs, games and relationships. Through June 16. Info, 448-3657. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

f Lynn Cummings: “Life Forms & Color Studies,” a solo exhibition of abstract paintings based on symbols, shapes and patterns reminiscent of sea creatures or microbes. Reception: Friday, May 1, 5-8 p.m. Through June 30. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Maltex Group Show: Art by Steve Diffenderfer, Nissa Kauppila, Carol Boucher, John Snell, Tracy Vartenigian Burhans, Krista Cheney, Amy Hannum and Kimberly Bombard. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

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symbols and a secret-code language called Nsibidi that’s used in his native Nigeria. From

inspired by popular board games. Reception: Friday, May 1, 5-8 p.m. Through May 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

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New York City Photographs: Images in color and black and white of the Big Apple by Karen Guth, Anne Rothwell and Brendan McInerney. Through April 30. Info, redsquareart802@gmail.com. Info, 859-8909. Red Square in Burlington.

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‘A Place Called Home’: Fiber arts, printmaking and works in paper by Anne Cummings, Winnie Looby, Lyna Lou Nordstrom and Deborah Sharpe-Lunstead offer different perspectives on the definition of home. Part of the “HeART & Home” series in support of Fair Housing Month. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. City Hall Gallery in Burlington. Renee Lauzon: Two sound installations, “If We Are Two, They Will Have to Believe Us,” and “Stripping/ Retrieval (Women in the Woods),” are featured along with “Speech Attempt I & II,” a work composed of vellum, clear wire, D-rings and tape. Through April 30. Info, 862-9616. Burlington College. Sue Mowrer Adamson: An exhibit of multimedia block prints made from children’s artwork and found objects. Through June 30. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington. Toni Lee Sangastiano: “Misguided Adorations,” a photographic series of vacant Italian street shrine alcoves repurposed as slyly subversive altars to consumer culture, created during the artist’s sabbatical in Florence, Italy. Through June 29. Info, 860-2733. Freeman Hall 300, Champlain College in Burlington. UVM Medical Center Group Show: Art by Michael Sipe, Cameron Schmitz, David Griggs, Michael Farnsworth, Phil Laughlin and Jane Ann Kantor. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 30. Info, 865-7166. UVM Medical Center in Burlington. ‘The Waskowmium: Where the Art Stops’: A selection of works by 45 regional artists represent Barre collector Mark Waskow’s acquisitions since 1998. Through May 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington.

universal and specific.” For his touring exhibition, “Auto-Graphics,” at the Hood Museum of Art through August 2, the Washington, D.C.-based artist communicates his emotions with graphite on paper. His self-described “stream-of-consciousness style” employs Tuesday through Friday, April 21 to 24, visitors can see Ekpuk in action: He’ll be drawing a mural on the wall of the Hood’s Lathrop Gallery on the Dartmouth College campus. Check the museum website for “performance” times. On Friday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m., Ekpuk will give a talk, followed by a reception. Curator Allyson Purpura will lead a tour on Saturday, April 25, at 11 a.m. Pictured: “Santa Fe.”

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Adam Vindigni: A founder of Powe. Snowboards exhibits graphic art, ink drawings and photography inspired by life in Vermont. Through May 31. Info, 658-2739. Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington. Bob Arns/Mutin: “Science Meets Art,” the first solo show of Mutin, a University of Vermont emeritus professor of nuclear physics, who paints at the intersection of science and art. Through April 30. Info, 879-1236. Artists’ Mediums in Williston. ‘HeART & Home’: A Teen Show: Winooski youth and teens to celebrate the neighborhood with original artwork. Part of local “HeART & Home” exhibitions in support of Fair Housing Month. Through April 30. O’Brien Community Center in Winooski. John Weaver: Oil paintings by the Montpelier artist. Through April 19. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Katie Loesel: “Piles and Passageways,” drawings and prints by the Vermont artist, who explores ideas of pilings, webs and balance. Through June 1. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard. Lynda Reeves McIntyre: “Natural Forces and Glimpses of Domesticity,” acrylic and watercolor paintings by the University of Vermont art professor that present “a mix of visions, materials, temperaments and images celebrating the textures of living and noting the joy of being alive.” Through April 29. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne.

‘Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic’: An exhibition of large-scale photographs, models and a video of model building from the photographic illustrator and cocreator of I SPY and creator of the Can You See What I See? children’s books. Through July 5. Nathan Benn: “Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990,” featuring evocative color images by the acclaimed National Geographic photographer. Through May 25. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘Still Life/Life Still’: An exhibit juried by Yumi Goto explores images with a composition of everyday objects. Juror’s choice “Linda’s Angels” is by Burlington photographer Diane Gabriel. Through April 15. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. ‘The Wonders of Wood’: An exhibition of handmade objects by woodshop manager Chris Ramos, woodworkers-in-residence, members of the woodshop’s community renters’ program and students. Through May 29. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School. ‘Young Vermont Lifestyle’: Artwork by Mt. Mansfield Union High School students. Through April 15. Jericho Town Hall.

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‘1865, Out of the Ashes: Assassination, Reconstruction & Healing the Nation’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.

Lucy Krokenberger: “The Things I Love,” an exhibition of works in multiple media by the 11-year-old artist. Through April 30. Info, 223-3338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Maplehill School Student Art Show: Artwork on canvas and mixed media on paper by students in grades seven through 12. Through April 30. Info, 454-7747. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier. Mary Admasian: “Boundaries, Balance and Confinement,” sculptures and assemblages that address societal constraints and use found materials including fencing, willow switches, logs, butterflies and rooster feathers. Through July 7. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Matson Booth Vollers: “A Spring on Blue,” surrealist paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 30. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Michael T. Jermyn: “New American Impressionism,” images by the Montpelier photographer. Through April 30. Info, 223-1570. Chill Gelato in Montpelier. Nancy Calicchio: The artist’s “Landscape Trilogy” explores the relationship between earth and sky. The works are in groups of three, each group depicting a single subject and “each painting a further interpretation of the landscape in paint.” April 15-June 30. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

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“Subtle, Not Subtle: Evocative Nuance”: Delicate and complex paintings by Marc Civitarese, Janis Pozzi-Johnson and Helen Shulman; and sculptures by Jonathan Prince. Through June 3. ‘Endless Beginnings: Nonrepresentational Art Today’: Paintings and sculptures by 12 regional artists. Through April 19. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Nicholas Neddo: “The Organic Artist,” a selection of the artist’s drawings made with wildcrafted materials. Through April 19. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Sandra Shenk: Middlesex artist Sandra Shenk’s solo exhibition, “A Celebration of Color, Light and Form in the Southwest,” is a collection of travel and infrared photography, including images of Death Valley, southwestern Colorado and northern Arizona. Sarah-Lee Terrat: “Inside the Nitty Gritty — Commercial Art and the Creative Process” reveals the artist’s procedure, from sketches to final products, including illustrations, paintings, toys and sculpture. Through April 29. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to vermont ski brands. Through october 31. Info, 253-9911. vermont ski and snowboard Museum in stowe.

‘ViBrAnt ColorS’: An exhibition of seasonal landscapes and flora by painters David Mcphee, Karla van vliet and suzanne houston and photographer Amalia elena veralli. Through April 25. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in waterbury.

‘Vermont – A perSonAl Viewpoint’: eighteen works depicting life in vermont by six artists in styles from abstract to representational. Through June 3. Info, 472-6857. Grace Gallery at the old Firehouse in hardwick.

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Ben FrAnk moSS & VArujAn BoghoSiAn: “Duet,” collages, drawings and paintings by the abstract and collage artists. Through May 2. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester. CAthy SteVenS prAtt: “vessels,” a colorful exhibition of work that incorporates recognizable figures with exaggerated or abstracted details. Through May 17. Info, 244-8581. waterbury Congregational Church. ‘the gAthering’: Thirty-three members of the valley Arts Foundation exhibit works in a variety of media and styles. Through June 26. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in waitsfield.

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‘emerging: CeleBrAtionS oF Spring’: Artwork celebrating spring by local artists working in a variety of media. Through May 24. Info, 877-3850. Creative space Gallery in vergennes.

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kAthryn milillo: “Come what May,” 14 oil-onlinen paintings of vermont barns and lake George landscapes. Through April 30. Info, 458-0098. edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.

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f niCk mAyer: Illustrations of fish and other marine life with a scientific perspective by a former marine biologist and lifelong fly-fishing addict. Reception: Friday, May 8, 5–7 p.m. Through May 8. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater in Middlebury.

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‘Andy wArhol printS’: “Recent Gifts From the Andy warhol Foundation:” 10 vivid prints by the late pop artist including portraits of Chairman Mao, Goethe, sitting Bull, Ingrid Bergman and Queen Ntombi of swaziland. Info, 443-3168. ‘outSide in: Art oF the Street’: Graphic works by 19 street artists and urban legends who are now exhibiting in museums and galleries internationally. Through April 19. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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pAt lAFFin: Mixed-media and assemblage works by the vermont artist. Through April 15. Info, 453-4130. Tourterelle in New haven. peter Fried: The visual artist invites visitors to his new gallery and working studio to observe his process in various media. works are available for purchase. Through December 31. Info, peterdfried@ gmail.com. peter Fried Art in vergennes.

SuSAn AlAnCrAig: “unexpected Journeys: life, Illness and loss,” photographic portraits, accompanied by audio and written excerpts of interviews given by women with metastatic cancer and their family caregivers. Through May 9. Info, 388-4964. vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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based graphic artist Mark Gonyea knows how to capitalize on a niche (see: geek) poster projects through the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. As a result of his latest campaign, Gonyea has hung an exhibition of five posters, titled “Name That Game,” at Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Settlers of Catan and Pandemic, the works are on view through June 30. “I really loved the challenge of taking a wonderfully complex strategy game and distilling it down to an extremely simple but still recognizable design,” writes Gonyea in Friday, May 1, 5-8 p.m. Pictured “Catan.”

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f ‘loVe oF imAginAtion’: The 2015 student art exhibit features work from all eligible vermont K-12 students in public, private or home schools. The theme celebrates the youthful spirit of creativity and imagination. Reception: Friday, April 24, 4-7 p.m. Through May 30. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. muFFy kAShkin grollier: “Felted Flora, Fauna and Fantasy,” mixed media, paint with wool felt. Through May 31. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. ruth hAmilton: “Attention/Intention: Nature scapes and other worlds,” evocative and colorful paintings, as well as figurative and abstract three-dimensional works. Through May 1. Info, castletoncollegegalleries@gmail.com. Info, 4681266. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. ‘whAt iS loVe?’: The gallery’s annual Full house group exhibit offers diverse interpretations of and answers to the titular question. Through May 9. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. uppeR vAlley shows

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f SteVen jupiter: “hubbardton Creek,” a limited-edition series of 10 color 24-by-36-inch photographs of a vermont waterway. Reception: Friday, May 8, 4-9 p.m. Through July 26. Info, 917686-1292. steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury.

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LaureL VaiL tobiason & Patricia warren: Landscapes and portraits in watercolor and oil. Through May 24. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. ‘the Light around us’: An exhibit that explores the physics of light and color. Through May 10. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. tom schuLten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock. wiLLiam raymond darLing & Prima cristoFaLo: Intaglio prints and designer fashions, respectively. Through June 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

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‘chiLdren oF the oasis’: Ten tapestries by students of Egypt’s Ramses Wissa Wassef Centre, shown in conjunction with a contemporary fiber-art exhibit. Through June 21. f ‘diaLogue: LindenFeLd + LindenFeLd’: Ceramics by Naomi Lindenfeld inspired by and exhibited alongside textiles by her mother, Lore Kadden Lindenfeld. Artist talk: Vermont ceramicist Naomi Lindenfeld discusses her work, Sunday, April 19, noon. Through May 3. ‘gathering threads: contemPorary Fiber art’: The works of 13 regional textile artists, featuring unconventional materials. Through May 3. donaLd saaF: “Contemporary Folk Tales,” a solo exhibition of figurative paintings by the local artist and musician. Through June 21. michaeL Poster: Photography series featuring the residents of the Messianic farming community Twelve Tribes, in Bellows Falls. Through May 3. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘get out oF this one: broKen snow remoVaL deVices oF the neK’: A “brief celebration of futility” in the form of an exhibit about the rigors of snow removal in Vermont winters. Through May 31. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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Berger and Michelle Sayles secured a grant from Burlington City Arts to survey what South End residents actually want in their neighborhood. That group includes not just artists but seniors, immigrants, children and individuals with disabilities. To visually summarize the results, the women collaborated on a mural titled “ Amplifying Voices” that addresses such ideas as access to green space and the waterfront, safety on Pine Street and a community center. This Thursday, April 16, Sayles and Berger will host a talk about art and community in the context of ongoing development.

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susan caLza: Sculpture and drawings by the local artist, 3rd Floor Gallery. Through April 25. Info, 472-9933. Hardwick Inn.

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‘two Views From hoLLister hiLL’: Recent work in varied genres by Marshfield painters Chuck Bohn and Frederick Rudi. Through April 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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‘water ways: tension and FLow’: Landscape and portraiture photography from the permanent collection that explores “water’s impact on human life and humanity’s impact on water.” Through August 23. Info, 603-646-2095. aLLan houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3D work from 1986 to 1992. Through May 11. Info, 603-635-7423. f Victor eKPuK: “Auto-Graphics,” mixed-media works in graphite and pastel on paper, influenced by the artist’s Nigerian roots. Artist talk: Friday, April 24, 4:30 p.m. Through August 2. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

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maggie neaLe: Landscape and abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 1. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

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Kit Farnsworth: Landscapes and nature paintings by the South Royalton special educator. Through May 9. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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annuaL high schooL & middLe schooL exhibition: The exhibition includes all visual arts media from students at almost a dozen area schools. Through April 24. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Main Gallery in Plattsburgh, New York. daVid Learned: Photographs by the retired human services counselor and client of the Third Age Adult Day Center. Through April 30. Info, 518-564-3094. 30 City Place in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘wiLd nature: masterworKs From the adirondacK museum’: Sixty-two paintings, photographs and prints from the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum, dating from 1821 to 2001, including work by Hudson River School masters. Through April 19. the george

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2015 south End art hop: It’s time to apply for participation in the 23rd annual South End Art Hop, September 11 to 13! Artists, local businesses, fashion designers, food vendors and more can find application forms at seaba. com/art-hop. Deadline: June 20. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222. 5th annual trunk show and salE: Calling for artists/ artisans for a trunk show and sale on July 25 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of Grand Isle Art Works. Wares must be new, artists must be present and provide their own table and 10-by-10-foot covered tent. $25 reservation fee, plus small commission on sales. Application info at info@ grandisleartworks.com. Grand Isle Art Works. Through July 10. Info, 378-4591. arEa artist show at thE chandlEr: For its perennially popular show May 2 to June 14, central Vermont artists are invited to submit a recent work. The gallery will participate in the statewide Open Studios on Memorial Day Weekend, so artists will have the opportunity to demonstrate or talk about their art. Artwork will be accepted on Sunday and Monday, April 26 and 27, 3-5 p.m. $10 fee. For more info, contact Emily Crosby at 431-0204 or gallery@ chandler-arts.org. Chandler Gallery, Randolph.

a call for strEngth: Strength comes in many forms, whether by force or resilience or spirit. SPA seeks submissions in any medium that explores its many meanings. The exhibition will be July 21 to August 29. Deadline: June 12. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 application fee. Info, 479-7069 and info@ studioplacearts.com. chaffEE photography contEst: Amateur photographers are welcome to submit up to three original photos on the theme of “images of love”: people, wildlife or landscapes. Prizes will be awarded; exhibit and sale June 12 to July 25. Submissions to chaffeeartcenter.org, in person at either Chaffee location, or mailed to Chaffee Art Center, PO Box 1447, Rutland, VT 05701, Attn: Photo Contest. Deadline: May 30, 6 p.m. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. $10. Info, 775-0062. dojo group ExhiBition: Drop off one ready-to-hang small or medium piece (up to 16 by 20) Monday to Friday, 5-8 p.m. But please call ahead: 540-8300. Entry $10. Deadline: April 24. At the reception on May 1, viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home 50 percent. Swan Dojo, Burlington. Info, swandojostudio@gmail.com.

Marion wagschal: “Portraits, Memories, Fables,” the first solo museum exhibition of the Montréal artist, featuring close to 30 paintings produced between 1971 and 2014. These include portraiture and allegorical representations painted when abstraction was in style. Through August 9. Info, 515-285-1600 ext. 205. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

‘passion’ call to artists: What nearly drives you mad? What can you not look away from? The Chaffee Art Center is calling emerging artists of any age to submit artwork exploring the theme for a juried show. Apply at chaffeeartcenter.org or in person at the Chaffee Art Center or Chaffee Downtown Gallery. Deadline: August 15. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. $25. Info, 775-0062. story illustrators wantEd: Artists sought to depict scenes from ballads by Vermont poet George Albert Leddy (1883-1967). The artwork will be compiled/credited online and could be displayed/ sold at shows or used in book/ video publications. Through May 31. Info, 863-4030. ‘suMMEr art Body’: Calling for submissions of wall hanging or small-scale sculpture works based on body image and body love, for a juried show. Submit photo of work and 150-word bio to mmccaffrey15@student.u32. org. Deadline: May 1. Accepted artists will be notified of acceptance to the show by May 10. Local 64, Montpelier. Info, 595-5952.

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of abstract and figurative oil paintings. Reception: Saturday, April 18, 5-7 p.m. Through May 3. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland. sEnior Bfa ExhiBition: A showcase of works by the art department’s graduating class. Through May 16. Info, 518-564-2474. Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y.

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stEphanopoulos collEction: More than 120 photographs in a range of styles, including works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, among many others. Through May 31. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y.

outdoor Muralist: yEar of lovE: Sharing art in the community is one way to share love with residents and visitors to Rutland. Five murals will be installed this summer between June 26 and July 10. Sizes from 3 by 3 feet up to 10 by 10 feet. One venue is geared toward recreation and another toward agriculture. This is a juried event: Submit a written and visual statement to info@ chaffeeartcenter.org or by mail to Chaffee Art Center, PO Box 1447, Rutland, VT 05701, Attn: Exhibition Committee. Chaffee Downtown Art Center, Rutland. Deadline, May 6. Info, 775-0062.

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of Morrisville, River Arts and MACC with a Vermont Arts Council “Animating Infrastructure” grant. Submission deadline: Friday, May 1. River Arts, Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

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artist proposals for a nEw Building: BCA and Redstone seek artist proposals for a new building at 247 Pearl Street in Burlington. Details and online submission form can be found at burlingtoncityarts.org/247-pearl-st-rfp. Deadline: April 27. BCA Center, Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

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magine a filmmaker discovering that a folk singer once received a letter from John Lennon 34 years after it was sent, getting the rights to several of the exBeatle’s songs, and then having the nerve to revise the story, letter and songs in the service of a feel-good formula fest. Actually, you don’t have to. The directorial debut of screenwriter Dan Fogelman (The Guilt Trip) takes every one of those liberties. And yet, thanks to the charm of its cast, it miraculously manages to prove entertaining. Al Pacino stars. The 74-year-old has specialized in “aging” guys for a while now — an aging detective (Righteous Kill), an aging gangster (Stand Up Guys) and an aging actor (The Humbling). Here he’s Danny Collins, aging pop star. The movie begins with a flashback to the days when Danny was hailed as the next Bob Dylan. Well, Leonard Cohen, maybe. John Denver, at least. Fast-forward to the present, and we learn that Danny sold out, hasn’t written anything in decades and basically settled for being the next Tom Jones. At least he’s rich and lives in a glitzy mansion with a woman (Katarina Cas) half his age. For all practical purposes, he’s happy. He sings his golden oldies to arenas filled with “golden girls” and consumes as much

coke and booze as he did at 20. Then his manager (Christopher Plummer) gives him the birthday gift that changes everything — the letter from Lennon. Apparently feeling that Lennon’s writing needed improving, Fogelman rewrote it as schmaltz about staying true to one’s art. (The real-life note addressed a different subject.) Reading this missive inspires Danny to undo the mistakes of a lifetime, so he’s off to New Jersey. There he has a Steinway shoehorned into his hotel room so he can create, flirts with the manager (Annette Bening) and embarks on a mission to bond with the son he’s never met. Bobby Cannavale does a really nice job with that role. It’s amusing to watch the 40-year-old son’s bitterness incrementally give way to something approaching acceptance. As his wife, Jennifer Garner likewise makes the most of familiar, frequently cornball material. Naturally, the couple has a child with special needs, and Danny uses his celebrity to get the kid into a special, superexpensive school. Pacino dials the hoo-ah down, letting his smile and charisma do the heavy lifting. Naturally, it doesn’t hurt that all the feeling and healing are accompanied by a soundtrack of Lennon songs. With the exception of “Cold

(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER A long-lost letter from John Lennon inspires a musical has-been to make big changes in his life.

Turkey,” they’re randomly placed — but, hey, it beats listening to a soundtrack of Danny Collins songs. Apparently feeling that Lennon’s music needed improving, too, Fogelman actually rearranged compositions here and changed a lyric or two there, using a sound-alike. I couldn’t believe my ears. Aren’t you supposed to be a poet before you take poetic license? The bottom line: A heart-tugging trifle is elevated by the chemistry of its cast and a score that truly was a score. The rights to Beatles music, solo or otherwise, are famously difficult to secure, and Fogelman made the film with no reason to believe he’d get to use

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ALL THAT GLITTERS Mirren plays a woman trying to reclaim her artistic legacy in Curtis’ regrettably bland drama.

her. No one is ever her worthy opponent, and that predictability turns snappy scenes into bland ones. At least Mirren seems to be enjoying her ornery character. As Randol Schoenberg, the young lawyer and family friend whom Altmann recruits to fight for her cause, Ryan Reynolds is stuck playing a theme instead of a person. Specifically, the script uses the insecure, bumbling Schoenberg to embody the truth of Altmann’s lament, early in the film, that everyone, “especially the young,” is abandoning the past. We’re invited to view Schoenberg’s ignorance about his forebears — who include Holocaust victims and renowned composer

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Woman in Gold ★★★

iven that the vast majority of multiplex movies pander to young moviegoers, is it unsporting to point out that Woman in Gold panders to their grandparents? Maybe, but I’m still going to. Director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) and first-time writer Alexi Kaye Campbell were blessed with a magnetic star — Helen Mirren — and the true story of Maria Altmann, which has already inspired multiple documentaries. In her eighties, this refugee from Nazi-controlled Vienna set out to reclaim her family’s legacy of priceless Klimt paintings from the Austrian government. Chief among them was the stunning, oft-reproduced painting of Altmann’s aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, which the Nazis had stripped of Jewish associations by retitling it simply “Woman in Gold.” One sharp-tongued old lady takes on an entire country, including a passel of stuffy, self-righteous museum curators — that should be fun, right? Well, it could have been. The problem is that, in their eagerness to make Woman in Gold into a feel-good story, Curtis and Campbell have turned their characters from multifaceted human beings into symbols who utter soundbites. Every time Mirren as Altmann opens her mouth, we know she’s going to come out with a tart little zinger that silences all the suits around

those songs. Without them, he would’ve had a Lifetime movie. So how did a novice director whose résumé includes the screenplay for Fred Claus acquire permission to use nine compositions? Trick question — he didn’t. One of the film’s producers, Jessie Nelson, happens to know Yoko Ono and showed her a rough cut. Deeming this weepie about a lost letter a love letter to Lennon, Ono agreed to let the songs stay. Danny Collins is by no means an instant classic, but you’ve got to admit that’s some spooky instant karma.

Arnold Schoenberg — as typical of his generation, and his battle on Altmann’s behalf as his coming of age. Unfortunately, Reynolds isn’t the right guy to breathe life into this programmatic conception: The normally charismatic actor spends most of his screen time looking pensive and cowed, and his big moment at the Holocaust Memorial looks less like revelation than indigestion. Equally ill served is Daniel Brühl as an Austrian journalist who mainly shows up to deliver exposition. So full of statements are these characters that they don’t seem like they could ever just shoot the breeze — or take genuine pleasure in a great artwork. The closest Woman in

Gold comes to liveliness (and life-likeness) is in its flashbacks to Altmann’s youth. Her family’s bustling artistic household has a vitality that the modern scenes lack and, as the young Maria, Tatiana Maslany makes us feel the terror of marching jackboots and the trauma of separation. The aftermath of that trauma is written into Mirren’s character, yet she comes off more as a sly quip machine (“Unlike Lot’s wife, I never looked back”) than a grief-hardened survivor. Curtis and Campbell have shaped the story as a showcase for Mirren’s considerable gifts, but the result is a film in which she never seems genuinely to interact with anyone. There are many fine, nonpreachy films to be made about the wisdom of age and historical perspective, and about the enlightenment and empowerment the young can draw from their elders. But when the deck is stacked too heavily, such themes inevitably come off as pandering to the target audience. If you want a simple story with an older heroine to cheer for, Woman in Gold delivers. But it can’t even approach the mysterious allure of Bloch-Bauer’s eyes in the painting at issue — a far more evocative reminder that the past is never past. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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new in theaters cHilD 44: Stalin’s Soviet union is the setting for this thriller about a disgraced military policeman investigating a series of child murders. tom hardy, noomi Rapace, gary Oldman and Joel Kinnaman star. daniel Espinosa (Safe House) directed. (137 min, R. Roxy) moNkeY kiNgDom: This disney nature documentary follows the lives of a family of monkeys living in Sri lanka’s temple ruins. tina fey narrates. Mark linfield and alastair fothergill (Earth) directed. (81 min, g. Essex, Majestic, Palace) pAUl BlARt: mAll cop 2: The would-be officer of the peace (Kevin James) heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter for a trip that might just involve hijinks in this sequel to the hit comedy. with Raini Rodriguez. andy fickman (Parental Guidance) directed. (94 min, Pg. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, welden) tRUe stoRY: a disgraced reporter (Jonah hill) pursues an accused killer (James franco) who has appropriated his identity in this drama based on true events. Rupert goold makes his feature directorial debut. (100 min, R. Roxy) UNFRieNDeD: In this found-cyber-footage horror flick, a Skype message from a dead friend draws six young people into a web of, we can only assume, terror. with heather Sossaman and Matt bohrer. levan gabriadze directed. (82 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic) WHile We’Re YoUNg: writer-director noah baumbach (Greenberg, Frances Ha) once again showcases ben Stiller as an acerbic middle-aged fellow — only this time he’s half of a couple. naomi watts is the other half; adam driver and amanda Seyfried play the younger couple the two befriend. (97 min, R. Palace, Savoy, Stowe) WilD tAles: This Oscar-nominated anthology film from argentina tells the stories of six people in desperate straits who explore their wild sides. with darío grandinetti and María Marull. damián Szifrón directed. (115 min, R. Savoy)

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AmeRicAN sNipeRHHHH bradley cooper plays renowned navy SEal sniper chris Kyle, during and after his tours in Iraq, in this drama from director clint Eastwood. with Sienna Miller and Kyle gallner. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/14)

cHAppieHH1/2 neill blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) directed this near-future tale of a police robot with a repressive mission who finds himself reprogrammed. Sharlto copley, dev Patel and hugh Jackman star. (120 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 3/11)

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FURioUs 7HHH1/2 how did the thrill-seeking street racers of this action franchise become, in essence, superheroes? don’t ask Vin diesel’s character, who’s busy fending off a vengeful Jason Statham while tackling a threat to the entire world. The usual crew returns, including the late Paul walker, Michelle Rodriguez, ludacris and dwayne Johnson. (137 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 4/8) get HARDHH Screenwriter Etan cohen (Tropic Thunder) makes his directorial debut with this comedy about a millionaire (will ferrell) who hires what he thinks is a seasoned tough guy (Kevin hart) to prep him for hard time behind bars. with craig t. nelson and alison brie. (100 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 4/1) HomeHHH Jim Parsons voices an extraterrestrial misfit who escapes to Earth and teams up with a spunky girl (voiced by Rhianna) in this dreamworks family animation. with Steve Martin and Jennifer lopez. tim Johnson (Over the Hedge) directed. (94 min, Pg) it FolloWsHHHH1/2 The title succinctly describes the nature of the threat in this indie horror film from writer-director david Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover), which has received a plethora of festival awards. with Maika Monroe, Keir gilchrist and Olivia luccardi. (100 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 4/1)

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Do YoU Believe?H1/2 a pastor strives to return to the roots of true belief in this faith-based ensemble film featuring ted Mcginley, Mira Sorvino, Sean astin and others as interconnected characters seeking spiritual inspiration. Jonathan M. gunn directed. (115 min, Pg-13)

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tHe DiveRgeNt seRies: iNsURgeNtHH tris (Shailene woodley) continues her fight against a social order that allows everyone to have just one dominant character trait in the adaptation of the second novel in Veronica Roth’s dystopian ya series. with ansel Elgort, Theo James and Kate winslet. Robert Schwentke (R.I.P.D.) directed. (119 min, Pg-13)

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tHe BABADookHHHH1/2 a young widow begins to fear that her son’s hallucinations of a terrifying creature called the babadook are real, in this much-honored australian horror film from director Jennifer Kent. Essie davis and noah wiseman star. (93 min, nR)

DANNY colliNsHHH an aging rock star who’s long since sold out (al Pacino) changes his tune after receiving 40-year-old fan mail from John lennon in this tale of redemption loosely based on a true story. with Jennifer garner, annette bening and christopher Plummer. dan fogelman wrote and directed. (106 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 4/15)

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’71HHHH1/2 In this acclaimed historical thriller, Jack O’connell plays a young English soldier who finds himself separated from his unit while trying to quell violence in belfast. with Sam Reid and Sean harris. yann demange makes his feature directorial debut. (99 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 4/8)

ciNDeRellAHHH cate blanchett gets to step out as the evil stepmother in disney’s live-action retelling of the tale of a put-upon girl and a glass slipper, directed by Kenneth branagh. lily James, Richard Madden and helena bonham carter also star. (112 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 3/18)

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wednesday 15 — thursday 16 Chappie Cinderella friday 17 — tuesday 21 Home Woman in Gold

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cApitol ShowplAcE 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 15 — thursday 16 Cinderella Danny Collins Get Hard The Longest Ride The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel friday 17 — thursday 23 Danny Collins The Longest Ride *Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 *Unfriended Woman in Gold

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wednesday 15 — thursday 16 Cinderella The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2D & 3D) Furious 7 Get Hard Home (2D & 3D) Kingsman: The Secret Service The Longest Ride The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Woman in Gold friday 17 — thursday 23 Cinderella The Divergent Series: Insurgent Furious 7 Get Hard Home The Longest Ride *Monkey Kingdom *Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 *Unfriended Woman in Gold

mArQuiS thEAtrE Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

wednesday 15 — thursday 16 Furious 7 Home Still Alice (Wed only) What We Do in the Shadows (Wed only) friday 17 — thursday 23 Schedule not available at press time.

mErrill’S roXY ciNEmA 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

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thE SAVoY thEAtEr 26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 15 — thursday 16 ’71 Seymour: An Introduction friday 17 — thursday 23 *While We’re Young *Wild Tales

StowE ciNEmA 3 plEX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678. stowecinema.com

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seYmoUR: AN iNtRoDUctioNHHHH Ethan Hawke’s first documentary focuses on Seymour Bernstein, a once-celebrated concert pianist who left the limelight to focus on teaching and composing, and what he has to say about art, fear and fame. (81 min, PG) WHAt We Do iN tHe sHADoWsHHHH The New Zealand comedy duo of Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) and Taika Waititi wrote, directed and starred in this mockumentary about three flatmates who happen to be vampires. With Jonathan Brugh. (86 min, NR) WomAN iN GolDHH1/2 Sixty years after Nazis made off with her family’s priceless Gustav Klimt paintings, a Jewish refugee (Helen Mirren) fights a legal battle for what’s hers in this drama based on real life. With Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Brühl. Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) directed. (109 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/15)

tHe BABADooKHHHH1/2 See description in Now Playing. BiG eYesHH In Tim Burton’s biopic, Christoph Waltz plays Walter Keane, who built a midcentury art empire on images of creepy-eyed waifs, and Amy Adams plays his wife, Margaret, who actually painted them. (106 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 1/7)

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mAps to tHe stARsHHH1/2 David Cronenberg directed this ensemble drama about Hollywood excess and decadence from Bruce Wagner’s screenplay. With Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson. (111 min, R) tHe WomAN iN BlAcK 2: ANGel oF DeAtHHH This sequel to the 2012 chiller about a Victorian town in England haunted by a dark specter brings the action into World War II. With Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine and Phoebe Fox. Tom Harper directed. (98 min, PG-13)

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