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ermont lost an independent icon when former U.S. senator Jim Jeffords died on Monday at age 80. Staff writers Paul Heintz and Mark Davis reported about Jeffords’ life, death and 40year political career on Seven Days’ Off Message blog. They recounted how the Rutland Republican, educated at Yale University and Harvard Law School, first won election to the state senate in 1966 and then to the office of attorney general in 1968. In 1974, Jeffords won the first of seven terms he would serve in the U.S. House
I admired Jim Jeffords for his fearless stance … I will miss him and hope that one day the Republican Party will have many members like him so that those with integrity don’t feel the only choice is to get out of the way and allow other parties to run the state. — ISABELLA MCFARLIN We need more people in Vermont who are willing to run as independents. The party game (money game) is not good for the people at any level — municipal, state, federal. — LEA TERHUNE
human being he kept his compassion and his passion. As a man he kept his word. — BRENT BETIT Jim was always an independent thinker, who had to push against resistance from his party establishment from the beginning. I had the honor of serving on his staff for his first 12 years in Congress and still think of him as a mentor. Ideology, he would say, can provide a general framework for beliefs, but you have to look at every situation individually ... Doing the right thing is always more important than being re-elected, but the ideal is to do the right thing and get re-elected. He was a lousy public speaker and uncomfortable campaigning, but a dedicated and brilliant public servant who accomplished far more good for the world than he will ever get credit for. — STEVE CARLSON Jim Jeffords was an Independent Man. At his first book signing in Rutland before it started I offered him a “No Blood for Oil” button. He put it on right away. I hope he is at peace with his wife Liz… RIP Jim & Liz. —CHUCK NASMITH
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That’s how far wood harvested in Essex Junction has been traveling to reach Burlington’s electric plant in recent weeks, according to a Vermont Public Radio report. A state requirement intended to relieve traffic congestion has meant the fuel travels north to Swanton and back by rail.
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2. “Shumlin: IBM-Vermont in ‘Expansion Mode’” by Paul Heintz. Despite recent dire headlines about IBM’s Essex Junction plant, Gov. Peter Shumlin says he’s optimistic about the company’s opportunities in the state.
Instead of selling off its chip-making facilities, including the one in Essex Junction, IBM is in “expansion mode” and has added jobs, Gov. Peter Shumlin said last week. We’ll take it.
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3. “To Stop Campus Rape, Let Kids Grow Up” by Judith Levine. If we expected more of college students, would that curb campus rape? 4. “Fred Armisen Does Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live” by Tyler Machado. One from the archives: In this unaired segment, SNL takes on Vermont’s own socialist senator. 5. “The Great Vermont Corn Maze Goes All Raptor on Us” by Natalie Williams. The Danville corn maze is open for its 16th year in business. This year’s theme is a throwback to the Mesozoic Era.
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I had the distinct privilege and the honor to work with Senator Jeffords and his capable staff when he chaired the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions and I was a college administrator fighting for the rights of students with learning differences. People will forever remember Senator Jeffords for changing parties. I will forever remember Senator Jim Jeffords because he was determinedly unchanging as the world and politics swirled around him — like a sturdy rock … in a torrent. As a legislator he kept his strong values. As a
of Representatives, followed by three terms in the Senate. Jeffords often found himself at odds with his party. He supported President Bill Clinton’s doomed health care reforms and was one of only five Republicans who voted to acquit Clinton during his impeachment. In 2001, Jeffords left the GOP, effectively turning control of the Senate to the Democrats. Channel 17 filmed Jeffords’ historic speech — delivered at what is now Burlington’s Hilton Hotel — and you can see the footage on Off Message. Plenty of reader reactions, too. Here’s a sampling:
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[Re “Labor Pains,” July 9]: While the industry’s need for and availability of trained cooks has ebbed and flowed, as Alice Levitt’s article suggests, I’d like to let you know about a local job training program which frequently runs just a little under the radar. The program is the Community Kitchen Academy. It is a Vermont Foodbank-originated program operated in partnership with CVOEO in Burlington and CapstoneVT in Barre. The program is 13 weeks long and offers
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Putting a “pause” between the thought and the behavior saves lives. This state has a critical, ongoing shortage of inpatient mental health care beds. Even though mental illness takes away vibrant, productive, young lives, we continue to see our state government cut back on mental health care in general. I can’t imagine Cheryl having to spend days in a noisy, busy ER suffering with agonizing, tormenting pain waiting and waiting for comfort, quiet and treatment for her debilitating illness. Cheryl’s death should be an exclamation point on this state’s ignorance of mental illness and its ramifications. Please wake up, Vermont. The brain is an organ. Treat it as such.
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A Vermont Think Tank Celebrates 40 Years of Influential Anarchy BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Stuck in Vermont: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied youth are singing campfire songs in Starksboro this week during the 4th annual Camp Outright. Last year, Eva Sollberger spent an afternoon talking with campers and staff at this “queer utopia.”
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In 2007, a monarch butterfly identified at Montpelier’s North Branch Nature Center was recovered in Mexico. Why does this delicate creature travel more than 2,000 miles south each year? Nature lovers learn the answer to this inquiry and others at the Monarch Butterfly Tagging, where they catch and release the black-and-orange fliers.
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ven after the post-Watergate rout of 1974, when Democrats picked up 49 seats in the U.S. House, eight of New England’s 25 House members still hailed from the GOP. Among them was a 40-year-old freshman representative from Vermont who had carved out a reputation back home for his environmental activism. Bobbi Brown As a state senator representing Rutland Trish McEvoy County, JIM JEFFORDS had pushed to ban Laura Mercier billboards along the state’s byways. As atSkinCeuticals torney general, he had sued International Kiehl’s Since 1851 Paper for polluting Lake Champlain. He bareMinerals by Bare Escentuals helped draft Vermont’s groundbreaking ...and many more!! Act 250 land-use law and its landmark bottle bill. “He was the first attorney general to put environmental protection and lake cleanup at the forefront of his agenda,” Congressman PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) said in Corner of Main & Battery Streets, response to Jeffords’ death Monday at age 80 in Washington, D.C. Burlington, VT • 802-861-7500 Thirty-two years after he came to www.mirrormirrorvt.com Congress as a House Republican, Jeffords retired in 2006 as a Senate independent. The last major piece of legislation he introduced would have forced polluters to cut 8v-MirrorMirror030514.indd 1 3/3/14 11:58 AMtheir carbon emissions by 80 percent over the next 50 years. By then, of course, the party of THEODORE ROOSEVELT had become the party of JAMES INHOFE, the climate-change-denying senator from Oklahoma, who served opposite NOW OPEN Jeffords at the top of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. And by then, the northeastern GOP congressman was an endangered species. The year Jeffords retired, CHRIS SHAYS of Connecticut became the sole New England Republican serving in the House. Two years later, he was defeated. “I really worry about that,” Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) said Monday, referring to the decline of the GOP moderate. Comparing Jeffords to former Vermont senator ROBERT STAFFORD and former Tennessee senator HOWARD BAKER, Leahy said, “They were proud to be Republican, but they would work out differences and they would try to reach across the aisle. I think as we’ve lost that, the Senate’s been facebook.com/pages/Essex-Outlets hurt.” Jeffords’ vast and loyal diaspora of ex-staffers urged reporters Monday to remember him more for his legislative legacy than his 2001 defection from the Republican Party, which handed control of the Senate to Democrats and made his a household name across the country. “The publicity he got for switching ALSO OPENING LATE AUGUST 2014 parties I sometimes wish hadn’t happened because all those incredible things he w w w . e s s e x o u t l e t s . c o m did over those years got lost,” said SUSAN 21 ESSEX WAY, ESSEX JUNCTION, VT | 802.878.2851 12 FAIR GAME
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Jeffords’ longtime chief of staff. Indeed, not long after arriving on Capitol Hill, Jeffords coauthored what would become the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, opening up public schools to those with mental and physical disabilities. He would go on to increase funding for the arts, help negotiate the Northeast Dairy Compact and secure passage of the Clean Air Act of 1990. And it’s not like Jeffords’ break from the party came from out of the blue. As early as 1972, when he sought the Republican nomination for governor, he was defeated by the more conservative LUTHER “FRED” HACKETT, who later lost to Democrat TOM SALMON.
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In 1980, when Jeffords supported JOHN for president over RONALD REGAN, Vermont Republicans tried to ban him from their party’s convention. The next year, Jeffords was the sole Republican to vote against the Gipper’s tax cuts. He voted against CLARENCE THOMAS’ nomination to the Supreme Court, urged GEORGE H.W. BUSH to drop DAN QUAYLE from the ticket, opposed NEWT GINGRICH’s “Contract with America,” backed BILL CLINTON’s health care reform proposal, opposed Clinton’s impeachment and voted against the 2003 war in Iraq. Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.), who followed Jeffords to the House and then the Senate, said Monday that he knew many moderate House Republicans who shared Jeffords’ gripes back in 2001. “But not one of them had the courage to do what he did, which was to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” Sanders recalled. “Unlike many who sort of faded away or lost elections, Jim took on his own party,” former governor HOWARD DEAN said Monday. “I think he ought to get credit for that.” Perhaps one reason the Jeffords alumni squad isn’t so interested in focusing on their boss’ famous defection is that, in the long run, it didn’t amount to much. Sure, Democrats regained a tenuous hold on the Senate for the next 18 months. But a year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Republicans, campaigning on national security, took back the Senate and expanded their majority
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POLITICS in the House. In 2004, GEORGE W. BUSH won reelection by appealing to his party’s base of social conservatives — and by the end of the decade, the Tea Party had taken root. These days, the left and the right are as far apart as ever in the national debate — and Jeffords-style independence seems almost quaint. “He stood up for his beliefs, which is incredible, but it didn’t change anything,” said JEFF MUNGER, who spent 13 years on Jeffords’ staff and now works for Sanders. Here in Vermont, where Jeffords is venerated by every politician with a pulse, his lasting impact on state politics is equally uncertain. The legislature’s super-majority Democrats are quick to shut down Republican opposition, while some GOP activists love nothing more than to engage in friendly fire to enforce party orthodoxy. Not exactly the Jeffords way. Among those in the latter camp, ironically, is former Jeffords aide DARCIE JOHNSTON, who’s currently waging a onewoman-war against Republican gubernatorial candidate SCOTT MILNE and the party’s sole statewide officer-holder, Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT. Since they took control of the state party last year from Johnston’s conservative allies, Scott and Vermont Republican Party Chairman DAVID SUNDERLAND have been trying to rebrand the state GOP as the kind of party that Jeffords never would have left. Milne, whose family was close to Jeffords’, said his party would do well to emulate the late senator by looking at “issues based on what’s best for people, not predetermined litmus tests.” When Milne’s own mother, Marian, lost a Republican primary after voting for civil unions in 2000, Jeffords encouraged her to run as an independent to keep her seat in the Vermont House and endorsed her candidacy. MARION MILNE died last week at age 79. “I think that was the low-water mark of the party,” Scott Milne said of the “Take Back Vermont” movement. “I see the Vermont Republican Party becoming a more moderate, mainstream party. I’m hoping my run will help move it toward that.” But Johnston, who opposes government involvement in health care, says Vermont’s neo-moderate GOP leaders miss the point. “The Vermont Republican Party has been so focused on winning that they have forgotten the importance of public policy and principles,” Johnston said. “Jeffords never put winning above principle and policy.” Of course, the GOP hasn’t been doing much winning, either. Since former governor JIM DOUGLAS’ 2010 retirement, the
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party’s influence has diminished to near irrelevance in Vermont. Heidi Tringe, a Montpelier lobbyist who worked for Jeffords for five years, believes the GOP’s fortunes will reverse when it finds enough candidates who share her old boss’ humble, dedicated and thoughtful demeanor. She thinks Lt. Gov. Scott fits the mold. “We’re only one great candidate away from having another Republican in the U.S. Senate or having another Republican in the governor’s office,” she argues. “It’s about the person, not the party. And that’s what I really learned from Jim.”
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During next Tuesday’s sleepy summer primary election, Milne will face off against STeve Berry and emily PeyTon for the Republican gubernatorial nomination — and the opportunity to challenge Democratic Gov. PeTer SHumlin. He’ll also have to withstand a last-minute write-in campaign being waged by Libertarian dan Feliciano — and orchestrated by Johnston. Milne isn’t taking any chances. On Tuesday, he launched a 30-second television advertisement featuring footage of him and Douglas at last month’s campaign kickoff. Milne says he plans to spend “north of $20,000” airing the ad in the next week. That’s nearly as much as the $22,370 he raised last month, according to a report filed Monday with the secretary of state. Of that, $6,000 came from those associated with david BoieS iii, Milne’s college pal and business partner, who helped collect another $14,000 in contributions in July. Having raised just $42,790 and spent $28,325 since he entered the race in June, Milne doesn’t have much to work with. That’s why, he said, he’ll pull the ad next week — and sit out the ad war until October. “We don’t have the money to get into a TV-buying race with Shumlin,” Milne said. True story: Just last month, the gov raised $67,452 and spent a mere $11,264 — leaving him with $1.13 million in the bank. As usual, much of Shummy’s cash came from corporations, unions, lobbyists and others with business before the state. Among his biggest contributors were the International Association of Fire Fighters ($6,000), Federal Express ($4,000), Vermont Telephone Company president micHel guiTé and daughter diane guiTé, ($4,000), the Vermont Troopers Association ($3,000), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ($3,000), AT&T ($2,000), Comcast ($2,000), and Visa ($1,000). The real write-in race to watch next Tuesday will not be for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but for the Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial nomination. That’s because after
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early a year after Vermont Health Connect went live, the state’s online insurance exchange still has a number of gaping operational holes into which plenty of Vermonters have fallen — even disappeared. When Seven Days put out the call to readers for stories about their experiences with the exchange, we heard tales of endless phone calls, maddening hold music and conflicting answers from well-meaning but ultimately unhelpful customer-service representatives. “I spoke to Diane, Amy, Leslie, Rebecca, Sharon, Josh, Lindsay,” rattled off Sandra Hawkes, a part-time teacher in Essex. “I was calling every day.” She’s still trying to figure out why she’s received a bill for a premium payment that her bank says was processed six weeks ago. In Shelburne, one woman worked for weeks to obtain an insurance number after signing up for the system and paying her premium for months. She finally got it, but 10 days later she received an entirely different set of ID numbers. “I am a huge supporter of the Affordable Care Act and what the state is trying to do,” said Amber Roberts, a 29-year-old mother of one in Danville who waited weeks and weeks for her family’s insurance cards to arrive, “but it just seems like everything went wrong.” Seven Days also heard from a small number of happy customers. Jennifer Williamson, a 39-year-old naturopathic physician in Burlington, said she had gone without health insurance prior to this year because it was just too expensive. Through the exchange, Williamson’s family qualified for generous premium tax credits based on their income. They signed up in time for Williamson’s husband to get coverage before a surgery related to his Crohn’s disease. “It was super simple signing up for it,” said Williamson. “I couldn’t be happier.” Generally speaking, though, complaints vastly outnumbered reports of client satisfaction.
chose the plan that most closely resembled her previous coverage under Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont — or so she thought. A bill never arrived; Coykendall chalked it up to what she’d heard in the news about glitches plaguing the website. Her husband reminded her to follow up on the bill, but Coykendall admits she “let it slip.” In March came a rude and scary awakening: A skiing accident landed her husband in the hospital for a week with a broken clavicle and ribs and a punctured lung. To her horror, Coykendall learned that Vermont Health Connect had no record of her insurance application from January. “I would just call them for days on end, and send emails,” she recalls. She got a call back once — when she was out of the house. By April, it was a little easier to get someone on the phone, but not any easier to iron out her situation. Again and again she was told that she’d have insurance — as of April 1, which wouldn’t cover her husband’s hospital stay.
“I was just freaking out,” said Coykendall. Her husband’s hospital bills alone were $27,000. “I should have been on the phone from January [on],” she says. “I just didn’t realize how messed up it was.” Intervention by Rep. Patti Komline accelerated Coykendall’s case when the Dorset Republican got in touch with someone “higher up,” Coykendall explains. Even so, the answer Coykendall continued to get was not the one she wanted: coverage as of April 1. She bounced around between several departments, landed on the phone with countless helpers and then miraculously, one morning, got a new answer: The hospital bills would be covered after all. She remembers asking the woman on the phone, “‘Did you just wander in there and pick up the phone?’ All of a sudden, it just changed.” Coykendall still doesn’t know what happened — or why. She’s able to pay her premiums online now, and as of early July had an insurance number to give to providers.
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deductibles were more expensive than made a mistake while signing up online. they had been, too. But she paid her pre- “The jargon was too technical for me to mium — only to learn, when she filled understand,” she says, and she missed a $188 prescription, that the pharmacy the chance to sign up for the tax credits couldn’t find a record of a valid insur- for which she and her husband qualified. “It was so easy to just click, and ance plan. She started calling around — first to then it was like, ‘Oops, you’re screwed for three months.’” Vermont Health When she called Connect, then to Vermont Health Connect to Blue Cross and Blue get the situation sorted out, Shield of Vermont. she landed in the infamous She got different queue of thousands seeking answers from both a “change of circumstance.” systems. “It’s like Meanwhile, Desjardins still watching people try KERRy COMOLL O needed to see her doctor to hang wallpaper for weekly visits, but she without arms,” says Comollo; the two systems just didn’t didn’t have any insurance information seem to communicate. “It just takes 10 to provide. Her provider let her keep her appointments, but offered Desjardins this gazillion phone calls.” Her premiums had seemingly been advice: “You’re your own advocate. You applied twice to the months of March can get lost in the shuffle. Make it one of and April, but not for May and June. In your jobs to really make it happen.” [and, yup, still free.] It took three months, and countless trying to get to the bottom of the problem, she wound up with three different phone calls, but Desjardins’ situation insurance cards with three different is finally sorted out. Even so, she spent policy numbers. A few days ago, she an hour on the phone recently trying to M-Sa 10-8, Su 11-6 got an email threatening cancellation change her online password and to pay 4 0 because of “nonpayment,” though she’s her premium — only to be told, in the 802 862 5051 end, to mail a check. still paying her premium every month. S W E E T L A D YJ A N E . B I Z “Something isn’t connecting,” she “I have no idea if I have insurance right now,” she says. “I have no clue.” She says. said the employees at Vermont Health 8v-sweetladyjane082014.indd 1 8/18/14 8v-free-colors.indd 11:03 AM 1 6/5/12 Connect have been polite and friendly, Looking Ahead but ultimately Comollo has little faith Roughly 7,000 Vermonters are in situLOCAL FINANCING! in the system. She’s been routinely told ations similar to the one described by that if a provider or pharmacist can’t Desjardins. They’re waiting in a long Whether you’re a first-time home-buyer, someone looking pull up her insurance plan, she should “change of circumstance” queue of for a vacation home, or purchasing an investment property pay out of pocket and submit her claims people who can’t automatically update the Heather Torre Team is here for you! later “after this gets all cleared up,” she their health insurance plans online. says. “Well, I don’t have a whole lot of That’s down from more than 14,000 We Offer: Jumbo, Conventional, New Construction, faith about it getting all cleared up.” earlier this summer, but according to a
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Kim Desjardins, 35, lives in Essex. Because neither Desjardin’s job as a part-time art teacher nor her husband’s work in retail offered benefits, the couple previously relied on the state’s Catamount Health plan for insurance. Desjardins knew going in that her plan on the exchange would cost more money. Her premiums went up, and some of her Catamount benefits — including waived copays and medication costs under a chronic care management plan — disappeared. Desjardins waited until almost the end of the open enrollment period to switch to the exchange, but she never considered going without insurance. She has a chronic mental health condition that requires a monthly prescription and weekly visits to her provider. Her trouble started when Desjardins
report from the state’s new contractor, IT company OptumInsight, an additional 4,000 Vermonters are also experiencing billing problems. Earlier this month, the state decided 3 to part ways with the Canadian contractor CGI, which did all of the initial work on the health exchange. The transition to OptumInsight will take place through September, by which point the state is estimating it will have paid nearly $70 million to CGI for a website that still isn’t fully functional. Meanwhile, there’s a new deadline looming: Open enrollment for next year’s health insurance plans begins on November 15. Optum’s latest report to the state warns that Vermont Health Connect should have contingency plans in place to manually process renewals — in case the website is not yet fully functional. m
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an anyone here give me a three-sentence definition of ‘communalism’?” asked an earnest and befuddled audience member last Saturday. “No!” replied a chorus of voices amid laughter and groans at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the world’s most influential neo-anarchist think tank. Apart from the group gathered on a Marshfield hilltop last Saturday, few people have heard of the Institute for Social Ecology; even fewer know that the late Murray Bookchin, a longtime Burlington resident, started it in Plainfield with a mission of fomenting a revolution to replace capitalism with a nonhierarchical, “communalist” utopia. Although the discussions during the day were rife with references to theories and thinkers unfamiliar to the uninitiated, one panelist paused in her presentation on the philosophy of social ecology to remind the group: “We need to be able to speak to everyday people. Murray was very clear that we can’t have a revolution without a broad-based movement.” The attendees themselves were surprisingly broad-based given the setting: a remote corner of one of the whitest, grayest states in the country. Despite jokes about ISE being a “gerontocracy,” about a dozen of the 50 or so social ecologists on hand were under age 40. A few black and brown faces could also be seen in the transplanted and refurbished barn beside the home of ISE cofounder Dan Chordokoff. The meeting hall had a cozy feel and a festive look on a cool and cloudy midAugust morning. Bread and Puppetstyle mermaids perched on beams in the rafters, while an anatomically correct nude Neptune stood sentinel against one of the walls. And the talk did occasionally move from the abstract to the concrete. At those moments it was evident that this obscure institute has quietly helped shape left-wing political movements in Vermont and beyond during the past four decades. Social ecology has, for example, become the political lodestar of Turkish Kurdistan, Chordokoff noted. The leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party there is a devoted Bookchinite.
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“As a body of ideas, social ecology has been very influential,” Chordokoff said on the sidelines of one of the sessions. “The impact of its ideas belies the institute’s small size.” Chordokoff, once a Goddard College student and now a retired professor, noted that ISE had begun organizing against genetically modified organisms in agriculture 15 years prior to Vermont’s recent enactment of the nation’s first GMO-labeling law. Right from ISE’s beginning, Chordokoff added, solar and wind power were integral to its stated aim of creating “a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom.” Social ecology, as delineated in Bookchin’s many books, has played an important, if generally unacknowledged role in the formation and
evolution of the movements against nuclear power and corporate globalization, Chordokoff said. Bookchin’s critique of Marxist ideology and his advocacy of direct democracy could also be discerned in the political and procedural character of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Indeed, “all the young blood here comes from Occupy,” Blair Taylor, a 38-year-old doctoral student in Germany, commented in regard to the makeup of the Marshfield conclave. The institute is much smaller today than in its early years, when it was affiliated with Goddard and offered summerlong programs that attracted as many as 180 students. Financing has dwindled, and the institute now lacks a permanent home. Moreover, Bookchin’s 2006 death left ISE without the charismatic, prophetic figure who had served as a political and philosophical guru to some of those participating in this year’s version
of the eight-day “intensives” that have replaced the institute’s summer school. Despite its contraction, ISE remains “vibrant and relevant,” said Taylor, a member of its board. Younger activists can find inspiration in Bookchin’s work and in the institute’s educational activities, affirmed Negesti Cantave, a 23-year-old New York City resident who spent many days and nights at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan. “What I really like about social ecology is that it’s openended,” Cantave, a Haitian-Jamaican woman, said in a panel discussion. “I feel welcomed. A lot of other ideologies feel closed.” It was clearly OK to challenge premises and ask disconcerting questions. In a panel on social ecology and education, Long Island University professor Kathleen Kesson said she favors efforts to “unschool” or “deschool” youth due in part to “the corporate lockdown of
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public schools.” But Middlesex farming and food activist Martin Kemple noted on the same panel that he sends the younger two of his four children to public schools because he believes in the democratic character of that form of education. “I can’t give up on public schools,” Kemple said. “I won’t give up on public schools.” A suggestion of similarities between social ecology thought and Tea Party ideology triggered a lively exchange. One speaker warned of “a dangerous theoretical alignment with the right.” “What’s so strange about uniting left and right?” longtime ISE affiliate Sandy Baird asked in response, noting that social ecologists and Republican libertarians both emphasize the importance of individual freedom while opposing U.S. military interventions. “When the Tea Party talks about liberty,” Cantave interjected, “they’re saying they’ll have liberty but others won’t.” Bookchin was “very clear in his opposition to right-wing libertarianism,” central Vermont author and activist Brian Tokar reminded the group. Channeling Bookchin, Tokar warned against “the embrace of individual freedom to the complete exclusion of the social dimension.” Republican libertarians might be more accurately termed “private propertarians,” he suggested. Social ecologists’ differences with Vermont’s Progressive Party and its own guru, Sen. Bernie Sanders, were also noted. “Sanders has done some great stuff,” acknowledged Chaia Heller, an Amherst, Mass., resident who lived in Burlington in the ’80s. But his socialist ideology is “fundamentally problematic,” she added, because it’s “hierarchical and authoritarian.”
In a panel discussion, Heller proudly recalled her involvement in Baird’s 1989 mayoral race against Sanders’ ideological heir, Peter Clavelle. “There was a lot of improvisation, a lot of trial and error” in that campaign conducted under the banner of the Burlington Greens, she said. “It was one of the best examples of communalism. It wasn’t a failure at all,” Heller said of a contest in which Baird received less than 5 percent of the vote. Social-ecological activists such as Baird had earlier fought the Progs over Sanders’ support for major commercial development on the downtown waterfront. The park and the open space to its north are testament to the local impact of social ecology, observed Bea Bookchin, who was married to Murray Bookchin for 12 years and lived with him another 23. The Neighborhood Planning Assemblies that bring together residents of the city’s wards for democratic decision making can be seen as another Bookchin legacy, Bea Bookchin suggested. Now 84, Bea Bookchin remains engaged in Burlington politics and what she calls the effort to “start governing ourselves.” Interviewed at the ISE event, she points to “the fight for local control, like with Burlington Telecom” as her current focal point. Bea and Murray’s daughter, Debbie Bookchin, remarked separately that her father moved to Burlington from New York City in the early ’70s because “he saw in Vermont a place to begin to put his ideas of decentralization and direct democracy into practice.” The townmeeting tradition was especially appealing to him, she added. In Burlington, Debbie Bookchin recounted, her father saw “the potential for realizing the best of what a small city could be.” m
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he last time Winooski State Rep. Clem Bissonnette looked over the city’s voter rolls, the veteran local pol noticed something surprising: The names of fewer than half of his constituents were recognizable to him. “Twenty years ago, I knew 85 percent of the people who came when I stood outside the polls,” Bissonnette said. “Now, if I know 25 to 30 percent of people who come through the line, I’m doing well.” “You can’t take anything for granted any more,” he said. In recent years, Winooski has welcomed an influx of young professionals who have fueled a downtown revival. At the same time, a new wave of refugees has settled in the Onion City, making it a multicultural Mecca. Thirty-one languages are spoken in Winooski’s K-12 schools. Bissonnette, 80, is seeking reelection to the House. Another longtime local officeholder, Ken Atkins, 74, is also running; he hopes to return to the legislature after a two-year absence. But the pair — vying for Winooski’s two seats — is being challenged by two upstarts. Progressive/Democrat Diana Gonzalez, 36, and Progressive Robert Millar, 30, who have lived in Winooski for less than a decade combined, say they would better represent their rapidly evolving community in Montpelier. The district includes a tiny sliver of northern Burlington, but Winooski’s 7,300 residents comprise the bulk of it. “It’s very much a race of new guard and old guard happening here,” Millar said. “Clem and Ken, I consider them friends, but Winooski has changed a lot in the time they have been in office. It’s not the same Winooski. We’ve got diversity unlike any in the state.” No Republican candidates are on the November ballot. Gonzalez will face Bissonnette and Atkins in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, and the two survivors will compete with Millar in the November general election. “We knew it was coming,” said City Manager Katherine Decarreau, a Winooski native. “This will show us where the town is.” Atkins spent his professional life teaching and coaching sports in Winooski. He went to school there, too — his name appears on a banner in the Winooski Educational Center gym commemorating high scorers on the Winooski High School basketball team. He served as a state representative from 1998 to 2012,
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before stepping down and handing off his seat to longtime friend George Cross. Atkins assumed he was done with politics, but when Cross decided not to run for reelection, Atkins decided to come off the bench. He said he takes pride in being a moderate: Both Atkins and Bissonnette voted against legalizing gay marriage and medical marijuana, but have generally supported most Democratic priorities.
“I would much rather have somebody who is a moderate than somebody who is very left or very right,” Atkins said. “That’s what I am, and that’s what I am going to be.” Bissonnette served as deputy mayor, mayor and chairman of the school board in Winooski before he was elected to the House in 2008. He said he is running for reelection largely because he wants to participate in the debate about
single-payer health care, which he has yet to be convinced is workable. “There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Bissonnette said. “I really want to be involved in the conversation to make sure we get the right thing for Winooski.” In a city with no significant Republican presence, Bissonnette and Atkins have rarely faced serious opposition. Such was their grip on power that they acknowledge sitting down with Cross several years ago
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to hash out how they would control legislative seats for years to come. (The plan had been for Cross to stay beyond 2014.) “If you take how many years Clem and I have been here, you’re pushing 140 years,” Atkins said. “Take a look at our opponents. It’s one of the things that makes us different. We’ve made the long-term commitment in this community. There’s a difference, don’t you think? If Clem and I rally our troops, we should be OK.” Still, both men acknowledge their town is changing in ways they could not have imagined when they were younger.
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Winooski has long been a city of immigrants — past generations came from Ireland, Québec and Eastern Europe to work in the woolen mills along the Winooski River. Many of those immigrants were white and Catholic, and their descendants have long dominated Winooski civic life. The small city still has two Catholic parishes, St. Stephen and St. Francis Xavier. Atkins belongs to St. Stephen; Bissonnette is a parishioner at St. Francis. Winooski’s woolen mills shut down in the mid-1950s, leaving hundreds out of work. As a result, the city struggled economically for decades. Its demographics began to shift when a sizable population of Vietnamese people, who had become refugees as a result of the U.S. conflict in Southeast Asia, began to arrive in Vermont. Before long, the most common last name in the Winooski phone book was “Nguyen.” As refugee populations from other countries resettled in the Burlington area, many of them gravitated toward Winooski, which had a refugee-friendly reputation. Iraqis came, then Somalis, Bosnians and Sudanese. Most recently, Winooski has welcomed ethnic Nepalese fleeing Bhutan. As a result, the Winooski student body has gone from 78 percent white to 57 percent white in the past six years, and it’s easier to find a bowl of Vietnamese pho than a deli sandwich downtown. But the city is not just getting more ethnically and racially diverse — it’s also getting younger. Millennials seeking cheaper rent have flooded the city, creating a customer base for a hip and growing restaurant and bar scene. “In the past eight to 10 years, it’s been exponential,” Decarreau said.
Slowly, the change has been reflected in local politics: New arrivals to the city have served on both the school board and the city council. It was inevitable that newcomers would push for higherprofile offices. Among them is Millar, a Colorado native who moved into a Winooski apartment with his wife six years ago. “It was cheaper than Burlington but in an urban area,” said Millar, who served two years on the school board. “We found the right place. We just really liked it and stayed.” Millar worked as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office manager during the senator’s 2012 campaign, and stepped down from his position as executive director of the Vermont Progressive Party when he announced his candidacy for the Winooski seat. Gonzalez is a teacher and doctoral student at the University of Vermont who helped lead an effort to unionize staff on campus. She grew up in Southern California and arrived in Winooski three years ago, drawn to its diversity and urban feel. Neither of them belongs to a Winooski parish. Electing Atkins and Bissonnette, she said, would mean that Winooski’s “complexity is lost on the road to Montpelier.” “Winooski is a very diverse city, and my background really lends itself to public service and bringing people together,” Gonzalez said. It is, of course, oversimplifying matters to view the race as purely old versus new. Millar and Gonzalez both insist they have fans among Winooski’s older generation, while Atkins and Bissonnette gush about the downtown revival and the city’s ever-increasing diversity. But it’s hard to avoid the obvious. Gonzalez held an event at the upscale bar oak45, Millar at the fledgling local brewery Four Quarters. Bissonnette and Atkins say they are focusing more on door-to-door campaigning and rallying their long-time supporters. On her Facebook campaign page, a photo shows Gonzalez wearing what has become a hot item among young Winooski residents — a T-shirt referencing the city’s large roundabout as the “Winooski Speedway.” Bissonnette, meanwhile, says he has older friends who have never gotten used to the sometimes-chaotic traffic pattern that was developed several years ago. They’ve found ways to avoid the roundabout. m
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Harold C. Luce, 95, passed away Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., after a brief illness. Born on October 11, 1918 in Chelsea, VT, Harold was the son of Ernest E. and Lizzie L. (Dickinson) Luce. He attended school in Chelsea. On February 8, 1939 he married Edith Keyes of Brookfield, VT. Harold and Edith ran the family dairy farm in Brookfield for 15 years before moving to Chelsea. For over 19 years, Harold worked as a machinist at Cone & Blanchard Machine Co. in Windsor, VT. After his retirement, he drove for the Stage Coach of Randolph, VT. On October 13, 1997 Edith, his wife of 58 years, passed. In his later years he traveled and
spent time with his companion, Marion Gilman, until her death on May 4, 2013. Harold was a hardworking man, a good neighbor, great parent, enjoyed people and always tried to do right by everyone. At a young age, playing the fiddle was a large part of Harold’s life. He spent time playing for the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers beginning in 1934, taught others to play, played at the Tunbridge Fair and two different World’s Fairs in New York, and he loved playing at senior citizens’ groups. He also performed at weddings, funerals, hospitals, talent shows, and birthday and anniversary parties. He was a member of the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers for 80 years, Northeast Fiddlers Assoc., Southern Vermont Fiddlers, Champlain Valley Fiddlers, Chelsea Grange
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1949-2014, BURLINGTON Sheldon “Kip” Meaker, 65, of Burlington died August 8 after a long illness. A native of Barre, Kip was widely known as an elite singer-guitar player whose unique style bridged the genres of rock, blues and early jazz. Kip Meaker’s long history as a musician included performances with numerous musicians known locally, nationally and worldwide. Kip was a prolific songwriter and enjoyed giving away many of his original lyrics to other artists, wanting only for the music to be heard. Kip was a fixture for many years in Burlington’s nightclub scene, either as the featured artist in groups or as a solo act that
evoked the best of the blues tradition. It’s safe to say that Kip Meaker, guitarist extraordinaire and vocal virtuoso, achieved legendary status during his lifetime as one of Vermont’s all-time great musicians. Among his many talents, Kip was an accomplished artist in pastels and watercolor. An avid fisherman and former fish taxidermist, Kip is listed as the state record holder for yellow perch. He was a collector of rare seashells and books and held a special fondness for
roses and irises, African bullfrogs and exotic goldfish. Kip’s encyclopedic intellect was highlighted by an articulate command of the English language. A not-soinvoluntary captive of the moods of a brooding artist, Kip’s sharp wit and playfully critical sense of humor were a delight to those who were honored to know him. Kip is survived by his children, Abbey Meaker and her husband Sean Martin of Monkton; Michael of New York, New York; Jack Meaker and Savannah MeakerWaller of Wilmington, NC; and Donald Grady of Monkton; his sisters Diane Meaker Williams and Kristin Haskins of Barre; as well as numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. With love and gratitude to Phil Abair of Burlington, Vermont and Penny Hannigan of Montpelier. Two celebrations of Kip’s life are being planned. The first is a private gathering of family, friends and musicians on Sunday, August 24. The second is a private gathering of family on Sunday, August 31, at the home of Kip’s daughter, Abbey, in Bristol.
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Congratulations to the Farmhouse Group restaurants — the Farmhouse Tap and Grill, Guild Tavern, Pascolo Ristorante, Guild Fine Meats and El Cortijo — for their many Daysies [“All the Best,” July 30]! As a farmer, I would like to express my appreciation for the Farmhouse Group’s unerring support of Vermont farms. These restaurants have brought the term “buying local” to a whole new level — purchasing enormous quantities of local produce, meat and cheese from area farmers. Having worked in several restaurants, I know that it is much easier and cheaper to order through a centralized food wholesaler. Yet these chefs take the extra time and spend extra money and order from dozens of different farms on a weekly basis. These restaurants not only produce consistently excellent food, but do so in a way that cycles significant amounts of money back into the local economy while supporting a vibrant and growing farming community. George van Vlaanderen Bakersfield
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This is not a problem for most and, for the most part, not for us, either. However, each time I was limited with access and could not use the stairs due to a knee injury. The first time the elevator was out of service, and my husband had to drive me back down to the main level and then re-park the car. Upon exiting, I waited for him by the exit and asked the attendant there about the elevators. He was nice, apologized for the inconvenience and said that they had just been there the day before to fix them. I suggested that they might put a sign up where you drive in to alert those who would need to get out of the car on the main floor. About two weeks later, we found ourselves at the same garage. Yet again, the elevator was not working. When we left, I talked to a woman who seemed not to care. When I suggested I was going to call the main office, she responded, “Good luck with that.” Again, no sign was up to say this service was out. So I won’t bother to use this garage again, even when I can use the stairs! The public needs to know this, more so if you rely on the elevator to get up and down. And just maybe the city needs to correct the issues with the elevators to make sure they are in service.
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[Re “The Rise of Micro-Dairy: A Longtime Dairyman Thinks Big — By Going Small” and “Milk Test,” August 6]: I appreciate Seven Days’ coverage of raw milk and other food issues, but there are a couple of points I’d like to clear up: First, the author’s use of the word “trafficking” in reference to farmers who are selling raw milk perpetuates the idea that raw milk is some kind of radical, under-the-table commodity. The regulations are complex, but it is legal to sell raw milk in Vermont. In fact, generations of Vermonters were and continue to be raised on raw milk. Before milk became an industrial commodity rather than a food, most people in rural areas purchased their milk from their local farmer. Second, if Vermont truly wants to have viable farms, there has to be room for small, grass-based, raw dairy operations, and the regulations that govern them must be reasonable and fair. As the potential customer quoted in the article said, “If all products were sold that way, I’d never buy anything.” What would happen to Vermont’s celebrated local food economy if everyone had to visit the farm before purchasing products at a farmers’ market? Or, what if all farmers had to waste precious time and fuel running around delivering their products to customers’ homes? If you want to learn more about raw milk as a farm-fresh product or as an agricultural policy issue, please contact Rural Vermont and join Susan and Ryan Hayes for an Open Barn Party at the Farm of Milk and Honey on September 7. Visit ruralvermont.org or call 223-7222 for details. Andrea Stander Montpelier
Stander is executive director of Rural Vermont.
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[Re Off Message: “State Won’t Ban Recreation on Berlin Pond,” August 14]: I could not believe my eyes when I read
this from David Mears: “Berlin Pond is a gem in central Vermont, easily accessible and yet remote, so I am pleased to announce that Vermonters will be able to continue to access and enjoy the pond for an appropriate, protected set of uses without threatening Montpelier’s drinking water, water that I drink every day.” What on earth is the Agency of Natural Resources thinking? Have you ever heard of anyone going swimming who did not pee in the water? I bet Mears himself has done so on occasion. This is not protection; this is an appalling insult to the people of Montpelier who also drink that water every day. In fact, when I first heard about opening up Montpelier’s sole drinking water source — already so highly treated with chlorine that you can smell it when it comes out of the tap — I thought there is no way this idea was going to pass. And yet ANR and the governor have allowed it to. I absolutely cannot believe they would put the recreational interests of a few selfish people, who have plenty of other places to play, above the public safety needs of thousands. Bronwyn Fryer Montpelier
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I am most disappointed in Gov. Peter Shumlin’s treatment of Secretary Racine and what appears to be a not-very-wellconceived transition of power within the Agency of Human Services [Off Message: “Racine Ousted as AHS Secretary,” August 12]. I know Sec. Racine to be one of the most empathetic, honest and hardworking people in politics. His style is not “yowzer boys” but quietly intelligent — just the kind of guy I want at the top. Hire an actor to glad hand if you think the state would benefit, but don’t remove the brain and expect this huge body to function well on life support. Patty Pruitt Middlebury
Thanks for the great coverage of new and changing Barre eateries [“Food Start-Ups Bring Fresh Flavors to Barre,” August 6]. Delicate Decadence just had a major uplift, and it is the primo patisserie and cake baker for special occasions in Barre. Sorry you missed that in your article. The bakery makes delicious pastries that are served at high-end events, have a nice “bakery cafe” and always a nice selection of freshly made delicacies. Please check them out! They are on Facebook, too. Open five days, with scones, fruit foods and chocolate that melts in your mouth. Bern Rose
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[Re “Green Alert: Public Water Systems Watch for Toxic Algae in Lake Champlain,” August 13]: In its latest edition, the local Williston weekly trumpeted an upcoming housing development as something to crow about. The Finney Crossing project, though, is sprawl, plain and simple. If anything, Williston is now the sprawl capital of Chittenden County. Sprawl means more polluted storm runoff, less native wildlife, and increasingly awful water quality. More algae blooms, too. We all live in a watershed, notably that of Lake Champlain. Too bad local leaders fail to grasp that reality and what it portends. Alan C Gregory Williston
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Something not mentioned in this article [“Green Alert: Public Water Systems Watch for Toxic Algae in Lake Champlain,” August 13] is the proposed fracked gas pipeline project that terminates in Ticonderoga, N.Y., at the International Paper plant. Hydrogeologists have confirmed that the trench the pipeline is installed in becomes a “preferential corridor” for water (and contaminants) to travel, because the soil will be less compact than the undisturbed soil, despite the “best mitigation practices” that are used during construction. So here will be a new mainline for the phosphorous to find its way to the lake. The impact on runoff from such a project has not been studied. Why wait to see if there will be a problem until after the problem exists? Yeah, I know... money, that’s why. Nathan Palmer Monkton
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A Montpelier Design/Build Duo Lands a House on TV
Program bios indicated that all five brass players were highly trained musicians and former principals of major orchestras in the U.S. and Mexico. But their playing made it immediately apparent that they have a lot of fun together. It was also evident the quintet had thoroughly prepared for a program that ranged from Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli and Victor Ewald — brass musicians’ Beethoven — to Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Holst and living composer Eric Ewazen. The group opened by performing the Gabrieli with one player positioned at
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and Kiper built is the biggest one — the others are closer to 250 square feet. The episode featuring the Watts premieres this Wednesday, August 20. The couple’s new house was built on the site of a torn-down garage behind their 2,200-square-foot home, which they intend to rent out. Their sleek, modern, single-story house has two compact bedrooms that can be joined or separated by a sliding door; a living room and kitchen; and a bathroom with a walk-in shower. High ceilings, white walls and wide windows make the home feel spacious. It was built in less than three weeks. “They were warriors,” Mary Beth Watt, 60, says of Taylor and Kiper. “Some of those days were so brutal and hot, and they were there 14 hours! Chances are on the show,
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Thirty-seven artists are showing their work this year, and any sales return directly to them. Painter Lynn Kafer’s soaring Gothic cathedral interiors in a rough pointillism caught my eye. But the little red “sold” dots beside many paintings indicated a general preference for bucolic Vermont scenes, including the Waitsfield covered bridge and farm barns much like the exhibit venue. That pastoralism isn’t a bygone myth. My next drive — back to town, through that same covered bridge and up the winding road to the Round Barn — demonstrated why the Mad River Valley has been a byword for “getaway” since the 1960s. The picturesque circular barn’s photography show — another festival staple — had closed for the day, but I got to drive the same road back to town as the late sun slanted through the clouds. At the church, folks were beginning to stream in. All told, more than 100 people showed up to hear InoraBrass. Aside from the festive allure of brass music, the concert had several points in its favor. Half the audience knew the horn player, Joy Worland, as their esteemed librarian at Joslin Memorial down the street. The audience’s teenagers and their families likely knew the two trumpet
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n the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor, Faye Dunaway plans a getaway to Sugarbush Resort in Warren, only to be abducted at her New York City door by CIA operative Robert Redford. I can sympathize with the effect, if not the cause: Every year, I have planned and failed to make a road trip to the Mad River Valley to experience its annual Vermont Festival of the Arts, now in its 17th season. In my defense, the fest seems to pass in an eye blink every busy summer. In reality, it lasts more than a month — from July 31 through Labor Day — and features multiple, mostly free events and activities every day. So this summer, I planned carefully and actually made it, on August 14. My objective was to hear a new brass quintet called InoraBrass. Arriving early, I drove past the Waitsfield United Church of Christ, where the concert was to take place, and on to Lareau Family Farm, site of the Big Red Barn Art Show. Described as “an anchor event of the Vermont Festival of the Arts,” the show is held in a once-wellused barn (renovation plans are in the works). The guest book registered folks from Canada, Connecticut and Florida. Several viewers carried in glasses of wine from American Flatbread’s bar next door.
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browsing online this winter, an ad popped up for “Tiny House Nation.” He and Mary Beth applied and were accepted. “When the reality TV show figured in, that gave us this impetus to really act on it,” Peter says. Working with the show also kept
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the two movements the group chose to play ranged from heraldic to playfully syncopated. If only they had included the missing movement instead of playing Bernstein’s “Maria” from West Side Story, which struck this listener as singularly unsuited to brass. At intermission, I asked two women sitting beside me if they had made it to any other festival events. Out came a barrage of listings: a performance by the TransconTinenTal Piano Duo, a lecture on architect Louis Kahn at the
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East Montpelier in 2010. “I always had him [Taylor] in the back of my mind as a brilliant designer and builder,” says Kiper, 34. The two became fast friends, collaborated on a pop-up gallery in Montpelier and, in January, decided to start their own company. Tiny houses weren’t initially on Anomal’s list of services, but the movement toward smaller-footprint living is in keeping with Taylor and Kiper’s minimalist aesthetic. A compact tiny house perfectly showcases the designers’ preference for “functionalism, honest materials, durability, timelessness and simple, understated forms,” as Kiper puts it. “And for us this experience wasn’t about being on television,” he adds. “It was about making a great house for a really nice family.” m
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costs down, since many companies donate materials. Building a house with a film crew around, Kiper and Taylor admit, wasn’t always easy, though they credit the show with supporting local businesses, and say the crew was “great to work with.” The Watts worry that Taylor and Kiper won’t get enough screen time. The show’s hosts, John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin, are the “renovation experts” who appear most frequently on camera. But Taylor and Kiper aren’t complaining; they landed this television gig just months after launching their design and fabrication company, anomal. The original builder for the Watt home — also from Montpelier — was overwhelmed with work and recommended Taylor and Kiper as his replacement. Anomal’s services run the gamut from artisanal concrete countertops to furniture and fixture design to architectural planning. The partners first met in 2006 through a mutual friend, but didn’t truly connect until they wound up living on the same road in
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each of the four corners of the church and at the altar. The effect was to enclose the audience in a sonorous wall of blown sound. Suffice it to say there was no snoozing at this concert. The first movement of the Holst suite included a prominent solo by trombonist SalimandoPorter that nearly left this listener’s mouth agape. I cannot recall hearing tone like this from a trombone before — it was almost otherworldly. SalimandoPorter, a retired military woman, served as principal trombonist with several military bands, including West Point’s, and has performed on Broadway and with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, among others. It’s unusual for a brass quintet to have not one but two women. A member of the American Library Association’s task force that selects feminist books for youth, Worland landed on the group’s name by Googling three of her favorite words: “snow,” “mountain” and “goddess.” “Inora” came up, and she liked the sound of this Goddess of Mountain Snow, which originated in a fantasy game. InoraBrass wowed with several more pieces, in particular “Frost Fire” by Ewazen. Whitcomb prefaced it by saying the composer had emailed the group to explain that he named the piece after a white wine produced in his native state of Ohio. Far from light,
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plastic gewgaws, such institutions seem as if they’re trying to upend the very notion of the museum as an official repository. Viewed from another angle, though, the Main Street Museum is devoutly faithful to the original intention not just of the Kunstkamera but of museums in general. Strictly translated, “Kunstkamera” means “art room.” Over the centuries of its use, the term has acquired the connotation “cabinet of curiosities,” which refers to a collection of unrelated anomalies — some authentic, some patently fake — that are, for one reason or another, interesting. That phrase describes the Main Street Museum just as aptly as it does the original Kunstkamera. “We’re doing the same thing that they’ve always done in museums. Really, we’re going back to the roots of museums,” Ford says. To collect, archive and display objects of significance, says Ford, is “a universal human impulse. The amazing thing is that I stumbled upon it by accident, not knowing what I was doing. People found it important to give me their baby teeth … and other little artifacts.” What’s behind this impulse to preserve and display the assorted objects of our lives? “We’re all sort of afraid of our own mortality,” Ford says. “We’re trying to make sense of what we’re doing while we’re here to make our lives less meaningless.” It’s one thing to read about historical events, but secondary sources don’t convey the same sense of wonder as do objects themselves. A photograph of George Washington’s grave might be interesting, Ford says, “but a leaf picked from the vines that grew from Washington’s tomb in Mt. Vernon — that’s almost like touching George Washington.” If he’s correct, the artworks in the “Kunstkamera” exhibit may take their viewers to some very strange historical places indeed. m Sarah Priestap
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INFO “Kunstkamera: The Tricentennial Anniversary of the Peter the Great Museum,” through January at the Main Street Museum, White River Junction. $5. mainstreetmuseum.org
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Known for his literary wit and radicalleft politics, Gore Vidal was a passionately opinionated fixture in American arts, politics and letters for more than half a century. Well regarded for both his fiction and nonfiction writing, he was also one of the country’s first and most outspoken advocates for gay rights, before that term was in widespread use. Vidal was most in his element, though, as a pundit, remembered for the verbal barbs with which he wounded such conservative opponents as William F. Buckley Jr. and Richard Nixon. He was also, Parini says, a remarkable impressionist, delivering spot-on verbal imitations of Nixon, Ronald Reagan and even the locutionally undistinguished Dwight D. Eisenhower. The decades-long friendship between Vidal and Parini was sparked, Parini says, by their common ardor for leftist politics. Parini describes himself as a “peace activist” and considers it his duty, as a writer and a Christian, to speak out for social justice. “I think that Gore — although not a Christian — was nevertheless always on the side of liberty, and always on the side of helping people who needed help,” he says. “If Gore hadn’t been essentially in that camp, I would have run a mile from anybody with that irascibility.” Among Parini’s many books are three biographies of literary giants: Robert Frost, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. The one he’s now concluding is, he admits, an altogether different
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iddlebury College professor and writer Jay Parini knew Gore Vidal well, and he agrees that the word “irascible” described the late author and commentator. “He had a very thin skin and he would flare up, and he had a wild temper,” says Parini. “Very few people stayed friends with him for long. I think I was one of the few people who stayed the course.” Parini met Vidal by chance in Italy in the mid-1980s, and the acquaintance soon bloomed into a close friendship. “He became a kind of mentor, a big brother figure to me,” Parini says. “We talked on the phone every week — sometimes every day — for decades.” The two remained devoted friends until Vidal’s death, at age 86, in 2012. It was natural, then, that Australian filmmaker Nicholas Wrathall, when seeking the input of an expert for his documentary on Vidal, would turn to Parini. The author, who is currently finishing a biography of his late friend, will speak at a screening of that film, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, at Burlington’s artsriot on Wednesday, August 27. Proceeds from the event will benefit the 10th annual Burlington Book Festival, which unfolds at various locations around town in the third week of September. To Parini’s surprise, the interview that he did for Wrathall’s camera wound up serving as the “spine” of the film. “I was on camera more than I ever thought I would be,” says Parini, who only has praise for the finished film. The director, he says, “followed Gore around for the last five years of his life and got some amazing footage.” Wrathall then garnished Parini’s central narrative with archival clips of Vidal’s many public appearances. “Anybody who comes to the movie will certainly get the picture [of how] difficult and charming and articulate [Vidal] always was,” Parini says. Describing himself as “a longtime friend of the Burlington Book Festival,” Parini was happy to contribute when asked to do so by festival director rick kisonak. Previous festivals have featured Parini as a writer or host; after this early screening, he’ll lead a discussion of the film and its subject. A fundraiser for the festival, the $20 event includes dinner and gives ticket holders entry to the festival’s opening-night party.
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and cheery, with what looked like a blond perm. I think it was a perm; it looked permy. Do women even get perms anymore? What exactly is a perm, anyway? I’m too old not to know this, I thought, and made a mental note to google it when my shift was over. “That is awesome,” I said, recalling the annual Dragon Boat festival that brings together breast cancer survivors and the people who love and support them. “One summer I watched the boats from Waterfront Park, and I was truly moved, like emotionally.” “You know what I think?” the man asked rhetorically, changing the subject. He was a big guy with a handsome, broad face. “They should level that Midtown Motel — you know, the abandoned one next to Memorial Auditorium? — and create a new parking lot. Burlington needs more parking spaces. We had a hell of a time finding a spot earlier today.” I said, “Well, I believe that whole corner is slated for a new hotel. At least they’ve been talking about it for years. Hey, the town’s growing, and I think Burlington has done a pretty good job managing its growth, even the parking problem. I mean, these are great problems for a city to have. I’d wager Rutland would love to have these problems. Or Barre, too.” “Hey, Barre’s not doing too bad,” the man asserted. “I’m good friends with the mayor, and he’s got a bunch of projects
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cooking. The problem in Barre, if you want to know, is all these people on welfare. Nobody wants to work! The system incentivizes laziness. Hey, don’t get me wrong — there are some people who physically just can’t work and deserve help, but not most of ’em.” “Is that where you guys live? In Barre?” I asked. “Yup, we’re from the area. I own four car dealerships. I can’t tell you all the checks I write for local events and charities. And that’s how the economy works. You got to let the businessmen create opportunities, and then it trickles down to everyone else, the whole community.” So that’s how the economy works, I mentally joked to myself. I was wondering about that. “Hey, Burt,” his wife said, entering the conversation. “Maybe this cabdriver has a different opinion. What does he think?” “Good point,” Burt said, leaning forward in his seat. “What’s your opinion on all this?” “Well, I guess I look at it a little differently,” I replied, “but I understand where you’re coming from. You’ve had your life experiences, and these are the lessons you’ve drawn. I respect that.” “Yeah, and let’s take Obamacare,” Burt suggested — inevitably, I thought. “It’ll be bankrupt in four years. They could have just written a check to everybody who gets it and that would have worked better.” “Burt, give the guy a chance,” his wife reiterated. I could tell that this was one of her relationship roles: cajoling her mate to listen to others, if only in brief segments. Perhaps it was a thankless job, and I could sense some exasperation.
Still, a fondness for her man came through, as well. “Maybe you could learn something,” she added. “Jeez, you’re right, honey. So tell me — what do you think?” I chuckled and said, “Well, I can tell you’ve thought about these things much more than I have, so I don’t know if I can really add much.” In truth, this was a benign lie. I think about this stuff — the political landscape, the culture, the society — all the time, undoubtedly more than is salutary for my mental health. I’m constantly checking various online media, all in a thus-farfutile quest to understand and make sense of the turbulence and tumult. And, in the right circumstances, I’m quite willing to discuss the whole mess with others. But this wasn’t the right time, and I didn’t think this was the right guy. When egged on, I’m susceptible to ranting, and two ranters going at it … where’s the payoff? “Now you’re just being patronizing,” Burt said, calling me on my game. “No, man — it’s the truth,” I said, pulling up in front of their hotel. I shifted the vehicle into park and pivoted in my seat to face Burt. “The older I get, the less sure I am about the world. I mean, I could talk your ear off about just about anything, but what do I know, really?” Burt’s wife burst out laughing. “There you have it, babe,” she instructed. “I hope you heard what the man said.” m
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• Being a crime victim or experiencing the death of a relative was associated with increased risk of — get ready for this, LoDub — spontaneous abortion. OK, you seem to have dodged that particular bullet. But you did say you wondered about the long term. Does your columnist sound skeptical? It’s a little more complicated than that. To be clear: Maternal stress can be bad for a fetus. When life gets rough, what are collectively known as stress hormones circulate in the bloodstream. In a pregnant woman, these can be shared with the fetus, possibly affecting brain and body development. Three areas of the developing brain seem especially sensitive to stress hormones: the hippocampus, which plays a role in memory; the amygdalae, involved in mood and emotional responses; and the frontal cortex, implicated in decision-making and attention. Sure enough, most gestational stress-related problems reported to date involve
intellectual and emotional development. One study found a link between maternal stress during the first trimester and poor attention span and concentration in the resultant offspring. Another found that children of highly stressed mothers exhibited more crying, irritability and temper tantrums as well as ADHD, schizophrenia and depression. Some claims are harder to swallow. Several researchers have looked into the consequences of maternal stress due to weather disasters and other unpredictable events, on the theory that these “natural experiments” offer a more objective demonstration of stress. I listed a few such findings above; here are a couple more: • One study of children of mothers who had experienced high stress while pregnant during a 1998 Québec ice storm found they had lower IQs and language scores than kids of low-stress moms. • Another study found children of women who’d lived through a major earthquake during
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irst, let’s define trauma. Back in the days when medical insight consisted largely of old wives’ tales, it was regularly claimed that a pregnant woman shouldn’t spend too much time around fish lest her child be born scaly. Cut to the present: Nobody doubts there are some things a pregnant woman can experience or do — alcohol or drug use, smoking — that can mess up the eventual kid. The question is about traumas that fall between these two poles. Combing through the scientific literature — we didn’t go trolling on the crackpot sites for this stuff — we find the following remarkable assertions: • The prevalence of autism among children in Louisiana increased with the severity of prenatal exposure to hurricanes. • A higher-than-expected number of craniofacial malformations and heart defects were found in babies born to women whose older child died unexpectedly during the pregnancy.
At first glance the problems attributed to prenatal stress in these cases seem implausibly diverse: Hurricanes produce autism. Earthquakes lead to depression. Ice storms reduce intelligence. Conceivably, each type of natural disaster has a signature outcome, but a simpler explanation is that the results are happenstance and nonconfirming findings weren’t written up. One research team (Kinney et al., 2008) suggests the bad things supposedly produced by stress aren’t as random as they seem. Rather, they argue, reduced intelligence, poor language skills, depression and so on are part of a cluster of conditions associated with autism. Among other things, they point to that Louisiana hurricane research, conducted by another Kinney-led team, which found autism diagnoses were significantly higher among children whose mothers had had the severest exposure to storms during several critical months of pregnancy. But the number of autism cases was tiny — 167 children out of more than 300,000 born during hurricanes. (The research focused on storms from 1980 to 1995, before relaxed criteria created a boom in autism CARAMAN
Early in my mother’s pregnancy, she became aware that her father had a terminal illness. He died two months before I was born. I’m almost 70 years old but have always wondered: What do we know, if anything, about the longterm impact of a traumatic event on human development? LoDub
diagnoses.) Sure, maybe natural disasters triggered autism in a handful of vulnerable babies, but that just meant a then-rare condition got slightly less so. This points to a larger problem. Even if all the claimed effects of stress are genuine, so what? No one disputes the general proposition that prenatal trauma can be harmful. Most expectant women already know they shouldn’t expose their babies to avoidable everyday stress, and natural disasters and such are usually unpredictable. Even if we acknowledge that calamities merely highlight the dangers of lesser traumas, telling pregnant women they should avoid having anything go wrong in their lives during gestational months five, six, nine and 10 would surely take the prize for stupid advice. Most children exposed during such times develop normally; any intimation to the contrary would create maternal stress galore, magnifying the problem you were trying to reduce. We thus find ourselves toying with an odd suggestion for the world of science: By all means find out what you can about the impact of prenatal stress on postnatal development. But if you establish what it looks like you’re going to establish, please keep it to yourself.
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liberal arts education is a tough sell these days, at a time when students are hesitant to take out large loans and online learning offers a cheaper alternative. But Burlington College is up against an even greater challenge. In addition to proving its academic value, the lakeside college needs to convince students of something even more basic: that it won’t fold before they graduate. “Everybody is on eggshells,” is how one professor sums up the mood since accreditors put the alternative school on probation this summer — a move that called attention to the precariousness of its financial situation. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges expressed concern that Burlington College had deficits for two years running and didn’t appear to have enough cash on hand to make summer payroll. The most recent audit exposed chaotic bookkeeping practices, a tiny endowment being spent on operational costs, and lackluster fundraising efforts. Adding urgency to the situation is the fact that Burlington College has defaulted on one of the loans that accounts for its $10 million debt, according to one of its creditors. While President Christine Plunkett remains doggedly optimistic about the college’s prospects, and the board of trustees claims to be 100 percent behind her, faculty, staff and students have taken a vote of “no confidence” in her leadership. The music program director, Michael Dabroski, resigned in July, and in the last few weeks, four staff members have called it quits: the dean, the director of financial aid, an admissions officer and the career services director. Classes start next week, and the ailing institution is still advertising for students. If it doesn’t get another 10 or so, it will need to revise — read, cut — an already lean budget, according to Plunkett. Meanwhile, accepted students have been withdrawing, and forfeiting their deposits, according to two of many Burlington College workers who spoke to Seven Days on condition of anonymity. Said one: “The melt has been ridiculous.”
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Burlington College began in 1972, with 14 students meeting for class in the founder’s living room. From inception, it was a place for “nontraditional students” — Vietnam veterans, single parents, people seeking a highly personalized education. According to the school’s website, its founder and supporters “spent much of their time in the early years fighting to preserve what made the college special while striving to seek recognition as a legitimate member of the higher educational community.” Originally called the Vermont Institute of Community Involvement, the school won formal recognition — in the form of accreditation — in 1982. Burlington College has grown, but, with fewer than 200 full-time students, class sizes remain small — 12 on average. Sandy Baird, a lawyer and community
activist who’s taught there since 1986, describes the typical student as someone looking for “a place where they have a lot of say in their learning who would prefer not to be in a larger, more impersonal university.” At the start of each course, the student signs a contract with his or her professor, agreeing on what the requirements will be and whether or not grades will be involved. Students rave about the attention they get from professors. Film, integral psychology and social justice programs are especially popular. At graduation last May, students marched to the beat of taiko drumming instead of “Pomp and Circumstance.”
Making do on a shoestring budget has also been a part of the college’s identity since the beginning, and seniors recall, not unfondly, being crammed together at their old campus — a 30,000-squarefoot former grocery store on North Avenue that is now the headquarters of the Committee on Temporary Shelter. The building served Burlington College well — through the presidential tenures of Steward LaCasce, Daniel Casey and Mary Clancy. Former Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders had been in Congress for 13 years when his wife, Jane, landed the top job in 2004. Jane Sanders led the college during the Great Recession — a time of studious
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creating beauty.” Buying the diocese property wasn’t necessarily a bad decision, in Baird’s judgment, but “what happened was we took on this debt and then the emphasis became how to get out of the debt.”
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When she took over Burlington College, Plunkett inherited her predecessor’s multi-million-dollar problem. The college’s annual audits document a rocky transition. To get a look at those reports, Seven Days filed a public records request with VEHBFA, which receives the independent assessments as a condition of the loan it brokered for the bank. Responding to a litany of problems identified in Burlington College’s 2012 audit, Plunkett described her first year at the helm as “one of the most challenging in Burlington College’s recent history.” The college had agreed to pay Sanders roughly $200,000 over two years, Plunkett explained in a letter to
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— 20 percent annually until the college doubled in size. To some, that prediction seemed starry-eyed, especially for such a tiny school. VanderHeyden remembers wondering how Burlington College could attract more students amid a trend of declining enrollment. “Even though I admired their nerve and their courage, I had to sometimes wonder because the kind of student they were drawing in was such a highly specialized niche.” Whether from increased enrollment or targeted fundraising, Sanders wasn’t raising the money she was expected to, according to anonymous sources in news stories from the time. Under pressure from the board, she resigned in 2012, and Plunkett, her CFO, was selected to replace her. “A difference in vision” was the vague explanation offered for her departure. According to lawyer Baird, that’s around the time the school started losing sight of its mission to build a “community that’s just and humane and interested in
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stable at the time of the real estate transaction. And Sanders predicted that a more spacious campus would attract hundreds of additional students, and she had plans for a $6 million capital campaign called “The Sky Is the Limit.” “Burlington College made a very good case. Jane Sanders … was a very dynamic individual. I think she seemed to be in a position where she was poised to take the college to the next level,” recalled Robert Giroux, executive director of the Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Finance Agency (VEHBFA), the state entity that supplied the tax-exempt bonds purchased by People’s Bank. The board based its decision, in part, on an outside firm’s financial analysis, which noted that enrollment had increased 13 percent — from 142 full-time students in 2006 to 160 in 2010. During the same period, applications nearly tripled, from 78 to 207, and the tuition price went up. The Sanders administration projected continued growth
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belt-tightening for many schools. But Sanders took a different tack: She convinced the board of trustees the best way to preserve Burlington’s most enigmatic institution of higher learning was to buy 32 acres of lakefront land from the Roman Catholic Diocese, including a behemoth brick building and a stone cottage, and create a real campus. “I thought it was a very daring move,” recalled Marc vanderHeyden, president of St. Michael’s College from 1997 to 2007. Daring, because the tiny college took on $10 million in debt — $6.5 million in tax-exempt bonds held by People’s United Bank and a $3.5 million loan from the diocese, which sold the property to pay off settlements it owed as a result of lawsuits stemming from priest sexual abuse. Tony Pomerleau, the 97-year-old philanthropist who is Burlington’s most senior developer, helped to broker the deal — and also contributed a $500,000 bridge loan. The school’s finances were relatively
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the auditors, which depleted resources that would have been used to hire a new CFO. A number of people cycled through the business office, and bookkeeping suffered as a result. Staff departures adversely affected other departments too, and, Plunkett’s letter continued, “Due to these transitions and staffing changes, there was little success with fundraising or enrollment growth during the year.” The new president concluded her response by reassuring auditors she had assembled a team that could turn things around. One year later, the 2013 audit raised more alarms and expressed “substantial doubt” that the college could continue as a “going concern” — a business term meaning financially viable for at least a year. In her response to the 2013 audit, Plunkett again described it as “one of the most challenging years in memory at Burlington College with regard to financial oversight and reporting.” Once again, she detailed the staff churn that contributed to the situation. Asked to explain the chronic turnover during a phone interview Friday, Plunkett said, “When new leadership in an institution comes in and works with the board to set a vision for the college, typically there’s a change … When you combine that change in leadership with a financially stressed circumstance, these are hard environments to work in, and they are not for everyone.” More than half of the current employees have signaled they believe Plunkett is part of the problem. Sixteen of the 28 members of the Faculty and Staff Union took a vote of no confidence in her on July 21. Sixty-eight current students who make up the student union did the same. In response, the board, which includes City Councilor Karen Paul, State Tourism Commissioner Megan Smith, Tom Torti, president of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and psychologist-physician Joel Miller, wrote back: “We note that the current administration inherited the economic profile of the College” — and asked faculty and staff to focus on academics and leave strategic decisions up to them. At a place where questioning authority is part of the culture, that’s unlikely to happen. Current and former employees criticize what they describe as the administration’s “scattershot” approach to recruiting students. “It seemed like every day it shifted. We’re going to go to all the tech schools and get those kids. Then, we are going to go to all the homeschool programs and get those kids,” said one staff member. Plunkett and the outgoing dean, Stephen St. Onge, flew to China two years ago in
Under Plunkett’s watch, the school started an Institute for Contemplative Studies, whose mission is to “create a container for introspective practice, scholarship, and community engagement.” Plunkett still has plans to create a music program, despite Dabroski’s departure and a preliminary rejection by NEASC, which noted that the school hadn’t done market research to demonstrate that there is demand for such a degree.
Whose Default?
a short-lived attempt to recruit foreign students. Currently, the admissions office consists of two recent Burlington College graduates and a student doing work study; the college has been advertising for a director of admissions this summer. Last Friday, Plunkett acknowledged that office has lacked “solid leadership” over the past year. There are concerns that in its desperation for more students, the school will dilute its identity and lose its niche. “They have this kind of warm-body policy where they take in anybody at this point,” said David Littlefield, a current student who’s helped spearhead the student union. Another student observed, “I think in recent years we’ve been trying to appeal
to every type of student … I don’t know if the administration understands that there’s a very specific type of student the college is good for.” To that point, there’s growing skepticism about whether the school has the resources to sustain the number of new programs that have sprouted up in recent years, many of which are dependent on individual professors, presumably to attract new students. Sanders added an individualized master’s program, new majors including events and hospitality, international relations, integral psychology, and media activism, and various Cuba study-abroad programs. The college also built up a woodworking program in recent years, leasing space from a school run by Sanders’ daughter at an annual cost that was $182,000 in 2013.
If Burlington College had met Sanders’ “conservative” projections, it would currently have 280 full-time students. As of last Friday, roughly 180 were enrolled. As a result, Burlington College has failed to maintain the cash reserves of almost $1.5 million that it’s supposed to keep as part of its loan agreement with the diocese. Neither has it kept up an account required for the bank loan. The 2013 audit showed $8 in an account that should have roughly $400,000. Under its agreements, the college needs to replenish those funds before it can start making interest payments to the diocese. In the meantime, the diocese is charging a penalty fee, which had reached $150,000 by June 2013 and which the school has not paid. Plunkett disputes that the college is in default — “In our view default, technically, would be if you’re supposed to be making a payment and you’re not” — but she describes it as a “cordial disagreement.” “Again the diocese and the college
needs to convince potential benefactors it can survive before asking them to open their checkbooks, he explained. Burlington College doesn’t seem to have the same reservations about students, though. “We have, I believe, enrolled three or four students just in the last day or two,” Plunkett said on Friday. Recent withdrawals suggest not all of the students are buying it. “I can’t look a student in the eye and say, ‘Yeah, you
relations,” Plunkett said. “It is a difficult time and it’s a stressful time, but I remain so committed to this institution.”
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should come here,’” said one student. “Seeing new students come into the school and seeing them on their admissions tours is just heart-wrenching,” current student Littlefield said. “It’s just hard to watch them going through the halls and hearing all stuff that I was promised a few years ago.” Plunkett is replenishing the admissions office by hiring several outside consultants with “expertise in turnaround enrollment situations.” And the embattled president has assigned another consultant — Bill McGarry, who’s also advising her on the development deal — to help improve her rapport with faculty and staff. “I’m looking forward to working to mending
aren’t interested in owning property, Kiendl explained, so even when a debtor has fallen behind in payments, “I think the bank’s position is always to try to work out something with current ownership before they have to foreclose.” If that fails, the lender would almost certainly seize the property and sell it off. After People’s recoups its money, the diocese would likely be entitled to the leftover proceeds in order to replace its loan. Pomerleau declined to say what the collateral is on his loan, but he makes it clear that he pitched in because he thought Sanders was “doing an exceptional job.” The current administration has made “some interest payments,” he said. Pomerleau pushed back the due date for the principal payment by a year, and he’s prepared to do that again. “I know they won’t be able to pay me this December, so I’ll just give them another year.” Beyond that, Pomerleau said, he intends to stay out of the fray. “I would hate to see it go down,” but, he added, “I don’t want to get involved.” When the diocese still owned the property, Pomerleau was, at one point, considering purchasing and developing part of the land, but the deal “didn’t work out financially.” Would he be interested again if the bank foreclosed? “No,” Pomerleau said. “It would be millions of dollars. I’ve got the money to do it, but I’ve got so many projects across the state … I’m in a good position to stand by.” If his son and business partner, Ernie, were interested, the elder Pomerleau said, he’d advise against it. Littlefield thinks foreclosure could be around the corner. “I think there is very little hope for the institution to survive in the future, and by the future I mean within the next few semesters.” The Maine native isn’t too worried about his personal academic experience — he is one semester away from a bachelor’s degree in film production. But for other students, “I have grave concerns about what their education will look like in the coming semesters,” he says. A teal-colored felt circle was safetypinned to Littlefield’s shirt. Along with other student union members, he’s taken to wearing it as a tribute to the college’s old building, which is painted the same color. When Burlington College sold that property and moved a half mile north into its lakeside digs, it was supposed to be the start of something transformational. But Littlefield remembers it as the start of when “the school began to crumble.” Four years later, his nostalgia for the cramped quarters the college left behind illustrates just how far off that vision remains. m
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Last October, Plunkett unveiled a development proposal that, if realized, would reduce the college’s debt by about half. Burlington College would sell some land to developer Eric Farrell, who would construct several hundred units of housing, in addition to an expansion of the college campus. Farrell has declined to go into any detail about the status of their agreement. “I don’t think it’s particularly useful or helpful to comment further on the plan. The only thing I would say is we are on track,” he said early last week. Asked specifically whether the potential default complicates the plan, Farrell responded, “I don’t believe everything I read in the paper.” The plan is complicated by the fact that Burlington College purchased much of the land with tax-exempt bonds, which can’t be transferred to a private developer without becoming taxable. Plunkett expects to sign an agreement with Farrell in September but she said Friday that they won’t close on the sale until 2016, at the earliest. Baird wonders whether that’s soon enough to save the school. “I’m not sure it can get us out of trouble in the time period we need.” She has a different idea about what the school needs to do to survive. “I think if we had a plan that would appeal more to the community, then we could really fundraise.” The longtime legal professor thinks people would rally to preserve, rather than develop, the lakefront land. Pomerleau was even more blunt about Plunkett’s development plan. “I don’t think it’s going to happen,” he said Monday, pointing out, “It takes an awful lot of time to develop it.” What happens to the property — the last significant swath of open space in the city — if the school folds? People’s United Bank holds a first mortgage on the campus, and the diocese has a second mortgage. Bill Kiendl founded Vermont Commercial Real Estate and has a specialty in foreclosures. Banks typically Natalie Williams
have a very open dialogue going on this situation. We respectfully do not agree with one another.” Attempts to reach Reverend Daniel White and financial officer Martin Hoak at the diocese were unsuccessful. Giroux, who had previously been unaware of the default situation, sent Plunkett an email on August 8 demanding more information. “I am very upset at the lack of notice and transparency regarding Burlington College’s financial problems,” he wrote. “Under our loan agreement, the Agency must be informed of any event of default.” There’s a “cross default” provision in the loan agreement, according to Giroux, which means if the college defaults on the diocese’s loan, it’s automatically considered in default on the People’s Bank loan. A July 24 Seven Days story about Burlington College’s finances prompted an email exchange among VEHBFA board members that was revealed as part of the public records request. Cathy Hilgendorf wrote to Giroux: “I am concerned as a VEHBFA board member: will there be bad press for the Financing Agency, could we have seen this coming, and would we have denied the bond application?” “Making the decision using hindsight,” Giroux responded to her. “I am guessing the board would not have approved the financing.” In a later interview, Giroux admitted the agency could end up “with egg on our face” for its decision to authorize the bonds, but he was confident the board made the right decision at the time. The green light was contingent on the college lining up more than $2 million in committed donations. Plunkett recently told WCAX that she was surprised to discover that about half of that turned out to be a bequest, not a pledge. Bottom line, fundraising hasn’t picked up on her watch, according to the audits. Much of the main building, an imposing brick Victorian that was once an orphanage, remains shuttered and uninhabitable — evidence of a capital campaign that hasn’t gotten off the ground. Yves Bradley, the board chair and a vice president at Pomerleau Real Estate, did not return multiple calls requesting an interview, but in July, he told Seven Days that Burlington College had put its fundraising plans on hold. The school
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Dance fluctuates between 30 and 50, with a core group of about a dozen. “It’s a community of people who really care about each other and their dancing,” says Darienne Oaks, a cofounder of QCT. She’s also the violinist for Lotango, a Burlington-based tango, traditional French and jazz group that performs monthly at Radio Bean. Tango classes first cropped up in Burlington in the mid-’90s, remembers Hugo Martínez Cazón, another QCT founder. The most regular teacher was
Gerd Hirschmann, a German-born Rutland-area resident with a ballet and tango background. He now organizes the Moonlight in Vermont festival. Burlington’s tango scene started small and evolved organically. “Gerd was coming up once a month to teach tango, and there were maybe four or five people in the room,” recalls Martínez Cazón. Though he’s a native of Argentina, his interest in tango began later in life, after he’d already moved to Vermont. “[Gerd would] come
back a month later, and there’d be six in the room; next month, eight. But the problem was that there wasn’t a place to practice, so everybody forgot everything in the month that they didn’t practice. I didn’t practice.” Martínez Cazón, Oaks and fellow enthusiast Eloise Beil began meeting weekly to practice together in a yoga studio. In the mid-2000s, when Hirschmann announced that he’d no longer hold classes in Burlington, the three took up the challenge of continuing on their own. They’ve held classes, concerts, dances and practice sessions for nearly a decade under the QCT name; it officially incorporated as a nonprofit last year. Fostering a larger community around the dance, they say, has always been the goal. “We try to be very welcoming to people who want to come in,” Oaks says. “And QCT has helped those of us who’ve been with the community a long time grow as people, and grow in our understanding and our admiration of the tango.” Anyone who’s heard tango’s rich music or seen a pair of dancers sweep across a floor might find it easy to admire. The dance is even more impressive when you learn that most of those graceful motions are totally improvised. Unlike other social and partner dances, tango has no set steps. The leader often creates tempo, pace and steps in the spur of the moment. The follower adjusts, responding to pressure from her partner at the points where their bodies touch. “It’s a precise dance,” says Seyler of TangoWise. “It’s not easy. I think it’s the hardest social dance to learn because it’s so improvisational and so dependent on communication through body. Not everybody has the patience or the wiring for that.” If you’re a beginner, as I quickly discover, it’s best to forget about any flourishes or fancy footwork — mastering the tango walk is hard enough. “It’s a caress,” Lansky instructs. He sweeps one foot forward, delicately tracing the floor as if stroking a lover’s arm, then tilts his weight forward from his torso. His second foot naturally drifts toward his first. I try out the move; it does help with the wobbles, though the temptation to exaggerate the gesture brings new issues. After we shuffle across the room a few more times, something happens: My feet start moving a split second behind my partner’s decidedly more steady pace. Without a verbal cue or conscious decision, he’s leading and I’m following.
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Stowe Tango Music Festival, Wednesday through Saturday, August 20 to 23, at various locations in Stowe and Morrisville. See stowetangomusicfestival.com for schedule of free and ticketed events. Moonlight in Vermont, Thursday through Sunday, September 4 to 7, at the Brandon Inn. tangovermont.com Find local classes and events at queencitytango.org, facebook.com/ QueenCityTango and tangowise.com.
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playing in Stowe include Argentine pianist-composer Pablo Ziegler and cellist Jisoo Ok (Del Curto’s wife). The fest also boasts North America’s only bandoneón workshop and immersive sessions for classically trained musicians who want to learn tango music. What are all these world-class tango musicians doing in tiny Stowe? Credit for their seemingly incongruous presence is due to the enthusiasm and support of a single individual: a Stowe resident named Jo Fish. He’s the founder of a New York City-based nonprofit, the Argentine Tango Society, which sponsors the Stowe festival. Through the nonprofit’s publicist, Fish declined to be interviewed for this article. Citing his desire for privacy, those in the Vermont tango community also decline to provide details about his influence, though many credit Fish with enriching that community. “He’s done a lot for tango in Vermont,” QCT’s Martínez Cazón says simply. Del Curto, a native of Buenos Aires living in New York City, is a friend of Fish’s and initially came to Vermont at his request. The idea for the Stowe Tango Music Festival, Del Curto recalls, was born during a casual discussion. “We were having coffee, and [Fish] said, ‘Let’s make Stowe the capital of tango!’ And I said, ‘Well, if you want to, let’s do it!’” Del Curto explains with a laugh. “Of course, it’s something that may be completely impossible, but along the way you grow as much as you can. The goal,” he continues, “is to spread the message of
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s a dance form, tango emerged at the end of the 19th century in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Though its origins are poorly documented, by most accounts tango’s strongest influences come from European ballroom dancing and African traditions of music and dance. The tango trend reached an international crescendo in the 1930s, when resource-rich Argentina was among the wealthiest countries in the world and Buenos Aires became a world-recognized center of culture. Tango drew on dance, music and poetry brought by the waves of immigrants that flooded Argentina’s ports at the turn of the 20th century. The bandoneón, the concertina-type instrument closely associated with tango music, came from Europe. Yet the dance form that reached European audiences in turn was highly stylized. That has resulted in a persistent stereotype — as any “Dancing With the
Stars” fan knows — of tango as a highbrow dance for elegantly dressed couples, one or the other holding a red rose between his or her teeth. “Tango was international before it was from Argentina,” notes Héctor Del Curto, the artistic director of the Stowe Tango Music Festival and a renowned bandoneón player who’s performed alongside tango luminaries such as Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese. “We raised tango in Argentina, and then every [different] style took its own wings and started to travel the world.” Tango shows dwindled when Argentina fell under military dictatorship from the 1950s through the early ’80s; during that period, large public gatherings were forbidden, including ones in dance halls. A tango renaissance began after the country’s transition back to democracy in 1983. By the 1990s, tango classes were cropping up all over the globe — including in Vermont — and different styles evolved. Del Curto believes some contemporary tango styles — such as those featuring “acrobatics,” likely influenced by modern dance — have “lost the essence” of the tango. By which he means “the elegant walk.” But, Del Curto allows, the evolution is something to be celebrated. “I feel like all these new ventures will evolve into something even more interesting,” he says. Del Curto will perform with his orchestra and his quintet at the festival in Stowe this week; more often they’re booked in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other top musicians
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Soon after, we graduate to the dance floor, assuming tango’s face-to-face hold: one arm wrapped around a partner’s shoulder, the other suspended loosely at shoulder height with hands clasped. We’re still just walking — the sequences that our fellow dancers execute with assurance are quite beyond us — but we kind of make our way around the dance floor. “It always amazes me,” Lansky says later, “what you can learn about your partner, and the music, just from walking.”
tango as a culture in Argentina and not the stereotype.” And tango, Del Curto adds, functions first on an interpersonal level. “You have this … connection between two people that’s not Facebook and Twitter. And people need this. And tango provides it.” “People come to tango for their own reasons,” says Martínez Cazón, carefully returning his antique bandoneón to its case. “And it’s different reasons for every individual.” It’s a few hours before QCT’s milonga, and we’re sitting in a redpainted room hung with Asian tapestries above Dobrá Tea in Burlington. He’s just played a jaunty tango called “El Lloron” (“Crybaby”). It’s one of five he’s learned so far on the instrument. For Martínez Cazón, one of the few Argentineans in Burlington’s tango community, promoting this music and dance is a way to share and stay in touch with his own roots. “It’s not like everyone in Buenos Aires is watching these old fogeys play tango,” he jokes, after showing me a YouTube tango video with just a few hundred views. “It’s a subculture in Argentina as well, and I think sometimes we don’t appreciate it.” Of course, for North Americans learning tango, the draw is personal, not cultural: They may be motivated by the desire to try a new activity or master a challenging art form, an attraction to the form’s physical intimacy or all of the above. “It’s about getting your brain out of it and finding that body-to-body, heart-toheart connection with a person,” offers Maggie Sherman, an artist and owner of a Burlington B&B. She’s been going to tango classes several times a week for the past few years. “It’s like when you learn language,” she says. “I just knew that was the amount of time I’d need to put in.” The level of diligence needed to achieve even basic competency in tango may explain why contemporary tango groups (at least outside South America) are typically small and close-knit. “Lots of people like to try tango, but not many people stick with it,” observes Seyler. Those who do, though, usually get hooked. “It’s precious,” Martínez Cazón says. “Tango gets at very deep parts of your soul. And I think the people I know in this community very much want to share it with people. But it’s like sharing a silence. It’s just like that.” m
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the works of Henry Miller, among his many other literary favorites. “He was about the most complicated person I’ve ever known,” says Novak. Meaker could be a difficult man whose intense passion and unquestionable brilliance were often as much a burden as a
blessing. His dark sense of humor, gruff demeanor, curmudgeonly worldview and battles with personal demons paint a picture resembling a latter-day Charles Bukowski — right down to the detail that Meaker, like that writer, worked for the post office for some 25 years.
“He had a dark side and a light side, like any of us,” says Novak. “It’s like the six blind people touching the elephant: What you thought he was depended on what part you got. Some people thought he was aloof; others thought he was warm,” Novak continues. “Others
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ne night, Kip Meaker was at a table at the Iridium watching Les Paul play. This was some time in the late 1990s, when Paul, the “Father of the Electric Guitar,” played the famed New York City jazz club every Tuesday. Meaker was visiting the city from Vermont with friends, including his old band mate Greg Novak, who was suddenly struck by an outlandish idea. “I leaned over to our friend Dennis and said, ‘When Les Paul finishes this song, tell him the best guitar player in Vermont is here and wants to play,’” Novak recalls recently by phone. As soon as the song finished, their friend did exactly that, getting within inches of Paul’s face to relay the message. Paul asked if this mysterious Green Mountain savant had brought his own axe — which Meaker hadn’t. To which Paul replied, “Well, he can play mine.” He stood and removed his guitar. After some prodding from Novak, a reluctant Meaker strode to the stage, where Paul’s band mates exchanged nervous glances. “One guy in the band kinda told him to get in the back,” recalls Novak. “But then Kip started playing.” First, the bass player joined in, following Meaker’s searing lead. Before long the whole band jumped in on the chords to the blues standard “Sweet Little Angel.” That’s when Meaker started singing. “He blew the doors off the place,” Novak says. Meaker finished the song and casually walked off the stage to a standing ovation from an NYC crowd who had only just discovered what Vermont audiences had known since the late 1960s: Nobody sang or played quite like Kip Meaker. “That was probably the greatest night of his life,” says Novak. Sheldon “Kip” Meaker passed away on Friday, August 8, at age 65. He had been battling an undisclosed illness for years, but his passing was still somewhat unexpected. The Barre native leaves a legacy as one of the finest Vermont guitar players and vocalists of his generation. According to those who knew him well, Meaker was a profoundly complex individual. His talents as both a singer and guitarist were virtually without peer. He was an equally gifted painter and had an insatiable intellectual curiosity. He also appears to have been an expert on koi (Japanese goldfish), an excellent rose horticulturist and an authority on
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a crowd. Rather than follow the typical bar band rock template, Meaker insisted on throwing some curveballs. Like “Wichita Lineman,” a ballad written by Jimmy Webb and popularized by country crooner Glen Campbell. “He was never afraid to poke and prod the audience a little,” says Jenny. That’s an understatement. Witness a live recording of “Wichita Lineman” taken from a Tough Judges club show. The band reimagines the ballad with ringing guitar and 1980s-style synth. Above it all is Meaker, his honeyed voice cooing with utmost sincerity, “I am a lineman for the coun-teee.” It’s schmaltzy. It’s certainly unconventional. And it’s weirdly brilliant. “It would always take people a minute to figure out what was going on,” says Jenny of crowds more accustomed to, say, Jimi Hendrix covers. “But then they’d eat it up. They loved it.” It’s honestly hard to tell if Meaker’s rendition of the song is serious or a lark. Judging from the stories his friends tell about him — many of which would be unsuitable to print even in an altweekly — the answer might be both. “He could be an incredibly hard man to read,” concedes Jenny. “It all kind of ties into his anguished genius.” Phil Abair, another frequent Meaker band mate, recalls a classic “Kip-ism.” One of their bands was on its way back from a bad gig in Connecticut. “It was late and we were incredibly tired,” he says. As they passed a cemetery, Abair recalls seeing Meaker look longingly out the window. “He’s just staring out at these gravestones,” says Abair. “Then we heard him mumble — it was under his breath but loud enough for us to hear: ‘Lucky bastards.’”m
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thought he was hard; some thought he was soft. His personality covered everything, kind of like with his music.” Meaker was best known as a tremendously powerful blues and rock guitarist with Burlington-based groups such as Anvil, Jerome Mystic Movement and Uncle Sam. He frequently sat in with Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band, in addition to leading his own groups over the years. Meaker was so gifted, in fact, that while he was living in Boston in the 1970s, he was invited to audition as a guitarist for the thenforming rock band also called Boston. After they heard him play and sing, he was offered a gig … as the band’s front man. “He turned them down,” says Meaker’s daughter, Abbey Meaker, in a recent phone call. “He was just never interested in fame.” Asked if her father felt any “fifth Beatle” regret whenever “More Than a Feeling” came on the radio, Abbey Meaker laughs. “He thought they were really cheesy,” she says. “He had no tolerance for bad bands,” says Novak. “He’d be physically sick if a band wasn’t up to his standards.” As fearsome as Meaker’s guitar playing could be, he also had a softer side, especially when it came to singing. “He loved to sing jazz ballads,” says Jeff Salisbury, who played drums with Meaker in several settings and refers to his musical style as “renegade guitar playing.” (Salisbury also owns a portrait Meaker painted of the former’s dog, Dobby.) “Kip was a vocal chameleon,” Salisbury continues. “He could sound like Ray Charles, B.B. King, Glen Campbell, Johnny Hartman. He really had a broad musical output.” Hanz Jenny played with Meaker in a band called the Tough Judges in the 1980s. At the time, he notes, original music was a tough sell at local clubs. So while Meaker was a fine songwriter, the band played mostly covers to draw
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ittle did audiences at the 1988 debut of A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters know just how quaint its premise would soon seem. Performed entirely by two actors narrating correspondence their characters exchange from 1937 to 1987, the play celebrates a time-honored form of communication — the written, signed, sealed and delivered letter — that would soon yield to the onslaught of email. While the centrality of written correspondence to the play may inspire nostalgic reverie in theatergoers raised in the twilight of the manual typewriter, the conceit also does serious dramatic work. The characters’ letters offer text — sometimes quite superficial — that implies deep, rich subtext. Often these words, so constrained by the effort required to compose them, vividly conjure deeds in theatergoers’ minds. The epistolary approach was a winning strategy for Gurney, who saw Love Letters claim a spot on the short list for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is being revived on Broadway this fall with a rotating cast to include the luminous pairings of Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow, Dennehy and Carol Burnett, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach and Diana Rigg, and Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen. Alex Brown, who directs the Love Letters production currently running at the rustic Unadilla Theatre, says in a program note that finding themselves in such illustrious company was a happy accident for her and her cast. News of the Broadway revival reached her after rehearsals had begun. The overall quality of
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the Unadilla production, however, is no accident. Brown and company execute Gurney’s deceptively simple play with a sensitivity and skill that realize the emotional complexities that have made Love Letters a respected entry in the canon of contemporary American drama. The play begins innocently enough — in second grade, in fact — when Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Brooke Pearson) voices a formally worded acceptance of an invitation to attend a birthday party in honor of classmate Melissa Gardner (Sarah Brock). The next move is Melissa’s: a recitation of the requisite thank-you note to Andy for his birthday gift, L. Frank Baum’s book The Lost Princess of Oz. She inquires why he gave her that title, Andy responds, and a young friendship is born.
From the outset, though, this relationship proves complicated. While the content of the youngsters’ letters suggests their common ground in affluent society not far from New York City, Melissa is critical of Andy’s eagerness to please his elders — such as by writing perfunctory letters full of things they’ve told him to write. While Andy finds inspiration in his father’s notion of letter writing as an act of putting forth one’s best image, Melissa sees this as a tiresome performance; she would rather draw pictures than write at all. This difference in attitude, combined with the fact that Melissa’s family is significantly wealthier than Andy’s, comes to define the two characters individually and to each other over the next five decades of their lives, loves and letters.
They’ll both be subjected to dancing lessons — a class signifier — and packed off to boarding school. But Melissa’s persistent family dysfunction will only intensify her jaded outlook as she pursues a career as an artist. Andy, in stark contrast, will remain aspirational to the core, attaining the Ivy League and other lofty realms accessible to pedigreed men in post-World War II America. Andy and Melissa’s profound differences notwithstanding, they do cross paths fleetingly over the course of their lives. Some of the play’s most poignant moments are those when events conspire to prevent their reunion. Gurney’s script superbly renders the periods through which the play progresses, affording Love Letters a long narrative scope and evocative imagery
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n a dismal afternoon at the height of last week’s rains, Billy Gault stands in the basement of an 1825 woolen mill on Route 4 in Bridgewater. “Cellar dwellers,” he says, remembering long days and nights working underground. The room is dark. Water leaks in, pooling in inches-deep puddles in the low spots. Gault has been the facility manager — and all-around renaissance man, say his coworkers — at Long Trail Brewing Company since Andy Pherson and Jim Negomir founded the brewery in 1989. The dingy old mill cellar was the company’s home until it outgrew the space in 1995. Pherson and Negomir retired in the early aughts, but Gault and several other brewery employees remember the “cellar dweller” days. Back then, the twentysomething men were brewing beers most Vermonters had never heard of. Their 15-barrel system was cobbled together from dairy equipment scavenged from abandoned barns. At the time, the brewery — then called Mountain Brewers — produced fewer than 10,000 barrels of beer a year. It wasn’t easy selling people on “microbrews,” as they were then called — not even fairly straightforward ones, such as the brewery’s flagship amber altbier, Long Trail Ale. But, as Long Trail expanded, Vermont’s craft beer scene grew up around it, from just a handful of breweries in 1989 to more than 40 — and counting — today. Long Trail currently produces about 100,000 barrels per year. While gearing up for its silver anniversary celebration this Saturday, August 23, a few longtime company men take Seven Days for a walk down memory lane. A quarter century ago, Gault entered that mill basement as a contractor. It was a mess. “This was completely packed
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Gault rented a jackhammer and carved out a half-moon-shaped hole in the mill’s basement wall. The hole is still there today, though the brewing equipment is long gone. “You think about these stories, back in the mill — we were a bunch of crazy kids,” Hartmann says. “These are fond memories, but things were a lot harder back then. I remember a lot of duct tape, and stuff that didn’t fit together right, and lots of things breaking and not really working that well … Those things have really gone away.” In the mid-’90s, the brewers began making an intensely dark, malty, doublealt-style beer. They dubbed it Double Bag and quietly served it in their tasting room. “It was a secret thing we did in the brewery,” Quinlan recalls. Pherson had tried to nix the beer, so they sold it on the sly. “I brought it to Andy, and he was like, ‘I have no interest in marketing a beer that strong,’” Hartmann says. “It was 7.2 percent ABV [alcohol by volume]. By modern terms, it’s not a strong beer at all … But at that time, he was vehement about it.” They brewed another batch anyway, and then another, and another. “Once people got wind of it, there was no holding it back,” Quinlan says. Double Bag was an early gem in the company portfolio, which also included the amber ale and several seasonal brews — quaffs that excited young beer nerds, if not the general public. Still, “I think Andy recognized that he needed some beer geeks on staff,” Quinlan says. “So here come Dave and I, completely geeky, and we’re like —” “— Let’s brew some hoppy IPAs!” Hartmann says, finishing the sentence. On the East Coast, beers like that wouldn’t enter the mainstream for at least another decade. Still, demand soared for the flagship ale. The brewers outgrew their basement, built an expansive new facility just down the road, and rechristened the company “Long Trail,” after the popular brew. It was late 1995, and microbrews were starting to catch on. At that time, Quinlan says, he was enamored with Belgian beers and created TRAIL BLAZERS
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In fact, Pham comes from the city of Huê´, where the predominant soup, bún bò Huê´, features a spicy, lemongrass-flavored beef broth that’s light years away from mild pho. Besides that and a variety of other soups and noodle bowls, Le says, he and his wife will serve banh mi and Vietnamese-style pancakes. But the similarities to other local Vietnamese restaurants end there. “We try a lot of places here. They’re authentic somewhat, but we wanted to be more authentic,” Le says. Once the couple has gotten the basics under control in the first month or so, they’ll expand their menu to include dishes that Le describes as “more delicate and more authentic.” Those include a hot-pot-style meal with a spicy curry broth in which to cook raw ingredients at the table. Family dinners will consist of multiple courses, including soup and whole fish. Le says that even before the menu expansion, fish will be a hallmark of the restaurant, with rice dishes served with a selection of seafood. For people in the market for pre-movie dining, Pho K&K should open up a new field of options, spicy and mild alike.
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“I’m trying to get away from all the ideas of what constitutes a typical restaurant and not to be bound by what other people are doing — just what I want to do,” says Podhaizer. Zacher will cook his final meals at Salt at the end of this month. In the first week of September, the petite restaurant on Barre Street will be making some changes. The plan involves an additional Podhaizer, Suzanne’s sister EliZAbEth. The recent recipient of a PhD in pharmacology and toxicology, Elizabeth Podhaizer has been applying her laboratory-honed accuracy to baking at Salt. In the business’ new life, she’ll also be working with her sister as a culinary consultant. Beginning next month, Salt will serve dinner only on weekend evenings. On Friday
and Saturday, the sisters will prepare prix-fixe dinners with themes, much like those the eclectic Salt has served since it opened in late 2010. Each Sunday meal will be a more casual, family-style dinner focused on farm-fresh fare. The rest of the week, Podhaizer will devote the space to fostering small businesses. The Salt kitchen will be available to homebased food businesses as well as host pop-up dinners from purveyors such as WooDbEllY piZZA, which will serve weekly meals there. Other interested businesses can contact Podhaizer at saltcafevt@gmail.com. But Podhaizer says she’s perhaps most excited about her new life as a locavore consultant, in which she plans to offer a suite of services that will empower her clients to cook farm-totable at home. Those might include farmers market visits, guidance in making the most of CSA baskets and private cooking classes at clients’ homes or at Salt. Podhaizer also hopes to cater to restaurateurs in the area and, perhaps, around the country. Not bad for a former food critic.
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a pilot batch of lambic, which Pherson declined. The beer, he says, was fairly sour and, if rebrewed with berries as Quinlan planned, would likely have turned a rosy hue. “Andy was like, ‘I don’t think people are ready for pink beer,’” Quinlan remembers. They toned it down but kept the wheat base and added blackberries. The result was an crystal-clear, gold-toned ale with fruity overtones — not a lambic at all, but an easy-drinking summer beer tailored to the curious but still timid 1990s palate. They named it Blackbeary Wheat. According to Kurt Staudter, executive director of the Vermont Brewers Association and co-author of Vermont Beer: History of a Brewing Revolution (History Press, 2014), it was a perfect gateway brew — pleasant, approachable, not far from the pilsner path. “Blackbeary Wheat was a great starter beer,” he tells Seven Days via phone. “If you were someone who was drinking Coors Light or something, it was a great beer to get you started.” Blackbeary Wheat was a runaway hit. At one point, Quinlan says, it made up 25 percent of Long Trail’s sales — monumental for a summer beer. They began brewing it year-round and installed new equipment to facilitate its production. In 2013, after a 17-year run, Long Trail put the sweet old bear to bed and replaced it with two new summer beers for 2014: Mostly Cloudy, a Belgian-style witbier; and the light, bright, sessionable Summer Ale. “It’s kind of hard to brew some of these other beers on [the Blackbeary Wheat] system,” Quinlan says. “Now we fill [those same tanks] with Limbo [double IPA],” Hartmann adds. Limbo is different from any other wide release in Long Trail’s history. A
big, round, hoppy beer, it’s very much in line with today’s palate. Even the label bears no resemblance to the company’s standard packaging, or to the recent rebrand. “The label doesn’t scream, ‘Long Trail,’” Staudter says. “It screams, ‘Limbo.’” The beer debuted last fall. The brewers knew they had a winner, they say, but waited months to release it until they’d secured enough hops for a big run. “As soon as we rolled it out,” Quinlan says, “the response was amazing.” They ran through a year’s supply of hops in three months and had to stop production until more were available. “We’ve gone through periods when we couldn’t make [Limbo] for a few weeks, and it’s a big deal,” Quinlan says. “When that disappears, people let us know.” When regional demand outpaced supply, the company redirected the beer’s distribution to Vermont. “We pulled it back from all our other markets,” Quinlan notes. “Vermont’s the home market” — and the top priority. For Long Trail’s brewers, Limbo was a long time coming. “We’ve always liked big, hoppy, bitter beers,” Hartmann says. “But we’ve never had an opportunity to make and sell them.” The beer is as much a reflection of its drinkers as it is of the brewers who made it. “With the market changing so much, we could do something bigger and bolder,” Quinlan says. Earlier IPAs, by contrast, went nowhere. Hartmann recalls one that “was extremely hoppy for that time.” “It was like 56 IBUs [international bitterness units],” Gault says. (For reference, Limbo and Fiddlehead Brewing’s
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Riders can choose from two tours: one 8.5-mile, mostly flat route, with five snack stops at farms and bakeries; and a more challenging, 10.9-mile loop with three farm or food stops and a swimming hole dip. There’s also a one-mile kids’ ride. After the ride, farmers and riders will return to the barn for a locavore lunch with live music. Once Williamson and Menke gather the funds — they’re also planning a crowd-funding campaign — and round up contractors, they will build a commercial kitchen and a retail space in the barn, with modest seating that could someday grow into a café. Williamson would like to expand her farmstand to include meats and cheeses, which she hasn’t been able to sell on the self-service system. The pair would also like to make the large planned kitchen available as an incubator space for startups and food businesses. Both acknowledge that the project is in its early
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Second Fiddle double IPA are both 80 IBUs, and the Alchemist’s Heady Topper is 120 IBUs.) That early IPA “was completely out of hand back then,” Quinlan says, “and customers let us know that.” In the early 1990s, drinkers were still puzzled by small-batch beers, which looked and tasted very different from the fizzy, yellow American lagers they were accustomed to. “The consumer wasn’t ready to go that far yet,” Quinlan says. “If you went into a bar back then, maybe you could get Guinness in an Irish bar.
McGrath adds, but as long as it pours beer, he’ll keep it. McGrath says selling Long Trail was a natural fit at his Irish pub. “We didn’t have Bass Ale, so it was a great complement to the [darker] beers that we did have. And the name was perfect.” But, he adds, “You really had to pitch [Long Trail] to people. But once they tried it, people were like, ‘This is really good!’” In those days, Long Trail Ale was considered quite bitter; now, Hartmann says, it’s seen as a malty beer. Over the years, drinkers’ palates have evolved; demand for new styles is approaching a fever pitch. “Now,” Hartmann says, “people expect us to be constantly pushing the envelope, which is great. It’s a fun environment to be brewing in.” m
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quickly proves he’s got more going for him than fatty novelty. The chef speaks four languages, including fluent Spanish learned from Mexican kitchen workers he befriended early in his career at San Diego modernist temple George’s at the Cove. He got his German from his grandmother, who inspired him to cook. Her recipes still provide the hearty heart of Werneke’s cuisine. The promise of a similarly downhome experience drew Werneke to the Green Mountains five years ago. Disenchanted with kitchens after running a corporate steakhouse in Virginia, the chef fled to the Cellars at Jasper Hill to become a cheesemaker. “Mateo and Andy [Kehler, owners of Jasper Hill] are the reason I’m still involved in food at all,” Werneke says. “They got me so excited about artisanal products and farm-to-table.” chef: michael werneke Age: 44 Restaurant: Prohibition Pig location: waterbury Age of restaurant: 2-and-a-half years Selected experience: Chef, rusty nail Bar & Grille, stowe (2011-2012); cheesemaker, Cellars at Jasper hill, Greensboro (2009); chef de cuisine, George’s at the Cove, san Diego, Calif. (1995-1999) What’s on the menu?: north Carolina-style chopped-pork barbecue, macaroni and cheese, Chik’n Biscuits
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food After working in commercial kitchens, the chef found the slow-paced repetition of cheesemaking therapeutic at first — then taxing. Werneke spent time doing prep at Stowe Mountain Lodge before landing his spot at the Rusty Nail. These days, Jasper Hill’s Bayley Hazen Blue and Cabot Clothbound Cheddar both claim regular spots on Prohibition Pig’s menu in deference to the Kehlers. Perfect cheese is just one of the simple pleasures that makes Werneke tick. He names international chef/restaurateur Joël Robuchon as an inspiration in the austerity that he wishes to capture — albeit a version of “austerity” that encompasses half-butter mashed potatoes. The chef who loves excellent local products expresses equal passion for the processed foods of his childhood. What else motivates Vermont’s prince of pork? We grilled him to find out.
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SD: Name three foods that make life worth living. MW: Just three? Pizza, for sure. It’s all simple stuff. Mac and cheese. And a good burger. A lot of people would say foie gras, but I’m in the camp of Jöel Robuchon: His favorite thing is just a great potato with good butter. Nothing fancy, just what makes you feel good. SD: What’s the last thing you ate? MW: I made a Chef Boyardee pizza last night. It’s the one thing I don’t tell anybody that I do. There’s something about the sauce. My mom used to make them for us when I was a kid, when my dad was out of town. There’s something about taking the time to mix this horrible crust. I put my own cheese and pepperoni on it. Man, there’s something about it. It wrecks my stomach, but I don’t care. It’s so good going down. SD: What foods are always in your pantry? MW: For sure, elbow macaroni. My housemate thinks I’m insane, because every time we go to the store it’s “Really? More elbows?” I make macaroni, tomato and meat — or mac and cheese. It always goes back to my childhood. I don’t know why. There’s always elbows and always saltines. I’ve got 18 kinds of salt. That’s hyperbole, but there’s a lot of salt and always lots of exotic 7/16/14spices 2:07 and PM fish sauce.
SD: If you left Vermont, what local products would you miss most? MW: Eggs and cheese and beer. That’s a home run. SD: If you could have any chef in the world prepare a meal for you, who would it be? MW: I kinda want to say Daniel Boulud. Either him or Joël Robuchon. Those guys know how to do all those old-school, obscure things no one does anymore, like oeufs en gelée. Anything with aspic. Or a really good, old-world consommé that sets up and it’s like Jell-O. SD: You’re trying to impress somebody with your culinary prowess. What do you make? MW: Reservations. I don’t think I ever really try to impress. I just make something tasty that I hope they’re going to enjoy. SD: What’s the dish you’ll be remembered for? MW: Probably charcuterie of some kind. Maybe my smoked pork rillettes. Or, as my friend calls it, “pork butter.” Everyone I know is, like, “Dude, are you making any more of those?” SD: What’s your favorite cookbook? MW: When my grandmother passed, my aunt made copies of her cookbook. Her handwriting is kind of difficult to read, but I’m trying to cook my way through it, making everything from her mac and cheese to her pickles to kartoffelkloesse to sauerbraten. Our pickle spears [at Prohibition Pig] are based on her pickle recipe. The only difference is, she used dill flowers and I use dill seeds. SD: What are your favorite Vermont restaurants? MW: I would say Hen [of the Wood] for sure. Ariel’s [Restaurant] is a new favorite.
I can’t wait to go back there and eat. And Jimmz Pizza [in Waterbury] is dynamite. SD: If money were no object, what kind of restaurant would you open? MW: I would open a San Diego-style taco stand and just do it right. That’s more of a self-interest thing. I know I could just crush it. Other than that, it would be a proper fish house, like [New York’s] Le Bernardin but not as high end. Get everything in every day from Boston and just do it right. SD: What’s your favorite beverage? MW: Coca-Cola. If it weren’t so bad for me, I would drink two liters a day. As it is, I have one or two sodas a week. SD: What kind of music do you like to listen to in the kitchen? MW: Mostly Grateful Dead, much to the chagrin of several members of the kitchen. I traveled some [to see them], but mostly I was busy with school and work. But I did get to see them 40 or 50 times before Jerry died. But it’s a broad spectrum; we listen to whatever the mood and the situation call for: some punk rock, some classic rock, Blink-182, jazz sometimes. SD: What are your hobbies? MW: Snowboarding in the winter. The rest of the year, I collect botanical prints. Some are food based, like opium poppies, wormwood and coca leaves. SD: You seem to enjoy some level of irony in food. True? MW: Food should be fun. And especially if you’re in a restaurant situation, you can have fun and make fun of other things. You can do off-the-wall stuff. Picasso was an amazing portrait painter before he was a surrealist. In order to do modernist cuisine, you have to learn to sauté a duck breast.
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SEVEN DAYS: How did your family eat when you were growing up? MICHAEL WERNEKE: It was pretty simple. My mother grew up dirt poor. She cooked a lot of the stuff she grew up eating, like oyster stew, which was just oysters and black pepper and milk. We ate a lot of macaroni with tomatoes and meat, but she’d roast nice chickens and make good meatloaf, too. She was a fantastic cook, actually. We ate wholesome, good food. We’d go out to visit her brother in central Pennsylvania, and that’s when I got hooked on charcuterie-type things. When I tried scrapple for the first time, it was a huge revelation.
it was my mother or my grandmother cooking Thanksgiving dinner or whatever. In the Boy Scouts, I had to learn to cook because you share duties when you’re at summer camp. I always volunteered to cook, because I didn’t want to eat burnt eggs and raw bacon.
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VERMONT VENTURE NETWORK MEETING: Seventh Generation president John Replogle discusses the business model and evolution of his company. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 8-9:30 a.m. $20. Info, 658-7830.
community
BOUNTY OF THE COUNTY: The Morrisville Food Coop highlights area farmers and food producers at a community corn roast complete with local brews and live music. Oxbow Park, Morrisville, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, morrisvillecoop@gmail.com. COMMUNITY DINNER: Diners get to know their neighbors at a low-key, buffet-style meal organized by the Winooski Coalition. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult; transportation available for seniors. Info, 655-4565. INSPIRE!VERMONT: A benefit for the Kelly Brush Foundation recognizes the organization's achievements in improving the lives of those living with spinal cord injuries. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 6-8:30 p.m. $25. Info, 497-4909.
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FOLK DANCING: Sue Morris leads participants of all ages and abilities in traditional steps from around the world. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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VALLEY NIGHT FEATURING CHICKY STOLTZ: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.
fairs & festivals
CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: Vermont's oldest fair celebrates the state's rural roots with amusement rides, a children's barnyard, agricultural shows, exhibits and musical acts. Caledonia County Fair Grounds, Lyndonville, 8 a.m. $10-17. Info, 748-2600. STOWE TANGO MUSIC FESTIVAL: From empanadas to dancing and live music, Latin American traditions head to the Green Mountains, courtesy of the Argentine Tango Society. Various Stowe & Morrisville locations, 3 p.m. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, 779-9669.
Sunday, August 24, 9 a.m., at Mount Mansfield Toll Road in Stowe. $70. Info, 864-5794. rtttovt.com
VERMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: More than 100 events — ranging from pottery demos to worldclass music and everything in between — delight art lovers. See vermontartfest.com for details. Various Mad River Valley locations, 10 a.m. Prices vary. Info, 496-6682, info@vermontartfest.com.
food & drink
CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain seekers of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122. COFFEE TASTING: Tasters sip Counter Culture Coffee varieties, then make side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@ maglianero.com. HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING: INFUSED OILS: Herbal educator Cristi Nunziata presents techniques for capturing the essence of locally grown calendula and lavender flowers in oil. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. Richmond Congregational Church, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 800-733-2767.
MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 673-4158.
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Canines make a splash at this pup-friendly pool party benefiting the Central Vermont Humane Society. Limit of two dogs per adult. Montpelier Public Pool, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 476-3811.
NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area growers and producers. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.
ESTATE JEWELRY SALE: Eye-catching Victorian, Edwardian, art deco, retro and modern pieces captivate jewelry lovers. Partial proceeds benefit the Vermont Cancer Center. Lippa's Estate and Fine Jewelry, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1042.
POP-UP GASTRONOMY: TRAPPIST BEERS: Gourmands sample Belgian flavors at a sevencourse al fresco feast, weather permitting. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6 p.m. $65-75; preregister. Info, 877-324-6386.
MILAREPA PUJA: Those pursuing a spiritual path access positive energy by honoring the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136.
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Saturday, August 23, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Quechee Polo Field. $10-15. Info, 295-5351. quecheescottishfestival.com
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What’s in a name? In the case of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, a lot. Christened as such in 1949 by state senator George Aiken, the rural landscape shrouded in lakes and forests attracts farmers, artisans and food producers who thrive amid its seclusion and challenging climate. The Kingdom Farm and Food Days highlights these crafty souls during a weekend of family-friendly activities ranging from alpaca farms to Eden Ice Cider’s orchard of biodynamic apples. Tours of area hotspots include stops at local farmers markets, Pete’s Greens, Caledonia Spirits and High Mowing Seeds. Live music, hayrides and workshops complete this culinary and cultural adventure.
KINGDOM FARM & FOOD DAYS Friday, August 22, noon; Saturday, August 23, and Sunday, August 24, 10 a.m., at various Northeast Kingdom locations. Free. Info, 472-5362. kingdomfarmandfood.org COURTESY OF AGAPE HILL FARM
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According to the Guardian, pianist Pablo Ziegler “plays straight from the beating, bleeding heart of nuevo tango, with its Argentinian mix of swagger and sweetness.” A former pianist for the legendary Astor Piazzolla, the Latin Grammy Award winner echoes his mentor’s melodic sensibility with a style that embraces jazz and improvisation. This musical hybrid of American jazz and the rhythms of his native Buenos Aires come to life in a performance by Ziegler’s Classical Tango Quartet. Taking the stage as part of the Stowe Tango Music Festival, the maestro leads a program of his works alongside selections from Piazzolla and J.C. Cobian.
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The unicorn is the official animal of Scotland. If that’s not reason enough to celebrate the country, then perhaps men in kilts is. These eye-catching threads are worn with pride at the Quechee Scottish Festival and Celtic Fair, where festivalgoers partake in an authentic cultural experience. Live music from local bands kicks off the merriment, setting the tone for action-packed sheepdog trials and highland dancing that follow. Bagpipe and athletic competitions — ladies’ rolling pin toss, anyone? — make for memorable sights, while traditional fare and themed arts and crafts round out this 42nd annual ode to the island nation.
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Slow Food Vermont Farmers Market: Foodies learn about the origins of local meats, produce and flowers at an assembly of 10 small-scale farmers and artisan food producers. Burlington City Hall Park, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, jess@hotelvt.com. Vermont Food Swap & Book Signing: Foodies join Marissa McClellan, author of Food in Jars, to barter homemade items and bond over shared culinary interests. A book signing follows. Healthy Living Market & Café, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; bring a food item to share. Info, 881-1374. Wednesday Wine Down: Oenophiles get over the midweek hump by pairing four varietals with samples from Lake Champlain Chocolates, Cabot Creamery and more. Drink, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 860-9463, melissashahady@vtdrink.com. Williston Farmers Market: An open-air affair showcases prepared foods and unadorned produce. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, willistonfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.
games
Bridge Club: Strategic thinkers have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6 includes refreshments. Info, 651-0700.
health & fitness
Montréal-Style Acro Yoga: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower guides participants through poses that combine acrobatics with therapeutic benefits. Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 6:307:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 324-1737. 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.
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Manga Club Meeting: Fans of Japanese comics in grades 6 and up bond over their common interest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea with music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
language
English as a Second Language Class: Those with beginner English work to improve 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 Spanish Lessons: Adults refine their grammar while exploring different topics. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757. Intermediate/Advanced English as a Second Language Class: Speakers hone their grammar and conversational skills. Administration Office, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
City Hall Park Lunchtime Performances: Jeremiah McLane and Tim Cumming bring traditional folk tunes to an open-air show. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. Community Evenings at the Farm: Accompanied by guitarist Lowell Thompson, Josh Panda wows picnickers with his awe-inspiring vocal range. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9551. Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Brahms, Schubert and Hindemith. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. Wednesday Night Live: Celtic tunes get music lovers to their feet. B-Side Playground, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
outdoors
The Good, the Bad and the Really, Really Itchy: Hikers learn to identify poison ivy, medicinal jewelweed and other local flora. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
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The Lunchbox Summer Meal Program: Youth ages 18 and under fill up on nutritious eats from a funky food truck that doubles as a mobile learning kitchen. St. Paul's Catholic School, Barton, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044.
Citizens Concert Band: From marches to pop and rock, the 40-member group delivers a varied program at a benefit concert for Island Arts, featuring Claire Hungerford. Grand Isle Lake House, grounds open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 14. Info, 372-8889.
Dorset Theatre Festival: 'The Mousetrap': Whodunit? A maniac terrorizes a group of snowbound houseguests in this revival of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery. Dorset Playhouse, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $20-59. Info, 867-2223. 'La Traviata': An Opera North production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera stars Angela Mortellaro as the famed heroine who struggles in love and health. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $3288. Info, 603-448-0400. Lyric Theatre Company Kick-Off Meeting: 'The Producers': Production-team members of the fall show sum up the casting and audition process, along with behind-the-scenes opportunities. South Burlington High School, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-5535. 'The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns': Favorite hits including "Rock Around the Clock" propel a Weston Playhouse production of Roger Bean's family-friendly musical, set in 1958. Weston Playhouse, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $16-32. Info, 824-5288. 'The Secret Garden': Stowe Theatre Guild adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's timeless tale for the stage. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 253-3961.
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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Lecture Series: Notable novelists, poets, playwrights and journalists weigh in on different aspects of their craft. See middlebury. edu for details. Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 9 a.m. Free; call to confirm. Info, 443-2700. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Reading Series: Acclaimed writers share works of various genres. See middlebury. edu for details. Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 4:15 p.m. & 8:15 p.m. Free; call to confirm. Info, 443-2700.
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Lego Fun: Budding builders in grades K and up create unique structures with brightly colored pieces. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
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'Concert In C Flat' Auditions: The Valley Players hold tryouts for a November production of Bob Dzikowicz's play about the drama-prone occupants of two adjoining flats. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 583-1674.
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'Mistakes Were Made': An Off-Broadway producer gets in over his head when he takes on an epic of the French Revolution in this comedy from acclaimed writer Craig Wright. Mainline Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 514-849-3378.
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Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: PingPong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.
talks
Colin Conger: In "Captain George Conger and the St. Albans Raid," the lecturer details his ancestor's heroic role in the Civil War's northernmost land engagement. Georgia Public Library, Fairfax, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-3996. Jonathan Mingle: The author of the forthcoming Fire and Ice presents "Building for Climate and Energy Resilience in the Indian Himalaya." Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. 'School Days Memories': A panel discussion featuring former Bradford Academy students and teachers taps into a slice of local history. Auditorium, Bradford Academy, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4423. Technology Forum: Locals give feedback about the library's computers and Wi-Fi resources. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
theater
'A Chorus Line': The legendary Broadway musical comes to life on the Weston Playhouse stage with show-stopping songs and jaw-dropping dances. Weston Playhouse, 2 p.m. $47-61. Info, 824-5288.
Writers for Recovery Workshop: Led by local author Gary Miller and documentarian Bess O'Brien, attendees put pen to paper and explore addiction, recovery and familial relationships. Turning Point Center, Burlington, pizza, 5:30-6 p.m.; workshop, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-3150, writersforrecovery@icloud.com.
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Contra Dance: Movers and groovers of all skill levels tap into time-tested regional traditions at this New England social dance. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 7-10 p.m. $5-10. Info, 342-3529. Modern Technique Class: New York City-based artists Simon Thomas-Train and Christina Jane Robson lead intermediate-to-advanced dancers in a mix of spontaneity and precision. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 3:45-5 p.m. $18; limited space. Info, 229-4676.
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Estate Jewelry Sale: See WED.20. Feast & Field Market & Concert Series: A pastoral party features locally grown produce, homemade tacos and live music by guitarist Doug Perkins and fiddler Patrick Ross. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; open mic, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391.
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. Queen City Ghostwalk: Ghosts of UVM: Thea Lewis leads a spine-tingling stroll through campus. Meet in front of the Royall Tyler Theatre 10 minutes before start time. University of Vermont, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 863-5966. Summervale: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: Folks explore the inn and its cottage-style gardens, then sit down to a cup-and-saucer affair, complete with sweets and savories. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4:30 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 985-8442. Vermont Technology Alliance Sunset Dinner Cruise: Tech-savvy professionals network over refreshments and dinner aboard the Spirit of Ethan Allen. Burlington Community Boathouse, boarding, 6 p.m.; dinner, 6:30 p.m. $30-35; preregister. Info, 735-0840, gcouture-vtta@comcast.net.
fairs & festivals
Caledonia County Fair: See WED.20. Stowe Tango Music Festival: See WED.20, 7 p.m. Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.20.
film
'Sharknado 2: The Second One': All hell breaks loose when the weather takes a turn for the worse and unleashes a Sharknado on New York City in this sequel to the cult classic. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300. Sunset & A Movie: Picnickers get schooled in punk rock at a screening of A Band Called Death. Burlington College, 8:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.
food & drink
Fletcher Allen Farmers Market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797. Jericho Farmers Market: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778. Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009. Summervale: Dried Apple Rings: City Market representatives teach foodies how to put a creative twist on healthy snacks at the weekly agricultural gathering. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.
games
Open Bridge Game: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
health & fitness
Forza: The Samurai Sword Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Seeing, Hearing, Feeling: Exploring Mindfulness Practice: Nina La Rosa leads a session grounded in traditional Buddhist teachings. A Q&A and discussion follow. Exquisite Mind Studio, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, nina@ninalarosa.com.
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Yoga in the Mountains: Yogis of all skill levels hit the mat for an open-air practice of intuitive flow. Call for specific location. East Johnson, 5-6:15 p.m. $15. Info, 279-6663.
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CraftsburY ChaMber PlaYers MiniConCerts: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. Fellowship Hall, Greensboro United Church of Christ, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443. Junior ranger PrograM: life in a log: A hands-on exploration gives kiddos ages 6 through 12 the opportunity to earn a Junior Ranger badge. Meet at Carriage Barn Visitor Center. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 2:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. the lunChbox suMMer Meal PrograM: See WED.20, Gardner Memorial Park, Newport, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044. MusiC With Mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. suMMer reading PrograM finale: Triumphant summer readers rejoice in their accomplishments with snacks, prizes and a magic show by Tom Joyce. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 849-2420.
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Pride Center of VerMont senior WoMen's disCussion grouP: Female-identified members of the LGBTQ community consider topics of interest in a safe, comfortable setting. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.
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'ContraCtions': Mike Bartlett's dark comedy delves into a perverse corporate society where the business of money seeps into the business of life. Mainline Theatre, Montréal, 9:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 514-849-3378. 'Mistakes Were Made': See WED.20.
music
Central VerMont ChaMber MusiC festiVal: oPen rehearsal: World-class chamber musicians hone their craft. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-6464. CraftsburY ChaMber PlaYers: See WED.20, Hardwick Town House, 8 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. snoW farM VineYard ConCert series: Live music by the grapevines makes for a rollicking good time at this weekly shindig. Local libations and good eats complete the evening. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, grounds open, 5 p.m.; concert, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463. stoWe tango MusiC festiVal: oPen tango JaM session: Instrumentalists, dancers and music lovers bond over shared interests. Crop Bistro & Brewery, Stowe, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 779-9669. WatCh out for dinosaurs: Elements of swing, jazz and traditional arrangements enliven a brownbag concert by the acoustic string band. Woodstock Village Green, noon-2 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 457-3981.
outdoors
MushrooMs deMYstified: Fungi lovers learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Nature Center. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
steVenson brookWalkers: Adventure-seekers slip into their water shoes for a guided hike in and along the spring-fed stream. Meet at Stevenson Brook Trail. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. sunset aquadVenture: Stunning scenery welcomes paddlers of all abilities, who explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of local wildlife. Meet at the Contact Station half an hour before start time. A-Side Swim Beach. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
talks
linda seel: The public-health nurse discusses the life cycle and ecology of ticks, then presents ways to minimize the risk of contracting tick-borne diseases. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
theater
'a Chorus line': See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. dorset theatre festiVal: 'the MousetraP': See WED.20, 8 p.m. 'loVe letters': A man and a woman revisit their 50-year correspondence in A.R. Gurney's play, staged by Unadilla Theatre. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. 'the MarVelous Wonderettes: CaPs and goWns': See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. oPen MiC night: Performers take the stage with 10 minutes or less of original music, poetry, comedy and more. Vergennes Opera House, registration, 6:45 p.m.; open mic, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6737. 'the seCret garden': See WED.20.
'sight unseen': The Waterbury Festival Players present Donald Margulies' Obie Award-winning comedy about an artist who abandons his muse in favor of fame and opulence. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $15-35. Info, 498-3755.
words
bread loaf Writers' ConferenCe leCture series: See WED.20. bread loaf Writers' ConferenCe reading series: See WED.20. greensboro Writers foruM: An evening of literary exploration features Kellie Bean, Arthur Brooks and David Budbill, who welcomes actor Edgar Davis in a staged reading of his experimental drama, Different Planet. Theater, Town Hall Green, East Craftsbury Road, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 533-7487. honeYbee Press reading: Local writers present the seventh edition of The Salon: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction with readings and live music by tooth ache. The Psychedelicatessen, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 310-3719. readings in the gallerY series: Poet Rachel Hadas and writer Jonathan H. Edwards collaborate with multimedia artist Shalom Gorewitz to explore the intersection of video and verse. A reception follows. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. toWn house foruM: Novelists Gregory Maguire and M.T. Anderson share their work with lit lovers. Strafford Common, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 765-4703 or 765-4037. Writer's CirCle: Wordsmiths of all skill levels put pen to paper. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5:307 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.
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KIngdom FaRm & Food daYs: Locavores revel in the region's agricultural vitality with farm tours, workshops, demonstrations and garden-fresh fare. See calendar spotlight. Various Northeast Kingdom locations, noon. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, 472-5362.
dance
BallRoom & latIn danCIng: mamBo: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. 8/11/14 4:03 PM Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.
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ChamPlaIn valleY FaIR: Folks hit the midway for games, rides and fried food, of course. Farm animals, agricultural displays and grandstand concerts round out fun. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-midnight. $5-12; $30 ride bracelet; additional fees for concerts and special events. Info, 878-5545. stowe tango musIC FestIval: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. veRmont FestIval oF the aRts: See WED.20.
food & drink
Bellows Falls FaRmeRs maRKet: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. CaledonIa sPIRIts tastIng dInneR: Justin Gellert hosts a three-course meal featuring gin, vodka and elderberry cordial from the Hardwickbased distillery. Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. $25. Info, 860-9401. Chelsea FaRmeRs maRKet: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987.
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tRuCK stoP: Gourmet eats and local libations from mobile kitchens satisfy discerning palates. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.
FoodwaYs FRIdaYs: Foodies revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen using heirloom herbs and veggies. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.
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laughteR Yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and ... giggle! Participants decrease stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.
BRInYtIde: Fiddler Roger Burridge and piper Anthony Santoro welcome harpist and singer Dominique Dodge for an evening of Irish music. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713. CentRal veRmont ChamBeR musIC FestIval: FRIdaY nIght In the galleRY: Pianist Annemieke Spoelstra and accordion player Jeremiah McLane meld folk traditions and technical mastery in arrangements of works by Piazzolla, Grieg and others. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 728-6464.
dIeRKs BentleY: The award-winning singersongwriter belts out a mix of country, bluegrass and rock. Eric Paslay opens. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $35-65. Info, 878-5545. evan CaRY: Centuries-old Spanish rhythms come alive in traditional pieces and original compositions by the accomplished flamenco guitarist. Congregational Church, Norwich, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 332-6615.
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kids
dRoP-In stoRY tIme: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. KIndeRgaRten stoRY tIme: Good listeners hear tales about school and meet other kiddos entering kindergarten this fall. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. the lunChBox summeR meal PRogRam: See WED.20, Pavilion Park, Island Pond, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2044. musIC wIth deReK: Movers and groovers up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. musIC wIth RoBeRt: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.
language
sPanIsh ConveRsatIon: Patty Penuel helps those comfortable with conversing en español access films, online learning tools and audio language instruction. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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BluegRass & BaRBeCue: Guitar stylings by the DuPont Brothers accompany a feast of Bluebird Barbecue fare featuring wine, sangria and Fiddlehead Brewing Company beer. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 399-8730.
CItY hall PaRK lunChtIme PeRFoRmanCes: Americana tunes from the New Line brighten an open-air show. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
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salsa maKIng wIth BRIdget meYeR: Foodies prepare summer and winter versions of the versatile Mexican condiment using garden-fresh veggies and canned tomatoes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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RIChmond FaRmeRs maRKet: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7514.
Bandanna: The local group presents picnickers with originals and R&B favorites as part of the Wine Down Friday music series. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 388-7368.
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avoId Falls wIth ImPRoved staBIlItY: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5-6. Info, 658-7477.
estate jewelRY sale: See WED.20.
'mIstaKes weRe made': See WED.20.
a PeRFeCt PaIRIng wIth alla vIta: Sips of palate-pleasing varietals complement samples from the Montpelier olive-oil taproom and trattoria. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Montpelier, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151.
PeRFoRmanCe PRojeCt: Simon Thomas-Train and Christina Jane Robson showcase their latest duet alongside a new group piece created with Vermont dancers. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997.
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lYndon FaRmeRs maRKet: More than 20 vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 535-7528.
mad RoBIn ContRa danCe: Folks in clean, softsoled shoes groove to live music by Hannah Beth Crary, Eileen O'Grady, John Thompson and Brian Perkins. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5-10. Info, 503-1251.
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BuRlY BeaR: 135 house PaRtY: DJs Chia and Craig Mitchell mix up a medley of 1980s and ’90s house music for attendees ages 21 and up. Blue Room, Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 860-7812.
maYFlY: Multi-instrumentalists Katie Trautz and Julia Wayne deliver original songs alongside old-time New England and Appalachian music. Cabot Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 279-2236. musIC In the alleY: Eclectic jazz entertains locals at a late-summer concert featuring good eats served up by the Lazy Farmer. Axel's Gallery & Frameshop, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 244-7801. stowe tango musIC FestIval: new tango ConneCtIon: Grammy Award-winning pianist Pablo Ziegler leads his quartet in original compositions and works by J.C. Cobian and Piazzolla. See calendar spotlight. Stowe Community Church, 7:3010 p.m. $10-15. Info, 779-9669.
outdoors
the magIC oF BIRd mIgRatIon: Avian enthusiasts learn how songbirds, shorebirds and other species travel thousands of miles each year with astounding accuracy. B-Side Playground, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. wateR stRIdeRs I: Don your water shoes for an exploration of water power and the creatures that reside along the Stevenson Brook. Meet at the Nature Trail. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 1:30 p.m. $2-3; free for kids under 4; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
sports
hIgh FIves FoundatIon east Coast ChaRItY golF touRnament: Players take a swing in a four-man scramble tourney complete with dinner, an auction and awards. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit's Winter Empowerment Fund. Sugarbush Resort Golf Club, Warren, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $200; $700 per team of four. Info, 530-562-4270, info@ highfivesfoundation.com.
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our ChiLDren, CLiMate, Faith syMposiuM: Tim DeChristopher and Starhawk keynote this intensive exploration of spirituality, social justice, climate disruption and the future well-being of children. Strafford Town Hall, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $75 includes meals. Info, 333-9502.
Dorset theatre FestivaL: 'the Mousetrap': See WED.20, 8 p.m.
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'Cabaret': Local performers travel back in time to 1930s Berlin in a production of the time-tested musical. Enosburg Opera House, Enosburg Falls, 6:45 p.m. $12-15; preregister to reserve a table. Info, 933-6171.
'Love Letters': See THU.21. 'the MarveLous WonDerettes: Caps anD GoWns': See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. 'nothinG-is-not-reaDy CirCus anD paGeant': The political and apolitical movements of the not-yet-existing upriser masses come to life in a passionate performance. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031. 'pete 'n' KeeLy': A divorced singing duo reunites courtesy of a 1968 television special in this kitschy comedy, penned by James Hindman. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $29. Info, 518-962-4449. 'the seCret GarDen': See WED.20. 'siGht unseen': See THU.21. 'unreaDy-reaDy shoW': Politics and art combine for an evening of thought-provoking theater. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 525-3031.
words
breaD LoaF Writers' ConFerenCe LeCture series: See WED.20, 9 a.m. breaD LoaF Writers' ConFerenCe reaDinG series: See WED.20, 4:15 p.m. & 8:15 p.m. Greensboro Writers ForuM: Sandy Scott, Bill Schubart, Lin Stone, Tom Greene and David Budbill read and discuss selected works. Theater, Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 533-7487. WorD!CraFt: experiMentaL art rhyMes: Wordsmiths sound off to beats by DJ Crunchee at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse. Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, registration, 6:30-7 p.m.; spoken word, 7-8 p.m.; hip-hop, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336, mcmycelium74@gmail.com.
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GarDen basiCs WorKshops: usinG & preservinG GarDen proDuCe: Green thumbs learn how to get the most out of seasonal flavors in a hands-on workshop. Tommy Thompson Community Garden, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $5 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 861-4769. KinGDoM FarM & FooD Days: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.
DeMos & Desserts: Art lovers nosh on sweet treats as hooked-rug artist Sandy Ducharme demonstrates her craft. Miller's Thumb Gallery, Greensboro, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2045.
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saiLor CeLebration: A dockside soirée bids summer adieu with kayaking, canoeing, sailing, live music and barbecue fare. Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-2499.
bounty oF verMont Day: Folks chat up artisans and food producers, who display their wares under one tent at this celebration of all things local. Lantman's Market, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2361.
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CaMbriDGe CiviL War Days: History buffs blast into the past through battle demonstrations, military drills, period games, traditional crafts and guest speakers. Various Cambridge locations, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@cambridgehistoricalsociety.org. estate jeWeLry saLe: See WED.20. KinGDoM CoMMunity WinD tours: Folks learn about alternative energy sources on a visit to the 21-turbine wind farm. Kingdom Community Wind, Lowell, 10 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 744-6664. niGht LiGhts Dinner & GoLF: Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and tasty fare pave the way for live music, a silent auction and glow-in-the-dark golfing. Proceeds benefit the Milton Family Community Center. Arrowhead Golf Course, Milton, 5:30-10:30 p.m. $60; $200 per team of four; $35-40 for dinner only. Info, 893-1457. Queen City GhostWaLK: DarKness FaLLs: See FRI.22. useD MusiCaL instruMent saLe: Gently used music makers find new homes at this fundraiser for music-scholarship assistance. Sellers can drop items off on Friday between 4 and 7 p.m. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-4416. uvM historiC tour: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Meet at the Ira Allen statue. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at uvm. edu. Info, 656-8673.
fairs & festivals
CaLeDonia County Fair: See WED.20, 8 a.m. ChaMpLain vaLLey Fair: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.-midnight. QueChee sCottish FestivaL & CeLtiC Fair: Bagpipe bands, sheepdog trials, highland dancing and live music anchor a Scottish soirée. See calendar spotlight. Quechee Polo Field, Hartford, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 5. Info, 295-5351.
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stoWe tanGo MusiC FestivaL: See WED.20, 7 p.m. verGennes Day: Vermont's smallest city goes big with bandstand concerts, artisan vendors, kids activities, 5K and 10K races, a chicken barbecue and more. Vergennes City Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951, ext. 1.
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aMeriCan reD Cross bLooD Drive: See WED.20, Diamond Run Mall, Rutland, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-733-2767.
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Barre Farmers Market: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com. Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172. Burlington Food Tour: Locavores sample the Queen City's finest cuisine on a scrumptious stroll that stops at the Burlington Farmers Market and an area restaurant. East Shore Vineyard Tasting Room, Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $45. Info, 277-0180, burlingtonfoodtours@gmail.com. Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor stands centered on local eats. Pearl Street, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts throughout the growing season. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: See WED.20, St. Joseph's Church, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122. Chocolate Tasting: Sweets lovers tap into the nuances of sour, spicy, earthy and fruity flavors. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-5507. Farm Dinner: Local and regional ingredients shine at a five-course al fresco feast. Silent auction proceeds benefit Jr. Iron Chef Vermont. The Inn at Weathersfield, Perkinsville, silent auction and cocktails, 5:30 p.m.; dinner, 6:30 p.m. $100; preregister. Info, 263-9217. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.20. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070. Newport Farmers Market: See WED.20.
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Northwest Farmers Market: Foodies stock up on local produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157. Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land offered alongside baked goods, handmade crafts and live entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Pittsford Farmers Market: Homegrown produce complements maple products and artisan wares at this outdoor affair. Pittsford Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 483-2829. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 353-0893. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheese, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472. Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling, open-air market boasting extensive seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.
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DJ Yoga: Improvisational beats from DJ tonybonez set the tone for an invigorating practice led by Candace Taylor. Jenke Arts, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 683-4918. R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.20, 9-10 a.m. Saturday Morning Run/Walk: Amateur athletes set the pace at an informal weekly gettogether. Peak Performance, Williston, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 658-0949.
Water Dance NOW!: Locals break a sweat with yoga, Zumba, Jazzercise and BodyCombat at this benefit for Lake Champlain International, the Miss Vermont Scholarship Foundation and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Battery Park, Burlington, 9 a.m. $5-15. Info, 879-3466.
kids
Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival: Kids Concert: Esteemed musicians introduce good listeners to the work of Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 728-6464. Meet Curious George: Little ones monkey around with the title character from H.A. and Margret Rey's popular children's book series. Themed activities and story times round out the fun. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Peace & Justice Center Kids Club: Asia: Area kiddos get acquainted with Asian culture through stories, games, music and snacks. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. Saturday Story Time: Youngsters and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books (Burlington), 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Soapbox Derby: Spectators cheer on local cub scouts as they attempt to steer handmade vehicles to victory. Hot dogs, sweet treats and root beer floats complete the afternoon. Fitch Avenue, Bristol, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-6141.
outdoors
Making Tracks, Seeing Skins & Skulls: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing animals and make plaster-of-Paris track casts to take home. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. Mushrooms Demystified: See THU.21. Reading Your Landscape: Biologist Alicia Daniel identifies local flora reflective of the relationship between the natural and cultivated world. UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. $10-20; preregister. Info, info@friendsofthehortfarm.org. Rockin' the Little River: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Meet at the Waterbury Dam Monument. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
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Green Mountain Swing: The 18-piece ensemble performs big-band favorites from the 1930s to the present at a benefit concert for the Shep Resnik Music Scholarship Fund. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 496-3764. Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival: First Festival Saturday: Violin and cello master classes give way to vocal and musical performances, and an opening reception hosted by violinist Soovin Kim and the festival board. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m., noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $10-20. Info, 846-2175 or 863-5966. Social Band: The Burlington choral group pays homage to the heady influences of summer with a program of songs old and new. Old Round Church, Richmond, 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 482-3193. Stowe Tango Music Festival: Tango Trail: Mini-performances throughout Stowe village highlight different styles and time periods of tango history. Various Stowe locations, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 779-9669. Stowe Tango Music Festival: Milonga: A dance class led by Facundo Posadas and Chin Ping preps folks for a milonga featuring live music by the Hector Del Curto Tango Quintet and Stowe Tango Music Festival Orchestra. Rusty Nail Bar & Grille, Stowe, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 779-9669.
'The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns': See WED.20. 'Pete 'n' Keely': See FRI.22, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. 'The Secret Garden': See WED.20, 8 p.m. 'Sight Unseen': See THU.21.
words
Mary Ann Fuller Young: The local author shares her husband’s experience with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in her memoir Plainly and Simply. A book signing follows. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
music
Goo Goo Dolls & Daughtry: The multiplatinum rockers behind the hits "Slide" and "Iris" take the stage as part of a national tour featuring vocalist Chris Daughtry and his band. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $27-63.75. Info, 863-5966.
Dorset Theatre Festival: 'The Mousetrap': See WED.20, 8 p.m.
Warblers, Woods and Watersheds: A rangerled hike covers the basics of monitoring local wildlife, forest health and water quality. Meet at Prosper Road parking lot. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.
'Mistakes Were Made': See WED.20.
'Contractions': See THU.21.
'A Chorus Line': See WED.20, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Stevenson Brookwalkers: See THU.21.
3-D Printing, Designing & Scanning With Blu-Bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030.
montréal
'Caesar and Cleopatra': Christopher Plummer stars opposite Nikki M. James in a broadcast production of the 2014 comedy about the relationship between a Roman political strategist and a teenage Egyptian queen. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.
Greensboro Writers Forum: Readings and discussions by Sydney Lea, Gish Jen, David Ross Huddle and Lynn Stegner captivate lit lovers. Theater, Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 533-7487.
Bocce Skills Contest: Players lob brightly colored balls at a target as they vie for medals and bragging rights. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 10 a.m.3 p.m. $7-15. Info, 441-4604. Run for Jon: Runners and walkers make strides for the Jonathan Evans Memorial Fund, which supports North Country families with children in medical crisis. See runforjon.com for details. Forrence Orchards, Peru, N.Y., registration, 3:304:45 p.m.; run/walk, 5 p.m. $2-10; $25 per family. Info, 518-834-7583. Twin State Roller Derby Doubleheader: Hot wheels! Fans watch the White Mountain Mayhem and Upper Valley Vixens battle the Green Grass Kickers and the Cherry Bombs in a fast-track showdown. Partial proceeds benefit DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center's Women's Health Resource Center. An after-party follows. Union Arena, Woodstock, 4:30-8 p.m. $10-12; free for kids under 12. Info, uv.vixens@gmail.com.
talks
Hidden History Presentation & Tour: Gary Shattuck, author of Smugglers and Shootouts: The Black Snake Affair, details the 1808 showdown on the Winooski River, then leads a tour to the site of the incident. A reception follows. Proceeds benefit the homestead museum. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 4 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 865-4556.
theater
'Born Here Tonight' Auditions: Thespians showcase their acting chops for consideration in Echo Valley Community Arts' production of Linda Goldberg's musical, set in Plainfield in 1975. Plainfield Co-op, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 225-6471.
Will Hoge: The singer-songwriter Bread and Puppet 'Community turns heads with a mix of Americana Circus' Rehearsal: Folks feast and rock at the Cooler in the g their eyes on the political theater workHo Mountains concert series, which inill Co u in-progress. Bread and Puppet Theater, rt es y o f W cludes lawn games, a barbecue and a Glover, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031. beer garden. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 3:30-6 'Cabaret': See FRI.22. p.m. Free. Info, 422-2105. e
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Garden Conservancy Open Days Program: A self-guided tour of private plots highlights vegetables and other edibles as well as a studio, greenhouse and English-inspired rooms. Various Windham & Windsor County locations, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 per garden; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 888-842-2442. Kingdom Farm & Food Days: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.
community
Gala Benefit Dinner: Locals fill up on chicken marsala, veggie ratatouille, salad and fruit cobbler before Ed Helm takes the stage as Mark Twain. Proceeds support the church's solar-energy initiatives. First Universalist Parish, Derby Line, dinner, 5:30 p.m.; performance, 6:30 p.m. $25; $40 per couple; preregister. Info, 766-2915 or 525-3740. Old North End Clean Up: Neighbors lend a hand to the land and beautify city streets. Gloves and trash bags provided. Nunyuns Bakery & Café, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 781-698-9920, cleanitupvt@gmail.com.
conferences
Our Children, Climate, Faith Symposium: See SAT.23, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Cambridge Civil War Days: See SAT.23, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. Music, Art & Tea: Celtic, Renaissance and folk music by Full Circle animates an afternoon tea party featuring the paintings of Barbara Pafume. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@ilmpt.org. Tractor & Truck Pull: Holy horsepower! Drivers put farm vehicles to the test as they compete for championship trophies. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 3 p.m. $8-10 with $5-12 fair admission. Info, 878-5545 or 863-5966. Women's Garage Sale Ride & Picnic: Bargain seekers pedal through the Queen City in search of good deals. Meet at the corner of Colchester and East Avenues. Various locations, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, andynanne@burlingtontelecom.net.
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BarBecue Bonanza Festival: All-you-can-eat barbecue fare fuels families for an evening of live local music, hayrides, lawn games, kids activities and a giant bonfire. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 4 p.m. $15-25; free for kids under 5. Info, 800-622-4000.
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August 20, 2014: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied youth are singing campfire songs in Starksboro this week during the 4th annual Camp Outright. Last year, Eva Sollberger spent an afternoon talking with campers and staff at this “queer utopia.”
caledonia county Fair: See WED.20, 8 a.m. champlain valley Fair: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.-midnight. vermont Festival oF the arts: See WED.20. WyisWyG: See SAT.23.
food & drink
cuBan cookinG class: picadillo With sWeet plantains & coconut Flan: Ammy Martinez shares her cultural and culinary heritage in a class taught entirely en español. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700. south BurlinGton Farmers market: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 207-266-8766. Winooski Farmers market: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic eats, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 413-446-4684.
health & fitness
community restorative yoGa: Tisha Shull leads a gentle practice aimed at achieving mindbody harmony. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. community vinyasa: Rose Bryant helps students align breath, intention and inner balance. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: AUGUST 13, 2014: Multimedia producer Eva Sollberger takes the plunge at three beloved Vermont swimming holes — Bristol Falls, Warren Falls and Lareau Swim Hole in Waitsfield.
community yoGa: A blend of Vinyasa, Kundalini and other styles combines breath, movement, meditation and live music. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 9-10 a.m. $5 minimum donation. Info, 635-2727. yoGic science: pranayama and meditation: Mindfulness techniques focus the senses and support an asana practice. Proceeds benefit the Center for Mindful Learning. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
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Bike For the Barn Farm tour: Cyclists spin their wheels on 9- and 11-mile routes throughout Huntington, stopping at farms, bakeries, breweries and wineries along the way. A lunch and live music follow. Proceeds benefit Jubilee Barn and Backdoor Bakery's joint expansion. Jubilee Farm, Huntington Center, check-in, 9-10 a.m.; ride, 10 a.m.-noon; lunch, noon-2 p.m. $6-15; $30 per family of four. Info, 434-3422. Gardens in Bloom: Eye-catching landscapes showcase well-considered designs reflective of the 19th-century conservation movement. Carriage Barn Visitor Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. rockin' the little river ii: tour oF WaterBury dam: Folks meet at the top of Vermont's largest hand-built earthen dam for a guided walk along the crest, complete with mountain views. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11:30 a.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. War oF the Weeds!: Garden helpers remove invasive honeysuckle shrubs. Meet at the Nature Center. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
sports
Women's pickup soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Starr Farm Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 864-0123.
sundays For FledGlinGs: From feathers and flying to art and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.
zoe's race: Athletes make strides in a 1K fun run/ walk and a 5K run benefiting families supported by HowardCenter Developmental Services. Oakledge Park, Burlington, registration; 8:30-9:15 a.m.; 1K, 9:30 a.m.; 5K, 10 a.m. $20-40. Info, 488-6911.
younG storytellers Workshop: Youngsters in grades 1 and up and their adult companions transform memories, family stories and works of original fiction into captivating tales for a live audience. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, chairmanstein@gmail.com.
'mistakes Were made': See WED.20.
music
central vermont chamBer music Festival: matinee concert: Music for strings and voice celebrates the great musical minds of Beethoven, Kodály, Respighi and Debussy. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 4 p.m. $25. Info, 728-6464. 8/19/14 3:03 PM
outdoors
'stuart little' auditions: Aspiring actors in grades K through 12 vie for spots in Rutland Youth Theatre's production of E.B. White's classic tale about a mouse who tries to make it in the human world. Rutland Youth Theatre, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 558-4177.
'contractions': See THU.21.
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lake champlain chamBer music Festival: openinG concert: A program of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann and others features esteemed chamber musicians and soprano Hyunah Yu. A reception follows. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, preperformance lecture, 2:15 p.m.; concert, 3 p.m. $15-30. Info, 846-2175 or 863-5966.
russian play time With natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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inoraBrass: Seasoned performers Chris Rivers, Jason Whitcomb, Joy Worland, Lori SalimandoPorter and Bill Keck combine creative forces to demonstrate the range of brass instruments. St. John the Baptist Church, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 3 p.m. Donations. Info, 595-0601.
north Face race to the top oF vermont: Hundreds of runners, hikers and mountain bikers tackle the state's highest peak, then unwind at a post-race barbecue. Proceeds benefit the Catamount Trail Association. See calendar spotlight. Toll Road, Mount Mansfield, Underhill, 9 a.m. $70. Info, 864-5794.
kids AUGUST 6, 2014: Colchester’s Sunset Drive-In has entertained audiences for 66 years. Catching a movie at the drive-in these days is like a flashback to a bygone era, but the Sunset still enthralls crowds with the latest action flicks on warm summer nights.
dave keller & Johnny raWls: The north and south make for an ideal musical pairing when Vermont's award-winning blues artist welcomes the Mississippi soul man. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Oxbow Park, Morrisville, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 888-6669, ext. 231.
talks
nolan Gasser & naomie kremer: The composer and scenic designer, respectively, detail Opera Theatre of Weston's stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel The Secret Garden. Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, 7 p.m. $15-20. Info, 867-0111. 'physics' stranGe cats': From Schrodinger's cat to the recent quantum Cheshire Cat, folks explore the use of metaphors in physics in an open discussion. Private residence, Hinesburg, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 922-1665, celebratemind@gmail.com.
theater
'Born here toniGht' auditions: See SAT.23. 'concert in c Flat' auditions: See WED.20, 5 p.m.
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Dorset theatre Festival: 'the Mousetrap': See WED.20, 3 p.m. 'the Marvelous WonDerettes: Caps anD GoWns': See WED.20, 3 p.m. 'nothinG-is-not-reaDy CirCus anD paGeant': See FRI.22, 3 p.m. 'pete 'n' Keely': See FRI.22, 5 p.m.
words
BiGtoWn suMMer reaDinG series: Fiction writer Tracy Winn and poet Joan Landis excerpt selected works to close out the annual literary series. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.
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 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
outdoors
WaterFront herB WalK: Herbalist Guido Masé leads a guided stroll along the shore of Lake Champlain to identify common medicinal plants. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.
seminars
GreensBoro Writers ForuM: Judith B. Jones, Bronwyn Jones Dunne and Marialisa Calta present page turners. A reception follows. Theater, Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 533-7487.
CoMMunity FarMinG & GrasslanD BirDs: a loCal Conservation strateGy: Wildlife biologist Noah Perlut details the multigenerational breeding habits of local birds. Shelburne Farms, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, registration@ shelburnefarms.org.
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aMeriCa's Best iDea: BirthDay CeleBration: Nature lovers fête the 98th birthday of the National Park Service with a slideshow and discussion. Park at the Billings Farm & Museum. Carriage Barn Visitor Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22.
dance
teChnique Boot CaMp: Intermediate-toadvanced dancers sharpen their skills with Hanna Satterlee. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 3:45-5 p.m. $18; limited space. Info, 229-4676.
fairs & festivals
ChaMplain valley Fair: See FRI.22, 10 a.m. -midnight. verMont Festival oF the arts: See WED.20.
games
BriDGe CluB: See WED.20, 7 p.m. trivia niGht: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
avoiD Falls With iMproveD staBility: See FRI.22. healthy aGinG WeeK at the y: Folks aspiring to be fit after 50 explore various health-related topics with local experts. Greater Burlington YMCA (Burlington), 10:15-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 862-9622. MonDay-niGht Fun run: Runners push past personal limits at this weekly outing. Peak Performance, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0949.
kids
aliCe in nooDlelanD: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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'pete 'n' Keely': See FRI.22, 5 p.m. 'the proDuCers' auDitions: Lyric Theatre Company holds tryouts for its production based on Mel Brooks' 1968 film about two theater impresarios determined to create a money-losing musical. Williston Central School, registration, 5:45-6:15 p.m.; auditions, 6:15-10 p.m. Free. Info, 324-5535.
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intro to triBal Belly DanCe: Ancient traditions from diverse cultures define this moving meditation that celebrates creative energy. Comfortable clothing required. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. sWinG DanCe praCtiCe session: Twinkle-toed dancers learn steps for the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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aMeriCan reD Cross BlooD Drive: See WED.20, Central Vermont Medical Center, Barre, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; Elks Lodge, Derby, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 800-733-2767. personal Care attenDant inForMation session: Those interested in working in the field of health care learn about the VNA's training program. Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Colchester, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4449. tea & ForMal GarDens tour: See THU.21.
fairs & festivals
NC Dances VT with Van Dyke Dance Group, Paul Besaw, and Christal Brown . . . . .9/19 Roomful of Teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/26 Andrew Rangell, piano — Models and Mimics: Homages in Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10/1 Civil War: Witness & Response with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10/4 Kiran Ahluwalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/11 Tien Hsieh, piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/17 The Sphinx Virtuosi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/24 “The Lovesong of R. Buckminster Fuller,” by Sam Green with live original soundtrack by Yo La Tengo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/30 The Rose Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11/14 Redbird: Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and Peter Mulvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11/21 A Holiday Concert with Anonymous 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12/5 The Solo Workshop: Assigned Allies, music/dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/30 Brentano String Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/6 Jazz for Valentine’s Day with Cyrille Aimée and her Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/14 Fauré Quartett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/20 Eric Bibb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2/27 John Jorgenson Quintet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/6 A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Eileen Ivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/13 Dave Stryker, jazz guitar with the UVM Big Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/19 The Nile Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/28 Natasha Paremski, piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4/17 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4/24 Jerusalem Trio with Mariam Adam, clarinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5/1 a collaboration with UVM Department of Music and Dance
a Lane Series/Flynn Center co-presentation
ChaMplain valley Fair: See FRI.22, 10 a.m. -midnight. verMont Festival oF the arts: See WED.20.
film
'e.t.: the extra-terrestrial': Sci-fi fans watch a solar-powered showing of Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic about a boy who befriends an alien. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 775-0903. TUE.26
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laKe ChaMplain ChaMBer MusiC Festival: Festival MonDay: David Ludwig explores the poetic qualities of composer Maurice Ravel. A master class by the LCCMF Young Quartet-in-Residence follows. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 3 p.m. $10-20. Info, 846-2175 or 863-5966.
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'Beatrix potter revisiteD': From penning The Tale of Peter Rabbit to raising sheep, the iconic author comes alive via Helene Lang in a living-history presentation. West Enosburg United Methodist Church, Enosburg Falls, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4394.
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Knights of the Mystic Movie club: Cinema hounds screen campy flicks at this celebration of offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776. 'spies of Mississippi': Dawn porter's 2014 documentary exposes a clandestine Mississippi spy agency formed during the civil rights movement with the intent to preserve segregation. The Block Gallery & Coffeehouse, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.
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Johnson farMers MarKet: From kale to handcrafted spoons, shoppers fill their totes at this open-air affair featuring meats, herbs, baked goods and dining areas. Johnson Village Green, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, johnsonfarmersmarket@gmail.com. old north end farMers MarKet: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic food and more from neighborhood vendors. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com. rutland county farMers MarKet: See SAT.23, 2-6 p.m.
games
gaMing for teens & adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
health & fitness
gentle yoga With Jill lang: Students get their stretch on with the yoga certification candidate. personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. healthy aging WeeK at the y: See MON.25, 1-2 p.m. intro to yoga: Those new to the mat discover the benefits of aligning breath and body. Fusion Studio Yoga & Body Therapy, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 272-8923.
yoga With alexandra: Rocking rhythms enliven a blend of Hatha, Vinyasa and Kundalini. Jenke Arts, Burlington, 4-5:15 p.m. $5 minimum donation. Info, 279-6663.
kids
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creative tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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nia class: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, a sensory-based movement practice inspires students to explore their potential. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $13. Info, 863-6713.
fresh froM the garden, good food for Kids: Adventurous eaters in grades 1 through 5 pull weeds and tend to plants, then help prepare dishes made with harvested veggies. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.
language SEVEN DAYS
beginner spanish lessons: Newcomers develop basic competency en español. private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757. french conversation group: Beginner-tointermediate speakers brush up on their language skills. Halvorson's upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:306 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
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pause-café french conversation: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. panera Bread (Burlington), 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
lgbtq
faMily toWn hall: A supportive environment encourages attendees to share ideas about starting or expanding their LGBTQA families. pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.
music
the eaMes brothers at tuesday night live: A blend of rock, blues and soul spices up a pastoral party featuring good eats. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 635-7826. laKe chaMplain chaMber Music festival: festival tuesday: David Ludwig, Katie Ford and the 2014 Young Composers present "Inside pitch: Setting the poet's Voice to Music." A performance of Schubert's Winterreise follows. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. $10-20. Info, 846-2175 or 863-5966. shape note sing: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the "fa-sol-la" tradition. Bread and puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.
outdoors
suMMer bug WalKs: Insect lovers grab their nets for an outing aimed at catching, observing and releasing creepy crawlers. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.
sports
figure 8 racing: Lightweight cars squeal around the track in an action-packed road race. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $8-10 with $5-12 fair admission. Info, 878-5545- or 863-5966. standup paddleboard race series: Aquatic athletes face off in a friendly competition. Waterbury Center State park, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 253-2542.
talks
dreaMs & soul travel: Keys to healing & inner peace: Members of Vermont Eckankar host an open forum for those interested in sharing spiritual experiences and exploring related questions. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.
theater
'the Marvelous Wonderettes: caps and goWns': See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. 'the producers' auditions: See MON.25, 5:4510 p.m.
words
booK discussion: Readers weigh in on Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 522-8516.
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agriculture
farMer social: Lovers of local ag and members of NOFA-VT, the Intervale Center and the Vermont Young Farmers Coalition fête the growing season over Citizen Cider, wood-fired pizza and music. Intervale Center, Burlington, tractor cultivation workshop, 2-5 p.m.; social 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.
community
dialogue night: The Winooski Coalition for a Safe and peaceful Community facilitates conversation about alcohol and tobacco marketing and consumption. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister for childcare. Info, 655-4565.
dance
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education
ToasTmasTers of GreaTer BurlinGTon: Folks looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills learn more. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.
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american red cross Blood drive: See WED.20, Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-733-2767. demoliTion derBy: Step on it! Special guest Keeghan Nolan entertains the crowd at this annual bout of road rage and spectacular crashes that leaves only one car running. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. $9-12 with $5-12 fair admission. Info, 878-5545 or 863-5966. KinGdom communiTy Wind Tours: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. Personal care aTTendanT informaTion session: See TUE.26.
montréal
'conTracTions': See THU.21. 'misTaKes Were made': See WED.20.
music
ciTy hall ParK lunchTime Performances: Daddy Longlegs get folks over the midday hump with spirited Americana stylings. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. communiTy eveninGs aT The farm: Big Spike Bluegrass entertains picnickers with danceable tunes. Shelburne Farms, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9551. laKe chamPlain chamBer music fesTival: fesTival Wednesday concerT: Chamber works by William Bolcom and LCCMF composer-inresidence David Ludwig set the tone for a cabaret featuring the Bolcom and Morris duo. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 846-2175 or 863-5966.
fairs & festivals
PaPPy hour: The Hinesburg-based musician takes the stage with old-time tunes. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.
vermonT fesTival of The arTs: See WED.20.
outdoors
chamPlain valley fair: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.midnight.
film
'Gore vidal: The uniTed sTaTes of amnesia': A screening of Nicholas Wrathall's 2013 awardwinning documentary about the famed public figure benefits the Burlington Book Festival. A Q&A with writer and academic Jay Parini follows. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, 660–2600. EA
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The Good, The Bad and The really, really iTchy: See WED.20. monarch BuTTerfly TaGGinG: Nature lovers don nets to catch, tag and release the migrating winged wonders. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.
seminars
BiKe commuTer WorKshoP: Cyclists gain practical tips for pedal-powered transportation in a hands-on presentation. South Hero Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, marycatherine@localmotion.org.
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talks
This summer join us in the alley at Red Square every Friday for a FR E E summer concert.
Green mounTain TaBle Tennis cluB: See WED.20.
sam norris: The award-winning furniture maker recalls serendipitous moments in "Out of the Blue: Sources of Creative Inspiration." Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.
games
Wednesday niGhT live: Sweet stuff! Author and seventh-generation Vermonter Burr Morse discusses the evolution of maple sugaring during his lifetime. B-Side Playground, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
BridGe cluB: See WED.20.
health & fitness
healThy aGinG WeeK aT The y: See MON.25, 4-5 p.m. monTréal-sTyle acro yoGa: See WED.20.
kids
'The marvelous WondereTTes: caPs and GoWns': See WED.20.
language
enGlish as a second lanGuaGe class: See WED.20. inTermediaTe sPanish lessons: See WED.20.
iTalian conversaTion GrouP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
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'The Producers' audiTions: See MON.25, 5:4510 p.m. 'The secreT Garden': See WED.20, 8 p.m.
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myThs of The summer consTellaTions: Kelley Hunter shares tales of heroes, heroines, legendary birds and other celestial wonders. Outdoor star gazing follows, weather permitting. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. m
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meeT rocKin' ron The friendly PiraTe: See WED.20.
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Wine TasTinG: Prime movers: Vintages produced by Château Thivin, Marcel Lapierre and Guy Breton reflect a diverse approach to winemaking that sets the bar high. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.
Wednesday Wine doWn: See WED.20.
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BridGinG culTures oPen conversaTion: A dialogue on parenting invites attendees to share personal, cultural and socioeconomic perspectives related to child rearing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 338-4633.
neWPorT farmers marKeT: See WED.20.
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BEGINNER WATERCOLOR SEMINAR!: Want to try watercolor but too intimidated? Artist Ginny Joyner will guide you through the basics, from brushes and paper, washes, layering techniques, mixing color and composition to creating landscapes and florals! Ginny loves to teach beginner painters in a relaxed, nonjudgmental atmosphere with gentle but expert direction and advice. Sat. & Sun., Aug. 30 & 31, 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. (w/ lunch break each day). Cost: $200/12hour seminar; incl. a beautiful panmaker palette with paint & brushes to keep, & enough paper to use in class. Location: Ginny Joyner’s studio, Fort Ethan Allen, 504B Dalton Dr., Colchester. Info: Ginny Joyner, 655-0899, ginnyjoynervt@gmail.com, facebook. com/ginnyjoynerStudio. BREAKTHROUGH FREE WEIGHTS: For those looking to advance skills and start learning more complex dumbbell, kettle bell and bodyweight exercises, this class offers detailed, safe progressions in power lifting and weightlifting mixed with compound exercises. This full-body workout uses loading and intensity to build a more athletic foundation and a solid set of skills that transfer to any sport. Trainer: Heather. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 10-Oct. 29, 7-8 a.m. Cost: $79/members; $109/nonmembers. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 6528157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org. CITYSCAPE BOOT CAMP: Traverse the cityscape by taking on the streets of Burlington with our certified trainer as we incorporate a mix of strength, calisthenics and plyometrics to get you into the best shape of your life. After this eight-week session, you’ll never look at the streets of Burlington the same way again. Trainer: Amanda or Nate. Weekly on Mon., 7-8 a.m.; Tue., 12-1 p.m.; Wed., 7-8 a.m.; Thu., 12-1 p.m.; Sep. 8-Oct. 30. $79/members, $109/nonmembers for 1 day per week; $150/members, $189/nonmembers for 2 days per week. 3 and 4 day options also avail. Location: Pomerleau Family Y, 266 College St., Burlington. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 652-8157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org. KETTLE BELLS: Kettle bell exercises are a great way to keep your heart rate soaring and metabolism burning. This
kettle bell class will focus on foundations. Learning to control momentum through proper form and posture is one of the best ways to activate musculature. Kettle bells move constantly and require constant attention, keeping the mind and legs engaged. Trainer: Nate. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 10-Oct. 29, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Cost: $79/members; $109/nonmembers. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 6528157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org.
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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. CLAY: REVISITING THE BOWL: Learn to promote balanced weight throughout your bowls, avoid bottom-heavy pieces, and get rid of the pesky learner’s curve or “shoulder” that is often found in this form. Leave the class with refined knowledge on how to arrive at the bowl shape you intended and learn the mechanics for making bowls for specific purposes or dishes. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. Sun., Sep. 14, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: This class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Also learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed! Option 1: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 25-Oct. 30, 6-8:30 p.m.; Option 2: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 25-Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m.-noon; Weekly on Mon., Nov. 3-Dec. 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $240/person; $216/BCA members. Incl. your first bag of clay and 30 hrs. per week in open studio hours to practice. Extra clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag. All glazes and firings incl.
Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING: This drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes. Spend the evening with other artists drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 15-Dec. 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $8/ participant; $7/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit free. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator to lay out and design posters and other single-page documents. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. No experience necessary. Instructor: Jeremy Smith. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 15-Oct. 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $205/members; $184.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. DESIGN: ADOBE INDESIGN: Learn the basics of Adobe In-Design, used for magazine and book layout, designing text, and for preparing digital and print publications. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rachel Hooper. Weekly on Tuesday, Sep. 30-Nov. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $205/ person; $184.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. DROP IN: ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel-working. Learn to prepare and center the clay and make cups, mugs and bowls. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. No registration necessary. Instructors: Julia Berberan & Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Sep. 19-Dec. 19, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $12/per participant; $11/ BCA members. Purchase a dropin card and get the 6th visit for free!. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. DROP IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Learn wheel and hand-building techniques at BCA’s clay studio while hanging out with the family. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand-building demonstrations throughout the evening. Price includes once fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary. All ages. Instructors: Julia Berberan, Alex Costantino and Iris Stein. Weekly on Fri., Sep. 19-Dec. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. No class Oct. 31 & Nov.
28. Cost: $6/per child; $5/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card and get the 6th for free!. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
equivalent experience. Weekly on Thursday, Sep. 25-Nov. 13. Cost: $295/person; $265.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
DROP IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: This popular dropin program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Kids will work with kid-friendly materials like homemade PlayDough and finger paint, and explore sculpture, drawings and crafts through their own projects, or collaboratively. Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Instructor: Zoe Barracano. Ages 6 months to 5 years. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 18-Dec. 18, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $6/per child; $5/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card and get the 6th for free!. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.
PRINTMAKING: This introductory class will show you a variety of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork. Learn block printing with linoleum, collograph and drypoint. This is a great way to start creating your own art, and no experience is necessary! Instructor: Katie Loesel. Weekly on Tue., Sep. 23-Oct. 28, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.
FREE WHEELIN’: Come play with clay on the potter’s wheel & learn how to make cups, bowls & more in our clay studio in this afternoon wheel class. Registration is required. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. All supplies provided. Instructor: Kim O’Brien. Ages 6-12. Saturday, Sep. 27, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with non-toxic watersoluble oils. With an emphasis on studio work, this class will consist of fun exercises. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Linda Jones. Ages 16+. Weekly on Tuesday, Sep. 30Nov. 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/ person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Pair with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12 week experience and learn the ins and outs of photo editing and printing! No experience necessary. Instructor: Dan Lovell. Weekly on Wed., Sep. 17-Oct. 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $170/person; $153/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film-processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outsideof-class printing and processing. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or
SQUISHY CIRCUITS: Using conductive playdough (geek dough) kids will build circuits and learn basic electronics while making squishy creations. We will learn the fundamentals of how electric circuits work and get a broad introduction to the world of physical computing. All materials provided. Instructor: Rachel Hooper. Ages 8-12. Saturday, Sep. 27, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center & Generator, Burlington.
business WOMEN’S SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM: Enroll today in Start Up: 15-week comprehensive business planning course! This action-oriented class is tailored to your business needs. Learn the ins & outs of marketing, finance & business ownership from a team of seasoned entrepreneurs & a host of guest experts, build a professional network & be supported by your peers. Every Thursday 5:30-9 p.m.; Every other Sunday 12-6 p.m. 15 week course. Location: Mercy Connections, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org.
coaching 30-DAY SELF-DISCOVERY COURSE: Explore your dreams and confront your fears at the HappyU Life Design School with Life & Energy Coach Theresa McCabe. Discover who you are, who you want to be, what motivates you and find the confidence to pursue your most fulfilling dreams! For teens, twentysomethings, college students and graduates. Starts Sun., Sep. 7. Teleclasses on Wed. at 8 p.m. Cost: $47/guided self-discovery journal, 4 live weekly teleclasses, visualization exercises & inspirational emails. Location: Online at, theresamccabe.com. Info: Theresa McCabe, 274-6671, theresa@theresamccabe.com, theresamccabe.com.
dance BEGINNER SWING DANCE LESSONS: For absolute beginners or those wanting a refresher. East Coast style of swing dance (jitterbug) with Vermont’s premier swing dance teacher, Terry Bouricius. No partner necessary. Includes admission to practice session after each class. Four Tuesdays Sept. 2-Sept. 23 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $40/per person for the series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street, Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 864-8382, terrybour@gmail.com, http://vermontswings.com. 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. DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com. LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.
empowerment BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: Meet your psychopomp and explore the process of becoming conscious through dozens of thoughtprovoking exercises that employ synchronicities, symbols, archetypes and active imagination. A wealth of readings by Jung and others supplements the exercises. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Sep. 3, 10, 17 & 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15 & 22, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $90 Location: 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. WORKING W/ YOUR ANGELS: Learn how to work more consciously with your angels in this course that can bolster
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fitness DaVinci BodyBoard: This is a cardio fitness and core strength workout utilizing the DaVinci BodyBoard and stretch bands. The system is easily adjusted for all fitness levels, so anyone can get the full benefits. It’s a highintensity, low-time-commitment workout where we’ll have you in and out in 30 minutes. Trainer: Dianne. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 8-Oct. 27, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Cost: $79/members; $109/non-members. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 652-8157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org. Strength Fusion: Ever had that perfect mix of core, strength and balance work blended into a delicious hour of pulsepounding music served with a smile? Welcome to Strength Fusion, where you walk away knowing you’ve done something vigorously indulgent. Keep them guessing what your secret is! Trainer: Amanda. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 11-Oct. 30, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Cost: $79/members; $109/nonmembers. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 6528157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org.
VT MASTER COMPOSTER COURSE: Learn how to turn yard trimmings and vegetable scraps into “black gold” with the Vermont Master Composter. The course will provide training to anyone interested in becoming a backyard composter. It is sponsored by the University of Vermont (UVM) Extension Master Gardener program with funding from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Registration is open now! Weekly on Thu., Sep. 18-Oct. 9, 6:15 p.m.-9 p.m. Cost: $40/noncredit course. Location: -, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, White River Jct., Williston . Info: 656-9562, master.gardener@uvm.edu, uvm.edu/mastergardener.
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Intro to the Laser Cutter: Design and create products with an Epilog laser cutter. This class will guide you through the creative process, from concept sketches to laser cutting the finished piece with a 60 watt CO2 laser. Learn safety and tool training, conceptualizing and sculpting projects, use software and techniques for working with different materials. Pair with Laser Cut Jewelry. Instructor: Erin Barnaby. Perequisite: General computer skills. Weekly on Mon., Sep. 15-Oct. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $160/ person; $144/BCA members. Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Memorial Auditorium, Burlington. Info: 865-7166.
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ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this fall. Our eighth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Beginning week of Sep. 8 for 10 weeks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ minutes each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Alliance Francaise Fall Session: Vive la Rentree!: 15-week French classes for adults. New: evening and morning sessions available! Over 12 French classes offered, serving the entire range of students from true beginners to those already comfortable conversing in French. Descriptions and signup at aflcr.org. We also offer private and small group tutoring. Classes starting Sep. 22. Cost: $245/course; $220.50 for AFLCR members. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Colchester and Montpelier locations. Info: Micheline Tremblay, AFLCR French Language Center director, 881-8826, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com.
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movement WTF is Feldenkrais?: Come and find out about the Feldenkrais Method with a guildcertified teacher! Learn how you can increase flexibility without strain, encourage mind/body connections, and find something that is both relaxing and stimulating. Your first class is free; advance registration required. Weekly on Thu., 5:45-6:45 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., Burlington. Info: Gillian Franks, 655-0950, gillian@gillianfranks.com, gillianfranks.com.
music Bill Reed Voice Studio: Bill Reed is now auditioning students for classes and private lessons for the fall semester. Students 11 and older, beginners through advanced are invited to schedule an appointment. Please contact Sally Olson, Managing Director, admin@billreedvoicestudio.com, 862-7362. For more information visit our website: billreedvoicestudio.com. Location: Bill Reed Voice Studio, 1967 Spear St., S. Burlington. Taiko, Djembe & Congas!: Stuart Paton, cofounder and artistic director of Burlington Taiko Group, has devoted the past 25 years to performing and teaching taiko to children and adults here in the Burlington area and throughout New England. He is currently the primary instructor at the Burlington Taiko Space, and his teaching style integrates the best of what he experienced as a child growing up in Tokyo with many successful strategies in American education. Call or email for schedule. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.
pregnancy/ childbirth Pre/Post Natal Exercise Splash: A great opportunity to meet other expecting moms while doing gentle aerobic exercises, stretching and toning for pregnant and/or post-partum women. Doctor’s permission required. Weekly on Thu., Sep. 11-Oct. 30, 5:45-6:30 p.m. Cost: $91/members; $147/non-members. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Jaimie Held, 652-8156, jheld@ gbymca.org.
tai chi HWA YU TAI CHI/MONTPELIER: Green Dragon Stretches Its Claws. Learn this and other evocative movements in the Hwa Yu, an early form of Tai Chi in the Liuhebafa lineage. Regular practice can enhance physical and spiritual well-being, improve balance and coordination, ease tension, and wake up the mind. Mixed-level class maximizes mentoring potential. Weekly on Mon. starting Sep. 8, 5-6 p.m. Cost: $120/12-week series. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Ellie Hayes, 456-1983. Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org. Yang-Style Tai Chi: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, janet@mindfulbreathtaichi.com, mindfulbreathtaichi.com.
water sports Stand-Up Paddleboarding: Get on board for a very fun and simple way to explore the lake and work your body head to toe. Instruction on paddle-handling and balance skills to get you moving your first time out. Learn why people love this Hawaiianrooted sport the first time they try it. Lessons offered daily. Cost: $30 Location: Oakledge Park & Beach, end of Flynn Ave., a mile south of downtown along the bike path, Burlington. Info: Paddlesurf Champlain, 881-4905, jason@paddlesurfchamplain. com, paddlesurfchamplain.com.
yoga Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Offering creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring practice in the Barkan and Prana Flow Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Ahh, the heat on a cold day, a flowing practice, the cool stone meditation, a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963. Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited, $15/class or $130/10-class card, $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. Yoga Roots: Established in February 2013, Yoga Roots provides a full daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. From Restorative to Heated Vinyasa Flow, Yoga Roots aims to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit! Coming up: Free Shelburne Beach Yoga, Aug. 24, 8-9 a.m.; Free Gyrokinesis demos, Sep. 7 & 13; Chakra Intensive Free Intro, Sep. 6; Men’s Yoga Sep. 23 and Little Shamans Sep. 24! Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Green Business Park. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.
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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., 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.
Learn to Meditate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.
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Wisdom of the Herbs School: Memorial Celebration for the life of George Lisi, teacher at Wisdom of the Herbs School, will be held Saturday, Aug. 9, 11:15 a.m. at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier, followed by a potluck reception, all are welcome. Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk with Annie McCleary, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. sliding scale to $10, please pre-register. If you are interested in attending our next Wisdom of the Herbs program, start date April 2015, and need financial assistance, check out the VSAC non-degree grant program and consider applying really soon to reserve your grant while their funds are abundant; if you
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Women’s Small Group Strength Training: There are few things more inspiring than meeting a woman who knows how to kick some gluteus maximus at the gym. This class focuses on exercises that will bring out the Wonder Woman in all. Let our certified trainer be your guide to fit! Trainer: Katticus. Weekly on Tuesday, Sep. 9-Oct. 28, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Cost: $79/members; $109/nonmembers. Location: Winooski Y, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dianne Villa Schwartz, 6528157, dvschwartz@gbymca.org.
necessary. Instructors: John Nagle & Jena Necrason. Adults & teens age 14+, Sat., Aug. 23, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $95 Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts , 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4500, flynnarts.org.
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bout 15 years ago, Jeff Salisbury found himself stumped. The local drummer and drum teacher was approached by a student who had reached an impasse with his development and had a rather profound question for his instructor: How do I move around the drum set? To the casual observer, that might seem an oddly obvious query. You just, like, hit the drums, right? But for anyone who is not, say, Meg White from the White Stripes or Animal from “The Muppet Show,” the question poses a subtle yet tricky conundrum. It certainly did for Salisbury. “I thought, Shit. I have no idea,” he says recently from the garage/practice space at his Jericho home. Most drummers, or at least those who aren’t self-taught, learn to drum by starting with simple rhythmic patterns, such as rolls, paradiddles, double strokes and the like. From there they graduate to rudimentary set drumming: fouron-the-floor rock beats, basic swing
beats, maybe a syncopated Latin beat. As they advance, practiced rhythmic patterns become more complex and are integrated into set drumming for use in intricate beats, or epic, 15-minute drum solos. But how those patterns are deployed, the actual anatomy of which stick hits which drum or cymbal and when, and the variation that can result from altering those patterns, was something Salisbury had never fully considered. “I’d never really thought about it,” says Salisbury, who at that point had been playing drums for more than three decades and teaching for nearly as long. “I’ve always just kind of … moved around.” So Salisbury began experimenting with fundamental sticking patterns, shifting his targets — snare, toms, cymbals, etc. — at varying points in the patterns. The result of those explorations is a new instructional book, Melodic Motion Studies for Drumset: Directional Strategies for Exploring New Sounds from Familiar Stickings. The book was
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recently published by Hal Leonard Corporation, the world’s largest publisher of sheet music, as well as educational music and method books. In a preface, Salisbury writes that the madness behind his method is unlocking the “infinite possibilities relating sound to motion” using “circular, vertical, horizontal, diagonal and various combinations of” recognizable drum motions. In layman’s terms, his goal is to encourage SCAN drummers to THIS think PAGE outside the estabWITH LAYAR lished parameters of how familiar motions and patterns SEE PAGEcan 5 be employed. Using the Percussive Arts Society’s Standardized Drumset Notation — that’s a typical music stave in which each line and space corresponds to a different drum or cymbal, rather than pitches — Salisbury outlines a series of exercises designed to expand a drummer’s relationship to motion. They begin simply. For example, the first exercises are based on eighth-note patterns in which the right hand moves counterclockwise from large tom to medium tom to small tom to snare. The left hand, meanwhile, moves clockwise from snare to small tom to medium tom to large tom. The exercises progress in difficulty and complexity through six chapters, from basic sticking to windmill patterns, inverted paradiddles and practical applications to rock, jazz and Latin beats. Over the course of those 62 exercises, Salisbury draws connections to seemingly disparate styles that only became apparent to him while devising his new method. For example, Swiss military march and Afrobeat. Salisbury, now seated behind one of two drum kits that face each other in his garage, plays the familiar rum-pa-pumpum of a military march on the snare. Then he grins and arches his bushy white eyebrows. He adjusts his sticking so that his right hand alternates between the medium and low toms, while his left darts between the snare and ride cymbal. The rhythmic pattern, however, is unchanged. Immediately, the beat transforms from a solemn march into something you’d be more likely to hear
as the bombastic foundation of a Fela Kuti song. “Kinda makes you think about the universal nature of music, doesn’t it?” he says. “The book presents some interesting ideas about ways to play the drum set using patterns of movement to get melodic phrases,” says Caleb Bronz, a former Salisbury student and now an accomplished drummer in his own right. YOUR “Jeff ’s book gets you thinking diffSCAN erentlyTHIS P TEXT WITH about how drums can be played … andLAYAR canHERE expand your concept of theSEE drums PAGE 5 as a melodic instrument.” Salisbury, 65, has played professionally since he was a teenager in Texas and California. He’s played in more Vermont bands than he can count, he says, and has manned the skins for the likes of Albert King, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to name a few touring acts. In the basement of his house, Salisbury has posters from gigs he’s played, opening for the Doors and the Rolling Stones, the latter at a Texas county fair well before anyone really knew who Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were. Or, for that matter, Stones drummer Charlie Watts. As a teacher, privately and at Johnson State College and, more recently, the University of Vermont, Salisbury has nurtured some of the finest drummers ever to call Vermont home, including Dan Ryan, Sean Preece, Steve Hadeka (a Seven Days employee), Conor Elmes and Bronz, among many others. But for all the knowledge he’s imparted to local drummers over the years, Salisbury admits that researching and writing his new book was just as educational for him. “I’d say I learned as much, if not more, about drumming in writing this book over the last 15 years as I could hope to be able to teach,” he says.
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INFO Melodic Motion Studies for Drumset: Directional Strategies for Exploring New Sounds from Familiar Stickings by Jeff Salisbury, Hal Leonard, 72 pages. $16.99.
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When Radio Bean’s LEE ANDErSoN and Co. held last year’s Precipice music festival in the field behind Burlington College, it signaled the arrival of a unique new venue for outdoor concerts within city limits. It was a revelation. Somehow, the field is secluded enough to insulate against noise impinging too greatly on nearby North Ave. neighbors. Yet it’s central enough to be within biking or walking distance — or stumbling distance, depending on your taste for Switchback beer — of most points in Burlington proper. The Precipice revealed a hidden jewel, a magical setting that had the area’s music promoters buzzing over the possibilities. This weekend, the first non-Precipice fest will be held at the space, the Signal Kitchen-curated WYSIWYG, which runs this Saturday and Sunday, August 23 and 24. WYSIWYG — a computing acronym for “What You See Is What You Get” — is not just a music fest. It’s a multifaceted celebration that is as focused on local food as on rocking. From a logistical standpoint, it will be fascinating to see how the fest makes use of the space, particularly given the marquee names of the bands involved. Saturday’s slate is highlighted by Montréal-based indie-folk band the BArr BrothErS, a group that’s long been
local favorites and has a new album due out this fall called Sleeping Operator. They’ll be followed by “anti-folk phenomenon” ShAkEY GrAVES, loopy violin virtuoso kiShi BAShi, locals BiG BANG BhANGrA BrASS BAND and two more Montréal acts: synth-pop wunderkinds how SAD and indie-folk darlings PAtrick wAtSoN. And, yes, Patrick Watson is a dude. But Patrick Watson is also the name of Patrick Watson’s band. He knows that’s confusing, which we talked about when I interviewed him in 2012. Just deal with it. Dude(s) write(s) some of the loveliest chamber pop this side of ANDrEw BirD. (That sound you hear is the Seven Days proofreaders’ heads exploding trying to navigate the whole singular/plural subject-verb agreement thing when it comes to Patrick Watson.) Sunday begins with the wYSkiDS, an all-star band composed of students from the Contois School of Music, followed by local songwriter ABBiE moriN. ANAïS mitchELL AND JEffErSoN hAmEr are next, performing songs from their stunning 2013 album Child Ballads. To refresh your memory on that one, the duo reworked a series of old-world folk songs culled from five-volume
In other Vermont music-fest news: the, um, Vermont Music Fest! The fifth annual VMF is this Saturday, August 23, at the Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. And though the organizers didn’t take me up on my suggestions to spice up the name from last year’s column blurb on the festival, it looks like a good one. Also, it’s free, so who’s complaining? This year’s lineup again features some solid local talent, including Afri-Vt Drum & DANcE, rocksteady sensations — and column favorites — StEADY BEttY, the michELLE SArAh BAND, JoE DriScoLL & SEkou kouYAtE (see the spotlight on page 67), and JohNNY rAwLS AND DAVE kELLEr, to name a few. This in addition to Miamibased headliners, the “Latin urban orchestra” LocoS Por JuANA, fresh off an appearance at this year’s Manifestivus.
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AMERICAN FLATBREAD BURLINGTON HEARTH: Groove Is In the Hearth, 6 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The Hitmen (rock), 6 p.m., free.
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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Josh & Ryan featuring Sean & Josh (improv jazz), 7 p.m., free. Wild Life (EDM), 10 p.m., free.
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THE MONKEY HOUSE: Breathe Owl Breathe, Chris True (Americana), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jenni Johnson & Friends (jazz, blues), 7 p.m., free.
PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. The Edd, the Jauntee (livetronica), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Devin Tuel & Stephen Harms (folk), 5 p.m., free. Evelyn Horan (folk), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Ellen Powell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Funkwagon (funk), 10 p.m., free.
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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Chiodos, blessthefall, I Kiled the Prom Queen, Capture the Crown
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Big Plastic Finger (jam), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Willa Mamet and Paul Miller (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Papa GreyBeard (blues), 6 p.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Open Bluegrass Jam, 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Devin Tuel & Stephen Harms (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant & Friends (country), 8 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6:30 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Imperial Wednesdays with Run Home Jack (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be A DJ?, 10 p.m., free.
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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: House on Fire (rock), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Rock Candy: Dino Bravo, the Dirty Blondes, Be Aggressive (rock), 9 p.m., $3. 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. JUNIPER: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: Downfall Country String Band, 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+. PIZZA BARRIO: Erik Sievert (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE:
POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Funkwagon (funk), 10:30 p.m., $5.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Michelle Sarah Band (funk, soul), 9 p.m., $5.
BLEU: Jeff Wheel and Friends (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.
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BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Ben Slotnick (folk), 6 p.m., donation. CAPITOL GROUNDS CAFÉ: Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $5.
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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: "No Diggity" ’90s Night, 9 p.m., free/$5. JUNIPER: DJ Cre8 with DJ Peaches (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free. THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: Comedy Showcase (standup comedy), 7 p.m., $7. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Seth Yacovone Band, Boombasnap (blues, rock), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick & Friends, 11 a.m., free. The Lost and Found: Bryan Stork, Charlotte Oullette (acoustic indie pop), 7 p.m., free. David Rosane (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free. Natalie Salazman (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. Hug the Dog (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., free. Kewsi K (soul, folk), midnight, free.
CHARLIE O'S: DJ Crucible (metal), 10 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: The HIgh Breaks (surf rock), 5 p.m., free. Electric Sorcery (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.
NUTTY STEPH'S: Soulstice (reggae), 7 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Con Yay (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Live Music, 8:30 p.m., free.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Bob & the Trubadors (rock), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Mother Machine (folk rock), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL BAR & GRILLE: Taj Mahal Trio, TallGrass GetDown (blues, bluegrass), 9 p.m., $40-65.
RUBEN JAMES: Zach Nugent & Co. (acoustic), 6 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bad Accent (world folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Al Moore Blues Band, 10 p.m., free.
SUSHI YOSHI: Geza Carr Trio (jazz), 4:30 p.m., free.
ZEN LOUNGE: Salsa Night with Jah Red, 8 p.m., $5. DJ Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5. Feel Good Friday with D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.
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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., free.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Thunder Kittens (rock), 5:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. Disco Phantom & Friends (eclectic), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
CITY LIMITS: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
champlain islands/northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Trivia & Wing Night, 7 p.m., free.
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NUTTY STEPH'S: Rauli Fernandez & Friends (Latin jazz), 7 p.m., free. Rob Morse & Geza Carr (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free.
NAKED TURTLE: Turtle Thursdays with 95 XXX (top 40), 10 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The Irregulars (reggae-rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
ON THE RISE BAKERY: Gabe Jarrett & Friends (jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation.
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ZEN LOUNGE: DJ Abilities with Premrock & Jake Spike (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.
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Cody Sargent & Friends (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Barbacoa (surf rock), 11:30 p.m., $5.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Trio Duo (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Tim Brick (country), 7:30 p.m., donation.
barre/montpelier CHARLIE O'S: Swamp Candy (blues), 10 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Miriam Bernardo (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: The Hubcats (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.
MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL BAR & GRILLE: King Yellowman, Van Gordon Martin band (reggae), 7 p.m., $20/25.
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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Soule Monde (organ groove), 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: Torus (rock), 9 p.m., $3.
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MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
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BLEU: The Glass Project (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Wolfpack (rock), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. FINNIGAN'S PUB: The Family Night Band (rock), 10 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Safar! (eclectic DJs), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Smooth Antics, Midnight Snack (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $5. PIZZA BARRIO: Wallace (jazz), 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Acoustic Brunch with Waves of Adrenaline (folk), noon, free. Heidemann (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Hayes Peebles (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. Bear Connelly aka Talking About Commas (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Captain's Log with Mike Gamble & Tony Falco (experimental sat.23
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Last but not least, this Thursday, August TEXT “unity” to 30321 to get our weekly music updates! 21, the fine folks at Club Metronome unveil a new monthly series called Rock W W W . P O S I T I V E P I E . C O M Candy, hosted by our buds DINO BRAVO. In 8 0 2 . 2 2 9 . 0 4 5 3 a recent email, DB front man MATT PERRY writes that he and Nectar’s talent buyer ALEX BUDNEY talked to DB about devising8v-positivepie082014.indd 1 8/19/14 7:57 AM a regular local rock night to help balance the abundance of funk, cover bands and DJs dominating the schedule at Nectar’s and Metronome lately. The series will run one Thursday per month, through at least the end of the year. trailer to your school! (Longer if y’all show up. So do that.) Want to encourage your students to bike — The debut installment features the and give them the skills to do it safely? DIRTY BLONDES — which, BTW, includes We can help! 7D designer DIANE SULLIVAN, or at least Kohl’s Kids Bike Smart is a free bike skillls education program for Vermont schools and camps. some colossally plastered version of her — Bradford’s BE AGGRESSIVE and Dino Bravo, who I’m told are nearing completion on a new EP.
which he also fronted. In fact, NCM came after those bands. In a related story, Drowningman’s set at Signal Kitchen last Friday was, in serious critical parlance, the shit. Those guys rawk. Wikkid hahd. The second error was more egregious, and kind of hilarious. The heading of my review of the self-titled debut album from Back to the Future acolytes WAVE OF THE FUTURE mistakenly listed the title of that record as An Intimate Evening, which was actually the title of an album reviewed the previous week from jazz singer JODY ALBRIGHT. My apologies, WOTF. If only I had some sort of, I dunno, timetraveling DeLorean or something… (It should also be noted that what I saw of WOTF’s release show at Nectar’s last Saturday, post-Rock the Boat 2, was, well, a boatload of fun. The early part of the show was loaded with Ghostbusters references, which makes me excited for their next album. I promise not to cross the streams on that review.)
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In case you hadn’t noticed, the reopened Rusty Nail in Stowe has seriously upped its live-music game, bringing big-name acts seemingly every week. Last week was GEORGE CLINTON. This week the venue has TAJ MAHAL with locals TALLGRASS GETDOWN on Thursday, August 21, and dancehall stalwart KING YELLOWMAN with the VAN GORDON MARTIN BAND on Friday, August 22. If that’s the level of talent the club is booking in the summer, imagine what they might funnel our way come ski season, huh?
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REVIEW this Ava Marie, In Our Garden. After the War. Your Eyes Close. I Breathe Out. (KTR RECORDINGS, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)
If you’re looking for an uplifting record, then In Our Garden. After the War. Your Sa.8.23: JENNI JOHNSON & THE JAZZ JUNKETEERS 8PM Eyes Close. I Breathe Out. by local folk DJ ROBBIE J & DJ REIGN ONE 10PM group Ava Marie — an inexplicable tweak Su.8.24: ANIMAL HOUSE COMEDY TOUR to the well-known hymn “Ave Maria” hosted by KING SHA-MECCA BLAZE 7PM — is not for you. The five-piece band’s debut album blends the cold, melancholy Tuesdays: KARAOKE with EMCEE CALLANOVA 9PM • Craft Beer Specials arrangements of Bon Iver with the drama and raw emotion of recently disbanded 165 CHURCH ST, BTV • 802-399-2645 folk duo the Civil Wars. Add in weary, image-laden lyrics and you have a 12v-zenloungeWEEKLY.indd 1 8/18/14 12:28 PMcontemplative album that won’t cure a sour mood but might offer some company. The opener, “In Our Garden. After the War.,” introduces the vocal stylings of lead singer and guitar player Macaulay Lerman and bass player and vocalist Shannon Saulsbury. Their intimate, conversational, back-and-forth approach defines the album, as does a musically sparse aesthetic. Some tunes barely get a lift of guitar. Others, such as “White Twine,” benefit from a stroke of Sarah Wallen’s piano, or a still backdrop of Tim
Halteman’s drumming, as on “Save for All, a Dry Place.” Sage Maliepaard contributes quiet, minimal violin throughout, but ups the ante with a fast-paced stretch in “Bowed Ships, Cradling.” Though effective in moments, the transition from Saulsbury’s soft voice to Lerman’s guttural exhaling occasionally occurs, frustratingly, in the middle of a thought or action. For example, in the closer, “Your Eyes Close, I Breathe Out.” Here, Saulsbury sings, “Fluttering eyelids against damp bed sheets / when I breathe in you exhale with a murmur.” He opens with measured and delicate breath, pausing on each syllable in “fluttering.” Lerman makes a jarring appearance on the word “damp,” snuffing the sentiment as though it were a candle on a very sad birthday cake, and thus souring what would otherwise be a sensual and familiar image of two lovers lying in bed. Lyrically, Ava Marie place themselves in a post-conflict countryside, focusing on physical and emotional destruction, but
also hope for renewal. The last few lines of “With Broken Feet,” sung in unison by Saulsbury and Lerman, are emblematic: “And after the war and the funeral / And after a day of argument and reunion / They will need a garden to tend / And a body to mend / And last of all someone to yearn for.” In other instances, however, as on these lines from the opener the group comes off as overly — and awkwardly — poetic: “The morning was an open wound / and your belongings scattered all down the road / like the empty frames of dead deer / buildings burning inside your throat.” Still, beautiful moments abound. Saulsbury’s turn on “Fever, Sap, Skin” achingly evokes love as a blank canvas. On “Keeper of Crippled Horses,” Lerman offers stunning lines about finding someone in everyday physical items long after they’re gone. These passages suggest that, in time, Ava Marie might take flight in the folk world, albeit softly and sadly. In Our Garden. After the War. Your Eyes Close. I Breathe Out. by Ava Marie is available at avamariefolk.bandcamp.com.
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There’s something refreshing about an album that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is. Such is the case with Plenty of Heartaches, the debut offering from Vermont’s Missisquoi River Band, released earlier this year. The album likely won’t go down as a groundbreaking work of bluegrass ingenuity or some grand artistic statement. But as bassist and songwriter Cindy Weed puts it in the record’s accompanying one-sheet, “We hope this is a delightful, easy-listening CD that many, many will enjoy.” And on that score MRB certainly succeed. The band’s core is the Enosburgbased songwriting trio of Patrick Murphy and Jim and Cindy Weed. Each brings a distinct style to the table. Murphy, a guitarist and vocalist, specializes in sentimental country and folk-tinged balladry as evidenced by the opening
title track and songs such as the wistful “Taking My Time.” Murphy owns a dusky baritone that colors his lovelorn musings with a blue hue. He’s equally adept, however, at lighter fare, as evidenced by the cheeky, New Orleans-blues-inflected “If My Girlfriend Was a Tractor.” The Weeds, meanwhile, write with all the warm nostalgia of a Norman Rockwell painting. Take this line from Cindy Weed’s “Funny How Things Can Change.” “In winter we ski for miles / through the deep and snowy woods,” sings Murphy, who handles the bulk of the album’s lead vocals. Then, “At night by the fireplace we’d sit / our hearts they were filled with smiles.” A little precious? Sure. But anyone who has spent an evening huddled with loved ones by a hearth on a bleak midwinter Vermont night will likely find the sentiment appealing — particularly when the band breaks into dovetailing, three-part harmony at the chorus. Rounding out the group is a trio of exceptional local players. Will Patton, though perhaps better known for his gypsy-jazz leanings, is typically brilliant
on both mandolin and National steel tenor SCAN T guitar. Fiddler Neil Rossi adds a distinct WITH L SEE PA Appalachian flair. Bill Gaston provides plenty of twangy licks on banjo and dobro, proving an able foil to Jim Weed’s tasteful lead guitar work. There may be more dynamic and technically impressive local bluegrass albums than Plenty of Heartaches. But buoyed by plainspoken songwriting, sturdy picking and copious heartfelt odes to their home state, Missisquoi River Band offer a record that should find a place on the shelves of Vermont bluegrass fans — especially if that shelf rests in proximity to a wood stove. Plenty of Heartaches by Missisquoi River Band is available at cdbaby.com. DAN BOLLES
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doesn’t speak English. American-born, England-based folk-hop songwriter JoE DRIScoLL speaks no French — Kouyate’s native tongue. Yet that language barrier hasn’t prevented the duo from releasing one of the most dynamic albums in world music this year: Faya. Released on Charlotte’s Cumbancha imprint, the record is a heady yet accessible cultural cross-pollination of spoken word, hip-hop, and rock with Afrobeat and reggae. And it’s a stunner in any language. Catch them this Saturday, August 23, as part of the Vermont Music Fest at the Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. Sat.23
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temporal groove), 9 p.m., free. 8 Foot River (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., free. Wolcott (indie rock), midnight, free. RED SQUARE: Soul Junction (soul), 7 p.m., $5. mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., free. DJ Stavros (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Green Line Inbound (rock), 10 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Questionable company (folk-funk), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: Jenni Johnson & the Junketeers (jazz, soul), 8 p.m., free.
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BACKSTAGE PUB: Bootleg (rock), 9 p.m., free.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Natalie Salzman, the Paisley Fields, Nick messitte (indie folk), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: macKenzie & mississquoi (blues), 5 p.m., free. Identity crisis (rock), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. John Nicholls (acoustic), 6 p.m., donation. CHARLIE O'S: Rough Francis (punk), 10 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: Rauli Fernandez & Friends (Latin jazz), 6 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Nancy & Lilly Smith (folk), 5 p.m., free. mother machine (rock), 9 p.m., free.
THE BEE'S KNEES: cosa Buena (Latin jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS: city Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: DJ Blinie (dance music), 9 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
THE PARKER PIE CO.: Rolling Stones tribute Night, 8 p.m., $5.
outside vermont
NAKED TURTLE: Bad Kittie (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Phineas Gage Project (folk rock), 3 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Sundae Soundclash: Vilify, LateNight, Resident DJs (EDM), 9 p.m., $7. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens Happiest Hour of music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free. THE LAUGH BAR AT DRINK: comedy open mic (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: mI YARD Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Jazz Brunch with Bruce Sklar & Friends, 11 a.m., free. Blue-tonk Sessions with Andrew Stearns, 1 p.m., free. Britt K (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Keelan Donovan (americana), 8 p.m., free. Buckshot (vintage country), 9 p.m., free. Dollar After Sunset (jam), 10:30 p.m., free. SUn.24
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MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone trio (blues), 9 p.m., free.
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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Bliss Hill (Americana), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. Fat Laughs at the Skinny Pancake (improv comedy), 7 p.m., $3. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 2 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: animal House Comedy Tour hosted by King Sha-mecca Blaze (standup comedy), 7 p.m., nA.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ open mic, 8 p.m., free.
PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Ben Kinsley (folk), 11 a.m., donation.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Lefty Yunger (folk), 11 a.m., donation. moonschein (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation.
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CLUB METRONOME: metal monday: amadis, Zvi & arbor, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage match, 8 p.m., free.
chittenden county
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Christopher Tignor & alexander Turnquist (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.
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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Funkwagon's Tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: monsta Party (jam rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., free. Sarah Potenza (Americana), 9 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. ZEN LOUNGE: Karaoke with Emcee Callanova, 9 p.m., free.
chittenden county ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia night, 7 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke with Funkwagon, 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
NECTAR'S: an Evening with Dead Relay (blues, rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Stab Wounds (doo-wop, rock), 6 p.m., free. The DuPont Brothers, Cricket Blue (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. open mic, 9 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: The People's Café (poetry), 6 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Children's Sing along with allen Church, 10:30 a.m., free. Keith Williams (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
MOOG'S PLACE: The Jason Wedlock Show (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.
middlebury area
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.
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AMERICAN FLATBREAD BURLINGTON HEARTH: Groove Is In the Hearth, 6 p.m., free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Slant Sixx (rock), 6 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Electronic Underground: Hospice, the Lovester, DJ Sam I am, DJ Bay 6, DJ Stukz (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free.
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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: open mic with andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
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NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy open mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. The Edd, Dead Relay (livetronica), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lotango (tango), 7:30 p.m., free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Zach nugent (folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.
CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's acoustic Soul night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.
ZEN LOUNGE: Funkwagon (funk), 10 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Bruce Jones (folk), 5 p.m., free.
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chittenden county THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Fire Gods (rock), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: open Bluegrass, 7:30 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Dale Cavanaugh (folk), 6 p.m., donation. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Carrie Cook, Peter Lind & D. Davis (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Katie Sachs & Lexi Weege (jazz, blues), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Left Coast Country (country), 8:30 p.m., free. PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia night, 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia night, 7 p.m., free.
champlain islands/northwest BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6:30 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom THE PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia night, 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: open mic, 10 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Imperial Wednesdays with Run Home Jack (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m
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BagiToS, 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9212 CharLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820 ESprESSo BUEno, 248 N. Main St., Barre, 479-0896 grEEn moUnTain TaVErn, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935 gUSTo’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919 kiSmET, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646 mULLigan’S iriSh pUB, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545 norTh Brahn Café, 41 State St., Montpelier, 552-8105 nUTTY STEph’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090 poSiTiVE piE, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453 rED hEn BakErY + Café, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, 223-5200 ThE SkinnY panCakE, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 262-2253 SoUTh SiDE TaVErn, 107 S. Main St., Barre, 476-3637 SwEET mELiSSa’S, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 225-6012 VErmonT ThrUSh rESTaUranT, 107 State St., Montpelier, 225-6166 whammY Bar, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, 229-4329
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imply put, Julie A. Davis paints landscapes. Her depictions of mountains, waterfalls, lakes, fields and small Vermont towns adorn her white-walled studio in Burlington’s South End. One of the original members of the South End Arts and Business Association, Davis has rented the same studio for 15 years. Each year during the annual Art Hop, hundreds of visitors pass through the tiny space. “I like being here because this is where the artists are,” Davis says, leading a visitor up a creaky staircase to her third-floor studio in the postindustrial building known as the Howard Space. Here, some two dozen artists rent spaces in every nook and cranny. Davis keeps hers spare but cozy: There’s a well-stocked dish rack, a mini-fridge and an armchair. The place has an old-school institutional vibe, a striking contrast to the lush natural scenes on the walls. Davis, 57, is foremost a plein-air painter, meaning she frequently sets up her easel outdoors. “Nature has always been a way for me to feel whole and more relaxed,” she says. A lifelong Vermonter who grew up in Barre (her grandfather was former governor Deane C. Davis), she’s lived in Burlington for most of her adulthood. Unlike some landscape artists, Davis is indiscriminate about her subject matter. Her current solo show, at Left Bank Home & Garden on Bank Street, features a range of evocative outdoor scenes from Vermont and other New England locations in various styles. “Stately Grounds” captures a muted green meadow and the beginning of a path into the woods. “On the Rocks” is a water scene in vivid blues, greens and grays with thick, choppy brushstrokes. “August Shadows” is a nostalgic townscape of Johnson, with late summer’s orange light caressing the rooftops. Davis spent nine months in the town last year, painting at the Vermont Studio Center. “I just look to find something I connect with,” she says of her compositions and subjects. “A tree, a shadow. I feel like there’s communication there that you can try to connect with if you really listen.” Being outdoors, Davis reflects, “is kind of like my church. I become pretty much completely immersed.” Once back in her studio, Davis will often return to a painting and rework it. She frequently changes her process to keep herself engaged and, since she’s largely self-taught, to push her own boundaries. Davis says she likes the characterization that a visiting lecturer at VSC gave her
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body of work: “naturalistic expressionist.” That is, a loose and spontaneous style of expressionism without social commentary, using the natural world as a vehicle. In the work that Davis shows publicly, her affinity for landscapes is a constant; her palette, too, tends to stay earthy and muted. “I like painting the more mundane beauty in Vermont,” she says. Stylistically, though, her paintings range from traditional, representational landscapes — which Davis later refers to as her “stiff-upper-lip” paintings
— to a contemporary, abstract series with minimal brushwork on white-toned backgrounds. In the latter, it’s impossible to tell if one is looking at a still life or a landscape. “My process changes all the time. I just keep playing around,” Davis says, pulling out examples of recent work in distinct styles. “I make all these rules for myself,” she explains. “I’ll say, ‘I’m going to use up all of this color!’ Or ‘I’m going to use all that up!’ Or ‘I’m going to smush everything around like that.’ Next thing you know, I’ve got all
of these,” she adds, gesturing to the array of paintings around her. It’s tempting to call some of her more free-form work impressionist, but Davis says that’s not usually her intention. “I’m far-sighted, so I paint from here,” she explains, stepping a few feet back from a canvas. “I start up close, a bit, but basically I’m always backing up to see and responding to what I just did.” Davis’ foray into art began well after her schooling and early career. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in public administration from the University of Vermont, she worked as a lobbyist, legal clerk and political adviser before cofounding, in 2000, Vermont HITEC, a nonprofit distance-learning program for disadvantaged Vermonters. Currently
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BCa SuMMEr arTIST MarKET: A juried market featuring handcrafted, original fine art and crafts by local artists. burlington City hall park, saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. . info, 865-7166.
artist-in-residence, a pre-eminent impressionist painter. Reception: wednesday, August 27, 6-8 p.m. August 26-30. info, 496-6350. The pitcher inn in sugarbush Valley.
dEMoS & dESSErTS: Enjoy sweets and conversation while watching Marshfield rug artist sandy Ducharme’s demonstration of her artistic process. Miller’s Thumb gallery, greensboro, saturday, August 23, 2-5 p.m. info, 533-2045.
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Wall To CaNvaS urBaN arT CoMpETITIoN: At this fifth annual event, a dozen artists will paint canvases while viewers watch, listen to music, indulge in snacks and perhaps participate in Abby Manock’s interactive art project. Judges select a winning artwork and a live auction sells them off 4-5 p.m. Magic hat brewing Company, south burlington, saturday, August 23, noon-5 p.m. info, 923-1439. ‘CoNSErvaTIoN THrouGH THE arTIST’S EyE’: American landscape paintings have inspired conservationists for more than 100 years. Take a 1.5-hour Mansion tour to see paintings by hudson River school artists including Thomas Cole and Albert bierstadt, and discover how landscape painting profoundly influenced the development of a conservation ethic. Reservations recommended. park at billings Farm and Museum, meet at Carriage barn Visitor Center. Marsh-billingsRockefeller national historical park, woodstock, sunday, August 24, 2-3:30 p.m. $8 adults; under 15 free; $4 seniors. info, 457-3368 x22.
‘BrEaK IT! BuIld IT!’ GuIdEd TourS: A curator’s tour of the do-it-yourself-themed art exhibit. bCA Center, burlington, Thursday, August 21, noon-1 p.m. info, 865-7166.
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vErGENNES arT WalK: Downtown galleries, library and businesses host visual art for this monthly event, which includes an open mic night at the opera house. Multiple locations, Vergennes, Thursday, August 21, 5-7 p.m. info, 734-0031.
f alExaNdEr alExEIEFF: original 1929 signed lithographs by the Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff, exhibited with a looped screening of his 1930s animated pinboard films. Co-curated by Cecile starr and susan smereka. Closing reception: Thursday, August 21, 7-10 p.m. Through August 26. info, 735-2542. new City galerie in burlington.
BrIdGETTE BarTlETT: A demonstration of the art of henna is part of the gallery’s Meet the Artist series. The artist collaborates with her potter mother to make pots with henna-inspired designs. Frog hollow Vermont state Craft Center, burlington, Tuesday, August 22, 2-8 p.m. info, 863-6458. ‘arT roCKS BraNdoN’: More than 30 handpainted vintage rockers by brandon Artists guild members, under the guidance of warren Kimble, will be auctioned off. profits will support art education in eight area schools. Auction: saturday, August 23, 5-7 p.m., with a preview at 4 p.m., at the brandon Town hall. brandon Artists guild, saturday, August 23, 7 p.m. info, 247-4956.
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‘BEyoNd INSTruCTIoN’: selected artwork by burlington City Arts clay, photography and printmaking instructors. info, 865-7166. ‘BrEaK IT! BuIld IT!’: works in varied mediums that embody a do-it-yourself spirit, by local and national artists. Through september 13. info, 865-5355. bCA Center in burlington. ‘BEyoNd MEaSurE’: A group show curated by Carleen Zimbalatti features more than a dozen artists who explore the role of geometry in their artistic processes. BoB HoFFMaN: The world’s largest collection of hand-crafted harmonica cases in a variety of mediums. Through August 31. info, 859-9222. sEAbA Center in burlington.
CaMEroN SCHMITz: Drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through october 31. info, 865-7166. Courtyard Marriott burlington harbor. CarolyN CroTTy: Artwork in a variety of mediums inspired by nature. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 862-9614. The pine street Deli in burlington. douGlaS BIKlEN, alISa dWorSKy & SuSaN oSGood: “solé,” a contemporary exhibit celebrating light and equilibrium: photographs by biklen, prints and sculpture by Dworsky and oil and gouache paintings by osgood. Through september 28. info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro gallery, bCA Center, in burlington. ErIN INGlIS: “Marine Mycology,” colorful acrylic works that meld imagery from the sea with the flora and fauna of new England forests. Through August 30. info, 578-2512. The s.p.A.C.E. gallery in burlington. ‘FroM our MINdS aNd HEarTS’: Members of FoMAh, a community group of artists that met at a senior fitness class, show works in many mediums. Through August 29. info, 862-4584. st. paul’s Cathedral in burlington. GrazIElla WEBEr-GraSSI: “who’s past?,” new artwork made from antique portrait photography. Through August 31. info, 355-5418. Vintage inspired lifestyle Marketplace in burlington. INNovaTIoN CENTEr Group SHoW: works by Anne Cummings, brian sylvester, James Vogler, Kari Meyer, longina smolinski, lyna lou nordstorm and gabe Tempesta on the first floor; Cindy griffith, holly hauser, Jason Durocher, Kasy prendergast, Teresa Davis and Tom Merwin on the second floor. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 859-9222. The innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. JaCquES BurKE: paintings, sculpture and digitally enhanced photography from the Milton artist. MarEva MIllarC: Abstract paintings in oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media. Curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 651-9692. VCAM studio in burlington. JB WoodS: “walking in Vermont,” colorful photographs curated by sEAbA. Through August 31. info, 658-6016. speeder & Earl’s: pine street in burlington. JoHaNNE duroCHEr yordaN: “Vintage inspiration,” artwork on vintage and handmade paper. Through August 30. info, 373-7544. studio 266 in burlington. JulIE a. davIS: new works by the Vermont landscape painter. Through october 30. info, 862-1001. left bank home & garden in burlington.
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iNFo Julie A. Davis’ exhibit of new landscape paintings, on view through october 30 at left bank home & garden in burlington. julieadavis.com
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the vice president, Davis says she’s “jerryrigged” her life to make time for professional pursuits as well as painting. Davis had always been a supporter and lover of the arts, but she didn’t stand at an easel herself until she was 35 — when a friend roped her into taking art classes. “I had no background,” she recalls. “But I took pastel lessons and never looked back.” For several years, Davis dabbled in the local arts scene by participating in Vermont Artists Week at VSC. In 1995, after the death of a close friend, she went to the studio center for an artist residency and quickly found sanctuary in the artistic community and natural beauty of the surrounding area. Davis concedes that it was one of the first times in her life — after years of being on-the-go professionally — that she’d taken time and space for herself. Painting itself became a “place to heal and connect,” she says. Davis returned to VSC for periodic residencies over the years. Last August, she arrived for a month-long residency and didn’t leave until April, when a diagnosis of Lyme disease brought her home to Burlington. “It was not planned,” Davis says of her nine-month stay in Johnson. “It was just to continue painting. It was to recover from my life. I’ve had a lot of loss in the last few years,” she adds, referring to the death of her young son in 2011 and a spate of illness in the family. But painting, spending time outdoors and being surrounded by an artistic community inspired Davis to produce more than 200 pieces of art during those nine months. “[The studio center] has the feeling of deep immersion and recuperation,” she reflects. “I think a lot of people who go there are facing great challenges in their life and recognize the importance of honoring that creative spirit … [and] the importance of really getting in touch with yourself.”
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‘Poetry in Music’: Vermont artists respond to the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival’s theme with artwork in many mediums. The exhibit features work by Carol MacDonald, Suzanne LeGault, Judith Rey, Barbara Hoke, Dennis Versweyveld, Irene Lederer LaCroix and Lynn Rupe. Through August 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington. Rachel Hooper: “It’s Electric,” digital prints made with mobile apps and public-domain images, in the maker space’s first art exhibition. Through August 30. Generator in Burlington. ‘Reflections of My Life’: Photographs taken by adults from HowardCenter Developmental Services in a class taught by Dawn Miller. Through August 30. Info, 865-7211. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.
f ‘Rucksack’: A group exhibit featuring works by Brenda Singletary, Valérie d. Walker, Misty Sol, Laura Di Piazza, Katie Loncke and Tico Armand explores notions of race, nationality, gender and inequality. Artist talk and reception: Thursday, August 28, 4-7 p.m. Through September 26. Info, 862-9616. Burlington College. f ‘Strength in Numbers’: Ten art educators from northern and central Vermont, who support each other’s work in bimonthly gatherings, exhibit works in a variety of mediums created over the past six months. Closing reception: Friday, August 29, 5-7 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. Susan Norton: “Chromodynamics,” a multimedia installation inspired by quantum physics and the tenet that all matter is energy. Through August 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Tessa Hill: Whimsical wall sculptures that celebrate the bounty of Vermont’s foraging season. Through August 31. Info, 861-2067. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington. Wayne Michaud: Framed giclée prints of pet portraits by the award-winning Vermont painter. Through September 2. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross in Burlington.
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‘Weird Science’: Vermont visual artists present works that respond to the classic John Hughes film. Through August 30. Info, 660-9005. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington.
chittenden county
Amalia Elena Veralli & Anne-Marie Littenberg: “Summer’s Bounty,” photographs of vegetables printed on high-gloss aluminum by the Vermont artists. Through August 31. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. Art for Gillett Pond: Local artists exhibit and sell landscape paintings, photographs and other media to benefit a threatened pond. In cooperation with Friends of Gillett Pond, a minimum of 25 percent of each work sold will be given to the Richmond Land Trust. Through August 31. Info, 434-3036. Richmond Free Library. Bonnie Acker: “Summer Horizons,” a new series of abstract landscapes by the Vermont artist. Through September 12. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Carol Norton: “Turning In/Turning Out,” multilayered, atmospheric oil paintings depicting natural scenes. Through August 30. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard. Colin Bryne: Multimedia works by the Burlington artist. Through September 30. Info, 658-2739. The ArtSpace at the Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.
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Evelyn McFarlane & Students: Oil paintings by the craft-school instructor and her students. Through August 28. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School. ‘
‘Art for Gillett Pond’ Gillett Pond, a mile-long body of water shared by Richmond and Huntington, is held in place by a dam that’s more than a century old. In recent years, torrential rains have made residents and state officials aware of the struggling dam structure; if it fails, the popular pond will disappear. Artists associated with Friends of Gillett Pond, a community group that is fundraising to repair the dam, are hoping to aid the cause with artwork that captures the landscape, flora and fauna around the pond. A portion of the sales of the paintings and photographs will benefit the Richmond Land Trust. “Art for Gillett Pond” is on display at the Richmond Free Library through August 31, and then it travels to the Huntington Public Library for the month of September. Pictured: “Wild Iris Island, Gillett Pond,” by Jen Kenney. In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America’: Paintings by Monet, Manet, Degas and other French impressionist masters from the museum’s permanent collection. Through September 1. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. Inaugural exhibit at South Gallery: The new gallery, operated by artists Clark Derbes and Wylie Garcia inside RL Photo, features artwork by more than 30 regional artists in a variety of mediums. Through September 1. Info, 225-614-8037. South Gallery in Burlington. ‘Lock, Stock and Barrel’: The Terry Tyler collection of Vermont firearms includes 107 rare examples made between 1790 and 1900. Beach Gallery. ‘Painting a Nation’: A showcase of the museum’s best 19th-century American paintings. Webb Gallery. ‘Trail Blazers: Horse-Powered Vehicles’: An exhibit of 19th-century carriages from the permanent collection that draws parallels to contemporary automotive culture. Round Barn. Nancy Crow: “Seeking Beauty: Riffs on Repetition,” quilts by the acclaimed textile artist, who incorporates printmaking into her work. Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery. Patty Yoder: “The Alphabet of Sheep,” whimsical rugs made with extraordinary, realistic sense of detail. Patty Yoder Gallery. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.
‘Perilous Pigeons’: An exhibit of artworks honoring the now-extinct passenger pigeon. Through August 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Spirit Animalz: Fourteen Vermont artists explore the diverse relationships between people and other creatures. Through August 31. Info, 438-2097. Burlington Beer Company in Williston. ‘Warm Seasons’: A group show in various mediums by Jericho artists, and nonresident artists whose work connects to the town. Through August 31. Info, 899-2974. Jericho Town Hall.
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‘1864: Some Suffer So Much’: With objects, photographs and ephemera, the exhibit examines surgeons who treated Civil War soldiers on battlefields and in three Vermont hospitals, and the history of post-tramautic stress disorder. Through December 31. Arthur Schaller: “Billboard Buildings,” an exhibit of original collages by the Norwich University architecture professor. Through December 19. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. ‘Al- Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’: A traveling group show of book art inspired by a 2007 car bombing in a historic book-selling district of Baghdad. Through October 13. Info,
454-8311. Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College, in Plainfield. Andy Newman: An exhibit of portrait and landscape paintings. Through August 24. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Anna Macijeski: Images of nature and spirituality by a local painter and illustrator. Through August 31. Info, 223-1151. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery in Montpelier. Diana Mara Henry: Black-and-white photographs of one-room schoolhouses in Vermont by the famed photojournalist, with text by Middlebury College sociology professor Margaret Nelson. Through October 15. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. DJ Barry: The Middlesex artist shows his latest stencil-and-spray-paint works. Through August 31. Info, 225-6012. Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier. Jeff Danziger: An exhibit of artwork by the nationally published cartoonist. Through August 31. Info, 223-3338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. John Matusz and Ashley Anne Veselis: Metal sculptures and paintings, respectively. Through September 19. Info, 839-5349. gallery SIX in Montpelier.
Art ShowS
John Snell: “I nearly walked By,” abstract images from nature by the local photographer. Through september 26. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier. JoSh Turk: Monochromatic, abstract impressionist prints by the Vermont artist. Through August 31. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Jyl emerSon: “Art in Animals,” representational paintings that express the artist’s connection to the natural world. Through August 30. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. Info, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. ‘STaTe of BeingS’: A multimedia group show of work inspired by humans and human-like beings, Main Floor Gallery. ray Brown: paintings in series by the Johnson artist, Third Floor Gallery. SaBrina fadial & PhilliP roBerTSon: new monoprints, second Floor Gallery. Through August 31. Info, 479-7069. studio place Arts in Barre. TunBridge grouP Show: pastel artwork by 10 upper Valley artists. Through october 4. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge public library.
stowe/smuggs area
‘exPoSed’ ouTdoor SculPTure exhiBiTion: on the gallery lawn, along the recreation path and throughout downtown, curator Rachel Moore has sited 20 outdoor sculptures in a variety of mediums. The 16 artists hail from new england, new York, Chicago and Mexico City. In addition, writing by david Budbill, Ariel henley and Jennifer Rickards appears on vinyl in store windows. Through october 15. ‘The aPPearance of clariTy’: Artworks in black and white by louis Cameron, sharan elran, Marietta hoferer, Jenny holzer, sarah horne, Chelsea Martin, lynn newcomb, Andreas Rentsch, suzy spence and nan Tull. Guest-curated by Amy Rahn. Through August 31. Info, 253-8358. helen day Art Center in stowe. ‘caPe ann arTiSTS in VermonT’: paintings by donald Allen Mosher, Charles Movalli, T.M. nicholas and dale Ratcliff, inspired by Vermont landscapes. Through september 15. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe.
frank woodS: Recent paintings of barns, abstract landscapes and kimonos by the Montpelier artist. Through August 22. Info, 461-5345. lamoille County Courthouse in hyde park.
‘kick and glide: VermonT’S nordic Ski legacy’: An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark, and back-country skiing. Through october 13. Info, 253-9911. Vermont ski and snowboard Museum in stowe.
maTThew chaney: “unchained Art,” abstract oil pastel drawings selected from the local artist’s collection of more than 1,000 works. Through August 30. Info, 888-1261. Morrisville post office.
erika lawlor SchmidT: “The Jazz series,” recent monoprints inspired by the American jazz era. Through August 24. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester. JaneT mckenzie: “holiness and the Feminine spirit,” 15 paintings by the northeast Kingdom artist modeled on women and people of color, two groups that have been underrepresented in Christian imagery. Thursdays through Mondays; part of Vermont Festival of the Arts. Through August 31. Info, 496-3065. waitsfield united Church of Christ. PeTer miller: large-format color images by the award-winning photographer and author of A lifetime of Vermont people, among other titles. Through August 31. Info, 272-8851. peter Miller photography Gallery in waterbury. PeTer ThomaShow: “world of wonder,” the second in a series of exhibits on collecting, featuring collages and acquired pieces by the Vermont physician, artist and musician. Curated by Varujan Boghosian. Through August 24. Info, 767-9670. Big Town Gallery in Rochester.
Beethoven, Purcell, Poulenc, Schumann, Mozart
Hyunah Yu, soprano, Soovin Kim, violin, Paul Neubauer, viola, Marcy Rosen, cello, Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
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Words into Music – Songs by David Ludwig, William Bolcom, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter
Sarah Shafer, soprano, Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano, Bella Hristova, violin, Paul Neubauer, viola, William Bolcom, piano, Ellen Hwangbo, piano
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Mendelssohn, Phillip Golub, Schubert, Brahms
Sarah Shafer, soprano, Hyunah Yu, soprano, Randall Scarlata, baritone, Bella Hristova, violin, Peter Stumpf, cello, Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet, Ellen Hwangbo, piano, Shai Wosner, piano
Sun., August 31, 3:00pm
Schumann, Shostakovich, Ravel
Hyunah Yu, soprano, Bella Hristova, violin, Soovin Kim, violin, Edward Arron, cello, Gloria Chien, piano, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano All concerts take place at the Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT www.lccmf.org for details, artist information, & other festival events WORLD CLASS MUSICIANS CREATING EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC TOGETHER 6h-LCCMF082014.indd 1
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‘1812 STar-SPangled naTion’: A traveling exhibit of 25 original oil paintings by contemporary artists, depicting nautical scenes from the war of 1812. Through september 29. Info, 475-2022. lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. emily mcmanamy: “hitting the Mat,” a documentary exhibition featuring semiprofessional wrestlers in st. Albans, with photo, audio and video components. Through october 4. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. kaTe gridley: “passing Through,” an exhibit of oil paintings and sound portraits of emerging adults. Through october 26. Info, 443-5258. Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in Middlebury. leSTer anderSon: A lifetime of travel informs 46 photographs by a lincoln resident now in his nineties. Through August 29. Info, 453-3188. walkover Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. rachael roBinSon elmer: An exhibit of “Art lovers new York” fine-art postcards, now 100 years old, by the late artist who was born at Rokeby. Through october 26. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.
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rory JackSon: “Growing light,” local landscapes in oil by the lincoln painter. SuSanne STraTer: “shape, pattern, Color,” a series of paintings that explore household motifs by the Montréal painter. Through August 31. Info, 458-0098. edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.
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donna dodSon: “pillars of the Community,” sculptures inspired by ancient egyptian art and native American totem poles. Through August 24. Info, 438-2097. The Carving studio & sculpture Center Gallery in west Rutland.
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‘Silk & STone’: stone sculptures by B. Amore, eric laxman and Florin strejac; fiber art by Althea Bilodeau and Karen henderson. Through september 12. eaSTern mounTain menToring arTiSTS exhiBiT: Artwork by Mary Crowley, Christine holzschuh, lowell Klock, Ann McFarren, Karen seward, Alice sciore, heather shay, Christine Townsend and Betsy Moakley. Through August 31. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee downtown Art Center in Rutland. RuTlAnd AReA shows
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SeBaSTian SweaTman: “line & space,” new abstract paintings taking off from the colors blue and brown. Through september 1. Info, 279-0165. Gallery seB in stowe.
Big red Barn arT Show: Two- and threedimensional fine art by more than 30 local artists, including paintings, monoprints and sculpture, as part of the Vermont Arts Festival. new pieces added throughout the month. open Thursdays to sundays, noon to 9 p.m. Through september 1. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at lareau Farm in waitsfield.
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‘landScaPe TradiTionS’: The new wing of the gallery presents contemporary landscape works by nine regional artists. Through January 1, 2015. Paul Schwieder, duncan JohnSon and chriS curTiS: Abstract works in glass, wood and stone by the contemporary artists. Through october 31. Info, 253-8943. west Branch Gallery & sculpture park in stowe.
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‘in The STudio wiTh mary Bryan’: The gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary year with an exhibit of more than 100 paintings in tempera, watercolor, oil and collage by its namesake artist. Through september 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.
winSlow myerS: A series of recent diptychs by the Maine painter. Through september 12. Info, 635-2727. Vermont studio Center Gallery II in Johnson.
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elVira Piedra: “To earth, From heaven,” photographic studies in three groups — the peony tree, landscape and water — created over 13 years by the lunenburg artist. eugenio leon: “Innovate, Inspire, Aspire,” works from the local mixed-media artist include upcycles in wood, acrylic and straw; garden sculptures made from recycled record albums, and more. Through August 29. Info, 888-1261. River Arts Center in Morrisville.
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‘Solé’ Seeking an antidote to rainy days? Try looking at “Solé,” an exceptionally
bright exhibit at the Vermont Metro Gallery in Burlington. The show features contemporary works by three Vermont artists that “celebrate equilibrium and light,” according to a gallery statement. They include sumptuously colored oil and gouache paintings by Susan Osgood; whimsical, swirling intaglio prints and sculpture by Alisa Dworsky; and abstract photographs by Douglas Biklen. Each piece “conveys a sense of buoyancy and warmth.” Now that sounds like summer. Through September 28. Pictured: “Desert Mountains” by Biklen.
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‘Floral SeductionS’: A juried exhibit of more than 70 sculptures, paintings, prints and photographs with a floral theme. Through August 24. ‘the rootS oF rock and roll’: Artifacts from clothing to records to vintage turntables illustrate the early years of rock music, 1955 to 1964. Through August 31. Frieda PoSt: “Nature’s Inspiration,” vivid contemporary paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 31. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Judith reilly & robin kent: “Inside Out,” fabric and mixed-media art by Reilly and painted wood assemblages by Kent. Through August 31. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.
champlain islands/northwest
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alex coStantino, barb langevin & larry langloiS: Pottery by Costantino and sterling silver jewelry by Langevin and Langlois. Through August 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.
cold hollow SculPture Park: Sculptor David Stromeyer opened to the public his property on which 50 large-scale outdoor metal sculptures are sited. Free, self-guided tours Wednesdays through Saturdays, noon to 6 p.m. Visit website for directions. Through October 11. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.
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panels that showcase 4.6 billion years of evolution. Includes ribbon-cutting ceremony, live music and refreshments. Through October 31. Info, linda@ilmpt. org. Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve in Isle La Motte.
upper valley
billingS Farm & muSeum’S 28th Quilt exhibition: A juried exhibit of quilts made exclusively by artists in Windsor County. Through September 12. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. carol liPPman: “Theme and Variation,” multimedia prints that explore the environment through color, form and texture. Through August 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. ‘the hale Street gang: PortraitS in writing’: Jack Rowell’s 12 black-and-white, larger-than-life photographs capture the elderly members of a Randolph writing group led by Sara Tucker. Through October 10. PhiliP godenSchwager: Cartoon imagery and interactive sculpture as social and political commentary. Through October 10. Info, 885-3061. The Great Hall in Springfield. irene riPPon: Pottery and acrylic landscape and abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 8. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton. ‘kunStkamera: the tricentennial anniverSary oF the Peter the great muSeum’: Artworks and artifacts in a variety of media that celebrate the great Russian institution. Through January 31, 2015. Info, 356-2776. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.
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‘statues of liberty’: A sesquicentennial exhibit commemorates the 1864 signing, by Abraham Lincoln, of Congressman Justin Morrill’s Act creating a National Statuary Hall. On view are photographs and interpretive descriptions of the sculptures’ notable figures, including life-size images of the statues of Abraham Lincoln, Ethan Allen, Daniel Webster and Rosa Parks. Through October 13. Info, 765-4288. Justin Morrill Homestead in Strafford. w. DaviD Powell & ben PeberDy: New work by the collage artists juxtaposes iconic imagery of paraphernalia from different decades with unnatural objects. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.
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ben barnes: New landscape and still-life paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 8. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. casPian arts grouP show: “Individual Perspectives,” a group show in multiple mediums by more than a dozen artists including Victoria Blewer, Elizabeth Nelson and Marion Stenger. Through August 31. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. DaviD Macaulay: “How Macaulay Works,” an exhibit of drawings by the renowned illustrator and MacArthur “genius,” including a large illustration
‘the golDen cage’: Photographs with audio interviews of Vermont migrant workers and dairy farmers. Through September 6. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport. ‘toothbrush’: From “twig to bristle,” an exhibit of artifacts and images detailing the history of this expedient item. Through December 31. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.
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‘evolving PersPectives: highlights froM the african art collection’: An exhibition of objects that marks the trajectory of the collection’s development and pays tribute to some of the people who shaped it. Through December 20. ‘the art of weaPons’: Selections from the permanent African collection represent a variety of overlapping contexts, from combat to ceremony, regions and materials. Through December 21. allan houser: Five sculptures by one of the best-known Native American artists are installed outside the museum in the Maffei Arts Plaza, representing his 3-D work from 1986-1992. Through May 11, 2015. Info, 603-635-7423. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.
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gayleen aiken: “Inside/Outside,” oil paintings and mixed-media drawings made between 1952 and 2000 that explore the outsider artist’s fascination with Vermont architecture and landscape, her own home in Barre, and the granite industry. Through October 16. Info, 472-6857. GRACE in Hardwick.
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called “How St. Johnsbury’s Water System Works.” Through September 30. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.
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oody Allen pulls off a pretty impressive trick with his 44th film: He makes the charm of Emma Stone and Colin Firth disappear. Rarely have such appealing performers found themselves stranded in roles this underwritten and tiresome. Firth plays Stanley, a magician of the 1920s who performs in Oriental costume under the stage name Wei Ling Soo. He’s the toast of Europe and, we learn, a Jazz Age version of the Amazing Randi. Many of you are too young to remember the illusionistturned-debunker of the paranormal. Or the days when a new picture by Allen virtually guaranteed a good time. Nobody who was around then will have difficulty recalling that period, however, since the filmmaker spends so much time these days recycling themes and motifs from it. When a friend and fellow magician (Simon McBurney) invites Stanley to the Côte d’Azur to debunk a comely clairvoyant he claims is pulling the wool over the eyes of a wealthy matron (Jacki Weaver), it quickly becomes clear we’re in for another round of Is the universe the work of some metaphysical force, or a meaningless moral wasteland? It’s the kind of question the writer-director posed to masterful effect decades ago in
Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Stone does her best to breathe believable life into the role of Sophie; interesting, much less amusing, life is out of the question, through no fault of the 25-year-old actress. Allen supplies her with snappy flapper couture to wear but nothing remotely snappy to say. The picture’s dialogue is the laziest and least inspired of his career. The idea is that Sophie not only charms Stanley, disguised as a traveling businessman, but disarms him with uncanny pronouncements. She conducts a séance in which he’s unable to detect evidence of trickery. When Stanley drives Sophie to Provence to visit his aunt, he’s stunned to hear her reveal details about a secret affair the woman once had. But the most inexplicable thing the clairvoyant does is fall head over heels for Stanley. This is inexplicable for a number of reasons: He’s nearly 30 years older than she is (oh, right, this is a Woody Allen movie); he’s a pompous gasbag who quotes Nietzsche and tells her which books to read (oh, right...); and she’s about to marry her patron’s ukulele-playing son and go from penniless Midwesterner to globe-trotting millionairess. Gradually Stanley revises his views. I suppose if Emma Stone threw herself at me,
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I’d believe there must be a God, too. He’s such a pompous gasbag he even calls a press conference to announce his conversion and declare Sophie the real deal. Then, like clockwork, something happens that puts everything we’ve seen over the previous hour in a new light. Later, something else equally predictable happens. And then those familiar white-on-black credits roll. Thank God. The picture is beautifully shot by Darius Khondji, who also beautifully shot Allen’s other French-set, supernaturally themed comedy, Midnight in Paris. Pictures of beautiful places are for postcards, though, and
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Magic in the Moonlight has appallingly little else to recommend it. Few, if any, laughs. Few, if any, new ideas. And nothing in terms of narrative we can’t see coming a kilometer away. It’s well known that Allen keeps a box containing scraps of paper on which he’s jotted movie ideas over the years. Having just endured 97 of the most lifeless, excruciatingly superficial minutes of my reviewing career, I feel it safe to say that the onceincomparable auteur has reached not merely the bottom of that box but the bottom of the cinematic barrel. RI C K KI S O N AK
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ood dystopian fables make people uncomfortable. They inspire troubled reflections on the world we live in (Would I watch a televised fight to the death?), not complacency. They’re not fantasies about misguided adults who devise a ridiculous social system to repress the impulses of attractive teenagers; they’re veiled stories about the darkness in all of us. Judging by its 1994 Newbery Medal, its solid place on middle school reading lists and the testimony of its now-grown readers, Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a powerful dystopian vision. Its movie adaptation, however, panders shamelessly to young viewers and current trends with a story that is guaranteed to cause discomfort in no one except fans of narrative logic. The story’s protagonist, Jonas, has been aged from 12 to 16 so he can be played by the hunky, painfully inexpressive Brenton Thwaites. In voiceover, Jonas explains that he lives in a Community where conflicts no longer occur and perfect equality — i.e., monotone sameness — has been achieved by means of daily drugging and oversight from Elders led by an imposing Meryl Streep. Lying and unruly emotions are verboten. Friends and relatives address each other like instruction manuals: “You’ve fallen! Are you in need of immediate assistance?” In short, as any kid will immediately see, this is the most boring of all possible worlds
— and, in case we didn’t grasp the point, everything’s black and white. Director Phillip Noyce (Salt, RabbitProof Fence) makes good use of this visual starkness when Jonas is sent to apprentice under the Receiver (Jeff Bridges), a hermit whom the Community has designated to safeguard its memories of the bad old days. The tormented wise man’s cabin overlooks the cloudy abyss that Jonas knows only as Elsewhere, and this vista frames striking tableaux of the Receiver guiding the boy toward an understanding of the ugly truth. Transmitted psychically between them, the Community’s repressed memories are bland Technicolor scenes that could be clips from today’s Travel Channel, with some war footage thrown in for balance. Jonas immediately realizes (who wouldn’t?) that the old days were much cooler than the new days. Soon he’s seeing his own world in color and trying to kiss his friend Fiona (Odeya Rush), who reacts like an android to his amorous overtures. When she starts seeing what Jonas sees, the intriguing conversations between Jonas and the Receiver yield to an all-too-familiar adolescent rebellion scenario. Ironically, it’s the older actors playing brainwashed characters (including Alexander Skarsgård and Katie Holmes) who manage to evoke real, nuanced people, however fleetingly, while the younger actors mostly just furrow their brows in a desperate impersonation of messy
IT’S A GIFT If only Bridges could transmit his talent to his costar in Noyce’s adaptation of the YA novel.
humanity. Bridges is a special case: His performance is so bizarrely mannered, it’s not clear whether he’s impersonating the latterday Brando or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Whatever he’s doing, it doesn’t convey the pathos of a man tasked with remembering what everyone else chooses to forget. As the film struggles to its far-too-convenient conclusion (which diverges from the book’s), viewers may wonder why the Community didn’t just scrub its human hard drives long ago, given that one whiff of the Receiver’s forbidden knowledge is enough to turn the whole society topsy-turvy. It’s a truth universally acknowledged: Attractive teens who know it’s possible to
kiss other attractive teens will avail themselves of the opportunity. The movie depicts their free choice to hook up as a noble proof of human potential. The Giver only briefly elaborates on the more disquieting themes of the novel, such as the ease with which we compartmentalize, dehumanize and forget what doesn’t suit our worldview. It allows us to leave feeling smug because we believe in love, colors, beauty and physical and mental stimulation — in other words, all the stuff movies always encourage us to believe in. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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now playing BoYHooDHHHHH Richard linklater (Before Midnight) filmed one boy (Ellar coltrane) over 12 years to create a one-of-a-kind real-time portrait of coming of age. Ethan hawke and Patricia arquette play his parents. (165 min, R; reviewd by R.K. 8/6) cHeFHHHH1/2 foodie film alert! Jon favreau wrote, directed and starred in this comedy about a fine-dining chef who reinvents himself — and reconnects with his family — by opening a food truck. (115 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 5/28)
tHe eXpeNDABles 3HH for guys who were supposed to be expendable, this team of elderstatesmen action dudes sure has multiplex staying power. The third installment features Sylvester Stallone, harrison ford, Jason Statham, Mel gibson, arnold Schwarzenegger and many more bulging, oiled muscles. Patrick hughes directed. (126 min, Pg-13)
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tHe HUNDReD-Foot JoURNeYHH1/2 The owner of an elite french restaurant (helen Mirren) can’t tolerate the advent of her new neighbor, a familyowned Indian eatery, in this drama from director lasse hallström (Safe Haven). with Om Puri and Manish dayal. (122 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 8/13) iNto tHe stoRmHHH One town experiences a ton of tornadoes in a single day in this piece of (we’re guessing) disaster porn directed by Steven Quale (Final Destination 5). with Richard armitage, Sarah wayne callies and Matt walsh. (89 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 8/13) let’s Be copsH1/2 Jake Johnson and damon wayans Jr. play buddies who dress as cops for a costume party and suddenly find themselves tangling with real-life criminals in this comedy from writer-director luke greenfield (The Girl Next Door). (104 min, R) lUcYHHH Scarlett Johansson starts using the supposedly idle parts of her brain and becomes a butt-kicking superhuman in this Sf action thriller from writer-director luc besson. with Morgan freeman and Min-sik choi. (90 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/30) mAgic iN tHe mooNligHt 1/2 H In woody allen’s latest, set in the 1920s in the south of france, colin firth plays a skeptic trying to unmask a spiritualist (Emma Stone) as a fraud. with hamish linklater and Eileen atkins. (97 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 8/20) A most WANteD mANHHH1/2 The late Philip Seymour hoffman played a weary hamburg intelligence operative trying to recruit a young chechen Muslim to the antiterrorist cause in this adaptation of John le carré’s novel from director anton corbijn (The American). with grigoriy dobrygin and Rachel Mcadams. (122 min, R) plANes: FiRe AND RescUeHH1/2 In the sequel to disney’s surprise animated hit, the little plane that fulfilled his racing dreams finds himself working with an intrepid helicopter on a squad that battles wildfires. (83 min, Pg) seX tApeHH a long-time couple (Jason Segel and cameron diaz) make a sex tape to spice up their marriage — only to find themselves on a madcap quest to get it off the internet. Jake Kasdan directed the comedy. with Rob corddry, Ellie Kemper and Rob lowe. (94 min, R)
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tHe giveRHH lois lowry’s dystopian kids’ classic comes to the screen in this tale of a teen (brenton Thwaites) selected to learn the hard truths behind a seemingly perfect society. with Jeff bridges, Meryl Streep and taylor Swift. Phillip noyce (Salt) directed. (94 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 8/20)
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gUARDiANs oF tHe gAlAXYHHHH Make way for another Marvel comics film franchise, this one featuring chris Pratt as an interstellar rogue who assembles a rag-tag team to defeat a space tyrant. with Zoe Saldana, bradley cooper, dave bautista and Vin diesel. James gunn (Super) directed. (121 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 8/6)
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teeNAGe mUtANt NiNJA tURtlesH1/2 Director Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) and producer Michael Bay reboot the ’90s comic-based film series about four mutant brothers from the sewers who go up against an urban super-criminal. With Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Alan Ritchson and Johnny Knoxville. (101 min, PG-13)
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Did you miss: NymphomaNiac: Vol. ii Perhaps you noticed that Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol. I played for a week at Merrill’s Roxy Cinema this past spring. Perhaps you didn’t. Anyway, the theater never booked Vol. II of the Danish provocateur’s new duology about sexual obsession, so those who hoped for a bigscreen experience were left, er, hanging.
In the Movies You Missed & More feature every Friday, I review movies that were too weird, too cool, too niche or too terrible for Vermont's multiplexes.
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Well, now Netflix Instant subscribers can stream the rest of Nymphomaniac (or the whole thing, at least till the director’s cut comes out). It’s also available for rental at Amazon and other VOD outlets. So I gave myself the twonight von Trier immersion experience…
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One career ago, I was a professor of film studies. I gave that up to move to Vermont and write for Seven Days, but movies will always be my first love.
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NEWS QUIRKs by roland sweet Curses, Foiled Again
Police investigating the theft of a wallet found a photograph of the suspect after she used the stolen credit card at a beauty-supply store in Ocala, Fla. When the woman said she didn’t have photo identification, the clerk asked the woman if she would have her photo taken with the credit card. The suspect agreed and then bought $430 worth of beauty supplies. Police posted the photo of the heavily and distinctively tattooed woman, asking the public to identify her. (Ocala Star-Banner)
Life Lessons
When a hailstorm rolled through Woods Canyon Lake, Ariz., a man authorities described as in his 30s, lifted a metal chair over his head to shield him from the hail. A lightning bolt struck the chair, sending the man to the hospital with an entry wound on his shoulder and exit wounds on both feet. (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV) Francesco Schettino gave a two-hour lecture on best emergency practices to a criminology seminar at Rome’s La Sapienza university. Schettino was vilified as “Captain Coward” in the 2012 sinking of the cruise liner Costa Concordia after he reportedly abandoned ship before his passengers were safe. “I was called to speak because I am an expert. I had to talk about panic management,” Schettino told La Nazione newspaper, explaining that he used
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a 3-D model of the doomed vessel to demonstrate how emergency evacuations are conducted. (Australia’s News. com.au)
Those Who Can’t
Three 17-year-old high-school students driving in Altadena, Calif., recognized John Edward Maust, 34, a teacher at their school, standing on a sidewalk and stopped to say hello. Maust asked for a ride, according to authorities, who said the driver agreed but later became worried by the conversation and pulled over. When the students exited the vehicle, Maust “said he wanted to go to Jack in the Box, and ordered the juveniles back into the car” and pulled a knife, the sheriff’s report states. One of the students managed to call 911, and a sheriff’s helicopter flew overhead and ordered the driver to stop the vehicle. When he did, Maust fled but later turned himself in. (Los Angeles’s KTLA-TV) Roosevelt High School in New York’s Nassau County had to reprint its 2014 yearbooks after principal Steven Strachan was accused of plagiarizing his message to graduating seniors. Not only were some of the words identical to those another principal in Albany, Calif., wrote last year, but Strachan also ended his message: “Congratulations to the Albany High School Class of 2013.” (Long Island’s News 12)
Litigation Nation
Nigel Sykes, 23, is suing the pizzeria he admitted robbing in Wilmington, Del., claiming employees who tackled him and wrestled his gun away during the hold-up used “unnecessary” roughness to subdue him. After being handed $140, Sykes said an employee grabbed him from behind, causing him to drop his weapon, and then, “All of the Season’s Pizza participated in punching, kicking and pouring soup over my body.” Sykes earlier insisted that an unknown person gave him the gun and forced him to rob the pizzeria, where employees beat him with pots and pans and tasered him. Sykes also asked to be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea for the robbery, explaining, “I’m not good at making choices.” (Wilmington’s The News)
Roosevelt High had to reprint its 2014 yearbooks
after its principal was accused of plagiarizing his message to graduating seniors.
Disorder in the Court
Court deputies had to break up a fight between Judge John Murphy and public defender Andrew Weinstock during a hearing in Brevard County, Fla. After the two sparred verbally in court, the judge said, “If you want to fight, let’s go out back and I’ll just beat your ass.” The two moved out of sight, but the courtroom camera captured audio of the scuffle, including several loud thuds. After two deputies broke up the brawl, Weinstock claimed the judge cold-cocked him and was immediately reassigned. Murphy returned to the courtroom and resumed proceedings but later took a leave of absence to receive anger management counseling. (Associated Press)
Gutter Balls
British engineers investigating flooding in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, determined that hundreds of tennis balls had been flushed into the sewer drains, causing rain water to back up into the streets. “We expect sewers to get blocked with fats or baby wipes,” sewage network manager Scott Burgin said, “but not tennis balls. How on earth people have managed to flush quite so many, I don’t know.” Workers cleared the blockage by climbing into the sewer and using their hands and shovels. (BBC News)
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The artist Amedeo Modigliani lived in Paris from 1906 until his death in 1920. For most of that time, he was destitute. Proprietors of local stores and restaurants sometimes accepted his art work as payment in lieu of actual money. They didn’t necessarily appreciate it, though. One food seller used Modigliani’s drawings as wraps for the fried potatoes he sold. Another stashed the artist’s paintings in his cellar, where they turned into feasts for rodents. Too bad for these short-sighted people and their heirs: The worth of Modigliani’s works eventually increased, and some sold for millions of dollars. In the weeks ahead, Leo, don’t be like those food sellers. Know the value of what you have, even if it’s still latent.
competitiveness. He satirized his ego’s drive to be first and best even as achieved the goal of being first and best. I recommend you try something similar. you’re entering a phase when you’ll be wise to add a bit of humility to your bold self-presentation. tauRus (April 20-May 20): you are about to make the transition from plodding to skipping; from moping to exulting. you will no longer be bogged down by cloudy doubt, but will instead be buoyed by giddy hope. to what do we owe this imminent turnaround in your fortunes? one reason is that it’s Justifiable narcissism Week — for tauruses only. During this jubilee, the free Will Astrology Council on extreme self-esteem authorizes you to engage in unabashed self-worship — and to corral a host of other people who want to join in celebrating you, praising you and helping you.
gemiNi (May 21-June 20): An eagle does not catch flies. A lion won’t hunt for mice. A gourmet chef shuns recipes that call for canned soup and potato chips. And I trust that you won’t indulge a hankering for non-nutritious sweets and treats that would spoil your appetite for more robust sustenance. you understand I’m not just talking about your literal eating habits, right? Interpret this oracle metaphorically, please. caNceR
(June 21-July 22): now is an excellent time to phase out fantasies that bog you down or drag you backward. Are you up for that challenge? Can you summon the courage to leave the mediocre past behind? If so, here are your assignments: Wean yourself of longings to reconstruct bygone pleasures. forget about trying to be like the person you used to be and to have the keys you used to have. stop feeding the feelings that keep you affixed to obsolete goals. break any taboo that makes you scared to change what needs to be changed.
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liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Desire can conquer fear. Love trumps cowardice. The power that your tenderness affords you may not completely dissolve your doubt and worry, but it will quiet them down so much that they will lose their ability to paralyze you. These truths are always good to keep in mind, of course, but they are especially useful to you right now. no obstacle will faze you, no shadow will intimidate you, as long as you feed your holy longing and unshakable compassion. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): on August 2, 1830, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was King of france for 20 minutes. (It’s a long story.) I offer this to you as a cautionary tale. A few weeks from now, I don’t want to have to be comparing you to him. If you hope to hold your new position or continue to wield your added clout for longer than just a little while, you should take all necessary steps. How? nurture the web of support that will sustain you, for example. Don’t burn a single bridge. Cultivate real empathy, not just the showy kind. Avoid manipulative behavior, even if you think you can get away with it. be a skillful gatherer of information. sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): Golda Meir was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Her admirers described her as “strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people.” she had a good sense of humor, too. “Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses,” she said. “He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle east that has no oil.” I bring this up as a teaching story for you, sagittarius. If you plan to make any big moves, transitions, or journeys in the coming months, I suggest you choose destinations that will allow you to gain access to wealth-building resources.
a few hints. It doesn’t come around often. It’s not characterized by predictable events or boring certainties. And it may allow you, even encourage you, to take a break from being your usual self. Give up? oK. I’ll tell you. you have entered the nicholas Cage Phase of your cycle. Cage is a Capricorn, but not a typical one. He’s eccentric and manic and certifiably batty. He refers to his acting technique as “nouveau shamanic,” once lived in a fake castle and owns a Lamborghini that belonged to the legendary tyrant, the shah of Iran. for our current purposes, he has also testified, “I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”
aQuaRius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): Here’s one
of my goals in life, Aquarius: to show you a type of astrology that does not infringe on your free will, but rather clarifies your options. In this horoscope, for instance, I will outline your alternatives so that you will be fully informed as you determine what course of action will be most closely aligned with your high ideals. Ponder the following question, and then briskly exert your freedom of choice: Would you prefer to have love make your head spin, knock you off your feet, tickle your X-factor, kick you gently but firmly in the ass or all of the above?
Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): “God changes
caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds by using time and pressure,” says pastor rick Warren. “He is working on you, too.” Let’s make that idea your meditation, Pisces. If the word “God” doesn’t suit you, substitute “life,” “nature” or “Wakan tanka,” the Lakotan term for “The Great Mystery.” The essential point is that you are being worked on and shaped by forces beyond your conscious awareness. some of them are vast and impersonal, like your culture, the media and the entertainment industry. others are intimate and close at hand, like your genes, your childhood imprints and the characters you encounter daily. now is an excellent time to contemplate all the influences that make you who you are.
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(Aug. 23-sept. 22): I’ve got three new vocabulary words for you. I need them to provide you with the proper oracle. first is the German term Schwellenangst. It refers to timidity or nervousness about crossing a threshold and heading into unknown territory. The second word is a new english term, “strikhedonia.” It means the joy that rises up when you feel the courage to say “to hell with it.” The third word is from
Portuguese: desenrascanço. It means the spontaneous improvisation of haphazard but ultimately effective plans. now let’s put them all together: to conquer your Schwellenangst, you must summon a bolt of strikhedonia and have faith in your ability to carry out desenrascanço. (Thanks to otherwordly.tumblr.com for the new words.)
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I’m a fan of some good, old-fashioned courting, too: those long, lingering kisses goodnight at the door; an actual phone call where someone invites you to meet them at a restaurant they picked out just for you; flowers, and flirtatious texts and endless phone conversations; and closing out the bar because you just don’t want to leave his gaze. All that time before you really know someone — and getting to know them is filled with butterflies, delightful curiosity and excitement. To be treated like something to be earned is so special and, I think, necessary. Where has the romance gone, is right! I feel you, girl. But it’s out there. It still exists. I’ve seen it, and you will, too. Sex is an important component of dating, as it can determine whether the relationship will get past dinner and a movie. But physical intimacy is only one part of being in a romantic partnership, and it sounds like you want something more substantial. A deeper bond. When you say “browsing,” do you mean literally looking online? Have you signed up for a dating website like Match. com or OkCupid? If so, maybe you need to revisit your profile. It’s time to be specific and direct. Include in your profile that you are looking for a date. Say you’re looking for someone to take you out or meet you downtown for drinks, a coffee or a creemee. A walk? Dancing? A movie? You pick. Say what you want and mean what you say. Those sites are designed to give people the opportunity to publicly declare what they really, really want. For real. And you don’t have to look someone in the eye while doing it. It can be really freeing. If you haven’t signed up, give it try and follow my advice about being honest and open. Don’t try to sound cute or witty or sexy. Just be you. One of the awesome benefits of these sites is that you can weed out all the guys that don’t fit your description. It’s a time saver and it’s nice to know it’s all happening with the internet between you. You don’t have to be polite, and every once in a while you might want to give the finger to one of them and you can, cause they can’t see you. After all, that’s the person you want your guy to like, right? In the meantime, keep doing what you’re doing — “building yourself up,” as you said. Being single is an excellent opportunity to focus on you and enrich the other relationships in your life. Dating can fog up your focus, but for right now, the view ahead is clear. And it’s all yours. Enjoy.
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