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With a $6.7 million gap and four months to write a budget, Worcester Public Schools superintendent Melinda Boone has a new approach to allocate money to priority areas. In March, Boone will meet with students, parents, teachers, principals, Election Commission holds another partners and business leaders as part hearing on GOP accusations of of what she’s billed a “six-prong election fraud against Neighbor to communication plan.” Neighbor, this time over clothing worn Boone says she’s sought community by the group. Who knew that “t-shirt input before, but this year she “wanted time” would be a hit in Worcester and an even broader base.” on MTV? -1 With Gov. Deval Patrick announcing last week that Worcester will see a Worcester gets Boston news bump in education funding, and the coverage again for all the wrong city council’s approval of a $20 million reasons after Platinum Premier capital-improvement plan for district Gentlemen’s Club bouncer assaults schools, Boone says she has more room and robs a patron in a bathroom. -2 to focus on teaching and learning, student safety and the arts. NAACP restarts Worcester “We have to makes sure we have a Chapter. Their first battle? Dealing well-rounded education system,” she with the ignorance coming out of the says. Centerfolds incident. +1 In a press release, the WPS says Boone will meet with students at More talk about luring videogame monthly High School Students Advisory companies to Worcester backed up Council meetings and engage the with action: a bill filed with the state Citywide Parent Planning Advisory legislature would offer tax credits to the Council (CPPAC). Boone says she will industry. 1 Up. +1 visit each school and sit with principals for 30-minute meetings, with more State birth records to go online. Did communication biweekly between someone question Mayor O’Brien’s school leaders and WPS chief academic birthplace? +1 officer Jeffrey Mulqueen. Roundtable meetings are planned with the “The Wereth 11” movie premiers Worcester Education Collaborative and on the National Geographic Channel, while local Wereth 11 historian Christian de Marcken gives it a good review. 60 years later, the soldiers are finally on their way to getting their due. +2 A four year old dies of physical wounds and her mother and boyfriend are arraigned in court, calling her injuries a result of her “clumsiness.” The only things clumsy were their alibis. -5
a Partnership Summit at the EcoTarium one previous manner of dealing with for school partners. budget cuts was to close a number of Last year Boone used a zero-based elementary schools, but she’d be hardbadget technique to allocate funding, pressed to consider that this year, citing which her department claims saved the a rise in younger students. city $8 million. They say they’re poised Another pressing challenge will be to save the same amount this year. to resolve the teachers’ contract. The Stand for Children, a publicbargaining unit for WPS teachers, the school advocacy group based in nine Education Association of Worcester, is states, has shown its support for asking for an 8.5 percent pay increase Boone’s budgeting process. Calling it (over three years) and resisting a city continued on page 8 innovative Jabián Gutiérrez, a Central Massachusetts organizer for the group, says Boone MELINDA BOONE is “identifying the needs of students and working her way out.” Gutiérrez adds that seeking this community input shows “that the district is finding ways to communicate,” which has often been a criticism from local media and schoolcommittee members. While Boone mentioned no specific plans or budget areas that her department will focus on, Gutiérrez points out that in an improving district there should be more support for middle-of-the-pack students, ones who may get average grades, but are still at risk of falling in between the cracks. As WPS and the city have a combined budget deficit of more than $13 million for FY 2012, every dollar will be scrutinized. Boone says that FILE PHOTO/BRITTANY DURGIN
Documents from the state show the thought process behind the MCAS investigation at Goddard School of Science and Technology. Maybe next year those huge gains won’t be invalidated. -3
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This has necessitated subsequent rounds of investigation each time a prior round found additional evidence of problems in last Spring’s administration of MCAS exams.”
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demand that all teachers contribute 25 percent to their health insurance (a figure that teachers hired after 2009 already pay; those teachers hired before 2009 pay 20 percent). Even if a new contract isn’t reached before the next year starts, the district will still be paying for increased health costs, which the district expects to rise 10 percent from last year. “There’s not a whole lot of play in the budget,” says school-committee member Jack Foley, who warns most of the money cuts could be to personnel. Foley maintains that Boone’s zero-
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MORE MO: Rumors have been spreading that local attorney and vox populi of Meadow Lane Mo Bergman is entertaining another run for city council (he, along with 20 other candidates, ran unsuccessfully in 2007). When reached by phone on Tuesday, Bergman said that the successes he had in 2007 and the active profile he’s kept in the city have him considering it, but he has to further discuss it with his family. “There’s always that balance between wanting to do it and putting in the time to do it,” he said a decision will come in March…While we had him on the phone, we asked for a Meadow Lane update. “We’ll have to see where the moratorium winds up going,” he offered, suggesting that not much has been done since the City of Worcester stopped issuing citations to Meadow Lane residents who stopped walking across the tundra to shovel state property. He made it clear that he didn’t want to have to deal with it again next winter, saying the snow was now in the City’s rink, so to speak.
TALKERS: Local immigration lawyer, Worcester Mag YourTurn submission record holder and talk radio voice Randy Feldman has jumped stations, moving from Fitchburg-based WPKZ where he co-hosted a show with Rich Teter (a former Tom Finneran and Peter Blute producer) to WCRN on Friday afternoons. Appearing with Feldman will be former Republican candidate for congress Brian Herr, whose suit-withno-tie campaign wardrobe always had us peg him as more of a TV guy. The duo will team up with Hank Stolz as part of his “Midday Report.” SPEAKING OF THAT CONGRESSIONAL RACE: Ed Augustus, who left his job as executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund in Oakland, California to run US Rep. Jim McGovern’s campaign (partially against Herr, then against Marty Lamb), has landed at the College of the Holy Cross. Augustus started earlier this week as director of government and community relations, which means he’ll return to his role of dealing with the city council, something he should be familiar with after his years as a local state senator. Good luck dealing with the screams for PILOT money, Ed.
RECORD REQUEST: Getting a record request back from a governmental body is kind of like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get... With more information in our hands regarding the MCAS violations at the Goddard School of Science and Technology we found out, well, not much more on account of the redactions, just a reiteration that student gains in English and Math that outpaced all but three other schools in the state (“unusually high growth and achievement scores coupled with improbably high erasure rates,” wrote one DOE staffer). But other documents in the stack included an October 2010 letter from district 4 city councilor Barbara Haller and a former Goddard parent asking for a “definitive pronouncement on the legitimacy of 2009-2010 MCAS testing procedures.” The two added, “we are keenly concerned over the anxiety and distraction caused at the school and in the community by your Department casting doubts upon Goddard’s achievements, not to mention its integrity, without committing itself to a timely resolution of these doubts.”…Their best line though, followed: “any agency charged with enforcing accountability must itself set a superior example of being accountable to the citizens who have invested it with so much power.” We guess the person with the black pen didn’t take that part to heart.
OUTTAKES: Other choice lines that came out of the records request: “This is a little more delicate, I think Mitchell needs to be involved in that,” in reference to Department of Elementary and Secondary Education head Mitchell Chester being clued in to how the Worcester Public Schools would be notified of the violations, “Has anyone communicated to the superintendent that we’re talking to the T&G about this? I think that would be worthwhile so she doesn’t read it in the paper,” about making sure Superintendent Melinda Boone heard the news before anyone else, and Chester saying of Boone, “I just had a very positive, constructive conversation with Melinda. I offered to be part of any announcement or public event once we reach closure on the review. She liked the idea. I found her to be balanced in her perspective on our insistance [sic] on the review.”
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n 2007/2008, I taught sophomores at South High Community School. On MCAS day the students were nervous, but so were the teachers. After the testing days finished and classes resumed, we asked for our students’ reactions. The first question we got from them was, “What’s an Ursula?” One of the reading passages was on the “Little Mermaid,” a story that was not common knowledge for kids who were born in 1992 and grew up in either a foreign country or inner-city Worcester. The same issues arose in previous years’ passages about visiting a lighthouse on Cape Cod and the manufacturing process of table salt. Not only are they difficult to relate to, but they’re just as boring as reading about watching paint dry. What was considered “illicit coaching” at Goddard could have been teachers clarifying unfamiliar terms with students, teaching them while they took the test. Knowing what an “Ursula” is doesn’t measure a student’s intelligence; it just measures their exposure to characters in a Disney movie. According to records from the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education obtained by Worcester Mag, one of the violations at Goddard had teachers telling students to go back into their test and write more. In any other classroom environment this would be hailed as an effective teaching tool: you have more to say, so say it. Only in the world of standardized testing does effective teaching yield punishment. That’s why the release of these documents and local follow up from officials is necessary. Through these testing issues, Worcester has a case showing that the MCAS system does not adequately measure schools in urban environments. Those suggesting that putting this issue to rest is best “for the children” should look at it differently. The test is painfully unfair for most of Worcester’s students. Worcester is a challenging school district in which to teach or lead.
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Of WPS’s 24,200 enrolled students, 70 percent come from low-income homes; 43.2 percent do not speak English as a first language; and 31.8 percent are quantified as “limited English proficient.” Belmont and Goddard’s populations have staggeringly higher numbers than the district averages. (Belmont: 88.9/48.0/46.3, Goddard: 97.5/65.5/61.6.) All of these figures far surpass state levels. The MCAS does not follow a student throughout his or her career like the ACT or the SAT. Students who fail their first MCAS, or miss or boycott the exam, still get accepted into reputable colleges and universities. The state uses the exam as a schoolassessment tool. With millions of dollars (billions at the federal level) tied to school performance, it grades principals. The school committee understood this when they voted to accept Race To The Top funds last year and the school department had to hold their end of the deal when they fired Denise Bahosh from Union Hill Elementary School and Mark Berthiaume from Chandler Elementary School. Goddard Principal Marion Guerra deserves all the praise in the world for her effort and demand for results, but last year no one made exceptions for Bahosh and Berthiaume, who had similarly difficult positions at two innercity schools. Guerra should certainly not lose her job and deserves the praise heaped on her by parents because she’s an important factor in her school’s success. But last year the school committee and district chose the state program over protecting personnel; this year they’ve chosen the opposite. We can’t have it both ways. The district and school committee have to make a choice: you’re either all-in with the system or you’re trying to change it. For Worcester Mag, finding out more details, filing a records request, writing editorials in print and online was never about looking for blood and seeking out individuals (all those names could be redacted within the documents), but rather to show that this issue could have been used as leverage to show the state that this assessment system doesn’t work in a district like Worcester, and local teachers and principals suffer because of it. To see that point of view missed or argued against by local writers, politicians and administrators shows not only do misconceptions remain about what the MCAS is, but that very few are standing up to change it.
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t wasn’t the phone call I was waiting for; I answered it in a chipper voice. The “chipper” drained right out of me when I heard the reason for the ring-up. “Janice? This is Bridget from Fallon. Your mammogram results show signs of density in the right breast. You’ll have to return for a second test. And an ultrasound.” Whatever she said after that, I no longer recall. I only know that a second mammogram couldn’t be done until two more weeks had passed. “Why so far out?” I asked the woman at the imaging center on Gold Star Boulevard. “We’re booked solid,” was the reply. I’m from Irish stock on my father’s side and Polish on my mother’s; my Polish heritage has given me a great sense of survival – that is, I never think there’s an obstacle too big to crawl over or around – while my father’s bloodline contributed to rampant hypochondria. Such a combination produced a schizophrenic reaction in me: “It’s nothing – I’m dying.” I needed to tell someone – but whom? I couldn’t drop this on my daughter, whose wedding is three months away. She’s up to her eyeballs in details and aggravation. I knew my son would focus on nothing else and probably slice his hand off at work. No, I couldn’t burden my family, I told myself. But the truth of the matter was less noble and much more childish. I knew that if I put my worries into words, they would become real. I gathered up my courage and did what a lot of women do in these situations: I talked to other women. Nonchalantly, I mentioned my situation to a handful of female friends. That’s when I discovered just how often this test becomes a “do-over.” “Oh, yeah. I had to go back. So did both of my sisters,” said one friend. “What did it turn out to be?” I asked. “Mechanical stuff. The imaging equipment. There was nothing.” I heard similar stories from three other women. “Happens all the time,” one pal told me. “I know half a dozen women who were called back for ‘shadows,’ the density you mentioned. Turned out to be nothing.” I felt a little better, but the two-week wait was beginning to get to me. I was snapping at people for no good reason, exhibiting road rage (my brother wondered why I was crabbier than usual, dubbing me a “vicious wolverine” after witnessing a traffic-related tirade), and waking in the middle of the night drenched in sweat.
Finally “Do-Over Day” arrived. I returned to the imaging center at Fallon sans deodorant (it can gum up the results, I’m told) and not a little anxiety. I changed into the johnny that ties in the front and sat silently with three other women in a dimly lit waiting room. The most recent magazine offered recipes and tips to make my Halloween one to remember, which, two days before Valentine’s Day, seemed a tad useless and didn’t really take my mind off the task at hand. One after another, we entered the torture chamber — jamming one’s breast into a vice was brutal enough, but when the heating system malfunctioned, icy metal on flesh only added to the pleasant experience. One after another we returned to the waiting area. One after another the women who sat with
Such a combination produced a schizophrenic reaction in me: “It’s nothing – I’m dying.” me were told, “All set. Everything’s fine. See you in a year,” until I was left alone in the room, with recipes for spooky cupcakes and a pit in my stomach. The door opened. “Janice? We’re going to have to do the ultrasound. There’s something showing up.” And so I walked in a daze to another examining room, where a pregnant technician slathered me with cold goo before creating a grainy shot of my innards. She left me on the table for what was probably five minutes but felt like five days. That’s when I drew up my last will and testament, lying on a metal slab. I returned once again to the magazines and the poor lighting, this time convinced that I had finally run out of the luck that’s kept me alive for 54 years. I’ve known wonderful women who have lost their lives to breast cancer. Immediately I remembered Mary McInerney Zona, the bravest women on the planet. Mary Mac fought harder than any woman could and still didn’t beat this terrible curse. I’m no Mary Mac, I thought. I don’t have half of her courage. “Janice? It’s not a tumor. It’s just a tiny cyst,” the tech was saying to me. “What?” “A cyst. Tiny. We found it, now we forget about it. See you in a year.” Seems I’ll be around to make those Halloween cupcakes after all. Janice Harvey can be reached at editor@worcestermag.com
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wo events, one national and one local, recently called for reflection about the difference in meaning between two seemingly related ideas: optimism and idealism. President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday beckons the inquiry: what did Ronald Reagan stand for? The simple answer is optimism. President Reagan spoke to the strain of American DNA that represents a personal, yet not a social justice oriented, optimism. A couple months ago a movie was shown at the Worcester Public Library called Iron-Jawed Angels. It was about the Women’s Suffrage Movement’s struggle in 1920 to change the U.S. Constitution and society’s attitudes to finally obtain the vote for women. The civil rights era in the 1960’s was another period where American society, driven by idealism, demanded drastic change. Serious cynicism about government began with the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandals of the Nixon era. The fallowing decades, beginning in the 1970s and ending in 1980’s, were filled with recognition that many of the social and housing programs of President
Johnson’s Great Society had failed to fulfill their promise, causing Americans to lose confidence that government could advance societal progress. From this point forward generations of Americans have lacked true idealism and developed a distrust of government. Ronald Reagan spoke for this group. He articulated the belief that hopefulness should instead be directed at one’s personal and family-oriented ambitions. Instead of citizens seeing government as a partner, or conduit of our own beliefs, we instead were directed to proudly concentrate on our own individual pursuits. Hence, President Obama’s current agenda requiring Americans to “share their wealth” to ensure opportunity and caring for everyone is disparaged as something which must be inspired by a foreign socialism. Even “Do No Harm,” Google’s admirable corporate vision, represents the limits of our limited idealistic yearning. After all, “Do Good” is more of a call for moral action than simply avoiding harming one another. “Good works” are now narrowed to a concern for the environment, short-term volunteer work or donating a small
portion of one’s non-essential money to charity. Measuring one’s life meaning by contributing to a more just world is a very different value than gratuitous, sporadic efforts to assist others. Searching for justice and believing in an ideal of what society and the world could be is vital to overcome the individualism, fears and anxieties that typically drive us, especially during our current challenging times. A new, inspiring call is needed to counteract the self-servingness that drives our economic system; a driving force which cannot be allowed to exclusively form our national and individual souls. We can become more than we are now if we keep a vision out in front of us of what we could be as individuals and as a society, and reach for it daily. From Ronald Reagan forward concentrating on individual and family success has usurped committing to society and world betterment. It’s time the pendulum swings back some. Randy Feldman is a local attorney. He debates politics on WCRN 830 AM every Friday from 12-1 PM and on his website, bigmouthmanifesto.com.
What’s your opinion on the Wisconsin teachers union strike? A S K E D AT N U C A F E
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Marty Thornton WORCESTER I have not been following that closely, my gut instinct is I support the union. I think in general that unions are treated terribly.
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as human consciousness, thanks to about 100 billion nerve cells called neurons. Together the neurons form a network that transmits electrochemical signals and information to different parts of the body at a speed of roughly 200 mph. “There are more neutrons in your brain than there are stars in the entire galaxy, and we take it all for granted,” says Hall. And we shouldn’t since it’s that intricate web of electrical signals that makes us able to duck from danger if we see it, or dance to the music if we hear it. The brain does all of its work as it floats in a sack of fluid inside the skull. When people bang their heads on a car dash board or an icy sidewalk, the force of the blow propels the brain into the surrounding skull wall. And if the force is strong enough, the brain will hit those walls hard enough to break some of the elaborate neutron circuitry and cause a system failure. Because different parts of the brain control different functions in the body, the results of traumatic brain injuries differ depending on the force of the hit
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with people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. Hall says motor vehicle accidents used to be the leading cause of brain injury. Today, falls, assaults, sports injuries and the blasts and explosions that military personnel continually encounter in Iraq and Afghanistan are also at the top of the list. Although the causes may differ, the risks with all brain injuries are steep. “You have to remember the brain controls everything you do and everything that makes you who you are,” says Hall. “It regulates everything—your breathing, your heart, your vision, everything.” The brain is able to manage and coordinate all the other parts of the body as well
and the section of the head that absorbed the impact. The frontal lobe, the part of the brain behind the forehead, controls our ability to consider different pieces of information and make decisions. It also generates creative ideas and helps us understand the boundaries of appropriate behavior. An injury to the front of the head can compromise those abilities. A blow to the back of the head could injure the cerebellum the region of the brain that controls balance and movement. The occipital lobe processes the images we collect with vision. Injuries to this part continued on page 16
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After dropping to nine percent in January, unemployment rebounded. The standoff between Hosni Mubarak and 80 million Egyptians put the world on edge and drove oil prices to the highest point in two years. And it snowed like nobody’s business. But on Feb. 9, newspapers ran a headline that boosted the mood of just about everyone who happened to catch it. The Associated Press reported, “Giffords asks for toast.” Just a month earlier, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot point-blank in the head while meeting with her constituents outside of a Tucson grocery store. Gunman Jared Lee Loughner inexplicably opened fire and killed six people in the small crowd. Many figured Giffords would be the seventh fatality since 95 percent of gunshot wounds to the head end in death. But Giffords not only beat those overwhelming odds, 30 minutes after the shooting she was following the commands of doctors in the emergency room. Giffords’ fight to survive grabbed the nation’s attention, and people all over the country began routing for her. When her doctors announced her life was no longer in danger, the public’s interest shifted from watching the miracle of her survival to anticipating the miracle of her recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Giffords is now in a Texas rehab hospital where she has started on a long and unpredictable road to recovery. She isn’t alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year more than 1.7 million people suffer a bump, blow or penetrating wound to the head that interrupts the normal activity of the brain. Traumatic brain injury is one of the most common but least understood of all injuries. While the majority of cases are concussions from which most people recover, brain injuries on the most severe end of the spectrum are devastating. Traumatic brain injury claims 52,000 lives a year and sends another 275,000 people to emergency rooms and then to rehab hospitals where they begin a recovery process that can take anywhere from several months to a lifetime. Traumatic brain injury can rob people of their memory, their speech and their ability to concentrate and comprehend the world around them. It can also trigger emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and personality changes that result in aggressive or inappropriate behavior. Outwardly, most appear just as they did before their injuries. But emotionally and cognitively, everything can change. The CDC estimates that somewhere between five and six million people in the United States are coping with the effects of traumatic brain injury. But others like
Pam Bush, the director of communications for the Westborough-based Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, believe the numbers are much higher. “A lot of people think that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says Bush who adds that many people who injure their heads often shake it off and go on. But even a mild concussion is a significant brain injury that can cause fatigue, memory loss, headaches, mood swings and seizures that can last up to a year while the brain heals. Because traumatic brain injury is so widespread, underreported and, in many cases, virtually invisible, it has been called the silent epidemic. But now, with so many people watching and hoping for the best for Giffords, some of the silence surrounding traumatic brain injury might finally be broken. The Neuro-Rehabilitation Centers in Worcester and Middleboro specialize in caring for people who have suffered brain injuries. Tom Hall, director of Special Care services at the Middleboro site, has spent more than 20 years working
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of the brain can make it difficult to read, write and identify words and colors. Just as each injury involves an individual set of circumstances, different factors make each person’s recovery a unique experience. Hall says age, health and the type of emergency care one receives after a traumatic brain injury will determine how much and how fast someone recovers. In Stow resident Kelly Buttiglieri’s case, determination and guts probably played a pretty big role.
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Nineteen years ago this month, Buttiglieri, who had one semester left to go at Suffolk Law School, was driving through Winchester headed to an afternoon class. Ten days later, she woke up from a coma in Mass General Hospital. “I don’t remember anything about the accident,” she says. She learned soon enough she had been hit by a woman driving a car littered with empty prescription pill bottles. As is so often the case, the other driver walked away from the accident with no serious injuries. Buttiglieri left Mass Gen-
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family. Today, in addition to raising an 11-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter, she runs the Brain Injury Association’s Ambassador Program, which arranges public speaking opportunities for survivors and family members to share their stories about traumatic brain injury with community groups such as Rotary and Lions clubs. The mom job is great, although she admits it’s a struggle to resist being overbearingly protective. She knows how drastically things can change on a dime when you run into an unexpected hazard. And running the Ambassador Program isn’t too shabby either. “It makes me feel I’m doing something with the skills I have,” she says. “And I like that every circumstance is different.” As for going back to practicing law, she says she doesn’t know if it’s an option since she’s taken so much time off from working. But then she stops for a second and says that a lot of women have probably taken time out for their families. So it’s possible – a lot of things are possible. Sandra, another brain-injury survivor, is trying to sort through her own set of possibilities. Sandra suffered two head injuries, one when she was thrown from her bicycle and the other when she hit her head while skating. She now has what she describes as “a lot of memory issues.” For Sandra, remembering almost anything that takes place in the present is difficult. If she watches a movie, she might be able to tell you a half hour later that she sat through a film. She won’t be able to tell you what it was about, who was in it or what it was called. She says her kids get frustrated when she asks them a question and then asks the same question again a few minutes later. She’s learned to make lists and to always leave her car in the same spot in the grocery store parking lot. Her biggest challenge now is to try and continued on page 18
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hen brain injury survivors or their families call the Brain Injury Association (BIA) for help finding a support group, a therapist or maybe a ride, the call is transferred to Lisa Olinger. Olinger, the BIA’s health-care resources manager, says she fields 80 to 100 calls a month. “We form support groups, groups to socialize,” she says. “We do what we can to help people help one another.” One of the biggest hurdles for someone who has suffered a brain injury is finding the treatment. Although virtually every expert agrees that brain injury survivors need years of cognitive rehabilitation, and repetition, repetition, repetition, health care insurers don’t see it quite the same way. Insurance pays for emergency care and usually for six months of rehab. After that, brain injury survivors are often on their own. The BIA tries to fill some of the gaps with its 30 support groups and programs like Pals, a variation of the Big Brother program with brain injury survivors. And the association sees increasing education and awareness about brain injury as a primary part of its mission. Pam Bush, the BIAS’s director of communications, says brain injury is kind of like cancer was during the ’50s—feared, misunderstood and swept under the rug. Bush has all kinds of facts and figures about the prevalence of brain injury, but she feels the numbers underestimate the problem.
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way and the people around them have to accept that.” Olinger says one important way people can show support is to let brain injury survivors know they understand recovery is a process. “There are no quick fixes, and we don’t know what the outcome of rehab will be,” she says. “It’s a long haul.” A haul that not all families can endure. Some fall apart under the financial and emotional pressure of a brain injury. Divorce is common when parents have a child with a brain injury. Olinger tries to provide a road map to brain injury for families of survivors. She offers explanations for their Lisa Olinger behaviors and moods. And she helps caregivers with tips about how to solve But what troubles her most when she sees the certain problems. figure of 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries a year “I feel hopeful every day,” she says. “When people is that the majority of them were preventable, most call, a lot of times they feel lost and confused. I have often with safety practices people already know like a compass, I can help. wearing seat belts, bike helmets and driving sanely. March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and Bush says the message is starting to hit home, the Brain Injury Association holds its 30th-annual often because brain injury has either directly or conference on the 31st at the Best Western in indirectly touched people’s lives. Marlborough. The all-day conference offers exhibits “A brain injury is a big adjustment for everybody,” and workshops for professionals on new therapies, she says. “A survivor is not the same person he or research and strategies for treatment. she was before the injury. They don’t think the same
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find a job. She asked that only her first name be used for this story, because she’s afraid no one will hire her if they know she has a brain injury. “When you say brain injury, that’s a big red flag for employers,” she says. “I think of the troubles I have as manageable, but I’m not sure everyone else does.” The fear of job loss or discrimination is a major concern for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The nature of those conflicts, with so many hidden explosives, has led experts to estimate that 20 percent of today’s vets have suffered some type of traumatic brain injury. Because the symptoms of concussion can show up long after the actual injury, many vets are unaware of the problem; they just know they are struggling with headaches, memory loss, mood swings and other symptoms that have often been misdiagnosed as post-traumatic stress. Vets who are aware they have suffered a brain injury are reluctant to seek help or treatment, particularly those who might have left jobs as cops or firefighters and intended to return to those jobs once their tours of duty were up. However, the Veterans Administration is now catching up with the problem, and any vet who seeks treatment through the VA is automatically screened for brain
injury. Still, the fear of not being able to earn a living is a huge problem for brain injury survivors. Sharon says if she does find a job, she isn’t sure if she’ll tell her boss about her brain injury. “I know it could be worse,” she says. “There are people in wheelchairs, people with canes, people who have no control. I can control some things, because I can compensate for my losses.” At The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Texas, one of the nation’s top rehabilitation hospitals, Giffords is undergoing aggressive therapy. Every patient at TIRR works with an interdisciplinary team that includes a doctor, speech, occupational, physical and music therapists, a social worker, case manager, respiratory therapist, neuropsychologists, recreational therapist, nurses and a dietician. Patients are in therapy three to six hours a day. The team sets goals and goes after them. Sometimes those goals change over the course of a week, sometimes over the course of an hour. Survivors of traumatic brain injury are believed to make their biggest and most significant gains during the first year
of their recovery. At TIRR they take full advantage of the window of opportunity. It’s a tremendous and promising program and everyone with a brain injury should have that type of therapy. But ev-
I remember thinking: I have a basket, and in my basket I’m collecting crumbs, and someday I’ll have a whole loaf. —Arlene Korab eryone doesn’t. Westborogh resident Arlene Korab and her son, Kevin, faced an entirely different situation back in early September 1980. Korab remembers her phone ringing in the
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{ coverstory } Laura Mason was watching from the sidelines when her son Zach (pictured), the quarterback for Westborough’s junior varsity football team went down. “It was a head-to-head hit, but nothing happened, he got back up,” she says. When Monday morning rolled around, she noticed her son was cranky and tired. “I’m thinking he’s a 16-year-old and all that’s normal,” she explains. But then there were the headaches and Zach continued to be angry and irritable days later. “He just wasn’t himself,” says Mason. She eventually realized that something did happen during that game. Zach was showing signs of a concussion. Advocates for brain injury awareness scored a huge victory last summer when Beacon Hill legislators passed a new law that requires coaches to pull any kid who has been hit in the head out of the ongoing game. Players are not allowed to back onto the field either for practice or games until they are cleared by a doctor. The new
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law also requires coaches, parents, athletes and members of marching bands to attend an annual workshop on sports concussion. The Westborough coaches did everything right. Even though Zach wasn’t knocked out at any point, he was still taken out of the game. As it turned out, his concussion was serious enough that he sat out the rest of the season. On the field, they used to call it getting your bell rung and players who shook off the wooziness, sucked up the hurt and wobbled back in to the game usually were rewarded with a wild round of applause from the crowd. But today, people see that type of response as a leftover reaction from a generation that woke up every Saturday morning and watched Moe pummel Curley’s head with a hammer or the Road Runner drop anvils on the Coyote’s noggin. A bang on the head wasn’t considered a big deal. People are now more aware that a concussion is a brain injury that can cause fatigue, nausea, headaches and seizures for up to a year. Back-to-back concussions within a
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40 minute time frame could potentially cost a young athlete years or even a lifetime of recovery. And when a kid is groggy and seeing double, what are the odds he or she will go down again for a second hit? Jason LaCosta, the athletic director for Shrewsbury High, says a lot of local coaches were already cautious before the concussion rule. “But I do think our kids are a little safer because of all the new awareness,” he says. At Shrewsbury, even when a kid brings a note from a doctor, the school’s physical trainer will put the player through three days of tests. “He’ll have a player ride an exercise bike and check for dizziness or maybe do a figure 8,” says LaCosta. Sports concussions are usually associated with football and hockey, but LaCosta says they happen through school sports, even in field hockey and cheerleading. Still, contact sports have a higher incidence of concussions. “The other piece that should be looked at is mouth guards,” says LaCosta who adds that high-quality mouth guards help reduce the impact of a hit and give players a little more protection against concussions.
The mouth guard debate has been brewing for years and the jury is still out on whether or not they do anything to protect players from concussion. But since they do protect teeth and might possibly do more, advocates wonder why there’s any resistance to the idea. Mason is all for extra protection. She says Zach was treated at the Sports Concussion Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, where they estimate as many as 3.8 million sportsrelated concussions occur each year. A huge number of those injuries go unreported and untreated. Doctors ordered him to rest and avoid any stimulation like X-boxes, Play Stations, computers and noisy crowds. “He went through a period of frustration. There were concentration issues and make-up work from school made him tired,” she says. “But now he feels great.” Zach will be back on the team next fall. The Masons have already bought a special protective helmet that they’ll donate to the school when he graduates. Meanwhile, Zach is pumped that he’ll soon be playing his all-time favorite sport—baseball.
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“He said, ‘You know that Kevin will never do this and will never do that,’� recalls Korab. “I said, ‘I don’t know any of those things. God will tell us when it’s time.’� Korab sat by her son’s bed watching and finding hope in any slight movement or twitch. And after six months, he starting coming out of the coma. But Kevin, who had just started his freshman year at Northeastern, was waking up to an entirely new reality. He was about to begin a recovery process that would continue for the rest of his life. Initially, progress was slow. After three months in a rehab hospital, the staff told Korab they didn’t believe Kevin would make much progress. They suggested a nursing home. Korab refused and brought her son home and continued doing whatever she could, whatever worked. One of her neighbors suggested she might be better off if she would only accept what had happened, but Korab wasn’t having any of the good advice she kept getting from doctors, neighbors and friends. “I remember thinking: I have a basket, and in my basket I’m collecting crumbs, and someday I’ll have a whole loaf.� There were some good moments. One day a group of guys from the neighbor-
hood showed up with an exercise bike for Kevin. It took a whole group to hold him up on the bike and help him pedal. “I remember I asked them, how do you know what to do?� recalls Korab. “They said, “we don’t.’� But it didn’t matter, since Kevin seemed to love it all. Two years into Kevin’s recovery, Korab heard from a social worker that there was a group in Waltham that was looking for some of the same kinds of help that she was seeking for Kevin. Korab thought she was going to a support group for family members. But when she walked in, she found a group of about five people sitting around a table who, on sight, appointed her to the board of directors. That was the start of the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts. “It grew and grew because more and more people were coming out of the woodwork,� says Korab. Today, Kevin, who is in a wheelchair and still has problems with speech, is sharing an assisted-living home with another man. And Korab is the executive director of the BIA-MA, an advocacy group that provides information, referrals, counseling and support for brain-injury survivors and their families. And the organization has its allies, like state Sen. Harriette Chandler who stopped by the association to share some news
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The Joel LaRue Smith Trio: Mixing it up, Afro-Cuban Style February 18, 2011 Janet Schwartz
Joel LaRue Smith’s CD, titled “September’s Child,” is a wonderful merging of jazz, Latin and classical musical styles. As his debut CD, his talent is displayed both musically as a composer and talented pianist and as a writer of the liner notes. An interesting irony is that, after receiving numerous awards, winning competitions and getting accolades for his musical accomplishments in graduate school, his scholarship came from the English department for his writing rather than the music department.
to improving his art. After graduating, with a child on the way, he responded to an opening for a jazz band director at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He got the job and left New York, the place he had always called home. Since then, Smith has been working at the university, teaching jazz improvisation, composition, theory and other jazz courses. He also leads the university’s bigband jazz ensemble that, under his direction, plays mostly Latin and jazz standards. They’ve toured in Bulgaria, Cuba and they’re going to Guatemala in July. Smith has received particular attention from the international community, playing in several countries including Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. His dream is to continue expanding his reputation internationally
as well as right here at home. As he says, “Within everyone, there lies a dream—a deeply personal mission or calling.” To date, Smith has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Birdland, the Blue Note and with the New York Philharmonic in New York City, the Royal Albert Hall in London and the White House. He has scored music for plays and films, gotten several ASCAP awards … and he’s just getting warmed up. For Joel LaRue Smith, it seems like his dream may become a reality. With a full-time job, two kids and a music career with some new directions, he is at his peak. To see this band live, come to the Tufts Cummings School in Grafton on Friday, February 25, or go to joellaruesmith.com.
Seven of the tracks on the CD are original and the remaining four are covers of tunes by jazz icons Wayne Shorter and Mario Bauza. Smith had the opportunity to meet Bauza, a well-known Afro-Cuban musician, and was profoundly influenced by him. According to Smith, Bauza is the “reason why Latin jazz became so famous in the United States.” On one of the tracks, “Mambo Inn,” co-written by Bauza, it sounds like Smith’s fingers are lightly dancing over the keyboard to produce this upbeat, bright and exciting sound. He steps back to let his bass player, Fernando Huergo, thrill us with a fast-paced, exciting solo. Throughout the CD, you can hear Smith’s mix of classical and deep rhythmic jazz, a blend that gets your feet moving and lifts you out of your chair in a full-body reaction. Although he is a musician, composer and teacher, Smith thinks of himself mostly as a pianist because, as he says, “It’s the oldest of my allies.” At age 5, when visiting his grandfather in Louisiana, he fell in love with the piano, “even loved the smell of it. It just arrested all of my senses.” Growing up in New York, his passion for the piano never waned. While studying at the Manhattan School of Music and City College, he frequented jazz clubs, occasionally sitting in on piano. And, while working at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, the director let him use a music room to practice, which he did, after work, every night from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.—evidence of his deep commitment FEBRUARY 24, 2011 • WORCESTERMAG.COM
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On February 26, Torbin Harding is releasing the latest of five CDs of his original music at Express Yourself Coffee House in Worcester. “Hey Baby” is an interesting and diverse collection of songs composed and performed by Harding on vocals and guitar, along with Danny LaPensee on vocals and drums. Also featured on
the CD is Chet Kruzewski on harmonica, Jeff Burch on bass and Steve DiGregorio on piano. Harding also plays bass, piano, organ, synthesizer and percussion on some of the tracks. Although very different from anything he’s done is the past, Harding feels this “is the best record I’ve ever done.” The influences of hip-hop, rock and folk come through on this all-acoustic collection of original songs. Although many of the arrangements are uncomplicated, the messages are heartfelt and have a “folky-rock” sound with an unplugged feeling. In Harding’s words, the CD has a “very simple vibe.” Although quite diverse, Harding’s musical genre is closest to alternative, folk and reggae. According to Harding, the title track “Hey Baby” is a not-so-typical love song inspired while he observed a couple exchange phone numbers outside Lucky Dog, a popular Worcester nightspot. Unlike songs that dwell on the trials and
tribulations of the relationship, this song is about trying to “hook up, the first meeting,” trying to get it all started. And although it’s tentative, there’s still “magic in the air,” says Harding, as can been seen in the compelling CD cover design by Worcester artist Derek King. Originally from Worcester, Harding started writing songs and playing guitar as a teenager in the high school jazz band and various rock bands. At 17, he pursued his interest in music, studying at the Hartt School of Music. Although he left early, he continued to play in a college band in the Northeast. After touring with The Tribulations and opening for Black Uhuru and Yellow Man in West Virginia, he moved to Boston. There, while attending Berklee College of Music, his interest in synthesizers was ignited along with a serious interest in writing. By this time, he was featured in Rolling Stone magazine as a cutting-edge musician. Around that time, he started playing in the reggae band, Hot Like Fire and started up an experimental punk-rock band, The Secret. After graduating from Berklee in 1995, he spent a year in Ireland, playing traditional Irish music and touring the country with the cover band Soulmasters. Upon returning to the United States, Harding created his own label, Lo-Z Records and Publishing, so that he could “pick and choose” who he wanted to record. Lo-Z Records produces and records albums for poets, rock bands, hiphop and reggae groups. In these sessions, Harding acts as producer and engineer, and he usually plays guitar and other instruments along with LaPensee and Kruzewski. One thing that differentiates this studio from many other recording studios, besides the cost, is that Harding utilizes reel-to-reel tapes, adding that, in his opinion, analog sound is much warmer than a digital sound. In addition to his role as producer/engineer and studio musician and writer, these days he sometimes plays with Hot Like Fire. In the last year, Lo-Z Records produced three albums and, going forward, Harding wants to produce at least one a year. He’s already planning his next CD. There’s no stopping him. To hear them live, visit Express Yourself Coffee House in Worcester on February 26 at 7:30 p.m. or go to lozrecords.com. “Hey Baby” can be found on iTunes or at Jellies on Park Avenue in Worcester.
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in an antagonizing manner to the crowd. “You may laugh...” said Zaccarino, “but all this was paid for by you!” “You should help keep us rich, rich, rich, and vote for republican candidate Marty Lamb,” meowed Adams. “His Lamb-chop plan is exactly the sort of policy that keeps pussies like me rich.” “We were trying to call attention to how fucked up the banking system is,” explains O’Neil in disgust. “They fucked up big and got bailed out. Then they spent the bail out money by rewarding themselves for doing what they did, which is what got us in this situation in the first place. Top execs are still getting their bonuses. The Felines of Finance was our way of poking fun at the situation. Being too serious about politics is a drag.” They proceeded to throw stacks of “Surplus Money” up in the air, at the crowd, and even went as far as rolling up a cigar made of money and smoking it. This was a hilariously clever way to call out the financial reform bill, which is full of loop holes. It was a really fun show and the crowd got really into it. They also had free beer and pizza, which I noticed is provided at many of their shows. “We believe that sometimes shows can be boring,” says O’Niel, “In Boston I see a lot of the same bands playing at the same places. There’s no incentive to go to the show. The presence of pizza and beer make it feel like a party, and partying is fun.” Bone Zone has released two albums so far. The CD “Perching on the Beam” was released in 2006, and a split 7” with the Terribles titled “Double Downer” in 2009. Bone Zone just finished recording its new album “Kandy Klown 4 PREZ” with Jamie Buckmaster on drums, which will be released at the end of the month and available for free download at perchingonthebeam.org. Bone Zone has a “secret show” at a “secret location” coming up next weekend, so keep your eyes “beamed” and your ears “perched.”
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In this world of punks and politics, greed and corruption, there is a ZONE chalked off by society where abandonment means standing your ground and making something positive happen. A trio of vigilantes continues to do just that, shining the flood lights on corruption that seeks to hide in the darkest shadows and away from the public eye. Welcome to the BONE ZONE….
Bone Zone started in 2005 with Matt Zaccarino on Bass, Dan O’Niel on Guitar and A.J. Adams on drums. Its musical influences include Colonial Marching Drums and the sounds that Cape Cod houses make. Needless to say, it’s not your typical punk rock band. Bone Zone members have a truly interesting dynamic and play for the right reasons. Zaccarino, a local 8th-grade school teacher, full of energy and excitement, follows the Backward Business Plan. There are two parts to this plan: the first is that they never charge money for recorded music, and the second is that any money that they do raise goes to charity. This year they sent all the money made to an orphanage, the Lotus Children’s Center, in Mongolia. “It’s like the Robin Hood theory,” jokes Zaccarino, “steal from the dicks and give to the poor.” On October 22nd 2010, Bone Zone played a free show at the F.Y.C., which appeared on 508, a local TV program about Worcester hosted by Mike Benedetti. The band performed as The Felines of Finance. Dressed as “fat cats” in business suits, they pretended to be billionaire bankers. Equipped with a golden litter box lined with cash and a money scratching post, they flaunted their billionaire lifestyles
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Steve Macone is a wonderful cross between the zaniest guy at the party (with or without a lampshade on his head) and a Wisconsin cheddar-sharp wallflower taking astute mental notes nervously in the corner. A regular contributor at The Onion, Macone’s humor writing and/or funny, weird essays have also appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Online, Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix and AOL News. He’s been featured on NPR and his story about playing with action figures was named a “notable essay” in the Best American Essays series. Originally from Medford, he began bringing his words to life onstage seven years ago. “Seven Years. If I were an indentured servant in colonial America, I’d be free. But I do comedy so I am not,” quipped Macone. He works 100% clean and can talk about time machines and Jurassic Park for about an hour if you ask him nicely at the right time. Although comedy has brought Macone across the US, Canada, Ireland and England, he says “The road can be fun, but that’s not where life is.” Macone now resides in Somerville, at a
location he says is “right on the corner of Make a Joke About Parking Street and Outdated Stereotype About Crime Ave.” We caught up with Steve inside of a couch cushion fort and asked him these probing questions.
There are enormous amounts of people on the Internet calling themselves stand up comedians. What do you think separates yourself from the masses? You can call yourself whatever you want on the Internet. For instance, I call myself Harry, a spiteful 43-year-old with an exhaustive knowledge of wines and a penchant for witty comments on parenting message boards even though Harry has no children of his own. The difference between watching standup on the Internet and being at a show can be like the difference between watching a cooking show and eating. There’s a fundamental thing you’re missing when it’s not right there in front of you. It’s tough to judge someone until you see them live. And, like food, good standup usually comes with a smell.
Have you ever had any weird/unsavory day jobs?
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You wrote an article about playing with “guys.” Whenever I had any male action figures, I would make them go out on little dates
No, that’s icky. Plus GI Joe has had trouble being in a stable relationship because of the constant fear of redeployment. And everyone forgets teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were rendered sterile by the same toxic ooze that granted them their powers. It’s not an absolute hindrance to their dating; it just looms large over the whole process.
Name a non-food item you’ve eaten. Sand. Also, on occasion, Burger King.
I used to be a total “Gother than thou” Morticia Addams style Goth. Are you embarrassed by any “look” you tried out in the past? Like a bowl haircut, or pegging your jeans? I had a rat-tail when I was six. But the most embarrassing thing was that I didn’t even lobby for it. My mom just kind of saw everyone doing it, suggested it, and I let it happen. My mom was picking my hairstyles. And wait, pegging your jeans isn’t cool?
In the picture of you on your website there are two moons in the night sky. What’s it like living on Mars, other than no traffic? Those two moons, the two moons of Mars, are named for the gods of dread and panic. That’s what I carry with me into stand up performances, which I look at as a kind of war against mediocrity (Mars being the god of war). Not in a nervous sense, but in the sense that when you get on stage you don’t know what will happen and you might die. A good show is a conversation with the crowd, but also a kind of battle, like an hour long one of those witty repartee session dudes have in movies while they’re sword fighting. On guard, Worcester... Steve Macone is co-headlining with Sean Donovan at Wisecracks on Saturday, Feb 26. Wisecracks is located on the second floor of Jose Murphy’s, 97 Water St., Worcester. 8p.m., 18+, $12, Advance tickets are available at wisecrackscomedyclub.com. Find out more about Steve Macone at stevemacone.com.
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Sometimes I am acutely aware of the prism through which I watch movies: male, American, insistent bordering on impatient. I don’t require explosions and ear-splitting soundtracks or even grand gestures. But I do appreciate a certain amount of forward locomotion in a movie, at a reasonable pace, followed by a cut-to-the-chase moment or two.
I was sensitive to all of the above while viewing Mademoiselle Chambon, a delicate little French film about an elongated flirtation between a married construction worker and his son’s teacher. They are mutually infatuated, are clearly pondering an affair, and for the better part of the movie’s running time they exchange furtive, then lingering, then longing looks. Their will-they-or-won’t-they posture is like the build-up to a really big sneeze that for this American, insistent-borderingon-impatient male takes way too long to occur. Gesundheit already! Yes, there is sophistication here; there are gentle, touching performances. The burly, sadeyed Vincent Linden perpetuates the wonderful French tradition of common-looking leading men in a country that regards Gerard Depardieu as a heartthrob. His Jean is modestly happy, married to a lovely, caring woman, Anne Marie (Aure Atika), and father to a bright boy. When he meets his son’s teacher, the younger, single Veronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), he accepts her request to speak to her class about building houses and finds himself utterly charmed. Life was good, now it gets messy. Jean replaces a window in Veronique’s apartment; she plays him a soulful piece on her violin. Over the next few weeks he finds weak excuses to see her. They chat about, well, stuff, never acknowledging the emotional subtext of their meetings. Jean broods; Veronique weeps. The film gives import to a light caress or a quick glance, the brief interactions only adding to the couple’s suffering. As the innocent bystander, Anne Marie
evokes both our sympathy and our empathy. When Jean acts especially moody, she wants an explanation. When Veronique is invited to play the violin at the birthday party for Jean’s father, Anne Marie — no dummy — senses the spark between her husband and the pretty teacher. Writer-director Stephane Brize takes his time with all this ... does he ever. While I appreciated the purposeful restraint of Mademoiselle Chambon, I was too often reminded of the film Somewhere, in which a Hollywood actor played by Stephen Dorff spends his days in a state of numbness, staring
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into space, bereft of any sort of interior life. The difference with Mademoiselle Chambon is that Jean and Veronique have internalized everything almost to a fault, which leads to similarly long stretches of space-staring. I return to the original premise that my perception of a languid French film is easily shaped by my personal circumstances. Sometimes, I’m capable of putting aside my biases and letting the storytelling convince me that something special is going on. Unfortunately, I never quite got there with Mademoiselle Chambon. Mademoiselle Chambon will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and at 1 and 3 p.m. on Sunday in the Jefferson Academic Center at Clark University. The film is part of the Cinema 320 series. FEBRUARY 24, 2011 • WORCESTERMAG.COM
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As we all know, Rhode Island’s Farrelly Brothers own the dubious distinction of having been one of the pioneers of gross-out comedy, a genre of modern pop cinema that I for one would be just as happy if it had remained uninvented. For me this kind of thing should be placed on a scale of artistry somewhere between midget wrestling and Benny Hill. Your results may vary of course, especially if you are a sucker for poop jokes. If so, then you’ll be in coprophilic heaven after watching this one. That much said Hall Pass did manage to make me laugh a bit, which, whether you enjoy these kinds of films or not, you have to agree is about the only way you can really judge them. It’s like the old hustler rating system where they used the symbol of a penis to appraise porn. If it’s sticking straight up you know you’ve got a winner. Flaccid means don’t bother. This is an even more appropriate comparison to use than you might think. More on that later. The film is highly formulaic, but if you are into this kind of thing then you don’t care. In fact you count on it, in the same way you expect basic structure at a monster truck rally. There will be a setup where the participants are introduced (the sexually frustrated husbands, their bemused wives), an announcement of the prize (in this case, getting laid outside of marriage), a furtive race around in a circle where participants ram into each other and cause destruction (here known as “the plot”), and the final sprint to the conclusion. And also like said rally, it doesn’t matter who wins — as long as the audience is entertained along the way. I hesitate to waste space telling you what actually goes on in the film because you’ve seen the trailer and you already know. You’ve also already been exposed to 65% of the jokes, which are of course the funniest ones. The rest can’t be shown because they involve, in this order: a guy taking a dump in the sandtrap at a golf course, another guy (in this case SNL vet Jason Sudeikis) being confronted by hanging man meat in a sauna, and
that same hapless actor dealing with an attractive drunk woman who projectile poops. At the screening this last one brought the house down, and nearly brought my lunch back up. Sandwiched within all this fecal foolishness are four pretty good actors giving it their best to convince you they are real people with actual thoughts, concerns and so on. Owen Wilson plays Rick, a horndog with a heart of gold
who doesn’t fully appreciate his hot wife Maggie (Jenna Fischer, doomed by TV overexposure on The Office to this kind of thing, sorry to say). His buddy Fred (Sudeikis) feels the same about his even hotter wife Grace (Christina Applegate, who has talent and I predict will do some serious work before she eventually is relegated to playing stock crazy geriatrics like, say, the mother-in-law in some future remake of Bewitched). Anyway, the guys are given the titular “Hall Pass” for a week off marriage, and of course all they do is get drunk, stoned and stupid with their idiot buddies, none of whom could get their dicks wet in a tsunami. Along comes Coakley (Richard Jenkins, a class act slumming it) who is like the Sherlock Holmes of pick up artists. And so some of the cast get laid. I won’t give away who, because that’s the only thing you don’t already know going in. And when you see it (which you will), if the conclusion is in any way a surprise, well, I hope you have a good time at the monster truck rally.
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In 2009, The Citizen Wine Bar opened in a stylish space on the ground floor of One Exchange Place. With hip cocktails, well-chosen beers, boutique wines, and a distinctive bar menu built around charcuterie, creative sandwiches and high-quality cheeses and chocolates, The Citizen seemed just the thing for downtown Worcester. Happily, Niche Hospitality has expanded upstairs to create The People’s Kitchen (TPK), a comfortable and chic venue that strikes a balance between upscale and comfort dining. Score one for the people. TPK offers an attractive, interesting space with lots of wood, brick and glass, and a wait staff that’s welcoming and
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Spring Harvest: Klem’s is gearing up for its Farmers’ Market with a call out for applications. No fees and space is free to qualifying vendors. Print out an application online at klemsonline.com or e-mail pesto@linabellasgarlic.com. Farmers’ Market runs June 4 through October 22, 2011, directly next to Klem’s at 117 W. Main St. in Spencer.
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it’s easy to splurge. “Deconstructed apple pie” riffs on the New England tradition of cooked apples and cheddar cheese, topping them with a thick biscuit and a scoop of cinnamon gelato. STEVEN KING Cinnamon dominates the conversation, but it’s still a tasty discussion. Slabs of Valrhona dark chocolate from France, served simply with a large, ripe strawberry, provide deep satisfaction. During two visits, our waiter is almost frantic in his efforts, not just to make us happy but to help us understand the chef’s intentions. The service might be a bit much for someone looking The elbow macaroni are tender, the peas bright-green beacons amid the silky sauce. for a quiet and intimate experience, but we appreciate the enthusiasm and Another night, a baby shrimp, sweet attentiveness. potato and chorizo casserole proves a There are areas of TPK tainted by a tasty and creative option. faint smell of smoke. Whether it’s from Those who wander off the “Supper” the neighboring cigar bar or previous use menu can choose from fairly priced dryof the building, it’s detectable by some. aged steaks, creative seafood dishes, If you’re sensitive, choose your table house-made charcuterie, even foie gras carefully. It’s not a deal-breaker for most for those so inclined. A lamb shank is diners, but it’s there. properly tender and napped in a suave I’m rooting for The People’s Kitchen. chipotle sauce with exemplary mashed It’s a great concept, well executed, and potatoes and a big pile of blistered green delivers a relaxing yet sophisticated urban beans – all for $16. The seasonal menu experience at excellent prices. After all, shifts frequently. isn’t that what the people deserve? When dessert is included in the deal,
solicitous — at times trying too hard, but in an appealing way. The compact menu is tempting, and the focus is on high-quality ingredients and artisanal approaches. Sundays through Thursdays, the emphasis is also on great value, as the “TPK Supper” offers an exceptional deal: a three-course meal for just $20. The people won’t go thirsty here. Almost all selections on the short but carefully chosen wine list are under $30, and the bar offers a creative range of vintage and modern cocktails. Beers on draught include Affligem Blond, Stone IPA, and Rogue Chocolate Stout. Appetizer choices, mostly $7 to $9, include creative salads, homemade soups, truffled mac-n-cheese and more. Fried calamari is usually on offer — one time, in a stunning Cuban mojo and lime version, another time a bit dominated by a wasabi sauce. Sausage and kale soup has deep flavors, with more kale needed to balance out all of the lean, house-made sausage. Main courses for the TPK Supper sound like a high-school-cafeteria menu from the ’70s: tuna-noodle casserole, meatloaf, shepherd’s pie. However, these are modern interpretations of iconic comfort foods. “American chop suey” features large tubes of lumache pasta in a meaty Bolognese-
inspired sauce. The serving is large, as are the flavors. The tuna noodle – a little casserole just for you! – is flecked with bacon and topped with a Gouda crust.
decidedly frightened of tequila, but let The Citizen change your mind. Join them on March 3 for an Espolón Tequila tasting featuring Blanco (unaged and bold) and Reposado (smoother and more complex) tequilas. These 100 percent agave spirits will be served alone and in cocktails, accompanied by a small chef’s plate as a compliment. Admission is $30. Bottom’s Up! The Speakeasy at The Citizen, 1 Exchange Place., Worcester.
Sauce? Then it’s time to get cooking! Dr. Gonzo is hosting an “All Things Wings Grilling Extravaganza” on March 20 at the Uncommon Condiments Emporium, and he’s looking for competitors. Sauces can be prepared in advance and entrants must use a charcoal grill as the primary heat source. Dr. Gonzo is no stranger to hosting cooking contests: the recent “Swine Flu Two Xtreme Grilling Challenge” was a huge success and a ton of fun for the whole spice-loving family. Find the event on Facebook for updates. Dr. Gonzo’s Uncommon Condiments,122 Main St., Worcester.
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It’s hard not to notice the general malaise that has swept over the city over the last two months. As the snow banks rose, morale plummeted. Narrow roads and icy sidewalks made everything a little slower and more treacherous: needless to say, staying home to cook dinner and think upon better times seemed like the only option. Perhaps Worcester Restaurant Week is the kind of divine intervention this city needs to make it through our winter of despair.
This winter marks Worcester’s third foray into the wide world of restaurant weeks. Nearby Boston and Providence had been at it for years before Worcester caught on, but that’s not to say our version of the event is any less polished. Pagio Inc. — the media company that owns Pulse Magazine and Taste Worcester — has been producing the event since the start. The presenters have kept Worcester’s event true to the spirit of restaurant weeks before them, gathering some of the city’s best-loved restaurants, along with some hidden gems, to offer unbeatable deals on quality meals.
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Now, you might be thinking that if you went to Worcester Restaurant Week last summer there’s no reason to go again, and that’s where you’d be wrong. Many of the restaurants featured this winter have done the event at least once before, but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up on trying to impress you. Restaurant owners see seasons differently than the rest of us: for many of them, the snowier months mean slower business. “This has been a cabin-fever winter,” says Brendan O’Connor of O’Connor’s Restaurant & Bar. “We’re happy to do this and get people out and about.” “The event brings light to an otherwise dreary winter,” adds Robin Paradis, general manager of Amici’s Trattoria and Willy’s Steakhouse & Sushi Bar. What many restaurant owners and staff are most looking forward to is the influx of fresh faces that events like these usually bring. “Day after day I walk through the bar and I know who will be there,” says John Piccolo of Piccolo’s Italian Restaurant. “I know a lot of them by name. Restaurant Weeks brings in new customers.” Even in the current economy, it’s hard to argue with the deals Restaurant Week offers: diners select dishes from special three-course menus, all for a supremely reasonable $22.11. With deals like these, customers feel more comfortable trying a new venue or cuisine. “We want to give you a sense of how extensive our menu is,” Joseph
Cancelmo of Squire’s says. Even though the Restaurant Week menus are “limited,” chefs can use this opportunity to show off their culinary capabilities and reel in hungry clientele. “We’re hoping for a lot of people this will seal the deal.” “This gives customers an opportunity to try different things,” says Maria Zona of La Scala. “People were really excited, too, that they were able to give input for our menu this year.” A theme running through this year’s Restaurant Week is that of giving back. For Restaurant Week participants, old customers are just as important as new ones. Discounts are a way of showing the regulars that they’re appreciated at the same time as encouraging newcomers to take off their coats and stay awhile. For others, giving back also means sharing the wealth with establishments that aren’t as easily able to take part in the festivities. Piccolo says that he didn’t include a dessert course in this year’s menu because he wants customers to take advantage of Shrewsbury Street’s dessert bars and bakeries. “We don’t think we should isolate people,” Piccolo says. There’s nothing like good food to bring a city together. Worcester Restaurant Week: February 28 - March 13. For more information visit worcestermag.com.
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Now that you know a little bit more about why you should sample everything Worcester Restaurant Week has to offer, you’re probably wondering where you can go to enjoy it. Take a look and map out your dining road trip for the week! AJ Tomaiolo’s Restaurant, Northborough Amici’s Trattoria, Shrewsbury amicitrattoria.com Bocado Tapas Wine Bar, Worcester bocadotapasbar.com Biagio’s Grille, Worcester biagiosgrille.com Bistro Limoncello, Northborough bistrolimoncello.com The Boynton, Worcester boyntonrestaurant.com Brew City Grill & Brew House, Worcester brew-city.com Byblos Lounge, Worcester The Castle Restaurant, Leicester castlerestaurant.com Celtic Tavern, Northborough celtictav.com Ceres Bistro, Worcester ceresbistro.com Chioda’s Trattoria, Worcester chiodastrattoria.com Chuck’s Steakhouse, Auburn chucks.com Coral Seafood, Worcester coralseafood.com El Basha, Worcester & Westboro elbasharestaurant.com EVO, Worcester evodining.com Flying Rhino Café & Watering Hole, Worcester flyingrhinocafe.com Haiku, Worcester haikusushi.com Il Forno, West Boylston il-forno.com Joey’s Bar & Grill, Worcester La Scala, Worcester lascalashrewsburystreet.com Le Mirage, Worcester lemiragerestaurant.com Leo’s Ristorante, Worcester leosristorante.net Mezcal, Worcester mexcalcantina.com Northworks Bar & Grille, Worcester northworks.com O’Connor’s Restaurant & Bar, Worcester oconnorsrestaurant.com The People’s Kitchen/The Citizen, Worcester thecitizenwinebar.com Piccolo’s, Worcester piccolos157.com Porto Bello, Worcester portobellorestaurant156.com Smokestack Urban Barbeque, Worcester bbqstack.com The Sole Proprietor, Worcester thesole.com Squire’s, Worcester squirewhites.com The Registry, Worcester Tweed’s Pub, Worcester tweedspub.com VIA, Worcester viaitaliantable.com Via Alto, Clinton ristoranteviaalto27.com Willy’s Steakhouse Grill & Sushi Bar, Shrewsbury willyssteakhouse.com Ziti’s Italian Trattoria, Worcester & Westborough zitisitaliantrattoria.com 86 Winter, Worcester 86winter.com 111 Chophouse, Worcester 111chophouse.com
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Giovanni’s, across from Hope Cemetery, is another Italian bakery that is specifically a bakery as opposed to a café.
On our dessert adventure, we picked up two cannoli each (one traditional, one with a chocolate-covered shell), a slice of tiramisu each, a lobster tail, a similar orange-and-almond-flavored pastry, and two bite-sized cheesecakes. The cannoli were definitely some of the better ones that we’ve had in regards to flavor, texture and balance of sweet and richness. The tiramisu was good, but not outstanding in any way; it was more sweet than rich without a complex bitterness to the coffee. The lobster tail had a great crust and a light, fluffy filling of marscapone and crème, while its similar-looking orange-and-almondflavored pastry didn’t have quite as much orange or almond flavor as expected.
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In fact, upon entering, you can look right into where they bake their bread. The specialty for Giovanni’s seems to be more sweetly inclined, as well. Everything displayed that wasn’t bread was some type of dessert. Shelves to the left showcased various cookies, including pizelle, while the main bakery case included more cookies, cannoli, pastries and cakes.
Best of all were the bite-sized cheese cakes, which were extremely rich with a nice cream cheese tang and the perfect baked cheesecake texture: not too dense, but not too creamy. Giovanni’s is definitely a solidly good dessert bakery to hit, plus it’s easy to get to for a lot of Worcester and Auburn residents.
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Want to know what the heck the Worcester Arts Council does here in the city? Then stop by the Worcester Arts Council Monthly Meeting on Thursday, February 24, and find out for yourself. It’s free, and a great way to help inspire and influence arts and culture in the woo. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Worcester City Hall, Room 310B, 3rd Floor, 455 Main St.
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the sap flows as he taps one of Tower Hill’s Sugar Maples during Sugar Maple Tree Tapping on Saturday, February 26. Free with admissions. 1-3 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr., Boylston. 508-8696111, visit towerhillbh.org.
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Sopranopalooza is a gala fund-raising event in support of WOW’s upcoming June opera, with an evening concert featuring many of the group’s talented ladies
at Ellie’s Pet Barn. Save an animal, gain a friend. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ellie’s Pet Barn, 785-B Main St., Holden. 508-853-0030, worcester-arl.org.
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Enjoy the acoustic and vocal talents of Apple Tree Arts’ faculty, staff and friends at the nonprofit community arts school’s annual Apple Tree Arts’ Faculty & Friends Concert on Sunday, February 27. Classical, gospel, contemporary and Broadway music will be featured. Monica Hatch,
show, Pawn Stars and now it’s your chance to meet Rick, Corey and Chumlee in person during the Pawn Stars Gold & Silver Road Show on Sunday, February 27. You could be selected to bring your item to the show and negotiate directly with the stars of pawn yourself! During the live show, experience the Pawn Stars version of The Price is Right or “Are You Smarter than a Chumlee?” Tickets range from $40$125, depending on seating location. 4-6 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 877-571-7469, thehanovertheatre.org.
Mass Audubon’s popular lecture series continues with Friday Night Lecture Series:
Something Lost and Something Gained. Changes in the Flora of Worcester County on Friday, February 25. $7 Mass Audubon members, $10
nonmembers. 7:30-9 p.m. Mass Audubon: Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, 113 Goodnow Rd., Princeton. 978-4642712, visit massaudubon.org.
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During Access Hanover on Saturday, February 26, you’ll get a back stage pass to learn about the building of the Mighty Wurlitzer. Using discarded parts from more than 20 theatre pipe organs, come hear about the challenges of finding a permanent home for this highly specialized instrument. This event will include a talk about the project, a behind-the-scene tour of the 35-rank organ, music by organist Len Beyerdorfer (composer of the Hanover Theatre March) and a unique opportunity for attendees to try their hand at playing the largest theatre pipe organ in New England. Light refreshments. Free for members and their guests. $10 for everyone else. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 508471-1781, thehanovertheatre.org.
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Have you and your kids ever wished to skate on the same rink that the Worcester Sharks compete on? Well now you can, as the DCU presents an Open Skate at the DCU Center on Saturday, February 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy free ice-skating time, with limited rental skates available on site for $2. DCU Center-Arena and Convention Center, 50 Foster St. 508-755-6800, dcucenter.com.
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(accompanied by Olga Rogach) singing solo pieces as well as beautiful ensemble music suited to women’s voices, plus a raffle, silent auction and refreshments. What better way to spend a cold winter’s evening than in the warm glow of music and friends? Featuring music from Broadway, opera and other favorites! Saturday, February 26. Free, but donations appreciated. 7-9:30 p.m. Briarwood Community Center, Briarwood Circle. 508-930-7062, worcesteroperaworks.com.
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During the WARL Adoption Weekend at Ellie’s Pet Barn, stop by on Saturday, February 26, and meet the WARL dogs available for adoption. On Sunday, February 27, meet the WARL cats available for adoption. Fall in love on the spot! Same-day adopters will receive a $20 coupon good toward items
well-known masterful vocalist, will sing; Lisa Scarlett, theater arts director will perform; Bishop Nunn will perform a classical violin piece; Tina Ho will play a piano number; Christine Tsen will play the cello and Apple Tree Arts Community Chorus will perform. Founded in 1989, the organization has grown to serve more than 1,000 children and adults annually with a variety of early-childhood music classes, private music instruction, group keyboard lessons, ensembles, theater-arts programs and concerts. $12/$5 students and children, $20 family max. 4-5:30 p.m. Evangelical Congregational Church, 30 Grafton Common, Grafton. 508-839-4286, appletreearts.org.
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Join the American Cancer Society in the fight against cancer through its Daffodil Days® program now through March 1. during their Hope Blooms throughout Worcester fundraiser . Bouquets of daffodils are available for a donation of $10. Send flowers anonymously to cancer patients by donating a Gift of Hope, for $25. Potted plants are $15 and a bear delivered to a child with cancer for $25. Orders are due Tuesday, March 1. Funds raised support the Society’s mission of saving lives and creating more birthdays. To reserve Daffodils call 800.227.2345 or cancer.org/daffodils.
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Aren’t you getting tired of spending your Thursday nights at home watching Seinfeld reruns? Here’s an idea, get up off your stinky old couch and head into Worcester for some musical entertainment that is sure to please. Spend Thursday February 24 at Beatnik’s with Asia Mei and Andres Wilson and you are sure to love the expressive, moody piano rock songs you’ll hear. Matt Shwachman Band, otherwise known as MSB, returns to town and sets up game at the Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge. For a little femme fatale, check out Sirens of Song at Nick’s. Stop by Vincent’s Bar for some roots music with James Keyes. Then finish your night at the Coppertop Lounge/ Wachusett Mountain Ski Area as they bring a taste of Nashville alternative/ psychedelic rock to the mountain with The Sheaves. You know your wife is dying to go out dancing, there’s no way she’ll leave you alone until you take her. On Friday, February 25 Lucky Dog Music Hall has the solution, featuring Go Gadget Go! (pictured) and Six to Midnight. For a little luck of the Irish, The Jug o’ Punch offers what they call “a rollicking good time!” over at Fiddlers’ Green Pub & Restaurant. Maybe classical music is what gets your radio blasting? If that’s the case, stop by Tuckerman Hall to see the world-renowned Cuarteto Casals, a talented string quartet from Spain. For a whole different cacophony of sounds, check out Ghost of Gaia, Avira, Kerrigan, Immolate, Eye The Skyline, and Mason District at The Raven. Top off your night at Ralph’s for the fantastic Hey Now Morris Fader, along with Kingsley Flood, The Rationales and Glenn Yoder (Cassavettes). If you are looking to get tossed around in a serious mosh pit, then you need to be at the Palladium on Saturday, February 26 for the sounds of the Adversaries, Darkwoods, Jack Burton vs. David Lo Pan and more. If you are a fan of Torbin Harding then make sure you are at Express Yourself Coffee House to celebrate his “Hey Baby” CD release party. “This is my fifth album and these are the best songs I have ever written and Daniel Lapensee’s drumming is fantastic!” Torbin explained. Herra Terra, Ghost Ocean, Bovachevo and Golden Spurs bring some local punk and alt themed beats to Ralph’s tonight. Plus The Raven hosts Miss Geo and The Metrics, Captain Cat, Duende, The Jupiter Sea Band and Mirrors. Finally, get ready to get your groove on and dance to R&B, West Coast, Blues and more when The Groove Devils come to Gilrein’s. WORCESTERMAG.COM
Booklovers’ Gourmet, “Hearts & Flowers” Group Art Show & Sale, Through Feb. 28. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232 or er3.com/book. College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren Robbins, through March 31. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-7933356 or holycross.edu EcoTarium, February Vacation Week - Toymakers Workshop, Tuesday - Friday; Budding Scientists - Sense of Touch, Thursday (March 3); Welcome Spring!, Saturday (March 19) - Sunday; Turtle Travels, Through June 5; Preschool and Toddler Wednesdays, Wednesdays, through Dec. 31. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12.00 adults; $8.00 for children ages 2-18, college students with IDs & senior citizens. Children under 2 & EcoTarium members free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special programs. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org Fitchburg State University: Hammond Campus Center, CenterStage at Fitchburg State University presents ARTeries 2011, Through Feb. 23; CenterStage at Fitchburg State University presents ARTeries 2011, Through Feb. 23; Landscapes, Wednesday (March 9). 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. fsc.edu Higgins Armory Museum, WOO Card good at Higgins Armory Museum, Through Dec. 31; Exhibit: Beyond Belief: The Curious Collection of Professor Rufus Excalibur Bell, Through June 20. Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: General Admission: $10 for Adults, $7 for Children (age 4-16), Children 3 and under are Free. 100 Barber Ave. 508-853-6015 or higgins.org. Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Beauty In Excess on Display, Through Aug. 31. Hours: 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 414 Massasoit Ave. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org Museum of Russian Icons, The Art of Icon Painting: A 4-Day Hand-on Workshop, Tuesday - Friday; Treasures from Moscow: Icons from the Andrey Rublev Museum, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Oct. 23 - July 25; Golosa Choir, University of Chicago, Thursday (March 24). Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 11-3 a.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 11-3 a.m. Friday, 9-3 a.m. Saturday. $5 adults, senior voluntary contribution, student and children free. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000 or 978-598-5005 or museumofrussianicons.org. Post Road Art Center, Call to Artists: Animal Show 2011, through Feb. 24. Hours: closed Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 1 Boston Post Road, Marlborough. 508-4852580 or postroadartcenter.com Old Sturbridge Village, Dinner in a Country Village, Saturdays, through March 26; Maple Days and Maple Sugaring Weekends in March, Sundays, Saturdays, March 5 - March 27; Patriots Day, Monday (April 18); New Lambs! Spring Vacation Weeks, Saturday (April 9) - Monday; Muster Day, Saturday (June 11); Redcoats and Rebels Revolutionary War Reenactment, Saturday (Aug. 6) - Sunday; Textile Weekend, Saturday (Aug. 13) - Sunday;
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Drummers’ Call: Fife and Drum Day, Saturday (Sept. 10); Evening at the Kiln, Saturday (Sept. 10); Apple Days, Saturday (Oct. 1) Sunday; Harvest Days, Saturday (Oct. 15) - Sunday; Things That Go Bump in the Night, Saturday (Oct. 29); Ride the Stagecoach at Old Sturbridge Village, Monday (May 30) - Thursday. Admission: $7 $20 charged by age. Children under 3 free. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 or osv.org. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, At Home in the 365-Day Garden - A Lecture and Book Signing with Margaret Roach, Saturday (March 5). 11 French Drive, Boylston. towerhillbg.org. Worcester Art Museum, Zip Tour: Greek Influence on Roman Art, Saturday; Sunday Public Tour, Sundays, Sept. 12 - May 22; Zip Tour: Two Paintings in the Donnelly Gallery--Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Saturday (March 5); Zip Tour: Rembrandt’s Saint Bartholomew, Saturday (March 12); Zip Tour: A Closer Look at Louise Nevelson, Saturday (March 19); Zip Tour: Spring Portraits, Saturday (March 26); Edouard Manet’s The Dead Toreador, Sept. 25 - March 31; Goya and the Bullfight, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Dec. 18 - April 17. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $10 adults, $8 seniors, free for youth 17 and under. Free for all Saturdays, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org. Worcester Center for Crafts, Center Yourself: A Juried Photographic Exhibition through March 12; Quake - Artists Reception and Gallery Talk, Thursday (April 7); Quake: Unexpected Patterns, April 7 - April 30; Decorative Forging for Your Landscape, Saturday (May 21); Hot Night in the City, Thursday (July 21). Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-7538183 or worcestercraftcenter.org. WPI: George C. Gordon Library, A Celebration of Art and Writing, Through March 4; A Well-Documented Life : The Theo Brown Diaries, Through June 15. 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu.
music >Thursday 24 asia mei & Andres WIlson live. join alternative singer/ songwriter duo asia mei and Andres Wilson for their first Worcester show ever! They will switch off on originals and awesome renditions of rock and blues gems in an intimate, acoustic setting. FREE. 7-9 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on facebook. DJ Roberta. Dance to your favorite rock, classic rock, top 40 and country hits! 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006. Good Times with Your Friend DJ Steve. Featured in the main bar area every Thursday, DJ Steve, friend to all, spins rock and roll nuggets from the 1950s to an hour ago. 9-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Irish Music Session.The public are welcome to join in music, song, and camaraderie. No cover charge, all ages and talent levels welcome. 7:30-10 p.m. Mulligan’s Taverne-on-the-Green, 121 West Main St., Westborough. 508-344-4932 or westboroughsession. com. Open Mic Night W/ Bill McCarthy 7:30-11:30 p.m. Junior’s Pizza Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-459-5800. Flock Of A-Holes w/ Greendame and TBA!. $5. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on facebook. Ken Macy. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Cafe Destare, 320 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-5734. Open Mic Jam. All players and singers are welcome! FREE. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Mill Street Brews (@ The Artist Development Complex), 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900. The Sheaves. No cover. 8-10 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/ Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or wachusett.com. Alan Evans & The PlayOnBrother Band. Soul funk syndicate featuring Jeff Lockhart, Chris Loftlin, Brian “BT” Thomas,
Ryan “Zwad” Zoidis, Sam “Huff” Kininger, Alecia Chakour and Nigel Hall. $10 at the door $7 online purchase. 9 p.m.-midnight The Arts Block, 289 Main St., Greenfield. 413-774-0150 or theartsblock. heroku.com. Chris Reddy. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cigar Masters, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Matt Shwachman Band. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Metal Thursday!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. open mic band w/ ed sherdian. 9 p.m.-noon Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. Sirens of Song!. No Cover!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Andy Cummings Live. $3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Hooligan’s, 29 Blossom St., Fitchburg. 508-272-5092. James Keyes. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.
>Friday 25 Ghost of Gaia, Avira, Kerrigan, Immolate, Eye The Skyline, Mason District. $5. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133. X-Cess Fridays. DJ Patrick Allen BLU Ultralounge & Nightclub, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227 or blu-nightclub.com. After Hours Live Music at The Rabbit Hole. Featured band is a punk rock group No Dice, Chicago from New York. Also included in the line-up are Mirrors, Lamp Attack And Mack The Knife. Free. 7-10 p.m. Rabbit Hole (bookstore and more), 805 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-0040 or therabbitholeusa.com. BBQ & Blues Fridays with Big Jon Short. Come out to enjoy some of the area’s best BBQ and some Delta and Hill Country Blues. bbqstack.com bigjonshort.com. 7-10 p.m. Smokestack Urban Barbecue, 90 Harding St. Charlie Dee. Free. 7 p.m.-noon Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. DJ Holtie. No cover. 7-11 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or wachusett.com. Jazzed Up Trio At Lucianos Union Station. Great American Songbook classics featuring Joe D’Angelo on bass and vocals, John Murzycki on Drums, Mauro DePasquale, on Piano and vocals. No Cover. 7-10 p.m. Luciano’s Cotton Club, 2 Washington Square. 508-755-6408. Mark Robie. 7-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-9268800. The Jesus Project. Our goal is to share the love of God and to help our listeners realize that God loves them more than they could possibly imagine, and wants to have a close personal relationship with all people. Free. 7-10 p.m. Mill Church Cafe, 45 River St., Millbury. 508-864-5658 or millchurch.org . Go Gadget Go!, and Six To Midnight!. $6. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on facebook. Liz Longley and Air Traffic Controller. In 2010, Liz took the Overall Grand Prize, amongst 9,000 entries, in the International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA). Last summer she garnered three of the top honors on the acoustic music scene: 2009 Co-Winner of the Mountain Stage New Song Contest, finalist in the 2009 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition, and Grand Prize Winner of the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival’s Songwriter Showcase. Graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2010, Liz has received Berklee’s highest honor for songwriting, the Scott Benson Scholarship. $20 8-11:30 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com. Madra Rua. Traditional Irish, Scottish and American music with Madra Rua. 8 p.m.-midnight Grey Hound Pub (An Cu Liath), 11 Kelley Square. 508-754-6100. The Cuarteto Casals from Spain. Founded in Madrid in 1997, Cuarteto Casals has quickly become recognized as one of Europe’s most distinguished string quartets, garnering extensive critical acclaim and winning top prizes - including a First at the 2000 London and at the 2002 Johannes Brahms International
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>Saturday 26 Miss Geo and The Metrics, Captain Cat, Duende, The Jupiter Sea Band, Mirrors. $8. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133. Not in Kansas. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Solstice, Garage Sale Picasso, and Red Cloud. Three bands for $3!!!! $3. 9-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. The End Of The World Tour Adversaries / Astronomer / Darkwoods / Hours / Lifeloss @ The Palladium (upstairs). Tickets $10 adv., $12 door. 6-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696.
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Jazzed Up Trio Live. Featuring vocalist Mauro DePasquale on piano, Joe D’Angelo on bass and Johnny M Dollar on drums. The best in local American songbook jazz classics. Come dine, dance, swing, and mingle No Cover. 7-10 p.m. 1790 House Rt 9, Westboro, 206 Boston Turnpike Route 9, Westborough. 508-3661707. Chamber Music Concert with Bass-Baritone, Clarinet, and Piano. Faculty Concert Chamber Music Concert with Bass-baritone, Clarinet, and Piano Songs for Voice, Clarinet & Piano, Robert Osborne, with Clark’s clarinet instructor Chester Brezniak, clarinet and Malcolm Halliday, piano. Songs by Berlioz, Hahn, Gounod, Stravinsky, Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Spohr, Herrmann, Ellington and Matthew Malsky’s The Great Lover. Free. 7:30-9 p.m. Clark University: Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St. Torbin Harding- Hey Baby CD Release Party. Come on and pick up a copy of Torbin Harding’s new album Hey Baby. If you can not come the album is available on iTunes! Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Express Yourself Coffee House, 2 Richmond Ave. lo-zrecords. com. Jon Lacouture. Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Brook’s Pub, Lincoln st. Live Piano / Guitar Blues. Jumpin’ Juba mixes blues and roots-y rock styles from Memphis, Chicago, and New Orleans. Great piano and guitar! Originals and covers. More at stevehurl.com no cover. 8-11 p.m. Pejamajo Cafe, 770 Washington St., Holliston. 617-416-7039. Mat Babineau and Dave Harrington. No cover. 8-10 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or wachusett.com. Pilgrim Soul Productions Presents Shirley Valentine. Pilgrim Soul Productions Presents Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, directed by Matthew J. Carr. Information and reservations call 508-752-0224. $15. 8-10 p.m. Alternatives’ GB and Lexi Singh Performance Center, 60 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. 508752-0224. Sweet Willie D “Deacon of the Blues”. Sweet Willie D - vocals, Muke DiBari - guitar, Rick Maida - bass, Greg Roberts - drums. Soulful rhythm & blues. no cover. 8-11 p.m. Concord’s Colonial Inn, Village Forge Tavern, 48 Monument Square, Concord. 978-369-2373. Atomic Stereo, The Bammies (Members of Counter Attack!), Hi8us and Polluted Remains. $6. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on facebook. Bill McCarthy & His Guitar - Classic & Contemporary Acoustic Rock!. FREE. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Chuck’s Steakhouse, 10 Prospect St., Auburn. 508-832-2553. Laurie Kollios & Cliff Goodwin. The Kollios Goodwin Factor plays pop and soul tunes 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Lake Lashaway Inn & Restaurant, 308 E Main St., East Brookfield. 508-867-2150. Linda Dagnello/Pamela Hines Quintet. free. 8:30 p.m.-midnight Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508753-4030. Ric Porter and the Sons of the Soil 8:30-11:59 p.m. Upper Deck Sports Bar & Grille, 377 Stetson Road, Barre. 978355-2224 or find them on facebook Almost Heroes. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Beemer’s Pub, 114 River St., Fitchburg. 978-343-3148. Auntie Trainwreck. We’ll be playing our own special blend of Classic Rock, Blues, New Country and Alt Rock favorites, plus our own original material and some brand new cover songs you may not have heard from us before! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. Big Bang Theory. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Dubble D & The Khaos Junkies-LIVE. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Gas Light Cafe, 59 Schofield Ave., Dudley. 508-461-9981. Girl Spot Saturdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Club Gallery, 150 Point St., Providence. 401-751-7166 or myspace.com/girlspotri. Herra Terra, Ghost Ocean, Bovachevo, Golden Spurs!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508753-9543. Josh Briggs. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St.,
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GIG POSTER OF THE WEEK Oh Look! A free place to run your next band/gig/event flyer! Don’t let this sweet spot get away - send your high resolution file to editor@worcestermag.com at least 10 days before your show. Northborough. 508-366-6277. Linda Dagnello & The Pamela Hines Quintet!. No Cover!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. One Track Mind. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Breakaway Billiards, 104 Sterling St., Clinton. 978-365-6105. Seductive Saturdays with DJ Hydro & DJ Savas- Top 40. Fusion’s Lounge opens at 9:00 pm and Dance Club opens at 10:30pm. Coat room with attendant available. No Cover Charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. The Allens! $3 after 9:30pm (subject to change). 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222. The Groove Devils. Inviting Everyone to the Home of the Blues for a night of dancing and fun! Get Ready to Get Your Groove On And Dance - to R&B, West Coast, Blues and More. $8 Cover Charge. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Gilrein’s, Home of the Blues, 802 Main St. 508-791-2583 or myspace.com/groovedevils. the invaders. $5 cover charge. 9 p.m.-noon Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. Trantrum Saturdays. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. BLU Ultralounge & Nightclub, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227 or blu-nightclub.com. Under Pressure. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750. Chyldz Play. $5 Cover N/C with VIP card. 9:30-1 p.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006. ii nub (Ambient Electronic) + The DL (Bohemian Funk). Free. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181. Rare Breed. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508926-8877. The Throttles. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.
>Sunday 27 Mossie Scanlon ~ Sean-nós. Sean-Nós songs can be two hundred or more years old. What is now a folk art is still practiced in all the Gaeltacht communities. It springs from an older tradition of the filí, the hereditary and professional poets of
the highly regulated Gaelic civilization which prevailed through at least one thousand five hundred years of history, to the early seventeenth century. Donations gratefully accepted. 2-4 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700 or mossiescanlon.com. Music Alive! Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin, part 2. Part 2 of 4 in a series of the complete sonatas for piano and violin of Ludwig van Beethoven. Violinist Aaron Packard and pianist Brett Maguire will perform sonatas 4 and 5, in addition to a trio with cellist Brian Howard. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a complete cycle of these wonderful sonatas! Free. 3-4:30 p.m. Wesley United Methodist Church, Sanctuary, 114 Main St. 508-799-4191, ext. 107. WPI Orchestra. Featuring: “Rick Emberley 11,” trumpet soloist for “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2” by J. S. Bach - Brandon Dooley, winner of the Music Worcester 2010 Concerto Competition, flute soloist for “Flute Concerto No. 2” by W. Mozart “Symphony No. 5” by L. V. Beethoven. free admission. 3-4:30 p.m. Tuckerman Hall, 10 Tuckerman St. 508-754-1234. Gary Girourd. No cover. 4-6 p.m. Coppertop Lounge/Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or wachusett.com. Traditional Irish Seisiun. Authentic Irish Seisiun held the 2nd & 4th Sunday of every month. Free (Worcester College Students Earn WOO Points). 4-8 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700. Blues Jam w/Jim Perry. Featured artists weekly Donations. 5-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. House Concert - Marylou Ferrante. Pot luck dinner at 5:00PM - The first set begins at 6PM. At 6:45 we take a break for desert and coffee followed by a second set You are welcome to bring an adult beverage if you like. Marylou is an artist who performs pre-war blues from the 1920’s & 30’s. Seating is very limited so we ask that you rsvp. For information about the pot-luck, directions and reservations email andy.iflp@yahoo.com or call Andy at 508-789-8809. $10 suggested donation-all monies go to the artist. 5-8:30 p.m. our Burncoat Living Room, 508-789-8809 or concertsinyourhome.com. Open Mic w/ Jesse Garcia. Welcome for anyone who likes to sing, play, jam, or watch..sign up by coming early or email: aj239@msn.com Free. 5-9 p.m. Belfont Hotel, 11 South Main St., Millbury. 508-917-8128. The Bobby Gadoury Trio 5pm, Andy Cummings 9pm!. No Cover!. 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Vincent’s presents: Big Jon Short. Armed with a suitcase kick-drum, National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box hillharp, Big Jon Short’s high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the Blues. bigjonshort.com 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Fintroll @ The Palladium. with Ensiferum / Rotten Sound / Barren Earth Tickets $22 adv., $25 door, $50 VIP - early entry, meet & greet, poster. 7-11 p.m. the Palladium, 261 Main St. 508797-9696. Scott Babineau. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Cafe Destare, 320 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-5734. Dancing with DJ Cisco. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mirabar, 35 Richmond St., Providence. 401-331-6761 or mirabar.com/calendar.htm. Live At Amsterdam Sunday’s. Musicians and poets welcome! 21+ Hookah and Bar! Free!. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Amsterdam Lounge, 27 Pleasant St. 508-615-1735 or find them on facebook. Reggae Fusion Sundays with DJ Nick. Hosted by DJ Nick and Guest DJ’s spinning the HOTTTEST Reggae, Hip Hop and Top 40 every Sunday. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. Sabrina Sundays at ENVY. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. ENVY Nightclub, 241 Southbridge St.
>Monday 28 Parkway Drive @ The Palladium. Set Your Goals / The Ghost Inside / The Warriors Tickets $16 adv., $18 door. 6-11 p.m.
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Palladium, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696. Drftin’ Sam Politz at 7pm; Karaoke 9pm to Close!. No Cover!. 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.
>Tuesday 1 Sam James Live. 9-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Open Mic Night w /Bill McCarthy Open Mike!. openmcc@verizon.net 7-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. First Tuesday Jazz at Nick’s with Lou Borelli Octet. Lou Borelli Octet plays mostly original arrangements from the Dave Pell Octet, one of the bands credited with the creation of the West Coast Jazz scene in the 1950’s. No Cover. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-752-6213. Northboro Area Community Chorus. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Algonquin Regional High School, Bartlett St., Northborough. nacc/ net. “Totally Tuesdazed!” Tunes in the Diner every Tuesday Night!. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Big Jon Short. Armed with a suitcase kick-drum, National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box hillharp, Big Jon Short’s high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the Blues. bigjonshort.com no cover. 8-11 p.m. Armsby Abbey, 144 North Main St. 508-795-1012 or armsbyabbey.com. Scott Riccuiti, Michael Thibodeau & John Donovan. 8-11 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Terry Brennan. 8 p.m.-midnight Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879 or terrybmusic.com. The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Martin Panteleev, Conductor, with Philippe Quint, Violin. Music Worcester presents The Cape Town Philharmonic, a most versatile and active orchestra, makes its debut tour in the U.S and is stopping in Worcester to perform as part of the 151st Worcester Music Festival. Maestro Martin Panteleev is considered to be one of the most exciting rising stars of the new generation of conductors. Grammy Award nominee Philippe Quint, a violinist born in Russia and living in the U.S., has been called by critics “a legend in the making”! This combination of artists and such an amazing program of music to be performed is irresistible and not to be missed. Free pre-concert talk at 7PM. $46, $43, students $20/at door $15. 8-10:30 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-754-3231 or musicworcester.org . Bass Embassy & Rebirth Tuesdays. Every Tuesday Bass Embassy & ReBirth bring you the best Dubstep ,Jungle and Drum & Bass music in Central Mass. Doors open at 10 PM. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100 or fusionworcester.com.
>Wednesday 2 Drum Circle. Join us, Laughing Drum Circle, and bring your drum, rattle or flute - first time drummers are always welcome! We meet on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 6:15 pm Please call 508-987-3310 for more information or to reserve your space. $5. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Generations Healing Center, 250 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-3310. Open Mic Night hosted by Sax Player Joe Ferreira. Open Mic hosted by Sax player Joe Ferreira. Dinner is served until 5-9pm. Reservations accepted. After Dark menu, desserts and cocktails until closing. http://harvestcafeonline.com 978-5670948 No Cover, Pass the hat for the host. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Harvest Café, 40 Washington St., Hudson. 978-567-0948. Open Mic Night at BEATNIK’S with Bill McCarthy. Free!. 7:30-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld. Acoustic Rock with Johnny R. Free. 8 p.m.-noon Brook’s Pub, 251 Lincoln St., Lincon st. 508-612-8128. Free Jukebox Night. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Vegas Lounge, 5 Summer St., Lunenburg. 978-400-7524. Vincent’s Presents: Tiki Night with Frank & Eric!. Frank and Eric will help you get over the hump every Wednesday
with all of your favorite tropical drinks while soaking in special musical guests and movies. 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. WPI Blues Jam with Liquid Fuel. The jam will open with a blistering set by the house band, Liquid Fuel: Brian Degon (WPI Class of ‘95 and Assoc Director of Operations for WPI’s Corporate and Professional Education), Kathy Markees (Preservation Librarian at the WPI Gordon Library) and her husband Tom, and Rob Provost (WPI Class of ‘88 and also organizer of the WPI Alumni Jazz Band). After that we’ll rotate in the jammers. When playing with strangers, it’s always safe to stick to 12-bars. So bring your axe, your voice, or just come to hear some terrific tunes! Upcoming jams schedule are: February 16, March 2 & 16, from 8-11PM (come early and grab a bite!). Join our mailing list by emailing BluesJam@wpi.edu. Free. 8-11 p.m. The Goat’s Head, 26 Boynton St. 508-831-5000 or find them on facebook. FLASH - 16+ Electro-Dance Party!. Umbrella Gallery & Free Idea Clothing bring you FLASH 16+ Electro-Pop/Hip-Hop Dance Parties every Wednesday night from 8:30-12:00! Check out our Facebook page for more info! $7. 8:30 p.m.-midnight Umbrella Gallery, 639 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-707-9684 or find them on facebook.
poetry >Thursday 24 One Poem And.... Open Reading Series. It is difficult ...To get the news from poems, Yet men die miserably every day For the lack Of what is found there ~William Carlos Williams~ An open poetry reading series meant to provide a venue for writers to share their work as well as the work of established writers they admire. For every original poem a person reads they will be asked to compliment that poem by reading a poem of their choosing by another established and published writer: From Shakespeare to Stern, Bradstreet to Bukowski, Yeats to Young, Rumi to Rich and any and all between. If you have no original work to read but want to offer poems from writers you love, please join us. Sign up will occur at the beginning of each reading and the number of poems allowed each person will be determined by the number of willing participants. FREE. 3-5 p.m. Worcester State University: Sullivan Academic Building, S-305: The A. Barbara Pilon Seminar Room, 486 Chandler St. 508-929-8702.
>Saturday 26 Barnes & Noble Poetry Reading. In a special tribute to the WCPA’s 2011 Elizabeth Bishop Centenary, this evening’s program features poet and professor of English, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, speaking on and reading poems of Elizabeth Bishop. During the open mic which precedes the feature, all participating poets are asked to begin their reading with a poem by EB. A gathering of the poets at the cafe usually follows the reading. free and open to the public. 7-9 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - MA/Worcester, In the stacks, 541 D Lincoln St. 508-479-7574 or wcpa.homestead. com.
>Sunday 27 Annual Meeting/Worcester County Poetry Association. The WCPA welcomes all interested persons to attend this special 40th anniversary year annual meeting, election of the board of directors and officers as well as our special guest, WCPA co-founder Michael True who has agreed to be with us and to say a few words about the early days and what it means to him to see us achieve this milestone. Later in the program we will hear the work of our feature poet guest, Jessica Bane Robert, who teaches Writing and Literature at Clark University. Growing up off the grid on a mountain in Maine in a log cabin built by her father, Bane-Robert is currently completing a mixed genre memoir about this experience and time in her life. free and open to the public. 2-5 p.m. Worcester Public Library, Saxe Room, 3 Salem Square. 508479-7574 or wcpa.homestead.com. The Poets’ Asylum. Join Worcester’s longest running poetry series every Sunday night for an open mic reading followed by a featured poet and/or poetry slam. This week we welcome
Jennifer Gigantino to our stage. Jennifer Gigantino is a writer, filmmaker and performance poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has represented San Jose and Santa Cruz at the Individual World Poetry Slam and the National Poetry Slam, respectively. Gigantino has featured throughout the western United States, both alone and as one-half of the poetry duo The Pincushion Orchestra. poetsasylum.org. No cover. 7-10 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508753-1012.
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Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape Friday Feb 25th Frank Santorelli Kyle Crawford and Matt D. Sat Feb 26th Frank Santorelli Kyle Crawford and Matt D. Friday March 4th Corey Rodrigues Jono Zalay and Friends. $20. 8 p.m.-noon Biagio’s Grille, Comedy Room, 257 Park Ave. Call 800-401-2221 or visit dickdoherty.com. Open Mike Comedy - Saturdays Hosted by a variety of local comedians under the leadership of Andy Paquette. Worcester’s longest running open mic attracts regional talent and newcomers. 100’s of aspiring comedians have bared their wares in front of this supportive and sympathetic crowd. Well known as the breeding grounds for local talent it has produced many known and not to be known comedians. 7-9 p.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. Call 508-754-3516. The Sexiest Show in Town - Mondays. Come laugh with some of the best comics from the Worcester and New England area. Hosted by Shaun Connolly. Buy a pitcher, get a FREE pizza! Every 2nd and 4th Monday! FREE. 8-10 p.m. The Center Bar and Grille, 102 Green St. Wisecracks Comedy Club @ Jose Murphy’s In Jose Murphy’s (2nd floor) every Saturday night. There’s a full bar and food menu in the showroom! During the show, get a pitcher and a large pizza for just $10. $12 (All Woo card holders and active duty military is 2 for 1). 8-10 p.m. Jose’ Murphy’s, 2nd Floor, 97-103 Water St. Call 508-792-0900 or visit wisecrackscomedyclub.com. Centre Stage Productions announces enrollment for summer theatre camp - Saturday, February 5 - Saturday, April 30. If you’re a theatre student looking for something to do this summer, come join the fun. Centre Stage’s enrollment for their summer production is now open to students grade 8-12. More information can be found on our website cstageproductions. com 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oak Middle School, Auditorium, 45 Oak St., Shrewsbury. Call 508-414-4488 or visit cstageproductions.com. Tales Of The Lost Formicans - Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Thursday, February 17 - Saturday, February 26. Spring Theater Production Tales Of The Lost Formicans, by Constance Congdon, Directed by Kate Lohman Within the first few minutes of Constance Congdon’s 1989 play, the audience is introduced to all six main characters, each one made raw by immediate or recent crisis. $5 or free with college ID All information is subject to change. Please call the Visual & Performing Arts Events Office at 508.793.7356 or email clarkarts@clarku. edu. $5 or Free with College ID. 7:30-9 p.m. Clark University: Little Center, Michelson Theater, 950 Main St. Call 508-793-7356. Another Tequila Sunrise - Friday, February 25. The Hanover Theatre presents “Desperado” featuring Another Tequila Sunrise – America’s Most Authentic Eagles Tribute Band. $19.50-$35. 7-10 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org. Tom Lowe Portrays Reverend Peter Whitney - Friday, February 25. The Northborough Historical Society will hold its next monthly meeting on Friday February 25, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The evening’s program will be, Reverend Peter Whitney Gives a Sermon (1744 - 1816) presented by Northborough’s own Tom Lowe. Reverend Peter Whitney, born September 6, 1744, graduated from Harvard University and went on to become Northborough’s second minister in 1767. The Reverend was an avid historian and a number of his writings were published, including his well known, History of Worcester County. He died in 1816, after 48 years as
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In town mini farm with 2000 s.f barn , paddock. 2 detached 2 car garages, spacious 1930 colonial updated and functional ready to move in. 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x14 www.paulasavard.com
Westminster $295,400
Custom Contp. Split. Very privately set on 3.91 acres with frtg. On Newton Pond.Cathedral ceilings, frml DR, HW Flrs, 3 br’s, 3 baths and fully finished lower level with walk out. 2 car Att. Gar. Pristine views of pond and surrounding woodland. Aberman Assoc Inc Gail Lent 978-537-4971 x15 www.gaillent.com
Southbridge $239,000
Spacious center entry Cape with large living room, formal dining, eat-in kitchen, first floor family room and excercise room with sliders to deck to above ground pool and hot tub. Three spacious bedrooms with 2 full baths up. Master bedroom has bath with hot tub. First floor laundry. Exterior stone wall enhances entry with KOI Pond and water fall. One car garage plus detatched unit for car storage. Very private wooded dead-end street. Owners are relocating and looking for a quick sale. Aberman Assoc Inc Anna Mary Kraemer 978-537-4971 x 25 www.annamarykraemer.com
Templeton $214,900
3 br 2.5 bath colo. What a great place to call HOME! Set 110 feet off the road for privacy, yet still convenient to the highway, this young 3 bedroom Colonial has been well cared for. Tastefully decorated with all neutral colors~a cozy woodstove to supplement the heat~eat-in kitchen with breakfast bar/island~open foyer with oversized palladium window to bring in lots of sunshine....sliders off kitchen lead to a deck over looking a large, flat backyard with trees in the distance.... A real beauty!!
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4 br 2 1/2 bath Dutch colonial. Ideal for the growing family. Sparkling 8 room Gambrel with dream kitchen attached 2 car garage, private yard and deck. Finished basement and farmers porch. Aben Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x 14 www. paulasavard.com
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Same family owned home for more than 40 yrs, you can raise your family here, too. Eat-in, cabinet kitchen w/convenience of 1st fl laundry and full bath, spacious formal dining room w/ bay window, living room and entrance foyer complete the first level. Second level features 3 bedroom, walk in -hall closet and full bath. added features include replacement windows, vinyl siding, paved driveway and level back yard. Add your own cosmetic touches and this could be the home you are seeking. Aberman Assoc Inc. Sandra DeRienzo 978-537-4971 x 42
Spotlight Continued from previous page by The Zekos Group Auctioneers based on South Street in Shrewsbury. “This property is ideal for someone that is looking to make in investment because it has both commercial and residential,” Zekos said. The building sustained fire damage that mostly impacted the front commercial unit but, according to Zekos, it is a great restoration and investment property. The restoration aspect of the property sales probably makes the property particularly attractive to builders, contractors and investors, he said. There are tenants in some of the units of the building. Zekos said there is a lot of discussion about how great deals can be gained at auctions but in order to make the right investment, people have to come out to the auctions and take a look at the properties. The auction is being held on Thursday, March 3, at 11 a.m. at the Main Street location. Those who are interested in buying the property must make a $7,500 deposit and be ready to close within 30 days. The Zekos Group Auctioneers states that there are no
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Winter weather impedes January Realtor indexes month-to-month The Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) announced last week that the January Realtor Market Index (RMI) was up from December, for its second straight month-tomonth gain, but the Realtor Price Index (RPI) was down from December for its first month-to-month drop since September 2010. In January 2011, the REALTOR® Market Index was 21.11, which was up 8 percent from the December 2010 score of 19.54. This is the second straight month-
to-month increase. On an annual basis, the January RMI was down 38 percent from the 34.3 score in January 2010. “Snow continues to be the theme as everyone has had enough, but despite those conditions, Realtors who responded to the survey feel better about the market than they did the month before,” said 2011 MAR President Laurie Cadigan. “As we saw with closed sales in December, respondents feel prices are coming down, which will benefit the market and make homes more affordable.” The RPI was down 5.86 percent in January 2011
compared to the same time last year (49.57 in 2010 to 46.67 in 2011). This is the seventh straight month that the RPI has gone down. On a monthto-month basis the January index number was down 2.17 percent from the Home Sales Price Index number in December 2010 of 47.70. This is the first drop after four straight month-to-month gains. When Realtor members were asked what impact the multiple major snow storms in January would have on their business over the next few months, 55 percent responded that the impact would be negative or significantly negative. Thirty-eight percent thought the impact would be neutral, while 8 percent thought the impact would be positive or significantly positive.
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College students at Anna Maria, Assumption, Clark, Holy Cross, Becker, WPI, and every other college in the area have an opportunity this year to participate in an Alternative Spring Break – offered by Habitat for Humanity – MetroWest/ Greater Worcester (HFH-MW/GW). Alternative Spring Break will be a weeklong event (March 7-11) that provides servicelearning experiences for students in the Greater Worcester college community. Participants will work on several different Habitat projects including spending time actively constructing a house in Boylston, rehabbing projects in Worcester and working in the Worcester ReStore. By being involved in these Habitat efforts, it’s expected that students will become aware firsthand of the complexity of some of the social issues local communities face, say organizers. It is also an opportunity for them to share their passion for community involvement and interact with students from different colleges in the area.
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During this Alternative Spring Break, students will be lodged at Salem Covenant Church. Meals, as well as transportation to and from build sites, will be provided by donations from several community organizations. Each day from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. will be spent on a Habitat site. Each evening will include dinner and a different
relaxed social event. Students are asked to pay a fee of $100 for the week to help cover the costs of materials and site supervision. Through the generous support of Habitat donors, the first 10 students to sign up may attend for free. “Students tell us they are looking for a meaningful ways to become involved in their community, and they considered Habitat’s Alternative Spring Break a great option,” said Harriett Lebow, Executive Director of HFH-MW/ GW. “Without leaving the area, this event is an affordable opportunity to have fun, make friends with students from other colleges and learn about affordable housing issues – all while helping to benefit the local community.” Students interested in more information about Alternative Spring Break and how to participate should contact Habitat’s volunteer coordinator at volunteer@ habitatmwgw.org or 508-7999259 x113.
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Pending sales in Mass. on the decline compared to December
The Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) reported that the number of single-family homes put under agreement in January was down 7.3 percent compared to the same time last year (2,791 homes in 2010 to 2,587 homes in 2011). On a month-to-month basis, singlefamily homes put under agreement
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“Despite our general toughness as New Englanders, the significant snow in January kept buyers busy shoveling rather than making offers to buy homes last month,� said 2011 MAR President Laurie Cadigan. “We still believe consumer confidence is better than it has been recently and when you combine that with declining prices, the
opportunity is there for the number of homes put under agreement to go up in February.� A pending sale or a sale “under agreement� is when the buyer and seller agree on the terms of the sale of a home and have a signed purchase and sale agreement, but have yet to close and be recorded as such.
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HELP WANTED LOCAL HELP WANTED TOWN OF SUTTON Police Dispatcher The Town of Sutton Police Department is seeking qualified candidates to fill positions of: part time and full time police dispatcher(s). The successful candidate must be 18 years of age, a United States Citizen, possess a high school diploma or its equivalent and hold an active driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. Previous experience with public safety dispatching and knowledge of related computer software will be given preference. Applications and job descriptions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including pay rate, are available at the Sutton Police Department between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm. Applications and resumes will be accepted until 4pm on March 4, 2011. The Town of Sutton is an equal opportunity employer.
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In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Bylaws, the Millbury Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 14, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA, on the application of Herb Chambers Latti Farm Road, LLC, property located at 2 Latti Farm Road, Millbury, MA, for a Modification to a Site Plan Review Special Permit under Article 1, Section 12.4 and 14.11 (l) of the Millbury Zoning Bylaw, originally granted by the Planning Board on November 13, 1995, and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Book 18158, Page 283. Applicant desires to modify the decision by modifying the parking plan and pavement striping. Plan is available for inspection in the Planning Department during normal business hours. Anyone wishing to be heard on this application should appear at the time and place designated above. Richard Gosselin Chairman 2/24 &3/3/2011
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Two minutes with... SUE LYONS OF LYONS INVESTIGATIONS IN WORCESTER IS OFFERING A NEW INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE TARGETING ONLINE DATING SCAMS. USING A SERIES OF INVESTIGATIVE DATABASES TO VERIFY INFORMATION SUBMITTED TO ONLINE DATING SERVICES, LYONS IS OUT TO TAKE SOME OF THE RISK OUT OF CYBER DATING. Tell me a bit about your background Originally from the Washington, D.C./ Maryland area, I moved to Cambridge in the late 70’s to make my fortune playing music. After a few years of the starving-artist music circuit, I entered into the sales and marketing world. From there I moved to a South Shore investigative firm and found my marketing and sales skills transferred easily to investigations, witness statements, interviews, etc. I eventually began training all of their new investigators. After eight years, I left that company and in 1993, opened up Lyons Investigations. Years later, I went to Quinsigamond Community College and graduated with an associate’s degree in criminal justice in May 2006, receiving a Criminal Justice Departmental Award and graduating with high honors.
What inspired the idea of online dating investigations? Since online dating has really taken off, I have received quite a few requests to check out individuals that someone has met online and started a relationship with. In some cases, everything checked out as far as marital status, residential location, age, etc. However, there have been several that did not. A close friend had met a man from out-of-state who she really fell in love with. They were seeing each other for almost a year. He would come up from the South and spend three to four days at a time with her and her son. Her son started to really bond with him, but she said she had a gut feeling that maybe he wasn’t really divorced like he had said. So, I went online, using the P.I. databases I subscribe to and found that he was, in fact, married. Her heartbreak really inspired me to delve into this area. My mission is
simple: to find the truth.
What sort of scams are out there in the cyber-dating world? First off, these sites host millions of online daters, subscribing for a mere fee of around $40 or so, so it is inevitable that scammers will be there trying to get their hands on your money or your lifestyle. There is only so much a dating site can do. Some of the bigger scams come from countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and some Russian provinces. There are organized factions that do nothing but spend all day on U.S. dating sites trying to “catch a fish.” In other scenarios, it’s just someone who is dishonest and wants to cheat on his or her partner or someone who has pathological flaws that makes an online dating scam attractive to them.
Isn’t dating all about trust? What does hiring a P.I. say about your potential date? It says that you are intelligent enough to know that the world has changed from the good ole days when dating was about face-to-face courting, sitting on the porch swing, drinking lemonade, holding hands and listening to the LP through the open window. Unfortunately, there are people in all factions of life that are not trustworthy. Some of them have chosen to take their dishonesty and predatory ways to the Internet and specifically to online dating sites. Hiring a P.I. is not challenging their honesty, it’s validating it.
What services do you offer? A layperson does not have access to databases like licensed private detectives do. That said, we can obtain much more information than the general public can. Lyons
Investigations will provide a completely personalized, in-depth report contoured specifically for the client. The big questions are usually related to marital and financial status and age range. This is a verification investigation to verify whether or not the truth has been told.
Why did you choose Worcester to establish your business? I come into Worcester almost daily and witness the excitement that is taking place in the city. I have watched so many changes take place the past few years, like the emerging Canal District, new fabulous restaurants citywide, the Hanover Theatre, arts and entertainment in the city and summer festivals like the Latin American Festival that I am personally involved with as a volunteer. I am in Worcester most days of the week conducting investigations for my clients and love the buzz that seems to be happening with all of the changes taking place in the city. Being in the city most days, there is a feeling of pride that the city is changing and growing in a positive way. I might be undercover, but I am there!
What would you say to anyone who felt unsure or embarrassed by potentially hiring you/your online dating services? First off, all client contact is confidential. No one will know if you have hired me. Second, would you invest in a vehicle that had been damaged in a flood? No! So why would you involve yourself with
someone who can potentially hurt you financially, emotionally, or in the worst case scenario, physically without being certain? There is no reason to be embarrassed because you have enough intelligence to recognize that things may not be what they seem, and you want to make certain you are not being sold a so-called bill of goods. A simple e-mail or phone call to me for a consultation would be a great place to start if you are unsure.
What sort of fees does this service charge? According to Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League, the average loss to an online dater who has been financially scammed is more than $3,000. For less than $200, Lyons Investigations will conduct a verification investigation and provide you with a personalized report of findings based on the criteria you have provided for the search. I will personally scrutinize all of the data received from the searches and make a determination based on these findings by providing you with a personalized report illustrating both the consistencies and discrepancies. When considering the average $3,000 financial loss from online scamming, peace of mind for less than $200 is a bargain.
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