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hen I first heard about dumpster diving from a Worcesterite I know, I admit, my first inclination was to recoil in horror (ew!). But the more we talked, the more topical issues we touched upon – saving money in a tight economy and living green top among them. Learning, as I did in Erik Radvon’s Waste Not, Want Not cover story this week, that we toss about 96 billion pounds of food waste each year – you can really begin to see why dumpster diving has become the hipster’s way of rebelling against the wasteful part of our society. We’re not talking about picking cottage cheese off the bottom of a dumpster. We’re seeing young men and women bringing home baked goods, packaged and bagged food, frozen items and more – all whose expiration date says they are past their prime – but are otherwise perfectly fine according to those who live the dumpster diving way. One man’s trash is another’s treasure, right?

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December 2 - 8, 2010 ■ Volume 36, Number 13

Tax dollars at work Rushton says economic-development tool needs more transparency Jeremy Shulkin

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he four-story building at 180 Main Street sat vacant four years, another shell of a building spitting Another murder, arson and home in the face of the city’s North Main invasions. Dear public, this is not Revitalization Strategy. the stuff of an All-American city. -5 But in part through Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) – a special financial Tree lighting ceremony set for incentive program the city uses to Friday. A little cheer could go a long attract and retain business – 184 Main

percent exemption to last over ten years. TIFs are “by far the greatest business attraction and retention tool if the company is eligible,” says Paul Morano, the city’s director of business assistance. According to Morano, the building’s owner will save about $550,000 in taxes over ten years, while the city will receive about $780,000 on that property. If no development had

and has a job creation component. Under these caveats, in the past two years TIFs have been awarded to Saint-Gobain for an expansion of their Plantation Street building, and for renovations at the Beachwood Hotel. Generally, when the city and a business meet back and forth regarding a possible TIF, negotiations are done out of the public eye and the details kept quiet, something that city councilor

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Probation Department probe widens, and now the feds are involved. A black eye for the state just got darker. -2 The state’s review of CSX’s environmental impact begins. Read it and leave a comment at env.state. ma.us/mepa/. 0 The People in Peril shelter on Main Street gets a closing date. Homelessness eradicated. +1 Jeff Barnard, local blogger, succumbs to cancer. Worcester’s blogosphere will be a lot quieter. You can’t quantify a human life, so we’ll just say -5 Unemployment benefits set to expire before the holidays. We just went through this song and dance in June. -2 Extended day programs face money challenges at Union Hill and Chandler Elementary. Those schools just can’t get a break. -2 This week: -11 Last week: +1 Year to date: +40

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180 Main St., which recently received a TIF that helped complete a major makeover.

Street Associates LLC was able to complete work renovating the building, turning it into the future home of the District Attorney’s law library and creating one new full-time job in the process. Through the TIF program, the city can award exemption on how much of a tax payment on a recently improved or expanded building is due. In the case of 180 Main Street, according to the city’s business development team, the improvements have upped the building’s assessed value from about $600,000 to $4 million, or the equivalent of $110,000 increase in property taxes. To mitigate that daunting number, the city has given an average of a 50

occurred at 180 Main, then the city would only see about $227,000 over that same amount of time. Since the state tabbed Worcester as an “economic target area” the city has awarded TIFs to 51 projects dating back to 1994. By the city’s estimate, they’ve utilized the deal more than only a handful of other communities in the commonwealth. “There are very few tools municipalities have to attract business. This is one of them,” says Julie Jacobson, Worcester’s assistant city manager. Jacobson explains that to qualify for a TIF the city looks at whether a project will improve a property’s assessed value

Rick Rushton recently addressed. During the November 9 city-council meeting – after the body voted to approve the financing for 180 Main Street – Rushton announced his intention to bring more transparency to the project. “If we’re going to be giving substantial tax breaks, the public needs to know,” he says in a recent interview. “It shouldn’t be a conversation just between the administration and the developer.” Informing the public would be a preventative measure, says Rushton. In the case of 184 Main Street, the financing came with most of the building already completed. Luckily for

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eff Barnard saw irony everywhere. Here’s one bit of irony Jeff would have enjoyed: This is a tribute to a guy who is being remembered primarily for the last 6 percent of his life, when he became one of Worcester’s most prominent citizen-observers through his “Wormtown Taxi” blog. Jeff held nothing back on “Wormtown Taxi” — thoughts, hopes, criticisms — on the city, the people who run it, or just that son-of-a-bitch pothole on Major Taylor Boulevard. Jeff would also find it endlessly amusing that both of Worcester’s print papers were giving him the written-word treatment. Jeff would write up that observation with a bit of italics-laded sarcasm, something about the future of the news business, and would wrap up with his trademark punctuating, “Heh.” The past few months, hundreds of us followed along on his blog as Jeff was diagnosed with cancer. We weren’t surprised, but we were amazed by his strength in blogging his journey the whole way, right up until his last weeks. It was sad to see Jeff’s strength diminish; with every new post came a glimmer that maybe he could hold on just long enough for one more jab or parry. But, although we remember his blog, to paint a picture of Jeff as just “a blogger” is an injustice. In his words, from his first post on May 24, 2007, (he made 5,922 more posts since then): “I’ve been an accounting clerk, a radio station assistant engineer, a lumberyard gopher, a mental hospital attendant, a turret lathe operator, and a QA lab technician, but mostly I’ve been an electronics technician for the past twenty years.” He was an active participant in the local music scene before 80 percent of the Worcester Mag staff was alive. He drove a taxi. He married Kathy. It wasn’t until the last 42 months of his life or so that he started sharing his ruminations, for which we will remember him. Jeff wasn’t Worcester’s first blogger, but he was among the first to find a steady mainstream audience. His blogging was a perpetual cycle of self-discovery and discovery of the abilities of the Web. He posted his traffic stats and he tried continued on page 7

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the city and everyone else involved, the project’s finances (again, requested by Rushton) showed everything was on stable ground. But that doesn’t mean they all will be. “We don’t want another project to come down the line that could collapse,” he cautions. More transparency would provide the public with an earlier chance to weigh in, and would notify local laborers where the next potential job

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experiments like “crotch cram.” He was at times reverently excited, and at others cynically amused when he was recognized by politicians, press or people on the street. His material and style were free form — a picture of a road crew (always entitled “Bump Installation Crew”) followed by a long discourse on local politics, music or whatever was eating him on that particular day. Jeff could be curmudgeonly and irascible, but he was also a keen observer who held no political allegiances, other than to the truth as he saw it. Jeff’s writings were always, unmistakably, him. Still, what made Jeff truly readable — and why we really remember him — is because he embodied and voiced what we all feel about Worcester — frustrations at its limitations, optimism for its future, and a protectiveness of the parts we love. Looking back, Jeff was unknowingly prescient about how he would be remembered. In that first entry in 2007, Jeff wrote, with a hint of irony: “It’s what you DO that people want to identify you by.” Well, somewhere along the way, Jeff’s musical ability didn’t matter as much; his electronic wizardry was forgotten; the fact that he drove a cab became irrelevant. What Jeff did was blog. And he did it well. Jeff, this “heh,” is for you.

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{ citydesk } V E R BATI M I’m not sure which directions this blog will take, but the anchor point and starting point is the fact that I drive a taxi here in Worcester. The Wormtown influence will make itself more apparent later on.” — Jeff Barnard, from his first-ever post on wormtowntaxi.com on May 24, 2007

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a sad holiday weekend for many in Worcester as news spread about the death of Jeff Barnard, host of wormtowntaxi.com and regarded as the “godfather of local bloggers.” Barnard, who suffered from stage IV melanoma, first started blogging in 2007, using his job as a taxi driver as the starting point for his observations about the city, national news and local politics. Barnard had a couple of recurring trademark postings. One was to take pictures with his cell phone of potholes, street signs and other Worcester minutiae he saw on city streets as he drove past. Another had him photographing the sidewalks of city councilors after snowfalls to see which ones were complying with the Sidewalk Snow Removal Ordinance set back in 2008.

OH, THE IRONY: Barnard was opinionated and passionate, and took on all local media outlets when he felt a particular piece was half-assed. (I, at one time or another, was in his sights, but thankfully never by name.) But his most frequent criticisms were towards the Telegram & Gazette, reaching a fever pitch when the New York Times Company announced the local daily would charge for its online content. As another local blogger pointed out on his site, roasterboy.com, the Telegram’s headline on Barnard’s passing (which wasn’t an obituary) was on the homepage of Telegram.com, but the article’s content was behind the pay wall. The irony was not lost to other friends and followers of Wormtowntaxi.

SIGNAGE BATTLE CONTINUES:

Fresh off a new sign ordinance and a rising debate over political lawn signs, the city council is now targeting signs that advertise cigarettes. Another sign drawing the ire of city government is the new PETA ad located on the wallscape near the corner of Pleasant and Chestnut streets, featuring a woman wearing a nurse’s outfit usually reserved for Halloween costume stores. Aside from the content of the sign, what’s noteworthy about that location is that it’s owned by the Worcester Sign Company, who went through a protracted and often frustrating battle with the city and zoning board last spring. One wonders if he put up the sign just to rankle some folks at City Hall. When reached about the PETA sign via email, Damien Jacob, the owner of Worcester Sign Co., simply wrote “it certainly does add another element to the sign code discussions…plus it delivers PETA’s message with the colorful Imagery: Vegan equals Healthy.”

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: With a new resolve in the House and Senate, Republicans are again taking aim at extensions for unemployment benefits, claiming that those who receive benefits don’t seek work as actively as they could (among other rationalizations). Last summer this back and forth over unemployment and Medicaid benefits effectively handcuffed state budgets right around the time they needed to be ratified by their respective legislatures. In Massachusetts, as about $687 million in aid was up in the air, the state actually drafted two budgets, one with and one without the money (eventually with the Democratic majority pushing the vote through, the state received the money, which was made up mostly through cutting spending on federal food stamp programs). Back then senator Scott Brown did no favors to the state, at first voting to cut off the funding, then proposing to use unspent stimulus money to pay for extension. This time around, Brown is taking a much more pragmatic approach. According to an email sent out by his office Wednesday morning, Brown has introduced a comprise in which he would support extending unemployment benefits for another year if the money used to pay for it comes from using unspent federal funds rather than through a tax hike or adding to the national debt. Brown’s office says that without these extensions 60,000 Massachusetts “workers” wouldn’t receive aid, and 21 Democratic senators are on board with his compromise. Got a tip? Call 749-3166 x243 or email it to jshulkin@worcestermag.com. If you like your news and political gossip 140 characters at a time, follow @JeremyShulkin on Twitter.

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ever underestimate the importance of three positions in a public school, and never for a moment think that the joint could operate for more than a day without the custodian, the “lunch lady” or the office secretary. I’ve made it a point to always treat these posts with the utmost respect – just try and get anywhere without any one of this holy trinity of laborers and the doors won’t open. They really are worth their weight in gold; yet in Marie D’Auteuil’s case, that’s not entirely accurate. Marie weighs about 85 lbs. soaking wet, but she’s capable of carrying all of North High on her back – and has done so since Ronald Reagan became president, since Christopher Cross was singing about sailing, and disco had only recently died its long-overdue death. That’s 30 years – count ’em. The datebook may be filled in with Christmas obligations, invitations and celebrations, but I’m making room for one non-Yuletide festivity. This Friday evening, I’ll join nearly 100 of Marie’s family and friends at Hogan Center, Holy Cross, when she wraps up three decades as a Worcester Public Schools employee. Administrators may run the ship, and the superintendent might run the administrators, but everyone who has ever worked in a school knows that keeping the engine primed is the job of the school secretary. For 30 years, Marie has been the face that greeted visitors at North High. Hers was the voice that took the calls when faculty members were too sick to show, and when parents were too angry to reason with. She’s the one who collected money for flowers, for lunches, for baby showers, for fruit baskets, field trips—you name it. She made life easier for every principal she worked with – not for – and managed to smile no matter how many times I asked her where she kept the referral slips. There’s a generation of women running the offices of Worcester’s schools, women who very likely took the job decades ago thinking it would be something to do while their own kids were in school. They stayed on, partly because of the benefits, I’m sure, but for many, the hustle and bustle became the norm. It takes a certain breed of ladies to handle the confused parent, the befuddled teacher and the reams of

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paperwork they generate every day. As one of the befuddled, I’ve always been grateful to Marie for not getting exasperated when I jammed the copier for the third time in 15 minutes, or neglected to tell her I needed a personal day, or forgot my secret password. I’m assuming the job description to fill Marie’s post includes “must have the patience of a saint when it comes to the technologically challenged.” I can’t count how many times I said: “I’ll just ask Marie…” North High wasn’t always North High. It was once Harrington Way Junior High School, built to house 700 middleschoolers. Instead, it holds around 1,200 high school students – busting at the seams – and for nearly as long as Marie has worked for the city, the promise of a new North High floated like so many autumn leaves. So it’s a bittersweet farewell for Marie, who retires only months before the doors to the new school are slated to open. I was in the office looking for something that I’m sure was right under my nose, when Marie mentioned that her last day would be only two weeks away, to comply with the retirement package offered to city workers this fall. She looked stunned by the thought, as did everyone within earshot. I was at once horrified, saddened and envious – in that order. But I got to thinking – after the shock wore off, after the idea of a Marie-less main office sank in – how satisfying it must be to go out at the top of your game. I asked North High Principal Matt Morse if he had anything he’d like to say about Marie, and the gaping hole she leaves in his office. Careful not to step on the capable toes of Marie’s replacement, Suzette Macaruso, Matt avoided calling her “irreplaceable,” but he was clearly floored by Marie’s abrupt departure. “I only have to answer to one Marie now – my wife,” he lamented. He’s thinking of getting his former right-hand gal a walkie-talkie, though, since she’s called the school so often to check on things. “She only lives down the street,” he chuckles. That’s good to know, just in case I jam up the copier again. Janice Harvey can be reached at editorial@worcestermag.com

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Amen to this article. I think it’s fair to say that the 20 steps forward, 3 to 4 steps back quotation is most accurate. College student’s party, you’re not going to stop that no matter how hard you try. Since 2008 (my freshman year), off campus has gotten significantly better, and I’m pretty blown away by the recent media attention. I’m sorry that there is nothing else newsworthy in Worcester, but is it really necessary to bash a school in which over 50% of those enrolled help out in the Worcester community? Really? Cars aren’t being burnt and nobody is participating in any riots. How have things gotten worse? Easy answer: they haven’t. Stand outside and

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First and foremost, I will be blunt and to the point. I absolutely abhor the winter. Yup, I said it. Call the ACLU because when it comes to the cold weather, summertime is definitely getting the job position. (I don’t even want to see summer’s resume… winter, however, will be given a thorough background check.) But enough of my winter-ous slander…Let’s beat Old Man Winter once and for all. Follow the tips below, and you’ll keep more money in your pocket over the upcoming months.

1. Get your furnace inspected Call a HVAC certified technician to clean your furnace yearly. Change filters when necessary, switch out old thermostats for newer programmable models, and bleed the pipes if your house is heated by radiators. A clean furnace will burn full more efficiently and save you money.

Seal all cracks and crevices. Replace older doors with newer, better insulated doors and replace windows that are old and outdated. If that’s not in your budget, seal cracks and openings with caulking and insulated tape.

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Replace old or torn shingles and clean out gutters in order to prevent ice and water damage. Making sure your attic is properly insulated will also help reduce your heating bill.

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5. Prevent plumbing freezes Locate your water main shut off valve in case of an emergency. (This valve will stop any water flow to your residence.) Insulate exposed pipes and drain garden hoses to prevent water or ice damage. Always remember to keep your thermostat set to at least 55 degrees so your pipes won’t freeze. Try these five quick tips to ensure your home (and bank account) are protected during the winter months. Preventative maintenance will save you money and the hassle of dealing with a crisis down the road. Spend a little now and save a lot in the long run.

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They call it many things – dumpster diving, trash trawling, bargain hunting and, somewhat annoyingly, “freegans.” What is it? The act of rummaging through trash cans, rubbish bins, and commercial dumpsters to salvage food, clothes, electronics, objets d’art – anything of use that has been tossed away, deemed of no value by the original owner. Who would spend their time heading

out in the night, wading through a filthy potpourri of rotting banana peels, old coffee grounds, diapers, Campbell’s soup cans, cigarette butts, and more? You might expect the homeless, destitute and desperate to resort to such methods out of a need for sheer survival. Surely that goes on in Worcester and other cities, but this is not that story. This is the story of white-collar workers, Ivy League college students, and other upwardly mobile members of society venturing out in the small hours of the morning, rolling up their sleeves, and diving into the trash. What they find might surprise you.

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white males between 1835 years old, the exact demographic coveted by the billboards, TV commercials, and sale offers all around them. Yet they breeze by the best efforts of the 21st century’s Don Drapers in search of something else. “I generally try not to buy anything new,” McCorkle said when interviewed in an alley off a main Worcester thoroughfare. He was keenly aware of the surrounding dumpsters in the area, knowing what was promising in the block and what to stay away from. McCorkle and his peers have radar all their own to

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navigate by, with landmarks that don’t show up on Google Maps. “That’s a bad one,” he says, pointing to a seafood restaurant. “It’s right under a light and usually just filled with rotting seafood.” Sort of what one would expect to find in a dumpster, however McCorkle and Potvin know different. “I’ve found whole chickens,” Potvin says, holding his hands out in front of him, making a size of roughly, well, a whole chicken, “still frozen, still good … .” He trails off, shaking his head at the thought of it. The duo has a grocery list of a decidedly nondumpster quality. In McCorkle’s kitchen, he lays out an impressive spread consisting of organic breads, fiber muffins, tangerines, zucchini, fresh green beans, and nearly a dozen eggs, all fished out from local dumpsters. None of the food is spoiled or even dingy looking. In fact, it is indistinguishable from store bought items also in the kitchen. McCorkle then opens a pantry and showcases about 10 boxes of highend Indian food, all of which carries

preserved alongside choice filets of salmon and tuna—ranging from the basic to the downright exotic. Just in time for the holidays, McCorkle recently scored a bevy of Italian chestnuts. “I love the variety that dumpster diving brings to my diet. I eat better quality food than I would be if I was spending $300 a week at the grocery store.”

MOUNTAINS OF TRASH A package of Ramen noodles costs anywhere between ten and 50 cents. A loaf of bread can be had for as little as a dollar. Fast-food restaurants offer up double cheeseburgers for about the same price. Food is cheap in the United States, and plentiful as well. So plentiful, in fact, that tons upon tons of it is simply thrown away.

go bad, amounting to some 96 billion pounds of food waste each year according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Yes, that’s billion with a “b.” The EPA and USDA estimate that restaurants waste anywhere from 4 to 10 percent of their food before it even gets to their customers, who in turn waste more. Several academic studies put the waste amounts even higher than the government’s figures. In 2004, a University of Arizona study declared that Americans waste nearly 50 percent of all their food, a habit costing the nation billions, again with the “b,” of dollars a year. It’s this waste that drives people like

mall just on the outskirts of the city limits, perhaps the most ubiquitous landscape in the United States these days. A barren parking lot spreading for at least a few acres, lined with an American forum of neon cafes, upscale grocery stores, a Chinese restaurant and cell-phone shop sandwiched in between. A familiar sight from California to Maine, from

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food waste is the

urban centers to the cul-desac clusters of the suburbs to even the once-rural farm towns. This is the modern American landscape, the bright, shinning pinnacle of a century of capitalism at work—everything one could want, neatly lined up and accessible from early morning to late at night.

A bountiful assortment of fruit and nuts found on a recent dive expiration dates set in 2011. “I think they threw these out just because the boxes were a little dented. I checked online and didn’t see anything about a recall.” The McCorkle freezer is packed with many such items; flaxseed breads

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McCorkle and Potvin to head out into the night and see what they can find in the not-so-trashy trash.

DIVING IN The scene is a typical strip

Tucked away behind the beige stucco facades and the multicolored signs are neat metal cubes lined in a row. Some are perfect squares, about six feet tall and about the same wide. Others are long, the size of U-Haul trucks. These neat boxes, made of steel with well machined plastic doors, separate the United States from the rest of the world. Other countries have trash in the streets—the United States builds it affordable housing. But even this pinnacle of consumerist culture closes down for a few hours. It’s during that time when something funny starts to happen. It’s when divers like McCorkle and Potvin come out, but they are not alone in their after-hours ventures to these places. “Just the other day I saw a woman at

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my favorite dumpster wearing a nurse’s uniform,” McCorkle says. “Probably a mother, looking to make ends meet.” While the bounty is unquestionably tangible, it does not come without some risk. The boys generally head out very late at night to make their runs, when unsavory characters tend to be out and about in higher numbers. Also, trespassing and other criminal charges are always a concern. According to McCorkle, trespassing is the only criminal charge he knows of that could occur if caught raiding a dumpster. Others in the citywide dumpster diving scene have reported some conflicts with waste-hauling company workers. “Mostly, though, I never have any problems. There are a lot of people out there doing it, too,” he says. “You start to see the same faces. I see an older guy who goes out and actually has a light strapped to his head—the whole thing. He’s obviously been doing it for quite some time.” We reached out to the Worcester Police Department for comment on the legality of dumpster diving in the city, but did not receive a response. A review of state trespassing laws shows that in recent years more attention has been paid to trash, specifically due to

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a rise in identity-theft crimes. Anyone going through a commercial dumpster late at night would certainly be putting themselves in a position where police and other authorities would have an obligation to at least question their activity, if not flat-out arrest. Business owners or wastemanagement companies could also press charges and pursue divers in the courts, making the allure of a free loaf of bread seemingly questionable. “We don’t want to really go during the

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A freezer full of food collected from local dumpsters

day or anywhere close to normal business hours. We don’t want to interfere with people who are working or anything like that.” When asked the obvious question about dumpster food—have they ever gotten sick or food poisoned from their finds—both McCorkle and Potvin respond “no.” “You use common sense,” Potvin says. “As you can see, most of this stuff is still wrapped.”

“I’ve found that there are whole groups of people like me, who drive around in trucks and vans, scouring the piles of trash and picking up the slightly used treasures. I don’t make a full-time job out of it or anything, but I have certainly made my fair share of money off of other people’s trash,” Mason admits.

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interview, Mason has moved out of the RV, but his time out on the road gave him an insight into the rhythm and patterns of the street, specifically trash schedules.

Christopher Mason, like McCorkle and Potvin, can’t say enough good things about what he finds in the trash. “There is so much perfectly good stuff lining the streets on trash day, especially around the end of August, that it is sometimes hard to tell if someone is keeping their belongs on the curb in anticipation of their moving van arriving, or if it is trash placed there for the garbage truck. People will throw away almost anything these days. You can find furniture, TVs, stereos, lamps, printers, chairs, tables, artwork, books, videos and

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“After a while you learn when the most affluent parts of town have their trash picked up. I’d drive over to the South End or Beacon Hill and slowly walk the sidewalks looking for items that were in good shape. Some of the items I’d pick up would need a little work to be sellable, but nothing major that an unskilled 20-yearold couldn’t fix. What really surprised me though was all of the perfectly good items that were on the curb. Many people, apparently, throw away their furniture and

{ coverstory } appliances when they upgrade or buy new stuff. With internet classified sites like Craigslist readily accessible, Mason is at a loss to explain the glut of free stuff. “It’s hard for me to understand. It’s simple, fast and easy to post items for sale online, or even for free, on Web sites. But people still just put stuff out there. You can find a carload full of sellable stuff in just a few hours in the right neighborhood.” Why do so many people trash their slightly used stuff? Mason believes it’s because personal belongings no longer hold as much value as they used to. “We pay these incredibly low prices for them at Wal-Mart or Target. Why fix a broken drawer on a dresser when you can purchase a brand new one for less? I think that’s the mentality.” Mason also cites the ever-increasing time constraints most Americans are facing. “Our time is worth increasingly more and more. We are constantly being pushed to keep moving faster and faster. Our employers want us to be more productive in less time. We have fewer vacation days and work longer hours than our European peers. We eat fast-food, grab our coffees to go, and multitask all day. When faced with the choice between spending an

hour or two repairing a broken piece of furniture or spending less than we make in an hour on a new item, many people choose the later and kick the perfectly repairable piece of furniture to the curb.”

LEARNING TO DIVE, KEEPING IT GOING Mason learned to dumpster dive for food while traveling across the country as a young man. “While living on the road, traveling across the country, I learned how to dumpster dive for food. Grocery stores, coffee shops, and convenience stores all throw away day-old bagels, pastries and fruit in order to make way for the fresh new items. Most of this food thrown out is still perfectly edible. I learned how to climb into the dumpster behind a store and search for the good stuff. Many times the employees seemed to have just opened up a trash bag and push the day-old food items right off the counter into the clean bag. I’d grab the bag, head back to camp, and have enough food to make breakfast for the group the next morning,” Mason explains. continued on page 16

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bad apples in the bunch, than to see the whole lot thrown in the dumpster.” One thing that all the divers interviewed shared was a common sense of respect for the items they were liberating from the garbage, and a concern for not causing more of a mess than what is already present behind most buildings in the city. “One thing I do realize is the need to have respect for the property you are on, for others benefiting from the dumpster, and the business providing the access, even if they don’t know who they are,” McCorkle says. “I try not to take more than I need, and not make a mess while I am looking. It really gets to me when you can tell a fellow diver has completely ransacked a dumpster and thrown debris all over. It is not that I feel an entitlement to any one dumpster—I know any item found is a gift—it’s only that others should have consideration for who has to clean up the mess and the fact that others may be coming in after you.” The clean-up-after-yourself mindset fits into the larger picture for Worcester’s dumpster divers. Its broader society’s failure to do the same that fuels their passion for trash picking. “I don’t dive for status, I don’t microblog my findings,” McCorkle says, “I only use a beautiful resource and reduce unnecessary waste as a result.”

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Similarly, McCorkle decided one day to take the plunge and had never really thought of stopping since. “Finding food in local dumpsters is now a regular activity for me and the experience is quite enlightening, not to mention money saving on a low income,” he says. “With a little practice one can get into the rhythm of the dumpster cycles, knowing when certain items will be in certain locations. Breads and other baked items are an expected and welcome find. All other food stuffs are generally luck of the draw. Many perishable foods are good for days, weeks, even months from their sell-by dates, but generally you have to use your good judgment, the Internet, and your nose to tell if it should be left alone.” The joy of finding the free food is tempered for the divers by the fact that there never seems to be any shortage of seemingly good food for them to salvage. “It saddens me to know how much of this good food is still going to waste, even with the growing number of divers in our community,” McCorkle laments. “Why not donate the food to local charities?” he wonders. “Food does not go bad all at the same time. One date does not fit all. I’d much rather see the food donated to food-pantry volunteers, who can take a minute or two to look for any

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Handmade for the holidays Lauren McShane

Dear Santa,

This year I have been a shining example of humankind at its best. Please do not think I am exploiting authorial skills or being in any way coercive. I just want you to have a thorough understanding of my excellence so there is no question whether gifts (listed below) should be rewarded. With this indisputable fact in mind, I’d like to inform you of some recent changes in the holiday market. As I’m sure you know, mass-produced, elf-made gifts are losing popularity down here; we’ve seen more than enough UGGly boots walking the Worcester streets throughout the seasons, and the rapidity with which anything technological is now being produced makes it an iGift that would be outdated by the time you wiggled and jiggled yourself down the chimney.

Ursula and Olive Handmade Geeky Goodness

“My goal in life ... is to become the Martha Stewart of the geek world,” says Darlene Belisle before following with “the evil scientist laugh...muwahhaha!” With a self-diagnosed case of “craft ADD,” Belisle makes “handmade items all created with loving care, but with a geeky twist (and a good dash of humor too),” Belisle says of her charming geek-chic wares. For starters, there’s the Geektorian line of creations: “That’s VictorianSTEVEN KING inspired items with a dash of geek added in. These come in the form of cameos, lockets and chokers. I also make items from recycled books like magnets, pins, journals and some book sculptures,” Belisle explains with what I agree to be Darlene Belisle “craft ADD” enthusiasm. Ursula and Olive made its online debut on Etsy. com in 2006, “the site itself was only about a year old and for me at the time the benefit was more social than financial,” Belisle says. Over the years, the Etsy community of buyers and sellers has grown; and with it that sense of an online community has been lost, she notes. The online community may have changed, but in Worcester proper, the handmade community is stronger than a newly found Horcrux. “As for Worcester, I think the number-one group around is the StArt on the Street

I know your time is precious, so I have decided to make things simple and compile a list of the best and brightest crafters in Worcester. This way, not only can you load your sleigh with locally made goodies; you can rest assured that each piece is unique and lovely in the way that only handmade gifts can be. For your convenience, many of these pieces can be found on Etsy.com. Since you get a 364-day vacation, I’ll assume you’ve stumbled upon Etsy at some point. If you haven’t, it is a truly wonderful Web site where independent artists, collectors and craftsmen can sell their unique wares. Many believe Etsy is entirely responsible for the newfound popularity of handmade and locally made gift giving because of its easy to navigate site and low seller fees. Your well-mittened, chubby little hands should have no problem navigating. Below please find not only my wish-list requests, but a brief history of each artist so as to better sharpen your gift-giving decisions for the rest of Worcester County.

gang. They’ve put on the biggest and best cultural events, from their outdoor street event every September to their StArt at the Station show … they are the heart of handmade in Worcester,” Belisle shamelessly plugs. “People are tired of buying cookie-cutter, massproduced goods made by people they never see,” she says. How to get out of that matrix? “Just live long and craft! Picture me holding up the Vulcan Live Long and Prosper hand sign when I say that,” Belisle quips. Wish list: Dirigible Danglers - Brass Steampunk Earrings ($10) and Sherlock Holmes Improbable Things Journal ($10)

toy that could be a safer alternative,” Paquette says. With everything from felt cups of coffee and pizzas to carrots and ice-cream cones, Paquette’s care and creativity have kept The Little LOVE Bug going strong since 2008. And in that time, Paquette says she has noticed an increase of handmade items, particularly in child and family environments. “I feel buying handmade is a safer and more economical way of spending our money. I think parents STEVEN KING

The Little LOVE Bug “Handmade gifts show a person just how much you care about the quality of items they receive. It has nothing to do with how much the item cost, like so much of our world revolves around, it is more of the thought and caring aspect of gift giving,” says Jocelyn Paquette. It was with this mantra in mind—the importance of quality, that Paquette created The Little LOVE Bug; a collection of Felt Play Food designed for children. Paquette is known as “the felt guru” to some, and simply mom to her two children who are the inspiration of The Little LOVE Bug; she began designing felt play food in an effort to provide safe toys for her own children. “When I was first starting out there were numerous toy recalls due to lead ingredients and other harmful chemicals. It seemed that every time I would look at the news or online, another toy that my children were playing with was being recalled. I needed to find a toy that I knew was safer for my children to play with,” she says. Many of the recalled toys, says Paquette, were things children would put in their mouths. “Most children enjoy playing kitchen, tea parties, restaurant and other makebelieve settings that revolve around food. My idea was to sew some food for them that I knew was safer,” she says. Because of its durability, child-friendliness, and washing machine-friendliness, felt was the easy choice. “I try my best to have my felt food to be a worry-free

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and people in general are trying to get back to a healthier and more natural way of living. It starts with the food we eat and eventually trickles down to the products we use in our daily life from soap to natural toys,” Paquette says. Wish list: Felt multicolored bowtie pasta with sauce and 2 meatballs ($9)

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Blatt began knitting, she says, but the hobby quickly became a passion and her company soon followed. In no time, Fig Knitting has done its part to bring knitting back into vogue. Blatt’s pieces couldn’t be further from the knitting of yesteryear. There are no itchy reindeer sweaters to be found, no pilled sweaty mittens either. There are only beautiful colors and soft, precise knits in her winter hats and headbands. Whimsical flowers and other accents make each piece a unique and thoughtful gift item. Blatt herself says handmade gifts “seem personalized. Sometimes, you are the only person that has that item. I love selling an item that a person is in love with, or creating the perfect piece for someone,â€? she says. With so much to rave about (my own ears stay snug ’neath the beautiful jewel-toned headband I bought at stART in September), it’s no wonder Fig Knitting is growing. “Lately, I feel as though Fig may be getting bigger than me‌I have to keep telling myself that I am only one person. The great thing is that knitting is a hobby and a job. Who said you can’t enjoy your work?â€? says Blatt. For Blatt, it is important that customers feel confident in her products, even if they haven’t seen them first hand yet. “I was hesitant at first to sell online because I felt as though people wouldn’t want a product they couldn’t hold in their hands and see,â€? she says. The fear of buying a “handmadeâ€?

product and having it look handmade is a potential fear for buyers as well. No one wants to order a last-minute gift and have it come out like that tongue depressor snowflake you crafted in kindergarten. But it’s a fear that Blatt says can usually be avoided. “Online buyers look for products based solely on your photographs, which sometimes is a disadvantage. Taking good, detailed photographs will increase your

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The spirit of handmade shines this year in more ways than one. In a tough economy, people tend to buckle down. Get smart. Get local. For many folks, that means putting what little disposable income you can wring out of your change jar toward quality, handmade, unique and original items worth every penny this holiday season. At stART at the Station on December 5, those creative stART staffers bring more than 100 artisans together in one fanciful location – Union Station – to provide you the finest and funkiest holiday-gift ideas around.

Following in the stART mantra for success, only handmade goods will be found at this season’s fifthannual event. That means you’ll find everything from textiles to pottery, photography to accessories, soaps to fine jewelry. Plus, Luciano’s Cotton Club within the station’s Grand Hall will be serving a light menu and full bar during the event. Billed as a true holiday gift show highlighting quality handmade items from regional artisans and crafters, the number of talented vendors has swelled this year’s event to capacity. “The number of artists who apply for this event has grown over the years, so much so we wish Union Station could accommodate twice as many artists and also host live music and performances. But unfortunately, the space simply doesn’t allow that” admits Sarah Brueck, co-director of stART on the Street/Station. “We hope in the coming years we can find a larger space with just as much character as Union Station.” Emily Worden of Elemental Threads out of Cambridge, brings her line of custom handbags to a stART event for a fourth time. For Worden, the combination of high caliber volunteers within the stART organization who are on hand from start to finish – plus the quality of supportive and enthusiastic clientele who come to these shows – makes the journey to Worcester more than worth it. For many, attending the show means finding the perfect gift for someone special, which Worden says adds an exciting element to the show. “Because it is the holiday season, there is a special buzz in the air. There is a warm, friendly atmosphere in the station among the

artisans and shoppers alike that makes the day feel special,” says Worden. “I also enjoy seeing shoppers’ faces light up when they find the perfect gifts for their friends.” Artist Kira Beaudoin of Millbury works primarily on canvas, but also utilizes wood and paper in her work. Popular due to both her talent and her affordable marketing—90 percent of her work is priced from $2$50—this will be Beaudoin’s fourth year participating in stART events. “I’m an art director for my full time job, and I love being able to have another creative outlet,” shares Beaudoin. “The stART on the Street events allow me to do that. Not only do I get to be creative, but other people can bring pieces of my work home with them to enjoy. I look forward to these events every year.” As if more than 100 artisans isn’t enough of a draw for you to visit stART at the Station, Worden reminds us that giving the gift of handmade means more than just a gift—it means you’re supporting your community. “For example, the more items eThreads sells, the more I’m buying from my local suppliers, which means your purchase directly supports a whole community of small shops and locally owned businesses,” explains Worden. “Plus, I have found that handmade items are often a better quality than what you buy in a store. These items are lovingly handmade by someone who has spent years perfecting their craft, and they take pride in their product. Most crafters also offer to fix their products should anything go wrong, and keep great contact with their customers,” Worden continues. How often do you get that from your typical big-box store? Exactly. So pull into Union Station, 34 Washington Square, Worcester on December 5 from noon-5 p.m., and discover how cool handmade can be. For more, visit startonthestreet.org. STEVEN KING

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Sweetheart of All My Dreams elephant caravan, will be placed within an urban nocturnal environment drawn and painted by Tim Winn. People may dress like a family of rats, ride the raccoon caravan on a nighttime adventure, and have their photograph taken at the event. It’s a participatory performance piece meant to mimic the real-life daytime domestic outings of humans. The other components of the exhibition include a large-scale paper house designed for rat-humans, photographs of home interior vignettes and scenarios, and a film documenting the performance process. Kahn who currently lives in Cambridge, is a Pakistani-American born in Indonesia who moved to the United States in 1994. She brings to her work an international understanding of the human condition. She has appropriated animal motifs in her illustrations and installations for much of her artistic career, and is focused on creating art that is transient and participatory. She wrote, “I transform my friends and myself into animals, painting directly on skin. This initiates a more social and collaborative art practice, and by painting on bodies I participate in acts of intimacy which are in themselves performances of social engagement.� Winn is currently a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design’s low-residency MFA program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is an illustrator who creates simplified line-drawing collages in a folk-urban style, and installs larger-scale figures he calls “folk devils� in real places just as a city neighborhood or woods.

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“In the vulnerable experience of finding love and companionship, many rely on alcohol as their catalyst, become nervous smokers, or wallow in alternating bouts of indulgence, bliss and bitterness,� explains Zehra Khan in her artist statement describing the rodent-humans subjects featured in the collaborative multimedia immersion exhibition with Tim Winn, Sweetheart of All My Dreams, in The Gallery at Worcester State University.

The theme and title of the installation is informed by Thelonious Monk’s 1964 version of “I Love You Sweetheart of All My Dreams,� originally written in 1928, a bitter-sweet song about love and destruction. Gallery director Catherine Wilcox-Titus organized the exhibition as a fundraising event before the start of major renovations, which will keep the gallery closed throughout the winter and spring. The highlight of the show is the opening reception, on Friday, December 3, featuring the performance piece Raccoon Caravan, a site-specific tongue-in-cheek installation in which visitors will be able to participate in the art process by emerging themselves and becoming active players in the narrative. Zhan’s comically monumental raccoon with a riding platform mounted onto its back, much like a traditional

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Kahn and Winn construct their make believe rodent dwellings from basic egalitarian materials, paper and wood, and decorate the interiors with an amalgamation of two- and three-dimensional drawn and real domestic furnishings. The houses are meant to convey the notion of a quickly

Kahn and Winn have complementary aesthetics and conceptual approaches in their work. They are both attracted to the rawness of human struggle and triumph. For the past year, and after a trip together to New Orleans, they’ve collaborated and created their new environments as combination performance space and visual art. Typically, at other venues, their domestic narratives are accomplished within drawn and painted three-dimensional houses, inspired by the narrow, no hallway, rectangular structures called “shotgun houses” that are found in the southern United States.

constructed home: handmade, in transition and precarious. The materials themselves become metaphors for the fragile and ephemeral nature of domestic stability; both paper and wood burn easily. “By changing the scale, proportions and the viewer’s perspective within the space, these low-fi illusions tell a story of lives lived in a paper house. In this hand-drawn world, we skirt falling into an abyss of delight, sometimes dangerous, sometimes just dangerously delightful,” explained the artists in their exhibition statement. Within these fantastical drawn, painted and collaged environments the notions of house versus home is explored. Kahn’s re-imaged beasts are real humans—the artists themselves— dressed and body painted to mimic folksy avant-garde rodents, who act out behaviors that define or comment on the illusion of domestic bliss; further highlighting its vulnerability and “potential for destruction” by external and internal forces. The entire production is very surreal, and the final product of the installations and performance is a series of photographs documenting the process and a film of the event which is later installed in the gallery space. Sweetheart of All My Dreams will be on display December 4-11. A special talk with Zehra Khan and Tim Winn will take place on December 2 from 4:30-6p.m. in the Learning Resource Center (Library). The opening reception and performance of Raccoon Caravan will happen on Friday, December from 6-8 p.m. The Gallery at Worcester State University is located at the Ghosh Science and Technology Center at 486 Chandler Street, Worcester. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1-4 p.m. worcester.edu/gallery. Learn more about Zehra Kahn at galleryehva.com and Tim Winn at folkdevils.com.

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If you’ve listened to WBZ radio at all for the past 17 years, you’ve heard him. Most famous as “the dumb guy” from the WBZ commercials, Michael Coleman is normally the man behind the scenes, but he’s not afraid to show his face as an achingly funny standup comedian. His radio and comedy career began in the unlikeliest of places, while he was a premedical student at UMASS Boston. “I walked out of my calculus final and realized I didn’t want to be a doctor. I walked into the campus radio station and never left. Three years later I was running it,” Coleman explains. As WBZ’s director of creative production for the past 17 years, Coleman would often have local stand-up comedians who came into the station declare that he was so funny that he should try stand up for himself. It didn’t take long for Coleman to take their advice. Within a year from his first stage performance in 1996, Coleman was headlining. He’s most known for his dead-on impressions of Tom Brokaw, Sean Connery and Jim Morrison, in addition to zany song parodies. When performing them on the radio, his impressions dupe even the most critical of ears. “No one knows it’s me. If I can fool my kids and they don’t know it’s me, I know I’m doing well.” Despite becoming such a stand-out stand-up so rapidly, Coleman never aspired to make it his full-time career; his focus was always on radio and his family. “It’s probably my fifth year of doing comedy if you put together all my shows,” he quips. With two young ones at home, the nightclub hours and road gigs were not ideal, but “now that they’re older, it’s easier for me to break away for a night or two.” While he wasn’t ready to

make stand-up comedy his bride, Coleman remarks that he “learned more about radio from doing comedy. In radio, you just have to assume they’re laughing.” Coleman equates his love of doing radio with the old adage that the book is always better than the movie. “It’s because of your own creative mind.

The movie is never going to match how powerful you envisioned it, the characters, the scenery. It will never be as good as it is in your mind. I try to be the book rather than the movie.” As well as his radio and stand-up work, Coleman runs a successful media company called ColeCuts Production that makes commercials, song parodies, and audio for on-air productions for such household names as Harley Davidson, Xerox, the Bruins, the Red Sox, and the Patriots, just to name a tiny fraction of his client base. Ultimately, Coleman loves being “the man behind the curtain.” He likens his job to being “in the toy department. I’m the guy who plays.” Michael Coleman will be headlining on Saturday, December 4, at Frank’s Comedy Safari on the second floor of Irish Times. 1-800-71 LAUGH. 8 p.m. $15.

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Natalie Portman Spreads Her Wings Black Swan Grade: A David Wildman

With Black Swan Darren Aronofsky abandons the high speed hip-hop montages he’s known for and gives us a film that recreates the rhythm and emotional flow of a ballet, a surprising concept that is aided immeasurably by the determined and indelibly talented Natalie Portman. For both director and star this is the big one, the film that could put them among the elite power rankings of Hollywood, all without compromising one inch of their uniqueness or unbridled creativity. The film opens with a scene of Portman performing part of Swan Lake as the camera swoops around her as if it were another dancer, spinning and flowing with a grace that matches both her lithe, muscular movement and the weightless swirl of the symphony orchestra. She soon awakens, and after a closeup of her cracking, battered feet to tell us she’s indeed a dancer, there follows a seemingly idyllic domestic scene with her doting mother (Barbara Hershey) making breakfast as they both discuss the upcoming Swan Lake performance, her mother needling her that she should be the new swan queen because she’s been there long enough. It soon becomes clear that mom is a former dancer, living vicariously through her daughter’s career. It also becomes clear that the kinetic camera style of the opening dance sequence has continued on into daily reality, and it will follow that way through the entire film because our protagonist indeed sees the world as a long, endlessly flowing dance. At the ballet, smug, pretentious company director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), explains to the assembled company the story of how the white swan loses the prince to her evil twin the black swan, and then, heartbroken, commits suicide. The dancer chosen

must play both parts. To her surprise, Nina (Portman) wins the role, but while her studied flawless approach is right for the white swan part, she must learn to let go and unleash some dark part of herself for the black swan. That part, we learn, does exist and has been repressed. It has something to do with her mother, who at first seems only tightly wound but gets creepier as things progress. The dichotomy of black and white is woven throughout, playing up Nina’s increasing paranoia, bringing out how she sees everyone else as a shadow other, and also as a reflection of her mother, who always wears black. This also goes for Winona Ryder as Beth, the caustic, broken down former star of the company, and blithe, hedonistic fellow dancer Lily (Mila Kunis) who challenges her to come out of her shell and eventually becomes her perceived nemesis, the black swan. The duotone motif also runs through the striking set design which, along with the use of classical music (Tchaikovsky’s strings swirl throughout), has strong echoes of Stanley Kubrick. Also brought to mind is Rosemary’s Baby and the way Roman Polanski manipulated point of view (using the twisty hallways of The Dakota) to craft Mia Farrow’s myopic sense of the world turning against her. Kudos should also go to screenwriters Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin for crafting this subtle gripping portrait of woman pushed over the edge by her desire to be perfect. Speaking of which, apparently Portman worked the last few years to learn not only to dance credibly enough to pull off this role, but to do it with a startlingly effortless style and flair. It is evident she is rarely using a double, and that she indeed pushed herself to excel, rendering credibly both the delicate careful style of the white swan, and the wild abandon of the black swan. But this is more than just the gimmick of a Hollywood starlet learning a craft; this is a powerful actress coming into her own as a serious artist, with a director unusually well suited to capture it on film.

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If “exotic comfort food” wasn’t an oxymoron, the phrase would aptly describe the cuisine of Tropical Gardens. As the full name suggests, Tropical Gardens Restaurant and Bar is part bar, part restaurant. The bar half of this house divided has the feel of a small nightclub, complete with open space for dancing or mingling and a sizable bar from which glittering bottles beckon. This half declares, “I am fun.” In the restaurant section, mustard-colored (in a good way) walls, dark wood chairs and maroon booths create a warm and inviting atmosphere. Much of restaurant-going revolves around novelty. We often turn to restaurants for the same food we might make at home, only served by strangers on more decorative dishes. Or we pay

more to see familiar ingredients prepared in unfamiliar ways (sure you’ve had a carrot, but cut like this!?) On the higher end, this has driven many restaurants to foams, gels and other tricks of molecular gastronomy, and fusion is another device to make the familiar seem unfamiliar, as is presentation. The simple, genuine food of another culture puts those pretenders to shame. Experiencing a cuisine that is truly novel makes you feel like an explorer to a whole new world that still somehow fits inside of your mouth, much more so than finding lemon grass in your meatloaf. If you aren’t familiar with Ghanaian cooking, and most American diners are not, a meal at Tropical Gardens is bound to provide that sense of novelty to satisfy and delight. If you think you’ve had dishes in which okra plays a prominent role, think again. No gumbo or bhindi (okra) curry dares come close to the total okra immersion of a bowl of Tropical Gardens okra stew. Pieces of fried fish (or goat, your choice) bob beneath a red slick of savory palm oil, but otherwise this is okra, okra, and more okra, and deliciously so. It conjures

a term from chemistry class: saturation point, or “the stage at which no more of a substance can be absorbed” (Oxford American Dictionaries). You have never so fully communed with this gooey vegetable, and the dish is an extraordinarily unctuous texture sensation as a result. The vegetable’s soft seeds dot the stew like chocolate chips in a cookie, and it is served with a heaping portion of banku to help soak it all up. The latter is a fermented and therefore slightly tangy steamed cornmeal mush that is part grits, part dumpling. If you finished it all, you might not need to eat for days. Spicy jallaf rice is an autumnal orange, camoflauging the chunks of carrots it conceals along with bits of bell peppers and onion. The rice is perfectly cooked and slightly sticky, the portion size guaranteed to satisfy. Choose chicken for your protein and two nicely spiced, minimally battered drumsticks come with. A fresh, thickly shredded—fettuccine, not

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Wholly Cannoli 490 Grafton St., Worcester 508-753-0224 whollycannoli.com Food: ***1/2 Atmosphere: ***1/2 Service: **** Value: *** Besides being a bakery, Wholly Cannoli offers patrons a cafÊ menu of sandwiches as well as a coffee bar to enjoy. It promotes an image of a boutique bakery, so the prices are a little on the high side, but the food quality warrants the price. It’s not a steal, but you do get what you pay for. The cannoli, its obvious specialty, were very good. They weren’t overly sweet—a common shortcoming with a lot of the cannoli that I’ve eaten—and the restaurant offered an excellent variety of flavors and styles. They came in two sizes:

large, for about $4-5 each; and small for under $2 each of which you could buy an assorted dozen for $15. (The large ones had a similar deal.) Of the cannoli, the best was the tiramisu, which had a strong espresso burst complemented by the dark-chocolate coating and cinnamon. I wanted a little more pistachio flavor in the pistachio, but most of the flavors were subtle. The texture of the shell was right on target—both flaky and tender, with a little extra crunch on the shells coated in dark chocolate. We also had an almond crème pastry and a slice of carrot cake. The pastry was much more affordable ($2.25), but the slice of carrot cake ($4) was generous and rich. They serve New England Coffee, which is a solidly good brand and comes in a variety of flavors, too. If you’re looking for a little extra decadence in your dessert and willing to pay for it— along with the chance for bistro-style breakfast or lunch—definitely try Wholly Cannoli.

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Paint the Town Red: On Thursday, December 2, K.J. Baaron’s pairs its wines (both white and red) with a display of Scott Boilard’s paintings as part of its new First Thursday (of the month) series that will join weekly Friday and Saturday free tastings on its regular calendar. Boilard was once a freelance illustrator but now works on his own visions in the genre of abstract expressionism. Taste wines of the quality you know and love from K.J. Baaron’s and

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check out some paintings that are probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, often including skeletons and abstracted animals used as metaphors. K.J. Baaron’s, 220 Summer St., 508-753-3400. Medieval Munchies: Higgins Armory Museum gets into the holiday spirit by opening up their galleries to a display of gingerbread castles (castles, not houses) constructed by local bakers on Saturday, December 18. They are still accepting entries if you think your yearly gingerbread creation can handle a medieval makeover, either historically accurate or fantastical and fun. Come and vote on your favorite and watch food, creativity and history meld into one with only frosting holding them together. Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Ave., 508-853-6015. Going Strong: Dean’s Deli is soon to celebrate its first anniversary, which means that if you’ve been meaning to stop by and haven’t yet, you’ve been procrastinating for a whole year. Shame on you. Homemade breakfast and lunch in a cozy setting and served with a smile by Dean himself for a good price. If it sounds convenient, that’s because it is. Dean’s Deli, 894 Grafton St., 508-792-3646\ Indecisive Italian: Good for a hungry Italian or someone of any ethnicity looking for an all-you-can-eat selection of Italian favorites, Peppercorn’s lunch buffet is back from Tuesday to Friday, 11:45 a.m. to 2p.m., $8.99 pp. It’s often difficult to choose between a variety of spicy and delicious Italian meats and white or red sauce, after all. The middle of the week is a great time to practice being the jack of all trades, master of none, when it comes to lunch entrees at Peppercorn’s. Peppercorn’s Grille and Tavern, 455 Park Ave., 508-752-7711.

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It only happens twice a year, which means the artists of the Fire Works Clay Studio are serious about their Annual Holiday Open Studio and Sale, which happens Friday, December 3, from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, December 4-5, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Featuring more than 16 artists of the Fire Works Studio. Free. Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow Street, Worcester, thefireworksinc.net, 508-752-0444.

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Tower Hill Botanic Garden will be decked out for the Holidays during Holly Days happening through January 2. This horticultural celebration of the winter holidays will highlight nature’s transformations through magnificently decorated trees, wreaths and swags adorned with gleaming lights and exquisitely handcrafted ornaments and much more. $10 Adults, $7 Seniors (65+) and $5 Youth (6-18), under 6 Free. A Holly Days Party takes place on Friday, December 3, from 6-9 p.m. and will include music by the Bill Fanning Jazz Trio. $40. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr., Boylston. 508-869-6111, towerhillbg.org.

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Let the holidays begin with a flick of the switch over at the Worcester City Hall Common’s Tree Lighting on Friday, December 3. Festivities begin at 5 p.m., lighting of the tree to take place at 5:15 p.m. Enjoy musical selections by the cast from The Hanover Theatre’s A Christmas Carol. Free, so bring the whole gang for some ooohs and aaaahs! Worcester City Hall Common, Front St. 508-799-1175.

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Take a break from the usual hustle and bustle and bring your family to ’Tis the Season holiday stories and songs, presented by Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. on Friday, December 3. This production will be performed at the Gateway Arts Barn, 111 Main St. in Southbridge. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. $7/$5 under age 18. 508-764-4531.

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Holiday Ball at American Ballroom Latin! on Friday, December 3. Dinner, dancing, showcases and special performance by Vera Rowe’s Neuva Vida Salsa Dance Team. Dance to ballroom, Latin, swing and hustle music. $40. 7-11 p.m. American Ballroom & Latin Dance Studio, Maironis Park, 52 South Quinsigamond Ave., Shrewsbury. 508925-4537, americanballroomlatin.com.

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The Taubl Family Christmas at Mechanics Hall has become a family tradition, and it happens again for the ninth year on Friday, December 3. This magical evening draws people from all over the region, those who need to pause for a moment, catch their breath, and begin their Christmas season with a reminder of all that is truly important in life. The concert will include all your favorite Christmas songs, including “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman,” “Christmas Shoes,” “O Holy Night” and many, many more. There is even rumor of a new song just written by the Taubls that will be debuted that night. $15. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-7520888, thetaublfamily.com.

timeless, this concert is eagerly anticipated each year by those who have attended in the past, some for several generations, creating a tradition. $37, $34, students $20. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508754-3231, musicworcester.org.

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Start your season off right by attending the 4th Annual Holiday Stressbuster: A Morning of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation on Saturday, December 4. Participate in extended breathwork and warmups, light snacks, then a yoga set and meditation meaningful to the holiday season, with time to visit and chat over food afterward. Annual fundraiser for the Worcester County Food Bank. $10-$50. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 90 Main St. Call 508-757-2708.

On Saturday, December 4, The Hanover Theatre comes alive for Clara’s Dream: A Nutcracker Story. This annual holiday production features youth aerial dance for the first time in the history of American theatrical production. Experience a youth cast of more than 100 for a new 21stcentury experience of a traditional holiday tale. Told in a “hybrid” of performance arts and multimedia, it is a visual delight, for all ages, where fairies fly and Clara drifts through the air into a land of snowflakes and follows her prince to a kingdom of sweets. $25/$30. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 508-839-1648, danceitup.com.

From Santa to singers you’ll find all the season’s delights – including the lights - at the Holiday Open House Chain of Lights Festival on Sunday, December 5. Free from 10-5 a.m. Asa Waters Mansion, 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org.

The opening reception of Gerald Bellmore’s highly anticipated solo show, Beauty Is Rare, will be held at the Dark World Gallery on Saturday, December 4, and will feature new paintings and prints on display in Bellmore’s unique style. Come help the Dark World close out another successful year and head into 2011 with a bang! Refreshments will be served. Free. 7-10 p.m. Dark World Gallery, 179 Grafton St. darkworldgallery.com.

Handel’s Messiah is a Worcester holiday tradition going into its 111th performance this year as it arrives at Mechanics Hall on Saturday, December 4. An enduring masterwork of choral art, Handel’s Messiah remains as one of the greatest of musical compositions. Dramatic and

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Marching Band will lead the parade and stop at the town common, where Santa will illuminate the common with holiday spirit by lighting the trees. Santa will then proceed to the Center Fire Station, where he will greet children and hand out presents until 8 p.m. Free. 4-8 p.m. Uxbridge Town Common, Main St. and Douglas St., Uxbridge. uxbridgeholidaynight.org.

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Worcester’s finest songbirds will bring you back on Thursday, December 2 at Nick’s with an evening of selections from The Sinatra Songbook. Frank Racette, Trina Vargas, Dale LePage, Nicole Watson, Andy Cummings, Charles O’Connor III and Clayton Willoughby, all bolstered by the accompaniment of The Bobby Gadoury Trio, have worked hard to “whittle down” the more than 900-song Sinatra repertoire “to both a reasonable length as well as a representative review of the material,” says Watson, who is pleased with the diversity of styles the performers will bring. “You’ll hear many of the Sinatra classics as well as lesser known early material, duets and a few unconventional arrangements of familiar songs. Personally, I adore the younger, crooning Sinatra from the 40’s, but watching Nick’s regular Andy Cummings belt out standards sans guitar [in rehearsals] has been exciting and magical.” Additional performances of the show will be Sunday, December 5; Sunday, December 12 and Saturday, December 18; but remember that seating is still limited so call for reservations. Mongo promises “good vibes” at their show with MUN and DJ Foges at Tammany Hall. The headliners are a hybrid of electronic and acoustic but all energy that will pretty much want to make you dance even if you don’t like to in public. Enjoy some rock without any frills with a round-up of Central Mass. boys in Preacher Roe, Thinner, Hey Now! Morris Fader and Dirty Truckers at Ralph’s on Friday, December 3. Hear tunes from Preacher Roe’s brand new release. Join Sunlea for psychedelic covers and originals with In Spades at Beatnik’s. “We really enjoy playing Grateful Dead tunes,” says Mike Dunlea, of Sunlea. “People tell us we play The Dead, but we play it like Sunlea. He says there’s nothing quite like the runaway train that is the progression of a jam band’s live shows. “It’s the jams and the songs that come out of nowhere. It’s fun to see how a jam evolves. It’s an attempt to discover synchronicity within all our instruments. No two shows are the same; you hear the same songs, however it depends on outside influences that may direct a show’s path.” In case you missed it last time, Hotel Vernon opens its doors again for the unique experience that is Uke-APalooza 2 on Saturday, December 4 featuring Bob Jordan, Jim Berkeley, Jon Short, Rich “Amazing Dick” Leufstedt, School Safety Patrol, Joy Rachelle, Hot Time Harv, Ron Carlson, Raianne Richards and Mark Mandeville. You’ll never look at this undersized and underappreciated instrument the same again and will be thrilled when December 29 comes along, because Leufstedt has deemed it Worldwide Hug A Uke Day. He’ll also be breaking out his Spongebob ukulele for the show. James Montgomery will be rocking the equally uncommon harmonica at The Grafton Inn. Stars such as Aerosmith, Bonnie Raitt and even Morgan Freeman have invited Montgomery to dazzle them with his blues stylings. Join the club.

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DJ Roberta. DJ Roberta plays the music YOU want to hear! Come hang out with friends old and new! Dance to your favorite rock, classic rock, top 40 and country hits! 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Days End, 287 Main St., Oxford. Bancroft School Holiday Program. no cost. 11 a.m.-noon Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community, 65 Briarwood Circle: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-9009 or briarwoodretirement.com. ABACABB Final Tour w/ Legend, Wretched, Monsters & In Alcatraz @ The Palladium (upstairs). Tickets $11 adv., $13 door. 6:30-10 p.m. The Palladium, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696. Smokin’ Pigeons. 7-9 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-9268877. Bob Franke Concert. “It’s his integrity. I always think of Bob as if Emerson and Thoreau had picked up acoustic guitars and gotten into songwriting. There’s touches of Mark Twain and Buddy Holly in there, too.” - Tom Paxton $15. 7:30-10 p.m. Christ Episcopal Church, 1089 Stafford St., Rochdale. 617 480-0388 or hezstone. com. Clark university Concert Band. clarku.edu. facebook.com/ clarkarts Free. 7:30-9 p.m. Clark University: Little Center, Michelson Theater, 950 Main St. 508-793-7356. Open Mic Night W/ Bill Mccarthy Free!. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Junior’s Pizza Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-459-5800. Audio Wasabi - Hosted by Brian Chaffee. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. DJ Shocka. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Red Onion - Otter River Hotel, 29 Main St., Baldwinville. 978-939-7373. Live Concert Music Video Broadcast -NTN Band. Progressive Impromtu Rock, come out and be in the video Doors Open @ 7:00 pm. ADC Performance Center (@ The Artist Development Complex), Mill Street Brews Studio Stage Room, 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900 or FindNEWentertainment.com. Rob Benton. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879. The Sinatra Songbook!!! (Pre-Show). Performances by Frank Racette, The Bobby Gadoury Trio, Trina Vargas, Dale LePage, Nicole Watson, Charles O’Connor III, and Clayton Willoughby! PreShow on Thurs Dec 2nd at 8pm! All other Shows: Sunday Dec 5th, Sunday Dec 12th, and Saturday Dec 18th! Two Shows per night 5pm and 9pm. Seating is Limited, Please call for Reservations. 508-753-4030. $10 Cover. $5 Cover for pre-show. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Flock Of Assholes, Gorilla Radio (Rage Tribute), Genre Whores, & Phillip Nos Band!. $5. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook. com/pages/Flock-of-Aholes/127019150125. 18+ College Thursdays. DJ Nick & DJ U-KNO. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. Dive Bar Thursdays. Duncan Arsenault hosts this weekly music series at The Dive Bar, featuring musicians from all genres. Free. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Dive Bar, 34 Green St. thedivebarworcester. com. Metal Thursday CX: Sexcrement, Abnormality, Despoilment, Scalpel. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Sean Ryan. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Victory Bar & Cigar, 56 Shrewsbury St. 508-756-4747. Andy Cummings Live. $3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Hooligan’s, 29

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>Friday 3 Qx Concert. Join us for a lunchtime concert with QX Quartet at the new John and Kay Basset Visitors Center. 508-793-7356 or clarkarts@clarku.edu Free. noon-1 p.m. John and Kay Basset Visitors Center, 1 Maywood St. Blackstone Valley Community Concert Band. Ninth annual winter holiday concert “Holiday Pops”. Selections include Sleigh Ride, Cowboy Christmas, A Calypso Christmas, Three Moods of Hanukkah, and seasonal favorites such as White Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and Winter Wonderland. This is music your whole family will enjoy. Free. 7-8:30 p.m. Nipmuc Regional Middle / High School, Auditorium, 90 Pleasant St., Upton. 508-529-2130 or bvccband.org. Sound Judgment. Good music that does good things! Christian friendly music both original and covers performed by Sound Judgment (Frank Tranes and Ron Anderson). 7-10 p.m. Mill Church Cafe, 45 River St., Millbury. 508-864-5658 or millchurch.org. ed ‘n da ve wit T (and friends). an eclectic mix of original and cover tunes from yesterday and today. Free. 8 p.m.-midnight Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Last Call Band. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Red Onion - Otter River Hotel, 29 Main St., Baldwinville. 978-939-7373. On the Rocks. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277. Savoy Brown w/ Kim Simmonds. “Keeping the Blues Rockin’ since 1965” $22 advance; $26 day of show. 8-11:30 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com. Wreckoning, The Lie, Inaeona, & Next To Nothing!. $8. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888. Almost Heroes. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750. Bill McCarthy MySpace.com/BadClownProductions. Free. 9 p.m.-midnight Admiral T. J. O’Briens, 407 Main St., Sturbridge. 508-347-2838. Carol O’Shaughnessy and pianist Tom Lamark!. No Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. DJ Pete the Polock. Yeh, he’s still here playing whatever he wants. The girls flash him for requests, sit on his lap, and listen to his same old jokes but still love him. He only plays to get out of the house away from his queen. Classic rock to the Blues. Large dance floor to shake it. Come see this Worcester legend. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. DJ T-Rich. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beemer’s Pub, 114 River St., Fitchburg. 978-343-3148. ed vadas blues quartet. $5 cover charge. 9 p.m.-noon Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. Friday 12/3- Get Scrooged Live Music Night! Wildcat O’ Halloran Band- Mill Street Brews. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. ADC Performance Center (@ The Artist Development Complex), Mill Street Brews-Upper Concert Stage w/ Full Bar, 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 413-271-0609 or FindNEWentertainment.com. Jon Lacouture. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Art’s Diner, West Boylston st. Ladies Night - Top 40 Dance Party. Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222 or speakersnightclub.net. Live Music in the Pub - Tom Lanigan & Company (formerly of The Granitemen). No Cover. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Fiddlers’ Green Pub & Restaurant, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700 or granitemenmusic.com/index.html. Over Drive Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. Pete the Polak, DJ. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. PHANTASIA FRIDAYS at FUSION. No Cover Charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. Preacher Roe CD Release Show!! w/Thinner, Hey

Now Morris Fader, Dirty Truckers!. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Sunlea with In Spades. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. The Last Call Band. Winner of the 2010 Worcester Music Awards for Best Rock Band 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Red Onion - Otter River Hotel, 29 Main St., Baldwinville. 978-939-7373 or thelastcallband. com. Usually Normal. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

>Saturday 4 The Next Big Thing Tour (upstairs & downstairs). featuring up and coming local alternative and punk acts on two stages. Tickets $15. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508-797-9696. ”Tis the Season” holiday stories and songs. Santa, reindeer, elves, wise men- and Christmas carols- are all part of the holiday season. Take a break from the usual hustle and bustle and bring your family to ’Tis the Season, holiday stories and songs, presented by Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. $7 adults, $5 youth under 18. 2-4 p.m., 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Gateway Players Theatre Arts Barn, 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-764-4531. Concert: Merrimack Valley Ringers. Join us to listen to the beautiful sounds of the Merrimack Valley Ringers, under the direction of Karen E. Leonard, as they perform sacred and secular holiday music at the Museum. Free with Museum admission.. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Renaissance Court, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406. WCUW Presents: The Garrison Fewell Trio. WCUW continues its Fall jazz series, with guitarist and composer, Garrison Fewell and his quartet: Eric Hofbauer, guitar; Todd Brunel, clarinets; Esther Viola, oboe and voice. Renowned for his mature, melodic sound and elegant, lyrical style of writing and playing, guitarist Garrison Fewell has established himself as a distinctive voice throughout his 30-year career. Doors open at 7 PM; shows start at 8 PM. Tickets are $10, $8 WCUW Members/Students, and are available at brownpapertickets.com, and at the door. Free Parking $10, $8 WCUW Members/Students. 7-10:30 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, The Front Room, 910 Main St. 508-753-1012 or wcuw.org. Bill McCarthy & His Guitar - Classic & Contemporary Acoustic Rock!. MySpace.com/BadClownProductions Free. 7:30 p.m.-10:30 a.m. Tavern on the Common, 249 Main St., Rutland. 508-886-4600. Garrison Fewell QT. jazz concert. benefit Concert for Community Radio $10. 7:30-11 p.m., 8:30 p.m.-midnight, 8:30 p.m.-midnight, 11 p.m.-2:30, 11 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Online wcuw.org. Boston Pops Holiday Concert. It’s time to celebrate the gala reopening of our beautifully renovated hall with the group the New York Times calls “the best known, most recorded and arguably most popular orchestra in the United States.” Following in the footsteps of Arthur Fiedler and John Williams, Keith Lockhart leads the Pops in their annual holiday concert with traditional carols, festive modern classics, the Orchestra’s signature Sleighride, and a visit from a right jolly old elf! $30, $50, $60. 8-10 p.m. Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, 2132 Hillside Road, Unit 3104, Storrs Mansfield. 860-486-5795 or jorgensen.uconn.edu. Cheryl Arena with the Workingman’s Band. Cheryl Arena - vocals and harmonica, Tom Yates - guitar & vocals, Rick Miada - bass, Mike Avery - drums. Performing Texas blues. no cover. 8-11 p.m. Concord’s Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square, Concord. 978-369-2373. Jon Lacouture. Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Brook’s Pub, Lincon st. Pink Floyd Tribute Band-Gilmour’s Breakfast, TBA, & Rough Ashlar!. $8. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/gilmoursbreakfast. Scott Babineau. 8-11 p.m. Cornerstone’s Restaurant, 616 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-1991. The Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet (Ballroom). CD Release Party! Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet are a refreshing extension of European cafe music, better known as Jazz Manouche, or gypsy swing..occidentalgypsy.com/ $15 advance;

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will host many live concerts in the Renaissance Court. Free with Museum admission. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Renaissance Court, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406. Assumption College Jazz Ensemble. The Assumption College Jazz Ensemble will perform works by Ellington, Hancock and others. Free and open to the public. 3-4:30 p.m. Assumption College: Kennedy Memorial Hall/Public Safety, Kennedy 112, 500 Salisbury St. Clark University Student Concert. Showcasing Clark University student musicians with an afternoon of concertos, sonatas, chamber works and jazz standards. Sima Kustanovich, accompanist. For more information: clarkarts@clarku.edu, facebook.com/clarkarts 508-793-7356 Free. 3-4:30 p.m. Clark University: Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St. JOMP Faculty Recital: New England Piano Trio. Peter Hughes, violin; Ning Tien, cello; Vladimir Odinikikh will perform works by Piazzolla and Ravel. Suggested Donations: $10; $7 students & seniors. 4-5:30 p.m. Joy of Music Program, Recital Hall, 1 Gorham St. 508-856-9541. Blues Jam w/Jim Perry. Featured artists weekly Donations. 5-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. The Sinatra Songbook!!! Tribute Show!. Performances by Frank Racette, The Bobby Gadoury Trio, Trina Vargas, Dale LePage, Nicole Watson, Charles O’Connor III, and Clayton Willoughby! Other Shows: Sunday Dec 12th, and Saturday Dec 18th! Two

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>Monday 6 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. Concert featuring Stephen James, pianist & Peter Zay, cellist. Free. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester State University, Administration Building, Fuller Theater - Second Fl., 486 Chandler St. 508-929-8813. Tuesday 7 Jack Craig presents a Holiday Sing-along. 11 a.m.noon Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community, Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle, Worcester, MA, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-2670 or briarwoodretirement.com. Open Mic Night w /Bill McCarthy Open Mike!. MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld. 7-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. First Tuesday Jazz with Lou Borelli Octet. Lou Borelli Octet plays mostly original arrangements from the Dave Pell Octet,

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. 8-10 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. Tony Gahan. 9-11:30 p.m. Grey Hound Pub (An Cu Liath), 11 Kelley Square. 508-754-6100 or thegreyhoundworcester.com. 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.

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Poetry Reading/Meeting the Author - L.M. Browning. Please join us for a reading by L.M. Browning, author of Oak Wise and, most recently, Ruminations at Twilight. Following the reading, Ms. Browning will be available to sign copies of her book. Free. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jacob Edwards Library, Reading Room, 236 Main St., Southbridge. 508-764-5426.

>Sunday 5 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’ll hold our final reading at the Nu Cafe and head out in style with an open qualifying slam. This will be the last chance to get into the Winter Semi-finals and will be a two round slam. poetsasylum.org. 6-9 p.m. Nu-Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800.

>Mondays The Dirty Gerund Poetry & Variety Show. Spoken Word Poetry & Music & Surprise Ruckus blend together to create an eclectic, dynamic show that ain’t your grandma’s poetry reading. Open Mic, Comedy Shtick, Special Featured Performers, Visual Artists, Snack Time and prizes for demented variations on poetry challenges! Hosted by Nicholas Earl Davis & Alex Charalambides. Music by Worcester Favorites, Shane Hall & the Ticklebomb Orchestra! Check the dirtygerund.com website for a link! 9-11:30 p.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543 or dirtygerund.com.

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The Fifth Sun by Nicholas Patricca, Dec. 2 and Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.; Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. and Dec. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in La Maison Francaise auditorium on the Assumption campus. The play dramatizes the life and assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 during the decades of civil war in El Salvador. To reserve tickets, contact Jacqueline Chlapowski at 508-767-7304 or jchlapowski@ assumption.edu. $5 for students (with ID) and $10 for nonstudents.. 7-9:30 p.m. Assumption College: La Maison Francaise, Auditorium, 500 Salisbury St. 508-767-7304. Where’s Charley? - Thursday, December 2 - Saturday, December 4. What do you get when two musical theatre masters adapt one of the most popular and successful farces ever written? A tuneful and hysterically funny classic that’s non-stop entertainment. $10. 7-10 p.m. Algonquin Regional High School, 79 Bartlett St., Northborough. Call 508-351-7010 or visit nsma.info. Annie - Thursday, December 2 - Saturday, December 4. $18 for Regular Admission, $15 for Students/Seniors. 8-10:30 p.m. Calliope Productions Inc, 150 Main St., Boylston. Call 508-8696887 or visit calliopeproductions.org. Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” Friday, December 3 - Saturday, December 4. 10. 2-4 p.m., 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Shepherd Hill Regional High School, Auditorium, 68 Dudley-Oxford Road, Dudley. Call 508-943-6700. Murder at Sprouters Point by Leslie Wheeler Saturday, December 4. The grisly murder of a visiting yachtsman, allegedly by a local Indian, rocks a seacoast town and severely tests the loyalties of a white woman and her Native lover. Free. 2-4 p.m. Booklovers’ Gourmet, 55 East Main St., Webster. Call 508-949-6232. The Nutcracker Ballet - Saturday, December 4 - Sunday, December 5. This is a unique performance created especially for children and the young at heart. $10 Senior/Children; $15 Adults. 2-3:30 p.m. Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School, 1050 Westminster St., Fitchburg, MA, Fitchburg. Call 978-422-6989. Christmas Memories - Sunday, December 5. Enjoy a play based on Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. Listen to the Stageloft Repertory Theater’s performers dressed in 19th century costumes sing over 20 carols. Better yet, sing along with them and rekindle memories of Christmases past while making memories of the Christmas present. $52 per person $22 children under 10. noon-2:30 p.m. Salem Cross Inn, 260 W. Main St., West Brookfield. Call 508-867-2345 or visit salemcrossinn.com. The Indecently Exposed Comedy Show - Tuesday, December 7. 8:30-10 p.m. Square One Sports Bar & Grille, 139 Green St. Call 508-752-3471. Walker Presents: 100 Very Short Stories as a benefit for the PCL Comics Consortium - Wednesday, December 8. 10 writers read very short stories! PG-13 Live illustration! Surprises! Doors at 6:00pm! Show 6:30-8:00pm! $4 suggested donation to benefit PCL Comics Consortium. 6:30-8 p.m. Knight Memorial Library, Providence Community Library, 275 Elmwood Ave., Providence. Call 401-467-2625.

dance >Thursday 2 Ballroom Dance Foxtrot/Swing (full bronze). Join other couples and singles every Thursday in December to learn Foxtrot and Swing. Foxtrot is one of the most popular social dances it can be danced to many different styles of music. East Coast Swing is a fun upbeat dance characterized by its rock step and swing hip motion. No partner required. $50 monthly membership. 7-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-7524910 or psmdance.com.

>Friday 3 Winter Dinner Dance. Meet new and old dance friends for a fun evening of dancing to swing, rhythm, smooth and contemporary ballroom music. Smoke free environment. Cash bar. Ballroom DJ. Singles, couples and all levels of dancers welcome. TBA. 6 p.m.-midnight Scandinavian Athletic Club (SAC PARK), 438 Lake St., Shrewsbury. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

Annual Winter Dinner Dance. It’s party time! Come practice your steps, catch up with old friends, meet new people and have fun dancing in a relaxed friendly environment. Dance with our professionally trained instructors, classmates and new friends to swing, rhythm, smooth and contemporary ballroom music at Poise Style and Motion’s Winter Dinner Dance. $37 pp after 11/29 $42 pp. 6:30 p.m.-midnight Scandinavian Athletic Club (SAC PARK), 438 Lake St., Shrewsbury. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

>Saturday 4 single’s dance. Single’s dance for adults 40 and older. $5 for month of December. 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Scandinavian Athletic Club (SAC PARK), 438 Lake St., Shrewsbury. 508-798-5755. Ballroom Dance Beginner Swing/Foxtrot. Join other couples and singles every Saturday in December to learn Foxtrot and Swing. Foxtrot is one of the most popular social dances it can be danced to many different styles of music. East Coast Swing is a fun upbeat dance characterized by its rock step and swing hip motion. 11 a.m.-noon Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

>Sunday 5 India: Classical & Contemporary Styles of Music and Dance. Featuring Ghazals, Rabindra Sangeet & Bollywood Fusion Talented artists and winners from the Boston Sargam 2010 Competition will bring you over an hour of amazing performances. Part of our Cultural Heritage Showcase Series. Join us in celebrating the diversity of Worcester s cultural heritage through music and dance. Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Worcester Public Library. Free. Open to All.. 3-4:30 p.m. Worcester Public Library, Saxe Room, 3 Salem Square. 508-799-1655. Ballroom Dancing at the Hilltop. Surround yourself with nature while you enjoy a great afternoon dancing to hot Latin rhythms and swings, and to smooth standards. Beginner to all level of dancers and friends welcome! 508-868-2942 $10 includes refreshments. 4-7 p.m. Prindle Pond Conference Center / Nature’s Classroom, Hilltop Lodge, 19 Harrington Road, Charlton. 508-7699804 or naturesclassroom.org.

>Monday 6 Ballroom Dance Beginner Waltz/Rumba. Learn waltz and rumba with other couples and singles every Monday in December. Waltz has an elegant graceful and romantic feeling. Rumba called the dance of love has a romantic feeling with sensual hip action. No experience or partner required. $50 monthly membership fee includes all classes. 7-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

>Tuesday 7 Ballroom Dance Intermediate Rumba/Waltz. Learn waltz and rumba with other couples and singles every Tuesday in December. Waltz has an elegant graceful and romantic feeling. Rumba called the dance of love has a romantic feeling with sensual hip action. No partner required. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 7-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

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www.centralmassclass.com CONDOS FOR SALE STERLING New construction. Town House. 2BD, 2.5BA, XL garage. Granite, SS appl. hw flrs. End unit. Luxury. $229,900 Call owner. 978-807-9173 HOUSES FOR SALE STERLING New construction. Town House. 2BD, 2.5BA, XL garage. Granite, SS appl. hw flrs. End unit. Luxury. $229,900 Call owner. 978-807-9173 INCOME PROPERTY FOR SALE WORCESTER- REDUCED from $579,000 to $425,000. 243 Lincoln Street, 3 stores, 2 nice 6-room apartments, garage, off st. parking, 508868-6157. LAND FOR SALE CENTRAL VERMONT Gorgeous 303 acres in current use and forest management. Three ponds, river frontage and two quality camps. $425,000. Contact Fred VanBuskirk, Heney Realtors 1-800-696-1456* 20 Acres- $0 Down! $99/mo. Near Growing El Paso, Texas. Guaranteed Owner Financing, No Credit Checks Money Back Guarantee. Free Map/Pictures. 866-254-7755 www.sunsetranches.com” \\

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OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Causeway Mall Rts. 12 & 110, West Boylston. Professional Office Suites, 1100 sq. ft. & 775 sq. ft. Great location. Ample parking. Handicap access. Avail. immediately. Also, shared office space avail. Call 508-835-6613 Sonoma Square Rts. 2 & 140, Westminster. Medical suite avail. 3200 sq.ft. 2nd fl Office Space avail. 1600 sq.ft. Convenient location, ample parking. Call 508962-7451

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2008 Chevy Tahoe LT 5 drs. 8cyl. Silver ext., gray cloth int. 39k mi. 4wd. Exc. cond. Auto trans, extras. $26,950.00 508-829-9315 e.clecta@verizon.net

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1999 Wilderness 28’ Single slide 5th wheel travel trailer. Rear kitchen. Queen bed. Sleeps 6. Awning. 1 owner. Exc. cond. Asking $8500.00 508-886-8820 Patriots Tailgate RV 1989 Coachman 57k orig. miles. Good tires, runs well. Painted logos. Perfect for season ticket holders. $3500.00 508723-6258

Sgt. Steven Olesen, my grandson, is the special soldier in my life. Steven is with the 101st Airborne out of Ft. Campbell, KY and has seen three tours of duty in Iraq and is presently serving in Kandaha, Afghanistan. Our family is very proud of Steven and his commitment to help Americans remain free. He was injured in Iraq twice by roadside bombs, but God chose to keep him alive so he may serve his country further. Steven is married and has a three-year old son, Daniel. This photo was taken on his third tour in Baghdad and shows the warmer side of Steven.

AUTO/TRUCK 1997 Ford 250 3/4 ton, 4WD, 85k mi, rear electric lift gate lifts 1250 lbs, new tires, runs good, $4900.00 978343-6546. 2000 Chevrolet Silverado LS 1500 P/U, 5.3 V8 auto, 4WD, LS decor, 4 door, 82K mi, $8500 or B/O. Call 508756-2792. AUTOS 07 Buick Terraza CXL Minivan. Dark blue. 80K. One owner. Every option. Runs & looks great. $13,800 firm. Call Steve 508-8299307 1971 Buick Skylark 4dr, 350 2bbl, 52K orig miles, new alternator & battery, dual exhaust, mags, solid body, tan, green int, no carpets, decent tires. RUNS GREAT! $1700 OR BO 508-6156853. 1976 Chrysler Cordoba 39k orig. miles. $4995.00 B/O Call Phil 617-680-0127 1992 Chevy Caprice Classic Great running & body condition, 86,000 miles. Asking $2150. Call 707-9719299. 1995 Volvo 850 Wagon Great car for a student. Reliable. Sunroof. High mileage. Located in Holden, off Salisbury St. $1800/BO Call Jay 508-245-4162

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A PUBLIC HEARING MILLBURY BOARD OF APPEALS In accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in the hearing room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 At: 7:35 p.m. To act on a petition from: Cheryl Kehoe, 252 Riverlin St., Millbury, MA For a Variance in the Millbury Zoning Ordinance relative to: tear down existing garage and addition at 252 Riverlin St., and construct a new addition in its place with a covered front porch with entrance way, kitchen and back door and underneath 2-car garage. All interested parties are invited to attend. Richard P. Valentino, Chairman Millbury Board of Appeals 11/24 & 12/2/2010

A PUBLIC HEARING MILLBURY BOARD OF APPEALS In accordance with Chapter 40A of the Massachusetts General Law and the Zoning Ordinances of the Town of Millbury, a public hearing will be held in the hearing room of the Municipal Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA on: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 At: 8:05 p.m. To act on a petition from: Andrew Waszkiewicz, 65 Canal Street, Millbury, MA For a Variance/sp. permit in the Millbury Zoning Ordinance relative to: add accessory building to a preexisting, non-conforming multi-family dwelling at 21 Hamilton St., Map 45, Lot 41. All interested parties are invited to attend. Richard P. Valentino, Chairman Millbury Board of Appeals 11/24 & 12/2/2010

Town of Millbury Public Hearing The Millbury Board of Selectmen will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 7:15 p.m. in the Conference Room, Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA to act upon the application of a Change of Manager for Showcase Cinema DeLux, 70 Worcester/Providence Tpk, Millbury, MA. Board of Selectmen 12/2/2010

TOWN OF MILLBURY The Board of Selectmen in the TOWN OF MILLBURY will hold a Public Hearing on, December 14, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street to act upon the Pole Petition of Verizon New England and Massachusetts Electric Company to relocate a pole, wires, cables and fixtures, including necessary anchors, guys and other such sustaining and protecting fixtures on Westview Avenue: On the easterly sideline, place new Pole No. 12 approximately 150 feet north of existing Pole No. 11. 12/2/2010

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Ashby $97,700

Estate Sale, to be sold as is: property consists of nearly 5 acres and main home is in good condition, hardwood oors, large bath, large eat-in-kitchen & oversize living room with ďŹ replace. Well has gone dry and septic is in failure. All electric heat so no boiler/ furnace concerns, roof appears to be in good condition. Clean this one up and it could be a wonderful home for ~50% of assessed value. Appliances in kitchen to remain, no warranty or disclosure about functionality. Aberman Assoc Inc. John Vaillancourt 978537-4971x 23 www.johnvaillancourt.com

Hubbardston $197,700

2br, 2 bath townhouse. Feel like royalty in this stunning single level waterfront townhome! Dramatic pillars, crown moldings, tray ceiling in master, Bosch range & dishwaser, granite counters in both kitchen and baths, built-in kitchen desk, central vac, central air, hydro-air heat, attached garage, hardwood and ceramic oors. And when you are ready to vacation just walk out the back door to enjoy the pond! Aberman Assoc Inc John Vaillancourt 978-537-4971 x23 www.johnvaillancourt.com

Clinton $215,900

Meticulously updated 5 room, 2 large bedrooms, 1 1/2 bath “Radcliffeâ€? townhome in RidgeďŹ eld Condos. Updated gourmet kitchen w/granite, stainless appliances, ceramic tile. Updated baths w/ceramic rs & solid surface vanities.New windows and extra attic insulation. Two large bedrooms and full bath up with second oor laundry. Living room features wall to wall carpeting, bow window, and ďŹ replace. One car attached garage. Inground pool, tennis courts, and walking/jogging trails. Aberman Assoc Inc Anna Mary Kraemer 978-537-4971 x 25 www.annamarykraemer.com

Worcester $219,900

3 br 2 bath colonial. Worc./West Boylston line. Located on side street with a fully fenced yard. Plenty of off street parking here. Beautifully maintained Condex features all large rooms fully updated so you can just move in. Formal dining room with French Doors to deck. Updated kitchen with siles stone granite counters and hardwood ooring. First oor laundry. King sized Master Bedroom with cathedral ceiling and walk in closet. Finished lower level offers third bedroom and full bath. One car garage under. Aberman Assoc Inc. Gail Lent 978-537-4971 x 15 www.gaillent. com

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department WORCESTER Division Docket No. 00P3445GI1 Notice of Fiduciary’s Account To all persons interested in the estate of Agnes Helpa late of Worcester, Worcester County, a mentally ill person, (now deceased.) You are hereby notified pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. rule 72 that the seventh thru tenth account(s) of Jewish Family Service of Worcester Inc., as Guardian (the fiduciary) of the property of said Agnes Helpa (now deceased) has been presented to said Court for allowance.

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Leominster $234,900

Tri level home in Leominster’s West side features bright sunny living room with brick ďŹ replace banked on each side with custom built shelving perfect to display family photos or a treasured collection. Kitchen with island separates dining area leading into a cozy sun room perfect for relaxing after a long day. Up a few steps to the next level leads to three bedrooms and full bath or down a few steps to ďŹ nished area for a small ofďŹ ce, laundry area and garage. Basement off laundry area. Aberman Assoc Inc. Sandra DeRienzo 978-5374971 x 42

Southbridge $239,000

Spacious center entry Cape with large living room, formal dining, eat-in kitchen, ďŹ rst oor 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 oor 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 $239,900

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, at backyard with trees in the distance.... A real beauty!! Aberman Associates Inc Tracy Sladen 978-537-4971 x17

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Bellingham $279,700

3 br Split Here it is; the impeccably maintained home that you have been looking for! Bright and open with wood burning ďŹ replace in the living room and a slider from eat in kitchen to expansive back yard deck! Features: central air, attached garage, security system, open concept living space, 10 X 21 deck, maintenance free vinyl siding, recent roof, windows, air conditioning, low heating expenses at just 400 gallons of oil used in 12 month period! Seller has selected new location and is ready to GO. Aberman Assoc Inc John Vaillancourt 978-537-4971 x 23 www.johnvaillancourt.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 ďŹ nished 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

Sterling $339,500

3 br 2 bath cont. cape. And the sun shines in... this is a solar house , 6 skylights, 4 sets of French doors, abutting conservation and farmland. Contemporary design offers master bedroom on either level. 4th bedroom is currently used as a craft room with interior balcony looking into cozy familyroom below, and exterior balcony off French doors. Hardwoods, brick and stone oors, open stairway , 3rd story loft, cathedral ceilings ..House is wired for generator. Aberman Assoc Inc Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x14 www.paulasavard.com

Sterling $539,900

4 BR 3 full bath contemporary colonial. 3 acres with stocked pond Maple kitchen and granitecounters. Master suite with sitting room, Jacuzzi tub 2 story great room, 2 story windows, 2 ďŹ replaces, interiorbalcony, to 3 additional bedrooms. 3 car garage. Three season porch with deck. Separate work room/storage. Professional landscaped with elaborate walkways, stream, waterfall and koipond. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x 14 www.paulasavard.com

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department WORCESTER Division Docket No 01P1227GI1 Notice of Fiduciary’s Account

WORCESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT INVITATION FOR BIDS CURED-IN-PLACE PIPE SERVICES

To all persons interested in the estate of Mary Danahy late of Worcester, Worcester County, a mentally ill person/ (now deceased) under conservatorship – a spendthrift. You are hereby notified pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. rule 72 that the first thru tenth & final account(s) of Jewish Family Service of Worcester Inc., as Conservator (the fiduciary) of the property of said Mary Danahy (now deceased) have been presented to said Court for allowance. If you desire to preserve your right to file an objection to said account(s), you or your attorney must file a written appearance in said Court at Worcester on or before the fourteenth day of December, 2010, the return day of this citation. You may upon written request by registered or certified mail to the fiduciary, or to the attorney for the fiduciary, obtain without cost a copy of said account(s). If you desire to object to any item of said account(s), you must, in addition to filing a written appearance as aforesaid, file within thirty days after said return day or within such other time as the Court upon motion may order a written statement of each such item together with the grounds for each objection thereto, a copy to be served upon the fiduciary pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. Rule 5. WITNESS, Denise L. Meagher, Esquire, First Justice of said Court at Worcester this eighteenth day of November, 2010. Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate WORCESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Architectural and Engineering Services For Plumbing Waste Pipe Riser Replacement DESIGN & CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES Contract and Job No. WHA 12-18 The Worcester Housing Authority (WHA) is requesting applications from experienced Architects and Engineers registered in Massachusetts to provide full service engineering services as needed for the Replacement of Existing Plumbing Waste Pipe Risers @ 12-18 Elm Park Tower Apts., 425 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA The construction budget is $750,000 The successful Architect/Engineer will be required to possess Professional Liability Insurance and Workman’s Compensation Insurance Policies with adequate thresholds. The Request for Proposal, Application, and Summary of Qualifications may be obtained at the Worcester Housing Authority, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA or by contacting Tina Rivera at (508) 635-3302 after 10:00 a.m. December 1, 2010.

The Worcester Housing Authority (the ‘WHA’) will receive sealed bids for Cured in Place Pipe Services at Project 12-1 Great Brook Valley Gardens Apartments, with services as required for a one year period, with options by the WHA to renew for two additional one year periods, until 2:00 PM on December 22, 2010 at the office of the Worcester Housing Authority, 69 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Estimated total expenditure for any and all contracts awarded under this Invitation For Bids will be approximately $375,000 to $400,000 for all three years. All bids must conform with provisions of MGL c.149 S.44A-44M and to minimum wage rates as required by MGL c.149 ss 26 to 27H inclusive, and the Instructions to Bidders. Bidders must be DCAM certified in the classification of Plumbing by the Division of Capital Asset Management, and to provide a current CQ3 Update Statement. Copies of the contract documents prepared by the Worcester Housing Authority may be obtained on or after December 1, 2010 at the above address between the hours of 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Monday to Friday or by phoning 508635-3203 to have a bid package copy mailed. The contract documents may be seen, but not removed at: McGraw Hill Construction, 34 Crosby Drive, Suite 201, Bedford MA 01730 Reed Construction Data, 30 Technology Pkwy So., Suite 500, Norcross GA 30092-2912 Project Dog, 18 Graf Road, Unit 8, Newburyport, MA 01950 SOMWBA 10 Park Plaza, Suite 3740, Boston MA 02116 Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid guaranty in the form of a bid bond, issued by a responsible surety company licensed to do business in Massachusetts, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority as follows: a.By bidders for General Contract in the amount of 5% of the total bid price. Each bid shall also be accompanied by: 1. Form HUD-5369A Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Bidders 2. Certificate of Corporate Clerk 3. Non-Collusive Affidavit 4. Certificate of Tax Compliance 5. Bidder Information Sheet 6. DCAM CQ3 Update Statement Attention is called to the following: a. Provisions of Equal Employment Opportunity b. Provisions for payment of not less than the minimum wages as set forth in the Specifications; c. Provisions of Chapter 14, Acts of 1966, Imposing A Temporary Sales Tax, Section 1, Subsection 6 (d) and (k) exempting the Authority from the operation of such a chapter; d. Requirements to furnish and pay for a 100% Labor and Materials Bond and a 100% Performance Bond as set forth in the specifications; e. Insurance certificates indicating coverage for public liability, property damage and workers compensation, in accordance with the contract requirements, must be filed by the successful bidder upon signing of the contract. A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 AM on December 8, 2010 at 81 Tacoma Street Conference Room, Worcester, MA at which time bidders will be invited to visit the project site(s) with a Worcester Housing Authority representative. Failure to attend or visit the premises shall be no defense in failure to perform contract terms. The Worcester Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding if it be in the public interest to do so. No bid of a General Bidder shall be withdrawn, after opening thereof, prior to thirty (30) days, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays excluded, without the consent of the Worcester Housing Authority. Contract award is subject to approval by the Worcester Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Worcester Housing Authority Brian Bigelow, Chief Procurement Officer

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RICH LEUFSTEDT, AKA AMAZING DICK, IS A UKULELE MAN. WHAT IN THE CHORDOPHONE IS THAT? IT’S A TALENTED MUSICIAN WHO PERFORMERS PRIMARILY ON A UKULELE. AS LEUFSTEDT PREPARES TO BRING TOGETHER SIMILARLY TALENTED UKE ARTISTS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL UKE-A-PALOOZA AT THE HOTEL VERNON ON DECEMBER 4 AT 8 P.M., WE SAT DOWN FOUR STRING TO FOUR STRING TO HEAR WHAT THE DUDE HAS BEEN UP TO – AND WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO DURING THE NEXT UKE FEST IN WORCESTER. songs to pop and punk. Oh yeah and myself “Amazing Dick” and Al my percussionist.” And to cap off this years show I’ll have a “midnight “ set in the infamous speakeasy.

Favorite song to play on your ukeulele? “Show Me The Way To Go Home”.... no, really my GPS got ripped off before this interview.

Least favorite song to play on the uke? Where did this idea come from – a uke fest in Worcester? Whynot Woostah? I

I have 2 ,”Tiptoe Thru The Tulips” and “Over The Rainbow.” Those seem to be the most popular requests and I’d rather buck the norm and play some Violent Femmes.

grew up here, live here , perform here and discovered a plethora of local talent to showcase for our friends, family and fans. I think the city benefits when something as culturally diverse as a ukulele festival happens in our back door vs. having to travel to Boston or Maui or…Kelley Square.

What would your dream uke collaboration be? It would be easy to say Led Zeppelin or the B.S.O. but that’s unrealistic. My choice would be to tap some of the great local talent that I may actually have a chance to collaborate with such as Cha Cha Connor, Stu Esty or James Keyes.

Highlight of Uke-A-Palooza the first? TJ Peavey smashing his uke after playing a Who song. The place just exploded, it was a pure, visceral rock’n roll moment. Brought on by 4 little strings of fury.

Tell me about Uke-A-Palooza 2. Who will be there and what will they be performing? The great thing about Uke man by night, what by day? I’m

Why do you think the Uke has become the hipsters instrument of choice lately?

a superhero with x-ray vision. Well, really I’m a Radiologic Technologst (x-ray tech) at UMMHC University Campus.

How long have you been playing the ukulele? I’ve been playing music all my life, lets just say if it was dog years I’d be dead, but the ukulele for 6 years.

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I think it’s the tone, theres something about the sound that stands out from a keyboard or guitar. So it seems to really grab peoples attention in a different way. So all the cool “hipsters” like George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Billy Corgan and local guys like Scott Ricciuti see it as a Ukenique tonal tool to appeal to the masses.

these events is I’ve managed to bring in new acts that haven’t appeared in past shows and that provides a lot of variety. The line-up is Bob Jordan, Jim Berkeley, Jon Short, Ron Carlson, School Safety Patrol, Hot Time Harv, Joy Rachelle, Raianne Richards and Mark Mandeville and myself . There will also be a few surprise guests and a lot of different styles of playing from folk, blues, bawdy drinking

Why the Vernon? I love the Vernon and the environment created by Bob Largess and his staff. They are very accommodating to any and all artistic endeavors and have been very supportive to me over the years. Plus the history, dollar beer and the best sounding room in the city.”

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