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hen I was 18 years old, my mother decided that, because it was legal when she was my age, I should be able to drink beer at home. One day, on her way out the door, she asked me what kind of beer I wanted. I told her to get me an 18-pack of Miller Lite. She stopped dead in her tracks and slowly turned to face me. “I will not be seen buying that,” she said. “Try again.” From then on, I was subject to her tastes by default, which were almost exclusively attuned to high-octane IPAs, no easy task for a novice beer drinker. Thus, I still love them. Times are changing and the beer climate has diversiﬁed at a staggering rate. Many of us in our 20s have come of age in a time when craft beer is simply part of our culture and this is certainly true in Central Massachusetts. The people in this week’s cover story are about as passionate as they come, and for them, beer is as much an adventure as it is a livelihood. I encourage you to get out and explore, to ﬁnd out what these brewers, business owners and bartenders are up to for yourself. Cheers. -Cade Overton, Contributing writer

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A grieving family seeks answers to man’s suicide death in jail M

ichael Reilly was sent to the Worcester County House of Corrections on June 11 this year. The next morning he was dead, the apparent victim of a suicide. More than a half year later, the only thing of which his family is sure is that their son and brother is dead. The rest, to them, remains a mystery dotted with questions – and they want answers. Now, with a formal complaint filed with the state Attorney General’s office – and fully prepared to go to court if necessary – Reilly’s family is speaking out in hopes that its collective voice is heard. His mother Darlene, father Jim and sister Jamie do not deny that the boy with a “smile that could light up a room” had a host of personal issues. His past speaks to it: multiple arrests, in and out of jail, and time spent in mental health facilities as the result of a bipolar diagnosis. That they can accept. What they cannot accept – what they refuse to believe – is that he deserved to die hanging by a bed sheet in a jail cell at the age of 24. While they may not all have the same theory as to just what transpired in the hours leading up to his death, Michael’s family believe something went horribly wrong at the jail. “The state failed,” Darlene Reilly says. “We’re hoping we can save another family from going through the pain we’ve gone through and have [the state] fix the system where they do their job. I feel that they

arraignment in Clinton District Court on an arrest that took place Monday, June 10 in that town. In the months since, his family has retained a lawyer, STEVEN KING Michelle Hubbard, who recently ﬁled a presentment letter with the Attorney General. They are fully prepared, in the absence of a settlement by the state, to follow through with a lawsuit in court. The allegations are many, among the most serious being that someone at the jail forged Michael’s signature on a written request for special needs status. Among other charges are that jail staff failed to provide Michael Reilly with “adequate Family members (from left) Jim, Jamie and Darlene Reily mental health care”; hold a photo of thier son/brother Michael who died in acknowledging Reilly Worcester County House of Corrections. said he would kill himself and failing to email or call Mental Health Watch; failing Michael Reilly died Wednesday, June 12 to act upon phone calls Reilly made to his as a prisoner inside a jail cell in the House mother and father during which he allegedly of Corrections in West Boylston. He had said, “Mom, they took my bed. I’m not been brought in the day before after his did not do their job. The system failed. The Worcester County House of Corrections failed.”

WOO-TOWN INDE X A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Worcester firefighters have had to gather twice in a short period of time in December to reflect on tragedy. In so doing, they stand as one and as tall as ever. +4

There are times when council subcommittees must meet at odd hours. As a rule, however, we don’t like the weekday morning gatherings, especially when important business – like whether to give the mayor a raise – is going to be discussed. -2

going to make it here” and “Dad, get me out of here … you just lost your son.”; and failing to conduct an adequate mental health evaluation of Reilly. The presentment letter also alleges no one checked on Reilly between 7:20 a.m., when he returned from a nurse’s office, and 8:30 a.m., when he was found hanging in his cell with a bed sheet wrapped around his neck. Reilly’s family says there was very little cooperation on the part of the jail in the wake of their son’s death. Jim Reilly says it took several weeks for authorities to provide an incident report to the family. “None of this was going to come about until we asked for the incident report,” Jim Reilly says. “[The superintendent] had probably a 20-page report and what he gave us was one piece of paper with, like, a sentence and a half. It was not the incident report we wanted. We wanted the report the superintendent had in his hand.” Another aspect of Michael Reilly’s death that disturbs his mother is that his courtappointed lawyer called her not long after Michael had died, saying he wanted to visit his client. “[The attorney] was never notified,” Darlene Reilly says. “He could not even believe it.” David Tuttle, a spokesperson for the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, provided this statement when asked to comment on Michael Reilly’s death and his family’s claims: “Approximately 6,200 inmates a year

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The Lady Crusaders lose their ﬁrst basketball game of the season, but that couldn’t erase the team’s best start in decades. +2

Classmates who graduated with murder victim Colleen Ritzer at Assumption College have established a scholarship in her name. +2

The Worcester Common Oval was supposed to open for its second season last Friday – but it was too warm. -1

Mechanics Hall rocks in Christmas with Chris Daughtry (above) and others as part of WXLO’s Acoustic Christmas. +1

They may have expected it, but JetBlue keeps getting grounded by the weather up on Airport Hill, causing the skeptics to become even more skeptical. -2

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Soup cooking again as nonproďŹ t group recovers from ďŹ re Walter Bird Jr.

ou can make soup by boiling water and tossing in just about any ingredient you wish â&#x20AC;&#x201C; meat, ďŹ sh, vegetables â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you name it. Add in the right kinds of seasoning, cook for a little while and, voila, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got something that started out as a bunch of individual ingredients and came together in a way that could warm your soul. That is probably the best way to describe what the nonproďŹ t group Stone Soup is and what it does. A veritable hodgepodge of a dozen or so individual organizations, Stone Soup is an all-volunteer run group whose members remain wedded to the ideal that everyone deserves social justice. It provides space for its members to work with children and others in a variety of ways. Smack in the middle of one of the toughest areas in Worcester at 4 King St., the building has been

newly renovated since being ravaged by an electrical ďŹ re in March 2009. Opened in 2006, Stone Soupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission may have been interrupted by ďŹ re (there was actually a second blaze a few months after the ďŹ rst ďŹ re), but ďŹ&#x201A;ames could not singe its spirit. If anything, the rebuilding that has taken place over the past several years has done more than erect new walls and add new rooms; it has refueled the faith of its members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The building] has served as a space that people can call home,â&#x20AC;? says Judy Diamondstone, a member of the Board of Directors and part of the Diggers Landscaping Co-op. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People see it as a place to ďŹ nd friendships and activities that are meaningful. A lot of the grassroots groups that were renting before, moved place to place. Finally, there is a place where we can permanently be building the community around us.â&#x20AC;?

With a freshly-rebuilt interior and exterior, and now under single ownership, the building inhabited by Stone Soup appears more than ready to spread its wings in a city that has beneďŹ ted mightily from the very nonproďŹ ts that make up the organization. The building itself embodies the mission of Stone Soup, especially with its green energy features that were part of the rebuild and with new spaces added during the construction. The ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor features a room for shared space at the front of the building, which was built in the late 1800s. There are three rooms for one of Stone Soupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding member organizations, Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA). Another group, Food Not Bombs has a kitchen toward the rear of the ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor. There is also a main community room that will double as a library. Up on the continued on page 7

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pass through the facility. On a daily basis our officers and staff do an outstanding job protecting inmates from harm. When an inmate successfully takes his own life, as unfortunately happens, it takes a tremendous toll on the responding officers [and] all firstresponders, who do their best to save a life. Our sympathies go out to the family. This is a hard situation for everyone involved.” Because of what he says is an ongoing investigation and the potential of a lawsuit, Tuttle says jail officials cannot comment further. Darlene Reilly says her son was supposed to attend a substance abuse program Sunday, June 9. She went to pick him up, but he was not there. When she contacted him, she says he told her there was “a change of plans” and he was going to stay with some friends in Clinton, where he had gone to school. The family, which resided in Malden at the time of his death, had lived in Lancaster while Michael was in school. “I said, ‘Mike, no, come home’ and he said, ‘Mom, you know I’m doing good. I’ll be alright,’” Darlene Reilly recalls of their conversation that night. On Monday, she says she called him at 3 p.m. and he was still in Clinton. He asked what time dinner was and said he would be home by 5:30 p.m. That night, police arrested Michael for

allegedly driving a stolen vehicle and possessing a stolen credit card. His mother says he had gone to a store to buy cigarettes. The only other times she and her husband spoke to their son was during the separate phone calls he made to them from the House of Corrections before he died. Neither parent acquiesced to his request that they bail him out (bail had been set at $1,000 at his arraignment). “At that time, I felt … the safest place for him would be in protective custody,” Jim Reilly says. “I said, ‘They’re just going to put you in PC, anyway.’ I felt that was the safest place for him, for a week, until our trial date. The next morning he was dead.” His family admits Michael led a “troubled” life. He was arrested four or ﬁve times, they say, and he spent time in mental health institutions. His ﬁrst arrest came at 16, when he stole a steak from a Shaw’s Supermarket, his mother says. He was addicted to pills and, before entering the House of Corrections this year, had done a previous stint of nine months at the facility for stealing a car. “Michael fought a lot of demons,” Darlene Reilly says of her son. “Mike would selfmedicate to feel normal. A lot of times with that, you know, he made some bad choices.” His mother says in all his previous arrests, the charges had been thrown out, such as the time an ex-girlfriend claimed he threw a

rock at her. Then there was the time another ex-girlfriend, who Michael’s mother says had just left the family’s house after eating with them, went to another man and told him Michael had raped her. “That was a total lie. That did not happen,” Darlene Reilly says. “Most of Michael’s stuff was dismissed or continued without a ﬁnding. He didn’t really have any criminal, like bad stuff on his record.” For his drug addiction, Michael Reilly took part in a drug court program in Concord at one point. It should have lasted a year, but he ended up violating the terms of the program. “The year turned into, like, two and a half years,” Jim Reilly says. That landed Michael in the Billerica House of Corrections. Incidentally, his father says what happened in West Boylston would not have happened in Billerica. Once he ﬁnished that sentence, he did well for a while, his mother says, and then Michael tried to kill himself. In April, just months before his death, his family had him committed to Bridgewater State Hospital. He was supposed to be there for 90 days, but was released in fewer than 25. As he had before when he complete a jail sentence or time in a mental health facility, Michael did “really good” for a while. “When he got out,” his sister says, “he would text me and we would talk and I was

actually becoming closer to him and being more friendly.” Michael started installing ﬂoors with a family friend and would send pictures of his work to his sister. “The next thing you know, he got arrested,” Jamie Reilly says. “I didn’t even expect it to happen.” His mother says Michael wanted to get better and that he thoroughly enjoyed being with his family. She just does not think he could ever beat down the demons. She says she is not entirely convinced her son committed suicide, something her husband has not quite bought into. But even Jim Reilly says he is starting to question the circumstances surrounding Michael’s death. Both of them, along with Jamie, want to know exactly what happened during the ﬁnal fateful hours of Michael’s life. “Did he hang himself? Did someone do this? I don’t have the answers,” Darlene Reilly says. The family’s attorney says it must wait six months to allow the state a chance to respond to the presentment letter. If there is not response, “It’s presumed the state denies the allegations,” Hubbard says. At that point, the family can proceed with a lawsuit.

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second floor, there is a room for one of the organization’s newest members, East African Community Outreach. A new deck has been built, which could become a roof-top garden, according to board member Jen Burt, who is part of the HX Library Collective. Another new member group, Future Focus Media Coop, which provides video, photography and audio services, also has space on the second floor. There are offices for the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). StandUp For Kids, which performs homeless youth outreach, will share some space with Worcester Roots Project. The latter group includes members Matt Feinstein and Asa Needle, who are also board members for Stone Soup. The third floor is unfinished, but will house one low-income housing unit. In addition to a rehabbed interior, the building also features a radiant floor heating system that Feinstein says will reduce energy usage by 70 percent. Moistureresistant rigid foam insulation was used on the exterior walls. Of course, spirit alone was not enough to complete the rebuild. There were, Diamondstone says, “significant” contributions of materials and labor. In total, the organization had to raise about $350,000 for the project. Feinstein concedes he was not always positive the group would see the

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Judy Diamondstone, a member of the Board of Directors, and Asa Needle at the newly-rebuilt Stone Soup kitchen on King Street. doors opened on a new Stone Soup building. “There were deﬁnitely times I was not sure we were going to be able to make it,” he says. Adds Needle: “It was deﬁnitely a long process.” The process, in fact, was part of what

helped keep the spirit of Stone Soup on full boil. “There were times when you had to call all the people who are really invested to say, ‘Should we take this settlement?’ Asking questions and learning to trust

people to make those decisions is wonderful,” Burt says. As they worked with community partners like Carpenters Local 107 to build from the rubble, Stone Soup members gained a deeper understanding of their mission, according to Diamondstone. “It has tested our capacity to work with each other,” she says. “We’ve learned a lot and I think we’ve sort of honed our sense of what Stone Soup is and its possibilities.” Perhaps no one is more aware of the organization’s potential than Needle, who was 11 when Stone Soup was founded. “Stone Soup is the reason I am a community activist today,” he says. “I saw what was possible when people were powered by a vision greater than the individual. I’ve deﬁnitely grown up with the rebirth of Stone Soup. The community built through recovering from this tragedy was even more inspiring than the magic we had before.” Have a story tip or idea? Call Walter Bird Jr. at 508-749-3166, ext. 322, or email him at wbird@worcestermagazine.com. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @walterbirdjr and catch Walter with Paul Westcott every Thursday morning at 8:35 on radio station WTAG 580AM for all things Worcester!

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Junior/Senior High School will not be closing, after all. You may recall that things looked pretty bleak for the Catholic school not even a month ago, when Headmaster Rev. Thaddeus Stachura announced the school would shut its doors for good after the 2013 school year. Almost immediately, the St. Mary’s community sprang into action – led by a man more often a lightning rod for criticism than a savior. But that is precisely what local activist Steve Quist has become. The parent of a son at the school and a daughter who graduated from there, Quist started a Facebook page, helped organize a rally and simply would not allow the school to give up without a ﬁght. Now, on the strength of numerous donations and with several partnerships in the works – not to mention an expected sizable monetary gift from a generous benefactor – not only will seniors and juniors have a place to go to school next year, its future is starting to look bright. Quist wants the school to become a leader in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. Conversations are ongoing with local colleges and universities. In the meantime, St. Mary’s can now turn its attention to boosting enrollment through such efforts as an Open House/Shadow Day scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 8 a.m.

A DAY TO REMEMBER: Saturday, Dec. 7 will go down locally as the greatest day in the history of sports at Doherty Memorial High School. In a matter of hours, the Highlanders football team won its first ever Super Bowl championship – at no less a venue than Gillette Stadium, home to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots – and a Doherty alum, Yawin Smallwood, announced he would enter the 2014 NFL Draft. He will do so ranked as the No. 9 middle linebacker in the country, pretty much ensuring he will not earn the title of Mr. Irrelevant – the rather dubious moniker awarded to the last overall draft pick each year. No, Smallwood is projected as a second-round pick. Which begs the question: Could Worcester be cheering on one of its own in Foxborough next fall? It’s not out of the question. The Pats have a pick in each of seven rounds and have a history of trading down. They could, theoretically, trade their first-round pick for a second, which would give them two in that round. And then – who knows? Smallwood would fill some mighty big shoes in former Patriot’s MLB Tedy Bruschi. MORE, SAME OR LESS?

Worcester Magazine asked its friends on Facebook whether they thought new City Manager Ed Augustus should be paid the same as outgoing City Manager Mike O’Brien, less or more. Here is what some of them had to say. Bill Guenette: “Great question. The same. That position is hired by what the city has it for. It’s a set salary.” Arthur Vrekaj: “The same. How much we spend for city’s payroll from taxpayers’ money, which might hire more residents to work for the city instead of favoring some with higher salaries?” Kate Walker: “There should be a starting salary until he proves himself.” Richard Poole: “eliminate the City Manager post.” Brian Austin: “There should be no city manager role in the future. It ﬂies in the face of having a democracy to having the most powerful person in the city being in a non-elected position, and not being held accountable to the people of Worcester.” What do you think? Let us know on Facebook!

TOYS FOR TEENS: The ongoing Toys for Tots program is gaining a sister – or in this case, brother – program in the form of Toys for Teens, a drive to collect toys for teens in need. District 4 City Councilor Sarai Rivera and state Reps. Mary Keefe and Dan Donahue are organizing a collection effort with participating agencies including Friendly House, Oak Hill CDC, Centro Las Americas and the South Worcester Neighborhood Center. The public can bring donations of unwrapped toys to Shangri-La Restaurant, 60 Madison St., Friday, Dec. 13, from 5-9 p.m. The holiday celebration ties into local salsa singer Matt Sanchez’s hat and glove drive beneﬁting kids at Elm Park Community School. Toys for Teens donations can also be made at Shakers Cafe, 96 Hamilton St. “At the Pleasant Street Network Center we collected Toys for Tots and when we organized the donations according to age there was very, very little for the 13-year-olds,” Keefe says. “It was sad, really. So for that reason we are joining together and making a collection speciﬁcally for teens so we can augment what is being donated for younger children. If this is successful, we would like to make it an annual effort.”

{ worcesteria } NO LUK FOR LUKES: At-Large Councilor Konnie Lukes struck out with her Open

Meeting Law complaint earlier this year that contended her colleagues had deliberated outside of public session about instructing City Manager Mike O’Brien to negotiate a community host agreement with Mass Gaming and Entertainment LLC. The Attorney General’s Office says the council in fact did not violate the Open Meeting Law when, after Lukes tabled a motion by colleague Bill Eddy to authorize O’Brien to move ahead in discussions with MGE, Mayor Joe Petty’s office released an email stating that 10 councilors endorsed Eddy’s motion. The AG’s office concludes that Petty spoke with only one member of the council and not a quorum, which would have violated the law. There is an obvious flaw with the AG’s decision: it considers only whether Petty – and not someone else – spoke to his colleagues in deliberation. Other councilors have already acknowledged they were called by a councilor that was not Petty about the order. If Siskel & Ebert were still around, they’d give Two Thumbs Down to the AG’s office on this one.

YOUR INNER ROCKWELL: If you have visited Higgins Armory’s gift shop, chances are

you’ve seen the image of Norman Rockwell’s 1962 work done in the Great Hall. It later became a cover for the Saturday Evening Post. Well, area artists are getting the chance to channel their inner Norman – Rockwell, that is, not Bates. Each Tuesday at the museum, artists have been invited to take part in “Arms and Artists,” which allows them to create a drawing or photograph throughout Higgins to capture a piece of the collection before it moves for good to its new location at Worcester Art Museum next year. The last chance for artists is Tuesday, Dec. 17. “Before we close [Dec. 31] … we wanted to offer members of the community one last chance to forever capture – through photographs or drawings – their favorite pieces of the Higgins’ Collection,” says Suzanne Maas, interim museum director. Artists can set up from 1-4 p.m. for the price of admission. More information about “Arms and Artists” can be found at www. higgins.org or by calling 508-853-6015.

SECOND TIME’S A CHARM: Carol Claros came up short in her bid to join the Worcester Public Library Board of Directors, but she did not let the rather muddled process – councilors had to vote several times just to fill three slots – deter her from serving the city. Claros, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for 16th Worcester District state Rep against Democrat Dan Donahue earlier this year, has been appointed to the rather important Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC). Her term expires June 30, 2016. A nurse at MCI-Concord and single mom to a young daughter, Claros was a finalist for an unexpired term as library director after missing out on two vacant full terms. On CDAC, she will play a role in working with local nonprofits vying for grants through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) and Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) programs. The process is getting underway for fiscal 2015. MEDIA GETS PANNED: City Hall appears to be a little sensitive when it comes to its controversial panhandling ordinances, because it is trumpeting a November court ruling that upholds almost all aspects of the ordinances – except one. “Initial media reports may have given the impression that the court had ruled against the city, when in fact it denied the injunction request for all restrictions in ordinances, except soliciting after dark,” City Solicitor David Moore writes in a memo. He was referring to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against ordinances that bans aggressive panhandling. Basically, folks are not allowed to solicit donations on traffic medians and in city streets. The ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals followed an earlier decision in US District Court that also upheld the ordinances. Those “media reports,” by the way included Worcester Magazine, which quite clearly explained that only one component of the ordinances had been struck down. CHEESEHEADS: We couldn’t ignore this rather interesting tidbit. Three seniors – Joseph Botelho, Rodrigo Calles and Diana Nguyen – are going right to the cheese of the matter, literally. The three have decided to pay homage to the school’s mascot, a goat named Gompei, by starting a business, Gompei’s Goat Cheese, as part of their Major Qualifying Project. Less than a month into the venture, the trio has already sold in excess of $2,000 worth of goat cheese, according the school. MORE THAN JUST BOOKSMART: Going back to football for a moment, Worcester

Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has a gridiron star in its midst. The College Sports Information Directors of America has named senior wide receiver Ehab Hamdan a Capital One Division IIII Football All-American. He earned second team honors and joins Aaron Champagne as the only WPI football players to be be named Academic All-American. “This is a huge honor,” the 21-year-old Hamdan, a civil engineering major, says. “I was really surprised and humbled to receive this award.” Can’t get enough Worcesteria? Check out Daily Worcester online at www.worcestermag.com. Have an item for Worcesteria? Call Walter Bird Jr. at 508-749-3166, ext. 322, or email him at wbird@ worcestermagazine.com. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @walterbirdjr and catch him with Paul Westcott every Thursday morning at 8:35 on radio station WTAG 580AM for all things Worcester!

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Scaling the summit with the spoken word

Janice Harvey

hen I was a kid, my home fell just shy of the twomile mark that would’ve made me eligible for the school bus, and so I walked from the shore of Coes Pond on Circuit Ave. to South High – the old South High on Richards Street - every day. The route was a straight shot down Maywood to Main and brought me past Hillcrest Dairy, where the dock workers sometimes whistled at young girls, Toohil’s gas station, the Blarney Stone barroom and eventually, Clark University. I would peer into the campus as I walked by and dream of attending that college, someday. I would learn that dreams should have an expiration date stamped on them to move one along in pursuit of them: three decades would pass before I earned my diploma from that storied institution. Life gets in the way of dreams too often. Clark’s reputation as innovative, bold and willing to embrace new ideas was what drew me to its campus. My father considered it a breeding ground for subversives, which was enough to make me want to enroll, since at South High, despite my stellar GPA, I’d already been denied membership to the National Honor Society as punishment for writing for an underground newspaper. I suppose a publication called “SAAB – Students Against Administrative Bullshit” wasn’t really endearing me to the deciding panelists from the NHS. But I was young and brassy, and not yet seasoned in the ways of institutions. Even as I married, became a mother and divorced, I still clung to the idea that when I returned to school, it would be the doors of Clark University I’d open. That tiny campus would eventually spread itself throughout Main South like a glass of spilt milk, soaking up whole blocks of a deteriorating neighborhood. Prostitution, gangs and drug-related crime became the activities most often associated with turf I once freely walked, and Clark’s takeover of adjacent properties became the most effective way of keeping these seedier elements in check. The university I longed to attend as a child has, for many years, reached out to the youth who live on the opposite side of its iron fences, and no better example of Clark’s commitment to their future exists than the youth summit held on campus last week. The goal of the summit was to provide a space where students could explore the roles that race and class played in shaping their educational experience. “It was my hope,” says Clark professor Raphael Rogers, “that throughout the summit, students would

have a number of opportunities to engage in critical and productive thought and dialogues about this complex topic.” To that end, Rogers invited students from Worcester, Amherst and Springfield to take part in the daylong event. I was grateful to be included by the professor who introduced me to the importance of the graphic novel as a learning tool – Rogers was my professor last spring – and his invitation gave me the chance to choose 10 North students who might embrace the opportunity. My bunch was an eclectic crew; I chose deliberately. I knew I was on the right track when the permission slips came back and Yamelisse said to me: “I told my mom this is an honor.” Speakers and poets included author Dr. Gloria LadsonBillings, whose work encourages educators to think beyond the textbook to reach urban students, and Sheldon Alexander, who ripped through the morning air with a rap about race vs. class that woke even the sleepiest students. Lulama Moyo, a Clark sophomore born in Zimbabwe who grew up in rural Maine, electrified Tilton Hall with a take-no-prisoners spoken-word poem about ignorance, intolerance and empowerment. I watched as my kids straightened up in their seats. Their applause was not the result of prodding. We broke for lunch and I braced for the usual brain drain that occurs when full bellies take over. The Clark dining hall was elbow-to-elbow as my students feasted on an endless buffet that they agreed beat hands-down any North caf. offerings. As he munched his third plate full of choices, piled high with everything from grilled cheese to rice and beans to burgers and brownies, Katrel told me: “Miss! This is the best field trip I’ve ever gone on in my life!” But my fears that interest in the summit’s subject would wane were unfounded when a panel of educators and activists took the stage after lunch. Award-winning radio DJ, poet, writer and educator Alysia Cosby grabbed their attention and never looked back. The title of her new book “Check One Box” became the day’s mantra when she asked the students: “How many times have you been asked: ‘What are you?’” I watched heads nod knowingly. Andrew Habana Hafner Ed.D spoke next and his no-nonsense delivery kept them riveted. But it was filmmaker Carlos REC McBride who captured both hearts and minds with a rap that brought to life his own fierce struggle with the streets, a story that brutally described the gangland shooting death of a continued on page 12

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n epidemic has hit colleges across the country that could cost more than a missed lecture or lab-skipping class. Should universities and colleges give the overall unexcused attendance for college students who receive Financial Aid to the Office of the Department of Education? If so, the Federal Student Aid would take into consideration previous attendance in classes. After all, recipients of Financial Aid are recipients of government money and therefore, each dollar they spend on a class is a dollar from a taxpayer. At the private College of the Holy Cross, one class session that meets twice a week costs around $180. When speaking with a friend, he casually mentioned that he skipped six of one of his classes, or in other words, $1,080. Why did he miss it? My friend skipped class because a ten o’clock in the morning class was too early for him. This friend is also a recipient of financial aid. In August of 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) stated that, for the 2012-2013 school year, about seventy-one percent of all undergraduate students received some sort of financial aid, and that the average was $10,300. According to Collegecalc.org, about 48% of the student body at Holy Cross receive federal grant aid. On average, one-third of all Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is Federal Government spending. Gross Domestic Product is the total income of everyone within an economy within a given time, or in other words, the market value of all final goods and services produced within an economy and a period of time. Financial Aid is included in about half of what the government spends through transfers. An economic transfer refers to a redistribution of income into the market system as welfare benefits, which do not directly create output or use resources. Basically this is saying that half of what the government spends could be going to waste due to college students skipping class. However, these transfers also include social security, etc. If the government had a better idea of how many classes were being wasted and lectures unheard, they could consequently adjust their spending into other transfers, such as social security. Although I do not want the Federal Government as a babysitter, as a taxpayer, I also do not enjoy hearing that my money is going to waste all around the country. As a recipient of a small amount of Financial Aid, it is irritating to discover that this grant money is now being wasted by a fellow classmate. I would be happy to hear that my parents, who will end up paying around $200,000 for my college education, could be rewarded with a social security payment toward the end of their lifetime instead. I am aware as a current college student that sometimes things seem to sneak up on you and skipping a class may be the only alternative to finishing an assignment. In this regard, good grades and a consistent GPA could eliminate the Department of Education’s involvement in taking away money from one’s financial aid. The Office of Federal Student Aid would only need to be notified of one’s absences if their grade is suffering dramatically. This way, students would still be encouraged to do well in a class without being penalized if they do not attend a few classes. I am a supporter of financial aid. However, skipping classes has become an epidemic that has the ability to become a giant waste of taxpayers’ dollars. If a college student skips class and gets bad grades, they should not be eligible for as much money as a student with good grades who consistently attends class. K AT IE BOY LE College of the Holy Cross student and resident of Devon, Pa. DECEMBER 12, 2013 • WORCESTERMAGAZINE.COM

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friend. Among my students was Sokari, a savvy young man with street smarts that kept him from committing his voice to earlier discussions. I knew the youth summit had made an impact when McBrideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spoken word caused Sokari to leap from his seat and clasp the hand of the Doctoral candidate who once roamed the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hood. Upon reďŹ&#x201A;ection, Raphael Rogers said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was pleased that both students and teachers had such positive responses to the summit. I hope it provided the attendees with insight, information and a little bit of inspiration that will help them on their journey towards ďŹ nding success in school and in life.â&#x20AC;? Rogers need not worry. After scarďŹ ng a second ice cream cone, Katrel asked

if he might come back to Clark every week. I told him that he could come every day if he works hard and earns a Clark scholarship. He smiled and nodded, it was an option heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never considered before. It was a campus heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never dreamed of strolling. Afterward, Sokari offered this brief but ďŹ rm advice to educators: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All you teachers should attend this summit. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d learn a lot about us, and how to teach us.â&#x20AC;? And once again, Clark University let me pass through the fence, to the side where my education continues.

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In the November 27, 2013 issue of Worcester Magazine, in the story â&#x20AC;&#x153;Professors, community members divided on Smart Meter programâ&#x20AC;? that ran in the City Desk section, it was incorrectly stated that Jennie Stephens is an assistant professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University. Stephens is an associate professor of environmental science and policy at Clark University. Worcester Magazine apologizes for this error.

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Anna Maria College in Paxton has announced it will offer two new academic programs at the start of the 2014-15 academic year. A new major in Forensic Criminology will give students a specialized examination of the criminal justice system from a sociological and scientiﬁc perspective. “Through a focus on evidence and process, students in the Forensic Criminology major at Anna Maria College will be challenged to assess systemic and societal responses to various criminal populations and case studies,” says Ann Marie, Ph.D., assistant professor of Criminal Justice at AMC. The college will also introduce a new major in the Health and Community Services department, which will be designed for students interested in working in non-clinical roles in the health ﬁeld. Of the program, Judith Kenary, BSN, MBA, Ed.D., dean of Fire and Health Sciences, says, “It will provide students with the skills necessary to assist individuals navigate the myriad changes and complexities of our evolving healthcare delivery system.” Annamaria.edu/academics.

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{ coverstory } CRAFT BEER IS HERE TO STAY By Cade Overton/Photos by Steven King story starts on page 16

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{ coverstory } Beer. It’s an evocative four-letter word. In recent years, its association has transformed from lawnmower 30-packs and raging collegiate keggers into a narrative of complexity, region and passion. People do not necessarily think of Milwaukee or an ice-cold longneck anymore when they hear the b- word, instead, the brewpub down the street or the amiable brewer who ﬁlls your growler at the source might come to mind. Craft beer is no longer the realm of hobbyists and geeks, it is an integral element of American drinking culture and its popularity has exploded in the past several years. It seems new breweries are popping up every day and brewers all over the country are getting increasingly creative in search of their own niche in the market. And while Central Massachusetts might not have the legendary beer-mecca status of Colorado or San Diego, the 2010s have been kind to craft beer lovers in the area thus far. It’s easy to get the feeling that it’s only the beginning.

PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Alec Lopez, owner of Worcester’s Dive Bar and Armsby Abbey, says that a decade ago, access to craft beer in Worcester was nonexistent, though the movement was beginning to sweep the country. 16

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“At the beginning times that we were doing this, craft beer was trending up anyway. We just happened to sneak in right ahead of the curve, so we had all the momentum in the world around us and in the marketplace, so it wasn’t such a foreign object. It was kind of being pushed nationally and worldwide at that point, so it was almost like riding a wave.” Both the Dive Bar and Armsby Abbey serve as galleries for rare and high-quality brews and Lopez brought it all to Worcester after traveling to beer festivals in Europe and developing relationships with brewers and distributors. Making a unique drinking experience available to people in the area is the foundation of what both places do, and Lopez credits his success to a no-compromise approach to selling the world’s greatest beers. After the success of the Dive Bar, Lopez took things one step further. “Armsby was born out of the need to put what we had created at the Dive into a better surrounding and have food and just push it further,” he says. Armsby Abbey now features a brand new kitchen and an expanded dining room, as of the ﬁrst week of December. “We’re growing like crazy right now,” says Lopez. Lopez isn’t the only one in town experiencing the need to grow. Ben Roesch, founder and master brewer of Wormtown Brewery, has been brewing professionally since 2001 and opened Wormtown in 2010. The demand for his beer was immediate. “We

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{ coverstory } would have built it bigger if we had seen it coming, but it really outstripped our wildest imaginations of what we could do,” he says. The brewery is about to relocate to a much bigger space at 72 Shrewsbury St., in the old Buick building that houses Volturno, Sweet, The Hidden Jewel and Worcester Magazine. “We needed a bigger spot in order to make more beer, is really the short of it,” says Roesch. The move will allow the brewery to offer tours and a tasting room. Beer tourism is something that Roesch would like to bring to Central Massachusetts. He notes that with the economy still creating problems for many, people are not as willing to drop their savings on a week in the Caribbean, but a day trip to the local brewery might be an affordable and enlightening adventure. “Going to the brewery is a cool way to get out for the day or the afternoon and check out something different, see how something is made locally,” he says, adding that before he was a professional brewer, he would always seek out local breweries while on vacation. “Beer is an affordable luxury,” he says. A tasting room on the premises allows drinkers to experience beer right at the source, but it can also give the brewers an easy test audience. Cedric Daniel, co-

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Wormtown brewers, Chris Courtney (left) and Ben Pratt clean tanks at the 10-barrel brewery on Park Ave.

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owner of Rapscallion Brewery in Fiskdale, says tastings are a great addition to the brewery experience. Located at Hyland Orchard, Rapscallion offers tours and tastings every weekend and also operates the tap room on weekday evenings Tuesday through Friday. “We are able to ‘test’ beers out in the tap room before we decide to make them public,” says Daniel. “We are also able to be more creative and free with our brewing, with very small batches for the tap room – as we know our regulars and visitors are more apt to try different recipes right from the sources, versus at restaurants and bars out and about.” This accessibility is huge. Like most craftspeople, brewers are always eager to talk about their work and for the curious and adventurous drinker, it’s easy to get your questions answered. “I think that’s deﬁnitely been one of the keys to us growing so quickly,” says Roesch. “I mean, you call, you get me on the phone. I’m answering the phone. You walk in the door and want to talk to me, there’s not like eight people you have to go through, half the time it’s me there. I don’t see that changing too much and I think that’s a real positive thing. I think it kind of resonates with people, especially when we’re talking about being part of the community.

A THIRST FOR FREEDOM

One attraction to craft beer and its consumption and production is that it lends itself to independence. There’s a certain amount of freedom to be had with a variety of choices, and certainly a bit of adventure to be found in the abundant selections available to consumers. Jonathan Cook, author of “Beer Terrain,” a new book that details the use of locallysourced ingredients in Massachusetts brewing, places a lot of weight on personal choice. “It’s people doing what they want to do,” he says, speaking of hop farmers and breweries like

Wormtown. “The way they do things is their own. They’re their own bosses and they do it according to their own conscience.”

Cook, a longtime brewer and beer aficionado, is driven by a desire for discovery. “I’m just naturally curious, and being a homebrewer I’m very curious about what’s in beer,” he says. “Brewpubs and tasting rooms in breweries... those are my favorite places in the world because they know so much about it and you can see how it’s made.” And when it comes to how it’s made, there are the basics and then there are the flourishes, which can be unexpected and sometimes downright surprising. Water and malt form the backbone of any beer, and hops are important to the flavor, smell and level of bitterness, but many people are not content to stop there. It is this intrinsic curiosity and need for adventure that lures people to craft beer and keeps them drinking it. Brewers are no different. For Roesch, one such impromptu detour began when he saw a bizarre fruit in his mother-in-law’s house. “She had a Buddha’s hand in her fruit basket, it’s a lemony-looking fruit in the citrus family with little fingers on it. I was asking about it – I’d never seen one before

– and she was telling me about how there’s no fruit in there, it’s just all pit and zest and you cut it up and use it in a salad or steep it in hot water in tea, and I was just thinking, ‘man, that would go great in so many different beers that I already make. A citrus would complement something that already had citrus flavors from American hops.’” Last year the brewery produced two batches of Buddha’s Juice, a double IPA brewed with Buddha’s hand and grapefruit peel, and they plan to do it again this year. Rail Trail Flatbread Company Bar Manager Rui Silva agrees with the need for adventure, and accordingly, rotates the taps at the Hudson restaurant and bar as often as possible, sometimes daily. He says it’s all about trying something new and he strives to make this part of the experience. “When someone comes in here and they say, ‘I’ve never seen any of these beers before,’ it’s the best. That’s what we’re going for,” Silva says. “We get really excited because now we can introduce you to something new. We like being that place where it kind of challenges and introduces new flavors at the same time.” Cook, a dedicated homebrewer, credits happenstance and experimentation with broadening his palate, and for him, this is part of the attraction to drinking beer. “I drink beer because I love the flavor, but my

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taste buds change, so I tend to do a little bit of experimenting sometimes with brewing. For example, I made a beer with lavender because I had extra lavender that year. This late summer I harvested a huge crop of hops, so I brewed with heavy doses of hops. Prior to that, I’d never been a giant IPA fan, I’d enjoyed maltier beers. But as a homebrewer, it really got me acclimated to that huge ﬂavor and lately, I’ve been buying nothing but IPAs.”

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It is this desire for experimentation and adventure that is bringing more and more people to the world of homebrewing. For many, homebrewing is the logical next step in their own explorations of beer, and for aspiring beer wizards in Worcester County, there’s no need to travel far.

A list of beers on tap at Armsby Abbey.

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and a wide range of ingredients to make the possibilities seem literally endless. In business since 1999, the Homebrew Emporium caters to brewers old and new. “We have a diverse group of people that shop here,” says Manager Patrick Gouin. “There’s still the ‘oldschool’ brewers that have been doing this for decades now and who helped pave the way, but there’s plenty of young people deeply interested in the hobby, myself included.” M4: Mid-Mass Malt Masters is a homebrew club that the store started in March of this

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year. Open to anyone, the club meets monthly and has grown from three founding members to about 20 core members in just nine months, with a dozen more drifting in and out periodically. “People get into homebrewing for a plethora of reasons,” says Gouin. “A lot of people just love craft beer and say ‘I can do that!’ Some treat it as a hobby, while others might be aspiring to start their own breweries someday. I think it’s safe to say that all of us enjoy doing it and sharing what we’ve made with others.” Gouin sees a bright future for craft beer in Central Massachusetts. With so many breweries and beer bars appearing in the area over the last several years, he has seen a large departure from the macro lager beers that have dominated the landscape for so long. “There’s still plenty of room for growth in our area and I definitely see it coming,” he adds. Gouin and the folks at the Emporium, like many others involved in the local beer industry, make an effort to give back to their community and to make beer a communal staple. The store raises money for the Worcester County Food Bank at least twice a year by holding brewing events. “For the American Homebrewers Association’s National Homebrew Day and Learn to Brew Day, we invite local brewers to set up in our parking lot and brew batches of beer,” he says. They provide batches of ingredients in exchange for a small cash or food donation. Homebrewed beer and the people who make it can do a whole lot to form the beer landscape; it’s how many professional brewers get their start. Jim Koch, the founder of Sam Adams, and Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewing, are both titans in the American beer industry. Both started in their own kitchens, brewing five gallons at a time on the stovetop and fermenting in buckets. In his seminal homebrewing book “The Joy of Homebrewing,” brew guru Charlie Papazian says, “Traditional beer styles go in and out of favor with consumers. When they are rediscovered, homebrewers tend to be their champions.” Gouin agrees with Papazian. “For example, a style such as Gose, which is an old German style of wheat beer with light spices and salt added, has been making a resurgence,” he says. “Most of the credit there is due to homebrewers.”

A PIECE OF MASS

In the past several years, the popularity of local foods, local ingredients and farm-to-table restaurants has exploded. The “buy local” sentiment is beyond trendy at this

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“You know, local doesn’t mean good, and I try to get people to understand that all the time,” says Lopez. “We have a lot of breweries in Massachusetts, but we have very few producing good beer, so if there is a local beer and it happens to be really good then yes, that’s as good as it gets for us. That’s what we really try to celebrate.” Silva acknowledges the desire to support local breweries, citing both Jack’s Abbey in Framingham and Wormtown in Worcester as breweries they feature semi-regularly, but says limiting beer options to locally-produced suds can be detrimental. “At the end of the day, we just want really good beer,” he says. “I feel like sometimes having that pressure to be a place where you only carry local beers, while it’s great, sometimes it can hinder the experience. I think, why not put on a great beer, like a Firestone Union Jack from California? Why shouldn’t I be able to do that? I think that being tied down to just local beers does a disservice to the customer.” Roesch, as a brewery owner, doesn’t have to decide whose beers to serve – they’re all his. And when there is access to locallyproduced ingredients, he doesn’t think twice. In 2010, Valley Malt began malting barley grown in Western Mass., becoming the first malthouse east of the Mississippi. Roesch bought their entire first batch. “We opened up in early 2010, and all you could do at that point was use what I call typical, notthat-hard-to-get brewing ingredients that are local: pumpkin, blueberries, maple syrup, honey,” Roesch says. “It was a lot harder to get the more traditional brewing ingredients, barley, wheat, hops. The real component that was missing was the malting.” In late 2010, Wormtown brewed their first batch of MassWhole Ale with grains and hops exclusively from within the state. “Once we were able to do that, we committed to putting one Mass.-grown ingredient in every beer we make,” says Roesch. Thus, Wormtown’s tagline, “A Piece of Mass in Every Glass.” Roesch, echoing Silva’s sentiment, admits that the most important thing for consumers is, above all else, the quality of the beer. “You’re always going to have people that are concerned with supporting local businesses, especially other people that are involved in local businesses,” he says. “I think it’s a bonus for people who just like good beer, but it’s something that is important to me and

Wormtown Brewery and I think the freshness of local ingredients adds to the quality of Wormtown Brewery beer.” Daniel agrees that keeping the brewery sustainable and local is important to Rapscallion’s mission. The brewery even sources their tap handles from a Rhode Island company that makes them by hand, and further, gets the honey for their ﬂagship ale, Honey, from a local honey farmer. “We are also draft-only and anticipate to can a few of our products, both vessels being as sustainable for the environment and community as possible,” Daniel adds.

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parts of New England still adhere to an English style of brewing, brewers in Massachusetts are forging their own ground. “In Massachusetts, I think there’s been a little more creativity,” he says. “There’s this defi nitive Mass. sort of style; it’s very broad but it’s not pure English. It touches on a lot of things, and a lot of it is original to the brewers.”

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Rapscallion, on the other hand, offers Harvard Lager, a beer that relies on a recipe from another time. The brewery acquired the Harvard Brewing brands, originally from Lowell and started in 1898, in a 2008 ownership transition. “We chose to brew some of their recipes to honor the tradition of brewing in the state,” says Daniel. “The lager is also a great tasting session beer (in layman’s terms: a beer you can drink a whole bunch of without getting completely sloshed) so we wanted to make this history in brewing available for craft drinkers.” At

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this point, Harvard Lager has been brewed and consumed at various times in three consecutive centuries. The brewery’s ﬂagship ale, Honey, is an extra pale ale made with local honey and Daniel semi-jokingly refers to it as their “transition beer.” “We bring it to family gatherings and convert our uncles who drink macros,” he laughs. Having something for everyone is important to the brewers at Rapscallion and though their line includes a very robust porter and a dark and bitter black IPA, they are not afraid to include

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While noting that some of her regulars will never stray far from what they know and love, Wright says occasionally a hardcore macro drinker will give a microbrew a whirl. The two are not mutually exclusive, after all, and a wider variety of drinkers are warming the barstools these days. “We have a lot of regular loyal customers and some of them, all they want to drink is Coors Light,” she says. “That’s ﬁne. We have that for you. But more and more, as craft beer gets bigger, there’s another huge market and generation that’s coming into beer. So many more women are drinking craft beer. Why not have something for everybody?” As for craft beer’s popularity, Roesch attributes it to the way the current generation of drinkers has been raised, as well as the human tendency to identify with brands and regions. “If you like West Coast beer, maybe you’re from the West Coast and you’re holding that torch while you’re out on the East Coast and vice versa,” Roesch says. “I think it has a lot to do with identity and I think also the generations of people that are coming up now that are starting to drink beer are exposed to their parents being craft beer drinkers. So now the kids that are younger than me, I’m 35, their parents were drinking Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada. It’s already

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part of their life, whereas that was a slow thing that was happening through the ’80s and ’90s, transitioning from imports to microbrews.”

BRINGING IT HOME

The variety and quality of craft beer is as variable as the day is long, and with the fl avor of a new beer being as unpredictable as the availability of a rare one, the way people drink is evolving. “The mass market drinker will put down four to six factory beers in a pretty short amount of time and in our world, people are having two, maybe three in a very long, relaxed period of time,” says Lopez. “It feels like a higher level of socializing. [The beer] is such a huge conversation

piece, especially when you’re dealing with such rarities that we are where they have tremendous backstories. It’s the experience of getting your hands on it, or how the beer was made.”

When planning Rail Trail Flatbread Co., the owners looked to the town’s history. According to Silva, the local library and town hall were as important as the tasting sessions in the research phase of the project. The restaurant is named for the rail line that was once an integral part of the town’s economy. “They picked that name to kind of symbolize what they were trying to do, which is bring something new into the town and to revitalize it a little bit and to get everybody on board,” he says. “We love to be able to support the town.” “I grew up in and around Worcester, and it was a dream of mine to open up a brewery in Worcester,” says Roesch. When he started brewing professionally 12 years ago, he says he could already see the potential in the region, but Central Massachusetts had a giant hole in it. A few smaller breweries, including Main Street Brewing Company continued on page 26

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downtown, have come and gone in recent years, while a few breweries outside of Worcester, like Berkshire Brewing Company and Wachusett, have managed to carry the torch. As the second largest city in New England, Roesch says Worcester “deserves four or ﬁve breweries at a minimum. Look at Portland, Oregon. Look at some areas in New Hampshire or Vermont. I’m still waiting for the next two or three to open up along with us and really make Worcester a destination for some of that beer tourism, more than just us.” On a recent Saturday afternoon in early December, in the 1940s-era farmhouse cellar at Hyland Orchard, Daniel pulls a sample of a new experiment straight from the fermenter. “It needs something,” he says with a grin. “We’re just not sure what.” On the other side of the Rapscallion cellar, small amounts of it sit in airlocked growlers, steeping in oak chips and other undisclosed elements. After several years of tenant and contract brewing, Rapscallion has found a home in the former digs of Pioneer Brewing, and Pioneer owner and brewer Todd Sullivan now shares space with Daniel and his crew, having switched to tenant brewer. Through a swinging door, the taproom slowly ﬁlls with frozen disc golfers. Sullivan pulls himself a pint and ribs his buddies for

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their poor performance on the course. The bartender gives a little girl a juice box from the kids’ cooler, and a couple of dogs wander through the crowd. Glasses ﬁlled from the array of 14 taps, eight Rapscallion and six Pioneer quickly begin to cover the handful of wooden tables and Jon Short sets up in the corner and begins his familiar pick-andstomp. It’s a down-home afternoon, and Daniel likes it that way. A test kitchen should be comfortable, after all, and he has a room full of willing subjects here. With everything from a tried-and-true (and evidently quite popular) Honey Ale to a porter that’s less than a month out of the gate, it’s almost hard to decide where to start. “We don’t rely on this 100 percent, but it’s a nice plus,” says Daniel of the tap room, before leading a small group of people through the swinging door on an impromptu tour. Huge steins from the 150-memberstrong mug club begin vacating the shelf in increasing numbers. Daniel returns, surveying the room with beer in hand. Rapscallion’s “transition beer” is going down surprisingly pleasantly, lacking the syrupy sweetness one might expect from a honey ale, instead offering a thorough afternoon crispness. According to Daniel, it’s all about getting people in the door and giving them something exciting to drink. And from the looks of the room, it’s working.

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It started with a blue foam plane. Growing up in the town of Sutton, on the outskirts of a cornﬁeld and state protected swamp land, Patrick Goguen created his ﬁrst masterpiece in his father’s cellar workroom. Modeled after a commuter plane and weighted with a penny in the nose, Goguen’s plane soared. This was the beginning of his journey as an artist. Twenty-fouryear-old Goguen is now embarking on a new artistic adventure as he opens thelonghallgallery, an emerging gallery and exhibition space in Worcester.

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It’s a rare opportunity for museum visitors to get a peek into the imperfections, unﬁnished products and the processes of world-class artists, but that’s sort of the point of the Worcester Art Museum’s newest exhibit “Works in Process: From Print toTheProof.” museum’s Curator of Prints, Drawings

and Photographs Nancy Burns compiled the work that covers 11 artists, three centuries and a variety of printing styles in order to highlight the skill and devotion to detail involved in creating a print from start to ﬁnish.

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“I’m hoping that through this people can see the laborious process,” Burns says. “It’s meticulous, methodical.” Nothing shows this meticulous process like American artist Reynold Henry Weidenaar’s “Darkness and Light.” The museum’s display shows the layers of color Weidenaar used in his mezzotint – a print form he revived from near obscurity – and reveals hidden register marks the artist needed in order to line up each layer of print as he pressed them over each other. Prints exhibited also provide clues as to how these artists operate. The exhibition’s Rembrandt, a 1658 print titled “Christ and the Woman of Samaria” features the original etching in tact on its metal plate – a rarity since many artists would melt down their plates after they were ﬁnished with them – along with a later pressing of the print. But after multiple pressings, Rembrandt’s signature faded on the plate and printed less clearly – a clue that Burns says suggests the ﬁnal product on display at the museum was done after the artist’s death, since Rembrandt would’ve hated not seeing his name on his work. In the case of an Alfred Leslie screen printing, the exhibit shows how the artist

added and then subtracted layers from his screen print, with the “final” version framed on the museum wall differing from the one printed later in a book of poetry. “I think it’s necessary to see how artists choose to add and eliminate things,” Burns says. “It’s very rare that you get to see the sketch for something and the proof for something.” By showing the parts of the print alongside the finished product, WAM hopes the exhibit will help museum-goers understand a little more about the medium. “It’s much easier to wrap your mind around someone putting paint on a brush and then putting that on a canvas,” Burns says, comparing it to the often slow and sometimes mechanical printing process. In framing the plates, sketches and unfinished work alongside the final product, the process becomes as concrete as the final product. View “Works in Process: From Print to Proof” at Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St. from now through April 15. Curator Nancy Burns will lead a tour and discuss details of how printmakers create their prints on Thursday, Dec. 19, at 6 p.m. worcesterart.org.

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Leading up to his gallery ambitions, Goguen attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), initially to study Industrial Design. Goguen knew from a young age he loved making things with his hands and the pull to sculpt was too strong to deny. “I spent four years at MassArt honing my skills at classical ﬁgure sculpture, well, because I like people and what better way to communicate a story or idea than to

represent them physically in artworks.” After earning his degree, Goguen moved back closer to his hometown and began making molds for hockey equipment. The job only satisfied him for so long and eventually Goguen started doing odd jobs, small commissions and a few art teaching gigs to earn a living. During this time, Goguen became increasingly more aware of the few opportunities granted to artists living in the Worcester area. “I figured maybe I can create a new hub of creative energy to influence

the Worcester art scene.” Putting his dream in motion, Goguen started (and recently completed) a kickstarter campaign for a project and took the profit from that and put it into building thelonghallgallery. Locating space for the gallery proved to be less difficult than one may imagine and Goguen was able to settle in at 95 Prescott St. Currently, the gallery is in the midst of a build-out with the first five of eight new walls already built and older walls prepared and ready to be painted. Goguen moved into the space December 1 and is certain the gallery will be ready for the free opening reception on Saturday, December 14. With just two weeks to carve out his space, Goguen has been steadily putting in 12-14 hours a day to make sure thelonghallgallery is ready. “The gallery has been six months in the making and finally getting the work in is a big relief. It’s not done until the show is hanged and the opening happenings though, so the big reward will be the opening, where all walks of life will mingle, talk and hopefully make some new connections and maybe experience something new,” Goguen says. Part of the new experience Goguen hopes to facilitate relies on changing the public’s perception of owning art. “Too many [think] there is a price barrier or worries that the art will get stale or other barriers and worries. I want to change all that. Many pieces of art at thelonghallgallery will be for rent, as well as the normal option for buying.” The rental conditions are monthly, with any piece of art costing 5 percent of its total retail value with the shortest term being three months. For example, a $1,000 piece is only $50 a month to rent. Goguen explains that with each lease being rent-to-own, after a 24-month period, the piece can be bought for only $1. Goguen hopes this tactic will attract the influx of companies, entrepreneurs and new professionals looking for new art pieces to display in their work environments. Like any business venture, Goguen expects thelonghallgallery to grow over time. “I can tell you this, this is not an easy path thelonghallgallery is undertaking. And the

good and worthy things never are.” As more and more artists are shown at the gallery, Goguen is hopeful thelonghallgallery will develop a robust base and following, complete with connections needed to sell art to dealers and collectors. Thus far, support from the Worcester community has only reinforced Goguen’s hopes for the gallery. Growing up close to Worcester, the city has always been considered home to Goguen. However, in the two years since his return to the area, Goguen has discovered a thriving art scene far greater than he initially realized. “What exists are all these creative people making and bringing new things into this world that are maybe ‘underground’ or unknown to the rest of the community,” Goguen says. Thus far, institutions in Worcester have been more than happy to offer their help and services to Goguen and his endeavor, including Polar Beverages, the Worcester Art Museum, Wicked Wines and Technocopia. Also offering their support and efforts are Corinna D’schoto and Diana Walsh of BIG6BEARCAT, who will be guest curators for thelonghallgallery’s ﬁrst show “Alarm, Alarm.” Goguen hopes in years to come that thelonghallgallery will become a staple in the Worcester art scene where the community can gather for classes, artist lectures and demos, gallery exhibitions and become the source for obtaining ﬁne contemporary art. What Goguen wishes to create is a unique niche for thelonghallgallery where new experiences happen. “We want to shake things up in Worcester, present work that is daring and might shock the viewer.” Don’t miss the debut show “Alarm;Alarm” at thelonghallgallery, 99 Prescott St., Worcester curated by BIG6BEARCAT, opening Saturday, December 14 and running through January 5. A free opening reception will kick off the show on December 14 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information on thelonghallgallery, visit thelonghall. org, thelonghallgallery’s Facebook page at facebook.com/thelonghallgallery or follow them on Twitter, @the_longhall.

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Where there’s smoke there’s ire Jim Keogh

“Out of the Furnace” unfolds in the struggling mill town of Braddock, Pa., the kind of place where every male child is issued a flannel shirt and a battered pick-up at birth. The pals from “The Deer Hunter” roamed a town like this, heading off into the hills with their rifles and beer, and later into the jungles of Vietnam with just their rifles. Now, in 2008, it’s cheaper to import steel from China than manufacture it locally, the jobs are drying up and the people of Braddock have grown rustier than the metal.

Director-co-writer Scott Cooper uses the Great Recession, the war in Iraq and the withering of a once vital region as backdrop for a mess of clichés involving evil hillbillies, dying fathers, an ex-soldier with an explosive temperament and the allure of frontier justice. Yeah, there’s deer hunting, too, including the common trope of the normally unflappable huntsman suffering a fit of inexplicable sensitivity that makes him unable to squeeze the trigger on a prize buck. Russell Baze (Christian Bale) clings to the old ways; he works double shifts at the plant, pays dutiful visits to his terminally ill father and talks about having children with his loving girlfriend, Lena (Zoe Saldana). The lone wildcard in his blue-collar idyll is brother Rodney (Casey Affleck), an Iraq War veteran who can’t seem to get himself together and probably suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. Rodney bets on the ponies and fights for cash in bare-knuckle brawls. The problem is, even when Rodney is ordered to take a dive, his pride won’t allow it, and by winning, he loses money for bettors who assumed he’d be flat on his back.

When Rodney hears that he can earn more money sparring in the high country, he convinces the local bookie (Willem Dafoe) to drive him there. The area is the kingdom of one Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson), meth dealer, loan shark, girlfriend beater and a model of such irredeemable villainy that whenever he appears on screen he gets his own sinister banjo twangs on the soundtrack. When Rodney goes missing after his fight, Russell vows to avenge him, which means infiltrating a gang of rednecks who clearly have graduated from the “Winter’s Bone” school of thugs with more tats than teeth. The film would have worked better as a pulpy ’70s-style revenge fantasy (think “Walking Tall”) rather than as this overwrought meditation of Rust Belt decline punctuated by bouts of violence. After watching Bale mope around for an hour or so beneath the belching smokestacks — he even appears to be breathing in slow motion — I found myself thinking, “When is somebody going to shoot somebody already?” Not that I crave the gunplay, but hey, the trailer promised it. The “Furnace” actors are top-notch to the point where their talent exceeds the material. Having the likes of Oscar winner Bale and always reliable Harrelson servicing this splotchy script is akin to watching a pair of Ph.D. mathematicians team teach an Algebra I class. The addition of Forest Whitaker as a local cop and Sam Shepard as the Baze boys’ wise uncle raises the gravitas quotient, but they’re wasted in otherwise by-the-numbers roles. “Out of the Furnace” is crammed with disposable side plots involving Russell’s fractured relationship with Lena and his incarceration following a drunk-driving accident. He will, of course, get his standoff with Harlan, which leads to a final sequence that strains credulity and forces one to ask if Whitaker’s cop is the most ineffective law enforcement official in the state of Pennsylvania, or whether, in Braddock, you just let the boys take care of business and call it a day.

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THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG [CC,DV] (PG-13) No Passes Fri. - Sun.(1200 1230 100 330) 630 730 800 830 Mon. - Tue.(1200 1230 330) 730 800 830 Wed. - Thu.(1200 330) 730 800 HOBBIT: SMAUG IN REALD 3D - HFR (PG-13) No Passes Fri. - Sat.(1100 300) 700 1030 Sun. - Thu.(1100 AM 300 PM) 700 PM THE HOBBIT: SMAUG IN REALD 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) No Passes Fri. - Tue.(1130) 400 430 600 935 Wed. - Thu.(1130 AM) 400 PM R RAJKUMAR (NR) Fri. - Sun.1005 PM Mon. - Tue.(100 PM) 415 PM 740 PM OUT OF THE FURNACE [CC] (R) Fri. - Tue.(1215 320) 720 1010

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Mon.(1120 1205 305 345) 640 710 1000 1030 Tue.(1120 1205 305 345) 710 1030

PHILOMENA [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Tue.(1140 200) 425 645 910

DELIVERY MAN [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Tue.(1230 PM) 645 PM

HOMEFRONT [CC,DV] (R)

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB [CC] (R) Fri. - Tue.(325 PM) THE BOOK THIEF [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri.(1150 320) 655 955 Sat.655 PM 955 PM Sun. - Mon.(1150 320) 655 955 Tue.(1150 AM 320 PM) 655 PM

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FROZEN IN REALD 3D [CC,DV] (PG) No Passes Fri. - Tue.(1210 PM 310 PM) FROZEN [CC,DV] (PG) Fri. - Tue.(1110 145) 420 710 945

THOR: THE DARK WORLD [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Tue.(1105 145) 435 740 1020 GRAVITY IN REALD 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) No Passes Fri. - Tue.(1225 PM 310 PM) MET OPERA: FALSTAFF (NR)

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ANCHORMAN MARATHON (PG-13)

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Tue.(1120 1220 235 335) 550 650 905 THOR: THE DARK WORLD [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Tue.(1225 325) 715 955

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FROZEN 3D (PG) Blackstone Thurs: 11:05, 1:45, 4:15, Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:35, 4:15

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A MIRACLE IN SPANISH HARLEM (PG) Worcester North Thurs: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10

GRAVITY (PG-13) Blackstone Thurs: 12, 2:20, 4:50, 7:45

ALL IS LOST (PG-13) Worcester North Thurs: 1:20, 6:30

GRAVITY 3D (PG-13) Solomon Pond Thurs: 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 10:30,

BLACK NATIVITY (PG) Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:40, 4:50, 7:40 Worcester North Thurs: 3:50, 9:45 BULLET RAJA (NR) Westborough Thurs: 3:30 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13) Elm Thurs: 7:30 Strand Thurs: 7 Worcester North Thurs: 12:55, 4:05, 7:30, 10:35,

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DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (R) Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:55, 4, 7:25, 10:10, Fri-

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(9:30 Thurs only) Solomon Pond Thurs: 1:25, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25, Fri-Wed: 12:30, 6:45 Westborough Thurs: 1:05, 4 Worcester North Thurs-Wed: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25

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JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (R) Blackstone Thurs: 10:10 p.m. LAST VEGAS (PG-13) Blackstone Thurs: 11:45, 2:15 Cinemagic Thurs: 11:45, 9:50 Strand Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed: 7 Worcester North Thurs: 5, 7:35, 10:10, Fri-Wed:

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LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (PG-13) Westborough Thurs: 12:45, 6:40 OUT OF THE FURNACE (R) Blackstone Thurs: 1, 3:55, 7:05, 9:45, Fri-Wed: 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25, 12:05 a.m.

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ENDER’S GAME (PG-13) Elm Fri, Sat: 7, 9:30, Tues, Wed: 7:30

FROZEN (PG) Blackstone (reserved seating) Thurs: 12:05, 2:40,

Fri-Wed: 12:25, 3:10 Worcester North Thurs: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 6:55, 9:40, Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:40

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PHILOMENA (PG-13) Solomon Pond Thurs: 1:15, 4:25, 7:15, Fri-Wed:

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R... RAJKUMAR (NR) Westborough Thurs: 1, 4:20, 7:40, Fri-Wed: 10:05 p.m.

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (R) Blackstone Thurs: 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 THE BOOK THIEF (PG-13) Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:45, 3:55, 7:10, 9:35,

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THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG DOUBLE FEATURE 3D (PG-13) Blackstone Thurs: 9 p.m. Solomon Pond Thurs: 8:30 p.m. Westborough Thurs: 8:30 p.m.

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG-13) Blackstone (reserved seating) Thurs: 11:20, 2:30,

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THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG-13) Cinemagic Thurs-Wed: 2, 10

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG-13) Blackstone (reserved seating) Thurs: 12:01 a.m.,

TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA CHRISTMAS (PG-13) Blackstone Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:25,

Fri-Wed: 12, 3:30, 7, 10:25 Blackstone Thurs: 12:05 a.m., Fri-Wed: 11:30, 3, 6:30, 10 Cinemagic Thurs: 11:59 p.m., Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2:45, 6:30, 9:50 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:01 a.m., Fri-Wed: 11, 11:15, 12, 3, 4, 4:30, 6, 7, 7:15, 8, 9:40, 10:45

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Blackstone Valley Cinema de Lux 70 Worcester/Providence Turnpike, Millbury 800-315-4000 Cinema 320 at Clark University, Jefferson Academic Center 950 Main St.; Cinemagic, 100 Charlton Rd., Sturbridge 508-347-3609 Elm Draught House Cinema, 35 Elm St., Millbury 508-865-2850 Holy Cross Seelos Theater, 1 College St. 508-793-2455 Regal Solomon Pond Stadium 591 Donald Lynch Blvd., Marlborough 508-229-8871 Regal Westborough Stadium 231 Turnpike Rd., Westborough 508-366-6257 Showcase Worcester North, 135 Brooks St. 508-852-2944 The Strand Theatre, 58 High St., Clinton 978-365-5500 Worcester Public Library (WPL) Saxe Room, 3 Salem Sq. DECEMBER 12, 2013 • WORCESTERMAGAZINE.COM

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FOOD ★★★★ AMBIENCE ★★★★ SERVICE ★★★★ VALUE ★★★ 111 Shrewsbury St., Worcester • 508-799-4111 • 111chophouse.com

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111 Chop House, located in a handsome building along Shrewsbury Street, is the city’s only true steakhouse. For over a decade it’s been the go-to place for meat lovers, especially those on expense accounts. The Chop House offers a lively “power scene” – a central bar buzzes with activity, as movers and shakers drink martinis. Tables and booths on either side of the bar are good for seeing and being seen, but a bit noisy. If you’d prefer a quieter evening, ask to be seated upstairs. Both sections feature dark, masculine décor.

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The menu offers steaks and chops à la carte, as well as a wide range of entrées. The wine list, Worcester’s best, has won Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence each year since 2001. With particular depth in cabernet sauvignon and a wide range of prices, it complements the menu and provides helpful information from various rating systems. Appetizers focus on seafood. Bang Bang Shrimp is a winner – medium-sized shrimp with a light coating are crisp, moist and spicy. Served in a lettuce cup with a spicysweet Thai chili sauce, they’re addictive. Maryland Blue Crab Cake is full of crabmeat, if shy on ﬂavor. Mildly seasoned and lightly browned, it’s served over a red onion and cucumber salad. Wedge salad is in danger of becoming a cliché; often the iceberg dominates. Here it’s done right: an exemplary version featuring lots of chewy, smoky bacon, plenty of bright tomatoes and a generous dousing of gorgonzola-laden dressing. The house salad is fresh and simple, just baby greens with a slice of cucumber and a cherry tomato napped in balsamic vinaigrette. 111 Chopped Salad, with ingredients like asparagus, hearts of palm, capers and radishes, sounds intriguing, but fails to come together in a compelling way.

Steaks are the main event, and they’re cooked reliably to the desired temperature, with proper crusts and rosy interiors. Prime New York Sirloin is beefy and full of flavor, two inches thick; Filet Mignon is buttery, fork-tender, and mild. For those who like bigger flavors, Grilled Black Pepper Sirloin is a nice option, the fiery pepper crust offset by a cream sauce with shallots and brandy. Other meat dishes are hit-or-miss. Mustard Lamb Loin is cooked to a perfectly rosy medium-rare, but the exterior is crustless, without a hint of mustard flavor. Braised Beef Short Rib is a sizable chunk of tender meat, but the accompanying pomegranate soy sauce has been reduced to a salty paste. Sides are included with some meals and ordered à la carte with others. Mashed potatoes are rich and creamy; sautéed mushrooms meaty and satisfying. Green beans and asparagus are cooked just right. Creamed spinach, a steakhouse classic, is

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Beatnik’s, primarily a bar, also has a solid food menu featuring creative concoctions and an unavoidably funky atmosphere. Food is conveniently served until midnight and on several nights, complemented by live music. Like the name implies, Beatnik’s is certainly not your conventional bar, restaurant or music venue.

On a recent visit, I had the Crock O’ Chili. The presentation was simple with your average single-serving crock with plenty of gooey cheese melted on top. The chili featured ground beef, red kidney beans and a variety of peppers in a tomato base. It had a medium level of spiciness, was mellowed a bit by the cheese and was actually a sweeter chili than I expected. The texture was smooth with small chunks of tomato, onion and pepper cooked to be very soft. There was an ample amount of ﬁnely-ground beef without having big hearty chunks, however, I was able to have a good portion with each spoonful. While the menu suggested there were tortilla chips on top, I did not notice any in my crock. This may have been an aspect of the larger portion size, though. The small Crock O’ Chili will cost you $3.99 for 12 ounces. The larger 22-ounce size is $6.99. Not a bad deal for dinner and a night of live music with a great atmosphere.

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NEW MENU AT BREW CITY Brew City on Shrewsbury Street has launched

new winter lunch and dinner menus featuring

pork ossobuco, pomegranate glazed hen, Brew City’s classic Guinness meatloaf. To see what else is

new and try these dishes, visit Brew City, 104 Shrewsbury St., Worcester. brew-city.com.

GINGERBREAD CASTLE COMPETITION Higgins Armory hosts its fourth annual – and

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its last with the museum closing Dec. 31, 2013 - Gingerbread Castle Competition on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The event is a gathering of local bakers, culinary students and restauranteurs competing to create the best gingerbread castle. Museum visitors and a panel of judges will vote for their favorites while classical guitarist Carl Kamp performs holiday favorites with the Master Singers of Worcester. Visit higgins.org to register and learn more about the event.

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WHAT A TREAT Pole dancing, while often associated with strip

clubs, is now appearing in fitness clubs, dance studios and homes, providing a new form of exercise. The dancing-on-a-pole activity has found a new audience - one we have to admit is pretty unexpected - at Sweet Kitchen & Bar at 72 Shrewsbury St. in Worcester. Escape Aerial Arts, Worcester’s new alternative fitness and dance studio specializing in pole dancing and aerial arts in Kelley Square, has plans to host monthly Sweet Escape pole dance revues at Sweet. It held its first event Winter Wonderland! themed show this past Sunday, Dec. 8. Dancers from all over New England are expected to perform each month. Guests will be encouraged to stay after the scheduled performances when the dance floor will be open to all. Each month’s show will be a different theme. Those interested in participating as a dancer in a Sweet Escape show should send an email to SweetEscapePDR@gmail.com. Learn more at facebook.com/pages/SweetEscape-Pole-Dance-Revue/224485987726496.

MASTER SINGERS WINE TASTING

The Master Singers of Worcester will perform

at a wine tasting and silent auction event at Pakachoag UCC Church on Friday, Feb. 7, from 7-9:30 p.m. Savory treats, fancy desserts and a selection of ﬁne wines from around the world will be offered. Checks or cash will be accepted, as well as credit cards subject to a service fee. Pakachoag UCC Church, 203 Pakachoag St., Auburn.

WORMTOWN MOVES TO SHREWSBURY STREET We’ve been hearing the talk for months, but

now it’s official: Wormtown Brewing is moving from Park Ave. where it has long since shared space with Peppercorn’s, to Shrewsbury Street and, selfishly, we’re pretty excited. Why? Well, because Wormtown’s new location will be right below our offices at 72 Shrewsbury St. Read more about Wormtown in this week’s cover story.

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Located at the corner of Shrewsbury Street and Route 9 in Worcester

Where Good Friends Meet for Food & Drink Fresh Seafood - Chicken Dishes Great Steaks - Homemade Italian Allen’s Specialty: Middle Eastern Food Daily Luncheon Specials! Soups - Salads - Sandwiches Lobster Rolls - 8oz. Burgers El Morocco Salad with Shrimp or Chicken DECEMBER 12, 2013 • WORCESTERMAGAZINE.COM

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Wednesday - 4 p.m. Signature Chicken Parmigiana w/Ziti $9.99

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Thursday - 4 p.m. Italian Style Half Roast Chicken $9.99 (w/Potato & Vegetable)

Trivia w/radio legend Kevin Barbare, 8 p.m. Friday & Saturday - 4 p.m. Prime Rib & Fresh Seafood Specials Sunday $11.99 Specials R Roast Stuffed Turkey, Baked Virginia Ham or Pot Roast (w/Potato & Vegetable)

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Free Live Acoustic Original Reggae and Jamaican Buffet at One Love Cafe. $10 per person Buffett. 5-10 p.m. OneLove Cafe, 800 Main St. 508-753-8663 or facebook.com/ events/164007660454055. Soothing Music: Food for the Soul - Adam Bergeron. Adam Bergeron’s experiences as a musician transcend the boundaries of a typical classical pianist & composer. Over the past 25 years he’s studied the works of Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Copland, all the while exploring the facets & forms of modern artists such as The Moody Blues, Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, and Dream Theater. Adam will be featuring his unique classical arrangements of many of the popular holiday melodies & will share a few of his own seasonal compositions. Included with Regular Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors (65+), $7 Youth (6-18), Free to Members & Children under 6. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. Music For Food. Worcester Historical Museum and Music Worcester, Inc. invite you to enjoy a night of music as pianist David Kaplan, whose talents the New York Times praised for “striking imagination and creativity,” and cellist Ben Capps, who the Holland Times called a “young cello phenomenon from New York” will perform work by Mendelssohn and Brahms in a special concert to help raise awareness and ﬁght hunger in our community this holiday

season. All proceeds from the concert will go to the Worcester County Food Bank. Canned and dry food stuffs will also be accepted. To learn more visit musicforfoodboston.org. Members: Free / General Public: $5. 7-8 p.m. Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm St. 508753-8278. Thursday Open Mic w/ Ed Sheridan. Free ! 8-11 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. Zack Slik. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900. A Night of Punk with The Instinct, Proﬁts, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion!! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Outlook Restaurant, 79 Powers Road, Westford. College Night Featuring DJ Danny Fly. Come and experience Worcester’s HOTTEST College Dance Party! DJ Danny Fly will be spinning your favorite Top 40, Dance, Hip Hop! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Industry Bar Room, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100. Jon Bowser. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Loves It. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Open Mic Night! 9-11 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. the 80’s tribute band The Flock Of A-Holes with VERY special guests. Join the FLOCK group page to get all the updates on shows in the area every week. Tonight, when you pay to get in, you’ll be automatically entered in to win a stay in Las Vegas. We’ll pull the winner at 1 a.m. and you will need to be here to win. Special guests TBA $5. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music

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Dana Lewis LIVE! Classic Radio Hits from the 50’s to the 80’s “The Soundtrack of your Youth” Free! 5:30-8:30 p.m. Webster House Restaurant, 1 Webster St. 508-757-7208. Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat. Start EVERY weekend with Nat Needle at Nick’s Worcester, 124 Millbury St. No cover charge. Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat (TFIDN) is an unfettered romp through Nat’s musical imagination backed up by his hefty piano chops and hip vocals! No cover charge = tips appreciated! 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, Cabaret Room or Outdoor Patio, 124 Millbury St. 508-579-5997 or natneedle.com/tﬁdn. Bobby Gadoury Piano: Vintage - Modern Solo. 6-10 p.m. Nuovo Restaurant, 92 Shrewsbury St. 508-796-5915. Open Mic. Open to musicians, poets, comedians or anyone with a talent! Hosted by Patrick McCarthy. 6:30-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com/events. “A German Christmas”, Concert. A German Christmas concert.The 50 QVS singers present “Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ” (ca. 1660) by Heinrich Schutz sung in English. Free admission, Free-will offering taken, Refreshments served. Director: Nym Cooke, Accompaniest: Brooks Milgate St. Joachim Chapel, Fiskdale Free admission. 7:30-9:30 p.m. St. Joachim Chapel, 16 Church St, Fiskdale. 508-248-6775 or QVSsingers.org.

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Andy Cummings and The Swingabilly Lounge. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Cornerstone’s Restaurant, 616 Central St., Leominster. 978537-1991. Mark Marquis & Friends Christmas Concerts for Needy Children. Two Nights ~ Friday & Saturday December 13 & 14, 2013 ~ 7:30-10 p.m. Snow Date Sunday December 15th. The Most Peaceful Night of The Year. Mark Marquis and Friends will be presenting TWO Nights of Special Christmas Music to raise money for needy children. This is the twenty-sixth year that Mark Marquis has organized this annual fundraising event. Joining Mark on stage will be a number of talented musicians including; Johnny Girouard, Betsy Fiedler, Don Kirby, Scott Babineau, Spud Kelly, Lizzy Marquis, The Gale Brothers, Matt Dionne and many more. Mark Marquis is a critically acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, and one of the ﬁnest musicians you will ever hear anywhere. His style is a blend of jazz, blues, rock, fusion, and world music. (markmarquis. com) $10. 7:30-10 p.m. First Church Unitarian Universalist of Leominster, 15 West St., Leominster. 978-534-4635 or facebook. com/events/1440423136177374. Ethan and Ashley. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. JAZZ & BLUES: Michelle Willson’s Christmas Show. Known to blues lovers the around the world as “Evil Gal” and acknowledged by aﬁcionados of Jazz and Blues as a passionate and gifted performer. Band leader and songwriter, Michelle’s amazing voice, intense, engaging style, her vast knowledge of and passion for Jazz and Rhythm & Blues music combined with the rock solid support provided by her talented and tight backup band add up to

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a unique and unforgettable show! $20 general public; students & seniors $19; members $17; children under 12 $10. 8-11 p.m. Amazing Things Art Center, 160 Hollis St., Framingham. 508-4052787 or amazingthings.org. JCDC. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Rosanne Cash. $45-50, $70-75, $95-100. 8-11 p.m. The Stafford Palace Theater, 75 Main St., Stafford Springs. 860-8519780. Swift Technique - Freddie and the Yetis - Mammal Dap. 21 plus $5 Cover - add $5 for unlimited hookah all night. (facebook.com/swifttechnique Intergalactic) FUNK! (facebook.com/ pages/Freddy-The-Yetis/116518588419648) “Fusion funk, jazz, rock, party time music. Out of Northampton, MA. (facebook.com/ MammalDap) “In October of 2012 the mammals of Mammal Dap united with an animalistic hunger to craft and perfect their unique, mind-bending blend of future soul and psychedelic R&B. The band has one goal: to create music that will pulsate through the ears of their listeners - rendering souls electriﬁed and ﬂoating over-head.” $5 cover. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-7990629 or facebook.com/events/425202680917343. COUNTER ATTACK plays their Annual Led Zeppelin Holiday tribute show! Anyone who’s ever seen Counter Attack knows that they are the BEST Led Zep tribute out there. Come on down early, they will start playing at 9:30 and play all night! ONLY $5! 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-3631888 or facebook.com/ledzeppelin. Dan Kirouac solo/acoustic. Dan has been part of the

regional music scene for thirty years. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 60’s to today, every show is a different experience, drawing from almost 500 contemporary and oldie rock and pop songs. More information at dankirouac.com and townsendvfw.org. Free. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 6538 Townsend, 491 Main St., West Townsend. 978597-5644. Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. Northbound Train. Northbound Train is a Central Mass tribute band that recreates the music of the Grateful Dead. $5 cover $5. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508829-4566. BILL McCARTHY @ BOLTON STREET TAVERN. Classic & Contemporary Acoustic and Not-So-Acoustic Rock! Catch Bill playing a large variety of classic & contemporary acoustic rock: Beatles, Who, Dead, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, C.C.R., Elvis Presley, Stones, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, The Cars, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Hendrix and much more! Free. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Bolton Street Tavern, 587 Bolton St., Marlborough. 508-485-4416. Blow it up Johnny! $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. FRIDAY the 13th! The Automatons, The Evil Streaks, The Pity Whores, and Fearless Leaders! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. NEW! “High Voltage Friday’s” High Energy Hardcore with DJ Chananagains! Every Friday Night! 18+ $10,

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21+ $5. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Club Remix, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227. Take Two. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. Thank Friday it’s Dr. Nat 5:30-7:30; then Niki Luparelli & Dan Burke’s “A Nightmare before Christmas”. $10 Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. The Great Escape (Journey Tribute). The area’s biggest and best Journey Tribute is back! If you missed them the last time, deﬁnitely come check them out! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. The Ramm Jamm. Local DJ plays the classics and requests at local bar. Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. Windfall Classic Rock. Windfall is a classic rock cover band originating from Worcester. No Cover. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078. How Bizzare. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. DJ One-3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Friday Night Dance Party with DJ Blackout. DJ Blackout bringin’ the energy to get the party poppin’ all night long. No cover charge. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508438-0597. Supernova Friday. The Supernova has arrived Worcester! Come out every Friday to Worcester’s hottest new nightclub, Bar FX, and be a part of Worcester’s growing EDM scene. Resident DJ’s Frankie Feingold & Goofy Bootz hit you with the hardest house in the city every Friday night. $10 (18+). 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Bar FX, 90 Commercial St. 774-823-3555 or facebook.com/barfx.worcester.3. Top 40 Dance Party. Free. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-480-8222 or speakersnightclub.net. Video DJ Jay Senior. No Cover. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. PiNZ Entertainment / Blue Dog Sports Bar & Grille, 110 So Main St., Milford. 508-473-6611 or pinzbowl.com. DJ Music Master Sound. 11 p.m.-2 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

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Stefilia’s Stone: A Wintry Mix of Original and Classic Songs of the Season. Together, Carrie Rowan and Adrienne Fawkes create a dynamic display of original music infusing classical piano style with finger picked guitar. A mix of indie, folk and funk, the duo will bring us a family concert of originals and seasonal favorites that will appeal to young and old alike. Included with Regular Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors (65+), $7 Youth (6-18), Free to Members & Children under 6. 1-1:45 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. Martin Swinger; Songwriting for Kids. Almost 20 years of experience introducing song writing in K-5 classrooms gives Martin the innate ability to engage young students enthusiastically in song writing games, mnemonic creation and insight into the tools and process involved in writing original songs. In arts residencies, Martin becomes a “Pied Piper’ modeling inclusion, respect, patience and humor as students work together and individually to express their own original ideas in song. $10; $9 for members. 2:30-4 p.m. Amazing Things Art Center, 160 Hollis St., Framingham. 508-4052787 or amazingthings.org. Student Performance Weekend at Pakachoag Recitals - Concerts - Musical Theater Show. Please join us on Saturday and Sunday afternoons as students of all ages and instruments from all around Greater Worcester perform their latest selections for family and friends. Multiple recitals include violin, suzuki violin group classes, piano, flute, trumpet, voice and

more. Varying start and end times throughout the weekend. Please check the school calendar one week ahead for time conﬁrmation. Friday, December 13th at 6:30 p.m., young thespians present “The North Pole Star”. Advance tickets ($2) recommended for the theater show as seating is limited. All welcome for recitals. No advance reservations required. Free. 2:30-3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester, The Great Hall at Pakachoag, 203 Pakachoag St., Auburn. 508-7918159. Holiday Concert. Please join us as students from the Worcester Music Academy perform a variety of holiday and non-holiday music. All are welcome, so please join us as we kick off this festive holiday season. Concerts at 3pm, 4pm and 5pm. Free. 3-6 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-635-6900 or worcestermusicacademy.com/ calendar.html. Seele Musicale Chamber Group - Holiday Concert. This newly formed chamber group brings together a group of seasoned, accomplished musicians with concert of a sampling of Baroque Music for Christmas. Included with Regular Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors (65+), $7 Youth (6-18), Free to Members & Children under 6. 3-4 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. St. John’s Choir Christmas Concert. Continuing the music series tradition of bringing the best of Worcester’s music to All Saints audiences, we welcome the choir of St. John’s Catholic Church, and their director Sean Redrow, for a festive program of carols old and new. All are welcome. Free. 3-4:30 p.m. All Saints Church, 10 Irving St. 508-752-3766. Downton Abbey Party. We cannot abide the dreadful wait until January 5th when PBS hosts the Season 4 Premiere of Downton Abbey. We therefore cordially invite you to sip tea, nibble biscuits, engage in gossip and try to outdress and one-up each other for costume and trivia prizes. Don a scintillating hat, bone up on your D.A. facts and join in on the merriment. Free. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Millbury, 70 Worcester Providence Turnpike, Millbury. 508-865-2801 or bn.com. Concert: St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble. The St. Petersburg Men s Ensemble presents “From Soul to Soul: Western and Eastern Sacred Music and Russian Folk Songs”. It’s talented members are Kirill Sokolov, Evgeny Vischnevsky, Vadim Smantser, Alexander Gogol, and Alexander Korbakov. They regularly perform internationally; their holiday concert here at the Museum has become an annual holiday tradition. The group’s repertoire encompasses various musical periods and styles - from ancient Russian chants and chorales of Western European to contemporary music. Their program introduces the audience to Russian folk songs, secular and ecclesiastic compositions, modern composers and transpositions of popular melodies. Tickets: $15 members, $18 nonmembers. 5-6:30 p.m. Museum of Russian Icons, Lower Level Auditorium, 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000, ext. 17 or museumofrussianicons.org/en. Live Music Night Christmas Part Bash! Live Music Night Christmas Party Bash includes a public viewing of the newly remodeled hall! Music by Jailbreak, Doctor J, Larry and Company, Generations Unlimited, Gerry Cullan, the PACC All Star Jam Band! 6 p.m.-midnight Polish American Citizens Club (PACC), 37 Harris St., Webster. 508-943-9716. JAZZED UP Trio LIVE. JAZZED UP TRIO featuring vocalist/ pianist Mauro DePasquale, performs “The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven.” If you like the music of Buble’, Sinatra, Bennett, and Connick Jr, you will love JAZZED UP Trio. No Cover. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Coral Seafood, 225 Shrewsbury St. 508-755-8331. Dana Lewis Live! Dana Lewis, Playing the greatest Hits from the 50’S to the 80’s. “The sound track of your youth.” 7-10 p.m. Nancy’s Quaker Tavern, 466 Quaker Hgwy (Route146a), Uxbridge. 508-779-0901.

Thomas Babatunde. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. A German Christmas- concert. “A German Christmas”, concert by 50 member QuinebaugValley Singers directed by Nymn Cooke, accompanied by Brooks Milgate. “The Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ” by Heinrich Schutz (ca.1660) sung in English. Other German carols, sing-a-longs. Free admission, Free will offering taken, Free refreshments. Free admission. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sacred Heart Parish, 18 East Main St., Webster. 508-248-6775 or QVSsingers.org. Babatunde Thomas. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. Cafe’ con Dios. Donation. 7:30-10 p.m. Faith Baptist Church, Main Auditorium, 22 Faith Ave, Auburn. 508-579-6722. Holiday Extravaganza! Thayer Symphony, the Greater Gardner Community Choir & Fitchburg State Chamber Singers. December and the holidays: the smell of balsam and snow. The sounds of jingle bells and music. Two local ensembles gather for one glorious performance as Weston Auditorium resonates with sounds of Thayer Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Gardner Community Choir with Fitchburg State choral arts students. This concert is filled with orchestral and vocal holiday chestnuts and will sell out quickly! Community sponsor: Workers Credit Union adults: $30/seniors: $28/students: $7. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Fitchburg State University: Weston Auditorium, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. 978665-3347 or fitchburgstate.edu/cultural. Mark Marquis & Friends Christmas Concerts for Needy Children. Two Nights ~ Friday & Saturday December 13 & 14, 2013 ~ 7:30-10 p.m. Snow Date Sunday December 15th. The Most Peaceful Night of The Year. Mark Marquis and Friends will be presenting TWO Nights of Special Christmas Music to raise money for needy children. This is the twenty-sixth year that Mark Marquis has organized this annual fundraising event. Joining Mark on stage will be a number of talented musicians including; Johnny Girouard, Betsy Fiedler, Don Kirby, Scott Babineau, Spud Kelly, Lizzy Marquis, The Gale Brothers, Matt Dionne and many more. Mark Marquis is a critically acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, and one of the finest musicians you will ever hear anywhere. His style is a blend of jazz, blues, rock, fusion, and world music. (markmarquis. com) $10. 7:30-10 p.m. First Church Unitarian Universalist of Leominster, 15 West St., Leominster. 978-534-4635 or facebook. com/events/1440423136177374.

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Andy Cummings. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Bill McCarthy. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. FOLK: Maine Songwriters: Martin Swinger, Sorcha Cribben-Merrill, and Connor Garvey. Maine Songwriters Martin Swinger, Sorcha Cribben-Merrill, and Connor Garvey. Each of these performers hails from the great state of Maine and each of them have been critically acclaimed as both songwriter and performer. As Martin would say, these are “songs worth listening to”. $22 general public; students & seniors $21; members $19; children under 12 $12. 8-11 p.m. Amazing Things Art Center, 160 Hollis St., Framingham. 508-405-2787 or amazingthings.org. Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484.

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Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert. The Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Myron Romanul, presents a holiday pops concert. Performing with the orchestra will be the combined choruses of Anna Maria College, Assumption College, Clark University, Worcester State

University, and WPI (all under the direction of John Delorey) as well as soloists Richard Monroe and Jane Shivick. Also performing will be Aerialicious Entertainment with Aerialist Gina DeFreitas and the Project Movement Dancers. There will also be a visit from Santa Claus. The music will include works by Bizet, Handel, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Leroy Anderson as well as selections from Broadway musicals and holiday pieces. $37 for balcony seats (floor seats are sold out). 8-10 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-754-1234. Rock House. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Cornerstone’s Restaurant, 616 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-1991. The 5th annual SANTAPALOOZA Toys 4 Tots benefit show! Rosemont, 6 To Midnite, Fancy Pants’d Lads and The Post Modern Authors. For the 5th year, we’ve been able to host a great charity event here at The Lucky Dog Music Hall. Thanks to Dave Rivers and the boys in 6 To Midnite. The annual Toys 4 Tots benefit show, “Santapalooza”! Featuring Rosemont, 6 To Midnite, The Fancy Pants’d Lads and Post Modern Authors. $10 or an unwrapped children’s toy valued at $10 (for no cover). 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/sixtomidnite. Dick Ogren Trio! 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. Sam Bowen & Blue Cat Groove. A little rhythm, a little blues and a whole lotta’ soul! $5. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. BitterSuite. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. Hit the Bus. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035. MT Chris’s Birthday Bash w/ Roadhorse, Composted, The Scimitar, Barishi. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. No Alibi. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Second Saturday Spectacular (or Meatballs and Mayhem). 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-7529439. The Band 9-Teen. Great soul, R&B and more all night by an amazing group of musicians! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. The T-Bone Christmas Party. All thru the nite without a thought of fright T-Bone played to Santa’s delight. Rocking thru the holidays at 3G’s. Where your welcomed if your naughty or nice. Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. Three of a Kind. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. Windfall Classic Rock. Windfall is a classic rock cover band originating from Worcester, MA. No Cover. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078. Jediah with opener Dezi Garcia. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. LIVE MUSIC Jehiah. Come check out Jediah, an amazing cover band. Jediah covers all kinds of bands, from Johnny Cash to U2! $5. 9:30-1:30 p.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. “Tantrum Saturdays” Dance Party Every Saturday Night with DJ Tony T. Get ready Worcester for some great dancing to the beats of Tony T. He has been known to get the dance ﬂoor bouncing. As always if you are 21+ and get here before 10pm you won’t have to pay the cover charge. If you have been here

recently you know we have been known to have a surprise “contest” with cash prizes awarded. Watch for the surprise contest each week. 18+ only $10, 21+ only $5. 10 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Club Remix, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227 or remixworcester.com. Center Bar Saturday Nights. DJ E-Class and Mike DJ Kartier take turns bringing the beats to make you move every Saturday Night ! Check online weekly for updates ! No cover charge. 10 p.m.1:30 a.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508-438-0597. Dj Reckless. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Saturday Nights with DJ E-Class. DJ E-Class bringing the R & B remixes to get you out on the dance ﬂoor all night long! No cover charge. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508-438-0597. DJ Music Master Sound. 11 p.m.-2 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

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Revolution Sunday’s! Drag Show Extravaganza Hosted by Lady Sabrina and Bootz! Featuring The Remix Girls, Special Guests, and DJ Whiteboi Spinning Beats! 18+ $8, 21+ $5. midnight-1:30 a.m. Club Remix, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227. Sunday Brunch w/Chet Williamson. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. Jazz Journey: Joy of Music Program. These students from the Joy of Music Program will delight our audience with their jazz ensemble. They will perform for us a sampling of jazz favorites; complete with improv, solos and more. Included with Regular Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors (65+), $7 Youth (6-18), Free to Members & Children under 6. 1-1:45 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic

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Holiday Festival Concert. First Unitarian Festival Choir & WPI brass & percussion Will Sherwood & Doug Weeks have assembled a thrilling array of holiday favorites in all combinations of choir, brass, organ, percussion, plus an audience carol sing-along. What an exciting event to lift you and your family into the holiday spirit. Rutter Gloria, Pinkham Christmas Cantata, and Cable’s innovative arrangement of 12 Days of Christmas will be included in this uplifting concert. $15, $10. 4-6 p.m. First Unitarian Church of Worcester, 90 Main St. 508-757-2708. Big Jon Short - solo acoustic country blues. Free. 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Blues Jam w/Jim Perry. Blues Jam with special guests weekly Free. 6-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. OPEN MIC SUNDAYS AT PERFECT GAME WITH BILL McCARTHY. To check the schedules and open slots visit: m.facebook.com/groups/209610855806788?ref=bookmark&__ user=578549000. Free! 6:30-10:30 p.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Andy Cummings. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Josh Briggs and Friends. “Like” Wista Rocks on Facebook. There you will ﬁnd information about local Worcester Musicians and other interesting topics about our city. No cover charge. 9-12:30 p.m. Funky Murphy’s Bar & Grill, 305 Shrewsbury St. 508-753-2995. Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster.

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OPEN MIC TUESDAYS/LOCAL MUSICIANS SHOWCASE @ GREENDALE’S PUB with BILL McCARTHY. To check the schedules and open slots visit: MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld Bill McCarthy. (originator of the “HalfHour Sets!”) Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld. WGBH’s A Christmas Celtic Sojourn. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 877-5717469 or wgbh.org/listen/christmascelticsojourn.cfm. ”See You Next Tuesday” with DJ Poke Smot! Downstairs! Guest DJs and Bands each week! No Cover! Check our Facebook page (facebook.com/ralphs.diner) for guests each week. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Andrew Crowe! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. ELECTRIC TUESDAYS are back at The Lucky Dog (always 21+). Worcester, MA’s longest running DJ & live electronic night bringing you the biggest names and the deepest bass week after week! WOMP. $10 Free before 11pm. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook. com/electrictuesdays. Hip Hop/R&B/Blues/Soul every Tuesday Night. 21 plus $3. Ticket (door sales only) Doors at 6 p.m., music at 9 p.m. Different Artists each week. Every Tuesday night hosted by Worcester own Hip Hop, Soul Artist, Strat-OG. This weeks feature artist is blues/rock band, Good Question (facebook.com/ NameIsGoodQuestion) $3. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or facebook.com/events/565234340213458/?pr eviousaction=join&source=1. Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

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Hip Swayers Deluxe Show. no cover - bring $ for delicious food and tips for band! the Stomping Ground, 132 Main St., Putnam CT, Putnam. 860-928-7900. An Early Music Holiday Concert - The Harper and the Minstrel. The Harper and the Minstrel incorporate elements of Celtic, Folk, and Early Music into something that is uniquely their own. Abby’s angelic alto and Jay’s cindery baritone are accompanied by a variety of instruments including both the Nylon and WireStrung Celtic Harps, Silver Flute, Divergent Flute, Irish Wooden Flute, Recorders, Penny Whistles, Bowed Psaltery, Dulcimer and Classical Guitar. The duo specializes in beautiful airs and ballads, the occasional jig or reel, many of their own original compositions, and unique arrangements of Celtic, Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval Music. Included with Regular Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors (65+), $7 Youth (6-18), Free to Members & Children under 6. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, Theater, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. Live Music with Matt Robert. Matt Robert s solo Wednesday night shows present a loose, rambling trip through the songbook he s developed over thirty years of performing. The Worcester-based guitarist plays a blend of rootsy originals and interpretations of ancient folk, blues, and jazz, as well as current roots and rock tunes. Incorporating a wide range of guitar styles, including open tunings and slide, as well as mandolin and harmonica, Matt ties a thread between all types of seemingly disparate musical genres all with a sound of his own. All donations to the Worcester County Food Bank. (facebook.com/ mattrobertmusic) 6:30-8:30 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-

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ADC Performance Center (@ The Artist Development Complex), 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900 or adcmusic. com/Index.htm. ArtsWorcester, Creatures, Real and Imagined, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Jan. 11. Hours: closed Sunday Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Fre. 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org. Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour $7-10 for tea. 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org. Booklovers’ Gourmet, Pen & Ink Art Display by Karen Sirard, Through Dec. 31. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232 or er3.com/book. Clark University: University Gallery, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, noon-5 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 950 Main St. 508-793-7349 or 508-7937113 or clarku.edu. Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: Free for galler. 310 High St., Clinton. 978-549-5822 or 978-365-7772 or aorgallery.com. College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio, Part II, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Jan. 31. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-793-3356 or holycross. edu/departments/cantor/website. Danforth Museum of Art, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 123 Union Ave., Framingham. 508-620-0050 or danforthmuseum.org. EcoTarium, Science + You, Through April 27, 2014. Hours: noon-5

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p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $14 adults; $8 for children ages 2-18, $10 college students with IDs & senior citizens. Children under 2 & EcoTarium members Free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special progra. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org. Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org. Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-midnight Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. 50 Grove St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistory.fsc.edu. Fitchburg State University: Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. fitchburgstate.edu. Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard. 978456-3924 or fruitlands.org. Funky Stuff, 11am-7pm Tues-Sat. Bringing the funk to Worcester through Fine Art, Jewelry, Clothing, Furniture, Antiques, and Collectables. We support local art, and we think you should too! 97C Webster St., Worcester. 508-755-5463. Gallery of African Art, Gallery of African Art Free Tours, Thursdays, through Dec. 19; Weekly Thursday Tours at the Gallery of African Art, Thursdays, through Dec. 26. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Donations accepte. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-265-4345 or 978-598-5000x12 or galleryofafricanart.org. Higgins Armory Museum, WOO Card good at Higgins Armory Museum, Through Dec. 31. Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: General Admission: $12 for Adults, $10 for Seniors (age 60+), $8 for Children (age 4-16), Children 3 and under are Free. 100 Barber Ave. 508-853-6015 or higgins.org. Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Hours: 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 414 Massasoit Ave. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org. Museum of Russian Icons, Crossing the Threshold: Traditional Folk Art from the Russian Home, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 28; Series of One Icon Exhibits, Through June 20, 2014. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 11-3 a.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 11-3 a.m. Friday, 9-3 a.m. Saturday. Admission: Adults $7, Seniors (59 and over) $5, Students (with ID) & children (3-17) $2, Children under 3 Free, Groups (any age) $. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000 or 978598-5000x17 or museumofrussianicons.org. Old Sturbridge Village, Christmas By Candlelight, Sundays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 22. Admission: $7 - $20 charged by age. Children under 3 fre. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 or osv.org. Preservation Worcester, Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 10 Cedar St. 508-754-8760 or preservationworcester.org. Prints and Potter Gallery, American Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 31. Hours: closed Sunday, 10-5:30 a.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10-7 a.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10-5:30 a.m. Friday, 10-5 a.m. Saturday. 142 Highland St. 508-752-2170 or printsandpotter.com. Quinebaug Valley Council for the Arts & Humanities, the Arts Center, Hours: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 2-4 p.m. Saturday. 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-3463341 or qvcah.org. Quinsigamond Community College: Administration Building, 670 West Boylston St. qcc.edu. Rollstone Studios, Hours: 11-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday -

Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. Admission: fre. 633 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-348-2781 or rollstoneartists.com. Salisbury Mansion, Hours: closed Sunday - Wednesday, 1-8:30 p.m. Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 40 Highland St. 508-7538278 or worcesterhistory.org. SAORI Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio, 18 Winslow St. 508-757-4646 or 508-757-0116 or saoriworcester.com. Taproot Bookstore, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 1200 West Boylston St. 508-853-5083 or TaprootBookstore.com. Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe, Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday Saturday. 18 Lyman St., Westborough. 508-366-4959 or tatnuck. com. The Foster Gallery, 51 Union St. 508-397-7139 or thefostergallery.com. The Sprinkler Factory, Indoor Games, Saturdays, Dec. 14 - Jan. 18. Hours: noon-6 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Friday, closed Saturday. 38 Harlow St. sprinklerfactory.com. Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Hours: 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. 21 Prichard St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Guided Garden Tour, Sundays, through Dec. 30. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, Free to Members & Children under . 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org. Worcester Art Museum, Holidays at WAM 2013, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec. 29; WAM Talk: Eugenio Marcano of the Baha’i Faith of Worcester speaks on “A Baha’i Perspective of the Arts”, Thursday; Worcester Art Museum Audio Tours, Through Dec. 31; Works in Process: from Print to Proof, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through April 15; Meditation in the Galleries, Fridays, through Dec. 27; December Zip Tours, Saturdays, through Dec. 28; Families @ WAM Tour, Saturdays, through April 13; Families @ WAM: Make Art!, Saturdays, through May 4; Tour of the Month: Winter in Art, Wednesday; U-student Wednesdays Free admission to COWC students, Wednesdays, through Dec. 31. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $14 adults, $12 seniors, Free for youth 17 and under. Free for all ﬁrst Saturdays of each month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org. Worcester Center for Crafts, Cups, Cups, Cups!, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, through Dec. 24. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org. Worcester Historical Museum, Alden Family Gallery, Through Dec. 31, 2015; In Their Shirtsleeves, Through Dec. 31; Stories They Tell, Through Dec. 31; Worcester in the 1960s, Through Feb. 8, 2014. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org. Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-7991655 or worcpublib.org. WPI: George C. Gordon Library, 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu.

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Ross A. McGinnes Tree work, Stump removal, pruning & removals. Free estimates. Fully insured. Call 508-829-6497 Sky Hook Tree Owner on every job. Tree Removal & Trimming. Chipping. Pruning. Brush Removal. Stump Grinding. Aerial Bucket Service. Fully Insured. Free Estimates. VISA/MC 508-865-4370 www.skyhooktree.com

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Help build a better life for a foster child with Massachusetts MENTOR. As a foster parent you will receive a $350 weekly stipend per child, 24/7 support, & ongoing Skill Development. Call:508-368-2710 to find out more! Now Hiring 7-D school van drivers. Village Transportation. 978-422-6808 Apply at: 125 Clinton Rd. Sterling, MA.

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Data Analyst, Medical Management (Worcester, MA) full time, sought by UMass Memorial Medical Center, Inc., to conduct or assist in routine ad-hoc reporting and data analyses for the delivery of accurate, timely and actionable information to physicians and administrators to support the improvement of care delivery with the UMass Memorial system. Req’s B.S Deg. in Public Health or rel. & 2 yrs rel. exp. Apply to Leigh Corl, Supervisor, Admin Stafﬁng, 67 Millbrook Street, Worcester, MA 01605.

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Fallon Community Health, Inc., Worcester, MA, seeks an Application Development Manager to lead a team of database and ETL developers on various data warehouse and business intelligence development projects and directing their activities, among other duties. Qualified applicants must have: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field plus seven (7) years of related experience in offered role or related position among other skills. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree plus seven (7) years of experience, employer will accept a Master’s degree plus five (5) years of experience. Interested applicants should apply at https://jobs-fchp.icims.com

6’0" Anderson White Permashield Sliding Glass Door. $350.00. Call Richard 508-886-6897. Ariens ST 524 Snowblower Good condition. $300.00 For appointment call 508-829-5161 Baby Items. Swing, high chair, stroller. $40.00 774-641-7186 Deck Lumber-Pressure Treated 1x6, 130 linear feet. $20.00 Slightly used. 978-422-8480 Sterling Entire downhill ski package. Incl’s skis, bindings, boots size 9 1/2, goggles gloves. Exc. cond. $45.00 cash 508-829-9240. Furnace. Forced hot air, down draft, small oil furnace. Great for garage, workshop or mobile home. $500 Paul 978-355-3454 Glenwood Antique Stove. Burns wood & coal. Good cond. Asking $500.00 508-930-1896 Hardwick working gas on gas stove. All pipes incl’d. Works great! $200.00 Call 774-2802778

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Shenandoah Wood Stove Front feed. Very good cond. $200.00 978-464-5525/781-879-8275

Sears Craftman 12" - 2 speed Ban Saw 1 1/8 HP 6" depth cut Built in work light Work surface 23" x 27" Tilt blade of 45 degrees $100. or Best Offer 508-752-2768

NEW QUEEN $149 pillow top mattress set

Large mens raccoon jacket $150.00 or B.O. 774-287-4976 MORSO 1976 Danish Wood Stove. Model 1125. Olive Green Gloss Enamel Finish. $900. 508393-9548 Makita Mitre Saw 10" blade. Very good cond. $65.00 or B/O. 508-414-2246

Ski Doo Snowmobile Pants 5X. Never used. Pants w/straps. Cost $150.00 Asking $75.00 978 -343-3073 Snowthrower Toro 2 stage Heavy Duty 24" wide 10 hp. electric start chains runs exc. Del avail. $550.00 508-829-6009 Treadmill Proform 630DS Runs great. $150.00 774-261-2450

Seeking families throughout Central Massachusetts who are interested in improving a child’s life.

New in plastic, Can deliver, Call Luke 774-823-6692

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Vintage Fireplace screen set Text- brass screen, andirons, tools, mesh screen, good shape $150.00 508-754-1827

Memory Foam Mattress beautiful. Brand new. Queen size. $250.00 508-987-7089

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Lincoln Stick Welder& Accs. Brand new welder,cart,2 auto darkening helmets,50’ 10 gauge extension cord,3 waterproof welding stick tubes,various welding sticks,welding gloves,welding hammer,spare lenses.etc. $650.00 or B.O. You P/U 508-829-2995

Choose & cut your own hand-sheared, premium quality trees.

New Matelasse Coverlet White, queen. $90.00 price. Tag still on $50.00 or B/O. 508-829-7074

FOSTER PARENTS WANTED Foster Care Information Session Every 3rd Wednesday of the Month • 2pm-4pm (Please Call for Details)

Media Fireplace, electric. Black, 48" L, w/remote. Doors on bottom, shelf on top. Can email pic. $400 508-755-4323

Microsuede fabric loveseat Red. Excellent condition. Asking $150 508-853-0175

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APARTMENT FOR RENT

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One bedroom Apartment duplex, private quiet. Heat, hot water and electric included. No smoking. $700/m 508-886-2185

Space for Rent: HOLDEN 1105 Main St approx 1000 sq feet available 1-1-2014 call Sue at 508-829-4333 x301

RUTLAND 1BD FREE HEAT Ldry, pkg, H/HW, plowing, Rubbish Removal. 1st/last/sec. Lease. Price reduced from $700. $600 to June. No pets/ No smoking. 508-886-4864

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RUTLAND CENTER 2BD, 2nd fl, FREE HOT WATER. Tons of space. Modern with view of common. $850/m does not incl. heat. Also available, 4BD, 3rd fl. Tons of space. Fresh paint. New tile floor. FREE HOT WATER! Tenants supplies heat. $1050/m. Refs req’d. No pets. 978-257-0202

REAL ESTATE APARTMENT FOR RENT BURNCOAT/GREENDALE 1 bd, laundry, appl’s & off st. parking. HT/HW Incl’d. From $775.00. 508-852-6001 HOLDEN-Immaculate, 2BD 1.5 BA Townhouse. Lovely country setting, yet minutes from highway, center of town and hiking trails. Ample closet space, full basement. Incl’s W/ D. No smoking/pets. $1050/m + utils. 508-641-1429

HOLDEN - HUGE, bright, open concept, one level, 2BD/2BA condo w/walk-in closets, lge windows & high ceilings. W/D hkups. $1700/m incl’s heat. Also, 2BD townhouse. $1500/m incl’s heat. 508-667-7434 REAL ESTATE WANTED WE BUY HOUSES FAST CASH 508-499-8595 sellyourmahouse.com

CLASS IT UP! Living the Classiﬁ eds’ Lifestyle! One of the positive aspects of the holiday season that I truly appreciate is the feeling of connection with people. I am so fortunate to celebrate this sentiment each week of the year through my position here at Central Mass Classiﬁeds. My intent is to be of service and connect our readers with advertisers and advertisers with readers in order to add value to everyone’s lives. I love hearing stories of how items have gotten sold and quality goods and services have been provided. Class It Up Since it is the gift giving season, this section is a great place to shop. We have so many great services and items to choose from! Anything from a relaxing massage, oil delivery, carpeting, home improvement to autos! How about surprising someone with a move to a new house or apartment? A gift of leisure is great in the way of landscaping or a thorough house cleaning. Each week I receive the gift of having the fortunate pleasure of working with wonderful advertisers and readers. For this, I am always thankful, because it is one of the best kinds of gifts ever! Happy Holidays! All of them!!

RUTLAND-3BD Townhouse 1.5 BA, Fully appl’d incl. w/d. Deck & yard. Prkg for 2. No pets/no smoking. Avail midJan. $1250/m. 508-250-1376

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(978) 537-4971 • 1-(800) 924-8666 Gardner $49,500 Residential Building lot in country location with great access to Rt. 140 or Rt.2. Close to the Westminster line. Current perc. Lightly wooded and mostly level 3.77 acres Owner will consider holding ﬁnancing for the right buyer. Aberman Assoc Inc. Gail Lent 978-537-4971x15 www.gaillent.com

Spencer $159,900 Move in ready, this Ranch style, one owner, home, set on a knoll overlooking scenic view from huge picture window in spacious, fireplaced living room. New roof shingles installed in April, 2013. refinished HW floors, replacement windows, dining rm or 3rd bedroom off kitchen. Freshly painted livng rm,& bdrms. Relax, or dine, in screened patio on warm summer eves. Spacious rear yard. Aberman Assoc. Inc Sandra DeRienzo 978-537-4971 x43

Littleton $199,900 Easy highway access.Open concept ranch style starter home with additional living area in lower level. New Septic installed September 2013. Aberman Assoc. Inc Paula Savard 978-

Tracy Sladen

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OPEN HOUSE ON DEMAND Our sellers are standing by for short notice showings from 11am -1pm every Sunday WE ARE NOT ON SITE. Please call us at 978 537 4971 x 0. In most instances, we will call you back in 10 minutes. Properties are listed on www.paulasavard.com

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Clinton $58,900 Commercial - 800 SF of ofﬁce space and over 2000SF of warehouse. UMass Medical clinton campus 2 blocks from site. Street frontage on Catherine. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978537-4971 x 14 www.paulasvard.com

Leominster $179,900 Modern 3 bedroom ranch with updated features. Extra Large Mas Br on first floor was originally 2 room. 3rd bedroom lower level or convert 1st floor back. Lower level workshop, playroom . Aberman Assoc Inc Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x 14 www.paulasavard.com

Templeton $244,900 Clinton $219,000 2 Family, 2 units side by side. Unit 1 has 3 br and 1 full bath. Unit 2 has 2 br and 1 full bath. Aberman Assoc Inc. Mark Gerber 978-537-4971 x 63

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4 br 2.5 bath colonial. Eat in kitchen with breakfast bar, atrium door to deck area. Formal dining formal living with crown molding, mellow hardwood floors. easy access to Rt 2 at exit 20 2 1/2 ceramic tile bathrooms, laundry on first floor. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x14 www.paulasavard.com

Petersham $244,900

Lunenburg $269,900

Leominster $280,000

Antique farmhouse turned into country contemporary. 1000 s.f inlaw over 2 car attached garage, decks, enclosed porches and breezeways add to farmlike setting. 2 plus acres, circular drive. 1/2 mile from Rt 101 and Rt 32. 1/2 hour from downtown Leominster or Amherst. Floorplan for main house 1 1/2 story 3 bedrooms 2 full baths ﬁrst ﬂoor laundry. Inlaw has 1 bedroom 1 full bath and laundry. Separate side entrance.

3 br 1 bath Cape. Large eat in kitchen with gas fireplace. Spacious living room with working fireplace. Two bedrooms (one up and one on main floor). Additional room upstairs used as a third bedroom and living room currently used as a fourth bedroom. Beautiful level lot, partially wooded. Storage room on back side of two car garage. Room sizes are approximate. Aberman Assoc Inc Yasmin Loft 978-537-4971 x 61

4 br 3 bath Multilevel. Quiet cul de sac. Easy access to highways, shopping. Families thrive with their own space. 4 bedrooms 2 full baths. Wall to wall carpet covers hardwoods in bedroom level. Living area kit, lr, dr, enclosed porch, fenced kennel sized yard. Family room level has exterior access. 3rd full bath on this level. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x 14 www.paulasavard.com

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www.centralmassclass.com AUTOMOTIVE AUTO/MOTORCYCLE 1999 Road King Under 8,000 miles. Too many extras to list. Always stored in room temperature. $15,000.00 978-4645525 or 781-879-8275 cell 2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond. 469 miles. Asking $1650.00. Includes helmet. 207289-9362 OR 207-450-1492.

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2008 Suzuki GSX 650/K8. All black with silver and red trim. Less than 850 miles. Cover, new battery, and lock. $5500.00 508-792-6080

2004 Hyundai Santa Fe White, 93K miles. Cruise control, A/C, power, seat warmers, loaded. Recent new tires. All leather. Clean, well maintained. Asking $6700.00 508-8862370

2000 Ford F150 Flareside Pickup Showroom condition inside and out. 100K miles. All power, needs nothing. $8500.00 Call 978-466-6043

2002 Kia Sedona 160K miles. Moon roof, AC, power front seat. Runs well. $2,500.00. 978-400-6232

1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Sedan. 79k miles. Grey exterior and interior. $6500.00 or B/O 774-242-2370 badday1123@gmail.com

2010 Subaru Forester 2010 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium loaded, 4WD, Automatic, navigation, $8800, call or text for more details 508-687-0596.

2006 Ford F250 2006, 4X4, clean, low mileage, plow and utility box included. $16,000 978-464-2630

AUTO/SUV 2004 Chevrolet Trail Blazer Great condition. New transmission. Low miles. 4WD. $4,799.00 Dan 508-641-6839

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AUTOS 1962 Chevrolet Impala sport coupe. Older restoration. Nice driver. $8,500 978-422-6646

1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6 cylinder gas. Very good cond. Runs exc. $3500.00 195k miles. Located in Sutton, MA 774-287-0777

Our Adopt-A-Paws feature runs one a month. With the support of our sponsors, we will feature dogs and cats that are available for adoption at local nonproﬁt shelters. TO SEE ALL THE ANIMALS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION CHECK OUT THE WEB SITES BELOW:

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HAPPY HOWL-IDAYS! From Central Mass Classiﬁeds and all the animals that have been adopted and will be adopted. Each month we are very fortunate to have some fantastic sponsors who support animal rescue and with their support we are able to feature some of the many needy animals that need you. If you are thinking about getting a new pet during the holiday season, please do consider one of the animals from a shelter. There are so many really wonderful family friendly animals that await a fur-ever home. Will you give them the best gift ever? We aare re seeking sponsors spo ponsors for future futu ture issues. issues es You Y u do do not need to be a pet et related relat la edd business bus bu usiin iness to sponsor to spons nsor a pet. pet The The more more sponsors we get get, thee more pets we will feature feature. If If your you business bbusinnesss would like to t sponsor a pet, please call Carrie at 978-728-4302 or email sales@centralmassclass.com by January 10th to be in our next ADOPT-A-PAWS on January 16th. Together we can make a difference!

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1999 Acura TL well maintained, reliable car. good tires, exc sound system, drives well, ht’d seats and more. Lots of power! Luxurious and sporty! 1 owner. Garaged. Brian $2,900 508-865-4410

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2000 Mercury Sable Wagon. 131K miles. Exc. cond. inside & out. Asking $2,200.00 Call Kathy 978-728-4702 2001 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, Rare car, loaded, mint condition. $7,995 508-875-7400 2006 Honda S2000 ext Black int Brand new top 93oct/synth oil only used Florida car adult owner 59k miles $16,500 508-816-0141 CAMPERS/TRAILERS 1998 Dutchman Pop-up Camper Refrigerator, stove, sink. Heater, port o potty, kitchen table. Sleeps 8. $1700.00. 978840-0782 Ask for Kenny.

NEW CONSTRUCTION 260 Grove Street * Paxton, MA 01612 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Available for Fall OCCUPANCY

24 ft Light Weight 2004 Terry Dakota Travel Trailer Sleeps 7, bunk beds & full bed, 16ft awning, A/C, Central heat, microwave & 3 burner stove. Dual powered fridge/freezer. Loads of storage, outdoor shower. 2 batteries, travel septic. Like new. $8,500.00 508-579-6622

The Hills at Paxton Village is a brand new apartment community in a wooded, peaceful setting offering maintenance-free living to seniors* 62-years of age and older. Our pet friendly and smoke-free community offers (45) one-bedroom and (5) two-bedroom units, a community room and ﬁtness center, walking trails and an exterior terrace with landscaped garden area. The Hills at Paxton Village offers seniors an active lifestyle, including access to area concerts, art exhibits and educational venues, while conveniently located near high-quality medical services. Don’t miss out on your chance to be part of this vibrant new community! Rents Range from;

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For Information or an application please contact S-C Management Corp. at 508-799-3990, TTD 711 or email us at thehillsatpaxtonvillage@gmail.com or visit us at thehillsatpaxtonvillage.com.

AUTOS 1995 Lincoln Town Car White w/black roof. Interior black leather. Exc. cond. Moon roof. 108K miles. Asking $2000.00 508-842-8691

Truck Camper 1985 Bought new in 1991. Real Life brand. Bathroom, shower, self contained. 8ft truck bed. $2900.00 B/O 774-287-0777 Utility Trailer, Heavy Duty 15" wheels, with removable sides. 6’X 8’. Located in Sutton, MA $650.00 774-287-0777

JUNK CARS Unwanted Cars & Trucks Junk cars. We pick up. Pay top dollar cash, $250 & up. Titles necessary. Girard’s 978-2974883 or 978-790-7110 Open 6 days a week. We also sell used parts. 978-297-0605 We Buy and PICK UP Your junk or wrecked cars or trucks. We Sell New and Used Parts. Airport Auto Parts, Inc. 56 Crawford St. Leominster, MA 01453 978-534-3137 PARTS & ACCESSORIES Used Auto Parts 91-day guarantee. Engines, transmissions, wheels, mirrors & tires. Excellent service, junk car removal. Amherst-Oakham Auto Recycling, 358 Coldbrook Rd, Oakham, MC Visa Disc & Amex. 508-882-5241 SNOWMOBILES Artic Cat Snowmobile Z440, studded track. Has cover. Runs, needs a little work. $750.00 978-365-6567 STORAGE Auto or Boat Storage 14’x36’ $210/m Also, 1000 sq. ft. w/loading dock. $420/m Rutland. 207-280-0687 Indoor Storage- Cars, Boats, Campers. Safe and Secure. Oct.-May $375.00 Sterling 978-618-0717

1996 Jeep Cherokee 4WD, blk, auto-start, keyless entry, fold-down seats, rims, spare. KBV $4000, asking $2500. 774-234-0214

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Mike Lanava

When you walk into the mayor’s office during the afternoon, you are more than likely to run into Mike Lanava. As chief of staff for Mayor Joe Petty he is the floor general, if you will, for the office when the mayor is not in the building. He has been there since Petty won his first bid for the mayor’s seat in 2011, having been a part of the team that pounded the pavement, hammered out strategy and banged doors on the campaign trail. At the time, Lanava was working at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Office under President and CEO Dick Kennedy. Before that, he served as project manager for several years at the Worcester Business Development Corporation (WBDC), where he had interned under Craig Blais and David Forsberg while in college. He literally moved down – the Chamber and WBDC shared the same building at the time – to join the Chamber when Julie Jacobson was named acting president and CEO. Kennedy came on board when she moved to City Hall as assistant to City Manager Mike O’Brien. While he may not have known it at the time, the former student at Venerini Academy and St. John’s High School would eventually land inside City Hall as well. Now moving on to a second term with Petty, who scored an overwhelming and confidence-boosting win in November, Lanava continues to work on his master’s in computer science. His main goal, however, is doing the work of the mayor for the people of Worcester; it is a job he takes quite seriously and one he is clear to point out is merely a supporting role for the main attraction: the mayor. How did you end up being chief of staff to the mayor? It was during the campaign. At

that time, Mayor (Joe) O’Brien decided not to seek re-election and Joe Petty decided to run for mayor, and at that point a group of people came together to help support and help Joe Petty get elected, and I happened to be one of those people that helped out on the campaign from Day One.

Had there been talk about you becoming chief of staff? I think there was certainly

the aspect that they have responsibilities and obligations, whether on the School Committee or City Council. They deal with the budget, they deal with the tax rate. There are real decisions … and he takes it really seriously. People absolutely look to him for guidance and leadership. He’s constantly dealing with that. It’s not just cutting ribbons; that’s probably the very least of it. People look to him for leadership and guidance on a whole array of community issues.

no expectation to go work for him. I had always anticipated going back to the Chamber. We had some discussions and I just felt he’s such a great guy and was going to do so many great things. It was an opportunity you don’t say no to, so I did not say no. I said yes.

On an average day, how many phone calls, customer visits and other requests do you deal with? Every day is (different). For

You do know, of course, some folks think you run the entire show. What don’t people know about Joe Petty and the job he does? Absolutely not. There’s zero truth

simplest things or the most complicated things; anything related to, you know, people’s everyday lives, you know? It’s from trash, to lights, from people’s sidewalks, to school transportation issues. The job of the mayor’s staff is to help the mayor solve these people’s problems. The mayor is the problem solver. Our job is to assist the mayor in solving those problems. Some are easy and some are very, very complicated. The mayor has a completely open-door policy and will

to any of that. I work for the mayor. The mayor’s 24/7. Obviously, everybody knows what the role of the mayor is in this city, but I’ve never seen somebody given their entire life and dedication and mind to moving the city forward. He works every night, he works every weekend. It’s not a ceremonial position in

example, (Tuesday, 10) weather-related issues. You can imagine the volume. There was a substantial increase.

What do they call about? About the

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meet with anyone that requests to meet with him, and helping him with those meetings, it’s all about the mayor. It’s all about implementing what the mayor wants to implement.

If you ever wrote a book about your time in City Hall, how many people would stop talking to you? Zero. Everybody in that

building has one goal and that is to make Worcester the best it can be. There is one common goal of city government and that is to do the best job you can. I know it’s what people want to here, but there’s no ﬁghting, no drama, no stabbing in the back, there’s none of that.

A lot of insiders know this, but probably not everyone. The mayor doesn’t send out his own Tweets or update his own Facebook page, right? The mayor certainly does do

that; whether he physically is the one typing it or not, everything that is under his name is from his direction.

What are you most proud of about Worcester? There’s so much. This is my

home. It’s my parents’ home. It was my grandparents’ home. It’s a great place to live and to be and I’m proud to call Worcester home, because it’s by far the best place. It has the best neighborhoods, it has the best people, and I think everybody in the city, if you’ve been here long enough and you’re from here, I think you forget Worcester is all about the people and we have the best people.

What are you least proud of? The lack of voter turnout.

You have adjusted to a new assistant in the mayor’s ofﬁce. When former mayor staffer

and now state Rep. Dan Donahue left, you kind of lost a friend. What was it like? I

was just so happy for him. Dan is one of those people you can’t say a bad thing about and I mean that most sincerely. Dan does things because it’s the right decision. He is wise beyond his years in thoughtfulness and a sort of wisdom. We have two very distinct personalities that I think played off each other very well in the mayor’s ofﬁce. When he won it was just the greatest thing. You saw Dan, who we worked side by side for a number of years together, who was by far the best and right person for the job, win. There was a lot of pride in him winning, and then also it was a very good thing because his strong relationship with the mayor’s ofﬁce obviously was great for Mayor Joe Petty, because he has a true partner and collaborator from the 16th District.

How far can Dan go? I think the sky’s the limit for this kid. He’s so bright, so intelligent, so thoughtful and such a hard worker. I think whatever he puts his mind to, he will be able to do. What about you? Is a political ofﬁce in your future? I am not a politician. I enjoy

what I’m doing. I have nothing but great respect for elected ofﬁcials. I love supporting them and working with them, but I certainly have no ambition to be one myself.

OK, one last question: Have you ever used the public restroom on the ﬁrst ﬂoor of City Hall? I have not used the public restroom

on the ﬁrst ﬂoor.

-Walter Bird Jr., Senior Writer DECEMBER 12, 2013 • WORCESTERMAGAZINE.COM

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