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May 2 - 8, 2013 ■ Volume 38, Number 35

Slots of confusion

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here were, to say the least, some interesting moments during the second of two public meetings earlier this month centered on a slots parlor that could wind up on the barren land where Wyman-Gordon manufacturing once thrived. Rush Street Gaming (RSG) head Neil Bluhm, for example, told city officials he had struck a deal guaranteeing 100 percent of the construction jobs tied to his proposed slots parlor would be given to Worcester trade union employees. It was, however, his big reveal that his plans do not hinge on the full-service hotel that developer Richard Friedman says he would build in conjunction with the slots parlor, which had some councilors’ eyes as big as saucers. Just about everyone locally thought the hotel, which is said to be eyed for the downtown CitySquare area, and Bluhm’s slots parlor were a bride and groom – a package deal. That is what some councilors thought, but it is not what they heard from Bluhm at the meeting. When District 3 Councilor George Russell asked just how a hotel fits in with a slots parlor, Bluhm offered this nugget: “It was our understanding the city would like to see a full-service hotel downtown. It was really the city’s suggestion, not our suggestion. We’re not doing the hotel just for the casino. If you want us to give the subsidy and not do the hotel, we’re willing to do that. This is up to you all. We’re open.” That was news to the ears of some councilors. “I was very surprised to learn that the hotel had no connection to the casino and that it was a request of the city,” At-Large Councilor Joe O’Brien says, adding he

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Members of the public attend a meeting with city officials and representatives of Rush Street Gaming in regards to a proposed slots parlor in Worcester. knows of no one on the city side who ever made such a request. RSG CEO Greg Carlin says he also does not recall whether anyone from the city approached the gaming company about including a hotel with the slots proposal. He says Friedman, who had been looking to build a hotel in Worcester, reached out to Rush Street because he recognized an opportunity to bring much-needed hotel rooms to the city. Under the proposal, slot machine revenues, to the tune of $1 million a year, would be paid to Friedman

to subsidize the hotel. A representative for Friedman, who heads up Carpenter and Company in Cambridge, tells Worcester Mag he was in India last week and unavailable for comment. The hotel is thought to be the centerpiece of what would be a mitigation package included in a host community agreement negotiated with City Manager Mike O’Brien. Some councilors say they

I was told that’s the whole reason for slots being here, to fund a hotel. If they don’t want a hotel, then I don’t want them here.” — At-Large City Councilor Konnie Lukes on comments from casino magnate Neil Bluhm that his company isn’t married to the idea of a hotel tied into building a proposed slots parlor in Worcester.

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A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Worcester’s newest airline, JetBlue Airways, posts a first-quarter net income loss from $30 million to $14 million in the same quarter last year. -2

WCHR Securities of Worcester awarded $300,000 as part of New Markets Tax Credit investments through the US Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). +1

The newest building at Worcester’s Gateway Park, a $32-million, four-story facility that fits in with the park’s mission of urban redevelopment and economic development, is dedicated by local and state officials. +1

State Rep. John Binienda announces fiscal 2014 House budget funding for the South Worcester Neighborhood Improvement Corporation (SWNIC), The Dismas House and the Massachusetts Biomedical Initiative (MBI). +2

Assumption College’s ladies rugby team comes up on the short end of a 66-0 decision against the Brantford Collegiate Institute Mustangs. -1

Yes, that’s music you hear at City Hall plaza from noon to 1:30 p.m. everyday. Monday was the first day city officials turned on satellite radio to give folks some tunes to go with their lunchtime break. +2

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Free Health & Safety Fair held at the YWCA. +2

Man accused of shooting store clerk hides behind door during court appearance, according to media report. -3

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pril 15 started out as a near-perfect day for Andrew Cook. The Lowell teen and sophomore at The College of the Holy Cross was running his first Boston Marathon, following in the footsteps of his dad, who has run the race nine times. Pat Cook was taking this year off to watch his son. The weather conditions were ideal, the sun a constant companion as Andrew Cook made his way along the grueling course, and the Wellesley College girls were there, as they always are, at mile 13 to give out kisses to the runners. For a 19-year-old college sophomore who had always wanted to run one of the world’s most prestigious races, you couldn’t have dreamed up a better day. In the blink of an eye, that all changed. Two bombs shattered the innocent celebration of family, friends, runners and thousands of others who show up every year just to take in the atmosphere. The order of a meticulously-planned race dissolved into chaos and, in an instant, Cook’s dream day was over. Even amidst the horror, Cook saw reason for hope and promise; more than that, the son of a longtime Lowell Sun reporter who counts hero Lowell cop and marathon runner Nick Laganas among his family’s friends found reason to keep the faith. “The bombing is the thing that took up all the headlines, but the heroes were the story,” Cook says. “All these marathoners had just finished 26 miles and they just kept on running to the hospital to give blood. They were all absolutely heroes. Even after all this terrible stuff happened, that is what kept my faith.” Laganas, a fellow Lowell resident and friend of Cook’s father, was among them. He earned praise for turning around just after finishing the race and sprinting toward the explosions to help victims. The Lowell Sun, where Pat Cook toiled as a scribe for about 10 years before becoming director of public affairs at Middlesex Community College, did a story on Laganas, who didn’t received his marathon medal the day of the bombing. A fellow runner and friend ultimately retrieved it for him. Laganas, Cook and some other family friends were all part of the “E-Streeters,” so-named because they like Bruce Springsteen.

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BUSTED RIGHT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Almost exactly one week after he allegedly shot a store clerk at Honey Farms on Vernon Street, 18-year-old Jaiquan Harris of 7 Laurel St. was charged with the shooting. Police say Harris and another suspect robbed a Honey Farms store at 443 Park Ave. on April 16, before the alleged robbery and shooting of a 66-year-old clerk in the Vernon Street store, which took place at 12:30 a.m. April 17. The suspects also attempted to rob a Honey Farms at 237 Cambridge St., police say, but were scared off by the presence of too many customers in the store. Fifteen minutes later, Harris allegedly shot the other clerk, who police say remains hospitalized in stable condition. Cops nabbed Harris on Wednesday, April 24 around 1 p.m. after obtaining search warrants and gathering evidence linking him to the crime. He was arrested on Castle Street by members of the Detective Bureau and Gang Unit and charged with two counts of armed robbery while masked, attempting to commit a crime (armed robbery while masked), conspiracy, armed assault on a person over the age of 60 with the intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (firearm) with the intent to cause serious bodily injury, illegal possession of a firearm without a license, illegal carrying of a loaded firearm without a license and mayhem. Police were still looking for the second suspect earlier this week. NECK-TIE: A man wearing a double-edged knife as a necklace and driving a pickup truck turned out to be hauling other weapons and drugs, earning himself a “Go Directly to Jail” card. Police say Reynaldo Rivera was pulled over in his truck Friday, April 26 around 3:28 p.m. after cutting off a passing motorist and found to be carrying a large metal pipe, a loaded .22-caliber Reuger long-barrel pistol, another knife and some marijuana for good measure. Rivera had been under surveillance by vice squad officer at the Albion Hotel at 765 Main St. They called for a marked cruiser to pull over Rivera after seeing him cut off the other vehicle. The 42-year-old Rivera, of 40 Minthorne St., was charged with unlawful carrying of a loaded firearm without a license of FID card, unlawful carrying of a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon, possession of ammunition without an FID or license, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony and improper storage of a firearm. He was also cited for failure to use care in starting. FRONT-ENDED: If only Miguel Bengochea had gone out the back of his apartment building, he might have eluded police. As it was, he was caught exiting the front of his building by cops armed with a warrant for his arrest. The 42-year-old resident of 765 Main St., Apt. 4, was nabbed by vice officers, who then searched his apartment and came upon a cache of drugs, money and other illegals. Police say they found 21 grams of crack cocaine, eight bags of heroin, money and other drug paraphernalia. Bengochea was charged with possession of a Class A substance with the intent to distribute, possession of a Class B substance with the intent to distribute, trafficking in a Class B substance (14-27 grams) and a drug violation within 1,000 feet of a school (Jacob Hyatt). THOSE AREN’T CHIPS: Vice Squad officers who pulled over two cars after conducting surveillance Monday, April 29 reached into a Pringles can inside one of the cars and pulled out 103 knotted bags of heroin. The discovery helped them uncover a drug operation, as they also retrieved 10 knotted bags of heroin from a door handle of the Hyundai occupied by 21-year-old Jose Clemente and 24-year-old William Gonzalez, of Worcester. Cops also found about $1,216 cash and notes containing dates detailing the sale of heroin. The total weight of the heroin was approximately 55 grams. The other car involved was a Pontiac Grand Am occupied by two women: 54-year-old Norma Costonguay and 62-year-old Julia Perretti. Gonzalez, of 15 Queen St., Apt. 2, was charged with distribution of a Class A substance, trafficking in heroin (28-99 grams) and conspiracy to violate controlled substance laws. Clemente, his roommate, faces the same charges. Constonguay, of 14 Murray Ave., was charged with possession of a Class A substance, knowing where heroin is kept or present and conspiracy to violate controlled substance laws.

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“He had just crossed,” Cook says of Laganas. “All this stuff happened and the police instincts kicked in. He turned around and ran 200 yards in the opposite direction, back to the victims.” On the student blog he writes at Holy Cross, Cook was almost poetic in his reflections on the goodwill shown by so many people on that tragic day. “There were some guardian angels working overtime that day, no question,” Cook writes in an April 18 entry. “More importantly, there were angels on the ground as well. Mere seconds after the blast, as shown in the endless news reels that have been showing in the aftermath, marathon volunteers, Boston police, first responders and good Samaritan runners and spectators made a bee-line to the blast site, totally heedless of their own personal well-being, to give much-needed aid to the victims.” Cook writes of Laganas and includes a direct message to him: “Nick, you’re a hero in every possible sense of the word, my friend.” He continues: “Bostonians and residents of the surrounding suburbs offering up free housing, food and showers to all stranded runners. These are the kinds of stories that keep my faith in the

Holy Cross student and Boston Marathon participant, Andrew Cook crossed the finishline minutes before the bomb exploded. human race, even after all the tragedies. The single act of one coward is what’s been making the headlines, but it’s the countless acts of an entire city that made the day.” Cook, who says he has been running competitively for about five years, after being coaxed by a friend to run track in high school, says what happened at the

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marathon didn’t fully hit him until later that day, when he was in the shower in the safety of his own home. Among the realities he had to deal with was knowing his mother and sister, who had been near the finish line before to watch Cook’s father, just happened to be standing on the opposite side of the street, in between the sites of both blasts. In the past, they

had stood on that side. “I was in the shower recuperating, that’s when it started to really [hit me], ‘That just happened. I just survived a bombing.’ I found out my mom and sister were just that close. By luck they were on the other side of the street. They normally stand on the other side of the street where it all happens. My Dad’s friends were all safe, they finished around the same time.” Cook says he will definitely run the marathon again; he will not be scared off by the threat of terrorists. Next year isn’t yet a certainty – he wants to get his legs back under him, first. Maybe next time he competes, he’ll run the full route with his Dad. For this year’s race, Pat Cook ran a part of marathon with his son, then met him on Boylston Street to race across the finish line together. “I knew I was going to do it again no matter what,” Andrew Cook says. “I’ll probably run next year. If anything, the bombing was just encouraging me again.” Have a news tip or story idea? Email Walter at wbird@worcestermag.com, or call him at 508-749-3166, ext. 243. Follow Walter on Twitter @walterbirdjr and catch him every Thursday morning at 8:35 with Paul Westcott on WTAG 580AM.

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walked out of their initial one-on-one meetings in Mayor Joe Petty’s office with Bluhm, Friedman, Carlin and others under the impression that there was no wiggle room – the slots parlor and hotel went hand-in-hand. “I always thought the hotel was part of the package, let’s put it that way,” District 1 Councilor Tony Economou says. “There seems to be some question as to what’s going on. There’s talk about 600 jobs, but I believe that includes the hotel. My understanding from day 1 was that it was always a package deal. From the beginning, that’s how it was presented to me.” That is what he thought the message was during his brief meeting with the developers. “I was curious, myself, once I heard when he said, ‘We didn’t ask for the hotel, the city asked for it,” Economou says. “Quite frankly, that should be in the host agreement. Both [construction on the slots parlor and the hotel] should start simultaneously. Let’s make sure it’s ironclad.” Joe O’Brien says he questions whether the city should be giving some of its mitigation to a hotel developer. “[Bluhm] is saying we have so much money to give to the city, but right now the city

Rush Street Gaming CEO Greg Carlin and Head Neil Bluhm at a recent meeting about the proposed slots parlor in Worcester with city officials and members of the public.

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has identified $1 million to a hotel as its top priority,” O’Brien says. “Is giving $1 million to a hotel the top priority? My thought is, I thought the hotel was always a necessary part of the casino project. That’s a little surprising to me, I guess.” O’Brien says, like other officials, he wants a new hotel in the city, especially with high-profile destinations such as the DCU and The Hanover Theatre, and with DCU officials lamenting their inability to compete for such large-scale events as the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. He wonders, however, just what the city should give up for it. “If,” he says, “we’re going to live with a casino and whatever the mitigation figure is, would you prioritize giving $1 million to a hotel?” Which leads back to what Bluhm said, something Carlin backed up recently. “Maybe the confusion is, from our perspective, we could do this without the hotel,” Carlin says. “We don’t need the hotel.” Have a news tip or story idea? Email Walter at wbird@worcestermag.com, or call him at 508-749-3166, ext. 243. Follow Walter on Twitter @walterbirdjr and catch him every Thursday morning at 8:35 with Paul Westcott on WTAG 580AM.

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old Jennithan Cortes says District 2 City Councilor Phil Palmieri has “been there a long time,â€? and with the veteran having had no competition in a couple of re-election bids, Cortes thinks someone should step up to the plate this time around. The father of four says he’s ready to be that someone. “I don’t think that’s goodâ€? to have no competition, Cortes says. “That’s no reection on [Palmieri], you get comfortable. This district has changed, the demographics have changed.â€? The proposed slots parlor in his community “has a lot to do with it,â€? Cortes says of his decision to pull out nomination papers, but it is not the only reason. He wants councilors to be strong on issues, including the slots parlor, and, as a Latino, would like to see more diversity on the council — District 4 Councilor Sarai Rivera is the only minority on the council. He says he knows District 2 “like the back of my hand.â€? So buckle yourselves in, folks, because with three district councilors now facing at least one potential challenger — Tony Economou in District 1 and Bill Eddy in District 5 — things ďŹ gure to get mighty interesting.

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was laid down and ofďŹ cials were asked, point blank, to say where they stand on the proposed slots parlor, you had local business leaders, elected ofďŹ cials and others practically tripping over each other making sure people knew exactly where they stand. The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, state Rep. Mary Keefe (through her legislative aide), state Sen. Harriette Chandler – all made sure to make their feelings known loud and clear: They are against it. We thought we’d ďŹ nd out whether Lt. Gov. Tim Murray wanted to get in on the action – so we asked him how he felt about a slots parlor and whether he’d vote in favor. “Like a lot of people, I have mixed feelings about it, even at the state level, to allow gaming in Massachusetts. The fact of the matter is Massachusetts was losing $1 million a year in revenue on an annual basis. The thought was to try to capture some of that here and some of the jobs. There isn’t even a speciďŹ c proposal on the table and that is for the council and community to weigh in on and have a vigorous debate. There can and should be a vigorous debate about this. Let the process play out.â€?

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CLASSING UP THE PARK: It’s no secret Elm Park is getting some major work done as the summer season creeps ever closer, but a new playground, pathways and benches are not the only things classing up the joint. At a ceremonial groundbreaking recently, students from Elm Park Community School and Doherty Memorial High School helped celebrate the work that has already started on the playground. And we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention an appearance by Department of Public Works & Parks Commissioner Bob Moylan, who is known for dressing to the nines for, well, just about everything – even a symbolic shovel-in-the-ground photo op. Also suiting up for the event were Mayor Joe Petty, Lt. Gov. Tim Murray, state Rep. John Mahoney, City Councilor Tony Economou and his colleague, Sarai Rivera, who was second-guessing her choice not to wear a light jacket with a slight chill in the morning air.

CONGRATS, NICOLE: By now you know who and what is the Best of Worcester, with our April 25 issue revealing the winners in dozens of categories. Worcesteria tips its cap to local blog maestro Nicole Apostola for copping the top prize for her blog nicolecommawoo.wordpress.com. Have a news tip or story idea? Email Walter at wbird@worcestermag.com, or call him at 508-749-3166, ext. 243. Follow Walter on Twitter @walterbirdjr and catch him every Thursday morning at 8:35 with Paul Westcott on WTAG 580AM.

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University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) student Meredith Walsh, MPH, RN, has been named one of the “29 Who Shine” students by the Massachusetts Department of High Education this year. Another Worcester student honored is Chad Bleakney of Quinsigamond Community College (QCC). The two Worcester students, and the other 27 from across Massachusetts, are “outstanding public university and college graduates,” honored “for their academic achievement and community service.” Walsh is an active volunteer in the community of refugees from Burma living in Worcester and is a coMeredith Walsh, MPH, RN founder and the executive director of the Worcester (above), and Chad Bleakney (left). Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP). With the help of a fellowship Walsh received in 2010, she runs a youth development project for refugees from Burma ages 1524 with the goal of helping them to gain life skills that will aid them with schoolwork, employment and higher education. She has received other funding that has allowed her to return to the Thai-Burma border to study women’s health related to contraceptive choices after termination of a pregnancy, as well as working the help local refugee youth reflect on their life experiences by engaging in and learning about the healing power of storytelling and performance. After graduating with a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Nursing on June 2, Walsh will work as a family nurse practitioner at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester. Bleakney, like Walsh, is involved in several organizations that support others in several communities. He is vice president of scholarships in the Alpha Zeta Theta Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, in which he has held regular workshops for Honor Society members as a way to teach them about scholarship opportunities. He has chaired the Honors in Action project, One Small Step, One Giant Leap: Completion and Science, Math and Technology, which promotes STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. The event, led by Bleakney, teaches and allows elementary-aged girls to decorate, pack and launch their own rockets. Bleakney is majoring in engineering at QCC and will attend WPI in the future to study automotive engineering. One student form each UMass campus, state university and community college in the state are honorees of the award. Walsh and Bleakney will be recognized by Gov. Deval Patrick at the third annual “29 Who Shine” ceremony on Thursday, May 2 at noon on the grand staircase of the Massachusetts State House.

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orget the disputes decades ago over building the Centrum and Galleria. Those battles pale in comparison to the present debate on whether a slots parlor should be built in our city. Slots are even starting to pit neighbor against neighbor as residents, business owners and activists in the Kelley Square area argue whether the designated gaming site actually is in the Canal District or the Green Island District. Hey, I’m geographychallenged so don’t ask me what the difference is. In any case, at a recent public hearing, I was pleased that our city councilors represented their pro- and anti-slots constituents quite well. Overall, they asked some very probing questions of the slick and polished Rush Gaming representatives from Chicago. Now, most of our elected officials have never even been inside a casino. But unlike my former council colleagues, I am not a Vegas Virgin. Occasionally, I play the slot machines at both Twin River and

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Foxwoods Casinos. The only thing good about Rhode Island’s Twin River is that it’s a quick 40-minute drive from Worcester. Open 24/7, it’s a sprawling windowless facility with almost 5,000 slot machines, two restaurants and hardly anything else (no retail stores or hotel). Note that the slot parlor proposed for Worcester will have only 1,250 machines. On at least one occasion, Twin River filed for bankruptcy and asked the state of Rhode Island to bail it out. In July of this year, to avoid closing down, it will be adding 64 table games offering poker, blackjack, craps and roulette. Note that Worcester’s proposed slots parlor will have no table games. Many of Twin River’s slot players are poor or elderly. The music blaring from the sound system and the ringing and dinging of the electronic gaming machines aren’t enough to lessen the pain and despair of the players who are experiencing the truth that the house always wins. Foxwoods, on the other hand, is a full-

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service resort casino that is a 70-minute drive from Worcester. With its four casinos, 7,000 slot machines, 500 table games, a gigantic 3,600-person bingo hall, four hotels, convention space, a large auditorium, several restaurants and specialty shops, it puts Twin River to shame. Foxwoods believes that families that play together stay together. So, while mom and dad gamble for hours, an interactive arcade is provided where their kids also can lose plenty of money while winning some crappy trinkets. But back to Worcester and its proposed little slots parlor. Opponents suggest that a partnership with the predatory gambling trade will tarnish the city’s progressive image. The additional traffic in and around Kelley Square will be a nightmare and crime, prostitution and drug dealing will increase, they say. The anti-slots people don’t want to see our city encourage its poor, senior citizens, college students and middle class families to gamble away their pay, social security and welfare checks. And,

after losing appreciable sums of money at the slots, city residents and other parlor patrons won’t be able to support local restaurants, retail outlets and entertainment venues. On the other hand, slots proponents ignore all moral arguments against gambling and say that Worcester desperately needs to expand its tax base to raise more revenue. They suggest that the city would be nuts not to accept a $240 million construction project that links a slots parlor to a new full-service downtown hotel and results in 600 new jobs. And they’re thrilled that one of Worcester’s worst eyesores, WymanGordon’s hazardous waste cesspool on Madison Street, would be cleaned up and landscaped. Ample parking would be provided and traffic mitigation strategies put in place. Each side makes a strong argument. But in the end, the voters of Worcester will decide whether a slots parlor is right for our city. They’ll need the wisdom of Solomon on this issue.

Letter Dear Residents, As a candidate for the position of city council at large for the city of Worcester, I have chosen to write a letter directly targeted to all voters of the city. The average voter’s age for state election is 18 and 65 up. This concerns me because the vision and goals of the younger residents are crucial for the long term of city of Worcester. For my education, I do have political science degree from Northeastern University in Boston Ma and Master in Education Administration from Cambridge college in Cambridge Ma. With my experience as manager, Administrative Assistant, Teacher, Admission Clerk, and Sale person. I do believe that I am qualified to represent your interests as city council at large. Moreover, I have lived in the district for a long time. I do feel that I can take the responsibility to represent the voters, interests and to speak out about issues that effect everyone in the city. I have pledged to work for all of the citizens in Worcester of Massachusetts and I believe it is important that your city should have city councilor at large like me who will consider your interests when making decisions. We are a changing community. Some of those changes have been positive, some have not. I am one of the few members who has spooked out on issues that need to be debated I do understand my positions. I have not been always shared by everyone, and I respect that. However, we still need honest and open debate. I will continue to bring my knowledge, experience, and hard work to inform every Voters in the city.

As a candidate for city council at large I will organize debates that will look into the burning issues that affect the city of Worcester Ma. I will bring out those issues that the city are facing so that we can discuss then. Those issues are affordable housing and primary education for kids, jobs, taking care of the elderly and effective public Transportation. I will open a conducive climate that will encourage businesses and entrepreneurs to come to the city of Worcester to open Companies that will hire the Residents Worcester City. As a city council at large I will work hard to encourage the gardens so that we can beautify the city of Worcester Ma. When I become city councilor at large of Worcester I will encourage my colleague to work together to help to improve the Traffic lights that could help pedestrians crossing the street so that the car should not hit them etc. I respectfully asking the neighbors to come out strongly on Sept 17, 2013 to cast the votes for me. My email address is wfeegbeh@hotmail.com. For your honor and respect I hope to see you there Sept 17, 2013 and Goodbye to all my supporters that will help me to become city councilor at large of Worcester. I need your votes so your voice can be heard. Vote for William Feegbeh for city council at large. WILL IAM FEEGBEH

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{ coverstory } This is a big year for autism and the growing number of families dealing with children afflicted with the confounding neurological disorder. For starters, there is the controversial news that Asperger’s Syndrome is being dropped from the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5). For parents who have grown comfortable with at least knowing their child was dealing with a specific kind of autism, the change is unsettling. They can, however, take some measure of comfort with the news that the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) this summer is opening a new center focused wholly on autism diagnosis and support.

EXCITEMENT MOUNTS The look of relief is

palpable on the face of Brandy Mehlhouse, a stayat-home Webster mom of three who has two children on the autism spectrum. One of them, 5-yearold Nathan who turns 6 soon, was diagnosed with Asperger’s; Brandy remembers the date, Dec. 20, vividly because it was less than a week after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Two-yearold Caden was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in March. Almost-11-year-old Nathan is the protective older brother who is not autistic. “I’m really excited about that,” Mehlhouse says of the Center for Autism and NeuroDevelopmental Disorders (CANDO), whose opening date has not yet been set. “It’s really hard right now. Nathan just had an EED [Embryonic Ectoderm Development] done through

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Boston. He had to go three days in a row. He zones out, loses time. We’re trying to make sure it’s just healthy zoning, so we’re having a sleep study done. You drive around a lot, go to this doctor over there, this doctor over here.” That will change with the new autism center, which will focus on an interdisciplinary approach bringing together several clinicians in one space. In addition to treatment, the center will help direct families to other services and assist them in working with schools and accessing other community resources. “To have a multidisciplinary approach, it’s huge,” Mehlhouse says. “I never understood how much each aspect of this affects a child. I’m really excited about it. Anything that’s going to help them and make their lives easier.”

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Mehlhouse is less enthused over the pending change in DSM-5, the manual used by mental health professionals, researchers and insurers in determining what symptoms will be officially diagnosed. The new version is published this month, almost 20 years after the current edition was released in 1994 (The manual was originally published in 1952). It will be the fifth version of the manual, and was approved in December by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The organization has said removing Asperger’s as a diagnosis, and instead including it as part of ASD, will “help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism,” according to Michelle Diament at disabilityscoop. com. There is concern that individuals previously diagnosed with Asperger’s, a mild, high-functioning type of autism, could lose out on important services and treatments. That worry was heightened in the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre.

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Adam Lanza, who executed 20 children and six adult staff members at the school, was said to have been afflicted with Asperger’s. Experts were quick to note the illness alone would not have led to such a violent act.

Mehlhouse says she likes knowing her middle child is dealing with a specific illness, and not just a range of problems. “I know there’s mixed emotions and the umbrella of the spectrum is different for everyone, but I like that I know that it’s Asperger’s,” she says. “I don’t know how I feel [about its removal from the new manual]. I like that you just know. You know you’re going to get a high-functioning child. It’s something I’m still trying to learn about and read everything.” continued on page 18

Dr. Jean Frazier (far right), senior center director and vice chair of the Division of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry, listens to Kelly Hurley, Autism Resource Specialist, talk about her dealings with parents of newly diagnosed children with autism.

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in the US. Among girls, one in 252 is diagnosed. While the rate has grown, there is increased effort to understand why; some experts cite improved diagnosis and environmental factors as leading to the higher rate.

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Years of research and close study have shown little difference between children with Asperger’s and those diagnosed with high-functioning autism, according to Dr. David Cochran, assistant medical director for CANDO. “Almost every child is different,” he says. “I think even as we understand more we’re starting to think of it as a collection of multiple disorders. No two children on the autism spectrum are alike.” Cochran acknowledges the controversy surrounding the decision to no longer use Asperger’s as a diagnosis. “We’re moving toward recognizing all these children and adolescents on the autism spectrum and all the things now [with Asperger’s diagnosis] are not completely accurate or clinically useful. It can be helpful for families, but clinically it isn’t as helpful.” ASD refers to a group of disorders characterized by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. Until this month, it included Asperger’s, Rett syndrome and other autism disorders. Now they will all fall under ASD. Disturbingly, the prevalence of ASD appears to be growing. While it was previously reported that one in 88 American children were on the spectrum, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has

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A LIFE CHANGER Brandy Mehlhouse and her

Mary Beth Kadlec, director of CANDO, Center for Autism and Neuro Developmental Disorders. modified that figure to an even scarier one in 50. More than two million Americans are afflicted with ASD, according to autismspeaks.org. An, estimated one in 54 boys are diagnosed with autism

husband, Dan, enjoyed the typical life of new parents with their son, Shane. They added to their brood with the birth of Nathan in 2007. It did not take long for Brandy to notice dissimilarities between Nathan and how his older brother acted as an infant and toddler.

“We started noticing things were different. We noticed stuff was happening a little different,” Brandy says. “He started crawling later, walking later, talking later. He started talking, but didn’t point or do

anything to let us know he needed stuff. He didn’t hug as much or cuddle. He was more upset about things you wouldn’t [typically] be upset about. It seemed out of proportion to what was going on, so we had him evaluated and they said he was fine.” Brandy knew he was not. “Something,” she says, “was off.” It was not until after Caden was born, however, that things started becoming clearer. The newest member of the Mehlhouse family started exhibiting some of the same behaviors as Nathan. “I knew something was going on with Caden and it pushed me to figure out what was going on with Nathan,” Brandy says. “Caden was showing some of the same delays Nathan did.” Up to that point, while friends would mention autism when it came to Nathan, Brandy and Dan Mehlhouse only knew something wasn’t quite right. Even their son’s pediatrician dismissed the notion of autism. He was evaluated – the first evaluation was with Early Intervention at 18 months – but the results did not reveal autism. “Honestly? I really thought autism was a child that was nonverbal. I was really ignorant,” Brandy says. “I should have known, but the scenarios we heard was he was possibly severe ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). His pediatrician originally said that. That’s all we had in our heads.” In the meantime, everyday life was nothing less than a challenge. School was difficult, because, as Brandy notes, “when your child is not diagnosed it’s very difficult. He is expected to perform at the same level as other children.” Nathan attends Park Ave Elementary School in Webster. Eventually, Brandy says, a counselor there told her they could not wait for another evaluation. The family was referred to the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) through UMass Medical Center, something that can only be done through a doctor’s referral. The family was on a waiting list for about a year and a half, according to Brandy. “Getting the diagnosis is the most important part because it changes everything,” she says. “[Nathan] still has his moments, but it’s a lot different now with the understanding of what’s going on. By this diagnosis and understanding that he looks at things completely different, I can break things down for him.” It is not, however, suddenly easy to deal with. Nathan reacts to some situations in a different way than others his age. If, for example, his father is gone away for an extended period of time, when he returns, Nathan will not run up and say, “Daddy, you’re home!” But the diagnosis, Brandy acknowledges, finally gave the family something tangible to deal with, even if they knew all along that something was

{ coverstory } not quite right. A lot of it, in retrospect, was denial. “We’ve known this the whole time,� says Brandy. Adds Dan Mehlhouse: “There was a lot of denial thinking it was just behaviors, it was going to pass.� He admits to initially having to grapple with the reality of having a child – and now two – who does not learn the same way, does not handle things the same ways as others. “I came from a big Italian family,� Dan says. “Behaviors were disciplined. You were yelled at, spanked, no reasons. I was a little more relaxed than my parents, but I always thought it was just a behavioral issue. As we went on I would learn more about it, you realized it’s something they can’t control.� “I was absolutely in denial,� he continues. “Right away I was almost selfish with it. How is it going to affect me? How are people going to think about me? Am I going to be embarrassed? Through education, Brandy being so proactive with this, the amount of love she shows and dedication, I started realizing it’s not about me, it’s about them. They’re the ones that are going to be judged.� Both Nathan and Caden have been

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going through UMass for services. The hospital, says Brandy, “has been great.” Still, while the family has learned a lot about how Nathan thinks and reacts, it is still too early to tell with Caden. “I know he’s going to get all the support he needs and this time it’s going to be at a young age,” Brandy says of her youngest. “We’re just going to be hopeful.”

Kelly Hurley, autism resources specialist at UMASS Medical School and mother of two autistic kids.

A NEW CENTER The Mehlhouses and other

families going through the uncertainty and confusion of dealing with an autistic child are about to get a big helping hand from UMass, as one of the country’s leading medical centers readies to open the doors to its new Center for Autism and NeuroDevelopmental Disorders. The acronym CANDO seems an accurate

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{ coverstory } reflection of how the team behind the innovative center plans to approach its practice. Space is being renovated on the seventh floor of the medical school to make way for the program and it will house a large occupational therapy room, clinical space and exam rooms. The plan is to introduce an interdisciplinary approach to treating autism, a sort of one-stop center for all the patient’s assessment needs, including psychiatric, pediatric, neurological, speech and language and occupational therapy. An impetus will be put on jump-starting the treatment process by eliminating the time parents might otherwise spend running from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist.

From left: Kelly Hurley, Dr. Jean Frazier, Mary Beth Kadlec, director of CANDO, Center for Autism and Neuro Developmental Disorders and David Cocharan MD, assistant medical director for CANDO.

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“There is no center focused on assessment and treatment,” says Cochran, who serves as assistant medical director for the center to Director Mary Beth Kadlec. “There are several individual private therapists and providers, but really

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and Shirley Siff. She comes from the Harvard hospital system, most recently serving with Cambridge Health Alliance, where she says there was a center that helped children with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders. “I brought that sort of model with me,” Frazier says, noting while there are “pockets of care” in Central Mass., the essential piece to CANDO is its inter-disciplinary approach utilizing people from multiple professional groups to assess children and families together. It will be, she says, a place “where there’s good communication and we’re not only going to just do the assessment and provide diagnostic pieces and recommendations, but jump-start intervention, which is really critical for some of these families.”

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11 French Drive I Boylston I Massachusetts 508.869.6111 I www.towerhillbg.org I Exit 24 Off I-290 no clinic specializing in autism-specific services, mostly because of financial aspects. The funding it takes to launch a program like this and provide the services needed is particularly difficult. There really is not a lot of financial incentive to provide the level of service needed.” The center will start small, serving about 50 families in the first year. During years two through five, efforts will ramp up to enable the center to handle approximately 500 families. Officials are not revealing just how much money is going into the new center, but Cochran says the launch is reliant upon an anonymous donor. The senior center director, Dr. Jean Frazier, is vice chair of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry, created on an endowment from Robert

Kadlec and Frazier, the CANDO team includes Kelly Hurley, an autism resource specialist with two children of her own – 15-year-old Michael and 14-year-old Ryan – on the autism spectrum. Michael was diagnosed right after his fourth birthday, Ryan before he turned 2. Michael was originally diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Hurley says. “We went to several different clinics and got several different diagnoses,” she says. Asperger’s Syndrome and nonverbal learning disorder were among the illnesses suggested. “That is one of the reasons they’re changing the criteria. They want

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immediate results; the doctor told her Ryan was bound to be delayed because of the surgery he had, but Hurley was not convinced. An Early Intervention specialist came to their home and, during one test, banged pots and pans directly behind Ryan. “He didn’t even blink,� Hurley says. “The therapist said, ‘I really think he’s deaf’ and I said ‘if he were deaf why, when my husband and I call to tel him it’s time to brush his teeth or time to take a bath, he comes running from a different room?’� The family then took Ryan for a hearing test. The technician called his name and got no response, but when she turned “Barney� music on, Ryan turned his head right toward the speakers, Hurley says. “The lab tech said, ‘Well, as you saw this was an inconclusive test,’� she recalls. “She said, ‘Are you here to find out if he’s on the spectrum?’ My husband and I looked at each other and said, ‘Spectrum, what spectrum?’ Of course, I went home and Googled it and said, ‘Oh my gosh, autism.’� As she gathered information for their younger son, Hurley told her husband she was concerned about Michael, who had been exhibiting a lot of the same characteristics, although he was higher-

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to be able to include more people in the diagnosis. The rates keep getting lower. They really want to make sure they capture older people and we have treatments available to help these children and people in the spectrum.� That was not the case when Hurley and her husband were dealing with their two sons. It was especially difficult with Ryan, who was born with congenital heart disease. He had surgery, followed by balloon angioplasty at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. “We went back for a follow-up when [Ryan] was 10 months and the cardiologist said, ‘Mrs. Hurley, your son is developmentally delayed’ and it really took me aback. It opened my eyes and from that moment on I was scrutinizing my son and there were red flags that would come up.� By that point, says Hurley, she had concerns about her oldest son. He had already been put in early prevention, but Ryan was also starting to demonstrate peculiar behaviors. “When I would have him on the changing table I would say, ‘Ryan, Ryan touch your nose.’ He wasn’t there. He was off looking at something else,� Hurley says. A visit to the pediatrician yielded no

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{ education } schools’ curriculum. “The kids love being able to go outside and get their hands dirty in the garden,” says Ramos. “And, it teaches them so much about community, sustainability, and how the food they eat arrives at their tables.” The School Gardens program started when teachers from around Worcester wanted to teach gardening to their students, but didn’t have the resources or the gardening knowledge to get started. The REC received a five-year grant from Hunger Free and Healthy, a project addressing hunger and obesity in Worcester, to provide assistance to schools such as compost, seedlings, and garden beds. The REC also holds information sessions that give teachers the skills to grow a variety of vegetables from seeds. Maureen Binienda, principal at South High, says that the School Gardens program has been popular at South since it began several years ago. “Five years ago, our Youth Philanthropy group was volunteering at the Farmers’ Market on Main Street,” says Binienda. “We decided we wanted to try to grow our own crops to bring to the market, and the REC helped us grow from there. Now we have four garden beds, and just added a fifth for our preschool program.” Students typically grow kale, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers and other healthy vegetables. They start all the crops from seeds and harvest the vegetables themselves. Once harvested, the vegetables can be taken home and eaten, sold at the REC’s farmers’ markets to raise money for future gardens, or used as ingredients by the school’s cafeteria and food service classes. “It gives [the students] the skills to grow something that they have control over,” says Binienda. “It also teaches them about healthy eating at a time when obesity has become such a big problem.” The School Gardens program is a part of the REC’s larger Food Justice Program, which seeks to address issues of community food security and healthy eating awareness. Casey Burns, the Food Justice Program director, says that while the School Gardens program has been a huge success, it is still in its formative stage. “We’re still working to develop standardized practices that will make it easier for us to work with our various participants,” says Burns. “Our focus now is on strengthening our relationships rather than building new ones.” The School Gardens program has recently received a grant from the Verizon Foundation to incorporate technology into the gardens. The grant seeks to increase STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) learning by designing new programs revolving around

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The Latino Education Institute (LEI) at Worcester State University provides critical support for Latino students, who represent, not only one of the fastest growing, but also one of the most challenging, demographics in public education.

To address the critical achievement gap between Latinos and other groups, community leaders began meeting in the late 1990s to propose solutions. This action was led, according to Hilda Ramirez, the LEI’s Assistant Director (and Executive Director of the Worcester Youth Center), by people like Judge [Luis] Perez,

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who was in the juvenile court system at the time and Gladys Rodriguez-Parker, Constituent Services director for the office of Congressman Jim McGovern, and many others in the community, who, she says, “had a number of meetings to bring the community together to find out what could be done.” The hope, she says, was to “partner with the Worcester Public Schools to find ways in which the community could help to improve the academic achievement of Latino students.” From these meetings, the Worcester Working Coalition for Latino Students (WWCLS) was formed in 2000. Now called the Latino Education Institute, the burgeoning program has its offices in a house across the street from the WSU campus, on Chandler Street in Worcester, and occupies classroom space in several campus buildings.

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“Through the efforts of this group,” says Ramirez, the group received “support in the community,” notably at Worcester State, where then-president, Kalyan Ghosh, offered the group office space to work out of, which led to their establishment as an institute within the university. The LEI, according to Ramirez, “lead[s] in three areas,” with “programs at public schools or at Worcester State, ranging from K through 16.” These wraparound programs, she says, “support students in their advancement academically, with after-school programs and a college access program,” as well as “a program supporting Latino college students at Worcester State and placing them in classrooms in the Worcester Public Schools as teacher assistants.” Ramirez says that the LEI serves about 1,800 families from the Worcester community. “We count it by families, because we have events with parents, and we have family academies.” The Institute now boasts a board of advisors that includes two Worcester college presidents, a host of professors and community leaders, as well as senators and congressmen. The LEI is currently partnering with a number of elementary schools, providing

creative, highly engaging literacy outreach. Ramirez says that this program, which runs at Elm Park, Goddard and Woodland elementary schools, and is called In Our Own Voices, uses “theatre to help kids that are maybe struggling in reading to enhance their self esteem.” The LEI sends a Worcester State University theatre professor to these schools once each week with four college students, where they conduct literacy lessons “with diverse books” that culminate in a student-performed play at the theatre at Worcester State in June. According to Ramirez, the professor leads the children in reading out loud and in literature circles, and that “they record the kids to see how well –or not well – that they are reading.” By introducing new literature every week, Ramirez says that the program “boosts self esteem for reading and [fosters] a passion for reading and dramatizing” as well as student enjoyment of literature. For middle school girls, the LEI offers a program run out of Woodland Academy that targets students at Woodland, Burncoat, and Sullivan middle schools. “The middle school programs are more about engaging the students in self esteem and art expression,” says Ramirez. In

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collaboration with the Worcester Crafts Center, the group works on improving engagement with school and offers strategies for improving student communication with parents and teachers. At the high school level, she says, LEI offers a college access program where high school juniors visit Worcester State once a week to work on college admission. “They’re juniors,” Ramirez says, “and so next year they’ll be seniors applying to college and we go through the whole process of emulating applying for college and going through a common application, talking with counselors, visiting a number of schools, going through some of the questions on FAFSA financial aid, so when they get to that process it’s not as intimidating to them.” These students, she reminds us, “are traditionally first generation [college applicants]” and may “need a little bit of support.” To this end, she says, the LEI brings in their parents to help them better understand the process so that they may, in turn, help their children.

And, finally, at the college level, LEI offers the Teaching Corps program, for students at Worcester State, which matches undergraduates with an interest in a career in education with teacher

assistant placements in area schools. “Right now,” she says, “we have 10 placements in 10 different schools. These students are learning how that environment works, and whether that’s

really what they would like to do, while, earning a stipend for working 10 hours a week in these classrooms.” The LEI operates on an application process that begins with locating the target students. The LEI visits area schools, meeting with administration and counselors to acquire a list of potential applicants. “And then they help us in terms of identifying some kids that need the different strategies,” says Ramirez. “And in the case of the college access program, we’ll go to as many high schools that will let us in and we’ll do an information session and offer the program to whatever kids are interested in applying to the program.” Ramirez says that the success of the program is measurable in the number of LEI members that have gone on to college, and in improving scores across the city among the attendees. Visit the Worcester Sate University website, at www.worcester.edu to learn more about the Latino Education Institute.

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Deb Beaudry was 18 when she attended her first concert — Billy Idol at E.M. Loew’s (now The Palladium); after the show was over, she ended up at Worcester’s X-13, an early 1980s punk rock mecca on Millbury Street, where despite the drinking age just having been raised to 21, she got in.

Beaudry continued making visits to Worcester from her hometown of Southbridge — and kept getting in to all the city’s nightclubs, soon finding herself at Ralph’s for the first time, and falling in love with band The Unattached. It wasn’t long till Beaudry was out clubbing four nights a week, and had been a journalist in high school, writing and editing Fuzbrains, a garage rock fanzine with a worldwide readership based in Worcester. She would eventually take her own turns singing onstage, managing local bands and promoting shows, in which she brought some of her favorite out-of-town acts to the city. That includes the Fleshtones, born in a Long Island garage in 1976, and protectors of the ‘60s sounds that gave them birth ever since. She’s invited them back to Worcester celebrate her 50th birthday, along with the Blackboard th to Nails, Thinner and the Missionarys, on Saturday, May 4 at Ralph’s. “People like Deb are essential to our existence,” says Brian Goslow Fleshtones frontman Peter Zaremba. “Seeing people

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appreciate what we do and making them happy makes doing this very rewarding. You have to figure it can’t be the money!” Zaremba, who creates the band Super Rock with guitarist Keith Streng, drummer Bill Milhizer and bassist Ken Fox, says most of the shows the Fleshtones play in the United States these days are due to people like Beaudry, who put their own money up front to make shows happen. “In this country we play some festivals but really depend on the local promoters to give us a platform to perform from,” he says. “In fact, the survival of rock ‘n’ roll in this country is totally dependent on a handful of devoted people who are really fans of this music.” The main place to hear the Fleshtones on the radio these days is Little Steven’s Underground Garage on Sirius/XM satellite radio and wfmu.org (both feature weekend shows by Holy Cross grad Bill Kelly, class of ‘71, a longtime champion of its music). They continue to put out freshly recorded rock ‘n’ roll meets R & B party sounds for Yep Roc Records. “We’ve always said that garage rock was more of an approach to playing music than an actual repertoire of old songs,” Zaremba says. “American kids just tried to play what they heard on the radio as best they could, with wildly varying results. Now remembering radio in the ‘60s, I can say that not every song played was great but there sure was enough fantastic stuff to surprise the hell out of you and make you keep listening. By 1971, I absolutely could no longer listen to the radio, forcing me to collect records more avidly and eventually make my own music.” The Swinging Neckbreakers, The Ugly Beats, The Upper Crust and Sons of Hercules are amongst the bands Zaremba considers the Fleshtones’ modern contemporaries. “Even The Buzzcocks,” he adds. “We played with a great band in Britain called The Derellas. Every town seems to have really good bands.” In Worcester, that includes longtime local stalwarts Thinner, who just wrapped up recording and mixing its latest album with Neighborhoods frontman David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth Studio in Waltham. “We had hoped to have it ready for release for this show but it is not going to be ready on time,” says guitarist Neil Lucey, who is joined by bassist Danny “Rugburn” McGee and drummer Craig Wilson. Lucey says Beaudry’s significance in the local scene is immeasurable because she’s a fan of music first and foremost. “There aren’t a whole lot of us diehards left who just live and love original music.” Beaudry was a regular in front of the stage whenever The Missionarys played, booking them on the legendary three night “Turkey Tour” in 1993 that also included Black

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Rose Garden and Bonehead. “Deborah is a very talented woman that just screams positive energy and I feel it, when I am near her, especially on stage,” says vocalist Caroline Kirohn, who is joined by guitarist Rich Maliska, bassist Mick Lawless and drummer Doug Wedge. “We are flattered when we get asked to play a gig for a special occasion, tribute, birthday, etc.,” Kirohn says. “When we play these kind of shows, they mean something to others as well as ourselves, also, to repay the appreciation that I never got a chance to express back in the day.” Guitarist Eric Deneen, who is no stranger to Worcester thanks to his many appearances here with Baby Strange, leads the Blackboard Nails. The band proudly cite David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club as the influences behind their “Stones’ grooves, Jet rock hooks and harmonies all our own” sound. They’ve toured in the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom. Beaudry was given a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for her contributions to the area’s original music scene at the Wormtown 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2003 and recently became a member of stART on the Street’s performance committee. While she hasn’t sang lately, outside of a few appearances with GroupAction (including the November 2011 show at Ralph’s honoring the memory of her late husband, Rick Blaze) and at the Scott Ricciuti tribute show, it’s obvious she’s far from done performing and contributing to Worcester’s music scene. “I would love to start writing or performing again, but I’m just getting my life in order after a tough couple of years, so don’t count me out just yet,” she says. “Putting this show together is a major undertaking for me and I want everyone to have a great time and see some awesome talent.” Don’t miss Deb’s 50th birthday party on Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m. at Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St. $10 cover at the door.

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Local singer-songwriter Kim Jennings may not have picked up the guitar until after college (her instrument of choice since then), but she has had a lifetime of music; and she may be young, but she hasn’t wasted any time pursuing her dreams. Kim will celebrate the release of her sophomore effort, “Here Now,” with a concert at the Amazing Things Art Center, in Framingham on Friday, May 10, with fellow singer-songwriter and Massachusetts native Jesse Helms opening the show. “She’s a phenomenal, young songwriter, multiinstrumentalist,” says Kim. “So, we’ll do the whole thing: vocals and harmony singers and electric guitar and the full drums and all that good stuff and piano and all that – everything,” she says, adding that she’ll feature the “songs on the CD and probably…a couple of more acoustic songs from my last record.”

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This rising star has been busy. After a childhood filled with music, she attended Harvard, where, as a member of choral and a cappella groups, she honed her celebrated voice, and performed all over the world. Since graduating, she has released a four-song independent demo, “Draft,” in 2008, and a 13-song debut CD, “My Own True North,” in 2009; has won the 2010 Pulse Worcester Music Award for “Best Female Vocalist;” has been a fixture on the local circuit, including gigs at the prestigious Club Passim, in Cambridge; and last year completed a mini-tour of the pacific northwest. If all that weren’t enough, this industrious folkie started her own record label, Birch Beer Records, with friend and fellow artist Dan Cloutier, which now has a stable of about five artists, including Kim, Dan, Levi Schmidt, Oen Kennedy, and Tom Smith, and has released about 12 albums. But that’s not all! Kim and Dan also founded “I Support Local Music in Massachusetts” (the Facebook page has over 13,000 likes), a clubhouse for local musicians and supporters, with opportunities for writers who can contribute reviews, etc. The CD release party will feature

Kim with a backing band, a direction that follows from her new CD, which branches out from the strictly acoustic “True North”, and into new textures and emotions, many of them veering dangerously out of folk and into rock, backed by Dan, who adds rich, evocative flute and electric guitar; Eric Anderson, doubling on bass and drums; and Eric Salt, who adds percussion, while handling production duties, as well. “We started the recording process back in October,” Kim says of “Here Now,” “but I’ve been writing music since my last CD came out in 2009. My first record is very acoustic driven whereas this one is much bigger sounding, with a full band and that sort of thing, with a lot of variety. There’s still some acoustic, but it’s much more of a bigger sound.” “We wanted to do some live recording to get that really organic feel for the music. I wanted it to sound just really authentic and natural and so we were able to do great live drums with electric guitar and a number of vocal tracks as well as my acoustic guitar with piano recorded live.” At the heart of the new CD is Kim, the folk songwriter, and the tunes still ring with the plain honesty of folk, shunning the platitudes, posturing, and

sensationalism of commercial rock. She stills sings beautifully and delicately about things like the home she has built with her husband and child (“I Love You So”) and the innocence of playing outside in the snow (“Angel in Snow”), both of which glow with aching lead vocals and crystalline harmonies, and beautiful acoustic instrumentation. With “Here Now,” however, she also explores edgier modes, such as on “Valley of the Shadow,” which is driven by fuzzed guitar and crisp drums, while Kim explores Old Testament trials and her pursuit of peace; and the pure rock of the opening track, “Get out of My Head,” on which she sings the regrets of a rocky relationship, while Dan invokes Middle Eastern motifs with tremolo and distortion. Several other tunes rock out, providing a nice balance of energetic numbers and ballads, while maintaining a tonal consistency throughout. “The song that ended up being the title track was written later in the game,” Kim says. “The song is called ‘Here Now’ and, to me, there’s a sense of people wanting to find a place to belong; people have questions about what choices we have and sometimes we may make choices that are not always the best for us. You come from a place of

asking questions about your life and where are you and a lot of it comes down to you want to feel like you belong somewhere.” The Amazing Things show will benefit a charity organization close to Kim’s heart: “I’m doing a birthday fundraiser for an organization called Carrying Water,” she says, “which does fundraising projects for clean water in developing countries.” After the event, she says, she will be “working on booking and balancing the rest of life. I’m planning another trip out to the Northwest. A little bit of travel, a little bit of touring and playing out as much as I can.” “I’ve got a big book of film contract people and I’m trying to wrap my head around how to get some of the songs placed in that way,” she says, “and I’m playing out a bunch locally and figuring out where the music can go.” The show, she says, will show “how my music has really evolved will be really fun for folks to see. It’s a departure for folks who haven’t seen me for a while, so it will be really fun for them.” Don’t miss the CD release show for Kim Jenning’s newest album “Here Now” on Friday, May 10 at the Amazing Things Art Center, 160 Hollis St., Framingham at 8 p.m. amazingthings.org.

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A few weeks ago, while checking Facebook, I came across a post that read, “We rehearsed this last night and I cried.” It was a video of an old, rare James Brown tune, and it was posted by Tony Soul. His passionate commentary is a daily occurrence on the social media site. Anthony Parente, also known as “Agent 00 Soul,” but doing business as Tony Soul, has rapidly become a fixture in the Central Massachusetts club scene. That Facebook post is representative of the energy that emanates from the 65-year-old singer. His story is a fascinating one, and he is living proof of the adage that “It’s never too late.”

help it”. Tony describes the band as “old cats that love to rehearse but are tough to book.” He needed more. Tony kept showing up at local blues jams and getting his “mojo” back. His open personality and quirky sense of humor gained him new fans every time. Meanwhile, the Tony Soul Project was formed. Even though he had

Way back in 1966 when Milford native Parente was 19, he formed his first group, Tony Soul & the Midnight Hours. When his best friend and guitarist John Smith was tragically killed in an auto accident in 1969, Tony folded the tent and took a different path in life. He got married, raised a family, and never looked Tony Soul performs at Greendale’s back. An incredible 42 years Pub on a recent Friday night. later, he decided to come back to his true passion. Tony kept his love of music close to the vest during his hiatus. “I was always the guy that brought the tunes to two bands, he still wanted something more. Last year, he the softball games,” Tony recalls. After a divorce in 2000, found it in his third band, Tony Soul & the Delta Blues Tony rehabbed a house in Marlborough and relocated. Project. The band is Mike Kalenderian on guitar, Bob Facebook brought him in contact with old friend Richard Cramer on slide guitar, Matt Sambito on bass and Phil Ramuno, and together they formed the Rico Moon band. Delaine on drums. Together, they form a tight, rootsy Tony was back. sound that is supportive of Tony’s raw energy. During a He immediately remembered why he performed in set at Greendale’s Pub last Friday, the band played funky the first place. “I relish watching the audiences and the grooves in songs like “Cissy Strut,” “Papa Was a Rolling sociology of it. It fuels my soul. People walk up to me Stone,” and “Tramp.” There was also some raw earthy and say, ‘What the fuck are you smiling about?’ I can’t blues in Elmore James’ “Dust My Broom,” and “Rollin

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like to infiltrate the Boston scene. “Here in Worcester, we’ve got something special,” says Tony. “There seems to be more co-operation. In Boston, you have to be ‘in the exclusive club,’ so to speak. I’m gonna break through that sucker.” I mentioned to him the Facebook post in which he confessed to crying over James Brown. “I cry all the time,” he quipped. “The amount of tears I cry is my reward. I take that emotion and put it into my stage act.” That, plus his back story, is what makes Tony Soul special.

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A fresh idea for a spring art show has bloomed and will take shape within the walls of cultural centers in Worcester and on the Cape this month. More than 30 paintings by 11 Worcester-area artists and 15 Cape Cod artists will be featured in a joint exhibit “Paint and Switch” with openings in Yarmouth and Worcester. A phone call last fall from Bob Nash, a former Worcester resident, photographer

and founder of the late Grove Street Gallery, and now executive director at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, to Norman Ringdahl, of the Prints and Potter Gallery in Worcester, was when an agreement was made to host an exhibit that aims to expand the visibility of artists in a new space and to a different community. “I liked the idea and thought it was very unique,” remembers Ringdahl. “We worked up a group of artists and everything evolved.” Nash chose artists from the Cape, while Ringdahl selected Worcester-area painters who work consistently with the Prints and Potter Gallery. Artists exhibiting work range from faculty to full-time painters.

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“Worcester is like top three out of everywhere in the country, maybe even number one,” Violent J, a founding member of the band, says. “We can always count on the shows at The Palladium to be off the fucking hook and they always are and it just is a great, great thing for us,” he says. “And we’re really just grateful for that.” The band returns to its favorite local haunt, The Palladium, on tour in support of its latest release “The Mighty Death Pop,” on Saturday, May 4. “I don’t know what it is,” says J, “but from day one when we used to come through town, we used to draw really well there and had a lot of love and the shows were really super energetic and super awesome, and it’s just a blessing, man! That city is a wonderful place on tour.”

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things differently.” The all-new show, says J, came about, because of the particular demands of their rabidly loyal following. “That’s for the Juggalos that have seen us 15 times, 20 times, 50 times – to those Juggalos who come out to every show – which is probably a majority of the audience – people that have seen us before, we’re going to switch things up and show that we can deliver a brand new, all new show.” Fans of the scene shouldn’t worry about losing the old with the new songs, skits, and rearrangements, J says, because “we’ll still have plenty of Faygo and the regular tactics of ICP.” “There are songs off the new album, ‘The Mighty Death Pop,’ and there are songs out of the back catalogue that we’ve never done live before. This time we’re going to experiment. We don’t know if it’s going to be the kind of songs that go over well. We’re going to have to find out live in concert. But we just wanted this one tour to do something different. We’re going to really dig into it and we’re not going to just pull out rarities and stuff that only die-hard super-fans know. We’re just going to do songs that we never continued on page 44

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“In general,” Ringdahl says the Prints and Potter Gallery tends to showcase realist work, but for this show they “added a couple people that get into abstracted things,” to include “a mix of subject matter and techniques,” says Ringdahl. “We want to introduce a body of Worcester artists to a body of Cape Cod artists,” and vice versa says Nash. As executive director at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod for more than seven years, Nash says, “We are always looking for opportunities to introduce artists to new areas.” Of the exchange, he says, “This will be a new opportunity to be seen in the gallery that facilitates new ideas.” Having hosted 89 exhibits at the Cultural Center in just the past year, Nash’s one request to Worcester artists, according to Ringdahl, was for them to not submit paintings of Cape Cod scenes, as he has shown enough paintings of sailboats, lighthouses and sand dunes in the past. “The Center has well established members, and we are looking forward to the exchange of artwork,” says Nash. Of the artwork submitted by Worcester-area artists, he says, “This work is beautiful, and I’m very excited to get it on the wall.”

Ringdahl shares Nash’s excitement. “There is so much different diversity involved with Cape Cod and Worcester and I think many people from the city will love the work that’s being done in the Cape.” “All the local artists are very enthusiastic about it,” says Ringdahl. “They find it a unique opportunity, but it’s always good to get additional exposure at new locations.” A reception of Worcester-area artist works will be held Sunday, May 5 at the Cultural Center in South Yarmouth. A second reception will be held for paintings by Cape Cod artists at the Prints and the Potter Gallery in Worcester on Sunday, May 19. Both receptions will be held from 2-5 p.m. Participating artists will be in attendance at each reception as an opportunity for guests to speak with artists about their work. All artwork will be for sale at each gallery. “Openings are always fun,” Ringdahl says. “This won’t be formal or highbrow or intimidating. I think the art speaks for itself, the artists are very experienced and talented. I think people will be blown away.” Colin Burdett contributed to this story.

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there was mystery to us. This is the days before YouTube and all that, and that show, that whole weekend, kind of took people back to the mid ‘90s and those days when things were more of a mystery about ICP, and every question that no one could answer was filled with an answer in their own heads, something they wanted to hear, or wanted to believe.” “For that one weekend we went back

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wrestling event and it was called ‘Oddball Brawl,’” says J, “which featured some pretty big names, guys that were formerly in the WWE, on top of JCW’s biggest stars, and that whole show was a lot of fun.” Professional wrestling figures prominently in the band’s cultural sphere; Violent J grew up a fan of wrestling and worked as a wrestler in the late 1980s before founding the Insane Clown Posse. Violent J even sees pro wrestling as a metaphor for the ICP experience. “It’s a lot like pro wrestling: nobody believes it’s real, but they all still want to escape and get away with it and boo the bad guy and cheer the good guy.” “I think Juggalos want to live the vigilante tales that we talk about. ICP has a lot of strong opinions against the evils of the world, like racist people and fucking pedophiles and the evils of the world, and I think Juggalos like to get caught up in the vigilante tales that our music provides.” “I think our music reaches people with an imagination, people that maybe it takes a little more to entertain them than just a fancy song. They get lost in the stories of the music, and they get lost in the saga of the Dark Carnival,” says J. “Because we all have to live and breathe in a real world all the fucking time, and they want to go to a concert and they want to get lost in it.” “It’s like therapy,” he adds. “It’s no different than a comic book or any movie. People of all walks of life are Juggalos. The only thing I know that they all have in common is they have a big brain with a lot of imagination.” See Insane Clown Posse live at The Palladium on Saturday, May 4. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets $30 at thepalladium.net.

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I’m not sure Herzog has ever chronicled a group so pure of purpose as the trappers of Bakhtia, a remote Siberian village of 300 residents that is unreachable during much of the year when the river freezes in the winter, and which, for many of us, would seem a sort of purgatory-on-earth at any moment on the calendar. The hardy trappers spend most of the winter deep in the forests of the “taiga,â€? braving minus-50 temperatures to capture sable, ermine and other critters to sustain their families, just as the generations before them did. They have a few modern conveniences to ease their workload — a chainsaw and snowmobile are part of everyone’s arsenal — but otherwise these are men of the ax and the knife ‌ and the dog. The huskies that accompany them into the wilderness are akin to a fifth appendage, so essential are their hunting skills and their companionship. “Happy People: A Year in the Taigaâ€? is a movie that begs the question: could you ever live like this? These men are so weather-beaten, so rough-hewn that they do most of their chores without gloves, even in the bitterest cold. They can take a tree and turn it into a canoe with a sharp blade and hours of back-breaking labor that they seem to relish (I suspect most of us would just choose to float on the log rather than hollow it out). In the summer, when the mosquitoes swarm, the men smear themselves with a tar-like repellant they brew up from birch bark, or they simply ignore the bugs. I’m quite sure the mosquitoes fear them.

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OBLIVION (PG-13) Blackstone (reserved seating) Thurs: 1, 4, 6:40, Fri-Wed: 12:35, 3:30, 6:30 Blackstone Thurs: 1:30, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25, Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4, 7, 10, 12 a.m. Cinemagic Thurs: 12:10, 3:15, 6:50, 9:30, Fri-Wed: 12:05, 3:25, 6:55, 9:35 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:25, 1, 3:20, 4:20, 6:45, 7:35, 10:05, 10:05, 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Westborough Thurs: 12:45, 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 10:05, Fri-Wed: 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Worcester North Thurs: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R) Blackstone Thurs: 1:25, 4:40, 10:30, Fri-Wed: 9:30, 12:20 a.m. Cinemagic Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:55 Westborough Thurs: 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Worcester North Thurs: 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) Blackstone Thurs: 12:35, 3:30, 6:40 Elm Fri-Sat: 7, 9:30, Sat, Tues-Wed: 7:30 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:20, 3:30, 6:55, 9:55 Westborough Thurs: 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Worcester North Thurs: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

PAIN & GRAIN (R) Blackstone (reserved seating) Thurs: 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 10:05, Fri-Wed: 1, 4:10, 7:10, 10 Blackstone Thurs: 1:15, 4:15, 7:45, 10:35, Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30, 12:10 a.m. Cinemagic Thurs: 12:20, 3:15, 6:45, 9:30, Fri-Wed: 12:20, 3:20, 6:50, 9:40 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:20, 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00, FriWed: 10:10, 12:40, 1:15, 3:40, 4:25, 6:55, 7:30, 9:50, 10:25 Westborough Thurs: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, Fri-Wed: 10:25, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Worcester North Thurs: 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05

QUARTET (PG-13) Strand Thurs: 7 SADDA HAQ (NR) Westborough Thurs: 1:30, 4:25, 7:50

SCARY MOVIE 5 (PG-13) Blackstone Thurs: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 7:35, 9:50, Fri-Wed: 5, 9:55, 12:25 a.m. Cinemagic Thurs: 12:10, 2:30, 4:40, Fri-Wed: 7:20, 9:15 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45, FriWed: 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Worcester North Thurs: 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 SHOOTOUT AT WADALA (NR) Westborough FriWed: 10:30, 1:55, 5:15, 8:30

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THE BIG WEDDING (R) Blackstone Thurs: 12, 2:10, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30, Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Cinemagic Thurs: 12, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20, Fri-Wed: 12, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12, 2:15, 4:40, 7:20, 10:25, Fri-Wed: 10:10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:50, 10:05 Westborough Thurs: 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:35, 10:10, 10:30, 12:45, 3:05, 6:55, 9:45 Worcester North Thurs: 12:35, 3:05, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55

11:10, 2:05, 4:30 Westborough Thurs: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55, Fri-Wed: 10:15 a.m. Worcester North Thurs: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50

THE CROODS 3D (PG) Cinemagic Thurs: 11:50 a.m., Fri-Wed: 11:50 a.m. Solomon Pond Thurs: 4:50 THE HOST (PG-13) Blackstone Thurs: 9:15 Solomon Pond Thurs: 9:40 THE LORDS OF SALEM (R) Worcester North Thurs:

171 STAFFORD ST., WORCESTER • 508-755-2604

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TRANCE (R) Worcester North Thurs: 1:25, 9:45 TYLER PERRY’S TEMPTATION (PG-13) Worcester North Thurs: 4:15, 6:55

WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME! (NR) Blackstone Thurs: 8 Cinemagic Thurs: 8

Solomon Pond Thurs: 8 WINGS Hanover Theatre Sun: 4

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (R) Solomon Pond NOTE: Times for Showcase Worcester North beginning on Friday were not available at press time.

THE CROODS (PG) Blackstone Thurs: 11:30, 12, 2, 2:30, 4:25, 4:55, 7:20, Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:45, 4:05, 6:50 Cinemagic Thurs: 4:45, Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:45 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12, 2:25, 7:25, Fri-Wed: 10:05,

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Mon.-Thur. 6am-2pm; Fri. 6am-8pm Sat. 6am-Noon; Sun 7am-Noon

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THIS IS 40 (R) Holy Cross

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★ Texas Bread Banana Foster ★ Fresh Salmon omelette with spinach, cheese, garlic and dill ★ Black & Bleu Benedict: Blacken shaved steak with bleu cheese and hollandaise sauce ★ Happy Burger on grilled Texas bread with bacon and cheese ★ Stuffed French Toast with fresh strawberries, blueberries, bananas and whipped cream cheese

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Thurs: 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10, FriWed: 9:10, 12:05 a.m. Cinemagic Thurs: 12:30, 3:45 Solomon Pond Thurs: 12:30, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50, FriWed: 5:25 Westborough Thurs: 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50, Fri-Wed: 11 a.m. Worcester North Thurs: 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30

THE CALL (R) Strand Fri-Sun, Tues-Wed: 7

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Looking for your favorite theater and don’t see it listed? Email editor@ worcestermag.com and we’ll do our best to include it in the coming weeks.

Blackstone Valley Cinema de Lux, 70 Worcester/Providence Turnpike, Millbury 800-3154000; 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 978-3655500; Worcester Public Library (WPL) Saxe Room, 3 Salem Sq.

Showtimes for 5/3 - 5/9. Subject to change. · 42 (PG-13) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 8 min 12:40 pm 3:40 pm 6:40 pm 9:40 pm · G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 1 hr 50 min 11:45 am 2:20 pm 7:20 pm · Iron Man 3 (PG-13) RWC IN DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 15 min 1:15 pm 4:15 pm 7:15 pm 10:15 pm · Iron Man 3 (PG-13) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 15 min 11:30 am 2:25 pm 5:20 pm 8:15 pm 11:15 pm · Iron Man 3 3D (PG-13) REAL D 3D; 2 hr 15 min 11:00 am 12:00 pm 12:15 pm 12:45 pm 1:55 pm 2:55 pm 3:15 pm 3:45 pm 4:50 pm 5:50 pm 6:15 pm 6:45 pm 7:45 pm 8:45 pm 9:15 pm 9:45 pm 10:45 pm 11:45 pm 12:15 am · Oblivion (PG-13) DIGITAL DIRECTOR'S HALL; Reserved Seating; 2 hr 5 min 12:35 pm 3:30 pm 6:30 pm · Oblivion (PG-13) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 5 min 1:05 pm 4:00 pm 7:00 pm 10:00 pm 12:00 am · Olympus Has Fallen (R) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 0 min 9:30 pm 12:20 am · Pain & Gain (R) DIGITAL DIRECTOR'S HALL;Reserved Seating; 2 hr 9 min 1:00 pm 4:10 pm 7:10 pm 10:00 pm · Pain & Gain (R) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 9 min 1:30 pm 4:40 pm 7:40 pm 10:30 pm 12:10 am · Scary Movie V (PG-13) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 1 hr 25 min 5:00 pm 9:55 pm 12:25 am · The Big Wedding (R) RWC IN DIGITAL PROJECTION; 1 hr 29 min 11:35 am 2:00 pm 4:30 pm 7:30 pm 9:50 pm · The Croods (PG) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 1 hr 38 min 11:20 am 1:45 pm 4:05 pm 6:50 pm · The Place Beyond the Pines (R) DIGITAL PROJECTION; 2 hr 20 min 9:10 pm 12:05 am M AY 2 , 2 0 1 3 • W O R C E S T E R M A G . C O M

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Something special Zoe Dee

There is nothing typical about Taty’s in West Boylston. Boasting a unique collection of cuisines, American Mediterranean and Brazilian, each is inspired by traditional recipes and portions are copious in size and flavor. From the moment Max and I parked outside Taty’s in a small parking lot off from West Boylston Street, we had a sense we were in for something a little different. The facade of Taty’s is unassuming, and upon entering, we were still unsure of what we were in for. The overall atmosphere at Taty’s is less than impressive with ceiling panels and vinyl chairs, yet a somewhat romantic touch is put to each table setting with fresh flowers and white linen tablecloths. The most

striking of the dÊcor are large mirrors that span entire walls and are like nothing I’ve ever seen in a dining area of a restaurant. The juxtaposition is an interesting one, and easily made up for by the real reason for visiting: the food. While many restaurants fail to do any one thing well when offering a menu with a wide variety, Max and I found that Taty’s defies that formula by creating each dish we ordered with fresh, well-prepared ingredients. A homemade appetizer, the Hummus ($6.99) has a texture, unlike that found in pre-packaged spreads, that alludes to freshly-ground chick peas, is topped with oil and fresh herbs, and is served with warm Syrian bread. Max and I barely scraped through half of what was served, making this a starting dish that could easily be shared among a table of four. I ordered the Haddock and Shrimp Florentine ($13.99), which is an enormous portion of pasta (diners are given a choice of angel hair, penne and linguine) topped with medium-sized shrimp, still in their shells, bites-sized pieces of breaded haddock, cooked spinach and sliced tomatoes and red bell peppers.

Max ordered as medium and were served as such, came as thick cuts of meat that had been marinated and seared, and were served over white rice. Pinto beans and sauteed broccoli and summer squash were served as sides. Like myself, Max’s stomach knew more than his eyes and mouth, and a large leftover container was needed. Throughout the evening, our waitress was honest with a sense of humor, giving a smile and small laugh when apologizing for the paper menus as the restaurant was in the process of lowering its prices. She was attentive, even to us being located around a corner from the rest of the restaurant. Taty’s is BYOB, which allowed Max and I to bring our favorite bottle of wine and spend a few extra dollars trying items from the menu that proved to be well versed in a variety of cuisines and traditions.

A marinara sauce simply made of oil, crushed tomatoes and herbs allows the vegetables and fish to intermingle with the pasta felicitously. Both the fish and

vegetables were fully-cooked, and tasted fresh, especially the shrimp. Max opted for one of the two options from the Little Brazilian part of the menu, the Tico Beans ($11.99). Steak tips, which

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FRESH AND LOCAL VEGGIES Nuestro Huerto is offering a 20-week CSA this

summer. The CSA provides participants rwith fresh, local vegetables from June through October. Half- and full-share options are available. EBT and payment plans are dwelcome. Email nuestrohuertoworcester@ gmail.com for pricing and more information. The farm is located at 20 Southgate St. in Worcester.

MORE FRESH AND LOCAL VEGGIES New Lands Farm will also be providing a CSA program to Worcester-area residents this summer. Fresh fruits and veggies from New Lands’ two farms, one in Worcester and one in West Springfield, will be packed and shared with participants from June 18

Wachusett Youth Lacrosse, Wachusett Independent Scholastic Endowment, Inc. and Wachusett Girls Youth Lacrosse. Mexicali Fresh Mex Grill, 700 Main St., Holden. mexicalisfreshmex.com.

WINE VINE CELEBRATES SEVEN YEARS The Wine Vine celebrates seven years of business with a grand tasting event that will feature performances by the Worcester Youth Orchestra on Saturday, May 4 from 3-6 p.m. Dozens of wine will be available to sample and light hors d’oeuvres, including fresh-cut cheeses, artisan breads and liquor cakes will be offered. Wine and gift basket raffles will be held with sales benefitting the Worcester Youth Orchestra. The event is free and open to the public. The Wine Vine, 142 Highland St. winevine.org.

through October 16. Ethnic vegetables including mchicha and bottle gourds and traditional cultural recipes using the items, will be offered alongside common New England produce. Pickup locations will be at the West Springfield farm and Sutton on Tuesday afternoons, and at EAT Center in downtown Worcester on Wednesdays. Learn more at lssne.org/NewLandsFarm. aspx.

MEXICALI GIVES TO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS Mexicali Fresh Mex Grill, formerly Playa del Carmen, of Holden will donate 10 percent of its sales made Monday through Thursday, now through May 23, to three local organizations:

FOR MOM Peppercorn’s Grille and Tavern is offering a special Mother’s Day promotion this spring. A complimentary $15 gift card to Jeffery Robert Salon will be included with all

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Brew City Sara Jane Nelson

Brew City is known for its beer selection and casual dining menu. I recently discovered that they have added some new menu items, and figured I would check it out. I was happy to discover that the item I was interested in combined the restaurant’s two strengths: food and beer. I ordered the Brew City Beer Burger. The burger patty is angus beef, and basted with Wachusett Country Ale. I ordered mine to be cooked medium. Like all of Brew City’s burgers, as a standard it came with lettuce, tomato, and pickles. It also featured beer braised onions, and was served on a brioche roll. Given the array of cheese options for this burger, I chose Swiss to complement the more savory flavors. I really liked the seasoning and flavor of the beef paired with the mellow Swiss. The lettuce was leafier than it was crisp, the pickles were pleasantly crisp, and the braised onions were smooth and flavorful. As the true measure of a good burger, it was definitely messy, but not to the point of causing frustration. The tomatoes were ripe and juicy, and noticeably added to the beef juices soaking the bottom part of the bun. The Brew City Beer Burger with Swiss cheese is $10.49. It naturally comes with a heaping order of fries and ketchup. A steak knife in served to cut the burger in half and help manage the messiness. If you’re ready to try out this burger, prepare to be satisfied, but end up with greasy fingers.

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WEEKNIGHTS AT PEPPERCORN’S Peppercorn’s offers entertainment on the evenings of Monday through Wednesday with the week kicking off with Guest Appreciation Nite from 4 p.m. to close every Monday. During this time the restaurant offers

$5 appetizers, large cheese pizzas for $6 each, $10 for a pitcher of Wormtown beer, $5 for a glass of Estrella and $5 Swedish Fish martinis. On Tuesdays from 8-11 p.m., a new game night called “The Board Room” invites guests to come with friends to play board games in the lounge. Games include: Apples to Apples, Battleship, Trivial Pursuit, Jenga, and others. Wednesdays is Stump Trivia with Kevin Barbare from 8-10 p.m. Winners of trivia receive a $25 gift certificate for first place and a $15 gift certificate for second place.

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exy is defined as: intending to arouse or stimulate desire, interest or appeal. We categorize people, cars and clothing as sexy, so why not wine? In fact, wine has a lot of sex appeal. Some of you may think I’m crazy, so before you pass judgment, please allow me to make my case. I recently opened a very nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. Cupping the firm round bowl of the glass as I poured the wine felt really good in my hand. The tantalizing scent and aroma was intoxicating. A wave of pleasure rolled over my tongue from the taste, which was both intense and explosive. The finish was long, smooth and silky and left me yearning for more. Now doesn’t that sound sexy? Here’s another example. I think it’s fair to say that many people consider dinner by candlelight accompanied by wine as being sexy and seductive. Especially if romance is on the mind. Just the social aspect of drinking wine is sexy. It brings people together and the rest, as they say, must be left up to fate. Perhaps it has something to do with the way we are wired. Many wine lovers categorize wine in sexy ways. Some refer to big, intensely flavored red wines such as cabernet, syrah and zinfandel as bold, broad shouldered and masculine. Others find that a smooth, soft, aromatic white can be very sultry and seductive; Chenin blanc, pinot grigio and riesling fit that description. As you can see, a number of characteristics add to a wine’s sex appeal. Things such as the taste, smell and appearance are the obvious ones. Then you have to consider the bigger picture: In what context are you drinking the wine? With whom and what is the occasion? Speaking of sex appeal, here are two wines that fit that mold. They include the ample, fleshy and intense Ghost Pines 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon and bold, racy and ripe Open Range 2011 Sauvignon Blanc. So I ask you: Is wine sexy? I’ll let you be the judge.

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FARMERS MARKETS AROUND THE CORNER The Regional Environmental Council’s (REC) community farmers markets begin June 15.

MOTHER’S DAY AT TOWER HILL A special Mother’s Day brunch will be served at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Twigs Café on Sunday, May 12 with the first seating at 11:30 a.m. followed by the second at 1:45 p.m. The brunch is $31.95 per person, excluding tax and gratuity; $13.95 for those under 10 and $6.95 for those younger than 5-years-old. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr., Boylston.

PICK EVO’S NEW MENU ITEMS EVO Dining’s chef Albert Maykel III is asking Worcesterites to submit dish and food suggestions to him before he completes a new menu that will be released at the end of this summer. Suggestions should be submitted through EVO’s Facebook page or via email info@evodining.com.

ARTFUL MOTHER’S DAY Worcester Art Museum is offering a Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday, May 12. Catering will

be provided by Russell Morin and will include a salad and fruit station with fresh fruit juices, roasted tomato salad, Cape Cod salad, tomato watermelon salad, fresh seasonal fruit with honey yogurt sauace, artisanal breads and creamery butter. A potato pancake station will include crisp russet potato pancakes cooked a la minute with: short rib ragout, smoked salmon confit, chicken Alfredo and curry vegetables, all served with zucchini bread and creamery butter. An omelet station will offer Egg Beaters, egg whites or whole eggs as classic French omelets or scrambled eggs with fresh ingredients, praline bacon, home fries, croissants and preserves. A sweet and savory stuffed French toast station includes savory: wild mushroom and gruyere, chicken, pear and brie; sweet: strawberry mascarpone, peaches and cream. A dessert table will have assorted verrine parfaits, petit pastries, bourbon pecan torte, strawberry rhubarb crostada, chocolate raspberry cake and candy bar brownies. Columbian coffee, decaf coffee, milk and tea will be served. Seatings: 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tickets $31.95 or $16.95 for children 12 years or younger. 18-percent gratuity and 6.25-percent sales tax not included in ticket price. Reservations required. Call 508-793-4328 or visit worcesterart.org.

BLISSFUL MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH Blissful Meadows Golf Club in Uxbridge hosts a Mother’s Day brunch buffet on Sunday, May 12. Offered will be scrambled eggs, eggs benedict, quiche, pancakes, bacon, sausage, home fries, Italian soup, chicken and broccoli Alfredo, baked haddock, prime rib au jus and roasted turkey carving stations, garden salad pilaf, stuffing, roasted and mashed potatoes, green beans, coffee, tea, fruit salad, danishes and assorted breads and muffins. Seatings are 10-10:30 a.m., 10:30-11 a.m., 1:30-2 p.m., 2-2:30 p.m. Cost is $25.95 for adults, $14.95 for children ages 4-11 and children 3 years old or younger eat for free. Reservations required and can be made by calling 508-278-6110. Also, moms golf for free when playing with a family member. Blissful Meadows, The Chestnut Room, 801 Chockalog Rd., Uxbridge. blissfulmeadows.com.

GALA TO BENEFIT STONE SOUP The Stone Soup Full Moon Gala dinner on Thursday, May 23 from 6-9 p.m. at Byblos in Union Station will benefit the nonprofit community center. All ticket proceeds - $45 per person – will directly help in the funding of the rebuilding of the Stone Soup Community Center in

Worcester. Tickets include dinner and entertainment. Awards will be presented to Allen Fletcher, Fatima Mohamed and Peter Cutting at the event. For more information and to buy tickets, visit stonesoupworcester.org.

CHILI DOG CONTEST The Dog Father hosts its third annual chili dog eating contest on Saturday, May 11 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester (UUCW) at 3 p.m. Entree fee to compete is $15; all proceeds to benefit UUCW. Entrants will have 15 minutes to eat as many chili dogs as they can. The winner will receive free hot dogs for a year (two per week for 50 weeks). Also, Juniper Farms Ice Cream will be offering sweet treats. A portion of their proceeds will also benefit UUCW. UUCW, 90 Holden St., Worcester. Find the event on Facebook.

TASTING AND SILENT AUCTION Our Lady of Loretto Parish hosts a beer and wine tasting and silent auction event on Saturday, May 18 from 5-9 p.m. at the Parish Church Hall. Tickets $20 per person; must be 21 years of age or older to attend. Our Lady of Loretto, 33 Massasoit Rd.

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The Webster House Restaurant 1 Webster St., Worcester 508-757-7208 websterhouseweb.com Patrons are treated like family at The Webster House. The bountiful menu includes beef, chicken, seafood, vegetarian and Greek specialties, with a home-cooked taste straight from your Yia-yia’s kitchen. A number of international and domestic wines are agged by which meals they complement best. Each month, The Webster House features selections from a different international cuisine. Be sure to leave room for a slice of homemade pie or baklava cheesecake. Val’s Restaurant & Lounge 75 Reservoir Road, Holden 508-829-0900 Val’s Restaurant and Pizza Palace is the perfect stop for families looking for a wide variety of familiar seafood, beef, chicken and pasta entrees, plus pizza and burgers, at budget-friendly prices. The service can’t be beat, and you might be surprised by the recipes and presentation. Porto Bello 156 Shrewsbury St., Worcester 508-753-9865 For more than a decade, Shrewsbury Street’s Porto Bello has served up classic Italian fare in an uncontrived, paper-napkin style. Evocative of North End Boston, it’s an atmosphere without too much preciousness. Four pages of menu offerings rarely stray from the rule on Italian cuisine. EntrÊe highlights include various seafood and meats with pesto, mascarpone, scampi and cream sauces; four

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calamari and teriyaki chicken, or the Osaka special (ďŹ let mignon, lobster and shrimp) more than double the number of choices cooked before you on this Japanese grill. Sushi is also plentiful, including intriguing sushi rolls. The cool exotic drinks are served tall and the sake is served hot. Nashoba Winery 100 Wattaquadoc Hill Road, Bolton 978-779-5521 nashobawinery.com Nashoba Winery’s orchards, tour, retail shop, and restaurant make for a perfect New England experience — in any season. The wonderful grounds and quaint atmosphere couple well with niche wines, beers and spirits, and an equally renegade menu. Free-range poultry and beef, as well as wild game, meet delicious seafood, and varied regional vegetables. Pricing is moderate to expensive. Plan to make a day of it. Prezo Grille and Bar 2291/2 Main St., Milford 508-634-0101 prezogrille.com Prezo Grille and Bar is a moderately upscale spot, well worth the trip to explore a bit of southeastern Worcester County. Prezo’s sizeable menu is ďŹ lled with pizzazz — such ingredients as gorgonzola, goat and bleu cheeses; artichoke hearts, asparagus and sun dried tomatoes; and Madeira wine sauce and hoisin glaze. House favorites include chicken Sinatra, pot roast, and the seafood bomb. Check out weekly specials, or meet friends for designer drinks and at-screen TVs at Prezo’s “horseshoeâ€? bar.

Bauhinia 271 Grafton St., Shrewsbury 508-842-0880 bauhiniarestaurant.com A one-stop Asian cuisine shop, Bauhinia is welcoming to the casual or well-heeled, not as chic and showy as PF Chang’s, but far beyond your local take-out joint. Making it’s home in the immense former Golden Steakhouse building just off Route 9 West, Bauhinia’s more-than-200-item menu is as sprawling as the restaurant’s architecture. Find familiar, as well as not-so-typical dishes on the Chinese menu and a lifetime supply of sushi, sashimi and designer maki rolls on the Japanese menu — all fresh and well-prepared. Baba Sushi 309 Park Ave. 508-752-8822 babasushi.com Winners of the 2007 Worcester Best Chef competition. The sushi at Baba is as fresh and creative — awesome to behold, and delicious to eat — as anywhere in town. Each item is a small masterpiece of attention and design. The menu is mostly sushi, sashimi and dishes otherwise featuring raw ďŹ sh, plus a short list of chicken dishes. There’s no kobe beef or pork (with the exception of a pork dumpling and beef tartaki, a dish not unlike beef carpaccio). Finally, they provide a full complement of liquor and beer, including Sapporo in 22-ounce cans. Credit cards accepted.

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garden and Caesar salads, juice and coffee. Cost is $21.99 for adults, $11.99 for children 6-11 years old and brunch is free for children five-years-old and younger. For reservations, call 508-7920000. Tatnuck Grille, 638 Chandler St. tatnuckgrille.com.

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COOKIES WITH MOM Corner House Cookies of Charlton hosts a cookie decorating class for children ages 8 years and older and their moms on Thursday, May 9 at the First Congregational Church of Leicester from 6:30-7:45 p.m. The class includes decorating with icing, stencils, edible ink markers, sprinkles and more. Basic instruction, cookies and all supplies will be provided. Each mother and child duo will be able to bring home at least half a dozen decorated cookies. Refreshments will be served during the class. Cost is $25 per mom and child pair and $10 for each additional child. First Congregational Church of Leicester, 1 Washburn Sq., Leicester. cornerhousecookies.com.

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music >Thursday 2 Coffee & Jam with Stephen Beckwith. Picking and strumming with an authentically rustic voice, Steve Beckwith is a live revitalization of good old American Roots music. Performing great works through covers and arrangements of artists such as The Band, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and more. For more information on the Coffeelands World Gifts Espresso Café go to worldgiftscafe. org, or contact Michelle Miller, mmiller@poluscenter.org, 978-733-4277. NO Charge, but a suggested $5 Pass-theHat donation appreciated. 7-8:30 p.m. Coffeelands World Gifts Espresso Cafe, 50 High St., Clinton. 978-270-2457 or coffeelandscafe.org.

Host by “BlueSwitch” Come sing/play and have fun! Free. 8 p.m.-midnight Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774243-1100. Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. Zack Slik. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. “T” is for the Twangbusters Trio at Texas BBQ Co.. “Patsy Cline meets Bessie Smith”, The Twangbusters Trio delivers rootsy jukejoint rhythms, mixing up a soulful cocktail of blues, honkytonk and boogie woogie. No Cover. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Texas BBQ Company, 309 Main St., Northborough. 413281-7336. 80’s party every Thursday with The Flock Of A-Holes! with MANAMANA! and Sam Hendricks. Worcester’s favorite 80’s cover band playing you all the hits. The winner’s of several awards for best cover band in Worcester. Many years in a row! Sign up on the new FLOCK

Celebrate Metal Thursday’s 200th Show AND 7 Year Anniversary! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Thirsty Thursday with DJ Matty J. No cover charge. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508-4380597.

>Friday 3 The Mighty Mystic with The Raft and Shanty Man & The Speakeasies. Tix will be available at the door. $10 Considered one of the leaders in the East Coast Reggae Movement, reggae artist Mighty Mystics fresh sound and musical diversity has proved to be a magnet for music lovers in search of something refreshing and new. It has attracted listeners of all ages, and from all walks of life. A charismatic man on a mission: Mighty Mystic has gone from being a fan

Buddhas Over Worcester is an exhibit of sculptures at the Boundless Way Temple, 1030 Pleasant St., Worcester. The opening day celebration will be held on Saturday, May 4 from 3-6 p.m. with an opening ceremony at 4 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through July 5, 2013. worcesterzen.org.

Night Train (Roots/Blues, LIVE MUSIC). No Cover. 7:15-9:45 p.m. The Mill at 185 West Boylston Street, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. themill185.com. Havana Night Live Latin Jazz. Live band playing/ singing classic latin rhythms/ jazz/ samba and bossa nova, no cover. Guest collaborations may be arranged. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Cantina Bar & Grill, United States, 385 Main St. 508-579-8949 or facebook.com/cantinabar. Open Mic Thursdays @ Park Grill with Bill Mccarthy. Visit myspace.com/openmicworld for info and the latest sign-up schedules. Email Bill McCarthy to reserve a spot at Openmcc@verizon. Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. MySpace.com/OpenMicWorld. Blues Jam. Blues Jam at Rivalry’s Pub, 274 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester, MA Every Thursday from 8pm to 12am

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“group” page and get all the info you need! facebook.com/ groups/TheFlockOfAssholes/ MANAMANA! On tour and what a crazy band! facebook.com/manamana42 facebook.com/sam. hendricks.792 $5. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/pages/Flock-ofAholes/127019150125. Dana Lewis LIVE! Playing the Greatest Hits from the 50’s to the 80’s. “The soundtrack of your youth” Free! 8:30-10:30 p.m. Grafton Inn, The, 25 Grafton Cmn, Grafton. 508-839-5931. Karaoke Thursdays! Every Thursday Night! Hosted by DJ Fast Track! 18+ NO COVER! Come Rock the Mic Every Thursday Night at Karaoke! 8:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Club Remix, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227. Cara Brindisi and the Feather Merchants. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

of reggae music, to being a contributor to the art. THE RAFT facebook.com/get.on.the.raft. The Raft is a six-piece aggressive groove machine from Westfield, Massachusetts. facebook.com/ shantymanmusic?fref=ts $10. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/TheMightyMystic. Dana Lewis LIVE! Classic Radio Hits from the 50’s to the 80’s “The Soundtrack of your Youth” Free! 5-8 p.m. Webster House Restaurant, 1 Webster St. 508-757-7208. Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat. 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! Special guests are welcome to sit in, and often do! Help me make this the time & place to connect, escape, network, chill, eat, drink, and above all be merry... but if you’re blue, why be alone? Remember TFIDN is pronounced as in “we can get lots more people TFIDN

Nick’s to hear Dr. Nat!” 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 facebook. com/events/157775224387459/?fref=ts. 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. Open Mic Night! Every Friday night we have an open mic hosted by Patrick McCarthy. Come in and show us your talents or enjoy great performances by local artists! Our menu features craft beer and wine as well as great food options sure to please. No Cover. 6:30-9:30 p.m. NU Cafe, 335 Chandler St. Worcester, MA. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com. Maureen O’Flynn, Cabaret Performance. Internationally acclaimed soprano headlines the 13 Annual Sundberg Memorial Concert in an intimate cabaret performance. Ms. O’Flynn garners enthusiastic praise from critics, peers and audiences for her brilliant, soaring voice and dramatic interpretations in operas and cabaret performances around the world. Sponsored by his family, The Sundberg memorial Concert remembers the life of Holden resident The Rev. Roland Sundberg. For Roland, music embodied the human spirit. This concert series is presented as a memorial to Roland’s love of music, his love of people, and his giving nature. Free & open to the public. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Wesley United Methodist Church, Sanctuary, 114 Main St. 508-799-4191. 7 Below - A tribute to PHish supported by WHAT. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. The Cannery @12 Crane Street, Southbridge, MA 01550, 12 Crane St., Southbridge. Auntie Trainwreck rocks Team C.L.A.M.’s Relay For Life Fundraiser, 5/3/13 with special guests FoxForce5! Join your favorite Auntie as we rock out for a great cause and help Team C.L.A.M. raise money for Relay For Life! For a donation of $10 at the door, you’ll get great music to dance to all night long, raffles and prizes! Everyone’s favorite all girl cover band, FoxForce5 will be kicking off the music for the night and helping to keep you all dancing. 8 p .m. - Doors Open. 8:30 - 9:30 p.m. - FoxForce5,10 - 11:30 p.m.- Auntie Trainwreck, 11:30- 12 a.m. - Prize winners announced. $10. 8 p.m.-midnight The End Zone Sports Pub, 39 Milford St., Mendon. 508-634-3176 or facebook.com/ events/104997416366726. Blow it up Johnny! $5. 8-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Brian & Captain. 8 p.m.-noon Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. FLOCK OF A-HOLES, the ultimate 80’s tribute band SAKURA TOKYO Friday AND Saturday! Worcester’s favorite 80’s cover band playing you all the hits. The winner’s of several awards for best cover band in Worcester. Many years in a row! Sakura Tokyo is ALWAYS the place to be when the Flock shows up there. Free! 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078 or facebook.com/pages/ Sakura-Tokyo/178189986974. Gamelan Gita Sari. Gamelan Gita Sari concerts are eagerly awaited and regularly play to standing-room-only crowds of all ages. Under the direction of Ni Suasthi Bandem, in her first year as Visiting Fellow in Balinese Performing Arts, dancers and musicians present a rich sampling of pieces. These are always vibrant, varied and immensely entertaining evenings. Admission is Free.. 8-10 p.m. College of the Holy Cross: Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St. 508-793-3490. Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Chooch’s Food & Spirits, 31 East Brookfield Road, North Brookfield. 508-867-2494. Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484.

Upload your listings at worcestermag.com. Click the Night & Day toolbar, then choose Calendar to place your event listing in both our print and online weekly calendar. Primo Cubano Cinco de Mayo Party! Maine’s own classic Cuban SON band Primo Cubano plays traditional Cuban dance music dating back to the turn of the 20th Century. Son is the most popular style to come out of Cuba and is the primary contributor to the blend of Latin styles today known as Salsa. The Bull Run is a full-service, farm-to-table restaurant in a pre-revolutionary tavern, with plenty of Free parking and tons of old world charm. Dinner served in the concert room from 6 til show. To come earlier or eat in our main restaurant, please call toll-Free 877-536-7190 to make a reservation. . . $16 advance; $20 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets. bullrunrestaurant.com. The Derelicts Mid Life Crisis. Come down to the BPL to see Worcester’s Oldest Oldies Band! Featuring 6 pieces, The Derelicts play Rock & Roll, R & B, and Classic Rock from the 60’s & 70’s. $5. 8 p.m.-midnight Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566. WICN presents Karrin Allyson. Karrin Allyson, one of the top Jazz vocalists/pianists today, comes to Tuckerman Hall in Worcester for an intimate evening of music. $35; $30 WICN Members. 8-10 p.m. Tuckerman Hall, 10 Tuckerman St. 508752-0700 or wicn.org/KarrinAllyson. Dan Kirouac - solo/acoustic. Dan has been part of the regional music scene for over twenty-five years. When not busy with tribute band BEATLES FOR SALE, solo performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic guitar. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 50’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. Free. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 6538 Townsend, 491 Main St., West Townsend. 978-597-5644. Amanda Cote Project at Liberty Tavern. 9 p.m.midnight Liberty Tavern, 301 High St., Clinton. 978-365-4800 or facebook.com/events/291566397641653. Dirty Gerund Friday Night Show! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Getaway. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. NEW! “High Voltage Friday’s” High Energy Hardcore with DJ Chananagains! Every Friday Night! 18+ $10, 21+ $5. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Club Remix, 105 Water St. 508-756-2227. Ten Foot Polecats CD Release “Undertow” with The Dead Exs, The Farmers Union Players, The Roadkill Orchestra. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. The Groove Street Band. Get down to JJ’s and get your

groove on! Great music all night with one of the area’s best funk, rock and soul bands! No cover! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. theRoadKill Orchestra Teams Up With The Ten Foot Polecats! One of the hardest working Blues acts on the East Coast will be tearing the roof off of Beatnik’s. Come on down and dance your Blues away! theRoadKill Orchestra will

Speakers! Come in and dance the night away with the hottest DJ in the MetroWest Area DJ Norm! Free. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-4808222 or speakersnightclub.net. Bill Mccarthy @ Michael’s Cigar Bar. Classic & Contemporary Acoustic and Not-So-Acoustic Rock! Free. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-4599035.

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be opening up the evening with their “patent pending” Garage/ Lounge musical mayhem. Get there early and don’t miss a moment! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or reverbnation.com/show/9552745. Top 40 Dance Party. Our Top 40 Dance Party returns to

Bass Kebab Free EDM. Worcester Newest Night For EDM Featuring the hottest DJ’s every week from all over New England. Like us on Facebook for the week update on whos’s playing! Free. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181 or facebook.com/

Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. The Mill, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. Dan Kirouac. Season-opening day! Dan has been part of the regional music scene for over twenty-five years. When not busy with tribute band BEATLES FOR SALE, solo performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic guitar. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 50’s to today, every show is a different experience, drawing from almost 500 contemporary and oldie rock and pop, and current songs. More information at dankirouac.com. 4-7 p.m. Pine Acres Camping Resort, 203 Bechan Road, Oakham. 508-8829509. New Bay Colony - Uxbridge VFW - Spring Fling With The Ladies. VFW SPRING FLING. Pasta/Dinner Dance This event is to benefit their Scholarship Fund Advance tickets only, $10 available at the VFW or call (508) 278-7540 (508)612-0395. newbaycolony.com. $10. 6 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1385 Uxbridge, 13 Cross Road, Uxbridge. 508-278-7540 or facebook.com/events/6439 89132285109/?context=create. Patrick McCarthy: Live Jazz & Light Rock. Join me at Le Mirage May 4th for all your favorite jazz, light rock, folk and blues accompanied by a fine selection of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and American cuisine. See you there! BYOB. Please call ahead for a reservation. More info at patrickmccarthymusic.com. 6-9 p.m. Le Mirage Cafe, 120 June St. 508-793-8558. 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. Cafe’ con Dios. Donation. 7:30-10 p.m. Faith Baptist Church, Main Auditorium, 22 Faith Ave, Auburn. 508-579-6722.

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JAZZED UP Trio LIVE. JAZZED UP Trio Featuring legendary vocalist pianist and TV personality Mauro DePasquale, Guitarist extraordinaire Joe D’Angelo and drummer Johny Dollar Murzycki, nominated best JAZZ act 2013 and 2012 Worcester Music Awards, presents “The Sweetest music this side of Heaven. Smooth Jazz at BYBLOS LOUNGE, 7:30 PM. No Cover, indoor parking only $1 No Cover. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Byblos Lounge Union Station, Worcester, MA, Union Station, Columbus Square, Worcester. 508-756-2232. Amanda Cote Project @ Uno’s Pizzeria Leominster. 8-10 p.m. Uno Chicago Grill, 905 Merriam Ave., Leominster. 978-466-7808 or facebook.com/ events/483718605015608. Bon Voyage Concert: WSU Chorale is off to Italy! Join the Worcester State University Chorale as it performs its repertoire for its Italian tour later in May. Music by Whitacre, Rutter, Michael Jackson, Durufle, Rossini and more. Tickets are $12 for the General Public and $7 for students and elders. 8-9:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Angels Church, 1222 Main St. 508-929-8824. Caves on Mars. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Deb’s Birthday Party with The Fleshtones! Deb Beaudry’s 50th Birthday Party at Ralph’s! Starring: The Fleshtones! Thinner! The Blackboard Nails! The Missionarys! Doors open at 8pm, show starts promptly at 9! 21+ only, $10 cover. No advance tickets will be sold! $10. 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543

or facebook.com/events/168294323321232. FLOCK OF A-HOLES, the ultimate 80’s tribute band SAKURA TOKYO Friday AND Saturday! Worcester’s favorite 80’s cover band playing you all the hits. The winner’s of several awards for best cover band in Worcester. Many years in a row! Sakura Tokyo is ALWAYS the place to be when the Flock shows up there. Free to get in! 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078 or facebook.com/ pages/Sakura-Tokyo/178189986974. Karaoke Dance Party With CJ/DJ @ Eller’s Restaurant. Hey Everyone Come Down and Join CJ/DJ at Eller’s Restaurant Lounge for a Karaoke Dance Party. We will have a blast singing songs from yesterday and today and maybe some dancing too. No Cover! 8-11 p.m. Eller’s Restaurant, Lounge, 190 Main St., Cherry Valley. 508-868-7382 or ellersrestaurant.com. Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. WSU Chorale Bon Voyage Concert. Before taking off on a tour of Italy, WSU Chorale offers one last performance. 8-9:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Angels Church, 1222 Main St. 508-929-8824 or worcester.edu. ROCKHOUSE Power Trio! ROCKHOUSE is a power trio that plays hits from artists such as Hendrix, SRV, Van Halen, Led Zep, etc. Come down and check out the great sound and light show! Free! 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Route 56 Roadside Bar & Grill, 24 Leicester St., North Oxford. 508-987-8669. Theory 13, Minka, Josh Briggs & Friends and Next 2 Nothing. facebook.com/theory13music. Alec Fornaciari- Lead Vocals/Guitar Aart Knyff- Lead Guitar/Vocals Mike Landry- Bass Kevin Figueiredo- Drums/Vocals MINKA

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facebook.com/minkarocks JOSH BRIGGS! facebook.com/ fiveonfriday Next To Nothing $7. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/ events/444617618946262. Aerochix. JJ’s welcomes back the Boston area’s all-female Aerosmith tribute! If you are an Aerosmith fan, this show is one not to be missed! $5 Cover at the door. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Deb’s Birthday Bash with The Fleshtones! Thinner, The Missionarys, and Blackboard Nails! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-7539543. Rare Breed, The Barnstormers. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Time Machine. Great Band! $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Bill Mccarthy @ Rivalry. Classic & Contemporary Acoustic and Not-So-Acoustic Rock! Free. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. Cats Under the Stars, Sunlea. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Tammany Hall, 43 Pleasant St. 508-753-7001. Jubilee Gardens. Celebrate Jubilee’s birthday with Jubilee Gardens! all original rock, pop, folk, fun time! 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181 or jubileegardens.com. “Tantrum Saturdays” Dance Party Every Saturday Night with DJ Tony T. Get ready Worcester for some great dancing to the beats of Tony T. 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. The Mystics. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

>Sunday 5 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. THE BUBBLEHEADS w/ Ned Lucas ! We’re kicking off our 2013 “Summer Tour” on Cinco De Mayo at the Nines w/ Hammond Organ guru Ned Lucas ! Lot’s of friends, special guests and new stuff ! Ice-Cold Coronas - See ya there! Free ! 2 p.m.-6 a.m. The Nines Neighborhood Bar, 136 Millbury St. 508-340-0318. Bah Jam Open Mic with A Ton of Blues. 2-7 p.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-4228484. Hecho en Mexico (Made in Mexico). The Master Singers of Worcester celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a lively program of Mexican choral workis from the 17th century to the present, joined by a Mariachi band and dancers from Worcester’s Ritmos Academy. An exhit of Latino art will also be displayed. Tickets: $25 for adults, $20 for students and seniors You can now order tickets on our website! 4-6 p.m. Tuckerman Hall, 10 Tuckerman St. 508-842-1349 or mswma.org. Open Mic Night with Dani Red and Friends. Sign up for the open mic is 4:30pm. There is a different feature every week! Come on down to enjoy good food, good music, and talented musicians! Free. 4:30-9 p.m. cafe neo bar and grille, 97 millbury St. 508-615-7311. 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. Book your half-hour set in advance at myspace. com/openmicworld. Email Bill McCarthy to a spot at openmcc@verizon.net. Free. 6-10 p.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263 or MySpace. com/OpenMicWorld. Blues Jam W/Jim Perry. Jam every sunday with Jim Perry and a Featured performer every week. Donations. 7-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Sunday Funday Karaoke with DJ Matty J. No cover charge. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508-438-0597. The NEW 90’s PARTY BAND “How Bizarre” featuring members of The Flock, Squeezer, The Vig and Neon Alley.. You LOVE the 90’s? It’s the latest decade-driven band to hit the Lucky Dog. Members of The Flock, Squeezer, Neon Alley and more bands all combine to bring songs by EMF, Dee-Lite, Chumbawumba, STP, Alannis Morissette, C+C Music Factory, Right Said Fred, The Cardigans, OMC, Nirvana, Len, The B-52’s and even Billy Ray Cyrus to LIFE! They’re doing a ton of tunes. All in costumes, VERY fun and silly! $5. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/ pages/How-Bizarre/451955381512926.

>Monday 6 Spring Student Recital. 7-9 p.m. Worcester State University: Sullivan Auditorium, 486 Chandler St. worcester. edu/VPADept/default.aspx. Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. London Billiards / Club Oasis, 70 James St. 508-7997655. Bop & Pop Jazz Organization. Classic Hammond Organ Quartet grooves every Monday night at the Dive. Free. 9 p.m.-midnight Dive Bar, 34 Green St. facebook.com/ BopNPopJazzOrganization.

>Tuesday 7 Open Mic With Bill McCarthy. Open mic with Bill. Newcomers welcome Free. 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Stephen Beckwith in Sterling MA. Luthier (guitar builder) Stephen Beckwith brings his handmade guitars and American Roots based music to the Harvest Grille every Tuesday night. Tuesdays are “Fajita & ‘Rita” nights so stop in for some great food and music in a relaxed atmosphere! 6-9 p.m. The Harvest Grille, 27 Main St., Sterling. 978-422-6020 or theharvestgrille.com. First Tuesday Jazz with Lou Borelli Octet. Lou Borelli Octet plays mostly original arrangements from the Dave Pell Octet No Cover, but tips are appreciated. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-752-6213. Open Mic Night w /Bill McCarthy Open Mike! Book your half-hour set in advance at: myspace.com/openmicworld. Email Bill McC at: OPENMCC@VERIZON.NET Free! 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. “See You Next Tuesday” with DJ Poke Smot! Downstairs! Guest DJ’s 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. Jon Bonner. 9 p.m.-midnight. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. VII Dubstep. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Tammany Hall, 43 Pleasant St. 508-753-7001.

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>Wednesday 8 Open Jam w/Sean Ryan. Open Jam Free. 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Live Music with Matt Robert. Matt Robert’s solo 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. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com/events. Open Mic W/ Feature Act. This Open Mic has been running for a year now. A great sounding room for acoustic performance. SongWriter’s Night the first Wednesday of every month. Great food and friendly staff. Hosted by Brett Brumby, all mics and cables supplied, just bring your instrument and love of music! Free. 7:30-11 p.m. Route 56 Roadside Bar & Grill, 24 Leicester St., North Oxford. 508-987-8669 or 56barandgrill.com. Wednesday Night Open Mic/local Musicians’ Showcase w/ Bill Mccarthy @ Guiseppe’s. Visit myspace.com/openmicworld for info and the latest sign-up schedules. Email Bill McCarthy to reserve a spot at Openmcc@verizon. Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Guiseppe’s Grille, 35 Solomon Pond Road, Northborough. 508-393-4405. “Krazy Wednesday Jam Session” with The “Get On Up Band”. The music is hot motown/funk/swing/blues style. We offer a drum kit, bass rig and a full PA system for all to use, so bring what you play and “ get on up” Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Krazy Horse Bar & Grill, 287 Main St. Worcester. 1-774-823-3131. Brendan Kelley. 8-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508926-8877. Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 8 p.m.-midnight Dark Horse Tavern, 12 Crane St., Southbridge. 508764-1100. Karaoke. 8-11 p.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-5345900. Open Jam with Sean Ryan. Open Jam welcome to newcomers. Free. 8:30 p.m.-noon Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. The Sky Captains Of Industry. The Sky Captains Of Industry come from the future to warn you of the upcoming apocalypse and/or rock it to a rubble. This Brooklyn based indie band is touring in support of their new album, Rocket City. Free. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or skycaptainsofindustry.com. Wacky Wednesday Night Jam @ JJ’s Sport Bar. Open mic jam session, all are welcome. We offer a drum kit. bass rig and a full PA system for all to use. Guitar players please bring your own amp. Great club, great food, great drinks and great music. Free. 8:30-12:30 p.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Woo Town Wednesdays. Free

show with Sky Captains Of Industry and Killiney Woods. The Sky Captains of Industry came from the future to inform you about the upcoming apocalypse and/ or to rock it to rubble. facebook.com/pages/KillineyWoods/291926074188450. Killiney Woods is made up of guitarist Isaac Morin drummer ryan jandrow, and percussionist/

drummer John Thomas Ryan, these young gents make passionate spiritual music for anyone looking to escape into long improvised jams and an intensity that is unmatched in the music that you see and hear everyday, which is practiced routine memorized and presented in an unsatisfying way everytime, with Killiney Woods its is just the opposite their

The photography show “Glimpse: Extraordinary Details of Life,” with works by Melanie M. Guerra, is currently on display through the end of May at Booklovers’ Gourmet, 55 East Main St. in Webster. Gallery hours are Monday and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.6:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public.

songs are not routine every time they play it is always a new experience and new jam even though their songs you can sing over and over again. Free to get in! 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or facebook.com/Sky. Captains.of.Industry. Hit the Bus. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Ladies Night with DJ Blackout. No cover charge. 101:30 p.m. Center Bar & Grill, 102 Green St. 508-438-0597.

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Complex), 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900 or adcmusic.com/Index.htm. Anna Maria College, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton. 508-8493300 or annamaria.edu. ARTSWorcester, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: . 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org. Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour, $710 for tea. 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters. org. Assumption College: Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, Senior Studio Art Exhbiti, Thursday. 500 Salisbury St. 508-7677272 or assumption.edu/dept/Library. Booklovers’ Gourmet, Glimpse: Extraordinary Details of Life, by Melanie M. Guerra, Through May 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: Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne St. clarku.edu/departments/holocaust. Clark University: Schiltkamp Gallery, 92 Downing St. 508-793-7349. Clark University: Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St. clarku.edu. Clark University: University Gallery, Hours: Noon5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, Noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, Noon-5 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 950 Main St. 508-793-7349 or 508-793-7113 or clarku.edu. Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: for gallery. 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, The Fruits of Chance & Necessity, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through May 24. 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. Dark World Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 179 Grafton St. darkworldgallery.com. DZian Gallery, Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday. 65 Water St. 508-831-1106 or dzian.net. EcoTarium, Hours: noon-5 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. Fisher Museum Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham. 978-724-3302 or harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/ museum.html. 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. 978-3451157 or fitchburghistory.fsc.edu. M AY 2 , 2 0 1 3 • W O R C E S T E R M A G . C O M

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Fitchburg State University: Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. fitchburgstate.edu. Framed in Tatnuck, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 1099 Pleasant St. 508-770-1270 or framedintatnuck.com. Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard. 978-456-3924 or fruitlands.org. 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. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-368-0227 or 978-598-5000x17 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. Highland Artist Group, 113 Highland St. highlandartistgroup.com. 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. Series of “One Icon” exhibitions, Through Aug. 20. 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 978-598-5000x17 or or museumofrussianicons.org. Old Sturbridge Village, 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. Park Hill Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 387 Park Ave. 774-6960909. Post Road Art Center. Opening Reception: Abstract Show 2013, Thursday; Abstract Show 2013, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, May 3 - May 29. Hours: closed Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday Saturday. 1 Boston Post Road, Marlborough. 508-485-2580 or postroadartcenter.com. Preservation Worcester, Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 10 Cedar St. 508754-8760 or preservationworcester.org. Prints and Potter Gallery, American Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery, Mondays through 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. Shades of Green: Artist Call for Exhibition, Friday - Sunday. Hours: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 2-4 p.m. Saturday. 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-346-3341 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.

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Admission. 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. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org SAORI Worcester style 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, OPENING RECEPTION: Six Senses, Saturday; Six Senses, Sundays, Thursdays, Saturdays, May 4 May 30. 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 978297-4337 or topfunaviation.com. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Guided Garden Tour, Sundays, through Dec. 30; Birds, Beasts & Blossoms: Art Exhibit of the Works of Barry Van Dusen, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, May 7 - June 16. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $10 Adults, $7 Seniors & $5 Youth, Free to Members & Children under . 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: Stoddard Education and Visitors Center, 11 French Drive, Boylston. towerhillbg. org. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: The Great Hall, 11 French Drive, Boylston. towerhillbg.org. Tower Hill Botanic Garden: The Orangerie, 11 French Drive, Boylston. towerhillbg.org. Westboro Gallery, Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday. 8 West Main St., Westborough. 508-870-0110 or westborogallery. com. Worcester Art Museum, Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation, Through June 9; Looking at the Stars: Prints by Imamura Yoshio, Through May 30; The Allure of Blanc de Chine, Through Aug. 31; Family Discovery Tour, Saturdays, through April 13; Zip Tour: “Earth Mother”, Saturday; Public Tour, Sundays, through April 28. 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, The Journey of Two Collectors: Barrett & Mahroo Morgan Collection, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through May 11. Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org Worcester Historical Museum, Casey at the Bat: 125 Years, Through Aug. 10; Game On!, Through May 18; In Their Shirtsleeves, Through Dec. 31; Stories They Tell, Through Dec. 31. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org. Worcester Public Library, Worcester Public Schools Arts Festival Opening, Friday. 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. 508799-1655 or worcpublib.org. WPI: George C. Gordon Library, Invented - WPI Patents Past & Present, Through Oct. 31; when 4x4 = 8, Friday; when 4x4 = eight, Friday - Sunday. 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu.

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Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape - Showtimes: Fridays 9 p.m. and Saturdays 8 p.m. Make Reservations Early. $20 per person except special events. 8 p.m.-midnight Park Grill and Spirits, Comedy Room, 257 Park Ave. Call 800-401-2221 or visit beantowncomedy.com. Sunday Night Cinemageddon! Movies every Sunday Night! - Sundays, Sunday, May 13 - Tuesday, December 31. Facebook: Ralphs Diner. Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. Call 508-7539543. Frank’s Comedy Safari - Saturdays. $20 cash at the door. 8-9:45 p.m. Viva Bene Italian Ristorante, 144 Commercial St. Call 800-715-2844 or visit frankfoleyscomedysafari.com. StageTime Comedy Club - Saturdays. Featuring Worcester’s premiere comics from New York, Boston and LA! Only $5, because TALK is CHEAP. 18+. $5. 8-10 p.m. Jose’ Murphy’s, 97-103 Water St. Call 508-792-0900 or visit stagetimecomedyclub.com. Gamelan Gita Sari - Friday, May 3. Gamelan Gita Sari concerts are eagerly awaited and regularly play to standing-room-only crowds of all ages. Under the direction of Ni Suasthi Bandem, in her first year as Visiting Fellow in Balinese Performing Arts, dancers and musicians present a rich sampling of pieces. These are always vibrant, varied and immensely entertaining evenings. Admission is Free.. 8-10 p.m. College of the Holy Cross: Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St. Call 508-793-3490. Prelude to a Kiss - Friday, May 30 - Sunday, May 5. The Full Circle Theatre, presents Craig Lucas’ “Prelude to a Kiss”, a story of love, laughter, and loss in modern America. A romantic fantasy about Peter and Rita. Following their storybook wedding, an elderly man congratulates Rita with a kiss and, by a quirky twist of fate, the kiss affects a soul switch. Rita finds herself living in the old man’s body and the old man in hers. To complicate matters, the old man is dying. Peter must think fast to reverse the spell. $12 / $10 student/senior. Fri. & Sat. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 2-4 p.m. Milford Performing Arts Center, 150 Main St., Milford. Call 508-478-1684 or visit milfordpac.org. High Heels Comedy Tour - Saturday, May 4. The new all female comedy show takes the audience through a hilarious 75 minute walk in the pumps of Bostons TOP female comedians. These laugh inducing women show off their unique points of view as they engage the audience with their offbeat life stories and opinions on gossip, sex, men, family, friends and the pursuit of happiness. Hosted by Lane Moore who regularly performs stand-up, storytelling, and sketch comedy in NYC and Los Angeles. The show also features Andrea Henry who won Best Regional Film and The Audience Award for Best Comedy at the SENE Film Festival . The women all bring something different to the stage, proving that not only can females be

funny; they can deviate from predictable penis punch lines. Dinner Show: $45 Show Only: $25. 8:30-10 p.m. Doubletree by Hilton, 5400 Computer Drive, Westborough. Call 855-255-5750 or visit shop.drinkwaterproductions.com.

class/ workshop >Thursday 2 Budding Scientists: Pond Life. Curious little explorers conduct simple, safe, science and nature experiments in the EcoTarium’s Budding Scientists program. Please pick up a ticket for your session at the Information Desk when you arrive at the museum. Limited to first 10 adult-child pairs per session. Budding Scientists is designed for families and their children aged 4-6. You bring the curiosity, we’ll provide the smocks: This is active and interactive science, so children may get messy. In May, we’ll learn about some of the animals that live in New England ponds. Free with EcoTarium admission: $14 adults, $8 children ages 2-18, $10 seniors 65+ and students with ID. 10:15-10:45 a.m., 11 a.m.-11:30 a.m. EcoTarium, 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org.

>Friday 3 Friday Night Fun with Glassblowing: Glass Flowers for Mom. Get a taste of the ancient art of glassblowing in this fun one night course. In one evening you will learn about the history and process behind creating beautiful blown glass creations. After safety and studio etiquette are discussed, students will watch a brief demonstration of this 2,000 year old art before diving in and making their very own beer glass. No experience necessary, all materials included. $80. 6:30-9:30 p.m. New Street Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org. Pottery Plus - Girls Night Out. Take a break with your girlfriends and give the Potter’s Wheel a spin together! In a fun, relaxed atmosphere begin to learn to use the potter’s wheel to throw pots such as bowls, and mugs. You’ll practice on the wheel, under the instructor’s guidance, and decorate and fire your successful “first works”. Your evening at the Craft Center will end with a cup of coffee and sweets, before you brush off the mud and head out on the town. Limited to 10 students. Finished works will be available for pickup about two weeks after the workshop. Registration is for one participant, please group your registration when possible. $55. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org.

>Saturday 4 Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants. Feed your soil to feed your plants. Learn the basics of one of the most important things you can do for your garden; build healthy soil. Free. 10 a.m.-noon. Regional Environmental Council, Inc., 9 Castle St. 508-799-9139 or recworcester.org/events/urban-gardeningworkshop-sign-ups. The Healing Journey. Travel along with Psychic/Medium Diane Lewis as she transports you and the group to a realm beyond our own. Although journeying with the group you’ll still maintain your individuality as you travel and connect to messages given to you for your self discovery. The innovative concepts used on this journey and the interactive aspect only enhance the total experience for both the individual and the group. This unique offering is open to 8 persons maximum. Wear comfortable clothing. Light refreshments will be served. All persons must be prompt. Once door is closed there will be no interruptions. $60 per person. 10 a.m.-noon Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center, 366 Main St., Sturbridge. 617-645-

Upload your listings at worcestermag.com. Click the Night & Day toolbar, then choose Calendar to place your event listing in both our print and online weekly calendar. 6415 or dianelewis.us.com/sturbridgejourney.html. Weekend Jewelry Sampler. This introductory class allows students to experience basic jewelry making techniques. During this two day workshop students will learn how to anneal, texture, stamp, saw, ďŹ le, and ďŹ nish non-ferrous metal. Students have the option of working with sterling silver (an additional $30 for materials payable to the instructor) as students will be taught how to bezel-set a cabachon stone and form silver ring bands. This workshop is great for beginners who don’t have the exibility for weekly classes or for those just needing a refresher on the tools and techniques in jewelry making. Materials fee provides students with metal, saw blades, and more to complete the projects in this workshop. $154. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org.

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Garden Discovery Program: Wiggling Worms at Work. “WIGGLING WORMS at WORKâ€? Instructor: Ann Marie Pilch, Education Director, Tower Hill This program is designed for children ages 3 - 5 and their parent or caregiver. Class begins indoors with an activity and storytime. Then participants step outside for a short walk to discover what (or who!) is new in the garden. Please dress for the weather so you and a child can be the ďŹ rst to see the Garden come alive in the springtime, and observe worms doing their work. Non-members Adult/Child pair $8. Member Adult/Child pair $5.. 10-11 a.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or towerhillbg.org.

REdesign: Libraries. REdesign is a new approach to dialogue at the Worcester Art Museum, combining online audiences with onsite participants and journalism with art making. Join us for a dynamic exchange of ideas around the future usages of library spaces. Hear from some of today’s leading thinkers in design, architecture and online learning in a lively conversation around space: spaces for libraries, working, art making, studying and socializing. Free and Open to the Public. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Conference Room, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org/Events/ redesign.

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events/603415646335445. 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. 508-438-0597.

>Sunday 5 Belly Dance Sunday at Byblos Lounge! The dynamic dancing of the beautiful and talented MELINA will be featured with the high-energy live music of The Ed Melikian Ensemble at “Belly Dance Sunday!”, being held on Sunday, May 5th,

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>Saturday 4 Shopping for Mother’s Day Craft Fair. There will be two Children’s Make-n-Take tables for them to be able to create a gift and a card and a gift bag for the gift to be given to their special someone on Mother’s Day. Also, assorted Crafters, Local Artists and Vendors, Chinese Auction Table and lots and lots of yummy goodies at our Bake Sale! And lots more fun things to try and see! 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Triumphant Life church, Basement, 166 Holden St. 508-853-4215. 4th Annual May Festival of Local Food, Farms and Gardens. Come out and celebrate the long-awaited arrival of spring. Farmers, nurseries, horticulturalists, food crafters, grocers, restaurateurs and others will sell their products and share information about their services. Local musicians will play live music and door prizes will be awarded at the end of the day. Find the perfect Mother’s Day gift and much more! This family-oriented festival also offers activities for children, including nature crafting for kids in the Children’s Craft Room. A compost demonstration will show visitors how to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into garden gold. And a Free Plant Swap, sponsored by the North Brookfield Cultural Council, allows gardeners to share their plants and perennials and find new plants for their gardens. For more information, call the Haston Library at (508) 867-0208. Free. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Haston Free Public Library, 161 North Main St., North Brookfield. 508-867-5028 or northbrookfieldlibrary.org/gen-info/home/ may-festival-2013.

>Saturday 4 Fitchburg Art Museum hosts an opening reception for its Art in Bloom exhibit of floral interpretations on Friday, May 3 from 6-8 p.m. with a champagne toast. The event is free and open to the public. Fitchburg Art Museum, 25 Merriam Pkwy., Fitchburg. Fitchburgartmuseum.org.

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focusing powerful, positive energy on this task at a special time of year, when we celebrate the rebirth of Spring at the ancient festival of Beltane (first of May). The evening will include an interfaith ritual/prayer circle; a reiki energy blessing for those directly affected by the marathon attacks; and also a dance and drum circle to raise positive healing energy for our community. Bring drums, bellydance gear, and your own personal intentions for healing, mourning, or releasing work. This is not a performance; it is a participatory event. There is no admission fee; donations to the Red Cross are encouraged instead. Bring snacks if you wish. Free. 8-10 p.m. The Gypsy’s Cauldron at The Sturbridge Marketplace, Suite 201, 559 Main St., Sturbridge MA, Fiskdale. 774-200-9491 or facebook.com/

at beautiful Byblos Lounge, inside historic Union Station in Worcester. In addition to Melina’s performance, the band will provide lots of music for open dancing and your listening pleasure, so come and be a part of the excitement! Catch us on Facebook and our website - edmelikianensemble.com. $5 Entertainment Charge. 4-8 p.m. Byblos Lounge, 2 Washington Sq. Union Station, Worcester, MA. edmelikianensemble.com. Eight To The Bar Swing Dance and Group Swing Dance Lesson. 6:30 p.m. ~ Beginner Swing Dance Lesson. 7:30 p.m. ~ Eight To The Bar. Singles and Couples Welcome. $14. 6:30-10:30 p.m. Leominster Elks Lodge 1237, 134 N. Main St., Leominster. 978-263-7220 or dance2swing.com and

Two Nations Powwow. This is the 16th annual Two Nations Powwow. A powwow is a Native American style cultural festival. At our event you’ll be able to experience everything from native music, drumming, dancing, regalia, tipi’s, storytelling, arts & crafts vendors, food, cultural activities and teachings, and much, much more. It’s quite the experience to come out and enjoy nature while getting a little taste of how things use to be; as well as how we live in our heritage now. This is a family friendly event that is open to the public. Entry into the Powwow is Free, but there is a $5 fee to park at the sportsman’s club. We invite everyone to come and join us in having a really great time. $5 parking fee. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Auburn Sportsmam’s Club, 50 Elm St., Auburn. 508-791-3770.

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A Prayer to the Blessed Virgin (never known to fail) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, blesses Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this, my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart, succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 times) Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands. (3 times) Sweet Mother I pray for this cause in your hands (3 times) Holy Spirit, resolve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me in all instances of my life, you are with me. I want this short prayer to thank you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you even in spite of material things, I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy toward me and mine. The person must say this prayer on 3 consecutive days. After 3 days the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the prayer is granted.JL

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www.centralmassclass.com LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE DATED: APRIL 23, 2013 By virtue and in execution of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Peter A. Pappas, of Northbridge, and Sandra A. Pappas, of Sutton, both in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the Southbridge Savings Bank, dated December 16, 2005 and recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 38038, Page 282, as ratified and confirmed in a mortgage given by Peter A. Pappas and Sandra A. Pappas to Southbridge Savings Bank dated December 16, 2005 and recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 38142, Page 210, which mortgage has never been assigned, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage, and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at public auction, on the premises described in said mortgage, and known as 82 Whitins Road, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on Thursday, the 23rd day of May, 2013, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, all and singular, the premises conveyed by said mortgage, and therein described as follows: PARCEL ONE The land located at 82 Whitins Road, Sutton, Massachusetts, described as Lot A on Plan Book 742, Plan 79 in a deed recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 22009, Page 302, bounded as described as follows: BEGINNING at the most northerly corner of the tract to be conveyed by an iron pipe in the southeasterly line of Whitins Road at a point northeasterly a distance of 36.46 feet from the W.C.H. bound opposite station 42+8.69 of the 1958 County Road layout; THENCE by land now or formerly of Paul A. Speck S. 27° 00’ 35” E. two hundred and fifty-four hundredths (200.54) feet to an iron pipe; THENCE by land of said Paul A. Speck S. 56° 59’ 26” W. two hundred and seventy-nine hundredths (200.79) feet to a drill hole in a rock in the swamp; THENCE by land of said Paul A. Speck N. 27° 00’ 35” W. two hundred one and ten hundredths (201.10) feet to an iron pipe in the southeasterly line of Whitins Road; THENCE by Whitins Road N. 56° 59’ 25” E. one hundred sixty-four and twenty-six hundredths (164.26) feet to a W.C.H. bound; THENCE northeasterly by a curve to the right radius of 1175 feet for a curve distance of 36.46 feet to the point of beginning. CONTAINING 40,158 square feet more or less. PARCEL TWO The land situated off Whitins Road in the Town of Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts shown as “residue” on a “Plan of Land in Sutton, Mass. Owned by Mark S. Foss, Trustee of Sutton Colonial Realty Trust, 1 in. + 100 ft., dated June 1, 1999, by Lavallee Brothers, Inc. 497 Central Turnpike, Sutton, Mass.” and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 742, Plan 79. CONTAINING 11.48 acres, more or less, according to said plan. Parcel One and Parcel Two being the same premises conveyed to the Grantors by deed dated June 13, 2002 and recorded at the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds in Book 26788, Page 073.Both of said parcels now being shown on Plan Book 769, Plan 3 as the “Retreat Lot”. BEING the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Philip R. Davidson et al. dated May 12, 2004 and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 33655, Page 110. This document is recorded to correct an error in the notarization of the original Mortgage which is dated December 16, 2005 and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 38038, Page 282. THE ABOVE PROPERTY IS CORRECTLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE The land located at 82 Whitins Road, Sutton, Massachusetts, shown as 50-2 A Speck 4965-422 on Plan recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, in Plan Book 742, Plan 79 and also described as Lot A in a deed recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 22009, Page 302, bounded as described as follows: BEGINNING at the most northerly corner of the tract to be conveyed by an iron pipe in the southeasterly line of Whitins Road at a point northeasterly a distance of 36.46 feet from the W.C.H. bound opposite station 42+8.69 of the 1958 County Road layout; THENCE by land now or formerly of Paul A. Speck S. 27° 00’ 35” E. two hundred and fifty-four hundredths (200.54) feet to an iron pipe; THENCE by land of said Paul A. Speck S. 56° 59’ 26” W. two hundred and seventynine hundredths (200.79) feet to a drill hole in a rock in the swamp; THENCE by land of said Paul A. Speck N. 27° 00’ 35” W. two hundred one and ten hundredths (201.10) feet to an iron pipe in the southeasterly line of Whitins Road; THENCE by Whitins Road N. 56° 59’ 25” E. one hundred sixty-four and twenty-six hundredths (164.26) feet to a W.C.H. bound; THENCE northeasterly by a curve to the right radius of 1175 feet for a curve distance of 36.46 feet to the point of beginning. CONTAINING 40,158 square feet more or less. PARCEL TWO The land situated off Whitins Road in the Town of Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts shown as “residue” on a “Plan of Land in Sutton, Mass. Owned by Mark S. Foss, Trustee of Sutton Colonial Realty Trust, 1 in. + 100 ft., dated June 1, 1999, by Lavallee Brothers, Inc. 497 Central Turnpike, Sutton, Mass.” and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 742, Plan 79. CONTAINING 11.48 acres, more or less, according to said plan. Parcel One and Parcel Two being the same premises conveyed to the Grantors by deed dated June 13, 2002 and recorded at the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds in Book 26788, Page 073. Both of said parcels now being shown on Plan Book 769, Plan 3 as the “Retreat Lot”. BEING the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Philip R. Davidson et al. dated May 12, 2004 and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 33655, Page 110. This document is recorded to correct an error in the notarization of the original Mortgage which is dated December 16, 2005 and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 38038, Page 282. The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication. The above-described premises will be sold subject to all municipal taxes and other municipal assessments, rights or easements. A Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollar non-refundable deposit will be required to be paid by certified check or in cash by the purchaser at the time and place of sale and the balance upon delivery of Deed within forty-five (45) days of said sale at the office of Montague & Desautels, 334 Main Street, Southbridge, Massachusetts, 0l550. Other terms and conditions to be announced at the sale. SOUTHBRIDGE SAVINGS BANK By: Philip Pettinelli, President Present holder of said mortgage Gwendolyn Glass Carbone, Auctioneer Mass. Auctioneer’s Lic. No. 1647 Montague & Desautels Attorneys-at-Law 334 Main Street Southbridge, MA 0l550 Telephone: (508) 764-3244 4/25, 5/2, 5/9/2013 MS

TOWN OF SUTTON BOARD OF SELECTMEN Public Notice 32 Boston Road Sutton MA. Class II (Second Hand Vehicles) Legal Notice of Board of Selectmen Meeting on May 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. located at the Town Hall in Sutton, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA 01590 Notice is hereby given under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 140 Section 58 §c Class II license, Vinny’s Automotive, Vincenzo DiMolfetta has applied for a Class II license at the location of 32 Boston Road, Sutton, The public is invited to attend 5/2/2013 MS TOWN OF MILLBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Millbury Board of Health In accordance with Massachusetts General Law Chapter 111, Sections 31, the Millbury Board of Health will hold a public hearing on Wednesday May 22, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA to adopt regulations for the construction of private wells. Regulations are available for inspection in the Board of Health office during normal business hours. Anyone wishing to be heard on this proposal should appear at the time and place designated above. Armand White, Chairman 5/2, 5/9/2013 MS

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TOWN OF MILLBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Millbury Planning Board In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 15(C) of the Massachusetts General Laws, and Section 49 of the Millbury Zoning Bylaws, the Millbury Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 13, 2013, at 7:30 p.m., at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA, on the application of the Town of Millbury Department of Public Works for a Scenic Road Permit for realignment of the Stowe Road/Charlton Road intersection that would result in the removal of 9 public shade trees. Plan is available to view in the Planning Office. Anyone wishing to be heard on this application should appear at the time and place designated above. Richard Gosselin Chairman 4/25, 5/2/2013 MS Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 508-831-2200 Docket No. WO13C0168CA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME In the matter of : Jacob Alexander Smith Of Millbury, MA To all persons interested in petition described: A petition has been presented by Jacob A Smith requesting that: Jacob Alexander Smith be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows: Jacob Alexander Mallas IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Worcester ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: 05/21/2013 WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court Date: April 22, 2013 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 5/2/2013 MS

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www.centralmassclass.com LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Division 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 508-831-2000 INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE Docket No. WO13P1232EA Estate of: Joseph F. Kenney Date of Death: February 10, 2013 To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Timothy C. Kenney of Upton MA. Petitioner Robert B. Kenney of Shrewsbury MA. A Will has been admitted to informal probate. Timothy C. Kenney of Upton MA, Robert B. Kenney of Shrewsbury MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. 05/02/2013 WM

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Holden- Village at Westminster Place 2 Units available now. One floor living 2 bed 2 bath 2 car gar, full basement, hardwood floor, granite countertops, stainless appliances $319,990 & 3 bed single family 2 car gar $349,990. Only one member of the household need be over 55. Call today for showing 508-881-6662 Fafard Real Estate

BURNCOAT/GREENDALE 1 BD, laundry, appl’s & off st. park. HT/HW incl’d. From $775.00. 508-852-6001 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Commercial Warehouse Space Available Hubbardston, Mass 32,200 SQ FT 3 Loading docks with conveyor system to 2nd floor 24,960 SQ FT 1 Loading dock Metal/Steel Frame Warehouse for details call Clea Jr. @ 508-294-8239

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VACATION PROPERTY FOR RENT West Yarmouth-3BR Newly renovated. View of pond. W/D, Central Air, nice yard. $950.00/w. Call 508-829-9097

AUTOMOTIVE AUTO/ATV 2005 Suzuki King Quad 700 Less than 1400 miles. Mint condition. Has winch and plow. $4500.00 508-987-1109

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Notice is hereby given pursuant to the provision of M.G.L c.255, sec. 39A that on May 3, 2013 the following vehicles will be sold at private sale to satisfy our garage keeper lien thereon for towing and storage charges and expenses of sale and notices. Vehicle 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY vin 4T1BE32K86U686327; OWNER LUC TRAN 3284 CENTER ST SALEM, OR 97301-4668 Vehicle 2011 HONDA CIVIC vin 2HGFA1F53BH547764; OWNER MICHAEL HORNE 52 OUTLOOK DR WORCESTER, MA 01602 Vehicle 1999 CHEVY EXPRESS vin 1GCHG39R3X1022340; OWNER ERIC KWABENA MENSA 37 BARBER AVE #8 WORCESTER, MA 01606 To be sold at Central Auto Works 78 Canterbury St Worcester, MA 4/18, 4/25, 5/2/2013 WM

AUTO/MOTORCYCLE 2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond. 469 miles. Asking $1650.00. Includes helmet. 207-289-9362 OR 207-4501492. AUTO/SUV 1998 Ford Explorer Recent 6 cyl motor, tires. Brakes and Exhaust. Has AC, tilt, cruise, AM/FM CD. Runs & drives exc. Must see. $2900.00 or BO. 508829-6499 2002 Ford Explorer XLT 4dr, 4wd. Auto. Dark green. Second adult owner. Always maintained. Many recent updates. Call for details. $4200.00 508-9491320 2008 Ford Escape 92K miles. 4 WD. Red. Well maintained. $8,900.00 Call 508-254-6292

1990 Chevrolet 2500 8 ft bed, reg cab, standard, 350 motor, 4x4, 107K miles, new clutch & many new parts, exhaust, brakes & brake lines, runs good, 31" tires $2,700 978-8400058 2003 Ford F350 One ton dump truck. Automatic. Diesel, 4wd, 9ft. Fisher plow. Chrome wheels, bumper & set-up w/ trailer hitch. 47k orig. $17,950.00 774-696-5696

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1993 Honda Accord New rebuilt 3k engine, clutch, tires, batt, new glass, full power. Must Sell! $2500 978-874-0546 or cell 978-602-6841. 1994 Toyota Celica Very dependable cool little car. Lots of miles left in it. A few cosmetic issues but 30 MPG’s! $1,000 508-8654410 2001 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, Rare car, loaded, mint condition. $7,995 508-875-7400 2003 Acura 3.2 TL Excellent Condition, leather, moonroof, complete care record available, 105K miles, $7,490 508-7999347 and 508-754-6344 508-799-9347 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt Silver, 4 cyl, 4 door. JUST 42,550 miles. Auto, air. $7,200.00 508-829-0377 2008 Ford Fusion V-6 Sedan 28000 miles. Red ext/ $14,000 - 508-6889132 for appt. (Rutland)

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CLASS IT UP! Living the Classifieds’ Lifestyle! Spring has sprung! Finally! After this weekend it sure feels like it. As always, with the warmer weather come new beginnings. Seeing the buds blooming on the trees and in the gardens, this time of year makes me feel as if a time of renewal is happening. Spring fever anyone? Gratitude and inspiration are a couple of words that I have been on my mind lately. In the past couple of weeks we have seen acts of heroism and kindness that have inspired us all and I think that it has made us more grateful for the people who shine in every kind of situation. Everyone shines in all kinds of ways large and small, but still shining brightly. I am truly grateful every single day for the kind words from the advertisers and readers of Central Mass Classifieds. We have some fantastic people who have advertised regularly with us for years and great new businesses and individuals each week. You are making a smart choice to use one of our businesses in this section. With the renewal happening, it is a great time also to think about renewing our spaces. Whether it is a new garden, a new roof, a new apartment, a new job, now is a good time to year to plan a project. Or how about clearing things out and having a yard sale? Speaking of yard sales and gratitude, your unwanted items could make someone very grateful. It is amazing how exciting it can be to find a great bargain. I have seen postings from friends about the great deals that they found. Everyone loves to find something special for a great price! As always, if you have any suggestions for our section please let me know. I am inspired by you and grateful for you! Thank you! Keep It Classy!

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Dave Pentland

Dave Pentland is the founder, owner and president of Worcester’s Ruff Dawg. The local dog toy manufacturing company has been in business since 1999, and has grown from a small start-up to being known internationally. Its locally-made toys are distributed throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and even overseas. Ruff Dawg’s recent acquisition of Astro Manufacturing Co., another Worcesterbased company, will add a slew of new toys, called AstroBones, to Ruff Dawg’s already extensive catalog. We sat down with Dave Pentland to talk about dogs, the toys they love, and what it takes to be an allAmerican business during tough economic times. Being the owner of a dog toy company, you must have a dog yourself. Yes, I

have a springer spaniel named Lucky.

Does he like the toys you make? Oh yea, of course he loves them. He has no choice really [laughs], but yes he likes all the toys I bring home for him.

Does he have a favorite? He really likes

The Gladiator, which is a retrieving toy that we make. But I think he likes all his toys equally.

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Two minutes with...

How do you develop your toys? Do you have doggy focus groups? [Laughs] No, nothing like that. We know that dogs enjoy soft things to chew on to pacify them and give their jaws and teeth exercise, as opposed to hard plastic, which break more easily and can cut their mouths. Most of our products are interactive and retrieving toys, things that the owners can throw and teach their dogs to fetch and return. The key to making good dog toys is to have them be made of materials that are both soft in the mouth and rugged. We know dogs like to chase things like Frisbees and sticks, so we came up with our own versions of those things. We also have treat-holder toys, where the owner can put a little treat inside and the dog has to figure out how to get it out. Dogs just like to chew things up, so customers want something that’s as close to being indestructible as possible.

How will your acquisition of Astro Manufacturing add to your catalog? We just developed the AstroBone; it’s more of a chew toy with different flavors like turkey, steak, bacon, and mint, so the dogs can taste and smell it. There are three different sizes, and also a hard and soft variety for dogs with differing jaw strengths. The nice thing is that AstroBones will be in a lower price range than our regular Ruff Dawg products, which allows us to get into a different market.

I can see how dogs would like turkey or steak flavored bones, but do they really like mint? We like to think so [laughs]. The mint ones are more for owners who think their dogs have bad breath. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn’t. It just adds to the variety of things dog owners can expect from us.

So in a way, you’re designing the toys for both dogs and their owners. Yes, the package has to be appealing to the buyer, and they want to know that it is made well and made in America. We design our toys to be things that both dogs and owners can enjoy and have fun with.

One of your big draws as a company is that your products are made in the United States. How have you managed to stay a domestic company? A few years ago there was a big scare over tainted dog food made in China. Since then people are more aware of where they get their treats and toys. When you make your own products you can control the raw materials, there’s no middleman involved. People will pay a little more for a product that they know is safe and American made.

Were you involved in the materials industry before you founded Ruff Dawg? Yes, I actually started Ruff Dawg almost by accident. We used to make industrial parts, and at the time we were making a certain piece for an industrial diffuser. We had this product mold made and then the client went out of business. So we decided to use the mold to try to make a Frisbee and sell it to sporting stores. That didn’t

work out, so we altered the design to make it a Frisbee for pets and it took off from there. People said we had a great product but that we needed more designs, and we’ve been adding to our catalog since then. Our strength is in the materials side; we know which materials are the best for our various toys.

How do you feel about the pit bull ordinance that was passed a few years ago? Dogs, if not raised properly, are capable of causing problems. It’s all a matter of how they’re brought up. Some people who don’t train their dogs properly should have to follow the ordinance. But, if the owner knows how to properly train their dog, a muzzle shouldn’t be necessary.

-Corey Olivier, Intern

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