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veryone lives in London, they love the Queen, it rains all the time and they just drink tea.

That’s pretty much all there is to England, right? Well, if that’s true, then all Americans do is eat big macs, support Donald Trump and talk too much. Most towns and cities in New England have names inspired by their English counterparts, but that should come as no surprise. It’s in the name after all. However, it may come as a surprise that this Worcester has a twin across the pond. In the heart of rural England lies Worcestershire; home to Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, J.R.R Tolkien’s mother, and yours truly. So for any of Yankees who have wondered about your twin city across the pond, here’s your chance to find out the truth behind the myths, because there is much more to us than the Queen and driving on the left.

– Megan Baynes, editorial intern

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Jan. 28 - Feb. 3, 2016 n Volume 41, Number 22

Neighborhood groups empty trash bins the city won’t

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arbage in the streets – it’s a problem for any city, and one that afflicts certain areas of Worcester more than others.

If there’s nowhere to throw garbage, people may just throw their empty bags or used cans on the side of the road.

In two areas of the city — Chandler Street and the Canal District — helpful barrels line the streets, and people say they’ve seen a marked improvement in cleanliness.

The catch? Local businesses are footing the bill for trash pickup, since the city only pays for trash pickup in the sidewalk barrels downtown.

“I do have a concern that it’s a service we should be getting,” Chandler Street Business Association president Paul Collyer said. “Let’s at least start a conversation.”

Chandler Street used some of the Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area funding it received after the city designated it as one of five NRSA-eligible neighborhoods, procured in partnership with the Worcester Common Ground Community Development Corporation. Collyer identified 16 trash barrels on Chandler and Pleasant streets, and said they helped separate the well-trafficked corridor from areas of the city with broken bottles and fast food containers littering the road.

“You’ve got to at least make the streets look attractive,” Collyer said. “It’s very frustrating to see trash in the city.”

John Giangregorio, a member of the Canal District Alliance and the Canal District Business Association, said he remembers when the trash barrels in the Canal District were put in with federal money as part of a streetscape improvement plan.

Since the city would not pay for trash pickup, members of the CDBA have been footing the bill since their installation.

“The trash receptacles greatly add to the feel of the street

A trash can overflows on Millbury Street. scape with the other street furniture, decorative lights, bus stops, benches, etc as well as helping to keep litter off our neighborhood streets, sidewalks, and doorways,” said Giangregorio, who is an ex officio member of both Canal District organizations.

The city’s position is it would rather remove the trash bins than use taxpayer dollars to put the barrels on the city’s trash collection routes.

“In both cases [Chandler Street and the Canal District], as in other locations, receptacles are only added with a commitment from an abutter or association that commits to maintaining them,” city spokesperson John Hill said. “In the event they decide that they no longer want to continue with that responsibility, and another organization is not willing to continue with that task, we will remove the trash receptacles.”

“It would be cost prohibitive to collect trash receptacles across the entire city,” he continued.

Meanwhile, the CSBA and Collyer have been lobbying city councilors to try to get the city to take over trash pickup for their barrels.

“We need more barrels, and we need people to pick it up,” District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen said. “I would like to see the city come up with a plan for trash pickup.”

Collyer, who helped pay for trash pickup for years, estimated his spending at “thousands” of dollars, while noting he had help from Art Mooradian and other Chandler Street business owners who chipped in with dumpster space and moving the garbage. The CSBA recently gave an appreciation award to the South Middlesex Opportunity Council, which continued on page 6

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

Confidence (cockiness?) of area Pats fans comes crashing down as the home team does what just about no one thought possible: losing to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game. -4

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City errs on side of caution with declared parking ban for last storm, the major part of which spared Worcester. +2

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Weekend storm spoiled some plans, but at the height of it dozens were spotted eating at local hotspots, such as Mare & Monte Trattoria. Now that’s loyalty. +3

New Escape Games concept in Worcester enthralls local media, who prove they’re best behind the keyboards. +1

End Common Core movement suffers two blows, with rising graduation rates and lowered dropout rates revealed, along with an appel of the ballot question to eliminate the controversial education standards.

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Charlton officials get credit for thinking big in wanting Erin Brockovich, yes the one Julia Roberts played on the big screen, to help remediate groundwater contamination with ExxonMobile Corp. +3

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Total for this week: Massachusetts lawmakers head to New Hampshire to help presidential hopefuls. U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern did his thing for Hillary – but let a dog run past him out of a house he had stopped at, according to the T&G. That’s OK, Jim, the Pats’ O-line feels your pain. -1

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Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band to play the DCU? It don’t come easy, but it’s coming to Worcester. +4

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Community, city aim for TIF harmony Tom Quinn

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n the same meeting where it recommended granting a Tax Increment Financing deal to Absolute Machinery, the City Council’s Economic Development Subcommittee heard testimony from the Worcester CommunityLabor Coalition in support of a new TIF policy that would govern the deals. Under the proposal, the city would grant developers relief from property taxes to encourage businesses to relocate or stay in Worcester.

Absolute Machinery will get 50 percent off the new taxes on their tax bill for 10 years as it expands to a parcel of land in South Worcester Industrial Park, an area the city has been trying to fill for a while. The director of the city’s Business Assistance Division, Paul Morano, pegged the new tax income for the city at $38,000 – up from the $32,000 Absolute Machinery pays now, making the deal a net gain for the city in taxes even with the substantial break.

That a project requiring a TIF should create an increase in tax revenue is a basic tenet included in the city’s TIF policy, which Worcester Chief Development Officer Mike Traynor stressed was an existing policy recently put in writing for the benefit of the Council.

“We’re never giving anything away,” Traynor said. “If we didn’t have the TIF, we wouldn’t be getting any incremental value whatsoever.”

The city’s TIF policy also includes a provision mandating the creation of “permanent full time livable wage jobs,” defined as jobs with a starting wage of at least 125 percent of the minimum wage. Members of the public said mandating livable wage jobs was good, although some said the city should go even further and push for a $15 minimum wage instead.

“It’s a good place to start, with industrial jobs,” Worcester Building Trades Council

Brian Brousseau speaks before the Economic Development Subcommittee.

president Brian Brousseau said of the socalled “fight for $15.”

Although the WCLC did have some quibbles, members overall seemed optimistic, with Co-Chair Frank Kartheiser offering the organization’s proposed TIF policy as a suggestion list for the city to build on.

“We know that TIFs are vital, essential, for development in Worcester … we want to make them stronger,” Kartheiser said.

The representative for Absolute Machinery and the city’s TIF policy laid out a commitment to hiring locally after a year of questioning and prodding by interested

community groups after high-profile development involving tax deals, such as New Hampshire developer Brady Sullivan buying the old Courthouse on Main Street.

“A TIF policy needs to accommodate a requirement for stricter local hiring criteria,” continued on page 6

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runs the shelter on Queen Street, for agreeing to take over the responsibility of paying for trash pickup, allowing the street to keep its bins.

“Everybody was kind of pitching in,” Collyer said. “We’ve been creative doing what we can.”

Giangregorio identified Three G’s Sportsbar — the bar he owns — and recently, Joseph’s Lock and Safe, as the organizations picking up the tab in the Canal District. He estimated the cost at around $400 per month.

“We have privately paid for this service that is provided by the DPW downtown and in our parks,” Giangregorio said.

“This is an essential and fundamental service cities provide their business districts throughout the country. To keep the city clean and set the tone for urban cleanliness, this is an important service for the image of our great city.”

Added Rosen: “You’d think this would have been solved 20 years ago. I don’t know how much longer we can go to the business corridors and ask them to pay. I don’t think it’s a lifetime commitment.”

Another angle to the disagreement is over the treatment downtown Worcester seems to be getting recently, as opposed to business corridors snaking off further from City Hall.

“We’re trying to encourage the same economic growth as downtown, and we’re already behind the 8-ball when it comes to focus,” Collyer said. “... we desperately want to join the rest of the city in terms of moving forward.”

One huge issue, Collyer said, is since the city of Worcester charges more than $1 per yellow trash bag in its official pickup program, some people who can’t or don’t want to spend money on the official version of bags that cost less than 20 cents from non-city sources are taking advantage of “free” trash disposal by sneaking garbage into Chandler Street’s bins.

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“The last couple years, it’s gotten really bad with people’s personal trash,” Collyer said. “The city’s having a problem with people dumping trash in parks, and we’re seeing the same thing with the business districts.”

Trash at city parks was raised as an issue last year, when the city revealed just one person is tasked with collecting refuse from the more than 60 parks in the city. Collyer sees the intrusion into Chandler Street as overflow from that need.

“We’re becoming a poorer city – paying for trash bags isn’t an option for some people,” Collyer said. “It’s a big issue.

Buying yellow bags isn’t number one on their [to-do] list …

What you’re starting to see now is wholesale families, it’s almost like going to the dump.”

Rosen previously pitched BigBelly trash cans to the city. The solar-powered bins compact trash, allowing for a longer wait before they need to be emptied, and can even beam information about capacity to the city to optimize pickup routes. Rosen said innovative thinking like BigBelly could clean up Worcester’s streets and put it on the same trash collection level as cities like Boston, which uses the technology.

“We want a clean city,” Rosen said. “Trash receptacles are something that comes along with a world-class city. It’s something the city doesn’t always see as necessary, but it is.”

Meanwhile, Collyer said amid all the talk of huge economic development projects, the city should keep trash collection in mind as a way to help local businesses and enhance the city’s curb appeal.

“You’ve got to take care of the minutiae before you can do the big stuff,” Collyer said.

Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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Main South Community Development Corporation Executive Director Steve Teasdale said, while also calling for hiring to include a certain ratio of minority populations.

As written currently, Worcester’s TIF policy requires “the applicant agrees that 100 percent of the newly created positions will be made available to residents of Worcester” and that “the City of Worcester reserves the right to also require that certain applicants ensure a percentage of the permanent full time jobs to be created are filled by Worcester residents.”

Also, an applicant must use its “best efforts to hire a minimum of 50 percent of its contractors and sub contractors from qualified local companies.”

The specter of Brady Sullivan reared its head again during the meeting. The city mentioned the debarment of subcontractors – which happened to one of Brady Sullivan’s commonly-used contractors – but Brousseau said the evaluation should be even stricter.

“We think that language needs to be expanded on,” he said. “The fact that a contractor would be debarred, there are many other issues that should be considered.”

Another issue looming over the discussion concerned monitoring and enforcement. In addition to following state reporting requirements – since the program began at the state level – Morano said Worcester is re-instituting its requirements for developers, which it abandoned when the state made the request years prior. Developers will provide semiannual reports to the city about employment levels at the facility, the number of Worcester residents employed, the financial contribution to Worcester in taxes and fees and any private investment made for the benefit of the community – another ask from the WCLC. While the vast majority of speakers at the meeting were aligned with the WCLC’s asks, a representative from the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce did speak in favor of keeping the policy as a “road map” to afford the city manager more autonomy, and Traynor also sounded a note of caution in regards to tightening the requirements of the TIF policy.

“It’s to spur development,” Traynor said. “It’s to have a tool to bring development in Worcester. The cost to develop in Worcester is the same as in Boston, but we all know we can’t get the same return in rents as in Boston. … I don’t want to put up hurdles unnecessarily that are going to make someone run to any of the other 350 communities in the Commonwealth.”

“The community benefit is we get buildings that are vacant, blighted, put back into service,” he added.

Leo Miller of the IBEW Local 96 electricians’ union echoed the sentiments of many when he said a TIF policy should protect labor as well as the developers benefiting from the tax breaks.

“I think it’s time to put a policy in place to protect the community, not just businesses,” Miller said.

As for Absolute Machinery, which is expanding from an existing building near the SWIP, the company hopes to make the new building its “world headquarters,” as a slew of neighbors testified to their status as good neighbors and city officials remarked on the sound logic in giving them a TIF, part of an already approved schedule of TIFs anticipated by a prior City Council.

Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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Rewind: 40 Years of News, Entertainment and More

Remembering when the Beastie Boys sold out the Worcester Centrum I f you haven’t been paying attention, and we know you have, the DCU Center has been kicking butt and taking names lately in scoring some big time acts. Garth Brooks is headed back here for the first time in more than two decades, Maroon 5 hits the city in October, Ringo Starr is headed there, The Avett Brothers have a gig and Sting and Peter Gabriel are making the DCU their only New England stop in their upcoming tour.

Yes, it’s safe to say things are most definitely rockin’ at the DCU, what with a retail store and

small restaurant having recently set up shop. It is certainly music to the ears, and all the buzz recalls the venue’s early years, when it went by another name entirely.

The young college set may not remember, but the Worcester Centrum was the place to be if you were anybody in the entertainment business.

Frank Sinatra, Van Halen, Kiss, The Boss, U2 – those are just some of music’s biggies that called worcester home for at least one night while rocking out the Centrum.

In 1995, another bigtime act did its thing at the DCU, as chronicled

by Patrick Bunnell in the May 10 edition of Worcester Magazine.

The Beastie Boys – a.k.a. MCA, Mike D and Ad-Rock – hit the Centrum May 12, hot off its multi-platinum album, 1994’s “Ill Communication.” It was part of a North American tour kicked off that April.

Here’s some of what Bunnell wrote about his introduction the Beastie Boys: “The first time I ever saw the Beastie Boys’ tape, I nearly smashed it. The year was 1986, and my roommate at Assumption College had left the Beastie Boys’ ‘Licensed to Ill’ on the kitchen table, less than 4 feet from an old hammer.

“My friend and I had more than a few beers in us and debated whether to smash the tape to smithereens. It was easy for an alternative and hardcore rock enthusiast like myself to hold the Beasties in contempt at that time.

When burst upon the hip-hop scene that year,

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the Beasties appeared to be nothing more than a novelty act. They were white rappers, albeit successful ones. ‘Licensed to Ill’ was firmly perched atop the Billboard charts.”

How popular, exactly were The Boys back then?

The show at the Centrum sold out in 24 minutes

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“Hank and Walter on Worcester”

A New Weekly Podcast

Worcester Wares, the relatively new store in the DCU Center that hawks Worcesterrelated apparel and gifts, received some random exposure recently. Beer company Heineken is doing something involving graffiti and beer and it’s in Miami – I don’t know, the advertising campaign is a little all over the place. But the gist is, San Francisco-based artist Apex happened to be wearing a Worcester Wares shirt while painting some abstract art on a wall – and since it’s all part of some commercial scheme by the beer overlords, it’s now on video for all to see. We’ll forget he was wearing the shirt while painting, usually a fate reserved for older shirts ready to be put out to pasture, and just concentrate on the street cred this gives Worcester. Or maybe the Worcester shirt gives Apex the street cred? In any case, clearly the mission of one City Hall employee to give Worcester shirts to visiting artists like a T-shirt Johnny Appleseed has paid off.

“Hank and Walter on Worcester,” featuring WCRN radio personality Hank Stolz and Worcester Magazine editor Walter Bird Jr., will talk all things Worcester, and maybe even a little beyond. You can bet they will hit on the politics, the shenanigans and latest events. Special guests will also make an appearance.

Listen online at worcestermagazine.com and on air at WCRN 830 AM. New podcast available every Monday.

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PROSTITUTION REAGONOMICS:

There’s a bit of a debate over the best way to eliminate prostitution in Worcester, revolving around supply and demand. One method is to keep arresting prostitutes – cutting out the supply for the men (or women) looking to pay for sex. The other method is to go after the “johns,” cutting out the demand allows some people to make money off selling sex. There are valid (and invalid) arguments on both sides, but the demand-side crowd had made progress recently in getting the city and police department to refocus on arresting the men rather than the women, successfully pointing out that the women are, in most cases, further on the victim side of the criminal spectrum than the men. And the decades of arresting women for prostitution don’t seem to have done very much of anything, besides earning the police some headlines and getting neighborhood watches to shut up for a week. Arresting johns, on the other hand, tends to send a ripple through the john community, since the WPD will post the results of big, successful stings on their Facebook page, allowing their friends and families to see their debauchery. On the other side, according to various comments at various times, arresting women for prostitution is so much easier for the police than arresting men, since it doesn’t require putting officers in any real danger and can be done by driving through a bad area of the city with a wad of cash. So where is all this going?

Last year, touting cooperation with the Worcester Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, the WPD published the names of 28 johns and five women on its Facebook page for all the world to see. Police also stopped publishing the addresses of prostitutes. This year, the WPD has posted the results of one sting on its Facebook page and published the names of the 13 women arrested in Main South last weekend. So the annual reporting of women has more than doubled since last year, and team demand-side is way in the hole as we go into February.

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LEAVE THE GUN, TAKE THE HOT DOG:

Call it The Dogfather, Part II. Food truck owner Mark Gallant has risen through the ranks of food truck owners since 2010, now boasting three trucks offering to make Worcesterites a hot dog they can’t refuse. Now Gallant has set up an online crowdfunding campaign to open the Worcester Food Truck Commissary.

The idea is to give food trucks a place a “base of operations” to prepare and store food, clean and sanitize vehicles and group together for buying power. Just imagine that scene where the Mafia families get together to talk business and avert turf wars – I mean, he brought this theme on himself. Anyway, Gallant has already picked out a warehouse in the Canal District, and he wants to raise an ambitious $12,500 to buy “walls and ceilings, permits, electrical, drains and shelving.” In addition to being a boon for existing food trucks, Gallant is hoping this will make it easier for new food trucks to break onto the scene, benefiting the industry as a whole. Like most online crowdfunding projects (this one on indiegogo.com), there are perks to donating to the campaign. $10 gets you bumper sticker, for example, while $100 gets you the most expensive novelty T-shirt I’ve ever seen. But what you’re really paying for is the warm and fuzzy feeling of helping out a local business. Of course, the giant rain cloud hanging over this particular parade is the fact that food trucks are still “legislated

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… almost out of business” in Worcester, as Gallant puts it. The report from the pilot program hasn’t come out yet, but Gallant is betting on a relaxation of food truck rules, something that’s likely to happen. Even more likely when you’ve got the local food truck cartel exerting pressure on politicians in City Hall, no doubt.

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MATHSTRONAUTS: The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released its educator evaluation data this week, and the third year of the program hasn’t built any confidence that the program is actually working. It seems there is a spectrum in terms of program quality. It ranges from the evaluations being flawless and 100-percent accurate, in which case any employee who got an “unsatisfactory” would be automatically fired and any employee who got an “exemplary” would automatically be given a cookie, to the evaluations being rubbish and random, in which case the DESE would keep the results to themselves and probably stop doing them. The truth lies somewhere in between, as the DESE released the results, but censored any categories with fewer than seven educators, and any categories in which all educators got the same evaluation or only one educator got a different evaluation.

The object, you see, is to keep people from knowing which particular teacher or principal got which grade, abstracting the data so we can only do broad overviews. However, as your local alt-weekly, let’s make like that one episode of Schoolhouse Rock and use math to go rogue.

The DESE provides data for each school, and divides the grades into administrators and nonadministrators. So if they give data for one group and not the other, you can easily circumvent the “censorship.” Take Burncoat Street School, for example. Out of 27 non-administrators, 7.4 percent are exemplary. Multiply that together and you will find that two non-administrators are exemplary. The two administrators’ data is hidden, but there are 29 total educators, and 10.3 percent are exemplary. Multiply together and get – three total. Now, even those of you who had unsatisfactory math teachers should be able to take it from here. Take 29 minus 27, three minus two, and come up with the answer – one of Burncoat Street’s two administrators is exemplary (the other is merely “proficient,” by the same formula). Maybe that person can use their exemplariness to explain to the DESE how to actually censor data.

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CHECKING IT TWICE: In recent years, we’ve seen a rise of online lists of things. Sorry, did that say rise? It should say plague. We’re guilty of mentioning a few here, but all in all, any lists of the “10 Most Existential Cities in New England” or whatever can safely be discarded – it doesn’t matter how scientific they claim their formula is. But like a child sticking a fork into an electrical socket, these sites are very good at getting attention. Case in point is the list shared recently

by Destination Worcester, the “destination and marketing organization for Worcester and Central Massachusetts,” according to its Twitter page. It recently fell for a listicle from Zippia, a website that has been roundly mocked by people in other communities it has mentioned for criteria that seem arbitrary bordering on idiotic. So let’s take a look at the list – the “10 Best Cities In Massachusetts To Achieve Work-Life Balance,” apparently rated on commute time, hours worked per week, size of household and “things to do per capita.” The top five, in order, are Lawrence, Springfield, WORCESTER!, Lowell and Lynn. Yeah, sounds about right. I’m envisioning Destination Worcester’s new marketing pitch - “Worcester – we’re just like Springfield and goddamn Lowell.” I mean, I suppose unemployed people technically have the best work-life balance since people with full-time gigs have to spend time away from their family, but it might be safe to file Zippia away with all the other listicle sites.

WANT TO PLAY CHARADES? The search for a new Worcester Public Schools

superintendent lost a lot of its luster when the School Committee voted to only consider employees whose names rhyme with Smaureen Sbinienda. Wait, no, they actually just voted to only consider internal candidates for the job, which means the position is wide open and we have no idea who the committee will end up going with. If you follow Worcester Magazine online you’re already aware of the timeline, but just in case you want to see the School Committee rent dogs and ponies for the upcoming show in person, here’s the timeline in print. There is a public hearing scheduled for 7 p.m. at Doherty High on Feb. 2, and another at 7 p.m. at North High on Feb. 3. The School Committee will meet on Feb. 4 at their regular time to rig – I mean, approve – a job description. The finalist(s) will be announced on March 3 after some deliberation, and community meet and greets will be held in mid-March before the School Committee meets on March 17 to put the dogs and the ponies out of their misery and anoint their chosen superintendent. And you thought the city manager search was fun.

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That’s What They Said “It was a political decision by Chief [Gary] Gemme to target me because he’s vindictive. I just really hopes he steps down ... he’s used it as a way to not respond to any of the valid criticisms posed by Black Lives Matter.”

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here’s an old saying: Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Or do they?

Mayor Joe Petty was roundly criticized for picking Ed Augustus Jr. as city manager and convincing councilors to hire him as a replacement for former city chief Mike O’Brien when the latter abruptly resigned.

Then, the mayor and Council went ahead with a national search, after Augustus said he did not want to stay beyond the nine-month contract he had signed. Three finalists were brought in for interviews, but in the end, Augustus changed his mind, and the Council kept him, on a 10-1 vote.

The outrage among critics was fast and furious. They accused the city of pulling a fast one. The McGovern fix was in. Augustus was one of the good ‘ol boys. The mayor and Council knew all along who they wanted, and that’s who they were going to hire – come hell or high water.

Fast forward to now, when suddenly the roles appear reversed.

Right or wrong, Petty called for a national search for a new school superintendent to replace Melinda Boone, who like O’Brien also resigned abruptly. He had succeeded in having Marco Rodrigues fill in as interim superintendent. That move did not go over well with critics, including those on the School Committee, who after the November election, now constitute the majority.

Those members have made it clear they do not want Rodrigues in the permanent role. Instead, they want South High principal Maureen Binienda. Most, if not all, have said so publicly.

In other words, they want precisely what Petty wanted during the city manager search: they want their man – or, in this case, their lady.

So the School Committee voted, 5-2, to keep the search local, thus restricting the pool of candidates. They promise an open process, just as Petty did after Augustus came on board and a permanent city manager was still needed. They say they’re open to a national search if things don’t pan out locally, but they have rejected bids from firms that would had led the search.

We have come out in favor of a local search, with an expanded search if the right candidate is not found. We stand by that. At the same time, we also know what we have heard and read. The School Committee members who voted to keep it in-house have indicated they believe Binienda would be great for the job. Some were staunchly opposed to naming Rodrigues to the interim post.

Would the vote for an in-house campaign carry more weight if a favorite had not already been suggested?

The argument could be made that Petty was being hypocritical in calling for a national search now, when he was in Augustus’ corner from the beginning during the city manager search. Still, Petty has not given any indication he would be against either Rodrigues or Binienda earning the nod.

We see Binienda as a viable candidate. We also believe, based on our limited observations, Rodrigues has performed capably as interim.

Personally, we appreciate some of the swift responses he has provided to requests for comment and/or information. We also viewed his entry plan, unveiled in December, favorably.

We hope both are given a fair and equitable shot at the permanent gig.

That, however, should go for any other potential applicants. Are there but two people qualified for superintendents within Worcester’s boundaries?

The search should do its best to leave no such applicant out in the cold.

In the end, the right person must be chosen for the job. If that person is Binienda, she should enjoy the city’s support. However, much like Augustus was criticized in some corners for the manner in which he was hired, Binienda may find herself on the other end of critics who suggest her fate was predetermined.

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- Kevin Ksen after the Kelley Square Four verdict, on being charged along with three others for blocking traffic during a protest last year

“I’ve had no trouble running and growing my business with the ordinance that is in place. I know they will never lift the ordinance, but the hope is that they will make it easier … We need to encourage local entrepreneurs to start food trucks in our city.”

- Mark Gallant, owner, The Dogfather food truck, on the city’s current restrictions on food trucks in the city

“Our numbers far exceed anything I had envisioned for this program. A year ago, when we released our program results, I felt that we could not sustain

such impressive results. Nevertheless, that is what we have done.”

- WHA Executive Director and former Worcester Mayor Ray Mariano, on his A Better Life program, which requires state-subsidized housing recipients to find a job, get an education or risk eviction

“Mr. Moore should just be honest and admit he was against it before he ever made the trip. He obviously only went to add credibility to his arguments.

The outcome was predetermined in his mind.”

- Rob Shaffer, commenting on an online story from Worcester Magazine, about state Sen. Mike Moore’s (pictured) trip to Colorado to learn about the effects of legalizing marijuana “Another Lombardi would have been more obvious redemption, but at the very least, we’ve proven to the nation … that these Patriots are not a team that got anywhere by cheating. This team is the real deal.”

- Jason Palitsch of Shrewsbury, on Facebook speaking about the controversies that have swirled around the Patriots, who lost to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game

A CALL TO PERFORMERS, VENUES AND EXHIBITORS

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orcester Magazine’s annual Spring Arts Preview hits the streets Thursday, March 24. While it may seem a while off, it will be here before you know it, and if you want your event to be featured, we encourage early responses.

If you are a band, museum, artist, performance or film venue, theatre, author, bookstore or similar group or individual, we ask you to submit your listings of events happening from March 24 through May 31.

We comb past issues and web sites looking for the most up to date information, but the best source is you!

Your listing should include the name of venue/ performer/event/etc, the date and time, address, web

site and social media information and a brief, but explanatory description of the event.

Feel free to include a high-quality, high-res photograph, which we may use if needed. Or you can reach out to our photographer, Steven King, at sking@worcestermagazine.com to arrange a photograph.

All information should be emailed to the editor at wbird@worcestermagazine.com, Subject Line: SPRING ARTS PREVIEW. For more details, call 508-749-3166, ext 322 or email the editor.

We look forward to including you in this special, yearly edition!

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Growing up in Worcester, I had a stereotypical, rural childhood. My dad was good friends with a farmer; I went to church every Sunday; and most weekends I stood in a bus stop in the rain, waiting for the bus that ran twice-daily to our nearest town.

It wasn’t until last year I realized my English Worcester had a twin in the U.S. I had just turned 21 and was applying to different schools in New England for a year’s study abroad. On the list was Clark University in Worcester, Mass. When I saw the city it was located

in, I thought it was either a sign or a really unlikely coincidence.

Although a little bit bigger, with a population of 182,000 to my Worcester’s 100,000, at the very least, I would have a good ice breaker.

So, I applied, was accepted, and a year later was on a plane heading to a city I knew very little about. Perhaps I shouldn’t have left my decision up to fate.

Most towns and cities in New England have names inspired by their English counterparts, but that should come as no surprise.

It’s in the name after all. However, for any Brit looking at a map of New England, it is a strange experience. Seeing Tewksbury and Ipswich on the same road sign, when in England they are different sides of the country, is enough to make you smile and feel strangely homesick.

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“THEY ALL LIVE IN LONDON”

Some of the older streets of Worcester consist of more Tudor-style housing.

Over time the wood has warped, so the street looks perpetually wonky.

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good 50 percent of the time, when I meet an American our conversation goes along these lines: “You have an accent?”

“Yes, I’m actually from England.”

“Oh, I love London!”

For the record, I’m not a huge fan of London, so if you try to tell me about the one time your uncle visited London for five days six years ago, I’m going to change the subject pretty quickly. London does have its positives, and generally is a cool city, but there is so much more to the UK than London. From rolling hills and rural countryside, from sandy beaches to the highlands of Scotland, there is a lot more to see than Buckingham Palace.

Worcester the city lies within Worcestershire the county — similar to Worcester County.

The UK is made up of lots of “Shires,” which you may recognize from “Lord of the Rings.”

In fact, the West Midlands region of England, extending to Worcestershire, was where Tolkien called home. His mother came from a small town called Evesham, the same town where I went to High School. I like to think I grew up in Middle Earth.

Tudor-style housing on Worcester high street.

The old style of building has been surrounded by newer architecture.

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here are a few different terms used to describe this tiny island, and confusing them could be problematic. If you ever call a Scotsman “English,” his reaction may be none too friendly. So here’s a quick lowdown, in case you ever plan to visit.

England refers to the individual country, which borders Scotland and Wales. Great Britain refers to Scotland, Wales and England combined. Add in Northern Ireland and you’ve got the United Kingdom.

Confused, yet?

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while back, my American friend was telling me about the “oldest brewery in America.” When I asked how old it was, he told me about Yuengling, which had been established in 1829.

Really? I used to work in a pub that dated back to the 11th century. My dad is Vicar of a church that has a plaque on its wall listing the incumbents dating back to the 1100s – in this instance he genuinely is a part of an ancient history.

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Church is the oldest established Catholic religious institution in the city, as well as being the oldest Catholic parish in New England, outside of Boston. It was established in 1834.

Worcester Cathedral in England dates back to 1084. Spare me your, “The world didn’t start until 1776” jokes. If there’s one thing Old

10 Similarities and Differences Between The Worcesters 1. Both complain about the decisions made by council members.

2. We share the same language (even though you Americans insist on spelling “colour” and “favourite,” among others, wrong).

3. It rains or snows in Mass. almost as much as it rains in England.

4. Both cities have coffee shops, but you can only get a proper cup of tea in Worcester, England.

5. In Worcester, Mass. the sun may shine more, but at least in England we can sit in the sunshine drinking proper beer.

6. Donald Trump could be banned from entering Worcester, and the rest of the UK — there’s even an online petition.

7. We might complain about our city council, but voter turnout in the UK was 68.5 percent in the last election, compared to your Worcester’s 21.35 percent.

8. The drinking age is younger, so university life is a little bit different, and a little bit less trying to subtly binge drink in the toilets in case our RA finds out. We are proud of our drunken antics, and have been known to bump into professors on nights out.

9. We have a dog park, and it didn’t take us 15 years to create it.

10. When we get more than 2 inches of snow, we panic, the shire grinds to a halt and nobody moves for a couple of days.

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England is, it is that: Old. Worcestershire is home to countless medieval towns, and homes that can trace their history back further than Henry VIII. Just outside of the county boundary lies Tewkesbury (my Tewkesbury has an extra “e,” where yours doesn’t), where thatched cottages sit next to black and white Tudor houses. It’s so picturesque, it’s almost cliche.

In the summer, Tewkesbury holds its annual “Medieval Festival,” in which men and women of all ages dust off their peasant costumes and re-enact the 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury. Really, it’s just an excuse to drink Pimms in the sunshine, on the off chance it isn’t raining that weekend.

But the people of Tewkesbury are proud of their history. The townsfolk of Tewkesbury saved the church from destruction by purchasing it for £453 from King Henry VIII in 1540 at the dissolution of the monasteries.

Looking up at Worcester Cathedral. Parts of the building date back to 1084, Tewkesbury isn’t the only place that is and it is an example of English gothic architecture. Below, St. John’s Catholic home to a really old church. In the heart of Worcester sits Worcester Cathedral. This is Church in Worcester Mass. was established in 1834.

STEVEN KING not to be confused with Gloucester Cathedral, which sits in the neighboring county and was the proud host to the cast of Harry Potter. Although the less famous of the two, Worcester Cathedral’s Gothic architecture is so similar, you could be forgiven for thinking you were walking through the grounds of Hogwarts.

The Cathedral is steeped in ancient history, dating back long before 1777. King John, who signed the Magna Carta — which promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the crown — is buried there.

It is also the resting place of Prince Arthur, older brother of Henry VIII, who was first married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry’s first wife. Henry VIII was the guy who killed five of his six wives, either because they were too ugly, or because they couldn’t produce a son.

And you thought British history was boring. brought to the local bookshop that morning drink Pimms outside in the weak sunshine. by canoe.

That being said, England, and Worcestershire in particular, is well known for its occasional torrential downpour and most his one isn’t strictly true, winters will involve endless ‘will it-won’t it’ although it sometimes feels like discussions, as the river swells and begins it. Statistically, it rains 131 days creeping up the streets. This summer saw a year in the Midlands — where his is 100 percent untrue. I Worcester is located — which is approximately some of the worst flooding in the North of cannot stand tea. If I wanted to a third of the time. Comparatively, it rains England, with supermarkets several feet deep in water. drink dirty dishwater, I’d do that. or snows 139 days a year in Worcester, The last bad floods to hit Worcestershire Give me coffee any day of the Mass. So why does the climate feel so happened in 2007.

Most of the smaller towns week.

However, I will admit tea is a British different? and villages ended up cut off from one institution. If you ever have to make tea Part of the problem is when it isn’t another, as it continued to rain, flooding for my English grandmother, I apologize in raining, the only way to describe the fields and roads. advance. It is a very specific process and if weather in Worcester UK is “gray.” In That said, Brits are remarkably resilient, you get it wrong, it’s one of the few things winter it rarely snows; instead, the weather and we don’t let a little rain get in our way. that will truly offend a Brit. Hand them a cup just gets colder and the people mirror the We’ve adapted.

In 2007, I trekked to my of badly made tea, and you just may never grayness in their misery. Even in the summer, hear from them again. it takes nothing short of a miracle for the sun nearest town, wading through knee-high flood water, through the flooded town along So remember: tea bag first, hot water to break free. On the rare occasion it does get the railway track. All so I could pick up the second. Restaurants in America, and I’m sure sunny, Brits across the country will whip out latest copy of “Harry Potter,” which had been in this Worcester, too, insist on handing you a their pasty limbs, lather the factor 30 and

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Built in the heart of the Cotswolds, it is a mix of red brick housing and tudor architecture. It is home to 100,000 people (compared to Worcester Mass’ 182,000).

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mug of barely-hot water and a tea bag on the side. But if you do it this way round, the tea doesn’t infuse properly into the water, and it’ll taste worse than it usually does. This is usually where my grandmother will complain, and if you’ve ever met my 4-feet 11-inch grandmother, you’ll know she can be very particular. So just don’t give her a reason to complain.

Trust me on this one. This advice will save friendships.

But there is more to us than our tea. We also make a mean cup of coffee. Starbucks might be the king of coffee over here, but in the UK Costa Coffee wears the crown.

Although they were almost head-to-head several years ago, Costa has pulled ahead and this year was voted Britain’s favorite coffee shop for the sixth year running.

Imagine a world without a Starbucks on every corner. It’s almost barbaric.

Both Worcesters are similar, in that there is no set cuisine that epitomizes the area. Sure, we have our Sunday roasts, fish and chips and full English breakfasts, but like New England is more than just seafood, we also have a lot more on the menu.

Worcestershire is home to a smorgasbord of culinary delights, but to me, nothing seems more English than our pubs. There are a few pubs in Worcester, Mass., but nothing quite beats the traditional English version. From real ales to proper pies, there are plenty in Worcestershire to satisfy. Driving through the county is a blur of white and black thatchedroof-restaurants.

But, much like this city, to truly experience the food, you would have to spend several weeks exploring. There are local favorites, such as G&Tea, which is a beautiful twist on an English classic. Gin teapot cocktails and freshly homemade cake? You had me at gin.

Worcestershire is also home to multiple students, and with a drinking age of 18, the nightlife is a bit different to Massachusetts.

Most nights of the week there is at least one

Owned by Michael Hamilton Wills, the third Baron Dulverton, Batsford Arboretum is nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, just outside the Worcestershire boundary. It is one of the finest botanical gardens in the country. nightclub open, from Monday Mayhem at Tramps to student night on Wednesdays. These nights usually involve everyone about the age of 18 venturing into the city center to enjoy a night fueled by cheap £2 Jaegerbombs.

“THEY ARE RESERVED AND UNFRIENDLY”

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f course, I don’t need to tell you this depends on the person.

You’re just as likely to find a rude American as you are to find a rude Brit. We aren’t all the same. However, there is a tiny bit of truth behind the myth of the “Stiff Upper Lip.” The U.S. as a nation is generally pretty friendly. But Brits are a bit more reserved, and sometimes we get a bad rap for being rude.

We don’t mean it, but we can be a bit quieter than you, so don’t take this for a sign of inhospitality.

Plus, it means we are pretty level-headed in a crisis, and know any disaster can be made manageable by a cuppa and a biscuit.

I’ve been in situations ranging from, “My grandfather just died” to “I just crashed my car,” and the appropriate response is always: “Come on, I’ll put the kettle on.”

“EVERYONE LOVES THE QUEEN”

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he Queen is an endless source of fascination for my American friends, and I will admit I do love having a royal family.

After all, with a power couple like Queen

Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the helm what could go wrong?

You have good old Liz, who has perfected the art of saying enough, but never saying anything that might offend, partnered with Phillip, who always says the worst thing in any given situation. Witness his comment to the President of Nigeria in 2003, who was in national dress: “You look like you’re ready for bed.”

The Queen last visited Worcester in 2012, her first royal visit in 10 years.

The immediate royal family is a source of national pride, and the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton was the closest we Brits ever came to showing even 50 percent of the patriotism Americans show on a daily basis. We all got the day off, baked scones, waved flags, and basked in the glory of the most British couple in the commonwealth.

The Windsors are, however, for many Americans, just another version of the Kardashian clan. “People” magazine featured a live feed for the debut of the royal baby, and much talk was given to “Duchess Kate.”

To them, the Royal Family is a British eccentricity, a stain on democracy which offers few returns, other than the damaging perpetuation of the ‘Princess myth.’

Writing on “The New York Times” website, Lauren Apfel took Britain to task for allowing the continuation of a governmental system that relies on the existence of a Royal family which, she argues, “raises a special problem for our daughters.”

But does it?

Yes, the position of monarch is un-elected, and in theory the ideal of a meritocracy is great. Every child should start on an even playing field. But does this ever happen in real life, in either Worcester? In fact, many members of the royal family head charities that tackle issues such from AIDS to Palliative Care.

The UK is a constitutional monarchy, with a prime minister who is elected and a monarch who is not. For many Brits, the Queen is

English 101: How To Speak Brit

So, being a Brit abroad should be easy, because supposedly we speak the same language. However, there are more differences than the ‘favourite/favorite’, ‘realised/realized’ and ‘colour/color’ debate. I’ve had my fair share of strange looks because I’ve said something “British.” If you’re ever across the pond, here are a few phrases you are likely to hear, and their English translation: “Where’s the loo?”

“Where is the bathroom?”

“Are you in the queue?”

“Are you in the line?”

“I’m going to make a cuppa.”

Cuppa is short for ‘cup of,” and usually refers to a cup of tea.

‘Washing-up liquid’ This confused my roommate for weeks. It means dish soap.

‘I’m going to get a cheese toastie.’

This is a personal favorite among my American friends: cheese toastie is a grilled cheese.

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“Crisps-chips-fries” This has caused huge confusion for me in restaurants. Crisps equal American chips. Chips equal American fries. Fries equal, well, fries.

Keeping up?

“Swimming costume” My roommate is still laughing at this one. When I told her it meant “bathing suit.” She asked if I was a pirate.

“Trousers-pants” Trousers are what Americans call pants. Pants equal underwear. Don’t get them confused unless you want to see a Brit blush.

“Fortnight” I just asked my roommate if Americans use this word. Her response, “Only Shakespeare (pictured) uses that, what does it mean?”

It means two weeks.

“Ladybird” My English professor couldn’t believe this was a word, but it’s British for Lady bug. Personally, I think ladybird sounds cuter.

Roommate: “Ladybird is a female bird. What’s wrong with you? Why?” Believe me, this list is not exhaustive. I am sure people will continue to laugh at my funny sayings for the rest of the time I am in Massachusetts.

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pretty strong divide between people who are happy to have them, and those that wish to topple them from their thrones, redistribute the wealth and be the mirror of American democracy.

But someone has to be polite to Vladimir Putin, and it’s not going to be me.

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his would be true, if you’re basing your evidence entirely on the annual Eurovision song contest.

Sure, we usually end up coming last, but at least we didn’t sing about how much we want a mustache. I’m looking at you, France.

However, you will be pleased to know there is more to European politics than the Eurovision, and we do not, in fact, hate Europe. Yet, it has not been an easy relationship.

In 1946, Winston Churchill proposed “a kind of United States of Europe,” as a way to prevent future wars, but he did not envisage Britain as a part of it.

“We are with Europe, but not of it,” he said.

“We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”

with the EU, and the beginning of our Eurovision defeats.

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f that were true, would I be here?

Okay, we are a bit bemused by some of your policies and your fascination with Donald Trump, but most Brits who claim to hate Americans have probably never set foot on American soil, so their opinion shouldn’t matter much anyway.

Attitudes towards Americans have changed over the years. When my very American mother married my very reserved English father, they made fun of her accent, her glasses, her clothes, and wanted to talk politics wherever she went. This isn’t so much the case anymore. (Although, I do get asked a lot about American politics by my English friends, but after half a year here, I still can’t fully explain Donald Trump.)

The two Worcesters are 3,215 miles apart.

While this may make them seem worlds away from one another, at their heart they are both the same: full of eccentricities, interesting people and far more than their perceived stereotypes.

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Worcester local wants to be America’s Idol

Joshua Lyford

“American Idol,” now in its final season, has taken the country by storm over the course of 15 seasons. It has broken viewership records and boasts the longest streak of winning seasonal viewership rankings in the U.S., according to Nielsen Rankings.

Worcester native Jessica Cabral wants to give local viewers a reason to tune in.

Cabral, who made it through auditions on the show, spent much of her youth here in the city, attending Norrback Avenue Elementary School, Worcester East Middle School and Roosevelt School before attending Azusa Pacific University, a top Christian College in Azusa, California, just outside Los Angeles, where she now lives. She left Worcester in 2010, when she was just 15 years old.

“It was because my dad got a job,” said Cabral. “I kind of just had to go. It was hard, I had only ever lived in Massachusetts and mostly in Worcester. That was where my family is and everyone I knew was. I was scared, I had no concept of what that was going to be like.”

Cabral had spent most of her life singing, but wasn’t initially sure she wanted to pursue it on such a high-tier level, a feeling that she continues to share to this day.

“I always knew that I sang, I grew up in that environment,” said Cabral. “I discovered that pretty young. I don’t think you ever feel like you totally know that you’re great, I never felt that way. I think that in terms of knowing that I’m going to pursue it, I don’t even know that I know that now. I think that’s why ‘American Idol’ was such a wild experience for me.”

While the show continues its open tryouts, with the rise of the Internet and social media, talent scouts and producers also have the ability to find vocalists online. This is how Cabral was discovered and brought into the show.

“I never intended to audition for the show until they called me and asked me to come

in for it,” she said. “It would be really cool to be a part of the last season, it’s something that’s been a tradition for me and my family to watch. It’s a journey figuring out if that’s something I really want to do. Everyone has lots of different talents and gifts and I’ve spent the last few years in school and working full time in a church ministry, I’ve been trying to figure out what I’m supposed to do

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and how to use my skills to the best of my ability.”

While that journey continues, Cabral is focused on doing the best job she can on the show, an experience that, while stimulating and exciting, is also quite intense.

“It’s been a really amazing experience,” said Cabral. “In an environment like that you don’t really know what to expect going in.

You think you know what to expect and you get there, it’s completely different. After having been on the show, I’m sad that it’s ending, I wont be able to watch the show with fresh eyes. Now I know how hard it is at every step of the competition.

“Nobody knows how long that first day is. You’re there for 12-16 hours, you’re in front of a camera for the whole day. You’re exhausted, but you don’t want to fall asleep.

You don’t want the camera to catch you falling asleep or stuffing pizza in your face. It’s a high-pressure environment. The people are awesome and encouraging. There’s this bond continued on page 22

Worcester native Jessica Cabral auditioned for, and made it through, a round of “American Idol.”

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because you’re suffering together, that doesn’t happen in an environment that isn’t stressful.”

While the experience is both high-stress and exhilarating, Cabral said she is honored to be a part of the show’s final season.

“This means everything to me,” she said.

“Not because I’m a singer, not just because of singing, it means everything to me because this experience has taught me about strength I didn’t know I had. It brings out your weaknesses and it kind of shows the wrongness of who you are. How can you handle pressure, how can you handle an hour of sleep to sing at 5 a.m. It’s so much crazier than anything that I’d experienced. It’s so different when you add

three dozen cameras and producers, 190 other contestants around you that can all sing. It’s so absolutely unmatched in its ability to throw people off their game. If you can be strong during that, it feels like, ‘Wow, I can do anything.’

It really does. I think I discovered an artist inside of me that didn’t know was there.”

Tune in to American Idol on Wednesday and Thursday Nights at 8 p.m. on Fox to cheer on Worcester native Jessica Cabral. You can find Cabral online at Jessiiica.com and on Twitter @Jessiiicacabral.

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts.

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Noise Brunch brings sounds and flavor

vibrating the hangover away with blasts of noise. To me, there’s something special about ringing in the New Year with some of the most intense, ‘next level,’ sounds possible.”

Mickey O’Hara, who also helped assemble the collection of musicians, friends and food that make up Noise Brunch explained there have been similar events in other cities, including Detroit, Michigan and San Francisco, California.

“Most shows, unfortunately, don’t have food, yet everyone’s gotta eat, especially noise musicians who are kind of notorious for not taking care of themselves,” said O’Hara. “Also, it rules to go to an early afternoon show with great food and it’s not 2 a.m. when you get home.”

With over 20 acts involved, it is impossible to boil down what exactly makes the acts cohesive, aside from the genre, which perhaps can explain the vast and boisterous range of sounds. Still, the musician’s hearts are in the event and that is at least half the battle.

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Two things that are (unfortunately) rarely experienced together: experimental tunes and delicious brunch treats.

Luckily, we live in Worcester, where there are enthusiastic individuals more than willing to turn expectations on their head. Which is precisely what we’re looking at with the Third Annual Noise Brunch at The Firehouse Saturday, Jan. 30.

What started as a New Year’s Day tradition in 2014 has branched out and eexpanded since its inception. While the date has changed, the purpose of experience has remained, largely, the same.

“The idea is that we get a bunch of friends together, make a bunch of nice food and drinks and all relax to some weird sounds,” said Joe Bastardo, part of the amalgam of folks putting on the event. “It might have something to do with

Getting ready for the Third Annual Noise Brunch at The Firehouse in Worcester.

“Let’s put it this way, there’s never any money involved and no one gets paid to play, so rock stars and divas have already been weeded out,” said O’Hara. “You have to be cool with playing to a receptive audience for food. And, it’s quality, Jeff Hartford [Noise Nomads-played last year’s event] recently said that the foods have the reason to come, so there you go.” continued on page 26

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and brief since I’m involved, but the first “Crescendo Meetup” is kicking off at Ralph’s Diner, Wednesday, Feb. 3, from 7-10 p.m. The event will be a round-table discussion with a focus on “Branding your Band: Marketing your Band for 2016.”

Admission is free and networking is encouraged (bring your business card. You can hand them out, or place them over your drink if you step outside). The discussion will feature yours truly (as both an A&E reporter and musician); photographer Mike Spencer; principal at Adam Ritchie Brand Direction and musician for The Lights Out Adam Ritchie; and designer, photographer and musician Duncan Arsenault. It will be moderated by Wachusett Recording owner and musician Mike Harmon and artist manager and Ralph’s booker Marcus Ohanesian. You can get valuable tips from the rest of the speakers and maybe some tips on where to put your beer in order to keep from spilling while headbanging from me.

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with what I’m writing, but I sometimes get invited to some pretty bizarre events via email and Facebook, and this one certainly qualifies as weird and wonderful. “Pet Every Single Dog” Day is Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 10:20 a.m. (a surprisingly specific time, though I’d imagine you can feel free to pet every single dog throughout the day) and calls for, you guessed it, everyone to pet every

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single dog. This isn’t particularly newsworthy, which is why it’s been relegated to my column, as it’s my belief that everyone should pet every dog every day, but with 47,000 people “attending” and 31,000 people interested on Facebook, that’s nothing to scoff at. So make it a point to pet some lovable drooling fur covered four-legger (or fewer) on Feb. 3, I bet you’ll be happy you did. *not responsible for bites acquired by particularly mean dogs.

BREWS ON FIRST: If you’ve followed my column at all (or glanced at it while placing it in your cat’s litter box), you’ve probably noticed I have a natural inclination for beverage news. This isn’t an accident. I love beer, so any time I can cover something in that world, I am going to go out of my way to do just that. Homefield Brewing and Kretschmann Brewing have created a beer made with 100-percent local malt and hops and have taken it a step further, by using native yeast as well. The beer is called “Homefield 7” and is the seventh batch of commercial beer made with Homefield Brewing and the third at Kretschmann Brewing. Want to give it a try?

Head to the release event at the Kretschmann Brewing Taproom, 9 Frederick St., Webster, on Feb. 20. There will be musical accompaniment provided by jazz quartet, Luscious Lushes, led by Homefield co-founder Suzanne LePage. Drinks and music. There are few things in life that play together quite as well and you get an opportunity to soak in the local flavor, literally.

EDUCATE YOURSELF: The incredibly talented Robb Sandagata is unveiling his new show,

“Character Education,” at ArtsWorcester, 660 Main St., at an opening event Friday, Feb. 5, 6-8 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through July 28, minus the July 4 holiday weekend.

According to the ArtsWorcester release, the phrase character education “suggests the training of individuals to help the to be moral, civic, well-behaved and compliant beings.” In Sandagata’s show, however, these beings are having somewhat of a tough time, though “despite their fantastical, alien bodies and obsessive patters Sandagata creates with their forms, we recognize our humanity all too readily in the stories they tell.” An apt description, but Sandagata’s work is fluid, intricate and, occasionally, mind-bending. The reception is free and open to the public and should be a must-see for the arts viewer that leans toward the unique.

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ing about floral displays. Aside from buying flowers on Valentine’s Day or funerals, it’s certainly not in my standard wheelhouse. Still, I like flowers enough when I’m strolling through the forest, so seeing them on display should certainly be a nice change of pace. Luckily, the Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St., knows a bit about the arrangements and will be showcasing them at their annual “Flora in Winter” event from Jan. 28-31 throughout their museum. In nearly every gallery in the museum, arrangers from across the region will create floral interpretations of artworks. Like flowers? This is a shoe-in. Just want to check out the museum’s offerings? This is a great opportunity to do just that.

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Worcester’s Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts has played host to a staggering number of performances over the years, but with the opening of the locallycrafted “Joseph’s Dream: A Vision of Choice” Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 17-18, the theatre has never looked quite like this.

Boasting stylish costumes, intricate onstage maneuvering, a unique story line and mind-bending 3D mapping and projection, “Joseph’s Dream” is not your typical theatre production.

Creator and director Alexander Diaz does nothing in half-measures. From his colorful attire, to his past humanitarian work (alongside “Joseph’s Dream’s” Jamie Salisbury) donating 200,000 shoes to earthquake victims in Haiti, to the eight months spent looking through The Bible researching the story that would become his play, Diaz doesn’t dip his toe in the water, he jumps right in.

“My goal is to make a movie in life,” explained Diaz of his passion behind Joseph’s Dream. “I want people to say, ‘Wow, look at that.’ What better to use than the element of mapping? It brings a new level of technology to the theatre community. It’s crazy.”

The mapping Diaz is referencing is the 3D projection mapping technology that will be on display throughout the production. The stage will be soaked in high-tech provided by SJP Productions, and they are not on hand to simply amplify the stage production values, but to bring the entire production to an entirely new level.

“It’s very subtle,” said Alison Peters of SJP’s team, which includes husband Jeremy Peters.

“When you’re sitting there, it feels very different. You’re getting the sense of everything living around you.”

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Bastardo, who runs a small label that focuses on electronic music on tape and is a graphic designer and print shop operator by day, explained the feel of the show in a wellrounded presentation.

“The whole vibe is relatively laid back,” he said. “It’s a little different than most usual shows. For starters, it’s a daytime event and it’s in a room with some beautiful, huge

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Alexander Diaz, creator and director of “Joseph’s Dream: A Vision of Choice” tion of “Joseph’s Dream” are static. Through SJP’s digital wizardry, dust will fall from rock walls, a shooting star might flit through the night sky, there will be moving clouds, undulating pools of water, waving trees and even a digitally-rendered goat.

“It’s nice to be able to say, ‘This is outside

of the box, let’s figure this out,’” said Jeremy Peters. “We talked to Alex (Diaz) to establish what his vision was. He drew us some pictures and we’ve been working with him closely to make sure his vision came out.”

This 3D mapping technology, brought to the public eye largely by organizations like

windows, so the sun beams in and warms the place up. The lineup is loose and the sets are somewhat carefree. You get a lot of friends playing with and for each other.”

“I think the ethos of noise shows in general is the idea of approaching this art with the most open mind,” added Bastardo. “So to me, a day like this can be sort of expanding for your consciousness. The brunch adds that extra level of warmth and comfort. It’s really

about bringing together this community of artists and like-minded individuals and hopefully introducing some people to this concept that isn’t really as scary as it seems. Anyone can come and enjoy themselves.”

To check out the Third Annual Noise Brunch, head to the Firehouse Saturday, Jan. 30. If you don’t know where the Firehouse is, click your way over to Facebook to find the event page, or call 978-424-6173 and ask the

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Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney parks, is only one element of the show, albeit quite a large one. Sound is also a huge component, provided by sound engineer and technical director, Kyle Sullivan. Add these moving parts to the intricately and painstakingly designed costumes and the talent and enthusiasm of the individuals onstage and “Joseph’s Dream” stands on its own.

“The scale of the theatre is huge and we’re doing something that no one has done before,” said Diaz of the 2,300 capacity room.

“The technology is beyond technology. We’re pushing the boundaries in technology now in the show in a way that will capture the eyes of all artists out there because it’s really amazing. If we go to the middle of Jerusalem, the entire stage becomes Jerusalem.”

Diaz’s tale has roots in the biblical story of Joseph, a carpenter in Jerusalem who has a dream-vision from God about Mary’s unborn son. From there, the story follows some dreamscape twists and can be enjoyed by the liturgically-celebrating as well as the non religious.

“It’s more about the creation that we’ve put together,” said Diaz. “It’s a battle of good and bad. Eventually, like in every story, good wins. It’s what we all believe in. It’s what I believe in.”

Head to Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St., Wednesday and Thursday. Feb. 17-18, for the debut of “Joseph’s Dream: A Vision of Choice.” Tickets are available in advance online at Thehanovertheatre.org, where you can also find out about all of the other events going on at the theatre.

Tickets are $26.40-45. You can find out more on Joseph’s Dream online at Josephsdream.net and for information on SJP Productions, head to Sjplive.com.

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts.

mysterious voice for directions. Bring a dish to share and some drinks (for yourself, or to share if you’re feeling frisky) to check out over 20 acts from New England and Beyond.

The event kicks off at noon and will likely be one to remember.

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts.

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Our number is up … again Welcome to the golden age of movie dystopia, where countless end-of-the-world sagas make us fear an alien invasion-nuclear holocaust-the rise of the cyborgs, yet assure us help is on the way in the form of teen-aged badasses who can rally armies, handle automatic weapons, and still look swell even when being chased by zombie nation.

My apologies. That is a very long opening sentence. But I’ve just returned from seeing “The 5th Wave” and my post-apocalyptic-movie antennae are quivering, so if my prose is a little foamy, well, it can’t be helped.

As someone who has seen four “Hunger Games” movies, and two apiece from the “Divergent” and “Maze Runner” series all within a spectacularly compressed time frame, I knew what I was in for with “The 5th Wave.” The film feels so late to this particular party it should be the designated driver.

Like its predecessors, “The 5th Wave” is based on a young adult novel, the first in a planned trilogy (ah, the mystical pull of “three” as opposed to some other number — damn you, Tolkien!). Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a perfectly normal Ohio highschooler who happens to be living at the absolute worst time in Earth’s history. One day, a spaceship appears in the sky. Then devastating events begin occurring, each one a new “wave” of attack. The power goes out world-wide. Earthquakes, floods and tsunamis kill millions. The avian flu decimates the survivors.

In the fourth wave the alien’s inhabit people’s bodies like parasites, and the fifth, and final, wave is an all-out assault on the human race. In the scrum Cassie’s parents are killed, leaving her to care for her little brother, Sam (Zackary Arthur). When Sam

is whisked away by the military to an Air Force base for training in a children’s army (the reasoning is ridiculous, and the depiction is far less disturbing the real stuff going on with child soldiers in some African countries), Cassie is forced to trek across an enemyinfested countryside to reunite fine him.

There is some good news to report.

Cassie’s hair and makeup remain prom-ready throughout her ordeal, even after she’s shot and spends a week unconscious (why a bullet wound in the thigh would send her into a coma is never quite fleshed out).

It is also to Cassie’s great fortune that the person who finds her bleeding is a blue-eyed dreamboat named Evan (Alex Roe), who chops wood, cooks a mean omelet, bathes in icy lakes and tenderly changes her bandages. His beard is groomed, his house is pristine, his torso is a “Men’s Health” magazine cover sprung to life. If he was real, I’d take up a collection to have him murdered.

Owen vows to help lead Cassie to her brother. Along the way, he will reveal a secret that will Change Everything. And no, it’s not that his beard is fake.

The makers of “The 5th Wave” are clearly using this film as a set-up for sequels, which is why they pack so much story line into nearly two hours (including via Cassie’s incessant voice-overs). Subsequently, the film is a mess. None of the characters resonates, including Moretz, who can’t seem to decide if Cassie is warrior or victim — though to be fair it’s tough to compete with the likes of Katniss (“The Hunger Games”) and Tris (“Divergent”) in the youth dystopian universe.

The only surprise here is the appearance of Liev Schreiber as an army commander.

Why did Schreiber stoop to do this film? Was it for the paycheck? Is he saving for college tuitions? Did he piss away his “Ray Donovan” money? If these are kinds of the questions I’m asking about “The 5th Wave,” I’m not hopeful for a sixth.

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Dark Horse Tavern rides down a familiar trail

taverns everywhere. We decided to venture slightly further afield than the usual pub selections, but only slightly.

We started our meal with buffalo dip ($9) that was heavy on the dip and a light on STEVEN KING

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The Dark Horse Tavern is a bright, cozy respite in the center of Southbridge with hearty food and a bevy of beer only the most hard-headed snob would turn their nose up at.

This restaurant truly embraces the traditional tavern look and feel. Housed in the bottom floor of a mill building, the rich wood and cozy seating arrangements include a booth on a landing overlooking the dining room. This all creates an immediately comforting feel that the welcoming wait staff carry on with their menu knowledge and friendliness.

The food also sits firmly in the comfort category. The menu doesn’t stray far from the mold of burgers, pub appetizers and hearty soups well-worn into the dining soul of

the chicken. However, the resulting creamy flavor carried just the right buffalo spiciness without being overwhelming. It was a strong way to ease into the meal and played off of our craft beers ($5.50 each) nicely.

For the main course we dove in

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with a Reuben ($11) and the Kansas City BBQ meatloaf dinner ($15). The Reuben featured salty, savory corned beef. The house-cured meat uses a Guinness marinate. Along with the tasty sandwich came a heap of crispy fries coming together to form a tasty meal.

The star of the show, though, was the meatloaf. The BBQ coating the exterior had been cooked into a thick crust

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that carried an intense, sweet BBQ taste. The crust left the interior of the meatloaf moist with a strong meat flavor and the mushroom gravy setting things off perfectly. This isn’t your mother’s meatloaf and it’s all the better for it. The garlic mashed potatoes and spicy, cinnamon-rich squash rounded out the meal beautifully.

The meatloaf is a prime example of what the Dark Horse is all about: taking the traditional tavern to its cozy pinnacle.

This horse treads very familiar ground, but takes the high road with its meals and beer selection. With friendly service, a brewery and live music in the same building The Cannery Music Hall (really, give it a look), the tavern becomes an ideal getaway from the big city of Worcester. If you are up for a classic tavern experience or simply looking for some comforting pub food, Dark Horse Tavern should be on your list.

The total cost before tip was $48.

Editor’s Note: Do you know a restaurant you’d like us to review? Drop a line to wbird@worcestermagazine.com, Subject Line: Dining Reviews. If you’ve eaten there, feel free to send us a few words of your own describing your experience.

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Friday night was destined for “Creed.”

My friends are always ragging on me about the number of iconic movies that I haven’t watched. The cinema is my pop-culture blind spot (In fact, I have a standing promise that

GARDEN TO DOOR

The Olive Garden, with a restaurant in Worcester

7 Tobias Boland Way, is bringing its food to customers, giving them the option of staying at home or in the office. The chain restaurant has announced catering delivery, which seems aimed at special functions at the home or office. You have to order at least $125 worth of food for catering, with a 15-percent delivery fee for orders up to $500. There is a 5-percent delivery fee for every dollar thereafter. For the money you get grated cheese, serving and eating utensils, table covers, plates, napkins and mints. Chafing dishes, racks and fuel can be bought for an addition fee. Catering orders may be placed by contacting your local Olive Garden. In Worcester, the number is 508755-5268. In addition, Olive Garden is also introducing new menu items: • Create Your Own Tour of Italy – Guests can choose three options on one plate

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I’ll endure the entire original “Star Wars” trilogy in one go around on the first snow day). r Imagine my a S h surprise when my date t i w explained to me “Creed” was not, in fact, some sort of documentary chronicling the life and times of Scott Stapp’s Tallahassee post-grunge rock group best known for the 1999 hit “With Arms Wide Open,” but in essence, “Rocky 7.”

We arrived just before the 7 p.m. show time on Friday night. In keeping with my own set of “Feminist Resolutions for 2016” (thank you Ann Friedman) I tried to pay, but The Elm is cash only and I only brought plastic. I surrendered to the chivalrous resolves of my date as he gleefully pulled out his wallet. For no less than $20, he purchased two tickets, two beers, popcorn and a bag of peanut M&M’s – a steal by any measure. We settled into our ah

When prodded for suggestions, one of the darlings of City Hall recommended my next date night include a trip to the Elm Draught House Cinema in Millbury. I’m not much of a moviegoer, but I resigned myself to the fact that going on a date at an old-fashioned one-room theatre would be nothing if not charming. Then, I Googled show times and came to the stark realization that one room means one fill.

seats for an evening of hard-hitting action.

A Hollywood sign loomed at the front of the theatre, so large that with a dream and a cardigan, Miley Cyrus herself could mistake The Elm for the land of fame excess. Vintage movie posters covered the walls along with stenciled letters reading “no smoking” and a gargantuan cardboard cutout of “Kung Fu Panda” who kept a vigilant eye on the crowd for the duration of the evening.

At precisely 7 p.m., a man’s voice came over the P.A. system to invite everyone to watch the Super Bowl at The Elm on Feb. 7.

“I know that our boys will be in it!” he promised (Insert retrospective cringe here).

He let out a long “Woooooooo!” before wishing someone named Vicky Martin a happy birthday. I leaned over to remark that the announcer seemed awfully excited to celebrate the birth of Latin pop sensation, Ricky Martin. My date gave a short courtesy laugh and looked around nervously for the exit. The lights went dim.

Seventy-three minutes later, I found myself entranced by the haunting tale of Rocky Balboa and the boundless energy of Adonis Johnson. Bianca was my favorite – she’s the bravest of them all! Who wants to watch “Rocky,” the complete

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• Tuscan Sirloin – Grilled 11-ounce sirloin, topped with garlic-herb butter and whole roasted garlic. Served with garlic-Parmesan mashed potatoes • Mozzarella Fritti – An appetizer of golden-fried mozzarella cheese, topped with Alfredo drizzle and served with marinara sauce.

STREET EATS

Niche Hospitality’s Test Kitchen, 30 Major Taylor Boulevard, Worcester, serves up International Street Food Friday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. For $85 per person, you will enjoy: • Ants on a Log – celery, horseradish cocktail spread, crab meat, celery salt • Guacamole Crunch – salsa-spiced corn chips with avocado, jalapeno, cilantro, lime, tomato

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sage on the second snow day? I have some catching up to do.

On our way out, we stopped by the concession stand. When asked for a recommendation for our next date night, the gentleman behind the counter suggested an evening on Wachusett Mountain. You can read about my night at the mountain in the next installment of this column on Feb.11.

Movies aren’t your cup of tea? Try a coffee date: • Order a bottomless mug of coffee at Birch Tree Bread Co. and spend your day lounging about the cavernous former fabric mill on Green Street. If you spot a collab with BT’s Smokehouse on the specials menu, order it without question.

• Stop by the former Lederman’s Bakery on Water Street where Wycked Java has set up shop in hopes of catering to the city’s creative community. If you’re lucky, your coffee might even come with a tour of the historic building.

• Grab an espresso at The Bean Counter on Highland Street or satisfy your sweet tooth with a Snickers Latte.

• Caffeinate with the best cold brew in the city and treats from Crust Artisan Bakeshop on north Main Street.

Price includes beer, wine and cocktails.

Reservations and prepayment are required.

Register at rsvp@nichehospitality.com or call 508-612-1137. Event limited to 32 people.

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Wayback Burgers, with a spot in Worcester on

Tobias Boland Way, a stone’s throw from Olive Garden, announces its American Heroes menu. Paying homage to those who have served, the menu will run through March 31.

Military members will receive a free American Heroes meal on Valentine’s Day, Sunday, Feb. 14, 5-8 p.m. The menu features: • Cheeseburger Hero – two patties with the works, served on a 7-inch sub roll • Frings - a combination of French fries and onion rings • Chocolate Banana WOWBUTTER Milkshake – hand-dipped vanilla bean ice cream, banana and WOWBUTTER (nut-free).

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View the work of Kledia Spiro in an exhibited titled, “RE/ DE/RE-Construction,” Friday, Jan. 29, 7-9 p.m., at Nine Dot Gallery, 763 Main St., Worcester. Sprio creates videos, performances, installations and paintings, using Olympic weighlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. For more information on the artist, visit KlediaSpiro.com. For more information on the exhibit, email john@ninedotgallery.com.

Music for Piano and Cello. Free. Noon-1 p.m. Agnes Varis Auditorium, 200 Westborough Road North Grafton, Grafton.

Tiny Tumblers - Intro to Acro Ages 5-7, 6-wk session. >Thursday 28 Introduction to Acro/Tumbling for boys & girls ages 5-7. No HumanArts: Bach Consort of Worcester. The Bach Consort experience necessary. Students are asked to dress in comfortable, of Worcester continues its 2015-16 season with a concert featuring athletic clothing with bare feet & long hair off the face/neck. Open guest artist Héloïse Degrugillier on the recorder. The program will to the public - Contact us to register! 508.949.1508 or dancers_ feature the concerto for recorder by Georg Phillipp Telemann and sole@yahoo.com $50 for 6-week session, or drop-in for $10 per will also include concerti gross by Handel and Corelli. Free and open class. 4-4:45 p.m. The Dancer’s Sole, Studio II, 6 Main St., Webster. to the public. Noon-1 p.m. Assumption College: Chapel of the Holy 508-949-1508.

Spirit, 500 Salisbury St. 508-767-7304.

Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat. Let Dr. Nat start your weekend with Little Compton Band - Flux Capacitor. Little Compton jazz, swing, blues, soul, samba, R&B, Broadway, original songs about Band The Little Compton Band embodies a new age of roots rock.

Worcester, and other surprises, such as special guest vocalists Camaraderie around small town living, improvised musical journeys, and instrumentalists. Dancers welcome! No cover charge, tips and a commitment to craft has forged this powerful group. On a appreciated. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury seaside farm in southern Rhode Island, the five friends began making St. 508-753-4030 or natneedle.com music at a young age. Through the years, the LCB has developed a Spiritual Rez - Silent Trees. Spiritual Rez and Silent Trees at sound that is remarkably classic in nature. A common infatuation Electric Haze The last time Rez was here it was a Dance Par-tay and with the musical languages of soul, jazz, country western, and blues, that was a Thursday..now we got em on Friday night with Silent Trees coupled with their spiritual connection to the rural north, created a opening! wooowooo! The Silent Trees originated in December 2010 unique sound that transcends the status quo. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric as an acoustic duo. Over the years, they have expanded their catalog Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or find them on Facebook. and played countless shows together including some major festival Open Mic Most Thursdays @ Barbers North. To check appearances. Always evolving, the band has grown into an occasional the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World quintet for full electric shows featuring additional keyboards, bass, and on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is drums. 21+ Doors open at 6pm Music at 9pm Tickets $8 in advance, your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to $10 at the door $8 advanced $1000 at the door. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or find them on Facebook. in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over The Drunken Uncles. Have a drink with your favorite uncles! sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are Playing all your favorite songs! Free. 6-9 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed Bar, 257 Park Ave. 508-756-7995 or find them on Facebook. recording artists * Award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly Bill McCarthy Every Friday at Barbers Crossing North. gigging paid-performers * Published songwriters * Recording studio Now catch Bill McCarthy playing his heart out every Friday at Barbers owner/operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To North (Sterling, MA) @6:30pm Visit: BillMcCarthyMusic.com for check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked info. Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Lizzy Marquis & Adam Zinkus!

9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Nick’ s Bar and as “open” usually is! Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438.

Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438.

Christian Music Cafe Night. January 2016 events Jan 1: Winter Doldrums at Ralph’s.

Don’t let the winter blues Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Movie night! - Showing “Do You Believe” new release from the keep you in, Worcester! Assembling on our fair city will be a show Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. producers and writers of “Gods Not Dead” Jan 8th - 10th: Fire in like none other!

Music and poetry from near and medium-far!

At 978-668-5580. the Spirit with Pastor David Hayner - Join us Friday and Saturday James Keyes. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., the historic Ralph’s Rock Diner, a show that will delight your ears night and Sunday Morning as David ministers the Grace and Power and exercise your laugh muscles!

Featuring Kristen Ford Kristen West Boylston. 774-261-8585. of God. David is the cousin of Dwayne Johnson AKA “The Rock” Ford delivers a high energy set of indie rock. She lives for live Jon Short. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, 15th: Patti Dahl & Heartsong - A country gospel group Hailing from performance, her passion and charisma shining forth on stage both Leominster. 978-534-5900.

CT delivers “upbeat ministry for a beat up world” 23rd: Nate Fiorino: solo or with her band. Her hooks will linger in your mind, blending Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster 15 year old worship leader will from Waterford NY will bring us into genres from folk to reggae to rock.

Where she’ s from is a long story.

Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484.

Gods presence 29th: Open Mic - bring your talents and giftings and Let’s just say Boston was home for five years, and she’s currently Thursday Open Mic Night. Now the frost is on the pumpkin, use them for the Glory of God. If you have a gift to sing, play an on the road full time, which feels just as homey as anywhere. it’s the time for guitar plunkin...Join a decades old tradition of sharing kristenfordmusic.com With short sets by : Ariband Singer-songwriter instrument, dance, write poetry, or any other gift that you want to use and musical camaraderie in an old-fashioned fun roadhouse! P.A. and to bless the body of Christ, this is your chance to shine for the Lord! support of all sorts provided, be part of the fun....Hosted by Ed Sheridan. folk hero of Northboro ariband.bandcamp.com/ James Ikeda Free. 7-10 p.m. Mill Church Cafe, 45 River St., Millbury. 508-864The Michael Character -- Acoustic Punk from sunny Quincy, MA 8-11 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

5658 or millchurch.org themichaelcharacter.bandcamp.com/album/do-your-work Jon Brien Audio Wasabi. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Tim Scott. 7-11 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

Jon, the Archivist plays storyteller folk tunes and is from Worcester, Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Live Music with A Ton Of Blues. Award Winning blues at it’s MA. jonthearchivist.bandcamp.com/album/tenement Fernanda Elemental. A high-energy band playing favorite covers and Pereira Fernanda Pereira is a singer-songwriter and organizer for the finest. No cover free. 7:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Firefly’s / Dante’s, 350 East originals. Don’t miss this Duo performance. $5. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Main St., Marlborough. 508-357-8883. transformative power of music in Worcester, MA. FernNandaMusic.

Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or elementaltheband.com wordpress.com Rushelle Frazier Member of the 2015 Worcester Slam Acoustic Booty. Ricky Booth plays upbeat acoustic covers and Flock of A**holes help celebrate the brand new Cove original music spanning the decades of blues and rock with a jam Team rushellefrazier.com Nick Davis Co-Host of the Dirty Gerund Music Hall with one of the opening shows. 9-11pm twist. Always a special guest or two! 8-11 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Poetry Show dirtygerund.com Hosted by Rushelle Frazier and Nick Thursday. Here we go! The Flock is back! What better place to Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Davis Cover $7 Ages 21+ only tickets available at the door. $7.

9 kick off the year than the hallowed walls that put these guys in front Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The p.m.-1:45 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508of your face every week. The new club called The Cove Music Hall, Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

753-9543 or eventbrite.com (formerly Lucky Dog) has given the folks of Worcester an amazing DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Delta Generators and Barrence Whitfield’s Grits & new comfortable hangout that you’ll want to see a million shows Groceries Orchestra. Delta Generators were founded in 2008 65 WATER ST., 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. in. It is here that the Flock wants to play their first show of the new and they’ve already shared the stage with Robert Cray, Three Dog DJ Tec Threat. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and year for YOU! It’s an earlier show from 9pm to 11pm only. You’re Night, James Cotton, Jimmie Vaughn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. definitely going to want to be here for this historic event. $10. 9-11 Johnny Winter, Walter Trout, Candye Kane and Sonny Landreth. The DJ 21+Canal. Closed 1/23/2016 N/A. 10:30 p.m.-1:40 a.m. p.m. The Cove Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them Delta Generators won the Boston Blues Society’s Blues Challenge in Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. on Facebook.

2008, which earned them a spot in the International Blues Challenge Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. held in Memphis in 2009. The band finished as a Top 10 Finalist >Friday 29 978-345-5051. out of over a hundred bands. They also won an Independent Music Joe Macey.

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Flip Flops, 680 Main St., Holden.

Karaoke w/ Royal Crown. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Award for Best Blues Album category for their debut album, “Devil joemacey.com Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

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in the Rhythm.” In 2009 they won Best Blues Band in Worcester Magazine for and were nominated for Best R&B Act in the Boston Phoenix in 2010. Their 2nd album “Hard River to Row” was selected by the Blues Foundation as a Top 5 Finalist (out of entries worldwide) in the Best Self-Produced CD competition at the International Blues Challenge in 2011. $18 advance; $20 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-4254311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com Fun with Handa. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

James Keyes. 8-11 p.m. The Westender, 493 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough. 508-485-1185.

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484.

Super Singles & Couples ® Winter Dance w/DJ Joe Pet @ Shrewsbury - Maironis Park Function Hall Friday, Jan. 29, 2015. Super Singles ® Winter Dance w/DJ Joe Pet. - Friday, Jan.29, 2016 @ Shrewsbury - Maironis Park Tel. (508)755-0040...(Exit 11 off MassPike and left onto Rte 122 (Grafton St.) & Take Right onto Rte 20 & Take Left @ 3rd Traffic Light (Lake St.) which becomes So. Quinsigamond Rd. (Stay left & Maironis Park is down on left) Dance 8:00pm-12:00am...Dance Lesson 7:30-8:00pm, Incredible DJ Music, Comp. Pizza Buffet @ 8:30 and Dessert, Door prizes, Cash Bar, Friendly atmosphere, Best for Singles approx. 35-65 y.o. from all types of professions & backgrounds for socializing, dancing and general entertainment...Great for Professional and Business Singles in the area. (couples welcome) This should be a great night with great music, you & our MA, NH & RI friends...It also should be a good opportunity to meet some quality singles new & old to the area. Proper Business/Casual Attire required...Dress To Impress...(No jeans, sneakers or hats - Sport Jackets are suggested for men) Dance Schedule: See Website SuperSinglesDance.com Thanks, Super Singles - Singles Dances & Events Tel. (781) 4399401 Join Our EmailList@SuperSinglesDance.com See you There...

Visit our website @ SuperSinglesDance.com for additional info and dance offerings...Super Singles® & Super Singles Dance® Copyrighted © 2008 All Rights Reserved $15. 8 p.m.-midnight Maironis Park, 52 S. Quinsigamond Ave, Shrewsbury. 781-439-9401 or SuperSinglesDance.com Live Bands. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Dave Andrews. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Decades by Dezyne. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900.

Desolate Highway. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Good Question. Good Question was formed in 2012 from musicians familiar with the Worcester music scene. Playing anything from blues standards and rock and roll to classic alternative and jam music, they had a tough time figuring out a name that fit. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

Karaoke. Karaoke by DJ Nancy of Star Sound Entertainment 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Danger Zone Saloon, 948 Main St. , Warren. 413436-7115.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg.

978-345-5051.

The Flat Five Band. Hits from Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, and much more, they’ll keep you dancing all night long! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough.

508-842-8420.

Winter Doldrums at Ralph’s. Don’t let the winter blues keep you in, Worcester! Assembling on our fair city will be a show like none other! Music and poetry from near and medium-far! At the historic Ralph’s Rock Diner, a show that will delight your ears and exercise your laugh muscles! Featuring Kristen Ford Kristen

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Ford delivers a high energy set of indie rock. She lives for live performance, her passion and charisma shining forth on stage both solo or with her band. Her hooks will linger in your mind, blending genres from folk to reggae to rock. Where she’s from is a long story.

Let’s just say Boston was home for five years, and she’s currently on the road full time, which feels just as homey as anywhere. kristenfordmusic.com With short sets by : Ariband Singer-songwriter folk hero of Northboro ariband.bandcamp.com/ James Ikeda The Michael Character -- Acoustic Punk from sunny Quincy, MA themichaelcharacter.bandcamp.com/album/do-your-work Jon Brien Jon, the Archivist plays storyteller folk tunes and is from Worcester, MA. jonthearchivist.bandcamp.com/album/tenement Fernanda Pereira Fernanda Pereira is a singer-songwriter and organizer for the transformative power of music in Worcester, MA. FernNandaMusic. wordpress.com Rushelle Frazier Member of the 2015 Worcester Slam Team rushellefrazier.com Nick Davis Co-Host of the Dirty Gerund Poetry Show dirtygerund.com Hosted by Rushelle Frazier and Nick Davis Cover $7 Ages 21+ ONLY tickets available at the door $7. 9 p.m.-1:45 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508753-9543 or eventbrite.com Lavender Restaurant Karaoke. Join Magic Mike Entertainment DJ’s for Karaoke Night every Friday & Saturday Night! Free. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Lavender Restaurant, 519 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. magicmikeentertainment.com Abraxas. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035.

DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

DJ One 3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263.

“Once in a while an album cuts right to your heart. Liz Frame and the Kickers’ “Sooner” is that record. Every track is a startling, wellhoned gem filled with Liz’s powerful, experience-rich vocals....(She) has immense talent...” - Steve Morse / Boston Globe, Billboard and Rolling Stone. Liz Frame has been performing her own brand of rootsy Americana music since her early teens when she picked up the guitar and has been hooked on the process of making music ever since. $10 advance; $15 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Ballroom, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets. bullrunrestaurant.com The Two Yoots. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Live Bands. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

9Teen. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Auntie Trainwreck. It’s always right to be Wong, so join your favorite Auntie as we return to the Wong Dynasty and Yankee Grill Inc on Saturday, January 30tth, 2016. It’s our first Wong Dynasty appearance of the year, so make sure you stop by for a great night of dancing and delicious delights as we present an evening of MaiTai’s and Mayhem! Come early for all the amazing Chinese food, sushi, and exotic concoctions you can drink (as permissible by law) and then stay to dance the night away to incredible Classic Rock, Blues, Alt Rock, and party favorites all night long. Stop in to help us show Holden who your favorite Auntie is! 21+, no cover! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Wong Dynasty, 176 Reservoir St., Holden. 508-829-2188 or find them on Facebook.

Best - Live Bands. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-439-9314.

Joan Cleary “Songs for Sinners”! 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar >Saturday 30 and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Jompathon 2016. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Joy of Music Program, Shapiro Karaoke. shangrilarestaurant.net Chinese & Japanese Restaurant 9 Concert Hall, 1 Gorham St. 508-856-9541 or jomp.org p.m.-midnight Shangri La, 50 Front St. 508-798-0888.

Hip Swayers Trio. Hips return to this hidden gem of a local Laquerhead. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., brewery - bring yr own food, taste all the yummy beer offerings (also Leominster. 978-537-7750. ginger beer and kombucha!) and sway to hip tunes! 6-9 p.m. 3cross Neon Alley. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900.

Brewing Company, 26 Cambridge St. Open Mic. Open to musicians, poets, comedians or anyone with a Radio Flyer. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, talent! Hosted by Stephen Wright. 6-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Soulstice. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Playin’ Dead. Come shake your bones with us and Playin Dead!

The Usual Suspects. Rock hits from classics to new favorites Playing Dead is a Grateful Dead tribute featuring former members all night long! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 of Dark Star Orchestra, Slipknot!, and Uncle John’s Band. Their marathon sets feature music and jams from the entire Grateful Dead Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420.

Three Voices, No Waiting. Cara Brindisi, Mike Ladd and Arny catalog. Playing Dead faithfully recreates the experience of a live Grateful Dead concert. The music of The Grateful Dead is a complex Spielberg each will do a solo acoustic set. Then enjoy a Trio to top off the show. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. stew of different styles of music including rock, blues, jazz, folk, Lavender Restaurant Karaoke. Join Magic Mike Entertainment bluegrass and more. Their improvisational style and large repertoire DJ’s for Karaoke Night every Friday & Saturday Night! Free. 9:30 guaranteed that every musical performance would be unique. Every Playing Dead show is equally unique featuring different set lists each p.m.-1 a.m. Lavender Restaurant, 519 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. night and exciting improvisational jams. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric Haze, magicmikeentertainment.com David Bazin & Blues Junction. Live Music: Blues & Classic 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or find them on Facebook.

Rock and Dancing no cover. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, 152 Tequila Mockingbird. Songs you want to hear, and songs you didn’t know you wanted to hear. N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Millbury St. 508-754-3516.

DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

Glenn Hillard band. Glenn teams up with some great players, DJ Reckless. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and such as Fran Reagan, Steve Cunsolo, and Brian Merrill; for an Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. unforgettable evening! $4 donation. 7:30-10 p.m. !Cafe con Dios!, DJ’s. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

Main Room, 22 Faith Ave., Auburn. 508-579-6722.

Hot Letter. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

Live Music with Pieces of Eight. Playing from Motown to 508-459-9035. today- will keep you dancing til it hurts. $7/pp. 7:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

DJ 21+Canal. Closed 1/23/2016 N/A. 10:30 p.m.-1:40 a.m.

Firefly’s / Dante’s, 350 East Main St., Marlborough. 508-357-8883.

Lisa Marie & John Juxo. 8-11 p.m. The Westender, 493 Boston Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

Post Road West, Marlborough. 508-485-1185. >Sunday 31 Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster We & Mrs Jones at Dunny’s Jam! We & Mrs Jones return Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. to the most fun spot you can find on a Sunday afternoon! We & Liz Frame & the Kickers (Ballroom). “Liz Frame is one of Mrs Jones do a set of music 4-5pm and 7-8pm with a jam session the most compelling, interesting and emotive voices I’ve heard in a 5-7pm, so com eon out to have some fun and bring your ax to join long, long time.” - Marian Leighton-Levy/Rounder Records founder

in on the jam session! Paul Provost is the host and plays keys, Ron Ouimette on drums-- really fun afternoon! 4-8 p.m. Dunny’s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield.

Big Jon Short. 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-7529439.

Hangover Hour at 5pm, then Andy Cummings At 8:30pm! 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Jim’s Sunday Blues Jam. Every week, Jim Perry hosts the best blues jam around, and brings in very special guest performers. No cover.

6-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

Open Mic Sundays @ Plaza Azteca! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed recording artists * award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly gigging paid-performers * Published songwriters * Recording studio owner/ operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6-9 p.m. Plaza Azteca, 539 Lincoln St. Dancin’ Dead Sundays. 21+ with proper ID Weekly tribute to the Grateful Dead $5. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629.

Blue Light Bandits. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

Karaoke w/ Royal Crown. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

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Open Mic/Open Decks hosted by Kroma Kode. 21+ with proper ID Sign-up for slots starts at the venue at 7:30 and is first come first serve. Open Mic 8-10 Open Decs 10-1 House equipment for DJs: Numark M3 Mixer Please bring your own equipment! Free. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629.

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Chillin Tuesday & Wild Wednesday. It’s all about you! …

Tuesdays tend to be more chill and Wednesday’s more wild, but you never know what will be going on. Indoor Cornhole boards, Darts, Board games, Cards, Jukebox wars and more. Make our place your place. 7-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Vertigo Trivia Night. Free to play and great prizes! Free. 7-10 p.m. Vintage Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-752-0558.

Open Rehearsals. The Master Singers of Worcester (MSW) welcomes new singers in all voice parts. MSW is a choral group of approximately 30 singers. We rehearse weekly on Tuesday evening.

If you enjoy learning and singing a variety of musical styles, then come join us! Prior choral experience, and sight reading ability or ease at learning quickly is recommended. Join us to perform in our final concert of the 2015-16 season: “Jubilant Spring” Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7:30 PM First Unitarian Church, 90 Main St., Worcester Concert Description: The Master Singers kick off their fortieth anniversary year with a performance of works by renowned and current composers, including Bob Chilcott’s enchanting “The Miracle of Spring”, the hauntingly meditative “Safe to Port” by Michael Hoppe, and Norman Dello Joio’s energetic “A Jubilant Song.” The concert will close with the New England premiere of the Afro-Cuban inspired folk mass, “Suite Criolla”, by Juan Ramirez, with tenor soloist, Ray Bauwens, Latin-styled percussion and other instruments. None. 7:159:30 p.m. First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury, Gifford Hall, 19 Church Road, Shrewsbury. 508-842-1349 or mswma.org Lou Borelli Octet Plays First Tuesday Jazz Night. Lou Borelli Octet plays mostly original arrangements from the Dave Pell Octet, one of the bands credited with the creation of the West Coast Jazz scene in the 1950’s. Shorty Rogers and Marty Paich were the first arrangers to showcase the unique sound of this group. We are

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honored to play these arrangements as a tribute to Don Fagerquist, a Worcester born trumpet player, who went out to the West Coast to play with the great bands of his time. The band has played at town concerts, Castle Restaurant Jazz on the Patio Summer Series, Ecotarium, Nick’s German Restaurant and Bar, Worcester Art Museum, Luciano’s, Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Higgins Armory Museum, Hanover Theatre, Tuckerman Hall, Country Clubs and private parties throughout New England. A recent quote about the octet from a music critic describes us very well. “Lou Borelli Octet was performing their Jazz routine for a drinking and dining audience, and if one closed their eyes and tapped into their imagination, they could picture themselves as a guest at one of Jay Gatsby’s outdoor parties.”...Pat Clark, The Weekend Starts Now, a publication of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, May 2009. We appreciate your support of live music and especially jazz, which is art for your ears.

Our first CD “Lou Borelli Octet Live at Nick’s” is available at our shows, CDBaby.com and Amazon.com. No cover. Tips appreciated.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508752-6213.

Tuesday Open Mic Night @ Greendale’s Pub with Bill McCarthy Local Musicians Showcase! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed recording artists * award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly gigging paid-performers * Published songwriters * Recording studio owner/operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or find them on Facebook.

Hip Hop Tuesdays with Ace of Blaze. 21+ with proper ID Hookah share and pong tournament! $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629.

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Amanda Cote. 5-7:30 p.m. The Westender, 493 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough. 508-485-1185.

Chillin Tuesday & Wild Wednesday. It’s all about you! …

Tuesdays tend to be more chill and Wednesday’s more wild, but you never know what will be going on. Indoor Cornhole boards, Darts, Board games, Cards, Jukebox wars and more. Make our place your place. 7-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Wednesday Night Open Mic/Local Musicians’ Showcase w/ Bill McCarthy @ Guiseppe’s. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box” so I know you’re not selling Viagra or something!) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed recording artists * Award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly gigging paid-performers * Published songwriters * Recording studio owner/ operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 7:30-10:30 p.m. Guiseppe’s Grille, 35 Solomon Pond Road, Northborough. 508-393-4405 or find them on Facebook.

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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: Free. 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour $7-10 for tea. 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org Assumption College: Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, 500 Salisbury St. 508-767-7272 or assumption.edu Booklovers’ Gourmet, The strange and unusual work of Michael Kangas Bizzare Koffin Art, Through Jan. 30. 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 Clark University: University Gallery, Hours: noon-5 p.m.

Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, noon-5 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 950 Main St. 508-793-7349 or 508-7937113 or clarku.edu Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: Free for 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, Grammar: Recent Works by Matthew Gamber, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Feb. 27. 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 Danforth Museum of Art, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 123 Union Ave., Framingham. 508-620-0050 or danforthmuseum.org EcoTarium, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $14.00 adults; $10 for children ages 2-18, college students with IDs & senior citizens.

Children under 2 & EcoTarium members free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special program. 222 Harrington Way. 508-9292700 or ecotarium.org Fisher Museum Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham.

978-724-3302 or harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-midnight Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. 50 Grove St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistory.fsc.edu Fitchburg State University: Hammond Hall, Lalla Essaydi - Art Exhibit, Wednesday - Wednesday. 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. 978-4563924 or fruitlands.org Gallery of African Art, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Donations accepted. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-265-4345 or 978-598-5000x12 or galleryofafricanart.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, 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 $10; Seniors (59 +), $7; Students, $5; Children 3-17, $5; Children <3, Free.

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203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000 or 978-598-5000x17 or museumofrussianicons.org Old Sturbridge Village, Admission: $7 - $20 charged by age.

Children under 3 free. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge.

800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 or osv.org Park Hill Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 387 Park Ave. 774-696-0909.

Post Road Art Center, It’s in the Bag Exhibit, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Feb. 4. 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. 508-754-8760 or preservationworcester.org Prints and Potter Gallery: American Arts and Crafts Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 142 Highland St. 508-7522170 or printsandpotter.com Quinebaug Valley Council for the Arts & Humanities, the Arts Center, Hours: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 2-4 p.m. Saturday. 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-346-3341 or qvcah.org Rollstone Studios, Hours: 11-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. Admission: free.

633 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-348-2781 or rollstoneartists.com Salisbury Mansion, Hours: closed Sunday - Wednesday, 1-8:30 p.m. Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 40 Highland St. 508-7538278 or worcesterhistory.org SAORI Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio, 18 Winslow St. 508-757-4646 or 508-757-0116 or saoriworcester.com Sprinkler Factory, Admission: Free. 38 Harlow St. sprinklerfactory.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 The Foster Gallery, 51 Union St. 508-397-7139 or thefostergallery.com Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Hours: 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

21 Prichard St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, Free to Members & Children under.

11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org Worcester Art Museum, Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period, Through April 24; Flora in Winter, Thursday - Sunday; Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, Through March 6; Nude Drawing in the Galleries Canceled During Flora in Winter, Thursday; Pierre Bonnard, Dining Room in the Country, Through June 19; Salisbury Society Exclusive Preview Event at Flora in Winter 01, Thursday; Veiled Aleppo, Through June 5; WAM Flora Opening Party, Thursday; Flora Rewind, Flora Live Interpretation in the Gallery, Friday; Art + Visual Culture 14-17 Years, Saturdays, through March 19; Floral Cyanotype Artist Demonstration, Lecture, Lunch, and Tour, Saturday; Fresh Ideas with Fresh Flowers, Floral Demonstration, Lunch, and Tour, Saturday; Horses Around the World, Saturdays, through March 19; In the Style of Great Artists 11-13 Years, Saturdays, through March 24; Origami Flower Scavenger Hunt, Saturday; Sculpture FUNdamentals 8-10 Years, Saturdays, through March 19; Winter Blues 5-7 Years, Saturdays, through March 19; Zip Tour Canceled During Flora in Winter, Saturday; Activity for Kids of All Ages: Floral Sun Prints, Sunday; Origami Flower Scavenger Hunt, Sunday; Sunday Public Tour Canceled During Flora, Sunday; Tulip mania, Sunday. 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

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Worcester Center for Crafts, Exhibition: Bandits and Heros, Thursday - Wednesday; Exhibition: Culinary Imaginings: Donna Dufault, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, through Feb. 22. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org Worcester Historical Museum, Students Reflect on MLK Jr.: 2016 Art Contest Winners, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Feb. 27; MLK Art Contest Winners: Students Reflect on MLK Jr., Saturday. Hours: closed Sunday Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-7538278 or worcesterhistory.org Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-7991655 or worcpublib.org WPI: George C. Gordon Library, 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu

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Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits - Fridays, Saturdays, Saturday, September 18 - Monday, December 31. Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits 257 Park Ave Worcester MA Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Clubs Showtimes: Friday 9pm-Saturdays 8pm -$20pp Reservations Recommended at 800-401-2221 Prices: $20 Fri/Sat pp except Special Events Drinks and Appetizers available in the show room Full Dinner Available before Show in Restaurant $5off with College ID and Reservations 2 for 1 Active Military or Veterans and Reservations $4 off with Dinner Receipt and Reservations. Fri & Sat Jan 29th & 30th

in a brighter tomorrow. Their compelling stories are set to theatre’s richest and most glorious Tony Award®-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Winning Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Musical Score, this 13 time Tony Award nominated musical is a timeless celebration of life - what it could and should be! “One of the best musicals of recent decades” -Hollywood reporter “Explosive and thrilling! Theater-shaking intensity, a vibrant production. Ragtime is nothing short of a masterpiece.” -Bloomberg News Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org Men are Dogs- Presented by Braid Productions Sundays, Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, January 29 - Sunday, February 7. This hilarious comedy explores the relationship conflicts of the members of a women’s single and divorced therapy group led by their rather unorthodox psychologist, Dr. Cecilia Monahan.Dr. Monahan hires a bartender/actor to role-play men in the difficult moments in the lives of her group members. This process can be rather dangerous for the actor, as he faces the group of hostile women who are eager to express their anger toward men! As the story unfolds, Dr Monahan realizes she shares some of the same issues about men as her group members. When she meets the new substitute postal carrier, Bob Crowley, who delivers more than mail, the smitten Cecelia must learn to practice what she preaches. Students 10, Seniors 18, Adults 20. 7:30-10 a.m. Alternatives Community Plaza, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. Call 774-243-0260 or visit braidproductions.wix.com Shakespeare & Company Presents: Macbeth Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Wednesday, February 3 - Friday, February 5. During this residency at Clark University, Shakespeare & Company presents its 2016 touring production of Macbeth,

Worcester State University hosts a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, FAFSA, Day Massachusetts Sunday, Jan. 31, 1-5 p.m., at Sullivan Auditorium, 486 Chandler St., Worcester. Students and families will receive free help completing the application for federal student aid. The event is open to all current and future college students and their families.

Corey Rodrigues Justin Hoff and friends. Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits Great Food and Fun Make Reservations Early at 800-401-2221 or online at beantowncomedy.com. $20 per person except Special Events. 6 p.m.-midnight Park Grill and Spirits, Comedy Room, 257 Park Ave. Call 800-401-2221 or visit beantowncomedy.com Bach at Leipzig - a comedy - Sundays, Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, January 22 - Sunday, January 31. Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant.

The town council invites musicians to audition for the coveted position, among them young Johann Sebastian Bach. Back at Leipzig is a fugue-like farcical web of bribery, blackmail, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Enlightenment questions about humanity, God, and art. $10-$18. 2-4 p.m., 8 p.m.-10 p.m. 1870 Town Hall, 12 Woodward Ave., Berlin. Call 508-443-4359 or visit flyleaftheater.com Men are Dogs - Opening Night Reception and Show Friday, January 29. This hilarious comedy explores the relationship conflicts of the members of a woman’s single and divorced therapy group led by their rather unorthodox psychologist. Opening Night Performance: January 29th @ 7:30 Additional Shows: January 30th, February 5th and 6th, 7:30 pm February 7th @ 2:00pm $20, $18 under 18/over64, $10 under 16, $16 for groups of 10 or more. 6-9 p.m. Alternatives Whitin Mill Complex: GB and Lexi Singh Performance Center, 60 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. Call 774-2430260 or visit braidproductions.brownpapertickets.com Ragtime - Friday, January 29 - Sunday, January 31. “Simply stunning in every detail.” -Variety At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing, and anything is possible. Ragtime returns to the road in all-new touring production Directed & Choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and Produced by the team that most recently brought you The Addams Family, Spamalot, Rock of Ages and The Color Purple. The stories of an upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician unfold - set in turnof-the-century New York - all three united by their desire and belief

Shakespeare’s dark and dangerous tale of one man’s desire to gain power at any cost. Six actors from Shakespeare & Company bring the tragedy to life in a Bare Bard-style production that emphasizes language and the relationship between the actors and the audience. $10 for the public Free with College ID. 7:30-9 p.m. Clark University: Atwood Hall, Daniels Theater, 950 Main St.

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Conserving Small Natural Features with Large Ecosystem Functions - Dana M. Bauer. Dana M. Bauer, Assistant Director and Research Scientist, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University - The format is a 40-45 minute presentation followed by 15-20 minutes of questions and discussion. Interaction with speakers is encouraged. Light refreshments will be provided.

Free. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Clark University: Higgins University Center, Lurie Conference Room, 950 Main St. 508-751-4619 or clarku.edu A Photographic Journey of Cuba. Cuba is an exotic location shrouded in mystery and misconception due to 50 years of the US’ embargo of the country. Recently, the US has relaxed its restrictions on travel to the country. Brad Barker of Boylston traveled to Cuba as part of a “people-to-people” photographic journey in which his understanding of Cuba and the Cuban people were changed. Brad will share photographs and insights from the trip and explain how Cuba is preparing for their promising future. Free. 6:30-8 p.m. Boylston Public Library, 695 Main St., Boylston. 508-869-2371 or boylstonlibrary.org Reception to Launch The First Century: Jacob Edwards Library 1914-2014. The Board of Trustees of the Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to launch the book The First Century: Jacob Edwards Library 1914-2014, documenting the history of the library and library services in the community. You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating one hundred years of service to Southbridge and the area. Dale LePage Duo will provide the musical ambiance.

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Refreshments will be served. All welcome! Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Friends of Jacob Edwards Library. Books are $10 each. The proceeds will go to support library programming and resources. Looking forward to seeing you there! Free. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Jacob Edwards Library, 236 Main St., Southbridge. 508-764-5426 or engagedpatrons.org Reading Glasses: “Between the World and Me”. Save the date for another meeting of our book club for readers in their 20s & 30s, Reading Glasses! This month we are discussing TaNehisi Coates’s stirring exploration of race in America, “Between the World and Me.” Free. 7-8:30 p.m. Jimmy’s Tavern & Grill, 50 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury. 508-841-8533 or eventkeeper.com

>Saturday 30

Cozy Pet Mystery Author Liz Mugavero with Murder Most Finicky signing and talk. Liz Mugavero returns to AbSW to celebrate the release of her latest Pawsitively Organic Mystery title, Murder Most Finicky. She will be at the store discussing, reading, and signing. Murder Most Finicky is the fourth book in Mugavero’s Pawsitively Organic series that follows Kristin “Stan” Connor of Frog Ledge, CT. Her booming Pawsitively Organic pet food has caught the attention of a celebrity pastry chef, who has invited her to a weekend in Newport, RI. The gourmet getaway turns sour, though, when one chef turns up dead and a second one goes missing. The prior series books include, A Biscuit, a Casket; Kneading to Die; and The Icing on the Corpse. And if the mystery isn’t enough of a hook, Mugavero also serves up some wonderful gourmet pet food recipes! Free. 2-4 p.m.

Annie’s Book Stop, 65 James St. 508-796-5613.

>Sunday 31

Worcester State University FASFA Day. Worcester State University will host a FAFSA Day Massachusetts event on Sunday, January 31, 2016, at 1:00 p.m., in the Sullivan Building Eager Auditorium. FAFSA Day Massachusetts, part of the national College Goal Sunday program, provides free help to students and families looking to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Now in its eleventh year, FAFSA Day Massachusetts events are being held at over 30 locations, with multiple dates and times.

FAFSA Day is staffed by financial aid and higher education volunteers available to provide families assistance. This event is open to all current and future college students and their families. Families wishing to attend FAFSA Day or seeking more information should visit FAFSADAY.org. Free to the Public. 1-5 p.m. Worcester State University: Sullivan Auditorium, 486 Chandler St.

>Monday 1

Culinary Storytelling: Hungry Minds. The Worcester Center for the Crafts presents “Hungry Minds: An Evening of Culinary Storytelling” on February 1, 2016 in conjunction with its current exhibit, Culinary Imaginings, Photography by Donna Dufault. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Krikorian Gallery at 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester, MA, and is free and open to the public. Local culinary greats from different backgrounds and experiences come together for one night to chat and edify from their personal food related histories. Two Chefs, one Food Publisher, one Culinary Photographer, and one Professional Storyteller will present their own culinary tales in a performance that is original and one night only. On the roster for the evening are: Donna Dufault Domenic Mercurio Brendyn Shneinder Christopher Rovezzi Alina Eisenauer Free. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, Krikorian Gallery, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183, ext. 301 or register. worcestercraftcenter.org

>Tuesday 2

Bob Whitney, presents a slide show on Best of China, Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan. Briarwood resident and world traveler, Bob Whitney, presents a slide show on Best of China, Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan. Free. 2-3 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle.

Celebrate the work of student winners of the 2016 MLK Art Contest Saturday, Jan. 30, 1-2:30 p.m., at the Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm St., Worcester. Remarks start at 1:15 p.m. Student work is on display at the museum’s Rockwell Gallery through Feb. 27. For more information, email info@worcesterhistory.net.

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Super Singles & Couples ® Winter Dance w/DJ Joe Pet @ Shrewsbury - Maironis Park Function Hall Friday, Jan. 29, 2015. Super Singles ® Winter Dance w/DJ Joe Pet. - Friday, Jan.29,2016 @ Shrewsbury - Maironis Park Tel. (508)755-0040...(Exit 11 off MassPike and left onto Rte 122 (Grafton St.) & Take Right onto Rte 20 & Take Left @ 3rd Traffic Light (Lake St.) which becomes So. Quinsigamond Rd. (Stay left & Maironis Park is down on left) Dance 8:00pm-12:00am...Dance Lesson 7:30-8:00pm, Incredible DJ Music, Comp. Pizza Buffet @ 8:30 and Dessert, Door prizes, Cash Bar, Friendly atmosphere, Best for Singles approx. 35-65 y.o. from all types of professions & backgrounds for socializing, dancing and general entertainment...Great for Professional and Business Singles in the area. (couples welcome) This should be a great night with great music, you & our MA, NH & RI friends...It also should be a good opportunity to meet some quality singles new & old to the area. Proper Business/Casual Attire required...Dress To Impress...(No jeans, sneakers or hats - Sport Jackets are suggested for men) Dance Schedule: See Website SuperSinglesDance.com Thanks, Super Singles - Singles Dances & Events Tel. (781) 4399401 Join Our EmailList@SuperSinglesDance.com See you There...

Visit our website @ SuperSinglesDance.com for additional info and dance offerings...Super Singles® & Super Singles Dance® Copyrighted © 2008 All Rights Reserved $15. 8 p.m.-midnight Maironis Park, 52 S. Quinsigamond Ave, Shrewsbury. 781-439-9401 or SuperSinglesDance.com

Becker Jan. 30 @ Newbury College, Brookline, 12 p.m.

Feb. 2 Home vs. Southern Vermont College, 8 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 30 @ University of New England, Biddeford, ME, 1p.m.

Feb. 2 Home vs. Roger Williams University, 5:30

>Friday 29 – Sunday 31

2016 Worcester Auto Show. Friday, January 29 through Sunday, January 31, 2016 Friday: 4:00PM-8:00PM Saturday 10:00AM - 7:00PM Sunday 11:00AM - 5:00PM For more information, visit the website DCU Center- Arena and Convention Center, 50 Foster St. 508-755-6800 or dcucenter.com

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family >Saturday 30

Groundhog Storytime. Join us for a special storytime celebrating Groundhog Day! At this storytime we will feature two titles: Groundhog’s Dilemma and Groundhog’s Day Off. Follow us on twitter @BN-Millbury. Free. 11-11:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Millbury, 70 Worcester Providence Turnpike, Millbury.

508-865-2801 or bn.com LEGO Skyline and Architecture Studio Build. Adults and teens join us to help build our new LEGO Skyline in-store display and enjoy a LEGO Architecture build with Architecture Studio bricks after.

Follow us on Twitter @BN-Millbury. Free. 3-4 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Millbury, 70 Worcester Providence Turnpike, Millbury.

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Holy Cross Jan. 30 Home vs. Navy, 1:05 p.m.

Superchief Trio Swing Dance Party, Lesson & Live Feb. 3 @ Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 7 p.m.

Dance Band. Sunday Jan.24th 2016 BJ Magoon & Driving Worcester State Sideways Swing Dance Party , Lesson & Live Dance Band Swingin Jan. 30 @ Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, 3 p.m.

Sunday’s Leominster - Fitchburg Elks (Dance2Swing) 134 North Main Feb. 3 @ Clark University vs. Salem State, 7:30 p.m.

St. Leominster MA 01453 6:00pm Doors Open 6:45pm ~ Beginner Clark Group Swing Dance Lesson. 7:30pm ~ BJ Magoon & Driving Jan. 30 Home vs. MIT, 1 p.m.

Sideways Admission $14. Singles and Couples Always Welcome.

Feb. 3 Home vs. Coast Guard Academy, 5:30 p.m.

Please invite your friends, They will be glad you did. For Wicked Assumption Easy Directions: Visit our web-site on this Page Next Week:1/31/16 Jan. 30 @ Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, 3:30 p.m.

Superchief Trio 6:45-10:30 p.m. Leominster Elks Lodge 1237, 134 N. Feb, 3 Home vs. Southern New Hampshire, 7:30 p.m.

Main St., Leominster. 978-840-3375 or dance2swing.com WPI Jan. 30 Home vs. Springfield College, 7 p.m.

Feb. 3 Home vs. Emerson College, 6 p.m.

Becker Jan. 30 @ Newbury College, Brookline, 2 p.m.

Feb. 2 Home vs. Regis College, 6 p.m. >Thursday 28 Nichols Antique Estates Auction - Artwork & Much More! Great Jan. 30 @ University of New England, Biddeford, ME, 3 p.m. items from multiple estates! Estate & Costume Jewelry, Paintings and Feb. 2 Home vs. Roger Willia.m.s University, 7:30 p.m.

Prints, Sterling Silver, Vintage Toys, Collectibles, Furniture & Much Women’s More! Central Mass Auctions Inc. Please see Central Mass Auction’s Holy Cross website for more info including estate auction listing, pictures, Jan. 30 @ United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 4 p.m. directions, consignment opportunities, etc. Many more photos and Feb. 3 Home vs Colgate University, 7:05 p.m. details will be added prior to auction! Central Mass Auctions Inc. Worcester State We regularly run antique auctions. We are licensed and bonded and Jan. 30 @ Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, 1 p.m. will travel throughout Massachusetts and New England for estate Feb. 1 @ Johnson & Wales, Providence, RI, 7 p.m. contents. We can be reached @ 508-612-6111 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Feb 3 @ WPI Home vs. Salem State, 8 p.m.

American Legion: Worcester (Vernon Hill) Post 435, 267 Providence Clark St. 508-753-9573 or centralmassauctions.com Jan. 30 @ Wellesley College, Wellesley, 2 p.m.

Feb. 3 @ Springfield College, Springfield, 5:30 p.m. >Friday 29 Assumption Intercollegiate College Skate Night. Intercollegiate Skate Jan. 30 @ Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, 1:30 p.m.

Night Bring your friends for a fun night on the oval! Free Entry For Feb. 3 Home vs. Southern New Hampshire University, 5:30 p.m.

All College Students (w/ a Valid College I.D.), $3 Skate Rentals.

WPI 5-8 p.m. Worcester Common Oval, 455 Main St. 508-929-0777 or Jan. 30 Home vs. MIT, 5 p.m. worcestercommonoval.com Feb. 3 @ Smith College, Northampton, 7 p.m.

>Sunday 31

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Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 7:05 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 30 Home vs. Salem State, 7 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 30 @ University of Southern New Hampshire, Manchester, NH, 6:30 Becker Jan. 30 Home vs. Curry, 4:50 p.m.

Feb. 3 @ Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 7:35 p.m.

Women’s

Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ Saint Michael’s College, South Burlington, VT, 1 p.m.

Becker Jan. 30 @ Morrisville State, Morrisville, NY, 2 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 30 @ Manhattanville College, Playland Ice Casino, Rye, NY, 3 p.m..

swimming & diving Men’s

Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, 1 p.m.

Clark Jan. 30 @ Brandeis University, Linsey Pool, Waltham., 2 p.m.

Women’s

Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, 1 p.m.

Clark Jan. 30 @ Brandeis University, Linsey Pool, Waltham, 2 p.m.

track & field Men’s

Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston Worcester State Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston Assumption Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston WPI Jan. 30 @ Wheaton Invitation, Norton, 10:30 a.m.

Women’s

Holy Cross Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston Worcester State Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston Assumption Jan. 30 @ John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University, Boston WPI Jan. 30 @ Wheaton Invitation, Norton, 10:30 a.m.

wrestling WPI

Jan. 30 Home vs. Brockport State, Plymouth State, and University of Southern Maine, 11 a.m.

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The Town of Millbury is seeking applicants interested in the position of Head Clerk in the office of the Town Clerk. Duties include: performing a variety of clerical work, processing, maintaining, and preparing vital records, conducting elections, voter registrations and related customer service. This is a 19 hour position covered under a collective bargaining by and between the Town of Millbury and GEU Local #5. Copies of the job description and applications are available in the Office of the Town Manager 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA 01527 or online at www.millbury-ma.org.

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Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, MA, Garden of the Cross Premier Location Lot 31D Value $5250 Asking $4800 Call Patti at 508-799-5678

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The Town of Millbury is seeking applicants interested in the position of General Clerk in the office of the Treasurer/Collector. Duties include: performing a variety of clerical work, collection of payments for taxes, processing payroll; tax title payments and related customer service. This is a 19 hour position covered under a collective bargaining by and between the Town of Millbury and GEU Local #5. Copies of the job description and applications are available in the Office of the Town Manager 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA 01527 or online at www.millbury-ma.org.

CEMETERY PLOTS Worcester County Memorial Park, Paxton MA Garden of Heritage II. 2 Lots w/vaults.

Current value $8300.00 Asking $3950.00 for both or B/O. Call Jim 508-769-8107

MERCHANDISE CEMETERY PLOTS Worcester County Memorial Park, Paxton MA 2 lots in Heritage II w/vaults. $2,500.00 for both. Call Rick at 508-450-7470

Worc. County Memorial Park Paxton, MA Grave sites. 2 lots, Good Shepherd. Plot 147, graves 3 & 4. $5000.00 each.

B/O Call Kris 508-735-9996 Worcester County Memorial Park Two cemetery lots.

Chose your own resting spot in Serenity. $1000 for both. Call 774-345-4440.

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774-479-8551 SWIVEL/ROCKER Upholstered, lt tan, ext cond.

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Holden House Rental Available February 1st in residential neighborhood. House has 2 full baths, 4 rooms upstairs and 5 downstairs. Modern eat -in kitchen and sunroom with 3 level deck overlooking large backyard. Rent is $1,400.00/ month without utilities. If interested, call 508-393-4754. 508393-4754

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Short Sale Approved! Quick Closing Possible! Just move right in to your 3 Level well maintained and commuter friendly Condo/Townhouse! Shopping, Public schools and Hospital are in the immediate area. The kitchen has an island as well as a breakfast bar, along with stainless steel appliances, and opens into the Dining Room and Living Room. The Master bedroom upstairs has a Large Walk in Closet. In the basement is a new Water heater, plenty of space for a family room, game room or man cave, And includes a Wet Bar and Mini fridge. Subject to third party approval. Lender has approved listing price! Property sold â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS-ISâ&#x20AC;?/AS-SEENâ&#x20AC;?. Seller makes no representations or warranties whatsoever. Buyer responsible for performing their own due diligence. Subject to seller`s addendums. Aberman Assoc Inc John Keefe 978-537-4971 x64

*DUGQHU Amazing income opportunity. This multifamily home generates $ 35,400.00 Gross income and is centrally located in Gardner, less than 1/2 mile from route 2. This would be a great initial property for a upcoming real estate investor. Aberman Assoc Inc. Mark Gerber 978-537-4971 x 63

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&200(5&,$/ &251(5 *DUGQHU Gardner Minutes to Route 2, 140 and 68, this industrial/ofďŹ ce complex is currently offering ofďŹ ce space suitable for a variety of tenants with suites available from 1000 to 11,000 square feet and pricing from $5.00 to $9.00 for the base rent. Contact Peter for further details.  Aberman Assoc. Inc Peter Haley 978-537-4971 x 69

7HPSOHWRQ Move right in to this lovingly maintained home on a large corner lot in an established Baldwinville neighborhood. Newer furnace, roof, refrigerator and carpets. Bathroom recently redone. Replacement windows and natural woodwork. Otter River Forest and Lake Dennison Recreation Area nearby. Very clean.Aberman Assoc. Inc Tracy Page 978-537-4971 x 65

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The charm and warmth of this home draws you in the moment you walk in the door! Enter via the mudrom into a maple cabinetted country kitchen, follow to the dining room with plenty of room for your formal table, beautiful built-ins and large picture window. The spacious living room boasts more built-ins and a ďŹ replace-hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors throughout. The sunroom or ofďŹ ce is a bonus with its own entrance and tons of natural light!

3 bedrooms upstairs including a huge master suite with showstopping master bath complete with steam shower and jacuzzi tub; Master opens out onto a balcony over looking backyard--perfect for morning coffee!

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (SEAL) LAND COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT 2015 SM 011062 ORDER OF NOTICE To: Khairi Dwayne Rahman, Amy E. Wells-Rahman and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App. § 501 et seq.: U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-BC1, claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Sutton, numbered 5 McGuire Road, given by Khairi Dwayne Rahman and Amy E. Wells-Rahman to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated September 23, 2005 and recorded with Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 37385, Page 316, and now held by the Plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s /Defendants’ Servicemembers status. If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before February 22, 2016 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER, Chief Justice of this Court on January 5, 2016 Attest: Deborah J. Patterson , Recorder 1/28/16 MS 201411-0644

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO16P0128GD CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of: Erin O’Neill Of: Worcester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Developmental Services, of Worcester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Erin O’Neill is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Jean Berthiaume of Auburn, Brenda Brownell of Ware, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 2/16/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you.

In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the abovenamed person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Leilah A Keamy, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 15, 2016 Stephanie K. Fattman Register of Probate 01/28/2016 WM

LEGALS Town of Sutton Conservation Commission The Sutton Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:20PM, at the Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA. The purpose of this hearing is to review a Notice of Intent submitted to the Conservation Commission

by Pina Conte, Worcester, MA. The project consists of construction of two single family homes and associated site work on Map 48, Parcels 44, on 295 Manchaug Road, Sutton, MA. This notice is publicized in accordance with the provisions of General Law Chapter 131, Section 40 commonly known as the Wetlands Protection Act, and the Sutton Wetlands Protection Bylaw.

Town of Sutton Conservation Commission The Sutton Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:05PM, at the Sutton Town Hall, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton, MA. The purpose of this hearing is to review a Notice of Intent submitted to the Conservation Commission

by Michael McGovern, MA. The project consists of installation of a seasonal dock, clearing vegetation, removal of dead wood repair and restoration of existing walls and stairway on bank, associated with single family house, on Map 48, Parcels 53, on 234 Manchaug Road, Sutton, MA. This notice is publicized in accordance with the provisions of General Law Chapter 131, Section 40 commonly known as the Wetlands Protection Act, and the Sutton Wetlands Protection Bylaw.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO16P0129GD CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of: Luis R Schofield Of: Leicester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Developmental Services, of Worcester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Luis R Schofield is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Richard Cerrone, III of Millbury, MA, Cynthia Houle of Oxford, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 02/16/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition.

If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Leilah A Keamy, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 15, 2016 Stephanie K. Fattman Register of Probate 01/28/16 WM

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Division INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE Docket No. WO16P0125EA Estate of: Helen M. Burda Date of Death: December 15, 2015 To all persons interested in the above captioned estate,

by Petition of Petitioner David McCarthy of Hopkinton, MA A Will has been admitted to informal probate. David McCarthy of Hopkinton, 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 under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. 01/28/16 MSC

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (SEAL) LAND COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT 2016 SM 000274 ORDER OF NOTICE To: The Heirs, Devisees and Legal Representatives of the Estate of Joyce A. Demers, Harold J. Konkol, Wayne F. Demers, Susan M. Demers, Kevin G. Demers; Jeffrey F. Demers and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App. § 501 et seq.: U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee for ZFC Legal Title Trust I, claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Sutton, 32 Hough Road, given by Harold J. Konkol and Joyce A. Demers to Mortgage Electronic Registation Systems, Inc. dated April 14, 2006 and recorded in the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 38787, at Page 336, and now held by the Plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status. If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before February 29, 2016 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER, Chief Justice of this Court on January 15, 2016 Attest: Deborah J. Patterson Recorder 1/28/16 MS 201504-0348

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (SEAL) LAND COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT 2016 SM 000231 ORDER OF NOTICE To: Daniel W. Boire; Pamella J. Boire a/k/a Pamella J. Lapierre and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App. § 501 et seq.: Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Millbury, 27R Lincoln Avenue Extension, given by, Daniel W. Boire and Pamella J. Boire a/k/a Pamella J. Lapierre to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. dated May 28, 2004 and recorded in the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 33784, at Page 188, and now held by the Plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status. If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil ReliefAct. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before February 29, 2016 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER, Chief Justice of this Court on January 14, 2016 Attest: Deborah J. Patterson Recorder 1/28/16 MSC 201502-0390-TEA

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Premises: 154 Park Hill Avenue, Unit 154, Park Hill Avenue Condominium, Millbury, MA By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Alvaro Gomez, Marla Lopez and Juan L. Garcia to Eastern Bank, and now held by 21st Mortgage Corporation, said mortgage dated February 6, 2007, and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 40633, Page 363, said mortgage was assigned from Eastern Bank to Option One Mortgage Corporation, by assignment dated February 6, 2007 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds in Book 41794 at Page 333, said mortgage was further assigned from Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation to Residential Funding Company, LLC, by assignment dated August 21, 2012 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds in Book 49594 at Page 168, said mortgage was further assigned from Residential Funding Company, LLC f/k/a Residential Funding Corporation to Christiana Trust, A Division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as Trustee for Knoxville 2012 Trust, by assignment dated December 21, 2012 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds in Book 50788 at Page 283, said mortgage was assigned from Christiana Trust, A Division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as a Trustee for Knoxville 2012 Trust to 21st Mortgage Corporation, by assignment dated August 25, 2014 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds in Book 52784 at Page 111; for breach of the conditions in said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction on February 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM Local Time upon the premises, directly in front of the building in which the unit is located, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit: The Unit known as #154 in the building known as Park Hill Avenue Condominium, Millbury, Massachusetts 01527 (building) a condominium established by the grantors pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A by Master Deed date 03-16-06 recorded March 21, 2006 with the Worcester District Registry of Deed in Book 38593 Page 211 (Master Deed) which unit is known on the floor plans (Plans), Plan Book 840, Plan 3, of the Buildings recorded simultaneously with the Master Deed, and is shown on a copy of a portion of the Plans attached hereto and make a part hereof, to which is affixed the verified statement of a registered professional land surveyor in the form required by Section 9 of Chapter 183A. Post Office Address – 154 Park Hill Avenue, Millbury, MA 01527 The Unit is conveyed together with: 1. An undivided interest of 50% in the common-areas and facilities (Common Elements) of the condominium described in the Master Deed attributable to the Unit.

2. An easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Unit of any adjoining units or Common Elements existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of settling or shifting of the Building, or as a result of repair or restoration of the Building or of the Unit after damage or destruction by fire or other casualty, or after a taking in condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or by reason of an alteration or repair to the Common Elements made by or with the consent to the Trustees.

3. An easement in common with the owner of other units to use any pipes, wires, ducts, flues, cables, conduits·, public utility lines and other Common Element located in any if the other units or elsewhere in the Condominium and serving the Unit.

4. Rights and easements in common with other unit owner as described in the Master Deed.

Said Unit is conveyed subject to: 1. Easement in favor of adjoining units and in favor of the Common Elements for the continuance of all encroachments of such adjoining units Common Elements on the unit, now existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a settling or shifting of the Building, or as a result of repair or restoration of the Building or of any adjoining unit or of the Common Elements after damage or destruction by a fire or other casualty, or after a taking in condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or by reason of an alteration or repair to the Common Elements made by or with the consent of the Trustees.

2. An easement in favor of the other units to use the pipes, wire, ducts, flues, conduits, cable, public utility lines and other Common Elements located in the Unit or elsewhere in the Condominium and serving such other units.

3. The provisions of the Unit Deed, the Master Deed, the Declaration of Trust, and the Plans as the same may be amended from time to time by instructed recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deed, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time and interest or estate in the Unit, his family, servants and visitor, as though such provision were recited and stipulated at length herein.

4. All easements, agreements, restrictions and conditions of record, insofar as the same are now in force and applicable.

The Unit is intended only for residential purposes except that the Trustee of the Condominium association may, in any case, grant a unit permission to use the unit for any professional or commercial purpose, ancillary to the residential use, if permitted by the Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Millbury.

The Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this. Unit Deed, or the Park Hill Avenue Condominium Trust and By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto as the same may from time to time be amended.

The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication. For Mortgagor’s Title see deed dated February 6, 2007, and recorded in the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds, in Book 40633, Page 357. Said Unit will be conveyed together with an undivided percentage interest in the Common Elements of said Condominium appurtenant to said Unit and together with all rights, easements, covenants and agreements as contained and referred to in the Declaration of Condominium, as amended. TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. FIVE THOUSAND ($5,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP, 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860. Attorney for 21st Mortgage Corporation, Present Holder of the Mortgage (401) 272-1400

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www.centralmassclass.com LEGALS Town of Millbury Board of Selectmen The Board of Selectmen in the TOWN OF MILLBURY will hold a Public Hearing on, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street to act upon the Petition of Verizon and NGrid joint or identical locations for and permission to erect and maintain poles and their respective wires and cables to be placed thereon, together with anchors, guys and other sustaining and protecting fixtures as said companies may deem necessary and across the following public way: Auburn Road: On the southwesterly sideline, place new JO Pole No.T.32S/E.32S approximately 3,029 feet northwesterly from the center of line of Blash Road.

January 28, 2016

Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of Article 15 of the Sutton General Bylaw – Scenic Roadway – the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application of Michael McGovern, 64 Putnam Hill Road, for land located at 234 Manchaug Road. The applicant requests permission to relocate a portion of stone wall along a driveway but within the public right of way and to restack an existing stone wall along Manchaug Road at this location. The hearing will be held in the third floor meeting room at the Town Hall on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 7:10 p.m. A copy of the plans and applications can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.Miriam Sanderson, Chair Published 1/21 & 1/28, 2016

Town of Millbury Board of Selectmen The Board of Selectmen in the TOWN OF MILLBURY will hold a Public Hearing on, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 7:10 p.m. at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street to act upon the Petition of Verizon and NGrid joint or identical locations for and permission to erect and maintain poles and their respective wires and cables to be placed thereon, together with anchors, guys and other sustaining and protecting fixtures as said companies may deem necessary and across the following public way: Carleton Road: On the northwesterly sideline, place new JO Pole No.T.85S/ E.85S approximately 793 feet southwesterly from the center line of Stowe Road..

January 28, 2016

NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by William B. Marquis II and Michele M. Marquis to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated May 3, 2006 and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 38917, Page 74, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as trustee for the Certificateholders of CWABS Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-8 dated August 23, 2011 and recorded with said registry on August 29, 2011 at Book 47765 Page 375, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 p.m. on February 24, 2016, on the mortgaged premises located at 37 TRILLIAM RUN, SUTTON, Worcester County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: The land in Sutton, at #37 Trilliam Run, situated on the northwesterly side of Trilliam Run and the westerly side of Cedar Hill Road, being shown as Lot #56 on a plan entitled “Colonial Acres”, (now called “Stonebridge Farms”, pursuant to a vote of the Sutton Planning Board, recorded with Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 15619, Page 271), last revised on November 6, 1989,

by Kalkunte Engineering Corporation, recorded with said Deeds in Plan Book 652, Plan 114. For mortgagor’s(s’) title see deed recorded with Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 16830, Page 331. These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of Ten Thousand ($10,000.00 ) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Offices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price.

The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication.

Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale. The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York, as trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-8 Present holder of said mortgage By its Attorneys, HARMON LAW OFFICES, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, MA 02458, (617) 558-0500 201503-0073 - TEA

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Michael Kangas, along with his girlfriend, Amy Gauvin Abbott, represent Bizzare Koffin Art, an alternative, Central Mass-based art group. Since he was a child, Kangas has relied on art as a way to exercise his mental health. Kangas talks about growing up with art, leading art groups and his current involvement in the modern Worcester art scene. Kangas’ art can currently be seen at The Muse at 536 Main St., Worcester and atop the in-progress Punkcake Parking Lot, also located on Main Street. Worcester Magazine caught up with Kangas to ask him some questions about his dada-inspired art.

What is your involvement with Punkcake Parking Lot? I want to thank Jessica

Lofgren Curtin, she runs Punkcake. She’s been helping Alterno artists, at Punkcake Parking Lot and as part of Punkcake Alterno Art. There’s a special niche for alternative and somewhat abstract art.

I’ve been trying to get into that. She gave me the reference to the Muse, an amazing place. The people at Punkcake are really nice, there’s no competition. I did Craftershock in December with Worcester Roller Derby and Seven Hills, two great organizations, amazing people. I’m finally opening up to an area where I’m trying to get to. I really appreciate all that Punkcake has done for me.

How did you decide to pursue art? I’ve

always been into an art as a child, it was always sort of an escape for me because of being an only child. I lost my mother early, so I was really introduced to death early on. So, in order to cope with that, I used art. I would just draw all throughout high school. I was really into punk and heavy metal and the lyrics, album art, videos, horror films and comic books.

Still to this day, I’m into outsider and tattoo art. When I got older I would learn about dada, surrealism, expressionism, abstract art, and mixed media. I didn’t start painting until I was about 30. I was working human services and I was working with kids on how to use art as a coping skill for themselves. It’s a way for me to deal with some of my mental health issues, being bipolar and having ADHD and dealing with a lot of grief. Having to deal with death, something so dark so early, I take that anger and darkness and put it onto a canvas, and it definitely helps me express myself.

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Michael Kangas Who were some of your inspirations growing up? One of my favorite artists would be

Jackson Pollock. He went against the grain. He was heavily criticized for what he did at the time. I’ve really studied him as a person and as an artist. He was a man that suffered from bipolar and some alcohol issues. He dealt with basically just emotion and releasing it. I also enjoyed [Salvador] Dali, and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat. This was art that broke the mold of what is art and what art isn’t. I enjoy that and I feel like that’s something I’m continuing this day.

What is your definition of art? My definition

of art is something that comes from the inside of you and how you interpret that.

There’s no wrong or right way to see it.

Art is indefinite and something that can be interpreted differently by each viewer.

I don’t title most of my pieces. I have a vision of it, but when I display it or sell it, the next person that sees it is going to feel something different. It’s going to invoke a different emotion for them. It’s almost a living thing, it’s an emotion, and it’s a feeling. Whether they just see lines or blobs of paint, they see an emotion.

How does your art help the kids you’ve worked with? I’ve noticed there’s no

difference in working with kids or adults.

When you take the time and work with somebody, it doesn’t matter what their age is or what their level of understanding is.

It relaxes the person. It relaxes me and it allows an inner freedom for that person.

As each session goes on, it becomes easier for that person to let their guard down, as to say they can open up and express themselves. It allows themselves to explore some things they might have a hard time dealing with. I’ve worked with

a lot of kids that have dealt with a lot of trauma. They don’t talk about it, it’s very difficult to understand or talk about. But if you sit down and do something simple like draw or paint, you kind of get a sense of comfort and they are able to feel relaxed, they feel like they’re in a safe position. Even if they can’t verbalize it, they can express it through the imagery they are working on. I’ve noticed that also works with adults, too. Art therapy in any setting is incredible and very helpful and it also works great for me, it’s great that I can also pass along what works for me into others.

What is the general reaction to your work?

It’s been interesting, I did canal fest and I was totally out of my element. A lot of people were kind of not sure the work was.

I had some of my work sold, but I had to price it lower than I had wanted to. Some people are overwhelmed with the amount of colors that are used. I get a wide range of reactions. Some people are just automatically turned on to it and really enjoy it. Others like to see it and tell me it reminds them of some earlier abstract or surrealist stuff. Some people don’t understand it and I enjoy the fact that I can get so many different reactions and I never take anything personally. I really enjoy seeing people either really confused or really impressed at what they see. It’s great when I have a table set up and some

people just say “Wow. There’s a lot going on.” It automatically invokes some kind of emotion or response. It’s great.

Describe the style of your work. I use a lot of

color, I use a lot of texture in my pieces so when people come to my table and they’re not sure what to think. I always tell them to go ahead, to touch and feel and pick up the pieces because I use a lot of glues and heavy acrylics. I like my pieces to be multi-dimensional. Once, there was a kid who wanted to pick up a piece of my art. It had very deep reds running through, and some “X-Men” and “Darkman” comics in it, there was fake blood and it had colored hairspray coming through. The kid was just really into it. That made me really happy, it reminded me a little bit of myself and being drawn to that kind of stuff.

I like that idea of someone that young being drawn to something so different and hoping that leads to him either collecting or even doing the same thing. I just love that. You just never know how people will respond. I really enjoy the conversations with people, however they feel about it.

- Colin Burdett For more information on Bizzare Koffin Art and Punkcake Parking Lot, check them both out on Facebook. Punkcake Alterno Art will be at Ralph’s on Sunday, Feb. 7 as part of Punkcake Your Valentine from noon to 5 p.m.

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